Monday 4 August: The backwardness of this Labour Government’s obsession with class

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    2. Hmm better train your (moslem?) officers better then because that's NOT what was said on the ground
      Saw it yesterday (lost the link) he was threatening the peaceful women with arrest if they returned

    3. The people being 'harrassed' were attempting to leave the taxpayer-funded hotel on their mopeds/e-bikes to work as deliveroo drivers. Either they are poor refugees with nothing to their name, or they are illegal gimmegrants attempting to work in the black economy.

    4. The harassment is in the other direction. It is those backward savages that are continually harassing, intimidating and rap1ng law-abiding, tax-paying British people and their children in towns and cities all over this once safe country.

  3. Good morning, chums, and thanks to Geoff for today's new NoTTLe site. I did Wordle in 5 today (a Bogie).

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  4. Morning all – back to normal today after a busy weekend. Grey skies but dry out. Still have to unload the car.

  7. Morning all 🙂😊
    Still no rain despite a forecast three days running.
    The labour government are more obsessed with the hate of our long established culture and religious beliefs than anything else.
    I'm booked in for another hospital appointment at 9:15 we will have to leave at eight to be sure of getting there on time. Monday traffic can be quite a problem.
    Slayders folks.

      1. Carol Kirkwood was getting excited earlier with her forecasts. Norway is going to cop it later.
        We’ve had nothing so far. It’s as dry as a dead dingo’s donger. 🤠

  8. Bonjour à Geoff et à tous NoTTLeurs et NoTTLeuses. Sorry, I’m in the beautiful South of France and late on parade because of Internet issues. Here are a few Monday Chuckles, be grateful they’re not in French (Rastus & Caroline excepted):

    À man arrived home from the pub to find his wife in bed crying. “What’s the matter, darling?” he asked. “We’ve had a burglar,” she sobbed. “Did he get anything?” asked the husband. “Too right he did!” she wailed. “I thought it was you home early!”

    A girl said to her boyfriend: “You know, we would have less arguments if you weren’t so pedantic.” He said: “Fewer arguments . . .”

    Two guys were sitting at a bar. One said to the other: “You look a bit down. Everything okay?” “You see,” said the other, “my dear old grandmother died yesterday morning, God bless her. Still, at over ninety she’d had a good innings and she chose a lovely way to go. She just sat down in a chair, relaxed, closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. She didn’t wake up again. Mind you, she caused havoc in that dental practice.”

  9. 'Morning All
    "The government is not going to do anything to prevent this situation from worsening. They will in fact allow it to worsen. They have made it abundantly clear that your concerns are not their concerns. Your safety and the safety of you children is not a priority. What does concern them is that you might not passively accept this as normal. In light of that they will censor media and curtail your freedoms. Britain will continue to welcome uncapped numbers of third-world dependents even they are sexual incontinent predators. We can assume this is official government policy because no meaningful steps have been taken to suggest otherwise. Your approval is not sought. Your function is to pay for it. You do not get to choose differently. They are engineering a situation where violence is the only likely outcome."
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/72bf0390d27932b566f3d79c74c5e5d9ca1f2bcc4873240fbb8a0e559e3c85d1.jpg
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9d3ccffd699b97983e466047c9f356c286873f55cc618ac974b2f1c8c9978912.jpg

    1. Caroline and I are coming to England next week. I shall have to show my French resident's permit as well as my passport. If I do not do this I shall not be allowed to enter the UK.

      A few years ago Caroline's sister and her husband had arranged to stay with their friends and family in the UK. They had all their identity documents but, foolishly, they did not bring their passports and were turned away at the Calais Eurotunnel terminal so they had to drive 200 kms back to their home in Holland to collect them. Pre-Brexit they could travel freely to England without having to produce their passports.

      These rules are fair enough but it is very sinister that law-abiding people are treated so very differently from illegals migrants who have no documentation.

  10. Good morning all.
    A pleasant 16½°C outside, but a bit damp after overnight rain.
    A light cirrus cloud covering appears to have intensified into a dull overcast as I made my tea.

    It seems I made the Top Five on the BTL section yesterday!

    R. Spowart
    1 day ago
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    "The Israeli response to Hamas has been devastating and the innocent people of Gaza are suffering" writes Alan Carter.

    And just how innocent are the people of Gaza?

    Innocent of cheering the Jihadists who committed the Oct.7th atrocities?

    Innocent of willingly allowing their children to be indoctrinated with anti-Jewish hatred?

    Innocent of allowing themselves and their children to be used as Human Shields to protect Hamas infrastructure and as propaganda fodder when the IDF do attack?

    reply
    4 replies 114 0

    1. Why are the PTB and the MSM so quick to believe Hamas and so slow to believe Israel?

      Starmer, Macron and Carney have all come on and unequivocally joined the side of those who use rape, murder as kidnap as weapons.

      "Recognising a Palestine State is one of the fruits of October 7th," says Razi Hamed, a leading member of the Hamas organisation.

      2. Just following WEF orders. Meanwhile, Carnage has caused the collapse of the US-Canada trade deal with his juvenile shenanigans. To think we thought Turdeau was the worst thing to happen to Canada…

      3. Just following WEF orders. Meanwhile, Carnage has caused the collapse of the US-Canada trade deal with his juvenile shenanigans. To think we thought Turdeau was the worst thing to happen to Canada…

    2. Good morning BoB,
      It seems that it's the vile hamas creatures that are stopping the food & medicines aid getting to those who need it. Israel are not the problem.

    1. The painting to Useless' left is of a "green and pleasant land": where are the windmills, solar panels or tacky housing estates threatened by this out-of-control shower?

    2. Is there any significance in the colour of the hair of the messenger carrying the Gaza box?

      1. Morgan McSweeney, Starmer's Chief of Staff is from Co Cork and has red hair. Not my cup of tea,

        1. I love red hair on a lass… SWMBO used to have the most gorgeous copper hair, now sadly mostly tarnished due to age…

      2. Good morning, Rastus,
        It's the Ginger Growler coming out as another mentally defective trans creature.
        (Note that she was already mentally defective.)

  12. I suspect the good people of Britain have now realised.. it's not about Stop The Boats.. this is about calling a fresh election & getting Starmer out, resetting Whitehall, and undoing the madness of Blair.
    I suggest this is a job for the grandparents.. to grab their grandchildren and proceed to block every motorway artery especially the M25. Progressive Liberals get uneasy about jailing OAPs & children (ever-so-slightly). Farmers would soon join the coup. Progressive celebs would hold off. It has to be done. No compromise. Then The King must be forced to abdicate.

    Jot it down on a postcode.. and post on X.
    Then hide under the bed.

    1. The progressive liberals would rather have sex with the children than jail them.
      As for the oldies… they are already working with (compulsory?) euthanasia.

    2. Apparently Prince Philip, who had few illusions about his oldest son, predicted that when Charles became king it would lead to the end of the monarchy.

      If The Idiot King abdicated how long would Prince William last as king? He seems to have some of the same lunatic opinions.

    3. The hard Left don't care about jailing children or the elderly. In fact, they'd love to do that. Move the first into gulags for brainwashing and the latter into macerators.

      The Left hate everything they cannot control. They're not rational.

  13. Morning, all Y'all.
    18C and drizzle. What was all that about the hottest summer ever? Not now it isn't, I'm wearing a jumper on 4 August!
    Hoping to start painting Firstborn's barn today. Big job. Bad weather. Not energising…

    1. 410709 up ticks,

      O2O,
      If half as much zeal goes into the polling stations to
      extract us, as a nation, in deep shite, as went in for decades via tribals putting us there, THEN we MAY be able to build on the remaining remnants of decency.

      Other options,
      Purchase knee-pads.

    2. If Fox news can see it why can't the government? Durrh! The government is the group destroying freedom!

      It's not just speech though, is it? It's everything: it's energy use, it's food, it's fuel, it's transport. A every step, our liberties are being removed to satisfy an abusive, arrogant state.

    1. The linked article on added context is interesting
      https://www.westernjournal.com/president-macron-drops-22-count-defamation-lawsuit-candace-owens/

      Conversely, others have pointed out that Owens may have wanted this action, due to the potential revelations that could come from the discovery phase of such a lawsuit.
      “The discovery in this case is going to be WILD,” conservative commentator Nick Sortor posted to X.

      Of note, CNN did point out that this isn’t Brigitte Macron’s first lawsuit involving these claims.

      CNN’s French affiliate BFMTV reported that Brigitte had previously sued two French women in 2022 for similar claims.
      Though Brigitte initially won that case, those women have since won an appeal. The Macrons have appealed that decision to a higher French court.

      1. It should be pointed out that previous court cases (in France LOL) didn't address/focus on/ discuss/ present evidence on whether Brigitte was/is a man.
        The cases were entirely focused on some minor detail.. a flaw of date or something or name spelling error attached to evidence.. that was proved to be an error. The Macrons then hailed this as a 'put-to-bed-once-and-for-all' victory.
        Like all Liberal Lefties they then repeat ad nauseam "proven in court".. just like Trump with.. "He's a convicted felon.."

      1. Would Al Johnson be singing this updated version if he were still around today?

        Nothing could be finer that a trans girl's new vagina, in the morning.
        Nothing could be neater than Brigita's when I meet her in the morning.

  18. Good morning, all. Broken high cloud, bright with a light breeze.

    Naughty, Andrew, putting words in the PM's mouth.

    Amazing how many BTL comments are asking if this is a true quote. I worry about the ability to think of people who are not able to recognise political satire when it slaps them square in their chops.

    However, the attached post is closer to reality than many would care to contemplate.

    https://x.com/Sean82947172/status/1951954878248432005

      1. Revolting, all of them. They only infiltrate to subvert a far superior culture and protect their own abominable one.

  19. SIR — The Government’s apparent definition of “working-class” is odious. Anyone who is employed, draws a wage or receives a salary is a worker.

    It’s time we stopped thinking in crude class terms.

    Nigel Carter
    Devizes, Wiltshire

    You will never stop the anally-retentive pretentious class reminding everyone, at every end and turn, of their perceived superiority over the “lowly”. That comedy sketch on The Frost Report of 1966 had them in a nutshell.

    It is the only thing these self-righteous tosspots are any good at. Their raison d’être is to retain their precious caste system.

    2. If plumbing is a 'working class job' then how is my bathroom fitter making four times what I am as a 'knowledge worker'?

      He's an expert in logistics, supply, organisation not to mention the actual work. He handles a dozen sub contractors effortlessly. To suggest he is lesser because he knows which side of a saw to use is daft. The political class love their labels.

      1. Anyone, who obsessively declares what "class" they belong to, immediately opens themselves to scornful derision.

        1. Exactly, Grizz. I, for example, am an artisan (an artist and a craftsman) and I'm proud of it. That makes me working class, no? But all the elitist lot like to think of themselves as the creme de la creme who have the license to dictate to us all what is right and what is good. They really don't. But they do control the huge taxpayer funded injections of cash into worthless, skill-free, diversity-led "projects".

          1. These class-obsessed chumps should try out their pompous nonsense in countries like here in Sweden, or Australia (among others) and see how far it gets them.
            When I visit my GP’s surgery, for example, everyone uses their first names and they all dress in identical whites: doctors, nurses, cleaners, etc. No one gives a monkey’s about ‘status’.

  21. Raining heavily so the Y Not festival goers will have fun getting off the site!
    I expect peak tailback from Cromford in an hour or so!

    1. We were very lucky with our weekend event. It stayed dry apart from a short drizzly spell. Rather windy but that was not a problem.

  22. 410709+ up ticks,

    I strongly believe that starner the political TOOl & KIT are using SS/GB as a game plan.

    It's as if Neville Chamblian had brought back Adolf Hitler to govern.

    There won't be no room for overspill estates with gardens this time round, mirrors get the priority space, these political overseers will go straight for mass high rise detainment camps as the takeover coup gains traction.

    Lucy Connolly,pilot incarceration for main mass incarceration event oncoming.

  23. Good morning Nottlers, 17°C, damp and a tad blowy on the Costa Clyde. Walking football will go ahead at the New Victoria Park Whitletts, unless the breeze blows the cones over when we'll reconvene at the adjacent ShootSoccer! As it has 4 foot walls around the pitch providing a little shelter at ground level. What fun!

  24. Labour, Islamophobia and the chilling suppression of free speech
    Melanie McDonagh – https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/labour-islamophobia-and-the-chilling-suppression-of-free-speech/

    BTL

    When does a phobia become an entirely rational fear base upon sound evidence?

    If Islam wants to impose its values and mores – which are entirely different from those Judeo-Christian values upon which our civilisation is based – and if it does not condemn acts of terrorism then people will fear it.

    1. If Islam does exactly as it says on the label..
      and if somebody says it actually doesn't, and if that same somebody also says genders are infinite FACT,
      and then proceeds to tell you that reality is exactly one hundred and eighty degree opposite of what your MkI eyesballs tell you ..
      then that somebody is a danger to society and himself and should be carted off to the loony bin before it's too late.

    2. Surely countries in the region are more culturally and linguistically compatible? Egypt, Saudi Arabia? How many of these countries take them in for treatment? (Rhetorical)

    1. Until muslim is too frightened of the response except to nod and scrap to their betters this will only get worse.

    2. Good morning, Belle,
      Here's another one of these arrogant, backward savages.
      She complains that her free housing unit is like a prison, but many homeless British families and ex-services personnel would be glad of such a roof over their heads until something more permanent was available.
      Nobody invited her here, I doubt she will ever contribute to Britain, and if it is that bad here, nobody is keeping her here.
      https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1951624271437971517

      2. Why did she come to Britain in the first place and, if she doesn't like it, why doesn't she go back to whence she came.

        2. She’s one of their breeding machines. An entitled and important person …. in her own mind.

        2. Fill it up? It won’t take her many years to breed a whole container full of future evil.

  28. 410709+ up ticks,

    Dt,
    Starmer hires 300 extra officers to stop record migrant crossings
    With crossings over 25,000, Border Security Command says new funding will ramp up the UK’s fight against smuggling gangs

    Read as, a new level of scam is being introduced by the political gang leaders.

    HELLO,
    Why not use a service already in place to patrol the English Channel ?

    The sad end of RFA Argus is a wake-up call. It’s time for names to be named.

    1. There is no 'fight against smuggling gangs'. The Left are deliberately happily bringing the vermin here. It's collusion, not conflict. The biggest smuggling gang is the sodding home office.

      The only 'fight' going on is the state against the people.

    2. All he has to do is to requisition several acres of land in Kent – put an unscalable fence around it and issue each illegal immigrant who arrives in Dover with a tent.

      Very basic food supplies can be dropped by drones.

      Those who don't like it can be taken back to Calais and dumped there.

    3. Why don’t we stop providing free luxury accommodation, phones, pocket money, and other goodies?

      1. 410709+ up ticks,

        Afternoon LIR,

        ” WE”don’t have a say,ours is NOT to reason why, ours is but to do and die.
        Much to the likes of starmer the WEF / NWO asset we are complying with their wishes.

        He is without doubt, running a very successful anti English campaign

  33. Well – that's got the car unloaded and the stock put away.
    Just got to count yesterday's takings ready for Maureen to bank.

    1. Yes you certainly did, it's probably why he spoke about it. Because he knew that you would lie.

      1. Starmer doesn't know the difference between truth and lie, fact or fiction. Worse I don't think he cares. He is the archetypal O'Brien.

        Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

        Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

        Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy – everything.

        The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing.

        The problem – the fundamental problem – with Lefties is that they do not understand that they are wrong. They cannot question. They cannot ask 'why' because as soon as they do, their world view falls apart. It shatters like glass at the slightest analysis. They never ask 'is what I am doing really right, or is it jut ego?'. They can't. Logic defeats them. All they have is mania.

      1. This man often appears on GB News.

        I wouldn't trust him further than I could throw him. He is smarmy, slimy and, I suspect, he is completely dishonest.

          1. Yes. Wiki has, "Barry Strachan Gardiner (born 10 March 1957) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent North from 1997 until the seat's abolition in 2024 and Brent West since 2024".

    1. Good comment, but if I may be a bit pedantic, Dog with two ARSEHOLES. We are not the 51st State of the USA QUITE yet.

      2. Hello MumisBusy

        Have you read any of AS's books..

        I read a few when I was younger .. Repression of freedom of speech is appalling ..

        What is happening here now feels similar .. The Starmer creature can smell dissent .. and we will all be confined to our gardens , with an hours outside exercise , just like Covid times .. Remember that is what Starmer also recommended.. The man is dangerous !

        Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

        1. Donkeys years ago – as in over 50 years! – I read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." All I remember is that it was a very interesting book. My well-thumbed paperback could well be somewhere on one of our bookcases.
          You have sparked my interest, so I will have a hunt.
          As for harmer Starmer being dangerous, I wholeheartedly agree.

    2. "We've had free speech for a very, very long time here. We're very proud of it"

      As usual Starmer fails to tell the whole truth. Look at the first 20 seconds of this clip.

      He is determined to stamp out free speech in every way he can. Only an idiot could think that Starmer is proud of Britain's proud history of free speech.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LddUhnwKx1E

    3. I wonder if Starmer's father helped with the making of Ofcom because Ofcom is merely a tool of the government.

  39. All seemed to go well for the BP ECG and CT scan earlier.
    All done in 20mins.
    Free carparking today machine out of order and barrier up. 🤗😊

    3. Well done, Eddy, had that experience and another to come soon. Often free carkparking, especially early appts. Good luck x

    4. Hope the results are good. Last time I had an ECG, the technician remarked, "Well, it shows atrial fibrillation. So what's new". Sums it up really.

    1. Not absolutely sure of the results, I'll have to wait until they send the results to my GP. But from what I could hear occasionally the old ticker was in time and was loud and clear. 👍🤞

    1. It's well past incompetence, it's deliberate. The government is the enemy here.

      1. As I posted last night a certain member of the labour front bench seems to have her eye on allotments as easy target's for development. Cheap easy to work on and readily available.
        Then gone for good.
        The article I saw now seems strangely unavailable.

          1. Oh well done, I couldn't find it.
            They seem to be up to every trick in the book.

    2. Starmer has known her a long time, her strengths and weaknesses. Likely why he appointed her.

    3. I saw that interview on BBC Breakfast this morning. I thought to myself – "dreadful woman".

    4. I saw that interview on BBC Breakfast this morning. I thought to myself – "dreadful woman".

      1. Nothing, even if successive governments hadn’t done their best to ensure it never happened.

    1. Your father, King George VI, was prepared to sail with our troops to liberate Christian Europe from tyranny.

      A bit of fact-checking would not have gone amiss. George VI was the grandfather of King Charles, not his father.

      1. The author has it arse-backwards. George VI had to restrain Churchill from going in with the D-Day landings. He achieved this by outright lying to him.

  45. We are watching Woakes .. 8 runs needed so near yet so far away!

    Brave man but in so much pain .

    Dodgy … oh dear will there be a run off..

    We all love cricket in this house hold !

  46. 310709+ up ticks,

    This smacks to me of NOT wanting the atrocious line to die out, but to continue.

    Dt,
    Reform prison tsar: Trans women can be put in female jails
    Former jail governor argued that decisions on housing inmates should be assessed on an ‘individual basis.

  47. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/719a9ada22cba4a19d7e976ced07b58f02e11b3f8ab2ba0238ba687e687d83d1.png
    Suck Here Starmer
    2h
    An evidently well briefed Trump hands Starmer his @rse on live global TV, while stating that Farage is his good friend.
    24 hours later Labour start suggesting that Farage is somehow linked to Jimmy Savile and now we have a parliamentary investigation into Farage’s financial interests.

    They’re clueless.

    Next up they’ll do something really stupid – like giving the vote to teenage boys, and then trying to restrict their access to online pornography…

    Beebsplaining
    2h
    So what does the fragrant Jess say about nonce victims having their videos to raise awareness and support others being taken down by this act of censorship 🤔
    Or in Warwickshire where plod say its "national policy" to hide nonces🤔

    It's trolling on a national scale and just draws attention to their own failure where those in glass mansions should not lob boulders

    As if trying to hide from nonce rings is not bad enough and still continues

    Labour were made aware of noncing rings 25 years ago by their own MP Ann Cryer, what did labour do? hound her out🤔

    Or perhaps Jess could chat to her fellow minister Bridget Phillipson who heard nonce evidence in 2013 while sitting on the HO select committee , what did she do🤔

    Also of course she could chat with 2tier Rodney who let Saville off in his last job🤔 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7809acf3a9567bce470128d2424e512627e16972431c6113b8adbf44ead0df01.png
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83c378c8c8506707078cb300529cbd3de101c7abc333018df8a79b9b1f9076b5.png

    1. I don't know where this word "goyim" has come from but apparently it's the fashionable version of gentile. Since when did Mohammedans not rape Jewish children? Certainly for the most part they just murder them without the foreplay but there don't appear to be any rules on that score.

          1. Dangerous ploy by Labour – the most liked BTL from that article is this "This rhetoric from Labour has to stop. Nigel and his party have been fighting hard for the victims of the Grooming Gangs and Jess Phillips and her party have been desperately seeking to hide the truth. If they want to liken anyone to Jimmy Saville they should look at Starmer."

            Remember who was DPP at the time of Saville's crimes!

    2. OK, Philips, we will – but what are the consequences of your 'failure'? It's guaranteed, as you will do everything you can to endanger children to the muslim. Ah, I see. You're hoping to cover it all up, keep it hush hush so only your lies get out, like Khan lying about knife crime.

    3. 🐿️
      Look! Tommy Robinson is a far-right fascist racist thug and we are going to convict him of something-anything- by every means we have available, including making it up and inciting it.

  48. The Test Match

    Man of the match Mohammed Siraj

    Does he play for 'them' (India) or 'us' (Ingerland) ?

    1. Indian slammer.
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4089b846ad830fb97e2769c56d7378734673f42b5028ed4446477c30db62af3b.png
      Early life
      Siraj was born on 13 March 1994 in Hyderabad, Telangana to a Hyderabadi Muslim family. His father, Mirza Mohammed Ghaus, was an auto rickshaw driver, and his mother, Shabana Begum, is a housewife. His elder brother, Mohammed Ismail, is an engineer. Siraj started playing club cricket at the age of 19 after first starting bowling aged 16, with a tennis ball. In his first match, he took 9 wickets for his uncle's team in the Hyderabad Cricket Association.[4][5]

  49. Jeez – the storm has hit from the NW – my trees are bending like grass, just hope they don't come down – I have enough logs

        1. That was my name years ago when I first went on the site – stems from a haircut I had in the late 50's when in the RAF x

          1. RAF eh…couple of uncles there WW2 and later you prob a twinkle in your dad’s eye then 🙂 So do you prefer Spiked or Alec, or either 🙂 x

          2. I don’t mind what I’m called Kate – I arrived just after the start of the war x

    3. Step away from the trees, Alec 🙂 good job they're bending, more likely to fall otherwise. More to come this winter, I think.

        1. Good man, trees here swaying to the tune of the force whatever it is, but then suddenly calm. Birds still in feeders, a good sign generally x

        1. Exactly. No idea who believes the nonsense, or who’s making whoopee with it….can only guess..

    5. My favourite joke. Because of the punchline. From the back of a swan vestas matchbox – my Norn Iron boyfriend used to smoke.

      Three old ladies on a bus. The first said, Isn’t it windy?
      The second said, No, it’s Thursday.
      The third said, So am I, let’s have a cup of tea.

      Whenever i am at home and start a conversation with “Isn’t it windy?”, it’s a cue for someone to go and get the kettle on.

    6. When I came home my parasol had been uprooted from the base and was lying on the lawn. Must have been windier than I thought.

  52. Syria’s president has opened up a hornet’s nest and it’s tearing the country apart
    While euphoria greeted Assad’s downfall, minorities now question if country dominated by Sunni majority can hold together
     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/03/bashar-assad-fall-can-syria-survive/

    Assad was reviled by the left wing MSM and PTB but many of us here could see from the beginning that he was by far the best person to lead Syria.

    Bloodbath will follow bloodbath. This has always been the way in the region of Persia and Syria.

    Does anyone remember Matthew Arnold's majestic and tragic narrative poem, Sohrab and Rustum? The two protagonists fight each other neither knowing that they are father and son engaged in mortal combat. I read it as a child; I read it to my English classes; I read it to my sons. We were all moved.

    But now in blood and battles was my youth,
    And full of blood and battles is my age,
    And I shall never end this life of blood."

    1. Hello Richard

      A pal years ago had superior knowledge , and called his two working spaniels Sohrab and Rustum.

      He was one of those well versed in the Classics .. and his dogs were a law unto themselves .. rather growly , unusual trait for spaniels .. they were brothers !

  53. Another test of action cam recording to remind me of the settings of the replacement solar panel battery charge contoller installed today in MOH's greenhouse.
    Display shows lead acid battery voltage on float charge from panel; watering pump load supply voltage; lowest permissible load driving voltage; load voltage available period; battery type.

    This Pulse Width Modulated control panel is an improvement over the last one as it has two solar panel inputs and can charge a large number of energy storage battery types including LiIon and LiFePo configurations.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/abbb257111c4a2d28d0543736e4420594605fae28b75c647a2d190615d0ff3e6.gif

    1. I have no idea what you are talking about but it is fascinating. Hubby and I are laying plans to go off grid in the medium term- if the country survives that long of course

      2. I’m using a greenhouse to learn about the technicalities and pitfalls of off grid solutions for water and electricity. Theoretically they should be free but you have to factor in a whole life costing.

  54. MC GN
    3 HRS AGO
    Curious….What’s happening to DoubleTree by Hilton London – Docklands Riverside? From mid November the booking page shows “sold out” for the next year. The hotel is on the opposite side of the Thames from Canary Wharf. Website states:
    “Please note that as of midnight November 20, 2025, the hotel will cease to operate as a Hilton hotel. As a result, stays booked past this date will not accrue Honors points. Please contact the hotel directly in case of any questions.”
    Normally hotels continue bookings when changing hands, not closing bookings?

    Warren Sheehy
    3 HRS AGO
    Reply to MC GN
    Same thing when I tested the booking system for the Mercure, Leeds Parkway….no more bookings available for the rest of the year. Looks like they've won the lottery of a government contract, huge revenues, no service.
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    Richard Mason
    2 HRS AGO
    Reply to MC GN
    I used to stay frequently at the Thistle Britannia as close to the Barbican. Then it went offline, and now mainline news and all is explained : name removed and fully occupied by a new crowd. Thistle were not going to announce that.
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    Christopher Stiff
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    Does this indicate they are turning into an immigrant hotel? Very bad news for the residents in the blocks next door.
    Mrs S
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      1. Great news, I use the Premier in Melton Mowbray when visiting my sister in law. It is actually quite a small one and often fully booked. As to the Double Tree it all sounds a bit strange in that it is not happening until November. Mensa held their annual gathering there some years ago and I have passed it on some of my London walks. Does this mean Uber will get special rates for ferrying the inmates on the river?

      2. I've used Premier Inns a few times for overnight stays. Cheap and cheerful, but I've never had a problem. Good to hear they are refusing to participate in the government migrant circus.

      4. But a quick fiddle with the words would confirm that as we all know they are not actually asylum seekers, they are an invading foreign army.

      5. It would help if we stopped calling them 'Asylum Seekers'. They are, emphatically not, at best we could call them economic immigrants, at worse parasitic third world savages.

    2. Nice. Wish i could live in a hotel with no bills and pocket money.

      Ffs.

    2. Ohhh.

      Let’s hope it all does down by Sunday. We are plotting a boat trip to the Isles of Scilly after out last one was cancelled due to the wind.

  57. LOL of the day..
    “Only the Conservatives, under new leadership, believe in sound money, zero tolerance on crime, and serious leadership. Britain deserves better than this façade.”
    Tory Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp

    and another defection to Reform..

    "We need to cut the dark heart of wokeness out of our criminal justice system and allow the police and courts to get back to what they're supposed to be doing which is keeping our communities safe."
    "I've got nothing but admiration for our police officers and PCSOs, they're doing a fantastic job, but they're fighting crime with one hand tied behind their back."
    Rupert Matthew, the new Reform police and crime commissioner for Leicestershire and Rutland

    1. The way things are going it could well happen. We seriously need to get rid of all the garbage in Wastemonster.

  59. 410709+ up ticks,

    Stands to reason you cannot afford hotel bills for a standing foreign army in waiting mode and welfare for the indigenous so the latter must go, tis the only option open to keep the standing foreign army comfortable and in conditions they have come to expect on arrival.

    Dt,
    ‘Serious problems’ with UK’s reliance on migration, warns OBR official
    Labour urged to focus on getting Britons back to work to grow the economy

    1. I listened to him when I was studying for my ‘O’ levels! Very useful! He was something else to a 16 year old!
      Actually I’m fibbing! It was 1974 and it was the first year exams of my OND! I was 17!

  66. Perhaps Moh and I could happily complete the DT Cryptic crosswords in the 80's and the 90's .. just like that , as Tommy Cooper would say..

    Perhaps our brains were sharper then , we didn't do too badly into the early 20'0s.. then I stopped buying the DT every day so the crossword habit faded away .

    Soduko left me flummoxed and any other quiz word game just left me cold , and still does .. perhaps my brain has changed .. we used to love the MI5 challenge .. but as a couple we have dropped back , even as Moh said , our !Q's were way above average.. hey , what did I just say ?

    Crossword trick
    SIR – My father had no trouble solving every crossword puzzle published in The Daily Telegraph during the 1980s (Letters, August 2).

    He used to board the train from Orpington at Petts Wood, and by the time it had reached Chislehurst – the next stop – he had completed the crossword, much to his fellow passengers’ admiration. What they didn’t know was that he was a compositor for the paper, setting up the puzzles a few days before publication, so knew all the answers.

    Andrew Baxter
    Banbury, Oxfordshire

  67. Perhaps Moh and I could happily complete the DT Cryptic crosswords in the 80's and the 90's .. just like that , as Tommy Cooper would say..

    Perhaps our brains were sharper then , we didn't do too badly into the early 20'0s.. then I stopped buying the DT every day so the crossword habit faded away .

    Soduko left me flummoxed and any other quiz word game just left me cold , and still does .. perhaps my brain has changed .. we used to love the MI5 challenge .. but as a couple we have dropped back , even as Moh said , our !Q's were way above average.. hey , what did I just say ?

    Crossword trick
    SIR – My father had no trouble solving every crossword puzzle published in The Daily Telegraph during the 1980s (Letters, August 2).

    He used to board the train from Orpington at Petts Wood, and by the time it had reached Chislehurst – the next stop – he had completed the crossword, much to his fellow passengers’ admiration. What they didn’t know was that he was a compositor for the paper, setting up the puzzles a few days before publication, so knew all the answers.

    Andrew Baxter
    Banbury, Oxfordshire

    1. The Jews as a race, are very bright people. That must just stick in the Left's craw – proof that breeding means something.

    2. Nick Lowles MBE is the founder of 'Hope not Hate'

      ChrisJones
      3h
      The irony is that "Hope not Hate" is made up of people who are openly proud to "hate" those who have the temerity to have a different opinion to them.

  71. https://order-order.com/2025/08/04/intelligence-agencies-refuse-to-give-internships-to-white-brits-for-third-year-running/

    Surely this is discrimination and illegal? As it is, knowing their open corruption in the welfare department, corruption in the passport agency, thefts in hmrc and outright rape by muslim police officers of children allowing them into the security services – when so many muslim are being watched because they're terrorists – is an act of utter madness.

    1. There are many possible outcomes, many bad, involving deaths, unemployment, rioting. Some are more coherent and harder to implement, requiring real discipline and will take over ten years to fully realise.

      Labour will choose the wrong option out of spite, because their masters instruct them so.

      Folk don't seem to understand the extend of state profligacy, nor have a clue where most of it goes.

        1. If you ask Joe Average if 'big companies' should pay more tax, they say yes. Ask them again if rich people should pay more tax they say 'yes, of course'.

          Most people just don't have a the faintest idea about the most basic of economics. Until this nonsense socialist idiocy is abandoned and people stop looking to drag down those better off and instead look up in aspiration we're sunk.

          The Left love to pit 'the workers' against 'da wich' as if the factory owner is somehow a lazy layabout compared to the factory worker. Their roles are different, with different responsibilities reflected in their worth but Lefties never explain that, they just reduce it to a label to foster petty class hatred which appeals to the weak minded.

      2. Yep,

        The farms will wind down , farmers will be broken , animals , meat will be scarce , and the only imprt will be blinking rice , and that will be rationed , and given to rice consumers , not us , not whitie .

        We will become coralled and treated like peasants and , guess what , our beautiful homeland and culture will be trashed ..

        Just like stories from the Bible or Greek Tragedies or old European folklore , we are pretending to be helpless , we have the energy to defy the assault on our country , and we can do what our parents did , stand tall and brave .

        1. It helps to have someone to rally around. Who might that be? Not the King, PM or any politician I know of.

    3. I just had a rant a minute ago about the deliberate anti-white racism.

      It is coming and it won’t be pretty.

    4. It isn't broke at all.
      It's the economically illiterate duds in charge.
      You have your own currency so essentially you have a gold plated platinum creditcard for you to do the following:
      Sort out your energy policy asap.
      Getting the money flowing to every nook & cranny of the nation.
      The economy should be purring along at 3,400 revs.
      Get your human resources moving up the food chain ladder of technology & unshackle yrself from the anti-technology EU.

      Instead Labour beats to a pulp everyone they hate with a tax stick.. the evil entrepreneurs.. the evil top-notch schools.
      Aligns itself with a moribund perma-recession protectionist tradin block.
      Then spaff £s on foreigners, foreign lands, foreign govts.

    5. Quite like Andrew Neil, but I remember how he cried when a lamp fell over initial screenings GBN, and how he allowed Sturgeon to best him. If he's scared now, perhaps not too much to worry about.

    1. The further offshore the better. You get short shrift in Singapore if you commit a criminal offence. We would need more than12 of those to house this year's illegal migrants that have arrived so far.

      1. Yet our glorious leader decommissioned the Bibby Stockholm and cancelled the Rwanda arrangement (in both of which we had invested millions, and both of which were beginning to work in terms of deterrence).

        He cancelled both (desperate) interim measures on day one of his ascent to what he clearly regards as a position of total authoritarian power, despite being elected on only c 20% of the vote. His delusion is, of course escalated by the vagaries of our FPTP system, which blew a low turnout into a massive parliamentary majority, and we, the electorate, can do F all about it. Meanwhile they wreck our country, spray our money into their bank accounts and at their cronies. It seems there is a blip that allows them to compound their lies and wrecking crew for another 4 years.

        The sabotages so far (including giving away sovereign territory and paying for the privilege, (not legal in our common law, IMHO) were done out of spite and of a childish need to repudiate everything the previous government had tried to do (baby/bathwater).

        Spite (including the cutting off of one's nose type) seems to be this government's driving force – along with breathtaking hubris and a complete lack of care or understanding of its primary functions as servant of the people.

        1. Good thoughts, but I just see this ‘mad plan’ to re-populate the decent places with a demonic demographic population as the end game. I’ve no effing idea why.

        1. Singapore can get away with this sort of sensible measure, as it can with both corporal and capital punishment. It hence has transformed a marshy outcrop into one of the most thriving and peaceful nations in the world.

  74. Afternoon all. Frustrating day; I rushed home from the RAFA meeting to meet the engineers who were due to install fibre to the premises. They duly arrived on time only to be unable to do it thanks to not being able to get permission from my nasty neighbour to cross their garden. They have come up with a plan but it will be about a week before they can do that.

    Labour has only ever been interested in fighting the class war but for them that doesn’t mean improving the lot of the working class so they can be upwardly mobile, it means sticking it to “da rich” and doing down anyone they consider “a toff”.

  75. Know thine enemy…

    Intelligence Agencies Refuse to Give Internships to White Brits for Third Year Running

    Britain’s intelligence agencies are at it again. You can only get an internship if you are not a white working class Brit…

    The “MI5, MI6 and GCHQ Summer Intelligence Internship” was since at least 2023 offered only to youngsters “from a Black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority background and from a socially or economically disadvantaged background.” MI5 explains: “We’re confining the applications for this internship to those within this demographic due to a current underrepresentation in our workforce.“ Too bad if you’re Tom from Boro…

    They are at it again: the summer 2026 ten-to-11-week internship is limited to those demographics too. The spooks, who still spend taxpayer cash on Stonewall membership, will cover the cost of accommodation in London or Cheltenham. Applications for the Summer Intelligence Internships open on 26 August with some info sessions beforehand. The name’s Bond – BAME Bond…

    August 4 2025 @ 16:01

    1. They need to infiltrate the gangs and illegals communities. Can't do that if you are a white honky.

        1. No, but it's plausible…
          They would suborn someone already part of the target groupings.

        2. No, but it's plausible…
          They would suborn someone already part of the target groupings.

    3. And they wonder why there will be riots

      Every public sector body is doing it. Lots of plcs too, to get their tick in the “diversity” box. Nothing shouts “diversity” like only employing “black and brown” people.

      I’m almost willing for the End Days. Let’s just get it out of the way and then whoever’s left after the Destruction can either start again, or live in squalor and idleness (depending on who wins)

    4. They should be going after "the brightest and the best", not getting involved in social engineering.

      On the other hand, is we as a country did that, there would be a lot of empty seats iin parliament. The Labour front bench is more the opposite.

    2. Could there be more to this than meets the eye? The Bank may be attempting to protect the customer from fraud, but it doesn't come across too well.

      1. It's AML regulations.
        If you read the comments on the YouTube link there are plenty of same same stories with other banks.

        Also, you have to be careful. This guy's problems will be solved in due course.. they will close his account.

      2. It's AML regulations.
        If you read the comments on the YouTube link there are plenty of same same stories with other banks.

        Also, you have to be careful. This guy's problems will be solved in due course.. they will close his account.

      3. They are much more likely to be protecting the bank. If the person who withdrew a chunk of cash turns out to be a bad 'un or his brother is, or whatever, they will go after the bank for lack of due diligence. Meanwhile the people who just want to draw money from their account are treated like potential terrorists.

        I think here that they don't get excited until the sums exceed $10,000.

        1. There is a well-known type of scam whereby the victim is persuaded that their bank account has been compromised and told to draw out a large sum of money and mail it to an address given by the scammer. The bank will be aware of this and will attempt to protect both the customer’s and the bank’s interests.

          1. You would have to be very foolish to fall for that. The bank would also be culpable if it knew the MO.

          2. The scammer coaches the victim in how to answer the bank's questions. Most of the victims appear to be elderly people.

          3. Well I’m “elderly”. Doesn’t make you a complete idiot, though I do see where you’re coming from. My objection is to the bank acting as gatekeeper, seeing your money as theirs, to be dispensed at their discretion (the discretion of a little girl like the one on the video, for example.

          4. We’ve only seen a heavily edited version of the exchange. I would like to see the whole recording before forming an opinion. Incidentally, this type of scam has been shown on BBC’s ‘Scam Interceptors’.

      4. They are much more likely to be protecting the bank. If the person who withdrew a chunk of cash turns out to be a bad 'un or his brother is, or whatever, they will go after the bank for lack of due diligence. Meanwhile the people who just want to draw money from their account are treated like potential terrorists.

        I think here that they don't get excited until the sums exceed $10,000.

      5. It really is none of their business. If you want to withdraw your own money from their claws they have no right at al to withhold it, nor do they have the right to grill you on what you intend to spend your own money. You have both a right to and the sole responsibility for your own property.

    3. I had exactly the same problem a few months ago when I withdrew £5,000 from my Lloyds Bank account to pay some tradesmen who were doing a lot of work on the house.
      First they asked if I was being forced to withdraw money for someone who may be waiting outside, I said dont be silly, then they asked what the money was for – I said it 's none of your business, but they explained their protocols would not allow them to release the money unless I answered.
      I asked them what would constitute an acceptable answer. Funnily enough they suggested home improvements, so I said 'Alright then, it's for home improvements!' – and that was that, box ticked, money handed over…… unbelievable!

        1. I always use cash to pay tradesmen, they usually prefer it and it invariably gets me a discount!

      4. Luckily our banks are more like English banks circa, 1980. I regularly draw cash from my local branch and have never been asked what it is for. And I get greeted by name when I go in.

  77. Wordle No. 1,507 4/6

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    🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Wordle 4 Aug 2025

    Inflexible for Par Four?

    1. Well done, managed a 3 today.

      Wordle 1,507 3/6

      ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
      ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    2. A birdie today.

      Wordle 1,507 3/6

      ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
      🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    3. My good fortune continues, once I'd decided it was a double vowel it was fairly obvious – Boydee!!

      Wordle 1,507 3/6

      ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
      ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
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    4. Late on Parade. Used my one letter for a starter and found the word using my dictionary.

      Wordle 1,507 3/6

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  78. Saw this on F/B thread , our Dorset coastline .. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5fe7524e10d4a4e78e0d0ec5443f7a4c4ba80f8c2e006381b5fd8dd62de778d1.jpg This is the Maud Mary , a 300 ton 3 masted Polish schooner which, on 17 December 1939, dragged its anchor with a cargo of bricks and drifted on to rocks near Old Harry Rocks, Studland. At the time The Western Gazette reported that the crew rowed away , missed Swanage beach and were eventually rescued by a Naval vessel off Peveril Point.

      1. She hasn't got a dark room; and I don't think that Boot's the Chemist do two-hour film processing any more.

      3. I loved my Kodak Brownie, Lacoste. How I wish I could still take photos with an SLR, on film, and then fart around in a dark room. It was such a pleasure – especially compared with the soulless (but, admittedly entertaining) stuff to be found on the internet now.

      1. 410709+ up ticks,

        Evening WS.

        Main objective achieved, proven via time patriots form a holding committee until fringe parties form a governing body.

        Erase the lab/lib/con pro eu coalition party.

        1. Wishful thinking. If a monarch were to sack a government, especially Labour, in today's UK, there would be violence and chaos from which the country would take a very long time to recover.

          1. 410709+ up ticks,

            WS,
            These are very unusual nasty times an active coup is taking place and running daily, and successfully.

            There is no way this is going to climax without bloodshed or submission, the latter is NOT an acceptable option.

            This is my personal honest opinion

    2. The narrator says that his grandfather, George VI, was his father when we all know that Prince Philip was his father.

      This rather diminishes the impact of this piece!

      1. 410709+ up ticks

        Evening R and well spotted, I must admit I so was taken by the post content i read straight through it,
        unforgivable I stand corrected.

      1. If muslim gets upset at the truth, perhaps they should stop trying to kill people.

    4. Unlike you, dindu, he wasn't a spiteful bigot. He simply pointed out the truth. You hate – because that's all you have.

      Get out of my country.

  81. Cat amongst the pigeons..
    Upset the apple cart..
    then some..
    .
    Tommy R joins Advance political party to become an MP.

    1. Rock on Tommy.

      Never been a fan, but unfortunately we need people more people like him now.

    2. I do not know whether or not Tommy had anything to do with the chap lying unconscious on the floor. What I do know is the MSM and the PTB want to lock him up again even if he is totally innocent.

      2. (Especially if he is innocent).

        Can't have people with their own opinions, now, can we?

      1. Yes, he did. He managed to pop a few of his balloons before dropping his pellet gun,
        (it slipped from his grasp) which brought him down a good deal more slowly and drifting further away than intended. The balloons got entangled with power lines, not quite reaching the ground but he survived. Apparently he had only intended to hover 100 ft above his garden, it was never his intention to compete with commercial air traffic! He committed suicide at the age of 44 by shooting himself through the heart, as these eccentrics tend to do.

  83. Since now, according to the BBC and the government we no longer have illegal immigration, we merely have irregular immigration, it’s been downgraded.
    This same way of thinking can apply to all serious law breaking by our new arrivals, I suppose.
    Shoplifting can become merely irregular shopping, rape can become irregular intercourse, murder can become irregular population control so you see once it’s all explained, there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
    Two tier justice and policing will be merely irregular discrimination, there is literally no end to the way we can all be
    placated and happy under our globalist irregular new world order

    1. Invasion is the premium word, they simply can't admit that they and the previous mob of idiots have wrecked our country and its culture and social structure now the economy.

    3. Peaceful protest by the indigenous becomes dangerous rioting – lock ‘em all up!

    2. Matt is just sooooo lovely. I don't know how he does it every time, without offending anyone.

  88. Archbishop of Wales: I hid my sexuality for decades
    Cherry Vann, 66, has become the UK’s first female and first openly gay archbishop
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/03/archbishop-of-wales-i-hid-my-sexuality-for-decades/

    St Paul's Epistle to the Romans Chapter 1 verses 26 -27 (KJV)

    "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature."

    For this vulgar woman to openly flaunt her lesbian sexuality – which is explicitly against the Christian teaching – is an unforgiveable disgrace,

    There is a lot to be said in favour of a celibate clergy which remains chaste.

    1. Good evening, Rastus.

      Celibacy and chastity are frequently and erroneously confused. Celibacy simply means to be unmarried, nothing else. Only chastity means abstinence from sexual relations. For example: a married man cannot be celibate, but he may be chaste.

      1. Good evening Grizzly

        Not by me they ain't!

        There are unmarried clergy who do not fornicate! These are the sort of chaps of whom St Paul approves.

        Mind you I have known married clergy who were fornicators.

    2. Well, I’ve got to say that the Met office rather over egged the pudding in these blowy parts! We made preparations for a cyclone, and got a bit of a storm! In fact, apart from the sweet pea tripod being a bit horizontal rather than vertical, and a branch of the sycamore which blew off, things are remarkably undisturbed! Definitely hyperbolic!

      1. The plastic cover of my grandsons hippo sandpit has blown off and is now lying at least a couple of feet away

        2. I have now stowed all the parasols and taken down the flag as it got a bit breezy earlier on.

      2. The North East of Scotland seems to have been more like the forecast. One of my cousins there said that quite a lot of rather large trees are down. He lives in an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

        1. Well, with the trees being in leaf they blow over rather easier than in the winter storms!

  91. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bafc64520e605e268600e3063902dd9946e5cee231279c7616c854f9eb7f2998.png A 22-INCH rat, thought to be the UK’S biggest, has been captured at a home in the north of England. The rodent was discovered in a property in the Normanby area of Redcar and Cleveland by a pest controller.

    Conservative councillors have blamed the Labour-run council for the supersize pest, as they no longer handle domestic rat infestations and expect residents to foot the bill themselves. It comes as Birmingham has been plagued by rats because of growing mountains of uncollected waste amid a months-long bin strike.

    Proper northern rat, that. None of your poofy little mincing southern rats up here!🤣

    1. Trouble with rats?
      Get a couple of terriers and join your local Ratting Club!
      Problem solved.

      1. Our present terrier is useless. #We've never had one like this before, but in fact the killing machine aspect has not pleased me in the past hence i have given up keeping all poultry. The whole "fur and feather " thing is a myth.

      2. Neither Oscar (a Fox Terrier) nor Kadi ("nearly a Norfolk") had/has any interest in ratting whatsoever. In fact, I trapped a rat and Oscar came up to the trap and just looked at it then walked away.

        1. I think triggered by movement, my terriers would chase anything moving, otherwise yawn and go back to sleep.

          2. You mean kill it? Only problem there is if it bites you first. Or did you mean dispose of the body?…black bag, refuse tip….

          3. No I had to kill it. It didn’t get a chance to bite me. Then I had to dispose of the body (black bin).

          4. Rats can jump quite high. Smack the Rat was an actual thing, apart from the game. I recall being in a building next to a tip being cleared, rats running around. In themselves rats are actually very clean creatures, and look after each other to the extent of regurgitating food, similarly to vampire bats. Well done Conway:-)

      3. Worked in a textile mill years ago, fine woollen work. I worked in the office, often alone…one day, a rustling in the waste paper bin – rat emerged with a piece of paper. One of the guys would fetch his JRT in time to time, everyone would start banging pipes, spades, anything to get rats to emerge. JRT was very impressive – a quick kill of a dozen in no time. Those were the days!

        1. Given my vision issues, I'm with Mike of my ilk, every weekday from 0600 to1000. JHB, not so much, I agree with her views, but the presentastion grates.

          1. He is great! JHB can be quite wrong headed sometimes, but she knows her stuff.

          2. Yes, Geoff, it pisses me off too. i wish she would just STFU so that her gusts could speak. So very many people get seduced by the sound of their own voice once they are on air.

    3. They're very dangerous, Grizz. Worked with a part-timer office worker some years ago, supplementing farm income. She said some were enormous, and unafraid – would jump at a person if they were disturbed. Not great to think all of us are no more than a few feet away from one or more at any time. Including the two legged variety…

  92. Evening folks. Just a 24 hour pass and access to my PC:

    As requested a few photos – mainly ones for the birds…

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e92976cfd4b14a1513ae0e1185abc140d63ed258d77674c56753cfa2a21087e5.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/477e12d3cb6ebcd8705750bf8bb8255e8a4773afba2a0f8754ad629515dc453d.jpg
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    Believe it or not the dot on the brach is a Kingfisher that accompanied for about 1000 yards, until it strayed into another's territory whereupon the two males raced past me, one back the way it came….

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  94. That response is, as we have come to expect from this current traitorous government, full of lies.
    While they may be closing some of the illegals' hotels, many more are being handed over, and most of the parasitic cockroaches have been moved into houses that should have been allocated to British people on waiting lists.
    Landlords are evicting tenants, including many long-term renters who have never defaulted on rent and never damaged their homes, in favour of lucrative contracts with guaranteed rents and maintenance for several years.
    Local councils have very long waiting lists of people needing a home, and are told that nothing is available.
    Yet, as if by magic, scores of houses and flats all over the country are suddenly available for these unwanted illegal savages.

    Certainly, hundreds of thousands were allowed in under the Conservatives, but since liebour got the keys to no. 10, the invasion has increased in the region of 50%. How on earth can liebour claim to be better than the last lot when they are clearly infinitely worse.
    As for their claim to be increasing the number of removals, when the numbers kicked out are a mere drop in the ocean, a very tiny percentage. Even convicted serious criminals are allowed to stay, with their false claims of potential bad treatment 'back home' being believed. (Doesn't stop them going home for holidays though….) https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eb4b39f6b9cb87d3cea6200d40bc14c78d2decbf13a0303b13cfe9d540f2acde.png

    1. They claim it because they lie. They lie all the time.

      “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
      ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
      tags: government, lies, marxism, socialism

          2. MH regularly ‘slags off’ google (don’t ask!), but it does have its uses. For reasons better known to himself, he prefers Bing (I think that is his favoured search engine, but if I ask, he’ll go off into yet another long-winded technical lecture!)

  95. https://order-order.com/2025/08/04/milibands-nuclear-quango-chief-in-line-for-200000-for-working-three-days-a-week/

    There's a pointless quango for 'energy'. There's the nuclear safety board. There's an entire damned department for destroying energy.

    Does this utter sewage never actually stop to think how long it takes companies to earn £200,000? Money he just spaffs on a non-job, all to expand the state. These useless wasters have to be put through a blender. They are why this country is bankrupt.

  96. Tommy Robinson arrested. When do we get to see the video, or were the many cameras nearby all out of action?

    1. I imagine muslim approached him deliberately to cause trouble – that's all they are – and when Robinson asked him to move aside muslim refused, got uppity and then Robinson tried to push him aside muslim took a prat fall and made it look good for the cameras.

      Of course, that isn't how plod will see it as they favour and protect muslim.

    1. Yet this declinist approach is not accidental. It's deliberate. Imagine how twisted in the head you have to be to want to destroy a beautiful, advanced, amazing society that has given the world so much?

  98. “Do not pursue what is illusory – property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life – don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. ”
    ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    I know in my heart that these things are true, that I have a wonderful son and an amazing wife, but lately it's seemed one thing after another. One frustration after the next. Oscar falls horribly ill, the washing machine breaks, the damned on line harm bill, the tax ratchet, the oppression of the state, then an infection, ear ache, tooth ache, new tyres, the new car having failed a service and needing thousands to make road worthy and the Warqueen not flickering at the cost.

    The boring arguments over changing the bed linen, over sex, over where the dogs should sleep, over how long to stay in the house. I'm not sleeping especially well, usually midnight before I go off and 5 when I wake. The Warqueen set up a completely different company for our 'home' installs for tax purposes and I forgot once and haven't heard the bally end of it.

    It's too damned hot all the time. I am hot now when it really isn't that and even getting it in the neck for not buying softrinse.

    1. Deep breaths, wibbles! It can all seem too much at times, I know. Just try to hold on to the positives – the War Queen is amazing, the dogs are tremendous (in all senses of the word!) and your son is a credit to you. All the rest is immaterial. Store not up treasures for yourself on earth where moth and rust can destroy … Be thankful for what you have.

        1. I know. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming. Remember, we’re here for you. Some days things get me down – the pain, the frustration, the embuggeration and the taxation. Then I take my dogs for a walk, even if I have to hobble and I realise life isn’t that bad after all and I mentally put two fingers up to this pathetic excuse for a government.

        2. And buy yourself an A/C unit so you and the house gets cool. A/C is the savior where I live. It can be high 30's outside and humid, when it's low 20's inside with much of the humidity removed.

        3. Keep all those good and positive things at the forefront. The rest is background noise – the stuff you can’t do much about.

      2. Nothing is forever and all this will come to an end. It is all a bit much to bear, I agree, and when walking through the valley of the shadows as we all have to do at times in our lives, sometimes more than once, keep on going at a steady pace. You will come through.

  99. 419709+ up ticks,

    Seemingly more stitches regarding the Tommy Robinson tapestry.

    Dt,
    Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at St Pancras station
    Far-Right activist detained at Luton airport in relation to incident that left man with ‘serious’ injuries

    2. A spokesman for British Transport Police (BTP) said the victim had suffered serious injuries and had been taken to hospital.

      He was later released from hospital and is understood to have given a statement to police.

      Can't have been all that serious then.

    1. It’s only money! We can raise taxes! Or just print the stuff! What could possibly go wrong?

    2. Could this be Starmer paving his way with UK millions to ensure his path to the EC………It'll not make one jot of difference, need a few gunboats to do that.

  103. Hard to keep up. Now in Wilmslow. This is from the Daily Sceptic:

    A Sudanese migrant housed in a taxpayer-funded Wilmslow hotel, has been charged with attempting to kidnap a 10 year-old girl in Stockport. The Sun has the story.

    The Sudanese man appeared in court accused of attempting to take the girl of ten while she was with her father.

    Edris Abdelrazig, 30, in Stockport, Gtr Manchester, was arrested for allegedly trying to lure away the girl on July 13th.

    Last night, the Government called the charge “deeply concerning”.

    He had been living in a three-star, £100-a-night hotel in leafy Manchester suburb Wilmslow.

    Abdelrazig appeared before JPs on July 15th.

    He was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester crown court on August 26th.

    It comes after claims of a cover-up because police told councillors in Nuneaton, Warks, to avoid disclosing that two suspects in the rape of a 12 year-old girl were asylum seekers.

  106. Well, chums, my alarm clock has pinged, telling me it is time to climb the stairs to Bedfordshire. So Good Night to you all. Sleep well tonight, and I hope to see you all well rested early tomorrow morning.

  107. Danish zoo asks for unwanted pets to feed its predators

    Michael Sheils McNamee
    BBC News
    Published
    3 hours ago https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r7z2ynd2lo
    A zoo in Denmark has appealed to the public to donate their healthy unwanted pets as part of a unique effort to provide food for its predators.

    Aalborg Zoo has asked for donations of live chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs, which it says are "gently euthanised" by trained staff.

    The zoo also accepts donations of live horses – with owners able to benefit from a potential tax break.

    Posting on Instagram, external, the zoo explains it has a "responsibility to imitate the natural food chain of the animals" and smaller livestock "make up an important part of the diet of our predators".

    The zoo says the food provided in this way is "reminiscent of what it would naturally hunt in the wild" – and that this is especially true for the Eurasian lynx.

    Other predators being kept at the zoo include lions and tigers.

    The small animals can be donated on weekdays, with no more than four at a time without an appointment.

    On its website, underneath a picture of a tiger devouring a piece of meat, Aalborg Zoo lays out the conditions for donating horses.

    To be eligible they need to have a horse passport and cannot have been treated for an illness within the previous 30 days.

    If they are successful in handing over their animals, horse donors can then receive a tax deduction.

    In a statement, the zoo's deputy director, Pia Nielsen, said the zoo's carnivores had been fed smaller livestock "for many years".

    "When keeping carnivores, it is necessary to provide them with meat, preferably with fur, bones etc to give them as natural a diet as possible," she explained.

    "Therefore, it makes sense to allow animals that need to be euthanised for various reasons to be of use in this way. In Denmark, this practice is common, and many of our guests and partners appreciate the opportunity to contribute. The livestock we receive as donations are chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, and horses."

    1. No different from the knacker man taking deadstock to the flesh house at the kennels, I suppose. I give my dogs rabbit ears with the fur on – it acts as a vermifuge.

    2. Utter rubbish and crappy natural history knowledge. The zoo's carnivores should have been left where they lived to eat their natural prey.

    3. Maybe the vermin who abduct and rape young girls should be sent to the Danish zoo.

    1. Good night, Conners – and Kadi and Winston – and I hope you are able to take delivery tomorrow despite your nasty neighbours.

      1. They park on my property to deliver so I don’t have to involve the neighbours from hell. The problem with the fibre was that they needed to cross their garden.

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