Monday 5 September: Primary care can’t be fixed until GPs’ complaints are taken seriously

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  3. Fertility

    Morning all, especially Geoff.

    Came late to Nottl yesterday (busy).

    I read Igor Chudov’s article https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-births-in-england-collapsed-and about the 14% drop in birth rate in 2022 following Covid jab fest in 2021.

    One thing that Igor’s article didn’t say: was the drop in fertility ascribed (or ascribable) to reduced fertility in women or men? And there were no details of fertility drop in slammer ladies, who might be (a) less likely to go out and get Covid jabs and (b) more likely to have lots more bairns. We should be told.

    Obviously all the fit young men arriving daily in rubber boats will be given Covid jabs immediately on landing (plus TB and Polio). We wouldn’t want them catching anything when they are walking out from their urban hotels.

    1. As regards fertility, the focus appears to be on women at the moment. Miscarriages, stillbirths, mal-formed placentas and menstrual problems are easier to spot than problems with men. Based in the USA, authoress and activist on women’s rights and wellbeing, Naomi Wolf, is leading the charge on this and on the Pfizer document release.
      She can be found at:

      Daily Clout

      1. I understood that it’s miscarriages too. I also heard somewhere the suggestion that it’s not permanent, i.e. when the spike protein leaves your body (which can be up to a year according to Peter McCulloch) then the effect will be gone. But I guess we will only know that in due course.
        Naomi Wolf is doing terrific work, but I hope her feminist background doesn’t lead her to ignore men’s health.

        1. If, as being prompted in Canada, there is a nine month booster programme into the foreseeable future, then the spike protein will never leave the bodies of those stupid enough to accept the jab. If resistance to the jab grows then the globalist lackeys will go for mandates. They cannot stop now, they are in over their heads and do not, and never will have, an exit strategy that will absolve them of blame.

          1. I can’t believe that any supposedly sensible western society will be fooled by this again. There have been hundreds of thousands of cardiology problems caused by these random jabs.

        2. Igor Chudov’s last Substack but one suggested the decrease in fertility may be temporary.

  5. Good Morning Folks

    Nice start here.

    Heard a bit of thunder in the night, at least I hope it was, you can never tell these days.

  7. For once, I almost agree with Tim Stanley in today’s DT in an article headed “Boris’s haters have destroyed British politics”.

    “… it’s a victory for the worst people, the elite Remainers who thought Brexit was so self-evidently stupid no one would vote for it. When over half of us did, the only explanation they could comprehend was that the voters had been fooled by a master manipulator. “Boris stole our country from us!” they wailed, all while he set about building the Britain they have always wanted. High-tax, low-carbon, gender-neutral, uncontrolled borders. The war against Boris flattered the Left’s belief that it is an anti-fascist underdog – papering over the fact that after 12 years of Tory government, the woke still run almost everything….

    The idea that Britain has been governed for three years by a lazy clown flatters the conceit that Brexit was inherently foolish, while also deflecting from the reality that the many disappointments of Brexit are due to decisions taken by the Tories that were serious and flawed. The same goes for lockdown. We have talked ad infinitum about Boris breaking the rules; we have yet to ask if the rules themselves were correct. Obsession about one man’s sins thus allows the wider moral consensus to go unexamined.“

  8. For once, I almost agree with Tim Stanley in today’s DT in an article headed “Boris’s haters have destroyed British politics”.

    “… it’s a victory for the worst people, the elite Remainers who thought Brexit was so self-evidently stupid no one would vote for it. When over half of us did, the only explanation they could comprehend was that the voters had been fooled by a master manipulator. “Boris stole our country from us!” they wailed, all while he set about building the Britain they have always wanted. High-tax, low-carbon, gender-neutral, uncontrolled borders. The war against Boris flattered the Left’s belief that it is an anti-fascist underdog – papering over the fact that after 12 years of Tory government, the woke still run almost everything….

    The idea that Britain has been governed for three years by a lazy clown flatters the conceit that Brexit was inherently foolish, while also deflecting from the reality that the many disappointments of Brexit are due to decisions taken by the Tories that were serious and flawed. The same goes for lockdown. We have talked ad infinitum about Boris breaking the rules; we have yet to ask if the rules themselves were correct. Obsession about one man’s sins thus allows the wider moral consensus to go unexamined.“

  9. No 10’s Larry the cat ‘enters’ race to become next PM. 5 September 2022.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/04c30030ee87d87ebf327cb5c013ce64b5ec8bc57d934a4919fa82dac8d7c4ee.png

    Twitter users were delighted to see billboards across London announcing that Larry the cat, No 10’s “chief mouser”, has thrown his collar into the ring to become the country’s next prime minister.

    Either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will be declared as the new leader of the Conservative party on Monday, but the campaign team behind Larry4Leader has gone to extra lengths to ensure the tabby’s stance is known.

    Larry was only four years old when he was adopted from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home to begin his new life in politics and has served as a trusted companion to three prime ministers: David Cameron, Theresa May and the outgoing PM, Boris Johnson.

    The sad fact is that we would be no worse off under Larry’s rule and probably better than that of his predecessors!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/04/larry4leader-no-10s-larry-the-cat-enters-race-to-become-next-pm

    2. What your saying is that Larry is a jinx to the British people by giving us what will be the forth incompetent PM in a row.

  11. ‘Morning, Peeps. A superb storm here at around 1.30am, accompanied by lashings of lovely rain…

    Duty calls (bus) so play nicely.

      2. Heyup!
        We had a good half hour of flashes & rumbles, and a lot of rain just the back of 1ish.

  12. Thousands gather at ‘Czech Republic First’ rally over energy crisis. 4 September 2022.

    The Czech Republic is facing an autumn of discontent after an estimated 70,000 demonstrators gathered in Prague to protest at soaring energy bills and demand an end to sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine.

    Far-right and extreme-left elements coalesced at a “Czech Republic First” rally to call for a new agreement with Moscow over gas supplies and a halt to the sending of arms to Ukraine, while urging the centre-right government of the prime minister, Petr Fiala, to resign.

    This is what we need! Scrap this stupid and self-damaging Sanctions Program and get back on Russian Gas! Lol!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/04/czech-republic-prague-protest-sanctions-energy-crisis-gas-russia

    1. A frequent DT commentator who is a publican is still rooting for war and called the Italian call for a change to the failed sanctions as submission. I’m always surprised by his views as his business is headed for the buffers this winter.

      1. I’m sure he thinks that Truss will save him, little realising that many people will be cutting back heavily on outings or if they do turn up they will nurse one drink all evening, keeping warm. If he has free wi-fi I would suggest he switches it off so that the plebs can’t be entertained and might drink more.

    2. It seems me the Czechs have a better understanding of what is actually happening in Europe than most.

    1. I know nothing, but others on here know a lot. If Russia returned to the “gold standard” would that not dent the dollar?

      1. BRICS are planning a commodity backed international exchange currency, which each country will join with the backing of some commodity, not necessarily gold.
        If that’s up against a dollar that is no longer used for petroleum deals, and is backed by hot air and massively over-printed, then yes, the dollar will rapidly go to zero and take the pound and the euro with it.

  14. A nice birdie here to start the day

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  15. Truss to push ahead with low-tax economy despite calls for caution. 5 September 2022.

    Liz Truss has said she will press ahead with plans for the UK to be a low-tax economy with less focus on wealth redistribution under her premiership, despite calls for caution from Tory grandees.

    This is the sort of facile and hubristic drivel that now passes for politics in the UK. It’s like Levelling Up or Net-Zero. It is just some meaningless throwaway statement without foundation. I say this (and I am a supporter of a low tax economy) but the idea that a Prime Minister of any persuasion is going to create one in the span of a single parliament is ridiculous. If one were realistic about it, it would first require long planning and consideration and then to be included in a General Election Manifesto and then when elected two or three parliaments to implement. Such a program is way beyond the capabilities of any Political Party in the UK!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/04/liz-truss-energy-prices-action-plan

  16. Morning all. 😃
    I had to get out of bed around 2am and close all of our windows we had a very windy curtain and blind moving deluge during the night.

  17. Good morning, everyone. Won’t be around tomorrow a s we are off to the Supervet (Fitzpatrick Referrals) with the Springer. Cruciate ligament in the other leg. They will x-ray her to take measurements for the metal plate which will be inserted.

      1. £4.500. We have insurance but the premiums are £90 per month! I have started a savings account for her bills and after the leg is done we will cancel the insurance.

      1. Yes. But she hates the restrictions to her exercise which could break the plate. She is restricted for almost 3 months until the bone starts to grow around the plate.

          1. It is a very good idea. Mrs D takes her regularly for a swim in the Stour and sometimes in the sea. She loves the water. The dog, that is.

  18. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5a3bff8c57e1acb117b0bffca2d701701afef74d4e2947d4bea19cc0395e0ac0.png Na then, Rowland lad. If you think the standard of British driving is execrable, you’d better not come to Sweden. Put a Swede behind the wheel of a motor vehicle and he becomes immediately clueless. They routinely hog the road making overtaking impossible. They wave back and forth over the white line as if it were not there.

    I have never taken a car journey without meeting a dim Swede hurtling towards me in my lane! Put simply, they have no spatial awareness and treat the whole width of the road as their own. As for indicating their intention to turn, mostly they don’t. On the odd occasion that they do they never give prior warning: the turn is started (after a sharp unexpected braking) before the indicator light is turned on!

    I was taught the sequence: mirror—signal—manoeuvre—cancel signal—mirror on my standard driving course. Try to explain that to a Swede and his eyeballs would rattle in his skull!

    If Sweden had the density of traffic that the UK has, especially on motorways and in conurbations, there would be carnage on Swedish roads.

    2. The problem in the UK now and as usual, our silly political classes and civil service have allowed thousands of newcommers, people to drive on our roads who have never read the highway code or even had a sniff of a driving test on UK driving conditions.

      1. Morning RE,

        The problem is deeply entrenched here in these touristy areas.

        You cannot believe the thousands of tourists from Leicester and Luton etc who drive down here in truly magnificent top of the range Mercs and Audis and the rest , yet because the drivers are either Asian women or men, their heads can hardly be seen behing the steering wheel . They will have had an exhausting fast journey so by the time they arrive on the narrow roads here in Dorset they are tired and anxious and impatient.

        They arrive in convoy , have picnics and generally seem family orientated … but they do not connect with the locals , no smiles , eye contact or anything else .. they are totally immune to us because they travel in huge groups , community minded .

    3. Interesting to know; I’ve not driven in Sweden, but would have assumed they stuck punctiliously to the rules.

      I actually like driving in Italy (like so much there, it’s a game), but the worst I ever encountered was in rural France. Driver in the middle of the road, blissfully unaware of narrowly avoided collision; turned out to have spread his newspaper over the dashboard and was unhurriedly perusing it as he ambled along.

      1. They are, indeed, punctilious in most matters. Sadly, all that goes to hell when they climb behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.

        1. Good morning, I assume no packet has arrived.

          Blame the EU!

          The woman at Quiberon post office asked us whether Sweden was in the EU….

    4. Perhaps they’ve still not come to terms with driving on the right although that took place on 3rd September 1967.

      1. Only the cars and motorbikes moved from the left to the right on that date. Lorries and buses did it the following day.🤣

    5. The worst thing about Britain is the motorway middle lane hoggers. A four lane road in one direction can be reduced to one lane as everyone tries to squeeze into the fast lane to get past the fool ambling along in the second lane. Happens all the time on the M25.

      1. I would love to patrol Britain’s motorway network driving a very fast tank. I would simply blast all middle-lane hoggers to Kingdom Come.

        [It would make an amusing change from my day job of patrolling the Kent coast in the same tank, blasting misused RNLI lifeboats out of the water, along with any unaccompanied rubber dinghies!]

  19. 355715+up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Monday 5 September: Primary care can’t be fixed until GPs’ complaints are taken seriously

    Monday 5 September: no issue can be fixed until decent peoples complaints are taken seriously.

    The primary concern for the new hydra head is surely the ILLEGAL invasion of United Kingdom shores.

    The majority voter seem not to acknowledge the very real fact we are
    going through a very long period of plundering from
    foreign external / indigenous internal sources.

    The future, the time for payback is long past , that was eliminated early post referendum victory and confirmed with the coalition victory in 2019

    The time for serious pay up / suffering is now up and running.

    View of a top ranking optimist…me, trust in truss / vows / promise’s / pledges of the tory (ino) facade party will very soon be realised as once again ,misplaced, a short space of time will tell.

    1. I think you’re preaching to the converted, ogga, a lot of us are singing from the same hymn sheet.

      1. 355715+ up ticks,

        Morning VW,
        In the nicest possible way by the same token a lot would not recognise a hymn if it bit them on the rear end.
        I did foolishly think the referendum success on the
        24/6/2016 assured our way forward rebuilding a decent nation, wishful thinking methinks.
        The majority voter after a brief flash of sanity returned to supporting / voting for the lab/lib/con pro eu coalition party, many will agree with me rhetorically but then the polling booth tells me different.
        To some, the only way to go is voting for the best of the worst, party first, when ALL three parties are odious political ringers, of the genuine name.
        “A lot of us” for sure, then again a lot are not.

    1. IM(Personal)HO she might be even more disturb to discover very few if any people actually give one about either of them.

      1. I think Harry was popular when he was a soldier and we all remember the little boy who had tragically lost his mother but she has turned him into a lackey

        1. Absolutely. We will never know the changing influences he’s had to sustain.
          Perhaps his advisors are to blame.

    2. Good morning Phizzee

      I wrote this on F/B yesterday ..

      You can imagine the reponse thrown at me by many of her fans , those of a different colour who she identifies with and who will defend her to the hilt .

      Harry married a Miss Nobody .. who has no idea about British history or our traditions . Miss Nobody trapped a hapless wealthy spoilt young Prince of our Realm , and he now is paying a heavy price for NOT taking advice . She has ruined the health of her father , and now she is working the same nastiness on our own British Royal family.

      1. Good morning.
        I think with the continuous attacks on the Royal family, the effect it must be having on Her Majesty, when Charles becomes King he will have no choice but to strip them both of their Royal titles..

  21. Whether Sunak or Truss is PM, the globalists will be in charge. 5 September 2022.

    I MAKE a point of not watching the mainstream news, but the other day I caught the tail end of a BBC report with two clips. Both showed clearly well-heeled, typical Conservative types, one lot listening with rapt attention to a speech by Rishi Sunak while nodding along in agreement, the other group doing the same while listening to Liz Truss.

    These voters are not only expecting Sunak or Truss to reinvigorate the dodo that is Conservatism, they also really believe that one of them will make a difference to our current trajectory towards medicalised totalitarianism.

    They won’t.

    The globalist agenda has captured every institution it’s marched through this last 80 years, to the point where only civil war has any chance of reversing it, and even then, it’s questionable that it would happen because the globalists are just itching for an excuse to introduce further surveillance, face recognition technology, and put the military on the streets in the name of ‘safety’.

    Meanwhile UK Column News reported that the World Economic Forum has produced a document aimed at the sexualisation of children aged 0-4 years. This vile paper includes details of best practice when dealing with issues such as masturbation, the touching of genitals, and how all paedophiles are not always bad people, and should therefore not be referred to as such.

    Those in charge of the so-called ‘Great Reset’ make no secret of their terrifying plans, speaking openly about ‘Eur-Africa’, the future for a rootless, ill-educated slave race who have no allegiance to the European country they reside in, while Catherine Austin Fitts over at her website Solari repeatedly warns us that the globalist end game is that of slavery, as never before in our history has there been a more profitable business to be in.

    For those of us paying attention, and with the spine to look, it’s clear by now that the Covid hoax was an exercise in crowd control, a means of determining who will comply, who is earmarked for the gulags, and more significantly who will comply with zero evidence other than what the MSN and computer modelling spews out.

    Children are in grave danger as the momentum builds for the normalisation of ‘minor attracted persons’ while those deliberately imported via dinghy are our replacements, both issues which are in the public domain that Klaus Schwab and his band of evil doers are open and honest about. Yet we have these nodding dogs, naïve at best and terminally ignorant at worst, who believe that minor globalist puppets such as Sunak and Truss are going to make a jot of difference.

    I despair.

    Views like this were once limited to “Conspiracy Theorists” on line.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/whether-sunak-or-truss-is-pm-the-globalists-will-be-in-charge/

    1. I think that Biden’s regime, and especially his ‘Red Sermon’ as it is being called, epitomises the globalist ideal. Literally, Biden is trashing his country on the altar of globalism, although his performance the other day is being likened to the mythical Moloch, a Canaanite deity associated in biblical sources with the practice of child sacrifice. Child trafficking and paedophilia are concerns in the USA as the invasion from the Mexican border continues unabated. It appears that the ‘dirty old man around the corner’ we were warned about when youngsters has been replaced by some depraved elite groups: or maybe it was always like that.

      1. In Paradise Lost Book 1 MIlton gives a vivid account of some of the leading angels, who, along with Lucifer, were expelled from Heaven. Leading the procession was Moloch:

        First Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood
        Of human sacrifice and parents’ tears,
        Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,
        Their children’s cries unheard, that passed through fire
        To his grim idol.

        and in the great debate in Pandemonium (Hell’s Parliament) in Book 2 he was the first to answer Satan’s call for ideas on how best to recapture Heaven:

        and his counsel was for: Open War.i>

        Moloch, Scepter’d King
        Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest Spirit
        That fought in Heav’n; now fiercer by despair:
        His trust was with th’ Eternal to be deem’d
        Equal in strength, and rather then be less
        Care’d not to be at all; with that care lost
        Went all his fear: of God, or Hell, or worse
        He reck’d not, and these words thereafter spake.

        I find it very sad that students are no longer expected to study John Milton’s magnificent poetry at “A” level or even at university. The trouble is that the PTB think it is too difficult for today’s young people.

  22. 355715+ up ticks,

    We’ll have it , just what the current voting majority ordered with added mass uncontrolled immigration.

    World news
    ·
    5 hours ago
    Chileans resoundingly reject proposed progressive constitution
    Chileans rejected a proposed new constitution to replace the one adopted during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship 41 years ago, results from a referendum showed on Sunday. Social upheaval that began in 2019 led to nearly 80% of Chileans voting to draft a new constitution the following year, but the current draft, which includes commitments to fight climate change, boost Indigenous rights and legalize abortion, proved controversial and often confusing for voters. President Gabriel Boric has said the process to draft a new constitution should restart if voters reject the proposed new text.

      5. Good morning, I didn’t see if you posted yesterday so I hope you had a very happy birthday as you enter your 3/4 century year.
        Keep on batting.

          1. Good day, young sir.

            See my comment. The buggerment was ALL on the UK side. Our woman Border Farciste appeared to be unfamiliar with her computer….

            Eurotunnel people were very efficient.

          2. Border Farceurs seem to be unable to decide if one’s passport is authentic, because most of their experience is with criminals and unidentifiables.

  23. Euro hits 20-year low and gas prices surge as Putin turns off the taps – live updates. 5 September 2022.

    The euro has slumped to a 20-year low while gas prices surged after Putin halted flows through a key pipeline to Europe indefinitely.

    Benchmark European prices jumped as much as 35pc after Gazprom’s decision late on Friday not to turn the Nord Stream pipeline back on after three days of maintenance.

    Meanwhile, the euro sank below $0.99 for the first time in two decades in a sign the energy crisis could spark wider economic and financial turmoil.

    The £Pound is not doing too well either! With any luck the Euro will collapse and Vlad will Nuke Brussels!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/09/05/ftse-100-markets-live-news-oil-russia-gas-euro/

    1. They were told, they mocked. Here’s the price.

      Until the West stops being run by communist children and adults start making hard, painful decisions, nothing will improve.

    2. Until the invasion of Ukraine by Putin I think that a lot of people could have been persuaded to side with Russia – the tipping point was the invasion.

      My view is that if Trump rather than Biden (whose family had very dirty hands in the Ukraine) had been president then the War would never have started.

      2. I doubt any US president other than Trump would have met Kim Bong Fatso.
        Probably not much has happened since – but who knows what’s going on in the background?

      4. Talking about dirty hands in the Ukraine —

        At the beginning we were told by the MSM that Ukraine had $12billion in gold.

        No one seems to know where it has disappeared to. Any ideas?

      5. The more one looks into the Ukraine/Russia conflict the more on is struck by several things ranging from the absolute corruption of Ukrainian politics and finance, as depicted by the Hunter Biden Laptop, to the activities of the Fascist Azov Brigade in oppressing Russian speakers in the Crimea and Donbas Region.
        If you look at how, in the Maidan Revolution, the Americans fomented a revolt against an elected president because he was seen to be pro-Moscow one may still not support Putin’s actions, but begins to understand his reasons.

  24. Oh well back to chopping up and pressing apples. Shame I didn’t put the comfortable cushions away I was sitting on. They are all soaked.

    1. Squeeze the water out into your incipient cider and sit on them. If it can cope with dead rats . . . 😉

      1. Good morning, dear heart. I realise that I never replied to your suggestion of salt lamb in yer Brittany. We ate out four times and had fish each time. And bought fish to eat at the flat!

        But thank you for the idea – and my apologies for seeming to ignore what you said.

    1. Morning everyone. And, btw, thanks for all your congratulations on my bowls results Saturday, all a bit surreal.

      GPs have the best of both worlds, as far as I can see, state employees but treated for tax purposes as self employed – I think that’s correct. And they don’t even have to see their patients. Win win situation.

  26. Good morning, all. Back in Blighty. I could write a book about our hols. Suffice to say that we had a fab time. No swimming – but paddling up to our waists eight days in a row. Weteo France predicted thunder, lightning, flooding, end of world etc etc. Glorious sunshine throughout. We walked about 40 miles in the week, thanks to the MR insisting that I bought appropriate footwear in Rouen on our overnight stop on the way out.

    Saw such amazing sights. The standing stones, of course. Breathtaking. The chapel of St Cado who went to Brittany from Glamorgan in the middle of the 6th century. The journeys people made then – how difficult they must have been. The rood screen at St Fiacre – all done by the same chap, who signed it, in 1480.

    Very friendly people – except for one bar!

    Tunnel OK – Yesterday morning it was very busy (last day before UK school term, I suppose). It took an hour from check-in to train. Queues well organised by Tunnel staff. Natch we were allocated the slowest. It took the ditsy Border Farce woman 45 minutes to deal with the passports of the occupants of 14 cars……

    Home to cats – very pleased to see us. So much so that they declined to go out at bedtime and spent half the night in our bedroom – never done that before!

    We both feel so fit and well.

    We noticed that the Tory farce continues and that the Royal Navy’s last remaining ship broke down as soon as it went to sea.

    1. Glad you had a wonderful time! I thought you might have visited Rastus and Caroline.
      I used the MR’S recipe and made some Tomata.

      1. We would have liked to – but there simply wasn’t time.

        Good. You’ll enjoy it in mid-winter – by the light of a candle!

    2. Good morning Bill

      So pleased to hear you have had a great holiday and made the most of the cultural secrets of Brittany, nice to see you back.

    5. Welcome back. Next time you head to Brittany please remember what you wrote in our Visitors’ Book when you first visited us : Le Grand Osier mérite le détour!

  27. FSU campaign pushed free speech to top of Tory leadership race agenda!

    The Conservative Party leadership contest had only just started when the results of an independent opinion poll commissioned by the FSU were published. They showed that people in this country strongly support our five-point Free Speech Manifesto (available here). The headline finding was that only 2% of the public strongly agree that the Government is doing a good job of standing up for free speech. (Interestingly, that figure falls to just 1% among 25-49-year-olds).

    In light of that poll, we decided to launch a campaign to get supporters who are also members of the Conservative Party to use our new campaigning tool to email the leadership candidates, and urge them to do more to protect free speech.

    Last week the contest entered its final phase, as Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak completed their 12th and final hustings. With the ballot now closed, and the next leader of the Conservative Party – and country – to be announced today, it’s worth reflecting on just how successful the FSU’s first digitally enhanced campaign has been.

    Our campaigning tool was used to send over 4,000 emails to the leadership candidates, and it’s clear from the tone and tenor of the contest that FSU members have helped catapult free speech issues that might otherwise have been overlooked to the forefront of contest.

    The free speech commitments FSU members helped win from leadership contenders – a re-cap

    Nowhere is the impact of the FSU’s campaign clearer than in the case of non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs). The email urged the two candidates to end the investigation and recording of NCHIs by the police.

    During the campaign, Ms Truss – who will almost certainly be crowned Prime Minister later today – unveiled plans to ban police training focused on identity politics and to reduce the time officers spend investigating trivial online comments. Drilling down into policy specifics, Ms Truss went on to say that as Prime Minister she would make sure the NCHI code of practice that the next Home Secretary will issue (thanks to an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 that the FSU worked on, details of which you can read about here) will robustly defend free speech.

    Rishi Sunak also made clear that “our police forces must be fully focused on fighting actual crime in people’s neighbourhoods and not policing bad jokes” (Telegraph). A spokesperson for Mr Sunak took this commitment a little further than Ms Truss with the suggestion that “on NCHIs we don’t need a code of practice”. Things “are either illegal or legal”, he said, and because “free speech is legal” it follows that “the police should not be wasting time getting involved, and they won’t in a Rishi Sunak Government” (GB News).

    It seems unlikely that this esoteric policing technique would have become such a prominent issue in the leadership contest were it not for the sheer weight of FSU-inspired emails pinging into candidates’ inboxes over the past eight weeks.

    Another issue the email urged candidates to commit to was ditching those clauses in the Online Safety Bill that pose a threat to freedom of expression. During the first few weeks of the contest, both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss expressed reservations about the Bill’s likely impact on free speech. As the campaign wore on, those reservations crystallised into firm policy pledges, with both candidates making clear they will either scrap or significantly amend clause 13 of the Bill, which aims to regulate so-called ‘legal but harmful’ content.

    Mr Sunak also spoke in favour of another Free Speech Manifesto commitment, namely, amending the Equality Act 2010 so it cannot be misused to push an ideological agenda and degrade liberal values – one of the five points in our Free Speech Manifesto. In response to a student who stood up during the Manchester hustings to tell how his college had reprimanded him for posting messages on Twitter in support of the Government’s Rwanda deal, the former Chancellor said: “I want to change the public sector equality duty so that universities are ‘forced’ to uphold free speech on campus” (Metro).

    What does the FSU want from the next Prime Minister?

    It’s encouraging to see that both candidates have addressed the FSU’s concerns regarding the Equality Act 2010 and the Orwellian ‘thought policing’ tool that is the non-crime hate incident report. What we need from the next Prime Minister are similarly robust commitments to engage with the other issues raised in our Free Speech Manifesto.

    On workers’ rights, for instance, we want to see new workplace speech rights introduced and existing legal protections strengthened to ensure employees cannot be disciplined or sacked for refusing to attend diversity training courses or declare their gender pronouns.

    On education, we want to see an end to the political indoctrination of children in schools.

    On the legislative front, we want to see the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill progress on to the statute books so that free speech and academic freedom are better protected on campus, and we want to see freedom of expression given a preeminent place in the new Bill of Rights Bill so that artists, novelists, dancers, poets, playwrights and comedians can speak truth to power without fear of being cancelled.

    Finally, on the “censor’s charter” that is the Online Safety Bill, we want to see the next Prime Minster do more to protect free speech online. It’s great that both candidates have committed to looking again at clause 13 of the Bill, but there are other aspects of the Bill that also pose a threat to free speech.

    At present, for instance, it requires providers like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to remove in every part of the United Kingdom content that’s illegal in any part of the United Kingdom. So if something is illegal to say in Scotland, but not in the rest of the UK, the big social media companies would have to remove it in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Do we really want to empower Nicola Sturgeon to dictate what the entire British population is allowed to see and say online? That seems insane, particularly as Scotland has just passed the Hate Crime and Public Order Act – a piece of legislation that will make it illegal to say a large number of things that are currently lawful to say in the rest of the UK. (FSU Scottish Advisory Council member Jamie Gillies describes the Act as an “authoritarian mess”.)

    With the Online Safety Bill set to return to Parliament, it’s going to be more important than ever to keep up the pressure on legislators over the coming months. Now that the leadership contest is over, one very effective way for members to do so will be to use our website’s template email generator to write to their MP and ask that he or she look again at the Bill (the campaigning tool is here).

    The FSU is hiring – Legislative Affairs Director

    In the last year, the FSU has seen sister organisations set up in the US, New Zealand and South Africa, with further expansion to come. We have an exciting journey ahead and we’re looking for talented individuals to join our organisation. As we expand our parliamentary work, we’re looking for a Legislative Affairs Director. (Full details here.) This individual will help drive our lobbying, campaigning and advocacy work, with a view to strengthening legislative protections of free speech, seeing off legislative challenges to free speech and persuading ministers and senior officials to protect free speech through mechanisms like, for instance, departmental guidance. If you’re committed to the defence of free speech and freedom of expression and have experience of working with parliamentarians and government officials to influence policy, lobbying and campaigning, overseeing submissions to public consultations and inquiries, and helping to steer bills through parliament and amending existing bills, then we’d like to hear from you. In the first instance, please send a CV and introductory letter to: jobs@freespeechunion.org.

    The FSU publishes its new briefing paper on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill

    It’s all but certain that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill will resume its journey through Parliament once Liz Truss has been sworn in as the new Prime Minister. The Bill is designed to strengthen protections for free speech and academic freedom in English universities, and my view is that it cannot be passed soon enough. The FSU gets about a dozen requests for help each week from university students or academics who have got into trouble for exercising their lawful right to free speech, and in almost every case the individuals in question would have been in a stronger position to fight back had this new legislation been in place.

    Back in July, the Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords, and while it was heartening to see the Free Speech Union’s casework and policy briefings getting referenced during the debate (interventions you can watch on our Twitter channel here), it was a little disappointing to see various unfounded criticisms of the Bill being aired. Of course, like any legislation the Bill can be improved, but many of the criticisms at second reading relied on common misunderstandings of the problems facing English universities and are easily rebutted.

    It’s for that reason that the FSU’s Chief Legal Counsel, Dr Bryn Harris, has been working with Professors Arif Ahmed (University of Cambridge), Nigel Biggar (University of Oxford), Eric Kaufmann (Birkbeck College, London), and Doug Stokes (University of Exeter) – all members of our Advisory Council – to prepare an FSU briefing note in which the principal criticisms raised by peers are answered. (The Hansard record of the second reading debate can be found here.)

    The FSU is anxious to ensure that further debate of the Bill is informed by relevant evidence of the free speech problem at English universities, and strong arguments for how it can be resolved. That’s why we’re now circulating this briefing to allies in both Houses of Parliament. Over the next few weeks – hopefully not months! – we’re looking forward to engaging with those allies to make sure that the free speech protections contained in the Bill are as robust as possible.

    The briefing note is here. You can find our previous briefings on the Bill here and here.

    The letter I sent in my capacity as FSU General Secretary to the then Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi, and the Minister for Universities, Michelle Donelan, thanking them for introducing two essential amendments to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill that we campaigned for is here, as is the response we received from the new Education Secretary, James Cleverly, thanking us for the support we’ve given the Bill.

    Our next online event – Teaching tolerance: Understanding free speech issues in schools

    The FSU’s schedule of online and in-person events for September to December kicks off on Tuesday 13th September with an Online In-Depth on free speech in schools. I’ll be chairing the event, and, unlike our usual members-only events, this one will be open to anyone who is interested in this issue – so please feel free to share the details with anyone you think might be interested. You can register here to receive the Zoom link.

    Our panel of experts includes anti-racist campaigner Adrian Hart of Don’t Divide Us, critic of gender ideology and co-founder of Conservatives for Women, Caroline Ffiske, and Clare Page, a London parent who raised the alarm over highly politicised teaching materials being used at her child’s school. The common thread uniting our panellists is the fact that they are all campaigning for the right of parents to access and challenge ideologically driven teaching materials in English schools.

    One issue I’m particularly looking forward to discussing with the panel is why free speech issues crop up so frequently now in primary and secondary schools. There have obviously long been clashes over sex education, often pitting religious parents against their children’s schools, but in recent years we’ve seen a marked increase in instances of parents and schools coming into conflict over the interpretation of more secular values such as ‘anti-racism’ and ‘inclusivity’, and even over the teaching of history, literature and biology. Many of the parents that contact the FSU for advice on these issues are concerned that the range of views considered up for debate within schools is too narrow and that, as a result, there may be repercussions, from teachers or pupils, should they or their children ever dare to question beliefs that are currently fashionable.

    The FSU’s packed schedule of events this autumn!

    Our packed schedule of Autumn events programme will be emailed to members on Wednesday 7th September, so do look out for that (and let events@freespeechunion.org know if you don’t receive it). If you aren’t yet a member, being part of our exclusive online and in-person events and getting to interact with guest speakers like Joanna Williams, Douglas Murray, Quentin Letts, Baroness Fox of Buckley, Helen Joyce and Professor Kathleen Stock is a great reason to join.

    Upcoming members-only events include a live, in-person launch of Andrew Doyle’s brilliant new book The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World. The comedian, author, and presenter of GB News’s Free Speech Nation will join me on-stage in London on 27th September to discuss how we can push back against cancel culture and start reinstating liberal democratic values. There’ll be plenty of time for an audience Q&A, as well as for audience members to purchase signed copies of The New Puritans. Technology permitting, we’re hoping to livestream this event for members who can’t attend in person – we’ll be in touch about that in due course. The event will be followed by a members-only launch party of the book.

    I’m also delighted to announce that on 12th October I’ll be joined in conversation at an exclusive Online Speakeasy by stand-up comedian, actor, writer and presenter Jack Dee. You can watch Jack’s video message inviting you to the event by clicking here. This, too, is a members-only event.

    Members will also be offered discount tickets to the Battle of Ideas Festival 2022 (15th and 16th October). During that event, I’ll be speaking on a panel the FSU is sponsoring on the Online Safety Bill. The Free Speech Champions will also be partnering on a session about how young people can be persuaded to join the defence of freedom of speech.

    On 5th October we’ll be holding our second Online Annual Convention. This event is exclusively for Gold and Founder members, so do consider joining now as a Gold member or upgrading your current membership package (full instructions will be provided in Wednesday’s Events email). The Convention affords senior staff and the Directors of the FSU the opportunity to thank members for their continuing support and to report back on highlights from the past year – e.g., legal victories, case-work successes and the impact our behind-the-scenes legislative and policy work is having. It’s also a great opportunity for Gold and Founder members to participate in a Q&A where they get to have their say about the work we’re doing.

    An update on the FSU’s current caseload

    High profile university cases tend to capture the media headlines – only this month, for instance, the case of an FSU member at the University of Sheffield was reported in the Telegraph, while the legal action another FSU member is bringing against the BIMM Institute received widespread media attention (Mail, Spiked, Telegraph, Times). Unfortunately, that’s just the tip of a rather large iceberg. Much of the FSU’s casework takes place beyond the higher education sector, and this month we’ve been assisting members drawn from all walks of life, including NHS clinicians, cleaners, police officers, parents, and countless employees of private businesses in a huge variety of sectors.

    We get an average of 50 requests for help a week and at any one time we’ll have around 100 cases on the go. These are cases where people have been punished, sacked, bullied, harassed, investigated, or disciplined for speaking their mind – or because a colleague prowled through their personal social media profiles in an effort to find ‘offensive’ material. In a typical week the case team will be kept busy drafting letters to employers to shut down sham investigations, advising members about the rules and procedures governing internal investigations, and counselling people through what are always extremely stressful situations.

    Because of the privacy concerns at stake we can’t always publicise our successes, but this month, armed with our handy FAQs, members have succeeded in challenging the pronoun policies creeping into work places, reminding bosses that employees have the right to their own opinions. Each small battle like this is part of a broader fightback for free speech, and case by case we’re working to end the stifling culture that’s engulfed many workplaces.

    General fighting fund

    This month we’ve helped people from all walks of life, with cases ranging from people being kicked off social media for questioning gender ideology, to members losing their jobs and livelihoods for comments made outside of work. People contact us every week who never imagined they’d need our support. Help us to help them: if you can, please donate to our general fighting fund.

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    As with all our work, this newsletter depends on the support of our members and donors, so if you’re not already a paying member please sign up today or encourage a friend to join, and help us turn the tide against cancel culture. You can share our newsletters on social media with the buttons below and help us spread the word. If someone has shared this newsletter with you and you’d like to join the FSU, you can find our website here.

    Kind regards,

  28. Moh is furious that Boris has gone .

    All over a slice of cake and civil servants who abused their positions and subsequently embarrassed Boris.

    1. No he failed totaly with his lock down that should never have happened and his green agenda that has brought us to our knees.

      1. He is just so weak, he just went where the wind blew and the Carrion flew. He could have been a good PM but … not that the new one will be much better, if at all.

        1. He could never have been a good PM. He simply wanted that office – he had absolutely no idea of the hard work, grind, attention to detail that it requires. He is an incredibly lazy man.

          1. I think it’s a classic case of most things came easily to him, so he never developed the internal discipline to concentrate on anything he found boring.

          2. One of our sons was academically brilliant as a child until there came a time when he became stroppily adolescent, and stopped working because everything came too easily to him. He then ended up resting on his laurels, not working at all and not going to a top university and although he is now doing very well he squandered the years when he should have been learning. I cannot really criticise him because I did exactly the same thing.

            (I threw away what my father called the learning years which you must go through before the earning years. I spent most of my time at university in the yearning years – yearning for more and more pretty girlfriends!)

            His younger brother, whom everyone deemed to be less academically gifted, went to a better university and last year achieved a distinction and was top of his year in his M.Sc degree in Computer Science and Data Analytics.

            But at my back I always hear
            Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near,
            And yonder all before us lie
            Vast deserts of eternity.”

            [Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistresse]

          4. My elder son moved up a year early from the infant school to the primary but I think the lack of intellectual challenge made him very lazy. He was the smallest and youngest in his year at his grammar school aged 10, but he got his come-uppance at University and did an extra year. He got his masters, and works in IT.

      2. His greatest failures are the two things with which people seem to credit him most:

        i) Brexit – this was a bungled nonsense which kept the EU in Northern Ireland and betrayed our fishermen;
        ii) Covid – I am not sure that history will judge the roll-out of Covid gene therapies as anything other than fraudulent and deadly dangerous.

        He also oversaw the most disastrous economic measure of lock down from which it will take generations to recover; and his green policies have brought about the monstrous economic catastrophes we now face.

    2. Morning, Maggie.
      No, it was his complete abnegation of responsibility; he allowed himself to be pushed around by a selected (by whom?) band of ‘scientists’ and his wife and her privileged chums. He was a cushion who bore the impression of the last person who sat on him. He allowed a 1,000 year struggle for personal freedom to be trashed in the face of a pandemic no more lethal than the flu epidemics that have occurred in our lifetimes; he has created a society where our every action is once more at the mercy of a capricious government. His misjudgements have bankrupted this country and our grandchildren will be paying for it – financially, socially and psychologically.
      Whether this unfortunate result is due to his innate characteristics or his apparent bout of covid in Spring 2020, he proved himself to be unsuited to high office.

      3. Thanks for your very erudite comment , Anne .

        I do agree with you , and as I said earlier , his degree in Classics has not been of any benefit to himself or the country.

      4. He thought that life in the big wide world was an extension of the Bullingdon Club. Similar to his mate and fellow club member, Call-me-Dave.

    1. When do you move? It’s supposed to be one of the most stressful things in life, short of bereavement so I do hope all goes smoothly – you seem very well prepared.

      1. The couple who are buying our house came round on Saturday.
        They have two absolutely enchanting daughters who were disappointed to learn that Spartie doesn’t come with Allan Towers. Three hours of non-stop chatter while their parents did grown-up boring stuff.
        It looks as if some time in October would be preferred by both sides.
        Fingers crossed!!!!

  31. 355715+ up ticks,

    This’ll have them queuing around the block methinks,

    Batten
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    I’m looking forward to seeing this, but somehow I don’t think it will be on general release in the UK.

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    Daily Mail: ‘My Son Hunter’ a Hit at Hollywood Screening: ‘Not Your Mother’s Conservative Movie

    The upcoming film “My Son Hunter” “was a hit” with the audience at a private screening in Los Angeles this week, with one audience

    https://gettr.com/post/p1povad8e1c

  32. And in other news. Gus and Pickles are refusing to leave the house for more than five minutes! To call them “clinging” would be an understatement…

    1. Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
      To this detested groom.”

      The detested groom in the home of King Lear’s daughter, Regan, is a slimy character called Oswald. I think I shall refer to those who groom as Oswalds in future.

    2. If those are his/her true words she should be prosecuted for I don’t know what but it is perversion at the highest degree and children need protection from those sort of beasts.

      1. 355715+ up ticks,

        Afternoon R,
        If so then truss, is running true to tory (ino) party form
        and must, as leader beat the fastest cake in town, Scone.

  35. A very belated good morning to all.
    Eldest daughter now on the train between Derby & Birmingham, en route home to Basingstoke.
    I’ve a fairly urgent job to get done up in the loft so am unlikely to be online much today.

  36. Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Man, 34, arrested more than 100 miles from Liverpool
    The man was the fourth to be arrested over the weekend, and was stopped by police on the M42 near Leamington Spa on Sunday evening

    Why are we told so little about this man?

        1. Do they deliberately not tell us this so that we automatically suppose they are not white?

    2. The name is widely known amongst the community of Liverswamp, but no doubt the authorities and CPS want him to arrive at Court in one piece.

  38. Mr Kwarteng, a Conservative politician, has said that he wants a ‘lean state’.
    Would that be:
    a) lean and mean
    or
    b) with a lean to the Left
    or
    c) leaning on the taxpayer?

    After twelve years of Tory stories, we should be told.

      1. Wow. Didn’t take you long to get back into the swing of things Bill! You must have missed nottling!

    3. How these politicos row back, change political direction and ideology at the drop of a hat, really is disappointing. It’s clear that they ‘believe’ whatever the next/new leader pontificates on.
      How refreshing it would be to see a few MP’s resignations based on conscience i.e. taking a moral stand on what they believe to be right, rather than just follow on doing nothing much at all except taking the pay and expenses.
      Then I woke up!

    1. They want to kill most of the people who had these experimental injections so the PTB can’t be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

      1. They assumed that this is what would happen. They didn’t think 20 million of us would refuse completely, and another 12 million refuse further jabs and boosters.

          1. Me as well! Also had a conversation with our young Waitrose delivery man last Friday and I was surprised, but very pleased to learn that he was unvaxxed as well. This is the first person outside social media I have had a conversation with who was ‘unvaxxed’ and ‘awake’. It was like meeting a long lost member of one’s tribe.

          5. That would have been my preference; but a mentally and physically frail MB required assurance.
            Given how things panned out, irony really slapped us round the chops.
            Allan Towers now houses 2 refuseniks.

    3. The next step will be to put a cannula into everyone’s arm so that the boosters can be administered on a daily basis.

  40. Yesterday I received a letter from the NHS notifying me of an appointment next month for both a ‘flu jag and a Covid vaccine jag. I did not ask for either and do not want either.. There is a phone number to change the appointment, but no suggestion that one may cancel the appointment. One may access the appointment diary online using “your account”. I don’t have an “account”.

    1. You’ll have to upset their schedule then and ignore it. Or send them the letter from TCW today.

    4. If you don’t go they will put you down as a no show on their list and demand more money from government because of all the time wasted. They do it on purpose.

  41. Had to leave the kitchen – the MR has the wireless on listening to beeboid “news” Some “Tory” fuckwit, sounding like a primary school teecher (sic) announcing the sports day result. Lots of “fantastic” and “amazing” and – God help us – applause.

    I rather wish I’d stayed abroad….

    1. Abroad is better, Bill. Better food, better weather, better booze. They even drive on the right side of the road!

    2. Liz Truss is the new leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party.

      She is not yet Prime Minister.

  43. Furfle, furfle, pippick. If I thought it would make any difference I would be interested but nothing will change. They have their agenda and will stick to it. Sod them all.

  44. Plain bland and boring .. her voice is uninspiring , as irritating as nasal man Starmer .

    She is similar to rice pudding with that thick sickly layer on top .

    The party is divided , very divided .. 60,000v80,000.. not alot in it .

    The machiavellian streak in me wanted Sunak .. who would get up the noses of the Muslims , and Sunak is well thought of in North Yorkshire , my cousins constituency. Well liked and trusted , and should really have been rewarded for bravely ousting Johnson … thats politics for you .

          5. My mother had an electric kettle – the only place she could plug it in was at floor level. At school they all laughed when the teacher asked “where does mummy boil the kettle?” (expecting the answer “on the stove”) but she was not amused when I said “on the floor”.

          7. The BBC bans kettles because the wee kiddies might scold ourselves so a former colleague who was a tea drinker used to hide one under her desk and plug it into the sockets intended for laptops and phones. The rest of us pretended we couldn’t see the steam.

          8. I suppose they make them for counter tops expecting a nearby plug socket. If you wanted to use it in an annex or elsewhere you will need an extension lead.

    2. Maggiebelle

      You’re right about the voice.

      My mother would have used a totally unacceptable term for it : common.

  45. Margaret Court exclusive interview: I admire Serena Williams – but she has never admired me
    Outspoken 24-time major singles titles winner explains her tennis exile, Wimbledon snub and why her record will never be beaten
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2022/09/04/margaret-court-exclusive-interview-admire-serena-williams/

    They want to airbrush Margaret Court out of the tennis hall of fame because, even though she has won more grand slam titles than any other male or female player, she has to be cancelled because she is white and Christian.

    This may not console the weeping and wailing and ger-nashing of teeth of the howling masses who wanted their heroine, Serena Williams, to beat the record but I must say I am not at all disgruntled by the fact that Margaret Court’s record still stands. In fact I would go so far as to say that I am gruntled.

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    1. Also par 4 today.
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      1. #MeToo Par Four today.

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  47. The new cabinet will meet for the first time tomorrow. They have all been issued with torches and miner’s helmets because it will be very dark in there. Mark my words.

  48. Liz Truss is expected to become prime minister tomorrow and appoint a Cabinet featuring no white men in the great offices of state for the first time.

    Ms Truss is expected to make long-term ally Kwasi Kwarteng chancellor, with Suella Braverman moving to the Home Office and James Cleverly to the Foreign Office.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11180833/Truss-puts-finishing-touches-diverse-Government-No-place-white-men-great-offices-state.html

    Pritti Patel will be gone !

    1. She might as well never have been there in the first place. Plenty of bold announcements and no actions.

    2. White men being written out in their own country. Disgraceful.
      Braverman is the only one of those candidates who deserves to be there on her merits, and I’m not sure about her. The others are all just useful/venal idiots.

  52. Liz Truss named four of outgoing PM Boris’s achievements in her accession speech today:

    https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/09/05/uk-conservative-leadership-announcement-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn

    • Getting Brexit done
    • Crushing Jeremy Corbyn
    • Rolling out the vaccine
    • Standing up to Putin

    Whilst there was applause when Liz recognised him as her imminent predecessor when you run her speech video there is a telling silence following her list of his achievents reluctantly broken by a few lone clappers.

    What do Nottlers make of that?

    1. People were probably just gobsmacked at those four things being touted as achievements.

      1 – didn’t happen
      2. – Larry the cat could have done that
      3. – Probably better if he hadn’t done that
      4. – Bwahahahahahahaha ha ha ha yeah I’m sure Putin is crushed, absolutely crushed.

          1. The headlines have all been about getting behind the new PM – nothing about whether such people are carrying a knife 🙂

    3. 1. But he didn’t get Brexit done – the EU still calls the shots in Northern Ireland – which is part of the United Kingdom – and British fishermen still do not have exclusive rights to UK fishing waters.

      2. Jeremy Corbyn – the Toad beneath the harrow?

      3. ‘Vaccine’ roll out – I wonder how long it will be before the gene therapy will be acknowledged as being the lethal poison injection it is turning out to be.

      4. Putin – Johnson, the narcissist, was hoping to get the sort of kudos Thatcher got in the Falklands, Blair failed to get in Iraq and Eden failed to get in Egypt..

      1. Johnson will be remembered as Billy Bunter, not Churchill or Thatcher. The WEF has just posted his postal order.

      2. So
        1. Brexit waa a failed attempt to get it done by Nigel Farage
        2. Jeremy Corbyn did it all by himself with his ‘Jewish friends’
        3. Vaccinations were a Big Pharma viral bandwagon to mine gold
        4. Everyone who watched the Have I got news for you lead in could see it coming.

        🤔

      1. She is certainly not emulating Maggie Thatcher in her soeech dellivery.

        Maggie would have said in a stern face::
        “No! No! No! – we’re now going to do it way!”

        1. I think we need to cast our minds back to, say, 1980.
          We are in danger of confusing the post Falklands Maggie in all her pomp, with the lass set about with the treasonous types such as Gilmore, Prior, Heseltine and Walker; all prowling around looking for a chance to knife her in the back.
          Until she felt secure, she had to humour those vipers from Heath’s ignoble regime.

    5. I agree. If she wants to instill some credibility then the last thing she should be doing is making out that Johnson walked on water, when we all know otherwise.

        1. The Tax Payers’ Alliance has crunched the numbers and concluded that tax cuts do NOT fuel inflation.

          1. But will they reduce spending accordingly, or will they just print more money out of thin air with the other hand?

  55. As you may have gathered, I have been away.

    Any news of PT since she came out of horsepiddle?

    2. Herts Lass contacted her , and it seems that poor PT isn’t ready to do anything yet .

      I fear she has been really poorly , and her absence is really missed.

  56. 355715+ up ticks.,

    May one ask , how long will the peoples keep this abortion of a governance party in power at the invasion rate now at 2000 over the week end & rising.

    You put those two thousand in one location / town then consider that town fallen, will NOT take long to find out if the trust in truss is warranted or as I believe she is a continuation of the political repress,replace, reset scammers, major, the wretch cameron, treacherous treasa, the fat turk

    The verdict will not be long in coming, her first hour in office will dictate indigenous peoples fate & that really could cost lives, if it hasn’t already these politico’s really are in experimental mode at the moment, is selection to take place in the near future via the local MP marshal ,
    left,left,left,right.

        1. A much smaller and less representative electorate in the Tory party only.

          That 52 covered people from all parties and none, and all walks of life.

    3. Truss lost to Sunak in the MP vote. I suspect many Tory MPs will retain doubts about her.

      I thought Kemi Badenoch the best of the bunch. It remains to be seen whether she will be offered a cabinet position.

      Truss just eulogised the Fat Turk and praised him for the ‘vaccine rollout’, one of the most evil acts of the lazy slob along with destructive mandates and lockdowns. Truss thereby signalled that she is just another WEF stooge.

  57. Till Death Us Do Part is back on TV. But what is it like to watch it for the first time in 2022?
    Alf Garnett and family have been revived from the archives by That’s TV, including four previously lost episodes

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2022/09/05/till-death-us-do-part-back-tv-what-like-watch-first-time-2022/

    BTL

    If Tony Blair can keep getting himself back on our TV screens then why not his father-in-law, Anthony Booth?

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7fe1630a3e75e04b8af6b9f1a06516c791c72ae4125b4de4448e5c7b983d5d97.jpg

  58. Prince Harry and Meghan to be protected by ‘ring of steel’ during UK visit. 5 September 2022.

    Youth charities have implemented the strictest of security measures to allow the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to visit safely on Monday, with the couple expected to miss seeing their own family in favour of a post-royal tour.

    Organisers of the One Young World conference in Manchester and the WellChild Awards in London are operating under a “ring of steel” as the Sussexes attend, amid a row about the couple’s personal security arrangements.

    Has the Jackal been hired to knock this pair off? To what purpose? Are they really that important?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/09/04/prince-harry-meghan-protected-ring-steel-uk-visit/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

    2. ‘Prince Harry and Meghan to be protected by ‘ring of steel’ during UK visit. 5 September 2022’.

      But but i thought everyone loved them? !!!

    4. It’s to prevent members of the public from approaching close enough to throw rotten tomatoes and fruit at them.

    7. From someone’s comments yesterday. The ring of steel, that’ll be inside the wall of indifference.

  60. Oh dear. I’m not strong enough.

    The Kennel Club Chihuahua breeder who Dolly is staying with while i am away on holiday has emailed me a picture of Dolly walking around the garden being closely followed by a new 7 week old Chihuahua puppy.

    All i need to decide now is what to call it.

    Damn her !

      2. In an Olympic presentation, as the medal presenter faces the podium, the winner stands in the middle on the highest step, on the winner’s right is the second place on the next highest step and the third place is on the left of the winner on the lowest step.
        The cartoonist is showing that because of the huge in-tray the winner is ultimately the loser having dug a huge hole for themselves by winning.

    1. That’s just shy of 60,000.

      Get rid of them. Any more make the journey just shoot them.This invasion has got to end.

  63. An interesting take on Biden’s recent hate-fest

    While what is left of the conservative movement was silent after Biden’s call for wide-scale violence against half the country, the sociopaths in the Trotsky cult known as neoconservatism were ecstatic. The bloodthirsty Jennifer Rubin all but called for the elimination of the kulaks while praising the speech. The Trotskyites say that the only way to defend democracy is to eliminate their enemies.

    All of this simply makes plain that conservatism was always a con. The so-called right wing offered white Americans a deal: If they embraced all of the left-wing ideas, they could keep their country. White America did just that, but what they got was a foreign invasion, the evisceration of the middle class, and middle-aged men wearing their daughter’s old prom dress while chasing little boys around the school.

    Of course, the reason at least half the country now feels betrayed by their leaders and no longer trusts the system is what we saw with the Biden speech. Other than the talk-radio hucksters pitching their wares to the great dispossessed, no one in public life speaks out about what is happening. The vulgar display by Joe Biden was immoral and un-American, but no one in power seems to care.

    Therein lies the reason for the speech. The inner party is increasingly paranoid about the great dispossessed. The Trotskyites have slipped their leash and are making open war on the people they claimed to champion. Conservatism is a dumpster fire and the great dispossessed refuse to go back into their pens. The kulaks are waking up so the kulaks must be eliminated. That was the point of the speech.

    https://www.takimag.com/article/biden-declares-war/

    1. The terror the Left have of normal people is staggering. That Biden stood up and actively insulted freedom of speech, indpendence and democracy is comical. They live in a permanent state of fear.

  64. So busy at the moment…Can’t talk…sorreeee…

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        1. Good grief! Maltese ice = full of God knows what and a kebab = bugs on stilts…

          Hope you took lotsa Lomotil with you…

        2. I’ll make do with a Southern Fried Chicken wrap from Tesco – and beer. Nice afternoon, sat in the sunny garden, read my book and enjoyed a beer. Pretty good for the wild Scottish borders. I know – wait for the winter – Aran sweater being knitted to order.

      2. Cheers!
        Every bar and restaurant i have been to have multiple big fans outside and full on air conditioning inside. I don’t know what’s going on with their energy prices.

    8. Huh!!!!!!!

      But I’m not jealous …
      Says the Laydee Under A Mountain Of Archive Boxes.

      p.s. Bet you haven’t dared send any pikkies to Dolly.

          2. My thoughts exactly, Uncle Bill! Welcome back to you and the MR, even if you don’t want to be here!

          3. Thanks. I cannot tell you how wonderful it was to paddle every day for an hour. Our feet have been rejuvenated. The beach at Quiberon is about 3/4 of a mile long.

        2. Yes , Valetta harbour , one of the homes of the Royal Navy before the defence budget and our power overseas plummetted .

          The large building is Royal Naval Hospital Bighi.

          4. We were there in 1997 I think when they still had the multi coloured buses. Close to St Julian.

      1. Didn’t see any. Though on one trip to Spain they were serving Pina Colada with a parrot sticking out the top of the long glass. Couldn’t resist lol.

      1. Pacing myself !
        Happy hour cocktails are weaker which is no bad thing. The single glasses are potent !

    2. I can hear the youngster yapping as I walk up the garden path (he must hear the gate). As I open the door, he gets stuck in the gap, trying to get to me!

    1. They’re both lovely. Mongo’s no fan of thunder either although it was the first time seeing a storm for Ozzie. He sat at the window lapping at the rain.

      I’m trying to get Junior to play with him during them to take his mind off, but he really doens’t like them.

    3. All this chattering about cats .. we seem to be surrounded by them . The sparrow hawk and neighbourhood cats see off all my garden birds , and the spaniels are tormented by the sight of the cats stalking the birds in the garden .

      Along the driveway wall , I have a long line of Valerian , pink red and white , and joy upon joy , the other day I filmed and watched 3 Humming bird hawk moths .. flitting quite happily in the sunshine , and using their long proboscis for savouring the nectar .

      A blooming black and white cat and a tortoiseshell cat took up residence by the warm wall , and guess what , caught the moths , all three of them .

      I feel hearbroken .

      2. We’ve seen several this summer, but never more than one at a time. They do love Valerian. Our Lily is too old to do any hunting.

        1. MM , I thought they would be safe , sadly not .

          I feel really guilty feeding the birds who visit the feeders , and sometimes there is real carnage .

          A sparrow hawk has been visiting the garden and she is partial to collared doves , food for her babies , I dont think the local cats catch the doves , smaller prey like a robin or blackbird .

          1. Get an elderly rescue cat – too old for hunting, and that will keep other cats out of your garden. The birds and moths will be safer.

      4. How good is your aim? Tennis balls or rocks, you choose. Keep it up long enough and they will hunt somewhere else.

    4. You abandoned those poor defenseless animals to go gallivanting about drinking yourself senseless and getting thrown out of a Bar?

    1. That will not want to be seen by any politicians who promoted the scamdemic as it will implicate them in mass murder.

    4. You are looking fitter, happier and healthier ! Your dress sense has also improved tremendously. Been on holiday recently?

    5. That is huge. It will keep you going for a few days. The scene is reminiscent of an explorer who has just stumbled upon his first trombetti. The backdrop is jungley impressive! Nice to see you back.

  71. That’s me for today. The rain radar keeps telling me it is pouring…guess what…..{:¬((

    Anyway, have a smooth evening.

    A demain.

  73. Why Liz Truss’s victory means more Brexit battles with Brussels
    The EU is bracing for a turbulent ‘honeymoon’ period with Boris Johnson’s successor
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/05/why-liz-trusss-victory-means-brexit-battles-brussels/

    Why the DT employs the fanatically pro-EU James Crisp as their Europe correspondent shows just how far off the rails the paper has gone.

    BTL

    If the NI Protocol is still in place at Christmas she won’t be by Easter.

      1. A game? Keeping up the pretence of party differences. There are still morons insisting that the socialist policies of a nominally conservative government can’t be socialism because, like, they’re called conservatives.

      3. Deserted Labour/CND family lifestyle for Lib Dems then moved to Tories. Turncoat. More S bends than an alpine sheep track.

          3. Well, maybe not all Conway, but I no longer have that black and white Che Guevara poster on my bedroom wall!

          4. I have to admit I did once vote for AH Bliar. Basically because he lied so convincingly and to get rid of that useless idiot Major.

    3. The Telegraph too, saying she beat Rishi Sunak by the smallest margin of any of the previous elections.

    4. A reporter on Sky News this morning was making very sarcastic remarks about Ms Truss.

      At least he could wait until she is actually in No.10 before attacking.

  75. I hear the Pretty Awful has gone. Must have got in just enough time for the ministerial pension and security for life. Expect she might cash in the holiday voucher for Rwanda, that appeared in a brown envelope, to get away from it all.

    1. Her Rwanda plan was always fanciful. Australia tried it and failed.

      Rwanda is like all other African counties utterly corrupt and has a poor record on Human Rights. Previous migrants sent there simply bribed the Rwandan police and moved to adjoining countries from whence they made the trip to France or some other EU country to start over.

      Hopefully Suella Braverman, if accepting the position of Home Secretary, will scrap the mad scheme and halt the current court proceedings thus saving yet more unnecessary legal expense.

      Otherwise the failure to protect our borders and the apparent willingness of our faux Tory government to embrace and assist illegal immigrants will put them out of office for decades.

    2. Her Rwanda plan was always fanciful. Australia tried it and failed.

      Rwanda is like all other African counties utterly corrupt and has a poor record on Human Rights. Previous migrants sent there simply bribed the Rwandan police and moved to adjoining countries from whence they made the trip to France or some other EU country to start over.

      Hopefully Suella Braverman, if accepting the position of Home Secretary, will scrap the mad scheme and halt the current court proceedings thus saving yet more unnecessary legal expense.

      Otherwise the failure to protect our borders and the apparent willingness of our faux Tory government to embrace and assist illegal immigrants will put them out of office for decades.

  76. Follow up from vampire visit…. got called in on time and a lovely phlebotomist who was a northern lass. Painless and she took about half a dozen vials of blood. Blimey, I said, that’s almost a whole armful. She was too young to get it. She said the doc was testing me for all sorts.
    Then MH came in with his blood form from the consultant that the practice said had to be done at the hospital and the hospital said it had to be done at the GP’s.
    Give it here, she said and sat him down and drew his blood. Don’t worry, the results will go to the consultant and mine will go to GP.
    At the pub we chuckled about what they might be testing me for- swine fever, foot and mouth, beri beri- the choice is endless. (Sos – zip it.)
    Also, we sorted out prescriptions from the GP to go to a small pharmacy over the road instead of bloody Boots. Useless and incompetent.
    I get my results on Weds….we shall see what transpires.

    1. I hope it turns out ok for you both: best wishes.
      In ‘Clapton in Gordano’ a village in North Somerset close to Portishead near Bristol.
      Visiting my daughter for a while and enjoying myself.

          2. “Ah, my Belov’ed fill the Cup that clears
            To-day Past Regrets and Future Fears:
            To-morrow!–Why, To-morrow I may be
            Myself with Yesterday’s Sev’n Thousand Years.”

          6. ” Oh Love, to whom I have and shall
            Be humble subject, true in mine intent
            As best I can, to you my Lord give I all
            For evermore, my heart’s lust to rend….”

            Edit- Chaucer from Troilus and Criseyde..

    3. Glad to hear that the Northern lass was able to help. Regarding the “nearly an armful” joke today I went into local pub and, noticing a sign which said “Quiz tonight at 8,30 pm” I remarked to the young woman behind the till “So if I join the quiz tonight I’d better not say Rishi Sunak or I won’t get any points”. She looked totally mystified, so I had to explain that Liz Truss had just been announced as beating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Leader’s election. Where had she been for the past two months? I immediately thought of offa1’s daily posts.

    4. I decided to go to the surgery to make my appointment re my review this morning; just as well as I have to have a blood test (have to ring to make an appointment at the cottage hospital) and give a pee sample and THEN they will deign to give me an appointment if they think me interesting enough.

  77. Talking of Brittany. Around 40 years ago we traveled from Normandy to Brittany on Bastille Day. The place was heaving. As we hadn’t booked anywhere to stay we ended up at a local tourist information shop where I had to wait 20 minutes for the young frenchman in front of me to finally give up on trying to persuade the beautiful young assistant to accompany him to the local nudist beach.

    As there were no rooms to be had on the coast, the delightful young lady booked us into La Croix Blanche 10 miles inland at Pluvigner.
    We ate at the hotel which despite the very high summer temperature had a roaring log fire in the grate! After supper we joined the locals in a lantern lit procession around the town followed by folk singing and dancing in the town square – all in all a very pleasant day….

      1. Like most of us she’s now a Pensioner!

        Edit. However, I often wonder what became of Fabienne from Perpignan and Brigitta from Dusseldorf….I suspect that they too are pensioners….

  78. Job in the loft done, a bit easier than I feared!
    When I moved here I shifted the hot water header tank from above the airing cupboard into the attic and, because I had to put the central heating header up there too, built a fairly substantial trestle framework for it.
    Unfortunately, it got woodworm, I suspect from an old reel to reel tape recorder t’Lad picked up years ago from a car-boot sale and had deteriorated quite badly so needed replacement.
    Now off for a bath and away to bed.
    Good night all.

    2. Good night, BoB, and all NoTTLers. I too am now off to bed, just a little reading before I lower my lamp.

      3. That was me. As with all incoming PM’s we have hope and optimism. Soon destroyed. I thought the before and after picture apt.

  80. Evening, all. Went to a RAFA meeting this morning (talk on RAF Hornchurch, previously Sutton Farm) and then, this evening, a Parish Council meeting, so a pretty busy day. As for the headline, surely primary care can’t be fixed until PATIENTS’ complaints are taken seriously?

    1. Does RAF Hornchurch ever recall or celebrate the distinguished life of Wing Commander Brendan ‘Paddy’ Finucane, DSO, DFC and two bars?

      The youngest ever – and newly engaged* wed – RAF Wing Commander, he is the disputed top air ace of WWII – depending on records of 32 – or 35 downed German aircraft.

      On 15 July 1942, three Spitfire squadrons of Hornchurch Wing took off before midday to embark on a routine ‘Ramrod’ operation over the north coast of France. Led by the top fighter ace of RAF Fighter Command and the youngest ever Wing Commander in the history of the service, twenty-one-year-old Irishman, Brendan Finucane, they were tasked with attacking a German Army camp at Étaples.

      As the formation crossed the French coast off Le Touquet, Finucane’s Spitfire was suddenly struck by machine gun fire from the ground, which fatally damaged his radiator. Accompanied by his Canadian wingman, ‘Butch’ Aikman, Finucane immediately flew back out to sea in the forlorn hope of making it back to England. However, his engine seized after only 8 miles, and Aikman watched as Finucane’s plane disappeared beneath the surface as he attempted land on the water. He was never seen again.

      *Corrected.

        1. His nephew, perhaps Conners; Brendan had no children. He intended to marry his fiancee after the war.

          2. No, he was newly engaged when he took over at Hornchurch.

            I am frustrated; I cannot find the names of the people – fronted by IDS – at the opening of the Heritage Centre on October2021.

            Can you help? I suspect that there may be some Finucane descendants there …

            BTW; who is Brendan Finucane QC?

  83. This one slipped by a month ago. John Longworth is, of course, known on here as Wibbling!

    Tories must dismiss Project Fear 2.0 if Britain is to beat recession

    Perfectly intelligent people are believing the very same institutions and characters who got their predictions wrong during Brexit

    JOHN LONGWORTH • 5 August 2022 • 2:38pm

    The Bank of England announcement of interest rate rises merely confirms that excess money printing, encouraged by former chancellor Rishi Sunak, has been inflationary and that the government should have taken long term loans when money was cheaper. Long term debt is still possible and should be sought. The answer to the stagflation facing us is economic growth and there is no time to lose. In my view, only the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is offering this.

    What is most astonishing in observing the key economic debate within the Conservative Party is that perfectly intelligent MPs and commentators are prepared to believe the very same institutions and characters who got their predictions so wrong during Brexit’s Project Fear. The OBR, OECD, the likes of George Osborne and John Major. The wrangling amongst the leadership hopefuls of the Conservative Party is reminiscent of the very same thing that had Major lead us into “Black Monday” and the Conservative Party being out of office for fifteen years. I refer, of course, to the desire to stay close to the failing Eurozone, an attachment to the value of Sterling and for fiscal prudence.

    The OBR warning that UK Government debt is on an unsustainable path is a red herring. The current economic situation is analogous to that after the First World War: we have a one-off debt pile which can be paid off via long-term or perpetual government bonds, while there is a desperate need to stimulate growth which will itself generate tax receipts. It is a mark of Mr Sunak’s capture by Treasury mandarin doctrine that he did not institute long-term debt while interest rates were even lower, a mark of his weakness.

    The perspective of Mr Sunak is that of the myopia of a city boy, blind to the wider economy and business, who through adherence to the socialist formulae of tax rises, big state largesse and unimaginative regulatory prudence will lead our country into stagflation.

    The recipe for a successful economy at this time, on which all else depends, is not rocket science, it is simply: cut taxes, cut the state, cut regulation, cut net zero, cut tariffs, cut the NI protocol, cut HS2. Boost investment in business and infrastructure including house building, roads and digital. Provide energy security by extracting British natural shale gas at below world market prices and invest in the long-term development of home grown nuclear.

    The first action should be on taxes, in particular the supply side. In order to encourage investment and business confidence, corporation tax should be immediately reduced to fifteen percent with a view to eliminating it in the long run. This is a tax paid by British businesses and largely avoided by multinationals. There should be a major cut in fuel duty and a one percent cut in income tax. This will aid the cost of living crisis and boost confidence.

    Mr Sunak has caught onto the idea of deregulation late in the day, but seems to be limited to City rules and GDPR – whilst this is laudable, deregulation should be across the board. The one thing that family businesses, who are 85% of U.K. business, complain about as a burden is red tape. To reduce drag on enterprise, a simplification of the tax code would be a good starting point.

    Tax cuts are not inflationary. Even if this were true, the impact would be small. The Bank of England suggests that the recent cost of living support package of over £15 billion will add just 0.1 percentage points to inflation. In any event the global supply pressures which are generating inflation will subside next year. Within a few years of the First World War which had similar inflationary supply pressures, there was deflation of minus ten percent.

    The tax cutting, deregulatory, free market agenda is a recipe for growth and a much needed productivity boost. It incentivises hard work and provides for the U.K. to attain net zero without inflicting poverty upon the people of our country. It is a Conservative agenda for liberty, independence and self-improvement, not to mention home ownership.

    There is only one candidate left in the race who demonstrates any understanding of the current economic challenges: Liz Truss. It is astonishing that our former Chancellor and the Treasury seem to be so very much off-beam.

    John Longworth is an entrepreneur, Chairman of the Independent Business Network of family businesses, and former DG of the British Chambers of Commerce

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/05/tories-must-dismiss-project-fear-20-britain-beat-recession/

  84. Thunder, lightning and torrential rain has just descended on Woking. Gutters can’t cope and Martians cancelled their mercy mission to save us from the government.

  87. A friend of mine, much influenced by his wife and stepdaughter (indoctrinated by Pew) each having ‘signed’ autographs of effing Sir David Attenborough on their walls, has taken in three Ukrainians.

    He believes that the Ukrainians, from Kiev, were in danger for their lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. At this moment the younger folk of Kiev are clubbing. His adopted ‘family’ have even returned temporarily to Ukraine, presumably on holiday.

    We are being held for fools by Boris and his wretched successor. The Russians specified precisely the area they wished to take back under their control. It did not extend to Kiev but was basically the Donbass and other adjacent regions subject over decades to assault by the Nazi component of the Ukrainian Army which force had brutally murdered tens of thousands of Russian speaking Ukrainians.

    The Russian targeted areas were those which NATO had hitherto planned to occupy with offensive missiles.

    The spectacle of Boris Johnson grovelling to the criminal fraudster Zelensky is sickening. Some legacy for the stinking fat oaf. His successor Truss had better wisen up sharpish.

    1. Morning all. Just catching up with last night.

      Untrustworthy seems very keen on “helping” Ukraine, unfortunately for us. She hasn’t got a clue.

    1. Inflation is on the rise and the prognosis is that the economy is literally going tits up.

      I’ll put on my pumps and go for a jog…

      1. Dunno Korky, but maybe they figure that a lot of people get a regular flu vaxx, so it’s a good vehicle for getting mRNA into people’s arms?

        1. Reports indicate that the traditional flu vaccine is around 50% effective at best but that is, of course, around 50% more effective than the CV-19 “vaccine”. If Truss is sympathetic to the WEF ethos then she’ll authorise the purchase of untold millions of pounds worth of this unknown serum with nary a thought. A case of watching what she does, rather than what she says.

          1. I have seen suggestions that even the traditional flu vaccine doesn’t have any benefits, depending how you look at the data. But I’m no expert on that.

      2. Around here an epidemic very likely as no chemist or doctors’ surgery have supplies of the ‘flu vaccine

  90. This is cringe-making, but Europe deserves it…UK too, we aren’t better.
    https://twitter.com/runews/status/1567018615131541504
    They want to detach the EU from slavishly following US foreign policy. The recent US history of proxy wars, international bullying and money laundering is very sad, especially when the founding fathers so clearly defined who the enemies were and how the republic should be safeguarded against them.
    But the real problem is surely the whole of the West being under the WEF/bankster jackboot.

    (And just in case anyone’s forgotten, the Germans laughing at Trump for warning them about being dependent on Russian gas deserves another outing…)
    https://twitter.com/MPelletierCIO/status/1566447397714411520

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