Saturday 26 March: The Home Office is thwarting efforts to welcome desperate Ukrainians to Britain

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  4. A Jamaican republic is long overdue. 26 March 2022.

    Perhaps older generations in Britain and in Jamaica will regret the turn to a republic. But most will surely think that it is long overdue. Jamaica has struggled against slavery, for independence and for a place in the world. It is only right that it becomes a republic, free of the last vestiges of colonialism.

    When Jamaica gained independence in 1962, the murder rate was 3.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world.[164] By 2009, the rate was 62 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest in the world. Wikipedia.

    Within 10 years of becoming a Republic Jamaica will be a fully-fledged Narco-State!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/25/a-jamaican-republic-is-long-overdue/

    1. Spiked still pretending that all cultures are equal, I see. China already has a base in the Caribbean (Barbados), otherwise they would colonise it double quick. Perhaps they will anyway.
      What can Britain offer Jamaica anyway, in a world when we can’t even define what a woman is and we allow ourselves to be defined by skin colour? Jamaicans have an automatic right to everything based on their skin colour anyway!

        1. Not real work – just harvest weed and transport it to the next communities that the Chinkies intend to undermine.

      1. Dr Starkey’s excellent rant on slavery a couple of nights ago is worth a visit (Farage, GBN).

        1. And, ironically, she is admired and lauded in West Africa as a fighter for African freedom!

    3. There are some real numpties on the DT BTL! Clueless about our history, anti-brexit and downright thick! I couldn’t even be bothered to comment! Up very early as younger daughter is going to a ‘hen-do’ in Liverpool and the twins are coming here! I find it quite funny that both my daughter and I are referring to our husbands as ‘Speedy’! The two of them couldn’t even compete in a 3 legged race!!

        1. Not generally but SiL had a stroke lastJune and my old man broke his ankle 3 weeks ago! I never knew grown men could whinge sooo much!

          1. How is SiL doing after his stroke, do hope he is recovering well. And your old man. Does he have one of those enormous boots on?

          2. Yep! A moon boot! The first one they gave him was the size of a planet! SiL is getting there, but he’s a bit lazy imho! He did his first MC gig at the Emirates in Glasgow last weekend and he did it without a walking stick! So he’s getting there. My darling old man will get there if I have to chase him!

          3. That’s really good news x 2. Glad to hear it. Our son is doing well, belonging to a gym and going 5/6 times a week. I really asmire his determination. But a week ago last Thursday he had to return to hospital for a chest X-ray and was told he must wear a mask. By the time he got to the department he was really out of breath and took it off. They wanted him to put it back on but he said he couldn’t. It put him back, for about 4 days he was not at all well. He won’t be wearing it again.

          4. Delighted to hear that he is literally fighting fit! I have been at 2 large scale events this week in scotchland and despite the mask edict I reckon only 10% of people are wearing them, even on public transport!

  6. Good morning from another bright & sunny start in Derbyshire. Still a bit chilly 1st thing, a smidgeon above -1°C today.

  7. 351643+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Saturday 26 March: The Home Office is thwarting efforts to welcome desperate Ukrainians to Britain

    I cannot believe they are working for the benefit of the indigenous peoples in pointing out that the Island is FULL UP due to treacherous mass uncontrolled immigration, ONGOING via the lab/lib/con coalition / politico’s members / voters.

    To take more on board in any shape or form is to assure the FINAL breakdown of ALL infrastructure as required by the reset,replace, resettle campaign.

    Adherence to any of the lab/lib/con current coalition via membership / votes has proved to be and IS a sure self inflicted Country killer & tis happening before your very eyes.

    2. Considering the number of safe, secure nearby nations – Moldova, Lithuania, Slovakia… there are dozens before they even get to us – why must we take the world?

      The boat criminal gimmigrants are clearly being brought in to destroy the country out of spite over Brexit. That’s a fact. There’s no restrictions there so it’s just a complete scam to destroy this nation with destructive, welfare dependent, violent, utterly alien freeloaders.

      1. In slight mitigation ogga there is the Barcelona Agreement behind all this. Plus of course the fact that none of our politicians has the balls to say enough is enough. We know it, they know it, everybody knows it.

        Of course what they could do is alter the welfare payments to incomers, make them much less of an incentive. Another thing we know they won’t do.

    1. And how much is Joe Biden’s conduct on Ukraine driven by the Kompromat they hold on him & his son?

  9. A fair couple of comments from the Letters Page:-

    Petrol-engine escape
    SIR – My son and daughter-in-law arrived back in Britain last week after a terrifying escape from Kyiv. What made it possible was a petrol-engine Ford Fiesta. They were able to find some fuel en route and got enough to cross the border to Romania after a 57-hour wait in the queue.

    I wonder what would have happened if they had been in a battery-powered electric vehicle, with power supplies down and impossible queues for any remaining chargers.

    People will be raiding museums for transport during future breakdowns in the civil order.

    Paul Wood
    Southampton

    G Hazelwood
    3 HRS AGO
    Re “Petrol Engine Escape”
    Another real world example of EV / Hybrid cars;
    I bought a hybrid, declared range 28 mile on full charge. Actual range dependant on weather, driving style, terrain, heated seats on / off, blower on / off, tyre pressure, passenger load, the colour of my shoes etc etc etc, 17 – 18 mile. Etc Etc Etc.
    As for charging when not at home;
    Can I actually find a charging point and is it working? Is it available, or has someone plugged in, and left it overnight as they don’t have the capability to charge at home? Do I have the correct plug type? Have I remembered to put the charging cable in the car? Do I have the correct app? do I have the correct pre loaded card? Etc Etc Etc.
    By contrast, when I need diesel, I turn up, fill up, pay up and move on.
    We’ve been sold a pup, and at best EV’s are a wet dream of the Green Pedants. I imagine that car manufacturers spending billions re-tooling, or chancers installing pot luck charging points are going to be out of pocket when the reality of the situation eventually triumphs over fantasy.
    Mr Wood suggests in his letter, combustion engines are less fickle than the EV Prima Donna’s of the motoring world. I agree. EDITED

    1. Electric cars are a nice idea. A go cart with a battery. Fine. Great around town for short journeys. Yet that’s not the only use case for private vehicle.

      Then there’s the charging network, and charging points – which are all different. Then what happens if you don’t have a driveway? What if your parking space is across the road? What do you do is some oik unplugs it, or plugs it in to their car?

      Then there’s the technical differences in charger socket – Tesla’s being different to everyone else’s. As the poster mentions, the morass of competing ‘apps’ and having to register your vehicle to use the charger.

      Heck, with the energy shortage there simply aren’t enough parts to make them and, bluntly, batteries are already obsolete. We haven’t the infrastructure, the maintenance network, the shared standard, the energy grid to provide for them that’s remotely affordable. There’s nothing green about electric cars.

      1. Nor, have we the cash that ongoing costs, particularly batteries are going to cost

    2. ‘Morning BoB. Excellent BTL from G Hazelwood – says it all, although perhaps he should have realised that heated seats will inevitably reduced the range…

  10. Morning all

    Spring Statement pain

    SIR – The Chancellor did not go far enough in his Spring Statement (Letters, March 25). Like millions of others, I am coming to the end of my fixed energy contract. I currently pay Scottish Power £1,400 a year for my gas and electricity. The best quote I have received so far is £5,500 a year.

    Most people cannot afford such an increase, especially pensioners on fixed incomes or those on benefits. The Government must intervene.

    Ron Watson

    Middlesbrough

    SIR – The Chancellor is a multi-millionaire and it was a toe-curling experience watching his performance at the despatch box on Wednesday, as he offered almost meaningless crumbs of financial comfort to a beleaguered nation. The saving on a tank of fuel won’t even buy a pint of beer.

    The fiscal challenges facing the Government are eye-watering and nigh-on insurmountable, but these hurdles might be easier to scale with a contented workforce and a properly funded and simple-to-use social security system.

    Rescuing thousands of people from the debt-laden abyss into which they will certainly fall will prove to be a lot more expensive than preemptive and pragmatic action now.

    William Beeston

    Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

    SIR – At the beginning of this week, diesel fuel at our local garage was 179.9p per litre. Noting the Chancellor’s 5p cut in fuel duty, I ventured to that garage on Thursday and was not surprised that the new price was 186.9p per litre.

    Seamus Rann

    Ledbury, Herefordshire

    SIR – In what parallel universe can a government pay us not to go to work, and 12 months later punish us for going to work?

    David McCarthy

    Dacre Banks, North Yorkshire

    1. Does Mr Watson not understand that the problem IS government? It wants to do nothing about the energy crisis because this is what it wanted. This is how it intends to achieve the pointless and damaging ‘net zero’ twaddle: by making energy scarce and unaffordable.

    2. I don’t much care if Sunak is a multi-millionaire, what gets up my nose is his insufferable hubris and his belief that if he shouts loud enough and long enough he can get away with any old con.

      1. He can. Too many people are ignorant.

        Read any column thread about taxation and there are reams of utter morons squealing that ‘da wich’ should ‘pay their fair share’ – or, what the Lefty fools mean, is ‘mine’.

        The conceit that we can keep taking other people’s money to waste on things we do not need or want is nothing but spite and demonstrably does not work. When you read idiocy like this: https://order-order.com/2022/03/25/loony-left-scrap-over-made-up-billionaire-tax-solution/ you realise that there is no interest in making people better off, just spending more money – on keeping them dependent.

      2. IMHO ultimately the blame does not rest with Sunak, it rest with those who continue to support those in the HoC who gets re-elected no matter how bad they are.
        I choose to vote for a candidate other than one of the LibLabCon and if none is available I do not vote.

    3. A good BTL on this subject:

      SC Johnson
      18 MIN AGO
      With regards to the above letter from William Beeston, the thing that appalled me most about the Spring Statement from the Chancellor was the behaviour of the MPs.
      While Mr Sunak was giving the details of how he was about to drive more of the population into poverty, the Tories were busy grinning, backslapping and whooping with joy at how brilliant he was. A show of nothing except back slapping and point scoring against the opposition.
      Meanwhile the opposition were doing their usual booing and groaning.
      A little more decorum is expected, along with some explanation as to why these measures are felt necessary rather than playground theatrics would be much more appreciated rather than this constant childish behaviour when you are sentencing a large part of the population to increasing poverty.

      1. They are insulated against the large price rises. They don’t care. As their behaviour clearly shows.

    4. My electricity has gone up from £24 a month to £37…..bastards – most of the increase is standing charge

  11. Who are you looking at?

    Underground staring

    SIR – With regard to the posters on the London Underground stating that staring is now sexual harassment (Letters, March 25), I have attempted The Telegraph’s cryptic crossword for many years now, and often, when racking my brains for the answer to a particular tricky clue, stare into the distance. On a few occasions when doing this I have been questioned: “What are you looking at?”

    Thank goodness I no longer live in London or use the District Line.

    Stephen Woodbridge-Smith

    Tavistock, Devon

    SIR – My wife often takes me to task for staring across a room at someone, when I am simply lost in thought, trying to remember his or her name.

    Gordon Ratcliffe

    Chetnole, Dorset

    1. The letter writers do not understand that these posters are an acknowledgement that London no longer has a British culture, but an eastern one.

      2. Funny thing modern paint. It doesn’t last.

        When my late hound was a puppy in 1975, I painted the handle of the fork we used for dealing with his food. Yellow. 47 years later, a bit of the yellow paint is still there.

        That’s what I call paint.

    2. Go back to sleep. I’ll let G&P and the MR know if I’m going to do anything important. Otherwise you can snore for England. Lovely here but not expected to last through tomorrow.

    3. Off to Rugby later, I may just have a little drinkies, I may have more than just a little.
      I find the time required for the bus trip home to be a deciding factor as to how much I consume.

        1. I was asked to play at stand-off. When I stood behind the scrum the referee said: “NO! Stand off the field!“

    1. Masterchef – a programme that surely reached its sell-by date a few years ago, just like The Apprentice and many others still being palmed off on us!

    1. Young Swedish tourist walks into a UK pharmacy.
      Swede: “I’d like to buy some deodorant.”
      Chemist: “Ball or aerosol?”
      Swede: “No, it’s for me armpits!”

  18. SIR – This feckless Government is blocking the efforts of British citizens to provide sanctuary for exhausted refugees from Ukraine.

    I have been a lifelong supporter of the Tory Party, but not anymore.

    Roger Strong
    Orpington, Kent

    And these are genuine refugees, which makes a change from the thousands of illegal immigrants who have simply broken in to this country and find themselves almost welcomed by the Home Office with open arms in the process.

    You and me too, Mr Strong! I can’t wait for the May elections…

    1. Most of the displaced will want to stay close to their homes and in countries with a similar culture. We will no doubt get the wasters and those drawn by the nirvana of full benefits on arrival. They will not be leaving.

      1. Not sure about that. Did you see the family that drove all the way to Calais from Ukraine in a very luxurious car and extremely well dressed? I’m sure they were heading here because Poland etc simply didn’t have the requisite standard of luxury that they were accustomed to. They were obviously the sort of people who would regard anything less than Harrods or Fortnum and Mason as beneath them in the struggle to survive. And, most likely, all their money is stashed in London banks.

    2. Nothing will change. By and large, people are happy with the current situation, evidenced by the lack of protest generally.
      One day, there will be an awakening, and by then the UK will be like Jamaica – black, lawless and broken. Most of the way there already.

          1. Yum! Served with Naan bread?

            My sister-in-law’s parents are from Sri Lanka. She and my brother visited there a few years’ back and brought some of the world’s best cinnamon back with them.

          2. I made Peshwari naan last week. I’m going to put some potatoes in this one. A lot of fat has come out of the meat so i will finish cooking it today and have it tomorrow after i have picked most of the fat off the top.

            How do you store your porkie pies?

          3. Three have been given away to friends. One, for me, will last up to a fortnight in the fridge if kept in a plastic bag (in reality gone in three days!). The others will be wrapped and put in the freezer. When I want one I take it out the day before I want to eat it and let it defrost overnight in the fridge.

  19. SIR – Having spent a frustrating morning calling BT, it appears that staff haven’t got a clue about the catastrophic effect of the digital rollout on the elderly and those using telecare services (Letters, March 22).

    I spoke to at least five BT staff, two in its digital section, and nobody could offer a shred of help.

    Contrary to some reports, there is no register of vulnerable customers, and phoning in to report one appears to be a waste of time.

    Once Openreach decides that you are going to be switched to digital and have your landline removed, you get a letter and it happens within two weeks. Reports of the vulnerable being able to delay the switch don’t appear to be true.

    The battery packs for back-up during a power cut are in short supply, and you have to get a letter from a GP (costing at least £20) or contact social services to get one – adding more cost, time and delay.

    The back-up packs only last for an hour. A telecare equipment manufacturer confirmed to me that such a short back-up period is outside the industry standard. Why was the industry not consulted? Why have Ofcom and the Government not been present at discussions?

    As a result it appears that up to 500,000 people using telecare will have to upgrade to digital equipment at a cost of about £150 million, and adding up to 500 tons of electronic waste. This is equipment for the most vulnerable in our society to buy, install and get used to, which won’t even work in areas of poor mobile reception or after a moderate power cut.

    BT staff often resort to blaming it all on Openreach, as if there is nothing BT can do about this shambles.

    Dr A D Stevens
    Chelmsford, Essex

    No votes in it, Dr Stevens.

  20. SIR – Tidal energy may seem attractive compared to wind and solar (Letters, March 23), but while it is more predictable (because we can model when high, low, spring and neap tides will occur), it still won’t produce power when it’s needed.

    There will be four generation peaks per day and four periods at slack water when generation will be nil. The timing of the peaks and troughs will be different every day as the tidal cycle is 12 hours and 25 minutes, and the magnitude of the peaks could vary by a factor of up to 10 through the lunar month. To power a modern economy would require expensive storage to even out the flows. Moreover, the marine environment is highly corrosive, so the maintenance costs of the turbines will be high.

    The Swansea Bay tidal lagoon scheme was rightly rejected by the government in 2018, partly on the basis of cost. Capital costs per unit of electricity were more than three times that of Hinkley Point C, even without addressing the intermittency issues.

    Nuclear is the only low-carbon generation technology currently available that is capable of meeting our energy needs.

    Fiona Bick
    Dunecht, Aberdeenshire

    SIR – It is unfortunate that the Government has chosen to go gung-ho for battery electric vehicles (Comment, March 23), which will, for numerous reasons, including material supply-chain constraints, range limitation and a paucity of charging points, inevitably go the way of the compact fluorescent light bulb.

    No one has suggested that heavy goods vehicles, agricultural machinery, construction machinery or military vehicles will be battery-powered, so for the foreseeable future there will be a huge requirement for internal combustion engines – though such vehicles, as JCB has demonstrated, can be powered by hydrogen.

    If the Government opted for the hydrogen fuel cell option, taxation would be straightforward as the motorist would be taxed at the pump in the same way as with petrol.

    Low-pressure, ambient-temperature hydrogen storage has now been developed by several institutions, overcoming the main problem inhibiting adoption of this solution.

    Further, hydrogen can be produced by electrolysis of water at the filling station, obviating the need to transport fuel, and the need to recycle batteries, which contain some nasty materials.

    The cost of reinforcing electricity supplies to filling stations would only be a fraction of the cost of installing charging points nationwide.

    Whichever solution is pursued, there will be a huge increase in electricity consumption. The Government does not seem to have planned for this and only makes vague placatory references to renewables.

    As I write, wind is only providing 7.5 per cent of demand and solar nothing at all.

    Bruce C F Gawler
    Chippenham, Wiltshire

    1. “Further, hydrogen can be produced by electrolysis of water at the
      filling station, obviating the need to transport fuel, and the need to
      recycle batteries, which contain some nasty materials.”
      Another fantasy,where is the ‘leccy to do the cracking coming from??

      1. Quite so, Rik. On the other hand, perhaps he’s finally discovered the secret of perpetual motion! Here’s hoping…

        1. “………perhaps he’s finally discovered the secret of perpetual motion!”

          Perhaps he could sell his recipe for laxatives to Big Pharma?

      2. To be fair, Bruce Gawler does say that “Whichever solution is pursued, there will be a huge increase in electricity consumption.” So he realises that the creation of hydrogen for fuelling cars will consume vast amounts of electricity.

    2. A splendid BTL on this subject:

      Joe Greaves
      2 HRS AGO
      It’s 2030….
      “Tired of not knowing when you will receive your daily allocation of electricity?
      Worried that your electric car won’t be charged when you need it?
      Well JML have the answer!
      In association with President Carrie Inc., Boris Starmer Ltd and Khan Industries, JML is proud to present the first ever home nuclear* wind package.
      The Wind Assisted Nuclear Kinetic Electricity Replenisher, is available now.
      Simply fit the 200′ turbine post onto a convenient point on your home, plug the WAN.. (this comment breaches our community guidelines…) into your Smart meter, start its integrated diesel generator, and the powerful three bladed turbine will quickly provide up to 23 watts of power to get you fully charged again in hours.
      Yes, with the WAN… (this comment…) from JML, power outages are a thing of the past. Priced at just £45,000, or buy two for £100,000.
      Available from BHS, Woolworths, and all your local high street outlets.
      (*The nuclear component is still under development)”
      Welcome to the future, folks.

    3. We do not have mains gas. We cook with butane or methane gas. We are wondering whether we should buy a new car and are contemplating getting a hybrid powered by petrol or LPG (liquid petroleum gas) which already is used in several central heating systems in rural areas.

      When we installed CH at Le Grand Osier 30 years ago the cost of LPG was significantly more than the cost of diesel so we opted for diesel. Now diesel costs twice as much as LPG!

      LPG (so they say) emits only 20% of the CO2 that diesel does so, with a bit of casuistry, Johnson might be able to persuade his wife to allow him to see if LPG rather than electric vehicles are a good idea for the future.

    4. “Oi Sammy, generate some more hydrogen. An put that fag out!”

      Ah yes, manufacturing hydrogen in your local garage. Aye Right!

  21. Morning all.
    I am deeply skeptical about this housing of Ukrainians –

    1. There would not be a refugee crisis if we only stopped winding up the Russians on their doorstep. The entire media narrative is one of woe and Russian destruction but there is precious little footage as evidence without the counter narrative of RT and Sputnik so my default is let’s wait before forming any opinion.

    2. And let’s wait before inviting complete strangers into our homes. In the beginning of the film Scarface some enlightened Americans muse that Castro is emptying his prisons and sending all these “refugees” to Miami. The fact is, we have absolutely no way of knowing to whom we are opening our homes. Corruption is endemic to Ukraine and it is very unlikely that we will share the values of our guests.

    3. There will be a proportion of N4z1s among these people. Real ones – not the “far right” slur we get every time se say boys are not girls.

    They will have very firm ideas that their ends justify whatever means they are taking. And we do not have any idea what these are.

    I urge caution.

    This whole thing seems like another very bad idea being sold to us as virtue.

    1. 351643+ up ticks,

      Morning Lim,

      Surely mortgage lenders have certain rulings as a mortgage payer have you the right to take in guest’s ?

      How about house insurance ? you could very well be harbouring an practising arson maniac and one
      choosing to work from home , YOUR home, ao will house insurance cover your generosity in an understanding manner.

      This is IMO just another aspect of the “packemin ”
      government campaign appertaining to reset, replace, resettle.

    2. I do wonder whether the numbers of U.K. people offering to house these Ukrainians is really as high as suggested, figures of 150,000 being bandied about. If it’s true then it’s E to say I think they are stark staring mad. Whoever heard of a state asking their own citizens to house refugees? All the practicalities of it – insurance, safety, trust, language barrier, transport, food … it beggars belief.

      2. Dusky coloured BTL landlords, keen to acquire further fellow countrymen in their garden sheds and garages, and be paid for it…

    4. Many happy returns to Caroline!🍨🥂🥳🍷I guess you’ll be spoiling her today 😊

      1. I knew somebody would post this but, after singing it at the Karaoke in the bar at Marmaris Yacht Marina one Friday night, I thought it wiser not to risk it!

        But yes, I love the song!

    8. Happy Birthday to Caroline, I hope the day brings you all that you desire. 🎂🍷🍷

    11. Happy birthday, Caroline! Have a lovely day and if Rastus doesn’t take you for dinner- make him cook!!

  24. The paucity of reliable information about what is going on in Ukraine predates this conflict, and with the media and governments lying as fluently on the subject as they have on the Virus it has certainly got even worse.

    The Russian statement on the situation is in stark contrast to the screech narrative. You may wish to discount it entirely, but am reposting it here from Paul Craig Roberts site for Nottlers to consider for themselves together with what we are being told by our own. Brackets are Paul Craig Roberts comment.

    Published by the Russian Ministry of Defense:

    The results of the 1st month of the SVO from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

    1. The offensive of the Russian troops disrupted the plans of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the DPR [Donetsk Republic] and LPR [Luhansk Republic] using artillery, missile systems and aviation.

    2. On January 22, Russian intelligence intercepted the order of [Ukrainian] General Balan about the need to complete preparations for offensive operations by February 28, so that in March the Armed Forces of Ukraine could go on the offensive [against the {Donbass} republics] .

    3. The [Russian] operation is progressing according to plan. The main tasks of the first stage of the operation have already been completed.

    4. The main priority remains the preservation of the lives of the civilian population. [In territory of the republics where most of the fighting is, the population is mainly Russian.] Hence the tactics of high-precision strikes against the military infrastructure and armed forces of the enemy.

    5. The [Russian] blockade of large cities ensures the fettering of the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and prevents the Ukrainian command from transferring reinforcements to the Donbass [the area of the republics]. The main operation at the moment is in the Donbass. In the DPR and LPR, 276 settlements have already been liberated. 93% of the territory of the LPR and 54% of the territory of the DPR were liberated. The group now defending in Mariupol has more than 7,000 people.

    6. Air supremacy was won by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the first two days of the operation. The organized air defense system, the Ukrainian Air Force and the Ukrainian Navy actually ceased to exist.

    7.[Russia] destroyed up to 70% of all military stocks of Ukraine as a result of systematic attacks on warehouses. Destroyed 30 key objects of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine. 68% of the enterprises where military equipment was repaired have already been destroyed. At the same time, since the beginning of the NMD, the Ukrainian army has destroyed 127 bridges.

    8. All organized reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been put into action, there are no new ones. Hence the stake on the
    mobilization of an untrained contingent. In Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 6,595 foreign mercenaries
    are fighting.

    9. Total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the month of the operation. About 14,000 killed and about 16,000 wounded (total losses of
    the AFU [Armed Forces Ukraine] grouping in Donbass amount to 26% of the personnel). Out of 2416 tanks and armored fighting vehicles
    combat-ready as of February 24, 1587 were destroyed in a month. Out of 152 military aircraft, 112 were destroyed, out of 149 helicopters – 75,
    out of 36 Bayraktar TB2 drones, 35 were destroyed. Out of 180 S-300s and Buk M1 – 148, out of 300 radars for various purposes – 117.

    The Russian Defense Ministry will promptly respond to any attempts to close Ukrainian airspace for the Russian Aerospace Forces.

    According to the RF MoD [Russian Federation Ministry of Defense], at least 10 Ukrainian naval mines are now drifting uncontrollably in
    the Black Sea, posing a threat to shipping.

    The Russian Defense Ministry transferred captured weapons to the DPR and LPR. Among other things, 113 tanks and 138 Jevelin anti-tank
    systems were transferred.

    More than 23,000 applications have been received from citizens of 37 states wishing to fight for the DNR and LNR. There are also a lot of
    such applications from Russian citizens.

    Official [Russian] losses since the beginning of the NWO [the Russian intervention in Ukraine]. Killed – 1351. Wounded – 3825.

    The operation will continue until the full implementation of all goals.published.

    1. I know I’m pro Russian. But I would tend to believe this report anyway for a rather simple reason. If it is not true or at least near to the truth the loss of face on the part of the Russians and the shock to the citizens of Russia would be so severe that the government would most certainly fall. I do not think that Putin or any other members of the government would do something so foolish as to invite their own destruction.

  25. On to far more important matters – so far today no one has mentioned the recent Royal visit, and their part in the slavery blame game. This BTLer is having none of it! I realise that slavery was no laughing matter, but nevertheless I’m still smiling:

    Steve Jones
    4 HRS AGO
    Some loud American person called Whoops Goldbloom [check spelling] doesn’t like the royals because apparently they caused all the worlds slavery……..Kate and William controlled almost all of it she seems to think….I can’t see that they are that old..if they are they have aged very well [and boy am I envious].
    I got the impression from the few words Goldblum uttered that she may have been associated with slaves at one time herself – if she was then she was very, very, very well fed during her time – but her betters really need to be charged with some sort of criminal offense – I mean look at the poor woman’s hair – what did they ever do to it?

    1. Funny Old World
      Fancy sending a royal couple to a country sooo dangerous that Leftards think it isn’t safe to deport murderers and rapists there……….

  27. Well whoopsy chuffin’ do!
    My state pension, enhanced by my delaying claiming it for a year, has gone up by £5.74 a week.
    Yes, given the state of inflation, the increase is welcome, but, thanks to the Guv’ment breaking it’s triple lock promise, a lot less than it should be.

    1. You can save up that splendid sum each week for a rainy day. Be grateful for the scraps from the millionaires table. Remember, every pound to you makes a billionaire just that little bit poorer.

  29. Many Happy Returns to Caroline today 🥳🎂🥳 hope you have a lovely day from Alf and me.

    1. No, of course not. That would deter pregnant Nigerian women from coming to the UK to have their children on the NHS. We would not be so cruel, would we?

      1. 351643+ up ticks,

        Morning HP,
        Many times it is necessary to be cruel to be kind, the old sayings are 99,9 truth bombs ,that is why history is being re written.

      2. I reiterate a story told to me by one of my nieces. She was a Physiotherapist at a central London hospital and a man from Lagos arrived via a flight and a taxi from Heathrow. He rolled around in the entrance Lobby was seen by A&E admitted to a ward operated on and stayed for at least three weeks. When he had recovered got out of bed dressed and walked out never to be seen again.
        He had clearly done his research.
        I expect many more people from different parts of the world have done the same since.

  31. FFS!!!!!!!!!!

    “ Britain should fund ‘Marshall Plan’ to rebuild Ukraine, urges Liz Truss

    Foreign Secretary said to have asked Rishi Sunak to release Treasury funding to
    help war-torn country recover from ‘exceptional’ conflict”
    Are UK politicians envious of the US money laundering there???
    Not to worry,no problems at home after all……………..

    1. These people are certifiable – if any country needs rebuilding after the last few years it’s ours, which is haemorrhaging cash on gimmigrants, net zero and contracts for “friends”. Edit – almost forgot “Test & Trace”.

    2. Completely insane, and all paid for by borrowed money if we were stupid enough to go ahead. Does this innumerate woman not realise we are trillions in debt? This is NOT the Falkands woman.

          1. Only coming in to save their friends, relations, colleagues, in those two Russian Enclaves who are being systematically slaughtered by the Ukrainian Army and brutally put down by the Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade. One doesn’t need an invitation in those circumstances.

            Maybe we shouldn’t have invaded Europe on 6th June 1944 by your tenets. Nobody invited us.

          2. The UK was at war with Germany, whereas Russia isn’t at war with Ukraine – it’s just a ‘special military operation’. Unsporting of the Ukrainians to defend themselves.

    1. Odd that you can be banged up for sending threatening words on Twatter but actual treats of death and damnation count for nothing to our modern police farce.

  33. Good Morning All.
    Further to my post about old Russian warships, I’m guessing that much of the equipment, tanks, personnel carriers, lorries etc being used by the Russian military to raid the Ukraine is elderly, and has been taken out of “mothballs” for this purpose. They are also using conscripts, apparently.
    The Russian military analysts will have considered the possibility of full on escalation to a “shooting” war with NATO and won’t be employing their best equipment or their best soldiers.
    This would account for the apparently somewhat slow andstuttering approach to their objectives.

    1. Actually Horace, you are correct. I read at least a week ago that the Russians have not even bothered to mobilise their best troops for this war. They are all still in Russia.

        1. My old boss had a Roller, i think it’s used on Bargain Hunt the number plate looks familiar. RCW………

          1. A neighbour of mine had a Roller. He would sometimes drive me back from the Pub on a Sunday afternoon.

          2. I remember the delivery driver where i worked telling me he was standing at a bus stop in the rain and the boss pulled up and passed him an umbrella and drove of again.

  36. Talk about the tail wagging the dog…this is from the Coalition For Marriage:

    Dear marriage supporter,

    The Walt Disney Corporation CEO, Bob Chapek, has about-turned on his decision to cut a same-sex kiss from a new Toy Story movie. This follows a dozen of his 190,000 staff staging a walk-out, demanding the children’s entertainment company do more to actively promote LGBT lifestyles to young minds.

    The staff were claiming that the organisation (and subsidiaries including Pixar), doesn’t do enough to promote LGBT lifestyles through its children’s movies and related products.

    Apologising, Chapek has pledged to make amends, beginning with re-inserting a previously cut lesbian kiss into the children’s Toy Story prequel, Lightyear, due for release in June 2022.

    As the Guardian points out in another piece, the inclusion of a same-sex kiss in a children’s Disney film marks a major LGBT ‘milestone’.

    Many families trust the Disney brand to provide wholesome entertainment for young children with impressionable minds. That trust will quickly erode if a small number of activist employees are able to dictate the company’s editorial direction towards promoting an LGBT ideology instead.

    C4M supporters tell us they do not want their young children sexualised or indoctrinated by entertainment companies, schools, or anyone else.

    Can’t Disney just leave Toy Story alone? Why does Buzz Lightyear have to be involved in endorsing same-sex unions?

    * * *

    That’s another organisation added to my blacklist.

    1. It’s not even ‘Marriage’ that they are ranting about since the definition of marriage is the act of union between a man and a woman.

      Anything else is an agreement to live together, share rings (make your own definition) and, if necessary, draw up some sort of legal agreement between you.

    2. Disney corporation is about making money. Any resemblance of original material to the Disney film is accidental.

    3. A dozen, from, a total of 190,000 and they listen to them? Tell them to FO and promote others to replace them!

    4. A dozen, from, a total of 190,000 and they listen to them? Tell them to FO and promote others to replace them!

    1. An island built on coal surrounded by bounteous oceans……….
      We can’t afford the fish or the energy to fry them
      Well done politicians!!!
      ‘morning Phil

    2. Haven’t read that trilogy in ages. Should get it and read it again. Enormously entertaining.

  38. Ukrainian refugees: frustration grows over long wait times for UK visas. 26 March 2022.

    Some Ukrainian refugees have described being forced to return to Ukraine because of protracted delays in securing UK visas, while others are living in underground bomb shelters in Kyiv, dismayed by the long wait for visas to be processed.

    I wouldn’t invite someone into my home if they were Zen Buddhists. The cash aspect alone is a nightmare since it would be far more expensive than the Government allows for. People who do share their homes; wives, husbands, lodgers, partners, families etc, are often at odds and only endure it from associations and advantages of various kinds, sex, money, assistance etc. None of these things would apply with any stranger let alone one who doesn’t speak your language and has quite different tastes, customs, et al. What do you do when it begins to get on your nerves? You have committed yourself. You are morally obligated to shut your gob and put up with whatever!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/ukrainian-refugees-frustration-grows-over-long-wait-times-for-uk-visas

    1. As I understand it, you would be “legally” obligated to put up with it as well?

    4. There is a Zen Buddhist dictum: “No work, no food.” They would make very useful refugees!

    1. Interesting to examine the small print here.

      The Uke girl is a FRIEND of the MP’s daughter. Rather different to the implication that the MP just took the next one at the top of the queue.

      1. Yes I noticed that and edited my original! I wonder if she still gets the £350 a month?

      2. I have an old buddy who use to play in a ‘Uke band’. Now split due to ‘the pandemic’ I haven’t seen him recently but i bet he’s been having a chuckle over all of this.

  41. Before the recent buggerment, the Ukraine was a semi developed country (per capita income $13,260 (UK = $47,620) with a history of corrupt and violent governments – of different shades of nastiness.

    Quite why the woke British should fall for the “Save a Uke” scheme is beyond me.

    1. It seems our civil service has maybe come to it’s senses at last, apparently they are making it difficult for ‘the refugees’ to get here. But personally I feel Europe is more than capable of looking after these people, they have far more room than we have. And possibly, probably, because the government etc have made such a pigs ear of the thousands of rubber boat illegal migrants they are now having to ‘Rip off Britain’ to pay for their effing mistakes. As is per usual.

      1. The Home Office is chock full of slammers. They love the cross-channel illegals – but will do anything o muck up white, Christian folk….

        1. And councils, I had a terrible run in at Barnet when my mother had to go into a Home and move out of her flat in Mill Hill.
          The bastards ripped her off for a lot of money.
          I saw a dentist being interviewed on BBC TV this morning he had all the mannerisms and facial expressions of Kahnt. I could hear much of it but his flickering eye movements suggested to me he was exaggerating or omitting certain aspects of the conversation.
          Well I must get on, I have to cut the rear lawn well it was a lawn until we met our lovely family friend Lottie the Black Lab. Bit patchy now days.
          I hope you feeling better now Bill.

  42. Morning all.
    Happy Birthday Caroline, 🥂🍹🌼🌺😊 it coincides with our eldest daughter in-law and my best friend’s first grand son.
    Have a lovely birthday I hope ‘old Rastus’ is taking you out to lunch.

  43. I think this has been published six days early.

    Passports have long been silent tools of racist discrimination, let’s abolish them

    Since the 1920s, increasing numbers around the world have been disenfranchised by inequalities that favour Western countries – and citizens

    By Dimitry Kochenov

    There has never been a more appropriate time for the UK, and the globe, to fundamentally rethink the current system of passports, border controls and citizenship. As the fate of Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia and related issues like the controversial Nationality and Borders Bill are fiercely debated, the origins of what is for many an unjust form of racist apartheid, are well worth revisiting.

    Amid reports of hostility and suspicion towards Ukrainian refugees from minority backgrounds (in addition to those originally from other continents who aren’t able to show a Ukrainian passport), it’s hard not to see these circumstances as the latest, tragic consequences of a worn-out system which puts nationality before humanity. But as ubiquitous as it has become, the cruelty of this “racialised othering” in Europe is in fact incompatible with the modern values that European bills of rights preach.

    Distrust and even hatred of outsiders might have a long history, but the modern passport system’s role in providing a framework for injustice in the contemporary world is relatively new. It’s been just over a century since the introduction of the global passport regime we now know. Our lives and worldview – as recent events have highlighted – are deeply conditioned by this event.

    What was initially seen as inalienable freedom to freely explore the world was instantly turned into a luxury. With the US and British dominions taking the lead in the early 20th century, the noble notion of citizenship helped transform the world of travel and opportunity into a preserve of the most privileged, namely white men.

    Since the introduction of standardised passports with the blessing of the League of Nations in the early 1920s, travel and settlement for Asian and African people has come to be even more restricted. In the US and UK, women’s citizenship too came with lesser rights in the early 19th century: able to give birth, they were not seen as capable of producing citizens. This status, only inheritable from the father, was based on sexism as the starting value. For women, it was also conditional upon faithfulness to the motherland, lost on the spot by any woman upon marrying a foreigner. In some countries, nationality laws like these are still in place.

    As I explain in my 2019 book, Citizenship, the formal introduction of passports signalled the shrinking of the space of opportunities and possibilities for the majority of the population of the globe to one country, big or small. Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday, a book describing the lost world of opportunity and freedom, bemoans this transformation in an unforgettable way.

    The population of the whole world is still held hostage by this invidious innovation. This is partly because we have collectively – and willingly – forgotten what the original purpose of the passport system was: a means of standardizing all national passports to streamline Post-WW1 border checks and expedite the return of pre-war international mobility. In other words, the ultimate goal was always “returning to normal”, abolishing passports altogether.

    Once passports were introduced, however, overseas opportunities and possibilities that were once open to anyone shrank, confining those who could not get their hands on the right documents to the countries they already lived in. If at all available, passports were costly and time-consuming to obtain and renew, and simply out of reach for a significant portion of the global population.

    This was the case in the 1920s, and undeniably it is still the case today, with a greater total number of people around the world brought down or disenfranchised by the passport system than ever before, as instead of rights, their citizenship and passport only brings them mistreatment and liabilities. The system is in fact a perfect example of what sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called “world making”: the shaping of reality by law.

    This logic constantly repeats itself. Many countries around the world have in the past year introduced Covid passports, proving the owner’s vaccination status, in order to gain entry to venues and “ease” travel. These measures may well be sensible precautions – but their purpose fundamentally is to help us return to normal. No-one has yet suggested they become a permanent requirement.

    Attempts to turn away from sexism and racism in citizenship and migration law worldwide in the second half of the 20th century did very little to regain the lost ideal of freedom. The newly-proclaimed principle of the sovereign equality of states, coupled with decolonisation and global politico-economic inequality, turned passports into a tool of global racist apartheid. With the empires gone, the majority of the formerly-colonised peoples of the world continued to suffer under third-rate passports, as the Quality of Nationality Index shows.

    Border agencies that purport to be “colour blind” in actuality continue to perform the same racist function today as they did before they were required by law to respect the human rights of all races and backgrounds. Consequently, countless people are tortured and killed every year trying to cross the Mediterranean or the Arizona desert, in order to avoid a punitive system that arbitrarily excludes them based on factors that they have no control over: the location, circumstances and characteristics of their birth.

    Contrast this with the passports of the West, boasting noble burgundy, or indeed, blue designs: their owners, including non-white minorities, travel freely the world round and are often welcome to stay, should they so wish.

    Citizenship status is blood-based. The UN estimates that international migrants represent only around 3.6 per cent of the world’s population, and only a fraction of this group will actually change their citizenship from that of their birth. In other words, while passport apartheid persists, blood remains the basis of all rights, and our whole world is based on the aristocratic principle that having the right parents with a Western super-citizenship is all that counts. This system is as noble as it is racist and punishing for the majority.

    Professor Dimitry Kochenov from the Central European University, Vienna and Budapest, spoke on the subject of abolishing passports at the Annual Conference of Europe’s Sciences and Arts Leaders and Scholars, hosted by Alma Mater Europaea university in Slovenia, on 14 March 2022

    https://inews.co.uk/opinion/passports-have-long-been-silent-tools-of-racist-discrimination-lets-abolish-them-1535490

    2. I repeat the question I always ask:
      How many do you think should be welcomed Professor; 5 million, 50 million, 500, million, 5 billion? Because there are at least 5 billion people on the planet who would very happily accept your life-style.
      Without some form of control it will come down to the strongest just taking from the weakest and society will break down totally.
      Doubtless that is what you really desire, thinking that you and the rest of the globalist Marxists can rebuild it in your image. The problem you will come up against is that you will be amongst the first to be killed so that what you have can be taken.

      1. I think he just wants Africa and Asia to be closed down so they can all come to the U.K., you know, that deeply racist country!

    5. Absolute nonsense. Moreover it contains a fundamental error of fact,”With the US and British dominions taking the lead in the early 20th century, the noble notion of citizenship… “
      The British were not citizens but “subjects”. That did not change till the early 80s. My first passport described me as a”subject”.

  45. Headline: Wales and Scotland should step aside and let Ukraine take spot at football World Cup finals

    Oh f***ing really.
    Would the same be expected of England?
    Thought not.

    Seeing the world cheer when Ukraine’s national anthem is played would be a wake up call for Putin, my a*se

      1. That’s as maybe – but it was sad that he never won the World Snooker Championship.

    3. Unfortunately, Wales and Scotland both have “Leaders” who would think that it was appropriate, Boris may be a buffoon but he’s not that stupid.

    4. Our village church is flying the Ukrainian flag. For goodness sake. If they fly a flag it should be the Union flag.

      1. If the church is CofE, it should fly only the cross of St George, as the CofE doesn’t represent the rest of the union, let alone Ukraine.

        1. Agreed. If the Jocks and Taffs invariably fly their own flags, why can’t the English do likewise?

      2. Yo vw

        If they fly a flag it should be the Union flag, it MUST be upside down, to show we are in Danger/Distress

          1. Correct.

            I would not leave Welby to choose it though

            He would put something Islamic up!

    5. I notice several Ukrainian flags flying on residential properties around us. The same folk who displayed rainbows and ‘Thank you NHS’ banners.

  46. Latest from Russia Today.
    Russia says 1,351 of their soldiers have been killed so far and 3,825 wounded.
    Russia says Hunter Biden is involved in financing of the Ukrainian biolabs.
    The Russians have taken Mariupol and is delivering essentials to the population.
    Mariupol residents say that Ukrainian forces have been deliberately targeting them.
    Russian negotiator says that Kiev admits co-ordinating steps with foreign advisors.

    1. Could be the Ukes are targeting Russian troops in Mariupol.

      Who knows? The whole campaign is shrouded in dodgy propaganda from each side.

      1. As I said a while ago Bill. I have yet to catch RT in a lie. Eventually what they say seems to get verified from one place or another. The existence of the labs, for instance, which were vehemently denied by the Americans until a government official admitted it under oath to congress.

    3. They should check the Mansions in Mayfair of those who have not been Johnsoned, but still will not let us have oil

  48. “The Home Office is thwarting efforts to welcome desperate Ukrainians to Britain ”

    It seems strange that the Home Office (that is a dichotomy) is building barriers to slow-down/stop Ukranians coming to
    UK, but, the Border Farce who work for them, totally ignore the escalating invasion of UK, by the Doveristas.

    If I were a cynic, (which I thank my Christian God I am nor) I would ponder if the ethnicity of the Home Office Snivel Serpents
    and that of the Doveristas was similar

      1. We should only welcome Christian refugees to UK and Muslim countries should only welcome Muslim refugees.

        That sounds fair enough to me – if it isn’t fair why isn’t it?

        1. Stacks of room in Muslim countries, all those who should be living in those places are coming here, as Doveristas
          aided by RNLI (spitz)and Border Farce

      3. Indeed, Jill. It hit the top ten in many European countries back in 1971. The bandleader, Waldo de los Ríos, was a manic depressive who committed suicide in 1977 aged only 42.

  50. Mark Steyn, Guy Hatchard and the phoney Covid narrative. TCW. March 26 2022.

    STEYN: Have you had your fourth booster yet? You know what they say, ‘Sure, you’ll still get the Covid, but don’t worry, it’ll be much milder, you won’t be going into the ICU.’ There doesn’t seem to be a lot of science behind that assertion, and there’s mounting evidence to the contrary. A Polish study has found that mRNA vaccines may be damaging brain cells and immune systems. Meanwhile, a German study of all-cause mortality has found that since the vaccinations got going, young and middle-aged persons are dying in larger numbers. Dr Guy Hatchard has been writing about this at The Conservative Woman website for some time, and he joins us now from New Zealand. Guy, the big takeaway from this, which I think is quite extraordinary, is that in 2020, when the Covid started raging, it didn’t actually cause excess mortality that year, because most of the people who died were over the average life expectancy in countries like the UK. So, for example, the average age of Covid death was 82.5 years or whatever it was. Then they start vaccinating everybody and suddenly we have a huge uptick in deaths of the middle-aged and the young, and we’re getting used to, like, celebrity . . . there’s a spate of celebrity 52-year-olds, I noticed, having fatal heart attacks. Something odd is going on, is it not?

    HATCHARD: Absolutely it is. The paper yesterday here, the New Zealand Herald had a headline ‘Most Covid patients in the Omicron outbreak are vaccinated, but that is no reason to doubt vaccine benefits.’ And they also ran an article saying that the huge uptick in cardiac events they dubbed it the ‘Warne Effect’. They said middle-aged men are getting anxiety because they think they may be similar to Shane Warne, and they are having heart attacks because of anxiety. That’s what happens when the government . . . people are doing anything but admit that something has gone terribly wrong. If our government here, for example, was to admit that there had been a wrong turn. You know, we’ve had two years of saturation advertising, you can’t turn on the television or go to social media without being told that mRNA vaccines are completely safe and effective. People have become brainwashed and the government has curated this. They paid for it. They paid the media. And now they’re faced with the fact that it actually doesn’t work. We had a Covid-free New Zealand for two years but now we have Covid, and the vaccinated and unvaccinated are getting it about equally, as far as the relative population numbers are concerned. So it would be political suicide for Ardern to admit for two years that they had been pulling the wool over our eyes. And there’s no doubt that that happened absolutely deliberately. The government swept the side-effects under the carpet. We had 2,000 excess deaths in our very small country during the time that the vaccine was rolled out.

    Worth a read. No boosters for me. (I haven’t had any yet! Probably why I’m still alive!)

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/mark-steyn-guy-hatchard-and-the-phoney-covid-narrative/

    1. I keep reporting on the number of funerals of fully vaccinated gene therapied people for which Caroline has had to play this year. Of course a statistician would say that the sample from a small area of Brittany is not a representative sample and the fact that there have been twice as many funerals this year as there were in the same period last year is irrelevant.

      I think that the truth will never come out as too many people are too deeply involved in the scandal for them to allow the truth to come out.

      1. We will never, ever know the truth. Even if there is an inquiry, the results will be kept quiet and nothing will come of it. People should be punished for the mess this country is in but it’s more likely, which has already happened, that they’ll get gongs instead.
        Makes my blood boil!

      2. Interesting. During the plandemic, funerals for me all but disappeared, and the few we had were unrelated to the Deadly Plague. Now, it may be that, due to the restrictions on funerals, everything went to the crem. But I also print the weekly parish newsletter, and prayers for the recently departed have been as rare as hen’s teeth. I must say that I haven’t seen the uptick in fully vaxxed individuals that you describe, but the parish has a large proportion of elderly residents. Younger folk – the sort of age that are succumbing to adverse vaxx reactions – mostly can’t afford to live there. In the next couple of weeks, we have two memorial services for folk who passed away during the restrictions, but that’s all.

        What I have observed, though, is that an awful lot of fully-vaxxed and boostered parishioners are going down with Omicron. Especially those who have never been seen without an N95 / FFP2 mask for the last two years. I reluctantly had two AZ jabs, not without adverse reactions, but I absolutely refuse to have the mRNA jab. Thus far, it seems to be the right decision.

        1. I had the two AZ jabs – for travel. I refused the booster and certainly won’t be having any mRNA jabs.

          ‘They’ have sent many bullying texts and emails but I’m not having any more jabs for a cold.

          A couple of people I know well have had it in the last two weeks. Not much more than a cold and cough. All fully jabbed.

  51. Mark Steyn, Guy Hatchard and the phoney Covid narrative. TCW. March 26 2022.

    STEYN: Have you had your fourth booster yet? You know what they say, ‘Sure, you’ll still get the Covid, but don’t worry, it’ll be much milder, you won’t be going into the ICU.’ There doesn’t seem to be a lot of science behind that assertion, and there’s mounting evidence to the contrary. A Polish study has found that mRNA vaccines may be damaging brain cells and immune systems. Meanwhile, a German study of all-cause mortality has found that since the vaccinations got going, young and middle-aged persons are dying in larger numbers. Dr Guy Hatchard has been writing about this at The Conservative Woman website for some time, and he joins us now from New Zealand. Guy, the big takeaway from this, which I think is quite extraordinary, is that in 2020, when the Covid started raging, it didn’t actually cause excess mortality that year, because most of the people who died were over the average life expectancy in countries like the UK. So, for example, the average age of Covid death was 82.5 years or whatever it was. Then they start vaccinating everybody and suddenly we have a huge uptick in deaths of the middle-aged and the young, and we’re getting used to, like, celebrity . . . there’s a spate of celebrity 52-year-olds, I noticed, having fatal heart attacks. Something odd is going on, is it not?

    HATCHARD: Absolutely it is. The paper yesterday here, the New Zealand Herald had a headline ‘Most Covid patients in the Omicron outbreak are vaccinated, but that is no reason to doubt vaccine benefits.’ And they also ran an article saying that the huge uptick in cardiac events they dubbed it the ‘Warne Effect’. They said middle-aged men are getting anxiety because they think they may be similar to Shane Warne, and they are having heart attacks because of anxiety. That’s what happens when the government . . . people are doing anything but admit that something has gone terribly wrong. If our government here, for example, was to admit that there had been a wrong turn. You know, we’ve had two years of saturation advertising, you can’t turn on the television or go to social media without being told that mRNA vaccines are completely safe and effective. People have become brainwashed and the government has curated this. They paid for it. They paid the media. And now they’re faced with the fact that it actually doesn’t work. We had a Covid-free New Zealand for two years but now we have Covid, and the vaccinated and unvaccinated are getting it about equally, as far as the relative population numbers are concerned. So it would be political suicide for Ardern to admit for two years that they had been pulling the wool over our eyes. And there’s no doubt that that happened absolutely deliberately. The government swept the side-effects under the carpet. We had 2,000 excess deaths in our very small country during the time that the vaccine was rolled out.

    Worth a read. No boosters for me. (I haven’t had any yet! Probably why I’m still alive!)

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/mark-steyn-guy-hatchard-and-the-phoney-covid-narrative/

  52. Mark Steyn, Guy Hatchard and the phoney Covid narrative. TCW. March 26 2022.

    STEYN: Have you had your fourth booster yet? You know what they say, ‘Sure, you’ll still get the Covid, but don’t worry, it’ll be much milder, you won’t be going into the ICU.’ There doesn’t seem to be a lot of science behind that assertion, and there’s mounting evidence to the contrary. A Polish study has found that mRNA vaccines may be damaging brain cells and immune systems. Meanwhile, a German study of all-cause mortality has found that since the vaccinations got going, young and middle-aged persons are dying in larger numbers. Dr Guy Hatchard has been writing about this at The Conservative Woman website for some time, and he joins us now from New Zealand. Guy, the big takeaway from this, which I think is quite extraordinary, is that in 2020, when the Covid started raging, it didn’t actually cause excess mortality that year, because most of the people who died were over the average life expectancy in countries like the UK. So, for example, the average age of Covid death was 82.5 years or whatever it was. Then they start vaccinating everybody and suddenly we have a huge uptick in deaths of the middle-aged and the young, and we’re getting used to, like, celebrity . . . there’s a spate of celebrity 52-year-olds, I noticed, having fatal heart attacks. Something odd is going on, is it not?

    HATCHARD: Absolutely it is. The paper yesterday here, the New Zealand Herald had a headline ‘Most Covid patients in the Omicron outbreak are vaccinated, but that is no reason to doubt vaccine benefits.’ And they also ran an article saying that the huge uptick in cardiac events they dubbed it the ‘Warne Effect’. They said middle-aged men are getting anxiety because they think they may be similar to Shane Warne, and they are having heart attacks because of anxiety. That’s what happens when the government . . . people are doing anything but admit that something has gone terribly wrong. If our government here, for example, was to admit that there had been a wrong turn. You know, we’ve had two years of saturation advertising, you can’t turn on the television or go to social media without being told that mRNA vaccines are completely safe and effective. People have become brainwashed and the government has curated this. They paid for it. They paid the media. And now they’re faced with the fact that it actually doesn’t work. We had a Covid-free New Zealand for two years but now we have Covid, and the vaccinated and unvaccinated are getting it about equally, as far as the relative population numbers are concerned. So it would be political suicide for Ardern to admit for two years that they had been pulling the wool over our eyes. And there’s no doubt that that happened absolutely deliberately. The government swept the side-effects under the carpet. We had 2,000 excess deaths in our very small country during the time that the vaccine was rolled out.

    Worth a read. No boosters for me. (I haven’t had any yet! Probably why I’m still alive!)

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/mark-steyn-guy-hatchard-and-the-phoney-covid-narrative/

  53. Thank you all for your birthday wishes!

    And just to prove to you that Rastus is, indeed, an ideal husband:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf8612dac33edaa61d073055c1ca566172e30c6b3175232157d99d33cd6ee756.jpg

    Here is the man himself making birthday brownies!

    Last week my two sisters, a brother-in-law, two nephews and our son Henry and his girlfriend turned up unannounced from Holland and England to celebrate my birthday. A lovely and totally unexpected surprise.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00c1f916275096af8430aeb95a9f988e23f54dd4956a3a3ed7472782ad9ca6c9.jpg

    They brought a massive birthday cake, lots of champagne and dinner for the first night!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf1cdd6fd259d4ab32f3b4bdabe17fc4344d59ecbd117a983d7f1edf42849e51.jpg

    1. Happy birthday, delighted that it was a good one.
      Keep him fit by cracking the whip and you’ll enjoy many more together.

    4. Happy birthday, Caroline!
      Or, should it be “Gefeliciteerd”?
      Hope it turns out better than you would wish for yourself!
      ;-D

    5. Happy Birthday, Caroline, your cake looks delicious! And what a wonderful surprise! Enjoy your day and I hope the sun is shining in lovely Brittany as it is here in Cambridgeshire.

    6. Our flabbers were completely ghasted as they turned up a week earlier than the real date of Caroline’s actual birthday (today) as they had to organise their dates around work and travel from Holland and England and render-vousing along the way. Anyway it was great fun and served Caroline right because she had ambushed me into an unexpected 75th Birthday party last summer when I went out of the house to find 30 of our French friends in the garden.

    7. Our flabbers were completely ghasted as they turned up a week earlier than the real date of Caroline’s actual birthday (today) as they had to organise their dates around work and travel from Holland and England and render-vousing along the way. Anyway it was great fun and served Caroline right because she had ambushed me into an unexpected 75th Birthday party last summer when I went out of the house to find 30 of our French friends in the garden.

  54. Utterly off topic.
    I enjoy the Solitaire daily challenges, apart from the obvious “bots” which are in the games. Today a new one appeared, completing all the challenges in under 4 minutes. The next best was over 10 minutes. To put that into perspective, I had a really good series, probably losing less than a minute in errors, and finished it in just over 55 minutes (yes I know it’s a total waste of time).
    I hope the new kid on the block might just put off a number of the regular bottoms and stop them using their bots to cheat or at least get Microsoft wake up to the cheating.

    1. The bots exist to ensure people don’t lose interest in the game – if no one plays that’ll very quickly become evident to any new players, who’ll then drop out, so they add bots.

      1. Definitely not the case here. There are roughly 600,000 people playing daily, usually in random groups of 50 players, depending when one joins that day’s game and new names appear regularly. One can tell they are newcomers from their track records, which are visible within the group. A typical “real” individual will have a record that shows more top 10 than podium finishes and seldom more firsts than seconds or seconds than thirds.
        The bots are so much faster that they will put people off. The new one is head and shoulders over the others.
        It is possible to cheat, but even those who clearly do cheat are nowhere near as fast as the bots.

  55. The last two times i contacted my GP through E-Consult who isn’t actually my Doctor i ended up at Queen Alexander General Acute Medical Unit.

    I will be contacting my MP Suella Braverman and telling the dear lady exactly my god awful experiences. I will also be telling her what i have observed from other patients and their treatment. People left in waiting rooms in the hope they will either go away or die in their chair. Absolutely fucking horrendous.https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/people/fareham-health-summit-sees-angry-residents-blast-shambolic-gp-service-under-sovereign-healthcare-3628439

    1. My lovely cabbie yesterday told me this….she knew someone who called an ambulance because they had had a cardiac emergency; the ambulance arrived in good time and off to the A&E. Once there, however, this person was in the ambulance for 5 hours because of the back up. The ambulance could not move on until a handover was accomplished and so that ambulance could not respond to any other calls for 5 hours.
      This was last week!!
      Sod this government- sod them all.

      1. I have seen it. A 90 year old brought in by ambulance. They were very careful with him and wished him the best. He was still sitting in the same seat six hour later. It’s why i walked out.

      2. Problem is, nobody wants to pay more tax to have more medics and more hospitals, and shorter waiting times… often, because paying more tax and spending more on NHS doesn’t actually seem to change the end result, it just gets soaked up by the sponge to no useful effect.

        1. And the money that does go to the NHS goes to hire more managers and office staff- not crucial medical staff.

        2. So much money could be released to the medical side of the NHS, if only the bullet of high adiministration costs could be bitten.

          Get rid of the useless typist/secretaries, force the managers and consultants to write their own e-mails to patients and reduce their salaries by 30% each year until an improvement is seen in the utilisation of the available resources.

        3. Any increase in funding for the NHS should be preceded by the submission of:-
          A detailed spending plan, specifying exactly what projects the money is needed for.
          Clear and traceable lines of responsibility for who is spending the money.
          A detailed timetable of how the NHS is going to meet at least 50% of the money required by the reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy ESPECIALLY a reduction in the over-paid non-jobs such as “Diversity Managers”.

      3. It seems that the ambulance crews and the medics/nurses/doctors do the best they can but management make things difficult for everyone.

    1. I also wonder how many will be stopped and/or reported who are totally innocent, but will then claim racial harassment.

      1. I believe that the police regularly review cold cases, it will presumably be one of those.

        One reads of people being brought to justice many years after the event, let’s hope whoever did this is caught.

        1. Yes, they do. However, the police here have a poor record on solving difficult crimes. The obvious example is the “world’s End” murders. They made, I think assumptions about the girls who were killed that led them not to bother too much.

          1. So often they’re on a hiding to nothing, and that’s why I have some sympathy. It’s when they do/don’t things for political expediency that I lose all respect, particularly the cover-ups after they are caught out.

    3. Norfolk & Suffolk Constabulary took a mere 72 hours to issue me with a speeding notice. Apparently I was caught on camera doing 35mph in a 30mph restricted zone on the A134 near Thetford.

      A bit of a bugger since I try scrupulously to observe speed limits.

      1. I got caught a few years ago – did a “speed awareness course” to avoid the points on the licence.

        1. I got caught 2 1/2 years ago, first offence in 60 years of driving – £100 fine and 3 points

      2. We do too, but got our first hit last year after many years driving here. I know exactly where it happened and I was in a queue of traffic all doing the same speed, they must have caught dozens of people in the group. My own fault for travelling at the ambiant traffic speed and not checking my speed. Only a one-pointer, thank goodness.

        1. In my French road experience, it is often very difficult – in a line of traffic – to keep to the limit. Other drivers are NOT pleased if you slow down…to what is legal.

          1. Agreed.
            I was overtaken when using my cruise control just as I got to a long straight down hill bit of road. I was given a very dirty look.
            You can imagine my delight when the guy was pulled in as he drove up the other side of the hill. There was a mobile trap.
            He would almost certainly have been 30 or 40, if not more, over the limit having accelerated hard to sail past me.

      3. All too easy when watching or even keeping up with other traffic to drift over the limit.

      4. Me too. Assuming this isn’t your second offence in 3 years are you opting for the speed awareness course?

        1. Only previous 3 pointer was ‘speeding’ at 55mph on the M11 at the dead of night passing through a 50mph speed restriction placed for the protection of road workers. No evidence of roadworkers at that time of night and frankly a momentary lapse.

          This was 22 years ago and I was taking a detour in a crappy hire car to avoid the site of a head on collision which I experienced on the A120 when my Toyota MR2 Roadster was written off by a drunk driver. That fucker eventually was given a £250.00 fine and banned for a year. I waited 6 months for the eventual trial (Paki solicitors claiming more time for their client’s ‘defence’) and the same time for a replacement vehicle.

          Have been driving safely for 50 years.

  58. Biden calls Putin ‘a butcher’ as he visits Ukrainian refugees in Poland. 26 March 2022.

    US President Joe Biden on Saturday delivered a harsh verdict on the Russian leader whose unprovoked war forced millions of Ukrainians from their homes after meeting with refugees who he said were from the besieged city of Mariupol.

    Asked what meeting the Ukrainian refugees made him think of what Russian president Vladimir Putin had done to them, Mr Biden replied: “He’s a butcher”.

    Am I the only one to find these epithets not only unhelpful and inaccurate but counterproductive as well. It is impossible to imagine our forefathers making such comments in public, not only because it is juvenile, but because when push comes to shove it will be necessary to converse at some point and it is best if personal feelings do not intrude on Diplomacy!

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-putin-butcher-poland-ukraine-b2044682.html

    1. Obama didn’t get much right, but he was bang on the money with this:

      (YAHOO) – Barack Obama reportedly spoke with a Democrat, expressing his private doubts about Joe Biden becoming the Democrat presidential nominee in 2020.

      According to Politico, the former president said: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f… things up.”

      https://www.cbs19news.com/story/42501205/barack-obama-reportedly-said-dont-underestimate-joes-ability-to-expletive-things-up

    2. I think we should all be very worried that the fake POTUS, a corrupt, venal and demented hollowed out shell of a person is fronting the USA.

      Biden is utterly compromised by his dealings with Ukraine via his repulsive son and more directly when serving Obama.

      Even more worrying is the support given to this cretin by Johnson and his cabal of useless and corrupted globalist stooges.

      Ukraine is not a democratic state but an oligarchy whose practices are riddled with bribery, crime and extortion. Their society is crime and drug oriented.

      As to offering the UK as a safe haven to all manner of riff raff, chancers and African ‘Ukrainians’ Johnson will shortly learn a vital lesson. Most sane British reject the immigration policies being pursued by Patel and Johnson. We voted from Brexit, in case the fat Turk has already forgotten and are still waiting for Brexit to be delivered. Local elections coming up.

      1. Johnson will not learn anything. The couse is set, and reality is not to be allowed to intrude – in any case, the negative effects will be felt by the little people – as usual.

      3. Since the admission that the Laptop is genuine, I wonder how many non-party aligned American voters who went Democrat are not only regretting their choice, but wondering what other so-called “Conspiracy Theories” might also be true?

    3. 100,000 Iraqi’s were killed in Desert Storm, many of them buried alive. If that isn’t “butchery” I don’t know what is.

  59. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is ‘full of admiration’ for Britons who have stepped forward to house Ukrainian refugee families – but admitted he wouldn’t himself because of a ‘lack of space’. The Mayor of London joined a huge crowd at Hyde Park for a march and vigil to send a unified message of support to the people of Ukraine this afternoon. Speaking ahead of the demonstration, Mr Khan said he was there to condemn Russia’s ‘barbaric aggression’ and said the UK should be doing ‘much more’ to aid Ukrainian refugees. But when asked by a Sky News presenter if he would be welcoming a Ukrainian refugee to live with him, Mr Khan said ‘we personally won’t be for a variety of reasons, those being protection, security and a lack of space.’

    My bold and underlining
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

    1. Security was always going to be cited as a reason for not taking in a refugee ban anyone in an official position. Understandable really. What I can’t understand is ordinary members of the public offering to take a complete stranger into their home for six months.

      1. It’s the virtue signalling celebs and MPs who get my goat, they know full well that even if they take one in the person will be highly vetted and that they will be able to pass them on to someone else as soon as they get fed up.

  61. Hmm. BTL Comment saying something I’ve said for decades and not just about the Home Office:-

    Gary Cole
    23 MIN AGO
    Bureaucratic difficulties at the Home Office (1st two letters)
    It is so incompetent that it’s almost as if the operatives (i.e. senior civil services employees) whose full-time job it is to put government policy into practical action are deliberately setting out to embarrass the Home Secretary and the Government.
    That surely can’t be the case, can it?

    1. A load of slammers trying to embarrass a Hindoo – and a crap government?

      Shome mishtake shurely…

    2. Ha! Ther’s someone who thinks the state works for the public! Oh my skies.

      And of course the precise intent of the state machine is to thwart government policy. That’s why policy is complete nonsense and the carrying out so expensive, damaging and counter productive.

    1. 4, but I found it tough.
      Wordle 280 4/6

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  63. Aaaargh! For some reason best known to them, my bank has decided to replace my Visa debit card [still with 18 months to run to expiry date] with a Mastercard debit card. Naturally it’s no problem for them but I, as a suspect many other people, have my card details listed with a variety of suppliers – Apple, wine merchant, insurers etc. I now have to update them all – first 2 worked well, so the details are fine BUT third was Eurosport. Four tries, all met with a “Not found” message – live chat polite but absolutely no use – “Oh yes – I can see you’ve tried 4 times” – given I told them that it wasn’t a help! Feck knows how much time I will have to waste this weekend to update my list, and that’s before I reset the clocks on the double oven!!

    1. It’s an absolute pain.
      I’ve just had a card terminated because I live in France. Fortunately it’s one I tend to use only rarely, so it won’t be missed. Every other card also seems to have new levels of security and regular debits are being refused and have to be reset.
      On the plus side, it’s allowing me to cancel odds and ends that I don’t really use very often.

      1. Just send all your details to Prince Wattacon, in Nigeria, he will do it for you

  64. Aaaargh! For some reason best known to them, my bank has decided to replace my Visa debit card [still with 18 months to run to expiry date] with a Mastercard debit card. Naturally it’s no problem for them but I, as a suspect many other people, have my card details listed with a variety of suppliers – Apple, wine merchant, insurers etc. I now have to update them all – first 2 worked well, so the details are fine BUT third was Eurosport. Four tries, all met with a “Not found” message – live chat polite but absolutely no use – “Oh yes – I can see you’ve tried 4 times” – given I told them that it wasn’t a help! Feck knows how much time I will have to waste this weekend to update my list, and that’s before I reset the clocks on the double oven!!

    2. For some of our ‘visitors’ Dad may never be around for the kids, or the 17 Step-siblings, so Mum has to say them

    3. “It will turn out for the best,” when moaning about something going wrong. And it generally did.

    4. If you keep making that face, you’ll be stuck like it when the wind changes.

        1. Both of mine did, with great regularity.

          I hit one of our three when he was jumping backwards and forwards over a bonfire. An extremely dangerous thing to do, so I swatted him once as he landed. It’s the only time I ever struck any of them.

          I used to shout at them, possibly worse psychologically who knows?

          1. Guess it depends on what you shout. I never hit my son- a time out in his room usually sufficed.

          7. Especially if you are trying to feed them some veggies or summat else nourishing.

          8. Firstborn got a slap on his 5-year-old leg when he ran into traffic in Horsham.
            Second Son got a full-volume telling off when he did the same.

          9. In my case it was second son and he must have been about four.
            If he had fallen on the fire he would have been seriously burned.
            It was an instant reaction on my part.
            Oddly enough, the instant reaction made me more careful in future.

          10. I fell on my face into a bonfire outside the old Senior Staff club, in Nigeria, when I was small (4? 5? 6?). Got a bit singed, and my palms got a bit barbecued, but no long-term damage.

          12. TBH, I was a little pain in the arse. Apparently. Somewheer Aspergers / ADHD, but yes, not being barbeques was very fortunate. Just some light scorching.
            But you’d be amazed (or not) how having your face in the embers of a bonfire motivates you to get up and away… :-((

          18. Speaking of which, I need a drink now.

            I tried your line about taking a bag of doritos to the salsa class at the gym.

            I now know what a cold steely look is like.

          23. Geoff, have you been in the cupboard under the stairs? Grigio of course. ;-))

          25. Was using a Harry Potter ref. We too live in a retirement village and also have no cupboard under the stairs. Although we do have stairs.
            It’s nice to have a little bro again;-)

    6. I wants never gets means i have more money to spend in the Pub.

      I got a bottle of shandy and a bag of crisps when keeping skid company. Mrs Bound gave me a quid when she won the £100 link at bingo. My parents wished i was invisible.

    9. “Ingen dårlig vær, bare dårlig klær”
      No bad weather, only bad clothing

    10. One of Mother’s, when I was’t keen on wartime food, was:

      “Think of the starving children in China”.

      “Please send them this,” I foolishly replied – just the once…

    12. If we ever burnt our tongues on hot food – Of course it’s hot, it came from a hot place.

  66. Following the alarums of a couple of days ago, has anything been heard from Izzy??
    I promised him a drink, and am planning a trip to Wales – so can deliver…

        1. Oh blimey! I’m so sorry to hear that. Bless you Izzy, and you have my love and thoughts. 🌹

      2. Thanks, Geoff. I wish I hadn’t asked.
        Top bloke, Izzy. Couldn’t find a finer man. He offered me, a complete stranger he never met, several times to go to Mother’s house and sort things out for me. Fortunately, never needed the help, but the kindness and generosity of the man shone through like a lighthouse.
        The world will be a poorer place for his loss.

  67. Primary School teacher’s boyfriend died from stab wound to the neck. 26 March 2022.

    A primary school teacher’s boyfriend who was murdered and buried in his back garden died of stab wounds to the neck, cops confirmed today.
    Nicholas Billingham, 42, was dug up by sniffer dogs behind his Northampton home after he was killed between late October and early November 2021.

    Clever dogs!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10655129/Teachers-boyfriend-died-neck-stabbing-cops-confirm-stands-accused-murder.html

    1. I find Biden’s comment exceedingly distasteful. In the extreme.

      Edit: The expressions on all the SS men’s faces are priceless.

        1. Out of some 330 million Americans, they end up with that?
          Clearly, God is having a giraffe at our expense…

        2. He is. I cannot bear to countenance him. The ‘vibes’ that emanate from him are evil.

          1. He has just called for Putin’s removal and in doing so caused panic amongst the diplomatic and White House Staff for his intemperate language.

      2. I remarked on it earlier Poppy’s Mum. The incident itself where he made this remark looks as though it was staged!

      2. He looks as though he’s thinking “OMG …No! Pleeease not again…. Let’s get him outa here quick… This is so embarrassing…”

  69. That’s me for this lovely day. More useful garden work. 38ºC in greenhouse!! Grey and cooler tomorrow.

    Good news – Cur Loutish Hamilton failed to qualify for the GP which he thinks shouldn’t be held – though he is happy to take part and collect the bunce…

    In early stages of planning a TRIP TO ROME…. Too much excitement!!

    Don’t forget to put yer clox forward.

    A demain.

    1. All my clocks adjust automatically except for the kitchen clock which is always on summer time. In winter I simply count it as one hour earlier than it says. It’s easier than climbing up and adjusting the thing.

      2. My kitchen clock should adjust automatically, but I’m a bloody long way from Anthorn, and it doesn’t always do the business. Thankfully, the church clock hasn’t worked for several months, so it will remain set to 12.00 – no adjustment necessary, and still be right twice a day…

        1. Thankfully, amateur radio QSOs are always conducted in GMT so one clock (the one in the shack), as well as my car clock, will tell the proper time.

          1. Ooh! And mine! And it’s 12 minutes fast! What on earth does that say about me?
            How are you and your dear one, Anne?

        1. My kitchen clock is on the wall, Pip. Where is yours? To move mine on (or back, as appropriate) I use a long rod to move the hands (no cover over the dial). I try to avoid climbing if I possibly can these days.

          1. I just use a timer in the kitchen these days. I pity poor old Geoff Graham having to go up the Church clock tower though. I did suggest last year that he come down the towers stairs on his bottom. :@)

        2. It’s above the door. I could get out a chair to readjust it but frankly I couldn’t be arsed! To use a colourful expression.

  70. The first Thai green curry supper made from real ingredients, not a packet in sight.
    Excellent, it was! Another Firstborn culinary triumph!
    A tad too sporting for SWMBO and Second Son, but I found it really good.

    1. I must say, I make a pretty good Thai green curry.
      We’ll have to have a cook off.

  71. Neil Oliver’s monologue at the start of his show this evening (one of the few I still watch on GB News) was especially good. Hopefully it will appear online and someone here can post the video.

    1. We still quite like Stumpy Steyn and Mark Dolan…but in short doses. Wooten gives us the pip.

          1. It occurred to me to look him up on Wikipedia. Yes he is gay but even worse he’s a New Zealander. That’s what probably accounts for your perception that he is “annoying”.

    2. We’re watching him as an historian on the Pentland Firth in Orkney! He is a fantastic lecturer and speaker. And he lives just up the road from us!

    3. Neil Oliver’s monologue usually goes on to You Tube quite quickly. I will check later on this evening and if I find it I’ll post it tomorrow.

    5. Disappointing to hear you may be drifting away from GB News. I’m increasingly drawn to it!

      1. Treason! Russian disinformation!

        Your remarks have been noted and your financial transactions are being tracked forthwith.

        2. And what’s more you cannot access your EV and definitely no transactions at the supermarket for the next month.

      1. Macron looking butch and mean.

        Give me strength.
        His mum should give him a slap.

  72. Back and forth . . . .
    Back and forth . . . .
    In and out . . . .
    In and out . . . .
    A little to the right . . . .
    A little to the left . . . .
    She could feel the sweat on her forehead . . . .
    Between her breasts . . . .
    And, trickling down the small of her back . . . .
    She was getting near to the end.
    He was in ecstasy . . . .
    with a huge smile on his face as his wife moved . . .
    Forwards then backwards. . . .
    Forward then backward. . . .
    Again . . . .
    and again . . . .
    Her heart was pounding now . . . .
    Her face was flushed . . . .
    She moaned . . . .
    softly at first, then began to groan louder . . . .
    Finally . . . .
    totally exhausted . . . .
    she let out a piercing scream . . . .
    “OK, OK, you smug bastard, I can’t parallel park. You do it!”

      1. My friend Dianne has had an Ateca Xcellence Lux for three years now. It can park itself. Parallel or otherwise. It’s awesome. Yet she continues to dump it within a metre and 30 degrees of any kerb…

        2. A neighbour of ours has a Merc that will do that. But he is forever having someone out to tidy up the dents and scratches, usually somewhere around its nether regions.

    2. Is Boris now shagging Liz Truss? I know the fat bastard would stick it in a hole drilled in an oak tree given the opportunity but the Adulteress?

      We look on in amazement at the succession of mad people reaching the heights of government in the USA but we have the same insane style of idiocracy running the UK into the ground.

      These Tories could not run a bath unsupervised and running a whelk stall is far beyond their capabilities. They are quite simply dangerous.

  74. I have decided to call myself a professor. Just listened to the last chap on Neil Oliver about the bodies of “kings and queens” that have been found. That bloke needs to do some serious reading. I have never heard such twaddle in my recent life- and that’s going some.
    And this BS about streets named Black Boy- it was a nickname of Charles II, you dumb arses!!
    Professor Lottie.

        1. Go for it. You cannot possibly chat more bollocks that the current talking heads.

          3. Alack, ’tis true. I usually know when I am talking bollox. Half the time on here ;-))

          1. We did have fish fingers last night and I do have some salmon fillets in the freezer 😉

    4. I am amazed, that we ‘had people clever enough in the past’ to bury Dick the Shit (Richard the Turd) under a Car Park in Leicester

      1. Do not dare to insult Richard III in my presence. I am a Ricardian and all the BS about Richard was Tudor propaganda.

        1. No insult, just Richard the Third, in vernacular.
          Juat ask His Funeral Director why the buried him under the Car Park

          1. How long have you got? The Tudor army slung his corpse over a horse and he was buried in what was Grey Friars Monastery in Leicester. That was destroyed, probably in the dissolution of the monasteries by another Tudor- Henry VIII. The parking lot was built over the site of Grey Friars and , thanks to Phillipa Langley of the Richard III Society, she urged people to look. And how right she was.
            Everything pumped out by the Tudors was propaganda and, also, why do people not wonder why the Tudors killed off anyone with a smidge of Plantagenet blood?
            Sorry, Tryers but I hate this perpetual assumption that R III was a dreadful person. If, indeed, he had killed the two princes, he had more to lose than they did. The one person who really needed them gone was Henry bloody Tudor, who had no claim to the throne at all.

          3. Leicester was an important Roman town and the St Martins area was the Roman market area.

            I know this because I conducted historical research for a Heritage Statement regarding the adjacent former Parr’s Bank building (National Westminster viz. RBS) which has a deep basement thus obliterating any Roman remains over part of the site. The Parr’s Bank building, a fine city building with massive domed banking hall of 1901 is now a Middleton Steak House.

            Across the way, the Richard III Visitor Centre next to the former parish church, now cathedral, is worth a visit.

          4. Sorry Tryerss, I wasn’t having a go at you- seem to be in a permanently bad mood these days.

          5. Same reason that the Royal developers of the time built Windsor Castle so close to Heathrow.

        2. The book by Josephine Tey (I can’t remember its title, and I read it decades ago) was the first time that I had come across that view – which I have come, with further reading, to agree with completely.

    5. Because, according to Blacks I mean persons of colour, the word black didn’t exist in English before the whites arrived in Africa.

      P.S. Although of course, according to poc “historians” there were noblemen and women in this country who were not white…

    6. Because, according to Blacks I mean persons of colour, the word black didn’t exist in English before the whites arrived in Africa.

      P.S. Although of course, according to poc “historians” there were noblemen and women in this country who were not white…

    7. Because, according to Blacks I mean persons of colour, the word black didn’t exist in English before the whites arrived in Africa.

      P.S. Although of course, according to poc “historians” there were noblemen and women in this country who were not white…

  75. Evening, all. If the headline really is true, it will be the first time the HO has ever thwarted the efforts of foreigners to get here, welcome or not. It must be because they are white, European and Christian and so will integrate.

    1. Yes what is the point of mass immigration if they all integrate peacefully, what will the cultural Marxists do then?

      1. Horses are fine, thanks. One is running at Newcastle on Monday. One has retired. One has been entered in the Scottish Champion Hurdle, the others are just ticking over. The mare has safely had a colt foal. Coolio was totally distracted having a training session in the open air (so neither of us learned much!) and Oscar is two steps forward and one step back at the moment.

        2. That is mostly good. Can you give us Nottlers some tips on which races to bet on or should we just keep our fingers crossed for Oscar?……………… :@)

          2. As I rarely bet, I am probably the world’s worst tipster – couldn’t tip a wheelbarrow, as they say. Oscar is licking his shin a lot and tearing at the fur, but I can’t see anything wrong with it. Unfortunately, he is determined I won’t get near enough to have a good look at it, so it may well mean yet another trip to the vet 🙁

          3. Sounds like an irritant. Or maybe he still has stress. Can’t advise. I find my little dog likes to lick her bed a lot. Don’t know why.

          4. He is a lot less stressed than he was (when he didn’t lick). I wonder if it might have been an insect bite or sting. If I can, I’ll put some TCP on it.

          5. Oh the dear thing. TCP might sting a bit. How about Savlon? *note..i have been drinking.

          6. I’ve got Savlon, so maybe that will be the answer. Trouble is, he has such thick fur, the cream might just gunge up the surface and not reach the sore spot. He isn’t due to go to the groomers until the end of next week.

          9. You will get there. You know animals. Have you met my wife?

            oh dear…time for me to get my coat

      1. Of course they have a plan. That’s why we weren’t given a vote – so that we couldn’t say yes (or no) to any of it.

      2. Of course they have a plan. That’s why we weren’t given a vote – so that we couldn’t say yes (or no) to any of it.

  76. The whole situation about Ukraine makes me smile, wryly.

    The MSM, PTB, infact 80+% of Englanders are shouting for us to wage a war over/in Ukraine

    The immigration doors are open to Ukranians, no doubt, with cash benefits, meanwhile our PSTD Veterans sleep on the streets and are still being prosecuted for events in Ireland, that happened 40+ years ago. The IRA are immune, thanks to Blair

    What is the point of being a British serviceperson

    3. They might only be partly ajar, given the lead DT letter. Perhaps they go to Calais and hop into rubber boats, where the Border Farce or the RNLI will meet them with red carpets unrolled.

    1. There wouldn’t be so many islamophobes if they stopped raping, murdering, bombing and fucking goats. I like goats. They are more intelligent than your average sheet wearer.

      Is that a racist statement or is it mostly true of the dirty fucking bastards that think toilet paper is haram.

      Ahem…

  78. 351643+up ticks,

    And the likes of Gerard Batten & the genuine UKIP was treacherously put down in favour of the lab/lib/con coalition and ALL it’s past history of childhood destructive odious dangerous tripe

    breitbart,.
    Rotherham: Child Rape Gangs Epicentre Brands Itself ‘Children’s Capital of Culture
    Their voting mantra on polling day is ” best we forget”

  79. Goodnight Y’all. I can’t keep going any longer tonight. Am worn out.
    Stay well and be happy. Have a few more glasses for me because I can’t manage tonight.
    X

    3. Nos da Lottie.

      P.s. thank you for your wishes for a good holiday. I have just seen your message but replies have been locked off.

      I had a lovely time, driving around Suffolk and Norfolk. If you’d asked me before if I’d been to Suffolk, I’d have said ‘no’, but if you asked me now if I’ve been to Suffolk, I’d say ‘yes, every inch.’ I kept to the B roads and zigged and zagged my way around.

  80. Controversy hits Government’s first global LGBT conference as Stonewall given ‘whip hand’ over event

    Move seems to contradict Government plans to cut ties with ‘no-debate’ charity as a result of its hard line views around the trans debate

    When, are we going to have a debate on the Rights of Heterosexuals, without the automatic inclusion of BLM. slavery etc

    1. I think we should all self identify as Martians who have no need to pay for anything as we don’t reside on planet earth…Just visiting.

    2. Sometimes I feel that I should retire to the hills of Wales and live as the hippies did. Create your own community and let the world pass you by. The cancer of modernism has invaded society too far to return to sanity. I just need to find a way of extracting myself from the HMRC which extorts funds to pay for the destruction of our sweet society.

      1. NoTTlers have been discussing a little island or other place that those of us minded could buy and live on – in our dreams of course! One little problem is that most of us are not in our most physically productive years…

        1. The past is unfortunately a different country that we physically can’t reach…

  82. Been to the pub to see a lovely girl, who started as open mic, do a full gig on a Saturday night. Stunning!

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