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'Morning, Geoff, and thank you for all your sterling efforts on our behalf.
Morning, Tom.
'Morning, Paul, well rested, I read.
Morning everyone.
Morning Geoff and NottlersâIâm beginning to think that youâre nothinâ but f**kinâ bad luck!â
Today's Tale
Old Harry was on his deathbed. He raised himself on one elbow and beckoned his wife.
âDoris,ââ he whispered, âyou were with me through the Great Depression.â
âYes, Harry.â
âDoris, you were with me through the worst droughts in the fifties and the eighties."
âYes, Harry.â
âAnd you were with me when the farm got burned out by the bushfires in the nineties. And last year, you were still hanging in there with me when the bank foreclosed on our mortgage and we lost the farm.â
âYes, Harry.â
âAnd now, here you are with me today, when Iâm just about to die.â
Doris nodded.
âYou know, Doris,â he whispered,
Another OBSG.
đ Poor old Doris xxx đ
Yo and Good Day to you all, from Costa del Skeg.
I will open the curtains in a minute…
It is nice and sunny.
OAT is 12 Deg C
International crime-fighting teams to be deployed by G7 against gangs in illegal migrant hotspots. 5 October 2024.
International crime fighting teams including British officers are to be deployed against people smuggling gangs in migration hotspots under a new G7 âactionâ plan announced on Friday.
At a three-day meeting in Italy, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, and her G7 counterparts agreed to establish a network of law enforcement officers based in source countries from which the migrants originate and in âtransitâ nations through which they travel to stem the flow and crackdown on the gangs.
The officers would be responsible for collecting and sharing intelligence on the gangs and co-ordinating joint operations involving border and law enforcement agencies from the G7 to identify and combat the criminals trafficking migrants.
Or we could of course just patrol the twenty miles of beaches that are a danger and arrest anyone landing.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/04/international-crime-fighting-teams-to-be-deployed-by-g7/
The up-tick is for Minty's final comment.
Morning Tom. they have no intentions of stopping these boats. Not least because they provide a distraction from the vast numbers just strolling in legally.
Mine too Sirj
We assume that Britain has volunteered to pay all costs?
How did the fragrant Crosspatch get to Italy?
Swam? Cycled? Shank's Pony?
"Or we could of course just patrol the twenty miles of beaches that are a danger and
arrestmachine-gun anyone landing."Good morning, everyone.
Morning all! Dry here and cloudy.
Bright and sunny here.
Are you missing South America ?
394174 + up ticks,
Morning Each,
My view is repeated,leave as is, we are going through an era never experienced before with a large number
of peoples still in a state of disbelief.
We are in opposition with an odious element posing as politicians and this has been building over thirty plus years.
The political posers and the pharmaceutical elites have formed a death dealing, serious life long injury, experimental coalition.
Tis their open season on, as their judgement decrees
overpopulation worldwide, hence culling under any credible banner, fodder for misbelieving fools.
This latest death dealing issue is to back up the odious stopping the cold weather payment, I truly believe they are capable of employing squads in the cold weather period to enter old peoples homes and damp down bedding whilst opening windows,on health grounds.
Saturday 5 October: A vote to legalise assisted dying would be a betrayal of the most vulnerable
394174+ up ticks,
O2O,
https://x.com/SandraWeeden/status/1842426359546535946
I would not trust this 'guvernmennt' to repair the potholes in the road
394174+ up ticks,
Morning OLT,
I do believe there is a warehouse FULL of pothole expanders for councils daily use.
Negative speed bumps.
This is a case of the political class inserting a very thin edge of a very large wedge that in the future could have severe consequences for people who fall ill.
A first step along the road to the eugenicists' Utopia? All wrapped up in soothing assurances that the move to "assisted dying" for the gravely ill will be a merciful action.
Believe the politicians who vote for this move at your peril.
Then you need to prepare, and wait for the cue from USA in November because they are experiencing same issues x10.
For instance, all across the country mysterious invaders are arriving en masse and being provided with brand-new, fully furnished luxury apartments, with rent and utilities completely covered by taxpayer funds.
For certain Biden/Harris will never relinquish power. That will provide the cue. Of course you will require the services of 2&3 PARA.
Me, I have firearms and lots of ammunition.
Just saying.
As M said, Take the Shot !
OMG! M isn't fronting the new Covid Vax campaign is she?!
M might be.
I'm sure that you're mistaken ogga.
The NHS is the envy of the world, and I'm sure that their employees would never make a mistake
deciding which elderly person has no productive future.
The NHS has a long history of extremely high standards of care, and I'm sure it's to their eternal regret
that no nation in the world has seen fit to copy it.
A truly awe inspiring example of socialised medicine.
Not to mention the best pot bangers in the world, bar none!
Nurse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anneallan
hehehehehehehehe
Putinâs North Sea oil profits collapse. 5 October 2024.
Kremlin-owned energy giant Gazprom suffered a collapse in its North Sea profits last year as sanctions and the windfall tax battered the business.
Gazprom UK, which is owned by the Russian government, saw pre-tax profits fall from âŹ45m (ÂŁ37.6m) in 2022 to âŹ4m last year, according to accounts filed at Companies House.
Good heavens! Whatever will he do?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/05/putins-north-sea-oil-profits-collapse/
Stop the build on his new retirement Dacha?
Morning Minty and all….
Retirement is not a viable option for Vlad.
No one not even presidents had: ‘I wish I’d spent more time in the office’ engraved on their headstone…..
394174+ up ticks,
Listen up yea disbelievers,
https://youtu.be/r0rOeSLc7ws?si=yulEZNWkqKQVRZnI
I wondered why David Lammy has been cosying up to the CCP recently..
He wants more info on the "Tiger Chair" used for vaxxing and other pleasures.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e800668237fd8733775ad92956f8a14905da58c3ecc33c1e09ed5cd20628ee4c.png
Or my favourite.. the Mobile Execution Van.
Over 5,000 targets per year.
With facilities for organ harvesting.. sometimes before death. Yum.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/22078dbd51adb75a191f180dcba13257514a5e8c48cfb1c56b814cfb7fd852c5.png
And don't forget when you see that logo on the back wall.. just like the PLA army, PLAN navy etc.. that means they belong to the equivalent of the Labour Party not the state.
And don't forget when you see that logo on the back wall.. just like the PLA army, PLAN navy etc.. that means they belong to the equivalent of the Labour Party not the state.
Stop giving the idiots more ideas.
"I have stored canned baked beans upside down (Letters, October 4) ever since I was advised to do so by a tutor at catering college in the early 1980s."
I still have a bag that used to have cake in it.
These, and other exciting posts, can be seen Below The Line in today's DT Letters Page
Why don't the manufacturers just print the labels upside down?
. . . or put the beans in the other end?
Egg-zacktly!
they'll make you belch instead
The ECHR appears to be tilted in favour of incoming 'non-Brits' and not the long-term residents and families (ie the Brits) of this Sceptred Isle
Gosh! Steps back and slaps forehead in amazement!
Goot Heffings. Who'd a thunk it.
Just Something else that needs urgent attention.
Good morning all,
Partly cloudy at McPhee Towers, wind South-East, 6â rising to 15â this afternoon.
A bit of a slow news day. Market first then I'm going fishing.
Morning, all Y'all.
Grey day, but last night in my own bed… Bliss!
(Although, to be fair, the bed we use at the In-Laws is the first bed we ever had as a couple (New mattress, though) – bought second-hand in 1980. I'd not have chosed a boingy spring mattress, though, and it's a 4' double, rather narrower than our 6' we bought to replace it (and still use).
Yo Ol
Making boingy boingy boingy noises with the bed, is not good when staying with in-laws
I used to have a neighbour who made boingy boingy noises every evening at around 7pm plus When Harry Met Sally sound effects. Poor lass packed up and left when it finally dawned on her that sound carries in this building and we were all having a laugh at her expense. We assumed there were men involved and that they werenât paying guests but who knows.
The bed at the B&B t'other night was excellent too.
Isn't it.
I have a 4â 6â double to myself. Going back to a 3â 6â standard single would feel like sleeping on a ledge.
Same here Sue
#MeToo, Stormy and Sue.
Bought a King-size, seven years ago. It has a thick 'memory foam' mattress with another, much thinner, 'memory foam' liner on top. The best thing about it is that it has different levels of hardness on each side to suit personal preferences.
I still have to buy my pillows (and pillowcases) from the UK, though, since the idiotic little square pillows that Swedes prefer are pathetic and utterly useless.
Similar setup, Grizz, but we can get long UK-style pillows with substantial filling, from IKEA here…
Morning, all Y'all.
Grey day, but last night in my own bed… Bliss!
(Although, to be fair, the bed we use at the In-Laws is the first bed we ever had as a couple (New mattress, though) – bought second-hand in 1980. I'd not have chosed a boingy spring mattress, though, and it's a 4' double, rather narrower than our 6' we bought to replace it (and still use).
Good morning, all. Cloudy and chilly.
Good Moaning?
Nasty little nip in the air.
Morning, Anne.
I think you'll find the flying Oriental is Korean… ;-))
I think the phrase you're looking for is 'It's a bit Pearl Harbour'. đ
"It's a bit Bruce and Jackie out there today!"
394174+ up ticks,
We should demand an overwatch committee of proven patriotic standing peoples, to closely scrutinise any "government body in regards to the " illegal invaders"
International crime-fighting teams to be deployed by G7 against gangs in illegal migrant hotspots
" illegal migrant hotspots" could very well be government controlled accommodating hotel / troop depots.
Plenty of illegal migrant hot-spots here in the UK
394174+ up ticks,
Morning SJ,
Precisely, and when they unite countrywide we will retaliate by appeasement as in, nutting the floor five times a day.
They know what they can get away Tom. Our plod always turn up too late and then nick the locals.
Absolutely correct, Eddy.
Especially in Lancashire.
Eh? Oh.
Probably, Stormy.
That sounds like a good plan.
But twenty years too late.
394174+ up ticks,
Morning RE,
I would say thirty plus years to late,tis hard work trying to deter a majority voter hell bent on destroying all things decent.
Never say never in regards to the return of common sense and decency.
Good morning all.
A rather latish start but a beautiful bright day with a clear sky, but a rather chilly tad under ϡC on the Yard Thermometer.
10°c but cloudy – again.
Morning Bob – dreich here
No rain, yet in the borders but it's forecast.
I'd forgotten this episode. I knew Blighty had been blighted by the lunatics running the asylum for a good few years …..
Michael Deacon in the Tellygraff.
"Peak Guardian
The time has come to commemorate a glorious milestone in journalism. Because this month sees the 20th anniversary of the single most sublimely bonkers article ever published in the entire history of The Guardian. I am of course referring to that unforgettable day in October 2004, when the favourite newspaper of the metropolitan middle-class Left enjoined its British readers to write fabulously patronising letters to swing voters in Clark County, Ohio â ordering them not to vote for that simply ghastly man, George W Bush.
Helpfully it supplied its readers with a sample letter to copy. âI know that you, as Americans, understand the issues,â the letter graciously declared â but, just to be on the safe side, it explained âthe issuesâ to them anyway. The people of Clark County were told that they should âbe alarmed by your presidentâs breathtaking disregard for the environmentâ, informed that their country had suffered a shocking âerosion of standards in educationâ, and warned that they must not âstand by and observe your country being hijacked by a select group of neo-conservative extremists who spread fear and loathingâ.
Remarkably, no fewer than 14,000 Guardian readers nobly volunteered to do their bit. Strangely, however, it seems that the people of Clark County did not take kindly to being told how to vote by a bunch of social workers from Stoke Newington, or creatives from Crouch End. Back in 2000, Clark County had narrowly voted Democrat. But this time, in 2004, it swung behind Bush, instead.
Personally, I just wish that the Americans had returned the favour. If only, during our own election this summer, the Clark County Chronicle had got its readers to write to voters in Britain.
Dear limey,
Please tell me you doofuses arenât dumb enough to vote Labour. Iâm telling you: within weeks, those pinko commie jerks will have ripped the winter fuel payment from your grandmaâs hands. And, in case that doesnât finish her off, theyâll rush through assisted dying, just to make sureâŠ"
Has he got that "letter" the right way round?
Given the Labour majority, I wonder if they did.
They did do us a favour with the âback of the queueâ remarks in 2016.
Given the obesity crisis in America why would we want their substandard UHP frankenstein foods…
I was amused by a barbed observation from earlier in the article:
"…I urge him to announce the creation of a National Penthouse Service, so that every child in Britain has access to an ÂŁ18million rooftop apartment to do his or her homework in. We wonât have true equality in this country till he does so."
Champagne socialist hypocrisy shown up for what it is.
"…I urge him to announce the creation of a National Penthouse Service."
Isn't Penthouse a magazine featuring Tits'n'Bums? Shouldn't a copy be in every school library?
"…I urge him to announce the creation of a National Penthouse Service."
Isn't Penthouse a magazine featuring Tits'n'Bums? Shouldn't a copy be in every school library?
A first failure – and the Lotto doesn't look good either:
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I prefer Sudoku or cryptic crosswords where there is only one possible correct solution.
Good Morning All. 14C Broken cloud and sunny.
Morning Johnny, drizzley here
https://x.com/johnredwood/status/1842418696913834332
Redwood's solved the mystery of the black hole.
It's full of all that wild coal that's been captured running amok, and buried.
I very vaguely remember a character called Nutty Slack in one of the comics of my youth. Maybe itâs his progeny running amok.
Nutty Slack the Gentle Grappler, from 'Buster', a comic of the late 1960s, according to Google.
The average human body comprises 22 pounds of carbon, Burying several million pensioners will count towards carbon capture and stopping them breathing out carbon dioxide is another 'Green' bonus. Win win situation. Help save the planet – do yourself in!!
Morning all đđ
Light grey today, nothing better at the moment.
With no apparent versions of honesty being traceable from our current supposedly sensible politicians.
On assisted dying, do the public, with their own opinions, get a chance vote ? I'm sure 'the people' who actually 'live the lives' have far better judgement than all the current morons in Wastemonster.
I wonder if the public list would include certain protagonist's who are deliberately avoiding the current issues. Those following their own personal adgenda and making decisions that are making many thousands of people's lives a misery.
It should be a national referendum as it should have been on hanging. but they will not have the result they want.
Sadly as usual they aren't brave enough to employ public opinion.
In their tiny restricted minds they always seem to think that they know best.
That's why they eff up every single thing they come into contact with and big time.
They think we are stupid. Tell us there is a 22 bn. shortfall. Then tell us they are spending the same amount on carbon capture. Just lies and more lies.
Where's the opposition standing up in the HoC telling them it's all BS? I don't see Reform doing that.
The many MPs that read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at University are incapable of understanding/dismissing BS concepts such as 'carbon capture and storage', BB2.
Tell me about it, I knew loads of them. Lazy beggars.
PPE undergrads at university were referred to by those studying STEM subjects as P___-Poor at Everything.
If The Reform Party Reform wants to break fresh ground in politics it must be the sole mainline party to come out with policies which challenge the Great Global Warming Lie and the Net Zero scam. They must invite some of the leading scientists who do not believe the lies and have been silenced and there are many of these.
The party should also challenge the orthodoxy that Covid jabs are safe and necessary when it is very clear they are not. Again there are many reputable scientists who have been cancelled' who can add informed comment on this issue.
'Morning Rastus…do you read Ben Pile? he has an interesting piece today on Sceptic re Unions and their thinking around Green Agenda.
394174+ up ticks,
Morning R,
" IF" they ……..
my true belief is they are tory MK 2 and peoples "want" them to be "opposition" at the same time as them being tory (ino) MK 2
If The Reform Party Reform wants to break fresh ground in politics it must be the sole mainline party to come out with policies which challenge the Great Global Warming Lie and the Net Zero scam. They must invite some of the leading scientists who do not believe the lies and have been silenced and there are many of these.
The party should also challenge the orthodoxy that Covid jabs are safe and necessary when it is very clear they are not. Again there are many reputable scientists who have been cancelled' who can add informed comment on this issue.
How does Reform get an opportunity to do that? With just 4 MPs they can only occasionally get the chance to speak in the HoC.
There’s a huge alternative media out there if they wanted to make their voices heard.
Indeed but you were talking specifically about the HoC
They do get the chance to speak in the HoC, but nobody will hear about it unless it's publicised. I agree, they will very rarely get a chance to speak on the big occasions.
394174+ up ticks,
Morning BB2,
That would be on par with your left hand arguing with your right hand.
Read up on the FULL pedigree of the leader.
Unions are waking up to the realisation the numbers of jobs that will be lost, Johnny. A ray of hope, perhaps…….
They should just palnt trees….
BTL comment under Micael Deacon's column.
Starmer's version of the Labour 'anthem' – The Red Flag.
"The working class can kiss my @r@e
I've got the PM job at last
Our pensioners can die of cold
I've got a mate with pots of gold
Some may laugh and others scoff
I've got my snout in Alli's trough"
Just sang it to SWMBO.
Thumbs Up for the song, not my singing!
Unions sound to have woken up now, anne, to Labour's agenda esp Green one. Maybe fun ahead…
Scandals mean Starmer couldnât give me a peerage, says top donor Dale Vince
Green energy tycoon has been facing allegations in divorce court that he was likely to get a knighthood
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/04/scandals-starmer-not-give-dale-vince-peerage/
A man who has outrageously exploited the green scam should never be given an honour!
Honours are for loyalty to the King, not for doing good….
You reckon?
BTL comment under Micael Deacon's column.
Starmer's version of the Labour 'anthem' – The Red Flag.
"The working class can kiss my @r@e
I've got the PM job at last
Our pensioners can die of cold
I've got a mate with pots of gold
Some may laugh and others scoff
I've got my snout in Alli's trough"
Sun's out here now. Sky clear. Nice morning.
âUnacceptableâ shopfront in Britainâs most picturesque town must be repainted '
According to the Stamford Shopfront Design Guide, a document drawn up by the district council to ensure that the heritage is retained, the maximum penalty for breaking the rules is two years in prison and an unlimited fine.
You can lesser punishments than that for killing people in UK now
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/04/planning-row-repainted-peters-cleaner-stamford-lincolnshire/
How utterly ridiculous. It doesn't even look bad at all!
That reminds me. When Woolworh's wanted to set up shop in Reigate, the Borough Council told them they couldn't have their usual bulging gold letters over their shop-front, so they had to settle for discreet conventional lettering. (Not so in neighbouring Redhill, also part of the Borough of Reigate, but it's where the poor people live.)
Wasn't Woolies lettering in red?
Mostly it would seem, yes, though Iâm sure I can recall a red ground with gold lettering. Maybe they changed.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1bca01b8439406177992e462bb7a8f507793578ed603b65fddbd4bc1c6642596.png
https://www.google.com/search?q=f+w+woolworth+signage&rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB1049GB1049&oq=f+w+woolworth+signage&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRhA0gEKMjYxMDVqMGoxNagCCLACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f3d3f24f0272fd261c8f843fd0e135bfbe8e9017c818de5392940aada52dda88.jpg
I preferred the formality of F. W. Woolworth Co., although I do understand why they opted for the simplicity of Woolworths.
Depended on the era
Reigate canât be posh. 2TK went to school there and his family are ever so âumble.
It's hideous. I grew up near there. Nigel Havers's (Chariots of Fire) house is just down the road
https://www.visitlincolnshire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/North_Court_15.3.23_BurghleyHouse_copyright_BurghleyHouse2023.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Cecilsr.JPG
Isn't that where they try dope using horses? Burley Horse Trials…..?
No. That's at Burghley Horse Trials.
What’s wrong with dark blue paint? Genuine question.
IMO it should be a much darker blue.
It was before the owner repainted it.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c9a8a223c705d45149956f4d1c8a82a79cbe13726791e3d547891718a5ef9346.png
According to the Stamford Shopfront Design Guide, a document drawn up by the district council to ensure that the heritage is retained, the maximum penalty for breaking the rules is two years in prison and an unlimited fine. The rules include a recommendation to use white or neutral colours on slender shopfronts, and a single colour for all the major elements of the design but there is no indication of what colours are and are not allowed.
It'll fade. Fuss about nowt.
She's trying to make Stamford look like a Smurf village.
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2Y1F217/juzcar-spain-october-6-2023-visiting-of-blue-smurfs-village-in-juzcar-spain-on-october-6-2023-2Y1F217.jpg
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Ghastly and tasteless.
https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1802059475/photo/stamford-in-lincolnshire.jpg?s=1024×1024&w=is&k=20&c=Xd_SrWTdOXdWj1YEFDrc4x2Vb0S_1o5_HI911GeG148=
I get your point of view, but I am a great believer in towns being places where people live, not museums. Like people clutching their pearls if someone in a crescent paints their door a different colour.
It's ugly. It wasn't ugly before.
It's not the blue; it's the contrasting complementary â orange â that assaults the eyeballs. Not much point in keeping an old town looking traditional if some muppet decides to ruin it by (illegally) adding garish nonsense.
Genuine answer.
That colour contrast would have been considered positively muted by the Victorians. I still think it’s nonsense.
Whatâs wrong with it?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9d72ffb4032333c17cdffcd2b156c9545679e9c0e89c052f0f7b80dc0cc4154e.png
Egregiously bright shop front.
Bit garish what?
Looks like Ikea.
Agreed, Stormy.
Same old story, more politicians effing up everything they come into contact with.
394174+ up ticks,
In my book a glaring statement of fact,
https://x.com/robertlufkinmd/status/1796914198037037091
From the X thread…… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1cc06112b1a57d2adcd261b9c5f63b2bf7c4df0d84fe151dbbb6e740b75482bf.png
That's true. 'Vaccine' that was such a misnomer.
The definition of 'vaccine' was changed by the WHO during the pandemic so that the Covid jabs could be described as vaccines. That's why I always refer to them as 'jabs'. As they do not prevent infection, nor transmission of tthe virus (which a true vaccine should) they should be more accurately described as 'pre-infection therapies'.
Changing the long standing definition of an established word after they discovered it didn’t solve the problem as vaccines should.
Dishonest ?
Deceitful.
EU states must recognise transgender identities across bloc, top court rules D Torygaff
Judges in Luxembourg say Romania has broken EU law by refusing to accept British-Romanian transgender manâs change.
What a relief! All those QWERTYBBCLGBT trannies who were frightened of travelling across the EU and not being recognised will be relieved to know that the law has been clarified and you can ponce about and claim free Tena pads and co-habitation allowance for your husband wherever you go in La La Land,
Latest News
Man arrested in Trafalgar Square, London for "Declaring himself Heterosexual and Reciting out loud the Lord's Prayer"
Good Morning, all
Clear skies and chilly
https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fd1fac15e-99f8-4f60-a7a4-b6371849833c.jpg?crop=2723%2C1816%2C591%2C187&resize=1137
Door stops.
Fire starters.
From the Spanish interior
18°C
Saturday 12:57 Sunny
High 22°C
Is Kier going to write the sequel 'UNASHAMED II"?
Good day Nottlers.
Today we have new an article by Frederica ' Who Can Save Britain ' on patriotic conservative sites and organisations that we should support and, eventually, try to form liasions with and use our numbers to form a mass movement. Freddie spent a whole afternoon doing this, so please show your appreciation by reading and commenting on her article. FSB hopes to grow to the point where it can help co-ordinate a partiotic backlash to the woke globalist tyranny and to do that, we need a genuine mass movement, the creation of which is our ultimate aim. Hope you will support us.
I have also written an short article on the ' Russian floating bomb anchored off Kent ', and, in the Editor's Picks' section on the Home Page, Mark Smith, to counter all the gloom caused by the flooding in Thailand, has updated his ' Life in the Land of Smiles ' article. It's well worth reading, even if you read it.
Anyway, enjoy your weekend.
I believe the link is wonky ' Who Can Save Britain'
A Wonkey Donkey.
I've had the impression something was wrong with our well established but opinionated website for a few weeks. Not everything opens straight away as things use to.
Far far left Government spies ?
I sometimes suspect that RE, but usually it turns out to be disqus having a tantrum.
I tend to agree Tom but …….
After many years of my life I have now reached the conclusion that any other unexplained actions could be atributed to outside interference.
Something that seems to be more usual in our modern day lives.
I have no doubt that it goes on Eddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKa_sTFWSOc
Thanks KLB, the error was in disqus, but I have replaced the link and it is working now.
My BTL comment:
After some initial surprise at the less than huge gap between the incarceration rate for foreigners and UK citizens, I thought: any chance of seeing the figures for white and non-white UK citizens? I reckon these figures would be very "enlightening".
BTW someone noticed that the Albanian prison rate is 16/17 fold (232/14) that of "UK citizens". That is some going
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<i>One in 50 Albanians in the UK is in jail, according to analysis revealing the first league table of criminality by nationality.
More than 1,200 Albanians have been sent to prison from a migrant population of nearly 53,000 Albanians living in the UK who do not have UK citizenship, according to a Telegraph analysis of official data.
They top a table of more than 130 nationalities ranked on the number of prisoners per 10,000 of the population in the UK from their countries. Albanians are followed by Kosovans, Vietnamese, Algerians, Jamaicans, Eritreans, Iraqis and Somalis.
The analysis suggests that the overall imprisonment rate of foreign nationals is 27 per cent higher than for British citizens. It shows 18.2 inmates per 10,000 migrants compared with the UKâs 14 per 10,000. German, Italian, Indian, Greek, US, Sri Lankan, French and Chinese nationals are the least likely to be jailed.</i>
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/04/one-in-50-albanians-uk-in-prison-telegraph-analysis/
Because of the obvious expense, that in simple terms suggests that our general finances have a huge black hole.
Can someone please let our 'blind to the obvious problems' government know.
Good morning RE
Sunny weather here , busy morning ahead .
Look at this..
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1842094775333265656
AND you can guarantee the heating will be on for those gimmegrants.
I've had a couple of hours up the hill and used a tank of 2-stroke mix in the chainsaw.
All the large sections of trunk have been sawn and cleared from the higher levels towards the lower levels where they'll be sawn into chopping lengths to await chopping and stacking.
Just having a 2nd mug of tea and I'll be away back up!
I have read that the Albanian Mafia are the ones that the Sicilian Mafia are afraid of.
Good morning, all. Sun making an appearance.
I haven't been around much this week as I've had a short holiday on the Isle of Wight. Therefore, I do not know if the following has been discussed.
Miliband minor has come out with his dastardly plan for "carbon capture" with a down payment of ÂŁ22Billion for whomever he wishes to involve. If ever there was to be another "black hole", after reliable and cheap renewable energy, this is it. Once in the gravitational grip of "carbon capture" there is very little chance of escape. Where the final bill ends up is anyone's guess.
https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1842104184218288495
Plenty of comments pointing to trees as a much cheaper and proven to work option, and of course, trees – planted on areas unsuitable for farming – have a reusable product available a bit further down the line. Surely, that is a "Green" option to be exploited, isn't it?
PS If the UK carries on destroying its industrial base e.g. no steel making hence reduced heavy industry manufacture where will all these jobs arise to create the "global leading technology" ? My guess will be China et al. Kit of parts assembly will never be "global leading".
Morning Korky,
Carbon capture , Miliband should shut his mouth for starters.
The man is scientifically illiterate – out of his depth in a puddle. Moving all your industry to other countries doesn't change any pollution as far as the earth is concerned, it just moves it to a different country so that UK can look virtuous – and utterly broke!
Didnât some UN high-up admit that the Climate BS is de facto about the redistribution of wealth, not environmentalism.
You might be thinking of this one:
"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth.â
Ottmar Edenhofer IPCC Co-Chair Working Group Ill 2008-2015
Neue ZĂŒrcher Zeitung, 14 November 2010
Also, an earlier revelation:
Maurice Strong, the doyen of the global warming/climate change movement and MC of the Rio Summit that kicked the whole thing off in 1992: "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?"
Any recommendations for the IOW?
The Union Inn, West Cowes. Real olde-worlde Fuller’s pub. London Pride and HSB on draught, open fire and the smell of burning wood. Friendly bar people. Also, the tiny PO41 cafĂ© in Yarmouth, excellent Americano and other coffees. Again, friendly staff.
Isn't HSB Gales Ales? Fullers is ESB, a fabulous winter / autumn pint.
Fullers bought Gales and closed the brewery but kept the brews.
Oh.
Hope the beers are as good.
It had Gales on the tap label in the pub, but…
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and…
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Kept the NAMES of the brews.
Fuller's HSB is totally different to the old Gales Horndean Special Bitter.
And even if the recipe is kept the same, moving production from the closed brewery to another one will mean that a different water supply will be used and this will alter – probably significantly – the taste of the beer.
Thanks.
Since when did Common Sense beat pain in the arse ignorance?
394174+ up ticks,
Wasn't this kicked into touch by the make believe politico's as an established proven remedy,
NOT REQUIRED.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1842318796432040161
https://twitter.com/LouiseEmery/status/1842219139483439168
Who the hell is Esther bloody Rantzen?
And why is she dictating whether or not we are going to allow state-sanctioned murder?
If she has an issue, she should go to Switzerland. Nothing stopping her.
As a kid, i never liked Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris or Esther Rantzen.
She was an absolute pain to work with.
Did you not once describe her as a jumped-up typist or somesuch?
Indeed. Spot on.
I only saw her close-up once, in Television Centre. An odd looking woman. Her hair and skin were the same colour. A sort of light yellow/cream.
Oooh Bill, do tell! What did you used to do, that brought you into her radar?
There's no discernible warmth behind her smile.
I thought all three were mildly entertaining.
He probably realises that "I made a promise to Bill Gates" wouldn't go down well with the British people either.
Rantzen is a spellign Misteak her name is Rancid!
Esther is a spellign Misteak, her name is Emetic!
A member of the elite caste whose level of entitlement is twinned with that of 2TK.
During covid this bloody woman was doing the rounds rooting for more lock-down because her daughter who lives with her has chronic ME and would allegedly have been at terrible risk. The Wilcox establishment is likely to be spacious, have a garden and ample access to deliveries of Britainâs finest foods, so I felt that Dame Esther should just be content to shut herself and her daughter away without seeking to curtail the freedom of poor sods with none of those benefits.
But it is all about her.
Is she still alive?
When I was a kid (some nearly 50 years ago), she fronted "That's Life!", a comedy show on TV, then went on to consumer affairs.
I would like to thank our learned friend for drawing my attention to the 8 part documentary on iPlayer:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0020xx8/corridors-of-power-should-america-police-the-world-series-1-6-libya-if-you-break-it-you-own-it
Most of us, if not all of us, lived through the history that is described in the words of key policy advisors as well as folk on the ground.
For once the warning: 'Contains Disturbing Scenes' is 100% correct.
Happy to have been of help. The staggering ineptitude of O'Barmy was shocking to see.
Blair in black.
He will come across as a MENSA Genius if K Harris is elected President!
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Ayutthaya, Thailand
Twin elephant calves who have been named by the king. Twin elephants are rare but male-female twin births are extremely rare, according to Phra Kochaban Foundation for elephant care
Lovely!
Like their hi-viz coats.
The ankle socks are to cover up the red raw ankles from being chained up.
Not these Nellies. The elephants working in the teak forests were often very badly treated. However, the Nellies in sanctuaries tend to live 5 to 10 years less.
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Poor fellow is no more. Obituary in the DT today.
Ed McLachlan https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/10/02/ed-mclachlan-cartoonist-macabre-humour-died-obituary/
84. Another great person bites the dust eh. He was from Leicestershire a trained structural engineer. RIP
That's sad. World is a poorer place for his passing. RIP.
PS: 220lbs seems a curiously precise figure until you realise it's 50kg…and 'about' 2.6ft [sic] is about 80 cms.
Another PS: Warnings are often given that boars can be dangerous. I know from experience that the people of the FoD can also be a bit dangerous. It's one of those places where you can still be greeted by "You're not from round 'ere, are yer?"
S'nowt to see
Don't be a bore.
'Tis but a truffle.
Or
The roaming animals were filmed near the Houses of Parliament, which has Britain's biggest bore population
Snouts in the trough ?
There was a delicatessen in Tavistock where I bought wild boar salami. It was delicious but now long gone.
Had it for lunch?
Not long ago on BBC Country File, the reporter Tom Heap informed the viewers that 'a pack of domestic dogs' had attacked some local sheep and killed them. Not very far from the forest of Dean. I wrote to them telling them that it would not have been 'a pack of domestic dogs' but it would have been the then newly introduced Wild Boar. No reply of course.
Now a long way back, and around the lambing season with our dirt bikes on trailers with a few good friends we use to drive from Adelaide to the Narran Lake area in NSW and spend a week or so as the guest of local Sheep farmers out in the scrub and bush, shooting the non indigenous Wild boar. These animals and would and probably and still do, attracted by the births, would more often than not kill the new born lambs and eat them. Wild boar are also cannibalistic we would quite often find all that was left of the bodies were the trotters. The only thing they would leave in a pile of food waste was citrus.
But they were quite tasty BBQ ed.
I would think by now Scottish farmers are already on the case.
"Conservationists argue that the concerns are overblown and that boars are useful for improving habitats and ecosystems."
Just wait until one of these simpering half-wits wakes up one morning to find their organic eco-allotment has had a visit from a herd.
It's probably the reason they were originally removed from the environment.
In a group they can be confrontational. The wild boar of course.
Conservationist's are all very dopey wokie.
The next problem they will be trying to excuse will be all the lovely furry beavers felling trees blocking the flow of our rivers and causing floods……..oh hang on !
12 bore would sort that out.
With slugs, so no choke on the barrel. Buckshot might be usefl too, but a boar has an armoured hide.
Taste great, though!
I could tell you a few stories but they wouldn’t be suitable for here.
Yet another PS: I was correct about the measurements. They're in here:
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/mammals/wild-boar
Some one close to where we live use to keep pigs and sometimes allotment tenants would fence off the plot an borrow the pigs for a couple of weeks. The pigs would 'plough' the plots and clear all traces of previous growth. And fertilise. Perfect.
I think you'd look very dashing although G & P would be deeply embarrassed.
Farm income is in free-fall. DEFRA civil servants are among the most incompetent and seem to hate farmers. And Lammy wants to give all our dosh to his chosen 'beneficiaries'. I despair.
Labour could cut financial support for farms damaged by floods
Exclusive: Farmers still awaiting promised payments for uninsurable damage caused by Storm Henk
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Helena Horton Environment reporter
Sat 5 Oct 2024 07.00 BST
Labour may cut financial support for flooded farmers, the Guardian has learned, while money to compensate them for deluges in January has still not hit their pockets.
The previous Conservative government earlier this year promised up to ÂŁ25,000 in payments for uninsurable damage from flooding caused by Storm Henk. However, the eligibility criteria for these grants has still not been set out, leaving farmers out of pocket. The scheme has been plagued with delays, with some affected farmers not being paid because they live too far from a river.
Some early claimants received money in July but thousands more who are thought to be eligible are still waiting for the financial support.
Senior sources in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told the Guardian that decisions about how much money could be paid to farmers for the floods were being held up because of the spending review, and that cuts were on the table. The Conservatives had promised a ÂŁ50m expansion of the fund before the general election.
Floods have already begun this autumn, with freshly sown crops washed away and farmers facing another unprofitable harvest season. Farmers fear that they are about to take a financial hit while still waiting for government payments from Januaryâs floods. New Met Office data shows six counties had their wettest September on record: Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. There have been floods across the country and more rain is expected by the end of this week.
The National Farmersâ Union vice-president, Rachel Hallos, said: âBack in May, farmers impacted by the devastating storms at the start of the year were promised help through the expanded farming recovery fund offer, but this has not been forthcoming.
âMonths later, farm businesses are still suffering the impact of the relentless rain. Thousands of acres of farmland have been completely saturated and unusable, and weâve just finished an incredibly difficult harvest with huge variations in yield and quality. We urgently need details of when the fund will be available to help these farms recover.
âWith further heavy rain leaving more fields waterlogged, arable farmers are once again concerned about getting crops in the ground for next season. We cannot keep getting stuck in this cycle â we simply must invest in our water management systems. The farming recovery fund is one part, but we need a long-term plan for how we protect our towns and countryside from what is becoming more regular, and expensive, flooding events.â
This is the latest blow to farmer confidence from the Labour government, after the Guardian revealed ministers were mulling cutting about ÂŁ100m a year from the nature-friendly farming budget.
Flooding is hurting UK food security, and experts believe floods are being made worse by climate breakdown. Income from farming in England plummeted by 19% in 2023 after floods meant harvesting many crops was impossible. Farms also contributed less to Englandâs economy in 2023 at ÂŁ10bn, a fall of ÂŁ1bn or 8.7% compared with 2022. Farmersâ total income from agriculture in England was ÂŁ4.5bn, down ÂŁ1.1bn or 19.0% compared with 2022.
A Defra spokesperson said that all spending commitments for the coming year were to be confirmed in the spending review, adding: âThe government is working at pace, with input from representatives of the farming sector, to accelerate the building of flood defences through our new flood resilience taskforce. All farmers eligible for the initial farm recovery fund set up in April have been offered payment, with further information on the scheme set out in due course.â
"climate breakdown"
That's a new one.
I prefer climate apocalypse. They can't go further than that.
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nineteenth climate breakdown.
Or "Our planet is choking to death"
Climate armageddon? Climate doomsday? Climate holocaust?
Armaggedon is the place. Apocalypse is the outcome.
Just following the lead/orders from US elite..
Biden-Harris' Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) blocking shipments of critical goods for relief efforts into the storm-battered North Carolina region. There have been numerous reports this week of FEMA actively hindering relief efforts in the western part of the state, including threatening private helicopter pilots with arrests for conducting rescue missions.
North Carolina has been deemed problematically white.
Elon Musk tweets..
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1842284913279586447
Just following the lead/orders from US elite..
Biden-Harris' Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) blocking shipments of critical goods for relief efforts into the storm-battered North Carolina region. There have been numerous reports this week of FEMA actively hindering relief efforts in the western part of the state, including threatening private helicopter pilots with arrests for conducting rescue missions.
North Carolina has been deemed problematically white.
When did communists ever care if the masses starve. The wastemonster mob are squandering billions on vanity projects to enrich themselves and their pet primitives.
Well, duh. How else are they going to drive family farms out of business so that wealthy investors can buy their land and re-sell the rights to re-wild it?
No doubt a chosen site for Raynor's hundreds of thousands of houses.
Why, you could even get hundreds of Bibby Stockholms that were anticipated by the Tories moored on flood waters.
That would make even more sense than spending ÂŁ22bn on sending CO2 back down the pipes that were intended for distributing gas to the UK from the North Sea. What's more is that excessive output of electricity from windmills could be replaced by plugging a gas hole when you don't want the energy flowing – instead, taxpayers have to pay for excessive windmill outputs when the providers can't sell it.
No mention of Hunga Tonga…
You just did!
đ€Ł
She thinks it's a new beach side Tango…
I think you are thinking of the Well Hungo Tango…..!
NFU only place we could get insurance, country area – very little arable land but a lot of woodland. Recommended.
Don't worry with all the Solar farms planned for Arable land the farmers won't have to worry about flooding and compensation as there won't be much farming left!
All the solar cells will short out when they are submerged. That won't help anything.
And what isn't covered with solar panels will be covered by housing estates.
While I do believe that summers have been getting warmer and winters milder, I do not subscribe to the notion of an impending and irreversible climate catastrophe demanding immediate drastic action. Adapting to these changes seems to me the more affordable and publicly acceptable course of action.
As to the particular claim above that recently high aggregations of rainfall signal climate breakdown, it wasn't so long ago that forecasters were advising us to prepare for a more Mediterranean climate and for farmers and gardeners to plant crops, vegetables, fruits and flowers with a more arid climate in mind.
I agree, Stig. The above article was written for The Guardian (i.e. in accordance with George Monbiot's alarmist House Rules)
I agree, Stig. The above article was written for The Guardian (i.e. in accordance with George Monbiot's alarmist House Rules)
In other words: they haven't a clue.
There seems to be two lines of thought; that a warmer climate will see Mediterranean conditions migrate northwards or that warmer air will hold more moisture and become more turbulent and stormy.
The Met Office hedges its bets.
"UK winters are projected to become warmer and wetter on average, although cold or dry winters will still occur sometimes. Summers are projected to become hotter and are more likely to be drier, although wetter summers are also possible."
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climate-change/effects-of-climate-change
Over the years I’ve seen so many different claims about the changing climate that I stand by my analysis.
They haven’t a clue.
You might remember this from last October. Marykirk, Scotland:
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Fixed in 6 months â for anywhere in the UK, that's almost miraculous.
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Perhaps WM Donald Ltd could pop down to Oxford and give Network Rail a hand…
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/angus-mearns/4980722/a937-marykirk-bridge-re-opened
And all paid for by the English taxpayer….
A wicked thought crossed my mind. Did the contractor bill the county council for the Armco barrier that isn't there but should be?
But did they dredge the river downstream? And where are the culverts?
Birds are alright but I prefer girlies. I switched off Radio 3 this morning because there was some girly playing noise by other girlies. Flipped over to Classic FM and Aled Jones playing music.
There's no respite is there. What really annoys me about the new presenters with their 'Shows' is the gushing and simpering. Boy are they going to have a hard time when islam really takes off in the UK!
Forgive the typo. This womanâs testimony is worth a listen.
https://x.com/Lauren3veMemes/status/1660596106345041921
And lo Chairman Ed said let us spend squillions we do not have on Carbon Capture……….
…which the trees do for nothing!
But the climate freaks are letting them cut the trees down and build on green fields. What a scam.
Mao's slogan,"Human beings will fight the nature and win", sums up cretinous communist/socialist thinking (if it can be called 'thinking').
Nature hears this imbecilic bollocks and replies, "Oh, yeah?"
Nien Cheng's Life And Death In Shanghai is a horrifying read.
Afternoon All
Where to begin…
"Once you realise that all of the things that Labour is doing are really continuations of everything that was already planned under the Conservatives, you can start to understand what is going on. The politicians are not actually in charge of anything. They are not making any decisions whatsoever. They are simply doing what they are told And being paid handsomely.
Their mission, like the governments before, is to destroy the UK in financial, industrial, cultural and historical terms . Once you get this, everything begins to make sense."
Medley
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Labour may have been blaming the Tories for a ÂŁ22bn black hole in the UK finances but there was a cunning Conservative plan to make Labour the fall guys – particularly as they are now digging their own ÂŁ22bn black hole.
The Ratcliffe Riders,
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Ed's replacement for a 2Gw coal fired power station.
Bring back the treadmill!!
Greens Try To Designate Entirety of East Sussex âCounty of Sanctuary for Migrantsâ
The Greens are up to their old tricks in local authorities. After getting elected to councils across the UK on a muted NIMBY platform theyâre showing their true colursâŠ
Down in East Sussex County Council the Greens have put forward a motion to âdesignate East Sussex as a County of Sanctuary for Migrants.â That apparently includes signing it up to âcore principlesâ including: âNo one should be locked up indefinitely,â âNo one should be left sick or destitute in our society,â and âWe should welcome the stranger and help them to integrate.â How those would work in action is anyoneâs guessâŠ
More concretely the motion would sign up the County Council to the âMigrant Champions Network,â an organisation which spends most of its time campaigning for councils âto pledge not to share workersâ data with the Home Officeâ so that illegal migrants canât be located by the government. It would also appoint a councillor to act as a âMigrant Championâ who would act as an âadvocate for migrant constituents.â How much will that cost?
These are the same Green personnel who run the Wealden District Council with the LibDems. Their leader Rachel Millward has tried to force all events including bonfires to be net zero. All while living in a 6-bedroom mansion with a swimming poolâŠ
"No one should be left sick or destitute in our country" – except for the indigenous, particularly those who have worked and paid taxes all their lives.
394174+ up ticks,
All the time these look alike politico's have the edge on peoples of decency, in so far as they are now openly
importing the materials making up the crime tables on a daily basis, and in bulk.
Revealed: First migrant crime table
One in 50 Albanians in the UK in prison, Telegraph analysis shows.
The other 49 are busy filling out their criminal lifestyles
under their freedom pass to surf the crime wave with
impunity.
Lets see the true honest numbers of paedophile odious action since, that bent twisted one, haunter of the park public toilets on cottaging missions GHOUL
" miranda" open the gates of decency to the agents of hell.
Number manipulators will be rogered to death by rough ends of pine-apples, viewed as treason in time of war.
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Gus and Pickles which to associate themselves with their neglected cousin. "Haven't been fed for, er, hours," Gus added, waking briefly.
When I got home Kadi tried to convince me he hadn't had his tea. Unfortunately for him, his dog sitter left a note to say he had and the last of the chicken dog food had gone đ
You have a lefty hound, Connors
I have a foodie, Tom.
Seems obvious, Connors.
394174+ up ticks,
Wasn't this kicked into touch by the make believe politico's as an established proven remedy,
NOT REQUIRED.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1842318796432040161
From Fredi at Free Speech Backlash
Oi Laffed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44-tQ0ss7I
I like this one instead of presidential debates:
https://youtube.com/shorts/xVmRJxEI7E4?si=BXFIQMnHV97aA1R8
Brilliant!!
Phew!
Just having a break. Did 2Âœh of chainsawing, one tank's worth of 2-stroke, up the hill during which I've sawn all the large bits of tree trunk felled by the loggers and made a start on moving them down the hill.
Already had one mug of tea and just decided to do myself a 2nd mug before I go and refill the saw and cut up some of the larger lumps I've gotten down the hill.
The little Husqy is working well!
Where's Wibbling? Slinking back home in the early hours, I turned a corner and bumped into what appeared to be two medium-sized black bears. Luckily they were on leads, so I stopped to have a cuddle, and the owner proudly said they were Terranovas. Which is Spanish for Newfoundlands. (You learn something new every day). Gorgeous creatures!
My younger sister had a Newfoundland. He was lovely, but shy and could even walk backwards.
I bumped into a nice lady last week with two beautiful black labs. Brother and sister. Sister was shy, big brother had been rolling in Fox poo and it stinks.
Ours use to do that occasionally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD9EHm6-2S8
Will Starmer last 5 years? – is there a betting market?
https://youtu.be/_p8pavD5yK0?si=oNRpyguvDk5c_0fj
No!
If Starmer had an extra-marital child would it be an illegitimate child or a love child?
The word 'love' is not one that can easily be associated with the cold fish Starmer.
Something really odd about the response in North Carolina
That'll teach them to be largely Republicans
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White middle class republicans. Didnât I also see on Twit that theyâre obstructing the aid Elon is trying to give?
Two hours ladder work – three trays of picked apples; another of – yet more – usable windfalls. Exhausting. Come in for a bit of a rest. Dunno how young Robert manages all the stuff he does – except that he is nobbut a lad, of course!
https://twitter.com/BLAIMGame/status/1842474363783700954
https://twitter.com/kirawontmiss/status/1842249948990996509
Now that really is Birds and Bees Stuff!
I'm surprised there wasn't cigarettes involved afterwards!
I saw the male ostriches' wiggle waggle after he had done his business , and was shocked at the size of it , I had no idea birds possessed such a protuberant thing!
One learns something everyday.đđđź
Cocks have big cocks…who knew !
https://media3.giphy.com/media/9n5UIlRppk91e/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
âCanât curl, but can swimâ
Slow-Solid, thatâs him!
Curls up, but canât swimâ
Stickly-Prickly, thatâs him!â
âHeâll never forget that this month of Sundays,â said Stickly-Prickly. âHold up my chin, Slow-and-Solid. Iâm going to try to learn to swim. It may be useful.â
[Rudyad Kipling: Just So Stories]
A superb set of tales.
I used to read them frequently as a child, my favourite was how the elephant got his trunk.
Led go you're hurting be as the Elephant's Child said to the bi-coloured python rock-snake
I also loved the Sing Song of Old Many Kangaroo:
He was grey, he was woolly and his pride was inordinate and he danced on an outcrop in the middle of Australia.
(My own children loved the Just So stories when I read them to them just as much as I had loved them when my father read them to me)
Bedtime stories were one of the most important events of the day when our boys were little. I read to one boy in English and Caroline read to the other in French. When we had finished a story we swapped boys!
Yours must be huge…
V Naughty sos! Bad boy!
You’ve see it?
Well I think you'd faint at the size of the Male Antarctic Blue Whale's equipment – the size of a large wardrobe i believe….! đ
Earth moving?
https://twitter.com/snowbirdb1/status/1842565838303608923
Sheesh! Kebabs?
Cats and donkeys better than goats and monkeys?
Here's the quay at Hydra – a port we first visited in a boat we hired for our honeymoon in 1988; then again in a chartered boat with Christo and Henry and then again many times on our own boat, our beloved Mianda:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/999c588c7059503054fe2a284462273c6cc00128776934e53723eb261d458784.jpg
Did you head there nine times?
Lovely photo , Mr Tasty !
Now for some Good News
Chris Packham âforced to pay ÂŁ200,000 to pensionerâ after libel case
Legal costs for country sportsman who proofread defamatory articles âare double damagesâ TV presenter won from editor and writer
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/05/chris-packhams-court-pursuit-pensioner-costs-200000/
Oh, how sad.
Leigh Day again.
Unhappy Day….
That won't help his autism/ aspergers/or what ever he spouts on about !
At Diddle Squat someone will be over the moon.
https://twitter.com/BlueWhiteOct/status/1842558440377594104
A prospector Birdie Three!
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Well done. Par here.
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Don't you hate those words where there are so many options and no clues to which option you should select..
A gimme eagle!
Hard going for me.
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Ya dug too deep, mola!
The fault was mine alone.
Par again
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Paragon next time, richardl_?
Back in the ball game! Likewise…..
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Snap!
Awkward took me ages to settle on a word.
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"As a black man descended from enslaved people, I understand the plight of the people of Gibraltar, oppressed as they are by imperialist, colonialist Britain, and will do everything in my power to help reunite them with the free people of Spain."
© D Lammy, 2024
Really? Or spoof? Not possible to tell with what that lummox says.
I think this link will resolve that question.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/18/david-lammy-british-military-base-gibraltar/
Only because he wants to give it to Morocco as compensation for barbary pirate slavery.
He thinks Marie Antoinette is the King of Spain
No, that's Ashley Giles.
One of the classics
He knows nothing of Spain, any information some may have read to him would have left out the periods when the Spanish people and captured white children were enslaved by the orders from Alhambra.
Is that a spoof or did he really say it? He's far more privileged than most of us. And white people and white systems have allowed him to flourish and spout his bile. Wonder what his life would be like if he'd been born in Africa and stayed there?
Imagine the misery his white wife has to endure when he makes the beast with two backs.
A reference to William Wobbledagger's work no less:
"âEven now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.â
Des was a bit of a moaner!
But whiter than white I believe….
To that end, I posted this a few months ago. It's worth repeating:
All slave descendants from the West Indies have what I call slave privilege. If their enslaved ancestors had been dragged across the Sahara, they wouldn't be here, as the men were all castrated. If their ancestors had never been enslaved, they would have been born in some third-world dump in Africa.
As their ancestors were taken across the Atlantic, their immediate forbears were able to settle in the UK, thus offering them the opportunity to prosper as they would never have done in the West Indies.
That is their Slave Privilege! Bear that in mind, Mr Lammy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsR4Nx-ELgc
Our poor forgien secretary needs to find another job, he's already lost the plot.
I have had it up to here with this ignorant grifting oaf.
According to Wiki, Lammy was born in 1972. Even if he was born to successive generations of people who didnât breed until they were 40, the nearest relative he could have that was born into slavery would be a great great grandparent and it is more likely that it would be more remote than that. So not only he himself, but his parents and probably his grandparents wonât have known any relatives who had ever been slaves. Yet it somehow oppresses him so much?
Letâs contrast it with my childrenâs grandparents – people they actually knew. Their step grandmother had been a slave – not in the Caribbean but in a labour camp in Europe. The people who enslaved her were Germans. All the property that belonged to their paternal grandparents was appropriated by the state and has never been returned, even though much of it is in countries that are EU members.
Would Mr Lammy care to demand reparations for them?
Don't get wound up. It is alleged Sir KS was merely taking the piss in appointing him Foreign Secretary…
So no wonder the lefty politicians all love Net Zero
It transfers the means of production to the workers.
The workers in China
and India.
I'll leave it to you to decide, Paul. {:ÂŹ))
That's me for today. Very pleasant. Hard work in t'garden. Now relaxed. Pickles was a GREAT help when picking apples – standing under the ladder, chasing fallen fruit.
I must own up that I made up the Lammy "quote" – but I am impressed that it appeared genuine!
Have a jolly evening.
A demain.
Such a pity…
Hezbollah successor âunreachable after Israeli airstrikeâ
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/world-news/2024/10/05/TELEMMGLPICT000396792863_17281351065640_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?imwidth=680
Hashem Safieddine photographed in August 2024
Hashen Safieddine, widely expected to succeed slain Hassan Nasrallah as leader of Hezbollah, has been unreachable since an Israeli air strike on Friday, three Lebanese security sources told Reuters.
Reports suggest Safieddine, who was Nasrallahâs cousin, had been targeted in an Israeli strike.
A high-level Hezbollah source confirmed that contact with Safieddine had ben lost.
âContact with Sayyed Safieddine has been lost since the violent strikes on Beirutâs southern suburbsâ early Friday, the source told AFP. âWe donât know if he was at the targeted site, or who may have been there with him.â
Safieddine was born in the southern Lebanese village of Deir Qanoun En Nahr near Tyre in 1960 and studied theology at two Shia institutions â one in Najaf, Iraq and the other in Qom, Iran.
His son is married to the daughter of the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a 2021 US drone strike.
The loss of Nasrallahâs rumoured successor would be yet another blow to Hezbollah and its patron Iran.
Israeli strikes across the region in the past year, sharply accelerated in the past few weeks, have decimated Hezbollahâs leadership.
Well he's probably far too effing busy with his 72 virgins….
PS: What is it with the probable gender imbalance in Muslim heaven?
Nobody said the virgins are women, did they!
You're kidding me aren't you?
Baa Bumhug.
Mutton not dressed as Haram?
Maidens dressed as Ham Ass.
These virgins?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e1f36e256760578932efce93b576c7380842ab4e7f7703594498446b83d1487c.jpg
Curry heaven…
…and they all look like Anne Widdecombe after a couple of bottles of wine.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e0e22b19e552e4e9d4c61962abe998954c0b1ba08a46e66acf59feb8b37cbcc2.png
Must be one hell of a job getting life insurance after they are promoted.
Live by the sword…
It is rumoured that Saffieddine has been killed. At this sad time we all offer our condolences to the Labour party and the BBC…
I see the Foreign Secretary has opened talks to return Falkirk to Argentina.
About time!
Praise be to Allah
Alloa! Surely?
Mastermind score 13. IQ 13.
I don't understand how it is possible for part of our sovereign realm to be legally gifted to foreigners without at least parliamentary scrutiny. And what of our Monarch? Should he not prevent this? They have given away something that doesn't belong to them – something which they were elected to preserve and steward wisely for the good of the nation. It reeks of treason.
That's liebour – give it away no matter to whom it belongs. Hang the lot of 'em.
Farage has written to Lammy requesting a debate in the hoc before any islands are signed over.
According to X the dirty deed was done in recess before anybody knew.
Judicial review? After all, Gina Miller succeeded in getting a judgment that effectively said that constitutional changes must go through the HoC
Falkirk?? Nobody told me?
Just a simple question about these Chagos Islands that Starmer is giving away.
They do realize that they are low lying little islands don't they? Wouldn't the increased sea level resulting from the promised apocalyptic global warming have the whole shebang disappearing under the waves before net zero can ride to the rescue?
That's probably the ideological reason for giving them away! Unfortunately it is a load of bollocks….
Inconvenient fact that you are not supposed to notice. Or that the poor Chagos islanders who were unceremoniously turfed out at short notice in the 1970s by Britain, do not seem to have had any say in the gift of their homeland to Mauritius either.
Why would Mr Lammy care about a bunch of impoverished indigenous people?
Much to their Chagrin…!.
There is a well known saying that Marriage has a familiar ring;
Engagement Ring
Suffering
Wedding Ring
Today I find myself in that 'happy' state after 49 years!
Oh dear ,
Must be a happy anniversary day, or is it?
Congratulations. A state of bliss. Treasure her.
I hope you are not suggesting she should be buried!!!
She deserves a reward.
How much are you worth, dead or alive?
Probably no more than a Ratner Prawn Sandwich either way!!!
Wow, more than I thought
};-O
49 years?! You get less for murder! đ
I was beginning to wonder when I get let out for good behaviour?
How many Nottlers met the love of their life aged more than 40 when I met Caroline; and how many met the love of their life younger than 24 the age when Caroline met me?
(I suspect more in the second category than in the first)
I was 28 when I met MOH. We married when I was 30.
But how old was she?
I was 28 when I met MOH. We married when I was 30.
I heard last week that the ex Mr Cup of thirty years (we split up about three years ago) died a few weeks ago. I'm very sad about that, I'd have liked to have seen him again.
Marriage is a fantastic institution – provided, of course, you like living in institutions……..
What no one ever tells the happily married couples is to lower their expectations…
She becomes unhappy because she expects him to change and is disappointed when he never does..
He doesn't expect her to change and is disappointed when she does….
Marriage is a fantastic institution – provided, of course, you like living in institutions……..
Good one, man!
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1842246865234128978
Lots about this appearing on inappropriate news sites over here (so don't go looking on cnn or msnbc).
It has taken over a week but several hundred Canadian utility repair crews are now on their way to North Carolina to help repair their infrastructure.
These storms aren't really a surprise though the severity might be….why aren't rescue groups able to mobilise immediately?
Like Grenfell it sounds like bureaucrats need to make lots of announcements before anything can happen.
I actually like/trust Musk more than any politician, Sue.
With my keyboard skills it could happen!
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e45375f42c385a64d7a1f475ed34689c8e0b99a8/0_0_5712_4284/master/5712.jpg?width=700&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=dec13af3cd2b81885415821e98e06b67 St James's Park
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6d9874d1a6808e8f7389c925a7adaf39da4f64bb/0_0_3489_2430/master/3489.jpg?width=700&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=37d2f38c96b12fcbce7be65a543ad246 âDraw me like one of your French girlsâ ⊠a seal on the banks of the River Stour near Ramsgate.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e6ba8aaeed7dc05094062ca1fc0f84ab36167d08/0_0_4032_1908/master/4032.jpg?width=700&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=0e35f9d3ca89e599a464d702bd43f7ee A pine marten takes its first step into the wild. Eight adult females and seven males have been relocated to Dartmoor
The wonderful thing about the Pelican
Is that it's beak
Can hold more than its belly can!
The hell 'e can đ
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
And Iâm damned if I know how
The hell âe can!
He can hold in his beek
Enough for a week
But I really don't know how the Hell he can!
Sorry everyone got there first before I read down!
Pine Martens are great at taking out grey squirrels – they cant get at the lighter red squirrels who can escape onto thinner branches.
Iâve never seen a pelican at St. Jamesâs Park! They wouldnât half mess up the pitch and Iâm not sure they like Magpies!
They don't give up, do they? No doubt, plenty of gullible fools who read the report will be making haste to book the latest conjab, and many will be more than happy to pay if they are not in the 'vulnerable' groups. Masks at the ready!
All of 115 alleged cases in the UK. Panic! Hospitals are about to be overwhelmed.
Edit: Sounds just like the common cold or maybe flu.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13927609/new-xec-covid-variant-map-europe-doctor-warning.html
It makes their covid shots even less worthwhile than they would be otherwise. Health Canada are bragging about their latest shot that is targeted at some kp-2 variant that was around back in May.
It's like being offered flu shots from 2020!
But the gullible will be queueing up. I wonder if they are still 'boosting' young, healthy children in Canada? If they are being offered, I would guess my grandies will be in the line.
NO jabs here – don't trust 'em.
About 4Âœh of chainsawing today, two tanks worth of 2-Stroke.
All the large diameter logs cleared from where they'd been felled with several taken right down to the top terrace.
I've realised that, when dealing with 12"+ diameter logs, cutting to lengths at least 3x the diameter makes getting them down the hill a lot easier, despite the heavier weight.
Need to do some tidying up at the lower level tomorrow.
Have you thought about taking a holiday in the Brazilian Rainforest like Ndovu?… Lots of timber there i understand…just saying….
You might even see a few beavers in a Bazilian Rainforest.
I thought it was Ndovu who was waxing lyrical on that subject a few days ago…
Tore her off a strip, did you? Bit of a close shaveâŠ
Moi ? Mais non!
Not having a strop�
You are razor sharp ce soir!
Thanks Kingy! Been on high alert all day and am now off to bed! đ„±
The twins will rise at 6.30!
Thanks Kingy! Been on high alert all day and am now off to bed! đ„±
The twins will rise at 6.30!
You might even see a few beavers in a Bazilian Rainforest.
Tell the DT that you want a Bob the Beaver in your Christmas stocking (ÂŁ5.98) https://i.etsystatic.com/7145865/r/il/a255da/491225189/il_794xN.491225189_ezvd.jpg
Many of the real things at Firstborn's place.
Felled trees with pointy ends in the river.
Giant beaver pencils.
Greta the green goddess would be proud of you for so much pollution.
If I managed a tankful of fuel in my chainsaw, I would be knackered.
Makes me sweat, just reading that, BoB.
Lord Alliâs former (life) partner gave Labour ÂŁ350,000 in the run up to the election
Charlie Parsons, a TV producer and executive, made the donations between February 2023 and May 2024
Alli is LGBTDFG so therefore untouchable
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/05/lord-alli-former-partner-charlie-parsons-gave-labour-35000/
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You and all of us are free to think nasty thoughts, but please don't post them here. At least your gaydar was in working order.
Phil can (like most of us) get a tad emotional from time to time – nay incandescent!
Especially on Saturday evening.
Had a couple of tinctures myself, about to hit the sack.
In todays world such words could end up with Geoffs front door being demolished by the thought police.
Unfortunate but true.
So what you are saying is that Geoff wouldn't have a leg to stand on?
This post is totally unacceptable, Phizzee, made me laugh though.
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Just finished watching Chariots of Fire.
I am obviously a racist fascist bigot.
That was a film all about race and religion, helped along with a catchy tune.
Our race. Our religion.
No, it is the human race. One race, but many breeds.
Yes, I can only run through water in slow motion these days…..
Ah, that's the problem with getting older. Inside every man there is a prostate desperate to get out!
During my prostate exam, my doctor told me itâs perfectly normal to become aroused and even ejaculate. That being said, I still wish he hadnât.
Euchhh!
Missed the he bit! Doh!
Great film – enjoying it does not make you a racist fascist bigot – quite the opposite I would have thought!
Evening, all. Spent most of the day in No. 1 Radio School, Cosford (at an AGM). You know you're getting old when the erks on the gate look as though they are still at school. Was gratified to find I am still on the system and was allowed in. Was amused when one of the hams had a sign on his Zoom picture "GCHQ – the only government department that actually listens to you". Interesting that HF comms are coming back.
We all know Labour intends to betray the indigenous; whether by freezing us to death or importing hordes of savages to kill us or legalising euthanasia. We need to fight back.
In my day Cosford was No 2 TTs and 1 Radio School was Locking.
Yes it was, but I'm not sure Locking is still an RAF posting. So much has been "consolidated" (i e shut down and closed). No 1 radio school has been at Cosford since 1998. Before it was at Locking it was at Flowerdown in Hampshire (No 1 RS at Cosford is in Flowerdown House).
Never heard of Flowerdown House and I was at Cosford for 18 months, Connors.
Before 1998?
1960- 1961.
The Radio School didn't move until 1998 so it wouldn't have been there (nor would Flowerdown House) when you were there.
I did all my Army signals courses in Warminster at the School of Infantry. (I was awarded Top Student at one of them :))
Well done, Stormy.
And I'm off for an early night.
TTFN all.
Another day is done so, goodnight, Gentlefolk. Bis morgen fruh. Schlaf gut. Ich hoffe.
Bis spÀter, Herr Tom.
Schlaf gut!
Immer hoffen.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/10/05/16/90492303-13927609-image-a-10_1728140724893.jpg
Wonderful Covid map and really really scary /sarc
I suspect there have been far far more cases of STD's in that timeframe.
The really interesting thing about STD's is when you look at official data in some regions in the UK there are no women logged over the age of 45 attending the STD clinic…
In other words – play safe – Sleep with older women!!!
Er, we get plenty through the doors. I'll run the exact figures if you like when I get ack to work on Monday.
Please do..
When did venereal disease become STDs and why?
STD means
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Subscriber Trunk Dialling????
A symptom of STD was PDD and the cure was circa the eighties.đ€
When Venereal Disease was no loner venerated?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WHSVOVLmNY
I don’t know, but I think it’s fairly recent, possibly because VD was essentially from “normal” male female intercourse. After the huge increase in things like HIV due to promiscuous homosexuality and sex in all holes STI/STD widened the net, (as it were).
Why isn't Norn Iron coloured in? It's part of UK.
Otherwise the label should have been GB.
My thoughts exactly
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3e5762f41c2f47bf262f09dbfe84b7203b15d5a8509841e09296638f4304c2c7.jpg
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2024/10/05/TELEMMGLPICT000396821992_17281563553750_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpeg?imwidth=640&imdensity=2
Perfection!
394174+ up ticks,
These last four decades the war dead & life long injured have been openly abused by the lab/lib/con anti English coalition party.
The so called governing political elites are really the main abusers, by turning up at the cenotaph on remembrance day.
https://x.com/AshleaSimonBF/status/1841946412050718952
She no longer looks at the sky
She knows that Death is nigh
Far too long suffering in pain
Her breathing staccato now and again
And when it comes, the Eternal end,
Mercifully a true God send.
Goodnight, all.
Goodnight, all.
https://twitter.com/977723e8c7fc438/status/1842661784391446538
https://twitter.com/ExiledIsraelite/status/1842661619026858055
Sheâs not fit to be an MP! Sheâs not fit to let out by herself!
Fit to rule? No, not even fit to live.
Oh, miserable country, ruled by a murderous tyrant with no right to rule.
[Malcolm tests out MacDuff saying he has even more faults than the king who was formerly the Thane of Cawdor in the Scottish Play. Finally MacDuff can stand it no longer and says Malcolm is not fit to live]
"Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!' "
Incredible to think we are reliving the Stuart times. Kingly patronage replaced by PM patronage. The new Puritanism in the form of eco- and trans-zealotry. What a world. I might be minded to opine we need a new, successful Guy Fawkes, but that would lay me open to a two-year stretch of Porridge, so I wonât even think it.
I have just read the article in the telegraph by Allison Pearson. I would happily take on this apology for an MP.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/oct-7-israel-survivors-stories-state-of-the-nation/
EEarly night tonight – I'm pooped having spent all afternoon rearranging Mama's living 4oom furniture in about fifteen different ways before she decided.
I'm not as young as I was.
From Coffee House, the Spectator
Macronâs EU gloom is well placed
Gavin Mortimer5 October 2024, 12:00am
Michel Barnier was interviewed on prime time television on Thursday night and not once in his 45 minutes of conversation did he mention the name Emmanuel Macron. There was an indirect reference to the president of the Republic, when Barnier described himself as the âanti-Jupiterâ Prime Minister. âJupiterâ was one of the nicknames bestowed on Macron when he came to power in 2017 â and the world, albeit briefly, was fooled into thinking this was a man of rare talent.
The French media appear to be taking their lead from Barnier. There was scant coverage of the presidentâs visit to Berlin on Wednesday when he spoke at a Global Dialogue event. Fortunately for Macron he did have an audience in European and British journalists, who were present to report his bleak assessment of the European Union. âThe EU could die,â he declared. âWe are on the verge of a very important moment. Our former model is over â we are over-regulating and under-investing. In the two to three years to come, if we follow our classical agenda, we will be out of the market.â
His remarks echo those last month of Mario Draghi, when the former president of the European Central Bank predicted that Europe would suffer a slow and agonising death if it didnât undergo âunprecedentedâ reform. âFor the first time since the cold war, we must genuinely fear for our self-preservation, and the reason for a unified response has never been so compelling,â announced Draghi in a 400-page report, explaining that Europe required additional annual investment of at least âŹ750 billion â approximately 5 per cent of the EUâs gross domestic product â if the EU is to catch up to America and China.
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Referencing Europeâs two competitors, Macron said: âThey invest much more, they are much more in advance.â But the Frenchman also accused the pair of flouting convention. âWhen both the US and China do not respect the rules, we should not be the only one in the room to just abide by the rules,â he said. âThis doesnât fly. I donât suggest trying to become protectionist, this is an awful world, but at least to be fair. With our industry, with our farmers, with our people.â
Macron must have had a sense of dĂ©jĂ vu as he spoke. Heâs been urging the EU to get its act together for years, since September 2017, in fact, when he gave a keynote speech at the Sorbonne entitled âInitiative for Europeâ.
âWhat we need is a long-term economic and political strategy,â declared Macron. âAnd our challenge within the eurozone is to work out how to make it an economic power which can compete with China and the United States, and how to achieve what for the past ten years we have failed to do: to create jobs and ensure that todayâs generation.â
That failure now extends to 17 years and there is little sign that the EU will stir itself anytime soon and compete with China and the USA.
The EUâs economy has never been so vulnerable, a fragility embodied by Germany, as Ross Clark recently highlighted. Their economy has now contracted in four of the past seven quarters, and there is no cause for optimism on the horizon.
On the eve of Juneâs European elections, Gabriel Attal, then Prime Minister, warned the French not to vote for the Euroscepticism of Marine Le Penâs National Rally. After all, look at those British, still crying over Brexit and wishing they could return to a dysfunctional bloc run by third-rate bureaucrats. Le Penâs party romped to victory, taking a third of the vote, more than twice that of Attalâs Renaissance party.
Britain, on the other hand, is coping better than its EU neighbours in these harsh economic times. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the countryâs growth is ârobustâ and among the G7 countries only Americaâs economy will perform better this year.
This is a fact that very few of the Paris elite, be they politicians or journalists, can bring themselves to admit. The vast majority worship Brussels with the same dogged and deluded devotion as their president.
The vast majority worship Brussels with the same dogged and deluded devotion as their president
Then Le Monde, the paper of the Progressive Paris establishment, tried something similar in the subsequent parliamentary elections. âThe economic and political disaster that followed the United Kingdomâs departure from the EU has turned Brexit into a deterrent,â it declared in an op-ed.
Again, the French people saw through such nonsense and more of them (37 per cent of the popular vote) voted for Le Pen than any other party. They did so because they know what Macron is now realising: that the EU is dying. And itâs taking Macronâs political career with it.
From Coffee House, the Spectator
A remake of Cheers wonât work
Patrick West5 October 2024, 12:00am
One of the most popular sitcoms of the 1980s, Cheers, is set to return to our television screens. The show is set for a revamp, except now it will be uprooted from Boston and transposed to a pub in Britain. This is obviously a terrible idea, for a few logistical reasons â and for one large cultural reason.
Comedy wasnât a slave to politics back then
The main scriptwriter for the UK remake is reported by the Daily Telegraph to be our own Simon Nye, the brains behind Men Behaving Badly, while itâs being developed by Big Talk Studios. Its chief executive Kenton Allen explains that it will be no mere repeat performance of the original:
âThe attitudes of Cheers in the 80s are very different to the attitudes of today, so thereâs a massive amount of work to be done around taking inspiration from the original characters but creating something fresh.â
That statement alone should have alarm bells ringing loudly for aficionados of the original series.
The makers face many obstacles even before the writers put pen to paper or cameras start to role. For one, attempts to transport comedy shows from one side of the Atlantic to the other have an awful track record. Men Behaving Badly was one such example, with its US version running for two series between 1996 and 1997. American versions of Dadâs Army, The Inbetweeners, and The Thick of It fared even worse. Most famously there were several failed attempts to transpose Fawlty Towers. British attempts to remake US sitcoms The Golden Girls and MarriedâŠWith Children also foundered. The only comedy ever to have successfully traversed the cultural divide between our two countries has been The Office.
The sitcom as a genre is decidedly passĂ© today, ever since its heyday of the 1990s. That was the decade that witnessed the tail end of Cheers, and the dawn of Frasier, Friends and Seinfeld. These remain classics. The only sitcom remotely of note to have emerged from the USA since has been The Big Bang Theory. Back home, the turn of the millennium similarly saw Father Ted, Iâm Alan Partridge and The Office. Again, itâs been thin gruel ever since. The only domestic sitcom of recent years to have made an impact has been Not Going Out.
In an age when audiences prefer cheap, quick laughs from YouTube and TikTok clips, commissioning editors consider sitcoms too expensive and too long-term a gamble. Theyâre also too politically risky. One of the reasons the US version of Men Behaving Badly failed was that cable audiences found its bawdy, gross-out humour inappropriate. Sitcoms inevitably touch upon serious issues of the day, and amidst todayâs mood of cancellation and self-censorship, to approach serious issues is a venture fraught with peril. How confident would nervous producers feel now in making a show featuring David Brent, with all his awful, unacceptable views?
And what a time to decide on a comedy set in a British pub. As Kenton Allen himself concedes: âI might be insane. The British pub is an endangered species, so thereâs an answer for the âWhy now?â about it.â Why now indeed. What with this institution already having been hit by the smoking ban, a rise in abstemiousness, a culture averse to the lunchtime or after-work pint, the British pub is now threatened by our government with the threat of reduced opening hours, two-thirds-sized pint glasses and a reputed hike in alcohol duty. Making the British boozer a funny place to be will take some leaps of the imagination.
Yet what of the eventuality of a re-vamped Cheers for the mid-21st century? Contemporary television is particularly susceptible to the whims and diktats of identity politics, as Dr Who audiences or those who follow BBC drama know all-too-well. Anyone who still catches early morning re-runs of Cheers on Channel 4 canât help agreeing that it is very 80s. Yet thatâs its appeal. Thatâs why Channel 4 still show it and why people still watch it. Comedy wasnât a slave to politics back then.
Its original integrity can only be but compromised by the demands of today. The first âproblematicâ issue will be its all-white cast. This is seen as even unacceptable today in historic dramas set in periods when everyone actually was white. There were also no regular gay character in Cheers, let alone those from the trans community. Its lead protagonist Sam Malone, so obviously the epitome of chauvinism and âtoxic masculinityâ, would have to be emasculated or done away with. Its principle women would no longer be the vain snob Diane Chambers or the avaricious neurotic Rebecca Howe, but a mandatory âstrong female characterâ.
As as for the dipsomaniac, work-shy Norm Peterson, whose much-maligned wife we never even got to see? He would be history. So too might be all our fond memories of this charming show.
"The only comedy ever to have successfully traversed the cultural divide between our two countries has been The Office."
Till Death Do Us Part transferred successfully.
Forget all the guff about self censorship and political incorrectness. TV companies would be incapable of signing off anything funny, quite simply. They are far too priggish and humourless to ever countenance doing such a thing.
Having been a great fam of Married…With Children, the UK version with Russ Abbott was dire.
In 2011 they made a shortlived Spanish version of ‘Cheers’ starring national glamourpusses. 26 episodes were initially ordered, bot only thirteen were made and the series was cancelled after nine were broadcast. Very disappointing results.
https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1842631521070669937 Please listen to this .. Macron is true to his type , people talk about the French .. remember the Falklands , Remember WW2.. Limp wristed gimp Macron..
Amen.
Please keep France away from any 'wars'
UK does not have enough white sheets for the French to turn into Flags
Sir Keir is busy knitting a white flag for a remote part of the Falkland Islands facing Argentina.. to send a clear message.
Sir Keir is busy knitting a white flag for a remote part of the Falkland Islands facing Argentina.. to send a clear message.
.. We are defending on
seveneight fronts.. in Gaza against Hamas, in Lebanon against Hezbollah, fighting against Houthis in Yemen, militia in Iraq, terrorists in Judea and Samaria, fighting against Iran.. and of course the moronic Leftie progressive and their infantile off spring.The axis of terror stands together.
Shame on them?
They have no shame.
.. We are defending on
seveneight fronts.. in Gaza against Hamas, in Lebanon against Hezbollah, fighting against Houthis in Yemen, militia in Iraq, terrorists in Judea and Samaria, fighting against Iran.. and of course the moronic Leftie progressive and their infantile off spring.The axis of terror stands together.
Shame on them?
They have no shame.
https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1842631521070669937 Please listen to this .. Macron is true to his type , people talk about the French .. remember the Falklands , Remember WW2.. Limp wristed gimp Macron..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKm2_67xtVs
Just saying goodnight .. a bit of music to sign off with , from when some of us were very young .
06:26. That first cup of tea, aah, bliss!
Good morning, all – Sundayâs new page is here .
Yo and Fanx, Boss
Thank you Geoff.