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Morning GG
Good morrow, Gentlefolk, today’s (recycled) story
Kindness To Animals
Bill and Joyce are driving along when they see a wounded skunk on the side of the road.
Joyce says, "Oh Bill, please stop and let's try to help it!"
Bill stops the car but refuses to do anything more, so Joyce gets out and picks up the skunk and brings it into the car.
"It must be freezing!" she says. "See how it's shivering? What should I do?"
"Put it between your legs," Bill replies.
"But what about the smell?" Joyce asks.
To which Bill replies, "Oh, he'll get used to it after a while! "
Morning, all Y'all. Sunny, but cold.
Wet here.
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Morning Each,
Early doors,
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
@TRobinsonNewEra
Chickens coming home to roost for Labour as Jess Phillips is screamed at by islamist mobs in Birmingham.
This is the outcome of feeding the crocodile, hoping it eats you last.
They abandoned the working class for the Muslim vote.
Has the audacity to shout "throw them out", you let them in!
There's a certain irony in her retort about listening to "strong women". She knew what these men were like all along but kept quiet in order to secure their vote,
Good morning, all. Pouring with rain. Printer refuses to work so cannot down load my crossword. MR gone out til after lunch. Stuck.
Bloody Labour government. It is all its fault.
Follow the advice on yesterday's page.
I see you're into the blame game, Bill. Don't let it turn you into Eeyore again. Look on the cheerful side: Rishi's non-Conservative party has been decimated and Reform has five MPs. Nip down to the newsagents and buy a copy of the Telegraph for your crossword. And keep smiling.
The Telegraph will be delivered within the next hour. It is the Times that I download.
Can't "nip down" – nearest agent 5½ miles away and the MR has the car en route to Narridge!
Morning everyone.
13°c and sort of, sunny.
Makes a change for you!
Good morning, chums, and thanks to Geoff for today's post. I failed to solve today's Wordle after 6 attempts, as shown below:
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The NHS is broken, says Streeting. 6 July 2024.
The NHS is broken, the new Health Secretary has declared.
Wes Streeting made the analysis just an hour after being appointed, and said it was now the Department of Health’s official policy.
It is policy that it is broken? What about fixing it?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/05/nhs-is-broken-says-wes-streeting/
They used to say that the NHS is "our" NHS and "the envy of the world" – is this now an admission that they are now prepared to try and fix it? Somehow I doubt it.
Morning Elsie. It is beyond fixing.
My first-hand observation of the NHS is that most or even all of the constituent parts work well but are simply not joined up. As with almost all failing organisations, the fix is better leadership at the top, given full responsibility with commensurate authority.
They will, firstly, cave in to the demands of the junior doctors. 35% rise.
At the end of my incarceration in Southmead Hospital when they realised they couldn’t do any more damage to me Dr Ben was elected to deliver the “Akward talk” to Leila and myself. We were both stalwart but Ben couldn’t fight back the tears, ”I’m sorry Robin but the fucking NHS is broken”
We’ve kept in touch with Ben, he was wrong about my early demise, which gave him immense joy apparently, but correct in his other diagnosis which doesn’t .
How's life going now you're home, Datz?
Is Wes Streeting going to fire Amanda Pritchard or make her a Dame?
The NHS was broken when Labour inflicted it on us AS. Both the Tories and the Liberals had better plans. It was reasonably succesful in its first 20-30 years, as it was staffed by people who had been trained under the old private system.
It worked when it was catering for a small, relatively stable population who had contributed to it. What's broken is that this is no longer the case and there are too many dieversity chiefs and not enough grassroots workers.
Also before Bliar introduced the GP contract which allowed GPs to opt out of patient care out of hours…in return for them gathering all sorts of information on us…
Just about everything that no longer works in this country can be traced back to Blair.
Amen to that.
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Starmer kills off Rwanda plan on first day as PM
Labour insiders tell The Telegraph Tory scheme effectively ‘dead’ after party pledged to scrap it
Fraternising with the invaders will, i'm sure, be strongly encouraged spare bedrooms will receive a premium
government grant, down to sharing bed space has a set payment.
Morning Oggy. They are going to think up another stupid distraction for the mentally retarded or perhaps just ignore it?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13605957/Migrants-express-delight-Sir-Keir-Starmer-poised-scrap-Rwanda-scheme-just-finally-ready-off.html
Don't worry, Loni. Labour will be providing you with free transport to the UK very soon – no need to come across in a dinghy. Nice house and benefits waiting for you. Makes you proud to be British.
I wonder how many more millions Labour think we can support. They could build over the entire countryside and still more would come.
Rwanda plan was daft.
Prevention being better than cure, they should not be allowed to land, and if they perish in the
moatchannel, so be it. The Frech should stop hem at their borders, not hurry them on through. Borsers hermetically sealed, the message will quickly get through.389350+ up ticks,
Morning O,
It will stop a whole heap quicker if welfare was stopped our end, I would say within the hour of that being confirmed.
Why does anyone consider that laying out the red carpet, building houses, giving money directly, and so on to undocumented illegals is a good idea? No wonder the tories (deliberate disrespectful small "t") were trashed, it's difficult enough to make enough for you and family, without having government take it and give it to some Johnny-come-lately who just rocks up at the beach, hand held out demanding bennies.
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O,
The political class have found some time ago that the WEF / NWO pay better, the majority voter has yet to catch on .
If the voters of any constituency would have first-hand knowledge about the influx and impact of the dinghy folk it must surely be those of Dover. Oddly, though, Dover has just elected a Labour candidate. I have family in another South-coastal town and, according to them, there is wide-spread objection to the large number of dinghy folk “hosted” by the town. Yet it elected a LibDem candidate. Turkeys and Christmas?
Skulls and empty space?
It’s not the vast majority of the electorate that thinks that, though, is it. It’s the buggers in Parliament including the recently departed. It’s replacement of race, basically, so that the indigenous people can be better controlled in the not too distant future.
Because the worst crime any Briton can be accused of is the sin of "ray-cism". Nobody does self-loathing like the British. Even Orwell wrote about it as long as 80 years ago.
Do you remember the origin of "Ray-cist"?
The brave Yourshire headmaster, Ray Honeyford, who dared to tell the truth?
Morning all. Cold and wet. Still the rain may have replenished the water butts a bit.
Morning Jules – same up here
Good morning, all. Showers here.
Hearts of Oak's Peter Mcilvenna being interviewed on The War Room. Good assessment of Thursday's election.
Peter McIlvenna on War Room
Did Starmer really refer to his speech notes 150 times as Nigel Farage claims?🤣
https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1809201919723712581
Even if he did I can sympathise. I seem to recall that numerous politicians have omitted to thank or praise someone or forgotten to mention a key policy and then been castigated for its absence.
He must have been fairly exhausted by that stage.
Hell, he's got an awful lot of wrecking on his plate to complete the Blair project.
389350+ up ticks.
S,
The blair project,
He, anthony charlie lynton AKA mirandar demands of the new leader that more park public toilets be built.
So as not to "mis-speak".
Be fair Oberst, he'd only just got the text from WEF headquarters. Have you seen that clip of him choosing Davos before Westminster because Davos 'is so much more expansive'?
So much more exciting with concepts such as property appropriation, famine, population control and depopulation to explore!
The media are still not reporting truthfully on the intimidation of candidates by muslim men. Jess Philips came close when she said they didn't like the idea of a strong woman being elected. Then she burst into tears.
You can forget the long march. The muslims will gain far more power now and it won't be long before they are calling the shots.
Good morning.
Watch how many get sworn in on the Koran to get a feel for how close we are getting.
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Morning S,
To be followed by a halal meal in the parliamentary canteen.
How about we start a petition to get the Kopran banned for incitements to violence?
Everyone would be arrested for "islamophobia",
If you know how to do it, JFDI. I'll support it. Check your spelling, 'Quran'.
JFDI?
Just effin' Do It – Tom (Sir J) only objects to abbreviations if they're used by other people 🙂
Oh. As a merchant seaman and lifetime in shipping, I’ve had a sheltered life!
Just eFfin’ Do It
The petitions are now closed till they form a new petitions committee! Where would life be in Britain without committees.
Why was it ever allowed in the first place!
The only outstanding question there is whether we will stand by and let that happen.
They are still getting away with mass rape.
They are. There should be ‘rivers of blood’, metaphoric of course, but we get silence………….
"He Who Sups With The Devil Should Have A Long Spoon".
Good Morning all, after a wet night, some sunshine, at least the sky hasn't fallen on us yet.
Not yet…
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Saturday 6 July: Labour must now demonstrate that it deserves the trust of British voters
After what was revealed via the JAY report regarding the odious rotherham pakistani paedophile plague, it points out in many cases that our worst enemy enemas are of our own kind
Any decent nations governing political parties would NOT have survived their young being raped & abused
in the initial stages of mass uncontrolled immigration
but lab/lib/con not only survived but thrived right up until 2019 under the operating banner party before Country.
Current result we have a lab (ino)party sitting pretty in number 10 and the tory (ino) party sitting pretty ugly
with its nasal canal container torn asunder in an act short lived revenge.
The 4th Julys voting consequences will be clearly reflected in the children running the gauntlet in todays society via the polling stations.
I will be eternally shamed by the meek acceptance of the governing class's cover up of the Muslim rape gang scandal Og, and I'm even more ashamed that the British people have just voted into power one of those most responsible for it, doing everything he could as DPP to keep the perpetrators out of the courts.
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Morning TA,
Thanks for the agreeing reply makes one feel not quite so lonely.
I know how you feel Og. I’m a bit lonely over at FSB at the mo, come over and leave a comment.
Starmer turned a blind eye to Rochdale and dozens of other towns & cities in England when he was head of the CPS.
He has a lot to answer for then – Labour Party votes before young /very young teenage girls
You are nowhere near alone ogga!
Good morning all
We had rain yesterday, chilly wind , draught down the chimney , and the c/h turned on to warm the house up!
Imagine waking up and realising you are now the PM, and even worse , being Angela Rayner , what shall I wear , yes I will dump the green suit!
Do the chosen cabinet get on with each other , and aren't Lammy and Milipede Corbynistas?
Rayner is in charge of housing – Was this down to her deep understanding of needing 2 homes a few streets apart?
Most people who have 2 houses have one nearish work and the other in the countryside, seaside or abroad.
Interesting YouTube video – already, the vultures gather.
https://youtu.be/d2S0UU4pnlo?si=x6c4subV3-WvdB_V
Good morning all.
8½°C and a dull but dry start. No sign of wind on the trees over the road.
A bit of a disturbed night. I sat up watching a recording of Nigel Farages speech & press conferance in the small hours, very good, but I will say this, much of what is passed off as RACISM!!!! is very often a frustrated rant of hyperbole engendered by the Guv'ment not taking a blind bit of notice of the legitimate fears of those best interests they are meant to represent.
Morning all, another rather miserable day down here in the Thames Valley. I have tried to avoid all the election coverage on the radio but seem to have failed.
On another forum there is a thread about the merits of PR. I posted this as a summary of the situation, am I correct?
This election has demonstrated the problem with FPTP very well. An election where the majority of the public want neither of the major two parties and are similarly determined to get one of them out of power. So they either voted for Labour or one of the alternatives. Reform did remarkably well and got 14% of the vote share yet only achieved 5 seats. LibDem got a smaller share, 12%, yet ended up with 71 seats. How fair is that? And a mere 60% turnout as well. Starmer should remember that even though he has loads of MPs he certainly doesn’t have the support of the UK public.
It is seriously time to consider moving to a form of PR.
I dislike PR intensely, because of its tendency to lead to minority parties getting power out of all proportion to their support, and yes, I do see the irony in my comment given what has just happened. It also gives even more power to the central offices as they decide to an even greater extent than they do now, who represents the party and creates a total disconnection between the constituencies and their representatives.
If we must have such a system, let's scrap the HoL and create the second chamber on PR. Give the PR chamber similar powers to the current HoL but leave the FPTP House of Commons Government as the primary power.
FPTP is unfair and for generations has led to minority political parties ruling the UK with huge majorities. What has just happened is not unusual.
The voting system should have been overhauled long ago indeed there was an opportunity some ten years ago.
It’s great to call for a change in the system now but unfortunately they’re trying to close the stable doors after the horses have escaped. Doesn’t really matter because nothing is going to change. A poor system which has limped along for generations.
But British political history is littered with lost chances. What about the abolition of IHT? Gosh they’ve talked about that too for so long,
Too late for tears now. You reap what you sow.
Except I didn't sow it – nor, I suspect did most of us. Fundamentally the problem with the UK is a lack of democracy. Either government has given it away willingly or law has passed removing it. In either event, third parties – charities, quangos being able to say how things work is wrong.
Equally wrong is the function of government without oversight from the public. It shouldn't be allowed to enact an agenda – or spend any money without the consent of the citizen.
In addition, the term 'citizen' needs to be defined in law as someone contributing to society. If you aren't, you don't get a vote. It is long past time wasters voted themselves more money and government enacted atrocious law that damaged the country.
Yes, I think most of us, maybe not you. The excuse for the FPTP system was that it creates strong governments unlike ‘gasp’ Italy or other places not worthy of serious consideration. Why should a dictatorship of a minority be considered preferable?
It’s only now that your guy has received so little after receiving so many votes. Democracy is for everyone not just the team you favour.
Ideally, in the New Jerusalem, I would scrap the party system and have two lists of names on the ballot paper, one for the prime minister and one for a local representative, both chosen on individual merit, not party allegiance. The winner from each list would have to get more than 50% to qualify, so it might be necessary to vote more than once, French style. The person elected to lead could then choose the best of the representatives for cabinet posts.
From Coffee House, the Spectator
Joe Biden’s ABC interview won’t help his doomed campaign
* Comments Share 6 July 2024, 8:47am
Like a father confessor, ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos tried everything to jolt President Joe Biden out of his complacency. He pleaded with him. He queried him. He exhorted him. Nothing worked. Throughout the interview, if that’s what it was, Biden rebuffed his entreaties as though they couldn’t be more outlandish.
Down in the polls? Not a bit of it. Democratic lawmakers preparing to ask him to step down? Never happening. And so on. He clearly couldn’t grasp that his presidency isn’t in trouble; it’s cratering.
Even the Almighty that Biden regularly invoked wouldn’t be able to resurrect his shambles of a presidency
Whether Biden is suffering from cognitive issues may be an open question, but he appears to have developed a severe case of Ruth Bader Ginsburg syndrome. Like the former Supreme Court justice, Biden is clinging to his post in the delusion that he can outlast his foes. The most he could say about Donald J. Trump, who is on course to Jdislodge him from the White House in a crushing defeat, is that he’s a liar. Big deal. If anything, Biden seems to regard the real obstacle to a second term as a nasty press corps. He was about one second away from announcing that the media is the enemy of the people and decrying the nattering nabobs of negativism. With his cloistered inner circle and clear repugnance for the media, Biden, you could even say, seems to be taking on Nixonian characteristics.
When Stephanopoulos asked him whether he wasn’t as vain as Trump in pursuing another term at the age of eighty-one-years-old, Biden scoffed. He couldn’t even process the notion that he possessed anything in common with Trump. Instead, he claimed that his crowd in Wisconsin today showed that he could rally the nation against the 45th President. Stephanopoulos was incredulous. No one draws bigger crowds than Trump. ‘I don’t think you want to go there, Mr. President,’ Stephanopoulos admonished him. Asked how he would feel if Trump were elected, Biden explained, ‘I’ll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.’ Gulp. What happened to the much-ballyhooed crusade for democracy and freedom and liberty?
The interview will do little to calm fluttering Democratic pulses. On Capitol Hill, Senator Mark Warner is trying to convene a group of his fellow legislators to visit and convince Biden to exit the race. Presumably, he will redouble his efforts now that Biden has offered a fresh reminder that he’s living in a political la-la land. Even the Almighty that he regularly invoked wouldn’t be able to resurrect his shambles of a presidency.
The only observer amid the wreckage that I have been able to discover who remains bullish on Biden is Curt Mills, the executive director of the American Conservative. In his view, the idea that Biden is on the ropes is preposterous – merely a ‘media narrative’. If the Biden White House is looking for fresh blood it might sign on Mills as a kind of in-house critic. He temerariously explained to me that ‘Biden is now the perceived underdog, but America loves an underdog. Being the favourite in the race is tricky terrain. Trump is savvy – and must manage Republican overconfidence.’ So far, Trump, who has kept mum for the most part as Biden thrashes around, appears to be doing an excellent job of doing just that.
I think thta was the basis of the FPTP system (without the PM list), but the MPs then banded together to form parties. The system still is that you vote for the individual, and they happen to be in a party… the PR system is that you vote for a party, and they choose the representative for you.
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Most voters will vote for their party of choice regardless of who the candidate is. Effectively, the party already selects the member.
It will all be changed anyway now that Labour are in. They plan regional bodies to take control of things by-passing Parliament.
Should it be made a legal duty to vote?
100% turn up – 40% spoil their papers. Same result, Paul.
Yes, with an option for 'none of the above'.
Hasn’t the Australian experience been that, rather than spoil their papers as suggested by Bill Thomas below, there are large number of voters who vote as a protest for a Monster Raving Looney type of candidate? 40% might be enough to elect them!
Australian ballot papers had the names listed alphabetically but they found that a disproportionate number of first-listed were getting more votes. This was because disgruntled voters simply ticked the first name with no further consideration.
So now, ballot papers for each constituency have the names jumbled up, like bingo cards. This may spread this adverse effect around, but does not eliminate it.
I imagine that, at first, there were candidates who registered their names as something like Aaron Aaronovich!
As an “end of the alphabet” person, I am very awake to the discrimination people with late-alphabet surnames encounter daily. And no, I am not joking; on this issue I am serious.
Our system has evolved over centuries and has for the most part served us well. Any change was opposed by the vast majority in the referendum of 2011 and, since then we have experienced the sort of coalition and the rapid changes in national leadership that PR typically results in – they weren’t good! If you are a Reform or LibDem supporter, then PR will be something that attracts you because you think that it will give you more seats in Parliament but, if FPTP had by some quirk given you more seats than was proportional to vote numbers you would be opposed to any change – don’t pretend that the attraction of PR is anything other than a desire for more power.
Our system has evolved over centuries and has for the most part served us well. Any change was opposed by the vast majority in the referendum of 2011 and, since then we have experienced the sort of coalition and the rapid changes in national leadership that PR typically results in – they weren’t good! If you are a Reform or LibDem supporter, then PR will be something that attracts you because you think that it will give you more seats in Parliament but, if FPTP had by some quirk given you more seats than was proportional to vote numbers you would be opposed to any change – don’t pretend that the attraction of PR is anything other than a desire for more power.
Morning all. I still can't get over the election and its infamous result, a Labour landslide on a small share of the popular vote. I think we all need to take up the fight to get FPTP done away with, and this is something Free Speech Backlash will do, please support us.
Many rightly use a military analogy to Reform's entry into parliament, calling it a bridgehead. This is correct, but this ain't the D-Day landings. Oh no, it's more like the retreat from Dunkirk, with the Right shattered but still there, still fighting, and importantly unencumbered with a weak, divided ally led by a treacherous bunch who didn't really believe in the fight and had a lot of sympathy with the enemy. The chances are that the next Tory leader will be a Marshal Petain figure.
And on our side weak Chamberlains and Halifaxes have been got shot of, replaced with a fighter in the Churchill mould, Nigel Farage. So these are dark times, and we need to carry on the fight. I'm devolping this theme at FSB (freespeechbacklash.com) so please do come over and spare us a few minutes, and leave a comment or two. Later today I'm publishing a review of FSB's first week on line, and this excellent site will get an honourable mention.
Tom, I sent you an article last night. Have you seen it?
Not yet Mac. I will check it out shortly and revert. Hope to see you on FSB soon.
Were you taught English in an Indian school? 'Revert' is Hindi speech for 'reply'
It's also common usage in the offshore & shipbuilding engineering profession. Has been ever since I joined.
Typical wrongspeak, Paul. Indians use it a lot.
No bonny lad, I was taught English at Jimmy Willies school for tearaway boys in Sunderland’s East End, so am basically self-taught. But on thinking about it, I see your point.
Mac, I have just replied. I got your email but can’t open the link. Please send as attachment.
Done.
Thanks matey!
If you run a series on electoral reform, and have the time/enthusiasm, it might be worth studying how other countries with similar background to the UK do it, and how successful (or otherwise) they are in unifying the country, representing the votes cast, and providing leadership and stability.
I found this, for example, regarding Norway's model: https://www.valg.no/en/elections2/elections-in-norway/elections-to-the-storting–parliamentary-elections/ which seems to work OK.
Thanks. I intend to do just that.
Unfortunately in public life in the UK there seems to be as usual, too many missing braincells.
All of the registered opposition should join together and oppose everything the government tries to pass on against the majority of the population.
Start fighting them on the beaches (of Dover)?
Not much chance of that just yet.
Great Whites prefer warmer water unfortunately. Any way we can heat up the English Channel? CO2 doesn’t seem to be working.
I have never been able to understand why all those who are kept out of government by a 'Landslide' victory don't join together in open opposition of everything the incoming government try to do at their leasure and pleasure and with an obvious disgust and ongoing hate of those who opposed them in the polling stations.
That’s what I hope to help do at FSB (freespeechbacklash.com) eddy. I want it to become a campaigning journal to fight for free speech and democracy. Joining together is exactly what we need to do. There is plenty of us, but we all need to start acting………
Totally agree with you .
Apart from Reform there is no opposition. The uniparty is a big bottom which defecates whichever cheek is turned your way. .
I imagine because given the choice they'd all do the same.
Most of government is out of MP's hands.
And that is the real problem we have in the UK Whitehall.
Good morning all,
It's a bit of a schizophrenic start to Saturday at McPhee Towers, sun one moment, downpour the next. Wind in the West and cool at 10℃ with no more than 15℃ forecast today. It is the 6th of July, isn't it?
The Nightmare on Downing Street has just begun.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6370a9b174ba56d3de49e801b4ef176aea91d26bacc25a68249c36c6e915601.png
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/05/angela-rayner-labour-deputy-prime-minister-general-election/
She obviously has the same fashion adviser as Treason May.
And even less taste.
The matching shoes are a nice touch. So often these days, especially at work, I see women in nice outfits but with trainers or Doc Martens on their feet.
The Warqueen went nigh 20 years wearing heels or boots. Now she blobs about her new place in slippers.
There will be a matching bag somewhere in the mix, probably hanging on a hook behind a door.
Doc Martens have cushioned soles. Good if you are on your feet all day.
From a seaside village in Valencia
26°C
Saturday 10:17 Mostly sunny
She's an uneducated, nasty hypocritical, deceitful little Lefty. She epitomises everything wrong with this country.
I think she is quite tall, no?
5'6" on a good day.
I think she is quite tall, no?
I think she is quite tall, no?
Green party or green with envy?
Morning folks:
An interesting short video with a couple of cogent comments BLT
EVs – the way to go(up in flames) !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNOOUsK0iwM&t=3s
It's the thermal runaway event, isn't it? One cell ignites, then the one next to it, and so on and so on.
Who is the chap in normal clothes casually wandering around and waving his arms?
He doesn't seem too perturbed.
He was the one who started the fire. Arsonists always like to watch the result of their handiwork!
Supervising?
Having older brothers getting out of the washing-up, they explained that they were supervising, which is important work. Gets things done.
Eight of my nine sisters are older than me. I had no choice but to do my share of the washing up.
Testiculating, waving one's arms about while talking bollux!
Internal combustion engine?
Assaulted battery ….
OT – could some kind NoTTLer send me a SCAN (A4 size) of the Telegraph cryptic crossword today?
CANCEL REQUEST -after swearing at printer for 1½ hours – it decided to co-operate.
Filled out?
;-))
!!
Did you threaten it with physical violence?
I showed it a wrench…
Try a wench the next time, or remember the old engineer's motto 'when all else fails, get a bigger hammer'.
Ah – a Manchester screwdriver.
Or a Tyneside twister.
You'll have a Mrs Macfarlane after you.
I think she blocked me when she found out I’m from Sunderland! They’re like that, them up the road.
Surely you're thinking of a wench?
Failing that, the new Levelling-up Secretary will sort it out.
Which reminds me …
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ee900377016a3a52dd36ba3f95dd5affbb0a1923d68e5b696d0f260872df03f3.png
Wouldn't heat cause the bolt to expand and jam further?
A wench, Tom?? 😀
They are really, really useful KJ. I tried one once and still have it. Couldn't do without it in fact. Got me out of tons of scrapes. A bit expensive but worth every penny.
Yes, I believe wenches can be like that Tom :-DDD (Luckily for Better Half, I’m not although he pretends I can be).
She sounds worth her weight in gold, Tom. One to cherish…
They are really, really useful KJ. I tried one once and still have it. Couldn't do without it in fact. Got me out of tons of scrapes. A bit expensive but worth every penny.
You must be nuts……
Did it bolt?
I fear it is screwed.
Following the thread…..
Did you threaten it with physical violence?
Did you switch it off, and then on again?
Twenty times – including five “restarts”….
There's a website where you can check if internet working properly your area, Bill, think it's called Downwatch or similar. Sometimes it's not us, it's t'web.
Thanks. Everything is fine – I suspect that the life of my desktop PC is drawing peacefully to a close.
Good to hear. I mentioned to Audrey (above) I have an Acer Chromebook Spin, I like it very much, any questions I will pass on to Better Half, he’s the one to ask:-)
I have the same problem. My PC takes forever to boot up and once it has, it takes its time over deigning to run programs.
I can send you a completed one
Oh dear. Who could POSSIBLY support such wicked and wanton vandalism?
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1809195343596159278
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Morning Bob,
Yes please.
I think people are sick and tired of the state usinng our money as a tax scamming system.
Absolutely, ULEZ is typically a total rip-off for people who have to use their vehicles to get from A to B.
Meanwhile kahnt totally ignoes that every 4 minutes a heavily laden aircraft spewing air pollution on everything below flies within his fine areas of London.
And they also take off from the London city Airport. And fly over from London Stanstead and London Gatwick. And then there's "London' Luton of course.
Absolute Hypocrisy.
Saw a headline earlier, he's going to extend ULEZ to all EVs next year. Not sure what happened to the camera bashers?
So much for "reducing pollution" by including EVs.
Exactly, John. I had a little red Polo, very zippy and even a disc player, loved the whole thing. Him Indoors traded it in, ********** Renault Zoe, have written about it on various sites, summary – I’ve lost my love of driving. Post-vaccine, have hardly driven at all. Don’t think I’ll renew my licence when it’s up soon.
It's just beavers, the average Canadian is too mild to damage something so valuable.
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One good thing is that we cannot be involved in a major WW3 conflict if we are fighting a civil war on home turf.
Consider our options now that political shite holds the
political might in todays society, submit, forget, lest we forget, flight, or fight.
Have a vote on it.
In this case, fight, fight, and fight again.
Hear you, ogga1, but my dad would refer WW2 outbreak as taking the eye off the unemployment ball. He was an unemployed youth, signed up straightaway and sent to France.
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Morning KJ,
Different breed them days, my dad
rejoined the RN for the hostilities,
I think he had a yen to be a bus conductor because they reckon his favourite saying was ” move along the bayonet please,room for one more”.
Oh my, that made me laugh when I likely shouldn’t have. My ex father-in-law was in the Merchant Navy, they were torpedoed and at that time your pay stopped as soon as you left the ship for whatever reason…so there he is, floating in the water, unable to swim, and no pay. Rescued by others. My dad was similar, parachuted into France WW2, shot and only rescued by fellow servicemen (he never spoke about this, I only found out when he died). He joined the army at 16, served until armistice, posted East, only came back to England for my mother, again no jobs – full circle. And we think we have problems.
Morning all 🙂😊
Chucking it down with two local village events planned for today. Both due to take place on parkland. What a terrible shame.
I hold no confidence in labour 'Working hard' for the majority of the population of the UK
Because frankly the overall majority voted against their policies.
What policies? I don't recall them campaigning on very many.
God bless you rose. Take care of yourself.
God bless you rose. Take care of yourself.
Can I disturb you all once again this morning. Has any of you posted on Free Speech Backlash this morning, or tried to. I'm not getting many comments and wonder if there is a problem somewhere.
Please help me out by posting, even just one word, and let me know.
I tried about an hour ago, posted a comment, and then Windows 7 froze up and I had to do a hard reboot.
I had to drop shields on Brave to get it to work at all, and I suspect there is a bit of malware put in helpfully by the site developers. I know already about the cookie permission verfification popup which greyed out the site, which is why I had to drop shields.
It's not the first time modern site developers have been creeping in all sorts of "exciting enhancements" that help with the stylishness and the monetability, but confound those who remember life before AI smartphones.
Luckily W7 works through an emulator, so I always have the option to revert to a backup image file without too much bother.
Thanks JM, I’ll pass that on. Hope to see you over there soon.
It's Saturday Tom. A quiet day.
I think I’m getting paranoid AS!
It’s anxiety Tom. Getting these things off the ground is purgatory.
As Howard Hughes found out…!!
I’m not normally a lad who suffers much from anxiety, but you do have a point. I’m not normally paranoid but yesterday I contacted George Galloway through the ‘contact’ button on his site, via firefox/duckduck go, telling him that I disagreed with almost all he stands for but that, in the interests of free speech would he care to write an article for us, now that he has time on his hands. Almost immediately, Firefox went wonky and I thought he’d tried to shut me down. With the help of No2 son, it was sorted quickly. Turned out to be some problem with malwarebytes, and fixed toot sweet.
Hurrah! it works on Brave now
I followed the link from the email
Thanks for letting me know BB. My lad has been doing some tweaks.
I just posted to you on FSB, Tom. Good luck, Kate
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Starmer kills of the Rwanda plan on his first day.
That'll upset his hoomun riaghts lawyer mates..
How WILL they afford Ophelia's school fees?
And that pony eats its head off.
Talking of which when I was at school my study mate had a girlfriend with the same married surname as the new home secretary. I thought it rather insensitive of her parents to have her Christened Ophelia.
If anyone wants reliable figures showing renewable energy generation to be an expensive scam that is costing every household in this country hundreds of pounds a year, this article in The Critic provides them.
https://thecritic.co.uk/farage-bursts-the-green-bubble/
Good Moaning.
Well, acksherley, I tell a lie. Even the ducks are complaining.
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The Pride parade: portrait of a collapsing civilisation
Peter Simpson – July 6, 2024 https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-pride-parade-portrait-of-a-collapsing-civilisation/
BTL
"The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, led the parade."
I thought that Muslims were more opposed to homosexuality than Christians and indeed in some Muslim countries homosexuals are executed.
Does the Mayor practise or condone and approve of homosexuality which goes against his religious beliefs or is he practising Taqiyya for pragmatic reasons?
Lashing down here at the moment. I shall attack the ironing with all the gusto that I can muster.🥱
I've just read that Vallance is now in the 'government'. He's also a member of a certain institute formed by a former PM of the UK.
Start as you mean to go on?
Courtesy of Bob Moran, Wayne Dunlap et al.
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Thomas Sowell – smart man.
Still alive at 94.
If there were more black people like him there would be considerably less anti-black racism.
If there were more black people like him there would be considerably less anti-black racism.
Question to husband was , " What about the migrants , no more Rwanda?"
His answer , " Make them all British Nationals , so we don't have to pay them anything , they can sleep on the streets!"
The Conservative Party is dying – it is part of the past just as Biden is dying and is part of the past.
I am beginning to think that the worst thing about the election result is that the Conservatives held on to so many seats. This will give the poor deluded idiots the false hope that it can be put on life support when it needs to die completely NOW. Reform is in its infancy and it must grow to maturity.
Much as I loved my father and my mother – who were once the most important people in my life – my sons are the future – their lives are now far more important than mine.
Spot on Rastus.
Hello, good morning KJ, I cannot bare to look at the newspapers, seeing those wretched faces of the Starmer government, especially Lammy .
Might have held my nose when seeing the others but Lammy makes me feel sick- I don't know why Starmer kept him in the role .
He’s going to be a disaster right enough, Audrey. All we can do is keep plugging on until next election I (if we’re spared!) Looking to PR, likely to support that, and watching (as ever) Farage, Trump, and a few others. Lammy might do better if he eventually finds that policeman, the one standing behind him!
It’s going to be horrendous KJ, Starmer has appointed as Minster for Justice, you can just see how this will bring in Sharia law. Just feel sick seeing Starmer and the rest of them in the papers and hearing about their policies. The next election Is so long away and life is too short to wish away 5 years of which many might not see anyway. I read the papers and felt like crying, I’ve been online a bit but spent more time reading and keeping away from it all. It might all sink in at some point. When mistakes start to happen and the reality seeps in then all these journalists and voters who did vote Labour will face the horrors .
I think Gaza/Israel/marches have played quite a big part, add in online posts – perfect storm. Will Starmer cope with let alone live up to expectations? Doubt it. One ray of hope is the apparent number of young people (how many male I wonder) who support Reform. I’m spending today with grandchildren, and try not to think what their world will be like in the coming decades. Unless the Conservatives finally realise what’s going on, they’re finished.
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Morning R,
Another name change is not the answer, used as a temporary measure
ok,used as a means of relief in regards to revenge ok, the alternative
currently was civil unrest,BIG TIME.
Look for building UNITY among the veterans, the football lads, the Tommy Robinsons the Gerard Battens, the Richard Braines.
Their put down as far right racist by the establishment and supporting idiots, is their guarantee of solid patriotism.
How amazing that there was a black copper outside No 10 yesterday. A real stroke of luck, eh? Diversity in action.
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Jimmy Saville's cast offs.. Shell suit?
I can only see a pair of shirt sleeves.
Had he been dropped from the French Guyanan or the Belgium congo football team ?
Poor man, and he thought he was going to be Foreign Secretary. (very-naughty emoticon)
At least he looks quite smart. With nicely polished shoes.
At least he is smartly turned out, unlike the unprofessional looking thing in her pyjama bottoms.
The mushy pea that popped out of the pod.
Full of artificial rubbish.
That squeaky-voiced, smug arrogant, lying bint – the new Home Sekertry – has been uncharacteristically quiet so far…
Brilliant! I’ve been through that process many a time, even resorting to hammers and chisels and welding rods to burn the buggers off when we’r run out of oxy or acetylene.
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Could this compare with the "big bang" in being a resounding, through the universe. clash of interest.
https://x.com/sonia_elijah/status/1809312362190761997
Who elected him?
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Pip,
I think he put down he was seconded by his mum,or he put down his mum, something like that.
"Labour must now demonstrate that it deserves the trust of British voters"
Hahahahahahahahahaha
*Breath*
Hahahahahahahahahaha
She looks beautiful? Is the groom supposed to wear the frock these days, with both looking like whores?
https://x.com/Sachinettiyil/status/1809337606741594462
Big hips! Good for childbearing, no doubt.
Good morning Sue and everybody.
The drama-lite appears to have been caused by Ms Culpo's dress designers Dolce & Gabbana having made the occasional unpleasant remark. A beautiful dress, congratulations to the bride and groom.
Ah, that makes sense. Dolce & Gabbana, though a gay couple, are devout catholics and not woke.
She looks lovely in it.
I think topless wedding dresses look trashy.
Topless wedding dresses ARE trashy. Or if they are going to be topless, the wearers should at least have the honesty to wear other than white.
By topless I also include the ones with no shoulders, that look as though the bride is half undressed already. A bride dressed in white should at least look virginal, even if they aren’t.
Yes I know what you meant, and I totally agree with you.
There is nothing controversial in his first two paragraphs but then…
I see it the other way. If the idiots who voted Labour in a constituency that will never return a Labour MP had, instead, voted Reform, I would now be an MP.
Good effort, Joseph. Difficult in such a Tory stronghold.
The Conservatives are the only ones to blame for losing the election. Labour didn't win it – the Conservatives lost it, because they lost their supporters' confidence.
All they bloody needed to do was stop the boats. It was just that simple.
But stopping the boats is far-right, isn't it? Everywhere you go in the comment columns: "If the Tories hadn't gone so far to the right…"
High tax, high spend, big state, a vast regulatory blanket, mass welfare dependency, uncontrolled immigration yet for trying to control the illegal part of that immigration – a small fraction of the total – the Tories are too right-wing and must come back to the centre.
When Labour finally crushes individualism, when unemployment and inflation soars, when rising energy costs make poor pensioners even poorer, people might better understand how to define 'left' and 'right'.
That's only part of it.
if the Tories hadn't gone for the net zero bs and raised prices through their green agenda would have helped
Basically uf they had rejected the wef agenda they would gave beenOK.
Oh, fuck off, Crawford, stop whining. One could reverse the argument and say the Tory voters robbed Reform of a chance at government. Wanker.
There is an appallingly p[pompous view that those votes are theirs by right and are being stolen by Reform.
It isn't Nigel that's done immense damage to this country; between them, Labour, the LDs and the Cons have been wrecking it since 1997.
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You're all ears ……………
Reminds me of my grandfather and his experience with my aunt's cat. Grandad was infirm, once seated in a chair couldn't get up without aid. The cat seemed to know he was a sitting target, would jump on his knee and refuse to get off no matter the protest, silent but violent….
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On leaving the office for the last time a blanket of palpable silence descended on the plaintive voice
piping up with " FOR HE's A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW"
https://x.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1809538770556826074
The Pride parade: portrait of a collapsing civilisation. 6 July 2024.
This parade was such a depressing snapshot of a collapsing civilisation. Sexual acts between men were simulated in front of the Christians as a means of expressing contempt for their presence. Young children were amongst the crowds watching this enormous event as men in scanty underwear, dressed in skirts, or in leather and as dogs, paraded through the streets. How tragic it was to see so many young people seemingly incapable of any valid response to a declaration of Biblical morality other than to make vulgar hand gestures, swear at and insult those whom they disagreed. Every time that they did this, this writer told them that he had just won the argument, because of the ad hominem nature of their response, devoid of actual substance.
I don’t have any personal doubts that the abandonment of Christianity has brought us to this situation. Regardless of the claims to divine origins it provided the moral basis for Western Civilisation. Without it a Godless and meaningless chaos has arisen. We can see that Evil no longer seeks just to exalt itself but is attempting to destroy every vestige of goodness and innocence in the World.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-pride-parade-portrait-of-a-collapsing-civilisation/
Two pieces from the DT:
They will vote en bloc for whichever party grants them the most until the point comes when they have sufficient numbers to vote for themselves.
Once in power the rights and privileges of those who foolishly paved the way in will be removed.
Look around the world and the pattern goes on.
I made the observation years ago that muzlims were using Labour as a flag of convenience until they reached a critical mass, after which they would ditch Labour and go their way. Gaza has provided the catalyst for this, though and pronouncements about the issue will never change what is happening in the Middle East.
This split was going to happen anyway.
One can only hope that they have moved too early and shown their hand, so that people wake up to what is happening before the next election.
Not that it will make the slightest difference long term as the breeding stock is already in place.
From Statista
It is important to note that the proportion of the overall population who identified as “Muslim” increased from 4.9% (2.7 million) in 2011 to 6.5% (3.9 million) in 2021. Therefore, some of the proportional changes in the age distribution do not represent an absolute decrease in the number of people in these age groups. For example, those aged 25 to 34 years accounted for 20.1% of this population in 2011, which decreased to 16.6% of this same cohort in 2021, when they are aged 35 to 44 years. While the percentage has decreased, the number of people increased from 547,100 in 2011 to 642,855 in 2021.
Thanks for that. The DM article didn't even mention it was muslims.
Definitely only part of it, in that legal migration is around 90& whilst illegals the remainder. We should have left the ECHR even though it may have affected the NI Agreement (think Blair). No-one knows what the true figures are, either UK or Europe generally. We all know our personal experience though.
If my wife asked me how she looked in this suit I'd tell her the truth then ask that she put it in the next Charity Bag:
I https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1809266300922814513
About all the green we will have left when she's finished smothering the countryside in little boxes for the New British.
It's almost fluorescent!
Particularly when they are allowed to lie, if deemed appropriate.
Ukraine goes to war… with Western moneymen. 6 July 2024.
It is in the face of this relentless onslaught that Ukraine has made the bold decision to go to war again – only this time the country is taking on the West’s most powerful financiers. It is a battle that will be determined not by heavy artillery and bombs, but by Zoom calls and spreadsheets.
In the middle of a conflict that OECD officials say is causing a humanitarian, social and economic crisis for the Ukrainian people, some of the world’s most influential moneymen are demanding that Kyiv begins to honour its debts.
They include the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, led by ethical investing champion Larry Fink; France’s Amundi, and Pimco, the American bond fund goliath.
These people are so screwed. Their young men have given their lives in pursuit of a chimera. Now the vultures are gathering to feed off their corpses.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/06/ukraine-goes-to-war-with-western-financiers/
If Starmer is to be undone, it's a question of which issue undoes him first: the economy or Islam.
Noone should be surprised at the revolting sycophancy dripping from the pages of the Telegraph to the Starmer circus and the demeaning of democracy that has just been committed. The Uniparty is crime, corruption and evil on the march.
Found this at https://fee.org/articles/30-priceless-quotes-from-the-great-thomas-sowell/
Without further delay, here are 30 of Thomas Sowell’s best quotes:
“Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.”
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
“In other words, evidence is too dangerous—politically, financially and psychologically—for some people to allow it to become a threat to their interests or to their own sense of themselves.”
“People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
“Some things must be done on faith, but the most dangerous kind of faith is that which masquerades as ‘science.’”
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
“Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.”
“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.”
“Open-ended demands are a mandate for ever-expanding government bureaucracies with ever-expanding budgets and powers.”
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
“Back in my old neighborhood, there was a special contempt for the kind of guy who was always trying to get two other guys to fight each other. Today, it is considered a great contribution to society to incite consumers against producers, tenants against landlords, women against men, and the races against each other.”
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
“The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‘basic rights.’”
“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.”
“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”
“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
“Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.”
“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”
“Those who cry out that the government should ‘do something’ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.”
“It is not money but the volume of goods and services which determines whether a country is poverty stricken or prosperous.”
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
“Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green [the color of money]; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.”
“The biggest and most deadly ‘tax’ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.”
“But life does not ask us what we want. It presents us with options. Economics is one of the ways of trying to make the most of those options.”
“Continuing transactions between buyer and seller make sense only if value is subjective, each getting what is worth more subjectively. Economic transactions are not a zero-sum process, where one person loses whatever the other person gains.”
“Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.”
“The real minimum wage is zero.”
“If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.”
“It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.”
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination"
Professor Sowell is a great man.
Sadly, many Lefties are monumentally thick. Truly, trying to explain facts to them is like using a blu tac drill bit on steel coated granite encased in diamond. They don't want to see why everything they do, say and think is wrong.
She’s what I call a TGFY wife.
That would be a keeper, Tom – well done 🙂
Almost 40 years now!
Same here, Tom 🙂
Is Avian flu still a 'thing' for another Plandemic or have the protagonists decided that they've been rumbled as they were with monkey-pox? New variants of CV-19 keep popping up here and there to try and keep the "vaccine" in vogue but reports show a declining take-up of the potion.
If relegated from being the number one threat to human life, Avian flu could remain as the agent to wipe out our poultry, beef, pork etc. production to hasten famine conditions.
The question needs to be asked because a recent table-top pandemic exercise, Catastrophic Contagion, has been held in Belgium to war-game SEERS – Severe Epidemic Enterovirus Respiratory Syndrome – due to hit the World in 2025. Origin Brazil.
No prizes for guessing who is involved in this repeat of 'Event 201' that preceded the CV-19 outbreak by a few months. Reading crystal balls, tea leaves and other methods of divination must be part of the skill-set for these people. Aren't we fortunate to have such 'gifted' people doing this work for us?
Redacted is reporting this with excerpts from the video of the 'fictitious' war-game exercise.
Our new PM was very keen on harder and longer lockdowns during the CV-19 plandemic and so we may expect the same when this exercise becomes reality.
https://x.com/TheRedactedIn…
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Afternoon KtK,
In reality we have the answer, we know where "they" politico's, pharmaceuticals can be found areas
addresses etc,etc, we are many, they are few the time will come when the safety valve is no longer of use and things MUST be set right.
Is Avian flu still a 'thing' for another Plandemic or have the protagonists decided that they've been rumbled as they were with monkey-pox? New variants of CV-19 keep popping up here and there to try and keep the "vaccine" in vogue but reports show a declining take-up of the potion.
If relegated from being the number one threat to human life, Avian flu could remain as the agent to wipe out our poultry, beef, pork etc. production to hasten famine conditions.
The question needs to be asked because a recent table-top pandemic exercise, Catastrophic Contagion, has been held in Belgium to war-game SEERS – Severe Epidemic Enterovirus Respiratory Syndrome – due to hit the World in 2025. Origin Brazil.
No prizes for guessing who is involved in this repeat of 'Event 201' that preceded the CV-19 outbreak by a few months. Reading crystal balls, tea leaves and other methods of divination must be part of the skill-set for these people. Aren't we fortunate to have such 'gifted' people doing this work for us?
Redacted is reporting this with excerpts from the video of the 'fictitious' war-game exercise.
Our new PM was very keen on harder and longer lockdowns during the CV-19 plandemic and so we may expect the same when this exercise becomes reality.
https://x.com/TheRedactedIn…
We're doomed, aren't we…….
389350+ up ticks,
Afternoon N,
Only if you want to be.
I don’t want.
A bean seller from Kurdistan? 🤣🤣
Were I a less generous soul, I would be inclined to think this article was based on fantasy…
Not that this expat would be aware of it but there is probably a great demand for bean sellers in the UK..
He probably wants to claim that he is an accountant but confused bean counter as bean seller.
'uman beans, of course, that's the bit they missed out.
I've given Starmer a nickname, too. It means man who is intent on wrecking the country and destroying the indigenous and their culture. It doesn't quite roll off the tongue, though.
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These bastards must surely be brought to book as with the politico's in regards to excessive deaths appertaining to the covid scam.
Some with perennial consent are guilty of childhood robbery and subjecting them to years of medicinal
brain washing and an assured future of fear & anxiety.
https://x.com/Glinner/status/1805627764617195718
I have a feeling one of the worst things we're going to have to put up with is smug attitudes emanating from the likes of Galsworthy and Vorderman when they highlight the exact same things they've been saying about Brexit, The Tories, and The Far Right, when they are being said about Keef and his crowd of antisemitic, misandrist, race baiters
I propose taking all of Vorderman's cash, selling her houses and Labour confiscating it to spaff on something it wants.
Would she still support them then? After all, she keeps her money carefully arranged to minimise tax. Let's just take it all.
I did this on a smaller scale – a chum said 'the rich should pay more' so I took his keys, telephone and bag from his locker.
He said 'Oi, what're you doing?'
I said, these are your taxes. I'm going to give them to people I think need them.
'Now don't be silly, they're mine.'
With a raised eyebrow … 'I rest my case.'
Tenant was playing to his audience as actors do. I honestly don't know – or care – for his politics. I imagine it is mostly malleable to suit whatever the other party believes to get the job and the cash.
Yep.
There appears to be a competition among Liebour women cabinet members as to who can wear the least appropriate (and least flattering) outfit.
So far Ginger Growler is in the lead, closely followed by dinner lady Reeves.
Dont judge a book by its cover ! Judge them by their incompetence.
That's a given. My competition is MUCH more fun!
Germany is ‘classical battleground in Putin’s hybrid war on Nato’. 6 July 2024
Germany was also being destabilised by Russian and Chinese bids to undermine democracy and to encourage distrust towards German leaders, he said. “Putin feeds the extreme left and right no matter what, so that in the end our democracy is ruined,” he warned.
He also suggested that the “stressful” pandemic has left the German public in some areas resentful towards the state. And he warned that the “long preserved, false, feeling of living in general peace” may have made Germany too complacent about the threat from Russia.
Mr Kramer has noticed that the peasants are not on board with the warmongering narrative.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/06/germany-berlin-battleground-putin-hybrid-war-nato/
When did Putin go to war with NATO? I must have missed that.
Afternoon All
Too bloody late to affect the election but the truth WILL out
https://x.com/danwootton/status/1809298694857965634?s=61&t=Y0IVE-UcdX8lOqxTEHXI9w
I want to see C4 burnt to the ground and the ashes salted!!
The most generous slant that you put on it is that C4 were taken in but didn't instigate it. Of course, such is their view of the world that they enthusiastically went along with it without bothering to question it.
Or Ch4 did arrange it as a stitch up, but done to be plausably deniable.
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Very colourful!
Will you just shut up? It is pouring here and every damned thing in the garden is bashed, broken and lamentable.
Sorry Bill, twas that way here yesterday. It’s just a bit breezy now.
Been raining here but has stopped for now.
Ah – yesterday. All our yesterdays seem so far away…
Fortunately, the MR picked large quantities of roses yesterday – and treated the against rust etc. The house is full of vases of glorious colour (and scent, I’m told – though I have lost all sense of smell).
Pretty gobsmacking Quitter. Where did you get them? Out of a gardening magazine?
Taken with my own fair hand AS.
To be fair the plants are doing all the work, all I do is plant them and then feed them occasionally.
Lockdown critics hit out as Starmer makes Sir Patrick Vallance science minister
Conflict of interest claim as Covid inquiry is still underway
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/06/patrick-vallance-starmer-science-minister-covid-conflict/
Comments coming thick and fast on that.
Another non-MP minister, but I understand he has a place in the House of Lords, conveniently arranged. As predicted we are doomed.
Gives one the needle, doesn't it?
Not me, Bill, I'll never have another vaccine. RFKjr has an interesting opinion on vaccines.
Nor me. I've had enough to last the rest of my lifetime.
Thanks Ndovu:-)
Sorry – it was a sort of, er, joke. In NoTTLand we often make jokes. Saves us from going mad.
(Holds head in hands).
OK, no problem. Thanks.
Regarding the attempted smearing of Reform and, but association, Farage himself, much of what is passed off as RACISM!!!! is very often a frustrated rant of hyperbole engendered by the Guv'ment not taking a blind bit of notice of the legitimate fears of those best interests they are meant to represent.
Of course the context of the "offensive" statements is never examined by the MEEJAH.
A trip to Matlock and a bit of shopping done, picked up a couple of battery terminals for my leisure battery in the van, and I now have a working fridge in the van!! Just got to arrange a charging system for it now.
And a brief shower of rain has driven me indoors for a mug of tea.
Brief shower?
God has been expressing His opinion of the election result for two days now. There was supposed to be a street party here, commencing at 14:30. Now postponed to 17:00 hrs. When – according to Accuweather – it'll still be hissing down.
Still, it's an ill wind. The re-seeded patches on the lawn have turned green, overnight…
Before being washed away ….
And, after writing the above comment, I put my feet up and promptly fell asleep for an hour and a half!
Someone linked this Andrew Bridgen interview before the election – thank you. Just got round to listening to it.
There's a lot of Bridgen talking politics at the start, but then he gets onto the postmaster scandal. I thought I knew how bad it was, but I'm shocked by what I'm hearing from about 30 minutes onwards.
He's also very realistic about fiat currency. It's a real loss that he's no longer in the House of Commons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidSG5nMkW8
The problem we have as a country is our deep state. The wide disparities between voter numbers and elected members is because the electoral system is geared to allow only administrators and disallow leaders.
This is the reason that Nigel Farage’s achievement in breaking through the hurdles to achieve five seats in Parliament is so impressive.
Starmer is an administrator as was Sunak and every Prime Minister since Thatcher. None have been leaders and all have been loathed by the majority of the public. Leaders have conviction and ideas for the improvement of their country and its people. Starmer has not the foggiest understanding of the rigour and commitment to ideas that is the principal requirement.
The Starmer administration will likely fold in much the same manner as the Tories have just fallen into political oblivion. As for the clown Ed Davey he is as irrelevant today as he was at the last election despite the vagaries of an electoral process that is now past its sell by date and rotten.
It's the destruction that Starmer will wreak before he goes that bothers me.
He was treated very shoddily – I thought his constituents would have reelected him but perhaps he was less popular at home than elsewhere.
Thanks BB2 – Bridgen is my hero because of his vaccine stance. I think the way he's been treated is disgraceful – so much so I'm done with Conservatives.
From a correspondent who's not inclined toward rosettes of any hue of blue:
FWIW, I think Islam will be not just his undoing but of the party as well.
Ref earlier comment ablout the GLC and Ken Livingstone.
How about the undoing of the country?
First things first!
Is Corbyn a MP?
Yes. "Independent"
Hmf.
Islington North. Champagne socialist territory?
Come, come. Full of slammers – teetotal, of course!!
Ah, I don’t venture beyond Upper Street and Rosebery Avenue. I once had cause to go to Limehouse, for an event at a restored art deco theatre there, and that felt like alien territory. Men in muzzie dress who looked at me funny. Unsettling.
Silly you for not wearing a burkha. When in Romeistan etc…
A few years ago I would drive into central London from Wanstead via Leytonstone and then Whitechapel. It is as you say a foreign country with hoarded of Koran carrying children (boys) stopping traffic as they surge in the general direction of a hideous mosque ignoring traffic lights and crossings.
Then there are the sight of fully clad fat women lurking on street corners some with the gob slot and others with satanic leather beaks. No sign of any of these invaders going to work just kneeling all over the place on their prayer mats. I almost stumbled over one bearded goon in Spitalfields Market.
I had friends who lived in Colebrooke Row………a few doors down from Boris at the time. Sadly they are both long dead now – Janet died in 2014 and Doris sold the flat for 2 million shortly afterwards.
You can get that round Kings Cross (south side of Euston Road)
Islam will be the undoing of the whole country.
From a correspondent who's not inclined toward rosettes of any hue of blue:
FWIW, I think Islam will be not just his undoing but of the party as well.
From a correspondent who's not inclined toward rosettes of any hue of blue:
FWIW, I think Islam will be not just his undoing but of the party as well.
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Excellent.
Will we enjoy a honeymoon period in line with his nauseous "Country not Party" rhetoric or will he start throwing his WEF directed weight around early on?
Interesting from William Stanier below.
S.S. Avila Star.
Complement:
196 (59 dead and 137 survivors).
5,659 tons of frozen meat
At 00.36 hours on 6th July 1942 the unescorted Avila Star (Master John Fisher) was hit on the starboard side by two G7e torpedoes from U-201 (Adalbert Schnee) 90 miles east of San Miguel, Azores. The ship had been chased for 5 hours and only sank capsizing to starboard one hour after being hit amidships by a coup de grâce at 00.58 hours. A first coup de grâce fired at 00.54 hours had been a dud. The master, nine crew members, one gunner and eleven passengers were lost, most of them died when the third torpedo detonated beneath a lifeboat that was being lowered. 20 crew members and three passengers went missing in a lifeboat that was never found. 96 crew members, five gunners and eleven passengers were picked up from three lifeboats on 7th – 8th July by the Portuguese destroyer Lima (D 333) (Rodriguez) and taken to Ponta Delgada, Azores where one crew member died in a hospital. Another lifeboat with 34 crew members and five passengers was not located until 25th July, after eight crew members and two passengers died of wounds or exposure. The 29 survivors were picked up by the Portuguese sloop Pedro Nunes (A 528) which was searching for the boat since it had been spotted by Portuguese aircraft two days earlier and landed them at Lisbon the next day, but one crew member died aboard shortly after being rescued and two others after reaching a hospital in Lisbon.
Type VIIC U-Boat U-201 was sunk on 17th February 1943 in the North Atlantic east of Newfoundland by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Viscount. 49 dead (all hands lost).
https://uboat.net/media/all…
Blue Star Line. You saw them everywhere when I first went to sea. Commemorated at the Merchant Navy War memorial, between Tower Hill tube station and the Tower of London. Nice little park few people know anything about. The Merchant Navy has a higher fatality rate than the Royal Navy, the Army of the RAF (though Bomber Command was higher). And merchant seamen were treated very badly during the war, especially at the beginning. If their ship was torpedoed, their pay was stopped immediately. Many took to wearing the MN badge upside down, to stand for Not Wanted.
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She's horrible.
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That made me laugh – I confess it's just the sort of thing I would do.
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Is that bus thing still helping the police with their enquiries? Must be due an MOT….
What a horror show from the weather today.
A couple of plants in my garden that do not seem fazed by the summer weather so far.
Trachelospermum Star Jasmine
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fad6af4c4b2cd9444c3f9ccd3b712fecc5ff56484fdd9df22e17e214eaaf252f.jpg Beautiful scent. I planted this one in Spring 2021.This specimen jasmine, the climbing rose, Olympic Fire (just in shot) given to me by neighbours, and out of shot further to the right, a white flowered passion fruit, Snow Queen, were all planted in memory of my wife. She wanted our neighbour's ghastly garage wall covered and the plants are doing quite well in that regard.
Close-up of the jasmine.
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Hydrangea. I can't recall the variety. This plant starts with white flowers that turn pink and then to mauve at the end of the season.
June 28th white.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/820e0b1712f56de9acf92b04b4a12c8c1eeb783fa8df8fc1b60d6f22c3574a3f.jpg Today, a pink blush appearing.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3a0519e0e6f1e10c61ca1624af57b8e0df8845e6a688bdf8c183606759353b0d.jpg Talking of colour changes, the robin chick I put up a few weeks ago has made my garden its home and appears every time that I disturb the soil. The top of its breast has taken on an orange shade. I'll attempt to take another photograph or two as the bird matures.
Not under water, then, K? Try North Narfurk…{:¬(((
Almost. The blocked drains are causing problems hereabouts.
Tell me about that…. Bloody council does SFA.
Which direction does your jasmine face Bob?
Korky. My father was Bob but what’s in a name?
East-ish I’d say. However, it gets plenty of sunshine until later in the day as the garden is close to south facing.
Sorry, Bob 😜, I mean Korky. Thank you. We have some trellis facing sort of north east. Considering a trachelospermum there but will do some research.
Mine faces west – see picture above.
Our Jasmine is flowering well this year too.
I have one, but about two months ago it shed all its leaves, and I thought it had died. It came back, but no flowers yet.
My wisteria flowered for the first time this year but today I noticed its leaves had all turned yellow and gone crisp. It can hardly be from lack of rain.
Calcium?
The water round here is pretty hard, but it's only had rainwater.
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I must have put this in over 20 years ago. A couple of years ago I had to cut it back massively – just a couple of feet from the ground – because we were having work done on the wall, and I was worried it wouldn’t survive but it’s doing brilliantly. It may have helped that I fed it well diluted urine to give it a good nitrogen boost after the radical pruning.
Each Spring I feed mine with bone-meal and fish, blood and bone. During the season I will give it liquid feed in the watering. Seems happy enough. Is your plant in the ground or a pot? Looking at the lush growth on your plant has made me think that a pot may restrict the root and hence stop the plant from fully developing. A severe pruning of some plants with a very mature root will result in plentiful top growth – grapes for example.
My neighbour has learnt to his cost that having a walnut tree heavily cut back has resulted in a burgeoning top growth that is now larger than what he had before: that in two years.
Winter prune for growth, summer prune for control.
I’m thinking about my Elstar apple re summer pruning. I’ll have to research the method.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/apples/summer-pruning
Thank you, Conway. Bookmarked.
I hope it’s useful. It’s more about espaliers, but the general principles are the same. The RHS sites are usually pretty good for info.
It’s in the ground but in a very narrow bed between the paved drive and the house wall so it doesn’t get a huge amount of soil. But that will be better than a pot. I chuck tea leaves on it periodically and water it really well in dry periods as walls soak up water like blotting paper.
It grows like a triffid.
PS I think I gave it some liquid potash in Spring
It’s in the ground but in a very narrow bed between the paved drive and the house wall so it doesn’t get a huge amount of soil. But that will be better than a pot. I chuck tea leaves on it periodically and water it really well in dry periods as walls soak up water like blotting paper.
It grows like a triffid.
PS I think I gave it some liquid potash in Spring
I may be in my second (or third) childhood – but I find it hilarious that the Labour Party – the political body that acts for and represents the working class – has a leader who is a KNIGHT and his missus is LADY Victoria.
You'd think that Cur Ikea Slammer would renounce his K, wouldn't you…?
If I were inclined to be picky, Bill, she’s Lady Starmer. Lady Victoria would imply that her dad was a viscount, earl, marquis or duke. Not that most people give a stuff these days. Titles have gone back to the way it was in the Middle Ages. A matter of popular whim.
I set these things up for you, Our Susan. I quite deliberately committed the solecism in the sure and certain knowledge……!!
This made me smile.
https://x.com/FrogstarWorld/status/1809603663276515373
If I were inclined to be picky, Sue … 'Lady Victoria' would imply that her dad was a viscount, earl, marquess or duke. 😉😘
Aw, didn’t say I could spell 😀! Let’s blame predictive text. I do know the peerage though. Suzie (Tartan Pimpernel) used to keep everyone here straight on correct titles.
😊 To be fair I think you got the continental spelling spot-on.
If I were inclined to be picky, I would point out that the daughter of a viscount is merely ‘the honourable’ not ‘Lady’.
Doesn't a Viscount turn into a Marquess when the old boy kicks the bucket?
Viscount would become an earl, but only if it's the heir's courtesy title – ie one of the lesser titles that his father holds.
Thinking of the Marquess of Anglesea and young Uxbridge, all those years ago?
Only if the viscount is the son of a marquess who has been using one of his father’s subsidiary titles. This could also be the case for a duke or earl’s oldest son. There are stand alone viscount titles eg Viscount Stansgate AKA Wedgie Benn.
You can see that I’ve read a lot of Georgette Heyer in my time 😉
Never read any! Need to "educate myself", perhaps.
Bill, should that not be "….that CLAIMS TO act for and represent the working class"? A role it gave up a long time ago?
Yo B o B
The 'Working Class' no longer exists in UK
Liebore is supported by the non-working class, ie those on Benifits
She is Lady Starmer – he's only a knight and hers is just a courtesy title. She was at Sandown this afternoon. You'd have thought she'd have been settling in to No 10.
Gosh – not a politician’s wife BETTING??????????????????
(I know all the rest, mon ami – I was just trying to take the piss out of Cur Ikea and his working clarse party.)
I have no idea if she visited the Tote, but she was in the parade ring.
Compared with many politician's spouses (spice?) she doesn't doesn't look particularly horsey
If she was the one in green, she looked normal. If she was the land whale nearest the camera, not so much.
She looks very “normal” and I fear that the Muslim bloc will be on his back for anything and everything they can, and when he doesn’t give it they will claim she has influenced him unduly, she being Jewish
Anyone bid for her?
It wasn't a seller.
Were you there or watching on telly?
Watching on TV. I had a runner at Haydock (thankfully, that race went ahead – the later ones were cancelled due to unsafe ground).
How did you do?
She finished second, beaten three lengths, in the Lancashire Oaks, a Group 2 for fillies and mares. The winner is pretty smart (by the late Roaring Lion out of Simple Verse). It means Black Type (being placed in a group race means that in the sales catalogue her races would be in bold type to stand out). I suspect she’ll go to the breeding sheds, though, rather than through the sales ring. It depends on what her trainer recommends.
One has staff for that settling in rigmarole.
I bet that they even have a flunky to reset the TVs and Radios to more suitable left leaning channels.
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One picture says it all…. Bob calls it "Tosser"… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/88f57c738656a906404ce9a771df2597f8a30588ef036c93baf79734210f09ff.jpg
One picture says it all…. Bob calls it "Tosser"… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/88f57c738656a906404ce9a771df2597f8a30588ef036c93baf79734210f09ff.jpg
389350+ up ticks,
This surely must be met with a polite FRO request
O being direction of travel,
https://x.com/SandraWeeden/status/1809609369253999011
At the risk of upsetting some on here, it's been a pleasant day with a couple of very brief light showers.
Currently bright sunshine.
The same here Bob , although earlier , it felt so chilly, I could have sworn there was snow looming .. just the colour of the clouds and sky and direction of the wind ..
I am quite immune to the cold usually , I only moan about the heat !
I got out of the car in the pet shop car park this afternoon, it is a bleak piece of land in open country and said "brrr! There's a hint of snow in that there wind" which nearly blew me off my feet as well.
I have just seen this on X (formerly known as Twitter):
"Lembit Öpik
@lembitopik
1h
Global warming update: it’s snowing in Scotland. In July. Why isn’t the BBC reporting this? Answer: because it doesn’t fit the climate crisis narrative."
I was pleased too. Didn't have to water my pots and now the washing is on the line.
Torrential rain here, Bob. And during the night.
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389350+ up ticks,
Hanging ballbags Batman is this for real,
https://x.com/SandraWeeden/status/1809608627042615573
24 hours in his new job and he can't resist producing his race card !
https://twitter.com/AvonandsomerRob/status/1809507928899977512
Labour isn't for the working people or the indigenous.
Climate emergency, follow the EU now, and support for the "global south" ie sub Saharan Africa.
https://twitter.com/mbga_uk/status/1809539873172303888
The Donald will just give up on him and phone Nigel instead.
Makes sense. Trump can have a sensible conversation with Farage. Lammy has already blotted his copybook. In black ink. With smudges.
Blowhard.
Bang goes British diplomacy. Well it was already shot by Boris Johnson and more lately Toff Cameron.
If your ancestors had never been enslaved, you would be living in a mud hut. Check your slave privilege.
He's 'aving a larf.
https://twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1809612499354021989
We are fooked.
We'll regret every minute other people put them in power, Belle. Starting from result declaration.
Please God strike this Miliband fool down before he ruins the English countryside with his deranged ideas. We have more than enough solar farms and wind turbines and giant pylons wrecking our sceptred isle already. This net zero prank is both idiotic and unsustainable.
https://twitter.com/AmandaYesMe/status/1809622632897126551
https://twitter.com/TG_81/status/1809567612289884419
This looks like a dance of encouragement.
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1809593254620369130
Dropping a few through a trapdoor in front of their peers would have more of an affect I feel.
Got it in one. The film clip looks more like an invitation.
Some people are really beyond stupid, Bill, and others are beyond evil.
Yet they all have a vote.
Yay! Problem solved……
Good grief. What has happened to the formerly intelligent and moderate Finnish people? Joining the arms trade facilitators at NATO and now prodding the Russian Bear whilst accepting of the criminal behaviour of their sub Saharan invaders.
Saw that when it was first released and was totally gobsmacked at the inanity of it.
That's me for this day of rain followed by heavy rain (a lot of which came through the sitting room roof) followed by rain and now – too effing late – warm sunshine. Bloody labour government.
I was sooooooo impressed by Thicko Lammy's introductory video. He speak so well – and will be an enormous asset when he meets rather more educated and brainy equivalents. We'll be praad to be Engerlish.
Have a spiffing evening wringing out your carpets….
A demain – prolly.
It dried up in the afternoon – but by then we'd had enough to fill the three water butts right up.
Wadd yoo tarkin aboout?
A Double Lammy
England's work rate looks slower than Starmer's on a Friday after 6pm
Evening, all. Been raining on and off all day and now the sun's shining, but I no longer feel inclined to do anything since I've dined rather well. I shall have to sit down to digest it, like a python.
Labour is inherently untrustworthy – they'll tell you anything to get elected, but Brown went to the courts to establish that manifesto "commitments" weren't binding.
We had our annual street party in our little estate. From 2:30 pm. Rained off until 5:30. Sun came out for a while, but it got decidedly chilly when it sank below the rooftops to the West. Bit of a washout, really.
Genuine question – what is going on here?
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1809522911931146740
It was certainly hammering down as we drove through Leavenheath.
We need more cowbell.
A Labour government is the equivalent of giving the country a covid booster injection
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389350+ up ticks,
You can loudly hum that tune again,
https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1809314343953264743
I look forward to hard hitting analysis on the BBC and C4:
1. Keir Starmer – Director of Public Prosecutions up to 2013 ->MP for one of Labour’s safest seats by 2015, Prime Minister 2024
2. Sue Gray – second most senior Civil Servant in Cabinet Office up to 2023, highly influential in the investigation of ‘Partygate’. -> chief of staff for the leader of the opposition 2023 and now for the PM
3. Sir Patrick Vallance – Government Chief Scientist 2018-2023, highly influential in representation of worst case scenarios for covid deaths -> Labour government minister 2024
The Blair- rich project in plain sight.
Yup. Stinks to high heaven. More to come.
That evil Vallance bastard should already be in jail or gaol if you prefer.
Maybe in goal?
That would be another medico villain Van Tamm.
389350+ up ticks,
Wots e up to,
If found to be seeding contact your nearest LRDG to take care of the aircraft
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1809522911931146740
The pilot has one of his wife's knitting patterns on his knee instead of a map
389350+ up ticks,
Evening FB,
So it could very well be a stitch up.
LRDG?
389350+ up ticks,
Evening SJ,
Long range desert group.
This graph shows the complete delusion of the green lobby. Everything in the box on the right hand side has not yet happened.
What are the odds it will NEVER happen?
Yet businesspeople who really should know better are making decisions based on the belief that it will happen.
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There's nothing else left to laugh about now…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MawJtEKMcW4
This video is so addictive, I can’t stop watching it! Must pause now to get something done!
Quite so. Have you bought your first pallet yet? 🙂
Not quite that far gone…
This graph shows the complete delusion of the green lobby. Everything in the box on the right hand side has not yet happened.
What are the odds it will NEVER happen?
Yet businesspeople who really should know better are making decisions based on the belief that it will happen.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a756b5c7d07befc269be6e9423d7f5ab1e619e3108ad0f81644525615cd7497b.jpg
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There's nothing else left to laugh about now…
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Evening all. Have been appreciating your posts on and off throughout the day. Thank you! There is some hope and I want to fixate on that rather than despair, my default mode after the 4th. Unfortunately, the BBC is the only thing I can get in my car (bin otr) and their glee and jubilation is so illustrative of what is wonky in this benighted country that the despair axis beckons.
Give up watching and listening to the beeb. You'll feel much better for it. Get a CD player and play classical music instead.
Good advice, thank you
Another option is to use your phone to pick up the signal from some liked internet radio station. Unless you are a cheap barsteward like me who is on a pay as you go plan.
So I just put together a USB drive with just about all of the music that I own. Anything beats some woke socialist droning on.
I don;t have a mobile phone, Richard and I don't want one. I do listen (fascinated, like with a snake) to what is bilged out on the MSM. Maybe I shouldn't, but I need to know what the party line is
It's all propaganda, opopanax. I used to be a real news junkie, then I realised the media lied by omission, by emphasis, and simply old-fashioned lies of the non-truth telling sort and let's-make-it-up because 'they' (the public) won't know the difference. Of course, it is always helpful to know what the public are being told on any given day,, but X (formerly known as Twitter) is where it all happens but, of course, you have to use your powers of discernment there too but you soon develop a 6th sense for the truth.
It is quite interesting to look at the different news items omitted from coverage by the left and right leaning news sources. The left seem to omit all of the poor press for Trudeau.
I do see Canadian news in NOTL and on the daily mail rag that does not make it to Canadian media.
My car radio is set to radio 3 and I don't go far, but apart from the Noos, there's not usually any politics.
This morning on Radio 3 there was what could have been an interesting interview with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. The problem was that they dwelt entirely on the race angle, giving the impression that she’s 100% Maori – which is not true, her mother was of Irish descent – and going on about whether that disadvantaged her in some way. I have one of her albums of Maori songs and it’s very nice. All those lilting South Sea melodies. But there’s been so much more to her illustrious career.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw2nIpDc6aA&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Ddane%2Bkiri%2Bpo%2Bkari%2Bsong%26fr%3Dyfp-hrmob-s%26fr2%3Dp%253Afp%252Cm%253Asa%26.tsrc%3Dyfp-hrmob-s%26fp%3D1%26toggle%3D1%26c&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.video.search.yahoo.com&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
Yes – mainly due to her wonderful voice and engaging personality. Nothing (apart from her name) to do with being ‘brown’.
What;s otr?
on the road, Sir J, sorry, sheer laziness x
You’re forgiven but try and avoid using abbreviations and/or acronyms, Opopanax.
I do apologise profusely and will endeavour not to do it again. Put it down to extreme "mentoo welf" problems seeing the absolute shafting decent Brits are set to receive
Sir J
You know that you used an "Initialism"
What’s that when it’s at home?
When you told Tom Armstrong JFDI.
Explained, Connors, but not displayed.
Well done the penalty people.
Why don't they just play a five minute game then shift to penalties, that is where England seem o do all of their scoring.
Or failing that, just play on until someone scores – that is how a Golf tiebreaker is frequently organised.
Perhaps they’re only paid by the minute?
And oddly enough, a five minute game would have produced several results this year.
Used to be called Golden Goal.
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Priceless!
It took some time but we drowned out the cowbells.
Absolutely, we've not played well but we're in the semis! What a great set of penalties – very unusual for England…
Altogether now;
Jude, Jude will tear you apart, again!
More relief than victory celebrations from England 🏴
Ah, was it another famous victory in extra time?
The only part I saw. My son and grandson had the Telly on all evening, but I only came to see the end. More than enough.
5–3 on penalties.
It brings a frisson of pride to be English doesn’t it?
Still, at least it must be seriously pissing off the SNP
It does.
Hope so! 😊👍🏻
The other team missed a penalty.
No Lola, it was a fantastic set of penalties – which England are usually useless at!
Time to get behind the lads, and the manager (oh, hang on…)
Not until Southgate and Kane go. They bent the knee to Race Marxists, the pandered to mad-Left Identitarians.
Has England won?
Not really a win, but through to the next round.
A win's a win Eddy – this is knockout football – I thought we were a lot better tonight and just about deserved the win – Saka and Bellingham great, Kane still struggling – good to see Shaw back as well, he made a difference when he came on.
I fancy our chances now!! C'mon England!!!!!
Well, what an interesting day.
Sonny Boy and I went to a talk at the Great War Huts near Bury St. Edmunds.
It was given by Katya Hoyer on the causes of the Great War i.e. the history of Germany 1871 – 1918; and a fair bit on the lead up to unification during the C19.
We have a reasonable knowledge of the subject, but an actual live lecture gives the subject an immediacy and Katya's additional comments on the characters involved were not only interesting but also funny.
I didn't know the place existed let alone that they run a programme of talks and events throughout the year.
https://www.greatwarhuts.org/
Would this be the same same Andy Murray who has pulled out of so many competitions recently?
Let's say ER competes and ruins her singles chances and then two matches down the doubles line he pulls out, as from recent form he probably would.
Piss orf Judy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-13607013/Andy-Murray-Wimbledon-Emma-Raducanu-mixed-doubles.html
We've got the heating on this evening! In July! We had the remains of last night's dinner warmed up again and a glass of wine…….. but at least the dishwasher works again now so we don't have to wash up! OH is watching the footie, and switching to the tennis on and off.
I've had the Rayburn lit most of the week. It's barely in double figures outside.
Oh I wish. It has been around 30C and as humid as hell this week.
It is so serious that some people have even cancelled their golf games because of the weather.
That IS serious!
Even worse, our state operated wine store workers have gone on strike. They effectively have a monopoly on the sale of wines and spirits.
Luckily we live in a wine growing region so instead of walking five minutes to the store, we now have to drive about five minutes to the nearest vineyard.
Starmer has promised to maintain the billions we give (nobody asked us did they) to the utterly hapless and corrupt Biden-Zelensky project in Ukraine. Starmer is as evil as we thought and stupid with it.
Biden is ageing rapidly and resembling the portrait in the attic of Dorian Gray:
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Biden has advanced dementia and it was obvious when he was first elected. Remember the cartoon of Kamala pushing his wheelchair over the edge………….
I'm astonished Biden has survived as PotUS this long. I thought he would last 6 months to a year before retiring from ill-health. If he does in fact run for a second term, he will be renamed 'Lazarus'.
Blackman https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eac1677ad31c06e6ecf897e00c50c60efd925eb26e582b0308b4d05739c46693.jpg
Tufton-Bufton
Clifton-Brown https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3e0619e52d981faae86c8e90abe6a7b4447b31355a60318cfb7fea0d934c499f.jpgBlackman https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eac1677ad31c06e6ecf897e00c50c60efd925eb26e582b0308b4d05739c46693.jpg
Tufton-BuftonClifton-Brown https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3e0619e52d981faae86c8e90abe6a7b4447b31355a60318cfb7fea0d934c499f.jpgDefinitely worth a look – it's what Farage mentioned and was slated for
https://www.facebook.com/TheFatEmperor/videos/471006918847015/?rdid=beOsy36XANCylzwW
I presume the Long Range Desert Group to raid the airfields they are operating from.
That's what I was going to type, but you got there first.
😁😁😁😁
https://twitter.com/FFS_WhatNow/status/1809627457743433728
What a legend.
Robin Hood anyone?
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She's no Maid Marian.
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Reminds me of this fellow.
The robbin' bit is accurate.
Enough to make one quiver.
If ever a woman needed Trinny and Susannah…
It took some digging out. Rayner 'went off on one' last year when Bonjo resigned as an MP after more accusations of misleading Parliament, giving the BBC a few quotes in her distinctive, flat tones:
"Gobby Rayner is upset by it all, so something good has come of it. Her vowels were flatter than ever in her interview. She's quite entertaining in a seaside pier, freak-show, novelty act kind of way."
Jacket and trousers £550 apparently. A bin bag would be cheaper and more elegant.
She probably couldn't afford an iron or ironing board after coughing up that much.
I bet the manufacturer is ruing the day they made that sale.
Lookslike a clown suit.
It's certainly a clown in a suit.
550 quid for the trousers and jacket apparently.
She, on the other hand is significantly cheaper.
Green dungarees!
The slut suit suits her, sir.
She is making some sort of fashion statement. I am buggered if I can decipher precisely what her statement is except to say she looks cheap so probably is so.
I just don't get it. It certainly isn't power dressing. A belt might have helped. At least she could have hanged herself with it afterwards.
I’m actually not that bothered about that shite, AA – Southgate and Kane need to go for footballing reasons – which is all that counts.
She's no maid!
Not only does he have dementia, but Biden has just shown want a total racistfucking arsehole he is:-
That poor lass:-
https://x.com/hw_floyd/status/1809587136045170893
Not just that, but the woman next to her was scolding her earlier for holding the placard – all captured on film. The poor girl got snubbed twice, and all she did was go to a rally for a party that she believed in.
Biden's been a racist all his long career – there's evidence from the sixties of him arguing in favour of segregation.
Can't be true. Biden said so himself that he is a black woman.
Perhaps she will learn her lesson and stop voting for perverts.
Ga-ga geriatric perverts at that.
Starmer appears to have no idea what he is talking about. They will have us in a mess snooner rather than later.
Always wise to have a backup 🙂
Plod breathes a sigh of relief as the Dutch win their quarter-final. England v. Turkey on the streets of the nation has been avoided…
Goodnight, all.
Good night Conners – and Kadi.
And that is me off to bed.
Goodnight all.
Another day is done so, I wish you a goodnight and may God bless all you Gentlefolk. If we are spared! Bis morgen früh.
Another long day that went quickly. Where do they go?
Well, chums, I will now bid you all Good Night. Sleep well, and I hope to see you all hale and hearty tomorrow.
Good morning, all – Sunday’s new page is here .
'Morning, Geoff and thank you for all the extra work and super effort you have put in to keep us all going. Well done!
Thank you Geoff and a good morning to yourself.