Sunday 21 July: Ed Miliband’s push for solar power ignores a fundamental truth

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510 thoughts on “Sunday 21 July: Ed Miliband’s push for solar power ignores a fundamental truth”

  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolk, today’s (recycled) Queries

    Riddle-me-ree

    Q: What do a Rubik's cube and a penis have in common?
    A: The longer you play with it, the harder it gets.

    Q: What does Mike Tyson smell like after sex?
    A: Pepper Spray!

    Q: What's the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer?
    A: the taste!

    Q: What's the difference between a circumcision and a divorce?
    A: With a divorce, you get rid of the whole prick!

  2. Invasion Update

    15,489 migrants have now ILLEGALLY entered the country in 304 dinghies this year

    413 migrants in 7 dinghies ILLEGALLY crossed the channel into ENGLAND yesterday

    1,915 migrants in 32 dinghies have crossed since the Labour Party took control

    Hundreds more are crossing this morning

    Footage of this mornings crossings below ⬇️

    STOP THE BOATS

  4. Good morning, chums, and thanks to you, Geoff, for our Sunday NoTTLe page.

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    1. Congratulations Elsie 🙂 Yesterday was my first try – over the moon I got it in three. Today, as predicted – crashed and burned 😀

  5. Morning, all Y'all. Sunny.
    Papers predicting Climate Armageddon, with up to 30C today, especially in the North.
    Finally, summers like I remember them!

    3. Having lived in S Spain from 2011 – 2016 and I recall seeing a temp of 44°c one day!

      1. Indeed.
        Working in Sicily some years ago, 43C was a regular summer temperature in Siracusa & Catania.
        Hottest ever I worked in was 55C, in Kuwait. That was warm!

  6. Cultural asset or spy hub? Inside the Russian centre Germany is under pressure to close. 21 July 2024.

    To outsiders, it may seem like an ordinary meeting place for Russian expats.

    But German authorities are under growing pressure to close down the Russian House, amid concerns it is merely a front for Kremlin spies and propaganda purposes.

    This is a part of the present anti-Russian propaganda program to convince Europeans that they are under direct threat from Moscow and its minions. It is extraordinarily thin, consisting mostly (as here) of assertions and accusations with no shred of evidence let alone proof. In this particular case common sense tells us that if it were indeed a centre for Russian clandestine activities it should be kept open at all costs so as to surveille their agents and keep track of their comings and goings. To close it would be to disperse them to who knows where?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/20/cultural-asset-or-spy-hub-inside-the-russian-centre-germany/

      1. Morning Tom. I don't think it is possible. The entire MSM is complicit in any number of deceptions on the public.

    2. Weren't the known German spies essential to the war effort during WW2?

      The trick was to play dumb and not give any indication that they had been rumbled (unless this was intended). They can then be fed disinformation as required.

      The correct route for the invasion force for the Normandy landings was relayed to one such spy through an act of gross and obvious carelessness three days before D-Day after an elaborate hoax was set up in Kent with a phantom army under the command of General Patton. It worked, and Hitler believed it was an obvious ruse, and ordered his panzas to Calais.

      It should be taken as read that Russian intelligence are constantly probing foreign forces for weaknesses, and the thing to do is prepare a bloodcurdling scenario, so they don't try it on, even if those silos in Greenham were actually stuffed with marshmallows.

      1. There are several excellent books by Ben Macintyre relating to espionage and counter espionage in WW2, including Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zig Zag, and Double Cross.
        It seems likely that there were no "unknown" German agents working in the UK.

        He has written several interesting and very readable books.
        https://www.google.com/search?q=ben+macintyre+books+in+order&sca_esv=4d286f4f3872d725&sca_upv=1&ei=6bicZrutDoeakdUP4NCyqAg&oq=ben+macintyre+books&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

    3. It was the Americans that bugged Angela Merkle. Ooh…she was so annoyed when she found out. Ha !

  7. Good Moaning.
    News item in the Sunday Telegraph.

    "British eco-adventurer found dead with husband in lifeboat off Canadian coast
    Couple were attempting to sail to the Azores on a wind and solar-powered yacht before the vessel was reported missing on June 18 …….

    …… Their trip in Theros from Halifax in Nova Scotia to the Azores was meant to be the first in the yacht after it had been fully converted to eco-friendly power.

    Mr Clibbery, with the assistance of Ms Packwood, converted the Theros to solar power himself by removing the diesel engine.

    He fitted the boat with six solar panels powering a lithium battery pack and auxiliary electric engine."

    And out of what materials was the yacht made? Let alone the lithium battery. How was the yacht and its additional green power manufactured?
    Is there a reason why reliable shipping moved over from wind to "fossil fuel" power?
    All very sad, but this is the future that Miliband and Starmer have planned for the entire country.

        2. The original knight was not so easily visible. I also give credit to A A Milne.

    4. Sodium batteries make more sense for oceangoing vessels. They can be powered by seawater.

  8. I have to admit that I got edgy when an electric car was parked outside our house right behind the Noddy car.
    I never leave laptops or phones charging overnight or when we are out.

    2. Most of the E-bike and scooter fires are because they bought knock off chargers from Paki shops.

  9. 389971+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Dt,
    Every river in the country is polluted, Environment Secretary warns
    Steve Reed says there is no ‘guarantee’ that UK waters are not contaminated

    Tor once this is a fear and fact combined odious issue when added to the daily contamination of a country already fully contaminated.

    The indigenous will be allowed to breed, even encouraged to breed as a main source of revenue, the polling stations will still be allowed to operate as a manipulating link betwixt people and
    political managers.

    "LEST WE FORGET"

    ALL consented too via the WEF / NWO form of governing.

          1. Isn't an "out of date lozenge" the same as a date stone?
            I'll get me coat…

    3. Similar. For an up-to-date of my local weather state, have a look at The Open golf coverage.

  11. 389971+ up ticks,

    Lest we forget ,

    This, even the dumbest of the indigenous can understand surely
    a glaring warning beacon.

    breitbrt,
    England Burning: Violent Riots Break Out in Multicultural Area of Leeds
    Riots broke out in Leeds on Thursday evening, with hundreds of residents setting fires, throwing stones, and clashing with police.

    The police, governing employees DEI orientated, showed the discontented shiny new british a clean set of heels in breaking from a trot to a full gallop.

  12. Reposted from late last night

    Sunday 21st July 2024

    Richard ll

    (aka Tier5inmate)

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e281877e66f9640965428cfaf7612b736a56b10f037dc7830d6ff3f7e0f8aba9.png

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/25c1ef74a41f58ce7b3ac74352b493390b57b6546f07a82bca6d523d53536a14.png

    and Many Happy Returns

    With very best wishes,

    Caroline and Rastus

    (We hope the Isle of Wight is still within your holiday price range)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTunqv1Xt4

    5. I can only repeat my earlier post – not visible now:

      " Have a happy, happy day, Richard, followed by 364 happy unbirthdays"

    9. Wotcher Richard,

      Only just caught up with earlier, so to speak. Hope you've had a lovely day, with many more Happy Returns.

  13. Top lawyer Robert Barnes- one of the very best with important incisive knowledge on events states that the attempted assassination was an inside Deep State job which would then be blamed on Iran and go to war. Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo would then be the nominations. Robert Barnes has been consistently right on things and he's a lawyer who works for ordinary people against big corporates and the almighty state.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp4KvbRlD0Q

    1. We're not going to get near the truth.. UNLESS..
      tip-tip investigative journalist Scoop Maitlis is on the case.
      "Why aren't you in Clacton..?" "Is Trump having a tough time now?"

      1. The old Praying Maitlis, the paragon of virtue-signalling journalists that show their partiality at every turn.

        1. "I'm going to repeat this question [pregnant pause] till I get an answer..
          ""Is Trump having a tough time now?"

  14. Good morning all.
    9°C on the Yard Thermometer and a beautiful start to the day.

    1. If, as Labour claim, the country is in an awful state after 14 years of Tory mis-rule, surely all Cabinet members should forego their holidays and get to work immediately working seven days a week to put things right?

      1. Frankly the country would be better off if everybody in the Labour government p1$$ed off away from here and never came back. They'd do less damage that way.

    2. But whst the Lame-stream media didn’t shut up about Raab, they are indifferent to Rayner

  19. OT. A telly recommendation. A fantastic, mind-blowing programme made in 1984 called "Tosca's KIss". It describes the lives of some retired opera singers (soloists and chorus) living in a home created by Verdi ad funded by royalties. It is charming, tear-jerking – no bad language – just old people remembering their younger lives. And still able to sing.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z970

    DO try to see it on catch up (or YouTube).

    1. Thanks.

      Similar to that there is a film about retired musicians living together in a retirement home. 'Quartet'. Quite a few big names in it.

      1. Indeed – but that was a movie – a fiction. The Italian one is about real people.

  22. First time in years that the weather has been fine enough and warm enough to have breakfast on the stoop.
    Fresh fruit and strong coffee. Lovely!

    1. On the stoop? I am so sorry that you are unable to stand upright. I know that feeling. I look like a person with curvature of the upper back.

      (joke, by the way).

          1. Yes, but it is the shape of the prawn mirroring the bent back i was alluding to.

    4. Did the victim get his phone back? I do hope it wasn't as damaged as the tow rag.

          1. Yes, the glassfibre dust was appalling. Stuck to all the sweaty bits, of which there were many.

      2. We had Australian friends visiting us – they remarked that they'd come to see the green and pleasant land but the UK was browner than Oz!

      3. I spent most of my time during that summer holidays on my boat in St Mawes. At that time it was Inca, A Hurley 22.

        I bought Raua, a Pioneer 10 in 1981 and sailed to the Caribbean in 1984. We bought Mianda, a Dufour Classic 41, in 2003 and home-schooled Christo and Henry aboard her as we sailed around the Med.

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/04ea2cf24ca91b0e5a0dbbfcbb10cc34d62ced46f2a748099d4f0e69ec5e58d4.jpg

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d876f28eea1caa32b35d4e525324dadec8d33f60d7ddbab1fe0a7166e9cb9832.jpg

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/257e0d8f7503c6c4899df20e8ddd2ade1db9c23281d3155673ddca2238cb7242.png

        1. Mine was ‘professional sailing’ Richard yours looks altogether more agreeable?

      4. I spent the summer of '76 teaching EFL in Worthing. I lived and taught in an old mansion and in my spare time I sunbathed on the roof.

  25. Good morning
    I don't know much about Peter Thiel, but he is the man who is supposed to have funded JD Vance, Trump's Vice President pick.
    This tweet is a speech by him opposing the WEF (below).
    I think there are two distinctly separate things going on at the moment. One is the financial reset, which is already underway. The other is the push by the Bilderberg/UN/WEFers for one world government and global "climate" marxism.
    It is confusing because the latter movement was founded by and is owned by the same names behind the central banks – Rothschild, Rockefeller etc. But they are still two separate things.
    If we look at who is being talked about to take part in the next government, they're talking about Trump having one of the bankers' experts (Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink) to run the finances of the US, which would ensure that nobody thinks about abolishing the central bank that caused the financial mess that is going to ruin many people across the west.
    But it seems that opposition to the WEF's ghastly global marxism agenda will also be in there.

    Could it be that the objective is for Americans (and us too) to be busy fighting the global marxism and the islamic invasion, while the financial reset happens quietly and not one in a thousand people will realise that it was caused by the central banks and that we would be far better off without them?
    Then we will 'win' a mighty victory over the global marxists, which will form the basis of the arent-we-great propaganda for the next economic cycle, just as stories from the world wars did during the last one.
    https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1814618553942687744

    1. "One is the financial reset, which is already underway"

      I've heard many mentions of this financial reset. What does it mean?

      1. I think it means CBDC completely eradicating physical money. With all the surveillance techniques and being able to track everyone’s financial transactions we will be pushed into severely restricted spending. Social credit system. Eventually you will own nothing and you will be happy’ – George Soros. Don’t know or understand how owner ship is to be removed, especially of property, maybe someone else has some ideas?

        1. We're well on the way, vw…many people never use cash. Use it or lose it. To sound even more outlandish – I believe at some future date, well into the future (?) we could be chipped at birth – bit like your dog/cat at the vet 😀 Brave New World eh…

          1. I keep £200 in one of my desk drawers and a further £100 in my wallet, and often shuffle off to Bank of Scotland to withdraw another £300 to keep topped up.

          2. G’day Sir J 🙂 we’ve had a spate of cashpoint thefts locally, actually pulled out of the wall with JCB. No arrests/prosecutions, obvs. All bank branches have closed. Similar in many other areas. Can get cashback with purchase at local supermarket, still a limit of £50. Cashpoint withdrawal amount £500 now if previously agreed with bank, and good luck finding a cashpoint. Younger people almost all use cards, so that seems to be the future, right there 🙁 Do as you’re doing, use it or lose it..:-)

        2. And the system will e able to stop you spending where it doesn't want you to, or spend at all, easily confisate your money, and otherwise have full control of your finances.

          1. Absolutely right. We will be “encouraged to spend” on what TPTB think is good for us. But the actual amount will also be out of our control. Hideous prospect, huh. How do we stop it?

      2. Move towards mBridge as significant world reserve currency. mBridge looks likely to have some kind of link to gold.
        Switch away from pure fiat currencies towards some kind of commodity backing.

        Inflation isn't prices rising, it's the pound being worth less. Every fiat currency in history has failed due to being overprinted.

      3. Try googling The Great Taking By David Rogers Webb there's also a shortish Youtube video of him being interviewed…

    2. BB,
      Peter Thiel is a businessman who was born in Germany, did well academically and helped to design and create start Paypal. He is intelligent, believes in the ethos of Christianity and is wealthy. Paypal used software to disrupt an earlier business model and from that financial success he has invested in many 'start up' enterprises.

  26. Good morning, all. Raining here earlier but now skies are clearing. Rain has delayed my plan for an early start on the shed base I'm putting together but I'm hopeful that the remainder of the day will be dry.

    Apropos today's headline: Miliband minor has had 14 years to educate himself re carbon dioxide and its benefits; how that essential gas remains low in concentration compared to former times; how carbon dioxide levels follow any natural warming of the World by centuries etc. etc.

    Instead of educating himself it would appear that Miliband has spent almost a decade and a half playing with his worry beads, the result being that he has worked himself into a right lather and cannot wait to cover this "sceptred isle" with land hungry solar panels and bird chopping windmills. When the former and the latter begin to fail, as all technology does, and fall into disuse, will Miliband's successors have the will to clean up his sordid legacy even if they imagine they have the money?

    1. You summary suggests that the planned deindustrialisation has nowt to do with CO2, but some other hidden agenda – see, for example, BB2 just below.
      Unless, of course, millipede and the others know nothing and just listen to what they are told. Doesn't change the outcome, just makes them witless tools.

    2. Probably the people with the money will do the clearup (and get the land at the same time)

    3. I can't find the link just now, but I think some time ago Spain installed a lot of solar panels, fields of them – Spanish citizens invested quite heavily in them. Well, Spain is a sunny country but sometimes the sun is too hot and I seem to remember some of them buckling/stoping working in the heat. Anyone remember differently, or more about this, please post? Milliband minor is a dangerous individual imo, bit surprised what I knew as hard headed folk in Doncaster surprise me.

      1. I found an answer on quora regarding Spain and here's the link:

        https://www.quora.com/Has-Spain-really-banned-private-solar-panels

        It appears that Spanish government incentives for installing solar panels has backfired and now there is actually a tax on them even if you are off grid.

        Could this happen in UK when the Government runs out of things to tax ? – solar panels are easily spotted and counted from satellites.

        1. Thanks Angie, very good of you to look that up 🙂 I wonder if that’s part of Milliband’s/Reeves plan….build the things and taxes will follow? My husband actually had some installed on roof here in order to claim FIT payments, also has a Tesla battery (you should have seen the car the rep came in, from a future century perhaps..) but he’s a tech nut so couldn’t wait to try.

          1. It looks as though Spanish solar panels have provided an opportunity for taxation in the same way that electric vehickes are going in the UK. Big subsidies for the product with no VED, then withdraw funding followed by taxation like any other vehicle.

          2. Yes indeedy…he also exchanged my petrol Golf for a Renault Zoe, I wasn’t aware, that didn’t go well and still isn’t. The thing freaks me out is that if it runs out of charge/in an accident – can’t be pushed to one side, has to be craned onto rescue vehicle. It can lose several miles on the milometer just by driving off house drive, just a few yards. Strangely, he rarely drives the thing himself, except when we first got it – and he put the eco button on. Almost had an accident pulling out of a junction, reduced power.

      2. KJ, a day or so ago I came across similar information to yours but quoting the Sahara. The latter also has the problem of fine dust settling on everything. In fact, we’ve had Saharan dust end up here when conditions allow and it’s a bugger to wash off window surrounds, cars, etc.

        Meanwhile over in Texas large hailstones do massive damage to panels. It’s madness.

        1. I can see how that would happen to solar panels, Korky – have to admit never thought about dust as we don’t get much of it here – England generally more damp than dry. Have heard about hailstones previously, I think in London (?) yes, lot of damage. Climate change eh…yes it does, always has, always will…

    4. Everyone should be taking self defense classes. Particularly women and children.

      Good morning.

      1. And take the cost of those lessons from the hand outs that immigrants get.

  28. Morning all 🙂😊
    Not too bright and sunny today.
    Not too bright. Similar to Ed Miliband, he needs to go and lecture the middle east where they use oil for everything including air conditioning transportation, water desalination you name it.
    Plenty of sunshine there and not a solar panel in use.
    Has he not noticed yet we don't have a lot of sunshine and obviously doesn't have a clue what he's doing.
    But it's hardly anything unusual for our self opinionated self satisfying useless political idiots.

    1. Miliband is a nasty little power-crazed bully. Bullies choose victims who cannot or will not strike back.

      Miliband is also a coward which is why he does not go to China or India to do his bullying there.

    2. Zealots like Miliband turn politics into some kind of perverted fetish to indulge themselves. As far as I can recall, he has never been involved in green issues before. So why now? Anything to drag our country down. It's like some kind of sado masochism operated at our expense. He does not have a genuine concern; there's something else there motivating him.

    3. RE, an expert states that solar panels in sunny southern states of the USA will be as efficient as possible for only five to five and a half hours per day when conditions are perfect. Move those panels to Northern Virginia, 38 degrees north latitude, and it's an hour less.

      Now, Miliband's plan is for a huge site on good farm land close to Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, 53 degrees north latitude. Other areas on the 53rd parallel include US (Alaska), Canada (BC, Manitoba, Labrador, Newfoundland).

      Renewables are unreliable and intermittent because they rely on conditions that are out of human control. Basing an economy on intermittent and unreliable sources of energy is madness writ large.

    1. "That was an oversight" but more likely "Spot the deliberate error" as it seems it is one long catalogue of egregious omissions- a "non-security" set up- an elaborate Kabuki Theatre event. I suppose in planning for the future, the "takeaway" is more and better patsies are needed. We do indeed live in strange and interesting times.

    2. Which part do you think is a hoax, or all of it? What makes you think it's a hoax, Johnny? Trump could easily have lost his life and the Secret Service would have been to blame, very fortunately they weren't as efficient this time as they've been previously (Kennedy brothers). TrumpJr and JDV have vowed to get to the truth, I wish them well.

      1. I suspect he missed the "?" after hoax, I don't think he does think it's a hoax.

      2. I do not think its a hoax,but some do. You have got hold of the wrong end of my stick.

  30. Morning all.

    We have an interesting new development over at Free Speech ( https://www.freespeechbacklash.com/ ). You can now listen to as well as read articles. Open an article and you will see a red 'speaker' icon top left. Click on it and then choose if you want a male or a female voice (clever eh?). It sounds really quite good, not the metallic monotone you usually get. Please try it out and let me know what you think.

    And if you are interested in education, have a look – or a listen – to Paul Sutton's witty account of his fisrt days as a teacher.

  35. Jumping into the packed car and driving oop to tha narth east for a week. Near Bamburgh Castle.
    Slayders. 😎

    4. Nice!
      SCuffed the flesh off the side of my big toe (right-foot) there about 58 years ago. If you spot the bits, can you let me know?

    5. Nice!
      SCuffed the flesh off the side of my big toe (right-foot) there about 58 years ago. If you spot the bits, can you let me know?

    6. Nice!
      SCuffed the flesh off the side of my big toe (right-foot) there about 58 years ago. If you spot the bits, can you let me know?

  36. Hallo NOTTLERS, weather is cool and the sky is gray.
    I see that now the Albert Memorial is under attack from the politically correct. It is not the sort of thing I want to read about in the Telegraph on a Sunday or any other day, for that matter.

    Are any of you going to the demonstration in Trafalgar Square this coming Saturday? Would like to go but it simply isn't practical for me. Jorden Peterson may turn up. He implied that, if he could he would, when interviewing Tommy Robinson in Canada a few days ago.

      2. It is a rally of the true British to reassert our history and our right to our land as the true indigenous people of this land with a valid history and a fundamental right to our home. The last one, in Parliament square went without a single arrest. Contrasting the behaviour of the English with the thuggery of the left in recent pro-Palestinian marched in London.

    2. If they gather at midday for a 1pm start, as they normally do, then I will try to be there. I have a hair appointment at 3.30 but as long as I’m on the Jubilee line by 3 pm I should still make that and I can’t stand for more than a couple of hours anyway.

  37. The Tories and Reform need to expose Labour’s blatant Brexit backsliding
    Starmer’s intention to mirror EU laws and share its asylum burden were not in the Labour manifesto

    David Frost: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/21/tories-reform-need-to-expose-labours-brexit-backsliding/

    BTL

    What about Tory backsliding?

    Why did YOU, David Frost, backslide on Northern Ireland and UK fishermen having said you would not give way on these issues?

    Sunak sold Northern Ireland out with The Great Windsor Betrayal and it now looks as if Starmer will agree to give Northern Ireland entirely to the EU and to allow EU fishermen to plunder UK fishing waters even more and without any restraint. Don't be surprised if Starmer then even allows EU anglers to have free access to UK rivers and streams for fishing for trout and pike.

    Nigel Farage's great mistake was to remove Brexit Party candidates held by sitting Remainer Conservative MPs in 2019. Let us hope that the Conservative Party is completely extinguished so that naïf people will never again make the mistake of trusting them.

    1. 389971+ up ticks,

      Morning R,

      I take it you do mean in trusting them again,again, again & again, ALL support a long deceased party that for decades has been in NAME ONLY, regardless of consequence.

    2. Brexit was only ever a holding program until the powers that be could lead us back in.

    3. EU anglers already have free access fishing for trout and pike (the latter would be kept for food by them as opposed to home grown anglers) on purchasing a licence from the EA. Eastern Europeans are commonly catching carp for consumption, often without an EA licence.

        2. Air France used to often have it on their flight menu. Nasty texture and taste.

        3. I once tasted walleye pike caught in Lake Erie, when staying with family in Pittsburgh. I don’t recall it tasting bad but nor have I especially wanted to eat it again.

          4. The lake being deep and freshwater from the mountains means the Pike don't taste of mud. The only problem being the triangular bones. If you need a device to murder someone that would be it. Innocent face.

        5. Agreed, Tom. Once was more than enough for me; utterly disgusting. Having said that, I am not a fan of any freshwater fish. I like my fish pre-seasoned by having them living in salt water.

        6. I ate it in France and I don't recall it being disgusting. The bones, on the other hand, were fearsome.

      2. Very common in France. Personally I hate pike to eat, the perch is a different kettle of fish. We don't eat many fresh water fish in the UK.

  38. The Tories and Reform need to expose Labour’s blatant Brexit backsliding
    Starmer’s intention to mirror EU laws and share its asylum burden were not in the Labour manifesto

    David Frost: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/21/tories-reform-need-to-expose-labours-brexit-backsliding/

    BTL

    What about Tory backsliding?

    Why did YOU, David Frost, backslide on Northern Ireland and UK fishermen having said you would not give way on these issues?

    Sunak sold Northern Ireland out with The Great Windsor Betrayal and it now looks as if Starmer will agree to give Northern Ireland entirely to the EU and to allow EU fishermen to plunder UK fishing waters even more and without any restraint. Don't be surprised if Starmer then even allows EU anglers to have free access to UK rivers and streams for fishing for trout and pike.

    Nigel Farage's great mistake was to remove Brexit Party candidates held by sitting Remainer Conservative MPs in 2019. Let us hope that the Conservative Party is completely extinguished so that naïf people will never again make the mistake of trusting them.

    1. Scrap child benefit.
      Then scrap housing benefit.
      Close the department for education and impose school vouchers.
      Stop funding quangos.
      Move the NHS to an insurance model – keep the funding the same, but have the dept health an insurance processor.
      Scrap NHS trusts.
      Apply a pay ceiling to council management pay of £80,000. Abolish expenses.
      Impose any rise in council tax to be agreed by referendum of at minium 60% of ward voters.
      Remove the ability for government to raise or levy taxes.
      Impose failure standards across the public sector. Screw up 3 times, go over budget by more than 15% and you're sacked, forever forbidden from working in the pub. sec again.

  40. Rachel Reeves signals she WILL give more than a million teachers and nurses above-inflation pay rises of 5.5%

    DM Story today

    The majority of school teachers in state schools are left wing while those in independent schools are not!

    Reeves is determined to keep state school teachers on side by bribing them so they can continue preaching their pernicious left wing dogma. At the same time Labour is appealing to their envious spiteful natures by doing what they can to put private independent schools out of business. If private schools have to face an increased wage bill on top of the imposition of 20% VAT things will be even tougher for them.

    Old Labour's core instincts for envy and spite still flourish!

    5. It could also be that private school teachers would rather earn less than work in a state school…though there is the pension to consider of course…

    6. I hope that means my teachers' pension will go up accordingly. Probably not or if it does, it will somehow put me in the supertax bracket so I get less.

      1. Not if you are already receiving it. Unless you are given a discretionary increase. If not, it is almost bound to affect you pension one way or another. Politicians don't say when they spout X% increase that this also usually means increased pensions – which can cost a lot.

      2. Not if you are already receiving it. Unless you are given a discretionary increase. If not, it is almost bound to affect you pension one way or another. Politicians don't say when they spout X% increase that this also usually means increased pensions – which can cost a lot.

    1. And the Christian country of Lebanon which was tolerant and welcoming to those of other faiths and cultures? Now in the thrall of dominant Islam.

      By the time the PTB face up honestly to the threat of ISLAM in the UK it will be too late – if it isn't already so. But of course it is racist to suggest such a thing.

      Multi-culturalism cannot work unless all the participating cultures have the same core values.

      An obvious example of this was when Angela Rayner met the Muslims and she was the only woman allowed to be there. I wonder if she dared to say that in British cultural life women are not excluded?

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/efe088f9afd4f8dbaa50354a7c5496b43fa31363891b71b27372ed1d861f80ca.png

      1. One can feel the hostility directed at her through the photograph alone. If she could not feel it she must have the hide of a hippopotamus.

        2. You can see from the body language in this photo that she is prepared for a sharp exit.

      2. 389971+ up ticks,

        Afternoon R,

        What puzzles me is we are already tagged as far right racist so what really is stopping us SPEAKING OUT LOUDLY.

        These sure ain't day trippers.

        5 days / 1400 + 26 boats.

        16 July / 20 July.

        We currently need a 10 day mandatory working week, ALL indigenous hands.

    2. My BTL comment:
      "…I trust neither the Hierarchy, The Police nor The NHS. All Self-serving charlatans..."

    3. All rioting can be controlled. It is simply a matter of how much force is used. Plod are used to Britons, who smash things up and eventually get bored.

      The new breed of foreign savage does this as a way of life. Having been given everything frm the moment of arriving here illegally they don't give a stuff and so see no problem with destroying it.

      Bluntly, until we're prepared to use lethal force nothing will change. They do when they kill us. Why should we not return the favour? The UK is not the decent, tolerant, civilised country it was. The Left have poisoned her and polluted her with sewage. You can't leave it in the street and say you've cleaned up.

      1. Father stopped The Nigerian army coming on to campus to shoot rioting students, then told the students to pack it in or they'd be shot. They went home, as did the Army.
        Nobody was shot. The Nigerian Vice-Chancellor & cronies had run away, leaving it to the Monkey-hanger to sort it out.

    4. Diversity strength. Diversity strength. Diversity strength. Diversity strength. Diversity strength. Keep repeating it.

  42. Latest breaking News – All over the USA Republicans are wearing ear bandages in sympathy with Donald Trump

    The Democrats are countering by wearing OAP personal alarms in sympathy with Joe Biden

    1. From Coffee House, the Spectator

      The Soviet Union’s gerontocracy should serve as a warning to the US
      Comments Share 21 July 2024, 6:30am
      One waspish – but not entirely inaccurate – Russian media assessment of the first US presidential debate was that it was ‘a reality show about the lives of pensioners.’ They ought to know, as Russia’s own history has highlighted the dangers of gerontocracy.

      When the Bolshevik revolutionaries who had just seized power formed their ruling Politburo in 1917, the only member who was more than 40 years old was their leader, Lenin, at 47. By 1981, the average age was 69. As for the actual leaders, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev died at the age of 75 in 1982. His successor, Yuri Andropov, was a relative stripling, dying in 1984 at 69, to be followed by Konstantin Chernenko, who died in 1985 at 73.

      US president Joe Biden is 82 in November (Getty)
      In part this was because in the Soviet Union – as in Vladimir Putin’s Russia – power is all. An individual’s security, status and prosperity are all products of their position, and to retire was to risk being marginalised and even persecuted, so successive General Secretaries clung to it until it fell from their dead fingers. In this respect, as in so many other, Mikhail Gorbachev was the honourable exception.

      The implications of gerontocracy were serious. Ageing rulers were typically out of touch with their own country, let alone developments in the world around them. In his final years, Brezhnev was notoriously unmoored, so much so that he became a figure of fun. One joke went that he began his speech opening the 1980 Moscow Olympics with ‘O. O. O. O. O. O.’ until one of his aides quietly told him that the six Os at the top of the page were actually the rings of the Olympic logo, not part of his address.

      More seriously, he and his fellow septuagenarians had trouble often responding to fast-moving crises, repeatedly trying to force them into the patterns of past events (while discussing the proposed invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Brezhnev apparently several times referred to it as ‘Czechoslovakia’ – which he had invaded in 1968). Alternatively, they lacked the stamina such a demanding job required. Andropov, for example, held his mental acuity to the end, but spent most of his brief tenure ruling from a hospital bed, hooked up to dialysis.

      Ageing leaders are not only often hard-pressed to adapt to new ideas and introduce necessary changes, they are also vulnerable precisely to being manipulated by their allies, advisers and aides. Perhaps without the energy or ability to go outside these circles, they are also presented with bewildering new ideas and potential threats they rely on others to interpret. Today it may be the technobabble of AI and nanotechnology, but to the Soviet gerontocrats it was the information revolution and Ronald Reagan’s ultimately-impracticable but dramatic-sounding ‘Star Wars’ antimissile project.

      Arguably, they also have rather different political horizons, too. Why think about the next twenty years if you suspect you’ll be hard pressed to live another five? Many of the systemic problems that brought down the USSR – a sclerotic planned economy, excessive defence spending, endemic corruption, ideological calcification – became quite so intractable because they had been put off so long.

      Vladimir Putin is ‘just’ 71, and while his government looks very different from its Soviet predecessors – prime minister Mikhail Mishustin is 58 – there is more than a touch of gerontocracy where it counts. The cabinet is, after all, not the dominant body in his increasingly monarchical system, but rather largely the technocrats whose role is to execute instead of formulate policy. If one looks at the people who really count in Putin’s court or in presenting it to the outside world, a different picture emerges.

      History thus reminds us of some of the dangers of gerontocracy
      The man who has done the most to shape Putin’s paranoid view of the outside world, former Security Council secretary and now presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev, is 73. Although he has very little role in shaping foreign policy, its face is the 74-year-old Sergei Lavrov. Security chief Alexander Bortnikov is 72, National Guard head Viktor Zolotov is 70 and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov is 69.

      Already, there have been indications that this is affecting policy. These figures are all examples of ‘homo sovieticus’, whose ideas – including their implacable suspicion of the West and imperial assumptions – were shaped by a system long since dead. Their horizons are also closer than the rest of the elites’. Whereas Putin seems willing to make whatever concessions are necessary to Beijing in order to retain its support in his war in Ukraine, for example, this is disturbing many of the 50- and 60-year olds within the government, who, when they finally get their chance for power, do not want to find themselves ruling a Russia that has become a Chinese vassal state.

      History thus reminds us of some of the dangers of gerontocracy. Still, at least Putin is only 71, not 78 – or 81.

      1. Nikita Khruschev was deposed in 1964 at the age of 70. He lived a further seven years.

      2. Get rather tired of the prefix "paranoid being prefixed to Putin every time he is mentioned in print. He doesn't strike me as paranoid but his opponents in the West certainty appear paranoid in their fantasies of Putin plotting world domination and reviving the USSR. Not a shred of evidence other than their fantasies about the big bad wolf.

        1. It's become a reflex, as "extreme" is always a prefix to the word "Right-wing".

        2. I’m not sure what his motives are but he has threatened to nuke us several times. We prefer to view this as mere bravado but he does come off as some kind of deranged James Bond type villain.
          Maybe he merely wants to make Russia great again, but his military adventure has caused untold deaths and destruction. You may argue that it takes two to tango but he started it. You may argue that Merkel set it all off when she wanted to annex the Ukraine as part of the EU. But that wasn’t an invasion, nor an act of war. Putin overstepped the line and if he is seen as paranoid it’s only his own fault.

          2. Ukraine, egged on by the West/EU/NATO, who tore up the Minsk agreement and allowed the Nazi Azov military to slaughter some 14,0000 Russian speakers in the Donn bass.

          3. Precisely. I would add that the militant Azovs had hitherto strutted around threateningly yet armed with only baseball bats until the US equipped them.

          4. Well said although I don’t suppose that the Putin fanboys will see it from their perspective of this country and its allies somehow being the aggressors and instigators of everything that Putin does. The same fanboys who constantly throw about accusations that their countrymen are “traitors” and the like just because they see things differently.

          6. Sir J, I went down (no smirks, please) quite a long way and could’t find any posts about Putin or Russia. Could you please give me a better steer and I’ll willingly read them?

          7. I had to go down 4 pages to re-find it. I posted:

            SirJasper corimmobile • 9 hours ago
            Ukraine, egged on by the West/EU/NATO, who tore up the Minsk agreement and allowed the Nazi Azov military to slaughter some 14,0000 Russian speakers in the Donn bass.

            Sorry it took so long and occasionally my posts disappear.

          8. Thanks, I never found that particular post of yours. We shall never know the true reasons why Putin invaded Ukraine – a desire to re-create a Russian Empire, a feeling that Ukraine was an integral part of Russia, fear that a prosperous and democratic Ukraine would serve as a beacon for his own people to press for change, concerns about NATO expansion; perhaps all of them and more. Sympathy with Russian speakers killed by the Azov Battalion? Firstly, I have found no reputable source that gives a number anywhere near that and , secondly, he has the blood of far more than 14,000 Russian speakers in his own country and cares little about this.

          9. I don’t think Zelensky’s Ukraine could ever be referred to as ‘Democratic’.

          10. Perhaps not then or even now but with the potential to become democratic, at least in comparison to Russia.

          11. Ah, I may now have located something relevant – I had posts sorted as “newest” rather than “best’.

          13. No sorry. Please read a history of the events leading up to the present situation. You will find that we started it. Many American generals, schoolers and Kremlin watchers warned about our policy toward Russia for a long while. The A bomb thing is a measure of how determined the Russians are to not tolerate being invaded. All you have to do is look at their history to understand why they have that sort of attitude. To start with you could do no worse that listen to Vladimir Posner’s lecture on You Tube and take that as a starting place to research further. Vladimir Posner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ&t=1793s
            It is an excellent lecture in which he urges you to use independent sources to verify what he is saying.

          14. I promise to watch this later.
            The Russians invaded Ucrania. That’s what happened.
            Were they provoked? Undoubtedly. Ucrania wanted to align with the west and Putin’s attitude is how dare you defy me.
            Does Russia like to be well surrounded by non NATO countries? Yes that was the argument presented for their occupation of Eastern Europe. Their history had taught them there must be great distance between Russia and their enemies.
            That all sounds pretty paranoid to me. But it’s not the first time that powerful counties of imposed their will on weaker ones.

          15. You need to distinguish between Russia and the USSR. Ironically too, Marxism was a Western import into Russia. It did not sit well with the Russians and, in Russia today, apart from statues and other not easily removed artifacts, you will find no trace of the USSR or its philosophy. In fact you would find that there is far more of that nonsense in the West in the shape of the EU in particular. Russia now a days is essentially a modern version of Royalist Russia with all the fervour of people who believe that there country is Holy Mother Russia, the third Rome. It is said that a church is built in Russia every week and has been non-stop since Putin took power. The monasteries have been restored and so have all the great Cathedrals. In short it is the most Christian country in Europe. As for Ukrania, it simply means ‘border land’ because it was the border of medieval Russia. Not a single one of my Ukrainian relatives, I have Russian relatives too, consider themselves to be anything other than Russia. But then they are mostly old people who remember what they used to be before this war of propaganda was started. And, as I said, you have to learn the history of Russia to understand their attitude to invasion. They have no natural borders and so they have been invaded again and again with great cost to life.
            https://now.tufts.edu/2022/03/31/long-history-russia-and-war

          16. Ukranians I have known, young people, have always vehemently defended themselves against the charge of being Russian. That is my anecdotal experience.
            I remember years ago maybe towards the end of the 1970s lectures in London warning against Russian imperialism and the threat to Europe. At the time it was thought that the EEC formed part of that threat.
            All countries harbour ancient grievances and fears.
            The British in the last decades might have invaded Ireland using similar arguments. Or maybe Normandy.
            Russia invaded Ukrainia because it felt it could, Saki’s Warum nicht policy from When William Came. It didn’t expect such resistance and once it had taken the plunge found it difficult to back down.
            But justifications, based on stories told at mothers’ knees, cannot defend the death and destruction wreaked by Putin.

    1. Dr David Livermore wrote about this when she was originally fingered, I think in NYT. Tragically, not the only example in the UK – witness Morecambe Bay for one, and probably others. Elder care another case in point. Keep banging your pans tho.

    2. The baby deaths dropped because it would seem that neo/prem baby unit was handling patients it was not capable of managing.
      Once those very fragile tots were sent to other hospitals, Countess of Cheshire's death rate was reduced.
      It would seem that many staff were not exactly dedicated to their job and the hospital itself was run-down and insanitary.
      This whole matter stinks, and it's not just the leaky plumbing.

      1. Countess of Chester. It doesn't have a particularly good reputation round here (but then, Shrewsbury and PRH Telford aren't a great deal better).

      2. I also thought the whole business with the babies was a bit iffy .

        I am terrified of hospitals and doctors these days .

        i have had some shocking medical experiences ,and have also been a valuable friend to many who have been badly handled in hospital , including my no2 son who had sepsis (undiagnosed ) and a dear friend who was incarcerated on an uncaring negligent Stroke ward .

        Now what on earth are we hearing now about Euthanasia .. there will be an open season for doctors like Harold Shipman.

    1. Nothing that a British government can't totally trash.
      God, I hate these people.

      1. Pleased you didn't distinguish between stripes, anne – we do indeed look from on to t'other and can't tell 'em apart…(Animal Farm)..

      2. There was a time when I didn't really hate anyone and would have been a little shocked at myself if I found myself doing so, however with the rise of Globalist Woke Marxism this has changed.

  45. Just cut the grass. Suddenly, the lawn is full of boulders! Where did they come from? Sweaty as Hull, so I am (damp, a whiff of fishy…) but al least thats done. Off to pub shortly, to pay Second Son's bar bill (he hasn't run it up yet, but he will!)

  46. 389971+up ticks,

    Dt,

    Tony Blair’s ‘lucky’ shoemaker Church’s suffers sales slump,

    Are they a blacksmith concern ?

    I thought his type could never be shod.

  47. Bright start has gone a bit dull but Welder Son wants me to take something over to his newly bought house, so off to Ripley!

    1. They are lovely boys and have unlimited supplies of drugs. And SUCH big knives – you wouldn't believe…

  52. What do women say after having sex ?
    French woman…."C'était merveilleux"
    Italian woman….."È stato meraviglioso"
    German woman…."Das war wundervoll"
    English woman…."Feeling better now dear?"

  54. What Ed Miliband may not know about solar panels is their Shockley–Queisser limit.
    This is the maximum efficiency of a solar cell which is 33.16%.and is governed by quantum physics and not Government science.
    By contrast, gas boilers in UK are required to be at least 92% efficient.

    This represents a gross misuse of the solar energy avaiable from the sun in growing edible crops on agricultural land.
    If anything, the reduction from >90% down to >33% is worse than that because solar panels in practice are likely to <20% efficient and have a relatively short working life compared to our sun.

    The only reason I can see for a major investment in solar panels on agricultural land is the possibility of raising taxes at a future date as has already happened in Spain – and there's even more sun there!

    2. Milibastard doesn't care about truth or real science. He like a lot of others are following an agenda. Destroying agriculture is one of their goals. The aim being total control of everything people need so they can be controlled.

    4. My education in the ways of Pharma was through designing laboratories for Babraham Institute an animal testing complex near Cambridge.

      My education in the ways of GMO and crop testing was gained from working briefly on projects at John Innes near Norwich.

      I retain a deep skepticism as to the drivers of such research. It is obvious that Food Freedom has taken a similar downward spiral to Bodily Autonomy viz. the fundamental human right to eat what we like and to refuse medications if we do not trust or want them.

      Put simply I wish to know what is in the food I consume and likewise to know the ingredients and scientific value of the medications I am coerced into taking.

    5. My education in the ways of Pharma was through designing laboratories for Babraham Institute an animal testing complex near Cambridge.

      My education in the ways of GMO and crop testing was gained from working briefly on projects at John Innes near Norwich.

      I retain a deep skepticism as to the drivers of such research. It is obvious that Food Freedom has taken a similar downward spiral to Bodily Autonomy viz. the fundamental human right to eat what we like and to refuse medications if we do not trust or want them.

      Put simply I wish to know what is in the food I consume and likewise to know the ingredients and scientific value of the medications I am coerced into taking.

  55. What Ed Miliband may not know about solar panels is their Shockley–Queisser limit.
    This is the maximum efficiency of a solar cell which is 33.16%.and is governed by quantum physics and not Government science.
    By contrast, gas boilers in UK are required to be at least 92% efficient.

    This represents a gross misuse of the solar energy avaiable from the sun in growing edible crops on agricultural land.
    If anything, the reduction from >90% down to >33% is worse than that because solar panels in practice are likely to <20% efficient and have a relatively short working life compared to our sun.

    The only reason I can see for a major investment in solar panels on agricultural land is the possibility of raising taxes at a future date as has already happened in Spain – and there's even more sun there!

  57. Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen from a suddenly sunny Verwood.
    After my bacon sarnie and coffee I visited this wonderful place. St. Mary's at Breamore, on the very edge of the New Forest, near Fordingbridge. People have been coming together to worship for over a thousand years. The inscription on the arched doorway was carved by the Saxon stonemason in about 980 and translates as:
    “Here the covenant is manifested to thee”.

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    2. Thank you for the pictures. What a fabulous church! That inscription is amazing – so far away and yet so near…

    4. Verwood isn't far from me. I'm at Fareham. Drinks and nibbles on August 10th & 2pm. A few Nottlers coming if you would like to join us. Contact Hertslass for details.

  60. Afternoon, all. All of Labour's policies ignore fundamental reality. Milipede is no exception.

    1. I was at a reception attended by Milliband, Ed once. He is a very odd creature indeed – he reminded me strongly of those politicial hacks from university whose only life was politics. They had no relationship to the world outside the sphere of addictively exciting politics, and nothing else to fall back on.

      1. Terrible dinner guest. I doubt he even notices why he is never invited. Psychopath.

  61. Too hot and sticky for polyticks
    Laffs instead
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    https://x.com/nocontextbrits/status/1814986078983524750?s=46&t=hhgqHE2v9cQf9vH3lgsgTg

    1. Way way back, a Seminar on Erectile Dysfunction was organised for doctors at a local hospital it was sponsored by wait for it Upjohn!

      1. I turned up for a seminar on premature ejaculation – but it turned out to be the following day

  62. Well, it’s a small world. I am back from Cornwall and hammocking in between baking, and listening to podcasts. The current one is “A long time in Finance” and they are doing an interview with Jim Leaviss (billed as the “Bond Market’s Wyatt Earpe”). He mentioned he was given his big break in 1997 by a woman named Theo Zemek. I recognised her name immediately as she was my next door neighbour when i moved to London in 1997 and bought my flat (she had the whole next door house). I had no idea at the time really what she did or how important she was, only that she was American and good fun. We used to drink wine and at one point she gave me all her lovely shoes, as she had had a baby and her feet hadn’t gone back to their original size. I remember her little boy being obsessed with cars, and his dad would spend all Saturday morning sitting in his car while the boy played at driving. Anyway he is now a grown up sophisticated man in Finance with a very impressive CV, according to Linked In. Funny, happy days.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-long-time-in-finance/id1595603058?i=1000662712488

    1. Funnily enough, there is a Wyatt Earpe buried in the churchyard of my local church in Wolverhampton. I always wondered if there could be more than one, and I assume it must be possible!!!

  63. Well, it’s a small world. I am back from Cornwall and hammocking in between baking, and listening to podcasts. The current one is “A long time in Finance” and they are doing an interview with Jim Leaviss (billed as the “Bond Market’s Wyatt Earpe”). He mentioned he was given his big break in 1997 by a woman named Theo Zemek. I recognised her name immediately as she was my next door neighbour when i moved to London in 1997 and bought my flat (she had the whole next door house). I had no idea at the time really what she did or how important she was, only that she was American and good fun. We used to drink wine and at one point she gave me all her lovely shoes, as she had had a baby and her feet hadn’t gone back to their original size. I remember her little boy being obsessed with cars, and his dad would spend all Saturday morning sitting in his car while the boy played at driving. Anyway he is now a grown up sophisticated man in Finance with a very impressive CV, according to Linked In. Funny, happy days.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-long-time-in-finance/id1595603058?i=1000662712488

    1. Impressive. As usual I lag behind!
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    2. Well done.
      Par here late on parade.

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  65. Just listening to Jim Rickards on the US elections – he says that the Democrats must decide who they are going to run in the next ten days or so, and he speculated that they might run Harris with Barack Obama as her Vice-President! Apparently this would be allowed, whereas B.O. standing for President again would not.

        1. He may have, but I’ve seen too many “single sentences” that leave room for doubt.

  66. Holy Smoke.
    Just watching hurling; and I thought our hockey matches against the neighbouring girls' school were pretty full on.
    (Never played lacrosse, but I assume there are similarities.)
    Now, that is a game I could watch.

      1. Watching this, I'm surprised anyone finishes the match still conscious. Or with all four limbs intact.

        1. No and they just seemed to ignore injuries completely. I have no idea what any of the rules are or the scoring so it made no sense to me. Alf Switched to listening to the test cricket while I do soduko.

  68. That's me gone for this slightly odd day. Cloudy/sunny/windy/chilly/warm.

    Have a spiffing evening

    A demain. With luck.

  69. Police hunt for ‘hate crime’ suspect after Pride flags vandalised. 21 June 2024.

    Detective Inspector James Rush of the north east public protection unit, who is leading efforts to identify the offender, appealed to the public for information.

    “We stand with the local LGBTQ+ community and will not tolerate these disgusting, inexcusable hate crimes in Forest Gate,” he said. “We are committed to continuing our thorough investigation and attempting to identify the offender, who we believe is the same person who committed the damage in June at the same location.

    “The Met is clear that there is no place for hate in London, and my team are already working at pace to complete all lines of inquiry. I want to directly address the local community in Forest Gate. Someone knows who this person is. Do the right thing and tell police or, to remain anonymous, contact Crimestoppers.”

    Alternatively you could start an appeal for more paint for the man.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/21/police-hunt-hate-crime-suspect-pride-flag-vandalised/

        1. Never mind the counselling – the wish for compensation always trumps everything else.

  70. Britain: the country where everything is policed except crime.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/21/police-hunt-hate-crime-suspect-pride-flag-vandalised/

    "Police hunt for ‘hate crime’ suspect after Pride flags vandalised

    Flags painted on pavement outside railway station in east London were damaged in early hours of Friday morning

    The Metropolitan Police is appealing for witnesses after three Pride flags were vandalised in a “hate crime” incident.

    The flags painted on the pavement outside Forest Gate railway station in east London were vandalised in the early hours of Friday morning.

    It followed previous incidents of damage on June 23 and 26. Officers have trawled CCTV footage, made house-to-house enquiries and conducted forensic investigations, but no arrests have been made.

    The incidents are being treated as linked and enquiries are ongoing, the Met said. As part of the appeal, the force released an image of the suspect spraying paint on one of the flags.

    ‘Disgusting, inexcusable hate crimes’

    Detective Inspector James Rush of the north east public protection unit, who is leading efforts to identify the offender, appealed to the public for information.

    “We stand with the local LGBTQ+ community and will not tolerate these disgusting, inexcusable hate crimes in Forest Gate,” he said. “We are committed to continuing our thorough investigation and attempting to identify the offender, who we believe is the same person who committed the damage in June at the same location.

    “The Met is clear that there is no place for hate in London, and my team are already working at pace to complete all lines of inquiry. I want to directly address the local community in Forest Gate. Someone knows who this person is. Do the right thing and tell police or, to remain anonymous, contact Crimestoppers.”

    Caron Harrison, the co-founder of Forest Gayte Pride, said the local LGBT+ community was “appalled”, but stressed: “They cannot paint over our Pride”. "

      2. Personally I find displays of homosexuality a disgusting, inexcusable hate crime (against normality).

    2. Hadn't the pavements been vandalised by having these LGBTQWERTYUIOP devices painted on them in the first place? And what are they – some sacred irreplaceable monument?

      1. The pride multi-coloured crossings are illegal.
        There is one outside Colchester General Hospital leading from the car park to the EAU.
        I suppose they would claim it was on private land.

        1. They are appearing all over Malta. On public roads.
          I expect local government get extra money from the EU.
          Shame about Daphne.

      2. Much more important than rape, stabbing, muggings, "honour" killings, burglaries etc.

    3. Caron Harrison, the co-founder of Forest Gayte Pride, said the local LGBT+ community was “appalled”, but stressed: “They cannot paint over our Pride”. "

      As it is in the street am i allowed to shit on it? Asking for a far right Muslim friend…………….

    4. If the state wishes to keep it's monopoly on violence then it has got to start enforcing the law equally. That means dealing with the pikeys. It means properly cracking down on the joilers.

      But they won't. The stat elikes the power and it is abusing it to favour one group over another. If law is to mean anything then it must be applied consistently.

  71. Britain: the country where everything is policed except crime.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/21/police-hunt-hate-crime-suspect-pride-flag-vandalised/

    "Police hunt for ‘hate crime’ suspect after Pride flags vandalised

    Flags painted on pavement outside railway station in east London were damaged in early hours of Friday morning

    The Metropolitan Police is appealing for witnesses after three Pride flags were vandalised in a “hate crime” incident.

    The flags painted on the pavement outside Forest Gate railway station in east London were vandalised in the early hours of Friday morning.

    It followed previous incidents of damage on June 23 and 26. Officers have trawled CCTV footage, made house-to-house enquiries and conducted forensic investigations, but no arrests have been made.

    The incidents are being treated as linked and enquiries are ongoing, the Met said. As part of the appeal, the force released an image of the suspect spraying paint on one of the flags.

    ‘Disgusting, inexcusable hate crimes’

    Detective Inspector James Rush of the north east public protection unit, who is leading efforts to identify the offender, appealed to the public for information.

    “We stand with the local LGBTQ+ community and will not tolerate these disgusting, inexcusable hate crimes in Forest Gate,” he said. “We are committed to continuing our thorough investigation and attempting to identify the offender, who we believe is the same person who committed the damage in June at the same location.

    “The Met is clear that there is no place for hate in London, and my team are already working at pace to complete all lines of inquiry. I want to directly address the local community in Forest Gate. Someone knows who this person is. Do the right thing and tell police or, to remain anonymous, contact Crimestoppers.”

    Caron Harrison, the co-founder of Forest Gayte Pride, said the local LGBT+ community was “appalled”, but stressed: “They cannot paint over our Pride”. "

  72. Lasht posht – I am on my shecond (or sho) glassh of whine –

    I wonder how much the West Indies were paid to capitulate…

    Bonne shoirée…

    1. "I wonder how much the West Indies were paid to capitulate…"

      A little part of me was saddened by the way it ended. They'd had some good moments in the match. Mind you, I wouldn't have been bothered if it was the Windies of the 70s and 80s, backed by their kin making an infernal din.

      I'd have been laughing myself silly if it had been any Australian XI or Kohli's humourless crew.

    2. I was surprised how the Windies collapsed after a promising start – the England spinner Bashir (?) bowled extremely well, he seems a real find.

  73. Taken this afternoon:
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    1. Most dishonest resignation letter ever.
      Apparently they have to declare who the candidate is by the beginning of August, so they've only got a week and a half to get the new one in.
      I suppose any really interesting fights have already been carried out behind the scenes!

  75. – Snap elections here and in France with strange results, followed by an assassination attempt on Trump and now Biden withdraws from the presidential race.
    Things are moving fast at the supranational level, very fast indeed.

    1. Apparently Trump has said he's 'very angry'…he does have quite the sense of humour though…

        1. There you go, Sir J. I’ve been posting the 25th would apply, but GGGGaspar has put me right, thankfully. So, who’s our money on …Michelle Obama? Or an unknown?

  76. 389971+ up ticks,

    I think you will find that the invasion forces do tend to swell ALL aspects of the infrastructure to an unacceptable level and this is topped up daily

    We the indigenous will never,ever,ever,never catch up and the voting pattern shows we have accepted that, keep doing the euro lottery, who knows you could win a doctors appointment.

    Prison overcrowding threatens ‘stability’ as high-security inmates downgraded too early
    Serious criminals are being transferred to lower-security jails because of a shortage of spaces, leading to increasing violence

  77. Goodnight Sleepy Joe. Who's next?

    I've a pound to a piece of sh*te it wont be the dreadful Kamala.

    Big Mike anyone? 'I have never aspired to high office' – has she never seen Yes Minister???

    1. The deep state plan was to assassinate Trump on the eve of the RNC and install candidate Nikki Haley with Mike Pompeo as her VP ticket. The resultant media and international chaos had Trump been successfully killed was to be a full blown communications cyber take down.

      The focus on Iran in recent weeks suggests that the Democrats would have pushed for a war in Iran and dropped the ‘dead in the water’ bloodbath of their failed Ukraine project.

      We saw a partial collapse in systems and cloud loss but this had to be curtailed because Trump survived.

      Trump hastily took the Republican endorsement and announced J D Vance as his VP ticket.

      A deal has been struck whereby Joe Biden can pretend to be an active President for the remainder of his term (granting clemency or immunity from prosecution to his crime family syndicate) while he has endorsed Kamala Harris for the nomination.

      The next stage we are about to witness is likely the removal of Harris by heavy persuasion and threats and the installation of some other if not a celebrity actor.

          1. OK here's your challenge for today:

            Phizzee and Bill Thomas are normal and sosraboc's a leftie.

      2. No need for conspiracy theorists in this one – the conspiracies are writing themselves starting with the "wrong kind of roof" to be secured 🤣

    2. The deep state plan was to assassinate Trump on the eve of the RNC and install candidate Nikki Haley with Mike Pompeo as her VP ticket. The resultant media and international chaos had Trump been successfully killed was to be a full blown communications cyber take down.

      The focus on Iran in recent weeks suggests that the Democrats would have pushed for a war in Iran and dropped the ‘dead in the water’ bloodbath of their failed Ukraine project.

      We saw a partial collapse in systems and cloud loss but this had to be curtailed because Trump survived.

      Trump hastily took the Republican endorsement and announced J D Vance as his VP ticket.

      A deal has been struck whereby Joe Biden can pretend to be an active President for the remainder of his term (granting clemency or immunity from prosecution to his crime family syndicate) while he has endorsed Kamala Harris for the nomination.

      The next stage we are about to witness is likely the removal of Harris by heavy persuasion and threats and the installation of some other if not a celebrity actor.

    3. I refer my right honourable friend to the 25th Amendment….seriously G4 I think that's where it goes, unless agreed otherwise?

      1. the 25th only applies if the President dies, resigns or is impeached. Biden is doing none of these, in fact he has committed to serving out his term!!

        There is no way Kamala gets the nod – there will be a ‘left field’ candidate – Michelle Obama or George Clooney……

        1. Ah thanks G4, that’s a relief…or is it, depending on who does get the nod. Michelle quite possibly (two for the price of one there). Clooney..lol…

      1. Eh? He’s committed to serve out his term and he has superficially endorsed Harris – not that it matters – he wont be calling the shots and it won’t, repeat won’t be her.
        If he really wanted her he’d resign and the 25th amendment would kick in…..

  78. 389971+ up ticks,

    Major criminal on the loose triggers police hunt, just as the police get their combined breath back from suffering the "trots" in leeds.

    Police hunt for ‘hate crime’ suspect after Pride flags vandalised
    Flags painted on pavement outside railway station in east London were damaged in early hours of Friday morning

  79. Just lost the Internet for a while – had to switch the router off and on again and restart the computer – so while I'm connected, I'll just say that I may be offline for a few days, so if I disappear, don't panic.

  81. Just switched off Radio 3 after its right on Climate Change bollocks!

    Part of me wishes the 1970s Global cooling prognostications would actually materialise to put these pillocks back in their boxes!

  82. Little par 3 today

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  83. I'm going to give up trying with the Internet and go off to do other things. Goodnight, everybody. See you when I see you!

    1. Yes, he's a class act is Justin – just came up short.

      Schauffele, or Scheffler, or Schoffeler whatever was worth the win, however…..

      1. In other sports news I was really hoping for a proper, 5-day, closely fought Test match. Not to be, sadly, 😒

        1. Yes, PJ, a strange Test Match – Trent Bridge looked like a complete 'road' but was just starting to do a bit later today.

          Nonetheless the Windies had a good start in the 4th innings but just fell apart, they're still quite brittle unfortunately – although our new spinner Bashir (?) seems like a bit of a find!

        2. I left for fishing at 4pm today. Got back at 9pm and checked the score. Totally gobsmacked (never used that expression before) to see what happened. Then I hear Biden's gone/going! Strange times. I was looking forward to the match's conclusion tomorrow, and to watching Biden lose in November.

    2. Still one of golf's nearly-men (if you discount his US Open). It's the second time he's tied for second place two strokes behind the winner.

          1. Perhaps you don't make yourself clear?

            Rose may well be "one of golf's nearly-men", but the way you posted the comment, in my view, made it denigrating of his achievements.

            And for me it was a snide comment.

          2. Calm down.

            I was referring to the Open, in which he's rarely challenged for the title. He's even missed a few cuts. His record in the US majors is good in terms of top 10 finishes and the one US Open. He's been really good in the Ryder Cup, notably 2012.

            I was really rooting for him today but he couldn't come up with the big round he needed.

          3. Blimey, you think someone who has finished as high in the orders at the Open as he has has rarely challenged?

          4. His record in the Open is actually very mixed. Six missed cuts and a lot of finishes well down the field.

            I missed a couple of other near-things. His first outing in 1998 (as an amateur) he was tied 4th but only two shots behind. In 2015 he was tied 6th, three shots behind.

      2. There's a lot of seriously good golfers that have never won a single Major – saying 'if you discount his US Open' is a bit like saying England have never won a major football tournament if you discount the 66 World Cup!

        1. It was badly put but I've explained it elsewhere.

          And your England comparison doesn't work.

          3. The concept remains the same. Sports Teams assume a collective personality – particularly national teams.

          4. Individual sports are different. It may seem harsh, but competitors are remembered for how many of the 'recognised' major tournaments they win, notably in golf and tennis. That's just how those sports have evolved.

            A number of fine players have never won any of the big four in either sport. I can think of Colin Montgomerie – I'm sure you can come up with other examples. A win for him would have been cheered throughout the islands, as was Darren Clarke's (although I suspect a win for Ian Poulter might not have invoked quite the same warm feelings).

          5. Well, I'd go with Lee Westwood, and I like Ian Poulter and think he was the heartbeat behind a couple of the Ryder Cup wins!
            I think we agree on more than we disagree so I'll take it back to the original point.

            Only 19 Englishmen have ever won a Major (thank you Wiki)

            If Justin Rose never wins another thing in his life he will go down as one of 'our' greats, no doubt about it. He might have won more, and might still win more, but he's a class act and, seemingly, an excellent bloke.

  87. Well by now you will have heard the news about Biden

    What I can't fathom is how can anyone have this much brass neck to spout such guff?

    "Joe Biden "will go down in history as one of the most impactful and selfless presidents", says California Governor Gavin Newsom.
    Writing on X, he says his fellow Democrat "has fought hard for working people and delivered astonishing results for all Americans".

    1. More guff?

      "Britain's former foreign secretary, James Cleverly, thanks President Joe Biden for being a "great friend to the UK".

      1. "Britain's former foreign secretary, James Cleverly, who is renowned for his ability to eat shit, thanks President Joe Biden for being a "great friend to the UK".

  88. Watching Pelosi (on GB News) giving some eulogy to Bidin – flanked by three flunkies wearing black face masks. Makes you wonder why.

  91. Taken from Biden's resignation message:
    It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.

    This is Biden and for that matter the Democrats in a nutshell.
    Party before country.
    I hate that man, and all he crawls/crawled for.

    1. "Party first" isn't restricted to the Dems. Didn't we used to have a party in the UK with a similar mindset? I forget the name. Something to do with one nation. Began with "C". What happened to them?

    2. From Coffee House, the Spectator
      Joe Biden’s career ends in failure
      Comments Share 21 July 2024, 7:00pm
      President Joe Biden’s announcement this evening that he will not seek a second term came after weeks of increasing pressure from Democratic party insiders, alarmed that voters had finally discovered what they had known for months: Joe Biden is a shell of the man he once was. Voters knew it, and they won’t reelect him. They also knew they had been lied to by the White House, Biden’s political allies, and the mainstream media. The cumulative result was almost certain to cost Democrats not only the White House but the House and Senate, as well.
      The party’s problems were never limited to Joe Biden’s poor health
      Biden’s inglorious exit evoked the fate of that great cartoon character, Wile E. Coyote. His futile pursuit of the Road Runner usually ended with Wile E. running off a cliff but remaining suspended in mid-air until he looked down. When he finally looked, he began plummeting to the canyon floor, far below.
      That is Joe Biden’s fate, and he was as slow to grasp it as Wile E. Coyote. He ran off the cliff after his catastrophic debate performance against Donald Trump. For weeks he refused to look down. He wouldn’t look when his wife helped him walk down a few stairs after the debate. He wouldn’t look when Barack Obama had to guide him off the stage at George Clooney’s star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles. He wouldn’t look when major donors reported their shock at his frail appearance and began closing their cheque books. He wouldn’t look as he stumbled through recent interviews. He wouldn’t look as more elected officials began calling for him to end the race for reelection. The canyon was too far below. Better to try and stay suspended in mid-air.
      He had a little help, at least for a while. The major media was slow to abandon the candidate they had backed for so long. The day after the Clooney fundraiser, the Washington Post ran a rainbows-and-unicorns article about fine it all was. Nothing to see here; please move along. A month later, the same paper reported on the same event, saying, in effect, their earlier article didn’t give the full picture and that Biden was in bad shape. Of course, they never admitted their own shameful role in misleading their readers.
      After the debate fiasco, the only way for Biden to get back on solid ground was to give extemporaneous interviews and avoid major mistakes. If he were successfully, he would prove he could still do the job.
      Unfortunately, those interviews did not go well. He waited too long after the debate to begin them and then did too little to assuage voters’ concerns. He made grotesque errors (for instance, saying he was the first black vice president), and his team was caught handing softball questions to some radio stations. The best one could say about these interviews was ‘some weren’t so bad’.
      Biden gave himself much higher grades and kept saying (to paraphrase), ‘I’m staying in this race, and I’m not changing my mind. My health is fine, the polls show a close race, and I’ve always been “the comeback kid”.’
      Biden may have truly believed that, but party bigwigs did not. Not any longer. Their sober reassessment posed a terrible dilemma for them and their party because Biden alone controlled the decision whether to stay or go. He had won all the Democratic primaries because he was the incumbent and insiders had been too timid to endorse a serious challenger when it really mattered. The result was that Biden had more than enough convention delegates to win the nomination. He controlled the decision whether to stay in the race.
      He clearly wanted to stay and said it time and time again, publicly and privately. Since Biden held all the cards, what pushed him out? A succession of grim, private conversations with the party’s leaders from the House and Senate and major Democratic fundraisers. Their voices carried weight because they had all supported him. Until now.
      No more. They had read the polling results with a cold eye and listened to their beleaguered members, who feared Biden’s name at the top of the ticket would cost them their jobs. All of them concluded the presidential race was hopeless, even before Donald Trump emerged triumphant from an assassination attempt. The insiders’ verdict, echoed by their major donors and the media, was that Biden would cost Democrats the House and Senate. Staying in, they told him privately, would seal his historic image as the architect of disaster.
      This message from elected leaders was reinforced by his most loyal fundraisers, who told him the money had dried up. Some was going to down-ballot races to avert disaster there. Some had dried up for those candidate, too. Every Democratic running in a purple district was petrified, and they were saying so to party leaders. It was those vulnerable who led the public calls for Biden to withdraw.
      Yet these public calls were not Biden’s biggest problem. The numbers were growing, but they were still relatively small. The problem was the private calls. Those were harsh, and they could easily go public if Biden refused to budge. Their message was loud and clear: ‘Get out. Now.’
      The same message was echoed in critical reports from the legacy media, long an integral part of the Democratic coalition. They had covered up for him for years. For the last two, at least, they had failed to meet their fundamental duty

  92. The liberal left are in End of Days mood: "Now he's gone, so have the Democrats and we must prepare for the horrors of Trump and Vance. Will the world survive?" and so on…

    1. Good. When I refitted the kitchen at the last place, the built-in microwave insisted on telling me "End time" every time it had finished. I believed it was prescient then, and nothing which has followed has persuaded me otherwise…

      1. Sounds like an episode of 'The Twilight Zone' – we control the microwave……

  93. It never stops:

    Is there anything/anywhere/anytime when a black person isn't lauded over and above any other race?
    I cannot imagine the same expressions of overwhelming admiration for an Asian who did similarly, let alone a white man/woman who won something in Africa.

    By finishing safely in Nice, sprinter Biniam Girmay made history – becoming the first black African winner of the Tour de France points classification.

      1. I'm unsure why you've put this as a reply to my post although I agree with the sentiments.

          1. Ah, I think I've heard about this…doesn't it involve white folk taking the knee in the groin?

    2. “black and brown people”

      Yet for some reason, never “yellow people”.

    1. "The only reason I know this is fake, is because he actually completed a sentence."

      *Chortle*

  96. Labour’s tax raid on private school fees could hit families as soon as January
    Imposition of VAT could potentially take effect from start of the spring term despite expectations of September 2025 start
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/21/labour-vat-tax-raid-private-school-fees-start-date-january/

    BTL

    Labour does not believe in good education because it wants people to be stupid and the more stupid they are the more likely they will be to vote Labour.

    It is not just private schools that Starmer wants to destroy – he also wants to ruin the discipline in state schools so that the badly-behaved children can make it even more difficult for the others to learn.

    Katherine Birbalsingh, the headmistress of the Michaela School – an exceptional 'free school', is very concerned by this.

  99. Well. chums, I am now off to bed so I will wish you all a Good Night. I hope you all sleep well, and awaken feeling refreshed tomorrow morning.

  101. Night night folks. Just home from the Proms. The Albert Hall was packed and it was hideously white. I spotted two black people in the Arena and one black kid in the children’s choir. I expect there are plans…

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  102. Evening didn't go as planned.
    After a couple of ciders, went to a restaurant for dinner. On the way back, passed out and crashed on the side of the road. Woke in the ambulance on the way to A&E, much heart monitorin and CT scanning later, ejected home. Now I'm all scuffed and banged, some lovely bruises, and specs need some attention.
    Bugger. Wonder wtf happened there…

      1. Costs to keep me in. And inpatients don't have to pay, the scans etc cost me £37.

        1. Hopefully, they sent you home because they thought there was no immediate threat to you.

    2. Oh, tough luck, Paul. Been in that situation myself – low blood-pressure and you just fall over. Look forward to a ton more medication.

    3. Oh, that is awful for you. Was it a TIA? (Transient Ischaemic Attack). My mum used to suffer from those from time to time, she would just fall over and not know anything about it, but injuring herself as she fell. It could have been so much worse for you. Get a good night's sleep. You'll feel stiff and sore tomorrow, be prepared. Look after yourself.

      1. Thanks, PM. I'm all bruised & dented, with typical hands-into-the-gravel hand injuries that'll be sore for a couple of days, swollen knee, otherwise thoroughly pi55ed that a nice day with Second Son ended in fiasco.

    5. Why did they allow you to come home especially as you have medical history?

      How do you feel, did you have a reaction to your meal , were you on your own, where was your Moh?

      1. Paul has a SWBO not a Moh, Maggie.

        We all hope he's recovering and love and hugs.

      2. SWMBO is away up-country, on a course. I was out with Second Son, who rolled me over, called ambulance, stayed with me all the way home via A&E. The smoothness he showed in handling an alarming situation (Father suddenly falls off perch, looks dead) was extremely impressive. I'm dead proud of him, so I am.

    6. What a bugger. I think you need to re-evaluate your lifestyle choices. Perhaps have a monitor and one of those alarms you hang round your neck. Allow someone else to drive. Perhaps even get a some serious tests done.

      Take it easy for a start.

    7. Oh my goodness what a shock for you. How did you get home? You need some investigation to find out the cause. Hope you recover quickly. Best wishes.

      1. Home via ambulance & A&E. CT scan, loads of measurements. Discharged, taxi home.
        Now a day off work ‘cos I don’t feel up to it, also knee, hands, wrists sore. Pretty colours, though!

  103. Evening didn't go as planned.
    After a couple of ciders, went to a restaurant for dinner. On the way back, passed out and crashed on the side of the road. Woke in the ambulance on the way to A&E, much heart monitorin and CT scanning later, ejected home. Now I'm all scuffed and banged, some lovely bruises, and specs need some attention.
    Bugger. Wonder wtf happened there…

  104. Another day is done so, I wish you a goodnight and may God bless all you Gentlefolk. If we are spared! Bis morgen früh.

    1. It's clearly Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch doing their early footstep routine but with revolvers instead of guitars. Lol.

    1. 'Morning, Geoff and thank you for all the work and effort you have put in to keep us all going. Well done!

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