Sunday 3 October: Government energy policy owes more to virtue-signalling than sense

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      1. Cromford got a visit on Friday afternoon on the travelling antiques show (can’t think of the name of the programme). They visited a couple of antiques shops in a large brick building.

    1. Excellent…but no one in government is listening – or even capable of listening. Their breathtaking arrogance is matched by their incompetence, and this will be their downfall.

      ‘Morning Rik.

  5. ‘Strategy like Prevent’ needed to counter violence against women, says police watchdog. 3 October 2021.

    In an exclusive interview, Zoe Billingham, a senior HM inspector of police, demanded a radical rethink in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder, citing unacceptable disparities with some forces abandoning 80 per cent of investigations due to delays or inadequate detective work.

    She said the Government should consider statutory minimum standards for investigations of violence against women, such as CCTV checks, door-to-door investigations, taking witness statements and issuing public appeals, unless police reduce the shocking number of women who withdraw from prosecutions.

    Ms Billingham, who led the HMI inquiry into violence against women for Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, said such measures were needed to restore women’s trust in the criminal justice system following the jailing of Wayne Couzens for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard

    If such bureaucratic measures worked against decadence we would still be a part of the Roman Empire!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/02/inspector-police-says-minimum-standards-cases-violence-against/

    1. “She said the Government should consider statutory minimum standards for investigations of violence against women”
      Will such “standards” be applied to the untold thousands of raped and brutalised victims of the Paki Rape Gangs??
      No,thought not……….

      1. Morning Rik. A supposedly advanced country with no petrol. Rocketing gas bills. Electricity bills shortly to rise astronomically. Christmas cancelled. Motorways blocked. No HGV drivers. The whole system is coming apart!

        3. The word ‘coincidence’ has been made redundant by the globalists within our government. How Tory MPs can remain sitting on their hands while the lunatics in the Cabinet continue to dismantle society is beyond me. There appears to be no political opposition to what is going on and therefore all must be held complicit.

  6. Freedom of Information you say……….

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/02/19/48682383-10052689-image-a-8_1633199938539.jpg

    This newspaper used Freedom of Information rules to obtain a cache of 32

    emails about a secretive teleconference between British and American

    health officials held early in the pandemic

    The critical call is at the centre of concerns that the scientific

    establishment tried to stifle debate on the pandemic’s origins, as

    damning new evidence emerges of US ties to high-risk research on bat

    viruses in Wuhan, where the first cases emerged in late 2019.

    The Mail on Sunday requested emails, minutes and notes on the call between

    Sir Patrick Vallance – Britain’s chief scientific adviser – and its

    organisers Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust medical

    charity, and Anthony Fauci, the US infectious diseases expert and

    presidential adviser.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10052689/Government-condemned-refusing-release-details-key-email-conversations-Covid-origins.html
    Mushrooms,we are mushrooms,kept in the dark and fed bullshit and we’re the awake and curious ones!!

  7. Police Stop

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/150986bd984d9dd2c4d9435cbcb42ccc78ec430cd14ea33d4c7be0d14a4c38e8.jpg

    An elderly man is stopped by the police around 2 a.m. and is asked where he is going at this time of night.
    The man replies, “I am on my way to a lecture about alcohol abuse and the effects it has on the human body, as well as smoking and staying out late.”
    The officer then asks, “Really? Who is giving that lecture at this time of night?”
    The man replies, “That would be my wife.”

  8. Chinese planes fly over Taiwan defence zone in second day of record show of force. 3 October 2021.

    China has for the second day in a row flown more than 30 military planes towards Taiwan in yet another record show of force.

    Taiwan’s defence ministry said 39 aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone in two sorties on Saturday, one during the day and one at night. That followed a similar pattern on Friday, when 38 planes flew into the area south of the self-governing island.

    The ministry said 20 planes took part in the daytime flights on Saturday and another 19 at night. It identified most of them as J-17 and SU-30 fighter jets.

    Hmmm? It looks like China has decided that a world in disarray and America’s present weakness is the time to strike.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/03/chinese-planes-fly-over-taiwan-defence-zone-in-second-day-of-record-show-of-force

    2. How could Biden, or rather his puppeteers, explain away Chinese aggression against Taiwan? After the Afghan failure the USA’s reputation plunged around the World and now the prospect of Taiwan being in trouble will only exacerbate that decline. It’s clearly part of the globalist’s plan to destroy the West, nothing else makes sense.
      From the Ledger Report, a USA patriotic programme, a quarter of a million USA military personnel across all services are fighting the “vaccine” mandate. Discharging that number with a dishonourable tag against their names will be quite an achievement even for a man who is renowned for f*****g up everything he comes into contact with.

      1. Meanwhile, the only person under investigation for the avoidable strategic failure in Afghanistan is decorated USMC officer Lt Col Stuart Scheller. He is currently in pre-trial detention for violating a ‘gag order’ to bar him from asking senior leaders for accountability. (h/t The Gatestone Institute) Yet General Mark Milley (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) remains at large after formulating secret plans against President Trump, in case he went ‘rogue’ during the FBI led ‘insurrection’ on 6 Jan 21. It’s a funny old world.

        1. When those at the top who made the decision attempt to pass the buck for failure down the pecking order, you know that your country is in trouble.

  9. Good morning all from a cold but. at the moment at least, dry Derbyshire.
    Sun’s not up yet, so it’s still quite dull outside, but the sky appears clear and it’s 3°C on the yard thermometer!

  10. Britain to carry out ‘offensive’ cyber attacks from new £5bn digital warfare centre. 3 October 2021.

    Britain will launch “offensive” cyber attacks in response to similar assaults or disinformation campaigns by “hostile states” such as Russia, the Defence Secretary has said, as he unveiled plans for a £5bn digital warfare centre in the heart of the red wall.

    In an interview with The Telegraph, Ben Wallace revealed that the new National Cyber Force headquarters will be built in the North West, in a move Boris Johnson hopes will emulate the construction of GCHQ, the government’s listening post, outside Cheltenham under Winston Churchill’s premiership.

    £5bn? Really? The UK already carries out cyber attacks against Russia! What we have here is a luxury doss house for 77 Brigade to both monitor and counter Social Media dissent online.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/02/britain-capable-launching-offensive-cyber-attacks-against-russia/

  11. Britain to carry out ‘offensive’ cyber attacks from new £5bn digital warfare centre. 3 October 2021.

    Britain will launch “offensive” cyber attacks in response to similar assaults or disinformation campaigns by “hostile states” such as Russia, the Defence Secretary has said, as he unveiled plans for a £5bn digital warfare centre in the heart of the red wall.

    In an interview with The Telegraph, Ben Wallace revealed that the new National Cyber Force headquarters will be built in the North West, in a move Boris Johnson hopes will emulate the construction of GCHQ, the government’s listening post, outside Cheltenham under Winston Churchill’s premiership.

    £5bn? Really? The UK already carries out cyber attacks against Russia! What we have here is a luxury doss house for 77 Brigade to both monitor and counter Social Media dissent online.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/02/britain-capable-launching-offensive-cyber-attacks-against-russia/

    2. 339569+ up ticks,
      Morning AS,
      But Gert wants a new hip and vet Tommy Atkins to swap his concrete pillow for feathers.

    3. Handy for weekends in the Lake District. But seriously, if one can stop laughing long enough, a cyber attack force could be put together for a lot less money than that. I would do it (sale or return kind of thing, no success no fee) for an undisclosed sum around of £2.1 billion. Might even be able to do it for slightly less if I had the use of the Met Office computers.

      https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/what/technology/supercomputer

      1. TBF, it’s not as if the Met Office are using it properly. Once they’d skewed the ‘forecasts’ with their input of biased global warming models even Douglas Adams’ Deep Thought would struggle to produce a realistic output.

        1. “42, 42, 42,” “Ere Bernie, it just keeps repeating this number. What can it mean?”
          “Oh, bother, Fred. It’s got its wires crossed with the drinks machine again. 42 is a double latté with whipped cream. Just click” 2″ and “enter” and I’ll go and get them. Then you can switch it off and on again.”

    4. 5 thousand million quid. For what?

      What is the money being spent on? Why are we attacking other countries? Why are we not better defending our own?

      Good grief, with that money you could give everyone in the country genuine fibre connectivity for ten years for free.

    1. Excellent portrayal of a politician who has literally lost the plot because of his adherence to globalist diktat. The confusion is no doubt deliberate but Johnson isn’t capable of coming close to masking what is going on.

      Lots going on in the cartoon besides the main thrust i.e. a bedraggled and lost Johnson. I particularly like the red jerrycan, it should, of course, be GREEN.

  14. Morning all

    SIR – More than 20 per cent of Britain’s carbon dioxide output is accounted for by the heating of buildings. Since our share of global emissions is 1 per cent, eliminating gas boilers would save only 0.2 per cent globally, which would make no difference to the climate. This is not to say that we should do nothing, but that we have much more time to develop and perfect new energy technologies.

    The Government’s position on climate change is ill thought through and owes more to virtue-signalling than to considering the science, engineering and especially the costs involved. Rushing to “net zero” by 2050 is not justified by Britain’s low carbon dioxide output.

    The banning of gas boilers and internal combustion-engined vehicles will eventually require a tripling of grid generating capacity, and the intermittency of wind power means an extensive upgrade to baseload generating capacity. The Government has been deliberately vague about the costs involved, but it will be trillions, not billions of pounds, and these costs will inevitably bear most heavily on the poorest in society.

    We should have an interim policy of “minimal carbon” to allow time to develop a sensible energy policy, not an arbitrary target that owes more to the Prime Minister’s desire to virtue-signal on the world stage.

    Peter Crawford

    Sheffield, South Yorkshire

    SIR – National Grid estimates that it will cost £3 trillion to decarbonise, which equates to about £100,000 per family in Britain.

    The Government must face reality and put back the date for phasing out diesel and petrol vehicles to allow time for the innovation needed to provide power when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.

    Roger J Arthur

    Storrington, West Sussex

    SIR – Why has the economic potential of marine energy to provide heat and electricity been largely ignored? The city of Glasgow has commissioned a system to take 20 per cent of its heating needs from the Clyde Estuary using heat-pump technology, which can also be used for cooling. Why are other estuarine cities, including London, not doing likewise?

    Sea defences to offset rising sea levels and storm surge now demand massive new construction efforts around our coasts. Working together, government and industry could implement proven British energy-producing marine technologies to enrich and transform our economy. Why is this not happening?

    Elizabeth Marshall

    Edinburgh

    SIR – Despite going bust, Avro Energy tried to take a payment of £131 from my bank account this month. Fortunately, I had cancelled the direct debit, despite the official advice that there was “no need” to. My account was £119 in credit when Avro ceased trading.

    Richard Cheeseman

    Defending free speech

    SIR – Victor Launert’s letter (September 26), on the importance of free speech in our universities, reminded me of being at Aberdeen in the 1970s.

    In one incident, a student selling the Socialist Worker newspaper outside the refectory was surprised to be joined by another, who was selling copies of the Beano. The Beano quickly sold out, unlike the Socialist Worker.

    On another occasion, the Student Representative Council – which was ignored by most students – voted to occupy the admin block in protest against the university’s investments in South Africa. After two weeks of disruption, hundreds of us attended the next SRC meeting. When the time came, council members voted to continue the protest, but the vast majority voted to end it – and won.

    There is a message of hope here for those worried that society is being taken over by woke zealots. Fair-minded people resent having their lives interfered with and will take action to prevent it if pushed too far.

    Alastair Blair

    Newmilns, Ayrshire

  15. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    SIR – More than 20 per cent of Britain’s carbon dioxide output is accounted for by the heating of buildings. Since our share of global emissions is 1 per cent, eliminating gas boilers would save only 0.2 per cent globally, which would make no difference to the climate. This is not to say that we should do nothing, but that we have much more time to develop and perfect new energy technologies.

    The Government’s position on climate change is ill thought through and owes more to virtue-signalling than to considering the science, engineering and especially the costs involved. Rushing to “net zero” by 2050 is not justified by Britain’s low carbon dioxide output.

    The banning of gas boilers and internal combustion-engined vehicles will eventually require a tripling of grid generating capacity, and the intermittency of wind power means an extensive upgrade to baseload generating capacity. The Government has been deliberately vague about the costs involved, but it will be trillions, not billions of pounds, and these costs will inevitably bear most heavily on the poorest in society.

    We should have an interim policy of “minimal carbon” to allow time to develop a sensible energy policy, not an arbitrary target that owes more to the Prime Minister’s desire to virtue-signal on the world stage.

    Peter Crawford
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire

    Quite right, Peter Crawford. The only way to stop this hugely damaging eco-crap is to get rid of its promoter asap!

    1. The Government’s position on climate change is ill thought through…

      Peter Crawford gives far too much credit to Johnson’s “government”.

    2. The Government’s position on climate change is ill thought through…

      Peter Crawford gives far too much credit to Johnson’s “government”.

    3. As an environmentalist myself, I take exception to the use of simplistic and prejudicial phrases such as “eco-crap”, deliberately and maliciously used to justify the destruction of rainforests and the driving of many species to extinction.

      However, the drive to electric power is counter-productive, and ecologically possibly worse even than burning coal, if the only way to maintain the grid during periods of high demand is to turn up the gas. Yesterday, I had a letter from my LPG supplier putting up the price with immediate effect by 15p a litre. It’s going to make electricity generation ruinous for all but those who reward their incompetence with big “market-led” deregulated remuneration packages.

      Doing what Peter Crawford is suggesting is not stopping “eco-crap”, it may well be making an ecologically-benign solution viable.

      1. It’s one thing caring about the environment, plastic waste, loss of biodiversity, extinctions and all the other things stemming from the overpopulation of sensitive areas – but windpower in the UK will solve none of these problems.

        1. At the moment, windpower is like icing on the cake, rather than the cake itself. It is best used to top up supplies, to reduce demand making existing supplies more resilient and keeping a range of options open, should one of them fail (as is happening right now with natural gas). Not just windpower, but photovoltaics on roofs (which I have), local harvesting of firewood otherwise destined for bonfires or the skip, and any number of other ingenious devices our inventors can come up with (if they still exist). It may even resort to getting obese schoolchildren to power cycle generators during lessons to keep the lights on.

          Like Boris Island, there are environmental implications with wind-powered generators as regards danger to birds. Greens really do need to evaluate these and take them into account, rather than making their campaign a one-trick pony.

          1. Maybe I’ve become soft, but the idea of scavenging for firewood has very little appeal!

          2. A friend of mine had a father who lived in Wolverhampton who invited all the jobbing builders in the city to chuck any waste offcuts of timber into his front garden for processing, rather than taking up space in a skip. It kept him warm all winter.

          3. I’ve done that with a neighbour who is having major work done on their house. One just has to watch that there is no paint or other potentially noxious substance on the wood (the house is from 1905, but some of the new wood has also been treated). I’m not sure about varnish but have also avoided that, just in case.

            P.S. I gave the neighbours a couple of bottles of wine and they are happy for me to take what I want – so it’s win/win. They even asked their men to single out burnable wood and bring it over to me! We just have to saw it down now.

          4. I’ve done that with a neighbour who is having major work done on their house. One just has to watch that there is no paint or other potentially noxious substance on the wood (the house is from 1905, but some of the new wood has also been treated). I’m not sure about varnish but have also avoided that, just in case.

            P.S. I gave the neighbours a couple of bottles of wine and they are happy for me to take what I want – so it’s win/win. They even asked their men to single out burnable wood and bring it over to me! We just have to saw it down now.

          5. I kept the bits of roof battens etc that had been replaced when I had my roof done and used them in the fire.

    4. Except that all the parties with any chance of ever being in power are all committed to the same ruinous policies that will make life intolerable and the country uneconomic in favour of China, the mass polluter.

  16. A grounded couple

    SIR – Instead of travelling around lecturing people about the severity of global warming, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could make a stand by refusing to travel anywhere.

    The planet would thank them for giving up their polluting private jets and we would be less irritated by them, so they would be achieving their goal of actually helping people.

    Hannah Hunt

    Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire

    1. “The planet would thank them…”.

      I’m afraid those two are beyond redemption. Everything they have done has p*ssed off so many people that there is no way back.

      1. And not many men (are we allowed to call them that?) as most would still be awaiting demob.

        1. It was always the women who organised these things. Men were normally down the Pub.

          Good morning, Mum.

          1. Down the pit or, in this case, in uniform in France, Germany, Africa and the Far East.

      2. How far we have fallen.

        I appreciate the misty lenses of nostalgia but truly, with the stabbing epidemic, a massive government, incredible taxes, massive welfare dependence have we really gone further forward?

    4. “The Railway arches & signal gantry at 56 seconds.”

      Almost certainly on the High Level bridge but it’s hard to place the street on old OS maps.

  18. SIR – Instead of travelling around lecturing people about the severity of global warming, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could make a stand by refusing to travel anywhere.

    The planet would thank them for giving up their polluting private jets and we would be less irritated by them, so they would be achieving their goal of actually helping people.

    Hannah Hunt
    Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire

    Sorry about the reference to Ginge and Whinge, but Hannah Hunt has a point.

    1. Cop 26 is shortly to be held in Glasgow. The delegates are all arriving by aircraft!

      1. Now that’s a spot the XR fanatics and their idiot offspring could well ‘occupy’.

        1. But maybe they know, that in that instance, the police farce and its Stasi lookalikes, will cut up rough to save Boris’ ugly mug.

        1. They are working on the principle that if the fraud is big enough and open enough, nobody will spot it.

        2. But the peasants serving the high panjandrums will still be masked to remind them of their inferior status.

      4. Good morning,
        Not just the delegates but each with their bloated entourage too. Maybe some illegals will need to be relocated from their hotels to accommodate them …..

  19. A cashless society takes power from the people
    SIR – You report that a Which? survey shows the public feel they are being forced to abandon cash (Money, September 26), and that 18 per cent of shoppers had been unable to pay with it at least once between April and July.

    As well as charging us for spending our own money, credit-card providers have a worrying degree of control over our means of payment, as well as the legal right to refuse to issue a card, or to revoke an existing one.

    Such power needs curtailing by encouraging more providers and other payment avenues.

    Cashless payments have become indispensable to everyday life. If an innocent person were to be prevented from making such payments, they would effectively be divorced from society. Legislation is urgently required.

    Doug Clark
    Currie, Midlothian

    Fair point, Doug, but don’t forget the valuable protection provided by Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act which covers rogue traders. My credit card saved my bacon when I was recently in that situation.

    1. If an innocent person were to be prevented from making such payments, they would effectively be divorced from society.

      Surely this is the purpose as with smart meters etc. You are to be controlled remotely!

      1. I suffered a broken meter for many months. I was told the modem didn’t work.

        One day, the monitor starts reading the electricity use as well as the gas.

        Now, if the modem didn’t work, how was that fix distributed?

    2. Hugh, laws are made by governments, who have ulterior motives. In this case, they set the scene deliberately to tilt the balance in favour of credit cards.
      Once they’ve got rid of cash, the disadvantages of cards will far, far outstrip anything we’ve seen to date.

      1. It will be like China; only those with a good social credit will be allowed to use services like credit cards.

    3. Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act only covers you if the purchase is over £100. But that is the reason why I always use my credit card, especially for amounts over £100 (even when retailers were allowed to charge extra for a credit card purchase).

  21. Headline in today’s DT:

    Holiday freedom as Boris Johnson slashes red list in time for half-term
    Quarantine is set to be abolished for almost all countries as the Prime Minister prepares for post-Covid ‘normality’.

    The Tory staged PR onslaught – sorry, conference – Is upon us (groan) so stand by for a welter of announcements and false promises, all of which will bypass Parliament.

    1. Morning HJ – This is probably to cover for the Covid backlash which could follow the Cop26 conference in Glasgow. I am disappointed that N Sturgeon has not cancelled this shindig . Scotland’s very early Covid epidemic in January 2020 was a result of a Sport Company’s international conference in Edinburgh.

      1. This is Scotland. A big and serious player on the World Stage. Superbly run by a Head of State who is the epitome good good taste, fashion sense, and with a winning personality.
        That this circus turns Glasgow into a no-go area for its population of 600,000, that their rights are being circumscribed by illegal searches, many road closures, and a parade of guns such as has not been seen since the last May Day Parade in Russia, matters not a jot to the Glorious Leader.
        Whereas any sane head of State would have refused this meeting outright, Ms Murrell is intending to wallow in a sea of self-aggrandisement, basking and preening in the presence of the Big Boys. (I suppose that she has been invited?)

    2. Good morning HJ.
      If the slashing of the red list results in an upsurge of ‘cases’ (including from all those families spending a few weeks ‘back home’ , maybe collecting a few illiterate, unemployable new spouses in the process…. we all know who), it will be another excuse to ruin another Christmas with movement restrictions. Job done.

      1. Bright & sunny here.
        No direct sunlight on my side of the road, but the Pig of Lead over the road is in bright sunshine.

    2. Morning, Delboy.
      All good with you? Raining like a bstaard here, hope it stops before I have to go out & load wood into the trailer…

  23. 339569+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Sunday 3 October: Government energy policy owes more to virtue-signalling than sense,

    I dunno, if you give a wind / windless turbine an indestructible but very profitable power base on your land the ongoing rake off is not sweety monies but a sweet ongoing scam.

    Shale gas ( fracking ) is the only viable answer to coming mounting gas prices plus mounting hypothermia casualties among the elderly afeared of the resulting bills.

    These political overseers, supporters, voters, surely realise this but the
    “party” takes precedents over the welfare of the herd, that is blatantly
    obvious.

    1. I can only assume the lure of trough for green credentials is so vast after office that they pour hundreds of billions, let alone deaths on the altar of misery and penury that is green

      1. 339569+ up ticks,
        W,
        The leg over input regarding the pillow whisperer has a lot to answer for.

  24. Good morning all

    What happened to the weather forecast?

    No storm last night , dry night and dry morning .

    Lovely conditions for Marathon runners this morning .

      1. Unfortunately they are thrust up out noses by the MEEJAH.

        One aspect that does amuse me is that though he is alleged to have fallen foul of American Law, largely because of the greater age of consent and laws against prostitution and “crossing state boundaries for immoral purposes” they have over there, NOTHING he is alleged to have done falls foul of UK Law as it stood at the time.

        1. Indeed. If the good prince was shagging this American hooker, shipped over oven-ready from the States, rather than ordering a pizza in Woking, then at 17 in the UK she was over the age of consent, and the two are quite at liberty to go about their business as they see fit.

          1. Quite possibly the encounter took place on the same night as the pizza evening. The two occasions are not mutually exclusive.

          2. Good point, Jules. After all, he made a great hoo-hah about having been to Pizza Express in Woking.

          4. You might be right. If the young princesses were stuffing their faces with pizza, they are hardly likely to notice what Dad’s getting up to. As for Fergie, probably glad he’s keeping his hand in (or whatever organ identifies as his hand).

        2. Even Andrew is likely to have deployed his two brain cells to make sure that he did not break the letter of the law in Britain.

        3. Agreed, it’s all a confection to distract from some of the other powerful party-goers. (Where is Ghislaine Maxwell and her little black book these days?). Though I’m sure all of the ‘guests’ were aware of the legitimacy of their actions that Epstein catered for.
          Back in the day, all squaddies were informed (warned) pre-detachment to, and on arrival in, Norn Iron that the age of consent in the Province was 17 years, not 16 years as on the Mainland. Epstein’s guests were well aware of what they were paying for.

          1. And there was still at least one under 16yo being shagged in the stables of Castle Dillon on disco nights!

            And no, it was not I doing the seabird imitation.

    2. One begins such a career by “dropping knickers” and one ends it many years later because of “dropping knockers”.

    3. I would be careful with this one. It’s difficult to understand how much influence a skilled manipulator can have over another human being unless you have seen it with your own eyes. It seems likely that the girls were being manipulated by a professional, to the extent where the victims were themselves recruiting more victims. This is a well known scenario.

    4. If you have a much loved son/daughter/father/mother/husband/wife and you believe them to be completely innocent of the accusations got up against them do you abandon them or do you do all you can to help them?

      What demands the greater loyalty from us – our loyalty to those whom we love the most or our loyalty to an often repulsive state which we may hold in complete contempt?

    5. It is impossible to know which was the original comment, which the first reply and then which the last reply.

      Han is clearly demented.

      1. She appears to be a Trans-supporting Lesbian with a VERY strong Left Wing bias.
        So WTF is she doing teaching Y1 children?

  26. Canary Islands volcano ‘much more aggressive’ as new fissures erupt. 3 October 2021

    The erupting volcano on Spain’s Canary Islands has blown open two more fissures, with authorities reporting “intense” activity in the area.

    The new fissures, about 15 metres (50 feet) apart, sent streaks of fiery red and orange molten rock down toward the sea, parallel to an earlier flow that reached the Atlantic Ocean earlier this week.

    The Perfect Storm is gathering its strength! I’m almost reduced to wishing it on!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/03/canary-islands-volcano-much-more-aggressive-as-new-fissures-erupt

  27. The police have to rebuild trust with women
    The idea that the burden for safety lies on victims is appalling: reform is needed and, thanks to this Government, on its way coming

    ROBERT BUCKLAND
    2 October 2021 • 9:55pm

    There is an old saying that trust leaves on horseback, but returns on foot. The appalling abduction and murder of Sarah Everard in March was a moment when women and girls no longer felt safe.

    The sentencing of her murderer this week, which revealed the full extent of this horrific crime and the abhorrent abuse of trust that lay at the heart of it, was a second blow. Advice has been now issued by the Metropolitan Police to women as to how to stay safe if a police officer approaches them. Those reading it are to be forgiven if they conclude that the world has gone mad and that we are truly through the looking glass. The notion that the burden to stay safe should be on our wives, partners, sisters, daughters and female friends is, quite frankly, repugnant and further reduces trust. A society that aspires to be a safe and healthy one deserves much better than this ill-judged paragraph on a website.

    Police-bashing, however, is not going to restore that trust, and neither for that matter is the resignation of a police officer, however senior. Having worked with hundreds of police officers during my professional life at the criminal Bar, the vast majority of them are decent and dedicated people doing the right thing, just like the dedicated detective officers who investigated Miss Everard’s murder and brave officers like PC Andrew Harper, shockingly killed in the line of duty in 2019. Police officers know that the need to stick to the highest standards, not settling for second best, cutting corners or tolerating inappropriate or unlawful behaviour, is in their interest as much as it is in the public’s.

    As police numbers continue to rise towards that target of over 20,000 more officers, it is important to note that the aim is also to increase the speed and quality of police work, which is vital when it comes to the investigation of offences, for example. The public also needs to know that the police, who are civilians in uniform policing with our consent, are truly accountable too for failure. Whilst the operational independence of our police is of central importance, it should never be used as a cloak against scrutiny. If trust is to be regained, then it has to be understood that to admit fault and failure should be seen as a sign of strength, not weakness.

    The Government, together with the criminal justice agencies, has been working to start rebuilding trust. I felt strongly that we needed to admit publicly that the system had not worked for many victims. The PM and I had long agreed on the importance of better support for victims of rape and sexual offences, which is why funding for victim services, including for Independent Sexual Violence Advisers was increased by a further £150m this year. The Rape Review, which I published in June, contains an Action Plan with not only a target to increase the number of rape prosecutions, but changes to the way in which files are put together, with more challenge and accountability as part of the process, all aimed at increasing confidence and trust.

    At the heart of it was a public apology that was made to victims of rape. For trust to return, in my judgment this had to be done.

    In the months before I left Government, I used my convening power as Lord Chancellor to help coordinate a fresh approach to criminal justice. In the past, there had been a depressing tendency by each part of the system to point the finger of blame elsewhere. This had to stop. The agreement by the police, CPS and judiciary for the creation and publication of a criminal justice scorecard, which we will see for the first time later this year, will bring together information on timeliness and volume of cases in a much more accessible way.

    The new Victims Law is coming too. One of my last acts as Justice Secretary was to have signed off on a consultation process ahead of a Bill to be introduced within a few months. My aim was for greater accountability to then prompt changes that would reduce the number of times when things go wrong. A system that is merely wise after the event does nothing to help a victim of crime who has been denied justice.

    If anything positive can arise from the aftermath of this most horrific of cases, then it has to be a police and criminal justice system that is more speedy, supportive, responsive and ready to admit fault than the one we have now.

    * * *

    I’m afraid this self-congratulatory puff-piece does not impress me at all. Which planet is he on? The loss of trust started long ago when the police were permitted to dress up, paint their nails and vehicles and cavort with minority groups such as Pride. And to allow eco-terrorists to bring our capital city and major roads to a grinding halt when they failed dismally to use the powers already granted to them. The perception now is of a partial force that picks and chooses those laws it will enforce and those it chooses not to. This cowardly approach to policing has riled the law-abiding majority, and sooner or later there will be a price to be paid.

    A couple of BTL comments:

    Nigel Wheatcroft
    2 Oct 2021 11:37PM
    The police have to uphold the law equally for all of the public, not just one group, or faction, or religion, or political party, or gender, or colour…..everyone,,the problem is that now are seen as not being impartial….there is one law only to be used on certain groups but not on others.

    They are not in being to be a social service but a force to uphold the law against all law breakers….but that is what they are not doing…so that lost the respect of a lot of law abiding citizens…it is their own fault,they are not trusted as they were

    Peter Dunlop
    2 Oct 2021 11:37PM
    I’ve lost trust in the police not because of a lone psychopath but because the police have been completely politicised. Ordinary crime doesn’t seem to matter any more, the only thing the high ups seem to worry about is holding the ‘wrong’ opinions. If your protest is approved of they treat you with kid gloves. They have become the enforcers of the political class. But then name me a public body which hasn’t.

    Mrs D

    1. 339569+ up ticks,
      Morning HJ,
      The police actions as shown by the Jay report regarding rotherham is condemnation in itself.

    2. Compare and contrast perlice action at demonstrations by (a) XR and (b) anti-vaccination campaigners (c) veterans marching against prosecution of former soldiers and (d) slammer thugs threatening teachers with death.

      I spit on them

      1. Morning Bill,

        If the darkies make up a good percentage of footfall in the police , the way that they have made inroads into broadcasting , the media and advertising and the home office and politics , we will have to consider ourselves well and truly doomed .

      2. Morning Bill,

        If the darkies make up a good percentage of footfall in the police , the way that they have made inroads into broadcasting , the media and advertising and the home office and politics , we will have to consider ourselves well and truly doomed .

    3. My father was in the Wiltshire and later the Met during the 1930s and 1940s, so we were brought up to believe in the British police force.
      Thirty years ago, I watched a police sergeant brazenly lie in the witness box. My attitude changed and nothing since has restored trust in a flailing behemoth run by political appointees who mouth the right platitudes to gain promotion.

    7. This the same government that published a report refusing to accept the mecahnistic rape of children by pakistani muslims around the country?

      The same department that desperately concluded that white men were the real threat?

      Balls to them all. They can’t help but lie.

  28. From The Desert Review: https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout—part-v-the-secret-revealed/article_9a37d9a8-1fb2-11ec-a94b-47343582647b.html

    Ivermectin use in India

    On May 7, 2021, during the peak of India’s Delta Surge, The World Health Organization reported, “Uttar Pradesh (is) going the last mile to stop COVID-19.”

    https://www.who.int/india/news/feature-stories/detail/uttar-pradesh-going-the-last-mile-to-stop-covid-19

    The WHO noted, “Government teams are moving across 97,941 villages in 75 districts over five days in this activity which began May 5 in India’s most populous state with a population of 230 million.”

    The activity involved an aggressive house-to-house test and treat program with medicine kits.

    The WHO explained, “Each monitoring team has two members who visit homes in villages and remote hamlets to test everyone with symptoms of COVID-19 using Rapid Antigen Test kits. Those who test positive are quickly isolated and given a medicine kit with advice on disease management.”

    The medicines comprising the kit were not identified as part of the Western media blackout at the time. As a result, the contents were as secret as the sauce at McDonald’s.

    Dr. John Campbell broke India’s Ivermectin Blackout wide open on YouTube by revealing the formula of the secret sauce, much to the dismay of Big Pharma, the WHO, and the CDC. Readers will want to watch this before it is taken down. See mark 2:22.

    https://youtu.be/eO9cjy3Rydc

    Each home kit contained the following: Paracetamol tablets [tylenol], Vitamin C, Multivitamin, Zinc, Vitamin D3, Ivermectin 12 mg [quantity #10 tablets], Doxycycline 100 mg [quantity #10 tablets]. Other non-medication components included face masks, sanitizer, gloves and alcohol wipes, a digital thermometer, and a pulse oximeter. See mark 2:33.
    The WHO continued, “On the inaugural day, WHO field officers monitored over 2,000 government teams and visited at least 10,000 households.”

    This news story was published on the WHO Official Website in India. The website details the WHO’s work against COVID-19 in India, including a discussion about their “Online course for Rapid Response Teams.”

    https://www.who.int/india

    Such teams are the very government teams discussed above assigned to conduct the house-to-house test and treat program in Uttar Pradesh. In discussing the role of the Rapid Response Team (RRT), the WHO site reports,

    “RRTs are a key component of a larger emergency response strategy that is essential for an efficient and effective response…WHO has produced and published this course for RRTs working at the national, sub-national, district, and sub-district levels to strengthen the pandemic response with support from the National Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

    The Rapid Response Teams derive support from the United States CDC under the umbrella of the WHO. This fact further validates the Uttar Pradesh test and treat program and solidifies this as a joint effort by the WHO and CDC.

    https://www.who.int/india/news/detail/16-09-2021-online-course-for-rapid-response-teams

    Perhaps the most telling portion of the WHO article was the last sentence, “WHO will also support the Uttar Pradesh government on the compilation of the final reports.”

    https://www.who.int/india/news/feature-stories/detail/uttar-pradesh-going-the-last-mile-to-stop-covid-19

    None have yet been published.

    Just five short weeks later, on June 14, 2021, new cases had dropped a staggering 97.1 percent, and the Uttar Pradesh program was hailed as a resounding success. According to ZeeNews of India, “The strategy of trace, test & treat yields results.”

    “The Yogi-led state has also been registering a steep decline in the number of Active COVID Cases as the figure has dropped from a high of 310,783 in April to 8,986 now, a remarkable reduction by 97.10 percent.”

    https://zeenews.india.com/uttar-pradesh/cm-yogi-adityanath-s-strategy-of-trace-test-treat-yields-results-contains-second-wave-of-covid-19-2368977.html

    By July 2, 2021, three weeks later, cases were down a full 99 percent.

    https://www.news18.com/news/india/up-sees-declining-covid-cases-positivity-rate-state-govt-eases-lockdown-curbs-all-you-need-to-know-3918440.html

    On August 6, 2021, India’s Ivermectin media blackout ended with MSN reporting. Western media, including MSN, finally acknowledged what was contained in those Uttar Pradesh medicine kits. Among the medicines were Doxycycline and Ivermectin.

    1. Of course our all-powerful government could introduce a retail price cap on vehicle fuel. Of course that won’t happen, as they are complicit.

      2. Why would they want to?! The whole point of fuel taxes is to ensure people are forced to pay offensive, disgusting levels of tax for a resource they cannot avoid.

  31. Nice and sunny in the Surrey Hills. No wind, but there aren’t any wind farms here (yet).

    1. Not eight days, not eight hours, not eighty minutes. Mean time to disappearing post-popping chez nous, 32 minutes.

    2. ha ha that give me flashbacks to my Telegraph reading days!

      Is that really the sort of problem that Telegraph readers have? In between their holidays to far-flung parts of the world, their lunches at wonderful little restaurants that are only 500 pounds for two at lunchtime on weekdays, and of course, their mandatory support for drippy centrist politics, feminism and islamic headscarves.

      It was the restaurant and holiday reviews that brought it home to me that I’m not really a Telegraph reader.

      1. Morning BB

        Of course the target audience has changed slightly .

        Perhaps the days of frugality are returning , saving the last drops of fizz for a rainy day .

        Just saying that’s all

        1. Just been driving in it… ugh! The loading of the trailer in the rain made me cross – first thing that happened was the mucky cover blew out of my hands all over my clean trousers… GRR!

    2. If only Mary Whitehouse was still around .

      I say we need to clean up what is televised from the Box .

      Goodmorning Anne .

      Stuff we hear and see/ catch glimpses of on TV , is not good .

      Monsters like the depraved cop will have sought filth to feast on .

      I am sick and tired of stuff thrust at us , to excite and entice us to watch crude stuff on TV, and the profanities now challenge the off switch / change channel etc .

      Even that Sunday night Vigil thing was full of lesbian crudeness..

      TV has become a great turn off.

      1. ‘Morning, Belle.

        Even that Sunday night Vigil thing was full of lesbian crudeness..

        And I always thought that a submarine was a phallic symbol.

  37. 339569+ up ticks,

    The carrot, all the controlling props are in place and still well adhered to
    as in mask wearing, distancing, the manipulation monitor is showing favourable signs for future use, time for the carrot.

    Dt,
    Holiday freedom as Boris Johnson slashes red list in time for half-term
    Quarantine is set to be abolished for almost all countries as the Prime Minister prepares for post-Covid ‘normality’

      1. 339569+ up ticks,
        Morning N,
        As I said late last night, in time for the meeting of the dons, ( mafia)

  38. 339569+ up ticks,

    What, to help them haul in their nets ?

    Do you realise the Country is under attack and DOVER is already a landing point well established bridgehead ?

    Ben Wallace: We will call in the Navy if the French break the law in fishing row
    Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph, the Defence Secretary stands firm against the threat of militant action from across the Channel

    1. “Defence Secretary stands firm against the threat of militant action…”
      In other news, the police have again been in action against the middle class insulation terrorists causing mayhem in our roads. Earlier today police attended one demonstration and offered the demonstrators cushions, tea and cakes.

  39. Given the tiny number of rape and sexual assault cases that actually make it to the courts, I wonder how many victims are threatened that if they testify they or their families will suffer even worse afterwards?
    Would you trust the police and/or the criminal justice system to protect you?

      1. It was a rhetorical question.

        But the underlying issue is that so many friends and relatives of perpetrators of all kinds of crimes are prepared to intimidate victims and witnesses and to do so quite openly. It is vigilantism in reverse and I fear that if we are not careful, real vigilantism will return in place of the police. For example, I would now have every sympathy for drivers who just ploughed through the road-blockers and if the child raping groomers found themselves strung up I wouldn’t shed a tear.

        Society is terminally ill.

        1. The Peaceful Ones already get their way through their reverse vigilantism – I believe we know it as choppy choppy.

        2. Please – not all Of society. There are many good people around, all Nottlers for instance, it’s TPTB and authority, MSM in general. And Ropers of course.

          1. Whilst I acknowledge there are good and responsible people about, the more I observe the more I’m becoming convinced that the worst aspects are now the majority.

        2. ‘My criticism goes to the top. Many forces are being led by men
          completely out of touch with the world of today and the public they
          serve.’

          I would have said that too many of them are far far too close to the woke world of today and need to get back to old fashioned policing; hunting criminals without fear or favour and prosecuting those they catch with the full rigour of the law. The same applies to far too many of the judges and magistrates who are making the sentencing decisions on the few who actually get prosecuted and found guilty.

          1. Not just men – Ms Dick is a disgrace. She won’t ever resign, she will be honourably retired with no doubt a bung into the Lords.

          3. I thought it an absolute disgrace of an excuse when the Home Secretary said she was keeping Ms Dick for the sake of stability and continuity. I’m sure the average policeman would appreciate anything but the continuity of incompetence and failure and would welcome a real policeman in charge.

          4. Apparently the REAL reason is that there is NO ONE in the whole effing country who is thought to be capable of doing that job.

          5. Actually, perhaps someone knows what I’m talking about, but recently a senior policeman wrote an article that was quite robust about traditional policing and how it should be revived. He was some Chief Inspector or one of the upper echelons who was obviously more than capable but not catering to Common Purpose. In other words, exactly the sort of person the Met needs.

          7. I believe (evidence – none) that judges are being required to hand down minimum sentences and to avoid custodial sentences at all costs.
            Parole Boards are required to err on the side of release. We cannot afford to build big new prisons, as what would that say about how things are going in this country?

        3. Home Secretary Priti Patel pledged £25million for more CCTV cameras in streets and other measures to ‘change the behaviour of perpetrators’.

          Being on CCTV didn’t stop Couzens, did it?

          1. I believe the UK has one of the most CCTVs per capita of any nation and London is in the top 10 cities.

          5. Well, you can never be too safe
            It always amuses me when they are referred to as “safety cameras”, particularly the ones on “smart” motorways.

          7. Actually I would say that the USA doesn’t count because it is such a large country that most people are not under surveillance. The cameras are concentrated in places like New York. In most towns you wont see any or very few.

          8. One can probably make a similar case for most countries. But do you think the CCTV actually makes people safer? I don’t

          9. No, I don’t think they make people safer at all and I don’t think that is their primary reason for being installed. See Communist China for the real reason.

          10. I think they can make life more dangerous, the bad guys get better at covering their tracks.
            I believe people should have far greater fear of smart-phone tracking.

          11. My solution to that is I don’t take my smart phone out of the house apart from when I go to the hospital and need to phone to contact the person who takes me there and back.

          12. Snap.

            Ours is only used as a phone and is always switched off otherwise. It’s a pain when needing a text message to use an account but I’ll live with that.

          13. I have read sosraboc that you can still be traced even if your phone is off. What you have to do is remove the battery altogether. You might want to check but I’m pretty sure that is correct.

          14. TBH if they’re that concerned about my whereabouts I’m sure they will have alternatives.

          15. There is only one country more heavily surveilled than us. I leave you to guess which Eastern Communist country that is.

          18. Yes, Pip I have just looked – haven’t been on my email for a day or so.

            Thanks! xxx

          19. How very convenient. More cctv everywhere. I expect this will usher in a new system of face recognition. As I say, very convenient.

          22. But who decides who the guilty are?
            The general public are considered guilty if they try to remove demonstrators who are obstructing them from going about their lawful business.
            The police are now the protectors of the guilty and the enemy if the innocent.

          23. Bang them up in prison, toss the key away and sequester their private property as they sometimes do for people who go into care.
            Make th3m pay for their keep in HMP.

    2. Courts are the leakiest places imaginable.
      I read about a woman whose new address was given out by the court to her ex husband who had burned her flat and put her in hospital. But the court thought nothing of sending him the secret address that she had moved to in order to be safe from him.

  40. 339569+ up ticks,

    Chechen Teen Allegedly Stabbed by Brother for ‘Living European’, Raped by Father

    When it comes to compulsory lodgering & keeping family intact the United Kingdom current voting pattern dictates, YOU could have this type family
    indoors.

    Truth be told, you deserve no less.

      1. 339569+ up ticks,
        N,
        I do agree with you totally,then you must also ask WHY
        do the majority disagree with us as shown with reinstating the same overseeing parties time & again ?
        even to the extent of tactically voting as allies to keep rising party’s of patriotism down & out, the close shop rules OK.

        1. Because they lie to us, ogga. They lie and lie and lie and there is nothing we can do to stop them bar revolution or removing them at election, but that’s like exchanging diarrhoea for vomit.

          1. 339569+ up ticks,
            Morning W,
            That is the current choice and has been since major first sampled a curry, surely surely surely one could back heel the close shop and en masse get behind and give voice to a patriot, say one Anne Marie Waters” For Britain”
            party.

            Herd power CAN prove successful as it did on the 24/6/2016 right, up until the herd returned to supporting the lab/lib/con coalition and unravelling All the GOOD that had been done.

            FOOLS & their country’s are not long in parting.

          2. The dumbing down of the general population over the last few decades plus importation of lower intelligence people has had the effect desired by the PTB.

          3. 339569+ up ticks,
            Afternoon Hl,
            Seemingly it worked successfully proof being the same type political overseers are still finding majority
            support / votes.

          4. Wotcher, ogga!

            The trouble is also, that (when canvassing) I have come across some Waynettas who just say “I’m not interested in politics”. Yet they will go out and vote. They don’t think but are capable of putting a cross in a box (just).

          5. The dumbing down of the general population over the last few decades plus importation of lower intelligence people has had the effect desired by the PTB.

        2. Possibly because there is no viable alternative to the party they choose, mainly on single issues, like Brexit.

          1. 339569 up ticks,
            Evening N,
            I really do not believe that can be used as a reason any longer.
            To my mind a person choosing the least worst party is just extending the period of overall suffering.
            As with the referendum, people power worked until the peoples went back to supporting their regular party regarding lab/lib/con, then our troubles really started.

            Advice I would listen to would be get behind a fringe party en masse, it worked before, but not reform because it has form.

  41. Worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team
    “The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), also known unofficially as the “Nudge Unit”, is a global social purpose organisation that generates and applies behavioural insights to inform policy and improve public services, following nudge theory.[1]

    Using social engineering, as well as techniques in psychology and marketing, the purpose of the organisation is to influence public thinking and decision making in order to improve compliance with government policy and thereby decrease social and government costs related to inaction and poor compliance with policy and regulation.

    Originally set up within the UK Cabinet Office to apply nudge theory within British government, BIT expanded into a limited company in 2014, and is now partly owned by the Cabinet Office, BIT employees, and Nesta.[1][2]

    Today, its work spans across several region, having run more than 750 projects including 400 randomised controlled trial (RCTs) in various countries.[1] With its headquarters in London and another UK location in Manchester, BIT also has offices in the United States (New York and Washington, DC); Singapore; Australia (Sydney); New Zealand (Wellington); France (Paris); and Canada (Toronto).[3]
    My highlights
    So, does the regional location also coincide with the worst of lockdown fascism, I ask?

  42. Sunday rant. The “travel” sections of the weekend papers are full articles about of the delights of visiting furrin places.

    None of them even mention in passing ALL the bloody tests and paperwork that has to be done for each leg of the trip. Nor do they detail the local restrictions (masks, passes etc etc) in the places visited. They just witter on about popping on the Eurotunnel – jumping on a plane – driving on a “friendly” ferry and hey presto.

    Dishonest in the extreme, I’d say.

  43. Good morning, Nottlers!

    I’m getting quite addicted to History Debunked. Things I vaguely knew, but didn’t bother to look further into (lazy me) are encapsulated into a little easily-digested piece. This one is about the myth that West Indians were “invited” here by the Government in 1948, which was the preciptator of the subsequent recent “Windrush scandal”.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxXFJ4raEc

    1. History Debunked has been coming into my feed for quite a while and usually he has interesting things to say. But I have difficulty listening to him, he’s a sort of turn off to me, it’s his delivery, not what he has to say. However I have been, as it were, gritting my teeth and continue to listen. Hopefully I will get over my aversion and begin to enjoy his mini lectures because the information he gives really is interesting.

      I also saw the other day that the left is trying to have him removed from You Tube for “hate speech” aka telling the truth, which always rubs the left up the wrong way. So to my mind, the fact he agitates the left is even more of a reason to get over my aversion to him and become a dedicated listener.

  44. Good morning, Nottlers!

    I’m getting quite addicted to History Debunked. Things I vaguely knew, but didn’t bother to look further into (lazy me) are encapsulated into a little easily-digested piece. This one is about the myth that West Indians were “invited” here by the Government in 1948, which was the preciptator of the subsequent recent “Windrush scandal”.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxXFJ4raEc

  45. Good morning all, glorious sun today and my cat, Caticus Khan, finally got to go out after going a little crazy yesterday.

    I started watching this video on the assumption, from the title, talk about Nuremburg trials, that this woman was a crank. But was surprised to find that she is far from it. So posting it because I thought it well worth listening to what she has to say.

    Anna De Buisseret: All The Law Is On Our Side… There Will Be A Second Nuremburg Trial

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOqy_1ReZA&list=TLPQMDIxMDIwMjHl0Jjcvu-83g&index=5

          1. I got the washing hung out for three or four hours before i had to rush up the garden to bring it in again.

          2. Yep, it stayed blue until night time, then it rained. Today it’s cloudy but not raining.

          4. Here, no rain until 10 this evening. But it is rather chilly, 57f. Time to think about putting some of the more fragile plants to bed in the greenhouse for the winter. Start Sweet Peas too, didn’t do any this year.

    2. Clearly a dangerous renegade. Amazed she hasn’t been cancelled – if not banged up.

    3. I’d like to believe her about another Nuremberg trial. But there seems to be no outcry from Human Rights lawyers or anyone else in a position of authority. Neither is there an outcry from the public at large. Or if there is it is quickly suppressed by the police, i.e., the demonstrations, and downplayed by the media. No political party seems to protest at government actions. Good luck to her.

      1. Well she says in the video that there are quite a few lawyers working on this, not just here but in other Common Law jurisdictions. I would assume for obvious reasons, they are not going to make themselves known due to present circumstances. That is, retaliation and thus losing their jobs.

    2. Interesting. Clear, well spoken narrative, taking time. Unlike the hurried gabble on the BBC.
      However, aid packages for rebuilding are premature. The Spanish government should evacuate everyone from the island immediately. The correct way to respond to an emergency is not to assess and gather over time, or wait and see how it goes. It is to act promptly, consider very briefly what is required and then multiply it by four. In this case if everyone is removed from the island, they can go back next year. If the island explodes next week and vanishes beneath the ocean with the loss of thousands of lives, the authorities are going to look very lame.
      No one knows what will happen next. Will the volcano calm down or go off with a bang? Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

      1. Or conceivable, if unlikely, worst case?

        If it explodes next week and vanishes beneath the ocean the loss of lives might be in the millions as a mega-tsunami engulfs the US Eastern seaboard, promptly followed by China taking over Taiwan and every other opportunistic Government seizing what it can before America recovers.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard

        1. There was a documentary some years ago on the BBC which discussed at length the results of the next eruption of Cumbre Vieja, so

          imagine our surprise that when Cumbre Vieja started erupting the BBC refrained from publicising it.

          [Plot spoiler: It’s a nasty ending]

          1. If what I’ve read as worst case scenarios should occur, the UK won’t get off lightly either.

  48. Lone policemen in Scotland will offer verification checks. Great story. Say nothing about policemen in twos offering verification.
    However there is one sentence, from the Deputy Chief Constable coming out with this blah, Will Kerr, that is very revealing, “However, although it is rare for a lone police officer to have to speak to a member of the public in Scotland, …”
    My highlighting. Yes, they go everywhere in twos. Does that make you feel safer, or does it make them feel safer?

  50. Not often you hear me say this – but a VERY good piece by Camilla Long in The Sunday Grimes:

    “Not a great week for women, really. I spent the first half listening to a stream of men trying to guess what a woman actually was. Was it transphobic to suggest it was women who had cervixes? The MP David Lammy basically said he’d heard a rumour that a cervix is something “you can have following hormone treatment and all the rest”. You just thought: has he ever been near one? And these are the people who make our laws.

    The second half provided an immediate and horrifying lesson on what being a woman actually meant. “Compliant, with her head down”, said witnesses, of the ghostly footage of Sarah Everard being “arrested” by the policeman Wayne Couzens near Clapham Common.

    Any woman, looking at that extraordinary dashcam recording, would immediately recognise Everard’s stance: passive, quiet, watchful; waiting for the danger to pass. It is the position we all assume if a policeman comes up to us, or for that matter any man in authority. It’s what you’d do, and what I’d do too. As Jess Phillips said: we’d all get in the car.

    And yet, even when a woman behaves exactly as she’s instructed, she can still be doing it all wrong. The day after Couzens was given a whole-life sentence, another stream of men started musing: why couldn’t Sarah have been a bit more ballsy, or more “streetwise”, as one police commissioner rancidly put it? You couldn’t help but think: were they suggesting she did her own murder incorrectly? Because if you found yourself in a similar situation, breezed the policing minister Kit Malthouse, it is acceptable to ask an officer to present his “bona fides”, as I’m sure Everard was too polite to do. Bona fides, though? What does he think women are: pompous Edwardian detectives?

    A bizarre set of instructions also appeared on the Met’s website, telling women how to avoid misunderstandings with “sole police officers”. It said people could ask officers they felt might not really be officers, “Where are your colleagues?” Or they could “speak through [the officer’s] radio to the operator” or, if they were really worried, dash into the street for the purpose of “waving down a bus”.

    Sorry, but is this The Railway Children? Telling civilians to “wave down a bus” is basically mad. It suggests not only that all police are untrustworthy, but also that it’s fine to ignore them or run from an arrest, when it is not. Is that really their response, after six months of thinking? Run away? Lunge at his radio? There is no London bus driver in existence who wouldn’t plough straight into anyone who jumped out in front of them unexpectedly — they never stop for anything. And how would asking a policeman for his “bona fides” help, when Couzens was a serving officer with a warrant card? The point is that Couzens wasn’t a fake police officer, however much the Met repeatedly and incorrectly referred to him as a “former” officer or an “ex”. He was a real one. He strangled her with his police belt; used handcuffs. Don’t they get that yet?

    It is actually disgraceful how little the police seem to have grasped the fundamental implications of this horrific case. Not a single person, certainly not the meagre Cressida Dick, has considered that what this vile event principally reveals is a poisonous culture of misogyny within its ranks. And if she can’t see that, what’s even the point of having a woman in charge?

    What good is deploying “650 new officers” to “hotspots” if you can’t see the real problem, which isn’t the general public but the fact no one in the police seemed bothered by the “grossly offensive”, misogynistic and racist material Couzens shared with his colleagues, who openly nicknamed him “the Rapist”?

    What is the point of saying that “we have opened an investigation” into these officers, when it is clear the Met is simply not capable of one? Not a single police officer batted an eyelid when they were given CCTV footage of Couzens driving into a McDonald’s with his pants off days before the murder. Do low-level crimes against women bore them? It’s worth remembering that Couzens was in fact the second policeman to kill a woman in the space of just 10 months: Timothy Brehmer strangled his lover, a nurse, during a “kerfuffle” in a car park.

    As for the kerfuffle in Kent — well, that too is being hastily pushed under the carpet. There are hardly any details of the flashing incidents, or the prostitutes Couzens is said to have used in Dover. It has become simply an exercise in the police washing their hands of him by subtly directing the blame elsewhere: on us; on Everard. A former Met officer kicked things off before the sentencing by saying: “Police officers do not view Wayne Couzens as a police officer. He should not have been anywhere near a uniform.” But he was a police officer. And he did wear the uniform. Dick herself said he was simply a “bad ’un”.

    The killing of a woman at the hands of a police officer ought to be as significant a turning point for women as Stephen Lawrence’s murder was for black people. Some anecdotes from former female officers about working in the police suggest it is like being an ethnic minority officer in 1973. Don’t complain, said Parm Sandhu, or there is “the fear” when you are calling for backup that “they’re not going to turn up and you’re going to get kicked in in the street”. And yet the whole thing is being approached like some kind of flimsy, arse-covering PR exercise in which the police laughably tell the women of London to do their own policing.

    Will things change? I doubt it. Dick won’t go. Policing won’t get better. London won’t get safer. Priti Patel will continue to poop out her pointless bromides. With the help of the gormless obstruction that is Sadiq Khan, it will just slide back into the mess it always was.”

    1. Will things change? I doubt it. Dick won’t go. Policing won’t get better. London won’t get safer. Priti Patel will continue to poop out her pointless bromides. With the help of the gormless obstruction that is Sadiq Khan, it will just slide back into the mess it always was.”

      Amen to that!

      1. I don’t understand this complaint.

        Sadiq Khan claims that he has fifteen bodyguards.

        Surely he must feel perfectly safe?

      2. Sometimes it’s done by accident. Just hovering the cursor over it can cause a downvote.

        Other than that it might be because they think you stink. Just sayin’.

        1. You can undownvote just as you can unupvote.

          When I am interested to see who has upvoted one of my posts I upvote it myself to see who has done so. I then unupvote it as it is very poor form to be seen to be upvoting your own posts. I never downvote fellow Nottlers whatever the provocation!

          1. You can usually see the upvotes without actually upvoting yourself – just by rolling the mouse or trackpad gently on the arrow.

        2. It was certainly there – that’s why I asked the question.

          It was done by someone I thought was a pal – so it must have been an error. I hope!

          1. It showed as “guest” on my screen and then disappeared, it was probably pressed by accident when trying to upvote you.

    3. A black criminal had his neck kneeled on by a policeman until he died, and the world was aflame – people kneeling all over the place.
      A white lass is “arrested” and murdered by a policeman, and it seems to me that the majority don’t give a flying fuck. Where’s the kneeling? Where’s the “Defund the police”? Where, in fact, is any tiny sign that even the Met are embarrased by their conduct before, or after?
      Well, I give a fuck. Every time I read about this, I get riled up, blood pressure, and start using bad language. How can the establishment and those bullied by it not care about what happened to Sarah? By not giving a shit, there must be trouble, and I hope it comes quickly: Burning police stations and police cars, for example. Dick should have been sacked already, so go & burn the Home Office, preferably with that waste of space Patel in it. There should be a terrible rage shown by the people of the United Kingdom, over the murder of Sarah, and all those other uncared for young lasses groomed and raped.
      The powers that be should be made tremble in their shoes. Many should be terminated with extreme prejudice.

    4. Very good article. No screaming Feminazi stuff.
      Both controlled and biting.
      Thank you.

    1. Thanks Plum – the telly monitor here (OH) had spotted the 7pm programme but missed the tribute to J du P.

      Last night we watched the recording from last Sunday of the Leeds Piano comp – brilliant.

  54. The perfect way to put kids off going to university: check-your-privilege tests
    Rod Liddle
    Sunday October 03 2021, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

    One of the many problems of being a foul-mouthed, badly dressed slob is that I am sometimes denied access to places because the doormen think I have just come from standing by a burning mattress on a patch of urban wasteland, drinking White Lightning while loudly and incoherently abusing passing pedestrians and soiling myself. Whereas actually I have just come from a nice middle-class home and done my level best to look really smart.

    I have learnt over the years that you could dress me from top to toe in Armani and I would still resemble the sort of person who sits in a cardboard box in an underpass at two o’clock in the morning with a small terrier called Nipper. No clothes suit me: all clothes are Rodist.

    The problem is my body. For a start, unlike most people, I have no neck. So shirts don’t do up. They are open at what would be the neck on anyone else; and then they tend to burst open lower down, too. My hair is awful. I have no grace, or elan, or deportment. No elegance. In the mirror I see a ravaged and choleric lardarse whom no amount of fitness training and grooming can redeem. Perhaps it is this disappointment that makes me swear a lot. It is certainly what makes me wear second-hand clothes — why waste money?

    Do other people judge me for this? You bet they do. The very clever comedian Stewart Lee based an entire routine on my slatternly demeanour.

    So this is one reason I take exception to the University of Kent’s “Expect Respect” questionnaire, which is given to all students, which they must fill in, and which inculcates in them a sense of guilt and privilege if they are white. The students are told that they have white privilege if they swear and wear second-hand clothes but get away with it. They are told they escape judgment for this because they are white.

    What ludicrous, patronising, inaccurate rubbish that is. Do black or Chinese students habitually swear a lot and dress like me? I don’t think so. And what of the white student who wears second-hand clothes because he is skint and swears because he comes from a background where swearing was the norm? In other words, is working class? Do these people seriously think that he or she isn’t judged similarly?

    The main reason I loathe this test, though, is that it is an example of a repulsive and increasingly familiar totalitarianism within our universities, perpetuated by intellectual pygmies in thrall to a vile and divisive creed called critical race theory. At the heart of this theory is a kind of horrible double racism: a visceral loathing of whitey, obviously, but also a condescending and stereotypical view of ethnic minorities.

    There were lots of other questions on that obnoxious test at Kent, all designed to make one group of students feel bad about the colour of their skin. To take them down a peg or two; to make them feel ashamed. The very essence of racism, isn’t it?

    They’re doing a similar thing at St Andrews University. There, white students are told that they must accept “personal guilt” for their privileged position in society; otherwise they will not be allowed to matriculate. Can you believe this? So, at an institution that supposedly should venerate freedom of speech and freedom of thought, students will be kicked out if they don’t agree with the totalitarian imprecations of a deluded and corrosive ideology.

    What does the working-class white kid from a sink comp in Livingston think about his position of innate privilege when he turns up to St Andrews and meets a Nigerian kid from Eton whose dad is worth half a billion? Does he cringe in shame at his enormous advantages in life?

    Perhaps all the kids, white and black, at St Andrews and Kent, would be wiser reconsidering their decision to spend nearly £10,000 a year on being taught by people who have clearly lost all grip on reality. People who have been captured by a fashionable idiocy, devoid of logic and indeed justice.

    Too many kids go to university these days. This seems to be largely agreed. We need more doing apprenticeships in engineering, or learning how to drive lorries. Lucky, then, that our universities seem to be on board with the project, determined to deter as many as possible from signing up to their fatuous courses.

    Turkey shortage to hit Britain

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fa1907006-2396-11ec-891d-7de285af3d9c.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0&resize=1010

    Ah, here’s the new 007. Hancervix — Matt Hancervix
    Continuing his exciting mission to alienate every single person in the country, Sir Keir Starmer has now announced that the next James Bond should be a woman.

    But there is a problem here, because in a previous interview Starmer implied that women don’t really exist — or, at least, not in the way most normal people understand the term “woman”: that is, an adult female possessed of that thing, a cervix. For Keir, the cervix is so vanishingly unimportant that it may as well be a product of our bigoted imaginations.

    So, to fulfil Starmer’s criteria, the next James Bond could be Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton or — my favourite choice — Matt Hancock. As long as they told the casting director they were actually a woman.

    What do you call an antivax undertaker?
    It has been nominative determinism week.

    First we had the BBC covering the queues at petrol stations by sending its ace reporter Phil McCann.

    Then I read in The Times that a group of antivaxer conspiracy theorists had met a Conservative MP to share their many real concerns. It seems that among them was a chap called John O’Looney.

    Cynics might argue — completely mistakenly, I’m sure — that Mr O’Looney’s opposition to vaccines has a certain mercantile element to it. He is a funeral director.

  55. Roll Up Roll Up get your Phizemectin here!!
    Phizer to produce new patented pill agin the Rona,does exactly the same as Ivermectin but at 100+ x the price
    Big Pharma,nearly as greedy as those flogging off patent drugs to the NHS at a few hundred times the previous price……..
    Hangings needed again

    1. But, but – isn’t Ivermectin a BAAAD drug? So bad that all mention of it is banned on sochul meeja?

  56. From the Daily Sceptic

    “The bullshitter may not deceive us, or even intend to do so, either
    about the facts or about what he takes the facts to be. What he does
    necessarily attempt to deceive us about is his enterprise. His only
    indispensably distinctive characteristics is that in a certain way he
    misrepresents what he is up to”.

    https://dailysceptic.org/bullshit-19/

  57. 339569+ up ticks,
    The fat turk,
    AKA,
    Live Politics latest news: Boris Johnson admits food shortages could last until Christmas

    Just time to spook the gullible herd into a gallop leading to a FULL stampede before that christmas break and well prior to the Eid break in May.

        1. Not only did he see it coming but he probably engineered it to try and convert people to electric cars.

          I wonder what his strategy will be to turn people away from electric cars when there is no electrickery (stet) with which to charge them?

      4. You are not alone in being pissed off by the bought and paid for media. It’s the same in the USA with all the major news channels following the narrative laid down by the government. The alternative narrative is available but it has to be searched for.

    3. Is Johnson afraid to impose another lockdown?

      Plenty of contributors on social media promoting the ‘do not comply’ narrative and I’m certain that governments, and especially a shower like this one, will be watching, listening and then judging the mood. Perhaps he hasn’t the stomach for emulating Australia’s actions because if he did he would become more a figure of real hate than the figure of ridicule he is currently receiving. Therefore, he creates chaos by engineering fuel and food shortages: strange how these problems arose suddenly both here and in the EU.

      Run fuel stocks down then implore the people not to travel unless it is essential, with the added threat of mandatory rationing if people do not act sensibly. Similar rationing strategy with food supplies. The man is beyond contempt, likewise his Cabinet.

      1. And particularly all the MPs on the opposition and back benches who are supposed to hold the government to account, by questioning and challenging decisions, even if they are in the same party.

      2. 339569+ up ticks,
        Afternoon KtK,
        Listen to world a one only one punter was a bit iffy regarding the tory party (ino) & rethinking his voting stance.
        I think many feel restricted in the voting options thinking many feel obligated to grandma / dad voting wise not acknowledging that these current party’s are in name only, odious political skunks within a pinstripe cover.
        They will be receiving new instructions as we type at the meeting of the dons currently in progress.
        I am sure he said he would Not entertain mass uncontrolled immigration, fodder for the party members
        who, via the three monkeys, view DOVER as day trippers
        on daily return excursions.

  58. Breaking news:

    The lifelong crook and fraudster and “businessman” Bernard Tapie has died.

    President Emmanuel Macron expressed his condolences to Tapie’s family in a statement, saying he and his wife “have been touched by the news of the death of Bernard Tapie, whose ambition, energy and enthusiasm were a source of inspiration for generations of French people”.

    Anyone would think there was an election in the offing….

      1. She was in the French Synchronised Swimming Team when her paramour, Bernard Tapie, was committing his football frauds and getting his private yacht registered as part of the French navy and paid for by the tax payer. Tapie was also very much in cahoots with Mitterrand who plumbed the French presidency to newer and deeper depths of depravity and corruption.

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/096c9502526044daae76e0e3c82885ad7d439d18218b5d89ab97f0ab05161645.jpg

        2. Wasn’t it Mitterrand’s son who imported several loads of machetes into Rwanda weeks before the genocide there began?

  59. Bugger!
    Had a huge sneeze an hour & a bit ago, and when I opened my eyes the computer screen was blank!
    No! I’ve not damaged it with the force of the sneeze, we’d has a power cut!
    Power came back on 15r minutes ago.

      1. Nah! The Pig over the road was out too and the burglar alarms in the mill were sounding.

  61. Wayne Couzens assigned to guard MPs in Parliament on multiple occasions. 3 October 2021.

    Wayne Couzens, the armed police officer who raped and murdered Sarah Everard, was assigned to guard MPs at the Houses of Parliament on numerous occasions, the Metropolitan Police said on Saturday.

    Tim Loughton, a Conservative member of the home affairs select committee, described the revelation as “very worrying” and further evidence “that the Met’s vetting procedures leave a lot to be desired”.

    Groan! 650 to choose from! The opportunities he missed and not a chance of a conviction!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/02/met-police-putting-onus-women-stay-safe-repugnant-former-justice/

    1. Free to wander among the serfs but horror of horrors when he had access to the ruling classes.

  62. Putin seeks to rein in ‘rainy-day fund’ spending as energy transition looms. 3 October 2021.

    MOSCOW, Oct 1 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian government to look at curtailing spending from the state rainy-day fund on Friday, after the finance ministry said the global shift away from oil and gas could jeopardise Russian state finances within a decade.

    Russia now has around $190 billion in its National Wealth Fund, around $115 billion of which, or 7.3% of GDP, is liquid assets raised mainly from selling oil and gas.

    The government is now permitted to spend liquid assets that accumulate above 7% of GDP. But Putin ordered the cabinet to look into raising that threshold to 10%, potentially reducing future spending by tens of billions of dollars.

    This is how politicians in the UK used to think and talk before Cultural Marxism rotted their brains and convinced them that they could change their gender.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/putin-seeks-rein-rainy-day-fund-spending-energy-transition-looms-2021-10-01/

    1. He won’t be President in 10 years time but he’ll make damned sure whoever is in charge is gifted a healthy economy.
      People in the West have no idea how many new roads,rail tracks,airports, schools have been built since Putin came to power.

      1. Afternoon Harry. If it were not for the clandestine embargo on Russian business and inward investment Russia would be a powerhouse economy!

        1. As Putin himself said..sanctions have helped the country speed up reforms and the modernisation of some industries,especially farming.

    2. Prepare for almost every asylum seeker currently placed in hotels to abscond and to vanish into the black economy.

  64. I don’t know how many of you receive Dr Sebastian Rushworth’s blog posts – always interesting – but this week he has an interview with a German violinist, both speaking perfect English.

    “A group of German celebrities have started the campaign “alles auf den
    tisch”, which literally means “everything on the table”. It’s a reaction
    to the shocking lack of independence and critical oversight that has been
    exhibited by journalists ever since the pandemic began. The purpose of
    the campaign is to break through the blinkered media narrative that
    exists in relation to covid, and allow a wider range of thoughts and
    opinions to get out. As a part of the campaign, I was interviewed by violinist Linus Roth. We
    talked about happenings in Sweden, the covid death rate, and lockdowns.
    The interview is short but sweet, only around twenty minutes long.You can watch it here. ”
    Edit
    Here’s the link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1cVmA34tA&t=105s&ab_channel=allesaufdentisch

  65. I see due to the fuel crisis,Chris Rea has already started walking home for Christmas!

  66. Petrol, now Gas starting to go Green

    We were given little choice about ramping up plant derived ethanol from 5% to 10% in petrol but a community near Gateshead is facing their gas supply having more than 20% hydrogen in it. They are part of a trial to see what happens before rolling it out on a larger scale.

    Some news items today report some dissent amongst those who happen to have found themselves in this community.

    Here’s the background:

    The HyDeploy project will deliver a blend of 20% hydrogen into the natural gas supply to Winlaton, Gateshead, supplying 668 houses, a school and several small businesses, for 10 months starting in August, Northern Gas Networks said in a statement.

    https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/072621-uk-hydrogen-blending-for-public-gas-grid-trial-gets-go-ahead

    The success of this trial is predicated on the assumption that:

    Existing gas appliances are designed to operate with a blend of up to 23% hydrogen, Northern Gas Networks said.

    I wonder if the now ageing existing gas fired AGAs fall into this category.

    1. Where does the hydrogen come from? Electrolysis, using electricity generated by burning gas and spinning a generator??
      Hydrogen is only any use as a transfer of energy, it’s not a source of energy!

      1. Hydrogen is most useful as a store of energy, especially if battery technology fails to keep up. The main shortcoming of wind and solar generated electricity is that it is intermittent and not guaranteed to peak when demand peaks. Using excess power at quiet times of demand may be used to electrolyse water, producing hydrogen, which can be stored fairly easily.

    3. I expect that residents in Winlaton, Gateshead, will suffer extraordinary household and fire insurance premiums …

  68. We were caught short not having a backup supply of toilet rolls, then again when there was a shortage of HGV drivers to deliver the petrol. Could we be plunged again into darkness this winter like many of us endured in the 70’s?

    Time to stock up on electricity – shocking!

    Traffic lights gone dark. Factories shut down. What caused China’s power crisis?

    https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-10-02/china-power-shortage-energy-coal-climate

    1. The most worrying thing about power cuts is – I won’t be able to read or post anything on NOTTL!

    1. If Johnson would go after the mountainous waste in the public sector he would restore many supporters who, hitherto, see no point in voting for the Tories again. Unfortunately that would take hard work, dedication and a spine – so it isn’t going to happen.

    2. For foreign aid to work for us we need to forget about percentages of our GDP (if there is any these days!) and get back to each individual disaster. What did Labour say when they were ousted from government, “There is no money left”. Same situation now. These do-gooders do more harm than good. Feed the starving and they breed like rabbits. Teach them how to look after themselves.

          2. The 150 nukes the Paki’s have are going to end up in the hands of the Taliban. With any luck they will blow up themselves and Pakland.

        2. Why indeed. The utter stupidity of HMG is beyond belief. They have no idea what Joe Public really thinks or wants. I wonder if the MPs are alive to this yet? One can but hope.

    3. To say nothing of billions lost on Track and Trace; HS2; the tank that doesn’t work…..

  71. What Boris should be saying to the conference but cannot because his father was one of the beneficiaries of EU membership
    It seems to me that the problems and issues we are experiencing at the moment and what the Remainers are now highlighting as being the fault of Brexit have it all wrong, if they are down to our departure of the EU and not down to the consequences of the pandemic then we only have those issues and problems because the decades of EU membership have made our country incapable of functioning as an independent nation state, unable to function without a limitless supply of cheap Labour, without closing industry here and importing goods from the EU and around the world, we stopped believing in training, educating and paying our own people to do all the vital jobs, it was essentially a terrible mistake that has caused untold harm to the prosperity and the prospects for British people, where everything now is out of kilter
    Instead it left it all to greedy bureaucrats and politicians to take the easy option, to self promote while trading away our jobs and industry for no benefit whatsoever to the country, only to themselves and the EU superstate.

    1. That’s a point.
      Given how spiteful the EU has proved to be, I wonder if Johnson has been told that Daddy’s pension is under threat if sonny boy says the wrong thing?

  73. Clap for the joined up NHS.

    Soldier neighbour has trained be a “First Responder”. A thoroughly good chap despite her Limp Dumb politics.

    Last night she went to a 91 year old cancer sufferer. Gave her oxygen – her one bottle ran out after 20 minutes.

    When the ambulance arrived, they didn’t have a spare.

    The obvious solution would be for her to go the ambulance station in Fakenham and get a full bottle.

    NOT ALLOWED. Because of Covid. I kid you not. She is incandescent…

    1. She doesn’t even need to go in. She could call them to tell them she is coming. When out side call call them again. They could put the bottle outside and she could pick it up.

      She needs to go down there and bang on their doors. Make a nuisance of herself and a lot of noise.

      2. Don’t talk common sense, Phizzee, it’s frowned upon and you’ll probably be arrested for having independent thoughts.

        1. Phil is, of course, a well known trouble maker. To protect the public, we really ought to cancel him….

          9. How diverse. I used to but they became overgrown. My late hound loved them! Would follow me when I was picking and filch them!

          10. Amazingly, in Norway, blackberries (bjørnebær) are very sought-after. Huge cost. Firstborn has a freezer-full…

          12. Blackberries aren’t a weed here like in the UK. It’s a bit too far north. People go for blueberries and cranberries, and raspberries – and, if you have the patience, arctic strawberries… Yum!

    2. That’s absolutely awful Bill. However I cease to be surprised at the stupidity of the idiots in charge of the NHS and other public organisations.
      They need to be ripped apart and start from scratch. It can’t possibly get any worse than it already is.

  75. John Ward on form over on The Slog:
    https://therealslog.com/2021/10/03/nwo-why-were-still-far-from-defeating-fascism-on-the-left-in-every-state-from-brussels-to-brisbane/

    This paragraph being printable:

    “Brussels doesn’t do changes of heart. There are two reasons for this: it doesn’t have a heart, and (like the USSR upon which it is modelled) it never makes mistakes. What the commissioners do have is tame journalists throughout the European press and social media who continue to spit venom at the UK for daring to leave the EU with a mere five years notice”

  76. Could the meeja* come up with an alternative term to ‘ethnic minority’ to describe non-whites?
    The world population is 7.8bn, of which two thirds are in Asia. Add in Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, yer Australian Aborigines, yer Maoris and yer indigenous Americans and I think you’ll find non-white is anything but the minority.

    *Perhaps Nottlers can suggest one.

      1. I don’t mind whitey but gammon is insulting. Blackie sounds like a term of endearment like you would give to a mate.

        My neighbours who were RN have a friend called Black Buck. Nice guy. At their wedding he went on the dancefloor. He had one of those special tear away suits. He ripped it off and was wearing a basque and fish nets. It was uproariously funny.

        Now there is a black man who is confident in himself.

        1. Sounds like the ever-popular, ever-bubbly, self-obsessed, England hater Cur Lenny Henry – unfunny git.

          1. The difference being, Buck doesn’t have a chip on his shoulder. He’s a big bloke. Plays Rugby. Loves Vogueing to Madonna lol.

        2. I really don’t think we should be using these divisive labels at all. People are just people, whatever their skin tone. Some you like and some you don’t.

          Call a halt to the whole cultural marxism and let people get on with life.

          1. I agree.

            Them being Navy they always end up calling each other Nicknames.

            My neighbour Garry who was CPO was called Shirley for his 30 year career. His surname is Crabtree. (Big Daddy).

    4. I thought for a moment, before I saw the picture, that Sisay Lemma was a trans (FTM) runner.

    1. Slap on wrist – decent family men -unaware of local mores – understandable confusion – led on by girls gagging for it, anyway. Sort of thing.

    6. I’m glad to hear that these crimes are all ‘historic.’ Presumably that means that the issue of rape gangs has been solved, and isn’t still going on up and down this land to this very day?

      1. It is still going on. They can’t help themselves. In fact it has been going on since the 50s.

    7. I’m glad to hear that these crimes are all ‘historic.’ Presumably that means that the issue of rape gangs has been solved, and isn’t still going on up and down this land to this very day?

  79. Bit heavy for a Sunday NoTTlers….!

    Is Western civilisation on the brink of collapse?

    History tells us all cultures have their sell-by date. Do political strife, crippling inequality and climate change mean the West’s time is now up.

    AH, the good old days, when predictions that “the end is nigh” were seen only on sandwich boards, and the doom-mongers who carried them were easy enough to ignore.

    If only things had stayed so simple. The sandwich boards have mostly gone and the world is still here, but the gloomy predictions keep coming, and not all of them are based on creative interpretations of religious texts. Scientists, historians and politicians alike have begun to warn that Western culture is reaching a critical juncture. Cycles of inequality and resource use are heading for a tipping point that in many past civilisations precipitated political unrest, war and finally collapse.

    Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23731610-300-end-of-days-is-western-civilisation-on-the-brink-of-collapse/#ixzz78FVGM8b7

    1. Western culture is being subverted by governments which pander to the elite who make money from the masses of people who are brainwashed sheep. Climate change is a natural process driven by the sun, but people have been brainwashed to think there is an emergency.

      The Pandemic has been driven by the money to be made by Big Pharma and the elite who dine at Davos. They all spout the same slogans and the people believe them. People will not wake up until the world is on the brink.

        1. I think the internet had great good and bad consequences. Arguably it’s easier to mount an authoritarian takeover without it.
          How much non government approved information has any of us got, that we didn’t get off the internet?
          I remember how isolated I felt in Blair’s time, when I could see that he was wrecking the country and the media kept telling us that all was OK.
          The thing that I would unhesitatingly ban, is the mobile internet. It has brought nothing but mental laziness, stress and bad influences on children.

          1. “I remember how isolated I felt in Blair’s time, when I could see that he was wrecking the country and the media kept telling us that all was OK.”

            But that is EXACTLY what is happening now, in spade, under the present shower (no matter WHICH W European country you name.

          2. Yes, but we can exchange information over the internet. There is a counter narrative, which there wasn’t really in the Blair days.

          4. Yes, but we choose to do nothing really. I’ve struggled with this since I was at university – if I had known then what a pig’s ear my contemporaries would have made of running the country I might have been braver about stepping up myself, instead of throwing myself into the university of life.
            I’m sending small donations to people who are braver than me and are prepared to put their heads over the parapet and run alternative news sources – but it’s not enough.

    2. I turned off David Attenborogh today after finding, after only a few minutes viewing, that he had mentioned the words climate change and extinction.

      I was thinking of a video piece of three young girls who were being interviewed about the zero carbon initiatives of the green movements to save the planet.

      The first girl (they were all about the age of puberty) said she should couldn’t ever envisage bringing children into this world. The second girl was crying profusely. I couldn’t imagine what girl three was thinking.

      No wonder so many kids today require referral to mental services.

          1. Encourage abortions. Encourage fear of white men. So the ‘other’ outbreed us more easily.

            One of Victor Orban’s policies was to give financial support and encouragement to citizens to have babies in Hungary so they weren’t outbred.

    3. We are being subjected to a very worrying and bewildering culture change in the UK , where interlopers have had no input in creating the gentler society we thought we had become post WW2.

      Our parents and grandparents breathed a sigh of relief when the uniforms gas masks , wounds , the bad memories due to the loss of friends and family, including rationing were cast aside , because rebuilding our country with hard work post war with a sense of urgency was as sweet new beginning .

      Our parents were promised so much , including the birth of the NHS , from the Cradle to the Grave which has become 73 years later , an uncontrollable selective monster .

      I think Britain is burnt out .. we are a little Island , and politicians haven’t studied the map properly.

      We cannot support the millions who have begging bowls and who want to twist and destroy the history which has taken centuries to create in Britain .

      The way I see it as well is that Britain contains a couple of generations of fat slothful wasteful individiuals who are on the take .

      Pigs in blankets is an apt description .

  80. That’s me for the day. Must pour a glass of medicine. Very strong southerly winds all day.

    Have a bouncy evening writing your conference speech.

    A demain

    PS Soldier neighbour is going to give her co-ordinator hell about the oxygen. Poor fellow won’t know what hit him!

  81. Presenter on Country file just gestured to a mountain in the background and asked “Isn’t that an incredible view?”
    No!
    It might be a beautiful view, a dramatic view, an inspiring view but my credulity as to its being a mountain was not stretched in the slightest.

    Presenters seem to want try to keep us in a permanent state of awe.

        2. But in politics it appears that hyperbole has been raised to a whole new level that of Hyperbollocks.

  82. Evening all. The fuel crisis is still raging in my neck of the woods (South London). I always thought that a crisis was something that came to a head and then was quickly over. The Covid ‘Crisis’ seems to just drag on and on. I wonder if queuing for fuel is just something that we will have to get used to as part of this ‘new normal?’

    2. No queues at all when I filled up this morning on the way to church. No queues when I drove past on the way back, either. Maybe Salopians are more phlegmatic.

  83. A reminder (from 2 years ago) of the UN’s Agenda 21 and what it means:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/67cc47f6450cf78264c9fca28ba6e17c7e705cf8878f117ad15d7830bffe3a5f.jpg

    At the time I commented:

    2nd October 2019 ·
    Shared with Public
    UN Agenda 21
    Agenda 21 [1] is a non-binding action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development.[2] It is a product of the Earth Summit (UN Conference on Environment and Development) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is an action agenda for the UN, other multilateral organisations, and individual governments around the world that can be executed at local, national, and global levels.[citation needed]

    The “21” in Agenda 21 refers to the 21st century. It has been affirmed and had a few modifications at subsequent UN conferences. Its aim is achieving global sustainable development. One major objective of the Agenda 21 initiative is that every local government should draw its own local Agenda 21. Since 2015, Sustainable Development Goals are included in the Agenda 2030

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21#Local_level

    Be afraid – be very, very afraid. Chistine Lagarde says, “Alte Menschen leben zu lange und es ist ein Risiko für die Weltwirtschaft, etwas muss getan werden“ which means:
    Old people live too long and there is a risk to the global economy, something has to be done. She’s no spring chicken herself.

    1. She could always throw herself off a cliff to help save the planet. If she is a little nervous about it i don’t mind giving the cow a push.

    2. Good grief. We don’t stand a chance of pushing back against this. 70% of our local authorities have agenda 21 officers!

    3. I don’t think the elites are ever talking about themselves when they mention these grand plans for our future.

  84. Evening, all. I agree with the headline. The nutcases claim that the panic buying fiasco shows we should do more to remove fossil fuels! No, you prats, it shows you should address shortages, particularly when it comes to logistics, before they get to that stage. In a reversal of the usual roles, apparently people now trust LABOUR (!) to keep taxes lower than the Cons! Truly we are living in interesting, not to mention topsy turvy, times.

  85. Just watched an episode of Saturday kitchen. The guest Chef was Adam Handling. He cooked a lamb dish which he also cooked for the stuffed shirts at the G7 in Cornwall. He uses short saddle of lamb but i think it could be recreated using just racks of lamb if your boning technique is up to par. Or get your butcher to do it. I was drooling.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/all_about_the_lamb__63859

          1. The only ‘sport’ i ever enjoyed was orienteering (lots of smoke breaks) at school and trampolining. Both solitary activities which suited me. Can’t do either now.

          2. Don’t be so modest, rumour has it you were captain of the dwile flonking team and captain of vice for the bog snorkelling second team

      1. Windsors are brighter than most Spencers, ever since the fifth Earl passed without progeny. Although I will admit I like the ninth’s history books

  87. BBC2 Incredible Journeys
    Simon Reeve crapping on about the destruction of the rain forests….
    I used to like this guy….enough is enough ……

      2. The word generally refers to fortified wine from Spain, now commonly known as sherry. Curiously, no one is certain as to the origins of the word ‘sack’. Supposedly from the verb ‘sacar’, but I cannot help but wonder if it might have an earlier arabic origin, such as ‘zakat’, meaning purification. (blathers on offstage right)

  90. Good evening.

    Just home from Evensong. As I left church the big meat lorries were lined up and being off loaded at Smithfield market as per usual. Lots of food there. Tough on the veggies if there’s nothing else of course but they can always eat grass.

    1. The early birds.
      When I was a meat humper, yes that really was the title, at the abattoir the refrigerated lorries were loaded between 9 pm and 11 pm for the Smithfield run.

    1. Murderer. Adulterer. Bald headed cunt. Prostituted his office for money. Probably eats babies.

      1. Just because it is Sunday, there is no need for you to suppress your true feelings about the little tower.

  92. Watching original Day of the Jackal, detective summoned to Downing St
    No Iron Fencing
    No machine gun armed thugs
    Times change and not for the better

    2. Part and parcel of living in a big city said some Kant. Who happens to have a dozen officers protecting the little shit 24 hours a day.

    3. Once rulers deliberately fence themselves off from the populace, things go only one way.
      And it doesn’t end well for them.

  93. 339569+ up ticks,

    Dt,
    Politics latest news: Voters switched to the Tories because of Labour’s ‘woke aggression’, Oliver Dowden says

    Did ollie mention anything regarding prayer mats being overseers issue on the eventual take over, I take it the issue has already been catered for so NO shortages occur

  96. Thought for the day:

    If climate change is as bad as we are told, surely it’s already too late to do anything about it.

    Why are we bothering to spoil “the end of days”?

    Party on, kill off mankind, let the planet recover from a ghastly evolutionary side-show and continue.

    Man is essentially a blink of an eye in the great scheme of time.

    2. Killing off mankind will be the task of the epsilon variant – coming up after the winter olympics athletes are used as carriers to distribute the little beastie.

    3. Out of the remains of Life on Earth, I am positive that Bliar and the Witch will arise and continue with NWO

  98. Good night all.

    Opened a bottle of Camel Valley Bacchus 2019 with supper. It really is rather good – starts like a SB, then has a really fruity tail.

      1. Well now, supper was Chicken Toskana part 2. The pan juices make a broth which is better than an orgasm. Next time I’m going to change the order of things & concentrate on the broth. Missy can have what’s left.

        1. Oh I wish that I was young enough to question the joy of the broth compared to an orgasm.

          1. If you speak, French oops Spanish , but shuffle the letters of ‘the broth,’

            El Broth, can organise the orgasm

  101. Thoughts for the Conservative Conference …

    Cressida Dick must be sacked …

    Thereafter, Prritti Patel must be sacked …

    Thereafter, Boris must be replaced by a nuclear-savvy, economically competent, Conservative Leader.

    We can’t go on like this …

    1. Muslim Slaphead Sajid Javid and Rushi Sunak, the banker’s friend, and Priti Awful should also be removed post haste.

      The damage these idiots have done to the UK is almost immeasurable.

        1. I agree. His latest announcements are positively hostile and an affront to our universal concept of human life and Liberty.

          The man is a Muslim and thus should never have been admitted to our parliament. Their Muslim values are in contradistinction to our own mores and laws. I simply do not accept that some cabinet member swearing an oath of allegiance on any thing other than the Holy Bible is legitimate.

          We are a Christian country and have remained so for millennia. We do not wish to change the foundations of our experience and existence, our laws, our historic constitution (and the rest) for some alien importation of Satanists.

  102. 339569+ up ticks,
    It would certainly interfere with the manipulation campaign.

    Thousands of army veterans ready to tackle HGV crisis ‘but are being ignored by No 10’
    Former soldiers say they are not receiving adequate support in entering the road haulage sector despite having requisite skills

  103. Albanians living in UK ‘would work for free’ to tackle fuel crisis
    Ambassador says many of Britain’s 150,000 Albanians would step in out of gratitude to the country

    Albania has said thousands of its migrants to the UK would be willing to work for nothing to help tackle the petrol crisis.

    Albania’s ambassador to the UK, Qirjako Qirko, told the Guardian: “If your government would like, we can offer good reliable drivers, maybe 5,000 immediately.”

    He claimed many of the estimated 150,000 Albanians living in the UK would work out of gratitude to their British hosts. As a significant number are believed to be undocumented, it is impossible to know how many are qualified HGV drivers.

    But Qirko, who had just spent an hour queueing for petrol without success, said he believed many Albanians in Britain were truck drivers who could help make up a shortfall estimated at up to 100,000.

    He said: “The Albanians are ready to work for the British government to overcome this problem free of charge. I don’t know if they have the right licences, but if they did I’m sure everyone here would say ‘I can help’.

    Qirko cited the 1999 Nato intervention in Kosovo for saving hundreds of ethnic Albanians and said: “Albanians in the UK would work free of charge for this country because of what this country has done for them … We are grateful forever to the government, and to the army of this country, for what they did for our brothers in Kosovo.”

    Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, has hopes of joining the EU but in 2019 France blocked the opening of membership negotiations. In 2017, twice as many Albanians as people of any other nationality were caught as stowaways at UK ports, Home Office figures showed. This year, the home secretary, Priti Patel, signed an agreement to remove Albanian nationals without the right to be in the UK.

    Qirko urged the British to see Albanians as an asset rather than a problem, complaining they were too often portrayed as gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers, including by government bodies such as the National Crime Agency.

    He said: “Of course, there are some people from my community that are involved in criminal activity, but why is it so necessary to mention their nationality? Nationality has nothing to do with criminality. You don’t say someone is a gay or lesbian criminal, so why say there are ‘Albanian criminals’?”

    He added: “By mentioning the nationality you create a negative perception, regarding the whole community here that is doing an honest job. Albanians who come here are not criminal. They are people who like a better life.”

    In 2019, Qirko criticised the Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James for her portrayal of Albanians in her novel The Mister, about a London maid who had been trafficked. Qirko has a copy of James’s letter in response on his desk. She wrote: “In the course of my research for the novel, I did visit Albania and found it to be an extremely beautiful country. And its people to be warm and welcoming.”

    Qirko said: “I’m here to stand up for my people. They are not criminal, they are hard-working and honest.”

    The military is set to start delivering fuel to forecourts on Monday, amid reports that south-east England is experiencing worsening shortages. Petrol prices are rising, with one garage in London reportedly charging £2.93 for a litre of super unleaded.

    Qirko strongly denied reports on Sunday that Albania was negotiating a deal with the UK to receive migrants who cross the Channel in small boats. The Sun said officials were close to striking a deal on an overseas processing centre. Setting up such a centre for refugees is part of the new nationality and borders bill.

    The Home Office did not confirm or deny the report. But Qirko said there had been no negotiations. “This is absolutely and totally fake news. Totally false. There are no discussions and no negotiations. I am sure that the Home Office will react and deny this story.”

    Olta Xhaçka, Albania’s foreign minister, has also denied the report. “So embarrassing the fake news spreading in the British media about an ‘offshore hub in the Balkans’ namely in Albania to ‘detain migrants crossing Channel from France’,” she tweeted.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/03/albanian-migrants-to-uk-would-work-for-free-to-tackle-fuel-crisis

  106. Sorry, chums, I haven’t time to read all the new comments but must wish you all Good night and God bless.

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