Sunday 4 August: Britain is now saddled with a government intent on levelling down

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

    Get It Right

    Little Johnny goes to school, and the teacher says, "Today we are going to learn multi-syllable words, class. Does anybody have an example of a multi-syllable word?"

    Little Johnny waves his hand, "Me, Miss Rogers, me, me!"

    Miss Rogers, "All right little Johnny, what is your multi-syllable word?"

    Little Johnny says, "Mas-tur-bate."

    Miss Rogers smiles uncomfortably and says, "Well, little Johnny, you've said quite a mouthful."

    “No," Little Johnny says, "you're thinking of a blowjob."

  2. Good morning, chums, and thanks to Rik for today's new NoTTLe page. (I know, I know, but yesterday I thanked Geoff for the new NoTTLe page instead of Rik, so this is to make amends.) I hope you all have a good day.

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    1. Good morning Elsie
      Today's wordle is annoying!
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      1. I really don't like those situations where there are multiple options
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  4. Good morning all

    Up early because son is preparing for a half marathon , I smelt toast and scrambled eggs and other tasties , he is carbing up!

    Let Pip out for an early morning wee, 06.30 .

    Cloudy morning , 12c.

  5. Yvette Cooper
    @YvetteCooperMP
    ·
    Aug 2
    Criminals attacking the police & stoking disorder on our streets will pay the price for their violence & thuggery.

    The police have the full backing of Government to take the strongest possible action & ensure they face the full force of the law.

    They do not represent Britain.


    Queen Bob
    @KingBobIIV
    Since the 1990's the Labour party has ignored, facilitated, and downplayed the continued, industrial scale rape of our little girls. Your own MP's said "those girls should shut up for the sake of diversity". Gordon Brown said little girls being violently gangraped "made a lifestyle choice". Starmer refused, when head of the CPS, to clamp down of the continued rape of the little girls of this country. Instead, these men have been rewarded for raping the women and girls of this country with pith sentences, and life time citizenship.

    You can not lie to us.

    £117m to protect mosques.
    £6bn to house illegals whilst our veterans sleep on the streets, and to pay for it, you've stolen the fuel allowance from our elderly.

    Granted, for 14 years, this has been a Tory issue, but you were supposed to be OUR party – the party for the working classes.

    In ONE month, a serviceman has been stabbed by a migrant, Harehills was on fire, riots in Rochdale, 17 stabbings in 48 hours, endless countless rapes, stabbings, murders and assaults. THEN 3 beautiful little girls were murdered by a man who had no place here. Then you tried to lie to us about who he was and why he did it.

    For 30 years we have had to tolerate our country, our history, our culture sneered at, denigrated and erased.

    Our children have "Lockdown Practice" in their schools, like the threat of being blown up or murdered is somehow a perfectly normal expectation for school children.

    Our little girls can 't go and see pop stars without being blown up. They can't go to summer camps, without being macheted to death. They can't walk to nanna's house without being surrounded by foreign men (my daughter).

    Counter Terrorism social media posts about reported suspicious behaviours, with smiley faces, like the expectation of being blown up, is just some normal occurrence we have to expect.

    every street in major cities are lined with steel bollards so that we're not mown down in the street.

    Every market has "bollards of peace" everywhere, covered in flowers, so that it doesn't look like they're not there to keep us safe from being murdered.

    This has been thrust upon us. We've tried voting, we've tried marching, we've tried writing to MPS – you wont listen.

    WE DO NOT WANT ALL THESE MIGRANTS HERE. They cost us money, they don't' behave, and we don't want them. We don't care if they're white as snow from Eastern Europe, or from deepest Africa or the Middle East. What they look like makes zero difference. We are full. Are services can't cope. Our country is broken. And you need to recognise that.
    8:42 AM · Aug 3, 2024
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    1. recognise that?

      Blair & Starmer recognise it all right.. They are both radical Trotskyites and are determined to destroy your wretched country.. with your wretched history.. and your wretched traditions.. wretched institutions. Every single bit of glue must be unglued.. deconstructed.. and rebuilt from scratch. That is Starmergeddon.

    3. Yvette Cooper does not represent our country. You have to be accepted to represent.

  6. Morning, all Y'all.
    Absolutely hissing down. Can barely see across the valley, there's so much water in the air.

  7. Good morning, all. Grey sky. 110 years ago today, there began the "War to end all wars". That went well, eh?

    1. Might have been worth it if it had achieved that aim. Now, we've one running in Europe, and gearing up for another in the Middle East.
      Morning, Bill.

    2. Might have been worth it if it had achieved that aim. Now, we've one running in Europe, and gearing up for another in the Middle East.
      Morning, Bill.

    5. It is easier for Europeans to start a war in summer, rather than winter. Especially if you want to attack a cold area, such as the Crimea.

  10. A bit grey out there today but we've got the last day of the steam fair today. A very peaceful crowd of mainly working class type people all out for a good day looking at vintage (and beautifully maintained) vehicles and enormous steam engines. Animals including Shires and Shetlands and a couple of camels.
    A very well organised event with lots of food stalls and events in the arena. There are lots of static displays – military vehicles including American ones. Yesterday a Glenn Miller tribute band. No far right rioters yet. Very few ethnic people but too many grossly obese people with tattoos.

    2. Have a happy day J, and enjoy observing the spectacle .

      My weight varies , yo yo's , but my goodness there are some real lumps out there , and children especially .

      1. Yes – but the grossest ones yesterday were female. Quite a lot of overweight disabled people enjoying the day from their mobility scooters. But one woman who came to the stall for a go on the tombola was wearing a boob tube type of top with no visible support – it went lower and lower as she leaned over the stall towards me and almost……….almost flopped out an enormous boob – but she pulled it up just in time! Ken was watching too and we had a laugh about that afterwards.
        He's a real goer at 90! He lost our dear Pam just before Christmas and we all miss her but he's determined to carry on as she would have wanted. She chose a new car and he didn't get it till recently but it was the colour she chose. Red Jazz with a black roof. He's now been widowed twice.

  11. Morning all. Washing pegged out and now off for a bike ride into town (busman’s holiday for me but MOH “misses” London)

  12. Morning all. Washing pegged out and now off for a bike ride into town (busman’s holiday for me but MOH “misses” London)

  13. Families forced to flee amid far-Right violence. 4 August 2024.

    Families have been forced to flee from violent disorder in Liverpool, as far-Right clashes continue across the country.

    Police in Liverpool said an “afternoon of unashamed disorder and violence” potentially put members of the public, including children, at risk.

    “We have heard reports of families having to run away from the area, some of whom had brought children to see the Disney Princess cruise ship docked nearby,” said police.

    Propaganda.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/03/southport-attack-latest-sunderland-riots-spread/

    1. “We have heard reports of families having to run away from the area…."

      So police haven't actually seen this for themselves, then?

  14. Obviously there have been protests, but what we are seeing on tv doesn't appear to fit the project fear rhetoric, a random car on fire, a few people milling about.
    We all recognise what serious rioting looks like after the 2011 riots.
    I think the powers that be are trying to frighten and deter ordinary people from gathering in public protest using the usual psyop techniques.
    Lay all the blame on mysterious extremist far right, nobody knows who they are, or lies on social media put there by foreign dictators.
    Basically brow beat people into accepting their wicked two tier agenda, their agenda is extremist the people of this country are not.

    1. My new friend from the bbq yesterday, a lovely Slovenian chap, thinks it’s orchestrated deliberately. Remind me 4th September- a protest march at lunchtime

    2. My new friend from the bbq yesterday, a lovely Slovenian chap, thinks it’s orchestrated deliberately. Remind me 4th September- a protest march at lunchtime

  15. Squirrel and pigeon having a scrap on yhe lawn! They didn’t come on the lawn when Jasper was around! Amusing to watch though. Squirrel having fun playing, like he’s auditioning for acrobatics at the Olympics!

    1. Thankyou! Horses, ponies and camels were lovely. Might have a look round the vehicles today if there's time.

  17. 390880+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,
    Sunday 4 August: Britain is now saddled with a government intent on levelling down

    Sunday 4 August: Britain has now saddled itself through reverse democracy, via the polling stations with a government intent on levelling down.

    This act of mass self harming via spite should be seen and awarded an Olympian gold in the class of treacherous stupidity.

    The arm going over the shoulder regarding the two opposed flag bearers in divided paddyland must surely be a lesson to bear in mind, UNITY of the peoples is a key factor, divide & conquer is a
    well used and successful tool when used by
    our political enemy / enemas.

  21. Good morning, all. Overcast and dry here.

    Belle put this up late yesterday.

    https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1819814597483958663
    What these policemen and policewomen have to get into their heads is that they have to live within the communities they have sworn to protect with impartiality etc.

    From Google/Wiki

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ecbf74f58328d2b963aebb038b56f122cb64f063042f0fbb5403ef952bc3cea5.png

    The police being a cat's paw for the political class is a dangerous course to take: many politicians will be quite happy to throw the police under the proverbial bus as soon as it suits their agenda.

    1. 390880+ up ticks,

      Morning KtK,
      They could double up by giving the muslim warning on, if you have not converted to obey the allah chap on the take over there will be dire consequences.

    2. That politically-motivated abomination of a police "oath" only came out in 2002, when the police became pawns of the political élite.

      Prior to that — when a constable was still a citizen, locally-appointed, and deriving his authority under the Crown (i.e. a public servant) — the proper oath (the one I proudly took) was this:

      I (name) of (town) solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen in the office of constable, without favour or affection, malice or ill-will, and I will to the best of my power cause the peace to be kept and preserved and prevent all offences against the person and properties of Her Majesty’s subjects, and that while I continue to hold the said office I will to the best of my skill and knowledge discharge all the duties thereof faithfully and according to law. (Attestation of constables: schedule 4, Police Act 1964 & 1996).

      No bollocks about "human rights" in that proper oath.

    1. If Sunak stood up and said that he would not be taking the MPs heating allowance and he expected none of his remaining Conservative MPs to do so and would publish the list of those who did and those who didn't and then asked Starmer to do the same would Starmer refuse to do so?

  26. Good morning all,

    Thin cloud covering the sky at Castle McPhee, a cool 14℃ in a South-Westerly breeze with 22℃ the forecast maximum.

    Well that's our brief summer over. Early on the skies were clear enough to see that The Rulers of The Darkness of The World have decreed that the chem-trailers should get back out and blur them. They've been at it this morning and their efforts have already spread into the milkiness above.

    Given the front page today –
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f4b53b60bcae523128035ac32243474b2c319f726695f4e9ca9e2167544add58.png

    I think it apposite that we should let Dr David Starkey give us his take on our 'Dear Leader'.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srz2JRNxVg0

    1. "Courts to be open 24 hours to crack down on rioters."

      I bet those judges, KCs, barristers, solicitors and magistrates are dancing a jig in delight.

      1. Whence cometh all these empty prison cells?
        I thought they were full to bursting.

  28. I'm off down to the corner shop now to purchase a Mail on Sunday, in appropriate attire for the Lords day, of course.
    I was wondering whether to double knot my brogues, would this look too Far Right Wing?
    I don't want to send out the wrong signals.
    Will I get away with a silent prayer, I might give it a try
    I may be some time

  29. Good morning all.
    A dull, overcast start today, but dry and forecast to stay that way. a pleasant 11°C on the Yard Thermometer.

    1. An excellent article by Margaret Ashworth, Rather long but full of interesting information about Sabine Baring-Gould and his associates. Recommended reading.

  31. Do we need more words?

    Every time someone is interviewed on the news about some exceptional feat or event – good or bad – I hear them say "There are no words to describe…."

    Susie Dent must be called into action immediarely to provide new words to address this serious gap in the lexicon.

    1. These people have "no words" because their vocabulary is so depleted, so non-existent. An utter failure of the education system. They are simply not intelligent enough to possess, or know how to buy, or use, a dictionary or a thesaurus.

      Even the handy paperback Chambers Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms would be too much for them to take in.

      1. Our children learnt to read fluently at the age of four and indeed they incorporated words they had not heard but had read into their active vocabulary.

        I remember Christo at the age of four asking a man with a large dog on a lead: "Is your dog ferocious?"

        1. I recall learning that word from AA Milne. Doesn’t Pooh discuss ferocious animals?

        2. At that age I read (and perpetually questioned) words wherever I saw them. Notice boards were a particular agency for my curiosity.

          When I was that age my mother invested in a set of encyclopædias (The Waverley "Book of Knowledge") which I still possess, though it's now a bit dog-eared. My nose was never out of those tomes, indeed I was the only member of the family who showed any interest in expanding a knowledge base.

          Words hold a continuing lifetime's passion for me.

          1. I can't remember not being able to read. Certainly aged 3 I was competent. I think my mother taught me so as to keep me occupied while she slaved to keep a house – my brothers aged 14 and 11 – running during the war – my father being away from 1942 to 1945.

          2. I remember bluffing it until I could read.
            My parents would read my Mickey Mouse comic to me.
            Later I would read it back to them (guided by the pictures).
            I can remember their indulgent smiles.

          4. Having taught dyslexic children I had some reading age, writing age and spelling age tests to hand. At the age of 5 both Christo and Henry were at over double their chronological ages in all three tests. Why are so many children still illiterate when they leave school?

            We read to our boys every bedtime without fail – I read to one boy in English; Caroline read to the other in French and when books were finished we swapped boys. If one boy's book was finished before the other's we filled the time by reading poetry.

            They are still both avid readers and, like Prospero, they love their books!

            I have very poor keyboard skills and frequently invert letters when I type. This has had the knock-on effect of damaging my spelling which used to be very sound when I wrote by hand. Have any other Nottlers had the same problem?

          5. My favourite trick (i.e. annoying habit) when typing on a computer keyboard is typing so quickly that letters often appear in a word in the wrong order. Sometime it is easy to proof-read and remedy but on other occasions when I try to read back the gobbledegook I haven't got the foggiest clue about what the word was when I first typed it! Two words — out of many — in particular that I serially get wrong are 'greta' (when I mean to type great) and 'becuase' when I mean to type because)This repeated occurrence drives me insane!

            I didn't have this problem in the days of the old typewriter. I suppose that was because you had to use Tippex® on the top copy, but the other copies always looked a right mess underneath when revealed.

          8. My favourite trick (i.e. annoying habit) when typing on a computer keyboard is typing so quickly that letters often appear in a word in the wrong order. Sometime it is easy to proof-read and remedy but on other occasions when I try to read back the gobbledegook I haven't got the foggiest clue about what the word was when I first typed it! Two words — out of many — in particular that I serially get wrong are 'greta' (when I mean to type great) and 'becuase' when I mean to type because)This repeated occurrence drives me insane!

            I didn't have this problem in the days of the old typewriter. I suppose that was because you had to use Tippex® on the top copy, but the other copies always looked a right mess underneath when revealed.

          9. My eldest son memorized his many nursey rhymes. Lots of books as the neighbour ran a book factory covering paperbacks with hardcovers for libraries. 20+ books every Xmas and the odd extra through the year.
            Age 2.5 in a bookshop, picks up Tootles the Taxi and "reads". Older ex-teacher says that's impossible. We broke it to her he had the book at home & it was memorized.
            Aged just under 4 his twin brothers arrived and he went from No1 to No3 – not really but he felt that.
            Quietly got on with "his reading" – about 4 months on he had mastered reading rather than recall – almost any new word he could make a good stab at pronouncing it.

            Off to school at 5 we said at enrolment that he could read. Ignored by the staff & teacher.
            Week 1 at school – phone call from Headmaster – "You did not tell us he could read!"
            He can read a newspaper fluently, he said.

            His twin brothers were not so lucky, reading & spelling were hard work. However, with 2 x 1sts in Process Engineering aged 21, Reading & Spelling did not hold them back.

          10. My uncle thought I could read when I told him all the names of the flowers in a tea card album. I'd just memorised them.

          11. I'm a fast touch-typer and very accurate, but there are some words my fingers simply like to spell differently. 🙄

            It used to be possible to set up little macros to automatically iron these out, but then they 'improved' the software…

          12. However many times I write or type them, there are words that never look right and I have to look them up.

          13. I have a couple of those, too. Given that my memory for spelling is pretty much eidetic, I suspect they may have been spelled incorrectly when I first came across them.

          14. The 10 volume Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia, backed up with the 4 volume World of the Children for me.

          15. My father had that in magazine form.
            I loved the colour reproduction of the Bayeux Tapestry.

          19. Which is why I enjoyed Chaucer and Old English.
            Not always the easiest to read, but worth the effort to see how our language evolved.
            (And yes, with Old English I would have to go back to basics.)

          21. A working knowledge of Anglo Saxon was a mandatory requirement when I was a medical student.

        3. I remember "soporific" from the Flopsy Bunnies.
          And "gregarious" because it cropped up in an English language text book.

      2. Our children learnt to read fluently at the age of four and indeed they incorporated words they had not heard but had read into their active vocabulary.

        I remember Christo at the age of four asking a man with a large dog on a lead: "Is your dog ferocious?"

  32. I've brought this conversation from yesterday, forward, since I believe it need more discussion instead of being consigned to history.

    On yesterday's forum, in response to a post, Stephenroi asked: "Does anyone truly feel safe from a Labour Government?"

    I replied: "The quarter-wit clowns who routinely vote for the twats evidently do."

    Our erudite colleague, Stig, popped up later to add: "Not all those who vote Labour do so for safety. For some it'll be a case of feeling a little less unsafe doing so than voting in a way that makes an alternative outcome fractionally more like!y."

    My response is: "Nonetheless, are these people so switched off to reality that they do not possess the nous to research history? Every Labour administration in British history has left the country worse off. It's what they do. 

The modern-breed of Conservatives failed because they (like all major parties) are directly controlled by the World Economic Forum and Their United Nations (and their totalitarian agandæ).

    The Conservatives were implementing WEF/UN policies surreptitiously: Labour are going out full steam ahead."

    Have Stephenroi, Stig or I missed anything out?

    2. The stats show that thousands of electors here in Reigate switched their votes from Con to Lab. I would not presume to ascribe motives to any of them – I do not make windows in men's souls – but I am fairly sure that there very many reasons. To say that they were all "quarter twats" casts no light on anything.

      2. Hmm.
        Conservative hold with 18,822 on a 68.9% turnout, against 28,665 in 2019 on a 71.6% turnout.
        But only half of those missing votes went to Labour it appears.

    3. If you support or vote labour "you have a 2 watt bulb for a brain". ( Kojak)

    4. If you support or vote labour "you have a 2 watt bulb for a brain". ( Kojak)

    6. There are people who genuinely dont understand.. anything. They are ignorant of economics, psychology, history or common sense. These people hate – utterly – anything not Labour. They can't be reasoned with because they lack the intelligence to do so. They are convinced of the righteousness of the Labour government. Presenting facts to them, consequences – all wasted. They simply refuse to understand.

      Sadly, there are an awful lot of these sort of people. Gullible, moronic, frightened, ignorant, intolerant, bigoted, thoroughly nasty people and they all vote Labour.

    7. My friends appear to vote Labour as it makes them feel virtuous. They genuinely feel hatred for Conservatives t they have no rationale for why – just vague platitudes. I don’t think Labour voters are deep thinkers.

      1. My brother met his wife, back in 1977, in the local Conservative Club where her parents were high-ranking members. Their two sons were each ‘turned’ and became rabid Pinkoes when they were students at Manchester University. Those sons ‘worked’ on their parents and have no ‘turned’ them into being just as vacuous as they are. My brother’s wife’s parents will be squirming in their graves!

    1. 390880+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      The politico's / pharmaceuticals have crossed the line and gone too far to retrack anything,

    2. Given the current circumstances, I,for one, will welcome death as the great escape. No, I'm not suicidal but if I'm forced, physically or otherwise to have it. it will be a welcome death.

          2. A Welsh choir boy who is a west end stage star despite his autism?
            Or proper Welsh who know all the words to "Men of Harlech"?

      1. Chilling moment member of 13-strong Somali prostitution gang checks in to a Premier Inn hotel before raping 13-year-old girl in a room with another man
        – Jusuf Abdirizak, 20, and Said Zakaria, 22, raped girl three times in hotel
        – They were members of a gang who abused four schoolgirls
        – Three of the girls were white and one was mixed race
        – They believed they were in relationships with the defendants
        – Some were persuaded to have sex with their 'boyfriend's' friends and told this was part of Somali 'culture and tradition'
        – Another victim, 16, had been placed in a city centre flat on her own
        – Abusers used her home as a base to sell drugs
        – Seven men were convicted of sex offences at trial in the summer
        – Other six, plus Zakaria, who was involved in first trial, convicted yesterday
        – They were in custody today and will be sentenced tomorrow
        – A 14th man linked to the gang admitted supplying cocaine in first trial
        – All of the men, though Somali in origin, were in the UK legally

        2. Thanks Bob, it makes me so angry to hear what our stupid useless political idiots have done to our country.
          What they are doing is the equivalent to opening the lions cages at the zoo’s.
          They are obliged by the rules of human nature to chuck all of this shit out of the UK. Now.

    1. Starmer and Mrs Balls are intellectually lazy and bigoted which is why they are quite determined NOT to listen because it is far easier to brand people as extreme right who object to normal norms of behaviour being overturned by the new comers and their culture and history being swamped.

      Enoch Powell warned us of what would happen and he has been proved right but the PTB never asked the plebs whether or not they agreed with him.

      Of course the PTB never ask people what they want and of course they will never do so again because when they asked them about Brexit they were given an answer that they then had to undo.

      1. "Enoch Powell warned us of what would happen"

        Spot on Rastus. And all this a surprise to our modern day pundits. The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, too.

    2. It won't listen, it doesn't care about the problem it has caused.
      It will act, by massive, punitive oppression where plod are given free rein.
      It will blame the Briton because to do otherwise is to accept the failure of its own policies.

      Big fat state genuinely doesn't see a problem with what it's done to this country. It blames us. remember Brown's 'bigoted woman?' They just don't get it.

  36. Watching the Olympic Games last night I became aware of a crass new development brought about by the imbeciles who operate the International OIympic Committee (Baron Pierre de Coubertin must be gyrating in his sarcophagus).

    "Mixed" sports are now the vogue. I watched, on the athletics track (which is a fetching shade of lilac!), teams of four comprising two men and two women performing a carnival act called "The Mixed 400m Relay". A male (I think) ran the first leg before handing over to a woman who then handed back to a man. Finally a woman ran the last leg.

    Not to be outdone, over at the swimming pool — which, although a temporary fixture in the stadium where it is located, remains a comforting "Olympic swimming pool" standard size! — another similar novelty event took place called the "Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay". In this fairground event men started swimming the first two legs (backstroke, then breaststroke) before handing over to women who then swam butterfly and freestyle.

    My main concern about these novelty circus events is how it now may be possible for the IOC to use them as a back-door in order to permit trannies and other mind-altered weirdos (who are unsure of their sexual 'category') to join in the fun and be part of this mixed-sex jamboree.

    Olympic Sport — Citius, Altius, Fortius — it is certainly not!

    1. A mixed relay team of trans men and trans women up next for the Trans Iron Person Triathlon?

    3. More medals for more events, mixed rowing, mixed diving mixed gymnastics mixed cock and tail. etc

        2. I did some mixed boxing yesterday.
          First I assembled a box for six cupcakes.
          And then I assembled one that holds four.

    4. Individual events are fine. It's the same on each team, thus the competition is genuine.

      If a 6' male boxer goes up against a 5'6 female then it's unfair. But hey. The Left don't care. The end justifies the means.

    5. I decided to look at the swimming event. It was thoroughly boring and uncompetitive really. I won't watch it in future, because it suffers from the same thing as mixed doubles in tennis and badminton. A very predictable 'competition'.

      A fairground, or circus level minor sport at best, as you say.

    1. Yesterday evening's BBC news (10pm) featured a very brief video clip with this commentary by the reporter:
      "The police are under pressure but some have accused them of double standards. Listen to this officer outside a mosque in Stoke: 'If you've got any weapons, get rid of them' he appears to say, 'we're not going to make any arrests.' "

    3. She has no interest unless it's whitey fighting back.

      Those muslim should be dealt with and made an example of.

    5. Muslim defence league? Will that be subject to the same denigration in the Press and by politicians as the (defunct) EDL? I think we know the answer to that.

  41. 390880+ up ticks,

    Morning FA,

    True, or playing with a member,
    Diddly I do do, and that can only lead to specsavers.

  43. Off to paint the shed doors. Play nicely. Remember, the War will be over by Christmas.

  46. Morning all 🙂😊
    We had a lovey afternoon and evening with most of our close family. 42 today since our middle son was born. We even had a phone chat with number three who is living in Dubai.
    Grandchildren were brilliant. Bbq was perfect except for the smoke. Strawberries raspberries and home made delights were thoroughly enjoyed.
    The Drinks were great and a wonderful evening was enjoyed by all.
    He and his family are off to Whipsnade now. And later the two of them are out for dinner and cocktails evening in London.

    And this government has already been a disaster, god only knows what they will try next.
    They are filled with hate for the very people who have worked hard paid their dues and kept the UK on level ground for decades.
    I hope the general's are getting prepared for action.
    Leveling down seems to include scraping the proverbial barrel.

    1. Morning Eddy , so glad your afternoon was memorable .

      I hope you appreciate this letter as much as I did

      National unrest
      SIR – Riots are unacceptable, whatever excuse may be presented for them. However, amid the unrest across the country, Sir Keir Starmer needs to consider the broader picture (“Starmer blames riots on far-Right plotters”, report, August 3).

      Increased immigration and the failure to control it, inconsistent policing practices, tolerance of intolerant minorities, the rejection of British history, and the divisiveness of “diversity and inclusion” have left many feeling uneasy. People of moderate opinions have questions they want answered.

      Unlawful actions must be dealt with firmly, but there are underlying issues to address.

      Peter Williman
      Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

      1. Come on, Mr Williman. It's only immigrants who have underlying issues to address.

      2. The government will never get the general public behind them when they continue to kneel literally to BLM and metaphorically to Islam.

        They have also got to convince the public that the police's treatment of all riotous behaviour is impartial. At the moment it very clearly is not.

          4. It's on my hard drive; in my lap top and the portable one.
            The Conservatives missed a trick there – one of many. Maybe too many of their "one nation" MPS had done the same thing or at least tacitly agreed with the gesture.

        2. From Enoch Powell's speech that you referenced elsewhere:

          "The third element of the Conservative Party's policy is that all who are in this country as citizens
          should be equal before the law and that there shall be no discrimination or difference made
          between them by public authority."

          It might have been Conservative policy in the 1960s, but it certainly ain't Labour policy in 2024.

      3. Starmer (and his rag-tag "government") is nothing more than a fully-paid quartermaster of the WEF.

        All he is doing is following their direct instructions.

      4. I protest. I am not far right.
        They are a bunch of softie splitters.
        I am hard right.
        By tomorrow, I will join the extreme right.
        BTW, the homicidal cherub is a choir boy/ west end musical star / victim of autism.
        Take your pick.
        Give it until Monday morning and the dancing girls and their female teachers will be to blame for his distressed condition.

      5. Starmer is just another effing idiot.
        He needs to consider…..Were our parents and grandparents ‘far right plotters’ when they fought to keep our country safe from
        nazis invaders ?
        The ongoing problems we have with our idiots in Wastemonster and Whitehall is when things they have forced upon us go wrong, as frequently as they do. They always blame everyone else for it.

    2. So happy, Eddy, that you had a happy time. We can only look forward to more happy times.

      1. We are so lucky to have such a lovely family.
        Life long friends and extended family are all invited to our 50th wedding aniversery at the end of the month.
        We’ve even got people coming from South Africa and Perth WA.

  47. There's nothing like a family gathering as age creeps on. We had both lads here at the weekend, dinner out after the pub on Friday, lunch in the city Saturday. Pretty close to the best weekend of my life.

    2. When younger son is around we love his company and forget that there was a time (after being got up 15 times in one night) when we could have killed him.

          2. Thank you.
            The only bits I follow are those comments here, I don’t look at the video cams and hadn’t appreciated they are both on non-stop and recordings are available.

          3. I have to admit, it is fascinating.
            It is the first site MB checks in the morning and then he 'pops in' several times during the day.

    2. I did a quick search, couldn't find any confirmation (or denial) of that. Sounds a bit odd, would parents carry on feeding young until they migrate? Haven't read all of Wikipedia but got the sense different Ospreys in different countries do slightly different things:-)

    3. The Scottish ones are fed by the parents until they leave for warmer climes – around about now. I would guess that the ones at Poole do the same and they will be fed until they go. The juveniles leave before the parents who remain for a few days to ‘tidy up’!

    4. When MB checked this morning, there were two hanging about in the nest.
      Do ospreys have squeaky voices throughout their lives, or have their voices not yet broken?

  49. SIR – Christine Tomblin (Letters, August 1) has begun to “wonder whether the Labour Party doesn’t actually want the working classes to succeed”.

    The truth is that it never did. That is why it gutted the Education Act of 1944. When the sons and daughters of truck drivers and electricians, via Tory-introduced state scholarships and grants, began to threaten its own sons and daughters of privilege, it destroyed the grammar schools.

    John Heddle
    Long Eaton, Derbyshire

    Resistance is not futile. Make their jobs and their lives as difficult as possible. When they introduced those idiotic hate laws in Scotland, Scot Plod was inundated with spurious reports of hate crimes. They are probably still trying to process them. We need more of this. Swamp them.

    1. For every "far right" protester there may up to 10 quietly watching and understanding.
      Millions will use passive resistance and unco-operation with the authorities. Convenient deafness and blindness will be the default whenever the police or government appeal for information.

  50. David Atherton
    @DaveAtherton20
    Police & Crime Commissioner for Hants
    @DonnaJonesPCC
    makes an extraordinary statement.

    She acknowledges "two tier policing, which has enflamed protestors who state they are battling to protect Britain’s sovereignty, identity & stop illegal immigration."

    "Whilst the devastating attacks in Southport on Tuesday were a catalyst, the commonality amongst the protest groups appears to be focused on three key areas: the desire to protect Britain’s sovereignty; the need to uphold British values & in order to do this, stop illegal immigration."

    "The Government must acknowledge what is causing this civil unrest in order to prevent it. “Arresting people, or creating violent disorder units, is treating the symptom and not the cause."

    “The questions these people want answering; what is the Government’s solution to mass uncontrolled immigration? How are the new Labour government going to uphold and build on British values? This is the biggest challenge facing Sir
    @Keir_Starmer
    government, and its bitten quickly.”

    It appears she has been lent on to delete it.

    https://policeprofessional.com/news/apcc-chair-calls-for-calm-and-honesty-amid-worrying-level-of-rioting-and-civil-unrest/

    1. Bloody hell! Excuse my language, but for a statist official to say such things is staggering.

      That it wasn't stopped is amazing.

      However, soon that'll be 'ex PCC for Hants' and disavowed. What would stop the unrest is an acknowledgement of the anger. A public, tacit acceptance of abject failure. To say 'massive uncontrolled gimmigration is a disaster that has damaged this country. We, Labour, forced this on you and the Tories did not stop it. Now children, friends, families have been killed as a result of our arrogance.

      Immigration will stop, immediately until sufficient law has been altered, repealed and ammended to protect this country from this atrocity happening ever again."

    2. What's the Labour government going to do about it? Two Tier Kier will carry on with the plan; that's what they'll do about it.

    3. What's the Labour government going to do about it? Two Tier Kier will carry on with the plan; that's what they'll do about it.

    4. What's the Labour government going to do about it? Two Tier Kier will carry on with the plan; that's what they'll do about it.

    6. Yet ALL the press say the rioters are Far-Right, so they are ALL in it, suporting the government line, smearing ordinary folk and demanding arrests.
      I just cancelled subs to epapers I have had a long time over this, sending them an email giving reasons and calling them liars and government stooges, hoping that the revolution comes for them soon.
      Bastards.

          1. I found it on Google Images. I just typed in what I've written and up came a page full of interpretations.
            There is a painting by one of the more florid Victorian painters (Alma-Tadema?) of classical maidens drooped round a well (which wasn't on GI), but I rather liked the cod-mediaeval look of this one.

      2. The Spectator is one of the most sinister. It has seamlessly gone from supporting Sunak to now supporting Starmer. Some of the articles are laughable: constant disparagement of Farage; constant misinformation about British indigenous, calling them by the dysphemism, 'Far-right'; never a mention of mass immigration as the dwindling economy of the country is 'forensically' examined. Whenever I read it now it's to go into battle rather than to go to be more informed. Oh, and the more popular writers are being side-lined and appearing briefly on different days to expected, if they appear at all.

        1. The Spectator began, along with the Tatler, as the logical flourishing of free speech many years following Areopagitica. The logical outcome of the withdrawal of government licences to publish. Of late it has transformed itself into the equivalent of the old fashioned courtier fop that bigs up whichever monarch is incumbent.

          It self licences in effect, in order to achieve relevance at "court".

    7. Yet ALL the press say the rioters are Far-Right, so they are ALL in it, suporting the government line, smearing ordinary folk and demanding arrests.
      I just cancelled subs to epapers I have had a long time over this, sending them an email giving reasons and calling them liars and government stooges, hoping that the revolution comes for them soon.
      Bastards.

      1. It's difficult to tell now. Even the last hatched chick is indistinguishable from his/her siblings.

      2. It's difficult to tell now. Even the last hatched chick is indistinguishable from his/her siblings.

  52. When the black looting mob were destroying London and other areas… because they could, Starmer got on one knee for them.

    Now white folk are protesting about the murder of children Starmer is using every power possible to identify, arrest and destroy them.

    When the Left set about stopping traffic, including ambulances, defacing art, hindering transport, vandalising private property, Starmer did nothing, plod gave them tea and biscuits.

    When white folk dragged the thugs off the road, plod threatened them with arrest.

    When the palestinians smash up London in one of their pointless marches for communism, plod arrest and control those complaining about it, but make sure the whinginng Lefties get away with it.

    The white locals didn't rock up and start throwing missiles and causing trouble.

    Now the white folks are rightly protesting about two tier policing, double standards, being made second class in their own country, massive uncontrolled immigration, their taxes paying for foreingers to get special treatment, to be wasted on trans nonsense, for our grand parents to be made cold while abdul in his dinghy gets a free hotel room that led to the murder of these children here, at the Ariana Grande concert, on July the 7th bombing, Lee Rigby's murder, the assault on the army officer, at innumerable other times muslims have killed Britons the Left turn up and cause trouble.

    And it's the 'far Right' who are the problem?

    Blacks kick off and burn down a quarter of London – Starmer kneels.
    Lefties block roads, hinder traffic, deface monuments – plod rewards them and threatens those demanding the law be enforced
    Lefties start a fight against normal folk angry at the murder of children and the state puts out plod in riot gear and Starmer decides he's Pol Pot, only for tattoos, not glasses.

    Clucking bell. I am sick of this country. Everything is back to front. It really is 1984.

    1. We have been constantly told there the courts have a case back log of 3 (?) years and the gaols are full.
      Suddenly, when white working class males kick off, the courts are open 24/7 and prison cells are miraculously availabe.
      Well done, Sir TwoTier Starmer.

  53. The BBC and Israel

    SIR – Earlier this week, a lengthy segment of the World at One programme on BBC Radio 4 was devoted to reporting on the funeral of the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.

    Anyone coming new to the subject might have supposed that some great statesman had died. There was also much talk about the killing of other Hamas and Hezbollah commanders by Israel, and disapproval of Israel’s actions was implicit throughout.

    It was not made clear that the people mentioned were violent terrorists whose objective was to kill Israelis and destroy the state of Israel.

    John C H Mounsey
    Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire

    The BBC is now openly hostile to the citizens of this country. Refuse to pay for it. Write in and complain. Non stop.

    1. The BBC is a hard Left organisation that loves muslim. Why? Because normal people don't like them. They are a means to an end for the Left. The Trojan horse to destroy society.

    2. No TV in this house, so I was not annoyed by it. Don't even know the man's name.
      The solution is so simple!

    1. And it will happen to the UK, particularly under Smarmer and his welcoming of all the nasty illegals.

      1. And when it does happen what will happen to Starmer's Jewish wife and Jewish children?

        1. It is unbelievable isn't it? And there are many people of Jewish heritage in the media who support Labour and Labour's open border, anti-white policies. It utterly baffles me. And when I have been daft enough to draw attention to this, I have been completely vilified. I feel forced to qualify that I am not anti-semitic just amazed by this anomaly. Would they want open borders for Israel?

  55. The confusion is that Labour love the working class. It loves them because they are a captive audience that can never escape from the Labour lash. By keeping them poor, ignorant and unable to achieve through taxation, debt and waste they can ensure a permanent voting block.

    Labour wants more poor, uneducated people. Thick, ignorant folk vote Labour. They respond to it's lies about 'Torwee cutz' and 'living wage' – which they then heavily tax, destroy jobs and rob from pensions of. They are told green is good, then slap taxes on those things that hit the poorest hardest – fuel and energy. The taxation of jobs is especially egregious but hey, make 'da wich' pay. They should. 'That's fare'. (because Lefties cannot spell).

    It is this fundamental hypocrisy that so angers me about the Left wing mind. They have no interest in others, they actively despise those they consider lesser – and that's everyone. They call themselves heroes when they're the villain. The complain about high prices yet demand more taxes, higher costs of energy, a higher 'living wage'. They want to stop people driving but don't care that a cleaner charging by the hour can't use a bus. Their hatred and spite combined with a demented ideological zealotry and a refusal to accept that A affects B makes them the most mindless, spiteful of people.

    2. Hence Lady Nugee's scornful astonishment at an uppity member of the working class flying the flag of St. George. (From his own house bought with his own money – after tax)
      Not a sight that ever insults the eyes of an Islingtonian.

      1. Her Ladyship could have educated herself and gone and spoken to the chap to discover his motivations rather than sneering abuse. But that would mean speaking to ordinary people and that would never do. She might catch something, like a dose of reality.

          1. Brahn boots, I ask you
            Brahn boots!
            Fancy going to a funeral in brahn boots!
            I must admit he had a nice black tie,
            Black fingernails and a nice black eye,
            But you can't see people off when they die wearing brahn boots!

            [Stanley Holloway].

      2. But, but, Lady Nugee herself grew up in a council house didn’t she? I have heard that her brother subsequently bought it and lets it (although I’d need BBC Verify to tell me if that’s true).

        1. I think the laydee's Daddy did a bunk, so her mother qualified for a council house.
          Fair do's to the mother; she seems to have done her best for her children.

  56. Thus demonstrating that Starmer and the other one are racists. They hate white Britons.

  57. What do they know of the glories, achievements, and pleasures of England and living therein, who only know the England of 2024? I feel sorry for them. If only we could turn back to welcome (warming) North Sea Gas circa 1970 and freezing migration then.

    1. “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time”.
      Know the feeling, Sir Edward.

      1. Except the lights did go back on. Despite the tragic loss of much life, it was within the lifetimes of many millions more.

        1. Doesn’t it depend on what were the “lights”? He was surely using the word as a metaphor but for what? If he was thinking of the old aristocracy, the old empires or even the the old political systems, then wasn’t he largely right?

        2. And as we come round to the end of the next long economic cycle, they're going out again…and this is going to be hard to recover from, as the power shifts out of the West altogether.

    3. Yo and Good Moaning to you all from the Costa del Skeg

      Yo T_B

      Our 'fleet' now comprises of the Gosport, Isle of Wight and Torpoint Ferries!

        1. Great memories of the Waverly. Up and down the jurassic coast on a sunny day. Sailing back in the evening we had the Sea Rescue speed boat trailing us with sirens and lights as they kept crossing our wake. Everyone cheering and waving.
          G&T's in the bar with Pru and Tim West !

  60. Good Moaning.
    By and large, Blighty appears to be falling apart.
    Are we back to AD 410?
    On the plus side, blackberries are early and prolific.

      1. Annoyingly, all the rowan trees round this way are in private gardens.
        I'd love to try making rowan berry jelly.

        1. Try old-fashioned bartering. Just knock on the door and tell them that if you may pick some of their rowanberries, you will attend to stick an elastoplast on their fingers when they cut them with a sharp kitchen knife, or clean their bog [sorry: 'sluice'] when they have the trots.

          It's how we used to get along.

        2. I thought I would give it a try but change my mind because I know the local wildlife rely on the berries even those that fall.
          I'm feeding other birds with seeds from exotic grasses.
          Seeds originally from the Eden Project.

        3. I bet they would love it if you knocked on door and asked them if you could gather some berries and that you would give them a jar of rowan berry jelly in return.

    1. Sorry SirJasper, I don't follow. I do think the PCC will be squashed. The state does not tolerate dissent – or as folk call it, the truth.

  64. If she’s a democratically elected Police and Crime Commissioner she has the right, as well as the responsibility, to tell it as it is.
    As far as I can there is sweet bugger all Starmertrouper can do about her.

    1. She'll be "cancelled" and hounded by the left until she resigns through sheer frustration.

      1. I sincerely hope that won’t be the case. We need people with backbone more than ever.

  66. I doubt she will be in the job for much longer. Pointing out the reality cannot be tolerated.

  68. Stop Aleem Maqbool’s appointment as Head of religion for the BBC
    Petition to: Nadine Dorries MP – Secretary of State for Digital – Culture – Media and Sport

    The BBC has, after what they say was a competitive recruitment process, appointed a new Religion editor, Aleem Maqbool. Mr Maqbool, a Muslim and journalist of some note, previously acted as the BBC’s Pakistan Correspondent and Gaza/West Bank Correspondent ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2021/bbc-news-aleem-maqbool-religion-editor/) . He is due to take up his new position this Spring.

    Maqbool succeeds Martin Bashir and, before that, Aaqil Ahmed. Two of these men are overtly Muslim, and one is of Muslim heritage. In Ahmed’s promotion of multicultural programming, there were numerous complaints of anti-Christian bias and calls for his removal.

    The BBC was established by Royal Charter in 1927, ‘to inform, educate and entertain’, with committed Christian, Lord Reith, appointed as Director-General. Inscribed over the foyer of Broadcasting House, in Latin, are the words:

    “This temple of the arts and muses is dedicated to Almighty God by the first Governors in the year of our Lord 1931, John Reith being director-general…”

    Our society and culture are founded on Christian values, and we are a Christian country. According to the Office for National Statistics, 59% of the population self-identify as Christian, with only 6.3% identifying as Muslim. ( https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/religion/articles/exploringreligioninenglandandwales/february2020; https://www.statista.com/topics/4765/islam-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/#dossierKeyfigures) .

    On what grounds can and does the BBC justify appointing as Head of religion on the last three successive occasions – since 2009 – only British Asians, two of whom are Muslim, and one from a Muslim family?

    This is not celebrating diversity and reflective of our multicultural society. It smacks rather of an agenda, overtly hostile to traditional British values and history and aimed at promoting the progressive Islamisation of our country.

    We call for Aleem Maqbool’s appointment to be stopped, and for a fairer recruitment process reflective of our Christian heritage and faith.

    Petition Closed 15th June 2022
    Number of signatures: 8,907

    View the Petition Here.

    BBC Religion Editor, Aleem Maqbool, will present the Michael Perham University and Cathedral Lecture 2024 at University of Gloucestershire.

    Aleem, a former BBC correspondent in Pakistan, the Middle East and North America, was appointed Religion Editor at the corporation in 2022.

    https://www.glos.ac.uk/content/bbc-religion-editor-is-speaker-at-cathedral-lecture-2024/#:~:text=BBC%20Religion%20Editor%2C%20Aleem%20Maqbool,2024%20at%20University%20of%20Gloucestershire.

        1. Oh no! I did wonder how old it was when I saw Nadine Dorries’s name…

    2. To be honest I don't know if they ought to try and stop it. The more they trot out the propaganda in their true colours, the more the BBC is marginalised, just like the government is currently. Let them get on with it. I hardly watch it now and I ceased turning up for any of their religious tosh many years ago.

  69. Shed doors to manual painted. I'll have to think about doing the rest of the sheds…{:¬((

      1. Hope you slathered the paint on so thickly that they'll hang in there until the spring.

  71. 390880+ up ticks,

    may one ask,

    Will this be inclusive of muslims and face punching policemen or strickly indigenous peoples ?

    Dt,

    News
    Courts to be open 24 hours to crack down on rioters
    Emergency measures brought in as violent confrontations sweep across Britain

    I do believe that political WEF / NWO agents are taking lessons in synchronised wagon circling

  72. Just a thought.
    The police should round up all the rioters and throw them all into a quarry and let them get on with it.

  75. Having seen – albeit and thankfully – a little of what is going on – the moment the "patriots" started looting – bringing themselves down to the level of the unwanted illegals they so detest – they lost what little moral high ground they might, briefly, have had.

    1. Start of the school holidays/early August in the UK is usually the rioting season, especially when the weather is hot.

    2. They may have concluded that the moral high ground has rendered them mere observers to the doling out of accommodation, health care, and income benefits to (non-contributing) foreigners.

    3. The moral high ground can stuff itself. It’s almost as meaningless nowadays as the greater good.
      If the moral high ground got you safety, security and respect then fine.
      But as that bastion of rectitude that is running the doctors union at the moment said, strikes work, so we are going to have more of them.
      It seems that at least for some sections of the community, violence works. It’s only the true oppressed in This country that are bullied into taking the moral high ground.
      By the way, the patriots as you are sarcastically calling them are not seen as far right racist scum by the majority of people in this country, but seen as freedom fighters for the right to live un oppressed and practicing the culture of the country they were born and raised in.
      The more they are demonised and cracked down on, the worse it will get.
      As that charming woman at Cambridge said, there is a case to be made for eliminating the white race and the goal is not equality, but a full take over. She got promoted for that.
      If you think people who get angry and start fighting for their rights have lost the moral high ground, I suggest you never knew where it was in the first place.

      1. Do I take it from that that you condone the shop breaking and looting that is being undertaken by the "patriots"?

        Those people really are, by their actions undermining the valid protests of the majority.

        1. Sometimes the only way to change things is by revolution. If the last election has proved anything, it is that nothing can be achieved through the ballot box.

          1. Sadly, that is the very point.
            Equally sadly, revolutions devour their own.
            The winners are always the demagogues and their entourage of grey apparatchiks

          1. Hi KJ! A bit better thanks, just off for an earlyish night and hope the improvement continues :))

          3. Just saw you re the bedspread photo, hope you’re still on the up and up PJ 🙂 have a good night.

      2. Or even the police? Remember they infiltrated an environmental organisation to the extent that an officer had an affair with one of the women to prove his credentials.

    5. That senseless rioting and looting a la Black Lives Matter signals the end of any chance for change in immigration matters.

      Any chance of the powers listening to peoples concerns were slim to none before it all kicked off but now Starmer and co will just point at any objectors being from the extreme right and dismiss the complainers as being no better than EDL football fans.

      1. I am obliged to my learned friend for underlining the point I was trying to make.

      2. I am obliged to my learned friend for underlining the point I was trying to make.

      3. There was absolutely no chance of Lab changing anything anyway. They would have to admit that islam is not compatible with Western society and not even the mock conservatives would do that. BLM achieved much with their rioting and like the slammers they still hold the threat of violence over us, thus applying influence without having to actually resort to violence. The two attacked with hammers by slammers in Stoke yesterday provide a reminder that they are always ready to act if they are upset in any way.

      4. It could be argued that being reasonable for 25 years doesn't seem to have got us very far.
        Personally, I'm not able to behave that way, but I do understand that those without my 'advantages' may snap in a less controlled manner.

    6. That is always assuming that they are who we are told they are and not planted agents provocateurs. I remain unconvinced.

        1. The Antifa rent-a-mob are always on-call, ready and able to intervene at the ring of a mobile.

    8. I think there's a huge campaign on social media to make them look bad. How much of it is genuine is hard to tell. Lefties are springing up all over the place to gloat that their prejudices that white working class people are all racists who will attack anyone of a darker skin colour at the drop of a hat, are true.
      But given the amount of money and effort that goes into the legacy media propaganda, we'd be foolish to assume there isn't at least the same going into social media.

  76. It's high time for some deflection from the PTB. Which part of British history, old or recent, will be invoked to present us as a bad people, of being portrayed on the world stage as a hooligan nation deserving of a bad fate? I'm surprised Iraq hasn't featured yet. And who will be the first Labour talking head to be wheeled out to condemn Britishness (or, indeed, Englishness) as a bad thing because we are all really people of the world, aren't we?

  77. It's high time for some deflection from the PTB. Which part of British history, old or recent, will be invoked to present us as a bad people, of being portrayed on the world stage as a hooligan nation deserving of a bad fate? I'm surprised Iraq hasn't featured yet. And who will be the first Labour talking head to be wheeled out to condemn Britishness (or, indeed, Englishness) as a bad thing because we are all really people of the world, aren't we?

      1. I used to be fairly well turned out and a model citizen.
        In old age my wardrobe consists almost entirely of stuff suitable for gardening and hiking and I’m getting more subversive by the minute.

  84. Every single article on the Times website, that is reporting on the largely peaceful protests across the country, has had the comments section turned off, every single one…..

    Sinister.

    I'd cancel the pinko rag if I didnt enjoy the crossword and other puzzles so much (I am a man of principle).

  85. It is 30 years ago since York Minster went up in flames caused by a lightning strike shortly after the Bishop of Durham's declaration of his non-belief in the resurrection. At the time of Berglioglo's (sp?) elevation to pope the vatican was struck by lightning.

  89. Afternoon All
    Spiked on form
    It seems that in the eyes of the new elite, some riots are okay, maybe even good, while others are vile acts of fascist lunacy. Angry African-Americans and their white ‘allies’ among the Ivy League left getting violent over the killing of a black man? Good. We bow down. Immigrant communities in Leeds setting fires in response to social workers coming for Roma kids? Fine. The language of the unheard. White working-class men kicking off in the aftermath of the murder of three girls? Evil. Unconscionable. Crush them.
    Rest here worth a read
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/03/after-southport-the-rage-against-the-throng/

    1. An excellent article except that it says: “the murder of three working-class girls …”

      1. Also talks somewhere of “everyone agrees that the death of George Floyd was terrible”.

        I don’t agree. I think it was a good thing and i also think he was killed by drugs, not the police. But i may be wrong.

  90. The neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked suffered an outbreak of bacteria lethal to babies, a leaked risk report shows.

    In August 2023, Letby was convicted of the murders of seven newborns and the attempted murders of six other infants. A retrial in July also found her guilty of the attempted murder of another child.

    Since the conviction, numerous scientists, statisticians and doctors have expressed their concern about the evidence presented to the jury regarding shift patterns, medical conclusions and the standard of care at the Countess of Chester.

    It has now emerged that at the time when infant mortality rates spiked at the Countess of Chester hospital between 2015 and 2016 – the years in which Letby was convicted of killing the infants – the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa had colonised taps in the nurseries of the neonatal unit, including intensive care.

    Pseudomonas is known to be lethal to vulnerable babies. In 2012, a premature baby died and 12 others needed treatment at Southmead Hospital in Bristol after an outbreak of a water-borne bacterium.

    Three premature babies also died after contracting the bug at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast January 2012. In that case, sink taps were found to be the source of infection. A baby had died from the same infection six weeks earlier in Derry.

    Bacteria ‘can be lethal in newborns’
    David Livermore, professor of Medical Microbiology, at the University of East Anglia said: “Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an environmental organism that likes moisture.

    “It can be lethal in newborns, especially premature ones, who lack a properly developed immune system.

    “From mid-2015 to mid-2016 there were around 17 infant deaths at the Countess of Chester unit.

    “We are asked to believe that this comprised two superimposed clusters, one of seven murders by Lucy Letby, and one where, to quote the crown prosecution expert, they died for the usual problems why small babies die: haemorrhage, infection, congenital problems.

    “It is simpler to believe that we are looking at a single spike of fatal infections in a chaotic unit.”

    1. Morecambe, and possibly others, a similarly poor record. In Morecambe there was a class action mooted at one time, I know of at least one mother and family affected by it. None of this information re Letby and the ward she worked on would have come to light if it hadn't been for David Livermore, I think originally published NYT.

    2. The prosecution was cunning, whereas the defence was lamentable. Sadly, or not, Ms Letby didn't help herself.
      I know of three young ladies who have given birth in the past year.
      One gave birth abroad, private hospital, total mess, damage but baby eventually well.
      One in the UK, with NHS, very prolonged and difficult labour, eventually led to a C-section, tricky.
      One NHS employee, privately (!), C-section, no problem. That's 3 babies, but not one natural birth.
      So if Ms Letby was mainly caring for premature babies, you can safely assume that there had been gestational and/or birthing challenges.
      But she came across as a cold fish.

    3. The unit appeared to be total nightmare.
      Apparently it was eventually down graded and not allowed to take the vulnerable prems.
      The word "scapegoat" hangs in the air.

  91. The neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked suffered an outbreak of bacteria lethal to babies, a leaked risk report shows.

    In August 2023, Letby was convicted of the murders of seven newborns and the attempted murders of six other infants. A retrial in July also found her guilty of the attempted murder of another child.

    Since the conviction, numerous scientists, statisticians and doctors have expressed their concern about the evidence presented to the jury regarding shift patterns, medical conclusions and the standard of care at the Countess of Chester.

    It has now emerged that at the time when infant mortality rates spiked at the Countess of Chester hospital between 2015 and 2016 – the years in which Letby was convicted of killing the infants – the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa had colonised taps in the nurseries of the neonatal unit, including intensive care.

    Pseudomonas is known to be lethal to vulnerable babies. In 2012, a premature baby died and 12 others needed treatment at Southmead Hospital in Bristol after an outbreak of a water-borne bacterium.

    Three premature babies also died after contracting the bug at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast January 2012. In that case, sink taps were found to be the source of infection. A baby had died from the same infection six weeks earlier in Derry.

    Bacteria ‘can be lethal in newborns’
    David Livermore, professor of Medical Microbiology, at the University of East Anglia said: “Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an environmental organism that likes moisture.

    “It can be lethal in newborns, especially premature ones, who lack a properly developed immune system.

    “From mid-2015 to mid-2016 there were around 17 infant deaths at the Countess of Chester unit.

    “We are asked to believe that this comprised two superimposed clusters, one of seven murders by Lucy Letby, and one where, to quote the crown prosecution expert, they died for the usual problems why small babies die: haemorrhage, infection, congenital problems.

    “It is simpler to believe that we are looking at a single spike of fatal infections in a chaotic unit.”

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    1. I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with a Leftist.

      I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with a virus.
      I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with a cabbage.
      I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with an armchair.
      I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with a barbed-wire fence.
      I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with a table of natural logarithms.
      I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with a belch.
      I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with a nightmare.
      I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with a black mamba.
      I would never even think about attempting to enter into any form of debate with a fragment of desiccated smegma.

      Wherever there is no rationale, nor any intellect: you will find there is equally no facility for reasoned debate.

  93. 390880+ up ticks,

    Currently we automatically take it these are far right decent indigenous racist, any child raping / abusing / head loping / cutless carrying foreign chappies among the number?

    Dt,
    More than 90 arrests made after far-Right fuelled riots erupt across the country

    1. They are really going the right way to make sure the country burns, aren’t they?

  95. Starmer’s honeymoon period over as approval rating plummets. 4 August 2024.

    Sir Keir Starmer’s honeymoon period in Downing Street appears to be over after his approval rating plummeted by 16 points in a fortnight.

    The Prime Minister saw his net approval score fall to 3 per cent in a survey published by Opinium, the polling company, on Saturday night.

    3 percent? What’s that? His wife and two kids? We need to do a Causescu on him.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/04/starmer-honeymoon-over-approval-rating-plummets/

    1. In spite of his huge majority my feeling is that his government is not going to last very long. Heath was forced to go to the polls for support of ‘fair but firm government’ and I sense that Labour will be put in the same position.
      If cities all over the north of England are burning, rampant with looters, hardened cops using water cannons as they protect the mosques, the country will be deemed ungovernable.

      1. And stepping forward, out of the shadows, the NWO/WEF One World Government to take centre stage.

          1. The Liberals, Ulster Unionists and Republicans must have made it a pretty close thing though, if they had all voted with Labour?
            Starmer is untouchable I fear.

      5. I think the new Labour MPs will not allow that to happen – they know that they would be voted out. So they'll hang onto their personal glory of being an MP for as long as possible

        1. Asking the sovereign to dissolve Parliament is the prerogative of the Prime Minister not the MPs.
          Heath ‘s decision to ask the country for a mandate to deal with the trade unions was criticized in its day as he already had a working majority, an advantage which he threw away.
          Starmer is going to find the country ungovernable as did Heath in the early seventies.

          1. Not sure the police will want to implement Two-Tier Keir Starmer’s jackboot policies forever. If all else fails, bring in the silent khaki clad troops to do the dirty work, I suppose, just as Trudeau did.

            To win against the govt, we have to hold our noses, stop fighting the muslims (yes, I know) and unite against the common enemy. Of course that is why Two Tier Keir is sucking up to the muslims so hard, so they will think they are the chosen ones and have nothing to fear from the British govt. They don’t know the sneaky bastards as well as we do.

  96. The BBC has recently dedicated ten programmes to the heroic exploits of the IRA mass murderers in the Maze Prison.

    BBC Radio 4: Across 10 twisting and turning episodes, Carlo Gebler navigates a path through the disturbing inside story of the 1983 escape from Northern Ireland's Maze Prison – the biggest jailbreak ever to take place on British or Irish soil. As former IRA inmates reveal how they pulled off a mass breakout that creates shockwaves at the heart of government – key security personnel explain why they're unable to stop them.

    The escaped prisoners were all Republican IRA serving long sentences for crimes including murder, kidnap, arson, planting bombs, weapons possession and conspiracy to kill.

    Described as 'An audacious escape' and compared to 'The Great Escape' about allied POWs escaping from a German camp in the Second World War, and continues to be celebrate as one of the IRA's finest achievements, despite the number of staff killed and injured during the escape.

    Why do we tolerate an enemy propaganda service and force pensioners and cash stricken family to pay vast fortunes to overpaid Marxist communists, perverts and paedophiles, Defund the BBC and strip them of their ill-gotten fortunes and pensions.

    1. Have seen quite a few calls for defunding the BBC (ie. cobbing the TV Licence) not for the reasons you cite, Ped (although that would be sufficient), but for the paedophiles employed by them (which BBC managers knew about), from Savile through to Edwards.

      1. The certainly haven't, but I don't think they were quite what we were deliberately led to believe.

    1. But in Parliament, at least, who would dare? And that’s if anyone has the balls to allude to it. That’s a no then.

      1. Touching that you think that Parliament has anything to do with anything as far as the common wheal is concerned! It is up to us – the Far Right!!!!- to clamour for what is needed in any way that will work. Hopefully without blood being shed.

  99. A demonstration has been advertised in Weymouth this afternoon for 5pm .

    Viewing the disgraceful damage to shops and public property , I think many are now using this as an excuse to loot , and injure .. it is becoming terrifyingly nasty .

    There is nothing like a good clean demonstration , as there was years ago with the clean but huge Countryside Alliance march .

    I have always hated crowds , can you remember the Croydon riots , blacks going beserk , and it spread to other areas .

    Here , as we are on a mainline Waterloo line nearly the end of , we all thought the protestors were coming for us ..

    Here is now Labour, yep we have a young ex Camden councillor who is our MP, only 28 yrs old ., we lost quiet old Tory charming Richard Drax

    Who the blazes voted or allowed these people to lead the country .

    Did the traditional Labour voters and youngsters vote them in ?

    Rishi warned us

    We have all been labelled , those of us who didn't vote Labour ..

    What next , and how will the police cope , or will they abandon their uniforms once the Muslims and blacks start to get angry ?

    1. Who the blazes voted or allowed these people to lead the country .

      Many more should have voted for a positive change. The official opposition being Conservative has said little or nothing regarding what is happening on our streets, their silence is deafening. A quiet charming old Tory is no use to us now, nor would he be if he still sat as an MP, he was complicit in what his party brought about.

      Until people realise that the Cons are just a different cheek on the WEF arse nothing is going to improve, 14 years of betraying the country, working for others not the UK has brought about a level of frustration and anger previously unknown by ordinary people, Starmer has only added the spark to the fire, it was ready to ignite before he took office.

      If people want real change they are going to have to start by not voting for those that have brought us to this situation.

    2. But Belle, the police have already ‘abandoned their uniforms’. Marches by both you mentioned as well as praying in our streets and parks and shop looting have all taken p,ace with no discernible action taken against them afterwards.

    4. I think the election was rigged, Belle, à la US 2020. It was imperative that the WEF got Starmer in place. Regarding that protests, my feeling is that agents provocateurs have been insinuated within the crowds to demonstrate and cause mayhem to further the narrative of 'far right thugs' and to pave the way for harsher methods of control.

      Your post however gives me the opportunity to these thoughts from X.com, which sum up the situation in which we find ourselves. It has taken decades of law-abiding citizens to get to this point of desperation.

      " Nick Buckley MBE
      A New English Civil War – be afraid, very afraid

      You are angry. I am angry. We are all angry. We have watched for decades as our country slowly deteriorated and every single time we spoke up – we were told to shut up.

      You have every right to be angry. We all do. This is our country and we love it. It may not be trendy to be patriotic and support England, but let us be self-centred for a moment – this is the only country we have. If England fails, where do the English go?

      We have been tolerant for a long time. We played by the rules in the hope that the government would do their job. We participated in elections and referendums. We told politicians what we wanted and they all ignored us.

      We voted for Brexit so the excuse of ‘the EU is doing it to us’ would end. We were castigated and shamed for wanting to be a sovereign nation again. We elected Boris Johnson to be our new Churchill and lead us to victory against the Anglophobes but he was a false prophet and a liar.

      “We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.” – Oliver Cromwell

      What should people do when their government does not listen to them, holds them in contempt, and enacts policies they do not want? The answer is easy. They vote them out of office at the next election. Simple.

      What should people do when every elected government and political party does not listen to them, holds them in contempt, and has policies they do not want? The answer is not simple for this is not a democracy – only the appearance of democracy.

      It is at these times when the people take to the streets to remind the elite that their power is only temporary and reliant on public consent. That which is given can be taken away. When the powers that be ignore this warning for change, the result can be civil war.

      The first English Civil War started in 1642 to correct the balance of power between Parliament and King Charles I. The Crown was defeated and lost more than just its power.

      The next civil war will be between Parliament and the People over exactly the same issue we fought over four centuries ago. Power corrupts. Parliament have forgotten that they serve the public at the behest of the public. They are our servants, not our masters. They truly are a disappointment.

      The current civil unrest and violence across the country may have been triggered by a foreign lunatic stabbing three children to death, but it is not the cause of it. Everyone has a breaking point, including countries – I think we have finally reached ours, but it took a while.

      Mass rape of children. Terrorism. Cost of living crisis. Highest taxes for a century. Mental health epidemic. Public services crumbling. High levels of crime. Violent crime out of control. Open borders. Illegal immigration. Out of control legal immigration. Low-paid jobs. Large State. Government interference in every aspect of our lives. Covid shambles. Attempt to overturn Brexit. Home ownership out of reach. Constant attack on motorists. Foreign Aid. Green agenda. Woke lunacy. Trans nonsense.

      The people have made their feelings known, albeit, not always in the most productive manner. The establishment has labelled the people as Nazis, fascists and far-right – whatever that means.

      No acknowledgement from the Prime Minister that the people have any legitimate concerns or grievances – only that they are wrong, criminal and scum. The gauntlet has been thrown down, the warning has been ignored. It is now a case of who blinks first.

      “He who stops being better stops being good.” – Oliver Cromwell "

  101. Brexit and democracy are now directly endangered by a cabal of arch Remainers

    At the stroke of a pen, Starmer has erased the committee I chaired for 14 years that was integral to returning sovereignty

    BILL CASH
    4 August 2024 • 7:00am

    A Starmer government cannot be trusted. He called the democratic referendum result in 2016 “catastrophic” and subsequently pressed for a second vote. Now, on Tuesday, the European Scrutiny Committee, which I chaired for 14 years and sat on for 39 years, was abolished in a government motion one line long without a formal statement or explanation. And on the last day before the summer recess.

    This Standing Order has been in existence since 1973, when we first joined the European Community, and is the embodiment of parliamentary scrutiny and sovereignty, creating a vigilant and competent select committee to monitor, investigate and report with Members from all sides of the House to keep track of matters of vital national interest with regard to the EU and the impact of legislative proposals from Brussels and the Council of Ministers.

    The committee has been chaired by Members of the Labour and Conservative parties alternately since 1973. Even Stella Creasey, a respected Labour backbencher, made clear her concern, “I think it’s understandable that people are asking, where is this conversation going to happen? And I’d like to be part of that conversation”, highlighting “scrutiny and democratic accountability”.

    The essence of Parliament is scrutiny and accountability and this has been ravaged by the abolition of this committee. UK voters, who have just regained their self-government under the 2016 referendum endorsed by the Brexit general election of 2019, followed by the passage of legislation by the Conservative government guaranteeing the sovereignty of Parliament, will suffer. All this has now been put on the line with no adequate means of examining the manner in which the UK will be adversely affected by EU-based legislative measures.

    The Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, made the ludicrous excuse that because we have left the EU “The principal job of the committee … is no longer required”. This is nonsense, and she knows it.

    For example, it was the European Scrutiny Committee, even within the past two years or so, which: in the absence of an initiative of the Defence Committee, examined the implications of the EU’s Permanent Structured Cooperation (Pesco) and its associated issues of defence procurement; continuously engaged with, investigated and analysed the severe constitutional problems faced by Northern Ireland under the Windsor Framework; the current Gibraltar negotiations, including the dangers to the UK’s and Nato’s defences; the issue of immigration, much of which remains in EU-derived law that currently adversely affects our competitiveness, business, trade and the City of London, and needs to be revoked or repealed as laid down by the Retained EU Law Act itself – so as to achieve the levels of growth and productivity that the Government claims to seek. All these inquiries and reports by the committee were based on evidence taken from witnesses across every spectrum, for and against, on every one of these subjects.

    The abolition of the committee is a deliberate plan to prevent the British people from knowing what is going on in the discussions and policy-making of this government in relation to UK-EU relations, creating a deliberate covert operation. Decisions will be taken through No 10, the Foreign Office and every government department under the baleful aegis of Nick Thomas-Symonds, now “minister for the constitution and European Union relations”.

    The word “reset” has now been substituted by the word “rescind”, with ominous consequences for our democracy. Sovereignty is democracy, and scrutiny is fundamental to the preservation of both.

    The European Scrutiny Committee certainly did not curry favour with the recent Conservative government or at any time during my chairmanship since 2010, and we subjected, quite rightly, secretaries of state to detailed scrutiny on a vast range of matters which can only be appreciated by looking at the range of inquiries which we conducted without fear or favour in the national interest. David Lammy (now Foreign Secretary) and Stephen Kinnock were officially members of the committee but, as the records show, simply would not turn up.

    The nature of the EU-UK relationship and its competencies are not confined just to dry, boring technicalities, but to the very substance of what affects the daily lives of all our citizens, covering every government department and tens of thousands of EU laws which have been passed since 1973 through the Council of Ministers, warranting in-depth examination by a committee advised by Speaker’s Counsel and specialists in every sphere.

    Our democracy in this entire field is now swallowed up into the entrails of anti-Brexiteers in addition to Remainers in the Government Legal Service, who must have sung the Ode to Joy when the committee was despatched by a process which cannot be dignified by the word democracy in any meaningful sense. This will have disastrous consequences, through lack of investigation, analysis or knowhow which the European Scrutiny Committee provided during its 50 years of existence – a priceless asset to our constitutional order, dispatched with sleight of hand without explanation or any sense of accountability.

    In the light of this assault on your parliamentary sovereignty, which is the double helix of our national DNA, democracy and accountability and through this single blow of the axe, it is worth noting the words of 17th-century politician John Harrington that “Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason”.

    ******************************

    Nicholas Millman
    6 HRS AGO
    Starmer, the Fabian wolf in sheep's clothing. The mask is rapidly slipping day by day and this radical far-left plotter will govern by secretive edicts to try to achieve his socialist 'paradise' by any means, fair or foul.

    1. From Bill Cash above, for emphasis::
      [BILL CASH 4 August 2024 • 7:00am]

      "A Starmer government cannot be trusted. He called the democratic referendum result in 2016 “catastrophic” and subsequently pressed for a second vote. Now, on Tuesday, the European Scrutiny Committee, which I chaired for 14 years and sat on for 39 years, was abolished in a government motion one line long without a formal statement or explanation. And on the last day before the summer recess.

      The abolition of the committee is a deliberate plan to prevent the British people from knowing what is going on in the discussions and policy-making of this government in relation to UK-EU relations, creating a deliberate covert operation. Henceforth, decisions will be taken through No 10, the Foreign Office and every government department under the baleful aegis of Nick Thomas-Symonds, now “minister for the constitution and European Union relations”.

      'The word “reset” has now been substituted by the word “rescind”, with ominous consequences for our democracy. Sovereignty is democracy, and scrutiny is fundamental to the preservation of both.'

      This is one example of the modus operandi of Starmer-the-Lawyer;
      Beware!

    2. From Bill Cash above, for emphasis::
      [BILL CASH 4 August 2024 • 7:00am]

      "A Starmer government cannot be trusted. He called the democratic referendum result in 2016 “catastrophic” and subsequently pressed for a second vote. Now, on Tuesday, the European Scrutiny Committee, which I chaired for 14 years and sat on for 39 years, was abolished in a government motion one line long without a formal statement or explanation. And on the last day before the summer recess.

      The abolition of the committee is a deliberate plan to prevent the British people from knowing what is going on in the discussions and policy-making of this government in relation to UK-EU relations, creating a deliberate covert operation. Henceforth, decisions will be taken through No 10, the Foreign Office and every government department under the baleful aegis of Nick Thomas-Symonds, now “minister for the constitution and European Union relations”.

      'The word “reset” has now been substituted by the word “rescind”, with ominous consequences for our democracy. Sovereignty is democracy, and scrutiny is fundamental to the preservation of both.'

      This is one example of the modus operandi of Starmer-the-Lawyer;
      Beware!

    3. Apropos the comment by Nicholas Millman, how many people realise that a wolf in sheep's clothing is the actual symbol of the Fabians?
      When people tell you what they are going to do, it's just as well to believe them…

  102. And I quote…

    “How many more children are going to die on our streets, Prime Minister?”

    1. "It's part and parcel of living in our new multi-cultural society, get used to it"

      It puts the die in diversity.
      /sarc

      3. No need to put "sarc". One cannot ever take that statement as anything other than sarcasm, despite people exist who actually believe it.

        1. I've noticed recently on Nottle that there has been an increase in the number of people who do take such comments at face value.

        1. My father was born in Bethnal Green, grew up in Cardiff and lived much of his life in York. He wasn't cockney, a Welshman or a Yorkshireman. Nor did he claim to be.

    2. "It's part and parcel of living in our new multi-cultural society, get used to it"

      It puts the die in diversity.
      /sarc

    3. The useless morons have already spent years and gone far out of their way to hide most of the vile hate crimes that have been regularly perpetrated against young British children.

    4. And keep asking him this question,

      How many children has been murdered by the far right in the past 7 days?

      1. Or in the past 7 years in the UK?
        Of course that does depend on definitions but let’s start with Starmer’s of ‘far right’ ie anybody who doesn’t believe there is a net benefit to them,their family and wider society from mass immigration and pandering to vocal minorities who want to import their own culture and reject British culture.

      2. I'm adding it to the questions to Lammy:
        "Is silence still violence?"
        "Is Trump still a threat to democracy"

        Also I'm thinking of asking Reeves, "Will failure to tackle immigration lead to riots sweeping the streets of Britain?" (Like she suggested it would when she was in Opposition making cheap off the cuff political points)

      3. They can produce a "far right murderer" whenever the propaganda necessitates it. See the case of the unfortunate Ms Cox…

  103. And I quote…

    “How many more children are going to die on our streets, Prime Minister?”

  104. Now, Britain’s Amber Rutter is through to the final 6 in the skeet – final at 1430; I wonder if the BBC will cover it? Meaning more blasted gymnastics – quite a bit repeats!! Absolutely pathetic from our “national broadcaster”. Naturally the gymnastics is on both BBC1 AND the red button – why??

    On the plus side I have managed to find some tennis for Mrs Bleau

    1. Amazing – we now have tennis on BBC1 and both red button options. Hang on, my apologies we now have skeet (not sleet) on the red button!!

    2. I read that at first as Amber Rudd and thought if skeet is shooting then she should shirley be a target not a shooter.

      2. I have been experimenting with Transvestisism.

        And just like small furry animals, trannies don't like being electrocuted either.

      1. 🙂
        That is when I realised the story was untrue.
        Probably the product of an obscure Russian lie factory.

  106. Labour is proving to be far, far worse than anyone feared

    Tory successes are being binned for no more reason than political ideology

    DANIEL HANNAN
    3 August 2024 • 5:59pm

    So much for a “Blairite” Labour government. No sooner had Sir Keir Starmer seized the helm than he was frantically spinning the ship’s wheel, pulling the vessel hard-a-port. On immigration, on employment law, on free speech, on education, on taxation, even on what we might call the rougher end of the culture wars, he has adopted positions that, a month ago, would have been unbelievable.

    Some of Starmer’s policies were at least flagged up in advance. We knew that Labour would make the United Kingdom the only country in Europe that, rather than recognising education as a public good, penalised it through taxation.

    We knew that it would push more non-doms into changing not their residence but their tax domicile. Plenty of plutocrats still spend a chunk of their year in London, but their taxes now go to foreign governments, leaving the rest of us to cover their shortfall.

    We knew that there would be a retrospective levy on oil and gas companies, deterring investment not just in the energy sector but across the board, because countries that engage in targeted expropriation pay a premium when seeking future business.

    We knew, too, that the Rwanda scheme would be scrapped, making it almost impossible to return illegal immigrants, since neither their countries of origin nor those through which they have passed will take them back.
    What we didn’t know was that Labour would immediately ban the licensing of North Sea oil and gas drilling – a policy that, quite apart from the negative economic impact, will mean importing hydrocarbons from places with lower eco-standards.

    We didn’t know that Labour would become the instrument of the most hardline and spiteful wing of the teaching unions. Indeed, other than the extension of VAT, schools barely featured in the election campaign.

    Who foresaw that, immediately on taking office, Labour would announce that it was rewriting the national curriculum, undoing the previous government’s emphasis on core subjects? Or that it would force this curriculum on free schools or academies? Or that it would unpick the policy of isolating or excluding disruptive pupils?

    Most of us naively believed that there was a cross-party consensus behind reforms that, although largely implemented by the Tories, had been initiated by Tony Blair. After all, those reforms had worked, sending British school-leavers shooting up the international league tables. But, unlike Blair, Starmer has sided with the producers (the teaching unions) over the consumers (the children).

    The same impulse lies behind his shocking – and again, unflagged – cancellation of the Higher Education (Free Speech) Act, which was supposed to have entered into force last Thursday. That law, the only free-speech measure passed by the Tories, was drawn up in response to real problems, from the harassment of academics to the physical intimidation of visiting speakers. Yet it, too, has been undone by the Education Blob, happy to pursue its anti-conservative culture wars.

    Which brings us to the PM’s response to the unrest that followed the horror in Southport. The street violence would be disgraceful at any time, let alone in the aftermath of such an unspeakable tragedy. I hoped Sir Keir would pose as an uncomplicated upholder of the King’s peace, and demand zero tolerance for disorder of any kind.

    Instead, he seemed to suggest that the problem was not just the violence, but the fact that protesters were “far Right”, and that internet platforms might face a crackdown for allowing hateful opinions to be disseminated. He did not mention the machete violence in Southend, or the violence against police in Manchester, or the disorder that has accompanied anti-Israel protests.

    Some might conclude that Starmer is more upset by the motivation of rioters and vandals than by their behaviour. After all, during the summer of 2020, when anti-lockdown protests were suppressed while Black Liver Matter protests were tolerated, he took the knee.

    If he wonders why the woman who slashed the portrait of Arthur Balfour at Trinity College, Cambridge, has not been prosecuted, or finds it odd that Just Stop Oil protesters were able to spray orange paint over Heathrow while dozens of police looked on, he does not say so. Yet the tranquility of any society depends on confidence that the police apply laws equally and predictably.

    Perhaps some culture-war posturing was to be expected. But Labour was clear, before and during the election, that any increases in spending would come from growth. Both Starmer and Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, were adamant that taxes were already high enough. Indeed, they said they wanted to lower them “for working people”.

    Yet, far from making any attempt to stimulate growth, Labour has immediately defaulted to firehosing money at the public sector and at other statist projects: £8.3 billion on “Great British Energy”, £11.6 billion on overseas climate aid, a 22 per cent pay rise for junior doctors.

    A case might possibly be made for each of these things. But not even their strongest advocates would claim that they will, of themselves, boost growth.

    Labour has been finding the money by cutting projects that really do represent investment – investment that is, in the correct sense of the word, meaning something that will generate revenue down the line, rather than in the Labour sense of simply being a euphemism for public spending.

    The success of any economy depends on the velocity of exchange. When Labour cancels road and rail projects, it makes growth harder. Similarly, when it cancels the £1.3 billion that was going into tech and AI projects, it is switching money from the revenue-generating bit of the economy – its own manifesto promised “to grasp the opportunities of new technologies with an AI sector plan” – to the revenue-consuming bit, above all the public sector unions.

    But reallocating resources won’t be enough to pay for everything Labour wants, not when our national debt (as the TaxPayers’ Alliance’s debt clock helpfully reminds us) is more than £2.5 trillion, and growing at £16 million per hour. Despite all the promises she made during the election campaign, Reeves now admits that additional taxes are coming. And it is already becoming clear that they will be taxes of the most growth-inhibiting kind, namely taxes on savings and investment.

    Perhaps it was inevitable. Dogs bark, cats meow and Labour raises taxes. But the speed is, none the less, shocking.
    Anyone listening to Labour during the election campaign would have reasonably expected a repeat of the early Blair years – that is, keeping a tight rein on public spending, continuing to pay off debt, and getting additional revenue through growth rather than tax hikes.

    After all, Labour would pursue pro-growth policies that the Tories could not get away with, such as NHS reform and, above all, housebuilding.Yet, even here, Starmer seems unable to overcome his party’s statist biases. His first act was to hire more planning officers. His second, incredibly, was to lower the house building targets for London. In other words, possibly from some twisted egalitarian superstition, Labour wants to build more houses in the places that people don’t want to live, but fewer in the places they are keenest to migrate to.

    The population might be deterred from going south, but the economy is about to go south quickly. Labour’s commitment to growth has turned out to be a kind of cargo cult. Its frontbenchers keep repeating words such as “responsibility” and “investment”, as though muttering those syllables obviates the need to take (as opposed to talking about) tough decisions.
    This can only end one way, and it is the way every other Labour government has ended: in economic ruin for Britain.

    *********************************

    Christine Ross
    16 HRS AGO
    Reply to Norman Adair – view message
    Interview with an articulate man, born and bred in Sunderland explains the treachery that has taken place over the last few years.
    He says that he has lived in London and now lives in a flat back in Sunderland.
    He isn't supporting the violence on the streets.
    He says that during Covid things started to change.
    First the university decided to dispense with their usual intake and went for African students in their 30's and 40's plus their dependants.
    Then the council agreed to take the money on offer and designate Sunderland a city of refuge for asylum seekers. 2 large hotels now full.
    Sunderland town centre he says is unrecognisable.
    All has happened within 3 years.
    Both the Conservatives and now Labour have deserted the people who voted for them.
    That is why people are angry.
    Interview posted today on Talk TV.

    Joan Newton-Cummings
    16 HRS AGO
    Reply to Daniel Hannan – view message
    No they are not. Motives are driven by a sense of injustice, & the disdain & incoherence of all political parties to the concerns of the public for the past 30 years. The indigenous British have been branded as 'wrong' for being right, with no recourse via peaceful ballot means. No wonder elements of society on both left & right sides have been finally triggered to exasperated violence.

    Joan Newton-Cummings
    16 HRS AGO
    Reply to Professor Gaga
    1 sardonic comment was that Starmer, Rayner & Co. would be wise to remove all the lamp-posts in Westminster. Many a true word has been spoken in jest.

    1. blah blah blah from Daniel Hannan.. still doesn't get it. The Tories have to be destroyed before it can get better, thanks to wet Tories like Daniel.
      Heaven knows the Conservatives have made mistakes, but voting Reform to punish the Tories will leave Britain a one party state

      1. He must think that writing an article such as this gives us plebs the answer.
        In actual fact all it does is confirms he is very much so part of the problem.

    2. On his first point about education – in Germany, and I believe in France too, private school fees are partly tax deductible (30% deductible in Germany)…just saying
      Britain is going to be the least popular spot for professionals with children as the education is so lousy, competitive or expensive.

    2. 'BBC' and 'Rainbow' are brands that one does not let one's child near…typical of the tone deaf progressives to be the last ones to realise that though!

    1. We are still busy with church funerals even in the middle of summer. I lost a dear friend aged only 58 at the end of June; another friend died a couple of weeks ago aged mid-70. Both unexpectedly vicious cancers, diagnosed in the first half of 2022.

      The French official statistics site, the INSEE, shows that compared with the last "normal" year, 2019, the death rate is still high. The graph below comes from here: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8236653?sommaire=7764286 and shows the monthly death rate from 2019 to today. Stats for 2023 and 2024 are provisional, and none available for July 2024 yet, but the graph speaks for itself. The death rate this last June was significantly higher than in 2020, in the middle of the Covid pandemic.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/191aa456611a3aff14ab77a23b46302784cd8553a423cac51783a742db41d917.jpg

  113. Good Day, Nottlers!

    A quick scroll through the comments seems to indicate that a touch of levity might be in order, so…

    I was chatting last night to someone with whom I was dancing, and after a while he asked me where I was from.

    Upon my replying that I was English, he said "ARE you?? Christ; I thought you were a Brazilian taking the piss out of our accent!" 🤣🤣🤣

    i am still laughing and can't wait to tell my language teacher.

    1. Are there any men left in Buenos Aires who you haven't flirted with?

      Askin' for a Brazilian…

    4. I was very chuffed when I was upbraided but a German Plod (when I was living there) for crossing the road when the little man was on red. I told him I didn’t realise I mustn’t (which wasn’t strictly true) but I was English, so please to be nice to me and not fine me. He said I couldn’t be English, my German was too good, and that I must be Dutch.

      1. I must look Dutch. Before I've even opened my mouth in France I get asked if I'm Dutch. When I do open my mouth, they're confused because I speak good French but without a regional accent.

  117. Nice to see the skeet but the Aussie commentator is dreadful – lots of stating the blindingly obvious!

    1. Silver for Amber BUT she definitely did hit one target that was called a miss – you can see a lump come off it on the slow motion! Poor show, and abysmal refereeing but well done to the woman from Chill-lay as they call it!

  118. Wotta surprise

    England on the Brink: Starmer Vows Swift Action Against Anti-Immigration ‘Extremists’, Gov’t Advisor Backs Covid-Style Lockdowns to Stop Riots

    British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer has vowed that police have his full support in taking on “extremists” as anti-mass migration protests and riots have broken out across the United Kingdom following the mass stabbing at a children’s dance party in Southport earlier this week.

    Facing a full-blown crisis less than one month into office, recently elected leftist Prime Minister Starmer gathered top cabinet ministers on Saturday as unrest erupted in dozens of towns and cities throughout the UK, in many cases in typical Labour Party strongholds in the north of England, in response to the slaying of three young girls and the stabbing of eight others, including children, allegedly by a 17-year-old Rwandan-heritage second-generation immigrant on Monday.

    The Guardian, citing the far-left Hope Not Hate organisation, reported that an estimated 35 locations had been scheduled to see protests on Saturday, some of which saw violent clashes between participants and the police, as well as attacks on businesses, particularly in Belfast, Hull, Liverpool, and Manchester. According to The Telegraph, at least 90 arrests were made throughout the country on Sunday.

    A Downing Street spokesman told the paper: “The prime minister set out that the police have our full support to take action against extremists on our streets who are attacking police officers, disrupting local businesses and attempting to sow hate by intimidating communities.

    “The prime minister ended by saying the right to freedom of expression and the violent disorder we have seen are two very different things. He said there is no excuse for violence of any kind and reiterated that the government backs the police to take all necessary action to keep our streets safe.”

    The hardline rhetoric from the left-wing PM, who has characterised the protests and riots as “far-right,” on the outpouring of rage and violence has been contrasted to his response during the deadly and deeply destructive Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, when he infamously took the knee in solidarity with the Marxist movement and described those involved as “people rightly demanding justice”.

    The government has also faced criticism for refusing to discuss footage posted on social media appearing to show violent responses from large groups of Muslim or leftist counter protesters.

    The prime minister’s response to his first crisis of his expected five-year term has been heavily criticised by the Reform UK party of Nigel Farage, who accused Starmer of failing to address the root cause of the anger, which is mass migration.

    On Friday, Farage’s deputy, Boston and Skegness MP Richard Tice, said: “Many millions of concerned British citizens are furious at lawless Britain. Children being slaughtered. Machete mobs abound. Soldiers being stabbed. Police violently attacked in airport.

    “Instead of empathy, Keir Starmer labelled folk as “far-right”. Out of touch, clueless.”

    However, others have demanded that the government go farther, including Tory leadership candidate and former Home Secretary Priti Patel, who has called on Starmer to recall Parliament to hold an emergency session on the unrest.

    One of the more extreme takes on the crisis came from former Labour MP and current government advisor on political violence, Baron Walney, John Woodcock, who argued that the government should consider a coronavirus-style lockdown to stamp out the uprising if it continues to persist.

    “I think the government and new ministers will understand the British public will back them in whatever measures they feel is necessary to get this situation under control,” Lord Walney told the Times Radio.

    “Back in Covid, they were prepared to back measures that were needed in that situation and I think they would take a similar approach to keeping rioters off the streets now given the scale of damage that has been done to communities.”

    3. They really have lost the plot. Covid type lockdowns only worked because most people were prepared to err on the side of caution.
      Now we know the lockdowns were pointless and they spent millions on psyops why would they think anything like that would ever work over an issue like this.
      The police are going to get hammered.

    4. Lockdowns against these protests might well produce even larger gatherings, there must be millions of far right extremists out there now.

      1. The protests during lockdown were the largest I’ve ever seen. The police beat up some people quite savagely but most of us were safely ensconced within the crowd. We were branded superspreaders but looked hale and hearty and kept going back for more.

        1. Interestingly a member of our bowls club, fully jabbed and boosted, now has yet another cold. She ‘tested’’ herself for Covid but it wasn’t covid. Unbelievable. What do people think a vaccine is supposed to do? And how many boosters are they prepared to have!

    5. "…Woodcock, who argued that the government should consider a coronavirus-style lockdown …"
      Yup, as I predicted.
      Better still, why not just shoot every white person?

    1. The Childcatcher from ChittyChittyBangBang.

      Played by Robert Helpmann who was obviously having a blast.

  124. OT – for many years we have had, on the west-facing wall, a 'Kiftsgate' rose. This year, it was glorious. However, it only flowers once – then sets about growing a mile a minute.

    After lunch, th MR and I tackled the annual prune. After half an hou of sawing, lopping, pruning – and mopping blood – the MR said, "I am sick of this annual nghtmare. Let's get rid of it and plan an evergreen self-attaching climbing shrub. So we have spen tw hours cutting dear old 'Kiftsgate' down.

    Must go and look out the Dettol and plasters….

    1. Oh my, Bill…I once had a Kiftsgate, trained it over garden wall which bordered onto a very steep hill. After couple of years had to move again (job), should imagine ended up similar to yours. Which evergreen do you plan to plant in its place? (when you've recovered from your injuries…)

  125. Tango! I have fallen head over heels in love with it; it’s one reason I moved here. 🙂

    Katy x

    1. Brilliant, show ’em your moves…apologies mis-remembering, old addled covid memory…should have remembered as mine..Kate..

      1. No apologies needed! I used to be rather precious about being Katy as opposed to Kate (and Katherine was for theatre programmes and my mother telling me off) – but living in two countries now whose inhabitants happily mangle the pronunciation means I now pretty much answer to anything. 🤣

        1. Mine is very similar, if I’d been a boy my mother intended to name me Timothy – swerved that one..and my father always called me by my full name, and managed to sound furious with me at the same time…and yes I have many nicknames too, as does my dog…

          2. There's a Norwegian saying: "Kjære barn har mange navn" – Cherished children have many names.

        2. If you had had a foreign name to start with, you'd be surprised how many variants English people could come up with (mostly completely the wrong name, to be honest).

          1. Yes! It’s soooo much more difficult getting one’s head around foreign names!

  126. Britain must partner with the EU on defence, says boss of Royal Navy helicopter supplier. 4 August 2024.

    Britain must work more closely with the EU to shore up the Continent’s defences, according to the boss of a major Royal Navy helicopter supplier.

    Clive Higgins, chief executive of defence giant Leonardo UK, backed the Government’s efforts to foster closer ties with Brussels as cash-strapped administrations on both sides of the Channel look to stretch their military budgets further.

    Who the f—k is Clive Higgins?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/04/britain-eu-defence-boss-royal-navy-helicopter-supplier/

        1. They didn't used to be keen on a rival defence organisation – so, EUROFOR or whatever.
          It's difficult to be part of both. Different equipment requirements, different strategies, competing needs for troops.

      2. A defence organisation mostly funded by America and Britain. Historically regarded by some countries as not necessary, trans issues funding viewed as being more important.

          2. Perhaps they have a surplus of helicopter parts and can see a ready made market. 😉

          3. Really? Maybe they could interest Canada in buying these spares.

            Apparently 28 helicopters were ordered for our forces back in 2010 with a delivery date no later than 2017.

            Two of the helicopters are still to be delivered and they have now discovered that spare parts are not available. Discussions are now under way to scrap the machines before they are all finally delivered.

    3. Mr Higgins started his apprenticeship at Westland, in Yeovil, in 1994. The Telegraph forebore to explain that he is ad interim* CEO for the UK subsidiaries of Leonardo, a multinational arms and technology company. The Italian government is the largest shareholder, owning 30%. (* acting, or temporary, as I understand it)

    4. Never heard of him, but there must be a Sun headline about chopper whoppers in that story!

  127. She's ruthless, that MR of yours. Hope she doesn't give you the 'Kiftsgate Treatment'.

  128. I'm trying to remember.
    It was a surprise as Wilson was expected to coast in again.
    There were some Liberal MPs (the genuine article), usually representing West Country constituencies.

  132. Russia unlikely too pleased, as both have land borders shared with Russia – and not having NATO against their borders used to be a Russian pain point.

    1. That’s one reason they’ll likely cough up. Talk about poking a bear with a stick. Things afoot in Germany, it seems, haven’t read the full thing yet – a blogger, eugyppius, perhaps you follow him.

  135. Yo all

    A mini update. after the traumas of dishwasher failing, an Audi using my Disco as an emergency stop device on A1(M) and S-in-L's death and funeral.

    Last Friday, I had a twingey, achey tummy, so we phoned 111.

    The recommeneded a trip to Horseypital, so on Saturday oft we jolly well went.

    Basic checks carried out , allocated a pit and CT scanned, declered Nil By Mouth and put on a drip, (not scarey starmer)

    Sunday, still NBM, and X-rayed, stomach drain put in via Nostril

    Monday more C's & T's still NBM

    Tuesday it was decided, that my exhaust valve was partly blocked, (probably due to the theee major operations that I had had in Tummy

    Wednesday drain removed and i was back to two nostrils, medicine prescibed and set free

    All in all a good experience…………….. and yes, exhaust valve fully operational, but have to take lubricants Laxatives

      1. I could think of several obese people round here who could be on NBM for a fortnight…

    2. That's a of effort to avoid going on a far right protest march.
      };-O

      Hope you are feeling much better and that all the problems that can be sorted out are, to your benefit.

    3. Goodness me , OLT, diverticulitis or not?

      Glad you are feeling better , and sorry to hear about the very bad news , what on earth happened to Son in law, poor chap, and were you in your wagon when the bash happened?

      Sorry to be so nosey ..

      Do hope your bunged upness improves.

    4. That's a rough week, OLT, and NBM isn't any fun. Getting out of the hospital better than you went in is a good result.

  136. A nether Bogie Five!

    Wordle 1,142 5/6
    ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
    🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    1. Four here

      Wordle 1,142 4/6

      🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
      🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      1. same here
        Wordle 1,143 4/6

        ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
        ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
        ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    2. A pleasant 3 today.

      Wordle 1,142 3/6

      ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
      🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      2. 4 today. Too many possible 3rd letters.
        Wordle 1,142 4/6

        ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
        🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
        🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    3. I managed a par but it was luck. So many options left after I found three of the letters.

  138. Hydrangea viburnoides (aka pileostegia). Slow growing, evergreen. Late summer flowers attract Red Admirals (the butterflies, that is…!!!). Self adhesive. Very little upkeep required. And NO thorns…

    2. Ah that looks great, Bill…will keep a lookout for it at garden centre, thanks. I have a climbing one, I like it very much..but then I like all hydrangeas:-) Very few to hardly any butterflies here, this year 🙁

    3. Sadly the usual tired rentamob are out there smashing everything up under the guise of the protest problems.

  140. Nice to see the political wing of the IRA weighing in on the troubles in NI this weekend. Michelle O'Neill:

    “We are agreed that co-operation between the PSNI and An Garda Siochana is essential in bringing those responsible for the violence to justice and I urge anyone with information to bring it forward to the police."

    🤣🤣🤣

    2. Did Michelle O'Neil not add that kneecapping would be used rather than tasers as the batteries had run out due to Green policies?

      Asking for a retired Para.

  141. Signing off early. Making a rare visit to church. One of the congregation was 90 on Thursday and there is to be a service to show how much the village appreciates all she has done over the last 80+ years.

    A useful day – garden shed doors painted. Kiftsgate rose removed. The promised sunshine never really came.

    Have a jolly evening preparing your riot lockdown reading material.

    A demain. Probably.

  142. Re the olmpics and the shooting dispute. One BTL comment sums it up nicely:

    'I can’t believe it’s not Rutter'

    1. If her opponent had been a true Olympian, she would have conceded the shot and played a let.
      Bad form

  143. Diversity – the gift that keeps on giving taking…

    "“Following more than 70 burglaries*, an 11-year-old Moroccan migrant who leads a youth gang is supposed to be moved to a secure facility. He arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor just last November, but has already struck terror in Hamburg and the surrounding communities with a huge number of break-ins and burglaries.

    Police finally apprehended him last Thursday in the midst of a burglary spree in Norderstedt in Schleswig-Holstein, but due to his age, he cannot be held criminally liable, according to Bild newspaper.

    Compounding the issue is that the far-left red-green Senate does not permit ‘secure’ facilities within the state, but due to his extreme criminality, the boy cannot be allowed to operate freely in the standard youth migrant centers. That means he has to be transferred to another federal state, where he will then be placed in a more secure facility.”

    2. Oh my word don't let the useless labour government see this.
      It will only encourage their adgenda.

  144. Sometimes Sir Kneelalot is so difficult to understand. He was all for rioting when it was going on in Portland and elsewhere.

    1. He's a Lefty, thus by default he's a hypocrite. Cognitive dissonance is the hallmark of the Left.

        1. I know, Geoff, why I said it…it’s too good to miss, no? Not sure how much rioting will happen this night, chucking it down most places. Water cannon another time, perhaps? Glad you’ve been found even tho you weren’t missing :-DD G’night, Kate x

  145. We went to a local art show this afternoon , interesting, people are so talented , quilts looked wonderful, paintings and carvings delightful and felting quite amazing .

    I don't have time for things like that these days , Moh used to paint when he was based off shore , and I painted , but couldn't do faces .

    Years ago I attempted a large self portrait of me with a towel, in oils , slightly risque , I thought it wasn't too bad , I did a similar one of Moh , rear view , draped towel again , a very angry looking posture and colour ..

    When we moved house , Him indoors said dump them , I protested , and he said dump them , we both visited the tip with loads of items , and I placed the paintings near a pile of boxes.. Just got into the car to drive off , and an elderly bloke picked them both up , examined them , and took them on with him ..

    I wonder where they are now, I was in my forties when I painted myself .

    You see , around about that time , I met a lovely man called Sven Berlin , an artist, he just used to chat to me in Wimborne , have a coffee , talk about my previous spaniel and other things and he wanted to paint me .. well , I was so embarrassed , but he asked me whether I was married , I said yes, so he said "You must ask your husband first , I don't want an angry husband at my door ".. dear readers , of course you know what happened , he said no , and to this day I wish I hadn't asked him .

    If you were to google Sven Berlin , er his work is rather abstract , so I wonder how he would have interpreted me

    1. I looked for him and his work, looks quite varied, abstract, and colourful. I started out in oils, couldn't get anywhere until I used apalette knife instead of a brush – was a lot of fun. Hope you have another go sometime, I can't go a day without 'making a mark' even if it's doodling on a shopping list. Very lucky I don't have to work 50 hrs/week min any more.

      1. I'm always jealous of those with talent to create something visual or aural or oral that is beautiful or challenging. Went to watercolour classes many years ago, where the biggest revelation was that I have no artistic talent.

        1. I’ve always been similar – no other subject apart from games/PE…thick as the proverbial. People think watercolour – start there, it’s easy…nope, it’s just about the most difficult. Big fan of Andrew Wyeth, American. One of the most interesting mediums is silverpoint, favourite artist is Russian – Viktor Koulbak, who once fainted in a cathedral at the great beauty he encountered there. I had some correspondence with his assistant, who said VK had been invited to teach at the Louvre, lasted one day – artist temperament 🙂

  148. Regarding the headline – by simple fact you cannot level up. The process of levelling requires for some to be taken from a larger set and put in a lower one.

    You create wealth and growth by leaving markets to work and people their own money to spend. Government's role is to provide infrastructure and get out of the way. What we're lumbered with is desperately interventionist government that meddles endlessly while forcing socialism.

  149. I've heard a lot about the Far Right National Socialists during my lifetime.
    Seen the films, read the books, even watched Dad's Army.
    But it has never been said before that the Far Right originated from oppressed people that merely wanted to protect their children, culture and history from the mad insane policies and agendas that were being imposed by the forces of globalism
    I never knew that.

    1. The media are desperate to slur and are saying 'far Right' as a way to shut down discussion.

      The Nazis were Left wing. All fascists are Left wing.

      The press want to demonise those angry at yet another gimmigrant murderer and the narrative says 'brand them 'Far Right'.

      1. The Daily Mail is having a hate-on Tommy Robinson at this moment, photographing him on holiday, its usual invasion of personal privacy; doing its utmost to directly connect him with what is happening out there by 'his followers'. The comments are having none of it. They are laying the blame, all of them which I read, firmly with the government and its poodle, the media. They are no longer being side tracked. Comments seem to stall at 325, I think the Mail was holding back to get some opposing comments which weren't forthcoming.

        1. Just looked, poppiesmum..now at 3.3k. Not read it yet, only seen the headline 'Tommy Robinson suns himself at an all-inclusive five-star hotel in Cyprus while followers run riot'. Think that sums up the Mail's position.

          1. Doesn't it just. TR is entitled to a holiday just like the rest of us. He has not organised these 'wildcat protests'. And his message throughout the Saturday 27 July rally was for 'peacefulness, no violence'.

          2. Hope his message reaches them. Possibky not out n about tomorrow am…at work or still abed. Plus more rain forecast. More protests too. ‘Night mum..😊

    2. Indeed. I suspect Starmer, being the simple-minded man that he is, imagines that using the term enough will silence all anti-immigration sentiment – for ever.

      1. Racist failed from overuse, 'Terf' didn't catch on. They're running out of abusive words to slur those they hate with.

    3. The reason Fascism is described as "Far Right" was because of the street battles between the NSDAP and the Spartakusbund in Weimar Germany. Both ideologies were based on Socialist idealism, with Fascism promoting a non-Marxist ideal where all parts of the country worked together, unlike the Bolshevik Marxism of the Spartakusbund, wedded to the Soviet Union's Class Struggle.

    4. Most of my life I’ve been told that Hitler killed 6 million in the concentration camps but only recently I learned that Stalin and Mao each killed more than ten times as many. Hitler was an amateur by comparison. Pol Pot was another commie who gave him a run for his money. I’m also sick of seeing people claim that it’s because Hitler killed Jews. It isn’t. It’s because Hitler could successfully (if wrongly) be branded a right wing nationalist.

  151. Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.
    I had a walk along the Basingstoke Canal at Aldermaston Wharf yesterday, and very pleasant it was to.
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      1. Conversation yesterday:

        Daughter (30):
        "Daaaaaaaaad, can I have a donkey?"
        Me:
        "Yes, if you keep it in your garden."
        Daughter (30):
        "Oooh, you're sooooo mean!"

        1. Thanks for that, so taking the photo of the Comma butterfly must have been a doddle .

          I cannot do things like that with my old Iphone 6.. They all fly away !!!

          1. Yes, they seem to like letting me get the focus just right before disappearing or closing their wings. Sometimes I'm sure I can hear them laughing.

    3. Not being pickie but Aldermaston Wharf is on the Kennet and Avon Canal…. That is the Tyle Mill Swing Bridge…

      Nice photos btw!

      2. Phew! I thought it was me. I've lived beside, and cycled the length of the Basingstoke Canal (not for some years, and only as far as the Greywell tunnel), and I'm sure I would have noticed Aldermaston.

    4. If it was Aldermaston Wharf it would have been the Kennet and Avon Canal, surely?

      (Edit: Sorry, just read down and this has already been pointed out.)

  153. Tried watching the Olympics on that BBC iplayer
    What a load of rubbish, they keep switching things around right in the middle of an event.
    The tennis went off after the first set for clay pigeon shooting, then they kept messing around with the golf.

    1. Maybe tennis and clay pigeon shooting could be combined to make a more interesting event.

    2. You are missing the point, Bob3; the BBC send large numbers of personnel – to entertain themselves!

  154. 'Night All
    The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back their lives as they have lived them, are over.

    The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror.

    TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.

    — Author Unknown
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4446a266f2aa904a43e1e58f1850d83b652ab84eabccbae53264a11bfb9f1c71.jpg

      1. Of course in them days there were lots of barges on the Thames!

        Whre I lived this was the view of the opposite bank. However, none of the buildings in the photo existed 68 years ago….

  156. 390880+ up ticks,

    The kneeler is talking of putting armed police protecting the mosques he has 4 thousand armed police with 2.500 mosques
    that works out one and a bit per mosque.

    Could it also be seen as armed police guarding the mosques arms, if in situ.

    The kneeler is talking high octane rhetoric, a rogue political fireman taking petrol to an issue with intent to ignite.

    1. 390880+ up ticks,

      Evening OL,
      If it were an Olympic contest we would lose out embarrassingly so.

      1. Well, with Starmer in charge, it's like the women's boxing – a proper Italian lass against a trannie who whipped her ass.
        The more one appeases, the worse the fix is later – much worse, and Starmer is appeasing to the extent of sucking cock. Armed police at mosques, indeed!

    1. Been there done that when gangsters thought my little orphanage in a foreign land would make a good brothel (girls aged 10/12) I "dealt" with the situation they went to the earth I went to the Priory
      I am that man Iam peaceful unless…………..

  160. That’s a lovely way to say the number of nicknames I’ve been called, Oberstleutnant, thank you 🙂 I’ve not been to Norway, but when I think of Norwegians I think of them skiing WW2 to message stations. And also various spy thrillers….and Lillehammer…

  161. There is a new video now streaming on Redacted showing the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and Building Seven. Ted Walter is speaking to Clayton Morris about these events.

    1. I saw one some time ago when the small building close by collapeds after the towers had gone. It wasnt touched by any outside destructive influences.
      The Dutch explosives expert after explaining all of it was deliberately blown up and destroyed. He later had a fatal accident when a vehicle mounted the pavement he was walking on.

      1. TT7 was the building. It was struck by debris from the two towers, igniting a fire which burned for several hours and caused the collapse of its internal supporting structure.

    2. In 2012, [Clayton] Morris won the seventh annual "New York's Funniest Reporter" contest, which benefits the Humane Society of New York.

  163. Well, with Starmer in charge, it's like the women's boxing – a proper Italian lass against a trannie who whipped her ass.
    The more one appeases, the worse the fix is later – much worse, and Starmer is appeasing to the extent of sucking cock. Armed police at mosques, indeed!

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

      1. That'll do me, thanks Oberstleutnant…btw did you locate Geoff? Don't think I've seen him, but not been here too much today.

        2. HI Kate. Here I am!

          I was sidetracked early yesterday into omitting my usual "Good morning all…" post, as WordPress threw a wobbly. All Hell seems to have broken loose as a result. After a month of serving our new alien overlords, I'm losing interest in politics in general, and commenting in particular.

          My Speccie sub is due to expire; I cancelled my DT sub yesterday (though, in all honesty, when they later offered me 4 months at £0.75 / mth, as opposed to £24.99, I weakened.

          Busy weekend – wedding on Saturday, followed by a serious attempt to ascend the ironing mountain. Then distracted by YouTube videos. Two services today, followed by domestic chores and gardening. Brown Bin Day tomorrow – Ifor what it costs to have garden waste removed fortnightly, I feel it is my duty to fill the bloody thing to the brim… 🙂

          Now settled down at the laptop with a bottle of Yellow Tail Shiraz…

          1. 75p a Month?????
            Bloody Hell, I thought I was doing well getting 6 months at £4.99!

          2. Hi Geoff, good to see you again, you were missed 🙂 I’d say I’m losing interest in politicians more than politics. Headless chickens spring to mind, and more on the way. Coincidence – my Speccie sub due to expire end Sept (currently on Special Offer £1 month, will they extend it…doubt it, was an offer made when the wind was whistling through the message board. Similar bargain to your DT – guess you read it online? (btw are the pair of them still up for sale, shall we make them an offer they can’t refuse :-D) Wedding sounds fun, I like them and also christenings and funerals, each has it’s own character. I like the idea of a wake. Ironing? have you a temperature…I like UTube too, especially art and dogs. As for Bin Day, my guy tells me recycling is a complete waste of time, whatever it is, however it’s sorted – all goes to one place somewhere ‘up north’ where it’s re-sorted into recycling, burning, and very likely landfill. Somehow, wouldn’t surprise me. You’ve had a busy day, Yellow Tail Shiraz well deserved…see you when you next post x…. sorry to rattle, v. tired now.

          3. Our garden waste is turned into compost by a local who supply both the RHS at Wisley and National trust. They have free local delivery and it’s really good stuff, quite inexpensive l

          6. Bargain, thanks Alf. Going to check with my trusty guy in the LA he knows everythig worth knowing. Thx for link 😊

        1. Ah, Sue – Evensong. How I miss it. When we still had two choirs in our rural united parish, we tried doing a monthly joint Choral Evensong, alternating between Seale and Puttenham churches.

          In summary – it was hard work, and (apart from the choirs and their spouses), hardly anyone attended. Eventually, it was quietly allowed to die. Which pretty much sums up all choral activity here where I am allegedly "Director of Music". All was well when I arrived, 19 years ago. It's not all that many years since we performed Fauré's Requiem with around 40 voices (some, including a soloist, from outside the parish). Now, we can barely scrape a carol service together.

          St Bartholomew, Wanborough (the smallest, but loveliest, of our four churches, Saxon in origin – it's in the Domesday Book), hosted a wedding yesterday. For a while it was used as a cowshed, but returned to religious use when nearby St John the Baptist, Puttenham, had building work in the late nineteenth century. Tiny church; 90 guests. It was quite cosy. Bride is a professional singer. I was just there for the hymns.

          No Wagner Bridal March here…

          THE ENTRANCE OF THE BRIDE

          Traditional Folk Song from the Hebrides Islands

          Sung by Angela Hicks, Soprano, accompanied by Toby Shaer, Guitar

          Vair me o, ro van o, vair me o ro van ee,
          vair me o ru o ho, sad am I without thee.

          When I’m lonely, dear white heart,
          black the night and wild the sea;
          by love’s light my foot finds
          the old pathway to thee.

          Thou’rt the music of my heart,
          harp of joy, o cruit mo chridh,
          moon of guidance by night,
          strength and light thou’rt to me.

          Totally unexpected, was that during the second verse, what seemed like half the congregation launched into three-part harmony. The bride is a professional singer, and clearly has friends in the business…

          1. The chapel of ease I attended this evening was built in 1689. It's pretty much original – no electric lighting, 17th century pews (including box pews for the two local big wig families, a descendent of one of whom was present (but not in the box pew).

  167. Saw the semi finals of the Men’s 100 metres.
    It’s going to be like Harlem on a Friday night. A gun goes off and 8 black men run for their lives.

    1. It certainly wasn't very diverse, but I don#t hear any complaints from the usual suspects

    1. I had three or four attempts to sign it yesterday. The verification emails don’t arrive and it’s not my mail box, which is receiving everything else perfectly well.

  171. There's been too much hatred and violence out there this last few days, from the death of three little girls, to all the rioting and the asshole politicians.
    Some calm in the soul is needed, and nothing calms better than the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. I have this playing, then it's bed-time.
    https://youtu.be/aoB99yC2fdk?si=03kdbYqApSPAIBhL

  172. A woman was stabbed (not fatally) outside a pub in Stirling last night, and the Herald has reported the story, including an assertion that Tommy Robinson had posted on X that it was a Muslim attacker! That is the level to which our so-called broadsheet media has descended! Utter gutter press – not reporting, fabricating headlines! Disgusting divisive shyte.

    1. Yes. I made a comment earlier about how they'd lost the trust of ordinary folk for that very reason.

      1. I’m absolutely furious! The herald used to be a fairly decent paper but this is just sh*t stirring. The comments are predictable anti-English crap and ‘lock up TR the racist’! The Scot’s don’t do irony!

    2. BTL Comment:

      "The last time Swedish men went on a tour of the UK, things didn't go this smoothly and peacefully. Great cinematics" :-)))

      1. And another BTL comment:

        What a fantastic video !!! Watching from Canada where i live now. I grew up in England and trained on Otterburn and Brecon Beacons in Wales with the British Army in the Infantry. I can say wholeheartedly i have never seen Otterburn with any Sunshine. My knees and Back still ache from all the hiking with weight over those hills in the pouring rain. As the saying goes if it ain't raining it ain't training. Weather report for the day is "it is either raining from left to right or right to left". But don't worry "you were born wet" was what my Dad used to tell us!!! Thanks for a wonderful reminder of how lovely the Uk still is, glad everyone treated you All well.

    1. For starters, that Benonwine cannot construct a sentence. Gone wrong to Britain?

    1. I saw that, having just come in from an excellent evening out, so I assume you were the devil that posted it!

      1. Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum. I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he living, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to mix my bread.

        said Starmer to the NWO, WEF, Hamas etc

          1. Bring back the days, when our 'politicians' were dishonest for their own personal gain, not for ceding the UK to Islam

  181. I hope, that there are enough LGBTQ etc, non white, non Brit buyers of the things being advertised on MSM, well TV, to keep those firms going.

    I know, that I will not use any of the companies now advertising.

    White heterosexual people are just not wanted

  182. I hope, that there are enough LGBTQ etc, non white, non Brit buyers of the things being advertised on MSM, well TV, to keep those firms going.

    I know, that I will not use any of the companies now advertising.

    White heterosexual people are just not wanted

  183. I hope, that there are enough LGBTQ etc, non white, non Brit buyers of the things being advertised on MSM, well TV, to keep those firms going.

    I know, that I will not use any of the companies now advertising.

    White heterosexual people are just not wanted

  185. It would be easy to forget the other war about to be fought on our streets. If Labour, admittedly reluctantly as Kemp says, does allow the RAF to support Israel, watch the pro-Hamas faction in Parliament turn on Starmer while the street demos finally run out of control. At that point, the anti-immigration camp should just sit back and politely ask "Hey Max. Who are the bad guys now?"

    His epitaph should be a simple one: "Died 2024. Shot by both sides."

    Labour's naivety is now a danger to Britain

    The Government appears more concerned with mollifying the anti-Israel Left than taking a hard line with Iran

    RICHARD KEMP • 4 August 2024 • 8:00pm

    Labour is in denial over the danger to this country from Iran, and appears to be prioritising conciliation of its own anti-Israel supporters above our national security. There is surely no other explanation for the Government threatening an arms embargo on Israel as it fights a seven-front war directed from Tehran. If proof were needed of Iran's controlling hand in this widespread regional aggression, the Islamic Republic's permanent mission to the UN has now threatened that its proxy Hezbollah will soon be striking deep into Israel and will deliberately attack civilian targets.

    That might be nothing new for Hezbollah or Iran, but such a blatant announcement of planned war crimes shows how emboldened the regime has become. It is being strengthened by the appeasement of its leaders and the condemnation of the country it is attacking by much of the Western media, international bodies such as the UN and by governments like ours.

    The message being delivered by the rumoured decision to freeze new contracts for military equipment is that Israel is committing war crimes. Why else would you deny your ally munitions in a time of war? Yet Labour knows this isn't true. The Defence Secretary, John Healey, and the Chief of the Defence Staff, Admiral Tony Radakin, were both in Israel this week, and the Attorney General had been there a few days earlier. All were briefed in detail on the reality of Israel's military operations, which they know anyway because Britain's military chiefs and diplomats are in close contact with the Israeli government and armed forces.

    It increasingly appears that the Labour Party and its supporters are less changed than many hoped after Jeremy Corbyn's days as leader. Mollifying anti-Israel supporters now seems to transcend sticking up for our most important ally in the Middle East and, by doing so, supporting our own national interests.

    The Government's stance is also a counterbalance to the Royal Air Force's probable role in defending Israel if the expected large-scale attack comes from Iran and its proxies in the coming days. RAF jets are preparing now to take to the skies to help intercept the missile and drone barrage Israel is bracing for. The Government will not order this willingly but because the United States demands it. If it happens, it will provoke anger among the anti-Israel mobs. But Labour may soon be able to point to arms restrictions, not to mention the other measures it has taken in the four weeks it has been in power.

    That includes restoring funding to UNRWA, which the previous government withdrew following allegations some employees were linked to the October 7 massacre. It also includes cancelling the Conservatives' formal objection against the International Criminal Court's plans to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defence minister. Just as arms restrictions against Israel risk fracturing a military and intelligence relationship that would be more damaging to us, this virtue signalling over the ICC works against our own national security interests. The jurisdictional overreach by the court could be turned on our own political leaders and Armed Forces in the future.

    Labour's approach of appeasement is also extremely dangerous internationally. Together with a similar posture across the Atlantic, it encourages Iranian aggression against Israel as well as other friendly countries in the region.

    The same applies to the jihadist threat more widely. If Israel does not prevail against its enemies, this will inspire greater extremist violence from those who want to attack us directly. After his meetings in Israel, Healey called for an immediate ceasefire, but that is the only way for Hamas to ensure its survival. Likewise his talk of a two-state solution in the aftermath of October 7, and his party's declared intent to recognise a Palestinian state without conditions, will be seen as rewarding terrorism.

    What is actually needed at this moment is full backing for Israel and the hardest line against Iran. Too many Western politicians think the ayatollahs and their proxies think like us. They don't. They despise and exploit weakness and they respect strength. Labour has yet to grasp that staunch support for our allies and strong opposition to our enemies will be more likely to contain violent escalation both in the Middle East and at home.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/04/labours-naivety-is-now-a-danger-to-britain/

    1. There will come a point when Israel has to make the choice, them or us, and if they do decide "them" then it will be nuclear war.

      Hopefully the outcome of such a nuclear war will make the rest of the nuclear powers say "Hell, never again."

    2. And the evil Archpillock of Canterbury needs to be locked away in the Tower of London for the rest of his miserable life.

      1. Why the hell does he matter so much to you? He's not remotely evil. He's just mediocre. Your likening of dull people to monsters beggars belief.

        1. I think that The present Archbishop of Canterbury has none of the qualities of former holders of his position. I think immediately of Matthew Parker who was Chaplain to Queen Anne Boleyn and Archbishop to Queen Elizabeth I.

          Then a man I met and admired of our immediate Age Archbishop Robert Runcie who was the most empathetic of men, a war hero and so sympathetic and sound on doctrine.

          I would not criticise Rastus for his dislike and disdain for Welby. I share Rastus’s opinion on this matter.

          Welby has no discernible qualities and is frankly a hapless place man installed by Cameron for some purpose other than promoting the Christian faith.

          1. Dislike and disdain I can understand but evil and locked in the Tower of London for the rest of his miserable life?

          2. I know but it is mere hyperbole. You are of course correct in that we must all contain our irritation and refrain from wishing mediaeval remedies on those we disagree with and viscerally dislike.

          3. I could reply to your reply – “locked”. I see exactly what you mean. The endless, facile, repetitive comments from several people are getting me down. I may well join you in the desert.

    3. Labour is an anachronistic entity. I reckon the Labour Party will implode in a few months. Much as ever depends upon the outcome of the war in Ukraine and the pending Russian victory but also the demise of NATO and the EU which must inevitably follow.

      President Trump is most unlikely to bail out the corrupt EU and UK politicos and will insist on a change in policy. The UK is effectively broke at the bank and will be seen to have backed the wrong horse in Ukraine.

      The EU is run by inadequates of little intelligence and so incompetently misdirected and its reliance on outdated NATO doctrine so far past its sell by date that they also will fall and necessarily have to be disbanded.

    4. Labour is an anachronistic entity. I reckon the Labour Party will implode in a few months. Much as ever depends upon the outcome of the war in Ukraine and the pending Russian victory but also the demise of NATO and the EU which must inevitably follow.

      President Trump is most unlikely to bail out the corrupt EU and UK politicos and will insist on a change in policy. The UK is effectively broke at the bank and will be seen to have backed the wrong horse in Ukraine.

      The EU is run by inadequates of little intelligence and so incompetently misdirected and its reliance on outdated NATO doctrine so far past its sell by date that they also will fall and necessarily have to be disbanded.

    5. Labour is an anachronistic entity. I reckon the Labour Party will implode in a few months. Much as ever depends upon the outcome of the war in Ukraine and the pending Russian victory but also the demise of NATO and the EU which must inevitably follow.

      President Trump is most unlikely to bail out the corrupt EU and UK politicos and will insist on a change in policy. The UK is effectively broke at the bank and will be seen to have backed the wrong horse in Ukraine.

      The EU is run by inadequates of little intelligence and so incompetently misdirected and its reliance on outdated NATO doctrine so far past its sell by date that they also will fall and necessarily have to be disbanded.

  186. Oh dear, "Unforgiven" is on again. As usual, I won't be able to stop watching it to the end. Another late night!

    1. I came across this about a month ago and posted it here then.

      What Muslims have done in Lebanon is what they plan to do in the UK.

      I fail to understand Starmer's conciliatory approach to militant Islam when his wife and children are Jewish and regularly attend the synagogue..

      Apparently he is going to use our taxes to protect mosques. What about churches and synagogues?

    1. See also SNP wanting vigilantes to sort out any right-wing swivel-eyed loons who dare cross the border to peaceful Glesca!

      1. I'll believe all is well when Rangers and Celtic supporters combine with banners claiming

        "Diverse English refugees are welcome" posters

    2. Yo sos

      Having served in the RN for 28 years and then worked for the RAF another 14 as a civilian, I know a little bit about inter-service rivalry.

      We can scorn, decry, mock, belittle, sneer, accuse etc the othe other Branches as much as we like,
      but God help the civvy bastard who tries it.

      It used to be a Big Bond: I hope it still is

      1. Hertslass has been trying to contact you about the 10th. Message me on monday's page.

    4. Tommy Robinson announced that he was going on holiday some time before he went.

      He has always urged those attending his rallies to behave peacefully and keep out of trouble.

      The one weapon that the MSM and the PTB never use in their attacks on Tommy Robinson is the truth.

    5. Coo, our British Press, finest in the world. Makes my breast swell with pride when I think of them relentlessly pursuing truth wherever it lurks.

    6. Almost 3000 comments BTL and people are clearly not buying the propaganda. They know they are being lied to.

  190. Evening, all. Had an interesting day. The woke (lay) woman doing the intercessions this morning assumed we'd all been watching the Olympics (that put me off for a start) and praised how they were all getting along together (presumably when they weren't beating hell out of each other) as a way forward to world peace! No mention was made of the travesty of an opening ceremony; presumably it didn't fit the narrative. Then in the evening, I went to the rush bearing ceremony followed by a Lammas celebration at Old St Chad's All Alone in the Field. We walked across the fields from New St Chad's (built 1836 or so) and had a picnic between the rush bearing and the Lammas. Thankfully it was a fine night and the fields were dry, even if the maize was high and it was rather like fighting one's way through the jungle.

    I don't know why anyone should be surprised at the government we've got. Labour is always anti-aspirational and wants to punish people who succeed to give to their client state. They've done that for every Labour government since the war. It's just that they are more blatant now.

    1. Aggggghhhhhhh.. “is Russia involved”, not “Are Russia involved”!!!

    2. Oh yes, the IOC suspended the IBA because of corruption. Smelly, eh. Which means all the evidence against our saintly boxer was suspect from the off. She's a victim. Hooray!

      Which would be ok, except that the IBA's accuser, the IOC, is as corrupt as buggery. See: 1998-2002 Salt Lake City bid scandal; Tokyo 2020 bid scandal; Rio 2016 Summer Games scandal; 2015-2017 Russian State sponsored doping and IOC corruption; 2023 investigation into Paris 2024 Summer Games when French investigators raid Olympic organisers' offices for corruption evidence.

      Criminal gangs slugging it out basically. Nothing to see here. The BBC would come down on the side of the IOC; of course it would because it suits the narrative. Regrettably they don't do fact checking anymore before they wade in with the propaganda.

    3. From what I have seen so far the Paris Olympics has been a train wreck from the ridiculous opening ceremonies to the crass ‘female’ boxing saga.

      Even today the 100 metre men’s final race was so disorganised that the runners were announced and left standing for a good ten minutes or more before taking start positions. My only surprise watching this shenanigans was that no Frenchman was competing.

      The very thought of using the polluted Seine for events involving swimming in sewage still leaves me bewildered.

      As someone claimed, a Frenchman, on hearing that the Seine was to be utilised for Olympic events, every self respecting Parisian dumped in it.

      Bear in mind that as with those of us in England unwilling to visit our capital city for fear of assault by knife wielding gangs of illegal (and apparently legal) immigrants shitting in our streets, so too Parisians are sickened by the same occurrences in their own beautiful capital city.

      I suspect Parisians will be glad to be shot of the Olympics just as we in England were glad to be shot of the nonsense back in 2010. Legacy? What legacy? So West Ham Football Club obtained an Olympic Stadium for some minuscule sum, a Pound was it?

  193. Wel, chums, it's now 10 pm, which is my bed time. Good night, sleep well, and I hope to see you all hale and hearty tomorrow morning.

      1. We did pretty well Tom. Exhausting but it stayed dry and we made some funds for hedgehog care. Great atmosphere at the show too. A huge display of vintage vehicles of all kinds.

        1. Happy to hear that you not only enjoyed it, Jules, but made some money as well. Good job, girl.

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