Sunday 7 March: How the Conservative Party jettisoned its fundamental beliefs

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/03/07/letters-conservative-party-jettisoned-fundamental-beliefs/

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  1. With the increasing need for urgent Military Defence of the Realm, one wonders if these are always taken into account for Officer Selection:

    British Military Annual Staff Appraisals

    1. His men would follow him anywhere but only out of curiosity.
    2. I would not breed from this Officer.
    3. This man is depriving a village somewhere of its idiot.
    4. This Officer can be likened to a small puppy – he runs around excitedly, leaving little messes for other people to clean up.
    5. This Officer is really not so much of a has-been, more of a definitely won’t-be.
    6. When she opens her mouth, it seems only to change whichever foot was previously in there.
    7. Couldn’t organise 50% leave in a 2-man submarine.
    8. He has carried out each and every one of his duties to his entire satisfaction.
    9. He would be out of his depth in a car park puddle.
    10. Technically sound but socially impossible.
    11. The occasional flashes of adequacy are marred by an attitude of apathy and indifference.
    12 When he joined my ship this Officer was something of a granny; since then he has aged considerably.
    13. This Medical Officer has used my ship to carry his genitals from port to port, and my officers to carry him from bar to bar.
    14. This Officer reminds me very much of a gyroscope, always spinning around at a frantic pace but not really going anywhere.
    15. Since my last report he has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.
    16. She sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
    17. He has the wisdom of youth and the energy of old age.
    18. This Officer should go far and the sooner he starts, the better.
    19. In my opinion this pilot should not be authorised to fly below 250 feet.
    20. The only ship I would recommend for this man is citizenship.
    21. Couldn’t organise a woodpecker’s picnic in Sherwood Forest.
    22. Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap
    23. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
    24. Gates are down, the lights are flashing but the train isn’t coming.
    25. Has two brains; one is lost and the other is out looking for it.
    26. If he were any more stupid, he’d have to be watered twice a week.
    27. Got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn’t watching.
    28. If you stand close enough to him you can hear the ocean.
    29. It’s hard to believe that he beat 1,000,000 other sperm.
    30. A room temperature IQ.
    31. Got a full 6-pack but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together.
    32. A gross ignoramus,143 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus
    33. He has a photographic memory but has the lens cover glued on.
    34. He has been working with glue too long.
    35. When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell.
    36. This man hasn’t got enough grey matter to sole the flip-flop of a one-legged budgie.
    37. If two people are talking and one looks bored, he’s the other one.
    38. One-celled organisms would out score him in an IQ test.
    39. He donated his body to science before he was done using it.
    40. Fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
    41. He’s so dense light bends around him.
    42. If brains were taxed, he’d get a rebate.
    43. Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.
    44. Takes him 1½ hours to watch 60 minutes.
    45. Wheel is turning but the hamster is long dead.
    A lot of these, although intended to apply to the British Military, could well be applied to our current Police Farce.

    3. In my last Army unit, a clerical friend in RHQ caught a glimpse of the Adjutant’s Annual Report. It included the phrase: “This officer maintains his fitness well”. I pointed out that he could not pass the six-monthly Basic Fitness Test (BFT) and was thus nicknamed Jaffa – Just Another Fat F>>>>>g Adjutant.

      He said to read between the lines – it really means that he is still as fat and unfit as last year – nothing has improved. It turned out that COs use key phrases such as this which can be used to enhance or destroy a career in an endearingly understated British way.

  2. Now I really am going to bed, safe in the knowledge that today’s funny has been posted and, today being Sunday, I can take a bit longer in bed. Good night – again.

      1. Then, get thee to a Nunnery, woman!

        Even our little church is closed during the hours of darkness.

        1. Our Church, unfortunately,
          is closed at all times to those
          who wish to pray………
          I m utterly disgusted and horrified
          by the actions/inactions of HM’s
          Church..
          ie The inactive Church of England!

    1. Bob has caught Johnson’s strained and slightly demonic look very well. Explaining away an extremely deep financial crisis on the back of a virus from which > 99.7% of those infected recover and which killed no more than a bad flu virus does, is going to take some doing. The dummies in SAGE have been set up as the fall-guys with the mantra, “…following the science.” Have they cottoned on yet?

  8. Analysing the past actions of the British army is key to understanding its future. 7 March 2021.

    For Akam, what happened in Basra “is a story about the nadir, the end of days … What some observers will later describe as the greatest British military disaster since Suez in 1956 … In Basra the idea that the British army took to war in 2003 – that you could go abroad and simply do good with a rifle – came crashing down.”

    In the run-up to another war, with David Cameron demanding intervention in Libya, General Sir David Richards, the chief of the defence staff, (now Lord Richards of Herstmonceux) stressed the need to the prime minister for caution and a longer-term strategy. When Richards expressed his reservations publicly, Cameron’s response was: “I tell you what, you do the fighting, I will do the talking.”

    Morning everyone. The decline of the British Armed Forces are there for all to see, not simply in its numbers but in its abilities and expertise. The reasons for this are summed up in the paragraph above. They were sent on missions beyond their numerical capabilities and resources by people deeply ignorant of their history and bereft of any understanding of War and its requirements in the service of politics. Beside Blair and Cameron one is minded of the Labour Minister who said of the deployment to Afghanistan that there would be no shooting. A statement of such crass stupidity that it passes understanding. The UK forces are now so much diminished that they are irrelevant in the World and when the present reforms are completed will simply constitute a Glorified Palace Guard with two Aircraft Carriers for hire to anyone who can afford the lease!

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/british-army-iraq-basra-afghanistan-b1813449.html

  11. Ten grim lessons the world has learned from a decade of war in Syria. 7March 2021.

    Ten years after it began, Syria’s horrific civil war has faded from the headlines. Reluctant to get involved, US and European politicians, and the western public, mostly look the other way. Russia plays a pivotal role, but on the wrong side. Interventionist regional states such as Turkey, Israel, and Iran prioritise selfish, short-term interests. The result is stalemate – a semi-chilled conflict characterised by sporadic violence, profound pain and strategic indifference.

    Yet this epic failure to halt the war continues to have far-reaching, negative consequences for international security, democratic values and the rule of law, as well as for Syria’s citizens. Whether the issue is human suffering, refugees, war crimes, chemical weapons or Islamist terrorism, the war’s multiple, toxic legacies are global, pernicious – and ongoing.

    Reluctant to get involved? Lol. It is the clandestine activities of the West that have perpetuated this war. Without their involvement it would have been over within a few months at most. It is thanks to Russia alone that an ISIS controlled Jihadist State was not established on the Mediterranean Coast along with a Bloodbath and European Refugee Crisis of epic proportions!

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/07/ten-grim-lessons-the-world-has-learned-from-a-decade-of-war-in-syria

    1. Remind me again,who was heavily involved in financing the SOHR(above the chip shop in Leicester) and the ghastly White Helmets while Foreign Secretary??
      Ah Yes that’ll be the Fataturk

    2. Don’t the Kurds deserve some credit for clearing out ISIS?

      I notice that the Pope is visiting Erbil and Mosul as safe places in Iraq to hold a mass.

      1. “Our day is coming – the Kurds will have their way.”
        — Masoud Barzani

      2. If the Pope were to be assassinated i wonder if the Church will allow the scales fall from their eyes and see Islamists for what they really are.

    1. How many NHS GP surgeries in Keir Starmer’s constituency have been sold off to American corporations in the last year?

        1. Precisely. My question stands.

          My mother, who lives near Primrose Hill, gets the Camden New Journal through her letterbox. She tells me that it was three at the last count, but others may be able to update me.

  18. Morning all

    SIR – For many years, a Conservative majority has not resulted in Conservative governments.

    Successive Conservative and Labour prime ministers, from John Major to the present incumbent, could have sat happily in each other’s Cabinets. With a couple of exceptions, no one in Boris Johnson’s Cabinet would have earned a place in Margaret Thatcher’s.

    Consensus policies of state intervention, high taxation and wasteful public spending have characterised the last 30 years. Conservative values – a small state, low taxes, individual freedom and enterprise – have been honoured in the breach rather than the observance.

    Now that Brexit has happened, we need a centre-Right government that will seize the opportunities to trade freely, and encourage private enterprise to stimulate the economic growth required to repair the social, economic and mental damage inflicted by repeated lockdowns. MPs have been sidelined as ministers govern by decree. Voters backed Tory candidates not just because of Brexit, but also in the belief that they represented a love of freedom, and limited state control. Their good faith must be repaid.

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    David Saunders

    Sidmouth, Devon

    SIR – As the archetypal small businessman and entrepreneur – home owner, self-employed and with a single additional property to rent – I ought to be the very definition of a Conservative voter.

    However, in the past 11 years of Tory rule, I cannot think of a single policy implemented by any Chancellor that has been of encouragement to me, never mind benefit.

    David Jepson

    Darley Abbey, Derbyshire

    1. SIR – If you assume that about 30 million people work in the UK, then the number now paying the 40 per cent tax rate is staggering – from one in 15 (two million) in the early Nineties to one in six (five million) in the next couple of years. It’s actually worse than that because the population was smaller then.

      These are not the really wealthy – just those aspiring to a better life in good, middle-of-the road jobs. With another 5 per cent rise in council tax, once again Middle England is being punished for years of government overspending.

      Mike Metcalfe

      Glastonbury, Somerset

    2. David Cameron is the epitome of Conservative Party hypocrisy.

      If the Conservative Party stood for anything it was for private enterprise, benevolent self-sufficiency and being responsible for the nurture and prosperity of one’s own family.

      And what is more symbolic of private enterprise than independent education?

      So why did this odious little twerp send his own children to state schools thereby taking places in state schools that could have been used by those with less money and why did he think that public opinion was not going to back him for supporting core Conservative philosophy?

  19. HS2 carnage

    SIR – Simon Bathurst Brown writes in support of HS2 (Letters, February 14 and 28). As justification for the continued damage to the countryside and the exchequer of high-speed rail, he cites the damage caused by historic transport infrastructure.

    The expansion of canal and rail systems in earlier centuries was overseen by engineering giants such as George Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who worked with the environment rather than against it. High-speed rail is of little benefit in our small country, with its closely spaced population centres, but it is what makes the planned route inflexible and thus so damaging.

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    Now is the time to freeze this vanity project for overall review – before the tunnel boring machines can begin to destroy the geology of the Chilterns.

    Ian Simcock

    East Grinstead, West Sussex

    SIR – Does anyone know why, according to the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, reinstating motorway hard shoulders will require buying an area of land equivalent to 700 Wembleys (report, February 28)?

    This implies creating additional lanes to serve as hard shoulders on smart motorways, rather than converting “live lanes” back to hard shoulders.

    Alan D Barnes

    Enfield, Middlesex

    1. Surely the whole point of exploiting the lockdown by getting the HS2 trashing machines into overdrive when the public are under house arrest, is to carve up the Chilterns into real estate concessions, so that crony developers can make serious wads?

      Good for jobs. Good for inward investment where the money is, such as Russian kleptocrats. It’s not “business-friendly” to stop them. Not all tax on these windfalls will end up on yachts in the Cayman Islands.

  20. Bypassing the GP

    SIR – People with cancer symptoms should indeed be allowed to bypass their GPs.

    Early last year I asked for a PSA blood test to check for prostate cancer. My surgery then cancelled the test.

    When my blood was tested for something else in July, I insisted my PSA was checked as well. The surgery said all readings were “fine”. I asked why the single-page I’d been given didn’t mention PSA, and found that I should have been shown four more, including an alarming PSA count. After a second test, the doctor said he’d refer me to Bedford Hospital urgently.

    Hearing nothing, I phoned the surgery, and my GP phoned back to confess that he had forgotten to make the referral, which he then did. Luckily the hospital has since been exemplary.

    Mike Wells

    Ickwell, Bedfordshire

    1. That is appalling service. I would demand a new GP.

      One way to bypass the GP and in particular the beast that guards the gate to Hades is to book a private appointment. They cost around £100 but what price a cancer diagnosis?

    4. You are not alone Mr Wells, recently i asked my GP if i can get a long awaited MRI scan on my now bone on bone arthritic left knee. And he told me that GP’s are under orders from NHS ‘management’ not to refer patients for scans. My guess is that in general local practice’s have had their budgets cut or frozen and the medics and management are making sure their salaries stay intact.

  21. Search for meaning

    SIR – Professor Nigel Biggar, writing about Scottish nationalism, refers to the “quasi-religious need to infuse quotidian lives with transcendent meaning.” I would politely suggest that he takes advice from the Plain English Society.

    David S Ainsworth

    Manchester

      1. Nigel Biggar is one of the good guys. He was publicly shamed for suggesting that the British Empire wasn’t all bad. This from Wiki:

        Biggar is the leader of a five-year project at Oxford University entitled “Ethics and Empire”. In 2017, Biggar addressed the ethics of colonialism in an op-ed for The Times. Writing about the work of Bruce Gilley, a political scientist at Portland State University in the United States, he defended Gilley’s “courageous call for a balanced reappraisal of the colonial past” and called for the recognition “that the history of the British Empire was morally mixed”.

        Cambridge University’s Reader of Post-colonial Literature Priyamvada Gopal [yes, that one again] said his article contained opinions which amount to “outright racist imperial apologetics”. One of Biggar’s Oxford colleagues, James McDougall wrote an open letter disagreeing with Biggar signed by around 170 international academics.

        Trevor Phillips, the former chairman of the Equalities Commission, defended Biggar against his critics in a letter to The Times: “Students’ misreading of history is entirely understandable if they are instructed by the academics who criticise Nigel Biggar for asking ‘the wrong questions, using the wrong terms’ “.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRUD4uqFUvw

        1. Yes, thanks. I’ve read that in wiki. However that is not a very sensible comment, even if taken out of context. Of course ,I may be complete wrong which is not very unusual.

          1. Even academics who are on the ‘right’ side of an argument can tend to grandiloquence.

    3. I wont let my good lady wife see that, she’s been learning the piano in the next room. I tell her i keep the Office /study door shut because it’s a bit draughty………….

  23. Morning all, looks like Spring out there, feels like Winter when you go outside!

  24. Good morning! And yes, VVOF, is it like a mild winter’s day out there!
    Looks lovely, but at -1½° on the yard thermometer, definitely a morning for gloves!

  25. 330004+ up ticks,
    Morning Each,
    My way of thinking is the people’s, clear to see since post Mrs Thatcher, just vote “conservative” purely on the strength
    of the name as was.

    Regardless of party actions taken averse to the peoples
    feelings.

    I cannot in all honesty see it being otherwise no right minded person supports & votes for more murder, paedophilic rape & abuse of their youngsters and the country being slowly devoured by a foreign ideology.

    Think outside the cube ( politico’s do in pursuit of
    wonga / power, regardless) HS2 / tunnel troop movements brussels / Ireland, ( updated autobahns)

    By the time reality dawns on many reset has traveled a long way, and the minaret in the not to distant future will be heard calling the peoples
    nationwide to prayer.

    Ps,
    This bloody laptop post itself regardless of my having finished.

  26. Right, that’s me off out to pick up the paper, collect the firewood I’ve gathered at my collection points and do a bit of battery powered chainsawing of fallen logs to get them ready for collecting.

          1. Good morning, Paul

            I’ve looked it up – it was an actress called Carol Cleveland. Polly was played by Connie Booth, the one time wife of John Cleese but the two are not dissimilar.

  27. Last night, I enjoyed another well spent £3.00.
    Finally got round to watching ROH’s ‘Marriage of Figaro’. I had forgotten that the story was so complex.
    It is certainly a warning against employing domestic staff.
    Historically speaking, it certainly challenged the established social order of C18 Europe (end of pretentious comment).

    1. The character Cherubino was a self-portrait. There was nothing the teenage Wolfgang enjoyed more than hanging about his ladies’ chambers.

      1. Going all Eng. Lit. again – when I think back over Wolfie’s operas, it is the women and underlings who are the real characters, which, at the time was very daring.
        Was he one of the inspirations for pantomime? Did he pick up the vibes? French and American Revolutions come to mind.

  28. Good morning everyone

    There was a slight frost this morning , cloud cover now .

    Sparrows, doves and pigeons and a pair of chaffinches are feeding in the garden .

    1. Good morning, Maggie.

      Which varieties of ‘sparrows, doves and pigeons’ do you have? In my garden they are tree sparrows, stock doves, and wood pigeons [others are available].

      1. Morning Grizzly

        Many sparrows , a pair of dunnock , collared doves and woodpigeons .

        Today is different to other days , the seed feeders need topping up, and the fat balls and suet racks leave lots of white crumbly bits on the grass under the feeders , so the birds are scavenging the bits and pieces.

        1. We have a resident cock pheasant who picks up the bits. The other day when I was out there doing the buddleia he begged for some food and stayed pecking it up while I was hacking away at the bush. Just by my feet.

          1. I had a visit from a male common pheasant only last week. They turn up occasionally but I’ve seldom seen a hen.

          4. I’ve had a robin perched only a few inches away from me while I was pruning the roses this afternoon.

        2. It’s rather weird here. Since the snow started to disappear, around a fortnight ago, many garden birds have vanished and there are now very few using the feeders. I get a couple of great tits and blue tits, the occasional tree sparrow and greenfinch, and a couple of blackbirds. I’ve not had a dunnock in the garden for about five years.

          I take it that your sparrows are house sparrows, of which I get very few?

          2. Probably is but the numbers, and varieties, of birds I get differ from year to year. Sometimes I get massive flocks of redpolls and siskins, for example, other years I don’t see a single one.

          3. One winter visitor I like seeing is the redwing, but I’ve rarely seen them in recent years, in fact the last one I saw was lying dead behind the house last winter.

          4. There is a resurgence of sparrers rahnd ‘ere.
            A few years back, apart from a depleted colony in a school field hedgerow, we never saw them.

  29. Inside the court of Queen Carrie: When ANNE McELVOY began working on a profile of the PM’s fiancee, her PR machine whirred into life. The result is a riveting entree into a world of extravagantly exotic furnishings – and equally colourful rows…

    Tatler magazine commissioned Anne McElvoy to write cover on Carrie Symonds

    One Fleet Street veteran warned: ‘Even if you write something nice, she’ll hate it’
    PM’s friend offered spiel on how Carrie has turned No10 into ‘court of Henry VIII’
    On other hand, testimonials abounded of how smart and encouraging she can be

    ‘It’s a nightmare,’ I was told with a sigh. ‘Boris is just exhausted trying to keep her happy. He doesn’t know how to say no to her.’

    A long-standing friend of Boris Johnson offered me an entertaining spiel about how the 32-year-old chatelaine of No 10 had turned it into ‘the court of Henry VIII’, with herself as a scheming Anne Boleyn-figure, ousting her fiance’s political cardinals such as Dominic Cummings.

    By ANNE MCELVOY FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9334287/When-ANNE-McELVOY-began-working-profile-Carrie-Symonds-PR-machine-whirred-life.html

    1. Too much politics – where’s the coverage on how to get wine stains off the sofas?😉

      1. Ask Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski – they’re the experts on stains.

          1. Was it Omo or Daz which claimed it could totally remove Staines ……, and Slough ……, and Windsor?.

            (As far as Mrs May was concerned she never lost her parliamentary seat – she never lost her Maidenhead – which might explain why she and her husband never procreated.)

    2. I really cannot understand what Boris Johnson sees in this vulgar trollop nor what the Toyhusband saw in the mulatto Migraine.

      (Am I alone amongst red-blooded male Nottlers in finding the latter’s spindly bird-like legs are a big turn off?)

      1. American history is only 244years old! Many American people have no idea how old European and British history is , they have no idea what Monarchy is and how it works . The only example of formality that Americans have is in their Armed Services . It appears that money speaks most loudly in America, whereas in the UK and other European countries , our class system works , and we don’t talk about money , because boasting about wealth is very vulgar!

        1. Can’t agree with you on the class system, Belle. It is about social control, and it stinks.
          Money is a measure of success, and if it’s one thing the Americans like, it’s a winner. So, they brag about it. In ussia, they wear it. Maybe in Europe, we don’t brag about it because the Upper Clarses would steal it from us in years gone by? Just a thought.
          Never ask a Same (Lapp) how many reindeer he has, that’s the same as asking about their bank balance.

  31. Sigh….given how egregious your offences have to be these days to end up in chokey*

    “Prisoners now “residents” and cells “rooms” in woke prison language shake-up

    6 March 2021

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    A woke reform of prison vocabulary sees prisoners become “residents”, cells are now “rooms” and holding cells “waiting rooms”.

    Prison blocks are now “communities” and offenders out on licence

    subject to probation should be referred to as “supervised individuals”

    according to official guidance for probation officers.”

    https://foxhole.news/2021/03/06/prisoners-now-residents-and-cells-rooms-in-woke-prison-language-shake-up/
    *Tommy Robinson excepted of course

      1. “Oi, threaded fastening device, there’s a dipteran in my oatmeal and milk breakfast!”

    1. To me the scandal is that that odious woman Rachel Johnson should be allowed anywhere near Downing Street where this dastardly act of canine concupiscence probably took place.

        1. And there is such a stink of urine and mess in Downing Street thast the others would not have noticed the signs that the bitch was on heat.

          (Which bitch or bitches you may well ask!)

    2. I had a discussion re the forthcoming Cornwall summit.

      Apparently it’s all fine because the attendees will all be in that group that are tested regularly, vaccinated, travel in “special” transport and all their hangers-on will be suitably protected too. There will be absolutely NO RISK whatsoever to the Cornish or the UK that some of the great and the good could possibly, in a month of Sundays, bring in some new strain, oh no sirreee, absolutely impossible.

      Even the local staff attending to the GaGs will be fine, all the Press core and MSM will be fine too.

      And yet my friend could not explain why the rest of us, who might also be travelling in our own cars, having been vaccinated and tested should not be allowed to travel abroad.

      1. Perhaps Mr Putin will – quite accidentally, of course – bring the “Russian variant” – which destroys the West.

        Remember that, coincidentally, Halfcock has booked a holiday cottage in, er, Cornwall. So it MUST be safe – for Ministers.

      2. The summit occurs exactly one week before the mythical return to normality in the UK.

        1. Perhaps they will make a grand announcement to the whole world that the new normal has arrived.

      3. But still a family of more than six, that might include a small baby are not allowed to visit or stay in Cornwall and my old mate still isn’t allowed to play golf at his Cornish GC.
        But this bunch of devious and crooked Farquhar’s can do what ever they bloody like.

  34. Perusing the comments on MSM sites today….

    Shows that many people are wising up to what’s really going on with covid and the vaccines. Many now appear to be refusing the jab and revelations about cancer causing properties contained within the ingredients are receiving a significant number of up ticks.

    Was wondering if those who have taken the plunge and had the jab might report any adverse reactions on these threads in order to closely monitor the pro’s and con’s of having it. If the conspiracy theorists are right about unwanted additives among the ingredients then they would more than likely be in slow release form rather than immediately obvious. They could also be introduced in later doses once people feel confident that the first one was devoid of such additives.

    I refused mine and will be happy to disclose any health problems or how I might be denied the freedom to travel or shop or whether I’m forced to stay indoors as punishment.

    2. I saw that the DM had brought the Ridicule Tool out of the drawer yesterday to a proposition that the vaccine was a means to depopulation. Ridicule is the favoured means when the proponent is on target.

    3. I too am a refusenik. If that precludes me from travel then I shall happily embrace hermithood.

    4. I have noticed I have become a cynical old bar steward with intensely felt contempt bordering on hatred for our politicians and police farce.
      Of course I may have felt similar feelings before my 1st jab.

        1. Ooooh you spoil sport………..

          We both had the A to Z and are fine after the very mild flu like symptoms the next day, a couple of Parrots eat ’em all sorted that out.

          1. Exactly what I experienced too Eddy and sore arms are only usually due to the fluid being introduced too fast

    6. I had mine so I could go to Kenya. I should have been there now but it’s rebooked for October.

      1. The following is purely my prediction so hopefully I’m wrong….

        For travel restrictions to be lifted this year would defeat the reason for the lockdowns as we’d slip back into the old rather than the new world that has been planned and now being executed before our very eyes.

        I believe that most people’s last foreign holiday was actually the very last one they will enjoy. Airline travel in the future will be only for the very rich because the lockdown will continue in one form or another for at least a couple more years until all the cheap flight companies have gone bust.

        The globalists won’t deflect from their plan to imprison the population now they have set a target of being carbon neutral in just nine years from now.

        1. I agree unless there is a major civil uprising. And all neatly timed to coincide with the possibility of colder winters on the horizon (See, peasants! Our efforts have worked!). Time to stock up on household necessities, I think.

        2. Interesting that a recent Air Transport World says that 35%
          of all widebody seats have been taken out of service permanently
          because of the scrapping of A380s, A340s and B747s.

          Obviously they expect the peasants to be travelling less often, if at all.

        3. Airline travel is a pain for cattle class anyway. I gave up flying (although I love to fly) and went by train; less hassle, more room to move about and I wasn’t in a rush to get to my destination.

      3. Settle an argument for me would you, Ndov?

        Do you say “Keh-nya” or “Kee-nya”?

        1. In the 1950s we always said there are “zebbras in Keenya” [zebras in Kenya]. It then (for some weird reason) change to “zeebras from Kennya”.

          I have always remained in 1950s mode.

    7. I know several people in our village who have been on the verge of phoning A&E for advice due to the side effects (flu-like) of the AZ one. And it has taken them weeks to recover, in fact some haven’t recovered yet. A couple of people have volunteered they won’t be going back for a second jab.

      I was surprised to discover that our daughter-in-law who has multiple allergies and carries an epi-pen with her, was given the Pfizer jab a few weeks ago.
      She was in bed the following day feeling unwell and had a sore arm.

      As for me and my husband, our heels are very firmly dug in and we will not be coerced.

      1. A friend of mine and his wife had the jab. They both felt unwell in the days following and his wife has had a reddening of her face ever since.

      2. A friend on mine, mid 70s, had the A/Z jab five weeks ago (regrets the decision now). Right arm was very sore and u/s for a couple of days and I had to do the driving to the opticians for a third rearranged appointment. In addition, fatigue was noticeable for a few days and now she regularly drops off to sleep during the day which was most unusual before.

        I heard a couple of days ago that they are jabbing the early 40s in Suffolk. What does that say about the take-up in the 50s and 60s cohorts?

        1. I don’t think things are going as well as they would like. More coercive measures may be the order of the day, particularly by word of the media as a threat. We met someone just yesterday on the green whilst dog-walking, she is probably late forties with diabetes. She said she has had a very rough time with fluey symptoms for a week or so and was on the verge of phoning Addenbrooke’s as her blood sugar levels were worryingly low. Fortunately this righted itself after a couple of days. She has been fatigued since. “However,” she said, “we’ve got to do this to get the show back on the road and get things back to normal.” They cannot see we have undergone a seamless coup d’état. We didn’t confess to not having the jab; the next stage will be to manipulate forces against the refusers.

          They are keeping very quiet about the situation in nursing and residential homes, it should be (and is) a national scandal. One can see why they tried to change the perceptions of young people against older people with articles such as ‘The Boomers have stolen your future!” and more latterly “Don’t kill Granny!” I wonder what else they have in store for the over sixty-fives.

          1. During his “road map declaration” I believe that Johnson mentioned that there is a significant minority of people declining the jab and that it was a worry. Why does the government want EVERYONE jabbed. The other question that needs to be asked and answered is why did flu disappear from our health worries this Winter? With flu jabs around 50% effective and not everyone at risk taking up the jab it is remarkable that flu was not an issue. Or, are we not receiving the truth and misattribution on a grand scale was order of the day?

          2. Perhaps if everyone starts to keel over and only the unvaccinated ones remain standing next winter when the vaccinated meet the ‘virus in the wild’ then that would be a significant pointer to criminal behaviour? A significant minority block would be more obvious than one or two here and there.

            I think all upper respiratory tract infections were re-labelled covid this winter – the son of a friend who works in the ICU department of a Midlands hospital said that he had never seen so many ‘poorly people’. Which makes me wonder about this year’s ‘flu vaccine – was it a saline injection or a past ‘flu in order to provide that ‘second wave’ – so that more people who thought they were protected from ‘flu actually caught it and were thus not protected at all? The ONS in August said that it was going to combine the monthly ‘flu and covid figures from thereon. I thought it meant they were going to be on the same page (!) but now I wonder if it meant no differentiation would be made.

            I think government is prepared to lie and lie to achieve its agenda, it attaches no value nor integrity to the words it uses, they are just tools in its box to achieve its ends which always justifies its means, every time. In their eyes we are but the peasants, after all.

    8. I’m still of the opinion that the government will engage their proxies i.e. large companies and others to carry out the banning of access to services. There’s likely to be court cases, as with masking, and the government will not want to be involved in discrimination and human rights cases or worse, try and legislate to change those laws for their political ends. Legislating the rights of the people away will certainly wake up more people to what the government are trying to do.
      Similarly, the masking and testing of school pupils is “guidance” not law and I understand that the onus for enabling this nonsense falls on the headteachers and/or the governing body. Hence, risk assessments will have been signed off by a person or persons and if pupils suffer reactions e.g. skin disorders, gum infections etc the people who signed the assessment will be responsible, not the government. If no risk assessment has been written…
      I am open to being proved wrong in my assertion.

  35. The weird thing with this vaccination is that it is all being done without any input from one’s doctor, they are being kept out of the loop for some reason.
    Should people be contacting their doctor before having the vaxx, would the doctor be liable if he / she said you should have it after looking at ones medical records.

    2. I did get a text from the surgery telling me to book the appointment. I went to a local health centre and several other surgeries used that one.

    3. I’m glad you said that…

      I had to visit a GP this week for a unrelated issue and when I slipped in a question about the vaccine I was subject to a tirade of quickly spoken gibberish and quickly ushered out of the room which left me feeling somewhat unloved by the youngish quack.

    4. GPs are being paid for every vaccination, Bob. They are unlikely to kill the goose that lays the ………..

    5. When I went to have the jab at our little cottage hospital, my medical details were checked , I thought the same would apply to everyone ?

    6. I am certainly going to talk to my doctor before having the vaccination as I am on a battery of medicines.

      1. It has not been tested on the over 55s, on ageing immune systems nor on people with chronic illness and their medication(s).

        2. It’s being tested at the moment, ppm, and they started with the over 80s and are working down the age groups.

          Those having the ‘vaccine’ are the guinea pigs this time around.

          1. Why did they start with the over 80’s….

            The govcernment keep telling us old people are a pain in the butt, a drain on society, bed blockers and generally a bloody nuisance.

            So WTF do they want save us…?

          2. Why did they start with the over 80’s….

            The govcernment keep telling us old people are a pain in the butt, a drain on society, bed blockers and generally a bloody nuisance.

            So WTF do they want save us…?

          3. Time will tell whether the ‘vaccines’ will save OAPs. Whilst something that actually killed every older person off wouldn’t obviously be a good PR move for those involved, making them ‘compliant’ by requiring annual jabs (or more often) in return for not getting the next virus is a distinct possibility. It could mean that taking a vaccine means you’ll be MUCH more susceptible to the next round of viruses (which they and their Chinese friends may already be creating). Money + more power.

            I’ve seen that tactic in my former career, whereby equipment manufacturers discount a product and then lock you in with expensive maintenance costs for 15+ years. Rinse and repeat (and they’re all at it).

          4. My mother is eighty eight. I want to keep her around for as many years as she leads an active life.

          5. Yes, I should have made myself clear that when ‘approved’ (but not ‘licensed’) for release i.e. approved for testing it was so it could be tested on our elderlies in the care homes. It seems to have worked rather well and it should be a national scandal but for some reason the media are not touching it with a barge pole….

  36. Have you noticed how the BBC calls Prince Harry, Prince Harry, but it calls Prince Phillip, just Phillip.

    Why is that I wonder.!!!

    1. A surgeon drops the title of doctor to be called just plain Mr. Maybe the same paradox applies to The Duke of Edinburgh because he commands far more respect than his odious, grasping , uxorious and pathetic grandson?

        1. Morning, Paul.

          That is very true. The vast majority of GPs, for example, only hold a Bachelor of Medicine degree.

    2. Because Price Harry married a Princes of Colour and because the title ‘NippoPakiAraboChinkiBlackophobe’ is too long to bother with when talking about the decrepit old git who is married to what’-her-name with the palaces and £billions she should have given to the starving millions of Africa and Sarf Lunnon years and years ago.

  37. A chapter of the NWO is for civil unrest leading to chaos…

    Perhaps because of covid there are very few major wars raging at the moment.

    But everywhere you look civil unrest is breaking out…despite covid!

    1. 330004+ up ticks,
      Morning H,
      That would be the underworld showing openly plague symptoms,a rash of
      knifings, acid tossing, rash of spots of foreign paedophilia breaking out countrywide, and open running sores in the Dover area.

      All courtesy of the lab/lib/con coalition group, role models for this countries very dangerous miscreants.

    2. There are wars all over the world and they involve governments versus their populations.

      It’s cheaper to kill people without bombs.

      1. 330004+ up ticks,
        Morning Atg,
        It is cheaper still having the indigenous peoples kill each other via the polling booth, as in, a lab/lib/con vote is NOT beneficial to one’s health / welfare.

        Patry numbers are being topped up by grateful “guest’s” through amnesties & Dover.

        The replacement campaign is daily active

  38. That’s one vanload of firewood picked up and a couple of well seasoned fallen ash cut up for later collection.
    Looks like being a lovely day today so it might even get a bit less cold outside!

  39. There was a snippet on the BBC this morning that stated that the second vaccination did not need to be the same type as the first. That’s very odd. The Astra jab is a “dead virus: type and the Pfizer jab is a modified rNA. Is that not similar to receiving a polio jab then a flu jab as a booster?

    1. Certainly adds to the bullshit pile surrounding this government’s actions.

    2. This whole mix-n-match thing stinks to high heaven, H, and the Government is not sure if the public will believe its “shtik”, hence the coercive measures being put in place to roll-out the “vaccines” at all costs. I’m of the same view as Grizzly. I will never submit to these “vaccines” and if it means my travel is restricted, then so be it.

      I don’t want to go abroad anyway – I’ve been and I have to say, it’s overrated.

        2. Venice was mentioned yesterday, have you been there PT. In the summer months it’s full of P i TAs bloody tourists. 😎🤩
          A bit like lovely Cornwall.

      3. I feel the same way about foreign holidays. I do like the good weather though.

        I mostly go for the alfresco dining (drinking) and being tempted by cuisines i haven’t tried.

        For the money i spend on flights and accommodation i could eat out every week at nice places in the UK.

    1. Those who are actively working for foreign governments will be given priority consideration.

      1. 330004+ up ticks,
        Afternoon HP,
        Could mean when shortly the sh!te collides with the fan the politico exit odessa line will have a pecking order.

    1. Fining a University £800 is about as harsh a punishment as making a naughty schoolboy stand in the corner for five seconds!

      1. 330004+ up ticks,
        G,
        The longest journey starts with the first……………
        It is surely better than granting them £800.
        We witness daily NO punishment fits the crime.

  43. How many NoTTLres who are not from Derbyshire or Staffordshire have sampled any of these?

    https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/business/their-version-are-more-like-crepes-derbyshire-oatcakes-business-owner-dismisses-competitive-staffordshire-oatcake-rivalry-3153574?fbclid=IwAR3eHEu0aMU3wnwZwvFmUjHahvE3TISkbv5pB6w5t7oOxB9Cm_1Hq1Kjmlk

    These are not to be confused with Scottish oatcakes, which are a crumbly biscuit. Derbyshire (and Staffordshire) oatcakes are a floppy pancake-like item which is best fried in bacon fat and served under a fry-up. There are many ways of eating them, and all are delicious.

    1. You posted a recipe a while ago, Grizz. I made up the mixture, and after making it, I reckoned that it would go well in our waffle iron – and it does. Excellent, so it it! With jam, syrup, brown cheese, sugar ‘ lemon, you name it.
      Recipe has been on the fridge door since.

      2. Morning again, Paul.

        I’ve never tried making them into a waffle. I must have a go.

          4. Watch it! Remember that as you age, the years go faster and faster….Soon it seems one had a birthday every six months…{:¬((

          5. The bloody days go faster, never mind the years.

            They never did so when I was a young apprentice: the works’ clock seemed to be stuck still!

    2. My late father used to live on his uncles farm near Ashbourne and used to travel to rhe market there on a horse and cart. The day out used to include a full breakfast with these oatcakes that he loved and he used to bring them to our home when he could. they were very good, but have not tasted one for over 50 years.

      1. I still make them, John. They are delicious with a fry-up and would go really well with a proper Bury black pudding.

    3. Looks as if we are missing out Grizz, a couple would have gone nicely with my weekend treat Eggs and bacon.

    4. Typical Northerners. Always arguing.

      My oatcake is bigger than your oatcake. pfft.

        2. ‘Tis north of Watford, that’ll do!

          But now is not the time to become divided among ourselves. We face a very real threat from the Powers that Be (PTB) and those who subscribe to Agenda 21.

          I’m now too old to fight but I can spew a mouthful of invective against those who would take our freedoms.

          1. ‘Tis north of Watford, that’ll do!

            That, then, do make Norwich a northern city, bor? :•)

  44. Morning all, just back home from ferrying the family around. Picking up No. One and 5 1/2 year old, from their home to our house, to collect large one’s bike from our shed for their bike ride and ride back home. Enjoyed little lads “grandad how fast are you driving” ? running commentary. He’ll be on TV one day i’m sure.
    And the earlier revelation, not sure if it’s been mentioned already. Marr admitting he kept his gob shut (his words) during the interview with Martin Lewis ans Sarah ?? Because unlike politicians they actually know what they are talking about. And of course don’t run each other down and more importantly have no need to tell lies.

  45. My track record….

    Circa 13 years ago I was mystified by Britain’s direction of travel after Blair threw our borders wide open. A friend explained to me what the elite had planned for the future and I must admit to being a bit of a skeptic. Still… I decided to do my own research anyway. What followed was months of long hours researching the Internet which actually made me quite ill as I was glued to my monitor and in the sitting position. I studied the conspiracies that were promulgated several years before. I studied Agenda21 in detail which meant sifting through reams of pages both on the United Nations own website and then the conspiracies surrounding the agenda.

    Because the conspiracies were written years before I began researching and with both the benefit of real life hindsight and the Internet I was able to cross reference what was predicted and what actually happened. Most of the conspiracies were in fact accurate and I eventually arrived at the present time (13 years ago). Then it was a simple case of noting future predictions and waiting for them to happen…which they did.

    I then began commenting for the very first time in my life on the Telegraph. Those days were hard going and I was attacked by trolls…some of which turned out to be Tory MP’s… and was ridiculed by many. More similar commenters joined the fray until the DT lost the argument and closed the comments sections. I then went over to Breitbart some 11 years ago and continued to air my findings and predictions for the future. Those early days were quite hectic and things peaked when we tried to get UKIP elected. We then campaigned for Brexit and then Trump. Breitbart is not the force it used to be and moderation is quite strict these days but luckily this site thrives and offers another platform to discuss these issues.

    I still do more research than commenting. I even have the BBC news channel running beside my computer when researching as I’ve learned to use their BS to my advantage when researching…believe it or not. I find the BBC more comical than depressing like others do.

    As far as I’m concerned we are now in WW3 but in a much different way than last time. Wars are fought at many different levels and we are now in the biological stage to be soon followed by the financial episode. I don’t think there will be a nuclear of severe biological or chemical war as that would impact on the elite. The planned war will be between civilians while the elite stay clear on their remote islands or super yachts.

    Many people thought Merkel was purely nuts when she invited millions of illegals into Europe and her subordinate Cameron increased the flow into the UK which as we know has continued unabated under May and now Johnson. The illegals of course are the elite’s soldiers. They don’t need uniforms. They just need to be deployed as they are in certain areas while waiting for a false flag or two to get than started on us.

    Agenda21 was born at the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio and we are all signed up to it. At least eleven councils have signed up to it and I have personally seen the signature on the document relating to my own city council. Agenda 21 refers to the 21st century where the plan was to reduce the carbon footprint by 85% in the year 2050. This has now been advanced 20 years to 2030 when fossil fuelled cars will no longer exist. You may have noticed the many satellite towns being built near you. Very few parking spaces and green areas. These plans were laid out on the Agenda21 section of the UN website and is there for all to see.

    For many years all this was done by stealth but now things are coming out into the open and the elite have long prepared for public reactions at this stage. However…big brother is so far advanced that we can’t even fart now without the world knowing. The left have taken over the police and the next stage is when people rebel…they will be coshed into submission and the elite will have won. There have been no political solutions since UKIP in its heyday and as you can see…anyone who attempts to speak out is quickly dealt with.

    So you see…the end game is firmly in sight and it will be a case of unarmed sheep taking on both the armed force of law and probably the army that Merkel…Blair…Cameron…May and now Johnson has allowed to freely enter both the UK and the rest of western/southern Europe.

    1. Rather like the ‘conspiracy theory’ that governments would be ‘housing’ recently arrived people or those unwilling to undertake COVID tests in ‘camps’ or ‘detention centres’, possibly indefinitely, until they did as they were told. Similarly with vaccine passports. Similarly with climate lockdowns (now being touted in The Guardian [how long until Tony Blair promotes them or in the Telegraph?]). Similarly with PCR and lateral flow testing accuracy.

      YouTube banned (twice, now permanently) Dave Cullen (Computing Forever) and many others for reporting and discussing these issues, and yet they’ve ALL turned out to be exactly as he stated. The consipracy, I think is by those calling for censorship of discussion and opinion, for what purpose?

      1. Merkel supposedly invited the millions of illegals on humanitarian grounds….

        It was reported that 6,000 had perished en-route when crossing the Med. Instead of flying them in safety she continued to make them take the perilous sea journey. Of those who drowned on the way…many were Christians thrown overboard by those of another religion which Merkel preferred over Christians. Like a training exercise…the weak were drowned while the fittest of the fighting age men made landfall in Europe.

        Merkel also recruited special forces from Africa and it was assumed that they would train their fellow countrymen and then be recruited into the EU army that Clegg said wouldn’t happen. Coincidentally…Markel invited these illegals after Cameron announced the referendum. We can now see how the EU is treating the UK now we have partially left the bloc.

        During his term in office it was well reported that Cameron was flying around the third world countries handing out free passes to anyone who wanted to come to the UK. Whether or not Merkel had the UK in her sights….Cameron helped her all the way.

          5. Stick a small patch of black tape under her nose in the next photograph you see of her. You will be forgiven for assuming that Joseph Mengele was not only producing ‘boys’ in Brazil.
            It’s been fairly well assumed that A H escaped to south America in a submarine after the Russians cleared away the unidentified burnt bodies from the command bunker.

  46. For those who aren’t subscribed to the DT and so cannot either see the entire report or the embedded video chat with Chris Hope, the essence of the article about Nigel Farage stepping away from frontline politics is included in his own video from his YouTube channel:

    https://youtu.be/aYY-TrhrP3o

    2. Oh Nigel what a shame you had to mention the useless and hapless turd John Major, he’s the reason why AH B liar became PM.
      But thank you, and well worth a round of applause. I would love to see the changes he mentioned and we all know we need in our political system before my time is up………..

      1. I always feel guilty that I’ve never (aside from the 2019 Euro elections) been able to vote for a candidate – locally or nationally – that I knew stood a chance of winning and was worthy enough (policies and personally) to warrant my vote positively outside of the ‘least worst outcome’ in voting Tory.

        Given the public’s current ‘wool over their eyes’ mode over COVID-19, I’d say that Richard Tice, Lawrence Fox (now running for London mayor) and other new parties/leaders are going to find themselves in a very uphill battle to win against the established parties for the next few years.

        Ironically, in the US, where there are realistically only two parties, the MAGA crowd may stand a decent chance inusurping the GoP and taking some sane moderates from the centre/centre-left Dems IF the right people run it. Or at the very least they take over the GoP and oust the ‘Old Guard’ establishment neocons like Mitch McConnell and pseudo Republicans like Romney.

        Over here, there are two many fractions within parties and too many small newer ones, plus the Lib Dems, Greens and Nats (of both persuasions) that mean that it is almost impossible for new parties to gain a foothold. The problem with full-on PR instead of FPTP or STV is that party lists dominate and/or that people can deliberately vote to keep certain candidates OUT, rather than voting positively for who you actually want, often getting second or third rate candidates winning.

        1. There are three requirements to become a viable political party:
          1. Support of big business.
          2. Mass appeal, generally created through a mass movement such as trade unions.
          3. Massive propaganda, accompanied by fear of consequences through physical or induced terror.
          (A Hitler, The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, William Slessor).

          Farage, Lawrence, UKIP and the Social Democrats failed to understand these principles. Simple appeal without a mass movement and the two accompanying requirements will never get anywhere.

          Once you are in power you then dismantle the influence of big business and organisations such as unions. Does that sound familiar?

        2. I agree, I have never been able to vote UKIP, I would have done willingly. I have written many times to the party HQ and suggested they promote extra candidates to the especially strong conservative constituencies, but they really didn’t seem to be very interested in doing so. But as usual all we ever end up with in the UK is an elected dictatorship as most of the electorate vote against the the incoming government. I have now promised my self that i will never vote for any one again as long as i live. I have absolutely no faith in any politicians.

          1. The problem I’ve found (at least in my neck of the woods) is that even when they put up candidates for local elections, they were poor quality – no better than the local Tories for competency, and did not come across well when debating rivals from other parties because they didn’t really know much about what was being discussed, just that the existing system was bad.

            Often, as we saw at national level with UKIP, members were more interested in petty internal power struggles and grandstanding than projecting a professionally-run outfit as a credible alternative to the mainstream parties. It’s why they only did well when national issues affected local politics (when Farage was in charge and the referendum issue was in the news), because people were distracted from the internal strife.

            I mean, look how many leaders they had since 2015? Even Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) and his mates gave up after one try at being MEP candidates – not just because of the negative national-level publicity.

            Unfortunately, to change any local constituency party (of any sort) or at national level, you first have to ‘join the club’ of existing establishment types, who will try their hardest (succeeding 99.9% of the time) to stop any change happening that will take power and influence away from them.

    3. Has he been bought off?

      You can evade the paywall by tapping the escape key as the page begins loading. May take a couple of attempts.

      1. I suspect that he’s fed up with having to share most of the burden over the years, or work with people who may share much of his views, but who couldn’t organise their way out of a paper bag.

        Hopefully with Richard Tice, things will be different – but he needs more exposure on TV (I undertsnd from other nottlers he’s often on radio, particularly LBC [as a guest]) and in the newspapers as a columnist (he occasionally has written for the DT).

        Unfortunately for the ‘access’ issue, the ESC key method doesn’t always work for everyone. It ‘sort-of’ does with my tablet (the X on the website address bar will do [though no videos or photos will load] fo reading articles) as its quite slow, whereas my much faster (but older) PC just won’t do that as the pages load too fast.

      3. Try loading the (cropped) page Phizz then press refresh and then escape. Easier.

    4. Nigel did his best! He faced enormous obstacles from the Deep State to the MSM as well as the entrenched interests of the Tory Party and the ideology of Labour not to mention the EU! I doubt that anyone of lesser gifts could have done more!

    5. I am reminded of the words of Enoch Powell who said: “all political lives end in failure.”

      Enoch Powell was the best prime minister we never had but he was vilified and his wise warnings were not heeded.

      We cannot deny that Nigel Farage certainly was instrumental in getting Brexit but the Brexit deal we have got is very far from perfect and “no deal” would have been a far better outcome than the deal Farage said was acceptable with EU boats still looting our fishing areas, officious customs vandalism at our borders, a shambles in Northern Ireland and no clear policy on the financial services.

  47. Some excellent letters today – the first three in fact. The best BTL comment was from the well-known regular Matthew Biddlecombe (7.50am).

  48. Here is a much need to watch 21 minute video…

    It’s by Aussie MP Anne Bressington which was aired in 2013 which gives you all 8 years of hindsight to check whether you think she was right or otherwise.

    If you don’t watch it then you are not at all interested in your futture.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sES6_OXPwOU

      1. Agenda21/30 is NOT a conspiracy…

        It can be found on the UN’s own official website.

        1. I’m sure it/they aren’t.

          If you want even more depressing reading have a wander around the EU’s Europa websites.

    2. The combination of ardent socialists/Marxists, corporatists and establishment, crony career politicians – a terrible marriage.

      And what are people most concerned about? Buying cheap tat from China and being able to go on a nice foreign holiday. Everything bad going on is treated like a ‘head in the sand’ minor incident.

      Frog in boiling water? The temperature is now at 95degC.

        1. More like lemmings approaching the cliff, blisfully unaware of what’s to come…

          2. Nah – he’s one of the lemmings. More like Schwab getting his padawan Hancock to do the job.

          5. Reminiscent of another person more famous for their hair than anything else.

          6. Nah – he’s one of the lemmings. More like Schwab getting his padawan Hancock to do the job.

        2. 330004+ up ticks,
          Afternoon H,
          I must object in the nicest possible manner as in, you will NEVER convince me that given the opportunity to vote sheep would support & vote for mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophile umbrella parties that would guarantee their lambs getting raped & abused.
          That is purely in the human domain, the sheep are innocent.

        3. “Oblatus est quia ipse voluit et non aperuit os suum sicut ovis* ad occisionem ducetur et quasi agnus coram tondente obmutescet et non aperiet os suum.”
          –Isaiah 53:7
          :¬(

          * © ogga1

    3. After watching it, I have emailed the link to many people including friends in Oz under the heading, She’s right.
      But as i suggested to them all it’s no good sending it to the younger generation they don’t want to bebothered listening to anything like that, but when they do wake up it’ll be too late.

      1. You will have noticed that although this is the real UN deal….

        Nobody ever talks about it and you never see it in the MSM.

        Wonder why?

        1. I wonder, is it because they are all involved in it ? And it’s like Serpula lacrymans, aka dry rot in a house spreading upwards from the basement until the roof caves in before any one notices it and by then it’s too late.

      2. It used to be that yoofs grew out of their idiocy by their mid-late 20s (well, except a few like Corbyn & Co); now it appears that it’s at least their early 40s for most of them, if at all. By then, it’ll be too late, as they either would’ve done nuffin’ (the usual) or naively voted for the Agenda 21 crowd’s selected candidate (the head I win, tails you lose policy).

  49. Advice requested: I have a very nice Dover Sole for supper tonight. I have just skinned it and noticed it has a large Roe.

    Do i Meunière it with the Roe in or cook it separately or bin it?

    1. I self identify as a lady on Sundays.

      I don’t like men with too many muscles.

      (Janet Weiss. Rocky Horror Picture Show).

        1. Quite – hence my comment – implying that the images were inappropriate…!!

        1. I did, Harry – and I am now back, exhausted, having barrowed 10 loads of bonfire ash to disperse round the garden; then to do various other heavy jobs. Still, the sun shone and the kittens scampered round the garden.

    6. I note that neither man is covered in tattoos – so why do men have them? As for tattooed ladies, weren’t they once the main attraction (next to the bearded ladies) at funfairs?

    7. I thought the one on the left was a youthful Yorkshire Ripper.
      The one on the right would look more at home at the Berlin Olympics.

  51. 33004+ up ticks,
    I did post a few days ago as I was seeing the mask wearing as indoctorination of the ovis in regards to the wearing of the full burka being accepted as norm.
    The governance groups are getting fully geared up, this ain’t no conspiracy theory the bloody props are in place in parliament and NOT for a one knee job, but the full bloody issue, five times a day.

    breitbart
    Swiss Voting in Referendum on ‘Burqa Ban,
    The measure would outlaw covering one’s face in public places like restaurants, sports stadiums, public transport or simply walking in the street. There would be exceptions at religious sites and for security or health reasons, such as the face masks people are wearing now to protect against COVID-19, as well as for traditional Carnival celebrations. Authorities would have two years to draw up detailed legislation.

    1. Biden is a classic example of a bought man, who finding he no longer needs the people he sold out to, takes delight in stuffing them.

  53. “LEAVE US ALONE,” shouted Brash and Trash. “WE WANT PRIVACY. That Oprah woman conned us into appearing on her programme. We thought it was all about home decorating. And she refused to pay us. LEAVE US ALONE.“

  54. It’s gone very quiet on the anti-Russia/Novichok/Putin/Navalny front! If I didn’t know better I would think that the Borg were off having a meeting somewhere (Seychelles/Jamaica?) to try and put some life back into the Campaign!

  55. Gorgeous sunny afternoon – though decidedly chilly. Off to do some gardening.

    Gentle humour from a bygone age. Boys Own Paper c 1951.

    Two women on a bus. Conductor (remember them?) approaches.

    First woman: “Virginia Water, single, please.”
    Second woman: “Emma Martin, married, thank you.”

    I’ll get me Bell punch.

    3. Get back to your gardening, Bill. You might one day make it to “Gardeners’ World”, but with jokes like that you’ll never get a job as a comedian!

      :-))

    4. Or, If you have the fare the conductress lets you have a full ride, but if not you get tossed off.

  56. Back from a walk and saw, what maybe, the ultimate irony.

    A car doing about 50 mph in a 30 limit but it was OK as the driver was wearing a mask.

  57. According to the highly regarded Daily Mail, the budget has proposed that expats be able to vote in UK elections.

    I left the UK about 40 years ago but still have family in England and Scotland so I have an interest in UK affairs. But the right to vote? Does the Monster Raving Loony Party still put up candidates in elections?

    What has voting rights got to do with a budget?

    1. Ex-pats who are still UK tax based should have the right to vote. Otherwise not.

        1. Yes, I would agree with that. On average there are about 70,000 voters per MP. I would use the same guideline for ex-pats MPs.

        2. I would like for my MP residence to be in the Bahamas. I’ll do my MP surgeries via Zoom, and my voting and presence at Select Committees. I’ll come along once a year for the State Opening of Parliament, and I’ll stay at the Savoy – not too far away from the HoP…

      2. Rather thinking that the right to vote in UK elections should be based upon citizenship, amount of net tax paid and a simple test to show clear understanding of how government is financed.

        Given that that cuts out vast numbers of wasters, welfarists and Labour voters, it should be a clear and better off future.

    2. None that I can see. TBH, ex-pats should have no voting rights in the UK (but should get their full entitlement to pension as per whatever they paid in), and nor should any either temporary workers, or immigrants with less than (say) 5 or maybe 10 years residing here after gaining a first stage to citizenship. I’ve advocated that being a two-stage affair, so that certain types of criminal activity or number of offenses with that would result in deportation after their sentence and confiscation of funds to pay for it all.

      1. I agree with you. I have an interest in UK affairs but that does not equate to a right to vote.

        Unlike Rastus, I was able to take Canadian citizenship (five years residency and a citizenship test) so have full voting rights here and could even stand for election if I chose.

        It is easier to be thrown out of Canada than from the UK especially if you haven’t taken that citizenship test.

        I would add no free healthcare for new immigrants unless they are working and paying into the system.

        Oh and index my UK pension.

        1. That’s not quite right. Rastus could apply for French citizenship in a similar way to you and Canadian and would almost certainly get it it.

          We still get index-linking, but the fact that voting was mentioned in the budget of all places, makes me wonder/fear that we might lose it in exchange for being able to vote.

          1. I was under the impression that once you emigrate, you lose the right to having your UK government pension being index linked. It may have been different when were were in the EU for British ex-pats, but I wonder what was agreed for the Brexit deal? Or what the future may bring, given recent legal wranglings over the Brexit Deal?

          3. It seems to be that if you emigrate to a country in the Commonwealth, your pension is not index linked. If, however, you go elsewhere you get the rises.

    3. I can tell you left the UK some time ago, for I know no one who holds the Daily Mail in high regard.
      The Monster Raving Loony Party has been clever, and by chicanery, smoke and mirrors has already got their man in No10, his name is Boris!

      2. my brother thinks that the DM is good, he works through their sudoku and crossword puzzles every day (free at work).

        Phil is right, that was a very sarcastic comment about the DM.

        I will make one point in their favour. They have much more coverage of world affairs (true or invented) than the majority of Canadian or US newspapers, not that that is saying much.

    4. If Blair had had any integrity and interest in people who, in effect were furthering his EU ideal by working in other EU countries, he would have seen to it that before he robbed British citizens of their votes in Britain that he had negotiated with the heads of government of other EU countries to allow these people to vote in the countries where they were resident and working. I then would have had a vote in France – but because I am not French I am completely disenfranchised.

      UK nationals resident in other EU countries were probably the people likely to be most affected by the EU referendum. Cameron acknowledged this and said that all British subjects would be allowed their say. He than went back on his word.

      And they wonder why I think they are pieces of stinking excrement?

    1. How are these sums even possible? Three complete bespoke outfits a year -OK, two room flat close to Westminster -OK, chauffeur car to and from work, flat, home and constituency -OK.
      That should still combine at under £120k.
      Or does he live on Mars?

    2. Treat them as contractors. Immediately move them in to IR35. If they need staff, they can hire them. At their own cost. All expenses are to be agreed by HMRC under the above.

  59. Guardian talk on 1st April (sic) entitled ‘What White People Can Do Next’, with Emma Dabiri

    Part of the discussion includes ‘… ‘whiteness’ as a system is destructive for everyone’.

    1. 330004+ up ticks,
      Afternoon Vom,
      The guardian rhetorically paint a very black picture.

    2. Is it co-hosted by Titania McGrath?

      Ps Emma Dabiri calls herself “Irish-Nigerian” and claims to have been “racially abused” because of her hair.

    2. 330004+ up ticks,
      O2O,
      Og you did post recency that treatment would have been more acceptable were it in stages & tablet form.

      At least you would not be chancing your arm with a non retrievable product.

    3. Er excuse me.

      The US pharmaceutical industry would like to object to this. How can they maintain their revenue of about $100 billion a year if you come up with affordable options like this?

      Disclosure: I own J&J shares, the dividend has no bearing on my views!

      1. 330004+up ticks,
        Afternoon R,
        My only fear was the price of wheelbarrows will escalate.

    4. You might want to review Dr Sam Bailey’s recent YT Q&A video which she talks about whether that medicine is worthwhile for treating COVID. If I recall, she said it shouldn’t be used as a general treatment, but for specific symptoms that only some people (even in the ICU) get.

      https://youtu.be/tQoC39n4QP8

      1. Ivermectin is a life saver and a crime is committed every time it is not offered to the sick. Thousands upon thousands have died because they have not been treated properly. I am ashamed of the medical profession.

  61. Top headline on BBC website. “Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe released but faces new court date in Iran”
    I don’t care. Does anyone? Go to a dangerous foreign country and you need to take care and follow their rules. Go to a dangerous foreign country and poke them in the eye and it won’t go well. Funny how the sjw chatterati can always get top of the line publicity that would cost a fortune if it had to be paid for, is it not? People go missing in the UK every day and the MSM don’t report it, or mount an ongoing campaign, do they?
    The first time I went to France I was told off by a policeman for jay-walking.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56313099

    2. Nice one, Connor! Roza obviously got an IQ transplaent when she became an SJW.

    3. Is there a way to have these cretinous fools actually hear you laughing at them? Dear life roza, you is fick.

      2. And even Farage has now lost interest in complaining about it.

        Brexit he said
        We shall regain our borders he said
        We shall regain our sovereignty he said
        We shall control immigration he said

    2. 3rd boat full of migrants brought In to Dover today

      The other seventeen got across without assistance.

      1. Rather like the junior doctors wrt working long hours and health and safety…

      2. I see Bojo is claiming it was all we could afford – a bit late in the day to start talking about affordability, I would have thought! If he really wanted to find the money, he could have cancelled HS2.

    2. Justifying his existence and budget uplift, as all Sir Humpreys are bound to do…

        1. Oh, I thought it was Sir Simon chappie (I didn’t read the report and assumed). Lots of chiefs at PHE, aren’t there?

    3. They said last year that flu and covid would both be a problem in the winter we’ve just had…………

    1. “And I’m telling you that if he falls off that ladder he won’t land on his feet.”

  73. 330004+ up ticks,
    breitbart,
    TONY BLAIR DISMISSED PANDEMICS AS ‘PANPANICS’ AS PRIME MINISTER, DID ‘MINIMUM’ TO PREPARE

    If minimum is costing the amounts we are hearing what in heaven’s name would maximums amount to, where’s diane ?

  74. Had a very enjoyable afternoon, my dog groomer had to change the time and day re next weeks appointment .. so I was invited to take them over this afternoon to her lovely farm .. So dropped the dogs off , noticed all the wild primroses , celandines , blackthorn blossom , and a few stray partridge . Fields looking immaculate and sown. Quite a bit of traffic on the road . Many cars returning after their half term break, bikes on cars , mobile homes .. Shocked to see how much the price of fuel has shot up ,

    Drove home with Moh for a cup of tea , put a shoulder of lamb on to roast . Son sorted the vegetables out , and then it was nearly time to pick the dogs up .. 2 hours races by .. 15 minutes to get there etc .

    The sun is still shining , cloudy and cold , but the sun lights up all the fields and and contours of the hills .

    My eldest woolly bear spaniel looks like a different dog , superb and so much slimmer and lighter , (his paws didn’t resemble big hairy plates anymore) and his rear feathers are sorted as is his Beau Brummel white silky hairy chest .. more like a hairy bib, has been clipped beautifully . The younger dog just needed his feathers trimmed and his tail and ears , they both had their nails cut and a hair wash , they just smell delicious .

    Tomorrow they will probably be back to rolling in fox poo.

    Now if you were to view me , I badly need a hair cut , probably like an untrimmed spanoodle .. yet hair salons won’t be open untill April .

    4. We went for a short walk on the common – nice in the sunshine but very cold.

      We’re having shoulder of lamb this evening as well – favourite joint here.

      My hair is a wispy mess – my appointment was in February – I had to remake it for 22nd April as they were already booked up.

      1. Yo Nd

        Get it right

        We went for a short walk on the common Estate

        Youse too posh for Common

      2. Got a load of sawn & chopped logs I’d stacked temporarily shifted to their home for the next year or so and it was absolutely gorgeous in front of the house whilst the sun was out, but perishing at the back and even colder when the sun vanished behind a cloud!

    5. Of course he’ll roll in something disgusting to us. He probably thinks he stinks at the moment 🙂

      1. 330004+ upticks,
        S,
        Tis them I had in mind via the Jay report, victims of mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophile umbrella parties.

    2. Clearly, these are illegal immigrants. The law on refugee applications and immigration is clear. Gven that fact, why are they being housed here? Even in barracks. They simply should not be here at all.

    3. We can only hope the security services are able to monitor their lives before they all become brain surgeons, unfortunately the Prevent programme is looking for the needle in the haystack that is only there when someone being cared for in the community does something that fits their perceived targeting strategy.

  76. That’s me for this successful day. A brilliant loaf baked – though I say it myself. Top of the garden almost sorted. Little onions on the way in the greenhouse – though other pots, sown at same time, are depressingly not doing anything. Cats played for hours in the garden – they particularly liked the woodsheds – mice, I reckon!

    Now to relax before painter Trevor arrives tomorrow.

    A demain

    1. It’s been a sunny, if somewhat chilly, day here and I spent most of it in the garden to make a start on making it look presentable now flowers are starting to bloom. I haven’t sowed anything yet because the soil’s too cold (and the greenhouse needs a thorough clean before I use it).

        1. Yes – but the figures will include deaths from all causes, not just covid. That will include the people who didn’t get the treatment they needed for other things.

          1. I fear that “those” will become more obvious two/three years + down the line.

          2. Plus suicides and care home deaths due to lack of quarantine. Just how many of those over 85s were in care homes?

        2. The most plausible explanation is that many of those elderly would have died had we experienced harsh winters in the previous two years as for example Germany experienced. This also explains why deaths in the elderly in Germany were light compared with the UK; their elderly people had already died in their previous harsh winters.

          Eventually the excess deaths from those left untreated during this Covid charade will catch up. It is also likely that deaths arising from the poisonous vaccines will be revealed down the line as a major death event.

          1. I agree.

            I’ve been trying to get this across to the nay-sayers for ages.

            We shall see, but I’m still backing “my horse”.

            Similar distribution patterns have been seen across Europe.

    3. Well done. Obviously it was safer for school children in 2020 with Covid-19 rampant in the nation than before it existed.

  79. The Beeb reports that Switzerland has voted to ban the Niqab etc. However they say the vote was 51.2% to 48.8%, a decent majority, but for the result to be binding on the gov., that is they must bring forward legislation to enact it or prove it is un-Constitutional, then a majority of Cantons (with some counting only half) must have voted in favour. They make no mention of the Cantonal votes.

    1. I should add that if the Cantonal vote carried, then the govt. is not obliged to do anything unless the vote passes again, majority and cantons, in two years time. Then under the Federal Constitution they must enact legislation, or face the ire of the Court.

      1. Doesn’t matter – it’s the principle of the thing. That the public can say what will and will not go in their country.

        You can hear people around the world saying yes! I wish we could do that and the universal condemnation of the political classes. That’s the problem though, isn’t it folks? They want things we do not and because we do not live in a democracy, they get what they want.

        1. We can’t do it here because we’d need every home to be connected in some way to the voting system, either via the internet or by smartphone. That will never happen here.

        2. Oh that’s good. As smooth as chocolate and precise as a.. well, Swiss watch?

    2. I’m surprised at the BBC.

      Since 2016 I always knew that voting 52% really meant that you lost, as so many voters didn’t understand the question.

    3. Cripes alive, the Beeb must be having an absolute fit! Not only have we the people actually making a decision about what they want, but that the state must obey them, and, and worse of all, it’s against their precious Muslims!

      How terrified must they be! Everything they hate! Democracy, a complete lack of state power and Muslims not getting their own way! Dear life, hand me the popcorn! The screams! Their horror!

    2. Very funny, T_B!! I suspect this whole debacle will come back and bite them in the ……. ! I suspect not many here are that bothered to watch, it’s all Hollywood, innit!!

      1. Absolutely , and they are really very tacky .. airing their dirty laundry in public .. not quite the done thing .
        She has bitten the hand that has given her a confidence boost.

        Harry will suffer even more , of that I am certain .. I think she is trying to do him in .

        What a minx she is !

        1. I wonder if Harry realises how the Duke and Duchess of Windsor became totally ostracized by the rest of the family and the rift was never overcome.

          1. What do Americans think of this mess, Jill. On the Daily Mail where thousands have commented , many Americans love her , and many feel ashamed of her .

            Lots of celebrity culture are siding with Meghan .. but they don’t know what we know !

            Edit , What do we know , nothing because that outburst is a total surprise , and I don’t know whether she is mad and bad and very duplicious.

          2. Maggie, (may I call you that?) from what I have seen here, the interest is mostly following on from the tv series, “The Crown” No-one here knew who Meghan was before she became involved with Harry, very much a B actress was the general opinion. I really think, in this time of many covid restrictions, their pontifications on their hurts and deprivations is totally off the mark.

    3. Didn’t this rather untalented actress play in a thing called ‘Suits’? I am not sure that Harry’s suit suits her – but what does?

  81. Fury as statue of poet Philip Larkin is placed on council’s secret racism review list over comments in private letters

    Poet, who died in 1985, honoured with Hull Paragon Interchange statue in 2010
    Hull City Council has cited it in a review prompted in wake of Black Lives Matter
    It is due to content in Larkin’s letters published several years after his death
    By RAVEN SAUNT FOR MAILONLINE

    PUBLISHED: 16:04, 7 March 2021 | UPDATED: 16:05, 7 March 2021 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9335495/Statue-poet-Philip-Larkin-placed-councils-secret-racism-review-list.html

    Why Doesn’t Boris stop this darned nonsense

    This country and our cultural history is becoming a joke .. but it is no laughing matter .

      1. 330004+ up ticks,
        Evening B3,
        Prior to that all the way back to major followed the same course, all still found favour with the electorate.

    2. ‘Evening, Maggie!

      One of the BTL comments makes the point that most folk ‘back in the day'(sic) held views on the subject of race that are unacceptable today.

      I agree, and let me say that I’m unashamed to be part of ‘most folk’, I hold the same views on matters racial that I have always held. I have held them since the Khyber Pass was only a slit-trench and the Dead Sea was just reporting sick and the Government’s flooding the UK with millions of niggers and wogs is unlikely to change them any time soon.

      1. DM,

        Last year after and before the 2nd lockdown , this area attracted tens of thousands of people of colour who were attracted to a particular beauty spot here .

        They were coming from London , the Midlands and further afield .

        The heathland became similar to a huge public latrine, ‘cos all the loos were closed .

        We knew who had visited .. because of curry coloured smelly poo!

        Thank goodness for the savage rainy spell that arrived and washed the countryside clean.

        An area near the local allotments had 146 poo visits last year .. all logged by secret camera! Logged being the operative word!

        1. Dear God, that is appalling. The scum that the Government’s welcoming in are worse than animals.

          1. 330004+ up ticks,
            Evening DM,
            This is not new this has been the political overseers policy for over four decades and always found support via the polling booth.

            The party I was a long term member of always called for
            controlled immigration, but not so the lab/lib/con coalition.

    3. “Why Doesn’t Boris stop this darned nonsense” The answer is because he does not wish to stop it.
      The real question is what actually drives him in his decision making process, what matters to him and why?
      You probably can guess how little I think of him from my previous comments, never ever have I been so disappointed in a Conservative PM, (Mrs May never disappointed, we all knew what she was). The only achievement that he can be credited with is Brexit, and even that is a dogs dinner of a deal, one that will need to be revisited on a never ending basis. Everything else has turned into just another disappointment or U turn, HS2, BBC licence, SAGE led Covid briefings with fear generating inaccurate graphs and figures, BLM, a constant stream of illegals landing on beaches or smuggled in HGVs, police forces which are now considered by many to be working against the people not for them, trashing the economy which my grandchildren and their children will still be paying for.
      Others here could add to the list of underachievement but what really needs to be asked is why he is such an absolute failure as OUR PM, who is he actually trying to please?

      2. Well, I think his father isn’t much cop , so Boris has behaved like a Casanova .. no that is wrong , he has been hypnotised by sex , and has installed in his life a much younger woman who will have no knowledge or tradition or background in politics … she is a NOW person . Judging by the way she wants to spend money on the flat above no 10 , a bill for 10s of k will be sponsored by wealthy pals ..

        Excuse me for bringing that subject up, but it strikes me as brown enveloping . Boris has lost control, he is just a noisy mouthpiece full of harrumps and hmmmms and seems powerless.

        1. To me it seems just that, he is working for others not us, and will be well paid for it.
          Running a younger woman must be just like running a classic car, bloody expensive if you pick the wrong model.

  83. ‘Prince Harry and William to reunite at unveiling of Diana statue as they move past rift’ – DT

    Should be a quiet little ceremony. I can’t see many people turning out to see the ginger whinger emote about how hard life has treated him.

    1. Difficult for the boys to lose their Mum at such a young age. They really should have dealt with it by now rather than wallowing. For either of them to give interviews to the media about how they feel just prolongs the agony.

    2. I wonder if anyone will want to give the statue the Colston treatment and throw it into the Serpentine? That would certainly cause a lot of offence to a lot of people!

  84. 330004+ up ticks,
    No longer the need to guess who’s come to dinner the Swiss
    have banned the burka, what surprised me was it seems to have been a close win .
    Along with honor murders & FGM could we
    not do the same, just asking out of
    moral decency ?

          1. Indeed:

            “New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has now been accused by two more women of inappropriate behaviour, bringing the total to five, while two female aides have quit his administration over the sexual harassment allegations as well as a coverup scandal over COVID-19 deaths in the state’s nursing homes”.

          2. And a BTL Comment:
            TrustbutVerify

            Though important, the Cuomo’s sexual stuff is just a side show – and perhaps an intentional diversion. As big as this story is the much larger story is the thousands that died the result of his decision to place Covid positive patients into non-positive patient filled nursing homes.

            In truth, I don’t know the timeline but wasn’t a special hospital being set-up at the Javitz Center (or some such) specifically for Covid patients? And wasn’t the special hospital ship on hand for the same purpose? And of course, other hospitals?

            Was this bizarre decision by Cuomo just another example of the widespread Trump Derangement Syndrome that was and is still present in Democrats? With the ultimate result being thousands dying?

            I would submit the sexual stuff is titillating in a way that dominates the attention of the public – a shiny object for the publics to be transfixed upon.

          3. Convenient perhaps, it takes the spotlight off the accusation of the many deaths of seniors his policies caused and the deliberate under reporting of the number of deaths by his aides.

          4. He should have utilised the hospital ship that President Trump equipped and sent immediately to New York harbour. Instead the arrogant fool Cuomo dumped ‘Covid’ or severely ill elderly hospital patients into care homes.

            Deaths are conservatively estimated at over 15,000.

  86. Evening, all. The Conservative Party abandoned its fundamental beliefs years ago. When I was campaigning for UKIP, whenever a potential voter said, “oh no! I’m a Conservative,” I used to tell them that I was once, but the Party left me.

  87. Message for Datz – thanks for the explanation of the Nixie Tube. I tried to reply to the post, but comments were closed. It isn’t something I’ve ever come across before (sheltered life that I’ve led).

  88. Good evening friends.

    I will repost the following tomorrow as we all know most Nottlers have retired to their beds or are under the table by now. :@)

    I thoroughly recommend ‘The Queen’s Gambit’. I read the book a few years ago and was engrossed. The TV series does it some justice. A good watch.

      1. Raybans? I may have aviator sunspecs, but they aren’t Raybans 🙂 I half expected someone to ask me if stoking the Rayburn was a euphemism 🙂

  93. A family friend recovering well from a detached retina suffered severely blurred vision in that eye within 24 hours after the Pfizer injection and no improvement after three weeks.

    Another has paralysis in her arm after the AZ.

        1. I wouldn’t think the vaccine is appropriate for those who have already had covid.

  94. Monday 8th March 2021

    Geoff Graham

    A Very Happy Birthday

    and many, many more joyous anniversaries

    With our most heartfelt and well-deserved thanks for giving so many of us Nottlers the chance to air our views and make friends.

    Caroline and Rastus

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu1Altb1N6A

    1. Where would we be without him? Thanks Geoff and a very Happy birthday 🎂🥳🎉🎈🎁🎊🎂

    2. Happy Birthday, Geoff! Mondays are not the best day for a birthday, but if the sun shines like it has done today, you won’t mind it being Monday! All the best and gave a great day. Heartfelt thanks for giving us all a platform.

    4. A very Happy Birthday, Geoff – and thank you for running the show !

      [That’s an Oxford hyphen, BTW :)) ]

    8. A very Happy Birthday to the original Midlle Land Exile from a very grateful fan!

        1. And have travelled around 350 billion miles through our Galaxy. So Happy Birthday Geoff and many happy returns to put a few more billion miles on the clock!

      3. Once again a very happy birthday.

        I do not have your YoB on the list. Can I take it that it is 1957?

      4. Would it have been so difficult for him to start the sentence with a capital and to capitalise the I?

    2. Thank you Boss! Many Happy returns and I hope you have a wonderful birthday! Have a great day! 🎂🎉🍾💕

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