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Morning everyone.
Good morning, Minty. To my amazement I beat you (and all others) to it today.
Good Morning, all
Foggy
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Simon Carr on Guido
There are four more years of this, but after six short months the front bench already looks like the fag-end of a government. The great officers of state sitting on the front bench cannot legally be described under current hate crime regulations.
They’re out of ideas, out of options and everything they’ve done has produced the opposite of what they set out to do.
In the face of this, they continue to preach freedom, equality, and their achievement of stabilising the economy. It must be debilitating, mustn’t it? They have suffocated the economy and call it “stabilised”. The power expended on maintaining their case would drain the national grid.
So, Government supporters must be very pleased with their PM. All about him are losing their heads and blaming it on – well, luckily for him, on his chancellor. She sat at his side at PMQs nodding fretfully, her face vacant with pain. She did smiling from time to time, but her power supply was renewable and she suffered from blackouts. What must be going on in her head? How is she explaining it to herself? How is she able to keep saying, “Our Number 1 priority is growth”? To be able to reorder your mind in such a way that makes sense of those words in that order – that is a skill which ends up with you tied to a gurney calling for mother.
Keir, by contrast, gains in confidence and energy the more his project fails. He gives every appearance of getting into his stride. The worse things get, the greater his ease at the despatch box. He’s now in touch with his inner voice. He speaks with the certainty of the pulpit. When faced with a catalogue of errors and misjudgement, he laughs it off as “a barrage of complete nonsense”.
His opponent laid out some of the most recent unfortunate events. That he had appointed a convicted fraudster as Transport secretary. That his anti-corruption minister had resigned on charges of corruption. That he is paying a foreign power billions to take over strategic British territory. That he may have to write a cheque to compensate “godfather of Irish terrorism” Gerry Adams. And that he crashed the fastest-growing economy in the G7.
It was this that had him swatting off “a barrage of nonsense”.
His defence of Tulip – she is my other weakness, incidentally, along with Angela Rayner – was audacious.
Kemi noted that there was evidence that her undeclared flat might have been bought with the proceeds of robbery. Keir declined to agree that this should be investigated. He said Tulip had referred herself to Standards who had found no breach of any code. A report had been submitted which had found no wrong-doing. “And she resigned yesterday” (Cries of Why?)
How different, he said, how very different from the Tories who didn’t resign when they had not been found guilty of not obeying codes (Keir used to be a lawyer).
Kemi had a better day. She found the temerity to say the OBR found no black hole, and that Labour had inherited the fastest-growing economy in the G7. It’s a start of some sort of Tory position. Her talent for calm questioning is very welcome – and it has the merit of making Keir angry. The way to make him actually lose his temper is not in asking him “Why should anyone believe a word he says?” but instead putting to him factual questions which he cannot answer and which undermine his knowledge of influential policy (anything on how Small Modular Reactors would solve our emissions could have him reaching for his brains).
More important for our own souls, we should find compassion for Keir. He is putting himself in harm’s way. What he is doing to his sanity may be beyond repair. Alarmingly for mental health enthusiasts, his take on a talk with Donald Trump is that they agreed to maintain the “special relationship” in the years to come.
On the evidence so far, this means that Labour will act Greece to Trump’s Rome. That Keir will show him how his racism, misogyny and fascist primitivism will be shamed by our becoming a clean energy super-power while he wallows in oil, by our giving away strategic military bases while he takes on China, and by sending an EU obsessive to him as ambassador while he cosies up to Nigel Farage.
If this carries on, he will find himself on the gurney next to the first female Chancellor.
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Good morning, Citroen 1. Who are the two in the top photo on whom the photos of Starmer and Reeves's heads have been superimposed?
Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu of Romania. They were tried and executed on 25th December 1989.
Good morning, Citroen 1. Who are the two in the top photo on whom the photos of Starmer and Reeves's heads have been superimposed?
That last photo is "Britannia Dreaming".
Can anyone else see the contradiction in the above?
The question is, what did they set out to do? The buzz word was "Change" and "Change" has come in the guise of one failure after another. Is this what they set out to do despite all the verbiage they spouted and which had very little or no policy attached?
The new legislation re landlords and renters has seen social media awash with claims about the downside of this "change". Net Zero is another example, "Secure Energy" is the catch-phrase but only last week a short cold snap produced concerns about the UK's gas reserves.
From my perspective I see a government firmly on track to achieve everything that they set out to do. However, I'm not certain that all of the MPs etc. are sure of the path "Change" is leading them on.
Hard times ahead, methinks.
They are obviously not working for the people of this country but over whelmingly against our long established culture and social structure. KC needs to put his foot down and stop it.
In your dreams! He's part of the nightmare.
I know, perhaps he needs a huge nudge. Or a massive kick up the backside.
Needs something to remind him he is defender of THE (i e Christian) faith and king of these islands not the WEF.
Now get on your knees…….and beg.
Dead before they hit the ground.
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Good Morning Al. 6C overcast, dry.
Morning Johnny, broken cloud 10C and a light breeze
It was absolutely cloudless here all day and sunny, but only about 5.5 degrees C.
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This will.. fingers crossed.. bring down the Starmer government.
They think it's all a jolly jape bringing down western civilisation.
What they don't realise.. Trump aint messing around this time.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man?
Hmm.
A pretty looking lass, but listening to her gushing and babbling on, she sounds pretty much a bit of an airhead.
That sounds about right.
And they'll be claiming it on their expenses.
Humza Yousaf accuses David Lammy of racism
Former first minister claims it was ‘shameful’ for the Foreign Secretary to meet the Israeli government to discuss a ceasefire
Daniel Sanderson
Scottish Correspondent
15 January 2025 3:47pm GMT
Humza Yousaf has accused David Lammy of racism for meeting with an Israeli minister as part of efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza.
The former first minister compared Israeli military action to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but claimed the Foreign Secretary and Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, would not engage in the same way with Vladimir Putin or Sergey Lavrov, Moscow’s foreign minister.
He said the “only conclusion” to explain the different approaches was that the British response was “rooted in racism” because of the idea that “Arab lives simply do not matter to the same extent as European lives”.
The accusation of racism from Mr Yousaf, who has said he intends to work to bring about international peace after he leaves politics next year, was branded “offensive and naïve” by the convenor of Holyrood’s cross-party group on Israel.
Mr Lammy met with Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister, in Israel on Sunday. The Labour politician said he had stressed the need for an “immediate ceasefire”, the lifting of aid restrictions on Gaza and the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas in the October 7, 2023 attacks.
Both ministers later posted an image of them smiling and shaking hands on social media, with Mr Lammy also meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.
In comments to The National, a pro-independence newspaper, Mr Yousaf accused Mr Lammy of attempting to “cover-up” the meeting, despite the Foreign Secretary posting about it on his account on X, formerly Twitter.
He claimed it was “shameful” to meet with the Israeli government and to “pose for photographs with the government whose head is wanted by the International Criminal Court”.
Mr Yousaf said: “I wouldn’t expect David Lammy to be posing, smiling with photographs with Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister.
“I wouldn’t expect Keir Starmer to be shaking hands and hugging Vladimir Putin. We wouldn’t expect any engagement at that senior level.”
He added: “The only conclusion one can draw with why the Israeli government and the people of Gaza are treated differently is that it has to be rooted in racism.
“Arab lives simply do not matter to the same extent as European lives, and that to me is an indictment of the sad state of humanity that we currently live in.”
Other Western governments have also shunned calls for Israel to be treated as a pariah state, with Mr Sa’ar also holding meetings in recent days with the Italian government and the US ambassador to Israel.
Joe Biden, the outgoing US president, spoke with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, at the weekend, as part of efforts to build momentum towards a ceasefire and hostage release deal, which it has been claimed is close.
Despite his call for Israel to be shunned, Mr Yousaf said in the same interview that after he stands down from politics next year he was keen to work in the “conflict resolution space” and could “envisage” working for an international organisation.
He said Israel was responsible for the deaths of 75,000 people in Gaza, almost 70 per cent of whom were women and children with “hospital, schools and refugee camps” targeted by bombs.
He called for grants from Scottish Enterprise, a Scottish government agency, to no longer be handed to firms alleged to be involved in manufacturing weapons used by Israel in the conflict.
‘Offensive and naïve’
Jackson Carlaw, the former Scottish Tory leader, who is convenor of Holyrood’s Building Bridges with Israel cross-party group, said: “If a ceasefire is to be achieved in the Middle East it’s essential that politicians engage with all sides in this awful conflict.
“To suggest doing so is racist, is both offensive and naïve.
“Achieving progress or resolution places on all involved a duty to set blind emotion aside. If we cannot do that, then there can be no progress.”
While Mr Yousaf was still first minister, he had family members trapped in Gaza early in the conflict.
His parents-in-law, who had been visiting relatives and usually live in Scotland, were eventually given safe passage out of the conflict zone.
His wife, Nadia El-Nakla, a Dundee councillor, has accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza.
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David Kelly
11 hrs ago
The real fun is watching useless thick lefties taking chunks out of each other – priceless.
Gillian Gill
11 hrs ago
Grief, what a nutter. Someone educate him about the events of 7th October 2023.
Bruce Wayne
11 hrs ago
Two cheeks of the same backside, what a couple of woke morons eating each other.
Martin Millson
11 hrs ago
What an absolute jerk
Cia Hug
12 hrs ago
Every time Yousless opens his mouth, real Scottish people breathe a huge sigh of relief that he is no longer their First Minister.
Good morning, #HaplessHumza is desperately seeking relevance, preferably on the international stage, yet he'll go no further than First Minister of Gaza. He still faces questions of how much he bunged to Ham Ass and when it was bunged, as his relatives were allowed to depart Gaza. Casting aspersions about racialism is the only tool in his armoury.
and he siphoned the money off from Scottish coffers which had been funded by…
I posted this earlier on yesterday’s site.
Essential listening. Blood pressure warning. Raja Miah saying what we weren’t allowed to. TR is in prison for speaking out about this. No wonder they esnt him silenced.
“Politician Raja Miah has uncovered everything about the Labour Party’s links to the Muslim grooming gangs in the UK. He has faced all manner of attacks for his work – and it’s time to name names of those responsible for the cover up.”
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/heretics-andrew-gold/id1515932214?i=1000684151286
Good morning, everyone.
Good morning.
Morning, all Y'all. Damp, dark, foggy. Ugh.
Who thinks it would be a good idea to have more (Labour) Welsh politicians?
Waste Watch: The Senedd set to waste £120 million on increasing the number of its members
Dia Chakravarty
15 January 2025 10:00am GMT
The Senedd set to waste £120m on increasing the number of its members
Welcome back to Waste Watch with Dia Chakravarty.
The previous article in this series explored the Senedd’s £8m “International relations” budget. Commenting on that piece, a notably large number of readers expressed their displeasure with Welsh Parliament’s plan to expand the number of its members.
At an estimated cost of between £100 and £120 million over 8 years – an amount which would pay for the starting salaries of just under 500 nurses – the Senedd is set to increase the number of its members from 60 to 96.
“I’m knocking on doors and not hearing people say they want more politicians,” the Conservatives’ Sam Rowlands MS, the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance, told me. His party is the only one with representation at the Senedd which is opposing the expansion plan.
The subject, it seemed, deserved further exploration.
The expansion has been in the pipeline for some time. The Co-operation Agreement between Labour and Plaid Cymru following the 2021 election expressed support for the plan to extend Senedd membership along with the reform of the voting system to one “which is as proportional – or more – than the current one and have [sic] gender quotas in law”.
The proposals to “improve gender balance in the Senedd” included requirements such as these: at least half the candidates on a party’s list in each Senedd constituency must be women; a list must be ordered so that a candidate on a list who is not a woman must be followed immediately by a candidate who is a woman (this, we are helpfully informed, is known as “the vertical placement criteria”); and that the first or only candidate on at least half the lists submitted by a party must be a woman (which is known, apparently, as “the horizontal placement criteria”).
However, last September, the proposals for these quotas were dropped by the Welsh Parliament following legal advice from the Presiding Officer that matters relating to equal opportunities were not a devolved competence. The Senedd would have no legal right to implement these “requirements”.
The bill also risked falling foul of the Equality Act by turning a voluntary provision for political parties to adopt a discriminatory selection arrangement into a legal duty to do so as the Senedd was seeking.
But there was another – more basic – problem with these proposals, which required “all candidates on a party’s list to state either whether they are, or are not, a woman”.
In order to implement this, a fundamental question needed to be answered: what is a woman?
As we have seen in recent years, the politicians who purport to be the loudest advocates for women are also amongst those who find it the most difficult to define a woman.
This was no exception. In a remarkable exchange between Jane Hutt, the Labour Minister for Social Justice who introduced the Bill at the Senedd, and Darren Millar, the now Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, it was revealed that an administration striving to impose a duty of discriminatory selection arrangements on political parties in the name of equality and fairness were not in fact able to articulate who the policy intended to serve.
That woeful exchange seems to be an apt metaphor for this entire expansion plan, with its cheerleaders – seduced by their own grandiosity – having already lost sight of what any of this is meant to deliver for the people of Wales.
Demands for furniture from Members of the Senedd have pushed up the cost of the plan, according to the local press. Modest proposals of replacing the existing chairs and desks in the debating chamber with benches in the style of Westminster or Stormont to accommodate the extra 36 politicians have been rejected by MSs.
“There was a feeling amongst members that that would be a retrograde step, because we’ve got this modern Parliament moving backwards into a House of Commons-style set-up,” according to Hefin David MS, who is in charge of the Budget and governance portfolio.
Perhaps the reporter had found it difficult to hide her incredulity at this response, because Mr David then went on to explain, “the public would be better served by members having their own desk, their own facility, and being able to be viewed and scrutinised individually in the chamber by people in the gallery, and members felt that was..that’s where the costs went up, because to do that for 96 costs a lot more.”
It is a crying shame that ‘gaslighting’ emanates neither heat nor light, or else this grand plan would have paid for itself.
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Of course – more politicians would solve all the problems! Why didn't we think of that before?
"Politics" – from the Greek word poly meaning many and ticks meaning small bloodsucking insects.
Apparently, they will pay for themselves by providing 'more scrutiny'. Nope… me neither.
What do they care? The Welsh don’t foot the bill for it.
Exactly!
Good morning, all. Still dark here. About to leave for, first, the market and the to Wivno. Back about 6 pm (I hope it's earlier).
Thank you for the birthday greeting last evening. Have a jolly day.
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, Bill! 🎂🥂 Have a lovely day!
Happy birthday William. Here's to many more!
Happy Birthday !
Have a very happy birthday Bill! 🎂 🍰🍨🧁🥂🍷🍷💕
Many Happy Returns(from the market) !
Happy birthday Bill, and many more of them!
Wivna in the mist; dead romantic.
Happy birthday.
400243+up ticks,
Morning Each ,
Thursday 16 January: The Prime Minister appears unwilling to prioritise British interests
To OGGA1 and a great many others I would imagine, he is at the gallop successfully quite the opposite,in as far as doing his bit for the WEF / NWO / RESET brigade.
Truly noticeable from the wretch cameron, on to treacherous treasa, then the coloured bloke,on to this political abomination all inching forward towards the RESET goal at the cost of a once decent nation.
400243+up ticks,
Morning Each ,
Thursday 16 January: The Prime Minister appears unwilling to prioritise British interests
To OGGA1 and a great many others I would imagine, he is at the gallop successfully quite the opposite,in as far as doing his bit for the WEF / NWO / RESET brigade.
Truly noticeable from the wretch cameron, on to treacherous treasa, then the coloured bloke,on to this political abomination all inching forward towards the RESET goal at the cost of a once decent nation.
Righteous liberals are the real extremists, not Farage and Musk
The BBC may have us believe that wealthy populists threaten democracy, but in truth it is those willfully ignorant ‘far centrists’
Allison Pearson
15 January 2025 11:58am GMT
Speaking on Radio 4’s Any Questions, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown said Elon Musk mustn’t be allowed to ‘kill liberal democracy’ Credit: Chesnot/Getty Images Europe
We had people coming for dinner on Saturday and I was absorbed in making apple and blackberry crumble (I use the Raymond Blanc recipe which bakes the crumble in the oven separately and avoids a claggy mess sinking into the fruit, but that may be too much innovation for traditionalists). Any Questions came on Radio 4 and, before I could switch it off for blood-pressure-related reasons, I heard the first question. Clearly, the big topic of last week was the Pakistani-origin child-rape gangs and the intolerable suffering of thousands of young white girls which had been brushed under the carpet by officials apparently nervous of appearing racist. (My column on that harrowing story was viewed an astounding 20 million times on X – helped along by a retweet from JD Vance, who becomes vice president of the United States next week and is clearly a fellow of some discernment.)
But the biggest, most savage scandal in British history did not loom large for Any Questions, which was being broadcast from the rarefied precincts of Trinity College, Oxford. The city of dreaming spires could not care less about the perspiring dreams of violated working-class girls; they probably don’t even know Latin, do they?
Anyway, the first poser for the panel was: “What do we do about Musk?” Notice that cosy, conspiratorial “we” and the clear implication that Mr Musk requires something to be done to stop him. The correct question should have been, “Is it right for Elon Musk to intervene in British politics and criticise the handling of the grooming gangs issue? And should we have a national inquiry as he suggests?” Instead, an open debate about the world’s richest man bitterly calling out Labour MP Jess Phillips for rejecting such an inquiry (perhaps to avoid alienating potential Muslim voters, which is another worry) while pointing out disgraceful suppression of the barbaric cases was stifled in best BBC style.
Anyone concerned about the wisdom of some of Musk’s comments, as a lot of people are, but who felt there was a good case that he had, at the very least, catapulted this vital matter to the top of the news agenda when our own politicians avoided it, will have sensed that no such suggestion was either permissible or even respectable. The journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown said hotly that Musk “couldn’t be allowed to kill liberal democracy”. We were, she said, “living in an age when men of a certain persuasion, of a certain power base, have twisted democracies around the world. We should really be thinking about how to counteract it.” Musk, Alibhai-Brown said, was “appealing to different angry groups who are angry because they like to be angry. Democracy as we know it will die in the next 10 years unless we deal with some of these populists with money”.
Did Yasmin include among those dreadful angry people the thousands of traumatised women, suffering PTSD after being gang-raped, who were grateful to Musk for speaking out on their behalf? Who knows? Their views didn’t seem to be welcome at this impeccably liberal high table of broadcast opinion. When another panellist, the Republican commentator Greg Swenson, suggested, quite bravely under the circumstances, that we “do nothing” about Musk because equally powerful people like Mark Zuckerberg had shared opposite political views and exercised censorship on Facebook, Alibhai-Brown exploded. She was not talking about “censorship”, she fumed. (Really? What did she mean by saying we had to “deal” with populists with money before they killed democracy?) There was, she continued, a “jungle of misinformation” thanks to Elon Musk and wanting to stop him was not “censorship – there is public responsibility… big people, rich people, I , you, do not incite and do not destabilise society. Censorship is not what we’re asking for; responsibility is what we are asking for.”
At this, the Oxford audience, bursting with righteous Lib-Demmery, whooped its joyous approval.
Forgive me for reporting this exchange at such length, but it’s important to see how “misinformation” was used gaily to mean “things nice people like me don’t agree with”. No one mentioned which of Musk’s facts were misinformed; he was just “wrong” because he was using his power to highlight matters considered beyond the pale in the echo chamber inhabited by Alibhai-Brown and her ilk.
In fact, democracy, far from being killed by Musk, is in pretty rude health – as we saw this week when a seismic YouGov poll put Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just one point behind Labour and three points ahead of the Conservatives. I reckon those people who told pollsters they favour Reform would have listened to that Any Questions – and much of Radio 4’s output, frankly – with jaws agape. They recoil from almost everything Alibhai-Brown says because that standard-issue, “progressive” Leftish smugness offends their values and – here’s the thing that the Oxford bien-pensant brigade can’t stand – they are perfectly entitled to do so. The only way the liberal elite can process such rank insubordination by their social and intellectual inferiors is to label them “far Right”.
So you can imagine how delighted I was to come across the term “far centre”, which was coined by Prof Jonathan Clark, the leading British historian of the Enlightenment, in a recent lecture. Prof Clark has put his finger on something I have been thinking for a while but struggling to name: it is the centrists who have become much more extreme than the Right. Hence their deeply weird enthusiasm for porous borders through which tumble tens of thousands of young, undocumented males from misogynist cultures so alien to our own. (The migrants don’t know Latin either, but they’re not white so can be forgiven!)
Ditto that bunch’s keen support for telling children they can be born in the wrong body, and prescribing life-changing medication for vulnerable and confused adolescents. Normal people know instinctively that persuading a 15-year-old that it’s a good idea to have a double mastectomy so she can “live her best life”, while taking testosterone which will shrivel her vagina and ovaries, probably rendering her infertile for life and denying her sexual pleasure, is a simply terrible idea. It requires the unsullied purity of the progressive mind of a far-centrist for such mutilation to be considered acceptable, even desirable.
Those people are the extremists, folks, not us. In them we glimpse what happens to the human mind when it becomes untethered from objective reality and common sense. They can, for instance, claim with a straight face that there is a £22 billion black hole in the British economy while, at the same time, allocating £22 billion to a “carbon capture” plan, which may or may not do something to get us to net zero. Still, all the people in the Any Questions audience will feel a warm glow of virtue as pensioners are defrosted, which makes it all worthwhile.
One of the redoubts of the far centre is The Rest is Politics podcast, presented by Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell. This week, the pair were discussing the child-rape gang scandal and Stewart, who not that long ago fancied himself as a Tory prime minister, revealed his shameful ignorance. He appeared to think the attacks happened in only two places, Rotherham and Rochdale (actually it was up to 50 towns and cities), and it was men abusing girls aged between 13 and 16 whom they paid for sex.
Er, no, Rory, it was usually young girls aged 10 to 14, and they weren’t paid – they were the trafficked objects of sadistic sexual torture. I suppose very little can be expected from a pundit who declared with such sublime self-confidence that “I haven’t changed my mind on Kamala Harris winning comfortably” despite those puzzling opinion polls – far-Right conspiracy theories, dontcha know.
Tony Blair’s former spinmeister then chipped in, saying that Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick had repeated calls for a national inquiry because they were “jumping on the Elon Musk bandwagon”. I hope, Campbell said, that “this is just the start in terms of actually beginning to tackle the poison of the far Right as it is amplified through what has become a very personal megaphone for a megalomaniac”.
This reflexive progressive response to any unwelcome proof that their creed of multiculturalism has harmful side effects – deflect, deny, divert – is no longer working, because most people know the centrist dads are talking out of their posteriors. They come across as out-of-touch prats. Most people want a national inquiry into the rape gangs: it’s not far Right, it’s just the right thing to do.
Biden’s far-centrists were rejected in the US just as Starmer’s will be here. They look increasingly ridiculous. Offhand, I find it hard to think of any big issues – from phasing out petrol cars to pronouns to immigration – on which the majority of the population currently agrees with Labour. Failure to even acknowledge people’s concerns explains why Reform is up 10 points since the general election and Labour has plummeted nine with more humiliation to come.
Two of my good friends texted separately over Christmas to say they had joined Reform. They are far from the crude, knuckle-dragging stereotype of the “far Right”: one is a GP, the other a banker. Both said they wanted to DO SOMETHING to push back and help their country. They are even thinking of standing as candidates. According to Alibhai-Brown and her patronising, snotty class, such people are Right-wing bigots who support misinformation and “destabilising society”. Like hell they are. The days of the deluded centrists are nearly over – they went too far. Far too far. Now, the Right must pull us back from extremism. Any Questions should heed their answers.
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Lovely Dovely
17 hrs ago
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The Guardian has had day after day after day how we stop Musk's and Zuckerberg's "disinformation". Zuckerberg was a darling only a few months ago. The EU is also after stopping him and the BBC is fully onboard. No real examples are given of this disinformation – it is just taken as plain fact that it exists and is corrupting the minds of the voters and therefore democracy. Funny how megastars like Beyonce, Oprah Winfrey and famous actors spouting off at the Oscars and all without exception endorsing Harris for millions of dollars don't corrupt democracy but Musk's tweets do. Saw it with the Brexit vote – if people start thinking the wrong way then that must be down to nefarious forces who must be stopped. The rape gang tweet reaction is no different. edited
Allison Pearson
Telegraph
14 hrs ago
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"If fascism ever comes for America it will come in the name of liberalism."
Ronald Reagan.
Extremely prescient.
Nigel Robinson
19 hrs ago
If you believe in net zero, if you believe mass, uncontrolled immigration is good for the country, if you believe we can only survive by rejoining the EU, then I consider your views to not only be those of an extremist, but of a dangerous extremist.
Zuckerberg was all the angels in heaven until he decided to pull back a bit on the censorship and binned Cleggover.
He's still bloody weird – but rich with it.
"We were, she said, “living in an age when men of a certain persuasion, of a certain power base, have twisted democracies around the world. We should really be thinking about how to counteract it.”" She doesn't do irony, does she? Muslims fit that description to a T..
Putin ‘plotting worldwide terror against airlines’. 16 January 2025.
The prime minister of Poland has warned that Russia is plotting “air terror” against the West, following the discovery of incendiary devices on cargo planes across Europe.
“All I can say – and I will not go into details, but I can confirm the validity of these fears – is that Russia has been planning acts of air terror, and not only against Poland, but against airlines all over the world,” Donald Tusk told reporters on Wednesday.
When compared to his western counterparts Vladimir Putin’s stature both as man and a politician towers above them all. We have here a statement by the Prime Minister of Poland that can only be a fabrication. Worse it is a stupid fabrication. Since there is no possibility of it being true it can only be designed to darken the reputation of Russia.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/15/putin-plotting-worldwide-terror-against-airlines/
Up there with deadly poisons known only to a handful of natives deep in the Amazon jungle.
Those fires in warehouses were lithium batteries in devices sent from China. Nothing to do with Russia.
Boeing doesn't need any help in crashing their planes. They manage that themselves.
Good morning.
Can Donald Tusk ever be trusted? He went to the dark side of the Brussels/Strasbourg gravy train years ago and his willing to spout any old nonsense for the cause.
No !
No. He's got the face he deserved at fifty.
400243+ up ticks,
More lab/lib/con coalition party future councillors in full rhetorical flight.
https://x.com/AshleaSimonBF/status/1879521142467379708
Currently averaging 900 per week though a bit chilly at the moment. Should pick up nicely after February elections in Germany.
Just reading an email from Save teh Parish that other NOTTLers will have had a few days ago as well.
"Emma Thompson, a member of our Steering Committee, has written an excellent article in The Times which you can read here. It concludes with these excellent words:
“We need someone who wants to spend time loving and caring for the “downstairs church”. By this, I mean the local places where people actually participate in and fund the Church. The “upstairs church” of bishops, bureaucracy and bluster has become inward-looking and detached from the parishes. It has grown on an indefensible scale. We need a parish-facing, pastoral archbishop, someone with the willingness and leadership ability to halve the “upstairs church”, scaling it back to a more appropriate and affordable level of overheads. There might then be some hope of reversing the decline that has been accelerated from within.”
The Times article is behind a paywall
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/justin-welby-successor-church-safeguarding-wdmgkbk37?mc_cid=07de71b8e4
She's spot on though!
Yes , spot on , indeed.
We were remarking on Sunday that the grass-roots church is growing; it's the hierarchy that's stagnating.
They’re doing their best to put people off the church!
All part of the plan, it seems.
Too many people in the church have absorbed the propaganda over the years and talk it down, almost apologising for being Christians.
We need some muscular Christians. I won’t hold my breath.
Good Moaning.
To be more precise Grey Moaning.
A BTL comment in the Tellygraff that made me laugh in a trench humour sorta way.
"The UK today is like mum throwing out dad because he didn’t put out the bins and moves in her crystal meth boyfriend….."
Clear skies here!
All be it with half a degree of frost.
Good morning all.
A dry and bright clear start to the day with the trees behind the ex-Pub opposite is being illuminated by the rising sun,
But as ever, the clear sky has brought a dip into frost with a low of -0.3°C when I took the milk bottle out. Yesterday's maximum was 8.9°C.
The House of the Rising Sun?
Never to miss an opportunity here's my version https://app.box.com/s/tjusq8c1ha0q7ak298t2
A long article, but it needs circulating.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/15/starmer-selling-britain-down-river-like-no-pm-before-him/
"Starmer’s revolting betrayal will never be forgiven
This Labour Government is acting against the British national interest. It cares more about ‘human rights’ than about its own citizens
Allister Heath15 January 2025 7:22pm GMT
Donald Trump will put America first. Sir Keir Starmer wants to put Britain last. The US and UK are separated not just by a common language but by an irreconcilable disagreement about the purpose of politics. The rush to betray Chagos, the flirtation with energy blackouts, our deranged immigration policy, the sheer, unmitigated awfulness of Starmer’s Government: it all makes sense when you grasp this fundamental dichotomy.
Right versus Left is passé: the great dividing line of 2025 pits civic nationalists against global technocrats. The former – including great democracies such as the US, Israel, India and Argentina – believe that elected officials’ principal moral and fiduciary duty is to their country, citizens and constituents. The latter – led by Starmerite Britain and Justin Trudeau’s Canada – are convinced their responsibility is to “the planet”, “human rights”, “international law” and the “liberal international order.”
Trump cares about “his” people; the technocrats care about people in general. Abstractions are dangerous in real-world politics, and often lead to the warping of great ideals. Starmer is actually well-meaning, a true-believer in the righteousness of his mission, but his moral compass is drastically out of whack with that of most British citizens.
Labour is deliberately pursuing policies that go against the UK’s national interest, not by mistake or because it has no choice but because it believes them to be the right thing to do. The modern Labour party, unlike Clement Attlee’s, is convinced that it should sacrifice Britain’s self-interest for a bizarre version of the global “common good”. It is not so much post national as anti-national. It believes that putting Britain first – even in a liberal, moderate sense – would be not merely unseemly but selfish and unethical.
The interests of the rest of the world must at all times be valued more highly than those of British citizens. Why? Because it is “their turn”, and because there is nothing worse than nationalism. We used and abused the world to enrich ourselves, the progressives believe, so now is the time to “give back”. We must “compensate” those we “oppressed”: this is why we should return the Elgin marbles, and anything else of value in our museums. It is why we should simply accept the hideous decision to hand Gerry Adams taxpayer-funded compensation.
The British state must maximise “global welfare”, even if this comes at the cost of reducing our “national welfare.” This applies to foreign aid, but also to immigration. We should welcome large numbers of lowish skilled migrants, even if they end up costing the Exchequer more over their lifetimes than they contribute in tax, or otherwise reducing the well being of current UK citizens.
Why? Because poor migrants gain greatly from moving here, and this is deemed to more than cancel out the losses inflicted upon the rest of the population: it’s a peculiar form of post-national utilitarian calculus.
The messianic zeal of this woke, post-Christian secular religion is familiar. Britain sinned – we were imperialists (like almost everybody else in history), the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution (in fact one of our greatest gifts to mankind) and we engaged in slavery (like almost every other civilisation, and even though we were the first to seek to end the abhorent practice). We must therefore repent, engage in self-flagellation, commit to change and achieve redemption through self-sacrifice.
The Government must sell us down the river to achieve this, the zealots insist. Britain must lead the world on net zero, even if it is a form of economic self-harm that devastates our industry, impoverishes our consumers and reduces our quality of life. With poorer economies prioritising growth, our efforts are too small to have any impact on global emissions, but this doesn’t matter. We need to put the planet first, at any cost and even if it doesn’t work. It’s a moral imperative. Post-nationalism is based on deontological, rather than consequentialist, precepts.
The “progressive realists” at the heart of our Government are horrified by Trump’s plan to buy Greenland to “make America even greater”; they cheer as Britain will pay £9 billion it cannot afford to an ally of China to sweeten our inane surrender of the Chagos, one of our last overseas territories.
The absurdity is that we aren’t truly “helping the world” or “repaying our debts”. We are merely aiding the Chinese, the most regressive, fascistic power on earth. We are jeopardising global security by threatening the viability of a key Western military base. We are falsifying history by pretending that Mauritius is entitled to Chagos. There is nothing actually forcing us to give up Chagos. We are imbuing the International Court of Justice’s nonsense advisory opinions with legitimacy they don’t deserve. Its president, who oversaw a ruling against Israel, has just become Lebanon’s Prime Minister; so much for the ICJ’s supposed neutrality. We are genuflecting to the United Nations, an equally pernicious body.
Labour and their technocratic allies despise national sovereignty, and believe that “global” institutions, however dysfunctional, amateurish or corrupt, are inherently superior to our national institutions. It’s a case of global good, national bad. “International law” may not really exist, but it is deemed to trump the real law produced in our ancient courts or Parliament.
All of this is embraced enthusiastically by some young British progressives. They believe in their own variant of “British exceptionalism”: we are the one nation willing to put ourselves last, to embrace radical altruism, to sacrifice our greatest assets, and that makes us better than anybody else. It has allowed many of them to develop a new form of patriotism: they love how much their vision of Britain loves others.
Yet Labour’s embrace of radical anti-nationalism will end in tears, just as it has for its other advocates. Speaking in 2015, Trudeau argued that Canada might become the “first post-national state”. He said: “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.” Angela Merkel’s decision to open her countries’ borders for ethical reasons backfired just as spectacularly.
Gad Saad, the Canadian psychologist, believes that those who prioritise the well-being of others above their own have fallen foul to “suicidal empathy”, the title of his forthcoming book. The revenge of the British electorate, when it eventually comes, will be pitiless."
suicidal empathy.. Exactement for this dim Belgian progressive.
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I don't understand.. Je ne comprends pas.. I invite 100 low IQ violent male Africans onto my land and it turns in Lagos overnight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5tT5Hiq80
No sympathy whatsoever.
We've had 30 years of this shit.
(Literally)
Good morning Anne ,
Labour just cannot get away from that appalling FEED THE WORLD mantra .
I fear that modern British generations have lost the will to identify with our national sovereignty.
Why, because the majority of the newer generations have travelled overseas , whether by coach , ship, car, bike , plane … with passports and a copy of the Lonely Planet , and embraced the freedoms that Globalism has provided .
No, it isn't because of foreign travel (I've travelled the world, but I'm not a globalist), it's because they have been consistently brainwashed. The rewriting of our history as something to be ashamed of is relentless. Feed the world? The way they're going, Labour won't even be able to feed the UK.
I keep reading that this will never be forgotten or forgiven, but come the next election (should one be held) the idiots will troop into the voting booths to put their X next to a Labour candidate, expecting something different to happen.
Today’s FSB article, by Jacqui Derriman looks at Rupert Lowe , arguably the most impressive of Reform’s MPs, and tells us about his background and beliefs. She’s persuaded me. He has my vote. What do you think?
Yesterday, Zhang YingYue argued that the Globalists are using stratagems, from his book ‘ The Art of War ’, to bring about Global government. If you missed it, it might help you understand your enemy.
Energy watch 07.45. Demand: 41.2GW. Supply: Hydrocarbons 55.6%; Wind 20.5%; Imports 3.7%; Biomass 5.7% and Nuclear 8.5%
Today at 08.00 we are importing power from Norway, Ireland and Northern Island, classed as foreign, while exporting it to France, Belgium and Denmark. Gas is again generating nearly 60% of our electric power, solar zero. Net Zero = ruin, but yesterday the foaming zealot, in his mad rush to push UK to the brink so he can claim to be ‘leading the world’ pushed trough a boiler tax with no debate or parliamentary scrutiny. This is a dictatorial government with no mandate for its actions.
freespeechbacklash.com
Surely he can only have your vote if you live in the constituency for which he is standing.
He has my vote as the real deal.
The petition to abolish non crime hate incidents now has 21,563 signatures!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701051
Done.
Definitely done.
Good morning Nottlers, 6°C, clear skies and a light southerly breeze on the Costa Clyde. I'm off to the dentist shortly. Having broken a bit of tooth off a previously filled molar – eating cheese and crackers on Sunday, this never happened to Wallace – my dentist managed to fit me in on Monday afternoon for the once over (and estimate!) and conveniently had a vacancy this morning. So good timing, or fortunately my piggy bank was solvent I'll be whole again by 11am.
Morning Feargal
Thick fog here , 4c. Dull and horrible.
Moh played golf yesterday, it was a cold day, but at some point of the morning he ate a sausage roll, and he found something crunchy as he chewed , his previously filled rear molar .. so dental appointment tomorrow .
I am pleased you are being sorted quickly , and I hope your tooth can be saved , I doubt Moh's will be saved though, because it looks like a shattered mess.
So did J's. But the dentist will do something to repair the remains.
The good news (for me) is that the tooth can be saved. Either by an expensive crown, or by a supported filling. I’ve gone for option two, with the worst case scenario being that I return at a later date for a crown.
A cold day – it is possible that the filling contracted with the cold air being drawn in especially opening the mouth to talk. It was probably on its last legs and the cold air was the last weakening straw.
Similar happened to my OH – he's getting an expensive crown done.
The expensive crown was offered (£500) but I’ve opted for the ‘more popular’ choice of a supported filling (£250). Time will tell if it’s a false economy.
£500 sounds a good deal for a crown in these 'ere parts.
Probably depends on how sound the base of the tooth is.
It seems the tooth was sound enough. The dentist removed the previous metal filling and replaced it with some robust compound that bonds with the tooth and can be shaped to look natural. Suffice to say, the only pain felt through the 50 minute appointment was that of having to listen to bBC Radio 1. My next checkup is booked for 19 Jan 2026, if I'm spared.
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Your Prime Minister in Ukraine. The sheer naffness of it.
Oh my goodness, what a gay tight t-shirt pic .
Everything he does seems to be set up and designed to take the micky (polite) out of the British public.
SIR — It seems Sir Keir Starmer isn’t inclined to prioritise British interests.
Not content with pushing for a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands, along with large sums funded by taxpayers for the next 99 years, he has now paved the way for compensation to be paid to Gerry Adams (report, January 15), the leader of a terrorist gang that murdered British soldiers and civilians.
John Mounsey
Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire
When Charles I's actions were deemed to have not been in the best interests of the country, he was executed.
When William "Lord Haw-Haw" Joyce's actions were deemed similar, he was hanged.
I propose that the actions, since July 5, 2024, of the current prime minister (bogus pre-election promises, accepting gifts of designer clothes, releasing violent offenders to make room for political opponents, paying foreign countries to take British territory, levying punitive taxes on small businesses, treating farmers like kulaks, trashing the economy …) follow that same treacherous pathway.
It seems he has run out of rope. Where can we find a sturdy enough length to do a decent job for the people of the UK.
I don't know if they do history in Norway, but I was taught that Charles I was not hanged; he had his head cut off.
They were civilised then.
Indeed he was executed in time-honoured fashion, mea culpa on that.
As for Norway, you'd better ask someone who lives there. Paul would be a good start.
Where did I get it in my head that you lived in Norway? It must be the beard and catskin headwear. Of course, its Obersleutnant.
I'm his next-door-neighbour (in the EU).
Apparently he walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.
More air miles for TT/FG/NH Kier!
Is that a real photo of a pillock in a black T shirt or AI-generated?
edit: assume it's AI because the Ukraine flag is next to Starmer
Is that a real photo of a pillock in a black T shirt or AI-generated?
edit: assume it's AI because the Ukraine flag is next to Starmer
Why is there a Ukrainian flag in front of him?? Surely that should be in front of Ukraine's rep at the meeting??
He is the Ukrainian rep. He doesn't represent the UK.
Starmer is truly a cretin. He is pledging UK support, for Ukraine, whatever that might entail, in perpetuity. Where has this fool been for the past three years?
In a month or two there will no longer be a viable Ukrainian state. There will possibly remain a small rump of land in the west and this will comprise a population of disaffected people with different languages and allegiances viz. Romanian, Hungarian and Polish.
Anyone with half a brain has already decided that Ukrainian leaders are utterly corrupt and compromised following decades of underhand deals with the west and its international corporations. They have presided over the deaths and injuries of more than a million of their countrymen in pursuit of selling out to Blackrock and the rest.
Involvement of the UK and EU in funding Biden’s proxy war has proven to have consequences which predictably have stripped Europe of its cheap energy supply and caused the de-industrialisation of Germany.
The advent of Trump will expose these fools and hopefully lead to a series of regime changes in countries such as UK, France, Germany and others.
Thing is, Starmer appears to lack even half a brain.
Right, that's me getting dressed for a trip to Stoke to see Stepson.
Might dip in before I leave, but if not then TTFN.
Good Luck.
And yes, you are up there with the angels.
400243+ up ticks,
Aided & abetted ALL the way via the polling stations with the tribal voter determined to see their party in office regardless of consequence, we are witnessing the result of continuous party before Country voting.
Observe ALL our own work. https://x.com/GoldingBF/status/1879574294583300392
Morning all – cold and foggy here.
Morning all 🙂😊
Foggy cold and wet that's what we get for being British and a useless government to go with it.
Why can't the crown step in, send the army into Wastemonster and clear it out. Then make them reapply for the vacant positions.
They tried that last July, and look where it got us.
They'd be better off putting the heart of Government in Slough. … Actually, not such a bad idea, within easy reach of Windsor Castle, with excellent transport links to the civilised world beyond the M25, and of course Legoland for a bit of intellectual development.
Slough….a muddy wetland.
And close to Eaton
Eaton is in Cheshire – just sayin'.
Windsor racecourse has also brought back jump racing. What's not to like?
Good morning, all. Damp, overcast and calm.
The abyss, where the UK is headed. Beautiful as a vision of Nature but a frightening destination to contemplate.
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So true, yes I thought the same .
Good morning Korky.
And wearing lead boots.
Reposted from late last night
Thursday 16th January 2025
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Bill,
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We hope that you have a marvellous day!
With love from
Caroline and Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCsYSS6ddT4
Grattis på födelsedagen. Hope it's a good 'un.👍🏻🍷🎂
Happy Birthday Bill – have a great day 🍻
Many, many, many, many congratulations, Young William.
Love and kisses
Dame Celia Molestrangler
xxx
Happy Birthday, Bill!! Singing from the rooftops of Buenos Aires in what I think is the right direction (things do get complicated in your bit of Narfulk, as I remember! 🤣)
Katy x
Enjoy the market, Bill. Oh, and Happy Birthday, too. 🥳🎂🥳
Happy Birthfday Bill. Enjoy your day.
Happy Birthday, BT.
I hope you enjoyed Wivenhoe, despite the potholes.
What a lovely voice!
And a happy birthday to you.
Uncle Bill's Birthday today I see.
Have a lovely day today Bill, take care don't over do it take it easy
🤩😊🐱🐈🥂🍾 best wishes to you and yours for a lovely day.
Quelle surprise!
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1879495592889794986
No chance of her staying in UK to sort out the mess she’s caused? She must be rivalling Never Here Starmer in racking up the air miles??
Be fair, Bleau. Allow her to trot out her string of lies
A) She doesn't have the first effing clue as to how to sort out the mess she has caused. She was and still is too damned stupid to see that the consequent mess was inevitable.
B) She and Starmer are desperate for a smoke screen to hide the fact that they and Mandelson are banned from D.C. for the inauguration.
C) With Starmer's assurance that she will remain 'Chancellor for the duration of this Parliament', she realises that it's time to start job hunting – only the sort of nutters who attend Davos would give her a second look (as would Bob of Bonsall but that's for different reasons and he'd be doing it for England)
Seriously? What problems could (or would) the Playmobile sort out?
WEF, manipulation mongers, the causes of many problems.
Reeves shouldn't bother coming home again.
…after which I shall return to inform the House of the financial policies we shall follow for the remainder of this government's term in office.
The Daily Mail is crying crocodile tears over the decline of Slough town centre, and every single person quoted in the article is white and British.
This is absolute BS – Slough has one of the highest migrant populations in the country, but apparently migrants musn't be associated with decay and decline, drug dealers and poo on every street corner and vape and betting shops. The mentality that covered up for the predominantly muslim rape gangs for so long is clearly alive and well.
In the pictures, you can clearly see the pedestrianised town centre that is apparently dead.
The only affordable parking in the town centre when I worked there was a Tesco car park which is on the other side of the huge London road from the shops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jnN5anoWqU
John Betjeman had a soft spot for Slough. I remember it as having one of the finest collection of mid-20th century commercial architecture anywhere in England, and should be listed.
"Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!"
Probably as much a desire today had he survived this long.
That would have created a £22 black hole?
Provided Poundland was still standing.
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Slough
: a place of deep mud or mire
(1)
: SWAMP
(2)
: an inlet on a river
also : BACKWATER
(3)
: a creek in a marsh or tide flat
2
: a state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection
Come, friendly bombs …
The Daily Mail is crying crocodile tears over the decline of Slough town centre, and every single person quoted in the article is white and British.
This is absolute BS – Slough has one of the highest migrant populations in the country, but apparently migrants musn't be associated with decay and decline, drug dealers and poo on every street corner and vape and betting shops. The mentality that covered up for the predominantly muslim rape gangs for so long is clearly alive and well.
In the pictures, you can clearly see the pedestrianised town centre that is apparently dead.
The only affordable parking in the town centre when I worked there was a Tesco car park which is on the other side of the huge London road from the shops.
https://x.com/SpeddingCharlie/status/1879814745987141862
https://i7.cmail20.com/ei/j/95/971/45C/csimport/Screenshot2025-01-15at17.10.04.171020.png ‘Oh hell, it’s already falling apart!’
And nothing planned, they'll make it up as they go along.
It is a visually horrible and depressing place but when I worked there it was very prosperous – everyone had a job – and there was a certain energy to it. People who were born there were fond of the place.
The most fascinating evening I have ever spent in my life was a guided tour of the Mars factory, seeing mars bars being manufactured. Also every time you passed the factory there was a wonderful smell of hot sugar. The sugar gets delivered by tanker lorry into huge silos. I’m just very disappointed that when I saw the factory, the malteser machines weren’t in operation!
From the days when we were still allowed to laugh.
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Ha ha bluudy Ha Ha!
Paris’s Gaité Lyrique theatre was long famed for staging operettas by Offenbach and seen as a jewel in the French capital’s cultural crown.
But on Wednesday night, the cancan had been replaced by the clatter of tam-tams and tom toms as migrants chanted through megaphones on the steps of the 19th-century edifice, shouting: “Shame on this power who declares war on unaccompanied minors.”
Rather than crates of champagne, helpers carried boxes of fruit and vegetables into the theatre while volunteer doctors offered medical care in an outdoor tent.
For the past five weeks, the migrants have been occupying the Gaité.
It all started when Left-wing management staged a free conference on “reinventing the refugee welcome in France” on Dec 10.
More than 200 migrants showed up.
However, when the event, whose speakers included Red Cross officials and eminent academics, came to a close, the migrants refused to leave and have been occupying the building ever since.
Their numbers have swelled to around 350 and the venue, a digital arts and contemporary music hub, is now on the verge of bankruptcy due to cancelled events."
I wouldn't mind betting the migrants are performing the Khan Khan!!
Morning to all, yes I read that too. Made me want to weep it did. The poor naïve innocent wokies running that theatre, so confusing for them when in their heads all people they believe in are shot through with goodness and brimming over with gratitude 😆
Such a plotline is as old as the hills.
I remember the old British comedy, made in early 1960s starring Peter Sellers and Eric Sykes about a well-meaning and radical Brummie vicar opening his new parish up to a family of travellers, who did very well nicking the lead off the church roof.
The French wouldn't heed a British cultural production.
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1879692890185793569
Shirley the good people of Denmark could vote in a leader to carefully negotiate behind closed doors the handing over 90 odd million kroner per year for the pleasure.. all for a small back-hander.
90 mill DKK isn't much. Per capita, now you're beginning to talk!
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Only four days to go.
Donald the Orange!
Replacing
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Yes please.
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The installers are still busy next door installing the new heat pump system – they started on Monday. It's costing an absolute fortune of course.
From experience your neighbours will be switching their hot water tank thermostat on around three pm.
She’s complained for years about the high electricity bill. Of course, she doesn’t have to pay for a tankful of oil every now and then but even so her costs are more than ours. She’s got a small woodburner as well so at least she can keep that room warm with a fire.
My next door naeighbour who works in the business has installed one. He reckons it only made sense if yoiu get the kit at cost and install it yourself which is what he did as part of a larger plumbing update and remodelling of his home.
Our neighbour’s house is an old cottage with a modern kitchen extension that had underfloor heating put in when built. She’s having work done on the radiators too. It’s replacing the old heat pump system her ex had installed before he left in 2015. All costing in excess of £20 grand.
But…. with out a massive amount of heat, where will all the new bricks roof tiles, porcelain tiles, copper piping, copper wire, plastics. Glass etc etc etc come from from ?
Our political idiots do not have the remotest clue.
We know that, theymust know that. So, what, really is going on in Ed moribund’s world. And the rest of Parliament.
We know that because we have experience of the real world. Politicians, not so much.
They believe that if, for example, they repeal the Laws of Thermodynamics and replace them with a series of fantasy laws that their fantasies will become factual and enforceable.
We must never foreget or forgive.
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1879784326294020223
Disgusting. Just shows, unfortunately, how compliant some people were.
'Morning All
I'm shocked shocked I tell you…….
So the Oldham Hospital attacker has appeared at court.
Named widely by the legacy media as Roman Haque.
He gives his name as Mohammed Roman Haque.
Why leave out the Mohammed?
Just when you thought you couldn't despise the MSM more
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Who’s the person pictured?
https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1879448934789378235
What could possibly go wrong, especially in countryside areas. A few years ago Amazon were promoting delivery by drones. Don't think that one ever got off the ground (ta-boom…here most days)….
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And soon as.
Meanwhile, back at Stoma Mansions ………
How many others…
It’s just an incantation, isn’t it? To be chanted without thought, by the ignorant oiks who don’t possess a brain, or a backbone
Today I have posted on twitter to both Elon Musk and Rupert Lowe asking them to investigate the role of the sinister "Common Purpose" in the Pakirape cover-up social workers,police and councillors are deeply infiltrated by this dodgy outfit the MSM must be too because it seems to be a taboo subject…
Meanwhile Medley Time
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Please, Cur Stoma,
Could we have lots more enrichment. Our lives before the invasion of pig ignorant third world peasants was just sooooo dull.
"She lived with the 34-year-old defendant – who listened to the trial via a Punjabi interpreter – in her mother's flat in Windsor, Berkshire, which was in a squalid condition."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14288935/Mother-not-told-police-husband-sexually-abusing-daughter-cultural-differences.html
(Not behind the pay wall)
I would defend a wife's right not to have to incriminate her husband. It is a privileged position, similar to a solicitor, doctor, priest or parent. Statutory violation of such confidences undermined the very institutions that hold society together, and smacks of Orwell's spies in '1984', when no-one can be trusted, least of all anyone obliged to snitch to the Party. It used to be called "sneaking" when I was at school and very bad form.
Voluntary disclosure is another matter, and yes the Prosecution can always ask, and of course juries can deduce what they will from any refusal to disclose..
I disagree. She must have known what was happening.
I think she should be buried up to the neck and then stoned to death.
A truly prejudicial response which I thought went out with Magna Carta and the trial of witches.
There are laws about self-incrimination as there are about privileged information upon which justice must rely.
All it would need is for a social worker to gather evidence on suspicion that the child was being mistreated, and for that evidence to be tested in court. There would be no need to call the mother or rely on her to testify against her husband unless she chooses to.
One of the side effects of the PIEcampaign in the 1970s to lower the age of consent would also have enabled the child herself to press charges, or to consider whether that is on balance in her best interests. All too often a child in care or undergoing the trauma of legal proceedings, along with heavy emotional manipulation in conflicting directions, is treated worse than one by over-liberal, inadequate or offending parents, and this must be taken into account.
The Children Act does indeed consider the paramount concerns of the child in the light of his or her age and understanding, and thus the concept of child consent well established in law. I know from my own experience how this principle can be perverted by parental manipulation, but it is surely better than completely shutting out children from justice.
Where muslims are concerned i don’t give a fuck.
You want to be subject to Shariah law? You sound like a Lib Dem.
You presume much, and claim the right to bear false witness.
Sorry. The child comes first.
She didn't get a choice of mother.
The mother did get a choice of psycho to shack up with.
Same goes for Sadiq Khan & that Tottenham Turnip.. don't disrespect The Office.
Michelle Obama don't do no fake. She's never been fake and she's never been phony. She's always been very deliberate about where and how she shows up
Who bin disrespectin’ Big Mike?
Especially when s-he changed he-r name from Michael
The more they tell us that Michelle Obama isn't fake, the more …
https://x.com/Ruth_Evershed19/status/1879824011842187389
I wish I hadn't read that.
Thanks for the heads-up, dear Connors – I won't! Doesn't this have a Heseltinian whiff about it?
Hard to believe that pill poppin nonce Ivor Caplin was once the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence.
Then again, he is one of the Us Labours.
Anyhow, funny how last week he was caught red-handed tiddily-fiddling.. arrested & bailed.. and yet he's back on his devices and on the prowl again via X.
Unlike, say, Catholic Caroline Farrow journalist & writer who was;
arrested in front of children,
put in jail,
all devices taken for 16 months,
took all children's devices,
arrested a 2nd time because trans claimnant demanded it.
then stalking protection order.
then a ban from internet.
assigned her an offender manager meaning even texting her mum required permission.
given an order that allows police to enter home between 8am to 8pm to check devices.
All because a trans claimant said she was the type of person that could have posted a nasty meme on a forum.
Then again, she's an enemy of the Us Labours.
Is there anyone in UK politics who can rid us of this foul cancer?
Why would you want to do that? Growth is good, so we are told.
Is there anyone in UK politics who can rid us of this foul cancer?
Warmer today. Got a team cutting down trees at the entrance so I can have fibre installed. I hope my bank balance can stand it.
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I've just had the builder round to see about fixing my barge board and the guttering on my garage. Bank balance prepare to take a hit! Necessary work, though.
https://x.com/BestYet1111/status/1879780201695216096
Horrific.
Where are the Activists???
Well to be fair Oriane Filhol is still in hospital.. but once she has recovered she'll be there with a placard. (Can't fix stoopid).
A left-wing politician who campaigned for the rights of migrants was brutally beaten by a gang of ‘North African’ men yards from her own front door in France.
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This is how we learn.
And to be brutally honest whilst not wishing this on any person I would sooner it was her rather than and ordinary woman going about her business.
Schadenfreude!
There is nothing you can do about this sort of behaviour, it is built in to Islam and thus part of the psyche of all Islamists. Some choose to act on it, the majority don't. It boils down to the fact that if you are a kafir you are basically non-human and to be disposed of as your Islamic owner wishes. If you are a Jew, Christian, or Zoroastrian, you are marginally better off. If not, then you are worth no more than a dog and not worthy of any consideration.
Lower than cattle, as the koran puts it.
The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017.[1][10][11] It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking people[12] who are indigenous to Kurdistan who practice Yazidism, a monotheistic Iranian ethnoreligion derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidi_genocide
Courtesy of the Religion of Peace.
Coming to a town near you. Soon.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/940208630/nothing-left-in-the-world-except-these-bones-yazidis-search-for-mothers-remains
Horrible.
It's well past time this vile repulsive and fake religious set up was completely banned in the modern world.
With Specially selected photographs regarding diversity.
Westminster has to have one of the highest crime rates.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/the-london-boroughs-with-the-highest-crime-rates/ar-AA1xg9rA?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=8b63b44d0557499993e7dbf34b87c0f9&ei=43
Morning all. Bit late, almost afternoon but another dull day here. More Chihuly came into my feed and I thought I would post another to brighten the day, especially for ashesthandust. So Chihuly with my favorite architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Wish this was my home!
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Thank you! I shall save it to watch later, as I have a rather full day today. (I already had quite a few commitments, but have woken up needing to work on a portrait on the go…)
I am so pleased to hear you are still painting! You are such a talented lady! My Poppie portraits fill me with delight and make me smile every time I look at them! They are the first thing I see every morning, they are alongside my mirror in the bedroom.
Katie painted Dolly for me. She got her character just right.
There is an extra dimension you simply do not get with a photograph. They are a joy!
Oh, how lovely to hear! I am so glad they give you such pleasure, and feel so honoured that they’re the first thing you see in the morning!
I needed the fillip, too – really struggling with my subject’s eyes. Normal, but particularly frustrating as she has extraordinarily beautiful and noticeable eyes so I can’t afford to get them wrong…
I’m sure you’ll get them right and do them justice, Katie, even if you think you haven’t. The intended recipient will see the truth and beauty. My Poppie portraits really do set me up for the day, they bring back other memories of that time in our life too.
Oh, how lovely to hear they give you such pleasure. I feel so honoured that they’re the first thing you see in the morning. 🙂
I needed the fillip, too – thank you. I’m struggling with my subject’s eyes, which is normal but particularly frustrating as they are extraordinarily beautiful and noticeable so I can’t afford to bugger them up…
Someone somewhere.. I can't find the link.. did an AI query about PakiRape gangs in Bradford and such was/is the widespread nature amongst male perps that analytical evidence suggested every single family would have known.
So much for moderate Muslims.
So if they are all deported (as has been suggested), Bradford should be an attractive town for white-flighters?
As long as they were prepared to shovel shed loads of…erm…, or pay someone else to do so.
The nurse
Having coffee after making seven jars, mixed sizes, of marmalade. I made four and a bit jars on Tuesday from the Seville oranges I bought last Friday. Latest batch is not for the aficionados e.g. Paddington et al. as I had to improvise: some of my Seville oranges went orf and to make up the shortfall I used a lemon – the juice of a second went into the mix as per recipe – and a large pink grapefruit.
Cooked up well, looks good and tastes fine.
As per winos: notes of grapefruit on the palate with the tartness of Seville underlying its character and a long lemony finish if you happen to bite on a lemon shred.😉
I suppose MI5, MI6 and divers other 'snoops' could replace the NSA over here.
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Marmalade sounds good. Just ordered some Seville oranges to make some.
I made marmalade for the first time last year. I’ve made jam and fruit jelly for years and after trying some of Elsie’s delicious marmalade I thought I’d have a go.
Main shortcoming was with the shreds i.e. too large, too many in the jars and if the jars aren’t turned upside down and /or shaken before setting, the shreds settle at the top. Taste from the Sevilles was excellent, though. I tried other oranges but they didn’t have that bitterness that sets Seville oranges apart.
I also made lemon marmalade and that turned out fine but I learned that lemons cook much more readily than Sevilles and if I go that way again I will reduce the cooking time by at least a half.
Elsie gave you marmalade?
I'm not jealous. Uh ah. No sirree….
Grapefruit makes scrummy marmalade.
The basic yellow ones, none of that fancy pink stuff.
I used to make some every January but I hardly eat any of it and my OH has cut back on it for some reason so not making any this time. I do put a lemon in with the oranges.
Ed Davey confirming what many people think of him.
His cure for his anti-Trump mania is, of course, so obvious that no prizes are on offer for getting the answer correct.
BTL is not kind to Mr Ed – more sense coming from a talking horse IMO.
https://x.com/EdwardJDavey/status/1879854274559046138
How do people like mad Ed come to these bizarre conclusions? What evidence does he have as the basis for them? Why are people never challenged over such statements?
Okey Dokey Ed.. let's play along with your silly 6th formers games.
Let's depend on diversity for yr security? LOL.
Let's depend on EU for yr prosperity? LOL.
Let's depend on NHS & the lazy & the feckless & the unions & the civil service for your economy? LOL.
Okey Dokey Ed.. let's play along with your silly 6th formers games.
Let's depend on diversity for yr security? LOL.
Let's depend on EU for yr prosperity? LOL.
Let's depend on NHS & the lazy & the feckless & the unions & the civil service for your economy? LOL.
It's one thing being a deluded nutter; advertising it to the world is another dimension entirely.
You'd think a man of his age would have grown out of 6th Form Politics by now.
But, then again, he is a LibDem so such things are to be expected.
Oh dear.
Stick to cracked pavements and dog poo bins, duckie.
The day that anyone in parliament actually achieves anything worth while or to the benefit of the British public it will be a miracle.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/yvette-cooper-set-to-announce-government-backed-inquiries-into-grooming-gangs/ar-AA1xj8X1?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f9d993390d46401aa1af573b5f340fe4&ei=76
https://x.com/JennyGorml511/status/1879860853857730675
It will be a suspended sentence. Everyone knows it is perfectly acceptable for muslim men to attack white women.
"Suspended-by-the-neck" sentence? I suspect not.
Refuse to plead.
Fair play.. they don't recognise the English Court of Law.
And another thing.. this is clearly two-tier policing.. cuz their bruvs in Bradford can literally get away with murder rape & torture.
It's an outrage.
Lawyer says they 'vehemently deny the allegations'.
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz says, "I am the victim.. the male officer snapped his chin down onto my brother's fist, then another female officer hit my knee with her nose."
https://x.com/DonnaLouise1212/status/1879824913714016344
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At least they spelt it right.
The French and German are jokes.
Very amusing, if made up
It is mooted that the Saudis do not have much, if any, concern for the Palestinians. This video, if the translation is correct, may go some way to explain why. The contempt expressed for the Palestinian people – their history and background – is beyond belief.
https://x.com/i/status/1879652958226551216
Ha! Exactly, who are you trying to fool?
Answer: Looney infantile progressive lefties for starters.
(Didn't require any effort at all).
Since the Abraham Accords, it seems that the Saudis have become pragmatists. Remember they shot down Iranian missiles aimed at Israel. The people identifying as Palestinians are Arabs the other Arab states don't want. Troublemakers.
Good for gifts though. I made up hampers for friends at Christmas. I included in each different jams, marmalades and pates. Saffron and Sirracha mayonaise. And also a bag each of Bertie Botts all flavour beans (from Harry Potter).
I decided on that because you don't get much for a £20 note.
I had good feedback too.
Slam dunk !
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I looked for the Mussolini pictures but they're horrible. We joke about lampposts but the reality is nasty. Not necessarily undeserved but still horrible.
Glad you didn't post them !
Indeed.
I find the picture of the couple being shot, above, disturbing. However much deserved, taking life is abhorrent.
It is shocking, yes.
Somehow, that they are wearing smart clothes makes it even more so – her nice coat, with it's big furry collar, and nice court shoes aren't what I would expect when she's about to be executed.
At least they didn't strip them.
They were dragged straight from the court to be put up against the wall and machine-gunned, much as they had done to others. My middle daughter, husband and ++ lived there for four years; some of their friends and parents had been similarly dispensed with by the Romanian regime at that wall and they took me to see it. Grow up and stop being soppy about Elena's 'nice coat' which she had been wearing in court.
The back story helps with perspective.
Just that one doesn’t often see pictures of a firing party with smartly dressed targets staggering under the onslaught of bullets, dust erupting from the wall behind them. And because the perps did it doesn’t make it right, just that both parties are uncivilised.
I also find this hard to bear, as do all reasonable and compassionate people. But (and it's a big one) these were dreadful people who destroyed their own country – for what? Those very fur collars and pretty shoes. I would never willingly kill anything, let alone a fellow human, but Starmer and co need to take heed. Authoritarianism, 2 tierism and elitism will end badly for all, but the grabby grifters will be in the front row.
Apparently they were executed so quickly because there was a danger they could have incriminated the clique who were taking over.
FAFO.
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А: Тhе ассuѕеd
Аnуwау no plea and adjourned until February.
Kunts all.
Just received the estimate for the replacement of the smashed (by debris thrown up by a car in front) offside Headlamp unit on MoH's motor. £1300 including the part, labour, & VAT (apparently the front bumper has to be removed to get to the gubbins). Given the amount of Voluntary excess we are carrying, and the likelihood of a significant increased premium if there's a claim on the insurance, we've decided to swallow the cost Ouch!
Cheaper to get a new car… that's some money, that!
It is a new car! That's why the repair is so bluudy expensive!
Argh! Ten hours work for a headlamp replacement is fierce.
Blame the designer.
The design is part of the process.
If it is like our insurance companies in Canada, the fact that you don't claim is irrelevant – they see that work has been done and your policy gets flagged anyway.
It an't over until the fat lady* signs….
"Turkey Confirms Key Russian Gas Pipeline Was Attacked After Kremlin Accused United States
Moscow has this week made a big and provocative accusation, saying that the United States is seeking to sabotage the last pipeline transporting Russian gas exports into Europe, the TurkStream.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged in a Tuesday press briefing that Washington is encouraging "terrorist" attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure. He specifically cited plans to target TurkStream, following a recent large-scale drone attack.
"The US does not tolerate competition in any sphere, including energy. They are recklessly endorsing terrorist activities aimed at undermining the energy stability of the European Union," Lavrov said as quoted in Turkey's Anadolu news agency."
*Nuland perhaps?
For the foodies.
Each recipe can be opened as a separate link.
https://www.pays-bergerac-tourisme.com/fr/deguster/les-recettes-du-pays-de-bergerac
Thank you.
Now we know why Rachel from complaints scuttled off to Peking…
Labour Override Security Concerns to Force Through Chinese Mega-Embassy
David Lammy and Yvette Cooper have written to the Planning Inspectorate for England to support China’s planning application to build a mega-embassy on the Royal Mint Court site, despite security concerns from Britain’s intelligence services that it could grant China access to vital communication cables. The letter states that the Metropolitan Police have suddenly decided to “withdraw their objection” to Beijing’s proposal. Their only requests? China to change a “small element of the design,” accompanied by a vague promise of “occasional controlled public access”…
When Beijing relaunched its application last summer, Tower Hamlets rejected it due to security concerns and the potential disruption to local residents. Starmer however reassured Communist dictator Xi last month that Labour had ‘called in’ the application:
“You raised the Chinese embassy building in London when we spoke on the telephone, and we have since taken action by calling in that application. Now we have to follow the legal process and timeline.”
It’s a highly unusual move to override security concerns to approve what will be the biggest Chinese embassy in Europe, covering over 20,000 square metres—dwarfing the current embassy by a factor of 24. Meanwhile, Luke de Pulford of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China has slammed Starmer for “nakedly admitting that the Government called in the Chinese mega-embassy application under pressure from Xi Jinping.” A reminder that it was only last month that another Chinese spy—’H6’—was banned from the UK after mixing with UK politicians and members of the royal family for some time. Labour walking straight into the dragon’s mouth…
January 16 2025 @ 12:39
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Caught with Chinese spies
Paying Mauritius to take Chagos
Overruling UK intelligence services in order to benefit China
Pushing to allow China to build China's European HQ — AKA Parliament's replacement — in London
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Is there any doubt about Labour's intentions for our country?
Labour is compromised. The UK is being governed by a Chinese proxy. Labour needs to be removed from office.
Why is it that every decision that this government makes has the stench of double dealing and corruption?
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And we all know what's coming. China will let Labour cosy up more and more. They'll be some more 'investment', they'll be offers of cheap EVs and turbine blades, both of which Labour will take.
Then Xi will order some action which will inevitably be discovered. China will shoot down Taiwanese fighters, sink a ferry or get caught trying to cut communication or power cables.
And The US, Japan, South Korea, Aus-NZ, Taiwan and the EU will condemn the actions.
And Starmer will be left standing by himself, looking even more compromised than he ever imagined he could be.
I’m not sure who I’d rather have running the U.K. China or Islamists. Hmmm … have to think about that.
Oh, don't you worry.
Cursed Harmer is already negotiating to take all their Uyghurs and other Muslims.
Think of all the additional votes dear Boy!
China !!! They eat pork !
And dogs……..
And when famine threatens – all those things which creepeth and crawleth upon the Earth!
I expect even they would draw the line at eating Starmer.
I think you are absolutely right….
…erm…
They eat anything and everything.
“If it has legs, but isn’t a table…”
It's mainly the Koreans who are sweet-and-sour spaniel fans.
Good point!
I air-fried two large pork chops on Tuesday. They were succulent. The rind though was too wet to cook so I sliced them off and dried them out in the fridge for two days. Today I cooked them in a very hot air-fryer and they puffed up crisply. They were a flavour and texture sensation.
I made bhajis and bombay potato to go wit some left over roast chicken. Meantime roasting in my mini oven airfryer pork belly. You wouldn’t believe how Dolly and Harry responded to that.
Good afternoon all.
Just back from seeing Stepson and I'm totally knackered.
Currently say with a mug of tea and about to put a tin of soup on for myself.
Also got a few mushrooms needing to be used up so they are also going into the pan.
I've just been watching a very good programme. Recently shown but on catch-up.
Dated 2025.
Simon Schama "Whose Britain Is it Anyway ?"
A long term and interesting look at the past in our own lifetime's and possibly the future. Also quite a lot of mention of previous and more recent disturbances and violence, but no mention of PC Kieth Blakelock or Fusilier Lee Rigby. Something also that will never be forgotten.
For what it's worth:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701600
I fear I will just be wasting electrons as this incompetent government doesn't give a rat's ar5e about these petitions….
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Suddenly being a minority isn't cool any more….imagine my surprise!
Nice put-down.
https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1879589314658718176
Starmer’s revolting betrayal will never be forgiven
This Labour Government is acting against the British national interest. It cares more about ‘human rights’ than about its own citizens
Allister Heath
15 January 2025 7:22pm GMT
Donald Trump will put America first. Sir Keir Starmer wants to put Britain last. The US and UK are separated not just by a common language but by an irreconcilable disagreement about the purpose of politics. The rush to betray Chagos, the flirtation with energy blackouts, our deranged immigration policy, the sheer, unmitigated awfulness of Starmer’s Government: it all makes sense when you grasp this fundamental dichotomy.
Right versus Left is passé: the great dividing line of 2025 pits civic nationalists against global technocrats. The former – including great democracies such as the US, Israel, India and Argentina – believe that elected officials’ principal moral and fiduciary duty is to their country, citizens and constituents. The latter – led by Starmerite Britain and Justin Trudeau’s Canada – are convinced their responsibility is to “the planet”, “human rights”, “international law” and the “liberal international order.”
Trump cares about “his” people; the technocrats care about people in general. Abstractions are dangerous in real-world politics, and often lead to the warping of great ideals. Starmer is actually well-meaning, a true-believer in the righteousness of his mission, but his moral compass is drastically out of whack with that of most British citizens.
Labour is deliberately pursuing policies that go against the UK’s national interest, not by mistake or because it has no choice but because it believes them to be the right thing to do. The modern Labour party, unlike Clement Attlee’s, is convinced that it should sacrifice Britain’s self-interest for a bizarre version of the global “common good”. It is not so much post national as anti-national. It believes that putting Britain first – even in a liberal, moderate sense – would be not merely unseemly but selfish and unethical.
The interests of the rest of the world must at all times be valued more highly than those of British citizens. Why? Because it is “their turn”, and because there is nothing worse than nationalism. We used and abused the world to enrich ourselves, the progressives believe, so now is the time to “give back”. We must “compensate” those we “oppressed”: this is why we should return the Elgin marbles, and anything else of value in our museums. It is why we should simply accept the hideous decision to hand Gerry Adams taxpayer-funded compensation.
The British state must maximise “global welfare”, even if this comes at the cost of reducing our “national welfare.” This applies to foreign aid, but also to immigration. We should welcome large numbers of lowish skilled migrants, even if they end up costing the Exchequer more over their lifetimes than they contribute in tax, or otherwise reducing the well being of current UK citizens.
Why? Because poor migrants gain greatly from moving here, and this is deemed to more than cancel out the losses inflicted upon the rest of the population: it’s a peculiar form of post-national utilitarian calculus.
The messianic zeal of this woke, post-Christian secular religion is familiar. Britain sinned – we were imperialists (like almost everybody else in history), the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution (in fact one of our greatest gifts to mankind) and we engaged in slavery (like almost every other civilisation, and even though we were the first to seek to end the abhorent practice). We must therefore repent, engage in self-flagellation, commit to change and achieve redemption through self-sacrifice.
The Government must sell us down the river to achieve this, the zealots insist. Britain must lead the world on net zero, even if it is a form of economic self-harm that devastates our industry, impoverishes our consumers and reduces our quality of life. With poorer economies prioritising growth, our efforts are too small to have any impact on global emissions, but this doesn’t matter. We need to put the planet first, at any cost and even if it doesn’t work. It’s a moral imperative. Post-nationalism is based on deontological, rather than consequentialist, precepts.
The “progressive realists” at the heart of our Government are horrified by Trump’s plan to buy Greenland to “make America even greater”; they cheer as Britain will pay £9 billion it cannot afford to an ally of China to sweeten our inane surrender of the Chagos, one of our last overseas territories.
The absurdity is that we aren’t truly “helping the world” or “repaying our debts”. We are merely aiding the Chinese, the most regressive, fascistic power on earth. We are jeopardising global security by threatening the viability of a key Western military base. We are falsifying history by pretending that Mauritius is entitled to Chagos. There is nothing actually forcing us to give up Chagos. We are imbuing the International Court of Justice’s nonsense advisory opinions with legitimacy they don’t deserve. Its president, who oversaw a ruling against Israel, has just become Lebanon’s Prime Minister; so much for the ICJ’s supposed neutrality. We are genuflecting to the United Nations, an equally pernicious body.
Labour and their technocratic allies despise national sovereignty, and believe that “global” institutions, however dysfunctional, amateurish or corrupt, are inherently superior to our national institutions. It’s a case of global good, national bad. “International law” may not really exist, but it is deemed to trump the real law produced in our ancient courts or Parliament.
All of this is embraced enthusiastically by some young British progressives. They believe in their own variant of “British exceptionalism”: we are the one nation willing to put ourselves last, to embrace radical altruism, to sacrifice our greatest assets, and that makes us better than anybody else. It has allowed many of them to develop a new form of patriotism: they love how much their vision of Britain loves others.
Yet Labour’s embrace of radical anti-nationalism will end in tears, just as it has for its other advocates. Speaking in 2015, Trudeau argued that Canada might become the “first post-national state”. He said: “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.” Angela Merkel’s decision to open her countries’ borders for ethical reasons backfired just as spectacularly.
Gad Saad, the Canadian psychologist, believes that those who prioritise the well-being of others above their own have fallen foul to “suicidal empathy”, the title of his forthcoming book. The revenge of the British electorate, when it eventually comes, will be pitiless.
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Andy RoadKing
19 hrs ago
Keir Starmer and his wretched government are the enemy of the UK, they are also the enemy of Israel.
Their biggest mistake is being the enemy of Trump: Trudeau made that mistake and his fate is the fate now awaiting Starmer.
I hope Trump total humiliates hateful Starmer and the reprobates who scurry around him doing his bidding.
The sooner this lot are flushed down the toilet the better.
Alan Kennedy
19 hrs ago
Reply to Eo Lewis
The European Union is destroying Europe with out any help from any one else.
A p
19 hrs ago
Reply to Andy RoadKing
Absolute truth. UK has never been so out of touch with foreign policy and that is why Starmer is not invited to the inauguration.
PJ Spiers
18 hrs ago
Reply to Andy RoadKing – view message
"Starmer is actually well-meaning"
No. Starmer is hellbent on replacing the UK's democracy with a Marxist dictatorship.
He is a traitor and in times gone by would have met a horrible end.
Now he will be voted out of power (or deposed) and retire to enjoy his special pension arrangements.
However, history will treat him with the utter contempt he so richly deserves.
Afternoon, all. Earlier today as lethargy has struck and, although it's very sunny, it's very cold and I don't fancy freezing in the garden.
There is no "appears" about it; Starmer hates the UK and won't do anything to put its interests front and centre. On the contrary, he'll do his damnedest to wreck it and beggar it by sending money that should be spent at home overseas.
As i suggested earlier Conners, KC should send in the troops and clear the lot of them out and make them reapply for their positions in government.
Whitehall can keep things ticking over. Then it's there turn.
If KC = Charles III, expect no help from that quarter. He doesn't like his subjects either.
Hi Conway! I ‘gifted’ you that article from the DT!
Sorry, I seem to be a bit stupid at the moment. Which article? I only responded to the headline.
The one in which Scooter Useless called Lammy a ‘racist’!
Okay, thanks.
White. ….. white …. white?
Ooh no! This was a new one! Useless called Lammy a racist!! 🤣
https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftelegraph.co.uk%2Fgift%2F51434123ad7ef417%3AkS6iuuwFOoDP9VNt7uIPwY3djCE&cuid=5852343
Help!!!!
I'm in a quandary. Who do I want for World Dictator? Donald Trump or Douglas Murray?
If only we had politicians with a quarter of DM's wit and acerbity.
"Now residents are looking to the people in charge of their safety. Were they the best qualified folks? The mayor of Los Angeles is Karen Bass. During her election campaign in 2021, she promised that she wouldn’t leave California or travel abroad once she became mayor. Unfortunately for her, she was in Ghana when the fires broke out in her neighbourhood. She had gone there despite fire warnings already being in place.
Fortunately, the head of the Los Angeles Fire Department, Kristin Crowley, is a lesbian, which I think we can all agree is the thing we look for most when we make a call to emergency services. ‘Hello, operator here. Which service do you require? Lesbian, non-binary person, or diverse woman of colour?’ Crowley’s appointment in 2022 was called a deeply historic moment for the LAFD. Judging by the interviews she has given since, she too saw it as just such a moment."
Here is the full article for your delectation:
"What’s in a word? ‘Equality’. ‘Equity’. It’s the sort of thing that Channel 4 newsreaders find impossible to understand. Surely they’re the same thing, aren’t they? And even if they aren’t then what kind of pedant would keep trying to point it out? What difference does it make anyway?
Well, quite a lot. Potentially the difference between your home burning down and it not burning down.
In the past couple of weeks residents of some of the most ‘progressive’ neighbourhoods in America have had, in real time, an unfortunate crash course on the difference between these two words and are now raising questions on which has been prioritised. The wildfires that have destroyed the Palisades and other upmarket areas of Los Angeles seem to have been caused by many things. Locals report repeated sightings of arsonists, though the authorities seem to have taken a forgiving approach to the odd homeless – sorry, ‘unhoused’ – person walking around with a blowtorch. The winds have certainly whipped matters along. But the real story of the disaster, which has already caused billions of dollars worth of damage, is the response to the fires. Or rather the non-response, specifically from the people whose job is meant to be putting out fires.
Residents who have lost their homes and belongings have told me in the past week that they didn’t see even one firetruck in their neighbourhood from the moment the fires got close to the moment their whole area burned to the ground. Now it seems that people are finally putting two and two together and reaching that unfair, deeply inequitable number of four.
For instance, they have noticed that there seemed to be no water in the main reservoir –a reservoir that was meant to be full after an unusually large amount of rain fell in the past year. They have also noticed that fire hydrants didn’t have any water in them, or didn’t work. On at least one occasion, the firemen who did actually turn up were reduced to pouring water into bags and running to the fires, which isn’t a situation that most self-respecting firemen like to find themselves in.
Firefighters tackle the Eaton fire in Altadena, Los Angeles Getty Images
Now residents are looking to the people in charge of their safety. Were they the best qualified folks? The mayor of Los Angeles is Karen Bass. During her election campaign in 2021, she promised that she wouldn’t leave California or travel abroad once she became mayor. Unfortunately for her, she was in Ghana when the fires broke out in her neighbourhood. She had gone there despite fire warnings already being in place.
Fortunately, the head of the Los Angeles Fire Department, Kristin Crowley, is a lesbian, which I think we can all agree is the thing we look for most when we make a call to emergency services. ‘Hello, operator here. Which service do you require? Lesbian, non-binary person, or diverse woman of colour?’ Crowley’s appointment in 2022 was called a deeply historic moment for the LAFD. Judging by the interviews she has given since, she too saw it as just such a moment.
As her bio on the LAFD website reads: ‘With her wife and children by her side, Chief Crowley took the oath of office on 25 March 2022 – becoming the first female and LGBTQ Fire Chief in the LAFD.’ It continues: ‘Chief Crowley leads a diverse department. Creating, supporting, and promoting a culture that values diversity, inclusion and equity while striving to meet and exceed the expectations of the communities are Chief Crowley’s priorities.’
Crowley herself has often talked about how important her new bureau would be – specifically the ‘diversity, equity and inclusion bureau’. In her view it is very important that people who come to your burning home look like you. This is meant to be empowering for everybody. When asked what proportion of LA firefighters she wanted to be women, she said: ‘People ask me, well, “What number are you looking for?” I’m not looking for a number. It’s never enough.’
There has been a lot of diversity-pushing in the LAFD for some years. A video from 2019 that has just resurfaced online shows another wonderful diverse woman of colour called Deputy Chief Kristine Larson talking about the fire departments’ use of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Deputy Chief Larson (annual salary $300,000) is the head of the LAFD’s Equity and Human Resources Bureau. And though she too has been unable to fight the fires that have reduced America’s second-largest city to cinders, she knows what is worth fighting for.
She has been especially scornful of people who ever questioned the introduction of diversity and equity hiring practices and protocols in her fire department and raised concerns such as whether or not female firefighters are as strong as male firefighters. Larson had no truck with such talk. Responding to the idea that some women may not be able to carry a man out of a burning building, she had a zinger of a retort. ‘He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire,’ she shot back. Whoa. Slay them sister. You got this.
The fact is that most people want competence. You can piddle around with diversity and equity in some areas. It is annoying in entertainment. It is wasteful in government. In a fire department it puts lives at risk.
Corporate America has already started turning away from this farce. But I predict that it will be in the flames of Los Angeles that DEI had its Götterdämmerung. Not before time."
I once worked with a DEI hire who possibly understood Götterdämmerung. He was a young black guy who liked opera and was mates with the son of Valerie Masterson, the popular D'Oyly Carte soprano. He was late to work every day bar one, on which occasion a colleague glanced up from her desk as he walked in and said, "What's up Rodney, is your bed on fire"?
A chap in the next office to ours always arrived at 9.30 am.
He explained that he was always punctual: punctually half an hour late.
This was always going to happen. Complex systems cannot survive the diversity. They're dangerous. They don't know what they're doing or how to do it, and invariably they foul up. Putting someone utterly incompetent into such a post had the inevitable result.
Where was this, pet?
The Spekkie.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-day-dei-went-up-in-smoke/
Ta.
You have probably discussed it already, but Guido is reporting that Amesbury (who was on trial today) has pleaded guilty to assault and been expelled from the Liebour party.
Reform is straight out of the traps to call for a by-election in Mike Amesbury’s constituency of Runcorn & Helsby. Chairman Zia Yusuf says “the great people of Runcorn deserve far better than this. We call on Mike Amesbury to do the honourable thing and resign immediately so a by-election can be held.”
Do the honourable thing.. my a r se. As if.
Oh, FFS. Wannabee international statesman 2T Starmer on his jolly jaunts again.
It's looking as if the day job isn't interesting enough.
More importantly, how much is he going to piss-up-the-wall on this piece of grandstanding?
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1879809119332475273
Free and thriving in the EU, which caused all the problems in the first place? Now he's advertised where he is, Vlad would you do a public service ….?
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I know there are brainiac NOTTLers who can translate.
Check co-ordinates.
10/10 – and a Gold Star.
Essex’s Russian department managed to instil something after all 🙂
Imagine if Gladstone had said the same thing in 1870 to the North German Federation during the Franco Prussian War.
We'd have been committed to Germany in WW1 and WW2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War
Starmer has a screw loose , committing the UK to Ukraine for 100yrs?
If we follow Starmer down this road, we'll regret it; maybe not today, not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of our lives.
Bit of a cheeky misquote!
Sixty years ago, I was led to believe that France was the victim. (Also that the Kaiser's war had nothing to do with aggressive German expansionism.)
All history is subject to reinterpretation.
My comment was tongue in cheek, but my view that 100 years is idiocy stands.
The Left still believe that. If they had their way we'd be governed by jack booted fascists.
Oh! We are!
Whatever happened to the 1,000 Year Reich?
I hear the Ukrainian army is looking for recruits, if 2TK is that keen on supporting Ukraine he can join up and stay there!
Surely he'd fail the usefulness test?
Cannon fodder. Failing that, they might need a donkey as a regimental mascot.
I'll give it 6 months to a year.
Yes, and freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength? What a gormless rodent.
A police inspector with 27 years on the force was sacked after using slurs about disabled people to insult Just Stop Oil protestors.
Insp Ross Meredith, who was part of Merseyside Police's LGBT+ network, said the climate change activists were "like special needs kids" and suggested they had a "mental health condition".
Mr Meredith was found guilty of gross misconduct at an accelerated misconduct hearing, chaired by assistant chief constable Alex Ross, and dismissed without notice.
Merseyside Police said Mr Meredith's language had "undermined our considerable efforts to be an inclusive force that represents all of our diverse communities".
The force was made aware of the posts in April 2024 and he was ordered to take them down, but in June it was noticed that "unacceptable material" remained on his account.
A written judgment from the hearing described how on 7 June 2023 Mr Meredith responded to a post from Just Stop Oil by stating: "This evil cult are so dim they simply don't realise the futility of their tantrums."
He went on to use a discriminatory term referring to people with learning disabilities.
A month earlier he had shared a post describing the group as acting like "spoilt special needs kids" and added: "People in power view you as nothing more than dog dirt in the grooves of a shoe."
The final misconduct charge referred to a post in July 2022, when Mr Meredith wrote that anyone gluing themselves to a painting – a tactic used several times by the group – must be "suffering from a mental health condition".
He was charged with breaching professional standards around discreditable conduct, equality and diversity, and authority, respect and courtesy.
Mr Meredith apologised and accepted posting the comments before the hearing, also admitting the first two posts amounted to misconduct, but denied the threshold of gross misconduct had been reached.
'Lack of respect'
In his written judgment, ACC Ross stated: "The language used by the officer was offensive, derogatory and unbecoming of a police officer.
"The officer's comments demonstrated a lack of respect and courtesy for those with disabilities, as well as a lack of impartiality in dealing with groups of people who have strong legitimate views around the important issue of climate control."
ACC Ross said the case was "particularly aggravated" by his senior rank and "highly visible leadership role, particularly in relation to marginalised groups and community engagements".
The ruling means Mr Meredith's name will be added to the College of Policing's barred list, prohibiting him from working in any policing role in England and Wales.
He has the right to appeal.
Det Ch Supt Sarbjit Kaur, head of the force's Professional Standards Department, said: "By posting messages that were demeaning to people with disabilities, he displayed behaviour at odds with our behaviours and standards."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93l89n888xo
Well, I wonder what Det Ch Supt Sarbjit Kaur, head of the force's Professional Standards Department, thinks of Pakis grooming young girls for sex?
Ah, but…
Those Pakistani Muslim rapists have special needs.
She can't stand them.. she's a Sikh.
All a bit tiresome and pointless when there's real policing to be done.
The Ukraine, a far away country of which Starmer knows next to nothing.
Same old story, just another useless politician just trying to make a name for himself.
Young, white flesh?
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Five upticks but no further replies, cori!
Whazupp?
Apologies. I have been under the weather with IBS and Dry Eye, both combined incapacitating. Off my food and despite eating next to nothing have been excreting volumes and losing 10 kilograms in body weight.
As you will have seen I had a bolted on Eagle in prospect but in haste fluffed it.
I really appreciate those who participate in the Wordle community on here and who are prepared to show both their skills and occasional failures.
I take each day as it goes but welcome your concern. I admire your skill in formulating words. I am but a novice but I am improving.
Well done.
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For your scrutiny, what do you see?
https://x.com/dave24144975/status/1879911791456887197
One of my father's brother's was once the Mayor of Wembley, later Lord high sheriff of London, now miss known as Brent.
He'd be spinning in his masonic grave now.
The sprig of Acacia has wilted.
Have you been overwatering it?
It was planted at the head of the grave of R E's uncle.
Ah….
It would be more dignified if she wasn't farting as she walked.
And an open sewer!
So it looks like the counties that are being swamped with immigrants are the ones that will be cancelling their local elections.
Can't think why.
https://x.com/MarkoGreen80/status/1879916376233779504
The diversity have got to go. They're everywhere.
A start would be not giving them endless ruddy welfare so they can't breed.
The diversity have got to go. They're everywhere.
A start would be not giving them endless ruddy welfare so they can't breed.
https://x.com/Grumpletastic/status/1879914954998116409
They want to say they've done something while ensuring absolutely nothing is done.
Spot on.
And what's worse.. it will cost another £185 million.. it will be carried out by DEI hires of affiliates of Hope Not Hate in JV with Muslim Council.. keeeerching..
and worst of all it will be announced by a Human Rights lawyer leaning on a lectern with sleeves rolled up as though he really means business & to convey he's a man of the people.. all in an irritating nasal whine.
And what's worse.. it will cost another £185 million.. it will be carried out by DEI hires of affiliates of Hope Not Hate in JV with Muslim Council.. keeeerching..
and worst of all it will be announced by a Human Rights lawyer leaning on a lectern with sleeves rolled up as though he really means business & to convey he's a man of the people.. all in an irritating nasal whine.
It is no longer JUST the Pakistani Rape Gangs that need to be investigated, all be it 35 to 40y late, but those politicians, National and Local, Civil Servants, Social Workers, Police Officers of ALL ranks and Journalists who knew the details but sat on the story for years.
And there, folks, is the reason why Mrs. Balls won't allow such an inquiry.
Just back from Wivno – gosh the potholes there…. At least it wasn't foggy as it was here this morning and it is coming down again now.
Sister-in-law recovering – an additional problem is that 30+ years ago she had a brain tumour removed and has a metal plate in her head. The collision with the stove JUST missed the metal plate…..
Many thanks to all of you for your good wishes on this auspicious day. I am looking forward to having a glass of something slightly medicinal about 6 pm – so will leave you now for today while I have a lie down (!!) The traffic on the A14 was horrific….
A demain.
OUCH! What happened?
Bill went to spend their mutual birthdays with his sister in law. She had had a fall and hit her head on the stove, from which mishap she is, thankfully, recovering.
[CRINGE}
I think you'd gone to bed when he mentioned it last night.
I expect he was filing his chain saw, er, chain….
The traffic on the A14 is always horrific!
Glad you are both back safely .
Traffic everywhere is a nightmare and an exhausting experience .
Enjoy your medicinal comfort , it is your birthday after all .
The A14 is the road from Hell.
I always use the Sudbury/Long Melford route when visiting Bury-St-Edmunds.
I know that way. Today we were in a hurry because of the shyte weather hereabouts – fog, mist, drizzle, fog…
I thought it would be better, though worse, (if you know what I mean) on the A14…
I have just been informed by Rachel who bred Dolly from Crufts winner best puppy Archie that his latest puppy won 5 international championships. This then allowed him to enter the world championships where he was placed second in the world.
Beat that Spartie !!!
In the racehorse world, that would be black type!
Oooh! I don’t think you can say that, Conners…..
Of course we can; it means the horse has won at Pattern Race (Classic, Gp 1,2,3 or Listed) level and is a measure of ability. It relates only to the entry in bold type in the catalogue and not to any enrichment.
Well, watch the door anyway…
Kadi is on the job.
Wow!
Bow!
Ner ner nerner ner
Spartie sez: Am I bovvered?
https://x.com/JPEdwards_/status/1879875114839531989
Fuck off Lammy you racist bastard… Said Humza Yousef.
Phiz, I just find that every frothing rant I want to employ to express my visceral rage against these truly non-satirisible people (and, boy, there are many) is already a cliche. It's very frustrating.
Feeling pretty fragile emotionally at the moment re dogs anyway. Nearly a year since I lost Oscar and a close friend has just lost her dog and was weeping on my shoulder (metaphorically – it was over the phone) about it last night. I don't need any more at the moment.
https://x.com/chatswithem/status/1879931107577405887
Don't be silly, the UK Government will have given China a shedload of money for the same outcome.
Such is their incompetence that rings true.
In perpetuity.
Yes.
What is the super embassy story? The Chinese embassy in London is a relatively modest building in Portland Place, a few doors down from Broadcasting House in Marylebone. On the Howard de Walden estate.
The Chinese want to develop the Old Royal Mint building opposite the Tower Of London. One day they might acquire the Tower too….
How very apropriate
No, just the UK.
Putting this up in case no-one else has
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Labour's Grooming Gang U-Turn and What It Means
Konstantin Kisin
Jan 16
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The events of the last few weeks mark a fundamental, permanent, and irreversible shift in where power over the news narrative resides.
I remember vividly the first time we sat across from a “grooming gang” survivor and heard her story. Dr Ella Hill came on TRIGGERnometry in 2020, detailing not only the abuse she experienced at the hands of her perpetrator but also the wall of complete disinterest from the police when she sought the help and support of the people whose job it was to protect young women like her.
Hearing her story and the dignity with which she told it had a powerful impact on me like no interview we’ve ever done. Even though our platform was small then, I still felt an overwhelming weight of responsibility to do something, anything. I cold-called several newspapers to see if they would be interested in using our interview, completely free, as the basis for articles, other interviews and more. I spoke to every journalist I could think of. I did what little I could – for a couple of weeks I thought about little else. And then I gave up. Because I was getting nowhere. Ironically, it was Ella herself who comforted me – when I told her I would do whatever I could, she knew I wouldn’t get anywhere. Because she and hundreds of other survivors like her hadn’t either.
This is not to say that the mainstream media did not cover the story. They did, and Andrew Norfolk of the Times was the man who brought the story to public attention. Documentaries, TV shows and other newspaper coverage have also helped raise awareness of the issue. But the level of prominence given to this story was shockingly insufficient.
What happened – the gang rape of women and children on a mass scale – was so horrific that it should have been covered every single day in exactly the way it has been covered over the last few weeks. Why? Because if the crimes themselves were not heinous enough, there is a further and equally sinister factor at play: these crimes were motivated not only by the sexual violence of the perpetrators, but also by their hatred of white people. As Ella explained, the victims were called “white whores”, “white cunts” and “white slags”, and all the authorities had to do was recognise that these are racially aggravated crimes and the perpetrators are the actual racists.
This never happened, of course. Instead, the victims were called “Paki shaggers” by the authorities and dismissed due to a combination of incompetence, disinterest and “nervousness about race”.
In other words, at precisely the time that the world went insane over the “hate crime epidemic”, to the point where people started being investigated by the police for hurty words, the police, social services, council officials and health workers all turned a blind eye to the suffering of young women who were being targeted specifically because of their race.
This should have been covered daily until pressure was brought to bear on the government of the day to take all necessary drastic action to rapidly investigate, prosecute, convict and deport as many of the perpetrators and those complicit in their crimes as possible and, equally, to offer full support and restitution to the victims.
If you’re struggling to picture what the coverage should have been like, let me paint you a picture:
What would be our media’s and government’s reaction if hundreds of white men had targeted Muslim girls for gang rape, torture and beatings? What would happen if it turned out that a father who came to rescue his child from the rapists was arrested by the police they called, instead of the perpetrators? What would happen if we learned that there were tens of thousands of victims, by the most conservative estimates? In a country that spent a full week on wall-to-wall coverage of a white woman asking a black woman where she was really from at a Royal function?
The media would have gone ballistic. Debates about the “far right”, “Islamophobia”, “racism” and so on would have gone on for months. We would have had apology after apology, inquiry after inquiry, press conference after press conference.
But none of that happened with grooming gangs. Until now.
An hour ago, Yvette Cooper, the Labour Home Secretary, rowed back on her party’s position and announced a series of measures, including more inquries, under unrelenting pressure coming from the new media space. Elon Musk, using his audience on X, amplified calls for justice on this issue to such an extent that it became simply too big to ignore. And suddenly, the people who had been writing and talking about this the entire time in obscurity are finally being heard. Even as someone who is skeptical about the track record of inquiries, especially ones which the Government of the day reluctantly accedes to, I can’t see how this is not a good thing.
The power of the Establishment to keep things quiet is waning. The voices of individual people are getting louder. It is as it should be. And, perhaps, finally, survivors like Ella stand a chance of getting real justice, while the perpetrators and those who let them get away with their crimes might yet feel the much-overdue full force of the law.
Because of the nature of this issue I’ve deliberately not included a paywall. If you’d like to support my work, please subscribe below and share this with others.
We don't need more inquiries, we need deportations and hangings. And we are in a VERY bad state when one foreign billionaire tweaks an algorithm to bring the subject to the public's notice.
We certainly need to remove the cause of the problem.
A revolting pedant rites:
Please check the difference between 'disinterested' and 'uninterested'.
I saw that too, Anne, and was surprised at KK. Spent a while trying to think how one could make the correct "uninterested" fit into that sentence. Gave up.
https://x.com/True_Belle/status/1879957482669502758
Not only whores but cheap whores.
Like in a two whores race?
Hiya…you had a nice Birthday?
That's really a very good one for you…hope you had a spiffing good time today and didn't piss orff the ever-saintly MR too much. Hoping that you will be just as sprightly when you wake up in the morn and get started on your 84th year, or whatever it is.
Don't stirrup things.
Happy Birthday, Uncle Bill! And may you have many more, the better to entertain and inform us! I hope you have had a brill day! 🎉🥂🍾🍷🎈🎂🍮🍨🍰🎊
Happy Birthday, Bill! Hope it's the best yet!
You been up to your soliciting again..
Ahhh poor little loves.
There’s a lot to be said for only allowing MPs to become MPs if they have a proven career behind them, and financial security (I.e. the mature person, not just-left-school 30 and 40 somethings)
… and they have some experience of life and work…
That most of all! Thirty years spent carrying bags in political parties counts for nought.
La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris looks nice.. anybody been there lately?
Though looks a bit white and in urgent need of some enrichment.
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https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/752a2c4b8499c4ac6654a541c499b5b01429fec24d323474c9a8ea047fca027a.png
Oh hang on a minute.
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The Gaîté Lyrique Theatre, located in Paris's 3rd arrondissement and built on the ruins of the historic Théâtre de la Gaîté, is on the brink of bankruptcy. The crisis began five weeks ago when approximately 250 migrants, invited to attend a free event, refused to leave the premises and have been occupying the building ever since.
In a statement, the theater's management revealed that the number of migrants occupying the space has since risen to 300. They noted that "sanitary conditions are deteriorating daily, and staff are left to handle the situation alone.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f739dccd928c167d9308628493274b88ecf72ef2546bb4faa11a5f88902b44df.png
Ah, smell the enrichment.
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh…..
I think it's currently enjoying enrichment in spades.
For information:
https://x.com/CartlandDavid/status/1879957883871494476
Mel Gibson was the executive producer of Sound of Freedom, the movie about child sex trafficking.
Re Cooper's pile of ordure.
The Muslim Pakistani rapist enquiry (which it isn't) will show:
1. In the UK, white men abuse children the most.
This will be true, because most cases of such abuse are within the family and usually there is one abuser.
2. White men in positions of authority will be named as regular abusers.
This is true, because schools, church groups scout groups etc often attract men who abuse their position.
3. White men are in the overall majority as abusers.
This is true, because there are still more white men, even though successive Governments have tried to change this.
What the enquiry won't tell us:
1. There was an almighty cover-up to ensure community relations were not harmed.
Because people in power wanted artificial harmony.
2. Who the people were who organised the cover-up.
Because many of them are still in positions of influence.
3. Why the BBC, the main newspapers, and people who spoke up were silenced and who by.
Because too many people in authority within those organisations were complicit
What the outcome will be.
1. Nobody "senior" will be named and shamed, let alone prosecuted.
Because there are far too many of them.
2. There won't be mass deportations.
Because the HRA will be deployed and legal aid will be used to the nth degree to protect the perpetrators of the worst abuses.
3. There won't be any admission that Islam has anything to do with the problem.
Because the PTB are unwilling to confront the real problem of the worst abuses and abusers.
What won't be admitted:
1. There actually is a difference between one attacker and mass rapes. Multiple young girls raped by hordes of abusers actually is worse.
Because "do gooders" regard all crimes as equal.
2. Mass immigration without genuine integration is a bad thing
Because those in authority will never admit that the open doors approach has been an unmitigated disaster.
3. That we really could do something about it, if the will was there.
Because there are too many people with vested, often criminal interest, in it continuing.
Conclusion:
What has been put in train is a sop, and a useless sop at that.
Can't argue with that analysis
Can't argue with that analysis
What they've put in train is merely what they suggested two weeks ago. The fact that they 'back' local inquiries is irrelevant. What they back is obfuscation, kicking serious questions down the road, covering for criminals and generally anything that protects local Labour authorities.
Nailed it!
Quite. They won’t acknowledge the unique nature of the abuse because they’re determined to pretend that we’re all the same under the skin and racial and cultural differences don’t exist.
What they don't want to acknowledge is the proportion compared to population. If 0.1% of the 85% majority white population abuse children, that's still shameful, but if 40% of the 8% paki population abuse children that's utterly terrifying.
The Left refuse to accept the basic, fundamental problem because it doesn't suit them to do so.
I think the corruption so widespread, so consistent, so persistent and that it'll expose the Left utterly that that's why she's avoiding it. Uncovering that 2 in every 3 Labour, council, Lefty, quangocrat is a paedophile in some way or another would destroy the entire country – but it needs to be exposed.
The "real" numbers don't lie.
Numbers are racist, don't ya know?
Particularly IQ numbers…
Unfortunate truths.
I had another echocardiogram this morning. The appointment with the consultant cardiologist is still to come but the guy who began my scan this morning handed over to a more senior woman who took more pictures and she was more communicative. My heart ejection fraction has improved though it’s still below normal. She said that I have two leaky valves. I asked if the leak is minor and she said no it isn’t but it’s the same as it was in December. No one told me in December. The cardiologist will decide whether surgical intervention is appropriate but the scan lady this morning said that it may just be monitored and left as long as it doesn’t worsen. Her parting shot, as we’d chatted, was “Don’t Google”!
Whoops and oh dear .
You need a longer chat with your cardiologist Sue .
Take it steady, lass. 😘
Take care, Sue.
Good advice, and good luck.
Lordy, Sue. Reads very alarming… but don't worry, NoTTL are on your side!
Good grief, you must be chewing your fingernail to your elbows with worry over that.
Hope it all turns out ok.
Holy Smoke.
When do you see your consultant?
Don’t know yet. I’m wearing a Holter monitor that has to be returned tomorrow. Stupidly I left the bag and form behind but hopefully they’ll find or replace those. Afib is still my only symptom. No chest pain. I’ve a dental crown with bone loss around the post that’s holding it in so that has to come out asap. Scheduled for Wednesday. That’s my immediate worry.
My OH had no symptoms of heart troubles and no pain until the first time he collapsed on the floor while playing table tennis. That happened three times before I managed to get him to see the doctor. That was in October '22. He had the triple bypass and valve replacement in December '22.
GBnews ..
A major general is saying we have a delinquent prime minister.. who was given 100 years of security to Ukraine , no discussion nothing .. political platitudes , Starmer should be scrutinised .. he has also found £9 billion for Chagos islands swop!
£9 billion comes to £161 million per Km², wonderful.
Amazing Venus tonight! Saturn looks as though it’s sitting on top of it!
Full cloud cover here. Good views yesterday though.
Obscured by cloud up here 😘
https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1879952587031736797
That'll do wonders for morale on the front line….poor Ukrainians.
edit: else it's Russian propaganda. But I'm not holding my breath
Looking at properties too, no doubt.
Not for nothing was Ukraine once described as one of the most corrupt nations!!
Was?
It still is.
Has 'GROOMING' become the most abused word in the English language / on BBC?
(gruːmɪŋ ) uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun] Grooming refers to the things that people do to keep themselves clean and make their face, hair, and skin look nice.
The Left want to avoid using honest language because it reminds people of their failure.
He who controls the language, controls the narrative.
He/she/it who control the M S M control everything
Missing "T" at the front, extra "e" in the middle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HW23IftFO0
As I watch the groomer, apparently eating the bugs that have been extracted, I wonder whether Grizzly's hypothesis about early man being a total carnivore might have been the foundation of Gates's "thou shalt eat bugs" future.
A chimp eating another's tick or louse will be eating its grooming partner's blood too, probably destroyed in the digestive system, but I wonder if there's any immunising effect as well.
Are you putting a flea in Grizzly's ear?
Animal carnivores tend to eat the whole of their prey, including all the soft parts that contain incompletely-digested vegetable matter. I am not sure that a totally meat diet for humans is healthy in spite of what might be claimed.
An obfuscation.
It has an innocent 'my little pony' ring to it, too.
I am absolutely shattered and away off to bed. Good night all.
I know how you feel.
I'm orrff as well good night 😴
I'm going to dose myself and head for bedfordshire. Getting up too early for an idiot to try to tell me I should do something I have said I won't do. Getting painfully close to walking away entirely.
I dosed myself up yesterday, so today instead of drugs, I've gone for drink 🙂
A good alternative, Connors.
seriously repulsive little leftie anti-semite scrote on Dewbs earlier. Where do they find these people?
Did it have a name?
not heard it, Sue, came in in the middle
https://youtu.be/HFpMa9szHsk
He sounds an absolute charmer…..🤢
Why is it that all these far-lefties and Islamist apologists need their adenoids seeing to?
not heard it, Sue, came in in the middle
https://youtu.be/HFpMa9szHsk
Kieren Andrieu
https://x.com/joerichlaw/status/1879892989029261799
He's spot on, though!
Can't have people speaking the truth and getting away with it, can we?
Does that mean he also loses his pension?
Just what is going on? How have we allowed this kind of thing to happen? It’s all-out war on normal people, in favour of lunatics. As a nation, we are insane.
Apparently he has been in the LBGT police group for years. Not terribly much sympathy from me, because he has actively gone along with toxic politics his entire career. Bit late to wake up now. He has only run into the logical conclusion of politicising the police.
Interesting.
Supports a mass of Alphabet Soup lies with few problems, then gets sacked for speaking the truth about JSO!!
https://twitter.com/sallyanna25/status/1879942613387837520
He is par for the course, Sue. I wouldn't normally post something so unpleasant – but, y'know
A parasite.
Notice the emphasis? National support…. for local inquiries.
Starmer is a helluva shortarse. I don't know how this has been covered up. Look at him with the tiny Zelensky. An inch taller? Two? We're talking 5ft 4ins.
A Napolean complex? Won't work very well against Russia.
The whole thing is likely to snowball….!
D’oh!
No, he is probably about 5' 8" IMHO.
Goodnight, everyone. Giving a dressage lesson tomorrow, so I'll have to be up early to prepare.
Are you teaching at the stables where you used to ride Coolio?
No, this is a private arrangement. I’m teaching a woman with her own horse and access to a friend’s manege. I would be sharing the riding but for the fact that the horse is 17.3hh and if I managed to get aboard, I couldn’t dismount safely as my knees don’t bend at the moment to absorb the shock. Still, it’s just a pleasure to be back with horses again.
It must be – and you are able to pass on your knowledge and skills.
Yes, many is the time I’ve pointed out something that needs to be corrected and said, “been there, done that!” 🙂
Good Night, Conners – and Kadi.
I watched a program about Spain and the retired trotting horses having lessons on how to gallop. Quite strange.
I’ve ridden an ex-trotting racer (when I was in France). It was really weird; he didn’t want to canter, he’d just trot faster!
Well, chums, it's almost 15 minutes to my normal bedtime. So I am off to bed now. Good Night to everyone, sleep well, and see you all tomorrow.
Another day is done and I'm exhausted, AS USUAL so, i wish all our Nottlers a GOODNIGHT. Schlafe Gut Bis Morgan Fruh.
Good morning, all – Friday’s new page is here .
Good Morning Geoff and thank you.