Thursday 16 November: It’s too late for the Tories to atone for their failure on immigration

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolk. today’s story
    Telecoms

    After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Canadian scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
    Not to be outdone by their neighbours, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the New York Times said; “American archaeologists, finding traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the Canadians”.
    One week later, the British authorities reported the following; “After digging as deep as 30 feet in North Walsham, Giles Fuller, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely sod all. Giles has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless.”
    It just makes you bloody proud to be an Englishman doesn’t it?

  4. The Tories’ calamitous failure to control our borders has driven them to the verge of oblivion. 16 November 2023.

    Facing the certainty that the boats will keep on coming, the PM has been jolted into thinking the unthinkable. He is proposing to effectively invalidate the findings of the Supreme Court that Rwanda is not safe – risking a constitutional crisis – and to partly opt the UK out of the myriad international treaties limiting his freedom of action on migration, infuriating the cultural elites, the wokerati and human rights lawyers.

    Detail is lacking, and I fear that his Plan B is too ad hoc, insufficiently radical and presumably doesn’t actually involve fully withdrawing from the ECHR and other treaties. But it is a leap in the right direction and deserves qualified support: a revolution is required if we want to regain control of our borders, as the Supreme Court’s judgment demonstrates.

    Only a revolution can save us!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/15/only-bonfire-human-rights-law-can-save-the-tories-from/

    1. It’s about time that the UK started living up to its International Reputation for being revolting!

    2. 378747+ up ticks,

      Morning AS,
      This has come about these past 40 years via peoples worst enemy, the people, and the polling stations.

      Currently the peoples being played off against each other was always going to end in tears, and blood.

      In complete agreement with your post.

      .

  5. The Tories’ calamitous failure to control our borders has driven them to the verge of oblivion. 16 November 2023.

    Facing the certainty that the boats will keep on coming, the PM has been jolted into thinking the unthinkable. He is proposing to effectively invalidate the findings of the Supreme Court that Rwanda is not safe – risking a constitutional crisis – and to partly opt the UK out of the myriad international treaties limiting his freedom of action on migration, infuriating the cultural elites, the wokerati and human rights lawyers.

    Detail is lacking, and I fear that his Plan B is too ad hoc, insufficiently radical and presumably doesn’t actually involve fully withdrawing from the ECHR and other treaties. But it is a leap in the right direction and deserves qualified support: a revolution is required if we want to regain control of our borders, as the Supreme Court’s judgment demonstrates.

    Only a revolution can save us!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/15/only-bonfire-human-rights-law-can-save-the-tories-from/

  6. 378847+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Thursday 16 November: It’s too late for the Tories to atone for their failure on immigration

    I would imagine they have a feeling of “job well done” with the results so far with the continuance of PMs anthony charlie lynton
    ( bog man) program of destruction.

    As a WEF asset and a very active coalition member they are, without doubt, streets ahead of labour, so come General Election time
    the majority voter will have us, as a nation, hurtling down the road to RESET.

    1. I believed that, so I brought all the damp laundry in with forecasts predicting rain within the hour. That was three hours ago and there’s not been a drop. I could have left it out there, although it’s hardly drying weather with damp air and no wind to speak of.

      1. Thank goodness, we have free wash and dry as part of the rental. I shall do it tonight after 22:00 (nobody about).

  8. Russia’s ‘weaponisation’ of Ukrainian grain ‘highly likely’ a war crime. 16 November 2023.

    Russia is “highly likely” to be guilty of war crimes following its “systematised weaponisation” of Ukrainian grain supplies, international lawyers have found.
    Since the beginning of the war in February, a Kremlin-linked network of grain extraction has been methodically built up in occupied eastern Ukraine, pointing towards a carefully planned campaign of a “criminal nature,” said human rights law firm Global Rights Compliance (GRC) in a newly-published study.

    Everything is a war crime except Iraq, Libya and Syria. The interesting factor here is the source of this accusation. It’s not governmental. Global Rights Compliance is a private enterprise. It’s an offshoot of Global Health Security funded by Bill and Melinda Gates. The link I’ve posted leads to its website on the Telegraph. Read it and weep my friends! .

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/global-health-security-site/

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/ukraine-grain-russia-war-crimes-food-weaponisation/

  9. It’s too late for the Tories to atone for their failure on immigration

    Why don’t they just admit that Weftminster has signed away it’s power to control immigration and it’s borders to a world government quango and they are now powerless to do anything and our democratically elected governments are only there in a ceremonial role.

  10. Vaccine scepticism

    SIR – I applaud Amanda Pritchard, the chief executive of NHS England, in her ambition to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040 (report,
    November 15) and truly hope that this target will achieved. However,
    even a superficial dive into social media reveals a large and growing
    scepticism of all vaccines, including those that have prevented
    infection from diseases over decades.

    This has undoubtedly risen
    as a result of mistrust of Covid vaccines and presents a huge challenge
    to those who endeavour to improve the nation’s health. Unless this
    sentiment can be countered effectively, I fear a return to the dark
    ages.

    Dr David Shoesmith
    Acklington, Northumberland

    I bet the Nudge Unit didn’t see that coming. Liars are often found out. Then trust is gone.

    2. Morning Phizzee. I’ve just had my third reminder to get my jabs. I’ve binned it of course!

      2. Same delivery here yesterday, same result. Clearing that exorbitantly expensive stockpile appears to be troubling for those who authorised the purchase.

      3. Because I’ve ignored their texts and emails, they’ve now sent me a letter to get my “seasonal vaccinations”! That went on the fire.

    3. My chum heard about a completely new method of splicing DNA strands from bone to remove sickle cell disease. The NHS can’t afford it – no, won’t pay for it.

      He pointed out that the NHS could afford it if it spent the money gifted to it on medical treatment rather than advertising. He pointed out that 90% of folk don’t have a choice but to use the NHS. Promoting it is pointless. That’s ignoring the DIE nonsense it pushes.

      It’s annoying that the NHS is simply another government department. Expensive, inefficient, wasteful and uncaring of how the money gifted to it is spent, happier to comply with the latest statist hogwash than to do it’s job.

  11. ‘Morning All

    Medley Time

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    Hi fellow sheepdogs………..

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    1. A bit of intellectual property theft in the third image. I claim to be the originator of the sentiment except I was more all-encompassing when I posted “From sea to shining sea, Britain will be islam-free”.

      “From the Channel to the Big Blue Sea” is not bad.

      “From English Channel to Irish Sea”? No.That leaves out our Irish brothers and sisters.

    2. The analogy works but the sheep dog should be the government, the farmer the public. Instead we’re the sheep, the state machine the dog and the political class the farmer. That’s why nothing works.

      Not sure it’s a case of being mean, but being honest. The police actively attack white Britons demanding an end to murderous alien abuse and refuse to act all the ay to protecting the violent terrorist thugs. If the police won’t apply law equally, it is no longer law and shouldn’t be obeyed.

  12. Good morning. Only on for a short while before heading to Statfold.
    A dull overcast with 2° and not raining.

  13. Morning Folks:

    Breaking:

    ‘New Foreign Secretary David Cameron makes first working visit to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelensky thanks UK for support’

    Ukraine – Isn’t that the place where $billions and £millions are sloshing around and all the senior folk are ‘whiter than white’?

    3. If they’re forced into the EU it won’t be soon.

      Thing is, Ukraine is a really big country with lots of open space.

  14. Cheeky coppers

    SIR – One advantage of self-service tills (Letters, November 15)
    is that one can get rid of unwanted copper coins without risking dirty
    looks from a human cashier. However, Sainsbury’s machines are getting
    wise to this ruse, and often give me the same number of coppers in
    change.

    Michael Hughes
    Birmingham

    I had no idea that self service tills gave change. I very much doubt a cashier in a supermarket would give a customer a dirty look either. But then, Mr Hughes does live in Birmingham.

    1. Most Tesco tils don’t take coins and are card only.

      When ever I use them they break. I bought two tubes of toothpaste yesterday and it errored. The very pretty very busty assistant had to help me…. It’s a hard life.

  15. Good morning, all. Overcast and calm here. Rain forecast for lunch time and long after.

    The Met, that once august and feared anti-crime and anti-criminal organisation has been taken over and humbled such that they have problems ‘finding’ an ordinance to stop people with certain leanings from rampaging through the streets of our Capital City.

    Whilst, on Sunday last the Met felt secure and sufficiently empowered at one point to create a line in an attempt to stop people wishing to pay their respects to the valiant dead from reaching the Nation’s War Memorial.

    The Commissioner is a disgrace to his office and no words can adequately describe the mayor of London.

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    2. Prevention of terrorism act? There are endless laws. The Met Plod just don’t want to apply them because it’s muslim.

    3. Check the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Act 2022 (Section 50).

      The powers are there to make arrests for desecrating war memorials to our glorious dead.

      ………………even if desecrated by Muslims !!

  16. SIR – The welcome appointment of Lord Cameron as Foreign Secretary
    has, of course, given the Right wing of the Tory party another
    opportunity to moan. What a discredited bunch they are, claiming that
    they represent true Tory voters and are the real patriots standing up
    for British values.

    If they really cared about the country they
    would stop their endless carping and get behind the Government to help
    surmount all the problems that we are facing.

    Elisabeth Blake
    Fareham, Hampshire

    I’m going to find you Lizzie and give you what for…..

    1. You have a choice: a mallet or something very medicinal.
      (Old Soviet psychiatrists can give you some hints.)

    2. Mrs Blake, in what way does Cameron returning to the cabinet – an unelected individual – help the country? The anger comes from yet more Left wing, appeasement rather than the necessary and belligerent attitude the public want the state to make toward the criminal gimmigrant.

      1. Let’s have Suella Braverman as next Party Leader with a mandate to put things straight again.

    3. Poor, deluded Lizzie; she has failed to spot that the problems are of the government’s own making and that Camoron was implicated in their setting up. If the “RIght Wing” are moaning, it’s because they’d like a proper Conservative government.

      2. With the best will in the world, it isn’t a lack of spine – it’s that they’re in hoc to a different master. Folk think the political class work for them. They do not. The entire bunch of troughing wasters are aiming for the next non- job on some quango or globalist stage.

    2. This is part of the problem with a bunch of fools happy to take the credit but unwilling to do the work, who’ve never built anything, made anything, done anything

      OK, a manager doesn’t need to do the same job as the person they manage, but they also don’t get the credit for the fixes.

  19. Good morning all,

    Cold and raining at McPhee Towers until mid afternoon then just cold. Wind wafting around North. 5℃≫7℃.

    I’m pretty sure we’ll all agree that Wishy-Washy and his con-artists are all washed up so I’m not going to waste keyboard taps on that. Instead I’ll pick out this from Jan Peterson:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/37398d888cf6d5440195cca14412803313ac33cb50df0795ded8d909d8da9868.png

    She’s right. We wish to move to a more suitable property but see next to nothing on the market which makes it worth putting our house up for sale. I don’t want one of these modern three-story town houses with single open-plan living-cum-dining-cum-kitchen-cum-utility-with panoramic bi-fold doors opening onto a postage-stamp-of-a-garden rooms. Nor do I want a house without a fireplace and perhaps a chimney breast in at least one room. That is what you find when you look at the ‘new builds’ on the outskirts of so many towns. They come with smart-meters and even with EV charging points. I don’t want those either. They come with flimsy front doors, often no back door other than the horrible bi-folds and cardboard-like stud walls on the upper floor or floors which means there is very poor sound-insulation. Unlike the best Victorian and Edwardian housing, they won’t be here in a hundred years. What gives the idiots who design this rubbish the idea that people want them? People buy them because they have no choice.

    ‘We’re not building enough homes’, the politicians say. We’re not building any. What we’re building are speculative, soul-less, family-dwelling-units on tiny plots which will become the slums of the future. It’s time to break up the big builders, force them to sell their land-banks and revert to a much more diverse home building system which allows people to find a plot of land, choose from a portfolio of designs, or have a home individually designed, and have it built by a reputable builder. People want homes which reflect their individual tastes and needs. They also want homes with plots large enough to pooter around in and grow things and have a man-cave (or woman-cave) of a shed or garden studio to let their inner soul flourish.

    1. Government insists it is spending more public money to get building moving and then hammers builders with net zero nonsense. Houses are built cheaply and badly, requiring those expensive alterations. The rooms are tiny. A 3 bed house the same size as a caravan on it’s end is not a suitable house. Houses are just too small.

      Then there’s the mountain of people on receipt of some sort of benefit, housing benefit being the most egregious, all pushing up prices due to the simple shopper of state.

      1. Yes, Wibbles, I get housing Benefit ( 2 x £166. 74 per month and Council Tax reduced to £11.87 per month) I’m rolling in it Rent only £595.20 per month (sarc)

    2. So true , builders are building hyper insulated miniscule homes that can’t accommodate a decent sized bed / wardrobes / sofa etc nor even a pram/ pushchair / or a couple of cars

      New estates have horrible windows , so small , no top windows to open for ventilation , and during the hot weather , homes are similar to pressure cookers .

      1. …and here I am, Maggie, waiting for a Bungalow or Ground floor flat to become vacant in Annan.

  20. Hearing Cleverly say they wanted to get the first planes off before the general election was comical. That’s a year away. A year, at a time when criminal welfare shopper invasion – evidenced by the dire scenes in London last night – is running at higher than two cities the size of Southampton a year is absurd.

    The boats must be fired upon to return them. The freeloaders here must be returned immediately. If they continue to refuse to change the law then this country will just be overrun by sewage.

      1. They never did, Johnny.
        Or – perhaps they do, it’s just not what the electorate wants…

    3. Just return the boats to France. Yes, I have seen all the blither about why we should not do it, but if the Border Force did, what would the French do. Start a shooting match!

  22. Good morning everyone .

    Rain rain go away, come again another day.

    The back garden is on a slight slope , so water comes down from fields , chalky, and now very soggy, at the top .

    Because Pip has had a bad tummy, I haven’t fed the birds for a while .

    I liked this letter .

    Unable to downsize
    SIR – Your report, “Over-65s are stopping young families getting on property ladder, says Zoopla” (November 15), implies the property website found that older people are refusing to move out of large houses. If they were to survey that demographic, however, they would discover that we oldies can’t move because we can’t find suitable accommodation.

    Bungalows are in short supply and the few that are available are mostly old stock, and do not suit the needs of elderly and disabled people – walk-in showers and space to manoeuvre wheelchairs or walkers need to be factored in. When you are old and have restricted mobility, you do not want to buy a property that requires extensive and expensive alterations.

    When will builders and planners wake up to the real problem of the elderly house-blocking? We would move, but can’t.

    Jan Peterson
    Telford, Shropshire

    People are buying up bungalows , and converting them .

    Elderly people are moving into Park homes … all very cosy, but a rip off with ground rents etc , many of these residences are so close together that parking is a problem, which defeats the object .

    I know folk who have moved into retirement apartments , and are so lonely.

    Stair lifts are a good idea , if one has the right type of staircase , how do people cope?

    1. The government could ease the problem by removing stamp duty and other taxes on old people selling their large homes and then buying a smaller replacement.

      One of my favourite Tom Lehrer songs. I have passed through grey hair and what hair I have left is pure white. Caroline, on the other hand, has not a single grey hair

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOZH0y7VxE

      3. I agree. Remove stamp duty from anyone over state pension age who moves to a smaller property. The tax is a large burden that certainly puts off many older homeowners from downsizing. It would be cheaper to pay for extensive alterations to an existing home than to pay the stamp duty on a smaller home.

        1. We ‘gave’ the government £16,000 for it to p!ss up the wall for the privilege of moving to somewhere more manageable.
          Then there’s the VAT on solicitors’ and estate agents’ fees, plus all the unavoidable costs of moving and setting up a new home.

          1. At least the solicitors/conveyancers and estate agents do something for their fees (even though those fees are often too high for the work they do).
            As for VAT being added on to their fees, that’s adding insult to injury.
            By staying put, the £ tens of thousands saved would in many/most cases more than cover adaptation costs.

  23. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/32b104104e4dd877c0c1ac47f1a4c091d05a54b1ed81425db0599be05c23306a.png
    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/exit-suella-pursued-by-democracy/

    From this article in The Conservative Woman: “At a stroke he has insulted his MPs – who now know their careers under his leadership are highly unlikely to be advanced – and lost the Red Wall.”

    So if these insulted MPs do not now resign en masse from the Conservative Party their careers are now over and quite rightly so. They are no use to themselves, they are no use to their constituents and they are no use to the country.

    The words of this song come to mind:

    Why was he born so beautiful?
    Why was he born at all?
    He’s no bloody use to anyone
    He’s no bloody use at all!

    1. Some of us here may recognise this article’s title from a stage direction in The Winter’s Tale.

      (Exit Antigonus pursued by a bear)

      Come on George – there’s work for you to do!

    4. Apparently junior ministers are resigning now, so that when they lose their seats in the GE, they can immediately take up lucrative posts without having to wait six months.

    2. I’d rather they just admitted there is nothing this government will do to stop the boats because the only measures which would work are utterly unpalatable to them. To keep pretending they are doing everything in their power to bring it to a halt is laughably untrue.

  25. Morning all 🙂😊
    Grey everything, that’s it really.
    My word what an experience my good lady and I suffered at the hands of the NHS. I have no complaints about the staff. But administration needs one hell of a shakeup.
    Nine hours sitting in the same uncomfortable plastic chair in A&E. Absolutely jam packed with ‘customers’. Most seemingly taking advice from 111. To arrive at the over crowded department. The poor staff under so much pressure. 13 hours passed before I was admitted. Then further discomfort and disturbances revealed themselves.
    It was a shambles. I feel really sorry for the at least 80% forgien staff. I managed to ‘escape’ yesterday evening and come home to peace. And nine hours sleep.
    Speaking with other patients on the ward we all agreed that the administration needs a good shake up. I get home after he’ll on earth.
    I’ve just had two calls from NHS they want me back today for a checkup. And I’m able to get there my second son is available. Wife caring for grandchildren an DiL with MS. Eldest in the Netherlands on business.
    And another phone call to ask I need any assistance at home. Wonder but one thing most people agree on is the biggest part of this whole problem is GPs who are hiding in the woodwork. Three weeks is too long to wait for an appointment if you have certain problems. But ten minutes personal appointments could save many hours with important advice or rejigging medication.
    Got to go slayders.
    Apologies for any spelling mistakes etc. No time to check.

  26. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fbd4953b99e981e755480ea6f44fabdde919f4e380bd4e7029f50ddb839e67ec.png
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/15/rishi-sunak-rwanda-ruling-emergency-law/

    BTL

    “Procrastination is the thief of time.”

    Just because this is a cliché it does not mean it is not true.

    Why did Sunak not introduce emergency law at outset?

    The answer is that he knows damned well that by the time such law came into force he will be out of office and the first thing Starmer will do will be to repeal it.

    1. That’s interesting.
      If, per chance, a law was passed before the next GE do you really think Starmer would repeal it if he got in?
      Surely he would have to say so during the election campaign, wouldn’t he, if asked. If he tried to repeal any law it could precipitate civil unrest and really start a race war.
      It’s very unusual for any following government to repeal any law they have been vehemently opposed to in opposition.

      1. No, he wouldn’t admit to it (he wouldn’t be asked for one thing) and how many times have things not in the manifesto been foisted on us?

    2. By the general election.

      Why do they use political events as milestones? We don’t care. Get rid of the vermin.

    1. This government will, if need be, order a flight to take a few asylum seekers to Kigali just before the General Election, put them up in a hotel in Rwanda’s capital, then quietly bring them back once the polling stations have closed.

      1. Good morning, Stig

        Excellent post – Well done.

        I’m delighted to see that you are making such very good progress on your journey towards cynicism!

    3. What I’m wearing is NOT a skirt – it’s a sarong which many people sailing in the Med wear.

        1. Oh, RATssss….. that’s now today’s ear worm.
          Still, it might displace “Eternal Father” which has been playing on a loop since Sunday.

    1. I have a neighbour who has a lady Newfie named Mabel. She’s a patchwork of white, black and brown.

        1. I tend to have a damp towel wherever I am. You just get used to it. The Warqueen would check the ceilings for dribble but stopped bothering.

          It all sounds disgusting but when that giant football sized head is flopped in your lap and looking at you as if you’re the only thing in existence that matters you just don’t care. I can’t explain it. A chum who is very house proud, tidy and neat didn’t know what to make of him when I first brought Mongo around but after a few hours of the great beast lolloping around and very studiously ‘helping’ in the kitchen she was smitten and is getting a Newfie herself.

          She always asks me to bring him around and I do, happily. He just melts people to bits with his daft wobbly walk and bruising tail. When he’s barrelling toward you, tongue lolling out, eyes gleaming with joy, fails to stop and sort of circles around, bruising you with the basher you just can’t help but love him. It’s like an eternal enthusiastic toddler who wants nothing but fuss and gives nothing but utter adoration.

          3. I may have told this story before. A family acquaintance living on Dartmoor bred Newfies. They got a lot of exercise on the Moor. One day as she was returning from her morning walk, with three of them she spotted two chaps trying to break in to her Land rover. When the Newfies appeared the two chaps ended up climbing onto the roof of the Landy. This happened pre mobile phone days so I can only surmise the police weren’t troubled….

        2. I tend to have a damp towel wherever I am. You just get used to it. The Warqueen would check the ceilings for dribble but stopped bothering.

          It all sounds disgusting but when that giant football sized head is flopped in your lap and looking at you as if you’re the only thing in existence that matters you just don’t care. I can’t explain it. A chum who is very house proud, tidy and neat didn’t know what to make of him when I first brought Mongo around but after a few hours of the great beast lolloping around and very studiously ‘helping’ in the kitchen she was smitten and is getting a Newfie herself.

          She always asks me to bring him around and I do, happily. He just melts people to bits with his daft wobbly walk and bruising tail. When he’s barrelling toward you, tongue lolling out, eyes gleaming with joy, fails to stop and sort of circles around, bruising you with the basher you just can’t help but love him. It’s like an eternal enthusiastic toddler who wants nothing but fuss and gives nothing but utter adoration.

      2. Shedding – you get used to it. It’s everywhere no matter what you do.

        Hot weather – the dogs shed hugely, but you have to keep them cool. Mongo has a paddling pool in the shade with a tap on the water butt he can operate with his foot. It was a lovely bit of training to have him stand on it and get water out.

        When it can be 32 outside we walk early in the morning – 4am sometimes and late evening – up to 10. Even then if the ground is too hot for me, it’s thrice bad for him, so lots of cold ice water in a loose flask and lots of stops.

      4. I was reminded that Corgis moult – although I understand they quite enjoy being vacuumed to remove their moulting fur…..

  30. Children in need latest….

    An African child has to cycle 3 miles to fetch water. His bike has flat
    tyres, buckled wheels, no brakes and only one pedal. For a donation of
    just £5 I’ll send u the video, it’s hilarious.

    1. He’ll probably pee in the well while he’s there. Mind, if you give him a lavatory, will he drink from that too? The governments of West Africa acknowledge the problem but western charidees refuse.

    2. All the vast amount of money sent from the West has just disappeared… why don’t they dip into that treasure-chest first?

    1. I bought a smaller Pudsey Bear several years ago. Having established that he does have two eyes, I removed the bandage. He’s recovered from his victim status.

      1. The original teddy bear with a white bandage across his head was the long-time mascot of Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

        When the ‘Pudsey’ thing (with a spotted bandage, FFS!) was introduced, the management of Sheffield Hospitals’ Trust complained that it was a poor copy of their long-standing mascot. The BBC shot back that the Sheffield bear was not a registered trade mark and that, in any case, if Sheffield wanted to complain (or take legal action) against a charity that made millions, then that would be up to them to take the public outcry that would ensue.

        Sheffield Children’s Hospital capitulated and replaced it’s (far superior) bandaged bear mascot with another bear that has crossed sticking plasters on its chest.

    2. No one ever asks why people put so much effort into avoiding taxes but they’re very eager to complain about it and demand taxes on ‘da wich’ be higher.

      News flash thickos! High taxes on the high earners have them move their money away from the tax man and then those taxes get lumbered on the rest, who then think ‘OK, I can’t now afford that new watch/trouser press/insert luxury good] and lo! Lower paid jobs evaporate.

      I’s very, very, very simple: Low taxes leave people more money. More money means more spending – if one chap doesn’t spend and sticks it in the bank another bloke buys a new bathroom – whichever way around, the money goes into the economy. That creates jobs. Real jobs, not fictional, government mandated enforced, unwanted makework.

      1. The Labour government here in Norway increased taxes on “da witch” – and so they effed orf to Switzerland.
        One expatriation cost the next-door county, Asker; 16 million NOK per year, about 1.6 million GBP, in not-collected taxes.
        Not disheartened by the experience, the Labour government continues to drive the rich away…
        (Posted before, but such a good cause ‘n effect story on tax, it’s worth repeating)

  33. All of this “from the river to the sea” chanting reminds me of my first sight of the River Jordan, in spring 1994, peering through the window of a coach halted on Allenby Bridge. The Jordan at that point resembles a dirty drainage ditch more that a river. It is very narrow and brown with mud. Only a visit to one of its largest source springs at Caesarea Philippi restored the romance.

    1. I once drove from Jerusalem, north along the Jordan valley to the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias), west to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth then, in the pitch-black night, all the way through the Palestine territory of Trans-Jordan back south to Jerusalem. Three British squaddies in a hired car. Luckily we never saw anything except a random shadowy figure, an odd light in a village and the occasional howl from stray dogs. Very interesting.

      1. Have you ever read Mark Twain’s ‘The Innocents Abroad’ about his tour of Europe and the Holy Land? His description of the Sea of Galilee, and its surroundings is quite an eye opener! Of course, his wonderful humour and wit is a joy throughout the whole journey!

        1. No, I must keep an eye open for it. it was a lovely journey along the Jordan valley and I found a piece of interesting roman pottery in some roadworks just south of Tiberias city.

        2. On my list of books I must have. Amazon say it isn’t available but Waterstones say they have it in stock.

          1. I take his complete works on holiday and his books never cease to entertain and make me laugh! His breadth of knowledge and diverse? subjects are amazing. From being a Mississippi riverboat pilot, to silver prospecting via The Gilded Age and the life of Joan of Arc! Truly inspirational!

    1. I don’t quite know why the Left so desperately want to force so much chaos on this country. When the Right – or, as we should call them – the rest of the population – are erased in favour of foreigners who will pay for everything?

      3. Chaos requires authoritarianism to bring order.

        Subversion, ✔️ Demoralisation, ✔️ Chaos, ✔️ Normalisation (order) the next stage.

        As told by Yuri Bezmenov. Or something like that.

    1. He is probably a good guy but I can’t listen to him for more than ten seconds. What was his conclusion? Who was behind the killing of Kennedy?

        2. I haven’t followed it in detail but I know he and his brother upset the Mafia. He was screwing a woman who was also a mistress of a Mafia leader and his brother Bobby Kennedy, as Attorney General, caused problems for the Mafia – Frank Sinatra was deeply involved with them too. The Mafia controlled the unions and probably big business too. Whoever did it, money and political control was at the heart of the matter – same as today, nothing changes.

          1. I think N.O. is suggesting it was more to do with Kennedy not wanting America to become embroiled in SE Asian wars contrary to the desires of the military industrial complex.
            Towards the end he also comments that Hamas is in fact an Israeli creation.

          2. JFK was also making noises about removing from the privately-owned Federal Reserve system the exclusive right to print US Dollars and bring money creation under democratic control (not Democratic control). That would piss off the banking cartel.

          3. I can believe that the American secular Jewish cabal of Kissinger, Soros and Nuland, who hate all nation states and Israel in particular, might be responsible for Hamas but it’s stretching credibility to accuse the Israelis. Conflating Jewish communists with Christian and Jewish Zionists is lazy and spiteful.

        3. The CIA at the behest of the military industrial complex. Kennedy was heeding Eisenhour’s advice at the end of WWII that the power of the war producers had to be limited.

          Nowadays it is ever more evident that US geopolitics is guided by the military industrial complex. Thus we have never ending wars from which the industrialists and their backers profit greatly. This explains the nonsensical funding of the crook Zelensky and his oligarchs, billions of taxpayer dollars skimmed off and spent on dachas in Georgia or estates in Florida.

          It is no coincidence that the disgraced former PM Cameron should visit Ukraine as his fist engagement. Cameron was unable after leaving office to secure the same lucrative appointments as his hero Tony Blair. He is hoping to curry favour with the warmongers and arms suppliers by promising backing to Zelensky so that the next time he scoots off it will be to some fabulous globalist sunset.

          1. My view is that if Cameron was serious about peace he would be lobbying at the UN or visiting Putin’s people face to face, to discover exactly what Putin would accept, rather than visiting Ukraine, he isn’t, so your assessment seems better.

    2. I was in the army on a goodwill visit to Canada when he was assassinated. We thought at the time that the Russians were behind it because of the Bay of Pigs incident and the stand-off over the installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba. We thought we would be dragged back to the UK and Germany to confront the Russians. Nothing happened, we continued with our visit – one of the best postings I ever had.

    1. I thought this was a joke but it isn’t.

      Sir Philip Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Game) was an army officer who became the governor of New South Wales and then returned to England in 1935 and was appointed as Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police.

      Fans of Hilaire Belloc will remember the lachrymose Lord Lundy whose career prospects were thwarted by his habitual displays of tearfulness. I don’t know if Lord Lundy ever got to NSW but if he did it would have been before Game’s time.

      Lord Lundy from his earliest years
      Was far too freely moved to Tears.
      For instance if his Mother said,
      “Lundy! It’s time to go to Bed!”
      He bellowed like a Little Turk.
      Or if his father Lord Dunquerque
      Said “Hi!” in a Commanding Tone,
      “Hi, Lundy! Leave the Cat alone!”
      Lord Lundy, letting go its tail,
      Would raise so terrible a wail
      As moved his Grandpapa the Duke
      To utter the severe rebuke:
      “When I, Sir! was a little Boy,
      An Animal was not a Toy!”

      His father’s Elder Sister, who
      Was married to a Parvenoo,
      Confided to Her Husband, “Drat!
      The Miserable, Peevish Brat!
      Why don’t they drown the Little Beast?”
      Suggestions which, to say the least,
      Are not what we expect to hear
      From Daughters of an English Peer.
      His grandmamma, His Mother’s Mother,
      Who had some dignity or other,
      The Garter, or no matter what,
      I can’t remember all the Lot!
      Said “Oh! that I were Brisk and Spry
      To give him that for which to cry!”
      (An empty wish, alas! for she
      Was Blind and nearly ninety-three).
      The Dear Old Butler thought—but there!
      I really neither know nor care
      For what the Dear Old Butler thought!
      In my opinion, Butlers ought
      To know their place, and not to play
      The Old Retainer night and day

      It happened to Lord Lundy then,
      As happens to so many men:
      Towards the age of twenty-six,
      They shoved him into politics;
      In which profession he commanded
      The income that his rank demanded
      In turn as Secretary for
      India, the Colonies, and War.
      But very soon his friends began
      To doubt if he were quite the man:
      Thus, if a member rose to say
      (As members do from day to day),
      “Arising out of that reply …!”
      Lord Lundy would begin to cry.
      A Hint at harmless little jobs
      Would shake him with convulsive sobs.

      While as for Revelations, these
      Would simply bring him to his knees,
      And leave him whimpering like a child.
      It drove his Colleagues raving wild!
      They let him sink from Post to Post,
      From fifteen hundred at the most
      To eight, and barely six—and then
      To be Curator of Big Ben!…
      And finally there came a Threat
      To oust him from the Cabinet!

      The Duke—his aged grand-sire—bore
      The shame till he could bear no more.
      He rallied his declining powers,
      Summoned the youth to Brackley Towers,
      And bitterly addressed him thus—
      “Sir! you have disappointed us!
      We had intended you to be
      The next Prime Minister but three:
      The stocks were sold; the Press was squared:
      The Middle Class was quite prepared.
      But as it is!… My language fails!
      Go out and govern New South Wales!”

      The Aged Patriot groaned and died:
      And gracious! how Lord Lundy cried!

      1. Sir Philip Game A truly remarkable man. We could do with a few with only a quarter of his abilities in present day politics and policing.
        He started as an officer in the Royal Artillery. All who served in the Royal Artillery are referred to as ‘Gunners’. Their unofficial motto is ‘Once a Gunner, always a Gunner‘. Gunner is the lowest rank in the Artillery, equal to Private, but much more distinguished.

    2. I don’t know who wrote that but there has never been a rank called “Chief Commissioner”. Sir Philip Game was Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, which is the equivalent rank of Chief Constable in all regional forces (except for the small City of London Police which also has a Commissioner).

  38. I recently had a blood test because of the medication I’m on.
    I presume it’s because I’m on a factor X anticoagulant.
    The lab test from the hospital came back with ‘low platelet count’ but having watched the video below there appears to be no consensus amongst hospitals as to an appropriate count largely because of the difficulties in the taking and preparation of a meaningful blood sample.

    A factor X anticoagulant test seems to be as useful as an office blood pressure measurement. I’m not sure how GP’s are supposed to appropriately ‘rijig’ .one’s medication as one Nottler put it today

    https://youtu.be/gXjZRnv_z9s?si=z2X4VdK-KCGpndRk

  39. Fabulous denouement in the wee pretendy parliament! Michael Matheson blames his sons for watching the Old Firm game on his iPad, whilst on holiday! Cost? £11,000!

    1. This sort of behaviour can be cured so quickly by disallowing any charge on the taxpayer for this obviously personal use of iPad.

      1. But the poor souls are so badly paid they need the expenses……🙄 Matheson was close to tears when he had to bring the scrutiny on his family!! As I said yesterday, aye right, Jimmy!

  40. The battle for the truth about the 7 October pogrom. Spiked. 16 November 2023.

    I recently had a perplexing encounter with some American exchange students at a brasserie in Brussels. They had just come from a pro-Palestine protest, and none of them could understand my support for Israel. When I asked them how they could attend such a protest after the atrocities of 7 October, one of them countered with: ‘How do you know that 7 October even happened?’

    It soon became clear that these students believed the 7 October pogrom had probably been made up by the Israeli government. Somehow, they had come to the conclusion that pro-Hamas propaganda on social media was more likely to be credible than the reports in the mainstream Western press. Regardless of how many of Hamas’s atrocities I pointed to, they assumed I was simply a patsy for Israeli propaganda.

    This of course is the inevitable outcome of the Western MSM’s inability to tell the truth about anything over the last twenty years.. When trust is required it has faded away. Though the reality of this business was dreadful enough on its own, it is worth noting that even here they couldn’t resist the baby–beheading story that is almost certainly false.

    I’ve just been watching the news about the arms found in the hospital in Gaza and find myself unable to accept it. This is not to say it is untrue, just that I don’t know. If it is true why didn’t the Israeli’s take along an independent witness? This is where we are. They have cried wolf too many times!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/15/the-battle-for-the-truth-about-the-7-october-pogrom/

    1. The Israelis haven’t helped themselves by so far being unable to unearth the tunnels under the hospital.
      I hope the do, and soon, otherwise even if they do find them, students like the ones described will doubtless state the Israelis dug them.

      1. Afternoon Sos. I do wonder if the loss of truthfulness is anything to do with the Death of Christianity. It did after all teach it to us when we were children. People nowadays will lie to you without a qualm. Even about matters that profit them not in the slightest.

        1. And even, as the memes note, when they know you will know if they are lying.

          I also blame “fact checkers” who will place false on something when 99% of it is true and not make it very clear why the 1% is the most important aspect, which it seldom is, not even close..

        2. From her younger days Matilda’s Aunt had always kept a strict regard for truth but her credulousness in the truthfulness of her niece was stretched too far when Matilda telephoned the fire service saying that her house was on fire when it wasn’t.

          These ’10 rules for life’ (as opposed to Jordan Petersen’s 12) are generally accepted by Jews and Christians. But Islam gives you an escape clause with :

          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/23f104b219b3b4ae9e6759551c76376620401f93d89723c823111919f82f92ab.png
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf08c8cce94343a8478d964a08b88f33b03f97f5154f1406d6d57cb984a17c52.png

    2. Yes, just as in covid then Ukraine I have serious doubts about most of the stories we are being fed. That hospital should be no more than a pile of rubble after all the alleged attacks. I certainly consider Hamas an evil organisation but there seems very little difference between their terrorism and Israel’s military war, both are utter acts of barbarism and we cannot go on like this.

      1. It will go on like this until Hamas is eliminated.

        Or Israel is.

        I firmly believe that if Hamas had been attacking a similar hospital in Tel Aviv it would have been turned to rubble.
        There would have been no attempt whatsoever to evacuate civilians, the more they could kill the happier they would be.

        If the Israelis had wanted to do so in Gaza they could have, but they tried to minimise civilian casualties. I cannot equate Israel’s actions with those of Hamas.

        I know which side I hope triumphs.

      1. CNN knew in advance, and the video footage of the attacks is very professional looking. Not saying they didn’t happen, but there is more than we are being told.
        The Palestinians doing a 180 degree turn and hiding behind hospitals, children and hostages turns my stomach.

      1. The BBC will see and report what it wants to see. You could show them slaughtereed women and children, caches of arms and materiel and have them capture a gunfight as a muslim starts killing hospitalised victims and when Israeli soldiers fight back – that’s what al Beeb would put on TV.

        They lie by omission.

  41. The battle for the truth about the 7 October pogrom. Spiked. 16 November 2023.

    I recently had a perplexing encounter with some American exchange students at a brasserie in Brussels. They had just come from a pro-Palestine protest, and none of them could understand my support for Israel. When I asked them how they could attend such a protest after the atrocities of 7 October, one of them countered with: ‘How do you know that 7 October even happened?’

    It soon became clear that these students believed the 7 October pogrom had probably been made up by the Israeli government. Somehow, they had come to the conclusion that pro-Hamas propaganda on social media was more likely to be credible than the reports in the mainstream Western press. Regardless of how many of Hamas’s atrocities I pointed to, they assumed I was simply a patsy for Israeli propaganda.

    This of course is the inevitable outcome of the Western MSM’s inability to tell the truth about anything over the last twenty years.. When trust is required it has faded away. Though the reality of this business was dreadful enough on its own, it is worth noting that even here they couldn’t resist the baby–beheading story that is almost certainly false.

    I’ve just been watching the news about the arms found in the hospital in Gaza and find myself unable to accept it. This is not to say it is untrue, just that I don’t know. If it is true why didn’t the Israeli’s take along an independent witness? This is where we are. They have cried wolf too many times!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/15/the-battle-for-the-truth-about-the-7-october-pogrom/

    2. The whole environmental Net Zero nonsense is not just nonsense – it is evil nonsense.

    3. Sorry, Mr Burgess, you are also wrong when you think that this government’s actions on this issue are stupid. They know what they are doing will impact on ordinary consumers and on industry, their actions are planned and malevolent: they are following the agenda laid out by the globalists. There can be no discussion or pleading with them, they are locked in and cannot deviate from the path they’ve agreed to follow. The conservatives will be destroyed at the next GE and if the electorate believe that Starmer will change course then they have an almighty shock coming.
      Starmer will apply the coup de grâce on UK plc.

  45. Good news for our diverse.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12756315/Hope-thousands-battling-two-deadly-blood-disorders-UK-approves-world-cure-1million-drug-allows-sufferers-feel-born-again.html

    Hope for thousands battling two deadly blood disorders as UK approves world-first ‘cure’: £1million-drug allows sufferers to feel ‘born again’
    Casgevy was today approved by the UK’s medicines watchdog for over-12s
    The drug treats sickle-cell disease and transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia

    Get to the UK in a dinghy and doubtless it will be free on the NHS.
    They aren’t exactly “British” diseases although genetic inheritance is common.

    1. That is not the only blood disorder .. considering Aids is endemic in Africa and HIV , babies can be born with the disease, and the boat people like a little bit of this and that .. STDs are increasing .. and antibiotics are becoming useless.

      The NHS is now beleaguered with diseases that are 3rd world problems .

  47. 378847+ up ticks,

    DD Denslow 🇬🇧
    @wolsned
    Rishi Sunak’s family (in law) signed a $1.5 Billion deal with BP in relation to Gaza oil fields.

    UK Gov have no interest in ceasefire.

    Same shit with mRNA COVID vaccines.

    What a coincidence…

    We are ruled over by master criminals, stop supporting them, stop voting for them.

    https://x.com/wolsned/status/1725146868764524646?s=20

    1. Arguably Ogga it isn’t a failure of leadership. After all, the political class are very eagerly destroying this country. They have not failed their masters at all.

      The problem is they do not work for the public.

      1. 378847+ up ticks,

        Evening W,
        They have never worked in the peoples interest only for self interest via WEF / NWO.

        1. You know that, Nottlers know that and what’s you plan to get the rest of the electorate to understand that.
          Keep on preaching to the converted will not alter the ignorant.

          1. 378847+ up ticks,

            Evening AtG,
            I have, with many others suffered via the continued, over four decades,from the voting pattern governed by party before Country tribal voters.

            They still, very much mingle among us, for sure.

  50. Back from leaning over a copying stand for several hours taking over 250 photographs of ¼ plate negatives of engineering drawings and my bloody back aches!

    Replacement van is a decent runner and actually has half the mileage of the old van! Just clicked over to 89,000!

  51. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/47a5499724632d53400defb9878f0327c91ab71e6f3cd1d4873d0cd92ba819aa.png
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/relationships/online-dating-versus-meeting-in-real-life-stability/

    I think that views have changed quite a lot recently on this. What do other Nottlers think?

    BTL

    I must say I always thought that dating agencies and marriage bureaux were for the ugly, socially inept and desperate. This thinking is now considered rather out of date!

    I met my wife in the staff room of the school where I had taught English for many years and she had just arrived from university to teach French and Spanish.

    We have now been very happily married or 35 years and our two sons, who are grown up and have left home, are happy and successful.

    I suspect that a dating agency would never have introduced us to each other as there is an age difference of 16 years between us!

      1. It has the mark of sound rodent reasoning.

        What would I do without my pseudonym’s pseudonym?

    2. I met the current wife, of two days now, 43 years ago in the Marlborough pub on Richmond Hill on May 1st (apparently).

          2. Well we moved 20 years ago, perhaps I just let it go from my mind as I thought of it more as a restaurant.

          1. Knob rot already.
            What is it about you fish?
            Produce 100’s of 1,000’s of offspring in a day and then retire for another year.

          3. In the eye of the beholder…

            I think that that’s a marvellous creature, particularly when one considers what they become.

            Present company excluded included

          7. A lot of people love them to eat, but not me, it’s one of those things. If they’re caught fairly deep, 180′-200′, then they suffer with barotrauma and can’t be returned alive. They then have to come home and I try to find a ling lover. Failing that, I cook and supplement my Oscar’s diet with ’em, he adores them.

      4. Is this your first announcement of formalising your long-standing relationship? I ask because I haven’t spotted anything about this before. Regardless, congratulations to you both. May you continue to have many more years of happiness together.

        1. Thanks, Stig. Yes, we did the deed on Tuesday at Launceston Library.

          ‘Happiness’ is a very odd word when it comes to relationships. Ours is more like an ocean voyage, some days are smoother than others.

          1. Many, many congratulations to you both.
            I hope you will enjoy a long and happy marriage.

            Brave fish, that one.

          3. Not seen such good news in a long while, Molamola. Many congratulations to your missus and yourself!

          4. Thanks, Paul, but TBH it was a financial choice, wills and things will be much more straightforward. Just an old romantic, me.

    3. I’m sure people do meet online and stay together forever, I just don’t know anyone. I know two couples who met online and were supposed to be very stable, they have both split up now, due to irreconcilable differences in motivation and interests.

      1. I made the mistake of hiring an engineer without seeing him face-to-face. Whatta mistake-a to make-a. Never do that again, always meet face-to-face for anything important, like getting married.

        1. Last week, I had a telephone interview that was supposed to last an hour, for a job. In the event, it lasted two hours, and we had a lengthy technical discussion.
          The guy is a control freaky a*ole and the company won’t pay the danger money I would have to get to put up with working for him. The red flags about this company from the first interview were off the scale.
          Now they have written back saying that they want to do a second interview – also by telephone – in which this power crazed nutter wants to give me a technical challenge to do, so that he can pander to his ego by pointing out where I could have done it better.
          I thought it was at least going to be at the company, but no. I am going to put off answering their email until Sunday, in the hope that I will be more relaxed and not tell them where they can shove their telephone interview.

  52. From https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/16/wales-socialist-experiment-labour-britain/

    The Welsh Assembly is increasingly turning the country into Venezuela, with sheep instead of oil. It is planning a “tourist tax” that would do significant damage to the holiday industry. It has pioneered draconian speed limits. It is eyeing a four-day week pilot for the public sector, and has already trialed a “basic income” where people get paid regardless of whether they do any work. The list goes on and on. The “mansion tax” is only the latest trendy idea to be tried out in Wales. It is already one of the poorest parts of the UK, with a dismal rate of growth and very little inward investment. At the rate it is going, there will be virtually no economy left at all – and it will all be the fault of the political pygmies running the Welsh Assembly.

    1. Also the judge made a comment that he knows what side I would of been on at the weekend and that I’m a racist

      I also know which side the judge would be on, and it isn’t that of the Christian English

    2. This is very concerning. There has been a general degrading of the quality of those allowed to qualify as lawyers for a decade and more.

      The most obvious example in recent times is Suella Braverman KC whose pronouncements about banning demonstrations perfectly illustrates the poor state of our judicial system and its operatives. We also hear and read other pronouncements by politicos seeking to interfere with our every activity including social media content and to monitor every aspect of our lives.

      Our political class have squandered our last decade and brought our country to worldwide ridicule and distrust. A glance at the composition of the present Cabinet and Labour Front Bench illustrates that there has been neither development nor advancement in the quality of our Parliament. We now see Starmer being handled by puppeteer Tony Blair and Sunak being handled by puppeteer Cameron.

      Nothing has changed for the better. And Clegg still works for Facebook.

    3. This country is out of control. How dare the judge infer what he inferred. He has no right to do that, nor ant authority too. But no doubt the judge’s assumptions fed into the ludicrous sentencing.

      I have no idea what Active Patriot’s ‘crime’ is alleged to be. But I am now firmly of the opinion that if an “elitist” (sic) judge says one thing, the truth is the absolute opposite.

    4. This is how the Crown Prosecution Service reported today’s sentencing at Canterbury Crown Court.

      YouTuber sentenced for antisemitic abuse during online livestream
      16 November 2023|News, Hate crime

      A YouTuber who directed antisemitic abuse towards a Jewish woman during an online livestream has been sentenced for a hate crime.

      The CPS prosecuted Alan Leggett, 44, who was sentenced today (16 November 2023) to 10 months imprisonment suspended for 24 months at Canterbury Crown Court. He was also given a 15-year restraining order. He previously pleaded guilty to sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress.

      On 22 September 2020, while broadcasting live on YouTube, Leggett targeted offensive and antisemitic abuse towards the victim who he knew was Jewish.

      The victim knew the defendant through her work for an organisation which monitors antisemitic abuse online.

      Matthew Beard, District Crown Prosecutor for CPS South East, said: “The antisemitic abuse from Alan Leggett was deeply offensive, not only to the victim, but also to all those within and outside the Jewish community.

      “Hate crime is truly abhorrent and no one should be subjected to abuse online because of their race or religion.

      “The CPS are committed to prosecuting hate crime and, where a case results in a successful conviction, we will continue to apply for harsher sentences to reflect the severity of these crimes. If you see or experience such unacceptable discriminatory abuse, I urge you to report it to the police so that they can investigate it and help us bring the perpetrators to justice.”

      While this crime happened before the ongoing Israel-Gaza crisis, the CPS continues to work alongside the police to combat the recent surges in antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crime and will not hesitate to prosecute where our legal test is met.

      Notes to editors

      Alan Leggett [DOB: 07/05/79] pleaded guilty to one count of sending a letter/electronic communication/article with intent to cause distress or anxiety at Canterbury Crown Court on 24 May 2022.

      He was sentenced at the same court on 16 November 2023 to 10 months imprisonment suspended for 24 months, 15 rehabilitation requirement days, a curfew (from 8pm to 3am) for six months, 150 hours unpaid work and a 15-year restraining order. He must also pay £250 toward court costs and a victim surcharge.

      Hate crimes are where either hostility is demonstrated at the time of the offence, or immediately before or after doing so, or where the crime is motivated ‘wholly or partly’ by hostility based on perceived religion, race, sexual orientation or disability.

      https://www.cps.gov.uk/south-east/news/youtuber-sentenced-antisemitic-abuse-during-online-livestream

      1. Nazty piece of work that Leggett may be, the judge should never have commented regarding the week-end protests.

        1. Indeed so, Maggie. I don’t know the details of the incident which led to this prosecution, but his character is somewhat unsavoury. This is not the first.time he has had a conviction. That said, most of the depictions I’ve read of of this man come from left-wing sources so, in the absence of any even handed appraisal, I feel it only fair to keep an open mind as to whether or not he has been given a harsh sentence in this particular instance.

    1. Ridiculous. Get back to school, losers. As bad as those drippy Fridays for Future brainwashees.

  56. I have an idea , a starter for ten

    When illegals arrive , before they are assimilated on dry land here in the Uk , they should be vaccinated with Cholera, Typhoid ,Yellow fever, Diptheria , Measles etc etc , and told that is to protect them for their new life in Rwanda .

    Many people hate injections .. and the word might travel fast and furious.

    4. This was suggested a couple of years ago, and the Government stated that it was against their Human Rights to be vaccinated.

  58. We should never have accepted one single illegal immigrant without identity papers. Why did we?

    We should have put them on racks to sleep on in warehouses in Dover and locked them up before returning them to France.

    We were lost from the moment we allowed anyone without proper identity papers to stay.

  59. Anyone Wordled today?

    Par 4 here.
    Wordle 880 4/6

    ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
    ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    1. A 3, thank goodness, which will up my average slightly from the rotten results I’ve had recently!

    3. Eventually got around to it

      Wordle 880 5/6

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

      I hate those words with several different options for one letter.

    4. Eventually got around to it

      Wordle 880 5/6

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

      I hate those words with several different options for one letter.

        1. Well, I am sure Oscar (your pet dog) will also be very happy .. 💘

          Will I be impolite to ask whether the knot tying was after a long standing relationship, and a lets do it now thing?

          Brilliant , cosy news x

          1. Oscar’s always happy when we’re both there with him, if we’re not shouting. 43 years together without being married to each other. The reasons for it were cold and calculatingly for wills and things. I know, I’m just an old romantic.

          2. Heartiest congratulations! You have got married but it’s the Chancellor who will get screwed!

    6. And me.

      Wordle 880 4/6

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

  60. Completely and utterly off topic
    Mars appears to have consumed Hotel Chocolat

    You may have seen some news today about Hotel Chocolat and Mars.

    I wanted to talk to you directly about what that means. They’re a company that shares similar values and priorities to us and one that we firmly believe will help us to reach our full potential over the coming years.

    I would like to reassure you that our mission to make people and nature happy through re-inventing chocolate very much remains in place. We will operate as a standalone brand that sits within Mars. I will remain as CEO of Hotel Chocolat and we will continue to focus on creating our unique chocolates with more cacao, less sugar.

    Onwards with the chocolate revolution!

    1. I once had a temp job with Hotel Chocolat at their Head Office in Royston, Hertfordshire, just south of the Cambridgeshire border. We did get to sample a fair few chocolates and they were delicious. They also tested an idea on us of pairing chocolates with fine cheeses. It might surprise you to know that they blended rather well. Although they have retail outlets, they also deliver direct to customers taking orders online, by phone and by post and incentivise repeat purchases by running a subscribers service with deliveries at set intervals.

      https://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/chocolate-subscriptions.html

      1. We have used them many times.
        A good company and I hope the Mars aspect doesn’t spoil it.

        I must declare an interest, I used to eat two king sized Mars bars every day as my breakfast at work.

  61. This may not link:
    Clothing for Nottler ladies

    https://www.lightinthebox.com/c/women-s-tops_4712?prm=1.2.51.0&top_pid=9743274,9724155,9743213,9727219,9727188,9743274,9743211,9743243,9727186,9727212,9729753,9729431,9743264&litb_from=display_sz&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google_display&utm_campaign=20426967527152828059146&adword_mt=&adword_ct=680569214877&adword_kw=&adword_pos=&adword_pl=www.dailymail.co.uk&adword_net=d&adword_tar=&adw_src_id=5696757309_20426967527_152828059146_&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIheyJ1qPJggMVi3vTCh0lyAgKEAEYASAAEgL8Q_D_BwE

          3. Ah!
            Thanks, too late.
            (:-((

            On the plus side, so far it’s been very efficient. I hope it continues.

    1. Absolute lunacy – as a BTL says; they admit they did it, they caused damage so how c an they go free?????

  63. If there is a moderator who can highlight the announcement, molamola finally tied the knot two days ago.
    Very many congratulations and best wishes.

    2. He changed the definition of the Cenotaph from war memorial to war monument, and thus it didn’t count in that specific instance.

      As for needs to go, yes, but the entire state machine is infested with scum like him.

  66. Another 7 hours at the hospital Today. A phone call this morning asking me to make an appointment for further assessment. 11am to 6 pm, home by 7 pm.
    More blood tests, “that’s a whole armful” now.
    Verdict no problems with my blood. But told I must lose some weight. Its only a fat belly I weighed 11 stone when I was 30. Some of the people we saw in A&E must have been 30 stone and get through a doorway side ways.
    Problem is because I’ve suffered from a worsening knee problem for more than 30 years, I can’t walk far. And hate switching.
    No action but increases in some meds. I think I’ve foxed them. But they’ve just phoned me again and want me back on Monday. I don’t think I can handle any more of it.
    Good night all pleasant dreams……but what are they ?

        1. That will be my problem at the end of the month; they finally tracked me down (after leaving messages everywhere) and booked me in for a colonoscopy on Saturday week (I refused to go on a Sunday, I’m too busy). I’ve had one before and I am NOT looking forward to it.

          1. Never did understand why given the location it wasn’t called an Endoscopy!!!

            Anyway I hope the procedure goes smoothly!

          7. I’ve had plenty of those and they’re OK. I psych myself and relax.
            2 weeks ago I had a flexible cystoscopy. Now that is an eye watering examination and I’m still suffering. Seeing a consultant Urologist tomorrow afternoon.

      1. I’m having a CT scan on December 2nd. It’s my annual aorta check-up. Before that I have surgery on Saturday morning to fix an abdominal hernia. I’ve been told I’ll be kept in for 2 nights. I hope to be discharged on Monday, barring complications. Not that it gives me any pain or discomfort, but elective surgery is safer than urgent for, say, a twisted or blocked bowel, so the surgeon said, and I’m inclined to agree with him. He’ll insert a mesh to give support to my abdominal wall so as to contain my inner anatomy. At present, there’s a noticeable bulge where the muscle tissue has opened.

  67. Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening, by John Nash.

    This is one of a series of paintings commissioned by the British War Memorial Committee set up by the Ministry of Information early in 1918. The Committee developed a scheme to build a ‘Great memorial gallery’ devoted to ‘fighting subjects, home subjects and the war at sea and in the air’. The centre of the scheme was to be a coherent series of paintings based on the dimensions of Uccello’s ‘Battle of San Romano’ in the National Gallery (72 x 125 inches), this size being considered suitable for a commemorative battle painting. While the commissions included some of the most avant-garde British artists of the time, the BWMC advisors saw the scheme placed within the tradition of artistic patronage, influenced by models from the Renaissance. It was intended that both the art and the setting would celebrate national ideals of heroism and sacrifice. The Hall of Remembrance was never completed and the collection was given to the Imperial War Museum.

    The lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out. Two infantrymen stand to the left of the dug-out entrance, one of them on the fire-step looking over the parapet into No Man’s Land. There is a wood of shattered trees littered with corrugated iron and planks at ground level to the right of the composition. The sky stretches above in varying shades of blue with a spectacular cloud formation framing a clear space towards the top of the composition.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/600a87d4a46d79114faa25be1ca9b0f9b00eb8e1fe134a23dbf13aecdc6b0bdd.jpg

  69. Evening, all. Went to Shrewsbury for a meeting – general atmosphere was one of gloom; everybody reckons that Starmer (should he survive a putsch from the hard left) is heading for a massive majority and the country is well and truly flooked.

      1. Some people voted for Cameron because ‘he had nice hair.’

        When the voter is that thick they shouldn’t be allowed to.

        2. 378847+ up ticks,

          W,
          Many said make boris PM because he makes us laugh, they ain’t laughing now.

    2. It’s stuffed now. Don’t think they haven’t finished. Hunt is due another meddling ruin on the 22nd. He’ll announce more taxes – no doubt on fuel and energy. They want this. The entire state is dedicated to destroying this country.

  71. I may have a way of causing brain implosions in thousands of Leftists, I’m going to spray ‘Free Palestine’ on a Slavery Memorial.

    1. One day soon it’ll be here. No doubt plod will argue that beheading has a different interpretation and it’s not murder.

  73. Apologies for the lateness, but saw this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/11/16/hunt-end-vicious-cycle-stock-market-decline-ftse100-chiefs/

    Do these executives not realise the entire point of Hunt and Sunak is to ensure this country declines in every way possible? Are they intentionally oblivious? The political class are sticking the knife in repeatedly through tax, tax and idiocy. They won’t stop. They have been instructed to destroy the UK. They intend to.

  75. Not sure whether any fellow Nottlers follow our American cousins but here is a link to the small concert called Turdstock 23 promoted by John Rich and Catturd in Nashville. The idea was to promote singer songwriters without the backing groups and orchestras associated with the supposed major stars. Be warned the content is pure country music.

    I particularly appreciated the performance of Jeffry Steele but also that of Angie Aparo whose voice is an amalgam of Van Morrison and Cat Stevens.

    https://rumble.com/v3vaxs2-turdstock-23-in-the-litter-box-w-jewels-and-catturd-ep.-453-11122023.html

  76. Well that’s me for today, chums. Good night to all NoTTLers and I hope you enjoy a good night’s sleep.

  77. Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk. Laundry won’t be finished until approx 01:30. Ho hum. Plenty of reading time.

  79. Morning everyone (Friday) My ability to post or even read today’s comments on all platforms seems to have disappeared. I’m putting this up in the hope it will get through. New measures by the Police State that now rules the UK?

  80. If I refresh on Friday’s page I lose everything i.e. no comments are visible and the total is 0.

      1. CW’s Disqus appears the be OK. I can read notifications as well as comments over there.

  81. Having accessed and commented on the 17th’s page I find I keep getting returned to a comment free day.
    Does anyone know how to access the comments, currently standing at 80,

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