Thursday 23 March: The absurd trial of a former PM who broke his own senseless rules

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  6. I hear that Lineker is upset and has put in for a pay rise, after hearing that Rishi is almost earning as much as him

  7. The EU’s censorship regime is about to go global. Spiked. 23 March 2023.

    The authoritarian Digital Services Act means the death of free speech online.

    Not many people know that 16 November 2022 was the day that freedom of speech died on the internet. This was the day the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) came into law. Under the DSA, very large online platforms (VLOPs) with more than 45million monthly active users – like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram – will have to swiftly remove illegal content, hate speech and so-called disinformation from their platforms. Or they will face fines of up to six per cent of their annual global revenue. Larger platforms must be DSA compliant by this summer, while smaller platforms will be obliged to tackle this content from 2024 onwards.

    There is no real need for us to fear China. It would just be a change of Masters!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/23/the-eus-censorship-regime-is-about-to-go-global/

    1. From Severs to Servitude in less than one generation…..

      Morning Minty and all freedom loving folk.

    2. Lol i’d love not to care about the absurd EU’s absurd rules, but TPTB are trying to do the same here.

  8. Bitter,bitter morning all

    Dame democracy stabbed and poisoned by politicians of all ilks for 7 years finally gave her death rattle yesterday………..

    “The German Ambassador gave the game away by telling us that the negotiations took exactly four months.
    Now, they were concluded on 27 February 2023.
    And when was Sunak pitched into unelected power by the Tory remainer MP coup? Oh look, it was 25 October 2022.So
    Sunak immediately began the quisling reversal of Brexit the moment he
    took power. And he was in fact hauled into No. 10 specifically 1) to
    align UK tax burdens with the EU, to prevent competitive industrial
    advancement for the UK. And 2) to cement that prevention of competitive
    trading laws and the exercise of sovereign powers, with the passing of
    this Quisling Duke of Windsor Treaty, that literally prevents the entire
    UK from setting any slightly diverging economic course unless the EU
    agrees – which of course they won’t.”
    How fitting it’s the “Windsor Agreement” named after a Duke that would have cheerfully sold us to the Nazis
    Plus cva change…………..

  9. The absurd trial of a former PM who broke his own senseless rules

    Getting fed up with people ranting on about not being able to attend a funeral or visit an elderly relative okay it was a tough time.

    But Boris isn’t accused of doing any of those things, why don’t they compare like for like?

    1. The BBC wheeled out another bereaved relative on BBC Breakfast this morning. I reckon she’s a Labour activist.

    3. He agreed the lockdown against much adice not to. He was just so weak, he is all bluster and lies.

    4. The point is, Boris was all for these rules applied to other people while he flagrantly broke them himself. It’s the hypocrisy that grates – while people were having a tough time caused by the government, said government members were having a great time (because they knew what they were enforcing was a scam).

  11. Medley to cheer us all up

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      1. As someone on Twit pointed out, the only President in the modern era who didn’t start a war, and they want to prosecute him…while the evidence about Biden finances piles up…bank statements now apparently.

    3. “[The] document… could throw a wrench in the works…” As Grizzly might say, doesn’t the Daily Mail know the English word for “wrench” is “spanner”? Mind you, John Lennon thought the word was “Spaniard” since he called his second book “A Spaniard In The Works”.

      1. The on line Mail has a huge readership in America and they play to that at times.

  14. Good morning, all. Gorgeous, sunny morning.

    No market today. The MR says we have enough provisions. So – day of leisure at resort!!

  15. Prepare for the disintegration of Putin’s Russia. 23 March 2023.

    As Beijing has recognised, there are opportunities for everyone in a catastrophic defeat for Vladimir Putin

    Beijing, while giving the appearance of supporting Putin’s disastrous war, understands that its real interest is to exploit Russian weakness for its own advantage, whether by securing discounted oil supplies or territorial concessions. In future, this exploitation will be encouraged by the knowledge that, thanks to the heroism of Ukraine’s military forces, a depleted Moscow no longer has the ability to defend itself.

    So rather than fretting about the potential consequences of a Russian defeat, Western leaders should adopt a similarly hard-nosed approach and ramp up their support for Ukraine, even if it ultimately results in the collapse of the Russian state. It was not that long ago, after all, that the West had to deal with the collapse of the Soviet Union, which reduced Moscow to impotence and penury.

    TOP COMMENT BELOW THE LINE.

    Chris Anderson.

    This guy talks such rubbish it’s hard to know where to start.

    I have a similar problem Mr Anderson. I can only assume that Coughlin has fallen off the wagon.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/23/prepare-disintegration-putins-russia/

    2. Interesting choice of word, “depleted”, given the UK escalation by providing depleted uranium shells to Ukraine!?

      1. Yes Indeed. Corrimobile gave a graphic description of the consequences of using these shells last thing yesterday. I myself wouldn’t want to sit in a tank turret with a dozen of these things around me!

        1. Shirley no problem – before they are fired they area as safe as vaccines, oh wait…

    2. Yo all

      And if a Christian made such a comment about Christianity in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan et al, I am sure it would be applauded,
      Well the crowds would at his/her execution

    4. I wait, with bated breath, for a similar comment at when “No Easter On Eggs” time arrives

        1. But, but, I’m offended by Ramadan.

          I suppose my being offended doesn’t count…

          1. Of course not – it makes you a racist islamophobe – and guilty of a hate crime.

          3. In Canada the answer is no. The Supreme Court just ruled against a white man in a discrimination case. Their reasoning was that a white person cannot be the subject of discrimination.

  18. Good morning all.
    A damp and drizzly start after last nights downpour with a chilly 3°C on the yard thermometer.
    Looks like it’s brightening up though.

    1. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a93aabb477e99a7f75d78d13ba28bc112ec0565100eb3a351979d4e97aeefcb2.png http://www.hornsbridge.co.uk/about/

      Morning, Bob. Did you ever travel across Horn’s Bridge (at the south-west edge of Chesterfield at the junction of the A61 with the A617)? Only one span of it still remains, the one that carries the Midland Railway, but once it was one of only two locations in the world that carried three railway lines at different levels. The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway was on the upper level; the LMS on the middle level; and the old Central Railway on the lower level. I remember the Great Central Railway (incorporated into the LNER) and its station (on the “Chesterfield Loop”) situated near the Technical College on land now taken up by the by-pass.

      1. The first time I travelled through Chesterfield was September 1967 en route to Chepstow Army Apprentices College and, though I travelled the same route several times a year for the next three years, my recollections are rather sketchy I’m afraid.

          2. I salute you three gents – and any other NoTTLers who joined the Forces as lads.

      4. Yo Mr G

        I see, that the train on the upper level is al analogy of Risky Sunhat and his goverment

        Dragging us blindly backward in to heaven knows what

      1. Getting ready for the next lot of concreting. About 6 or 7′ by 1½’ by 5″ deep.
        Probably about 5 or 6 mixer loads.

        I’ve just put some side pieces on a large offcut of shuttering ply so I can tip the mixes onto it to slide directly to where I want it.

  19. Good morning, everyone. Went to A&E yesterday. Three stitches and a Tetanus shot. Off to the Midlands today for granddaughter’s 30th birthday.

    2. Good morning Delboy…… Three stitches and a tetanus shot sounds like a bite… I hope you are ok.

      1. Hi Anne. It looked worse than it was as it appeared to have almost severed my little finger.

  20. 372384+ up ticks,

    Thursday 23 March: The absurd trial of a former PM who broke his own senseless rules

    I tried every which-way to see the absurdities in digging out every aspect of politico’s partying plus and NOT observing their own laid down rulings for others, and could find none.

    Peoples were dying in incarcerated solitary confinement whichever way you want to view it that is the naked truth.

  21. The mealy-mouthed (and semi-literate) excuses of an MP who fled Andrew Bridgen. 23 march 2023.

    ‘Thank you for your letter and a copy of your letter to Andrew Bridgen MP. I have seen similar criticism of MP’s [sic] on social media which – as your letter does – shows a misunderstanding of what actually happened. Mr Bridgen was granted an end of day adjournment debate which given the number of MP’s [sic] seeking time to raise their own issues disproves any assertion that there is no route to have this matter considered. End of day adjournment debates are an opportunity for an individual MP to raise an issue and get a response from the relevant Minister. Other members may not intervene without the agreement of the MP, the Minister and the Speaker. Shadow Ministers do not respond to end of day adjournment debates. There has been speculation about the actions of those leaving the Chamber in what has been described by some as an effort to clear the Chamber. The Secretary of State crosses the floor to speak to the member who had the last Private Members [sic] Bill debate and I assume congratulates her. The PPS leaves the Chamber presumably wishing the Minister in the debate [sic]. I cannot explain the motives of other MP’s [sic] including myself who left, though I accept that it encourages the sense of victimhood that the proponents of this issue live off. For myself I have sat through many debates in recent years in which lies about Brexit have been promulgated in a similar fashion to be deterred from leaving to return to my constituency.’

    The above is the response that Ms. Dymond refers to in the title. The MP in question is unnamed but I seem to detect in the syntax a real resentment at the letter. Aside from the last sentence being totally incoherent the dragging in of Brexit is certainly irrelevant and the explanation of the behaviour of the woman MP seems unlikely. She stood and departed immediately! This is the sort of people we have to represent us! They hate being held to account!

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-mealy-mouthed-and-semi-literate-excuses-of-an-mp-who-fled-andrew-bridgen/

    1. What a terrible bunch of disgusting creatures we all have to pay dearly for.
      They should be in cages. [Sic]

    2. Interestingly the reply by Quince contains a number of statements that must surely be regarded as opinion rather than fact – for instance, have vaccines really saved the lives of “tens of thousands of people”?? How do they prove that?

      1. Probably impossible to prove.

        Most of us tend to rely on our own personal experience which will always be dismissed as not proper evidence because it does not come from a representative sample.

        What we do know is that several people we know have been hurt by the jabs – mostly sore arms but in a couple of cases extreme discomfort leading to hospitalisation.

        Caroline and I, on the advice of our doctor who knew our medical histories, have not had the Covid jabs and we got Covid a year ago at the same time as several friends and family members. We had it so mildly that we hardly noticed it and it was only when we were tested that we knew we had it. However those who got Covid when we got it who were fully jabbed were quite poorly.

        But of course we did not get the first two strains – we got the French presidential strain called Oh Macron!

      2. Quite. It is impossible to say “what would have happened if…” when it describes a course of action which never occured.

  23. Morning all 😉🙂
    Some bright moments and only 98% chance of rain.
    I have to agree, this nonsense about a few drinks around Christmas is rather stupid. But it reflects the disastrous state our country has reach. We have ex PMs who are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and homeless people, living on a private defended estate behind a high brick wall in Buckinghamshire. And not even a slap on his wrist.
    And on the far end of the scale, this nonsense happening. And the Westminster idiots still don’t seem to understand they NOW need to stop and get rid of all of the illegal invaders.
    We are doomed.

  24. The government’s priority writ large.

    https://twitter.com/nbreavington/status/1638811069731799040

    In response to the accusations levelled at the Home Office by locals and residents on the base, a government spokesperson said: “We have always been upfront about the unprecedented pressure being put on our asylum system, brought about by a significant increase in dangerous and illegal journeys into the country.

    “We continue to work across government and with local authorities to identify a range of accommodation options.

    “The government remains committed to engaging with local authorities and key stakeholders as part of this process.”

    What a pile of bullshit. The, “…unprecedented pressure…” is self-inflicted as is, “…brought about by a significant increase in dangerous and illegal journeys into the country.” simply because the government wants this invasion and therefore facilitates it. All the waffle, obfuscation and pledges they have no intention of keeping, are window dressing.

    The Express

    1. The habitual and pathological lying simply flows on like a well nourished stream.

      1. I’m sure that I read somewhere that the base was earmarked for a large new prison. On reading that my first thought was, rather than a prison for felons, it would be an isolation camp. New York State is going for them and I believe Australia is leading the way. It never starts with camps…

    3. 372384+up ticks,

      Morning KtK,

      Reluctant but necessary blood letting, tis really necessary for the ongoing survival of the decent peoples of society.

      Apply leeches to political leeches in a forceful manner.

    4. 1. “Dangerous” – not much more than road accident dangerous, given the numbers.

      2. “Significant increase” – we haven’t paid the French enough £millions. Plus 1. above.

      3. “Illegal” well thrown them out then.

    5. One of our company this afternoon remarked that meetings were no longer held in a particular hotel because it’s full of boat arrivals. They are everywhere.

  25. Had to change my password and it’s changed my Identity – this is NoToNanny notifying you.

      2. Disqus sign in wouldn’t shew my ID and Password as normal and I’d forgotten my password.

    2. Please don’t tease us and it is probably a good idea to wear pyjamas when you lie between the lily-white sheets.

        1. The chorus of one of the songs we used to sing on the bus after rugger matches when we were at school:

          Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me
          Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me
          Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me
          As she lay between thee lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

          1. Oh, now I see but the pseudonym has nothing to do with that.

            My brother was Kenneth Jasper and my Father, Kenneth William.

            To save confusion, my brother was called Jasper when we were children, and that’s where I nicked the name from.

        2. The chorus of one of the songs we used to sing on the bus after rugger matches when we were at school:

          Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me
          Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me
          Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me
          As she lay between thee lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

        3. The chorus of one of the songs we used to sing on the bus after rugger matches when we were at school:

          Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me
          Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me
          Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me
          As she lay between thee lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

  26. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    The Quiet Carriage

    After a tiring day, a commuter settled down in his seat and closed his eyes.

    As the train rolled out of the station, the young woman sitting next to him pulled out her mobile phone and started talking in a loud voice:

    “Hi sweetheart. It’s Sue. I’m on the train”.

    “Yes, I know it’s the six thirty and not the four thirty, but I had a long meeting”.

    “No, honey, not with that Kevin from the accounting office. It was with the boss”.

    “No sweetheart, you’re the only one in my life”.

    “Yes, I’m sure, cross my heart!”

    Fifteen minutes later, she was still talking loudly.

    When the man sitting next to her had enough, he leaned over and said into the phone, “Sue, hang up the phone and come back to bed.”

    Sue doesn’t use her cell phone in public any longer.

  27. Blowing in the wind……..

    “A barrister sued senior prosecutors for harassment after a fellow lawyer asked him to stop breaking wind in a small shared office.

    Tarique Mohammed worked at the Crown Prosecution Service and blamed his severe flatulence on medication he took after suffering a heart attack.

    He told an employment tribunal that his bosses and colleagues targeted him after he returned to work from medical leave, which not only embarrassed him, but also violated his dignity.

    The tribunal rejected his claim, ruling that it was reasonable for his colleague to request that he stop breaking wind due to the size of the office and the repetitive nature of his farting.

    However, Mohammed will receive compensation after the CPS accepted that it had treated him unfairly by not allowing him to work from home two days a week or leave work early to help him manage his condition, and by removing him from court duties.”

    £135,862.

    Nice work i you can get it…..

  28. We should all check our nether regions. They have got us by the short and curlies and are squeezing and pulling.

    The Conservatives, backed by Labour and the others, have voted to surrender the rule of British Law in Northern Ireland to the EU.

    They have moved in on the undemocratic defenestration of Johnson in the UK and Trump in the US

    They are continuing aggressively to deny the damage caused by the Covid 19 gene therapy.

    1. 372384+ up ticks,

      Morning R,

      Do you mean the treacherously orchestrated
      covid 19 gene therapy, that one ?

      1. Good morning FMcP.

        I have always thought it strange that people talk of homosexuals and lesbians when lesbians are just as homosexual as male homosexuals and the distinction need not be made! I suppose we do the same with bastards and bitches in that bastards can be female and females can be illegitimate!

        2. They need to be distinguished, because one is a potential threat and the other is an opportunity, or vice versa.

  29. G’moaning all,

    A breezy 9℃ at McPhee Towers with a showery day in prospect. Yesterday’s walk along the coast path at Keyhaven and Milford was indeed bracing and refreshing. Surprisingly few other peeps out too.

    Nothing has irked me much so far so I’ll just re-plug Edward Fitzgerald’s Smoke and Mirrors e-book for those who want to understand the basis of our inalienable rights and the Common Law. Available direct from edward-fitzgerald.com for £2.22.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e91f01379d83db4a4412405d16e653c2c02b2984227ed2bd7d1a5c39d8228da8.jpg

    1. Good afternoon Ogga.

      They should repent – but will they? They certainly don’t deserve any leisure.

      1. 372384+ up ticks,

        Afternoon R,

        They have no intentions of repenting only of driving home this evil organised orchestrated coup.

        I do believe that we will fight them on the beaches will eventually come into being.

  31. Added together there were a total of 70 abstentions and votes against the Windsor Sell Out.

    If each of the 70 immediately resigned from the Conservative Party it would show that there are at least a significant number of MPs who actually think it is an abomination for the ECJ to have supremacy over British Law in a part of the United Kingdom sovereign territory.

    I am not holding my breath.

    1. So what happened to the, once again, threatened mass rebellion? As you say, the whips must have something on all these wimps.

      1. Oh, the two square blocks, one on top of the other and the top one off-set by about 90°.

        That one, Johnny? If so, I agree – it’s ugly.

      2. You must mean the tower.
        Occasionally I worked in the Switching Systems Test Facility: I/my team wrote much of the data for the model network there. In respect for the site’s former aircraft development history some of the exchanges in the model network were named after aircraft and/or engines e.g. Blenheim, Merlin, Goshawk and Jet etc.

    2. Is that where the radio mast is/was? I knew i was nearing my aunt’s house when I could see that from the road. She lived in Bradfield. When I was a child they kept a boat on the Deben.

      1. Talk about pollution – that foul gumboil John Gummer who is a green fanatic is milking the green agenda for every penny he can get out of it and now has polluted the river by going about under the alias of Lord Deben.

        He gave away the prizes on Speech Day at Christo’s last year at Gresham’s and, having had to endure many Speech Day speeches over the years, I can state without fear of successful contradiction that the one he gave was the worst I have ever heard. He gave a political diatribe trying to corrupt the pupil’s minds with his bigoted propaganda in favour of the EU and his nonsense about climate change.

        1. The one who fed his little daughter a beefburger to prove it didn’t have Mad Cow Disease. He used his own child as propaganda so why should anyone believe him on any subject?

      2. Mendlesham, further into Suffolk and just off the A140 Norwich Road was one early TV/Radio mast.
        Bradfield near Harwich is close to the River Stour and has a tall mast. You’d have to cross both the River Stour and the River Orwell to get to the Deben.

        1. That’s the one! Bradfield mast was just where you turn off the main road into the village. I got confused as there were several. My uncle died in 1996 – many years after selling the boat. My aunt lived on in Bradfield till she died in 2008. Sadly she outlived both her children.

    3. Good commercial opening for makers of paddles!

      Reminds me of the old Cornishman who rowed a ferry boat: “Them’s ain’t oars, Them’s me ma and sister”

    4. Does Martlesham still have its watch tower (control tower, rather than the JWs’ magazine)?

  38. Good Moaning.
    Breakfast time cabaret this morning was provided by one very miffed squirrel, trying to find a missing tree.
    Bounce … scuttle, scuttle … boingggg ……. oops …..

    1. Only a lunatic would think of boarding a bus in London. For a Tube journey taking 15 minutes, the bus alternative often takes an hour. Now – as then (1958-1977) for journeys of a mile or so it was and is invariably quicker to WALK….

      1. Unless you want a cheap bus tour that avoids paying the huge charges on those tourist busses. Other tips are available for a donation to my bank in Nigeria..

      3. The last time we were in London was about 5 years ago. Because we have bus passes we decide to use them and get around on the transport system. We stood at one bus stop in the city and the queue grew and grew around us, when the bus came the rest of the queue completely over-whelmed us we were pushed aside and they all boarded in a rush. We had to wait for the next bus.

        2. The last time I was in London was in 2019. After a cup of tea and chat at St Martin’s cafe with a friend, I crossed over to Charing Cross to get a bus to Paddington. It didn’t come……. so I took the tube – panted up the stairs from the bowels of Paddington, only to see my train leave. Fortunately the guy in the office took pity on me and rebooked my ticket for the next one.

          1. Your worse nightmare.
            I have every sympathy.
            In my late teens and early twenties with my group of friends we virtually spent every weekend in London pubbing and clubbing.
            It was safe then.

      4. I posted about my tube strike experience last week? Outward journey was 94 bus from Shepherds Bush Green to Oxford Street then Elizabeth Line from Bond Street to Farringdon. I cut 30 minutes off the return journey by staying on the Elizabeth Line right out to Ealing Broadway then catching a 607 bus from there back to The Bush. Outward journey 5 miles, return journey 15 miles.

        1. I know, Our Susan. There are times when buses are handy. But not, generally speaking, for going through the West End and City.

    2. He only does it because it offends the former London majority and because he Khan.

  40. I find the Government warning system to be tested through your mob phone on St George’s day rather creepy. Apparently, it might warn us of floods or wildfires. WILDFIRES! Since when did we get more than a few hillsides on fire in dry weather. Methinks, a warning of military missile attack by a nation we are already at war with might be a better explanation. Maybe the sheeple were starting to emerge for behind their sofas and need a little more scaring. All the details here from the Valleys… https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/exact-date-you-emergency-alert-26528728?fbclid=IwAR3sDhMhWg7tmh9v3NtD6QxuRK5hUOcMjdG1RbroD1sVbGHOOFAYGMi4fHQ

    1. It may simply instruct you to report at the railway station with one small suitcase…..

    3. “People who do not wish to receive the alerts will be able to opt out in their device settings, but officials hope the life-saving potential of the messages means that users will keep them on. The alerts will only ever come from the Government or emergency services, and they will include the details of the area affected, and provide instructions about how best to respond”.

      Good on the first point but are we supposed to be reassured by the second? Because we really trust “the Government”. Yeah, right!

      1. Can people check up and tell me whether you get the alert on a non Android/iOS phone?
        i.e. old fashioned button phone (some button phones are Android nowadays though).

      2. I found my off selection by a search, but I still do not know which part of settings that its in from the phone menu. So, after the balloon goes up, I shall be found with a smile rather than kissing my rear end goodby under a table!

    4. The Government warning system would make sense if there were an imminent threat of nuclear attack.

    2. So we get Rwandan “vulnerable” (i.e. expensive to keep) refugees in return for ours. What exactly are we paying Rwanda for, then?

      1. 372384+ up ticks

        Morning HL,

        I can hear strains of the Chinese laundry blues in the background, if that helps.

      2. Perhaps they might be more willing to work rather than the current bunch of deadbeats.

        1. In which case Rwanda would keep them, not dump them on us. They are going to be Rwanda’s rejects.

  42. Keir Starmer promises to halve violence against women as part of crime ‘mission’. 23 march 2023.

    Keir Starmer has vowed to halve violence against women and girls within a decade, setting out one of Labour’s core missions on crime as “unfinished business in my life’s work to deliver justice”.

    Starmer’s speech in Stoke-on-Trent launching the second of his five “missions” said he wanted to “imagine a society where violence against women is stamped out everywhere”

    Lol!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/23/keir-starmer-promises-to-halve-violence-against-women-as-part-of-labour-crime-mission

    2. He can’t even define what a woman is, so how he is he going to halve violence against women?

      2. Well you if you abolish the concept of “women” you can more than halve violence against them. I assume that’s what he means.

    4. Just said to my husband that Suckear not actually knowing what a woman is may hamper his mission!

        1. ‘Larn yerself Geordie’ circa 1970 (see Grizzly for details!) Or then again it may be from Uncle Bill! I cannot claim originality, but thanks Kingy!

    5. Is that women with xx chromosomes?
      Won’t Kneeler’s London and Midlands voters be a tad put out that he’ll put the kibosh one of their pastimes?

    6. Going to deport muslims, is he? It’s a mysogenistic ideology which allows the owner husband to beat his wife provided the stick is no thicker than his thumb.

    1. By far the biggest scam in life, that nobody wants to admit, is the unassailable truth that every problem on this planet comes from the fact that there are around 7 billion too many humans.

  44. I see Fishi has “published” details of his income and tax paid. Odd time of year to do it.

    Did I miss the reports of Cur Ikea Slammer doing the same? I know he manipulated the system to get his own personal pension limit exemption….

    1. The DT is reporting that Easter Island head man is going to “publish” his today!! Hmm!

  45. The Brexit revolt against the Remain establishment has only just begun
    A failed rebellion won’t reverse the Tory party’s inevitable shift towards anti-elite politics

    At least we now know that turd is not a word that the DT will allow in their BTL comments!

    My removed BTL Comment:

    The Windsor Surrender is the gold-plating on the turd.

    The turd in the form of the Northern Ireland Protocol should never have been there in the first place but when the Bonking Buffoon allowed it to exist it should have been flushed down the lavatory by Article 16 as soon as possible and never dressed up as anything other than the piece of stinking excrement that it is.

  48. A belated Good Morning, chums. I had a long lie-in today, then enjoyed a coffee and a Hot Cross bun before shooting off to do my weekly shop. Just got back. Enjoy your day.
    PS – When I got up, I found an email solving my ENDEAVOUR problem in double quick time. Now I can watch the the three final episodes in proper order tonight and on Friday and Saturday. All the best to all my chums.
    PPS – I hope to meet up with some NoTTLers on Saturday the 1st; don’t know if I can persuade Annie and Korky to join me.

      1. “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

    3. The expression “Right-wing populism” is a facile, puerile fallacy. Being on the so-called “Right” side of the political spectrum is as far removed from populism as it is possible to get. Populism = collectivism = socialism. Those on the polar opposite to the accepted “Left” believe in individualism, not populism.

    1. Some people say that the regional banks will stop the CBDC in the USA, because it will put them out of business, and they sponsor members of the Congress/Senate.

      If they’ve all gone bankrupt, however…

  54. William the Wan had dinner in “an LBGT restaurant” in Poland last night….from the article in the DM “The central Warsaw venue organises karaoke nights for drag queens (my bold) and has gathered a cult following for its opposition to the government’s conservative views”

    Given the current furore over drag queens giving sexualised fantasy “lessons” to children, was this really necessary?
    The Saxe-Coburg-Gothas have come out firmly on the enemy side.
    Bring back the King over the Water.

      1. He was appropriating a table that could have been used by an LBGT person. I hope he will grovel suitably.

      2. Exactly – that’s what I thought. It wouldn’t have happened if Kate had been with him.

        1. There are photos of her gurning away as she visits some government funded organisation with rainbow stickers in the background.

  55. Just listening to the Delingpod with Patrick Henningsen. About 27 minutes in, he starts talking about the lack of proof that any progress have ever been made in gain of function research.
    There are lots of factors to consider, not least the patents on the spike protein and the measured antibodies (how?), but Mike Yeadon has now come out saying that he doubts there ever was a novel virus as well.
    This podcast is an interesting back-up to the TCW article yesterday.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-delingpod-the-james-delingpole-podcast/id1449753062

    1. Both Dr David Martin and Karen Kingston in the USA have been tracking the patents, contracts and laws that have enabled what is now being called a bio-weapon being created. Certainly, Kingston doesn’t believe there was a novel virus that was spread in the air from person to person but instead it was a dispersed as required pathogen.
      Here’s Kingston’s latest session on the Stew Peters’ Show.

      Karen Kingston

  56. Old King Queen Cole was a merry ars*ole, and a many ars*eoles had he.’

    The Reverend’ Richard Cole has said he will be saying goodbye to his BBC Radio 4 show Saturday Live following a decision by the broadcaster to relocate the programme to Cardiff. Expressing his disappointment in the BBC show change, Richard Cole told the Guardian: “If you leave a programme after 12 years, a gentler process would have been nice. But what happens happens.

    Stopping in London – Not enough young ‘gayboys’ in Cardiff, eh Richard?

      1. In view of the earlier postings /allegations, perhaps Hill should be changed to back…..

      2. I think he likes ‘Dales”, more than “Hills”

        Areas are so called because it is a collection of river valleys (“dale” comes from a Danish word for valley/bottom),

    2. I expect his life in London is very comforable. A colleague happily relocated to Cardiff because the job offered was a promotion and he and his girlfriend have now bought a house and are settling down together in South Wales. It was never going to be possible in London.

  57. Sos was kind enough to enquire last evening (after I had signed out) how my diet was going.

    The short answer is: slowly. A week in and 2 kg have gone. I am now at the dull stage where, despite reducing calorie intake by 1,000 a day, little appears to be happening. The MR’s deliciously nutritional and varied menu is fine – and, as is right, I still feel hungry after eating. But it is getting a tad boring. And I would KILL for a glass of wine…!

    Still, I’ll KBO – and am about to do some heavy garden work which ought to use up some calories….

    Back later.

  58. Hungary would not arrest Putin, says PM Orban’s chief of staff. 23 March 2023.

    BUDAPEST, March 23 (Reuters) – Hungary would not arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he entered the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Thursday, adding that it would have no legal grounds.

    Hungary signed and ratified the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued an arrest warrant on Friday accusing Putin of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. It said there were reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual criminal responsibility.

    Who would ever have thought that we would be envious of Hungary? Under Orban it has largely evaded the curse of multi-culturalism and mass immigration. This of course explains the EU’s hostility.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-would-not-arrest-putin-says-pm-orbans-chief-staff-2023-03-23/

    1. The West has no courage to defend the values of its own society, and Islam knows that. On the other hand, Western leaders are happy to expend vast resources in useless wars in foreign lands. I’m afraid that aint going to change in my time and I will have to learn to control my emotions to preserve my own mental ‘elf.

    4. Funnily enough, I have been quite good today…..so far anyway.
      Sun this morning, pissing it down now- again!
      Both up early to await district nurse who was supposed to come and do a vampire on my husband….they usually come in the morning but no sign as of now.

  60. Just seen Labours new election slogan for fixing law and order

    Tough on thought crime, tough on the causes of thought crime

    1. Christians are dominant in the southern (south-east/south-south/South west and central region in Nigeria. According to the Pew Research Center, Nigeria has the largest Christian population of any country in Africa, with more than 80 million persons in Nigeria belonging to the church with various denominations.

      and we have an Archbishop of Canterbury who does not seem to be a Christian

      https://research.lifeway.com/2019/04/02/10-countries-with-the-largest-christian-populations/

    2. And put the amputated parts into the rations fed to the contestants of Nigeria’s Big Brother and get Hancock to return as a re-invited guest.

    3. They dont need any more reasons to rush over here and claim asylum. It was just last week that a judge ruled that an Iranian convicted here of rape could not be returned because they would be beastly to him.

  62. Ben Jonson work from 1603 may contain ‘lost’ Shakespeare sonnet, say experts. 23 March 2023.

    To the Deserving Author.

    When I respect thy argument, I see
    An image of those times: but when I view
    The wit, the workmanship, so rich, so true,
    The times themselves do seem retrieved to me.
    And as Sejanus, in thy tragedy,
    Falleth from Caesar’s grace; even so the crew
    Of common playwrights, whom opinion blew
    Big with false greatness, are disgraced by thee.
    Thus, in one Tragedy, thou makest twain:
    And, since fair works of Justice fit the part
    Of tragic writers, Muses do ordain
    That all Tragedians, Masters of their Art,
    Who shall hereafter follow on this tract,
    In writing well, thy tragedy shall act.

    CYGNUS.

    One can see why Dr Laoutaris suspects it to be Shakespeare but it looks too superficial to me. It’s more like a pastiche than the Great Man himself!

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/mar/23/ben-jonson-play-from-1603-may-contain-lost-shakespeare-sonnet-say-experts

  63. The recent shrinking of Toblerone Bars should have been the Canary in the bank vaults!!

    “Sunday’s shocking bail-in, which rendered $17BN of investments worthless, has become one of the most controversial elements of the shotgun marriage between Credit Suisse and its larger rival, UBS, brokered by Swiss authorities. Just hours after the deal was announced, other large market regulators began to distance themselves from the decision, fearful that it would endanger banks’ ability to raise capital in the future.

    Meanwhile, enraged bondholders have pledged to sue the Swiss government and Finma over the matter the FT reported.

    No matter how the lawsuits turn out, however, one thing is certain: Swiss banking as an industry that thrived and prospered for centuries, is effectively over and nobody will voluntarily either deposit or invest in Swiss banks after this catastrophically bundled government intervention. For the sake of what’s left of the Swiss economy, we can only hope that the cheese and chocolate industries are not in need of bailouts.”

      1. “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.

        In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. ” Harry Lime.

    2. The German/Austrian banking industry is no better and we hear little in the news of the Wirecard fraud trial currently taking place in Munich.

      That leaves France, Spain and the Holland for EU banking glory.

      1. If all fiat currencies tend to their logical value (zero)…and the euro is the first to go, becuase nobody likes it…then they will all go down…

          1. There is a Nottler lunch coming up. Red Lion at Horsell. The MR is invited. You can look after the cats. :@)

          3. Nope.

            All your friends will be there.

            Still, if you don’t come at least we will all have someone to slag off.

    2. First it was Linton-on-Ouse
      Then Scampton
      And now Wethersfield

      All located within easy reach of local villages and primary schools.

    1. The one that particularly annoys me is the gold one. I worked in a jewellers, first as a Saturday job and then through all college vacations. If someone came in wanting a valuation, the manager made a note of the items and gave the customer a receipt. It usually took him at least two days to complete the valuation which is realistic if you want it done right.
      No way should anyone go to a kiosk like that in a strip mall and expect to get a proper valuation and a fair price.

        2. And Prospero set his Arial free at the end of The Tempest and left the deformed hottentot Caliban in charge of the island.

          Rather like what has happened in Africa since people like my father left.

    1. The good folk of Leicester would no doubt have conniptions if the naked bike riders cycled through the city demanding safer roads…(Someone ought to suggest it!!! :-)))

    2. The good folk of Leicester would no doubt have conniptions if the naked bike riders cycled through the city demanding safer roads…(Someone ought to suggest it!!! :-)))

    3. Our country its culture and social structure in now on a very steep slippery incline poised into plummeting back to the 10 century. Or even beyond. The idiots in charge need to apply the brakes very quickly.

      1. 372384+ up ticks,

        Afternoon SE,

        Speaking truthfully and on my own behalf alone, so do the idiots that put the idiots once again, again,again in charge.

      2. Unfortunately, the idiots in charge have their foot jammed hard down on the accelerator.

          5. Doing quite well and eating well. Bloody district nurse was a no show. NHS seems to be made up of separate fiefdoms all working against each other.
            Still, the main thing is he’s on the mend.
            Thanks for asking.

          7. Coping is the best I can say. Face very painful and sleep fitful.
            However, homemade meatballs tonight in homemade pasta sauce. And spaghetti. Yum.

    2. Impressive MP – clearly just right for high office…in Cur Ikea Slammer’s government.

    4. Take the heat out. Turn off the gas and go home ?
      We have no choice but to pay the salaries of people like her.

  69. Woke deconstruction of Western civilisation is playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands. “3 march 2023.

    Forgetting and rejecting the lessons of our own history, we are destroying the institutions and values that built and sustained our culture.

    Unless we find a way to take people with us, casting a clear vision based on proven wisdom, we will continue to experience breakdown in families, domestic institutions and the international landscape. In these circumstances we must reinvigorate our sense of citizenship and encourage one another to step up and lead with courage and a deep commitment to others, wherever and whenever the need arises.

    We must turn our creative gifts to do what we can do to restore secure bonds within our societies, to return to the honest truth that without a healthy attitude to civic duty, we simply will not save what we have built and enjoyed for centuries. We must redouble our commitment to our foundational freedoms, the importance of the family and civil society, the scientific method, equitable market-based economies, the free exchange of ideas, realist geostrategy and a shared concern for those in need.

    The problem here is that Vlad is opposed to all these things and doesn’t want them for Russia! It is our own political class that espouses them and is partly the cause of their enmity for Putin.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/23/woke-culture-wars-deconstruct-western-values/

    1. People need to get their heads around the knowledge that there is a trans-national ultra-rich elite that doesn’t care about nations. They own the sources of information for 90% of people in the West, and they are quite happy with the way things are going.

      1. Nigeria, Russia, England, Democrativ republic of Congo, Mexico, Phillipines

        In which of the above countries is it not safe to be a ‘Christian’?

  70. Gold & silver rise again as Fed surprises markets with rate hike. Email. 23 March 2023.

    Monday saw gold reach a new UK record of £1,648.64 per ounce, storming past $2,000 for the first time in over a year, before some calm returned on the hopes that any contagion had been contained. The latest raft of interest rate decisions from the world’s central banks however has sparked further volatility and reignited fears that the crisis is not over.

    Despite the stronger pound gold currently remains above £1,600 per ounce, and continues to look strong. Silver is also at it’s highest in over a month, hitting £18.80 / $23.11 per ounce today. Even with billions of dollars pumped into the banking system fragility remains, with the likes of First Republic touted as another potential collapse to come. With each domino that falls the system comes under even more pressure, and could soon be faced with another 2008 Lehman moment that triggers a more widespread collapse.

    2. I don’t much like Boris Johnson but I despise and loathe his persecutors even more – and especially that horrible woman who wanted to exchange information with paedophiles and wanted the age of consent reduced to 12.

      1. The whole thing is a witch hunt and trying to deflect people’s attention from what is really going on.

        1. The Left learned they could not silence the man, so they set about killing the message.

  73. King Charles III (The Turd) rendezvousing with Starmer and Sunak to discuss the return to the EU and eviction of northerners (whatever they are) to make room for more oppressed victims of French concentration camps.

    https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/336806109_951928129580564_2158707820505681185_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=0aipU3XGcL8AX8EKfdq&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg2-1.xx&oh=00_AfBr7AGTjFhSkp2mVDpS4OQTzO7_QbHM-FgmzdPtxnB13g&oe=64212ED7

    1. Remember how Othello wooed Desdemona? He told her some fantastic tales of his adventures and the things he had seen which were mainly mumbo jumbo. But Desdemona fell for it and fell in love with him. I must say he had quite an impressive chat up technique and I tried to learn from it when wooing my lovely bride, Caroline!

      Her father loved me, oft invited me,
      Still questioned me the story of my life
      From year to year—the battles, sieges, fortunes
      That I have passed.
      I ran it through, even from my boyish days
      To th’ very moment that he bade me tell it,
      Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances:
      Of moving accidents by flood and field,
      Of hairbreadth ’scapes i’ th’ imminent deadly
      breach,
      Of being taken by the insolent foe
      And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence,
      And portance in my traveller’s history,
      Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
      Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads
      touch heaven,
      It was my hint to speak—such was my process—
      And of the cannibals that each other eat,
      The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
      Do grow beneath their shoulders.       These things to
      hear
      Would Desdemona seriously incline.
      But still the house affairs would draw her thence,
      Which ever as she could with haste dispatch
      She’d come again, and with a greedy ear
      Devour up my discourse. Which I, observing,
      Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
      To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
      That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
      Whereof by parcels she had something heard,
      But not intentively. I did consent,
      And often did beguile her of her tears
      When I did speak of some distressful stroke
      That my youth suffered. My story being done,
      She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.
      She swore, in faith, ’twas strange, ’twas passing
      strange,
      ’Twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful.
      She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished
      That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked
      me,
      And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
      I should but teach him how to tell my story,
      And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake.
      She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
      And I loved her that she did pity them.
      This only is the witchcraft I have used.
      Here comes the lady. Let her witness it.

    2. Those lampreys are within a whisker of losing their lives.
      Otters say “Hooray for Henry!”

    3. Good for him (or her). Better those than trout or grayling which would require far more expenditure of energy on the part of the otter anyway. The river keeper always says he’s happy that the otters are there because they take eels, lampreys and jack pike rather than the more agile trout and grayling.

      1. Fear not – you have two weeks of summer to look forward to – before winter sets in again.

  77. A dreadful Double-Bogie Six today.

    Wordle 642 6/6
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    ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
    ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨
    🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    1. Soaring up here with the eagles.

      Wordle 642 2/6

      🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    2. The middle ground.

      Wordle 642 4/6

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

    1. It says Eid Mubarak – but Eid is at the end of Ramadan, not the start. Is this photo from a previous year, or – dare I say it – a fake?

    2. It looks like a disgusting picture of a naked woman pissing down Nelson’s column!

    1. Aux armes, citoyens !
      Formez vos bataillons !
      Marchons ! Marchons !
      Sur Macron!
      Que son sang impur
      Abreuve nos sillons !

    2. There are only so many police officers. Their strength relies on their ability to support one another. Remove that, and they’re stuffed. Practice their own tactics on them.

  82. That’s me gone. Rain shortly. Fine tomorrow AND Saturday – then three coldish days the back to nicer weather.

    How terribly badly paid Cur Ikea Slammer is….(sarc).

    Have a spiffing evening.

    A demain

    1. ten three coldish days the back to nicer weather.

      The lack of wine is getting to you….

    1. Over the years I’ve had several dogs. Some came to me struggling, unsocialised, poorly tempered with severe ‘issues’. With time, care, discipline and consistency they’ve all come out the other side poorly tempered, mean vicious buggers, err, I mean daft softies.

      It all comes down to the owner. I imagine he bred aggression into the poor dog intending to use it in fights.

      2. Oscar has been my toughest challenge in this respect (his predecessor had issues, but none as severe as Oscar’s). We’re getting there, but it’s going to be a long haul.

        1. Do you know what kind of mis-treatment might have caused him to behave as he did/does?

          1. No, but I deduce from the fact he didn’t want anybody to walk past him when he was lying down (he’d leap up and bite your toes) that someone had kicked him when he was lying down. Similarly, he didn’t want anyone to touch his head – he’d nip – so I think someone whapped him around the head, too. He guards his food, which makes me think he’s been teased with his dish before now – Oscar seriously likes food! He is much better now, but still reverts occasionally – presumably when instinct and memory kick in and he forgets that such treatment is a thing of the past. I don’t think he’s a nasty dog at all.

          3. Now I can step over him and he’ll only look up (as opposed to hanging off my trouser leg when I first tried it!) and walk past him with no problems. He accepts the vacuum cleaner without trying to bite it and the same with the broom. I still can’t groom him, though. He must have had a terrible experience in that department because no amount of cuddles and T touch will let him get a brush on him, but he will accept cuddles and strokes (which he didn’t like at first).

          4. I have had four dogs over the years- I have never had one who didn’t like his grub.

          5. I had one that wasn’t a foodie. He defeated all attempts to turn him round. I think he was a psychopath – he’d been found locked in a kitchen cupboard when he was young – his owner at the time was an alcoholic. Charlie was just a wild child – he’d had no discipline whatsoever when I got him. For him it was a steep learning curve, but he’d do anything for a biscuit 🙂

  87. EU Told Dutch Govt to Double Down on Forced Farm Closures to Gain ‘More Flexibility’ on Green Regulations

    KURT ZINDULKA 23 Mar 2023

    The European Union has been accused of “meddling” in domestic Dutch politics after it was revealed that an unelected Eurocrat advised the Rutte government to push forward with plans to enact forced buyouts of farmers in exchange for more “flexibility” from the bloc on regulations.

    Diederik Samsom, the former head of the left-wing Dutch Labor Party, who now serves as the unelected head of cabinet for First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans, has been revealed to have told the pro-EU globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte in November that it should proceed with plans to buy out farmers despite the populist revolt beginning last summer with mass tractor protests and culminated in the pro-farmer BBB becoming the nation’s largest party in last week’s elections.
    *
    *
    *
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/23/eu-told-dutch-govt-to-double-down-on-forced-farm-closures-to-gain-more-flexibility-on-green-regulations/

    2. Not using fertilser in crops results in halved crop yields. At a time when we need food, desperately, the idiocy of shutting down production of that resource is as simple as the state saying ‘we’re happy for you to starve as long as we get our way’.

      How many must die for people to realise the EU is enacting Stalinist communism?

          1. Very funny, not historically accurate but still with a fair representation of the mentality of the period.

          2. A have the DVD of this, that we have watched and watched and I don’t think we’ll be watching again. I’m happy to give it to any Nottler who wants it.

          3. Have to agree. It’s the first new feature film I have watched in literally two decades. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

  88. World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in the female category at international events.

    The governing body’s president, Lord Coe, said no transgender athlete who had gone through male puberty would be permitted to compete in female world ranking competitions from 31 March.

    A working group will be set up to conduct further research into the transgender eligibility guidelines.

    “We’re not saying no forever,” he said.

    1. Good for them.

      The real way forward would be for a group of very thick-skinned sportsmen to transgender and enter every female sporting competition they could, ideally those of professional sports.
      Rugby, Swimming, Athletics, Tennis, Golf, Soccer, whatever and especially those which require superior strength. And then insist that they be allowed to compete.
      It would put an and to the nonsense once and for all.

      1. You don’t even have to mutilate yourself. Just rock up, a strapping 6 footer with a beard, say you’re name is Dorothy and smash all the women’s records. Next day go back to living how you did before the farce.

      2. …and look at the caveats:

        No-one who had gone through male puberty.

        We’re not saying NO forever.

        1. And we damned well should be.
          If only Nadal Federer etc said, “Hi I’m a girl and I want to take all your prize money”

      3. We need all the females to turn up and then refuse to compete. How foolish everyone else would look.

  89. I noticed the new BBC advert for a talent show.
    They have a woman with arms sprouting from her back, I wonder if Hindus can take offence?
    I would be delighted if they made the type of fuss the Muslims would over similar depictions and forced it off air..

          1. I’ll forgive you.

            Make the most of it, I’m feeling unusually benevolent for a change

    2. Why would they ever give up a power like that, to imprison everybody on a whim?

  91. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c6d1b3b5a017d3a6b2befe14b4191c6e990cd9ab68ab67e9fd6ede635df5a166.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2909f2d9466b012a9c7dc68b15e5846aab49ae99a77b3df31f1daa5186e9be26.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6d7f28467e1a82e588a449cc84534a80b0819e7036e5ed8dcaa77b360fd432d7.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7a942f11c7814f5ef69b3fb31eb0d6c108aa3d7cf2681ec28d2b047bf3e94069.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1eee4e38183a4113b918fbfb9fa0a1c334e79e3e6acd35e746c5e4f906f31e5d.jpg The sub saharan oligarch loves a sucker..they chose the wrong chap!!

  92. Oooops
    Islam, don’tcha just lurve it?

    Ten Saudi Arabian judges ‘face the death penalty after they were deemed too soft on women’s rights activists’
    The judges have all been charged with high treason after signing confessions
    One of the judges allowed a prominent women’s rights campaigner to walk free two months after she appeared before him in December 2020

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11895019/Ten-Saudi-Arabian-judges-face-death-penalty-soft-womens-rights-activists.html

    1. Isn’t it Saudi Arabia that puts up the money for all the mosque building chez nous?

      1. It is thought that he is a genetic throwback to George III (‘Farmer George’).

      1. 372384+ up ticks,

        Evening M,
        Plenty of reciprocating saw users about,
        just takes a tad longer.

  94. Evening, all. I was pointing out to a couple of friends over coffee and biscuits this afternoon, that the worst part of the whole sorry episode was that they were partying because they knew it was fake at a time when they were insisting people couldn’t be with dying relatives or visit people in care homes. They agreed with me and one confessed to having had a change of mind about covid, going from being “fearful” to now being a sceptic. I hammered home the message that it was all about control.

    1. And the thing about this whole witch hunt that I hate most is that the parties, the visits, and all the rest are distractions from the real issue:
      The total abuse of power and the manipulation of the media.
      That’s what they should all be on trial for, not silly parties.

      1. They should all be on trial for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity. To this we might add malfeasance in public office, bribery, corruption and profiteering.

        I am quite sure some educated lawyers will be able to add substantially to the litany of crimes perpetrated by the UK government and its medical and health advisors.

        When Matt Hancock is on video record confirming his aim to scare the shit out of the populace, requesting his colleagues to increase demands for testing in order that he might better meet his vaccination ‘targets’ and then asking whether he can release the next variant the game was surely up.

        Where the fuck are the BBC and our Media on this?

        1. Because it fears being commercialised, the BBC is clinging on to its Licence Fee like er grim death!

        2. They are funded now by major corporates such as Vanguard and Blackrock, who own Pfizer….

    1. I could understand if they were protesting against net zero tyranny, but they’ve really chosen the wrong topic. After this mess goes down, they’ll be lucky to get any pensions at all, let alone at 62!

      1. I think the pensions age issue was probably the last straw, and possibly ‘translated’ into ‘protesting about pension age’ for consumption by the UK audience in case we get ideas of our own regarding protesting – a million people out on the streets in Paris this evening, and it’s only Thursday!! I have seen eu flags being burned and banners declaring ‘NATO out of Ukraine’. The very fact that they are trying to keep these demonstrations quiet here indicates that our govt is terrified of things kicking off, possibly it is too soon for them and not all their ducks/UN pawns are in place yet. Mostly I think this is all about tyranny and lack of voice, such as we have here in the UK. We are just slower to come to the boil, but it will come.

        2. By the time we have come to the boil there will be so many non-indigenous here that we will be in a minority anyway.

          Kipling’s wonderful poem was about the English. We are full of British but not so many English/Scottish/Welsh.

          3. I’m English. Only my father’s father was Welsh, the rest of my relations were English for generations.

          4. On my Father’s side I can trace my ancestry in direct line to be very English all the way back to 1580 but…

            …om my Mama’s side I can trace it back to 530 and Egil, King in Sweden (Uppsala) and then, in direct line down through, Norwegians, Orkneyans and many European nobles (including 8 kings of England and 1 Queen) down through 50 generations and am happy to have added a further 3 generations with my daughter, granddaughter and a great granddaughter and a great grandson.

        3. Probably true! When I think of all those sheep queuing up to vote Macron because “we cannot let the far right be elected”….

          1. Hello Sue! She is a beautiful doggie and always up for a good hunt especially if rats are involved. Fortunately we don’t have too many of them but we do get the occasional visitor from a nearby stream. She had a check up last week – she is doing all right on her heart ‘meds’ and her condition is stable but sadly her lymphomae are growing larger but from what I’ve seen of other dogs with this condition they have some way to go yet. The vet (a different one in the practice) was really pleased with her condition under the circumstances and in view of the fact that she was diagnosed last October. We walk to the duckpond at the other end of the village a couple of times a week, about a mile in total, and she lollops alongside us there and back, and half the distance on other days. Her appetite has improved, especially on M&S chicken and Waitrose organic pasta and with mixed veg and she will eat her Lily’s Kitchen dog food again now, as well, but just as a little snack, you understand! She didn’t want to know about food in the early days after being diagnosed, it was so hard to tempt her. However she is 13 yrs 8 months and the vet warned us – the usual one in the practice that we see – that the situation can change at any time. At the end of November he was hard put to advise whether or not she would last until Christmas, and twice in the early stages I really did wonder whether we would be bringing her back home with us from the vet…. awful days.

          3. And cats! Lily is bone thin, but still has very springy legs – she’s taken to jumping up on the kitchen worktop – something she’s never done before. I’m trying to discourage her gently, but she stole a bit of chicken the other day so I have to make sure we don’t leave any food out now.

          4. I haven’t had cats since I was a child and none of them grew old – we lived opposite the church, but between us and the churchyard ran a very busy road. They seldom lasted long on their way to and from the hunting ground. To me, cats are ephemeral companions.

          5. I’ve lost one or two that way, but when we were house-hunting, not being near a main road was one important criterion. Pat and Joe, our cats at that time, lived to be 17 & 18. Suzie and Sam 17 and 15. Sam had cancerous tumours, which developed quite rapidly and we had to have him pts eventually. Suzie disappeared one evening – and was never seen again. Although she was healthy, she was stone deaf by then and I think a fox or something took her – she wouldn’t have heard anything creeping up. Our neighbour lost her cat the same week and only her fluffy tail was found.

          6. Its so strange how they develop different habits as they age. Perhaps like us, age makes them lose their inhibitions about these things.

          8. She’s lovely! Such a sweetie! I recall ‘James Herriot’ saying the way to get over a dog’s death is to get another as soon as possible. I’m not sure, at the moment it would feel like a betrayal but perhaps that time will come. How long did it take your daughter to get to being able to accept another dog? Ever since we have started our ‘bonus months’ I have felt scooped out inside, hollowed out, whenever I think of her not being there. We haven’t had the usual signs of ageing, the greying of the muzzle (she is white) and she is still active when not snoozing, there is no stiffness – she will take a flying leap at the sofa each evening from halfway across the rug when it is treat time. She is very graceful, and I delight in watching the wind ruffle her fur as she sniffs the air. She was our little travelling companion and is our best friend. So many memories. xx

          9. Isn’t she a cutie? Emma had to put Lyra to sleep (she’s a vet!) at the beginning of February after a very large tumour on her leg threatened to burst and become an emergency. She wanted it calm and peaceful at home, which it was. She was absolutely devastated and had also had a miscarriage which affected her terribly. It’s just the last week that she’s felt up to thinking about the future. It’s lambing madness on the farm and I think she needs a companion. Lyra was there through a lot of changes, and while certainly she can’t be replaced, she will help to get life back to ‘normal’! I wish you much joy and peace with Poppie. 💐💕

          10. Thank you. A difficult and emotional time for your daughter. I don’t think you can replace a dog ever, the new one simply runs alongside the old dog in your heart. 💕🤗

          11. Thank you mum. Absolutely. Lyra was named from a book by Phillip Pullman. The little precious puppy may be called Willow, from Lyra’s companion Will. Or Rowan, from Lyra’s kennel name.

          1. It’s the ears – she has always been very girlie although her idea of heaven would be a barn and a few rats to sniff out! Her looks belie her intentions, a rodent killer at large.

          2. Unlike my two terriers who when I had rats (I haven’t seen them for weeks since I trapped and disposed of one) just run around barking their heads off with no chance of catching a rodent.

          4. I admit, I liked your original avatar, as it seemed to epitomise your happy, caring nature.

            But, that’s just me…

    3. It has been obvious for some time that the French government under WEF and their puppet Macron has utilised foreign imports who dress up and pretend to be legitimate police and provide a brutal treatment to civil protesters.

      I suspect that our own government, equally under WEF orders, are importing similar foreign legions (illegal alien immigrants) in order to deploy these fighting age men against our own peaceful population.

      This mistaken and brutal policy is backfiring in France and causing immense fracture of society and destruction of buildings. The same will certainly occur in the UK, the process delayed only by the general tolerance of our society by comparison with France. The response and outcome however will be fiercer than anything the French can muster.

        1. Sorry, I must have clicked on the wrong thread – I was talking about the black race-baiter woman who was shot by some other blacks at a garden party – nobody is prepared to come forward as witness so nobody has been prosecuted.

          So apologies, I got my tweets mixed up!

  98. A bit of a nothing done day today, but I’m just about ready for some concrete mixing.
    Might get it done tomorrow.

    In the meantime, g’night all.

  99. My elder son called in this afternoon – it was good to see him, but sadly, he’d been to a funeral. An old schoolfriend from primary school days…. 52 is much too young. Quite a lot of his old friends were there.

    1. Sad indeed. March 14 would have been my best friend’s birthday; we became close friends when we lived a couple of doors down in south London. She would have turned 69- same as me. She died at 29. Breast cancer which spread; she didn’t stand a chance.

      1. That’s much too young. I was 48 when I had BC the first time but it hadn’t spread. One of my old schoolfriends who also had two goes with it, now has it again……..aggressive new cancers after years of remission can be an effect from the jabs, apparently.

        1. Or in my case, the lack of being able to see a doctor which enabled my skin cancer to get aggressive and to be in the state it’s in.

          1. We’ve been lucky here with our GP surgery – no problem getting appointments.

            Was the treatment you had last year unsuccessful? I hope you get to see someone soon.

          2. Pretty much. After the third surgery I was told that they couldn’t get all the cancer out. I now have a lump the size of a bird egg under my right ear. And it hurts. Can’t get my appointment moved earlier so April 14 is it.

  101. Well I congratulate my self for watching most of the Italy v England football match this evening. Boring as most of it was.
    The ref was a bit of a nutter. Handing more cards than a dealer in a casino.
    And I don’t think that was really a penalty.
    I thought hand ball was supposed to be as described. Not when the ball drops out of the sky at catches your arm.
    Oh well it came in handy.
    So it’s good night from me 🥱😌

    1. Anything to do with Italian football and European football in general has the stench of bribery and corruption about it specially regarding referees. I have not seen yellow cards given for time wasting at throw-ins in the middle of a game where a referee has the ability to simply add time lost to the match duration.

      The referee was Polish I believe so it remains a mystery to me quite why a Pole should favour an Italian. Maybe my recollection of European history is at fault.

      The handball was a clear penalty as without the intervention of the arm the ball will have been chested down by Kane in a scoring position.

      2. I guess it all depends on the size of the Bung.
        The Italian boys spent a lot of time rolling around on the ground. No cards for them.

  104. Boris Johnson says papers central to clearing his name missing from partygate dossier
    Accusation by former PM that committee is holding back supportive documents adds to suspicions he will not accept its verdict
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/23/boris-johnson-says-papers-central-clearing-name-missing-partygate/

    BTL

    What did Ian Hislop say:

    “If this is justice I am a banana.”

    Mind you, since he went woke Hislop has grown into a fully developed plantain!

    Just because many of us think Mr Johnson is beneath contempt doesn’t mean we should think he should be denied a fair hearing.

  107. Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk.

    I confess, I’ve taken to ignoring the 06:00 alarm and am happy to snooze on.

    2. Good morning Jasper. I just can’t believe you actually put the alarm on! Especially for 0600! Good grief.

    3. No wonder you can’t sleep Tom. Why do you want to wake up at 6? Not as if you’ve got to go to work. Turn it off and wake up when you wake up.

    1. The French police know that their numbers have been infiltrated by foreign thugs imported by Macron and dressed up as bona fide police.

      They have done the right thing in standing down.

      Prepare for much the same in the UK when we demonstrate against the state. Our government have been importing hundreds of thousands of supplicant fighting age persons for the same purpose. This will not end well for them just as it will not end well for WEF puppet Macron.

    2. We need that sort of turnaround in the UK Stasi, to give us the courage to take on the Gov’t.

      The armed services should join us as well.

      We may only fight fire with fire,

  110. Further to my original post today, I eventually decided to spend tonight watching all three of the final episodes of ENDEAVOUR. A wonderful ending to the entire series, tying up a lot of loose ends. It would be criminal to reveal any of the plot details, however there is one comment I will make: in one of the episodes Morse remarks that the sole of a victim’s shoes has hardly been used and therefore they must have been purchased recently. He says something like “They’re clearly hardly marked” but pronounces “clearly” as “clurley”, thus revealing that the actor has a strong Liverpool accent.
    And now, chums, it’s a Good Night and Sleep Well from me.

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