Thursday 27 October: The Home Secretary must act now to stem illegal Channel migration

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    1. Morning bb2 and everyone

      So what you are saying is that China is being Orc-hestrated……?

    3. Boss-man without mask, showing who is in charge. The others with mask, showing who is subservient.
      Rats assholes, the lot of them.

      1. Yes, I noted the flunkeys in masks too. It’s an insult to the millions of Chinese who have to wear masks, get tests shoved up their noses and swipe their vaxx passports the whole time as well.

  2. 355639+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Thursday 27 October: The Home Secretary must act now to stem illegal Channel migration.

    Far to late to shut the gate.

    Thursday 27 October: The Home Secretary must act now to stem the morally illegal, immigrant Channel crossing, home invaders.

    Home invasion calls for armed forces intervention in place of a proven defunct police force

    Double that up with the inland morally illegal peoples holding pens, a terrorist delight, they are on breakout point, an outpour of troubles galore, imminent.

    Now is the time for ALL good lab/lib/con/ current ukip party members ro come to the aid of the coalition and take in a brace of morally illegals.

  4. The Home Secretary must act now to stem illegal Channel migration

    Bit like mending a leaky pipe after the ceiling just fell in

    1. The senior civil servants at the Home Office are out to get her.

      Suella Braverman faces civil servant backlash over reappointment

      Decision ‘sends clear signal that ministers can act with impunity’

      By Charles Hymas, HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR and Tony Diver, WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT
      26 October 2022 • 9:39pm

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/26/suella-braverman-faces-civil-servant-backlash-reappointment/

      The Times make it clear that they support the senior civil servants – their readership.

        2. Looks like it. Maybe to be hounded out. She resigned for a trivial offence (using the wrong phone). Not exactly treason. I doubt that she was thinking, “I’ll be reinstated in a fortnight”.

        3. DM “Exclusive”:

          Suella Braverman was embroiled in probe over leak that raised ‘concerns’ at MI5
          Home Secretary was included in an investigation this year by a little-known unit
          The leak related to a story about the Government’s plan to apply for an injunction
          The story said that it was the Attorney General who was seeking the injunction
          It is understood leak about her plans caused ‘concern’ to the Security Service

          https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11358451/Suella-Braverman-embroiled-probe-leak-raised-concerns-MI5.html

      2. The Grimes – and 90% of its BTLers are virulently against Brexit, pro illegal immigration. And all for eco-freakery. Most odd.

          1. The crossword and the cricket – though not that any more.

            Pure habit – started in 1954.

        2. For some reason unknown to me, Mrs H J gets the Saturday version, which I find exactly as you have described. It’s turning into the Grauniad!

    1. So clever , brilliant photo , how can they do this so clearly, yet here in our area even getting a phone signal/ or a non crackling radio programme can be very difficult .

  10. 366639+ up ticks,

    Enlightening,

    Vintagebobt
    @bobstackle
    ·
    21h
    Just bought a ‘low energy light bulb’ at B & Q. Assistant asked “Will you be putting this up yourself?” I said No – Its going in the lounge

  11. Good morning all

    What a warm night .. then an hour ago we had a short sharp fierce rain downpour , must have lasted less than five minutes .. I had left some quite wet towels on the line , used for my washing machine mopping up ..

    I think the outside temp is now 16c.. very mild and tropical.

  13. Why are families on very low incomes carrying on having new babies .. ?

    The state and charities are picking up the tab , and providing baby starter kits (clothes bedding cots prams and food )

    1. I suppose we do need children at some point, the reasonably well off cannot afford to have them,

    2. You cannot have it both ways. if we wish to avoid race replacement we need nice little native white babies. Where is subsidy best given, to UK families or savages who have just run up the beach?
      Note that British birth rate is barely at replacement level.

      From Office of National Statistics;
      In 2021, 28.8% of live births were to non-UK-born women; this is a decrease from 29.3% in 2020.
      The total fertility rate (TFR) increased for UK-born women to 1.54 children per woman; the TFR for non-UK-born women remained at 2.03 children per woman.
      In 2021, Pakistan remained the most common country of birth for non-UK-born fathers; Romania was the most common country of birth for non-UK-born mothers, and this was up from second in 2020.
      Albania moved into the top ten most common countries of birth for both non-UK-born mothers and non-UK-born fathers for the first time.

      My highlighting.

      1. Note that British birth rate is barely at replacement level. – as it should be. There are too many people already, so fewer births can only be an advantage.

    3. You cannot have it both ways. if we wish to avoid race replacement we need nice little native white babies. Where is subsidy best given, to UK families or savages who have just run up the beach?
      Note that British birth rate is barely at replacement level.

    1. All paid for by the contracts given out by our government who pay for it all using our money. Housing money is paid directly by government to Serco not to the tenant.
      For more info, see “Red doors. Middlesborough”

      1. 366639+ up ticks,#

        Morning HP.
        Property maintenance cost
        alone is surely an irresistible
        bribe
        I suppose the admiration for their dodgy dealings keeps them in power, it’s certainly NOT their good work’s,

  16. At least with Rishi we will not feel disappointed and betrayed like we have with other leaders that have pretended to be right wing and then do an about turn in power.

  18. SIR – C J Fletcher (Letters, October 25) wonders where all the wasps went this year. Some at least are in West Dorset and have since June taken up residence in our wood shed, where they have constructed a nest about 2ft in circumference.

    Apparently, when the outside temperature falls the queen will go into hibernation and the workers will abandon the nest. However, as it is still mild, they are busy stripping our well-seasoned logs to expand the nest even further. We cannot enter the shed to get logs for fear of enraging the sentry wasps and getting stung, so are unable to light our wood-burning stove for those days when we could enjoy some extra warmth.

    D E Gardner
    Fleet, Dorset

    Here on our South Dorsetty parts, we haven’t seen a single wasp, nor a ladybird , grasshoppers , beetles or craneflies , so what on earth is going on .

    1. Doh! Do keep up! They are yummy and are all being eaten by the schoolchildren as per the directives of Klaus Schwab.

    2. I have a plastic bag containing some shredded paper hanging in my woodshed. It looks like a reasonably big wasps’ nest, and up til now, appears to have done the trick of putting off new colonies (touch wood).

      We had wasps in part of the roof this year – the entrance (which I will block in March next year!) was near the front door. Unlike previous years, these wasps were very mild-mannered – they haven’t stung us once, even when they got confused on a dark morning and flew through the open front door towards the light.

    5. I look after a patch of ‘rewilded’ ground. Very few butterflies this year, even though an adjacent field was left uncultivated this summer. No nesting by swallows housemartins or swifts, although they visited during some evenings.

    6. Your invertebrates must have all migrated to southern Sweden. We have good numbers (as usual) of all the species (and more) that you mention.

    7. Same here, Maggie, apart from one wasp in September. Seen only one bluetit on our feeders. Last year it would have been at least half a dozen.

  19. Morning, all. From where I’m sitting I can see a bright pink and blue sky. Another nice day in prospect with the odd morning shower to contend with. Bread making on the early morning agenda along with boring household chores followed by some soil moving in the afternoon.
    Enough of my mundane Thursday, the excitement appears to be happening in Iran, not that people are aware as censorship of populations rising up against oppression/bad government is the order of the day within the MSM. Deposing the mullahs and their controlling way of life would be a fillip for the Persian people.

    https://twitter.com/MahyarTousi/status/1585300686828613632

      1. Iran said they wanted to join BRICS, so I’d guess so. I wonder whether Argentina (BRICS applicant) or Uganda (large gold discovery) will be the next in line for a dose of democracy and freedom.

  20. Good morning, all. A grey, damp morning. Feeling brighter – thank goodness.

    Any news?

    1. Yes. I’m feeling grottier and am going back to bed once I’ve finished this mug of tea.

      1. Good luck. Are your symptoms like mine were? No temp; no fever; no headache – just a cough and very heavy cold and feeling like shite?

    3. Heck. I can’t cope with a cheerful Eeyore.
      A positively unnatural state of affairs.
      But …. thank goodness.

  21. As I commented yesterday, Miss Braveheart has the great misfortune to look guilty/shifty. Of course not her fault – but it doesn’t help her cause.

          1. As her snivel serpents are – apparently – refusing to obey her orders – I fear her time as Home Sec is limited….

    2. She comes from a culture where women don’t assert themselves, I think. I knew a woman from Mauritius, she was highly qualified, but in the presence of men from her culture, she would turn all apologetic and shifty.
      I’ve also seen this behaviour from muslim women from other countries.

      2. Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman née Fernandes [named after the character in Dallas] is a practising Buddhist.

        1. Perhaps it’s cultural? Anyway, I think she is a Good Thing – I hope she manages to get one over on the misery-guts at the Home Office.

  22. As I commented yesterday, Miss Braveheart has the great misfortune to look guilty/shifty. Of course not her fault – but it doesn’t help her cause.

  24. Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive and well in Memphis, despite an earlier report erroneously claiming he had passed away.

    After claiming that he had died, TMZ then reported that someone claiming to be Lewis’ representative had incorrectly informed them Lewis had passed, which turned out to not be true.

    Lewis – whose first hit was the 1957 track Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On, followed by the iconic song Great Balls Of Fire – recently sparked health concerns among fans when it was revealed that he had been suffering from the flu.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11358609/Jerry-Lee-Lewis-dead-87-Great-Balls-Fire-singer-passed-away-home-Memphis.html

  25. Rochdale grooming gang members to be deported to Pakistan. 27 October 2022.

    Two members of the Rochdale grooming gang are set to be deported to Pakistan after a seven-year legal battle following a ruling by immigration judges.

    Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 52, are being thrown out of the UK following the gang’s convictions in 2012 of a series of sex crimes against young girls.

    The decision comes a decade after they were jailed and following a number of legal challenges and appeals to the Court of Appeal.

    I’ll believe it when I see it!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/26/rochdale-grooming-gang-members-deported-pakistan/

    2. ‘Morning, Minty. Only two members of the gang to be booted out, and it has taken us 10 years to do so? You would think that the whole lot should have been long gone, instead of expecting the poor sodding taxpayer to pay for their sentences? Have I misunderstood something?

      1. Those two were were probably born in Pakistan and neglected to take out British citizenship. They can’t deport the others.

  26. Morning all, an exciting start to the day beckons, off to do the weekly grocery shop. Mrs VVOF and I have a new game, how many shopping bags will we need to pack the shopping that cost us a fortune this week. I normally overestimate, Mrs VVOF is normally accurate. I now understand the term food bank, you need to own a bank to afford food!
    We know how to live an exciting life don’t we.

    1. Good morning VVOF

      I managed with two yesterday.. Why?

      Because pre covid but Brexit and Johnson time, I stocked up on tins of this that and the other , clothes washing gear, toothpaste , shampoo, and stuff for the freezer .. all I need are eggs milk and fresh veg , fruit and meat , oh yes and dog food .

  27. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/373871b295df45008c78a74fc4c8059949fa37b1e05aeb85c689aaf2fa176e4c.jpg

    ‘Morning, Peeps. It’s good to be back. The rain is lashing down and here on yer sarf coast it is a yellow-ish grey outside. Fortunately (fortunately?) I’m on decorating duty today so the weather isn’t too much of a concern. And I did at least get the grass cut yesterday afternoon.

    Oh yes, modesty almost prevented me from mentioning the fact the the DT Letters Editor has finally seen the light and actually printed my letter…

  28. SIR – One wonders if the Labour Party has considered that removing charitable status from independent schools, as was suggested on the Today programme yesterday, would increase the fees, making them beyond the reach of many parents and resulting in additional state places being needed for these children whose parents can no longer afford to pay. How will this help the struggling education budget?

    Giselle Strawbridge
    Combe Down, Somerset

    Don’t be silly, Ms Strawbridge; joined-up thinking by Labour? I think you are expecting rather a lot. But when it comes to political dogma…

      2. Getting close Bill…if Heathfield now finds itself on yer sarf coast then that pesky coastal erosion is far worse than I had realised. Perhaps I should have said “Yer sarfeast coast”…

    2. Hugh J. If you look at the Labour Party’s policy on this from their angle then it is joined up thinking. Their policy clearly is, and has been for decades, to degrade the educational standards within the UK. It has to be so, or why would they be so determined to attack centres of, mainly, excellence. They detested the Grammars even though those schools gave opportunity to many pupils from a working class background: I was fortunate to be one of those pupils.
      Many of the current crop of politicians of all (claimed) shades are literally enemies of the people. They support policies e.g. Net Zero, that have wider implications than just heating one’s house or being able to cook food: lack of energy equates to lack of most of what a modern society needs to maintain the status quo. A prime example is fertiliser production: shortages are in the pipeline and hence food production is under threat.
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3d8fb106def2f8c9e3ffb3df61436f383caecfe09712e1dd5cc895a6cc8ee841.png

      1. I agree, Korky. Labour is at least good at something – dumbing down. It all springs from their jealousy of those who are prepared to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Twas ever thus.

        1. I don’t think your last sentence is necessarily true.
          My father was a socialist and Labour Party man, looking back now and recalling what he claimed his basic beliefs were i.e. equal opportunity for all, in a nutshell, meritocracy, and support for those who really couldn’t help themselves, are vastly different ideas from today. Now, the ‘state’ is ubiquitous and uses that condition as a means to control the people.

          A week in politics is a long time, nigh on 60 years is time for evolution and sadly the Labour Party has evolved beyond help.

    3. Interestingly where i live pre-financial crisis the local state schools were diabolical – and so parents either put their hands in their pocket and paid for private, or moved a mile down the road to a Borough with better schools. Our local schools were populated by kids from aspiring parents bussed in from over the river (where the schools were even worse). Just after the crisis was a period of great angst for local parents as they had no choice but to send their kids locally. The kids that were bussed in were no longer able to get places. Now it’s all flowed through, our local schools are doing very well and the private schools are in trouble. Parents have dosh to spend on overseas holidays and eating out. Meanwhile the aspirational kids have been blocked out.

      I’m not sure if this is the progress Labour wants?

      1. Given that they removed the Assisted Places scheme and wrecked the grammar schools, Labour clearly doesn’t like the idea of bright working class children getting a good education. It makes them uppity (and upwardly mobile) so they no longer vote Labour.

    4. I have been saying this for many years.

      If you remove the charitable status of schools then the state should pay the private school which educates a child the same amount of money as it would have spent on that child’s education.

      Our sons went to a private primary school in France. The income the school received from the state was based on the number of children it taught and it was so well run that we did not have to pay any fees.

  30. A second Good Morning all.
    After a return to bed and a few more hours sleep, the calm dry morning has turned rather nasty.
    It is now a slightly milder 8° but the dry calm air has turned into a heavy low cloud with a nasty cold rain. Still quite calm though.

      1. Absolutely. Fitzpatricks are expensive but they are also the best. A friend’s dog had a cruciate ligament repair; the surgeon put in an artificial ligament and the dog still does not walk properly.
        Misty has a small metal plate in both legs secured by six screws and it is impossible to tell that she has had surgery.
        Good morning, btw.

        2. Two of the clinicians were at our elder daughters wedding! One she was with at Royal Dick Vet, and Gerard she worked with at Glasgow Vet School! They both think Noel and his set up are amazing!

    1. It’s not “playing with fire” Korky.>>

      i quote from SABC:

      “BP’s LNG tanker, British Sponsor, has already arrived offshore northern Mozambique, says Welligence Energy Analytics in a note, with all of Coral Sul’s annual gas output of 3.4 million tones contracted to BP for 20 years on a free-on-board basis.

      “Regarding the LNG export, it will be for European markets since BP is committed to take the gas resources to Europe,” says the National Petroleum Institute (INP) in an emailed response to Reuters.

      The new LNG cargoes will help alleviate a tight global LNG market and gas shortages in Europe as winter looms following Moscow’s February invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s later decision to curb gas pipeline supplies into major European Union economies”.
      .
      .
      .
      BP can provide adequate gas for Britain, but prefers to sell it to the EU. Reuters know this, so why hasn’t it been publicised in Britain?

      Why the British government allow them to do this is a question best answered by your MP.

      .

      1. I always assumed the ship’s name was a misprint for ‘sponson’

        “Sponsons are projections extending from the sides of land vehicles, aircraft or watercraft to provide protection, stability, storage locations, mounting points for weapons or other devices, or equipment housing.”
        Which at least has a nautical storage reference. Sponsor simply sounds undecided…”PSSSt, mate, wanna buy half a million tons of gas, ,no questions, sell to anyone…”

      2. There’s a problem in that there are a finite number of LNG receiving berths, so there’s a limit as to how much can be received. Maybe the berths are all booked up for the forseeable? BP might then as well take the stuff to Europe, that’ll releive their problems a tiny bit.

        1. Obviously if all the LNG receiving berths in Britain are fully booked then Britain won’t have any problems with gas supply this winter.

  33. SIR – Simon Olley’s letter (“Fracking damage”, October 25) illustrates the general public’s lack of understanding of the drilling and fracking process of an oil or gas well, whether the target reservoir is sandstone, chalk or, in this instance, shale.

    The drilling of every well worldwide involves running steel casing strings to various depths. Each casing string is then fixed in place by pumping cement (not concrete) and forcing it into the gap between the rock and the casing. The integrity of each casing and cement job is then ascertained by a combination of logging tools and pressure tests. Where necessary, more cement is pumped into position.

    Regardless of the presence or absence of a drinking water aquifer, the integrity of the casing and cement jobs is absolutely essential for the safety of the well, associated infrastructure and personnel.

    Worldwide, millions of oil and gas wells have been safely fracked over the past 70 years or so, including hundreds, if not thousands, in the North Sea. In such an environment, it was paramount that the safety of an offshore platform was never jeopardised by either a fracking-induced “earthquake” or the leakage of hydrocarbons to the surface due to a failed casing and cement job (neither of which ever occurred).

    As an oil industry engineer (now retired), I was involved in planning and executing several fracking jobs. I would have no reservations should an oil or gas company wish to drill and frack a well close to my house.

    Andrew Wilson
    Aberdeen

    This letter says it all for me. Sunak has only been in post for a few days and yet he cannot have had sufficient time to consult on this issue. In my opinion this was a particularly unwise bit of virtue-signalling, and it seems that the record number of negative responses on Guido Fawkes on this subject suggest to me that this is the most enormous blunder. Besides, what are we paying that charlatan Shatts for? He is (allegedly) S of S for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. On second thoughts perhaps he doesn’t trust him!

    PS Anything that that lunatic greenie MP from Brighton applauds must be suspect, and should be avoided like the plague.

    2. We had home made focaccia with our meal last night. Some confusion with the pronunciation. 😉

      1. 366639+ up ticks,

        Evening R,
        You mean sort of like the lab/lib/con supporters / members selective memory
        ie rotherham ect, ect

        Along those forgiving lines &
        after a time lapse TOJO finds favour again, not in my book.

        I’m glad to say I am not of
        that lower caste

  36. The Grimes is delighted to tell us that 10,000 Albanian men have arrived illegally so far this year. No doubt to claim “asylum”.

    They are – to a man – illegal economic migrants. Nothing more nor less. There is no civil war in Albania. Nor an economic catastrophe. It has not been struck by an asteroid (unfortunately). They should be returned immediately.

    If only HMG (and Border Farce) would remember the Australian shibboleth: “DON’T LET THEM LAND”

    1. I have a cousin who goes to Albania regularly for a holiday. Its a bit like Greece before the euro.

  37. Morning all 🙂
    No wonder Bore-us has ‘done a runner’, someone now has to try and fix the damn mess he’s made with his stoic silence over his open door policy. First signs of action is slowly admitting all this stupidity was illegal. But action of course speaks louder than words. His lack of action has sofar cost the UK taxpayers billions. Unless someone gets rid of these people, the ongoing issues and costs will be permanent.
    How many other countries have had so called leaders who have inflicted so much damage on the people who elected them ? Well done you idiot. 👏

      1. Or diverted to the “organisers” – the BTL comments seem unconvinced that Fataturk is motivated by goodwill. Many point out that he could instead try to make up for the damage he caused to UK … “Boris should raise lots of money to help rebuild Britain back up after the absolute catastrophe of the lock downs HE created.”

        1. Johnson’s name is in the frame for the lockdowns, and rightly so, but who were the éminences grise handing out the orders? Lockdown was a co-ordinated operation around much of the World.

          2. I don’t know if anyone else has the same recollection, but I seem to remember that his initial response was to let the virus take its course, but then he got bounced into imposing more extreme measures thanks to the OTT hysterical reaction of the MEEJAH and other politicians.

          3. Yes, but he didn’t have the backbone to resist. I suppose the fact that he was gravely ill himself must have influenced him.

          4. Thanks, BoB.
            I was sure that Johnson’s initial response was to go for ‘herd immunity’ but then, for whatever reason, he changed course and went along with the lockdown scam.

        1. She is well in herself, Alec. However she does a very good act of a pathetic dog when on the sofa; she didn’t want to do her walk today, we got about 100 yards or so and she planted all four paws down firmly and so we brought her home. As soon as we turned she perked up, she obviously wanted a duvet day today. I can understand why, it was wet underfoot and she is a small dog, and it is cloudy and dull. So we brought her home, settled her on the sofa and did the walk ourselves! Return trip to the vet again tomorrow.

          2. I had to wake Oscar up to go for a walk this morning. He was in full-on “grump” mode so I left him to it. Still grumbling and complaining he came over to stand by the door, ready to go!

  38. Good Morrow, Gentlefolk. Late on parade but I bring today’s funny:

    The Last Chance Saloon

    There I was sitting at the bar staring at my drink when a large, trouble-making biker steps up next to me, grabs my drink and gulps it down in one swig.

    “Well, whatcha’ gonna do about it?” he says, menacingly, as I burst into tears.

    “Come on, man,” the biker says, “I didn’t think you’d CRY. I can’t stand to see a man crying.”

    “This is the worst day of my life,” I say. “I’m a complete failure. I was late to a meeting and my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, I found my car had been stolen…

    …and I don’t have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home. I found my wife with another man and then my dog bit me.”

    “So I came to this bar to work up the courage to put an end to it all, I buy a drink, I drop a capsule in… and sit here watching the poison dissolve; then you show up and drink the whole bloody thing!

    But enough about me, how’s your day going?”

    Read into it what you will but I hope that all our MP servants enjoy the big gulp they’ve taken from the poisoned chalice.

  39. 366639 + up ticks,

    To LLC current ukip coalition party members this coming winter, the first death from Hypothermia is the hardest to BARE after that it will be seen as the norm so the majority voter as seen so far will be pleased to hear the voting pattern will remain unchanged.

    A Profracker.

  40. A couple of headlines in today’s DT:

    ‘Can Sunak soothe the shires while not jettisoning the Red Wall?’

    I think that the red wall evaporated overnight when Bunter was finally sacked.  With a bit of luck and a following wind Sunak may benefit from a newly-contructed brown wall to replace it…

    ‘Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth slashed by $10bn as Meta profits halve

    Share price plunges by a fifth amid doubts about future of ‘Metaverse’

    Blimey, life really is a bitch!

  41. ON THIS DAY: 27th October 1728
    Captain James Cook was born. An English naval officer and one of the greatest navigators in history. His voyages in the Endeavour led to the European discovery of Australia, New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands. Thanks to Cook’s understanding of diet, no member of the crew ever died of scurvy, the great killer on other voyages. In his youth he was apprenticed to a ship owner in Whitby, England, where there is a museum commemorating his life.

          1. I went to Rugby. We were bussed there since the playing fields were somewhat remote from the school.

          2. We have had quite a few boys and girls from Rugby School on our courses but I expect they were after your time there. Talking of which you are not on the Nottlers’ Birthday list – let me know if you would like to be.

          3. I went to Rugby. We were bussed there since the playing fields were somewhat remote from the school.

          6. We sat on Crewe station for 15 minutes between trains. Saved us couple hundred quid on the rail fare from Edinburgh. (Too convoluted to go into here.)

    2. James Cook grew up eating delicious and nourishing fish and chips, properly fried in beef tallow (not poisonous “vegetable” oils). That is still the case in Whitby and their fish and chips are serially rated as the best in the world. I will never again buy fish and chips from any chip shop that fries them in oil!

    3. His voyages in the Endeavour led to the European English discovery of Australia, New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands
      I think that’s more correct.

      1. I seem to remember visiting his landing place just north of Sydney, it was quite a long time ago I must look it up to refresh my memory. Good old yarkshire lad…..

      2. Ummm..
        Having visited Australia three times (including Tasmania) and New Zealand once, I was reminded by locals that the first known landing in Australia by EUROPEANS was in 1606 by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon. Later that year, Spanish explorer Luis Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, what is now called Torres strait and associated islands between North Australia and New Guinea.

    4. William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651;[1] died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate,[2] privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia’s first natural historian,[3] as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Francis Drake (16th century) and James Cook (18th century), he “bridged those two eras” with a mix of piratical derring-do of the former and scientific inquiry of the later.[4] His expeditions were among the first to identify and name a number of plants, animals, foods, and cooking techniques for a European audience; being among the first English writers to use words such as avocado, barbecue, and chopsticks. In describing the preparation of avocados, he was the first European to describe the making of guacamole, named the breadfruit plant, and made frequent documentation of the taste of numerous foods foreign to the European palate such as flamingo and manatee.[5]

      After impressing the Admiralty with his book A New Voyage Round the World, Dampier was given command of a Royal Navy ship and made important discoveries in western Australia, before being court-martialled for cruelty. On a later voyage he rescued Alexander Selkirk, a former crewmate who may have inspired Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Others influenced by Dampier include James Cook, Horatio Nelson, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace.

      1. Thank you S

        I enjoyed reading about William Dampier . and origin of some of our foreign foods , and the words he used .

        I wonder why he was court martialled?

      2. PS He died in Poverty in Bristol. The Book ‘A pirate of Exquisite Mind’ is a superb read..

  42. “Putin’s estranged ‘goddaughter’ flees Moscow” The Grimes.

    Now, who’d have thought of Putin as The Godfather?

  43. Boris Johnson looks to raise millions to help rebuild Ukraine. 27 October 2022.

    Boris Johnson is considering setting up a new organisation to help support Ukraine and rebuild the war-torn country as he seeks to build a new career on the international stage, The Telegraph can disclose.

    The former prime minister has set up an office in Westminster from which he hopes to start a new foundation which his friends say could raise millions to reconstruct the war-torn country.

    Pound to a penny most of this cash will come from the taxpayer!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/26/boris-johnson-looks-raise-millions-help-rebuild-ukraine/

    4. Strange how Johnson rhymes so well with Hunt.
      Can someone remind us what he actually achieved.
      Maybe in his own world lasting damage to a once stable and reasonably safe nation like the UK is an ‘achievement’.

  44. Good moaning, says Jemima Puddleduck.
    Still, at least the ponds at Allan Towers are filling up again.

  45. The MR recorded a beeboid prog where Botney chatted to, er, Stephen Fry. I dutifully watched it with her.

    To my surprise, Fry came across as a very sympathetic character. A cynic (moi??) might say that he simply acted that role – but it was a convincing one.

          6. I have read a couple of his novels which I quite enjoyed.

            He wrote one book called The Hippopotamus which was certainly rather more fun that Eugène Ionesco’s The Rhinoceros.

      2. He’s not an espeecially mentally stable man, but then genius rarely is. Unlike Hugh Laurie, who channels his music Stephen Fry seems to have far more need for an outlet.

  46. Had a bit of a chesty sore throat virus all week with a bit of a temperature, turns out I have covid according to the test kit.

    Only did the test because I has an appointment at the hospital today , now cancelled.

    Had it twice now but remain unjabbed.

  47. Apparently the so-called “King” has been on telly with a Bame.

    Said Bame made me chuckle when he revealed that his illiteracy only became apparent when he started at University…..

    Amazing that he got that far without being able to read and write.

    2. Why? In americaland there was talk of abandoning literacy requirements as they were deemed ‘racist’. Imagien a world where less was expected of people solely on the basis of skin colour! The same applies to their habitual shop lifting – apparently, that is racist too as Blacks are poorer.

      Every day, the Lefft ram us backward.

  48. I commentated earlier about my exciting start to the day going shopping. The real excitement was having a wasp that appeared in the car in a dopey state, buzzing around my head, not good doing 60 mph on the by-pass. Who mentioned wasps earlier?

  49. A bit frustrating.
    A beautiful day yesterday where I could have fired up the mixer and got some wall building done, but had things to do in Derby instead, but today is so bloody awful I’ve abandoned any thought of outside work and am contemplating going back to bed for an hour or two!

    A Tw@ter comment on the Tw@ter employee demands they are trying to place on Elon Musk:-
    https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1585552211786010624

    1. Ha! Oh the comedy! Lefties getting uppity and forgetting the world does no revolve around them. If I were Musk I’d be laughing my trrousers off.

      Respect isn’t demand, kids. It is earned.

    2. That ridiculous letter from the Twits is absolutely typical of the culture in these companies! A friend of mine is Facilities Manager in one such – she can’t even hang a picture on the wall until it’s been approved by a committee in the USA, to ensure that it can’t possibly offend anyone.
      Bridget Riley for example, is out because the contrast between black and white speaks of racism, apparently.

  50. This Trans bullshite is getting worse. A VERY disturbing read from the USA:-

    A “Trans Teen” Was Removed From Her Parent’s Care. Then She Was Sexually Abused.

    Michele and Roger Blair first reported the disappearance of their teen daughter, Sage Lily Blair, to the Appomattox, Virginia Sheriff’s Office on August 25, 2021.

    Sage, 14 years old at the time, had run away from home after experiencing intense bullying at her school stemming from a newly-adopted transgender identity. Sage, a female, had begun identifying as a boy.

    Michele and Roger would soon discover that the public high school Sage had attended was secretly encouraging her “social transition,” and had been deliberately withholding information from her family. Sage had begun calling herself “Draco” while at school, and using masculine pronouns.

    Sage’s parents first became aware of their daughter’s decision to identify as transgender when a teacher notified them of an incident report involving sexual harassment in the boy’s washroom and on the bus. Sage had tried to use the boy’s washroom as part of her “social transition,” and had faced a rape threat as a result.

    But, according to her parents, Sage’s insistence she was transgender appeared to come from a dark place.

    Michele, Sage’s mother, told Reduxx that she believes that her daughter was groomed online by adults who used the concept of a gender identity to get close to her, promising that they would be her new “family.” She says Sage had met the adults, who were posing as children, via Instagram and Snapchat.

    Just over a week after running away from home, Sage was located by the FBI.

    She had been sexually exploited by an adult man she had met over social media and who believed her to be 16. A Virginia man had picked her up and transported her to Washington, DC. When she arrived in DC, the two men took her to Maryland, telling her she’d be going to stay with their family. Upon arrival, Sage was sexually abused repeatedly.

    On September 2, 2021, Sage was sent to a hospital for a rape exam, a process which, according to Michele, went well into the night and lasted until the early hours of the morning. The FBI instructed her parents to pick her up the following day at the Waxter Children’s Center, a girls’ detention facility in Laurel, Maryland.

    But when Michele and Roger arrived at the detention center where their daughter was being held, they were told they would not be allowed to see their child.

    “They [the state authorities] would not even let me talk, hug, or see her the day after she went through the rape exam,” Michele told Reduxx, and added that the experience was, “heartbreaking, to say the least.”

    Instead, they were required to appear in court that same afternoon, as they were being investigated for child abuse over alleged “misgendering.”

    Michele and Roger would later discover that the investigation had been requested by the public defender, who had contacted two school counselors to testify against them. The counselors would argue that Sage should not be returned to her home due to a lack of a sufficiently “gender affirming” environment.

    “Upon my arrival I was told my granddaughter would not be allowed to return to Virginia,” Michele had stated in May. “Sage was now being represented by a juvenile attorney and my husband and I were going to be investigated for ‘abuse’ because my husband and I called her Sage and not Draco.”

    Michele provided Reduxx with a number of documents related to the ordeal, some of which attempt to paint their lack of “gender affirmation” as child abuse.

    Story continues on:-
    https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/a-trans-teen-was-removed-from-her

      1. There use to be a watercress farm in the river Ver at Redbourn Herts. I believe it has been pumped dry now.

        1. My favourite salad leaf. It’s difficult to come by over here. All I can get is bloody rocket, which is everywhere. I simply can’t stand the vile taste flavour of rocket.

  52. Coming to a bedroom near you?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11359697/Homeowners-asked-migrants-annual-hotel-bill-house-hits-2-4billion.html

    Homeowners and care homes are asked to take in migrants as cost to keep asylum seekers in hotels hits £2.4billion a year
    Serco will consider all types of homes in North West Midlands and East England
    Private contractor was awarded £1.9bn contract to house migrants back in 2019
    Serco is placing at least 30,000 asylum seekers in 6,000 homes across Britain

    How long before it becomes compulsory?

    1. Oh almost certainly. The state refuses to address the problem, so it forces a solution.

      The right option of course is to remove the criminal gimmigrants or, even better, shove them in with home office staff.

      1. Home office staff will be able to claim expenses, but not the public.
        Can you imagine how much home insurance premiums would shoot up ?

      2. 366639= up ticks,

        Morning W,

        Could be better remove the morally illegals with a home office person under each arm.

      3. The Home Secretary resigned from the Truss government because it was failing to address the illegaliy of immigrants coming across the channel in inflatable boats. Starmer can’t understand why Sunak has reinstated Truss’s Home Secretary in his own replacement Conservative government.

        Sir Kier of course, as former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), would take immediate action to resolve this illegal activity – subject naturally to Sunak calling a General Election.

        1. “Take immediate action to resolve This illegal activity…”. Like the rape gangs, you mean? Yeah, right.

    2. Having Serco as a tenant is a godsend (well there could be an elephant in the bedroom) for landlords who can now avoid having to pay for a defaulting tenant insurance as the Government will underwrite any loss of income.

    3. I had to look it up ……..What does Serco Group do?
      Serco Group plc is a British provider of public services with headquarters based in Hook, Hampshire. Serco operates in six sectors of public service provision: Health, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Defence, and Citizens Services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
      Serco – Wikipedia

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serco
      Search for: What does Serco Group do?

      Someone called Soames is involved.

    4. 366639+ up ticks,

      Morning S,
      I will not be the one to say I bloody well posted that COMPULSORY LODGERING would be on the near future agenda,

      There will NOT be any mixed tribes the three allotted will be from the same tribe, so no indoor friction.
      Current party lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled coalition members are to be asked to step up to the plate first to set an example.

    5. Received a questionnaire from Office of National Statistics a few months back, offering me £10 if I filled it in. A number of questions related to house size and number of occupants, so I felt I knew what the ultimate intention was, and therefore didn’t accept the bribe!

      1. I fear that because we only let out our gite during the summer season that we may get some foisted on us.

  53. A bus was crawling along a main arterial. Then it stopped at traffic lights, with the other side bloced by roadworks.

    The tailback is currently over a mile each way. Traffic has stopped.

  54. Homeowners and care homes are asked to take in migrants as cost to keep asylum seekers in hotels hits £2.4billion a year
    Serco will consider all types of homes in North West Midlands and East England
    Private contractor was awarded £1.9bn contract to house migrants back in 2019
    Serco is placing at least 30,000 asylum seekers in 6,000 homes across Britain

    Homeowners are being asked to take in migrants as asylum centres reach capacity and the collective hotel bill hits £2.4billion a year, it was reported last night.

    Private contractor Serco is offering potential landlords rent and maintenance costs for up to five years as well as covering tenants’ council tax and bills.

    Serco has said it will consider all types of property in the North West Midlands and East of England – including empty properties, second homes, care homes and student accommodation, according to The Sun.

    It comes as the latest figures show the Home Office managed to process just four per cent of asylum claims from people who crossed the Channel last year, while a record 38,000-plus have arrived by small boat to the UK in 2022 so far.

    Serco was awarded a 10-year contract – worth a record £1.9bn – by the Home Office in 2019 and is housing at least 30,000 asylum seekers in 6,000 homes.

    But the plan has enraged some ministers, with MP for Dover Natalie Elphicke fearing it will only work to worsen the housing shortage.

    She told the Sun: ‘The small boats crisis is making it much harder for Brits already struggling to keep a roof over their head or get a home of their own.

    ‘This underlines why it is so important to tackle the crisis to reduce pressure on housing and other vital local services.’

    MailOnline has contacted Serco for comment.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11359697/Homeowners-asked-migrants-annual-hotel-bill-house-hits-2-4billion.html

        1. If they had wanted to do so they would have done it by now.

          The ECHR is the current excuse for not addressing the problem but if, as Suella Braverman said a few weeks ago, they do get rid of it they will have to find another excuse for continuing to say there is nothing they can do.

    4. Perhaps their inability to get a foot on the housing ladder, will teach the adolescents that immigration and diversity are NOT a good thing.

    5. And what are they going to do when they have exhausted the private lets and families stupid enough to volunteer to have strange young men living in the house?
      Will “ask” turn into “force”?
      Do not give out ANY information about how many bedrooms you have in your house to ANYONE official! (NOTTLers, having not just fallen off a Christmas tree, are probably the last ones who need to hear that!)

    6. They can keep them well away from this part of the “North West Midlands”. Mind you, at the rate at which they are building houses on green fields it seems as though they are gearing up for it. Even the ditsy town council has woken up to the fact that the infrastructure and facilities can’t support the amount of new houses being foisted on us.

  55. We must not abandon Russians to Putin’s sphere of influence. 27 0ctober 2022.

    When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February of this year, Finland’s political leadership began urgent negotiations to join Nato. Some rejoiced at the decision, others didn’t. The tremendous rush to membership surprised me.

    Finland has long projected itself as a peace broker and our military non-alignment has been a source of pride. After Russia attacked Ukraine, a clear majority of Finns said they favoured joining Nato. The change was surprising because just one month earlier only 28% supported membership.

    Russia’s aggression has brought about other huge changes in Finland. With EU sanctions, the period I described above has been relegated to history. The train connection between Helsinki and St Petersburg has been severed and crossing the border is difficult. Finnish companies have sold their Russian businesses to Russian buyers.

    Increased energy costs, rising food prices and inflation, meanwhile, are punishing Finns and the whole of Europe. Unable to buy wood from Russia, the forestry industry must acquire an equal amount of timber here in Finland. This situation has led to large-scale destruction of our forests, to the point that it threatens Finland’s pledges to the EU regarding forest carbon sinks.

    Though I don’t necessarily agree with every detail. This is a rare and balanced view of the situation in Europe from a Finnish point of view.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/27/russia-putin-influence-war-ukraine-finland

    1. It was amusing watching Ken Russells’ over the top version of Billion Dollar Brain last night. Mainly filmed in Finland. What a Russian looking place.

    2. In my house: the pork is Swedish; the ham is Swedish; and the bacon and sausages are home-made (from Swedish pork).

  58. Prince Harry’s memoir titled ‘Spare’. 27 October 2022.

    Prince Harry has chosen the title for his memoir: “Spare”.

    The Duke of Sussex will publish his much-anticipated autobiography on January 10, Penguin Random House has confirmed.

    The cover features a single photograph of the Duke, looking directly into the camera. It is reminiscent of his days in the military, with a brown t-shirt and black string necklace.

    The book runs to 416 pages and will cost £28 in hardcover. The cover image was taken by Ramona Rosales, a celebrity photographer based in Los Angeles.

    Well that’s 28 quid I’ll be saving!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/10/27/prince-harrys-new-book-memoir-revealed-titled-spare/

    2. He gave up the duties of monarchy to use it to make money. The man isn’t ‘spare’, he’s an utterly egocentric twit.

      Although, i think it was more his wife saw an opportunity to profit by selling the brand image and Harry went along with it, having not the will or the wit to realise the trap being dug for him.

      It’s a shame. I respected him for his military service.

    3. He didn’t complete the title of his book – after “Spare” should come “prick at a wedding”.

    6. What an idiot!
      Is he going to define his whole life by the fact that his elder brother is King (and he never will be)?
      I would respect him if he trained for a real job that matched his talent, instead of all this nonsense.

      2. Apparently Margaret went a bit wild because her elder sister became Queen and she didn’t have a role.

  59. Poor old Mark Zuckerberg, his wealth decreased by $10bn last year and is now down to only $40bn.
    I feel so concerned for him and his family in this cost of living crisis I am considering a Crowdfund me campaign, that or directions to Lidl next time he flies over in his private jet.
    Still the good news is that it is $10bn less to invest in getting the “right” election result next time.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/10/26/mark-zuckerberg-hit-tech-slowdown-meta-profits-halve/

    1. They were hilariously biased.

      They should decide if they’re publishers – and thus responsible for what people post or a platform, and thus can be sued when they remove posts they disagree with.

    1. Oil isn’t just a fuel though. We use it for practically everything. Those wasters carrying a fire extinguisher full of paint? Every part is made from oil.

      Without oil they wouldn’t have a way to protest.

    2. The wife’s colleagues organised a ‘walking taxi’ where half a dozen blokes walk the 3 women to the train station and stay with them until the train arrives. They still get heckled by middle eastern men.

      1. Of course that would never be described as hate crime, even though there is little difference between that and if it was whites doing it to Bames where it would be.

  62. Do you know ❓
    Some monks are know to mummified themselves while still alive.
    Monks who were members of the Shingon sect of ancient Japan mummified themselves while still alive. This process is called Sokushinbutsu. The entire process can take anywhere from eight to ten years.
    First, the monks would go on a strict diet called mokujikigyo, literally meaning, “eating a tree.” The special diet consists of whatever is predominantly found in the mountains, such as pine needles, seeds, nuts, and resin. During the mokujikigyo, they take part in a regimen involving rigorous physical activity. This controlled system stripped the monks of their body fat.
    For another three years, they would continue to only eat bark and roots and begin drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap of the urushi tree, usually used to make lacquer bowls. This causes vomiting; making the body rapidly lose fluids. Also, it would kill maggots that caused the body to decay after death.
    The final act of a dedicated monk would be to lock himself in a stone tomb in the lotus position.
    The tomb had an air tube and a bell attached to it. The entombed monk would then ring the bell each day to signal that he was still alive. When the bell would cease to ring, it signals that the monk has died in a state of meditation chanting the nenbutsu (mantra about Buddha), and the air tube would be removed and the tomb sealed.
    The monk’s body would be naturally preserved with skin and teeth intact without decay and with no need for artificial preservation. Many Buddhist Sokushinbutsu mummies have been found in northern Japan that are centuries old and are revered and venerated by many followers.
    Sokushinbutsu was outlawed by the Japanese Government in the late 19th century.

    2. I expect that unwashed 94 year old did something similar to his body – so that when he had a wash it killed him.

    3. I expect that unwashed 94 year old did something similar to his body – so that when he had a wash it killed him.

    5. I remember seeing a telly programme about that a few years ago.
      I suppose it saves taxpayers the expense of keeping misfits in asylums.

  63. My wife accused me of achieving nothing so I told her, ‘Well I won the Leslie Nielson award at school.’

    ‘What’s that?’, she said.

    ‘It’s a big building with kids in it.’

  64. I see the egregious Tindall is making loads money cashing in on his royal connection. Again.

    Funny he didn’t do that so blatantly when The Queen was around….

      1. They don’t – but she is a grand-daughter of The Queen and the niece of the “King”.

        No one would be remotely interested in a former rugby player were it not for that royal connection.

          1. I am not remotely “jealous”.

            I just think it is completely wrong for someone to cash in on such a connection.

          2. Princess Anne didn’t want titles for her children. She wanted them to have as normal a life as possible. Which means working for a living doesn’t it?

          3. You don’t get it, do you?

            Of course Princess Anne was spot on. Of course royal children should no have fairy tale titles. Of course the pair should earn a living.

            But they should not cash in on that royal connection.

          4. Princess Anne was part of that dreadful fiasco It’s A Royal Knockout, as were others in the family. If mum can do it, I don’t see why the kids can’t.
            Not that I will be watching anyway.

          5. I would think Princess Anne would rather forget that Royal fiasco now she is older and wiser.

            I would think Mike Tindall is looking to raise a bit of money to keep his family in the style to which they’ve become accustomed. Zara’s career as a horsewoman must be coming to an end.

          6. I would think Princess Anne would rather forget that Royal fiasco now she is older and wiser.

            I would think Mike Tindall is looking to raise a bit of money to keep his family in the style to which they’ve become accustomed. Zara’s career as a horsewoman must be coming to an end.

          7. Someone would be doing a public service if they gave him Gumboli (aka Lord Deben) and the untitled John Bercow to throw about a bit.

          8. Why can’t they earn money by, you know, WORKING?
            Why does it always have to be by smooching or gurning into a camera?

    3. Has he decided to take up his hobby of dwarf chucking again and what would his mum-in-law say if he did?

    3. I am assuming that it is Fauci that is the psychopath and not Kennedy? I haven’t watched the film yet nor read Kennedy’s book, I read enough about Fauci before all this and his treatment of animals which was utterly sickening. That is apparently a pointer (one of them) towards adult psychopathy in children, the way they behave towards animals.

      1. Yes it is about Fauci. Mind you, our dreadful thick Ginger Prince springs to mind when ill-treatment of animals is the issue. He is allegedly not a nice specimen either. Personally I think he deserves what he has got, but WE don’t deserve either of them.

        KC had better be careful – if he is seen as being so lenient by too many, it will not help his credentials, or the future of the monarchy in this country. The late QE got away with a bit of mollycoddling because of the years of goodwill she had built up. Charles has no such foundation.

    4. That book’s on my Christmas wish list!
      Along with “The Creature from Jekyll Island” and “When Money Dies.”

    2. It’ll take a braver man than the Home Secretary to challenge the Government on its immigration policy.

      1. I hope that she has the necessary acumen and strength to ignore the nasty smells coming from the damply humid flatulencers in the government.

      2. We have two brand new car ferries sitting here at the moment, maybe they can borrow them. They paid a gazillion dollars for them but forgot the minor requirement for docking facilities.

        They are all electric as well so the lefties will have no problem with them running out of power halfway across the channel

  71. Call me naive and uninformed, but (leaving her phoney “security lapse” aside) just what is it that people have against Braverman?

    I am genuinely puzzled.

        1. It probably is, actually. You know how the left hates “ethnic minority” people who don’t fit in the box.

      2. GB News has several black or ethnic minority commentators on their programmes. I find that they speak far more common sense than many of the white ones do! Calvin Robinson, for example, is excellent.

    2. They are throwing mud in the hope (by the left) that some of it sticks. It is a total non-story and a stirring of the pot by the media.

      1. They were having a go at her prior to “e-mailgate”. That’s what I just don’t understand.

        1. Because she is of a ‘wrong’ religion? (Buddhist- though she was brought up Christian.) Perhaps because they have a sense that she will endeavour to be as good as her word.

        2. She did that e-mail thing, deliberately in order to give her a reason to resign from Truss’Cabinet. She knew Truss’ game was up and distanced herself, shrewd.

          1. Then she was very stupid not to think about the potential downside before she pressed “send”.

    3. She’s not a lefty, just like Kwasi she doesn’t ‘sound’ like a darkie, and has made threatening noises about reducing immigration contrary to the wishes of the Home Office staff.

          1. OMG Abbott is foul. Fat, obviously scared of showing her own frizzy hair, and incoherent. But if you look at the demography of Tower Hamlets you can see why she is “voted” back.

            God help us. we need him.

    4. From what I can see, the only ones she is upsetting are snivel serpents, the MEEJAH, left wing politicians and their acolytes.

  72. ‘Inhumane’ conditions at main Channel migrant processing centre ‘leading to violence against staff’. 27 October 2022.

    Up to 3,000 migrants including children are being unlawfully held in inhumane and overcrowded conditions, the Border Force union has warned.

    Lucy Moreton, professional officer for The ISU union, which represents Border Force officers, said the Manston processing centre in Kent was designed to hold 1,000 Channel migrants for just 24 hours but was in fact detaining nearly 3,000 for up to four weeks.

    She said the overcrowding, boredom and frustration by the migrants was leading to outbreaks of “scraps” and low-level violence between themselves and against staff, which officers were not legally covered to contain.

    No caviar with their chips?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/27/inhumane-conditions-main-channel-migrant-processing-centre-leading/

    1. Excellent. Perhaps word will get back to Calais and would-be illegals will be deterred….

      Then I woke up….

    2. Well if they don’t like it the Border Farce has loads of dinghies which they can use to emigrate

    6. So? They’ve no right to be here. No value, no utility. Fill the place with 10,000 and let them rot. Stop feeding them. They must all be deported.

  73. 366639+ up ticks,

    Gettaway, wattayouknow, now there’s a thing,

    London / Europe
    Sunak Likely to Break Manifesto Pledges on Taxes, Migration, Admits Foreign Secretary

    1. Considering he wasn’t elected there’s no point keeping to a manifesto.

      Look at what he’s done. His first act was to hike taxes. His next will be to cut services. He won’t consider cutting state waste – no doubt more spending will go on the state. What he’ll do is what all Lefty globalists do and say that to properly fund public services taxes have to rise – the characteristic lift yourself out of the bucket by the handles routine.

      It just means more debt as the economy is already horrifically over taxed.

      1. 366639+ up ticks,

        Evening W,
        The answer then is surely kick the arse out of the bucket
        ( gov) stand erect & keep kicking.

  74. Good day my friends

    I have been very much absent from the Nottlers’ forum yesterday and today as my internet connection seems to have collapsed. However, I got onto the DT site and saw this article by a sluttish sounding double-barrelled woman who seemed incapable of understanding that the idea of a ‘well-bred tattooed girl’ was oxymoronic. Of course Samantha Cameron, Ms Money-Coutts and Judi Dench all have tattoos – but they are posh rather than well-bred! (A distinction in terms which most Nottlers will understand.)

    A posh girl having a gap year tattoo is an enormous cliché – but I don’t regret mine
    Removal of body art is becoming big business, but my love for my own inky etching has not faded

    Sophia Money-Coutts : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/why-never-regret-gap-year-tattoo/

    Virtually all the BTL comments are strongly anti-tattoo. This one by Andrew James is pertinent.

    Getting a tattoo used to be for sailors, prisoners and rebels. Now it’s for sheep.

      1. Stretch the skin out and there is probably an extensive self biography etched into the folds.

    3. Weeeell, Zara Phillips did have a stud through her tongue, which at the time was considered equivalently infra dig. to a small (say, Alice B. Toklas – type) tattoo.

  76. Hmm. So this is Beata Kopel, of one of the lawyers fighting for the rights of foreign criminals:-

    https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1585635879501955072

    https://nexuschambers.com/img/barristers/kopel500x600.jpg

    Beata Kopel

    Called 2000

    Areas of Expertise:
    Crime, Extradition

    Experience:

    Miss Kopel specialises in Criminal Law, with a particular emphasis on Defence work, which has seen her appear in multi-handed attempted murder and gross negligence manslaughter trials at the Central Criminal Court as Led Junior Counsel.

    She also has considerable experience in other serious matters where she has acted alone, representing Defendants in trials involving sexual offences, including rape and child sex offences, some historic; blackmail conspiracies, serious assault (GBH, inc stabbings & hammer attacks), conspiracy to supply Class A Drugs, money laundering and fraud, including identity theft, and people trafficking.

    In addition to her Crown Court and appellate practice, she represents Respondents in Extradition cases, specialising in European Arrest Warrants.

    To date, Miss Kopel has secured acquittals in most of the cases she has defended, even in the face of seemingly overwhelming evidence.

    She has also taught advocacy to students on the Bar Vocational Course.

          1. I just knew that you would note the M Mansfield association as a ringing endorsement. He’s one of our faves.

          2. Great names like “Nexus and “Matrix” (the latter ostensibly human rights chambers formulated by Cherie Blair before the Human Rights Act had even passed bill stage through parliament. Talk about insider dealing!) Gives an indication about their founders, and none of it good.

    2. I wonder if it is possible for a journalist to do an investigation, using freedom of information acts, to ascertain precisely how much legal aid (taxpayer’s money) is paid to every lawyer, both barristers and solicitors?

    3. This is a difficult question for me – I mean how lawyers can defend monsters.
      There seems to be a moral schizophrenia.
      IT is obvious that we need lawyers to be completely committed to their clients. None of us would be safe if they were not because the powers of prosecution would run riot – believe me. I really know.
      So the adversarial system works for the greater good.
      But then you have stuff like this and you wonder how they can do it.

        1. It translates as Blessed (Beatus Vir – Blessed is the man who fears the Lord). Felix is happy.

          1. I bow to your superior knowledge , Connors, My last Latin lesson would have been some 64 years ago.

    1. But these people were stars. Examples to their native friends. Totally integrated….

      (Sorry – had some sort of fit)

    1. Are you sure it was Robert? I put up Starmer’s LBC rubbish and then deleted because the whole tweet didn’t copy over. Re-posted.

    3. “quadruple offshore wind, triple solar, and double onshore wind”
      Effing fantasist!
      Oh, and then it gets better – he mentions hydrogen and tidal power!
      The only option out of that lot that will generate useful electricity is nuclear – remind me again, how long does Britain need to develop a nuclear power station??

      1. In a number of clips Dave Walsh destroys renewables as a base power source. Starmer’s doubling, trebling, quadrupling is the stuff of fairy tales.
        OB, on here, has dealt with the problems of hydrogen, he’s a real engineer, not a fantasist.

          4. …and solar means containers full of Lithium Ion batteries, which self-ignite and will take gallons of water to put out and hours of firemen’s time, never mind the noxious fumes given off, that are poisonous.

        2. Hydrogen is essential to our future. It is that we need to invest in. How, I don’t know.

          The continuation of unreliables considered relevant for energy generation is laughable.

          1. The release of hydrogen from water by electrolysis requires a lot of energy. Therefore…

      2. Hydrogen is a non starter, Trudeau is pushing it as the fuel of the future. This from the clown that has said that there is no business case for exporting some of the natural gas and oil that is just sitting there.

    4. Unreliables are nine times cheaper than gas? Only because of Putin’s holding back the asset, you lying fool.

      Notably he didn’t answer the question. What is he going to do about the energy crisis?

      1. I thought that there was a glut of gas at the moment, I keep reading about the fleet of tankers waiting off the Spanish coast before they can offload their cargo.

        Of course renewables are cheaper but what would happen if you took away the subsidies and taxed the hot air merchants like you tax oil and gas.

          1. Some one has to be 😉😅😂

            A lovely county.
            We spent many a holiday in Broadstairs when I was very young. Loved it.

    5. Errm… dear Mr Cur Starmer. What are you talking about? Our Electricity is already supplied by renewables. Wind-farms. Perhaps you haven’t yet noticed.
      And most, if not all of our gas comes from under the north sea, off the Norwegian coast.
      So Why TF has the cost of such ‘renewables’ gone through the roof. Is it because we are supporting millions of scammers in rubber boats, including people who have never carried out a day’s work in their whole lives.
      It’s The Biggest Scam on this planet.

    7. Solar and on-shore windy ‘farms’ eat up good arable land that is better used to produce OUR food.

  80. Help needed with a figure of speech…how would you describe a very common surname?
    Need to translate the German “wie Sand am Meer” in a sentence like “Jones is a very common name and is like sand at the seaside, but need a colloquial English way of saying it.
    “There’s feckin millions of the beggars” has already been turned down.

    8. Reminds me of the exchange between Gwendolen and Cecily about flowers being very common in the country as people are in the town!:

    2. We’ve still got some lovey pink roses on a large (bush) plant. It was given to my wife by a dear friend when her mother passed away.
      Everything I prune it stabs me……
      And we have three Fuchsia plants that are still covered in blossoms.

      1. We have two roses like that – which fight back viciously. One is called “Princess Anne”…!!

        1. I really must stop cursing 🤬 😩 it’s too painful.
          And what a coincidence. Erin has just come into to the lounge and showed me a photo of the lovely blossoms 🌸.
          I have no way of loading them onto my PC and posting them on here.

          1. Can’t you save them from the camera via a plug?

            The MR takes these snaps on her phone and e-mails them to me. I then save into relevant folder – then post on NoTTL.

          2. Very boringly, I’ve been doing that with furniture; whether for Freecycle or auction. Rather pathetic, and the photos of several now missing items have brought a lump to my throat.

          3. It won’t work Bill, it drives me nuts. I use to plug in the phone and it immediately sent my photos to a separate piece of storage equipment.
            I gave it a decent ‘king kicking but it still won’t work 😡😒😤
            I’ll get one of our clever techie sons to take a look.

          5. Bim ?
            After he had been rejected in a London constituency. He had to settle for a constituency with a massive majority after Peter Lilley left.
            I’ve met him a couple of times at gatherings. But I can’t say he has actually achieved anything.
            Ex banker I think. Politics is a good way of life and they’re never going to be short of money. Thsts basically why they get into it.
            I think if Frarage had put a candidate in here that would have changed the Tory majority. St Albans is limps. All they do is remove existing facilities and shove up the costs.

          1. This I know, Anne, I married an Antoinette (but always known as Ann). She couldn’t keep her knickers on. Not that I would insult you, Anne, but it was almost lethally devastating for me until I divorced her.

      2. My fuchsias are still blooming, too. I also have a couple of varieties of clematis in bloom.

        1. I wish I could send you a photo of our Weigelia Florida Veriegata in full bloom, it’s superb. Low maintenance.
          I took a cutting from a house where I was working 25 years ago. Well worth the effort. I’ve also passed many cuttings on to others.

        1. There are companies on Etsy who would make a bespoke one for you….
          My grandfather used to paint on board and then cut the pictures up into random shapes! I have several of his brilliant puzzles!

          2. I know. My son did just that. Took a snap of one of our fave views of sunset over Cap Ferrat. T’was a pig of a puzzle. There were NO edges. And many of the central pieces just touched – but did not interlock.

          3. Yes! My grandpa did that too! Sometimes a cat or flower shaped piece would be at the centre!

        1. Friend Dianne’s somewhat musical friend Lesley, with an accomplice, did the Edinburgh Festival a few years ago, including a song which ripped the p155 out of Charlie Dimmock. And another one about Zimmer frames, but I digress.Fast forward a year or two, and they met La Dimmock at Chichester Cathedral ‘Flah’ Festival. All was sweetness and light…

          3. Diesel is about £1.80 here. Remember the days when one filled up in Calais with nice, cheap French diesel before coming back to Blighty…

          5. Not that I drive any more (SWR insist on delivering trains to my doorstep 4 times an hour, plus a few extras from GWR), but the cheapest unleaded around these Surrey parts is £1.599, and diesel £1.859.

          7. Since just about everything relies on diesel, we’re royally screwed.

            Realistically, I had to scrap the C220 Merc estate, a few years back. But only because the work to correct the advisories would have been too difficult while I was getting used to the absence of lower legs, and paying a garage would have cost more than the value of the car. It only had 280,000 on the clock, and would have kept going for at least another 100k.

            Leaving aside the small matter of DVLA failing to deal with my licence renewal, I’m glad I no longer own a diesel. Ironically, having shopped in Waitrose at Farnham yesterday, I took a bus to Aldershot, in preference to walking to the station. Then the 520 bus to Normandy (essentially my front door). I was the only passenger on that bus, for its entire journey. With hindsight, it would have been cheaper for Stagecoach to book a taxi…

        2. Heard a tale of an English couple holidaying in the south of France, long queues for fuel so drove into Italy and skirted around France to ensure sufficient fuel to get back to Blighty!

          PS How apt the word ‘Blighty’ seems to be these days!

    10. I’ll just throw this out to the Gardeners Nottler’s Question Time team. I moved here two years ago. There are several rose bushes in the borders around my lawn. They’re out of hand. I sorted (relaid) the lawn a year ago. The bloody soil improver was far too good, now weekly mowing isn’t enough. The roses tend to produce blooms and then immediately drop them onto the lawn. They’re taller than me. They’ve been neglected for years – I’m inclined to prune them down to 45 – 60 cm height. Would it be too early to do it now?

      1. I suggest you cut them down to around 80 cm now and then give them another prune in February shaping them like an upturned open hand with the stems cut with a sloping cut about 1/2 an inch above an outward facing bud….(Others may have alternative suggestions….)

        We are about to so something similar to MiL’s 36 rose bushes… 🙁

        1. Thanks for that. I’ve had a response from BT’s MR which is largely in agreement. The garden waste brown bin is collected on Monday. I’ll do my best to fill it…

      2. I’ll run that past the MR. A gardening genius. Her words of wisdom will be available tomorrow.

    1. Par for me

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      1. Me too.
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  83. Wine o’clock – at last I feel that I can enjoy a small glass of medicine.

    Have a brilliant evening.

    A demain.

  84. There may yet be hope:

    Rishi Sunak pulls out of Cop-27 climate summit and downgrades the status of his climate minister – but No10 insists new PM remains committed to net zero target
    Rishi Sunak provokes a row after No10 reveals he won’t be attending Cop-27
    PM will snub the Egypt climate summit to focus on ‘pressing’ domestic issues
    Labour accuse Mr Sunak of a ‘massive failure of leadership’ over non-attendance

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11362071/Rishi-Sunak-pulls-Cop-27-climate-summit-downgrades-status-climate-minister.html

        1. Agreed, but he’s trying to stick with the 2019 manifesto as far as possible, probably in the forlorn belief that it might get him re-elected.

        2. A U turn on a promise made during his leadership campaign, but not surprised, he is a politician.

      4. I wonder if he’s waiting until the real scientists (not ones driven by a lust for publicity and steam driven computers) publish irrefutable evidence that fracking is a Good Thing.
        We have had clouds of misinformation pumped out for years and need the pros rather than the cons to be publicised. An expensive and chilly winter may concentrate minds.
        I realise that this constant havering doesn’t encourage investment, but we don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors.

        1. Do you know part of me wants a severe winter with plenty of prolonged power cuts in the UK this winter.
          If sitting in the cold and dark this winter brings about a rethink about this crap Net frigging Zero bol***ks then it may be worth it.
          And it will see off those bloody wasps! Apologies to all you cold mortals who are now uttering colourful expletives in my direction.

          3. Or even 1947, Geoff. I can remember that, Snow up to the chest of this, then, 3-year-old in a Churchillian Siren-Suit.

        2. I hope it’s not too cold- I can’t take the cold like I used to. It doesn’t help when my friend in GA tells me it’s in the mid 70s there. Grrr.

      1. My money would be on William, who would doubtless pass on his father’s “best wishes”

        2. If Charles and/ or William attend Copout- 27, I may live to experience two further monarchies …

      1. Indeed.

        But may I suggest that when you post your comments that you look at how they might be read by the OP.
        Are you calling me a stupid WEF boy or referring to Sunak?

        1. Sorry, that’s Fishi Rishi, I was merely modifying what Capt Mainwaring might have said.

          OP??

  85. I can’t help wondering if Putin is correct:

    Vladimir Putin has declared that the ‘age of western domination is over’ and called for a ‘new world order’ in a major foreign policy speech in Moscow.
    The Russian leader, laying out his warped view of global politics, accused westerners of ‘fanning the flames’ of war in Ukraine and Taiwan, of sparking a global energy crisis and of causing a food crisis – all allegations that have been levelled at him.
    Putin warned the world has entered its most dangerous period since the Second World War and a ‘new world order’ must emerge in which Russia gets a bigger say.
    ‘The West is no longer able to dictate its will to the humankind but still tries to do it, and the majority of nations no longer want to tolerate it,’ he said.
    ‘Dominion of the world is what West has decided to stake in this game. It is a dangerous, deadly and dirty game.’

    Edit for link:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11361567/Putin-accuses-West-fueling-war-Ukraine-destabilising-world-latest-rant.html

    1. Nothing warped about him claiming the west is fanning the flames in Ukraine, and causing energy and food crises – it’s true!

    2. I think he’s exactly right. I’d like to know if the ME and BRICS countries all go along with our ridiculous Net Zero, climate change crisis, nitrogen bad, eat slugs mentality. I’ve said all along that the U.K. and Liz Truss particularly was pushing the Ukraine point of view. We’re doing the US dirty work for them. Besides bankrupting ourselves etc. etc.

    3. Well, he isn’t wrong about westerners fanning the flames of war in Ukraine. That’s exactly what they’ve been doing. The energy crisis and food shortage can also be laid at their door.

    2. 18° here in leafy Surrey, somewhat further North. The heating hasn’t kicked in since around April, yet it’s 20° in the lounge. Admittedly, I have a large East-facing window, which helps with solar heat gain every morning…

      1. It’s a lot warmer out than in here, but even so, I’m too warm in long trousers but too chilly in shorts because the house is functioning as it was designed, extracting the heat!

        1. Since my legs end just below the knee, but the suspension sleeves cover most of the thighs, long or short trousers are fairly irrelevant, Now 19° outside, but still 20° indoors in my humble retirement bungalow. Which is somewhat warmer than friend Dianne’s ‘zero carbon eco-home’ in Devon (I’m not stalking her, honest, but I have an app which can see her WiFi thermostats)….

    3. Just been sitting out in Inner Temple enjoying a glass of wine with a friend – in a T-shirt. Glorious.

  87. Evening, all. Still the headline claims immigration needs to be stopped now – of course it does, but how many Home Secretaries have we had while we’ve been screaming that? Has the flood even slowed to a trickle? We are stuffed unless we get out on the streets and make them do what we want. Been an incredibly mild day here; 18 degrees C outside! It was warmer (albeit only marginally) out than in!

  88. From Robert Kemball.

    Wholesale gas prices are plummeting. Cargo freight costs are falling. The industry-wide shortage of critical semiconductor components could begin to abate next year. The UK’s accession to the huge free trade area CPTPP is imminent.

    There is positive news on the horizon, UK!

    2. “Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership”

      Cultural appropriation of nomenclature?

    4. Forgive my ignorance, Johnny, but what is CPTPP (Costly Physical Training (by) PowerPoint?

        2. Doesn’t amuse me one bit. Mola has given me a definition but it it all sounds far away, and of little or no interest to the UK public.

  90. Apparently, the Wokka-wokka bird videos in these Tw@ter posts were put onto Youtube by a gentleman objecting to the Wokkas flying over his property.
    He has blocked comments on all of them, so it would be a pity if people started liking them!
    https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1585691631281373186

    https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1585690595875356672

    https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1585690070698397700

    I wonder if he’ll get to seem my comments?

    1. We had them over where I used to live. Army Air Corps having taken over what used to be RAF Wattisham. I remember 111 squadron were based there. (check the spelling, Bill).

      2. I commented a few minutes ago, before I saw these comments, about Chinooks buzzing around my home, and they’re bloody low as they land and take-off from a field less than a mile away. Unusual during the hours of darkness.

  92. 366639+ up ticks,

    May one ask,

    Are we as a nation at war, the indigenous peoples of these Isles that is with
    albania & they in turn are being led by the United KIngdoms political overseers ?

    Shows how far atandards have dropped these past four decades, tis definitely NOT cricket to trigger an internal war without warning.

    UK Border Chief: Up to 2 Per Cent of the ‘Entire Adult Male Population of Albania’ Have Landed in UK by Boat

    1. Oh yum. After all the toms our kind neighbour gave us, I have become somewhat addicted to them. There is nothing like fresh, homegrown tomatoes.
      You’ve made my mouth water.

      1. Proper tomatoes, that smell & taste of tomato, not just wet.
        Lovely, warm from the plant.

        1. Even our 2 1/2 year old grand son helped me pick them end of the summer and like to eat the cherry varieties straight off the plant.

      1. Enjoy, you know home grown always taste better.
        I’ve got some spinach planted in the green house. And lots of garlic in three different places. All doing well.

    2. Wish i could uptick that a thousand times.

      “We deserve more, and better, than this.”

      Amen

    1. Sudden over supply and less demand as weather mild and people not using gas if possible. Shows the artificiality of the prices.

  96. I see the MSM clowns are out in force again. They seem to be determined to bring her down, she must be doing something that worries these people to death.

    Houdini of the Home Office slips off the scene once more

    As Suella wriggled out of yet another reappointment question, it was Robert Jenrick to the rescue to shut down Labour’s scorn
    Madeline Grant
    PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHWRITER
    27 October 2022 • 5:08pm
    Madeline Grant

    The Home Secretary is fast becoming the Harry Houdini of the Commons; a master of the Art of Escape. Under pressure, she can disappear altogether, or at least wriggle away at inopportune moments. On Wednesday, she’d scuttled off right after PMQs, just as Yvette Cooper’s urgent question about her own resignation and reappointment was starting, leaving the Labour front-bench howling with indignation and a Cabinet Office underling to take the rap.

    On Thursday, Suella repeated her magic trick. At a second Home Office UQ, this time courtesy of Labour’s Diana Johnson, the Home Secretary was a no-show again. (“Where is she?” came the inevitable heckle from Chris Bryant).

    Johnson’s question related to the migrant processing centre at Manston in Kent; where David Neal, inspector of borders and immigration, had reported scenes worthy of a Dickensian slum – overcrowding, outbreaks of scabies and diphtheria. Johnson was doubly annoyed that, despite her emails, Craig Mackinley, MP of the constituency in question, was also a no-show in the Commons. It later turned out that she’d muddled Thanet North and Thanet South – so she’d been haranguing the wrong MP all along.

    In truth, there were unhappy campers on both sides of the House; enough to populate Butlins, if not quite Calais. Tory Tim Loughton was scandalised that Neal had not yet been able to speak to a Home Secretary about his findings. A fair point – but hardly surprising given the churn rate in the role nowadays; that of one of Putin’s generals. Tracey Crouch pleaded with the minister to contact Mackinley directly to clear things up. “Good luck with that!” snapped Loughton.

    Deputising for Houdini was Robert Jenrick – a junior Home Office minister and close ally of the PM who, some say, was appointed to keep a watchful eye on Braverman and prevent her from doing anything too mad. He certainly felt like a Sunak-ite. On Thursday, he channelled the boss in a pair of those trendy specs beloved by Tech CEOs everywhere – more goggles than glasses, the kind you’d wear to do some strimming or attend a woodwork class. He pronounced “Issue”, “Isthue” and spoke of “our closest… ally France” (one assumes he meant this geographically).

    Yet Jenrick’s arguments were more true-blue, or at least Red Wall. He had little sympathy with illegal migrants, and the diversion of resources away from their legal counterparts, and seized eagerly on Priti Patel’s pet phrase, “evil people-smuggling gangs”. Reinforcements soon began to arrive from the Tory backbenches. What gave Labour the right to complain, wondered Steve Double, the MP for St Austell, when they’d voted against Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill. Lee Anderson and Richard Graham warned of Britain’s imminent inundation by Albanian men.

    Christopher Chope reminded the Commons that whatever the state of the Manston processing centre, conditions were a darn sight worse in the Calais Jungle. Labour MPs looked scandalised, but Jenrick agreed wholeheartedly. This threw the Tory benches into raptures and snarls of “Yeahyeahyeahhhh”.

    Labour’s Ben Bradshaw tried to do the impossible – out-panto-ing Chris Bryant in the Commons. Puffing himself up to his full height, he scornfully reminded Jenrick of the PM’s promise to restore “integrity, professionalism and accountability” in Downing Street. “How is the Home Secretary’s failure to come here and answer a very important question… for the second day running consistent with that pledge?”

    Jenrick, in the spirit of Sunak, came back with an answer that was simultaneously boring and unimpeachable. “Because I’m the Minister of State for Immigration”, he replied and plonked himself down with aplomb. Right-o.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/27/unimpeachable-aplomb-robert-jenrick-steps-harry-houdini-home/

    1. …At a second Home Office UQ…”

      UQ?? What’s that Untermenschen Questions? Bluddy unexplained TFL a FFLs drive me potty. Why resort to jargon?

  98. The only units of measurement anyone understands

    Speed
    In two shakes
    At the speed of four men and a wee lad
    At the speed of a thousand gazelles
    Quicker than you can say ‘knife’

    Weight
    Grain of sand
    Bag of sugar
    Sack of coal
    Elephant

    Volume
    Thimble
    Pint pot
    Mini
    Swimming pool

    Area
    Postage stamp
    Tennis court
    Football field
    Wales

          1. I have a friend here who is knitting me an Arran Sweater (that’s the Scottish version).

  102. 21:45 and Chinooks remain airborne around my home. Night-time training, for what? I hope that our Red Berets are not going to be involved in Ukraine.
    22:12 and they’re back, can’t remember anything as late as this before.

  104. “Had the Albanian home-invader misgendered Mrs Doyle, the Kent police would have briefly stopped dancing the Macarena and sent a SWAT team around.”

    Mark Steyn on the Channel invasion, Albanian home visitors, energy, the cost of living and the rape gangs of The Towns Of Olde Englande.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwbzlIkQK6I

  105. Goodnight, or should that be, Good morrow, Gentlefolk at 00:52 in the early hours of Friday. God bless and sleep sondly amid the destruction of our country, our sovereignty and the Defence of the Realm.

    I shall talk again in the morning’s light but it may not be twerly. Au revoir pour le matin.

  106. 02:33 and I’m still awake with yet another cup of tea, looking for some stimulating company.

    Alas, it seems that there is no-one about. I’ll give it a few minutes to see if any response is forthcoming and then resort to my Kindle for something to read.

    1. Now, 03:03. No response so, back to reading, that’s the Kindle not the awful Berkshire Town. Night, night again. I just hope I might sleep.

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