Thursday 3 November:Why tighter immigration controls would benefit those in greatest need

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747 thoughts on “Thursday 3 November:Why tighter immigration controls would benefit those in greatest need”

    1. Good afternoon, after a week of Autumnal wind and rain, I finally got on the course this morning on a bright, calm day.

      However, to say my golf was dire would be an accolade. Gave up after seven holes…tomorrow is another day!

  3. ‘Morning, Peeps. Wet and windy here and the forecast is no better.

    Off to get the car fixed.

    Slayders.

    1. When you watch TV travel progs like Portilo’s rain journeys we see shots of massively crowded roads as was recently seen in South Asia. Millions of acres of Decimated rain forests, now growing pineapples and palm oil.
      And our governments seem very strongly to be blaming us for ‘climate change’ we have become martyrs to the call to make expensive alterations. And suffer the indignities of power shortages. I know where I would like to stick some very large candles.

      1. 367077+ up ticks,

        Morning RE,
        Agreed BUT, many of the peoples do give these political overseers credit for seeming to act in a sorrowful unintentional manner, when ALL the time the peoples are backing political scamsters.

  5. Why tighter immigration controls would benefit those in greatest need

    Do we have any immigration controls?

    1. My guess is there are probably so many coming illegally that those who jump the legal hoops are being turned away.

    2. Only for resident brits with genuine passports returning from holidays.
      Long queues at airports.
      Just to make sure you’re trying to pull a fast one.

  6. That bottle with the note in on all the mainstream media is just a bit too convenient, isn’t it?
    I wonder if it was written by the nudge unit

  12. Morning all 🙂
    It’s been raining all night and due to rain all day.
    Forecast is Flooding likely. Well worked out I’d say.

      1. Morning Johnny, according to one of my neighbours who works for one of the water companies, he tells me it will take a wet autumn, winter and spring to replenish underground aquifers etc.

        1. But in the meantime another missed opportunity. To build more much needed reservoirs or new underground water storage.
          With a rapidly growing population much needed facilities.

          1. Let’s keep the same water storage capacity and start reducing the demand. 40,000+ this year can go for a start, then we can think about last years illegals. Repeat as often as needed.

        3. Racing was abandoned and a meeting cancelled yesterday – due to standing water on the track.

  13. From the Beeb:

    “The British Heart Foundation (BHF) said ambulance delays, inaccessible care and waits for surgery are linked to 30,000 excess cardiac deaths in England.”

    Well that’s a relief to know it cannot possibly be the nMRA Covid Vaccinations.

    Just as well the American Medical Authorities are trying to silence Dr McCullough who is now facing a disciplinary hearing for reporting:

    “In my expert medical opinion which is and is within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, based upon my medical education, review of scientific information, and clinical experience, I conclude:
    1) People who have recovered from COVID-19 have robust and durable immunity against the severe outcomes of adjudicated COVID-19 hospitalization and death recognizing that the Omicron variant has brokenthrough natural immunity.
    2) There is no medical indication for vaccination of a COVID-19 recovered patient since they have already had the condition for which the vaccines are indicated to prevent; these patients were excluded from clinical trials, and multiple studies demonstrate this practice is not sufficiently safe.
    3) The Texas population had achieved 80% herd immunity by March 10, 2021, according to CDC equations.
    4) There is no scientific rationale, medical necessity, or clinical indication for people under age 50 or 60 in general to receive a COVID-19 vaccine since the risks of adjudicated COVID-19 hospitalization and death are < 1% and can be further reduced with early treatment and since all the vaccines present tangible risks of injury, hospitalization, disability, and death. The decision to undergo COVID-19 vaccination must be voluntary and fully informed decision free of any pressure, coercion, or threat of reprisal from any individual or organization. 5) There is negligible asymptomatic spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the best available clinical studies. 6) The exact total number of American’s who have died after COVID-19 vaccination is unknown but could be as high as 187,000 through December 2021. This means the total number of American lives lost could have been in excess of 50,000 as asserted in a federal lawsuit in the first half of 2021 when there was a surge in mass vaccination." Dr McCullogh's written submission, (with references to clinical studies) to the diciplinary board can be read in full here: https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/medical-board-moves-strip-dr-peter-mccullough-certifications

    1. Weaponising the medical boards to cancel anyone with ideas and scientific proof that deviates from the agreed narrative is a political device of oppression. Dr McCullough is a World renowned and extremely well published cardiologist whose claims are based on following the scientific and medical methods when examining and evaluating evidence/data.
      Another victim of the CV-19 narrative is Dr Paul Marik. He devised a CV-19 protocol to save patients lives and paid the price of not following the narrative. Marik’s credentials are not that of a quack or snake oil salesman.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ae1c219b2fe63f50807a5d60ff17c99d058776fd283c36f0783bfa857a2621c0.png

      Will some of the best medical thinking in the USA be closed down by the pygmies who populate the medical boards?

      1. Meanwhile, just before the outbreak of covid our government employed around 6 regional directors into the NHS. All receiving around 250 k per year. And obviously employed to bring the NHS to its knees.
        During my recent health problems nurses have told me of the many paperwork ‘mix ups’ that led to many people missing appointments or appointments canceled out of the blue. And therefore being forced to seek and pay for private care.
        The harder the staff work the more they appear to be punished.
        After nearly 78 years of existence the
        NHS is being wound down. More people are using private medical
        services and a lot of NHS staff have moved over as well.

      2. Jacinda Ardern in NZ knows far more about evaluating Covid than all NZ’s doctors.

        The Kiwis are so lucky to have her in charge.

        1. It seems clear to me that she is mentally unstable to the extent of being mad.

          The poor old chap who got stabbed behind the arras told Dirty Gerty:

          “I will be brief: your son is mad:
          Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
          What is’t but to be nothing else but mad?”

          Polonius would not have been asked to help Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster when they were putting their dictionaries together but Ms Ardern is certainly a good living example of nothing else but true madness. Rather strange that the Kiwis didn’t spot it.

  14. Morning. Please bear with me while I get this rant out of the way. It won’t make me feel better but it needs to be widely mocked in the hope people will stop doing it.

    In today’s Terriblegraph

    “A FLASHER who exposed their genitals and buttocks to police and urinated in public has been treated in court as a man and a woman at the same time in a legal first. The 50-year-old from Dundee has been banned from going outside for 12 hours a day for three months after the city’s sheriff court heard she carried out a series of public order offences as both Alan and Alannah Morgan.
    The accused, who has a long list of previous convictions, was addressed as Alannah Morgan in the dock yesterday.
    Morgan admitted and was sentenced for four separate complaints – two of which were committed while she identified as Alan, and two while she identified as Alannah.”

    This is a MAN. He is a he/him. This man is not and never can or will be a woman (adult human female).

    This is all just nonsense on stilts and actually today, reading this, I now think our civilisation is irredeemably on the point of collapse. It is something so silly yet so invidious. Well played, Marxists. I think somehow I need to take my hat off to you.

    3. I’m surprised the tomb of Karl Marx is untouched. But then the right wing of centre is not so bellicose as KM’s followers.

    4. If women should now be called child bearers rather than expectant mothers then why should unoperated upon transsexual women not be termed penis bearers.

      Or how about a more simple term to distinguish transgenders: willies or wombies.?

    5. We used to have them on the wards.
      They were not encouraged to go beyond the hospital grounds.

    6. I hope they gave it long sentences for each identity, to be served consecutively. Having to stay at home for 12 hours a day is nonsense.

    2. Ah – an AMERICAN expression – and, therefore, one to be ignored.

      I stick to my original thesis – that they chose it to replace WOG.

      1. The term POG as been used in the British military since before WWI. I have worked alongside dozens of former-military personnel during my working life and it was common to hear them refer to lower-rank servicemen as “grunts”, especially ex-army and RAF.

        1. While some terms have a clear origin, how others began is
          clouded in mystery. Military terms are sometimes seen as mildly
          derogatory, such as the term “boot,” or, in this case, “POG,” which
          means “Person Other than Grunt.”

          So, where did the term “POG” come from? Well, we’re glad you asked.

          The term comes from the word “pogue,” which is Gaelic for kiss.
          It was started by disgruntled Navy sailors of Irish descent who served during the American Civil War. They were upset that others, would never leave shore, would get to stay home and get all the kisses from the ladies while they were out fighting.

          I meant to post that to Billy boy.

          1. We used to have a Detective Inspector who was universally known as ‘Pog’, or ‘Pog Walters’ (his surname). He was given this name because one of his Detective Sergeants had a habit of calling anyone of substandard intelligence a ‘Noggie-Pog’. This arcane term (‘Noggie-Pog’) then gained widespread popularity within our unit for describing anyone of suspect intellect.

            After describing the DI as a ‘Noggie-Pog’ one day (for reason unknown) everyone else picked up on it to such effect that the DI became known throughout the force henceforth as ‘Pog’.

        2. Well I have been around military personnel in the UK for 80 year and have NEVER heard “pog” used.

  18. Did football fans kick vaccine passports into touch?. 3 November 2022.

    The trailer for a BBC documentary Unvaccinated, presented by Hannah Fry, stated that eight per cent of adults were unjabbed, but as statistician Norman Fenton found, the true proportion was about a fifth.

    Recent scrutiny of UK Health Security Agency data by the Daily Expose showed that almost 19million people have not received any doses. Among the vaccinated, the decline is remarkable: 44million took the first dose, 41million the second, and 34million the third. The latest bivalent booster has hardly filled the vaccination centres.

    Despite what the MSM says the word is obviously getting out!

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/did-football-fans-kick-vaccine-passports-into-touch/

    2. Our slave population never questioned and could not have the jabs fast enough. We thought long and hard, looked at the risks and when we fond out that the indemnity had been removed from the makers that was it. Every day we are so glad we did not have them. and were so dissapointed that all the people we know had them.

    3. Did football fans kick vaccine passports into touch?
      I’d say it was rather the shambolic non-compliance in Downing Street.
      I’m thankful one way or the other.

    4. Morning, all. N Essex is, in a word. wet.

      From early on in the jab-fest Professor Fenton and his team have exposed the attempts of the PTB to blur/exaggerate the “vaccine” take-up, efficacy etc. figures.
      Last week on a local BBC radio station a senior medical person was extolling the take-up of the jab: she claimed a million jabs in one month – that equates to >50% of the county’s population of 1.8 million – in addition one jab site hit one thousand in a day. Either Essex is replete with jab happy people and bucking the trend of caution or the propaganda is being wound up to give a false impression of take-up.

    5. I find Fry totally unconvincing. She has form – not only does she have (or perhaps did have) a programme on the World Service in which she pretends to debate medical matters with another doctor – it’s all scripted, of course, and badly – she recently also tried to do a hatchet job in a TV prog* about those who do not wish to be involved in the ‘clotshot’ programme (thanks, Mark Steyn!) which was so partial as to be laughable.

      * Sorry, Minty, I think on reflection it was the same programme that you have quoted.

    6. Mark Steyn on GBNews is doing much to question the efficiency and safety of the jabber jabbing.

    7. Mark Steyn on GBNews is doing much to question the efficiency and safety of the jabber jabbing.

  19. 367077+ up ticks,

    Thursday 3 November:Why tighter immigration controls would benefit those in greatest need

    FACT,
    Those numbered in greatest need now has accumulated massively since the day the park toilet cottaging BOG MAN PM lifted the latch on mass uncontrolled immigration.

    The list of murderous fatalities, injuries, mass rape & abuse accredited
    to his & parties name is horrendous & worse still the governing baton was past to the tory (ino) party ,,, and accepted .

    ALL backed over recent decades by the electorate majority under the banner ” party before Country”

      1. Around twenty five years ago, someone I met told me a story about being rescued by the RNLI (he maintained that he did not need rescuing, but I don’t know the ins and outs of it). Anyway, he said they were a bunch of sanctimonious idiots playing God, or words to that effect.
        Having been brought up on stories of lifeboatmen risking their lives, I was loathe to believe it, but it seems there is definitely a streak of that in the volunteering.

        1. There is also, I gather MONEY to be made from such “altruism”….. Richard Tracey is a yachtsman – he’ll know.

          2. Modest salaries like retained firemen, as far as I know. The rest of the crew are people who have a connection with boats and who are willing to risk their lives to save those in peril. A pound to a penny it will be the RNLI’s woke executives who have instigated the policy of Channel crossing support.

          4. Good morning, Bill’

            Adieu Matelot! No more ‘Hello Sailors‘ – our lovely Mianda has been sold.

            I once inadvertently hit a rock many years ago but I managed to get the boat to port without being shipwrecked and marooned!

            However, I have always supported the RNLI even though I have never used their services.

            (In my post above I question how the RNLI mannages to recruit enough people to run their ferry service.)

      2. I can’t believe that the RNLI are still supported by direct public funding.
        Back door home office crooks using taxpayers money.

        1. Not by me they aren’t- except of course the Government will be funding them via my taxes

          1. Nor by me – they recently sent their usual flyer begging letter about saving lives. I put it back in the post with “No. Return to sender”. If I get one again I shall be somewhat more ascerbic.

          2. I’ve already told them what I think of their activities and that there will be no further donations – they replied “Thank you”

          3. I sent mine back with the comment “you won’t get a penny until you stop bringing in illegal immigrants” scrawled across it. I’ve not had one since – strange, that.

          5. Every time they put an ad on TV begging for money (and the people they rescue are all white, of course) the air turns blue.

  21. I made this point yesterday on TCW:
    We need to remove our political and administrative class before we can address this.
    If we just go for the immigrants, some mate from a minister’s lodge will get the contract to remove them and they will be back next week.
    The stories about gimmigrants are simply intended to direct our rightful indignation at Johny Foreigner rather than the diabolical scoundrels whom we pay and who are facilitating their passage – a real marriage of nepotism and gangsterism.

    1. At least the truth is beginning to come out.

      Perhaps it is time for the vaccine zealots to apologise and for the unvaccinated to prove that they are more humane by forgiving the zealots – but only if they truly repent?

      1. 367077+ up ticks,

        Morning R,
        Many lost love ones, I do not want to go into that, being it is very close to home.

        To late for those involved to look for amnesties etc the damage has been coldly calculated and done.

        We seek not revenge but cold calculated justice.

        That has got to be sorted before the economy, mass migration etc,etc.
        It is NUMBER ONE PRIME ISSUE.

      2. They won’t apologise, they are fully capable of exercising double-think. At least officially (somehow I doubt if all the zealots are fully jabbed themselves).

  23. How long before government takes possession of peoples homes if they consider them too big for them so that they can house our share of our chosen population replacements?

    1. If they are prepared to displace women fleeing domestic abuse so migrants can be housed i would say about a month.

      1. Poetic justice as lifeboatmen are kicked out of their hotel for gimmegrants:

        EXCLUSIVE: Kicked out so migrants can be let in: Lifeboat crew on training course are thrown out of hotel to make way for asylum seekers… as ‘thousands of migrants are put up in five-star hotels, with one-in-four resorts block-booked for months’

        Four members of the RNLI were turfed out of the three-star hotel in Merseyside
        They came back to find their bags packed after taking part in a training session
        The migrants were driven to the hotel from the crisis-hit overcrowded Manston
        The RNLI crew members are now staying in a different hotel eight miles away
        Two four-star hotels are being used in Essex and Cambridgeshire for migrants

        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11383645/Lifeboat-crew-training-course-gets-shown-door-bosses-make-way-asylum-seekers.html

        3. Those who work for the RNLI are, supposedly, unpaid volunteers.

          Where are they finding enough lifeboat men and lifeboat women to man (or to woman) the lifeboats on the South coast? And how are these people managing to do their day jobs if they are permanently working on the RNLI ferry service?

    2. 367077+ up ticks

      Morning B3

      Making an educated guese I would say 24 hours before
      civil war was triggered.

    3. They’ve done that in the past.
      An elderly ex army guy in Edgware/Burnt Oak.
      Had been paying out of his savings for home care. He ran out of money so his local council Brent (you know who they are) took his council house from him and shoved in a cheap local ‘nursing home’.
      This happened around 6 years ago.

      1. All to allow councillors yet another 6 figure salary and foreign jobbie.

        I hate the state.

  24. 367077+ up ticks,

    Wake up to “woke” thunberg is now showing up as a young red asp of the knotweed varient

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    22h
    This puts me in mind of the Stalinist show trials in the 1930s.

    When a previously faithful member of the Party fell foul of Stalin & was put on trial their former friends & colleagues would rush to condemn them to save themselves from the same fate.

    And so it is with cancel culture. If Stalin says ‘Socialism In One Country’ is the way to go, so be it. If the Wokeists say ‘Women Can Have Penises’, then so be it.

    If you can’t comply you end up in a Gulag – either a real one, or the Gulag of the Mind.

    JK Rowling ‘hurt’ young Harry Potter fans with trans views, says Daniel Radcliffe — The Telegra
    JK Rowling ‘hurt’ young Harry Potter fans with trans views, says Daniel Radcliffe — The Telegra

    https://gettr.com/post/p1wi76hc6d5

    ‘And so seeing them hurt on that day I was like, I wanted them to know that not everybody in the franchise felt that way’

    1. And your trans views have hurt real women, Daniel, like the women prisoners raped by a transwoman sent to a women’s prison.
      Until the likes of Radcliffe realise the harm they are doing, they cannot repent or change.

  25. US ‘increasingly concerned’ sabre-rattling Russia will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

    Alarm bells as American intelligence monitors Kremlin military officials discussing when and how to use tactical devices.

    The United States has said it is “increasingly concerned” after it emerged senior Russian military officials discussed when and how to use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine.

    US intelligence monitored the conversations, which did not involve Vladimir Putin but caused unease in Washington in the wake of aggressive nuclear rhetoric from the Russian president.

    Was this on the bus going to work or perhaps over a few beers afterwards? Sadly they don’t tell us. The real “sabre rattling” is in articles like this that purports to speak for him. So far as I am aware Vlad has only mentioned Nuclear Weapons in two speeches and that was to warn of the consequences of NATO interfering directly. This of course is already happening with the destruction of the Baltic Pipelines and the recent attack on Russia’s Black Sea fleet. There will come a moment when he has to make a decision whether to go for broke or surrender. That will be what the bullfighters call the Moment of Truth!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/11/02/us-increasingly-concerned-sabre-rattling-russia-will-use-nuclear/

  26. I gather that the objectionable exhibitionist that is Halfcock will be “exempt” from eating the filthy stuff that we all want him to eat because of a “pre-existing medical condition” that he caught some time back while doing yet another publicity stunt.

    As a lot of people DIED from pre-existing medical conditions during the – mostly – illegal lockdown – as a direct result of Halfcock’s dictatorial orders – I think his “exemption” should be removed.

    Just saying.

          4. Having lived there for four years and learnt a bit of Bush craft. The irony of it all is if the majority of them had to survive in the Bush, even with a fire arm (gun) they wouldn’t last a week..

  28. I know nothing about anything – but I though Bolsinaro (or whatever the Brazilian leader is called) was BAD. Crooked; corrupt; money-laundering villain. How come he is the “Man they wanted”??

    1. Just like in Italy. They know their politicians are corrupt but they still want the one they voted for.

  29. Good morrow, Gentlefolk, today’s funny:

    Outsmart a woman, are you kidding?

    A man calls home to his wife and says, “Honey, I’ve been invited to fly to Canada with my boss and several of his friends to go fishing, for the long weekend. This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I’ve been wanting, so could you please pack enough clothes for a three-day weekend. And also, would you get out my rod and tackle box from the attic? We’re leaving at 4:30 pm from the office and I’ll swing by the house to pick-up my things. Oh! And please pack my new navy-blue silk pyjamas.”

    The wife thinks this sounds a bit odd, but, being the good wife, she does exactly what her husband asked.

    Following the long weekend he returns home a little tired, but, otherwise, looking good. The wife welcomes him home and asks if he caught many fish?

    He says, “Yes! Lots of walleyes, some bass, and a few pike.” “But”, he said, “why didn’t you pack my new blue silk pyjamas, like I asked you to do?”

    The wife replies, “I did, they’re in your tackle box”.

  30. The criminals among the crime-fighters. 3 November 2022.

    In the light of a new report into the vetting of police officers and their subsequent misconduct, she was wrong on both counts. It’s not just the odd “bad ’un”. And the standards for rooting out the many “bad ’uns” who do get into uniform are not high at all. As Matt Parr, His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary and Fire Services, put it, summarising the report’s findings: “It is too easy for the wrong people both to join and to stay in the police.”

    Not mentioned here, or indeed in the report, is the lack of ordinary decent people who once used to supply the vast bulk of the personnel for the State but now avoid it like the plague. This ironically is because the vetting procedure militates against them and should they gain admission they would be Pariahs among the Woke. This is true of almost the entire state machinery. What were once characteristics guaranteed to find you place are now undesirable. Aside from the Politically Correct this leaves only the trash who feel no compunction about lying and deception. .

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/03/criminals-among-crime-fighters/

  31. Good morning, everyone. Won’t be around tomorrow as I will be going to Cheddar to bury my brother who is 11 years younger than me.

    2. Sorry to hear that, Del. Four years ago one of my younger brothers died. My condolences to you.

    3. Good morning DB

      So sorry to hear your sad news .

      The weather today is appalling , so I hope you have an easier journey to Cheddar tomorrow .

    10. Please accept my condolences, one never expects to outlive a younger sibling, let alone one so much younger.

    11. My sincere sympathy. My younger brother would have been 65 tomorrow; he died 7 years ago.
      You’ll be in my thoughts.

      1. My thoughts are with you, Delman.

        My sister Mary died of cancer 12 years ago at the age of 73 – I am now three years older than that and Belinda, my elder sister, is coming up to 87.

    12. What a sad day for you, Del. I’m sure all of us here will be thinking of you and your family.

    13. So sorry to hear that, Delboy. My sincere condolences – one never gets used to the sting of a loved one’s passing.

      Hopefully you will be able to see and catch up with other members of your family?

      1. My sister, who is 84, lives in Canada. I hope to see some members of the extended family. Unfortunately, I have already outlived a lot of them.

    15. I know how you must feel, Delboy, I lost my older brother to cancer in USA in December 2019. I still miss him like hell. I hope that your attendance at the funeral gives you a better sense of calm. I wasn’t able to go to my bro’s funeral, too far away. I will say have said a prayer for you.

    1. Obviously not in the UK. No hard hats, no orange barriers. no hiviz clothing, no safety goggles, no gloves, no long notices denying liability for accidents. You name it.
      Dave’s better off out of it. 😉

  33. ‘Morning again.

    Headline in today’s DT:

    Greta Thunberg: It’s time to overthrow the West’s oppressive and racist capitalist system

    The activist claims that the world’s current ‘normal’ – dictated by the people in power – has caused the climate breakdown

    * * *

    I haven’t pasted the article for two reasons – firstly to spare the blood pressures of the vulnerable, and secondly to deprive the Eco-Brat of any further publicity. This BTL poster has got her sorted, however:

    Edwin Pugh
    1 HR AGO
    More from Jason Hill’s letter to Greta –
    You have comported yourself as a credentialed adult and climate change activist who has fearlessly addressed politicians and world leaders.
    You have dropped out of school and declared that there isn’t any reason to attend or any reason for you to study since there will be no future for you to inherit.
    You made an impassioned plea at the United Nations in which you claimed that “we have stolen your dreams and our childhood with our empty words.”
    First, we did not rob you of your childhood or of your dreams.
    That growth-driven, capitalist technological civilization has created the conditions for you to harangue us over our betrayal. It is a civilization that eradicated diseases such as smallpox from the word, and that lifted millions out of abject poverty in a universe you think is dying and decaying. It assured you a life expectancy that exceeded that of your ancestors. Most likely by focusing on economic growth which you demonize, and scientific advancement, that civilization will further enhance a robust quality of life and health for your descendants.
    Your generation is the biggest demander and consumer of carbon-spewing technological gadgets and devices. An hour without any of them and too many of you succumb to paralyzing lethargy.
    Your generation is the least curious and most insular set of individuals one has ever encountered. Your hubris extends so far that you think you have nothing to learn from your elders.
    Yes, we have betrayed you: by capitulating the world of leadership to bored, attention-deficit children who spout bromides, platitudes and slogans that a rudderless and morally relativistic culture accepts because a significant number of its denizens have become intellectually bankrupt and morally lazy.

    * * *

    Bravo, Sir!

      1. I hope for the sake of the world that she doesn’t have any descendants. That gene-pool is best ended.

        1. I cannot imagine any young man wanting to have anything at all to do with her.

          Of course, there may be some Swedish male freaks……

      2. Apparently the thin top lip is one of the signs of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. Ditto autism.
        Her sister is even worse.

    2. Greta is Chief YIP – Young Intolerant Progressives, a new acronym to describe certain Gen Z-ers.

      1. Maybe being clled generation Z wasn’t wrong. They’re the end of the line. A complete reboot is needed to shut these stupid brats up.

        1. I think they are split between the realistic ones and the brainwashed.

          First group is avoiding university, aims to buy property, refused the vaxx, realises that the government isn’t their friend.
          Second group runs up debts, is vegan, believes the vaxx is safe, worries about carbon dioxide, expects to have a safe space to protect them from hurt feelings and expects the government to back up their world view.

      1. Thanks for that, C1! For the first of these I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but at this rate it’s probably the latter.

      2. What a gang.

        But perhaps Gove, now that he has been freed from the shackles of matrimony, could have a deeply meaningful relationship with the pan-sexual Layla Moran – the former Lib Dem leadership candidate who got into trouble for beating up her then male lover.

        After all, when Chris Hoyle – another Lib/Dem leadership candidate – came out of prison he went into the arms of a bi-sexual dominatrix.

    4. Two further BTL comments on her verbal bollocks, this time from the online ‘virtual’ DT:

      “Is there no end to the inane drivel spewed out by this obnoxious twerp?”

      “Sadly she is an example of extremist youth culture that puts all issues in the same box, mixes them up and tries to cancel the lot in one go. The way education and social media have mixed to create their skewed view of the human world is an apocalypse in the making.”

  34. OT – two cocks in frocks on one of the UC teams on Monday. Did badly. I expect they’ll demand a re-run…

    1. That explains a lot. We had a brief debate during the programme that things were not quite right…

    2. It was notable that one of them was ‘writing a D.Phil thesis on the intellectual history of the incest taboo in Greek antiquity.’

      Lock up your sisters!

      1. That sounds like something you would make up if you wanted to take the p out of academics…

      2. One notices that this season one ONE undergraduate is “reading” a subject. The rest are “studying…” Standards, eh?

  35. Good morning all

    Very dark and wet here … a bit like Sunak I guess.

    I had a bad dream about taxes .. Council taxes … remember the view/window tax that Labour threatened us with years ago ..?

    My nightmare is that councils will FORCE anyone with spare bedrooms to accommodate those people of colour who arrive on rubber boats .. and if people cannot be persuaded , then council taxes will rise to impossible levels..

    We pay over £3, 200 a year as it is , and are dreading the next increase ..

    1. You have no spare rooms, Belle, they are all occupied by various members of your family, as a second address if necessary!

    2. And it wouldn’t surprise me if Richly Suntanned’s love of increasing taxation will soon see the removal of all government limits on council tax rises. Blair v2 is clearly in the wrong party.

    3. Morning T-B – My home is my castle. No lodgers allowed whatever the Council [ie taxpayers] bribes me to take them]

      1. 367077+ up ticks,

        Morning M,
        Much of it our own making, at the moment the political arrseholes & current supporters have the shout via the polling booth, an unwritten ruling should be adhered to DO NOT FEED THE
        OVERSEEING POLITICAL ANIMALS.
        Consequences of continued feeding have & will continue to have fatal
        repercussions..

    1. When is our mob of stupid and useless politicians going to wake up ?
      Okay they’ve already ‘woked’ up.
      I’m so glad there are no such hotels anywhere near where we live.

      1. I would be extremely wary of staying in any hotel where these people have been placed.
        From reading the reports, I suspect getting various unpleasant diseases plus sores from bedbugs would be on the agenda, unless the hotel has been thoroughly fumigated afterwards

        1. Apparently the taxpayer is on the hook for the cost of restoring all hotels when the invaders have finally left. I reckon our £7m per day – or £2.5bn p.a. if you prefer – is well short of the final total.

          1. And what makes you think the supply of invaders will ever dry up?

            Certainly not before the UK has been “istanised”

      1. Stupid fekker should be left to his own devices. Quality of the food indeed, be glad that you are not starving.
        I have seen this myself, they do not believe when first arriving in Europe how poor the quality of the food is. The good food is expensive, but they are used to it from their home countries, and they don’t understand that poor people in Europe eat processed muck.

    3. A few days ago Anne mentioned that the Marks Tey Motel was hosting these people. That’s about 2 miles from the above. Around here there’s a swish place about 4 miles out in the sticks, 5 Lakes Resort, it’s a 4* hotel with golf etc. I’m not sure that anywhere is safe from the government’s tentacles re these invaders.
      Thank goodness all of the old barracks have been demolished, if not this area would be overrun.

    5. One of my classmates became a millionaire through selling that field to hotel builders.
      His father owned the farm on the other side of what was then a country lane.

    1. And they wonder why society is getting more and more divided!
      How out of touch can you get?

    4. Did you see that vegan nutjob from Peta on Farage yesterday evening? She was several stops beyond Barking.

    1. Any illieagal immigrant who complains about the food should be put on bread and water rations and have his/her pocket money removed before being kicked out.

      If I had made any complaints against the system at my prep school I would have been given six of the best and put in detention.

    2. “Great Hallingbury Manor is an eco-friengly hotel that aims to be carbon neutral”
      I hate that they are forcing all businesses to kowtow to the Great Carbon Fraud.

    3. Guess what will be the first question asked by any future hotel guest.
      Country cottages and B&Bs are the way to go.

  40. Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson and now Sunak were/are puppets. The question is: who are the Puppeteers? There’s no point in electing politicians and their dreadful parties if we don’t know who is imposing policies on them to do so much damage to us and to our country!

    1. This is a question many of us have been asking recently.

      It seems that Sunak has already gone back on everything he promised when he was running in the leadership contest with Truss – he clearly feels liberated by the fact that he does not owe anything to the electorate who did not choose him and everything to his globalist masters.

      2. I am beginning to believe it is time for a red in tooth and claw Labour government.

        Let’s get the destruction over with as soon as possible; this death by a thousand cuts is excruciating.

    2. After a dry summer and autumn the local streams are very brown after yesterday’s heavy rain.

    2. I have made this point before here.

      Shirley Williams, the scatty Lab/SDP politician said that the only way to attract better people into politics was to offer them more money. Since then MPs have had great increases in their pay and have continued to claim obscene levels of expenses.

      The shambolic old crone was completely wrong – money has attracted the most sordid and grubby people into politics who don’t give a toss about serving the electorate and responding to the things that matter to the voters.

      Gone forever, it seems, is the idea of public service and it has been replaced with self-service and self-interest.

      1. I suspect that they all realise they can triple their income by making claims for ‘expenses’. Probably tax free.
        And surely, other known available opportunities avail themselves.
        Just sayin’……😉

      2. There was a time when you (or your forebears) made the money BEFORE you went into Parliament.

      1. Noticeably Sunnak didn’t shake hands with Handwock as he passed through the salivating queue.

      1. And his gold plated bomb proof pension.
        It might just set an example and bring some others into line.

        1. She only appears on the TALK video as ‘Ann’. Sorry if that discombobulates you, Anne.

          1. That’s why I bracketed the ‘e’. Annes of both spellings are hypersensitive to that one little vowel.

          2. My first wife was known as ‘Ann’ even though her full first name was ‘Antoinette’. But I do understand the sensitivity about ‘Ann’ and ‘Anne’.

            That’s why I always try to get yours right, Anne.

    2. It shows the fanaticism of these people that they are so desperate to smear rather than engage with the facts.

      1. You’ll notice Ward is employed in a Research Institute. I thought research implied looking at all sides of a question/problem and coming to a conclusion based on evidence. However, science is never ‘settled’ and unbiased research is how science and the benefits it endows progress.

        Edit: However, added.

        2. As in YouGov; the best research money can buy.
          Buy your results today; we’ll poll the mugs next week.

    3. “Climate change denier” the modern-day equivalent of “witch” as in “Burn the witch!”

      1. The word “denier” is so redolent of fanatical belief and an absence of logic.
        I never thought I would see the medieval era again in my lifetime.

        1. It just shows that people haven’t really changed from the mobs that shouted “burn the witch” to the people who ‘fat shame’ and those who denounce ‘covid deniers’ or ‘climate deniers’. There is something in the human psyche which leads people to behave in this way.

      2. …and I always thought ‘denier’ was a gauge of female stockings!

        Maybe just a fetish of mine (especially when twinned with ‘suspender belt’).

    4. As I have mentioned many times, it’s also clear that none of our political classes believe in climate change. If they did they would have stopped the ongoing invasion in its tracks several years ago. But they only really want everyone to buy electric cars.

  44. Migrants left disorientated and confused after being taken to London. Perhaps they thought they had been returned to a foreign country.

  45. Morning, all! Heading off to start my Cornwall adventure today (fingers crossed; at least the rain has stopped and the gales subsided). Any must-see recommendations or Nottlers fancying being bought a drink?

    2. Where are you going?
      One of our sons his wife and child are heading to Harlyn Bay soon.
      I just hope that this weather improves for them, they had a bit of a tough time recently.

      1. I’ve just landed in Looe; staying here for a few days then wandering. Fingers crossed for the weather!

  46. Morning, all! Heading off to start my Cornwall adventure today (fingers crossed; at least the rain has stopped and the gales subsided). Any must-see recommendations or Nottlers fancying being bought a drink?

      1. The comments are worrying as well! There are a load of deluded people out there…imo, of course!

        1. Twatter seems to be hotbed of bed wetting, virtue signalling morons [IMHO!!] which is why I try to avoid it!

        2. The ‘imo’ is unnecessary. You have been infected with the curse of non-judgementalitis. BE judgmental, preserve standards.

        3. The ‘imo’ is unnecessary. You have been infected with the curse of non-judgementalitis. BE judgmental, preserve standards.

      2. Mmm like that woman in the letters page yesterday who was all gushy over Immigration but failed to mention she was Chairman of the local branch of Amnesty International – they do appear to believe the guff they write.

    2. Both Joyce_004 and Nadruvian have had their Twitter accounts suspended. Just as well someone saved a screen grab.

    3. I replied as follows:

      Alice, seems to be a fatal disease that even Christopher Robin went down with. Time to vaccinate against it.

    1. The automatic use of the Death Penalty would vastly decrease the potential prison population, especially on the basis of three strikes and you’re out, even if it was only a £1 a crime.

    2. I don’t have or want an Instagram account, so I cannot see it BB2. Please copy and pastepossible. if

    3. Very informative and probably coming to a town near you Our political classes need ripping into.
      I wonder how so many people managed to drive their cars all the way from Ukraine and cross to Ireland.

  51. Albanians enjoy the riches sent back from UK – but there’s a dark side
    Migrants sending money to their relatives back home belies a darker story – one that has worried some locals and officials

    When asked why Albanians want to come to the UK, Besnik Cahani laughs and points at his pockets.

    The 58-year-old knows only too well the benefits of having a relative brave the illegal journey – it is the one his son made seven years ago hiding in a lorry.

    “He is sending £100 back here and my pocket is getting fat with Albanian lek,” Mr Cahani said, adding with widening eyes that “sometimes at Christmas or New Year, he sends £200”.

    As he stood on the potholed streets of Kukes, a small city in the mountains in northern Albania more than 1,300 miles from Britain, many of the BMWs and Mercedes that passed carried UK number plates.

    Imported high-end cars, some of which are stolen or bought and imported using criminal money, have become a “status symbol” across the region.

    And it is not just cars. Kamez, on the outskirts of the capital Tirana, is one of the country’s fastest-growing areas. Where there were fields 25 years ago, there are now hundreds of grand three-storey houses rarely seen in the country, all built with money that foreign workers have sent home to their families.

    The lure is now so great that in many of the poorest regions in northern Albania there are no young men left and more are leaving every single day. They are tempted by gangs who promote a fictitious lifestyle and advertise cheap crossing on social media platforms such as TikTok.
    A drop in the price of the crossing, prompted by the ease with which smugglers can take people across the Channel on small boats, has only made things worse.

    The cost has dropped by about a fifth in a year, from £15,000 in 2021 – when most were making the journey on lorries – to £3,000 for a boat crossing now. In response to the influx, the UK Government has announced that it is pumping millions into the Kukes region to improve jobs and infrastructure

    ust last month, Alastair King-Smith, Britain’s ambassador to Albania, visited the city and pleaded with parents not to allow their children to be “exploited” by “criminals and traffickers” who are “forcing them into the underworld”.

    Investment is coming, he promised. But people on the street of Kukes have not not heard of this investment, and they are wary of whether it will make any difference to their lives because of corruption among officials.

    “There is nothing left here. We are finished,” said 35-year-old Fabian, who works as a waiter for €150 (£129) a month and laments over the fact that he can barely afford a cigarette, let alone support a family.

    He said that the investment would be welcome. But if it is handed to the Albanian government, it will disappear into the corrupt system which has left them without jobs, the factories and the mines closed.

    “Every single day, people are going,” he told The Telegraph. “And if I could, I would have left in a second.”

    Edmond Panariti, the country’s former minister of foreign affairs, said that the country is stuck in a “vicious cycle” and the more people are leaving, the more people want to leave.

    The “roots of the problem” lay in Albania, he said. “If you ask young people what they think about their future, then they will tell you that they do not have one here, that they have to leave.”

    Wages are low and the cost of living is skyrocketing. People cannot find jobs or afford an education or healthcare. The natural resources that the country is rich with, such as copper and chromium, benefit only the corporations and corrupt officials.

    Meanwhile, the spoils of illegal migration and crime are set to receive an amnesty. Any Albanian citizen living at home or abroad can put €2 million (£1.7 million) into the banking system, no questions asked, under plans being finalised by Tirana. They will get to keep the cash in return for up to 10 per cent tax.

    In a country dealing with issues such as money laundering and corruption, this does not discourage either illegal migration or illicit activity, said Mr Panariti.

    “Our people are under threat,” he told The Telegraph as he called on his government to address issues of poverty and people trafficking.

    “Young people are getting used by organised crime gangs. There are estimated to be around 2,000 Albanians in prison in the UK, and there are 5,000 people in prison in here. If things continue like this, then in three to four years, there will be many Albanians in jail in the UK as there are in Albania.

    “We need to be able to provide hope for people so that they stay here, especially those in the north living in extreme poverty. Our country is turning into a desert and we need to stop the tide.”

    ‘Better to take risk and have a life’
    When approached by The Telegraph, Albania’s ministry for Europe and foreign affairs did not respond to questions about corruption or the plans for a fiscal amnesty.

    But for thousands like Mr Cahani, whose life has been transformed, it will take more than a promise of new jobs and infrastructure to persuade him that there is not a better future in England.

    His son, now 27, has the right to remain through his French wife and Mr Cahani is preparing the papers to move to London to be reunited with his family.

    “People are so depressed here that they are saying that everything would be better if they could get to the UK,” he said.

    “They know that they have two possibilities: that they might be drowned in the sea or they might make it. They know the consequences, but they know that there is nothing here, so better to take the risk and have a life.”

    PM

    Peter Mac
    18 MIN AGO
    The idea that immigrants who manage to find work in the UK somehow help the economy seems very dubious given the amount that is exported as cash in ‘remittances’ to the Indian subcontinent, the West Indes, and now places like Albania, Bulgaria, Romania. We have long suspected that the Child Allowances for children whose existence cannot even be verified in those countries has been the most usual form of ‘‘remittance’.
    It would be interesting to see some verified figures on the annual amount which is drained from the economy through this source alone, let alone the Foreign Aid billions
    for;Elgin Aid

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/03/albanian-migrants-send-uk-money-back-family/

    Excellent article , and some really good comments .

  52. Janet Street Porter goes into a bar and asks the barman, “Can I get a large aperitif?”
    Barman, “I doubt it.”

    1. science sī’ əns, n knowledge (archaic); knowledge ascertained by observation and experiment with phenomena, critically tested, systematised and brought under general objective principles.

      In a nutshell, the ‘science’ is never settled, it is an ongoing discipline whereby older theories are tested and knowledge is updated.

      1. And proof that science is never “settled” can be ascertained by comparing what you were taught at school [in the dark ages] with current theories – science seems to have moved on quite a bit!

        2. When I were nobbut a nipper I was bought a set of encyclopediæ [Waverley’s The Book of Knowledge in eight volumes]. My nose was never out of them as I devoured facts in preference to fiction. I still have the dog-eared tomes here with me. It is strange, though, to refer to them these days and discover just how much technology has “moved on” in great leaps and bound since the mid-1950s. History remains the same, but every other subject imaginable (geography, for instance) bears no resemblance to what it did back then.

          1. I’ve still got my set here, as well. They’re not dog-eared though, I was very careful with them.

    2. science sī’ əns, n knowledge (archaic); knowledge ascertained by observation and experiment with phenomena, critically tested, systematised and brought under general objective principles.

      In a nutshell, the ‘science’ is never settled, it is an ongoing discipline whereby older theories are tested and knowledge is updated.

    3. science sī’ əns, n knowledge (archaic); knowledge ascertained by observation and experiment with phenomena, critically tested, systematised and brought under general objective principles.

      In a nutshell, the ‘science’ is never settled, it is an ongoing discipline whereby older theories are tested and knowledge is updated.

  54. Back from the market. It was quite busy, despite the drizzle. Nice piece of smoked haddock. The MR selected the size. Willy Weston weighed and priced it. I hinted that it was bit small. The MR said it was just right. Willy put in another piece for nothing “‘Cos I feel sorry for you…”!!!

    Good booze offer in Morrisons – their excellent Soave Classico reduced by 25% if you buy three.

    Home to sleeping cats.

      1. Fantastic fishmonger. Once a deep-sea fisherman. Now has a shop and a van – and kept going throughout the plague – by making home deliveries.

  55. Daniel Radcliffe is surely the world’s most ungrateful man

    Judith Woods

    Sharper than a serpent’s tooth is a thankless child. But at least King Lear had a genetic link to the treachery. How much more painful to be denigrated and dismissed by a nobody you made into a somebody? A nobody, in fact, whose life of wealth and fame was built upon your genius.

    I sincerely hope that JK Rowling, who has enraptured generations since she conjured up the magical, immersive world of Harry Potter back in 1997, isn’t losing any sleep over Daniel Radcliffe’s ongoing ingratitude. She will surely have lost all patience with the petulant pup of a performer, but in this regard she keeps her own counsel – because that’s what grown-ups do.

    Radcliffe, on the other hand, is a 33-year-old man child who most probably (definitely) wouldn’t have a stellar career had he not been first cast as the boy wizard aged 12. This week, in his typically ungrateful manner, Radcliffe has once again sought to cancel his creator. Her crime is to believe that women are women and trans women are trans women – the clue being in the name.

    Indeed, it’s only been a couple of years since Radcliffe wrote an open letter emphasising his unwavering support for transgender people. Now he has intervened again, feeling the need to point out that “not everybody in the franchise felt” the same way as Rowling. The overwhelming majority of people in Britain have never had to think much about the notion that women are born women. It is self-evident. But to the vocal, spoilt elite, this bog-standard statement of fact amounts to some kind of hate speech.

    I know, I know, just ask a young person. They will be able to fill you in. Possibly turn you in, if you don’t agree with the insistence that a person’s sex is a choice, along with the absolute right to access female spaces, be that the ladies’ loo or a safe house, even if you have a beard, fists like hams and the requisite tackle to play men’s rugby.

    Nonsense, of course, but that’s the folly and ferocity of youth amplified on the virtual gibbets of that modern day Salem called social media.

    This obnoxious little squirt of a talent-free nonentity was only chosen for the role because some producer thought him ‘cute’. This mirrors exactly how another obnoxious little squirt of a talent-free nonentity (Jamie Oliver) was chosen for a television role because another producer thought him ‘cute’.

        2. No. Alain Ducasse is a great chef. JO is a jumped up little shit that steals other peoples recipes and ruins them.

        3. I recall Dame Edna described Oliver as having a tongue too big for his mouth.

          Oliver’s father ran a good pub, The Cricketers in Havering, and served excellent unpretentious meals.

          Jamie Oliver is known around our region in North Essex as owner of the beautiful Spains Hall, a Grade I listed building near Finchingfield, which he is attempting to improve (wreck).

    3. “…if you don’t agree with the insistence that a person’s sex is a choice,”

      The ‘choice’ is dictated by your DNA, which, despite all your febrile mutterings, cannot be changed.

      2. I take it that your ‘pop’ [“febrile mutterings”] is against Judith Woods (who wrote that piece), Tommy lad.

        1. I assumed Tom meant Radcliffe, the “obnoxious little squirt”, rather than you or Judith Woods.

        2. Oh, dear, George, The mere fact that I’ve put it in italics should give a clue as to whom I’m quoting. Your gratuitous (and often wrong) comments are becoming as tedious as Ogga’s insistence on Lib/Lab/Con. Something we all know but don’t bother commenting upon.

          Julien, below is astute enough to know to whom I was referring.

    1. He’s probably the driver, and his passengers are pissed off being late for work every day.

  59. Who voted against the big BofE rate rise?
    The two dissenters at the latest MPC meeting were newcomer Swati Dhingra, who voted for 50 basis points, and arch-dove Silvana Tenreyro, who opted for a quarter point increase.
    Are there no true Brits left in the institutions? No answer required…

  61. Just got back from a trip to our local hospital, where OH has had a chest x-ray. Masks everywhere – notices saying it is a requirement. I told the receptionist I felt very sorry for her having to wear one for work. She gave me a mask but I declined to put it on. Fortunately he was in and out very quickly and I just sat and waited for him – maskless.

          1. Me too! Went to get a repeat prescription signed at the ‘surgery’ and rebelled beautifully! 🖕🏻

          3. We still have a notice on the door saying that although the official line says no masks are needed, the surgery would prefer you to wear one!! Err no!

          4. My opticians has the same (only they claim it’s compulsory). I refuse. Now they’ve stopped asking me.

        2. I went into town to pay a bill this morning and there was a woman walking rowards me, wearing a mask in the street. I say “wearing” but it was only covering her chin and bottom lip. What good she thought it was doing I have no idea.

    2. I visited my local hospital recently and was asked to wear a mask. I informed them I was exempt (according to the NHS advice on the government’s website) but noticed everyone else was complying.

      I wonder if the recent ‘findings’, that masks create more problems than the solve, will cause Elsie McSelfie to change the rulings in the NHSS properties?

  62. Have a read of this from the Guardian, it has me pulling my hair out.

    The UK economy is about to be thrown into a black hole – by its own government

    It fits the definition of madness to propose more austerity. But that, along with higher interest rates, is what’s coming

    Economic policy in the UK is peppered with the language of S&M. The Treasury demands budgetary discipline. The Bank of England sees the need for monetary tightening. Policymakers talk of the need to avoid “fiscal dominance”. Only in Britain could there ever have been an instrument of monetary control known as the corset.

    Judging by the way in which the Treasury and the Bank are behaving, it’s easy to see why the novelist Anthony Burgess once described the English as “profoundly masochistic”. A great deal of self-inflicted pain is about to be administered, but for its victims there will be no pleasure involved.

    Here’s the current state of the nation. The economy is going backwards. National output is lower than it was at the start of the pandemic. Property prices have started to fall. Households have started to increase the amount they save in anticipation of hard times ahead. Living standards are falling because wages are not keeping up with prices. Despite the government’s price cap, average energy bills are double what they were a year ago. Officials are “war-gaming” the possibility of week-long energy blackouts this winter. NHS England has more than 7 million people on its waiting lists. Food bank usage is soaring.

    And what’s the response to this? Well, the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee is about to raise interest rates for an eighth meeting in a row, because it is worried that high inflation will set off a wage-price spiral. The City expects a 0.75 percentage-point increase to 3%, and a signal from Threadneedle Street of more to come. The Bank knows what it is doing will cause pain, but says that’s better than even more pain later.

    Yet there are none of the classic signs of the economy overheating. The Bank admits that cost of living pressures are mainly caused by global factors outside its control, such as supply chain bottlenecks after the end of Covid-19 lockdowns and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The high level of job vacancies is not the result of excessively strong demand but because workers, mainly those aged 50 and above, have left the labour force. In those circumstances, raising interest rates is a particularly blunt instrument.

    Meanwhile, the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is preparing an autumn statement on 17 November that will raise taxes and cut public spending. He has already told voters to brace themselves for decisions of “eye-watering” difficulty. Hunt’s message is that Britain has been living beyond its means, and that a new era of austerity is needed to fill the black hole in the state’s finances. Or, to put it another way, we’ve been naughty and deserve to be punished.

    If there was really such a thing as a fiscal black hole, it might be a good idea to fill it, but the idea that Britain is about to sucked into a vortex because it is running a budget deficit is a fairytale. A country that has its own currency, as the UK does, can print money to cover its spending. While it is never admitted, the Bank of England’s quantitative easing – large-scale buying of bonds – effectively funded government deficits during both the global financial crisis and the pandemic. There is no black hole because there is no way the government can ever run out of money.

    David Blanchflower, a member of the MPC during the global financial crisis, says the UK looks set to repeat the policy mistakes made back then – and his warning is timely. In September 2008, a month before Royal Bank of Scotland came within hours of running out of cash, the Bank was considering raising interest rates because it feared inflation would become embedded. The real threat, as Blanchflower pointed out at the time, was of a monster recession. Within months, official borrowing costs had been cut from 5% to a then record low of 0.5%.

    The Treasury is living proof of the notion that insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result. In 2010, just as the economy was starting to recover from the crash, George Osborne decided that the time was right to start hacking away at the budget deficit. Just as today, tax increases and spending cuts were deemed vital to keep the financial markets sweet.

    An early critique of Osbornomics came from Ed Balls in August 2010, when he was pitching to become leader of the Labour party. Yes, Balls said, there needed to be a credible plan to reduce the budget deficit and the national debt, but only when the economy had fully recovered. By doing too much too soon, the coalition government was “undermining the very goals of market stability and deficit reduction which their policies are designed to achieve.”

    Balls was making a straightforward Keynesian argument. JM Keynes did not believe in permanent budget deficits, and thought in good times that the state’s income should exceed its spending. But he was adamant that it was self-defeating to tighten policy during a downturn, as happened during the Great Depression. Doing so would make matters worse in every respect: slower growth, higher unemployment and a bigger deficit.

    The same applies now, only more so. Things are worse than in 2010 because then, the Bank of England kept borrowing costs at rock-bottom levels while the Treasury imposed its austerity programme. Currently, both the Bank and the Treasury are tightening policy at the same time: a policy stance guaranteed to make the recession deeper and longer.

    It is not just that unemployment and poverty will rise. Cuts to capital spending will mean more productivity-sapping delays on the country’s creaking infrastructure. The ill health that explains some of the absence of the over-50s from the labour force calls for more spending on the NHS. There is a case for lower taxes to stimulate investment, targeted at small and medium-sized businesses.

    But even though it should be obvious that more austerity will make structural economic problems worse, the UK is firmly in the grip of a technocratic, economic orthodoxy that insists budgets must be balanced, inflation tamed and markets kept sweet. The consensus among the commentariat is that there is no real alternative to what the Bank and the Treasury are doing. Credibility is the priority.

    This argument has been deployed before. It was used in 1925, when the consensus agreed there was no alternative to putting the pound back on the gold standard. It was used in 1990, when the consensus was that there was no alternative to joining the exchange rate mechanism. Eventually, the “no gain without pain” approach was seen to lack credibility, and abandoned. But only after immense damage was done.

    Larry Elliott is the Guardian’s economics editor

    This absolutely baffles me, these are the same woke Guardianista lefties that said that Truss’s budget was reckless, it prioritised cuts to business taxes and would run a budget deficit in the short term funded by borrowing, it would cut taxes to stimulate the economy in order counter the recessionary effects and implement supply side reforms which would release investment to get infrastructure building moving.

    But the Guardian now prescribe EXACTLY what Truss was proposing yet they relentlessly attacked it when it was proposed!

    The Labour party attacked it, it caused gilt yields to rise, the £ to fall and mortgage rates to go up, they said that was terrible!

    The Labour party which the Guardian supports, were the ones pushing the orthodoxy that the BoE must be independent and that treasury orthodoxy MUST be followed and we all had to pray at the alter of the OBR.

    Can someone tell me if I’m dreaming this or have I finally gone mad?

      1. If I woke up tomorrow and Larry the Cat was Prime Minister I would heave a sigh of relief!

      2. If I woke up tomorrow and Larry the Cat was Prime Minister I would heave a sigh of relief!

    2. Shaking the Magic Money Tree for nearly two years of lockdowns and working from home has caused this – raising interest rates is the only way to reduce inflation.

      1. Conventional wisdom is that interest rates have to be raised to more than inflation to bring it down. When you factor in that they’re fiddling the inflation figures down, it’s clear that 3% is going to do nothing.

          1. Crash it of course!
            Which is why they will pivot in a month or two, probably Jan or Feb, in order to “save” the economy, then they will have to print masses more money….hello hyperinflation!
            Having stolen everyone’s money via hyperinflation, they will then launch the CBDC.
            Anything you don’t want stolen, park it somewhere safe outside their rotten system, now.

          2. And that was rather my point, you raise interest rates because the economy is over heating and there more demand than supply.

            The economy is not over heating, its going into recession, because there is too little money to support demand.

            Therefore raising rates merely takes more money out of the economy making the recession worse which weakens demand and therefore any taxes predicated on demand and jobs.

            Then add in tax rises, that takes more money out to fill the first hole, merely creates a secondary budget hole which will be as great if not greater than the first hole you were trying to fill.

            Madness

          3. This is about more than tax and the economy.
            At this point, I don’t think they can save the fiat currency because too much debt has been created. They will try to inflate the debt away, in order to start again with a gold-pegged currency free of all the fiat debt (commodity pegging is coming, like it or not).
            Best we can hope for is a short, sharp recession – but they will try to inflict upon us whatever furthers their CBDC enslavement plans.

            Our best option is to be as independent as we can, and as subversive as we can – in strictly legal, peaceful ways of course.

          4. If there were not more money than things to buy it with, then inflation would be static, not running at 10%. They put up prices because people are still willing and able to pay the extra, through borrowing.

            Inflation is now feeding inflation. If the value of money itself collapses, as it has in many cases, then the economy cannot function and we are reduced to barter.

          5. So tell me what would you do if the cost of your basics, food, housing, bills heating is more than your income?

            Would you just try living without the house, the food or the electric and gas?

            Or would you be holding out for large pay rises to cover your basics?

            taking money out will only result in higher wage demands and more strikes, the strikes that destroy GDP and therefore taxes and therefore public finances.

            There is a limit to the level to which you can reduce people’s income especially when it comes to paying for the basics

        2. Good afternoon. bb

          I do not think you should be required to pay tax on the bank interest you receive if it is less than the rate of inflation.

          For example if your bank savings account pays 3% when inflation is at 10% you are having to pay tax on a 7% loss. Of course this will mean you will probably spend your money unwisely which will only add to the rate of inflation.

          I am sure you are right. Interest rates should always be kept above the rate of inflation.

      2. A bit simplistic, had there been no furlough of lockdown (and remember that there was no real lockdown beyond May 2020) that people would make their own choices and many would have isolated anyway and avoided crowded area’s like pubs and theatres.

        So many would have required support or have gone bust and many private companies may well have initiated home working anyway.

        Simply removing “compulsion” does not mean that everyone would have carried on as if nothing had happened.

        1. The economies of the world crashed in August 2019, when the international interest rate for banks to raise money spiked. The prescribed solution was to put the economies into a coma, and inject money directly into big corporations to replace the liquidity to which they have become addicted.
          Rings a bell?

          1. Erm, there was no crash in Aug 2019…..

            Banks in the UK are well capitalised and rising interest rates capitalises them further.

          4. I’ll find something later. I only have thirty second pauses to post at the moment (am working).

          5. Here you are.
            I didn’t save any of the articles that I read at the time, and this one is new to me, but it seems to sum up the facts pretty well.
            https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/05/evidence-suggests-u-s-financial-crisis-started-on-august-14-2019/

            “The very day after the U.S. Department of Justice brought the RICO charges, the Fed began an unprecedented intervention in the repo loan market as a result of a lack of liquidity which had driven overnight loan rates from about 2 percent to 10 percent in one day. By January 6, the Fed had admitted that it had made more than $6 trillion cumulatively in emergency repo loans to the trading houses on Wall Street. That was weeks before the first coronavirus outbreak had occurred in the United States.”
            This was deliberately kept out of the mainstream media, and they printed astronomical amounts of money to delay the collapse. Find any chart of money printing in the US (or other western economy) for clear evidence of this.

            At the same time this liquidity crunch happened in August 2019, Blackrock (world’s second biggest company) was advocating direct intervention in the economy
            https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/insights/blackrock-investment-institute/publications/coronavirus-policy-response
            “We wrote in August 2019 about the nearly exhausted monetary policy toolbox and the challenges it poses for dealing with the next downturn. This has now come to the fore – and that’s why it is time to go direct with policy support. ”
            This document is supposed to be a coronavirus response, but as you can see, Blackrock’s language makes it clear that they see the pandemic as part of the bigger economic picture.

            When you realise the need to put the economy into a coma and inject huge amounts of money directly, then it puts the whole pandemic situation in a different light.
            The stock market didn’t crash because of the pandemic, and they didn’t print masses of money because of the pandemic. it was the other way round – they needed the pandemic as an excuse to cover up the rotten financial climate that they have created over the past forty years or so, which is now so full of debt that it’s collapsing.

            It is vital for them to delay as long as possible the moment when the public loses faith in fiat currencies. The world is going back to some form of gold-pegged currency, but the central banks need to get ready for it. They’ve been buying gold since the writing was on the wall in 2008. (again, you can find this for yourself).
            I read one interesting article that suggested that the European central banks seem to have a pact that they will own roughly the same amount of gold proportional to their various populations – so some have been buying and others selling, and they’ve been aligning their positions slowly since the 1970s in preparation for this moment, so that a common currency pegged to gold will make sense.

        2. Have you forgotten the lockdowns in November 2020 (along with various tier restrictions) and January 2021, with a short break at Christmas? I didn’t see either of my sons that Christmas.

          1. I had a meal booked at a restaurant for Boxing Day. It was cancelled because I lived in one tier and the restaurant was in a more restrictive one.

    3. The concept that any sovereign nation with its own currency can just print more and more money without effect is disproven by numerous examples throughout history.
      Government might not run out of money, but as prices explode ordinary people will soon run out and starve.

      1. Correct, something the Guardian doesn’t seem to understand. However, the point made Larry Elliot and was exactly the same one made by Truss and Kwarteng was that there is no need to fill the short term budget deficit because the tax cuts would stimulate growth and that would in turn lead to higher tax revenues filling the budget hole.

        In fact, the IFS which castigated Truss & Kwarteng stated that the 62bn budget black hole would fall to 41bn with 0.25% more growth, to 21bn with 0.5% more growth and would be eliminated by 0.75% more growth.

        So it didn’t need 2.5% growth, just 0.75% to close the budget gap,

        When Hunt’s first budget statement was released, Goldman Sachs reduced UK growth expectations for the next year from -.04% to -1.0% a 0.6% fall, on that maths the budget measures ALREADY announced would lead to an increase in the budget hole of about 50bn

        1. The only people likely to benefit from what is coming are those who will still be comparatively wealthy when the collapse happens and they will be able to use that wealth to buy even more at fire sale prices.
          Great reset anyone?.

          1. The question mark is how do you protect wealth? because unless its in physical assets then there’s no protection, everything offers less than inflation and often a lot less, house prices set to fall,

            What is inflation proofed? nothing i can see

          2. The things that the extremely rich/wealthy own might drop in relative value, but they will still retain some value. Land, factories, precious metals, artworks, watches, luxury cars
            etc etc. When the dust settles they will hoover up all those cheap repossessions.
            When Joe Blow can’t pay the mortgage he loses his physical asset.

    4. You think that the UK has problems?

      They just announced the financial statement for the year ending this March, amere $90 billion deficit. What is really worrying is that in April the Finance Minister announced that the year had closed with a $110 billion deficit.

      If they can be so wrong with accounts from the past, what chance do we have with forecasts.

      1. This again from the economic wizard Larry Elliot

        The Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank reckons borrowing in the current 2022-23 financial year will be £94bn higher than the £99bn estimate made by the OBR in March, and that by 2026-27 borrowing will be £103bn – £71bn higher than forecast in the spring. Without action, the IFS says, debt as a share of national income will continue to rise.

        So the OBR estimate of the budget deficit will be double (£94bn) higher than the OBR estimate in March.

        With forecasting accuracy like that (and far from the only example) what is the point of relying on the OBR.

        I could do better by guessing

  63. 367077+ up ticks,

    May one ask,

    question one,

    What is the quarn doing in parliament ?

    in Parliament | Dr Musharraf Hussainhttps://www.musharrafhussain.com › the-majestic-quran…
    24 Feb 2022 — On the sunny Tuesday afternoon of 22nd February 2022, we gathered to launch The Majestic Quran in Parliament. In December 2021, all 650 MPs

    Question two,
    Are these, inclusive of the 650 safe patriotic hands managing our, the indigenous peoples welfare,, if the answer comes up yes then part two of question two is “Was Hitler misunderstood”

      1. But lower rates fuel inflation, which is just as mad if not more so.

        This is the price we pay for paying for everything through borrowing. More borrowing gives a sugar hit, but provides no nourishment. A bit of comfort in hard times, and I can’t talk having just scoffed 10 chunks off a chocolate bar.

        I was ignored by the experts when I suggested that an alternative and more wholesome source of comfort is what is needed, and that is the job of the Culture Secretary, who is preoccupied with flogging off C4, or the churches, which are preoccupied with Safeguarding and gay rights.

        1. Does it?

          So if I take more and more money out of people’s pockets with interest rate and tax rises, you don’t think that will lead to them demanding higher wage rises then?

          I do.

      3. Shame he wasn’t shot in the backside……

        “Suspected shooter, Faisal Butt, has been arrested and he later allegedly confessed to crime “

  70. “President Joe Biden was branded “confused” last night after making multiple mistakes during a speech while campaigning for Democrats in Florida. 3 November 2022

    As the party continues to face an uphill fight for next week’s midterms, the President addressed a series of three gatherings in the state to drum up support, but ended up making a series of bizarre gaffes.

    The 79-year-old mistook the American war in Iraq with the Russian invasion in Ukraine, said his son Beau died in Iraq and claimed he met the “inventor” of insulin.

    In a point that President Biden makes regularly in public speeches, he attempted to blame rising costs on Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has sent energy prices rocketing.

    Instead he confused his geography and history, saying: “Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia is doing,” before interjecting: “Excuse me, the war in Ukraine.”

    He then added: “I’m thinking Iraq because that’s where my son died.” Beau Biden passed away after a battle with brain cancer in May 2015 in Maryland, at the age of 46. He had returned from a yearlong deployment to Iraq five years earlier.

    Biden was also mocked online for claiming he “spoke” to the man who “invented” insulin, one of whom died the year before Biden was born.”

    The President of the United States! I’ve read stories and watched movies where the incumbent of the White House has been assassinated, brainwashed; possessed by Demons, replaced by Aliens and overthrown in a coup. I assume the authors thought the present situation impossible!

    https://turcopolier.com/biden-mocked-after-florida-speech-double-gaffe/

    2. Does anyone, anywhere, still believe that this serial compulsive liar won the Presidency with 81 million votes?

      Biden is the head of a crime family and a tool of the criminal syndicate presently running America into the ground. That syndicate is allied with the criminal cartel headed by Klaus Schwab (principally WEF) and its affiliates funded by global corporations, Bill Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and old money bankers such as Rothschild.

      1. I asked exactly the same question in a post earlier today. It defies reasonable, rational belief to think that Biden won fairly and squarely.

        The trouble is that this gross electoral fraud happened in the US has encouraged politicians throughout the world to see how they too can screw up their own democracies.

          1. You missed Sky News yesterday where it was stated that all our problems would be solved if we rejoin the EU.

          2. Well, well, well! What a surprise! I mean – corrupt, undemocratic foreigners punishing us for being uppity. What could possibly go wrong?

  71. Instead of housing the migrants in hotels, why not commandeer those public schools with extensive boarding facilities and do similarly with University halls of residence
    The invasion would be halted very quickly once it was the children of the elites who were being hit directly by those they appear to be encouraging through their woke approach to life.

      1. Starting with the MPs who were so horrified at Braverman’s correct usage of the adjective ‘invasion’.

          1. Ah yes, the confused house flippers. Surely all that the expenses accountant had to do, to discern which house was actually ‘home’, was ascertain where the kids went to school?

          3. To be fair, I thought that Pixie’s husband was much improved after he lost his parliamentary seat.

          5. Well, Rastus. Be honest , he couldn’t have got any worse! Ghastly fat little creep.

      1. Indeed.
        And I suspect that many of those parents might well be benefitting from the invasion, either directly or indirectly, and might do something “at home” to curtail the flows if it harms their little darlings.

    3. True but sinking the boats would be faster and cheaper. If God drowned the Egyptians to protect the Hebrews then who could object? Those of the banking persuasion still celebrate Passover. Down with double standards!

    4. Anyone who boarded at a public school before about 1970 will remember that the conditions and the food at the time would not be tolerated by the illegal immigrants today.

      1. The food was certainly variable but my recollections were of eating very well, both at school and after match teas.
        Those schools and universities have kitchens, let the migrants prepare their own meals.

      2. When I was boarding in the 1950s we had the most unappetising food. One day boy secretly took home in bags a week’s main meals.

        Almost overnight the food improved. His mother was the Medical Officer of Health for Middlesex County Council…..the boy was soundly flogged, of course. And rightly so.

        1. If only you plebs knew…!!

          I can assure you that neither the food nor the tuck shop were anything to write home about.

          1. Every morning, this pleb had to run the gauntlet of the overbearing stench of well over-boiled cabbage coming from the school kitchens at my state primary school.

            This stench was present at 9:00 a.m. And the resultant green mush was served for school dinner four hours later!

          4. Such letters were compulsory – AND censored by the headmaster – at my Prep School. There after, one wrote or not according to whim. Of course no phone calls were allowed.

          5. Ah yes, I remember it well – as Maurice Chevalier sang in that film about a horse.

          7. At prep school on Sunday morning after returning from the morning service at Bath Abbey (to and from which we had walked in crocodile formation) we had to write our weekly letters home.

            A poor usher called Mr. D’Arcy Hughes wrote all the main events of the week on a blackboard and we were meant to include these in our letters which were strictly censored in order to make sure we didn’t say how miserable we were, how bad the food was, how smelly the Latin teacher was and that Rosehill School had beaten our First XV by 56 points to 5. They told us to hand in our letters unsealed so that they could check that our spelling and handwriting were up to scratch but we knew how the USSR worked in those days.

            If we were really unhappy we got a dayboy to post an extra letter home for us to which our mothers replied by letter and told us to stop whingeing and behave like strong little men. We were not allowed to telephone home and so went for up to 12 weeks without speaking to our mothers or fathers.

      1. Geoffrey Willans who wrote the Molesworth books with Ronald Searle’s marvellous illustrations knew what he was talking about. He was at Blundell’s as a boy and then returned to teach there. Sadly this was before my time.

        1. Oh wouldn’t it be luverly.
          Ironically Joseph Bazalgette spent a lot of time cleaning up in London perhaps we need a replacement for his services.

          2. To get rid of the stench, they even tried lime white wash on the HoP. It must have soaked through the stone work.

  73. ‘Reasonable Worst-Case Scenario’: UK Govt Wargaming ‘Week Long’ Black Out Scenarios

    The British government has reportedly begun “war gaming” scenarios in which energy blackouts could last up to one week in the event of disruptions to the national grid.

    According to documents classified as “official sensitive” seen by The Guardian newspaper, the government has laid out a “reasonable worst-case scenario” in which the country could see communications, energy, food and water supplies, and transport networks “severely disrupted”.
    *
    *
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/11/03/energy-crisis-uk-govt-wargaming-week-long-black-out-scenarios/

  74. UNESCO claims a third of World Heritage glaciers are set to disappear in the next three decades, whatever the temperature rise scenario.

    https://news.sky.com/story/major-glaciers-including-mount-kilimanjaro-and-dolomites-to-disappear-by-2050-un-report-says-12737012

    So do we really have to worry about the carbon overheads of importing LNG instead of having it piped from Norway in gaseous form?

    The energy required to chill, ship, and regasify the fossil fuel makes it far more carbon-intensive and increases the potential for leakage of dangerous methane.

    https://www.nrdc.org/stories/liquefied-natural-gas-101

    2. It would have happened irrespective of influence by man. The UK is, after all, still rising because of the ice sheets from the previous ice age retreating.

  75. 367077+ up ticks,

    May one ask, are these periods of blackouts to be suffered by the herd users being compensated by the investors who have been creaming off the money mills & mirrors scams.

    While we are at it may one ask also do the home office have any sort of dealings with supplying material to PIE as there does seem to be mounting reports of hotel rape & abuse of children.

  78. Browsing after lunch I came across this sub-stack for a second time. The subject matter was about BLAST – a database containing an immense amount of genetic data – and using this tool to show that Sars-Cov-02 was most probably man-made. The explanation was mind boggling and I moved quickly on to the comments; it was then that I stumbled on a comment and the author’s response about hiding behind a murine (mouse) avatar and a pseudonym. Something clicked in my poor brain.
    Slowly read the author’s name? It hit me on the second reading. Mentioned many a time on here!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cdf0058cce24662bbe6dab99e03002680ffa240610d91b431528d543a44bff81.png

  79. 367077+ up ticks,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    5h
    That is because they are not ‘migrants’ they are invaders – illegal imigrants.

    Migrants are people who apply, do the paperwork, fulfil the criteria, & are then invited in.

    The Scum Media constantly equates invasion with migration to try & make people feel guilty about objecting to it. Don’t.

    Objecting to the arrival of millions of uninvited people to a massively indepted country, where young people cannot afford their own homes & thousands of our own people sleep on the streets, is perfectly natural.

    Too many Brits consider themselves liberal, until migrants turn up on their doorsteps — inews
    Too many Brits consider themselves liberal, until migrants turn up on their doorsteps — inews

    Most Britons, even folk with good liberal values, acquiescently accede that the country cannot let ‘everyone in’

    https://gettr.com/post/p1wn1o822a2

  80. The real reason the Right lost – and surrendered Britain to the technocrats

    The Tories have achieved almost nothing because they failed to grasp the strength of their opponents

    ALLISTER HEATH • 2 November 2022 • 9:00pm

    What has been the point of the Tory-led governments of the past 12 years? Yes, there was Brexit, and salvation from Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn’s class warfare, which made it all worthwhile. But what else? Even leaving the EU has only really happened de jure; we have so far made little of our new freedoms. The school reforms reversed the decline of state education, though this has now stalled. What else? Universal Credit hasn’t cut numbers on out of work benefits, with today’s 5.3 million exactly the same as in August 2005.

    The terrible truth is that the Tories in general, and the Right in particular, have failed to shift the country in a conservative direction, defeated by incompetence, the power of the dominant Left-wing ideology and vested interests, and some bad luck. Far from standing athwart history and yelling stop, as William F Buckley demanded, the Conservatives have succumbed to the tyranny of the status quo.

    The Right has, inter alia, been routed on crime, tax, the NHS, pensions and welfare, regulation, immigration, the family, higher education, wokery, the environment, economic growth, housebuilding, monetary policy, debt, pandemic management, defence, the constitution, devolution and individual freedom (with one or two exceptions). It’s been a disaster, with the rapid implosion of the Truss experiment the final, abject humiliation.

    Why did the Right fail? There is nothing wrong with its world view. But it can only win when it grasps the extraordinary strength of its opponents, realises that politics is downstream from economic conditions, technology and culture, and carefully works out how to change a world and a system deeply hostile to its ideas.

    It must start by smashing the Left’s near-total intellectual hegemony. The Right whines that the OBR, the IFS and the Resolution Foundation dominate economic discourse, making it impossible to break away from today’s high-tax, easy-money nightmare. But why not fund a genuine, top-notch alternative to these groups that nobody can ignore, with supply-side effects and sound monetary concepts embedded in its analysis, all endorsed by Nobel-level economists? Why is there no alternative to the mainstream human rights lobby, one that explains how to humanely reform immigration policy? Creating many more such campaigning organisations would massively reduce the Left’s grip on the public debate.

    Models are the new weapon of the technocratic Left, from the environment to disease prevention. Some of these constructs make sense, but many are scientistic, contingent on manipulated assumptions, and deliver catastrophically poor forecasts. They empower elites who understand a little maths, or possess basic coding skills, and allow the establishment to control the parameters of the debate. It is easy to knock together a model that “proves” that HS2 will bolster the economy of northern cities, or that immigration is the main driver of productivity, or that Brexit will wreak havoc. Actual empirical evidence is irrelevant.

    Truss’s destruction was partly caused by her inability to wheel out her own alternative constructs. The Right needs its own models on everything from urbanism to reforestation; crucially, they must be honest, thorough and of the highest quality, unlike some of the Left’s. Longer term, the Tories must ensure that universities are genuinely ideologically diverse. Populism doesn’t imply anti-intellectualism: the Right must fight the Left on its own terrain.

    Yet ideas aren’t sufficient. Radical political change requires democratic assent, followed by the reform of bureaucratic institutions, legal changes, brilliant management and great communications. The Tories should become more comfortable with bypassing elites, and directly consulting the public via referendums: this will probably be the only way that the NHS or planning will ever be reformed. Truss should have immediately pledged local plebiscites for fracking.

    But winning a mandate isn’t enough either, as Brexit demonstrated. It doesn’t mean ministers are actually in control of the government. Many home secretaries have tried and failed to deal with crime or immigration, defeated by hostile and incompetent officials and a shocking lack of power and levers.

    The Civil Service must be reformed; democratically elected politicians should be allowed to appoint hundreds of outside specialists, as is the case in France and America. The Home Office must be liquidated, and a new ministry reconstructed from scratch. Ministers need to hire managers who understand how to push through change. Quangos must be absorbed into ministries, and no part of the Government must be allowed to campaign against it.

    The Blob thrives on bad or misunderstood legislation: the Right needs better lawyers. Out of cowardice or ignorance, the Tories have allowed key legislation relating to equalities, net zero or migration to remain unchanged, even though they undermine their other policies. Tweaking the ECHR or the Modern Slavery Act won’t be enough: the entire legal framework governing migration needs to be rethought from first principles.

    The need for unity is another imperative. The Right’s two wings, the cultural conservatives and libertarians, need each other. Without free-market reforms, there will be no growth; without the cultural conservatives, there will be no majority. Yet the latter trashed Truss in abominable fashion, and the former are often uninterested in the cultural conservatives’ worries. A coalition on the Right is essential.

    Lockdowns were a catastrophe for freedom, inflation and the national debt, and a boon to collectivists. To avoid the temptation of shutting everything down again next time, the Tories should prioritise a plan to beat the next pandemic while preserving as much of normal life as possible. We need the facilities to test, invent, manufacture and distribute a new vaccine in days and weeks, not months or years.

    Last but not least, the Right must grow its base by encouraging culturally conservative behaviour. This would include homeownership in new suburbs, a pro-consumerist attitude centred around achieving the “British dream”, the encouragement of self-reliance, choice and a renewed savings culture, stable and larger families, more technical and vocational education and fewer graduates, and environmentalism centred around technology, not puritanism. If the Right doesn’t get its act together, the Left will be in power for a generation.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/02/real-reason-right-lost-surrendered-britain-technocrats/

    More than one BTL makes the point that 40 years in the EU hollowed out the heads of many in government, on both sides of the HoC.

    2. “The terrible truth is that the Tories in general, and the Right in particular, have failed to shift the country in a conservative direction, defeated by incompetence, the power of the dominant Left-wing ideology and vested interests, and some bad luck.” The country is basically small C conservative by nature, even the working classes (or what’s left of them). They have been defeated by lies, the relentless propaganda of the Bbc and MSM, aided by brainwashing in schools and universities.

        1. My guess would be on give up and openly join the opposition (as opposed to pretending, as now, that they offer an alternative).

    3. “The terrible truth is that the Tories in general, and the Right in particular, have failed to shift the country in a conservative direction, defeated by incompetence, the power of the dominant Left-wing ideology and vested interests, and some bad luck.” The country is basically small C conservative by nature, even the working classes (or what’s left of them). They have been defeated by lies, the relentless propaganda of the Bbc and MSM, aided by brainwashing in schools and universities.

    4. “The terrible truth is that the Tories in general, and the Right in particular, have failed to shift the country in a conservative direction, defeated by incompetence, the power of the dominant Left-wing ideology and vested interests, and some bad luck.” The country is basically small C conservative by nature, even the working classes (or what’s left of them). They have been defeated by lies, the relentless propaganda of the Bbc and MSM, aided by brainwashing in schools and universities.

  82. A miracle has happened here….there is a yellow orb in the sky shining down on us. People are pointing and asking what it is. It be the sun, someone shouted.
    And the rain and strong winds have stopped. Thank gawd.

      1. When MH has a large portion of sprouts with this dinner, I suspect the wind will increase 😉

          3. I buy and eat them whenever they are in season. I made a delicious Bubble-and-Squeak (or Rumbledethumps?) yesterday with some.

      2. According to Gridwatch, wind is generating 1.55gw or 4.5% of demand. Once again the eco-hypocrites are forcing ordinary people to consume more than 50% of their electricity from the burning of natural gas.

      3. According to Gridwatch, wind is generating 1.55gw or 4.5% of demand. Once again the eco-hypocrites are forcing ordinary people to consume more than 50% of their electricity from the burning of natural gas.

    4. I’ve been stuck in all day, my knee is up the creek, I’ve been in touch with the GP surgery and managed to send a please help me email to the orthopaedic department. Fingers crossed.

        1. It’s bone on bone the cartilage is worn away. Too much sport and keeping fit.
          I recall something my mother’s elder brother said to me when he was in his 80s. “I’ll tell you one thing for sure, Old age sucks”.
          So far he was absolutely spot on.

    5. I have managed to get out into the garden and do some clearing up. I was too knackered to get it all finished, though (and both my green bins are full to over-flowing anyway). My washing machine did its impersonation of flashing Christmas lights again (due to my trying to wash towels, I suspect), so I had to hang the sodden washing on the line to let most of the water drip out of it. Thankfully it was dry enough to do that. I am going to have to invest in a proper machine to replace this unreliable toy.

      1. There seems to be a washing machine curse striking nottlers; me, then Belle and now you.

        1. I think I started it; it first happened to me a few months ago. Then it seemed to clear itself and I was able to do washes as normal. Last night it threw a wobbly again. Even taking half the load out and asking it just to spin and drain brought on the Christmas light flashes again.

          1. Not wishing to appear patronising …. have you checked the filter?
            Is the outlet pipe blocked?

          2. I can’t see anywhere that a filter could be. My previous machine had a drop-down flap and you unscrewed the filter to clean it. This machine doesn’t seem to have any accessible apertures at all other than the door where you load the clothes in and the drawer where you put the salt and powder.

    1. I use to hold a torch under my chin and shine it upwards pull a face and look through he frosted door glass when they rang the bell. They would run off screaming……I always thought it was part of the fun. 😏🥶💀
      Our middle son and his wife and small son came to dinner at ours to avoid the dozens of kids ringing their door bell.
      Good move, but they did carve a face in a pumpkin and put a candle in it for the little fella.

      1. I’d cut myelf quite badly and as I was going downstairs, took the reciporcating saw downstairs to put in the garage.

        When I answered the door covered in blood carrying a saw, this small crowd of children screamed, a parent said ‘oh my god!’

    2. Tiny Bounty bars have been removed from Mars’ “Celebration” tins because, apparently, not many people like them! [Report in today’s DT].

        1. I love coconut ice-cream but not so much Bounty bars. I was lucky as a child to have a brother who preferred Bounty bars to Mars bars. When we had a Mars selection box at Christmas we would exchange my Bounty for his Mars bar.

        2. I didn’t see the point, either. I thought it had to do with the government being free with taxpayers’ money.

          1. I thought it was about racism. Some people from Africa are milk chocolate in colour but those from Nigeria are plain chocolate.

      2. I love the plain chocolate Bounty bars which are far better than the milk chocolate ones – but they are very difficult to find.

      3. I think that’s why he chose that as the theme.
        I wasn’t particularly inspired by the rest of the cartoon, sometimes his political cartoons don’t “bite” nearly as hard as they should.

  86. 367077+ up ticks,

    May one ask what if we have a very mild winter is there a parallel fear campaign scripted for heatstroke, limbs melting, willies dissolving etc,etc.

    2. Yes there is and it would result in all your probabilities: it’s the fear of a nuclear exchange between Russia and Ukraine.
      If America (Sorry, that should be Russia) uses a tactical or dirty bomb in Ukraine, all bets are off. Best find a NBC suit and an abundant supply of blue pills.
      That should keep the fear factor going for quite some time.

      1. 367077+ up ticks,

        Evening AL,
        I do believe the political kapos will hold that in reserve,the fear element currently is toilet paper & butter and among the electorate that if a GE is called “their party” will beat other parties making up the mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophile umbrella coalition, all being of the same political ilk.

        1. I live in hope that the vast majority of people will open their eyes and vote for a government that puts England and the rest of UK as their number one priority.
          Then I woke up and thought of the great unwashed who are either dim or have no political acumen.

          4. 367077+ up ticks,

            AL,
            The majority are ingrained family tree voters, party before Country & granny.

  87. Evening, all. The reasons for tighter immigration controls benefitting those in greatest need (and I’m talking about the indigenous poor and homeless here) would take several volumes, rather than a simple letter!

    1. Afternoon Conners.
      And many hours, days, weeks and months even years, banging politicians heads together until they finally understand what life is like for many people outside of their own privileged existence.

        1. That is excellent news. My late hound, Robinson, had a profound relationship for 14 years with our stray kitten Pluto. They were wonderful to behold.

          1. They are lying together on Charlie’s rug. I took a photo, but I can’t upload it. It keeps telling me it has to be in a supported format like jpeg, but it’s a .jpg!

  88. Gawd Almighty – Twenty to six and it is black as yer hat. The only answer is to have a little drinky-poo. Roll on 21 December.

      3. A brick ether side of his head travelling towards each other at 80mph would save a lot of money.

    2. A crime like that should be subject to the death penalty and even lesser crimes should be subject to the old adage of, “Three strikes and you’re out.”

    3. Complete and utter totalitarian bollux, complete with Bill Haley kiss curl (stupid woman).

      I suppose, in her eyes, that means I’ve been radicalised.

      No dear I just have 78 years of experience of the failings of the human race.

  91. “We are calling on the home secretary to declare that anyone held at Manston for more than 24 hours is being detained unlawfully.
    …”

    …

    A judgement against the government could lead to thousands of compensation claims for unlawful detention.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63505069

    This is the result of being a compassionate country – it is yet another tax on the UK’s generosity!

    2. Take them in random pairs and tell them that they must fight to the death to get to round two.

      by the way there are 100 rounds to get through.

    3. Unlawful detention?! They shouldn’t blasted well be here in the first blasted place!

      Sure;y the solution is now obvious – they turn up, we ignore them. They don’t go back, we shoot them.

  92. Bogey Five – but could have been worse!

    Wordle 502 5/6
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    1. A birdie for a change.
      Wordle 502 3/6

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      2. Me too. The penny dropped quite quickly today. It happens but not often.
        Wordle 502 3/6

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    2. Maybe then he should have stayed in his home country, the disgusting paedophile. They don’t change. They just move around expecting everyone else to change to suit them.

    3. If I claim I come from “Utopia” where it is normal for people like him to be killed on sight, would that make me killing him be acceptable in his eyes?

      1. Thank you, Sos, but may I suggest, that rather than ‘Utopia’ you consider ‘Erewhon’

    2. Glorious! Hope Geoff sees this. One of the most wonderful instruments I have ever sung with.

  99. I’m sorry, but I get very angry at the bastards who criticise those “on the ground” for failings when the world was going mad around their ears.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11387577/TWELVE-failings-999-crews-let-Manchester-victims-inquiry-finds-two-lived.html

    I doubt ANY of those on the investigating committee would have done any better AND I suspect they might well have done a lot worse.

    Stop criticising the first responders and start criticising the clerics and Muslim communities who bred and supported he killers.

    2. It’s always the same, months or even years after the incident the same sort of disfunctionable people, who have what they all believe are all the right answers. Usually Due to hours of paper shuffling bullshite meetings and discussions.
      People agree,….. or else.
      Exactly like the opposition benches in Westminster. After something has gone terrible wrong they all have the right answer in hindsight. But never an easily recognised solution.
      In this case the more than obvious problem. Islam and their hate for western society.

  100. So our ultimate sacrifice this year financially , isn’t the bill that Covid has left us with , or the war in Ukraine, no , it is the cost we have to forfeit for accommodating an unwanted invasion of economic migrants from the continent .

    As many of us are trying to manage our heating bills , fuel bills and rising food bills , we are now observing government ineptitude to the highest degree, that I am sure riots will take place soon .

    Oh I forgot to mention that Glastonbury will soon be sold out of tickets for next year.. so migrant loving eco/ climate / vegan chomping money bagged Islingtonites will have loads of dosh to throw around , won’t they?

    2. In reality the major on going problem had been caused our useless pathetic lying government.
      But of course as is the usual case it’s everyone else’s fault.

  105. Itv HD on a programme called exposure are right now actively destroying the chance of gay and trans people from travelling to Qatar to watch the world Cup……as if they would.
    Or realistically, any one else, even football fans.
    I think I’ll give it all a swerve.

  107. Been asleep and now awake to let the dogs out in the garden for their bedtime pee.

    BBCQT is on TV .. who on earth is the black guy called George the poet?

    3. A homosexual born of parents from Uganda. He doesn’t seem to have much intellectual capacity.

    1. 367152+ up ticks,

      Morning BB2,

      People fund it we have missiles as an ariel shield so a fence as a ground shield, good sense.

      Ps Rape & abuse is inhuman.

      1. Do we have any missiles though, ogga1? I thought we had sent them all (free of charge to the government – but not to us) to Ukraine. Lol.

    2. 367152+ up ticks,

      Morning BB2,

      People fund it we have missiles as an ariel shield so a fence as a ground shield, good sense.

      Ps Rape & abuse is inhuman.

  111. Looks like The Boss has had another lie-in, so I’ll take this opportunity to wish all NoTTLers a Good Morning.

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