Thursday 7 July: Boris Johnson’s early promise gave way to dishonesty, sleaze and squandered opportunities

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  4. Morning Geoff and all,

    Two candidates for position of a new PM should Boris resign will be immigrants who came to the UK with nothing.
    Just shows you how far you can go on a piece of inflated rubber!

    1. It also shows how far one call fall by not using an inflated rubber!

      Morning Angie and all.

  5. UK front pages mix incredulity with PM’s message of defiance. 7 July 2022.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f6753c53f59eaacbc594ae937d0a6f36a7b677ff17401518623b204fb5c96178.png

    A blood-curdling vow to fight to the death, despair among Tory grandees at the impending loss of their champion, and incredulity that Boris Johnson is still hanging on – it is all part of the mix as the UK newspapers feast on another day of high drama at Westminster.

    As might be expected there is no call here for the “people” to respond to this crisis in Governance. That’s probably because they no longer play any part in the thinking of anyone (except as an afterthought) in either Westminster or Fleet Street. This is a Private Feud between Political Elites that would be familiar to any inhabitant of Ancient Rome, Middle Eastern Despotism or Oriental Tyranny. Whoever comes out on top will be no friend of ours!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/get-exit-done-uk-front-pages-mix-incredulity-with-pms-message-of-defiance

    1. Well, if he had any shame he would not be Boris.

      It is vaguely entertaining but as long as there is noone to replace him besides some other piece of work I do not care how long he hangs on.

  7. Bonjour les amis!
    To the title – anyone who was discovering his dishonesty and sleaze must have been asleep for several decades before Johnson’s tenure as PM. If anything, he got the job because he had a dossier overflowing with sleaze and dishonesty with which Sir Humphry could control him.

    3. “Spare me this catalogue of mediocrity” – no idea where the line came from, but it seemed to fit the above!

  10. Morning, all Y’all.
    Wet overnight, but not raining now. There’s lovely… just discovered that there’s an electrical fault that means, in a house with two showers, I can’t use either of them – the solenoids in their water supplies won’t open the taps, they aren’t energised. Beginning to feel more than averagely sticky… 🙁

      1. Yes. No power there, either, and the fuses/breakers are all in, as well.
        Bugger.
        🙁

    1. Nice picture, Bill. Good looking cats, fit and slender as a cat should be.
      Do they resemble their owner staff ??

    3. “Can humans really be this stupid?
      It would be better if cats ruled the world as in Ancient Egypt…”

    4. Looks like their environment has been designed specifically for G&P.
      Plenty of soft furnishings, several sources of warmth, an interesting hunting reserve placed just beyond those door things and of course two dedicated members of staff, available 24-7.

  12. 353975+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Thursday 7 July: Boris Johnson’s early promise gave way to dishonesty, sleaze and squandered opportunities

    So whats new ?

    Sensible peiole’s know the strength of the tory (ino)
    party vow,promise & pledge, the reichsmark is of more value but it satisfies the supporting / voting dangerous doughnuts.

    My belief is the johnson chap will stay precisely where he is as with the wretch cameron, & treacherous treasa,
    beavering away for the reset / replace NWO cause.

    Forewarning is only of value when listened to and acted on as in, when you see the koran in prime place over the Bible in the HOC chamber you have reached the basement, the lab/lib/con coalition that has given us so much………… illegal immigration / foreign paedophilia, etc,etc have succeeded & won the day.

  13. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    For me, this letter says it all:

    SIR – Boris Johnson’s premiership is a tragedy that, with his classical education, he should recognise.

    A man with a massive sense of entitlement and soaring ambition finally gets the job he has sought all his life, only to find he is utterly unsuited to it. Take away the optimistic bluster and jolly boosterism and there is nothing left. No strategic thinking, no capacity for hard work, no ability to articulate a clear vision in joined-up sentences, and no principles – only expediencies. Overlay deep character flaws, a quick readiness to blame others, an inability to speak the truth and we found to our immense cost that the emperor had no clothes.

    Martyn Thomas
    Raglan, Monmouthshire

    1. A nice summing up of Johnson’s character (or lack of it) Mr Thomas!

  14. Douglas Murray clashes with Alastair Campbell. 7 July 2022.

    “Most people in Britain want to hear Alastair Campbell talking about truth about as much as they want to hear Jeffrey Epstein talking about the age of consent”

    A line that will go down in history! It certainly got under Campbell’s skin who departed in a huff shortly thereafter! The whole interview (3m 18s) is well worth watching.

    https://disqus.com/home/discussion/www-spectator-co-uk/watch_douglas_murray_clashes_with_alastair_campbell/

    1. Good grief. What an utterly horrible man Campbell is. Has to shout over people and then goes off in a hissy fit. Contemptible.

    1. It’s the ‘mass formation psychosis ‘ – these people have all been brainwashed.

      1. 353975+ up ticks,

        Morning N,
        On par with lab/lib/con hard core serial voters then.

  16. Problem is if Johnson goes the remainers in the Tory party will take us back into the EU. its still a fight for leave or remain. Thats what it is about.

      1. Many of us here are convinced that they are determined to take us back into the EU.

        I blame Nigel Farage for withdrawing his Brexit Party candidates in 2019 from contesting seats held by Remainer Conservative MPs. The result is that the HoC is still stuffed with remainers.

        Many of us here said at the time that Boris Johnson needed a strong pro Brexit force such as The Brexit Party to stop him from watering down Brexit: a smaller majority in the HoC with the Brexit Party holding even half a dozen seats could have made all the difference.

    2. But we have never left Johnny. The vast majority of MPs wish the U.K. to remain and so do the snivel serpents. I fear we won the battle but lost the war.

  17. Lessons for London

    SIR – My wife and I have just returned from a trip to Vienna.

    The city centre is totally pedestrianised. The wide walkways have numerous upmarket shops, which appear to be thriving. There are plenty of cafés serving coffee, beer and snacks. The place is bustling. There is no rubbish, and there are no beggars. If Vienna can do it, surely London can.

    Duncan Rayner
    Sunningdale, Berkshire

    Dear Mr Rayner, Vienna doesn’t have a slammer Mayor.

  18. Good Moaning.
    Sorry to start the day on a bum note, but this needs exposure and discussion.

    “A culture giving up on its own humanity

    Adults have turned from being protectors of children into their sexual predators

    Melanie Phillips

    Jul 6

    Britain’s Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, has expressed shock upon hearing “horrendous” examples of sex education materials used in schools.

    She was responding to evidence by a member of the Commons education committee, Tory MP Miriam Cates. The Times (£) reports:

    Cates had heard about “a nine year old coming home, shaking, white as a sheet, because they’ve been taught in detail about rape”. She said one parent in her constituency had been “distraught” that her six-year old had been taught about masturbation in school.

    She previously detailed examples of children shown dice with body parts written on them, to prompt them to suggest different sex positions, and children taught about rough sex, spanking and choking.

    On what planet has the Children’s Commissioner been living until now? As Cates said in a speech last week, the compulsory Relationships and Sex Education framework introduced into schools last year had

    opened the floodgates to a whole host of external providers who offer sex education materials to schools, and now children are being exposed across the country to a plethora of deeply inappropriate, wildly inaccurate, sexually explicit and damaging materials in the name of sex education.”

    1. It’s perversion ‘education’.
      Adults don’t need it, let alone children.
      Pure wickedness.

    2. Good morning,
      I certainly had no idea compulsory sex ‘education’ had become so disgusting and harmful to innocent young children. LGBTQXYZ and trans indoctrination as well, even to reception class.
      If I were a teacher forced (because this is compulsory) to either teach such material to a class or supervise while an external provider did so, I would not want to stay in the job.
      How will such evil go down in schools with large Moslem intakes? Maybe it will be optional on ‘religious’ grounds.
      What a strong incentive to home educate.

    3. Yo anne

      Many on here will be wondering what this ‘sex’ thing is, apart from ‘wot orficers gor their coal in’

    4. Meanwhile, Islamic rape gangs are allowed to continue. Rather than this filth, it would be infinitely more valuable for children should be taught more about ‘stranger danger’, specifically the danger from so many men from certain ‘communities’.

    5. Morning Anne

      People don’t seem to care about anything .

      A mechanical sex aid was found in our lovely children’s village playground .. the jokey comments that appeared on the F/B page were in bad taste.

      I took the view that a safe guarding issue could have been breached .

      There are a few problems with youths messing around after dark ..

      Oh well , kids do what they want these days

  19. Good Moaning.
    Sorry to star the day on a bum note, but this needs exposure and discussion.

    “A culture giving up on its own humanity

    Adults have turned from being protectors of children into their sexual predators

    Melanie Phillips

    Jul 6

    Britain’s Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, has expressed shock upon hearing “horrendous” examples of sex education materials used in schools.

    She was responding to evidence by a member of the Commons education committee, Tory MP Miriam Cates. The Times (£) reports:

    Cates had heard about “a nine year old coming home, shaking, white as a sheet, because they’ve been taught in detail about rape”. She said one parent in her constituency had been “distraught” that her six-year old had been taught about masturbation in school.

    She previously detailed examples of children shown dice with body parts written on them, to prompt them to suggest different sex positions, and children taught about rough sex, spanking and choking.

    On what planet has the Children’s Commissioner been living until now? As Cates said in a speech last week, the compulsory Relationships and Sex Education framework introduced into schools last year had

    opened the floodgates to a whole host of external providers who offer sex education materials to schools, and now children are being exposed across the country to a plethora of deeply inappropriate, wildly inaccurate, sexually explicit and damaging materials in the name of sex education.”

  20. Good morning, everyone. Didn’t sleep too well last night, so am now back off to bed to have a lie-in. Will Boris still be in No. 10 when I awake?

      2. Well, Minty, I thought I slept for a couple of hours, but on waking I see that it is now 2025 (or will be in October).

  21. Criminal reforms target ‘deep fake’ and non-consensual pornographic imagery. 7 July 2022.

    The recommendations also update the law to cover more modern forms of abuse that are currently not offences. For example, under current law, while upskirting and voyeurism are criminalised, “downblousing” is not. Nor is the sharing of altered intimate images of people without their consent, including pornographic deepfakes and “nudified” images.

    Needless to say this will provoke an absolute avalanche of prosecutions that will put Burglaries and Knife Crime in the shade! Lol!

    https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jul/07/criminal-reforms-target-deepfake-and-nonconsenual-pornographic-imagery

    2. Next; ‘side boob’ shots are criminalised.
      Goodbye to the Daily Wail’s side bar of shame. (So not all bad news.)

  22. When one looks at Johnson’s performance, such as it is, as PM, it’s hard to see if this charlatan believes in very much at all. As an example, he has banged on about ‘Climate Change’ and has put forward some of the most nonsensical proposals to eradicate the UK’s carbon dioxide footprint, which by the way, is around 1% of the global total. His plans, if implemented, will place this Country and its people in great peril from e.g. industrial production falling due to both lack of, and high price of energy, leading to mass unemployment; people’s health at risk from extremes of weather and poor diet; lack of transport and the impact on supply chains etc.
    Johnson’s proposals appear closely aligned to those that the WEF/NWO are promoting, including reducing food production – the Netherlands and Biden’s USA are attempting similar strategies on reducing food production – therefore it’s prudent to ask, “Does Johnson really believe in the ‘Climate Change’ agenda or is he following WEF/NWO plans?” His early repeating of the WEF/NWO mantra, “Build back better,” was a clue although he appears to have stopped using that phrase: or have I not been paying attention?
    The UK is in a mess thanks to Johnson’s involvement and it is imperative that his successor returns to a nationalist agenda as opposed to a globalist one. The UK and its people must be #1 on any agenda. Should the successor be a continuity globalist then we will be in more trouble than we currently are in and the Conservative party will surely dissolve.
    Zac Goldsmith, unsurprisingly, believes Johnson has done a good job on the climate issue.

    https://twitter.com/A_Liberty_Rebel/status/1544734203207733248

  23. I see the hand of Carrion in much of BPAPM’s bluster. Especially the removal of Glove.

      1. Once BPAPM goes, she becomes just another failed politician’s doxy. She is desperate to stay at No 10. Think Mrs Ceaucescu…..

        2. Cripes; do we have to wait until Christmas Day?
          All joking aside, this is a very sad development. A chance to return Blighty to some semblance of sanity well and truly wasted.

        1. Tea Before Dinner? If you’re having a cuppa tea or a bowl of soup then spoons are a good idea, Kaypea. Lol.

        2. Next week would be better. Finishing the heavy work this week – new skip should arrive tomorrow.

          1. OK, let me know. I have a man coming to finish the kitchen renewal sometime next but he hasn’t let me know which day(s) yet.

    2. The Carrion has ruined Boris .. she grabbed and molested him knowing he was married .. and had a child out of wedlock…

      A modern Delilah, a medusa , a hydra and a wastrel.. She was a predator, and SHE knew his weakness was women .

      1. One does wonder if she deliberately got pregnant in order to entrap Johnson and, when she did become pregnant, she said she would not do as Petronella Wyatt did, and have an abortion but kick up one hell of a stink. One must wonder whether the wine spilled on the sofa was a decoy and the argument had been about abortion.

        2. The wine ‘spilled’ on the sofa was most likely the wine chucked at Johnson.

      2. Allegedly (!) she was a busy girl in Central Office.
        Not at her purported job – she jetted off on myriad holidays while underlings did the hard graft – but a keen ‘net worker’.
        Eventually, she bagged the Big’un.

  24. How very tactful of Mrs Fishi Rishi NOT to have the staff bring out the expensive mugs of tea…..but to pretend that she had been slaving (sorry) over a hot kettle on her little ownsome self.

  27. Watch: Suella Braverman announces leadership bid on live TV
    Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat, Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid could go public with plans within days
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/06/tory-leadership-hopefuls-prepare-bids-succeed-boris-johnson/

    BTL

    Johnson should either agree to resign in the autumn but remain a caretaker until then or another caretaker, such as David Davis or John Redwood, should take the temporary position until Frost is able to become an MP and then they can have a proper election for the new leader.

    I cannot see any other way in which the Conservative Party will survive but I fear that the party’s MPs are too stupid to see this.

  28. Good morning all.
    A light overcast this morning with a tad over 12°C outside and at least it’s dry.

    1. Yo B o B

      It is very ‘overcast’ over UK, today : nowt to do with the weather though

    3. If you’re looking for tweet material:

      The REAL indictment of the current Conservative party is that there are so many utterly useless individuals who are in with a very good shot of becoming the next Prime Minister.

      Gawd help the country.

  29. BBC Radio 4 Today programme: So far this morning; 2 hours 12 minutes of Boris, 10 minutes of sport and religion. The BBC has nearly achieved its objective of dumping Boris and replacing him with a remainer. They obviously forgot that Bo would have to get permission to resign from his boss – and she is a stubborn b*tch who does not like being told what to do. I heard the turd who has resigned as Northern Ireland Secretary describe Boris as another Donald Trump who falsely claimed victory at the last election and refused to leave office. Julian Smith, an outsider from north of the border installed in the very safe seat of Skipton for favours to Maggie May. Not a Tory at all. What have we done to deserve excrement such as him?

    1. Morning Ped

      I feel very tearful.. Boris is what you see, and what we have got , and he is transparent , we know when he is fibbing , but he has so much strength of character ..

      I DO NOT agree with many of his crackpot ideas , but I don’t want to see a smoothie in charge, If Johnson is grubby , so what , but he has a great brain.

      Why didn’t anyone else raise the Carlton club incident .. his friends ministers and MPs are ungratefl shitty b#####s

      Through Boris those MPs have a fine salary and careers.

      1. Good Morning TB. You are describing politics as it is, as it always has been, and as it is likely ever to be. Politics is a self serving calling, ego is a prime requirement. The difference between politicians is how broad their smile is as they slide the stiletto in the backs of their rivals. The future of the nation is as incidental to their objectives as customers are to big business, they are only there to serve as a means of obtaining boardroom bonuses.

        1. And they’re only able to do that when they can actually put the policies business wants in. Comically the EU was very good at corruption and fraud being stuffed full of lobbyists. In a way it’s quite sad. No democracy massive corruption, fraud and theft, policy made by brown envelopes and backhanders and the civil service wants to force us back in to that.

      2. But that’s part of the problem though, isn’t it? Ministers get into post thanks to patronage. As soon as they see their future careers threatened, they walk. They have no integrity, no morals, no interest in the country. Heck, they’ve done nothing but make things worse.

        Boris sadly is another Farage (only on the other end ). Neither man does detail. There’s an argument that the ‘detail’ should be done by the civil service, but that’s a deeply politicised organisation devoted solely to forcing us back in to the EU and cannot be trusted.

        As regards a concerted campaign against the government – the BBC hates everything Conservative and despise absolutely everything conservative. They’ve failed to bring that to heel. Bluntly, this government has achieved very little positive. Even it’s actions over covid were can kicking. We’ve soaring energy prices – a deliberate policy due to tax. We’ve soaring fuel prices – again, due to tax. We have a bloated state machine being given yet more money, the NHS wails it deserves a pay rise yet refuses to see patients arguing it is ‘overwhelmed’. Well, it should change how it operates. At a time when we needed jobs and growth the state hands out cash to welfarists and punishes workers.

        It’s a litany of intentionally doing the exact wrong thing – all the way down to supporting the invasion filth from france.

      3. I’m sorry TB but I don’t agree. Boris is a chancer with the gift of the gab. Unfortunately he is being controlled from the bedroom of No 10 and SHE is dicktak… dictating the current conservative policy with a foolish ‘green’ emphasis. PS I just heard that Boris is going to make a statement soon – resignation?

  32. Good Morning All. The sun is shining for the first time in a fortnight. Hurrah!

  34. By now, the qualification rules for being PM will have been changed to:
    Must not be a white, heterosexual, native born Brit

  36. A rather more cheering post than my previous effort. From my spy unpacking the pallets out the back:

    “On a slightly different note, Sainsbury’s is/was sponsor of Pride Month. They duly got in a load of Pride merchandise in which just sat on the shelf unsold. After a couple of weeks it was moved onto death row to be knocked out. Up to last Saturday there it remained unsold. It will be interesting to see at what stage it’s sent back. Never happened before. Stanway has a reputation for being able to sell anything.”

  37. Good morning all.

    He has resigned apparently. Let´s hope that the country is not jumping out of the frying pan.

    2. Has Ladbrokes opened a book yet as to when the UK will be back in the EU?

      1. Chances are by the end of the month. What a waste of an opportunity, all because of statist malice.

        It makes you want to nuke the entire lot of them.

  38. I see the Iraqi Chancellor, appointed only on Tuesday, has told Boris to go. That should scupper his leadership chances. Who would trust a weathervane?

    As for the next figurehead, if it’s to be a caretaker for a couple of years, consider Bernard Jenkin, Maastricht rebel and Brexit hardliner.

    1. My mind turned to music …

      Terrible state , poor poor Britain … probably our last blonde blue eyed politician in No 10.

      MPs have left us in a perilous mess.

      1. Same old same old TB.
        They eff up everything they come into contact with.

      2. “… probably our last blonde blue eyed politician in No 10.”

        Are you yearning for future PMs with teutonic characteristics?

    3. Ah! The Jean-Françoise Paillard version.
      A comment:-

      Now scorned by the Early Music purists, yet this still remains the most instantly accessible version of this beautiful piece of music.
      I bought my copy of this from the NAAFI in Bindon Barracks, Hameln when I was serving with 23 Amphibious Engineer Squadron and listening to it always takes me back 45 years to those days.

    4. Lots of synth tunes use that sequence or variations of it – I’ve used it myself Richard

  40. An interesting and informative article in today’s DT:

    The energy market is broken – but only one thing needs to change to fix it

    Our regulator has made a catalogue of errors and it has cost consumers billions

    PAUL LEWIS
    7 July 2022 • 6:00am

    You do not need a regulator if prices are transparent, choice is simple, and competition is fair.

    Ofgem – the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets – is needed because before today’s price débacle that has sent bills out of control, the competition between energy suppliers was none of those things.

    In reality, energy suppliers supply nothing except bills. They do not supply the electricity and gas that runs down the wires and pipes into our homes. Or the pipes and wires come to that.

    Those were fitted decades ago and the job of keeping them repaired and fit for the second quarter of the 21st century is actually down to National Grid which owns that infrastructure. All the suppliers do is add a charge on to your bill to cover that work. The amount is set by Ofgem and is now around £100.

    So what do suppliers actually do? They buy electricity and gas on the market, work out what we have used, and send us a bill. They do not send energy into our homes – generators and storage facilities do that. A simple accounting exercise works out how much profit or loss the supplier has notionally made

    For 30 suppliers those losses have been so catastrophic that they have gone bust. But their customers have not lost their supply. That must continue or no one would change supplier and there would not even be a pretence of competition.

    Customers of failed firms are picked up by a large supplier which then repays customers the surpluses created by overestimated monthly direct debits and buys energy on the market to supply them.

    The National Audit Office said the cost to consumers of those failed firms had already hit £2.7bn.

    Ofgem itself has admitted the mess has added £94 a year onto every household’s bills – even the half who have never changed supplier. Add on the estimated £1.9bn to bail out Bulb – which with 1.6 million customers was too big to be absorbed by this mechanism – and the price of Ofgem’s failed competition regime is closing in on £5bn.

    It will, it said in December, “ensure that we learn the lessons … and adapt our approach”.

    There is another problem with the energy system: it is a false market. The suppliers – billing firms – can only compete on price. But if they simply charged for a unit of electricity or gas, as a supermarket does for a tin of beans, it would be too easy to see who was cheapest and only a very few large firms would survive. So Ofgem makes comparing prices difficult.

    First, in 2013 it forced all suppliers to have a standing charge – an accountancy mechanism inherited from the industry’s nationalised past.

    A typical household – itself a fictional Ofgem construct – pays £821 a year for the units of electricity and £157.60 for the standing charge, just to be connected. A sixth of the bill is independent of what a household uses even if that is zero. That makes the cheapest deal different for high, medium or low users depending on the standing charge and unit price, both of which the supplier can vary.

    Suppliers encouraged the confusion by inventing tens of thousands of tariffs with different prices for units and standing charges over different fixed periods. A dozen parasitic websites sprang up to do the complex calculations to find the best deal. Every customer who switched both fuels earned them £60.

    But they hid the truth in two ways. In 2018 Ofgem ruled they did not have to list every tariff so the comparison sites could do deals with a supplier to get its tariff at the top of the tables.

    Second, Ofgem allowed them to charm customers with fictional savings. The actual saving is the cost of the old tariff minus the new tariff which is often tiny. Instead, suppliers quoted the difference between the new tariff and the tariff they would revert to if they did not change. Those revert rates were kept artificially high and people who switched found the promised savings did not materialise. Ofgem responded by capping the revert rate.

    But as wholesale prices have soared above the cap that is the rate almost all of us now pay. No competition and no market.

    Ofgem should read its own mission statement, and better protect consumers “whether or not it would promote competition”.

    The BTL posters are not happy:

    Peter Willis14 MIN AGO

    Thanks for that info Mr Lewis, most helpful and good to see in print.

    All I wish to know is, just how much does a unit of both electricity and gas cost me to use. Plus the racket cost of standing charges, which I understand are not controlled by Ofgem. I suppose I can work out VAT myself and that is it. Quite simple really. (Trivia really, why are energy unit prices offered down to one thousandth of penny is also unhelpful and estimated readings should now be banned.)

    I can then shop around, or could have done. It has always made me cross, in the past, to see TV adverts informing some individual “you have just saved £266”. No they haven’t as nobody knows that at the commencement of a tariff (how I hate that word), before it starts.

    Even receiving a bill on the promised day is now impossible with Spanish Gas. Finally just some good old fashioned manners, e.g. talking to the customer would be worth paying just a little extra for. (should have to of course)

    John Keats1 HR AGO

    A very good article

    Ofgem have in fact done the opposite of their mission statement , obfuscating costs leading consumers to make bad choices

    Ofgems incompetence and culture, one that tries to be clever and over proscriptive is reflective of many civil service quangos/ departments- they are not fit for purpose.

    Privatisation of large and critical infrastructure assets like energy , water and British rail has not worked

    Energy – We are massively exposed to external gas markets and have failed to plan and schedule SMR building which should have begun 15 years ago

    Water- we have failed to ensure overseas owners of regional assets have continuously invested enough in their infrastructure and we have failed to sanction industrial scale polluters

    Rail – operators go bust , HS2 is almost fraudulently preferred over the Hull Liverpool and Birmingham Sheffield Leeds connections the north desperately needs

    All the responsibility lies within incompetent Gov departments whose cancerous culture is not actively engaged with industry and the people to get the best thing done for the country – instead their superior intellectual attitudes ignores practical and common sense input from industry and uses over complicated process and assessments to produce “political” outcomes.

    Instead of finding sustainable solutions for the UK they are undermine us.

    The civil service needs a cultural revolution

    Start by removing their DB golden inflation protected pension pots

    Janet Warrior1 HR AGO

    What an eye-opener of an article. We are being stuffed by both the energy firms and the regulator, and that’s without even mentioning the green levy added to electricity bills. This is the stuff we want fixed, and now, pathetic politicians.

    philip shambrook1 HR AGO

    Creating a system where there was no real incentive for the new ,companies or those who switched to them, to put any real effortin because the remaining consumers would bail out poor decisions is nigh on criminal.

    We want energy efficiency and reduced useage but have a standing charge that penalises those who make real efforts in reducing energy use.

    Smart meters ,colossal waste of money that could have built a nuclear power station and provided power for nigh on nothing once the consumer had paid for it.

    The idea of middlemen earning £100 a year per customer to source, deliver and bill makes sense, but let them do so in a real market.

    1. I fail to see why people want energy to be nationalised. The very problem the article discusses – state intervention – they’re demanding be made worse.

      The sensible solution is surely to scrap the standing charge and charge people only what they use and let people choose what energy they want to buy – cheapest, greenest, nuclear only…

      The problem is state intervention because no market exists.

    2. We should have some boring plodder like Raab to get some proper Tory policies in. Cut taxes, scrap HS2, kill the green crap and net zero. Stop the #climate fraud.

      1. The state wants all of those things, so what could the government do to stop them?

    3. We should have some boring plodder like Raab to get some proper Tory policies in. Cut taxes, scrap HS2, kill the green crap and net zero. Stop the #climate fraud.

    5. Which EU grovelling turd, you mean?

      If you think that Brussels will ever allow a true Brit to be in charge you are dreaming.

  43. But isn’t dishonesty an sleaze the norm at Westminster ?
    I’m not a fan of Bore-us but I don’t like to see our equality sleazy scum bag media forcing the PM to resign.

    1. Squalid Jawdrip’s protestations about his integrity were truly jaw dropping in their lack of self-awareness.

      2. ‘People’ like Jeremy Vine are probably showing wet patches in their clothing. In and around the groin area.

      3. This is the man who attempted to enforce “vaccine” mandates on health workers when the toxicity of those serums was becoming clear. He maintained the, “safe and effective,” fairy tale almost to the end. Anyone with an ounce of integrity would have halted the roll-out and instituted an immediate inquiry. Instead, he followed orders. Definitely not to be trusted.

  44. Was No Brexit At All a better option than a bungled, incomplete Brexit surrendering on fishing and N Ireland?

    We shall doubtless soon be back in the EU. Even those of us who were keenly in favour of Brexit must now be wondering if it was all worth it.

    I would love to be able to delude myself and think that there is a Conservative leader in the offing who will get a grip and finish of Brexit properly and irrevocably

    1. It was worth it, but the end was always inevitable. Guaranteed chaos, intentional malice, significant disruption, tax and waste. The state was never, ever going to permit the country to leave the EU. It was too embedded in the gravy train, to wedded to the ideology of unaccountable control.

      2. Only about half are in the Cabinet. However, I think I read there are 135 on the Government’s payroll / gravy train……

  46. The whole thing is unbelievable. As I write these words, Gordon Brown is still holed up in Downing Street. He is like some illegal settler in the Sinai desert, lashing himself to the radiator, or like David Brent haunting The Office in that excruciating episode when he refuses to acknowledge that he has been sacked. Isn’t there someone – the Queen’s Private Secretary, the nice policeman on the door of No 10 – whose job it is to tell him that the game is up?

    Boris Johnson, Monday 10th May 2010.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/general-election-2010-get-gordon-brown-bathroom-deal-real-problems/

    1. Departures..

      That is the end of the Conservatives .

      The press and the BBC have caused so much chaos , what real news are they burying .. They are all left wing nasties .

      1. The conservatives were done for when Labour packed the country with gimmigrants, welfarists, wasters and troughers.

  47. Albanese would treat Putin with ‘contempt he deserves’ if paths cross at G20. 7 July 2022.

    The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says he will treat Vladimir Putin with “contempt” if the two cross paths at the G20 summit in Indonesia later this year, but the Australian leader doesn’t think his Russian counterpart will even attend the meeting.

    “It certainly won’t be polite,” Albanese said bluntly, when asked in a Sky News interview on Thursday afternoon.

    Fresh from returning from Ukraine, and seeing the damage of Russia’s invasion first-hand, Albanese again called for the conflict to end and Putin to withdraw. Asked how he would treat Putin if they met in Bali, at the G20, Albanese responded: “with the contempt he deserves”.

    I remember one of his antipodean predecessors telling us how he would “shirtfront” Putin if they happened to meet at another G something or other. We are still waiting for it to materialise!

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2022/jul/07/australia-news-live-fourth-covid-booster-nsw-floods-jacinda-ardern-dominic-perrottet?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-62c67d488f089a79171d433d#block-62c67d488f089a79171d433d

    2. Then he’s a stupid man who deserve nothing but contempt. You treat Putin with respect because you want him to stop what he’s doing. You won’t get that by snubbing him.

    4. Yes, another juvenile , virtue signalling Leftist politician .. no wonder the Russians hold us in such contempt

  48. This day will go down in history. The removal of a malicious political opportunist with a personal agenda completely opposite to the wishes of the general public. Goodbye Carrie and good riddance!

      3. How so many got into this country and into politics – although such was inevitable – is laughable.

    3. A malicious political opportunist with a personal agenda completely opposite to the wishes of the general public…….I thought Blair resigned in 2007….

  49. “Rafael Nadal defies severe pain but fears his Wimbledon might be over
    No2 seed feels semi-final against Nick Kyrgios might be a trial too far after abdominal injury causes palpable discomfort and distress.”
    [DT]

    So unless Mr Norrie can pull a rabbit of the hat we are likely to see that charming, polite, sporting and alluringly dusky Australian slug it out with the Antivaxer on Sunday.

    I shall be supporting the Antivaxer.

    1. I did say they’d never let us leave. Democracy in this country is a sham. No doubt as soon as we do all the problems confronting this country will go, as if they never existed and the EU taking the credit.

      That they could be resolved now is irrelevant. It’s all theatre. They’re liars and thieves.

    2. …and don’t forget it is now compulsory to join the Euro, so we won’t have the capability of running our own economy

      1. Given the way its been run recently, they could hardly do any worse!

        They might even give a dispensation; a Greek default they could handle, a UK default as part of the Euro could have huge repercussions.

    1. They don’t need a reason. They’ll just force us back in, without bothering with the annoyance of democracy. They’ll claim it, but it’ll be a sham.

      It’s the only way they’d get what they wanted.

  52. Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has said she will remain in office to ensure the “wheels of government keep turning”. In a statement on Twitter, after it was confirmed that Boris Johnson intends to resign, she said: “I asked to speak to the PM yesterday evening and had still hoped to do so today. I fully understand colleagues’ concerns and the very bad situation we are now in. “The wheels of government need, though, to keep turning, especially at DWP which helps the most vulnerable in society. “DWP needs to be firing on all cylinders to support them, especially with the cost-of-living payment beginning to be paid next week as part of our help for households.”

    I wish people would speak in plain English. Talk about mixed metaphors….

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/07/boris-johnson-resign-news-government-resignations-gove-zahawi/

    1. It’s a carefully crafted paragraph that ensures it says absolutely nothing whatsoever while sounding good.

      We’d call this waffle. MPs call this speaking.

      My Dad used to say I talked like a politician. I said that I was answering the question he wanted , not the one he’d asked. So used had he become to second guessing my mother that convoluted nonsense was de rigueur.

    2. It’s a carefully crafted paragraph that ensures it says absolutely nothing whatsoever while sounding good.

      We’d call this waffle. MPs call this speaking.

      My Dad used to say I talked like a politician. I said that I was answering the question he wanted , not the one he’d asked. So used had he become to second guessing my mother that convoluted nonsense was de rigueur.

    3. She is one of those people who hangs around the successful people and is of use to them.

  53. What a waste of a term. An 80 seat majority, huge national support, a time to finally crush the oppression of the Left, to reform our political system, to bring the BBC to it’s knees, to cut taxes and set business loose.

    What did they do? More tax and waste, more regulation, debt and leaving us with inflation.

    I think Boris should stay, but with a cabinet of 10 – security, defence and nothing else.

    1. Has there been any of the 2019 Tory mp intake that have resigned their seat and said “This government is not a Conservative one, I will stand in a by-election as an Independent Conservative.”

  55. Johnson has lied (again) he is staying on as Prime Minister until the autumn. What’s wrong with the Deputy PM taking over? I’ll tell you why – he is a Brexiteer.

  56. The BBC programme, Today, is changing its signature tune – From tomorrow it will be Back in the EUSSR

    2. I don’t see what the woke fuss is about, call males batsmen and females batswomen. Oh, one moment……..

    3. An interesting BTL? Isn’t this the same person who shut down their
      Twitter account because he didn’t like the little people disagreeing
      with his tedious opinions on basically anything ?

    4. Looks like he has just got out of bed – in his suit. Perhaps he has. Were the photographer and interviewer from the same ‘tribe’ as him?

  60. Just back from the market. Unexpected RAIN. Lasted an hour – well, heavy drizzle, really. The MR was surprised as she is – as I write – on the bus to Brancaster to take part in a 4 mile ramble – ending at a PUB… I, on the other hand, am slaving….

    3. It’s a lovey area to ramble, nice and flat and a a lovely beach. I expect they’ll end up in if i remember correctly, the White Hart.

    4. “The rain it raineth on the just
      And also on the unjust fella;
      But chiefly on the just, because
      The unjust hath the just’s umbrella.”

    2. The Beeb is leading their article with a pic of Liz the Truss…presumably whom the Beeb intend for our next PM?

    3. The only candidate I would support is Ben Wallace. Born in London military background, so in that case use to discipline and no problems with a silly hair cut.
      The others have such doubts and question marks surrounding their possible hidden intentions.

      1. 353975+ up ticks,

        Morning RE,
        My chosen one from the anti GB coalition would be Gromit
        without a doubt.

        1. Not Wallace ?
          I have to tell you that if we had ever had a KIP candidate in our Hitchin and Harping-yar (Harpenden) constituency i would have voted for them. But we never have.

          1. 353975+ up ticks,

            The party under the Gerard Batten leadership was everything this country
            sorely needs, that was the very reason
            that brought about it’s treacherous downfall via the party’s current nec &.farage

            The currently uKiP has joined the lab/lib/con coalition in the “in name only” department and NOT to be trusted.

          2. The Tories have always had a massive majority in this general area, but the Limps have been creeping in recently. I’ve voted for independent candidates sometimes.

          3. 353975+ up ticks,

            Afternoon RE,
            We are now living through the fallout of near 40 years odious construct, with worse yet to come because a multitude will NOT admit the Tory party is long deceased and they, the voting punters, are backing an extremely nasty
            treacherous, dangerous,ringer.

          4. The limps have been steadily working away at the grass roots. One of my friends reckons they would get 60 – 70 seats and form a coalition should a GE be held now. Heaven help us!

          5. We all saw the results of that in 2010 with the Cameron-Clegg coalition. Lib-dems constantly reneged on any promises made – the boundary commission’s results have neither been published nor implemented. WHY?

          6. There aim seems to be undermining previous and long accepted decisions.
            Our city Council has begun fiddling with things like removing all of our dog poo bins and making an annual charge for our green garden waste.
            Of course the dumbos probably didn’t realise what might happen. And it has of course.
            Our dog poo in its black biodegradable bags now goes in the garden waste bin.

          7. It’s supposed to be “no plastic” July. Quite how we’re supposed to dispose of dog waste under those circumstances escapes me. Whatever the LDs touch turns to deep doo-doo.

          8. I know where the councilor lives in St Albans who brought this on. I could bag it up and dump it on his front garden.
            About 25 years ago I ran a job building an extension at his home.
            He and his wife were on many occasions extremely awkward. Their oil fired CH boiler packed up but we hadn’t been near it and they blamed the builders for the problem. i asked them how often it had been serviced and they lied, as i found a business card tucked down the side of the hot water cylinder. It was the heating engineer, I rang him and he wasn’t very complimentary about them. I sorted the problem out it needed a new part. But I was never thanked or given any credit for what I did for them. Typical politician eh.

      1. Now that would be fun.
        The bbc, civil ‘servants’ – a misnomer if ever there was one, the leftwing msm and a certain female incumbent at no10 would all be wondering what the hell happened.
        You’re bad! but then again, it could result in a shortage of toilet rolls.

    5. That is because the BBC wants the Conservative Party to die and Lord Frost is possibly the only Prime Minister who could save it.

  63. 353975+ up ticks,

    So another one bites the dust the tory (ino) party is living up to it’s false title. he never let the side down when it come to breaking free of the height of corruption & shite the eu, via his deal we are still attached.

    ”
    Never fear” is out the window place taken via the lab/lib/con coalition party by “always fear ” in regards as to what you are about to receive via the current voting pattern.

  64. It’s not all bad news for Sajid. He may be out of the cabinet, but being an ethnic, creepy, tubby bald guy has its benefits.

    Diversity obsessed Netflix have offered him the role of Uncle Fester in the new Addams Family series.

    1. No Nathan, they brought it with them. the it was our community that was ripped apart.

      1. I had the demo disc of that- my dad knew someone who worked at the Beeb and she gave us a lot of old demos used on Top of the Pops. Had some good ones.

      1. I always find it peculiar that when these mass surveys have been conducted around the whole the country, you never personally hear of any one or know any one who has been asked their opinions.

          1. I hope you don’t mean they also kick out the answers they don’t want and don’t like.

          3. I hope you don’t mean they also kick out the answers they don’t want and don’t like.

    3. Morality has gone out of the window, manners and common decency next. Along with intelligence regressing, there appears to be a slide into uncivilised savagery. Odd that some unwanted but unsuccessful drunken groping has led to a political crisis whereas the most awful social changes are accepted as progress. Maybe all civilisations rise and fall, I just hope that I will have shuffled off by the time it completely crashes out.

      1. Schoolchildren have not been taught the proper use of a knife and fork for years. Seeing them at school dinner-time is akin to watching pigs in a sty. Standards in public and private life continue to plummet at an ever-increasing rate. Civilisation is in unstoppable decline.

      2. Schoolchildren have not been taught the proper use of a knife and fork for years. Seeing them at school dinner-time is akin to watching pigs in a sty. Standards in public and private life continue to plummet at an ever-increasing rate. Civilisation is in unstoppable decline.

    2. It’s been pretty obvious that some one has been pulling his strings.
      Where’s Vlad when we need him ?

      1. I didn’t have any and bystanders weren’t even offering to chip in.

        1. We were in Dartmouth a few weeks ago and a gull slammed hard into a guy sitting on a bench eating some food.

    2. Squalid Jawdrip took the grit out of integrity! (And the soul out of arse’ ole)

      Remember when Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain talked about his dignity when he had been a custard pie comedian!

  78. So now have the government and the leadership that our mainstream media deems appropriate for us, no need for elections.

          1. Well yes it is, a precedent has been set, if they don’t like whomever is chosen the will run a similar campaign against them as the did with Boris.

    2. They’re doing a USA 2020 installation of puppet leader.
      Seeing them get away with it in the States has made them bolder.
      And to think we imagined briefly Boris might do something about the Beeb &the msm!

  80. Boris resigns as Party Leader but intends to stay on as PM until new Conservative leader is elected. Speech in Downing St a few minutes ago.

    1. In which case how can they get David Frost to renounce his title, win a parliamentary seat, become prime minister and finally get a proper Brexit done?

      Lord Heselslime is probably right when he says

      When Boris goes, Brexit goes

      The MSM want UK back in the EU; most MPS and members of the House of Lords want the UK back in the UK; even those stupid Conservative MPs who only got elected because the gullible electorate trusted Johnson to get Brexit done want he UK back in the EU.

  82. Afternoon, Peeps.

    I don’t think I have seen a DT headline quite as awful as this one:

    Funeral home director admits to selling arms, legs and heads for cash

    Megan Hess pleads guilty for her part in a scheme that duped bereaved families into believing their relatives had been cremated

    At least it wasn’t in this country (USA).

    1. Low cost cremation adverts on TV are basing the prospect of saving money after your death by pointing out that funerals nowadays do cost an arm and a leg!

    2. I have always assumed that the expensive coffins are recycled at crematoriums – body out into the burner; coffin handed back to undertaker – to sell again for £300.

  83. My email provider Yahoo is offering a VPN at £3.90 a month. I understand what a VPN does, but as I dont travel abroad and dont deal in dodgy business, I have not seen the need for such a service. However, with the online harm bill about to bear down on us, it might be time to consider buying in. Anyone any thoughts?

    1. We have NORD.

      I know nothing about these things – but the MR’s nephew, who is a computer genius earning unbelievable money, says that it is one of the very best and gives tremendous added security. He insists that all the people in the company for whom he works have it on their home PCs/laptops etc as well as at work.

      1. I would second that recommendation. It has good functionality and can normally be found at a very good price if paying for 12 or 24 months up front.

        1. Go direct to their website.
          There is no need to go through a third party.
          Once intalled it protects the internet connection regardless of what program (application) is used.

    2. We have similar problems with government attempting to censor internet access.

      I sometimes use nordvpn at the moment, it allows access to country specific sites but I am sure that given the vindictive nature of Trudeaus regime, hiding behind an out of country VPN will become necessary.

  84. Time for the men in white coats (as opposed to the men in grey suits) to take BPAPM forcibly from Downing Street to a secure hospital.

    He cannot possibly continue as PM for several months. Any new appointees to his “cabinet” should be tarred and feathered as outrageous and shameless opportunists.

  86. Anyone got any preferences for the next PM?

    I’m backing Rees Mogg for the reasons as follows

    The Left and the mainstream media hate him

    He has stood by Boris

    He is a Leaver

    He is a great orator

    He is a Christian and a Conservative.

      1. You do realise that the forces behind this coup will not allow a leaver to be PM.

        1. But unless a leaver is the next PM both the Conservative Party and Brexit will be dead in next to no time.

    2. There’s a nasty arrogance about him which won’t sit comfortably with many.

      1. He’s what could be termed an ‘old fashioned’ English man with principles.

        1. I don’t see what people call arrogance & superiority.
          That seems like an adopted manner/style, to me, gleaned from Eton.
          He has old fashioned Christian values & a great respect for history.
          In fact I wish he were more (truly) confident & had more courage of his convictions.
          He’s too obedient to the Pope, who is naught but a globalist socialist rascal.

          3. Romans 5-19:
            For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous

    3. For all those reasons, he hasn’t a dog in hells chance, unfortunately.
      But one can live in hope.
      David Frost, another worthy candidate, but is he willing to put Country before his own wellbeing, it’s a poison chalice that he would be drinking from.

    4. He is another who is far too clever for his own good. He thinks he is superior to every other person on the planet.

    5. The time is ripe, methinks, for the 1922 Committee to be replaced by the Monday Club for determining who will be the next prime minister.

      1. “…. the Monday Club for determining who will be the next prime minister for the coming week.”

  87. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f6ddc1f84f4398dd8a12f2b16f72e943406e6b37561e4668367010205f3c4005.png Australians pour scorn on ‘Bazball’ revolution.

    Steve Smith has cast doubt over “Bazball” working against the Australia attack in next summer’s Ashes series and disclosed that the term was a running joke in their camp.

    England’s remarkable turnaround since the last Ashes tour has raised hopes they can compete with Australia at home next year.

    Ben Stokes has avoided talk of playing Australia in 2023, but after four successful run chases, culminating in a record-breaking 378 against India at Edgbaston, there is a new mood sweeping through English cricket. The transformation has been noted in the Australian camp, with Smith shouting “Bazball” when he batted in the nets yesterday as his side prepared for the second Test against Sri Lanka in Galle.

    Smith, the former Australia captain, wonders if England’s approach is “sustainable” or whether it is a short-lived bounce under a new coach and captain.

    “I’ve watched a bit of it, it’s certainly been entertaining, they’re coming out playing their shots,” he said. “Even someone like Alex Lees started to come down the wicket when he was on nothing.

    “If you come on a wicket that’s got some grass and Josh Hazlewood, [Pat] Cummins and [Mitchell] Starc are rolling in at you, is it going to be the same? We’ll see what happens.”

    Cummins’s side are 1-0 up in the series against Sri Lanka after batting at more than 4.5 runs an over in last week’s first Test, which was over in two days and one session. England’s energised approach to Test cricket borrows heavily from Australia – the constant positivity, running hard between the wickets and attacking fields. Where they differ is that Australia have genuine pace.

    “Guys just keep joking about it – I think Ronnie [Andrew Mcdonald, Australia head coach] has had enough of hearing about Bazball, to be honest. It’s good fun to joke about,” Smith said.

    Meanwhile, Brendon McCullum’s relaxed approach to coaching will continue next year with a week-long bonding trip to New Zealand. Mccullum is planning a visit to Queenstown – billed by its tourism board as the “world’s adrenalin playground” – before England’s twotest series in New Zealand in February. The players will spend time at the South Island resort before moving to Hamilton for a four-day warm-up and two Tests in Mount Maunganui and Wellington.

    It is understood that Rob Key, the managing director, is ready to sign off on the trip. It is likely to be a far cry from the 2010 bonding trip to Bavaria before that winter’s Ashes when Andy Flower, then head coach, put the players through vigorous physical exercises with former SAS instructors.

    England have been far more chilled under the new regime. McCullum’s speakers blasted out Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen on the team bus to Edgbaston on the final day. The night before, the team had gone to the cinema to see.

    Yes, Smith. You keep “pouring scorn” on Bazball; and we’ll keep “pouring scorn” on Sandpaperball.

  88. Wanted: more MPs as brave as Danny Kruger

    Parliamentarians should be free to speak on matters of conscience without fear of being cancelled

    CHARLES MOORE • 5 July 2022

    You would think from the vilification that Danny Kruger MP was a foul-mouthed extremist who disrespects women. There have been demonstrations against him in his constituency. Mr Kruger’s mother, Prue Leith, has complained that her Twitter account is “awash with [the] poison” of hatred against him.

    This is what Mr Kruger said in Parliament last week. I quote in full the words complained of. They were uttered during a discussion of the US Supreme Court judgment, which held that the US Constitution contains no right to abortion and therefore returned the question to each state of the Union. Speaking of MPs who were interrupting him, he said: “They think that women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy in this matter, whereas I think that in the case of abortion that right is qualified by the fact that another body is involved.”

    He went on to say that, whatever one’s view of the issue, it is surely reasonable for Americans to decide the matter through their elected representatives, as happens in Britain: “I would offer to members who are trying to talk me down that this is a proper topic for political debate. And my point to the frontbench is I don’t understand why we are lecturing the United States on a judgment to return the power of decision over this political question to the states, to democratic decision-makers, rather than leaving it in the hands of the courts.”

    A fair-minded person can see that Mr Kruger was encapsulating the issue accurately. Some think abortion is only a matter of women’s rights and very few think it is not a matter of women’s rights. But some think it is also a matter of the rights of the unborn child. The law in most countries in effect recognises this by restricting abortion in certain circumstances even when it is permitted in principle.

    Mr Kruger put his own view and correctly represented the alternative. He made no error of tone, fact or logic. In a parliamentary democracy such as ours, it should not require the courage he showed to express such views. MPs have a duty to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, such as children not yet born.

    Three hundred years ago, people found it hard to understand that slavery was wrong. Slave-owning voices dominated the House of Commons. But nowadays we are grateful that William Wilberforce and others later spoke up for the slaves who could not speak for themselves, and eventually changed the mind of Parliament. Mr Kruger stands in that tradition. I wish there were more MPs like him.

    A technical matter

    The coverage of the row about Chris Pincher, the allegedly groping and confessedly drunk former deputy chief whip, suffers from a false premise. It is said that Boris Johnson appointed him. This is true only in a formal sense. I feel that lobby journalists should have made this clear.

    This custom is not just a reflection of the fact that any prime minister pays less attention to junior appointments than to Cabinet-level ones. It is also – and mainly – because the whips are a law unto themselves. The idea is that they will know best how to achieve the necessary geographical and ideological spread to look after all sections of the party. The Chief Whip is therefore free – “100 per cent” in the words of one former chief to me – to appoint whoever he thinks fit. This seems sensible: how on earth would a prime minister know that level of detail about who’s who in the parliamentary party? Backbenchers would be suspicious of a whips’ office filled with a prime minister’s favourites.

    Each prime minister sees the government chief whip’s list before it is announced and is free to comment on it, but the chief decides. So Boris Johnson would have been breaking the unwritten rules if he had either forbidden or insisted on Mr Pincher’s appointment. If it can be shown that he did the latter, he is in a bit of trouble on the issue. If not, then not.

    Culling the squirrels

    The UK Squirrel Accord unites 41 woodland, timber and conservation organisations, so it should be more powerful in its field than Nato, which currently has only 30 members, is in its.

    The invasive equivalent of Vladimir Putin which the Squirrel Accord confronts is the grey squirrel. It claims land to which it is not entitled and brings destruction and disease (a pox virus) in its wake. Its loveliest victim is the native red squirrel. Its even wider threat is to trees. Lord Benyon, a minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, admits that the Government’s ambitious tree-planting programme will be set at nought if greys strip their bark. He has seen a 25-year-old plantation of his late father’s ruined by them: “Not one of the 5,000 oaks will grow to maturity.”

    What is to be done? It is time for jaw-jaw to give place to war-war. The expert naturalist and writer Matt Ridley is proud that 600 greys were shot on his land last year, but admits that this has not eliminated the problem. Shooting coordinated across the country can do much to protect trees, he tells me, but the campaign can never end.

    A more thorough approach is “gene drive” technology, which would release squirrels with a defective gene into the wild and eventually make all grey squirrels male and thus, not long after that, extinct in Britain. But in an age in which a significant minority thinks all taking of animal life is wrong, even when it helps other species, the national mobilisation would be plagued by conscientious objectors and fifth columnists hiding greys in remote regions and releasing them under cover of night.

    “A culture is no better than its woods,” wrote WH Auden. Yes, but do we any longer have the will to repel the invader?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/05/wanted-mps-brave-danny-kruger/

    1. I agree with Danny Kruger on the situation in the United States.

      However I have to question whether anybody has actually read the abortion laws in the UK? I have as a result of the confabulation in the USA.

      Current legislation in the UK bans abortion on demand completely. The only grounds for abortion are as follows;

      (1) risk to the life of the pregnant woman;
      (2) preventing grave permanent injury to her physical or mental health;
      (3) risk of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family (up to a term limit of 24 weeks of gestation); or
      (4) substantial risk that, if the child were born, he or she would “suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped”.

      The vast majority of abortions are carried out on the grounds of mental health mentioned in (3).

      This was the will of our democratically elected representatives.

      Somehow our doctors have decided that economic damage or the inconvenience of child bearing equates to a risk to mental health. This is stretching a point in my opinion.

      I am not altogether against abortion in the first few months of pregnancy. I am however against doctors making up their own interpretation of the law.

      If we are to have abortion on demand in this country then it is for the peoples representatives to legislate such. This is essentially what the US supreme court has said. The same is also true in this country though.

      1. The two doctor rule has gone by the board. There are now do it yourself abortion kits approved by the NHS.

    1. Of course, I am far too young to have any idea, especially about the first one….I should tango;-)

  91. Is this the most Machiavellian man in politics? How Nadhim Zahawi – who plunged the final knife in Boris just a DAY after being made Chancellor – has ‘been secretly plotting his own leadership bid for months’ (…with the PM’s campaign guru)

    Former health minister Nadhim Zahawi was to role of Chancellor after Rishi Sunak quit on Tuesday evening
    Yesterday he went from defending the PM in the morning – to going into No 10 urging him to resign his job
    And today he went public and said: ‘Prime Minister: this is not sustainable and it will only get worse’
    Senior Tory has taken a huge gamble as it emerged he has secretly been wargaming for a leadership battle
    55-year-old father-of-three fled Iraq under Saddam Hussein with his family while he was a child
    One of Parliament’s wealthiest members, set up polling firm YouGov and has £100m property empire

    Gambling man Nadhim Zahawi was today betting on the Tory party and the public forgiving him for standing by Boris Johnson and becoming Chancellor – and then delivering the fatal blow to his premiership all in 24 hours.

    The Tory MP, a multi-millionaire married father-of-three, went from being Boris Johnson’s saviour to his assassin in the space of a day amid claims he has been secretly preparing his leadership campaign for months with the help of the PM’s own election guru.

    One politics watcher described his actions over the past 24 hours as: ‘Caligula-esque sh*thousery’. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10990583/How-Nadhim-Zahawi-plunged-final-knife-Boris-just-DAY-Chancellor.html

      1. His Iraq genes are strong , controlling and greedy and malicious ..

        You can take a man out of IRAQ out of kindness and goodwill, and nurture him , but you will never ever take Iraq out of the man .. because they hate us so much and need to settle old scores .

    2. In late January 2018, it was reported in the media that Zahawi was one of the attendees at a men-only dinner event organised by the Presidents Club at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Media reports alleged that female hostesses were subjected to sexual harassment and incidents of groping and inappropriate touching. Following the revelations of his attendance at the event, Zahawi posted a tweet condemning such behaviour and stated that he felt uncomfortable at what he saw happening. He has also stated that he will never attend such a men-only event again. WIKIPEDIA.

      There’s also been a couple of single imbroglio’s involving Super Injunctions and one suspects private settlements!

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadhim_Zahawi#US_travel_ban

        1. I’m hard put to remember now Belle but I seem to recall that the single incidents were his female staff in the House of Commons!

      1. We, in the armed forces, were always told, “Never trust any Arab – they’re all filthy liars.”

  93. I have been looking at the price increases in supermarkets. Most rises are less the 10%. Quite a few other items have come down in price. The Lurpak headline is misleading. £7.25 for 750gms isn’t that bad. Not that i buy that muck. Ocado M+S are selling 500gms butter for £3.85.
    I bought a bunch of 5 bananas for 71p yesterday.

    2. My experience is that food price rises are nearer 30% from 12 months ago.

  94. Trans hype is gripping schools – it’s time we learnt what our children are taught

    We expect our daughters to be educated so they can grow into capable young women, not encouraged to make life-altering decisions

    ALLISON PEARSON

    At a London girls’ secondary school, a new teacher was given a printed form to help him navigate parents’ evening. The form had three columns. In the first was the student’s name. In the second was the pupil’s preferred non-binary (invariably male) name, if she (they/them) had one, which a lot did. The third column was the one that made the teacher sweat. It indicated whether the parents of the girl knew she had adopted a new name and gender at school which, it turned out, many mums and dads did not. Under no circumstances was he to tell them.

    The teacher didn’t stay long in his job. He tells me it felt deeply wrong and uncomfortable to be talking to parents who had no idea their beloved child had adopted a whole new identity at school and was, in some cases, taking the first steps to casting off their girlhood altogether.

    It’s chilling. We send our daughters to school to be educated and helped to grow into capable, happy, confident young women who can compete on an equal footing with any male. What we don’t expect is for schools to secretly facilitate their pupils to make major, life-altering decisions while keeping parents in the dark because they might be “transphobic” bigots.

    Recently, the category of bigot seems to have expanded to mean anyone who doesn’t feel they can enthusiastically affirm their daughter’s decision to bind her breasts as a possible prelude to “top surgery”. That’s the cringe-makingly jaunty term for a double mastectomy performed on a healthy young female. Affirmation is apparently the only permitted reaction to this brutal mutilation.

    In many countries, it’s now illegal for psychologists and therapists to even suggest to a youngster that they may not be suffering from gender dysphoria, but instead are afflicted with any number of perfectly normal confusions and anxieties which they will grow out of. What used to be called “being a teenager”.

    In the United States, the wishes of parents are increasingly sidelined with radical, leftist teachers slyly brainwashing their kids. Back in April, elementary school staff in San Francisco bragged about ignoring parents’ requests to call children by their given names and pronouns during a virtual panel that saw speakers refer to mums and dads dismissively as “caregivers”.

    Meanwhile, in Florida, the parents of a 12-year-old girl who tried to take her own life twice after “months of secret meetings about her gender identity” with school officials. The devastated couple has since filed a lawsuit contending that staff violated their parental rights by failing to inform them of their child’s alleged gender identity crisis.

    This pernicious ideology has rapidly taken root here in the UK. Look at Liz Laybourn, the head of Burgess Hill Girls near Haywards Heath, West Sussex, who said that she now thinks twice about using the word “daughter” in letters to parents. “I don’t call pupils ‘girls’ because there are too many gender options,” chirped this useful idiot for the increasingly militant trans cause. What the hell is the head of a girls’ school for if she’s not defending the category of ‘girl’? Laybourn should be sacked, no question, but too many teachers and cluelessly liberal parents have been indoctrinated in this way of thinking.

    Teachers who disapprove are scared of being sacked or accused of a hate crime if they even hint that a trans girl is biologically male. One I know said a girl in her class (at least, Sophie used to be a girl the previous week) recently made a formal complaint that she had “misgendered” her by using the wrong pronoun. The teacher had to write a profuse apology for this grievous error.

    It’s all horribly reminiscent of China’s Cultural Revolution where children took part in public denunciations of their parents. Pressure on kids to “draw a line” between them and their condemned parents was intense and many did so. Some changed their surnames and never visited their mother and father in detention. Does that sound too extreme and totalitarian to happen in the democratic West? I wouldn’t count on it.

    There is certainly a small number of young people who genuinely suffer from gender dysphoria and who deserve immense sympathy and support. There are many more confused youngsters who come to believe that they’re trans having effectively been inducted into a cult. Often lacking stable friendships, and sometimes autistic, these kids are flattered by the warm welcome from their new “glitter family”. So much nicer than the boring old family which loves them but is scared stiff they are doing irreparable harm to themselves by embarking on hormone treatment and surgery.

    “People are terrified of pointing out the basic facts of biology,” Suella Braverman , the Attorney General said in a powerful interview with The Sunday Telegraph. Both as a politician and as a mother of two young children, Braverman is concerned that there is a risk of gender dysphoria – the unease or distress experienced by those who feel at odds with their sex – spreading by “social contagion” in schools. There certainly is. Gender dysphoria used to be experienced by a very small number of boys. In 2017, 70 per cent of referrals to the Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust’s gender identity development service – the NHS service through which all UK candidates for a sex change under 18 are funnelled – were female. Only 10 years previously, the overall ratio was more like 75 per cent males seeking to be female.

    It’s an alarming statistic which, at the very least, merits serious investigation. Teenage girls have always had crazes: pop socks, unsuitable tattoos, bubble perms, drastic diets, the Spice Girls. Don’t suppose they’d be allowed to be called girls any more, though. The Spice They?

    It’s a poignant fact that hospitals have to keep anorexic girls apart because, if they get together, they only egg each other on in their illness. I’m very afraid that this is what’s happening with the trans movement in many schools today.

    Braverman says she has heard from teachers who “feel their freedom of speech has been hugely impinged upon” because they could, they believe, be sacked if they described a trans girl as biologically male. “We cannot be living in a society whereby people fear losing their job, and that is happening within schools…I think we are seeing a cultural creep whereby a minority group, which has been very well organised – and there are very activist charities lobbying for this minority group – has accumulated an influence, which I believe is disproportionate, and is dictating what the majority should be doing,” she says.

    Well said, Suella. It needs saying, and it has taken a brave, principled minister (yes, there are some) to say it. I’m delighted that Conservative women are coming out fighting on these vital matters. In the last week, we have had the excellent Miriam Cates speak out about pupils being exposed to sex education which is “deeply inappropriate and sexually extreme”. Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has decreed that new public buildings must have separate male and female toilets.

    I could not agree more. The Government needs to conduct a full review into what schools are teaching children on sex and gender and compel them to show the material to parents. Oh, and schools must disclose if Sophie is called Sam at school. This is urgent. Our daughters’ lives depend on it. Sic transit gloria.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/07/06/trans-hype-gripping-schools-time-learnt-what-children-taught

    1. Johnny, his view was global i.e. control, more control, climate change, rinse and repeat. IMO the UK and its people weren’t even a secondary consideration to him. If the Tories select another WEF Young Leader or one whom that organisation has had contact with recently then our problems will increase. It will be worrying if Schwab and/or Gates turn up to ‘congratulate’ the successor.

    2. My bank has a sign about looking after the people of the Ukraine. I itched to cross out the “raine”!

  96. If the Tory Party pick or vote for a remainer as leader they are toast.

    2. There is a very outside chance that one particular person could save them but they are too stupid to see it so the they will not do anything to support him.

    3. They certainly will, Johnny.

      A noticeable number of Tory MPs would prefer Britain to be back in the EU under a Labour government rather

      than be an independent nation under a Tory government.

      —and remember, a return to the EU means automatically joining the Euro.

      1. Yes but imagine how much work is avoided by just following EU edicts, someone else to blame as well.

      2. I blame Nigel Farage for withdrawing his Brexit Party candidates in 2019 from contesting seats held by Remainer Conservative MPs. The result is that the HoC is still stuffed with remainers. Farage got absolutely no quid pro quo and we shall probably be paying a very high price for this.

        Many of us here said at the time that Boris Johnson needed a strong pro Brexit force such as The Brexit Party to stop him from watering down Brexit: a smaller majority in the HoC with the Brexit Party holding the balance of power would have made all the difference and prevented the shameful and humiliating return to the EU which the PTB, MSM. WEF are now so eager to see.

  97. Liz Truss makes early G20 exit to drum up Tory leadership support. 7 July 2022.

    Liz Truss has cut short her attendance at a critical G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Indonesia to fly back to London to canvass support for her bid to succeed Boris Johnson as the UK’s prime minister.

    From the Useless to the Gormless. It makes the years When Christ and his Saints Slept look like a weekend in Bognor!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/liz-truss-makes-early-g20-exit-to-drum-up-tory-leadership-support

    1. If we don’t have the Useless or the Gormless leading us, then it is inevitable it will be the Hapless, the Clueless, the Feckless or the Witless.

        1. You object to insults about weasels; I object to insults about the Muppets. They are intellectual giants compared to all politicians.

  98. Liz Truss makes early G20 exit to drum up Tory leadership support. 7 July 2022.

    Liz Truss has cut short her attendance at a critical G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Indonesia to fly back to London to canvass support for her bid to succeed Boris Johnson as the UK’s prime minister.

    From the Useless to the Gormless. It makes the years When Christ and his Saints Slept look like a weekend in Bognor!

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/liz-truss-makes-early-g20-exit-to-drum-up-tory-leadership-support

  99. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4908c25e8c8dcbf3e599b08243ce02f930ce81d620d2bda407ef66bf1ca45df7.jpg Two books that I ordered directly on the recommendations of valued NoTTLers have arrived, and I look forward to thoroughly assimilating the contents of both.

    I have to say, already, that the former book of those two, The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet, is an extremely well-researched and beautifully-written treatise that vividly explains all the reasons why the world is in the chaos that it finds itself in during these benighted days. If any NoTTLer has not yet bought a copy then I urge them to do so before those it correctly targets close down its publication.

    3. Humour does not always age well, but the cricket match in ‘England their England’ hits the spot.

    4. I have bought it on Kindle, I wish now that I’d bought the hard-back; I may well do so when I have finished it, there are so many useful points there and it is not so easy to refer back to them on a Kindle (which does have its uses) but I do prefer ‘proper’ books to lose oneself in the full flavour.

  100. Boris is hoping to stay until October. That isn’t a resignation, it’s a staycation.

    1. Doesn’t the commission take a summer recess?

      Boris can hang onto the trappings of power without those pesky back (and front) benchers attacking him.

      Isn’t the G20 meeting in Bali or somewhere equally pleasant. Why miss out on a lavish trip on the taxpayers credit card.

          1. Ten bedrooms in the place and 1,500 acres of grounds to hide in. He would never need to see her or her attempts to redecorate the place a la no 10.

          2. Ten bedrooms in the place and 1,500 acres of grounds to hide in. He would never need to see her or her attempts to redecorate the place a la no 10.

      2. I see the morona Truss is cutting short her jolly to the G20 to get back and campaign!

    2. 353975+ up tiks,

      Afternoon P,
      If anything it’s a castration of common sense.

      Give him a pigmy chinaman aka
      A WEE KIN LOO & a DCM…. (Don’t come Monday)

      Given to stop naughty pipefitters putting ping/pong / tennis / footballs up pipework when working the last period in a disgruntled manner, no telling what a disgruntled PM could do
      to a Country.

    1. Here’s Dr Campbell trying to explain the 16% increase in all cause mortality. He mentions the “vaccine” and admits it has caused ‘some’ deaths but he tries to skate around it by mentioning many other factors that could be having an input. Consensus from Campbell and two inputs from experts is: we don’t understand/don’t know. An inquiry is needed… To apply copious amounts of whitewash, of course.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f45S6vmQgA

      1. He has millions of followers on You Tube.

        He would be banned from there if he dared to point the finger at the jabs – he has to be very circumspect.

      2. 353975+ up ticks,

        Afternoon KtK,
        Even if two/three cases are proven to have been due to some form of alledged criminal action & cover up then these party’s cannot ever be supported and voted back into power.

        They have got away with mass uncontrolled immigration / mass rape
        and abuse of children and now what could very well be a re run of murder incorporated.

    2. The alien PTB are getting slipshod at masking their real bodies, bottom right some of the lizard is showing.

  105. Just seen Cur K Smarmer at Wimbledon watching the Women’ semifinal.
    Perhaps when asked, again, what is a woman he might, but only might, be able to answer as he will have seen the evidence. As a lawyer, though, he still might NOT know.

    Edit to add NOT.

    1. I found a bottomless bunker …

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    2. A little birdie for me, makes a change.
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  107. When all is said and done , the ridding of Boris has made me feel really ill. Poot Boris .. evil evil BBC and Media and BBC radio 4.

    The glimmer of good that I saw in him .. brave , foolhardy . and not a grimace on his face .. no ugly side to him, he beamed positive things , and you could almost hear his wiley brain clicking . Untidy hair and his jolly get up and go .

    “Sadly, they got him in the end.

    Even the Prime Minister who delivered Brexit, smashed London’s Red Wall, consigned Marxist Jeremy Corbyn to the political scrapheap, led us out of devastating lockdowns faster than any other western leader and was the most important ally to Ukraine in a bid to stop a European war could not survive the relentless attacks from the mainstream broadcast media, political establishment and remoaner blob.

    I don’t think any politician could have sustained such a campaign – and that provides a chilling warning about the new political era Britain now finds itself.

    The Westminster witch hunt by unelected dark forces crippled the man who has never lost an election and secured an 80-seat landslide majority just 938 days ago.

    It had become virtually impossible for Boris to govern, even in the midst of unprecedented crises, with a craven media led by Brexit-hating broadcasters elevating even the smallest so-called ‘scandal’ ahead of the stories that actually mattered to ordinary Brits, like war and the cost-of-living.

    We got to the almost farcical stage where, no matter the story, the BBC (lately the Boris Bashing Corporation), Sly News (sic), ITV News, Channel 4 News and so many others would bring it back to the PM having to resign.

    Even his conclusive victory in the confidence vote just a month ago, which should have secured his leadership for a year, was turned into yet another opportunity to demand: Boris must go!”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10991425/DAN-WOOTTON-Tory-party-come-regret-knifing-Boris.html

    1. His strutting and grandstanding on the world stage over the last few weeks left him open to a coup.

    3. Oh dear, Dan Wooton – boy have you been smoking something dubious!
      “the Prime Minister who didn’t deliver Brexit; led us out of devastating lockdowns, which he imposed, and was the most posturing supporter of corrupt Ukraine, in a bid to prolong a European war. There I think I’ve fixed that bit

      1. I do think Boris was not helped by Biden winning in the US. With Trump in the WH, the UK would have been much stronger in delivering a proper Brexit.

  108. The nice lady who gave us the lovely card yesterday stopped by with her dog, Toby, while I was sitting outside. I gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek and thanked her very much for her thoughtful gesture. She brushed it off and reiterated that she had been concerned about us.
    We had a nice chat and MH came out to say hello and got a small growl from Toby- he doesn’t like tall fellows apparently.
    There is a book called Dog Toby by Richard Church and I will see if I can find it for this sweet lady and her pooch. I needed some dog therapy.

      1. I actually owned the book but, as so much other stuff, left it behind when I escaped.

        1. My very first dog was called Toby…a Manchester terrier cross- crossed with something big as he wasn’t small.

    2. Dogs are very good for one’s health (stroking a dog produces endorphins and calms the heart rate, never mind making you take exercise and meet people).

    3. Political assassination of the PM/ Party leader by Cabinet Members (and more junior government members) is presently rewarded financially by guaranteed payment of three months of current salary.

      To stop the rot, all resigning Cabinet Members (and more junior government members) should be obliged to resign their seats and stand for re-election forthwith.

      This would oblige these assassins/ candidates to consider the interests of their voters.

      1. Nadhim Zahawi should try to explain why he accepted the role as chancellor only to tell Johnson to resign 24 hours later.

        He benefits £15,000 for 24 hours as Chancellor.

        IMHO, Zahawi should be sacked and deported …

        1. He wanted to be the answer to a pub quiz question twenty years from now.

          Who was Britain’s shortest serving but most effectual Chancellor?

          2. No.
            Effective is a related term of effectual. Effectual is a related term of effective.
            As adjectives the difference between effective and effectual is that effective is having the power to produce a required effect or effects while effectual is producing the intended result; entirely adequate.

        2. I am sick and tired of having people with no stake in the country by virtue of heritage being in charge.

  110. I think it’s delightful that Mr Johnson will now have more time to spend with his families….

    1. I would prefer to see HM whacking that idiot round the back of the head with her sturdy stick!!

    1. 353975+ up ticks,

      Evening R,
      The trouble with a great many people is they go into instant forget mode, especially lab/lib/con member / voters
      in the tory (ino) case as soon as the wretch cameron knocked the combined arses out of vows ,promises, & pledges there NON deliverance was noted then forgotten same hour , tis more comfortable and an easier route to take for the good of the party,of course.

      The new policy’s could very well come in via a political imam the turkish delights parting shot.

      ,

          1. At some point in 2019 I was listening to the car radio – as I did in those days – and I thought the person being interviewed had a remarkable fund of common sense, and was pleasant to listen to, he was engaging. The interview went on for quite a few minutes and I found it interesting. Imagine my shock when at the conclusion the interviewer said ‘Thank you for the interview and your time, Jeremy!’ and I realised I had been listening to Jeremy Corbyn. It did make me revise my opinion of him, and made me realise how much we are manipulated by the media.

  116. “Attorney General Suella Braverman and former Brexit minister Steve Baker have both indicated they will run for the leadership, with more senior Tories expected to throw their hats into the ring in the coming days.“

    Steve Baker is the only MP I have heard say that net zero won’t make the least bit of difference to climate change, because of China mostly & India.
    He has an aerospace & science background, & is a committed Christian.
    (& is a white male!)

    Probably unpopular then with the sleazy Conservative ino party.

    1. 353975+ up ticks,

      Evening DR,
      My true belief is that you will not be accepted into the higher echelons of the tory (ino) party unless willing & able to turn treacherous at any given hour when told to.

    2. White, male, not signed up to net zero and a Christian? He has NO chance! He might even have some conservative views which would finish him off completely.

    1. Et Too Brutal!

      They’re so confused they’ll probably stab each other in the chest!

  118. The REAL indictment of the current Conservative party is that there are so many utterly useless individuals who are in with a very good shot of becoming the next Prime Minister.

    Gawd help the country.

  120. STOP PRESS

    To brighten your evening – while the MR was on her walk today, one of her fellow walkers (senior civil serpent) revealed that the REAL reason BPAPM is staying on until the back end is because CARRION has organised the huge wedding bash at CHEQUERS that they couldn’t have because of, (cough, cough) covid.

    Told you that her fingerprints were over everything.

    Doxy.

    1. Solve the following equation:

      Heseltine – Mace + piano wire + lamp post =

      Karma

    2. 353975+ up tcks,

      Evening TB,

      All the time there is no opposition party being built on there is always that danger, at the moment the eu crime syndicate is fragmented, the main body
      adrift from the lab/lib/con coalition asset.

    4. The cancer is Heseltine. A lazy, greedy, venal bag of wind who should be shot.

      The state will never, ever permit us to leave the EU. It’s fought for 6 years to overturn democracy. It has created so much carnage through spite, anger and petty vengeance to get their own way the solution to resolving the chaos is eradication.

  122. Book deals, after-dinner speeches… or Strictly? How Boris Johnson is set to make MILLIONS in the US after leaving Number 10 – as long as Carrie sticks around
    Outgoing Prime Minister predicted to match Tony Blair – who is worth £100m
    Boris’ connection with Trump and fall from grace will connect with US audiences
    Brand experts believe that his wife Carrie, 34, is engine of Boris’ earning power
    Mark Borkowski: ‘They aren’t Posh and Becks but they are a force to be reckoned with’

    Boris Johnson’s tenure in No 10 will soon be over – but the outgoing Prime Minister could make £100million from books, speeches and TV appearances in the UK and US – especially if he stays married to Carrie, brand experts told MailOnline today.

    Mr Johnson says he will leave Downing Street by the Autumn – opening up endless opportunities to make ‘cash by the barrowful’ like his predecessors and he could soon rival Tony Blair as Britain’s richest living former PM.

    And the odds of him appearing on a reality show such as Strictly or I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here have also been slashed to as little as 12/1 if he chooses to quit as a MP.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10990939/How-Boris-Johnson-set-make-MILLIONS-leaving-Number-10.html

    1. Does Carrie like Trump though?
      Not if she instructed Bojo that “Biden is a breath of fresh air”…
      I think patriot Americans would like him better without her.

        1. I’m older than you think, I met him in a pub once and said Hi Vincent how’s things, would you like a beer mate ? He said no I’m alright thanks matey I’ve got one ‘ere.

      1. Tear in abdominal muscle according to the report. I should imagine that’s painful, and in any case at this level the slightest impediment would be critical.

      2. He was clearly in pain and needed pain-killers during Wednesday’s match, Bob3 …

  125. Evening, all. When I was coming home with Oscar after his walk, my neighbour broke the news that Boris had gone, but was staying on as PM. In office, but not in power, sprang to mind.

    1. Hell, you could move to Canada for that. You would have corrupt, unethical ignorant idiots as a bonus

    2. 353975+ up ticks,

      Evening W,
      Keep it in mind we could not have got to where we are today as a nation without them.

  127. “Them’s the breaks.” Yes, we plebs are all so dumb we cannot understand coherent English. I will not miss that buffoon one iota.
    And on that note, goodnight.

      1. These people need terminating with extreme prejudice. Start with Schwab.

    2. I wish these presenters would learn the difference between Holland and the Netherlands. I was stationed in Maastricht and was definitely in Limburg, NL, not Holland.

      1. Yma o hyd English translation

        Still Here

        You don’t remember Macsen,
        nobody knows him.
        One thousand and six hundred years,
        a time too long to remember.
        When Magnus Maximus  left Wales,
        in the year 383,
        leaving us a whole nation,
        and today – look at us!
         
        We are still here,
        we are still here,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything.
        We are still here,
        we are still here,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything.
        We are still here.

        Let the wind blow from the East,
        let the storm roar from the sea,
        let the lightning split the heavens,
        and the thunder shout “encore!”

        Let the tears of the faint-hearted flow,
        and the servile lick the floor.
        Despite the blackness around us,
        we are ready for the breaking of the dawn!

        We are still here,
        we are still here,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything.
        We are still here,
        we are still here,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything.
        We are still here.

        We remember that Macsen the Emperor
        left our country in one whole piece.
        And we shall shout before the nations,
        “We’ll be here until Judgement Day!”

        Despite every Dic Siôn Dafydd,
        despite old Maggie and her crew,
        we’ll be here until the end of time,
        and the Welsh language will be alive!

        We are still here,
        we are still here
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything.
        We are still here,
        we are still here,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything.
        We are still here,
        we are still here,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything.
        We are still here,
        we are still here,
        in spite of everyone and everything,
        in spite of everyone and everything…

        1. …and, unremarkedly, Stormy and Paul, despite all the bluster, Wales is still a subject nation.

          1. Indeed, Tom.
            Never could get their act together apart from excellence in music. You need aTeuton to deal with matters of State effectively.
            Otherwise, you’re just left as a whining group of malcontents.
            Sturgeon also needs to think on taht.

          2. Agreed, Paul, Sturgeon and her wee pretendy parliament, together with the Taffy and Paddy assembly, all need to go and power to be returned for Westminster to fcuk it up. That way it’s visible for the electorate – if they’re not half asleep.

          2. Best in the world.
            My God, if I could sing like that… or, tbh, actually hit a note and keep with a beat..
            But even when you don’t understand the language, the beauty of the poetry and music gets you in the middle.

          3. My father sang amateur opera. My mother is tone deaf. Guess whose genes I inherited 🙁

          4. I know how it feels.
            Maybe I am a cuckoo in the nest… Father was musical (even layed the organ in Durham Cathedral), Mother could sing, I can’t do either… but my two lads are gifted that way as is SWMBO.
            I struggle to play a CD properly… 🙁

          6. My father had perfect pitch…my mother couldn’t even begin to sing in tune, & didn’t want music around.
            Sad for my Dad.
            I inherited his musical ability but was discouraged/stopped from developing it.
            (I did later, although it’s not the same as learning when young).

  132. 353975+ up ticks,

    The criminal/ politico will tell you “crime doesn’t pay” but as Elvis said “that was just a lie”, it pays handsomely.

  134. Goodnight NoTTLe gentlefolk and may God bless your slumbers..

    ‘Til morning’s light.

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