Tuesday 23 November: Unvaccinated young Covid patients crowd out others seeking NHS care

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713 thoughts on “Tuesday 23 November: Unvaccinated young Covid patients crowd out others seeking NHS care”

    1. The PM is correct in that their heads resemble a design for a hair drier; having visited Peppa Pig World I can confirm that it is a great place for children.

  6. I’ve got a theory about Boris’s odd behaviour yesterday,
    Quite obviously when the pandemic kicked off and Boris supposedly fell seriously ill with covid he was in fact whipped off by the globalist powers that be for brainwashing and hypnosis, this has become apparent with his sudden support of climate change.
    I think that yesterday was just his mind returning to it’s old self.
    I wonder if some torture was used against him involving a pig and a hairdryer, or maybe that was an old recollection of his time in the Bullingdon club.

  7. “China’s Orbital Bombardment System Firing Hypersonic Weapons Showed Unprecedented Capability, FT Says”
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    Three star ***
    Orbital Bombardment System is very easy for operate. Also come with instruction and battry. Very fast delivery. Will order again.
    This extra real bombardment system. Not cheap copy of Reagan era fake star war story to convince opponent to enter fake arm race. Super guaranteed real.

    But I still waiting for refund for mach 30 wind tunnel.

  8. Amber Athey
    The inconvenience of the Waukesha attack

    The more we learn, the less it fits the media narrative
    23 November 2021, 6:00am

    At least five people were killed and more than 40 injured on Sunday night when a driver drove his SUV into attendees of the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The driver has been identified in news reports as Darrell Edward Brooks Jr.

    The horrific attack immediately made national news in America because of the death toll and brutal nature of the crime. Videos surfaced online showing the driver veering towards members of the parade and narrowly missing many others. Sunday’s incident appeared eerily similar to the 2016 Berlin terror attack, where an Isis member killed 12 people by ramming his truck through a Christmas market.

    However, it seems probable that Waukesha will be memory-holed by the agenda-driven media because Brooks was a black man and, according to his social media, a supporter of Black Lives Matter. This doesn’t comport with the leftist media’s demonisation of white men, whose alleged privilege and toxicity are the biggest threat to America.

    I don’t claim to know if Brooks was motivated by anti-white hatred, but I do find it suspicious that the media was so eager to rule out terrorism. In fact, CNN, CBS and other outlets were reporting on an alternative motive before they had even publicly identified a suspect. The explanation they have offered as to why Brooks drove into a crowd of hundreds of people would make even the lowest IQ individual scratch their head.

    Apparently, Brooks was fleeing another crime scene (‘possibly a knife fight’) when he ran into the parade. It makes perfect sense, you see, when evading possible arrest to drive to a highly-populated area with a heavier police presence and swerve into innocent civilians.

    No one with two brain cells would think that this makes any sense, but mainstream outlets are breathlessly repeating it without offering an ounce of scepticism. Will this turn into another Las Vegas shooting? It’s been five years since that mass murder event and we still don’t have a satisfactory answer as to why Stephen Paddock would kill dozens of country concert attendees.

    Another inconvenient truth about the deaths in Waukesha is that they were entirely preventable. Brooks has a long history of violent crime and is listed in the Nevada sex offender registry for having a baby with and allegedly trafficking a 16-year-old girl while he was in his mid-twenties. He has a criminal history dating back to 1999 when he was convicted on a felony count of aggravated battery. Earlier this month, Brooks was arrested and charged with numerous offences, including multiple counts of domestic abuse, battery, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and bail jumping. Nonetheless, just a couple of days before driving through the Christmas parade, Brooks was released on $1,000 cash bail.

    Milwaukee district attorney John Chisholm is on the record bragging about reducing the number of individuals held on cash bail. The New Yorker reported in a 2015 article titled ‘The Milwaukee Experiment’ that Chisholm ‘decided that his office would undertake initiatives to try to send fewer people to prison while maintaining public safety’.

    The media will ignore the role Milwaukee’s jail reforms played in this holiday horror because it would damage the establishment’s desire for nationwide criminal justice reform.

    Unfortunately, many Republicans, including former president Donald Trump, have fallen for the claim that criminal justice reform is about empathy and equity while ignoring that it can have dire consequences for public safety and law and order.

    Chisholm’s office even admitted that Brooks’s bail was set too low but declined to explain how his proposed systemic reforms would have led to a different outcome: ‘The State’s bail recommendation in this case was inappropriately low in light of the nature of the recent charges and the pending charges against Mr Brooks,’ Chisholm’s office said on Monday. ‘The bail recommendation in this case is not consistent with the approach of the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office toward matters involving violent crime, nor was it consistent with the risk assessment of the defendant prior to setting of bail.’

    The Waukesha attack is everything our establishment media and politicians pretend never happens. White people are supposed to be the perpetrators. Violent criminals can be let out of jail with zero repercussions. White men are automatically considered terrorists, even when acting in self defence, but we can never know the motives of left-wing and minority perps. Don’t be surprised when this dreadful calamity recedes from the American airwaves so that the media doesn’t have to confront inconvenient facts.

    This article first appeared on The Spectator’s World Edition website.

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    Lefty Dork

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/22/19/50831387-10230651-image-a-15_1637609215512.jpg
    Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisolm released a statement Monday admitting his office made a mistake by allowing Brooks to be released on a $1,000 cash bond earlier this month

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    BTL:

    Copyright401 • 12 minutes ago
    The more we learn, the less it fits the media narrative

    The ‘media narrative’ is almost entirely a work of antiwhite fiction.

    We can see in fictional TV and film what they think, the lies that they retail. Whites are dangerous, criminal, untrustworthy, violent and stupid. While blacks are intelligent, chivalrous, law-abiding, upstanding, hard-working. Watch any drama (or comedy) these themes will constantly repeated. Regime comedians will reinforce them. And so on.

    A complete inversion of reality.

    News media and fiction are in lockstep to promote these antiwhite fantasies.

    Araminta Smade • 25 minutes ago
    The more we learn the less it fts the media narrative.
    This would apply to pretty much everything to do with Globalist Agenda!

    Jay • 38 minutes ago
    This was an anti-White attack by a Black terrorist. The man who did this has a history of anti-White hate in his social media comments and rap music lyrics. He was incited to this act by the media’s constant anti-White race baiting. The US media and both political parties have blood on their hands. A war on Whites is being fought in our lands and we must stand up against it qua White people. Forget left and right, Labour and Conservative. Like-minded White people need to unite and fight to secure our future.

    1. Wow! This is a bit daring! More suitable to Nottl than the Spectator! Has the Resistance penetrated the Citadel of the MSM?

    2. And all brushed udner the carpet because it was yet another abject, utter failure of the state machine in favour of diwersity.

      It’s pathetic.

  9. The BBC Radio 4 News this morning said Jo Cox was killed by a white supremacist. I thought it was a deranged citizen who was the culprit.
    Is White Supremacy an organised group and if so who is the Leader?

      1. Morning Hugh – Just asking for my own benefit. I still struggle with Woke which is a word I dislike.

    3. A mentally ill lone wolf. A real one this time, not the fabrication the Left trot out to disguise Muslim terrorism.

      However, this mentally ill lone wolf was obsessed with the Left wing fascists known as the Nazis.

  10. What Vladimir Putin Is Up To in Ukraine. 23 November 2021.

    What’s Vladimir Putin up to? In recent years, the Russian President has fully embraced Cold War–style, anti-Western words and actions, at least in part as a means of boosting his sagging approval ratings. A poll published in October by Moscow’s Levada Center found that Russian trust in Putin had fallen to 53%, its lowest level since 2012. History shows that picking fights with Ukraine can help with that.

    Russian troops, Putin claims, are responding to Western provocations in the Black Sea, where NATO has recently staged unannounced military exercises. Why should Russia, he asks, ignore the hostile presence of U.S. and European warships and fighter planes so near Russia’s coastline? It’s also possible that Putin is signaling to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky not to try to boost his own slumping ratings by becoming more militarily aggressive with the Donbas rebels in coming months.

    Sagging approval ratings of 53%? lol! Joe Biden would kill for that level of support! The truth here seems to lie with the Russians. They are after all within the boundaries of their own State! The motivation behind the EU and US provocations seems to be to make Ukraine; (since it cannot join while in dispute with another polity); a NATO member de Facto if not de Jure! This is risky stuff since Putin has actually warned that this is a Red Line for the Russian Federation. Contrary to the opinion of the author of this piece I think that when he decides they have crossed it he will act!

    https://time.com/6122671/vladimir-putin-ukraine/

  11. RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Sorry snowflakes but WFH isn’t working… Remote staff will suffer from lack of human contact, a friendly hand on the shoulder, and a quiet word in their shell-like when they screw up
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    Even many of those who are now dribbling back to the office are doing so grudgingly.

    We’re seeing the emergence of the so-called TW*Ts, who only drag themselves in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

    Neither is the Passport Office, the DVLA, the Home Office, or practically any other government department you care to mention.

    That, as the Mail on Sunday revealed recently, hasn’t stopped the Civil Service Club being fully booked at the weekends as members come up to London for dinner and a show.

    Nor have the TW*Ts been deterred from venturing into town on Friday nights, either, if the evidence of London’s bustling West End is anything to go by.
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    The CBI? Makes you proud to be British…

    The head of the Confederation of British Industry yesterday delivered a damning indictment of free market capitalism.

    Why doesn’t that surprise me? In my decade as an industrial correspondent, the CBI was wrong about pretty much everything.

    It’s never been a gung-ho free market organisation. The CBI speaks for giant corporations, not fast-moving smaller enterprises.

    It hasn’t really moved on since the days of Edward Heath, who thought the country could be run by a cosy tripartite consensus drawn up by government, big business and the unions. Look how that turned out.

    The CBI opposed the Thatcher reforms and has always been ferociously pro-EU, which favours large multi-national cartels.

    It should have dropped the ‘British’ bit donkey’s years ago.

    Back in the 1980s, at a CBI conference in Glasgow, the chairman of Dunlop took to the stage wearing a kilt and waving a giant Union Jack.

    Shortly afterwards, he flogged the company to the Japanese.

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    The RAF has called on the U. S. to help find a £120 million F-35B stealth bomber which has been lost a mile below the surface after crashing into the Mediterranean.

    If you lose your iPhone, Apple can pinpoint it anywhere in the world in seconds.

    So how come the air force can’t locate this plane? Still, I suppose it proves that the stealth technology actually works.
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10231681/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-WFH-isnt-working-Remote-sta

    2. Well, Apple can’t- it relies upon a triangulation of other i devices using the ‘find my’ to give you an approximate position and then when you get close enough it can ping you directly for position.

      However, the plane, given that it has sensors on every part of it – including the ailerons! unless it’s lost a mile underwater wouldn’t be difficult to find.

      The same applies to that other plane that was lost – utter tosh. They didn’t want to find it. The company that made the sensor in the fuel tank identified the vehicle and that the tank was intact. They were very quickly silenced. Odd, how comforting it is to know just how easily they can ‘lose’ planes with uncomfortable cargo, isn’t it?

    1. It would much rather spend the money on the paedophiles in prison while bringing thousands more in.

  13. Boris must turn the boats back or face an almighty political backlash

    It would be a challenging policy, but safely returning migrants to France is the only way to grip this crisis

    SHERELLE JACOBS
    22 November 2021 • 9:30pm

    The Tories appear to have already given up on the issue that now threatens to destroy them. As record-breaking numbers of illegal migrants cross the English Channel by boat, a scandalous revelation now gnaws at the public: despite the Vote Leave vow to “take back control” of immigration, Britain apparently cannot even police its borders. And yet, No 10 has already dismissed the option of returning boats to the French coast, known as a push back policy, as only feasible in the rarest circumstances, even though this is the one idea that is most likely to work. Senior Tories shrug that push backs are too controversial. They also sigh that, when it comes to risking renegade status on the world stage, all the Government’s capital is being expended in tussles with the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol.

    Plan B is for the Home Office to try and deter migrants by processing them offshore. Yet the pioneers of this approach, Australia, figured out as far back as 2014 that detention camps in the Pacific have no impact whatsoever on illegal crossings. It has been quietly winding down the policy ever since, and last month announced the closure of its notorious Papua New Guinea camp. In contrast, the country’s push-backs have proved so successful that some have called for a policy shift to focus exclusively on patrol tactics.

    For the UK, offshore processing would not only be fruitless, but politically sticky. Such a policy can do little to take the heat off the Tories in the short term, as it will take months or even years to implement. The Home Office is still casting around desperately for a country willing to take part. If the UK finally finds a partner, it can expect exactly the kind of humanitarian uproar that the PM fears push backs would trigger. The UN and the ICC have long blasted Australia for its “cruel, inhuman” and “unlawful” treatment of migrants.

    The Tories should then look again seriously at push backs. Of course, they should never be carried out in a way that endangers migrants’ lives. Nor should British border guards ever hesitate to assist a migrant boat that is in imminent danger. Nonetheless, it should be possible to implement push back operations on a greater scale than is currently envisaged by No 10. Britain has a moral duty as well as a sovereign interest in taking strong action to deter boat crossings: more than 300 have died on the Channel route, whether by land or sea, since 1999, and as boats replace lorries as the preferred means of travel, we might expect the number of drownings to rise dramatically.

    The UK should then urgently pursue bilateral cooperation with Emmanuel Macron to stop boats as close to the French coast as possible and to guide them, safely and smoothly, back to port. The big question is what the French President’s price might be. Financial incentives are unlikely to fly, not least as Britain has already given Paris millions to police properly the Calais border to little effect; more valuable to Macron is something he can sell to his electorate. Why not throw a curveball and offer for Britain to take a greater share of asylum seekers clogging the French system via legal means, in exchange? In the year ending March 2021, the UK received 26,903 asylum applications, whereas France had 93,475. Even backbench MPs who take a tough line on illegal crossings concede that the UK is not currently “taking its fair global share” of refugees.

    A push back campaign will be controversial, but it will not necessarily be as toxic as feared. No 10 would need to get on the front foot by busting liberal myths. Push backs are not illegal per se. Nor do they contravene search and rescue convention, as long as boats are directed to a “place of safety”. Some countries interpret lifeboats, which allow migrants to safely return from whence they came, as such a “place of safety”. Cooperation with the French would lend the UK even more legal cover; it is extremely difficult to see how search and rescue rules have been broken if boats are guided to a “place of safety” in the form of French patrol vessels.

    Some have argued that in certain circumstances push backs may contravene some UN conventions, particularly if the migrants have reached British waters, but it is an open secret that these rules are already routinely tested by Western powers, not least by the EU. The latter’s attitude is particularly grotesque, as it virtue signals about incorruptible “freedom of movement”, while it turns a blind eye to dubious actions taken by overwhelmed countries on the fringes. While Greek coastguards are accused of stabbing refugee boats with hooks and firing into the water, reports abound of masked officers beating people back on the Croatian-Bosnian border.

    In contrast with the EU’s brutal border controls, the UK’s approach should be professional and transparent, emulating Australian best practices. The latter has even developed “unsinkable” life vessels to transfer migrants onto, as smugglers resort to their latest despicable tactic of sabotaging or sinking boats, so that migrants are obliged to be “rescued”.

    A tough approach on the border might be softened politically by coinciding it with a winding down of the Home Office’s “hostile environment” policies. This would be in keeping with the pragmatic instincts of the PM, who has said he is open to an amnesty for some illegal migrants. The hostile environment policy has proved a dismal failure, with the number of voluntary departures by illegal migrants actually falling in recent years.

    The Home Office’s shift to a zero tolerance culture has not only allowed scope for absurd judgement errors like Windrush but distracted from the department’s institutional chaos. The Home Office blob has not bothered even to try and estimate the number of illegal immigrants since 2005. It is utterly unaccountable, with no infrastructure in place to track whether the immigration enforcement policies it spends £400 million on each year have any effect whatsoever.

    In other words, the Tories’ current approach is a noxious fusion of tokenistic cruelty and cowardly impotence. They must instead shift to a strategy that is both respectably humane and ruthlessly focused on doing what works. It won’t be easy, but Boris should take the gamble, instead of catastrophically folding so early.

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    Bernie Newnham
    22 Nov 2021 9:44PM
    Let’s be honest, Boris is not the leader many of us hoped he could be, and the channel migrants fiasco is utterly ridiculous.

    Britain desperately needs a new breed of political party, we cannot carry on with this current feckless mob.

    Marianne Kay
    22 Nov 2021 10:01PM
    @Bernie Newnham I am so disappointed in Boris and yet I thought he had the makings of a great leader.

    Young, fit, fighting age men of an entirely different culture are pouring in to this country and he does nothing. I guess wallpaper is higher up the priority list.

    1. The UK “risking renegade status on the world stage“. That never used to bother us. On the contrary, we revelled in it. Privateers were the blue-eyed boys of our rulers. Our Navy prowled the seas with only one objective, to find and engage the enemy, or just some unfortunate who might have been thinking about it.

    2. Hang on. Australia after the detention camps were introduced saw the number of illegal gimmigrants drop to 13, down from thousands.

      There are over 150,000 people in the home office alone. Assuming half are superflous, and half the rest are busy doing the work of the superflous half, that still leaves 32,000 people – a large town – to resolve this gimmigrant issue. If they can’t do it, then what are they for?

      Quite simply, you don’t let them land here. You take them back to France and destroy the boat. If that had been done from the outset then the horde of criminal vermin would not be here.

      1. My understanding is that the Australian policy was only changed when a party of the left took over government and reversed the previous right governments successful policies. Am I right or not?

      1. Her father came to Britain from Nigeria, and although he apparently worked in the private sector SJ has ‘skin in the game’. Put simply, there is a world of difference between legal immigration and unlawful immigration.

  14. Astra Zeneca suggesting that their vaccine may be better than other vaccines at charging up immunity for Covid in the body’s T-cells and could reduce hospitalisation and deaths if the UK goes into another wave of cases. I hope they are correct. At least T-cells are back in the debate.
    AZ opened a massive research centre near Cambridge yesterday. BBC Radio 4 news.

  15. Good morning all from a distinctly chilly Derbyshire. Still dry and, with a bit of a cloud cover overhead, a not quite frosty 2°C outside.

    Only just getting bright outside and consider, not quite 07:30 GMT, which, had the clocks not changed, would have been 08:30.

  16. ‘Morning, Peeps.

    SIR – Why are we sending soldiers to protect the Polish border with Belarus when we cannot protect our own borders from the invasion of over 1,000 migrants a day via the Channel?

    Diana Davis
    Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire

    You had best ask the government, Ms Davis. If there’s a wrong way of doing something you can bet your life they’ll find it.

    1. It’s not the wrong way, it’s deliberate. Absolutely, completely intentional. It’s punishment from the state for refusing them a cushy retirement into the EU.

  17. Our team of vaccine safety experts wants a debate but nobody pushing the narrative will accept

    Here is a partial list of a team of experts who collectively share beliefs about the safety of the COVID vaccines and/or the efficacy of early treatments. We are a bit old fashioned; we follow what the data says regardless of what the White House says.

    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/my-team-of-vaccine-safety-experts

    Not all of us agree will agree on all issues. We are all experts in different areas.

    The mainstream experts think we are spreading misinformation. But we have no interest in doing that. We just look at the data and come to a different conclusion. We are open to being persuaded we made a mistake. But so far, nobody pushing the mainstream narrative will engage in a scientific discussion on what the data actually shows. All we hear are crickets. Even when TrialSiteNews offered to host the debate, nobody showed up.

    He also offered $1,000,000 to any who agreed to debate the issue – No one applied….

    1. FIVE HOURS AFTERWARDS, NO. 10 RELEASE BORIS CBI SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION

      Five and a half hours after the event itself, No. 10 has finally released their ‘checked against delivery’ version of Boris’s CBI speech. Not only might it be the first No. 10 press release to reference Peppa Pig World, it spells the PM’s petrol car impression as “arum arum araaaaaagh”. It was accidentally CC’d to some 500 recipient hacks, rather than BCC’ing them, potentially breaking GDPR rules. A classic No. 10 day all round: as they say, “The only difference between Westminster and The Thick of It is in The Thick of It people don’t go round saying ‘this is just like something out of The Thick of It’ all the time.”

      Read the speech in full:

      https://order-order.com

      1. ‘Morning, C1. I’d rather not as the event was a major embarrassment. Some good may come of it, however: perhaps the 1922 will finally get its act together and get rid of the idiot.

        1. Thing is, while many things, Boris is *NOT* an idiot. Unprepared, frequently lazy, intellectually flighty, yes, but not an idiot.

          2. Wibbling and TB have outlined the key characteristics of a Prime Minister of what was formerly one of the most powerful and influential countries on the planet.
            No wonder everything is falling to bits, if it hasn’t already.

      2. Wouldn’t “arum arum araaaaaagh” be a splendid ringtone for those who are pining to answer their phones whilst driving.

      3. They had to rescue and reprint the sheets that Dylan had peed on and remove Wilfred’s scribble from the others.

    1. Morning, Grizz.

      Expect increased levels of propaganda against the non-vaccinated as the real emergency, the breakthrough infection levels and ADE cases, continue to soar. Add in those people who chose the jab and are now hospitalised with side-effects and there is a real problem.

    2. Heaven forfend people should want to use the NHS without condition.

      Do they check for smallpox vaccination? Polio? Flu jabs?

    5. The good doctor may not have been alive in 1957, but the thalidomide disaster is still within living memory. It may not be fair to compare thalidomide with Covid vaccine, but those who really do not know whether a vaccine rushed through trials, in order to save the economy and the sanity of everyone, is safe or effective (it probably is, but I don’t know for certain) might be a tad worried if they are of childbearing age.

      1. A poster posted a post yesterday that said that figures indicate that a pregnant woman who was vaccinated before reaching Week 20 of her pregnancy was 80% certain to have a miscarriage.

  20. SIR – As a long-time supporter and shoreline member of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, it annoys me greatly that the Government is effectively using it as a free taxi service for illegal migrants in the Dover Strait.

    Not only does this mean that volunteer crews have an enormous amount of extra work (to the understandable annoyance of some of their employers), but it could also impinge on the availability of boats and crews for other rescues.

    If the Government wishes to continue to rely on the RNLI for this service, it should be contributing to its costs and not depending on voluntary efforts.

    Richard Moorby
    Usk, Monmouthshire

    We don’t want taxpayers’ money going to the RNLI ‘cos then the government will think it is entitled to call the shots…oh, hang on a mo…

  21. Role regret

    SIR – Eddie Redmayne has apologised for taking on a transgender role in The Danish Girl. Should he do the same for playing the quadriplegic Stephen Hawking?

    Paul Butler
    Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire

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    A splendid BTL:

    Colin MacDonald
    7 HRS AGO
    Eddie Redmayne needs to apologise not only for playing a paraplegic while not being paraplegic, but for playing a wizard while not being a wizard, a photographer while not being a photographer, a Victorian man while not being a Victorian man and an Emperor of the House of Abrasax from Jupiter while not being an Emperor of the House of Abrasax from Jupiter.
    Whilst he’s at it, he needs to apologise for playing a character written by a woman who is a woman who hasn’t apologised for being a woman but has the temerity to assert that she is a woman.
    Alternatively he could shut up, stop pandering to the wokerati and get taken more seriously.

    Bravo Sir!

    1. That could force most actors to restrict themselves to playing twats, but I don’t think that there are enough roles to go round.

      1. Hawking went out on a date with a girl, when he returned home he was bruised, battered, his glasses broken and his clothes were dirty – apparently she stood him up

    4. Apparently there is a trans-man character on Emmerdale these days. Played by a trans-man. No doubt a perfectly pleasant individual in real-life but I just find the whole thing creepy. How much assessment and/or psychological input do people get before going down this route? As I understand it, a significant number are well onto the Autistic spectrum scale.

  22. Russian defence firm founded by Putin launches aftershave that smells like a fighter jet cockpit. 23 November 2021.

    “The notes of the fragrance combine the scents of glass, natural leather and metals used in the construction of the fuselage, engines and cockpit of the aircraft,” a spokesman for the state-backed defence group Rostec said.’

    Hmmm! Bottled New Car smell innit!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/22/russian-defence-firm-founded-putin-launches-aftershave-smells/

    5. When working for company that had a few very big customers, I arranged Xmas gifts for their buyers. One year the gift was a hand-made leather briefcase. The buyer from one company told me that he loved it. He kept the briefcase on the front passenger seat of his rather mundane car
      and the smell of rich expensive leather upgraded it to limousine status.

    6. The best joke which someone posted on this site this year was the riddle .

      Why did the actor who played the King of Siam in the film The King and I with Deborah Kerr who supported Liverpool F.C. never wear after shave lotion?

      Because Yul never wore Cologne.

  23. Courageous and resourceful:

    Colonel David Mitchell, led high-risk clandestine missions paddling canoes into enemy territory during the Indonesian Confrontation – obituary

    He pioneered a novel technique for exiting with canoes from a submarine while it remained submerged

    By
    Telegraph Obituaries
    21 November 2021 • 3:29pm

    Colonel David Mitchell, who has died aged 92, was a Royal Marines officer who commanded No 2 Special Boat Section (2 SBS) in the Far East and pioneered new techniques of clandestine reconnaissance during the Konfrontasi.

    Mitchell commanded 2SBS in 1964-65 when the Konfrontasi, a Communist-backed, Indonesian-led series of armed incursions intended to destabilise the newly formed Federation of Malaysia, was at its peak.

    In early 1964, 2 SBS was sent to the border between Sarawak (part of the Federation) and Kalimantan (part of Indonesia-held Borneo), where Mitchell established a covert observation post and a base for patrols on Turtle island.

    Between operations, he pioneered a novel technique for exiting with canoes from a submarine while it remained submerged, and in 1965 he applied 2 SBS’s new skills in a series of clandestine reconnaissance tasks on the enemy coast.

    Since these operations were extremely sensitive, their planning and rehearsals had to be meticulous and leave nothing to chance. Over a three-month period, despite the difficulties of weather and tide, and the risk of detection, Mitchell led several secret operations, calling for courage and determination by all concerned.

    Launching while underwater from the submarine Ambush, commanded by his friend, Lieutenant Commander Charles Baker, Mitchell and his marines successfully carried out their dangerous reconnaissance missions, despite having to close to within 30 yards of the enemy and their barking dogs, and to paddle silently up river into enemy territory.

    One slip or false move would have prejudiced the whole series of operations, probably leading to the capture and death of the participants. On the very last operation, Mitchell returned to the rendezvous to find that one of his teams had been unable to achieve its goal, and, despite fatigue and the shortness of the night, he led his men back to finish the job.

    Mitchell was appointed MBE for his leadership, coolness and courage.

    David Mitchell was born on September 23 1929 into a well-known Sussex baking family, and while an apprentice baker at the Borough Polytechnic Institute, London, in 1948, he helped to decorate a cake with 56 lb of icing to celebrate the silver wedding anniversary of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

    Called up for National Service, Mitchell volunteered for the Royal Marines, and never looked back. He undertook Special Forces training, was identified as officer material, and one month before discharge he opted for permanent service in the Corps.

    Canoeing played a big part in his life, and as a young officer he was greatly influenced by his mentor and friend Hugh Bruce, with whom he broke the national record for crossing the English Channel.

    He also twice won the highly competitive Devizes to Westminster canoe race with his Marine friend Stuart Syrad. Later he commanded the Royal Marines at Poole, and his uniform career finished as Director, Royal Marines Reserves.

    Mitchell was a gentle, courteous man, always ready with a smile and words of support and appreciation. Never one to claim the spotlight, he worked to ensure that others would succeed. He took little credit for his distinguished record, often saying that he had been lucky to be in the right place at the right time with the right people, and to have had such wonderful role models.

    In retirement he was head of personnel at Marconi for many years, then worked tirelessly for Victim Support.

    At Rouen, during a rugby tour, he was smitten by Betty Mann, the daughter of the local representative of Kiwi Polish, whose family lived in France, and immediately invited her to a ball at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. They married in 1953. She died in 2011 and he is survived by their five children.

    Colonel David Mitchell, born September 23 1929, died September 25 2021

    * * *

    An appropriate BTL:

    Jonathan Switch
    1 DAY AGO
    Canoeing behind enemy lines from Submarines – great stuff. It is also humbling to read about such people who served the country. RIP Sir.

  25. Good morning, all. Blue skies and no frost. G & P have learned how to escape from the kitchen…. How – we have yet to discover!

  27. Headline in the DT:

    “Dozens of ships stuck in Arctic as ice freezes early in reverse of recent warming winters”

    Oops…not part of the warmists’ agenda, surely?

    1. We’re so grateful for the great and the good who flew their 400 private jets into Glasgow to solve Global warming.

      You see, it works !!

    2. Is it possible to:

      i) be in favour of a proper Brexit,
      ii) suspect that man-made climate change is an enormous scam,
      and
      iii) think that the Covid vaccination programme rather than proper treatment of the disease has done far more harm than good,

      without being an extreme right-wing monster who must be vilified and insulted at every corner by the MSM and the political establishment?

      1. It won’t happen until after Black Friday.
        The enrichers need their annual scrap over a half price play station.

  29. This is the ‘service’ sworn to protect me pushing hard for the ‘Virtue Signalling Performance of the Year’ award. Please notice these people have hijacked a War Memorial for their vomit inducing photo shoot.
    Appears that ‘trans’ murders are running out of control here in the UK, one in the last three years. The original post was removed after it was not well received. Threats issued from Essex Police to investigate responses considered unsavoury. Can this Country of ours sink any deeper into the mire?

    https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1462212141595959302

    2. Oh cluck off. That woman on the right looks to be on the verge of hysterics. The two blokes taking it all far too seriously. Why is one wearing a dress?

    4. “We will continue to act against those who target someone because of their religion, race, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity, but will not have enough time left to attend muggings, burglaries, car accidents, or pub violence.”

    5. To put it slightly differently, I wonder how many poor sods committed suicide because of how they were and the hatred and violence they received.

  30. Dutch PM lashes out at ‘idiots’ after third night of violence during Covid protests. 23 November 2021.

    Mark Rutte, the Netherlands’ prime minister, has lashed out at “idiot” rioters who wreaked havoc across Dutch cities over the past weekend during protests against the government’s coronavirus restrictions.

    “This was pure violence disguised as protest,” Mr Rutte told reporters on Monday, after more than 100 people were arrested for their role in the riots.

    “There is a lot of unrest in society because we have been dealing with the misery of corona for so long. But I will never accept idiots using pure violence just because they are unhappy.”

    This is a common sentiment among politicians though most of them are not idiotic enough to say so! Electorates are like elephants; they are not very nimble, but they have long memories!

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mark-rutte-covid-protests-idiots-b1962370.html

    3. …we have been dealing with creating the misery of corona for so long.

      Rutte is a lying tosser as are so many politicians. He knows full well what is going on and is working under direction from elsewhere. He may not know what the “vaccine” contains but he knows it is not good for people. >30,000 deaths and >1,000,000 other adverse effects across the EU from the jab and he’s surprised people want to meet violence with violence. Stop the violence against the population i.e. the jab, bring in early treatments and do your job of protecting your people: then resign.

    4. We received that last week. We ditched it straight into the deep blue bin. (We used to contribute but their loony response to lewd mugs was too much over the top to be just stupid.)

    5. This would explain why no-one knows how many illegal immigrants there are in Britain – they can’t count past three.

    2. A Rotherham police chief inspector was quoted in the report, telling a father of a missing girl that the town would “erupt” if the public was made aware that “Asian” grooming gangs were abusing young white girls.

      I always thought it was the other way around – that if the police publicised the state of affairs and properly investigated the criminal activity, it would be the Pakistani population that would riot in response to the great slur on its name.

  33. 341979+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Dt,

    Johnson’s contempt for business makes Labour look like a reasonable alternative
    Sir Kier Starmer is happy to fill the widening gap the Prime Minister is creating between himself and the corporate world.

    As lab is a segment of the mass paedophile importers con / lib ring
    does the welfare of children enter the equation ?

    Would not a mass enrollment of a fringe party be of more benefit to these Isles also be an unmissable sign that supporting / voting
    lab/lib/con really had it’s day when the JAY report was published.

  34. Morning all, not much to say apart from it appears we are still going to hell in a handcart.
    I’ll get back to working on my kitchen.
    Laters.

      1. I am still here, SWMBO would rather I finished the kitchen renovation than reading pearls of wisdom from Nottlers, I can’t understand why.

  35. Europe’s new wave of Covid authoritarianism has set a dangerous new precedent. Jonathan Sumption. 23 November 2021.

    Across Europe, basic norms of civilised society are giving way to panic. The unvaccinated are being excluded from an ever-wider range of basic rights. Austria has criminalised them. Italy has stopped them doing their jobs. The Dutch police have fired on anti-lockdown demonstrators, seriously injuring some of them. We are witnessing the ultimate folly of frightened politicians who cannot accept that they are impotent in the face of some natural phenomena.

    If lockdowns, forced closures of businesses and other brutal countermeasures work, then why are these countries on their fifth wave of the pandemic and their third or fourth lockdown? How long must this go on before we recognise that these measures simply push infections into the period after they are lifted?

    The logic of persisting with them now is that they can never be lifted. What were once justified as temporary measures to hold the position until vaccines were available are in danger of being forced on people as permanent changes to their way of life. Perhaps the ugliest feature of the crisis is the politicians’ habit of blaming others for the bankruptcy of their own policies. Opposition to vaccines is foolish. They are highly effective at preventing serious illness and death. But they are not as effective against infection or transmission as was once thought.

    The Austrian Chancellor has been in the front line of the blame game. Others are tempted to follow him. Yet the proportion of fully vaccinated people in Austria, at 64 per cent, is well above the European average (57 per cent) and not far short of our own (68 per cent). The Netherlands and Belgium are among the most thoroughly vaccinated countries in Europe, at 74 per cent, but have seen some of the steepest rises in infection. Meanwhile, the moral dimension is forgotten. The basic problem is an approach to the pandemic which treats it as a purely technical issue of public health management, when it is a complex economic, social and political issue as well.

    This leads to the unthinking assumption that there are no limits to what the frightened majority can legitimately impose on others in the hope of protecting themselves against infection. The absence of moral scruple in pursuit of what is thought to be a public good, is the first symptom of totalitarianism. The reduction of human beings to mere instruments of state policy is the next.

    Social interaction with other people is not an optional leisure activity but a basic need of humankind. A minimum of respect for the personal autonomy of our fellows is essential if we are to live together in any kind of harmony. These things are what make us a community. Governments which ignore them cross an important moral line, and inevitably find themselves engaged in a sustained assault on the humanity of their people.

    Those who refuse to be vaccinated may be unwise, perhaps selfish. But if they are not even allowed to decide what medical procedures they will undergo and what drugs they receive into their own bodies, then there is not much left of their autonomy as human beings. The way is wide open to despotism and unending social discord.

    The rest of us should look on and note how easily liberal democracy can be subverted by fear.

    It’s quite clear from Austria to Australia that the elites are turning to full on totalitarian fascism to achieve their ends!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/22/europes-new-wave-covid-authoritarianism-has-set-dangerous-new/

    1. Morning, Spikey. Wonderful. Thanks for that: copied and saved (and to be pushed up the nose of any socialist I come across). 👍🏻

        1. I live in the Social Democratic People’s Republic of Skåne. I still twat Lefties every opportunity I get.

          FYI: Sweden’s experiment with socialism, from the seventies, bore them no fruit. They are now every bit a market economy as the UK is.

          1. “In 2019, Sweden had a tax-to-GDP ratio of 42.9% compared with the OECD average of 33.8%. In 2018, Sweden was also ranked 4th out of the 37 OECD countries in terms of the tax-to-GDP ratio.”

          2. That is correct, and you won’t find a single Swede complaining about it. There are few poor Swedes and they cherish their cradle-to-grave social welfare programme. It doesn’t make them socialists any more than having a NHS and benefits system in the UK makes the British socialists.

    2. Sir Paul McCartney rather spoiled it when he once wrote the lyric “… if you’ve got a job to do, you’ve got to do it well; you’ve got to give the other fellow hell.”

      Some argue that greatness is achieved by bringing everyone else down, perhaps by buying them up and closing them down, thereby cornering the market, a single market under central control that is easier to manage. Great wealth can then go on status symbols to show to others what hardworking success can bring to oneself.

      Others argue that the truly great are lonely up there at the top, and want others around them to look up to, even if only as equals. They will endeavour to raise everyone up, and are delighted when they compete and provide an inspiration to better things. They would use their good fortune to create niches for others, and for them this is true wealth.

      Which philosophy is more egalitarian and socially responsible?

      2. Another of his many lyrics was,… Boy, you’re gonna to carry that weight, carry that weight a long time……….

      1. His second ‘myth’ is maybe true, but that wealth has already been generated.

        The third is laughable. Government’s forced tax payers to provide the roads. They didn’t get created by magic!

        The fourth: ure you can. If you’ve ever diversified your investment portfolio, you’ve multiplied your wealth over time by dividing it – laughable, as it is completely different to division. One spreads risk, the other removes value.

        ” In this model, the top-half isn’t going to subsidize the bottom half. Not in government. It’s the whole subsidizing the whole,

        So it is the haves subsidising the have nots, as defacto, if someone has something then you have to take it from them to give it to someone else. If everyone has something then no one needs anything – as no one has anything. It’s desperate scrambling.

        with a steeper grade between tax brackets and a more centralized disbursal of public goods.

        Which doesn’t work. The higher and upper rates create tax avoidance and evasion. The higher the taxes, the less efficient people are, the less they produce.

        The sad bit is the commenters reading it and most being so monumentally ignorant – but then, when you’re agreeing with an article about socialism as an ideology then you are likely greedy, envious and ignorant.

        There is genuine poverty in even the developed world with people working multiple jobs. The solution is tax cuts and cutting the state back so big business cannot buy policy – something that it loved the EU for – not more state control.

    4. And this nation due to it’s self inflicted simmering indifference to the situation mentioned. And of course with it’s lamentable political classes it is getting closer to the finish line each day.
      Lack of order in politics and the way the country has been run to accommodate anti British culture over the past 25 years will be the end of it.
      Including the politicians and civil servants who do very little to nothing to help support those who go to work to support the self appointed ‘hierarchy’. In short there are too many people living off the working tax payers. It simply can’t continue.

    5. The day my accountant told me I’d be worse off taking on 6 contracts a year than 4 that it became obvious the setup is rigged. When the efficient, hard working and capable lose money through tax and are no better off something is clearly wrong with our tax system.

  38. Good Moaning, trills Pollyanna.
    Well, apart from the greyness, the cold, the damp underfoot …..
    But – there’s enough blue sky to make a pair of sailor’s trousers.

    1. Morning Anne – there’s enough blue sky up here to make a G-string for a lap dancing ant

    5. It’s sunny here is West Sussex but it keeps going in and out of gloom so I have ended up putting the light on. My bet is that it will get to be predominant gloom as is appropriate for this time of year. I look forward to sleet, frost and howling winds.

  39. Good Moaning, trills Pollyanna.
    Well, apart from the greyness, the cold, the damp underfoot …..
    But – there’s enough blue sky to make a pair of sailor’s trousers.

    3. Clucking bell. Even the putty kid’s a foreign. Even got their gimmigrant cheapo jacket and tracksuit as well.

  41. Global warming strikes again. I have just done my final solar panel reading for the year. The annual total is the lowest ever.

    Funny that.

    2. How many panels do you have Bill ?
      One of our neighbours told me they don’t have to use any gas to heat their water until around October.

    3. Double whammy. Relatively cool summer and the PV panels’ efficiency will be gradually declining with age. The panels should last for 25 years, but some people doubt that the control system circuitry will survive. How long is the contract, if you have a ‘feed in’ tariff?

      1. I think my contract is 20 years with the invertor warranty for 10 years. My panels are Canadian rather than the cheap Chinese shite.

    4. Mines been constant within 80 units since it was installed 7 years ago, averaging 3100 units over the year. This year hasn’t been the lowest, that was 2 years ago

  42. Painting the Porch

    A woman answered the knock at her door and found a destitute man. He wanted to earn money by doing odd jobs, so she asked: “Can you paint?”

    “Yes,” he said, “I’m a pretty good painter.”

    “Well, here’s a gallon of green paint and a brush. Go behind the house and you’ll see a porch that needs repainting. Be very careful. When you’re done, I’ll look it over and pay you what it’s worth.”

    It wasn’t more than an hour before he knocked again.

    “All finished!” he reported with a smile.

    “Did you do a good job?” she asked.

    “Yes, but lady, there’s one thing I’d like to point out to you. That’s not a Porsche back there. That’s a Mercedes!“

  43. Biden to run for re-election in 2024
    White House says 79-year-old will seek another four years

    By Josie Ensor – US CORRESPONDENT DT

    He’ll be a shoo-in!

  44. Text of letter (which will not be publlshed) to the Editor of The Grimes:

    Sir
    You report that, from May 2022, all British visitors to the EU will be required to supply facial images and fingerprints.
    I suggest that the Government underlines its solidarity with our EU friends over the increasing need for greater security by informing the European Commission that, from May 2022, EU identity cards will no longer be acceptable at Border Control, and that all EU visitors to the United Kingdom will require full passports.
    In this dangerous age, one cannot be too careful.
    Yours etc

    1. We stopped accepting EU, EEA and Swiss ID Cards on October 1st 2021 didn’t we? We don’t even accept the new ones with biometric data now. It is full passports only. What am I missing?

  45. 341979+ up ticks,

    Council tax rises will be the talk of the day, every day, with every boat load of replacements that the DOVER campaign produces.

    Councils to be forced to care for unaccompanied migrant children
    Home Office is to require all 217 local authorities with social services departments to take children currently being housed in hotels

    1. It makes one wonder how the children were able to get all the way to the UK from,…….. let’s say Somalia, by themselves.

        1. Not the mobile and it’s charging stations ? Or even mum and dad, perhaps they don’t even recognise their parents.

      2. Whereas we get the “key of the door” to adult status at age 21, in Somalia it is at age 45. Until then they are all officially children.

      3. 341979+ up ticks,
        Morning RE,
        Keep in mind some of the “children ” are in reality in their mid 40s.

        1. There was a rumour that the pirates from Somalia were using their ill-gotten gains to finance the islamic invasion of Australia.
          The Russian navy managed to stop all that by machine gunning the pirates. No body else could be bothered.

      1. The BBC are suggesting they will be fostered. Maybe Okay until all the rellies arrive on the freekin door steps.

        1. Who wouldn’t want to adopt a cute little *13 year old* with a full beard ?

      2. Probably all the councils have got charities willing to do the work – in Gloucestershire we have GARAS.

      3. Money. Councils may get a £20,000 per capita settlement fee from the government (us). Foster parents are paid £22,000 per year tax free.

      2. 341979+ up ticks,
        Evening Siadc,
        As far as these tory (ino) peoples are concerned it is open ended.

  46. Good morning. It is excellent to see the blasting of governments by Lord Sumption in today’s Telegraph, which I read because the new media picked it up.

    Let us blast them by all means, but let us have a clear understanding.

    “The basic norms of civilized society are giving way to panic” is Lord Sumption’s opener. In that I have to differ with him, just as I differ with his comment that those who refuse the vaccine may be selfish. Neither of these things are true based of the facts that have been available for some time. If European governments are panicking it will only be that having deliberately, and wickedly, joined Mr Global in the effort to lie their way to tyranny they are now finding that they have pulled the tail of what up to now has been a sleeping dragon.

    As we read today that in the Australian Northern Territory a number of aboriginals who refused the injectate have been incarcerated by the army in camps surrounded by electric fences we and Lord Sumption need to be under no cosy illusion about the intention driving this war against humananity, for such it is.

    https://www.facebook.com/100027360673039/posts/918027499119264/?d=n

    http://www.tarableu.com

        1. Same as Canadians and their treatment of the natives. I was appalled at their attitude to the native peoples when I lived there. Awful people, awful country. The only country I have visited that I have absolutely no desire to ever visit again. Would love to go to Australia though.

          1. I spent three weeks in Canada staying with a Canadian friend. He had First Nation in-laws. It seemed to me they had a pretty good deal; low petrol prices on the reservations and control of the Casinos 🙂

    2. Will the truth about the real motives for the PTB and the MSM taking the line they do on vaccination gene therapy ever emerge?

      Why have the PTB gone along with Big Pharma‘s insistence that Ivermectin should be banned, that Big Pharma should be shielded from law suits suits and that they should have secrecy laws in place over what is in the their Covid and what their research has revealed for the next 55 years?

      The thing that surprises me most is that so many people do not seem to be remotely cynical and do not see all this as sinister. Why do so many people go along with governments which must be able to see by now that the vaccines gene therapy policy has been a complete failure?

  47. Delighted to see Guido reporting very good GB News viewing figures.

    https://order-order.com/

    To me, GB News is a breath (or strong breeze, more like) of fresh air.

    These figures, of course, are not mentioned elsewhere in MSM.

    1. GBNews is very curate’s egg – the good bits are good – the bad bits less so.

      Some of the members of Dan Wooton’s “superstar panels” are truly horrible and Dan’s and Mark Dolan’s constant use of hyperbole is very tiresome. Benjamin Butterworth and Rebecca Reid make one press the channel changer staright awaya but Calvin Robinson is well worth listening to.

      1. I only see it by mistake. I wish Wootton could learn to look at the camera instead of three inches above it.

      2. Neil Oliver is also well worth listening to. His monologues on politics are superb, the best, they far outstrip anything else on GB News.

      3. I love the curate’s egg. A cartoon about local dialect turned into a maxim on homogeneity

  48. What on this earth is happening to this country ?
    Did this actually happen ?

    The Migration Scandal
    One morning in late October a large cruise ship flying the Panamanian flag anchors off Ramsgate.

    Customs, who have been watching her for some time as she made her way up the English Channel, send a cutter. Its crew report that the name of the ship is Windrush 2, with five thousand asylum seekers on board, all claiming asylum.

    Her captain says they are not trying to enter the country illegally as all of them, having a well-founded fear of persecution in their own countries, are claiming asylum under the 1951 UN Convention on refugees. He wants the border force to ferry them ashore, adding that similar ships are on the way.

    This method is far safer for the refugees who now can undertake the journey risk free and in comfort, while not breaking the law by failing to seek asylum in the first safe country they come to (Britain is their first safe country) and of course it is much cheaper. The only difference is the size of the transport.

    There is much huffing and puffing in the Daily Mail about our island kingdom. Various ministers appear on TV to ‘vow’ this outrage will be speedily ended.

    Meanwhile, just as they do every day, convoys of charity workers head for Ramsgate, (they will advise all their clients over 18 to claim they are under eighteen) the Home Office books all the town’s available hotel rooms and beyond, teams of immigration lawyers arrive.

    Talks go on until midnight in the Treasury about funding legal aid for the migrants as each has a right to be properly (and expensively) defended. A convoy of Border Force ships set out for the Windrush 2 to take off the migrants; on board are BBC reporters on the lookout for human interest stories to sweeten the public palette for this latest migration dish about to be forced down their throats.

    With the exception of the size of the boat this is the exact state of migration today. Windrush 2 is what Einstein called a ‘Gedanken’ experiment, a ‘thought experiment’ laying out the principles of an idea to see its consequences.

    Priti Patel proposes to stop asylum seeking growing into a scandal of Windrush 2 proportions by making it an offence for illegal migrants to enter the UK without permission.

    In future, asylum seekers will have to apply to a British embassy or consulate abroad where their cases will be assessed, and if genuine will be given papers to come to Britain.

    Lawyers will make mincemeat (and loads of money) of her proposals, claiming every one of the passengers on Windrush 2 is making an urgent claim for shelter, just as a man fleeing a gang in the streets might seek shelter in a nearby house. Time is of the essence. If you are in a country where you are being pursued by the police, waiting for the British Embassy to give you permission to come to Britain would be highly dangerous. Better to buy a passage to Calais from the gangs.

    The lawyers’ case is a tissue of lies, just as the entire history of illegal migration into Britain from the 1980’s onward is based on a huge lie. Modern asylum seeking is almost all economic, a considered financial decision taken over many months by a migrant and his family often with plans for his entire family to follow.

    Just as foreign aid is money given by the poor of one country to the rich of another, illegal asylum seekers are rich people moving from a poor country to a rich country in order to avail themselves of the pension funds and social security of the latter’s poor.

    Allowing illegal migration to go unchecked is an assault on the very idea of nationhood, a breach of our frontier, an invasion as terrible to some as the French endured on seeing German soldiers marching through their streets through lines of cowed and silent civilians. We did not ask for this.

    But those who rule us no longer care what we want, even worse, they no longer care they don’t care. They know they have the means to crush us; by jail if we speak out, by taking away our jobs, by telling our children lies about our history, by demolishing our statues and ripping up our history.

    How long are we going to tolerate this gigantic lie?

    Editorial Published 1st September 2021

    ————————————-

    2. “…by making it an offence for illegal migrants to enter the UK without permission.”

      Er, I thought it already was.

      1. Didn’t one of our past PMs namely B Liar fiddle with the laws and probable the treason laws as well I can’t believe this invasion is actually being allowed to happen.

    2. Sadly this country as we all knew it is finished. Given the chance I would happily move to Western Australia south of Perth on the coast.
      I’m sick to death of this bloody useless country and it’s scum bag rotten political classes.
      Mind you from what I’ve seen about Oz recently. Perhaps New England would be better.

        1. More than a tad fake then, but has a lot of facts behind it. I had to go into the garden and get rid of a mass of fallen leaves. Filled one bin and burnt most of them lots more to come. They always seem to be other peoples bloody leaves. There’s something pleasant about the smell of dry oak leave burning.

    4. How is that £22K broken down I wonder?

      Nursing staff: £500pw
      Medication: £100pw
      Food: £100pw
      Laundry: £10pw
      Owner’s pocket: £21,290

  50. I have been a supporter of the RNLI for many years. I am a Shoreline Member and I have a little RNLI burgee which I can fly from Mianda‘s cross trees. I don’t object to the the RNLI saving lives – that is it their job and their raison-d’être – but I do object to them acting as a ferry service.

    How about the government saying that the RNLI’s charitable status will be removed, their boats impounded and kept in port and their funds held in trust until they take the people whose lives they rescued in the English Channel back to their last country of departure – in most cases this will be France. We might even strike a deal with the French that their equivalent of the RNLI (Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer) should save the lives of those trying to escape from England to use the French renowned hospitality and social services and should then return such people to Britain if they ever come across any!

    i.e. You can rescue lives but you cannot assist with illegal immigration in any way.

    [A little problem: All sensible suggestions demand: i) a government with the testicular strength to act; ii) the will to resolve the matter in the first place.]

      2. Yes, but it has already been deleted and replaced by a summary – as you will see if you check – and what has been posted now has been amended and updated to include the reference to the French SNSM and how they could help.

        On declining powers that inevitably come with old age I think Tom Lehrer has nailed it:

        An awful debility,
        A lessened utility,
        A loss of mobility
        Is a strong possibility.
        In all probability
        I’ll lose my virility
        And you your fertility
        And desirability,
        And this liability
        Of total sterility
        Will lead to hostility
        And a sense of futility,
        So let’s act with agility
        While we still have facility,
        For we’ll soon reach senility
        And lose the ability.

  51. Must dash. The MR’s Loopy Friend has arrived for lunch. Have to be on best behaviour. Back son.

  52. O/T I treated myself to an ice cream maker. Made a peanut butter one which is nice and also a salted caramel and honeycomb which is excellent.

    I thought i would make a cherry sorbet next. Cherries from the tree in my garden.

    Just looking through the recipe and i came across a technique i had never heard of before.

    Now most people know how to test an egg for freshness is to put it in water. If it floats it is going stale. Still perfectly edible but no good for sponges or souffles.

    However this floaty egg test is to test the strength of your sugar syrup for a perfect sorbet.

    If the egg sinks completely you need to add more sugar syrup to the fruit puree.

    Learn something new every day.

    1. Gérard, A prize-winning baker, who was an excellent cook and ran his own restaurant in a local village became a vey good friend of ours and we regularly took our students to dine in his restaurant. He and his wife regularly came to dine with us and we regularly dined at his home.

      Very sadly he died two years ago and Caroline gave a moving address at his funeral. His widow gave us a lot of his cooking bits and pieces including a small professional ice cream making machine and her results have been delicious.

      1. Very sad to lose old friends. At least you have the memories. Every time you eat ice cream i’m sure you think of him.

        1. We do and his widow and step-son still give us produce from their garden. A tremendously kind and generous family.

        2. We do and his widow and step-son still give us produce from their garden. A tremendously kind and generous family.

    2. There should be a specific gravity gadget available for that. (for once I won’t check with goggle)

      1. Yes. I did think about that but not everyone will have one. As the mixture is at room temperature the egg is still usable and most people have eggs at home.

    3. You ought to set up, “Pip’s Tips” – and send the to Woman’s Own. You’d get 5/- for each one printed… Enough to buy you two eggs.

  53. The Brits scrapping gendered awards isn’t woke nonsense – it’s common sense. 23 November 2021.

    The Brit Awards has quietly done away with Male and Female categories, replacing them with Artist of the Year. The most surprising thing about this move is how much sense it makes. This is not (as some might instinctively respond) political correctness gone mad. It is actually a true reflection of how we listen to music. For who amongst us would declare “I really fancy going to a concert by a Female”? Or, indeed, “I need to listen to a Male!”

    Music is not gendered. It is made by musicians, and audiences respond to the artist, be they male, or female, or as androgynously alien as Ziggy Stardust descending from the planet Mars.

    This is not about so called wokeness, or endorsing any position in gender politics. It is common sense. Why should Adele be judged in a different category to Ed Sheeran, when they are both commercial pop singer-songwriters? There are many ways you can compare and contrast the talents of PJ Harvey and Stormzy, but neither would thank you for making it about their gender.

    It’s commonsense! Of course it is and so is everything else. If we are all equal we must disgender everything. No more Men and Women’s tennis. No bisexual football. All must be free of artificial distinction. If this means that Men win pretty well everything going then that is only fair!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/brits-scrapping-gendered-awards-isnt-woke-nonsense-common/

    1. What about opera then? Or solos? There’s also the fact that a woman can strip off and sell more. The same is not true of men.

  54. Afternoon All

    #CovidClownWorld

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    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/99aa2fafa886265e0593bbe7e30459f39a9950558a0c5f0236ec5560cf283bf9.jpg

    https://twitter.com/Dared_20/status/1462719925215281155?s=20

    https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1462910439143219205

    1. Apart from some handed out at the local hospital, most of my mask collection comes from the supermarket car park. Washed in machine, dried in sunlight and/or the tumble dryer.

    1. Rik, Before opening any of your jokes categorised as ‘risky’, we know the tone they will take.
      Why not cut to the chase and just label them sexist instead??

    1. There was another article in the Mail recently about a vial of smallpox being found in the freezer in a university laboratory, just to add to the drip, drip of smallpox related information.

      1. We are being primed. They are so obvious. And Gates even tells us of his/their plans. They have no shame; they must be laughing their socks off at us.

  59. Old Father William has already, quite rightly, accused me of senility for posting the same thing more than once.

    However I agree entirely with him about the uselessness of many current degree courses – after all many professional people used to enter the professions – such as accountancy and the law – by serving articles and taking their exams while they were paid to do a job. Indeed, Bill had a successful career as a solicitor without having gone to university.

    However I think that the way in which young people are exploited and urged and misled into taking on unrepayable and often futile debt is an outrage and I have often commented on this on this forum.

    Once again this topic has been raised in the DT

    Why going to university no longer justifies racking up student debt
    A degree no longer means earning more over your lifetime once interest is accounted for

    By Rachel Mortimer : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/student-money/going-university-no-longer-justifies-racking-student-debt/

    A BTL Comment:

    Students should pay of the students loans in full.

    BUT

    Student Loans should be interest free as they are in many more civilised countries than Britain.

    Students should start to pay off their student loans as soon as they start working – but their repayments should be deducted from their taxable income.

    Employers should be given tax relief to help them pay off their employees’ student loans for them.

    It is completely unfair that students should be lumbered with unrepayable loans at usurious interest rates (over ten times the BoE’s base rate) and be in debt with an ever increasing outstanding balance until they are in their 50s when the loan is then removed. Do we really want all our graduates to spend virtually the whole of their working lives in debt?

    1. Even with facts freely available about the costs and benefits, still young people insist on going to university. Aren’t successive generations supposed to be smarter than their parents’?

      2. I think my children are smarter than I am – and so do they!

        Whether they are smarter than their grandparents and great grandparents I am not so sure.

    2. If we’re going to charge interest then front load it at a fixed rate. Stick it at 3%. That’s a healthy 3% profit every single year for the student loans company and a much less offensive debt for the student.

      That said, the problem students face today is employers offer a role but want many years of experience.

      1. employers offer a role but want many years of experience.

        It was the same when I was 21, some 40 years ago.

        1. #Me Too. We called it Catch 22; you can’t get a job unless you’ve got experience, but you can’t get experience unless you’ve got a job.

    3. Better still, abolish fees but go back to a total of 10% of young people going to university. Reintroduce the polytechnics and turn vocational courses back into diplomas etc with two days per week work experience incorporated.

      1. Only 5% went to university when I did in 1966.

        I got the minimum maintenance grant of £50 pa because my parents’ incomes were means-tested and we had to pay tuition fees of £82 pa. My father was very generous and topped up the £50 to the same level as a student on the maximum grant would have received. On top of this I worked during the summer vacs and was a roustabout on an oil rig in the North Sea, a gizzard skinner on a turkey farm, a market research interviewer, a manual labourer on a building site and an occasional singer/guitar player in a restaurant in exchange for a meal and a fiver.. I was never poor as a student and I managed to buy and run an 8 year old MGA in my second year with money I had earned. I left university and started work free of debt and have never picked up the dole or other such handouts. However I got the full maintenance grant when I did my PGCE at Southampton University because I was a mature student by then.

        Many of my friends at UEA did not come from families that were particularly well off – but nobody in my circle was hard up and nobody got seriously in debt. We were extremely lucky and we had tremendous fun.

  62. 341079+ up ticks,

    Looks like the stand by call from johnson has gone out then, so he recognises he is in trouble and is triggering the marching season with putting general treacherous on high alert.

    breitbart,
    Brexit leader Nigel Farage has threatened to return to frontline politics if Prime Minister Boris Johnson fails to tackle the illegal boat migrant crisis.

    Earlier this year, Nigel Farage stepped aside from front-line politics after the United Kingdom successfully left the European Union. Mr Farage then took up a role as a prime time news anchor on the upstart, self-proclaimed ‘anti-woke’ GB News channel.

    “Stepped aside” regarding nige read as leaving at a trot to get his life back.

  63. Boris was amazed when his audience of business leaders were ignorant about the worldwide take up of the concept of Peppa Pig. He used Peppa Pig World as an exemplar of a perfect society and a model to which he subscribed.

    Here’s a Peppa Pig World virtual tour for all of those of us who are pig ignorant of a perfect global society:

    https://youtu.be/Zk1skg0a8nM

    Do note however that, as pig breeders know, pigs spend a lifetime of being jabbed with all sorts of vaccinations just to keep the herd healthy.

  64. Just been out to the car Without any wind, it feels quite mild out. Was sunny until a short while ago.

      1. Don’t know.

        But according to the Tavistock Centre, little girls who don’t like pink or ribbons they must be transgender.

        Perhaps they use these cartoons to filter out their victims.

      4. Well, unusually, in this day and age, it is about TWO-PARENT FAMILIES and applauds responsible parenting and good manners….

        1. It is banned in Palestinian territory. I assume it is the same in most Muslim countries. Which is not to suggest that Palestinian occupied Israel is a country.

  68. Why England players won’t take the knee against Qatar. Spiked 23 November 2021.

    Gone is Southgate’s old bombast on why it is essential that his players stand up – or kneel down – against injustice. ‘We feel more than ever that we are determined to take the knee throughout this tournament’, he said in June, frankly and directly, after some England fans had the temerity to boo the knee-taking during a Euro 2020 warm-up game. And yet now Mr Conscience of the Nation, the manager who got Guardianistas all hot under the collar with his enthusiastic endorsement of woke politics on the pitch, has gone curiously cagey. It’s ‘hugely complex’, he says of Qatar. And there are ‘cultural differences’ between Britain and Qatar to factor in, too. What’s more, ‘[We], as a nation, do a lot of business with Qatar… I was reading about Rolls Royce [working with Qatar], 10,000 new jobs’, Southgate says. Never mind gay rights, we need cars for rich people!

    Two-faced toad!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/23/why-england-players-wont-take-the-knee-against-qatar/

      1. Afternoon BB! He’ll fit into the House of Lords as to the manor born! Arrogant, Self-righteous, Self-important blowhard!

    2. He had the temerity to call anyone who disagreed with England getting down on one knee ‘dinosaurs’. Arsehole.

    1. Lovely! I have spent a lot of time in Ayr and parts of it are beautiful.
      Edit- should have said Ayrshire.

      1. The golfers on Prestwick St Nicholas GC frown at the idea of music played on the course.

      2. Yes, it does. The only editing I did on the shot was to crop it a little to emphasis the subject matter.

    6. We lived in Ayrshire for a year 1971/1972… loved it , in the countryside .. was quite tough for many people , lived quite near a mining village , duriing the miners strke .

      Moh’s anti submarine Sea King helicopter squadron had moved up to Scotland , based at Prestwick .
      We rented a house near Hollybush ..

      Loved every minute of life amongst some of the most welcoming of people .

      1. It is nice around Ayrshire and Hollybush is a lovely spot. I left the area in 1977 when I joined the RAF, only returning in 2008. I really enjoy playing golf on Prestwick St Nicholas GC, the views are fantastic and differ from day to day depending on the weather…it gives me something nice to look out upon between diving in to the gorse chasing itinerant golf balls.

        Back in 1971 my family lived in Crosshill, near Maybole, it was like living in an adventure playground.

      1. The recent one of BJ and Micron carving up the world appeared to be after Gilray – that’s why it was clever.

    1. We have -6C of climate change here at the minute.
      Still,the Snow makes it look all Christmassy.

      1. Yep,the old thermals are at the ready.
        I won’t bother until we hit about -12C…a few weeks away yet.

  73. Well if we ever get free of Lockdowns, Turkey might become an affordable if not desperately exciting tourist destination in the near future. The Turkish Lira has lost 40% of its value against the $ this year and

    “Doing its best Forex training manual impression, the central bank said that exchange rates are determined by supply and demand conditions “according to free market dynamics” which unfortunately means that Turkey is proper f**ked.”

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    1. Ah, made my weekly sourdough loaf yesterday. Is it a reflection of my character, sometimes perhaps.

  75. MR’s Loopy Friend just left. She has 15 30 miles to drive, in the dark on (to her) the wrong side of the road. So nothing can possibly go wrong….

    Still, it was nice to see her. It is 20 months since the last time. The MR has known her for 45 years. And she brought two 10 litre BIBs of wine – that’s 27 bottles worth – should last till the weekend. One of them was a present from the oldest chum we knew in Laure who just, by chance, happened to be serving at the Cave Coopé when LF turned up.

    She had her dog with her – which stayed in the car. Pickles went ballistic! I have never seen his tail so enormous! Gus just shrugged and said, “It’s a dog…so what?”

    1. I hadn’t thought about cats signalling with their tails , but I guess they must do … Do they have hackles as well as dogs do when they are angry/ stressed/ curious etc.

      2. Met a cat coming home from school yesterday with its tail raised high in greeting. I explained to our youngest granddaughter that the cat was signalling a high five and to prove it I counted all four paws and its tail!

        1. Tell your GD that in this family of cat lovers, that sign is called “TRG” – “tail raised in greeting”. I think it is a lovely sight – and always makes me so soft!

          2. And sometimes they skitter sideways all fluffed up. All part of making themselves look frightening, when really they are scared.

    2. Did she bring her dog from France, Bill? Is it easier to get a dog into the country than a person?

    1. When I become boss of the world, anyone (and I mean anyone) wearing a hood or mask in a public place will be shot in the face with no warning given.

      Mankind: the choice is yours. Either make me boss of the world or sit and watch the acceleration of the demise of the species.

      1. Welcome to the Socialist Democratic Republic of America.

        Any city run or influenced by the likes of Bernie Sanders or Bill de Blaisio or other Democrats becomes a communist utopia where people lie, cheat, steal, murder and fuck over their neighbours. Businesses evaporate and the only thing left is shitholes.

        Evening Lottie…. :@)

        1. Has Mr Biden or Kamel Toe made any comment (except to praise the ingenuity of the happy shoppers)?

          1. I assume congratulations will be in order on how well they organised their shopping expedition. Biden even may ruefully say how sorry his own withdrawal from Afgaff was cocked up because they only had people who weren’t as experienced in confounding human nature.

    1. Who would be crazy enough to want to buy it? Certainly not the Americans despite all those allegations.

      1. I’m a great admirer of Kate Hoey – if she had been my MP [instead of the current Boris fan] I would have been happy to vote for her!

    3. He’ll be gone fairly soon, he’s out of his depth and filling the country up with undesirables. But why, what is the true motive ?
      I seriously can not understand why these political nonces have not been arrested for committing treason against the British Isles. This invasion is illegal.

        1. Driving back from a family wedding in Holland. I did that in Belgium a few years ago, black pumps at the garage !! ?? I just assumed it was diesel. Fortunately only a top up. Just made it back to Dover, were towed to a hotel we had to stay over night and and the AA came to drain it and put some diesel in. If it had been the other way round…………… disaster. No harm done .

  79. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/169256a63ed0552b0cabcda7e936aae1ad123513490f5609b3f33829baddd93a.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8fc2708d26b9b7c875ae8feb71cfc45ff8e464d5ad89ae579dc9e324ffa72e79.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/98ea8f897b3996e08697b4f887be0fb021c39e62959d5720d8d43f4976a15ec1.jpg Some of you may remember me asking, just last week, about where I may possibly find an A6 (155mm x 110mm) hardback notebook (manuscript book) with narrow feint-ruled (7mm) lines instead of the normal feint-ruled (8mm). [Feint-ruled books used to be used as school exercise books for writing whilst narrow feint-ruled were used for maths.]

    I can now report that I have been successful in my quest. A stationer’s outlet in Ystad stock the precise books that I sought (in various sizes) as shown in my photographs. They are of high quality, made in Poland, and are the tip-top items that I desired. I am now a happy man.

    1. I can’t say i remember.

      Is this something that Northerners obsess about generally or is it just you?

      My mind, like your book is a blank. :@)

      1. Ah, but I DO have a book in publication. Oberstleutnant and, I think, Sue MacFarlane may help.

        If you’re still stumped, check “Not a Bad Life” on kindle @ USD5.00.

        1. I already bought Bill Thomas’s books for a penny. Not sure i want to venture more than that……………..

      1. As a meticulous record keeper, in many areas of my life, I prefer to note down many things of importance to me in decent-quality notebooks rather than on the rubbish quality stationery sold by most shops. Nothing more exciting than that, Margaret.

        1. George dear.
          I was almost correct … especially as I assumed you might require the book to record detailed sightings of birds , and where and when .

          Of course , I suspect your notes will be museum pieces in years to come x

          1. Or kindling, me duck.🤣

            Funnily enough the book I record my bird records in is nearly 40 years old but still going well, even though I don’t make many entries in it these days. xx

  80. My local Fish merchant came through and now for supper tonight accompanied by a bottle of Cremant I have Oysters Rockerfeller.

    Take cover ladies !

    1. Whisper it quietly but Sainsburys will be knocking 25% off the price 6 bottles of Cremant from tomorrow….

          1. That is so sad.

            Would you like us to set up a gofundme page or just damn well leave your sparkling wine on your back doorstep? It is Winter after all !…… :@)

          2. It would have left an embarrassing gap, And my ‘umble retirement bungalow has no room for it. Generally, I don’t do sparkling wine, so no harm done… The occasional local bottle of Greyfriars fizz can go in the fridge freezer…

          4. I’ve had their pink fizz, but I held my nose as I drank it. Hopefully that gets me off the hook…

            Seriously though, I live close to one vineyard, the Hogs Back Brewery, Hampton Estate which sells local meat (mainly beef), and there are local sources of pork and lamb. I can’t afford any of them on a regular basis, but it’s good to know they’re there…

        1. It’s practically champers but just a couple of dozen miles south of Champagne. In the caves from which the stone for Paris was hewn a little south of Auxerre there are over 1 million bottles of Cremant fermenting as I type….

        1. Bugger, wish I’d known about the 25% off before going to Asda. Grrr. Hmm, plans another trip to shops.

          2. You have a crest too?

            I would have hoped you would be far more condescending, if only to put me in my plaice.

          3. Apparently it’s only for the male heirs of my ancestor. No female equality in those days. But my 3rd cousin in NZ gave me a small copy of it when we first met in Cairo, and more recently the two ladies I met last year, who are also my 3rd cousins – the one in whose house we met has a large version on her wall which she inherited.

          8. The Gold Collar, signifies a messenger and effectively says, “Don’t mess with more or you will invoke the wrath of my Monarch.”

            Your Scallop, Richard and upped by a golden collar.

          16. I had a scallop dish recently at the Falcon-Castle Ashby. I have never tasted anything like it.

      1. He was probably off his rocker because of the zinc content.

        The same dish can be made with those big green lip mussels.

    1. Must forward that to my men-in-dresses-loving cousin ….he lives in an infiltrated area so will appreciate the humour.

    1. Why is it it so stilted – pause – talk – pause?

      Makes it difficult to forward.

      Do you have a better link, Rik?

    2. What he describes is exactly what has happened to me. I haven’t been well since about 3-4 weeks after I had the first f8cking jab in February. It eased off, then I had a second it came back and then the the flu jab set it off again ………..so who can l kill ? Because that’s how I feel.
      I known I might be lucky and still alive. All this sh1t has completely ruined my life.
      And big deal, 9 months after it started the cardiologist is going to phone me on the 22nd of next month……………..
      One of my BiLs (ten years older) is in the same, but frankly a far worse situation, but trusting he and my trusting sister, don’t believe the jabs have caused it.

      1. There is no way I am having anymore jabs. I have about a dozen bright red marks on my right arm; they don’t itch or flake but they are ugly. They appear and fade and then more come up. There are now two on my left arm. I had the jabs in my right arm plus I have a swollen right foot and ankle. What the hell else can have caused it? I am small, don’t weigh much and eat healthy.
        Talking of eating….roast chicken with all the goodies on Thursday for Thanksgiving. Yummo.

          2. I dun tol’ you about it a coupla weeks ago. My left ankle was swollen too for about a week. I was really worried about that.
            I thought at first that the blotches on my arm were some kind of age spot, but they are too reddish & I have none on my hands.

          3. Sorry, brain fail. Yes, you did mention it. Hope it all clears up before we need to don our summer bathing wear ;-))

        2. I’ve never had a local reaction to any form of injection, but I have had a catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation just over 5 years ago and these injections have set it all off again. It has come to light that after the covid injections Myocarditis even strokes has been rife in people with similar problems, but these ‘medical people’ must have known about it, but it seems because of pushing the agenda, they simply didn’t care. The trouble is because the heart beat and pulse are so irregular it allows fluid to build up in your lungs and you have to take extra medication like Furosemide to get rid of it. And because you have to pee a lot, you can’t leave home for about 6 hours.
          Enjoy your celebrations LOTL 🥰

        3. Lotl, a friend of mine had the AZ potion and after the first jab fatigue set in and that included falling asleep during the day, something never before experienced. Second jab reinstated the fatigue and this time it has not faded away. All this was followed by inflammation/swelling of the left big toe and then the whole foot started to swell and I had to take her to A&E: diagnosed and treated as gout.
          Then the red blotches appeared on her arms and then the back of her left hand. The latter, like the earlier appearances faded, but have, unlike the earlier appearances, left marks. Strangely, a few weeks ago when she was suffering from the latest version of “covid”, and very ill with the infection, she rang 111 for advice and was asked if she had noticed any red blotches on her arms etc. What do they know that they are not revealing to the public?

      2. I had two AZ jabs. Days after the first one, I acquired bursitis of the left elbow. It has gone away. Days after the second jab, my right little finger became completely numb. I couldn’t play the organ / any keyboard instrument for two or three months. The Ulnar nerve was thickened. The surgeon I eventually saw couldn’t rule out vaccine damage. I now have some feeling, and it’s less of a issue. I can play the organ again.

        I won’t be having a booster.

        1. I’m pleased your getting back to normal Geoff.
          I’m just off to see my sister and BiL they have a completely opposite opinion on all of this. At 86 he was on deaths door a couple of months ago. And because his heart wasn’t functioning in the correct manner, he was carrying and excess of fluid in his lungs nearly 3 litres.
          I have to take a 40 mg Furosemide once a week to rid me of the excess.
          When I went to A&E back in August the cardiologist agreed then my problem had been caused by the Injections.
          I wonder how many life’s might have been saved if the vulnerable had not been jabbed.

      1. Priti Patel is taking money from some Indian people trafficking scam and Soros for sure. There can be no other explanation.

        Same with Johnson and Hancock and the Slaphead Slammer re Covid.

  85. Last night the MR and I watched a prog showing Victorian films colourised (as they say). Quite amusing – and, occasionally, interesting.

    HOWEVER, the talking heads (among them two bames) managed to bring in “slavery”, “imperialism”, “oppressed blacks” – so, in the end, we muted the TV and just watched the pix!

    1. Sensible approach of turning down sound didn’t occur to me, so simply turned it off after about 5 minutes!

  86. That’s me for today. Nice and sunny – though chilly. Good to see LF. How the years pass by so bloody fast.

    I hope you all have a wonderful evening writing to your MP begging him/her/it/they to depose BPAPM.

    A demain.

    1. How long before we will get sent to ‘re-education’ camps for refusing to wear such a thing? Glad I’m on my way out – 15 years tops with my family and medical history. But what a sinister future for our adult offspring and grandchildren.

      1. I already knew we were all sinners but now we are all being treated as potential criminals whilst the real criminals are free to run amok.

          4. You might if you were a Lib Dem (one of the youngsters out delivering leaflets the other day wore day-glo orange trainers; I saw the trainers before I saw him!).

    1. I asked why the School Board has a diversity committee that censors the students book club agenda. No answer.

      No surprise, Toronto is the woke lefty city that repeatedly elects the idiot and his buddies.

    2. Canada, a member of the Commonwealth and they publish in French?

      Anyway, what is wrong with Islamophobia? Shouldn’t we ALL be aware of what this bunch of jihadis are about? The conversion of the west to a Caliphate.

      You bet your bippy I’m afraid of that.

      Up yours, Allah and your snackbar, I’m having none of it it.

    1. The only time my Maine Coon cat fell in the above ground pool was when the new puppy, Fred, pushed him in. You have never seen such an angry cat in your life.

  90. Chips with everything – mind blowing investment!

    “South Korean tech giant, Samsung Electronics Co., is doubling down in Texas with another facility, about 30 miles from its manufacturing hub in Austin. The new Taylor facility will cost a whopping $17 billion and create 1,800 jobs. Chip production wouldn’t start until the second half of 2024.

    1. What is the point of Conservative MPs ‘abstaining’ on a vote of this consequence? Either they are there to represent us or they shouldn’t be there at all.

      A pox on all their houses.

      1. What little credibility Boris had left has long gone. His behaviour yesterday was a complete embarrassment to this country.

        1. It certainly was. Either he is feeling the net closing in, he realises things are starting to crumble and a) he is setting out his stall in advance for a plea of insanity at ‘Nuremburg 2’ or b) it was a distraction from the Health and Social Care Act or c) his handlers want rid of him because we are not as in lockstep with the rest of the world as they would like. Gove or Hunt would be a nightmare.

    2. Perhaps an eager No 10 teenager arranged all of Boris’s ‘Right Notes’ in the ‘Wrong Order’ …?

  93. Evening, all. Drizzly, damp and a lazy wind (doesn’t bother to go round, it goes through) here.

  95. So, no offence and all that, but couldn’t the 3 finalists in the Great British Bake Off be a little more, er, British?

    1. I refuse to get sucked into any of these TV so-called feel-good programmes, because I know they won’t miss the opportunity to rub the Right’s nose in it.

    2. Well, honey chile, you just go and wash your mouf out. You must know by now that white, indigenous Brits are not permitted on TV.

      1. Honey chile?! What way is that to talk to your prez?

        ‘Morning A, miserable weather here.

  96. Sod it.
    That’s me off for a bath & bed.

    Heading down to Basingstoke tomorrow for a couple of nights B&B whilst I visit daughter.

      1. Hoteling it! Too bloody good for Cover Camping in the van!!
        Just booked into the Red Lion in Basingstoke for a couple of nights.

          5. Point taken, Phil. But Basingstoke has one redeeming feature. The road out…

            Basingstoke’s only redeeming feature is that it has a rail connection. So it could be a place to meet, despite everything…

          7. Hotel California? I like Chic Hester. DIanne was planning to move there on retirement, and did all the research, but she ended up in Topsham. Which was a good decision, on several levels.

          9. I agree. Where she is, on the edge of Topsham (a lovely town, but if you live in the centre of it, you can forget parking) is mid way between Topsham and Exeter, Both have their attractions, and in retirement are something of a playground…

          11. I suppose you know why there are so many bloody roundabouts in MK ?……………………… the bloody builders kept putting their tea mugs on the layout drawings.

          14. You know where I am Bob i owe you one i’ll have my wallet next time 😎 Have a good week.

      1. Are they even looking? Shoplifting is now just a low level crime, the police may not even issue a crime number any more.

        1. And I read today about the dreadful rape gangs now in the Grimsby area where young girls have bee gang raped by filthy disgusting middle aged men. But not much is done about that, the evidence collected on the males mobile phones seems to have not been taken into account. It seems the police and judiciary have made some sort of pact not to upset the local communities.

    2. In times of madness telling the truth is a revolutionary act. The Biden administration is idiotic.

          2. Oh is that when it is? Christmas ads start full time on Friday then!

            We had our Thanksgiving weeks ago.

          1. I saw an advert recently for a ‘Black Friday’ sale that featured a black woman. Oops.

  98. Good night all.

    Slow-baked lamb hock, lotsa garlic, chopped tomatoes, soffritto, potatoes, herbs. lamb stock, Aussie Cabernet/Shiraz.
    A custard tart.

    1. I would have spent much more time talking about the custard tart – what spices? Baked or [the one where you torch the top]?

    2. How tasty , and a well balanced meal .

      I had a baked potato , contents of a tin of sardines in tomato sauce on top and a squirt of lemon. An individual strawberry trifle .

      Moh shared a strong curry with son , using the remnants of the roast chicken we had on Sunday ..

      1. I used to love tinned fish: sardines, herrings, pilchards in oil or tomato sauce. The last tin of sardines which I opened 3 weeks ago were a real disappointment & Missy had most of them

    1. I don’t think i will be able to sleep tonight.

      The people who were supposed to be loving, protecting, caring for the poor little mite were his torturers but he had no ability to realise it

      1. I think you should, because your sense of empathy and feelings of horror prove you’re a better person than these wretched creatures.

        1. Do you know Wibblers, as I said the other night I cannot countenance guns but….when it comes to the abuse of children and animals, I would shoot the bastards. If I cannot countenance guns, even less can I or will I countenance abuse, ill treatment, cruelty of any kind, towards children or animals.

    2. I would suggest there is a need for a license to procreate but nowadays the test would probably demand some very woke standards be met.

    3. Oh, that is heart-wrenching. Quite apart from the cruelty,the self-awareness of a little boy who cries that nobody loves him has made me cry.

    4. I can’t think of anything worse for anyone or anything than not to be loved. It is devastating, and what that lad needed was not “care” (whatever that means) or “safeguarding” in a sort of institutional police limbo, but love.

      We have all lost sight what love is, and it’s long overdue that there was more of it around.

        1. Biden is so dangerous that a way would be found that he would dictate policy from his lead lined coffin.

          Obama is of necessity the employed puppet master pulling Biden’s strings. Obama, an otherwise insignificant wretch born in Kenya, specifically Mombasa, and the original anti-American zealot, appointed by Soros, the Davos bankers and Bezos.

  105. Surely the game is up with global governments pushing gene therapy jabs, under the pretence that these shots are ‘vaccines’ and good for us.

    The reverse is the truth. These jabs and boosters are highly injurious to Health. All of the evidence is out there. Nobody but a fool would submit to these harmful jabs, other than those unable from ignorance and fear to see the actual purpose and the reality.

    We have been played by a relatively small cohort of evil globalist billionaires. These billionaire bastards need to be taken down and their ill gotten gains confiscated and put to better use for the good of all.

    1. Unfortunately the game is not up – the media is not reporting the negative aspects, and they are twisting headlines to support the strongest measures.
      I’ve just glanced over the German media again.
      Many people in that country have seen the video by the German doctor of someone’s blood after getting the Moderna jab, where the blood cells are stuck together in long chains, and there are small metallic looking particles and what looks like a fibre.
      So nobody wants the Moderna jabs.
      The government has a large number of Moderna jabs that they bought last year, which will run out soon, so they are desparate to get them into arms.
      People are turning up for appointments, being told it’s Moderna, and going home without taking the jabs according to gossip. Some doctors have said they refuse to offer these jabs because nobody wants them.
      But nobody will mention the video in public, or the reason why people don’t want these jabs! Absolute conspiracy of media silence on the subject.

      Looking at the headlines this morning, they are along the lines of “New Covid case numbers make mandatory vaccination necessary” “Regions threatened by new lockdown”
      In other words, the far more extremist and irreversible step of vaccinating those who don’t want the shots is presented in a more positive light than the lockdowns, which although unpleasant, are temporary.

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