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Good morrow, Gentlefolk. today’s story
WATER IN THE CARBURETTOR“In the pool”.
WIFE: “There is trouble with the car. It has water in the carburettor.”
HUSBAND: “Water in the carburettor? That’s ridiculous ”
WIFE: “I tell you the car has water in the carburettor.”
HUSBAND: “You don’t even know what a carburettor is. I’ll check it out. Where’s the car?
WIFE:
Another good one, Sir Jasper. (Good morning, btw.)
Good Morning All. +0.3C Dry clear with full sun to come.
0°c, mostly clear here in The Borders.
Good morning, Johnny.
Good morning all!
Still dark outside, a tad below -2°C with another dry start and next to no wind.
Good morning, BoB.
Good morning, chums.
Morning everyone.
Good morning, Minty. “Exciting” day today – I’m off to the shops later to buy some Haggis ready for Burns Night on the 25th. Yesterday it was a trip to the cinema to watch PRISCILLA, a rather disappointing film which told me very little about Elvis’ wife, but much more about the vile behaviour of her husband, most of which was not pleasant to see. Called me old-fashioned if you like, but I don’t like men who ill-treat their women. I once walked out of a Disney film called WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT which showed Ike Turner abusing his wife Tina.
Possibly a one sided film? A lady whose ex-husband died aged 42, whose daughter died aged 54 and whose grandchild Benjamin died by suicide. Yes, she married too young.
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Good morning, all A very fine sunrise.
Sunrise? Here on the Costa Clyde, it’s 1°C, clear with no wind and dawn isn’t until 08.42.
Migrant cannabis farmer allowed to stay in UK after claiming he forgot how to speak native language
Ethnic Albanian man’s successful appeal against deportation to Serbia revives calls for reform of the asylum system and human rights laws
Charles Hymas, HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
8 January 2024 • 6:10pm
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Charlie Farnes-Barnes
13 HRS AGO
Who cares whether or not he can speak the language of his homeland? This shouldn’t be a factor in whether or not to deport him. It’s not the UK’s problem – let him learn it when he goes back to Serbia, EDITED
Jules Moules
7 HRS AGO
Reply to Charlie Farnes-Barnes – view message
Yup. He learned English, so he can ‘re-learn’ Albanian. These tribunals are beyond broken.
Aberrant Apostrophe
13 HRS AGO
Using the judge’s logic, perhaps we should deport every immigrant who can’t speak English back to their home country?
Why would an Albanian be deported to Serbia? Unless of course they meant Kosovo.
Ethnic Albanian, but born in Serbia?
As you know Bob, I’m an ethnic Northumbrian but born in Nottingham. Same difference. {:^))
371570+ up ticks,
Morning C1,
Far cheaper to teach him the basics, then tell him to FO, that’s universal.
Strange. We have friends who have lived in England for 50 years for whom English is their second language.
They can drop back into their first language without hesitation.
Good morning, all. Still quite dark but as far as I can tell, in N Essex we have broken cloud and it’s cold.
Biden’s tenure in the White House lurches from one disaster to another. At a time of international tension and crises the USA has deployed carrier task forces in the Middle East theatre: in addition the South China Sea/Taiwan situation is looking uncomfortable and what happens in Biden’s fiefdom?
What happens is that the Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, enters hospital for an elective procedure, ends up in ICU, is out of circulation for 4 to 5 days and the White House wasn’t informed. To compound the error, Austin’s deputy is on holiday in Puerto Rico and there is confusion as to whether or not she was fully briefed on the ongoing state of affairs.
Literally the defence apparatus of the USA was compromised: theatre commanders were without the ability to gain authorisation for action and were on their own. Biden and Austin are the two people who have to be in communication when the launch codes are brought into play. As one concerned person commented, ” Was the red phone in the ICU?”
When you have an obviously sick man as POTUS, especially one who gets lost when he’s on stage, then you have a problem, not just any problem, a MAJOR problem.
War Room – USA Defence Secretary Hors de Combat, Who Knew?
‘Sod this for a game of soldiers!’
I’m off to the sun!! @LHR heading east……. Play nicely whilst I’m away?
Bloody hell, it’s cold out there!
Slowly getting lighter and whilst it’s calm air, the broken cumulus clouds are moving pretty quickly more or less East to West.
A good BTL off the Letters Page:-
‘…how badly the Country has been run for 15 years…’, I would extend the decline to at least 25 years, with an option on 40!
The same high tax, big state, Left wing policies for 25 miserable years. 13 years ago we could have had genuinely radical change. Covid could have been the catalyst for turbo charging the economy, to say ‘Look, we’re economically vulnerable. We need to do more to bring food, fuel and energy locally. This isn’t parochialism, it’s simply pragmatism.’
The Conservative Party has become the Ratner Party and no amount of rebranding can change that.
All centre and right of centre Conservative MPs must resign from the party NOW leaving the despised greeniacs and lefties behind. Skidmore has shown the way for the left of centre MPs – they too should stand down and find refuge in their natural homes with either the Lib Dems or the Greens. The Conservative Party must be wiped out – root and branch.
Reform is far from perfect – no political party will ever be perfect! But at the moment it is the only option for those whose views are traditionally Conservative.
The envirovandals – those who wish to destroy the UK economy – must have no further influence on political decisions.
I wouldn’t mind if all the green lark were actually about the environment. It isn’t though. So little that could be changed – recycling, re-use, leaving the WEEE to stop ocean pollution – the list goes on. It is simply a tax scam. A way to keep throwing spanners into the wheels of the economy for ideological enforcement, to push socialism.
Why? Who knows. Continuing to hammer the public solely with high prices to force down demand is moronic.
The EU is designed specifically to ensure democracy cannot affect it. Countries can leave the hated thing, but as we have seen their civil service and politicians – all inn the trough – fight public will to ensure nothing ever changes.
They like the power without responsibility lark. They like high tax, big state. It hides that they’re not actually there for anything, that the millions of state employees are just not needed. I’m having this argument with a customer as we move them over to a new project management system. They keep wanting to hire people to ‘manage’ the transition. None seem aware that they should educate themselves, do more work and that better use of the tools mitigates the need for headcount.
381570+up ticks,
This puzzles me, could we be at fault ? it had better be checked out soonest before any postal issues on account, we have more potential mental cases arriving daily and more victims on the waiting list thereby creating yet another backlog.
He, I believe, has every right surely to claim as in, he has first bite at medication, education, accommodation & incarceration,
for conformation ask one kneel starmer, and the system has let him down.
As for the postal issue any found guilty must surely be up for at least a thirty year stretch on account the great train robbers got thirty for robbing the Queens (RIP) mail, thereby it should surely follow that the guilty should receive the same for robbing the Kings subjects of integrity and in some cases, life.
Could you post the article you are responding to, Ogga?
381570 + up ticks,
Morning W,
Got distracted, & forgot most important link,
Dt,
Migrant who killed girlfriend while awaiting deportation was suffering ‘major mental illness’
Maher Maaroufe, who slashed his girlfriend’s throat, was diagnosed with a schizo-affective disorder, court hears
A stranger in my own land
Thankfully I left London before it added ‘istan’
Culture WarsA stranger in my own land
Zuby-
There is a strange phenomenon in major cities, where most people overwhelmingly support politicians whose policies
create the very problems that they complain about.
Yet, they never seem to draw the connection…
It’s so bizarre.
This is because people are fick. Sorry, it’s as simple as that. Some woman the other day was banging on about how her daughter couldn’t find a house. Mrs Polanksi. Who wanted to bring her husband over from Denmark. She said houses were too expensive and that there were no council ones. Ignoring that when government buys property with tax payers money it distorts the market by subsidising one side while penalising another.
People just want something for nothing, and someone else to pay without having to ever face that someone else they’re robbing.
Your last line sums up a lot of the social mess in which we find ourselves
I don’t understand ‘Zuby’ but the rest I whole-heartedly agree with.
Zuby was the name of the originator.
I didn’t want to leave her name out as I thought it was a remarkably good comment.
Reposted from late last night
Tuesday 9th January, 2024
Thayaric
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and many optimistic returns of the day
With best wishes,
Caroline and Rastus
We haven’t seen you here for some time. We do hope that everything is working itself out well for you.
Many happy returns Thayaric, and hope you have a nice day.
Happy birthday Thayaric, I hope you have a fine day.
🎉🎶Happy Birthday, Thayaric, may you have many happy returns of the day!🥂🍾
Good morning all
No snow, just cold .
https://twitter.com/True_Belle/status/1744634741062558010
So…. quite big then?
Australia is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to Australia.
Apols to Douglas Adams.
As one of my Australian friends told me when he described visiting a friend, “I just drove 300 miles north, turned left and I was there”.
There s a massive desert in the middle of Australia that they have called The Great Sandy Desert.
I think it was named by a committee.
It’s to distinguish it from the Little Desert 🙂
And quite a bit of land left over that doesn’t quite fit the jigsaw.
I exposed woke Whitehall – then found out what civil servants really think of me
They were shocked that we might question their Left-wing obsessions. They’ve become blinded to their real job: to serve us
STEVEN EDGINTON, VIDEO COMMENT EDITOR
8 January 2024 • 3:12pm
Whenever the civil service is exposed for promoting gender ideology or critical race theory, the response from mandarins is nearly always the same: to ignore, deflect or double down. Over the last few years I have reported on dozens of stories about Whitehall wokery – from prison officers being told to consider “gender fluid” inmates, to official training in Defra claiming that it’s “inappropriate behaviour” to block men identifying as women from using female bathrooms.
Only once can I remember a department immediately changing its policy (unsurprisingly it was the Royal Navy, which scrapped a guide telling sailors to introduce themselves with their pronouns before meetings and interactions).
To find out more about what civil servants think about these issues, I submitted subject access requests to various departments requesting all their conversations about me. So far, only the Ministry of Justice has complied.
Many of their conversations were innocuous (one email described me as being “very active on Twitter”, perhaps a sign I need to take a break!). However, the dossier was still illuminating. It showed the extent to which civil servants think it is perfectly acceptable for officials to spend their time on issues not directly related to serving the public. It also showed a striking lack of awareness about how controversial this behaviour might be.
Last summer I found out that Antonia Romeo, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Justice, holds the role of civil service “Gender Champion”. Romeo has been one of six permanent secretary diversity “champions” since 2019, and she’s been rather active. She has written a blog entitled “breaking the menopause taboo in the civil service’, in which she urged colleagues “To set the standard in our approach to inclusion”, setting up the “gender equality leadership group” which holds regular meetings to discuss women’s equality. She has also helped judge awards for civil servants.
I put these points to the MoJ, and suggested that not only might Romeo’s champion role be considered ‘woke’, but that it was a complete waste of her time. She is the most senior civil servant in the MoJ after all, the department that deals with our overcrowded prisons and buckling court system.
However, a MoJ civil servant wrote to their colleagues: “the journalist believes the permanent secretary’s role arguably represents further efforts to support “woke” causes… it is difficult to argue that the permanent secretary’s role is “woke” – the chief issues she has publicly addressed in her role are supporting rights for menopausal women….. And efforts to close the gender pay gap. We have stressed this to the journalist, but he has insisted some readers may regard the role as ‘woke’, and that the secondary argument about senior civil servants being drawn away from their primary roles still stands.”
Then there was another email, in which a civil servant (I’m not provided with any names) described my allegations of wokery as “a strange thing to include in the piece” because “the [gender champion] role seems to have been in pursuit of closing the gender pay gap and supporting menopause rights”.
They then explained, correctly, that “his position is some readers might regard this as woke. We’ve respectfully disagreed with him as things stand, and suggested this role doesn’t fit the narrative they’re looking for.”
The fact a civil servant found it strange that Telegraph readers might find the concept of being a “champion” for diversity to be part of a push to promote woke ideas will come as no shock to those who have followed Whitehall’s politicisation in recent years. It may seem bizarre to older readers, or to those who work in the private sector, but Whitehall really is so dominated by an HR culture (where the welfare of officials is the top priority) that officials cannot see why one would criticise one of the country’s most important civil servants for spending her time talking about gender equality or the menopause.
Civil servants have become blinded to their real job: to serve the public. And surely, most of the public would agree that Antonia Romeo, who is paid by taxpayers £185,00-190,000 a year, is there to lead the MoJ and focus on priorities such as clearing the court backlog, not to host meetings about gender. And until civil servants begin to understand this, they will continue to be criticised for pushing woke ideas.
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Piggy Malone
16 HRS AGO
It’s even worse than that. The entire public sector but especially the civil service, who should know better, have a blind spot when it comes to the nine protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010. The most important for present purposes is the protection of religion and belief. Put simply, an employer cannot force a set of beliefs on an employee nor victimise an employee for holding a protected belief. The very high profile Forstater case has established beyond question that so-called ‘gender critical’ beliefs are protected. In spite of this the civil service continues to compel employees to accept a diversity and inclusion agenda focused on accepting the rights and sensitivities of trans identifying men even when those conflict with the corresponding rights and sensitivities of women in the workplace, e.g. shared toilets and use of incongruent pronouns. Only last week we heard of a female civil servant being disciplined for questioning why International Women’s Day was focussing on the experience of trans identifying men rather than actual women.
There seems to be no appetite within government for taking any meaningful action against this blatant disregard for the law that is happening right under the noses of government ministers. EDITED
Harry East
16 HRS AGO
Reply to Piggy Malone
You’ve got to hand it to them, it was a well worked out strategy.
Step 1 (main body of act) define the groups that you are going to divide the population into (race, sex etc).
Step 2 introduce mechanisms (e.g. Section 159) which allow some groups to be legally discriminated against on that basis alone. Think white men RAF.
Genius.
The problem was that many organisations were unsurprisingly reluctant to discriminate against people on the basis of things about themselves that they cannot control.
Hence the relentless propaganda of the past few years….
Carrot=diversity
Stick=toxic masculinity
This doesn’t just make it palatable, it makes it now morally GOOD to discriminate against white men!! EDITED
Toby Jug
15 HRS AGO
£190,000 pa ( that’s more than the Prime Minister) to talk and write gibberish woke nonsense.
No wonder the civil service isn’t fit for purpose.
Ms Malone is confused. The equality act was implemented to ensure that women, blacks and other groups gained primacy over the annoying nonsense of merit. That is and always has been it’s intent. Same for the race relations act. No one ever considered that it might be used by white people. It was intended solely to promote the blacks. All such legislation isn’t there for fairness or equal representation it is to promote an agenda of one side against another.
Mr Jugg misunderstands the civil service. It thinks that it’s main role is the perpetuation, expansion and reinforcement of itself. It doesn’t understand that it is there to serve the civilian. In fact, were any to be asked they’d likely get quite angry and annoyed at the concept.
The first objective of bureaucrats is to create more bureaucrats.
Good morning.
Uplifting Twitter video – watch the guy’s legs as he goes down the path – he never even drops the pizza!
Edit: the second one, not the asbestos sandpit which is depressing 🙁 – never even saw that!
https://twitter.com/Lagos4LP/status/1744402646138572878
Americans.
What about them? I doubt most British home-owners would react differently. She should have asked the pizza guy to come inside if she thought it was dangerous though
Good morning.
Uplifting Twitter video – watch the guy’s legs as he goes down the path – he never even drops the pizza!
Edit: the second one, not the asbestos sandpit which is depressing 🙁 – never even saw that!
https://twitter.com/Lagos4LP/status/1744402646138572878
What Tube drivers don’t want you to know about their pay
The London Underground workers have a rare – and very generous – type of pension
Lauren Almeida, SENIOR MONEY REPORTER
8 January 2024 • 12:20pm
London Underground strikes have been suspended following progress in talks over a pay dispute, but the capital could still grind to a halt if a deal is not agreed by union members.
Strikes were called off at the final hour on Sunday after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan put forward a revised pay offer – but as workers prepare to vote on the deal, a crucial part of their remuneration is being ignored: their pensions.
Tube drivers have a rare type of pension that is so generous they can retire on an income worth almost three-quarters of their salary.
This comes on top of salaries worth close to two times more than the national average.
Transport for London workers have defined benefit pensions, which guarantee an income in retirement until death.
These schemes are so expensive for employers to maintain that they have largely disappeared from the private sector, where most workers have inferior defined contribution pensions. These fluctuate in value and can risk running out of money.
A 21-year-old train operator, who works until the age of 65 on the current base salary of £58,000, would build a pension worth £42,500 per year even without any pay rises, according to calculations from the broker AJ Bell. This would represent almost three-quarters of their salary.
Tom Selby, from AJ Bell, said: “Defined benefit pension schemes are exceptionally valuable for those who receive them and have proven cripplingly expensive for employers to maintain, which is why they have pretty much died out in the private sector.
“Given how precious these pensions are, it is not surprising trade unions are fighting tooth and nail to protect them.”
The “normal” retirement age in TfL’s pension scheme is 65, one year earlier than the current state pension age. Most workers have to wait until they reach state pension age to be able to afford to retire.
Train operators, engineers and fleet maintenance workers were among RMT members who planned to leave their posts this week.
Following a decision to call off strike action, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “Following further positive discussions today, the negotiations on a pay deal for our London Underground members can now take place on an improved basis and mandate with significant further funding for a settlement being made available.
“This significantly improved funding position means the scheduled strike action will be suspended with immediate effect and we look forward to getting into urgent negotiations with TfL in order to develop a suitable agreement and resolution to the dispute.”
Service control workers earn at least £50,000. If they also worked from age 21 to 65 in this role with no pay rise, they would build up a pension worth £36,667 per year, AJ Bell estimated.
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has faced calls to enforce the new Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act, which would give him the power to intervene in the strike action and ensure minimum service levels on London Underground.
The act has met fierce opposition from the trade unions, who have condemned it as a “direct attack” on the right to strike.
An independent review into TfL’s pension scheme in 2022 found that moving from the “final salary” model to the less generous “career average” system could save as much as £154m a year, but could come at the expense of workers’ retirement income. However, there are currently no proposals for a change.
Mr Lynch said at the time that if these proposals were implemented, workers could be expected to pay more, receive less and work for longer in order to receive the same level of pension they would currently receive.
A TfL spokesperson said: “The Mayor was able to provide additional funds to enable discussions with the unions to continue. This intervention has been discussed with the unions, and the RMT union has now suspended the planned strike action.
“However, as the action has been suspended at this late stage, Londoners will still face disruption on Monday and we advise all customers to check for the latest travel information.
“We will now meet with representatives of all the unions to agree on the best way for this funding to be used to resolve the current dispute. We will also seek to meet as soon as possible with the unions representing TfL staff.”
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Paul Cantab
19 HRS AGO
They’re grossly overpaid, and to have such incredibly generous pensions is nonsensical.
Automate the London Underground system and sack the drivers.
Completely agree with Mr Cantab. The unions will destroy another industry then. Oh, they’ll fight it, but the technology is already there in Docklands. Cripple the Left. Put them out of business, drive them out as punishment for their malice.
Is there a healthy fund or is it a ponzi scheme like the state pension?
Good morning all,
A partly cloudy dawn over the McPhee corner of North-West Hampshire, staying dry with the wind in the North-East, 0→1℃ all day.
Spent last night reflecting on the passing of a legend.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._R._Williams
J P R Williams, tennis star, full-back for Bridgend, Wales and the British Lions, orthopaedic surgeon by trade. 1949-2024.
“JPR” was a truly great full-back, possibly the greatest, and a courageous one for whom the phrase ‘put your body on the line’ must have been written as he felled many a larger and heavier man with his trademark pile-driver tackles – not that he was small himself. And he had a hand in ‘That Try’ scored by Gareth Edwards for The Barbarians against the All Blacks in 1973.
We shared a birthday. I met him once at the funeral of one of SWMBO’s relatives who had been a consultant at the same hospital as JPR. One of my school rugby team mates who went on to become an equal legend for Scotland and the Lions played with him on the ’74 Lions tour to South Africa. Doubtless he’ll be going to JPR’s funeral at which the singing will raise the roof.
It seems bacterial meningitis got him.
RIP, JPR, you deserved the knighthood that lesser men got.
A nugget from a golden era of Welsh and British rugby. Certainly worthy of a sporting knighthood.
Would that be Andy Irvine?
Yes.
My sister used to play poker with him at University! I worked with his mother and she was so proud of him. And my Mum reckoned he had the best legs she’d ever seen on a man!
Interesting. They certainly gained something as he bulked up after leaving school. I seem to remember the actress Jan Harvey (or was it Angela Rippon?) swooning over Gavin Hastings’ legs in a pre-match TV chat in the 1990’s. In my own playing days I had thighs like Chris Hoy which carried me through tackles (occasionally) – they’re gone now along with the he-man chest and bulging biceps; I’m four stones lighter. One of the things I notice with today’s ‘gym bunnies’ is that a lot of them don’t do much work on their legs. You see them with bulky chests, shoulders and arms swaggering out of gyms on a pair of match-sticks. Quite funny.
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My Dad played county rugby and had the ‘he man’ chest etc and nice legs! Great ankles which he put down to his ‘racehorse breeding’!
He bred racehorses?
Andy Irvine (Bill McLaren’s favourite player) was my second favourite (by the thickness of a cigarette paper) full back. Serge Blanco was my third.
Who was first?
JPR, I assume. Right, Grizzly?
The late orthopædic surgeon, of course.
Ah, sorry Grizz! Not readin’ kreckkly!
“That Try”. At one end Bennett (RIP) and Willams (RIP) of Wales, at the other Sir Gareth Edwards of Wales. Commentator Cliff Morgan of Wales (no mean fly-half he in his day).
Edit: Found a far better video in which the “Magnificent Seven” talk to Cliff Morgan about their memories of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDZgkVYYKNA
John Peter Rhys Williams was the player, above all others, playing for that formidable Welsh side of the 1970s, who gave me an interest in rugby union that has lasted.
RIP JPR.
I have the full 1973 Barbarians v All Blacks match on DVD. It will get another airing tonight.
Good morning all,
A partly cloudy dawn over the McPhee corner of North-West Hampshire, staying dry with the wind in the North-East, 0→1℃ all day.
Spent last night reflecting on the passing of a legend.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._R._Williams
J P R Williams, tennis star, full-back for Bridgend, Wales and the British Lions, orthopaedic surgeon by trade. 1949-2024.
“JPR” was a truly great full-back, possibly the greatest, and a courageous one for whom the phrase ‘put your body on the line’ must have been written as he felled many a larger and heavier man – not that he was small himself.
We shared a birthday. I met him once at the funeral of one of SWMBO’s relatives who had been a consultant at the same hospital as JPR. One of my school rugby team mates who went on to become an equal legend for Scotland played with him on the ’74 Lions tour to South Africa. Doubtless he’ll going to JPR’s funeral at which the singing will raise the roof.
It seems bacterial meningitis got him.
RIP, JPR, you deserved the knighthood that lesser men got.
Every indicator is pointing toward recession. High prices, high energy costs, manufacturing slump, retail sales down, spending down.
Shunk might think they’re some sort of heroic dynamic duo saving the country with their high tax, big state policies but the simple reality is they’re the cause. Green taxes make energy expensive leaving people less disposable income. High taxes ditto. High inflation and interest rates (yes, I know, not always but they are for the current era) make living costs higher. Of course, big government swiftly removed energy and housing costs from the CPI (eventually there’ll be nothing in there) but the basic fact cannot be avoided any longer: the government is deliberately, intentionally, maliciously making us poorer.
The political classes are our enemies. Literally. We would be better off with Vlad!
His leave well alone attitude to free markets is better than the big state intervention and control effort.
Lefties would argue about corruption and nepotism… and then you see farce like Horizon, government quangos, Aviva’s racism, Channel 4’s racism. DIE legislation in it’s entirety.
Every indicator is pointing toward recession. High prices, high energy costs, manufacturing slump, retail sales down, spending down.
Shunk might think they’re some sort of heroic dynamic duo saving the country with their high tax, big state policies but the simple reality is they’re the cause. Green taxes make energy expensive leaving people less disposable income. High taxes ditto. High inflation and interest rates (yes, I know, not always but they are for the current era) make living costs higher. Of course, big government swiftly removed energy and housing costs from the CPI (eventually there’ll be nothing in there) but the basic fact cannot be avoided any longer: the government is deliberately, intentionally, maliciously making us poorer.
‘Morning All
Start with Andrew Bridgen on the PO scandal,jail time needed sod the “Honours”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/my-14-year-fight-for-the-cruelly-mistreated-sub-postmasters/
Rest
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That arm angle one is very funny! Reminds me of that poor UKIP candidate that was snapped reaching for his phone and then it was passed off as a narsti salute in the papers.
381570+ up ticks,
Afternoon BB2,
It would be wouldn’t it.
The more I read about Bridgen and the more I see and listen to him the more convinced I become that he would make an excellent leader of a new right of centre party for true Conservatives to support.
Wikipedia certainly doesn’t like him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bridgen
BT dislikes him over that too, but on balance I prefer Bridgen to the vast majority of our representatives.
Strange that so many accusations about him related to him protesting about government policies, notwithstanding his own actions. One might think he was the victim of witch-hunting.
Excellent as usual.
What about a petition to deprive Si Red Davey of his “knighthood”?
Stuff taking his knighthood. Sack him, bar him from any public office or ever having contact with such officials, force sell his property, make him bankrupt and then jail him for 2 years – do the same for the rest of the civil servants innvolved.
Why 2 years, You Softy Pinko, You.
381570 + up ticks,
Via the treachery of political fools and their supporting minions we are in dire danger of losing “begorrah”
https://youtu.be/lSOqhC7nbLM?si=lX2f5d0_lT0YRntj
Never bring a knife to a bar stool fight………….
https://twitter.com/Levmac83/status/1744473188547854736?s=20
sound on,it’s a lovely “thonk”
It’s always the muslim.
Should have smashed both their heads into the tarmac.
No wonder our government banned fire arms. They knew the troubles that would occur from there unfettered immigration stupidity. You can’t be kind to these people. They only understand kindness as weakness.
This is what happens.
It’s time to revive the concept of the Fyrd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyrd and start serious training.
I now strongly suspect that both the Hungerford (1987) and the Dunblane shootings (1996) were orchestrated by the security services in order to provide the excuse to strip us of guns other than shotguns and air rifles.
Locally, shotgun licences are being stripped from folk for the flimsiest of reasons.
Looks like a great idea. When do we start ?
They are making shotgun licensing more difficult than it used to be.
Wakefield as opposed to Wokefield, good for those 2 guys.
An interesting talk:
https://x.com/Joey7Barton/status/1744641177184276545?s=20
381570+ up ticks,
Bout right,
https://x.com/Blokeonabike2/status/1743939969184330111?s=20
Our population – according to Tesco – is a quarter that of America.
85 million. America has a landmass of 9.8m km2. The UK 243,000 km2.
We are grossly over populated and at least 40 million must be removed. Start with London and Birmingham.
In 2007 there was a claim by an anonymous source at an unnamed supermarket, based on sales of certain food staples, that official figures for the UK population were understated by as much as 20 million. As this claim circulated on social media, Tesco’s name became attached to it. However, Tesco denied it was the source and was a little irritated with the attribution. How the figure was arrived at is not known and might very well include sales of food wasted rather than consumed.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/how-one-old-news-story-convinced-conspiracy-theorists-tesco
Given the untrustworthiness of a previous estimate of the UK’s population wrongly attributed to Tesco, I’d need something more substantial than a vague claim to place any trust in anything similar.
There again, if they can get things wrong by 20% with what should be a relatively simple headcount of incomers, who knows the numbers flying under the radar during the last 30 years of census.
““The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the 745,000 figure for the year to December 2022 replaced a previous estimate of 606,000 after revisions were made to reflect “unexpected patterns” in migrant behaviour.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/23/net-migration-to-uk-hit-record-745000-in-2022-revised-figures-show
Remember how we were told only a few hundred East Europeans would arrive when the EU entry was opened up. That figure was a gross (and probably deliberate) underestimate.
Good morning!
Germany. Reports are all major roads are blocked, Dutch farmers are supporting. German truckers have joined in to support the German farmers as well. Polish truckers are also supporting this protest. The country is at a standstill. Not reported in our media, I suppose in case we get our ideas of our own – some chance, we haven’t found our spines yet which went missing circa 1945 – probably in a dusty cupboard somewhere with the John Lewis faded Union flag it brings out reluctantly from time to time to celebrate the occasional Jubilee and funeral.
https://x.com/KEriksenV2/status/1744638470562468159?s=20
When it did here Brown used the army to force his taxes through.
Brown (aka daft vader), the perfect name for the sneaky POS he is.
The difference now is farmers are fighting for their livelihoods.
Here in the UK farmers are being offered above market value for their farms to encourage them to sell.
I saw something last week regarding German farmers taking action against the Brussels mafia. Excellent.
Our farmers would like to join in, but a lot of them have had their tracors stolen and are still waiting for someone to help them find the all the thieves.
A very timely theft!
Apparently what sparked the protests was the government wanting to get rid of their equivalent of red diesel.
That disappeared in the UK without a murmur didn’t it?
And the tax or reduction of the use on nitrogen fertiliser. I can’t remember now whether it was a tax, a reduction of or outright abolition! That is what got them going, I supposed they then looked further into what was happening, as you do. They woke up. As far as the Dutch farmers were/are concerned, it was an outright land grab by the deep state, which is what it would have morphed into in Germany, but fortunately the farmers are now one step ahead. And us being one step ahead terrifies the Davos gang.
What a pity that next wee’s WEF at Davos cannot be similarly blocked.
Well, you never know, I wouldn’t rule it out now.
Morning all, heavy frost here – obviously didn’t affect this horse
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That’s a tracking device.
Speaking of, the mare has died. The Warqueen’s horse decided to shuffle the mortal coil in her stables over the weekend, a week after a short hobble around the yard before stabling again. The vet thinks it was related to her leg injury from some time ago and simple old age.
We’re not getting another one (Warqueen OR horse).
That’s a shame
Oh that’s sad. Poor gee-gee. How old was she?
I think about 23. The Warqueen would know to the day, as she was in her 20’s when she got her.
The horse was her first ‘present’ to herself. I think she had mad dreams of breeding them.
Sorry to hear that, wibbles. My condolences to the Warqueen.
Where’s the Super Vet when you need him?
An extreme right w
ianger.Morning all 🙂😊
My word what a lovely sunny morning.
I was expecting 4 inches of snow. Looks like they got it all wrong again. Perhaps they weren’t expecting a touch of global warming today.
And yes this disgusting post office drama has been hidden under the avalanche of covering up and bare face lies from Whitehall and Wastemonster the usual culprits.
Those poor people were just getting on with their jobs and also dedicated to running shops at the same time. Unlike the accusers. Some still employed and living the lives of relative luxury.
It’s no good expecting the police to take any action. They’ll be Under orders from above.
Arresting Tommy (not fan) Robinson is their speciality.
Sadly true. The state closes ranks to protect its own. The wasters swan about into their next non-job and others pay the price.
The current Leader of the Opposition called for the Post Office to be stripped of its judicial powers and prosecutions and self-appeals handed over to the DPP. He said that with the authority of a former DPP.
I ask the former DPP why he did not instigate criminal proceedings against the Post Office on suspicion of perverting the course of justice when he had the authority to so? The false convictions and the dodgy software was already known about for nine years when he was appointed.
A lot has been said about Davey’s role in the affair, but what of the others who have held this position? These are:
Lord Young of Norwood Green (2009-10)
Sir Ed Davey (2010-12)
Norman Lamb (2012)
Jo Swinson (2012-15)
Anna Soubry (2015-16)
Margot James (2016-18)
Andrew Griffiths (2018)
Kelly Tolhurst (2018-20)
Paul Scully (2020-22)
Jane Hunt (2022)
Dean Russell (2022)
Kevin Hollinrake (2022-date)
I haven’t so far been able to find who was Postal Affairs Minister previous to this, but the Secretaries of State were:
Lord Mandelson (2008-09)
John Hutton (2007-08)
Alistair Darling (2006-07)
Alan Johnson (2005-06) He was also previously General Secretary of the Postal Workers’ Union.
Patricia Hewett (2001-06)
Stephen Byers (1998-2001)
Peter Mandelson (1997-98)
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All of these were complicit in the decision to adopt Horizon. Government was aware from before it was implemented of its shortcomings, but chose to do nothing about it. Prime Minister Tony Blair also knew of this since 1998, but declines to comment. The role of Peter Mandelson is of particular note, and he needs to be called to explain himself by a Select Committee, and quite possibly the DPP.
Jobs for the boys as a favour reward with no expectation of effort. The only one I might remotely consider competent is Alan Johnson.
mandelson should be beaten to the ground, collared and chain in a shipping container filled with quick lime and sewage – which is unfair to both, but at least Mandelson would feel at home in sewage.
Mixed with straw, he would make good compost and help the roses grow.
They’d come up smelling of sh!t.
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I remember Ernie Marples being Postmaster General 1957-1959; he probably started any dodgy practices.
Clunk click – every trip.
Bent as a nine-bob-note, that bloke!
Between 1900 and 1969 the “Postal Affairs Minister” was traditionally know as the Postmaster General (before Harold Wilson decided it sounded better as “Minister of Posts and Telecommunications”). Some of the later luminaries to hold that former post were none other than Ernest Marples, Sir Anthony Wedgwood-Benn and John Stonehouse.
Add forty years of contaminated blood cover-up and deliberate foot dragging so all the victims die.
When did the Postmaster General become the Postal Affairs Minister?
Probably under Blair.
Yes Anne and so it goes on, until they will have been able to get away with.
The media are focusing on Andrew and others and now as has been suggested most of it is made up.
They have no form of defence. If HMK gets his nose in, in favour of his bother he’ll also be associated with Epstien.
The police will spend 10 years faffing around as well.
Good Moaning.
I take the point that if we’d not had 20+ years of treacherous government, the housing shortage would be smaller – possibly non-existent.
But this is an interesting article.
https://conservativehome.com/2024/01/09/by-hoarding-surplus-assets-councils-are-making-the-housing-shortage-worse/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Tuesday 9th January 2024&utm_content=Tuesday 9th January 2024+CID_806248a521bd16382f393806e1b61027&utm_source=Daily Email&utm_term=By hoarding surplus assets councils are making the housing shortage worse
Big government imported over 30 million – MILLION! – people in 25 years. All those people have to have somewhere to live. Far too many are utterly unproductive. This level of immigration is utterly unsustainable by any measure.
We don’t have a housing crisis, we have a population crisis.
Interview with a trucker.. edit: sorry, with a farmer. It’s early yet!
https://x.com/EvaVlaar/status/1744326475669451120?s=20
But… but…. but how will they enforce socialism if they cannot destroy farming, energy and fuel?
https://x.com/mikeharveyrice/status/1744664094748070219?s=20
Gathering pace in France.
In France the farmers are protesting by turning all the roadside signposts of the places you drive through upside down as you arrive.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/48e6d0eba8b8cf69dc4fb12291c91d311df40be3843136c3e520358ef51d6139.png .
and again when you leave:
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Bonfires are not allowed in much of France because of naughty carbon emissions so the farmers may well think of staging a Guy Fawkes tribute act with an enormous bonfire with effigies of Macron and Gates on top of the pyre!
There’s an article on the BBC that speaks of farmers and tractors blockading a little in Berlin. The BBC’s stance though is what you’d expect.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67911739
“The demonstration drew widespread condemnation and sparked fresh fears about the radicalisation of political debate in Germany.”
I heard on the grapevine that they blocked roads all over the country by driving very slowly round roundabouts, sparking enormous tailbacks. Commuters apparently got very angry. A lot of people seem to think food comes from the supermarket, and have not yet realised that No Farms means No Food and No Future.
There is also much support in Germany for the farmers; typical bbc speak. How dare the people start becoming aware of the existence of politics and rise up! Perish the thought!
Establishment Panic: German Vice Chancellor Blames Putin for Farmer Protests, Media Brands Protests as ‘Far-Right’
In a full-blown panic, the German political and media establishment has attempted to denigrate the farmer uprising against the globalist government in Berlin as a creation of Vladimir Putin and fomented by the so-called “far-right”.
Thousands of farmers began a week-long revolt on Monday in response to anti-farmer policies from the leftist government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, with slow-moving tractors, trucks and other vehicles being used to bring the country to a halt.
The German government has a budget black hole to solve, and while some areas of spending are enjoying massive boosts — like underwriting the war in Ukraine — domestic spending cuts and tax hikes are going ahead. Among them are ending green tax exemptions for farming vehicles and scaling back agricultural subsidies, sparking outrage among the German farming community who have warned that the government’s policies threaten the very survival of the industry.
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/09/establishment-freakout-german-vice-chancellor-tries-to-blame-putin-for-farmer-uprising-media-brands-protests-as-far-right/
The cabal is starting to get a mite concerned. They have pulled out the perennial bogeyman and given him a dusting down to nudge the public back into line.
Not Brexit? They are slipping
Good morning. One of the many reasons the powers that be are gunning for Elon.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1744549227936505880
I think he means digital id, which will soon also be needed to use Twitt. If they can get away with it. They are trying to build a case for digital ids.
Is it because Mr Musk comes across as predominantly honest. We should all get behind him for a better future for our grandchildren.
The present scum needs to be removed and clear water should be the target.
Steerpike
Theresa May gets her Brexit dividend
7 January 2024, 8:01pm
There’s nothing so ex as an ex-Prime Minister. But while the likes of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and David Cameron are busy off respectively writing columns, making speeches and, er, running the Foreign Office, Theresa May has been content to quietly reside on the backbenches. As MP for Maidenhead, she has spent much of the past year promoting her new book – Abuse of Power – which proved to be the best-seller at October’s party conference.
But such a low-key approach continues to reap dividends. For recently-published accounts show that in the year up until March 2023, the former PM’s eponymous company declared more than £1,540,000 in net assets – some 30 per cent up on £1,186,000 that she registered in March 2022. This figure comprises May’s earnings on the public speaking circuit. One speech in London in November 2022 bagged a tidy £107,600 while another in California in March 2023 netted a tidy £121,700.
And regardless of the election result, May’s fortunes don’t look like diminishing anytime soon. Since March 2023, she has also declared £61,500 in the advance for her book, with another £1,640 to do the audio version. Talk about a ‘strong and stable’ return…
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Tracking this is a very valuable service.
What possible audience will pay £100,000 to hear May make a speech? Is this a thousand people paying £100, or a hundred people paying £1,000. What is the highest amount you yourself have ever paid to listen to a speech?
The truth is she is just collecting quid pro quo for the actions she took when in office, and various lobbies are both rewarding her and demonstrating to her successors the personal benefits available if they accept these lobbies’ policies rather than opposing them.
That Net Zero legislation of 2019, after resigning but before being replaced, springs to mind.
She should be in prison.
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Pretty Polly Christian
2 days ago
The audience didn’t pay a dime. All May’s speeches were free to attend and allegedly paid for by the university or institution where they were made. That opens the possibilty of deals via the speakers agency if someone wanted to launder a reward.
Pretty Polly
a day ago edited
I think her book deal and long series of $125,000 speeches have the look of a laundered reward. Probably from Soros.
After all, watering down Brexit, Legal Net Zero and the Migration Pact were exactly what Soros wanted.
That would fit in exactly with the jobs Soros provided for Tony Blair, David Miliband and David Cameron who arranged the Climate Change Act 2008 which Soros desired. As well as Soros jobs for various members of the Climate Change Committee, including the first chairman, Lord Adair Turner, who later became chairman of Soros’ Itnstitute for New Economic Thinking.
Soros also part financed the Conservative think tank Bright Blue report ”Hotting Up” which recommended Legal Net Zero to Theresa May. She was extremely keen to accept the Soros part financed report.
Troughers.
Indeed. Who would pay that much to listen to Theresa May? It stinks!
The more interesting question is what sort of organisation would pay her those sorts of fees to talk?
Traitors.
“Abuse of Power”
I didn’t know she was into irony.
It’s a joke for the “in-crowd”
Then I’m even more startled by the fact she has a sense of humour.
That all makes perfect sense. It confirms her moniker now is Treason May.
I hope they all choke on their 30 pieces of silver
Telephone and central heating controls were blown out by 25+ power cuts & surges here during last week’s storms. Things have been disrupted and very cold since. No systems functioning normally but hope to get service restored tomorrow.
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Our landline has been out of action for more than a week. Trying to get BT to fix it is like wading through custard.
Do you have Smart controls. linked into the internet that you can control from your device.?
If I do have Smart controls they are smart enough to remain hidden from me so that I can’t interfere with them and b*gg*r things up even more. As Oberst can confirm, a Cambridge Masters Degree in Engineering renders one quite incapable of reading any instruction manual so as to be able to mend things or make anything work.
Thats no then.
If hell is other people’s software, the instructions manuals for it are the tenth circle of hell
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Dave † 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇮🇪🎸🎶
@daveguitarjones
Whenever I left a door open, my mum would ask if I was born in a barn, which is odd because you’d think she’d remember something like that.
I was actually born by torchlight in a sort of holiday golf shed in Irkowit – a small village in Northern Sudan. I arrived 3 weeks early so my mother had been booked into the hospital in Khartoum for the ETA. (Estimated Time of Arrival)
Fortunately one of my mother’s friends who was a nurse was there to deliver.
My mother dined out on the story that the day before I was born she played her best ever round of golf. This was because she tended to slice her tee shots. With her tummy full of me she had to hold her club further away from her body and this improved her driving.
EDA – Estimated DATE of Arrival.
Just saying!
WHAT STARMER DID AND DIDN’T DO IN THE POST OFFICE SCANDAL
Ed Davey isn’t the only one under the spotlight following the Post Office Scandal – Keir Starmer is also facing questions on why he didn’t intervene when he headed up the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008-2013. Only now is Starmer calling the Post Office to lose its powers to bring private prosecutions. The scandal was first revealed in 2009 and prosecutions carried on till 2015…
Starmer’s team are saying that sub-postmasters were prosecuted by the Royal Mail in private criminal prosecutions, rather than by the CPS. Though according to the Post Office’s website, CPS did play a role in the scandal. There have been six appeals to date in which the CPS was the Respondent, not Post Office…
What Starmer didn’t do:
Take over or end private prosecutions: The Director of Public Prosecutions of CPS “has the right to take over any private prosecution (under section 6(2) of the Prosecution of Offences Act) and either continue with the prosecution or discontinue it.”
What Starmer did do:
Allow CPS to act on behalf of the Post Office in a number of cases, though the exact number is unclear. One case in 2010, Regina Vs Seema Misra, is on the record where CPS prosecuted a sub-postmistress.
If the TV series Mr Bates Vs. The Post Office hadn’t come out, would Starmer have said anything about the Post Office’s prosecution powers at all?
9 January 2024 @ 10:13
Would he have said anything? I doubt it. Starmer’s in a muddle intellectually as by nature his job means detail and disinterest, yet being a politician means being an incompetent loudmouth.
Gosh – it is chilly out. No frost on the grass – but all puddles (in potholes, for example) frozen. Just beginning to recover feeling in my fingers!
Hello Bill
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Thank you.
https://twitter.com/lynlynisin/status/1744680883825541338
They actually pay rent ?
Don’t be Radio Rental, it’ll be us paying.
True.
As they don’t actually pay anything at all to live in our country. They could at least try to open the effing windows to demoiturise the free homes they now live. Or maybe its just that they have chosen the wrong climate to scrounge in.
………..”although there are certainly MPs who did culpably little”
But it’s about time that we all congratulated Gillian Keagan, Education Secretary for her sterling efforts
in keeping Mr Keagan’s name out of the Press.
Who is Mr Keagan? He is Gillian Keagan’s husband, who both negotiated the Horizon contract with
the Government, and ran Fujitsu whilst this scandal was happening.
Nice work if you can get it.
Even better when you have a Government Minister protecting your back.
Funny, the Telegraph somehow manages to forget that Andrew Bridgen was also involved in attempts by MPs to get justice for the victims.
From Bridgen’s article in TCW yesterday
“Alongside Labour’s Kevan Jones, the MP for North Durham (the only other original member of the MP Review Group still holding elected office), and the former Conservative MP James Arbuthnot (now in the House of Lords) I now am appealing to colleagues in the House of Commons – most whom were not even elected when this issue first came to our attention – to join us in lobbying Government for proper compensation for the victims
Bridgen gives Jones and Arbuthnot credit, pity the DT cannot bring themselves to do the same for him. Shows that nothing ever changes really.
381570+ up ticks,
The Post Office bosses who presided over biggest miscarriage of justice in legal history
Leaders went on to lucrative positions as sub-postmasters faced wrongful legal action
Bad, but used as deflection material being nowhere near as bad as the political governing WEF cartel bosses who have / are presiding over biggest miscarriage of justice in
legal history.
In regards to the postal issue the united power of the peoples really must stamp their authority on, and bring in to play
the letter of the law in regards to these political cretins, with an elasticated stretch in Belmarsh firmly in the forefront of ‘ones mind.
381570+ up ticks,
Here’s a bloke I have a lot of time for, showing the establishments chickens coming home to roost.
https://x.com/LozzaFox/status/1744503012901466530?s=20
381570+ up ticks,
May one ask ” have they lost any heads” not of parties or organisations but physically, detached from torso type loss?
https://x.com/SarahOwen_/status/1732809079502880831?s=20
Perhaps muslims should work for a living (70% muslim male unemployment) and stop calling themselves British muslims as if they’re separate. Perhaps they should disappear socially rather than having their own cultural dress. Perhaps they shouldn’t demand translations. Perhaps they shouldn’t want to make that horrid noise in the morning. Perhaps they should stop being horribly over represented in our prisons. Perhaps they should stop committing acts of terrorism.
Frankly, perhaps, if they’re unhappy, they should just go somewhere else.
They are separate, though. Their allegiance is to islam, not this country. Their aim is to conquer this (currently) non-islamic country and make it submit.
Just Go Home. And what, exactly, is Islamo phobia ? Oh yes, it’s a fear of Islam. And who isn’t afraid of the influence wielded by them in this country? With good reason.
Yep. Saying ‘If they don’t like it, leave’ is odd considering we’re all decent folk. The constant demand is that we give in to them. Never that they disappear culturally and socially. It’s always the decent majority who have to give way to the Left, the woke, the alien and worse? The demands never, ever stop.
I wonder what the cross-party definition of Islamophobia is? And how many Islamic supporter MPs were part of the panel?
The “hate crimes” laws have been a huge mistake. I’m sure certain ethnics “hate” others. But if a crime is committed why should race play any part in prosecutions. Surely a crime is a crime is a crime … and it really muddies the water. It’s no help. So then judges or magistrates have to allot a “degree” to each sentence when, if none of those laws had been passed, the same sentences would have been much more straight forward. And, of course, it gives ethnics a greater degree of protection.
It’s very sad what’s been done to the U.K. and it’s not going to get any better is it.
How to stop ‘Islamophobia’ in the UK? Simple – all Muslims to move to an Islamic country.
I think Luton is on the brink of being an Islamic country.
Way back in 95 on holiday in Malta I met a bloke from Luton. He said ‘You knee the Paki in the balls and run for it before he stabs you.’
Being a nice middle class lad I thought this all a bit odd. Then the council of my little town imported half again the population in foreigners and crime soared, murder, once referred to as ‘the murder’ was common place. As was stabbings, rape, assault. The place is a sewer now thanks to ‘diversity’.
33% of Luton’s inhabitants are Muslims, she just wants to get re-elected in the next GE.
Gawd knows what the numbers will be in 2031’s Census, meaning the ones that actually are counted.
2001 14.6%
2011 24.6%
2021 32.9%
She only allows comments from her approved supporters. Not afraid of criticism, shirley?
Which is odd as she’s an MP and a public servant. Maybe she doesn’t really understand her role.
“…with the atrocities taking place in the Middle East, we are seeing an even more horrific rise in Islamophobia…”
It’s the abuse of the English language that bothers me. So much exaggeration…
“…we must adopt the cross-party definition of Islamophobia…”
So the courts can decide when an opinion becomes a crime…
“…we must match the funding increase for fighting anti-semitism with a similar increase for Islamophobia…”
Paying Ropers to return home will certainly result in fewer complaints about Islamism.
As I understand it, a phobia is an irrational fear.
Anyone who doesn’t fear the ongoing rise and influence of Islam in the UK and Europe certainly isn’t rational.
If muslims didn’t make themselves such a target through their abusive, terrorist actions, their refusal to integrate and poor societal manners this wouldn’t be an issue.
What frustrates most is there are many muslims who love working. They’re decent, sensible folk with families. They wear jeans and a shirt and dislike traffic jams, shopping on pension day, the price of stamps. These folk no more disrupt society than Mongo does.
The problem is there are too many dangerous ones out there.
The trouble is, these people you laud would not side with the kuffar if push came to shove; the koran forbids it. Taqiyya and kitman mean you can’t trust what they say.
A phobia is an irrational fear. There is nothing irrational about fearing an ideology that tells its followers to behead non-believers.
What a vacuous cow.
The hussey. We can see her face and hair.
Hezbollah launches ‘revenge’ attack on Israeli base. 9 January 2024.
Hezbollah launched explosive drones at an IDF army base on Tuesday in a retaliatory attack for recent Israeli assassinations in Lebanon.
The group said its drones had hit the military headquarters in Safed, northern Israel, as it moved to avenge the recent killings of deputy Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut and senior Hezbollah commander Wissam Hassan Tawil in southern Leban.
This is working up nicely. The Israeli’s need American firepower to help deal with Hezbollah so it is necessary to manufacture a Casus Belli. All that is required is to just keep prodding them until they supply it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/09/israel-hamas-war-latest-updates-gaza-palestine-day-95-live/
That’s all going to kick off soon, the Israelis and the USA will know who’s supplying all the terrible weapons.
I won’t uptick your comment. You are correct about he outcome but it is something to be scared of.
Understood.
Weather much better than forecast. Very cold wind but no ice or snow despite the low temp. Clear blue sky and full sun.
A video from the farmers’ protest in Germany yesterday, on Twitt.
You can translate under the text. It is humorous, but also a nation increasingly divided, which is worrying. A quick scan through twitt suggests that similar scenes happened all over Germany. The greens (woke, soyboys, whatever you want to call them) have had it all their own way until now, and they think that they are still in charge. Up til this year, they were still routinely throwing the “nazi” word at anyone who opposed them, and recently as well “reichsburger” which means someone who wants to bring back a 19th century style prussian empire. That’s changing now – ordinary Germans are not keeping quiet if they’re called nazis any more (because the vast majority of them aren’t).
https://twitter.com/CK_Hessen/status/1744655997044461760
Some hippie didn’t agree with the blockade and wanted to pull the tractor away. The farmers laughed, go ahead. Unfortunately he didn’t have a chain or tow bar, I would have laughed if he had torn off his rear end.
What an idiot. Guaranteed to be a vegan.
I’ve impressed myself. I got the gist and have also learnt the German for ‘tow bar’.
Oh dear I could have done without that. I noticed that when I washed up the breakfast dishes this morning, the water didn’t leave the sink with its usual robust noisy drag. The Mrs E
Informed me that our ground floor loo started to rise slowly when flushed. Drain blockage, dig out the rods, crowbar to lift the lid of the manhole ( i understand why the Dopey Wokies don’t demand a sex change) and hose pipe.
Yep lid up in the drive and blocked again. We moved here 33 years ago and the manhole was blocked. I think it’s too shallow to keep clear. A visit to Toolstation a couple of years ago. 30 pounds we’ll spent on drain rods.
I use to borrow them from a neighbour who had the same problem. After they both passed away the son although rented, he cleared the garage. Oh well job done now, my word that wind was cold.
Time to buy a euro millions ticket now before my luck also runs out.
Well done. Keeps you warm – and fit, all tat arm movement.
My back was killing me I had to come in for a cuppa and the second last slice of delicious Christmas cake.
Probably save me 250 quid. All clean and tidied up.
And satisfaction of a job well done!
Done is a fine choice of word. But similar to many maintenance jobs I carry out, just expected due to my experienced lifestyle. 😉😊
Used tea leaves may help to keep the drain unblocked.
My mother used to say coffee grounds were best. Tea leaves tend to block the drain.
381570+ up ticks,
Here’s a bloke I have a lot of time for, showing the establishments chickens coming home to roost.
https://x.com/LozzaFox/status/1744503012901466530?s=20
Which of these two is the better judge of character?
You can tell the one who loses
By the company he chooses.
It is not too wise to linger
When a pervert shows his finger!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/511374a86a5d7244b3ea97beb20332de538e557b8fece6c6f5ddb22926422c90.png
Almost as good as this one with Jacob Rothschild poking him in the chest to show who’s boss.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6314082741e40fd90dac4d49443cba089929ebfd614497a29cb46845dc39a68a.png
I don’t think he was discussing the pattern of his tie.
Almost as good as this one with Jacob Rothschild poking him in the chest to show who’s boss.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6314082741e40fd90dac4d49443cba089929ebfd614497a29cb46845dc39a68a.png
I don’t think he was discussing the pattern of his tie.
“In fact you’e missing everything”
Berlin.
https://x.com/VonTann1/status/1744422704286224706?s=20
Putin is starting 2024 from a position of strength. 9 January 2023.
Russian President Vladimir Putin entered 2024 with the confidence of a man who is sensing that he might be gaining the upper hand in a wrestling match against a far superior rival.
The far superior rival Putin is confronting, of course, is not Ukraine. From the Kremlin’s perspective, Russia is engaged in an epic battle against the entire Western military machine, to which Ukraine has recklessly offered itself as a battlefield and a source of gun fodder.
This narrative is what the Russian leadership genuinely believes in and what it is successfully peddling to the Russian public. Conveniently, it also serves as an excuse for Russia’s own military setbacks during 2022 – the failure to crush Ukrainian resistance expediently as well as the subsequent loss of occupied territory later that year.
Works for me!
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/8/putin-is-starting-2024-from-a-position-of-strength
A fascinating bit part in the satanic panto.
https://tarableu.substack.com/p/the-amazing-ms-junkermann
Fr Calvin Robinson
@calvinrobinson
The Tucho scandal is one of corruption at the heart of the Vatican.
Cardinal “Tucho” Fernández, known as a “close collaborator” and “primary ghostwriter” to Pope Francis, they became friends/allies in Argentina.
Pope Francis appointed Tucho as Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF).
This was controversial at the time, given that in 1995 Tucho wrote a book titled, “Heal Me with Your Mouth. The Art of Kissing”
The DDF was founded to defend the Catholic Church from heresy and is the body responsible for promulgating and defending Catholic doctrine.
Pope Francis’ “trusted theologian”, Tucho, argued in favour of relaxing the Church’s stance of giving Communion to those living in a state of grave sin. This goes against Church Doctrine.
Tucho recently signed and published Fiducia Supplicans, which caused controversy over the apparent approval of same-sex blessings. FS has been denounced by dozens of episcopal conferences, cardinals and bishops around the world, as well as orthodox Catholic laity.
This week, it was leaked that Tucho published another book in the 1990s, this one titled, “Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality.” A pornographic book containing what Tucho describes as a “mystical orgasm” which depicts in detail, “an imaginary erotic encounter with Jesus Christ.”
How can a man seemingly hell-bent on bending if not defying Church Doctrine remain the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith?
How can a man who seems to endorse immorality even remain a priest in the Church of God, never-mind a cardinal?
As if this scandal was not bad enough, it seems there has been an attempt at a cover-up:
@realDailyWire’s @breeadail has discovered in her investigations that not only has Tucho prevented all future printing of his book, someone has somehow erased it from existence.
Searches for the book’s ISBN (International Standard Book Number) show the book has somehow been removed from every shelf around the world.
Which global power has the authority to implement such a vast, sweeping directive?
The Curia.
That’s curious.
Curiosity killed the cat, as your furry friends could tell you.
Showing any competence in government gets you sacked!
‘La pasión mística: espiritualidad y sensualidad’
Author: Víctor Manuel Fernández
Publisher:
Ediciones Dabar, 1998ISBN:970652052X, 9789706520524
94 pages.
As for erotic spirituality, see Bernini’s St Theresa.
People in Germany out to support the protest.
https://x.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1744621674060738915?s=20
The Jerries are getting entrenched….
I’ll get me pickelhaube…..
This time we’ll be on the same side. And the French. And the Dutch. And the Hungarians. And the Poles. I feel sorry for the Weffers. Well, not quite.
Robert Wilkinson
@robertwlk
l found my neighbour sobbing her heart out.
I said what’s wrong?
She said, “On my way to work my car started overheating, so l walked back home & found my husband in bed with another woman. I don’t know what to do.”
I said, “have you checked the water in the radiator?”
😂😂😂
Gorgeous day. Just done a two mile walk – first mile into the strong east wind – coming back – a treat. Warm sun on ones face is a real morale booster.
Warm? Whassat?
I’ve had the sniffles since Sunday morning. A walk in the winter sunshine has given me some respite.
Chill out and keep warm.
Speaking from experience.
Ref the post below about landlords having to keep flats clean.
I assume this will only apply to evil white landlords and not to the jolly, kind-hearted, avuncular black ones….
I mentioned yesterday a really “hunky” looking Franchman (sic) who is in Toy Boy’s government. Well, the little fellow has now appointed one of his best looking chums to be prime minister. No favoritism, natch…. Pure merit…..
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He’s quite pretty.
Is he also witty and gay?
Do you pity,
Any boy who isn’t him today?
(Apologies to Leonard Bernstein)
Apologies to Stephen Sondheim, Shirley?
Bernstein wrote the music; Sondheim wrote the words. Apologies to both of them then!
And Marni Nixon sang for Natalie Wood in the film of West Side Story as she did for Audrey Hepburn in the film of My Fair Lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7PIyIcCro
And Marni Nixon provided the singing voice for Deborah Kerr in the film version of THE KING AND I. She also appeared and sang as one of the nuns in THE SOUND OF MUSIC. No one in the film industry would have even dreamed of asking her to provide the singing voice of Julie Andrews.
When Julie Andrews won a golden globe for playing Maria in The Sound of Music she made a point of thanking Audrey Hepburn for stealing her role as Eliza in My Fair Lady, as had Hepburn not taken the role , she, Andrews, would never have been offered the lead in the Rogers and Hammerstein film.
Drat and double drat Grizzly, I hadn’t read your post of two hours ago, when I posted my own comment on Rastus’s post.
He’s quite likely gay, not sure about the witty.
There is a picture of him in the Mail with an equally good looking young man said to be his partner.
I’ll see if I can see it – can only look at (i won’t say read!) front page.
Can’t find it but I believe you.
He is, as they say, openly gay.
I’m never sure quite what “openly” means in that context.
Making sure everybody acknowledges it (and is forced to approve)?
’twas in u end o
No, Rastus, it’s apologies to Steven Sondheim who wrote the words. Leonard Bernstein wrote the music.
Good afternoon Elsie. Grizzly has already made this point so I have apologised to both Bernstein and Sondheim.
Caroline gave me a book about P.G. Wodehouse’s career as a lyricist when he worked with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern.
yesterday I posted a clip of Ava Gardner singing Along Came Bill. Beautiful.
Caroline obviously has very good taste. I am also a great PGW fan and will be attending their “Wodehouse in the Spring” event at Bath in March of this year.
Yes, you mentioned this. We shall be in France running French courses then.
Many years ago John Mortimer gave an audience in the Theatre Royal in Bath where people were invited to ask questions. I went to this with the then girlfriend a year or two before I met Caroline.
A friend of mine who subsequently met John Mortimer told him that we had named our boxer Rumpole because his face was very reminiscent of the face of Leo McKern who played the seedy old defence lawyer. John Mortimer enjoyed this.
This is the Peter Principle in action. Gabriel Attal was actually doing quite well as Secretary of State for Education… so now he’s been promoted and he is likely to fail.
People being promoted to the level of their incompetence has long been a standard procedure in the UK.
Beyond, Shirley?
Indeed, Doreen; however, I was quoting the meaning of the Peter Principle, pet, though but.😘
Ah kna pet! Ah wiz myken a jurk,like! 😘
Swedish dwellers have no sense of humour. It is because they don’t eat vegetables!
:))
They prefer corny jokes…?
I put some onions in me gravy today, like.
You mad, impetuous fool!
Gay, Trans, Queer, Paedo. All to destroy normal family groups. Not that that affects Muslim communties.
He not a product of Toy Boys veracity is he, there is a resemblance.
Attal’s boyfriend (they have signed a civil partnership) is Stéphane Séjourné, an advisor to Macron and European MP. Since September 2022, he has been Secretary General of Renaissance, the new name for Macron’s party. He also chairs the European parliamentary group Renew Europe.
Attal is a WEF Young Global Leader. I cannot immediately find any direct links between Renew Europe and the WEF but it does seem a strange coincidence that, in 2018, the WEF funded a McKinsey investigation which it called “Renew Europe”, and the parliamentary group of that name was set up in 2019.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/85c10f7ae5918a9989cefc4d73d876c45337f362dc0bb83be865e74831706e08.jpg
I know this. Lovely boys, both of them! Of course Gaby is WEF. He wouldn’t be Toy Boy’s (former??) lover if he wasn’t.
Robert Wilkinson
@robertwlk
Top tip.
Never get a tattoo of your partner if their initials are DNR.
Ahem
I see Paula Vennells has ditched her CBE, hoping that will save her.
Simply not good enough serious criminal offences have been committed
Malfeasance in Public office
Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice
She (and many others) need to suffer as her victims suffered
Sigh,it won’t happen the MSM will consider they have claimed a scalp and the cry will be to “Move On” and the Common purpose elite revolving door club will continue their troughing
Isn’t NatWest looking for a new CEO?
‘Ere’s one for Grizz! Nice to see the Police maintaining smart uniform standards:-
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Probably works undercover but health and safety requires that he wears his hi viz jacket at all times.
Well his cover’s blown now if so!
It’s commonly know as taking the piss.
if Cameron was the Heir to Blair was this chap the Heir to Grizzly?
Please do not conflate me with Bliar!
What an absolute mockery of a police man. It just should not be allowed.
Bin tasered aint he.
I wonder what the Prince of Denmark’s dad would say about this chap when he was busy doing a bit of haunting?
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combinèd locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end
Like quills upon the fretful popentine.
Certainly looking a bit fretful!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3588bfec683844b68c6cc8f21c195df5de2cf732f59bd1a9479adddb6fa20a94.png
What a joke our police now are.
I remember a chap I played golf with around 25 plus years ago.
He was the boss at an East London nick.
One of his know-all colleagues apparently under orders from head office, sent a memo around saying that the whole staff had to stop calling the desk sergeant Chalky. And old harmless tradition he had no objection to. Although his name was White. But the problem was sergeant White was of course black.
That’s how far back it all started to go wrong.
The long-standing chief in charge resigned. Nice guy as well.
There was a diver in the Royal Marines whose nickname was ‘Midnight’. Anecdotally his scuba tank lasted for less time than his companions. Perhaps he had a larger than average spleen.
My only experience of scuba diving was in Adelaide. After the first swinng pool open water lessons. They had a huge indoor tank. We had to go to the bottom about 6 metres across and 18 metres down. And with the tanks on our backs had take our masks off and replace them expelling the water then breathing as normal.
I snorted and nearly choked.
Made my way to the surface with the help of the instructor. My head was nearly exploding. I stuck to shallow water snorkeling after that I past the written test.
Could be a fake, of course. Surely even the plod wouldn’t go that far?
Lent him some clean clothes? after “24 hours in police custody”, maybe?
In the 1970s, ex-Royal Navy colleagues, who had tattooed arms, were compelled (by force Standing Orders) to wear their shirt sleeves down and buttoned at the wrist during heatwaves when the rest of us were in “shirt-sleeve order” (i.e. were permitted to roll up our sleeves to the elbow).
Quite right.
The Hawker Typhoon’s devastating rocket armament was effective against tanks, gun emplacements, buildings and railways. Coastal shipping was another target, including this unfortunate tug caught in the Scheldt estuary in September 1944. In this case the shell splashes from the aircraft’s four 20mm cannon assist the pilot in correcting his aim before unleashing a salvo of RPs.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/33f9d40a09dc47ff214bf713b2d56db21667cd0c436f5d59ad8c1c2de357acc5.jpg
Not sure this holds on NOTTL… :-)))
ZUBY:
@ZubyMusic
Studies show that people are more likely to believe any statement if you begin it with ‘studies show’.
Only if the studies show are accompanied by expert opinion, then I absolutely believe the statement (not).
And Experts claim.
If they don’t name the ‘experts’ i stop reading.
We wouldn’t know who they are anyway Phiz.
At least if they name them one can research them.
“Professor Ferguson’s model proves beyond doubt…”
Well his models are pretty consistent to be fair…!
He is just soooo good at following the science.
Consistently wrong….
We never get an apology when it’s all gone wrong.
Late 80s could have been V early 90s. I was with two old friends on a London underground train. Who should we find opposite us but the weather man Michael Fish.
We couldn’t help our selves in the sparsely occupied carriage. Had to mention the hurricane factor. He was reading a book but he must have heard us he change carriages.
Except I think Michael did apologise. He was probably following orders.
I am a great fan of Zuby.
He decided to declare that he was a woman and then went and broke one of the British Women’s weightlifting records. Having broken it he declared himself to be a man again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymqN9ESj-MM
We’d want to read the study first to see if it actually showed what they were saying.
Bitcoiners are Bonkers….and I speak as someone who owns a few cents of the stuff
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e91b34ccd25a3a0af8dfd42f1ea8fdc16214535d19ce6a05cbcb349b17d8f6c0.jpg
Bet the bloke who threw his PC hard drive in the rubbish wakes up with tears in his eyes.
Where did you get hold of yours? Seems like the UK government has done all it can to frustrate exchanges in this country.
Bought them on Coinbase before the weirdness started. Don’t know where I would buy now, would probably check out the Coin Bureau for recommendations (But he didn’t see Bankman Fraud coming, so I don’t know what that says!).
I use Kraken.
I originally bought mine using TSB but they put a stop to that. They had the cheek to tell me it was money laundering.
A ghastly Bogey Five, Eh!
Wordle 934 5/6
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Happy with a 4 today. Lots of possible words.
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I was lucky today
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Trio here
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If I can make a wrong choice, I will. Par four though so not complaining.
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Mother’s 95th birthday on 25th., to be held in her care home. Asked the staff to organise a cake & tea-party, paid Amazon to send some presents, cards to be posted tomorrow.
There’ll be no family with her, sadly. Maybe she remembers who we are? Who knows. Still brings a lump to the throat…
It broke Caroline’s father’s heart when her mother got Alzheimer’s and she no longer knew who he was after 58 years of marriage. He ended up predeceasing her.
As with my reply to Paul above, Caroline’s parents’ story you have written about is really tragic, Richard.
My father in-law went that way.
He was found by a river in his pyjamas in the middle of the night by the police.
It went down hill very rapidly from then on. Mother-Law had a serious stroke under the stress.
He’d already been a POW held in Poland for five years. Lovely man.
Poland? Sagan?
Not sure Conners.
He and some of his colleagues were captured in Belgium. I believe they were forced to march most of the way. Others weren’t so lucky they were captured lined up and shot.
Absolutely tragic, Paul.
So sorry, Paul. A dreadful disease.
That’s sad for you
We were lucky, both mothers were in complete command of their faculties before they died. Well good for us that is, I am not too sure that they benefitted from being completely aware.
The 25th is my eldest brother’s 84th birthday and also the anniversary of Mum passing, eleven years ago. She was 97 and I wasn’t sure how much recognition there was the last time I saw her.
That’s me for today. Gorgeous sun – chilly temps – not much over 3½ºC. Tomorrow about the same but – sadly – less sun. It really was a treat to be out and about with the sun full on ones face.
Have a jolly evening.
A deain.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/PortalPictures/january-2024/1001-MATT-PORTAL-WEB-P1.png?imwidth=320
https://cf.eip.telegraph.co.uk/responsive-image/content/2024/01/09/1704818529154.jpg
Spot on.
I get really cross about this Post Office Horizon scandal. Few if any of the general public had ever heard of it until a docudrama was produced for TV and now everyone is scandalised and demanding reparations. What will it take to show the British public the much more serious scandal of the Covid-19 jabs? Another docudrama produced for TV? I do wish that such a docudrama were made and shown on TV, so that the general public is suddenly woken from their sleepwalking ignorance of the much more serious scandal.
I think people were aware of it before (I know I’d come across it), but perhaps did not realise the magnitude of the problem nor how those responsible tried to cover it up.
I’ve got a good idea:
Why don’t you and all your extended family go back there and work very hard to ensure it’s a success?
Perhaps because you can live higher on the hog here?
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/somaliland-recognition-deal-ethiopia-somalia-b1131183.html
Didn’t you find a Somalilander in your woodpile a couple of weeks ago?
Indeed I did!
The next time I looked it had gone forth.
Whether it has multiplied, I know not.
I’ve been told there are plenty in MK now.
Milton Keynes?
If you decide to try to count them, I recommend you wear a stab jacket…
Ask any advice from a true Brit. It would be two words. Containing two vowels and three fs.
Naff forth?
Similar. 🖕
And multiply.
BBC Breaking News tonight: 0.17 degC increase in global warming at 1.48 degC above preindustrial levels:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67861954
But hang on a minute – graphs shown tonight on BBC show much larger increases in global sea temperatures than those observed in air and that is due to a regular recurring global natural phenomenon.
This has left many scientists unsure about exactly what is going on with the climate.
Hot News!!
Hot diggetty!
Dawg?
Ziggerty Boom!
Could it be jiggery-pokery?
Extract from a Daily Sceptic article:
But when was the climate perfect, asks the science writer Roger Pielke Jnr. in a recent blog post. Climate activists claim that every increment of warming over the pre-industrial baseline of 1850-1900 results in more harm to people and the planet. Pielke notes that this baseline serves as a “climate utopia” since almost nobody has an idea what the climate looked like back then, much less the climate impacts actually experienced. But researchers can piece together some dramatic events particularly in a strong El Niño year, currently being experienced at present, and very powerful in 1877-88. This period saw horrendous drought and famine to add to other major catastrophes around this time. The great U.S. midwestern fires of 1871 killed as many as 2,400 people, and other events were the 1872 Baltic Sea flood, an 1875 midwestern locust swarm of an estimated 12.5 trillion insects, the 1878 China typhoon that killed as many as 100,000 people, and the six major landfall hurricanes in the 1870s, compared with three in the 2010s.
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Pielke provides the above graph which shows the dramatic fall in estimated deaths caused by extreme weather since the 1870s. Caution is advised since the estimates are uncertain, although he notes the 1870s and 1920s numbers are certainly under-estimates. While not precise figures, they provide orders of magnitude guidance.
One can only imagine the hysterical and feverish weather speculations of imaginative modern climate journalists if they were plying their trade back in Victorian times. Of one thing you can be certain – human sin would invariably be blamed for upsetting Mother Nature.
That’s ‘The world’s sea surface hit its highest recorded temperature‘
The fumeroles must be fuming.
Sulphur, brimstone and CO₂.
But absolutely certain what conclusion to reach in order to continue being funded.
El Nono definitely has negligible effect on climate change compared with humans eating meat and cows burping!
One for BT. Just need a thought balloon to be inserted.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b9d34518800c380cee1ffc0023f0c24dc23624b1585326c0804e04f2910434e0.jpg
“I find you so touching…”
said with feeling?
“Teacher, teacher…”
I thought the French was maman maman
“Whose marriage shall we wreck?”
“I’m
bumdumbstruck.”Then there is yet another lovely boy:
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Keep it in the family.
Le même garçon, Shirley?
Toy Boy has a “coterie”,,,,,
They make Boy George look very butch.
I thought you could get pills for that.
Clutching his homework?
381570+ up ticks,
Evening M,
Coooor I naff fancy………
This is a photograph from the BBC. Does anyone think the editor might have a sense of humour? That look says a bloody lot to me.
HI V…iz?
Wait til i get you home…
Equus Phizzee?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12943713/Hes-not-dead-just-lazy-Owner-forced-post-social-media-tourists-repeatedly-reported-animal-welfare-charities.html
Looks like a bit of a p(h)ony.
The horse?
Sore throat.
It’s not croaked.
Totally off any topic:
Does anyone know why dogs love curry?
Every dog we’ve had has loved it.
Spartie is currently licking his snuffle mat to bits after I smeared some curry sauce on it.
err….
could be your cooking
Open goal, irresistible.
You’re not my Chum.
Even with my pedigree?
Never tried it, but I will with every dog I ever have now!
Maybe the dogs like the old joke:
Waiter in Indian restaurant to customer: Curry OK?
Customer: Later, put me down for My Way, Frank Sinatra.
I’ll get me tandoori chicken…………..
The still missed canine companion of my childhood loved curry too. That was the period of Vesta boil in the bag and he adored the stuff.
When I was a youngster my mother made her first curry. I remember it was a bit of a shock I think she just added to much curry powder.
We couldn’t eat much of it so she gave it to Skipper our Spaniel Retriever Cross.
A large Spaniel. I had never seen him run so fast in our garden. And we had to keep filling his water bowl for hours.
When I was a kid in the early 50s my mum’s curry was a bowl of stew with a spoonful of curry powder on the side.
My Mum used curry powder as well, and served it with little bowls of desiccated coconut, sultanas and sliced apple for scattering! So exotic we were!
Yes my mum used to put the bowl of desiccated coconut on the table as well and sliced banana. What happy memories.
Ask a vet, eg Sue Macfarlane’s daughter. Possibly the spices could upset/expel parasites in a dog’s intestines. Great opportunity for petfood manufacturers! Edit: turmeric is a de-wormer, other spices could be harmful.
There’s turmeric in Yu move, but the onions in a curry aren’t so good for doggies, nor the garlic.
I made sure I avoided any onion; hence just using the sauce.
I think any member of the allium family causes anaemia in dogs.
Gawd Anne! I read that as amnesia! That’s why Labs forget they’ve just had dinner!
🙂
Most dogs are very good at forgetting they’ve just eaten!
All of mine have given me that “I haven’t eaten for DAYS” look not long after they’ve licked their bowls clean.
Pretty much the same as us half an hour after a Chinese takeaway.
🤣
Ask a vet, eg Sue Macfarlane’s daughter. Possibly the spices could upset/expel parasites in a dog’s intestines. Great opportunity for petfood manufacturers! Edit: turmeric is a de-wormer, other spices could be harmful.
I don’t know (I don’t eat curry), but Oscar likes Sweet and Sour sauce.
Watch out for the garlic and onions.
A St George of England medal for anyone who gets this first time round…
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Welsh dragons?
Arctic!
Monkey
Hunt the Thimble, silly!
Delispthous?
Quick, the Heimlich manoeuvre someone!
That’s the kind of response Phizzee would enjoy
Filet Mignon ?
Eddie is Top Englishman!
yes, he is butchering the French language. Took me ages to get it!
I wondered if the butcher also sold fish and the request was Brum for Curried or Chillied Prawns.
I only guessed. 🤩🤗 but I accept the prize.
Butcher’s, with apostrophe.
I’m too dim to get the joke. Still, it will give a smug satisfaction to my intellectual superiors, which I suspect is its purpose.
Come off it, I would never post something for the purpose of making a fool of anyone.
It is precisely the opposite, you have to think yourself into the traditional English mindset of anglicising French words to realise that flaming yawn is filet mignon. OK it is a bit lame 🙂
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‘Just speeding up the compensation process.’
That’s her son.
Hence the expression son of a gun?
Per fer rated.
One might have thought, that given professor pantsdown’s track record, someone might have queried the models much earlier.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12943563/Major-flaw-doomsday-Covid-modelling.html
Hell’s teeth, even I was questioning the narrative at the time.
It didn’t suit the PTB. The whole convid farce was a practice run for the genuine North Korea experience.
Nowadays, a tin foil hat seems a sensible fashion choice.
If anyone is in any doubt that the judiciary trying Trump has been rigged to help the democrats, they should read this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12942823/trump-election-fraud-case-jack-smith-washington-dc.html
A good performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504 (‘Prague’) on R3 just now, but as the next piece is the appalling cacophony or Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony, it is now switched off and I’m off for a bath!
We had a friend who liked Messiaen. It was a complete, mystery to us, so we just nodded politely.
I like some Messiaen. Just have to be in the right mood for it.
‘Night All
Oh Dear
How Sad etc etc
https://twitter.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1744801524318957823
We have cats like that…
I’m going to have to buzz off, my battery is on a red warning. Leads to short on the charger to sit with. Night all. 😉😴🤗
Early night beckons.
I’m watching a 1963 porg about the Beatles.
Never a band has bettered them.
You may need a new battery. They do run out permanently
Just saying…
I had no idea the Beatles had any persons of restricted growth among them.
On saving ‘the planet’…
https://x.com/forthblue1/status/1744813801898209620?s=20
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Beep beep!
Coyote running off the edge of a cliff, remaining static in the air for half a minute while his legs continue going through the act of running, before falling into the canyon in a cloud of dust.
‘Absolute chaos in Germany…’
https://x.com/TheRealKeean/status/1744801752912966029?s=20
More power to their elbows!
Well, chums, I’m off to bed now. Sleep well and see you all tomorrow.
Rather a good video from a young lad who obviously loves his subject:-
https://youtu.be/g-u4X5tOVyk?si=3NtBVm9qjj9C37Cz
Evening, all. It’s been a bad day all round. I had two meetings one after the other, which is not ideal. The first was a complete waste of time with attempts to apportion blame to the members of the PCC (rather than admit where the finger should be pointed). I had to leave before the end and even so was late for the second meeting, which I chair. The second committee meeting I had great difficulty in hearing (my ears still haven’t cleared up after the head cold before Christmas) because of the seating arrangements and distance between members. I shall have to try to get a GP appointment to get them sorted out because nothing I’ve tried has worked. That will be fun – not!
As for the headline, there are a lot of things which should be addressed (and which should not have happened in the first place).
If syringing is the remedy. i’m afraid you will either have to do so yourself or pay out of your own pocket. The NHS no longer funds ear syringing.
I have a perforated eardrum. Syringing is the last thing I need!
Go through A&E to ENT. Or get your GP to make a referal. They might be able to help.
As far as I am aware the local ENT has closed. Getting to see a GP is like winning the lottery – the odds are not dissimilar.
That’s me for today. Slayders!
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Have you seen the Ferry prices for the Styx crossing lately?!
Cheaper than the Rubicon.
Supply and demand; demand and supply.
381570+ up ticks,
Pillow ponder,
Odious issues are now the norm, even regarding political overseers the order of the day, so the peoples of decency can expect no quarter and thereby give none.
Dt
Architect of postal scandal demands immunity
Gareth Jenkins, whose testimony about the IT system was central to the convictions, has so far failed to appear at a public inquiry.
By the by these public enquiry boards and their findings MUST be checked,then checked again, any cover ups being revealed
apply the same ” no quarter asked none given.
The decent indigenous peoples of this nation are taking hits of a deadly nature, we are suffering too many empty chairs, well passed time we redressed these evil happenings.
Hang on a moment. Some of the victims of that scandal were of Indian heritage. I dont think their suffering or that of any other ethnicity count for less.
381615+ up ticks,
Morning DW,
The way you think is your prerogative
as is the way I think ,mine.
if there is a point to be argued then
The indigenous people of England are generally considered to be the Celts, who inhabited the region before the Roman conquest in 43 AD.
(Whomever they are, they only exist within the genes of the current Brits)
Blaming Fujitsu technical is odd. The specification comes from the requestor (the Post Office). It’s their responsibility to determine how the project is run, managed and controlled.
381615+ up ticks,
Morning W,
are well versed in ” pass the parcel” tactics.
The sweetest polar bear just living in the moment. Night night.
https://x.com/gracieback2/status/1744775914741784604?s=20
All that water from melting arctic ice caps, NOT.
Smashing footage.
Goodnight, all.
Good morning, all – Wednesday’s new page is here.
‘Morning, Geoff, and thank you.
Good morning Geoff and thank you!