Wednesday 1 March: Rishi Sunak’s Brexit breakthrough could mark the moment that the Tories’ fortunes turn

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    NAG, NAG and NAG

    A Lawyer arrived home late, after a very tough day trying to get a stay of execution. His last-minute plea for clemency to the governor had failed and he was feeling worn out and depressed.

    As soon as he walked through the door at home, his wife started on him about, ‘What time of night to be getting home is this? Where have you been? Dinner is cold and I’m not reheating it’. And on and on and on.

    Too shattered to play his usual role in this familiar ritual, he poured himself a shot of whiskey and headed off for a long hot soak in the bathtub, pursued by the predictable sarcastic remarks as he dragged himself up the stairs.

    While he was in the bath, the phone rang. The wife answered and was told that her husband’s client, James Wright, had been granted a stay of execution after all. Wright would not be hanged tonight.

    Finally realizing what a terrible day he must have had; she decided to go upstairs and give him the good news. As she opened the bathroom door, she was greeted by the sight of her husband, bent over naked, drying his legs and feet.

    ‘They’re not hanging Wright tonight,’ she said.

    ‘For The Love Of God Woman, Don’t You Ever Stop?’

    1. Pinch, punch and all that, complete with White Rabbits.

      Thank you, Geoff, and I’m glad that I was up early.

    2. Pinch, punch and all that, complete with White Rabbits.

      Thank you, Geoff, and I’m glad that I was up early.

    1. Funny, that. Everyone (including many on here) was complaining that Chris Whitty and his SAGE mates gave over-cautious advice which caused lots of misery to many. Now it is revealed that Matt Hancock ignored his advice, it is Hancock who is the villain.

  4. Good morning from Kenya – leaving Samburu this morning for a stay at Ol Kinyei conservancy. It’s been a good stay here.

  6. Rishi Sunak’s Brexit breakthrough could mark the moment that the Tories’ fortunes turn

    Wooo hahahahahahahaha, woooo hahahahahahahah wooo hahahahahaahaha

    2. Have we got our borders back? Our fish? our courts? No? Then Sunak is unaware of what matters to the voting public.

      1. ‘Morning, Phiz. We are, very slowly, getting our fish back. Under the EU quota system we would have been due 110.000 tonnes this year, whereas the revised figure is 140,000 tonnes. I know most of us would say “Our waters, our fish” and I would be the first to agree. However, in three years’ time we will finally be in the driving seat to say who can catch what in our waters.

        No doubt our rights to our fish were part of some horse-trading. That, unfortunately, is the price of getting ourselves out of the EUSSR!

          2. But, but, but… I thought you had already posted your joke this morning, Tom. Still, I can’t complain about two jokes.

          3. It’s just my frame of mind, Elsie, to treat all propaganda as a bluddy joke.

          4. But, but, but… I thought you had already posted your joke this morning, Tom. Still, I can’t complain about two jokes.

  7. Good morning.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ca02de0dccd2fb39a3efd4d42e5721a547a6a1dcafa1b2d1b3df3954a4c8d199.jpg
    I wonder how people will demonstrate their eligibility for these mortgages? Will staff have a colour chart against which their skin will be checked? Or perhaps people will have to demonstrate their ancestry – going back how many generations?
    If it is boringly done on address, how long will it take some enterprising person to offer postal addresses…..

      2. Lammy, my Lammy,

        I certainly wouldn’t walk a million miles for one of his smiles!

        1. Mr. Rashid is the archetypical landlord and financier of “Asian” origins for whom no dodgy deal is off limits.

        2. He was a fictional client and friend, created by Bill Thomas.
          He could fix anything for a fee or a cut of the profits, particularly in the Asian and Muslim communities.

        3. Mr Rashid is Bill Thomas’ go to fixer, for Postal Votes, frigged elections USW.

          1. Well! I never would have thought that Bill was mixed up in that kind of thing!

          2. It’s his vivid Lawyer’s imagination at work.

            No doubt based on Occam’s Razor.

    4. Where would an Essex girl with a beach-ready tan appear on the spectrum?

      If I wanted a good deal from the bank, I’d be tempted to identify with the favoured group.

    5. The demographic most likely to default.
      Wasn’t that a cause of the last or last-but-one financial crash?

      1. I think it is address-based, targeted at poor black and hispanic neighbourhoods. Yes, it beggars belief that they are repeating 2008 by handing out loans to poor people with no savings. Credit isn’t wealth!

    6. Morning all. Fanny May and Freddy Mac all over again. Then bundle up, sell, wait for the next financial collapse.

      1. I wonder how much in bribes was paid to British financial institutions to buy up all that bad debt.

    1. Since the Suffragette movement only started in 1880, I doubt there were many black women in the country, never mind the Suffragette Movement, but the wokes, in their desire to portray blacks as being involved everywhere, will happily discard history in favour of THEIR truth.

      Lying bastards.

  11. A rather disturbing development this morning.
    The Twitter feed of the US consulate in Milan was allegedly hacked by someone who left a series of posts claiming that the Ukrainian government are Nazis (a point of view held by many people). The tweets are now deleted.
    So the next thing to surface is a meme that basically reproduces the image of the Ukrainian flag being peeled back to reveal a swastika, and then has a photo (allegedly) of German tanks leaving for Ukraine.

    I thought that could be the agenda – pressure Germany into sending tanks, then blame the Germans for everything.
    Didn’t expect it to start quite so soon though!

  12. Putin secretly living in golden palace he shares with gymnast lover. 1 March 2023.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0f4619f636b521e8666c43c7c4e7034922e97bb0738391f63416178ccc0f4c6b.png

    Vladimir Putin is reportedly living with his gymnast girlfriend on a vast, heavily-guarded country estate featuring several palatial mansions and a playground for their young children.

    Alina Kabaeva, a 39-year-old Olympic rhythmic gymnastic champion who has long been linked with the 70-year-old Russian leader, lives in a villa on Putin’s estate on Lake Valdai, about 250 miles north west of Moscow, according to a report from Russian investigative news site The Project.

    It’s secret but it’s in the Telegraph. It’s a Golden Palace that looks like a villa. There is of course no mention here of Zelensky’s foreign holdings in Florida and Tuscany. As in so much else Vlad appears to have a better taste in women than his Western counterparts. For someone who’s dying he’s doing remarkably well.

    This is propaganda for the mentally retarded. If it’s any consolation it’s better than the Daily Mail version (this is a circulated story from Central Propaganda Command) which is so mangled it’s barely comprehensible. Only previous acquaintance with the contents allowed me to decipher it.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11802679/Inside-forest-palace-Putin-shares-gymnast-lover-secret-children.html?ico=topics_pagination_desktop
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/28/putin-secretly-living-gymnast-girlfriend-children-luxury-mansion/

      2. We were told he was on his last legs. Not surprising if he is trying to keep up with a gymnast.

    3. A 28 hectate park, eh? Is this where you park your 28 hectates? Lol. (Got that in before Grizzly got in his post about declining spelling standards.)

    1. Actually, I thought it was a rare outbreak of common sense. Violent offenders or intact males won’t be allowed in women’s prisons. But those who have had the operation and have no violent tendencies will.
      If they are political activists, there is only the risk of them boring the women to death…

      1. I take a hard line on this. No male person, whatever the state of his genitalia or lack of violent tendencies should be in a woman’s prison.

        If people wish to dress up as and pretend to be the opposite sex, then let them. Also, if people wish to support them in that, fair enough. They have that right.

        HOWEVER, what they DO NOT HAVE, is the right to force others to agree with them, nor do they have the right to silence that disagreement.

        1. This decision effectively doesn’t accept that just saying you are a woman makes it so though, and that is the most important principle.
          I understand where you are coming from.

          No transmen will be demanding to go to men’s prisons – I suppose they will get sent to the “special units” referred to in the post. Also, if transwomen get bullied in women’s prisons, they will be asking to be sent there too.

    2. Gender Recognition Certificate! Lol. We are hellbound that’s for sure! Morning Bob.

      1. I thought that Scottish anomaly had been STOPPED by Westminster – did they leave an escape clause?

        1. It has – Sturgeon wanted to send any rapist who claims to be a woman to a women’s prison.

          There are people who genuinely suffer from wanting to live as the opposite sex, and they should be free to do so in a free (ha ha) society as long as they don’t cause any harm to anyone else.

          The causes of this sudden outbreak of transgenderism are up for discussion – my view is that it is due to physical changes in gut health and/or hormones caused by the soup of toxic chemicals to which people in the west are exposed via food, vaccines, manufactured goods in the home, cleaning materials, soap, cosmetics, contraceptives etc.

          1. BB2, I’m subjected to, and have been for many years, your list of toxic chemicals, but I have absolutely NO desire to change my sex to any of the 73 formulated by the stupid ‘Drag Queens’.

            Perhaps the whisky swilling around my gut health, have acted as the antiseptic they are.

          2. Some people are more susceptible than others. A tendency to poor gut health seems to run in my family.
            There is also a huge rise in neurological conditions, allergies, childhood cancers etc.

          3. I wonder if there is any socio economic or ‘cultural’ correlation? I know of quite a few young people who were frequently dosed with antibiotics as babies and toddlers. Not good for the gut.

          4. Don’t most children get regularly dosed with antibiotics nowadays? It certainly keeps them alive – but perhaps they need after care to ensure that their gut health recovers.
            Yesterday I saw a study had been published demonstrating that the covid injection damages gut health as measured by populations of specific bacteria before and after injection.
            The MMR is also implicated in autism, and autism can be linked to gut health…so could lasting changes to gut health be caused by childhood vaccinations?

            Anecdotal, but I had a long course of antibiotics as a child for a (100% hospital caused) injury, and I later had a chronic candida overgrowth and poor health that lasted for around ten years and effectively stole my youth. Hence my interest in gut health.

          5. IIRC there was only one doctor who suggested the MMR/autism connection, whose name I can’t quite recall Andrew someone. And I thought this theory had been disproved?

          6. Andrew Wakefield.
            When my children were small, I tried to find out if the MMR/autism thing was true. It was in the early days of the internet, and all I could find was mainstream stuff which said that the doctor was a charlatan merely trying to make a name for himself, and the injections were perfectly safe.
            Sounds familiar?
            Guess what…he was a good doctor, his research was perfectly valid, and that was an example of the pharma industry’s control over the mainstream media. And of course, more research has never been done by them.

          8. When I got my annual tonsillitis, I stayed in bed or rested at home for about a week.
            Nowadays, patients are dosed up with antibiotics and sent back to school or work.

          9. I seem to remember that if a pregnant woman was given streptomycin, her child’s milk teeth were mottled.

          10. You need to get those rellies onto sufficient gut antiseptics to ensure their continued ‘good health’ or ‘Prosit’

          12. But are those developments due to improved diagnostic techniques or even the fact that, in some cases, we have the time and money to indulge a variety of hypochondriacs?

          13. I cannot tell you the depths of the despair I still feel reading your post. I was diagnosed by doctors with allergies and poor gut health. My health was destroyed – I was depressed, constantly in pain, couldn’t sleep, physically weak, “cotton wool” brain and other symptoms – for around ten years.
            But because I had no spots, rashes or other things that people associate with illness, I was labelled a lazy, hysterical hypochondriac by everyone, and they were not shy about telling me to my face.
            I had had skin tests that showed allergic reactions to foods, and people were telling me that they don’t believe in food allergies and that I was just imagining it.
            When I was in my early twenties, there was a long time when I used to just sit at my parents home, doing the same jigsaws over and over again on the kitchen table, because I couldn’t do anything more challenging. Around five years previously, I had gained A level grades in physics, maths and chemistry that got me a place at Oxford.
            If you haven’t been through poor gut health yourself, you simply cannot fathom how it ruins your life.

          14. I did say ‘some cases’. My father suffered with eczema.
            I have a friend with Crohn’s disease.
            My brother gets migraine if he eats chocolate.
            However, that doesn’t stop me wondering why many children in my grandchildren’s age group keep questioning practically every morsel of food they put in their mouths.

          15. Some people are more susceptible than others. A tendency to poor gut health seems to run in my family.
            There is also a huge rise in neurological conditions, allergies, childhood cancers etc.

          16. Stopped or paused? It would appear that of the three nationalists hoping to move to Bute House, Forbes is against such nonsense (whilst being castigated for her religious beliefs) whilst Regan and Scooter Boy (who’s religious fervour is swept under the prayer mat) would carry on with the madness.

            As an aside, and as an example of SNP ‘transparency’, they intend to hold the three-way leadership hustings without any media involvement. There has been a bit of a backlash to this idea but, with a history of minutes-free meetings and lack of tangible paperwork from Shortbread Senate contracts, it will be interesting to see if they can continue to dodge public exposure.

          17. Hopefully the idea is dead in the water now, following the backlash against Sturgeon, and a decision from Westminster?

          18. Ideally, that would be so. Yet the notion of having a stick to beat against Westminster may prove too appealing for a party bereft of economic answers in their perpetual push for Neverendum. Whether Forbes, Regan or Scooter Boy are willing to sell their souls and keep the Greens in their ministerial non-jobs just to maintain a slim majority will have a bearing on the decision. As the Greens are fully onboard with the mentally challenged who are a very small tail attempting to wag a very large dog.

        1. A bit of paper that rules the 37 trillion sex linked cells that constitute the average human body are WRONG! So there!

  14. My bold

    FBI director confirms COVID ‘most likely’ leaked from Wuhan lab and claims China is ‘thwarting and obfuscating’ U.S. investigations – days after Energy Department revealed shock report into virus origin
    FBI Director Christopher Wray commented for the first time that the FBI concluded that COVID originated from a lab in Wuhan, China
    Wray said the virus was likely the result of a lab leak and that the Chinese government has worked to undermine his agency’s work
    The FBI’s report concludes the same thing as the Energy Department’s latest probe into the virus, but the White House cannot come to a consensus

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11805431/FBI-director-says-COVID-leaked-Wuhan-lab-likely-potential-lab-incident.html

    Odd that the timing of this coincides with China’s attempted interventions in the Ukraine conflict.

    An idea for a Tom Clancy style novel.

    What would the reaction be if China stated:
    “We must finally acknowledge that it was a leak from Wuhan, where we were working closely with American scientists on gain of function, under the direction of Dr Fauci and his people, both in Wuhan and in the Ukraine. The leak happened when faulty containers were transported by the Americans in Ukraine to Wuhan and we did everything in our power to stop the spread.
    It was in Washington’s interests to hide the facts, particularly from Donald Trump, and we mistakenly agreed to co-operate on the understanding that their pharmaceutical companies had developed a suitable vaccine and were ready to issue it.
    We have been working closely with senior Democrats since the Obama Administration opened labs in Ukraine; using Hunter Biden and Dr Fauci as secret conduits to the President via Vice President Biden.”

    1. Considering the Covid virus was invented in a US backed, Ukrainian ‘Gain of Function’ Lab before being shipped to Wuhan, I don’t think the US can take their ‘holier than thou’ attitude too far.

    2. China is ‘thwarting and obfuscating – naturally. Would he US welcome Chinese investigators intent on proving them to be at fault? I doubt it.

  15. 371680+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Wednesday 1 March: Rishi Sunak’s Brexit breakthrough could mark the moment that the Tories’ fortunes turn

    Glad to say too much of the tory (ino) standard was revealed and showed the party in its true colours NO right minded person would wish to return to that.

    Via their political power either through orchestrated intentions, greed, or dangerous ineptness peoples died, or were / are left in a pitiful state of injury.

    There are those that will take this pm and his rhetoric as being what they want to hear as they did with the wretch cameron and
    treacherous treasa No action needed , PARTY FIRST.

    Those are the very creatures that have brought a great deal pf trouble to the front doors of a multitude of decent peoples even to the extent of continuing to return to power the very political reptiles that as a political coalition orchestrated the flooding of the nation in a great many cases of foreign enemas consisting of mass killers, mass paedophilia activist.

    The three issues are today still ongoing, the mass killing, the mass paedophilia,the mass support.

    Truth be told much of the child abuse starts on entering a polling booth and casting a vote.

    1. But it wasn’t just Matt Hancock though – the same mass murder in care homes was being carried out in the US at the same time.
      They will punish the disposable small fry like Hancock, while the people who supplied this plan on both sides of the Atlantic will get off scot free.

  18. Britain’s immigration system is in a panicky state of collapse. 28 February 2023.

    My daughter is currently searching for a room in a flat in London where a Dickensian hovel starts at £600-a-month plus energy bills so she can defrost her cell, and her extremities. We have a generational housing crisis and are unable to meet the accommodation needs of our own young people. Not to mention the fact that millions of Britons are struggling to access medical care. Yet, a Conservative government apparently believes now is the right time to introduce a barely-disguised amnesty, a ruse to make it look like the Prime Minister is fulfilling his promise to reduce the vast asylum backlog (unofficially more than 160,000 outstanding cases) by the end of the year.

    There is in actuality no system. It’s open house! Panic is possible in that someone might have realised where we are heading. Utter collapse!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/02/28/fast-tracking-asylum-seekers-sly-shabby-betrayal-british-people/

    1. These numbers on top of the Ukes and Hong Kongers who have arrived in hundreds of thousands quite legally.

      1. What we should do and what we shall do are very different.

        Remember the prayer:

        We have done those things which we ought not to have done and we have left undone those things which we ought to have done and there is no health in us.

      1. So the Welsh are national pigs, Philip?

        I would have thought that National SHEEP day would have been more appropriate.

  20. ‘Morning, Peeps. Happy March 1st!

    As expected, there are a number of ‘Windsor’ letters today, but this one seems to me to be the most sensible and realistic:

    SIR – Sherelle Jacobs says Brexit has failed.

    Unfortunately this plays into the hands of Remainers, who still maintain that Brexit has been a disaster and we should rejoin the EU – or, at the very least, shadow all of its rules as a vassal state. Like most Brexiteers, I would prefer that the EU court had no sway in Northern Ireland, but politics is the art of the possible: we do not live in an ideal world.

    Rishi Sunak and his team have obtained the best possible result from the Northern Ireland Protocol fiasco. The limited remaining authority of the EU court is a fig leaf that allows the EU to save face, and will be quietly ignored. The most important thing that the new agreement has demonstrated is that the EU finally realises it can no longer push us around and expect us to cave in.

    Alison Levinson
    Hastings, East Sussex

    It would have been preferable to be shot of the European Court, but that was never going to happen, and it remains to be seen how effective the ‘brake’ will be if the need to use it arises.

    1. Stuff the EU saving face. It is intolerable that we should be grateful for concessions by an outside entity over whether a part of OUR country will be subject to its rules and any new ones it introduces?

      Apparently the wording is such that NI can only veto imposition of new EU laws in exceptional circumstances. And who decides what constitute exceptional circumstances – the ECJ. Strewth!

      Ann Widdecombe nails it here
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uQZ5in8bF4

          1. I agree – she is an excellent woman. The only fault I can find in her is her peculiar voice – could she not have done something to sort it out?.

    3. The limited remaining authority of the EU court is a fig leaf that allows the EU to save face, and will be quietly ignored.

      No country that allows judicial oversight from a foreign power can call itself Sovereign!

      1. Likewise the surrender of Sovereign power to an unelected supranational, Gates and CCP funded and controlled, WHO.
        Who wants Gates, of all people, to have a say in one’s bodily autonomy? Biden’s regime is heading to the courts on this issue as Texas and Oklahoma prepare legal challenges. The same needs to happen here if Sunak tries to empower the WHO in our medical wellbeing.

    4. No, Alison, they have not. The best outcome would be that the EU had no say in it whatsoever and that the ECJ had absolutely no jurisdiction there at all.

      Sorry dear. You don’t seem to be aware of the intent of the EU or it’s frenzied malice.

    5. It would have been better to have gone for WTO terms in the first place. I know that May and Benn put obstacles in the way but with an 80 seat majority surely Bumbler Boris Johnson could have got round these obstacles?

      Trouble was that Johnson was never a Brexiter – he was, is and always will be, a remainer.

    1. I certainly had no desire to see it after reading the review, though I found the review interesting.

    1. Surely even the dimmest person must realise that this is not going to happen.
      Anyway, the plan has already been published to close all the airports (presumably they will stay open for private jets though).
      Oh, but it hasn’t been announced by the BBC, so it’s a “conspiracy theory.”

  23. Good Moaning.
    Another day; another grand sort out. Another groove to be worn in the road ‘twixt Dower House and charity shop plus tip.
    How on earth did we accumulate so much STUFF?!?
    WHY did we accumu ……

      1. Good Lord. We do have some taste!
        Funnily enough, the carpenter who is revamping the bedroom asked me if I needed a dressing table to sit at while applying the slap.
        I explained that my make-up bag was in the kitchen and I whacked on what I needed while slurping a coffee before heading out of the door. He seemed unsurprised.

          1. 🙂 After this past year, I’ve seen enough of lawyers to last me a lifetime.
            Mr. Eeyore of Fulmodeston not included, natch.

    2. I got some grumpy looks from the charity shop people for dropping off bits through the front.

      After the first two carriers bags I opened the boot of the tanker and they said ‘gosh!’. We had some genuinely pristine board games in there. £50-100 boxed sets, complete, all parts, mint condition. Several chess sets, boxes and boxes of books (a complete Tolley’s).

      After the 7th was unloaded I hope they didn’t mind the drop off.

  24. ‘Morning All

    Medley

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    Finally found my perfect doormat

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  25. And now for something really important:

    SIR – Michael Staples (Letters, February 28) complains that today’s ties are not long enough.

    He should find out where Boris Johnson gets his.

    Rob Dorrell
    Bath, Somerset

    …and Mr Farage – some of his are almost long enough to polish his shoes from the sitting position! (Slight exaggeration, but only slight.)

  26. A heartfelt plea from a BTLer:

    Margaret Robinson
    1 HR AGO
    I am writing this comment here, although it is not relevant to the letters, because I’m pretty sure that if I write a letter it won’t be published and the subject, I believe, is of the greatest importance.
    The other day an article appeared in the DT, no comments allowed, about a school in the Isle of Man, the Queen Elizabeth II school, where drag queens have been giving lessons to children which are completely inappropriate. Due to protests from parents after their children have come home upset and distraught, these lessons have been halted while an investigation is held.
    Children have apparently (and unsurprisingly, given the vile content) been traumatised. I can’t say here what the content was as the mods wouldn’t allow it; suffice to say it was sexually perverse and entirely destructive of childhood innocence.
    Such lessons, according to Miriam Cates MP and others, are being held across the country in PSHE lessons. Who is behind this brainwashing, or rather brain polluting, of our children? Why is it being done? Once these images are in a child’s mind they are there for ever.
    I strongly urge everyone with school age children to take action. Find out if your child’s school is holding such lessons. If they are, find some way of getting them stopped. Spread the word among other parents who are unaware to get joint action going. Write to your MP, the school, the education authority, the education minister, not once, but until you get an appropriate response.
    Your child’s mental health is at stake, please act.

    Hear, hear! It remains to be seen how long it remains in Letters Comments, but it certainly gets my vote. I have already had this conversation with part of the family, and fortunately there is currently no prospect of a ‘drag visit’. I am hoping that the remainder – parents of three – are already aware of this sinister practice and will make their views clear should the need arise. I can do no more.

      1. Be nice if many things in government were stopped. Entire departments, for example.

        1. I’d settle for the entire government; but then I always see the larger picture.

    2. They will say “no, and up yours” because the department for education is not interested in teaching children, it is there to soak up money destined for children’s education.

      We could close it and no one would notice. Heck civil servants went on strike from the dept of Ed and no one cared. That’s why they’re no longer on strike. Because it just didn’t matter. Even the thick as mince Lefty unionists realised that all they were doing was standing around in the cold not getting paid.

    3. The persons responsible for booking/hiring these individuals need to be named and removed from proximity to children. In my career in education, I have come across a few people who should not have been in schools at all. And that was before all this perverted BS was around.

  27. 371680+ up ticks,

    🎵
    Perhaps they’ll listen now

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    12h
    Time to repeat for the millionth time what UKIP said before & since the Referendum.

    Peoples have been trading with each other since before political states existed.

    Every country has access to markets, EU & non-EU (barring specific sanctions).

    Most of the World’s 200 countries are members of the World Trade Organisation. Over the last 50 years most trade tariffs have been reduced to zero.

    It is against WTO membership terms for a state to impose tariffs on another state without applying that to all other states.

    The EU’s paperwork & red tape has nothing to do with facilitating trade but everything to do with imposing its own dominion & control on its own & other states.

    The Northern Irish border issue is a completely artificial problem created by the EU.

    https://gettr.com/post/p2a18hu0faf

    1. The purpose of the EU is to create and enforce a protectionist market. To raise tariff barriers to close off all other imports in favour of local control. It then sets out to legislate and micro manage the economy knowing it has total control over it, favouring some industry while punishing others. This command economy is for political means, not economic.

    2. The warqueen is on holiday. She has four weeks of well intentioned ‘gardening leave’. So far she’s walked both dogs their 8 miles twice.

      Mongo’s knackered. I’ve got another 30 days of this!

  29. DT article:

    “Black lecturer who complained of failure to put correct nameplate on her door loses racism tribunal

    Dr Christabelle Peters said it was a ‘microaggression’ the plaque did not include her academic title unlike her white university colleagues”

    This isn’t quite the full story, but having lost the tribunal hearing on all counts (race discrimination, race harassment, victimisation, and disability discrimination) this might be regarded as a breath of fresh air?

    1. People who want the title are not worth it.

      I knew someone who was desperate people know he had a doctorate in programming. The man was a total and utter waster.

  31. Good morning, all. Hoping that if March comes in as a lion then it will go out like a lamb.

    What a PoS!
    Zelensky demanding further escalation by the insertion of USA military personnel into the Ukraine. Has the puppet in No 10 been primed to send our people? Is Johnson on the case, rattling his sabre for all to see and hear? (Freudian slip 🤣)

    https://twitter.com/SandraSentinel/status/1630796846779047936

  33. Oh to be a ‘fly on the wall’ during the confidential discussions in the most senior military circles these days?

      1. This is the inevitable outcome of removing an elected government and putting a clown in charge of Ukraine and lauding the idiot.

        Obama, Clinton and the Neo-Cons in Washington have a lot to answer for. Ukraine has lost Bakhmut and by implication the Donbass. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost for no purpose.

        1. Happens every time US wants to spread democracy get something for nothing.
          LDM – Lives Don’t Matter.

      2. This is the inevitable outcome of removing an elected government and putting a clown in charge of Ukraine and lauding the idiot.

        Obama, Clinton and the Neo-Cons in Washington have a lot to answer for. Ukraine has lost Bakhmut and by implication the Donbass. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost for no purpose.

    3. There must be a SAGE type committee that thinks up this stuff.

      Morning Korky. It’s probably a branch of the Nudge Unit. The same people who organise the ads for diversity.

          1. I know – she was 19 when we married. We were both far too young. But at least we are still young wen the boys grew up.

          2. We were 21 when we were married and 22 and 25 when children were born. We notch up 55 years of marriage next week.

        3. Well, we did have one or two other matters on our minds. (Don’t mention the mother-in-law!!!!)

          1. The most destructive thing the MiL said to the wife after finding out we couldn’t have any more children was ‘you’re getting too old anyway.’

            I could have lynched her and used the swinging corpse as a pinata.

        4. My mother was 31 when my older sister was born and my father was 37.

          My two sisters both had their first child at 21 but when our first son, Christo, was born I was 47 and Caroline was 31.

        1. In effect we are now practising eugenics in reverse.

          The stupid are procreating in their teens and the intelligent have postponed having children until they are in their 30s or 40s.

    1. Yo All

      Action Stations, Action Stations, Action Stations,

      Hands to battle Stations, Hands to battle Stations

      Airbourne Porcine Squadrons Incoming

        1. Yo anne,

          may I point out a Typo.
          Often when your are referring to those above you,in the chain of command, the spelling is “cur”

    2. Great Britain does deal with Northern Ireland to let the EU control part of the U.K.
      Scumbags.

      1. The EU were quite open about it; they forced the use of UK instead of GB (and NI) on cars.

    3. All to get headlines. I’m just surprised it wasn’t closer to the election. There has been no breakthrough. It’s all just lies.

    4. The EU is still in control in Northern Ireland and he ECJ is still the final arbiter on all legal questions.

      How this can be presented as a triumph when it is a betrayal and a sell out?

      Will the MSM wake up to the truth of the matter or is it so mired that it is incapable of any sort of objectivity?

      1. It is long past the time when MSM reported news impartially. They are all in it together.

  36. DT headline says they have 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages from Matt Handycock et al about lockdowns etc. Can’t read the article as I don’t subscribe.
    Is this now going to unravel?

          1. The hoo ha about not testing those who went into care homes from their own home is, in my view, yet another red herring. The PCR tests were not designed to be diagnostic tools and the LFTs were even worse. The tests themselves were a waste of money, time and effort. But helped to keep the public frightened of their own shadows.

          2. The hoo ha about not testing those who went into care homes from their own home is, in my view, yet another red herring. The PCR tests were not designed to be diagnostic tools and the LFTs were even worse. The tests themselves were a waste of money, time and effort. But helped to keep the public frightened of their own shadows.

      1. Bally heck. An article about Isabel Oakeshott and only one picture of her and that fudged in dark clothes!

    4. Sadly I doubt it. There are two schools: the fervent believers who trusted the government implicitly – these people are not very bright and do as they’re told. Their pride and shame will have them ignore it. Then there’s folk like us who thought the complete lack of balance and common sense (such as lockdown after lockdown) just can kicking and eventually decided it was a farce.

      Neither group will change their minds much.

      The middle will feel betrayed and cheated but feel powerless to do anything about it.

  37. 371680+ up ticks,

    Came through the check out door of Morrisons yesterday unknowingly triggering the door alarm, and was stopped as a potential meat rustler, nearly a plod said, have you a receipt then promptly reached into my bag and pulled out the receipt, checked it then by way of explanation said “it’s the meat”.
    To me that is on par with reaching into ones pocket and pulling out some form of ID, Won’t happen again.

    The same with aldi And the Mrs the alarm went off on leaving
    and a square shaped kapo demanded of her ” you got gin in there”
    then upon looking said “tis the meat” that triggered the alarm”

    Are they trying to belittle us as part of their quest to kill off all
    carnivores.

    1. Have they just put tags on the meat due to raised prices?
      Have you got a farm shop near you? if so might be worth buying directly from the producer.

      1. 371680+ up ticks,

        Morning BB2,

        We mostly use the towns little shops for the bulk of our shopping needs.

      2. Or a butcher. We have one in our local metropolis of 7,000. Support small businesses if you can.

    3. I never buy meat from supermarkets.
      It’s mostly – if not all – halal. (Apart from pork, obvs.)
      Local butchers are the only places I trust.

  38. Morning all 😉 😊
    Oh well moving on and trying to get away from the news, first of the month nothing is getting better.
    As we all can see, it’s all being heavily manipulated and going pear-shaped now. So very depressing. Up to 2,000 pubs might have to close as custom suffers and energy costs rise to over 3,000 pounds per month.
    I’ve got an appointment at the orthopaedic department today, had another knee X-ray last week. Shame the specialist have never suffered the same slings and arrows. I expect I’ll get another pat on the head and ushered away. Possibly after being told the waiting list is 4 years long and growing.

  40. Reverend Coles and Charles Spencer’s unashamedly posh and highbrow trivia podcast is a sheer delight
    The Rabbit Hole Detectives beats the BBC’s QI hands down. Meanwhile, Matthew Syed’s history of woke on Radio 4 needs rigour
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/reverend-coles-charles-spencers-unashamedly-posh-highbrow-trivia/

    Having exploited his sexuality and his entitlement to call himself ‘The Reverend‘ in order to boost his media career I thought that Coles had resigned from being a priest.

    I am afraid I find this man completely repellent. He is not my type and I am very happy to say with confidence that I most certainly would not be his!

    1. I would never listen to either of them. But to call Coles “posh” is just ludicrous. Common little tosspot.

          1. When we went to Oz in 1976 as 50 pound Pomes, we boarded the Ship Australis at Southampton, our cabin was quite antiquate and we were happy to spend the 6 weeks sleeping there…………..but as soon as we moved into the bay of Biscay the throttle was opened up and the cabin started to shake. It seemed the prop shaft was slightly bent and the noise was horrendous. We even slept on deck. But were given another cabin with in a few days. this one had a distinct smell of lavatories. but was silent. we put up with it. And of course it sailed through the Suez canal. We found out a few years later the ship had sunk between two of the Canary islands.
            It was very old built before WW2 and was previously named SS America.
            But a wonderful experience we shall never forget
            https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=0c510de1d92b27a4JmltdHM9MTY3NzYyODgwMCZpZ3VpZD0yYTM3MmNkMS0wN2UyLTY3NmItMGJjMC0zZTE3MDY5YTY2ZTgmaW5zaWQ9NTU0MA&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=2a372cd1-07e2-676b-0bc0-3e17069a66e8&psq=ss+australis+photos+and+stories&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9hbm9tYWxpZW4uY29tL3RoZS1naG9zdC1vZi10aGUtc3MtYW1lcmljYS8jOn46dGV4dD1JbiUyMDE5OTQlMjB0aGUlMjBTUyUyMEFtZXJpY2ElMjBzYXc&ntb=1

    2. We had to read a book he wrote for book club. It was execrable. He kept referring to himself as a “widow”.

      NO YOU ARE NOT.

        1. The book nearly got flung at the wall. Only because it was a library book I didn’t. I’ve never felt like that before about a book.

  41. With ref to the headline – Sunak’s Brexit deal.. no, it won’t. The same flim flam, the same lies, the same controls over us and NI. It is a deceit sold as marketing and spin. Until the ECJ no longer has any jurisdiction, until we have left the ECHR, and the HRA removed form statute, until there is an independent, UK only farming policy, until we start building reservoirs, until we diverge on energy generation, including fracking, drilling and permanently end contracts for difference it is a lie. he intent is to chain us to the hated EU. They know this. Anything else is a sham.

  42. Today topic. Does anyone else find this little snippet outrageous: “…The DUP tail must not now be allowed to wag the government dog,…” Are they not supposed to be representatives of Northern Ireland in their own parliament, does their opinion count for nothing?

    And: “Rishi Sunak’s Brexit breakthrough could mark the moment that the Tories’ fortunes turn” Well actually no, not unless they crack down on the illegal criminals crossing the English Channel and actually start deporting them on a scale that we can believe they have finally woken up to being Conservatives and not wet Socialists.

      1. Sorry, is that the people trapped in Sphagnum moss bogs in Ireland of no significance?

        1. I was thinking more of the green woke eco-freaks (see eg Caroline Lucas) who got millions ovotes but only one P – and can, therefore, be totally ignored.

          1. Oh Them! Well I would say that in Northern Ireland it should be the parties that have real power in Northern Ireland that should have a say. If you allow feedback from things like the Greens then you should have a referendum by the Northern Irish about what they want, God forbid we can’t have that sort of behaviour, can we? Better to leave it to Shgitty Sunak, the Internationalist, and the rest of our betters

    2. May I plagarise a itsy bitsy

      The Tory tail must not be allowed to wag the government dog,… (said WEF members of government)

    3. How long before the truth comes out.

      Will there be a single MSM outlet which will have the courage and integrity to break ranks?

      1. I doubt it Rastus. The MSM long ago abandoned reporting the news or the truth. They are just mouthpieces for the establishment now.

    1. Sunak deliberately kept everything hush hush in order to present us with a fait accompli.

      But we must not forget Johnson’s WA. It may have been oven ready and fantastic but it was a surrender WA produced by May and Robbins. Johnson did his very best to not tell us what was in it and he failed to tell us that it was just May’s hand-me-down. Remember too that he was going to be grilled on live TV about the WA by Andrew Neil but at the last moment this did not go ahead.

      Many of us here have nothing but contempt for virtually every leader of the Conservative Party since Margaret Thatcher.

  44. Husband of killed Epsom College head Emma Pattison ‘died of shotgun wound to the head’

    ‘Deepest sympathies’

    Simon Wickens, the coroner, gave a message of condolence to Mr Pattison’s sister, Rachel, who was described as the inquest’s main point of

    contact.

    He said: “The unnatural nature of death means an inquest is required.

    “I would like to offer my deepest sympathies to not only Rachel but to George’s wider family at this very difficult time.”

    And to the deceased wife’s family: not a word.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/28/epsom-college-headteacher-husband-george-pattison-died-shotgun/

    2. Those of us who chose our spouses wisely must thank God that our marriages are so very much happier than the unfortunate Mrs Pattison’s was.

        1. …and the King has yet to face his consequences.

          Let’s see what he takes as a Coronation Oath.

    3. Good old royal family, reliably providing a diversion from stuff the government doesn’t want the masses dwelling on ever since George IV….

  46. Hello dear people .

    I got up early , showered , sorted a few things out in the kitchen , Moh was up early as well for golf.. I fed and watered the dogs , garden routine , then travelled along to my local surgery to see if I could beat the early morning rush for appts .. arrived 08.30.. spoke to the receptionist , she said come back at 0915.. and the doctor will see you .. I am amazed , and now very grateful

    My ears are so painful and sore .. outer and inner .. I waited untill just before 10am .. and voila .. doctor called me ..my goodness , he took photos of my ears .. and examined them .. no ear drum infection , but he said no wonder I was in agony .. my ears were inflamed .. and has prescribed stuff for eczema.. so will pick up two prescriptions shortly..

    This has been going on since lockdown .. Mask wearing and the string I was allergic to started things off behind my ears , and the heat of last summer made things worse as does the heating at home and in the car . Moh really does suffer from the cold .. me not so .

    Ear clearing stuff is hit and miss, the stuff I have been using made matters worse.

    2. Oh dear, I hope you get some stuff for the pain as well – does the eczema stuff have painkilling properties too?

  47. The Windsor agreement deserves to be exiled

    By Ewen Stewart
    -March 1, 2023

    THE sheer cynicism of our Prime Minister is quite something. The Windsor Agreement indeed! More like the Duke of Windsor Agreement: something that should have been exiled a long time ago.

    Sure, the problem dates to Theresa May and the Remain Parliament who conspired to neuter Brexit at birth, yet Sunak’s agreement on Monday is in some ways worse than what went before. Before we address what is worse, let’s look at what may be better.

    The devil is in the detail but undoubtedly this agreement will reduce the amount of paperwork between the mainland UK and Northern Ireland. That in itself is an extraordinary comment. Would France tolerate paperwork to sell a tomato or an aspirin between Provence and Corsica? Bien sûr que non!

    To our elite, however, such arrangements are an administrative headache, not a point of principle, and doubtless some goods will flow more freely with less paperwork. So VAT on alcoholic beverages sold for immediate consumption in pubs etc (on trade) will be controlled by Westminster, but VAT on alcohol sold by supermarkets etc (off sales) will be controlled by Brussels. Changes like this deserve only half a cheer.

    That’s about all that can be said for it, however, and in one critical respect this deal is much worse than Johnson’s deal. Much worse, because the agreement is set in fabled international law so desired by the Establishment as they know it makes unlocking it oh so hard.

    There was a break in Johnson’s deal, imperfect as that was. We had the legal right to rip it up. Sunak’s deal cannot easily be broken as the EU authority over Northern Ireland and critically the sole authority of its Court of Justice will be embedded in international law. The theoretical break of the Northern Ireland Assembly is indeed theoretical and a fig leaf of acceptability

    Worse, as our elite always intended, the Trojan Horse of the Northern Ireland agreement, now completely inappropriately rebadged the Windsor Agreement, remains just that, a Trojan Horse but reinforced by the stronger timbers of international law.

    Now, should mainland UK deviate from EU law, as was the whole point of Brexit, it creates a hard border with Northern Ireland thus making it, even if in some long distant day a Government was minded, very difficult to do so. This is all about ensuring the UK is in lock-step to EU law with a minimum of deviation.

    That is why Sunak’s deal, hailed as a miracle of negotiation, is nothing of the sort. It’s simply the intended long-term trap.

    One must marvel at the sheer brass neck of the apparatus of the State. Despite three clear instructions from the British people – in 2016 with the Leave vote, then the Conservatives’ drubbing in the 2019 EU Parliamentary elections when their vote fell to an extraordinary 8.8 per cent of the electorate, followed by Johnson’s ‘get Brexit done’ 80-seat majority – the fight-back of the unrepresentative few ensuring the country’s democratic will counts for near naught is quite something.

    Now, however, the political narrative has conveniently changed. Brexit has been a ‘disaster’:

    ‘We told you so. Growth has collapsed, trade foundered and it’s all your fault – but we are in control and will smooth it, so don’t worry. This deal with the EU is both a triumph and so dull and boring at the same time. It’s called Windsor so it’s good, forget it though.’

    What is odd, though, is that when the media parrot what an unarguable disaster Brexit has been, no one can say what laws have changed relative to the EU since Brexit – and why, if they haven’t changed, it has been so calamitous. When we published Catherine McBride’s paper showing Brexit had not caused a temporary fall in UK trade (it was the pandemic lockdowns actually) broadcasters struggled to find anti-Brexit economists willing to debate with her.

    Moreover, Brexit opponents forget to mention that the state, their state, has grown from 35 per cent of GDP under Blair to 48 per cent today, with taxes rising to boot. They forget to mention the impact of a decade of printing £895billion through QE with near zero interest rates until very recently, and they forget the total waste of £450billion over lockdown and the subsequent failure of the public sector and uprooting of society from the needless and immoral closure of the economy for nigh on two years.

    It’s always someone else to blame. Brexit is the convenient political whipping boy for their multiple failures when it is clear to anyone with any understanding that Brexit has so far been immaterial either way. Immaterial, as nothing has changed, indeed where it has changed it has got worse as the UK has actually converged with the EU on tax, on the size of the state and has trumped [ has been trumped by surely?]the EU on regulation, in each case the exact opposite of the instruction of the electorate.

    Brexit remains an opportunity, but for that we need an establishment that believes in this country, believes in the people and acts on its belief. I live in hope!

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-windsor-agreement-deserves-to-be-exiled/

    1. If our political morons and outright home office idiots had the courage to get rid of the hundred thousand plus scroungers, the nation’s economy would not be in such dire straits.

      1. The Home Office looked at Brexit and took it’s revenge by saying ‘nothinng we can do, you removed our abillty to act’ while smugly it knows exactly what it’s doing. The invasion is deliberate and spiteful.

        Every gimmigrant should be housed with home office staff. They feed them, they pay for them. They pay for their crimes and they suffer the consequences.

    2. The entire civil service, finding that we were actually better off out of the damned thing, fought to make sure we were made worse off.

      They hate us and they love the EU, like a toddler having their toy taken from them they plotted infantile revenge. Every single thing that could have been done has, deliberately, maliciously been done exactly the opposite way around to not ensure Brexit failed, but to refuse to take advantage of it. No doubt they’ll soon just rejoin quietly, without fanfare.

      It will be a betrayal of such ferocious arrogance and spite, made worse because almost everyone will never understand how much was intentionally damaged to ensure the state got their own way.

      1. Time to clear out the commons, the lords and the snivel serpents.

        Do it NOW and do it without fear or favour.

        We need another Cromwell or, at least, another Maggie Thatcher!.

    3. Woops – sorry I hadn’t seen yours – that’s the trouble with reading recent first!

  48. The Windsor agreement deserves to be exiled

    By Ewen Stewart
    -March 1, 2023

    THE sheer cynicism of our Prime Minister is quite something. The Windsor Agreement indeed! More like the Duke of Windsor Agreement: something that should have been exiled a long time ago.

    Sure, the problem dates to Theresa May and the Remain Parliament who conspired to neuter Brexit at birth, yet Sunak’s agreement on Monday is in some ways worse than what went before. Before we address what is worse, let’s look at what may be better.

    The devil is in the detail but undoubtedly this agreement will reduce the amount of paperwork between the mainland UK and Northern Ireland. That in itself is an extraordinary comment. Would France tolerate paperwork to sell a tomato or an aspirin between Provence and Corsica? Bien sûr que non!

    To our elite, however, such arrangements are an administrative headache, not a point of principle, and doubtless some goods will flow more freely with less paperwork. So VAT on alcoholic beverages sold for immediate consumption in pubs etc (on trade) will be controlled by Westminster, but VAT on alcohol sold by supermarkets etc (off sales) will be controlled by Brussels. Changes like this deserve only half a cheer.

    That’s about all that can be said for it, however, and in one critical respect this deal is much worse than Johnson’s deal. Much worse, because the agreement is set in fabled international law so desired by the Establishment as they know it makes unlocking it oh so hard.

    There was a break in Johnson’s deal, imperfect as that was. We had the legal right to rip it up. Sunak’s deal cannot easily be broken as the EU authority over Northern Ireland and critically the sole authority of its Court of Justice will be embedded in international law. The theoretical break of the Northern Ireland Assembly is indeed theoretical and a fig leaf of acceptability

    Worse, as our elite always intended, the Trojan Horse of the Northern Ireland agreement, now completely inappropriately rebadged the Windsor Agreement, remains just that, a Trojan Horse but reinforced by the stronger timbers of international law.

    Now, should mainland UK deviate from EU law, as was the whole point of Brexit, it creates a hard border with Northern Ireland thus making it, even if in some long distant day a Government was minded, very difficult to do so. This is all about ensuring the UK is in lock-step to EU law with a minimum of deviation.

    That is why Sunak’s deal, hailed as a miracle of negotiation, is nothing of the sort. It’s simply the intended long-term trap.

    One must marvel at the sheer brass neck of the apparatus of the State. Despite three clear instructions from the British people – in 2016 with the Leave vote, then the Conservatives’ drubbing in the 2019 EU Parliamentary elections when their vote fell to an extraordinary 8.8 per cent of the electorate, followed by Johnson’s ‘get Brexit done’ 80-seat majority – the fight-back of the unrepresentative few ensuring the country’s democratic will counts for near naught is quite something.

    Now, however, the political narrative has conveniently changed. Brexit has been a ‘disaster’:

    ‘We told you so. Growth has collapsed, trade foundered and it’s all your fault – but we are in control and will smooth it, so don’t worry. This deal with the EU is both a triumph and so dull and boring at the same time. It’s called Windsor so it’s good, forget it though.’

    What is odd, though, is that when the media parrot what an unarguable disaster Brexit has been, no one can say what laws have changed relative to the EU since Brexit – and why, if they haven’t changed, it has been so calamitous. When we published Catherine McBride’s paper showing Brexit had not caused a temporary fall in UK trade (it was the pandemic lockdowns actually) broadcasters struggled to find anti-Brexit economists willing to debate with her.

    Moreover, Brexit opponents forget to mention that the state, their state, has grown from 35 per cent of GDP under Blair to 48 per cent today, with taxes rising to boot. They forget to mention the impact of a decade of printing £895billion through QE with near zero interest rates until very recently, and they forget the total waste of £450billion over lockdown and the subsequent failure of the public sector and uprooting of society from the needless and immoral closure of the economy for nigh on two years.

    It’s always someone else to blame. Brexit is the convenient political whipping boy for their multiple failures when it is clear to anyone with any understanding that Brexit has so far been immaterial either way. Immaterial, as nothing has changed, indeed where it has changed it has got worse as the UK has actually converged with the EU on tax, on the size of the state and has trumped [ has been trumped by surely?]the EU on regulation, in each case the exact opposite of the instruction of the electorate.

    Brexit remains an opportunity, but for that we need an establishment that believes in this country, believes in the people and acts on its belief. I live in hope!

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-windsor-agreement-deserves-to-be-exiled/

  49. DUP suggests parts of Brexit deal do not tally with Rishi Sunak’s promises
    Sammy Wilson expresses concerns over one of the main safeguards in the ‘Windsor Framework’ – the ‘Stormont brake’
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/01/dup-suggests-parts-brexit-deal-do-not-tally-rishi-sunaks-promises/

    The Wet and Weak Windsor Washout is beginning to unravel and will will soon destroy the credibility of both Sunak and his far from majestic head of state.

    BTL (Wrattstrangler)

    The only answer is to have a referendum as soon as possible. If the majority of people in Northern Ireland want to leave the UK then this is what should happen and then Northern Ireland can become part of a United Ireland and thus a part of the EU with the UK having no more financial or administrative obligations at all.

    If on the other had the vote goes the other way then the EU and its legal system must leave Northern Ireland completely and immediately.

    This half-in, half-out nonsense must end.

    Another BTLiner expressed the thought that Dishy Rishi was now Squishy Rishy and was rather like a soiled and discarded condom. What a pairing with a monarch who once wanted to be his mistress’s sanitary tampon!

    1. Reading some analyses of the Windsor stitch up it’s clear the PM is tying us in to the EU with no
      possible exit. Ever. I hate them.

  50. Hello lovely NoTTLers!. This sums up my views completely, but with less vehemence than I feel

    SUNAK’S DUKE OF WINDSOR AGREEMENT DESERVES TO BE EXILED
    By Ewen Stewart– 4 minute read

    THE SHEER cynicism of our Prime Minister is quite something. The Windsor Agreement indeed! More like the Duke of Windsor Agreement. Something that should have been exiled a long time ago.

    Sure, the problem dates to Theresa May and the Remain Parliament who, together, conspired to deliberately neuter Brexit at birth, yet Sunak’s agreement yesterday is in some ways worse than what went before. Before we address what is worse let’s look at what might be better.

    The devil is in the detail but undoubtedly this agreement will reduce the amount of paperwork between the mainland UK and Northern Ireland.

    That in itself is an extraordinary comment. Would France tolerate paperwork to sell a tomato or aspirin between Provence and Corsica? Non bien sûr que non!

    To our elite, however, such arrangements are an administrative headache, not a point of principle and doubtless some goods will flow more freely with less paperwork. So, VAT on alcoholic beverages sold for immediate consumption in pubs etc (On Trade) will be controlled by Westminster, but VAT on alcohol sold by supermarkets etc (Off Sales) will be controlled by Brussels. These sort of changes only deserve half a cheer.

    That’s about all that can be said for it, however, and in one critical respect this deal is much worse than Johnson’s deal. Much worse because the agreement is set in fabled international law so desired by the Establishment as they know it makes unlocking it oh so hard.

    There was a break in Johnson’s deal, imperfect as that was. We had the legal right to rip it up. Now Sunak’s deal cannot easily be broken as the EU authority over Northern Ireland and critically the sole authority of its Court of Justice will be embedded in international law. The theoretical break of the Northern Ireland Assembly is indeed theoretical and a fig leaf of acceptability

    Worse, as our elite always intended the Trojan Horse of the Northern Ireland agreement, now completely inappropriately rebadged the Windsor Agreement, remains just that, a Trojan Horse but strengthened by stronger timbers of International law.

    Now, should mainland UK deviate from EU law, as was the whole point of Brexit, it creates a hard border with Northern Ireland thus making it, even if in one long distant day a Government was minded, very difficult to do so. This is all about ensuring the UK is in lock-step to EU law with a minimum of deviation.

    That is why Sunak’s deal, hailed as a miracle of negotiation, is nothing of the sort. It’s simply the intended long term trap.

    One must marvel at the sheer brass neck of the apparatus of the State. Despite three clear instructions from the British people, back in 2016 with the Leave vote, then the Conservatives’ drubbing in the 2019 EU Parliamentary elections when their vote fell to an extraordinary 8.8% of the electorate, followed by Johnson’s ‘get Brexit done’ 80-seat majority, the fight-back of the unrepresentative few ensuring the country’s democratic will counts for near nought is quite something.

    Now, however, the political narrative has conveniently changed. Brexit has been a “disaster”.

    ‘We told you so. Growth has collapsed, trade floundered and it’s all your fault – but we are in control and will smooth it, so don’t worry. This deal with the EU is both a triumph and so dull and boring at the same time. It’s called Windsor so it’s good, forget it though.’

    What is odd, though, is when the media parrot what an unarguable disaster Brexit has been is that no one can say what laws have changed relative to the EU since Brexit – and why, if they haven’t changed, ithas been so calamitous.

    When we published Catherine McBride’s paper showing Brexit had not caused a temporary fall in UK trade (it was the pandemic lockdowns actually) broadcasters struggled to find anti-Brexit economists willing to debate with her.

    Moreso, Brexit opponents forget to mention the state, their state, has grown from 35% of GDP under Blair to 48% today with taxes rising to boot. They forget to mention the impact of a decade of printing £895bn through QE with near zero interest rates until very recently and they forget the total waste of £450bn over lockdown and the subsequent failure of the public sector and uprooting of society from the needless and immoral closure of the economy for nigh on two years.

    It’s always someone else to blame. Brexit is the convenient political whipping boy for their multiple failures when it is clear to anyone with any understanding that Brexit has so far been immaterial either way.

    Immaterial, as nothing has changed, indeed where it has changed it has got worse as the UK has actually converged with the EU on tax, on the size of the state and has trumped the EU on regulation. In each case the exact opposite of the instruction of the electorate.

    Brexit remains an opportunity, but for that we need an establishment that believes in this country, believes in the people and actually acts on it. I live in hope!

    https://globalbritain.co.uk/sunaks-duke-of-windsor-agreement-deserves-to-be-exiled/

  52. Outstanding article on the few that resisted the Convid bullying and the threats made against them

    “He asks Bhattacharya if he faced this moment, and the professor

    admits that he did indeed. He realised that continuing in this direction

    – researching to discover facts and telling the truth as he saw it

    – would massively disrupt his career, his life and everything he had

    worked for. Everything would be different, away from comfort and into an

    uncertain and isolated frontier.

    He faced that choice and made the decision to go ahead, undeterred.

    It cost him dearly. He could not sleep. He lost a tremendous amount of

    weight. He faced social and professional ostracism. He was dragged

    through the mud daily in the press and scapegoated for every policy

    failure. He was accused of conspiring with the purveyors of dark money

    and every other form of professional corruption. But still he forged

    ahead, eventually gathering with other scientists to make what is now a

    famous statement of public health that has stood the test of time.”

    I commend the rest to all of you

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-contagion-of-cowardice/

      1. But hate crime, of course, is high on the agenda… And visiting mosques to keep in with the slammers.

        1. An entire squad would rock up on your doorstep if you dropped a rasher of bacon within a mile of a mosque.

      2. 1,111,463 children investigated for not believing ‘non binary’ brainwashing

    2. It’s pretty obvious that the Police like every other UK State Institution has actually collapsed. They just stagger along trying to maintain the pretence of viability!

      1. More like

        They just stagger Mince along trying to maintain the pretence of viability!

    3. It’s pretty obvious that the Police like every other UK State Institution has actually collapsed. They just stagger along trying to maintain the pretence of viability!

    4. When the oath changed and ‘rights’ put above legality it was clear the entire things was a pointless waste of time.

    1. I doubt anyone will forget that photo of Her Majesty sitting alone at her husband’s funeral. And then we found out they had been partying at Downing Street. I despise them all.
      I won’t be voting again because they’re all as crooked, deceitful and corrupt as each other. We here at Lake Lodge will be acting as we see fit.

      1. That’s one of the reasons I hate those bastards, Ann.
        Breaks your heart, little old lady showing leadership and separated from her family at such a time.
        Boris and all those shits aren’t even fit to stand in her shadow.

  58. Question on Chinese election interference is racist, Justin Trudeau suggests

    The Canadian prime minister refused to give straight answers about potential foreign influence during a tense press conference

    By Jamie Johnson, US CORRESPONDENT
    28 February 2023 • 8:49pm

    *********************

    Raymond Forster
    17 HRS AGO
    The first option of choice by the ‘woke’ is to accuse of racism, quickly followed by every other -ism they can think of – all with the aim of shutting down the discourse. It’s all a sham and designed to avoid closer scrutiny of what they’ve said or done.

    Tom Tulloch
    17 HRS AGO
    Reply to Raymond Forster
    Like a squid releasing a jet of ink to distract and confuse while it makes its escape…

    2. Mr. Charles Windsor-Mountbatten, by his subservience to the EU and WEF, has proven himself to be unfit for the throne.

  60. Just back from that London. Part of Oxford Street was taped up by the rozzers. I had to go through John Lewis to bypass it. Anyone know what happened? Not another stabbing, I heard no ambulances, and I was close to the site eating lunch for some time.

      1. Oxford Street is partially closed after a man was seriously injured in a stabbing on a bus.

        You’re not really safe anywhere any longer. They will be battering your doors down soon!

          1. Afternoon Oberst. One should at least consider some form of body armour for public places!

          2. Stab vests are complex, and you don’t know where he’ll stab/cut you – apparently in the arsehole is popular in London, ‘cos you need a colostomy bag after that.
            I’d prefer concealed carry.

        2. Man had just bought kitchen knife as gift for wife and accidentally tripped and fell on it. Simple.

        3. Man had just bought kitchen knife as gift for wife and accidentally tripped and fell on it. Simple.

  62. Thank you everyone for your birthday wishes. I was absent nearly all day long. A friend took me on a tour of western Brittany, visiting many historic towns and villages, and we dined out and had a little celebratory drink in four different establishments. I got back about 11 pm and have recovered enough to post a short message. Out again tonight. Thank you all again.

    1. Happy birthday Ped- missed telling you yesterday.
      Continue to enjoy your celebrations.

    2. Again Happy Birthday. You must look us up when you come to Eastern Brittany!

  63. Is the timing of the great splash about Hancock’s perfidy in the DT a smokescreen designed to make us take our eyes off the Windsor Washout?

    Every minute new details emerge of just how completely Sunak has allowed himself and the UK to be stitched up and defecated on by the EU.

  64. Been an interesting day.
    Transient Ischaemic Attack, all day at horsepiddle being prodded, poked, jabbed & CT. After a good long look in my head, nothing found.
    😉

      1. Plenty space to fill with ale, just as soon as I get the ear corks fitted…

      2. But the Weegies speak better English than what I does… And the blonde lady Dr was enough to raise the blood pressure, as could be seen on the monitor!

        1. I know that feeling. A few years back I had to see an opthalmologist. She was about 30 – a cracker, “attractively” dressed…(!!) and sat very close to me and put her leg between mine (so as to get a very good closeup…(so she said).

          3. Lady Dr kept on about my looking at her nose whilst she wiggled fingers away to the side, but she had the most amazing clear eyes… Truly wonderful. Sigh

        2. ” … as could be seen on the monitor!”

          Would that be the monitor in your underpants?😉

          1. Not sure that’s too reliable after 1st stroke. The heart monitor noticed, though, as did BP monitor.

    4. I trust then you are on some sort of emergency call should this develop into a stroke?

          1. $$$
            And, despite the moaning, I enjoy it. Worked hard all my life, there’s not much else to do.

          10. A 15 minute break from the computer every hour is a good idea. Well done for thinking straight for once. :@)

    6. Oh goodness. Did something energetic bring it on do you think or was it completely out of the blue? Seems you’ve been thoroughly checked over so good.

      1. Was a surprise, sitting at PC, I recognised similar symptoms to the TIA a week before the real stroke 8 years ago (terrible mucky vision), so made executive decision to get to horsepickle ASAP.
        Good choice, that man!

          1. Took my own advice.
            If a colleague had told me what I experienced, I’d have said to get your sorry ass (other beasts of burden are available) to hospital, and I’ll come with you. Call 113 (= 999 here).

          2. To be perfectly honest and please don’t think i am attention seeking (he says) but i have had one illness after another for the last 10 years and i’m getting fed up. I hope if it does happen to me it is the big one.

          3. I’m getting fed up of being broken in some way or another, so I sympathise, Phizzee.
            Anyhow, one needs some attention now and again! It’s onlhy fair, if you’re having a bad time.

          4. Thanks. The thing to do is enjoy every day as much as possible. Make that effort to be with loved ones and enjoy good food and company.

            Hertslass and her husband are visiting soon so we will make it a special event.

          6. I have a Spanish friend who owns/runs a restaurant near me. Whenever he answers the phone he pretends to be the Spanish Ambassador. Always a good atmosphere and often laughs and pranks. I’m taking them there.

    7. Gan canny, Paul.

      Apparently I suffered just one TIA, at some indeterminate time in the past 20 years (it was discovered when had an MRI examination). I can’t remember having suffered any symptoms at any time. It remains a mystery.

      My dad suffered them frequently during his last five years.

      1. It’s weird. I guess everybody gets them differently.
        Hate MRI with a passion. Claistrophobic, or what? And I used to do caving, where you had to breathe out to be able to move through squeezes (not blonde ones, either!)

          6. Some people who are good at being charming are not very good at spelling. I wonder witch Ober is!

          7. I’m crap at charming.
            Spelling, well, depends on how tiny the keyboard is & how much of a shit I give.

          3. Indeed. Stress level so high, and if I moved, they’d only have to do it again, so I shut down and went to sleep.

      2. I had a TIA 12 years ago since when I have been on a mass of pills. I still am not convinced that I had a stroke at all but my wife says that I did. The tests revealed that I had had another one of which I was totally unaware and it seems that I suffered no ill effects other than having to take all the pills I have to take.

        1. Glad it didn’t affect you badly, Richard. I now have 8 pills to take instead of breakfast 🙁

          3. Grizz sent me for my birthday some prunes in Armagnac. I do hope it will be a regular occurrence.

          4. Keep eating prunes, mate, and certain things will be a regular occurrence!

          5. Given how expensive they are…about £20 odd without postage i would have thought they would have taken the bloomin’ stones out ! What a surprise that was !!!

          8. Put them all in a spice grinder and add kefir/probiotic yogurt. Just remember to remove the plastic casings. (jokes)

            I am on 7 at the moment.

          10. I don’t grind them but some are too big for me to get down. I have a pill cutter. I think they make some so big in the hope we choke.

    8. You take care Obs, I woke up one morning over 5 years ago speaking in tongues when I had a TIA.
      The docs will presumably prescribed a blood thinner.
      Take it easy.

      1. They took me off 3 weeks ago when I collapsed in kitchen, banging my head – there was a small internal bleed. Now I’m back on them.

    9. Eeek! A relief that nothing untoward was found. I’ll resist the empty head comment, honest, I will…

    10. Good grief, man! It must have been all that apre skiing! Take care pet, and do as you’re told! 😘

          2. Sorry, have just read down and seen that Damask Rose has made the same comment! What a lot of bossy women we are! Hugs for you!

          4. I find it rather appealing that the ladies and other non-determinates gather round and coo.

          14. Here’s one for you…….Spare a thought tonight at 9pm when the prison lights go out so Trans
            rapist Isla Bryson can exercise her rights to be a woman. She’ll have an
            arsehole like a dropped lasagne come sunrise.

    11. Take care, Oberst, we need you to fill our heads with your jokes and humour!!

  65. Covid-19 ‘most likely’ from Chinese lab, FBI director says. 1 March 2023.

    Covid-19 “most likely” leaked from a Chinese lab, the director of the FBI has said.

    Christopher Wray’s comments are the first public confirmation by the bureau on their classified judgement on the origins of the pandemic that has killed an estimated 6.85 million people.

    “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Mr Wray told Fox News.

    Another convert! It’s worth considering for a moment that pretty well everything you read on this blog during the Covid Crisis was true and everything from the MSM and the Elites was in one way or another blatant lies.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/01/covid-19-likely-chinese-lab-fbi-director-says/

    1. Except that it wasn’t “leaked”; it was a deliberate act of biological warfare.

      Just saying. They don’t call me Ferguson for nothing…

    3. and the 6,850,000 is a dubious figure to, as virtually all deaths in UK at one time, were being put down to Convid.

      Mustapha Pannick

    4. and the 6,850,000 is a dubious figure to, as virtually all deaths in UK at one time, were being put down to Convid.

      Mustapha Pannick

  66. My appointment went well today at the orthopaedic department. A decent and new person I hadn’t seen before, he gave me a steroid injection in my knee.
    And he noted from the most recent x-ray the wear had worsened. Its a 3 month waiting list for surgery. Not as long as I thought. I’ll stick with the jabs for the time being.

        1. “Just a slight scratch.” is how they describe it these days, They’re not allowed to desecrate you manhood.!

      1. I’m even going to try and take doggo for a walk tomorrow. She’ll wonder who I am. 🐕‍🦺😉

          1. Will do no worries. 😉
            She’s and old Phiz 13 in July. And knows her capabilities.
            And one of the nicest honest creatures I’ve ever had the privilege to be with.
            Black Lab.

          2. The best friends. You don’t even need to stand them a round in the Pub. All forgiving. :@)

          4. I think I have mentioned here that my Golden, Fred, could open doors and gates. Had guests in CT once and my friend went for a bath. Shut the door firmly I said. A few mins later, there was a shriek and there was Fred in the bathroom ogling my pal. I hauled him out and told her to get out the bath and make sure she shut the door tight. She did.
            Never underestimate dogs!!

          7. Walkers crisps are now reduced fat and salt. Virtue signal ruined but probably better for doggies.

            Just had an Ocado delivery so the dogs have brought out their pogo sticks !!!

      1. Up to a month.
        While Hay sun the and make comes to mind. Shame about the weather.

  67. Oops; Double Bogey!

    Wordle 620 6/6
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    ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
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    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    2. Confession. Seeing how many words end with those same three letters, I looked at the daily Wordle Clue on the NME site and without actually providing the answer, that narrowed it down nicely.

      Wordle 620 4/6

      ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
      ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
      ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

        1. There was a time when I actually bought and read the paper copy! Back in the 60s & 70s. Now, if you Google “Wordle Clue”, it’s just the first hit that appears.

    3. Only a single bogey here

      Wordle 620 5/6

      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    5. Par for me.
      Wordle 620 4/6

      ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
      ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
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  69. I see that this ban-everything government is indulging in some more early kite-flying over wood-burning stoves:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11807949/Committee-look-case-banning-wood-burners-towns-cities.html

    My son is a tree surgeon. Some customers prefer to keep the wood, and due to transport and disposal charges this also helps to keep down the price of the job. If he will need to remove all wood that cannot be chipped then that carries a signficant cost penalty for the customer – apart from wasting many tons of perfectly good wood after seasoning. Strangely, Drax will go on being paid, with taxpayers’ money, to burn ‘biomass’ shipped halfway around the world, producing more CO2 (if that’s important) at the stack than the coal previously burnt.

    Would one of our net zero fanatics care to explain??

    1. You far-right, foam-flecked racist (etc etc)….

      The World has gone completely mad. Everything we grew up (and were brought up) to believe has been turned upside down.

    3. He obviously doesn’t understand the Carbon offset system, whereby you can create CO₂ and move it elsewhere without being harmful to the planet.

          2. Oh blimey, Phizzee! Thanks for that! What a wonderful feed! I’m always trying to find out where the ISS is.
            😘💕

          3. I am so happy i was able to impress you. You can give me a hug and a kiss the next time you buy me dinner and cocktails ! :@)

          4. No probs! I get my pension next week! My old man is very upset that I get as much as him!

          5. Why would he be upset? If you actually got more than him i suppose i could understand from a Scottish perspective……. :@)

          6. I’m not sure really, but I’ve worked all my life, except for about 7 years for the girls, and my hip, but even then I was working for our company!

          7. Just a thought……it may be because he is your loving husband and protector. Can put a dint in a man who feels responsible. Take no notice of me….well past the bottle.

          8. It’s oK, honey! I know that’s probably what’s behind it! We’ve been married 40 years this year, and I do know him pretty well! And I know I shouldn’t keep going on about it…….😳

    4. Not even going to bother trying to see that tonight. It’s too bloody cloudy.

  71. FBI Chief confirms that there actually was a chink in the Wuhan COVID lab’s biological safety cabinet.

    2. R.I.P Dear Betty. A woman who carried out a difficult job (herding cats) with aplomb and humour.

  75. That’s me gone fr today. Another cold, dreary one, as well. Have a jolly evening.

    Market tomorrow.

    A demain

    1. Get yourself a sun lamp ! Run a plug to the chicken sheds. They’ll never notice.

  76. Earlier tonight, I saw an ‘advert’ for a soon to be broadcast programme about the Big Fog of 1952 and of course the woman being affected by it was a BAME

      1. I wondered if the baby had died of cold. It was only 2 months old and they had been sleeping rough for a while. Maybe the poor mite died and they just dumped the body.
        Poor little thing, not even given a chance.

          1. I haven’t seen a recent pic but if heroin or other drugs were involved then that goes a long way to explaining things. I can’t believe that with how closely we are monitored they were not apprehended sooner. Sounds like another Bulley cockup.

          3. All the institutions we were brought up to respect….NHS, the government, the police & etc. I don’t trust any of them and will never do so again. The NHS, in our case, have been very poor; the police are non-existent unless speeding in their plod cars and do not start me on this sham of a government.

          4. Neither will I, Ann. I find it very sad, and not a little bit grateful that my parents are not around to see what we have become.

          5. That’s how I feel. My parents died far too young but were both veterans of WW II as was my husband’s late father. I have a framed photo of my dad on the wall; he was in the local and has three pints of beer in his hands and a huge grin on his face. I am kinda glad he doesn’t know what this once great country has become.

          6. That poor baby being found has just finished me off tonight. I had the twins today as usual, and I cannot imagine harming something that small. Absolutely heartbreaking, and they still don’t know what sex it is, despite finding the placenta in the car back in January!!

          7. No, I absolutely don’t get it either. Having worked with children all my life I cannot understand how some people are so evil. Yes, kids can be annoying and will drive you nuts but they are children. It breaks my heart when I think about that poor little lad Arthur who was killed and others around the same time. The government is complicit in all this because of the asinine rules they imposed hundreds of children were put at risk and some paid the ultimate price for governmental incompetance.

          8. I was so hoping that it would be a false alarm and the baby would be absolutely fine.
            Pair of wasters.

          9. It is not we who have become. But there are lots of thems. About time we started making their lives a bit more difficult.

          10. Hogan How, Dick. I think crime does pay. Made Lords and Ladies. Time to revolt.

          11. The met should be disgraced, disbanded and destroyed.

            We need a new, London Police force, perhaps modelled on the the Bow Street Runners?

        2. You know Lottie that even sleeping rough they would have given their body heat to a new born if they cared about it at all. The Napier family sound as if they all have mental problems.

      1. Strange how the authorities will remove babies and children from people that professed to support UKIP but not from a convicted black rapist and his drug addled aristo girlfriend.

        1. That’s the whole point. Like our government taking care of our country’s inhabitants.

  78. Police forces need positive discrimination, says senior ethnic minority officer

    Neil Basu said two-thirds of chief constables were ‘too terrified’ or did not acknowledge institutional racism

    I certainly agree that instutional racism exists in UK.

    TV adverts,

    RAF diversity drive ‘discriminated against 160 white men’

    Problems created by push for women and ethnic minorities come as crisis-hit Armed Forces also face sex harassment scandals

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/01/raf-diversity-drive-discriminated-against-160-white-men/

    It would be nice now to see white person in our government

    Does Saudi Arabia suffer the same abuse for not having White people in government, also they have slavery

    2. Four quarters of them are afraid of calling out Pakistani grooming gangs in dozens of our towns. Still.

    1. Think I will skip those clips. Too much nasty and bizarre stuff these days.
      Sleep well.

      2. It’s exactly the same for me, Ann. So it’s Good Night from me to all my chums. See you all tomorrow.

    2. A clear example of there being no problem with people thinking whatever they want but that’s a clear example of someone who shouldn’t have a public voice.

      Not because he’s mentally ill, but because he’s dangerous to children.

      That said, I look at what Junior’s been visiting and it’s all boring stuff. Lego, mostly. Lego youtubes. Model and hobby sites. Painting tutorials. His most pornographic excitement was of a hobby set that you make up yourself.

      When he gets older and finds his Mum in her tweens on the interweb we’ll talk to him about it and explain what things are and what it’s all about.

      1. 371718+ up ticks,

        Morning A,
        Many a mindset would say if the governing party sees no fault it must be OK, trust in politico’s / parties, can/will & has got peoples killed.

  81. Evening, all. When Sunak’s “Brexit breakthrough” is shown up as the betrayal it almost certainly is, that won’t do much for the Tories’ electoral chances.

    1. I only hope it is shown up for the betrayal it really is. But the MSM is hardly truthful is it.

    2. 371680+ up ticks,

      Evening C,
      The hard core are well entrenched maybe a ripple in the voting pattern, even after trying hard to better lab in the paedophilia stakes,they just cannot topple them as front runners.

    3. The Northern Ireland Protocol is still in place with some rather specious softenings on trade.

      However the EU is still in charge in Northern Ireland and the ECJ is still the principal court of law which can overrule British Law when it wants to do so.

      The price for these specious softenings is that the UK has lost Article 16. In other words Britain is now completely trapped with no way to escape.

      Sunak should be put in prison for high treason for a very long time.

      1. Sunak is manoeuvring to lay the groundwork for getting us back into the EU.

        This very small man is a traitor as you remark. Worse than that he is a globalist shill and utterly despicable piece of shit. He will, along with others of his ilk, get his comeuppance in due course.

        The thing I find most absurd is that anyone with half a brain would wish to rejoin a profoundly corrupt and disintegrating body such as the EU and its equally corrupt tentacle organisations such as the ECB and ECJ.

      1. I am fuming at the deceit. When I came back from the count and we’d voted to leave, I thought I was driving home in a free country. Little did I know that actually I was driving home in an undemocratic one.

  83. Going to bed now. As usual, worn out. Pain is debilitating and thereby tiring.
    See y’all at some point tomorrow.

  85. I am presently luxuriating in the restored central heating to my home having expended well over £20k on the new stove, chimney flue lining and unvented water system replacing a 30 year old vented system. The installing engineer worked out that the factory wiring to one of the motors was wrong. It took him two minutes to switch a couple of wires and set up the heating, hot water and cooking facility of the replacement stove.

    Modern Rayburn type stoves are delivered already wired up in a factory works, as are the water cylinders which are pre-plumbed, and arrive as a complete unit whereas in times past they were built on site from flat-packed parts, as our 12 year old Rayburn was.

    Great relief given the weather forecast for snow and freezing conditions next week. Fingers crossed no further issues.

  86. With temperatures in the low 50s F. clear skies, lovely view of Jupiter and Venus having a little dance together! Kind of puts a pleasant end to the day, goodnight all.

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