Wednesday 10 May: The police had a public duty to prevent disruption at the Coronation

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465 thoughts on “Wednesday 10 May: The police had a public duty to prevent disruption at the Coronation”

    3. Good morning Sue,
      I could have got in first. The alarm went off at the ungodly hour of 6 a.m.
      I think it was Terry Wogan who used to refer to ‘We’ve got a proper man in to do the job.’

    4. I might be the last but I am very seldom the first as I go to bed later than most people here do.

  2. Good morning all.
    A cooler 4½°C this morning, but a bright and dry start with glorious sunshine lighting up the hill opposite.

  3. Good Morning Folks,

    A bright but chilly start here.

    Still waiting for climate change to kick off this year, maybe it’s gone on strike.

    1. Folk keep skirting the elephant in the room: immigration. Since 1997, the state has forced over 40 million immigrants on us. Another 10 million of the population are utterly welfare dependent. Every element of our infrastructure is unable to provide for this population (the shortage of salad goods being the first of many examples) and the state’s response to the problem they have created is open air jails, restrict our choices and make us poorer by rationing basic infrastructure.

      It has no interest in reducing the size and scale of this massive unwelcome, economically useless tide and we will never, ever be able to provide enough of anything fast enough to keep up with the relentless demand – especially when the incomers are breeding 5 to 6 times faster than the tax paying white locals.

    2. That idea was proposed by Yorkshire vet Alf Wight in the 1930s – canny folk reckoned the vet knew more about human medicine than many doctors.


    3. SIR – Rishi Sunak’s proposal that common conditions are to be managed by pharmacists must be close to the last step in the degradation of the NHS.

      This new “initiative” will lead to a rise in inappropriate prescriptions for antibiotics. Patients will shop around until they get what they want, leading to multiple consultations for conditions that resolve themselves.

      The Prime Minister is symptom-swatting the problems facing the NHS and avoiding taking the necessary decisions to improve the recruitment and retention of the 10,000 extra GPs needed to restore the doctor-patient ratio to that of 2016.

      Dermot Ryan FRCGP
      Kegworth, Leicestershire

      I wonder if he has ever considered why the doctor/patient ratio has fallen so much in the last seven years…


    4. SIR – Rishi Sunak’s proposal that common conditions are to be managed by pharmacists must be close to the last step in the degradation of the NHS.

      This new “initiative” will lead to a rise in inappropriate prescriptions for antibiotics. Patients will shop around until they get what they want, leading to multiple consultations for conditions that resolve themselves.

      The Prime Minister is symptom-swatting the problems facing the NHS and avoiding taking the necessary decisions to improve the recruitment and retention of the 10,000 extra GPs needed to restore the doctor-patient ratio to that of 2016.

      Dermot Ryan FRCGP
      Kegworth, Leicestershire

      I wonder if he has ever considered why the doctor/patient ratio has fallen so much in the last seven years…

  5. The police had a public duty to prevent disruption at the Coronation

    How come all these protesters these days from all these weird virtue seeking groups appear to be hideously white, privileged middle class types with what looks like ASD when they appear in the media to complain, not sure who is radicalising them, must be the universities, I suppose.

    Or are they just on the payroll of our globalist masters to take control of civil protests and they all appear to be issues that the public have no interest or affinity with, a kind of psyop.

  6. 374153+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Wednesday 10 May: The police had a public duty to prevent disruption at the Coronation

    Seems to smack of being a class issue then, didn’t these police types have the same “public duty” to carry out prior the the JAY report revealed the odious rotherham long term cover up of foreign paedophile action, ALL children “guardians” were government employees.

    May one ask,
    Is there a royal seal in place that gives the police selective powers
    say,to taser and kick an elderly gent for stealing a £1 worth of beer while protecting the royals & the politico’s

    1. Completely different. The state approved of and protected the muslim pakistani paedophiles for the ‘community’.

      1. 374153+ up ticks,

        Morning W,

        A good % of the “guardians” were state employees, servants of the peoples, working against the peoples welfare.

  7. Looking forward to the media telling us what the proven evidence was against Trump.

    1. I got the impression from the media/BBC that he was found guilty of rape but other sources state that this was NOT the case, i.e. they found that he did not rape but decided that he was guilty of sexual assault. I would need to spend a large portion of my day getting the actual facts – which I am not prepared to do, as I have better things to do with my life – but my gut feeling is that the media/BBC worded matters in such a way as to imply the rape verdict was “guilty as charged”. Frankly I tend to agree with the Donald himself that this is a simply a witch hunt.

      1. “Frankly I tend to agree with the Donald himself that this is a simply a witch hunt.”

        By a bought and paid for, ‘Witch’.

      2. Unfortunately, this and other cases will probably continue until the year end and quite possibly well into 2024 when the primaries and State level caucuses will be starting.
        It suits the Democrats to have this drag on and on. And given where the lawfare will be conducted, they can push forward further accusations while at the same time delaying any appeals.

    1. Morning Rik. Khan of course upset the Americans by this and other pro-Bric moves and as we know so well his removal was arranged.

    2. 750k barrels is bugger-all. I worked at locations in Libya where one well could do 400k barrels a day.
      Is someone rattling cages here?

      1. Remind me, what happened to Ghaddafi when he wanted to move to pricing oil against something other than the dollar?

          1. It’s ominous isn’t it.
            The US (i.e. CIA/IMF/Western bloc countries) have been involved in at least 69 ‘regime changes’ since WW2.
            Are ‘we’ the bad guys?
            (clue: no ‘we’ are not)
            However, our so-called leaders, definitely are.
            We, the people are starting to wake up to the western credit-based chattel system as is the global south of the world who are joining the BRICS+ alliance at a pace and have 7 billion people; the West has 1 billion.
            BRICS+ alliance has 85% of global commodities.
            Guess what happens next.

  11. Never trust a politician who can’t say what a woman is. Spiked 10 May 2023.

    It used to take a tough question about a major economic screw-up or some personal indiscretion to send a politician scurrying into hiding. Now you just have to ask a question about biological sex that most human beings over the age of five could answer. The awesome power contained in this simple question, its ability to turn clever politicians into wide-eyed buffoons who wish the ground would swallow them up, is intriguing. Yes, it confirms that gender ideology has its hands around the throat of the political mainstream, but it also suggests that reason and truth-seeking, the most basic intellectual interrogation, is enough to expose this ideology’s fallacies, and the political class’s cowardice. ‘What is a woman?’ is the most essential political question of our times.

    I must remember this if I get the opportunity.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/09/never-trust-a-politician-who-cant-say-what-a-woman-is/

      1. I do recall reading in the 1970s about a man who was carrying the embryo of his twin inside him, who had to be delivered alive by caesarian. I wonder if this person is still alive today to mess up your stats?

  12. Good morning, chums.

    PS – Wow! I beat Sir Jasper by one whole minute! Lol.

  13. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Schwartz Demise

    A coroner was working late one night. It was his job to examine the dead bodies before they were sent off to be buried or cremated.

    As he examined the body of Mr. Schwartz – who was about to be cremated – the coroner made an amazing discovery, Schwartz had the longest, fattest cock the coroner had ever seen.

    “I’m sorry Mr. Schwartz,” said the coroner, “But I can’t send you off to be cremated with a tremendously huge penis like this. It has to be saved for posterity.”

    And with that the coroner used his tools to remove the fellow’s manhood.

    The coroner stuffed his prize into a briefcase and took it home. The first person he showed it to, was his wife. “I have something to show you that you won’t believe,” he said, and opened his briefcase.

    “Oh my God!” She screamed. “Schwartz is dead!”

  16. Morning all,
    Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night at VVOF Towers in Norf Zummerzet today.

    What’s the difference between bird flu and swine flu?
    Bird flu requires tweetment; swine flu requires oinkment.

          4. I had a Swedish penpal when I was 13–17. 21 years ago I tracked her down and I now live with her.

    1. I think my schoolboy French from 60 years ago gave me the gist!
      If I’m correct, more in hope than expectation from Madame?

        1. ‘Banger’ Bloyce was an excellent teacher despite being the head of Hunt House. ‘Banger’ was a reference to the huge gym slipper he used to ‘educate’ miscreants. Also, he was a dead shot with a piece of chalk, he missed every-time but was close enough to the pupil to make them aware of their lack of attention.

  18. Good morning, all. 83 years ago today, Winston took over. Where is the Churchill of today?

    Blue skies. Won’t last.

      1. Good morning, sos. Are you setting up in competition with Sir Jasper then? I laughed my cotton socks off. Lol.

    1. Good lad; and I hope you had an enjoyable and fulfilling career.
      That reminds me of MB regretting he was just a few months too young to be called up for national service.
      As an only child of a possessive mother, he would have loved the chance to escape without the rows and threatened suicide attempts that overshadowed the smallest break for freedom. Government diktat would have saved him a lot of unpleasantness.

    3. I turned to offshore sailing with RAFSA when in a desk job in MoD. Not done much for a while but off to Göcek Turkey in Sept for a week. Is your sailing based in UK and do you long voyages?

      1. Having sold my 48 footer in the Sunny Caribbee five years ago I now long to return to the gypsy lifestyle in some sunny exotic area KP.

        1. Very nice. Did a lot of flying to the Caribbean and still go there on holiday every year or so. I have only done one week sails, mainly in the UK but managed an outing out of Gib to Morocco and over to Spain before returning stopping along the Costas.

  20. MoH and I were wondering what and who were behind the recent spate of “initiatives” coming out of the NHS (pharmacists prescribing drugs, receptionists performing triage etc). It seems the answer is an MP called Neil O’Brien (Rishi Sunak has finally found a Tory MP even GB News doesn’t like. The Prime Minister’s choice of salesman for his latest big idea on shaking up the NHS did not go according to plan. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/09/rishi-sunak-tory-mp-neil-obrien-even-gb-news-doesnt-like/)

    According to Wiki Mr O’Brien is a PPE graduate who has spent his entire life in politics (Special advisor to George Orborne and Theresa May for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_O%27Brien) and has done absolutely zilch in the real world. We look forward to more wonder ideas.

  21. Thanks for the welcomes yesterday, I will comment as and when.
    I perhaps wrongly logged in via the Google route and now have my Discus account linked to my Google one. I really want to get rid of everything Google related so if I reappear with a different user name you will know why…
    Bright sunny morning in deepest Berkshire but the forecast is dire for later on.

    2. Dave, welcome and use Duck duck go as your search engine., it does not record any of your doings at all. I have used it for a good three years and find it perfectly fine. Very occasionally I have to use google to find something really obscure but I deliberate before I use it, they are a malevolent entity.

      1. No, I beg to differ. Google is a vast index of the web, coupled with a populist rating algorithm. Its products have helped people all around the world for approximately 25 years and the company deserves a Nobel prize. Instead of a subscription, they use your whims and preferences to sell personalised advertising space. Now compare Google with funding models for the BBC, or the NHS.

      2. No, I beg to differ. Google is a vast index of the web, coupled with a populist rating algorithm. Its products have helped people all around the world for approximately 25 years and the company deserves a Nobel prize. Instead of a subscription, they use your whims and preferences to sell personalised advertising space. Now compare Google with funding models for the BBC, or the NHS.

        1. Google manipulates search results according to its horrific politics though.
          Do the “European art” test on google and on qwant, and see the difference.

    3. After quite a time fighting with Discus, horrible Captchas on the way, I seem to have successfully changed my email and got rid of everything to do with Google.

      2. Captcha is operated by Google! Apart from deterring spambots, it is a small part of Artificial Intelligence.

  22. 374153+ up ticks,

    Donald Trump sexually abused writer and must pay her $5m in damages, jury finds
    Former US president continues to deny assault on magazine writer, describing the ruling as ‘the greatest witch hunt of all time’

    Have the sane peoples of the United Kingdom got a claim here as the overseeing political forces are sexually abusing the indigenous peoples of these Isles 24/7.

    Mind what could make a difference is much of ours is done with the peoples consent.

    1. Maybe it is with some of the public’s consent, but why then can they not pay the bill? If you don’t want net zero, you pay for cheap energy. If you don’t want unlimited gimmigration, you don’t pay it, nor the welfare of the incomers.

    2. I do not believe this at all. Any trial or legal maneuver against Trump in New York is nothing more than a Soviet style proceeding in which the accused is going to be found guilty. It’s the way these Democrats operate. You will note that the attempt to prosecute Trump by Alvin Bragg on so called “hush money” has sunk below the waves because it will end in failure. And, on appeal, this false accusation will also fail. You will note, importantly, that they rejected her primary allegation of rape. In short she is a liar, but that wouldn’t stop a Democrat jury find Trump guilty of something, which is precisely what they did.

      Things have degenerated so badly in the legal system of the USA that people who are known to be entirely innocent are being sent to jail on false charges. In other words the legal system has been weaponised to serve political interests thanks to Democrat left wing radicalism. The people still in jail because of the so called “insurrection” at the capitol after Trumps speech being just one case in point. Has anyone ever heard of an insurrection where no one was armed or made any attempt to overthrow anyone?

  24. Good morning, all. Sunny with the radar showing rain over the North Sea and moving towards the EU.

    Some more, simple to understand, reality re NetZero. The ghastly politicos and simple servants have their heads in the sand up to and including their arses, on this matter. They cannot fail to know the consequences of their agenda and therefore must be seen as enemies of the people.
    Click on ‘Show more’ for more information.

    Some interesting comments on the tweet: the usual pie-in-the-sky everything will be alright on the night people e.g. the people running the grid know what they’re doing; charging overnight when demand is low – how can charging millions of cars be classed as low demand?
    Of course, the PTB know that 1) EVs are expensive and many people will not be able to afford them 2) There never will be sufficient power supply for mainly EV powered vehicles and the current needs for living what is currently a normal life 3) The PTB are agenda driven and the agenda is control via reduction of provision of just about everything for the mass of people, including life-span.

    https://twitter.com/CarbonCriminal/status/1655857186159964162

    1. Green is just a scam to hike taxes. Nothing else. The intentional shortage of energy is just stupid.

      1. For those of you who missed Sky Business News this morning-

        The inventor of “net zero” fuel was interviewed. He stated that EU law has now been changed so that after 2035

        internal combustion engines can still be made and used in the EU provided “net zero” fuel is used.

        It would appear that the British Government has shot itself in the foot with banning building internal

        combustion engines after 2030.

        The manufacturers will just move to the EU, and we suspect, stay there.

        The British Government can’t claim that they didn’t know about this because the RAF tested “net zero” fuel

        some eighteen months ago.

        1. Do we know what “net zero fuel” is? If rapeseed oil, then it would require more farmland that Europe has got, so we wouldn’t be any better off.

          1. The explanation on SKY was that it was fuel constructed from airborne carbon dioxide, so as no additional carbon dioxide is made it is defined as net zero fuel.

          2. Unicorn droppings then…why can’t everyone see how stupid this all is….

          3. Well the EU have Mr bb2. That is why they have now allowed the manufacturing of internal combustion engines beyond 2035 in the EU.

            It is your government that is banning the production of internal combustion engines in Britain beyond 2030.

          4. Of course, if everyone voted to rejoin the EU then Great Britain would still be able to manufacture

            internal combustion engines beyond 2035, and keep their manufacturing facilities going.

            ……………..see what the Government did?

  25. Good morning all,

    A sunny morning at the McPhee residence with a westerly wind, 10℃ rising to 14℃ with some showers forecast from midday to mid-afternoon. Off for a spot of trout fishing today if the river isn’t running too high.

    I woke early this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep so I plugged into a Tom Nelson podcast: Iain Davis. If you want to know about the true aim of Climate idiocy/Covid/Agenda 21/2030 and sustainable development he’s your man. Have a listen (50 minutes):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxkkC4IOLwg&t=1s

    1. Middle Tamar was in spate yesterday morning before the rain. After the afternoon’s cloudbursts I’m going to be very careful walking the dog along the bank today.

      1. The Avon was really too high but SWMBO insisted that I go – against my better judgment. She wanted me out of the house. As soon as I saw the colour of the water I should have gone home but, having made the journey, I gave it 4 hours with a bright, heavy nymph and saw, heard or touched no fish.

  26. Good morning everyone .

    Sunshine and blue skies at 0700hrs .. now low cloud, drizzle and I am sure we will have a down pour .

    Moh left house to play golf 20mts ago , I persuaded him NOT to wear his golf shorts .. I hope he thanks me later .

    1. You’re too kind.
      If MB decided to wear shorts on an unsuitable day I’d take the view he was a grown-up and could abide by his own decisions.

  27. In the latest Delingpod with his brother, Dick, James recounts the story of the Toyota RAV4 he bought from a used-car dealership run by muslims. He described how he thought that, being religious types, they’d be honest and trustworthy. What was he thinking? He doesn’t seem to realise that to them we are kuffar and muslims can lie as much as they like to the kuffar? He knows now.

    https://odysee.com/@JamesDelingpoleChannel:0/2023-05-08_Dick:f

      2. I have pointed out this before. Islam is not a guilt culture that keeps you on the straight and narrow, it is a shame culture. If you can rip someone off and get away with it, that is perfectly acceptable to Islam. What is important, is not being caught out and loosing face. That is why they will swear up and down that they are not guilty of something when the clearly are. It is not to be guilty that matters but to lose face amongst the community. Guilt is to do with the individual being responsible, shame is to do with prestige amongst your peers.

  28. Morning all 🙂😉
    Beautiful sunny day what a lovely sight.
    And of course the police had to carry out their public duty during the coronation. That’s their job and what the public pay them for.

    1. The cartoonist Carl Giles foresaw that in the 1960s, when he had Larry with a scout knife ready and willing to help out the NHS.

    2. What the government has not pointed out is the vast amount of those once employed by the NHS are now working for the private sector..
      It seems that their plans to shut down the NHS are coming together as planned. Their 7 regional directors put in place around 4 years ago at
      250 k pa each, are working flat out.

    3. “Ok, Johnny, how are we going to treat this nasty cut on the lady’s foot?”

      “No, Johnny, I know you haven’t done an amputation yet, but I think stitches will be sufficient. Now go and fetch the smelling salts for the lady.”

    4. Good morning MF

      Decades ago when we had a proper RN fleet , many warships didn’t carry a doctor but instead , carried a Sick Berth rating or 2 , they were sailors who had been taught quite complicated first aid including surgical techniques , they dealt with some very severe injuries , burns , infections , wounds , etc and the ability to prescribe drugs .

      Handbook of the Royal Naval Sick Berth Staff (B.R. 888) https://jrnms.bmj.com/content/31/1/63

      I have a similar handbook , and the chaps in those days were as good as doctors , and probably even more experienced in every aspect of diagnosis and treatment .

      1. A bit like Stephen Maturin in Patrick O’Brien’s ‘Master and Commander’ series?

    5. Are you old enough Fiscal to remember the barefoot doctors of China? Why can’t something similar be tried in this country but with better training. Obviously the need here is different from the China of that era but I see no reason why, lets say, glorified paramedics could not be trained to help with minor medical problems.

    1. “The Füde Breathwork Experience” in New York City is a dinner party – without clothes. The $44 to $88 (£35-£70) entry fee grants you access to guided breathing exercises and a vegan dinner… all while naked.

      A vegan dinner – so not a sausage in sight.

  32. ‘Morning, Peeps. A fine sunny start to the day. Long may it continue.

    SIR – I found the news that police had arrested republican protesters, prior to the Coronation starting, chilling in the extreme. It is one thing to arrest those who may have had “lock-on” equipment to physically disrupt the Coronation parade or disturb the horses. It is quite another to pre-emptively arrest those who have liaised with the police for months about their intentions.

    Even Queen Camilla’s son did not express concern about the planned protests, when asked about them. Tom Parker Bowles told a podcast that Britons “live in a free country” where “we are all allowed to have different views”, in addition to a “right to protest”.

    The Metropolitan Police have serious questions to answer over their handling of this event.

    Theo Morgan
    London W9

    Well, now, Mr Morgan…let us imagine that a known criminal is seen walking in the vicinity of your home, or perhaps the home of a family member. Upon investigation he/she is found to be carrying a large screwdriver, some gloves and even a crowbar. He may also be in possession of some possibly stolen items that he cannot satisfactorily explain away. The police would, rightly, have reasonable suspicion that he is ‘going equipped’ to commit a crime. Arrest would not be an unreasonable action on their part.

    Are you saying that in such circumstances the person should not be stopped, searched and arrested? I’m willing to bet that you would be somewhat put out if they didn’t do this. If no action had been taken and you or a family member had your home damaged and turned over, you would be aggrieved, and rightly so, and may well lodge a complaint. The police would have “…serious questions to answer…” over their handling of the incident.

    Your freedom to peacefully protest is fine by me. Your freedom to disrupt a national event is not.

    (Edited for some rubbish typing.)

    1. None of these people gave a damn when the police were beating elderly lockdown protesters who posed no threat whatsoever. As always, freedom is only the freedom to agree with the fashionable agenda.

      1. Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

        [Kristofferson]

    2. “Queen Camilla”? Not my queen.
      Kind of awkward for an elderly couple of adulterers to defend faiths such as Islam.

    1. The Left don’t care. To them it doesn’t matter. It isn’t about energy, it’s not about ecology, environment or science. It’s about control.

      1. Indeed, when you take into account the materials needed to build the things and the methodology in order to dispose of decommissioned windmills, plus the damage they do to the environment while they operate, they are one of the worst if not the worst sources of pollution around. Solar panels aren’t much better either.
        https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b6b9a5_cb11ac94b8d046f99038424338a9e6e0~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_700,h_394,al_c,q_90/b6b9a5_cb11ac94b8d046f99038424338a9e6e0~mv2.jpg

        Landfill, wind turbines
        https://www.greenbiz.com/sites/default/files/styles/og_image_1200x630/public/2021-06/BladeGrave.png?itok=lY_ypD5d

  34. Phew! I’m lathered! Just had my morning exercise session, 6 x bags of soil with 8 x shovelfuls of soil in each carted up to the Folly.

    Van’s laid up until Friday awaiting a new handbrake cable, driver’s side rear wheel is binding, so I’ll be getting it cleaned up once I’ve had my mug of tea and hung the 2 loads of washing out, then getting the bags of soil, 11 in all counting yesterday’s effort, emptied.

  35. A giant barge that will house asylum seekers off the coast of Dorset has space for 506 people in 222 en-suite bedrooms and features a gym and a games room.

    The barge, operated by Liverpool-based Bibby Marine, will house up to 506 people in 222 en-suite bedrooms.

    Rishi Sunak has said the barge would save taxpayers’ money.

    ‘We are spending, as a country, £6million a day housing illegal asylum seekers in hotels – that can’t be right,’ the Prime Minister said.

    It comes as the reopening of two immigration detention centres has been delayed by at least six months in a fresh blow to Suella Braverman’s borders crackdown.

    Mothballed facilities in Hampshire and Oxfordshire were due to be brought back into use by this summer.

    But they will not now be ready until early next year at the earliest, sources said.

    The delay casts doubt on the Government’s plan to ‘detain and swiftly remove’ Channel migrants under new measures in the Illegal Migration Bill, which is currently before Parliament.

    There are just 2,500 existing beds in Britain’s immigration detention centres, which means the system will not be able to keep pace with the number of small boat arrivals.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12066881/Inside-giant-barge-house-500-migrants-arrive-Britain.html

    1. When over 50,000 have been poured in then we can consider another 50K until they get the message that they’re not wanted. When they burn it down, let it burn.

  37. One has to laugh…. My brother in law has just rung from Plymouth. He lives in London and drove there this morning to attend the funeral of the oldest family member.

    On arrival at the venue – he learned that the funeral was yesterday……

    He is returning via Dartmoor!!

    1. Oh dear…….. long drive for nothing. You’d think he would check the date first?

        1. Morning Bill

          It is just a lapse of memory that catches us all out .

          In the 1980’s I had an interview for a job in Southampton , a much wanted and prestigious position ..

          I arrived neat and tidy , primped up and raring to go , nice dress and jacket , hair do, that sort of thing.

          Strange really, not much activity , quiet lull.. receptionist asked me if I had an appointment .. I said yes, job interview ..

          I nearly collapsed when she informed me the interviews were the day before , bad luck.

          That’s life .

          1. A good employer would interview you anyway. You never know if candidate X is ‘the one’.

      2. Reminds me of the guy who was asked to play the bagpipes at a humanic burial, unfortunately he got lost and eventually came across some workers with a JCB who were about to fill in the hole. He started to play the pipes and the workers stood with their heads bowed. When he’d finished he said cheerio and went on his way. One worker said to the other “I’ve been in this job for 30 years and it’s the first time I’ve seen this when installing a septic tank”

  38. https://rumble.com/v2mx1vk-excess-mortality-dr.-robert-malone-and-ed-dowd-tpc-1219.html

    A long (1 hr 20mins) but very far-reaching & intelligent discussion between Ed Dowd, Robert Malone & host.
    They cover most current subjects & predicaments, including vaxx injuries among the employed, Trump, Biden & Robert Kennedy junior- & how the latter’s position reflects MAGA in many ways.
    Ed Dowd says he is supporting him because integrity, liberty & medical autonomy come first.
    They also talk about war, & where the military is going.
    Brics & the dollar crisis.
    Etc etc

  40. That’s the washing hung out and the bags of soil emptied and spread about.
    Just in time for it to cloud over and look threatening outside so the washing may not be out for long!

    Hanging slack on the van until I know what the weather is going to do.

      1. It’s taken me about 4 attempts to get the rubbish into the outside bin- each time I opened the back door with heavy bin bag in hand, there was another downpour! It’s now done and, looking at the sky, just in time!

        1. I looked at the weather forecast and went back to bed for a couple of hours!
          When I woke up it was still chucking it down.

          1. It’s been a mixed bag here again. Sun, then a downpour, sun again. I did see a fat pigeon having a drink from a puddle.

  41. I see from the Telegaffe that the idiot Cleverley [was ever a name so inappropriate?] wants the UK to supply the Ukraine with long range missiles! FFS does he want to start WWIII; where was all the concern about dead Ukrainians when it was their own government killing them?

    1. That didn’t exist or happen at all. The Crimea is a lovely happy place that has no history whatsoever.

        1. And no-one in the msm or ptb is addressing the question of why Russia and Turkey fought the Crimean War if Kiev and not Moscow or Ankara has the legitimate claim.

  42. Taxing non-doms

    SIR – Almost every day we hear plans from Labour as to how they are going to spend the additional money raised when they start taxing non-doms on their overseas assets and income.

    It is worth remembering why the non-dom tax situation exists. Britain has always had an insatiable appetite for capital and, in order to encourage foreigners to bring their wealth here, we have promised to tax them only on the income generated and assets held in the UK, while not touching income and assets they have outside the UK.

    Labour’s plans are certainly not going to encourage more to bring their capital here. Indeed, I suspect it is likely that many who are already here are going to go home or elsewhere, meaning that not only will the Exchequer lose the tax on non-dom overseas assets and income, but also the sums that these non-doms are paying at the moment from their UK income and assets.

    Policy built on envy never works and when the folly of it is finally realised, it is extremely difficult to repair the damage done.

    Alastair MacMillan
    Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire
    __________________________________________

    I am inclined to be less critical of the Labour Party in this than I am of the idea that the UK is so poor that it now has to beg foreigners to ‘invest’ in it. Mr McMillan should read this piece:

    Labour to clamp down on foreign buyers of UK properties
    Starmer plans rise in stamp duty and restrictions on new-build purchases
    https://www.ft.com/content/00cb1654-4681-437d-96c9-4ddd7466cddd

    There’s half a good idea in this but I’d go further – much further. No foreigner should be allowed to own for investment any residential properties in the UK. One for his own use should be enough. I’d extend the restriction to all utilities, including railways, roads, docks, harbours and waterways by making any foreign owner pay corporate taxes in the UK. Having left the EU (in a manner of speaking), company law can now be changed to allow this.

    There’s too much money going out of the country that shouldn’t be.

    1. Yet that cuts off free enterprise and inward investment. I’d far and away prefer a system where taxes were vastly lower meaning money didn’t leave the UK at all and it was beneficial to invest ‘here’ for a higher return.

      After all, the best way to get rich people to spend money is to offer them the ability to get even richer.

      1. It doesn’t stop overseas manufacturers investing (though why we should need that is another subject). There is something morally wrong about money made from housing and essential services going out of the country.

        1. I wonder how much internal investment for British Industry was lost because of Brown’s Pension Raid?

    2. The rich are leaving Norway now, since Labour are increasing their tax load. The next-door county has a huge hole in their finances (Edit: Of the order of £25 million a year) as a result of ONE GUY leaving for Switzerland – and Norway, too loses out his tax.
      You’ll see it too. Wealth can live anywhere, it can afford it.

    3. The rich are leaving Norway now, since Labour are increasing their tax load. The next-door county has a huge hole in their finances as a result of ONE GUY leaving for Switzerland – and Norway, too loses out his tax.
      You’ll see it too. Wealth can live anywhere, it can afford it.

  43. Taxing non-doms

    SIR – Almost every day we hear plans from Labour as to how they are going to spend the additional money raised when they start taxing non-doms on their overseas assets and income.

    It is worth remembering why the non-dom tax situation exists. Britain has always had an insatiable appetite for capital and, in order to encourage foreigners to bring their wealth here, we have promised to tax them only on the income generated and assets held in the UK, while not touching income and assets they have outside the UK.

    Labour’s plans are certainly not going to encourage more to bring their capital here. Indeed, I suspect it is likely that many who are already here are going to go home or elsewhere, meaning that not only will the Exchequer lose the tax on non-dom overseas assets and income, but also the sums that these non-doms are paying at the moment from their UK income and assets.

    Policy built on envy never works and when the folly of it is finally realised, it is extremely difficult to repair the damage done.

    Alastair MacMillan
    Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire
    __________________________________________

    I am inclined to be less critical of the Labour Party in this than I am of the idea that the UK is so poor that it now has to beg foreigners to ‘invest’ in it. Mr McMillan should read this piece:

    Labour to clamp down on foreign buyers of UK properties
    Starmer plans rise in stamp duty and restrictions on new-build purchases
    https://www.ft.com/content/00cb1654-4681-437d-96c9-4ddd7466cddd

    There’s half a good idea in this but I’d go further – much further. No foreigner should be allowed to own for investment any residential properties in the UK. One for his own use should be enough. I’d extend the restriction to all utilities, including railways, roads, docks, harbours and waterways by making any foreign owner pay corporate taxes in the UK. Having left the EU (in a manner of speaking), company law can now be changed to allow this.

    There’s too much money going out of the country that shouldn’t be.

    1. I was asked what I fed Mongo and Ozzie as their coats are glossy and fluffy. I told the other walker and they said ‘crikey, how much does that cost!’ and I thought.. never really worried about it…

  45. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/25d64090fdfbc43da10804038c514ba76b4226c284ad86044a9688221b02f1bc.jpg

    I received an email this morning with the TV Licenciing logo on it and here is an image of the instructions.

    With so much text in the email explaining that it wasn’t a scam and the fact there was not a textual link to follow, I treated this as a suspicious request to activate something.

    You may hazard a guess as to the intentions of the originator of this email but I had to treat it as a scam particularly as TV Licencing website does not require a password let alone two stage authentication when entering TV Licence payment details.

    2. Right click then choose inspect at the bottom. That’ll open developer tools to show you information about the code that generates the link on the activate licence button. If it goes to tvlicencing then it’s probably legitimate.

      1. I accessed TV licensing through a prevously notified paper link at tvl.co.uk/paperless and found that I had no further actiin to take to continue receiving my paper based TV Licence.

  46. 374153+ up ticks,

    Another chance to build on an opposition to the lab/lib/con/current ukip coalition party, in the shape of MAKE RECLAIM WORK join & build for success, not sit and swallow shit for a fake party name.

    https://youtu.be/biMgUWd79cw

    2. We know how this script goes. He serves out his time in Parliament, and then loses the next election, as the Tories will target his constituency.
      I wish him luck, but the fools who keep the Tory machine going will sink the whole country.

      1. 3741523+ up ticks,

        Afternoon BB2 .

        The lab/lib/con coalition party have been quite successful these last three plus decades in bringing that to fruition.

        That is inclusive of the mass rape & abuse of their own children, with their continuing to vote in paedophile importation parties.

  47. My Rain app showed that we appeared to be between two lines of showers with no rain near us so I trusted in the app and got out the ladder. All windows and frames at the front and side of the house now cleaned and the weather is still dry.

    I would be brave and consider washing the milk float but that would really bring about torrential downpours so I will quit while I am ahead today and stock up on jokes for future posting.

    1. I bought a milk float from a closing dairy once. After the first few hours of being silly on it the Warqueen asked where it was going to live, how we would charge it and what not.

      I called her a spoilsport, but she had a point. Ruddy woman always does.

      1. Elon Musk made my milk float, I normally charge it at home but will have to find chargers next week as we are driving to Portugal.
        Mrs VVOF has learnt to indulge me over the years, she is as bad as me now!

          1. I never knew he said that, thanks Sue for posting it.
            People try to wind me up saying my car is just a glorified milk float, I just agree with them, indeed I now refer to it as my milk float.
            Politicians cause my blood pressure to go up, car critics is just like water off a ducks back to me.

      1. California based burger chain that is several steps above the maccy Ds ofthe world.
        The cups might go down well in their Texan branches.

        My boss used to love them and she would always take me to one of their joints when we were in California.

  49. Just off to plant out the Cobra climbing beans. Sown on 14 April – 20 very healthy plants.

    Back later.

    2. I would say that that is sufficient evidence to warrant a charge of ABH:

      ABH is assault or battery that causes harm to a person’s body. The harm does not need to be serious to be classed as ABH, however, it does need to be more significant than a push or shove.

      If not serious enough to warrant ABH it is certainly enough for a charge under the Public Order Act:

      One of the most common Public Order Offences charged by the Police is the offence under Section 4 of the Public Order Act. This offence is referred to as Threatening Behaviour or intending to cause someone to fear or to provoke violence.

          4. Yes, but we live in an insane world where the person defending himself will go to jail and the criminal is let free.

          5. I believe it is. I think you can use an identifying colour spray legally but if it stops them in their tracks i would use any force necessary.

          9. I would rather have something on me that gives me a change of being left alive. Dye is small comfort in that sense.

          10. It is in aerosol form. Spray in the eyes and temporarily blind them. Enough time to do a vanishing act. Don’t forget. Only the Police and criminals have weapons. We are not allowed.

  51. Anti-vaxxer Andrew Bridgen is officially unveiled as Reclaim’s first MP as leader Laurence Fox defends tweet likening the Covid jab to the Holocaust that saw ex-Tory expelled by the party
    Bridgen announced he will stand against the Conservatives at the next election
    Mr Fox said his new ally would be proved ‘on the right side of history’
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12067479/Anti-vaxxer-Andrew-Bridgen-officially-unveiled-Reclaims-MP.html

    Why do the MSM misreport things by mistake or is it entirely deliberate?

    1. Absolutely deliberate. Rebrand a poisonous injection as a vaccine and to be against injecting poison becomes anti-vax just as resisting your jailer makes you anti-safety and if you point out that there are Jews who agree with you then you must be the anti-Semite and not the left winger who rebrands anti-Semitism as anti-Zionist. Goebbels would be so proud.

  52. Anti-vaxxer Andrew Bridgen is officially unveiled as Reclaim’s first MP as leader Laurence Fox defends tweet likening the Covid jab to the Holocaust that saw ex-Tory expelled by the party
    Bridgen announced he will stand against the Conservatives at the next election
    Mr Fox said his new ally would be proved ‘on the right side of history’
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12067479/Anti-vaxxer-Andrew-Bridgen-officially-unveiled-Reclaims-MP.html

    Why do the MSM misreport things by mistake or is it entirely deliberate?

      1. I know it’s more than two years old. That’s why I wrote “Whatever happened to…”

    1. If the length of the lorry increase by 2.05m but the maximum weight of the vehicle does not increase, how does the introduction of this type of lorry bring about the expected 8% reduction of lorries on UK roads?

      I must be having a dumbo moment.

      1. I think the Government is basing their calculation on the haulage of toilet rolls.🤔

  57. Nobody wants to admit the truth: Mass immigration is fuelling the housing crisis. 10 May 2023.

    It’s the reason that dares not speak its name, the elephant in the room, as it were – burgeoning net immigration.

    Britain’s insanely high, and increasingly unaffordable, house prices have many causes, yet it is remarkable how little mention this particular one ever gets.

    If we’re adding to the population through migration at the rate of a small sized city every year, it is scarcely surprising that there should be an acute shortage of housing.

    Wow! Just imagine! Who would ever have thought that?.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/10/mass-immigration-is-fuelling-the-housing-crisis/

    1. “remarkable how little mention this …gets”

      Has the writer of this article never spoken to an ordinary person? I think they would find that most people know perfectly well what the problem is.

      1. Afternoon BB. The MSM has of course been complicit in keeping both items from public view.

        1. Funny how they’re allowed to mention it, but if we do then it’s raycism!

      2. I tried explaining it to a work colleague once. As my parents used to point out, if I banged my head against the wall at least it would cause pain.

    3. And it is not just a shortage of housing – it is a shortage of virtually everything.

      In fact since the indigenous white population is not replacing itself the shortage of housing is almost entirely due to immigration and descendants of immigrants.

    1. Indeed, but since the systems were installed what has happened to the population in the catchment area?

      1. Probably increased like everywhere. The water company clearly haven’t invested enough money but i expect the directors still get their bonuses.

    1. The fact that there have not already been at least 100 MP defectors from the Conservative Party shows how very few real Conservative there are it.

      JRM pisses me off. Each evening on GBNews he discusses the shortcomings of the government and its policies but he is not prepared to put his money where his mouth is or his principles on the line. He says he has always been a Conservative and always will be – but his absurd fidelity to the party is an evasive nonsense.

      1. I used to be very pro Mogg. But he now annoys me. He has shown himself to be a hypocrite and I cannot, any longer, believe anything he says.

        1. As soon as I have a favourable opinion of a politician I shortly discover that I was wrong and I have to change my opinion.

          I have to confess that I once thought that Steve Baker was a potential leader of his party; I once thought Michael Gove was a safe pair of hands; I once thought Rees-Mogg was a charming, sincere and honest chap.

          So I change my opinions downwards but I do not change them upwards. I have always thought that Hunt was complete sh*t; Boris Johnson a bungling bonker; Teresa May an evil witch; and David Cameron and Gideon Osborne as twattish oafs (or oaves!) and these opinions have not changed.

          So my good opinion is the kiss of death!

          1. Your opinion my be “downwards” but, disappointingly, with all the people you name it is completely justified.

      2. It’s very likely that JRM is as Conservative as it goes in the current time-frame. However, the party he remains a member of is in no way Conservative. It has been captured via leftists promoted by the likes of the WEF, Bilderbergers and the Trilateral Commission. Conservative, Labour or LibDems, none of these parties work for the people. They all have an agenda and working for the people is not an item on any of them, no matter what they claim.

  60. The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed
    The necessary miracle doesn’t exist
    Bryan Leyland : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/10/wind-solar-renewables-pointless-waste/

    “Barring some sort of miracle, there is no possibility that a suitable storage technology will be developed in the needed time frame. The present policies of just forcing wind and solar into the market and hoping for a miracle have been memorably and correctly likened to “jumping out of an aeroplane without a parachute and hoping that the parachute will be invented, delivered and strapped on in mid air in time to save you before you hit the ground.”

    Most of us here have already understood that Net Zero is a scam designed not only to destroy our lives in order to enrich the few at the cost of the multitude but however much argument and evidence is produced things will not change because there are too many corrupt politicians with vested interests to do anything to stop that scam going on.

    But even if the great Covid Jab scam is also equally fully exposed there are again too many corrupt politicians with vested interests to do anything to stop that scam going on and on for just as long as the Net Zero scam.

    The idiot King should be compelled to read this article – but even if he did so he would not understand it as he has been completely indoctrinated by the WEF.

    1. Why can’t people put two and two together and realise that TPTB are planning for a lower population?

      1. Which ways are likely to be the most effective for them to get there: WW3? Plague? Famine? Economic destruction of infrastructure?

        1. IMO we’re in the last three in your list. Currently in the plague stage with the WHO et al. warning threatening more to come accompanied by the required jabs. The famine stage is just starting e.g. Netherlands, USA and here in the UK certainly, where farmers are being targeted to reduce nitrogen fertiliser usage, stop bovine flatulence and re-wild perfectly good arable land: in addition good land is being utilised for solar power. CV-19 was also an opportunity to destroy the financial system by printing and spending money the UK didn’t have: now, that profligate Chancellor is the PM and his Chancellor is carrying on the former’s work.

        1. Of their plans? What I said is that all their plans, from the lack of reservoirs, Charles’s green manifesto, abolishing farming in the Netherlands etc logically will only work if there is a smaller population, i.e. they are planning for a lower population.

        2. BTW, I don’t agree with what you said about gold – its price is being suppressed at the moment while central banks load up. It’ll fly free soon.

  61. The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed
    The necessary miracle doesn’t exist
    Bryan Leyland : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/10/wind-solar-renewables-pointless-waste/

    “Barring some sort of miracle, there is no possibility that a suitable storage technology will be developed in the needed time frame. The present policies of just forcing wind and solar into the market and hoping for a miracle have been memorably and correctly likened to “jumping out of an aeroplane without a parachute and hoping that the parachute will be invented, delivered and strapped on in mid air in time to save you before you hit the ground.”

    Most of us here have already understood that Net Zero is a scam designed not only to destroy our lives in order to enrich the few at the cost of the multitude but however much argument and evidence is produced things will not change because there are too many corrupt politicians with vested interests to do anything to stop that scam going on.

    But even if the great Covid Jab scam is also equally fully exposed there are again too many corrupt politicians with vested interests to do anything to stop that scam going on and on for just as long as the Net Zero scam.

    The idiot King should be compelled to read this article – but even if he did so he would not understand it as he has been completely indoctrinated by the WEF.

    1. It would appear that Calvin Robinson is 6’4, and Andrew Bridgen 5’8 – so a difference of about 8 inches. Looks about right. Of course Calvin Robinson looks even taller with that incredible mop of hair!

      1. I have this urge to blow his hair saying “She loves me , she loves me not…..”

      1. They won’t even let him into the Church of England!
        Calvin is the bees knees of clergymen. 🙂

      1. Caroline looked it up too. Our ecclesiastical GBNews Calvin is 6’4″ – the 6’8″ Calvin is a basketcase player,

  63. Sitting in t’pub after work, and there’s a big lad from, I think, North Shields, by the bar – judging from the accent.
    Been a long time since I heard an accent from that part of the world. Fabulous!

  65. That’s me for today. Signing off early as I have to go to the GP Nurse to have the dressing on my back changed….

    It is also about to rain – just as well we planted things out – so God can do the watering.

    Have a jolly evening

    A demain…DV

  66. Government retreats from Brexit bill plan to ditch EU laws. 10 May 2023.

    The Observer can reveal that the government has dropped plans to hold the report stage of the Brexiters’ retained EU law bill in the Lords soon after Easter, apparently to prevent a row in the run-up to the local elections on 4 May and to allow it time to consider a list of likely concessions to rebels.

    While such a climbdown risks angering hardline Tory Brexiters, including the bill’s original champion, Jacob Rees-Mogg, the extent of opposition to it from business, environmental groups, unions and Brussels has left ministers with no option but to consider delay, and moving to a scaled-down and less hurried version.

    No new dates have been set for the report stage and peers now believe the much-criticised bill could be put back by months and possibly beyond the next general election.

    I’ll go for never!

    . https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/09/tories-in-retreat-from-brexit-bill-to-scrap-thousands-of-eu-laws

    1. And Grease Slime will not resign from the Conservative Party because hasn’t enough integrity to do so.

    2. Interesting the government is frightened of the objections from Brussels.

      When are we finally leaving the EU?

    1. If these pretend women could be made to bleed profusely for at least five days every month and experience muscle cramps that are so painful it’s hard to even stand upright, I don’t believe for a moment that any of them would consider that a good trade off for being able to wear a frock.

    2. I don’t know which is crazier; the thug or a legal system that persists with the “her penis” nonsense.

  68. Brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts interview. Very long, and there is a weird sort of silent start of several moments, but if you find yourself brought down by the impending crash and reset, this is quite cheering.
    “My assessment is not that we will win. It’s that they will kill each other.”
    https://rumble.com/v2m8tig-may-5-2023.html

  69. Par Four again today.

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    1. A lucky three today.

      Wordle 690 3/6

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    2. Birdie three here

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    3. Me too, got stuck on my first 2 letters.
      Wordle 690 4/6

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        1. The Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge – a 222-bedroom, three-storey vessel, housing around 500 single male asylum seekers when it is in position off the Dorset coastal town of Weymouth.

          We need to sink one every week – merely to stabilise the invasion . . .

        2. The Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge – a 222-bedroom, three-storey vessel, housing around 500 single male asylum seekers when it is in position off the Dorset coastal town of Weymouth.

          We need to sink one every week – merely to stabilise the invasion . . .

        3. No, sink it offshore Dorset and bring it up 2 days later, an enormous lobster pot.

          1. Might have to get some fresh illegals in there every couple of weeks as fresh bait.

    3. Don’t worry Sos.

      They’ll set fire to it, and our kind Government will transfer them to much more comfortable quarters.

      They were successful before when setting fire to their accommodation, so I’m sure that they’ll be successful again.

      1. Indeed.
        It’s a good reason to moor it in the middle of International waters, after all, most of them claim to be stateless.

          1. Tongue in cheek rather than wise, but the fact that none of the States they have passed through is good enough, why should we go out of our way to make the UK more attractive for them?

      1. The Gates Foundation publish a spreadsheet detailing all their donations. It’s easy to find on their website and well worth a look.

  72. A sceptical cynic writes:
    OK Harry, why are you suing the Daily Mirror and claiming that their intrusion caused the breakdown of your relationship with Chelsy Davy?

    Surely you should be paying them Royalties (ho ho) because that freed you to claim a Meagain

    2. Would it be impertinent to ask whether he regrets the ending of that romance?
      Does he believe that his later choice was the better one?

  73. The Treason Felony Act

    Attempting to hinder the succession to the throne

    Whenever the time comes for a new King or Queen (and we’re hoping it’s a long way away yet), you must not in any way, shape or form, stop that from happening. Quite how you would is another story, but it’s a serious offence.

    Succession: Stopping Prince Charles from becoming King would see you prosecuted (Rex)

    Calling for the abolition of the monarchy

    Technically you could be sent to prison for advocating the abolition of the monarchy by any means, as part of the Treason Felony Act 1848. It was mistakenly thought to have been repealed in 2013 – but it has not been used in a prosecution since 1879.

    1. “Fascist: William Joyce was the last person to prosecuted for season in the UK (Rex)…”

      Did he use too much salt and pepper?

    2. High Treason wasn’t the only crime on the UK statute book that still had the death penalty until 1998. Does anyone know what the other offence was?

      I do.

        1. Nearly, Pet. ‘Piracy with violence’ was the offence (having said that, what the hell is piracy without violence?).

    3. How come the heir’s wife (Diana) was able to have consensual relations with several men?

    4. 374153+ up ticks,

      Evening A,OE,

      Could try out the treason one, where’s that Anthony charlie lynton…. reptile ?

  74. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/aebdc75124b4c4b3e104fea2c7c9257888d148aa43adbc233d4afb1f99b71734.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d75447c8c6ee67658083ff58e9a3d7a7a25615b2f493a97090d7c31af1c68d4f.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f9dd42097028322e1ed16fa1c9a6a71912e2979d3da87c4f1421751cfce117cd.jpg Oh! A bathtub, a bathtub, my kingdom for a bathtub! I’ve been busy this past couple of days. While not quite on the manual labour level of Bob of Bonsall, I’ve been quite busy, making more than hay while the sun continues to shine in clear blue skies at a heady (for here) 20ºC.

    Around seven years ago I constructed a frame to support a honeysuckle bush that had grown a bit lank. That basic frame (made from garden stakes bolted together with 100mm long M8 coach bolts), did the job quite well; however, time and tide (and weather) have taken their toll and the frame needed replacing with another one a bit more substantial (braced). I constructed the new frame yesterday and erected it this morning.

    This afternoon I decided to continue with a project I commenced last summer. The small patio outside the conservatory had become ‘wobbly’ due to the movement of millions of ants beneath it. Last September I removed all the pavings; committed genocide on a nation of ants, relaid the paving slabs, then before I could grout it the weather turned. I’ve had to wait until now with the promise of a week of dry weather ahead, to rake out all the debris between the pavers before I can finish off the grouting.

    My back is now killing me and I can only shower since we don’t have a bath! ☹️

    1. Next time you’re over here you’ll be welcome to come for a soak in ours!

          2. I’m allergic to cold baths.

            Swimming is fine in cold water, just lying in it? Forget it!

          3. I finish off my shower with a cold rinse. The length of time I remain under it depends on the time of year.

          4. That is sensible, the cold rinse seems to lock in the heat from the warm shower.

  75. Back from visit to very frail friend. She’s desperately thin, suffers from Copd and also has breast cancer. At least she’s got a caring husband to look after her. But it makes me thankful for my good health.

    2. There are no two ways about it – the British have been betrayed and if the foppishly spineless Grease Slime is Brexit’s best bastion then we might as well accept that Brexit is over, dead and ready for the sexton to get to work with his spade.

      1. 374153+ up ticks,

        Evening R,
        Defeatism does not enter the equation as an option, we must await the eye opening & the realising of reality, via indigenous fools

      2. The EU is on borrowed time. We should by now have effected complete withdrawal. What in the hell have the Tories been doing since we voted to leave in 2016?

    3. Stop overreacting. It doesn’t mean they won’t be dropped, just that they won’t all go at once – that could be problematic. However, HMG mustn’t drag its feet, especially if it means hanging onto controversial EU regulations. A recent edition of ‘Countryfile’ featured this but it rang the alarm bells for the in-one-go scrapping of all laws. It suggested that this would lead to the loss of all environmental protections, at which point farmers would immediately rip out hedgerows, dump manure in rivers, burn down forests and turn the countryside into an agrochemical wasteland (OK, I exaggerate slightly but you get the point). Just to remind us how marvellous EU law has been, presenter Tom Heap-of-Dung declaimed “…we produce more green energy…” as we were shown a picture of a bird mincer…

      It featured one Sandy Luk, an environmental law expert and CEO of the Marine Conservation Society, who told us: “The Retained EU Law bill gives ministers unprecedented powers to change laws, basically behind closed doors, without parliamentary scrutiny, without consultation of experts, without public consultation, which would be part of a normal democratic process.”

      Just consider that. Did she ever ask herself how EEC/EC/EU law was written into our statute book in the first place?

      However, if the report is true i.e., that the end of the year deadline has been dropped, then the programme’s fears are allayed, at least for the time being.

      Watch it here from 20:00 minutes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001l5mg/countryfile-wild-britain

      1. Thanks for watching Countryfile, William, so that we don’t have to suffer!

        1. The recent publicity about the slowness of building another reservoir in Kent brought the comment

          from a spokesman in the Civil Service that “we don’t want to do things against EU regulations in

          case Britain rejoins the EU”

          — Sorry, I don’t have the actual quote to hand, but that was the gist.

    4. Stop overreacting. It doesn’t mean they won’t be dropped, just that they won’t all go at once – that could be problematic. However, HMG mustn’t drag its feet, especially if it means hanging onto controversial EU regulations. A recent edition of ‘Countryfile’ featured this but it rang the alarm bells for the in-one-go scrapping of all laws. It suggested that this would lead to the loss of all environmental protections, at which point farmers would immediately rip out hedgerows, dump manure in rivers, burn down forests and turn the countryside into an agrochemical wasteland (OK, I exaggerate slightly but you get the point).

      It featured one Sandy Luk, an environmental law expert and CEO of the Marine Conservation Society, who told us: “The Retained EU Law bill gives minister unprecedented powers to change laws, basically behind closed doors, without parliamentary scrutiny, without consultation of experts, without public consultation, which would be part of a normal democratic process.”

      Just consider that. Did she ever ask herself how EEC/EC/EU law was written into our statute book in the first place?

      However, if the report is true i.e., that the end of the year deadline has been dropped, then the programme’s fears are allayed, at least for the time being.

      Just to remind us how marvellous EU law has been, presenter Tom Heap-of-Dung declaimed “…we produce more green energy…” as we were shown a picture of a bird mincer…

      Watch it here from 20:00 minutes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001l5mg/countryfile-wild-britain

  77. Dear God.
    A person surrendered a shotgun to Kongsberg police, and it was being checked by an “experienced policeman” when he shot a first floor window out!
    https://www.laagendalsposten.no/kongsbergpolitiet-rapportert-til-spesialenheten-etter-vadeskudd-det-skulle-ikke-skjedd/s/5-64-1285586
    What utter imbecility and incompetence. Thank God nobody was hurt!
    The Army have this sorted: By the gate to the camp, you have a loading/unloading station, where you point the weapon at a sandbag or similar whilst you deal with the loading & unloading, and when unloading finish with a “click”. Not wave it round the office and pull the trigger at a random moment!
    Jesus wept!

    2. A lot of our hospital nurses appear to be rather larger than I used to remember them.

      1. 374153+ up ticks,

        Evening M,

        One alone could honestly be described as a crowd.

  79. The pain in my knee means that rain is coming.
    The pain in my neck means that relatives are coming.

    (Gawd, it’s catching.)

    1. Does that mean that relatively speaking your husband thinks you’re a pain?
      Shirley Knott…

  80. Plans to abolish the “feudal” system of leaseholds across England and Wales have been dropped after a battle between Downing Street and Michael Gove.

    Gove, the housing secretary, will next month announce a range of measures to protect the 10 million Britons who own their homes in a leasehold, as part of a major speech following months of bruising party rows over housing.

    The measures are expected to include a cap on ground rents, more powers for tenants to choose their own property management companies and a ban on building owners forcing leaseholders to pay any legal costs incurred as part of a dispute.

    But Gove will stop short of abolishing leaseholds altogether, despite a pledge made in January to end it this year.

    A spokesperson for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, said: “We are determined to better protect and empower leaseholders to challenge unreasonable costs.

    “We have already made significant improvements to the market – ending ground rents for most new residential leases and announcing plans to make it easier and cheaper for leaseholders to extend their lease or buy their freehold.

    “In line with our manifesto commitment, we will bring forward further leasehold reforms later in this parliament.”

    Millions of Britons own their homes through a lease, which leaves them having to pay extra costs to the building owner, including ground rents and service charges.

    Flat owners are often left having to pay tens of thousands of pounds to repair common areas to their buildings, even if they disagree with the work being done.

    Gove has promised for a long time to scrap the system, telling the Sunday Times earlier in the year he wanted to do so this year.

    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/may/10/plans-abolish-feudal-leasehold-system-england-wales

    1. The Grosvenor estate has sold a lot of leases on their houses, I doubt the system will be abolished.

  81. Longer lorries to be allowed on Britain’s roads despite safety warnings
    New laws to permit vehicles up to 18.55 metres long, but campaigners say they will increase fatal accidents

    UK politics live – latest updates
    Joanna Partridge
    Wed 10 May 2023 10.29 BST
    Longer lorries are to be fully permitted on Great Britain’s roads after the government said it would introduce laws to allow their use, despite warnings that the move will increase the number of fatal road accidents.

    The Department for Transport (DfT) said lorries measuring up to 18.55 metres long – 2.05 metres longer than the current standard size – would be allowed from the end of this month.

    The longer lorries have been trialled since 2011 and there are about 3,000 already on the roads, but from 31 May any business in England, Scotland or Wales will be able to use them.

    As part of the change, longer combinations of semi-trailers will be permitted, under the legislation laid before parliament on Wednesday. These longer semi-trailers, or LSTs, measure just over 2 metres longer than a standard semi-trailer and can be towed by a lorry.

    Ministers have estimated that the change will bring £1.4bn in economic benefits, and will remove one standard-size trailer from the roads for every 12 trips, therefore saving 70,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

    But longer vehicles have a larger tail swing, meaning that their rear end covers more area when turning, and they also have extended blind spots, raising fears for the safety of other vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.

    Road safety groups have long warned of the dangers posed to pedestrians and cyclists, adding that the vehicles’ swing and blind spots could result in damage to roadside infrastructure.

    When the trial was launched, campaigners argued that the new lorries would have a greater length than the bendy buses previously used in London, which were phased out partly because of reports that they were the cause of twice as many injuries as other buses

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/10/longer-lorries-to-be-allowed-on-britains-roads-despite-safety-warnings

    1. “therefore saving 70,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.”

      CO₂ trumps all, Belle.

        1. “The longer lorries have been trialled since 2011 and there are about 3,000 already on the roads”

          So we just need 21,600,000 more of them and the UK’s annual emissions equal zero, job done.

    2. Longer and heavier. I spent quite a long time driving today and the potholes are already horrendous and very, very dangerous.

      1. In May I was staggered by how bad the roads have become since we were last in the UK, only 8 months earlier.
        It’s frightening that drivers are looking out for potholes and then swerving into the oncoming traffic.

        1. I passed my driving test 50 years ago come November this year. I can quite truthfully say that I have never known the roads to be in such a bad condition as they are now.

          1. There’s an arterial that was so pot holed it looked like the Somme. Driving over it was an exercise in swerving around great gapinng deep holes.

            To their credit, the council repaired the holes.

            Then it rained, and they’ve all opened up again.

        2. Swerving around Lycra clad cyclists adds to the overall inconvenience. These fuckers deliberately ride in the centre of the road causing the motorist to give them a very wide birth by going past on the opposing lane.

          We have truly reached rock bottom in terms of common sense.

        3. Swerving around Lycra clad cyclists adds to the overall inconvenience. These fuckers deliberately ride in the centre of the road causing the motorist to give them a very wide birth by going past on the opposing lane.

          We have truly reached rock bottom in terms of common sense.

        4. Swerving around Lycra clad cyclists adds to the overall inconvenience. These fuckers deliberately ride in the centre of the road causing the motorist to give them a very wide birth by going past on the opposing lane.

          We have truly reached rock bottom in terms of common sense.

    3. Have the government factored in the cost of the degradation of our road surfaces and verges. I thought not. Ours are potholed and crumbling, not just the rural roads and lanes but the A roads besides.

      Every day I witness enormous straw lorries comprising a low loader and additional trailer taking straw bales from an enormous stack at Ridgewell Airfield to God knows where. The lorries and drivers are Welsh and we are in rural North Essex near Clare.

      In recent years we have had enormous slurry tankers creating a stench as they go through the village, totally destroying the lane metalling on route to a farm near Ovington. This occurs dozens of times each day.

      Our government has not a clue.

      1. Balfour-Beatey have just been given a multimillion pound contract to maintain all the roads in East Sussex. They cannot cope so just farm it out. What is the point of the county council?

        1. Years ago councils employed ‘direct works contractors’. If some utility dug up a road or pavement it was the responsibility of the Council to ‘make good’.

          ‘Make good’ was in planning law defined as returning the surface to its original condition as found. Of course with the general decline in standards of those employed in council offices, utilities would often dig up a paved area and instead of restoring the paviours, bricks or whatever, would merely throw in some Type 1 Fill and a layer of Black-Top if you were lucky.

          As I have explained we now have roads and footpaths scarred by every possible intervention whether water companies, telephone, cable and now super fast broadband fibre cables.

          I was struck by the aerial views of the Coronation of Big Ears at the sheer number of rectangular patch repairs to both Whitehall, one of our widest and most prestigious highways, Trafalgar Square and Admiralty Arch.

          We are a country in physical decay, also political and moral decay, and run by globalist puppets who would confine us to our areas and homes, require us to submit to WHO mandates and threaten our very existence as sovereign people.

          We be need rid of Sunak and his cretinous, treasonous government. The supposed opposition parties are no better and some worse.

          The Green Party, following their showing at our recent Local elections are the major threat to our country. These are the younger generation, like most young folk seeking a cause and latching onto Transgenderism, the Climate Change hoax and all of the LGBTQ nonsense shovelled down their throats by our inept and incompetent schools and colleges.

          The country as a whole needs to
          wake up urgently otherwise all will be lost.

          1. Sadly you are spot on. We must vote for change from all that we have now.lets start witha new archbishop that believes in God.

        2. Years ago councils employed ‘direct works contractors’. If some utility dug up a road or pavement it was the responsibility of the Council to ‘make good’.

          ‘Make good’ was in planning law defined as returning the surface to its original condition as found. Of course with the general decline in standards of those employed in council offices, utilities would often dig up a paved area and instead of restoring the paviours, bricks or whatever, would merely throw in some Type 1 Fill and a layer of Black-Top if you were lucky.

          As I have explained we now have roads and footpaths scarred by every possible intervention whether water companies, telephone, cable and now super fast broadband fibre cables.

          I was struck by the aerial views of the Coronation of Big Ears at the sheer number of rectangular patch repairs to both Whitehall, one of our widest and most prestigious highways, Trafalgar Square and Admiralty Arch.

          We are a country in physical decay, also political and moral decay, and run by globalist puppets who would confine us to our areas and homes, require us to submit to WHO mandates and threaten our very existence as sovereign people.

          We be need rid of Sunak and his cretinous, treasonous government. The supposed opposition parties are no better and some worse.

          The Green Party, following their showing at our recent Local elections are the major threat to our country. These are the younger generation, like most young folk seeking a cause and latching onto Transgenderism, the Climate Change hoax and all of the LGBTQ nonsense shovelled down their throats by our inept and incompetent schools and colleges.

          The country as a whole needs to
          wake up urgently otherwise all will be lost.

        3. Well over £900million pounds we understand from the local newspapers Johnny.

          Unfortunately Balfour Beatty haven’t bothered to start repairing any of the roads.

          Perhaps the contract didn’t have any limit on length of delays?

    4. Bah childs play.

      Try some of the double trailer trucks in the US, they come in at around 130 feet.

  82. Did you know that women use about 30,000 words a day while men only use about 15,000?
    Woman: Yes because we have to repeat everything.
    Man: What?

    ( It really is catching. And it beats all the down stuff.)

    1. Is the real difference that the men use numerous alternative words whereas the wimmin have a repertoire of a few good ones?

    2. I turned to the Warqueen over dinner and before I could say anything, she said ‘Pretend one’s for Junior.’

      Nowt else needed to be said. She’d pre-empted our entire conversation, my protestations, my arguments for and against. It’s not all one way. One afternoon I pulled the curtains closed in our room as she reached the top of the stairs. After a hug, we parted and she went to lie down.

      The more you say, the less in tune you are. If I raise an eyebrow to Mongo he’ll stop whatever he’s doing and adopt that ‘I’m a poor helpess little doggy!’ expression. El warqueeno thinks he and I are telepathic.

      1. It was meant to be a joke, Wibbs;-)
        No two relationships are the same- some work, some do not.

          1. I had a great relationship with my Golden, Fred. We really seemed to be on the same wavelength and he always sensed my moods. I still miss him greatly.

      1. Mmmm- sometimes when my husband stops his diatribe, I have forgotten what I was going to interject!

  83. I’m feeling very fed up right now.
    I think I’ll take a break for a bit.
    Slayders folks.
    Take care all.

    1. And you too.

      It’s been a difficult time for you and yours recently; remember that there are many people, who you have never met, who are rooting for you all and that those who do so will be praying.

      1. I think she’s another one like the woman at the Palace who turned a question by Susan Hussey into a racist fiasco. Although I don’t know and I don’t care.

    2. How ignorant this woman was. So nobody is to ask politely how to pronounce her name and all she does is keep repeating “read it”. Ignorant and quite happy to cause embarrassment. Not British.

      1. The interviewers can’t win in such cases.
        They are racist if they can’t pronounce it or stumble over it and the guest can make them squirm even if they can pronounce it but do so at a pace to the dissatisfaction of the interviewee.
        Perhaps they could be coached beforehand, out of courtesy, but making a fuss is equally discourteous.
        I am reminded of the comparatively short name of Strachan, which to my knowledge has at least three different approaches.

  86. Last one I promise!

    “Dad, how come there aren’t any circuses around any more?”
    “That’s because all the clowns went into politics, son.”

    1. Send that to your MP with the question – “what are you going to do about it?” You are forcing us to take these savages.

    2. Send that to your MP with the question – “what are you going to do about it?” You are forcing us to take these savages.

  88. Going to bed now. Still very tired but will sleep in again tomorrow. My husband is doing OK and happy to be home.
    Sleep well Y’all.

  89. Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk.

    Aiming to be up betimes, not only to post the day’s story but I must go and do some shopping first thing – hope it’s not raining.

  91. Two eagles in two days.
    Wordle 690 2/6

    ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Mike drop.

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