Wednesday 14 August: Labour’s hostility to the private sector will not help ‘working people’

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  2. 'Morning All
    It gets ever worse………
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  4. Good morning, chums, and thanks to Geoff for today's NoTTLe page.

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  6. 391523+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Mass demand from the political kneeling tool fool, his definition
    of "a warning alert" in regards t a sect of, in daylight, sword carrying foreigners who have already killed in the past and will continue to kill in the future.

    To satisfy the kneeling tools blood lust, he must ask those that want unlimited morally illegal immigration to offer themselves up on the altar of mass paedophilia & killing via knife and sword.

    https://x.com/JimLambUSA/status/1822768492195508412

    1. My BTL comment:

      "…Free speech is protected by both Common Law and Magna Carta. Since both are older than Parliament and Parliament would love to repeal them both, it cannot…"

      2. Blair's Supreme Court is above parliament.. it is now the Law.. Starmer's Law. Thankfully, in Australia they recognised this abomination and never let Lawyers near power at the top.

        1. Blair's abomination of a Supreme Court cannot hope to outlaw Common Law nor Magna Carta!

          1. it can, and it has.. dontcha remember Lady Hale's infamous decree.. "it may be Legal, but I deem it unlawful.." ????

      3. Blair's Supreme Court is above parliament.. it is now the Law.. Starmer's Law. Thankfully, in Australia they recognised this abomination and never let Lawyers near power at the top.

      4. 391523+ up ticks,

        Morning SJ,

        I’m risking a prison term in warning you in regards to your alerting peoples, with true facts,
        That will get you instant porridge.

        Catch 22 & a bit.

        1. I shall demand a court appearance accompanied by a Lawyer who is aware of Common Law and Magna Carta.

        1. …and it takes only one juror to stand up and say it is unlawful to have the act struck out.

    2. Let's be clear..
      Commentators on all Leftie rags support Starmer 110%. Now that is scary.

  7. Keir Starmer is going on a terrifying crusade against free speech. 14 August 2024.

    In a finger-wagging statement, Cheshire Police described Spofforth’s arrest as a “warning that we are all accountable for our actions, whether that be online or in person”. Indeed! Spofforth herself agrees, which is why she has issued a grovelling public apology for her mistake – though she certainly doesn’t admit to being either a racist or a deliberate rabble rouser.

    Were we living in normal times, that ought to be that. Her shocking experience has already had the desired effect, putting the fear of God into others tempted to highlight concerns about violent crime in this country and its link to mass uncontrolled immigration. This phenomenon is terrifyingly real – but very inconvenient for a government which does not have any answers to the crisis.

    This is of course the purpose of these arbitrary arrests and prosecutions. The intimidation of the great mass of the public.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/08/13/keir-starmer-free-speech-bernadette-spofforth-mccarthyism/

      2. I have a quantum of sympathy for him. When he was born his genitalia were not fully formed and he was misidentified as a girl.
        The error only came to light apparently with the DNA test by the boxing authorities.

        1. Yes but you don’t need to bring a court case over it. He gets no sympathy from me over this move

        3. I sympathise too up to a point. If someone accused me of being a woman I would call into evidence the willy and its sack of twofold wobblers in proof that I am not.

      4. Good luck with that case as he has XY chromosomes although he has questioned the analysis.

    2. The irony being that McCarthy was right.
      Communists were infiltrating and taking over the American Establishment as we see now from the state of the Democrat Party.

  8. Good morrow, Gentlefolk, today’s (recycled) story

    Don’t Be Kidding Me

    There was this eagle flying above a field one day, when he sees a mouse down below. So he swoops down picks up the mouse and swallows him whole. The mouse is alive inside the eagle, and he says to himself, "I gotta get out of here!"
    So the mouse starts working his way through the eagle's intestinal tract until he sees a light up ahead. He pushes his way through and pokes out his head. To his terror, he sees that he is flying far above the field.
    "Holy shit! he yells up to the eagle, "how far up are we?!"
    "Oh, about 2,000 feet" says the eagle.
    "Wow!" the mouse replies. "You wouldn't shit me would ya?"

  9. Good morrow, Gentlefolk, today’s (recycled) story

    Don’t Be Kidding Me

    There was this eagle flying above a field one day, when he sees a mouse down below. So he swoops down picks up the mouse and swallows him whole. The mouse is alive inside the eagle, and he says to himself, "I gotta get out of here!"
    So the mouse starts working his way through the eagle's intestinal tract until he sees a light up ahead. He pushes his way through and pokes out his head. To his terror, he sees that he is flying far above the field.
    "Holy shit! he yells up to the eagle, "how far up are we?!"
    "Oh, about 2,000 feet" says the eagle.
    "Wow!" the mouse replies. "You wouldn't shit me would ya?"

  10. Morning, all Y'all.
    Drizzle. Dull day, but some small girls came round yesterday before I got home, and asked SWMBO if they could mow the grass (it's not good enough to be a lawn) for money. We have a new battery-driven lightweight mower, ideal for operation by small girls… once SWMBO made them go and put on sensible shoes, they cut the grass and were paid £10 for their efforts – they were ecstatic!
    Did a good job, too. Even emptied the grass clippings into the bag!

      2. The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young : By William Blake

        When my mother died I was very young,
        And my father sold me while yet my tongue
        Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"
        So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.

        There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head
        That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved, so I said,
        "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare,
        You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair."

        And so he was quiet, & that very night,
        As Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight!
        That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,
        Were all of them locked up in coffins of black;

        And by came an Angel who had a bright key,
        And he opened the coffins & set them all free;
        Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run,
        And wash in a river and shine in the Sun.

        Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,
        They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind.
        And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,
        He'd have God for his father & never want joy.

        And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark
        And got with our bags & our brushes to work.
        Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm;
        So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.

  12. Good morning all.
    A damp & dull start with 10½°C on the Yard Thermometer. Overnight rain has stopped however.
    A run to Derby to pick up an electric motor from a narrow gauge battery powered locomotive from t'Lad's and them run it up to Clay Cross for some work to be done on it.

  13. Thank you Geoff!
    Good morning all! Bright and sunny here – I knew it would be as the schools go back today! Our granddaughter starts this morning!

          4. Glad to hear (and see her) happy. A lot of children find the first day somewhat traumatic. Well done, Grandma Sue.

          7. Oh thank you Conway! Not at all or I wouldn’t have posted it! She was so excited! The view is over the Tweed!

  14. Nicked I'm afraid it's accurate
    "I' ve been reading that many people arrested for being a part of the disturbances following the slaughter of white children have pleaded guilty because the judges indicated that to plead not guilty would result in them being remanded in custody. This period of custody could end up being far longer than any sentence if they pled guilty.

    This is becoming a farce. Grounds for refusing bail are strict. One of the most common is the fear that if granted bail the suspect would reoffend.

    What evidence is there for that notion. Especially someone charged with naughty online posts ?

    I suspect that much legal advice is from defence solicitors reliant on legal aid work who have a vested interest on keeping on the right side of the justice system. So effectively …a rigged system.

    It’s getting more like the US where justice is frankly the last thing to expect from the Criminal Justice System and plea bargains are the norm to expedite the process"
    Total abuse of process……..
    https://x.com/DiscoDroid/status/1823604092742308282

    1. Another BTL comment in the same vein:
      "…As with most of the judiciary, he is not aware of Common Law and Magna Carta. Back to Law School for you and all the rest…"

    2. These sentences do need to be challenged. Someone’s got to be able to do something.

      How do these judges sleep at night?

  15. Good morning all,

    Dreich at Castle McPhee, wind light and variable, 17℃ rising to 22℃ this afternoon.

    Why should we even think of doing such a thing?

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    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/13/afghan-troops-blocked-from-joining-british-army/

    Someone I know who served in Afghanistan would be aghast at the very idea, bearing in mind how often supposedly loyal Afghan troops and police turned out to be anything but. We owe these people nothing. Why are they even here?

    1. I would like to hear Keir Starmer explain how and why this man has not been treated in the way that a person of different ethnicity would have been treated by the law if he had beaten his daughter with an iron bar.

  17. Barely two months into his regime.. now imagine five years.
    And, as with SadSack Khan & Biden.. there's no guarantee you'll get the bugger out of office.

    1. Gives the kneeler and his goons plenty of time to work through the part of the population that still thinks he is a Marxist tyrant.

    1. Proof, if further proof were needed, some sections of our fine police service need sacking.

    2. Just listening to the latest Winston Marshall podcast (i think it’s allso a vid on YoubTube) with Douglas Carswell. It’s going to be good. 8 minutes in and he is explaining how we ended up with two-tier policing – very interesting

  20. 391523+ up ticks,

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021

    20h

    The parents & families quite reasonably want someone to blame for why a homicidal lunatic was lose on the streets.

    Maybe these are the reasons: the ‘multiple organisations’ failed because they are overwhelmed with the amount of mental illness in society; they & the police are terrified of being accused of ‘racism’ when they have to deal with issues & crimes concerning non- white people, & are reluctant to get involved & possibly ruin their careers.

    Not forgetting that government is importing millions of people about whom they know & care nothing. These are bound to include a fair proportion of loonies.

    The government & the politically correct public institutions sue & random members of the public reap.

    Nottingham families say NHS and police have ‘blood on their hands’ over killings – BBC News,https

    2. ‘multiple organisations’ failed..

      Having lived & worked in many countries.. my advice would be don't trust any UK institution whatsoever. That goes for your £, your medical records, and your security.

      1. Indeed.
        Either by carelessness or malevolence, one can too easily get screwed over.

        1. yep.
          Especially not paying attention.
          Once that core social contract goes out the window.. it's over.

          individuals give up the right to do anything they please in return for protection provided by government.

    3. Has the thug who attacked women police officers at the airport and broke the nose of one of them been charged with anything or has he been absolved because of his ethnicity?

      1. 391523+ up ticks,

        Morning R,
        In all honesty you must think the same as all decent folk he has earned long time, big time.

      2. How does he know they are women?

        If he were the sort of person whose life doesn't matter, breaking the nose of someone identifying as a woman is cultural appropriation, and a hate crime, especially if retweeted online.

        Five years, I reckon. With the right paperwork though, reduced to six weeks.

  21. Morning folks. Revisited this earlier well worth reading the entire article:

    "The mainstream narrative should therefore be reversed: the stock market did not collapse (in March 2020) because lockdowns had to be imposed; rather, lockdowns had to be imposed because financial markets were collapsing. With lockdowns came the suspension of business transactions, which drained the demand for credit and stopped the contagion. In other words, restructuring the financial architecture through extraordinary monetary policy was contingent on the economy’s engine being turned off. Had the enormous mass of liquidity pumped into the financial sector reached transactions on the ground, a monetary tsunami with catastrophic consequences would have been unleashed.

    As claimed by economist Ellen Brown, it was “another bailout”, but this time “under cover of a virus.” Similarly, John Titus and Catherine Austin Fitts noted that the Covid-19 “magic wand” allowed the Fed to execute BlackRock’s “going direct” plan, literally: it carried out an unprecedented purchase of government bonds, while, on an infinitesimally smaller scale, also issuing government backed ‘COVID loans’ to businesses. In brief, only an induced economic coma would provide the Fed with the room to defuse the time-bomb ticking away in the financial sector. Screened by mass-hysteria, the US central bank plugged the holes in the interbank lending market, dodging hyperinflation as well as the ‘Financial Stability Oversight Council’ (the federal agency for monitoring financial risk created after the 2008 collapse), as discussed here. However, the “going direct” blueprint should also be framed as a desperate measure, for it can only prolong the agony of a global economy increasingly hostage to money printing and the artificial inflation of financial assets.

    https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/

    It also explains that the financial crisis hasn't gone away, hence the continuing interest in Pandemics (and mandatory actions)

    1. Jennifer Arcuri, BJ’s ex, said back when it happened that he locked us up not because of a virus but after being summoned to the Bank of England and ordered to shrink the economy.

      1. Interesting – that would lend another degree of credence to the piece referred to above.

      2. On 5th March 2020 we were in Nairobi after 10 days in the bush with no news. CNN was wittering on the wall telly about a stock market crash. We arrived home on the 6th March and the rest is history. The crash didn't have much effect on my ISA.

      3. after being summoned to the Bank of England and ordered to shrink the economy.

        As Johnson whimpered to Fraser Nelson, "I have to do what they tell me".

        1. "I have to do what they tell me".

          Why Boris? Did someone put a gun to your head?

          Do we have a parliamentary democracy or not? Or our we run by a global mafia?

        1. I think you'll find plenty of her on YT. I'm sure James Delingpole 'did' her in one of his 'pods in which she spilled all the beans.

    2. This- absolutely, this. The antecedent cause of the whole worldwide shitshow was the August 2019 Repo Market meltdown.

      1. That's what I stumbled across in about April 2020 in an interview on YT that Anna Brees did with a school teacher in Shropshire. He talked about the RePo market, went on to describe Event 201 and Rockefeller Lockstep. The rest, as the saying goes, is history. Welcome to the rabbit warren.

    1. 2029..
      it cannot be levelled at you that you hit anyone, neither have you thrown anything, neither is it said that you spat at anybody.

      But you did press a "Like" button on more than one occasion.. and more importantly you "shared" a link albeit in a private chat.
      Two months Wandsworth Gulag.

      1. And to make room for you, we are releasing the lifer known as Slasher McGee: he has done 6 months in chokey and we have to consider his human rights.

          1. No need to be. Our very own Deputy PM screeched out this very word during a televised Parliamentary session. Surely, it’s an accepted word. Sauce for the ginger goose, and all that.

    3. Convid was merely a rehearsal.
      It is now known that the British bulldog is well and truly dead.

    6. This has definitely been ordered by Starmer. The sentences for just being there are out of all proportion.

  23. R.I.P.

    Jill The Lass

    She would have been 80 today

    Our thoughts and best wishes are with Jack The Lad

    1. Paul Joseph Watson put up the FB posts on his UTube feed yesterday that a chap was jailed for. I shall not post them here for obvious reasons! But I am quite shocked as nothing I saw was really much different from many memes regarding immigrants that circulate daily.

      2. I don't know what was in those posts, since I've never seen them. But on the general historical point about the authorities in Britain becoming somewhat irked by popular opinion? Well that's new.

        I expect Henry "Orator" Hunt, British radical speaker and agitator, remembered as a pioneer of working-class radicalism would be characterised as "populist" or "far right" these days. Far more comfortable to tell us a history about how plucky oppressed women wrested the franchise from an unwilling parliament and all men everywhere that falls neatly in line with Progressivist ideals; while all along others fought for "manhood suffrage" in rather less acceptable ways from an Establishmentarian perspective. Even now, it took until the mid 2010s before any of it was acknowledged by a plaque in Manchester.

        Parliament ignore the concerns of the people? Heaven forfend! How dare, how very dare anyone suggest our Great and Good are in any way insensitive people or in any sense in possession of a tin ear. I imagine the Cabinet is investigating the background even as we ignoramuses speculate wildly from down here.

        Funnily enough, echoing previous eras the political Left are out on Soshal Meeja trying to call these the "Farage riots".

        Still, history eh?

        1. Have a look at the Utube from yesterday, its about 2 mins worth. I think most would regard the posts merely as someone’s opinion.

          1. I imagine they are. Always remember that the government has declared this the work of the ‘far right’; without reference to any other issues. They make no bones about it. In other words, having taken control of the incident, leading from the front as it were, it’s clear that it sees itself in a political struggle, not just one of equity for all. Opinions will be front and centre in such dangerous times.

  27. Morning all 🙂😊
    Grey. But light grey.
    Trucks arrived in the road just now for gully cleaning are just about to start work.
    Terrible news from Oz, my good old mate Brucie has been given only a few months to live. He's been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and there is no cure.
    Slayders.

    2. Pancreatic cancer is the worst. It killed my mum but was undiagnosed until pm.
      I hope he has time to get things in order.

    3. Oh dear. One of those diseases that bumbles along with disparate symptoms that can be put down to old age.

      1. Last weekend as I posted was Lukefest at the Elephant and Castle pub Amwell.
        That was in memory of our eldest son’s best man. Only in his early 40s.
        Pancreatic cancer takes no prisoners.

          1. The mother of one of my friends died of it, but she was in her 80s. An American friend died of it and he was only in his 40s.

          2. The mother of one of my friends died of it, but she was in her 80s. An American friend died of it and he was only in his 40s.

    4. My sympathies. It is a vicious cancer. My sister woke up one day and noticed that her husband was jaundiced. Went to the doctor and within 2 months he was dead from pancreatic cancer. Acts fast and cannot be delayed. I don't know how to think about such things. Is it merciful that it is so quick?

      1. I would say if death from cancer is on the cards then a quick death is best. Depends on the quality of life remaining.

        1. I disagree. There are lots of treatments for cancer and it depends on what kind of cancer; where it is situated and what stage it is at.

          1. A life prolonging treatment for cancer is good if the patient benefits from it and is not in pain.
            I am talking about terminal cancer where a lot of pain is involved even with treatment.

          2. Not to argue for argument’s sake but life prolonging treatments, for many years, can be provided for terminal cancer. I guess, I am saying cancer is not all doom and gloom and many factors can be involved as to the outcome.

      2. The message is to be prepared.
        As I am finding with Mother's affairs (her dementia means I cannot ask her), her finances are all scattered around the place, not logged or kept in a file, to the extent that a letter from Tesco Bank just rolled in (post forwarding service) about an account I didn't know about. What more? Where are the share certificates?
        Relating that to me, in case of need, I'm putting together a list of important money sources, shares, and also logins and passwords… if I get taken suddenly, then it will at least be easy for SWMBO to find the savings.

    6. Man, that's hard, Eddy.
      Does that mean that they will no longer be travelling to visit you?

      1. Neither do I Ndovu. I had no idea of the extent of this nonsense going on during covid, blissful ignorance of the MSM and all its Stalinist tendencies. The fact that Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is allowed live on TV demonstrates what a cesspit MSMTV is.

        1. I thought she's left the country? She kept threatening to. I expect most other countries would not give her the platform she thinks she deserves.

    2. Clear and irrefutable evidence of the imbecility of the species.

      Not one of those face-nappy wearers also wore sealed goggles. A virus has just as much of an opportunity of entering the respiratory system via the tear ducts as it does through the nose or mouth.

      Trouble is, the powers-that-be are as stupid as the rest of the population, since a cloth face-tampon is as useful at keeping out a virus as chicken wire is at protecting you from a bullet.

    1. 391523+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      It would come as no surprise to me that it will be a nickable offence carrying a prison term
      if you refuse when asked

      🎵,
      Doyer wanna dance to a rock & roll tune.

  31. Good Moaning.
    Please note in your diaries, the following event: 13th. August, 2024. Time 11.58 ack emma. Location: outside the Mill Hotel, Sudbury. Event: that A.Allan chap exercising epic – nay, superhuman – self control.
    I remarked on the bucolic scene before us. Cousin ticked me off.
    "Anne, you should know better; they are bullocks, not cows." And proceeded to give me the biological details.
    I stood there quietly, mentally substituting the letter "o" for the letter "u".
    And then mildly suggested the word "bovines". Without adding the usual companion word.

    1. Wow! I’m impressed!
      On another topic I hope you noted your prediction was fulfilled this am! Phillip Duly duly turned up!

      1. Probably finished recategorising his stamp collection and time hung heavy on his hands.

    2. I can just picture your face now. Mildly amused contempt. I wonder if your cousin noticed.

  32. Morning all! Nice cool day here, overcast with no possibility of drizzle I'm afraid. So not quite a normal summer day, perhaps tomorrow.

    1. Nor here. We got a random 10-min downpour about midnight though. Does that count as normal?

        1. I wasn’t going to broadcast our pitiable efforts. Thought I’d fess up in the end. Old conscience nagging away and all that.

        1. From deepest darkest Suffolk 22⁰C currently. Sounds quite nice in Spain though.

          1. It poured with rain yesterday bringing the temperatures down from 41°C. With luck the heatwave has finished. Tomorrow sunny with a high of 29°C.
            Bank holiday weekend starts tomorrow.

    1. These are Kangaroo Courts all the worse for being covered with a veneer of legitimacy

    2. Labour Scum. Well, if they arrest me for saying that, they'll have to arrest auld Growler too.

    1. I wonder what the reaction from authorities in say Iran would be if they were campaigning for Christianity?

      1. Yes, early examples of Islamophobia. I think the traditional way to express disgust that historical figures have offended modern mores is to dig up their bodies and execute them post exhumation. That'll learn 'em, c.f. Martin Bucer.

  38. Well as long as it permeates her thick hide that we've lost all respect for her too, then I for one am satisfied that all's well with the world.

    1. It needed someone to say the obvious, at last. The EU just chucks out that tired catch all trope, Trump and Musk are a threat to democracy and suddenly they think censorship is in order.

      The EU itself is a threat to democracy but is anyone going to censor it?

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  43. Of course it is all our fault. Nothing to do with mismanagement at the most senior levels.

    2. That's a change it is usually les majeste against a king who, unlike his father, is a totally corrupt degenerate.

  46. I wonder what Labour voters think about Starmer now. They must want rid of him, if they can.

    1. Most will be loving him 'sticking it to' the rich…whitey…oldies…anyone who works hard and has decent family values…Total anarchists, who hate Britain and the British, are running the show. Labour Scum Government.

        1. You mean the working class (spit) that actually founded the Labour Party?
          Those unspeakable proles who actually work, rather than shuffle pieces of paper and kowtow to Britain's enemies?

    3. BBC, artie fartie celebs and the Islington / Brixton / Wandsworth and further intelligentsia are his greatest fans .

      Londonistas with their second homes down here are selling up , as well as people with beautiful homes attached to land , yep , what next ?

    4. Labour voters are incapable of rational thought.

      Every quark in their body is imbecilic. Even their smegma has a negative IQ.

    5. You think so?

      They are probably applauding the tough crackdown on far right extremists, looking forward to rejoining the EU and rejoicing at the way Trump is floundering in his election campaign..

      Unless you are retired, who cares about the winter fuel allowance and the expected tax increases are just wicked Tory propoganda.

    6. I cannot recall an opinion poll recently, certainly not since twotierkier introduced two tier policing and two tier justice.
      I await with eagerness what the next one published tells me about the strength of support Labour commands.
      I fear the worse, life has taught me to never underestimate the stupidity of the people at times.

        1. Now he has heard what the people think, with this survey I don’t expect them to be asked anytime soon.

  47. I have noticed, as I'm sure many others have, that Piers Morgan deliberately lies, he does here to Andrew Tate, or will egg on someone in order to inflame a situation. I suppose that he thinks that it helps his ratings. It makes him, in my opinion, an evil psychopath indifferent to the suffering he causes. But what is particularly despicable is when, as he did in this instance, angers Tommy Robinson for putting his children in danger of being murdered by some fanatical Islamist. I follow Tommy Robinson on Twitter. In no instance has he urged anything other than people be non-violent and peaceful. So, Morgan is making these accusations out of whole cloth without any foundation in fact.

    Tommy Robinson Latest – Responds To Piers Morgan Lies
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8rXQOg-X8k

    1. i am sorry to say it but TR and the such like fall for it every time.

      Like James O'Brien you go on their turf and try to win an unwinnable "debate".. they just; change the subject, look away, shuffle their notes, interrupt, deflect, wind you up, retrieve from 1986 a rash comment.. etc..

      You have to up your ante.. reply with very short succinct statements, preferably an aphorism with a capital A.

      2. The point is here that Tommy Robinson was not involved at all. Morgan dragged him in without any consent. On holiday minding his own business with his children. So Morgan blathered about where Robinson was putting Tommy’s children in peril. Tommy being warned had to flee, disrupting the children’s holiday to take them elsewhere because Islamists have threatened his children. That piggy eyed cretin Morgan knew exactly what he was doing and it was as evil as you could be. Using children to get his rocks off. Despicable man.

    2. Tommy Robinson should not come back to the UK. They will either imprison him for many years or engineer his demise.

      1. As I said yesterday. He needs to be taken under the wing of Elon Musk or someone else very powerful. I too fear for his life.

  49. Moh playing golf again , damp dull day here , muggy and not a drying day .

    Rained gently last night , but no thunderstorms .

    The harvesters are still working hard . Next month the maize will be gathered .

    Am busy catching up on the chores I missed yesterday because of my half day off .

    Yesterday's lunch was a success .

    I sat next to a crisp , bright elderly , ex MOD civil servant , high up in the Civil servant spectrum , submarines and Lakenheath and defence generally.

    Of course , she remained silent on many things , but considered Ben Wallace and several others including many chiefs of staff utterly hopeless.

    Her opinion was the Tories messed up our defence strategy , she was Tory right through to her bones , Thatcher era but feels so disgusted that the quasi Clegg and Cameron partnership ruined the armed services , good experienced men and women were ditched as the armed services were reduced .

    I was amused to hear her declare Farage , Trump and Putin were mad and bad , yet the influx of migrants could have been stopped decades ago .. and Iran and Russia might cause utter devastation .. she then scared me by saying we have less than 3 years to prepare to defend ourselves .

    Are there things we aren't being told ?

    1. When the button is pressed, I shall make myself a cup of tea and then take Mike Harding's sage advice.

      Put my head between my legs and kiss my arse goodbye!

      Not really much point doing anything else, is there?

    1. Unfortunately can't read this because it requires that I sign up for Gmail, something I would never do.

      1. Hadn't realised about Gmail complication. Basic text below:

        Dear Supporters,

        Firstly, I would like to apologise for the lack of update for a lengthy period of time. There were delays within the Employment Tribunal and we then had to wait a number of months before we could hold a Judicial Mediation, which was the next stage of proceedings.

        Following this Judicial Mediation, I am pleased to announce an exciting, positive update. I have agreed a settlement with the Metanoia Institute in my claim against them.

        Although I am not in a position to reveal the exact terms of settlement, I can say that I am extremely happy with them.

        Metanoia have also published a formal statement, which reads as follows:

        We are pleased to announce that we have reached settlement in the Employment Tribunal claim brought by James Esses against us.

        Metanoia recognises that gender-critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010. These are the beliefs that sex is binary, immutable and biological and is fundamentally important. Whilst Metanoia specialises in professional training for those working in adult and not child psychotherapy it accepts as a matter of general principle the validity of the professional belief that children with gender dysphoria should be treated with explorative therapy, rather than being affirmed towards medical intervention. Discrimination against students because of these beliefs is unlawful.

        Metanoia also acknowledges the changing policy landscape in this field, including the significant UKCP withdrawal from the 2017 Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy, on child safeguarding grounds, as well as the outcome of the Cass Review. We accept that Mr Esses’ advocacy on this subject-matter was motivated by a desire to protect children.

        We also recognise the importance of freedom of speech within educational institutions and the steps taken by the government in this regard, including the recent introduction of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023.

        We accept that in our treatment of Mr Esses we were in breach of our own policies, when we summarily, and without due process, expelled him from his Masters’ course in Integrative Psychotherapy. Mr Esses was not afforded a hearing or an internal appeal.

        We also apologise for publicising Mr Esses’ expulsion on social media and in other communications. We accept that the Institute’s public comment on social media contributed to Mr Esses receiving online abuse from third parties, which we condemn.

        As a consequence of his expulsion, Mr Esses was barred from the opportunity of completing the additional two years of his studies and receiving his qualification with the Institute. Mr Esses passed every assessment undertaken which had been marked, had received positive feedback from his clinical placements and, at the time of his expulsion, had been signed off to set up in private practice by his supervisor, clinical placement and personal tutor. We apologise to him for the impact of his expulsion, both professional and personal.

        Notwithstanding the fact that high-quality therapy is rooted in empathy, active listening and unconditional positive regard, we did not fulfil these values in our treatment of Mr Esses. For this we apologise fully.

        We will seek to learn the lessons from this ordeal to ensure that this never happens to another student within our Institute and have already taken significant steps so as to improve quality in decision-making. We acknowledge the hurt that it has caused to Mr Esses and wish him well for the future.

        Finally, after having the vocation I loved so much snatched away from me, and the years of abuse that have followed, I feel vindicated.

        This, coupled with the outcome of my litigation against the UK Council for Psychotherapy, means that I have closure at last.

        More importantly, I hope that this outcome will ensure that educational institutes think twice before doing to another student what was done to me.

        I must thank my incredible legal team, Peter Daly and Akua Reindorf KC, who have been with me every step of the way.

        Finally, I would like to thank each and every one of you who supported me in my fight and donated to my crowdfund. I very literally could not have done it without you. I will remain eternally grateful to you all.

        I will now take stock and reflect on my future life plans. However, please know that, whatever direction my career may take, I will never stop fighting for the wellbeing of children and the preservation of biological reality.

        James

        1. Sadly, only those with deep pockets can extract justice. You can just hear the spit flying from clenched teeth as Metanoia narrates the statement. Good on James but it's an uphill struggle.

          1. Agreed: The process of proving innocence is the punishment, regardless of sentence passed.

        2. A good outcome on an issue that should never have been controversial in the first place. It is a commentary on the absurd times that we live in that what has been known since the dawn of time should now be a matter of dispute.

  51. A continuation of my observations about the early Church Fathers and their contact with Islam. Besides myself, there are at least two other people on NOTTLERS that lived in Islamic countries. Now if we write about something we know from direct experience of Islam and the police decide to knock on our front door, how can we be guilty of breeching Islamophobia rules by speaking the truth? Are we supposed to deny experience, deny reality to conform to a false concept of Islam that does not resemble lived fact?

    1. They seem to be able to decide whatever they like at the mo. Even if you were to quote the truth, it would be seen as 'causing alarm' or some such distress. Having looked at some of these new laws with Black Belt Barrister on Utube, it seems that they are written with the possibility of wide interpretation.

      3. Causing alarm is such a bogus term. I am alarmed at the governments behaviour toward the people. Can I call the police on them?

          1. I wasn't aware the police had reacted at all.
            Well, apart from criticising one for looking typical of his culture.

    2. Well you know what they say about islamophobia, it's when a non muslim knows too much about islam. Ex muslims are an embarrassing problem because they are ethnic minority and know too much about islam, I expect that's why the govt pretends they don't exist.

    4. The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984.

      1. Thank you for the guidance Sue, It makes me feel so relieved. And I should say, thank you Big Keir, in the Persian manner.

    5. Having lived in the Middle East myself, I’d far rather have their ordinary rozzers than the religious police who are like stormtroopers on steroids.
      I think that ttk’s riot police will end up echoing their Middle Eastern counterparts before too long.

      1. Yes. But perhaps I should watch the film again since it is now rather difficult to read. I will remind myself to watch when I am feeling exceptionally depressed.

    2. They're lucky to still be fed after they've fledged. Swifts, once they've left the nest are on their own and on their way to Africa. We have just two chicks left now.

  55. A bit oppressive inland today and so I'm toddling off over to the seaside to get some chillin' in.

    Be seeing you!

          3. Just got back at 8pm. Particularly excellent thanks.

            An afternoon sitting in the shade of Sizewell power station woods for picnic. The all day parking is dirt cheap, then wandering off to the beach whenever we wanted. Forced to drink Adnams Broadside naturally. It’d be impolite not to; when in Rome, etc. The weather was so equitable we stayed out and went for late tea at a local hostelry instead of coming home, then fish and chips at Halesworth even later. Excellent quality.

          4. Sounds absolutely wonderful, James. Glad you had such a great day, one for the old memory bank. Mine…not quite as good, but I take each one as they come. Planning my veg plot for next year 😀 Think the weather may be due to break a little now, but who believes forecasts. Will be watching out for Perseids again later.

          6. Overcast here, again. Doh. One year I was sufficiently lucky to see a couple go overhead, seemed really close:-)

          8. Ah, the gee-gees and proper etiquette. A right royal rule breaker me, I’m afraid. Panama all summer and as much as spring and autumn as weather allows. Trilby type all other months. I’m seldom seen without a hat if I’m not actually indoors or in the garden.

            A long time since I went to a race, but did do the Newmarket museum again last year.

          9. I usually wear a hat, too, but I include being in the garden in that. Only indoors am I bare-headed. I have a variety of styles – baseball caps, flat caps, trilbys, pork pies, panamas … The National Horseracing Museum is a good day out. I went to a Munnings exhibition there probably a couple of years ago, now. I camped at Cherry Hinton.

          10. I saw the Munnings too. Excellent wasn’t it. An honourable tradition is camping at Cherry Hinton. Do you go to the folk festival ?

          11. No I only do horse events. I thought the Munnings was very good. I saw the one in London of his WW1 paintings as well. He’s one of my favourite artists. What a go!

    2. Living just 15 miles from the east coast of Skåne, my 'inland' temperatures are very much influenced by the Baltic.

      1. Living about the same from the North Sea, mine’s all about the climate around Doggerland. Doggerland itself a bit wet these days of course.

  56. When my father died I kept his Arabic phrase books , three in total , and also several journals written about the March of the Mahdi .. .

    I suspect Urdu is the commonest language amongst boat people?

    Dad was fluent in Arabic , he had to be , part of his job as a senior QS in the Sudan in 1951 when he brought my sister mother and me to live in Khartoum . I was four years old .

    I attended All Saints church school , part of All Saints Cathedral which was knocked down years later I believe We had a white Bishop Alison and Padre Harper . Life out there was comfortable and colonial

    We spent four years there , prior to their independence when things became hot and nasty , and then Dad took us to Egypt in 1955, working again as a Senior QS, then of course you know what happened next , Suez 1956 .

    The story continues later to Nigeria , oh yes and their Independence in 1960 and then back to the Sudan when things had calmed down .. the story just continues .. again.

    Here we are , migrants are now in the UK creating their own little independent enclaves .. just as we did overseas, the difference is though , the migrants are being fed and watered and educated and nurtured as UK citizens .

    Expats overseas had to abide by local customs ..

    Oh , but many of you have done the same .

    Returning to Nigeria as an adult with Moh in the late 1970s was vastly different from Nigeria in the 1960's !

    2. Many, if not most, of the migrants coming here also receive benefits. Never, in human history, has this happened. People have traditionally emigrated for work. Not to be given ongoing benefits for lifelong sustenance.

  57. When my father died I kept his Arabic phrase books , three in total , and also several journals written about the March of the Mahdi .. .

    I suspect Urdu is the commonest language amongst boat people?

    Dad was fluent in Arabic , he had to be , part of his job as a senior QS in the Sudan in 1951 when he brought my sister mother and me to live in Khartoum . I was four years old .

    I attended All Saints church school , part of All Saints Cathedral which was knocked down years later I believe We had a white Bishop Alison and Padre Harper . Life out there was comfortable and colonial

    We spent four years there , prior to their independence when things became hot and nasty , and then Dad took us to Egypt in 1955, working again as a Senior QS, then of course you know what happened next , Suez 1956 .

    The story continues later to Nigeria , oh yes and their Independence in 1960 and then back to the Sudan when things had calmed down .. the story just continues .. again.

    Here we are , migrants are now in the UK creating their own little independent enclaves .. just as we did overseas, the difference is though , the migrants are being fed and watered and educated and nurtured as UK citizens .

    Expats overseas had to abide by local customs ..

    Oh , but many of you have done the same .

    Returning to Nigeria as an adult with Moh in the late 1970s was vastly different from Nigeria in the 1960's !

  58. Woman dragged out of a house and forced into a car in a suspected kidnapping as man, 31, is quizzed over alleged abduction in Bradford.

    **Steady.. careful on the keyboard.. run it past the best lawyer in town first.. Ok, this is the best you can opine.

    Bradford! LOL. nuff said. (then delete post, and apologise in advnace).

    1. **Disclaimer: It is the responsibility of those with privilege to refrain from engaging, and should challenge their own biases towards assumptions about negative stereotypes of other, and reflect on their own privilege and sit in the discomfort this brings and take responsibility to learn and take action to combat Islamophobia. Islamophobia is a problem rooted in White Van Man and Jewdom.

    2. **Disclaimer: It is the responsibility of those with privilege to refrain from engaging, and should challenge their own biases towards assumptions about negative stereotypes of other, and reflect on their own privilege and sit in the discomfort this brings and take responsibility to learn and take action to combat Islamophobia. Islamophobia is a problem rooted in White Van Man and Jewdom.

    3. Woman dragged out of house as man!

      Did she self identify as a man is she still a she, or was she a he to begin with?

    1. The top pic shows people who cared about their country and fellow citizens. The bottom pic shows people with blood on their hands. I bet none of them have taken an illegal into their homes.. How low we have sunk in such a relatively short time.

  60. That's a relief a,police car pulled up and parked opposite our house. I slept through the disturbance last night.
    At first I thought I was going to be arrested for cleaning our car.
    Now a shinning example.
    Seems there could be complaints aimed at Indonesia from our political classes because of another shinning example set.
    The idea is bound to have stirred interest.

  61. Afternoon Nottlers.

    I posted a comment on Nottl first thing this morning about Isabel Oakeshott’s article in the Telegraph. I also commented on the article itself. The piece itself has now been removed from the front pages and the comments blocked. It can still be found by using the Search function or using her name. I tried posting on her back up piece about domestic matters. This was removed and then completely erased so that no trace remains. In the light of this I have decided to post no more comments in the Telegraph. I fear that being a pest will get me a referral to the Thought Police and I’ll be fitted up as those who are presently appearing in the front of the courts have been. The UK is now a fully-fledged Police State and I’m too old to fight them on their own turf. I’ll keep posting on Nottl and Freespeechbacklash for now. I’ve also taken the precaution of joining the Free Speech Union.

          2. 'Domestic matters'? Your link just gives me today's article which was visible anyway.

            The DT is always moving links to articles. It's mildly annoying but hardly a conspiracy.

    3. Oh Araminta! That’s awful. Just shows up what we are fighting is closer to home than we think!

  62. Worklessness is now a crisis for the UK

    Around 9.5 million people aged 18 to 65 are neither in work nor looking for a job – in many cases, for good reason, but in others not

    TELEGRAPH VIEW • 13 August 2024 • 9:00pm

    The latest job figures from the Office for National Statistics show that unemployment fell while the number of those in work rose in the second quarter of the year. As Mel Stride, the Conservative spokesman, observed, this was more evidence that "Labour's claims of a terrible economic inheritance are a complete fabrication". They also make the decision to hold an early election even more perplexing since interest rates have also started to come down.

    But the headline statistics tell only part of the story. The most startling figures concern the levels of economic activity among people of working age and the reasons behind them. Around 9.5 million people aged 18 to 65 are neither in work nor looking for a job. Some will be students or mothers taking a break to raise children. Others will be early retirees who judge that they have enough in savings to see them through the rest of their lives. But the fastest growing cohort are those taking time away because they are ill, a group that has grown markedly since the Covid pandemic.

    This is a huge headache for the new government as it seeks to generate the economic growth on which its entire programme is predicated. Even with millions available to work, businesses are struggling to recruit staff, so they are looking abroad.

    Despite promises to clamp down on immigration, more than a million foreign workers have come to Britain since the eve of the pandemic, while the number of British-born people in work has fallen by almost the same amount. UK-born people now account for just under 80 per cent of all employment in Britain, down from 92 per cent at the turn of the century. ‡

    These are the realities that challenge the Government's rhetoric to get Britain moving again. Will ministers cut benefits to stop people opting out of the labour market? Will we hear from Sir Keir Starmer about the importance of the work ethic as he seeks to press the work-shy and feckless back into the jobs market? Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, said: "If you can work, you should work." We await her plan for making that a reality.

    This is the biggest problem the country faces and much else stems from it, including the entrenching of an underclass that provided many of those involved in the recent riots. Without effective action to bring more people back into the workforce, sustained economic growth will be impossible.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/08/13/worklessness-is-now-a-crisis-for-the-uk/

    ‡ An analyis of wages and living conditions would be useful. Farage got himself into trouble during the referendum campaign over his remark about "the houseful of Romanian immigrants next door" but he was making a serious point. Right from the start of the European invasion in 2004, immigrants were prepared to rough it in conditions that would be unacceptable to even the lowliest of the UK's unemployed in their sink estate slums. How many of the recent immigrants to which the editorial refers are doing the same? And don't be surprised if they start complaining soon: "We live in these terrible conditions but we support your economy." No you don't. You undermine it.

        1. Long Term Sickness Benefit, Sue….I like your style:-)) just reading about Obamacare (UnHerd)..even more of an eye opener. Anyhow, got my voting card today for Conservative Leader….straw poll everyone – tell me who you like (Badenoch for me)…

          1. Haven't seen anyone but Farage and Tommy R attacking the Labour party recently, or attacking the restrictions on freedom for that matter, so fcuk 'em all.

          5. Will look out for that choice, Ober…:-D everyone else I’ve asked says KB…they saw her having a pop at AR in the House.

          9. Go for it all you Nottlers living out of the UK.
            This attack on the ordinary middle of the road British people is a disgrace.

          11. Does it matter, no matter who it is they will promise one thing and deliver whatever their WEF masters command.
            I would consider myself a complete and utter gullible fool to believe anything any of the leadership candidates says, 14 years of broken promises has shown them to be what they truly are.
            I remember such classics as No deal is better than a bad deal, I will stop the boats, immigration in the tens of thousands, etc etc etc. Yes we have seen what they have achieved and they have found to be wanting.
            They deserved to be wiped out, only then perhaps a party of conservative values will come to the fore.

          12. I hear you, oldfella (love your mug btw), and agree they’re much of a muchness. I continue to vote in the hope it’ll keep out even more of a dictatorship, a vain hope I know.

          13. When the MP most in line with my thinking never stood in the election, basically saying that she stood no chance because they do not like her message, I considered the Conservative Party would carry on as before albeit under a new leader.
            It reminds me when a train company was under new management and decided a new look was required. They painted their rolling stock in a new livery, same worn out rolling stock but a new look to it. The same can be said of the Conservatives I fear.
            The mug came from a saloon on the edge of the desert in California during a driving holiday which included San Francisco, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon and the Pacific Coastal Highway. I should have bought a few more as I can’t see me returning to stock up any time soon.

          14. We need someone with the vim, vigour and intellect of Thatcher – might that be Badenoch, I’m not certain. Speaking with a number of younger people, they aren’t by any means all socialists, nor Reform supporters. If only the CP would do some research and get their act together, might just find we have a CP we can support. As it is, I’m not hopeful.

          16. The last time I ordered a real Conservative leader, the establishment found a way eventually to get rid of her.
            I am not to enthusiastic about trying to order another one 🤣🤣

          19. None of them, KJ. Not one has the courage, energy or vision to do what needs to be done and admit the complete and utter abject failure of the political class. None have the guts to stand up and say 'we didn't fail. This was our goal. We don't give a stuff what you think.'

            None of them are honest enough to look at the mountain that needs to be done – massive tax cuts, a genuine dismantling of the state, the abolition of the quangocracy, supra national government.

          20. Hear you, wibbling. I doubt anything will change, I’ll still vote for her but even if elected in a GE, the CS will be against her, or whoever is voted in. They’re the real power behind the throne imo. Just been reading something else on Unherd, condition of the places where immigrants are housed and who’s making a mint out of it – something else that’s not going to change.

          22. Each to his/her own, sos…have spent a number of years persuading others to vote, citing use it or lose it – if I start crying off now they’ll think I’ve lost my marbles (the few remaining ones I have)…

          23. I always vote, but I have put NOTA on the last two.
            I was staggered to see the sitting MP get turfed out, but happy that it happened.
            Hopefully it will be a wake up call to the Tories, although I have my doubts.

          24. That might depend on the number of NOTAs they get, sos….but I suspect you’re right, and they’ll just sail onwards…

          26. Nowhere.
            Lots of oak trees, no results.
            Given the amount of wild boar activity I would have expected to see some sign that truffles exist, but talking to locals there aren’t any.
            Unless of course they are keeping that close to their chests!

            I was disturbed to read earlier that Phizzee was on the prowl, I don’t need wild bore activity as well!

          27. You can also use hazel, poplar or beech. Might work better? What's the Ph of your soil? They like limey or chalk and moist (but not waterlogged) soil. We've got a truffle farm down the south of the county and he came to give us a talk (and a free sample) a few months ago. You may find this helpful: https://www.lovethegarden.com/uk-en/article/how-grow-truffles How long have you planted them? The can take 5-8 years to start fruiting.

          30. Brie, with a middle layer of creamed summer truffles, is delicious.
            Never seen it in the UK.

    2. What planet do the people who write this stuff live on and do they believe what they write? We know that at least 80% of Mohammedan immigrants are on welfare. They genuinely believe that the kuffar should pay to keep them. At the same time, DIE is applied to most recruitment so of those who are employed an unrepresentative number will be from minority groups.

    3. When I was camping near Fontwell a few years ago, the caravan on the next pitch was occupied by about 8 foreign young men. They all piled into a van at about 07.30 and returned (to eat and drink quite rowdily) at about 19.00. I presume they were either saving everything they earned or were sending it back "home".

    1. One of those petitions where you just don't sign and that is that but then pester you to spread the word via all and sundry. It would be nice to think it achieves something but I suspect like all such petitions it will fall on deaf ears.

    1. I have his book about the poison dwarf, Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She really wasn't at all saintly.

      1. An utterly disgustingly putrid crone, and I always believed so. The epitome of the "toothless, bearded hag", sung about by Mick Jagger.

        I would have loved to have given the ghastly cow 10,000 lashes with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

        2. I remember Malcolm Muggeridge of the BBC was responsible for promoting Mother Theresa of Calcutta and her Sisters of Mercy.

          Children were held in filthy conditions, beaten and chained to rusty bedsteads. All monies raised, possibly millions upon millions, were diverted to her Swiss bank accounts.

          Then despite these facts being widely known some pig ignorant Pope decided to make her a Saint.

    2. There is no such thing as "Islamophobia". No one suffers from an "irrational fear" of it. Anyone who does "fear" it, then you can bet your bottom Riyal that fear is not irrational.

      What I do have, though, is a very strong and very rational feeling of Islamomisia. A 'misia' is a hatred, loathing and detestation of something. And, for the benefit of those twats who are attempting to make me inhuman, Hatred is a natural and normal animal emotion; every bit as strong as love or fear.

      Cats hate water; monkeys hate leopards; I hate Islam.

      1. Very good, Grizz. Copied and stored away for possible future use, if that’s ok.

  66. Apparently she was anything but saintly and among other things, girls were sometimes chained to their beds…ghastly old drone that she was.

    1. What do girls and women matter so long as the Globalists get what they want?(In our case though using a certain sector as the catalyst).

      1. They want to use it to being in “women only” carriages, is my guess. To appease the adherents to the religion of peace. Women as third class citizens (behind men and boys)

        1. And doubtless any woman alone, who got into a non-women only carriage, would be regarded as fair game.

        2. I just had to stop myself posting my re-writing your description of a certain belief system, substituting a word that means to relieve oneself for the word peace…you never know who is looking!

    2. It's been happening for some time, Phizzee, Tube also. Even worse, if possible, in Japan. A knee in the wotsits req'd.

    3. I am tired of this country. It didn't use to be like this. Labour should have been eviscerated as a party and jailed the second they started forcing millions of aliens on us.

    4. There was a time when there were women only waiting rooms (and possibly carriages as well).

      1. There was a time when women showing an ankle caused a stir and needed to be covered up and secluded. We have progressed. Muslims are 500 years behind us but are now in our faces.

        In the modern era i think single women traveling alone might think the idea of single sex carriages appealing but as we have seen with Trans… Sometimes you need a big butch man to shut it down.

        1. I'm sure reverting to segregation would be very appealing to certain sections; first class, second class and goods and chattels needing a licence from their owner to be allowed to travel.

          1. " goods and chattels needing a licence from their owner to be allowed to travel."
            That will be everyone except the elites under the upcoming social credit system.

          2. I thought the aim was that the plebs (who had to slave away to support all the nonsense) would not be allowed to travel at all.

      2. Late and overnight trains with compartment stock usually had Ladies Only compartments.

      3. I remember those waiting rooms. They were relaxing. I don't understand why everything in modern life is designed to make every activity less gracious.

  69. Words on roadsigns in Wales that will always be in English:

    B&B

    Services

    Shopping Centre

    Hotel

    Well, they would not like to miss out on English money

    3. 18 months? Dear life. Muslim should get used to being insulted. We've had enough of them insulting us.

  74. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/14/gails-bakery-revolt-east-londoners-reject-chain-boss-views/

    The barista hasn't quite twigged that the reason he makes coffee and the other bloke makes billions and invests in coffee chains is because of his 'Right wing pro Brexit views'?

    Lefties whinge and wail, but they are poor and irrelevant. They're kept poor by their own egotistical arrogance. Be as 'diverse' and socialist as you want. You're still poor. If the sensible were to happen and housing benefit revoked you'd be homeless. You're only not because of the taxes the man you hate pays.

    1. I actually have some sympathy for independent traders being undermined by big, well-funded chains in any sector of the economy but the sanctimonious guff from Mr Spurdon has me reaching for the online equivalent of the 12-bore.

    2. I can understand traders objecting because they don't want the competition, but to object because “He is very different to the people here. His views are not the same"? So what?

      1. His preceding sentence is worse, even implicitly slanderous: ""We've just had this big, diverse counter-protest to protect Walthamstow from the far-Right and I doubt Luke Johnson would support that."

        1. Translated as, we've just got out on the streets to stop people voicing opinions we don't like.

    3. When i walk by a nice house which could be valued in millions i don't immediately compare it to my bungalow. My first thought is gosh how lovely. I'm obviously extreme far right.

        1. That's the thing isn't it. Lots of maintenance. Though i already employ a gardener, window cleaner and house cleaner it doesn't take them long to do the chores. With a big place they would need to be there every day. That alone would drive me mad. I like the sound of silence. Not hoovers and hedge trimmers.

          1. This is what we bought in 1988

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0b34a7012a9e68bea937de4ddfa94e40ab06023ecc9e955c6e7381e44dd1723f.jpg

            This is what it is like now

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/07f013da01d3a3ed9ecb547676215da42e24ba018591e80ca8edce0552ddbc1c.jpg

            We get professional cleaners in when we have students – at other times we live in cheerful squalor.

            At least I can keep the lawn looking reasonably kempt with this.

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0bd73c14f6239c13fb44b2030c9033fe950b9d813168d7c63d786675de250685.png

          2. Excellent !

            No strangers to squalor where posh people are concerned. Rural with dogs and horses means the car ronks of pooh and is covered in hair. I'm more a Hyacinth Bucket type though.

          3. My horses always lived in neater, tidier, cleaner rooms (stables) than I do! My cleaner is excellent and comes in once a week (after which, for a short while, my house resembles the stable yard sans straw, before reverting to type).

        2. I love to tour round country houses. Would I like one? No way. It's such a struggle to keep them going and in good repair.

          2. Why?
            He and I frequently bait each other.
            He knows from experience which places might be worth investigating.

          3. It's perfectly okay. I'm his social worker. He needs to remain calm and never look in the mirror. :@)

          4. We do bait each other all the time and i do actually know where he lives ! :@)

            For someone that misses these engagements might think someone is a bit off but it isn't.
            This is a big problem where now if someone makes a comment and someone reading it doesn't understand the context.

          5. It was a disastrous attempt to be "funny". I'll get me coat.
            It wasn't funny when looked at again.

          9. That's the joy of living where I do, you're unlikely to be passing and I can safely do so.

          10. Caroline and I would be very happy for Phizzee to call in on us as long as he gave us advance warning.

          11. Be careful what you wish for, he's a very fussy eater, only the best and finest food and drink will do.

          12. Very kind of you. Not sure if i would be allowed back in France after the last time. :@(

  75. As I don't really concentrate on telly, maybe I'm being a little harsh.
    There seem to be endless media items about Freddie Flintoff, who, I gather, was injured while filming 'Top Gear'.
    Were his injuries or his ordeal any worse than Richard Hammond's? I seem to remember RH had a mega nasty prang, went away for while, recovered and returned to normal life without all the wobbly lip stuff.

      1. Who got £9 million?
        If it was Flintoff, no wonder he's been dragging the whole thing out.

        1. I think Sue was referring to Huw Edwards, Anne, rather than Flintoff. I may be wrong though,

    2. Richard Hammond has never fully recovered, he just makes less of his condition public.

  76. Why have the Labour government been so nasty and authoritarian during their first few weeks in power, you may ask?
    Well quite obviously the Left being in opposition during the pandemic, missed out at imposing all the dystopian programs that the Left so enjoyed inflicting in other Western countries where they were in government.
    So now they are making up for it.

  77. “Fascism and Communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state.”

    Ayn Rand 1905–1982.

      1. That is, factually correct; they are positive they will discriminate against dissenters.

  79. A beachy Birdie Three!

    Wordle 1,152 3/6
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    1. Impressive. I got a four.

      Wordle 1,152 4/6

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    2. Not impressed by this one.

      So close but so many choices

      Wordle 1,152 4/6

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    3. Very good, par here.

      Wordle 1,152 4/6

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          2. That must be why I have always had dogs, Better Half had cats for a while…not now tho’…..:-D

          3. We had cats when I was a child, but they never lasted long. We lived right opposite the church and the churchyard was prime hunting country. Unfortunately, a very busy road ran between the two places – kersplat! Rather put me off cat owning.

          4. I can see how it would…first rescue dog I had was a border collie who wouldn’t/couldn’t work, people kept finding him in the (rather overgrown) local cemetery attached to the church….of course I thought to myself ‘is this a Christian dog I have here’…..nah, just catching the field voles around the graves….coincidentally he was clipped by the Hoover repair van on its way to me, got a ride home that day. Cats, dogs, roads, traffic…don’t mix do they…:-(

          5. "Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you, but pigs look you straight in the eye."

            A quotation, 'I believe, but not sure who by.

  81. It's an absolute disgrace that those charged are effectively being blackmailed into pleading guilty because they would be held in custody for an indeterminate period awaiting trial.
    I don't know if there is an officer of the courts or a member of parliament who has the power to fast track at least one case to appeal after sentence on the grounds that the sentences are utterly disproportionate to the actual offence, particularly when one looks at what happened in previous episodes of rioting and protest and certainly compared with acts of violence and looting by protected minorities.

    It is clear to all but the very dimmest that this is completely disproportionate.

    It is all well and good to bleat about discouraging others, but if similar draconian sentences are not handed out at the next left-wing, or Palestinian or Muslim protest or for inter-immigrant gang battles that the two tier treatments will be proven.

    2. Frankly, what is going on is terrifying. Freedom of expression, with limitations, is protected by Universal Declaration of Fundamental Declaration of Human Rights law. But it seems that KKT is happy to steam roller his punishments though the courts whether they are fair or not.

      2. It just shows how fragile one's "rights" are.
        With barely a blink, suddenly freedom of expression in the UK is gone, kangaroo courts are set up, and Sharia law implemented.
        How did that happen? Why was it allowed? Where is the political opposition? Why are there no early-day motions to consider this shit, and why are so many people in favour? Are 98% of the UK population utterly mad? Now, the only way to unwind will invole a horrific civil war.

        1. Effectively, we have a one party state at the moment and they can act as a dictatorship.

  83. from Coffee House, the Spectator

    another rant about food from Julie Bindell

    Salad bars are a crime against humanity
    Nothing can justify these unhygienic, tasteless monstrosities

    Comments Share 14 August 2024, 4:59am
    I love salad but there need to be rules. Salad should never be squashed in with hot food (e.g., in burgers); must never be dressed with anything from a bottle; and salad must never be served buffet style. Oh, and if it’s warm it’s quite simply not salad.

    For this reason, today I am speaking out against the horror story that is the salad bar. Landing after a very long flight from London to Melbourne, I was looking forward to dinner with my hosts who promised me ‘a real treat at a gorgeous restaurant you will love’. But their email also informed me that we would be going to a vegan, raw food place, heavy on the avocados, and with a no onion or garlic section for those adhering to the plant-based Jain diet that excludes roots and underground vegetables. A note on the menu informed diners that there would be no dressings served at this hellhole because ‘we prefer our prize, organic ingredients to remain naked and unsullied’. No.

    What makes food attractive is the dressing. Vinaigrette on a salad and clothing on a human: same principle
    Food is like the human body in this respect: what makes it attractive is the dressing. Vinaigrette on a salad and clothing on a human: same principle. There were many controversies around this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, and one was that the food was not up to scratch. Well, that’s what I surmised from swimmer Adam Peaty’s claim that there were worms in some of the food on offer. But for me, one of the most grotesque details about the Olympics’ culinary offering is that there is a salad bar to choose from.

    Salad bars are a crime against humanity and should have been abolished in the 1970s. Buffet food in general is terrible but the worst offenders are those cold, bland salad offerings left out for germs and insects to accumulate on while people slowly wander by, digging half-heartedly into the sweetcorn flakes that have bits of green pepper accidentally floating on top, and with the corn bearing beetroot stains after someone has poked at it with the wrong tongs. Everyone involved in this nightmare should be arrested.

    Chef Yotam Ottolenghi is one of those who has tried to revive the notion of salad selections in his restaurants and delis. But the difference is that, I imagine, his salads are kept hygienically packed away, and not dragged out day after day until someone finally bites, unlike that little café on the corner of the main road that you avoid where the salads look deflated.

    There’s also a modern take on the salad bar in places such as the Tossed chain (as an aside, why would a food outlet adopt a name that sounds like a porn channel?). These places just shove loads of different things, although primarily chunks of broccoli and beetroot, into a plastic bowl alongside some bland chicken and bottled tahini, and try to make customers believe they’re having a nutritious lunch.

    But the salad bar is really threatening to make a comeback in restaurants, mainly because the profit margins are so big. Salad bar staples include huge chunks of tasteless tomato, massive cauliflower florets, croutons and major pieces of peppers. These might be the sort of thing which you pick out of your food from cheap Chinese restaurants in Soho, but they take up a lot of space on the plate in restaurants and therefore are a real money-spinner for the number crunchers. A lot of these ingredients are also bought pre-prepared from factories, such as ready crisped onions, and big old chunks of flavourless pumpkin and courgette, a practice that defeats the claim that the average salad bar heaves with fresh and healthy food.

    A few years ago I got chatting to a man who was very high up in Pizza Hut. He was telling me about how profitable their salad bar was, and that one of his customers’ favourite items was the grated raw carrot. He told me he was thinking of adding bacon bits and tortilla chips to the mix because he reckoned they would fly. Good grief.

    Back in the bad old days before decent restaurants were rolled out across the country, my friends and I would play a game in which we would guess the worst ingredient on the salad bar. For me it was always iceberg lettuce, which is never welcome on my plate. While my friends would choose items ranging from the pitted black olives that taste like bits of old car tyre, to the twirls of pasta in an industrial tomato and vegetable oil dressing. A fierce competitor was the cold rice salad, which always consisted of bits of tinned sweetcorn, chopped peppers, raw spring onion and, shiver, tiny pieces of watery tomato.

    There wasn’t much good to say about the Covid pandemic but it did shut down the salad bars for a time. It was finally recognised that not only is this method of serving food inherently unhygienic, but it was also a concern (wrongly, as it turned out) that they could be receptacles for spreading the virus. The new kids on the block may well be dominated by quinoa, seasoned with za’atar, and protected by enough plastic to keep the germs from invading, but nothing will convince me the salad bar should live to see another day.

    1. So true , I am a fiddly fussy creature .

      Cafeteria help yourself food is also yuk.

      Sweaty chefs , with rings and tattoos and dirty aprons , nah .

      1. After a couple of attempts, the only time I have ever read a Julie Bindel piece is when I haven’t noticed who the author is

          1. Always, not usually.
            Julie Bindel is obsessed by misogyny in the same way that Nick Cohen is obsessed by Brexit.

        2. Or misread it as Julie Birchill, who is always good for a laugh and sometimes much better

    3. "..ingredients are also bought pre-prepared from factories…"
      NO!
      Just 'prepared'

    1. If it's not been done on purpose. What a great excuse for a mass medication episode, or for the mass expulsion of people from their homes.

  85. LeeHurst Tour Dates on Website
    @LeeHurstComic
    BREAKING NEWS

    Restaurants To Stop Serving Spaghetti To White People Incase It Spells Out Something In Arabic That Could Offend Muslims And Get The Customer Put In Prison By #TwoTierKeir.

      1. That's taken at his place. Log cabin dating back to about 1770, although the stairwell is about 1960s.

    3. I love the T shirt! Delightful kitty! Your son looks like a true viking! Good on 'im!

    4. What a fine young man! Cat adorable, too, We have a very similar one appeared in our Dutch Barn (cat, not handsome beast) . which is given over to junk and hay. Have yet to make physical contact, but it is an improvement on previous strays who have taken up residence there with evil, hissing intentions made clear.

    3. clarification from Henry Winter..
      Henry Winter
      @henrywinter
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      5h
      Premier League players will show their commitment to fighting racism and all forms of discrimination by taking the knee on six occasions this season: before this weekend’s opening round of games, at four “No Room For Racism” match rounds, and on the last day.

      1. Supporters are reminded that the Crown Prosecution Service has a list of 50 chants now classed as a hate crime.
        the 'rent boy' chant is top of the list.
        followed by the sick song going unchallenged often directed towards BBC pundits, 'Jimmy Savile, he's one of your own''.
        And of course.. 'You're just a town full of poofters'. aimed at Brighton's LGBTQ+ fan group Proud Seagulls.

        And my favourite.. sufferers of mild form of schizophrenia like Andy Goram of Glasgow Rangers' were greeted with the chant of "Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams" even by his own fans.

        1. They really should butt out. Rude chanting goes hand in hand with football. If you don't like it don't play. If as a spectator you don't like it don't go.

        2. Everybody sings 'You're just a town full of Pakis' at Leicester.

          My favourite was the one everyone sang at Wayne Rooney;

          'He's fat, he's Scouse, he's gonna rob your house, Wayne Rooney, Wayne Rooney'

          1. I think that is rather good even though i have nothing to do with football. I expect they have some granny bonking ones too.

            It appears that the only type of tribalism allowed now is the imported version.

            I believe that those who govern us are terrified of influence and power gathering in areas they have no control over. I also believe they have no idea what they are doing.

          3. Geegee: the thing is that non-fans (like me) really do struggle to understand the passion that football invokes. It is also hard for some to understand the sheer relish for violence – for fighting – amongst young men for those who don't feel it. It's extremely annoying that this natural, testosterone-fuelled propensity has been labelled "far right", as it is not political at all, just some people's idea of fun – and has taken place amongst consenting adults forever, it seems.

            When I lived in Deptford (c 50 years ago in a to-be-demolished council-owned squat abandoned to art students and first generation Carribean immigrants) there was a wall nearby which bore the legend "MILLWALL" under which some wag had written "BRICKWALL". It's taken decades for me to find out what either legend means.

          4. It’s actually not that hard to understand, O.

            Football, in the absence of war or local hostilities, provides an outlet for young men (and occasionally young women) to express and celebrate a feeling of worth and belonging for one’s own tribe against the hostile ‘others’.

            Some young men are always going to relish the opportunity to fight for whatever reason, and football provides that opportunity..

            I’ve been around a lot of football hooliganism in the past and I can safely say that I’ve never seen innocent bystanders caught up in it…. doesnt excuse it but it does provide a context.

          5. Thank you. I do actually now get it, with age, but didn't in the past. I also do maintain that it has nothing at all to do with politics

          6. You’re absolutely right O, it has nothing to do with politics, it is far more profound than that – it is all about ‘tribal’ and a sense of self and self-worth. I still have it and when I take my sons and grandson to watch Blackburn Rovers (I know, I know) we share a powerful bond.

      2. I suppose there is no chance the fans will object and boycott the matches? Probably already bought their megabucks season tickets, I suppose.

    4. Quite a few of black players from teams from lots of countries are or have been convicted of rape. Exactly who are they showing solidarity too?

    5. Bless 'em – they're only doing what they've been told to do – most them need telling when to go for a shite……

      1. Sorry about that 🙁
        Had a pint in the pub – Publican's Mother died just recently of some gut problem. Bloke came in and revealed his newly installed colostomy bag… said he really misses a satisfying dump first thing in the morning. Been a bitch at work today. Have sympathy for your position… a couple stiff gins have put a bit of a shine on the day. Hope it's looking up for you, too.

  91. Prevening, all. Labour doesn't like "working people" they aren't sufficiently dependent on the state.

    I am not sure whether it will do any good, but I've been sent this "consultation" link about the wrecking of the planning regs to concrete over green fields to house people who have no connection with this country. I shall be filling it in regardless. If anybody else wants to give them both barrels, feel free. Deadline is September 24th, I think. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/proposed-reforms-to-the-national-planning-policy-framework-and-other-changes-to-the-planning-system/proposed-reforms-to-the-national-planning-policy-framework-and-other-changes-to-the-planning-system

    1. Nope. According to Hitchens or was it Starkey.. he doesn't like "Working People" because, tellingly, he believes they have savings.
      And people with savings are evil.. and must be beaten to a puree with Reeves' tax stick.

      1. That doesn't negate my premise; if they have savings, they are even LESS dependent on the state!

    1. The case will be heard in a French court, n'est-ce pas? Bonne chance for collecting a fine or applying for extradition from the UK or US. On second thoughts, J K Rowling had better watch out with Starmer in power.

    2. Popcorn time. JKR is worth 800million. Musk is worth 220 billion. They can afford better lawyers and if it is heard in a French Court then bribery is de rigeur, n'est ce pas?

      1. Oddly enough, I suspect French courts are totally straight, from that aspect.

        They may be politically biased but probably not for buying off.

    3. Someone posted on Twitt "Now Khelif will find out what it's like to face an opponent who has a great advantage"

    4. Yes it's great all this lawfare.

      President of the USA next year operating out of Sing Sing. Will PC Rowley get Musk extradited to Londonistan before the French get their hands on him? Will JKR avoid extradition completely by taking refuge in the Ministry of Magic. How long before Putin cottons on to this scam and issues an arrest warrant for Starmer on account of him invading Russia the other day, (his latest claim)?

      Vote Jarndyce! Get anyone you hate banged up for any old trumped up charge, terms apply. No win, no fee. Show trial spectacular guaranteed.

        1. Tulkinghorn, yes. In a way very suitable.

          I was thinking more of the complete uselessness of the court of chancery with its neverending inanity of process. A mere factory for generation of proceeds from lawfare and the inevitable end result of rule by lawyers, of which Starmer is an obvious fan. As the end of the novel famously relates:

          "Mr. Kenge," said Allan, appearing enlightened all in a moment. "Excuse me, our time presses. Do I understand that the whole estate is found to have been absorbed in costs?"

          "Hem! I believe so," returned Mr. Kenge. "Mr. Vholes, what do you say?"

          "I believe so," said Mr. Vholes.

          "And that thus the suit [Jarndyce v Jarndyce] lapses and melts away?"

          "Probably," returned Mr. Kenge. "Mr. Vholes?"

          "Probably," said Mr. Vholes.

          1. Jarndyce vs Jarndyce, Mr Micawber’s philosophy and the Office of Circumlocution are as relevant to life today as they were 150 years ago.

          2. Yes indeed, along with many other “old school” observations. I’m particularly impressed by Bunyan’s Areopagitica just now.

  93. Faith in Democracy Falling? Poll Finds Large Number of Britons Support Anti-Migration Political Violence
    14 Aug 2024 4:40

    Concerning potential symptom of flagging faith in the peaceful democratic process emerges as a poll suggests that a significant section of the public thinks that violence can be justified if politicians continue to overlook concerns around immigration.

    A survey conducted by the British polling firm WeThink has painted a bleak picture for the future of the polity as an apparent breakdown in the trust of institutions to address the demands of the public has seemingly coincided with increasing willingness to back violent alternatives.

    The poll, which surveyed 1,278 people between August 7th and 8th, during the height of the recent anti-mass migration riots that broke out across the UK, found that 39 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement: “When it comes to the refugee problem, violence is sometimes the only means that citizens have to get the attention of British politicians.”

    Additionally, 34 per cent said that they felt attacks on refugee accommodations are “sometimes necessary to make it clear to politicians that we have a refugee problem,” while 32 per cent agreed with the notion that hostility towards refugees themselves is sometimes justified, even if such hostility ends in violence.

    The survey also found that 36 per cent felt that “xenophobic acts of violence are defensible if they result in fewer refugees being settled in your town.”

    So far, the riots, sparked by the mass stabbing at a children’s dance party by an alleged second-generation Rwandan migrant in Southport last month, have involved a tiny fraction of the UK population yet have seen over 1,000 people arrested. Police chiefs have warned that hundreds more will face arrest in the coming days. The unrest has seen people clash with police, ethnic groups clash, the looting stores, and setting fires, including one at a reported migrant hotel in Rotherham, a town that gained notoriety for its central position in the child rape scandals of recent decades.

    The widespread violence, the scale of which has not been seen in over a decade in Britain, came during the first month of the new left-wing government of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

    The new prime minister, who swept to power off the back of just over a third of the vote in July’s general election, has taken a hardline stance towards the riots, which he has characterised as being a creation of the “far-right”.

    The survey from WeThink found that 54 per cent of those surveyed felt that the immigration policies from Westminster were the main cause of the riots. The survey firm is a new entrant in the British polling industry, but it is a member of the UK’s polling industry council and has recently collaborated on large-scale surveys for left-establishment press outlets.

    As widely noted, and no less than by a report from the BBC, the Labour government has so far refrained from publicly discussing the “underlying causes” of the riots for fear that it would be “misinterpreted as suggesting some of the unrest was justified.”

    Starmer’s stance towards the riots has seen widespread pushback from across the political divide. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage accused the prime minister of “completely” failing to understand the mood of the nation about the “societal breakdown” caused by decades of mass migration policies from both the Labour and Conservative parties.

    As Breitbart London previously reported: “Parties or causes promoting the reduction of immigration came first in national elections in 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and twice in 2019, without those promises ever coming remotely close to being fulfilled.”

    British historian David Starkey claimed that the riots were a manifestation of the failures of the political class to address the public’s concerns about immigration, saying last week that Westminster is “reaping the whirlwind that it’s sown.”

    “There’s a received higher doctrine, that there’s no such thing as borders and that the borders are a bad thing, human rights mean we’re all really the same. A second-generation Rwandan born in Wales is as Welsh as any. All this is lies, lies, lies,” Starkey told GB News.

    “The protests are awful, they’re disgraceful, they’re shocking. But unfortunately, when people are shut up, when they’re not allowed to debate publicly, and when there aren’t rational means of objection, you get irrational ones… Every brick began in Westminster.”

    1. I have been pointing out since Blair and his "hate" laws, that if you forbid people to express their dissatisfaction with matters, it will all come to a head and explode – like shaking a bottle of fizzy pop and keeping the lid firmly closed.

      1. Oh don’t! I used to Prom in the Albert Hall gallery on the fifth floor and when the doors were open there was always a race up the stairs to nab the best place at the railings. One time I had a plastic bottle of fizzy water in my bag. Grabbed my favourite bit of floor space and settled down. Needed a drink. Bang! All over the floor.

          1. I like watching YouTube shorts anonymously which allows me to rapidly scan through hundreds of random videos and quickky terminate those that won’t be memorable. I can then later retrieve those I liked on a current topic using a YouTube search.

    2. Any time soon twotierkier will be demanding that the polling company be banged up for inciting negative waves (apologies to Donald Sutherland) regarding unwanted guests.

    3. You do realise that report contains misinformation: Starmer in fact leads a far left government.

  95. Sadiq Khan closes London Roads for three day fest to celebrate Pakistan Day.
    Keeeerching.

      1. the relevance is.. Look you filthy kāfirs, we're in charge now.. suck it up.. and we've got the PM in our pocket. So what you wanna do about it?

        1. Best I can do is get down and pray (in private, of course, I'd be nicked if I did it in public) to be rid of islam once and for all. God is my strength and refuge, an ever present help in time of trouble. Sing it to the tune of the Dambusters March (based on psalm 46).

      2. We have taken your Capital city and many other major cities. This land is now our land. We will shortly be parading around in our national dress shouting our ideological slogans and firing off our Kalashnikovs, from our white Toyotas. Bow down and be very afraid.

        1. Happily, neither do I. But it is still a disgrace in our capital, which now has enough of his ilk to vote in a pathetic little squit as mayor.

      2. It probably is already but I seem to recall that they like India have a Nuclear arsenal….

      1. Long time since i watched that but reminds me of when policemen were the representation of the Law on the streets. Now they seem a little bit picky.

  98. No. The roads are getting more dangerous, too; overcrowded and used by people who have barely a nodding acquaintance with the Highway Code.

    1. They are…every weekend/holiday time we get the motorbikers, in packs and at high speed, swerving round the country road corners here, also dirt bike riders quite a nuisance on bridle paths. I have to take a driving test next year due to age, must remember to swat up on the Code….

      1. Where are you? I just lost my C1 D1 qualification due to age (it was too much of a hassle and too expensive for the medical to keep it when I hadn't driven a minibus in the previous three years – I now only have a car licence) but I didn't need to retake the test. Ironically, it would have been useful for me to be able to drive a minibus next year, but too late.

        1. Luckily only need a basic licence, barely need even that – Better Half behind my back swapped my Golf for an EV (we still don’t mention it, not a happy occasion), add in lockdowns/vaccines I now don’t drive as often, not as enjoyable as it once was. Leaves me more time to do the things I like 🙂 Do you miss driving the minibus?

          1. Swapped your Golf for an EV behind your back? Grounds for divorce, at least. Go out and buy a Golf.

          2. Ah Harry it was perfect, even had a CD player for all my golden oldies. And it was a manual, not an automatic. I continue to exact vengeance……:-DD

          4. Could do, but would have no use for the coal otherwise. It’s parked well away from the house due to my nagging about spontaneous combustion…(car’s and mine)

          11. It certainly isn't enjoyable driving these days. I gave up driving the minibus when I retired (used to take school trips to various places), but I jumped through the hoops to keep the entitlement when I turned 70 on the off chance I might be called on to volunteer to drive one. I wasn't so I renewed my licence on line and thus loss the entitlement. Now there is a possibility that the Twinning trip next year might take a self-drive minibus, but alas I am no longer qualified to share the driving. Fortunately my motorhome comes in at the tonnage permissible to drive on an ordinary licence.

          12. That’s a shame, is there no way you can take some sort of refresher course? You’re probably safer on the road than many other drivers (motor bikers especially). Seems crazy you can drive a motorhome (been there done that) but not a minibus, presumably need a different licence for that, public transport and all….

          13. No, I never had a PSV licence. I was able to drive private parties as a volunteer. I had all categories on my original licence, including being able to drive a steamroller (which I have done). A C1 D1 entitlement allows you to drive a minibus with a certain number of seats and a small truck (over 3.6 tonnes but not HGV) as a volunteer.

          14. I’ve not thought about it before (typical) but can see how it would be useful. Steamroller sounds a lot of fun…were you laying tarmac!

          15. No, I was at a vintage steam rally. It isn't as easy as you think. To go right you have to spin the wheel to the left.

    2. I would throw myself off a cliff if there was one nearby.

      I also noticed the lack of reporting on citizens being fast tracked to the gulags.

      I am going to lay awake all night for Meghan Markle to start emoting.

    1. I have a viking helmet (sent to me as a laugh by one of my Swedish friends) but alas and alack I don't have a viking sword.

      1. I was going to write that it has minimal use, however, since it seems to be more than OK to go round with a machete, a big sword should be OK, being indigenous.
        Oh, sorry orficer, should I have blacked up first?

    2. You do realise this site is for gentille people don't you!

      Helmet and sword….My word !

  102. Labour still has no plan to stop the boats

    Starmer’s party did nothing in opposition to help the Conservatives tackle an issue of deep public concern

    TELEGRAPH VIEW • 14 August 2024 • 6:00am

    Since Labour came to power on July 5, more than 5,000 asylum seekers have crossed the Channel on small boats. On Sunday, more than 700 arrived in 11 craft as smugglers took advantage of benign sea conditions. Even so, one of the boats foundered and two people drowned, the tragic cost of this pernicious activity.

    It is true that Sir Keir Starmer has only been in office for a few weeks, but he gave the impression that once installed in No 10 the small boat crossings would miraculously reduce or cease. He had a plan to smash the gangs, negotiate a new deal with France, and tackle the problem at source, as if the previous government had not gone down precisely the same route.

    The Conservatives judged that only a major deterrent would work, hence the policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, subsequently scrapped as one of the first actions of the new administration.

    So what is the plan? The “solutions” put forward by Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, have all been tried and so far failed. She seemingly has no idea where to house all the people arriving who will need to be processed, with little likelihood of anyone being deported should they fail to fulfil the conditions for political asylum.

    Her one big policy is to set up a new border security agency, as if this will deter the criminal gangs operating in northern France. Any returns deal with the EU seems fanciful and will come at a price for the UK.

    This is a crisis that Labour did nothing in opposition to help the Conservatives tackle, other than to throw brickbats from the sidelines. Now it is their responsibility they have no one else to blame.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/08/14/labour-still-has-no-plan-to-stop-the-boats/

    Words, words, words.

    The basis of our civilisation is supposed to be the rule of law but that principle is being corrupted by foreign criminals using due process against us, aided and abetted by a legal establishment which cannot distinguish between the practising of law and its purpose.

    Domestic law is supposed to protect us. International law (and political cowardice) is endangering us. Yet the streets of our cities will become jammed with demonstrators should any administration dare to pull the UK out of international treaties. They will burn if said administration simply turns the boats away. And if they should, the demonstrators will be utterly oblivious to the hypocrisy of their position.

      1. It's not sexually transmitted, it can e passed on by close proximity to an infected person.

    2. A tragic cost? If they stopped all benefits, there would be NO sea crossings and no "tragic" costs. The govt is culpable in these deaths just as surely as if they'd pushed them overboard.

      1. And then only The genuine refugee would come, and all the chancers would have to find another sucker to leech from.

  103. Par 4 again

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  107. anyone awake, if you stay up for another half an hour I will post a rant about Waitrose (I know, I know) and its 2T-customer policy. Calming down in the bath first.

    1. Sorry, MIR, I don't want to stay up for another half an hour. Instead I plan to go to bed now. Good night, chums, sleep well, and see you all tomorrow

  108. anyone awake, if you stay up for another half an hour I will post a rant about Waitrose (I know, I know) and its 2T-customer policy. Calming down in the bath first.

  109. The Long View, Radio 4, 9pm Wednesday

    The presenter's introduction:
    Violence spreads across the country with mobs attacking a beleaguered minority. The trouble is started by a claim that someone within that minority has committed the most horrific crime imaginable – child murder. The claim is false but that doesn't stop the anger or violence as riot turns to pogrom with devastating results. That's the story now as courts continue to fast-track those charged with involvement in the riots of August 2024.

    Continued from the website blurb:
    But it was also the story eight centuries ago of England in the late 12th century. In the late 1180s, Britain's small Jewish community was targeted by violent mobs in the wake of the coronation of Richard I. The worst incident was the York Massacre of 1190 in which 150 people died. What are the historical parallels with today's race riots against British Muslims and asylum seekers, and what can be learnt about how to heal communities?

    The debate was as much historical as political and sociological – academic worthies having a debate in the SCR, if you like – but the idea that there is anything more than the most superficial comparison between the position of Jews in 12th century England and Muslims today is truly offensive, not least for the use of the word 'pogrom'. One of the guests suggested that because of these experiences more than 800 years apart, perhaps Jews and Muslims have more in common than they think…

    Some people truly live in another world.

    2. About time the Beeb explored the trials and tribulations of Thomas Pellow and his fellow slaves in Barbary. It will make them choke on their cornflakes!

    3. In what way was it untrue that the murder was committed by a member of a minority – they surely aren't claiming that they're in the majority now? There are only superficial parallels between the two events – the Jews were the money lenders and the king was skint so wanted to renege on his debts. That the Jews were a minority is about the only connection.

      1. Indeed. The position of the programme was that the riots started because the Southport murderer was thought to be a Muslim. Of course, it was soon established that he wasn't but the riots went ahead anyway.

  110. Another day is done, so, I wish you a goodnight and may God bless all you Gentlefolk. If we are spared! Bis morgen früh.

      1. #metoo. Unfortunately. Not well, had to scuttle to dunny 🙁
        Now at home, not working today.

  112. It mattered not whether the murderer was black, Moslem or both. The act and the establishment response to it was the final straw.

        1. I have not exactly been complimentary in my responses to their "consultation" on ripping up the planning laws. I expect to get my collar felt once I submit it.

  115. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/14/judge-jails-keyboard-warrior-over-blow-up-mosque-post/

    The only crime this woman is guilty of is annoying the state.e That's why she's being jailed – punishment beatings. When the Left continually broke the law plod offered them food. When they destroyed property they were let off. Only when they went too far and couldn't be brushed away was there a jail sentence.

    This imprisonment to suit Starmer is simply abuse and thuggery.

    1. In Toronto, plod delivered coffee and doughnuts to demonstrators in a demo that had been deemed illegal.

      They were the rigth type of demonstrator.

  117. I keep reading "thuggery" as "buggery". Wrong glasses or a mental problem? I don't know anymore.

  119. Meanwhile over the pond…

    "In the span of the three weeks since President Joe Biden dropped out of the election on Twitter and someone tried to assassinate former President Trump, SNKH has undergone a total transformation, courtesy of the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine. The media appears to be colluding with the Democrats or Harris’s campaign or someone to make her a totally different and socially acceptable choice for president.

    Not only have they memory-holed all mentions of “border czar-ing,” but they’ve also gotten rid of many of her former faux pas. They have created a new Kamala Harris to present to the world in the span of just 23 days. They have created a total illusion of SNKH’s greatness and somehow completely turned the polls around"

    They give you the new Leader of the Free World….

  121. Right I've calmed down a bit and have caught up on the comments below.

    I went into work on my motorbike today as I knew I had to work late and also to pick up a few bits and bobs for a small dinner party I am somehow giving on Friday (Tesco on Monday evening didn't have everything that I needed).

    Backhistory: I am not a fan of my local Waitrose as it's usually full of tossers, and also John Lewis. And I am not a fan of Sainsbury's because of its "safe spaces" for "black and brown people" during Lockdown, and also because it supports the odious Labour party.

    But needs must and on balance I decided for Waitrose.

    So I parked my motorbike and picked up a basket and started wandering the aisles to find what I needed.

    Whereupon I was chased down by one of their brown employees who demanded I remove my motorbike helmet, so he could see my face.

    And I then asked if he would ask a woman in a burqa to do that.

    And he said, no, that's religious.

    So I said the motorbike helmet was religious too and I worshipped the god of motorbikes.

    And then it all kicked off so I just dropped my basket and legged it before I got arrested for refusing to remove my motorbike helmet. Or maybe it would have been for Islamaphobia.

    Needless to say, I will never be darkening Waitrose's doors again.

    And on my way home I worked out what I should have said was "Well it's nice to know there's a two-tier customer clothing policy in operation at Waitrose".

    Instead, my parting remarks were more Anglo-Saxon.

    But honestly. You can not allow one set of people to cover their faces and not another set. It's pure discrimination.

    1. I understood that the Burqa isn't a Religious requirement but I'm open to being corrected…

    2. Not meaning to be argumentative, but a motorbike helmet is actually a weapon. You give someone a Glasgow kiss with that and it will cause damage. i can see their rationale.

    3. Ah, tell me an out it. An email was once sent to everyone where I work telling us that we must wear our ID cards making them clearly visible at all times while on the premises. I replied asking why the same rule didn’t apply to a woman working on my floor who wore full Islamic garb with even her eyes barely visible. She didn’t display her ID card and even if she had, it would be pointless. The reply was I’m sorry but I can’t understand why you would think there is any double standard? When they play thick like that and just swear black is white, there is nothing you can do.

      3. lol well we can look after each other when we are in the klink together for being bloody minded and correct…

      4. You are young enough to remember Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore; they performed a sketch about a Welsh piano teacher, Mr Blanferry, who eventually agreed that the black notes did indeed play a bit louder than the white ones.

      5. A pity you didn't all turn up in a burka (even the men, if there are any) to make a point.

        1. A bit like those builders and also the schoolboys who were told they were not allowed to wear shorts in hot weather. So they turned up wearing short dresses.

      6. That response would have led me to a very sarcastic reply but done in such a way they didn't realise i was sticking two fingers up at them.

    4. Personally, i don't think anyone should be either allowed or required to cover their face in a public place (or anywhere else for that matter). Another *intended* consequence of the Covid response worldwide experiment was this very weird ambiguity and – again – two tier draconian law.

      1. I also agree with you. But if they allow exceptions i will test them. It’s like the postal vote, which i also disagree with (except in limited circumstances like there were before). So when they insisted i had to take id with me to vote in person, i applied for the postal vote and you will remember me saying that i didn’t need to know my date of birth or even be able to sign my name to get a postal vote. I just needed my NI number. Or rather, an NI number.

    5. What an awful experience. I hate confrontation. The last thing you need at the end of the day. I was in Cambridge Waitrose today. It's full of liberal wets. During the 'covid' days it became Cambridge Mask Central. Today I saw 4 people wearing masks once again.

      1. I went out this evening and met some old friends for a drink. Lots of talk about various ailments and apparently there's a lot of covid about again. A good moan about the new booking system at the doctors' too. I haven't tried it as I avoid doctors these days.

        1. I'm going to meet up for coffee with an old friend from church tomorrow. It will be interesting to see what the topics of conversation are.

    6. Always been that way though hasn't it. Helmets bad, burkas good.

      Get yourself a full nose/mouth mask and strap that on when absolutely needed.

    7. It seems obvious to me, you need to do 3 steps,
      Step 1 Identify as a woman
      Step 2 Wear a Burqa
      Step 3 Wear your motorcycle helmet over your Burqa.

      Comply with a request to remove your helmet
      Bring an action against JL, discrimination or racism, whatever is most embarrassing for them when they are not satisfied.

      Finally make sure a confidant brings a camera to film it all, we can supply the popcorn.

        1. It never hurts to make one’s preferred gender clear in these woke times…..

      2. Lol i already identity as a woman. I was assigned female at birth, which is lucky given that was my observable sex is female!

        1. Yes I thought you were just making sure wokies know as well.
          As you were assigned female at birth has twotierkier offered you a burqa yet?
          I put nothing past him.

    8. I'm surprised at his reaction. Most shoplifters are so brazen now they don't bother to cover their faces even though they know they are on cctv.

  122. Right I've calmed down a bit and have caught up on the comments below.

    I went into work on my motorbike today as I knew I had to work late and also to pick up a few bits and bobs for a small dinner party I am somehow giving on Friday (Tesco on Monday evening didn't have everything that I needed).

    Backhistory: I am not a fan of my local Waitrose as it's usually full of tossers, and also John Lewis. And I am not a fan of Sainsbury's because of its "safe spaces" for "black and brown people" during Lockdown, and also because it supports the odious Labour party.

    But needs must and on balance I decided for Waitrose.

    So I parked my motorbike and picked up a basket and started wandering the aisles to find what I needed.

    Whereupon I was chased down by one of their brown employees who demanded I remove my motorbike helmet, so he could see my face.

    And I then asked if he would ask a woman in a burqa to do that.

    And he said, no, that's religious.

    So I said the motorbike helmet was religious too and I worshipped the god of motorbikes.

    And then it all kicked off so I just dropped my basket and legged it before I got arrested for refusing to remove my motorbike helmet. Or maybe it would have been for Islamaphobia.

    Needless to say, I will never be darkening Waitrose's doors again.

    And on my way home I worked out what I should have said was "Well it's nice to know there's a two-tier customer clothing policy in operation at Waitrose".

    Instead, my parting remarks were more Anglo-Saxon.

    But honestly. You can not allow one set of people to cover their faces and not another set. It's pure discrimination.

  123. Well that I can accept as an arguement. Their reason was they needed to see my face.

    1. For their surveillance cameras? Certain, er, people will be exempt from this intrusion?

    1. Please complain to the new CEO of JL and ask what their policy is with regards to discriminatory face coverings!

  127. Their rationale was the same as for banks; to see the rider's face. One rule for one …

    1. I find both modes of attire extremely intimidating, for different reasons as outlined above

  129. Lots of comments appearing as content unavailable.
    That new, are the thought police monitoring this place?

      1. I thought that I had been my normal well behaved self.

        it is still early here, so I have just poured my first drink.

        1. Enjoy! (Lightweight :-)))

          (that was a joke)

          Don't know how to delete whole posts, Richard, but this was meant as goodhearted teasing and I've suddenly realised that it could look rude. Forgiveness requested

    2. That can happen when tweets have been deleted after being shared but I’m not seeing it. Has Turdeau blocked Elon?

        1. "Wouldn't surprise me, he doesn't accept anything that is not complimentary."

          Who is "he"? This is Geoff's site, and he's not like that.

  130. Moh and I fiddled around with TV channels , now half watching BBC 3 .. a vacant hammy American prog with a familiar looking tarty bint … name of the prog, Suits ..

  131. Smug intolerant liberals are about to become even more unbearable

    The insufferably woke residents of Walthamstow have signed a petition to keep Gail's out, for more sinister reasons than you'd think

    BRENDAN O'NEILL • 14 August 2024 • 6:15pm

    Imagine raging against Gail's. Imagine taking a look at Britain in 2024 and thinking the most pressing problem is that a branch of the yummy mummy bakery might open on your high street.

    This is actually happening in Walthamstow in London. As Britain sweeps up the rubble of the recent riots, the well-heeled dwellers of Walthamstow Village have something rather more urgent on their minds: the creep of the Gail's bakery chain into their leafy, hipster environs.

    Gail's is the cafe of choice of the plummy and professional. Think Costa but people are reading The Guardian. You can get rosemary sourdough and sour cherry scones. They do a mean sausage roll, too. Who wouldn't want such a fancy eaterie at the end of their street? Walthamstow Villagers, it seems. Hundreds have signed a petition to keep Gail's out. Most of their moaning consists of the usual Nimby-ist fare. They say they're "safeguarding the soul of a beloved neighbourhood" and "fighting gentrification".

    Please. I would stake my Gail's loyalty card on many of the signatories to this bellyaching being gentrifiers themselves. Being part of that army of middle-class Millennials who have colonised Walthamstow Village of late, making it insufferably smug and elbowing out the old working class. Yet there is also a more sinister streak to their Gailsphobic groaning. They don't only want to protect their community from a dreaded "chain cafe", but also from the beliefs of its owner.

    The part owner and chairman of Gail's is Luke Johnson, a businessman with views. He's pro-Brexit, was sceptical of lockdown, thinks some climate activists are "alarmist", and has bristled at the spread of "wokeness" in universities. To me, these are perfectly normal things to think. I think them, too. Millions do. Yet it seems to that to Walthamstow's woke crusaders, they are tantamount to thought-crimes.

    Local business-owners say the bulk of the resistance to Gail's is due to Johnson's sinful speech. His past remarks run counter to the values of this pro-EU, Labourite constituency, residents say. So this is no normal Nimbyism. It's ideological Nimbyism. The aim seems to be to forcefield the village from the political blasphemies of an outsider.

    For all the pseudo-progressive preening of the anti-Gail's set, there's a medieval feel to their agitation. It's as if they want to keep the devil from their door, lest he pollute their pristine souls with heretical scheming. Only the devil in this case is a man whose only moral transgression is that he likes Brexit and hates PC.

    There is a nasty intolerance to the villagers' mad war on Gail's. In feverishly shielding their community from a wrongthink business, they are sending a message that no of that political persuasion is welcome here. You voted Leave? You didn't like lockdown? You think climate change is not the end of the world? Then don't even think about setting up shop in Walthamstow Village. It's a kind of woke village idiocy. Under the banner of progressivism, these hip Thought Police are driving out a moral deviant in much the same way a country village might once have balked at the arrival of punks or gays.

    This odd affair speaks to a cult of moral purity among the Leftish middle classes. To some in younger, right-on circles, activism seems to mean little more than keeping their communities and their own bodies free of the toxins of "bad" people's wares and ideas.

    They religiously avoid buying anything made in Israel. They studiously dodge Wetherspoons lest they get infected by the Brexit mania of its owner, Tim Martin, or the unwoke views of its working-class patrons. And now they won't even touch a coconut macaroon in Gail's because the boss asked questions about lockdown once.

    There's a bizarre narcissism to all this. Imagine the industrial levels of self-regard it must require to believe every cafe and every shop must accord precisely with your political beliefs, otherwise you'll fetch your metaphorical pitchfork and chase them out of town. If I only patronised eateries and stores whose bosses share my worldview, I'd starve.

    We are witnessing the spread of the "safe space" mentality. It seems Millennials and Gen Z'ers who were cosseted on campus, shielded from hard ideas and sore words, now expect mollycoddling in the real world, too.

    No way. You don't get to dictate the moral make-up of communities. People's right to a Gail's honey cake easily trumps your right to never feel offended.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/14/smug-liberals-are-about-to-become-even-more-unbearable/

    I like the idea of 'woke village idiots'.

    1. The sad thing is, they will most probably get their way. I'd never heard of Gail's, but I'll look out for a store in future. Anybody who is anti-PC and pro-Brexit is to be supported.

    3. ‘They religiously avoid buying anything made in Israel.’
      From Wikipedia: Gail’s was co-founded in the 1990s by Israeli baker Gail Mejia
      Never heard of it as I don’t live in the UK, but it sounds like a great bakery.
      God preserve us from snobs and racists.

      1. The Israeli connection was my immediate thought.
        Gail’s is extremely good for bread but I don’t rate their cakes particularly (and certainly not at the price they charge). The branches in Hampstead, Crouch End and Muswell Hill are usually packed with customers.
        Walthamstow is represented by Stella Creasey
        ‘Nuff said.

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