Wednesday 2 November: The Government must show that it will spend taxpayers’ money wisely

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  1. Good morning all. A brighter start this morning with a clear sky and a coresponding chilly start of 3°C on the yard thermometer.

  5. The Government must show that it will spend taxpayers’ money wisely

    Wahahahaahahahaahahahahaaar

  6. ‘Morning, Peeps.  A calm, dry start to the day and 15°C forecast, so the CH remains off – this must be a record.  At this rate I might even feel sorry for Shell Energy!

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – Most people accept that taxation, which you report is now likely to rise, is a reasonable inconvenience – as long as they get good services in return.

    Currently this just isn’t the case. The waste caused by overstaffing, outsourcing and inefficiency means that the black hole in Britain’s finances will continue to grow, however much taxes are increased.

    One only has to look at local government to see how money is being plundered from taxpayers in return for minimal services.

    Simon Taylor
    Poringland, Norfolk

    It’s not just local government, Mr Taylor; the entire public sector is disintegrating before our eyes.

  8. Why Rishi Sunak is right to snub COP27. Spiked. 2 November 2022.

    India needs cheap coal, too. A shortage of the black stuff has caused huge problems there recently. It is reopening up to 100 previously ‘unprofitable’ coal mines to meet soaring coal demand. In fact, India has more than doubled its coal output already this century and there are no signs it plans to slow down. Besides, it is not just China and India that are bucking the coal ‘consensus’. Even green Germany, in an accidentally symbolic act, is planning to knock over a wind farm to get to the coal underneath.

    Representing almost three billion people, China and India alone ensure that no global consensus will be achieved at any COP climate conference until their respective leaderships have found a cost-competitive alternative to coal. This is not likely to happen anytime soon. As a consequence, environmental activists have turned their attention away from world leaders to the financial and regulatory sectors. Green campaigns have encouraged the big banks and major investors to pull their money out of fossil fuels – a move endorsed by Sunak in Glasgow last year..

    In other words even if the Climate Change Scam were genuine instead of a political lever to empower the Politicians and Globalists, no attempt at its amelioration by the UK is going to make any difference whatsoever except to impoverish us.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/01/why-rishi-sunak-is-right-to-snub-cop27/

    1. Morning, all. Clear sky and calm this morning in N Essex. Looks as if very necessary weeding is on this morning’s agenda.

      …no attempt at its amelioration by the UK is going to make any difference whatsoever except to impoverish us.

      Pose the above as a question to our crazy green politicians et al. and the answer will be along the the very smug lines of, “we want to be World leaders in green matters,” or unabashed arrogance, “where we lead the others will follow.”
      The claims that ‘green’ jobs will fill the vacuum of a collapsing industrial/innovation sector is political quackery at its worst.
      The ‘others’ will watch as the UK collapses under the costs and probable social unrest, take note of the disaster and definitely NOT follow. The UK will be a Green Beacon of what NOT to do.

    2. “The Times tells readers that COP26’s ‘Glasgow Climate Pact was…mostly considered a success’.”

      Such an inventive use of language, rather like 2020’s ‘mostly peaceful’ riots in London.

    3. “The Times tells readers that COP26’s ‘Glasgow Climate Pact was…mostly considered a success’.”

      Such an inventive use of language, rather like 2020’s ‘mostly peaceful’ riots in London.

  9. SIR – According to your report, “government insiders believe billions more [pounds] are needed… to clear the Covid backlog.”

    The NHS doesn’t need more money. It needs fewer non-clinical personnel and a total restructuring of its management system. That would free up the funds required to solve the problem.

    Alan Duncalf
    Bampton, Devon

    Is it just me, or is the clearing of the backlog in inverse proportion to yet more additional funding?  One thing is certain: the NHS is bleeding to death and I see no prospect of the Tories, or Labour after the next GE, getting to grips with the long-overdue reform that is so desperately needed. The monster has been over-fed to the point of morbid obesity!

    1. I see the NHS is now asking for an extra £7Bn to “clear the backlog” after Convid – well, all those diversity managers won’t pay for themselves!

  10. SIR – I hope the Chancellor remembers that you don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

    Mark Stephens
    Hungerford, Berkshire

    Spot on, matey!

    2. Good morning, Billy.

      In (late) response to your post on modern rugby (yesterday) I offered this critique:

      Last year I watched (on YouTube) a rugby match featuring that wonderful Welsh side of the 1970s. They were playing proper rugby. All scrums were square with straight put-ins to the hookers (and they were quickly taken and never reset). Line-outs were similarly quick and straight. Play was quick, smooth and flowing and there was much more running and passing with very few “box kicks” (I’m still trying to locate that “box”). No one entered the field of play, unless a player was genuinely injured. All in all it was full of skill and excitement. What happened to the modern game?

      1. Good day. The rot started when the game turned professional (I know there had been a lot of phoney shamateurism before then). Players started to think themselves important; the referee was no longer respected – and, above all, the PTB started mucking about with the game to try to make it “attractive” and because of Elfin Safety “fears”. That players now inflate themselves with drugs muscle-building growth promoters, so that their frames are unable to cope with the huge increase in body weight – has added to the problem.

        1. I’m guessing that you’ve probably heard the story of Brian “Pit Bull” Moore. He was an amateur hooker playing for Nottingham. His day job was as a solicitor in that city. He was happy and contented with his work/life balance. That was, until the money-brokers in the City of London decided that they wanted the country’s premier hooker to come and play for their team, Harlequins. At first he demurred, but when he was told that he would be given a substantial encouragement (i.e. a desirable position in one of the city’s premier legal establishments, plus “relocation” expenses all paid up front by his new benefactors) to leave Nottingham and join Harlequins, he knew that it was an offer he could not refuse. His ‘amateur’ status remained untouched and unimpeachable.

  13. SIR – Migrants are human beings. Very many of them have left their homes and relatives to escape persecution, torture and death.

    They deserve respect, kindness and a thoughtful welcome.

    Jeannette Watson
    Thame, Oxfordshire

    Today’s MRD award goes to…

    What Jeanette doesn’t mention is she is branch chair of Amnesty International.

    1. Good spot, Phiz! It’s all cobblers of course. The vast majority are nothing of the kind, as is proved by their refusal to seek asylum in those safe countries they have crossed to get here.

      1. And on the same subject:

        SIR – Most British people do not think it unacceptable for politicians to use the term “invasion” – as Suella Braverman did – to describe the extremely high number of illegal migrants crossing the Channel.

        What they do find unacceptable, however, is hearing politicians being mealy-mouthed about this matter, and appearing to have no interest in doing anything to solve it.

        Stefan Badham
        Portsmouth, Hampshire

        Quite so, Mr Badham.  And much of the faux outrage is about seeing off Ms Braverman.  Judging by the flak I would say that she is right over the target.  I hope to goodness that she remains there because so far I see no prospect of anyone else getting to grips with it.

    2. The problem is that most of these new arrivals appear to be economic migrants. They are also arriving here illegally, so have broken the law before even setting foot in the UK. This causes resentment among the native British population against all migrants, including genuine refugees.

    3. The inmates of Manston are grumbling because they are being treated like criminals. Is not entering the country without proper authorisation and often with menaces a criminal offence, and they are merely being held in custody while their alleged crimes are under investigation?

      If they don’t want to be treated as criminals, they should apply for asylum at the nearest British consulate, or apply for a visa in compliance with the law of the country they intend to move to.

        1. At the moment this is being vetoed by the ECHR, which claims supremacy over our jurisdiction, and some pretty nasty sanctions if we do not comply.

          However much a Home Secretary might deplore this interference, it requires a particular legal mind to tackle some extremely well-connected and well-paid international lawyers, such as a former Attorney General who specialised in Immigration Law and who knows the ropes.

          I somehow think it in the national interest to overlook minor breaches of ministerial confidentiality in order to secure the services of such a person. Let’s hope she now delivers what is required of her.

    5. The obvious problem that you appear to be deliberately ignoring Ms Watson is, they were safe any where in Europe.

      1. There was a long segment on the news last night about the deadly crush of migrants trying to break into Melilla. They would have been safer staying in Morocco.

    6. What Jeanette also fails to mention is that she seems to have stopped taking her tablets! Where exactly does she think this persecution, torture and death occurs – France?

      1. And she fails to mention (though it may be implied, I suppose) just how deadly dangerous France is….

        1. She also fails to mention what practical steps Amnesty has taken to make the lives of genuine asylum seekers better.

    7. Morning Phizzee

      “Migrants are human beings. Very many of them have left their homes and relatives to escape persecution, torture and death”

      So their relatives will be facing persecution , torture and death?

      No, I suspect the migrants have the threat of Sharia law on their backs and are scared stiff off chop chop this and that and the are running awa from their crimes?

    8. Yes, then when they found a first safe country they could apply for asylum in other nations as the law requires.

      The only thoughtful welcome should be a 7.62 round. What about the locals forced to pay for these criminals?

    9. No they don’t deserve anything. None of them has left “persecution, torture and death” in France.

  14. 367916+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Dover petrol bomber ranted about migrants in racist Facebook posts
    Counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation into Andrew Leak’s attack on the Tug Haven processing facility

    Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) has taken charge of the investigation from Kent Police as it seeks to establish his motivation.

    Could it be seem as THE POOR SOD HAD HAD ENOUGH as have a multitude of peoples remaining.

    Could be seen by many as a freedom & decency fighter was found dead in his car.

    Modern times dictates that many statements must be taken in with a LARGE amount of Saxa for instance “ranted about migrants in racist Facebook posts can be construed as ” immigration was getting out of hand with the weight of numbers”

    1. Morning Oggy. As soon as I saw that the Counter Terrorism Squad had taken over the investigation I knew what to expect. This is just a piece of Character Assassination to dissuade others from copying Mr Leak’s actions.

      2. Yes. I despaired although it was obvious – at the deliberate ”He was mad and hated immigrants’ rather than ‘the situation the state is causing has created a difficult culture that is driving people to desperation.

        It was always to blame the man, never the problem.

    2. Morning Oggy. As soon as I saw that the Counter Terrorism Squad had taken over the investigation I knew what to expect. This is just a piece of Character Assassination to dissuade others from copying Mr Leak’s actions.

  16. SIR – I agree with Kate Andrews that the triple lock on pensions must go.

    It was always a hostage to fortune. I am a pensioner but would be thankful to see the back of it. Many of us would actually prefer a solvent country, a simpler taxation system and targeted assistance for those who need it most.

    Lauren Groom
    Salisbury, Wiltshire

    On the contrary, Ms Groom: the additional cost will just be wasted, whereas if it is paid to pensioners then most of it will find its way into the economy – or what is left of our economy.

    1. Pensions are not the real issue. The fundamental problem is that the state is spending too much on things we do not need or want out of ideological arrogance.

  17. SIR – I too had to wait a long time for probate to be granted.

    I contacted my MP, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, and asked if he could make a formal complaint to the ombudsman on my behalf. Probate was granted 10 days later.

    Taking this course of action will not only help you, but in theory should also improve the service in the long term. Bereaved people should not have to wait such inexcusable lengths of time to access the estate of the deceased.

    Antonia Winstanley
    Elkstone, Gloucestershire

    It’s just another failing government department. And I wonder how much money is sitting in the probate backlog?

    1. Death taxes must be paid up front. There is therefore no hurry to grant probate – the only people to suffer are little people, and they do not count.

    2. We are having the same problem – we are dealing with a rather old will; as one executor is dead and the Trust that was the back up has been taken over many times and the current “owner” has now officially signed a renunciation we can’t apply online. We waded through all the paperwork required and sent it all off, explaining the situation regarding the executors. There was a formal response acknowledging receipt, then a period of silence, then the supporting documents were returned – looking good, we thought. About 2 weeks after that the probate office told us that, as the executors were either dead or had renounced, they were passing the papers to a “specialist department”. There are several things about this that I find annoying – why did it take so long to realise that another department might be needed, why ddi the initial look at the paperwork not highlight the problem when it was clearly explained as the reason we weren’t applying online? Just how many of the serpents involved are shirking from home, I wonder??

  18. 367016+ up ticks,

    But in their eyes they are doing just that and have been doing just that, these past forty years.

    The spending agenda MUST be acceptable to the member/supporter / voters as seen via the polling booth and with as yet NO viable opposition
    being built on to combat the obvious political coalition.

    Wednesday 2 November: The Government must show that it will spend taxpayers’ money wisely

    WHY ? they will still be returned to power via the action of fools.

  19. This BTL post about Handycock made me smile:

    Whipping boy
    3 HRS AGO
    The actions of Matt Hancock are hardly surprising, but it is sad to note that the programme he will take part in is the most widely viewed on ITV. It is further evidence too, that money is the over-riding factor in the lives of “celebrities,” a group who have no sense of shame, honour or embarrassment, Hancock’s tale of reaching out to the people adds to the general nausea. It’s the 92% of politicians who give the rest a bad name.

    * * *

    Very good, Whipping boy!

    2. If that kind of rubbish is the most popular thing on ITV it doesn’t say much for the rest of their output, nor for the viewers.

      1. Is it rubbish? I suspect that it is but I cannot voice a sensible opinion on it as I have never watched it.

  20. This BTL post about Handycock made me smile:

    Whipping boy
    3 HRS AGO
    The actions of Matt Hancock are hardly surprising, but it is sad to note that the programme he will take part in is the most widely viewed on ITV. It is further evidence too, that money is the over-riding factor in the lives of “celebrities,” a group who have no sense of shame, honour or embarrassment, Hancock’s tale of reaching out to the people adds to the general nausea. It’s the 92% of politicians who give the rest a bad name.

    * * *

    Very good, Whipping boy!

  21. Morning all 🙂
    A bright start can’t always be trusted.
    The weather is like politics. We have an 80% chance of rain today.
    As we found after the last election an 80% chance of failure, and it actually occurred.

  22. Putin goes to war on gay rights. Robin Ashenden 2 November 2022.

    When I moved to Rostov-on-Don, in the south of Russia, in 2018 for what was to be four happy years, (ending abruptly on 24 February) there was a baker’s shop, one among many, on the main thoroughfare of the city. I wandered past it countless times before noticing a pair of signs hanging outside, one in English, one in Russian. The Russian one, picked out in pokerwork, simply said ‘Pederasti zaprishonyi’. Beside it, its English translation read: ‘Faggots not allowed.’

    The effect of noticing these words for the first time was like a punch to the stomach, a reaction which never quite wore off however many times you saw it. People harbour all sorts of hidden prejudices, but the brazenness with which the owner of this shop exhibited his own reminded me that, however comfortable I felt in the city, I was nonetheless in a foreign country. Yet it wasn’t, at that time, quite as hostile as one might have feared. The police in Rostov soon intervened, told the bread-maker to take the signs down. He refused; his shop subsequently closed down.

    This is illustrative of what passes for comment about Russia and Putin. The author passes the signs innumerable times until that is the police soon interfere. One wonders which it is. In fact one is inclined to doubt the whole story with its moralistic ending of the triumph of right.

    The background assumption to this parable is of course that all right thinking people are in favour of LGBT rights and anyone who isn’t is a Bad Person. Ergo Vlad is Bad!

    I personally am not in favour of anyone having special rights because that is the denial of true equality. We should all suffer or prosper under the same rules. Vlad is simply making sure that Russia does not fall into the same condition as the UK where the sexualisation of children is just one of its outcomes.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/putin-goes-to-war-on-lgbt-rights/

        1. Teacher of Creative Writing, Summer School at University of Westminster 2013–present
          Studied at Eton College

          His picture is a bit of a giveaway…..

          2. Say no more…. Now a far left, extremist periodical. Makes the Staggers look centre-right.

    2. The sharp eyed amongst you will have spotted the fact that the name Vlad contains two out of the three letters making the word Bad thats 66.6% – you can’t get more evil than that!

  23. Well done Suella Braverman.
    At last politicians are sitting up and taking notice.
    She’s hit the proverbial Nail on the head.
    Now we need another political party to cast our votes for. One that will run the country in favour of a majority not one of three parties that splits the vote, leaving us with a dictatorship.
    It’s quite obvious that there are gaps to fill in constituencies around the whole country.
    Come out of the wood work you people and for the sake of our future and sanity, get on with it.

    1. I went into the city yesterday to meet up with friends for a pub lunch. I made the mistake of picking up a Metro newspaper rag which was on the seat next to me on the bus. If you believed what was written, Braverman is the devil incarnate stalking us all.
      How many passengers on that bus throughout the day will swallow the lies?

      2. Well the good thing is elderly gentleman 😉 at least people are talking about the invasion the public have known about for at least 3 years.
        My good lady is a volunteer librarian and she brings home a news paper. Yesterday the Daily Mail. Apart from all the obvious garbage in our daily papers. I found a small mention of the Wuhan Covid-19 virus being knowingly released by the Chinese.
        But surely that should have been on the front page. 🤔 but perhaps I’m wong 🙃

        1. You are not wrong, only out of step with nearly all of the people who wants I’m a celebrity, Strictly Come Dancing, Eastenders etc as headlines.

          1. You’ve just named nearly everything I no longer watch.
            Bearing in mind I haven’t seen Dead Enders since Babs got outa the pub..
            Nor coronation street since Ena Sharpest gave it up.

          2. Ena Sharples no longer in Corrie?? OMG, no wonder the country has gone to hell in a handbasket.

          4. My wife watches Corrie. On Monday night the episode was prefixed with the standard warning – parts may offend. This, it turned out, referred to a comment by a character who decries illegal immigrants posing as children when they were in fact bearded adults. Says it all really ….

        2. Highly likely it was knowingly released. Some time ago pre-covid I read that from time to time the Chinese released a ‘flu virus as being the only way they could cope with the vast numbers of their elderly – it saw them off. This would explain why nearly all our ‘flu bugs seem to originate from Asia/the east. In the case of ‘covid’, it is the intention behind this release that is interesting.

          1. It’s on page ten.
            It starts….Coded messages about ‘a grave situation’ were sent from the Chinese laboratory suspected of causing the Covid pandemic, it has emerged.

          2. And we still import tons of goods each day from China. How easy would it be to slip something nasty into a few of those containers.

          1. I tried to write a letter of complaint to them once but couldn’t find anyone/anywhere to address or send it to…

    2. This sums up the gutless no-marks that inhabit the HoC. These people are not alone in their thinking and inaction but they have been elected to run the Country for the people, they are failing (deliberately?) in their duty. Putting unknown, unvetted and unneeded – what do they have to offer? – mainly young men before the people who pay the bills is a disgrace.

      https://twitter.com/nickdixoncomic/status/1587413390519111681

        1. Anything to control the narrative. The Left hate it when others define truth they’ve spent so long spinning.

      2. Before Blair and his old flat mate fiddle with the laws of the land. What these people doing now would have been treason. By my reckoning it still is.

    3. Meanwhile, under cover of all the noise, Rishi is getting on with his plans for CBDC. We will be presented with a fait accompli.

      1. Known by all as ploti-tians That’s just how these habitual and pathological liars work.

    4. You can see why the MPs got rid of her early on in the leadership contest.
      A PM who speaks the truth. My dear …. whatever next?

  25. What a great relief that the Dover fire-bomber is, after all, a far-right, paedophile extremist and not, as we feared, a patriot.

    (You may have spotted the position of my tongue in my cheek)

    2. The two policemen could have dealt with that lot with their sticks swinging. They shouldn’t be cowering in their van.
      BBC Radio 4 reporting this morning that a significant number of police officers have serious criminal offences in their history and they are trying to root them out from the forces.

  27. Authorities in the UK have ordered all captive birds and poultry to be kept indoors due to concerns over avian influenza.

    The stepped-up measures from the UK’s chief veterinary officer make the housing measures a legal requirement, and are accompanied by stringent biosecurity measures to protect flocks from disease, Sky News reports.

    The rules come into force one minute past midnight on Monday, November 7th, giving owners one week to prepare.
    It comes after the national risk of bird flu in wild birds was raised to ‘very high’, and the whole of Great Britain was made a bird flu prevention zone two weeks ago.
    Chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss said: “We are now facing this year the largest ever outbreak of bird flu and are seeing rapid escalation in the number of cases on commercial farms and in backyard birds across England. -Sky News

    “The risk of kept birds being exposed to disease has reached a point where it is now necessary for all birds to be housed until further notice,” Middlemiss continued. “Scrupulous biosecurity and separating flocks in all ways from wild birds remain the best form of defence.”

    All bird owners must follow the rules, whether they keep ‘a few, or thousands,’ she added.

    2. Two near neighbours have several chicken’s in their gardens. And both have young children. This will be interesting.
      I wonder how Avian flu managed to arrive on this island. Just before Christmas.
      Similarly the BSE outbreak.
      Special delivery ?

      1. The Bird Flu epidemic has been with us for many months this year. Farmers are trying to avoid the disease before the birds are slaughtered for Christmas. Some ideas include slaughtering birds early, freezing the carcase meat and then thawing them for sale as fresh.

        1. That takes me back to 1977 our second Christmas in South Australia.
          We bought a ‘fresh’ turkey from a local supermarket. Froze it. Defrosted it on Christmas eve to cook for our English friends from Melbourne who were staying with us.
          It was a bit smelly. The next morning.
          On advice from another friend we decided not to chance it.
          I tried to bury it in the back garden the ground was so hard I couldn’t even break the surface.
          I parked in a esky in the garage took it back next day and they refunded me without any argument.
          We all ate lasagne.
          I suspected that the turkey had already been frozen and defrosted.

    3. The risk of kept birds being exposed to disease has reached a point where it is now necessary for all birds to be housed until further notice, Seems a tad islamic?

    5. We didn’t lock up our 3 Indian Runners last time we were meant to and we won’t be locking them up this time.

    6. Look out for rules forbidding home poultry keeping next, as were enacted in parts of the US.
      Eggs became very expensive, and the food chain became less secure – what a surprise, eh.

  28. Good morning all ,

    Orange looking sky, a bit of a autumnal blow , showers, sunny and 14c.

    I liked this letter ..

    SIR – My local barber recently closed in the face of competition – six new, fashionable hairdressers on the same street.

    Spoilt for choice, I visited one that had a sign saying, “Gentlemen’s barber”, above the door. The shop was empty but I was told that I had to make an appointment, which I duly did before sitting down.

    The waiting area was not supplied with Classic Car Weekly, Private Eye, Boxing Times or Country Life. In fact, there was no reading material whatsoever. BBC News played on a television in the corner.

    In the chair, I described my habitual hairstyle preference and was asked what number I usually had. I said I didn’t know.

    What followed felt like a lawnmower being applied to the back of my neck, ploughing a deep furrow towards the crown of my head. Fifteen minutes later, I was shown the handiwork in a mirror. I gave my usual response: “Perfect – thank you.” I don’t recall a pair of scissors being used.

    My wife has not stopped laughing since. She says I look like a Peaky Blinder. Where can I find a traditional barber who can trim hair without recourse to power tools?

    Ian Kerr
    Coventry, Warwickshire

    Eldest son went to the barbers last Saturday.. he had several things to do in Poole . He saw a new barber shop so decided to go in for a hair cut .

    It was a Turkish barber shop, they are everywhere now. Son was amazed by the excellent treatment he recieved , shave with a cut throat, hot towels , etc and no scissors but electric cutters ..He said the cut took less than ten minutes and the cut cost £10.

    He was delighted with the deftness and skill of the barber .

    Moh and I were quite taken aback when he arrived home .. he looked just like like a Peaky blinder extra..

    His hair will grow with in days , but I daresay he will return to them for more of the same .

      2. Few customers in very modern well fitted-out premises and with flash cars outside. Who would have guessed?

        1. A previous boss once went to Turkish barber in Turkey. All the cutthroat, hot towels, etc, and did he want his ear hair done? That was a cotton bud dipped in meths & water mixture, lit, and the burning bud run quickly in each ear canal… except it fell off the stick on the second canal! Cue panic, boss with a small fire in his head!

    2. Good morning Lovely Verity

      I have not had a ‘professional’ haircut for nearly 35 years as Caroline cuts my hair – this is one of the great advantages of marriage.

    3. Morning T-B I wouldn’t let a barber get near me with a cut throat razor. My younger son comes up from North London to see me briefly 3-4 times a year and trims my hair, number 3 setting on the clippers, and clips my toenails with my assorted nail clippers. we usually go to Sutton Bank for a walk and our lunch.

  29. ‘Outrage’ as migrant hotels are forced upon tourist hotspots
    At least four councils take legal action after Home Office block-books accommodation for asylum seekers.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/11/02/outrage-migrant-hotels-forced-upon-tourist-hotspots/

    It is not true to say that the PTB have lost the plot – they never had a plot to lose in the first place. The only thing that seems to be clear to them is that the wishes of the indigenous population can be ignored.

    BTL

    There are plenty of open spaces in Scotland and Wales where camp sites can be set up and tents can be pitched. Marquees could even be put up as well to act as places where paperwork can be checked. Solar and wind energy could be harnessed and used exclusively on these sites so as not to augment CO2 emissions.

    Living in tents is the traditional practice of many people of Arab descent so it would be culturally sensitive to put Middle Eastern immigrants in camp sites.

    1. The open spaces in Scotland Richard is called scenery and we don’t want this scum desecrating it

      2. You’re right – why should Scotland be desecrated? So Africa is the only solution. Do you have any other solution as to where to put them.

      3. While we in England used to have scenery but it is being built over so that migrants can be housed (don’t dream for a minute that our own are being housed). If your part of the country was being ruined the way ours is, the Scots might be a bit more vociferous about immigrants.

    2. Good morning, Rastaman.

      I’m with Spikey on this. Aren’t there vast open spaces in Brittany for the building of such camps?👍🏻

      1. Also Vast open spaces in all the countries the invaders came from originally.
        It would be cheaper all round to send building materials to where they come from.
        But it just might display how lazy they all are.
        Time to stop the invasion by stopping the benefits.

        1. Thing is, we already do. We waste fortunes on these toilets to lift them up. They remain corrupt, barbaric waste. They like it.

          We’re seeing the exact same thing here. Savagery, barbarism, littering, all created by dross.

        2. Saudi Arabia has an Empty Quarter, which I understand is well named.
          How culturally sensitive would that be? Living in tents in a country sharing the same religion.

          1. Saudi has an equipped area to hold more than one million people in relative luxury. It’s known as Macca.

      2. Good Morning, Björn (If you’ll pardon my Swedish)

        You are right : the only option would be set up the camp sites in remote parts of Africa – where else would you suggest?

        1. I will pardon your Swedish only if you pronounce it correctly. Björn (bear) is pronounced “Byearn” and never “Byorn”.

    1. I can’t find it now – but there was a clip the other day (here I think) of the Rolling Stones in the 1960s. Mick Jagger’s trousers were of a similar shortness to those of Fishi Rishi.

        1. Yeah but,… early days for the Stones not much money. He probably borrowed his strides from Long John Baldry.

          1. When I was articled in 1959, one of the typists ran Baldry’s fan club.

            Not many people know that…. She’d be in her 80s today…

          2. Great stuff Bill.
            I went to see The Steam Packet a couple of times. Cooks Ferry Inn on the Lee navigation canal Edmonton. Rod Stewart, Julie Driscol, Brian Auger.

    2. ‘Morning Griz. Similarly, the few BBC weather presenters I’m not quick enough to avoid go the the other extreme – ‘concertina trousers’ because they are far too long. This is in stark contrast to some beautifully cut jackets, so sharp that they must have taken quite a chunk out of their clothing allowance.

    3. ‘Morning Griz. Similarly, the few BBC weather presenters I’m not quick enough to avoid go the the other extreme – ‘concertina trousers’ because they are far too long. This is in stark contrast to some beautifully cut jackets, so sharp that they must have taken quite a chunk out of their clothing allowance.

    4. Just like flares were ‘cool’ once, then those hilarious jeans that cut off blood supply, then jeans with holes torn in them fashions change.

      Folk follow them like sheep, eager to be ‘the in crowd’.

      1. It’s usually difficult to buy the non-fashion items, as they are not readily stocked.
        I know, ‘cos I am not a fashionable shape, so getting new trews or whatever is a royal PITA.

          1. Dressman (= Suit Company) clothes are universally shapeless and the Weegies wear the wrong size – so, suit jackets like bum-freezers, and trousers that are far too short.
            I once had a pair of trousers where the leg seams were corkscrew! Gave up trying to iron them pretty quickly.

        1. Eventually all fashions come around again – and the hordes think they’re the first ones to adopt it and equally cool.

        2. Eventually all fashions come around again – and the hordes think they’re the first ones to adopt it and equally cool.

        3. Duffle coat? Were you a folkie or a jazzie? The very antithesis of the Teddy Boy in his drapes, drainpipes and brothel-creepers. 👍🏻

          1. It was my alter ego disguise I used after climbing off my BSA 650 complete with leathers. 😊

    5. It’s a ploy to ensure that the wearers have to throw all their trousers away and buy new ones when fashion dictates next year that trousers are the proper length again.

  31. Brief bit of good news. One of our recently arrived neighbours breeds sheep in order to produce MUTTON. Very low food yards!!

    1. I think you’ll find these are all “influencers” – a species the existence of which bewilders me.

      4. There is a certain calculated sharpness to her face, whether the make up or actually expression I don’t know, that I find rather offputting.

        1. Oh, they’re out there in real life alright. But you’d never know it to look at young celebrity men. It seems that Real Men are out of vogue in the mainstream.

          2. Funnily enough, that’s exactly what I’m wearing tonight; a tee shirt under a thick cardigan.

    4. Plenty of good looking women in my part of the world who don’t need strange looking clothes to look good

      1. I think the young woman in that picture looks more contrived than naturally pretty. It is certainly (without a shadow of a doubt) a computer-enhanced image. Not a single crease, blemish or character mark is visible. Personally I find such images bland beyond belief.

    6. Good morning Grizzly and everyone.
      Good question about ‘pretty girls’.
      Firstly you have the force of nature, and that could be cyclical.
      Secondly you have household economics: more children, fewer luxuries.
      Thirdly, you have the eye of the beholder; when we age biologically we are still able to vaguely notice ‘pretty girls’, but social mores (and tremendous will power) work to keep men out of jail or the divorce courts.
      Some of the above-average good-looking young women of the 1960s and 1970s never had any children; many of those who did make an effort, only produced one or two sprogs.
      Some young women quietly compromise and marry men who are less than beautiful but more than wealthy (sounds incredible, but apparently it does happen); the results appear regularly in society magazines.

  33. There is a Duncan Mac commenting in the DT at the moment. Seems to be about the right age as ‘ours’! Do you think it might be him?

    1. Seems fair, let the liberal looney lefties who welcomes them with open arms to our country have them.

      1. I’ve got an idea, as we know where some of these invaders have come from.
        Let’s send the loonies and lefties, who already know everything, to the same countries. And they can teach them all how to look after themselves, it’ll save all that dangerous travelling………oh hang on a mo’. 🤔

  35. 367016+ up ticks,

    Would the reversal say, a white prisoner and a coloured jailer in Nigeria be acceptable to the bBc ?

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    14m
    Surely all the prisoners shown in MSM propaganda should be white?

    Then that would account for why so few white men appear in adverts.

    That at least would be logically consistent & offend no one, except perhaps white men & who cares about them?

    Prison job advert banned for racial stereotyping — BBC News
    Prison job advert banned for racial stereotyping — BBC News

    The photo of a black inmate and white officer was likely to cause serious offence, a watchdog found.

    https://gettr.com/post/p1wh75o4d4b

    1. The only “racial stereotyping” that would please them would be a black guard and a white prisoner.

  37. 367016+ up ticks,

    But truthful comments / warnings make for uncomfortable listening for the voting majority

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    12m
    Here again is Klaus telling us his plans. “The future is Stakeholder Capitalism”. What does that mean?

    The Stakeholders are billionaires & giant international corporations, as represented by the WEF. Wealth & power concentrated into a tiny financial elite. A new aristocracy not based blood lines but on money – & for the first time in history based on a truly international power basis.

    The last 2.5 years of covid & lockdowns has been about driving investment & wealth out of smaller businesses into the hands of big business, & crushing people into compliance.

    We cannot say we are not being warned – by the very people doing it.
    PandaRolling（Athena Farm）
    @Pandarolling
    ·
    38m
    Klaus Schwab Responds To,“Is This China’s Time”? With It’s The Private Corporation’s Time To Rule The World

    Klaus Schwab speaks of the clash between states and corporations,

    https://gettr.com/post/p1wh8p32584

  39. Dundee like ‘war-torn nation’ after gangs of youths run riot and injure officer. 2 November 2022.

    Police Scotland have pledged to flood the streets of Dundee with officers to prevent a second night of rioting after gangs of teenagers hurled fireworks at cars and lit bins on fire.

    Youths lit the city’s area of Kirkton ablaze on Monday evening with councillors comparing the destruction to that of a “war-torn nation”.

    Footage shared on social media during the chaos showed rioters throwing bricks at emergency services, blocking roads with bonfires, jumping on car roofs and smashing a school’s windows.

    One wonders if this is Home Grown. There’s no hint of ethnic content in the article but would the MSM tell us if there were?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/01/city-like-war-torn-nation-gangs-youths-run-riot-injure-officer/

        1. I told him! Of course, if he’s not ‘our’ Duncan, he probably thinks I’m a stalker, or nuts or both!

    2. I commented earlier on there that my mother worked there years ago, and even then the polis patrolled in threes!

    3. Unfortunately for the champions of British indigenous culture, I fear this may well be in character with something homegrown, rather than BLM or ROP. Gangs of hooligans do emerge from time time, such as the Teddy Boys, Mods and Rockers, Skinheads and Greasers… They may not have altogether gone away, and go right back to Boudicca and beyond.

      Dundee is the home of the Beano, which has its own brace of rival gangs from Bash St and Blob St out for one another’s blood. I don’t know if they have been sanitised since I was little.

    5. There is a vivid account in one of George Borrow’s books (The Romany Rye or Lavengro, I forget which) of the youths of the Old Town in Edinburgh hurling stones at those of the New Town. Vicious fighting and hand to hand combat.

  40. Conclusion to an article that is mainly about blacks killing and being killed, particularly after Floyd gave them free rein;

    It’s time for some consequences.

    Granted, electing a different set of politicians is unlikely to make things all that much better, but at least it sends a message.

    https://www.takimag.com/article/the-floyd-effect/

        1. Just a tad on the dreich side! I was hoping to get the twins to the park, but the prospect is rapidly diminishing!

          1. Our younger son is moving house today, so I’m glad for his sake that the weather’s good.

          3. Aaaarrrgghhhhh ………..
            Or, to put another way … a couple more bits of very expensive paper are in the pipeline.

          4. Splendid! Sounds like par for the course! Good luck with your mission, should you choose to take it!

          5. “I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er”

            For ‘Blood’ read ‘Money’.

      3. The Good Ship Venus is one of the most disgraceful songs that schoolboys used to sing on the bus when they returned from an away match. For obvious reasons this verse must be put behind a spoiler.

        The cabin boy of the Clipper,
        Was an awful little nipper
        He stuffed his arse
        With broken glass
        And circumcised the skipper.

        1. Twas on the goodship Venus
          By God you should’ve seen us
          The figurehead was a nude in bed
          The mast the captains penis

    4. For some reason I am no longer persuaded that they still look as appetising!

      Can’t disagree with you there Grizzly!

      Morning all. BTW I defrost meat in cold water, not hot. Works brilliantly.

        1. Firstborn’s home-grown and home-made pork sausages are fabulous! Tasty pork, plenty spices…

      1. No, I only have two hands: one to turn the crank and the other to guide them out.

        Once I have extruded a long string, I then twist them into individual sausages, just as butchers do. For the first time I used a somewhat firmer type of collagen skin for this batch. The previous stuff was thinner (and frequently burst while being extruded!) but didn’t shrink so much when heat was applied. Regardless of that, it didn’t alter the shape of the finished product and it was still as delicious as ever.

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  44. Useful log work completed (I’m beginning to sound like Robert!!) Three large dead branches removed and cut up – by handyman with electric chain saw (what is point low and expensive…and when the power cuts start….)

    Handyman ALWAYS knows best. So I bit my tongue a lot. I suggested we put rope round the fattest branch and then he cut -and we pulled it off. No – out of the question. So wazzock cut and – natch – his saw got stuck. Then spent half an hour trying to get a rope round above the cut…… So a ten minute job turned into a good half hour….

    Still – (always looking on the bright side) I could not have done it myself. And we have a fortnight’s worth of gash instantly burnable logs.

    1. Electric chainsaws start reliably, but have less torque and (usually) no clutch. Great for sawing up logs, but not so good for felling.

      1. I have no problems with mine, felling or sawing up logs, it’s a 30 year old McCulloch on its second chain (I sharpen it between sessions). If his saw gets stuck he’s not doing it right

  47. Just heard on the radio that there are more than ten million people living in the UK who were born abroad. With a little research I found that the figure for 2000 was fewer than four and a half million. In 2020, 6 million were estimated to be from non-EU countries. God knows how many in the UK are second and third generation foreigners. We are being replaced at an ever-increasing rate. It has got to stop!

        2. I probably saw my first black person soon after July 1st 1946 as I was born in the Sudan on that day.

          We have lived in France for many years and we brought our children up to be bilingual. However the first time our son, Christo, went to England he was astonished to hear other people speaking English – he thought it was the Tracey family’s private language.

    2. Heard a statistic yesterday that more people have immigrated to Britain since 1997 then the entire period Vikings up to about 1960. Wish i could remember where i heard it now. Some podcast or other.

      1. Douglas Murray made that observation in his Strange Death of Europe book. The numbers are estimates but it’s a few hundred thousand versus several million.

    3. It’s an essential part of the Great Reset.

      But don’t worry, you’ll have nothing but you will be happy!

  48. Good morrow, Gentlefolk. Today’s funny:

    Definitely not PC

    If you are easily offended please refer to your offensive counsellor and contact the local thought police

    A twin-engine passenger plane has an engine failure and the altitude and speed are both decreasing rapidly. The pilot speaks over the intercom…
    “I’m sorry it has come to this ladies and gentlemen, but unfortunately we are going to have to jettison the luggage in order for the aircraft to remain airborne”.

    Baggage is thrown out but still the plane’s speed continues to decrease. Once again, the pilot gets on the intercom, “I hate to do this, folks but in order to save the majority we are going to have to start off-loading some passengers. The only fair way is to do this alphabetically, so we’ll start with the letter ‘A'”.

    “Africans? Are there any Africans on board?” There was no answer so the pilot calls, “Black people, are there any black people on board?”

    Again silence. “C – coloured people? Are there any coloured people on board?

    Still there is silence. A little black boy sitting near the rear of the plane turned to his mother
    and whispers, “Mum, ain’t we African? Ain’t we black? Ain’t we coloured?”

    She replied, “Yes, Son but for the moment we is Nïggers. Let them do the Muslims first. If that don’t work, we is Zulus”.

    1. Braverman will be to Sunak what Katangwe was to Truss.

      U Turns are addictive – once you start making them you cannot stop.

      Will Sunak lead the Conservative Party into the next election? What are the current odds at Ladbrokes?

      1. “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their Party.”

        Charles E. Weller was a teacher who used this sentence as a typing exercise.

        Mr Weller’s exercise should now be amended for Conservatives both inside and outside the party to :

        “Now is the time for all good men and women to abandon the Party.”

    1. Thanks for that, Joss, it’s a real eye-opener. The most profound and unsettling thing the professor said in that video was this:

      “They [the administrators] entice them [young people] into university and offer them extended adolescence with no responsibility and the price they garner from them is to garnish their future earnings … it’s a crooked game…”

      Very true and very scary. The expression “offer them extended adolescence” is probably why they never grow up (wrapped in cotton-wool into adulthood) and why we now have such a generation of woke, clueless and criminally under-educated ingenues who will procreate the next generation, who will be even more uneducated. A conveyor belt of the mind-warped gormless has started.

      1. I wonder how many more young people will go down the route my son has taken, of educating himself via youtube videos and books, taking part in online fora, getting connections, and landing a job in his chosen industry at graduate level.
        He has four GCSEs.

          1. He has been shocked by the lack of skills and knowledge displayed by some of the graduates that he works with.

        2. Don’t think it’s Jonathan’s fault, it’s appallingly difficult to get a simple link copied.

      2. Disqus forcing tracking to sell adverts. Every link gets crippled with sending them data on every click. Youtube doesn’t help by adding it’s own hacking to the link as well to monitor source and views.

        They’re all annoying.

    3. Thank you for the link – it’s Jordan Peterson discussing how the (US) education system has been captured by the Left and the problems that brings. It’s worth watching – about 10 minutes. I would criticise this though: at one point he discusses the Humanities and lists Geography, History, Languages and then ruins it by including “Gender studies” in the list.

      “Gender studies” is NOT and never will be a “Humanity”

  53. Nice comment in the Spectator about the charlatans…..

    “Halfcock goes to one pantomime; Sunak to another”

    1. I read that people are going to vote Hancock into every bushtucker trial. So that’s extra wombat bollocks and kangaroo anuses for him.

      1. But I was soooooooooo pleased to read that he would be continuing to deal with constituency business while he is away….

          11. I remember fighting my way through these barriers to achieve the final goal in the late 1950s and early 60s. Fun, I don’t think so..

          14. Now if our recent prime minister had had a more feminine foundation garment than the eponymous one she may have worn then perhaps she might have lasted longer in office..

          17. Pull your head in, stupid boy. Of course I know the word – not the abbreviation. Go back to sleep.

    1. I’m a Celebrity is probably the big bosses’ way of paying off a midget like Hancock. You can just see them laughing in Davos “A course of lectures for our loyal servant Johnson, and we should be able to get Matt Hancock if we promise him a fee to take part in a trash TV show.”

      1. As one of my friends pointed out tonight, he’s still picking up his salary even if suspended and he’s being paid by the TV company.

    2. Aussie border force arrivals desk.
      G’day Mr Hancock have you ever been in any trouble ?
      Oh no, of course not, I’m in politics.
      Are you self funding your trip to Australia ?
      No of course not its all expenses paid and first class travel.
      How long will you be staying in
      Australia sir ?
      As long as the British viewers want me in the jungle.
      Do you have a return ticket booked ?
      Yes I do, it’s valid for two months.
      Really sir ?
      Surely a politician should know that ambition is often skewered by reality.

  56. Just went by bike to Barney – uphill all the way (yes, there ARE hills in Norfolk). Normally lovely freewheel coast home. Not today. Gale from the south meant we had to PEDAL going down hill!!!! Knackered.

    2. In spite of what Noël Coward wrote in Private Lives: .

      Elyot: I met her on a house party in Norfolk.
      Amanda: Very flat, Norfolk.,
      Elyot: There’s no need to be unpleasant.
      Amanda: That was no reflection on her, unless of course she made it flatter.

      1. Noël Coward should have continued on to Lincolnshire (or the Cambridgeshire fens). He would then have realised what flat really is.

      2. Noël Coward should have continued on to Lincolnshire (or the Cambridgeshire fens). He would then have realised what flat really is.

      3. 367016+ up ticks,

        Afternoon A

        By the same token what memories will today’s youths have when elderly but much bitterness.

      1. 367016+ up ticks,

        Evening PM,
        A lot of the follow on was true but without malice
        or evil intentions , sticks & stones etc, you played up you got a clip or the cane that never did leave mental scars.

        mental scars suffered by children currently are a plague in today’s society, in the main brought about via the polling booth & imported paedophiles.

        1. Exactly and I preferred your version on the black background, it is how I affectionately remember those days; I was born in 1947. I remember lamplighters coming round to turn on the gas street lights, carrying a set of ladders, and then making the journey to turn them off in the morning. I’m sorry, I couldn’t find a way to delete the black background comment from my tweet, they came together.

          1. No need, Mum to delete the reference to ‘black’. In those days we were a lot more tolerant but today the constant referral to blacks and BLM has turned many of us into ‘racists’.

            My best example is two guys of somewhat darker skin who served on the same squadron (85 at RAF West Raynham) who were affectionately known as 23 :59 and Midnight. They revelled in their nicknames, as they understood that there was no malice aforethought.

  60. Funny thing about the SAS “drama”. Obviously in 2022 the word “wog” is verboten. But they found an amazing way of getting round that. They called the wogs, “Pogs”….

    So – if we call Wing Commander Gibson’s dog “Wigger” – we are in the clear.

    1. I noticed, in the first episode, that some Aussie soldiers also called an English lieutenant “pog” instead of “pom”. No bonzer Ocker would ever do that.

      1. Nah – he was referring to the barman – who, unlike every Egyptian servant I have met – spoke perfect Brixton English innit.

        1. I remember my dear old father who spent part of his time in Algeria and Egypt in WW2, say many times over, never trust an Arab son.
          After he’d told how they had brewd their tea three times over and then sold it on.

        2. I’m not convinced. I’ve just watched it again and the two Aussie soldiers fixed eyes on the British officer and said: “Eh, Pog! Any of you Pogs ever leave fucking Cairo? Any of you Brits ever seen an Italian yet?”

          The British officer retorted: “Ah, Australians. I love Australia. Wildlife and fauna, designed by a lunatic.”

    3. Wog used to be an acceptable word meaning Western Oriental Gentleman ie traders from the East who became rich trading with the west and adopted the civilised behaviour expected of a gentleman.

  61. What is this madness and what possible benefits could there be??

    “British scientists intentionally created hybrid Covid strains in risky experiments judged to be like ‘playing with fire’, MailOnline can reveal.

    Hamsters were infected with mutant viruses, blends of the original Wuhan strain and parts of either Omicron or Delta.

    Critics of the research, carried out by Imperial College London,

    called it ‘insanity’ and warned the lab trials could, in theory,

    unleash a new viral threat. Twenty scientists were involved in the

    project, including one who sits on the Government’s advisory panel SAGE.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11357387/UK-scientists-mutant-Covid-strains.html
    First Boston,now Imperial obviously Covid failed to kill enough to please the eugenicists,still give them time…………

    2. ‘They’ have also been experimenting on the monkeypox virus attempting to make it super strength.

  63. Died today – a footballer of little note for most of his life, whose youthful promise was never fulfilled in the Football League where his only full-time, professional, first-team experience was two seasons with the Fourth Division’s perennial strugglers Newport County but who became one of the most famous players in the country because of this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqQoQ1rBH4

    1. I’m afraid I remember him well, William! Having been a Newcastle supporter most of my life, I unfortunately remember the FA Cup 1972 and our ignominious loss to Hereford! Ronnie Radford was one of the scorers!😳
      Oops! Never looked at the vid!

      1. And, apparently, the very next weekend, Newcastle got a (rare) win at Old Trafford/ManUnited.

  66. Par Four for a change.

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    1. Same.
      Wordle 501 4/6

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      1. Thanks William – I should have checked and corrected the link – I was still reading the piece when I posted it.

    5. Emily Oster has been thoroughly roasted, deservedly so for her crass behaviour; unfortunately one look at the photo of her smug face tells you that she is unlikely to have understood what she has done wrong.

        1. It was all over Twit this morning too! People who lost a relative or suffered directly are furious – justifiably.

          1. They hadn’t just lost a relative, it was the awful circumstances surrounding these losses. These must never be forgotten. I suspect Oster is dipping a tentative toe in the water on behalf of others to see which way the wind is blowing. I am furious that an amnesty could be even thought possible – if the perpetrators think it possible they have no idea of the extent of their crimes. Therefore any kind of forgiveness is unthinkable.

          3. Thank you, Tom. Nttl is one of the few places that I feel I can express an opinion – where I feel safe.

        2. Brilliant article!
          I was so angry at just the headline, that I hadn’t read the hypocritical lies published by Emily.
          This analysis is great.

    6. Emily Oster has been thoroughly roasted, deservedly so for her crass behaviour; unfortunately one look at the photo of her smug face tells you that she is unlikely to have understood what she has done wrong.

  68. Par 4 here

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  69. Who’s laughing now? Liz Truss bonfire night effigy with lettuce on shoulder unveiled
    The 11-metre-high ‘guy’ for bonfire night is clutching a cardboard box containing a leaver’s card and a copy of her mini-budget
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/02/laughing-now-liz-truss-bonfire-night-effigy-lettuce-shoulder/

    This is cruel, sadistic gloating.

    I did not care much for Ms Truss but the more she is attacked by politicians who are considerably more despicable than she is the more I am beginning to think that she would not have turned out to be anything like as devastating to Britain’s good as Sunak will turn out to be.

    A BTL Comment

    If Truss was a disaster at least she was the People’s Disaster; on the other hand Sunak was not the choice of the People but the choice of the Parliamentary Conservative Party, The Globalists, the remainers, the MSM, the IMF and the WEF.

  70. Going to the COP 27 conference must be a bit like going to a time share meeting to collect your free prize while on holiday

  71. A rewarding and productive day.
    3 x prizes off ERNIE, 2 x £25 and 1 x £50, then knocked up a mix of mortar and got a bit of wall done. Out of cement now so will need to get another bag before I do another mix, then I’ll have to do a lot of digging and a couple or three concrete mixes to extend the base.
    But that will have to wait until better weather.

    On matters USA, the investigation of the attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of the Speaker of the Senate, is already stinking of rotten fish.
    https://youtu.be/gIe8LT7Zvus

        1. We got £4 something in interest on our savings.

          A shame that Sunak’s policies are destroying them at a rate of 12% a year.
          Addendum – in Switzerland we’re getting about 14%-21%, because their economy is not run by nutters and is still linked to gold and any idea of destroying the currency would have the MPs sacked.

          Ah, democracy. So much better than the farce we’re lumbered with.

      2. Erin had 50 quid last week.
        I shared our parents PBs with my two sisters. In over 30 years, I’ve never won a penny. But both of them have from time to time.

          1. I won 34 quid on the lottery a couple of weeks ago. It’s nearly all gone now. I only want about 5 million. 🤔
            A couple of years ago I had to phone the national lottery people at Rickmansworth, because of a problem with signing in.
            I asked the lady if she liked her office’s and told her that I was in charge of all the interal woodwork in her building. She liked that. But I still haven’t had a decent result.

    3. I’m confused. I thought Mr Pelosi went cruising at a gay bar, found some bloke, brought him home then after some fiddling about the Pelosi chap needed an excuse and lo!

  75. BBC Radio 4 6pm news: “…as our political correspondent reports, Mr. Sunak’s about-face has prompted questions about the strength and character of his leadership…”

    Too bloody right (yes, a BBC opinion we can agree with). Here’s what he said in the HoC: “There is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change and there is no energy security without investment in renewables. That’s why I will attend COP27 next week to deliver on Glasgow’s legacy of building for a secure clean and sustainable future.”

    There are lots of words to describe this. None of them are kind.

    2. As I mentioned earlier, they are continually ranting about climate change and carbon emissions. But are allowing thousands of invaders into the country, and their carbon emissions will increase the total by a massive amount.

    3. No, there’s no long term prosperity with investing in unreliables. It’s throwing money away. Hell, with the rate of inflation burning cash would be more efficient.

  77. A long read from The Critic this month about the law relating to Convid — and its abuse by – guess who – HMG.

    “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” In moments of crisis when we are afraid and want a national paternal figure to keep us safe, the usual system of checks and balances, of political and legal accountability, can seem like procedural time-wasting. Why bother with a chamber of waffling MPs when we can all see that there is an emergency and something must urgently be done?

    In March 2020, Covid-19 was spreading rapidly around the world and there were powerful images of hospitals in northern Italy and elsewhere being filled with people infected by the virus. In response to increasingly frantic calls for action, Boris Johnson announced to the nation on 23 March that “we are giving one simple instruction — you must stay at home”. Those who did not do so would be breaking the law and at risk of being fined by the police.

    The restrictions on individual freedom which the Prime Minister announced prevented people from leaving the house except for four reasons: to buy food and medicine, to exercise, to seek medical attention, and to travel to a job if it could not be done from home. These measures were extreme — the most invasive curbs of basic liberties certainly since the Second World War and arguably since the Civil War period in the seventeenth century.

    Yet perhaps the most surprising aspect of Johnson’s first lockdown diktat was that it had no legal basis whatsoever.

    The regulations which gave force to the first lockdown did not come into force until 26 March, three days after we were told not to go out. They were not the product of an act of parliament —primary legislation debated in the House of Commons and the Lords — but of a statutory instrument (secondary legislation). There had been no parliamentary debate about them of any kind.

    Parliament did pass the Coronavirus Act, which gave police powers to quarantine infected people, ban gatherings, which postponed local and mayoral elections for a year, and weakened safeguards for detaining people under mental health law. It was a vast bill, containing 29 schedules and more than 100 sections, spread over 329 pages. Nonetheless it was debated for just a few perfunctory hours.

    Even the limited scrutiny was not quite what it seemed

    Even the limited scrutiny was not quite what it seemed; MPs and peers could only vote “yes” or “no” and could not table amendments. It was proposed by Matt Hancock on 19 March 2020, was passed by the House of Commons on 23 March, went through the House of Lords and received royal assent on 25 March. This was brisk work, done without reflection.

    A cynic might ask: so what? The leader of the opposition was not in the business of opposing the Prime Minister — Sir Keir Starmer intervened to compete with Johnson in expressing unqualified support for “our NHS”, and he pledged to work with the government rather than ask any questions about the merit of the policy. What difference would parliamentary debate have made?

    But there were dissenting voices in the House of Commons. Had the government troubled to put its proposals before the House, Steve Baker or Sir Charles Walker might have pointed out some of the more glaring anomalies, and for example asked how the police were to enforce a rule that a person could only leave their house for one hour per day.

    The dysfunction of the government during the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the themes of Emergency State, a new book about the legal aspects of the lockdown, written by Adam Wagner, a prominent human rights barrister and Twitter enthusiast. His account illustrates not only why the lockdowns and other emergency laws amounted to rule by diktat of very doubtful legitimacy and legality, but also why the public health quasi-tyranny was a failure even on its own terms.

    Lockdowns were first deployed against Covid-19 in China in January 2020 — a totalitarian measure for a totalitarian society. But despite their obviously illiberal nature, they attracted support from unexpected and very different quarters: the World Health Organisation commended the strong measures that China had taken to contain the outbreak, while Pope Francis praised China’s “great commitment” to contain the outbreak.

    Johnson and his advisors felt that the government had to move fast because people were dying — information was usually incomplete, the situation was dynamic and delay might mean the NHS was overrun. There was no time to talk or think. But that was precisely why scrutiny was so important, not because of an ideal about perfect democracy but because democracy works, however imperfectly, by exposing government policy to public debate.

    The government saw parliamentary democracy as an inconvenience to be swatted away. It used a relatively obscure statute, the Public Health Act 1984, as the basis for the lockdowns despite the fact that it was not intended for the purpose.

    The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 was passed precisely in order to give government powers to deal with large scale emergencies, but it required frequent parliamentary scrutiny. Dominic Cummings said that the Civil Contingencies Act was disregarded because of Cabinet Office advice that if they relied on it, the courts would “strike stuff down causing chaos”.

    By contrast, the virtue of the Public Health Act was that its powers could be exercised by secondary legislation without oversight — in effect by a stroke of Matt Hancock’s pen. It was a deliberate choice to use a solution that gave the government most power and was least open to challenge.

    It did not have to be like that. In Singapore, a jurisdiction where very strong and illiberal measures were deployed, the extension of any emergency powers had to be made by parliament as opposed to the Minister of Health. There was meaningful oversight in Sweden, Finland and elsewhere.

    There were attempts to test the lockdown rules in court, but they made very little progress. Simon Dolan, a wealthy businessman, launched a judicial review of the March 2020 lockdown regulations, arguing that they went further than the Public Health Act allowed and were unlawful. The High Court and the Court of Appeal dismissed the claim entirely.

    The courts felt that the issues involved political judgments for the government, which is accountable to parliament, and were not suited to determination by the courts. Dolan’s challenge did not even get permission to go to a full hearing; the judges decided that it was not arguable that the lockdown regulations violated human rights. It is right that elected politicians should make political judgements, and that courts should be reluctant to entertain challenges to them. But if the justification for that is democratic accountability then the democratic mechanism must be solid.

    There is an historical irony. In September 2019, the Supreme Court ruled on the legal challenge brought by Gina Miller in her legal opposition to Brexit. It decided that Johnson’s government had acted unlawfully in attempting to prorogue or shut down parliament for five weeks in order to ensure that the United Kingdom left the European Union. In the judgement of Baroness Hale and Lord Reed:

    The Government exists because it has the confidence of the House of Commons. It has no democratic legitimacy other than that. This means that it is accountable to the House of Commons and indeed to the House of Lords … The first question, therefore, is whether the Prime Minister’s action had the effect of frustrating or preventing the constitutional role of Parliament in holding the Government to account.

    It would be difficult to suggest that the government had not prevented parliament from holding it to account about the lockdowns — that was the whole point. But many of the people who cheered the court for deciding against the government on Brexit were, nine months later, clapping for “our NHS” and banging on their pans, even as Johnson and Cummings removed fundamental liberties; on this occasion there was nothing wrong with parliament being prorogued.

    The rules led to inconsistency and chaos — the police had varying ideas about how to deploy the coronavirus rules. Some forces preferred to take a light touch, and rather than issue Fixed Penalty Notices or even arrest people, they would advise rule-breakers to go home. Other forces overreached themselves — Derbyshire Police used drones to track people exercising outside, warned people that walking a dog in the Peak District was “not essential”, and used dark dye to ruin the bluish colour of a lagoon in Buxton hoping that people would not congregate there.

    Wagner records that the regulations were very difficult to enforce. One senior officer complained to him that members of his force read news articles about legislation which they were expected to enforce within 28 to 48 hours, before they had received any official communication about the existence of new offences, never mind what the strategy was supposed to be.

    The chair of the Police Federation gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights that nine out of ten officers felt the regulations were not clear. One officer expressed surprise at the number of calls the police received from “neighbour reporting on neighbour”.

    The Secretary of State for Health, Matt Hancock, described the rules as Napoleonic, by which he meant that everything that was not expressly permitted was forbidden. The purpose of Napoleon’s Civil Code was to make the law clear and accessible to the average person. The opposite happened with the lockdown rules — they became more complex, and the problem of the police not understanding them got worse.

    In the March 2020 lockdown, the officers only had to deal with eleven pages of regulations. By the third lockdown in January 2021, the law was more than 100 pages long before the extensive guidance documents were taken into account. This left the police in a difficult position and the public exposed to the enforcement of the wrong rules.

    When the Crown Prosecution Service reviewed prosecutions, of the 295 prosecutions under the Coronavirus Act, every single one was incorrectly charged and had to be withdrawn. At least 39 fixed penalty notices were issued to children, despite the law only allowing them to be given to people aged 18 and over — they too were rescinded following a review.

    The sheer volume and density of the rules was without precedent

    The sheer volume and density of the rules was without precedent — it has been estimated that the law changed more than once a week, and regulated questions such as whether a Scotch egg was a “substantial meal” for the purposes of public health. The rules were absurd and often unenforceable, as well being wasteful and expensive.

    At times they enabled abuse. In 2021, the hotel quarantine regime introduced a legal requirement for anyone arriving from a Red List country to self-isolate in a hotel. The scheme effectively detained hundreds of thousands of travellers, including thousands of children, but it was not approved by parliament until months later. In June 2021, four women told the BBC that they had been sexually harassed by G4S staff security guards while in hotel quarantine.

    Enormous spending commitments were made which will take decades to pay back. Out of more than 100 emergency regulations, among the most controversial in history, not one was amended by a single word, let alone voted down. The voluminous laws which resulted were internally inconsistent, and often contradicted by official guidance. Ministers were frequently unable to explain them satisfactorily. The few court challenges brought against the regulations failed, making it clear that the government has a wide discretion when making complex emergency decisions.

    So what is to be done to stop the Matt Hancocks of future generations from engaging in Napoleonic law-making? Wagner suggests legal safeguards, including a codified constitution — but it is hard to see that that would be a panacea. Law-makers rarely foresee a crisis decades in advance.

    There are numerous examples of countries where the constitution has failed to prevent political misconduct — Brazil, Russia, Turkey — and the grand phrases of the founding documents resemble the Maginot line after 1940. The American constitution has fortified the gun lobby and enabled regular mass shootings.

    There will be a commission, headed by retired law professor and judge Sir Jack Beatson, which will review whether “current legal frameworks and parliamentary procedures protect the Rule of Law and human rights, and how far they promote accountability, transparency and parliamentary control of executive action”. The commissioners will be academic lawyers, doctors and researchers, and Wagner has been appointed to their number. Its report is expected in autumn 2023.

    Individuals can express their discontent by writing to their MPs, joining political parties and protesting. But the sad truth for those of us who feel that health decisions are public rather than private matters is that we are a minority. Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were at their most popular when requiring people to sit at home and watch television in exchange for the government signing cheques for billions of pounds. Truly, strong men got things done.”

    1. The whole episode was a disaster. Our hard-won freedoms were totally rescinded, not to mention all the harmful effects on mental health, education, child develpment, etc. This must never be allowed to happen again. Yet now we have the toxic jabs and they are still pushing them.

      1. MH and I had two texts telling us to book for our covid jabs. The NHS can get stuffed.

          1. Ditto. My arms have still got the red marks which show no sign of going and no-one will talk about it at the surgery or the hospital.
            I have a face follow up at the end of Nov and if the spots are still there, I am going to demand some straight talk and answers. However, I won’t be holding my breath.

          2. That’s awful; it is more than a year now, isn’t it?
            I read somewhere that these effects have only been measured to last for up to a year? Perhaps you should report them to one of the doctors that are collecting such information.

          6. They’re part of the conspiracy. I struck lucky – when the 2nd AZ jab deprived me of any feeling in two fingers of my right hand, the surgeon I saw acknowledged that this might be vaccine damage, and put it in writing to my GP. Since we were locked down, I could get away with recorded hymns and voluntaries. Most of the feeling had returned by the time were were allowed to sing and I was allowed to play. Read that last sentence again. Wjhat has happened to us? Similarly, I’ve just given myself a haircut. I haven’t sought a professional one since hairdressing was made illegal. Besides, all the barbers are “Turkish” now, for which read “Albanian”…

    2. I see that China is still locking down their unfortunate population, often buildings are locked when a case is found and you are stuck there.

    3. The problem is even when the state does admit to failure it never pays the price. Only when the administration suffers a percentage of the cost personally will anything change.

      Rven then their default is not scrutiny and control but hiding the incompetence ever more deeply in red tape, waste and expense. Government will spend any amount of money to hide how pointless it is.

    4. Most people still don’t understand that massive money printing during the covid spree has fuelled inflation.
      There was a survey in the US recently, asking people whether they wanted more stimulus cheques to fight inflation – 60% said yes apparently…

    5. All laws eventually seem to have an ability to be used for things for which they were not intended at the time.

    6. The use of the 1984 Public Heath Act rather than the 2004 Civil Contingencies Act was the basis of Jonathan Sumption’s main objections to the legally approved oppression of the British people.

    7. My blood pressure is pretty good, my memory not so good. That just reminded me of all the crappy things that happened in the last 3 years. Bastards!

  79. Dentist appointment this afternoon, my usual dentist wasn’t available , so I was attended to by a tall male Greek God of a dentist .. he was wonderful, handsome , lovely head of wavey hair and had a gorgeous accent ..

    It was a Shirley Valentine moment .. He brought sunshine and laughter into 20mts of tooth examination and other bits .

    What a treat .

        3. Once I loved such a shattering physician,
          Quite the best looking doctor in the state,
          He looked after my physical condition
          And his bedside manner was great!
          When I’d gaze up and see him there above me,
          Looking less like a doctor than a Turk,
          I was tempted to whisper, “Do you love me,
          Or do you merely love your work?”
          He said my bronchial tubes were entrancing,
          My epiglottis filled him with glee,
          He simply loved my larynx
          And went wild about my pharynx,
          But he never said he loved me.
          He said my epidermis was darling
          And found my blood as blue as can be,
          He went through wild ecstatics
          About my lymphatics,
          But he never said he loved me.
          And though, no doubt, it was not very smart of me,
          I get on a-wracking of my soul,
          to figure out why he loved every part of me,
          And yet not me as a whole.
          By my esophagus he was ravished,
          Enthusiastic to a degree,
          He said ’twas just enormous,
          My appendix vermiformis,
          But he never said he loved me.
          He said my cerebellum was brilliant,
          And my cererum far from N G,
          I know he thought a lotta
          My medulla oblogota,
          But he never said he loved me.
          He said my maxillaries were marvels,
          And found my sternum stunning to see,
          He did a double hurdle
          When I shook my pelvic girdle,
          But he never said he loved me.
          He seemed amused,
          When he first made a test of me
          To further his medical art;
          Yet he refused,
          When he’s fixed up the rest of me,
          To cure that ache in my heart.
          I know he thought my pancreas perfect,
          And for my spleen was keen as can be,
          He said, of all his sweeties,
          I’d the sweetest diabetes,
          But he never said he loved me.

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    2. Oh Belle! About 7 years ago I flew to see my sister in Athens, from Frankfurt with Lufthansa. I sat next to a wonderful Greek/German gay dentist called George, and we had the most hilarious flight I think I’ve ever had! We hit it off immediately and laughed and giggled our way to Athens! He’s very good looking and my sister was quite taken aback when she met us! George and I keep in touch and I see him when we go over.

      1. What a lovely experience for you , Sue .

        Everything seems so worthwhile when that sort of encounter happens . Lucky you, and how nice it is to laugh in the very best together atmosphere .

        1. It was, Belle! He’s a lovely guy and it was a very happy meeting! He travels the route often as his Mum lives in Frankfurt and his Dad is in Athens, and he keeps saying he’s never met anyone on the flight as much fun as me!!

        1. It was you that recalled, “a Shirley Valentine moment … He brought sunshine and laughter … ”
          🙂

          1. I had a Shirley Valentine moment for several minutes on Shanklin beach some years ago. I was visiting on my own, my now ex was 3000 miles away. I went to the beach and sat at a table outside the Fisherman’s Cottage pub. I had a large glass of wine, kicked off my sandals and had my feet in the sand. The sea was close and the weather was gorgeous. Sheer bliss.
            I have never forgotten it.
            Also, I remember seeing the old fisherman, when I was a child, mending his nets outside his cottage.

    4. They say psychopaths have a glib charm to them.

      What other personallity type likes putting sharp metal objects in someone’s mouth?

        1. Hate dentists. Mad nutters.

          That manic gleam, the screeching of the motor, the dreadful smell of flouride, blood and old pain. The creaky leather.

          I fractured the finger bones in my hand gripping them together once.

          1. I’ve only had two non-sadist dentists attend to my teeth in my life. The first was, incredibly, an RAF dentist! The second went all private. Back to the butchers, then 🙁

          2. I must have been lucky. My dentist was one of three generations of dentists – until in 2001, he was drowned in a tragic accident while saving his children, who had got into trouble in the sea, while on holiday in Corsica. His practice was sold to a husband and wife team, who in their time retired about three years ago and the practice is now a BUPA one. Most of the dentists I’ve seen in the last three years have been young, starting their careers, but the current one – Jose is a little older, and Spanish. None have been butchers. Mind you, the hygenist is very thorough – it’s 20 minutes of torture.

    6. There was a young Lady True Belling
      Who went to the dentist for a filling
      But in a fit of depravity
      he filled the wrong cavity.
      but it’s OK ’cause Ms Belling
      Was perfectly willing….

    1. Is that like their MoD? If it is, and they’re anything like our lot, the last thing the MoD gives a flying fig about is the military.

        1. Aye, but government is the same everywhere: apathetic, lazy, uninterested, inefficient, devoted to any cause but the one assigned it.

    2. Same Dominion voting machines as the USA. Doubtless other brazen cheating techniques perfected in Venezuela, copied by the US Democrat Mafia (Clintons/Obamas/Bidens) and lately redeployed in Brazil.

  82. The DT removed all comments to an article on St Greta, ho is now getting a kicking BTL on the Letters page.
    Excellent!

      2. Harpers & Queen magazine back in the 70s published advice for debutantes. One of their rules was, “Never talk politics. Your host might be rich enough to be a communist”.

    2. Greta’s Green Day
      One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverised with rocks.
      “What’s this?” she asked.
      “Pulverised willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
      “What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
      “The carpet was nylon, which is made from Butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.

      Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
      “Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
      “Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
      “Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
      “Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
      “Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?”

      There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tyres and how ore has to be smelted to make metal, and that’s tough to do, with only electricity as a source of heat, and, even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tyres and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
      “What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
      “Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “raw.”
      “How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
      “Well, …

      . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
      “But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
      “Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
      “What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
      “Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing – being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”

      This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.

      Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesised.

      1. Canute Turner
        42 MIN AGO
        Just seen a documentary on the Smithsonian channel – an on message institution – they report that for decades the rain forest in Gabon, and the gorillas who live there, have been protected by a government able to spend oil revenues on the task. Now, as oil companies move out for the sake of the almighty Green, the only replacement source of income is the logs in the forest, which now echoes to the sound of chainsaws. Nice one you Green fascists.

  83. Having watched the malevolent dolt Biden gift Bagram Airbase and $80 billions of military equipment to the Chinese and Taliban it now appears that an equivalent amount of sophisticated armaments, purportedly gifted to Ukraine, are being siphoned off by foreign groups working in Norway, Sweden and Finland and probably other ‘woke’ European countries.

    Ukraine is a corrupt country and Europe infiltrated by unsavoury types from Africa and the Middle East. Pretty much the same toxic imports for whom our useless government are assisting entry to the UK.

  84. 3670116+ up ticks,

    This chap, a QC to boot is part of the fabric of the original paedophile umbrella, running a party that was once headed up by a PM, the original
    mass uncontrolled immigration latch lifter who allegedly had a criminal record after being found guilty in the Bow Street Court of cottaging in a public park toilet , morally corrupt ain’t the half of it.

    https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1587902717145796610?s=20&t=YqQih0pwOI2P9z7w3Q7jKw

    1. It is never time for a Labour government. No, they didn’t. The Home office has. Labour are the scum who forced 20 million wasters on us to create a voting bloc.

      You can shove off, Starmer you oddly short memoried waster.

  86. Ronnie Radford (again). A comment found elsewhere:

    The brilliant thing about that goal is that it manages to encapsulate a certain era of British football, and society, in a few seconds.

    The quagmire pitch, the traditional small town ground filled to the rafters, the kits free of any kind of sponsor logos, the pitch invasion (and look at how young the fans are – football crowds now are ancient in comparison).

    But most of all it was the fact that goal was the single most important thing to happen in England that day – not just in sport but in anything. You see, it was when the FA Cup REALLY mattered.

    That shot was, for Radford, the equivalent of having a No. 1 record. It made him immortal and, sadly, nothing comparable in terms of a giant killing will ever happen again.

    Parkas, bobble-hats, flared trousers, bad teeth, bad haircuts, horn-rimmed spectacles like safety goggles, policemen wearing helmets, it’s all in there!

    PS There’s something else about. Can’t quite put my finger on it…

      1. Yup. No overpaid modern day wogs prancing around with silly haircuts, full body tattoos and an inability to remain upright for any length of time, falling down and writhing in faux agony in order to obtain some advantage or other especially trying to have an opposing player yellow carded or red carded and sent off.

        Those were the days when players had skill and discipline, the likes of John Atyeo at Bristol City spring to mind.

        2. In the old days , UK football fans mocked and jeered the faux injuries and ground – based acrobatics in which foreigners indulged.

          It started in South America and spread , like reverse colonialist ideas, to our civilised Continent via TV.

      2. Indeed. A British football ground in the 1970s was not a good place to be for a black man.

        1. I remember watching a Spurs match at their old stadium Whitehart Lane in the seventies where the best player on the park was the very black Garth Crooks. He was much loved and applauded by the Spurs supporters and visiting spectators.

          Those seem distant days.

        2. I remember watching a Spurs match at their old stadium in the seventies where the best player on the park was the very black Garth Crooks. He was much loved and applauded by the Spurs supporters and visiting spectators.

          Those seem distant days.

  87. Evening, all. While the headline is true, the probability of its happening puts winning the lottery in the dead cert category.

  88. Sorry for the whinge- will keep quiet from now on. Sometimes there is too much….
    Off to bed and, hopefully, to not dream. Had some very odd dreams last night.
    Sleep well Y’all and be good if at all possible.

      1. Have now watched the SAS drama. Their motto is ‘Who Dares Wins’

        Perhaps Nottl needs a motto?

        May I suggest :

        ‘On a Whinge and a Prayer”

      2. Have now watched the SAS drama. Their motto is ‘Who Dares Wins’

        Perhaps Nottl needs a motto?

        May I suggest :

        ‘On a Whinge and a Prayer”

  93. I have been studying the shifting sands of politics in the USA.

    This is principally because the Americans have such an enormous influence over our affairs, an influence far greater than that nut-job Klaus Schwab and his puppets in the west viz (Johnson, Hunt, Sunak, Starmer, Blair) and the rest of the paid-for politicos responsible for misrepresenting us for a decade and more.

    The time has come to reject these morons and their destructive policies. We are a sovereign nation and not beholden to psychotic globalists such as Klaus Schwab and his cohorts.

    It is a great shame that our own King Charles III appears complicit in this globalist takeover of world governance. The wretched King Charles III should be goaded, prodded or what you will to wake up. Otherwise he too and his weakened monarchy will be destroyed along with the globalist fascists representing the WEF, WHO and its insidious associations at the UN.

    Too many intelligent people have cottoned on to the great deception visited upon us. They can take their ‘vaccine’ mandates, social control measures and pure nastiness and shove it all up their collective arses.

    Nuremberg 2 Await the likes of Johnson, Hancock, Whitty, Vallance, Van Tam, Harries, Farrar, Ferguson and the rest of the miserable oiks complicit in the greatest medical fraud ever visited on the citizens of the United Kingdom.

    2. Excellent comment, corrie.
      I, too, have been taking a deeper interest in what is happening in the USA, the plethora of web-sites, video producers, podcasts etc. voicing both discontent and dissent with the current situation is amazing. In addition, many of those sites have thought provoking articles on the “virus” and its successor the “vaccine”, presented by doctors and scientists who are experts across a wide range of disciplines.
      Interesting sites include Steve Bannon’s War Room covering politics, economy, medical etc. issues, some of Bannon’s passionate rants are well worth hearing/watching and his guest list is very good.
      Stew Peters, ex bounty hunter, is towards the ‘shock jock’ end of the spectrum and is very outspoken. SP’s network has grown with a number of guest presenters now having their own shows. SP is producing a new film, Died Suddenly, to be premiered later this month. John O’Looney, the Milton Keynes funeral director has a cameo part.
      Another insightful weekly programme is The Highwire presented by Del Bigtree, a well known doubter of all vaccines. Bigtree’s show hosts a weekly report from a real investigative reporter, Jefferey Jaxen, along with medical/scientific experts and ordinary people who have suffered from he actions of all arms of the PTB.
      If the Republicans, with a large MAGA presence, take the Senate and the House and neuter the Biden administration then we may see some influence percolating across to this benighted country.

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