Wednesday 22 March: Encounters with dedicated officers show the Met is not beyond fixing

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Trust

    There comes a time when a woman just has to trust her husband.

    For example…

    A wife comes home late at night and quietly opens the door to her bedroom. From under the blanket she sees four legs instead of two.

    She reaches for a baseball bat and starts hitting the blanket as hard as she can.

    Once she’s done, she goes to the kitchen to pour herself a stiff drink.

    As she enters, she sees her husband there, reading a magazine.

    “Hi Darling” he says, “Your parents have come to visit us, so l let them stay in our bedroom. Did you say ‘hello’?”

      1. With just 2 hours last evening, I may well go back and build up the zed bank balance.

        1. Oddly enough, Tom, after yesterday’s “sleepathon” I slept fine last night (1 am to 5 am) and then came downstairs for a cuppa and struggled for about an hour to log on to the ITV Hub (ad-free for 7 days and then I will cancel) in order to watch the final 3-episodes of Series 9 of ENDEAVOUR on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Then I shall wait until the entire 9 series (plus pilot episode) is available and probably buy it as a Christmas present to myself. Enjoy your extra ZZZs.

    1. ‘Morning, Bob, we had the wet & windy during the night.

      Calm now and patches of blue sky.

      1. The wind and I, have both got up again.

        Some blue sky still available but ominous looking clouds building up in the west.

      1. Well, Aeneas, (Good morning btw) some days ago I came fifth and won the booby prize. Lol.

  5. Encounters with dedicated officers show the Met is not beyond fixing

    There was something very weird about yesterdays report, it never really tackled the terrible failures like grooming and failure to prevent street violence, murders and rapes, it just went on about internal incidents where people have felt aggrieved based on their cultural beliefs or their skin colour.
    I bet in every large organisation one could find individual incidents of bad behaviour.
    It all felt to me just like more cultural Marxist race baiting against straight white males, even though the force was led by a women for years.

    1. I don’t know how others feel.
      Bore-us has had his day in politics.
      I’m sick of seeing him now. But he’s not alone……I’m sick to death of all of our useless lying money grabbing politicians.

      1. Completely agree. They, and their vacuous, empty headed proclamations are nothing but miserable.

  10. Casey Report marks policing’s total capitulation to the left. 22 March 2023.

    We should not be surprised at the tone. The career of Baroness Casey, a former DHSS benefits administrator, really began in the late Nineties under Tony Blair’s government of smarmed down Trotskyists and communists. By 2003 Casey was in charge of the Home Office’s Antisocial Behaviour Unit. I have no idea what the unit did – I tentatively assume it was trying to stop antisocial behaviour – but here we are 20 years later and antisocial behaviour is so widespread as to be endemic and normalised, and the kind of Clockwork Orange-style violence that once had the power to appal the nation now is a matter of routine reporting. Incidentally, for a document so concerned with the promotion of equality and diversity it is worth mentioning that Baroness Casey’s colleagues were almost entirely female: there was one man among the 11-strong review team.

    It wasn’t until this report came out that I was even aware that such an inquiry was being conducted. Nevertheless as soon as I saw the headlines about Institutional Racism and Misogyny my suspicions were aroused. A look at Casey’s history (see link) reveals someone who could never have possibly arrived at any other conclusion. She is the Wokist’s Wokey. To expect her to find the police innocent; this it must be remembered is the Police Force that has been created by those sharing her beliefs, would be to admit that her, and their world view was wrong. I could have written this report for her without stirring from this computer. The Metropolitan Police are not an admirable organisation but this is not due to their lack of Wokey convictions but rather because of them. They are Baroness Casey’s ideal Police Force but she could never say so.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/nobody-mention-crime-fighting-casey-report-marks-policings-total-capitulation-to-the-left/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Casey,_Baroness_Casey_of_Blackstock

    1. Another very well fed Goldsmiths graduate vulgar rude lefty Baroness. Apart from that she’s a real honey.

      1. Morning Bill. Yes. It’s because they are all Racist, Misogynist, Far Right fascists!

        1. Who simultaneously spend all their time policing “hate crimes” (sic) and wearing all manner of Pride paraphernalia

    3. Was Casey in charge of benefits early 2000 when labour brought in forgien doctors being paid a thousand pounds a day to deny benefits to people who were seriously dependent on them ?
      I had a serious back injury 3 burst discs. I needed two wooden sticks to get myself around. I was driven to Luton, I had to drag myself to an assessment with a bad tempered old hag of a woman, I could hardly understand a word of what she said.
      I was asked if I could pick up a pound coin from a table and make a cup of tea. Because I said yes. My 65 pound a week benefits was stopped and I was told I could go back to work, trying to run a business as a self employed carpenter and builder.
      I think the company brought in were French. And I didn’t mention even Trafalgar or Waterloo.

  11. 372351+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Will the kingly one appear on the balcony book endded with a brace of imams, the final sunset over the United Kingdom is fast approaching.

    Well meant advice, if you have knee troubles now get them sorted
    the future holds plenty of knee action, at least five times a day.

    Now we all know the mantra “you “gotta vote tory (ino) keep out lab” second verse reverse inserting lab.

    https://twitter.com/FlowersEnglish/status/1638333490759446528?s=20

    1. He’ll do Anything to stir up our long established social structure.
      I’ll bet there will be bans as usual on St George’s day parades.
      Wasn’t St George seen to be saving the fair maiden and slaying the dragon depicted as islam.

      1. 372351+ up ticks

        Morning Mir,

        Economy ( electric bill) to be considered
        This is obviously the peoples choice as seen via their voting pattern.

        1. Well like i may have mentioned, Khunt (apols for rude language) demands £750 off my household this year. It’s a lot of money to have to pay to have my life made worse.

    1. Far better to strip government of it’s ability to borrow and inflate money away. That way we wouldn’t have a third of the problems we currently do.

      It isn’t banks who are the problem. Its big government.

      1. Every democracy fails when the citizens realise that they can vote themselves the contents of the Treasury….add fiat money to that, and you’ve got – the UK since 1945.

    1. Perhaps ex railway man Bob will be able to sort things out.
      Nobody else appears to know what they are supposed to be doing. 😉

  16. Vladimir Putin’s health may be disintegrating and it should terrify us all. Richard Kemp. 21 March 2023.

    Images of Putin gripping his chair and squirming next to President Xi in Moscow have again fuelled speculation about his health. He was filmed limping during a visit to Crimea a few days ago and during a February meeting with Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko his leg was shaking uncontrollably. Since Putin invaded Ukraine last year, rumours of his physical well-being have been rife, with a range of theories from cancer to Parkinson’s.

    This may amount to little more than wishful thinking that the man whose actions have led directly to the deaths of tens of thousands may be falling apart, and CIA Director William Burns said last year: “As far as we can tell, he’s entirely too healthy”.

    But if we imagine, for a moment, that he is suffering from some serious affliction, then that would have big ramifications. For one, the immense stress that must press upon him could rapidly exacerbate his illness and directly affect his mental processes and judgement. Even if Burns is right, the demands of running a country in any circumstances are huge, and we’ve all seen the way many national leaders appear to age prematurely over their time in office.

    What with the recent stories about Vlad’s Double’s; Cancer, Parkinsons’s Disease and Galloping Athlete’s Foot I took the trouble to actually watch this footage on last night’s BBC News. Depressingly for people like Kemp to my eyes he looks as spry as ever, in fact for a seventy year old he looks better than most people of forty.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/21/putins-health-may-disintegrating-should-terrify-us/

    1. This is nonsense, as is the description of petro-yuan agreement as “chilling” in the Mail.
      It’s just an inevitable shift of power.

  17. Morning all 😉 😊
    More than 90% chance of even more rain and so it goes on. And of course another grey day.
    By a complete accident I saw part of an interview with that git kahnt on TV. He seemed to be denying any responsibility for the dreadful state of the London police force. I must have been mistaken, I thought he had previously boasted a vested interest. But probably only when events were near to normal. But in these tired unprincipled old days of constant blah, blah, blah laced with hindsight after recent heightening turmoil what is considered normal anymore ?
    Lying and down grading horrific illegal events.

  21. G’mornin all,

    Pouring at McPhee Towers, 10℃, wind in the SW but it’s supposed to be bright sunshine by 1100. We’ll see.

    Richard Vobes has put out a very important video. Have a look:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNeoFfn6i5w

    Then click on this link in the description, download and read the e-book. This is vitally important.

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    Share it. Spread it.

    1. I said that to the Warqueen. After I recovered from the death stare she said ‘The last time you couldn’t keep up.’.

    2. I said that to the Warqueen. After I recovered from the death stare she said ‘The last time you couldn’t keep up.’.

  22. G’mornin all,

    Pouring at McPhee Towers, 10℃, wind in the SW but it’s supposed to be bright sunshine by 1100. We’ll see.

    Richard Vobes has put out a very important video. Have a look:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNeoFfn6i5w

    Then click on this link in the description, download and read the e-book. This is vitally important.

    https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbk5Bd2ptcEVtOU1oenFsRU91QnBpUUVvZFJtQXxBQ3Jtc0trczViVFI4V2k1UXpCREJva25CNmFXMVJPWWxuUTF1eVBVNE9YemlBX3dCLVlWMUhfSGl0MXNybzBYclJoOUJrT1d0T0pRamxZSWVfaGtrRFNMbk1OT2JMdV8ybzg1Y1FhREgzMWE5Y0MwbGVGN2xYYw&q=https%3A%2F%2Frichardvobes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F03%2FSOVEREIGN-MONEY-Original.pdf&v=rNeoFfn6i5w

    Share it. Spread it.

  23. Sorry but this is just hilarious (amongst other adjectives) from the front page:

    “the Pensions Increase (Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC) Regulations 2013” allow Sir Beer to save more into his pension than the plebs, because he’s special. He has his own Regulation!

    He really is the son of a tool-maker.

  24. Multiple civilian deaths linked to 2016-17 British airstrikes against IS in Mosul. 22 March 2023.

    Multiple airstrikes that killed civilians during the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq are probably linked to UK forces, despite longstanding claims British weapons did not harm a single non-combatant there, a Guardian investigation has found.

    Britain’s government and military have for years stood by the claim that in terms of protecting ordinary Iraqis, the UK fought a “perfect” war against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq.

    Allies in the US-led coalition, including Washington, have, however, admitted killing hundreds of civilians in Iraq while supporting Iraqi ground troops in the period after 2014.

    Kinda awkward in the present situation!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/multiple-civilian-deaths-linked-to-2016-17-british-airstrikes-against-is-in-mosul

    2. I seriously hope that St George’s day will be celebrated with much vigor this year. But I feel that the Dopey Wokies will try to stifle it as they have done in the past.

  26. Good morning all.
    A beautifully bright & sunny morning after last night’s rain with clear skies and 4°C outside.

  27. Good morning, everyone. Had a bad fall in the forest yesterday and split open my right hand. Probably needed stitches but I wasn’t going to sit in A&E for the night. Sticking plasters are the order of the day and I will KBO.

    2. Good morning DB

      It is a shame our local GP surgeries don’t do stitching anymore , but you can buy butterfly shaped sticking plasters etc from chemist , ask them .

    3. Don’t be a womble, delboy. Go along to a walk in clinic, sit amongst the legions of foreigners and get seen by a doctor who will clean it and decide if it needs stitches and give you an antibiotic shot.

    4. Make sure it’s thoroughly cleaned and get a tetanus shot. If you have butterfly plasters you might get away without having it stitched, but best to get it looked at.

    1. ….And a question for all the military experts:

      Recently we were bombarded with information on how determinedly the Ukrainians were defending Bakhmut, and how

      certain they are to repel the Russians.

      Now it’s suddenly gone quiet.

      Anyone know the reason?

    3. 372351+ up ticks,

      Morning Rik,

      When it comes to WAR numbers count, we are in the midst of an internal war with the overseeing treacherous politico’s, simply put there are more of us than there are of them.

      Warning solution, a number of patriotic volunteers surround parliament with baseball bats then take up a rhetorically silent but steady pavement tempo thumping.

      The message will be clear enough.

    4. As if we need any more reasons or explanations to underline exactly how stupid our political idiots and Whitehall actually are.

  29. Medley Time

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    1. There’s an article on the Daily wail about supermarkets charging more for goods. The comments are full – literally full – of people whinging about how supermarkets are profiteering, how they’re price gouging, how it’s their fault everything is expensive.

      Not one of those people has the faintest idea that it is government – through taxes, regulation, inflation and market rigging that makes food and fuel expensive. Worse, they refuse to believe it when the facts are laid in front of them. People are thick. Worse, they are utter morons.

      They blame energy companies for high energy bills, they blame super markets for high food costs, they blame petrol stations for expensive fuel. Then they blame Putin for inflation. Frankly, they need to go. Just round up the dumb and put them into those coaches and send them somewhere else. Be that another planet, a warehouse, just somewhere else where thick people can no longer ruin the country.

    2. Oh, I will most certainly neither forgive nor forget.
      I certainly learnt that the British Bulldog had become the Starsi Snitch.

  31. Good Moaning.
    Oh, wot a grey day.
    The most exciting event – apart from returning my old passport – will be finding a patchwork bedspread that is rumoured to be lurking in a storage bag in the wardrobe … or is it the attic? … and if so, which one? …. I don’t think it’s in our friend’s barn ….. hours of fun ahead.

  32. Good morning all .

    Noisy stormy night , lashed with rain , weather not so bad this morning , wind has slackened off, sunshine and showers . Moh golfing this morning .

    I really do love Spring weather and dread the weather heating up , so pleased that we are having proper seasonal showers , we need some rain .

        1. Morning Sue – not just rain – gales. Next doors hens keep laying the same eggs 😘

    3. Where does Mr Belle play his golf TB?

      When I lived in the area I was a member at Weymouth and played all the other local courses regularly. (From 1992 to 2006 when I sold my businesses.)

      Came Down/East Dorset/Bridport/Lyme Regis etc…
      .

      1. I’ve played a few in that area, I seem to remember one that Peter Alliss’s father was pro.
        I liked the Isle of Purbeck course.

        1. The Isle of Purbeck is a toughie to play, I can boast that I once completed a 36 hole competition all with the same ball!

          Ferndown was the Alliss home course?

          1. I remember playing a short par 4 looking over the Solent. Played my second shot and the flag blew out of its hole on the green. ⛳️

  33. This is from a very well informed source:

    A. Depleted Uranium (DU) is an extremely dense and heavy metal (1.7 times heavier than lead) and is used in anti-armour shells as a spiked core. When it’s fired, the outer sabot case is discarded and the DU projectile hits the target with enormous kinetic energy and penetrates the armour – entering the vehicle interior as a high speed plasma that rattles around inside the vehicle as it cools.

    B. There’s a severe (terminal) health risk to personnel inside an armoured vehicle that’s struck by a DU projectile. The real answer to your question is that there is ‘some’ residual low level radioactivity from the dust.

    C. I think the level of radiation is assessed as very low.

    D. I don’t believe there is a serious health risk from the indirect effects of this weapon.

    2. Pretty accurate. The 30mm gatling cannon in the USAF A-10 Warthog fires DU shells. It would have discharged tens if not hundreds of thousands of them during the Gulf Wars. Or even a million+

        1. The US is ‘open to discussion’ on whether Ukraine gets the A10 aircraft to combat Russian armour

      2. I used to watch them circling overhead during exercises in BAOR. I found it very reassuring that they were on our side.

    3. D is a bit odd if the projectile rattles around the interior while it cools. Human bodies are not conducive to being hit by fast moving hot metal.

  34. Met probs.
    I may have mentioned this previously, I use to play golf with a friendly well humoured chap who had been a very senior officer in East London Met.
    He took earlier retirement, it must have been 20 years ago now. He told us a story about a memo that had been sent around the police station. As senior he wasn’t made aware, but
    the memo told the rest of the staff and himself, they were not allowed to call the desk sergeant ‘Chalky’ anymore.
    The sergeant’s name was White, but he was black. But it had never in any way bothered him in the slightest.
    That’s a classic example of how all this current nonsense and mindless stupidity started.

      1. Perhaps the sergeant should have changed his name.
        I wonder if he’s related to Charlene the news reader.

          1. Wonderful, just wonderful! That sent shivers through my body – not one but several. I didn’t realise how old it was (1940). Beautifully sung by the Inkspots – the parody by Windsor Davies and Don Estelle was good but spoiled at the end. Thank you.

    2. A lot of it began with the white middle class Socialists being offended on behalf of the Black and Pakistanis/Indians.

  35. True funny story.

    Yesterday, I attended my “annual medical check up” – a first. Never had one before. The obese “nurse” greeted me, then weighed and measured me. I saw that the scales read 72 kg. I told her that I was on a crash diet to get below 70 kg. She looked at me as though I was mad: she must have weighed twice that. She asked why – because my body-mass scale (or some such, meaningless jargon to me) was fine and there was no need to even think about losing weight. I told her that my trousers were difficult to do up. “Get larger ones,” she said…..

    She asked what I ate. Porridge for breakfast. Soup, salad and a sliver of cheese at lunch. Suitable meat/fish and veg for supper. No booze.

    Again she was gobsmacked. I left her that way…..

    Also, one of the objects of the “check up” was to take blood – “Is that alright with you?” she asked. WHY do they keep asking these damned fool questions? They can do whatever they want if there is a good medical reason.

    1. Hello Bill,

      The surgery nurse sounded very condescending .

      Your youthful and refreshing candour probably knocked her sideways .

      Well done with your diet , Moh is a similar build to you and frets about even putting a pound on ..

      Breakfast, porridge with a sprinkle of cinnamon , no sugar, just candarel . Lunch probably toasted crumpet or two with crab pate or similar , always a fig and apple and a cup of tea , and meal later loads of veg , perhaps a chop etc and a yoghurt and blueberries .

      He is also very energetic .

        1. But in your effort to lose weight you will have to give up crumpets altogether!

      2. A chemical sweetener rather than natural unrefined sugar?
        Canderel ingredients:
        Lactose (from milk), sweeteners: Aspartame* (8%), Acesulfame-K (5.37%); stabilisers: microcrystalline cellulose; cross-linked sodium carboxy methyl cellulose; flavouring. *Contains a source of phenylalanine.
        That looks a ‘healthy’ mix of chemicals.

    2. Caesar would have preferred me! Unlike the lean and hungry Cassius I am sleek-headed and fat and sleep at night rather than plotting and thinking and I pose no danger to anyone!

    3. Bloody hell Bill, I am twice your weight (I’m fat). Mongo is 10kg heavier than you. Body mass index is your height/your weight. It’s somewhat silly as Arnold Schawanegieijpegg (SINC) is under the NHS, obese. My lean weight is 112kg. I can bench press heavier than you.

    1. Will we still have any inalienable rights if they are handed over to the WHO? I will certainly get a copy.

        1. It’s like the takeover of Cornwall in the nineteenth century though – they will just do it. Might is right etc.

  38. The BBC said there are over 1 million Muslims in London ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65030988

    For the first time, London’s West End has been lit up with 30,000 lights to mark the holy month of Ramadan.

    Coventry Street, which links Leicester Square with Piccadilly, is illuminated with “Happy Ramadan”.

    The lights were switched on by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who is one of the 1.3 million Muslims in London celebrating Ramadan.

    The display was organised by Ayshea Desai, who was inspired by her fondness for Christmas lights.

    https://twitter.com/ArtFann2/status/1638444733058916353

    1. Ramsdam fasting is meant to provide a measure of suffering so that we can empathise with the world’s poor and hungry
      It not meant to be ‘happy’. Slammers eh, just cant get it correct.

      1. But then they stuff themselves full of food after sundown each night during Ramadan.

        1. It was reported in the grapevine that the headmaster of the school I attended – who was an ordained Anglican priest – told his Sixth Form Scripture Class that he abstained from having sexual intercourse with his wife during Lent.

          Looking at them I would have thought that that was more of a relief than a penance.

        2. That is what I don’t like about it – it is extreme. And dangerous too, if people are driving or operating machinery without having eaten or drunk anything.

          1. I think they can eat, but only after a certain time.

            Although, I am cheered by your thinking that Muslims work.

          2. They want to reschedule football matches through Ramadan too. Because they are special.

          3. After dark. Also, I think some get up early to eat before dawn, as R is the only time of the year when there are muslim men hanging round our town at 6:30 am.

    3. It isn’t, but the state has forced the invasion on us. Although, noteworthy that most Muslims don’t work. They are mostly – 70% – entirely welfare dependent. Thus they contribute nothing to the economy. Well, apart from drugs, rape, paedophilia and knifing.

    4. So what is the current pecking order as far as the PTB is concerned?

      1. Asian Muslim
      2. Black Muslim
      3. White Muslim
      4. Asian Atheist
      5. Black Atheist
      6. White atheist
      7. Asian Christian
      8. Black Christian
      9. White Christian

      1. 1. Asian Muslim
        2. Black Muslim
        3. Asian Atheist
        4. Black Atheist
        5. Asian Christian
        8. Black Christian
        7. White Muslim
        8. White atheist
        9. White Christian

        1. Let’s be more diverse and inclusive…

          1. All muslims
          2. Ethnic minority qwerty soupers
          3. White qwerty soupers
          4. Other blacks or Asians
          5. Wimmin.

      2. Where are the Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Agnostics, Jedis and a few hundred more “belief systems”.

    5. Funny how the media seemed to with hold important information on this story.
      Perhaps not enough diversity involved.

  41. Weather awful in West Sussex, drizzle, cold gloomy. Where’s global warming when it’s needed? Still sick but getting better but I hope all you Nottlers are doing well. Just popped in to post this because it is something I really care about. Hope people find it useful.
    Tucker: Why don’t they want this war to end?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMOhZnCJK7k

    1. Get well soon Jonathan. I had a rotter of a cold last week and it was horrible. Here’s wishing you a speedy recovery. Stay warm, get well soon.

  42. Does the Caliph of Londonistan promote Christmas in the same way as he does slammerdam?

    Just asking….

    1. The display was organised by Ayshea Desai, who was inspired by her fondness for Christmas lights.
      She said: “I just had the ambition to do it like the Christmas lights.

      “I remembered going to visit the Christmas lights with my sister when I was growing up and I also had an opportunity to live in the Middle East and I wanted to bring that joy and magic to London, the city that I’m from.”

      Ms Desai began the project three years ago.

      “It looks incredible, I’m so overwhelmed with the response,” she said.

      “It’s such an important month for Muslims.

      “I wanted to raise that awareness as well to let our neighbours know that this is a really important month for us, it’s my favourite month of the year and I’m just grateful that we’re here today.”

      Who is Ayshea Desai ?

      1. If we have lights for everyone’s festival, the flippin lights will be up all year round!

        2. Only Christian ones, methinks.

          Although, as it is, Christianity is itself a subversion of the original British myths.

      2. It seems a decent human being who represents what’s good about immigration. Not what’s bad.

      3. Wasn’t there a bent Met copper of the same name? One who had slithered his way up by shouting ‘racism’ every time his behaviour was questioned?
        Yes, yes: I know. I’m going back to the days when such a concept could still shock.

        2. You’d be a good Mountie – always get your man

          ‘Maybe he will play a baddie in the next James Bond film!’ Former colleagues are amazed as disgraced former Met police chief Ali Dizaei – who was twice jailed for framing an innocent man – is seen swaggering on the red carpet at Cannes
          Ali Dizaei, 60, was twice jailed for framing an innocent man when a Met chief
          He was seen on the red carpet in Cannes sporting a Cartier belt and suave suit
          A former colleague suggested the ex-cop should play a James Bond villain
          By STEPHEN WRIGHT ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL

          PUBLISHED: 00:26, 28 May 2022 | UPDATED: 00:27, 28 May 2022

          https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/05/27/23/58382853-10862467-image-a-22_1653691795695.jpg

          https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10862467/Disgraced-former-Met-chief-twice-jailed-framing-innocent-man-seen-Cannes-red-carpet.html

      4. And why do their neighbours need to know it’s a really important time for them? It’s nothing to do with us. I belong to Next Door and they had a post saying we should wish our muslim neighbours a happy ramadam. Eff off! was my response!

    2. Of course not Bill, he’s just a slimey dedicated windup merchant for slamerisation.

      1. Atthe first flicker of that plod should have been around to the muslim’s house, used the big red door key at 3am, arrested him and charged him with whatever terrorism offences they wanted. While waiting in cells he should have been placed with a drunk white supremacist and someone with a singing fetish and forgotten for a few weeks.

        That they did nothing is tacit endorsement of muslim abuse. This is our house. We set the rules. If they’re here as guests, they should behave.

  43. Brexit latest news: Liz Truss joins Boris Johnson in voting against Rishi Sunak’s deal as Tory rebellion grows
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/22/rishi-sunak-news-latest-brexit-northern-ireland-erg-pmqs/

    BTL (Percival Wrattstrangler)

    Make it simple for the simpletons in Parliament today:

    1. If British Law is supreme in the whole of the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland:

    VOTE FOR THE WINDSOR FRAMEWORK

    (You can always amend it later if you need to.)

    2. If the ECJ remains the supreme court in any part of the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland then

    DO NOT VOTE FOR THE WINDSOR FRAMEWORK

    (It will end all hope of ever getting a proper and honest Brexit done)

    1. addendum

      So the best choice is to vote against it.

      But I fear that the fact of the matter is that Sunak can fool all of the Conservative MPs some of the time; he can fool some of them all of the time; but he cannot fool all of them all of the time and the Windsor Framework will pass into law and be known as the Windsor Surrender.!

    2. Sunak intends to make it a statutory instrument so MPs (and lords) cannot stop it. That alone, regardless of the content should tell you how dreadful this bill is. Remember Brown did the same with the Lisbon treaty.

  44. Is this the line in the sand that will wake people up? I’m not so sure. Whilst out yesterday we met a late middle-aged woman with a young dog. During our conversation we discussed the merits of smaller dogs…. then she said “they’re better for the planet, aren’t they? They eat less meat so fewer animals, they have a smaller carbon footprint..” I said absolutely nothing during this, and terminated the conversation with a “well, best be off, then, bye”.
    https://twitter.com/AutumnPhoenix4/status/1638271877561962511?s=20

    1. I openly say that the CO2 narrative is a fraud now.
      As James Delingpole pointed out, people were urged to kill their pets at the outbreak of the second world war as well.
      If food shortages bite, people will abandon pets, I’m afraid. But having a cat in an old house is often not a luxury – it’s a necessity for rodent control!

      1. Remember what happened to Winston Smith?

        We need super rats to control, terrify and destroy our politicians and civil servants!

        1. Apologies Rastus, I just have a lovely image of our political classes all screaming as their wealth, properties and fiddles are exposed, taken from them and then they’re tortured.

          Either I’ve a horribly sick mind or I’m royally tired of the entire lot of them.

      2. At the outset of Covid my first concern was that Mongo wouldn’t be able to get his normal food. Thankfully that subsided quickly as markets stepped up to meet demand while statism floundered (as usual).

        I would rather eat less and see him fed than the other way around. Heck, it’d do me good.

      3. You might like to keep a copy of this to blat back at the ‘Climate Extremists’:

        Climate Change and You

        The climate ‘science’ is wrong. CO2 being 0.04% of the atmosphere is a cause for good, as it is essential for plant life.

        The atmosphere is 78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen. The remaining 1% are various trace elements of which CO2 is but a small part.

        The greatest cause of any change in the Earth’s climate, is due to the cyclical nature of the Sun’s phases, which may lead to vast differences between ice ages and continual heatwaves

        Check https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/challenging-net-zero-with-science/

        Please feel free to copy and paste this anywhere appropriate.

      4. In a recent conversation with someone I thought was reasonably intelligent not only did he state CO2 was the main cause of global warming (aka Climate Catastrophe!) but it was also destroying the Ozone layer…..

    2. I’d have told her she has been hoodwinked and explained why if she’d care to listen. If not I’d tell her to enjoy her day.

      1. I ask people whether they still believe that CO2 causes global warming.
        Sometimes they just ignore the question – the cognitive shift required to process it is too great.
        But they need to hear it.

        1. Yep. Me too. I never pass up an opportunity. Last year when I was visiting car showrooms with a view to changing my car the sales people would regale me with the carbon emissions guff and I unfailingly told them I wasn’t interested and why. Some of them listened with raised eyebrows. To a man and women they were scientifically illiterate.

          1. If they weren’t scientifically illiterate they’d never fall for the CO2/net zero scam.

    3. I’d have told her she has been hoodwinked and explained why if she’d care to listen. If not I’d tell her to enjoy her day.

      1. The problem Muslims have is that their nations are technologically backward. They haven’t invented anything for centuries because of their religion. Heck Dubai didn’t even build sewers. Saudi is still using the AK47.

        There are UAE based military suppliers but they’re not designing kit, just making and selling old stuff. Comically, the really cutting edge tech comes from Israel, as it’s surrounded by hostile nations.

        It’s a genuinely sad situation as there are so many problems that could so easily be solved by vastly simpler methods than intervention – both domestic and international. Heck, rather than arming Ukraine we could have set about peace talks but you can only demand peace when you’ve a powerful military and our government prefers to run down the military at every turn.

        2. “Saudi is still using the AK47.”
          And NATO use the Browning M2, fiflty calibre machine gun, all over the place. Design from 1912, IIRC. And handguns based on, or actual copies, of the Colt 1911, designed in, well, 1911. The MG3 machine-gun, made by Rheinmetall, is just the MG42 updated. And so on, and so on. The AK47, following the MP44/StG44, is an ex cellent weapon, cheap to make, easy to use, and fires a moderately-powered cartridge, so easy to control. What’s not to like?

          1. Indeed. The AK 47 – simple, robust and works well in the snow and desert. I fired an MG3 on exchange with the Bundeswehr in 1978. Worra beast!

    7. https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/7752a7b7-9b9f-4946-9795-384cab7d3354/dcgqqq3-82fdf5fa-9d19-4ea9-a8fc-5e3f101f94a0.gif?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzc3NTJhN2I3LTliOWYtNDk0Ni05Nzk1LTM4NGNhYjdkMzM1NFwvZGNncXFxMy04MmZkZjVmYS05ZDE5LTRlYTktYThmYy01ZTNmMTAxZjk0YTAuZ2lmIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.T_vy2YY3RrNTwFewh3WFlZ2gsAzPfyQ_9en7A5iD0e0

    8. Sounds like the slammers have been pulling a few strings. They don’t like dogs do they.

    9. A further thought, are these people going to include horse’s ? And cattle I know they don’t eat meat but they are seriously good at farting.

      1. Cattle are ‘on the menu’, in a manner of speaking, they have been injecting (some) zoo animals in California and no doubt elsewhere with mrna, these obligingly died and I think there is a programme underway for cattle in Australia. I expect all this will include horses, or they will try. The world has gone seriously insane.

    10. I had the complete opposite this morning with my neighbour, whom I always considered a bit of an eco freak. She was going on about the uselessness of electric vehicles and how ungreen they were, how we didn’t have the electricity to cope and how they shouldn’t be building on farmland. “We do need the houses,” she said, but when I pointed out we didn’t have a housing crisis so much as a burgeoning population crisis, she agreed.

    1. By all accounts, Russia is a difficult neighbour. Look at Georgia and how they fiddle the border to claim more land.

      1. Russia has a lot of neighbours and seems to rub along well enough with most of them.

  46. The sun is shining and SWMBO has decided we need to go for a walk along the South Coast path at Keyhaven and Milford-on-Sea. Who am I to disagree? It’ ll get the cobwebs and worldly cares blown away for a while.

    2. Under threat… Keyhaven salt marshes are under threat from
      the construction of groynes down current (to the West), which were
      designed to trap sediment for some of the South coast beaches. The effect of this has been to starve the spit behind which the salt marsh ecosystem has formed and relies upon for shelter.

  47. An old resident as I also was, sent me a story about ‘a wealthy street’ in Barnet, and a dying man being found in Chandos Avenue. Not far from the junction of the main road.
    As we use to live in the ‘wealthy street’ in the early 70s, we and others who also shared the lovely 5 bed detached property.
    The body was that of a 44 year old Romanian national, with one single stab wound in the heart.
    What had he been upto to upset someone so much ?
    I’m sure the mayor will be onto it.

    1. Enjoy the diversity.
      We were such a boring little country before our politicians led us down the shining path to multi-kulti.

    1. Parasitic piece of scum. Unbelievable that the hordes of illegals are placed in cushy hotels and allowed to wander freely wherever they wish. The whole lot should be rounded up and incarcerated until they can be deported. No appeals, lifetime ban on ever claiming asylum.

    2. I am sure he could be a doctor, or a teacher, or even an engineer, if we weren’t all so ray cist.

  50. Freddy Steward’s red card has been overturned by the appeal panel.

    Fat lot of good that does for England, of course – but, at least, there is some justice left.

    1. Now perhaps they could overturn Jaco Peyper’s reffing accreditation!
      Edit: or even effing reffing accreditation!

    2. As I suggested he reduced the English team under instructions to make sure Ireland won the grand slam.
      Nothing against the best team winning, but the game isn’t helped by obviously stupid referring.
      Remember Sydney 2003 when Man of the match Jonny Wilkinson’s drop goal won it. South African ref André Watson had been awarding penalties against England.

    4. I look forward to the BBC covering this extensively.

      Do you think the betting syndicates got value for money?

  51. “Parliament is going to debate the petition you signed – “Do not sign any WHO Pandemic Treaty unless it is approved via public referendum”.

    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/614335

    The debate is scheduled for 17 April 2023.

    Once the debate has happened, we’ll email you a video and transcript.

    Thanks,
    The Petitions team
    UK Government and Parliament

    Don’t hold your breath only 150,000 signed the petition so it can be safely ignored….

    1. Presumably, unless it’s holed below the waterline, they just need to refill the dry dock and it will right itself?

      1. It’s owned by the co-founder of Microsoft, and normally looks for shipwrecks and war graves. I don’t think it’s damaged.

          2. Like a streak of sable lightning wheels and cries the Stormy Petrel.
            Piercing storm clouds like an arrow, cutting swiftly through the waters.

            From The Song of the Stormy Petrel by Gorky.

    2. The vessel is reportedly the RV Petrel, a research vessel owned by the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

  53. Yeah, yeah, of course it is
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11886277/Covid-makes-comeback-Experts-warn-cases-surging-one-40-Brits-infected.html

    Covid makes a comeback: Experts warn cases are surging again with one in 40 Brits infected – so do YOU remember what you’re meant to do?
    Some 136,722 new symptomatic Covid cases were reported on March 20, 2023
    Leading experts have called on officials to bring back rules to thwart the virus
    One surgery told patients it has ‘low numbers of GPs’ following Covid outbreak

    Yes I remember, ignore all the experts and get on with my life.

    2. Excellent, he sounds like me.
      He’s an Ozzie goodonya mate.
      Our stupid and useless politicians aren’t worth a rotten carrot.

    1. We don’t need new laws. We need to repeal old ones – the ECHR, ECJ control, the HRA and the slavery act.

      Why the state won’t get rid of those is telling.

  57. Some white artists, like Elvis, exploit Black culture. So celebrate Bobby Caldwell, who enriched it. 22 march 2023.

    Given their history of having almost everything looted and their cultures debased or dismissively ridiculed, Black people in particular feel an understandable sting at cultural appropriation. Black culture cannot be separated from the Black struggle. And Black culture, especially from a western perspective, is the bedrock of modern popular culture. Yet it quickly becomes “everyone’s property” (for everything else and everyone else there is the Patent Office).

    Compounding the sting, where white people often find celebration and wealth accumulation in Black culture, Black people far too frequently find stigma and tragedy. Even where their own cultural heritage is concerned, Black practitioners are often crowded out by white ones and Black people end up earning the equivalent of crumbs.

    Black Culture! Who knew?

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/22/white-artists-elvis-exploit-black-culture-celebrate-bobby-caldwell

    1. Rap and Drill. Encourages Stabbing, Drugs and Misogyny. They can stuff their culture where the sun don’t shine.

    2. Black culture? What on earth is that? Absent fathers of multiple children? Drugs? Rap music? Lack of work ethic? Arrogance? Race baiting? Entitled grifting? I never cease to be amazed at their complete lack of self-awareness!

    3. Sorry, I thought it was white culture that is debased, looted and dismissively ridiculed?
      All that stuff invented by the “pale, male and stale,” which is used by people from other cultures!

  58. Brexit latest news: Brexiteers urge Tory MPs to reject Sunak’s deal – watch PMQs live
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/22/rishi-sunak-news-latest-brexit-northern-ireland-erg-pmqs/

    BTL

    When I looked at your poll I saw that 63% are in favour of the Windsor Surrender and 37% are against it.

    So it would seem that the majority of British people are happy for the ECJ to have precedence over British Law in UK sovereign territory.
    If today’s British were defending Britain against Germany in 1939 they would have collapsed and surrendered even more quickly than the French.

    1. Steve Baker has joined the fray and he seems to have had a damescene conversion into supporting the abject surrender to the EU.

      BTL

      With “friends” like Steve Baker Brexit does not need enemies. The man is a turncoat and a traitor.

      It is incredible how he has done a 180 degree turn – I would be interested to know whether he was bribed by Sunak or blackmailed?

      1. I think the Whips have got something on him – and he has changed sides. Could be that he is gay but frightened to come out.

        1. I thought that the best way to get on in politics was to be homosexual and to tell everybody about it. This is why I decided there would not be any future for me in politics!

    2. 8763 votes, 56% currently in favour, presumably Irish people read the Telegraph and can vote without subscribing.

    3. Of those politically motivated enough to bother reading it and about it, given the fifth column remoaners in the country that doesn’t surprise me. Worse, this is about MPs. These are people who fought Brexit at every turn, refusing to divert from EU regulation so desperate were they to keep their after office jobs.

      Add in party favours, back handers, outright threats and it’s no surprise really. The civlil service has done everything it can to obfuscate the cataclysmic sell out the agreement is and that’s all most MPs go by.

  59. The DEATH of democracy: As Xi Jinping declares ‘change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years’. 22 march 2023.

    Or, as Mr Dunst puts it: ‘Autocracies wager that people would rather live comfortably and without freedom than deal with a messy democracy.’

    So, how do we save democracy? ‘By making democracy work better at home,’ Mr Dunst argues. ‘By setting an example so people want to be more like us.’

    That means a return to basics: investing in infrastructure so our trains run on time and our highways aren’t clogged with traffic; making sure our schools promote those with the most talent and not just the best connections; making sure criminals, no matter how powerful, are properly punished by the courts.

    ‘Fixing the NHS and getting rid of the cost of living crisis are just as important as foreign policy,’ he argues.

    It would help as well if they were actually democracies! During the first Cold War no one had any doubts about which was which. The unpleasant truth about the present is that there is very little to choose between them.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11889045/Democracy-Western-leaders-paving-way-autocrats-world-author-warns.html

    1. A lot of people are gloating about the West’s relative downfall, but no other part of the world has demonstrated the same combination of high IQ and freedom of thought that produced the industrial revolution, the development of computers and other advances.
      I think a large part of the world is going to be very disappointed when their own corrupt leaders rake off all the profits and the promised land of the free money and the free living in the West ceases to exist.
      What we had in our heyday, will not be reproduced in their countries.

      1. Oh, I don’t know. Zimbabwe is a hotbed of innovation and imaginative investment…..

        1. Has anyone cleared all the bodies out the mineshafts left there by POS Mugabe.
          Those bodies of the people he knew would never vote for him.

    2. Tis a metaphor for the SNP’s administration of Scotland. It’s only the quayside that’s stopping the ship from going tits up!

  61. I have subscribed as a Shoreline member of the RNLI for many years but I have recently commented here that the organisation’s magazine – which gives accounts of heroic rescues – has not once mentioned the RNLI activities ferrying illegal immigrants into the UK from the English Channel

    Today I received a begging letter suggesting that I should leave the RNLI money in my will

    To try and tempt me they say this:

    DID YOU KNOW? 6 out of 10 lifeboat launches are only made possible by gifts left to the RNLI in supporters’ Wills

    It would have been more ‘transparent’ to have said:

    You can continue to bugger up Britain even when you’re dead if you leave your dosh and possessions to the RNLI in your will so that we can bring in more illegal immigrants.

    1. It’s a shame that an organisation which has done so much good work for almost 200 years has had its reputation tainted by acting as a ferry service for illegal immigrants.

      1. Common Purpose/Frankfurt School are everywhere. ‘March Through the Institutions’ has come to encompass entities that weren’t thought of as establishment institutions 20 years ago.

        1. There’s not much use a Common Purpose member being in charge of a poor charity.

          Much better in pay and benefits to be in charge of a rich charity.

      2. And the BBC and other media outlets appear to be trying to override the growing criticism, by over promoting them in the light we respect and they are known for.
        But I think as we all realise the damage has already been done. A once wonderful organisation has now been turned into just Something else our stupid politicians have effed up.

    2. The RNLI is one of the richest charities in the UK. It has assets of nearly £200 Millions

      1. Lots of ‘donations’ from one-way trippers, going towards Dover, but never quite making it in their dinghies?

    3. Yo Mr T

      I cancelled my Monthly Allotment and Will Bequest to them a few years ago.

    4. That’s what they claim in their begging advert on TV. My reaction is, if so, that means fewer illegal invaders if you can’t launch.

  62. Musicians could boycott King Charles’s Coronation in backlash to BBC choir cuts

    Union-led strikes and protests could also take place at the 2023 Proms if the corporation does not temper its plan to disband Singers group

    With thousands of members across Britain’s choirs and orchestras, the Musicians’ Union is understood to represent professionals within the

    ensembles feeding into the Coronation Orchestra, and may seek to organise this membership to boycott celebrations in protest at BBC cuts, and refuse to take part in the performances connected to the Coronation.

    Any official strike action from Musicians’ Union members will be limited to those affected by the BBC’s new classical music strategy which aims to disband the Singers, bringing about the compulsory redundancy of the 20 choir members.

    Good on them

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/22/musicians-could-boycott-king-charless-coronation-backlash-bbc/

  63. 372351+ up ticks,

    One would think the same in the United Kingdom would apply, not so, sad to say, we would never ,ever got to where we are today without the lab/lib/con/current ukip coalition party continuing input.

    Dutch Pro-Farmer Populist Leader Predicts Elections This Year, Globalist Govt Coalition ‘Unsustainable’

    3. Street protests are easy to handle, just ask Trudeau. All you have to do is lock them up, freeze their bank accounts and send in the heavy mob.

  67. Whoopee!!! We can look forward to welcoming lots of Ugandan LGBT types seeking genuine refugee status on the grounds that: “Cheers and applause as “Uganda passes new bill banning identifying as LGBT”….We are well and truly Bu@@ered!

    1. Lucky us more like. They are pushing to have LGBT types from yhe US granted asylum in Canada. If they can flee California and gain asylum, Trudeau will probably be visiting Uganda to invite the unwell in.

        1. Coming back to Derby from Nottingham on the Red Arrow bus last Friday, it took longer to do the last mile to the Pentagon Roundabout than the rest of the route.
          Also was blooming demic on the roads out of Derby towards Cromford.

  69. My ever so ethical and right on bank has just informed me that its ‘Arranged overdraft annual interest rate is a measly 35.9%. So glad I’m not a borrower….

    1. Don’t you have usary laws in th UK? New York supposedly limits interest on loans to 25 percent, which must make some credit card accounts a challenge.

      No such trouble in Canada, lenders can charge up to 60 percent annual interest before getting into trouble with the law.

    2. Blinkin heck, that’s theft. Unarranged I might understand but arranged? I remember when Barclays were late taking a direct debit, and as our money is wept into savings on the 5th would likely not have gone through. I called both parties to tell them this and to emergency move money about, asked it be recorded, asked Barclays to explain why they hadn’t taken the money earlier ‘an administrative error’ and tried feverishly to sort the situation out.

      Blasted banks – on both sides – despite knowing it was their fault and what would happen fined me. One refunded their fine – Barclays – the other was reluctant until I threatened the regulator. It was their fault for not moving money from a savings account into my current account immediately, not mine.

      1. The Unarranged overdraft interest rate is the same 35.9% but it comes with a free cardiac arrest!

    3. Afternoon Stephen. This is usury of course! They hanged Jews for interest rates like this in the Middle Ages!

      1. Usury is a word that seems to be have been forgotten.

        But I have been using it every time I have discussed the criminal rates of interest applied to students’ loans, At one time the rate of interest students were having to pay was over 20 times the BoE base rate. If that isn’t usury then what is?

        1. I have a step daughter in uni at the moment. I think they have limited the rate to 10% as it should be inflation +3. At the end of her 4 year course, that’s going to be a lot of compounded interest to start life with.

          1. We somehow managed to pay all our two sons university expenses so that they graduated with no mill-stone debts around their necks.

            And as they both got good jobs straight away we have not had to spend any money on them since. Each has managed to buy his own home with his wife/fiancée.

            The younger one managed to get a distinction in his M.Sc in Computer Science and Data Analytics while he was holding down a well-paid job and his fiancée was doing her Ph.D.

    4. Polonius put it very succinctly:

      Neither a borrower, nor a lender be.
      For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
      And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

      Hamlet’s chancellor was a bumbling old idiot in many ways but he was a damned sight better than any of the chancellors we have had in the UK this century.

      1. Oh that this too too solid debt, would melt thaw and resolve itself when due!

        (With apols to W.Shakespeare)

  70. Apparently I am a flat earther. That is Trudeaus latest insult about anyone denying the great climate catastrophe that he is pushing as a threat to our existence. No longer just extreme right, nazi loving, misguided or a misogynist but a flat earthen. Doesn’t the village idiot have a way with words.

    Today is a big meeting between the two great leaders Trudeau and Biden – one has nothing to say, the other will forget anything that has been said.

  71. Great Reset Setback: Govt Party Demands ‘Adjustments’ to Green Agenda After Farmers win Dutch Election
    https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/03/GettyImages-1248035656-e1679406785606-640×480.jpg
    “Adjustments” must be made to the state’s green agenda programme after the Netherlands’ pro-farmer party won the country’s recent election, a senior government party figure has said.

    Pieter Heerma, the parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party, has said that “adjustments” must now be made to green agenda restrictions after the victory of the FarmerCitizenMovement (BBB) party.
    *
    *
    *
    Even if the Dutch government did not want to continue with the measures however, it is relatively unclear how they could escape implementing them, with the green agenda policies planned by the Dutch government largely being in response to laws put in place at the level of the European Union.

    Bureaucrats in Brussels have mandated that both regional and national governments restrict nitrogen levels within their territories, with EU bigwigs even reportedly threatening to fine bodies that fail to implement their desired restrictions on farmers.

    The move has been described by one MEP as a “power grab” on the part of EU senior officials, who he claimed are baring more and more resemblance to the Communist dictators of old.

    “Not coincidentally, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot all waged war against farmers, their independence and self-determination,” Tom Vandendriessche, a representative for the Flemish Vlaams Belang party remarked.

    “Totalitarian regimes want to subjugate citizens. That is why they take away their freedoms, take away their arms to defend themselves, and take away their food to enslave citizens,” he continued. “Meat they want to replace with insects. Cars they want to ban. Freedom surveilled by QR codes. This EU is increasingly becoming an EUSSR.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/22/great-reset-setback-govt-party-demands-adjustments-to-green-agenda-after-farmers-win-dutch-election/

    Dutch Pro-Farmer Populist Leader Predicts Elections This Year, Globalist Govt Coalition ‘Unsustainable’

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/22/dutch-pro-farmer-populist-leader-predicts-elections-this-year-ruttes-coalition-unsustainable/

    1. Maybe this will be the push needed for the Netherlands to leave the hated EU. Folk just don’t seem to get it. Without nitrogen fertiliser, there is a halving of crop yields. That means food shortages.

      Without rightly telling the EU to f off, there is no way they can refuse the mandate.

      The EU is a communist organisation trying to force economic collapse. It is insane. Worse? We voted to leave the wretched thing. Our government is fighting us to ensure we remain chained.

  72. Can low cloud crush your mood and push gloominess into your soul.

    Despite having a very damp dog walk earlier near a wood where the birds were singing their hearts out , the rooks chaking away, and pheasants calling , I feel disheartened with everything and supremely flat.

    As I was walking along , I was doing the old “if and but” mind scenario which propelled me in to absolute misery by the time I put the dogs into the car , and then visited the local shop to buy 2 large bottles of milk, some cheese , spinach , pack of small fillets of farmed Scottish salmon and potatoes .

    Where has this past 3 years gone .. I feel so drained of enthusiam .

    Anne Allen did the right thing , sorted and sold their previous home and moved on , and lots of positive things like that give one reason to look forward to something.

    Moh clears off to golf , and only thinks about the next game .

    He controls everything .. even my laptop has his sign in pass word ..

    Everything is done on his laptop , bills , banking etc .. and his phone has his finger print security thing , so if anything happened to him, I would be stuffed .

    Perhaps it be preferable if I went first , would be a darn sight easier , then he could sort everything out himself , all the clutter and stuff in spare bedrooms I don’t need , all the stuff in the disorganised garage , and then he could play golf everyday forever.

    Sorry to sound maudlin, but that is how it is .

    1. Belle – a friend’s husband was taken to hospital in October – he is recovering now thank goodness, but she was in a similar situation to you, and he couldn’t communicate for about three months. Can you persuade your other half to share some knowledge with you? Otherwise it is a dangerous situation.
      I assume he would not actually want you to be stuck unable to pay anything or access money if he went into hospital?
      Do you use your laptop with an admin account? if yes, then it’s easy to create a new account for yourself.
      or just buy a new laptop for yourself and set it up with an admin account for yourself.

      1. Hi BB

        We share things etc easy bank access, but!!!!

        We both have laptops . I can access what is required .

        But it is like talking to the wall sometimes ..

        I think it is a military thing .

        1. I hope you have a bank account of your own.
          MB and I have been married since 1964, but we had always had separate bank accounts; never a joint account.
          Not a situation based on distrust, just respect for the individual.

          1. I agree with you. Though having a third joint bank account for treats, days out restaurants and holidays which you both contribute to is a good idea too.

          2. Everything I own belongs to Caroline and everything Caroline owns belongs to me and that’s the way we both want it and there will be no death duties to pay until the second one of us snuffs it.

          6. Good idea. Keep away from banks. When i withdrew all my money i diversified. Gold, Silver Britannia’s and cash. Stashed in waterproof and fireproof bags. X marks the spot. :@)

            The reason for the gold is to buy passage if needed…………………….

    2. You absolutely need to sort that out. Towards the end in NC I changed all my passwords and refused to disclose them. He was already opening my mail and phoning me if I went out- where are you, what are you doing, when will you be back & etc.
      My husband has his passwords written down as do I. The main thing is we trust each other. So glad I got away.

          1. Wannafight flies into a rage at the drop of a hat. No one should have to put up with angry tantrums.

    3. If you are feeling that low you might want to consider divorce and throw the controlling little shit out on the street.

      1. No it is me , I have no outlet and no energyy left …

        I worry that if something happens to him , I would be helpless to do things .

        Friends whose husbands have passed on have also been in the same predicament .

        We trust each other , my laptop is mine and so is my phone .. I am ok with that.

        What I am not ok with is the filing system and online banking , insurances , car stuff and that sort of thing .

        I used to do stuff before this online lark became popular .. I could walk into the bank and discuss things , not any longer .

        I am struggling with my knee and hip to climb the stairs , my hip hurts when I am shopping ,out for a walk , the real me now has to face up to the reality of this age thing ..

        Sorry oh.

        1. Try Vit D and Vit B12 supplements for the lack of energy?

          How would he react if you said you wanted to know the insurance, banking etc passwords, and you need to pay some of the bills regularly, so that you know how to do it?
          Why don’t you tackle some of the clutter you say has built up? you don’t have to be moving to do that!

          1. I have been de cluttering, but most of the clutter belonged to his mother and father .

            Things also need fixing , I have sorted a few things out , I suggested getting some trades in , went down like a lead balloon .. a house needs maintaining .. getting out in the garden is fine and easy, jobs get done but other things like misted velux windows I have organised to be done when the weather improves ..

            He tried to get the black mould off the velux window frame , and cracked the window with the hot air from My hairdrier . 2 cracked velux windows now that the home insurance won’t pay for .

          3. Bleach only masks the problem, it doesn’t permanently solve it. You need proprietory mould clearers to get rid of the underlying spores.

          5. How very annoying! obviously you can’t throw out his cherished childhood memories wholesale….can you get rid of any of it on your children? put it into storage?

        2. Try Vit D and Vit B12 supplements for the lack of energy?

          How would he react if you said you wanted to know the insurance, banking etc passwords, and you need to pay some of the bills regularly, so that you know how to do it?
          Why don’t you tackle some of the clutter you say has built up? you don’t have to be moving to do that!

        3. Why don’t you ask him to list all the passwords and logins and put it somewhere safe if required.

        5. Try to get everything you can into joint names – even if you don’t actively do anything. If nothing else, it means that after the first to die, the other one has immediate access to everything, and that it doesn’t pass through the estate (which can be a bind, even though there is no inheritance tax to pay between spouses).

          If your name is on various things, then it is also easier to access them and find out about how they work.

          As R. has insurance etc. stuff filed, perhaps you could go through various things together. I tend to do insurances, car stuff etc. because I did it before I met D, but I try to do as much as I can over the ‘phone, as I don’t like online…

          Are you still thinking of moving – you were a little while ago?

          How about a chat with one of your boys about how you feel, would that help? Perhaps they could lean on R to help.

          1. Thanks HL.
            Everything is in joint names .
            I only have half a state pension because years ago Moh didn’t think me paying for a stamp was necessary .. He probably didn’t think I would last very long .

          2. Doesn’t R get a married man’s pension? That is worth more than a single person’s pension.

        6. My wife used to work in a bank. It was not unknown for the surviving partner of a marriage appear at the bank and literally cry for help in sorting out their financial affairs.

          Maybe Phil is being a bit hard but you need some shared accounts. If hubby dies and the accounts are in his name alone, do you have access to money or would you need to wait until probate is granted?

          My wife gets a new hip in early summer, even without internet banking I will hopefully be able to manage the finances while she is hamming up the recuperating soul act.

        7. What if is incapacitated and unable to pay his golf dues on time? That though might shock him into giving you access.

    4. Oh, Maggie.
      What a coercive situation.
      Do you not have your own finances?
      If so, get yourself your own internet service and/or another laptop.
      You really mustn’t lead your life at the behest of another person.
      The Married Women’s Property Act was passed 140 years ago.

    5. My neighbours’s husband was the same and then ran off with his secretary. If you can, try and make notes of all bank accounts, pensions, life assurance policies in your husband’s name in case you need to be able to tell a lawyer about them. Edit, or even if you need to contact them in the event of your husband’s demise. You need to know how to access money in this situation.

      1. It is only common sense to know about these things anyway.
        For example, I have a couple of insurances that specify that the insurance company must be told within 48 hours if anything happens to me. I have told my children this, and they know where the papers are.

    6. I can sympathise, understand and empathise. My biggest dread is that I should outlive Caroline – I would be completely lost.

    7. Do you know which finger he uses to sign in, Maggie? Just, you know, if you had an accident with a kitchen knife
      Give the dogs a cuddle.

    8. Hi Maggie, after a long winter we all need a dose of sunshine. Could I tactfully suggest that all your household direct debits should be paid from a joint account?

    9. Ah Maggie, perhaps a holiday is what you need, a complete change of scenery, any chance of that? I think we all get a bit stagnant at the end of winter, almost resisting change to stay with the familiar ‘old routines’. Or a new haircut, shake things up a bit!

      1. You are probably right Jill.

        I will be 76 next week . Moh is becoming rather forgetful over silly things , and my sons remind me that I should start thinking ahead re things , they remember their paternal grandma becoming ga ga at my age .

        Becoming older isn’t kind , and 2 friends have fallen off their perch in the last few weeks .

    10. Evening TB. I have had to think about how the house would run without me, not just a sudden death but becoming incapacitated. We would all like to think we will live to 102 and I suspect your OH thinks his system has always worked and sees no need to change. But most of us here are in that metric that is liable to sudden medical issues, or even being winged in a road accident. All family situations are different, but Mrs Pea not being from these shores is not too familiar when it comes to all the administration of modern day life so some strategy is needed. Firstly, I organised my own LPA. Its easily done on the internet and costs about £80 or pay one of those dodgy lawyers for help. Secondly, some straight talking is needed with OH about your worries, but you could enlist the help of one of your sons as an intermediary. I have listed and explained my pensions and accounts and given my passwords to my son. He would help out if I am taken out of the equation and it is a much easier job if you know what’s there in the first place. I am lucky to have a step son at home who would also help in the case of my demise. Talking over family matters is often difficult but it needs to be done. Lastly, I’m sure he has a will but do you know where the original is held. It is that and not a copy that is submitted for probate. Its all too easy to let things go on but talking is probably the key, maybe including a son to dilute the one on one. Good luck.

      1. Thank you muchly KP.

        You have the picture bang on .. and also thank you because you have given me a few priorities to think about and list x

        1. Very true, Maggie, if KP has helped you decide on a course of action, wunderbar.

          This is what your NoTTLer family is all about – giving, offering help – where it’s needed.

          Be positive, Girl. We’re all behind you.

        2. I was lucky to talk to my father about his finances just before he lost his memory. Like your OH, he kept all the financial matters to himself and I would have had a battle to administer them when the time came if we had not have spoken. Although many of his accounts were simple, there were paper share certificates in his drawer worth a great deal of money which may well have been swept away in a clearout! I am still mystified by one of his holdings but he just shruggs when questioned. My own list keeping originates from my military days when a change of address was a regular occurrence and it was useful to have all those who needed notifying in one place.

  74. – Putting on a Boris kangaroo court show trial while at the same time cancelling Brexit reminds me of the Capitol insurrection while they rubber stamped and certified their state elections.

    1. Just because he’s an Old Etonian, – don’t the berks know that comes with a gold card to break all the rules

  77. Brexit latest news: Major Tory rebellion fails to materialise as Sunak’s deal sails through
    D.T.

    That’s probably the end of Brexit, the end of the Conservative Party and the icing on the cake for the schemers and traitors is that it is the end of Boris Johnson as well.

  79. A wee Birdie Three today!

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    2. Me too.

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  80. Back from dentist. No tooth isshoo – must be medical. Partial relief…!

    Did I miss anything while I was out?

  81. Would it be a criminal offence to spit in the face of every Tory MP who joined Sunak’s despicable surrender to the EU? If that is not allowed should white feathers be stuck on them?

    1. Yes, and it could be marketed as so called ‘terrorism’ or ‘germ warfare’ by those in power.

    1. Councillors, like politicians, are there to serve. the people Both ignore that fact more and more.

    2. I think the Plague changed many things in England. The Westminster government discovered that it could terrify the great unwashed into total submission to illegal “regulations”.

      Local government saw this – and realised that their covenant with local people was a thing of the past and that, once elected, they could do ANYTHING they wanted and to hell with the little people.

      1. 372351+ up ticks,

        Evening PM,

        Is it mandatory to return these councillors to power at any given opportunity.

        2. Lib Dems. As to be expected, ogga. Lib Dems = almost communists as near as dammit.

      1. It is. Unutterably. Absolutely. Coton (Garden Centre) Orchard sells lovely local farm produce, a butcher’s of local meat (it has to be local to fit in with their ethos, I asked about salt marsh lamb once and was told no, they don’t sell it as there are no local salt marshes!). There is a delicious self-service restaurant and a garden centre with a wide range of plants. And the usual good quality garden centre merchandise.

    1. The Grimes today

      CORONAVIRUS
      Lockdown taught us a lot but the next pandemic will be different

      1. I guarantee that this deadly drug resistant fungus will be killed by garlic and colloidal silver.

  84. I would be delighted if a forensic accountant went through his return and proved how he (and his wife) avoided huge amounts of tax.
    Not because I want him prosecuted or shamed, but rather to show how the very rich can get away with things the average taxpayer in the street can’t.

    1. I actually think that’s a reasonable question from Campbell, much as I dislike and distrust him. I’ve long thought Johnson’s near-death experience was an act to ramp up the fear.

      1. I agree. My suspicions were strengthened by the numerous stunts he pulled being photographed taking the jabs each time with different nurses and often with the injection concealed by a nurse’s glove. I counted a few and realised it was saline solution and repetitive photoshots.

        Bunter Johnson is an evil person who would sell granny for a bag of coins. Save granny my arse.

  86. That’s me for this adventurous day. Many more seedlings appearing. I must have chosen JUST the right day to sow the seeds variés.

    To market tomorrow to check out fat pigs. Have a spiffing evening.

    A demain.

    2. Seeds planted today. Let you know how the Trombo’s get on.

      I also had an offer from YouGarden today offering a mix of 4 fruit trees for £5 each and a free cherry tree.

  87. I’m a little surprised this didn’t get more of a reaction when I posted it this morning. The announcement that the HQ of the new British Railways will be at Derby might have been a bit of a forgone conclusion but it was still a moment of some importance, especially locally where the media had been reporting on it for some time. Yet when the moment came, this was the best that BBC’s East Midlands Today could do.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dc333ef80a55d90d565a55c57370acc5a3dc5379bb133c4ffdc9c42fe155fabb.jpg

    1. I think we are all way passed being shocked at the BBC’s ability to sort the wheat from the chaff and to promote the chaff.

      1. It’s just so amateurish…or it could be the editor’s comment on the likely status and performance of the new organisation!

  88. Well, chums, that’s me after another 10 hours of shredding unwanted paper – just like yesterday. So now I off to watch the first of the three final episodes of ENDEAVOUR. So an early goodnight, chums. I shall see you tomorrow.

    PS – It looks like ITV is having problems with its ITV-X hub. I texted them for help and got told that it would take at least 24 hours or maybe longer to get back to me. So I may end up binge-watching the three episodes on Sunday or Monday. Instead I spent more hours shredding. I hope the bin men on Friday morning are willing to take away all full four bags of paper rubbish. And now I AM going to bed, chums, so a very Good Night to you all.

    1. You should get a rabbit as a pet Elsie- then all the shredded paper could line its hutch.

      1. Thanks, Ann, but I’m trying to get rid of rubbish not acquire a rabbit and build a hutch!

    2. When you’ve finished there’s a good 1 hour documentary on the whole Morse, Lewis, Endeavour series.

      Edit – added finished to make sense.

      1. Thanks, Alf. If I ever get round to watching the Endeavour Series 9 I shall do just that (see postscript to my earlier ENDEAVOUR post).

  91. Please sign the petition against the chopping down of 500 trees in Coton Orchard for the proposed Busway into Cambridge from Cambourne, saving only 5 mins journey time. Thank you.
    https://www.change.org/p/save-the-green-corridor-cambourne-to-cambridge-bus-lane-not-busway?recruiter=68840437&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=b95cccf0-4b15-11e3-b5c6-437f9ab5d5de&share_bandit_exp=initial-34248994-en-GB

    1. I hope I’ve signed, but the site asks for lots of detail I refuse to provide, I suspect it’s because I’m in France

      1. I am registered, as it were, with our old address in Céret, Pyrénées Orientales. I think it confuses the site from time to time. I can’t be bothered to do anything about it, I leave it as it is. I rather like the thought of being somewhere else, when I am elsewhere. I am comfortable with anonymity.

    3. That’s a really annoying petition page. It kept on asking more and more questions so, sod it, I logged out without signing.

      1. I am not prepared to disclose the info they wanted. A shame because it’s a worthy cause.

    5. I have just had a series of begging letters off the back of this asking for donations!
      They are not doing themselves any favours here.

      2. I’ve signed it and not had any, apart from the usual ‘will you contribute €5 to assist the spread of this petition or will you share on facebook, twitter, etc’. I never ever donate but I am quite happy to share with my devoted followers on twitter! I don’t know whose pocket any donation would end up in but I cannot see how a donation would assist in spreading it once Facebook and Twitter and the rest of social media does its stuff. I did read up on this on one occasion and was shocked to find that a donation would end up in Gates’s and suchlike hot little hand. Certainly the requests have not been specific to the petitioners (i.e. those petitioning on behalf of Coton Orchard) but rather to the petition site (i.e. Change.org). I just ignore them, it is sadly the way of the world now to request donations for everything and anything.

    6. I thought that scheme was dead years ago. The council really are persistent buggers. My wife’s parents lived in Whitwell Way until their deaths a few years ago.

      The guided bus route chopping through Coton Orchard would have destroyed their peace and tranquility. Their house looked out over fields on both sides forty years ago until Granta Housing built on the Sadler-owned fields beyond their long back gardens. The fields at the front remain undeveloped.

  94. Three cheers- not- for the NHS. I called last week to see if I could get my appointment moved earlier, no chance. I called again today ( delay because of power outage and other stuff) to find out if I saw another doctor, I could get an earlier appointment. The lady did look but ,again, no chance. She said to me that my appointment was only three weeks away, which I thought was rather rude and unfeeling. I had explained about the pain and difficulty sleeping etc.
    No dice, so it’s the appointment April 14 or nothing.
    So bear with me if I get crabby and out of sorts.
    God, I am fed up with all this.

      1. I’m so sorry for you Lottie. I have a suggestion. How would you feel about taking yourself to the surgery, with refreshments if early in the day, and simply sitting waiting to see someone. Anyone.

        Wish I could help you.

        1. This is a serious dermatology unit and they won’t budge. I suspect the next step is oncology. What fun 😉
          Edit- and this way I will be here until my husband is much more mobile. Although he is doing well.

          1. Might it be worth asking your GP to make sure it is an emergency appointment ? Sorry, forgive me if this is not helping, I’ll shut up now.

          2. Although the skin is the largest organ of the body, Dermatologists are relatively few and far between and demand to see them phenomenal. No comfort I know but when you do get your consultation I hope it is beneficial.

          3. Although the skin is the largest organ of the body, Dermatologists are relatively few and far between and demand to see them phenomenal. No comfort I know but when you do get your consultation I hope it is beneficial.

        1. You have made that suggestion…between us we have stuff going on and the power outage didn’t help. Thanks Eddy, you have been through worse than I and I admire your fortitude.

    2. There are times when I am thankful that I am in decent health despite my minor aches and pains.

    4. It’s like when I had an abscess under my tooth – three weeks even to have it looked at and then another three weeks before anything would be done.

        1. …and I’m trying to get someone (with strong nail-clippers) to sort out my ingrown toenails,.

          Probably not life threatening, but it is bluddy painful and I cannot reach my own feet, these days.

          1. We were told of two sources… PramaCare and AgeUK. My husband, since his accident has had a similar issue with his feet. I made him soak them in a tub with warm water, bicarb and white vinegar. It softened his feet and with some contortions, he was able to trim his toenails. Not perfectly but it helped.

          2. Problem is, Ann, my back problems, mean that I cannot bend that far for any length of time. I’m only 6’2″.

          3. My husband is 6′ 4″ and he can’t bend much but using a footstool he got them trimmed. It ain’t easy when one gets older.

        2. …and I’m trying to get someone (with strong nail-clippers) to sort out my ingrown toenails,.

          Probably not life threatening, but it is bluddy painful and I cannot reach my own feet, these days.

        1. They say “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. That should now read “It’s broke so there’s no point in fixing it.”

          1. That last is more or less what the dentist said when he broke the tooth he was supposed to be filling.

  95. As a Nottler posted earlier today, a 250 foot ship, Petrel, fell sideways whilst in dry dock at Leith. The vessel looked to have a high superstructure for the relatively shallow dry dock, and so I wondered why on earth Petrel was there. The previous owner was the late Paul Allen, a philanthropist, but the current owner is the United States Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center; amongst many other tasks, NavFac maintains and operates naval auxiliary vessels. Petrel is managed by Oceaneering International, a subsidiary of the US company Oceaneering International Incorporated. And she has been moored since 2020, but was acquired by NavFac last October.
    Turns out that the ultimate owner of the Scottish dry dock marine services company seems to be a Greek ship repair firm called Neorion, possibly linked to shipbuilder Onex Neorion. Let’s hope that they have a good insurance policy, and that no one on board was seriously injured.

    1. BBC; “Twenty three people were treated to hospital ”

      Lucky devils.
      I don’t know if that won’t be corrected soon.

    2. My Son-i-L is a Marine installations insurance broker – I hope they aren’t his clients!

    3. Maybe the high wind had something to do with it as well as being inadequately chocked

  97. Evening, all. Coolio did a dressage test today. Let’s say he was forward going! He did a really lovely canter on both reins, but the trot at X left a lot to be desired as he wasn’t listening when it came to slowing down! As for the headline, what are the Met officers dedicated to, may one ask? Dedicated to diversity, inclusion and wokeness or catching criminals?

        1. Conners says that Coolio likes Polo mints.
          My rocking horse, when I was little, was called Dobbin…my dad named him.

        2. He isn’t actually a dressage dobbin, he’s a Connemara not a warm blood. He does his best, considering he isn’t really put together right for dressage.

          1. Thank you for the correction Conway. He sounds just like a Nottler – not really put together right for this woke C21st!

          2. He is, effectively, a native pony, but native to Ireland, rather than the UK 🙂 At 15.2 he is too tall to be a pony Up to 14.2 hands high at the wither), but he’s small for a horse.

  98. Pouring petrol on the flames?

    “The US central bank has raised interest rates again, despite fears that the move could add to financial turmoil after a string of bank failures.
    The Federal Reserve increased its key rate by 0.25 percentage points, calling the banking system “sound and resilient”.

  99. We’re fast approaching NoTTL’s birthday. The celebratory lunch rather fizzled out last year. I’ve tried to contact Jill (Garlands), who used to be the prime mover in these events, but to no avail. I know she has health issues, and trust she’s managing to the best of her ability Considering her generosity in helping out other Nottlers, I wish there was more that we could do.

    So – here goes. 1st April is our seventh birthday. It’s a Saturday. I’d be happy to meet up anywhere, though the Good Intent at Puttenham has usually worked. The food has fallen off, somewhat, but with energy costs where they are, I have a great deal of sympathy for George and Daniella.

    I’m open to suggestions of alternative venues.

    Do let me know what you think. My email is now my abbreviated first name dot surname followed immediately by “1”, @ gmail dot com.

    1. I can probably find you a good venue in Moffat. A venue between England and Scotland.

        1. Absolutely, Geoff. Give us a chance. We may pull in Fallick Alec, Clydesider as well as Sue MacFarlane and Tier5inmate (Richard Scott) maybe you and me. That’s six for starters.

        2. Ah Geoff! I’m sure the charming staff would pull out all the stops for us….no?

    2. As it’s ‘Poisson d’Avril’ whatever venue is selected I do hope for your sakes it’s got fish on the menu!

      No that’s not an invitation to reheat the fish puns!

    3. I’m game, Geoff. Must now look at my atlas and work out how far away Puttenham is.

        1. That would be wonderful, Tom, but I doubt if we could get there and back with just a couple of hours for lunch. Have you considered Fallic Alec?

          2. Although it’s sharing with me, I’ve a bed available and there are are many B & Bs about.

    6. I was a prolific poster btl in that period (under my real name) but didn’t know about this site until a year after i’d left the Terriblegraph (in high dudgeon in June 2020).

      Glad i did though!

    7. I hope you are able to get something organised. even if there is no way I can make the journey!!

  100. Just watching an old Morse episode and heard a noise from outside. It’s bloody tipping it down out there!

    2. Distinctly windy here. I’ve cracked open the windows in the hope the air movement will dry the clothes that I’ve brought indoors.

  102. Goodnight and God bless, Gentle NoTTLers, until the morning’s light. I’m so tired.

  103. I read constantly in US News media that the UK Deputy Defense Minister, a woman whose name I had never heard before and thus cannot recall, has confirmed that the UK will be sending depleted uranium ammunition along with our Challenger tanks to Ukraine.

    We know from the use of such ammunition in Iraq that the powder released on impact both contaminated the soil for miles around as well as giving rise to deformities in children born in those areas. The fertile soil of Ukraine would be unworkable for decades after such contamination.

    Tell me again about the UK’s green credentials.

    Not only are we governed by fucking idiots but we are governed by fucking evil idiots.

    In passing I watched the excruciating demolition job performed on the testimony of the Chief Executive of Moderna by Senator Rand Paul in their committee enquiry. Moderna is of course Sunak’s brainchild for which he was an original investor and for which he has personally granted permission and assistance for major facilities to be set up in the U.K. for vaccine research and production.

    Simultaneously it seems that Moderna are about to go broke for violations of patents for the technology they used in manufacturing the toxic jabs. China Joe is expected to bail the buggers in the US although nobody knows where the money is coming from (it is US taxpayers, broke as they are thanks to Biden).

    Surely questions need to be asked of the unelected PM Sunak whose financial history and clear conflicts of interest and whose suspicious activities in promoting Moderna in the UK leaves many questions unanswered.

    1. There exists a miasma of ill-will hanging over our government and its effects are being directed towards the people. Whether it’s political shenanigans e.g. the Windsor betrayal or the support for 15 minute cities – the government’s involvement has been kept quiet – along with the blatant ignoring of the harms being wrought by the “safe and effective vaccine” and the deliberate political isolation of Andrew Bridgen MP for attempting to bring the harmful impacts to public notice.
      The targeting of the people not only exists at a national level but has encroached on county and local councils. What appear to be small and/or insignificant issues on the national scale e.g. the Plymouth tree felling, the proposed felling of an ancient orchard in Cambridgeshire and locally in my home town.
      The last small street that retains some of the aura of years ago is threatened by the county and local councils. Currently, parking exists for around two dozen vehicles with chevron parking. The proposal is to do away with chevron parking and replace it with fewer parallel parking spaces to enable a hundred or so metres of cycleway. The shopkeepers, including the last independent grocer in the town, do not want this scheme, the shoppers do not want it but the culprits are determined to go ahead.
      Maybe I’m turning into a grumpy curmudgeon but to me so many policies appear to be aimed at creating problems and upset where none currently exist.

  104. I read constantly in US News media that the UK Deputy Defense Minister, a woman whose name I had never heard before and thus cannot recall, has confirmed that the UK will be sending depleted uranium ammunition along with our Challenger tanks to Ukraine.

    We know from the use of such ammunition that the powder released on impact both contaminated the soil for miles around as well as giving rise to deformities in children born in those areas. The fertile soil of Ukraine would be unworkable for decades after such contamination.

    Tell me again about the UK’s green credentials.

    Not only are we governed by fucking idiots but we are governed by fucking evil idiots.

    In passing I watched the excruciating demolition job performed on the testimony of the Chief Executive of Moderna by Senator Rand Paul in their committee enquiry. Moderna is of course Sunak’s brainchild for which he was an original investor and for which he has personally granted permission and assistance for major facilities to be set up in the U.K. for vaccine research and production.

    Simultaneously it seems that Moderna are about to go broke for violations of patents for the technology they used in manufacturing the toxic jabs. China Joe is expected to bail the buggers in the US although nobody knows where the money is coming from (it is US taxpayers, broke as they are thanks to Biden).

    Surely questions need to be asked of the unelected PM Sunak whose financial history and clear conflicts of interest and whose suspicious activities in promoting Moderna in the UK leaves many questions unanswered.

  105. “The day is over you’ve done your best
    Now is the time for you to rest,
    You can’t change the events of the day
    You can’t change the things that others say.
    Tomorrow is an opportunity to begin
    New opportunities to take in,
    A good night’s sleep will help you decide
    The best opportunities to provide.
    Sleep well this night
    Turn off the light
    Thank god for the day,
    And sleep will be on the way. ”

    No idea who wrote this- not me but it seems apt.
    And I am off to bed. Thanks again for your support. X

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