Wednesday 26 April: British nationals in Sudan let down by a sluggish Foreign Office

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    A Golfing Dilemma

    A man was about to tee off on the golf course when he felt a tap on his shoulder & a man handed him a card that read:

    “I am a deaf mute. May I play through, please?”

    The 1st man angrily gave the card back, and communicated that “No, he may NOT play through, and that his handicap did not give him such a right.”

    The first man whacked the ball onto the green and left to finish the hole.

    Just as he was about to put the ball into the hole, he was hit on the head with a golf ball, laying him out cold.

    When he came to a few minutes later, he looked around and saw the deaf mute sternly looking at him, one hand on his hip, the other holding up 4 fingers.

    1. I wonder who has had a sense of humour by-pass by giving today’s story a down-vote.

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          4. You triggered him into making his one and only post after downvoting Ogga for ages. We can’t stop that but we can stop him posting.

  2. Good morning, chums. First! Well, second. Good joke, Sir Jasper. PS – I slept very well last night, probably because I’d got on top of a lot of my outstanding jobs during Tuesday.

    1. Know your place, Pleb.
      Macron Rothschild said something similar a few months ago.
      Nous allons vers la fin de l’abondance.
      We’re approaching the end of abundance.
      We?
      Petit con, Macron.

      1. There’s still plenty of abundance, they just intend to keep it all for themselves!
        I think a century with China as the leading influence in the world is only going to make this kind of thing worse. The average chinese citizen appears to be a digital vaxx slave now.

  6. Has anyone here heard of HealthHarmonie Ltd, which seems to have taken over from the NHS as the provider of medical services in England?

    Latest on my skin cancer saga, after being diagnosed by a consultant in Kidderminster a few weeks ago. The London company DMC Healthcare Ltd I was referred to, and which had already failed to notify me of an appointment after sending it to a mobile phone that doesn’t get a signal, finally arranged the Kidderminster appointment.

    I chased the folllow-up, since the doctor said I should really have it cut out in weeks rather than months, and DMC told me that my contract had been taken over by HealthHarmonie, and that I should be expecting a letter soon. It came eventually, with a notice that I should respond by the day before the letter came if I objected to my medical details being passed to an outfit that sounded as if it had come from ‘The Apprentice’, and was recommended not by my GP, but by an NHS subcontractor.

    I googled ‘HealthHarmonie’ for reviews. Plenty of 5-star reviews, mostly for a laser eye surgery in Nottingham. Plenty of 1-star reviews saying that their doctors could not speak English, they had an American-style “go the extra mile” culture with huge staff turnover and general burnout from anyone that is any good, and they operated from sheds with scant regard for anything medical. Just like Serco or G4S then. Precious few 3 or 4 star reviews that might actually come from genuine satisfied patients.

    They were accredited by the Care & Quality Commission, but my experience with NHS dentists showed me this counts for nothing as regards medical competence. They probably ticked the right boxes for Equality & Diversity and had a Safeguarding policy.

    So I rang my GP, getting through to one of the dozen or so secretaries there, who will ask the office manager for advice as to my options. Once the NHS appoints a contractor, my medical care is out of their hands. They said that the firm would arrange follow-up care, which might mean a trip to Birmingham, Stafford or Nottingham each time I need a dressing on the wound. In the past, I could drive to the nurse at my local surgery, but it seems that since the NHS reforms have gone through, this sort of thing is no longer encouraged. That’s not where the money is.

    Just as likely is that the cowboy outfits are all the NHS can offer, now that the Government economists have fallen out with the doctors and nurses over who is to pay for inflation. The Labour Party under Starmer are going to be just the same at best, and probably worse still. They have no problem with cowboy operators getting filthy rich out of ripping off the public, since it’s good for jobs, so they say.

    1. It sounds like a nightmare. No personal experience – your account is the first time I’ve heard of these people.

    2. Has anyone here heard of HealthHarmonie Ltd, which seems to have taken over from the NHS as the provider of medical services in England?

      Morning Jeremy. One assumes these things are rising in response to a dying NHS.

    1. Chuckle. I’d buy that. Wouldn’t drink the catspiss.
      But I’d buy it as a gift to annoy people.

  8. https://youtu.be/tQOdT367UTU
    A friend has just been evacuated by the Spanish government because she has an Irish (EU) passport.
    The video shows the almighty diplomatic mess the West are making in Africa and the loss of influence.
    From my own cynical perspective and to the title: it wouldn’t hurt a prospective “peace keeping” mission if a few hundred of our own people were captured and mistreated.

  9. Joe Biden’s sinister disinformation campaign. Spiked. 26 April 2023.

    Last week, it was revealed that, shortly before the 2020 election, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign conspired with 51 former spies to discredit the New York Post’s discoveries from Hunter Biden’s laptop. The same Biden team that continually harps on about the threat from ‘disinformation’ has been now caught red-handed – in cahoots with the ‘deep state’ no less – spreading disinformation about one of the biggest stories of the 2020 election. The ‘laptop from hell’ contained emails suggesting that Joe Biden had been embroiled in his son’s dubious overseas business dealings.

    The House Judiciary and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence revealed last week that Antony Blinken, then a top Biden campaign official (who is now secretary of state), arranged for former deputy CIA director Mike Morell to draft a letter smearing the Post’s story. Morell dutifully complied. He produced a letter stating that the laptop story had ‘all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation’ – despite having zero evidence to back up that claim. He then convinced 50 other former national-security officials to co-sign it. When asked by the committee why he agreed to gin up this letter, Morell said ‘because I wanted [Biden] to win the election’.

    This of course simply confirms what Nottlers already know. One of the oddities of the present age is that truth does not abide within the MSM or Government. Conspiracy Theory has proved to be easily the most accurate source of information over the last ten years. I’m pleased to say that Nottl has more than lived up to this estimate.

    What does this tell us about the wider world? Well the corruption and decadence of the West; its institutions, its beliefs, its morality, is almost total. As faith in it declines and expires, like Ancient Rome and Babylon the Barbarians will see its end. .

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/25/joe-bidens-sinister-disinformation-campaign/

  12. Good Morning Folks,

    Cloudy & Chilly start.

    I see that the weather forecasters are starting to look for hot weather elsewhere now for their climate project fear.

    1. Morning, all Y’all.
      Pigging miserable here – nasty cold wind that blows right through you, humid. Just like being back in the UK! Sleet in the air, maybe hail later. .Bed seems attractive…!

  13. British nationals in Sudan let down by a sluggish Foreign Office

    The mainstream media appears very vague about the causes for this war, for some strange reason.

  14. ‘Morning Peeps. Dry here with 10°C forecast.

    SIR – Stan Kirby (Letters, April 24) states that a bar of soap lasts for months.

    I don’t know what kimd of soap he uses. A bar of Pears soap only lasts my husband and me just over 
a week.

    Sue Westlake
    Looe, Cornwall

    A fitting BTL comment on this otherwise irrelevant subject:

    Will Mington
    7 HRS AGO
    “A bar of Pears soap only lasts my husband and me just over a week.”
    Perhaps you should stop rubbing it so vigorously over each other, Mrs Westlake.

    1. How on earth do they get through a bar of Pears in a week?

      Perhaps they use it for cleaning brushes after oil painting. That goes through soap like nobody’s business.

      1. There was a pub on the Bungay to Halesworth road with a similar sign, but with a white nanny scrubbing the picaninny in the tub. It was called The Labour In Vain.

      1. The ones I hoarded before retiring lasted me about 2½-3 years!
        Still have a load of shower gel, hair conditioner and hand cream!

  15. This blog is a little extreme, but the question they pose is valid – has the world population dropped in the last couple of years, and how trustworthy are the figures from the UN?
    https://thecovidblog.com/2023/04/20/5-reasons-to-believe-the-global-population-is-already-one-billion-people-less-than-it-was-in-january-2020/
    The article draws its ideas from too many sources to check, and I don’t have an overview about whether they are right or wrong. But it’s an interesting idea.
    It’s now clear from several different sources that the mRNA jabs affect fertility, and we know there have been excess deaths.
    I suppose if I had to make an estimate, I’d guess that the population might have dropped a little, though not as much as the writer thinks.

    1. 5 reasons to believe the global population is already one billion people less than it was in January 2020.

      Morning BB. This seems a little excessive. A 13% drop on Nottl would surely be noticeable!

      2. Excess deaths are about 12 – 20 %. That means, total deaths are about 112 – 120% of what they were before the vaxxing.
        Plus, birth rates have fallen, but I don’t know the exact numbers for that.

        Prior to the vaxxes, world population was rising, so we would have to burn through the rises before we would see falls.
        Plus, the highest rate of vaxxing was probably in countries where the population wasn’t rising through births anyway.

    2. I couldn’t read right to the end as it just got too silly. It appears to be written by an American who has never left home and gets all information from Twitter.

          1. The whole point of the article that I linked, is to try and make some kind of independent estimate, using other data sources.
            As I said, I don’t think the article is a very reliable source of information, but their question is valid.

  16. Strange this morning. I was so cold at 6 am that I got up and put on a dressing gown, returned to bed and was still cold. I expected to find that the grass was white as white with frost. None. I guess it is just cold air….

    Thank God for the woodburner (hush my mouth).

    1. Mine is going strong, and has a boeuf en daube simmering on top of it!

      I picked up 7 kg of organic beef from the producer yesterday. Cost an arm and a leg, but, will last for weeks as we only eat about a lb of beef in a week, and I feel great satisfaction at bypassing the supermarkets.

      1. Beef stews are real comfort food. I notice there is not a great deal of difference between Daube and Bourguignon. Probably regional variations.
        The BBC food site recipe for Bouef Bourguignon calls for 2 bottles of cheap red wine.

        In my mind that is a mistake. My advice would be to use a full bodied red that you would enjoy drinking !

          1. Rich as Croesus me…

            Making a large stew with decent ingredients is a cheap way to eat good food. Per portion it probably works out cheaper than if you had bought it in a tin.

          2. A tin? Buying food in a tin?? How quaint.

            My staff obtained ox-cheek last week. A bottle of red made a fantastic gravy – in which, now, beef in marinading. The ox-cheek – which did two meals for two cost £3.

        2. I agree- you should only cook with wine you would drink.
          I cook with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food.

          2. We were, once upon a time, about 6 years ago in those halcyon far-off days that were a different world, sitting in the gallery of a supermarket restaurant. Note the word ‘supermarket’. From the advantage of height we observed the chef pirouetting across the floor with a bottle of red wine in his hand, which he emptied into a large frying pan. It made a satisfactorily sizzling noise. This was for meals to be served to the public. One cannot imagine that occurring in the uk.

            The self-service buffets in supermarkets and autoroute service stations were sheer entertainment for the choice, attention to detail and freshness of foods in all the years we were travelling through France.

        3. I used a sweet macedonian red. I never buy sweet red wine, can’t remember how this slipped into the cellar. But the most palatable way of using it is probably in cooking.

          Two bottles is just greedy though.

          3. That looks better. Rachel Khoo lived and worked in Paris so she probably had a taste of the real thing there.

        4. I used a sweet macedonian red. I never buy sweet red wine, can’t remember how this slipped into the cellar. But the most palatable way of using it is probably in cooking.

          Two bottles is just greedy though.

  18. OT – we started watching a prog about 60 years of University Challenge. Far, far too much about recent “stars” – but I suppose there is little archive material from way back.

    One person taking part was a little old lady (white, of course) who has been a question setter for yonks. Then came a coal black bame who is to be one of the new question setters who was (predictably) bragging about having questions about completely unknown black people, slavery etc etc.

    Cut to little old lady saying, “Well, you don’t want “so what?” questions, do you?” I suspect that a subversive beeboid had done that editing!!!

    1. The Bamber Gascoigne years were aired on ITV. Maybe that is why the BBC was reluctant to show much of them.

    2. I hope you haven’t been watching Digging for Britain or Country file recently Bill.
      Talk about diversity !!!! 👀
      What point are they trying to get across ?

      1. Never watch this stuff. Just one or two hand-picked documentaries, mainly about art and history.

        1. Digging for Britain is hand picked and about history and digging for old relics…..
          Country File is about scripted leftwing bbc opinions regarding our once safe and interesting Country side.
          It’s more about getting the people who the bbc considered more important than the average brit out walking there dogs or kids and it might even stop these ‘new commers’ all moaning.
          And the latest presenter has pony tailed hair down to his calfs. And he’s not even a farmer.

  19. 373911+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Wednesday 26 April: British nationals in Sudan let down by a sluggish Foreign Office

    If these are genuine indigenous British nationals that cuts down their chances of reentry considerably, the treacherous
    duplicitous political slithering serpents, in the name of repress,replace.RESET, will see to that.
    The political snakes are certainly NOT mimicking the successful
    Calais to Dover, life of 5* welfare run in any shape or form.

    May one ask,
    Are the by election results topping up the lab/lib/con coalition
    snake pit with fresh viper material still ? the electoral majority are certainly up for that, quote, “we have a very good mp candidate”
    THEY are ALL very good as once was the likes of old digitdick until introduced to the scam department.

    IMHO we are on course regarding the General Election for the usual reshuffled political shite, there are no fools like old political fools who get more dangerous with age.

    1. Good morning. I have my telephone appointment from the consultant this morning. I have only been waiting six months. Aren’t i lucky.

      2. I hope your consultant speaks our native tongue with out a strong foreign accent. I can’t understand what mine says. And I’m none the wiser for the long wait.

        1. Good morning. I appear to be the NHS flavour of the month. Just had a call from my GP. More bloody blood tests.

          1. ” I appear to be the NHS flavour of the month”. I thought that was me. Since mid Feb, I’ve presented at A&E six times been admitted 4 times and spent the bulk of the last 2 months in Winchester hospital. If there’s an orifice that is yet to have a camera shoved up it, I’ve yet to find it.

            I’m not a happy bunny:(

  21. Good morning, all. Overcast at 6:00 this morning but now becoming brighter. Dry.

    For all those mavericks who deny the current climate change consensus i.e. a trace gas is to blame, here is more proof that we are on the right side of history, and more importantly, the science. Clearly, those who want to reduce the World’s population had to pick on something that that population produced and so be able to point the finger of blame at the people. Politicians all over the World have, for one reason or another, been captured by those organising the scam. The result is an assault on the people’s lifestyle and more sinister, a threat to their lives.

    https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1650814164711899137

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4d8266a9daef5b6b5d92d6eec42141a163cf3450234ba958275bb7c6edd83b5b.png

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d7a96bcccd065b59de753d60b394b4fb42f55dedb2961c339315339f07f36aa8.png

  22. 373911+ ticks,

    Anyone seen my downvoter ? or is it among the content unavailable things.

      1. 373911+ up ticks,

        Morning N,
        Not been about for a while, it was a useful gaug, maybe it realised that.

  23. Good morning all,

    A cloudy day in prospect at the McPhee estate and with the wind now round in the East going South-East it’s staying cool at 6℃ with a forecast maximum at 10℃.

    Madeline Grant in the Gatesograph has caught up with the rest of us:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/25/president-kamala-harris-should-terrify-us-all/

    We’ve known this since the farcical election in 2020 gave us Joe Biden. She is absolutely spot on about one thing though – is Trump v Biden 2.0 the best America can do? If so, God help us all. If anyone needed proof that the President, in a Democrat administration anyway, does not run the country and that some shadowy bunch of puppeteers does, Joe Biden and his embarrasing, clueless, diversity-pick Vice-President are it. We know there are plenty of gifted and talented Americans who won’t get a look in or maybe don’t want to go near politics let alone the Presidency but, dear God, at a time like this some from among them need to step up to the plate.

    I’m going to have some fun with this suggestion: How about Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard as a ‘dream ticket’? Could they POSSIBLY be any worse than what faces the USA and the Western world? I don’t think so. They at least can communicate with intelligence and charisma.

    1. Biden hasn’t got the Democratic nomination yet. Though if they sack every TV presenter who interviews Kennedy, that might damage the opposition a bit.

  24. Apropos my boring comment about feeling cold earlier – just looked in the greenhouse – the lowest temp last night was 7ºC. So much for the Wet Office dire warnings…

  25. Morning all 🙂😉
    High broken cloud, not warm.
    Sluggish foriegn office ? Too busy making their expenses claims ?
    Whitehall in general, dedicated to ignoring the plight of the people. What else can they do but follow tradition ?

  26. Harry Kobeans.

    Grattis på födelsedagen, Old Bean. Hope it’s a good ‘un. 😊🎂🥂👍🏻

  28. Good morning all, dull cloudy day.

    Moh playing golf this morning .

    Yesterday was sunny no showers , Moh got on with sanding down a couple of large wooden velux windows in preparation for glass removal and replacement , they have misted up , and look terrible , also during one of the firing exercises , one of them cracked down the middle .. well I guess that is what happened .

    1. Send that A Allan chap to bid for you – anonymously! It is in his neck of the woods. Korky might get there first, of course!

    2. How easy is it to reactivate?
      Once I’ve finished today’s painting and got the ironing up to date, I need something to while away the hours till bedtime.

  30. 373911+ up ticks,

    May one ask,

    With food banks multiplying countrywide why in all fairness has ration cards not been reintroduced, initially they were a much needed item of food control, currently they could be used as a controlling factor via the political overseers with many a darker purpose in mind, maybe it is within the WEF / NWO manifesto via the polling booth to be triggered in the near future .

    Would that put a ripple in today’s intended voting pattern ?

      1. 373911+ up ticks,

        Morning BB2,

        Which then begs the question why do we
        continue to place these repulsive type peoples / parties in positions of power

  31. Reposted from last night.

    Wednesday 26th April, 2023

    Harry Kobeans

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e281877e66f9640965428cfaf7612b736a56b10f037dc7830d6ff3f7e0f8aba9.png

    and many more happy birthdays.

    We haven’t seen much of you recently – we hope you’re still full of beans and joie de vivre and we’ll see you here soon!

    With best wishes,

    Caroline and Rastus

    (Please don’t do a runner or go abroad, we’d feel rather half-baked if you did as we feel we are of the same kidney)

    1. Happy, happy Birthday, Harry. Have a great day followed by 365 Happy unbirthdays.

  32. Yo and Good Moaning all, and Fanx to “The Boss” for today’s helping of sanity

    Sudan evacuation!

    Yes, the ambassador is entitled to leave – but for his deputy to be out of the country at the same time is unacceptable.

    As Cilla would have said “Surprise, Surprise”

    Are we really sure that the Ambassador and his Number 2 are not infact French?

    1. When our sons ran a business together, they made sure their holiday dates didn’t clash, so there was always a boss on the premises.
      But then they had to earn an honest living, not leech off the taxpayer.

      1. My industry operates 24/7/365. We have nominated duty personnel available the whole year round, including Christmas and New Year, on call by phone. It’s normal.

        1. A ditty from the forces:

          Christmas comes but once a firkin,
          When it does, we’re firkin workin’

    3. The situation was hardly difficult to predict either, it’s been building up for months.

      1. I’m sure that the Americans would have tipped them off.

        That’s what Five Eyes is all about.

  33. Yo and Good Moaning all, and Fanx to “The Boss” for today’s helping of sanity

    Sudan evacuation!

    Yes, the ambassador is entitled to leave – but for his deputy to be out of the country at the same time is unacceptable.

    As Cilla would have said “Surprise, Surprise”

    Are we really sure that the Ambassador and his Number 2 are not infact French?

  34. Good Moaning.
    As it’s not actually raining, roll out the paint brushes.
    A spot of RL.

    “Yes, we have no red peppers

    Be honest, when did you first set eyes on a red pepper? Nope, I don’t remember, either.

    And when did they become part of our staple diet?

    I can relate to the title of my old friend Hunter Davies’s childhood memoir The Co-op’s Got Bananas.

    One of our family’s fondest legends is my dad bringing a handful of bananas back from Gibraltar after the war, when he was demobbed from the Navy.

    They’d all pretty much rotted by the time he’d caught the bus home to Ilford. It looked like Carmen Miranda’s hat.

    The red pepper shortage is now a major, major news story. When did that happen? You couldn’t make it up

    +4

    View gallery

    The red pepper shortage is now a major, major news story. When did that happen? You couldn’t make it up

    But red peppers? Nah. I didn’t even come across a kidney bean until I was in my late teens, when Mum made a chilli con carne (as it used to be called) at her continental cookery class.

    Yet today, Waitrose is apologising for running out of red peppers and Morrisons is rationing them, two per, following customer complaints.

    Desperate Remainiacs are blaming the shortage on Brexit, even though it’s all down to the rain in Spain — or lack of — going mainly down the drain.

    And the red pepper shortage is now a major, major news story. When did that happen? You couldn’t make it up.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12008919/Its-time-St-George-slay-Just-Stop-Oil-dragon-writes-RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN.html

    1. Just rolling out another food scare to keep people jittery.

      I buy my peppers jarred. I never run out.

        1. As with tomato skins i find pepper skins indigestible. The jarred ones have no skin.

          1. Cut them into strips put the strips into the microwave for a couple of (depending on settings and power) minutes and put them into cold water and the skins are easy to peel off.
            You can also bottle the skins in olive oil.

    2. Morning Anne

      I remember eating ratatouille in the late sixties when I was posted to Malta and making it in the seventies … serving it with cod steaks .

      Moh , I discovered in those early married days was a bit iffy about food , and still is .

      I had an Elizabeth David paperback cook book , still have it , in fact I have a huge collection of cook books , even pre war ones that belonged to Grandma .

    4. There were lots of red peppers in Asda yesterday. I like them especially for red pepper soup. They also had plenty of other peppers.

      1. I have two green peppers sitting on the kitchen window-cill awaiting the sun to come around later, with the hope that they might turn yellow.

          1. Prefer not to make curry with chicken in it, as it tends to shred, so if something similar is required, I use turkey breast. it doesn’t shred.

      1. Yo Minty

        They should just reuse them and block off all Council Car Parks and petty officials houses

    2. What a cheek calling them vandals – that word should be directed to the councillors

      1. Yo sos.
        He could do more damage than all the flying rats in Trafalgar Square would do in a year

  38. British forces intercept Russian jets over Baltic Sea. 26 April 2023.

    British and German forces were deployed to intercept three Russian military aircraft flying without transponder signals over the Baltic Sea, the Luftwaffe said on Wednesday.

    Two Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft and one Ilyushin Il-20 aircraft were identified flying within international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the German air force said on Twitter on Wednesday morning.

    Must be a dearth of news! That’s why it’s called International Airspace.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/26/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-t14-armata-tank/

    1. It’s been happening ever since 1945, they come over the North Sea and rattle the UKs cage to see what happens.
      I don’t know why it might be news.

        1. When the proper HMS Ark Royal deployed, with proper aircraft, back in
          the early 70’s, its’ Commanding Officer, Ray Lygo, had bread delivered
          daily, by the Air Sea Rescue helo, to ‘Charlie’, the Russian “fishing
          boat fitted with lots of electronic gear”.

  40. 373911+ up ticks,

    File this under “If only the party before Country fools had listened”
    folder.

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    1h
    This is another thing that could have been done immediately after Brexit if we had left by means of unilateral & unconditional withdrawal.

    I proposed a mutual deal whereby EU citizens could have visa free travel to the UK BUT they would no longer have entitlement to work, benefits & housing etc. And the same would apply to UK citizens travelling to to the EU.

    Under such an arrangement people could still visit, holiday, buy property & retire on their pensions, but would not be a burden on the state. Time limited work permits for needed skills would take care of labour market needs.

    All the issues could have been ironed out quickly if government had actually had any real intention of leaving. The key was to tell the EU how it was going to work not ask them.

    Rishi Sunak’s post-Brexit EU border deal could be the first of many – The Independent,
    Translate post

    Brexit still has many other rough edges to be smoothed, says Sean O’Grady

    apple.new

    https://gettr.com/post/p2ffnip131b

  41. Why are the Sudanese not fighting for their own country .. what are they , wimps?

    Why are thousands of Muslims flocking to the UK .

    1. It is two military factions fighting for control. The poor people are stuck in the crossfire.

      One of the factions is being supported by the interfering Americans in its proxy war with Russia.

      1. The Sudanese were very quick to request that Brits(whites ) like my father and the rest of us including most, depart the country in 1955 when the Sudanese whooped it up when Sudan became independent ..

        That was nearly 70 years ago , so why have another generation of blacks got British passports ?

  42. The Labour movement is mad, bad and dangerous, and it’s getting worse

    The Left is becoming ever more extreme – and Sir Keir Starmer may well be too weak to control it

    SHERELLE JACOBS • 24th April 2023 • 9:00pm

    There is nothing like an intervention from Diane Abbott to remind us all that large parts of the Labour movement remain alarmingly unhinged. Like the psychopath up for parole, Labour has become skilled at concealing its madness. But as the party counts down the days until the probable end of its political exile, all those toxic obsessions, fetishes and pathologies are threatening to come back to the surface.

    Abbott’s downfall has given us a fresh glimpse at one of the Left’s most disturbing attributes: an “anti-racism” that has become contorted by racism over time. To her credit, she has apologised for her letter in The Observer in which she wrote that Jewish people “are not all their lives subject to racism”. Still, even if one charitably accepts her defence that “errors” arose and that an early draft was wrongly sent, the spirit of her argument was unmistakable: she seems to believe that the racism experienced by black-skinned people is worse than that encountered by Jewish people.

    Sadly, however, she is not a one-off. Abbott’s apparent belief in a hierarchy of victimhood that systematically downplays anti-Semitism is commonly held on the Left. Poisonous anti-Jewish sentiment has festered in Leftist circles for decades, often under the cover of “anti-Zionism”. But critical race theory (CRT) has added a disturbing new dimension. CRT’s proponents define racism according to a strict binary, in which groups that they deem to be “white” can never be its victims.

    Labour MPs might comfort themselves in Sir Keir Starmer’s swift action to denounce Abbott. He has certainly been partially successful in smoking out her kind, even claiming the scalp of Jeremy Corbyn. But the rot goes much further than just a few MPs. The generation of activists who responded to socialism’s collapse in the 1980s by abandoning the cause of the working class in favour of a range of global and minority rights has permanently altered the Left. A nasty tradition of competitive victimhood has now become entrenched.

    And that is by no means the end of the madness. Starmer would like us all to think that Labour has moved definitively on from Corbyn’s crypto-communism in economics as well, with his shadow chancellor attempting to convince corporate Britain that his party is now the real party of business.

    The trouble is that the wider Labour movement is moving in completely the opposite direction. Indeed, a new generation of activists marks a dramatic departure from their embattled predecessors on economics. They are far more threatening than anything this country has seen for some time. They have rediscovered the Left’s old core mission: of bringing down the free economy. A new cohort has been spurred by both the implosion of Third Way welfare capitalism and speculation about impending ecological collapse into seriously pursuing socialist regime change.

    Take Green New Deal Rising (GND Rising), the grassroots youth organisation that has taken credit for coming up with key pillars of Starmer’s green plan, including the setting up of a Great British Energy Company. An increasingly well- organised pressure group whose playbook includes doorstepping politicians, GND Rising is calling for a permanent windfall tax on oil and gas firms, a wealth tax and the renationalisation of the railways, all in the name of safeguarding the planet.

    Having inherited the Abbott generation’s contempt for the (white) working class, the neo-Left seems to have no qualms about the mass impoverishment that could result from pursuing such extreme plans. And the lie of the political land could well work in their favour. Starmer’s MPs, still bearing the scars of the Momentum infiltration era, may prove all too willing to ingratiate themselves with an energetic and well-disciplined grassroots eco-army – especially if the likes of Just Stop Oil continue to employ the disruptive techniques they are showcasing now.

    The neo-Left is no less ambitious about birthing a new socialist economy through the revival of union power. As strike action becomes the new normal, there is wonkish talk in Left-wing think-tank circles about launching union renewal funds to encourage unionisation in the private sector and gig economy. So, too, of strong-arming Starmer into repealing anti-union legislation. They will only find encouragement in an influential network of Lefty economists organising on both sides of the Atlantic.

    The Labour leader might be in a stronger position to see all this off if his party’s “sensibles” had a compelling vision of their own on any issue of any relevance. But they don’t. With Labour tantalisingly close to power, both the Blairites and the Brownites are instead desperate to revive the failed modernising missions of a previous era.

    One might have hoped that Labour centrists would by now have some kind of response to the challenge that was dramatically laid down as long ago as the financial crisis – namely how we are supposed to afford an ever-expanding welfare state with the end of the cheap money era.

    Bereft of an answer, this band of lawyers and eggheads instead seek to plunge Labour into the task of crafting a new constitutional utopia. They have found solace in a renewed devotion to the magical powers of decentralisation. Gordon Brown’s puritanical mission to gut the House of Lords – endorsed by Starmer – threatens to consume vital parliamentary time and energy. The former PM’s plan to take advantage of the country’s shift leftwards since austerity to effectively lock the UK into a socialist written constitution by putting social rights (for example to healthcare and housing) into law (inspired, apparently, by South America) is outrageous and shrewd.

    The danger is that, should an unpopular, impressionable and ideologically ambivalent Labour leader like Starmer come to power at a time of deep economic stagnation, he will prove vulnerable to all manner of mad, bad and dangerous ideas gaining ground in his party. While the Tories are no longer worthy of power, Labour remains a reckless alternative.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/24/the-labour-movement-is-mad-bad-and-dangerous/

    The writer misses the point here which is that the majority of the public don’t see what she sees. They will simply blame the economic catastrophe of today on the Tories because they were in office when it happened. The fact that Labour instigated the invasion of the UK, passed the Climate Change Act, supported lockdown and approved sanctions against Russia will pass them by. “It’s Labour’s turn!” they will say.

    Perhaps our only chance is that a Labour government will preside over the final collapse of British society, the people will finally wake up and something new and decent will rise from the ruins but I won’t be placing a bet on it.

    1. Starmer himself is extreme. What is more extreme than some of the decisions he made as DPP?

    4. We walked from Craster to the castle it was packed with bloody tourists………oh hang on a mo.

    2. Poor little lamb being drawn relentlessly upwards by a tractor beam from an alien spacecraft where it will be mercilessly probed until it’s time for lunch.

      2. I thought it was an example of a wolf in sheep’s clothing – then I realised that it wasn’t a wolf, it was Tigger bouncing. (The wonderful thing about Tiggers, is Tiggers are wonderful things!)

          1. So am I Bill, after trying to stand close to the computer and bend myself from the waist sideways to read the letter.

          4. If you double-click it, you get a bigger image. But it was still on its side, so I did the bending sideways and squinting thing. I think I got the gist of it!

          5. That’s what I ended up doing, bb2. Sue Mac’s advice to Tom (“Open in a new page”) baffles me even more.

          7. I have no problem right clicking the image, Phizzee. But “open” [how?] “in a new tab” [what is a tab?] has baffled me.

          8. When you right click a little box of commands appear. Open in new tab with open the image in a separate page on your browser.

          9. Sorry, Phizzee, but there is no little box of commands to be seen anywhere. Remind me again, what a browser is. (Could it be that I access the NoTTLe page on an iMac instead of a Bill Gates Microsoft laptop?)

          12. Right clock the image, save as, then it opens the image viewer. Rotate 90 degrees, read then delete.

    2. The clue is in the wrong spelling of Hanover Square….. (Sherlock Thomas writes…)

    3. That’s pretty impressive for an email scammer.
      Definitely forward it to the SNP!

      1. Not a problem, Tom! Just email me your account details, or I could pop down with a cheque if you’d like!

        1. Definitely no cheques, my nearest branch is in the awful town of Dumfries.

          Your presence though is always welcome.

    1. I am sorry to say it, but the world is a dangerous place, and parents should raise their children to be aware of danger and avoid it, and also take steps to remove them from danger.
      In years gone by, the dangers were wild animals, robbers, rapists or kidnappers. Now, they take other forms. The principle remains the same as in the natural world – only the cautious and careful survive.
      Poor young man.

    2. There are times when you cannot believe what you read. In a stomach churning way, because you know this sort of thing is perfectly possible and probable.

    1. Which is what they want it for. Of course – don’t forget it is an EU instrument. We’re just remaining aligned with that fascist organisation’s abuses.

    2. It won’t necessarily silence you, but will just ensure that you don’t ever criticise your masters

  48. A man has admitted performing a sex act while kneeling over a captured seagull and watching pornography on his mobile phone.

    David Lee, 40, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the bird at 1am on August 17 in a back street of Gladstone Street, Sunderland.

    Gulls on the roof of South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court could be heard calling out as the bench watched CCTV of the ‘bizarre’ incident.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12015245/Sunderland-man-Dave-Lee-admits-performing-sex-act-small-seagull.html

  49. Medley Time

    Awkward

    https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1650741475280297987?s=20

    That Sound……..

    https://twitter.com/SketchLisa/status/1650777903334928385?s=20

    See Trudeau for details

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    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bc5df688b34eb2a72ec2386824dec6e57f5a979f1cde5c0ce81ad4845b463128.jpg

    Dolly and Pip

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b65b429776771109a70ab942c9f3808757ebbdb2ae67defd4ecffec37491120f.jpg

    The rest……….

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/378542c2557d3007164b320bf8bdaeb9aca68fea52615073f8898a0d07dbdf85.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/433454a6a1b134e256aa59359988c9956b23e0ff845bd3fe1feb6de9d06a8c58.jpg

    1. regarding Mr Malone – governments will say this though. They’d be right. Of course, they will ignore the fact that they intended to remove your every right to live, work and exist if you didn’t comply but it was your choice. They didn’t force you.

      It’s classic Orwell.

      In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.

    2. Most of the media have not called Trudeau out on his blatant lie about forcing people to be vaccinated.

    1. “Someone keeps building biolabs in places where you wouldn’t even leave your car unattended for an hour.”

      They’re in Liverpool now?

    1. They give young children far too many jabs these days. When I was young I had the smallpox jab, and probably diptheria. I remember going for the polio jab at the nurse’s house when I was seven or eight. That was it. No TB jab because I had a positive reaction to the skin test.

      I had the diseases: measles, whooping cough (nasty) and chicken pox. Mumps not till I was 25. (very nasty). Since then many for travel purposes, but I won’t be having any more.

      My children had more jabs than I did but nothing like as many as they get nowadays.

      1. Yes. And they are increasing the number of jabs all the time. After covid, parents should be way more ready to say no.

        1. As a young mother, I didn’t question whether they were necessary or not. My younger son had a bad reaction to the first DTP one at four months old. He went very pale and still, then produced a rather strange smelling motion, later on. He was fine after that but I still went ahead with the later ones. I should have questioned the doctor/nurse about it but I didn’t. Although he was well and developing normally, he put on no weight at all for the next four months. However, he is a healthy 49 year old now.

          1. Gut health is very important and affects autism. If vaccines affect the gut, that’s huge. Yet as you say, they were pushed in without question. Before the internet, information wasn’t even available.

          2. Antibiotics affect the microbiome too. I have never heard a Doctor suggest redressing that balance with probiotics.

          3. The huge rise in autism and other ‘isms’ could well be caused by the very many chemicals they ingest nowadays, both from vaccinations and manufactured food.

          4. Yes. Also possible trans issues, which are known to be common in autistic people.

          1. Not my eldest daughter, she was up half the night, giggling and jumping up and down in her cot.

  52. We cannot keep saying sluggish foreign office/inept Home office/NHS waiting lists are growing/more tax needed to pay off the debt | the debt is rising/councils need more money (while services decline).

    The state does not work. It is awash with cash. Most is wasted. A huge amount given to quangos whose only interest in in demanding more money for themselves by wasting in proving their cause needs more money. It then farms out even more money to ‘charities’ to do the job it is paid to do.

    It’s simply not good enough. The state needs massive defunding. Yes, it’ll fight back by instantly reducing service in which case we squeeze tighter and sack people for incompetence. It’s just not enough to blame ministers. They are only one person. It isn’t working from home, either. It’s an arrogance, an entrenched, vicious, abuse of role whereby the state machine does as little as possible for as long as possible as badly as possible while demanding more to achieve it knowing it is untouchable.

    Hell, the cs keeps going on strike. Even Serwotka, nutcase commie he is realised no one gave a stuff or even noticed when his members went on strike.

    Frustratingly I’m sure there’s a good bit in the CS who do the work. In fact, I know there is as I used to work in it. These people are just hindered by the incompetent freeloaders. They, and their Left wing, socialist, DIE, greeniac lunacy need to go.

    1. The Canadian federal un-civil service are on strike, very few over here have noticed.

      Along with the salary demands they demanding that the government stops employing consultants. Now that’s a demand that I could support, cut out contract workers and make the employees earn their keep.

      After the furore over the freedom convoy we are waiting for Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act to stop the protests in Ottawa.

  53. It’s good news week.

    The Haematologist has crossed me off his list. Polycythaemia successfully treated.

    It’s bad news week.

    The GP has called me in for further blood tests because of hormone deficiency.

    One door closes and another one opens.

      1. It has been one thing after another for the last 15 years. Hopefully won’t have any more hospital appointments this year.

    2. Are you certain that the sex-change was a success?

      Hope you get the appropriate treatments quickly and they produce a rapid improvement.

      1. At the last locals in London, the ballot paper offered me a LibDem Globalist, a Labour Globalist and a Conservative Globalist. I wrote NONE OF THE ABOVE of course and for me that was a first but only a very small number of spoiled papers were recorded in Addison Ward.

    2. That’d e because he’s a diversity hire and plod looked the other way. As it is, he shouldn’t even be in this country.

    3. Seems pretty normal to me although a true Canadian would not wrap up because of a heavy frost.

  59. Well, I can’t sit about here enjoying myself – tomatoes to pot on. Dozens of them!

    Back later.

    2. It’s the language they use that demonstrates that these people are dangerous extremists:

      A Just Stop Oil spokesman said: “Let us take the energy we have built from this weekend and channel it into keeping the pressure on this criminally corrupt, genocidal government, day after day, until we all win. We’re calling all those who understand the importance of this moment in history, to step it up. Either we are actively in resistance, on the side of life, or we are complicit with a government that is knowingly enacting policies that threaten the lives of hundreds of millions of people.”

      One of those marching today is Kate Logan, a solicitor and mum of two from London. The 38-year-old said: “Time is running out. Ordinary people know this, but our government keeps licensing new fossil fuels. They are writing a death sentence for millions. I spent years signing petitions and campaigning for change via the ‘usual’ methods, to no avail, civil resistance is now our only option. I want my children – and all children – to grow up safe and fed. Taking nonviolent action towards this aim feels like the responsible thing for parents to do right now. The old system is being propped up by corrupt politicians and billionaire oil executives. They won’t change unless disruptive pressure from ordinary people forces them to.”

      If only our politicians really were in the pocket of the oil companies. We might not have an energy crisis!

      1. With renewables, particularly solar ‘farms’ gobbling up arable land, Kate Logan’s children will NOT be fed, except at an exorbitant cost for imported food.

  61. Xi Jinping speaks to Volodymyr Zelensky for first time since invasion. 26 April 2023.

    China’s president Xi Jinping has held a phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, which marks the first time the pair have spoken since Russia invaded Ukraine.

    Following the “long and meaningful” call, a Ukrainian ambassador to China is to be appointed, Mr Zelensky announced on Twitter.

    “I had a long and meaningful phone call with President Xi Jinping. I believe that this call, as well as the appointment of Ukraine’s ambassador to China, will give a powerful impetus to the development of our bilateral relations,” he wrote.

    I would be more hopeful if I didn’t think that the Americans would scupper any agreement!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/26/ukraine-russia-war-latest-news-t14-armata-tank/

    1. It’s tempting to joke that Washington will be sooo thrilled when the Chinese broker a peace deal but the relationship between the two seems more complex. There’s rivalry for the top-dog position and reserve currency status certainly but at the same time, the new world order want the entire planet to be governed just like the Chinese role model.

      1. They want to emulate the Chinese surveillance state, while seeming to be more benevolent.

    3. “Xi Jinping speaks to Volodymyr Zelensky…”

      Taking it as read that Xi Jinping speaks no Ukrainian and Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is clueless about Mandarin; how can either of them be absolutely certain that their chosen translators are not ’embellishing’ what is being said?

      1. The problem of translation did cross my mind Grizz. Still one assumes they have safeguards. Multiple personnel and checks afterwards.

        1. It’s a question that I’ve often mused over, Araminta. Especially when Khrushchev spoke with Kennedy; when Gorbachev chatted with Reagan; and when Menachem Begin pow-wowed with Anwar Sadat.

          1. Apparently, the Hot Line between Washington and Moscow was a teleprinter link.

      2. Guns pressed to appropriate heads, with 3 extra translators giving thumbs up or down?

    2. 373911 + up ticks,

      O2O,

      Carrying no treachery baggage team up with
      Lawrence Fox RECLAIM party, if you go down then it will mean genuine patriotism has been totally erased.

      1. It is comparable to the holocaust.
        And the Israeli doctor he was quoting, said so.
        People need to grow up.

        1. 373911+ up ticks,

          Afternoon Lim,
          The horrifying thing is the holocaust can be seen as a one off with a final
          count, this that has been perpetrated upon gullible people of innocents will be an ongoing issue.

          1. I’m afraid the holocaust is several one-offs…
            Massacre of Armenians, of Tutsis, etc.
            It happens when people are a means to an end, slaves or scapegoats and stop being people in they eyes of the persecutors.
            You are correct. This one is a slow burn because pharma have discovered how to treat the healthy – this was always going to be more lucrative than waiting for them to be sick.
            And the elderly and the babies.
            But the shear scale is maybe beyond the holocaust and the fact that they are not discriminating by race is hardly to their credit.
            We are really watching the collapse of something.

          2. 373911+ up ticks,

            Afternoon Lim,

            What is also terrifying frightening is the majority voter is condoning these odious issues in a self destruct manner repeatedly seeking to repeat history, as seen openly via the last three plus decades voting pattern.

  63. Andrew Bridgen expelled from Conservative Party after Covid vaccine remarks. 25 April 2023.

    Andrew Bridgen has been expelled from the Conservative Party after he made controversial comments about coronavirus vaccines.

    Mr Bridgen was stripped of the Tory whip and forced to sit as an independent MP in January after he tweeted claims that Covid vaccines were the “biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust”.

    A Conservative Party spokesman confirmed this afternoon that Mr Bridgen has now been formally kicked out of the party.

    The problem was of course that he was exposing those responsible. This is just to try and shut him up!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/26/rishi-sunak-news-latest-snp-sudan-labour-keir-starmer-pmqs/

    5. Bridgen was only saying that the Covid disaster was the worst SINCE the holocaust – that’s not comparison.

    6. The WEF have far-reaching tentacles … no one is safe.

      Tucker Carlson … Andrew Bridgen … They don’t like the truth — and they don’t like it up ’em.

      It’s only a matter of time before they nuke NTTL.

  64. Andrew Bridgen expelled from Conservative Party after Covid vaccine remarks. 25 April 2023.

    Andrew Bridgen has been expelled from the Conservative Party after he made controversial comments about coronavirus vaccines.

    Mr Bridgen was stripped of the Tory whip and forced to sit as an independent MP in January after he tweeted claims that Covid vaccines were the “biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust”.

    A Conservative Party spokesman confirmed this afternoon that Mr Bridgen has now been formally kicked out of the party.

    The problem was of course that he was exposing those responsible. This is just to try and shut him up!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/26/rishi-sunak-news-latest-snp-sudan-labour-keir-starmer-pmqs/

  65. Remember the fuss about the covid jabs containing polyethylene glycol? We were told that it’s just a binding agent and is naturally expelled from the body via our faeces withing 24 hours? Well the Mark Steyn Show last night featured another interview with Naomi Wolf and she claimed that there is evidence that it remains in the body and does harm.

    https://www.steynonline.com/13430/the-metastasizing-horror

    The show also featured a nice tribute to Len Goodman, which reminded me of this.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6b160c4fde7eb0f97d3e6cd89de47b3566ed9509b02ca5b17b293da196780900.jpg

      1. I did, yes. I was 18 in February 1974 though so I don’t know how it came about that I was in posession of a Child ticket unless Dennis and Rita gave their young regulars a discount, which is possible. I do remembe the show and remember queueing to have Cherry sign the ticket.

        1. Not sure when 18 became the year of adulthood? It was certainly after ’69, when I was married.

        2. I am not sure that your souvenir is a ticket; it looks more like an invitation to purchase a ticket.
          (tickets were usually printed with a stub, and numbered, to allow re-admission but not multiple admissions.)

          1. It was a dancing school in a church hall, not a commercial venue accustomed to hosting ticketed events.

          2. It was a dancing school in a church hall, not a commercial venue accustomed to hosting ticketed events.

    1. Brexit or covid? The medics will let us know . . . when they get their instructions from the Cabinet Secretary and his ‘scientific’ advisers.

        2. Datz did upvote a comment a day or so ago. I think he said he’s in a care home now.

    4. Oh – I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been ill! Glad to see you now……….I have wondered why we hadn’t seen anything of you for a while.

  70. I’m still fuming about that outrageous “Britons need to accept that they are poorer” headline from the BoE’s chief economist.
    No they do not have to!
    What’s happening now is another Great Muppet Reaping. None of us have to accept it! Just look at Exter’s Pyramid and make sure that a good part of your wealth is as low down it as possible. And then (a) cash in on the opportunities as they arise and (b) carry your wealth over to the other side!

  71. Ah! Just back from the southern reaches of Manchester. Stopped off in Poynton for a short time on the way home.

  72. Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill reveals she WILL attend the Coronation after receiving an invitation – Pamela Hicks, the daughter of Charles III’s IRA-slain mentor Lord Mountbatten is denied a place on the guest list.

    Ah but, O’Neill is an environmentalist and, as Health Minister, scrapped the lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood in Northern Ireland. A personthing after Charlies heart. I’ll bet she eats stick insects and muesli too.

    1. I’m not too bothered about Pamela Hicks being left out. She only got invited to the first two because of who she is. It’s a bit greedy of her to want a third Coronation invitation. What has she ever done to deserve to be at the heart of the establishment?
      The case is a bit different for the Dukes, because as hereditary peers and landowners, they represent an important group for the stability of the country. The King is the wisest fool in Christendom to ignore them.

      1. Agreed so much about the hereditaries.

        I can talk for hours about the reconstitution of the Lords.

        1. Yes, we’d be much better off swapping the grifters and cronies from Blair, Brown, Cameron, May and Johnson for the hereditaries back. But only the ones with enough land that they can’t afford to indulge any stupid woke guilt.

          1. The hereditaries will necessarily have the long-term interests of the country at heart. Yes, it’s also in their interests, but it is also in OUR interests.

            Not just the next election.

          3. I’d certainly like to meet you and have a relevant conversations. Ich auch habe bisschen mehr vie eine kleinens Deutsch.

          4. I tend to agree. I didn’t used to think so but now we can clearly see how democracy can be subverted and turned to tyranny, I tend to agree. Who the hell wants political cronies in the upper house?

        1. Her father is a controversial figure. Not implying that he deserved to be blown up or that the IRA are anything but stinking murderers, but I’ve never been keen on that family for various reasons (I don’t know them personally), and this sort of arrogance – regarding the great privilege of being invited to three Coronations as some kind of achievement – is part of the reason why.

          1. You are, of course, entitled to your trenchant view. I wasn’t keen on “Lord Louis” either and I expect military/naval NoTTLers have their own views about him. A sort of Marmite admiral.

      3. I don’t think she was bothered and certainly didn’t ask for an invitation. She is in her 90’s and is not the most mobile of people.

    1. The mainstream media is misrepresenting Bridgen.
      Accusing him of comparing the vaccine program to the holocaust.

      When he never said anything of the sort, a medical expert said that

      1. It’s an easy, lazy headline to enforce a response. He went against the state, he must be destroyed and demonised.

  76. I know you are all great fans of Bridgen. I am afraid I am not. Not because e has spoken out about the vaccine – but because he has been shown in court to be a serious liar.

    You will say that the two things are different. Well, I look at the rounded image and am left dissatisfied.

      1. Bridgen v Bridgen and Others: ChD 29 Mar 2022 [2022] EWHC 1028 (Ch)

        “In April 2022, High Court Judge Brian Rawlings ruled against Bridgen, stating that he “lied under oath and behaved in an abusive, arrogant and aggressive manner”, was “an unreliable and combative witness who tried to conceal his own misconduct”, and “gave evasive and argumentative answers and tangential speeches that avoided answering the questions”.

        1. Thanks, I will look it up.
          Covid has been a great divider, I think – some people who went along with dodgy stuff in the past drew the line at the covid fraud when they realised what it was. And others, like Hancock, not only plunged into it, but now want to cover up the evidence that anything went wrong.

        2. ““The judge has made his judgement and some of it is disappointing reading for me, however it is a civil matter mainly between family members and is part of an ongoing legal process which has already been in train for over four years,” he said.

          “In actuality, I won the case and my brother will be compelled by the court in due course to repay considerable sums of money back to the business.”

          So he won the case, but the judge added that he was a liar who was aggressive on occasion? Sounds plausible. He looks like a scrapper. Family dirty linen in court is a bit meh too. Still, if he has channeled that aggression into exposing government crimes, that’s very worthwhile work for which he should receive due credit.
          People grow and mature. It’s not easy to stand out on one’s own as he has done.

          1. Depends how you define “winning”.

            Bridgen was evicted from his house and ordered to pay £800,000 in costs to the other side.

            Call me an old-fashioned solicitor (and many do) but I’d say that was much more like losing…

          3. You could not be more right. Disputes about property, about wills and, above all, about children after divorce are simply awful. Having had to act in many, the nightmares made me give up heavy litigation and do other things.

        3. Isn’t most of that required skills for being an MP? Especially ” evasive and argumentative answers and tangential speeches that avoided answering the questions”.

    4. If the only people prepared to stand up in the HoC and ask awkward questions about the Covid tyranny are Bridgen and the eccentric Desmond Swayne, the people of the UK are defenceless.

      2. Christopher Chope as well. And Esther McVey and Danny Kruger piped up against the WHO treaty.

        2. Was Esther McVey the blonde female MP who was listening to Bridgen’s speech in the Commons?

    6. But if everybody in the HoC who told a lie was never believed again then nobody in the HoC would be believed.

      But hold on – I agree one should never believe a single thing that any MP ever says, has said or will say.

      So where will we find the truth about anything to do with the Covid gene therapy?

    7. The Lord chooses surprising people to do His work.

      However, if Andrew Bridgen heads for Reform I will be smelling a great big rat. I do not trust Tice and Reform.

      We will wait, and see. At the moment I am giving him the benefit of the doubt. For now.

      1. Neither do I, pm! I think Tice is a bit sleazy, and he has been very scathing about Bridgen. He’s seems a bit full of himself, and arrogant to boot.

      2. San Marzano; Cor de Bue; Costoluto Fiorentino; Shimmer; Super Mama – and a very reliable unknown Greek variety – the seeds of which were given to me by a (now late) NoTTLer in 2017. They grow from those old seeds AND from seeds I saved last year.

  78. A third Birdie Three today.

    Wordle 676 3/6
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
    🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    2. Bogie 5 here.Wordle 676 5/6

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

      1. Me too but hey, a 5 is better than a 7.

        Wordle 676 5/6

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

  79. From regular sex to a diverse diet, there are ways to keep your brain in top form as you age
    Research shows that the majority of cognitive changes that occur as we age are dictated by lifestyle choices – here are the changes to make.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/keep-brain-sharp-old-age-president-joe-biden/

    BTL

    Sexual activity as we grow older:

    16 – 44 Tri-weekly
    45 – 70 Try weekly
    71 + Try weakly.

    (I suspect that most Nottlers would claim that they do rather better than that!)

    1. Tri weekly? You’re joking. If it’s not small boy it’s big dog. When we do have time together it’s spent flopped out on the couch as we fall asleep in each others arms.

      Waking up with a mouthful of hair and saying ‘off, Mongo, off’ and realising it’s your glorious wife does not go down very well.

      1. Do you do your own market research? And what do you count as a representative sample?

    3. They chose Biden as the example.
      Possibly not the best choice; especially the sex bit.

      1. Indeed.
        It stinks and attracts flies.

        According to the angloinfo link, one gets the impression it’s rare, we get them most years. It’s interesting to watch them as they open and the strands split apart.

        It’s yet another reason why I suspect that if my garden was in the UK it would be SSSI. We have more than 10 types of orchid out at the moment and numerous others about to show their flowers.

      1. 373911+ up ticks,

        Evening Anne,

        That really is a question only we could
        ask, then out of arrogant greedy ignorance.

  82. Nagsman and I lunched well. Oh how we laughed about you lot! Actually, we didn’t – we talked about all sorts of important matters. She seems well.

    3. Thanks for the update. Might we see from her sometime soon? The site is poorer for her absence.

          2. Tsk, tsk.
            Doing the village wise woman out of her income. What will she do with that rusty old razor blade?

          3. Why was an 8 year old girl travelling to Sudan without her mother?

            “One mother ran to her eight-year-old daughter and clung to her in an emotional embrace.”

    2. There was a rush because they all wanted to be here in time for the Coronation, being the patriotic souls that they are.

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/world-news/2023/04/26/TELEMMGLPICT000333404736_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqn1qeXhYz5_1IwXxz958N-s2bQWZJPubU7cGRex8tQyA.jpeg?imwidth=680
      /TELEMMGLPICT000333404736_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqn1qeXhYz5_1IwXxz958N-s2bQWZJPubU7cGRex8tQyA.jpeg?imwidth=680
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/world-news/2023/04/26/TELEMMGLPICT000333405837_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqZgEkZX3M936N5BQK4Va8RWtT0gK_6EfZT336f62EI5U.jpeg?imwidth=1280
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/world-news/2023/04/26/TELEMMGLPICT000333402243_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?imwidth=1280
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/world-news/2023/04/26/TELEMMGLPICT000333402236_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?imwidth=1280

      2. ….and surprise, surprise!

        The British government didn’t hire a British airline to ferry them in, but hired an EU one.

        1. Get great chunks out of the plane shot out – whose plane would you prefer?
          Anyhow, maybe the UK couldn’t deliver.

    3. Ask a silly question:
      I wonder how many of these people fled to the UK previously, obtained British passports, and once they had them, returned to Sudan to live?
      The prefect get out of jail free at Britain’s expense card.

      1. Sudan achieved their independence in1955 .

        We went to the Sudan in 1951.. I was 4 years old. Dad worked for the British government as did many white expats .

        The Sudanese wanted the British to clear off.. which we did .. and onto Egypt .

        How come the Sudanese all these years later want to come to the Uk, and how come they have dual nationality .
        What idiot granted them that … The British were not wanted anymore in those days… they even removed General Gordon’s Statue.

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1ea6f436f12c686d2b11aac7964ceda3d35db4f5e3b8a90279be073985e9a6ed.jpg

  85. That’s me for today. Lots of garden work. More tomorrow – after the market.

    Cleared out the oil tank room – gosh the stuff in there… And the boiler room which needed to be made ready for the oil pipes to be installed on Wednesday. The STUFF….!! Anyone want a Black and Decker DN54 circular saw? Trip to the tip on Friday with lots of junk. What an exciting life we lead!!

    Have a jolly evening

    A demain

    2. The civil service fast stream intelligence test has similar stuff in it, to see whether you can pick the meaning out of gobbledegook (or it did about thirty years ago – prolly just joined up writing tests nowadays!)

        1. I wouldn’t dream of insulting you so, Bob!

          IIRC, there were a great many sentences that you had to do in about four minutes. So you had to be very quick.

        1. I think the point was that they were trying to select people who would NOT produce gobbledegook…

  89. Gawd ‘elp us three times today I’ve had re sign in.
    We had an unexpected phone call and a visit from old friends.
    My old buddy I grew up with and his wife. She’s an artist and close to where we live there is a bank holiday celebration. Her and others display paintings in the church. So they were dropping them off. And called in. Hopefully a repeat of her last successful, “Sold Out’.

    2. I think he longs for queens, drag, black or otherwise. Maybe a parody account though as blue ticks are gone.

        1. Hasn’t the Twitter EV bloke done away with the ticks, with just a very few exceptions?

    5. False logic. Had the current Prince and Princess of Wales’ first child been Charlotte rather than George, then the slur against the Monarchy being always male would not have held. Similarly, had Henry (aka Harry) been born before William the same would have been the case about the racial slur.

    2. I’d love to hear what Rastus’ Father, Belle’s Father and my Father would have said about this antastic clusterfcuk. I suspect it wouldn’t be very polite.
      RIP, these three fine gentlemen, who knew how to manage a situation.

      1. Include my Father, Paul, who fought in both World Wars and had a very Victorian view of the world today (1895 – 1955)

    3. Lying is the main aspect for a successful and inexpensive way of life in the UK now. It starts at the top of the trees of Whitehall and Westminster, the Lords and for anyone who turns up in a rubber boat, then we have those, as seen in the photograph.

  92. A free-swimming drone, driven by Kongsberg techonolgy, has found the wreck of a prisoner-of-war ship, the Montevideo Mari owned by Japan, that was sunk by a US submarine USS Sturgeon, in 1942 and now rests in 4 km water off the Phillipoines. 1 054 prisoners onboard, most Aussies, and 33 Norwegian.
    At least it’s quiet down there. No alternative but to RIP.
    Respect.
    https://www.laagendalsposten.no/kog-teknologi-fant-vrak-med-33-norske-krigsfanger/s/5-64-1280779
    BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65356496

    1. Was it known to be the Montevideo Mari, a prisoner-of-war ship, at the time of the sinking?

      1. No, they didn’t. Strangely, the only survivors were;
        “Just three lifeboats were launched and 102 Japanese crew and guards rowed to the Philippines.“

        1. Also;
          “It was a moment of emotion to see the images of the ship, the closed hatch covers where prisoners were kept on the voyage.”
          Didn’t even give them a sniff of a chance.

  93. A free-swimming drone, driven by Kongsberg techonolgy, has found the wreck of a prisoner-of-war ship, the Montevideo Mari owned by Japan, that was sunk by a US submarine in 1942 and now rests in 4 km water off the Phillipoines. 1 054 prisoners onboard, 33 Norwegian.
    At least it’s quiet down there. No alternative but to RIP.
    Respect.
    https://www.laagendalsposten.no/kog-teknologi-fant-vrak-med-33-norske-krigsfanger/s/5-64-1280779
    BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65356496

  94. Some one commented in the Times this , and I’ll bet it is true .

    “”This is very bad news for the people who have been renting these British passport holders council flats while the legal tenants have been living in the family property in Khartoum where the UK benefits being paid into their bank accounts go so much further. ”

    “My GP did voluntary work among a huge population of Somalians & Sudanese. In South West London. Half a dozen tower blocks. Absolute no-go area for Police, Council, Social Work etc. we’re a bunch of softmugs”

  96. Well call me a twirly but I’m signing out for the rest of the evening.
    So it’s good evening to you all. 😉🤗 I might even top my glass up 🍷

  98. Another Times comment

    I feel that UK citizenship rights have been actively degraded by mass issue of UK passports, and that those issuing these passports have actively refused to defend the nation’s borders, while dismantling the UK’s national defence.

    1. 373911+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      Silence protects the party name Chas
      didncha know, you gotta vote tory (ino) party
      keep out lab (ino) party

  102. Evening, all. I thought TPTB had come to extinguish NoTTL when I glanced out of the window around noon. Blurry video doorbell image shows part of the cavalcade. Out of shot, to the left, were two further marked police cars.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/60c132bc6bb531c41a55ce07c4e6f8dfef0d8022f3a736cc86a8ea085021625b.png

    It transpired that some scrote had stolen a LR Defender (the proper sort, not the current hairdresser’s car), and parked it up on this quiet cul-de-sac, overnight. It was a bad choice. It transpires that the owner’s cleaner is in a relationship with someone who lives nearby, and she spotted and recognised the car. The owner came – mob handed as it were – to retrieve his pride and joy. As did the thief, armed with false plates and a knife. Simultaneously. A scuffle ensued, scrote was overpowered, wrestled to the ground, and held for the ten minutes or so it took Plod to arrive. And arrive they did. One marked car first with blues and twos, closely followed by a black BMW X5 which was in a great hurry. Three marked cars, one unmarked (which I took to be ‘Scenes of Crime’) and finally a van – presumably to take the offender(s) away.

    One hopes this is a good news story, but can’t help thinking that the offender will get off with a slap on the wrist. And the owner sent down for assault.

    G’night, all (as Dixon of Dock Green would prolly have said)…

      1. Like me – an excitement we can do without, but that is today’s way of living.

  103. Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolks.

    Dropping off in front of pooter, so time to retire. See you all in the morning’s light.

    1. Seems that, in falling asleep, again, I had neglected the fact that I had potatoes on to blanche and it subsequently set the fire alarm off – complete with fire engines et al, and an inquisition by them about my living habits.

      Ah well, another day and who cares.

        1. Use a kitchen timer whenever you put anything on the stove.

          They might want to get rid of you if fire engines are arriving regularly.

  104. The UK, as well as Wales, has gone bananas. We’ll just have to import more coal, as we’ve already been doing, for our steel industry, and when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine, for power.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65399546

    “The operators asked for an extension until 2024, arguing coal from the mine was needed by the steel industry.
    But planning officials advised that the proposed extension did not fit with Welsh government policies on tackling climate change.    “

    1. “Those seeking refuge” lol. Does she think we are stupid (or perhaps she really believes it???)

      1. Did I read that the ‘Brits’ being rescued from Sudan have addresses in the UK because they were flown in to Brize Norton by stupid pratts like Cameron. Supplied with houses and given all sorts of other free benefits.
        They’ve subsequently rented out the free housing. Had their endless benefits paid into their bank accounts along with the money from renting out the free council property. Returned to Sudan because its much warmer and cheaper to live there. Drawing down the money paid by their tenants and have just all been flown back to England again for free.
        Somehow our MSM seem to be missing a very important point.
        Especially the bbc news channel.
        Who have been salivating over the re-arrival of all these thieving cheats.

    3. ‘Morning Geoff, and thank you! Have you recovered from all the excitement?

      1. Just about, Sue. The thing about sleepy residential cul-de-sacs is that few people pass through, other than the residents. I have an unused, allocated parking bay. Last week, Sue the former Churchwarden, who frequently gives me lifts home, arranged for her OH to park in it, whilst he went up to London for some event or other. I’m three minutes’ walk from a station, which would charge handsomely for the same service.

        But he parked across the road in a public bay, exactly where the stolen Landy was stashed.

        Since my last post on the subject, I’ve learned that several residents weighed into the fray. I like living here… 😊

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