Wednesday 26 July: Desperate families should not have to fight the NHS to obtain care for their loved ones

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  1. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s story

    Back To The Nursery

    A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that the teller’s name is Patricia Whack. So he says, “Ms. Whack, I’d like to get a loan to buy a boat and go on a long vacation.”
    Patti looks at the frog in disbelief and asks how much he wants to borrow. The frog says $30,000. The teller asks his name and the frog says that his name is Kermit Jagger and that it’s OK, he knows the bank manager.
    Patti explains that $30,000 is a substantial amount of money and that he will need to secure some collateral against the loan. She asks if he has anything he can use as collateral.
    The frog says, “Sure. I have this.” And he produces a tiny pink porcelain elephant, about half an inch tall. It’s bright pink and perfectly formed.
    Very confused, Patti explains that she’ll have to consult with the manager; and disappears into a back office. She finds the manager and reports, “There’s a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you, and he wants to borrow $30,000. And he wants to use this as collateral.” She holds up the tiny pink elephant. “I mean, what the heck is this?”
    So the bank manager looks back at her and says, “It’s a knick knack, Patti Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man’s a Rolling Stone!”

    2. Good morning to our regular Faithfull Jester – you’ll be telling us about Mars Bars next!

      1. Divert the Thames through Whitehall, Westminster and the City: then start again.

  7. Desperate families should not have to fight the NHS to obtain care for their loved ones

    The NHS, from my experience if you are past a certain age just keeps sending you around the houses with appointments months apart for scans and tests until you succumb to whatever is ailing you and never giving a diagnoses.
    Then they put it down to natural causes

    1. I still have heard nothing since the company subcontracted by the NHS sold my skin cancer case to HealthHarmonie. There is nothing my local GP surgery can do about it – taken out of their hands by the Department of Health, which has commercial priorities to consider.

    2. Dame Rose certainly needs a Damascene conversion! She needs a Ruthless message from all Nottlers!

  9. ‘Morning All

    Alision Rose the epitome of the woke Common Purpose semi marxist drones that seek to ru(i)n our lives “stands down”

    Where next for her?? CP always look after their own as per Social service chiefs bungling rape scandals……

    Will she also be defenestrated from the prestigous government committee she co-chairs??

    “Alison Rose DBE to co-chair Government Energy Efficiency Taskforce”

    I further note Farage has not been offered his Coutts account back,this has much further to run and I look forward to many more scalps including some at the Al-Beeb but I won’t hold my breath…………….

    1. Well said, Rik. Farage’s campaign has been masterful, and he’s certainly not finished yet.

      1. If Farage had not lost his nerve at the last moment letting remainer MPs be unopposed in the last election then maybe he would have been able to ensure that Johnson delivered a proper Brexit instead of the shamble we have got.

        The way Farage was treated with contempt by the PTB has strengthened him and has shown that he could have been a far more effective politician than any of the effete idiots we have in office.

        I hope that Farage now goes after the odious Chris Bryant who hid behind Parliamentary Privilege to accuse him of receiving Russian money but was not prepared to make his accusations in public for fear of being destroyed by the legal action Farage would have taken.

        The more the odious left-leaning, woke House of Cards is brought down the better – it is high time.

        1. “Lost his nerve?” Nigel Farage has been in the public eye for the best part of 30 years, but without the mega rewards that some politicians accrue. (although he should receive an EC pension) He was seriously injured when a small plane crashed, he has been through a divorce and he has children (now older). In good faith he handed Boris the keys to an 80 seat majority, but the Westminster Elite has treated him, and the people of Wales Ireland Scotland & England like mushrooms.

        2. “Lost his nerve?” Nigel Farage has been in the public eye for the best part of 30 years, but without the mega rewards that some politicians accrue. (although he should receive an EC pension) He was seriously injured when a small plane crashed, he has been through a divorce and he has children (now older). In good faith he handed Boris the keys to an 80 seat majority, but the Westminster Elite has treated him, and the people of Wales Ireland Scotland & England like mushrooms.

        3. “Lost his nerve?” Nigel Farage has been in the public eye for the best part of 30 years, but without the mega rewards that some politicians accrue. (although he should receive an EC pension) He was seriously injured when a small plane crashed, he has been through a divorce and he has children (now older). In good faith he handed Boris the keys to an 80 seat majority, but the Westminster Elite has treated him, and the people of Wales Ireland Scotland & England like mushrooms.

    2. The whole power structure that led to Farage’s account being cancelled is still in place.
      The only lesson they will draw from this episode is that they need to control the internet too, so that the truth can never get out.

    3. Rik, I don’t see why the BBC should be held to blame.

      Information about certain account holders was given to one of the BBC senior reporters, and he reported it.

      What hasn’t yet been revealed is how many other account holders have had their confidential details revealed.

      1. Because Jenks a rabid remaniac was happy to conspire in an egregious breach of GPDR rules and regulations to defame someone he sees as a political opponent

    1. As one comment shows there are some strong women out there…

      …and thirsty!

  11. Good morning, all. Rain in the night – now blue skies.

    So Mr Farage’s nemesis has fallen on her sword. House of Lords next, I suppose….

    1. ‘Morning Bill. Sounds to me more like a case of ‘walk now or be fired’. No doubt the establishment will look after her. Nevertheless, her departure might just deter some others from briefing anonymously (and falsely) against those they hate.

      1. I think the Chairman needs to consider his position – as he expressed complete confidence in her only yesterday. But he won’t, of course.

    2. Either that or the US afterdinner speaking tour, about ‘Women’s Empowerment’.

    3. The Horror. The Horror.
      She will have to clock on to collect her mingey £342 per day.
      That won’t buy her a gold plated prawn sandwich.

      1. Don’t worry Anne.

        Sunak has already given her a nice senior job in the Civil Service…….she won’t starve.

  12. Medley Time

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    1. Good morning Rik, mucho gratitude as always, duly passed on to Facebook “Grumpy” followers.

      Vince

    2. Morning Rick.

      With #2 does anyone know why the phrase ‘ couldn’t care less’ has changed to ‘could care less’?

        1. It makes sense if regarded as a rhetorical question viz ‘I could care less?’

          1. But there was no question mark in the quote, and it was clearly a statement rather than a question.

          2. I agree in this situation, but I would hazard a guess that my suggestion may be the origin of it.

      1. The only thing that Grizz needs a ‘trigger warning’ for on this forum is you, Joey.

  13. Zelenskiy issues fresh corruption warning. 26 July 2023.

    Zelenskiy made anti-corruption appeals in his nightly video address as two landmark cases came to light – the arrests of a military recruitment official accused of mass embezzlement and of a parliamentarian accused of collaborating with Russia.

    The president last month announced plans to audit military draft offices to try to eliminate corruption.

    That he needs to address it publicly tells you how bad it is. Corruption in the military is an absolute killer of morale and fighting ability. The performance of Arab armies is the living proof of this. One strongly suspects that the Ukies are not nearly so effective as the MSM makes out!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jul/26/russia-ukraine-war-live-zelensky-corruption-warning-russia-conscription?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-64c09cd78f082e4442452253#block-64c09cd78f082e4442452253 !

    1. Zelenskiy. Anti-corruption. In the same sentence, separated by one word. He has no self-awareness, no shame.

    2. Zelensky’s biggest (only?) concern will be that it’s affecting his cut.

    3. A conscript army will tend to be less effective than a professional one, as the conscripts have no desire to be there. They will usually be more poorly trained as well, due to shortness of service, and thus more likely to be killed or injured, thus depressing morale further. I also wonder about their training and effectiveness in donated second-hand panzers, whose switchgear is labelled in another language and alphabet.

    4. The rank hypocrisy of Zelensky leading a drive to stop corruption … words almost fail me!

  14. Zelenskiy issues fresh corruption warning. 26 July 2023.

    Zelenskiy made anti-corruption appeals in his nightly video address as two landmark cases came to light – the arrests of a military recruitment official accused of mass embezzlement and of a parliamentarian accused of collaborating with Russia.

    The president last month announced plans to audit military draft offices to try to eliminate corruption.

    That he needs to address it publicly tells you how bad it is. Corruption in the military is an absolute killer of morale and fighting ability. The performance of Arab armies is the living proof of this. One strongly suspects that the Ukies are not nearly so effective as the MSM makes out!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jul/26/russia-ukraine-war-live-zelensky-corruption-warning-russia-conscription?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-64c09cd78f082e4442452253#block-64c09cd78f082e4442452253 !

    7. On any other forum Delboy might well be an Oldie. Not in this group of keyboard warriors.
      Many Happy Returns!

    8. On any other forum Delboy might well be an Oldie. Not in this group of keyboard warriors.
      Many Happy Returns!

    9. 🎶Happy Birthday, Delboy! Happy Birthday to you!🎶 Have a lovely day! 🥂🍾🎉🎉🎂🍰

      1. Thank you, pm. I am lucky to have had a lovely life so far and it seems there is more to come.

      1. Many happy returns.
        May every one of the 13 until your century be filled with luck and good fortune.

  17. 374843+ up ticks,

    Morning Each

    Wednesday 26 July: Desperate families should not have to fight the NHS to obtain care for their loved ones

    Just another issue among the many, as I mentioned in a prior post, once upon a time after having a serious illness you were sent on convalescents to a coastal resort, home etc
    “convalescents benefit from relaxation”

    Note,
    voting pattern dictates ALL such places are now pre-booked for foreign potential patients / troops.

    Currently due to the voting pattern the “patient” starts many a procedure via the car park waiting ambulance, corridor, ward.

    Note, voting pattern.

    Currently the voting pattern results (political overseers ) dictate that the indigenous MUST be brought to heel regarding
    obedience, submissiveness, ANY opposition will be met with, never to be forgotten actions, lessons MUST be learnt.

    As long as the voting never changes these lessons can and will be used again & again.

    So, could it be the voting pattern, “party before
    Country /peoples welfare that is at fault” ?

    So, is supporting / voting for the lab/lib/con WEF / NWO with royal seal coalition party, and their planned future agenda going to prove to be ANTI indigenous, BIG TIME.

    Note, voting pattern.

  18. Good Day Folks,

    Sunny start to the day at McPhee Towers but is going to cloud over from late morning and heavy rain expected by 6pm. Wind Sou’-West, 12℃, rising to 19℃ before falling again as the weather arrives.

    From the letters:

    How net zero was foisted on the British public

    SIR – In June 2019 Chris Skidmore, the former energy minister, signed legislation to commit the UK to a legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050.

    There was no consultation with the public. While both the banning of internal combustion engine car sales by 2030 and the support for a net zero transition for the oil and gas sector were two of the pledges in the 2019 Conservative manifesto, they were not given a high profile in the party’s election campaign.

    That the “upset” for Labour in Uxbridge and South Ruislip has been attributed to the rejection of the ultra-low emission zone should act as a wake-up call for both parties. The public is not prepared to be impoverished in the pursuit of net-zero policies that will produce little discernible benefit for the world’s air quality, while developing countries use coal to get richer and produce the materials we are using to pursue this agenda.

    In contrast to Guy Henderson (Letters, July 24), I believe this is the first opportunity that the public has had to make its voice heard – and the first political party to start abandoning the net-zero agenda will certainly get my vote.

    Nigel Lofting
    West Chiltington, West Sussex

    Nigel does quite go far enough. I wrote to my MP, Kit Malthouse, some months ago on the subject. I told him I would not be voting for any candidate of any party at any election, national or local, who would not commit to dumping net zero and all measures aimed at net zero, the repeal of the Climate Change Act (2008) and the ending of all green surcharges on energy bills. I’ll leave it to your imaginations to guess the tenor of his reply.

    Perhaps it’s time to write to him again.

    1. Just about word for word of my recent email to my MP too. Problem is, Merriman is also a junior minister, hence his support for the proposed ‘asylum seeker’ centre near here. He should be supporting his constituents instead of his job. Come the GE the intention around here is that he will end up with neither!

    2. Just about word for word of my recent email to my MP too. Problem is, Merriman is also a junior minister, hence his support for the proposed ‘asylum seeker’ centre near here. He should be supporting his constituents instead of his job. Come the GE the intention around here is that he will end up with neither!

    1. I just cannot believe that anyone – whether or not on £5 million p.a. – was stupid enough to pee off such a high profile and articulate public figure.
      Do I assume that bankers are licensed to practice? Does this mean she’ll be defrocked? de-pinstriped?

        1. Head on a spike above London Bridge?
          My inner Mme Defarge is getting restless.

    2. Good morning Izaak Walton, and everybody.

      She went a while ago, but her avatar remained whilst her farewell fund was being agreed. As a Telegraph btl comment says, a Rose may fall, but the Thorn continues.

      1. If she had been sacked she would have lost her pension and her golden goodbye.

        ………so the Board quietly asked her to resign.

        ………..and Sunak has given her a job in the Civil Service as Co Chair of The Energy Efficiency Task Force.

        They always protect their own !!

    1. Reminds me of the school library in the school in which I toiled: the Careers Section was placed beside the Fiction Section.

  21. A nuclear war could wipe out all of humanity, and nobody seems to care. 26 July 2023.

    Watching Oppenheimer was to be struck by the fact that the threat remains as real as ever and yet no one seems to take it seriously anymore, not in the way they once did.

    There are no marches to Aldermaston, no women chained to the railings at Greenham Common, and no extant talks between the countries that possess these weapons over how to limit them. Once we all knew the acronyms, like Start and Salt, aimed at controlling strategic arms development; now we rarely hear of them. Pivotal meetings, including the summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, seem to belong to another age.

    Yes it’s curious. There are columnists who openly advocate NATO joining in on the side (I haven’t written it off by any means) of Ukraine, seemingly unaware that this would almost certainly precipitate WWIII. The best guide I find is the Spectator threads where the Government Trolls can’t get enough blood to satiate them. There is 100% support for war with Russia which is some guide to the thinking of their superiors. The reasons for this gung ho attitude are rather obscure. Could it be because there are very few people in the West who actually know what it is like to be at war?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/25/nuclear-war-wipe-out-humanity-nobody-cares/

    1. Extraordinary isn’t it? I think you’re right; very few understand the reality because, not only have they no experience of war, they have done no military service so they have no insight, no knowledge of weapon effects and therefore no imagination of the horrors of it. As Peter Hitchens put it: once you have seen what a bullet passing through a human skull will do, as I have, you will be forever in horror at the prospect (or something like that). Scale that up to a nuclear device. In my time in the RAF I was involved with nuclear weapons. I know about them. That’s all I will say.

  22. Good morning all.
    A pleasant 8½°C outside and a dry morning with clear blue skies.

    37 years since the DT and myself tied the knot and that bloody licence still hasn’t expired!

    5. That licence might not have expired but I bet there are a few endorsements on it.😉

  23. Trying to imagine now what would have happened if the Farage dispute with Coutts had occurred under a Labour government, would Labour Ministers have welcomed the debanking of Farage because it suited their politics and not cared about the sinister political affects of having big corporations and businesses working hand in hand with the powers that be at canceling people for their lawful beliefs that don’t fit their agenda.
    Would they have worried that one day that they would come for them or us?

  24. I see Wes Streeting is in Cloud-Cuckoo Land. He appears to be unaware that the Government DOES NOT run the NHS, but the NUS runs the NHS:-

    SIR – As your Leading Article (July 24) rightly points out, the last-minute £750 million fund to improve discharge times has made little to no difference: a stark case of too little, too late, with taxpayers’ money wasted on failed investment.

    Clearly, throwing money at the problem cannot be used as a sticking plaster for health and social care. It’s vital that investment is accompanied by immediate and sustained reform. We need to deliver more care outside hospitals and in the community, improving discharge times and reducing hospital admissions, supported by expansion of the workforce and the use of new technologies. This is how Labour will fix the back door of the NHS.

    As you correctly identify, solving this complex issue is crucial to preventing an NHS crisis in the coming winter. The Government must face up to this problem now. Soon, it will be too late. As part of a long-term plan, a Labour government will deliver the urgent reforms the health service so desperately needs. Until then, the NHS will continue to fight a losing battle.

    Wes Streeting MP (Lab)
    Shadow health secretary
    London SW1

    Some BTL Comments:-

    richard packer
    1 HR AGO
    A nice encouraging O level essay from Wes Streeting, let’s wait and see how good he when in the job.

    John Bates
    1 HR AGO
    So Wes Streeting says throwing money at the NHS is not a solution without reform. Strange, because throwing money at the NHS with no reform appears to be Labour’s only solution. They consistently oppose any proposals to reform the NHS.

    Frances Craddock
    1 HR AGO
    Does Wes Streetings letter, particularly the last paragraph, qualifyfrom a MRD award

    Julyan Coe
    1 HR AGO
    Certainly the most vacuous letter lacking in substance nor acknowledging the vested interests that will need facing down and numerous redundancies to be made.

    Finian Manson
    3 HRS AGO
    Wes Streeting MP misses a number of salient points in his letter.
    Surprisingly, I do believe in some instances he does talk a lot of common sense but he will face resistance within his own party.
    The reality is that the NHS is unaffordable and no longer fit for purpose and certainly does not deliver value for money.
    It has something like 1.8 million employees at the moment with a further 200,000 due to be recruited. On top of that, it employs something like half million people on else.
    Between all those groups the NHS employs nearly 20% of the working population. That is quite simply unsustainable particularly when this government caves on pay demands and the accompanying pension costs.
    We now have less hospital in hospital beds and when the NHS was formed in 1948. We also have more than 10 times number of staff employed. Indeed, in 1948 there was a mere 144,000 employees the majority of whom were clinical or medical not clerical or administrative. Now, it is estimated that well over half are involved in some form administrative role including transferring data between incompatible systems or just filling in forms for discharge.
    I see nothing of substance in Wes Streeting’s letter that explains how “urgent reforms” will be delivered let alone how much they will cost!

  25. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a5053b95cb8741e81e2db27032df3a76808139f256e9c10a5e532384d9aa4de6.png
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/25/dame-alison-rose-statement-in-full-nigel-farage-bbc-coutts/

    We all make errors of judgment from time to time. But surely if we were paid several millions of pounds each year not to make errors of judgement then we should surely expect to lose our jobs and never be placed again in any position of responsibility.

    The Dame’s error was so crass she deserves no second chances.

    BTL : Percival Wrattstrangler

    People always remind us that Nigel Farage never won a seat in the House of Commons even though he tried several times.

    The revelation of the fear and contempt in which he is held by the PTB makes me wonder if all the parliamentary elections in which he stood were tampered with and the counting was corrupt in order to ensure that his voice was never heard in Parliament.

    Likewise the view that Trump lost the Presidential election in 2020 has made many people wonder if the whole process was rigged against him and the result was a travesty.

    If there is no longer any faith in the people who run the democratic process then democracy is already in its death throes.

    1. “It’s not those that vote who decide elections, it’s those that count the votes that decide elections.”
      (c) a Russkie whose name I forget for the moment. Stalin, maybe.

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    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/25/dame-alison-rose-statement-in-full-nigel-farage-bbc-coutts/

    We all make errors of judgment from time to time. But surely if we were paid several millions of pounds each year not to make errors of judgement then we should surely expect to lose our jobs and never be placed again in any position of responsibility.

    The Dame’s error was so crass she deserves no second chances.

    BTL : Percival Wrattstrangler

    People always remind us that Nigel Farage never won a seat in the House of Commons even though he tried several times.

    The revelation of the fear and contempt in which he is held by the PTB makes me wonder if all the parliamentary elections in which he stood were tampered with and the counting was corrupt in order to ensure that his voice was never heard in Parliament.

    Likewise the view that Trump lost the Presidential election in 2020 has made many people wonder if the whole process was rigged against him and the result was a travesty.

    If there is no longer any faith in the people who run the democratic process then democracy is already in its death throes.

    2. From the Daily Mail article:-

      A trans woman who blasted a hotel spa for not giving her a key to a female changing room has sparked a furious row with critics including Sharron Davies.

      Anne Coombes, 65, vented on Twitter that her day was ‘spoilt’ after finding she was unable to get her locker key to work in the female changing room of the four-star Mercure Hotel in Sheffield.

      She alleged that a member of staff had ‘assumed’ that she wanted to use the unisex changing facilities and has since demanded that the worker is sent for gender sensitivity training.

      Man who thinks he’s a woman demands that hotel staff member be sent for ‘re-education’.

      1. Who the hell do these people think they are? And why do they imagine that anyone cares what they think they are?

        1. Tut, tut, you are treading on thin ice! They are very sensitive, very easily upset, fragile personalities. They are a very important section of society whose feelings must never be neglected. They are important to nonentity politicians as they are a bandwagon to be jumped on as these politicians have no experience of real life as reality is unknown to them. Therefore every slight against this fragile section of society must be blasted all over the MSM and used to underpin the equality argument, and we must all step aside from normality to accommodate their feelings.

        2. It is ego. I am special, therefore must be treated as special. You must make me feel special by my having power to control what you can and cannot say.

          As the Warqueen said ‘If he wants to look at boobs, do what other men do and get on the internet.’

        3. It is ego. I am special, therefore must be treated as special. You must make me feel special by my having power to control what you can and cannot say.

          As the Warqueen said ‘If he wants to look at boobs, do what other men do and get on the internet.’

      2. Meanwhile, all the real women and girls thank the hotel worker for protecting them.

    3. I wonder how many milliseconds it took him to think up that little joke?
      The sad thing is how many people will believe it.

      (Edit as sent before finished writing it!)

  31. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/082953e969df84062b633b20acf743807a684fc78f6d46966d900ffdc3a513d1.png

    The red-berried heads of Arum maculatum (snakeshead, adder’s root, arum, wild arum, arum lily, lords-and-ladies, devils and angels, cows and bulls, cuckoo-pint, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked girls, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar’s cowl, sonsie-give-us-your-hand, jack in the pulpit, cheese and toast, and if those are not suggestive enough, the willy-lily) do not ‘pop up overnight’. Anne Hanley is clearly not one of nature’s most observant or switched-on garden watchers. the flower of the cuckoo-pint (my favourite name for the flower) does not emerge, overnight, fully berried. It emerges as a flower in spring, gets pollinated over the summer, then produces its berries in autumn. Mizz Hanley should get out more often.

    2. I’ll let her know. She and her husband live on the route to my local. A staunch pair who are on every village committee, members of the Am Dram, organisers of the village fête etc.

        1. They’re harmless enough. I was tricked into a village hall committee for 2 years with them. I escaped some years back.

    3. And the berries are green when they first form. She’s only noticed them now they have turned red.

    4. Afternoon, Grizz.
      I’ve quite a few up that bit of Derbyshire hillside that misleadingly passes its self off as “my garden”!

  32. I see from today’s DT that today is Mick Jagger’s 80th Birthday.

    I hope the confectionary company will give him a presentation box of 80 Mars Bars with which to celebrate!

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    He has certainly had – and is still having – a very full life – but he ‘s not a patch on our own Delboy who turns 87 today!

  33. I see from today’s DT that today is Mick Jagger’s 80th Birthday.

    I hope the confectionary company will give him a presentation box of 80 Mars Bars to celebrate his birthday!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/74cf53a5713d61a54b5ab1a139ecd330c35ee693df0da895778c8106615e08fd.png

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e9ca9bf1629ac2ecd06e027e0d6bf9cf249adbd99be95f6aacd5f7d4c6c87755.png

    He has certainly had – and is still having – a very full life – but he ‘s not a patch on our own Delboy who turns 87 today!

  36. Latest Breaking News – Anti car and oil environmentalist started fires in Rhodes by mistake while blaming it on his dyslexia

  37. An article in today’s Conservative Woman.

    South Africa, willing slave of the New Nazis By Karen Harradine

    SOUTH Africa is falling apart. Crime is accelerating to unimaginable levels. Since January, there have been more than 6,200 murders and 10,500 rapes. Robberies and assaults are at an all-time high.

    Many in the country are at risk of starvation, accelerated by the regressive land reforms of the governing African National Congress (ANC) and severe Covid-19 restrictions. Government-sanctioned attacks on white farmers have increased food insecurity, especially for the poorest black South Africans.

    Thanks to greed and corruption, the country’s once-solid infrastructure is crumbling, exacerbating its junk economic status. More than half live in grinding poverty, barely surviving on £60 a month. Yet President Cyril Ramaphosa’s regime saw fit to give government ministers a salary increase last year, paying them over £104,000 a year.

    The real inequality in South Africa is not racism, nor is it caused by ‘pandemics’ or ‘climate change’. It is between the ruling elite and their afflicted citizens. Like socialist/fascist despots in history, they enrich the minority at the expense of an all but enslaved majority.

    The ANC have plundered and ruined their own country and made it ripe for capture, whether by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), World Economic Forum (WEF), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), and all those intent on globally implementing the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030. South Africa is right at the centre of their malevolent form of social engineering.

    Heavily indebted to the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative, the political class obeyed the catastrophic Covid-19 lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations demanded by Professor Salim Karim, the UN’s powerful cipher in South Africa. Ramaphosa has signed his country up to the WHO’s tyrannical Pandemic Treaty and, two years ago, at the COP26, the ANC formed an unprecedented ‘partnership’ with Western governments, receiving $8.5billion to become a ‘low-carbon economy’. An economy built on electricity and coal is a grievous sin for the New Nazi globalists, so no wonder the ANC repeatedly fail to solve South Africa’s electricity crisis and subsequent load shedding, repelling overseas investors and making life miserable for most of the country.

    The ANC’s malicious plans to tackle the current water shortage by imposing water restrictions on whites is a harbinger of how they plan to control resources.

    None of this is coincidence, but an ominous sign that South Africa is planned as Case Zero for the establishment of Agenda 2030. Together with the World Bank and WEF, the UN is keen to impose biometric ID systems throughout Africa: an elegant name for the digital slavery embedded in Agenda 2030. The treacherous ANC have willingly done their bidding with startling speed.

    Their latest nod to the plans of the New Nazis is the proposed National Biometric ID System and Registry Bill, a digital record of everyone in South Africa, including foreigners. (In line with the anti-science dogma of the UN, South Africans can tick a box marked ‘non-binary’ if they don’t wish to register as male or female.) Threats of hefty fines and long prison sentences for incorrect information or fake IDs will make it impossible to escape. There is little information available on how much this will cost taxpayers but it will most certainly run into billions. Data breaches are a real risk given the ANC’s propensity for corruption and incompetence.

    This new form of digital slavery spits on the memory of those South Africans who suffered under the Apartheid passbook system. Under threats of imprisonment, black South Africans were forced to carry identity papers known as ‘dompasses’, for which they also had to be fingerprinted. Passbooks gave the regime strict control over the movement and employment of millions. The ANC should be ashamed of themselves for imposing a tool of totalitarian control which so closely echoes the oppression of blacks during the Apartheid era.

    Adults and children as young as ten will be fingerprinted and issued IDs. Forget any idea of child protection: the ANC ruling elite have form in their barbaric treatment of the country’s youth. In effect they signed their death warrants when they locked them up with their tuberculosis-infected elders in the name of Covid-19. Today, almost a third of children are suffering from stunted growth caused by malnutrition, bound to get worse in the economically disastrous pursuit of Agenda 2030. Falling educational standards, endemic corruption and sexual abuse are all rife in schools.

    The South African political elite show no sign of solving any of the problems, preferring instead to push on with Agenda 2030 even though it will make life even more intolerable for millions.

    My fellow South Africans have suffered enough at the hands of power-mad monsters. The New Nazis and their useful idiots such as the ANC cannot be allowed to succeed with their plans in South Africa. If they do, the domino effect for the rest of us is surely close behind.

    BTL

    My father was the governor of the Northern Province of the Sudan.

    Look at the Sudan now – can anybody claim that the ordinary people are now happier, safer, and more secure and more prosperous than they were in my father’s time>

    Indeed, can anybody name a country in Africa governed by its indigenous people in which the ordinary people are now happier, safer, and more secure and more prosperous than they were when it was governed by the British colonial system.

  38. An article in today’s Conservative Woman.

    South Africa, willing slave of the New Nazis By Karen Harradine

    SOUTH Africa is falling apart. Crime is accelerating to unimaginable levels. Since January, there have been more than 6,200 murders and 10,500 rapes. Robberies and assaults are at an all-time high.

    Many in the country are at risk of starvation, accelerated by the regressive land reforms of the governing African National Congress (ANC) and severe Covid-19 restrictions. Government-sanctioned attacks on white farmers have increased food insecurity, especially for the poorest black South Africans.

    Thanks to greed and corruption, the country’s once-solid infrastructure is crumbling, exacerbating its junk economic status. More than half live in grinding poverty, barely surviving on £60 a month. Yet President Cyril Ramaphosa’s regime saw fit to give government ministers a salary increase last year, paying them over £104,000 a year.

    The real inequality in South Africa is not racism, nor is it caused by ‘pandemics’ or ‘climate change’. It is between the ruling elite and their afflicted citizens. Like socialist/fascist despots in history, they enrich the minority at the expense of an all but enslaved majority.

    The ANC have plundered and ruined their own country and made it ripe for capture, whether by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), World Economic Forum (WEF), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), and all those intent on globally implementing the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030. South Africa is right at the centre of their malevolent form of social engineering.

    Heavily indebted to the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative, the political class obeyed the catastrophic Covid-19 lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations demanded by Professor Salim Karim, the UN’s powerful cipher in South Africa. Ramaphosa has signed his country up to the WHO’s tyrannical Pandemic Treaty and, two years ago, at the COP26, the ANC formed an unprecedented ‘partnership’ with Western governments, receiving $8.5billion to become a ‘low-carbon economy’. An economy built on electricity and coal is a grievous sin for the New Nazi globalists, so no wonder the ANC repeatedly fail to solve South Africa’s electricity crisis and subsequent load shedding, repelling overseas investors and making life miserable for most of the country.

    The ANC’s malicious plans to tackle the current water shortage by imposing water restrictions on whites is a harbinger of how they plan to control resources.

    None of this is coincidence, but an ominous sign that South Africa is planned as Case Zero for the establishment of Agenda 2030. Together with the World Bank and WEF, the UN is keen to impose biometric ID systems throughout Africa: an elegant name for the digital slavery embedded in Agenda 2030. The treacherous ANC have willingly done their bidding with startling speed.

    Their latest nod to the plans of the New Nazis is the proposed National Biometric ID System and Registry Bill, a digital record of everyone in South Africa, including foreigners. (In line with the anti-science dogma of the UN, South Africans can tick a box marked ‘non-binary’ if they don’t wish to register as male or female.) Threats of hefty fines and long prison sentences for incorrect information or fake IDs will make it impossible to escape. There is little information available on how much this will cost taxpayers but it will most certainly run into billions. Data breaches are a real risk given the ANC’s propensity for corruption and incompetence.

    This new form of digital slavery spits on the memory of those South Africans who suffered under the Apartheid passbook system. Under threats of imprisonment, black South Africans were forced to carry identity papers known as ‘dompasses’, for which they also had to be fingerprinted. Passbooks gave the regime strict control over the movement and employment of millions. The ANC should be ashamed of themselves for imposing a tool of totalitarian control which so closely echoes the oppression of blacks during the Apartheid era.

    Adults and children as young as ten will be fingerprinted and issued IDs. Forget any idea of child protection: the ANC ruling elite have form in their barbaric treatment of the country’s youth. In effect they signed their death warrants when they locked them up with their tuberculosis-infected elders in the name of Covid-19. Today, almost a third of children are suffering from stunted growth caused by malnutrition, bound to get worse in the economically disastrous pursuit of Agenda 2030. Falling educational standards, endemic corruption and sexual abuse are all rife in schools.

    The South African political elite show no sign of solving any of the problems, preferring instead to push on with Agenda 2030 even though it will make life even more intolerable for millions.

    My fellow South Africans have suffered enough at the hands of power-mad monsters. The New Nazis and their useful idiots such as the ANC cannot be allowed to succeed with their plans in South Africa. If they do, the domino effect for the rest of us is surely close behind.

    BTL

    My father was the governor of the Northern Province of the Sudan.

    Look at the Sudan now – can anybody claim that the ordinary people are now happier, safer, and more secure and more prosperous than they were in my father’s time>

    Indeed, can anybody name a country in Africa governed by its indigenous people in which the ordinary people are now happier, safer, and more secure and more prosperous than they were when it was governed by the British colonial system.

      1. He probably is very happy, and very rich , but bear in mind that most of the media strongly supported him.

        …and as far as we know, the media still do admire him.

    4. “The ANC have plundered and ruined their own country”
      Hands up all those who are surprised.

  39. I suggest that the endless, world-wide publicity given to “wild fires” has encouraged pyromaniacs to get lighting….

    1. I can’t match that comment.

      Morning BT and all.
      I managed to swat just one annoying fly yesterday so I know how bad it must be near Fakenham.

      1. What with all these strikes at home, I’m sure it wont be long until we are ablaze..

        1. On a lighter note, I did read in the Mail today that the man who started some of them last year was finally convicted.

    2. The Special Arson Unit organised and funded by the WEF is receiving the highest praise from Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and Georges Soros. The Great Reset is well on the way.

  40. Supposedly a tweet from the NYT Health: “So you want to go outside — despite the heat, heavy rainfall and poor air quality affecting millions this summer. Here’s how to determine whether it’s safe to leave the house.”
    Clicking brings us to the headline “Is It Safe to Go Outside? How to Navigate This Cruel Summer.”
    Never mind dark red colours on weather maps, how about this idea:
    https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/47762/?fbclid=IwAR1v9SXEBWjELDm1cYHBkjCph-B7XirQCC2MQPSH_pAFrZnW9fWkdgX0xa4

    1. New York may be very different to the UK, but outside it’s a pleasant 21’c and Junior is building Mongo a deep paddling pool.

      1. But was he sure it was ‘safe’ to go outside? Did he use appropriate protective clothing?
        Nanny state on steroids.
        Weather is similar here today.

          1. Fluffy :))
            He needs to have a sun hat with high level UV protection too. Maybe combined with a hard hat for good measure.

          4. Plus a “sustificate” to prove you have been on the 250 one day “training” course.

        2. Fairly parky here – it spotted with rain an hour or so ago and I’ve put a fleecy top on.

          1. Dry here – for now. I think there’s heavy rain forecast for us tonight. It’s a climate emergency after all …..

          5. Been very hot all day with the occasional cloud passing over. Got the grass cut and a load of oatcakes made whilst the electricity for the oven was free

    1. When she first gave Farage his marching orders she was rewarded by being given the Co Chair of a Government quango.

      Now it’s all got hot Sunak has withdrawn the reward according to Sky Business News.

      Nothing has been mentioned about the compensation that she will receive for loss of post.

    1. The same could be said of the majority of BBC presenters. They are quite incapable of listening to an answer for more than five seconds and have an instinctive need to correct throughout. I’m surprised a few more interviewees haven’t blown up before now.

      1. Oh, not true, Bill. If that were a Lefty, they’d give them 5 minutes of uninterrupted waffle, a question that goes along the lines of ‘If you don’t do what you’re saying, things will get much worse, won’t they?’ just to reinforce the word salad.

        Get a Right minded fellow on there and you get this:
        Righty: Well, what…
        BBC: No, sorry, you’re wrong.
        Righty: But I’ve no….
        BBC, and again, you won’t answer the question!
        Righty: If you’d let me
        BBC: No, that’s not true, is it.
        Righty: But I’ve…
        BBC: You’re saying this. It’s nonsense, isn’t it?
        Righty: I’ve not…
        BBC: We will have to disagree… that was Mr Right minded, from the Far Right think tank taxes are bad for the economy and, quite clearly, they are good and right and should be higher. Over to someone else.

        1. Since when was unshaven acceptable during a business day?
          I know I’m just old fashioned, thankfully.

          4. My younger sister having had four children with her first husband decided to have a second husband 12 years her junior with whom to have two more.

            Some people seem to think that Caroline must be my daughter but strangely enough, nobody, as far as I know, has ever thought that I might be Caroline’s son.

    2. Says he was “just teasing…” No you weren’t, Nick – you were having a dig. Only when it was flung back in your face with added interest did it morph into “Just teasing”.

  44. Electric car ‘sets huge cargo ship on fire in North Sea’: One sailor dead and 23 evacuated from burning 18,500-tonne container ship carrying 3,000 cars
    Cargo ship was sailing from Germany to Egypt when an electric car caught fire
    Crew attempted to put the flames out themselves, with at least one being killed

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12338705/One-sailor-dead-23-evacuated-burning-18-500-tonne-cargo-ship-carrying-3-000-cars-North-Sea-Holland-electric-vehicle-caught-fire.html

    1. Will insurance companies put punitive premiums of ships with highly dangerous cargoes like electric cars.
      One can only hope.

        1. Not to mention “a regular battery”.

          Does that battery return at precise pre-determined intervals? Or are its bowel movements predictable?

          4. Just imagine the outcry in the USofA if Grizz made a video and referred to “pavements” and “taps”…..AND expected the Septics to understand…!!!

    3. An EV causing a container ship to burn and (probably) sink, never, I’m sure they will soon change the story to a rogue diesel car.

        1. Any tunnel for that matter….who knows what is in front of you, especially when stuck in traffic, think of high suspension bridges….

      1. The BBC headline will be ‘climate change caused fire onboard vessel. Post Brexit safety regulations to blame.’

        That’s how they think!

      2. 3 hours ago the BBC finally mentioned the vessel ablaze, and that it carried some EVs that started the fire.

    5. Puts a whole new spin on fire ships. Heh, it really is the 16th century! We have religious conflict, the desperation to silence people who think differently, backstabbing, treachery, an invading army, an unwanted government, we’re taxed to the hilt and we’re using fireships in the channel!

    6. There are enough documented cases of electric bike a d electric scooter batteries going off in homes (inc. terraces and flats) to alarm us all as to their dangers. Yet still they are pushed upon us “to save the planet”.

      They must think we are stupid. And, to be fair, there are enough smug middle-class Non-Lib Non-Dem voters where I live to prove them right.

  45. Call me old-fashioned – but I still cannot get my head around the fact that the head of a national bank disclosed confidential information about a customer to a journalist.

    If a bank CLERK had done it – his career would have ended then and there.

    1. I’m surprised you’re surprised! The nepotism and corruption in the state is vast. I imagine there was a concerted campaign to oust Farage. The BBC and this woman got together over lunch to do him in. No doubt the BBC expected to run the story without hinderance, smear their enemy and the bank expected to get away with it Scott free, all Lefties together.

      In fact, what I am more interested in is why that *didn’t* happen. The state always protects it’s own.

      1. Is it possible that this is some sort of psy-op to nationalise the banks en route to CBDC? In that the public sees banks as not to be trusted? And killing two birds with one stone (psychopaths love that, excellent value for their investment)) – they ‘get’ Farage and are a good step nearer to their imposition of DC. Although why the public should trust the nationalisation of banks in the hands of this corrupt, rogue government is beyond me.

    2. Bill, you haven’t asked what other confidential information about other peoples’ accounts has been revealed by Dame Alison

      to her “woke” friends.

      Perhaps this was the real reason for her departure —too many politicians have Coutts accounts and they are sensitive

      to their financial affairs being revealed to the BBC.

    3. She thought she was one of The Chosen so rules don’t apply to her.

      She never intended to pass on actual information about Farage, she was just starting a concocted story to try and ridicule him and shut him up, with the help of her allies at the BBC.

    1. Listening to it with the sound off and he looks like a toddler having a tantrum.

        1. I wonder if he is – by chance – distantly related to Will Kerr – this chap:

          Devon and Cornwall police chief constable suspended over alleged misconduct

  49. Kevin Spacey found not guilty of sexual assault. 26 July 2023.

    Kevin Spacey has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting four men following a trial at Southwark Crown Court.

    The Academy Award winning actor had tears in his eyes as jurors cleared him of nine sex offences.

    After 12 hours and 26 minutes, the jury panel acquitted Spacey of seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.

    You probably only end up on charges like this if you are rich. Which is lucky; because that is about the only thing that is going to get you off!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/26/kevin-spacey-trial-latest-found-not-guilty-sexual-assault-court/

    1. I suspect the “victims” had an eye on vast compensation….

      (But then I am a cynic…)

    2. I still think he has a seedy, slimy look about him.
      No smoke without fire.

    2. That is precisely what Mick Jagger sang.

      “I can’t get no satisfaction” is a double negative.

  51. Just found this series of disasters on YT: https://youtube.com/shorts/USTKMMV6WBg?feature=share
    We looked at a newbuild house near Horsham a couple of years before we came to Norway, so about 27 years ago. This started in the bedroom, where the window wouldn’t open fully because the guttering was in the way; floors were neither level nor flat, and sloped down by the walls; doors didn’t shut properly as the sneck didn’t match the slot. Kitchen floor was concrete and hadn’t been smoothed… and on, and on, and on… we didn’t buy. Shocking, it was, just like these videos.

  52. I think the most distasteful aspect of the Nat West thing is that Rose allows her roots to show…..

  53. Tough going – Bogey Five.

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        1. As a child I could never work out what the hell that was supposed to be!

          A pig’s head on an elephant’s body in a romper suit!

          1. One of my aunts – one my mother’s older sisters called Bill – used to take the Daily Mail in which Rufus and Flook were featured and that’s how I met Flook having no idea that it was supposed to be political satire.

            When I was about 7 years old Aunt Bill used to send me off to the Rising Sun pub in St Mawes to buy her packets of Olivier cigarettes and bottles of gin. My reward was a glass of ginger beer which I drank on the premises.

            Of course these days the landlord would lose his licence for serving me!

    2. Me too. Yet when the penny finally dropped, it seemed so obvious!

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    4. Hang on, did it hours ago.
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  54. Ukraine launches ‘high-intensity assault with 100 armoured vehicles’. 26 July 2023

    Kyiv’s forces reportedly launched a “high-intensity” assault in Zaporizhzhia, southeast Ukraine, sending waves of armoured vehicles against Russian positions.

    Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Moscow-backed regional government, said Ukraine had partially breached several sections of Russian defences but was eventually pushed back.

    He wrote on Telegram: “At least 100 units of armoured vehicles were thrown into the attack by the enemy on the Orikhiv section of the Zaporizhzhia front.

    “As a result of several waves of attacks in the area of the settlement Robotyne… the enemy managed to wedge in three sections of our first line of defence.

    “The fighters of these brigades have been trained abroad, and…. are primarily equipped with Western models of military equipment, including Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
    ”
    Around a third of the armoured vehicles were apparently destroyed by Russian artillery.

    It wasn’t big enough. It didn’t go anywhere, It wasn’t aimed at anything! It looks suspiciously like an operation to counter the recent criticism by the Germans et al. that they are fighting too slowly!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/26/ukraine-russia-war-romania-air-defence-putin-zelensky/

  55. Ukraine launches ‘high-intensity assault with 100 armoured vehicles’. 26 July 2023

    Kyiv’s forces reportedly launched a “high-intensity” assault in Zaporizhzhia, southeast Ukraine, sending waves of armoured vehicles against Russian positions.

    Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Moscow-backed regional government, said Ukraine had partially breached several sections of Russian defences but was eventually pushed back.

    He wrote on Telegram: “At least 100 units of armoured vehicles were thrown into the attack by the enemy on the Orikhiv section of the Zaporizhzhia front.

    “As a result of several waves of attacks in the area of the settlement Robotyne… the enemy managed to wedge in three sections of our first line of defence.

    “The fighters of these brigades have been trained abroad, and…. are primarily equipped with Western models of military equipment, including Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
    ”
    Around a third of the armoured vehicles were apparently destroyed by Russian artillery.

    It wasn’t big enough. It didn’t go anywhere, It wasn’t aimed at anything! It looks suspiciously like an operation to counter the recent criticism by the Germans et al. that they are fighting too slowly!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/26/ukraine-russia-war-romania-air-defence-putin-zelensky/

  56. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5d02839dae67e661472ea2c3aeae2a9dde70f573f881e384f79e1519879a3bce.png Ross Clark: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/26/now-strip-alison-rose-of-her-damehood/

    BTL Percival Wrattstrangler

    Of course the corrupt woman must lose her title and be banned from ever working in the political or financial sectors ever again.

    Nigel Farage certainly deserves a knighthood for services to the public and his exceptional services to banking by pricking the banks into having to put their houses in order.

    1. I do not imagine for one minute that the banks will “put their houses in order.” This is a nine days wonder.

    2. 374843+ up ticks,

      R,
      Only a confirmed sucker would believe so in a sane world, currently that would put him on par with anthony charlie lynton, so in my book yes, why not.

  58. That’s me gone for today. Quite a nice day until just now when it clouded over and became chilly.

    A very good village funeral. About 100 people. My one surprise was that the lady was six years younger than I am. I had always assumed she was much older – she certainly acted that way. Her husband, poor chap, is totally bereft and has taken to a wheel-chair. Thank goodness they have a live-in carer.

    It all sobers one, does it not? As my late brother used to say at funerals, “Who’s next?”

    Anyway – have a pleasant evening. Market tomorrow AND the builders to re-tile a section of the roof (rain forecast, natch)….

    A demain. DV.

      1. Good to know that by contrast our main political parties, our MSM and our Police Force are all squeaky clean!

        1. 374843+ up ticks,

          Evening R,
          The electoral majority tell you that is correct by their voting pattern, must then be the remaining voters that are at fault.

  60. 374843+ up ticks,

    The prime cause of much of this is the continual odious self inflicted voting pattern.

    If it continues in the same manner ALL will eventually be solved via the WEF / NWO coalition allotting the obedient home seekers a state pod.

    https://gettr.com/post/p2mtzzf0b5a

  61. I see the Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has died, aged 56. I was never a fan, but 56 is too young (the same age as me and my schoolfriend, whose funeral I attended in May).

    1. Oh, man.
      That’s really sad and upsetting. A troubled lass, she came out with a song that matched my mood of being away from SWMBO and Firstborn for weeks at a time, way back in 1990 when I started work in Aberdeen.
      She lost her son relatively recently. That can’t have helped.
      Rest in peace, Sinead.
      https://youtu.be/0-EF60neguk

    2. Another mad hat departs. She may have spouted nonsense at times but she came from a broken home and ended up in one of the Magdalene laundries. Daemons abounded. She fell out with Rome yet maintained she was a practising Christian, being ordained a priest, claimed to have converted to Islam but ‘continued to perform under her birth name’ [BBC-speak].

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66318626
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35031186

      1. And yet at the corrective school in Dublin, where she was sent aged 15, it was one of the nuns who spotted her musical talent, bought her a guitar and pushed her to have lessons.

    4. Her big hit was Nothing Compares To You. Written by Prince – all should listen to his own version. A gazillion times better than her maudlin cover rendition.

  62. Well peeps, I have had my procedure it took nearly 5 hours and only local anesthetic. I had every plug and sticker on the planet. Doc was an expert at zapping the problems. Although very uncomfortable after lying flat on my back for that length of time. Only sightly painful and really absolutely marvellous.
    I’m staying in over night. Just had some food and a second cuppa. Feeling good sofar.
    One of my lovey nurse from Northern Greece (the second from Nepal) is now going home off shift. She came to say goodbye, she looked after me so well. Such a lovely young lady.

    2. Delighted to hear that all went well and you had as good a time as was possible under the circumstances!

    3. Excellent news, Eddy! Glad to see you are in great hands! Five hours! wow…

    6. Good news Eddy! Local anaesthetic leaves you so much less dolally! Sending best wishes to you!

    7. Well done! Rest well tonight then you’ll get your freedom tomorrow.
      Having kind staff makes such a difference.

    9. That is such very good news, I hope you recover and proceed with no further problems.

      Squash, golf, you might get lucky, walking, and generally enjoying yourself.
      Go for it!

    10. Good to know that all is heading in the right direction and you’re being looked after, Eddy.

    12. Great news. Right now of course you’re a parishioner of St Barts, since the hospital IS the parish. So the founder, St Rahere, will keep watch.

          1. And a lot of modern editions.
            I’m sitting in the King Edward V wing waiting for my escort home.
            I didn’t get any sleep last night.
            Americano to try to kick me in.
            After being kicked out at 6:60 am.

    13. Of course, Nepal has no need for nurses, it having such a healthy population an ‘ all.

      1. But we might be in need of her ypung husband who is a gurkha training in the UK.

    14. Was this an ablation for you atrial fibrillation? Mine only took 1.5 hours and that was 9 years ago this October.
      Fingers crossed all continues to work out.

  63. ‘Night All

    Now about that whining about “low rape conviction rates”

    A man who served 17 years behind bars for a rape he did not commit was

    today cleared by the Court of Appeal – then furiously accused the state

    of kidnapping him for nearly two decades and slammed the police as

    ‘liars’.

    Andrew Malkinson, 57, was wrongly found guilty of the 2003 attack on a woman in Greater Manchester.

    The following year he was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years but remained in prison for a further 10 because he maintained he was innocent.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12340583/Man-served-17-years-prison-rape-insists-did-not-commit-cleared-Court-Appeal.html#comments
    Early release is only granted to those that accept their guilt I cannot conceive the hell an innocent man goes through………….
    Looks like a classic “We needed a result” from the police,

  64. It wasn’t a casual meeting, it was a planned get together between the ‘B’BC and the chairman of a major bank to coordinate a hit job on Nigel Farage.
    The only difference between this one and dozens the ‘B’BC have orchestrated before is this one was found out.

  65. One of our members appears to have interpreted my earlier message about Sinead O’Connor as a little unkind. It wasn’t meant to be – and I did provide references!

    Rock and roll folk are a strange lot and SO’C had an indirect connection to one of the strangest, Johnny Rotten, who, in his post-punk identity as himself, John Lydon, went on to form PiL (Public Image Ltd). His bassist was one John Wardle, who adopted the moniker Jah Wobble. He released records of his own and here is one with Sinead O’Connor providing background vocals. [I have the 12″ 33rpm EP limited release. I’m disappointed it’s not a rare item.]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuG1JN_pIUU

    1. It’s a shame she went do downhill in her latter years. Positively dumpy and ugly. Yet she was stunning when she was younger.

      Edit. Thank you for posting the vid.

    2. It’s a shame she went do downhill in her latter years. Positively dumpy and ugly. Yet she was stunning when she was younger.

      Edit. Thank you for posting the vid.

    3. One of the reasons the Stones are still knocking about is that they are quite conventional in their behaviour and very much of the establishment, albeit with a wild side. Those who have rather offbeat ideas and many relationships, which may feed into their children, have to live with the consequences. Sad to see anyone unable to cope with life but sometimes it is difficult to prevent self destruction as we are all given free will.

    1. Hammering it down here too, though only since around 8 o’clock. Forecast to keep raining through much of the night.
      Goodnight MIR and everyone.

  67. We talk about crimes against humanity implicating Fauci, Farrar, Gates, our very own Vallance and Whitty yet the disastrous Covid jabs cover up persists.

    Now we witness Zelensky shelling Donetsk and attacking other civilian targets, a war crime. At the same time the Ukraine offensive is going backwards, tens if not hundreds of men dead and injured, billions of dollars worth of materiel supplied by the US and the collective west destroyed on the battlefield.

    Most can now see that Ukraine never had a hope in hell of defeating Russia. Yet still the neo-cons such as Victoria Nuland (she has had a hand in every single foreign policy disaster) the Blinken-Sullivan axis persist with their support for yet more killing and persistence in trying to force further negatory Ukrainian attacks.

    Now the German government are seeking to blame the Ukrainians for failing to prosecute the war in accordance with the US and NATO planner’s directions.

    What an almighty shambles. No sensible people want death and destruction on the scale we are witnessing. Western Europe is in recession, Germany is shot as an industrial economy (they brought it on themselves as per usual) and now even the Latin American countries have told the EU that it is wrong and should get stuffed.

    The belief that the EU was the best thing since sliced bread and popular around the entire world and that Putin’s Russia was universally despised is proven a massively crass miscalculation.

    Back to the drawing board for the EU and grovelling will be required.

    As regards the UK I can only advise Sunak and his rabble to take note of history, stop the sentimental and blind following of the Obama Clinton Biden assemblage and seek a role in establishing sincere negotiations with Russia. Obviously that requires addressing the security concerns of both Russia and Europe, abolition of NATO which has proven a useless war-mongering waste of space, and reconstruction of the corrupt political situation in Ukraine to return it to a semblance of unity and ‘democracy’ some task.

    1. I have often said that the widespread Western promotion of this war is frightening. I can only put it down to the fact that we do not have ‘our boys’ returning in body bags and the US government is far enough away from the battlefield to feel any threat of meaningful retaliation. Not so many years ago, when Russia was a creditable threat to the West, there was much European sentiment supporting the Ban the bomb mob. Now even a comment in the DT suggesting a negotiated settlement get shouted down.

      1. I confess to hating war and the thought of war. For some fat bitch in Washington DC to be the architect of the Ukraine war is sickening.

        I of course realise that Ukraine is a piggy bank for a skip-load of US politicians and we have seen the tip of that particular iceberg with the exposure of the Bidens as foreign agents. Then we have evidence that John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and a several others including an evidently brain dead Mitch McConnell (probably a stroke earlier today) have relationships with Ukraine. That is not to address the question and fact of ‘gain of function’ laboratories performing God knows what experiments.

        There are too many folk with severe medical conditions working beyond normal retirement age in government. Mitch McConnell, John Fetterman, Diane Feinstein, (a permanently drunken but sharpish Pelosi) and Biden himself are well past their usefulness or utility and should be told politely to shuffle off into retirement.

        We have a bunch of sleepers here in the UK, regularly seen dozing in the House of Lords. The same discipline should apply to those old farts.

    2. I agree wholeheartedly with your comment, corrim, with this one exception:

      As regards the UK I can only advise Sunak and his rabble to take note of history, stop the sentimental and blind following of the Obama Clinton Biden assemblage and seek a role in establishing sincere negotiations with Russia.

      Expecting Sunak et al. to do what you sensibly suggest is expecting that Sunak and his rabble have statesman-like abilities. They do not! They are there not because of their ability to both think wisely and act wisely but because they will follow an agenda.
      The Ukrainian conflict, mass illegal immigration, high taxes, high inflation, advocating for a novel and experimental inoculation, attacks on freedoms e.g. LTNs and 15 minute cities are items on that agenda. Democracy is a foreign concept to these people.

    3. It would mean an almighty U-turn on sunak’s part because U.K. has been stupidly very active in prosecuting this war – can’t see it happening. After all IIRC it was Boris Johnson who flew to Ukraine (3 times) to meet with the clown and I think out a stop to possible negotiation.

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