Wednesday 7 September: The lesson of Boris Johnson’s downfall is that prime ministers must do what they promise

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  2. The lesson of Boris Johnson’s downfall is that prime ministers must do what they promise

    Yes like when has that happened since Thatcher

    5. Grattis på födelsedagen, Araminta. Hope it’s a lovely day. 🎂🥂I’ll raise a glass to you (of water!) from the sand dunes at Falsterbo (where I’m spending the day).

    6. Grattis på födelsedagen, Araminta. Hope it’s a lovely day. 🎂🥂I’ll raise a glass to you (of water!) from the sand dunes at Falsterbo (where I’m spending the day).

    9. Good morning! Singing Happy Birthday quite loudly as I’m not sure which direction to face; you should hear it!

        1. Never have washed my hands to that, and never will. Doing thing dementedly, though, I must plead guilty to. 🤣

    15. Happy Birthday! Hope it’s been a good one. The thing about getting older is a matter of would you really like to be a youngster today?

  7. The age of the ‘megaflood’ could be coming – and we must prepare now. 7 September 2022.

    If global temperatures climb by another 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1 degree Celsius, which current trends suggest they might, the annual likelihood will increase to nearly one in 30.

    “We’re talking about a long series, three to four weeks, of strong winter storms. A megastorm sequence that could potentially result in the megaflood – a particularly severe and widespread flood,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, and an author of the study published in Science Advances.

    “You would have rivers flowing under major boulevards, under apartments, through movie studios – every part of the state is at considerable risk,” Mr Swain told The Telegraph. Entire towns would be ravaged beyond repair, forcing communities to resettle elsewhere, and transportation networks would be wiped out.

    Of course we should! But what about the droughts?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/03/age-megaflood-could-coming-must-prepare-now/

    4. There were reports in Wales recently of the “loudest thunder ever” being heard. Scary eh, global warming obviously or maybe the reporter was just close to the electrical discharge.

    5. The make it up as you go along brigade are alive and kicking. If we don’t fry we will freeze and if we aren’t flooded we will inhabit a dust bowl. There’s no escape except to submit to Scwhab and his mates’ plans to depopulate the Earth.
      Is there any tangible evidence that this scenario will play out? When presented with tangible evidence e.g. people dropping dead or becoming seriously ill with a multiplicity of symptoms, many of them rare, scientists/doctors remain either silent or claim they are baffled. We have entered a new epoch in the Earth’s life-span, the Scamocene.

  10. Suella Braverman: home secretary set to take even harder line on migration. 7 September 2022.

    As well as immigration and the surge in the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats, Braverman will also be dealing with a record number of unprocessed asylum cases, plunging rates of prosecutions for sexual offences and burglaries, and a crisis of confidence within the police after a series of scandals.

    Even if she wished or there was some way of fixing this collapse of the system Ms. Braverman, like her predecessor, is in Office but not in Charge.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/06/suella-braverman-home-secretary-set-to-take-even-harder-line-on-migration

    1. How broken must a system become before it is beyond repair and needs to be completely scrapped?

  11. 355772+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    Wednesday 7 September: The lesson of Boris Johnson’s downfall is that prime ministers must do what they promise ?

    Ho bloody ho the lost property office is full of “lost moral compasses, major through to johnson either via the trouser worm or cash / power for treachery.

    The wretch cameron completely knocked the arse out of vows / promises / pledges, now seen by many as fodder for fools.

    Overall in regards to illegal Channel crosser’s I have heard very little mentioned and the contents of parliament reminiscent of berlin 1945 as the invasion forces close in.

    Start as you mean to continue,

    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1567087062460792832?s=20&t=q8sD8uqBeKwNqyDbwUGc4A

        3. Good morning Grizzly

          I posted the same picture of the EU health secretary, Maggie de Block, last night on this site. I added that it seems that Ms de Block will be the role model and mentor of our new health secretary, Thérëse Coffey.

  12. Good morning all. A rather dull & damp morning. Not raining at the moment, but rain forecast for later. 11°C.

      2. Don’t know yet but yesterday evening we went to Corbridge for a most amazing concert. A prodigiously talented 17 year old Ukrainian girl played Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata plus Brahms, Chopin & Liszt in the church there which was absolutely packed. Only arranged a few days before and about 250 people turned up.

          4. Whey, if ye gan up t’words the Amble end, ye can hev a swim wi’oot one!

            And divent forget the photos!

  15. With the pound dropping like a stone, with the new PM’s intention of flogging off all Britain’s assets cheap to US venture capitalists (who are of course untaxed and unregulated for ideological reasons), my main concern is that I can afford to pay my Polish dentist in a fortnight’s time.

    1. It strikes me that most currencies are dropping against the US$, the main exception being the Russian rouble.

  17. I’d like to wish good morning but I opened the blinds in the lounge and was faced with:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/14399de0106c1eb5288063f6b53011f14e3a1925a1960ce3ea1ed9e56f5e2945.jpg

    My first thought was that someone had tried to break in overnight but on closer inspection the damage is on the inner pane of the double glazing. This is the third, and hopefully the last, for a while at least, expensive mis-fortune for me this last few days.
    Last week I had an injector fail on my car, expensive job, then Saturday evening another alarm indicator in the car showed that the diesel fuel system additive reservoir was empty (what’s that, I thought). My garage told me that my model of car has a tank of this stuff and the cost is around £350 + labour but they couldn’t locate a supplier with a replacement at the moment, that’s me without a car. However, my garage, that I have used for over 30 years are resourceful and they discovered that the reservoir can be removed and refilled, cost of fluid £20 + labour + VAT =£120, a great deal less than £350 + labour + VAT. Peugeot dealership didn’t mention that the reservoir could be refilled.
    Off to the double glazing company, only a 5 minutes walk, at 09:00 and a call to the insurance company later. I’ll tape up the pane, just in case, as my luck seems to be at a low ebb at the moment and I do not want a room full of glass shards to clear up. Aahh well, it’s only money!

    3. Are the injectors Piezo Korky ?
      We had a Passat and ours failed.
      But the repair was free.
      Strange problem with the glazing. The double glazed units might be too tightly secured and have no room for expansion.
      The trouble with household insurance is the customer has to fork out the first 100 pounds.

    4. Good luck!

      When sorrows come they come not single spies
      But in battalions!

      [Claudius in the Danish play]

    5. Some years ago a similar thing happened to a screen in our recently-installed en suite shower. In the early hours there was the most enormous bang. Having been propelled out of bed still half asleep, we finally found the source – it had shattered, and was still crazing. When the manufacturer visited they found that the builder had installed the frame out of true, and the glass finally gave in to the stress.

    6. Some years ago a similar thing happened to a screen in our recently-installed en suite shower. In the early hours there was the most enormous bang. Having been propelled out of bed still half asleep, we finally found the source – it had shattered, and was still crazing. When the manufacturer visited they found that the builder had installed the frame out of true, and the glass finally gave in to the stress.

      1. None whatsoever. At first glance the damage spread from what looked like an impact point and my thought was that somebody had tried to break in. Closer inspection showed that the inner glass was broken and the outer intact. I’ve cling-filmed it as suggested by BT and it remains intact as I type. Not classed as an emergency by the insurer’s glaziers as the outside is intact. Now awaiting a survey from the glaziers although Softview from whom I purchased the doors checked their records, knew the size and gave me a quote all in about 5 minutes. Jobs for jobs’ sake it would appear.

  19. ‘Morning, Peeps. A pleasant 16°C here after several hours of gentle rain yesterday evening. And more promised today.

    The main headline in today’s DT:

    “Liz Truss forms most diverse Cabinet in history with no white males in top jobs”

    And…? As long as they are the right people for those jobs, I couldn’t give a toss.

    1. It’s, therefore, not very diverse is it.
      I agree with you about he right people for the right job but in recent years they have become rarer than hens teeth.

    2. Precisely; when it comes to ru(i?)inning Blighty, it could be argued that white males haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory over the past thirty years.

  20. Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – Tim Stanley suggests Remainers are responsible for Boris Johnson’s downfall (“Boris’s haters have destroyed British politics”, Comment, September 5).

    The only person to blame is Mr Johnson himself. Had he delivered on the manifesto pledges of 2019, he would still be in office.

    Once in No 10, he became a green Liberal Democrat.

    Philip Hall
    Petersfield, Hampshire

    Well said, Mr Hall. Got it in one!

    1. Not so sure about the Democrat bit but neither are the Liberals and not so sure about that bit either.

  21. SIR – It was sad watching Boris Johnson leave Downing Street after a splendid farewell speech. He delivered Brexit and won the 2019 general election.

    Britain was lucky to have had him as prime minister. I wish him well.

    Dominic Shelmerdine
    London SW3

    In that case I dread to think what bad luck looks like!

    4. Why are people continuing with the lie that Johnson midwifed* Brexit!

      The EU is still in Northern Ireland and EU fishermen are still fishing in UK waters and virtually none of the EU practices and regulations have been removed to liberate the UK.

      (Truss promises to deliver* all sorts of things but Johnson DID NOT deliver* a meaningful Brexit.).

  22. SIR – Boris Johnson departs showered with praise from many quarters. We have a trusty adage in our culture: give credit where it is due. But what about the reverse?

    A premier departing with such praise and affection usually leaves behind a country in very fine fettle. Ours is a complete fiasco.

    It was not the Tooth Fairy who did this. It derives from one catastrophic judgment after another. Since the triumphant 2019 general election his government got everything wrong – excepting only its support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

    Joviality alone is not enough – or certainly should not be. We shall all be suffering for years from the record of the beaming bungler.

    Frederick Forsyth
    Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

    1. …excepting only its support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

      No! That was a foul up as well Frederick. Witness your next Gas Bill!

          1. We expect that she will be inquiring where the $12billion in Ukrainian gold has disappeared to.

        2. To do what exactly ? 🤔
          Our media made enough out of her visit to Balmoral, having to fly both ways and someone drive her.
          The poor thing. 😢

          1. I agree. Possibly the media’s finest moment yesterday was to interrupt an interview so that we could see the back of a ministerial limo driving away down the long driveway at Balmoral. And that was it.

            Wow, what a scoop!!

          2. 😉😆
            And it was lovely to see as Charlie once called him “that ginger (royal correspondant) chappie” getting a good soaking in a downpour.

          1. I noticed the UN report on the nuclear plant mentioned the dangerous attacks on the facility but carefully avoided mentioning who was doing the firing. Although, the vid that was posted on here recently gave the truth.

      2. Morning all and a Very Happy Birthday to you Minty.

        Our “support” for Ukraine will quite possibly lead to some nuclear involvement. Lis Truss is unbelievably gung ho about a war which has, and should have, nothing to do with us. Is HMG just doing the United States’ bidding? If not, what possible reason can they have to justify our sending £££££s (which we don’t have!) and munitions to prolong a war that should have been over back in April, when a possible deal was on the cards between the two protagonists.

        1. I watched a programme last night about Clydeside shipyards. During the American Civil War dozens of fast steamboats were built on the Clyde to be used as blockade runners. These fast ships dodged Unionist warships and delivered guns, ammunition, and food into Confederate harbours. This profitable and successful enterprise made some Scotsmen quite rich and may have prolonged the Civil War by a couple of years resulting in many thousands of deaths.
          Why are we running guns into the Ukraine unless it is to make some people rich?

        2. Those who took Truss’ advice and went east to fight should have read the small print. As mercenaries they do not enjoy the protection of the Geneva Conventions and can be shot for their troubles.

    2. “…. his government got everything wrong – excepting only its support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion.”

      I think Johnson was mainly motivated by the fact that Thatcher gained great kudos from the Falklands War and he hoped that if he supported war it would bolster his popularity. Until the invasion of Ukraine by Putin I think that a lot of people could have been persuaded to side with Russia – the tipping point was the invasion.
      My view is that if Trump rather than Biden (whose family had very dirty hands in the Ukraine) had been president then the War would never have started.

  24. The ageist BBC is insulting its viewers – and we should vote with our remote controls. 7 September 2022.

    I was upset to hear that Roger Bolton had been relieved of his job presenting Radio 4’s Feedback. The show is a much-needed pressure valve for listeners and viewers who want to express their frustration (or contentment) with BBC output. Bolton, 76, was the perfect host for 23 years – measured and droll, but biting when the occasion demanded.

    Now, Bolton has claimed that the BBC is neglecting its older audience, even though viewers and listeners in that age group are the Beeb’s most loyal consumers, because the focus is on chasing a younger demographic. Older people, as Bolton points out in his Radio Times column, “still have to pay the licence fee” but have less and less say in the way it is spent and “that it is giving them less value for money”.

    I’m only surprised that anyone at all watches this Marxist Propaganda outlet. It should not only be defunded by the abolition of the Licence Fee but shut down immediately and its grossly overpaid staff sacked!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/09/07/ageist-bbc-insulting-viewers-should-vote-remote-controls/

    1. Absolutely correct. If it was made pay to view the bbc would be bankrupt inside 6 months.
      Perhaps our new government might have a look into this for us.

      And Happy birthday to you Minty.
      Have a lovely day.

    4. The BTL posters are not holding back, here’s a typical response:

      William Broadley
      1 HR AGO
      I and my partner are both over 75. 6 months ago I ceased paying the licence fee incensed at yet another wage increase for Gary Linneker and Zoe Ball et al. I would rather go to jail than pay these people.There is nothing left for us to watch on BBC. QofS ruined, Top Gear ruined, Strictly ruined ( people of my generation don,t want to see same sex couples ). Every drama now has some sort of homosexual element which my generation feel uncomfortable with. Stopped listening to the childish radio years ago, Boom Radio a great alternative, and don,t get me started on the biased news which we never watch now.

      * * *

      Even Gardeners’ World has found wokery, but unfortunately I held on until very recently when Monty Don, presumably to ingratiate himself with his masters, decided to insult his viewers by calling them ‘gardening mafia’. That was the final straw.

    5. The BTL posters are not holding back, here’s a typical response:

      William Broadley
      1 HR AGO
      I and my partner are both over 75. 6 months ago I ceased paying the licence fee incensed at yet another wage increase for Gary Linneker and Zoe Ball et al. I would rather go to jail than pay these people.There is nothing left for us to watch on BBC. QofS ruined, Top Gear ruined, Strictly ruined ( people of my generation don,t want to see same sex couples ). Every drama now has some sort of homosexual element which my generation feel uncomfortable with. Stopped listening to the childish radio years ago, Boom Radio a great alternative, and don,t get me started on the biased news which we never watch now.

  25. SIR – During the tenure of the last prime minister I was frequently incensed by his endless photo ops.

    On an almost daily basis he was cuddling babies or puppies, visiting a factory or meeting people during visits to town centres.

    I asked myself, how did he find time to run the country? It would have been nice to think he occasionally sat behind a desk in Downing Street reading briefing documents.

    I can only hope that our new PM spends more time attending to affairs of state than parading in public. We shall soon see.

    Chris Mitchell
    Leicester

    Well said, Chris Mitchell. Couldn’t have put it better myself!

    1. I asked myself, how did he find time to run the country? It would have been nice to think he occasionally sat behind a desk in Downing Street reading briefing documents.

      The very idea of it! That’s my first laugh of the day Mr Mitchell. Thank you.

    2. Pooh, Boris was an amateur compared with Zelensky, who appears to have endless time to pose around in fake combat fatigues, switch on Christmas lights etc.

  26. Good morning, all. Sunny. The promised (and much needed) rain never came, of course.

    I had the misfortune to hear the Untrussworthy Dinner Lady (hereafter to be called the “UDL”) delivering (geddit?) her load of specious nonsense last night. Very significant to there was NO mention of the ever-increasing flood of illegals.

    I shall celebrate by taking the MR’s sewing machine to – apparently – the last man alive who repairs such things. In Fakenhamwe have recently lost the last cobbler/shoe repairer and the last upholsterer. Why are young people not encouraged to follow such trades? Too much like hard, complicated work, I suppose. You don’t need to go to “Uni” (ugh!!) to be a successful maker of curtains and recoverer of chairs.

    1. Good morning. Food, clothing and furniture will all be extruded in the future. No need for repairs. Just chuck the damaged/broken items back in the machine and print out more.

  27. SIR – Please can Liz Truss find another word for “deliver”? Deliver applies to the post and babies.

    Charles Foster
    Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire

    A point I believe I made yesterday, Mr Foster. Have you been visiting this site by any chance?

    1. SIR – If Liz Truss wants to “deliver, deliver, deliver”, then one of her first priorities must be to remove unelected, obstructive civil servants who hamper implementing policies that do not match their Left-wing ideology.

      Sandy Pratt
      Storrington, West Sussex

    2. Has she used the words promises to, along side deliver ?
      That would be encouraging.
      But she’ll be in a battle with the real people who are running our country into the ground, the senior civil service and their lordships.

    3. This calls to mind a picture of Lady Bracknell being confronted on the thoroughfare by a brigand:

      Highwayman: Stand and Deliver!
      Lady Bracknell: I am not a travelling midwife!

  29. SIR – It is the first time since 1827 that both the British monarch and the prime minister have had the same Christian name.
    […]
    Dave Bassett

    Piercing insight Mr Bassett.
    Kn*b

    2. I suppose you could argue that you have the same first name as Lord Tebbit – Stormin’!

  31. 355772+ up ticks,

    I am rather shocked that the invasion is taking back seat to energy when we are sitting on one sure answer to energy that just needs the political nod to trigger it.

    We have the answer to the energy problem at hand.

    What we don’t have the answer to is the political overseers illegal immigrants campaign that is operating daily via the RNLI.

    What is being unleashed on these Isles via the invasion forces is potential
    untold horrors for many an indigenous person, especially children.

    The energy problem is solvabal & being used IMO as a deflection tool taking the eye from mohammed & co hitting the beach in ever increasing numbers.

    1. Given that the Home office employs 150,000 people + and the Department for wasting money also employs a good 100,00 then we can easily manage both situations.

  32. Three letters advocating the extraction of our own plentiful resources:

    SIR – The first things Liz Truss needs to do are to fire up North Sea oil and gas, and approve coke coal applications in Cumbria and South Wales.

    Approving what are not mere fuels but also vital industrial feedstocks will add resilience to Britain’s industrial sector. Self-sufficiency will be enhanced, and we will see lower prices with bigger domestic supply. The appeal of the governing party will be broadened in Scotland, Wales and the North of England.

    John Barstow
    Fittleworth, West Sussex

    I thought that at least one application for the mining of coking coal had been approved recently?

     SIR – Professor Michael Bradshaw (Letters, September 5) poses arguments against fracking as a means of reducing energy prices.

    Fracking should not be pursued for this purpose, but rather as a way of increasing security of supply for both the UK and continental Europe. This is exactly what proponents of the technology have been requesting for at least a decade.

    Overreliance on Russian gas and oil has been a clear strategic mistake. Removing the foolish moratorium on fracking is to benefit Europe for the next 10 years – not just to tackle fuel prices in the next six months.

    Hamish McCracken
    Newbury, Berkshire

    I would like to think that it would do both, Mr McCracken, although the market may have other ideas of course…

    SIR – So much fuss was made about the possible effects of fracking operations that the Government banned the procedure. Now, due to the current energy crisis, it is reconsidering the situation, but people are getting agitated about it once again.

    Fracking has been taking place in the North Sea to increase oil and gas production since the mid 1980s, and no offshore production platforms have collapsed and no tsunami waves have inundated the east coast of Britain.

    Furthermore, a large amount of data would have been obtained to document any effects on the sea bed. Why can’t this be used by both sides of the fracking argument to put some real evidence on the table, instead of unfounded predictions?

    Tim Gibbs
    Bideford, Devon

    If fracking is allowed to proceed then I trust that the absurdly (deliberately?) low seismic limits will not be repeated.  Apparently we experience in this country, and almost every day, natural tremors that exceed those specified in the fracking licences.  (And if you want to see a truly bureaucratic and self-defeating process look no further than the Wiki entry ‘Hydraulic Fracturing in the United Kingdom’!)

    1. For the last forty years fracking has been going on for oil in the Dorset area.

      No politician objects to that.

      Could some science knowledgeable person explain why Britain can’t frack for gas?

      1. Good god. You can’t expect politicians to listen to real scientists as they would have to admit they’ve been slavishly following the wrong path for decades. They’d have to own up that it really was a scamdemic after all.

        1. Politicians prefer compliant pet scientists who use steam powered computers. Being found with trousers round their ankles is a bonus.

      2. Gummer and Goldsmith wouldn’t get his windmills built and lose out on all that tax payer funded… everything.

        There’s no technical, environmental, ecological reason. It’s purely greed. Heck, these scum are happy to sink 400 tons of concrete into the sea bed per windmill. That they’re slightly perturbed about on shore fracking is ludicrous.

    2. Fracking risks the green agenda. Well more accurately, it prevents politicians and dross profiting from the climate change scam. Such people with clear conflicts of interest should not be allowed o cause such ruin to this country.

    3. When we lived in Edinburgh in the 80s I awoke one night. Nothing but a kind of memory of trembling. Found out later that day that there had been an earth tremor in the Kendal area. Long before fracking became an issue.
      Fracking in the North Sea will yield the gas we need. The desire to do this on the mainland is simply because it is cheaper.

        2. Thanks. It was a kind of “what happened there” moment. Sliding up from sleep, senses seeking sounds.

  33. Three letters advocating the extraction of our own plentiful resources:

    SIR – The first things Liz Truss needs to do are to fire up North Sea oil and gas, and approve coke coal applications in Cumbria and South Wales.

    Approving what are not mere fuels but also vital industrial feedstocks will add resilience to Britain’s industrial sector. Self-sufficiency will be enhanced, and we will see lower prices with bigger domestic supply. The appeal of the governing party will be broadened in Scotland, Wales and the North of England.

    John Barstow
    Fittleworth, West Sussex

    I thought that at least one application for the mining of coking coal had been approved recently?

     SIR – Professor Michael Bradshaw (Letters, September 5) poses arguments against fracking as a means of reducing energy prices.

    Fracking should not be pursued for this purpose, but rather as a way of increasing security of supply for both the UK and continental Europe. This is exactly what proponents of the technology have been requesting for at least a decade.

    Overreliance on Russian gas and oil has been a clear strategic mistake. Removing the foolish moratorium on fracking is to benefit Europe for the next 10 years – not just to tackle fuel prices in the next six months.

    Hamish McCracken
    Newbury, Berkshire

    I would like to think that it would do both, Mr McCracken, although the market may have other ideas of course…

    SIR – So much fuss was made about the possible effects of fracking operations that the Government banned the procedure. Now, due to the current energy crisis, it is reconsidering the situation, but people are getting agitated about it once again.

    Fracking has been taking place in the North Sea to increase oil and gas production since the mid 1980s, and no offshore production platforms have collapsed and no tsunami waves have inundated the east coast of Britain.

    Furthermore, a large amount of data would have been obtained to document any effects on the sea bed. Why can’t this be used by both sides of the fracking argument to put some real evidence on the table, instead of unfounded predictions?

    Tim Gibbs
    Bideford, Devon

    If fracking is allowed to proceed then I trust that the (deliberately) low seismic limits will not be repeated.  Apparently we experience in this country, and almost every day, natural tremors that exceed those specified in the fracking licences.  (And if you want to see a truly bureaucratic and self-defeating process look no further than the Wiki entry ‘Hydraulic Fracturing in the United Kingdom’!)

  34. I told a lie. It DID rain in the night. Not much – but enough to enable me to avoid watering.

    The grass is to be cut today – the first time since early July.

    1. Morning all. Glad you had a lovely holiday Bill.

      Alf cut our grass on Sunday afternoon. Brilliant timing coz we had shed loads of rain on Monday and again yesterday. Grass is green again! Full of moss no doubt.

    2. Morning all. Glad you had a lovely holiday Bill.

      Alf cut our grass on Sunday afternoon. Brilliant timing coz we had shed loads of rain on Monday and again yesterday. Grass is green again! Full of moss no doubt.

  35. Right, that’s me off to Derby.
    Check Stepson’s post, over to t’Lads to pick up some concrete blocks and then an 11:00 meeting with Stepson’s care team.

    Also, sometime during day to call in to a Nation Wide and pay a bit of money in.

  36. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00e039020a4200675022a02fb5f604c72e6ffe36519ac4192586f79bfce9744f.jpg

    The New World Order requires the elimination of the nation state – this is best achieved from within by the mass importation of a clandestine army of hostile young men of fighting age from a different cultural, religious, moral and racial background from the indigenous people.

    Please welcome the Four horsemen of the Apocalypse: PLAGUE – FAMINE – WAR – DEATH – all of which we at the WEF have enlisted to achieve our aims.

  38. Oh wonderful new autumn covid variant ‘boosters’ are now being dished out at care homes !!!
    During my visit to the GP yesterday she also nodded in agreement when I mentioned the connection between last years covid jabs and my Afib.

    1. Morning RE.

      Interesting to hear about your Afib.. and am so sorry you are going through a worrying time . Are you being treated?

      Since my last jab, I have been having strange symptons , cold sweat, racing heart , very tired , tender skin, feeling sick , aching legs etc.

      Some of us had Covid , mine lasted nearly 6 weeks from mid March onwards , I have been taking all the usual pills for years , so concerned what the problem is .

      1. It is often difficult to separate the symptoms of drug reaction from, dare I say it… advancing years…

      3. The vaccine was never tested regarding illness/conditions, and how it might react with the medication, and the effects of that medication.

    2. Timothy Bradshaw has highlighted all the failures that Truss must be seen to be rectifying before the next election; otherwise we’ll have a labour/lib dim coalition, with all the disasters they would reap.

      1. “…with all the disasters they would reap.”
        I cannot really see how it could get worse than it is already going to. The Green/Liberal Wokes are in charge of nearly everything as it is.

  40. Meltdown averted but six months on, Russians face economic pain. 7 September 2022.

    “The living standards decline has not reached the point where attitudes towards reality start to change significantly and the fridge clearly begins to beat the TV” – a reference to a Russian saying that describes the tension between people’s experiences and what state television has led them to expect.

    Russia’s current account surplus – the difference in value between exports and imports – more than tripled year-on-year in the first seven months of 2022, to a record $166.6 billion, as revenues soared while sanctions caused imports to plunge.

    Putin has ordered 10% rises in pensions and the minimum wage to soften the blow from inflation, while major employers such as No.1 lender Sberbank (SBER.MM) and gas giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) raised salaries from July. read more

    The unemployment rate was 3.9% in June, its lowest since the statistics service started publishing the figure in 1992, according to the Eikon database.

    Putin’s approval rating was 83% in July, up more than 10 percentage points since the Ukraine campaign started on Feb. 24, according to polling by the independent Levada Centre.

    Reality as opposed to the Western MSM!

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/meltdown-averted-six-months-russians-face-economic-pain-2022-08-23/

    1. The reports on R4 of the power bills for businesses are shocking and I cannot see anything other than the failure of many food providers. Also farmers saying that fertiliser is so expensive, they get more for rewilding an area than what they would get for their grain, without the risk of a poor harvest year. Empty shelves are almost guaranteed, and no amount of money in your pocket will magically refill them. Maybe I should plan on plumping up, Wibbling might have the last laugh yet!

    1. No prizes for guessing who…..but strange how they actually know who their enemies are in our wonderful multi racial society.
      What’s more and as usual they’ll get away with it.

    2. Barricade all the streets and let them get on with it. Don’t allow them out except on stretchers.

    3. The BBC is well off the pace in reporting this. It has this from last week but not last night’s troubles reported here by ITV.

      Both incidents follow matches in cricket’s Asia Cup, currently being staged in the UAE.

    4. The BBC is well off the pace in reporting this. It has this from last week but not last night’s troubles reported here by ITV.

      Both incidents follow matches between Indian and Pakistan in cricket’s Asia Cup, currently being staged in the UAE.

    5. Lebanonisation – more like Islamification with the help of BAME and BLM. The Police Farce can only put up one WPC to face the mob – pathetic.

      1. I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen
        I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen
        May this fair land we love so well
        In dignity and freedom dwell
        Though worlds may change and go awry
        While there is still one voice to cry
        There’ll always be an England
        While there’s a country lane
        Wherever there’s a cottage small
        Beside a field of grain
        There’ll always be an England
        While there’s a busy street
        Wherever there’s a turning wheel
        A million marching feet
        Red, white and blue
        What does it mean to you?
        Surely you’re proud, shout it aloud
        Britons, awake
        The empire too, we can depend on you
        Freedom remains
        These are the chains
        Nothing can break
        There’ll always be an England
        And England shall be free
        If England means as much to you
        As England means to me
        Red, white and blue
        What does it mean to you?
        Surely you’re proud, shout it aloud
        Britons, awake
        The empire too, we can depend on you
        Freedom remains
        These are the chains
        Nothing can break
        There’ll always be an England
        And England shall be free
        If England means as much to you
        As England means to me

    8. When it first appeared I thought ‘war of the Roses mk2’? But no, of course, it’s the welfare dependent gimmigrant wasters.

      When they all helpfully gather together, shoot them.

  44. 355772+up ticks,

    A telling factor will be, will the RNLI be instructed within hours ( a phone call would suffice) to reverse their current daily treacherous procedure ?

    Energy we have the means to fix, uncontrolled immigration brings about,guaranteed terror & mental anguish, especially in children.

    Think before you vote for the best of the worst, party first mode once again, you can don an extra jumper, you cannot erase a child’s sexual nightmares.

  45. No! You DT 4rse-rag EstabLishment shill megaphone!
    The lesson of BJ’s downfall (were intials ever so well suited?) is that you do not embarass the Deep State by enjoying yourself in public contravention of the miserable and stupid lockdowns imposed on the Proles.

    1. Sorry folks.

      Good morning, to you all.
      I have a SE London mate who uses the crude expression – “this boils my p1ss”.
      The DT has mine simmering, endlessly.

        1. “ I won’t always be right (who is?) but I’ll try to bring here both my wibblings and the considerably better contributions of other bloggers.”

          It’s not John Longworth, is it? …

        2. Who’s going to shoot the deputy now that Bob Marley is no longer with us?

          (With appointments like this Sheriff Truss won’t escape the bullet)

          and in the DT:

          ‘I’m not a role model’: Therese Coffey questioned over smoking and weight as health secretary
          Deputy Prime Minister is also under fire for her record of voting against abortion

          (If not a role model she is at least a roll model as in the Michelin advertisement.)

          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6205863bfd761c07a9af0ac1728bf654a04c532d1771ead168de75030c375f0.jpg

          1. Shes not all bad then. I suppose someone who voted against abortion and is also not a slob is too big an ask?

          2. Also, while I suspect Truss chose her for he comparative looks it would be refreshing to get to know politicians with conservative principles.
            Maybe all is not lost.

          6. We’re getting there – and trying to have a barney with the local council (Dumfries & Galloway) about Council Tax, but they hide behind impossible websites and do nothing to help.

          7. Do you know the local councillors’ names yet? Bombard them with emails etc. Make a nuisance of yourself, that seems to work! Good luck.

          8. It is unusual and not unwelcomed to have a Christian in the government. Who are the others apart form JRM? And who are the Muslims and other faiths and who are the BAMES in the new line up?

          9. If I may:
            It might be quicker to identify who are not the Muslims and other faiths and who are not the BAMES in the new edit front bench line up.

          10. If I may:
            It might be quicker to identify who are not the Muslims and other faiths and who are not the BAMES in the new edit front bench line up.

          17. Not only climate, but environment and some twit wasting a salary on whatever cop 26 is. It’s a complete waste of money.

          18. Duchy can go, as can levelling up – the very term is an oxymoron. international trade has nothing to do with government, COP26 is pointless, environment can go as can transportchief sec to treasury, development, security and climate.

            In short, the cabinet could be havlved through no loss.

          20. 31 in cabinet? HTF can they get anything done with that number? No more than 6 should be the rule.

          21. To be fair, and as you know, I’m not; the PM’s Cabinet should be that way, each of the “king pins”, six or seven maximum should have their own “cabinet” and so on down the list.
            Reports should flow up the line, reporting on commands/demands which have measurable objectives.

            At the moment, first and foremost should be cutting waste. If you’re not doing your job, you’re waste.

      2. Appointed Deputy PM, is she a sort of Anti-assassination insurance policy taken out by the PM?

        1. Similar to what George HW Bush said of Dan Quayle. No-one would take a pot shot at George when the VP was Quayle.

  46. No! You DT 4rse-rag EstabLishment shill megaphone!
    The lesson of BJ’s downfall (were intials ever so well suited?) is that you do not embarass the Deep State by enjoying yourself in public contravention of the miserable and stupid lockdowns imposed on the Proles.

  47. I note that Trussock has accepted an invitation to Ukraine. I wonder what blood and treasure she will commit us to donate.

    1. It will be bigger and better than the last offering, just to get on the right side of that ever so butch Zelensky.

    2. No chance she’ll tone down her war-mongering talk? Now she’s PM? Not post or pre menopausal or premenstrual, just in case …

      1. I hope so, but I suspect that she will want to make a big impression on the world stage quickly and impress Biden.

        1. HOW could one impress Biden? The man’s a paedophie through and througth.Anything to do with little girlies and he’s your ‘go to’ man. Republicans be sure that your vote hogtie this piece of excrement to upholding the constitution.

      2. Only time I’ve dowvoted vw. this needs a careful. not war mongering talk. Settle the nonsence, NOW..

        1. I think I may not have been very clear in my post.

          I am all for settling the nonsense, in fact, I asked on here some while ago, where are the diplomats, why is there no attempt to mediate? Liz Truss is playing a dangerous game in egging the Ukrainians on, sending money we have to borrow, and munitions. Besides which this war is, and should be, nothing to do with us.

    3. We should have nothing to do with it. i was expecting Putin to go after Ukraine months before this all started because of thef way Ukraine was mistreating its ethnic Russians.

      1. The longer it is drawn out, the worse it will be for everyone. Just one piece of lunatic escalation by either side could have devastating consequences.

          1. I agree and certainly wish they had at the outset.
            Unfortunately even if the rest of the world leaves them to it, it is only going to become more vicious as revenge is sought.

      2. I think he did. It just didn’t suit the West’s agenda to report it at that time. How would we have known?

    4. Will this be the equivalent of Johnson’s admittance to hospital? When he came out… ah…. different?

  48. Good morning all. 45 years ago today I arrived at RAF Swinderby for RAF Basic Training. I originally signed on for 9 years and ended up doing 31 years.

    The only reason I endure Facebook is to maintain contact with friends around the globe that I met along the way.

  50. Took the Springer this morning to Fitzpatrick Referrals (SuperVet) for x-ray of her leg (cruciate ligament) prior to an appointment for surgery. We were pleasantly surprised when Mario (2 i/c) said he will x-ray her today and do the surgery tomorrow and we can pick her up on Friday.
    Just got home.

  51. This downsizing lark needs a change of attitude, it is no longer where can I store it but do I need it! A lesson that is slowly sinking in.

    We had to go to the government service centre to update our address on all of those boring pensions and stuff. What a depressing place,they are still living full covid with mask mandates and required appointments before being allowed to approach the plastic screen that protects the counter staff. No doubt part of Trudeaus plan to keep us off balance.

    However, here is the early morning view from the hotel we stayed at during the move

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3703503012bbac42aed4a3b502609dc642726c83aac566fd83fe265c6f54fe1e.jpg

  52. 355772+ up ticks,

    Listen up trussy if you ^& your cabinet expended the same energy in stopping the backing for the foreign invasion campaign as you are in pushing your parties solvable energy fear campaign you would be acting a tad more credible.

    We are fully loaded with active foreign paedophiles and assorted felons,
    in point of fact you, your cabinet the party / party supporters plus the RNLI are aiding & abetting the people smuggler.

    It cannot be on humanity grounds, as the indigenous well know that went out the window ,along with decency & integrity many years ago,, so that only leaves large wedges of wonga.

    1. 355772+ up ticks,

      O2O,

      More are on their way trussy, landing today trussy for what purpose ?

      Are they awaiting a trigger word ?

      Many a mosque was questionable, now it is many a hotel.

  53. “In America people are not in this shit,” exclaims mayor of Antwerp, Bart De Wever during an interview on Belgian TV.
    “They are now exporters of oil and gas, but they certainly weren’t twenty years ago. Climate standards are not of much use if all your companies go to America and China to produce, then you are bankrupt and the climate is not yet saved. This is the green dogmatics. People should start realizing this.”

    The outspoken mayor held nothing back during the Flemish current affairs program De Zevende Dag.
    “Oil, gas and coal were no longer allowed. No investments were allowed in reserves. Germany does not have a single LNG terminal (a terminal for liquefied natural gas, ed.). The dumbest countries, Germany and Belgium, have phased out nuclear energy in parallel. We have pushed away all energy sources, making ourselves dependent on Putin. Now we hang on to it.”

    1. It is all these so called gren policys that have caused the problem. They could not wait here in Britail to blow up the coal power stations. I shook my head in discust and how niave these people are. We need to start producing coal again to survive.

  54. Not long back from Sainsburys. How depressing. At least half a dozen people wearing face nappies. How deeply sad.

    1. It won’t be long now before an enterprising Law Firm will have ads on Day-time TV proving that face masks are useless and if you are still wearing one we will sue the government on your behalf for personal psychological harm….ring this 0800 number now….

      1. Assuming they haven’t already succumbed to sudden death syndrome after jab number six six six.

  55. Sone conCERNing news:

    “WSJ reported CERN is planning to shutter some of its particle accelerators at peak demand hours and is considering idling the world’s biggest particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

    “Our concern is really grid stability because we do all we can to prevent a blackout in our region,” said Serge Claudet, chair of the CERN energy management panel.”

    I sometimes get the impression all this bad news is designed to get the people of Europe riled up against the Russians in general and Mr.Putin in particular…

    1. Last time the people of Europe, under Schikelgruber, tried to take on Russia, it all ended badly for Europe.

  57. Did anyone listen to BBC R3’s Essential Classics this morning?
    Presenter Georgia Mann caused an army of ghosts to trample over my grave this morning when she played Jóhann Jóhannsson’s
    “A Deal with Chaos”.

    https://youtu.be/iTKjmCwMPGE

    The disembodied voice towards the end of the piece is surely “The Magdabird”?
    Broadcast from Magdaburg in the then DDR, she read a list of numbers in a very flat toneless voice for quite long periods of time, allegedly passing on cyphered instruction to East German agents in the West and was commonly listened in to by British Squaddies serving in BAOR during the Cold War.

    1. Nothing on earth would persuade me to listen to the didactic, school-mistressy, gushy Mann woman (if you see what I mean). Yet another dolly bird “presenter” who cannot read her own script properly.

      2. Amongst the things I can’t stand on R3 in 2022 is Alka Seltzer referring to her programme as “my show”…

    3. I stopped listening to The Third Programme years ago as I did not like jungle (world) music.

      1. I stopped listening to radio per se years ago since I like to choose the music I listen to, not some half-wit at the BBC.

        2. Just now and again, you hear something that’s good, that you’d never have come across otherwise.
          I heard the song below playing in a record shop as I hurried through LHR Terminal 4 years ago, trying to get to Australia. Despite being late for the flight, I stopped long enough to buy the CD. Love her voice…
          https://youtu.be/iRYvuS9OxdA

          2. Yup.
            Got on the plane, nothing to read for a 20+ hour journey, found not even an in-flight magazine in the seat pocket… braved the embarrasement and asked for one… then we were delayed 3 hours due to an instrument failure. Nearly 24 hours on a 747… but! once we got going, we were later than usual, and I got to see sunrise at the Himalayas. A sight that will remain with me until I die. There truly is a God, to produce something so beautiful. Peaks in snowy orange and pink… my language skills can’t do it justice.

          3. You should have bought a CD player and headphones at the same time!
            The stewards on long flights are very used to ill prepared/forgetful/idiots and will always do their best. :@)

  58. Animal Rebellion: Multiple protesters arrested after throwing paint at Houses of Parliament. 7 September 2022.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/210d50225b04d969b113a5a7e1fd867710c9c3885a6b14abc71c4110e8e697a8.jpg

    Multiple protesters have been arrested after throwing white paint over the Houses of Parliament.

    Four members of Animal Rebellion glued themselves to the pavement outside the Parliamentary estate on Wednesday, shortly before Liz Truss’s first Prime Minister’s Questions, but were later removed from the area.

    Really? Why? I would have left them there!

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/07/animal-rebellion-multiple-protesters-arrested-throwing-paint/

      1. The glue would be synthetic resin and the paint most likely acrylic, both oil derivatives. They need 24 hours in the stocks. Parliament Square would be a good location.

    2. Pity they do not grow up. A good smacking would do them the world of good and then sent to bed without supper.

    3. Some turps, a strong brush and being left chained to the railings until the paint is cleaned of, should teach the to desist in future.

  59. Douglas Murray
    Who cares about Liz Truss’s ‘diverse’ cabinet?
    7 September 2022, 11:49am

    ‘Great offices of state set to contain no white men’ was the way one national newspaper reported the formation of the first Truss cabinet. In addition to Liz Truss, the positions of Chancellor, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary would respectively be held by Kwasi Kwarteng, James Cleverly and Suella Braverman.

    Of course, all this was presented as something incredibly new and exciting: real progress at work. In fact it isn’t remotely new. As Chancellor, Kwarteng follows those two famous white men Rishi Sunak and Nadhim Zahawi. As Home Secretary, Braverman succeeds Priti Patel and Sajid Javid. And now that Truss is Prime Minister she is the first woman to relieve us from male-dominated rule for a full three years. Also, after Theresa May, thank God a woman is back in charge, eh?

    Nevertheless the diversity lobby remains ecstatic at the sheer diverseness of it all. Sunder Katwala, who runs a group called British Future, told the Times:

    ‘The most striking thing is how ordinary and extraordinary it is at the same time. This is an extraordinary pace of change even in two or three years, never mind a decade.’

    And needless to say that is the only way to talk about this. The more the dastardly white man recedes into the background, the more positive change we will be undergoing. It reminds me of Ken Livingstone when he was mayor of London once telling me how thrilled he was that something like a third of Londoners were born outside of the UK. You got the distinct impression that he wouldn’t be happy until absolutely everybody in capital was not born in Britain.

    All of this, naturally, is laced with false presumptions. For example, there is the notion that being a female leader is in some way better than being a male one. There are three reasons that somebody might think – or pretend to think – this. First, that since men have had the field for so long it is time to give women a turn; second, that the only post-war PM with any cojones was Margaret Thatcher and so the more female prime ministers you elect, the more likely you are to get another Thatcher; third – the view I call Christine Lagarde-ism – that women are the same as men and also magically better. (Lagarde, you may remember, often said that if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters, the crash of 2008 might never have happened. Because as every man reading this will know, women are preternaturally incapable of spending money unwisely.)

    But the diversity cult has other presumptions too. It supposes that people who are not white bring some other types of perspective to their roles. ‘Diversity is our strength’ has long been one of the Pravda-style mantras of our era. Yet while diversity may bring some benefits, they are certainly not endless.

    Nor is diversity necessarily transmitted through skin pigmentation. Kwarteng, for instance, was educated at Colet Court, Eton and Cambridge. Is it likely that he will bring a whole new set of insights to his new post by dint of his ‘diversity’? I would be surprised. Kwasi’s parents came to the UK from Ghana, and if the diversity lobby believe it would be advantageous were he to bring some Ghanaian economics to the mix, I have some history to tell them. Most likely Kwarteng’s ideas will reflect the education he received. His race will have nothing to do with it.

    In any case, this is all such patronising rubbish. We have already had three years of Boris Johnson boasting about appointing the most diverse cabinet ever. And now it looks as if we are going to have another few years of Tories boasting about how wildly diverse they are. They will keep pointing out that Labour has never been led by anyone other than a white man. And yet despite all this, Labour MPs will still accuse the government of institutional racism. The entire Conservative party could to a man and woman be the product of Ghanaian parents and the whitey-white Labour would not change its line.

    But there is another aspect of the diversity issue that needs to be mentioned – and that is the vast demoralising effect it has on the portion of the British population who are still the majority in this country. One of the problems with the more-diversity-the-better mantra is that it makes white people, and white men in particular, feel like they are not just a problem but the problem. As though their main task in life is to get out of the way.

    Many prominent race hucksters across this country actually say as much: because white men did so many things in the past, white men today must step aside and allow other people to take positions of power. Of course, they will not be expected to step aside when it comes to tasks such as road-laying, pylon-fixing, refuse-collecting or any number of other low-income, low-esteem jobs. White men will still be permitted to do them. But in the rest of life it is time to back off.

    There can be only two possible results from this. One is that in the name of diversity you demotivate most of the people in your country, and therefore most of the talent. The other is that you store up resentment among majority populations who over time come to notice that they are being passed over, talked down to and treated as less than. This would be a stupid thing to do to a minority community. To do it to a majority community is madness.

    We shall see how our new cabinet performs. But if it gets on top of the numerous problems that our country faces, it will be because of the skill and ability of the people involved. After all, that has to be the case doesn’t it? Because if they fail, will it be down to the ‘diversity’? As they say, to ask the question is to answer it.

    ***************************************************************************************

    Beatus Vir • 3 hours ago
    Kwasi was famously a part of the Trinity College team which won University Challenge. In spite of his skin colour, he seems to me different in many ways from that other famous black political quizzer, David Lammy.

      1. Up to a point.
        I agree with the “how they do” bit; However, I am very wary of other aspects of what is happening, to quote Murray’s summary:

        There can be only two possible results from this. One is that in the name of diversity you demotivate most of the people in your country, and therefore most of the talent. The other is that you store up resentment among majority populations who over time come to notice that they are being passed over, talked down to and treated as less than. This would be a stupid thing to do to a minority community. To do it to a majority community is madness.

        We shall see how our new cabinet performs. But if it gets on top of the numerous problems that our country faces, it will be because of the skill and ability of the people involved. After all, that has to be the case doesn’t it? Because if they fail, will it be down to the ‘diversity’? As they say, to ask the question is to answer it.

  60. We need to judge the new cabinet on what they actually do not what people think they should do. Some of the stupid things people are saying reminds me of my junior school playground

    1. …and what do they actually do? They just nod and agree – complete and utter waste of space.

        1. Equally bad.

          Fox is reviled by his peers as the man who reports knowingly on wars that he manages to avoid being anywhere near.

  65. 355772+ up ticks,

    Nice one, a major truth portrayey portraying his opposite.

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    4h
    The Scum Globalist Servant MSM are doing their duty & attacking the new Hunter Biden movie. This will just encourage more people to seek it out to watch.

    previewImg
    Laurence Fox’s embarrassing Hunter Biden movie is a fate worse than ‘cancellation’ — The Indepe

    Breitbart News’s low-budget satire focusing on Hunter Biden and his father, the US president, has united two

    https://gettr.com/post/p1pzryd0c00

    1. It’s no good Gerard Batten moaning about the poor reception the film’s getting. Perhaps they’ve just made a bad film out of a good idea. It wouldn’t be the first time.

      Hunter Biden is a great cinematic character: the loser son of an elite career politician who bounces between semi-powerful jobs on the strengths of his contacts and his name while inhaling mountains of drugs and banging prostitutes. How can you make a bad film about that?

      Well, somehow the creators of My Son Hunter have pulled it off. Produced by documentarians Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, directed by Robert Davi, starring British actor cum right-wing commentator and Reclaim party founder Laurence Fox and distributed by Breitbart, the movie will please only people whose politics have compelled them to do so.

      The script is the big problem. Within the first few minutes of My Son Hunter, the viewer is beaten round the head with well-worn tropes of right-wing discourse. A newsreader reporting on violent Black Lives Matter demonstrations calls them ‘mostly peaceful protests.’ Two protestors tell each other they are on the ‘right side of history.’ Joe Biden smells a woman’s hair. The audience is presumably expected to clap like a seal and say, ‘I get that reference!’ The screenwriter thinks that you — the viewer — are that easy to impress.

      The lack of attention to detail is tremendous. In those opening minutes, President Joe Biden dives into a swimming pool and Gina Carano, playing a disillusioned secret service agent, says, ‘Sounds like he’s in the water.’ When the camera angle changes, it is obvious that she is standing right next to the pool. So, why does it sound like he is in the water?

      Hunter goes out onto crime-infested streets to buy drugs. I’m sorry — I know the director wanted to depict urban decay but am I meant to think that Hunter went to his dealers? They went to him. Somehow, he has picked up a #BLM activist cum stripper cum friend, who asks inane questions like, ‘Was it hard growing up without your mother?’ No, I’m sure it was a breeze.

      The plot largely concerns Hunter’s laptops and the Bidens’s shady dealing with the Ukrainian holding group Burisma and the Chinese. I’m not going to dig into the truth of whether criminality was involved. After all, it is a film. The problem is that the plot has been constructed from an insane amount of smug, tedious exposition — largely delivered by poor, wasted Carano and a hulking black security guard who delivers lines such as, ‘turns out Devin got convicted for a conspiracy to commit security fraud against the Native American tribe of the Oglala Sioux nation, but he claims he’s not a racist.’ No, it doesn’t sound any more natural when he says it.

      Joe Biden is portrayed as being a sort of jovial, slightly comic mob boss — alien from the wide-eyed bumbling septuagenarian you see being manipulated in the White House today. I’m not sure John James, who plays Biden, has ever actually seen the president.

      Ultimately, Hunter’s #BLM bimbo friend — portrayed with artless earnestness by Emma Gojkovic — turns out to also be an expert on Chinese politics, just in time to lecture Hunter on his dad’s dealings with the Chinese. How convenient! She blows the whistle on the Bidens’s corruption, and, with the aid of a heroic Rudy Giuliani, returns Trump to power. Or does she? Well, you’ll have to watch the film and find out.

      Surprisingly, the best thing about the film is Fox. Sure, his Americanish accent is quite bad (he’s no Hugh Laurie, that’s for sure). But he has a naturally sleazy bearing, making him quite an effective Hunter Biden, and unlike most of the people in this film he acts as if he wants to make a proper film. His Hunter Biden is not just a gurning grotesque, but has a kind of boyish sadness hanging about him. I salute the effort.

      Sadly, there is not much else to praise. The cinematography is so uneven that it gives the viewer whiplash. Some scenes are nicely lit and framed. Others — especially the ‘news’ segments — have the production quality of an underfunded YouTube video. Aside from Fox and Carano (who cannot be blamed for having little else to do), the acting is atrocious, though to be fair I am not sure Laurence Olivier and Meryl Streep could make some of these lines sound good.

      I said that Fox behaved as if he wanted to appear in a proper film. What I mean is a film that exists as art as well as propaganda. I suspect that the creators of this film wanted to make a political statement and framed it in artistic terms — instead of wanting to make art that was also political. They really should have made a documentary. Nothing would have been lost and the point would have been clearer.

      This is in fact the biggest problem with explicitly conservative books and films. They are ‘conservative’ before they are anything else — defining the limits of their artistic and commercial possibilities.

      Ah well. I guess we’ll have to wait for that brilliant Hunter Biden biopic. Who do you think should direct it? I say David Lynch.

      WRITTEN BY
      Ben Sixsmith

      https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-do-you-screw-up-a-movie-about-hunter-biden-

    2. It’s no good Gerard Batten moaning about the poor reception the film’s getting. Perhaps they’ve just made a bad film out of a good idea. It wouldn’t be the first time.

      Hunter Biden is a great cinematic character: the loser son of an elite career politician who bounces between semi-powerful jobs on the strengths of his contacts and his name while inhaling mountains of drugs and banging prostitutes. How can you make a bad film about that?

      Well, somehow the creators of My Son Hunter have pulled it off. Produced by documentarians Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, directed by Robert Davi, starring British actor cum right-wing commentator and Reclaim party founder Laurence Fox and distributed by Breitbart, the movie will please only people whose politics have compelled them to do so.

      The script is the big problem. Within the first few minutes of My Son Hunter, the viewer is beaten round the head with well-worn tropes of right-wing discourse. A newsreader reporting on violent Black Lives Matter demonstrations calls them ‘mostly peaceful protests.’ Two protestors tell each other they are on the ‘right side of history.’ Joe Biden smells a woman’s hair. The audience is presumably expected to clap like a seal and say, ‘I get that reference!’ The screenwriter thinks that you — the viewer — are that easy to impress.

      The lack of attention to detail is tremendous. In those opening minutes, President Joe Biden dives into a swimming pool and Gina Carano, playing a disillusioned secret service agent, says, ‘Sounds like he’s in the water.’ When the camera angle changes, it is obvious that she is standing right next to the pool. So, why does it sound like he is in the water?

      Hunter goes out onto crime-infested streets to buy drugs. I’m sorry — I know the director wanted to depict urban decay but am I meant to think that Hunter went to his dealers? They went to him. Somehow, he has picked up a #BLM activist cum stripper cum friend, who asks inane questions like, ‘Was it hard growing up without your mother?’ No, I’m sure it was a breeze.

      The plot largely concerns Hunter’s laptops and the Bidens’s shady dealing with the Ukrainian holding group Burisma and the Chinese. I’m not going to dig into the truth of whether criminality was involved. After all, it is a film. The problem is that the plot has been constructed from an insane amount of smug, tedious exposition — largely delivered by poor, wasted Carano and a hulking black security guard who delivers lines such as, ‘turns out Devin got convicted for a conspiracy to commit security fraud against the Native American tribe of the Oglala Sioux nation, but he claims he’s not a racist.’ No, it doesn’t sound any more natural when he says it.

      Joe Biden is portrayed as being a sort of jovial, slightly comic mob boss — alien from the wide-eyed bumbling septuagenarian you see being manipulated in the White House today. I’m not sure John James, who plays Biden, has ever actually seen the president.

      Ultimately, Hunter’s #BLM bimbo friend — portrayed with artless earnestness by Emma Gojkovic — turns out to also be an expert on Chinese politics, just in time to lecture Hunter on his dad’s dealings with the Chinese. How convenient! She blows the whistle on the Bidens’s corruption, and, with the aid of a heroic Rudy Giuliani, returns Trump to power. Or does she? Well, you’ll have to watch the film and find out.

      Surprisingly, the best thing about the film is Fox. Sure, his Americanish accent is quite bad (he’s no Hugh Laurie, that’s for sure). But he has a naturally sleazy bearing, making him quite an effective Hunter Biden, and unlike most of the people in this film he acts as if he wants to make a proper film. His Hunter Biden is not just a gurning grotesque, but has a kind of boyish sadness hanging about him. I salute the effort.

      Sadly, there is not much else to praise. The cinematography is so uneven that it gives the viewer whiplash. Some scenes are nicely lit and framed. Others — especially the ‘news’ segments — have the production quality of an underfunded YouTube video. Aside from Fox and Carano (who cannot be blamed for having little else to do), the acting is atrocious, though to be fair I am not sure Laurence Olivier and Meryl Streep could make some of these lines sound good.

      I said that Fox behaved as if he wanted to appear in a proper film. What I mean is a film that exists as art as well as propaganda. I suspect that the creators of this film wanted to make a political statement and framed it in artistic terms — instead of wanting to make art that was also political. They really should have made a documentary. Nothing would have been lost and the point would have been clearer.

      This is in fact the biggest problem with explicitly conservative books and films. They are ‘conservative’ before they are anything else — defining the limits of their artistic and commercial possibilities.

      Ah well. I guess we’ll have to wait for that brilliant Hunter Biden biopic. Who do you think should direct it? I say David Lynch.

      WRITTEN BY
      Ben Sixsmith

      https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-do-you-screw-up-a-movie-about-hunter-biden-

  66. Time was, not so long ago, that the cabinet had two major posts: Energy Secretary and Industry Secretary.

    No longer it seems. In this ‘woke’ day and age they have long gone, but we do have (as consolation?) a ‘Levelling-up Secretary’ and a ‘Minister for Climate’.

    WTF is the purpose of those clowns?

    2. I think that UDL’s pinhead sized brain has worked out that the majority of sane people in the UK do NOT like the words “Climate Change”.

      So she is trying to appease them (us) by dropping the “Change”.

  67. Bloody hell! It’s thundering and raining and I’m damp!
    On my way back from Derby I picked up an 8′ pallet for plasterboard and was just finishing stripping it down as the rain started.
    Still got half a dozen or so nails to pull, but they can be left for later!

  68. Re the Cabinet appointments:

    There is nothing like a BAME
    Nothing in the world
    There is nothing you can name
    That is anything like a BAME
    We feel restless, we feel blue
    We feel lonely and in brief
    We feel every kind of feeling
    But the feeling of relief
    We feel hungry as the wolf felt when he met Red Riding Hood
    What don’t we feel?
    We don’t feel good
    Lots of things in life are beautiful but, brother
    There is one particular thing that is nothing whatsoever
    In any way, shape, or form like any other
    There is nothing like a BAME
    Nothing in the world
    There is nothing you can name
    That is anything like a BAME
    Nothing else is built the same
    Nothing in the world…
    Has a cultured savvy fame
    Like the CV of a BAME
    There is absolutely nothing like the fame
    Of a BAME…

    1. We’ve got nothing to put on a clean white distressed, ripped, low-slung, baggy, hip-hop suit pants for…

  69. We had another card through the door yesterday from the nice lady and her doggie. She is concerned about us but doesn’t intrude.
    MH did the shopping today and I asked him to get a small mixed bouquet for her. He did, smelled wonderful and I took them round with a porkie pie for the doggie about 4pm.
    She was over the moon and we visited for about half an hour. She is such a sweet person and I had some lovely dog therapy.
    There are some truly nice people as well as all the rotters.

      1. A medium one. When they stopped by in the summer we gave the doggie a couple of slices of pork pie which he loved. The dog is lovely and I enjoyed our visit. He was playing with his squeaky carrot toy;-)

        1. If there was a comma after “place”, I’d have said youse were hooking up!
          Sighs with jealousy…

          6. Anyhow, I have fancied Ann for years, so gerrout the way!
            Intelligent ladies with strong opinions really do it for me…

          9. Anyhow, I have fancied Ann for years, so gerrout the way!
            Intelligent ladies with strong opinions really do it for me…

        2. If there was a comma after “place”, I’d have said youse were hooking up!
          Sighs with jealousy…

    3. That was a really kind gesture, Ann.
      I’d put money on taht she said to her doggy “There are some truly nice people as well as all the rotters.”

    4. That was a really kind gesture, Ann.
      I’d put money on taht she said to her doggy “There are some truly nice people as well as all the rotters.”

  70. Pound falls to lowest level against dollar since 1985. 7 September 2022.

    Sterling fell 0.64% to $1.145 on Wednesday afternoon – a level not seen in 37 years.

    The Bank of England said a weaker outlook for the UK economy as well as a stronger dollar were putting pressure on sterling.

    Governor Andrew Bailey also warned that little could be done to stop the UK falling into a recession this year as the war in Ukraine continued.

    He added that it would “overwhelmingly be caused by the actions of Russia and the impact on energy prices”.

    Of course! It’s all Vlads fault! Good job we don’t use Russian Gas we would be in real trouble!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62817391

  72. Time to ditch the rubber dinghies and just handout free ferry tickets….

    Liz Truss’s government has shelved plans for a law designed to give ministers the power to ignore human rights rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
    The Bill of Rights bill, championed by former Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, was due back before Parliament.
    Mr Raab said the bill would reassert the primacy of UK law on human rights cases.
    But a source said the bill is unlikely to progress in its current form.

    1. Perhaps the idea is for a specific amendment to the HRA that can be implemented promptly rather than a have a complex new Bill of Rights that will get dragged down into the dirt for years like Brexit.

        1. Death to to the ECHR, Bill. I would support it whole-heartedly. And the repeal of the Human Rights Act – another B Liar blight.

    2. Ditch the whole damn thing! We had plenty of laws in the 1960s. Why have we needed more, and more, and then more and still more? Is anything still legal?

  76. That’s me for today. Useful garden work. No rain. May rain overnight – prolly won’t. The MR is at Keep-Fit – so I shall have a lie down!

    Have a jolly evening writing to your MP.

    A demain

        1. They just don’t pour it fast enough for my liking. And they don’t serve it in pint glasses !

  77. The Central Office censor has been reporting dissident posts again, because I was mildly critical of the new Prime Minister.

    Here it is for the delectation of stouter hearts here:

    jeremy Morfey Pale Rider 4 hours ago Detected as spam

    “My bank manager grandfather could accurately assess someone’s character, sufficient to know whether this was a good enough prospect for a loan, within ninety seconds of conversation. His skill was reading into what was said, how it was said, and what presumptions were behind this person’s judgement. I apply the same criteria.

    To quote Lord Sugar, I have heard enough and I am turning her off.

    Going to the Kremlin as a hostile Foreign Secretary claiming that Rostov was Ukrainian sovereign territory was elementary sloppiness on her part.

    At PMQs, she had an agenda which was to be pursued regardless. Any parliamentary scrutiny is a waste of time, since she has made her mind up and will not answer questions that palpably show how she is mistaken. It may be effective politically – we only needed to have witnessed the Iron Lady at work to see that, but at least MT did her homework when confronted by opponents.

    Economically, I do not believe in trickle-down and never have. It relies on a solid faith in the goodness of will, national pride, or sense of noblesse oblige amid the nouveau riche. Little backs this up, and a lot points to big money chasing bigger money, even if all and sundry around go bust in the process. This seems to be her creed, and I do not like it.

    I am a social conservative, and believe in family and commitment and a common sense of traditional values. In this, I side with the Right, and deplore the breakdown of our institutions in recent decades to the altar of woke. That does not mean, however, I do not have a social conscience, nor a firm belief that the prime remit of Government is to serve the nation and the public, not to feather the nests of oligarchs in the hope of crumbs from their table. I see little indication that the woke march through our institutions would not march on ever more through what’s left of our institutions, and if we do not conform, there will be trouble.
    Before Rishi Sunak vanishes forever into the memory hole, my biggest criticism of him was the recklessness he treated public money, as if interest rates on Government borrowing could be held down forever, even when they are dramatically lower than inflation and penalise heavily anyone with any real money. All this pumping money into circulation is bound to reduce its value when adjustments are made against collateral. Sunak realised that, but too late, and I fear his Damascene conversion to prudence fooled nobody. Gordon Brown made the same error when he splashed the cash in response to the deregulated financiers’ fraud in 2008.

    It seems that with Liz Truss, and her appointee Kwasi Kwarteng, that they too are content to splash the cash by the hundreds of billions, but as vast sums of defrauded wealth gets sent abroad untaxed (or pushes up prices here similarly untaxed), it will be those committed to the country whose money cannot be moved abroad so easily that will end up footing the bill. In truth, Truss economics are those of Sunak before he resigned as Chancellor, but without any pretence that she has any obligation beyond her own tribe.

    I have no doubt that her associates will make damned sure they get pay rises in line with inflation. If it hits 20% by Christmas (as is likely, even though it always drops in September in order to diddle the pensioners, only to slap extra rises in October), and the pound drops to parity with the US dollar, and with it the cost of imports and fuel push inflation ever higher, these associates will be fine with it, even if most of the public must make do with a token cost-of-living allowance on their pay and savings.

    Will there be a national strike, or simply most small businesses closing down? Will Truss care, or simply stonewall questions stony-faced, repeating the same phrase over and over and over like a stuck record?”

    We have received your request for review [I never requested a review, nor was I given that option]

    1. Ooo… searching questions and hard truths. Must be suppressed at all costs.
      I agree with you, BTW, FWIW.

    1. We had thunder accompanied by a tremendous downpour; the rain was bouncing a good four inches high!

  79. Following on from True_Belle’s post “More footage emerging of the sectarian conflict erupting in Leicestershire”, the BBC has finally posted a more detailed report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-62818429

    This evening’s East Midlands Today has done the same but has danced around the subject just as skilfully. Yes, the India v. Pakistan cricket match was mentioned and we were even treated to interviews with a Hindu (on the phone) and a Muslim (to the camera) about how sporting contests can sometimes have consequences.

    No one dared speak the real truth.

  80. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-62818307
    Potton: Errors made in arrest of 81-year-old man says PCC
    A police and crime commissioner said an opportunity was missed to de-escalate a situation that ended with an 81-year-old man being arrested and injured. (my highlight)
    Malcolm Emery was put in handcuffs after officers mistakenly went to his home in Potton at 05:00 BST on Friday. Bedfordshire Police has apologised to Mr Emery and referred itself to the police watchdog. The county’s PCC said he had some “strong words” with the chief constable.
    Festus Akinbusoye said: “The error here wasn’t so much in going to the wrong address, it was the way in which things escalated so quickly and that’s really, really unfortunate. “There was an opportunity missed by officers, an error was made, and I’m very, very pleased that Bedfordshire Police has apologised.”
    Mr Emery had told the BBC he was watching TV when he saw a face looking through his window and grabbed a “dog walking stick” when he went to see what was happening.
    He said he went outside and ended up being handcuffed and arrested by the officers, causing injuries to his wrists and arms. Mr Emery was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker when an officer received a cut to her face, in what the force said was “an altercation” as police walked away from the address.
    But the force later concluded Mr Emery should face no further action.
    Mr Akinbusoye said the force’s apology was “necessary having reviewed what was a situation that could have been handled very differently”.
    He said: “I’m really pleased that the force has very swiftly looked into this and not waited entirely for an IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct) investigation recommendations, apologised and taken responsibility, and begun the process of making sure the likelihood of this happening again is a lot, lot less.”
    Deputy chief constable Trevor Rodenhurst acknowledged opportunities were missed to de-escalate the situation.
    He said he was “deeply sorry” to those involved, which began with a “simple case of a mistaken address but quickly escalated to a point where a man in his 80s has received injuries to his arms, as a result of being handcuffed, and an officer has suffered a head injury”.
    He added: “While it is important we allow any review by the IOPC to be carried out before making any further comment, it is also right that we acknowledge where we have got things wrong and there were opportunities to de-escalate this situation which were not taken.”
    The IOPC confirmed it had received the referral and it was being assessed.

    1. What is wrong with these bastards? Strip-search a child, beat the crap out of an old man. Why does anyone need to complain, were they not brought up to respect people? Maybe they’d prefer to just shoot everyone in the back of the head and get it over with? Bodies in the street as a warning to the others.

  82. Read this headline in the Standard, and tremble:
    Kwasi Kwarteng: ‘Geeky’, ‘intensely private’ with ‘supreme confidence’

  83. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/putin-election-liz-truss-prime-minister-undemocratic-b1023901.html

    Vladimir Putin has claimed the process that led to Liz Truss becoming Prime Minister was “far from democratic”. The Russian president – viewed as a pariah following his invasion of Ukraine – said the UK public had not been given a say over the change in No 10. Ms Truss succeeded Boris Johnson as Prime Minister after winning the support of Tory members in the party’s leadership contest. Speaking in Vladivostok, Putin said: “In the UK, the procedure for electing the head of state is far from democratic. “It takes place within the framework of the party that won the previous parliamentary election.
    “The UK people do not participate in the change of government in this case.”
    Putin’s most recent election, in 2018, saw him secure more than 75% of the vote, but his most prominent opponents were prevented from standing.
    The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said that election “lacked genuine competition” and “took place in an overly-controlled legal and political environment marked by continued pressure on critical voices”.
    Putin used his appearance at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok to claim that Russia had not “lost anything” as a result of the invasion of Ukraine, despite Western sanctions. “Russia has resisted the economic, financial and technological aggression of the West,” he said. “I’m sure that we haven’t lost anything and we won’t lose anything. “The most important gain is the strengthening of our sovereignty, it’s an inevitable result of what’s going on.”

      1. Weird, isn’t it, agreeing with the leader of a country that we were expecting to invade just a few years ago?

    2. How fortunate is Russia to have such a clear-sighted leader. I’m packing my bags right now….. au revoir

    1. I’m not sure you’re right there BoB/BOC.
      I interpret her comment as racially protective rather than racist. I acknowledge that I’m splitting hairs here, but she’s right; the one being (as she sees it) oppressed couldn’t care less if it’s a black man or a white woman who is making their lives miserable, it’s a faceless bureaucrat. Diversity at the top is irrelevant to her.

    2. Is a black kid going hungry any different from a white kid going hungry?
      Why is the brown mum being deported? Why can’t she take her family with her, instead of tearing her family apart?

        1. The government should pay for all the repatriation fares. Long-term, it would probably save money on benefits, prison accommodation etc. Think of it as an investment.

          1. Agreed.
            The problem is that they would return almost immediately and HR lawyers would be on the case like a flash.
            Stop the State from sponsoring any HR claims and the lawyers would soon find alternative employment.

    4. There’s a point at which the Left wing mind becomes so baffling, so completely, truly, dementedly bonkers that you really do think the best thing for them is to be moved on to another planet. When they’re living their socialist utopia they can wonder why everyone’s starving and war is prevalent. They’d still blame someone else even then.

      2. Sadly today I read that the Jennings Brewery in Cockermouth was closing.
        They made some lovely beers.

    5. I guess any producer of Wagner’s Ring Cycle is going to have to stage the finale in a Net Zero Carbon setting…

    6. Better by far to chop up the Council’s furniture than your own when preparing for a winter of communism.

  86. Quote of the day

    ‘The former prime minister said I could talk to the housing minister. But he retired 17 minutes after hearing that.’

    – Father of the Commons Sir Peter Bottomly asking a question about planning in PMQs.

  87. Beeb headline:

    “Period dignity officer takes legal action after losing job”

    So he hasn’t thrown in the towel yet!…

    1. Wake up! Come back. Your instruction “Eyelids are getting heavy” has hypnotised them all! Click you fingers or do something!!!

    2. My eyelids red and heavy are
      With bending o’er the smold’ring peat.
      I know the Aeneid now by heart,
      My Virgil read in cold and heat,
      In loneliness and hunger smart.
      And I know Homer, too, I ween,
      As Munster poets know Ossian.

      Cheers BoB!

  92. Good morning, folks! As I intimated yesterday, I have had a busy day, so will just look in breifely and then go to bed.

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