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This blog kind of sums up the red\blue globalists game. But maybe there’s light at the end of the tunnel… - Eddy Booth Dec 29, 10:11
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Alternative headline : “Stephen Fry treated chronic homosexuality ‘as a friend’ ” Unsurprisingly, decades later, he remains uncured. - Fedup2 Dec 29, 10:11
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Today’s “word of the day” (which you *will not see on the BBC*)
The reply in German says Green electricity has risen in Germany over the years
now of 571 TeraWattHours/year 254 comes from Green
Sure that’s 45%
but it’s at a huge cost to bills
I wonder if that 45% claim would stand scrutiny. Have they classified lignite as a biofuel?
My German acquaintances last time I talked with them were pretty scathing about the Green claims that they are bombarded with constantly. They know they’ve slashed their energy usage and are still paying loads more on their domestic bills as a proportion of income than they were before this Energiewende stuff got started – not happy is an understatement.
Then there’s the sorry procession of screwups “a la Siemens” with the engineering implementations where taxpayers have had to pickup the bill – not the energy users directly.
People are going to be driven into running generators in their gardens.
Rowlett is a standout berk in a packed field of runners at the BBC.
It’s like they imagine folk don’t get actual news elsewhere.
I am in ski salopettes and two padded gilets until the missus gets home and we allow ourselves an hour of CH before hitting the lodge and woodburner.
Nice shirt, due. Wicking?
China’s new coal power spree continues as more provinces jump on the bandwagon
Coal power continues to expand in China, despite the government’s pledges and goals. In the first half of 2023, construction was started on 37 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power capacity, 52 GW was permitted, while 41 GW of new projects were announced and 8 GW of previously shelved projects were revived. Of the permitted projects, 10 GW of capacity has already moved to construction.
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/chinas-new-coal-power-spree-continues-as-more-provinces-jump-on-the-bandwagon/
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Lest there be any doubt about what this eco-boondoggle is actually about, I just got this email:
Sustainable Talks: COP28
How progress at COP28 could revolutionise the voluntary carbon market for offset buyers?
BusinessGreen would like to invite you to our latest Sustainability Talks webinar.
Making money out of gullible, credulous or complicit politicians and gullible, credulous or complicit overpaid activist in media.
I am freezing and to warm up gazillions are going into the pockets of those who discuss and trade in green tariff holes that achieve… zero.
Business Green? – that’s James Murray’s carefully crafted dragnet for Green PR kerrapp from the “renewables” sector.
I don’t get emails but TwitterUK seems to think that I should be sent every deluded / mendacious / ecofascist emanation from there – I disagree …
The wretched fantastical slop that Jim dishes out is quite annoying
Elton John and the inconvenient truth about carbon offsetting
21 August 2019, 12:00am
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/elton-john-and-the-inconvenient-truth-about-carbon-offsetting/
Elton John did his royal pals Harry and Meghan few favours when he revealed he’d bought carbon offsets for the couple’s recent trip to Nice in Sir Elton’s private jet. It was also a mistake. ‘Offsetting is worse than doing nothing,’ according to Manchester university professor Kevin Anderson, one of the vanishingly small number of people in the climate world who actually walks the climate talk.
WHAT ARE CARBON OFFSETS?
Some governments and companies may struggle to reduce their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to meet their climate targets. Supporters of carbon offsets see them as key means to help meet these goals.
These offsets allow one nation or company to offset some of their emissions by paying for actions to cut emissions elsewhere. These actions might include rural solar panel installations or converting a fleet of petrol buses to electric.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/how-do-carbon-offsets-factor-into-un-cop28-climate-talks-2023-11-28/
Marky – excellent news – thanks …
Pitchforks, flaming tar torches and vuvuzelas? – anyone?
**BREAKING**
Oxford Council vote for permanent Gaza ceasefire
Why do these morons think they can influence another country. Utterly clueless. No wonder councils are bankrupting themselves by wasting time with this idiocy. Pure virtue signalling crap.
I hope this link works, but it may not (paywall + trial token of some kind).
If not, have taken the liberty of posting it in full below.
https://www.konstantinkisin.com/p/presenter-reveals-shocking-racism?r=1t72vk
BREAKING NEWS: Shocking Racism at the BBC
KONSTANTIN KISIN
DEC 1, 2023
∙ PAID
The British Broadcasting Corporation has been embroiled in another giant racism scandal. If you missed the story, BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake revealed that his terrible experiences at the national broadcaster left him struggling with his mental health. The situation is “really affecting” him, he explained.
So what happened, exactly?
Did a group of colleagues show up to the BBC canteen holding aloft pictures of Tommy Robinson, chanting “England till I die”? Was Mr Arthanayake told to go back where he came from? Have his career opportunities been curtailed on account of his race?
No. The allegations made by Mr Arthanayake are far more serious than that. In a shocking statement to the Journalism Diversity Fund conference at BBC Media City, he explained that his mental health problems are down to the “overwhelmingly white” working environment he is forced to endure on a daily basis. “It’s really affecting me that I walk in and all I see is white people,” he added.
Arthanayake further explained that when he raised the “problem”, his colleagues’ response was often to say that they were not being racist. Can you believe it? When Mr Arthanayake bravely confronted his fellow employees for the offence of being white, they brazenly denied that their skin colour was a racist hate crime. Outrageous!
He further added that “the hardest thing is to walk into a room, look around and nobody looks like you”.
Mr Arthanayake’s parents are from Sri Lanka. I have never been to Sri Lanka but I am willing to bet the equivalent of his excessive £150,000 salary that very few people in Sri Lanka would place “having to walk into a room where nobody looks like you” at the top of their list of the Hardest Things to Do.
What is more, were I to move to Sri Lanka, I would be rather disappointed if the son my wife and I raised there grew up complaining about the Sri Lankan national broadcaster being staffed primarily by brown people.
Were this to occur, I imagine I would feel the pressing need to remind him of the tremendous opportunities he enjoyed thanks to the fact that his parents were allowed to make their home in Sri Lanka.
I would caution him in the strongest terms against adopting the pernicious and racist idea that people should be judged on the colour of their skins rather than the contents of their character.
I might even suggest that if he is so uncomfortable with being surrounded by brown people that it is “affecting his mental health”, then perhaps Sri Lanka is the wrong country for him and he may wish to consider following my example by moving to a country that is more to his liking.
I would also not be surprised if his racist remarks were badly received by the public and resulted in some sort of formal statement from his employer – the national broadcaster – distancing itself from his comments given that it is funded, after all, by a lot of ordinary Sri Lankans of the skin colour that makes him so uncomfortable.
And, in a sane world, all of this would also happen in Britain to Nihal Arthanayake. But it won’t, of course, because we don’t live in a sane world.
Sri Lanka’s New Government Seems Serious About Revisiting the Hambantota Deal With China – The Diplomat
^^ note lack of white diversity here
Some press commented that the King got the front row at the COP family picture whilst the green card PM was buried at the back…. Personally I’d be happier with neither was at the green crap bash – will amount to British taxpayers being screwed and the third world getting a feckless payout …
The constant diversity boot-licking and wringing of hands by the loony middle-upper-class lefties which includes most of the employees at the BBC has directly lead to this totally ridiculous point.
It’s almost as if any person of colour from anywhere else in the World is encouraged to carp about how badly they are treated by English (white) people when in England.
Try the reverse of that in say Pakistan and see how welcome you would be.
Time for Mr Arthanayake to seek a position at a news and current affairs outfit that reflects his values?
https://twitter.com/nogoodgods/status/1730553652887069090/photo/1
link to image
The blindness of people at the Guardian is astounding to say the least. They will run any story as long as it’s white anti-British.
Why not just come clean and admit they really just want a Muslim controlled takeover in this Country under Sharia Law?
Well, they’ll shortly be very happy then. Until tall buildings become a problem for their ability to live. I wonder if they’ll complain.
Where’s the trough?
Pink hair = not chemicals or acids?
“With great sadness Kibbutz Nir Oz announces the murder of Aria (Zalman) Zalmanowicz. Zalman was 85 years old, and was a founder of Kibbutz Nir Oz. Zalman was a father of two and grandfather of five grandchildren. He was a man of the land, dedicated to agriculture his entire life. He was an avid reader, with a wide knowledge of history and the country.
May his memory be a blessing. ”
RIP
The oldest Israeli hostage taken by Hamas terrorists during their barbaric October 7 attack on Israel has died in captivity.
1pm BBC radio news – wall to wall Islamic Hamas propaganda for the first 15 minutes – pretty impressive stuff – allegations aplenty – no mention of the 1400 murders a few weeks ago ..
The IDF spokesman got about 3 minutes of rebuttal with Jonnie dymond acting as Hamas representative …
Propaganda – use kids or things kids like …
JCVI ‘largely opposed’ to Covid vaccination for children under 16
This article is more than 2 years old
Exclusive: Members of government’s expert committee disagree with politicians and Jonathan Van-Tam
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/07/jcvi-largely-opposed-to-covid-vaccination-for-children-under-16
If you get your news on the conflict in Gaza from the BBC you could be forgiven for thinking it all started when Israeli troops entered Gaza and responded to the Hamas missiles whizzing into Israel by attacking the Hamas operational hubs with tanks and missiles.
Any mention of what triggered the Israelis to take this action is thrown into the BBC memory hole.
So the latest Israeli assault is portrayed as an unprovoked attack on Palestinian citizens.
They just keep getting worse!
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/1-december-alquds-brigades-say-they-bombed-israeli-cities
The independent review into
the application of sharia law
in England and Wales
Presented to Parliament
by the Secretary of State for the Home Department
by Command of Her Majesty
February 2018
Click to access 6.4152_HO_CPFG_Report_into_Sharia_Law_in_the_UK_WEB.pdf
Wife #1 ????
I see the Daily Mail has chosen to moderate the comments…
Absolutely no links to any Pakistani criminal gangs then? Some relatives with previous experience offering advice?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6869857/Gangsters-links-7-7-London-bombings-stole-8billion-British-taxpayers.html
Rishi Sunak announcing he’s GIVING AWAY £11bn of granny taxpayers money
to his Green subsidy mafia mates
… sickening
Wind is not proper power
It’s a worker who only turns up when it feels like it.
King Charles and other British representatives at the conference include Sunak, Cameron, and Keir Starmer.
All four arrived or are set to travel on their own separate planes. Reuters reports.
The plant whisperer is an embarrassment.
Why not trillion? HA HA HA HA
Look who he is meeting… edited as it was getting hard to credit…
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Hosted by: Climate Heritage Network (CHN) and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
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Voices from the front line share their climate action stories and give examples of loss of cultural heritage and Indigenous knowledge due to climate change. This event will showcase culture-centred climate vulnerability assessments and community-engaged training, demonstrating how putting people in the centre of solutions helps us meet the urgency we now face.
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How can art and culture shape how communities build resilience in the face of climate impacts? Join us to gain insights from artists and practitioners from Pakistan, Brazil, Egypt, and Nepal, among others. In this session discussion, film and performance show that recognising historical patterns (including the impact of colonialism), and understanding cultural interactions, can enhance the adaptive capacity of communities and ecosystems.
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How that 70,000 of fully funded grifters got there adds up to…?
“Sunak, Cameron and King Charles each take own private jets to travel to Cop28.
No 10 defended the decision to have Mr Sunak and Lord Cameron travel separately – as it was confirmed junior ministers and officials would fly out on commercial flights rather than travel with the PM’s entourage.
The prime minister’s official spokesperson claimed that there was nothing wrong with so many flights since the government is “not anti-flying””
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/king-charles-sunak-cameron-cop28-private-jets-b2456050.html
“Jets used by the super-rich are up to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes per passenger, and 50 times more polluting than trains, according to a study by the Transport & Environment campaign group.”
“Do 70,000 People Really Need to Be at a Climate Confab?
The expanding crowd risks overshadowing the purpose and turning the meeting into another celebrity-studded gathering of rich people.
If one wanted to be nitpicky about it, one could argue that 70,000 people riding airplanes to an oil country on the Arabian Peninsula to talk about climate change feels a bit like staging an AA meeting in a Fort Lauderdale nightclub during Spring Break. You risk losing sight of the purpose.
untold scores of those COP attendees won’t be flying commercial. They’ll be taking private jets, which generate 100 times more carbon pollution per passenger than commercial ones. At least 100 private aircraft flew to Sharm el-Sheikh last year, and 118 flew to Glasgow in 2021. This year, King Charles III, Rishi Sunak and David Cameron will each take their own PJ from the UK to Dubai. ”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-30/cop28-do-70-000-people-really-need-to-be-at-a-climate-confab
thats 358 people from each and every country on earth
Last years smorgasborg:
“How many private jets went to Sharm el-Sheikh?
Data from FlightRadar24 shows 36 private jets landed at Sharm el-Sheikh between 4 and 6 November, the start of the summit.
A further 64 flew into Cairo, 24 of which had come from Sharm el-Sheikh.”
Josh cartoon
The book on why it was wrong?
Another report:
” Cop28 will have the biggest carbon footprint in the event’s history after UAE invited a record 400,000 people to attend
The conference in Dubai is expected to break records for carbon emissions
97,000 are due to attend as delegates – up from 49.7k at COP27 in Egypt in 2022.
In Glasgow, it was expected that about 60 per cent of summit emissions came from international flights.
The conferences also risk growing their own carbon footprint by finding housing for so many delegates over the two-week period, policing the event and transporting people in and out of the venues.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12813401/Cop28-biggest-carbon-footprint-events-history-UAE-invited-record-400-000-people-attend.html
“The BBC is trending”
2017 .. ha ha ha .. they just noticed?
Can I suggest a little story – “Male refugee forces pregnant women refugee holding child down onto a train track, police drag him away for her safety? Riot police then lift women with child off track with tender arms.”
Least we forget how it all works … videos, words, pictures … you don’t get to choose the arrangement …
Chaos as police stop Hungary migrant train – Gavin Hewitt – BBC -Sep 2015 @53s
“… the a really distressing incident happened. A women who was carrying a small baby began crying for help (photo of lady carrying baby). One of her companions tried to help her (photo of man with women on track, riot police reaching towards them) Somehow there became a push and a shove with the police. She ended up on the railway lines (by the male refugee dragging her and the baby to the floor, but this is not said) with the riot police trying to pull her back, and this of course inflamed all the other people…”
-Gavin Hewitt – Sep 2015
Watch the video and the male refugee (companion trying to help?) drags the women and baby to the floor, by force.
Even the Mirror (03Sept2015) says “… this refugee couple cradle their tiny baby, after throwing themselves (NO! Male refugee drags women and baby onto train tracks) on train tracks as police try to take them to migrant camps in Hungary”
Gets better. Two days (05Sept2015) later the Mirror then report it as
“Refugee who dragged pregnant wife and baby son onto train track did it because ‘death would be better’”
1. BBC Version uses words and pictures to hide the video version
2. The Mirror shows the video but uses words to tell a different version
Can I suggest a little story – “Male refugee forces pregnant women refugee holding child down onto a train track, police drag him away for her safety? Riot police then lift women with child off track with tender arms.”
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/03/start-the-week-open-thread-131/comment-page-3/#comment-849798
Released Palestinians allege abuse in Israeli jails
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67584895
The article full of lies I referenced earlier has now made it to the main ‘live feed’.
The stand-out part is that the main part of the original story which the BBC spent so much time investigating – the boy with the broken fingers – has had all references to that story removed. Now he just says he was ‘beaten’.
That’s the nearest will we ever get to an admission from the BBC that they deliberately lied and realise they have been found out.
I am starting to dislike that lefty-liar ‘Lucy Williamson’ a lot. She’s like Bowen but without the slightly-mad, complete buffoon look. She is just bitterness and hate.
I think I Lucy is competing in an aggressive field – bit like those in the race industry having to out ‘race’ each other ….
But if it does permanent harming to the standing of the bbc she’s worth her weight in excrement …
Fed, that lie about the boys fingers deserves attention from OFCOM.
It is a lie manufactured by Hamas and fully endorsed by the BBC – who MUST have known full well it was fake news.
I won’t hold my breath though. OFCOM are a complete leftist farce.
One for BBC Verify?
https://therightscoop.com/al-jazeera-posts-video-of-palestinian-holding-dead-baby-killed-by-israel-but-the-unblurred-video-reveals-the-truth/
Or are they sticking with whether Trump uses sunblock?
Closer to home I have just been invited by Nesta…
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I shall not pre judge. But may question the ‘independent advice’ as that phrase these days is as red a flag as it can be.
“From 23 October 2023, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme heat pump grant will increase to £7,500 for air source heat pumps and ground source heat pumps, up from £5,000 and £6,000, respectively. This was confirmed in an announcement by the UK Government in September 2023.1 Nov 2023”
The ‘guide’ is pathetic. A few generic questions and… bingo! I qualify.
Approximately nothing about my home makes it suitable for a heat pump.
lol, fit a heat pump and never be quite warm enough in winter again.
And if you want hot water for a bath, be sure to switch on the electric immersion heater in the tank first to warm it up. And turn it on once a week to kill all the dangerous bacteria which can still live in the hot water tank as it doesn’t get hot enough.
No thanks.
Lest we forget, as the bbc and associated far left have done:
“Inside the wellness retreat where Nova festival survivors are coming together to recover from the trauma of the bloodbath: ‘I want to clear my mind of the screams’
Some 364 people were shot, bludgeoned or burned to death at the all-night festival, held about 5km (2 miles) from the Gaza Strip.
Israel estimates in total 1,200 people were killed in the attack on its south that triggered a retaliatory onslaught,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12813895/Inside-wellness-retreat-nova-festival-survivors-recover-trauma-bloodbath.html
Storytellingland vs reality
The Royal Garage: A Peek Inside King Charles III’s Luxurious Car Collection
BY
PRATIBHA CHANDEL
PUBLISHED JAN 5, 2023
King Charles III’s car collection perfect matches the monarch’s royal stature.
Aston Martin DB6 Volante
MGC GT
Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante
The magnificent V8 Vantage Volante that now belongs to King Charles was a gift from the Emir of Bahrain. Under the hood of this vehicle was a 5.3-liter V8 engine, which was responsible for its impressive performance. Since there was such a high demand for his Vantage V8, Aston Martin manufactured and marketed an additional 20 units with the same “Prince of Wales” or “PoW” specification. The automobiles had a design that was subtle, but they kept the model’s performance capabilities.
https://www.therichest.com/luxury/the-royal-garage-a-peek-inside-king-charles-iiis-luxurious-car-collection/
I wanted an AM V8 ever since Lord Brett Sinclair sported one.
When the scrotes visit I point at the empty space in the drive where it would be but for them.
Cop28 runs until December 12, with the UK government pledging £1.6 billion of taxpayer funds for international climate change projects throughout the summit.
That includes a £60 million contribution to a loss and damage fund for the world’s poorest countries worth a total of about 420 million U.S. dollars (£332 million), which was announced on Thursday.
Climate change narrative. Just another excuse to embezzle money from the taxpayer.
Cameron feathering his nest for when the current regime is thrown out – British corruption – best in the world ..
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/countries/AF
Supporting Afghanistan’s Basic Services
UK – Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The proposed programme will work concurrently with the Afghanistan humanitarian response to deliver immediately required essential services. With a particular focus on women and…
Read more …
Programme Id
GB-GOV-1-301527
Start date
2022-8-11
Status
Implementation
Total budget
£39,773,998
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/projects/GB-GOV-1-301527/summary
The proposed programme will work concurrently with the Afghanistan humanitarian response to deliver immediately required essential services. With a particular focus on women and girls, it will support citizen access to health, education and livelihoods services to meet their daily needs.
Lucy
another word of the day
“peculation”
Duh ! I put my recent comment on the earlier Start the Week, and can’t copy and paste……
WOT cost of living crisis ?
Watching the Masterchef the Professionals, the remaining contestants are now performing on Michelin starred restaurants. One is Ikoya in The Strand – tasting menu £300.
All very well, but it was the age of the diners that astonished me – none under 40. The age group who can’t afford their own home, but will cough up 300 quid for a couple of items on a plate.!
Ikoyi builds its own spice-based cuisine around British micro-seasonality: vegetables slowly grown for flavour, sustainable line-caught fish, and aged native beef. Our kitchen serves guests an interpretation of produce in its optimal state, harnessing as much flavour as possible while respecting the true nature of the ingredient. The foundation for our menu is a vast collection of spices with a focus on sub-Saharan West Africa, which we have sourced with utmost care since opening.
https://ikoyilondon.com/
Our tasting menu is £300. It is served for dinner from Monday to Friday, as well as for lunch on Fridays. We offer a shorter lunch menu for £180 on Wednesdays and Thursdays
“One of the finest dining experiences of m y life. Jeremy and Ire
surpassed our expectations with an experience that would be
hard to repeat. The food was exhilarating and challenging, more
creative than anything I had experienced before, and the quality
was second to none.”
— Angus Burns, July 2021
BRISSLES
I learned how to copy and paste at 81 years of age and it is SO easy.
Thanks for that, but perhaps I wrote it unclearly. YES as a secretary of umpteen years, I DO know how to cut and paste but here on my phone on this site I haven’t a clue.
BRISSLES
You mean you have a one of these newfangled, so called, smart phones??
You have lost me. In future my gob is zipped. XX
@ Brissles
I was very disappointed with Masterchef, the Professionals.
I was expecting a couple of lads, one with badly permed hair, driving a mark 2 Escort into piles of cardboard boxes in an old warehouse then showing us how to purchase a curry or a kebab.
Possibly followed by a carefully chosen selection of doughnuts and sausage rolls whilst on stakeout, and maybe how to make a bacon sarnie at home, while chatting up a female kidnapping victim, then getting a good bollocking from an old Scotsman.
I feel robbed of 30 minutes of my valuable time, not a Ford Capri in sight.
I am not even going to bother with Masterchef, the Sweeney.
More drivel, I expect, with no Granadas or strip Clubs
Looks like my Christmas a pontins holiday is going to be cancelled because the holiday camp is being closed immediately . The Home Offices says they won’t be putting 3rd world illegals in there – so we know the truth ..
I wish they would put them here, that’ll stop the bleeding boats, they’ll be begging for the middle east after a week:
“Trip Advisor:
Where happiness and hygiene go to die!!
DO NOT STAY HERE!!
This place is an absolute hovel! Its hard to find where to start…
It’s overrun with seagulls so there is pooh everywhere. They attack you, steal, your food and squawk ALL the time!
The rooms are a health hazard. Had to ask for a mop when I arrived to clean the floor for my crawling baby. The mop looked like it had been the only one they’d used since Pontins opened, so I bought one at the local shop! I know it’s cheap but you shouldn’t have to clean somewhere when you arrive!!
The arcade was filthy, lots of games didn’t work and one of them had a line of white powder on! 😳 Come on!! An arcade is full of children!
The entertainment is what you get if you throw the rejects from xfactor into a prison camp, dress them from a jumble sale and give them an 80s sound machine to sing to!
I could go on but I think you all get the gist! Don’t waste your money! Butlins, haven or parkdean are a little more money but much better. The money you’ll spend on cleaning products and broken games could be saved to go somewhere better!”
ITV headline could tell us the truth, but doesn’t
“Two Pontins holiday parks close with ‘immediate effect'”
Should be “Home Office denies Pontins parks will be used for dinghy divers”
As long as they are forced to listen every night to a selection of sixties bands whos only original members are the roadies chatting up the 70 year old groupies in the fag shelter outside. (I met Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tichs gardener once…)
I think justice will be served, and local residents will do a roaring trade in rubber dingies with a sat nav set to Calais
You’ll probably find the camps are for council and private tenants turfed out so the paddlers can be housed in accommodation fitting their needs. The British are scum in this country, everybody else in the world takes priority.
Look East last night you have a few hour to catch the long item at 13 mins for 3.5 mins with a “trans” complaining about MALES being banned from female cycling
THREAD : @leng_cath
Unbelievably the BBC considers Josh the mediocre cyclist whining about other men not being allowed to beat women to be such important local viewing they made a whole TV package out of it. This is GOLDEN /
… https://twitter.com/leng_cath/status/1730548085883875788
BTW I barely noticed that both the Look East female presenter and weather lady had decided to advertise their fertility by wearing leather skirts.
StewGreen
Ooooh! Were they wearing mini skirts?
At 83 I have to watch my blood pressure, so thoughts of youthful pleasures need to be curtailed but — What the hell!!!
WERE they wearing mini skirts??
@ Lefty Wright:
They do it better on the continent..
Happy Xmas….hope theres a Defibrillator in your shed…
Zephir
Nah. Thus far providence has served me well so why change a winning horse?
All the very best for Christmas and the New Year.
“Snowflake Britain shuts down: South East and London lightly dusted but trains are delayed, children’s football matches cancelled and Christmas light switch-ons abandoned ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12814569/Britain-london-south-east-snow-trains-delayed-zero-weather.html
Haven’t we been hitting Net Zero for a couple of days now?
I hit net zero for a couple of days last year around this time.
Until I got some new spark plugs and and air filter.
I wonder how all these electric cars are coping below zero, and the inevitable effect on battery charge ?
“How does cold weather affect electric cars:
1. It can reduce the range of your EV – Research by What Car? suggests that drivers can expect 15-20% fewer miles from an EV in the winter than in the summer, which would reduce even further in icy conditions. Therefore, you need to ensure that you have more charge in the bank than you would usually do for your journey so that you are not caught short.
2. It increases charging time – Electric cars tend to like being at a certain temperature to charge efficiently. When the car is too cold, it takes longer to charge. Therefore, in the winter it’s best to add a little longer to your journey time to account for this longer charging period so that you’re not caught out. You could also invest in a high speed charger to help reduce these charging times.
3. It reduces battery life – Cold batteries have a smaller capacity than warm batteries, which means that electric cars cannot hold as much charge in the winter months as they do in the summer. This is due to the cold temperatures slowing down the chemical reaction which generates power, thereby weakening the battery’s power and reducing its lifespan. ”
https://www.mg.co.uk/blog/how-does-cold-weather-affect-electric-cars
Lucy
Net 0 -1.7C in my neck of the woods.
Have we had an MP properly ejected recently?
https://twitter.com/hunleyeric/status/1730620445207019740
Barry Gardiner counts his £500,000 from a chinese spy!
Dunkelflaute
On the coldest night of the year
We are now in sitting in front of our wood burning stove, supping a glass of malt. after having just collected another large dumpy bag of cheap logs in my diesel car…
The new Dogger Bank wind farm would have to be 50 times bigger to meet its nameplate capacity…. Deluded idiots
Cop28 🖕🖕🖕
davylars
I woke up this morning in the deep South of England to find brass monkeys on my lawn playing ping pong with their balls using my Salvia plants as a net.
Temp. – 1.7C. Global boiling? MY ARSE!!
My image disappeared…. Try again
Democracy in action ??
is the bbc holding this kind of power “to account” as they pontificate so often ??
Or, do they pick and choose which powers they hold to account ?
“Jacob Rees-Mogg launches GB News rant over demand for veganism to be ‘enshrined into law’.
“We have the Paris Climate Accords, the climate change committee, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and of course COP, but these sorts of institutions, which are free from scrutiny and democratic accountability, always show the same problems of bureaucratic groupthink, as they don’t have to justify their decisions to a potentially cold and poor electorate.
“Perhaps even more importantly, the implicit premise behind them is that experts should make the important decisions and not democratically elected politicians. It’s high time to reduce the powers of these institutions and reinforce the democratic ones.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1841032/jacob-rees-mogg-gb-news-rant
“”At COP26 in Glasgow, there were more than 100 private jets which flew in for the conference. And this conference is set to have the largest carbon footprint of them all so far.
“World leaders will be pontificating in the usual style, and it will be very understandable if poor old Joe Biden falls asleep as he did previously, and who can blame him for this year. Already protesters are calling for veganism to become enshrined in law.
Your leaders are set to give £60million of your money to climate causes, however, [COP] is merely a symptom of a much wider problem within our society.”
It’s not like ITV would use the news as a PR flaorm to promote their series “ITV I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here” ../sarc
ITVnews “Moonpig faces backlash over ‘insensitive’ Nella Rose card inspired by I’m A Celebrity row”
..yawn
“insensitive ? that is the very word for her gobshite anti social behaviour,
Yet again we have a nasty, vicious aggressive female who has attacked two males for no good reason WHATSOEVER and they roll out that word again to excuse it.
Bloody “feisty”.
I think bacon should be enshrined in law
And sausage sandwiches.
English sausages, not the spanish donkey sausages.
The absolutely non-political King Charles has worn a tie covered in Greek flags to meet Rishi Sunak at the COP28 , after the prime minister’s row about the Elgin Marbles.
The Greeks, famous for inventing philosophy, triangles and homosexuality, and arguing for 50 years about marbles FFS (50p a bag in Toys R Us, get over it)
I don’t know which notable achievement Charles is celebrating, but anyone who chucks Princess Diana for that other one with a face like a bucket of frogs raises my suspicions.
Zephir
Isn’t your post rather insulting to both buckets and frogs.Withdraw that remark at once Sir or it’s pistols at dawn.
Mea Culpa
A face like a witch doctor’s rattle maybe
surprised you’re still in the land of the living after perusing various continental newsreaders and their exclusives.
Various sources say, a similar faux pas may have occurred with Naga Munchetty (real name Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah) and possibly Kate Burley.
Which cleared the studio quicker than a memo for a bbc / Sky union meeting and the camera man is still in therapy for PTSD.
A source sad ” I thought the Huw Edwards screenshots were bad, but…this is a whole new level”
Aw come on guys. You don’t look at the mantlepiece whilst poking the fire😄
Dickie
Maybe not Sir but how many of us blokes today would rush into a fire without first surveying the mantlepiece?
After all the mantlepiece may be decorated with designer stubble and the fire may turn out to be a BIG surprise.
When I was growing up in the 1940s and 1950s such a thing was completely unknown. A boy was a boy and a girl was a girl and the boy came prepared with a packet of three and the girls were glad of it.
It’s the little things.
https://x.com/DsRoland/status/1730579181598093349?s=20
I’ve just been kicked out of this ‘private event’ – a lobby conference with @rishisunak
about to start. I’ve been reporting on climate for 35 years so it’s possible I know more than most Pollcorrs. That’s why the environment corrs are left outside.
@fionaharvey
Bet Soaf the Blonde was let in.
Lucy
Well maybe he was referring to the rubber dinghy catastrophe in which case he was, of course, correct. We really should have been paying attention.
Lefty,
That’s part of the scam now isn’t it? At least that’s what I heard recently. We -the rich western nations, have caused mass immigration because we have impoverished the third world by causing climate-change with our luxury lifestyles.
Or something like that. It’s our fault as usual.
Lucy
So, bearing in mind that this is only what you heard, what you are saying is that we in the West have,due to our way of life, caused the climate to change and in so doing we have impoverished the third world which has led to third world people wishing to come and join us in our climate destroying lifestyle.
2 +2 = 6.5? XX Happy Christmas
https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1730637955935437199?s=20
Yes the @MehdiHasanShow has ended on @peacock & will be ending on @MSNBC *next* month (still a few weeks left!)
Thank you all for watching over the past 3 years.
Going forward at @MSNBC, I’ll serve as a guest anchor across prime shows and beyond, & as an on-air political analyst.
‘Anchor’. He is one any medium tied to sinks fastest.
@ Lucy
I see there are increasing discoveries of cities below the sea, any internet seach will reveal further details.
I wonder why there are where they are ? and every religion / culture with a flood story ?
“World Flood Myths
Did you know there are over 200 myths from all over the world about a major Flood? If a worldwide Flood never happened, then why are there so many stories about it?
Especially common in world mythologies are stories about world-ending floods and the chosen individuals that managed to survive them, like the biblical Noah and Utnapishtim, the ark builder in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a text thought to be even older than the Abrahamic religions. In Aztec mythology, a man named Tata and his wife Nena carve out a cypress tree after being warned of a coming deluge by the god Tezcatlipoca, while Manu, the first man in Hindu folklore, was visited by a fish that guided his boat to the peak of a mountain. The list goes on.”
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/flood-myth-origin/
I don’t think it’s a myth. (the way in which we define the word ‘myth’ today) a fable.
The collective memory of mankind records a global catastrophic flood. As mankind spread out from mesopotamia they brought the story with them. Details changing as they went and passed it down through generations. There is much geological evidence.
I don’t think it was a climate-change catastrophe.
Of course, unlike Mesopotania we have a land bridge between Europe and the UK, undisputed, that flooded:
Doggerland
How Doggerland Sank Beneath The Waves (500,000-4000 BC) // Prehistoric Europe Documentary
And what about Doggerland ?
A land between the UK and Europe
How Doggerland Sank Beneath The Waves (500,000-4000 BC) // Prehistoric Europe Documentary
“Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets
The land mass that linked Britain to continental Europe was rich in early human life until it flooded.
it is only now, after a decade of pioneering research and the extraordinary finds of an army of amateur archaeologists scouring the Dutch coastline for artefacts and fossils, that a major exhibition is able to offer a window into Doggerland, a vast expanse of territory submerged following a tsunami 8,000 years ago, cutting the British Isles off from modern Belgium, the Netherlands and southern Scandinavia.
The exhibition, Doggerland: Lost World in the North Sea, at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden, southern Holland, includes more than 200 objects, ranging from a deer bone in which an arrowhead is embedded, and fossils such as petrified hyena droppings and mammoth molars, to a fragment of a skull of a young male Neanderthal. Studies of the forehead bone, dredged up in 2001 off the coast of Zeeland, suggests he was a big meat eater. A small cavity behind the brow bone is believed to be a scar from a harmless subcutaneous tumour that would have been visible as a lump above his eye.
Sea levels during the last ice age were much lower than today but a catastrophic wave was generated by a sub-sea landslide off the coast of Norway.
“There was a period when Doggerland was dry and incredibly rich, a wonderful place for hunter gatherers,” said Van der Vaart-Verschoof. “It was not some edge of the earth, or land bridge to the UK. It was really the heart of Europe. There are lessons to be learned. The story of Doggerland shows how destructive climate change can be. The climate change we see today is manmade but the effects could be just as devastating as the changes seen all those years ago.”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets
oh my, look who’s in Dubai…
I hope it’s not on Parliamentary expenses
I am just surprised Lammy ended up in Dubai and not Dublin, where the fragrant Ms Abott is probaby wandering around with two left shoes.
“Cop28 ? wot da f@k you talking about missus? Deres a candlelight vigil for dat alky tosser from da Pogues going on dats lt”
“Moi cousins an Irish dentist, how do ye tink he feels about dat twat ? never hard of Colgate did he ? f@cking Smirnoff oh bloody yes”
Wonder if they Dave, Richie, etc were all jockeying for a good slot on the skybridge with King Lear.
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THE POWER OF THE PURSE: U.S. climate envoy John Kerry pledged more than $17 million to help support a World Bank-created fund that would help vulnerable countries combat the effects of extreme weather at this year’s global climate summit. This was news to House Republicans, who currently control the majority and whose sign-off is needed in order for any funding to be authorized by Congress.
Delegates at COP28 made significant headway on Day 1 of the summit, adopting a framework outlining how to manage the loss and damage fund. Several rich nations pledged money to help launch the program that would aim to compensate vulnerable countries hit by natural disasters.
Kerry promised the U.S. would contribute $17.5 million to the program, adding that officials expect the fund to be “up and running quickly” and that the contribution would be drawn “from a variety of sources.”
“That’s pretty generous of him. I hope he’s got the money to cover it,” said Republican Rep. John Curtis of Utah, chair of the Conservative Climate Caucus. The lawmaker made a note to mention that Congress had the power to authorize budgets – not the executive branch.
Other House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee asserted that funding for the program is a non-starter, citing the growing national debt as an issue that needs to be addressed first.
“I can’t imagine that’s a position we’d support. We’re $33 trillion in debt,” said E&C Vice Chair Kelly Armstrong, a Republican from North Dakota. “So let’s figure out how we lower energy costs; get cheaper, cleaner energy and go from there.”
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BBC Verify to run by JusRol?
Great to be at COP28 with @Keir_Starmer and @DavidLammy today.
Our message to world leaders is that with a Labour government, Britain will be back on the world stage as a climate leader.
Back on the world stage, like Bono..
Seemingly unreported unlike a fellow Republican all over the news today.
Republicans will vote the corrupt out – Deomcrats cherish and support them knowing they are exactly the same !
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/01/bob-menendez-new-jersey-bribery-charges
Some advice for the IDF, forget your fancy bombs and planes and things.
You want a truly destructive force of nature ? just buy each HAMAS leader a kitten.
They look cute, they sound cute and will spend the first few days hiding then….
I have spent the last week wondering who is bombing the house every half hour, no its the kitten rearranging the bathroom, from the top down, relocating most thngs into the bath from a great height, then the bedrooms, then the kitchen, ripped all the curtains away, forgot who I was three times and ripped my ankles apart.
Can’t find your phone ? its been knocked into the rubbish bin , any food around ? wait til you sleep then rip apart anything it can find with meat inside, then work on some toilet rolls, computer equipment all cables chewed, anything on a shelf, no longer.
Not allowed to eat anymore without it nicking stuff off your plate and running away,
So, in a nutshell IDF are just wasting money
All your high tech equipment can’t compete with a kitten.
Sleep deprivation
any comms equipment cables will be chewed to oblivion, phones gone, gets stuck behind the compter desk so pulls everything off the desk.
you want to know where they live ? they dont have any bloody curtains anymore, or toilet rolls, and their mouse is lodged behind the computer desk alongside all the bloody speakers.
And their neighbours will be the ones complaining to the council that they have a rhinocerous living in the house next door from the noise of everything landing on the floor all night.
And the UK police will not even arrest their supporters, they only jump to action when English people object and the police outnumber them:
The only language these people understand, from their experience of dealing with them, when will our authorites wake up ? keep them on council benefits…:
” Israel ‘will look to kill Hamas’s leaders around the world after the war ends’, saying ‘they are marked for death’
Israel ‘already started preparation’ for targeted killings of Hamas leaders abroad.
Hamas group’s members are known to hide across the Middle East.
In fact, Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh was spotted cheering for joy from the safety of his Qatar office during the October 7 terror attacks.
‘The question now for Israeli leaders isn’t about whether to try to kill Hamas leaders elsewhere in the world, but where—and how.’
In November, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a press conference: ‘I have instructed the Mossad to act against the heads of Hamas wherever they are.’
During the same conference, Israel Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant said the Hamas leaders were ‘marked for death’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12814719/Israel-look-kill-Hamass-leaders-world-war-ends-saying-marked-death.html
Don’t want to listen to a teenage child talking about this, a 17 year old with access to all intelligence agencies around the world
You notice “known to hide” ?
brave freedom fighters attacking women and children
Thrown out of Jordan for this behaviour
Thrown out of Lebanon for this behaviour
Thrown out of Kuwait for this behaviour
Refused entry to Egypt for this behaviour
And the Muzzie SNP leader wants them in ??????
THIS is where “diversity” gets us, once a muzzie gets into a position of power or influence, there is NO diversity, muzzie interests, including their violence, intolerance and religious hate are front of the queue.
Where do you stand on womens rights ?
Where do you stand on homosexual rights ?
Where do you stand on the right to criticise or mock religion, specifically Islam ?
Or more specifically, what do you think about the culture and government and foreign policies of this country, who has afforded you
a free education for you and your children which you abuse by threatening teachers in our country
employment and opportunity for you and your children which you abuse by threatening employers and educators for not following your racist and sexist norms
safety from oppression for you and your children, which you abuse, using the self created and false word islamophobia and where you choose to abuse this priveledge to attack Christians at Hyde Park Corner
FFS just f’ck off
The most ungrateful sh@tstorm of fascist violent bastards that have ever invaded our shores and they keep coming
with a bunch of sex starved fat middle class wimmin waiting for them on the beach with placards
Zephir
Surely you meant to write ” a bunch of white, ugly, fat, undesirable, middle class, sexually desperate wimmin who no self respecting male would touch with a barge pole let alone with his own pole.
I couldn’t possibly comment, oh all right then, maybe not all middle class
I welcome refugees, anyone that knows anything about photoshop will see the first thing added by the lying bbc of course, the only thing in focus, the whole photo is not
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/14FB2/production/_91283958_5960dbc8-e173-487b-93d9-383522eef40f.jpg.webp