13 Responses to Weekend 16th November 2024

  2. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    November 15, 2024 at 9:37 pm

    Is the shoplifting allowance still £200 a go.

    Labour is missing a trick here. They should increase the amount of stuff their voters are allowed to steal by the rate of inflation each budget.

    Law abiding shoplifters are having to visit more shops to be able to steal enough to keep their lifestyle as it is and the way prices are rising they will have to keep on increasing their work rate.

    With the ever increasing price of fags and booze the £200 is easily reached with just a couple of cartons. Perhaps £2,000 should be the value of stuff they can legally steal before the police can do anything.

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  3. Nibor says:
    November 15, 2024 at 9:49 pm

    It can be said that the future of mankind could be two steps forward, one step back – or vise versa.

    Let’s take cars : even the cheapest modern car has, luxuries and gadgets that surpass the luxury cars of years ago, are more reliable and cheaper to run. The downside are the traffic conditions of our roads, the aggressive behaviour of some motorists, the theft and vandalism and monitoring by the authorities.

    Clothes : so cheap to buy, comfortable and exciting new fabrics. But we have to admit not as smart and pleasing to the eye as say a forties suit in a Bogart movie.

    And you can see the trade offs with health, food, holidays etc.

    But there is one thing we have today incomparable to devices of old, because they didn’t have anything like it ::
    The Internet.

    This wonderful thing that allows the ordinary Joe to access nearly every information, be entertained by his/her own choice at the time of his/her choosing — and send and receive uncensored opinions beyond the control of state authorities: democratic, pseudo democratic, semi democratic or tyrannical.

    And what do the liberal / left and the BBC want to do about it?

    Control it.

    Using weasel words like “there must be gatekeepers” to information the plebs receive, “misinformation” peddled on the Web, etc, their meme is that They, the Enlightened, the clerrissy, should shift through the happenings around the world and sanitise the information you receive. Then add their interpretation and you agree and accept their premise if you’re intelligent.

    They are certainly not on the side of the Chartists.

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    • Scroblene says:
      November 15, 2024 at 10:00 pm

      Perhaps Vilify, the Beeboid’s big waste of ‘research’, could aso find out where all the pedophiles are getting and sending their filth? Is the term ‘the black web’ or similar?

      There you are Marianna, you have a starting point, go do some actual work!

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    • BRISSLES says:
      November 15, 2024 at 10:44 pm

      Nibor …
      .Being long retired I generally avoid the ‘old’ generally recognised rush hour on the roads. In more recent times there is more chaos with the dropping off and picking up of kids from school, which leaves around a a solitary quietish hour at lunchtime, when lorry and van drivers pull off the road to eat, kids are still at school and workers are still ensconced at home or at their building location.

      Today something went wrong with my evaluation. I was on the road at 11 and until 5 til I reached home it was full on congested roads – main roads, country lanes, village high streets. OK it was Friday but jeez this will only get worse with population growth. I’m not a city dweller but if we’re almost grid locked now in our rural areas then “driving home for Christmas” had better start in August with food supplies !

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  4. pugnazious says:
    November 15, 2024 at 10:10 pm

    ‘Protests’ not ‘insurrection’ as insurrectionists storm parliament and force leaders to flee….

    ‘Pro-Russia bill triggers protests in Georgia breakaway region’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c206dyxkg01o

    Some protestors on Jan 6 got out of hand…helped out by security at the Capitol who actually invited them in…and it’s a huge threat to democracy…the infamous ‘insurrection’ that never was.

    On the other hand….a political party that colluded with the Russians to unseat the President, which tried every dirty trick in the book to topple him, which used lawfare and show trial inquiries and impeachments to stop Trump, which had its BLM and Antifa militias on hand to trash ‘America’ and of course a couple of assassination attempts…nothing to see here…unless, say, you are not fully convinced that vaccines are as safe as we are told…then you’re dangerous and mad.

    It is remarkable how the BBC can never find a good word to say about Trump, his policies or his picks for cabinet where the BBC uses the word ‘loyalty’ as a codeword for ‘fascist strongman’…nudge nudge…Trump only wants people loyal to him…just like a fascist dictator would!

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  5. Nibor says:
    November 15, 2024 at 10:36 pm

    Economy not doing as well as Rachel Reeves and Labour expecting it to do?

    Hold on! It should be stratosphering. All these bogus asylum seekers _sorry immigrant enrichers arriving here – legally, semi legally and illegally, that The Powers That Be tell us are good for the economy, how brilliant they are, they are the successful ones, more hard working than the Brits, enterprising, innovative and adaptable, well if it’s as good as the Powers That Be say we should comfortably retire at 12.
    Why did the countries that they left let them go : or refuse to take them back?

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