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Emmanuel Great idea. Also the rail system with its CO2/passenger/km should also be made realistic and include all the ICE… - Greencoat Dec 28, 13:45
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There is an article in today’s Guardian about the endless poaching of rhinos for their horns. Yet not a single… - atlas_shrugged Dec 28, 13:42
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Close the borders petition over 100,000 signatures: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700824 - tomo Dec 28, 13:40
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20% of the British Army walk in October? – that’s not exactly trivial Cooks and drivers or front line? https://x.com/juneslater17/status/1872205267125113238 - Nibor Dec 28, 13:26
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Poland will overtake the UK in wealth per capita at the end of 2025 . They will not reimburse the… - Lucy Pevensey Dec 28, 13:24
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Mark I notice in the linked BBC article, they failed to include an image of the suspect. - MarkyMark Dec 28, 12:38
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Slavery Footprint (650 MPs are exempt because they are Gods) https://slaveryfootprint.org/survey/#do_you_have_children - MarkyMark Dec 28, 12:36
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NET ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY….. “Andrew Bruce joined the company in 2015. His job was to buy all the land and property… - Emmanuel Goldstein Dec 28, 12:32
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I think Reform, possibly the excellent Rupert Lowe, should create a comparison chart which, on one side, shows the amount… - MarkyMark Dec 28, 12:23
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The key findings of his research are: There were at least 4,337 quango employees who received total remuneration in excess…
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Hope everyone has been enjoying Christmas – and steering clear of the BBC!
Watching Strike on I-player as family viewing. Trouble is it is so complicated I haven’t a clue what is going on. On a positive note, no trans characters (well it is J K Rowling), no mention of climate change and Strike’s car is a very very old Land Rover so obviously not electric and a proportional number of people of any race (so far).
Debs, I used to use the pub in Cambridge Circus, where Strike often imbibed his regular pints of Doombar…
‘The Cambridge’ is still there, and funnily enough, Google maps shows a Harry Potter show on in the theatre just over the road!
Coincidence…?
giless, you have prevented JohnC getting his ‘treble top’!
Having the lurgy this past week. My Christmas bliss happened today. The tv listings on Sky Arts simply said 42nd Street. So I recorded it, believing it to be the black & white 1930s musical film. On viewing it later my joy knew no bounds, as it was a filmed recording of the stage version at Drury Lane from 2018. A show I had seen 5 times – the first in the 1980s. The tap dancing is simply sublime.
However, I doubt whether the production would be the same if choreographed today, as aside from a couple of mixed race chorus girls, the entire casting was white.
Happy days.
Brissles, wishing you better. Enjoy 42nd Street with a hot toddy in hand.
Thanks Debs. I’ve discovered the delights of hot mulled wine – it’s like warm cough linctus – does the job though 😀
I’ve read all the Strike novels up to Ink Black heart, which, sadly, I just had to give up on as JKR had pages of writing in Twitter-speak, and made the story unintelligble for me… (I don’t tweet, as bunches of bananas have nothing on my paws)!
The first five novels were fabulous, and I’ve yet to read the latest one, but Strike is a superb innovation, and I’m wondering if I should watch it or just recall the stories as I understood and thoroughly enjoyed them!
A good friend is a film director involved with the series, (no, I don’t mix in that quarter; he’s just a great neighbour), and we discussed this challenge about the ‘messaging bits’, and he actually agreed that many people were just flummoxed, and I wasn’t alone!
But I then asked him a ‘rather carnal question’ about Strike and Robin, and he speared me with a withering glance, and told me in very, very few words, that if anything like that went on, it would totally ruin the whole series!
Luckily, we’re still good friends…
Brissles, I hope your lurgy goes soon, it’s rotten having a ‘Cold for Christmas’, (old family saying here), and I might just try the mulled wine trick, without the cloves, or any of the other spices for that matter, and probably take it at room temperature, to join you in a ‘virtual tincture’!
You can take your pick, ‘Cotes du Rhone’ or ‘Chateau Scrobs’, which, happily, is a little cheaper and even more unpretentious, but you may prefer Aber Falls and a good tonic…;0)
To be fair with Strike, it might have helped the understanding if I wasn’t trying to read this site at the same time!
I was always very anti J K Rowling with her being a Labour Party donor, but her taking a principled stance to trans changed my view somewhat.
I thought the same Deborah until I read something she said and realised that her ‘trans stance’ is not a principle of right and wrong , it is because she hates the thought of those ‘men b@stards’ being allowed to be women.
Reading between the lines of what she has said, it seems she had bad experiences with men before she got rich.
‘If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. ‘
‘“The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women — ie, to male violence – ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences — is a nonsense.”’
I need some thing else to read that isn’t loaded with the message ‘women are better than men’ on every page as ALL the recent ones I have read are. Is there much agenda in the Strike stories ?.
At the moment, I’m utterly sick of ‘woke’ after making the mistake of watching some BBC programs.
Debs, echo that. Lurgy at Xmas time = not funny. Get well soon, Brissles.
New big Zerohedge article
“This year’s minimum Arctic sea ice extent was 26% larger than 2012.
@BBCNews 2007 article said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/doesnt-fit-msm-narrative-latest-arctic-ice-data-shows-26-larger-2012
Alarmists would say that 2012 was a super low ice year ..so it is a cherrypick
Other Zerohedge articles about BBC
https://www.zerohedge.com/search-content?qTitle=bbc
BBC’s Misleading Headline and Mistranslation by Sky News
Leo Kearse last week
I wonder what the Globalist High Command , aka WEF , will do to oppose The Nationalist Rebellion of the People in the coming year?
Of course there will be anti Trump riots in the US and much Orange Man Bad stuff but these will make his administration stronger in the eyes of the voters.
The increasingly discredited legacy media will be pushing the usual Globalist agenda , mass migration, climate change , Wokery right across the West but it’s influence on ordinary people is much reduced from even five years ago.
Attempts to censor the internet will increase but Trump could threaten to break up the big tech companies if they don’t play nicely and Elon Musk’s addiction to free speech does throw a large spanner in that plan.
The overt ditching of democracy is a possibility in some countries but that is playing into the hands of the Nationalists as it shows the Globalists in their true colours.
Could the WEF try to create a global crisis of one form or another? A financial crisis this time perhaps rather than a pandemic or maybe another large scale war.
But as the Nationalist rebellion grows the effectiveness of the Globalist bag of tricks diminishes and their desperation grows. Perhaps 2025 is the year when the People’s rebellion becomes the People’s Revolution!
The anglosphere has somehow evolved a culture whereby political greens are drawn into lying big time and get rewarded for it
Except sometimes a judge will call it out.
Peter Ridd video https://youtu.be/u7cx357B3r4
Another case from the US in March
“Senator Kennedy hilariously exposed Gus Schumacher, a 23-year-old Olympic skier, during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on climate change. Kennedy questioned Schumacher’s expertise in carbon dioxide and climate policy, highlighting the Democrats’ questionable witness selection, particularly Schumacher’s inability to answer basic questions about carbon dioxide, which undermined the credibility of the testimony.”
… https://youtu.be/KkHqx5LHAFs
I love watching Kennedy on YouTube, he just steamrollers over them having the evidence with him. Many are caught like rabbits in the headlights and left gibbering wrecks.
What are the chances of the BBC running that video?
Snowball and hell come to mind!
Dr Gavin Ashenden gives his analysis of that dreadful King’s speech.
It’s savage.
Whilst I know that I am among like minded people on this site, to hear Dr Gavin Ashenden, ex chaplain to the late Queen, articulate so well what I am thinking, shows we are not alone.
Indeed. And his background in the Church, his erudition and his measured tone all make him difficult to refute as just some far-right hothead.
Who’s up for some left versus right, ping pong, back and forth banter in the headlines?
Labour’s £400 tax hit to your family holiday… That’s what typical family will pay in air passenger duty to fly long-haul… popular destinations such as Walt Disney World in Florida… (Daily Mail)
No fly holidays to look forward to in 2025 (i news)
Touché, says the left leaning, youth-oriented junior poundshop Guardian
My old mum used to refer to stay-at-home holidays spent at her imagined seaside resort of Stoppatholm on Windowsill Bay.
Then she would envisage her non-motorised means of transport – Shanks’s pony.
Travel Special… Favourite winter walks (Guardian)
It is (one of) Mr AsI’s contentions, as pertains to our print media, that the formerly patriotic, now liberal Times newspaper increasingly mimmics the features, style, politics and content of the Guardian: New year walks guide 20 beautiful routes (Times)
The former “Thunderer’s” top headline is, by the way, a puff piece to cheer green fanatic Ed Miliband’s faithless Christmas…
Grants and cheap loans to install solar panels… Green offer for households as part of £6.6bn plan (Times)
The liberal globalist, macroeconomics aware, keen market watcher’s guide, weekend edition of the FT – can seemingly admit only supply side market forces to be an issue: Affordable home building in London plummets as costs hammer providers… worst downturn in affordable housing supply for decades… starts dropped 88 per cent in the year to March… inflation, high interest rates and building safety costs… rise in homelessness (FT) – that’ll be a “Big Issue”
Boat migrant toll is 150,000… milestone was passed after 451 people arrived on Christmas Day (Sun)
Enough… to fill a town the size of Ipswitch… Small boat crossings hit 150,000… since the crisis began in 2018… when 858 asylum seekers made the journey on Christmas Day and Boxing Day (Telegraph)
Here we go… all together now…
On the twelfth day of Christmas,
The EU sent to me
Twelve stabbers stabbing,
Eleven rapers raping,
Ten queue jumpers a-leaping,
Nine scroungers scrounging,
Eight benefits a-milking,
Seven RNLI boats a-taxi-ing,
Six crony corporate golden geese a-laying,
Five trafficking rings,
Four cat-calling birds,
Three French laughs,
Two of Merkel’s loves,
And a twelve-year-old with a full-grown beard
To be fair to the globalist liberal Financial Times they do carry this article by way of a generalised economic forecasting mea culpa: Our biggest financial mistakes FT writers reveal their blunders – which is more than you can say for our globalist liberal politicians.
UK’s Reeves to meet China Vice Premier in Beijing on Jan. 11… Countries to discuss re-opening of economic dialog in 2025… Labour’s pro-China stance faces criticism following spying row – that rather brusque clipped and terse headline from Bloomberg informs us how our Rachel from Accounts is off down the Yellow BRICS road in hopes perhaps of discovering some green Net Zero economic Emerald City.
While the sentimentalist old Labour Daily Mirror attempts to convince us that the Tin Man has a heart: PM’s heartache as brother dies of cancer… Devastated Starmer’s tribute to ‘wonderful, courageous’ Nick – full sympathy to friends and family of course.
As for his pal the brainless Scarecrow: MPs’ Christmas Cards: Kemi Keeps it Traditional, Lammy Features Lammy… David Lammy’s card is, predictably, all about…David Lammy. It’s a cartoon version of himself sitting by the fire, basking in the glow of the hearth—and his own image. Warms the heart… (Guido Fawkes)
Credit where credit is due… our Dave Lammy agrees with Mr AsI’s adage, in so much as ‘when in Rome do as the Romans do’…
Foreign secretary says people should ‘follow the rules’ in other countries after 18-year-old constituent jailed in Dubai… Marcus Fakana, from David Lammy’s Tottenham constituency, had a “holiday romance” with a girl who was 17 while with his family in the United Arab Emirates (Sky News) – you guessed it he’s black.
Both teenagers were on holiday with their parents in the UAE from the UK, where the age of consent is 16. Fakana had told his family about the romance but the girl had not told hers. The 18-year-old’s parents have returned to London after the holiday to resume their jobs in a warehouse and as a cleaner (BBC)
There’s one poor oppressed Windrush community family who may in future welcome Reeve’s airflight tax hike cramping their long-haul holiday style somewhat.
Oh noes …
Mad Ed and his merry men have been firing hot air at the media flunkies. This according to Times Radio…
So the country is about to be covered with solar panels and homes stuffed full of batteries as part of the guberment warm-homes scheme. Where to begin with this madness? A few home truths Ed:
* Solar power generates bugger all power during winter when we need to warm our homes. Currently it is 0.6% at 0.18GW
* Has Mad Ed considered storing 100 electric scooters in his home and declaring this on his home insurance.
* Thermal storage is one hell of a lot cheaper and less dangerous than battery storage in a home.
* Why still no news about building SMR small reactors which would generate power 24/7
* Solar farms fit conveniently in liebour plans to exterminate farming.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/14/where-ed-miliband-build-billion-solar-panels/
“…..homes stuffed full of batteries…..”
Thinks ?…………: give a battery to every illegal as they arrive. That’ll at least help with the delivery problem all around the country. Maybe I’ll get a recommendation from ‘MM’ – Mad Millipede for the idea…………
I used the think “Not my King” was a far left statement.
Not anymore.
Perhaps the King will succeed in uniting the country after all… against him!
‘Assad’s fall opened part of my husband’s past I knew nothing about’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy53qkd2z1eo
Basically a heart wrenching, coming out emotionally, story of a Syrian whom we somehow ended up with in London.
Abdullah Al Nofal wearing a Syria wristband, to save himself from endlessy telling everyone he meets where he’s from…
“This is where I was arrested, this is the place.”
Contradicting the headline – he speaks like they’ve already discussed it …
“he left Syria and was later granted scholarships in Geneva and the US. He is now settled in London with his wife.”
Naturally no mention of how we ended up settling him here.
Or if he’d be now be polite enough to go back from from whence he came.
I’d recognise him more easily if seen with other protestors with half concealed face under a shemagh and perhaps wrapped in a Palestinian flag…….
Zephir,
I was prepared to be disappointed with a net zero and possibly wokey king’s speech. But using Christmas to bring up events in July without even mentioning the brutally-murdered children was blatantly political. He used his platform to give royal approval to wrongful imprisonment! And the heresy! “All faiths blah blah, peace blah blah”. He isn’t loyal to God, country or people.
What a kingdom!
“The Prince of Wales accepted bags containing millions of euros in cash during meetings with a senior Qatari politician, according to a report. Prince Charles was said to have been given a total of €3m (£2.6m) during meetings with Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar.26 Jun 2022”
Not BBC – but it’s time to ponder 2025……
What wIll happen ?
1 the state of the UK will continue to decline
2 the dead blues will continue to be blamed
3 the TTK regime will become even more unpopular – but not the the BBC /MSM
4 taxes will continue to rise as public services decline
5 interest rates will continue at current or higher level
6 big falling out between lefty Europe and presidenr trump
7 boat numbers will increase
8 plenty of strikes
9 more good People leaving the UK
10 no revival of the dead blue party
11 reform continues to strengthen
12 labour councils punished in votes
13 Mohammed will continue to be the most ‘popular ‘name
What won’t happen
1 power cuts – that’s 2026/7
2 no nuclear
3 no serious widespread disorder – that’s 2026/7
4 no achievement of red manifesto promises – eg housing
5 no reduction in national debt ( there will be more )
6 no change at the BBC … yet
If Keir Starmer is the answer, we were asking the wrong question…..
“In Calcutta, India, Catholic priests promote the adoption of Indian children by those back in Belgium as a form of charity. When the Belgian government realizes that the number of Indian children raised in Belgium has reached 40,000 in just five years, an emergency policy attempts to halt the migration. Desperate for the chance to send their children to what they call a “land of plenty”, a mob of desperate Indians swarms the consulate. As a Belgian aid worker works through the crowd, an Indian gong farmer known only as “the turd eater”, carrying aloft his monstrously deformed child, begs him to take them back to Europe, to which the worker agrees.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints
Poland will overtake the UK in wealth per capita at the end of 2025 .
They will not reimburse the UK for our wealth we spent via the European Bank for Reconstruction , the EU or benefits sent to Poland .
Who can blame them , running their country for themselves and not cosmic justice !
Deal agreed to secure Harland & Wolff’s future protecting thousands of UK shipbuilding jobs
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/deal-agreed-to-secure-harland-wolffs-future-protecting-thousands-of-uk-shipbuilding-jobs
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“He said Unite would now engage with the deal and work to ensure the delivery of guarantees both for jobs and continuity of employment. Navantia, which is 100% owned by Spain’s government, has been a significant recipient of funding from the European Commission as part of the European Defence Fund.19 Dec 2024”
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Harland & Wolff, the Belfast shipyard best known for the Titanic, has been saved by a deal with Spain’s state-owned shipbuilder.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9g2r9dn0vo
Joining the fund is a possible objective for the UK-EU security reset, set to be discussed at a summit early in the new year.
BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vr6725dq4o
SUN
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32513400/jazwell-brown-milton-keynes-murder-stabbing/
Mark I notice in the linked BBC article, they failed to include an image of the suspect.
“Our new Green Industrial Partnership with Norway will harness the UK’s unique potential to become a world-leader in carbon capture.
My government will deliver our Plan for Change, reigniting industrial heartlands and putting more money in working people’s pockets.”
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1868612720578396531
Our Leaders Must Listen or All is Lost! By David Starkey
Comment “As a dyed in the wool believer in a constitutional monarchy, I am even more fearful and upset by what is happening to my beloved country after listening to the King’ s speech.
He too has made it clear that he sides with those who wish to destroy everything that has been the bedrock of our society for hundreds of years.
Our freedoms, democratic rights, traditions,beliefs and values are being attacked from all sides.
There has been an almost imperceptible war against the people of this country going on for years now which, in the last few years, has become more and more transparent.
The enemies of our society have been emboldened, aided and abetted by those who are supposed to serve and protect us, starting with the slow rewriting of our constitution under Blair and Brown, enabled during the last government and positively encouraged by Comrade Starmer’s treacherous regime.
We the people need to fight back, hopefully via the ballot box but by anyway we can to preserve our way of life for future generations.”
Hundreds more migrants arrive in Britain with 1,300 small boat immigrants crossing Channel since Christmas Day
https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrants-crisis-small-boat-immigrants-channel-christmas-day
> “Our new Green Industrial Partnership with Norway will harness the UK’s unique potential to become a world-leader in carbon capture.
> My government will deliver our Plan for Change, reigniting industrial heartlands and putting more money in working people’s pockets.”
I wonder if Depl or Google translate can be persuaded to ‘auto-translate’ from ‘Der Starmer Speak’ into plain English. I have had a go here:
‘The Norwegians are awash with money through their sovereign wealth fund so are perfect targets for our ponzi plans. This is where we are going to spaff money and energy up the wall compressing CO2 for no reason’
‘Liebour will work really hard to eliminate UK industry and farming. We are going to turn the lights out. We will fill peoples pockets with empty promises.’
Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP 2 Nov
“Fixing the NHS, rebuilding Britain and protecting working people from higher taxes in their payslips.
We promised change – we are delivering change.”
https://x.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1852642607479902525
Make that go to 3,000,000
Close the borders! Suspend ALL immigration for 5 years! – Petitions
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700824
The key findings of his research are:
There were at least 4,337 quango employees who received total remuneration in excess of £100,000.
There were 973 quango employees who received remuneration in excess of £150,000.
106 quango employees received remuneration in excess of £250,000.
763 Transport for London employees received remuneration in excess of £100,000.
There were 9 quangos with at least 100 employees who received remuneration in excess of £100,000.
The three highest paid quango employees were all employed by Network Rail and received £300,000 “one-off retention payments.” They were:
Patrick Butcher, Group Finance Director – £767,000
Robin Gisby, Managing Director, Network Operations – £742,000
Simon Kirby, Managing Director – Infrastructure Projects Group – £741,000
Of the 100 highest paid quango employees, 21 were employed by the BBC, 21 by TfL, 16 by the Bank of England, 5 by Network Rail and 5 by the Green Investment Bank.
https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/psrl_quangos
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The Government Hospitality Advisory Committee on the Purchase of Wines will also be abolished, but ministers are considering whether another body should continue its work.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11538534
I think Reform, possibly the excellent Rupert Lowe, should create a comparison chart which, on one side, shows the amount of carbon we would use in the UK to make say a ton of steel and on the other side the amount of carbon used when we buy a ton of steel from China (for example) adding all the other costs such as shipping here and them using coal fired power stations etc to produce this steel.
Then, compare an ev with an IC engine car using things like all the rare elements, child labour and battery disposal etc to see the true carbon footprint of these cars.
The windmills and solar panels should also be compared using their manufacture and lifespan plus the need for continuous backup power sources, nuclear or gas maybe, as opposed to only using nuclear or gas power stations.
If they can produce a chart showing the lies and inefficiencies plus the increased carbon output of this net zero foolishness in black and white to the public they can ask milligram and his mates to explain why the mad rush to net zero and why outsource when it creates MORE carbon.
Slavery Footprint (650 MPs are exempt because they are Gods)
https://slaveryfootprint.org/survey/#do_you_have_children
Emmanuel
Great idea. Also the rail system with its CO2/passenger/km should also be made realistic and include all the ICE machines used in the maintenance of the rail network. Plus all the train drivers and other workers who drive to work. Plus all the wasted fuel when ICE vehicles wait at level crossings. etc etc.
NET ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY…..
“Andrew Bruce joined the company in 2015. His job was to buy all the land and property for phase one of the project.
He says that in his first week he was given two sets of figures.
According to Mr Bruce, one set was to be used to show the government in presentations. He says these showed HS2 was on track to purchase the land on time and on budget.
He says he was also given a second set of figures which showed there was no way HS2 could buy all the land and properties needed while keeping to that budget. And he says his own work subsequently found even higher estimates for land and property costs.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98486dzxnzo
Andrew Bruce was told to lie and did lie but nothing happened to him.
HS2 blew billions – here’s how and why
20% of the British Army walk in October?
– that’s not exactly trivial
Cooks and drivers or front line?
https://x.com/juneslater17/status/1872205267125113238
Close the borders petition over 100,000 signatures:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700824
There is an article in today’s Guardian about the endless poaching of rhinos for their horns.
Yet not a single word about who is doing the poaching or, even more pertinently, who the customers are.
Incredible.