325 Responses to Midweek 19th March 2025

  1. Fedup2 says:

    The telegraph reports the Tommy Robinson case – apparently if he survives he is to be released on 26 July . It’s a shame the judge doesn’t have the discretion to release him now …..

    But as I wrote that I reminded myself that we are in TTK world now so they are more likely to kill TR than release him .

    Comments on the telegraph report are very supportive – but you always get the kidult likening TR to Hitler – locked up in the 1920s and writing Mein Kamp….

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  2. Fedup2 says:

    Apparently there is a big Netflix drama about a white stabbing someone . The the original story line had a coloured kid being the stabber … no one seems ‘concerned ‘ about this change

    I’d have thought any opportunity for the ‘coloured community ‘( ugh ) to discuss the continuous blood shed by their ‘yoof ‘ would have been useful – you know – rolling old idris on to rant about pointed knives …

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  3. tomo says:

    Apols if a repeat

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  4. StewGreen says:

    “Boston man” featured in ITV local news
    I had to wind back and slow the speed down to catch the name
    A shopkeeper who sold illegal cigarettes in three counties has been sentenced to 3 years and 8 months in prison and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs.
    Officers from Lincolnshire County Council’s Trading Standards raided Ismail Amin’s store in Boston in February 2023, and uncovered illicit vapes, cigarettes and tobacco worth £3,000.
    Some of the dangerous products were even found in an electronic ‘hide’ disguised as a wall.
    https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/news/article/2295/illegal-cigarette-selling-shopkeeper-jailed-and-ordered-to-pay-20-000
    The raids were in Feb 2023
    Did people serve more time for social media posts ?
    seems so

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  5. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Have you noticed that the 7pm show on GB News, Farage, looks like it’s been replaced with GBN Tonight.
    I think they will probably have different presenters on each night so, depending on the presenter, I may well not watch, Christopher Hope for example.

    I must admit I am starting to have doubts about Nigel. I will be voting Reform as they are the least worst but there seems to be a creeping move towards the centre.
    It’s a pity Lowe will not be able to get a real Party going and even if he does it will split the right vote even more.

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  6. Up2snuff says:

    INFLATION WATCH #1 – yet another price rise …..

    Another item that I buy has increased in price by just over 13%. Rachel from Accounts and her PM are going to be getting the typical headlines that Liz Truss received in her short lived premiership. But not from the BBC, I guess. So cozy with the Labour Party are the BBC. 🙁

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  7. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #2 – hmmnn … that is the BBC view is it?

    The Local Elections, Mayoral Elections and Police & Crime Comissioner Elections that Angela Rayner hasn’t messed about with … yet, to ensure that Labour do not get wiped out by Reform! The Montacutie reckoned that the Conservative Party will do badly in all these elections that is the view of the BBC and a contributor to this item – sorry, forgotten name – a former opinion pollster that now sits in the HoLords.

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  8. Scroblene says:

    Poll (council) Tax up again in a letter today…

    £25 more to pay each month for diminishing services, fewer bin collections, potholes from over-weight electric cars, farting around in Tunbridge Wells on ‘vanity projects’.

    Not a peep from our trusted State employed broadcaster – they can all afford it sitting in their cubicles with the ‘agenda’ tattooed on their chubby arms!

    I can’t…

    The awful Far Left BBC NEVER challenges the profligacy of a Labour government, they piddle around at the edges, give Vitrify a few ‘cases’ to waste tax payers money on their sixty useless snivel serpents, and never the truth will get out!

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    • StewGreen says:

      “£25 more to pay each month” That’s £300 pa
      There’s a 4.99% cap on council tax rises in England,
      So for you if 4.99% is £300 … then 1% is £60.. therefore your old 100% bill = £6K
      New one is £6.3K
      However about £2K is normal here ..
      Do you live in a palace ?

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      • Flotsam says:

        A lot of Council Tax payment schemes are based on ten monthly payments to pay in full. I’m not sure if that sorts it out.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Scrobs is not alone. Mine had increased by £30 per month. I live alone so get the %25 concession but up until this month it was 6p shy of £200 – now it’s £229.86 pm and no I don’t live in a mansion or Palace.

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      • Kaiser says:

        so my bill is

        county council +5%
        borough council +3%
        police +5%
        fire +5.7%
        town council +24%

        not sure that all comes at 4.99%

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        • Scroblene says:

          Not sure I understand your sums, Stew, but I do get some additional support, after the same issue as Brissles as I’m now a sole resident.

          Kaiser, the percentage change here is: –

          KCC – 5.00%
          Police – 5.5%
          Fire and rescue – 5.5%
          TWBC – 3.0%
          Parish – 3.3%
          (TWBC and parish %change – 3.1%)

          That apparently adds up to 4.8%

          So already, the ‘rise’ in state pension of around £35.00p.m. is wiped out by 2/3! And yes, Flots, it is over ten months, so there is some respite in Feb and March.

          Rachel from stapler supplies will presumably take the last third to pay for the climate scam and dei waste.

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          • Up2snuff says:

            Scrobie, you have my sympathy on various fronts. I received the bad news last week. Council Tax up by 4.8% for a Labour run Council – that Canterbury is now, so not too bad, could be worse! The Police and Crime Commissioner for Kent, imposed on us by ‘Dave’ (another layer of bureaucracy that we could do without has his or her budget increased by 5.5%!) and Kent & Medway Fire & Rescue Authority also by the same amount.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Correction, Stew, there is a 4.99% (5% in practice) cap on Local Authorities in England unless they have a Local referendum on increases above 5%.

        THIS SHOULD BE BELOW STEW GREEN’S POST @ 9.42 PM ON 20 MARCH BUT THE SITE SOFTWARE HAS PLACED IT HERE.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    I wonder if the world’s most trusted state broadcaster features?

    https://x.com/america1stlegal/status/1902792167023841353?s=61
    Explosive new documents expose a massive government-backed censorship operation orchestrated by USAID, the Global Engagement Center, the UK government, and media firms to manipulate public discourse and silence Americans.

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  10. tomo says:

    Like I keep saying … there’s those in UK government circles that think it’s still 1940 and that they can influence events like was done back then.

    I’ve got news for them – it isn’t – and Mister Carney is no William Stevenson

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  11. pugnazious says:

    ‘Lord Lawson says ‘Stalinist’ BBC has banned him from returning to talk about climate change’

    The BBC was never interested in Lawson’s, and the GWPF’s, main focus, which was how to adapt to and pay for climate change rather than stopping it…if it was happening….or rather if it was man-made CO2 that was the cause.

    Maybe if they’d listened to more voices rather than push Stern’s pie in the sky calculations that we can afford the green zealotry we wouldn’t be heading for ‘national suicide’…..

    ‘The BBC has extensively covered Lord Stern’s work and his views on climate change, including interviews, news reports, and documentaries’

    We all knew and know…but the BBC refused and refuses to admit it was and is madness….

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    • tomo says:

      Stern ?

      Another conceited, arrogant academic who’s as credible as Perfesser Pantsdown the cooties expert.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I do wonder if the climate crap thing will be a bit like the Biden dementia cover up ? I know the Green crap is deeper with more at stake but sometime some one will have a stronger case against the Green crap than the current Green crap industry – and suppression will fail …

        Burn baby drill ..

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  12. tomo says:

    BBC North America might be in trouble there Insh’allah…

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  13. StewGreen says:

    As ever MSM is behind forums like thins
    We mentioned the Netflix drama Adolescence a few days ago

    Tonight BBC Hull local news opening item was a promo for the series.
    Whilst GBnews at 8pm has an item against the film

    presenter @AlexhArmstrong tweeted
    According to the left, this is who women should be afraid of…
    12 year old white boys,
    who the equality report stated “get the worst start in life”.
    Meanwhile:
    – Afghans are 22x more likely to be sex offenders
    – Foreign nationals are 71% more likely to be sex offenders
    – 50 nationalities more likely to sex offend
    When will the drama highlighting these facts be released on Netflix?

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  14. tomo says:

    Pretty clear that there’s an attempted judicial coup d’etat under way in the USA?

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/20/the-judicial-insurrection-is-worse-than-you-think/

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    • JohnC says:

      Number of injunctions halting Trump policies trounces predecessors by double
      https://www.yahoo.com/news/number-injunctions-halting-trump-policies-211203598.html

      ‘Harvard Law Review found that the judges who issued the injunctions against the first Trump administration were overwhelmingly ordered by judges who were appointed by a Democrat.’
      ‘Democratic-appointed judges ordered 92.2% of the injunctions against the Trump administration’

      This is for his first term, but I am sure it will be at least as bad for the wave we have now.

      Just imagine how the BBC would have wet their panties if it were Republican judges forcing all these orders against Biden. They always remind us of the supreme court republican majority with the inference they are biased – but never go near the real important things like this.

      This is why Trump is bulldozing his way through these people in his second term. The rot is so deep, there is no other way. Democracy is very nearly dead : he won despite the massive efforts to stop him even running. And we have a far-Left government of or own because they did the same thing here to the Conservatives.

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  15. Flotsam says:

    I run a few chainsaws and other 2 stroke garden implements. I regularly service them and was working on a Dolmar saw when I looked up some internet stuff on the Walbro carburetor fitted to it. I was watching a Walbro video on youtube and found out that recently Walbro carburetors have been made with locked adjustments. I further found out that the carbs are locked for environmental reasons ie pollution and global warming etc. Further to that, the carbs can be adjusted with special tools only which are illegal to sell to anyone other than an authorised dealer. This was all said with a straight face.

    Firstly, is all this necessary? OK there’s a few million 2 stroke tools around but can anyone seriously suggest that a small percentage of badly adjusted tools are really going to affect the planet? Secondly, what we see is that environmentalism is going to remove any control we have over our lives and hand it to Governments and Corporations.

    The use of bioethanol in petrol for environmental reasons has resulted in many poorly running and faulty tools.

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    • Scroblene says:

      That’s sharp practice, Flotsam, but also relates to the issues regarding vehicle repairs, where even the slightest nudge or minor accident makes the car a write-off. Nobody seems able to pull a dent out these days, and anyway the built-in computers will all need reprogramming as well!

      But thanks for the reminder to get my 2 stroke strimmer out and give it a few pulls, just to enjoy the waft of smoke – rather like my old Mobylette actually!

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  16. StewGreen says:

    I am too tired to explain fully
    but earlier I had an unexpected stunning conversation with Twitter AI (Grok)
    where I treated it as the professor and asked it to check a BBC local news claim which sounded fishy
    It then started telling me things which I then demonstrated were false
    I went back to the human way where you track down the original source speech and watch it yourself to get full context
    I then showed the AI my technique and logic
    And it answered me back, First asking me questions
    then with praise.
    As if treating me as if I am the professor
    saying yes I had got 4 of the 5 points, but maybe was wrong on the fifth

    I suppose learning from used and flattery , are built into its programming

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  17. JohnC says:

    Putin would breach Ukraine deal if it is not defended, says PM
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyd0v3344qo

    The headline for this article is so bad, I went to read it just to gauge the level of how for into the gutter the BBC have become now they are 100% extreme-Left , anti-Trump activists.

    The BBC are blowing this EU ‘reassurance force’ (as they now call it) story up way beyond it’s worth at this point. It’s clearly to make Starmer look like some kind of great ‘statesman’ – but he’s just ridiculous.

    The whole article is just terrible. It’s a disjointed attempt to cram in as many agenda points as possible. Sifting through all the rubbish, it looks to me like the EU are proceeding without any involvement of anybody else to make their own decisions about how the peace will be enforced.

    Meanwhile the actual attempts to stop the war are almost being ignored. The ‘coallition of the willing’ are now planning ‘at the granular level’ how the ‘reassurance force’ will work.

    Of course it will all be simply swept aside if Trump and Putin decide something else. They are nobody in these negotiations : they are the LAST people who should be talking about peace after what they have done.

    It’s not the first article I’ve seen on this war which smacks of somebody who has no clue what they are writing about. So I checked the author:

    Hollie Cole:
    ‘As seen in: Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, BBC, BBC News, MSN (US), MSN Singapore, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News’
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    Prior to this one, her previous articles on muckrack were:
    ‘Dancing on Ice winner announced after delivering ‘brilliant’ performance’
    and
    ‘Player was ‘overwhelmed’ after World Cup kiss, court hears’
    ‘Coleen Rooney, GK Barry and Danny Jones in I’m a Celeb 2024 line-up’

    It’s hard to believe just how far the BBC has fallen. I summarise all of it now as ‘Shit for idiots by other idiots’.

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  18. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Keeping the proles worried about bad Russia.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqjd11l55wo

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    • JohnC says:

      Anyone who scaremongers that Putin intends to invade NATO countries goes straight to the top of my list. Whether it’s the ‘Shameless liar’ list or the ‘Groupthink idiot’ list depends on who is saying it.

      Without any other information at all, his difficulties and losses just in Ukraine make it clear it is absolutely out of the question. Despite what they say, Putin is a pragmatist looking after his own countries interests. Not a lunatic.

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      • moggiemoo says:

        Putin is far less of a danger to this country than Starmer and his bunch of top tier morons.

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        • JohnC says:

          The Left have already destroyed our country.

          We just don’t know it yet. The cancer has already taken root. It’s just a matter of time. When it dawns on them what they have done, it will be far, far too late.

          And then of course it will anybodies fault but the Left.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            JohnC
            I suppose the only people who know how many people are leaving the former UK is HMRC – and when the Marxists shout about a ‘wealth tax’ the planning to leave will just speed up .

            It definitely is a failing / failed state will all elements infiltrated or being infiltrated – with the rate of change / control speeding up .

            Now that the ‘pressure valve ‘( hope ) of Reform having been subverted there is nowhere to put a vote ….
            Ironically the uninformed will probably vote Reform in coming elections thinking that it is a party for them – the legacy British …

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      • Mrs Kitty says:

        @ John C 05.11 I’ve had just one list for a while now and it’s people I would like dead list, I find it’s easier for my sanity rather than sort into idiots and liars.

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  19. atlas_shrugged says:

    So a ‘fire’ in a local substation has wiped out all Heathrow flights for the foreseeable future.

    First what needs to be hammered home is how public transport should be renamed unreliable transport.

    Second our barking mad policy of switching everything to electricity. This is only perfect from a mad-marxist idea of centralisation.

    Thirdly and ironically mad-marxist everything and making it centralised will make the UK a perfect place to attack by mad-marxists. For example by using cyber warefare or EMP devices.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Quick blame the Russians …. But I think even they wouldn’t believe that one power thingy could take out the whole of Heathrow ….
      I was going to use the word ‘surely ‘ as in ‘surely they’d have backup or two – for ‘nationally important infrastructure ‘ – but I guess they have DEIs in charge of that who job share from home for 3 days a week when not on leave ‘ or ‘training courses ‘…”

      You can imagine an exercise where the weaknesses of Heathrow are identified and then acted on – or maybe not .

      On the upside – sends out a really damaging message about third world britainistan ….

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      • Fedup2 says:

        It seems someone has told TTK that his chest beating about ‘boots on the ground ‘ in Ukraine is just hot air and in fact britainistan hasn’t the ability even to do the catering .
        Plan b is ‘air cover ‘ … considering it has now been established that they cant even keep a big airport open ‘air cover ‘ might be a bit empty too ….

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        • Scroblene says:

          We can’t do much on the sea either Fed, as it seems to be evident that most of them are carting illegals over here all the time!

          Perhaps we should introduce conscription on all these doctors and atomic engineers, so they can then be sent back to their former s***holes, and start beating the s*** out of the supposed regime who didn’t like them and ‘forced’ them to leave!

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Hello Scroblene – I need to be careful about what I say about things military – especially the Royal Navy and those very excellent aircraft carriers ( about to be sold to the Swiss or used as a replacement Heathrow ) …. But seeing the likes of deluded TTK or macron strutting about is just too much.
            Maybe britainistan has finally stopped getting involved in other peoples. ‘ wars and used the ‘defence force ‘ to continue suppressing free speech ( right 77 brigade ?) …

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        A BBC correspondent, quoting a government spokesman who wishes to remain anonymous, said: “There is no evidence that the Russians were responsible for the events in West London, but likewise there no evidence that they were not. So, we must be open minded and assume that it was them and they were acting on the personal instructions of Putin. It is clear that he is worried and frightened by the bold stance taken by Sir Keir Starmer, who has now rightfully assumed the leadership of the West as America under Trump descends into racist and transphobic-fuelled chaos. Putin knows that Heathrow is a lifeline for many vulnerable migrants seeking to enter the UK to help build our country, as well as to those already here having escaped persecution but wish to go home on holiday. We stand with Ukraine! Diversity is our strength! Net Zero and poverty for all by 2030! Watch Adolescence on Netflix today!’

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        • Scroblene says:

          Do I detect a degree if sarcasm here, Ian…;0)

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          • Fedup2 says:

            .. just waiting for ‘Gatwick evacuated ‘…

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          • Ian Rushlow says:

            Possibly. But watch out for something along the following lines before the day is out:
            ‘The events at Heathrow have shown how vulnerable infrastructure can be. Thankfully, apart from some inconvenience to travellers, we are well on the way to resolving matters within a month or two. But think of Ukraine, where vast swathes of its infrastructure are attacked every day by Putin’s thugs. This is why we support the Prime Minister in his efforts to… zzz… zzz…’

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  20. pugnazious says:

    ‘Expats to be cut off from BBC radio within weeks’

    ‘The BBC said: “BBC Sounds is a UK licence fee-funded service. To offer better value for our UK listeners, BBC Sounds will be repositioned and made available exclusively to UK audiences.”

    Kirsty Lang, the broadcaster who fronts Radio 4 shows – including Front Row, Last Word and Round Britain Quiz – described the decision as “devastating for all our overseas listeners”.

    She added: “BBC Radio is a vital lifeline to so many overseas listeners. I have no idea why they’re cutting it or why they can’t introduce a subscription for people living outside the UK.”’

    And yet the BBC provides an ‘Asian Network’ here at home for our erm, British citizens. A network that is racist and divisive by its very existence separating out ‘Asians’ as people who won’t listen to the same material as the British. So…are they British or not BBC?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Excellent news – anything which diminishes the propaganda reach of the BBC has to be better . Although the BBC is one on the long list of why British people leave britainistan for so many better places … …

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Any possibility of the BBC cutting off people in Britain from BBC radio, BBC television and BBC websites as well? Preferably within hours or days rather than weeks? I think it could be quite a popular move.

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    • JohnC says:

      No no no : it’s GOOD news isn’t it ?.

      ‘We’re replacing BBC Sounds outside the UK and bringing you BBC.com, a seamless way to read, watch, and listen – all in one place.’

      Lucky for me it’s now all semi-disguised propaganda hosted by left-wing activists and I can’t bear to listen to it so I won’t miss it.

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    More excellent news – the DT reports that the office of budget irresponsibility ( 2 blokes with a dice ) is forecasting year growth reducing from 2% to 1% … just before the tax grab budget next week ….
    Apparently Rachel from accounts is finally going to be permitted to blame her arch enemy – president trump …..

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    • Scroblene says:

      With the outrageous ‘green climate scam’ in full swing now, Rachel from stapler supplies could easily help everyone at a stroke, by committing the fallacious ‘net zero’ prognosis to the bin forever!

      She could just tell the manic clown Milliband that he’s not helping anyone anywhere, and the huge addition to power bills for all this c**p is causing most of the financial problems faced by the working public!

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    ‘Surely ‘ – continued

    The Heathrow thing reminds me of the one not long ago where the computer failed . The bloke with the key was on his day off so they had to go find him and get him in to fix said puter costing huge delays ….
    And they don’t learn ….

    Confession – I had a job long ago to identify and test the ability of an organisation to deal with foreseeable and ‘unforseeable’ events .
    It was i nightmare because it required me to learn everything and try to get those responsible for different things to talk –
    That’s when you find out how people would rather keep their own power ( no pun ) than work for the good of their organisation ( how naive ) …

    … maybe a ‘van ‘ drove into the power plant thing … def not terrorist …

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  23. AsISeeIt says:

    First rat of spring edition

    You’ll have heard of the movie No Country for Old Men [2008]

    How about ‘no supranational sports organisation leadership role… for a man’ ?

    This one does won’t be starring Javier Bardem as the remorseless villain who flips a coin to decide the fate of his victims.

    Coe rejected in bid to be Olympic president… Coe, 68, had said occupying the Olympic Movement’s highest office was a role he had been “training for for the best part of his life”, but yesterday the IOC members gave their backing to… Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe (Telegraph)

    Our BBC enjoyed the news – presenting our national broadcaster with the opportunity to deploy their prized trademark headline formulation ‘first feamle’: Coventry elected first female IOC president as Coe beaten (BBC)

    Mr AsI suspects the phrase ‘last male (probably)’ might perhaps be appropriate in such cases.

    Poor old middle-distance champ, middle-of-the-road, Tory MP Seb Coe.

    Something of a fallen hero who fiddled (allegedly) while our western cultural Rome burned.

    It may not have been just his penis that upset the Olympics top squad.

    A little Wiki birdie tells me our Seb was a bit of a Russophobe – might have scuppered his chances a bit with the wider world Olympic voters perhaps?

    Police post London’s least wanted

    The giveaway freebie Metro frontpage highlights the mug shots of five of our: Most dangerous men ranked, tracked and jailed as force vows to make capital safer… Violence against women… Police target top 100

    Obviously there’s scarcely sufficient space on the cover page for the photos of the entire ton of perps in the Met’s hot 100 – suffice to say, of the five featured – four are “chaps of a darker hue” – as black comic Felix Dexter’s posh-speaking lawyer creation ‘Douglas KC’ might have termed them – while your Mr AsI would tend to deploy his catchphase “you guessed it, they’re black”. Meanwhile the 1-in-5 white guy does the mad eye akin to the look and persona of Charles Manson.

    Raise a toast to the Darkness – suggests the Metro – in reference of course to: The Darkness review – retro rockers are still in acrobatically high spirits (Guardian)

    The gynaeceum that is BBC news staff promote the junior poundshop Guardian that is the i paper to top their online press review line-up, no doubt suckered in by the headline: Starmer threatens Putin with ‘severe consequences’ if Russia attacks UK peacekeepers

    A Gilbert and Sullivan lyric comes to mind…

    When I was a lad I served a term
    As office boy to an Attorney’s firm.
    I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,
    And I polished up the handle of the big front door.

    I polished up that handle so carefullee
    That now I am the Ruler of the Queen’s Navee!

    One notes our gungho Swiss Admiral Starmer has already flip-flopped on his ‘boots on the ground’ plan: Starmer has change of heart in plan for ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine… Air and sea support favoured (FT)

    That’ll be the victorious Putin demanding no Nato troops in Ukraine – reminding the west of one of his primary war aims and a non-negotiable proviso before he signs a peace deal.

    Firm message from Kremlin – observes the FT. From western capitals… not so much.

    How’s the threat of them Donald Trump tariffs workin’ out for the US? Pretty good so far…

    Nvidia spends billions to join big techs US revival… the most valuable semiconductor group – and AI chip maker – will tilt its supply chain back from Asia… reveals a push to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on electronics made in the US. ‘The support of an administration who cares about the success of AI and not allowing energy to be an obstical is a phenominal result’ (FT)

    Bringing jobs back to the US, eh? There’s a novel notion from a big multinational corporation. Mr AsI says that despite liberal economists insisting free international trade isn’t a zero sum game – it sure is if your job is outsourced.

    This warmest day of the year so far story is a hardy perennial over there at the BBC: Spring equinox is UK’s warmest day of year so far

    meanwhile the work of am in-house cartooniss making the frontpage of a national daily is an event to warm the cockles of Mr AsI’s cold hard heart.

    Pugh of the Daily Mail lampoons the Birmingham Bin strike as his paper goes with: Council tax soars to a record high… but the service you get is still rubbish… Bin there, done that: The scene in Birmingham

    Pugh sketches a Brummy couple peering through their front room window on to the street: “Oh look, dear, it’s the first rat of spring”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit
      I wonder how long the ‘disruption ‘ at Heathrow will take to fix ? My money is on a standard daily mail ‘catastrophe ‘ headline of ‘Easter is cancelled ‘ …..we could also bet on the next key piece of infrastructure to mysteriously fail leaving the country without something like electricity or gas …

      But the invasion will carry on ….

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      • StewGreen says:

        One substation fire brought down a huge airport
        that doesn’t seem credible to me .
        #1 Surely many airport circuits have backup generators
        #2 Surely airport power is setup so it has duplicate supply points
        So if the East supply goes down, power comes in from the west, north, south etc.

        Of course once one side is down , you might restrict operations in case there was an attack on the alternative supplies

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “Police have opened an investigation after Heathrow airport was forced to ground departures because of a drone sighting – less than three weeks after a series of similar reports at Gatwick affected about 1,000 flights.8 Jan 2019”

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        • Fedup2 says:

          No no no – you used the word ‘surely ‘ …

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    Not bbc
    I was looking to see if the non terrorist killer van driver from 3 days ago has been named yet . Silence . But the evening standard has a fetching picture of a lady prison officer who has been suspended for have an inappropriate relationship whilst working HMP feltham – apparently she was too close to A wing B wing and – er C wing ….

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    Zero churches being built in Saudi near Mecca yet new Mosque in Lake District.

    British to paid to end slavery then have to pay for not ending slavery.

    Western told to not have kids to save the planet yet Africans can land on UK shores and have 8 kids, or 1400 UK girls raped to forcibly have kids.

    UK to end industrialisation whilst Russia,China,India and USA continue as normal.

    Starmer to send billions to protect Ukraine border yet cannot stop one boat in the English Channel whilst sending UK Navy to protect boats in the Gulf of Aden.

    White kids have privilege whilst BLM have zero privilege even in Asia – HA HA HAH AHH AHA HAH HA !

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  26. Althepalerp says:

    Street view of the substation. .. . easy target if you ask me.

    https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4999525,-0.4121682,3a,60y,
    113.71h,90.12t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0pWtDMSkG0htXjcDubMuig!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-0.11981173509998655%26panoid%3D0pWtDMSkG0htXjcDubMuig%26yaw%3D113.70571659619753!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMxOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “… with a list of emergency numbers, radio channels and a reminder to close doors and windows if the threat is nuclear….”
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/france-preparing-survival-manual-for-every-household-report-says

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      “Wind farms can interfere with ground radar systems used for military, weather and air traffic control. The large, rapidly moving blades of the turbines can return signals to the radar that can be mistaken as an aircraft or weather pattern.”

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        Dear Ed Milliwatt,

        How to cause a fire in a sub station:

        1) Make sure the facility is owned by overseas investors such as the Chinese or Russians who want to park a ton of money, pay nothing on maintenance, and extract the maximum revenue leaving a broken carcass before selling out.

        2) Ramp up the loading on the sub station 24/7 by charging eVehicles and powering IT internet hubs.

        3) Ramp up the local population via the illegal invasion so there is more power demanded by more houses.

        4) make sure the sub station is located in a flood zone so gets hit by flash flooding.

        5) Put more concrete everywhere to increase flash flooding.

        6) Get the little khant to switch on the Alan Snackbar lights.

        Love and Kisses

        P.S. Any reports of hearing aids failing in the locality?

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  27. Flotsam says:

    Richard Tice was on GBNews just now, he said that Heathrow had removed its diesel backup generators for environmental reasons. He said there was a biomass generator but why it isn’t running isn’t clear. If true, it’s a disgrace.
    Green crap.

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  28. Eddy Booth says:

    I just can’t make my mind up, which I want the Heathrow fire/shutdown to be the consequences of :
    DEI hire
    Green
    Immigrant terrorism
    Starmer’s war on Russia ??

    They all work

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