Past blasters

Where would we be without oldies? Series one of Star Trek on the Legend channel followed by series one of Charlie’s Angels during the week. What an old roué that Charlie was!

Get it right

In future, the term Islamerphobia should be confined to those with a genuine fear of being blasted by a suicide bombastic. And for everyone who wouldn’t think about Islam from one year to the next if politicians after Moslem votes didn’t keep going on about it, Islamirrelevance would be much more accurate.

We should be told

 How can you have the vegan electricity, which is allegedly supplied to the Sadgeek’s London? Does that mean no one involved in its generation and distribution is allowed to eat meat?
    And ‘green’ gas. As methane is colourless, do they put some gaseous green dye in it at huge extra expense to the customer? And will spivs be selling the shale gas we’ll get when Nige is PM using the same scam?

Not as advertised

What a weird day. The Sun was shining most of the time but the barometer needle is right in the middle of RaiN. Okay, we’ve had a few drops but hardly enough to justify the pessimism.

Not far enough

Where did ‘Fracker’ Farage slip up in his recycled Tory plans to deport scads of illegals if made PM?
    He failed to include the immigration judges who make what look like perverse rulings to a normal person and keep illegals here as a burden on the poor old taxpayer.
    And also failed to frustrate the legal trade’s ’uman bluddy rights predators.

No Action Prize material

President XL Bully Trump has built himself a solid reputation as a rowbacker in a very short period. He started it with his claim that he could end Putin’s assault on Ukraine in 24 hours.
    Never happened.
    The latest rowback is on his confidence that President Zelenskiy and Putin the Poisoner would meet face to face to discuss an end to the conflict. Wot next?

Selective quotation

We were told that a government spokesperson said: “Any definition [of Labour’s version of Islamerphobia] must be compatible with . . . freedom of speech.”
    What was in that gap? “Labour’s definition of”?

Another sneaky trick

When a newspaper prints bad news and dunts the government for underachieving, there’s usually a spokes trotting out some numbers, which usually turn out to be last year’s figures to try to deflect attention away from this year’s decline.
    The reduced number of public chargers for unsaleable electric cars is the latest sneak.

Not interested

The phone rings, caller number withheld so no need to pick up. Which was just as well as I had just taken a mouthful of cheese-topped digestive biscuit!

Burning question

Is Putinstan planning a tax on Ukraine, as the lunchtime news appeared to say, or more attacks? We should be told. Probably both if the Trump red-carpeting of Putin the Poisoner has come to nothing.

Labour endorses crime

When Parliament resumes after its hols, the government will push through a Bill to abolish short gaol sentences to offer its criminal supporters a Bumper Christmas Spree without any danger of interruption.

Is Three Homes ever enuff?

What politicians need is to engage brain cells before spouting. Like DPM Angrier Rayner, who claims she needs a holiday apartment in Hove to use while working in London in addition to her grace & favour apartment in Admiralty House, which is actually in our capital city.
    According to Rayner, Britain is in the middle of the most acute housing crisis in living memory. One caused by politicians buying extra homes?
p.s. Should we be surprised that Rayner is a hippocrite? She a politician and Labour. We’d be surprised only if she wasn’t. Socialist on the label but actually capitalist inside.

Happy to let the side down

A survey by a drinks firm reckons that any British adult who fails to reach a lifetime total of 4 years of hangovers from boozing to excess is below average.
    A big ‘yah-boo’ to whoever is scoffing enough booze to make up for my lack of contributions to the average.

Not very patriotic!

President XL Bully Trump has put a damper on the sale of the American ‘King Kong’ of weight reducing jabs here. His price hiking is pushing more sales toward the Danish rival, which is not as ‘Kong’ but much more affordable.

What we should see (alternative)

 The following programme shows outdated attitudes which may cause offence and be discriminatory, but we’re going to show it anyway because there are lots of normal viewers who prefer these oldies to the woke garbage on offer elsewhere.
Bonus: What we should hear: In the midst of life, we are in debt.

Geo & Local Pollyticks

The situation between Smarmer’s Army and the trade unions which pay for it is being seen as a parallel to the Trump/Putin situation. Despite getting £10 BILLION in pay rises when Labour sneaked into government in last year, the unions are back for lotz more this year. Like Putin, the more they can get away with, the more they feel entitled to grab even more.

Synthetic panic

Are we impressed by the view that the country is facing the 5th worst harvest since detailed records began? Not if those records go back only to . . . 1984.
    Forty years is nothing in the history of agriculture in the UK.

Hippocrisy Rulz

Angrier Rayner is being offered as a prime example of how Labour always gets it wrong. She’s sponsoring a Bill to give trade unions the right to walk out on strike over any imagined grievance at a time when her own department’s snivel servants are threatening to strike over her demand that they turn up at the office for 3 days a week instead of shirking at home on 3 days and showing up just twice a week.

Better solution

The government reckons it has prevented fraudsters from claiming £17 million in child benefit after moving abroad. It hopes to raise that to £350 million over 5 years by putting 200 people on the job instead of the present 15, who are tackling the pilot project.
    But is this the way to go about it? Why is the Department of Work & Pensions not using an A.I. system to do mass checks of claims versus passport data?
    And £200 million per year is lost due to fraud or child benefit errors right now. So that saving looks very drop in the bucket.

Pull the other one

How can a Royal Navy ship be said to be shadowing a Russian destroyer in the English Channel if the photograph shows the Russians heading to the right and HMS Trent going left? Or maybe someone doesn’t know that shadowing involves following.

Future non-existent

There seems to be quite a competition going on among the Doombuggers as to when the human race will become extinct, ranging from a one in six chance of everyone gone in 75 years to evens for everyone dead by 2050. Take your pick.
    Climate change, an engineered virus like the recent Chinese plague and the dreaded A.I. gone rogue are among the top favourites.

Sneaky, or what!

Inventive patriots are painting the St. George's Cross in potholes in their roads in the hope that an anti-Britisch Labour council will obliterate the symbol by filling the pothole.

Lateral thinking

Israel has come up with a cute scheme to prevent the formation of a Palestinian state. It involves dividing occupied territories into small chunks separated by strips of heavily armed Israeli settlers.
    Which sounds a little more humane than bombing hospitals, killing journalists and starving the population of Gaza.

Remembering the Tiers

Will Augst 21st now be in the political calendar as Lucy Connolly Day as a reminder of Smarmer’s Two-Tier justice?
    A 31-month gaol sentence for an intemperate post was a grotesque abuse of the system, plain and simple. Especially if it was on the interweb for just 3 hours before being deleted and if the number of asylum hotels torched because of it is the same as the number of people-smuggler gangs smashed, i.e. Nett Zero.
    Maybe a national 2-minute silence at 10:18 a.m., the time the political prisoner was released from gaol, on Connolly Day next year?
p.s. Is she had been a sometime Labour councillor like R. Jones, who wanted people killed, she wouldn’t have been persecuted.

Gangs still unsmashed

Smarmer’s Army has set a new world record for asylum claims, more of the customers are living in hotels, the number of boat people being removed has dropped and there are 20,000 foreign criminals undeported, thanks to the failings of the legal trade and the snivel service.

Really speedy

One slimming drug can reduce body weight by 22% over 18 months, and a rival can do 15% over 17 months. Neither comes close to being ill enough to need a spell in hospital, which can eat away 10% of your body weight in just 5 weeks.

Pay more for services, get less

The Scottish government is looking at putting the public sector on a 4-day week with no drop in pay, and claims it will improve productivity.
    Those behind the move would have us believe that a 9-to-5, five-day working week is a century old and because of that, no longer suitable for today’s skivers.

Just dishonest

In June of last year, Serbia Smarmer offered a pre-election absolute guarantee that the Labour party would not apply capital gains tax to primary residences.
    Guess where his government is heading now – if the SoBs think they can get away with it.

Recklessness Rulz

Global warming is getting the blame for overworking Scotland’s mountain rescue teams, which ignores the fecklessness of today’s young and old people.
    Closer study, reveals that more of the customers are now unprepared for the terrain and rapid changes in temperature, and they overestimated their ability to yomp about on rocky paths, especially oldies on prescription medication.

Some way to go

The climate change caused by coal-fired power stations in China, India, etc., is getting the blame for a decline in the population of honeybees, which are major global pollinators.
    Boffins at Oxford University have come up with a superfood supplement, which keeps bees buzzing when pollen is in short supply.
    Next problem – how to distribute it to bee colonies.

Forget the forecast

Despite all the red on the weather map yesterday, it most certainly was not Scorchio! outdoors. Sunny for most of the day and a breeze helped to dry the washing. But no danger of melt-down.

Another Labour record

Consumer prices went up by an average of 3.8% in July and they’re going up at the fastest rate in the G7 gang. And there’s more to come thanks to dozy the Chancer of the Exchequer’s disastrous budget. Great!

Growth industry

Motorists in Nottingham, for some perverse reason, assume they can use the blue disabled badges of dead relatives to park illegally if the badge has not reached its expiry date.
    There were 53 cases of this abuse detected last year. There have been over 500 detected in the first half of this year. Badges are also being stolen, mainly in London, and sold on the internet. There are also fake badges to contend with.

Pragmatism Tier

The Department of Education claims that it is solving the problem of poor white children doing badly at school by taking action against the root causes holding young people back.
    Translation: The DoE is ignoring the kids and waiting for them to become too old to be classed as young people.

Illegal, but so what?

The Royal Society is taking a well deserved booting for dropping another brick by supporting entries from men posing as women in an award scheme which offers £25K grants to early-career female scientists.

Gob firmly shut

The Royal Navy and the Ministry of Defence have a cute excuse for not saying anything about ships that don’t work. They don’t comment on the material state of ships on security grounds.
    Translation: not a word said to protect the jobs of the bozos who fail to get value for money for the taxpayer.

Actual assistance

If Serbia Smarmer is keen to prove that he is on the side of Ukraine, he should get the UK’s oil and gas industries fired up instead of shutting them down.
    The more of our hydrocarbons he sells to Germany and other Europeons, the less they’ll need to buy from Putin the Poisoner. And no one can blame us for the carbon dioxide released if Europeons are doing it. Shame that all this makes too much sense for our current PM to get.

Pragmatism

At least one celebrity chef with an eatery is happy for customers on weight-loss drugs to leave most of his costly platefuls uneaten. Throwing the discards into the pigswill bin is the better part of reducing portion sizes and their prices; and income.

Nearly as much action

The RoughRiders stayed out west, playing the Stampeders. Nearly a TD for the Riders, a FG try went wide for a single. The Stamps went all the way, 1-7. A pick by them was matched by a pick by the Riders.
    Another point from a punt for the Riders. In Q2, The Stamps drove to another TD, 2-14. Finally, a TD for the Riders in the 11th minute. They were back for another in the last minute, no +2, 15-14 at half time.
    The Q3 opener by the Stamps went to a TD. A pick stopped another drive, nothing from it. A 51-yard FG for the Stamps. Then a TD in Q4, +2, 15-32. Solid defence by the Stamps, no further scoring.

Just a thought

Would any TV channel dare to recycle the Rowan & Martin’s Laugh Ins from the 1960s and 70s? Or are they all afraid of being sued for sending woke wimps into a permanent state of collapse?

Get them sued!!

The residue of a hurricane in the Bahamas is going to hit us next week, and there ‘could well be’ heavy rain, according to the Met Office.
    Which could be an opportunity for a sly lawyer to argue that any floods are being made worse by the water companies as all that water escaping from their leaky pipes makes the ground less able to soak up rain water and worsens floods.

Lotz of action

The BC Lions visited the Argos in T’ronno. Red zone for the Argos, just a FG. A sneaky TD the other way in the 6th minute. A dive by Butler finished another drive, 14-3. Another FG from the Argos to open Q2. DPI helped Arbuckle sprint for a TD, +2, 14-all.
    Another TD from a pick-6 put the Argos ahead. A penalty helped BC to an equalizer. Red zone for the Argos, another TD, 21-28 at half time.
    A FG from the BC opener in Q3. Another huge pass from Arbuckle, on to a TD and 24-35. BC in from the Argo 1, Butler over the pile, no +2, 30-35. Another Arbuckle bomb, 30-42. A big scamper by Rourke in Q4, nothing from it.
    Another TD for the Argos from 1 play! 34-49. Rourke mugged, fumble, Argo ball. Add a FG, 34-52 final. So much for that winning streak by Western teams.

Better description needed

Cancel culture – there’s another phrase or saying that needs to be recreated as it is nothing to do with culture. In fact, it’s all about bullying by the hangers on of an insignificant minority most of the time.
    “Shoplooting” is on offer from a Daily Disaster reader. And “health influencer” is another label in need of a revamp. Especially for the ones who claim that sunscreen causes cancer and toothpaste is bad for your teeth.

Heavy, heavy!

A stooge for Birmingham council claimed that flying the St. George flag could make a lamp post collapse.
    Strange that Palestinian flags can hang from lamp posts for years without affecting them. Or get in the way of converting street lights to less energy greedy LEDs.

Just plain theft

Flag manufacturers are enjoying a bit of a boom as patriotic citizens replace St. George’s cross flags removed from street furniture by councils pandering to the Moslem vote; initially in Birmingham and London.
    Serbia Smarmer has felt obliged to get his spokes to claim he’s all in favour of England’s flag as the movement to display it gains momentum.

How desperate can you get?

Serbia Smarmer is doing such a lousy job that there are lots of people Up North who think Manchester’s cosmetic mayor, Jonah Burnham, could save the Labour party if he became our Prime Monster.
    This is a bloke who was a health minister when patients were dying of neglect at Stafford Hospital. He went on to help Gordon F. Broon send all the banks bankrupt and he was the police commissioner when Greater Manchester Police was put into administration for incompetence and the chief constabule was sacked.

The death of originality?

The BierBC is experimenting with an A.I. system to make news stories sound like they were created by a single minion, who can churn out Beebspeak by the yard.
    Something for the trade unions to be upset about?

West is best

The Edmonton Antlers were in the nation’s capital this week, facing the RedBlacks, and opened the scoring with a FG after 10 minutes. They started Q2 with a TD and returned a punt for a TD after 3 minutes. 17-0. A big run by Fajardo was followed by an RB pick. Charge! From the EA 1, 17-7. A FG made the half time score 20-7.
    A TD in Q3 got the RBs to 20-14. The RBs were sacked to a FG early in Q4. Red zone for the Antlers, TD, 8 minutes left. FG for the RBs inside the last 3 minutes, 27-20. One by the Antlers in the final minute, 30-20 final. That’s 10 wins on the trot by West division teams over East division teams.

Being prepared

Maybe the police & crime commissioner bloke who wants the public to tackle thieves in shops could post a copper at the entrance/exit to issue potential have-a-go heroes with a stab vest and a taser. And a certificate of exemption when a thief tries to sue the hero.

Also going down

Labour’s tax rises are closing eight pubs per week on average. So much for Thievin’s BS about expanding employment and the economy.

West was better

The Blue Bombers visited the Alouettes in Montreal in Week 12 and opened the scoring with a FG after 8 minutes. A huge pass play set up one for the Als. Next score, a TD for the BB, 10-3.  Another huge pass play by the Als, TD this time. A pick by the BB set up . . . a FG, 13-10. 16-10 at half time.
    The Als managed a FG in Q3. Lots of defence and punting.  Olivera in for a TD in Q4, 23-13. Add a FG in the 13th minute, and a pick with a minute left, 26-13 final.

But would it?

Never-here Bier, our apology for a prime monster, has chalked up over 4 circuits of the planet in terms of air miles over the last year. And chalked up a world record drop in a PM’s approval rating.
    Some pundits are wondering if spending more time in the UK would improve that rating. Others are convinced that the plunge would become even steeper!

Perish the pawns

Putin the Poisoner is really desperate to bamboozle President Trump about the amount of Ukraine that he’s stolen. Which is why he’s sending troops on suicide missions to unoccupied territory to wave Putinstani flags at drones until they (the suckers) are shot or taken prisoner.
    Fake news rulz, Nokay!

If only . . .

If we are to learn any lessons from watching films and TV series, Rule No. 1 has to be to shoot anyone wearing a hood. No messing about. Blow the bugger away coz they are always bad guys.

Education Tiers

The top-tier universities are hoovering up kids with A-Levels to fill gaps left in their finances by international students, who are giving the UK a miss.
    As a result, universities and colleges in the lowest tier face mergers to survive or extinction.

It’s more descriptive

Their Lordships @ the Palace of Westmonster have persuaded the government to bin the trivializing term ‘shoplifting’ and substitute ‘shop theft’, which adds a proper degree of seriousness to the crime. The policing minister, however, thinks shoplifting should be retained in crime data for the benefit of customers who are too thick to get the update.

Dodgy Assumption

The Cambridge Dictionary has been hoovering up new additions from the internet. The dictionary is offered as a collection of English words with staying power. But does that apply to the stuff on the interweb, where every ‘influencer’ wants to push their own words and bury those of rivals?

More Labour Tiers

Bankrupt Birmingham City Council (Labour) wants people to stop displaying British flags – the Cross of St. George and the Union flag – on safety grounds. The council thinks the flags put on lamp posts ahead of VJ-Day could have put lives at risk (!) by endangering motorists and pedestrians.
    Palestinian flags, in contrast, are untouchable in the areas with a high Moslem vote in favour of Labour.

Well, really!!

Americans sure have weird ideas. A study done in Trumpland reckons that a majority of people think someone who uses an exclamation mark in an email or something published online has to be a woman!!
    American men tend not to use them, which is why women seem to be using them more – because it’s expected of them!! And they worry about not using enough exclamation marks because it can make them seem frigid!!!

Not going to happen

A foodologist is predicting that cooked puddings are going extinct. That’s things like crumbles and sponges served with custard. And that ice cream and fruit now rule. Which fails to take account of human nature and the tendency of ‘influencers’ to revive past ideas and claim authorship of them.

Logical Impossibility

Can the word ‘wokethink’ justify its own existence? Not if the thinking is associated with wokeness, which is just a set of mindless and vexatious conditioned reflexes.

Make Room

Wolverhampton City Council has been forced to ditch a plan to charge 20% extra for a cemetery plot six feet wide instead of the standard five feet.
    The council (Labour) was accused of discrimination against fat people rather than praised for insisting on fair dos for all. No one surprised by the cave-in.

Too soon to panic

An object several miles wide will zoom into our solar system at a speed of 37 miles per second in due course. Missing the Earth, so no need to worry about a collision.
    Most astronomers think it’s a comet and it will whizz off into space again after going round the Sun at the end of the month. But one Harvard professor is getting himself noticed by trying to make us believe it’s a (hostile) monster spaceship built by aliens.
    The James Webb Space Telescope will soon get a good look at the object and confirm it’s a comet, not a craft built by an advanced alien civilization. Or not.

Dream On

A survey by YouGov has found that 44% of the respondents actually think this government can restrict the number of small boat arrivals.
    Could this be because the criminal gangs are now going for larger boats which can carry over 100 passengers?
    Which leaves me wondering if the Border Farce and the lifeboats will be able to cope with them.

On-line, off-target

Dr. Gooble is getting a booting for helping to create cases of cyberchondria, which wastes the time of proper doctors when a customer reports some dreadful disease. The ‘diagnosis’ is plain wrong in two out of three cases and Dr. Gooble’s customers tend to pick the worst possible ailment on offer as their problem; brain tumour for a headache, cancer of one sort or another, etc.
    Worse, there are all the ‘health influencers’ doing the same job as Dr. Gooble, e.g. the vaccine conspiracy theorists.

Go easy on them?

Three teenagers have been arrested for the murder of a bloke who was described as a one-man crime wave. Maybe they should be allowed to serve their Labour party token sentences under asylum hotel conditions as a reward for their public spiritedness.

Another Tier

If you’re a Labour councillor, you can tell a mob to cut the throats of right-wingers and get away with it if dragged into court. Get out of that!

Not really news

Is ‘Labour’s migrant hotels policy in disarray’ worth a front page storey plus headline? No way. Of course it’s in disarray if it’s a Labour policy.

Today’s thought

Can disk jockeys still play [I’m Feeling] Glad All Over by the Dave Clark Five?
    Or has the number been banned on the grounds that it encourages misogynistic groping?

One in, but not for long

The government is threatening longer gaol sentences for shop thieves, who are expecting them to be neutralized by bigger sentence discounts on overcrowding grounds.

 Surrender to the inevitable
    19th August 2025

The police minister is expected to advise shopkeepers not to put high-value goods on display and available to be stolen. Pictures only is the way forward if the police continue to ignore theft from shops.

Defective approach

The use of facial recognition systems is getting a booting for being the wrong sort of policing. What people really want is for the police to prevent muggings, burglaries, etc. rather than using highly visible facial recognition vans, which catch only crooks who are too dim to keep clear of them.

Human fire hazard

Rewilders are getting the blame for the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires. Like the idiots in California, they oppose the traditional measures which remove when it is safe to do so, the dead vegetation which helps wildfires to spread. And do so out of sheer ignorance.

More Thievin’

Could our Fantasist of the Exchequer be stoopid enough to raise inheritance tax, even though it will fill a mere 2% of the Brown Hole which Rachel has created with her thieving? The view of the analysts is that yes, she is stoopid enough to persist with Labour’s class war instead of tackling benefits scams.

Amusement only?

An American bloke who was foolish enough to take medical advice from a chatbot ended up in a psychiatric hospital after swapping toxic sodium bromide for the flavouring agent sodium chloride.
    A spokes for the A.I. company warned that chatbots should not be relied on as a source of truth and factual information, or as a substitute for [human] professional advice.
    So what bloody use are they?

Back to normal

Okay, that’s the famous heat wave done and dusted. Overcast, windy and chilly yesterday and from now on.

The Tiers ARE there

The US State Department is right to a certain extent about this government’s attempts to curtail free speech. Especially if it challenges the diversifiers and the looney left parts of the media which offer selected parts of the truth.
    Another target is those who think there is nothing wrong with being British and white.
    But attempting to invade exclusion zones like those around abortion clinics is nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with intimidation and control freakery.

Political Definition

Trump Deadline: ignore it and . . . nothing, Putin the Poisoner has found.

Surplus to requirements

Fashion models, like journalists and film extras, are heading for extinction. The dreaded A.I. is taking over their spaces in fashion magazines. Unlike humans, A.I.s are always available when needed, and the right size and shape for the job.
    The only thing slowing down the process of evolution is the demand for the water used to keep the super-computers working during drought-condition shortages.

Being The Worst

It’s an unwelcome tradition that Labour governments always leave office with unemployment higher than the figure inherited. Could it be that Smarmer’s Army is seeking to break the chain by putting world record numbers of people out of work and drying up wealth-creating private sector job opportunities in order to leave statistics which can never be bettered because a future Labour government attempting to do so will start a revolution?

Veering off-subject again

The Education Sec. has declared that teachers can elect to be called Mx instead of a more descriptive title. What isn’t on offer from her is how the honorific should be pronounced: Max, Mex, Mix, Mox or Mux.

Today’s Question

Why are local councils offering illegal immigrants free French and Spanish lessons rather than English lessons? So that they can enjoy a summer holiday abroad? Funded by the British taxpayer, of course.
    p.s. It would be about £100/week cheaper for the taxpayer to put boat people on a cruise liner instead of giving them the perks showered on them by Smarmer’s Army.

The other side of the coin

We’re hearing a lot about the plight of white children, mainly boys, who have been excluded from the education system by the Woke Mafia for the sin of not being minority ethnics.
    As a result, they’re not going to universities to pile up a huge student debt and get a Mickey Mouse degree. Which is not actually a bad thing!

None where it matters

We had our hopeless Chancellor going on about productivity the other day when the numbers came out showing she’d reduced economic growth from 0.7% in the first quarter of the year down to 0.2% with her taxes.
    Shame the government is unable to apply the concept to its paymasters in the public sector.

Don’t pander to wonks

What the message before old TV programmes should say is: “If you find this former prime-time TV episode upsetting, you are an insufferable git and you need to grow up.”

Home team advantage

The Alouettes faced the Lions in Vancouver and BC started with a FG. The Als were sacked to a punt after a pick. Another FG for the Lions as Q1 ran out. One back for the Als in Q2 was matched by another by the Lions, 3-9. A penalty on BC helped the Als to a chip-shot FG. Finally, a TD. 6-16. Another TD from the Als, 9-16 at half time.
    Doink off the upright, no FG for the Als early in Q3. Passing by Rourke took BC to a TD. A FG to start Q4 by the Als, 12-23. Another TD for the Lions. And another but no PAT, 12-36. Gosh! A TD by the Als in the 12th minute! No +2. 18-36 final and both teams 5-5.

Living and learning

I knew there’s Yorkshire Tea but I had no idea there’s also a Lancashire Tea company. Not until I read an article about the blend LT has created for UK tourists to take to Spain, where ordinary tea bags don’t work so well with the hard warer and its high mineral content.

Don’t call them scumbags

The Information Commissioner’s Office is telling shopkeepers not to circulate or display pictures of persistent scumbag thieves on data protection grounds. Could the ICO be worried about being mobbed by ’uman rights lawyers seeking compenbluddysation for outed criminal clients?

Off to Regina

The TigerCats took on the Roughriders, the team with the best CFL record. The Cats started with a FG and picked the Riders; another FG from it. A FG try by the Riders at the end of Q1 missed for a single, 6-1. A TD 4 minutes in to Q2 put the Riders ahead, +2, 6-9. Getting a DPI ruling against the Cats let the Riders drive on to a TD. A 59-yard FG at 0:00 put the Riders 6-19 ahead at half time.
    A pick stopped the TC opener in Q3; on to a missed FG and 6-20.  The RR bogged a punt reception, putting the Cats at their 22. A pick by the Riders gave them the ball back. On to a TD, no PAT. The Cats kicked a FG in Q4, 9-26. One by the RR dinged off the post. The next went through, 9-29 final.

Violent career

A&E departments in NHS hospitals are going to have to employ bouncers to deal with the increasing numbers of customers who turn violent through drink or frustration over treatment delays.
    Health Sec. Wee Streeting’s response has been to insist that attacks are recorded – but nothing more.

Failed maths O-Level, Beer?

Official government numbers have shown that Serbia Smarmer lied totally cynically about the real cost of surrendering the Chagos Islands to Mauritius to make his mate Lord Squirmer happy. Our truth-averse PM claimed it would cost the taxpayer £3.4 billion over 99 years to rent Diego Garcia, the island with the air base. The actual cost, according to the Actuary’s Department, is £34.7 billion.

Denting the delusional

Home Sec. Pixie Balls-Cooper is being compared to Putin the Poisoner for ordering the mass arrests of non-violent supporters of the terrorists (pro tem) Palestine Achtung as they are just foolish people with too much time on their hands pretending they can make a difference in Gaza, which they can’t.

Waste of time

Big publicity puff for Trump vs Putin in Alaska. No surprise that nothing came of it and there are no further sanctions on Russia and its clients. Putin’s reward for not grabbing Alaska back?

Yippee!

The Argonauts went west to Edmonton, FG from their opener. One back for the Antlers. Another in the 14th minute, 3-6. The Argos were sacked to a FG to start Q2. A pick set up FG for the Argos. The Ants got close, TD in the 14th minute, 9-13. A missed FG got the Argos to 10-13.
    A TD in Q3 put the Argos ahead. The Ants kicked a long FG. A sack and fumble recovery by the Ants stopped the Argos. On to a TD in Q4, plus a point from the kick off, 17-24. A FG for the Argos with 7 minutes to go. A FG try by the Ants missed for a single, 20-25. Another try with a minute left scored, 20-28. A challenge got a pass interference penalty on the Antlers cancelled and sent the Argos out on downs and let the Ants win!!

More of it

The diversifiers have turned white, working class schoolkids into solid underachievers by neglecting them, the Education Sec. has been forced to admit. But will she actually do something useful about this national disgrace?

Across the pond

The RedBlacks visited Winnipeg, where the Blue Bombers opened the scoring with a FG. Then stopped the RBs on 3rd & goal. The Bombers ended Q1 with a TD. And another with a Charge! to the goal in Q2. 3-17. A pick went to a FG, 3-20. One back for the RBs in the last minute stopped the threatening Bombers.
    A real scramble in Q3 on the way to a TD for the RBs with QB Brown on the sideline, scored by Crum, his replacement, 10-20. Another TD in Q4 for the BB, Olivera,10-27. FG for the RBs. A TD for the RBs in the 13th minute, 20-27. A FG try by the BB missed and was returned for a TD!! A monster pass by Collards was picked off by the RBs. 27-all and overtime.  
    The Bombers kicked a FG with 0:00 on the clock, 27-30.

Don’t get ill!

Universities are playing the diversity card to fill places with medical students who aren’t AAA quality A-Level-wise. Not a happy prospect for the customers who will be placed at the mercy of doctors from the ranks of the underprivileged and/or unrepresented in due course.

Cut price

More from ‘bank security’ – a phone call about a modest £120 for a trip from Edinburgh to London. Rather more modest than the Mexico run.

Today’s Thought

If we’ve had more than 50,000 uninvited small boat invaders already this year whilst Serbia Smarmer and Pixie Balls-Cooper, the refugee’s friend, have been smashing the gangs, imagine how many boaters would have been arriving if the Dynamic Duo had been doing nothing to check the gangsters.
    Cynical, or what!

Make the trouble-makers pay

Arresting over 500 Palestine Achtung supporters and court hearings will cost £3 million, the bean-counters reckon. Which means that each needs to be fined £7,000 to allow for an underestimate of the cost.

Yes, Please

Banning from the roads, drivers over 70 who fail an eyesight test is a good idea. Big surprise that this government wants to do it, and maybe younger licence-holders could be included at even HUGER expense to the taxpayer. Maybe recklessness and good sense tests for them will make the roads much safer.

A day to remember?

I missed the 2 minute silence for the VJ-Day anniversary, which shows how in touch I am. The BBC One O’Clock News, which started at 13:13, reminded me that 100,000 Allies prisoners were killed whilst building railways for the Japanese; the same number as those killed by the two atomic bombs, which puts them into perspective.

Not only Beer is a betrayer

It’s looking ominously like President Trump, the man who claimed he could stop Putin the Poisoner’s invasion in 24 hours, flew off to Alaska to get his Ukraine sell-out orders from Putin. And using the European leadership’s inertia as his excuse for the betrayal. Alaska 2025 is shaping up to be a replay of Munich 1938.

Soft & Sloppy Justice

The Justice Sec., S. Mahmood, has come up with a Labour solution to prison congestion – let them out early to vote Labour no matter how evil, vicious and vile they are to make room for those who say hurty things on the internet and the one-out customers. Worse, this government’s failure to smash the gangs and stop the boats is all the fault of the previous lot, according to failed sometime Home Sec. J. Smith.

Not that reliable

According to yesterday’s lunchtime weather forecast, we were supposed to get rain today. No sign of it. The day has been sometimes sunny and sometimes overcast up to now. I’m now left wondering if it’s going to rain tomorrow, which is supposed to be sunny.

Weak on crime and its causes

The police in London and the government are getting a good booting for busting 532 Palestine Achtung nuisances and doing nothing about shoplifters, phone thieves, drug dealers and other nasty bastard criminals.
    This is seen as more Two Kier justice – leaving the actual criminals at liberty so that they can continue to vote Labour.

Weasel Words

The government calls them tax reforms. Everyone else knows they mean death spiral tax rises to chuck into the £50 BILLION Brown Hole dug by out clueless Chancer of the Exchequer.

Lots or none?

One day, we’re being told that India is producing vast quantities of spuds and under-cutting China in the French fries market in the Far East.
    The next, crisp manufacturers are claiming spuds are going extinct and they’ll have to start making crisps out of lentils.
    Don’t you wish they’d make their minds up!

Defying fate

You’re on the way to being the fifth man to step onto the Moon. Bang! Part of your spaceship blows up! Curtains for the crew of Apollo 13? Nope, they made it home and the mission commander, Jim Lowell, kept going for another 55 years before his death at the impressive age of 97.

More gaslight

Beer Smarmer is claiming that anyone who enters Britain illegally will be sent packing. Big snag. The gaslighter’s returns pilot scam with France runs out in 10 months from now and that’s just a blink of an eye to a foot-dragging ’uman bluddy rights lawyer like . . . Beer.

Thinking BIG

The Italian government has decided at last to defy the Mafia and environmental cases and blow 12 billion quid on a 2.3 mile bridge across the Strait of Messina to connect Sicily with the mainland. News media are now looking forward to pictures of it bouncing about a bit as the area is an earthquake zone.

So much for no-fault eviction

The homelessness minister has resigned for doing her job. The ‘voice of hard-up tenants’ got shot of one lot and the woman who rants about private renters being exploited put the property back on offer at an extra £700/month.
    So much for Serbia Smarmer’s government of integrity. He even thinks the latest departed minister has created a lasting legacy!
    Beer has now shed 10 ministers, which shows how rotten he is at picking them. Or that Labour doesn’t do competence and integrity.

Spuds for profit

India is undercutting China’s prices in the frozen French fries market – on the way to becoming number one in the field? Not that the upstarts are likely to get any business from me. Proper chips rule at the Mansion!

No sale

Today’s ‘bank security’ scam call claimed my card had been used to buy a £650 trip from London to Mexico. To escape our alleged heatwave?
    Give them an ‘I’ for ingenuity but ‘Z-’ for believeability.

Thought for the day

After the Labour party has gobbled up all the allotments, will it be coming for domestic gardens, both front and back

Not that glorious

Yesterday’s weatherperson splashed bright red all over England and put the number 30 beside Manchester. What did we get this morning? Horizon to horizon clouds, warm but no heatwave.
    We actually had a few drops of rain, which stopped before the Mansion cat went out on patrol after a hearty breakfast and some lurking indoors.
    The sun did come out eventually. And the lunchtime weather map had 29 beside Manchester. Keeping the myth going?

History rewrite

Another source of Scottish ‘not me, Gov’ is Wee Burney Sturgeon, sometime SNP leader, who is trying to blame all her political failures on A. Salmonella, her former (and deceased) political mentor.
    But the Sunday Post, Scotland’s favourite newspaper continues to ask the questions she wishes would go away.

Lopped off Fringe

Fringe performers are accusing Edinburgh of pricing them into extinction. Accommodation costs are soaring – some doubling in two years. Soon, only rich show-offs, or people ready to blow their savings, will be there.
    The city council is doing a ‘not me, Gov’ about the situation, which is not very helpful to the young (and older) show-offs. And, no doubt, looking forward to collecting the visitor tax which will be imposed from next year.

Not the way forward

The Labour MP M. Sewards has confirmed that he is a useless idle twit by acquiring an A.I. ChatBot cartoon, which feeds false information to his constituents. Many are now up in arms about his condescending inaccessibility.

Benchmark Needed

Home Sec. Pixie Balls-Cooper claimed that the banned Palestine Action gang have a long history of criminal damage. Which raises the question of what constitutes acceptable criminal damage as far as a Labour politician is concerned.
p.s. 100 in, 6 out to France. Maybe.

The Wasteland

Israel does its best to keep European and American journalists out of Gaza but photos taken from aircraft dropping aid are showing the extent of the devastation caused by Israeli bombing.
    There’s not going to be much left standing by the time Mr. Ne10yahoo achieves his objective of annexing Gaza. Wiping out the Al Jazeera journalists along the way.

A new world

Holidays used to be a break from the normal routine for people with a job. Not for the Gen Z mob, though. A majority of them are prepared to overspend wildly and forget about having fun just for the chance to put pictures on-line to make others jealous.

In the interests of equality?

The BBC now seems to be looking for female staff to join its wrong-doing role call after concentrating on the blokes. The lack of balance is proving an embarrassment to the bosses?

At our expense

Why can’t people contact the tax department on the phone? Because the snivel servants shirking @ HMRC are too busy doing on-line, working hours seminars on crap like the guilt of being British.
    What is the price of the HMRC sniverllers’ hatred for Britain? £46,800,000,000 in taxes due but not collected last year.

You can’t win

What do you get if three blokes row a boat from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for a charity? Idiots claiming they are a gang of illegal immigrants and trying to set the Coastguards on them.

Out West

The Blue Bombers were in Calgary. A FG to start. A punt from the Stampederend zone gave the BB a short field then a TD. Another after a minute of Q2. 17-0. The Stamps drove to a TD.  Add a single from the kick off. More Olivera for the BB but out on downs at the Stampeder 11. A FG in the 12th minute, 20-8. DPI bu the Bombers helped the Stamps to a TD. Plus a single from the kick off, 20-16. Time enuff for a BB FG and 23-16.
    The Stamps were held to a FG to start Q3. Another bomb pass from Adams, another FG, 23-22. And another FG in Q4 for a 23-25 lead. A 3rd sack by the Stamps. A FG try by them missed and was returned for nowt.
    Castillo faced a 63 yard FG. No problem. And a single from the kick off with a minute left, 27-25. Just a 40-yarder for Paredes for the win, no problem, 27-28 final.

Real weekend warriors

The RedBlacks took on the Argonauts in Toronto on Saturday. A bomb to the end zone completed the Argo opener. Add a single from the kick off. A single from a FG try for the RBs. Another TD for the Argo offence, then a pick-6 after an RB fumble in Q2. 1-22. Finally a TD from the RBs. Then a FG. Brown to the end zone with a minute left, TD, no +2? Yes after a review, 19-22. The Argos sprinted to FG range, 19-25.
    A huge kick off for the RBs to open Q3, no PAT but a single from the kick off, 26-25. Charge! for a TD by Arbuckle, 26-31.  A TD pass by the RBs, no +2, 32-31. The RBs  gave the Argos a short field in Q4, TD +2, 32-39. One for the RBs with 5 minutes left, 39-all. FG for the Argos. TD for the RBs with 41 seconds left! 46-42. A pick by the RBs sealed the deal.

Shame on them

If the police keep arresting the Palestine Action trouble-makers and the courts fine them £1,000 each (plus costs and the usual extras), that could quite easily put a million quid into the nation’s coffers.
    Something that should appeal muchly to our cash-grabbing Labour government.

A fan!

At least one person in Israel has to be rather happy with Beer Smarmer joining the Palestinian state club. It gives Ne10yahoo an excuse to continue his war with the Hamas and avoid being dragged into court to face corruption charges.

Natural Nutrition

A zoo in Denmark is asking for donations of unwanted animals to feed its predators. Live chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs are preferred.
    The animals are gently euthanized by the staff, then fed whole to carnivores to boost the well-being of lions, tigers, etc.

Evading the grab

Parents of children at private schools have frustrated the grabber Chancellor by pre-paying fees before her VAT surcharge came into effect. How smart of them.

Friday in Montreal

The Edmonton Antlers scored a single with a punt. FG from the Als in reply. They returned a punt for a TD in the last minute ot Q1, 1-10. Fajardo mugged some more by the Als. The Als kicked a FG with 4 minutes of the half left. The Ants got close,  FG, 4-13. Then a pick-6 in the last few seconds! 11-13.
    The Als went further ahead with a TD 13 minutes in to Q3 but the PAT missed, 11-19. More tough defence. A FG try missed but the Als fumbled away a run out of their end zone! TD for the Ants, no +2, 17-19. A FG in the 14th minute of Q4 put the Als 17-22 ahead. TD for the Antlers with 15 seconds to go!! Fajardo mugged, no +2, 23-22. Enuff for a win!

Just political posturing

Serbia Smarmer’s one in, one out deal with President MacRon for illegals is turning out to be as full of ’uman bluddy rights holes as the proverbial second-hand dartboard, to no one’s surprise. Lots more lovely cash for the lawyers, though.

Stuck in a rut

Where does a UK ambassodor to the US end up after being sacked for briefing against President Trump? Doing a show attacking Trump on the Edinburgh Fringe, in the case of Lord Darroch.

No lead is safe

The BC Lions went to Hamilton on Thursday and started with a FG. The TigerCats returned a BC punt for a TD. Another FG for BC. Then a TD with 12 seconds left in the half, 13-7.
    Just over a minute in to Q3, the Cats went ahead with a TD. One back for BC. A 3rd down play after 9 minutes put the Cats ahead again. 20-21. A botched BC punt catch set up a TD for the Cats. One for BC in the last minute of Q3, +2, 28-all. The Cats missed a FG for a single in Q4. One by BC scored, 31-29. A FG by the Cats hit the post but went through. A pick stopped BC and got them a FG, 31-35. BC hit the end zone with 40 seconds left. 38-35. A FG for the Cats gave us overtime.
    BC made the Cats fumble, FG from it and a 41-38 win.

No Change

Is it a big deal if a Tory police & crime commissioner defects to Reform UK? Not if he’s a bit of a Sadgeek K’han’t and he’s done nothing about wokeness in the police and antisocial behaviour in towns whilst wearing his previous hat.

Fantasy vs Reality

Labour stooges have been claiming there was an unexpected £22 billion Brown Hole in the nations accounts, to which they had full access, since they were elected. Untrue, of course, but what do you expect from Smarmer’s Army.
    What did we get from the incomers? It turns out to be an actual, real £50 billion Brown Hole being dug by Rachel Thieves, according to the experts.
    Why? Because the Labour party has never grasped how the British economy works. Or should work, given a competent government.

Envy Politics

No wonder they call the former Labour leader Neil Pillock. Taxing private schools shut down a lot of them and dumped more pupils into the state system. Taxing private health care, as Lord Pillock is demanding,  will do the same to the NHS.

Winners & Losers

Good news for the slimming drug manufacturers. Lots of their customers pile the pounds back on when they’ve slimmed and they can become customers again.
    Bad news for the taxpayer. The slimmed once fatties need to be monitored by the NHS for a year at vast expense to bully them into changing their habits.

Minority appreciation

Most people think Serbia Smarmer, our prime monster, is an idiot. Sadly, only the terrorist Hamas think he’s a useful one.

No chance of getting it right

Lots more accusations of Two Tier policing flying around. If someone who’s arrested is white, the police will say so. Otherwise, nothing and people in the local area draw the obvious conclusion from the coyness.

More dosh wasted

The boss of the water company ‘regulator’, Oftwat, thinks it’s a better idea to spend millions of taxpayers’ money on telling people to use less water than using the cash to stop leaks in the supply chain and sewage discharges and, creating new sources of supply. Hurry on abolition of Oftwat and the sack for D. Black, who’s on £250K.

Blair revival

The PM and his Cabinet are agreed, more or less, that national digital ID cards are needed. But practicality rather than philosophy is a road block. That’s devising a system that stops the wrong people being able to flash a convincing fake. And there’s also what to do about people who don’t have a mobile phone if a physical card is off the agenda.

Setting an example

What’s all this rubbish about a state needing to have a government in control of its borders, as demanded by the Montevideo Convention of 1933? The UK doesn’t have control of its borders. Is that why Serbia Smarmer doesn’t think it matters in the case of a Palestinian state?

Two that take a whole box of biscuits each

In a country awash with illegal immigrants and ungaoled criminals, it wasn’t surprising to read that the bloke who tried to kidnap Princess Anne in 1974 is free as the proverbial bird.
    After a few decades in Broadmoor, and as deluded as ever, he’s now claiming it was all a misunderstanding and he was an innocent dupe.
    Also getting out of secure detention is an Islamist terrorist who was involved in the 2005 London Tube and bus bombings and mass murder, even though he’s still rated as a risk to national security.

Shop really early

Why does Christmas stock arrive in supermarkets at the end of July? In the hope that the customer will buy now, scoff edibles and have to buy again later.
    This year, there’s also a forecast of 6% food inflation in the run-up to Xmas to add urgency to the buy-now.
    Buy double to allow for the pre-Xmas scoffing?

One cheer; for now

Hooray! The government has actually done something useful – imposing freedom of speech on the country’s universities with penalties for suppressing it.
    Whether this wonderful law will actually be enforced is another matter . . .

Polyticks explained

Political spelaeology: what Serbia Smarmer does – he keeps on caving when challenged by his foot-sloggers.
Clutchless: Beer’s failure to get a grip on . . . anything.

A rival to H2S?

In 2002, the then Labour transport minister claimed that doing nothing was not an option when asked about a third runway for Heathrow airport.
    So what has been happening for the last 23 years? Apart from the usual political bugger all?

Today’s Thoughts

1. Michael Caine would have made a good Clark Kent. He had the right bespectacled persona for the role.
2. The government declaring a state of national emergency after smashing records for importing illegal immigrants instead of smashing gangs will have as much effect as declaring a climate emergency; i.e. none.
    How can you ‘stop at nothing’ when you don’t ever get started?

Making do with what they’ve got

The Metropolitan police farce has upset the civil libertarians by deploying live facial recognition technology to make up for a shortage of coppers and civilian staff.
    Who’s London’s police commissioner? The bloke responsible for the budget cuts? The Sadgeek of a cosmetic mayor, who’s doing nothing to curb knife crime, which explains everything.

Another broken promise

Scotland’s SNP government has upset the relatives of murder victims by refusing to enact a ‘no body, no parole’ law for killers who refuse to say where their victim(s) ended up.
    Is there anywhere where politicians keep their word and deliver on promises? Answers on a PC to the usual address.

More cheating

Our wonderful government has a cunning plan for massaging the net migration figure – make 18- to 30-year-old Britons emigrate to get away from high taxation and the shortage of affordable homes. Which allows Labour to cram in more migrants at net disbenefit to the taxpayer.

Unexpected consequences

The weight-loss industry is doing the face-lift industry a tremendous favour – delivering lots of customers with a saggy face in need of fillers.
    The restaurant industry, in contrast, is unhappy as the weight-shedders want smaller portions and reduce profits.

More detail problems

Dippy Dave, our apology for a Foreign Sec. sez he can’t understand why Iran needs 60% enriched uranium for academic studies. An obvious failure of his education.

Devil in the detail

Another triumph for Home Sec. Pixie Balls-Cooper. Only migrant dinghies containing 80 or more illegals are liable for prosecution. 79 aboard and everything is okay.

More wibble

Why should the prime monster be under pressure to explain his peace plan for Gaza? His history of dishonesty and idleness tells us that claiming he has a plan is just talk and he doesn’t actually have anything thought out and joined up.

Don’t Delay!

If you are going to get seriously ill, it would be better to get on with it right away as nurses and GPs are gearing up to go on strike. And there will be more of it from the greedy junior docs, of course.

Plus ça change

Crumbs! In an entry in the Millennium Dome Bombing book’s second volume dated February 2001, a Labour government was faced with squaring the circle of giving greater rights to workers (i.e. the party’s paymasters) and a downturn in the country’s financial fortunes.
    How familiar that sounds right now.

Good news

If porridge oats mop up the cancer-causing PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ that water companies leave in our drinking water, that’s a great excuse to scoff lots of home-made flapjack and ignore the butter, sugar, honey and syrup content.

A day of variety

We’ve had a bit of everything today; sunny, wet, wet and windy, sunny and windy; but nothing extreme. Weather, not alarmism. Everything calmed down in the afternoon and the Mansion cat could go out without returning home in a totally soggy state.

Political vision

Does President Trump know what he’s talking about? Well, if he has spotted that London’s cosmetic mayor, Sadgeek K’han’t, is a nasty person who has done a terrible job, the answer has to be a resounding “Yes!”

Failed illusion

Has the England women’s football team winning the EURO 2025 competition really given the nation a much-needed boost, as newspaper scribes were going out of their way to yell?
    Maybe in the London area whilst all the parades were going on. Elsewhere, everything looks and feels much the same as it did before the win. And we still have the same dishonest government wrecking everything.

Negativity

The Rachel Thieves plan for growing the economy involves driving 50,000 businesses to the brink of collapse. How’s that going to work out if we’re in a debt doom loop, according to a leading hedge fundamentalist?

Failed Negotions

The EFU has really stuck it to its customers. Having grotted on fossil fuel production big time and delved into the Nett Zero swamp, it is now committed to importing godzillions of tons of natural gas from Trumpland at huge expense to the taxpayers.

Weekend Crunch

The TigerCats visited Edmonton on Saturday. Huge return of the Antlers’ kick off, one play to a TD. One back for the Ants! Another for the Cats. Level again in Q2. 3rd & goal from the 1; the Ants stopped. Groan. 14-all at half time.
    A TD for the home team 2 minutes in to Q3. Level again. Everyone off for lightning! A FG for the Ants when they were back. A go-ahead TD for the Cats with 2 minutes to go, The ball dropped by the Ants in the end zone, Fajardo sacked on 3rd down, 28-24 final.
    Lastly, the Roughriders in Montreal. Nearly for the Riders. TD with a charge from the Alouette 1. Another in Q2, 14-0. The Als kicked a FG with 5 minutes to go, one for the Riders, plus a single from a punt, 18-3.
    Lightning delay before Q3. A FG for the Als in the 5th minute. One for the Riders, then a TD, then a FG in Q4, 31-6. A FG try by the Riders in the 13th minute bounced off the upright. Lauther made another FG with a minute to go, 34-6 final.

Not the whole story

This is a rather weird concept – people smugglers shooting migrants in camps in France ‘who didn’t pay them’. For what, if the migrants are in France, not England?

Dog Whistle Blues

You have to be really desperate for something to whinge about if you label as modern day Nazi propaganda, an advert for American Eagle jeans featuring an actress who does a script about her genes.

Convoluted

Serbia Smarmer told President Trump during his pilgrimage to Scotland that he’s trying to increase farmers’ income. By inheritance taxing them out of existence? Trump scoffed at his pathetic lie.
    Elsewhere, Israel’s court-dodging prime minister claimed he’s not using starvation as a weapon and there’s none in Gaza. It’s not being faked, said President Trump.
    And he’s right.

Worth the money

Having spent some time in hospital this year and experienced the high quality of the service offered by the nurses and ancillary staff, I agree that the nurses deserve more than the pay offer made by the government.
    Didn’t see too much of the doctors, though. No 29% for them.

More Canadian Crunch

The Stampeders travelled to the nation’s capital to start Week 9 of the CFL. The Redblacks started Q2 with a TD to go 3-7 ahead. A pick stopped the Stamps and produced a FG. The RBs scored another TD and another pick with a minute left in the half stopped the Stamps, 3-17 at half time.
    A pick by the Stamps in the first minute of Q3 went to a missed FG for a single. A pick-6 by McGee put the RBs 20 points ahead. The Stamps managed a TD.
    A FG miss by the RBs then the sent the Stamps out on downs and charged for a TD from the 1 yard line. 11-31 final. Just the second win of the year for the home team.
    The Argos went west to Winnipeg on Friday. The Blue Bombers stopped the Argos but next thing you know, a pick-6 for the visitors! So the BB returned the kick off for a TD! And they closed Q1 with another, 7-14.
    10-17 after an exchange of field goals late in Q2, then a QB mugging, a fumble and a defensive TD for the Bombers. 10-24. Then a punt returned for a TD, 10-31! Less than a minute left, 13-31 at half time.
    The Argos started Q3 with a TD. A rain of flags in the end zone, just a FG for the Argos, 23-31. One for the BB. A punt gave the Argos a single at the start of Q4, 24-34. FG then TD the other way, 31-37.
    The Argos recovered the kick off only to be picked off. An end zone pick stopped the BB in the 12th minute. But the Bombers were not to be denied, 31-40 final.

More ‘not me, Gov’

Why are driving tests impossible to get? The government claims it inherited an enormous backlog. If so, it seems obvious that the Transport Sec. didn’t have a clue how to tackle it if the average waiting time has gone up from 14 weeks to 22 weeks.

History/Present

I’m currently reading a copy of The History of the Millennium Dome after the Bombing – on loan from a friend. No prizes for spotting that it’s set around the switch from the 20th century to the 21st century.
    The politics are strangely familiar. The lies and manoeuvring of the early New Labour years are being replayed by Smarmer’s Army. Just as deviously and cynically, and with as little regard for what The People want.

Took ’em long enough

Edinburgh University has devoted 4 years to coming up with something linked to the slave trade to apologize about. Next step, sack all the white teachers and stock up with ethnics whilst  vigorously waving a virtue flag?

Bottomless pit

Can the Labour party sink lower than claiming that Nigel Farage is Jimmy Savile’s best mate? Sure, it can! So much for the promise from Beer Smarmer, who didn’t prosecute Savile when DPP, to restore dignity to politics and clean it up.
    Just another Beer lie.

Time’s up

A phrase which is long overdue for replacement is “our thoughts are with”. It may be delivered sincerely but it is a tired old cliche which invites an automatic “Yeah, right.”

Has to be an aberration

Gulp! The Work & Pensions Sec. has appointed a Sicknote Tsar to tell skivers that not appreciating being told what to do by their boss is not a mental ’elf ishue and an entitlement to benefits.

Worth a try

The obvious solution to the problem of a Palestinian homeland is to make the west bank of the River Jordan the state and leave Gaza as just one of Israel’s occupied enclaves for the moment.
    That’s pragmatism in action.
    As pointed out by the experts like Mark Almond, a divided Pakistan didn’t work and we now have Pakistan and Bangladesh. Why apply the same failed ‘solution’ to Gaza and the West Bank? Like Serbia Smarmer is currently advocating. All he’s really concerned about is keeping the Moslem vote in 100 constituencies here and their MPs on-side.

One permitted tier?

The protest at the migrant hotel at Epping in Essex is turning into a prime example of Labour’s Two Tier justice.
    The locals who feel at risk from the hotel’s undocumented residents are being labelled far-Right. The far-Left agitators who turn up for three-quarters of an hour or so get a police escort.
    And the Home Office has an army of coppers monitoring the internet for comments which fail to meet far-Left requirements so that those who made them can be persecuted.
    A government mouthpiece should have said: “Free speech is fundamental to our democracy but we’ve taken robust action to abolish it, including through the Online Safety Act.”

People Trap

It’s not just their trains that have earned the company the tag Notwork Rail. Their lifts at stations are trapping record numbers of passengers – usually elderly people with bulky luggage and the disabled who use a wheelchair.
    Rescues were up 24% in the 12 months up to March of this year.