Shop till you drop

The message from this year is that if you want to complete your Christmas menu, go out and buy the stuff yourself to be sure of having it ready to use.
    The number of big stores with a supply system that’s liable to suffer a technical glitch seems to be rather huge. Or is it just Chinese and Russian hackers at work to make lives in Britain miserable during the Festive Season?

Good or Bad?

The pollsters reckon 600,000 people over 65 didn’t speak to anyone else on Christmas Day and 1,400,000 ate their dinner alone. But what they haven’t disclosed is the proportions of the Oldies who weren’t bothered by their solitude.
    I wonder why not? Surely it wasn’t because the pollsters just didn’t think of it.

Agenda of spite?

What on Earth is our useless prime minister up to, letting Edstone Miliband waste £40 BILLION of our money on Nett Zero virtue-flagging garbage?
   Doesn't Smarmer get the simple scientific fact that NOTHING done here will change the global climate?
   Or maybe he does and it's just part of his agenda to waste as much of our money as possible as fast as he can using the biggest idiots he can find as pay-back for the universal lack of appreciation he’s getting.

Gnome missiles?

The American fleet in the Red sea lost a fighter that cost £53 million, which was shot down by one of the aircraft carrier’s escort cruisers just after it took off.
    A commercial flight from Azerbaijan was shot down by Russian missiles, killing most of the people aboard, as confirmed by Putin making an apology without actually admitting the blunder.
    What next?

Flawed Fantasy

Yes, the new Wallace & Gromit film on Xmas Day was a lot of fun. But why, oh why, was Wallace stoopid enough as to include ‘totally evil’ in the character settings for his gnome?
    Other than for plot purposes.

The idea had to come from somewhere

Given that Labour isn’t the party of original ideas, where did the current plan to divide the country into administrative areas, which have nothing to do with current divisions, come from?
    One possible source is the Nazi system of dividing the country into regional areas, each with a centrally appointed Gauleiter in charge.
    After the Labour ‘reorganization’, each district leader would be an all-powerful government stooge and party politics at local level would become extinct. Councils would exist only to carry out government orders and dissent would be non-existent.

Vorderperson Syndrome

It was good to see self-publicist Bear Grylls get a boot up the bum for claiming that the Jewish mother of the much mythologized Jesus was a Palestinian, when this concept didn’t exist a couple of millennia ago.
    Get on TV a few times and they think they know everything about everything.

Can’t lie convincingly

Ed Miliband was claiming that making us depend on occasional sources of electricity frees us from depending on fossil fuels from foreign dictators. Except that we import most of it from the United States, which isn’t exactly a dictatorship. And get top-ups from Qatar, which isn’t one either.
    But we do get all the solar panels that our wonderful government wants to shove all over former agricultural land from a real dictatorship – China. To which Labour is cosying up alarmingly.

Don’t Bother

Do we pay attention to new words, as the lady who wrote an article about them for the Daily Disaster would have us believe?
    Actually, no. They’re mainly created by silly people being obscure and there will be more of the same along next year.
    Stick to real words and although you might be throught to be without it, you will be understood. And you won’t succumb to brain rot caused by ploughing through the garbage on social meeja platforms.

Good point

A judge who got the credit for covering up the identities of the ‘professionals’ who failed a murdered child complained that it was because the Press can’t be trusted to be fair.
    Which is rather rich, given the tendency of judges to ignore laws as passed down by Parliament in favour of making up something that’s usually highly vexatiously left-wing.

A cheer for Beer

Surprise! We appear to be exceptional in one instance. No other country on the planet has a prime minister who is identified so readily by the description: ‘The Bog Brush’.

What they deserve

Apparently, there is a Shovel List; an invention of the Irish author Marian Keyes, of people who deserve a whack in the face with a shovel for their performance in 2024.
    Some would like to exclude Beer Smarmer and his gang of useless liars from it. I agree. They belong on a Double or Triple Shovel List.

On the nose!

The observation that our wonderful prime minister is right when he says the economy has stabilized provokes an automatic laugh. Until it’s explained that what he means is that it can’t get any deader!

Just NBG

Falls over in amazement! The Americans have actually admitted that Creaky Joe Biden was never fit for the job of being their president.
    Shame they don’t have a time machine to go back and get things right.

More non-delivery

Why isn’t the NHS making people well at a satisfactory rate? Because the idiots running it think it’s a wonderful idea to have a special day for all sorts of minorities, worthy and weird.
    How many millions will arranging Something Day for 240 groups cost us?
    And how many people could have been taken off a waiting list if the money had been spent as it should have been?

Yeah, but so what?

I see the petition for another general election has reached a magnificent 3 million signatures, and there’s going to be a debate on it in the Commons.
    Which will be a total waste of time. It will just give the Westminster Wonders a chance to contribute to global warming with more outbursts of hot air.

The perils of showing off

Anyone who buys an Apple or Samsung wrist watch cum multi-gadget, the experts reckon, exposes themself to perfluorohexanoic acid in the strap if they buy one of the top-end, really flash ones.
    And if that gets into your body, nothing good will come of it. So it’s a case of be a flash git but don’t be one for too long!

 

 

Mysterious ignorance

What comes after seventeen, eighteen and nineteen? Twenty, not two thousand. How come so many people on TV don’t get this when they say a date out loud?

One to make your mind up about

Our wonderful prime minister appointed Tulip Sadiq as his City minister to dig out corruption. Next thing you know, her family is being accused to taking bribes to let the Russians build a nuclear power station in Bangladesh when they were in charge there and of extracting £4 billion from the project.
    As Tulip is also under investigation, as there are lots of photos around of her with her family and Putin from the time when the deal was made, does that mean Smarmer was bright enough to appoint a minister who knew all the dodges dodgy types get up to? Doesn’t really sound like him, though.

There’s always one

When the Ombudsman had decided WASPI women didn’t get enough notice of the pension changes between 2005 and 2007, up jumped a Labour MP to blame it on the Tories.
    She clearly had no idea that Tony Blair and New Labour were in charge then. How sadly typical of the people the current Labour lot picked for their MP candidates.

Old dependable

You can rely on the Legend channel going out of the box on Xmas Day by sticking to T.J. Hooker @ 6 p.m. then The A-Team @ 7 p.m., as usual.
    And you can absolutely rely on a woke trigger warning for The A-Team!

Like it!

Labour cancelling next year’s council elections is like a kid [A. Rayner] taking her football home because she’s losing.

Seasonal?

What, one wonders, would the people who compile TV menus for all those stations do without all them war films they offer wall-to-wall for Xmas?

 

 

More Modern Times

My correspondent has another offering for Boxing Day:

 

Another Valid Point

Do we really want insurance companies to develop A.I systems to come up with cute reasons why they shouldn’t pay out what seem like valid claims to their customers?
    Sounds like what we need is more hissy, cute assassins taking out the bosses of these companies to encourage a sudden outbreak of honesty.
    Either that, or prominent warnings, posted by law, that the company uses A.I. to swindle customers.

Imagination lacking

I see GB Views has given Ben Leo, the usual stand-in for Patrick Chrispys, his own graphic background. Shame it’s a total graphic design disaster. Two lots of sans-serif characters for the name above TONIGHT. Dreadful.
    They could have given him a font with serifs to bulk the name out a bit. There’s no excuse for being so clumsy, designwise.

Two Tier Justice

Assault a politician by throwing a milkshake at him and you can get away with it and not go to gaol if your brief claims you’re a bit of a nutter.
    Put some rubbish on the internet and it’s a gaol sentence no matter what your brief says and no matter if there’s no proof that it incited some nutter to do something violent.

Modern Times

A contribution from a correspondent:

 

Modern Major Morons

It seems to be compulsory for every once respected institution to be run by idiots these day. Like the English National Opera, which has plastered trigger warnings on a revival of The Pirates of Penzance, which is approved for 5-year-olds and upwards.
    What have they done? Shoved an alcohol warning on a glass of sherry and violence warnings on pirates just waving their pistols around.
    If only there were somewhere we could export all the idiots to. That would certainly solve the housing shortage at a stroke.

Today’s Unkind Thought

We don’t want the prime minister doing a State of the Nation speech full of alibis for his failures. All we really want to hear about him is that a particularly large freebie fell on him and the funeral is on Wednesday.

Christmas Rip-Off

Same size, same content, same wrapper – apart from the 11% price gouge from Mr. Cadbury.

 

Xmas Cracker Joke

“If she’s an economist, Old King Cole was the Queen of Sheba”
    Which failed Labour Chancellor was this said about?
[style note; that ‘failed’ is probably tautology as no Labour Chancellor has been up to the job, particularly Gordon Brown.]

Valid point

“Why shouldn’t our wonderful prime minister betray the WASPI women if he’s done it to everyone else?” one of my more cynical correspondents wondered.
    But he does have a point. As he added: “Fair’s fair.”

What’s he up to?

Despite the UK being infested by wall-to-wall Chinese spies, including the one exposed by MI5's top agent Prince Andrew, our prime minister is still trying to cosy up to the Chinese regime. Which is leaving the rest of us wondering what he’s been offered.
    No point in asking Beer, of course, he’ll just lie to us.

One we’ll go for

According to one gang of experts, drinking a glass of wine a day reduces the risk of having a heart attack more than taking drugs like statins. It’s definitely a more pleasant form of medication!

Well, they would

The BBC is getting a lock of mockery for refusing to play a spoof Christmas song which blames our lying git of a prime minister for freezing pensioners by stealing their winter fuel.
    All the news that’s fit to print/report after the Labour party censor has been on the job?

Unintended diversion

Another observant Daily Disaster reader noted that when watching Beer Smarmer on TV with the mute button pressed (like every normal person), Beer sticks his head forward like a chicken pecking up scraps when he makes a spurious point.
    Something to look out for whilst waiting to unmute the TV.

Morons keep doing it to us

The idiots building the H2S rail link are blowing £100 million on a bat tunnel to stop them being damaged by the trains. One large problem, the idiots were told 3 years ago that the little buggers can crawl through the mesh of the wire used for the tunnel.
    But, of course, that’s being ignored. No wonder the cost of this piece of fantasy is heading for £100 BILLION.

Trust somewhat absent

Our Home Secretary substitute, Pixie Balls-Cooper, claims that 13,500 rejected migrants have been sent back where they came from.
    “Where’s the proof?” a Daily Disaster reader asked.
    That’s where all the lies have left Smarmer’s government; nothing can be taken on trust.

Put a sock in it

The BBC TV News at lunchtime yesterday fell into the same trap as GB Views on Friday night - endless repetition of a few facts with the same pictures, and yards of wibble about the Magdeburg Monster.
    A brief summary then real news from elsewhere would have been much more sensible. Strange that allegedly professional news services don’t know this.

To party or not

Oh, dear! Snowflakes can’t stand the stress of being at an office party and need cash compensation for having to attend. And any who are done the favour of not being invited want cash compensation for being excluded.
    Life is one long racket for some people.

Not much of an advert for us

Making the bloke who was booted out of the Blair Cabinet not once but twice for playing fast & loose with the rules of conduct our ambassador to the United States does us no favours.
    But then, it’s probably impossible to come up with one of the Labour lot who isn’t dodgy and/or who hasn’t slagged off Trump in the last decade or so.

What’s on the other side?

Patricks Chrispys lost a viewer last night. The decision to make his two hours on GB Views all about the terror attack on the Xmas market at Magdeburg was a big blunder.
    The known facts could be summed up in 5 minutes last night. The rest was just speculation by talking heads and aimless wibble.
    Which is why some of us were reduced to watching repeats of Mr. Bean and then Dynamo, the magician.

Sharia? Not Here!

Islamic Sharia ‘law’ has no legal place in the UK and the big mystery is why a system that treats women as mere chattels doesn’t have the self-righteous Left up in arms over this blatant abuse of female human rights outside every one of the 85 sharia ‘courts’ in the country.
    Not keen to take on a culture which is armed and known to be dangerous?

No better further north

The Scottish government introduced Minimum Unit Pricing to try to reduce the embarrassingly high death rate due to alcohol over-indulgence.
    Unfortunately, no one in the SNP realized that their subjects could still buy booze online at English prices, or go on booze cruises to the north of England to stock up.
    As a result, alcohol-related deaths are up by 12% since MUP was introduced.

Just not looking for solutions

Smarmer’s Army is intent on building 1,500,000 new houses on the Green Belt. But I read the other day that in England alone, there are 700,000 properties standing empty and unused.
    But, of course, it’s too much to expect our wonderful government to spot a way to get half-way to its target by other means. A total lack of enterprise seems to be Labour’s hallmark.

Frankenfoods, the only way!

If our wonderful government is intent on covering the countryside with houses for illegal immigrants, solar panels and wind farms instead of food farms, and the country will be too broke to afford food imports after Chancellor Reeves wrecks everything completely, what’s left?
    Frankenfoods grown in laboratories!
    Ultra-processed gunk disguised to look vaguely like real food.
    What a wonderful prospect!

Getting it right

What GB Views needs is an alternative set of titles for
    NOT Patrick Chrispy’s Tonight
when he’s skiving off and Ben Leo does the show.

Always some spin

The story we’re getting from the outsted Syrian tyrant BashedEar Assad is that he didn’t run away from the invading Sham terrorist gang.
    Oh, no. He was hauled off the front line on the orders of Putin and flown out of the country to avoid embarrassment to the old Pants Poisoner.

Telling it like it really is

Boris Johnson is way off the mark if he thinks people believed what they were told by Smarmer & Co. before the election. Labour got the support of only 20% of the electorate, and got to form a goverment only because of ‘Vote Reform, Get Labour’.

The Law administrators are asses

Just what was the point of a secret immigration court ruling that the Chinese spy who chummed up with Prince Andrew had to remain anonymous?
    Especially when his name and picture were all over the media in China and the United States, not to mention every libel lounge going.
    The judiciary desperately needs to get in touch with real life in the 21st century.

About her mark

When in Opposition, Smarmer’s deputy used to get on Boris the leader’s case for having an official photographer. Now, she has a whole gang of them. “Hippocrisy with a bum to match”, is definitely a great way of labelling Rayner.

About his mark

Picking a fight with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over whether sandwiches are the bee’s knees shows just how desperate Smarmer is. He even felt obliged to put some stooge in front of a press conference for his counterblast. Which served only to remind everyone about that mess that clot Miliband made of tackling a bacon sandwich a decade ago.

Yes, he does suck

It comes as no surprise to learn that Beer Smarmer’s lack-of-approval rating makes him the worst prime minister ever. Add on the fact that his fantasist of a Chancellor is all set to put the economy into recession for the final quarter of the year, and it’s time to go into fear and trembling about what this sorry crew will achieve over the next four and a half years.

Inconvenient Memory

It’s all very well for Particks Chrispys on GB Views to trot out former Labour minister Geoff Hoon as a ‘expert’. But there are lots of us around who remember that he was known as Buff Hoon when he was part of the New Labour government.
    So not exactly someone who inspires confidence.

More what they do

“Why don’t men condemn all those who queue up to sleep with models?” asked the blessed Byrony Gordon in the Daily Disaster. Because the world is full of slags, male and female, and they will always be able to seek one another out.

Justice Confused

The wheels seem to be coming off the Lucy Letby mass-murder case at a furious rate. Suddenly, one of the doctors changes his mind about the cause of three of the deaths. In fact, the whole thing seems to be a morass of guesses and probabilities and very short of confirmable facts.

It’s what they do

Is it any surprise that the SNP’s ministers are as good as the mob in Westminster at hoovering up football-related freebies and not mentioning them when they are supposed to account for their free gifts?
    Not really. They’re all politicians and out of the same box.

Vanity is everything!

The Royal Princes, William and Harry, are getting the credit for a boom in business for a Turkish hair transplant clinic. It seems that there are lots of people with cash in their pockets who think it would be a great idea to have a beard, but who can’t grow a decent one unaided.

Illusory Crisis

What exactly is unreasonable about Prince Andrew associating with this Chinese spy if no one in the Security Service had spotted him?
    And if he dropped the spy as soon as his cover was blown a couple of years ago, Andy did exactly the right thing.
    Move along there, no sensation.

More of them

Another good way to irritate Smarmer’s Army is to notice the lack of diversity in Beer’s Cabinet. He’s surrounded by people who were in the public sector, if they had a job at all, and there is a complete lack of people with experience of life in the wealth-creating private sector.

Unwelcome truths

Our wonderful government doesn’t like being reminded that its plan to build everywhere is doomed because there aren’t enough builders to get close to their plucked out of the air target to consign the Green Belt to history. And the Labour lot really do not respond well when told that the main beneficiaries of their housing will be illegal immigrants, not the British citizens who paid for it.

Cute

Brilliant idea by Jenni Murray. If you tear a toenail half off, go on a Saga cruise and get the ship’s doctor to tidy you up and put you on antibiotics.
    Of course, when you get home, with GPs unavailable, you end up spending most of the day in an A&E department for follow-up treatment. But better than nothing. Just.

Get Out Of That!

Beer Smarmer claimed that his grand plan for shaking up the civil service Blob would land on desks across Whitehall. But, as been pointed out by numberous people, the occupants of those desks are all Skiving @ Home. Another Smarmer flop.

No change likely

How many more vulnerable children will die before we reform a failing system? was asked after the conviction of her evil father for killing Sara Sharif.
    As she was failed by social services, the police, her teachers and everyone, the answer would appear to be: ‘all of them’.

Sussed!

How do you get Defence up to 2.5% of GDP? The Labour way, cunning blighters, is to wreck the economy, reduce the current GDP, and also reduce Defence spending to the extent that it reaches 2.5% of the shattered GDP.
    Devilishly cunning!

Big Puzzle

Last night, the Geminid meteors were supposed to be lighting up the sky with a magnificent display. One slight snag; wall to wall rain clouds.
    If people were able to see them in years past, why isn’t all this alleged climate change giving us clear skies now? Warmer and dryer it most certainly ain’t.

Rather inevitable, really

What do you get when the Prime Minister guarantees that he will deliver economic growth but he and the Chancellor spend all their time talking the country down?
    Negative economic growth due to a lack of confidence.
    How odd that Smarmer and Reeves are where they are without being able to spot something like that as a consequence of their gobsworthness?

Some Description!

“Nazi stag do ex-Tory MP", was how he was described in the headline after joining Reform UK. Nothing in the way of a name came to mind and I started wondering if it was a pop at Reform; saying the party’s standards are so low that anyone can get in.
    Aidan Burley? Nope. Nothing.
    Apparently Nigel Farage gave him a real roasting in 2011 at the time of the transgression. But if he’s okay now, does that confirm that standards have fallen?

I’m an alien!

Apparently, we have a Foreign Secretary who thinks that Libya on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa is next door to Syria, which 1,000 miles away in the Middle East.
    Which suggests his ignorance is due to being so foreign that he’s from another planet and he has no idea of the geography of this one.

Fat Chance

You have to admit that our prime minister can come out with some really wonderful stuff. Such as using the ideas of Desperate Dom Cummings to disrupt the comfortable and idle lives of the useless bozos of the civil service Blob and force them to become productive.
    But when you take a look at Smarmer’s ‘achievements’ since moving into Downing Street, and those of his minions, it becomes pretty obvious that they’re as useless as the Blob and they need some disrupting, too.

Nice Idea

Reading that The Observer is to be sold off by Guardian Media alerted me to the existence of Tortoise Media, the purchaser, which doesn’t do breaking news.
    The item included the interesting piece of speculation that Tortoise had decided to slow down because its minions couldn’t cope mentally with the dramas of having the ‘hold the front’ page when they’d spent ages assembling it.

More unintended stuff

Letting parents shirk @ home instead of going to work is ruining the education of their kids but because the parents let their offspring bunk off school without consequences.
    Still, I suppose it’s all an effective part of natural selection.

No. 1 in a Field of One

Anyone in need of a bit of exercise can get quite a lot by counting the number of luvvies who are absolutely outraged by Time Magazine making Donald Trump its Man of the Year.
    But who else has made the same impact as Trump? Certainly not any of the other politicians on offer. And the do-gooders haven’t exactly shone this year.

Moving on

Building houses without chimneys is leaving kids wondering how Santa gets in to deliver their presents. And whether parking a sleigh on the roof destroys solar panels.
    Maybe modern myth-makers need to throw in a bit of sci-fi stuff and change the story to Santa using a flying saucer, which lets him hover over homes with a cluttered roof and use a transporter system to beam down to deliver gifts and enjoy any hospitality left out for him.

Flattened, out of action

Storm D, I read, wrecked a solar farm on Anglesey and blew the blades off wind turbines nearby. Not much of hope of energy security from occasionals which are also wreckables as they can’t be protected. No substitute for a strongly built, proper power station.

Flatten, replace

There is a very plausible explanation for why the Labour party is trying to kill off our domestic farming industry.
    It’s being done to create vast tracts of unused former agricultural land on which to park solar panels, wind farms & houses for the migrants, which Labour is making no attempt to exclude, so that they can form colonies in which the British values which Labour despises so much are entirely absent.

Destined to fail?

The Post Office Horizon accounting system is a mass of defects, which had ruined lives and killed a few people. What was the PO’s answer? Go for an in-house replacement, which had just been junked after wasting £2 BILLION.
    Meanwhile, Fujitsu, which came up with the defective system, is under contract to keep it going to March 2026.

Mad house maths

A solar farm with an output of 500 mW is being claimed to be able to supply electricity to 300,000 home. Each of which gets 167 Watts. Which is one-sixth of the amount needed to boil an electric kettle.
    That’s the sort of stuff that comes out of Edstone Milipede’s fantasy department.

OUR values matter

In this country, we are free to think – and say – religions are weird and those involved in them are weirdos.
    The last thing we need is arrogant upstarts from other cultures demanding we give their particular religion a free pass.
    Or outsiders demanding that we regard (forced) cousin marriages as a Good Thing.

Not worth the effort

How to build a nuclear bunker in your back garden; if it’s long enough; for 97 quid, I read.
    If the nuke lands far enough away not to vaporize you, you’d have to live in your hole in the ground for a couple of weeks to let radiation levels fall.
    Then what? With everything wrecked?

Pay-back!

I couldn’t help but laugh on reading that a celebrity chef who demanded with a gang of other attention seekers before the election that it was time to give Labour a chance has come unstuck.
    He got his wish and our wonderful Chancellor’s tax grabs are going to cost him £170,000 per year. Oh, dear.

Just Nasty

Our wonderful Chancellor seems quite smug about the fact that she was able to snatch a winter fuel payment from her own mother.
    What we need is a rogue asteroid to crash onto Downing Street while all the nasty bastards are scoffing their Xmas dinner.

Reality in short supply

Kelvin McKenzie, the former editor of The Sun, got it spot on on the Mogg Show last night. Opinions are treated as more valuable than facts online.
    Which just underlines how ludicrous things can get in the libel lounges.

Just a thought

Didn’t Brexit-buggerer made French prime minister Bollocks to Barnier lose a confidence vote in the parliament?
    If he’d lost a no-confidence vote, logically that would mean people have confidence in him.

Action this day!

Another good comment – if the government is planning to ban junk food advertising on TV next October(!), maybe, how about an immediate ban on junk political advertising?
    That would relieve a lot of pressure on the nation’s TV remote control mute buttons.

Somewhere safer

Laos is definitely off the schedule for a Xmas break if the clubs serve vodka laced with methanol and the police and the local authorities are okay with letting them do it in return for kick-backs.

If only

Don’t you just wish King Charles would refuse to sign off on a knighthood for London’s totally useless lump of a mayor?
    Kahn’s dad had an honest job; a bus driver. Is he the only member of the family in that position?
    What would be even better would be for the King to cancel Smarmer’s knighthood on the grounds that he is not behaving like a fit and proper member of the Order.

He got it right!

A fine piece of analysis of Smarmer’s Pinewood film studios performance agrees with him when he said he wasn’t offering a reset.
    All that was on offer was more of the original false starts, lies and blunders of his first five months.

No doom! Damn!

One does get a distinct impression that the doombuggers felt cheated out of the major tsunami they wanted as a consequence of an earthquake of strength 7.0 on Richter scale miles out in the Pacific off the north coast of California.
    Nothing less than a mountain of water sweeping right across California and Oregon would have got a cheer from the miserable doombuggers.

Stairway to oblivion?

How many beers had Smarmer scoffed before he declared in his film studio Take Two speech that he has his milestones ‘all laddered up’?
    Does that mean he’s going to pile them up to form steps instead of space them out as progress markers?
    Where do they dig clots like him up from?

More Wibble

“Up to 100% more plaque removal”, says the TV advert. Why don’t they go for up to 1,000% more? It’s just as meaningless.
    Both ranges include 0% removal, which is completely bloody useless and makes the product a waste of money.

Just the bloke!

Is P. Hairy Mandelswine, who was sacked from the Blair government for being cute about a £372,000 loan, a suitable candidate for UK ambassador to the US?
    Based on the standards of Smarmer’s Army, he fits right in to the gang.

It doesn’t stop

The moron doing the Daily Mail quick crossword is still claiming that treacle is the same as golden syrup. There is no hole deep enough in which to dump a lummox like this.

Another world

Deliberately misleading the House of Commons is a resignation affair for a prime minister. Unless you’re Beer Smarmer.
    Ain’t it wonderful to be a lawyer!

Sort of logical

A bloke claiming to be a woman winning a model of the year prize has its own internal logic. The bloke has been got up to look like a woman and the word ‘model’ is not sex-specific. So he can be declared a prize-worthy model of a woman.

Mission not worthwhile?

Some of my older friend are beginning to ask, with due cynicism, if it’s worth making the effort not to be one of the 6,000 pensioners the government plans to freeze to death over the winter with 4 more years of Labour vindictiveness in prospect.

We’re Doomed

That useless lump of a Chancellor Reeves is claiming we can’t boost defence spending without making cuts. The trouble is, she’d make a bog of the job.
    We need less management duplication and red tape, equipment buyers who don’t keep changing their minds every two seconds, driving up costs and pushing back delivery dates, NO diversity crap, etc.
    No change of anything like that from Reeves, and the useless gang at the Ministry of Defence, of course.

Lost nation

If a bloke in a BBC Question Time audience thinks populism is the same as Nazi Germany, all that proves is that the Beeb is great at filling a studio with weirdos.
    And given the current state of the nation, it doesn’t take all that much effort.

Nett Zero empathy

No names, no pack drill, but my correspondents are agreed that if there were an announcement on the news that a member of this sorry imitation of a Cabinet had gone down with a condition which is both painful and lethal, there wouldn’t be even a flicker of sympathy.
    None of the correspondents has ever felt this way about politicians before. It takes a special kind of person to get others to think something like that about them. Shame that Smarmer’s Army is full of them.

Not a good move

Someone was asking in the Daily Disaster for an assisted living Bill if we can have an assisted dying one. But if we did, it would apply only to the weath-gobbling public sector, not the wealth-creating private sector, and most people would end up worse off.

Get out of that!

Someone has worked out that if Prince Hairy has less security in the UK than popster T. Swift, it’s because she has more fans here. Which makes a lot of sense.

Valid Point

You can’t base assisted dying on how long a doctor thinks the customer has to live because the medical trade is notorious for getting this wrong.

One way – The wrong way

Is Elon Musk’s contempt for our PM the world’s biggest threat to a special relationship between the UK and the US. Or is it the stream of bad-mouthing directed westwards from Beer Starmer and his sorry crew the real problem?
    And then there’s the gang of 100 Labour sent to the US to try to stop Trump becoming president again by working for the Democraps. Not at all a bridge-builder.

Completely Clueless

Does a man with a plan for change need to set up 67 talking shops about what he should do – which won’t offer any conclusions until well into next year? Not unless it’s true that Starmer is not an ideas man and without having a list of Tory policies to be against, he’s floundering.
    And don’t it show?

Universal uselessness?

It’s not just our public services that can’t get the job done. The train companies went after 29,000 fare dodgers, I read, but used the wrong law to get them fined.
    As a result, the fines have been cancelled by the courts. And there are thousands of similar cases still in the system.
    Now, as we have to do is decide if this is worse or less serious than the Office for National Statistics chumps getting the net migration figure for 2021-23 wrong by 307,000.

Just monstrous exaggeration

If the carbon emissions due to manufacturing an electric car are included with those resulting from driving it around, the difference between it an a petrol/diesel vehicle becomes notional.
    You’d have to drive the EV for 124,000 miles to get a relative reduction in emissions of 15%.
    Not exactly a lot, is it?

Oh, wonderful!

Another gift from multiculturalism – armed police officers on patrol at Christmas markets in case some Islamist nutter tries to let off a bomb or stab loads of people to death.
    No chance of any tolerance of the native way of life in the country they’ve been allowed to invade so casually.

Tell ’em like it is!

“Feathers are worn by beautiful birds and ugly people” read the sign held up by an attention-seekr @ a fashion show.
    To which the obvious response is: “Why aren’t you wearing any feathers, love?”

As ever, it’s all about him

It’s not possible to feel anything other than enormous contempt for a prime minister who wants to wreck the country and people’s lives just so he can claim to be a world leader in climate change.
    Even if nothing done here has the slightest effect on the global climate.

Blessed silence

Do we care about all this crap about TV bloke Gregg Wallace? Nope. We’ve heard more than enough of the accusations and the denials. Hit the mute button as we do when the government’s liars like Smarmer and Reeves start spouting more of their poisonous BS.

Doing Nothing

Islamists demanding a blasphemy law is as offensive as the likes of professional fat lady and Daily Disaster columnist Bryony Gordon demanding the Band Aid crew stop raising cash for bits of Africa.
    “Why don’t they cough up the cash?” she whines. Ignoring the fact that Bob Geldoff et al have been making a difference for 40 years whilst she and the Africans, who are whingeing about the charity exposing their continent as violent and institutionally corrupt, have just been sitting on their fat bums.

Too Right

An interesting view on assisted dying – letting the State kill sick people would be troubling under a competent government. Thus allowing it with Smarmer’s shambolic Army in charge would be catastrophic and downright criminal.

Fourteen wasted years?

Having spent almost a decade and a half in opposition, you’d think the Labour party would have worked out some ideas which might do the country a bit of good.
    But after gaining 20% of the votes available on the basis of a manifesto which was wall-to-wall lies from start to finish, they’ve hid the buffers.
    Beer Smarmer is having to do a reset. But not admitting it.

Surprise!

GB Views have managed to dig their Latvian lad, Patricks Chrispys, out of his box and get him back fronting the show wearing his name.
    Great job if you can skive off for ages like that.

Nul Points for effort

Shame Asda had to rip off the A-Team theme tune for an Xmas ad instead of coming up with something original.

Fair game

Just a thought, but is there any newspaper scribe who isn’t taking the piss out of Rachel Thieves? Like Louise of the GMB, who realized in the Sunday Post that our Chancellor’s halcyon days were when she was leading NASA’s mission to Mars.

What they do

One of the trade unions in the education sector wants our current government to undo all the Tory efforts to make school exams harder and their results more meaningful.
    Why? To give the union’s members more time off and more wellbeing. Selfish gits.

Low news day

Should we feel comforted that most of today’s newspapers have nothing more serious to put on their front pages than endless wibble about this BBC TV star Wallace and the middle-aged women who get the hump over his smutty jokes?
    One of the exceptions was the looney left i, which wants us to believe that 47 is greater than 53. So something safely to be ignored.

Super-selectivity

Another bloke on GB Views the other night in a discussion about assisted dying was asking if we can trust our legislators to get things right.
    The lesson of history is that we can’t.
    The only state which downgraded its citizens in the last 200 years, this guy claimed, was the Nazis. Wot about the Soviets, North Korea, the Chinese, etc., etc.?
    Inconvenient to the argument so don’t mention?

What the PM should have said . . .

. . . to the MP demanding a blasphemy law.
    “If you want to live here, you must be willing to accept our values and way of life. We find this failure to do so by migrants and those of incomer stock insulting and their lack of tolerance of an alien (to them) culture contemptible.
    “Anyone who doesn’t like things here is free to go elsewhere. Which will do us the favour of having to put up with one less vexatious control freak.”
    But not something a jellyfish like Beer would do.

Nice one!

From a Daily Disaster reader: If we got a lot of snow, Bier Smarmer will claim his grandad was a snowman.
    And no doubt that fantasist Reeves will claim she invented them.

Wonkosity on steroids

A really daft notion got a lot of mockery on GB Views last night – the notion that females are either transgender women or non-transgender women.
    Clear evidence that there are deep depths of stoopidity left for the woke community to plumb.

Some giant

There’s a huge amount of wibble in The Sunday Post about Alex Salmond. A giant of a man? Nope, just another politician who was trying to sell independence to a country which can’t survive without huge subsidies from England, and a bit of a groper.
    He made people walk tall? Just ludicrous.
    He bigged things up in the SNP until he became an embarrassment and had to zoom off and form another party.
    But all in all, he was just a blip in John Swinney’s stewardship of the SNP.

They just don’t get The Market

Labour sets targets for electric car sales which the industry knows are daft. Result: Vauxhall closes a car plant and jobs and economic growth prospects go up in smoke.
    The plant being closed is in Luton. Who’s the member for South Lution? Some woman called Reeves. Does she care? Has she even noticed?

Another context issue

Were 14 years of largely wasted Tory/Trivial rule really any different from the previous 13 years of wasted Labour rule? What we need is some context questions, such as how many illegal wars did the Tories start compared to Labour (Iraq) and how many medical emergencies did either government have to tackle? (The Chinese plague, major, Tories, Swine Flu, minor, Labour)

Should be done!

Every TV interview Bier Smarmer does should start with him being asked how many boilers he helped to build when he was being working class and not trying to keep dangerous terrorists at liberty.

Wise move

I was amused to read that Donald Trump’s team are keeping a close eye on what the UK is doing and using it as a role model.
    That’s as a blueprint for what not to do when they take office.

Why no blame?

Something rather odd is that the parents of our Chacellor, Imaginary Reeves, are not being slagged off for raising a daughter who lives in a fantasy world, and who can’t help offering her fantasies when she’s supposed to be in the real world where the rest of us live.

Vote of no confidence

It’s amazing the tangle our wonderful government and the BBC got into over the inheritance tax grab on farms. At least the Beeb started thinking in the right direction when it was deluged in mockery but the government seems unable to grasp what constitutes the assets of a farm and persists in claiming that only a few will be dinged by the Thieving Reeves tax grab, not most of them.

Things to come

Local councils are complaining already that they won’t be able to cope with the flood of complaints about the noise made by electric heat pumps when the government makes them obligatory.
    All the industry has to offer is some wibble about they will get quieter with development. Which is not exactly a reason to rush out and buy one right now.

Reality biting

How wonderful that the criminal charges the Democrap establishment tried to load onto Donald Trump after the 2020 election and related to the riot that was all over by teatime have all mysteriously evaporated. All four of them.
    Someone finally getting the message that the incoming president is a person of consequence, who won’t forget all the attempts to sabotage him in a hurry?

Mind Boggling

What’s a human bloody rights lawyer who makes money out of the terrorism industry doing in the boilermakers’ trade union? It’s difficult to imagine something more pathetically posturing for a Labour politician to do to pretend he’s part of the working class. But that’s the sort of people they are.

Permanent SNAFU

The segment about migration on GB Views last night was very revealing. The civil servants @ the Home Office are mostly useless bozos, their Mandarins, in the main, have a lot in common with the captain of the Good Ship Venus, and Labour doesn’t have a plan.
    All it has is an accusation that the Tories has an open borders policy, which is as ludicrous as the Reeves £22 billion Brown Hole. Still, as it borders tripe came from Beer Smarmer, what do you expect other than BS?

Wird Gemacht!

“Why does the government not understand that people don’t buy cars they don’t want?” asked a correspondent to the Daily Disaster.
    Simple. Because Smarmer’s Army don’t live in the real world. They think that ll they have to do is order the customers to do something and they’ll do it. Jawohl, mein Führer! And if electric vehicles are too clunking and expensive and there isn’t the infrastructure to support them, so what? Get out and get buying, you bastards?

A real mystery

The tale that the shirt Bobby Moore wore in the 1966 World Cup final has been ‘found’ in Wales is curious. If there is no record of any sale by his family, how did it get there?
    Walked all the way from Essex?

Good idea!

I was amused to read that 1.6 million people have signed a petition to re-run the general election because the punters got the result wrong.
    How apt that the failing government is led by a bloke who kept trying to redo the Brexit referendum because he thought the majority got it wrong and only his view counted.

More context

A Labour MP is trying to damage the assisted dying Bill by claiming that it will lead to state-provided death on demand when the title of the Bill limits it to the terminally ill.
    Yet more control-freakery in action.

The Killer

The sure way to squash an econut like Edstone Miliband like the bug he is has to be to apply context. Like his claim that he can deliver clean, green electricity cheaply.
    Off-shoring all the manufacturing using coal-powered power stations ain’t clean. What about all the wild birds killed by his windmills? And the agricultural land lost to solar panels? Not at all green.    And cheap? Huge subsidies and billions to be spent on pylons. Made abroad as we no longer have a steel industry.
    And the killer? Put the reduction of UK carbon emissions in the context of those of China, India and the rest and there’s no measurable difference to the total.

Consistency, but the wrong sort

The more you read about our wonderful Chancellor, the more obvious it becomes that she’s spent the last two dozen years since graduating from university creating a fantasy life based on shameless lies.
    Even the book wot she wrote is packed with passages lifted straight out of Wikipedia. But if you feel entitled enough, you can get away with anything. That seems to be her substitute for a personal code of ethics.

Take the gun, MacGyver!

If he’s so smart, after clobbering one armed bad guy, why doesn’t Mac take his gun, knowing that the other bad guy is armed and threatening his pal, the head of the agency?
    Makes no sense at all. Sack the useless scriptrotter.

The truth obviously hurts

You have to wonder about the motivation of the Africans who are moaning that the Band Aid charity perpetuates an image of a continent which is hopeless and corrupt, and a place where civil wars over hopeless pieces of territory are the norm.
    Not getting their fingers into the pot?

What’s the problem?

We keep hearing tales from the mob opposed to assisted dying about terminations dragging on and on and on. Which means we should be asking the medical some very pointed questions about why, after the centuries they’ve been messing about with the human body, are they unable to come up with something that’s quick, reliable and painless. Can’t or won’t?

Dead Lossers

You have to wonder about the mentality of the current management of Jaguar cars if they think a TV advert about a posse of weird females, and apparently some equally odd blokes, rather than one featuring cars is going to sell enough of their electric vehicles to stay in business.

Totally pathetic

I was amused to read that Beer Smarmer's minions were trying to talk news services out of using footage that shows his Prime Ministerial plane in an attempt to pretend that he never actually went to the pointless G20 junket in Rio.
    Lots of bigging it up beforehand, home with his tail between his legs having achieved nothing. He might as well have Zoomed a video call to the other stooges and stayed at home.

Lotz of swearing

One of life’s really annoying things is to get to YouTube to watch some NFL highligts, try to do a search for nfl 2024 and be told you’re offline and you need to connect to the internet.
    What total bollocks.
    How can I possible have got to YouTube to do the search in the first place? And why does it say YouTube at the top left of the screen?
    Does Virgin Media broadband have some sort of talent for making itself invisible to YouTube? Or is it just YouTube being obstructive?
    GRRRRRRRRRR!

Staying power

One of my correspondents tried to switch on his hall light the other day. He wanted to put the milk bottles out. Nothing. He had to find a torch.
    When he got round to changing the bulb the next morning, he as amazed to find that it was a 60 Watt incandescent bulb of the sort banned by the EU back in about 2009.
    This bulb had obviously been installed before then and it has kept going for at least 15 years. Not something you can expect from the more modern alternatives on offer at a fancy price.

Experience versus statistics

Conventional wisdom tells us that if there are two ways to do something, such as attaching something to something else one way up or the other way up, your first choice will always be the wrong one and you can forget being right 50% of the time because The Universe doesn’t feel obliged to do fair play.

The right place to live

We’ve heard a lot on the news about the battering Storm Bert has been giving everywhere with snow, floods, high winds and power cuts on offer. Around here, nothing.
    It’s been a bit windy at times but no schools closed and public transport at a standstill. The secret of a quiet life is obviously picking somewhere to live where nothing dramatic happens, weatherwise.

Bad and annoyingTech

Don’t you just hate it when the ‘I am not a robot’ gadget won’t let you get to your Virgin Media emails? You do one pane of pictures, and that should be enough. Maybe two.
    But when it’s done 6 times and shows no obvious sign of ever stopping, that’s far too mucking fuch. Time to zap the browser tab, open a new one and try to log in again from the start.

Worse of the worst

Is there a worst political defect than Edstone Miliband? There can’t be if he can make to make that idiot of a foreign secretary Lammy look almost sensible.
    And letting him do real damage to the country like that useless lump Reeves does nothing for Beer Starmer’s reputation for competence.

Back to the common touch

Storm Bert is a multi-hazard event offering snow, high winds, rain, flooding and power cuts. And several deaths.
    How strange it wasn’t given one of the really cute names which have been flying round recently.

No surprise there

No wonder that the COP29 waste of time is dragging to an untidy shambles, if the countries which have worked their butts off to be successful are offering couple of hundred billion a year (eventually) to the scroungers and they’re demanding trillions.

What planet are they on?

One of my correspondents drew my attention to an campaign online to ‘make Christmas Palestinian again’.
    A concept which has drawn a shower of questions asking when it was every Palestinian.

One good egg; maybe

The pensions minister has told her skiving civil servants to forget the idea of getting five days’ pay for doing four days’ work. Just as long as she sticks to doing things in the country’s best interests.

Road to extinction

The makers of Jaguar cars are going to stop production of petrol and diesel models early and concentrate on electric vehicles, which is expected to send 85% of their customers elsewhere. Especially if they’re going to make their logos and badges all twee and woke.
    Sounds like the Labour party’s ‘growth’ agenda taken to extremes.

The place to be

Quick! All pensioners move to Scotland. Scottish Labour are going to restore the stolen winter fuel payment. Well, if they’re elected to take over the Scottish Parliament.
    And if that happens, it might be a good idea for the rest of us to head North as the cash is bound to be hoovered out of the pockets of English taxpayers.

Barge-pole bloke

Starmer’s apologists would have us believe that when he claimed he was Corbyn’s best friend, he was really an infiltraitor out to destroy old Jezzer.
    Which means he’s both a liar and treacherous. Which makes him definitely someone to avoid like the Chinese plague.

More Wibble

The Welsh government is not just going to make Wales non racialist by 2030, it’s going to make the country actively anti-racialist.
    No details are on offer about how this will be achieved, but as it is clearly BS, none are expected.

Failure repeated

Our Health Sec. has been found out. Rather than reforming the mess which the NHS has become, he’s just recycling policies which failed when New Labour tried them back in the twenty noughties.

Justice for all?

It comes as no surprise that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for both the head of Hamas and the Israeli prime minister, even knowing they will never be executed.
    When you weigh up the number of Israelis killed by Hamas and the number of Arabs killed in Gaza and those killed by the ‘licence to kill’ settlers in occupied territories, it’s obvious that crooks kill more people than terrorists. And then there’s Putin the pants poisoner. No danger of one for him, though.

They’re all at it

Scotland’s Health Sec. has been exposed as a freebie-scoffing football fan out of the Beer Smarmer box. You can’t get quality politicians any more.

Confronted!

There’s a fashion for apologizing for stuff that happened centuries ago, mainly by politicians – the apologizing. Maybe we could put a stop to this virtue flagging by asking the apologist if they did the deed and are the victims long dead.
    If the answers are ‘yes’ and ‘yes’ then they should be told that their apology is worthless wibble. Not that they’ll take any notice of facts.

Drip, drip, drip

The more journalists did into the murk of the Reeves past, the more they find that an allegedly world-renown economist has been economical with the truth over a period of decades.
    Her apologists would have us believe the individual incidents are totally trivial. But when they get as ginormous as the grains of sand on a beach, and she keeps on doing it, so much for the possibility of trusting her and believing anything she says.

Fourth World?

Some experts are already saying our wonderful government is on course to turn the UK into a Third World country by the next election. GPs, pharmacists and farmers are already under attack after just 4 months. Who knows what else will be history by the time Beer is forced to call an election.

The jokes keep coming

Our wonderful Chancellor, Thieving Reeves, has turned herself into a figure of fun by telling lie after lie after lie. The stab I liked particularly was: ‘are they vegetarian or vegan porkies that she tells?’

More from Joe

Now he’s giving the Ukrainians land mines to give the Russian invaders even more headaches. There’s nothing like not being bothered about keeping your job for helping someone to do the right thing.

Lights Out

We seem to be heading for high streets going dark due to the people running all the businesses giving up because of excessive taxation.
    What’s the betting that our wonderful government will immediately claim it’s putting us on course for an earlier than planned Nett Zero? And a reduction of pollution if vehicles are no longer circulating. And change the subject when shrinking the economy comes up.

Another inconvenience gone

I see that ex-Mandarin Sue Grey has walked away from the cosmetic job which was old Beer’s award for serving the purpose of sabotaging the last Tory administration.

Biden his time

President Joe seems to be having a good time, doing the right thing by Ukraine now that he can’t be evicted from a job which he has effectively given up. And if it’s all reversed by The Donald for some perverse reason, Creaky Joe will be long gone and not involved any more.

Failing Police Farces

If the Essex police have set up a gold group major incident team to ‘investigate’ the journalist Allison Pearson over a long deleted tweet, that has to be an admission that they know they screwed up mightily and they’re making frantic efforts to apply whitewash.
    The Brighton police are heading in the same direction after arresting a man for name-calling on FakeBook, which isn’t actually illegal.

Winter Kills

Last night’s snow was melting but some of it stuck on cars and bushes and sheds overnight. Cue an angry barrage at our Chancellor over winter fuel.
    Nasty bitch and thieving cow are about the mildest responses. The rest are liberally sprinkled with f-words and a c-word that isn’t cow.

The wibble won’t stop

We’re on the brink of World War III, as we keep being told on TV? Really? If Putin can’t beat Ukraine, what chance does he have against the rest of the planet?
    Do all the TV presenters plugging this line have shares in companies which build nuclear bunkers? We really should be told!

Epitome of Excellence

You’re in the kitchen and you hear that TV advert in the next room; the one with the tenor doing the ‘Vincero’ finale; and you start to think how brilliant it was to hear Pavarotti doing it in his prime.
    He really was a man in a million. No, make that a billion.

Fair Comment

The Mansion Cat would like to challenge the concept of A-Lister dogs. In her not so humble opinion, all dogs are Z-List.

Cute, but no cigar

I see the COP crooks are enlisting gangs of Scottish kids to front their cause. Not that adults will be impressed by the stunt. Like parrots, children just repeat a message without understanding the meaning of the noises because they lack wisdom, a quality which develops only through experience of life.
    Sadly, however, it doesn’t develop in all adults. Especially in those who go into politics like Edstone Miliband, Beer Smarmer and the rest of his Army.

Proportionality never observed

What actually is the point of sending two coppers to harass a journalist about something she put online if they have no idea what she wrote and no idea who made the complaint and no idea what was actually complained about?
    Sounds like all they were doing was attempted intimidation of the sort you expect from a criminal gang.
    Sounds like an excellent reason to sack the inspector who sent the coppers on their fool’s errand for incompetence; or demote him/her to the rank of constable. And hit the chief constable with a stonking fine of 10% of his/her salary.
    Or maybe that should be 20% after the Essex police did a press release about the incident which was as full as lies as anything we get from Smarmer’s Army.
    How wonderful to live in England with Two-Tier Beer in charge and actively backing the police crusade against non-crimes.

Another new normal

An open porch or an arbour with shelter from the weather has become a domestic necessity now that the likes of the Royal Mail and Yodel have adopted a ‘dump & run’ policy for delivering packets and boxes.

More Looney Leftness

The Mansion Cat was amused to be told that the Welsh government has ruled that dogs and its countryside are racialist. Having no plans to go to Wales, she’s not bothered if the Welsh decide that cats are also racialist – just to be even more awkward.

All done now

The comms tried to talk up a crash at turn 5 of lap 1/24 of the MotoGP race. Nothing. Bagnaia and Marc Marquez were out front early on. Lots of chat about Bastianini, 5th. Martin, the championship leader was securely 3rd.
    Alex Marquez had a good try to take 4th from Espargaro in the closing stages. No change to the end and his 3rd place was enough to confirm Martin as the champ.

Two to go

Sunny in Barcelona but not here in England when the Moto2 race began. Some off-tracking early in lap 1/21, then Nevarro, Jake Dixon & Garcia crashed off. Two more gone at the start of lap 2, Vietti one of them.
    Gonzalez and Canet swapped the lead. All very orderly for most of the race. Challenges for Canet and Ogura (3rd) at the end, with rain falling on England whilst Spain was hogging all the sunshine.
    Canet held off Gonzalez for the win but Moreira took third place from Ogura.

Update

The paedo’s victims included three members of his extended family, from which he can’t be separated. You couldn’t make it up.

More Evil

The lead story in the Sunday Post is about a foreign paedophile who can’t be deported as it would breach his right to a family life. So he’s still at large in ‘Scotland’s largest city’. Glasgow?
    This just confirms that the most evil people on the planet are in the legal trade.

Three to go

MotoGP reached its finale on Grey Cup Day. It was freezing cold but sunny in Barcelona, the alternative to flooded Valencia. Just the one warm-up lap, though!
    Nepa was gone at turn 4 on lap 1/18. Close racing and place-swapping behind Holgado initially. Another crash on lap 5. Long laps were behind handed out like sweeties.
    Holgado wandered between 1st and 3rd. Ortola was bumped back to 3rd on lap 16. Really rowdy at the front. Alonso was leading into the last lap and went on to a record 14th win from two seasons. Fernandez lost 2nd to Holgado.

No panic needed

Objectors are complaining that there are dangerous gaps in the assisted dying Bill, but so what? If there were none, the legal trade would create some in the interests of generating profit. That’s the way things always work out.
    And private members’ Bills are not noted for getting past the usual suspects.

Cliché Corner

The Start Wreck character Harry Mudd has a lot in commons with Jack, the bloke who’s always getting MacGyver into trouble. A spot of recycling by the MacGyver scriptrotters?

More speculation

Theory a) Donald Trump won his election this time around because Russian bots were able to get into the system and rig it.
Theory b) Donald Trump won his election because the US security mob were able to take out the Russian bots which inflicted Creaky Joe on the Yanks last time around.

All about the money

Why should developed nations pay a trillion pounds per year to developing nations, as the gang at COP2i were demanding? If they weren’t prepared to go through all the agony and effort of developing when the UK and others were doing it, the hell with them!

None at all

Is there any danger that our government will notice that America is sticking with fossil fuels while they last and this strategy will make every net zero gesture done here even more irrelevant?
    No danger of that with clowns like Beer Smarmer and Edstone Milipede around. And China not doing net zero either.

Serial Neglect of Duty

It’s the job of the police to investigate crimes. Thus, if they waste time on woke non-crimes, they are committing misconduct in a public office.
    And if they are not disciplined for doing it, that’s more misconduct in a public office by those responsible for regulating the police.
    Simple.

The sport of idlers

Hundreds could, might, maybe die each year under assisted suicide law.
    Hundreds could, might, maybe die due to avalanches each year if our Labour government keeps on lying to us.
    Speculation! Don’t you just love it!

Wrong!

Crossword clue: _____ point, that of water is zero degrees Celsius (8). But ‘boiling’ has only 7 letters. Do they mean Centigrade?

Best job in the world?

Has to be changing the day and date display on the arch in the BBC news studio. Maybe 10 minutes’ work at around midnight, then off home until the end of the new day.

Genuine crisis

No chance of Beer Smarmer getting rid of his mate Dave, who is the worst person in the world to be our Foreign Secretary. Sadly, Beer seems to be totally devoid of touch with the real world.

Torture Time!

What’s worse for MacGyver than having to put up with his crazy pal Jack? Sticking the pair of them with a loud baby and a stash of stolen cash, as they were on Legend last night.
    The scriptrotters must really have had it in for poor old Richard Dean Anderson!

Well, maybe

What is the point of showing a drawing of a bloke with frizzy hair and his jumper pulled up over the lower half of his face when the Southport child murder suspect is discussed on TV?
    It just drowns the report in ludicrosity.
    Or maybe the artist who drew the picture has a terrific agent who can extract a fee each time it’s shown.

Bogus crisis

Is the Church of England really in crisis because it is getting rid of the looney who’s been in the Archbishop of Canterbury job?
    It would be more accurate to describe the CoE as coming out of a crisis caused by a bloke who was doing his best to put the customers off with his wokery and his desire to throw HUGE amounts of money at undeserving foreigners.
    That’s coming out of a crisis if the management appoints someone with working brain cells to the job, of course.

Context Crisis

The global warming fraudsters expect us to be outraged by their revelation that private jets emitted 5.6 million toms of carbon dioxide last year. But is that a lot. Millions are certainly big, but not always if context is applied.
    That number for the jets is less than half the emissions of the wood-fuelled Drax power station, which is supposed to be dead green.
    It’s also trivial in the context of the 12,600 million tons of carbon dioxide that came out of Chinese power stations. And the 721,000 million tons contributed by the natural world.
    Which is probably why the people doing the context shredding are known variously as global warming swindlers and climate criminals.

Hold the drain cleaner

There seems to be an almost indecent air of satisfaction about the humiliation of all those ludicrous leftie celebs who ordered America to vote Democrap and were ignored so comprehensively. So much for the real amount of influence show biz character have. Including the one who swore blind she’d drink drain cleaner if Trump won and then made an inconvenient internet message disappear.

Enterprise culture

I was amused to read that Azerbaijan’s deputy energy minister was offering gas energy deals @ the COP29 global warming fraudster jamboree in Baku, where Bier Smarmer was offering some usual wibble about economic growth & cheaper energy to massed indifference.

A bit of wisdom

If you don’t watch Channel 4, it is impossible to be offended by Emily Maltits, or whatever her name is.

The lies continue

More work for the mute button with Beer Smarmer in Baku with the global warming swindlers. How do we know he was still postuning and claiming he will save the planet and make energy cheaper? Because that’s what the newsreader said in her preliminary before the mute button was applied to the bloke on the screen.

Thought for the Day

The weird thing about human is they do so like their myths and legends. Like all this stuff about staking vampires and turning them into a cloud of dust. If someone’s dead, sticking holes in him with a pointed stick ain’t gonna make one tiny scrap of difference. The person is still dead; just a bit holier.

History not forgot

The sad clown with the Foreign Secretary job, Dippy Dave, keeps complaining that his pretulant slaggings off of Donald Trump are old news and he’s somehow no longer responsible for them.
    You could say the same about the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 but haven't we just had Bonfire Night to remember it? And don't Americans keep going on about something that happened on the fourth of July years and years ago?

No pause

It’s time to put to rest, the cliche that the nation stops what it’s doing at 11 a.m. on Remembrance Day. Most people just keep on going as usual. No disrespect intended, it’s just that real life is separated from the world of the media and politics.

What do they know anyway?

Last Friday, we were warned that the next 10 days would be solid cloud with no sign of the sun, and one of those German words with no direct translation, Dunkelflaute (dark doldrums), was deployed.
    Surprise! The Sun was shining down on us from blue sky yesterday, Monday. And today. So much for the gloombuggers.

Which is it?

There’s a good two-pronged conspiracy theory going around about the last week’s presidential election in America, all about the Bot Question.
    Did Trump win because Russian bots corrupted the election result, or was it because US security services zapped the bots which gave America Creaky Joe in 2020?

The Blame

Swearing in the North of England is now expected and you can’t get compensation for being on the wrong end of it, a tribunal has used. Could it be that the people Up North watch too much current TV, which is said to be wall-to-wall bad language?
    I’m in no position to judge myself as most of the TV shows I watch are repeats of stuff that was created in the 20th century.

Just sad

You can’t do a ‘stop the gloats’ chant on an ITV show because it’s offensive? To whom? Sounds like the scum at it again.

Negative vibes

A question for the Daily Disaster reader who was demanding the MP Jeremy Hunt prove that the Labour Black Hole in the nation’s finances doesn’t exist: how would he do that?
    By not producing it?
    Look, I’m not holding anything so it doesn’t exist.
    Right!

Vexatious looney left

Are the Royals raking it in at our expense, as certain tabloids would have us believe? No, they’re just selling services which the NHS, etc., need and if the cash didn’t go to them, it would go to someone else.
    So making an issue out of it is just the scum at it again.

Old reliable

You can always depend on the BBC to take the side of the bad guy in preference to that of the forces of law & order. Such as making a dead shot-gun wielding protection racketeer the victim of a police conspiracy, which deprived a London community of one of its pillars.

Pur-leaze

Would it be possible to export all the toe-rags who want to decolonialize Remembrance Sunday?
    I suppose the big problem would be finding somewhere that would take the scumbags.

Another in Labour’s pocket?

It seems rather curious that the farmers’ union isn’t in favour of a mass demonstration in London by the members. And that the Metropolitan Police won’t give them the same right to disrupt as they give to the pro-Hamas gang.

Next Holiday?

A trip to the United States next spring to see if I can spend some dosh left over from a few years ago?

Something of a mystery

Our previous prime minister, Sunak, is being exposed as another Smarmer – someone who isn’t an ideas man and soggy, centre-left, and someone who wants high levels of taxation.
    Which raises the question of why the nation swapped one deadleg for an identical one.
    Some are taking this as confirmation that the Universe hates us. Especially after the Americans got a real person as their next president instead of someone who was Sunak/Smarmer clueless, i.e. K. Harris.

Just Stop

Something that needs to be banned is the use of ‘outdated’ in the mealy mouthed wonk notices before old TV shows.
    ‘Contemporary’ is much more accurate; if unwoke.

Serious Disorder

Other people are noticing the Labour obsession with the number 22, which has reached psychosis level. Are we on the road to Dippy Dave, the pretend Foreign Secretary, awarding £22 million of our dosh to each of his scrounger mates who claimed they have ancestors who were slaved?

Sky High

£2,000 off if you trade in your old hearing aid for their top brand? FK! How much is the full price? No wonder they daren’t put it in the advert.
    And does anyone ever say anything worth listening to that’s worth all the dosh involved?

Good Gotcha

What’s a good way to trip up a Labour minister? Confront the Home Secretary with racially offensive stuff by Labour MPs and/or other ministers and get her to condemn it as totally dreadful without letting her know the source of the racialism, etc., and prevent her from doing some obfuscation.

Is that what they’re after?

The price of failure, as awarded to the sacked Manchester United manager 10 Hag, is fifteen million quid. Is that what the Labour lot are hoping to blag (each) when they are finally chucked out of their nation managing jobs?

Guess again again

Something else not impressive was a plug for the MacGyver series on Legend – during an episode of . . . MacGyver.

Guess again

Am I impressed by being told the film 47 Ronin premieres on the Legend channel on Saturday? Not really, if I’ve seen it several times before on other channels.

Time’s up

Also in Scotland; now that he’s been cheered as a political hero, it’s back to the historical charges of groping and further damage to the reputation of sometime SNP leader Alex Salmond.

Rubbish system

We’re told that the NHS is desperately short of nurses. So why are nurses in Scotland complaining that they can’t get a job?
    Another case of civil service box-ticking and lethargy taking precedence over actually getting anything useful done?

Not everyone baffled

After doing a bit of reading, I concluded that the political commentators were interpreting the ‘vibes’ and shading their views toward a Trump victory as the American election day approached. But also pushing the line that it could be a close thing and a battle for the legal trade; which it wasn’t, to the eternal frustration of the lawyers.
    And an advert for a betting company had Harris on 40% and Trump on 60%. The smart money knew where it was going.

It’s an explanation

Is it a rule that members of the Cabinet have to be useless at their job in order to avoid showing up the inadequacies of their cheerless leader? It certainly looks like it.

Today’s Dilemma

Is a bad liar; someone who obviously couldn’t tell the truth if their life depended on it, like Starmer or Reeves; more morally acceptable than someone who can lie convincingly?
    And is the bad liar more socially acceptable?
    Not if they are a member of the government with the power to wreck lives and get away with it.

Putting the ‘bull’ into bulletin

In response to my remarks on wearing out the TV’s mute button, one of my contacts came up with the suggestion what what the goverrnment needs is an Office of Spurious Communications.
    Just a couple of stooges who will issue a daily list of the lies which our wonderful government will be recycling. Just the topics: 22 billion, busting the gangs, black hole, growing the economy, and so on.
    Just a list which can be scanned in three or four seconds to remove the need to listen to hours of wibble.

A real shocker!

On a knife-edge, legal challenges to go on forever. How does that square with the US presidential election being all over by breakfast time in America?
    Trump wins easily before all the votes are counted.
    So much for all the time wasted by the pollsters not getting even close to the lack of support for Harris in the swing states. Oh, well, better luck next time, chaps.

Actually, no

“You could drive a brand new car, Mr Xxxx” Lloyds Bank told the father of one of my correspondents as the header of an email. Which would be rather difficult as doesn’t have a driving licence and he’s not planning to do any more driving for a number of reasons which are no one else’s business.

Sound tactic

If you lose an election after getting lots of ‘help’ from Labour party volunteers, you can always blame it on listening to their advice to lie your head off as it won them an election here.

There’s a novelty

The new leader of the Conservative party is promising to tell the truth. Which used to be a way of shaming the Devil. But in a modern context, substitute Smarmer’s Army.
    The major snag with that is that when the government has an overall majority the size of the National Debt, it’s not going to be too worried about people exposing its lies if it doesn’t have to submit to the will of 20% of the people again for nearly 5 years.

Not entirely done

It was very quiet as teatime approached last night, the actual Bonfire Night. Could it be that the nasty spoilsports had cancelled all the events and everyone with private fireworks has let them off between last Friday and Monday to show they can’t be intimidated by nasty bastards?
    No, the pops and bangs resumed at the back end of 7 p.m. and the Mansion Cat retreated to a secret hiding place. So much for the efforts of the banners.

No substitute for real talent

It needs to be said that being female and being of colour are not qualifications for being the leader of a political party. Being able to do the job is all that counts. A view reinforced by the failures of the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer in the whole history of the universe.

Real World Accounting

The amount of the old, original Reeves black hole will be blown at no benefit to the people who coughed it up on servicing the new load of debt with which she has lumbered us.

Some perspective

I seem to remember the Ghostbuster Girls got slated when their film came out in 2016. I recorded it from the TV the other night and it’s well worth a watch, so there. And the lack of adverts on BBC 3 is very welcome.

Good Gotcha!

Our wonderful Chancellor has been spiked! She either has to admit that she was lying before the election when she said taxes wouldn’t have to go up, or she was ‘wrong’, which means that she didn’t know what she was doing and she’s not competent to do the Chancellor job.

Reality Blights

Some character was moaning in the Daily Disaster about 18,000 tons of pumpkins thrown away after Halloween. Which is nothing in terms of what grows and rots in the natural world.
    But hey, when did people looking for something to whinge about ever care about context? Encouraged by the politicians here who blow billions on Nett Zero garbage, which will achieve diddly squat in a global context.

Protection racket

Drawing the curtains and turning the TV up loud when she’s parked under it seems to be an effective way of helping the Mansion cat to ignore the external fireworks.

Reality Check

Q: Where is the steel needed to build Edstone Milipede’s ranks of electricity pylons connecting wind farms to the national grid coming from?
A: Clue: How many coal-fuelled steel plants are there in China?

Cynics’ Corner

Why do newspaper columnists do a hymn of praise for popster drug addicts who kill themselves? It’s their way of scoring virtue points by making it all about themself.

Plenty of banging!

Bagnaia banged Martin and took the lead of the MotoGP race. A big crash behind them with lap 1/20 barely started, Quateraro, Brad Binder and Miller were involved. Red flag. Miller was run over and got a trip to hospital.
    Bagnaia and Martin swapped the lead for a while after the restart. Will they crash each other out and put Marc Marquez into the lead?
    Morbidelli fell over and rejoined with 13 laps to go. Marquez did the same a lap later. All quiet at the front. Bagnaia finished 3 seconds ahead of Martin who was 7 seconds ahead of 3rd place Bastianini.

Major Gotcha

How to tie Beer Smarmer up in knots. Demand that he gives us a definition of a working . . . woman!

More success on success

Three crashes on lap 1/17 of Moto2? No, add another. Vietti took the lead with plenty of overtaking going on behind him. Daren Binder was gone at the end of lap 8. Navarro caught up with Vietti but no danger of getting past.
    Lots of curses from the Japanese fans in the crowd when Ogura’s bike croaked. Jake Dixon was 3rd with 4 laps to go but Guevara took the place from him. A 3rd win for Vietti.

Another Record

In hot and sunny Malaysia, two riders gone @ turn 2 of lap 1/15 in the Moto3 race. Esteban was lucky to avoid being run over. A bike croaked on lap 3. Kelso took the lead. Fernandez went out with a croaked bike.
    Furusato took the lead at half-way ahead of Alonso, who went past him at the end of lap 12 and on to win his 13th race. Rueda pipped Ortola for 3rd.

Groan!

Virgin Media’s broadband having another day off, dropping the connection. Everything taking ages to happen. Especially here at Blogger!

Inverted Equation?

The previous government recruited 20,000 more police officers but 470,000 crimes are ignored every year. Does this mean that the more coppers we have, the more crimes are committed? And the solution is to get rid of a significant number of coppers to see if that reduces the crime rate?
    Which would mean that all those nasty people who were demanding that the police be defunded were right all along!

Can you wear out a mute button?

The government has now reached the stage where there is no point in listening to any member of Smarmer’s Army because all they can offer is more lies.
    Lots of exercise for the mute button when they’re on the TV news. Same for the usual suspect Labour apologists on GB Views, who get paid for recycling the lies and myths.

Deliberate Provocation?

Has to be getting a leaflet for a Black Friday Sale with Saturday’s newspaper!

Tripehound!

What’s the daftest thing you can do in an American Crunch match played on Halloween Thursday?
    Drop the ball just before you run into the end zone with no opponents near you, like that clown playing for the New Jersey Jets in the No. 14 jersey. If they hadn’t beaten the Texans, he’d have been really scragged.

Surprise! A Patriot!

Leading Conservative Robert Jenrick has countered Beer Smarmer’s surrender to the Commonwealth scroungers by pointing out that they owe us a debt of gratitude for the benefits of the British Empire.
    Some cash thrown into our wonderful Chancellor’s enormous Brown Hole would be nice.

Sheer Fantasy

 Was our NHS ever the envy of the world, as we are constantly told? Judging by the number of other countries which have gone for the same system (none), this is just another far-Left myth.

Awful Reality

Not a joke, just an inevitable consequence of the political reality that the bigger the State’s pot gets, the more of it can be made to disappear unnoticed.

 

Whizz-Bangs after dark

We had some fireworks going off nearby last night. But not enough racket to disturb the Mansion Cat.
    Someone’s birthday? Someone who bunked off school when the Gunpowder Plot was the subject of a history lesson? Or someone letting off some old fireworks before our wonderful and woke government bans them?

Yah, boo to you!

One gets the distinct impression that the Labour lot are feeling very secure and unshiftable if Streeting, the health secretary, is prepared to admit that he’s going to chuck tons more of our cash at the NHS but it won’t give us any improvements in the service on offer.
    And that’s after Reeves, the financial fantasist, has claimed she’s going to tax us back into the Stone Age to rebuild the NHS from the ground up.

Alternative Facts

A good way to upset Labour apologists is to point out that former PM Liz Truss didn’t crash the economy. The mere blip was down the Bank of England’s failures to get a grip. And also those of the Office of Budget Irresponsibility, which is getting flak for failing to spot the invisible Brown Hole until it became politically vital to Labour to confect one.

Today’s Explanation

“Who rules the world?” I spotted on a leaflet being recycled. Apparently, it’s someone called J. Worg.
    So now we know.

Words of Wisdom

Dr. Max of the Daily Disaster seems to have his head screwed on the right way. Unlike the likes of our Chancellor and all the politicians and others who were waving their Black Lives Matter banners after the death of the protection racketeer and London hoodlum Chris Kaba.
    Gangs need to be busted, not regarded as pillars of their community, Dr. Max reckons. And addicts do it by choice and have no one else to blame but themself. But they do get a lot of help in some cases.

Pass on this one

Do I want an Artificial Intelligence piece of kit which will let me pretend to talk to my lawn, asking if it would like to be cut? And ask similarly cute questions of other garden inmates?
    Don’t you wish they’d do something useful with A.I.?

Not speculating, no way

There is something very political going on in Southport if the police there are trying to hide information about the bloke they have in custody for three child murders and they’re claiming anyone noticing this is liable to prejudice his trial.
    That’s not exactly how the system works in the real world. Which suggests we’re in the world of dodgy political influence going on behind the scenes.
    Why is a bloke trying to find out how to make ricin not on the terrorism spectrum?

Ever expanding lie

It started off as an imaginary £22 billion and it grew to double that when our wonderful Chancellor did the first Budget in the whole history of the universe by a woman.
    Unfortunately, that piece of irrelevance failed to prevent us noticing that she had doubled her Brown Hole demand.
    Worse, she’s planning to keep on raising taxes until the amount flowing in to her coffers exceeds the amount wasted by the public sector.
    What a truly wonderful prospect in store.

Different Strokes

I get the impression that the blokes on GB Views who apologize for Labour no longer try to pretend to believe what they’re saying. The women, however, being the more combative sex, still pretend to think our government is wonderful.

Bravo Boris

Scroungers coming after the country which ended slavery, no one going after China for reparations for its plague, former PM Boris Johnson pointed out. Wot a wonderful world.

Would work

There’s a move afoot to chuck the slavery reparations scroungers ouf ot the Commonwealth. But let’s not do it until after they’ve coughed up a lot of cash to reward the British nation for all the stuff they now have thanks to our Industrial Revolution.
    And to compensate the descendants of all the members of the Royal Navy, who were killed whilst we were putting an end to slavery.
    Gratitude where it’s due, you nasty lot of scroungers.

Dodgy Accounts

The Trade Department is trying to pretend that the Rayner worker’s rights bill doesn’t exist. Why else would it be so coy about revealing an inpact analysis which shows that it will clobber businesses for £5 billion per year?
    No danger of economic growth with Labour in charge. Or of getting people into jobs and keeping them there. Not that the Trade Department seems that bothered about it.

Totally Defective

Reeves, the Chancellor, thinks Smarmer is a working person. That’s someone with insufficient savings to meet an emergency as they spend all their income. Not someone with a taxable income of $400K and a houseful of freebies.
    Which means that’s Reeves is as big a chump as Beer. But we’d guessed that ages ago. And how come she’s still in her job if she upset the Speaker with her leaks? How come that’s no longer a sacking offence?

Nailed it

According to former PM John Major, Labour’s constant stream of lies & wibble is the pornography of politics. Sounds about right.

Getting ready for Budget Day

“Just aim it at the microphone, mate!”

 

No Excuse

Our Health Sec. Streeting, can come across as a human being when he’s larking about. But when he tries to get down to business, he’s a chump.
    Labour has spent 14 years sitting on their bums instead of preparing for government. That’s obvious if Streeting doesn’t have a plan for the NHS and all he can offer is six months of ‘conversation’.
    His predecessors in the Health job should have been doing opinion research and talking to doctors and patients to find out what’s needed.
    [Bin the bureaucracy, but that’s not politically possible for Labour]
    That Streeting needs his ‘conversation’ proves the lazy sods didn’t bother. And, presumably, the rest of Smarmer’s crew arrived in their job in the same state.
    Just like Smarmer himself; the bloke who goes on about ‘working people’ without having a clue what he means by it.

Give that man a medal

That Patricks Chrispys of GB Views is some kind of crazy galoot, doing his weekend dip in horribly cold tarn water at 8 deg.C. All 10 minutes worth for the good cause of keeping pensioners from freezing during the winter!
    It would be interesting to know if any of the getting on for the £300K his campaign raised came from Smarmer & Reeves as conscience money.
    Nah, probably not. People like them don’t have a conscience.

Wasted Effort?

 GB Views is planning to spend the whole of Budget Day going on about what was in it and what should have been in it.
    Would it not be more sensible to do this on Budget Day plus One and discuss what was in it after doing some thinking about it? And just one programme rather than a whole day.

Advertising bunk

“Fast clean energy coming soon” read the poster. Which means what? No faster than anything else currently on offer, so just spin wibble. All the bits for generation and transmission made abroad using coal power? That clean is just more spiv wibble.
    And if we’re taking about wind and solar, how fast are these occasionals when the wind don’t blow and the Sun don’t shine?
    Sounds like these spivs are ones to give a miss to.

Overdue?

A disgusted punter noted that our wonderful government is claiming it will grow the economy by shoving up taxes and by creating laws which discourage investment, recruitment and growth of companies, and facilitate strikes.
    Time to call in the big blokes in white coats and a fleet of looney bin vans? asked the punter.
    At least get on the phone to Guinness. Beer Smarmer’s gang have to have set new world records for maximum incompetence and loss of confidence in the shortest space of time.

How unsurprising

No sign of an apology from the ludicrous Left for pretending that a dead gangster was some sort of salvador mundi because his skin was brown.
    Routine anti-white racialism at its worst.
    Ditto the incompetence of the legal system.

Really Soggy

MotoGP was a 26-lap wet race with Martin in the lead. Who else? Bezzecchi cxrashed at the start of lap 4. Morbidelli bashed Quateraro off the track later in the lap and got a long-lap penalty for it. Martin went off, trying too hard, and dropped to 3rd.
    Bagnaia inherited the lead ahead of Marc Marquez. Morbidelli fell off on lap 9. And Pastianini. MM got past Bagnaia for the lead a couple of times; for a few seconds. Then he crashed with 13 to go. Miller was promoted to 3rd.
    Marquez resumed; he was 16th with 8 laps to go. Mir had a ride off the track when Marquez overtook him and MM was told to drop 1 position.  Rins had a big, skiddy crash with 3 to go. Acosta went past 3rd place Miller, who went backwards. A win for Bagnaia, Martin still top of the heap, MM 11th.

Action Aplenty!

Weather worries before 22 laps of Moto2. Aldeguer and Arbolino had what the comms called a stupid crash at turn 5 on the first lap. Canet took the lead.
    Daren Binder was pushed out wide and off the track by Ogura doing an overtake with 16 to go. Nothing to worry about, the stewards decided. Binder crashed out on the next lap.
    Ogura took 2nd from Ramirez with 9 to go. Then the rain arrived. Red flag on lap 21. Ogura is the champion.

Not keeping track

Why isn’t Start Wreck on the Legend channel in the run up to teatime, I was asking myself yesterday when I switched the TV on.
    Because it’s Saturday, not a weekday?
    Ah!

Soggy

It got very wet in Thailand, so only 12 laps of Moto3 on offer. All very tidy and a bit racy at the front initially. Reports of some spots of rain came to nothing. A bit of biffing got the comms going.
    Furusato pulled a gap for a while. Alonso went ahead with 4 laps to go. Ortola went from 3rd to 2nd with 2 to go. Fernandez and Piqueras has a big crash on lap 11. Ortola went ahead on the last lap for a while, then ran wide and lost his podium slot.
    Alonso sealed his record 12th win in a season. Furusato was crashed off by Viejer right at the end and slid over the line in 5th place separated from his bike, which also finished the race in a slide! Viejer was 3rd.

Not any sort of endorsement

There is a world of difference between having elected councillors who were elected on your party’s ticket and having ones who were elected on a Conservative ticket and defected to Reform.

Some actual insight

It was quite a revelation to see the Labour apologist on GB Views last night being okay with the government killing off some pensioners but not wanting to get tied down on the question of what would be an acceptable number.
    But we did establish that the apologist thinks that all the blame belongs to people who were able to buy a house for £10K in the good old days.
    We also got the Labour view on the winter fuel payment from the apologist. “If some people who get it don’t need it, no one should get it.”
    That’s equality from the point of view of what is increasingly obviously the Nasty Bastard Party.

More Delay

The question of assisted dying should be a matter for the person concerned, if competent. The views of control freaks who are prepared to inflict any amount of suffering on a whim should be ignored.

Justice delayed is denied

The scandal of the grinning gangster is a clear message that we need to put the clowns administering our legal system on half pay until they have demonstrated competence. Especially judges and the Can’t Prosecute mob.
    Even more especially if an inquest on the grinning gangster is years away!!!

Clarification, please

I was intrigued by seeing our wonderful health secretary named as Wee Streeting. Is that a typo? Or a reference to his lack of stature? Or his lack of intellect? Or both of the last two?