How wonderful

The BMA getting GPs to vote on crippling the system isn’t a way to hold a strike, it’s just them taking premediated action. Which sounds harmless on the surface but actually amounts to wrecking the system totally. How’s that different from a strike? And how many more customers will they kill?

Not much of an advert

In the absence of any information about the teenage killer in Southport, we’re reduced to speculation. An attack on a mosque suggests someone from an Asian incomer family.
    A bunch of British locals attacking the police is what scumbags do.
    Add on the video footage of idiots running around waving a machete and Southport goes top of the list of places to avoid.

Early finish

Ludicrous lefty Amy on GB Views blamed people running around in Southport with machetes on Brexit. Was she serious or did she just have nothing sensible to day?
    Either way, this sketch is getting silly,  hit the off button. Good night.

What is the point?

Holding a public ‘inquiry’ into the IRA massacre in Omagh a quarter of a century ago is just a sick joke. All it will do is stuff cash into the pockets of the legal trade and the terrorists will still get away with it.

More Knocking

Another source of discontent is the drag queen panto knocking Christianity in the rain-drenched Olympics opening. Why would anyone think it’s a good idea? is being asked as often as What did it have to do with sport?

Goes around

The Horizon Hero and Liberal leader Ed Davey is getting all the boos that used to go to the Scottish Nationalists’ leader in the Commons. A really miserable bloke called Ian Black, was it?
    Meanwhile, people are already asking if all the lies told by the incoming Labour lot in their first couple of weeks would stretch around the Earth at the equator if put end to end. Rachel Reeves is being voted the most energetic contributor to this cause.

Truthless Reeves

In view of the general cluelessness of our current Chancellor, despite access to the nation’s book for months and leaks from looney left civil servants, someone was wondering what she actually did when she worked at the Bank of England.
    Just delivering mail and lugging files out of archives would certainly explain all the lies we’ve had and the total lack of a grasp of the nation’s actual finances.

Flawed Idea

A Daily Disaster reader was suggesting sending Edstone Miliband on a slow boat to China to learn some facts of life so that Beer Starmer can replace him with a responsible adult.
    Shame there aren’t any among the ranks of Labour MPs.

Double bubble

A correspondent is thinking of getting in touch with the Guinness Book of Records. He wrote a letter to the Sunday Post, Scotland’s favourite newspaper, at the beginning of the month, and they published it.
    Two weeks later, he was amazed to see the letter get another outing! So good, they had to print it twice, was his assessment of the situation, and he’s wondering if it has ever happened to anyone else.

Totally Contemptible

You have to be really bloody desperate; and I mean really, really, really bloody desperate, to pretend that a Sainsbury advert for kids’ trousers with a reinforced knee and a grow hem contains a racial slur because ‘knee’ is followed by ‘grow’ in the wording.
    It’s a real shame we can’t ship the people who moan about stuff like that off to Siberia or one of the Chinese re-education camps in the north of their country.

Moving on

The Daily Disaster seems to be able to tap an endless vein of weir women who contribute what I think of as slagiography accounts of their weird lives.
    All filling up space to be ignored on the central pages around the puzzles in the middle of the weekday issues.

Loot Drain

Attention the people who are asking why Beer Smarmer’s new quango is called Skills England, not Skills Britain. There was this thing called devolution a while ago, which set up separate parliaments in Scotland and Wales.
    This was done to allow the usual suspects to waste even more of our cash on duplication of effort and screwing things up their own different ways.
    Not for the benefit of the customers, oh, no.

Groan!

Are we really having to spend billions of pounds on an alleged investigation of how the Chinese plague was handled that comes up with stuff like everything went wrong because the experts failed to realize every detail of what would happen after the lab at Wuhan started leaking and how to deal with the outbreak?
    This is total garbage. But what we expected, really.

Quick starters!

They’ve been messing us about for only about three weeks but already people are asking if all the lies told to us by Beer’s Bunch were strung together, would they circle the planet at its equator yet?
    One of the most stoopid has to be Edstone What’shisname’s claim that wind & solar powered electricity will be £300 cheaper for every household.
    After trillions of pounds have been spent on wind & solar farms, more electricity pylons and something to keep the lights on when it’s dark and the wind isn’t blowing at the right speed? Right!
    There are lies, really pathetic lies and Edstone’s drivel.

What is going on?

The daft story of the week has to be the director of the FBI claiming that Donald Trump’s ear was damaged by flying glass, not a bullet.
    Sounds like the Feds are as useless as the Secret Service, which raises the question of why these essential institutions have been allowed to fall into the hands of such incompetent bods.

Moronic Mindset

Have we been infiltrated by the Taliban? Over in Afghanistan, they’re arranging tours of the sites of former national monuments, which were wrecked in the past by Talibandits.
    Here, the idiots in charge of Royal Parks are condemning the Albert Memorial as ‘too Victorian’. So what’s their plan for it? Get a crane with a demolition ball to smash it up and then get punters to pay to have a look at the wreckage?

More bits of truth

You have to wonder how serious those in charge are about our defences. One minute, we’re being told that the RAF is getting Tempest fighters to replace the Tornado fleet. The next, we’re hearing not for a decade. And that deadleg Beer Starmer is going cool on the whole idea. Not wanting to offend that nice Mr. Putin by being too openly aggressive?

No chance of a win situation!

I was amazed to read that feeding a pain-killer to cattle in India has wiped out most of the 50 million population of scavenging vultures, and their absence is getting the credit for the death of half a million humans.
    How? By a lack of vultures removing deadly viruses and pathogens from the environment.
    A prime example of what goes around comes around!

No prizes being won!

The saboteurs of all sorts seem to be doing their level best to spare the world yet another television feast of Olympic yawns. Shame they just don’t get that they’re wasting their time and the French government is never going to let them win.
    Did our government ‘help’ with the plans for the Olympics opening day? That procession along the Seine was described as more like a state funeral than a celebration of anything and the opening ceremony was the ‘worst ever’.

Not much cop

The incoming Labour lot are long on blaming the Tories for everything but the Daily Disaster had no trouble with coming up with a whole list of things that were worse when Labour was dumped in 2010 than they are today.
    Just as well Labour voters don’t read the Daily Disaster and they’re not critical of their stooges in Parliament.

Count the phone users in the audience

 As well as exposing their flaws on the interweb, newbie MPs have demonstrated their lack of performance skills with a gaggle of pathetic maiden speeches. Almost as pathetic as Beer Starmer’s performance at his first PMQs.
    One of the few non-blots on the landscape was that seasoned performer Nigel Farage. But he’s not exactly unused to public speaking, and doing it effectively.

Get it right, you useless lot

Where would the BBC be without its limp cliches? It’s July now and the next Tory leader won’t be picked until November. Which means that there isn’t a leadership race, just a casual stroll.

Conflicting views

Will the prime minister’s waffle about taking the brakes off Britain lead to an almighty motorway style pile up? Or will he take the wheels off as well as the brakes, leaving a wreck that’s not going nowhere?

Bias Bias Corporation

The BBC’s anti-police agenda was in full swing yesterday. Repeat showings of a copper kicking a presumed scumbag’s head. Absolutely nothing on the Asian thugs who attacked the police at Manchester Airport to provoke the retaliation, breaking the nose of one of the coppers.

MP for East Tosspot?

The usefulness of so-called social media – they show up which of the newly arrived young Labour MPs are total idiots.
    That’s the ones who have no idea what’s going on around them, make that abundantly clear from what the post online, and have not so much a steep learning curve as a vertical one.

At it again

Some woman pulling out of the Olympics over a video showing her whipping a horse gets priority on the lunchtime TV news over the attempted murder of a soldier in uniform in Gillingham. And also a bloke arrested for killing 6 people in Yorkshire.

Not only in America

Gender & race rather than merit & ability. That’s what’s going wrong, or has gone wrong, in the United States, according to the pundits here.
    Not that we can throw too many bricks, given the collection of clowns and deadlegs our electoral system had inflicted upon us.

Predictable

Sir Arthur Clarke, celebrated SF author, came up with a Fourth Law: For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert.
    And now, sure enough, there is a rush of experts claiming that the ‘Lucy Letby is innocent’ story is claptrap based on the same ‘evidence’ that was offered to ‘prove’ her innocence.

Moronic Milibandits

We’re getting a lot of garbage from the government about the need for wind & solar power but there’s never anything about filling in the gaps when it’s dark and the wind isn’t blowing or it’s blowing too fast for turbines to handle.
    Good at blowing vast amounts of our cash, clueless about doing anything useful with it?
    Scottish hydro power stations can pump water back up to the reservoir when demand is low. No danger of an equivalent here? Or is the big Labour scheme to blow trillions of pounds on an undersea electricity supply all the way from China to make the problem go away?

Protesting too much

“America In Turmoil” – really? Just because an obviously unfit president throws in the towel and decides not to stand for re-election?
    What total rubbish from the headline writer.
    Life goes on no matter what antics the politicians get up to, and we all know it here in the real world.

No worries

There can’t be anything awful to worry about going on in the world if the BBC can make one of its own TV shows the lead item on the lunchtime news.
    Dumping the departure of Joe Biden down the order.

Schmeltdown

Were things really terrible for TV viewers last Friday if only Sky News (never watch it myself) and a kids’ channel out of all the BBC services were affected?
    The message from that is that TV companies are much more robust digitally than anyone else. But that isn’t what the panic mongers want to tell us, of course.

Blatant Obfuscation

More newpaper reader wisdom came from Andy of Weymouth. His plan to get a new car is fully costed, just like the scams we get from Rachel Reeves, the new Chancellor.
    Andy’s only problem is that he doesn’t actually have the cash to make the fully costed plan work.
    Just like Mrs. Reeves?

All change

Gulp! Series 4 of Airwolf is a festival of passing off with all the old cast vanished to be replaced by imposters. Who also let bad guys in a helicopter get on their tail, just like the original Hawk did before he ended up wrecked in hospital when poor old bloke Santini got blown up.

Spot on

Contributed to the Daily Disaster by Stuart of Chelmsford, an anagram:
    Kier Starmer = Err, mistake.

Bright Idea!

There was an interesting idea from Mr. Littlejohn in the Daily Disaster – an Incarcerate @ Home plan for criminals instead of sending them to an overcrowded prison.

Ultimate alibi

Something electronic doesn’t work? Blame it on the global IT outage. No one can argue with that! Even if whatever isn’t working was creaking well before the dodgy update.

Mr. Panic

It’s rather difficult to take Mark Dolan of GB Views seriously any more. There he was last night, going on about how rubbish Joe Biden has been. But doing it with the same fervour that he gave the night before to the non-story about the Trump shooter having photos of Princess Kate on his phone.
    My view now is Mr. Dolan has no sense of proportion and he can confect a crisis out of anything.

Biking hazard

I watched the ITV 4 last-day highlights programme for the Tour de France, which had to be a time trial miles away because of the Olympics in Paris.
    Being buzzed by drones operated by TV companies seems to be a new thing for the bikers to be wary of. How long before someone is hit by one of them and there’s a huge row?

Junk, junk, junk, junk

Oh, dear! The Daily Disaster has descended into Labour’s morass by pretending that the Tory party is in chaos; the current junk word. And all because those who will be picking their next leader want to take their time over it instead of being rushed into doing something rash.

Curious Absence

Strange that the death of snooker champion Ray Reardon didn’t get much of a mention on the BBC news broadcasts. Or maybe they assumed their their young, with-it viewers wouldn’t have heard of someone who had reached the grand old age of 91.

The way it goes

Inflation-busting pay rises recommended for some of the wealth gobbling public sector as Labour is in the process of wrecking things for the wealth generating private sector by handing more power to their paymasters, the trade unions.
    Happens every time.

How long really?

We were told that some of the climate criminals who caused chaos on the M25 would go to gaol for 5 or 4 years. But how long will they actually spend behind bars? Will it be the Beer Starmer 40% of the sentence? Or will they get an extra Miliband discount for being part of Crazy Ed’s agenda?

Biden his time

The more he’s told to go, the more stubborn Creaky Joe becomes. The latest excuse for keeping him out of the firing line and not making more gaffes is that he has a dose of the Chinese plague and he can’t play out.
    Just a thought, but maybe if the Democrats tell Joe to stay, that will make him decide to go just to be awkward.

More stocks time

An alternative to sardonic (6)? No, ironic is wrong. And fenced (5)? Gated is utter garbage.
    Some crossword compilers are just not trying. That’s in the sense of doing a decent job rather than irking the customers.

Better never than late

Yesterday’s global IT meltdown was being described as what the Millennium Bug would have done if nobody had done anything to circumvent it and make it a non-event.
    MicroSoft’s brilliant solution to the bug in Windows was to reboot a computer fifteen times. And if that didn’t work, lose the will to live?

Not much cop, really

Is Hawk of Airwolf really a hotshot flier? If so, how come bad guys in another chopper can get on his tail so easily during a chase to pad it out with some missile misses and big explosions on the ground?

Putting the ‘con’ into consequences

“Rayner’s Revolution”, the headline said. Read the story and you realize it should have been “Rayner’s Wreckage” for everyone who doesn’t have a hand in the public purse.

Everyone else’s needs come last?

I’m getting the impression that it was as easy to make Lucy Letby look guilty on the basis of irrelevant statistics as it is to make her fate look like the equivalent of an NHS Horizon style cover-up. Such is the perceived level of incompetence of the management in the public sector.

Sheer Junk

Beer Starmer is a real loser with his ‘14 years of chaos’ bullshit. He himself has spent 16 years creating chaos on the public payroll, including trying to gaol entertainers and Tory politicians on the basis of fantasies instead of going after real nonces like Jimmy Savile.
    Cue a loud chorus of: “Lying bastard!” clap-clap, clap, clap-clap. He’s definitely someone who brings out the bad language.

Asleep on the job

Protagonist (4). Hero as the answer? Utter gutter snipe tripe.
    Sack this crossword compiler.

Why?

The Sultan of Brunei, I read, owns 600 Rolls-Royces and hundreds more examples of expensive cars. Sounds like he needs to recruit minions with more imagination for when he gets the urge to splurge again.

Empty Barrel

How likely was it that Israel & Hamas would have taken any notice of our Foreign Secretary pro tem if he ‘demanded’ an immediate cease fire in Gaza?
    We’re back in square root of bugger all territory.

More dodginess

The infamous ‘bank security’ called from 01472 329 404 yesterday to tell me about a £699 international bank transfer of cash via a service I have never used before.
    Possibly because I don’t use services offered to me and my credit card by scammers?

Dodgy brand

Why are some Bic ballpoints so unreliable? One I bought a while ago suddenly packed up with about half of the ink still visible.
    I parked it and weeks later, it’s condescending to write again for no apparent reason. I’m now waiting to see if it will empty the cartridge or pack up again.
    If it does pack up, no more Bics for me.

Another failure?

Is it actually possible that Lucy Letby isn’t an evil child killer, she’s just the victim of a stitch-up based on a combination of dodgy medical statistics, alleged experts not knowing what they’re really doing and her own personality defects?
    And all the ‘murders’ were just children with a very low survival probability not surviving for entirely natural reasons?
    That would be totally mind-blowing if true.
    You’d have to go a long way to find something stranger than that at sea.

Delivery failure

Our current government keeps pretending to be big on diversity but they’re ignoring it completely in one area. All we’re getting is lies, not truth, lies and lots of alternatives/substitutes.

Plain useless

What sort of idiot thinks it’s a good idea to put white sub-titles across a bloke wearing a white shirt? As in that programme about the ‘da Vinci’ Salvator Mundi painting on Sky Arts last night.
    Or white sub-titles across a vista of pale desert sand? Don’t the characters who make these programmes ever have a look at the final product?

The ring of truth?

There’s an interesting conspiracy theory going round – mainly focussed on the Chancellor but it applies to all Beer’s Cabinet.
    Is she telling deliberate lies about the state of the economy so that people will stop bothering her about it, knowing they’ll just get more lies?
    Which means that she’ll be able to spend less time concocting lies and more enjoying the taxpayer-subsidized hospitality at the Palace of Westminster.
    Same with our new Justice Secretary and her ‘blame it on the Tories’ garbage about rioting & looting.

Technology deficit

Good job CCTV wasn’t everywhere when Jim Phelps was doing impossible missions.
    Otherwise, he’d never have been able to be delivered somewhere by his crew and sneak out of a BIG BOX when no one was around when he was up against a reincarnation of Rasputin! Played by Mr. Spock.

Minor crisis

Someone who watches the BBC a lot more than me observed that its minions kept going on about a cost of living crisis up to the election. Now, nothing.
    Can’t have been much of a crisis if it vanished just like that!

Magnificent Observation!

The real cause of global warming; but they don’t want you to know it; is all the ‘pants on fire’ of the politicians who keep on lying to us!

Don’t mention the . . .

It used to be don’t mention the War. Now, it’s the small boats of invaders, which are still arriving, with the active assistance of the Border Force, and there’s not a hint of a clue that Beer Starmer’s Army has any idea what to do about it.
    Except give all the illegals the right to be here.

Not Fair!

Fans of the Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta, are outraged with The Universe, which keeps making their team lose match after match by a walk-off field goal for the other side.

Who contaminated whom?

Are the people who are in charge of the American ‘justice’ system as corrupt as the worst of the customers?
    That’s where you start heading when you read that the judge tossed the case  against the actor Alec Baldwin out of court because the prosecution failed to grasp the concept of full disclosure.
    Will anyone get the sack because of it? Do they ever?

What’s he up to?

It has to be a sign of senility if Creaky Joe Biden keeps on making the most stupid blunders imaginable but he still thinks he’s doing a wonderful job.
    It has to be a sign of a severely defective political system if no one in the Democrap party can do anything about making him retire as gracefully as he can manage.

Odd first week

Does a new Labour government bring out the worst in our criminal community?
    The murder rate has gone through the roof in their first week, with a crossbow triple homicide and some Colombian bloke doing body-dumping on the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Twist of fate

Just what does The Universe think of you if it lets some nutter with a rifle try to kill you but lets you get away with just a minor flesh wound?
    Not terribly fair on the spectator at the rally in Pennsylvania who was killed and the two others who ended up in hospital.

Not quite 1963 again

That was a really close call for Donald Trump at the rally in Philadelphia. How long will it be before we see politicians having to make a speech from behind a bullet-proof screen to frustrate the nutter with a rifle?
    It’s just madness to let idiots have guns, but the Americans seem determined to let it happen, even though their constitution allows people to bear arms only as part of an organized militia.

Not quite 1966 again?

England’s footballers came second in the Euros.
England’s footballers won in the final.
Strike the line that doesn’t apply.

More logic

Some pundits reckon the hard-Left in France did the National Rally party a favour by stitching them up to prevent a right wing government. The NR gang can now sit on the sidelines and throw bricks at the looney lefties when they bog things up.
    Will the Tories have the good sense to do that here instead of letting the likes of Kombative Kemi make the party look like a gang of pointless whingers?

Weird logic

Chucking lots of evil scumbags out of our prisons so that some different scumbags can be locked up will prevent our cities being destroyed by an orgy of looting and arson.
    If that’s what our Justice Secretary really thinks, what’s the term the shrinks have for her?

They must

I wonder if psychiatrists have a special term for politicians who repeat lies, knowing that the audience knows that he/she/it is lying but he/she/it don’t care?

One way forward

Apparently, the Idiot Squad is putting trigger warnings about violent death on episodes of Midsomer Murders for the benefit of thickos who are unable to grasp the meaning of the series title.
    More of our money wasted on nanny stating non-jobs. But there is hope that Ms Reeves, our new Chancellor, is going to ‘fix’ the economy in the way Gordon Brown fixed it. So no one will be able to afford to watch TV and be annoyed by pointless nannies.

That’s the best he can do?

You start to realize what a bunch of deadlegs the Labour lot are when all that Beer Starmer can find to brag about is that his gang contains more sexual deviants than any other governing party on the planet.

Cruel to mock the afflicted

Our current PM is such an uninspiring tool that people are saying his dad must have been a tool-maker. Is that fair?

No great advantage

An interesting comment by former politician Nadine Dorries about the new Chancellor. If a woman in poorly dressed, that’s what’s noticed. If she’s well dressed, the woman gets noticed.
    Which in not necessarily an advantage for a woman who’s spent a fortune on her wardrobe but who is now having to get ready to demolish Beer Starmer’s solid, cast-iron election pledge of no tax rises with some typical Labour meta-theft.

Life’s Rewards

What do you get if you were busted for expenses fraud when you were an MP? A life peerage from Beer Starmer and an £80K job to go with it.

Incomplete Headline

“Baldwin was hunched over his phone, like someone bent in prayer” should have been followed by: “but not doing that, obviously, he was just using the phone.”
    Sorted.

Looking unlikely

Looking at a bit of recent history, I noticed that NASA was planning back in 2020 to put astronauts back on the Moon in 2024.
    I suppose their alibi is that the private sector of the space industry failed to deliver the space taxis needed and NASA isn’t to blame.

Success of a strange sort

The immediate conclusion from listening to what the people were saying about Rothko Art in the recording from Sky Arts is that they are all seriously weird or seriously disturbed!
    Some seemed to be looking for parallels with his life to make his story all about them. And making up their own stories about his paintings that contain people; before he eliminated them as surplus to requirements.
    Inspiring? Miraculous? Nah.
    Rothko eventually went for extreme visual complexity but on a huge scale that defeats close examination. Jackson Pollock did a better job with his drip paintings on a reasonable scale.

Stiff competition

Who is going to make the bigger mess of their country, the hard-Left loonies in France or the ones we have here? It’s much too close to call at the moment.
    Next question: where will the mega-rich end up if they’re leaving the UK and also France now?

Wise Move

I see Jacob Rees-Mogg is back doing his evening proper job on GB Views. And probably reaching more people than when he was an MP with sensible views.

Sounds off target

Almost five times more voodoo dolls of Beer Starmer’s deputy, the woman who flogged her ex/council house for fun and profit, are being sold than dolls of Beer.
    Sounds rather modest to me; ten or even twenty times more would be more credible. Still, it’s good business for the pin industry as well as the doll industry.

Old rope would be a better deal

“The pictures of Mark Rothko look deceptively simple but one of his colour fields sold for $82.5 million”, read the blurb for the programme on Sky Arts.
    But since when did the selling price have anything to do wth quality when mugs will buy unmade beds, pickled sharks and 120 paving bricks, thinking they’re Art?

Barmy as the bikers

You’d really have to be desperate to stay up to 3 a.m. to watch Tour de France highlights on ITV 1 if you missed them on ITV 4 at 7 p.m.
    And you get an extra 10 minutes from the evening showing.

Just what we need to know

A very informative programme is Mission Impossible, which shows you how to make nitroglycerine (with a bit of detail left out, of course), and how to blow a hold in the wall of a prison cell.

Start digging a well?

The Supreme Court has ruled that water companies which fail to update their infrastructure can be sued by the owners of riverside properties which are contaminated by sewage releases into waterways.
    So that’s bills on the way up if the water companies still expect to bung vast amounts of cash to foreign investors.

Considered Opinion

When you think about it, Beer Smarmer is a reverse Putin. 80% of Russians voted for the Poisoner and his crew. Here in the UK, 80% of the electorate didn’t vote for Labour.

Valid question

Are there lots of groups of nine musicians or is ‘nonet’ just a crossword compiler’s usual suspect filler, like ski and tee and all the rest?

Real Desperation!

There are actually a few senior Democrats who think it would be a good idea for Creaky Joe to step down in favour of his invisible and place-holding vice-president.
    Not exactly giving Americans a choice that they want, Trump or Harris.

Bear in mind . . .

. . . anything put in inverted commas is rubbish, e.g. ‘Reform takes 13 seats’ from exit polls.
    No, they didn’t.

The real lowdown

Labour’s claim that the new cabinet is the most diverse in the history of government reminds us what the party is all about. Tokenism trumps quality and ability every day of the week.

Poppy of the cock variety

Has anyone reported Beer Starrmer to the Sanity Commission as he must be crazy if he thinks a party with the support of 20% of the electorate will convert division into unity, as he was trying to tell us.
    Unless he was lying, of course, which isn’t exactly a rare occurrence.

Another of them

Creaky Joe Biden seems to have as many excuses as Smarmer. He made a total bog of his debate due to the effects of jet-lag. Not through being old and past it with a wife who likes being First Lady so much she won’t tell him to quit.

No sort of mandate

I was also surprised to read that 40% of the electorate didn’t bother turning out for the general election. That’s twice as many as those who voted Labour.
    Beer Starmer ain’t exactly Mr. Popular!

Mr. No-Mates?

How is Mr. 20% Beer Starmer going to cope when he tries to crawl back into the EU and finds the neo-Right there telling him what he can and can’t do?

Gone Guys

OPEC – that’s another win for the cancellers. At one time, there was always someone or other having a go at the evil oil producers.
    Now, totally nothing.

Crazy system

I was amazed to read that the Labour landslide had the backing of just 20% of the electorate. Everyone else voted for someone different and 40% of them couldn’t be arsed to vote!
    Not so much a mandate for Smarmer as a man-overboard-date!

What a finish!

Martin was on pole for 30 laps of MotoGP and the early leader. Bagnaia was soon past him. Alex Marquez was giving the comms plenty to say. Martin was back ahead with 24 to go. Viñales has a run through the gravel on the same lap.
    Everyone called Marquez was in the top 5 with 14 to go.
    Martin crashed starting lap 29!!! Marc Marquez went past brother Alex for 2nd on the last lap.
    Bagnaia had a massive lead of over 4 seconds when he crossed the finish line for his 4th win in a row and he is the series leader again.

Always a moaner

Some wiseguy retired doctor with a knighthood was effectively advocating mean-testing the pensioner Winter Fuel Allowance and wasting even more cash on bureaucracy.
    Shame he doesn’t get that people like him with an excessive retirement income can simply donate their WFA to a charity if they want to feel smug. Mouth flapping, brain in neutral.

Rubbish weather here

It was chucking it down here but still sunny for 25 laps of Moto2 in Germany. Quite racy at the front early on. Arbolino was leading, Aldeguer went ahead with 16 to go.
    Brad Binder crashed on lap 11. Garcia was gone on the next lap. Some lead swapping then Arbolino dropped back. Aldeguer took off ahead of Dixon and Viette. Ogura pinched 3rd place right at the end.

Better weather abroad

Moto3 at the Sachsenring, 23 laps, anyone not got a long-lap penalty? Wet here, sunny in Germany. Veijer, a distant 2nd in the series, crashed out on lap 2. A demo of how to ride through gravel and survive a few laps later.
    Alonso was leading from Fernandez. Bump, good save, angry gravel trip with 12 to go. Scrapping for the lead on lap 19. Rueda skittered off the track whilst doing it on lap 24! Alonso, Furusato and Ortega took the podium slots.

Mission Ridiculous

How can you possibly take the BBC seriously if it waffles on about Labour’s changes agenda when Beer Starmer has been terminally vague about everything and didn’t actually offer any sort of agenda to the electorate?

BT Mystery

I got a call yesterday from 02032 618 811. Young, female, Indian accent, immediately on scam alert. She said she was BT something or other, but seemed rather coy about telling me what she was up to, and rang off abruptly while I was waiting for her to get to a point. Weird.

I buy this!

 

More of it

I was amused to read that some people thought that a robot which delivered mail around the council offices in a city in South Korea committed suicide out of boredom when it fell down a flight of stairs and ended up in bits.

Not much logic

The stop animal cruelty campaigners are having a go at the silly celebrities who lug a dog around in a handbag or a pram but they’re not standing up to the bullies who want the people who offer beach donkey rides to stop weighing kids to prevent the obese ones from crushing the life out of some poor animal.

Not much service

Another of the failings of the various deities which are worshipped around the world – central Europe around Switzerland was being bashed to bits by violent storms whilst Greece was getting no rain to put out lots of wildfires.

Best political suggestion

The first year after a general election should be a trial year and if the creeps in charge have failed to deliver on their promises, they all get the sack.

Kind of predictable

People who buy a medical gadget, such as a blood-sugar monitor, are turning into anxiety zombies because they don’t understand what the numbers are telling them and they’re not prepared to bin the gadget and get on with their life.

How evil can you get?

“Boiling frog syndrome” is a cute expressions applied to a company which fails to spot slow and detrimental market changes – in the same way that a frog in a pan of water may not notice the temperature rising.
    Which leaves me wondering what sort of sad, sadistic bastard thought it would be a good idea to boil frogs and find this out?

Are they coming for us?

In the wake of all the films about an alien invasion from above and/or below on America’sn Independence Day, you end up half hoping they will turn up today and do us out of the horror of another tax & waste Labour government!

Another ‘who cares?’

Why do we need to be told what type of tie a copper was wearing when he was in court accused of stealing money from the body of an Italian bloke, who had a fatal heart attack when riding a bike in north London?

Surprise? No, we knew it wasn’t true.

Still reading: the Office for National Statistics has seen off the Labour lie that the Tories crashed the economy. We’ve done better than the rest of Europe since New Labour was binned and Brexit hasn’t been the disaster the miserable Bremoaners were hoping it would be.
    There are lies, damned lies and election propaganda.

Not much of a gesture

I read that Barcelona thinks it can discourage the tourist trade, and everywhere being bought up for rentals to the exclusion of locals, by charging visitors an extra 3 euros per night. Sounds rather a forlorn hope, to me. 3 lousy euros? How’s that going to put off the punters?

“So what, mate?”

Rabble-rousing is easy if you know you’re not going to be the next government. “We will abolish income tax, the BBC, all the green wokery, etc., etc. Okay, it’s not going to happen, but that’s what we’d do if we could.”
    As with Reform, so also with the irrelevant Liberals, the party of silly stunts led by the man who let Horizon happen.

Whatever sets you off

Odd lot, these foreigners. Calling a party the New Popular Front uses two trigger words. Popular means popular with your country’s enemies and a Front is fascist.
    But maybe the French are differently triggered.
    And the National Rally sounds like outings in vintage cars all over the country and harmless.

Pre-cycling?

Something else I read was a comment by someone in a rural area about the lack of election posters. The best suggestion I’ve heard for that is the parties are stepping around the jobs of printing, distributing and recycling the discards by just not bothering.
    The way to avoid clogging up the environment with discards is to avoid creating them in the first place. Pre-planned cycling, which shortens cutely to precycling.
    Pragmatic, or what!

Omission, omission, omission

Boris Johnson fancies himself as a historian. Strange he wrote about the cheering mob that greeted Tony Blair when he took over in Downing Street in 1997 without pointing out that the mob was Labour stooges not real people.
    A real historian gives you the whole story, not just the spin and surface gloss.

We don’t matter?

 You really do have to wonder what the medical trade is really all about if 10% of the motions for discussion offered to the BMA’s annual conference were about what is going on in Palestine rather than anything relevant to the customers in the UK.

Fashion flop

Nice to see the celebs who insist on lugging a small dog around in a handbag or a pram have upset the animal welfare lobby to the extent that they are being accused of putting the pet in danger of being suffocated.

More ‘sense’

The OECD is claiming that the UK’s low fertility rate is due to Brexit. Which is strange as it is much the same as in the un-exited parts of the European Union.

White so not right

Taxpayer-funded lunatic Lefties here are trying to get milk declared a racialist product because a lot of people living outside Europe and North America are lactose intolerant and can’t consume it.
    The Republicans in the United States are trying to get raw, unpasteurized milk declared a health product and exempt from the attentions of the federal government.
    Any old excuse to waste time, effort and our money.

Busy Life

Isn’t it wonderful to take something like Princess Anne’s recent collision with a horse and make it all about you to fill up most of your newspaper column?
    And be able to do it again next week about something completely different.

The price has no value

Just what useful purpose is served by telling us that a car which crashed through some school gates and killed 2 little girls when the driver lost contol cost £80,000?
    No price offered for the lives of the dead girls, of course.

Would work!

A Sunday Post reader came up with the brilliant idea of replacing Archbishop Wetby of Canterbury with a Halloween turnip as it will have nothing to say on anything that matters and not cause needless offence.

Michael extracted

Just how haute coutoure is a woman in a frock that barely covers her knickers with what looks like a hoop of wide-mesh fishing net dangling past her knees?

Life’s too short

When I see a whole page of a newspaper devoted to slamming some nasty bastard I’ve never heard of, I feel no guilt about turning the page instead of becoming informed.
    That way, I can continue to remain uninvolved if the nasty bastard’s name ever crops up again.
    Not getting involved in Lucy Letby podcasts is out of the same box.