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.