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.