There has to be a conspiracy against people who can do the job of being a copper if ex-PC Lorne Castle, who was in the news for doing a citizen’s arrest on a shoplifter, was sacked for not arresting another teenage yob with courtesy and respect.
Best of luck with the appeal and if anyone is sacked, it should be the misconduct panel for gross wokery.
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Justice screwed up
The numbers game
A computer model predicted 600 excess deaths due to last week’s heat wave. Following the government tradition of not comparing like with like, grabbing the Winter Fuel Allowance from pensioners was predicted to cause 6,000 excess deaths during the last winter. Cold always kills more.
Words not data
Iran’s nuclear capability totally destroyed, according to President Trump, who must have blown billions on his bombing run. Yes, there are cute pictures of the site but accurate information on what things are like deep underground? None of that.
Give us the money
I also read that a gang of academics and qangocrats want to train hairdressers to make their customers guilty about their carbon footprint and steer them toward a ‘sustainable’ lifestyle.
It’s a fact that nothing done here has the slightest effect on the global climate. But if the government is willing to throw tax-payers’ dosh away, they’re willing to catch it.
Like the gang that got £250K from the cash-strapped Welsh government (Labour) to count moths.
Don’t hold your breath, mate
I read that the bloke who invented the suicide capsule which fills with nitrogen is eager to bring his gadget to the UK when the assisted dying Bill becomes law.
If it can get past all the objectors, he’ll probably have to keep his enthusiasm going for a decade, given the crawl pace of enacting new legislation.
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Not newsworthy
What a contrast – all the hysteria about the heat wave last week and the grim, grey wet Tuesday we’re having today!
No more record temperatures set at Heathrow airport – a vast expanse of concrete and tarmac – or a square at the centre of London.
Original sin
There is a lobby which claims that the coppers and local politicians who pretended that the Asian grooming gangs didn’t exist are not to blame. Instead, the full force of public indignation should land on the academics who created the racially-based free ride in their philosophy of multiculturalism and the politicians who let it contaminate the public sector.
Temperature trip
Would Britain be ‘hotter than Hawaii’ if a few places in the South and East reached 34 deg.C?
Only if you think the Midlands, the North, Scotland and Wales don’t count.
More weirdness
I wasn’t surprised by comedian Frank Skinner’s revelation that a Channel 4 cooking show doesn’t show celebs holding a knife as a matter of policy.
Apparently, the wonks at C4 think it might be interpreted as celebrating knife crime! Sheesh!
Monday, 23 June 2025
One to sack?
Crossword clue: school subject (5)
We never did drama when I was at school. It was all English, maths, science and foreign languages.
0/10 for the crossword compiler, totally inadequate clue.
They’re still at it
Foreign female voice: “Hello, I’m calling from MicroSoft about your computer.”
Me: “Right, thanks very much.”
Phone down right away on another scammer.
No change
Has the grooming gang U-turn made Serbia Smarmer a member of the far-Right? No, he remains solidly in the ranks of the ‘far from right’.
Confident prediction
What will we get out of Serbia Smarmer’s grooming gang excursion on the far-Right bandwagon? The can kicked further down the road and no Labour politicians, coppers, etc. who facilitated the grooming with cover-ups going to gaol, being named and shamed or suffering the slightest inconvenience.
But the lawyers will be staggering about with the pockets over-loaded with our dosh.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
To the final whistle
Would we get the first overtime match from this week’s helping of the CFL? It was 32-all on Friday night in the last minute and returning the Argo’s kick off gave the Roughriders a touchdown and the second away win of the week.
Just one touchdown in the Redblack away win in soggy Calgary. The Bombers hammered the Lions in Vancouver to complete a quartet of away wins.
Daft idea
Dropping bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s underground bomb factories sounds like a great way to hurl radioactive debris into the atmosphere. Stuff that will end up who knows where? For sure, on Israel and maybe even on the USA.
Not us II
Got an email from the area’s water company with all sorts of ways to reduce consumption. No danger of the company using the profits it showers on shareholders to fix its leaky pipes?
Not us
As usual, the BBC TV news was going on about world record temperatures yesterday. Meanwhile, the Mansion cat, slighly soggy, was sitting at the back door, watching light rain falling from an overcast sky.
Company for Ed
The clowns in charge of the botched H2S rail connection have added another couple of years to their project/shambles. And a few more billions of our money.
The whole lot of them deserved to be dropped into that deep, dark hole to keep Edstone Milipede company.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Trump knows best
Iran is 5 or 6 minutes away from building an atom bomb, sez the President. And the Intelligence chief who said 3 years is dead wrong. What the story will be today, or tomorrow, is anybody’s guess.
Another self-inflicted wound
The NHS is complaining about a shortage of blood donors. The letters in the papers make it clear that a big part of the problem is down to NHS staff screwing things up. There’s no excuse for giving someone an appointment miles away and then telling them when they arrive that the appointment has been cancelled.
More collection centres and communication are needed.
Not so healthy after all
Oh, dear, bad news for the virtue-flaggers. Scoffing alcohol-free beers causes type 2 diabetes and obsity because of the huge amount of sugar in these substitutes.
A public service
Why on Earth do for companies like Hartleys putting ridiculously small labels on their jars of jam and print information on those labels at a size that challenges a powerful magnifying glass?
If the government wants to do something useful for a change, it could specify a minimum type size legible to someone with routine 20-20 vision and impose huge fines if the regulation is ignore.
And people who have been poisoned because they couldn’t read the ‘refrigerate after opening’ instruction should start class actions and take offenders for millions!
More division
No surprise that Smarmer’s Army is planning to abandon equality in favour of a Two-Tier Citizenship. If you are feckless, idle, useless or hopelessly out of your depth, the government will shower you with cash. If you are none of the above and an achiever, you’ll pay for it.
Friday, 20 June 2025
Give it up
Is it really necessary to tell us how many children a woman who died in a sky-diving accident had? It has become just a space-filler newspaper cliché that could be abandoned without any sense of loss on the part of the reader.
Waste of money
Building a carbon capture plant in Runcorn is the equivalent of taking a teaspoon of water out of the Pacific Ocean and claiming you’ve prevented low-lying islands from being swamped by rising sea levels. Virtue flagging at its worst.
What’s the real agenda?
The lesson from history is that no government learns from it. Israel wants to wipe out the regime in Iran. And re-create what happened in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was wiped out and Libya when the same happened to Gadaffi?
And what about the US Intelligence assessment that Iran isn’t on the verge of building an atom bomb, it’s as least 3 years away from it and not actively pursuing this? Still, it all helps to keep Mr. Ne10yahoo out of court on corruption charges.
Make them pay!
If 95% of claims for racial discrimination at work are tossed by employment judges – a rate that’s been constant for eight years – then the cost of making the waste-of-time claim needs to be increased significantly. And likewise, the penalty for the spurious claimant failing to pay up.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Worst of the worst
Treacherous, lying, hypocritical Beer Smarmer has managed to achieve a rating worse than any other PM after 300 days in the job.
That’s worse even than the previous record holder, the deeply unloved Gordon F. Brown.
Place your bets!
Could well happen with the present mob of incompetents pretending to be in charge.
Lack of culturalism
An indication of how badly wrong British society has gone has to be the Rochdale child groomers not ending up in court until 20 to 25 years after they started on their merry way. Mainly due to the Labour party not wanting to upset voters from Pakistan.
Take heed!
Note to the MAILWORD setter: ions are not atoms, they are atoms with bits knocked off them.
The decay of basic education gets worse!
In another world
Are we to assume that our useless Chancellor doesn’t think working people pay council tax and that’s why she is letting it rise by 5% per year, according to the scrutineers? Or 9% in some cases. Which leaves the rest of us wondering if Rachel from Complaints has ever met any actual ‘working people’.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
More self-harm
Oil prices have jumped 10% upward since Israel started its war with Iran. Not something that would have bothered us if a Labour government hadn’t closed down our own off-shore oil extraction sites.
Further proof that Labour hates Britain, but another excuse for our wonderful Chancellor to deploy to pretend that the inevitable jump in inflation is nowt to do with her.
Wrong focus
The cliché that I’d like to see made obsolete is the notion of criminals, especially vicious murderers, having a debt to society, which can be paid by a spell in prison.
Putting nasty bastards in gaol is for society’s protection and they should stay locked up forever, if necessary, not let out when they’ve done 30%, or less, of their sentence.
Really tough
The police in Miami put those who caused trouble at the FIFA World Cup opening day on notice in no uncertain terms, I read. Use violence and you will end up graveyard dead!
Some of the protesters want to make the tournament about exporting illegal immigrants rather than football. Getting tough with hijackers like that sounds like a great idea!
World record skive?
I was surprised to read that in 2021, our present prime monster has six skives away from his job when he claimed to be incapacitated by the Chinese plague.
How dishonest can you get? Probably a lot more!
Fair Do’s
An NHS burrocrat who refuses to let a kid have NHS treatment because he/she goes to a private school should be sacked on the spot and made to spend 14 wet weekends in the stocks to encourage the others to grow up.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Vagabond Charter
The government has come up with an interesting way to fiddle its housing target. Repealing the Vagrancy Act next year will make sleeping on the pavement okay and Angrier Rayner will be able to include pavement tents in her 1,500,000 new homes target.
Another surrender
Our wonderful government must have given up on the truth completely if the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, one Darren Jones, can tell a TV audience that most of the cross-Channel migrants are women and kids, not young adult men.
Selective language
All the Iranian victims of Israel’s latest blitz weren’t killed or murdered in their beds, they were just ‘taken out’. Which sounds relatively harmless.
And as usual, the enemy dead were 10 times more than the Israeli dead from the predictable retaliation.
If we can rely on the figures on offer.
Future grim
What’s Beer Smarmer going to do when he runs out of British possessions to betray or sell out? Such as Gibraltar as the latest. One shudders to think!
Pointless virtue flagging
One of the daftest things of the year has to be the concept of a ‘sustainable’ fly-past on a royal occasion such as trooping the colour on the King’s birthday.
We were told the Red Arrows used ‘sustainable’ fuel and vegetable oil for their fly-past. And, no doubt, cost the nation a packet compared to using fossil fuels at a time when using them here makes bugger all difference to the global climate whilst China, India and the rest are burning coal in power stations at a furious rate.
Monday, 16 June 2025
Off the list?
It wasn’t until we checked the chart to see which bins to put out that we realized that last Friday was the 13th. No fear and trembling on the day, nothing went terribly wrong. Not really a superstition any more.
Just a thought
Does Iran need a nuclear weapon to match Israel’s? Dollar for dollar, it can do much more damage to its enemies with drones and by paying proxy stooges.
Self-delusion
If the Chancellor really thinks many voters have yet to feel any difference from Labour’s first year in office, that just confirms how out of touch she is.
Everyone who doesn’t have a fist shoved up to the shoulder in the public purse like her knows everybloodything costs more.
West is best
Two more away wins to complete week 2 of the CFL season. The Stampeders were much better than Grey Cup champions the Argonauts in Toronto and the Roughriders held on for a win in Hamilton.
Goes around
No surprise that donations from businesses to the Labour party in the first quarter of this year are a quarter of what was on offer last year.
Tax business to a standstill and there’s no slack for such indulgences.
Sunday, 15 June 2025
Time waster
Trump and Putin the Poisoner, on the phone, agree that Israel and Iran should stop attacking each other.
Amount of notice taken by the combatants – zero.
Not really worth reporting by the TV news mob, was it?
Observed reality
Government ministers keep going on about putting more cash into the pockets of working people – despite all the sneaky taxes which our wonderful Chancellor is deploying to grab cash off them. But one gets the impression that rank and file Labour MPs would rather stuff the pockets of shirking people as they are the ones who vote for them.
First of how many?
The first away win of the new CFL season came in week 2. The Montreal Alouettes won in the nation’s capital against the Red Blacks, who have an impressive record of home wins.
10 years from now?
Is it sensible to talk about a ‘fleet’ of Rolls-Royce mini nuclear reactors? It creates an expectation that they can be sailed around the country and moved to places of greater need.
Saturday, 14 June 2025
Who wastes their time?
When a message is issued by our PM telling Israel to stop trying to provoke all-out war with Iran, does he have anything to do with it?
Or, knowing that no one takes any notice of him; here and abroad; is there a minion who cobbles something together for the news media without bothering Serbia Smarmer?
Rather superfluous
Do we really need driverless taxis at a time when our wonderful government is making unemployment soar? Especially if the technology doesn’t even come close to that of the car star of the TV series Knight Rider – KITT.
A real challenge
Just a thought – if Reeves & Starmer were working for the Kremlin, could they make a bigger mess of the British economy?
Insanity bites
Our wonderful Chancellor is in urgent need of locking up in a looney bin if she’s reversing Gordon F. Brown’s tax & spend policy. Spend at her rate and then tax will shrink the economy to Nett Zero in no time flat.
Sore spot
You can tell the PM really upset the lunatic Left if they start comparing his current stance on migrants to the warning of Britain becoming an island of strangers from Enoch Powell back in the 1960s.
Brilliant friends
Isn’t it great to be Donald Trump?
Your official plane, Air Force One, isn’t up to the job so the Qatar royal family steps in to lend you a £300 million Boeing 747 for the rest of your term in office.
Friday, 13 June 2025
Stop this tripe
A plastic surgeon breaks into a colleague’s home and attacks him with a knife. Which the police and CPS insist on calling ‘a bladed article. A floppy definition which should trigger an automatic fine of £500 for every use in a civilized society.
Same thing only different
Heavily armed commandos storming a publicity-seeker’s boat at night isn’t kidnapping, the Israelis claim, if Greenhouse Greta is involved. Which fails to address the issues of why at night and why by blokes waving guns? One lot, the obvious conclusion becomes, has to be as bad as the other.
Yes, Indeed!
The Downing Street spokesperson is quite right to say the economy has turned a corner. It’s gone from Growth Parade to Slump Road thanks to Rachel from the Complaints Desk.
Just 14% of those polled recently think she’s doing a grand job. Die-hard Labourites?
Excessive coyness
It really is quite tedious, the way the police insist on using the word ‘suspected’. What else would you call setting fire to the prime monster’s front door other than an actual attack?
Or are the police not ruling out spontaneous combustion?
Self-defence
There are all sorts of tactics on offer to avoid being attacked by seagulls after chips or ice cream. Wearing animal print clothing; zebra or leopard; is the wildest.
But not doing your eating outdoors is by far the best way of avoiding an assault.
Thursday, 12 June 2025
Being bogus
Someone needs to tell Mr. Sainsbury that he scores no virtue points at all if he claims to price-match Aldi at empty spaces on his supermarket shelves.
Freedom from responsibility
Reform UK, the party with 5 MPs, seems to be having a great time and giving the newspapers lots of stuff to put between the adverts. And when you’re under no pressure to deliver, Nigel Farage can promise the Earth if he becomes PM to get the rest of the political crowd in an uproar.
Unwanted talent
One thing that illness teaches you is how to take pills and capsules. I was hopeless at it to begin with but I think I could be on the pill-swallowing Olympic team now!
Yeah, right!
Perhaps one of the most stupid things we heard from a Labour minister is that the pensioner winter fuel allowance was confiscated “to prevent a run on the pound”.
Only a politician could come un with something as incredible (literally) as that. And now our Chancellor, who insists that all her spending is fully funded, is being coy about where the cash to restore the WFA to some pensioners will come from.
Which means she doesn’t have a clue. Which is the trademark of Smarmer’s Army.
Okay, go ahead
Offering free fat jabs to the obese is being sold on the basis that it could increase national productivity and save the NHS £4.5 billion per year.
Both well worth having; if deliverable.
Total standstill
Don't get ill to the point of incapacity and needing hospital treatment! It disrupts your life totally and brings everything to a standstill. The spirit might be willing to get going again but the body sure takes its time.