Monday, 30 June 2025

A change of fortunes

Of course, there had to be a match on both days of Canada Day Weekend instead of two CFL matches on Saturday. And where should it be played but in the nation’s capital?
    The winless Argonauts dominated the first half and returned a blocked field goal try from their end zone for a TD in the 3rd quarter. The Redblacks got to within 12 points but the Argos were not to be denied their first win and they put an end to Week 4's string of home victories.

Unexpected ending

Some observers think Serbia Smarmer is ageing visibly as his regime staggers from one humiliation to the next. Could it be that booted into touch with senile dementia before very long?

Benefits for Labour voters

No surprise that there is now a Two Tier benefits system on offer. Those getting the benefits now will get the same amount and future claimants (years hence?) will get less. Maybe. Unless this damages the Labour vote too much.

Just routine

Monday morning and the scammers are at it again. The young ‘lady’ was going on about my BT broadband connection. As I don’t have one, she had no chance.
    Maybe I should invest in an A.I. answer-phone, which will respond to the key phrase by keeping the scammer talking to waste as much of his/her time as possible.

\Oh, joy!

The bosses of the BMA are slobbering gleefully over being able to call walk-outs by doctors for the rest of the year over a 30% pay claim.
    This would be in line with their new motto: ‘First, do all the harm you can’.

Sunday, 29 June 2025

But will it?

The country will be in crisis tomorrow (Monday) because it’s going to get a bit hot in London and the South-East. Maybe.
    Nobody here is expecting anything startling. We seem to be getting lots of weather of all sorts at the moment. It was trying to rain early on then the Sun came out for a while. Only to do a disappearing act again behind a solid overcast at irregular intervals.

What a let-down

Did Venice go up in riots and flames when the Amazon boss got married there on Friday? Not a mention of it on the news, as far as I recall. What a huge disappointment for the lady who was trying to talk up this scenario in the Daily Disaster.
    And who are the miserable gits going to beef about now that the wedding shindig is over and done with?

Dogs do damage!

One of those surveys has found that dogs cost the NHS £23 million per year by damaging their owner.
    Three-quarters of the wrist injuries and broken fingers are inflicted on women and one-third are inflicted on people over 65 years old.

More CFL

Being a home winner broke the Hamilton Redblacks’ duck with a victory over the mighty Alouettes after the Bombers had beaten the Elks.
    The Roughriders kept the home winning streak going to start Canada Day Weekend with a win over BC. The highlights editor for ViewTube must be a Lions fan if we didn’t get to see how the Riders got from 3 points to 16.

Cue another U-turn?

Britain leads the world! Sadly, it’s in the number of wealthy Brits and non-doms putting their assets abroad and out of the reach of Rachel Thieves’ tax rises, according to the Henley Private Wealth Migration report.

Saturday, 28 June 2025

A travesty of justice

Ex-members of the SAS are being hounded by lawyers over evidence-free accusations concocted about events which were settled 30 years in the past? Only under a lawfare-obsessed Labour government led by a ’uman rights lawyer.
    This is something that will keep happening for as long as judges and lawyers are allowed to push the law into territory which it was never intended to cover.
    The government might claim its commitment to the Armed Forces is unshakeable. Yes, but only until the next U needs to be turned.

Strangely familiar

Have the Iranians hired a former Labour back-office bloke? The claim that Iran has won the war against the rest of the world has the flavour of the BS we get from our government on a regular basis.

Plenty of weather

We’ve been getting some real Wuthering weather (homage to Kate Bush) recently with all the strong winds which have been blasting us. Black and threatening one minute, bright and sunny the next, but grey and the trees being lashed around most of the time.

Labour modesty

The government’s ambition, according to the Business Sec., is to make energy costs here ‘not the worst in the world’.
    They will be crap, but not the most crap on offer.

Friday, 27 June 2025

Mind boggler

Someone was asking the Daily Mail’s Answers to Correspondents  feature “Who exactly was Bonnie Prince Charlie?” Totally amazed that 1. she didn’t know and 2. that the compiler thought this piece of Mr. Internet fodder was worth using.

Dump the blame off?

Sack the Chancellor? Her trashing of the economy with her tax rises made cuts necessary. And she’s the root cause of the huge benefits-cut U-turn humiliation for Sir Beer.

What he is

Does it matter if Serbia Smarmer wasn’t leaping up and down and yelling support for the Trump attack on Iran’s nuclear plant after the enriched uranium had been trucked away?
    He’s accused by the news media of being irrelevant. But that’s what he does best and no one now, at home and abroad, takes any notice of what he says or does.
    His con job with pretending that defence spending will be 5% of GDP eventually is a typical irrelevance.

So much for fixing that which is broken

According to a Downing Street mouthpiece, our absentee PM; off on another of his pointless junkets abroad; was ‘committed’ to grabbing £5 billion from the welfare budget on Tuesday. Everyone rushed to the bookie to place a bet and sure enough, the U-turn came on Thursday.

More government waste

A remake of the Gov.UK logo for the website involved changing the background from black to blue and moving the dot up to a hyphen position, making it a bit bigger and turning it turquoise.
    How much did Saachi’s get for this? £532K. Kerching!

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Limited accessibility

There’s a mobile phone TV advert that I must have ignored dozens if not scores of times without taking in what the little drama was all about.
    Last night, I actually unravelled the antics of the two ladies. But I’m still not going to buy one of their phones.

Doing bad, not good

One of the many think tanks has concluded that the government’s attempt to come up with a definition for Islamophobia (entirely the wrong word for a dislike of how the religion has been perverted, but hey-ho) will end up doing the grooming gangs the favour of making them unmentionable and therefore untouchable.
    Something which has been the policy of Labour politicians and civil servants for the whole of the 21st century.

Just incredible

That we’re expected to believe that a £25 million plane sprayed with red paint by supporters of Palestinian terrorists has been damaged beyond repair and has to be written off.

Which shall it be?

 A cyclist who kills someone ‘could’ face life in prison, I read. Really? If the law is changed, is that for the rest of the reckless cyclist’s life? Or just one of the life sentences that let the criminal out in a few years depending on the state of prison overcrowding? Which is nothing like the same thing.

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Justice screwed up

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.

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!

Will ‘tax freedom day’, the symbolic indicator of when the average worker has paid of their annual tax bill, reach Xmas Day during this Parliament?
    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.