DUFF & NONSENSE!

Springtime for Netflix and Reactionaries!

You've just gotta love this one! ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/comedys-fastest-cancellation-writer-hitler-sitcom-heil-honey/

Heil Honey I'm Home!  A sitcom about Adolf and Eva Hitler living next door to the Goldsteins in 1930's Germany! ...

For veteran comedy writer Geoff Atkinson, getting Heil Honey I’m Home! commissioned – a sitcom about Adolf Hitler (yes, that Adolf Hitler) – was “the easiest job ever”. Atkinson recalls pitching the idea at a lunch with people from Noel Gay Television, which had an open production slate with fledging satellite broadcaster BSB.

“I told them I’d been playing with this idea and people seemed quite excited,” says Atkinson. “I wrote up about half a script and everyone was very pleased. It was simple to get it commissioned. There was no push back.”

On paper – or even in reality, depending on your perspective – Heil Honey I’m Home! could be the most tasteless, offensive British comedy ever conceived: set in 1938 Berlin, it's a parody of 1950s-style American sitcoms, in which Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to a Jewish couple, the Goldensteins.

In 2020, with ever-growing sensitivities and a so-called culture war being fought over what can and can't be said, it seems outrageous that Heil Honey would even be considered. Never mind go into full series production. 

Here's the opening credits ...

What a beautiful toe-curling breath of fresh air: sending-up historical authoritarianism and blowing away the Zyklon-B cloud of today's bossy-booted woke regime with raw offence in one fell swoop!  Mockery is sooo much funnier when the irreverent middle finger is raised to today's bunch of little Hitlers into the bargain!

The potential for one-liners of legendary proportions is endless ...

“You may be big stuff in Germany," spits Eva, as she accuses Adolf of paying her less attention than Goebbels. "But I remember you when you were just a house painter!”

“By day he runs the country, by night she rules the nest!”

Has Netflix missed a trick here!  Could Heil Honey! reach the podium of cult status and vie for gold (or was that Goldstein!) with past classics?! ...

 

Come on Netflix, release Heil Honey! and invade our Lebensraums!  Show us some things we wouldn't believe in this day and age and let the tears of laughter flow again - lest they be lost in the rain! Pull us back to the ledge and make this not a time to die ...

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Not "a naughty Tory" but a stupid, arrogant one!

I refer, of course, to Mr. Charles Elphicke, the former Tory MP for Dover and about to be resident of Wormwood Scrubs!

My instant re-action to seeing a hitherto successful man, in effect, drive headlong into a concrete wall, not once but several times, is a tiny dash of pity.  Alas, reading of Mr. Elphicke's trail of self-inflicted injuries as he constantly followed his erect penis into even greater trials (literally!) and tribulations, such pity as I might have faded rapidly.  Did he really and truly believe he was so irresistible to so many women?  The jail-time he will serve will be a severe punishment but the loss of his career and political power will be crushing.  How much grief the loss of his wife will be can only be answered by him.

 

 

 

So who is this Joe Biden fella?

It's all very odd because he's been around for what seems like forever but I, along I suspect with many Americans, know next to nothing about him.  This is a worry because there appears to be a very good chance of him becoming the next POTUS.  He seems to have slithered through the Washington swamp for decades barely leaving a trail behind him.  That must indicate that he is either bone idle or perhaps dead crafty!

Happily, for me as well as 'y'all over there', today Mr. Freddie Gray at The Spectator has a long article on the man which is somewhat illuminating:

Biden has been called a Teflon candidate, but that doesn’t quite do justice to his slipperiness. He’s almost sphinx-like. His low-visibility campaign means he can represent different things to different Americans. To working-class whites, he’s regular Joe, the Irish-Catholic boy from Scranton, Pennsylvania. To black voters, he’s Barack Obama’s loyal vice-president who’s always had that Clintonian knack of sounding empathetic. To suburban women, he’s the elder statesman who will bring back decorum to the Oval Office. To former Republicans and independents, he’s not Donald Trump. To tantrum-throwing revolutionaries, he’s a pushover-in-waiting. [My emphasis]  Biden’s campaign logo features his famous aviator sunglasses — and what could be more American? But those reflective shades are also quite a good metaphor for Biden’s candidacy: you see what you want. 

As Mr. Gray intimates in his article, it isn't so much the man himself we need to worry about but the hordes of 'loonie-Leftie' juveniles who have flocked to his banner, not least because they see a chance to seize it from his withered, old fingers and wave it in favour of their mostly lunatic ideas.

Talking of "withered,old fingers", am I alone in sensing the 'withered. old fingers' of that reptilian wizard, George Soros?

 

 

 

Blexit and the NOWS (New Old White Supremacists)

In Blighty it is possible to observe how the hard right downed tools on racism and white supremacy starting after WWII and completing the program somewhere in the late 80's early 90's.  The BBC recently scoured Blighty in search of evidence of burgeoning racism and white supremacists for a documentary, and only succeeded in demonstrating that those elements were somewhere between trace and way behind playing catch-up to other more pressing problems in the same space - here's the Graun on the subject ...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/10/islamist-extremism-remains-dominant-uk-terror-threat-say-experts

Since 2017, law enforcement agencies in the UK said there have been 25 foiled plots, at least 16 of which were Islamist.

In 2017-18, of the 7,318 individuals referred to the authorities, 3,197 or 44% were referred for concerns related to Islamist extremism and 1,312 or 18% were referred for concerns related to rightwing extremism.

There were 224 people held in custody for terrorism-related offences in the UK in the year to the end of September, the most up-to-date figures show, and the vast majority, 77% or 173, were described as holding Islamist-extremist views.

Which is good to know, so I guess we have the BBC / Graun to thank for something.  Shame they couldn't spend more time researching Blighty's 20,000 Islamists and their 100,000 supporters hiding in plain view.  The pandemic of Jimmy Savilitis seems to have transferred from super-spreader Auntie to the rest of the Left Axis, and no vaccine in sight.

But over the pond, things are a little different.  The white supremacist party came into being in spite of the first full and explicit instantiation of Liberty into a constitution in the history of mankind, and stayed firmly put ...

https://www.cerescourier.com/opinion/editorial/democrats-biden-still-trying-enslave-black-america/ 

Authoritarianism's astonishing survival skills saw the pol-gened aliens amongst us reanimate inside Liberty's side-kick called Democracy, muttering "We only need 51% and we can do exactly what we were doing in Europe over here too".

It is no surprise then that the Democrat party was immediately host to the white supremacists and slavers who didn't need a PhD in maths to spot that whites outnumbered blacks by an order of magnitude let alone by 1%, and that these inhumans amongst us persisted into segregationism even as Lady Liberty hounded them from within the Republican party and the constitution.  Even in their spluttering so called change of heart the burning insincerity and fakery can be seen ...

By the 1960’s, Democrats like Governor George Wallace and Bull Conner fought against civil rights and turned hoses on black protesters.  Martin Luther King, a Republican, fought against Democrats and racism with President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Democrats, wiretapping both King and his organizer, A. Phillip Randolph. King was then assassinated by James Earl Ray, a Democrat.

In the U.S. Senate, Democrat Majority Leader, Robert “KKK” Byrd, was a former Grand Kleagle, a recruiter, for the KKK and opposed every policy benefiting Black America.

By 1964, Democrats knew they were losing the battle against Black America.  President Lyndon B. Johnson sold them into the Democrat plantation stating, “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppitiness.  Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”  Johnson continued, “I’ll have those ni**ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”

After Johnson successfully maneuvered Black America into the Democrat plantation, they became a strong voting bloc just as a young Joe Biden joined the U.S. Senate in 1973. Biden befriended Byrd and shared the same policies that shackled Black America. With Biden, Democrats had a friend whose policies oppressed Black America. Biden sought support from follow segregationists in the fight against desegregated busing. Biden authored a crime bill that forced more black males into prison.  Most black families lacked fathers with policies encouraging the breakdown of the family through welfare programs. Biden supported Planned Parenthood, whose founder, Margaret Sanger referred to blacks as “human weeds” and wanted abortions to exterminate the black population. She was also a guest speaker for the women’s branch of the KKK. Today, Planned Parenthood is predominately in the black community with half of all black pregnancies ending in an abortion.  For those lucky black children who weren’t aborted, Biden and the Democrats to this day block school choice for black families who want to take their children out of failing schools.

After Byrd, the racist recruiter for the KKK died in 2010, Biden did his eulogy and praised the former Grand Kleagle as his mentor and “dear friend.”

While Biden and the Democrats feel Black America is their voting plantation, if a black man or woman thinks for themselves, as Biden stated, “you ain’t black” as if their skin color has changed.  Even the reference of “ain’t” is racist as to say those in Black America are not educated.

And here they are today, the NOWS (New Old White Supremacists), exclaiming:  "If you don't vote for me, you ain't black", and you surely will vote for me, because: "I’ll have those ni**ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years."  The old kingly trait of privilege bribery in exchange for political agenda support and service, the very definition of Feudalism, ffs!  The exact antithesis of Enlightenment!

Thankfully many black folks are mindful of the NOWS and are dumping the democrats -  Viva Blexit:  the black Renaissance and Enlightenment! ...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-is-blexit-candace-owens-explains-plan-to-lead-black-exit-from-democratic-party-impact-2020

SoD

Yes, alright, alright, I HAVE been skiving!

Sorry for my absence - waddaya mean ya never noticed?! - and thanks to 'SoD' for 'filling in', as it were.  My reason for going a.w.o.l. is simple - I just felt dead lazy!  Also, the fact is that I couldn't think of a single thing to say to y'all - and I heard that!  At 81, my life is fairly boring but looking around me, so is the rest of the world!  A 'boring-snoring' world, of course, is not necessarily 'A Bad Thing' because compared to an, er, exciting world with all that that might entail it is much to be appreciated.  

The fact is that my, er, 'creative juices' (so to speak) appear to have dried up along with the minute amount of energy still hiding somewhere inside me!  To my amazement, the two prime sources of ludicrous behaviour on the world stage on whom I was relying for a steady stream of stories, Boris and 'The Donald', have turned out to be, on the whole, a pair of 'Steady Eddies' - hoodathunkit?  And, of course, the support act of 'Jezza the Clown' took early retirement and has been replaced by the most 'boring-snoring' politician in my lifetime, Keir Starmer!  

I haven't been doing nearly enough, or even any, reading just recently, particularly of my history books, so I think I need to get back to them and see if they will energise me.

 

 

 

Scorched earth policy

Has the Don been taking some lessons from Vlad, whose forefathers saw off the Froggies and Jerries with this time-honoured strategy? ...

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/dems_starting_to_panic_that_voters_will_blame_them_for_riots.html 

As America burns steadily through the sultry Summer nights, the Dems move deeper into the territory of the American people's resentment ...

Despite the best efforts of the propaganda media (aka, MSM) to sanitize  as “mostly peaceful” violent, property-destroying and federal agent-blinding demonstrations that have engulfed Portland, Seattle, and other cities, the American people are catching on that Antifa is the armed auxiliary street force of the Democrat party, just as the KKK was a century and more ago. While the Dems thought that their strategy of making conditions terrible so that voters would throw out the incumbent was sound, it turns out that the availability of dramatic footage of real violence on social media has put the lie to the media coverups.

So long as the weary foot-sloggers of law enforcement can avoid blowing away the BLM and Antifa scumbags that are torching their watches, the reckoning of a latter-day Borodino and Stalingrad will be their prize against the invader in November ...

The Democrats, including the Biden campaign, are riding a tiger. If they attempt to dismount, they will be eaten by the tiger, as Libby Schaaf discovered. Bernie Sanders’s most enthusiastic supporters are still smarting from the Dem establishment handing the nomination to Joe Biden as a front man, and significant numbers of them could peel off if Biden attempts to restrain the rioters, whom he has not even criticized to date. And the hysterically angry rioters, many of them white, college educated women in their twenties, could turn on Biden as with ample ammunition from his past career befriending KKK Kleagle Robert Byrd and enriching his family with his political connections.

President Trump, to their dismay, has played the riots perfectly, with his administration expressing resolve but refraining from oversteps that would hand a Kent State-like massacre, complete with martyrs, to the rioters and their political beneficiaries in the Democrat party.

K pobede, Tovarishch!

SoD

No Country for old Men

I hear Oz has made the first anti-woke inroads into the education system ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/26/australias-war-woke-university-degrees-inspiration/

If ever there was a place to sign up for a degree in surfing studies you might think it was Australia - but maybe not quite so much in future. The country is reforming funding of higher education so as to nudge students into subject areas where there is a shortage of graduates. Fees in those subjects will be lowered, and the change funded through increased fees for students following courses where there is a less obvious need for qualified people.

You want to read gender studies? From next year the government’s contribution towards your fees will fall from Aus$ 11,015 to Aus$1100 (£6050 to £605). If you want to study maths, on the other hand, the government’s contribution will rise from Aus$11,015 to Aus$13,500 (£6850 to £7420). Generally, student contributions for STEM subjects, teaching and nursing will fall, while contributions for humanities course will rise.

Compare and contrast that to the brainwashed woke "Wall of Moms" and "Wall of Vets" in the US ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/us/america-protests-violent-riots-expected-to-continue.amp

The huge crowd outside the courthouse included the Wall of Moms and the Wall of Vets. Meanwhile, a Portland resident told Fox News last week that Antifa also has been present at the protests.

Mums and Vets standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Antifa. And even the wrinklies are in on it ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/katu.com/amp/news/local/wall-of-vets-grandparents-support-black-lives-matter-movement-at-protest

The "wall of grandparents".

That's what happens when you leave the education and media industries in the hands of the Left Axis for 3 generations.

Where is the "next America"? The place we can all go to to escape this authoritarian leviathan? The US is obviously not fit for purpose any more.

Is it Australasia and South East Asia?

Has the caravan of humanity that traipsed over the frontiers of "civilisation", from Africa to Asia, to Russia, to Europe, to America, to escape the authoritarian death-grip of the pols, pols who pursued them relentlessly like that villain in the poignantly named film "No Country for Old Men", run out of space?

Or does the peripheral rim of South East Asia and the islands of Australasia, the forgotten corner of the swerve northwards of the caravan from Asia to Russia, offer the last breathing space for people who want to live free?

And there, of course, that reminds me of the last of the only three places that Lady Liberty manifests herself ...

1. Collapse
2. Motherland of empire
3. Over the frontier

SoD

The Sunday morning/afternoon/evening (delete as appropriate) Rumble!

Yes, I know, I know but it has taken me a while to engage the brain today - not of course because I was wrestling with the square root of -1, absolutely no chance of that, but merely because I am suffering with acute langour!  OK, OK, the fact is that I have been feeling dead idle all day - sorry!

 

Dear Meghan, just bugger 'orf'!   That is my message to the Lady who is currently playing the role of Duchess of Sussex.  It is clear beyond doubt that she is part of that 'yuuuuuuuuuuge' majority of people who do not like us Brits in general and our Royal family in particular.  That's OK but you've made your point, Darling, so please don't go on and on and on about it, just go back to Hollywood where you can mix with, er, real Ladies and Gentlemen!

 

Poor Harry!  I do realise that he is not 'the sharpest knife in the block' but he really has hit crass bottom with this marriage to Meghan.  Mind you, he will keep the ladies glued to their favourite tabloids so Fleet Street is happy.  The future, of course, is that the pair of them will end up like a re-run of the Windsors - two sad, old 'has-beens' that nobody cares much about.

 

Corbyn may well destroy the Labour Party utterly:  According to Nick Cohen at The Spectator, and he is a long-term, pro-Labour supporter, the virulence of the anti-Semitic virus that is racing the veins of the Party is now at truly dangerous levels.

On Thursday the supposedly resurgent Labour party lost control of Brighton and Hove, one of its few centres of power in southern England, because of the endemic anti-Semitism on the left. The fate of the local Labour group shows in microcosm the problem facing the Labour leadership nationally as it struggles to pull the party away from being the natural home for creeps and conspiracy theorists.

That's the problem for the fanatical Left in a Democracy, sooner or later they have to face the 'dreaded Peeps', at which point, they get a good, hard slap!  I wonder how they deal with the fact that Karl Marx was Jewish?

 

 

 

No more Rumbles

 

 

 

All is not lost, Donald!

Actually, as the furious caterwauling and hysterics have mounted over the past 3+ years the more I suspect that 'The Donald' will romp home in November.  The, er, scientific basis for that is simply 'the feeling in my water' - yeeeeeees, quite!  Even so, the behaviour of the 'anti-Trumpers' is so extremely imbecilic that it cannot have passed unnoticed by 'yuuuuuuge' swathes of potential voters.  Sure, 'The Donald' has his eccentricities but comparing his demeanour with the maniacal crackpots who oppose him must, surely raise his chances.

My favourite commentator, Douglas Murray, puts it this way in The Telegraph today:

That is the impression of Debbie Dingell, a member of the House of Representatives for Michigan and one of the few Democrats who saw the first Trump victory coming. Then, as now, the wise-guys wrote the Donald off. They laughed at him, derided him and could not believe that the general public would vote him in. And yet they did. And as Dingell said this week, “I don’t trust polling. I don’t believe that Biden is 16 points up in Michigan.”

I absolutely agree with the lady because I would not trust opinion polls, particularly political polls, as far as I could piss into a gale - often a sure-fire way to, er, 'get your own back'!  Actually, I would not bet a nickel on the result but I lean towards a Trump victory.

 

 

 

I felt a real prick yesterday!

No, no, no, I don't mean the obscene version of "prick", I mean the real thing, you know, that dreaded 'needle-thingie' that 'Nursie' has such delight in stabbing into your arm - or even more sensitive parts of your body!  So, yesterday, I had not one, not two but three pricks.  The first was inside my mouth - "Oh, the horror, the horror!" - as a Chinese lady dentist 'stuck it to me', so to speak, prior to yanking out one of my molars!  I know you will all be immensely proud of me because I didn't cry, honestly, Mummy!  Mind you, I never got a 'sweetie', either!  You just can't trust those Chinese!  Then it was off to 'Nursie' at my local doctor's surgery where for reasons I can't remember I received another two injections.  Again, no tears - and no sweetie either - typical NHS!

Actually, as an after-thought, isn't the hypodermic needle a superb invention.  We all take it for granted but who first dreamed it up?  And where would we be without it?

 

 

 

A gift for the Gaffer ...

 

 

... by a descendant of Zummerzet.

Maybe those Country-Bumpkins have got something after all?

SoD

"In our present crisis ..."

 

 

"... government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem".

SoD

How long do you give the European dis-Union?

My guess - hope? - is 10 years max!  Things were bad enough before but now that they have agreed - sort of! - that the Brussels' apparatchiks may be free to borrow as much as they want on the basis that every day is Christmas Day then it will only be a matter of time - very short time! - before the people and tax-payers of Germany, Holland, Denmark and Austria, aka: the frugal four, realise that it is them who will be paying to keep Italy and Greece and the rest in the style to which they are now well accustomed.

Each time I read about the crazy, out of control bus-ride the EU is taking, I close my eyes and offer a prayer of Thanksgiving to that frequently derided group, the British people.  Having finally been offered their chance of escape, they had the guts to take it.  The fact that it was offered by perhaps one of the biggest Euro-fanatical 'plonkers' of all time, David 'Dimwit' Cameron, who never imagined for a second that he would be outvoted, makes that event the second most pleasurable political event of my 81-year old life.  The first, of course, was VE Day in 1945 - another damned defeat for the Huns!

On my headstone they can carve the words: 'He came in on a happy note and he went out even happier'!

 

 

 

 

 

For God's sake, Boris, don't wear a kilt!

I wish Boris well on his visit to Scotland.  It is a brave gesture given that his popularity north of the border is, I suspect, minimal.  Even so, he is Prime Minister of Britain and the last time I looked Scotland was part of it so it was his duty to do so.  I do hope he resists the temptation to wear a kilt because sight of those plump white thighs exposed to the press photographers would finish off such popularity as he possesses up in bonny Scotland.  Certainly such a sight would only increase the popularity of 'Mrs. MacWhinge'.

The breakdown in Anglo-Scottish relations is a very real shame but most of it is down to the rabid Scots-Nats and their fanatical drive for (so-called!) independence.  If any of them think that the EU-apparatchiks will treat Scotland better than the British already do then their swivelling eye-balls will shortly explode.  As for 'Mrs. MacWhinge', personal ambition long ago overtook any genuine feelings she had for the future of Scotland.  She is nothing more than a non-stop agitator with only a single aim in view - her place in Scottish history!

 

 

 

Ve haff veys of ... doing a U-turn!

Who put the pussy into Jerry these days then, eh? ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloombergquint.com/amp/gadfly/how-to-appease-germany-s-constitutional-court-on-ecb-s-qe 

There they were, aiming their legal-eagle PanzerSchreck at the Brussels apparat and threatening destruction of the Euro, and then, all of a sudden, "click"!  Nothing in the tube!

And there's the "Frugal Four" trying to do a Maggie ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/07/21/europes-750bn-recovery-fund-economic-pop-gun-political-howitzer/

... and not a handbag between the lot of  'em!

Yet two more European "crises" mown down by the relentless Spandau of Brussels.

How do they manage it, you might ask, making Ambrose Evans-Pritchard look like a serial tit into the bargain?

The greatest irony of modern Brit-European times:  The great gift of Margaret Thatcher to Blighty and Europe:  The Single Market.  The prosperity giver that keeps on giving.  Underwriting the debt.  Strengthening the core.

The ammo box with infinite link that sustains the voracious appetite of the Brussels Spandau; crises falling with the rapidity of the bullets!

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da!

SoD

Covid's global single market in services

Allister Heath in the DT gets it half right ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/22/home-working-revolution-will-derail-middle-class-gravy-train/

He points out that WFH (Working from Home) is a short term lottery win for White Collar Middle Class Office Workers: huge savings in daily expenses and crappy commutes.  Tick.  Relocation to lower cost exotic locations with occasional travel back to the motherland for meets.  Tick.  Lovely jubbly ...

Britain's upper-middle-class professionals can't believe their luck. They have, once again, emerged as the great winners from a crisis: ensconced in spare rooms, they are coping so well with the Zoom economy that they want to make it the new normal.

Working from home (or WFH in corporatese) is easier than they previously realised, allowing greater flexibility while saving time and money once wasted on commutes and overpriced sandwiches. No wonder that most bankers, lawyers, consultants, accountants, marketers, tech workers and other office staff don’t want to go back to the five-day commute, and many employers plan to save a fortune by obliging them.

He then goes on to say the longer term downside for said White Collar Middle Class Office Workers is the competition from cheaper offshore folks who can equally well do the job if location is now not an issue.  Cross ...

If London-based employers can hire people who live in Newcastle, Manchester or Sheffield, why not Australia, Bangalore or Poland? If workers no longer need to sit cheek-by-jowl in central office locations all of the time, legal and immigration barriers to recruiting foreign workers fall away. It becomes easier to employ Romanian-based IT staff rather than UK-based developers, even when the costs of occasional Ryanair flights and Travelodge stays to the office are accounted for.

This will spectacularly derail the middle-class gravy train. Until now, upper-middle-class professionals had remained shielded from one aspect of globalisation – production and jobs transferred to cheaper, lower-pay locations – while enjoying another – earning more by selling globally. This explains why City wages have shot up, while those of unskilled people have fallen. Working from home means that the great protective barrier cossetting office workers has been ripped away.

Suddenly, every office worker is competing with every other office worker in the world, at least those who speak adequate English.

Or is it a cross?

If everything is dirt cheap where I (oops, I mean White Collar Middle Class Office Workers) put down roots, dropping the day rate isn't a problem.  As I found out in the delightful spa town of Luhacovice in Czech Rep, where full board was £20 a night (the same as rental of a room in a shared property in Blighty with no meals included) and a round of four pints was less than 2 quid.  I could halve my day rate and still come out up.

Even-stevens I'd say.

AH then goes on to say Blue Collar workers and workplace-shackled jobbers, like plumbers and doctors, will be the beneficiaries because the house prices will drop as WCMCOW's quit and the reduced costs of WCMCOW services feed into Blighty's economy ...

In the short term, it’s lower-paid workers who will lose: Shore Capital estimates that up to a quarter of the time office workers were based in urban centres will now be spent in suburbs, meaning more home cooking and a 20-30 per cent decline in restaurants. But having a job that must be based in Britain will become an advantage. This is good for surgeons and plumbers, but not for bankers, HR personnel or architects

Can you see where his single brain cell ran out of steam to go the extra inch at that point?  The DT's solidarity-with-the-workers-Brexit-level-up-and-take-back-control posture was a sandwich short of a picnic? : -

Who's gonna need a plumber and doctor in Blighty if they're living in Luhacovice?

Doh!

You're gonna get the single market whether you like it or not.  Plus, the one you said goodbye to with its soft EU touches and fluffy-bunny ears is nothing like the brutal "global single market" Covid just dumped in your lap.

If you're a globally mobile WCMCOW you're used to this already, having been surrounded by colleagues from all around the world in your office or at the end of the wire.

But if you're a Blue Collar worker, how will it be for you when the high income earners disperse to the four corners of the earth taking their custom with them - the plumbers' and doctors' bread and butter - and the tax take vapourizes?  Fewer Blue Collar jobs, crappier NHS, state schools, and social services, and lower state benefits.

Suck it up, suckers.

SoD

That bloody Borodin is bugging me!

Of course, partly it is my fault because, as I have told y'all before, I have developed the practice of going to bed with my radio earpiece stuck in my ear tuned to Classic FM.  I 'zonk' off quite easily but when I awake - four times a night for a piddle! - I do so with, usually, some superb music playing.  Just recently, I seem to come across Borodin and his gorgeous symphony "In the Steppes of Central Asia".  If you have never heard it before - go and buy the disc NOW!  It defies description and simply adds to that great question mark in my mind - how the hell do these great composers dream up such stupendously beautiful music?

And the other morning I managed to catch the theme music from the old - but truly excellent TV series - The Onedin Line.  It comes from Khachaturian and his Adagio from Spartacus.  Who ever chose that as the musical theme for a series based on 19th century sailing ventures is a genius.  What is it with those bloody Russians that they keep producing musical geniuses?

 

 

 

It's true, I am now a fully qualified 'old geezer'!

I have suspected it for some time, you know, what with sundry aches and pains, forgetfulness, ability to nap at the drop of a hat (mind you, I've been good at that for years!) but yesterday the final proof was forthcoming - I fell over!  It took the skin off my knee and I regret to say that sundry obscenities flowed along with the blood!  That's irritating enough but, truth be told, it's the forgetfulness that drives me 'bonkers'!  If I say something at 1.00 o'clock, by five past I may well have forgotten it!

Of course, it's possible I am blaming my old age for my tumble yesterday when in fact it is more likely to have been my old-fashioned sandals which I have been wearing during this heatwave.  They are the traditional 'floppy' sandals 'old geezers like me' tend to wear.  They are just that tad bigger in the soles so that it is easy to miss a kerb which is what I did yesterday.

Needless to say, that old Bill Shakespeare had it dead right when he said:

When troubles come, they come not single spies but in battalions"!

So, I was bleeding a bit from my skinless knee and, of course, I slapped a fairly large plaster over it and forgot about it!  Alas, I woke this morning to find I had bled all over the sheets and duvet!  Let me just say that the 'Memsahib' was not amused!  I think I'm on cold rations for the rest of the week!

 

 

The easiest job in the world

The utter fecklessness of the state seems to know no bounds ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/19/potential-covid-19-cluster-being-tracked-in-north-lanarkshire 

The NHS call centre that tracks and traces Covid has itself gone down with a dose of Covid.

Do you laugh?  Or cry?  Or slash your wrists?

According to staff, social distancing wasn't being observed during breaks ...

A worker at the Sitel centre reportedly told Monica Lennon, the Labour MSP for Central Scotland, that physical distancing had not been maintained by employees in shared spaces and during work breaks.

 

“I asked if they felt the working environment was safe. They answered no,” Lennon tweeted. Sitel has been approached for further comment in relation to these claims.

And then the NHS proudly states that the operation continues with the staff working at home ...

“Everyone at the site is currently working from home while a deep clean takes place, and will be offered a test within the next 24 hours.”

If the staff are continuing to work from home then why weren't they working from home in the first place? Why were they in a dangerous and expensive call centre office instead of at a safe and lower cost desk at home?  Every other business has discovered that office workers are not only safer but also more productive at home ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.itpro.co.uk/business-strategy/flexible-working/356468/research-says-63-of-employees-are-more-productive-working%3famp

Why can't the NHS procure or operate a service that simply follows the success of market operators?

In highlighting the incompetence, negligence and abuse of the state you might think some effort would be required, that there might be some strata of success to have to dig past to get to the dirt.  But it's literally everywhere you look.

If you want to know the easiest job in the world it's being a Libertarian blogger and criticizing the failures of the state.  No matter the productivity tools employed, even if you engaged all 65m Brits in the task you'd never cover it all off.

SoD

Like Saturn ...

So the Brexiteers argued the single market was the worst thing ever (even though many of them worship the inventor and implementor of the single market, one Margaret Thatcher).

And the devolved power Remainers (Scots Nats etc.) argued it was the best thing since sliced bread.

But now that the post-Brexit world is hurtling towards us, the Brexiteers think the single market is the best thing since sliced bread and the devolved power Remainers think it sucks! ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/53456419 

The double standards and hypocrisy is breathtaking.

It's just another example of the utter bottom feeders that constitute the political class at all levels of Blighty in action again - negligence here, abuse there, double standards and hypocrisy everywhere.

Why on earth would anyone want to be alone with these people and their "take back control" feeding frenzy?

And will there be anything left of Blighty when the "take back control" freaks have finished their feeding frenzy?

"Like Saturn, the revolution devours its own children"

SoD

Don't say I don't do you any favours!

Alas, on this occasion you need to live in the UK to take advantage of the favours I am about to offer you, er, sorry y'all 'over there'!  Anyway, hoovering my way through the papers this morning - well, that's what Saturday mornings are for! - I checked out the movies scheduled on TV for the next seven days and there are four absolute 'corkers' coming up. 

Tonight at 9.15pm on Channel4 they are showing the superb film "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" - and yes, you're right, I have raved about this film before but only about six times!  Best of all, it stars one of my favourite actresses, Frances McDormand - need I say more?  Then, on Monday on Sony Movie Classics at 6.05pm there is a showing of the German war film, "Das Boot".  I have never seen the film before, only the truly excellent TV version, so I do not intend to miss the original.

On Tuesday, at 10.00pm, they are showing the delightful and very witty film, "Love Actually", middle-class English humour at its best with - natch! - the ultra languid Bill Nighy.  Finally, a double treat on Wednesday at 11.45pm on ITV4 because the superb Frances McDormand stars again for the Coen brothers in "Fargo".

What a week to look forward to, er, although blogging might be on the quiet side!

 

 

 

Is she the most deeply unpleasant woman in British politics?

 

 

 

 

 

 

icola Sturgeon, SNP

 

 

Well, I think so and have done ever since the raucous, wee lassie first appeared on the political stage.  Of course, her politics are detestable and typical of the sort of jumped-up nationalist tripe spewed forth by every 'wannabe', power-mad leader who ever climbed on a soap-box wrapped in a flag!  Needless to say - because she makes it clear every-time she opens her wee gob - she loathes and detests the English.  In doing so, she joins a large club mostly made up of the very worst and most stupid people in the world.  Happily, for me, at any rate, most of those spittle-flecked 'ranters' do their shouting in foreign languages but she, alas, speaks English.

It is no surprise, of course, that a majority of Scots support her, not least I guess, because it is now frequently reported that the previously excellent education standard of the 'Jocks' has sunk down to English levels, if not lower!  The Scots have much of which to be exceedingly proud, their influence is felt in all corners of the globe but they would do well to remember that it was done in partnership with the English!  

There is a very small but naughty part of me that secretly hopes the wretched woman succeeds in breaking away from England - then the Jocks will find out the hard way just how benign and friendly all those Europeans really are!

Incidentally, you will guess from my surname that I possess more than my fair share of Scottish blood and should you doubt it, let me tell you that my Mother's full name was Jean Ann Mary Mackay Campbell Duff!  She, incidentally, told me that she couldn't get out of Scotland fast enough but then I suspect that as a young lassie she was a tad naughty.  'Nuff said, I feel!

 

 

 

"Nigger" bites the dust

Another tidbit of history airbrushed by the Left Axis ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-53436447 

Another step forward into the new Dark Age.

SoD

The eccentric political genius of the British

I try not to write in praise of my countrymen too often because, alas, there is all too much evidence to contradict it.  Even so, the event of 1215 in which King John signed, under intense pressure, the Magna Carta, was an event of world-wide and historic importance.  It was the foundation stone for the concept of democracy, although if any of the participants had known the long-term outcome, I suspect they would have agreed to tear it up on the spot!

Romantics (like me, I'm afraid to say) would dearly love to claim this as the first step to democracy.  Well, it was - sort of - but actually, in itself, it was just another roughly-hewn deal between two groups of powerful men trying to hang on to their riches without the risky business of going to war.  Even so, one damned thing led to another and then to another and then to yet another and - 'hey-ho!' - we were off on the democratic hurdle race.

For myriad reasons way beyond my educational 'ken', gradually, despite occasional setbacks, this democratic lark actually ascended until it became the icon for other nations to try and emulate it.  Not, of course, that it is political perfection, not least because it is operated by human beings - yeeeeees, quite!  Even so, where it has worked it has, by and large, been incredibly beneficial to people of all classes.

So, all I can say is, jolly good show, Britain!

 

 

 

I despair of Whitehall and their useless idiots!

I doubt anyone in Whitehall understands the word 'Strategy', let alone 'Grand Strategy'!  So dim are they that I suspect they might have difficulty spelling the words!  Having blissfully floated along for some 20+ years in a blissful romance with the murderous thugs who run the Chinese concentration camp, they suddenly stub their toes on the concrete reality exhibited in Hong Kong.  At which point they throw a hissy-fit and kick the major Chinese company/government, Huawei, out of our budding/shrivelling (you choose!) 5G system.  Quite right but does anyone in Whitehall have the remotest idea what the next move should be?  Has anyone been working on alternatives to what was obviously about to happen?  Of course not, but I bet they are already forming a committee to, er, work out some sort of a plan.  Ah yes, the British answer for everything - form a committee!

 

 

A dose of clap for the NHS

Don't always agree with her, but here's the DT's Allison Pearson telling how it is with the NHS ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/telegraph-readers-agree-nhs-abandoned-many-patients-need/ 

This, from poor Eric, was typical: “I was diagnosed with Parkinsons’s disease in December by my GP and booked in to see a specialist in April. That appointment was cancelled because of Covid-19 and as yet I have not seen anyone. I was informed that the sooner I started on the appropriate drug the better my chance of delaying the symptoms. I now have difficulty walking and am not on any medication because the first medication prescribed over the phone didn’t help and, therefore, I have to wait to see another doctor.”

A disturbing picture quickly built up of very unwell people, many in considerable pain, managing as best they could after being rebuffed by elusive GPs or turned away by local hospitals, many of which now stand virtually empty.

Several readers drew my attention to incredibly sad cases where deaths could have been avoided. “We lost a good friend,” says Pam, “He suffered peritonitis as a result of a strangulated colon. His daughter spoke on the phone to his GP who prescribed medication for constipation! Despite the fact that a previously-arranged appointment for a colonoscopy was postponed. A face-to-face consultation with a doctor would have had a very different result.”

Rita points out that her husband’s cancer treatment, which was clearly keeping him alive, “was withdrawn on the basis that coming to hospital would expose him to Covid and it would likely kill him. The sheer hypocrisy of their approach left me speechless and convinced my family that the real danger was not Covid but their lack of concern for a 75-year-old man with terminal cancer.” 

Many of you were both angry and incredulous that your local surgery appeared to think it was acceptable not to see sick people for the duration. “I call mine Fort Laramie,” jibed Christopher, “because it is closed and hatches battened down. The purpose is to keep patients out. It even looks like a fort because of narrow slit windows just big enough for the defenders to fire their Winchester 73s.”

One husband and wife team, both NHS consultants, said: “We have both had to deliver devastating diagnoses via phone and tried to support families who could not be with their dying loved ones. I don’t know a single doctor who finds this lack of human contact acceptable. It is clear the managers are seizing on this to make remote consultation the new normal – it’s much cheaper although the health costs of missed diagnoses have not been quantified. I have never joined the clapping as it’s a poor substitute for proper funding, accurate information and PPE. Someone needs to start listening to doctors whose fears and frustrations are not reflected in the media.”

60,000 dead in 3 months.  10,000 starved and dehydrated to death every year for decades.

A latter-day Auschwitz hiding in plain view.

SoD

“Sumorsǣte ealle”

As 'Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph' reports this morning:

An Old English phrase, it translates to, “all the people of Somerset”, and refers to the support that locals gave to King Alfred in his struggle against Viking invaders in the 8th century.

Ah yes, good, old King Alfred - wasn't he the one who burnt the cakes?  Anyway, the story confirms what I have been telling y'all for 'yonks' that 'Zummerzet' is the 'go to' county of England.

Whether fashion designer, media mogul, acting royalty or tech entrepreneur [or retired second-hand car dealer!] – if you have money, power, influence and – ideally – a slight bohemian side, it is not the eastern Cotswolds counties of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire you look to conquer from London in 2020, but the genteel land of milk and cider a little further west.

The article goes on and on and on some more, listing the various 'slebs' who have followed me 'down 'ere to zunny Zummerzet'.  You see, I told you, where I go others follow!  Mind you, haven't seen too many of them in The Tippling Philosopher' - thank God!  Incidentally, me and my neighbour have arranged to resume our weekly Wednesday evening visit to 'The Tippling' after this bloody-bloody lock-down!

 

 

 

The bamboo veil has been ripped down - hurrah!

Thanks, Boris - or Dominic - or Rishi - or who-ever it was who finally took the axe to it!  The Chinese menace has been swelling before our very eyes for decades but their bribery and corruption of key 'puppets 'n' muppets' in the establishment has hidden the threat for too long.  Mind you, the Chinese themselves were mostly responsible for their own exposure because of their arrogant, heavy-handed tactics.  Confucius would be hanging his head in shame!  What's the Chinese for "DUH!"?

Thanks to Matt at The telegraph today:

 

 

Your Monday (afternoon) Funnies: 13.7.20

Yes, yes, I know, late again, what else did you expect?

An elderly lady remembers - he doesn't!

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND THINKING, “SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD?  WELL, YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE:

MY NAME IS ALICE , AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST.

I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA ON THE WALL, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME. SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 30-ODD YEARS AGO. COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN?

UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT.

THIS BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.

AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK HIGH SCHOOL . ”YES. YES, I DID. I'M A MUSTANG,” HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.

“WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?” I ASKED. HE ANSWERED, “IN 1975. WHY DO YOU ASK?”

“YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!” I EXCLAIMED.

HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.

THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, BALD, WRINKLED FACED, FAT-ASSED, GRAY-HAIRED,

DECREPIT SON-OF-A-BITCH ASKED,

”WHAT SUBJECT DID YOU TEACH?”

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A politician visited a village and asked the villagers what their needs were.

“We have two basic needs, Sir”, replied the village
leader. “Firstly, we have a hospital but no doctor”.

On hearing this, the politician brought out his phone.

After speaking for a while he told them that there’d be
a doctor there tomorrow and asked for the second problem.

“…secondly Sir, there is no mobile phone coverage anywhere
in, or near, our village”.  (GOTTCHA!)

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Some choice insults to savour - and to save!

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”
"That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy ."
-Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
-Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."
-George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
-Winston Churchill, in response

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
-John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
-Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
-Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
-Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
-Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
-Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
-Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-Billy Wilder

 

Despatches from the restaurant front!

First of all, thanks to 'SoD' for filling in for me today!

For those of you worried about our luncheon excursion today, let me tell y'all it was 'the dog's bollocks painted gold'!  Er, that is my idiosyncratic way of saying it was just super!  In a single day I have earned so many 'Brownie points' that I can hardly count them!  We both decided to dress for the occasion - well, why not?  Casual, you understand, but frightfully 'smart casual' - I even wore a tie!

Sensibly, I had booked the table for 2.00pm so that the main rush was beginning to run down. Needless to say, the first 20-30 minutes were spent in the Bar where the 'Memsahib' began work on a very decent Sauvignon Blanc whilst I instructed the Barman how to make a dry martini to my taste!  (Yes, you're right, I am a prat!)  Then we went through to the Dining Room which was half empty and enjoyed a superb lunch whilst finishing off the 'Sauv Blanc'. 

By the end of the meal I was, so to speak, 'feeling no pain at all' but the size of the bill sobered me on the spot!  Hell, I'm not complaining because if you want the best you have to pay the best price!  Happily, we only live a mile away so the car journey was less than a couple of minutes.  I am now 'top of the pops' in 'Chateau Duff' and I hope to live off that for some time, er, well, until my next major cock-up anyway!

 

 

Soccer Sunday - Funded Libertarians 2, Authoritarians 1

First in the back of the net for the Funded Libertarians, striker Rishi Sunak! ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/07/11/sunak-plansbrexit-tax-cutsto-save-economy/ 

Rishi Sunak is preparing to introduce sweeping tax cuts and an overhaul of planning laws in up to 10 new "freeports"

Please, please with a big red cherry on top, let Surrey be one of the freeports!  C'mon Govey boy, you're my MP here in God's own county!  Put your money where your mouth is and let us lead global Britain!

Next up, from out of nowhere, David McKelvey, a new hiring from the Met team, fires a scorcher in the top right corner! ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/11/private-police-force-launches-first-ever-prosecutions-against/ 

Private police force launches first-ever prosecutions against thieves.

Former Met detective founded My Local Bobby after becoming frustrated with police inaction against shoplifters.

Why not go all the way and let the people opt out of the state police with their share of the law enforcement tax take and go hire their own private police service via security insurance?

Crikey O'Reilly, not even I was expecting this one!  Health, education, and social services, maybe, but the cops - wow!  Milton Friedman on steroids!  What next - private army companies?  It's not without precedent ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_company 

And, and, and, it's the Funded Libertarian solution to Uncle Sam's law enforcement problem of course!  A gift election policy for the Goppers: Offer each American their share of the law enforcement tax take to go hire the Boogaloo and / or the ex-cops via private insurance!  You've got a ready made Boogaloo market just waiting for customers!

So much better than tyrannical democracy's feckless Democrat party dominated procurement teams spending the money on cranky "community projects".

It would give black folks real buying power to solve their crime problem and make themselves safe from the gangsters, Antifa protesters, common thieves, rapists and murderers.  The Dem's "defund the police and spend it on Dem projects" policy is toast!

Starting to see how Funded Libertarianism works now?

But then a last minute own goal from the Funded Libertarians ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/07/11/subsidy-cut-put-rail-track-state-control/ 

The rail networks are to be re-nationalised.  Ohhhh nooooooooo!

Terrible mistake.  British Rail, the worst transport system in the history of the West, all over again.  More unionisation, more militant lefties, more tax payers' wasted dosh.  Let the operators go to the wall and have the administrators offer them to new buyers.  Put some more union bashing legislation on the statute books to make them more attractive.

But a win's a win.  Not "over the moon" but not "sick as a parrot" either.

The boys done good today.

SoD

There is a good-ish chance I may be arrested soon!

This morning, the 'Memsahib' and I went to our local garden centre because we needed some replacement plants for pots previously inhabited by what turned out to be malingerers!  I was looking forward to it because I rather like our garden centre, no, no, not so much for the plants, though they're OK, but more the rather tasty snacks they serve up in their café.

Anyway, first off I had to ask a young lady how the hell to get in because the entrance was a maze of yellow tape.  Having entered, I was forced to follow an intricate line of arrows which took me in what I knew to be the wrong direction for what I wanted.  Then, I discovered that the café was not selling the sort of "tasty snacks" that I was looking forward to. So then I bought four plants, made my excuses and left - with steam coming out of my ears!

I am sick and tired of all this lock-down nonsense!  Even more, I am raging at a world in which I, a free-born Englishman, is forced to bend the knee to sundry quill-pushing clerks and their pettifogging rules 'n' regs!  For God's sake, Boris, and mine, please put a stop to all this nonsense before I go mad with an axe! My local Tory party HQ might be my first target!

 

 

Feeling good this morning? I'll soon put a stop to that!

No, no, don't worry, it's not going to be one of my over-long moans 'n' groans.  Instead, I thought you might be interested in just the headlines at this morning's PJ Media site.  In a very brief, succinct way they capture the moment, I feel, in all its idiocy!

Adult in the Room: Ford CEO Responds to Employees' Demands to Stop Making Police Vehicles

Thursday's Insanity Wrap: Cancel Culture Comes for Orwell, Biology Is Transphobic

Don Lemon Butchers a Key Christian Doctrine While Trying to Lecture America on Statues

Criminal Investigation of Trump Coming: Supreme Court Rules He Must Turn Over Tax Records

Terrified Academics Withdraw Study Showing White Cops Aren't Killing More Blacks

FLASHBACK: Barack Obama Abruptly Halted H1N1 Testing, Undermining Biden's Attacks on Trump

And Then They Came For the Left. And the Left Began to Eat Itself

The Morning Briefing: Jill Biden Wants to Trash Her Husband's Dignity to Be Edith Wilson 2.0

Portland Police Send Scorching 'No Confidence' Message to City Hall: Stop Defending Antifa

Madison Ave. Business Sues Cuomo, De Blasio for Riots, Estimates $100M in Damages

Antifa in Tears: The Fragility of the Woke

New York Times Falsely Blames Churches for Huge Spike in Coronavirus Cases

See, no need to read all those boring stories, the headlines say it all!

 

 

 

Will 'The Donald' win by a quiff?

I simply do not know.  Apart from my inherent ignorance of most things American, I find it impossible to gauge the American mood these days apart from the seemingly obvious fact that the entire country is going mad!  One surprising fact is that 'The Donald', disappointingly to some, has not actually dropped a major bollock!  Yes, he has mis-spoken once or twice but all 'polis' do that because their main business is non-stop speaking but none of his words have started WWIII!  The American economy trundles along despite the hammer blow from this damned 'virus-thingie'.

Meanwhile, the brain-dead, Leftie troglodytes keep up their non-stop efforts to burn and pillage in the name of the Brotherhood of Man - yeeeeeees, quite!  Trump's fairly decent opponent dodders along, guided by his puppet-masters.  Should he actually win, of course, he will no more preside over America than I will!  The apparatchiks are already in close formation around him in order to guide him Leftwards to inevitable disaster.

How much of this do the American 'Peeps' see and understand - 'nottalot', I fear!

 

 

 

Rishi Sunak's blue socialist fiscal premature ejaculation

As Andrew Lilico in the DT says, "Our economy has been a jobs machine, so it's hard to see what Rishi was trying to fix" ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/07/09/economy-has-jobs-machine-hard-see-rishi-trying-fix/ 

It’s tough to see what the government thinks is the problem it is trying to solve. Usually governments announce job creation or job subsidy measures when economies are struggling to create new jobs and unemployment is either rising or stubbornly high and refusing to fall. The idea is that such spare resources not being taken up in new jobs indicates some form of market or regulatory failure, so rather than leaving market forces to determine the optimal level of unemployment, the government steps in to get unemployment down and avoid lives being blighted by enforced idleness.

But how is any of that relevant to the UK? The UK economy has been a veritable jobs machine over the past 25 years. Even at the peak of the Great Recession of 2008/09, with GDP down by its worst drop since the 1920s, UK unemployment never got much above 8 per cent. Despite tepid growth over the following decade, unemployment fell and fell. Remember those three million jobs that were supposed to be dependent on EU membership? Recall how unemployment spiked up after the EU referendum vote and subsequent confirmation we’re leaving? No, me neither. By early 2020, unemployment was at its lowest level for over 40 years at under 4 per cent.

But it's actually worse than that.

Covid has a silver lining in that we have discovered huge savings in the way we operate our businesses and personal lives.  I, for example, can't believe I haven't filled up the tank on my car since March 13th and the needle is still only just below three quarters!  My personal bank account looks in extraordinary good health after not having lunch from expensive London food stalls and plush corporate canteens, instead a quick trip down to the fridge suffices at a fraction of the cost.  The business I'm currently contracting for is never going to have huge smoke and mirrors HQ buildings on the Slough Trading again now they know we can all work at home.  A small hot desk and occasional meeting room location with a permanent cleaner is all that's need by way of collective property.

Unemployment is the signal of the reallocation of resources required to meet the new found productivity and efficiency of better working practices and personal behaviours.  The market will clear the reallocation of resources if left to function unmolested.  Hospitality folks can go work in care homes desperately in need of staff.  Ex-car workers can start converting the smoke and mirrors office buildings on the Slough Trading Estate into flats.  Rail workers and London Underground train drivers can go to their true station in life and start flipping burgers in MacDonald's and sweep the streets.

The last thing in the world you should do when a slap round the face like Covid opens your eyes to new and better alignments of capital, labour and assets is preserve the old order in aspic by subsidising those old fake jobs and industries.  Rather, hold back the cash for unemployment benefit and to help people transition.

The mimicry of the mistakes made between 1945-75 that culminated in Blighty going bust and having to be bailed out by the IMF is more precise than even I predicted.

The only hope is:  please - pretty please with a great big cherry on top -  please let the mimicry follow through to the great revolution of 1979 ...

SoD

Yes, I'm back again - who groaned?

Sorry for my absence over recent days - and thanks to 'SoD' for filling in.  I can't quite make up my mind why I have been so idle.  Perhaps, at long last, I am suffering from the boredom I have inflicted on y'all over the last few years.  Actually, the fact is that I cannot think of much I want to say!  I suspect that this damned 'lock-down-thingie' has just depressed my usual exuberance.  Whatever, the fact is that I am struggling to write about anything.  

However, things are about to change - I hope! - because I have decided to kickstart what passes for my social life so this Sunday I am taking the 'Memsahib' to lunch at our local - and very smart! - restaurant.  Just the two of us because as I emerge, blinking, into some sort of social life again, I don't think I could cope with company and the necessity of multi-conversation.  The other problem that troubles me is whether or not, after this long, tedious lockdown, I will be able to restrain myself from singing: "Free again, happy, happy me - free again!" Although I'm sure the other customers would be delighted!

 

 

 

Something rotten in the state of America

Is there anything more vile in the political firmament of the "Free" world than the Democrat Party of the United States? ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws 

First, the foundations ...

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.^[1] These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by Black people during the Reconstruction period.^[2] The Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965.^[3]

President Woodrow Wilson, a Southern Democrat, initiated the segregation of federal workplaces in 1913.^[7]

In the 1870s, Democrats gradually regained power in the Southern legislatures,^[15] after having used insurgent paramilitary groups, such as the White League and the Red Shirts, to disrupt Republican organizing, run Republican officeholders out of town, and intimidate Black people to suppress their voting.^[16] Extensive voter fraud was also used. In one instance, an outright coup or insurrection in coastal North Carolina led to the violent removal of democratically elected non-Democratic party executive and representative officials, who were either hunted down or hounded out. Gubernatorial elections were close and had been disputed in Louisiana for years, with increasing violence against Black people during campaigns from 1868 onward.

In 1877, a compromise to gain Southern support in the presidential election (a corrupt bargain) resulted in the government's withdrawing the last of the federal troops from the South. White Democrats had regained political power in every Southern state.^[17] These Southern, white, Democratic Redeemer governments legislated Jim Crow laws, officially segregating Black people from the white population.

Democrats passed laws to make voter registration and electoral rules more restrictive, with the result that political participation by most Black people and many poor white people began to decrease.^[18][19] Between 1890 and 1910, ten of the eleven former Confederate states, starting with Mississippi, passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disenfranchised most Black people and tens of thousands of poor white people through a combination of poll taxes, literacy and comprehension tests, and residency and record-keeping requirements.^[18][19] Grandfather clauses temporarily permitted some illiterate white people to vote but gave no relief to most Black people.

Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat elected from New Jersey, but he was born and raised in the South, and was the first Southern-born president of the post-Civil War period. He appointed Southerners to his Cabinet. Some quickly began to press for segregated workplaces, although the city of Washington, D.C., and federal offices had been integrated since after the Civil War. In 1913, for instance, Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo – an appointee of the President – was heard to express his opinion of Black and white women working together in one government office: "I feel sure that this must go against the grain of the white women. Is there any reason why the white women should not have only white women working across from them on the machines?"^[29]

In Texas, several towns adopted residential segregation laws between 1910 and the 1920s. Legal strictures called for segregated water fountains and restrooms.^[32] Jim Crow laws were a product of what had become the solidly Democratic South due to the disfranchisement of Black people.

White Southerners encountered problems in learning free labor management after the end of slavery, and they resented Black Americans, who represented the Confederacy's Civil War defeat: "With white supremacy being challenged throughout the South, many whites sought to protect their former status by threatening African Americans who exercised their new rights."^[39] White Democrats used their power to segregate public spaces and facilities in law and reestablish social dominance over Black people in the South.

Secondly, their change of tack via Lyndon Johnson in the 1960's was not out of any deep seated realisation of wrong-doing and desire to make amends, but rather a mere tactical voting gambit to further their political agenda ..

https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/6bQdKPLDjyo2s0I8c60gA2/aec7a4feb53cdd469d9c59bc3dd5cc64/swain-the_inconvenient_truth_about_the_democratic_party-transcript.pdf 

And when all of their efforts to enslave blacks, keep them enslaved, and then keep them from voting had failed, the Democrats came up with a new strategy: If black people are going to vote, they might as well vote for Democrats. As President Lyndon Johnson was purported to have said about the Civil Rights Act, “I’ll have them n*****s voting Democrat for two hundred years.” So now, the Democratic Party prospers on the votes of the very people it has spent much of its history oppressing.

So thirdly today:  now you know why the Democrats embrace BLM:  It's nothing to do with an inner desire of right over wrong or to support black people, it's merely another voting gambit to further their own political agenda.  Lyndon Johnson made the statement ...

“I’ll have them n*****s voting Democrat for two hundred years” 

... and Biden just reaffirmed it when he blurted out ...

"If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black."

The utter human filth who held the power and abused the Western peoples through the dark and middle ages, that mentality, that pol gene, found their feet again after enlightenment in the "re-elected dictatorship" notion of Democracy.  "Anything goes at 51%" - gas chambers included.   (If you think that's an exaggeration, ask the Germans - they voted for exactly that).

We see that Liberty and Republic are by far the greater good.  Democracy is Liberty's little bitch - the other way around is nought but tyranny.

SoD

Marmot steak tartare, anyone?

No this isn't the Monday jokes Miss Red and Andra, the Gaffer's still snottering in his pit so you'll have to wait! ...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/two-cases-bubonic-plague-linked-22308095 

Marmot steak tartare a la Bubonic is served!

Anyone know someone a bit handy at building walls?  The Great Wall of China is missing a few bricks / could do with some repointing?

SoD

Call yourself a Brit?

See, since Brexit this is the sort of crap I have to put up with ...

https://lifeintheuktests.co.uk/life-in-the-uk-test/ 

Try that test and see how you get on.  Anything less than 18 out of 24 and you don't deserve your passport, according to HMG.

My Fluffbun has been here 20 years, worked every day, paid her tax and NI, had fewer days sick than you could count on one hand, never committed any crime, speaks and writes perfect English (better than most of her colleagues), but because she doesn't know the year of the fire of London she can't get a passport.

In fact, in spite of learning the official booklet back to front and getting 24 out of 24 in every practice test in the booklet, she still didn't pass the test.  But guess what, she's allowed to sit the test as many times as it takes at £50 a go.  Quite a little money spinner that one for HMG and their appointed testing organisation, eh?  No feedback is provided after failing on what she got wrong.  Is a perfect right royal scam being perpetrated here, I wonder?  There are no auditors I can see for HMG's appointed testing organisation to check they're not deliberately failing people to cream in the £50 each time.  If anyone knows about who audits "Learn Direct", that's HMG's testing operation, please feel free to let me know.

And, btw, once she's passed the test, HMG then tap her up for a "naturalisation fee" of £1350 to actually get the passport .

Anyway, let's hear the D&N "true Brit" readerships' test results in the comments - no cheating!  Or I'll set Fluffbun on you, and you don't want that! ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg

SoD

 

 

 

 

The Sunday Rumble: 5.7.20

Sometimes 'the cousins' can be a tad forgetful:  For example, some of them are huffin' 'n' puffin' because Prince Andrew refuses to go 'over there' and testify against Ghislaine Maxwell.  They appear to have forgotten that we are still waiting for that American woman who left a US Air Force base driving on the wrong side of the road and killed a young lad on a bicycle.  She, of course, instantly fled back to the States, never to be seen again.

I bid farewell to F1 racing:  Actually, I have been gradually going off it for some time but now that Lewis Hamilton, who is, I think, one of the greatest racers ever, has joined the unholy chorus of 'Black Lives Matter', then that's it, as far as I am concerned.  He can continue to go round in circles until he disappears up his own exhaust pipe!

Additional:  Perhaps I wrote too soon because I gather that several drivers refused to bend their knees.

Well done, Boris:  I gather from news reports that Boris is on the brink of cutting ALL connections with Huawei.  Obviously, my instructions to that effect have been received and acted upon!

You lucky American 'Peeps':  Have you heard the great news?  Apparently, Mr/Mrs/Ms Kanye West - don't ask me, I've never heard of him/her - is planning to run for the Presidency. Well, I assume it must Mr. Kanye West because his wife, Ms. Kim Kardashian is supporting him.    Should be a shoo-in, don'cha think?

A damned fine run thing that Battle of Britain:  As Leo McKinstry reminds us in The Spectator this week.  As so often in WWII we must thank German stupidity for helping us to win, not least 'Fat Hermann's error in ordering his bombers to switch from attacking Fighter Command's airfields to bombing London.  Hitherto, the German's had been aided in their near victory by the top brass in the RAF, especially Sir Hugh Dowding, whose operational tactics were hopeless.  Eventually, the likes of Douglas Bader who understood the necessity of attacking German formations with large formations, not penny packets, had his way. "A fine run thing" indeed!

 

 

No more Rumbles

 

 

Sunak's jollies vouchers - eat your heart out Milton Friedman?

By George and all the Saints! Rishi Sunak's gonna give us all a £500 voucher to go and get shiffaced! ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/05/sunak-considers-500-vouchers-for-all-uk-adults-to-spend-in-covid-hit-firms

You have to laugh, don't you!  I feel sort of "praad to be British" that while the rest of the world worries about care homes, second wave Covid, collapsing economies and spiraling debt, Blighty's Chancellor of the Exchequer rises above it all and bungs 500 smackers on the slate for each of us!

Rishi "the beers are on me - well actually your grand-kids" Sunak.

But is there a silver lining to this, errr, silver lining?

Notice how easy it is to deliver vouchers these days.  Onto a card or your phone at the flick of a switch!  You get where a Libertarian like yours truly is going with this now, right?  If 500 quid's worth of jollies is such a cinch to deploy, how about £2500's worth of private health insurance per annum?  Or £8,000's worth of independent school vouchers per annum?  Or £3,500's worth of care home costs per month?

The replacement of the public sector owned and operated so called "Welfare State" - that just slaughtered 60,000 Brits in 3 months, that starved and dehydrated to death 10,000 elderly and vulnerable people annually for years, that handed 1,300 vulnerable white girls over to Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, that produced a generation of young people who are, in the words and 3.5m hiring deeds of employers, "not as smart and hard working as their central and  eastern European peers" - is just a flick of a switch away!

The rotten, murderous public sector is eminently replaceable!  Huzzah!

Fades to "Switch 'er off, switch 'er off!" sung to the tune of "Lock 'er up, lock 'er up!"

SoD

 

I'm me again - at last!

The first day of freedom and the 'Memsahib', with her usual foresight, had an appointment booked for 8.30am to get her hair done - keen set of priorities, you see!  Anyway, I tagged along and asked one of the young gals whether she could quickly run her mechanical scissors over my flowing white locks which were almost touching my shoulders.  No fussing, or primping, I told her, just 'No.2 all over'!  It took her about 1.7 minutes and the poor lassie was ankle deep in white hair! So I am back to my usual 'Aldershot circa 1958' look in which me and forty-odd recruits were trimmed to a stubble in 30 minutes!

Dammit, it feels so good!

(Possibly, it does not look quite so good!)

 

 

 

The European Union goes south!

By which I mean that Angela Merkel, at last, has decided to loosen her grip on the EU purse strings. Despite the moans and groans from the ‘frugal four’,  Austria, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands who are virulently opposed to permitting the EU hierarchy to borrow money at will because they know that it will be a green light for the catholic South to spend it like drunken sailors - money for which they will be partly - if not wholly! - responsible.

Of course, the devil - or perhaps the angel! - in this will be, as always, in the detail.  I simply cannot believe that 'Mutti' Merkel would surrender the keys to the European treasury.  Konstantin Eckner puts it this way in 'The Spectator' with my emphasis:

After the mortal shock of Brexit, the EU tried to show confidence about the future. Brussels tried to punch above its weight, taking on tech giants like Google and Apple. But now the pandemic has transformed the EU from policymaker into big money spender. This means Germany’s council presidency will revolve around two questions: Can the EU cushion the economic effects of the crisis? And can the member states agree on the EU budget for the next seven years? The budget for the entirety of that period will be in the ballpark of 1.1 trillion euros (£1 trillion). 

Of course, the Covid pandemic has caused massive financial problems everywhere including 'this septic Isle' but we are a sovereign country capable, eventually, of working our way through it.  The European Union is not!  The strains and anguish will be immense and will take them to the very edge of the precipice.

Thank God we're out of it!

 

 

The 'Old Bill' gets busy!

Like most people, I suppose, I have mixed opinions on our Constabulary - or the 'Old Bill' as they are frequently referred to. Not, I hasten to add, that I have had much contact with them!  I suppose, in my usual lazy way, if I was asked for an opinion on them I would come up with some 'smart Alec' (or 'Dim David!) remark to the effect that they were 'over-weight, over-paid and never 'over-here' when there was a burglar about'!

Well, not for the first time, I appear to have it all wrong. According to reports in The Telegraph today:

Britain’s National Crime Agency, with European law enforcement bodies, had spent four years trying to crack [a European IT] system without success. But in April, cyber specialists working with the French police managed to hack into the network without being detected.

They were able to eavesdrop on millions of chilling messages and harvest a treasure trove of evidence. Nikki Holland, director of investigations at the NCA, said: “It was like getting the keys to Aladdin’s cave”, while her deputy, Matt Horne, likened it to “cracking the criminals’ Enigma code”.

Unaware they were being spied upon, gangland bosses were unwittingly providing evidence the police could have only dreamed of. As well as drug deals and gun running, law enforcement agencies intercepted gangsters as they planned assassination hits.
In one case killers were intercepted on their way to kill a rival drug dealer.

Within weeks, more than 740 suspects had been arrested and millions of pounds in illicit cash, tons of class A drugs and vast caches of firearms seized.

Now that is what I would call a RESULT!  Well done, Constable!

 

 

 

The worst is yet to come . . .

Yes, you can always rely on D&N for a ray of sunshine in these gloomy times, er, but not today!  This 'Covid-thingie' has already had a devastating effect on those unfortunates unlucky enough to be hit directly by it. Then there are the uncountable number of people caught by its knock-on effects, those whose jobs and incomes disappeared overnight, to say nothing of all those small to medium sized businesses which have been wiped out.

Now, however, as the very worst extremes, seem to be declining an even bigger problem arises - how do we pay to rectify matters?  Boris appears eager to chuck oodles and boodles of money at the problem but, as I am sure y'all know full well, that is your money!  Needless to say, the 'Blobsters' (the servants of the Blob!) will be eager to interfere and run things the 'Whitehall way' which, of course, will require even more zillions, most of which will go straight down the drain!

The answer, Boris, is obvious.  Don't YOU spend our money, instead, just cut taxes and let us do it for you! Take a scythe to all those 'rules 'n' regs' so beloved by the Blob and, to quote a phrase, "Set Your People Free!'

 

 

 

Why would anybody with more than three brain cells vote Democrat?

I ask simply because California, as Democratic a State as you could wish to avoid, is teetering towards bankruptcy.  Well, it wasn't that long ago that Orange County in Los Angeles showed then how to do it!  As The American Thinker puts it:

It has been 25 years since “AA” credit-rated Orange County filed the world’s largest municipal bankruptcy, following a $2.6 billion loss involving a failed leveraged borrowing scheme and accounting fraud. But despite bankers, lawyers and accountants paying $750 million for allegedly aiding OC risky taking, “AA” credit-rated California has not filed audited financials and is using leveraged borrowing to offset its $60 billion shortfall. [My emphasis]

Then, of course, there is the splendid(not) activities of the infantile Democrat Mayoress of Seattle who unleashed the mobs in her city and held the police back, er, well, she did up until they threatened her own $7 million mansion at which point she released them!

Finally, as Mr. Silvio Canto Jnr. asks at The American Thinker, who pays?

From New York City to Chicago north to Minneapolis west to Seattle and south to Los Angeles, everybody is asking the same question: Who is gonna pay for the riots?

Well, of course, it will be the people suckers who voted in Democrat regimes.  Don't blame the politicians, blame the sub-normal idiots who voted them in!

 

 

 

'Xi Ping-a-ling' is an international menace

Yesterday I read that China was manufacturing and distributing fake gold bars.  Well, to be fair, if you are a professional gold dealer then you should have the expertise to spot the fakes.  However, for a nation the size of China to permit - encourage? -  forgery on that scale in a market which is crucial to international trade is yet another sign of their non-stop mischief-making.  

Today I read that China has also been caught out exporting 10,800 assault weapon parts into Florida.  The inference is that they were destined for some members of the 'Black Lives Matter' gang.  Well, at least 'The Donald' has taken some fairly severe actions against China over matters of trade but my question is what is Boris doing?  The sheer numbers of Chinese immigrants/visitors to Britain is alarming, particularly at Cambridge University where the place is flooded with 'wannabe' students.

Get a grip, Boris, and do something!  For a start, cancel that ludicrous Huawei project which threatens to allow China to have total control over our national communications.