DUFF & NONSENSE!

Dear Lord

330,000 x the prophet Muhammad.  And that's just in France ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/05/least-330000-children-suffered-sex-abuse-hands-french-catholic/ 

France's Catholic Church has covered up sexual abuse by clergymen and lay personnel against more than 330,000 children since 1950, according to an explosive investigation released on Tuesday.

The church for decades drew "a veil of silence" over "systemic" abuse, even sometimes knowingly putting children in touch with predators, said Jean-Marc Sauvé, head of the Independent Commission for Abuse in the Church (Ciase).

Most of the victims were boys, many of them aged between 10 and 13.

After a two-and-a-half-year investigation into alleged sex abuse of minors by priests, deacons and monks, the commission put the number of victims of paedophilia over the past 70 years at 216,000.

When lay members of the Church such as teachers at Catholic schools are included, the number of child abuse victims climbs to 330,000 over the seven-decade period.

Dear Lord, what did we do to deserve the Catholic church?

Or did it come from the other guy?

SoD

It's OK, I won't say I told you so - The Prequel

In addition to the ruinous economics of leaving the SMFFASAR, we can travel back in time to see the political blunder of leaving the EU, kindly supplied by the glorious comedy of the 1970's ...

 

It's been Blighty's time honoured duty to disrupt any hegemony that might develop in continental Europe ever since Blighty existed.

Our forefathers now pushing up the daisies in Flanders handed us a beautiful gift through their sacrifice:  That we might sustain this struggle with merely Jaw-Jaw and not War-War.  The EU came about because of the revulsion to the horrors of industrial-grade modern war in Europe and the desire to never repeat it.  We could replace cold steel with hot air as the means to settle our differences with the Euros and, most importantly, stop any one major player making an empire of continental Europe.

As Sir Humphrey says, "We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside.  We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work".

Well, as von Clausewitz said, "War is just the continuation of politics by other means".  Breaking it up from the outside eventually involves cold steel, whereas on the inside it's only hot air that's required.  Although cold steel works sometimes, it's what you might call sub-optimal compared to using hot air to the same effect.  50m dead in WW2, for example.

With Uncle Sam 50 paces right rear, and the Nordics, Baltics, Ost Bloccers, and Balkans now up and running and challenging the Franco-German hegemony with deep whingeing and whining and an infinite begging bowl, the chance for Blighty to Carpe Diem and build a coalition to neutralise the Franks and Hun forever was an absolute sitter.

But no, we threw away our chance, and to use von Clausewitz's "war is politics by other means" adage again:  We did a Dunkirk and left our friends and allies in the do-do, when instead we should have done a D-Day and helped them - and claimed the European crown for Blighty and Uncle Sam into the bargain.

The West would be more united for it, and the Franks and Jerries - "Either at your throat or at your feet" as Winnie said - relegated to eternally licking our boots while we pull the strings in Brussels.

Good call 23rd June 2016.

SoD

It's OK, I won't say I told you so - part IV: The foothills of oblivion

The Blue Socialist and Brexit pundits, wriggling and spinning to try and deflect the blame for their mess, turn to blaming each other ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/29/brexit-hating-global-elite-watching-britains-chaos-glee/

The resounding criticism of their own Blue Socialism ...

What’s wrong with this Government? Why is it so passive, veering from crisis to crisis without a strategy, devoid of any meaningful plan? Speak to the Prime Minister’s core supporters, and you soon detect that an earlier sense of disappointment is mutating into a slow, mounting fury at the chaos and incompetence that this Government increasingly exudes.

Such people voted Brexit in 2016 and Tory in 2019 because they thought the country was on the wrong track and that it was time for a radical shake-up. They are starting to fear that they wasted their time, that this Government will let them down just as badly as previous ones did, on crime, on the economy and on cultural issues.

"Take back control" is being seen for what it really means: total loss of control!  Like a geriatric patient having just been cleaned up by the EU carers for thirty years proudly returning to his bed - only to immediately shit his pants again!  Not even able to control its own bowels and borders, the very declaration it so clearly expounded would be possible, now covered in poo ...

Why is it taking so long to send the Army in? Why can’t the DVLA be fixed? And what about the UK’s inability to control its own borders, as demonstrated by the fact that 17,085 people have arrived from the Channel on small boats so far this year – double 2020’s total already? Or to defend Jersey, which fears the French might cut off electricity supplies if Britain doesn’t surrender on fishing rights?

And the downward spiral of more and more statism and authoritarianism:  "Send in the army", "Fix the DVLA".  Do they know the state never fixed British Leyland, British Coal, British Rail, British Steel, gas, electricity, water and telecoms when under its control?  Those industries got fixed by ceasing to be controlled by the state, not by more state!

And the pathetic, pitiful exhortation to send in an army that hasn't won a war since 1982.

All this, dear friends, is just the beginning.  It is but nothing compared to what is going to happen.

This is what the foothills of oblivion look like ...

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

SoD

Do only white men know slavery this well?

Bob, Blade runner is a film about white man's culture.

Have you ever wondered why a replicant would be called "Roy Batty?". I mean, it's not exactly the sort of exotic name sci-fi would normally associate with an advanced synthetic human, is it?  Maybe Zed Zillon, C3PO, but "Roy Batty"? Roy Batty is a working class empire soldier. He has the kind of name you see on headstones in Flanders and the Punjab.

A workmate of mine from times past is one. I spent an interesting evening in a gloomy pub in North Wales while the rain lashed down like a cat o' nine tails outside, as he told me how he'd crawled through a minefield in the dark with a torch and an acetylene bottle on his back to fix and retrieve a damaged four tonner, with Iraqi snipers and machine gunners taking pot shots at him.  And how he'd watched the MLRS send rockets like meteors through the cool Arabian night's stars, barging past the shoulder of Orion and lifting the Tannenhauer Gate off its fucking hinges.

He and our ilk have been both slave and slaver, and there's no race on earth gets it like us. Take a look at the stats if you don't believe me ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

As of 2018, the countries with the most slaves were: India (18.4 million), China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000).

The peeps still doing slavery are all black, brown and yellow! With one exception, the last unreconstructed "Roy Batty", who else but Vlad. The proverbial in the white woodpile (Oh God, time to die ... Ed).

White culture - Vlad aside - is post-slave and post-slaver. We have had our moment of grasping the victim by the wrist and pulling him up to the ledge to join us.

Our time as slave and slaver has run its course, like a replicant. We have passed our "time to die". The rest of the world is playing catch-up.

And imagine, that was the thickest race on earth. The one that underperforms Asian and Chinese people in exam results in the classroom and in earnings in the workplace. And now that blacks have found their feet, most of Roy Batty's communities are outperformed by blacks in the classroom and the workplace, putting whites bottom of the pile.

So just imagine when the racial Albert Einsteins of the top three get a grip of it.  (Starter for one: South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, anyone?).  We'll have Funded Libertarianism on steroids to the horizons.  If you want a vision of the future, imagine a feather caressing a human face - forever.

And all those Batty moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Yes Ed.  Time to die.

SoD

It's OK, I won't say I told you so - part III: The desolation of Brexit

Bloody plagiarism by the Independent!  Predicting post-Brexit Blighty to being like the 1970's cataclysm was all written 5 years ago by me here on D&N.  These hindsight jockeys really don't cut the mustard ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/european-newspapers-uk-fuel-crisis-b1926226.html

The kingdom of empty shelves

Our legal reps, Messrs Sue, Grabbit & Runne, are on the case.

Brexit is the cause of fuel and food shortages because Blighty is unable to tap the EU single market for lorry drivers.  Period.

Who TF is Grant Shapps trying to kid when he tries to say otherwise? ...

https://inews.co.uk/news/hgv-driver-shortage-haulage-chief-grant-shapps-brexit-blame-lorry-crisis-1216190

There are no fuel shortages due to scarce lorry drivers in the EU.  There are no empty super-market shelves due to scarce lorry drivers in the EU.  The only place that cannot buy its way into more lorry drivers is the place that has withdrawn from the vast EU single market for those lorry drivers - the foetus-brained turnip called Blighty!

And after denying that Brexit is the cause of excessive scarcity of lorry drivers in the UK by throttling off the supply of them from the EU single market, Shapps does the very thing that proves he's wrong: he throws a squillion visas at EU single market lorry drivers to bid them back in! ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58694004

Can you believe this double-think?  Utterly illogical contradiction, spouted in plain view.  It's completely surreal.

Politicians, the most useless individuals who never worked in the market in their lives, let alone rose to the top like a Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Alan Sugar, or Richard Branson, set themselves up in place of the market and fail catastrophically!  And then they try to emulate the very system they berated - and fail again because they're no good at it - which is why they never became super-CEO's in the first place!

Politicians have "taken back control" from the successful market of half a billion people, and failure ensues as it always does.  Period.

Get over it and get over yourselves, you foetus-brained turnips.

SoD

It's OK, I won't say I told you so - part II: The Four Riders of the Apocalypse

So the supermarket shelves are empty and there's no fuel in the petrol stations.

What did you expect?  This is Blue Socialism, FFS!  Doin' the do wherever it goes, irrespective of colour, socialism empties the shelves and tank like no other system known to man ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/23/chill-winds-signal-second-winter-discontent-coming/

The chill winds that signal a second Winter of Discontent is coming

Life about to get ugly as Britain faces perfect storm of rising fuel bills, food shortages and tax increases

Ministers fear a second Winter of Discontent – and with good reason.

A chill wind beckons, with fuel shortages and runaway inflation added to a list of woes that already included empty supermarket shelves, spiralling energy bills, a tax rise in the spring and an extraordinarily badly timed cut to Universal Credit for the poorest families. 

Economists predicted a hike in interest rates, and with it the prospect of higher mortgage repayments.

On Thursday, senior ministers, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned of the "collision of a Winter of Discontent'".

You voted for this.  You Muppets!  Not once, not twice, not three times, but four times!  Here's the list of the four riders of the apocalypse, and all four of them were your choice ...

Blue Socialism, Brexit, Climate Alarmism, Covid Tyranny

The power grab that happens next when Blighty's ludicrous half-baked democracy justifies "emergency measures" across the board off the back of the Covid Tyranny will cement her status as the "Venezuela of Europe".

There's quite literally no-one in power left alive with any knowledge of, or willingness to do, what is necessary to prevent the decline and fall.  Every pol in Blighty to the horizon is tarnished by at least one, and mostly all four, of those riders of the apocalypse.

Democracy has become worthless.  Indistinguishable from tyranny.  Re-elected tyranny.

They - you - have won.

SoD

Climate alarmism causing the UK and EU energy crisis

You can take your pick from any of climate alarmism's propaganda organs currently trying to spin their way out of the catastrophe they have brought to the energy industries of the UK and EU, and knock their blame passing attempts down one by one.  Here's one for example ...

https://www.qz.com/2059429/why-are-electricity-bills-so-high-in-the-uk-and-europe/amp/

The spike was caused by a combination of rising carbon credit prices, low output from wind farms, transmission infrastructure outages, and skyrocketing prices for natural gas.

So one by one then ...

(1) "Rising carbon credit prices".  Well that's directly attributable to climate alarmism, it's their system FFS.

(2) "Low output from wind farms".  Also directly attributable to climate alarmism, it's their system FFS.

(3) "Transmission infrastructure outages".  Follow the link from the QZ article ...

https://mobile.twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1438054066739941376

French power, largely nuclear, provides more than all our windmills put together.  Why don't we have nuclear power to match and compete with the extra we buy from France and stand up our energy supply when the French go down?  Anti-nuclear green alarmism, sister of, and joined at the hip to, climate alarmism.

(4) "Skyrocketing prices for natural gas".  The blundering QZ article fumbles its own spin and answers that one for us ...

And surging competition for liquified natural gas (LNG) shipments with China and other Asian countries, where it is increasingly used to replace coal.

Why is LNG used to replace coal?  Climate alarmism again, LNG being perceived as cleaner than coal sees climate alarmism strong arming China and Asia into LNG, thereby forcing up the price.

And yet the QZ article spins the truth into a tub-thump for more windmills.

A global delusion being propagandised into the minds of humanity in plain view.

These people are sick.

SoD

Cheese, kiwis and carbon off the menu, and the dragon in the room

The new "AUKUS" defence pact between Blighty, Uncle Sam and Oz has ruffled some feathers ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58592613.amp

One up: France with their loss of a multi-billion diesel subs deal.  You know it's bad when the Froggies refuse to go to a freebie cheese and wine party! ...

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called the announcement a "stab in the back".

He called it a "brutal, unilateral and unpredictable decision" that reminded him of former president Donald Trump.

French diplomats in Washington cancelled a gala to celebrate ties between the US and France in retaliation.

Ooh-la-la!

Two up: Ping-a-Ling smarting and ranting about Cold War II being on the cards ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58564837.amp

China has condemned the agreement as "extremely irresponsible".

Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said it "seriously undermines regional peace and stability and intensifies the arms race".

China's embassy in Washington accused the countries of a "Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice".

Would it were so Xi me old mate, would it were so!  Keep talking it up into the bargain and let's get "Cold War mentality" circulating globally again - double quick time!

Three up: AUKUS just pissed all over COP26's fireworks because Ping-a-Ling's "Me no-likey" hissy-fit might mean he pulls the plug on toeing the zero carbon line ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/16/aukus-pact-dash-hopes-china-emissions-deal-cop26-climate

The timing of the new defence deal between the US, UK and Australia has dismayed climate experts, who fear it could have a negative effect on hopes of a deal with China on greenhouse gas emissions ahead of vital UN climate talks.

The Anglo-sphere cooking on gas!  I say, well done Carruthers!

But there has to be one Judas doesn't there?  One for whom the filthy lucre proves just too irresistible?

Are the Kiwis going to play the Belgium part in this coming war?  Try to be neutral and reap the benefits of both teams - and thereby make itself a latter-day Flanders football to be kicked around by the two sides' players when it really kicks off? ...

https://theconversation.com/amp/anzus-without-nz-why-the-new-security-pact-between-australia-the-uk-and-us-might-not-be-all-it-seems-168071

At which point New Zealand could have expected a drum roll, too, having only just marked the 70th anniversary of the ANZUS agreement. That didn’t happen, and New Zealand was conspicuously absent from the choreographed announcement hosted by the White House.

Having remained committed to the Five Eyes security agreement and having put boots on the ground in Afghanistan for the duration, “NZ” appears to have been taken out of ANZUS and replaced with “UK”.

That is perhaps surprising. Despite problematic comments by New Zealand’s trade minister about Australia’s dealings with China, and the foreign minister’s statement that she “felt uncomfortable” with the expanding remit of the Five Eyes, reassurances by Ardern about New Zealand’s commitment should have calmed concerns.

One has to assume, therefore, that even if New Zealand had been asked to join, it might have chosen to opt out anyway.

Nonetheless, the fact that New Zealand’s supposedly extra-special relationship with Britain, Australia and America hasn’t made it part of the in-crowd will raise eyebrows. Especially while no one likes to mention the elephant – or should that be dragon? – in the room: New Zealand’s relationship with China.

Or perhaps "Plucky little New Zealand" will try to dismount the dragon? ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/25/a-matter-of-time-new-zealands-foreign-minister-warns-china-storm-could-be-coming

It was one of the minister’s more frank discussions of the vulnerability of New Zealand’s trade dependency on China – and a clear directive to local exporters that they should be seeking to redistribute some of those eggs to baskets elsewhere.

But as the old Chinese adage goes, "Ch'i 'hu nan hsia pei".

SoD

It's OK, I won't say I told you so

Blighty's inexorable decline and fall lumbers grindingly on under the Blue Socialist autocracy ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/04/tories-war-idiotic-national-insurance-tax-increase/

IDS's comment sums it all up ...

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, said: “If we start raising substantial sums of money without a proper solution we end up, if we’re not careful, as a high-tax, high-spend party and the problem not solved.”

BoJo intends to dump oodles of extra tax cash into the top of the power pyramid of the failed NHS system using the failed National Insurance system.  Pure Blue Socialism with a track record of degradation since 1948.

But IDS's comment hints at a realisation of the problem in the minds of the diminished and usurped Libertarian faction of the Tory party ... "without a proper solution ... the problem not solved".

A high-tax high-spend Tory party "without a proper solution ... the problem not solved" matches Liberal and Labour party stances on the matter, thereby demonstrating the triple-lock failure of Blighty's democracy - quite literally a hard-baked zero solution ballot paper with a fake choice - and guarantees another 1970's style bankruptcy and failed state long term outcome.

The NHS has 1.4 million people working for it.  It is the 5th largest employer in the world; only McDonald's, Walmart, the US DOD, and the Chinese Army have more staff working for them than the NHS.  And yet the NHS doesn't have enough doctors and nurses.  It makes the Brits wait weeks to see a GP, months to see a consultant, and years to have an operation, and that was even before the Covid plague arrived.

Brexit was the prime mover in this triple-lock socialism that has broken Blighty's democracy.  Brexit is the statist, collectivist, socialist dream come true, left, right and centre.  It emboldens the executive's control of the means of the production in all parties because "Take back control" didn't mean take back control for you and me, it meant take back control for the political class in Westminster.

Specifically, it meant the external governance of Blighty that prevented such triple-lock socialism and fake democracy from happening, namely:  Margaret Thatcher's single market, four freedoms, and state aid rules, was removed like a straitjacket from the lunatic - the proven lunatic from the "hero of WWII to zero of bankruptcy" 1945-1975 period.

And so there's no surprise that Blue Socialists of the right, like BoJo and Cummings with their "backing winners", "f*ck business", and "Brexity Hezza" mentality, are now hand-in-hand with the original red socialists, in fact, out-doing them.

There's another hint at the truth of what is needed in Steve Baker's comment ...

Steve Baker, the former Brexit minister, said: “Of all the ways to break manifesto tax pledges to fund the NHS and social care, raising NIC must be the worst. In this time of crisis, we need a zero-based review of what the state does and how it is funded.”

But IDS and Baker are fools if they think that a low-state, no-state healthcare system to replace the failed NHS will ever happen until Blighty is bankrupt and a failed state yet again.

Now the lunatic is unfettered and running the asylum, we just have to wait for economic, social, and political oblivion before we get any "proper solution" and "problem solved".

Good call 23rd June 2016.

SoD

When the DT conflates booing of BLM with monkey chants, you know we're in trouble

If you boo BLM you are now deemed to be a racist - and that's the Daily Telegraph talking ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/09/02/monkey-chants/

Gareth Southgate said the onus is now entirely with Fifa and Uefa to tackle racism as there is "no more" his players can do on the issue after yet more abuse in Hungary.

On a night in which Raheem Sterling and Jude Bellingham faced monkey chants in Budapest, the England manager added that fans still booing players for taking the knee were "dinosaurs".

Southgate admitted there might also be a lesson during the "completely unacceptable" scenes last night for English fans who have continued to boo players for taking the knee as "the world is changing".

"Although some people are stuck in their ways of thinking and in their prejudices, they're going to be the dinosaurs in the end because the world is modernising," he added.

Gareth Southgate's players also faced loud boos resounding around the Puskas Arena before kick-off as they took the knee. With Fifa now under mounting pressure to launch tougher sanctions than a previous ban by Uefa, here Telegraph Sport explores how Hungary supporters defied warnings and recent sanctions as this opening World Cup qualifier turned sour

There were also further demonstrations by far right groups outside the stadium ahead of France players taking a knee before kick-off during the second fixture. A number of French media reports alleged monkey chants were later directed at Paul Pogba, N’Golo Kante and Kylian Mbappe. Fans had also loudly jeered Republic of Ireland players for taking the knee at a Euro 2020 warm-up game.

After racist abuse on the terraces in Montenegro and Bulgaria in 2019 and then booing over taking the knee from their own supporters at Euro 2020, the current England generation were well-prepared for hostilities they faced at the Puskas Arena.

BLM is a political movement and its supporters who "take the knee" are political activists.  Booing them is exercising the right to freedom of expression.  End of.

But in addition, BLM itself is a political movement for anti-white discrimination and pro-black privilege.  This is both anti-equality and anti-equity.  Anti-equality because privilege is the antithesis of rights which are there for all equally.  And anti-equity because equity is about redistribution to those in need irrespective of any other categorisation of human being, like race, creed, gender, or identity, other than need.  Put simply, BLM is racist.

Criticizing, including booing, is the right of freedom of expression and should be available to all people including the far right, and targetable at all people including the far left.

In those paragraphs above you see how the Daily Telegraph is now complicit in the conflation of criticism of BLM with racist monkey chants, joining ranks with the BBC, CNN and the nexus of the Left Axis.

Another step in the direction of the New Dark Age, and a sad day for those who Love Enlightenment and Liberty.

SoD

The hidden victory in Afghanistan

Glezza was worried in the comments about it being difficult to bomb Islamists at home.  Well, that may be true, but it's also just become a lot easier to bomb the Islamists abroad, because now we're working with them abroad ...

US Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said it was “possible” the United States will seek to coordinate with the Taliban on counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan against Islamic State militants or others.

Marine General Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, has described the U.S. relationship with the Taliban during the evacuation as “very pragmatic and very businesslike”, saying they helped secure the airport.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/02/its-possible-us-military-chief-could-work-with-taliban-on-is-counter-terror-strikes 

Service folks should not think their efforts have been in vain in Afghanistan.  Far from it, neither of the two paragraphs quoted above would have been possible to say 20 years ago.  In fact, the turning point against terrorist Islamism has been made in those 20 years by the skill, courage and resilience of those who served in Afghanistan.

We now have the Hairies willing to fight and kill each other, and, with the faction we're backing willing to down tools against us.  This is the mirror of the success in Syria and the wider ME, where we got Shia and Sunni terrorists to fight each other.

"Bait and bleed", the Judean People's Front vs the People's Front of Judea, hold their coats while they kick the proverbial out of each other, all of these are with us now on all foreign fronts against the enemy.

So Glezza, back to Winnie's old adage that seems to be worrying you "When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you"?  And we have the enemy within, therefore a problem, right?

Well the homeboys are puppet-mastered by their hard-nut masters abroad.  And correct me if I'm wrong, but the hard-nut foreign puppet-masters are mighty busy in their Sunni-on-Shia and soon to be Taliban-on-ISIS wars all across the ME and Asia.  So the command strings have been somewhat severed.

And, if any Brit Conservative Muslim Dad's and Grandad's fancy sending their nutter youth to those foreign wars to fight the new priority enemies over there, we should buy them their EasyJet or RyanAir tickets and wave them a fond farewell!  The problem of bombing our homeboy terrorists just got solved by getting them to travel abroad and bomb themselves there!

If the West's foreign policy and military picks up the massive opportunity granted us by the blood, toil, tears and sweat of our armed forces, in the end it will be easy being a Roman again ...

 

SoD

The darkest hour comes before the dawn

So Sleepy Joe's not for "remaking other countries" anymore?

Well let's take a look at the scores on the doors then ...

For

WWII: Germany, Italy, Japan. Cold War: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, South Korea. Others: Israel, Ukraine (minus Crimea), Rojava.

Agin

Vietnam, North Korea, Iraq, Syria (minus Rojava), Cuba (just missed a sitter there), Afghanistan.

You're winning, Uncle Sam!

Stiff upper lip old boy, and remember: 14 years after that helicopter flew off the roof of the Hotel Saigon the wall came down and Communism / Socialism collapsed, freeing billions of people totally or partially from the most murderous ideology and regimes in the history of mankind!

That was the greatest victory in the history of warfare.

So broad sweeping generalisation statements like "we're not remaking other countries anymore" are wrong-headed.

Pick and choose, "Watch and shoot" as my old section corporal used to say, and "It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it, and that's what gets results" as Bananarama and Fun Boy Three used to sing.

Don't quit while you're ahead. "If you're going through hell, keep going" as Winnie once said.

Keep going, and go for the whole globe.

You can do it.

SoD

Biden is a racist

Sleepy Joe just called one of his staffers, a 48 year old black man, "boy" ...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-calls-black-adviser-boy

Biden is a full-on died-in-the-wool Dem racist.  He lost the battle to enslave blacks, lost the battle to segregate them, and now he privileges them merely to garner their votes, while underneath the privilege facade his wool is died the same as it ever was.

The slip-ups are just too regular to be passed off as anything else.  The "If you don't vote for me you ain't black" blurt, the one where he said "Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids", and now a straightforward racist slur.

I don't know why he doesn't just come straight out with it like Lyndon Johnson, Dem president, in 1965 ...

"I'm gonna have those niggers voting Dem for 200 years".

Here's MSNBC acknowledging Johnson's full-on blend of racism-with-privilege character and politics ...

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism-msna305591 

Shame MSNBC and the rest of the Left media can't acknowledge Biden is out of the same mould - and the entire BLM, Antifa, Woke apparat as well.

SoD

UPDATE #1

Jeez, I hadn't watched the actual footage when I wrote the above.  It's actually worse than I envisaged.  Unlike the "Poor kids ..." comment there's no correction, no expansion to dilute the damage, not even realisation.  One can only conclude that the only thing progressive about Biden is his dementia.  This is, quite literally, a demented racist in full flow, "busier than the devil" ... 

UPDATE #2

Oh, and btw, as you might expect: CNN, BBC, and the Left Axis media crew nowhere to be seen.  Just imagine if the Don or one of his team had said something like that ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+calls+adviser+boy&tbm=nws

 

Goodbye Taliban, hello Mujahideen

If ever the Realpolitik adage "Your enemy's enemy is your friend" needed a real world example it is the opportunity, yes opportunity, that now presents itself in central Asia.

Let's raise the telescope to our eye, and through the fog of war scan the enemy's battle line and list their contingents on this field of glory - clockwise from North ...

- Russia

- China

- Pakistan

- Iran

All four of them fear the Taliban for various reasons: all have deep vulnerabilities to the Taliban.

Vlad is terrified of renewed conflict in the Stan's, his south eastern "near abroad" buffer zone.  Connecting to Islamist groups in the Stan's would be straightforward for the Taliban to achieve and a bloody thorn in Vlad's side.

Ping-a-Ling is fearful of the same: Taliban and Uyghur Islamism in collaboration.

"It's not cricket" Khan has beaten the Pakistan Taliban for now while simultaneously supporting the Afghan Taliban and taking development and anti-terrorism support from the West!  In the world of Realpolitik that's an A*, you have to say.  But in the Great Game everything has changed now and all bets are off.  It's ding-ding round 2 - or round 22 more like - and there is no reason why a victorious Afghan Taliban cannot revisit the quarter lost to "It's not cricket" Khan.

The Mad Mullahs are the Taliban's greatest infidel enemy, the Shia splitters from the true Sunni Islam, and with a pesky minority in Afghanistan that the Taliban would do well to oppress and isolate from Iranian influence.

And turning the telescope to our own battle line, who's there? ...

- Turkey

- Saudi Arabia and the Emirates

Well, there's a gift!  Dirty Erdy and the Camel Boys are all Sunni and thereby the brethren of the Taliban!  That makes it easier.

So what's to do and how to do it?

Firstly, swallow pride, suppress emotion, step away from the event, and let is pass into the mere status quo of history.  You got beat.  Get over it and don't be a Shushka.

Secondly, opium.  Immediately the whole of the West needs to reduce the local price of heroin to zero by putting a dispenser machine outside every newsagent, GP surgery, pharmacy, and hospital, whereby you simply press the button and your baggy drops into the tray, like a bag of crisps or a Snickers bar, absolutely free of charge.  That will destroy the domestic heroin drug trafficking industry stone dead.  It is the only known way to kill a market: reduce the price to zero.

To supply the dispenser machines the West needs to buy the poppy crop of Afghanistan, or at least, as much of it as is required to sate the domestic usage.  That buys us huge influence with the Taliban, we will be their biggest customer.

And then there's the surplus heroin we don't need, and here's the rub: this one's a leaf right out of the pages of the British Empire: allow and encourage the supply of heroin to Vlad, Ping-a-Ling, and "It's not cricket" Khan.  But let them keep paying full whack street price.

Blighty already pulled this trick with Ping-a-Ling's crew way back when, as said.  We rubber ducked them up big time with this one.  They're addictive people, gambling, getting high, they're mad for it up for it.  Here's a little piccie from the past to remind you ...

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/History_of_opium_in_China

The Rooskies, Chinks and Pak's are deeply conservative societies unlikely to be able to lever the Liberal ethos required to take the logic to its conclusion: you destroy a market by reducing the price to zero.  They won't be fitting smack dispensing machines in public places any time soon.  And even if they do, they'll be buying at the Taliban's street price until they can get a poppy crop of their own going.  Their societies will be wrecked and their economy too as they pay "top whack for smack" into the bargain.

Thirdly, get those Talib chaps au fait with the oodles of mil kit we've left behind, and get them busy doing nasty in the Stan's, Xinxiang province, and Pakistan.  There's great synergy here with step two: the heroin smuggling routes where all the wonga is made are the same routes down which the Talibs will be going to do the nasty.  The smugglers need security and the Talibs are it, and the Talibs need covert passage and networks and the smugglers are it.  Nice.  See that smug grin wiped off "It's not cricket" Khan's fizzog in round 2 (or 22) - double nice.

Fourthly, we need to embrace the Taliban as our prime actor against ISIS and more extreme Islamist groups.  The Talibs hate them already, so this one's a no brainer.  "There shall be no-one more extreme than the Taliban".  We'll take that now.  So let's back it up.  The synergy with the weaponry left behind in Afghanistan is obvious.  Any Talibs wanting some foreign service in Africa against Boko Haram, or with the Hairies in Syria against Assad and Vlad, or in Yemen against AQ: speak to Dirty Erdy and the Camel Boys and roll-up roll-up!

Fifthly, and last but not least, some PR and positioning with the domestic audience.  Can't be without PR these days of course, and the Taliban need a rebranding.  From now on they are to be called the Mujahideen once again.  Nice retro spin with plenty of preserved value, we are conservatives after all.

And from a positioning perspective, we need to acknowledge and project that Dirty Erdy and the Camel Boys are at least as nasty to the Laydeez and devoid of human rights, possibly more so, than the Taliban after 20 years of having had nail bars, beauty parlours, kids tranny clinics, chicks with dicks in girls changing rooms, and Save the Whales offices (or is it "Save the Cats and Dogs"? - what a Shushka that Pen Farthing bloke is) thrust upon them.  If Dirty Erdy and the Camel Boys are our friends then the Mujahideen are welcome.  If you served and gave over these 20 years it was not in vain: none of the above would be possible without your sacrifice, particularly the comparatively moderate Taliban of today versus two decades ago.

Of course, Dirty Erdy, the Camel Boys, and Mujahideen are not our friends.  They are our enemies' enemies.  When our current enemies are destroyed these friends will become our enemies and we will destroy them too - if we haven't worn them down with nail bars, beauty parlours, kids tranny clinics, etc. etc. and assimilated them into us by then.

Well there it is.

Sound like a plan?

SoD

What a rout looks like

I was routed today.  Around 500BC, give or take.  My Greek Hoplites vs the Persians.  It didn't seem possible that anything other than total victory would be the outcome as my glittering phalanxes of bronze clad heroes marched onto the field of glory.

I went for the central position.  Screw the flanks, punch the centre of the Persian line, shoulder-to-shoulder, a phalanx of phalanxes as wide as it was deep.  What's he gonna do with no centre and two divided armies flailing about at the peripheries?

Hostilities commenced at 11am, it didn't take long.  This was the view of the centre of my line from where I was sitting facing East, my line almost at my opponent's edge of the table, the Persian immortals clinging to bitter life on the green hill to the right, the rest fleeing to the rear next to the orange tape measure.  That's mini-me, the Greek C-in-C, on the circular base slightly to the right of centre ...

But you can see the tell tale signs of disaster even here in the centre.  My two units of light infantry, the archer's and slingers at the rear closest to the camera, in reserve having done their job of soaking up the Persian missile fire to protect the Hoplite phalanxes as the they plodded forward, start turning to the North.

The North is dire, they were all around us, flank attacks, rear attacks, missile fire against unshielded unarmoured sides and backs, and now everyone left of centre is Persian, my North flank is collapsing southwards into my rear centre ...

And then the South, same gut-wrenching sight, the Persians even taking the time to form a multi-unit line to start the second pincer movement into my right ...

I about faced my rear rank of units in the centre, and tried to fold them outwards North and South, like the leaves out from under a kitchen table, the hoots of derision from my opponents ringing in my ear, "We're playing Cannae next month, can't you wait another 300 years?!", the frantic arguments with my left and right commanders, "Keep pushing, finish the centre and the rest will follow!" they implored.  "No!  I can do both!"  I retorted.

And then, and then, and then ... my phalanxes bounced from the immortals on the hill.

It was over in minutes.

The reinvigorated Persians swarmed in from the flanks, pelting everything with arrow, slingshot and javelin, and the heavy Hoplites couldn't flee quick enough.

I threw in the towel at 230pm, 2 hours before going home time.  It wasn't even a rout, the whole effing lot was in the Kesselschlacht.

A very sad day for the West today.  Oh, and I lost a wargame.

SoD

Gramsci sch-wamsci

This is probably true, girls are cleverer than boys ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/11/girls-set-increase-gcse-lead-boys-should-accept-cleverer/

Girls are expected to increase their lead over their male peers in GCSEs, with an expert saying we should “just accept that they are cleverer”.

But what an extraordinary thing for a wokie to say "We should just accept that they are cleverer".

Would they say,  "We should just accept that white people are cleverer than black people" because they outperform them at school too?

This is classic Gramsci from the culture warriors: the truth state changes depending on local circumstances: racist / sexist when we want it to be, and not when we don't.

SoD

Now *this* is proper racism, red in tooth and claw

Utterly incredible this one ...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-federal-complaint-segregation-race 

 

Posey said that the practice was put in place last year at Mary Lin Elementary School by principal Sharyn Briscoe, who is also Black.

Posey explained that Black students were put in two classes with two different teachers, while White students were put in six classes with six different teachers.

She found out about the segregation when she asked Briscoe to place her child with a teacher who she thought would be a good fit, she recalled to the news outlet.

"She said that’s not one of the Black classes, and I immediately said, ‘What does that mean?’ I was confused. I asked for more clarification. I was like, ‘We have those in the school?’ And she proceeded to say, ‘Yes. I have decided that I’m going to place all of the Black students in two classes,’" Posey recounted of her conversation with Briscoe.

So that's segregation in schools, the exact thing that the Dem party used to do after they couldn't do slavery any more and before they started privileging black people with anti-white racism.

In plain view.

And the deed done by a black person.

And so I turn to the google news tab thinking "Nooo, shorely shome mishtake" and simply type the Mum's name to find some corroboration.  And this is what I get ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=kila+posey&tbm=nws

 

The Daily Mail and New York Post.  The only English speaking MSM doing their job.  CNN, BBC, and all the rest - either airbrushed by them or google.  The Foxnews article itself - airbrushed by google.

We really are in dire straits, chaps and chapesses.

SoD

Update:  Search on the BBC site - airbrushed ...

Search on the CNN site - airbrushed ...

So that's all 3 of them:  Google, BBC, and CNN, airbrushing in concert.

Equity - Gramsci, you bastard

This picture is sooo irritating isn't it? ...

Why are the people black / brown?  It's the same in nearly all of the google images of the same cheesy depiction ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=equity&tbm=isch

It's so patronising, blatantly racist in fact.  It's saying "Black and brown people need Equity, not anyone else".

Equity is not privilege.  It's not something that's granted on the basis of race, creed, gender, identity, or any other category of human beings.  The sole criteria of Equity is income.  If you don't have the income to afford "the things without which harm will come to you", like food, clothing, shelter, health, education, energy, information, and transport, then Equity is there for all equally, irrespective of race, creed, gender, identity.  It isn't a racist, sexist, hetero-phobic privilege, like job quotas and worthless university degrees.

It may be that when you do Equity properly on the basis of income you find certain categories of people over or under represented.  So what?  The job has been done.  They're no longer suffering, whoever they are.  And if you are peculiarly worried about a category of people, well, they've been picked up in greater proportion if they were in greater proportion.  So your racist, sexist, hetero-phobic peccadillos need not surface to piss off the rest of us.

The Left Axis has appropriated and distorted this Libertarian concept just like it appropriated and distorted the word Liberal.  Instead of a term compatible with Equality under the umbrella of Liberty, it is now a term denoting arbitrary privilege.  A fresh addition to the lexicon of authoritarianism today, like the word Liberal that was added in times past.

Equity was a vitally important word for the Left Axis to appropriate in modern times.  In the hands of the Right it would have spelt an end to the statist empires and civic agencies dominated by the Left Axis, packed as they are with wokies, BLM, Antifa, green blobbers, and all manner of oxygen thieves on privilege quotas with worthless university degrees.  In the hands of the Right it was the very Alt-State itself: quite literally a state bypass, the means by which to eliminate need and preserve individual freedom.

It is no surprise that the Right of the Tory party, the folks like Iain Duncan Smith who wince at BoJo's blue socialist agenda, were the pioneers of Universal Credit; UC being the first baby step towards the full and proper instantiation of Equity, agnostic of race, creed, gender, identity, or any other category of human beings, namely UBI (Universal Basic Income).  They saw it as the tool of the Right that it was, backed up by Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Hayek and Friedman.

Little wonder Gramsci's descendants appropriated Equity.  The nice sounding words of the Right that get votes and deliver real prosperity for all with individual freedom needed appropriating and distorting.  Liberal and Equity didn't stand a chance.

The sooner the Right in America re-appropriate Equity the better.  Call it "Negative Income Tax" if you wish to take the sting out of its currently appropriated association with the Left Axis.  That re-associates it with Ronnie and Maggie's ideological leading light Milton Friedman who actually coined the phrase, so the wrinklies on the Right don't choke on it - like the word Liberal was swapped for Libertarian in Right circles when it was lost to the Left.

If your enemy wants it, stop him getting it.  Do anything, but do not lose this word.

SoD

Han man

A good read on the motivations of Ping-a-Ling and the Han crew in and around the borders of China - roves across the surface of all motivations, even tectonic plates! ...

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/what-china-wants

The timeless Putin-esque formula: export Han peeps into states to gain majorities, think buffer zones, spheres of influence.

One wonders if enticing them into Afghanistan might be a good strategy?

They're about the only state in the world that has the will to continue doing to Islamism what needs doing to it, and in so doing if they get quagmired that's two pluses for the West.

But on the other hand, being gangsters themselves they might just make a fist of it with the locals and their mob.  We might face another belligerent pro-China buffer state, puppet-mastered from Beijing and able to jab a thorn in our side like North Korea, but with human bombs instead of rockets, and all laundered away with the "Nothing to do with us, speak to Kabul" proxy rinser.

My court's still out on that one.

And of course it's not as if Uncle Sam isn't similarly minded with thoughts of buffer zones and spheres of influence, and Ping-a-Ling likewise keen to prod and poke them ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+cuba+relations&tbm=nws

Any of those links will do: how China is fiercely backing the incumbent Socialists in Havana, and how Sleepy Joe is living up to his name and missing a sure-fire opportunity to knock out the Havana Socialists with a revolution and thereby shore up the US buffer zone - and poke Ping-a-Ling in the eye by giving him a foreign policy failure.

The Don would have seized that opportunity with both hands, and added it to his list of foreign policy achievements: Rocket Man back in his silo, the Mad Mullahs eviscerated, the Kurds and Old Hickory safe in Syria while Vlad, Assad, Dirty Erdy and the Hairies slaughter each other, Israel and the Arabs resuming normal relations with the first such agreement in 50 years.

Just counting down the days to the next US election ...

SoD

 

Kesselschlacht

And now we see the end game.  The pincer movements of woke, BLM, Antifa, and Greta and the Green Blob turn from their distracting flank manoeuvres to converge on the central position of the free world.

It was never about winkies, fannies, skin or carbon, they were just a long, grinding, softening up bombardment and encirclement strategy, leading ultimately to this: the final battle of annihilation over the idea of Liberty ...

With growing intolerance on campuses to alternative ideas, it was perhaps inevitable that the front line debate over which historical figures are “acceptable” would edge towards free-market thinkers. Now, even a deceased Nobel Prize winner like Friedrich Hayek is not safe, despite the Austrian’s cosmopolitanism and him having taught at the university for two decades.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/07/29/campus-class-warriors-trying-cancel-free-market/

SoD

When parody and reality collide

1979 ...

2021 ...

https://news.sky.com/story/pregnant-man-and-multiracial-handshake-among-new-emojis-being-introduced-this-year-12357013

The phrase "These people are sick" springs to mind.

SoD

Police thought

Another day another Left Axis hypocrisy, this time the Dems again who seem to be having a run of form just now ...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/hypocrite-rep-bush-defund-police-dishing-out-70k-private-security-gowdy

My only extra observation is the Dem pol concerned probably got better value from the market provision of $70k's worth of security than if she'd shoved the wedge into police funding.

Why not follow through on this logic and de-fund the police and give the wonga equally to each citizen and let them choose their security service?

There's this great guy, Corleoni I think his name is, I'll guarantee if you sign up with him you won't have a security problem ever again.  (Don't pay late though - you might wake to find yourself snuggled up with some equine body parts under your duvet!)

SoD

The strange case of Mark Francois' missing vibrator

Well I'm going to chuck it out there straightaway for those in need of 3 hours of that thrilling fusion of laughter and utter despair that is the narrative of every state project.  This is the Commons Committee grilling of the MOD Ajax tank  project's head honchos, and, sweet Mother of God, you couldn't make it up ...

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/5161/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

I have read the entire thing last night, so, a super brief summary: -

This vehicle has a noise and vibration problem like someone shoved a Jack Rabbit in each of your ears and one up your arse for good measure, so bad that it makes its crew arthritic and deaf.  And this problem has only allegedly been discovered in the manufacturing stage of the project now 4 billion quid down the line.

I say allegedly because "anecdotal evidence" is emerging that the MOD head honchos knew about the noise and vibration problems earlier, but decided to "crack-on" to the manufacturing and production stages anyway.

If the evidence is true and MOD head honchos then set about investigating the anecdotal by using soldiers in those vehicles like some kind of lab rats and caused them injury, then the usual stench of criminal negligence, not mere incompetence, hangs around this state battlefield, as it does with so many others.  Their action is like hearing of "anecdotal evidence" of a radio-active leak from a nuclear power station from an enthusiast with a Geiger counter, and then sending a bunch of school kids into the grounds of the power station to see if they get sick!

Captain Mainwaring - aka Mark Francois, MP, a bit of a tanker himself in his past I believe - is apoplectic at the senseless waste of human life and tax payer's cash on this dead dog of an armoured fighting vehicle.  He's particularly incensed that the MOD cannot even seem to find where the effing noise and vibration is coming from in a vehicle they've been dicking about with for a decade or more, so they've hired a bunch of contractors to tell them!

Apparently these grand a day merchants are on the case and should report back by the end of the month (which month you might wonder ...).  My mechanic mate Lee is a diamond at finding those irritating squeaks and rattles you get when you drive an old banger like I do, he reckons he could do it in 10 minutes.  But he won't get in an Ajax if you paid him the contractor's day rate for each minute!

Anyway this dead dog AFV project will likely be cancelled any time now, whereupon it will be all over the news, so I thought I'd share the nitty-gritty slow drumroll before the execution.

SoD

Ve haff veys of making you drown

"Prior preparation and planning prevents piss poor performance" as my Sergeant-Major used to say.  But Jerry climate change alarmists have diverted resources from the tried and tested methods of dealing with climate and weather problems, like simple flood management, that added together with all the others - heating, air-con, stronger buildings, better emergency services, etc. - saves 480,000 lives a year today compared to 100 years ago.

And Germany has a long term history of flooding that the media has failed to elucidate in the aftermath of last week's floods, that if attended to properly by authorities could have saved lives ...

https://www.kreis-ahrweiler.de/kvar/VT/hjb1983/hjb1983.25.htm

Are the climate alarmists in the media and authorities deliberately trying to unpick and sabotage tried and tested means of handling climate change and weather to make the death and suffering worse so as to cause more alarm?  And at the same time hiding statistics to exaggerate climate change?

So says the venerable WattsUpWithThat ...

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/21/welt-commentary-germany-flood-catastrophe-made-possible-by-inconceivable-ignoranceunbelievable-scandal/

Germany’s climate alarmist media appears to be waking up a little, and thus are not totally buying the claims being made by German leaders that the devastating floods were due to climate change. It’s becoming increasingly clear the human catastrophe was the result of unimaginable government incompetence.

Though NTZ initially received a few complaints for blaming the loss of life on “criminal negligence” earlier, such complaints have stopped coming in as it is becoming clear as to why nearly 200 people lost their lives.

The phrase "criminal negligence" keeps coming up with state authorities, doesn't it?  Here's the criminal negligence link from the above text ...

https://notrickszone.com/2021/07/17/criminal-negligence-authorities-failed-to-heed-flood-warnings-let-people-drown-monumental-system-failure/

Ouch!  Seems some folks should be in prison over this one.

Plus it has another listing, this time the top 30 deadliest floods in the last 1,000 years world-wide - and all them happened before 1980! ...

https://mobile.twitter.com/DawnTJ90/status/1416135286233477121/photo/1

The lying and killing goes on and on.

SoD

Update: And on and on ...

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/22/sea-level-model-fail/

Let's play Holocaust!

Why is a joke in 1998 about the murder of 6 million Jews enough to destroy a person's career, but 100 years of joking about, and actual persecution of, middle class people is de rigueur in spite of the murder of 100 million of them in the 20th century? ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/07/22/tokyo-olympics-opening-ceremony-director-fired-old-holocaust/

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has been plunged into turmoil after the show director was fired over a joke he made about the Holocaust.

Kentaro Kobayashi, who was partly in charge of the curtain-raiser, was dismissed after facing anti-Semitism allegations over a comment he made in a comedy act in 1998 resurfaced.

According to multiple Japanese newspaper reports, Kobayashi made light of the mass murder of six million Jews by saying, “Let’s play Holocaust”.

And while we're playing holocaust, why is Greta and the Green Blob allowed to continue murdering 600,000 black Africans every year in central and sub-Saharan Africa by denying them a coal powered electricity grid (which forces them to cook in their homes with open wood stoves, inhale the fumes at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and die at the rate of 600,000 excess deaths a year from lung disease)?

So in summary:  The Left Axis of BLM, Antifa, Climate Alarmists, Dems and Labour destroys a person's career for joking about the holocaust, while at the same time ignores its own 16x greater prior holocaust and perpetrates another holocaust against black people in plain view today.

That joke wins this round of "Let's play Holocaust!", methinks.

SoD

Public sectorism in the RN

Another day another incompetent public sector organisation suggesting the remedy to their fecklessness is yet more tax payer dosh ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/20/need-bigger-navy-says-mp/ 

Only one of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers is operational, ministers have admitted.

HMS Defender, recently at the centre of a diplomatic row with Russia following a voyage off the Crimean peninsula, is the only vessel of the class without an issue.

The other five Type 45s all need work, either planned or due to problems developed while at sea.

“If that ship experiences propulsion problems as we have seen across the Type 45 family, then our carrier group would have to be forced to lean on a Nato ally to ensure that we have destroyer protection.

“That really indicates - bottom line - we need a bigger navy.”

That's as plain as a pike staff as I have ever seen it.  It says "We have utterly failed in our procurement decision making, and consequently our output and deliverables is much smaller.  So we need more to do the same, or, if we only have the same we will do less."

We must thank jolly Jack Tar for his honesty in admitting his incompetence.  The NHS usually deflects criticism of procurement incompetence by blaming the market for ripping it off.  Does BUPA blame the market for ripping it off when the procurement team fails?  No, BUPA sacks the feckless ones and recruits capable people and rectifies the failure.  The public sector has no such pooper-scooper system, it preserves the incompetent, negligent, corrupt and abusive ones, and repeats its dismal performance, degrading its output while sucking in more tax payers money.

We still have to see how the Army is going to explain away the monumental procurement failure of the new Ajax armoured fighting vehicle ...

 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-57348573.amp

What will it be?  "We need a bigger army"?

Summarizing then:  "We need bigger armed forces* to offset the incompetent and negligent procurement teams.  We cannot possibly self-correct that incompetence and negligence."  

You can replace the asterisk in that statement with any state body you like.

That's what public sectorism, collectivisation, nationalisation, and socialism is all about.

Failure by design.

SoD

 

Digging holes and filling them in again

Another day another state worker doing bugger all and getting pay and perks - in this case a bunch of Texas Dems ...

"Hard to imagine a more delusional group of people – thinking that lying about these bills, hopping on a chartered flight, sipping beer, and skipping work is 'sacrifice,'" Crenshaw tweeted. "You guys are pathetic. Totally pathetic."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-democrats-collecting-per-diem-while-in-dc

Zerohedge discovered a survey conducted in Iceland that demonstrated how public sector workers could work a fraction of the week and still output the same ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/icelandic-study-suggests-government-workers-are-unnecessary

Hardly surprising of course, if you produce nothing then spending less time working can't dent a non-existent output.

Made me laugh: 22 coppers covering just 7,000 people.  So redundant they chase stray polar bears ...

Among those with the greatest reduction in work, 4 hours per week, we find the police department in Westfjord (which recently made headlines for chasing rumors of a stray polar bear) – a remote mountainous area of 7,000 inhabitants and a grand total of 22 officers. 

It's enough to make you want to de-fund the police.

But apparently the research was done with pol-backing, so of course, like the Texas Dems, there won't be a pay cut for them doing less than the nothing they were already doing.

This is how messed up state ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution is.  They'll just work less hours and get paid the same.

Ask a Cuban.

SoD

England expects ...

There seems to be a shortage of St George's flags in the shops at the moment, so being a resourceful sort of chap I bought a French one instead and painted a red cross on it ...

"55 years of hurt" was expunged when we sank the Bismarck a couple of weeks back, but what about the Romans, Froggies and Argies?

Working backwards then ...

Do we count the Argies from the 1982 Falklands War or 1986 "Hand of God" incident do you think?  Well, we won the Falklands War so there's no hurt there, so 1986 it must be: 35 years.

Now the Froggies: Godwinson took one in the eye back in 1066, so that's 955 years of hurt.  Ouch.  Notice, btw, how the Froggies sent a bunch of secondhand Vikings to do the job for them, couldn't manage it themselves.  (it's all in the flag).

And finally, the begining: Veni vidi vici.  Queen Boudica got stuffed by the Romans in 61.  1960 years of hurt, how did we bear it?  Note the obvious that Boudica was a Celt, dear old Blighty was still waiting for us to show up to stiffen sinews and upper lips.  It only goes to show us Anglos can't rely on the Celts for anything - leave the keys to the gaff with them and everyone's in like Flynn.

A grand total of 2950 years of hurt.  Sadly, a severe case of upper lip-wobble has just been detected in the region of the borders of Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire, that venerable ground zero of the civilised world.  Something must be done.

So here's the plan ...

We stuff the Romans (I mean, what have they ever done for us, eh, not even a bloody aqueduct?) this evening.  Then we go to the World Cup next year and stuff the Froggies in the pools, quarters or semi-finals, and then the Argies in the final.

Including the Jerries that'll be 3005 years of hurt expunged by this time next year.

Sound like a plan?

 

 

Son of Duff, descendant of Ap-Lake, Knight of the Round table

To wall, or not to wall, that is the question

China, whaddaya reckon?  Do we throw up a wall and do Cold War II (and maybe throw Vlad and the Mad Mullahs in behind it too), or, persist with the strategy of letting the "sliver" of Liberty that has crept into China do the dirty work for us?  Like the opium trade of old: get them hooked on a little Liberty, and democracy will surely follow? ...

"Our commitment to democracy is tested in China. That nation now has a sliver, a fragment of liberty. Yet, China’s people will eventually want their liberty pure and whole. China has discovered that economic freedom leads to national wealth. China’s leaders will also discover that freedom is indivisible — that social and religious freedom is also essential to national greatness and national dignity. Eventually, men and women who are allowed to control their own wealth will insist on controlling their own lives and their own country." - George W Bush

https://www.ned.org/remarks-by-president-george-w-bush-at-the-20th-anniversary/

 

Well the answer is both and neither, IMHO!  Neither is always right or always wrong through the passage of time.  They are, to use the Taoist notion of Yinyang, two parts of the non-linear system that drives the flow: opposite, but steering a path, the usage of each being appropriate at the right moments along the way.  (Yes, I have converted to Taoism, more of that anon).

Consider the Yinyang of the two opposite military doctrines of: (1) Pincer movement, and, (2) Manoeuvre of the central position.

In a pincer movement you divide your forces into two parts and assault the enemy's flanks.  Hannibal Barca's nut-cracker victory against the Romans at the battle of Cannae being the definitive example that coined the phrase Double Cannae for such strategies of left and right envelopment.

On the other hand, in a manoeuvre of the central position you deliberately put your nuts in the opponent's cracker, so to speak, and invite the very Double Cannae from your enemy that a pincer movement defines!  Bonaparte's victory at the battle of Austerlitz being the definitive example of such a manoeuvre - over and out for the Austrians and Russians in 4 hours.

So both are right and wrong depending on the circumstances.  Bonaparte, and all great generals, used both as required along the way - and Bonaparte fell because his successful successive manoeuvres of the central position were trumped by the Brit-Prussian nut-cracker at Waterloo.

Likewise the Yinyang of Wall vs Liberty in undermining the CCP.  In Wall vs Liberty we are looking at another military Yinyang: Attack vs Defend.

Attack and Defend are opposites, and each equally valid in the right circumstances.  Fuelling the "sliver" of Liberty in China (not so much a sliver these days, 60% of China's economy is private sector, albeit grey private sector laced with state interference, but Liberty in China is hardly a "sliver" compared to Mao's days) is the attack.  Throwing up fortifications - the Wall - is clearly a defence.

Has our assault of the last 30 years that so nearly yielded victory in Tiananmen Square petered out and run its course?  Or should we continue with bayonets fixed?

My gut feel - and the way of the Tao is gut feel as much as it is analysis - is "Almost yes, the assault is over; time for some shovel work and R'n'R".  Why "almost"?  Because if we switch to a "manoeuvre of the central position" and away from "full frontal across the whole front-line" we can see that a continuation of the assault is possible.

Russia and China are too big for the US and "coalition of the willing" to take on in the assault today.  Assimilation of the enemy into our world will not take place as it did with Japan, Germany after WW2, and the Ost Bloc after Cold War I, by opening up free trade and borders.  Consolidating the enemy position cannot occur because with these two the attack has bounced.  We are faltering in no-mans-land, it is true.  Entrenchment may seem like a no-brainer: the Wall defence appears to trump the Liberty assault.  But, but, but - but me a Trump indeed! ...

With Russia on our side the Yinyang calculus changes, and the gut feeling must sit up and pay attention.  If the stalled full frontal assault flailing about in no-mans-land can be converted into a manoeuvre of the central position, the assault can proceed anew.

Now we see the straightforward reasoning behind the Don's embrace of Russia.  And though I spit through my teeth at Vlad's rotten regime, well, we held hands with the Rooskies for the second half of WW2 after Barbarossa blew the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact apart, so why not an encore with China, and the Rooskies playing the part of "your enemy's enemy is your friend" again?  We can come back and finish off Vlad after the CCP has fallen.

Biden and the Dem's cry of "Up and at 'em chaps!" full frontal across the whole front-line as we crawl around in the shell holes of no-mans-land smacks of lions led by donkeys.  We need to turn a flank on the enemy, and what better way than using the enemy to do it?

We need some tactics here if we are to rediscover our Tao.

SoD

I'm more worried about us not meeting our zero climate target than the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow

Oh.  Wait a minute.  We've already met the target ...

https://climaterealism.com/2021/01/after-100-years-of-climate-change-climate-related-deaths-approach-zero/

Despite the near constant caterwauling from climate alarmists that we are in a “climate emergency”, real-world data, released at the end of 2020 shows that climate related deaths are now approaching zero. The data spans 100 years of “global warming” back to 1920 and shows “climate related” deaths are now approaching zero.

Oh bugger.  Capitalism and fossil fuels seem to have made us so prosperous we can afford heating, air-con, health services, emergency services, stronger buildings, greater mobility, and a host of other advances so as to avoid the excesses of the climate as it ducks and dives all over the place as it has done for 3.4 billion years.

Right, back to the baggage retrieval system they've got at Heathrow it is then ...

SoD

Either at your throat or your feet

That weepy German girl started a fund-raiser and can you Adam and Eve it she raised £36,000 from soppy English folks! ...

https://news.sky.com/story/german-girl-who-cried-after-wembley-loss-asks-for-36k-raised-by-well-wishers-to-go-to-charity-12350514

How much did the Jerries raise for our English kids while they were blubbing their eyes out for 55 years, eh?  Canny volks the Hun, they'd have been more bankrupt than Greece in the Euro crisis if they'd tried.

SoD

If only I knew the difference between a crotchet and a quaver!

Then, instead of just swooning over Tchaikovsky, or weeping over Shostakovich, or melting to the MJQ, I would actually understand why the music these men, but alas no women so far, have such an effect on me?  There is no doubt that a certain arrangement of notes and chords can have a profound emotional effect on us - but how or why?  Alas, if only I had paid more attention to the late 'Dave' Stannard, a music teacher who deserved much better than me as a pupil, I might have understood!  Whatever, the fact is that certain musical sounds exert immense emotional responses on all but the totally tone deaf and I, for one, remain deeply grateful if totally puzzled as to why!

The horrors of the transatlantic slave trade

A friend of mine came across a terrifying reminder of the suffering of the transatlantic slave trade, tucked away in a West country church (click the image to pop out and read it) ...

Poor chap.  If he'd been double jabbed and wearing a mask he'd probably have been alright.

SoD

Queen gives George Cross to baby killer

If you thought handing 1300 vulnerable underage girls over to Pakistani-Muslim rape gangs for use as masturbation toys (and that's just Rotherham, it doesn't include all the others - Social Services), increasing the rate of paedo re-offending from 8% to 10% through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Social Services), routinely starving and dehydrating thousands of elderly and vulnerable people to death (NHS), record levels of negligence claims costing tens of billions at 4% of turnover (NHS), and 120,000 excess deaths in a pandemic through criminal negligence and incompetence (NHS, Social Services, and rest of state), was bad enough for a so called "health service" and "social service" and couldn't possibly get any worse, well you were wrong.

You can now add "Baby killer" to the list ...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/06/mps-say-1000-babies-die-preventable-deaths-in-england-each-year 

Yep, that bastion of socialism, that great leap forward for mankind, the family silver and envy of the world, the thing you leaned out of your window at 8pm on a Thu evening and applauded, has a track record of 1,000 avoidable baby deaths per annum to add to its list of "achievements".

And, as if to rub our noses in it, the power of the state reaches out and hands a George Cross to the baby killer and celebrates it in fine British tradition with a tea party  ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57714088

Although I'm back on this blog, it is sometimes hard to find words for these seemingly endless murderous repeat performances.  Once again I have to pose the question:  -

When will Blighty's people wake up and realise the emperor has got no clothes?  The welfare state has been an incompetent failure at best and murderous criminal at worst for the money for 73 years.  It is not the envy of the world, it's a laughing stock; it's not the family trophy, it's the family shit.

Why would anyone want to award and celebrate that?

SoD

So now it's "Duff 'n' Son 'n' Nonsense"

And judging by his opening salvo he is going to provide lively support!  Anyway, you lucky people, you now have two Duffs for the price off one - at no extra charge! 

In the meantime allow me to waffle on our current state of affairs, here on 'this blessed Isle'.  Frankly, it's all deadly boring but I hasten to add that in my dotage I now prefer 'boring' to 'exciting'.  Mind you, I am still somewhat 'gob-smacked' that a premiership from Boris could turn out to be quite so unexciting!  Much more and he will be in danger of making Keir Starmer look alive!  Of course, it will not last.  Sooner or later, 'the brown stuff will hit the fan' and, hey ho, we'll all be off to the races - again!

The place to watch is the Far East in general and China in particular.  Not much we Brits can do about that, of course, we needs must rely on 'good ol' Uncle SamJoe'!  Even so, we should ensure that we support the USA in every possible way in their coming confrontation with China and that needs to be done in close co-operation with our ANZAC cousins.  

 

Rivers of Blood

The vile Left Axis culture of woke has pushed deeper into the social fabric of Britain this year, seemingly an infestation in every institution the political class operates or puppet masters: -

Not satisfied with secondary education and universities, the woke rot goes to the primary schools ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/15/primary-school-pupils-should-learn-white-privilege-says-re-teachers/

Primary school pupils should be taught about white privilege, religious education (RE) teachers have been told in new curriculum guidance. 

Lessons should introduce children aged 8-11 to the “key concept” of white privilege, described as invisible benefits that society affords to people “because of their whiteness”, according to the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE). 

The national representative body’s “anti-racist” curriculum also recommends primary pupils learn about “reasons why Bristol’s statue of Edward Colston was racially offensive”. It links to a webpage on Sikh support for Black Lives Matter, who toppled it.

Blatant anti-white racism at Oxfam goes without a proper legal response ...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oxfam-staff-rage-at-whiteness-survey-fw7h6dl3w

Oxfam has defined “whiteness” as “the overarching preservation of power and domination for the benefit of white people” in a survey on racial justice that has caused upset among staff.

The survey was circulated to Oxfam’s 1,800 staff in Britain — 88 per cent of whom are white — and describes racism as “a power construct created by white nations for the benefit of white people”.

In an astonishing "One rule for them and another rule for us" one-liner the Left Axis brushes away its stark hypocrisy ...

The document says “white privilege” is a by-product of a racist system and adds: “Oxfam does not recognise reverse racism.”

Even old friends of mine whose kids have come back from university Left Axis indoctrination are swaying to the preachings of their brainwashed offspring.  One quoted me the Overton window ...

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

... and how the so called "intelligentsia" are entitled to narrow it to control the broadness of views and opinions of non-university people - the "ordinaries" - to only the spectrum acceptable to the "intelligentsia".  In their world view some people are indeed more equal than others.

Who the f do these people think they are?  Where the f did they come from?  How the f are they to be stopped?  - you might ask.  As follows ...

Who the f do these people think they are?  These are the people with the pol gene, back again, like re-animating zombies in a shoot 'em up video game.  The irrepressible urge to control other people that some have - that took an almighty thrashing in the 1980's when we breathed free again for a while after the degrading "hero to zero" three decade era of 1948-1978 - is back again with a vengeance.  The very worse combination of class socialism and race socialism, digitally re-mastered for the 21st century: anti-white racism fused with public sector middle class elitism.

Where the f did they come from?  They came from the Tory party stab in the back that meant Margaret Thatcher's agenda was left incomplete:  The Left Axis DNA was left to reconstitute and fester in the unreformed and non-privatised Health, Education, Social Services and Media industries, whereas it had been eradicated in Coal Mining, Transport, Steel Manufacturing, Car Manufacturing, Telecoms, Gas, Electricity, and Water.  The economic woes of statism, collectivisation, nationalisation, public sectorism and socialism had taken a kick in the pants.  But like weeding a garden, the social and cultural spore remained in the soil of HESSM, guaranteeing another gardening job needing doing later down the line.

How are they to be stopped?  These people will not be stopped by any debate or argument.  They are the ISIS or SS within.  It is past that point.  With children learning white hatred in Religious Education at primary school (see Times article above) through to adulthood across three generations now, you couldn't get a closer analogy than ISIS and the SS:  they are they ...

 

"Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”

 

There is, however, a counter spore that cannot be extinguished either.  Outside of the political class resides a cultural strata of Classical Liberalism /  Libertarianism that remains a quiet but powerful majority.  The important change that needs to occur is that this strata realises that it is OK to counter hate with hate ...

 

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.

Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.

 

"They were icy-willing to wait".  So what will the trigger be then?  The answer is simple:  Economic collapse and oblivion.  Just as it was in the 1970's when Blighty was bankrupt, bailed out by the IMF, more broken than Greece in the Euro crisis.  The pols won't offer counter-woke and counter-elite anti-statism until this happens; the "blue socialists" won't reject their reversion to type until they've spent all the dosh from the magic money tree forest that BoJo said didn't exist.

Only after economic Armageddon will a Golden Haired Thatcher arise again.  As the blood flows, it won't be a black and white thing, both sides will have black and white in their ranks, because this isn't a black vs white thing.  It's not even a left vs right thing, there will be Tories and Labour on both sides.  It's an Authoritarianism vs Libertarianism thing.  It is the top vs bottom axis of Nolan's chart, perpendicular to the left vs right axis ...

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

Hatred is OK.  And this time:  No Quarter. 

SoD

We have arisen, Phoenix like, from the ashes!

Where were we before we were so rudely interrupted by Alzheimer's, a Deep Vein Thrombosis, a scammer, more admin shit than you could shake a stick at, and all to be dealt with under the dead hand bureaucracy of the third Covid lockdown?  Well we'll come to that, and boy is there a deluge of anti-Swampism built up over the last 6 months to release, but first ...

The Gaffer is back in one piece, full of pills and whingeing, in a new garret on the middle floor chez Duff.  Fluffbun and I are regularly visiting him and the Little Memsahib, and staying in the Gaffer's old top floor garret now re-provisioned as our bijoux country residence.  The smell of Dorset cow poo doesn't seem to reach that high up which is a blessing for a suburbanite like myself who gets a nosebleed when he leaves the home counties.

In the finest tradition of Habeas Corpus, here's the proof: the Gaffer at his new station ...

 

So the Gaffer gets to keep his leg, as you can see, the blood thinners having worked a treat.  But his short term memory is, err, his short term memory is, err, yes, you get the picture - barely scoped beyond a paragraph.  But that shouldn't matter too much here on D&N, repetition being the old and new normal.  In fact no-one will probably notice.  Swampism has been a never ending repeating process inside the triangulation of abuse, criminal negligence and incompetence ever since that gamma ray flew out of the sun and knocked out a gene in someone's spunker between 15,000 to 50,000 years ago, seeding the most degrading mutation in mankind's genome and kicking off all the troubles in the world: the pol gene.  Hardly surprising anti-Swampism is a struggle to be original too: one war, scandal, systemic abuse, negligent cock-up is rarely so different from another, calling it all out is an originality challenge in itself.

The comments are now open again now the admin issues are sorted.  (The Gaffer has been dropping posts from time-to-time I know, but didn't realise the comments were closed due to his credit card being cancelled after he was hit by a scammer.  No financial damage done there by the way, just hassle with banks and credit card agencies.)

So without further ado, let battle re-commence!

And a Happy Indie Day across the pond!

Son of Duff

And, lo, ''SoD' descended - and then rose again!

Yes, God bless his nerdy brain, because once again 'SoD' has sorted out my computer-thingie which means, alas for you, that your period of R&R from my interminable waffle is now ended!  Once again I shall 'Bore for Britain'!  But where to start?  Alas, I can no longer rely on 'The Donald' as an endless source of humour because he has 'done a runner',  and even Boris is becoming boring!  Also, I must be honest and admit that my interest in political matters is shrinking by the day.  Of course, it will not last and in fact I suspect that some time quite soon international politics will take a serious turn - a deeply serious turn! 

The malignancy that is the currernt Chinese governent is set on international mischief-making and because they are so obviously stupid they will over-reach themselves and international affairs will become dangerously fragile.  Thus, we needs must rely on President Biden - yeeeeeeeees, quite!  Anyway, sufficient unto the day and all that sort of thing!

Meanwhile, here in 'dear old Blighty', we are enjoying a rather excellent Summer but of course that means we have nothing much to moan about!  There appear to be no major scandals in the political arena and illicit sexual activity has disappeared from sight - or at least from The Sun!  Well, enjoy it whilst you may - it will not last!

 

 

OK, I'm back and I intend to stay - no, really!

Yes, I know things round here have been a bit 'hit 'n' miss' - or perhaps 'miss 'n' miss again'! - but I am returned and I intend to stick around this time - who groaned?  I am helped somewhat because 'les affaires politique' seem to be escaping from the 'boring-snoring' Biden blanket - so you better watch out!  Here in 'God's little acre', Boris continues to bimble and bumble on with - so far! - no ill effects.  Of course, he is aided by the utterly useless and supine Sir Keir Starmer, Her Majesty's non-existent Leader of the Opposition!  Not that some Left-wing firebrand would do any better.  The country has been flattened by this Covid-crap and is in no mood to get very excited about anything.  Eventually, that will stop and the opposition fires will light up again but whether they will be effective only time will tell.

 

 

I blame Trump!

You may have wondered why I have been so quiet recently - or you may not, instead of which you were thanking God the old fool had finally shut up!  Whichever, the reason is fairly obvious - nothing much is happening, certainly not enough to fire up my literary skills - and I heard that!  Life in this ancient Isle has sunk to a level of total tedium.  Politics have simply withered on the vine not least because Her Majesty's Leader of the Opposition has nothing to say and therefore does nothing!  Meanwhile Boris bumbles on and as far as I can tell he does nothing either!  It's all very boring but, beneath the tedium, it is also rather worrying because in politics nothing ever stops entirely - although snoozey Joe Biden gives it a try!

Where and when and why will the 'S.H.1.T.' finally hit the fan?  Internationally, of course, the answer is almost certainly China!  They may not be direct actors but whatever kicks off they will be pulling the strings from behind the curtains.  Well, it's no good worrying over those infamous 'unknown unknowns', sufficient unto the day thereof!   Enjoy the peace and quiet whilst you may!

By the way, I blame Trump because everyone does - for everything!

 

 

 

I hears ya'all but . . .

Yes, there are one or two, or even three or more, corrections to be made since 'SoD' reset my 'computer-thingie' but given his workload they may not be sorted until the weekend.  Also, it must be said that my brain - or lack of it! - is not the least of the problems!  

In the meantime, I watch with sardonic amusement the sight and sound of our politicians cavorting like clowns!  The increasingly ridiculous 'Mrs. McWhinge' is always good for a giggle despite having a voice like someone sharpening a claymore!  When, oh when, will the Jocks wake up and see her for the power-mad fanatic that she is before she leads them all off into the European sunset where-in they will soon feel the thud of German truncheons!  If they truly believe that Brussels will treat them better than us Brits then one can only mourn the rot in Scottish education which was once so admired!

 

 

 

'So, what's new, pussycat?'

I feel as though I have been away from everything for a century even though it was just a few days.  Nor have I been following the news as avidly as I normally do, so I feel even more ignorant than usual!  'Still 'n' all', as you cowboys say 'over there', no major wars have erupted despite 'les Frogs' chancing their arm round the island of Jersey.  Boris continues to bumble on in true Boris-style and the 'Peeps' seem to approve given the comfortable Tory vote in the recent local elections.  Biden seems not to have done anything truly dumb and the Chinese - so far! - seem to be keeping their forces under control.  Perhaps the best news is that 'Mrs. McWhinge' failed to collect the massive Scottish vote she was expecting, so the United Kingdom remains, er, well, sort of united!

As I indicated, SoD descended and hit my poor old house like a whirlwind!  He, assisted by the lovely Hana, carried out all the jobs I have been contemplating for years and it only took him the weekend to complete!  Everybody deserves a Lawrence!

 

 

I'm not dead, it was just my computer-thingie took a turn!

Fortunately, 'Mr. Whizzy-do, Jnr.' flew in and has fixed it for me - allegedly!  So later on, normal service will be resumed - and I heard that!

Speak to y'all later on.

I have put myself on a charge of extreme idleness!

Yes, and I'm sorry, truly sorry, for my idleness in recent weeks,  Also, I am deeply grateful to my posse of regulars who have kept the wheels rolling in the 'Comments' section.  Even so, it's a bit like apologising for the lack of ice-cold martinis in the Sahara desert!  I mean, what is there to write about!  'Boring-snoring Joe' in the White House is hardly a font of good stories and even 'bouncing Boris' has turned into 'boring Boris'!  Mind you, as I have said before - over and over! - it is a curse to live in exciting times!

Meanwhile, 'just over there', the supposed dynamic Germany seems to be sunk in a Merkel morass.  All that blatant agit-prop about German efficiency is seen for the nonsense it is.  Why did anyone ever believe it given that in the last century they managed to lose, not one, but two World Wars which they started?!    Mind you, watching the 'Euros' thrash around as they try to cope with the Covid pandemic has been highly amusing for us despised Brits even if it it was total grief for the families who were decimated.

Is there anyone in the UK who would be eager to rejoin?

 

"The most embarrassing day in the EU's history".

But believe me, there will be more!  My title quotation is from "a former Europe minister" - why am I not surprised?  He was referring to the utterly false claim made by the European Commission who launched an investigation into a stockpile of vaccines found in Italy which they suggested was a secret hoard meant for the British!  It was not!  There should be red faces all round in Brussels but, of course, those lying liars would never blush even if their trousers fell down in their rubbish parliament!

Thank God - and the British 'peeps'! - that we got out of that rancid racket!

'Something rotten in the state of Scotland'

What a festering, moldy pot of smelly porridge Scotland's politics have become under the dodgy grip of 'Mrs. McWhinge'!  However, the question is, what will the Jocks do about it at the next election?  Of course, their rampant nationalism or, as I prefer to put it, their virulent anti-English dribblings, will drive them to support that stupid and dishonest woman despite the obvious fact that she is a whining, whinge-ing liar of the first order!  Ultra-nationalism is a sickness but, alas, there appears to be no cure for it!  There is a part of me - only a small part, mind! -  that hopes they achieve their so-called 'independence' because then we can all sit back and watch them as they thrash around in their home-made porridge as the French and the Germans undertake a fresh version of 'the clearings'!

 

 

 

The EU offers the ultimate truth of how much they hate us!

If there is anyone in the UK who has the slightest doubt as to the depth of detestation that the EU has for Britain they should consult a doctor!  In threatening to hold up legally acquired batches of coronavirus jabs ordered (with surprising efficiency!) early on by HMG, they demonstrated with absolute clarity their malicious and malignant feelings towards us.  My fellow Brits who voted for us to get out of this Franco-German racket deserve praise and congratulations for their foresight - and yes, I was one of them!

Lest you doubt me, this diagram from the DT tells all:

Continent lags behind UK in rollout
Total number of vaccination doses administered per 100 people in the total population

 

 

My TV week is saved!

Thank God for that otherwise I might have been forced to talk to the 'Missus'!  Last night saw the return of "Line of Duty", positively my favourite police series, if not my favourite TV programme, of all.  Happily, all the regulars were back in and it was just like meeting old friends!  Everything remains apparently the same but, of course, that ultra-clever Jed Mercurio who writes the scripts, is already hinting at surprises to come!  What can one say, except possibly, "Mother of God!" 

'You're on a disciplinary charge, Duff!'

For gross idleness in the face of total tedium!  Yes, and I am very sorry but, honestly, what is there to write about?  I mean, when Joe Biden tripping over some airline steps is front page news it is an indication of just how dull and dismal the world has become!  Mind you, 'exciting times' are not always good times!

Happily, bonny Scotland continues to provide some much-needed entertainment.  I will not attempt to summarise this from from the Telegraph:

In 2014, when Nicola Sturgeon took office as First Minister and leader of the SNP, she returned to that theme, telling us that standards would be of the highest order. Pledging to maintain the rules of the ministerial code at Holyrood, she declared: “I will lead by example in following the letter and spirit of this Code and I expect that ministers and civil servants will do likewise.”

Contrast that with where we are today: Ms Sturgeon has been deemed by a majority of a committee of MSPs to have misled them, and thus the Parliament itself, and as a result has breached that very code. But she refuses to resign.

Why am I not surprised?

 

 

 

The claymores are being sharpened!

Unbelievably, Mrs. Sturgeon's lips are becoming even thinner as the bags and shadows under her eyes grow ever larger!  What can one say, except 'ohdearwhatapitynevermind'!

 

 

Being half-Jock myself, I can only plead with my fellow Scots to rid themselves of this dreadful woman as soon as possible.  Gradually, but inevitably, more and more details are coming to the surface of the dirty political wars that have been fought in, er, not so bonny Scotland!  Yes, yes, my fellow Jocks, I know that Westminster is not exactly a clean and pristine environment but ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ Scotland' and it needs to be expunged.