At Unherdables, the Higham hosted tavern accessed through the link James in the sidebar, look for post item Saturday 15.
I wrote:
Going to run this at Orphans now in lieu of a post Sunday morning … there’s way too much text, too many pics, too many links to double up in both places … one readership goes there, one comes here.
Plus I’m not keen to be too plainspeak here on it all. Sorry for the cryptology.
The Labour government’s abrupt U-turn on winter fuel payments – restoring the benefit to more than three-quarters of pensioners – reveals less a change of heart than a sobering realisation in Westminster: after years of austerity, the public no longer gives politicians the benefit of the doubt.
The irony is hard to miss. Labour set out to prove that “grown-up” economics means difficult decisions – only to find that once trust is lost, voters won’t accept vague promises without tangible results.
Sadly, Labour forgot to staff their front bench with grown ups!
It turns out many are sceptical that sacrifices will produce better results for society. That’s why ministers are struggling to justify cuts to disability benefits as a way to “fund” public services – or to convince the public that Britain can’t afford to lift the two-child benefit cap even as ministers claim they will reduce child poverty.
It’s not for government to do that, though; it’s for prospective parents to do it, by not having children they can’t afford.
Today’s class politics has been built on culture wars and channelled through identity and belonging. The warning by the former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane that Nigel Farage is now seen by many as the closest thing Britain has to a “tribune for the working class” should be taken seriously. Citing Reform UK’s surge in the polls, he pointed to a “moral rupture” between voters and mainstream politicians, accusing Labour of fuelling disillusionment through a weak growth strategy and unpopular decisions on benefits.
Those decisions were only unpopular with those dependant on benefits - they were wildly popular with those paying for the benefits!
Labour’s spending review this week looks like an attempt to reframe its offer around extra cash for frontline services such as health and education. That is welcome. Less so will be the real-terms cuts in unprotected departments that Ms Reeves’s fiscal rules demand to account for such commitments. If this reset is not visible and felt by voters soon, the door swings open wider to Mr Farage and his hard-right politics.
'Hard right politics'? It's pretty soft right politics, at the moment, but keep on with the progressive nonsense, and you'll soon see some real hard right politics!
… during the 2020 to 2023 Covid and Vaxx scam.
Yes, there were the major crimes, from Pence/Gates/Fauci/Brock/Birx to Ferguson/Whitty/Hancock … but there so many minor ones too … the iconic picture of the mum and two small daughters on a beach with a uniformed, gun toting enforcement officer standing over them … I’ll never forget that one.
The snuffing out of the elderly was one of the major crimes, whether here or Cuomo in NYC … plus the sheer arrogant grinning of Johnson and Hancock, plus that Tik Tok choreographed dancing in wards as we were meant to come outside from our homes and clap like performing seals.
And then there were the Karens everywhere, weren’t there, e.g. Piers Morgan, so many others. And then there was this:
A rollout of eco-friendly food bins has been blamed for chaos caused by wild donkeys breaking into them to 'feast' on scraps - and spreading disease worries.
Plastic caddies to recycle leftovers have been distributed to residents in villages across Hampshire's picturesque New Forest this month for the first time. Yet locals are now raising concerns about hazardous knock-on effects.
Not just 'now', of course - they raised them well beforehand, and of course, they were ignored.
Once, of course, feeding foodscraps to domestic animals was a normal part of village life, not a council recycling goal - but that was before international trade took off, and the risks of introducing foot and mouth in foreign meats caused the practice to be banned.
There are concerns that livestock historically roaming free in the area - such as not only donkeys but also ponies and pigs - will find the discarded food irresistible.And now within just weeks of the caddies' introduction, donkeys have been spotted eating food out of the bins at locations across the southern English region.
Under the £5.6million programme, food waste caddies have been delivered to residents in Brockenhurst, New Milton, Lymington and surrounding areas between April this year and this month.
Whther they wanted them or not, of course!
'We are all for recycling especially as the area is so connected to nature but it needs to be done in the right way.
'We just want the council and other agricultural institutions to come together to create a solution. It's a different issue to that in urban areas.
'I believe that the bins need tougher locks that don't come open if the bins fall over and to be put out at the right time by the homeowners.'
I recently came back from a trip to Edinburgh to stay wih my brother - he has one of these caddies for food waste, and the local fox had no difficulty opening the latch and spreading the scraps around. So a larger animal like a donkey or pig will find it even easier.
So while one branch of government is trying to halt the spread of a dangerous animal disease, another branch is putting in place the conditions for it to spread repidly. 'Joined up government' -it's a great concept, if it ever happens,,,
Cllr Blunden added: 'We know this is a new way of doing things and may take some time to get used to. 'By working together, it will make a big impact for our environment, our district, and future generations.'
'We appreciate the concerns being raised about animals accessing the food waste and are continuing to monitor this in the early days of the new service.'
But you won't halt it, no matter what, because that would prove you were wrong, and that will never do!
An MP has raised alarm at the slow pace of a scheme to compensate LGBT service personnel dismissed or discharged from the forces because of their sexuality, saying that at the current rate it could take more than a decade to complete the process.It was illegal to be gay and in the military back then - I undertand we are more 'enlightened' now, and it's no longer illegal (some might wonder if it's going to be made complusory!) but why on earth does this attract compensation?
Jess Brown-Fuller, the Liberal Democrat MP for Chichester, said she began examining the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme, formally launched in December, due to the experiences of a constituent, who is one of just 69 people to have been compensated, of more than 1,200 who have applied.
Brown-Fuller used a parliamentary question on Thursday to highlight Stead’s case and to push the government to make sure claims were processed more quickly.
There are other government compensation schemes ewually, if not more, deserving of a hurry up than this one - the Post Office compensation scheme, the infected blood scheme, for instance. Why is Parliamentary time not used on genuine victims of injustice, not people who knew full well that they were breaching regulations going in?
“It will take years to settle all of these applications, and veterans in their 60s, 70s and 80s potentially don’t have years for those payments to be settled,” Brown-Fuller said. “My frustration is shared by the LGBTQ+ veterans, because they’re angry, they’re frustrated and they’re disappointed that they’re still experiencing these delays. “I think the government is totally aware of the issue, because there is cross-party support for this scheme. What it is not fully grasping is that the minister needs to get a handle on how quickly those payments are going out and the process.”
Of course, the modern MoD is happy to roll over and show it's belly to the least threat these days, even the displeasure of a LimpDumb MP:
An MoD spokesperson said: “We deeply regret the treatment of LGBT serving personnel between 1967 and 2000 which was wholly unacceptable.
But was the law then, for good reason, and no-one turned a hair. It's only that it's now viewed with modern day sensibilities that this reflexive crinnging takes place.
“While we don’t hold comprehensive records of personnel discharged due to sexuality, we’re working with organisations like Fighting with Pride to ensure that we reach as many LGBT veterans who may have been affected. “We also encourage anyone who may think that they’re affected to contact us so that we can see if we can help, and the Home Office also runs the disregards and pardons scheme for people wishing to have historic ‘offences’ wiped from their records.”
Why is 'offences' in inverted comments? - according to the law and custom back then, that's what they were.
A couple of years back or more, I became aware, as did many, via Polly, of other names and organisations such as GAVI, PEPFAR, names also such as David Brock … nefarious people. We know of Mark Elias. Over here, there was a Geoff Mulgan doing his worst with Common Purpose … is the public aware?
Hardly, just as the clown MSM need it to be. Plus people are either “not interested in politics” or find it all daunting. This below is in the same vein and is a nice setting out as to how the nefarious operate:
… or housing PLUS remigration?
There is no way to build enough homes to house them all the way they’re multiplying now. I ran a youtube on worst seaside towns now and one was Southend. Our Julia wrote:
The thing that’s killing Southend and many other seaside towns is HMOs- and London councils shipping their undesirables to them!
One commenter on the tweet above replied to the question:
What if govt kept building at a lower rate, nicely designed places … PLUS remigrated, say, 20 million within 5 years?
……
Anyway, that’s a bold idea but the implementing of it is, at this time, pie in the sky … even were some enterprising strong leader to remove the “illegal” numbers, what of those who went about it the right way, some generations back? In short, they’ve very much integrated?
Plus, in a ramshackle, rundown country where even the RAF planes are leased from a hedgefund these days … whose army is going to march into the ghettoes and do this thing?
I for one suspect that economic necessity is going to decide it all … and not that much further into the future either.
