Well, finally some UK politics worth writing about

Firstly, the fun bit ... the rough house corridor tactics:

https://order-order.com/2022/10/19/bryant-demands-investigation-into-bullying-in-the-voting-lobbies/

The Americans are onto the night's doings:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/amid-reshuffle-uk-conservatives-accuse-jeremy-hunt-globalist-coup

And of course, the fracking confidence vote:

https://order-order.com/2022/10/19/sketch-frack-sack-or-back-debate-yes-to-all-three/

I presume Boris is off bonking Princess Nut Nut in the Bahamas, not all that keen to return to the helm.

So, summing it up, we the unrepresented anti-globo, anti-woke need another movement. One leader's not all that en-Tice-ing but Nige stepping back in the ring might stir things up.

They have the colouring not quite right yet ... less blue and more teal methinks:

Doesn't She Have An Equally Strong Case Against Her Mother...?

A human rights lawyer who was groomed, raped and made pregnant at 14 by her mother's boyfriend has received a payout by her former school after claiming staff failed to protect her.

Her case against the college, which charges fees of up to £35,000 a year, surrounded the belief that if staff had fulfilled their safeguarding responsibilities, she could have been spared months of abuse.

Or does mummy not have such deep pockets?

In 2020 insurers for Ellesmere College settled out of court and paid Miss Fawcett a sum without an admission of liability.

Thought so...

Shakespeare was right, wasn't he?

Evenhanded dispensation of justice?

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/familys-message-men-after-dad-25284123

The family of a man murdered by his girlfriend urged other men to come forward if they are suffering from domestic violence.

Emma Walsh was jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years for the murder of her partner Gary Morgan. Walsh knifed the 36-year-old to death at her home on Lavan Close in Everton on the evening of April 10 this year.

On Friday last week, she was unanimously convicted of murder by a jury after only one hour and 37 minutes of deliberations. The 31-year-old was sentenced today at Liverpool Crown Court, where she sat turned away from the public gallery at all times during the hearing.

There’s a lot more to this in the broader sense.  Yes, the initial surprise is the 18 years, rather than the usual 3 months when it’s female, or released on compassionate grounds because it has  womanly bits and gushes tears … though the ‘womanly bits’ are not a given these days.

I plead guilty to enabling such behaviour in my personal case. She was physical in every way, positively I mean, but so was I and during this attack or that by her, five percent of the time, the other ninety-five percent happy or sullen, a full nelson usually calmed things after a while. Obviously I should have cut all ties and gone my own way but I didn’t and any male inside a female’s orbit knows why. In fact, in a way, it was quite cute and she never threw crockery, to her credit, it was always direct.

Most of the time though, I’d just walk out, literally, for twenty minutes (don’t sleep in the subway, darling … Petulia knew the game) … mainly so I would not overdo it and once when I got back, the place was trashed in the sense that she’d carefully placed piles of books and papers creatively around on the rug, while she went to her mother’s for the night. And it was her mother too. The physical clinch was usually the better way.

Right, so what to make of female behaviour? Well, we could start with estrogen, then touch on the old chivalry and it is relevant because I don’t know a man who has physically got stuck into a woman … I mean, that would be cowardly, wouldn’t it, one just didn’t, one restrained her and soothed with words … different matter though with another male and most males I knew … well we just didn’t go physical either, unlike meatheads, we kept a respectful physical distance and just had a laugh about whatever. What’s the point of M.A.D.?  Lunacy.

And there are our double standards, I quite admit it.  In my mind, the gals have their strengths, very real strengths, we have ours, the rest is common to both. To my mind, this stabbed man in this tale was a bit wimpy, truth be told and that’s just red rag to a female bull in her case, as this Walsh has now discovered the consequences of.

Treat men and women alike?  In the eyes of the law, yes, plus rich and poor, indigenous and invader.  But on a one-to-one level … come on … you know very well what she radiates, you know her spell, and any gal uses such as one of her weapons.  Why not?

Which does not answer the question of consequences of actions in general between any two parties. There must be fair, simply stated laws, no-discretion consequences in sentencing, everyone in the society knowing what will happen.  Plus evenhanded judges, male or female.

Ah, but how to achieve that?

Also of interest:

https://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/2022/10/20-something-women.html

Don't They Have Google In Canada..?

Ms White, who originates from Canada but has lived in east London for the past ten years added: 'I'm Jewish and the swastika is racist and anti-Semitic. I don't understand why the hotel have got it there and their explanation is offensive.'

 Unfortunately for you, snowflake, it's also completely accurate: 

After contacting the hotel on her behalf, she was told by Booking.com that the swastika in the Plough Inn bathroom is the one associated with Indian culture and not Nazism.

Despite its links with Hitler's regime, the swastika is originally a sacred symbol in Hinduism and a common sight in homes and temples around India.

Good job you never took a Tube out to Upminster, you'd be too horrified to get off!

But Ms White insisted: 'I appreciate the cultural significance of the swastika but regardless of this, we are not in India. This is in a hotel in Norfolk where it has completely different connotations.

'The hotel's reasons for having a swastika are just nonsense. They can't claim ignorance-everybody knows what it stands for. It should be removed immediately but they are so unapologetic about it. For me, this is active racism.'

But they aren't claiming ignorance at all. You, however, are showing plenty of it.

Not just what did they know but when did they know it?

My initial cynical thought was ‘just another piece to fill the column inches’.  After all, readers expect something significant to keep the reassurance going that we do see what’s wrong and are calling it out.

Then I saw this:

We are – we are constantly being told – living in ‘unprecedented times’, facing ‘unprecedented circumstances’ requiring ‘unprecedented measures’ for which there is no historical precedent and because of which – is the unstated implication – those in power cannot be held to account for the consequences of their actions. ‘Unprecedented’, however, is one of those words that should set alarm-bells ringing, implying, as it does, that we are in a moment about which history can teach us nothing. 

History tells us that we should always be suspicious when those in power start claiming we are in a moment about which history can tell us nothing. The call to forget the past is always made in the service of power; but there are very few things that history cannot teach us. Once upon a time, we studied history precisely in order to learn from it, rather than stumbling around without memory in the apparently unprecedented newness of the present. 

Whether that present is a product of ignorance or deceit, the past inevitably has a lot to tell us about supposedly ‘unprecedented’ moments, and so it is with the coronavirus ‘crisis’.

Absolutely.  Over at Gab, there are constant reminders of just what, for example, the Danchenko trial in the States really signifies.

The Govt and the BofE

Dearieme wrote, in comments:

I don't like the sound of a Bank of England coup against the government. We get to vote for parliament every five years and we don't get a vote on the BoE. Is this some anti-Brexit dirty work?

On the strength of that and various comments, I promised to post a sane take on the heading on Saturday.

I simply can’t, there seems nothing sane going on in the UK govt. Possibly connected, possibly not, are the millions to prop the Swiss up, everyone but Britain:

https://voxday.net/2022/10/12/this-is-fine/

Guido a few days back:

The Sun broke the news that Truss “is considering raising Corporation Tax next year in spectacular mini-Budget U-turn”. 

Kwasi, meanwhile, is over in the States to meet IMF chiefs. Channel 4 doorstepped him on his way in, where he said “I’ll be coming out with a statement on 31st October and I’m not going to pre-empt that.”

Well, we’re past that now. Ian J:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/uks-truss-announce-major-u-turn-ditch-tax-cut

Loyalty? backstabbing? What an example of 'leadership' (or do I mean responses to string-pulling). After reading the ZH account of Truss' duplicity, I saw this:

The Price Of Failure...

Her son, a retired telecommunications engineer, has now received an apology and £1,000 in damages after taking Barnsley Council to court.

You might think that's a pitiful sum for hanging up on your dying elderly mother who had pressed the button she thought would bring help when she needed it... 

Outside court, Mr Belk said: ‘It was never about the money, it was about trying to get justice for my mother and get an apology from the council.

‘It was a shoddy service. The call operator should have called myself and an ambulance the second she realised my mother was unable to speak up. My mother would have been expecting help, having pressed her red button.

‘Lying on the floor in agony was a horrible thing for her to have to endure in the last few hours of her life.’

If you consider you've had justice, good for you. Me? If that was my mother they'd treated that way, I'd prefer somthing a little more...Biblical.  

Mosquitoes: and Dresden

I would like to cast readers’ memories, or minds if the reader is younger than seventy years old, to the afternoon of September 7th, 1940. For this was the day that the Blitz began. The Blitz began at about 4:00 in the afternoon on September 7, 1940, when German planes appeared over London. For two hours, 348 German bombers and 617 fighters targeted the city, dropping high-explosive bombs as well as incendiary devices. Later, guided by the raging fires caused by the first attack, a second group of planes began another assault that lasted until 4:30 the following morning. In just these few hours, 430 people were killed and 1,600 were badly injured. 

The first day of the Blitz is remembered as Black Saturday.

Beginning on Black Saturday, London was attacked on 57 straight nights. Between Black Saturday and December 2, there was no 24-hour period without at least one “alert”—as the alarms came to be called—and generally far more. Nine were registered on three separate occasions, and from the start of the Blitz until November 30 there were more than 350 alerts. 

The nights of November 3 and 28 were the only occasions during this period in which London’s peace was unbroken by siren or bomb. After the first week of September, although night bombing on a large scale continued, the large mass attacks by day, which had proved so costly to the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain, were replaced by smaller parties coming over in successive waves. On occasion, forces consisting of as many as 300 to 400 aircraft would cross the coast by day and split into small groups, and a few planes would succeed in penetrating London’s outer defences.

It always begins with the anomalies

This is post two of two, on Saturday I’ll be looking at Truss and the BofE. However, I need to write this disclaimer today.

In the same way that TCW (Kathy) and TDS (Toby) have writers from different angles and of different hues, so does OoL.  Just because Julia and I both write here, plus Grandpa, that does not assert universal uniformity of opinion.

However, there are common elements, inc. a general wish to be left alone to live our lives without govt micromanaging, plus being anti this Reset bollox, whether it be Net Zero or the dire state of the judiciary.

And one thing underpinning Julia’s writing, most consistently, is that she puts up some report and lets the anomalies in it sink in for the reader, with some annotation.  As for us across the way, we have a gang of deep sceptics who deep ferret and fisk, all unherdable cats and there are some consistent features which have always confronted us.

One is that there’s no consistent, complete and uniform narrative on our side … there are anomalies here, snippets there, which we note and store in folders.  After quite awhile, patterns emerge as you go through each folder, more often than not counter to the Official Narrative.

A few times in the US, vloggers have put together collages of talking heads across the networks and cable, all stating something in precisely the same words.  Nothing surprising in that, as agencies such as AP and Reuters put out syndicated feeds, relying on the cost cutting, laziness and inability to think of channels … so they avail themselves of the syndicated reality.

How long does it take?

It would be amusing seeing those still feet first in that river in Egypt … amusing, that is, were it not so dire.  Death from the wrong treatment, for example, for thousands upon thousands, whilst another efficacious remedy was at hand … that strays into criminal territory.  Nurses and doctors losing their livelihoods … yeah, really amusing.

And the climate bollox?  Carbon targets ignored by the jeterati?

Then there is the treatment of the unvaxxed for three years by a sea of karens, mocking in their pig ignorance … the ignorati at large.  We are not in the least amused.  But the least amusing thing of all is the painstaking gathering by people who have taken the effing time to explore, just airily dismissed, ‘Don’t tell me you believe in that!’  If the evidence points that way, yes, only a lazy fool does not at least heed it and further explore. If it doesn’t hold up, then at least you’ve taken the effing time to go through it, not dismissive lip service.

Here are some examples from the last few years:

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/here-are-7-times-disinformation-turned-out-be-just-opposite

That was posted Wednesday evening, Thursday morning there is this: