Too early for this suggestion?

Not expecting this to go down well, even with the antiWoke ... we're still talking deportation. Why?

They'll only return, plus the punishment needs to be commensurate with the crime.  This crime below was always capital ... not stealing food, not hurty words ... this is not even bestial ... at least beasts have their own codes.

Look at the punishment the deathcult itself metes out ... you've seen the cages and the fires.  

Too early? All right, yes, it turns us monstrous, agreed. However ... consider the millions who've invaded and who are vastly outbreeding us. It's not just for Biden or Starmer to have more votes, this thing ... it's the nucleus of the globo-psycho army, innit? Remember the pogroms of Darfur, under UN "observers' " eyes.

By all means reject this action for now. When events suddenly change, I'll suggest it once again.

How Dare You Like It Here!

Emma Beddington takes issue with US celebrities having the temerity to ... enjoy a visit to the UK. Yes. Really.

What do they see that we don’t in this island where ecologically dead rivers run with sewage, three in 10 children live in poverty and 1 million experience destitution? A Ukrainian woman returned to her “very dangerous” war-torn home town to access adequate dental treatment. It’s not like our problems are well-hidden. Surely Parker read the New Yorker’s depressingly comprehensive recent piece about 2024 Britain: the “worst period for wage growth since the Napoleonic wars”; stalled life expectancy; the return of rickets. How can you be “deeply in love” with that?

Because it's my country right or wrong, Emma. 

It’s easy to be charmed by difference, I suppose. When my American friend visited, she got the full baptism of British fire: LNER trains, weather, heart-in-mouth driving on rough, single-lane roads, a bizarre encounter with some Richard III, erm, eccentrics and unwelcoming pubs peopled with ominously silent men. She loved it (except our road collision with a “garbage can”).

What a pity you can't. Or won't. 

Crucially, too, A-list anglophiles can live in a perfect British bubble they have the means to maintain: Ted Lasso’s London of charming stuccoed houses and chirpy pub-goers; country idylls in Cornwall or the Cotswolds. Their 1% experience has little – basically nothing – in common with life for households on the UK’s average income of £32,500.

We are truly in the pit of national despair, understandably, and I wonder if it’s helpful to see through their eyes that there are good bits of Britain: Rob Delaney calling the NHS “the pinnacle of human achievement”, say, or Parker being thrilled by London’s diversity.

I think personally I'd choose very different 'good bits' to those.  

It’s hard not to fixate on how awful everything is, so I appreciate being reminded that there are still things worth fighting for, if only because that is a more productive feeling than hopelessness.

It seems you like to wallow in hopelessness, though.  

Analysis of an issue which got past us

On the British Commonwealth ANZAC Day (April 25th), there’s a flood of issues washing over and past us … this is one affecting the UK as far as trade and govt agreements go … guess one of the evil Brit muvvers working towards this? Yep, Pigboy Dave, Grand Chatham House Rejoinist.

As X becomes the premier news and views exchange platform for those not tik-tokked or whatever else the young lefties use, so X comes under heavyweight fire and certain layouts and practices have crept in, been introduced, including shadow banning, outright banning and if opposed, as it’s a big player, then when reinstated, it’s minus 600k followers (in the case of Radio G).

My explanation is that it might be Musk, maybe not. His focus is on many things, inc. Space X and Brazil, and so someone or something like AI deputises. Much was made of 70% plus of the Dorsey Woke departing but that still leaves 30% and the Dorsey rump are not in the menial areas.

It makes treatment of issues in any serious way difficult and this is one of those:

https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=72EFAAD5A26A9A5CE69A461D7B683159

It’s a drop in the ocean whilst we’re distracted by another drop in the ocean … five illegals killed yesterday by fellow illegals, all who paid money on the French side of the channel for a place in a dinghy … the dinghy racket allowed and abetted by both UK and French govt, using the help of the navies, plus bodies such as the RNLI, volunteers with CEOs and HQs on big money … fake charities.

The redacting reorganisation at X does not help bring any issues in depth … rather news “bites” … which people then base views on in lieu of something in more depth.

Given the sheer number of issues we’re flooded with, is it any wonder many slip by unscrutinised, esp. on four or five person blogs where the main redactor has the same overall sleep issue as many others do.

Strange: or Suspect

As must be fairly obvious, either from my photo, or my Online Name, I am a Pensioner. And as a Pensioner, I watched, with some perturbation, as the time drew close towards the latter part of last year, when the calculations are made which determine what kind of rise the normal State Pension would be. 

As it turned out, the increase was calculated to be just over 8%, which made a significant bump in the Pension payments to people such as myself.

And lo and behold, as from the 1st of April, the 8% extra small but significant slice came automatically into my bank account. For which I am duly grateful.

But here’s the ‘Suspect’ bit. I shop at only one supermarket, and my purchases, these months and weeks, tend to be much the same in most minor things, with the occasional bump when, say, an appliance needs replacement. I also, possibly because I had to check on the spending on major contracts when still working, keep a very simple spreadsheet of my monthly spending. 

Now we all, or most of us, are aware of the need to allow or account for inflation, especially for those of us on limited incomes; as we are constantly reminded by this so-called Government, that they are ‘winning’ the battle against inflation. But checking, as I can do on my basic spending, I came across something which I do feel can be labelled “Suspect”.

Since the last week in February, my weekly outgoing spending on basic necessities, has slowly but remorselessly increased to level off at 7.95% above that February total.

Funny? Nope. Funny Peculiar? Definitely.

Saving The Planet, Or Pleasing Your Customers?

Tesco appear to be taking the former option:

While the new policy does not yet apply to all Tesco locations, employees and shoppers took to the store's Reddit page to call out the "sneaky charge being imposed".

One user said: "So, was in Tesco today, got some swimming clothes for the kids and my wife got a dress."Went through the scan as you shop and paid, went to get the tags taken off and was told it’s 10p for a clothes hanger.

"Now I work at this store, and I’ve never heard of this. I’ve also never seen anything around the store or around the clothes section.

"So either someone is trying to earn some extra dosh or it’s a sneaky charge being imposed on customers. Has anyone else had this?"

I shopped in Tesco at the weekend and obviously my local isn't in the trial, but you know what I DID see? A box where you can donate unwanted hangers for recycling. 

One person responded: "Tesco charging 10p if you want to keep their hangers now! Next there will be an entrance fee."

Please don't give them ideas!  

However, some agreed with the new rule with one user writing: "It’s a trial. They are trying to discourage people from taking hangers as they usually just get chucked anyway.

"If Tesco can keep them they can reuse them and therefore don’t have to produce more. Little planet-saving steps."

Then what's wrong with the box for you to leave them in? 

Tesco said only a small number of stores are taking part in the trial with the brand yet to announce how many more locations will implement this idea.

They'd be mad to, it's only going to alienate customers. What the hell is wrong with retail owners these days? 

St George's Day reviewed

More on today's MET disaster

St George’s Day

Assuming that by now the stories are all known, of St George, of St Edmund, of Alfred, of Arthur, of Ethelred … assuming all that, and if not, why not … then why use a saint like George, particularly as other countries such as Sicily also do?

The answer might be that for a start … it’s a ripping story, it can galvanise, as much as can a song by an C18th English mystic:

And brave people have fought and died for her … and here’s a tale of one of those, one of the stalwarts at site N.O., Steve, retired army, inc. special units:

Recalling St. Georges Day at my junior school: the corridors and assembly hall were festooned, the national flag of England displayed on a thousand pieces of bunting. Additionally the flagpole at the centre of the quadrangle would fly the Cross of St. George for the day - the flag of Union would take the day off - and go for a wash. 

Wrong Tense!

It never used to be, what changed, I wonder? 

Akter had come to the UK from Bangladesh, where Masum was also from. She had been living above a shop in Oldham but was staying in Bradford on the day she was killed.

Ah! 

Muhammad Shehzad said crime had worsened significantly since he came to the UK in 2003.

You don't say?  

He blamed Rishi Sunak for driving down living standards to the point where people felt the need to turn to crime.

“If you give a good chance to work, crime goes down,” said Shehzad. “There needs to be more investment in this country, my home.”

What difference do living standards make to the typical Muslim mysogynistic crime of passion? 

Naz Shah, the Labour MP for Bradford West, said the city had been traumatised by what was a rare attack on an ordinary day.

Yes, Reader, this Naz Shah.  

“People are very clear this is a very isolated incident and Bradford isn’t like this,” she said, adding that the fear was not that people would be killed in a random attack on the street but that women were being murdered by men.

Muslim men, Naz. Your voters,  

“I went to speak to literally hundreds of women in the Chaand Raat events, prior to Eid, where everybody gets their mehndi done. We had a conversation and all of them were saying: ‘When is this going to stop, men killing women?’ It wasn’t about Bradford, it was generally women really, really angry that, again, a woman has been murdered. They were saying: ‘Naz you need to talk more about it. This has got to stop.’

Women at segregated events urging another woman to do something about it? It's a nonsense, and it's what has turned Bradford into what it is today. 

Passover, Pesach, Catholic & Protestant Easter, Orthodox too

Ignore that other one from the C7th.

Sunday, May 5th I know to be “Xhristos voskres” or Christ is risen and the bible story is set over Passover of course … or Pesach … that’s why Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem. In other words, May 5th is Orthodox Resurrection Day or Pesach or Easter egg day.

But what’s this about Jewish passover? I’d always thought it was around our Catholic and Protestant Easter already passed.  Best look up Jewish Passover (or Pesach) right now:

Evening of Mon, 22 Apr 2024 – Tue, 30 Apr 2024

Whoa!  Hang on … this is doing my ’ed in! All four events are on different days or evenings this year … not forgetting that the Jewish and Orthodox days go dusk to following dusk.

There’s also that deathcult guy Ed Mubarak to factor in … think that one’s gone now but it’s irrelevant anyway as it was C7th and seems to be about microwaving Jewish babies and raping women, slaughtering Christians … that sort of thing.

The one which dislocates me is Pesach or Orthodox Passover, which I now know culminates on Sunday, May 5th. 

Phew!  I’ll look it all up and get back to you but it does seem an auspicious year, 2024, in more ways than five.

Sanity in diet and exercise

A reposting from another place? Yes … guilty, I confess.

As various commenters wrote on the first one:

This, as I forever bang on about, is the offputting thing with vlogs and podcasts … the clickbaiting, the setting up of the punter who still clicks in, the BS game playing … je deteste.

Also, who’s to say he’s even a doctor? Coz he wears that outfit in a constructed video? And even what he says, e.g. about fruit being not good in sugar … yes and no.

More after the videos: