"It appears that something has gone very wrong here.”

Robert Bracegirdle, 75, disappeared from his home in Goole in 2020 after struggling with mental health issues. A police search failed to find him and a coroner later ruled that he had died by drowning in the nearby River Ouse. His next of kin were forbidden access to his flat by East Riding council which promised to store his possessions until he was officially declared dead. However, when an inquest was held two years after his disappearance, the family discovered that the contents of his flat had been disposed of.

That's the sort of local council 'efficiency' we've come to expect... 

According to the housing law specialist Giles Peaker, partner of Anthony Gold Solicitors, relatives of council tenants who die without having made a will usually have to wait for a grant of probate before they can enter a property. However, in Bracegirdle’s case, probate could not be applied for until he was officially declared dead two years later, by which time his property had been disposed of. “Under the Tort (Interference with Goods) Act 1977 the council would have to keep the deceased tenant’s belongings secure and serve a notice on the administrator, executor and/or on the public trustee requiring collection of the belongings before disposing of them.” Peaker said.

And if they fail to follow that, never mind, the taxpayer will pick up the bill! Small comfort that will be to the bereaved relatives.... 

“The council told us that we were not allowed to enter the flat and remove any items because my uncle could not give permission,” said his niece, Charlotte Bracegirdle.“It said that once it had repossessed the property through the courts, it would take a full inventory of the contents and put them into storage until an inquest. My mum contacted them when an inquest date was set and received a two-line email, which didn’t even address her by name, stating that the contents had been disposed of as is ‘standard procedure’ when a property has stood empty for a long period. We suspect some of the more high-value items may have been sold.”

Shouldn't the police be involved then, as surely that's both theft and malfeasance in public office? 

East Riding council declined to respond to questions about when and how Bracegirdle’s belongings were disposed of. It said in a statement: “The council offers our deepest condolences, and regrets that the council’s actions caused distress at a difficult time for Mr Bracegirdle’s family. We acknowledge, now and at the time, that matters should have been dealt in a more sympathetic way. In response to the concerns that the family members have raised, we have changed our processes to ensure that similar cases are managed in a more sensitive way. This case is currently being dealt with by our insurers so we cannot comment in more detail at this time.”

How many other councils are doing this, I wonder? It's just another reason to ensure you have made a will. 

Death:Where Is Thy Sting?

I write today about an addiction. That addiction is for Tobacco, for smoking, for chewing, for inhaling the deadly carcinogens which have been proven, time and time again, which this addiction holds, promises and delivers.

As with all things, I must be honest. I smoked. Either cigarettes or pipe tobacco, for almost thirty five years. I smoked when in the Merchant Navy, I smoked when living in South Africa, when buying a thirty pack of smokes, was cheaper than when buying duty-free in an airport shop. I tried to give up once when my eldest brother came visiting, along with my mother; but failed when in a restaurant filled with smoke. 

I determined to leave South Africa when I saw the early signs of the movement towards Black Majority rule in that once wonderful country, and; when seeing the vast difference between South Africa prices for a pack of cigarettes, and for the same in Great Britain & Northern Ireland, a rise of some 250%. This for a family man with a growing family, was something I literally could not afford.

So I, along with my wife, stopped smoking, just like that. It was not easy, for almost three weeks, I was like a bear with a sore head, but, as I wrote, I rediscover my senses of taste and of smell; I was free of a killer addiction, because: along with the nicotine comes the deadly fumes which almost guarantee cancer.

I note that this ridiculous So-Called Labour Government is proceeding with the same plan excavated by the Tories, which attempts to ban anyone of a certain age from buying cigarettes. Don’t they realise that ordinary British reaction to any Authority trying to ban anything is to make that same thing more desirable.

The only proven method, as far as I can tell, to limit cigarette smoking is to price it almost beyond the average smoker’s reach in terms of pure cash. 

Smoking is an addiction, pure and simple. The whole anti-smoking industry, and it IS an INDUSTRY, is based upon the fallacy that human beings can be weaned off of this deadly addiction slowly, either by Vaping, or by the purchase of various filters which can be ‘proven’ to lessen the urge to to smoke.

GB&NI’s biggest killer is tobacco, and, unfortunately, the ONLY WAY to come off that deadly habit is to stop buying those deadly sticks at one shot. Your wallet, your family, your very life and future depends upon it!  

Classic moral conundrum

As far as I can gather, Sandford Police is a parody site:

… and some days back, they ran this, replied to by SadButMadLad, one of the regular dissidents out there:

Uh huh. For the record, my first thought was the domestic thing … no knowing what she’s done to him.  The child is missing now, next hour, much of the day as the disappearance is investigated.  Not a clue what  an RTC is meant to be, so that comes fourth, leaving collapsed man in third.

The Cousins Won’t Like This, Khan…

No separate entrances at the mosque for men and women, then? 

Combating the “pernicious influence” of misogynists such as Andrew Tate in primary schools is a vital part of teaching children about equality and respect, the mayor of London has told teachers. Sadiq Khan has written to every primary school in London urging them to counter the online misogyny of influencers such as Tate through new classes and workshops that are being set up across the capital as part of plans to tackle violence against women and girls.

Oh, of course. Ignoring the elephant in the room and declaring an Internet nobody Public Enemy No 1. How surprising...  

The mayor’s office has launched a £1m toolkit to help teachers counter dangerous messages from influencers after research revealed that one in three young males have a positive view of Tate, a self-proclaimed misogynist, and one in 10 children have watched pornography by the time they are nine. The toolkit, developed by the healthy relationships charity Tender, trains teachers how to run workshops, drama and interactive classroom sessions to teach nine- to 11-year-olds how to recognise and call out inequality and sexism.

And if they start calling it out when they are taught about Islam? What then? 

Susie McDonald, the chief executive of Tender, acknowledged that discussing gender inequality and healthy relationships could be difficult, but said primary school was a critical time for children to learn about communication, empathy and respect. “It’s imperative that children learn about healthy relationships and are supported to build positive attitudes and behaviours,” she said. “By challenging potentially problematic attitudes at their root, we can prevent a culture of abuse against women and girls.”

There's people banged up in jail at the behest of our lying coward  of a Prime Minister for doing exactly that, Susie.

On the mendacious shenanigans going on …

… in the US, plus the UK, in the conduct of national elections:

First off … concerning Fulton County not informing the GOP it was counting over the weekend, no GOP observers present … out and out fraud. For a start, I’m both used to and actually was, on more than one occasion, a “scrutineer”:

I’m stunned that the concept does not exist in the USA, at least in Federal elections … maybe they call it “observer” … whereby parties with over X% of the vote last election get to appoint one scrutineer per counting table, the count only taking place between certain set hours … very strictly for obvious reasons.

As for vote flipping machines controlling the count from overseas via intranet or internet … I’m just stunned. How on earth can an electoral process take place under those conditions and not be called third world? And counts going past midnight on election day, without troops being detailed to watch from outside the counting room?

Having said all that … just how does an incoming party, as in the UK, get to promise their manifesto, get in on 20% of the eligible vote, then promptly reverse the policies they were returned on the basis of? How does that keep happening if there’s an independent and fair MSM?

Not so much the Peter Principle ...

... as the parachuted-in, non-comp DEI hire.  Firstly, this is the Peter Principle itself in a nutshell:

This below, on the other hand, is a parachuted-in, non-comp DEI hire ... in a similar way to Reeves being incompetent at her job and of zero business experience. Yes, there are many non-comp men too - Brown, Starmer etc. - but the one below is of one the other 289 genders, the one which procreates:

Others have commented as well:

Another way to express it is "politically acceptable to communists".

Medicine Giving Way To Groupthink Is Indeed A Tragedy, George…

...funny how I never heard a peep out of you when all the psychiatrists decided that if you felt like a memnber of the opposite sex. you were right, and this was a mistake to be corrected. Or when all those doctors who'd previously said masks were ineffective for covid suddenly about-faced and swore blind they were our only hope.

...the story spread so widely by the media – that ME/CFS patients were irrationally refusing treatment and abusing those who offered it – stuck, in the NHS and beyond. Medicine gave way to groupthink.

Here are some things that should not need stating. Scientists and those who champion them should never close ranks against empirical challenge and criticism. They should not deny requests for data, should not shore up disproven claims, should not circle the wagons against legitimate public challenge. Above all, those who suffer the most should be listened to the most.

I also seem to recall you're rather keen on climatologists closing ranks against empirical challenge and critiscism. 

Landbound wild animal warns ...

... of contaminated waterbound animals for food:

That landbound wild animal by the way.  More details on the waterbound creatures:

Our bill for reparations to us

TCW Monday:

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/our-bill-for-ending-the-slave-trade-please-pay-asap/

... plus Budget Day observation:

They Heard Hoofbeats And Thought ‘Horses’

That's not so strange, is it?

Police officers urged paramedics and firefighters to treat the second novichok incident in 2018 as a drug overdose despite warnings from the ambulance and fire services that it had similarities to the first poisoning four months earlier in Salisbury, a public inquiry has heard.

The fact the victim was known to the police as a junkie helped, no doubt.

The inquiry heard that Rowley had a number of convictions for possession of class A and class C drugs and, as a result, a Wiltshire police inspector concluded his symptoms were most likely drug-related – a judgment that led to Wiltshire police officers entering Rowley’s contaminated flat. The ambulance service spoke to an inspector with the Wiltshire police, O’Connor said. “Based on the intelligence, [he] formed the opinion that this incident was most likely owing to drugs,” O’Connor told the inquiry. “He noted the apparent nervousness of the other emergency services, but remained of the opinion that this was drug-related and was to be treated as such.”

Wiltshire police’s deputy chief constable, Paul Mills, told the inquiry: “The police officers were overly confident. I don’t believe it was wrong for them to have a hypothesis, based on the recent intelligence that they were aware of through the lens of the police service in Wiltshire, that this potentially could have been a drugs-related incident.”

No-one would. Even knowing the details of the other case, what's most likely, exotic Russian assassins targeting the local junkie, or overdose? Who wouldn't make the same calculation? 

Nor was he the only one to screw up, although this mistake actually helped...  

It was also revealed to the inquiry that Skripal’s life may have been saved because he was mistakenly given atropine, a drug used for organophosphate poisoning. Wayne Darch, the deputy director of operations at the South Western ambulance service NHS foundation trust, told the inquiry that paramedics at the scene had misdiagnosed Skripal and his daughter Yulia’s symptoms as an opiate overdose. O’Connor said: “Atropine was in fact administered to Sergei Skripal by one of the ambulance staff present by accident. He intended to give the administration of naloxone but picked up the wrong bottle and in fact gave him atropine. “We will hear from Mr Faulkner, the expert, that that would have clearly helped Mr Skripal and may have even saved his life.”

This must surely be the only time an error has had a good outcome in the history of the NHS.