"...seeing them is a sign of how we live now."

 And we shouldn't have to:

The 44-year-old lawyer, who was visiting London from New Orleans, said: “We love it here, it’s a great atmosphere with all of the stands and the unique things, minus the barriers. It’s so unfortunate – seeing them is a sign of how we live now.”

'Here' being London's famous Portobello Road, A place I haven't visited in years, and never will again now:

This is because of new rules that ban all cars from Portobello Road between 10am and 4pm, where much of the 1999 film was shot. In some sections of the famed street market the restrictions cover the whole week, while in others only three days. To enforce the new rules, large grey concrete slabs and garish red barriers have been placed along the street.If Notting Hill were filmed today, the visible restrictions “would take away” from the movie, said Ella’s mother, Katie Alasky. The barriers and travel restrictions were put in place on the advice of counter-terror police who have warned of the potential threat of vehicle attacks.

Being the 'Guardian' of course, the emphasis is on the imagined effect on a popular film of the chattering classes created by a celebrated progressive director when the real story is the effects it's having on the life and businesses of those who live and work there.

Local residents have also been affected. “I’m not a designer but I’m sure I could design something better than that,” said Patrick Somers, 65, a former lawyer who lives in a side-road behind the market. Somers said people had only found out about the restrictions a few days before they had been implemented on 1 July. He is now leading a legal challenge, with the help of the law firm Broadfield, on behalf of residents and traders against Kensington and Chelsea council, who enacted the changes.

“They have not thought this through. We’ve got all sorts of unintended consequences here,” said Somers. He feared the curtailed access could pose a danger in an emergency situation.Recently, an ambulance had been unable to get past barriers to attend to a child who was having respiratory problems, Somers said.

The response from the council is, as expected 'We know best, peasants!': 

A Kensington and Chelsea council spokesperson said: “Our top priority remains the safety and wellbeing of everyone in the community and we believe the current measures strike a reasonable balance between protecting the public and supporting the needs of individuals. “We continue to speak with residents and businesses, addressing concerns case by case to help inform proposals for a permanent scheme.”

Pity you didn't think to do that before.... Remember hoe, during the IRA terrorist campaign, the emphasis was always on how it shouldn't be allowed to change our lives?

Incident at Canary Wharf

Sadbutmadlad, at X:

That a door is open doesn’t stop someone being charged with breaking and entering. It’s still entering with intent to commit burglary. 14yr prison sentence if the property is a home/dwelling/residence. https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9

This was covered elsewhere as well:

……

Housekeeping

A word to readers. The reason so many middling to major ggl bloggers stipulate that Anon comments go straight to bin is because ggl themselves then threaten the blogger, the admin and this is no joke on ggl blgr, as any who once read the old nourishing obscurity know.

I’ve repeatedly asked commenters to apply a simple method to circumvent the issue … invent a name out of your head and use it somewhere in the text of your comment … I called it a moniker … it identifies only for other readers of that comments section.

If ggl or anyone else then come after, let’s say, someone calling himself Freddy, then clearly it’s not one of the others using monikers, is it? Ggl or whoever do not come after them and therefore the system is a safeguard to protect most commenters.

Some klutzes have said “but that’s complying with the Deep State or Big Tech”. Look, Big Tech provide this platform, ok … they do have certain rights in their Ts and Cs, as providers.  Ditto with WP and any other provider, even Ghost.

Inventing a moniker is not putting it up front as your sign-in … you still use Anon there if you wish.  Your invented moniker only appears sonewhere in your text, it is not on any register anywhere connected to Orphans.

It is a courtesy to other readers … remember that word “courtesy”?  Thank you, dear reader and your custom is greatly appreciated.

I'll Stick To Vesta Meals, I Think!

As we age, cooking can become harder, but one brand is making eating well every day easier and more delicious than ever with their cooked meals delivered to your door – and they don’t even need to be refrigerated.

What? What sort of meals? I love ramen and Vesta paellas & chow meins as much as the next person, and always have noodles of some sort in the cupboard, but they always need to be ‘cooked’, even if it is just via the application of boiling water!

From cottage pie and beef casserole to Thai curry and vegetable hotpot (Ed: 🤢), each meal has been created to help older adults maintain a balanced diet, all made with real ingredients and without unnecessary preservatives.

If you’re storing a cooked cottage pie in your cupboard unrefrigerated, and you think it somehow isn’t full of unnecessary preservatives, would you like to buy this bridge as well as this hideous slop? 

 

Fiddling while Rome burns

… or however you wish to put it … sleepwalking to oblivion … but even your humble correspondent is guilty of it. It’s 0300 or 3 a.m., our time, having just awoken, and what am I doing? Reposting pretty architecture, landscapes, embroidery, reposting memes such as this:

And what am I failing to do? Failing to adequately bring to your attention this kind of thing:

Jen’s a good lady but still at the stage of asking what’s going on, supporting a party which will set things right … Reform under Yusuf and Farage … who are in thrall to the very terrorists who are hiding weaponry in their secret cathedrals and whose Smami have said more than once are coming door to door to demand you convert or be put to death. Yes … your own door. Who is coming to save you?

And JD Vance is due to talk to one of these ahead of the Alaskan summit. Not talking to Rupert … talking to soft on Yusuf Farage. Meanwhile:

… and this:

… and this:

… and this:

… and this:

… and this:

… and this:

Yes, it’s all over the west, innit? Coordinated, innit? By whom? Meanwhile, in the cradle of civilisation, on the front line so to speak … in Greece:

Was Jen or anyone else who was educated in the west after 1960 taught about the conquest of the Iberian peninsula? How about the corsairs and other Milsum terror boats attacking towns along the coasts of countries not yet but soon to become “the west”, once Christianity got a foothold?

Slaughtering men and enslaving women and girls for their pleasure back home in Arab lands … have you ever studied those raids? Why not? Oh, because the Wokeleft teachers never taught it in the west? Why not? Could it be that they were teaching this instead?

Meanwhile, I stay calm and keep posting on North York landscapes and on the first tube stations … or even drop in some humour. What I am failing to do is get everyone preparing defences, making escape plans, deciding precisely how they’ll meet the threat once it bursts through your front door.

Have a lovely Wednesday.

The assault on the trad family gathers pace

Going to need to refer to our blog across the way because things said there this morning by two of our patrons, plus myself also relate to Lord Toby’s piece below here.  I wrote there:

Steve’s off on dog duty at a friend’s. I firstly feel that, apart from the compassionate side, it gives him a wunnerful break away from it all, which is a crucial aspect of man and woman self-management. Toods rocks in, unbeknowns to me, with precisely what is needed at this moment, vigorously underscoring my contention that man without woman in at least some form is a sad creature.

Woman civilises a man, plus she keeps him on his toes so he does not become a lazy slob. If the “balance of power” is altered in either direction, we get Gitler/Stalin/Starmer on the one hand … and Matriarchy, Wokerati style, plus non-comp Reeves on the other (with insane policies of false virtue signalling and financial profligacy) on the other.

The right balance, therefore, with man in his proper role as chivalrous knight and unflappable rock is therefore prevented, once that balance is forced to one side or the other.

I had zero influence on Toods, being asleep through the night, and yet her comments were precisely what was needed … plus they have an overall “gluing effect” on the unherdable sites complex. Another is Roobs in her own way (seen in association with Legiron and Cynerae St Mary, his Danish lady).

Toods and Isilme here … and Julia over at Orphans … speaking personally, are the glue keeping us sane and not scorched earth, like Anakin Skywalker and that village he razed. Speaking more broadly, do you think Donny could do it without Melania and the other ladies and girls? On the other hand, he provides the rock they need.

Which is precisely what Paul in Ephesians was on about. Now look at this at TDS today:

Just looking at those harpies at Merton … you’d hardly call them “women” … well let’s say you’d not call them “good” women. Combine estrogen with the demonic and there you have it. Combine androgen with the demonic and there you have the throwbacks doing all the raping, torturing, mutilating and murdering in the name of moloch. Plus Gates and WEFers, the Rothschilds.

And who are the monsters trying to destroy? As Maggie pointed out … families, trad families to be more precise.

You’d Think Working There, They’d Be Better At Any such Cover Up

After all, they have so much data to draw on of how it's done, and even more, how it’s not done and can result in you getting caught, thanks to the people they deal with daily:

The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost.

Wait, isn’t that likely to mean justice hasn’t been served? Reader, indeed so… 

Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts will have made rulings on cases when evidence was incomplete.

Shouldn’t that worry those engaged in administering justice? Yes, it should. Yet it doesn’t appear to have done so… 

The internal report, leaked to the BBC, said HMCTS did not know the full extent of the data corruption, including whether or how it had impacted cases, as it had not undertaken a comprehensive investigation. It also found judges and lawyers had not been informed, as HMCTS management decided it would be "more likely to cause more harm than good".

Cause more harm to whom? Well, one has to assume they mean ‘the managers of HMCTS', and not those facing trial!  

HMCTS says its internal investigation found no evidence that "any case outcomes were affected as a result of these technical issues".

Did they actually look for any?  

The Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) Tribunal - which handles benefit appeals - is thought to have been most affected.

Well, we all know who will benefit from this, don’t we Reader? That’s right. Lawyers. 

General Election required

With the corrupt numbers-spads having got this excrescence of a govt in through the p***ing off of 80% of the voting public, knowing that in the UK, nothing whatever can be done under the system, plus the mindless red rosette voter, plus the dead and criminal (a la Demonrats in the States), plus the unibloc deathcult vote:

… we in this country are in the invidious position of having to force an election by hook or by crook, an impossible position, while this country, plus one across the Irish Sea:

… have just gone to the dogs, women and children raped, people knifed, lawlessness everywhere, invaders poised to strike at us, such that some countries are advising not to visit Britain right now …

… what then will Chas3 say in his big speech coming up?  Will he announce an election?

Depends actually … is he going to sack the govt and call for new elections? Or will it be the usual dross about how cruel we are to the rapists and stabbers, plus the climate?

And let’s just say he does do the unthinkable and call a snap election before Reform or the combined antiWoke, non-crim lot (us) can organise … ? Too many polarising heads … Farage, Tommy, Ben, Rupert … even Robert Jenrick. Now David Kurten and Ant Middleton.

It’s true that the majority would win … if it was a universally embraced party and there’s the rub, innit. None of those listed can command the majority, each of us has his/her “no way” nominee to avoid at all costs. Reform say put aside our “hatred” of Nigel “for the good of the country”.

Well, “for the good of the country”, Farage, Muss controllers and ££££s must never be PM … more of exactly the same. At the same time, TR has many dead against him … enough to stymie any party under the iniquitous FPTP system. Under that system, Labour always walk in.

A cynical view is that under “proportional” at least we’d have a hung parlmt (by the neck until dead is not a thought which has crossed my mind, certainly not in public … a hung parlmt in which no one can i fluct real damage on the country in the short term.

But nor would it eject the invaders. Hmmmmm.

Yes, It's A Mental Illness...

 ...and it often goes hand in hand with other expressions of mental illness:

A murder-obsessed teenager who spoke of carrying out a mass shooting at an Edinburgh school has been jailed for six years. A court heard Felix Winter, who is now 18, "idolised" the killers behind the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in the US. The pupil repeatedly spoke about mounting a similar "Doomsday" attack to the one which claimed the lives of 12 students and a teacher in Colorado. Winter, who also held racist and pro-Nazi views, admitted two charges at a hearing in February.

But no matter what someone’s been found guilty of, there are always those eager to assist them to escape punishment. 

Shelagh McCall KC, defending, called for a strict alternative to custody as her client was a "vulnerable young person" with mental health issues.

Indeed so, more so than this article wishes you to realise: 

Police Scotland launched an investigation in the summer of 2023 after a social media photo of Winter at school wearing combat gear and carrying an imitation gun caused panic among pupils and parents. It emerged the clothes and prop gun were issued to him for a video being made in a drama class in which he had been cast as a kidnapper. But detectives established Winter, of Kirknewton, West Lothian, frequently spoke to other pupils about carrying out a school attack.

Officers discovered that the schoolboy had a TikTok account which had footage of him wearing black combat clothes as well as a skeleton mask.

Despite the name and the pronouns used by the BBC, this is a girl. 

At a previous hearing, Winter's lawyer said that the teenager was vulnerable and a transgender person and that would need to be taken into account.

Quite why, when it’s merely another facet of her extreme mental illness, God only knows! 

Split between the anti-Wokerati?

Long muttered grumblings have erupted late last evening, Brit time:

The situation from Liz Truss’s point of view

This was posted on X:

A most useful exercise I should say, given that she was an actual PM, not just a Minister … I’m not sure Liz had the mental strength … they certainly did not think so … shades of Lady Jane Grey.  Dirty, dirty business, politics and there are Cicero Goves lurking, dagger-in-cloak, behind every pillar.

Sunak was and is appalling … nothing whatever to do with Britain’s best interests … Liz at least was British.  Where were the Enoch Powells?  Instead it was paedo (allegedly) Heaths and bloody Wilsons and Kinnocks.  Parliament atteacts the dregs of society, does it not?

Whither Britain in the light of what Liz wrote?