A Fool And (The Taxpayer's) Money Are Soon Parted...

Taxpayers face losing up to £200 million after a council 'gambled' more than half a billion pounds on a green energy scheme run by a fast-living financier, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Good lord, what incompetent council is th... 

Cash-strapped Thurrock Council in Essex...

/facepalm 

You'd think, wouldn't you, that in Essex of all places they'd be able to spot a wide-boy chancer coming a mile off? 

...borrowed £655million of public money – the equivalent of triple what it spends on services each year – to invest in 53 solar farms across the UK.

It agreed a series of deals with globe-trotting businessman Liam Kavanagh, whose integrity was later questioned by a High Court judge over £5million his company banked in 'commission'.Thurrock hoped the huge investment would generate millions in extra income but independent consultants hired by the council have privately warned that the solar farms are worth far less than required to recoup their cash.

They also raised concerns about the use of a £138million top-up investment made by Thurrock – approved after a series of meetings at London's five-star May Fair hotel between Mr Kavanagh and the council's finance chief – which does not appear to have gone into the farms. And the latest £12.5million interest payment owed to the council is months overdue, an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found.

Want to bet who will be sacked and face jail time for this, Reader? 

It does have a certain morbid fascination to it

... not unlike a car pile up or train wreck.

Unherd:

https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-leadership-contest-the-tories-deserve/

Guido:

https://order-order.com/2022/07/21/listen-truss-shuts-down-todays-gotcha-questioning-on-tax/

Juss thinking - they'll probably have to choose Truss - the only Brit, as distinct from a Punjabi.  Oxford too.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-cant-the-tory-grass-roots-vote-for-the-leader-we-really-want/

Juss a spurious aside - I'm running a regular quiz at our place at 17:00 today.  Note the fifth question when it appears.

Oooh, I Think I Know The Answer...

...is it 'Because they are even worse'..?

Some commentators think Democrats have moved too far to the left – too far from the so-called “center.” This is utter rubbish.

Really? So what do you put it down to? 

The real failure of the Democratic party is its loss of the American working class.

As Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg concluded after the 2016 election: “Democrats don’t have a ‘white working-class’ problem. They have a ‘working-class problem’, which progressives have been reluctant to address honestly or boldly. The fact is that Democrats have lost support with all working-class voters across the electorate.”

That's true, indeed. And why do they no longer support Democrats? Because they've moved too far to the left! 

The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged system.

You only have to look across the water to Europe, don't you? 

Archie Battersbee is dead; Leave the boy’s body ALONE.

Once again, we see and hear of distraught parents who wish to ignore medical fact, as well as the knowledge and opinion of the most senior medical practitioners; and instead cling to their delusions regarding their dead son.

They found young Archie Battersbee unconscious at home, unresponsive and, once in the hospital, and checked out by medically-trained technicians, found to be brain-stem dead. His heart is still, strangely enough, still beating, but the young boy’s system is, otherwise, unresponsive to any stimulus at all.

A High Court Judge ruled that the doctors had correctly diagnosed, that the kid was, to all intent and purpose, dead: the medical equipment keeping his bodily functions going should be switched off, and let the kid be buried or cremated without any further drama.

The truly deluded parents still cling to the the delusion that somehow, a miracle will bring their dead son back to them, and have initiated a request to the Court of Appeal to vacate the previous ruling.

It is a sad thing to watch, as parents attempt to fight reality, but, unfortunately, they can fight even further, but they can never argue against the facts. A truly helpful friend or relative should maybe take both parents aside, and ask them to face reality: their boy is dead, at his own hand when participating in some gross Internet challenge: and now his tortured remains should now be left in peace, so that they both can begin the grieving process.

Sorry, but miracles don’t happen, because they don’t exist.

The utterly rivetting, non-Conservative leadership yawn-fest

https://order-order.com/2022/07/19/campaign-update-day-13/

Saw this in comments:

• Part time Penny.
• Nobody who has ever worked with her will support her.
• Doesn't know what a man is.
• Doesn't know what the truth is.
• Cat lady.
• Queen of woke.
• Admires the CCP.
• Is a WEF drone, controlled by Klaus.
• Ecofascist. Net zero extremist.

Also:

Our Prime Minister in waiting, Liz Truss, encouraged our citizens to engage in the criminal act of going to fight in the war in Ukraine, where they are now being killed. She is intellectually and morally unfit for any office, much less the highest.

Also:

Truss is more wooden and a worse communicator than May was. By all means elect Truss if you want a Labour Government in 2024.

And:

Truss is a LibDem Remainer. Left to her own choice she picked the EU over the U.K. Without Boris to give her her tasks she will resort to type like May did. And she’s worse on TV than May.

On the now eliminated Kemi Whoever, backed by Gove by the way:

She was too junior to be plonked into the role of PM. She knew it and so do most other people.

That campaign ad should have been: "With your vote, Penny can do to the UK what she did to Portsmouth North."

Serious strategies

Someone suggested that those voting should write Kemi in on the ballot paper.  Or maybe Tom.  Or Suella.

A more realistic strategy would be to vote for the least competent, on the grounds that she can do the least damage.

That means that when the marching orders come down, she'd be incapable of implementing anything. Clutching at straws, yes, but what can be done.  Labour?  Hardly.

Consider this about the "leadership" race

TCW is supposedly a voice for dissident conservatives.  A couple of days ago, they did for Penny Mordor, today, Kathy Gyngell runs these, in this order:

Uh huh ... pretty clear where this is going.  To those jumping on the Kompassion for Kemi train, I'd just say this ... in her homeland of origin, she'd no doubt be a fine young millennial upcomer, learning the ropes for another ten years, then slowly taking portfolios on.

She's also saying all the right things.  Before the vote.  So is Mordor.  Juss sayin' like.  There are ... er ... no Anglo-Saxons of the Enoch range of experience, steeped in Blake and this Sceptr'd Isle?

Do not let this slip your memory

Ladies and gentlemen:

It's years ago now when the scam started.  Laid out here. With deep respect, if you've forgotten, this is a refresher.

Don't forget Javanka in this, whom they worked on to capture the Donald.

Meanwhile, f fwd to the current day.

Remember this?

Hey, SSSC, You Know What Really 'Reflects Badly On The Profession'..?

A stalker who terrorised a leukaemia sufferer for over a year before trying to book them into an assisted suicide clinic has been given an official warning...

Typical police, letting criminals off! 

...by the social care regulator.

Wait, what?

Nursery worker Emma Johnston, 50, launched a campaign of false accusations and even tried booking her victim into Dignitas - resulting in her getting sent her own condolences cards and calls stating she had died. Ms Johnston, who was employed at Hazlehead Primary School Nursery in Aberdeen, contacted the assisted suicide clinic to tell them one of her victims required end-of-life care.The victim, aged 71, suffered from leukaemia and received calls and letters from funeral directors stating she had died.

During the 13-month period Mrs Johnston also contacted Police Scotland and filed false reports of domestic abuse. And she even contacted one victim's employer claiming they had committed a criminal offence.

Thirteen months...?! Why isn't she behind bars? 

The 50-year-old pleaded guilty to charges of causing fear or alarm by stalking at Aberdeen Sheriff Court in July last year.

Parents were shocked after Johnston returned back to work at Hazlehead Primary School on the same day she made her plea.

As well they might! How on earth can someone who is found guilty of something like this possibly still be employed?

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) said: 'Your behaviour showed a disregard for the wellbeing of others, for the law and for the time and resources of the organisations that you contacted under false pretences.

'We note there was no harm to any service users.

'You have made some admissions but you have largely focussed on what had been done to you and how you have been treated, rather than looking at the impact your behaviour had on others.'

Typical 'I'm the real victim here!' attitude of someone who hasn't been adequately punished by the weak justice system, I fear... 

'Given the circumstances of your convictions, we have considered that the risk of repetition is low as you no longer have contact with [information redacted].

'Given the low risk of repetition, it is unlikely that you present an ongoing risk to the public. However, your page three of four convictions reflected badly on the profession.'

That you haven't struck her off to force the idiots at Hazlehead Primary to sack her is doing that... 

What do the MSM actually report these days?

If we have to report the news?

When the father is neglected by the mother

 Andrea Widburg, at American Thinker, wrote:

In 1870, Harper's Bazaar published a picture of Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, hugging her children as she said to a sneering, jewelry-bedecked Roman matron, "These are my jewels."  The picture fascinated me as a child, especially when I learned that the boys grew up to become famous politicians and philanthropists in pre-Christian Rome. (Because this was Rome, neither ended well, but that's another story.) Reading about the late Ivana Trump's life, I was reminded of Cornelia's words and thought they apply as well to Ivana.

She compared it to the dysfunctional Biden family, one of the dozens blighting the world and whilst Andrea is right 80% of the way, she's completely forgotten one minor factor ... the father ... the final 20%. 

He's either a nothing in the mix or just an adjunct who provides, nothing more.

With that sort of attitude, welcome to single motherhood on the settlement of the divorce or on government [read taxpayer] handout, an aberration on every count possible.  What that Widburg is demonstrating to her children is that the father does not matter.  And yet she demands full commitment from him in perpetuity.  So tell me again who breaks down marriages?  And what are the stats on who initiates divorces, male-female?  Hmmmm?

Compare that to two videos below, plus a quote from a ladyfriend of mine:

First video:

https://youtu.be/Cb0kl_-blzA

The most unusual thing there is a mother of four, very much with hubby, is so pro men.  I confess that what she says, all very nice for us, is not the most vital part.  The most vital part is THAT she would even think to make such a video in the first place.  Can you imagine Ms Widburg doung that, let alone the third wave child feminazis?

Second video:

This is sad, because anyone neglected ... whether a forgotten wife at home while hubby puts it about with the females or a neglected father ... whichever it is, either way ... the neglected party is going to sing a song like that.

https://youtu.be/pRAg7ixYaeE

The third item is taken from something a ladyfriend of mine said and I hasten to add that she is as pro man as Christy in video one above and that's a vital thing.  Not sure who said it first and I absolutely agree with this.  We all mock the demi-female harpies howling their Woke demands and we all laugh at their ban on nooky which we all fervently pray they'll continue ...

... but what of the low quality of men today?  They're either Woke wimps in the workplace with wispy beards or full death cult bushes, they're full on MGTOW or there's something quite wrong.

A fellow gabber  @gigigirau83 provides all the evidence we need. She mentions that she goes running with a group of retired navy seals ... quick calculation shows they retire early but the point is ... why that pool of guys, why not Mr. Smug Clever Punk with his Woke ideas?  No brainer, eh?

Both those ladies, plus Christy in video one are right but I'd suggest that at least 20% of the guilt for that is laid right at the feet of the sex which initiates 71% of the divorces today.

Now, instead of us bickering or bantering over who, to which percentage point, is to blame, let's look at how we can make men men again and make women ladies.

Remember, Cornelia's sons in the quote from Ms Andrea are watching and learning just how much father cares for mother or mother cares for father.  Not the words, the actuality.