Life is hard for the MSM when there are only newsy news …
The days are now getting shorter but there’s still a lot of summer to come. Much evidence for summer-induced delusions, arrogance and entitlements afflicting the Westminster swamp dwellers can be found in the MSM. I’ve picked out some hair-raising examples.
First though, the quick check of what our alleged betters in the meejah really want us to talk about: “Newspaper headlines: ‘Last hope’ in sub search and ‘mortgage pain’” (link). I really don’t know why the sad fate of those ‘adventurers’ must be rammed down our throats. Why not go full out on the mortgage rise? After all, that’s what has to have us all trembling with anxiety, no?
Perhaps not, given the wail-pieces in the broadsheets. A few days ago someone cried in the DT about the terrible effect yon mortgage rise had on his family. I’ve not bookmarked the piece, suffice to say that his dire fate was that his mortgage was due to rise from £8,300 a month (!) to £20,000 because some of the fixed rate schemes he’d negotiated were running out. How the heart of the DT comment posters broke … not!
Today there are two articles in The Times. One is a ‘report’, headlined: “Homeowners face £3,000 rise on mortgage payments next year” (link, paywalled). The data and arguments in this article are based on the ‘findings’ of some Think Tank called the “Resolution Foundation” – no, me neither, and I’m tired of having ‘findings’ presented as ‘news’ in the broadsheets. I only mentioned yon ‘report’ because it’s accompanied by an opinion piece: “For millions, the house party is finally over” (link, paywalled).
This piece is a nicely veiled dig at “Teh Old”, from the factually wrong statement that “Property-rich pensioners are not expected to use their housing wealth to pay for their care” (link, paywalled) – does Ms Juliet Samuel, the author, not have parents who just might worry about how to finance their own care if needed? – to the utterly ageist accusation that ‘pensioners’ just don’t care.
After warnings that the combination of inflation and higher mortgages is leading to a fall in property prices, Ms Samuel writes:
“Perhaps for a pensioner living out her dotage in a townhouse bought for £20,000 in the 1970s it doesn’t matter much. But it matters for her heirs and others like them, of whom there will be increasing numbers as baby boomers, the biggest cohort of homeowners, die.” (link, paywalled)
Oh dear. The unfairness of it all! Even in death ‘baby boomers’ are guilty of depriving the next generation of the riches they plan to inherit, riches which they’ve perhaps already used in calculations of how to look rich with a superb house. Just a moment, though: lower property prices means lower inheritance taxes, correct? So shouldn’t ‘heirs’ secretly rejoice?
And now to the ‘fun’, after these serious ‘economy’ paragraphs. I cannot resist to present you with headlines which had me cry with laugher. They document wonderfully how entitled the so-called ‘betters’, the self-proclaimed ‘elites’ are.
Firstly, there’s the heinous affair of Andy Murray and the current Wimbledon poster. It is so important it made it into the broadsheets. The DM also reported it and since that’s not paywalled, here’s the link so you can see the poster for yourselves. The ‘scandal’? Andy Murray ain’t on yon poster!
I think the poster is both sexist and racist: women players and especially the Williams sisters are relegated to the floor above, standing behind windows. Better put a sock in, you Murrays, before you’re accused of those crimes!
Then there’s the entitled Met Office, one of their ‘officers’ talking to The Times: “UK summer will be hot, but not too hot, Met Office predicts” (link, paywalled). Oh dear – no scorching summer here in Blighty? How will we cope! And then we read that the Met Office claims that their warnings about heatwaves ‘n all last year ‘saved lives’! I’m speechless – see this for yourselves:
“[…] the excess mortality figures were lower than expected from modelling of previous extreme heat events. Nonetheless, there were more than 3,000 more deaths than the five-year average between last June and August.” (link, paywalled)
They don’t even need to mention ‘climate catastrophe’ any longer. However, the Met Office clearly regards itself as being in the business of giving ‘guidance’, not just to us peasants but also the the MSM, with “the forecaster urged the media to avoid using images of people on beaches and ice creams, [calling] such photos “less useful” at such times.” (link, paywalled).
Blimey – are us plebs only going to beaches because we see photos in the meejah and not because it’s summer and we want to? I suppose it was inevitable that the Met Office is now also “in talks with the government about using its emergency smartphone alert system to warn people about red warnings on heatwaves.” (link, paywalled).
Slippery slope here: what is good for heatwaves is also good for thunderstorms, killer rain, snow, cold … because we must be alerted even though some of those ‘red alerts’ later turn out to’ve been paper tigers.
And finally, an example of blatant intellectual robbery. The perp is a certain Mr Liam Fox who wrote a piece for The Times, headlined “Right needs a narrative to counter the cultural tide” (link, paywalled). No, we don’t need no ‘narratives’, Mr Fox! We want facts, not lies and propaganda, especially not from a robber of intellectual property who is also years behind the curve, writing: “Culture is not downstream from politics. Politics is downstream from culture.” (link, paywalled)
The cheek of it! This quote is stolen from Andy Breitbart, founder of the site of that name, who died in 2012. Did Fox only find this quote now? Moreover, haven’t he and his cohorts in his Party and in the MSM, belittled and smeared Andy Breitbart for what he was and what he said?
How despicable to use his words as if they were home-grown in Fox’ own mind! “Entitled” – that’s what Fox thinks he is and that’s why he and his ilk won’t acknowledge those who came before while robbing them, be it intellectual robbery like Fox’, be it economic robbery by maligning the old.
That’s all I have for today. I happily say ‘fluff off’ to all the busybodies, from the Met Office to the MSM, who are trying to provide ‘guidance’ to us plebs – ‘guidance’ which they themselves of course never need to follow, such as covid lockdown rulz. Have a good day.
The BBC introduced a short reading at the end of the News on Radio 4 (at 13.00 hrs) today by saying that the Caribbean people disembarked from the HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury 75 years ago were responding to pleading from the British Government for workers to come to the UK to help rebuild.
This statement is totally untrue as Simon Webb explains on his YouTube Channel “History Debunked” in a Video posted today. He provides the true story of how all this came about and says the Government were very unhappy when they learned what the Windrush was bringing to our shores.
The truth is that all these people were actually taking advantage of a cut price fares offer by the Windrush operator which simply wanted to fill empty cabins and seats.
Rather than compensation, as James Cleverley FO is proposing the Windrush people should perhaps be expressing their gratitude.
Watch this video to hear the details.
CH- Beware Ukrainium hyper-sonic screwdrivers.
Biscotte……..and you said some time ago ‘what’s all this crap about the Tardis and Timelords’ in reply to some of my posts to Mr. Spokes. Well, now you know, undeniable proof (haha).
I have just watched the film released in the states, but now available on YouTube, which has forced Robby Tomlinson to flee the country because TPTB want to throw him unjustly into clink again.
I have many thoughts racing through my mind on this and will comment later when I return from an essential duty.
I hear the BoE has raised the Rate again, as expected, this time by 0.5%!!
This is the inevitable result of all the money printing during the past three years to pay for Track ‘n Trace, protective equipment, furlough, Eat out and the Gov will pay, vastly overpriced ineffective and unsafe vaxes, and all the Fraud that went on. Drastic inflation was always going to be inevitable.
We are governed by morons!
This makes me utterly nauseated. That traitor Sunatch is effing bonkers —-
You can read what HE (they) has written here in the Grauniad, where else would you first see such crap???
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/21/a-green-transition-that-leaves-no-one-behind-world-leaders-release-open-letter
“A green transition that leaves no one behind’: world leaders release open letter
Rishi Sunak, Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and other international leaders address development needs”
http://www.theguardian.com
One wonders if they are writing as private citizens. There seems to be no disclaimer. Did anyone vote for this?
It would be better if it said:–
‘Rishi Sunak is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This letter does not represent the views of the United Kingdom, but only represents the dishonest, illogical, emasculated swindle he would like to perpetrate on the British people so his future employers can recognise him to be very important.’
In other words — when he gets kicked out of his Premiership, he will get a top job in the USA with some giant Corporation or Quango. To this end he will continue to tax-rape the UK and squeeze out even more of our money to give away to everyone else thus further impoverishing the British people.
He’s already given away 500 Million to encourage the French to keep sending terrorists over the Channel, 2.5 Billion or is it 5 Billion(?) to Ukraine, 200 million to Rwanda (for nothing) and God only knows what else.
The traitor is even worse than May and Johnson in giving away our money. Not that we have any, we have to borrow it all and pay interest on it in order for this pratt to fritter it away.
Big G- and I thought I was having a bad day!
And its Your Highness Maharaja Richie – gotit?
Inflation and mortgage repayments, Lord Hammond of Goofball has an interesting proposal (not).
The Government should relax immigration rules to help ease the mortgage crisis gripping Britain, a former chancellor (Lord Hammond)has urged (DT live news).
600,000+ net last year is not enough?.
Relaxing immigration could help deal with record rises in wages across Britain by creating more competition for jobs and lowering workers’ ability to push for pay increases (accrding to Goofball).
Some solution!
Butties – yes I saw that load of garbage too. There yet someone else writing on the front page of the Telegraph calling for Ukraine to be welcomed into NATO and the EU. Oh yes let’s start a nuclear war ASAP!!
The lunatics really have taken over the asylum. All of these opinion pieces, delivered with so much seeming authority yet based on nothing but the imaginings of some old drunk or even I’d say crackhead, this is getting surreal.
As for the sub, the vessel was equipped with a rebreather type system where the crew rebreath air by topping it up with oxygen. When you breath air you exhale most of the oxygen but a top up is needed, that’s the easy bit, scrubbing the exhaled carbon dioxide out of the air is the hard bit, requiring power and sophisticated filters. Given that nothing works on the sub, not sonar navigation or its transponder and the vessel has a tendency to use up its batteries too quickly, one can assume that if the crew didn’t die instantly, they died days ago.
Yet the mainstream media is milking the sub story for all it’s worth; what’s really going on, what are they trying to distract us from. Yet more lunacy from the asylum that is now Britain. I couldn’t give a damn anyway, nobody seems to care about British pensioners freezing to death, unable to heat their houses in the winter and ex servicemen sleeping in the streets, so a bunch of wealthy thrill seekers, screw them.
What an over privileged idiot!
Our TV weather forecasters are always pushing the climate change excuse as to why it is hot, or cold, or dry and teeming down with rain, but some more than others. Why cannot they limit their time on screen just to inform us what it is going to that day and the next. I do not need to be told incessantly that our weather is dictated by climate change and that perhaps we need to change our way of life etc. Perhaps it is all part of the plan laid out by the Boris Johnson’s of this world who filter their climate change theories downwards, as after all the Meteorological Office is a government agency, and the BBC who deliver most our forecasts, is a law unto itself.
CH- its not only the weather! All British Biased Corporation opinions – coating their programmes with extreme left doctrine; there will be heat, rain and snow, plus other terrible global warming; homosexuals and 143 genders is obviously true; black scum on rubber boats are more important dan de wite taxpayers; green is wonderful, no matter the unmentioned cost; plant mango trees; anti-car good – following beardless Alistair Darling doctrine country wide . . .
And bbc fact checking – Admiral Nelson was a black man – fact!! They are avin a larf.
I’m having a bad day. Those bluddy HMRC are at it again.
OK, agreed the Norwegian tax brigade are worserer.
Colin, the MET office like the BBC and the NHS are no longer trustworthy. Personally I would withdraw their funding ( all of them ) but as I cannot do than I ignore them , I suspect the MET office would love to use that alarm system to peoples mobiles but our dozy government gave that game away. Most people now have that system switched off!
I use foreign forecasters now- i find Accuweather pretty good around our area in North Devon.
For Liam Fox, as with most members of the political tribalism classes, who says something matters more than what is said. Breitbart being beyond the pale anything he said is automatically discounted or ignored. That politics is downstream of culture is lately developed by Yoram Hazony, an Israeli Biblical scholar, who spoke at the recent National Conservatism conference. His key point is that winning the culture war is essential to creating the space for conservatism to return. That he correctly assesses the significance of the culture war is shown by the vehemence behind denials by The Guardian, BBC, Labour Party etc that there is a culture war at all. The now majority view in favour of a big state and all that entails shows that the narrative space for conservatism has diminished to the point where conservative politicians appear fearful to engage in the culture war. The only establishment member to really grasp the point, and actually speak on the significance of the culture war is Lord Frost. This was at a private talk earlier this year and not a public talk . It would seem he has failed to persuade his fellow conservatives; Sunak’s mild, fleeting comments about sex education are far too timidand the like don’t really cut it.
It will require someone with conviction and determination to battle for a conservative space in public discourse. The tragedy of is what is happening in our schools, the madness of gender ideology and net zero, is an opportunity for a new political party. Farage says he will not enter politics again until there is proportional representation – i.e. he is never coming back but will not say so explicitly – and Tice, champion only of wanting to get personally richer, lacks any charisma. UKIP also lacks a champion who could make an impact – Neil Hamilton while politically savvy is not about to make a splash on the public stage – and David Kurten, who could be a leader in the culture war, is a member of the tiny Heritage Party, that no-one has heard of. Laurence Fox presents as an eccentric and Reclaim will not be making any break throughs anymore than UKIP and Heritage will.
Our culture is that of ‘big beasts’ in politics. Our side, fragmented as it is, lacks a big beast. On culture war issues that side is most of us and the silent majority will remain silent until it has a leader. There will be skirmishes and minor victories but no war. Matthew Goodwin is giving talks in which his anger and frustration is palpable and he is desperate for someone to step forward and lead. He believes that the current conservative party must die but has no idea who or what will replace it. His fear for the future is real as a result and so it should be for all of us.
SY
I can’t see it happening, a knight on a white charger. Forget it. No use waiting for someone to come along and fight our battles for us; you’ll wait for ever. . The truth has to spread at grass roots level or it won’t happen at all . Its down to us individuals alone now, with the help of the alternative media..
SY- big beasts? My first thoughts were Assange, Robinson, Snowden, Pres. Trump and co.
Free speech on matters you mention is a ‘rerun’ of Brexit tactics. Pile in boys, on anything that does not fit the intelligencia narrative. Brexit discussion – can say anything you like so long as it is pro-remain or anti-Brexit. At the weekly bbc Thursday love-in (an audience one third docs & nurses, one third teachers, and the rest activists nutters) during Brexit, debates were never, ever, well balanced. Effectively Brexit advocates were cancelled. Then the vote was a huge surprise, only to find out on page eight of the single question vote was the intelligencia list of ‘deals’. Same sort of thing is happening today.
Many just find the whole thing a public strangulation of dissent by govmt-aided by media – no point in fighting. Think of the havoc the Canadian Child King caused to peaceful lorry drivers. The Maharaja Ritchie could/would do the same to you and me. And Beer Tsarmer . . well. Do you want your life wrecked for years to come, like Pres. Trump by continuous malicious prosecutions, or to pay your mortgage?
It is not really any wonder that electronic hacking communities, continue to grow and grow.
Now where’s my Linux syntax manual, my brown shirts and my black shirts?
Stout Yeoman……I am afraid you are right about the smaller parties like Heritage Party Reclaim and even Reform UK. Unlike those of us who post on this site and are members of one political party or another, the vast majority of our fellow citizens consider politics to be at the very bottom of their priorities and only think of political parties when it comes to voting at elections, and the rest of the time have no interest whatsoever, and do not keep abreast of what is going on on party websites and Facebook sites. OK, Nigel Farage has on average between 1k to 1.5k responses to his daily articles and pronouncements on his Facebook site and most people know who he is, largely through him leading UKIP, but responses on Tice’ site is very mush less, and even fewer where David Kurten is concerned. Kurten speaks a lot of sense but hardly anyone has heard of him, and the responses he receives on his Facebook site barely gets into double figures. At one time I was very much in favour of UKIP rebranding itself, but now I am not so sure. The abbreviation ‘UKIP’ is a very well known brand and therefore a good marketing tool, but whenever I went onto the doorstep to canvass I always used to say ‘Good morning I’m from the UK Independence Party etc’ until one day in Thurrock one of their councilors told me to say ‘UKIP’ at the door because it was a recognisable brand, and he was right. When Farage broke away and formed The Brexit Party with Catherine Blaiklock most people knew what The Brexit Party stood for, and who its leader was because he was high profile had a personality and a personal charisma , but now nobody knows who Reform UK is and what it stands for, and even less know who Richard Tice, and those who do roll their eyes. And when Nigel Farage is mentioned most people still think of him as the UKIP leader, and that is how bad it is. Unless Farage re-enters the political fray, I think in time most people will forget who he is as well and will get less responses to his pronouncements on Facebook etc.
I agree with your assessment Colin. Some said we need a big beast to lead our side and bring all the fragmented pieces together (mostly ex-UKIP). It seems Nigel is the only one around who could be that beast, he has proven it both in Europe and in previous elections, however, he indicates he will not return to the fray until PR happens.
We need UKIP to return with an inspiring leader.
Proportional Representation is a pipe dream. Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.
You are Likely correct Debbie, so Nigel will probably remain on the side-lines.
Using PR for not returning to frontline politics is a convenient excuse. It’ll never happen because First Past the Post suits the two main parties agenda. The audience on Farage at Large from Barnsley this evening were all stating that they wanted him to return, and the same audience on Dewbs and Co beforehand all stated that they would never vote Conservative or Labour ever again and would vote turquoise (Reform UK). What part of the narrative does Farage not understand. The simple answer to this, is that he won’t and we will have to find somebody else, but who that is the overriding question……
George…..there are three individuals who spring to mind who have the personality, personal charisma and a good political brain within their heads who could make a real go of leading UKIP or even Reform UK, other than the dire choice which is presently on offer on the centre right, and they are Ben Habib, Martin Daubney and Belinda De Lucy, all of whom were former Brexit Party MEP’s I would like to see one of these three join UKIP and potentially take on the leadership of that party, or failing that take over rudderless Reform UK.. Failing that some previous high profile figures of UKIP’s recent past should perhaps consider a return to the fold wherever they are now. I am thinking of the likes of Suzanne Evans, Tim Aker and Douglas Carswell here.
Sorry Viv. the inevitable result of trying to post one comment on two pages. erm.
TG Spokes………two pages? How can anyone comment on two pages at the same time. Almost impossible I would say, unless you were time travelling that is. I said all along you had a Tardis!!!