Today’s headline created by ‘staff’ for the daily compilation of print front pages is outstanding: “Newspaper headlines: England thrash China and asylum barge ‘death trap’” (link). Sorry if you thought this ‘trashing of China’ was about some English industrial or economical issue or about GCHQ detecting more Chinese spies. it’s about the world-shaking victory of the English female footie team beating the Chinese at the female footie World Cup. Now isn’t that something to make us all happy on this rainy day!
The outcry about the ‘barge’ relates to a report in the grauniad. Since yon barge was meant to be something of a swimming hotel, I wonder why it’s only a death trap for ‘poor refugees’ but not for paying customers. I also wonder what the ever so humanitarian ‘refugees welcome’ watchdogs really want: using big tents to house them is ‘inhumane’, the various Army barracks are beneath them, hotels must be at least 4 stars – I’ve yet to hear a proper proposal from those ‘poor refugee ‘advocates’ about where to put them.
Let’s move on and talk about the weather! If you thought that our ‘global boiling’ promoters in the MSM and other institutions would refrain from pushing this latest ‘climate alarm’, you’d be wrong. There was a nice report yesterday evening in the DM:
“So much for summer! Britain had on average more than 5.5 inches of rain as sunseekers endured the sixth wettest July since records began (and there are thunderstorms on the way tomorrow) – The start of August is also set to be a washout, the Met Office has predicted” (link)
Well, tough: this wet July is only weather. And so, to reinforce the ‘boiling globe’ theme, we’re offered an article in The Times, aimed at instructing us peasants that this is indeed a global ‘threat’: “Floods hit Beijing as wildfires rage across California” (link, paywalled). Why a tropical storm, bad as it clearly was, is not ‘weather’ but ‘climate change’ is something I’m too stupid to understand.
As for ‘wildfires raging in California’: don’t they ‘rage’ every year? Hasn’t it been shown, every year, that these fires are not due to a ‘boiling planet’ but to arson, exacerbated by green policies of mismanaging forests? Btw – has any of the climate terrorists ever recanted when subsequent investigations show clearly that those ‘wild fires’ were caused by arson, for example on Rhodes? Do let me know if you find such an excuse …
I suggest that more and more people living outside the charmed Westminster swamp realise that this Net Zero scheme is just another item in the arsenal of TPTB to control our lives. More and more people learn that those ‘in power’ demand that we peasants obey their ‘rules’ and never mind that those tinpot dictators couldn’t care less if subsequently our efforts are literally trashed. There’s a nice little report in the DT, headlined:
“Watch: Anger as bin men throw residents’ carefully separated recycling into one container – Canterbury council tells households they have to separate recycling but footage of its workers suggests that may not always pay off” (paywalled link)
Provided we diligently separate rubbish into different bags or bins – nice little earner for manufacturers of said bags and bins – and pay the fines for ‘mis-binning’ – another nice little earner, for local councils – it’s irrelevant if the nicely sorted and cleaned rubbish ends up on the same lorry or in the same landfill. It’s about control, not the environment.
Meanwhile today’s harvest of ‘Silly Season News’ shows that the adults clearly have left the premises. For example, the DT has a whole report on Sunak’s trouser legs: “Menswear influencer critiques cut of the Prime Minister’s trousers and suggests ‘ill-fitting suits’ can be a political liability” (paywalled link). I wonder if “we” will have to ‘talk’ about this until the weekend. After all, the burning issue of Prince William not wearing kilts when in Scotland was kept running for three days …
Next, we got a nice little tear-jerker about ‘teh poor’, this time about ‘poor kids’ and their school meals:
“Extra money for poorer pupils should be paid to schools and colleges until they are 18, say head teachers. They want the next government to extend the pupil premium throughout sixth form, from the present cut-off of 16.” (link, paywalled)
Yes, sure – why not! “We” have the money, don’t we! Moreover, kids can’t learn early enough that ‘The State’ will look after them while exerting control. ‘Free meals’ means kids must eat what is given them. Despite years of educating them and indeed their parents about ‘proper nutrition’ they still prefer normal junk food to ‘school meals’.
Sometimes I wonder when those ‘outcrying’ lefties will notice that their virtue signalling is being perfectly exploited by big industrial interests, e.g. those who produce ‘ready-made’ school meals. And let’s please not worry about the packaging needed for such meals, packaging which will end up in landfills …
That’s all I have for today. It’s the Silly Season so why not be silly and gossip about Sunak’s trousers while worrying about floods in Peking and fires in California. Have a good day.
In the 1950’s and60’s and onwards, Our Civil Service and MP’s and elite etc became enamoured of the following idea.
***** Britain would become the Intellectual, innovative, brilliant , clean and beautiful capital of the world, and have grimly pursued this dream ever since using the useful misdirection handmaidens of the EU and forgetting various realities.
Hence
Commissions from poorer countries to give away manufacturing, etc to the dream of JIT and intellectual property, and science and idiotic ideas like outsourcing and supply chains
Leaving Britain a green and pleasant land full of (Blair ) of intellectual giants and original thinkers. and Arts graduates at Glyndebourne talking to each other about their latest design, music, plot, book, etc
Unfortunately the Chinese have filled our Country with badly designed, poorly specified by silly retailers, Products that this countries workers have ironed out over decades; and we now get pure rubbish direct to the tip. And a bankrupt country.
A huge error was to maintain a Victorian patent system and not notice the law on this and not strengthening Intellectual property laws company acts to stop the present frantic despoiling of the planet for junk.
Just saying
Ref. Biscotte 12.46pm
When in Sapele (Nigeria) I witnessed a body of a dozen or so men being marched along the street, they were all holding a machete like implement over their shoulder and we followed by a chap in uniform holding a shotgun.
I enquired ” who are those”? The answer came ” oh they are prisoners from the local gaol, coming to mow the grass on the local golf course”!
I will also say I once travelled from Port Harcourt to Sapele to play Rugby , perhaps they had also mown the pitch.
From a letter in today’s DT
If we become reliant on the National Grid for our transport, industry, heating and other services, our energy security will be severely compromised – regardless of the diversity of the electricity supply.We only need a serious winter storm or an attack by an unfriendly agent to cause significant damage to the electricity network, with potentially life threatening consequences. The problem will be exacerbated by inability to charge electric vehicles, hampering the supply of aid. It is a fundamental principle that a system is only as strong as its weakest link.
Sounds sensible to me
Opposite of silly season,
– Merican dollar currency credit rating has been down rated from AAA to AA+.
Relentless (exonerated) malicious (exonerated) prosecution (exonerated) of Pres Trump (exonerated) goes on, and on, and o . . .
– Bidet acolytes still wetting (poohing?) themselves over Pres Trump being re-elected. Just compounding their worst worries when he does get in.
When I lived in California, we went off a trip one weekend. Lost – we saw a ‘policeman’ – stopped car, all got out to stretch legs – then we saw a brigade of men.
Fellow (with gun and so forth) says can I help you? We’re lost and who are these guys? I’m a prison warder and these are volunteer convicts – kids are saying hello (squawk) – they are ok, they get out shortly and this is work to cut down their sentence – right, doing what – they have been trained in fire fighting and clearing combustible material (dead bushes, twigs and so forth).
** Then he explained the rate of arson fires in California and the severe penalties – problem identified plus the convicts helping out. **
(well man, lookee at that, the boss is working for the tourist board today, hey boss, can we stop at Six Flags on the way back – everyone had a good laugh and it was a good interchange all round).
The ‘Sports Director’ pointed us in the right direction – lots of waving – a good day out.
The silly season has been getting longer and now lasts most of the year. It correlates with the decline of print media and the rise of online news sites. One of the many pernicious effects of the internet has been the death of journalism as a profession as technology continues to de-man society. The internet has also extended group think, a more dangerous effect. I occasionally joke with Mrs Stout that I am turning into Ted Kaczynski.
There may be direct correlation with the expanding silly season with that of the growth of corporate and state power.
“It’s about control, not the environment” Of course. the recycling farce is a mockery. I’m sick of it, sick sick sick of petty tyrants micromanaging our lives. I want them off my back.
Daily Sceptic had a story the other day about a bottle recycling scheme in Scotland failing and costing UK taxpayer (that’s including us in England and Wales)because the firm carrying out the process went bust.
Btw – has any of the climate terrorists ever recanted when subsequent investigations show clearly that those ‘wild fires’ were caused by arson, for example on Rhodes? Do let me know if you find such an excuse …
Viv they never recant, they just offer more doom.
For example. Dragons den star Deborah Meadens Twitter statement after she found out the fires were caused by arson and not global warming/boiling/frying.
Rhodes is burning…What really matters is not that a Tourist playground burns, its the animals burned, wildlife lost and Nature destroyed…but our headlines talk of cancelled flights and holidays. If we think this is inconvenient..you wait to see the inconvenience of climate refugees, lack of food and water….floods, droughts and war….but lets just carry on leave that to our kids to deal with.