Fresh veggies are so expensive – that’s why we must Rejoin, ok?
Today is the Summer Solstice. You know this country is in dire straits when our proud MSM need to run articles under headlines such as ‘What is the Summer Solstice’. Today’s readers cannot be expected to know this, even though anyone can google it anyway, and never mind that this happens every year.
The latest news to which we all must pay attention is the fate of those people in the sub, stuck at the bottom of the Atlantic, garnished with the ‘mortgage’ crisis: “Newspaper headlines: ‘Praying for miracle’ and Tory split over mortgages” (link). I find it somewhat strange that this secular nation, on the verge of turning hard Left, is suddenly ‘praying ‘for a bunch of very rich ‘adventurers’, according to said proud MSM, but each to their own.
Meanwhile, there’s another ‘manifesto’ item presented by Labour which has been relegated to the ‘also ran’ spots in the online broadsheet editions, somewhere in their ‘Politics’ category. The Times reports that “Labour could tear up Brussels deal to forge closer economic links with Europe” (link, paywalled) and the DT writes (all emphases are mine):
“Labour is willing to sign Britain up to following EU rules in return for a deal that would reduce post-Brexit checks on food, David Lammy has suggested. The shadow foreign secretary said “negotiation involves trade-offs and discussions” when asked if he would bend to Brussels’ demands for the UK to mirror its standards. He also cited Switzerland’s deal with the bloc, under which the country copies and pastes the EU rulebook, as an example of an agreement Britain could strike.” (paywalled link)
Amazing, isn’t it, that the Rejoin Party is letting that particular cat out of the bag already! They must be very certain of getting into No 10 and must have concluded that the item about ‘food’ is a winner, given inflation and mortgage rises. They must also believe that, after seven years, Leave voters either have already died or are so resigned that there won’t be much resistance, notwithstanding the following:
“Mr Lammy’s remarks will enrage Brexiteers and add to their suspicions that Labour wants to return the UK to the bloc via the backdoor. During a speech at a conference in Birmingham, he reiterated that his party “will not rejoin the EU, the single market or customs union” in government.” (paywalled link)
I’m happy to mention again a warning from History. On 15th June 1961, as ever more people were fleeing from communist East Germany, the then reigning dictator told his people that ‘nobody has the intention of erecting a wall’. On 13th August 1961 that wall went up. That’s why I, for one, do not believe Lammy and Labour when they say they won’t rejoin.
There are more news on Labour’s plans to destroy our political system. The Times’ leading article at the time of writing has this headline: “Labour draws up plans to flood House of Lords with peers” (link, paywalled). Blimey! And here I thought that Starmer would finish Blair’s project of abolishing the HoL altogether … but nooo:
“Labour is drawing up plans to appoint dozens of peers to the House of Lords in order to ensure the agenda of a Sir Keir Starmer government is implemented.” (link, paywalled)
The unspeakable gerrymandering of the HoL aside, Cur Starmer seems to be on a ‘keep cake while eating it’ drive. He “pledged eventually to abolish the Lords”, but meanwhile needs ‘moar peers’ “to avoid a Labour government becoming mired in conflict with the upper chamber”, needing to “ennoble almost 100 Labour politicians” because
“There are only 174 Labour peers, making up 22 per cent of the Lords, fewer even than the 183 unaligned crossbench peers. The Conservatives have 263 peers, meaning that they would remain the largest party in the upper chamber […]” (link, paywalled)
Turning the HoL, formerly independently scrutinising government legislation, into a political plaything: thank you for that, TBlair! I’m sure it’ll happen, not least because Labour has form. Look at this graph, showing how the selfsame TBlair inundated the HoL with ‘new’ peers. But these will be ‘peers of working age’, not geriatrics, so all will be well.
We also learn that the Nation is in peril because “British five-year-olds up to 7cm shorter than western peers” (link, paywalled). This article – duly copied by the DM (link) – is based on a report by the “Food Foundation”, a charity, which found that this diminution of our kids is due to “poor diet and health service cuts” (link, paywalled).
What a terrific argument for voting Labour: Rejoin so we can have better food to make our kids grow taller! And more money for the NHS, of course! After all, now that, according to this Foundation,‘food insecurity’ is ‘gripping 27% of families since January 2023’, “we” must put an end to ‘austeriteeee’ and ‘Tory Cuts’! Unlike the DM, The Times did quote a government spokesperson saying that government is :
“[…] providing record financial support to families who need it most — a £94 billion cost of living support package worth around £3,300 per household.” (link, paywalled)
I wonder if this timely report is also meant to garner support for the government scheme to tax sugar and salt. I wonder though how come that decades of preaching to us about ‘five-a-day’, of the James Olivers of this world promoting ‘healthy school meals’, have been with no avail.
Perhaps the aim is to control feckless parents, with more state control over their kids? Perhaps a Labour government ought to plan for proper food rationing, as during WWII, only this time with QR codes on smartphones. After all, rationing will surely become a necessity once we’re growing more ‘solar’ and ‘wind’ on our farms than food.
That’s all I have for today. Here’s my final glum piece of news: from today onwards, the days are getting shorter. But you knew this already, unlike Generation Smartphone which needs to be told. Not that they’d notice, glued to their smartphones as they are. Have a good day.
Every time I see or hear some TV political expert say ” Liz Truss” and expect me to laugh, I feel sad for us..
They are just fools and ignorant and actually wrong. and making things worse.
The Dutch have long been the tallest in Europe and the Food Foundation does not say whether their average difference with the UK has increased merely that the UK has slipped down some international ranking. This is meaningless unless the changes to gene pools from immigration are taken into account. For a number of years Turkish immigration dominated in Germany, Pakistani in the UK and so averages will have been affected differently. Malnutrition – real malnutrition – does affect growth, but that someone is short does not mean she or he is malnourished. The UK does not have a diet; it has a number of diets. For example, near where I live small shops selling middle eastern food predominate. The subpopulations they serve have culturally determined diets. The Food Foundation ignores culture and genetics. The number of people born outside of the UK has increased dramatically in the last 20 years. The UK’s average may well be faltering for that reason alone. Charity reports are self-servingly biased fantasies pushing an agenda and the amount of drivel in our media shows no sign of diminishing.
I see that French and German kids are the same height. That surprised me. The Germans I have known have all been quite strapping and that’s just the ladies. The Danes are hot on the heels of the Dutch. Must be all that bacon.
Here’s a very worrying video by Neil McCoy-Ward, I know I’ve been posting him a lot lately but he’s a great analyst. Just listen to what he has to say about Britain’s economy, frightening. We have generations of LibLabCon betrayals to thank for this.
“The UNTHINKABLE Is Happening In The UK!!!”
(1) We grow most of our own fruit and vegetables. (Still working on the oranges problem).
(2) I have never had a mortgage or paid rent.
(3) My electricity bill is negative.
(4) My heating bill is zero.
So, it’s possible to beat the b******s with a little forethought and technology.
HA………so you live in a tent in the middle of the woods then!!!
No, I have recently downsized from a five bedroom house with 50 acres of ground. I now live in a three bedroom bungalow with two acres of ground.
What limits everyone’s standard of living is debt. There’s far too many these days lives off other peoples debt. Things are getting worse too.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7360954,-3.0210627,118m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
Colin- you got to hand it to him. Not bad for an illegal immigrant working as a handyman in the NHS. Or his Dad is bigger than . . .
HarryFAgain- so you are a rubber boat immigrant right?
PS. I was inspired by the shop picture today. I hope to see many like it springing up and being patronised by lovers of freedom and good food everywhere! I’m starting to search them out myself.
Only one thing needs to be kept in mind when contemplating our situation:- Not one (excepting perhaps Andrew Bridgen) of the 650 deadbeats occupying the house of Thieves nor the myriad of hostile leeches drawing their ‘daily pension’ in the House of Lordling Failures, means Britain any good at all! Their only interest is to gain or retain (according to the swing of the pendulum) ‘Power’! Party names mean nothing when reviewing their political intentions. They are all one colour, muddy pink! The Kneeler is being pulled one way an another depending upon the prevailing wind and the pressure from his many ‘minders’ on the strings of his puppet frame! But he will obey his Masters at all times to our detriment! Sunak is no different. He will duck and dive in order that his own handlers do not find it necessary to knock him off his perch and “find anuzzer vun”!
I attended (virtually) the latest BetterWay conference. I was inspired by so many of the speakers and also by the number of actual attendees that filled the lecture hall for each ‘conversation’. Robert F Kennedy Junior sent a comprehensive video message of support to the conference.
I have since heard that The Great Rising has had its inaugural meeting. So we can expect to see information and options disseminated through the alternative channels that no doubt many of us watch. A new one is out called The Great Resist. The inaugural meeting was held in Stroud. The next is to be held in Newport (Gwent) on Saturday 24th June in the Neon Centre, Clarence Avenue (one of the speakers will (I understand) be Niall Ferguson of the Workers of England Union. This and other planned expositions around the Country will eventually be available from their website (I’m told they are under Freedom Digital Broadcasting – I haven’t yet had time to check this one out). They are not working against one another but rather as complimentary activists.
The idea is to give people information as to how to live in alternative ways and avoiding the ‘big corporate’ and ‘big Pharma’ clutches (and to keep sane)!
I also watched an interview with two guys in Thetford who, being utterly hacked off at the antics of the Council that they organised and stood for election themselves. One of them was elected. Now they are getting organised to build on their embryonic success.
So you can see I’ve been keeping busy! I missed Vivs daily rants while it was off air. So glad to see it back again.
Frederica….seeing that Reform UK and Tice kicked Andrew Bridgen into touch and followed the other parties line in disregarding him, I wonder if they will do likewise with Boris Johnson. I keep hearing and reading that Johnson may join Reform UK, but if that were to occur I couldn’t see Johnson taking orders from Tice. It would be very much a case of the blind leading the blind, and Johnson would want to be the leading light. Apart from anything else it would be the kiss of death for Reform UK. I wonder if Bridgen has entertained the idea of joining the UK Independence Party or the Heritage Party.
As I understand it Colin, Andrew Joined Reclaim! He received a standing ovation and rapturous applause when he spoke at the BetterWay conference.
I personally, wouldn’t touch Reform with a barge pole! Johnson will bring the Kiss of death wherever he goes now. I wish he may administer it to the WEF, the WHO and anyone else hell bent on destroying our World!
I see there is someone endeavouring to set up The Luddite Party. I haven’t looked at it myself yet. They keep posting sections of their policy. I think it’s theludditeparty.com if you’re interested. I think people are bored of ‘Parties’ of all type. They see that nothing changes and whoever you vote for it makes no odds!
Frederica……..Reclaim, blimey. That’s another party that is not really a party, in that it doesn’t have a membership where the members have the usual membership rights of deciding who the leader should be, holding him/her to account with the ability to dismiss them, and deciding policy. Like Reform UK it doesn’t have a local branch structure to recruit members, activists and election candidates, and raise funds. In my honest opinion he would have been better off joining UKIP which admittedly has past baggage which will be hard to shake off, or the Heritage Party which has started upon the long road of setting up local branches. Without those all important branches, Reclaim will never have the manpower resources to get anyone elected. It is one thing having a well known TV actor now radio/tv presenter at the helm and quite another to have attractive policies and the all important manpower to wear out shoe leather on the streets to do the necessary donkey work. Tice doesn’t understand that concept and nor does Fox it seems. So to have a current sitting MP like Andrew Bridgen join that sort of political party doesn’t make sense. At least to me it doesn’t…..
Colin, I don’t know what his reason was. Unless he thought it was safer for the time being and would stop them trying to force him out of Parliament full stop! I must say I was surprised that he chose to do that rather than go it alone as an independent. He was certainly getting well known and sought after on his own. Time will no doubt reveal all!
I must correct you Colin, Reform uk does have local branches, I can vouch for that as I am a member of the North Devon Branch. We also have selected a gentleman who will stand for election as MP and hopefully he will put the useless poser of the Conservatives out of office!
Any party which BoJo is involved in will not get my vote.
Michael Durrans……….I stand corrected. Reform UK does seem to have a few branches which is a good thing. I have just looked up your North Devon Facebook site. However, do branches such as the one you are connected with have any degree of autonomy from the central party. Do you have for instance a Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer and other Committee members, and indeed the all important activists to deliver leaflets and canvass at the doorstep at election times. And are you permitted to have a bank account and do you raise funds and select your own election candidates. I would assume that is a no, which was how it used to be. All of these entities existed within UKIP branches of which I was once a Chairman, Campaign Manager and Membership Secretary. I was also once connected to The Brexit Party and was a constituency campaign organiser, but I was forever banging my head against a brick wall and never got any answers to the questions I had. Even as an election candidate I was kept in the dark, so gave it up and set up a local Independent Party with another exasperated Reform UK candidate, and never looked back.
Liked the photo of the good old -fashioned greengrocer. We must support them, paying with cash. Use it or lose it.
And the smartphone generation makes me despair.
The particular connection I’m making here between these 2 things:
There are some branches of Aldi in UK (Yorkshire?) who are trialling the system whereby customers need a smartphone with an app and QR code just to get into the store, let alone buy anything. Will the smartphone generation have the sense to scotch this dreadful development by boycotting Aldi? Which if successful will be adopted by all other supermarkets and stores?
Will they heck !!!! No they will unthinkingly roll over and collaborate, putting all our necks into the noose of Social Credit system, Digital ID and CBDC. So that people like myself who don’t want smartphones will have the devils own job staying out of the trap.
Our planet provides abundant sustenance for us, growing from the ground and other natural sources, so how come we have regressed so far that we are must fight past a Social Credit System just to get fed?
I will certainly boycott them Mary.
AND ME! NO to all that rubbish, I now have a standing joke with one of the Checkout Ladies. Have you got your Morrisons card, she asks with a smirk. Then before I can answer she says. I know I know! As
I used to answer they are not getting my data.
Cash is King
Mary……well, I have never been into an Aldi store and one is just around the corner from me which used to be Homebase DIY. And don’t think I ever will at that. Apart from anything it is a German company and since they are the leading light of the European Union, I will continue to shop at truly British stores. The way things are going sooner or later one wont be able to breathe without a Smartphone. I hope the Smartphone goes the same way as Smart Motorways, but somehow I feel they are here to stay as most people seem attached to them to the point where they cannot put them down.
I heard about these stores Mary. I also read that shoplifting is on the rise (surprise surprise!). Apparently these stores register anything you pick up and charge it to your phone (no checkouts). I guess its to counter any pilfering. Interesting to see it’s being trialled in Yorkshire, (I wonder which towns exactly!!). Couldn’t be anything to do with the demographic of course!!!!!
I can see all sorts of problems and difficulties. Not the least if you’ve picked something up to look at it and then put it down again. Will the system realise that or will you have a fight on your hands to prove you never actually put it in the trolley/basket! What happens if you take anything back?
I think it’s a dreadful idea! I wont even use the self-scan things you find in some stores. I wont use self service checkouts. I want to pay cash (though I am finding that when I visit a place where there are two ATM’s, often one of them has no cash!). It’s up to us all to boycott such stores. You can always find food shops somewhere else even if it isn’t quite what you’re used to. The only way is to vote with the feet. The trouble is that so many people think it’s really cool to wave your smart phone about!
I found a farm shop the other day where there is also a Post Office. So I could draw cash and buy stuff in the same outlet. I shall be researching other independent outlets that are local to me and using them more often. Now I’m no longer a carer, I’m going to become a resistance fighter!
Frederica “I guess it’s to counter any pilfering”.
No that’s not the purpose, although they will probably use that as one of their excuses.
It’s part of the digital cage being built around us, whereby we won’t be able to go anywhere or do anything without it being tracked and recorded, or even prevented if TPTB wish . Eg suppose the supermarket was outside the 5 mile radius you’re permitted to travel, you could be barred. And so on. Part of the nightmare Brave New World
If it were just to stop shoplifting it wouldn’t worry me
and I wouldn’t be warning about it !
Mary I understand what you’re saying. Clearly the shoplifting propaganda is a cover for the real purpose! But they are not counting on the resistance that is being built up everywhere. It’s quiet at present but it will gather momentum I am sure. To complete such a digital cage they have to get everyone using the ‘smart’ technology. The more of us refuse to have such technology or refuse to use it for their purposes the more difficult it will become to make it work as they wish.
And on the BBC online news site there is an article that those immigrants who came to Britain from the Caribbean with mental health issues were sent back and were not permitted to settle here. Apparently this has come about by research by the BBC ‘Windrush’ issues. It is nice to know that some people employed at the BBC haven’t got anything better to do with their time other than to constantly dig the dirt on this country. I agree perhaps it wasn’t the right thing to do, but we are talking about a decision that was taken 73 years ago for goodness sake and that the people who made that decision are long gone. You can see what is coming down the track with regard to this, as no doubt the BBC will be encouraging relatives to seek legal advice and claim compensation for hurt feelings. The BBC is truly a thoroughly disgusting organisation getting involved in politics and constantly trying to influence thinking in political circles. The BBC should be abolished as soon as possible.
Colin, I recently watched a two hour uncut version (recorded in real time by the interviewee) of Marianna Spring interviewing Darren Nesbitt of The Light newspaper. He was by far more clued up than she was. She giggled and flaunted her way through the whole thing (a complete bimbo!). She left promising that their version of the interview would honestly reflect both sides! I saw the finished article. It was a complete stitch up! The BBC is ‘bought and paid for’ globalist now. They are completely hostile! How they have the cheek to set up a program and call it ‘Verify’ (or some such name) just shows how contemptuous they feel toward the people of this Country!
So, our idiot prime minister Sunak has guaranteed £3 billion pounds of our money to rebuild the economy of Ukraine, and there was me thinking our own economy was in dire straits. It just goes to prove when our politicians have a pet project in which to inject cash they can find the money at the drop of a hat, but when it is something which is going to benefit the British public then it is a different story altogether. And no doubt this £3 billion pounds will be the first instalment, and that we will be pumping money into Ukraine for years to come. I sincerely hope that this injection of money is not going to start any time soon as that war in still ongoing and that any infrastructure that is repaired is likely to be immediately blown to pieces again by an incoming missile. What Sunak should be doing instead and indeed what the United Nations should be doing, is doing their utmost to bring the two sides together to thrash out a peace plan, but all we get is talk of bringing Putin to justice which will not encourage the Russians to come to the table.
Just another indication, if we needed one, that Sunak is not “our” PM but just another one taking orders from his globalist mates.
However a ray of hope:
https://stopworldcontrol.com/jury/
I like the idea Jack but I’m very cagey about where I flash my email address these days. I wont sign up unless I can see what they’re about first!
Frederica Actually I’m signed up myself and think they’re OK. A certain amount of emotional waffle and they’re always asking for donations ! (well I suppose they can’t run on air , and you’re not forced to to give them anything. I don’t. ). But they send regular communications which you can circulate.
The other week they recognised that many people simply can’t see the evil of the UN, World Health Organisation, however many facts and arguments you present to them, But one thing that might make them sit up and smell the evil, is the vile sex education being peddled in schools worldwide, which is engineered by the those same monsters who are behind the Great Reset.
OK Mary I’ll give its a try and see. The ‘sex education’ euphemism is making my blood boil! I cannot think why there aren’t more parents and even grandparents and other ‘right thinking’ people, shouting the odds against it! But as the judge refused Public Child Protection Wales a judicial review on the grounds that the ladies getting the case together were too poor to afford the likely Court costs, it is clear that the monsters aren’t all confined to the Great Reset mob. Proper judiciary would recognise that Justice needs to be dispensed for all comers – not bought exclusively by the wealthy!
I don’t think ‘Peace’ figure anywhere in the equation Colin! The money will all be ‘borrowed’ or ‘printed’ and sooner or later Britain will end up a bankrupt basket case! Guess who will be called upon to pay the debt!
CH- on the subject of money going to Ukr – silly, we can afford it (!), dontchaknow?
I understand nato is going to send in troops to camp out on the Northern border of Ukr. ‘Intention’ is to prevent Poccia invading from the North (not to escalate the fighting into Russia – honest Mister!). Until now, it has been Ukr crossing North into Russia, beating up Russian settlements. Russia in turn a while ago, said it would be a good idea to cross say twenty miles South into Ukr, and just sit there, to provide a buffer zone against the marauders.
Nato enters the conflict. Nato, look around – you will get your backside kicked. And where are you going to get weapons and ammo. Money cant buy them as ‘allied weapons’ are used up and ineffective in any case. Plus it takes donks years to make a turbine driven abrahams tank (yes, yes it should be electric powered (- the things we have to say nowerdays . . .).
Nobody is talking about the wonder weapon patriot (loud trumpeting) missiles any more. Why is that? Just asking.
Oh, sorry msm, potential World war is much less important than submarine joy-riders with more money than sense – right? Trigger happy noo-cle-air mericans enter the picture. Darwin Awards for both comes to mind.
(p.s. Col, cheque in the post in a week or so. Just wait ok).
Biscotte……..no, don’t send me any cheques thank you. I am not personally involved in the setting up up of a new party, but I know somebody who is. I will be helping out the UK Independence Party, that is where my loyalties currently lie. Donate there if you must……..
Colin would that be theludditeparty.com You’ve heard about?
Frederica……..no definitely not The Luddite Party. It will be a single issue party which will campaign for a particular form of PR which has been devised by the person I know. He has written a book on the subject which is being published later this year, and said it will be like UKIP, a one issue party and that was why it was so successful. I personally don’t believe that theory and never considered UKIP to be a one issue party, as it had a manifesto full of policies, and still has. I cannot spill the beans on what it is to be called. He wants me to take a leading role in this new party but I am less keen on the idea and would prefer instead to concentrate on the UK Independence Party and help to build that up once again to be an electoral force. The anticipated collapse of the Conservative vote at the next general election will create a political vacuum for another party of the centre right to come along and hoover up their votes. UKIP is ideally placed to do that over and above Reform UK I believe.