Who’s a bully then? “We” have no other problems …
At the start of this rather important week our MSM have their eyes firmly fixed on such important news items as COP27 and … bullying. The Red Tops had to show their ‘popularity’ by headlining yon ‘celeb jungle’ telly show. For the record, here’s the link to the customary compilation. Worth mentioning is that the Metro went with a war-like report on Bonfire Night (link) while ‘i’ writes about a horror scenario in the NHS where about 300,000 staff have apparently voted for strikes (link). That frightful scenario has also made it onto the online ‘front page’ of The Times (link, paywalled). Well, we peasants have been taught to ‘do without’ during the lockdowns and the covid years so I’m sure we’ll manage. somehow.
Missing from the front pages of both print and online editions are articles about the mid-term elections in the USA which take place tomorrow. It is a rather important election, but apparently not worthy of attention. The Times is the exception, with a report under the headline “Presidents fight for every vote in Pennsylvania, the state that could swing midterms” (link, paywalled).
Those of us who’ve kept an eye on US media know that there’s no ‘could swing’ about these elections. Political pundits expect a red-wash – the Republican Party is ‘red’, the Dems are blue – for both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Why scare us with such reports when we have other things to be scared about here in the UK!
Instead there are articles on the two most important issues: COP27 and ‘that bully’, Sir Gavin Williamson. Looking first at yon climate jamboree we learn that the current PM or rather his government representatives are going to hand out even more of our money:
“Britain has opened the door to paying climate change reparations to developing countries by supporting talks on the issue at the Cop27 summit. On Sunday, at the meeting in Egypt, UK negotiators backed a last-minute agreement to address “loss and damage” payments to countries badly affected by climate-related disasters.” (paywalled link)
This is in addition to the pledge Sunak will make today, of handing out “£65.5 million for green technology in developing countries.” (paywalled link) – because “we” are rich and moreover, it’s our fault for having kicked off the industrial revolution. Regarding that ‘last-minute agreement’, here are the ‘details’:
“Pakistan is leading a push by developing countries including Bangladesh and the Maldives for compensation from richer countries responsible for most of the world’s pollution. The UK backed the issue being on the Cop27 agenda during two days of negotiations ahead of the Egypt summit and is understood to accept that a deal must be done over the economic cost of climate change, which is forecast to reach $1trillion by 2050.” (paywalled link)
Isn’t that nice of those UK representatives: virtue-signalling with our money. I’m sure we’re happy to pay more taxes for that pledge! I wonder if ‘Pakistan and the Maldives’ will demand ‘reparations’ from their neighbours China and India … There was also a nice little report in the DM yesterday, according to which a certain Mr Ed Miliband seems happy to support such ‘reparation demands’ when/if Labour is in government (link). He is of course Labour’s shadow Environment secretary.
There was another U-turn by Sunak, this time in regard to ‘wind farms’. The DM reports that the “ban on onshore wind farms will stay as Rishi Sunak axes another Liz Truss policy” (link). So far, there’s no outcry yet about another U-Turner in No 10. Don’t rejoice: this only means the ‘old’ policy of needing ‘local consent’ for more of those bird shredders remains. Miz Truss apparently wanted a ‘free-for-all’ policy.
The Times meanwhile writes about ‘foreign aid’, documenting a typical sleigh-of-hand accounting in tones of subdued outrage, an outrage reserved for the budget manipulations, not for the real ‘news’ (my emphasis):
“Billions of pounds of government spending in Britain is being classified as foreign aid as ministers grapple with the small boats crisis and war in Ukraine. Under Treasury rules, as much as £3.5 billion for refugees and migrants in the UK will be considered part of Britain’s contribution to international development. It means the government is in line to spend almost half of the foreign aid budget in Britain. Effectively, about 0.3 per cent of gross national income will go on projects overseas. The government’s target is 0.5 per cent.” (link, paywalled)
I seem to have missed the announcement that foreign aid has gone up to 0.3%, with a ‘target of 0.5%’, i.e. more than twice as much as the 0.2% pledged by government. And this at a time when our own economy is struggling, when we plebs are being warned of more taxation? At a time when inflation has increased the budget sums already? How utterly insane is this?
Even taking into account that sleigh-of-hand by the Treasury, to claw back some of the billions spent on ‘refugees’ – £3.5bn! – this sum is eye-watering. And still this government is handing out our money to all and sundry with ‘moar’ being planned for ‘climate reparations’. Insane is what this is!
As for that other item of ‘important news’, the ‘Gavin Williamson is a bully’ saga: dear Lord, give me strength! The DT is hell-bent on depicting the PM as someone who isn’t doing as he’s told. Sunak however seems not to have listened to his Party Bigwigs rather than not toeing the lines given by his mandarins:
“Rishi Sunak was urged not to give Sir Gavin Williamson a job in his Cabinet until he had looked into the complaint about his alleged “bullying and intimidation”, […] The Prime Minister was warned about the complaint by Sir Jake Berry, the then Conservative party chairman, the day before he carried out his reshuffle.” (paywalled link)
This ‘alleged bullying’ seems to consist in Williamson’s “sending [Ms Morton, then whip] a series of expletive-laden messages expressing his anger at not having been invited to the Queen’s funeral.” Scrolling down a bit in the DM’s report (link) you can read those ‘expletive-laden messages’ if you feel so inclined.
Since the expletive starting with the letter ‘F’ is now so common I ask myself why anyone would regard using this as ‘bullying’ rather than a sad case of no manners. Interestingly, none of the ever-so- esteemed Commentators in the broadsheets point out that Mr W. comes across as a petulant schoolboy rather than a bully. Moreover, if we believe The Times, that totally unbiased publication, there’s also a whiff of a belated, political “hashtag MeToo” about it:
“A minister has claimed that Sir Gavin Williamson raised details about her private life during a conversation in an attempt to silence her while she was on the back benches. The Tory MP, who told the Conservative Party at the weekend that she was willing to discuss the matter, said that Williamson had called her into his office when he was chief whip in 2016. At the time she was campaigning on an issue that was causing the government difficulty. During the meeting Williamson is said to have raised a sensitive issue about her private life, which she interpreted as a tacit threat.” (link, paywalled)
Good grief! A ‘tacit threat’, made six (!) years ago! The horror! Has yon female minister never watched ‘House of Cards’ with Sir Ian Richardson? Are Tory MPs actually little snowflakes? How sad! Of course, what we need is a Labour government because Ms Rayner would’ve sacked him, or so she said.
Clearly, we have no other problems. We have enough money to splash around on the international stage. People still have enough money to burn on Bonfire Night. Taxes going up won’t be a problem, especially not when the NHS needs more money. And we really must tackle that sensitive issue of using the ‘f-word’ in whatsapps messages because MPs are sensitive little flowers!
It’s only we peasants who can and must be bullied, by tacit threats from our ‘superiors’ governing us from City Halls and Whitehall. Well, at least the money for fireworks, now gone up in smoke and noise, can no longer be taken away by HMRC.
Off topic but I think worth posting as a Public Health Warning.
If you own an e-bike and have to charge it in your house, or worse, your flat, NEVER do so in your hallway. A New Yorker died because his e-bike exploded in the hallway of his apartment; he could not reach the door sheltered in his bath from the flames but died from inhalation of the exceptionally toxic smoke.
A freak? No. NY alone now averages FOUR e-bike fires a week. And as the uptake of these bikes increases, so the fires. There were 44 in 2020, 104 in 2021. This year is heading for double that, and so far six people have consequently died; that’s six people fewer able to save the planet.
There are currently about 24,500 e-bikes in NYC, not all owned, some are Citi bikes, but a battery-charging failure rate heading towards 1% by the end of the year ought to be a warning. Shades of jab damage; nothing to see here, let’s double down.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/saving-the-world-with-lithium-four-times-a-week-an-e-bike-battery-explodes-into-flames-in-new-york/
Unintended consequence or not; one can never be sure these days. At the very least there should have been some extended testing of such devices before putting them on general sale
Written before reading flyer below.
There was, if no a red wave, moderate red surf in the 2020 election. Counties across the US moved further red, whilst in strange contrast the Presidential election saw the opposite, with changes in vote tallies and huge numbers of almost all Democrat votes coming in overnight. Like swinging to Tory councillors whilst electing a Labour MP at the same count; doesn’t happen. But it wasn’t stolen of course.
Remarkably a similar thing happened in Brazil recently, where the country moved further right and Bolsonaro was leading until the evening. Then overnight large chunks of votes went to his opponent, a criminal convicted of corruption but released from prison by a judge he had appointed before being ousted. Nothing to see there. In fact just enough extra votes for his opponent to win. There was another similarity with the pre-election rallies; those of Trump and Bolsonaro were massively and enthusiastically attended everywhere, whilst those of their opponents were sparse bedraggled looking affairs; the evident mood of the country. The Democrats, despite the blanket media shunning and disinformation, were caught out in multiple malfeasance.
They have had time to prepare for tomorrow, whilst in perfect Leftist style projecting cheating by their opponents, so expect some anomalies in the pattern in some key states but you can’t stop a tsunami across the board. Keep an eye on Arizona, where multiple skullduggery went on last time. Kari Lake is sometimes called the female Trump, and must be stopped. One network accidentally put up a graphic a week early showing Katie Hobes beating Kari Lake 53% to 47%. That’s rather like the BBC showing that report of WTC7 collapsing half an hour before it actually did. That’s the problem with co-ordinating a narrative in advance.
Insanity. Yes that is the only word for it. We are sane people living in a lunatic asylum.
The “Reign of the Green King” has got off to an excellent start. If he can’t go to COP, then COP must come to him. No meddling in politics of course. We must show that we are leaders in the race to NetRuin. The Prime Muppet said he wouldn’t go then did a U-turn on hearing that the Ex-Prime Muppet was going. Why the hell are we involved in this when we contribute only around 1% to global emissions? Most of the major contributors are not there. It’s purely a forum for peacocking and virtue signalling. Of course we must be first in the queue when it comes to paying out billions in reparations for the Industrial Revolution. You couldn’t make this madness up.
I see what you mean Ken. Sunak was ‘given a privilaged extra meeting’ with the green king wasn’t he.
Pauline…….is that King Charles or a certain brewery in Suffolk, of Abbot and Speckled Hen fame? With Sunak now wanting to go further and faster with Net Zero etc and with talk of reparations to third world countries which is supported by Labour as well, it seems as if the Conservative Party are hell bent on fast tracked political suicide. Just who does he think is going to pay for all this if it comes to fruition. Oh, silly me of course the long suffering British taxpayer will foot the bill. The rapidly approaching annhiliation of the Conservative Party suits me fine, but we haven’t got a suitable replacement on the horizon as far as I can see. Nigel Farage seems to think a party will come to the fore judging by what he has said recently on his GB News programme. However, there is no sign that he will be leading the charge to provide it and his mantra at the moment appears to be along the lines that his job is to give the alternative view on his GB News platform blah blah blah. The big problem with that is that we can’t vote for it, besides which there are some idiots on that News Channel as well who I wouldn’t give house room. And this week he is apparently in the USA covering the midterm elections. I wish to goodness that he would just concentrate his efforts on what is going on here in this country, because apart from anything else I would prefer it if this country adopted a more independent line from the course which the Americans are setting at the moment.
CH- GBNoos does have a good complement of blacks / coloureds, screeching women, homosexuals, not yet shaving young men, and all round oddballs. It is either policy, or a good cross section of British society – you decide. I leave out their late evening ‘comedians’ prog. What a misnomer.
Re above…..listened in to Nigel Farage’ GB News programme which came from New York, most of which was about the midterm elections. It was just a tad boring and various guests appeared all of whom talked gobble-de-gook with Farage talking over them, so a bit disjointed and amateurish to be honest. Of what interest are the USA midterm elections to the average man in the street here I ask. To Farage they are obviously interesting, but to me at least no interest whatsoever, apart from the fact that this country needs to be far more independent of the Americans in future, and not follow them willy nilly into every conflict in the world without giving it a second thought. Farage needs to concentrate his efforts on the politics of this country, that is where it is needed. The cynic in me would say that it is an all expenses paid trip 5 with Star hotel accommodation and five course meals and fine wines etc.
Well there may be a bit of a course correction, and hopefully a reckoning in some quarters, after the mid-terms tomorrow, if the blue corner hasn’t managed to steal too much this time.
‘You couldn’t make this madness up’ Mmmm! Isn’t that exactly what has been done?
No Jake, THEY’VE made it up not us.
Ken You seem a little surprised that our Government is engaged in misleading the public on a grand scale.
Not at all. It’s becoming the norm. It will take more than voting to sort this lot out.
The Swedish goblin recently revealed that behind climate alarmism is the green aganda to destroy capitalism and in the West in particular of course. That will entail the end of modern medicine at least so far as it depends on complex machinery and drugs. Green idiots have no conception of the complex supply chains involved in the manufacture of scanners, for example, and drugs, chains that are a triumph of capitalism nor do they understand what underpins technology in general and the building of hospitals. People are getting a sense of what all this means for energy security but the end of modern medicine is far from anyone’s consciousness so far.
The only hope, now that Sunak has gone full cop27, is the US in which Republicans might win back the presidency in 2024 and so withdraw from participation in the maddest cult ever that is sweeping the world. Trump appears to have unofficially started their primaries by denouncing ‘Ron Descanctimonious’. I am concerned at what is happening. Party splits can be vicious and we – the rest of the world – need US Replicanism as never before. The next two years needs a clear front runner to consistently and persistently challenge the Democrats, not each other.
I’m going to a party on Wednesday with Republicans to celebrate the results in tomorrow’s mid-term elections. I fervently hope it is a celebration and not a wake.
Nurses are on banded pay – from band 5 once qualified – the scale points of which increased in July. They move up every couple of years and also to the next band on becoming a senior nurse or deputy sister – sorry, ward manger – and to band 7 as a ward sister (around 60 to 70% more than national average pay). The media fail to point out that they have never been on static pay. I hope Sunak & co face down the RCN, as parasitic as any trade union. With the media feeding a gullible public I fear they may not.
There is a crisis of early retirement in the NHS to avoid punitive tax rates once pension pots reach a certain size. Paying more tax to fund the NHS is something for others to do it seems.
“That will entail the end of modern medicine …”
Hopefully including the highly lucrative poison jabs that they’re still trying to hard sell to us….
OK Mary – now try to imagine life without the other vaccines – smallpox, TB, tetanus, diptheria, yellow fever, polio, meningitis (rare but devastating) rabies, hepatitis (A and B). OK, you (as I did) probably survived measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox but, as a microbiologist, I’d say measles jabs will have saved lives. Trying to stamp out rubella was justified because it is so mild a pregnant woman may not know until the birth of a rubella baby (as happened to my father’s cousin.)
Yes – back to the dark ages, no vax, no antibiotics and probably sooner or later. no clean water. Exactly what the Blob wants for the developed nations – after impoverishing themselves on so called reparations
Before getting on your high horse, read what I said: in plain English: that the Covid jab has caused massive damage. You can’t hide that . Try coming face to face with people who have been damaged.
I never mentioned other vaccines but you have to get on your high horse, lecture and and blind us with science don’t you
Read my response to Stout – sure, an end to covid jabs (one is no longer available due to the rare clot issue) but do the Just Stop Oil fools realise it means an end to ALL of it? I’d wager that however much you welcome no covid jabs you don’t want to go back to the dark ages.
Someone touched a nerve. Come on Helena, you are better than that overreaction. But we are very likely going back to the dark ages, from deliberate energy and petrochemical products deprivation not through shunning medicines.
mary, further to comment a couple of days back.
I came across Janet Ossebard with this short segment.
THE ‘SPANISH FLU’ WAS A MENINGITIS VACCINE EXPERIMENT GONE TERRIBLY WRONG (RIGHT) https://www.bitchute.com/video/noYxp9L5zSWS/
Intrigued, and endeared by her sometimes mangled pronunciation, I moved on to her 10 part series ‘Fall of the Cabal’ and then the epic ‘Sequel to Fall of the Cabal’ (25 parts so far.) On Bitchute and Rumble.
I don’t take everything she asserts as gospel, but that leads me to check and discover more, and some associations are I feel a bit contrived, but the general sweep through history is awesome and whether right or blurred certainly illuminates.
Doh! Ossebaard! You will need the correct spelling for a search to work.
Very disturbing stuff. I watched 8 9 and 10. especially re the children. Whether this is true or not I think we have enough evidence that they are evil.
Stout, your first paragraph is so spot on. No of course they don’t or they’d eat natural food, not vegan fake foods, ditch their mobiles, never own a TV and refuse ALL modern medical treatment.
Pharma is a MASSIVE user of plastics, as I well know. There has been a big move to single use bioreactors (made from plastics! Plastics mostly made from – yep, fossil fuels) for very sound reasons. Go back to what they used before? Sure, high quality stainless steel! Now how is that manufactured – remind me!
Plus all products will be more expensive due to the in line cleaning and sterilisation plus its validation and resulting downtime that moving to single use vessels avoids.
As for the impending energy blackouts? Hospitals may have back up generators (fuelled by, guess what, diesel) but smaller labs and disabled people who rely on electricity for devices used at home will be stuffed (or in the case of the latter, possible dead.)
SY- A too long response but you have touched many nerves with your comments.
Technology is something our mps have no concept of. Too many law, politics, economics, and similar degrees. Saying to the forces, you got two pct rise last year, compared to paper clips that (hence same for missile systems) have only gone up a quarter of one pct, be thankful. That’s the pinnacle of their understanding.
As to economics . . . long before the TV went to the dump, I remember a Thursday night edition of ‘meet the health workers and teachers’.
That convicted felon – head of the ecb who recently said we don’t know where all this inflation came from . . . reminded me of that bbc prog.
Following something similar, an mp said we didn’t see this coming.
– A member of the audience said ‘that’s not good enough there should be a ‘reserve’ or ‘nest egg’ for unforeseen events like we have. You’re not doing your job and so on’.
– Response, ‘why? (sneering) When do *you* see sudden change out of the blue?’.
– ‘when you put taxes up without warning – like you did recently! We all have to have a reserve to cover these . . .’
Like the rest of the world, yes we need uS Republicanism as never before. Been reading several articles that say the 2024 vote is likely to be rigged again. Watch ‘2,000 mules’ – free download for a surveillance education and rigging education, plus repeat outcome in the next couple of days (?). Still delivering postal votes to the dead, to Canada and to Mexico, plus the same XP operating system voting machines. Several pro-hackers who had never seen these machines had them hacked in a matter of minutes to produce anything you wanted.
And the comment that that ward sisters earn more than Avg pay. It’s a well known fact, ward sisters would make more as road cleaners.
Band 7 nurses in London are on a scale that goes up to £57,208. Not many road cleaners get that.
Nursing ceased to be a vocation when the RCN and Tony Blair agreed it should be a degree subject. Syllabuses had to be padded with management and leadership guff to last 3 years. It became a career – i.e about status.
Visiting my mother in hospital there were no nurses to be seen anywhere. I was told by an orderly they were in a “management meeting”. On another ocassion, I asked a passing nurses to help get my mother back into bed. I was told “sorry I’m team A. You need team B” as she continued to walk past.
I’m sure there are individual good nurses, but as a profession they lost my respect some time a go.
SY- the last comment was actually meant to be humourous. Too much msm flashed through my head – sorry!
On a serious note, my Mum died last year, and I spent a lot of time in hospital observing. It is no wonder the ‘turnover’ of nurses is as high as it is. Bedside matter bypass, disinterest, all round routine jobs only. And the male nurses are brought in to move / turn people over and so on. With stiff jointed old folks, their actions – all the finesse of a bull elephant.
Not team B but I’m looking after another patient and disappeared off to the staff room . . . .
Yes it was Project 2000 that destroyed nursing. My wife, now happily for her, retired from theatre, spent the last decade of her tenure increasingly frustrated, and often angered, with the absence of knowledge, ability to think on their feet and most of all attitude shown by the new cohorts gradually integrating and degrading the service.
Stout Yeoman…..well, I would go one step further than that, in stating that Nursing ceased to be a vocation when the then government minister decided that the SRN and SEN nursing roles should be abolished. One doesn’t need to have a university degree to be a nurse, no more than a police officer does. What has happened in both cases, is that there has been a loss of more than suitable candidates who are not particularly academic, who would have made excellent nurses and police officers. Both Nursing and Policing used to be a vocation, and one entered those professions because they really wanted to do it. Of course, one had to have attained a good standard of education to qualify for admission to these professions, but entrants before those unnecessary changes were made, learnt on the job as well as in the classroom, and more importantly were paid whilst they learnt. As per usual, our thoroughly inept political class have buggered things up, something which they do quite well.
Keep your fingers crossed for the US mid-terms. It should technically be a red wave but I’ve heard that the cheating and corruption has reached insane levels; it has been reported that mail in ballots have even been sent to people in Canada, it’s not looking good.
I’ve been scratching around for components, projectiles and powder for the last few years to reload ammunition, factory loaded ammo is scarce, the reason being that the Americans have been buying all of it, nearly every firearm and pice of ammunition made in the world. It could likely be that the results of these elections are just not going to be accepted; there could be a lot of lead flying in the US maybe as soon as the end of the week. God knows where this will leave the rest of the world as if things weren’t bad enough.
Oh I forgot to mention, there’s a blood moon on the US election day on Tuesday. I’m not the superstitious type but in this case it seems very ominous.
Flyer- posted my above before I read down this far. Yes ‘Rigging ‘Я’ Us’ aka democrat party.
COP27
Once again we have a bunch of self interested politicians and their “scientists”, better described as “soothsayers”, pushing the climate change lies for their own personal gain. Time for our population at large to accept that we, the ordinary citizens of the UK and elsewhere, are at war with those people, albeit undeclared as such for now.
Sadly we seem to have reached a point where most of the youth, indoctrinated through their “education”, are unquestioningly supportive of the propaganda. Maybe they will change their minds when the true extent of government / globalist policies hits home and it has become ever more difficult to reverse those policies.
Will that be too late for a peaceful resolution?
Jack. ‘ever ore difficult to reverse those policies’. My first reaction was – yes like getting dragged into the E.U. Then I realised it was like the difficulties of reversing the covid policies.
I’m beginning to think it is too late for a peaceful resolution.
Your last sentence concerns me too Pauline. No wonder the good citizens of the US won’t give up their Second Amendment; it’s the threat, if serious enough, rather than the action which counts. Now we also have a king on the side of the enemy…