Nooo! Don’t go out – beware the ‘killer pollen’! Climate Change! Drought!
Irresponsible, infantile, attention-seeking – and that’s just the MSM chiefs filling their pages. On top of that, the two wannabe PMs ‘clashed’ yesterday in yet another TV debate which became ‘personal and bitter’. The Star had the one headline I liked: ‘No Shiz Sherlock’, on a report by ‘experts’ which found out, ‘after extensive research’, that police patrols reduce crime. Who knew! The rest of the predictable headlines of the print editions are collected in the usual place (link).
As for ‘that’ TV debate: who watches those things! It’s like an incestuous circle where the Westminster denizens scrub each other’s backs in public. (Yes, there are other expressions for this phenomenon but they are crude, rude, and not to be used in polite company!) I didn’t even have to open this morning’s online papers to know that we’re now in ‘nasty country’ as far as the Tories are concerned. Yesterday afternoon I noticed a remark by Ms Dorries, ‘Culture Secretary’, gleefully picked up by the Speccie and broadcast in their email newsletter:
“Ms Dorries] attacked Sunak for wearing £450 Prada loafers while Truss was ‘travelling the country wearing her earrings which cost circa £4.50 from Claire’s Accessories’.”
And here I thought that Ms Dorries was a Tory and thus beyond using the ploy of sartorial envy so beloved by Labour! Perhaps she’s unaware of how much those fabulous suits of her friend and colleague JRM cost. I don’t think he gets those from M&S …
And so to the irresponsible reports in the MSM. For example, they write about ‘warnings’ by fire chiefs that “we” need to prepare for ‘wildfires’. Yes, ‘tis about climate change, what else:
“Fire weather” – when heat, dryness and winds combine to create the perfect conditions for flames to rampage across the landscape – is predicted to become twice as likely in the UK if climate change pushes temperatures up by another degree. Yet while Government time and money has recently been poured into flood prevention, fires have been low on the agenda. Indeed, wildfires were only officially recognised as a major hazard 10 years ago.“ (paywalled link)
Ten years ago – so shouldn’t it be ‘all hail for the green Tories’? Never mind – do the MSM not realise that this is a perfect recipe for arsonists who can simply play the ‘extreme climate emergency’ card? After all, arsonists exist and have existed. I recall the annual ‘wildfires’ in Wales, destroying trees, plants and animals without the excuse of ‘climate change’. And here’s the next threat: drought! The Times tells us that “England is facing a drought next month as analysis shows that the first six months of this year were the driest since 1976.” (link, paywalled). The DT gives some details:
“The National Drought Group, which includes representatives from the water industry, farmers and government, will meet on Tuesday to discuss ways to mitigate water shortages. That could include local hosepipe bans and calls for households to cut down on non-essential use. […] The last drought was announced in 2018 and stretched into the following year. […] High demand for water during the recent record-breaking temperatures has put additional strain on resources across the country.” (paywalled link)
Oh – weren’t we exhorted by our helpful MSM and their ‘experts’ to ‘hydrate’, i.e. drink lots of water during that two-day ‘killer heatwave’? I seem to remember such advice … But it gets even more dire – my emphasis:
“Southern Water has already made a drought permit request with the Environment Agency, which is likely to lead to a hosepipe ban in the area. The company has asked its customers to reduce their usage as much as possible to protect water levels in the River Test. The company, which last year missed its target to reduce leakage by 50 per cent, is already in an official “water-stressed” area, in which households are forced to install meters.” (paywalled link)
We pay for leakages which lead to hosepipe bans while being blamed for ‘creating’ climate change. Again, I recall numerous reports that water companies need to reduce leakages which make up the bulk of the ‘no water’ complaints. Here’s another such leaking company, ‘in the news’ during other ‘drought’ episodes, now blaming customers for using too much of their ‘product’:
“Thames Water has said restrictions are likely to be needed unless the next few months bring increased rainfall. The last time there was a severe, level three, drought was during the heatwave of 1976, when water companies were given permission to place standpipes in the street. Such a severe drought is not expected this year, and would only arise after several more months of extreme hot and dry temperatures.” (paywalled link)
Funny, how there are always ‘plans’ and ‘scare levels’ when it’s about fleecing us paying plebs, but never when it’s about those water companies or those fire experts needing to remedy their shortcomings. Of course, none of those experts, never mind the MSM ’journalists’, dare to mention that we’ve had a rather precipitous population increase since 1976, all needing water. Of course, we’re not supposed to ask how the increase in housing built on green land might affect water usage. No – it’s climate change and that’s that.
Staying with ‘climate change’, a BBC ‘reporter’ penned a piece yesterday, titled: “Is hay fever getting worse in the UK?” (link). I spare you the weepy stories by two laydees who felt ‘like death’. I will quote two ‘experts’ who are allowed to push ‘Teh Message’ with added ‘science’ from the Met Office. Note that the operative word is ‘may’:
“Dr Beverley Adams-Groom, one of the UK’s leading pollen forecasters, said pollen grains may be getting more potent due to CO2 levels in the atmosphere. “Pollutants from traffic can interfere with the respiratory system and reduce the threshold that people start to experience. […] Research from Dr Adams-Groom shows that climate change could be a driving factor behind changing patterns in the UK. […] The Met Office says a changing climate may lengthen the normal UK season and make concentrations higher.” (link)
More CO2 makes pollen ‘more potent’? How? Don’t ask why there should be more pollen around when more of our agricultural land has been given over to ‘solar farms. Don’t ask if the ever larger number of bird shredders installed across the country could possibly be involved in spreading local pollen much farther and wider. They do contaminate the land when they crash down – see this report – but let’s not worry about that either. Perhaps nobody weeds the areas of solar and wind ‘farms’ so that more pollen are produced? I’m just wondering …
I leave you with news that the BBC, top supporter of Mr ‘e and his war, is going to stage next year’s Eurovision because the poor, war-torn Ukraine cannot do so. The BBC’s Director General said it was ‘a great privilege’, Ms Dorries of the meow remark regarding Sunak said she was ‘delighted’ and spouted more guff about poor Ukraine etc. The BBC will pay for this, but so will we: “The government said that any requests from the BBC for additional funding “would be subject to further discussions in the usual way” (link, paywalled).
Amazing, isn’t it: “we” have the money – for Eurovision, for NHS CEO’s exorbitant salaries, for water companies billing us for water which doesn’t even reach us because it leaks from their pipes, and for ‘experts’ who push message after message into the MSM which happily promote them in their outlets, saving their ‘journalists’ from doing real work and asking inconvenient questions.
Perhaps we need some medical ‘experts’ giving us ‘guidance’ on how to stay sane while trying to comply with all those ‘rulz’. Of course, my ‘guidance’ will be inadmissible, but I’ll give it anyway: ‘disregard and don’t comply’! Sadly, we’ve got to pay for these follies, regardless, so let’s enjoy being civilly disobedient for as long as we can.
Yes wasn’t he theMinjster for Sport ex football referee
I just cannot for the life of me think what possible use these utterly pointless leadership TV debates are. The only people able to determine the outcome as to who becomes party leader and prime minister are the 160,000 odd Conservative Party members, so it matters not what they say about anything. Total waste of time, energy and money, that is unless the BBC feel they have to give their biased and thoroughly incompetent political presenters something to do. One debate last night and another tonight, what utter tosh, and who gives a flying toss. Its just as well I don’t have a TV, not signed up to BBCI Player, ITV Hub or anything else and not paying the BBC one penny of the £157.00 licence to them to produce stuff that normally goes down a toilet.
Well done Colin in refusing to throw money at the enemy. How anyone can claim to be on the centre Right and still be paying their TV propaganda tax is beyond me. . At the pub last night a friend discllosed that he no longer pays his propaganda tax and like me still watches selected programmes on TV. He said he was coming across more and more sticking two fingers at the BBC.
Eurovision:
Time to bin it along with membership of the ECHR; in fact any vestige of our EU membership needs to be removed.
Yes, Yes, YES, Jack Thomas at 11.18am.
Eurovision, what utter cobblers that is as well. It just about sums Euromania up. Embarrassing is not the word. Still, it keeps some BBC plonker in work. I just hope they don’t think they are contributing anything to the moral fibre of this country though
“Funny, how there are always ‘plans’ and ‘scare levels’ when it’s about fleecing us paying plebs, but never when it’s about those water companies or those fire experts needing to remedy their shortcomings.”
Sums up the entire situation, whatever the specific topic.
So should we conclude that since 1976, there has been no effort to avoid a repeat of death by thirst? Mum told me about piling up the dehydrated bodies in the street (!).
Or is our population growing so quickly, it is outstripping improvements in water storage and water supply?
It couldn’t be zero investment over those 50+ years could it?
Nah . . . we have invested £23 Brazillions paying for creation of new reservoirs, upgrading pipework, and associated sorting Portugal’s aging sewage systems. A big boy (common market) told us to pay for it – ref Norman Tebbitt, years ago.
Iremember in the 50’s and 60’s, the absolute certainty of Water Wars
I remember that at the end of the (very hot and dry summer, agreed) of 1976 the Government installed a ‘Minister for Drought’. The result was that after three weeks or so, it started raining and didn’t stop for months! Perhaps they should try that trick again.
I understand from media reports on last night’s debate – I did not watch – that the contribution of immigration to unsustainable population growth and its affects on the NHS, Housing, Education and ultimately social cohesion, did not feature at all.
The issue did feature for me, though, as last night I was in a Mayfair pub with Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK: https://www.migrationwatchuk.org Alp began his career as an immigration officer and was posted to the British High Commission in Lagos. After joining the diplomatic service he was British ambassador to Iceland in 2004, joining Migration Watch UK on his retitement in 2008. He has had meetings with politicians for years including Cameron who told him, basically, to bugger off, and Johnson whose real attitude, he says, is let them all come, what’s the problem. He does not go along with laments about the power of the blob, and the civil service/mandarin part in particular. Determined political leadership or, rather, its absence is the pivotal factor notwithstanding that obstructive attitudes in the civil service are getting worse.
One curious finding is that attitudes to immigration among open borders Lib Dems are changing. Nearly 50% of Lib Dem voters, acording to a Migration Watch poll, now consider that immigration should be controlled after all. Something about stable doors and horses comes to mind.
What I gleaned last night from Alp’s encounters with politicians – he is polite, measured, and arned with data and not some easily dismissed ‘swivel eyed loon’ – is that the disconect between politicians and the populace is even greater than the large chasm we already see. The collapse of the NHS and GP services, the housing and school places crises, are seen by politicans as supply side problems when, as Migration Watch UK amply demonstrates, it is unconstrained demand led through immigration fuelled population growth that has caused the problem. We all know that. If Alp cannot get the basic facts understood in Westminster then we really are doomed.
Migration Watch has to be seen as politically neutral if it is to be listened to at all (for the pleasure of being told where to go by Cameron et al rather than simply not meet with them). That depite the howl of pain that was the referendum vote, and the years of dogged work by Migraion Watch, we still face immigration rates that are causing the impending collapse of civil society is something that future historians, if there are any among the rubble of our once great civilisation, may marvel at.
The Global Compact for Migration doesn’t get mentioned much these days. but it is doubtless instrumental in getting Europe totally invaded just at a time that the economic system collapses as its provisos find their way into our “laws.”. God help us.
It’s becoming clear that these political lunatics in all Western countries are determined to shut down agriculture in the name of Net Zero. We’re going to be expected to eat bugs but what else? How’s this for projection:
“New York Times Accused of ‘Normalizing’ Cannibalism After Publishing ‘Sick’ Essay”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/24/new-york-times-accused-normalizing-cannibalism-publishing-bizarre-essay/
The above has been reported from various sources not just the NYT but here I’ve chosen to link to a Breitbart article.
Not only are the globalist madmen trying to normalise pedophilia, now they expect us to eat each other.
flyer- Soylent Green anyone?
I can see how it would work.
And yes, it would reduce population levels.
My instant thought, too, You beat me to it.
Spoiler alert, but I doubt there is anyone who doesn’t know:
“lunatics” on the face of it but I believe that it is all planned and acceptable to those pursuing the drive for World Government.
Two comments about both Fires and Pollen. I have noticed in my area, North East Lancashire, all grass cutting by the local authority is now following the rule of re-wilding. Most parks, footpaths and grass verges are all now only cut one mower width at the edges leaving large areas of long grass and nettles etc. This is fine for bees, butterflies and othe species, but I predict the long grass will produce a great deal more pollen and during dry summers will also become a much greater fire hazard. Some long grassed areas already look like dried straw blowing in the breeze. In my earlier life I was a retained member of Lancashire County Fire brigade in a semi rural area, and grass fires, even then in the 60’s, were very frequent on our patch.
They are still trying to persuade those of us who are not vaccinated using the Biased Broadcasting Corporation aka the Government Mouthpiece:
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/07/25/every-bit-as-bad-and-biased-as-feared-a-review-of-the-bbcs-unvaccinated/
Meanwhile my wife continues to experience lengthy bouts of severe headaches with no alternative diagnosis than the vaccine; 2 * Astra Zeneca and a Pfizer booster. Surely mixing vaccines is not a good idea?