… are these the ugliest cars ever? Sheer brutalism?
16. Poland
15. One over here
14. Sarah in Alberta
This is a double killing worth your checking out … Trudeau’s time.
13. There seems to be something definitely on
… we can help a little … there are airforce bases down that way.
12. Only really need a couple of these examples
… to get the general picture.
11. Is this for real, Plod?
Bloody Hell. Hampshire Police do it AGAIN.
They arrest a disabled girl for a SOCIAL MEDIA POST and then dump her 140 miles away from home. This is utterly diabolical. đ¤¨đ¤¨đ¤¨ pic.twitter.com/AqsIcJdRQz
On November 18, House Democrats will meet behind closed doors to choose their leader, and on January 3 the full House votes for Speaker. Hakeem Jeffries is running, and nobody has announced a challenge against him. If he wins, he will control which bills reach the House floor and decide whether Americans ever get a warrant requirement before the government searches their calls, texts and emails.
He is also deeply unpopular, and for good reason. A Civiqs survey taken through Election Day found that only 23 percent of voters see him favorably. A petition asking House Democrats to pick someone else passed one million signatures on November 7, and a group of incoming progressives still won’t commit their votes. Much of the anger is about AIPAC, and the number being passed around to prove it, $49,565, leaves out most of what AIPAC actually sent him.
(0803) Morning all … seems bright enough out there. (0843)
5. The one and only party political way to go in Britain
4. Steve at 1544
(JH: The FAA groundstop was four hours, MS outage still partial this morning according to Julia.)
Navy Quietly Relieves Female Commander of USS Michael Murphy Just Before Homecoming from 11-Month Combat Deployment in Operation Epic Fury â Cites Only âLoss of Confidenceâ
Black Male Beats and Kicks White High School Girl on Bus as Driver Refuses to Immediately Pull Over and Intervene â School Didnât Notify Victimâs Parents
Israel Pushes Trump to Resume Iran Strikes as Gulf Allies Urge Restraint
From Sumy to Zaporizhzhia: A Front Under Strain
Sweden: âCOVID deathsâ were not from a virus
The fall of a âcollectiveâ future: European Union rapidly losing influence over global affairs
Why has King Charles not distanced himself from Jimmy Savile?
a) In Authie, north of Caen (Calvados), the Church of Saint-Vigor will remain closed to the public until further notice following two breaks-in that involved theft and vandalism. The first incident occurred in early October, and the second took place overnight from November 2 to 3. Lighting fixtures were broken, furniture was moved or climbed upon, and walls were damaged. The local town hall has filed a formal complaint.
b) Ed Miliband has been banging on about how âClimate Changeâ is one of the biggest national security threats to Britain. This is odd as I thought that the bigger threats were the open borders policy of Labour or the issue of violent religious extremists or the activities of hostile governments. Miliband made his statement on the X platform which elicited this marvellous response from another user of the platform. (JH: Milipede is on X? I have him blocked.)
c) Spainâs election campaign opens with polls pointing to right-wing majority. Every private poll gave the Peopleâs Party and Vox a combined majority ahead of the November 29 vote, while the State pollster put the Socialists first.
d) Euroclear Chief warns Russia could seize Company Assets. Euroclearâs chief executive admitted the firmâs assets in Russia and Moscow-friendly countries risk confiscation if the EU seizes frozen Russian state funds held by the Belgian depository.
e) Susie Wiles and the GOP Establishment EXPOSED: How They Work Behind Trumpâs Back.
Ethnicity, nationalism, Englishness and Britishness
This is in two parts … ethnicity and nationalism first (mine) … then Englishness with our Steve and Britishness with Bill.
As the atmosphere around this question, esp. in Britain/England is so toxic, I thought I could make this point on the whole issue by initially looking downunder at this news item:
And the bio on Wiki:
Why do I see him as not being of the slightest issue in a major role as state premier? Can Lucy White help out here?
Well, the first group are obviously English speakers and of home countries stock … whilst the third worlders are not. But what of Mr. Crisafulli? Italian or Sicilian, mafia involved in that land. There’s this song about Sicilian Born too:
I lived three months in Sicily, becoming friends with a young lady there … we spoke English. So on what basis do we have no objection to a home countries’ person and how does a Sicilian fit in there? I’d say being industrious is one major factor, good attitude, western culture maybe underpinned by cultural Christianity … assimilating.
There was an anecdote about Melvyn Bragg falling asleep at the theatre, the day after an Ashes clash. He woke up, shouting, “Bloody Australians!” To which his friend agreed, “Yeees, yes.” Dearieme here would regularly resent Americans, a reader from Lancashire could not stand Jocks. As for Brummieland … well! There’s stick between quite a few Americans and Canadians.
Up to this point, whom do we welcome, of all of the above, and whom not welcome? And is English an ethnicity, a language, a culture or is it a tag foreigners adopt once clutching their ILR? And would you agree that there are two questions here … is Englishness, Welshness etc. an ethnicity but nationality is just a bit of paper, an ILR so the extended family does not get kicked out?
Rupert upset the young bucks of Restore by saying he’d boot out illegals and overstayers but not so much those here legally, e.g. a Crisafulli type.
Steve from Unherdables (and of late in comments, at OoL) wrote this about Englishness:
Poole is sunny and bright today. The bird bath in my garden, frozen over. Bushes full of hungry Chaffinch now winter is upon us. Roll on the summer of â27, a special year for the English..
On 12th July 927 AD, near Eamont in Cumbria, King Ăthelstan met with several Celtic kings across Britain. At this meeting was the English Lord of Bamburgh, and possibly other nobles from the Viking territory of Northumbria. King Ăthelstan brought the kingdom of Northumbria within his control, and in doing so, he was the first person to create the âkingdom of the Englishâ, the forerunner to modern England.
Ăthelstan had, in effect, created one nation for all the English people, and they were for the first time united under one ruler. From that point forward, King Ăthelstan was no longer just King of the Anglo-Saxons; he became Rex Anglorum, King of the English. The 12th of July is Englandâs birthday, and in 2027 England will be 1100 years old, making England the oldest country in Western Europe đ”
Reader Bill came in about Britishness:
“The History of the British extends from around 1500 BC to the present day. There is no history of any nation on Planet Earth that has been so disgracefully abused and so completely distorted and mangled as that of the British Nation. The appalling mess that the 3500 years of British national record is now in is a National disgrace.
A major Kingdom of Britain was based in Khumric Wales that was much larger than it is today and the Kings resided in South East Wales and in the Midlands of what is now England. There were at least seventy-eight successive Kings ruling from this area from the arrival of Brutus in 500 BC to AD 1300. The collapse began when Iestyn ap Gwrgan was deposed in AD 1091 and King Morgan was murdered by Edward I of England in AD 1300.
Here we have another problem as the megalomaniac Edward I of England finally succeeded in having Llewellyn Olaf (the last) a Prince of tiny North West Wales assassinated in AD 1282, and in AD 1300 he declared his second son Edward II to be âprinceâ of Wales. Strange as Wales was always a Kingdom. This was to lead to further gigantic historical distortions.
Official history cannot be relied on for accuracy any more than the above can. Fwiw I take the above to be closer to the truth than the âofficialâ history.”
To which Steve added:
“The Plantagenets werenât called âthe devilâs broodâ for nothing, Bill. Nothing of what you say would have happened if England hadnât been conquered by William the Bastard in AD 1066. Despite their cathedral building they enjoyed killing and did not honour Him:
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him â Colossians 3:17
I refer you to the Domesday Book, commissioned in AD 1085 by William the Conqueror. Its current location is the National Archives in Kew, London.”
So, dear reader, are we any furtherer on what is English, British, whom we ship out, whom we let stay? And if we push Big Tent, then does that extend to Zionists, Deathculters and third worlders of alien habits?
… on machine checkouts … don’t use them, stand your ground!
“A little story for you about standing your ground. About 3 months ago I was in Lidl & there were NO human check outs open so I chose a Human check out lane & stood in it.
An assistant attempted to usher me over to a self check out & I simply said “No thank you!”
She was insistent..
But so was I & I can be one STUBBORN BITCH when I want to be.
Several other shoppers saw what I was doing, & formed a line behind me, ALL saying they wanted a human check out, too.
Low & behold! 5 Minutes later a young checkout assistant appeared, rather red faced, & started to log in his till.
I paid for my dog food & left happy!
We ALL have more power than we would ever know. It is just a shame we let the big supermarkets walk all over us, laughing!
Ships still about, gulls, not so many ducks or flying rats. Two unfeathered birds, nice people, plus there ground level dogs. No windchill today, water almost glassy, same gear on as last time but overheating. Sunny, birds happy.
Side report … tragedy of the commons. No one in this place does anything in the common space unless scheduled. The mess on the stairs through to the bin area was more. They’re young, they could easily have lifted that dumped bit of kit (some device) in the skip. Nope … waiting for someone else to. Big issue in Britain.
6. We should probably look at the implications
… of this by-election, which turned out this way:
Now, the two critical positions:
Reform voters include the TV watching (MSM duped), plus the middle class, esp. female who feel Nige is such a nice boy, he’s on tele all the time. And as a substantial proportion of the vote, even leadiing some councils across Britain, it seems to them that Reform is the safe opposition … shirley they’re the anointed protest vote? And Restore splitting the vote is just a Rupy ego trip. It’s close to Piddington in mindset.
Restore voters see clearly that we’re denied a platform … yea, even on X and other socmed … almost unknown except as this mythological “far right”, which we are not. More self employed and working demographic, not lanyard class. I myself was at one point upper middle, parents working class and decent. We say there’s no splitting the vote … it’s a question of principle and a hill to die on.
Reform are apoplectic about Restore, Restore are flatly determined that it is the ONLY way to go. Eventually, enough Reform voters will wake up, will see and hear things, will start to fill the Restore ranks and that is sonething the Reform honchos, plus ConLabLibdumGreen will not abide.
