(0556) Notes in item 1 below. (0705)

 

4. Andy now, Steve will lead off the next post

The Daily Express has an opinion piece with the headline: “State pension is a benefit not an entitlement – what you get is up to Starmer so watch out”. Paywalled so I can’t link even if I wanted to. If this is so then it appears that all political parties, even bright and shiny new ones are making themselves unelectable. The end of days is nigh, eat lentils.

JH: All right … there’s a certain amount of kite flying govt does, gauging backlash or support, whether they can get away, for example, with another Gordon Brown raid … whole thing is driven by a. Agenda and b. Huge shortfalls of money due to ruinous schemes like gay help desks in Swaziland or whatever. That’s what Biden’s controller was doing at the death knell … spending on sbsolutely anything in order to bsnkrupt the country. Remember the Labour memo to the Exchequer … the money’s gone.

3. DAD at 999

a) On Friday, March 14, 2025, four migrant smugglers were tried and sentenced by the Dieppe Criminal Court (Seine-Maritime) with a rather dubious con game. The four fellow smugglers were tried for their involvement, directly or indirectly, in organizing seven attempted migrant smuggling operations to England from Dieppe or the city’s nearby beaches. 

b) Images from the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris after the expulsion of illegal immigrants; only six immigrants accepted the accommodation offered; the others refused under the pressure of the activist groups supporting them.

c) Fear spreading: The government is preparing a booklet that will be distributed to the public to explain the practices to adopt to prepare for and respond to crisis situations: industrial accidents, serious climate events, cyber attacks, or armed conflicts. It will be sent to all households by this summer.

d) JH: DAD has a url leading to this:

My first reaction is … whoa, hold your horses … apply what you’ve learnt so far, about either or both sides in any dispute, about manipulation, about desired outcomes actually eventuating and calling hallelujah. My first reaction is that the bit typed in the middle is quite different to the rest. I don’t trust it one bit. I’m still thinking Pam Bondi Bindergate.

Wait and see. 🍿🍿🍿 Please revisit Wed 1 e before proceeding to anything else.

2. Let’s start with TDS newsletter, then onto DAD, then Steve

TDS (url in blogrolls) has:

”Anyone who has done any serious analysis knows Net Zero cannot be achieved without a significant drop in our living standards, or worse, by bankrupting us.”

… and “everyone knew we needed a break, some time away from govt”. What a mendacious statement, when they are every bit a part of the problem, compounding it, hellbent on the destruction of Britain.

Then it goes onto the Chinese company Sungrow, making solar panels for farmland in Qld, northern Oz, where at least it gets sun … so much so that it’s started bushfires. Qld, by the way, is heavily forested nearer the coast and north. The Chinese govt is not the Oz friend in the least.

But it’s also not the Jihadi deathcult friend … it’s two opposed miscreants after the same spoils.

1. Just some notes from overnight

a. There’s a thing called overexplaining but there’s also a thing called checking in and being counted. In short, there are certain people who use the site, not just for the politics from out there but also to see the state of play, personally.

Woodsy was a bit of a shock (in a good way) … why should we care about anyone at all for that matter? Because we do … there it is.

b. Had a nightmare this morning before waking just now … good thing is I’ve truly forgotten what it was but it was a personal circumstances thing … not lying but I just can’t remember.

Which does remind me of that girl doing the review of The Animals’ House of the Rising Sun. She said at one point “don’t hate on me” and that she just could not remember details … I remember thinking it was like an oldie with oldtimer’s disease.

Which got me thinking about drugs … in my case a cocktail of heart meds, plus what they’re doing to the skies, fields, water, food. I am always ill, at least for a short time, after being outside any length of time, in Vitamin D3 territory. Now … what about youngsters?

c. Which brings me to the second person saying to me, a couple of days ago: “You worry too much.” Uh huh, yet I’m no hypochondriac, being of the keep away from doctors persuasion, yet one still has to plan ahead for obvious eventualities.

One of those eventualities is a whole bank of things in the pipeline here to post, from TDS and Chinese fires in Oz to the Tories still not getting the utter bollox of Net Zero, it’s total wankery (excuse my French).

d. My health’s not too bad just now overall, at 0616, thanks for asking … slept right through, which is a mixed bag but overall pretty good thank you very much. Just look at that 105 year old Hemmingway chap, RIP. Hoping, genuinely, that each of you, patrons, are holding up. Prayers.

e. Late addition at 0650:

Don’t be rushed into anything, don’t put yourself into official hands if you can organise yourself not to.

And always write your day’s jobs at the start of the day … just a scribbled list in your journal … you can always come back, days later, and see if it’s been ticked off … I do that with meds too. For example, memo to self: anything more on that JFK-Killery thing?

It needs to be said, methinks, that “slow it down, don’t rush ahead” is grand advice. It does not mean you’re negating … you’re just waiting. Or exploring further.