(1612) Almost evening all.

 

23. Jim Chimirie on December 1st

Something shifted today. The Budget row stopped being a story about dishonesty and became something darker: a government moving to remove the one man who could expose it.

Rachel Reeves hasn’t simply misrepresented the public finances. She hasn’t simply engineered a false fiscal crisis. She is now clinging to office because the one man who could contradict her – the chairman of the OBR – has been shoved aside hours before he was due to give evidence.

That is not politics. That is the state reaching for the dimmer switch to keep the truth out of sight. Richard Hughes’s resignation was dressed up as noble self-sacrifice, but the timing gives the game away. He falls on the morning Reeves faces her fiercest scrutiny. He disappears from the witness table where he was meant to confirm, under oath and in public, that the Chancellor had the upgraded forecasts before she warned the country of a black hole that did not exist.

And he falls after days of pressure from ministers who suddenly lost their patience with the one body they had spent months claiming proved their credibility. A watchdog that tells the truth is useful to them. A watchdog that contradicts the script is disposable. This is the true scandal. Not the lie, but the purge.

A government that cooks its own numbers is untrustworthy. A government that removes the referee to protect a minister is dangerous. Reeves has not merely broken faith with the public – she has broken the independence of Britain’s fiscal institutions. The OBR was created to keep politicians honest. Today it has been reminded, in brutal terms, that honesty carries a price.

Starmer cannot wash his hands of this. His fingerprints are all over the weapon. He attacked the OBR for its timing. His ministers briefed against Hughes. His MPs questioned his position. Reeves withdrew her confidence just as the narrative turned against her. And then, as the walls closed in, the man at the centre of the row quietly exited the stage. Starmer held a press conference insisting there was “no misleading,” a line delivered with the weary certainty of a man who hopes repetition can replace truth.

It cannot. The public is not blind. They can see the choreography. A Prime Minister who stays silent while his Chancellor misleads the country is weak. A Prime Minister who allows the watchdog to be trampled to spare his Chancellor is complicit. This government now faces a crisis of legitimacy of its own making. It asked the country to trust it. Then it undermined the very institution designed to earn that trust.

This is not the behaviour of grown-ups. It is the behaviour of a government that fears scrutiny because it knows scrutiny will expose the lie.

We should be clear about what happened today. The head of the OBR resigned in the middle of the biggest fiscal scandal in years. He resigned on the eve of giving testimony that could have ended Reeves’s career. And he resigned under a cloud of ministerial pressure, pointed criticism, and barely disguised frustration from Number 10.

This government has not only misled the public – it has interfered with the mechanisms designed to correct that misconduct. A country can survive a dishonest Budget. It cannot survive a government that silences the people who catch it.

And that is where Britain now stands. If the ethics system fails to act, if Parliament shrugs, if the OBR is cowed into submission, then the lie becomes law and the truth becomes optional. Reeves may cling on. Starmer may brazen it out.

But a government that protects itself by toppling the watchdog is not a government with a future. It is a government already rotting from the inside.

“Richard Hughes’s resignation was dressed up as noble self-sacrifice, but the timing gives the game away. He falls on the morning Reeves faces her fiercest scrutiny.”

22. Deryl corner

21. Do you ever find yourself having a strange conversation?

Suggest you read bottom to top on this one … to a point.

 

Precode has that certain something at times.

“MANSLAUGHTER is a highly engrossing early talkie melodrama with very early film performances of two of the great players from Hollywood’s golden era, Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. Claudette Colbert stars as a spoiled heiress who believes there are two sets of laws, one for the rich and one for the poor. Young district attorney Fredric March believes quite the opposite – equal justice and punishment for everyone. They meet at a dinner party and romantic sparks fly and both are infatuated.

But trouble is around the corner. March learns Claudette has attempted to bribe a young cop after being caught speeding by dropping her diamond bracelet on the ground and driving away which leads to a scene between them and any romantic possibilities crushed. And then Colbert’s faithful maid Hilda Vaughn steals some of her jewels in a weak moment for her boyfriend and confesses.

Self-centered Claudette however can’t be bothered to remember the date of Vaughn’s trial which results in her receiving a sentence of up to 15 years. Horrified to learn of the results, Claudette zooms off to see what she can do belatedly but her speeding this time results in a fatality and her being charged for manslaughter – and with the prosecuting attorney set to be March! 

This type of melodrama was extremely popular in the early days of talkies – Norma Shearer won much acclaim for THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN and a Academy Award nomination for A FREE SOUL, Mary Pickford won an Oscar for COQUETTE. Although I’ve never seen DUGAN, I can’t help but feel Claudette Colbert’s sterling performance even at this very early stage in her career topped them all.

Her pampered socialite is a fully three dimensional character – selfish yes, but not an obnoxious, unfeeling person even when she is successful at getting things her way. She is matched by the dashing young March as the young man with ideals who cannot compromise his integrity even if it means prosecuting a woman he knows he is in love with, even as it tears at his heart.

Emma Dunn is fine in a rare moneyed role as Colbert’s loving and supportive aunt, Natalie Moorhead, generally cast as a menace in films, does well with her small part as one of Claudette’s best friends but the standout in the supporting cast is the wonderful Hilda Vaughn who latter-day audiences surely know best as Jean Harlow’s maid in DINNER AT EIGHT (1933).

Ms. Vaughn has a startlingly similar situation here as the put-upon maid on a spoiled socialite (with a diamond bracelet playing a key role in the proceedings again!!) but this role even gives her more to work with than DINNER and she has two wonderful little scenes in the prison when she and her former boss are finally on equal ground.

(There’s also a brief bit of unintentional humor for movie buffs with Louise Beavers’ bit part as one of the inmates, seeing the two stars of the later IMITATION OF LIFE (1934) in jail side by side makes one wonder if that pancake corporation was on the up and up LOL.) 

Claudette Colbert and Fredric March were the perfect co-stars for each other, it’s regrettable their only work together was so early in their careers and of their four films only DeMille’s SIGN OF THE CROSS is easily seen. It’s clear from MANSLAUGHTER that these were two stars who were wonderful from day one.”

(1245) Afternoon all. Movie at 1330. (1402)

 

20. The Moosheramas are building up

19. Tennessee

Think it was Wired, the leftwing tech rag, which had the Tennessee result going to the Demonrat. The only interesting two things were how the Wokeleft Politico spun it and … er … what the actual result was.

GOP took it, Politico wrote: “GOP frets ‘dangerous’ result in Tennessee. Republicans are worried the slim margin of victory in Tuesday’s special election may spell doom in 2026.” What a horse’s backside Politico is.

All the same, Elise’s victory over Johnson last night was nice … so maybe it will stir the Donald enough to put a bomb under the GOP.

18. Money’s just confetti after all

17. Ladies again

This is a far bigger topic than one might initially think. When I made contact with a gf from my yoof awhile back, the issue was not so much how each would react upon meeting again … that was positive, there were clues … but how each would feel as our views and perceptions of events now differed … in fact just how different our mindsets might be now.

Neither opted to find out, possibly knowing, deep down.

16. Do you remember a few days back

… when, after a bad sleep, I lost balance and had an accident? This was at NOWP:

(1111) Elevenses, folks. (1126)

 

15. Back to the girls yet again

… is there any escape from the fair femmes?

14. Lord T

13. Back to the girls

12. IYE corner

A lot of this below is meh, a few bits are hmm. IMHO

YT channel with just one video and only about 1 month old. Hmm.

“Not another JFK Ending : CK assassination.”

MM on the NG sh00ting anomalies.

https://mileswmathis.com/lakanwal.pdf

11. True

 

All right … you can either handle this guy’s style, voice, presentation … or you cannot. However, it’s imho interesting to consider for awhile.

(0846)(0934)

 

10. Moosh corner

9. At what point do the silent majority in the west start calling this out?

Ditto with Notre Dame, much priceless architecture for a start, mass murder, not just of African blacks? With the middle-east, Africa, known deathcult-overrun areas … well there’s not much which can be done, given the terrorists control western politicians … either that or the Askenazis or the Chinese.

In the western nations though, it can surely be called out by you … but I see and hear precious little outrage. Why? Bleedin’ obvious, no? I’m thinking the Triune God has a good case: “If you decide to turn away, abandon Me, the one factor which let the West per se reach that level of civility, civic life, ethics, protecting the ordinary person, though it took a thousand years to get there … then why should I bother coming to the aid of someone who doesn’t even believe in Me?”

Interesting that Putin has taken the stance he has … defender of the faith … ditto Orban, Poland and others. And godless Britain? Well just look at its abject state.

8. And more on this Oz “E Safety” thing

7. More on the Elise-Anna Paulina thing

6. More on the inHouse fighting

I’m well aware of the argument against women being in politics, similar to running companies or in key positions such as the “E Safety Commissioner” downunder … and many critics are women themselves:

On the other hand, when women mouth off for good things and combine to do it … there’s immense power in there to eventually stymie the baddies. Now look, I’ve had the rough end of the stick from females throughout my life but so have I had treachery from men. Yet this below seems a good thing:

Again, the argument remains that men could have done that too. Yes, they could have. They didn’t.

There’s the added factor … well let me put it this way … there’s a young guy, Young Bob, another called Charlie Downes … similar fighters but have you heard much about them? Truth is, the girls grab us, the boys are worthy mates. Charlie Kirk was a bit different of course.

(0621) Still dark out there. (0722)

 

5. There’s a battle in the House

Feisty femmes can be bad, pains in the neck (the woke-left and karens) but others can be good, pains in the neck. The crucial thing is that their politics are right. In this case, miracles might happen to overturn Johnson.

4. Steve at 1221

• Tensions Escalate Within NATO as Pentagon Abruptly Halts Ukraine-Related Communications with Germany
• Germany’s Industrial Backbone Collapsing Under Globalist Ideological Energy Policy, Industry Leaders Warn
• Milan’s Police Chief Reports Foreign Nationals Linked to 80% of Predatory Crimes as Winter Olympics Loom
• GOP Senator Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Dual Citizenship
• National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe is Now Responding to Nurses — Gives Thumbs Up
• Criminal Indian Illegal Alien Semi-Truck Driver Who Obtained CDL in California Kills Two People After Jack-knifing Trailer in Oregon
• [The] Ukraine Inches Closer To Defeat (JH: along the front line)
• Gates Funds ‘Geoengineering’ to Dim the Sun – After Saying Climate Change Is Not a Threat to Humanity
• Crowborough Braces for the Arrival of 600 Illegal Migrants
• Much more.

3. Somalia

2. DAD at 1221

a) Capitulation. For security reasons, there will be no New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées this year.

b) It’s POLITICO, but I read of a rumour a few days ago. The European Union has approved a proposal to curb trade benefits for developing countries that refuse to take back migrants whose stay in the bloc has been denied. (JH: Leftwing source, proceed accordingly … probably already out in the alt-news)

c) NANTES – again. Preserving the Peace. At the Prairie-de-Mauves waste disposal center in Nantes, an unusual scene unfolds every evening.

d) Two 16-year-old ISIS supporters, one a Chechen migrant who arrived four years ago, were arrested by the DGSI (General Directorate for Internal Security) in the Bas-Rhin and Paris regions on suspicion of planning an antisemitic attack.

e) Ile-de-France: The slow disappearance of kebabs… replaced by tacos. The Avenue du 6-Juin-1944 in Goussainville recently boasted several kebab shops.

1. Toodles on Bashir and other players

Part one … part two

(1603) Almost evening all. The carols will start here on Sat 13th … 12 days of Advent, then 12 days of Christmas. Christmas pictures will appear from here onwards, probably tomorrow evening for the first in the sidebar.

 

19. The self-propelled cup

When you try to hide things from your parents 😂 pic.twitter.com/LYezMNCKwp

— Karcasm (@Non_Seriousness) December 1, 2025

18. The age old dilemma

Wrong attitude imho … if you start to enjoy shopping with her (takes getting used to and involves sitting on benches a lot) … then you enjoy the payback later in the process. It’s a nice experience, your lady rewarding you. But never simping and never right into the shopping … that’s a bit iffy.

17. In one

16. So why is Donny not arresting?

As MmutR says … coz it’s Pammy’s job. And why is Pammy not?

 

One of the middle series episodes.

“Judging by some comments here, “The Case Of The Missing Will” appears to be an underrated “Poirot” episode. Though apparently loosely based on an Agatha Christie story, it is a quintessentially Christie-ian tale about a old tycoon, a possible murder, a missing will, the search for a heir, deep buried family secrets; the ending is a surprise, but a logical one (the biggest clue can be found in the method of the murder). Gender politics of the 1930s are nicely incorporated into the story, and it is a clever Miss Lemon observation that enables Poirot to solve the mystery. The production is elegant, and the ensemble acting is typically fine, with Beth Goddard a spirited Violet. The only questionable plot point for me was the lawyer’s remark that an oath could be sufficient for a person to claim that he (or she) is someone’s heir; even in the pre-DNA era, I doubt it would be that simple.”

(1333) Afternoon all … time getting away again … two loads of washing and gym coming up here. (1405)

 

15. Absolutely must be so

This is fantastic to see.
A ray of sunshine 🌞 in a dreary world 🌎 https://t.co/OcK8KFFVh5

— Yesterday's Britain, A Better Britain. (@YesterdaysBrit1) December 2, 2025

14. The N word

To say I was wide-eyed in shock at this below is the understatement of the week so far:

The only way I could pick the jaw up off the floor was after MMutR explained … he’s useful that way for us normies … he says that that’s not a despicable word to them (check her profile pic and text and you’ll understand). Were we to use the N word ourselves, it would have racist overtones but when those of that demographic use it … the educated, higher members … they use the word as we might use chav or even hayseed … the lower end of the social scale.

In that sense, it makes sense. I do have two tales about it … but in a different post later sometime.

13. Get thee over, please, good people, to AK Haart

HERE … on the topic of our gallant leadership … and the nature of chaos.

12. IYE

Fun and games trying to police it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20251202112637/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/australias-groundbreaking-social-media-ban-means-tech-akpobome-fncs-omumf

11. Get thee over, please, good people, to RoobeeDoo

HERE … I’m green with envy I am.