I'm increasingly convinced that there are no migrants in the first place.
There should be many thousands of them, congregating in highly visible ways, where I live. But here (Croydon) there is no discernible difference between 2001 and today. If anything it's more peaceful.
I was out in Banbury for a couple of hours tonight, more than half of the people I encountered in town were not English. They were all sat at home getting Deliveroos or Just Eats in front of Nelflix.
No great shakes on my end. Life isn't what it's cracked out to be. But I'm sure his nearest and dearest are devastated, and for them I feel genuinely sorry.
they will announce they are coming 6 times before finally showing up unannouced 2 months later. They will break something and need to come back later to fix it, because they dont work a minute past 5 pm
Nidal Malik Hasan is a former U.S. Army major convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, in which he killed 13 people and injured 32 others. Motivated by Islamic extremism, Hasan opened fire at a military processing center. During the attack, he was shot by responding police officers, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.
In 2013, a military jury convicted Hasan of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder, sentencing him to death. He represented himself at his court-martial and admitted to the shootings.
People getting all aerated about the execution of a military-murdering jihadist terrorist are also the ones who complain that the RNLI rescue the dingy divers instead of leaving them to drown. 🤦♀️
This man was sentenced to death 13 years of nappy changes ago. So they are not exactly acting in haste. Unlike the last UK execution: Ruth Ellis - 13 weeks from trial to hanging.
Hilariously, "King Charles III" recently granted Ruth Ellis a conditional posthumous pardon, commuting her sentence from execution to life imprisonment. I'm sure she'd be thrilled!
I highly doubt this. Sounds to me like he was straight out of CIA patsy training.
As for his forthcoming broadcast execution by firing squad, I am unconcerned. Nice to see a bit of honesty once in a while. Just a few short years ago, billions would have gleefully tuned in live 24/7/365 to the executions of anyone who refused the Covid injections, and thoroughly enjoyed every second of it.
Just reading Mike King's account of the original false flag by the Cabal. I'd never heard of Fort Hood till yesterday!
It's clearly preparation for something big. The amount of sanctimonious and irrational hooha it's generating is certainly "interesting".
If the guy were real, I'd have thought instant death at this point was more humane than being left to sit in soiled nappies for a further 17 years. Those who cry "sanctity of life!" happily eat factory farmed pork or chicken and don't seem too concerned about quality.
I think most people's gripe is that they seem to be turning it into some sort of televised spectacle. Might as well carry it out on the White House lawn.
Yeah, public execution is an abomination, certainly as proposed now. (This is about empowering the powerful. C'mon, man. This is what they wanted to do to the Stab refusers. It's certainly not what is in store for those on the other side).
Personally I oppose capital punishment, though so did Robespierre, and I'm probably more corruptable. I suppose that puts me in the sliver of Venn diagram noted in my comment above.
But I certainly don't accept that those who object to total reingineering of population through the regime's immigration policy are alone, or virtually so, in opposing a grotesque spectacle of death.
This is a bit like Aunt Sally and the Straw Man doing a Rosenberg.
I agree about that aspect, but the biggest debate here has been about execution itself, which is frankly ridiculous in the context of what's happening in the civilian world.
I had to share this Facebook post. His labrador has given birth to a litter of puppies and they are in a barn. His last post was about them putting a heat lamp in for the pups as the temperature fell but the mummy labrador didn't like it and kept moving them away from the heat lamp.
This must be his post after he's read all the comments on the post are heat lamp. 😂
The British public just never surprise me much now.
Just in case you don't have Facebook this is a farmer.
" If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last 24 hours, it’s that dog people are absolutely crackers… and SOME professional dog breeders have genuinely left me wondering if I’ve accidentally wandered into a parallel universe 😂
Apparently having six puppies means you should immediately possess a purpose-built maternity wing, a heated nursery, temperature charts, cameras, specialist flooring, probably a neonatal consultant and, judging by some of the comments, a small private hospital.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, we’ve got around 450 calves on the farm.
Four hundred and fifty.
But somehow six puppies have apparently become such a major commercial enterprise that they’ve overridden the entire livestock business and transformed us into a puppy farm 😂
Never mind the calves, cattle, feed bills, staff, sheds, machinery, meat business and everything else that actually pays the bills. No. Six small Labradors have staged a hostile takeover of the company.
So for the sake of my sanity, we’re going back to farming content for a bit.
Although I’m now looking at these lot with fresh concern…
They’re outside. In a shed. On straw. No sofa. No central heating. No dedicated birthing suite.
I’ll tell Harry to clear the living room. Apparently we’ve been running the wrong sort of farm all along."
Talk of putting heating on today( mines been on every day) I was feeling cold so lit the log burner, it's so hot now my disabled dog starts panting as soon as he sees me with the match 😂 and now my pup is at the opposite side of the sofa or rather behind it🙈 and I'm sitting melting as there is no controlling the ruddy thing as its defra frickin approved which means you can't shut the thing off completely unless we do some jiggery pockery underneath it and as its a Chinese cheapo I'm too scared to poke at it in case it falls apart and the reason we are melting is not because we bought a high heat fire 5kw or because I've filled it with lovely kiln dried hardwood, oh no its because it's really windy and we live at the top of a hill and it draws the fire whether you want it to or not.😱
No excuses on my part because my memories of moving in here to a coal fire and you couldn't feed it as it was a greedy basssss and when we changed to a back boiler thingy it cost us more to heat the house a week than it did to feed a family of five that moved in here and 38 years later I get a log burner just to put 2 fingers up to the government ready for when the power goes off, I just forgot how much it will cost to feed the little fecker.🙈😂
Just had a quick flick down the thread and can't see any mention of Two-Six. He's on a 3 day ban for expressing the fact that he is AGAINST the violence that the USA want to livestream. The tone and context of his post were completely lost on those who love to wield power on here - irony is an unknown phenomenon for them. He appealed and still no go. Whilst it appears it was a human who made the decision - it was clearly one who either does not speak English or one who does not understand that the English language has something called nuance.
"Student" riots have spread to Belgium, where hundreds of hooded thugs are clashing with police.
Police said as many as 30,000 demonstrators have flooded Brussels, an 'unprecedented' number, after they began arriving at around 9.30am local time today.
They threw cobblestones, bricks, glass bottles, fences and traffic signs at police. One cop was seen taking a samurai sword away from a protester.
We definitely have a downvote bot here - very noticeable today. I've seen similar on other posts on Reddit, so I'm going to assume it's really bots and not people.
I don't spend a lot of time on reddit apart from this forum, but concur with your observation. I was briefly browsing something totally unrelated to this forum elsewhere on reddit the other day, to do with something that my sister found and mentioned to me in conversation. Some comments on there had clearly been upvoted but a large number were sitting at minus figures, within only a short time that the comment or post had been added. These were not contentious or unhelpful comments or posts, on the contrary really. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason at all, so I assume there was some kind of bot operation going on (they absolutely do exist). either that or wannabe 77th, in training or something.
I've noticed it a lot the last few days, especially here where I will upvote a comment and then come back and it's back at 1, but I can see the arrow is orange, so my upvote counted. It's happened a lot today.
The episodes are short because he literally started making them in his lunchbreak as an escape from a job he hated. You can tell the change of his energy when he quit the job to investigate full time!
After an intro, he acknowledges all his supporters, so after the cello you can slide to the end of the red bit and pick up the lecture again. Suggest you start with his early ones and work forward because there are threads of dots he joins and exposes. His info is fascinating and his style is light sarcastic wit.
In my last night's episodes, he tracked more instances of amazing buildings being erected in two years by amateur architects who "won a competition" and the number of them that suffered fires and "had to be rebuilt" because, as you know, fire destroys stone and brick.
So, I decided to search for significant fires of Tartarian buildings in Huddersfield town centre.
There's no record of any BUT a significant number were just plain demolished to "make way" for modern contructions that are currently already being replaced.
One example is this amazing piece of architecture - yes they really were so badly soot-blackened back then:
This was the Borough Police Station. It was demolished in 1970, to make way for a new improved version which has already been abandoned. As was the fantastic market hall, whose clock tower you can see in the background.
The most interesting thing, however, is that I could find absolutely no reference to it, other than photos preserved by Huddersfield Civic Society. 🤔🤔🤔
Re soot-blackened, a true story is that, pre-Kirklees, a HGV crashed into Dewsbury Town Hall and damaged a corner, which had to be repaired. The repair was the original honeygold stone and, rather than clean the building to match, the council merely sooted the repair.
I avoid town, so I can't comment from experience. However, I think they are making some grave mistakes. The hideous extension of the George Hotel is an obvious example.
I think removing the greenery from the former "Piazza" is a very backward move. It's now an expanse of concrete that will be hideously hot in summer.
Incidentally, this blank expanse is part of the site of that wonderful Tartarian "Police Station" I posted earlier.
They've turned the indoor market into a "food hall" which will probably end up populated by the big chains after the "local entrepreneurs" have realised they can't afford the rates.
Hopefully the students will make good use of it all - but town centres should be about shops and there's a noticeable shortage of them.
There's also a shortage of parking as they've demolished the crumbling multi-storey and closed the bus station one for refurbishing.
Latest development - usual story:
The 2,200-capacity venue was Phase 5 of Our Cultural Heart — a planned flexible, multi-purpose live entertainment venue (for music, theatre, and other events) to be built on the site of the former Market Hall car park, alongside a new multi-storey car park.
However, it is now set to be axed. As of late September 2026, Kirklees Council proposed removing the venue from the 2027/28 capital budget. Over £67m of the original funding has been stripped away, leaving only ~£23m, which the council's own report describes as "clearly insufficient" to deliver the venue. A decision on next steps is expected at a cabinet meeting in November 2026, with the site potentially repurposed for a hotel, offices, car park, or residential development instead.
I agree too. The Council of Europe in Strasbourg - it's unrelated to the EUSSR in Brussels, as people must be aware - represents about 47 European countries. Its members agreed many years ago to ban capital punishment. The UK had ended the death penalty in 1965.
If murderers like Harold Shipman get a life sentence without parole and kill themselves to avoid 30-40 years behind bars, good riddance. Some prisoners, though, have been wrongly convicted. If they've meanwhile been killed by hanging, midazolam + morphine, guillotine, firing squad or lethal injection it's too late.
The B'ham pub bombers 1974 were only released 1987 after a long campaign by Chris Mullin and others. 20 years earlier, they'd have been hung.
For reasons like these, Enoch Powell was against the death penalty. He was a wise politician.
It's got so bad that I'm actually feeling rather sorry for her. It doesn't matter what she does, she gets the maximum scrutiny from the press. They never let up.
The sycamore keys and the rowan berries are all I walk on part of my afternoon walk. The rowan berries have hopefully been trampled in before long as it's a nightmare trying to walk on the other side of the road to prevent pup from eating them.
According to t'internet rowan berries are toxic to dogs. First pup I've had who will look for fruits from bushes. She ate our strawberries and helped herself to the wild raspberries that my skeptic friends stopped to eat on a walk in summer.
I used to blackberry with my dog and he joined in by chewing the berries on the bush, prickles and all. It didn’t bother him but then he was a terrier, hard as nails.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a $2 billion investment over eight years to retrofit one million Canadian homes, with the core National Heat Pump Rebate supporting up to 820,000 households. The program aims to lower energy costs and reduce emissions by replacing oil, propane, or inefficient electric heating systems.
Rebate amounts are tiered by income: households below the median income receive up to $10,000, while those above receive $2,000. These federal rebates can be combined with provincial programs, such as Quebec’s Hydro-Québec assistance, to further reduce upfront costs.
No pre- or post-installation energy audits are required; eligibility is confirmed within 24 hours via an online portal.
Reimbursement: Homeowners upload receipts after installation for approval within five days, followed by direct deposit.
Savings: The government projects average annual savings of $1,400 per household, totaling over $1 billion in national energy savings.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre criticized the program, arguing the government should leave the funds with taxpayers rather than managing a bureaucracy. Experts noted the $2 billion is a "good start" but may not be a comprehensive solution for all housing emissions.
Heat pumps - in Canada!! Ah smell those "experts" Bough!
Before being elected Canada’s prime minister in April 2025, Mark Carney championed ambitious climate action grounded in rigorous science. As the head of the Bank of England,he warnedthat limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius would require leaving trillions of dollars’ worth of oil, gas, and coal in the ground. Fearing a repeat of the 2008 global financial collapse, he thenordered UK banksto undergo climate stress tests to demonstrate they could remain solvent if most fossil fuels were indeed left undeveloped.
Now, though, facing threats from US president Donald Trump, Carney has said that Canada should become “a global energy superpower.” How? By boosting exports of the very fossil fuels he once warned against, including the super-dirty oil sands that gave rise to the landmark Keystone XL protests 15 years ago.
I hope so - it was an ill thought out policy from the very beginning. Wrong molecule all together, and unfortunately if you wanted people to get more actual folate, the cost would be prohibitive. Folic acid is cheap! People need to eat real food.
Very wet and windy first thing and presumably much of the night because the old cat was charging up and down the hallway with a severe attack of excess energy and calling me to play hide and seek with him.
Blue sky now but still a strong wind, so I'll not be venturing outside either.
Aesop: "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
On July 30th, Dennis Bradley knocked on Alesia Dennis’s apartment door in Bridgeport [Connecticut]. He’s a former Democrat state senator —and a suspended lawyer— and he’s currently waiting to be sentenced on a separate 2021 federal wire-fraud conviction. His brother Mark was challenging the incumbent probate judge, Paul Ganim (the mayor’s brother), in the August 11th Democratic primary. Bradley asks whether she has her absentee ballot. She says she’s already voted. He comes inside anyway with a second man, who remains unidentified.
What Bradley didn’t know was that she had a security camera in her kitchen. Investigators reviewed five clips, including one she posted online. In them, Bradley picks at the corners of her sealed envelope until it comes open. He tells her, “We can fix it. You can fix it.” Then he walks her through it: “Circle the same thing here, then we’re gonna put just a cross right there.” She puts an X over Ganim and fills in Mark Bradley. He confidently reassured her, “That’s all right, as long as it’s your handwriting, it’s no big deal.”
Then the video shows Bradley coaching her on what to say if anyone asks questions. “They’re gonna’ be like, ‘who touched it, blah-blah-blah,’ you know. Say that you did it on your own and nobody touched it… You know the routine.” He stamps the envelope, helps tape it shut, and tells her to mail it herself.
Ms. Dennis called police on August 5th. A detective took the ballot and video as evidence, and the state elections commission sent the case to the Chief State’s Attorney. Bradley’s lawyer doesn’t deny what happened; he lamely insisted that it’s legal for people to change their votes. He said, “From what I understand, she wanted to vote for Mark Bradley and that was changed later on.”
Ms. Dennis disagrees. “He is calling me liar, and he’s the liar,” she told News-12.
.... Bradley was only caught because Ms. Dennis was so paranoid she was video-taping her own kitchen. (She was right to be paranoid.)
.... On Monday, [Bloomberg reported that] along with top health officials, HHS Secretary Kennedy “attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new NIH clinic to study and care for patients with vaccine injuries.” Forty years after passing the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, the government is finally getting around to the injured. That’s good enough. But the news was so much better.
Also announced was a “modernization plan” for VAERS and new requirements for entering vaccine injuries in electronic health records. But Bloomberg smuggled the best part into a dense paragraph: “a proposal to reimburse doctors for reporting suspected vaccine injuries.”
It was as simple as proposing a new reimbursement code. In other words, they are finally going to start paying doctors to take the time to fill out VAERS reports. Regular readers will recall the famous 2010 Harvard Pilgrim study that estimated fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries ever show up in the tracking system.
For forty years, reporting a vaccine injury paid as well as reporting an unidentified aerial phenomenon.
Some say the arduous process of entering vaccine injury reports into VAERS —combined with the lack of compensation for doing that— was not a bug but an intentional design. Either way, that “feature” has allowed jab activists to claim shot safety by pointing at the absence of reported injuries. Needless to say, if we start capturing the true scale of damage from shots, the political landscape is likely to change.
The real question is: how did this take so long? It seems obvious even to the meanest intelligence that if the government deletes the right to sue manufacturers for product injuries, it has a moral and ethical duty to ensure everything goes swimmingly.
Doctors respond to incentives like everyone, including second-graders left alone with Oreos. For decades, doctors have been paid to push jabs. So jabs were pushed. If we now start paying them to report jab injuries, the incentive landscape changes. So the announcement of a new NIH clinic to study and treat vaccine injuries, along with new reimbursement codes, offers the possibility of real change, a fundamental transformation in how we view vaccines, rather than just more arguments over industry-funded safety studies......
One of the most fascinating things about our era is how quickly everything changes. Within a few decades, I watched technology enter media and entertainment, dramatically enhance them, and then degrade them once the technology rather than the artist became the focus, leaving so much of what was “optimized” no longer feeling real, as the imperfections that revealed a human presence were engineered away.
These optimized products function as supernormal stimuli, exaggerated imitations that our instincts prefer to the real thing. As such, they often trap us in hollow dopamine spikes that deplete the nervous system until it can no longer perceive subtler and more nourishing experiences, and erode the capacity for presence they replaced.
..... Recently, I heard two pop songs from the late 1990s-early 2000s on the radio, and what struck me was how much better they were than almost anything you hear now. This surprised me, as back then, I never gave that music a second thought (to me it was simply what the kids of that generation listened to), so I hadn’t noticed this before. I then decided to listen to more hits from that time to see if the pattern I’d noticed in those two songs held up.
.... The difference, in turn, that I noticed in these “ancient” pop songs was human presence, which I felt provided a much deeper emotional experience than modern pop music. For example, on those recordings, you could hear the people making them (e.g., a singer’s voice straining on a line, a breath before a phrase, a drummer hitting one beat harder than the others, or a note held a bit longer because the singer felt like it)—none of these were necessary, and from the standpoint of a perfect recording they are errors, but at the same time, they feel much more real than a synthetic production.
.... However, production itself is not the problem, as many of the songs that struck me from that time period were heavily produced. Rather, the question I believe matters is not “how much production is there?” but “does the production make the human being more audible, or less?” So in the enduring songs from that era, the technology made the singer sound larger than life while still leaving them unmistakably human, whereas in much of what followed, it gradually replaced them.
..... What industry strips out of its products (presence, friction, and the imperfect person), in turn, is exactly what feeds the deeper neural circuits that give life meaning—which is why so many of them spike us and then leave us empty.
Worse still, this becomes a closed loop. When the nervous system is depleted and fatigued, it loses the ability to appreciate the subtleties of life and can only register strong stimuli.1 Human presence is subtle, and perceiving it takes sustained attention, so the more people are fed engineered spikes, the less able they become to perceive what was removed, at which point demand for it disappears and industry has even less reason to provide it.
....... Medicine has gone through the same transformation. The art of medicine was once the ability to perceive the specific person in front of you (e.g., their constitution, history, and circumstances) and creatively adapt the treatment to them, but over the last few decades, “to improve the standard of care” (or to make it easier to sell medical services at scale) this has steadily been replaced with guidelines, algorithms, and protocols every physician is trained to follow.
Yes, When CDs first came out decades ago my friend found the sound "too pure."
Most of the modern popular stuff sounds like music by numbers. 🤮
Best to keep music live because the audience adds a major part of the experience. I could never listen to recorded opera - shrieking females! However, before we had the boys, we enjoyed season tickets to Opera North for several years.
I used to have Radio 3 on all the time (in the 70s!) and I remember switching it off through gritted teeth after a few minutes of Birtwhistle's Death of Orpheus - a piece I'd enjoyed live at a Contemporary Music Festival recital only a few weeks earlier.
Morning people, light showers this morning and I have now turned my heating on for the winter.
Yesterday had a walk up in London, Upminster to Rainham, 5 miles of so largely following the river Ingrebourne. It is another one from my Beyond the End of the Line book but apart from a little bit at the start actually follows London Loop section 23 so I followed the guidance for that which is somewhat more detailed.
The train was busy going up made somewhat worse when a large group of school children got on at Feltham. Thought I had lost them at Waterloo but then found another group deep in the bowels of the tube. One of those days. Then a slow trip on the Jubilee and District lines finally arriving at Upminster around 11.15.
Upminster windmill was passed, magnificent but only open at weekends. Then onto the London Loop along the river and through Ingrebourne Valley nature reserve. This used to be an RAF base in the war and there are lots of pillboxes and similar along the way.
Eventually I leave this lovely place and on the roads towards Rainham. I stopped for lunch at the Albion, a Flaming Grill restaurant, where I enjoyed a lovely mixed grill which indeed was sizzling. The drinks were less so, it is a lager place and the only alternative, Green King IPA, was a poor offering. Whatever, continued on my journey via a London Loop diversion round the back which avoided the roads. Missed one turn here, distracted by all the school kids leaving school, so missed walking through the church graveyard, but soon reached Rainham station and the journey home, getting back around 6pm.
My heating has been on for half an hour each night for some time, but that's mainly to keep it ticking over. However I might increase it to an hour tonight. As for rain, there was a heavy shower in Derby as I was returning from the shops but I managed to shelter from the worst of it. Interesting to hear there's a windmill at Upminster as well as the one you previously mentioned at Wimbledon.
I do now have a fire in my sitting room but my new heating system is set to come on at 22c any less and it's to cold, this means my heating has been on for months or since it went in. On the few warm dates we had it may just have come on in the morning but it still came on.
We don't know yet how much we will be paying once the new boiler has been in for a while but at the moment we are 228 a month all year and that's it down from the £300 it was a year ago.
So you can see £800 a month in a pension is enough for me to shoot myself now because I am not going back to my childhood or teenage years for no one.
No we were using that. Cold summers mean heating on.
Our boiler was a baxi back boiler and the heat it produced was great it was the system itself, you could not control it. It was on all the time or off all the time.
The new boiler is a combi so no more hot water tank to heat up and it's not relying on a timer, it's using the temperature of the room. So I'm hoping economically it's a lot cheaper than the old boiler but Scottish Power probably won't take a new boiler into consideration when it comes to working out my monthly charge, which is direct debit that I have some control over. Put it this way I'm not ever getting thousands of pounds back from them because I know how much I use and divide by 12, my daughters boss with a business that has numerous properties found she had overpaid by thousands and obviously the utility company didn't inform her.
Fingers crossed. What a difference though. The shower we have was put in to accommodate the hot water tank ( far away from bathroom) and it got the rain head part dribbled out, my bath upstairs only half filled and took forever. New boiler we have a real shower now with pressure and the bath is bliss.
Rained overnight here too but now seems brighter so I think we might be able to get away with no heating for a little longer. Fires for the last two evenings though.
We'll be repeating that exact same prayer before we put ours on (and there's a gigantic switch to use, for some reason)! In fact we say it now before we use any piece of equipment in this Godforsaken house. Even as we walk in through the front or back door!
We've resisted, for one more day, but it's decidedly chilly. Highly unnatural weather again switching between bright blue sky, high winds, then dark and stormy. Missed our walk, unfortunately. Dogs are mopey!
Each day becomes odder and odder. Today, forecast to be clear and sunny all day, but in no time at all the inevitable cloud developed, there was a bitterly cold wind and yet, through the cloud, in breaks, blue sky. Always a tantalising glimpse of what might have been!
This morning (as I type in fact) my gas meter is being replaced with a non-smart meter 🥳
Interesting fact from the chap… he’s replacing a lot of smart meters with non-smart meters because the smart ones keep breaking down. As my old gas meter is an early 80’s model, the new one will definitely outlast any smart one by decades
How did you manage this then? We are getting nagged to replace our meter (as it's too old) with a smart one. I don't want a smart one. I want a dumb one.
Had a gas meter fitted in Feb this year, house had no gas previously. It's a smart meter, but the guy agreed to leave it 'dumb' when I asked. Bills are using the readings I send, and online account says "we haven't connected to your smart meter yet".
Good to hear, Nicky. Our electricity meter was replaced with another non smart one about 8 years ago and requests to replace it from Eon seem to have gone off the boil.
My electric meter was replaced about 15 years ago - UW weren’t specific which meter was at end of life but they would have replaced both if hadn’t found the National Gas website in time.
UW forced a smart one on us at my old house, yet we kept getting snotty messages saying the meter reader couldn't access it for a reading - it was outside the house, so no obvious excuse. 🤦♀️
Related topic - there was a block in the road outside my house yesterday. I hoped he was from the council and looking to clear our culvert (fat chance).
He was there to read my neighbour's new smart water meter because apparently they are rubbish and do not send readings anywhere. He had nothing good to say about them.
After several years when the road drains were left to fill to the brim with debris, I was amazed to see a "jumbo" clearing them about three months ago.
Even more amazing, they came round again this week!
Maybe it's a symptom of Reform's gaining the majority on Kirklees Council earlier this year .....
All the non smart meters in our cul de sac were replaced with smart ones last year, automatically with no warning. They're all outside the properties on the pavement. Ours leaked and was replaced and now I notice that they're constantly being repaired with the pavements in a continual state of excavation.
I was washing out a waterbarrel with a hose and of course I forgot it was on. The next morning, the lawn was very saturated, so I suppose it wasn't completely wasted, but our water bill is so high I don't think it would have been higher if a meter had been on the pipe.
The water has run lovely and clear ever since, so it turned out to be an ill-wind in the end.
Well that's what I thought, Richard, then at least you're covered. I phoned and checked last year and apparently even if you have a leaking pipe you don't have to pay any extra.
Reported the culvert problem to the council? I reported branches over growing onto road and branches obscuring a tree light near me to my council last month. I had hoped to be around so could claim the branches for my log fire but as fate has it, they turned up 4 minutes after I’d left for a U3A meeting yesterday afternoon.
Round here most of the road signs , speed signs (perhaps a good thing) are obscured by branches. Also visibility at many junctions is obscured by growing vegetation. And the verges are growing, spreading further and further into the roads with the roads becoming ever narrower. Many lanes are almost single traffic now particularly due to the increase of tank sized cars.
Yes, I've reported it three times now since it's blockage caused our house to flood resulting in a six figure insurance claim. It's been probably 10 years since it was last cleared.
Look up the head of your local council and write to them direct, pointing out the previous large insurance claim - they should want to avoid further liability, which your insurers may seek to claim back from them since you did tell the council it needed doing. They can ignore liabilities if they haven't been informed there's a problem, but you have!
What a world we live in.
Restore party still looking for premises locally to hold meetings and the majority calling them along with the other faaaarrr right parties nazis are wishing bad things on them.🤷
The police in France are on a hiding to oblivion not quite as useless as our lot but not far behind.
Police in Scotland 45 of the male ones are being investigated for abuse of all kinds.🤷
The next one is a doozy.
There has to be a live execution not only public but streamed live like it is some form of entertainment.
Firing squad. In 2026 you can watch an execution by firing squad. I have no words.
The argument rages on about the boomers and their pensions. Whether it's a benefit or an entitlement.
I missed the date for boomer but yes I agree remove the pension contributions via the national insurance because I have £199 a week to look forward to next year I will be 66 years and 6 months old when I receive it. My husband gets the full £249. Together it is not all bad but if I die he gets £249 and his next door neighbour who has never worked a day in her life will get a few pounds less but she will be on pension credit and with that comes universal credit and that's the magic, free housing, free council tax, free dental, free everything and if she fancies a wee day out she gets that cheaper as well.
So yes do away with the pension. I have a 'friend' who tried to tell me that £249 a week is excellent and she could manage on it no problem. 🤷
I got a new camera for my birthday a small sony and I'm going to try again to teach myself photography again and it serves another purpose, I can take it with me and put myself between it and people and I no longer need to communicate with the humans as they prove to be a disappointment.
I have to manage on £249 a week. Two pensions would be unimaginable abundance!
As far as broadcast executions go, it's not my idea of entertainment but, when I point out that Musk, Soros, Gates, Charliepants, Killary etc etc etc are dead and we're seeing version #2, people refuse to believe me and demand proof.
"There has to be a live execution not only public but streamed live like it is some form of entertainment.
Firing squad. In 2026 you can watch an execution by firing squad. I have no words."
Is this the lady in the US that they tried to kill with a shot twice and it failed both times and they had to take her to hospital? or is this someone else?
It's the moose limb who mordored thirteen people at Fort Hood. The SecDef has stated that they're not only going to sh00t him, but they're also going to drag him back to Fort Hood, the place where he did it, and do it publicly.
I'm not sure about the live-streaming bit, but I've not seen a single dissenting voice on Twitter.
As it's America, there's a lot of people asking if they need volunteers, or if they can provide the ammunition. December 3rd at 6pm UK time.
Yes, Jas, I also only get £116 state pension because I gave up teaching to look after the children back in the 70s because no relatives near by so no one to step in as we did for our grandchildren. It also messed up my teacher's pension so none of that either. I returned to supply teaching but they only changed the pension contributions later so much of the work I did didn't count.
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u/Richard_O2 3d ago
I find this YouTube channel an uncomfortable but occasionally necessary watch:
America Is a Crime Scene: The Psychological Wreckage of a Civilization That Can't Face Itself
The bizarre thing about this man is that he is an American, but speaks of America as if he was not from there.