BREX(sh)IT BENEFITS?
There has been a spill of raw sewage at one of En gland’s favourite holiday resorts and now E.coli has been detected on the beach at Blackpool and people have been advised to stay away from the beach.
Blackpool Council leader Lynn Williams called the situation “appalling” as the town prepares for the height of its tourist season.
“We’re just at the start of our summer season with some glorious weather and we’re faced with having to put out advisory notices telling people not to go into the sea because of the discharges of sewage,” she told BBC Radio.
However, a spokesman for water company United Utilities, which runs the site, blamed the situation on heavy downpours last week and said that the clean up was “95 per cent complete”.
Seems to me to blame problems like this on heavy downpours is rather weak, when everyone knows that a description of an English summer is “2 days of hot sunshine followed by a thunderstorm”. In short , they should have been prepared for this.
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THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DAME
I note that in Snarls’ birthday honours, Jackie Baillie was raised to the lower ranks of the aristocracy, joining SIR Starmer, and Lard ffoulkes, SIR Blair and a long list of others who can now sing “The working class can kiss my ass, as I’m as aristocrat at last” to the tune of “The Red Flag” (although that has now been replace with “God Save the Queen” at Labour conferences.
Socialists, huh?
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SOUNDS LIKE A FUN PARTY, MUCH
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AREN’T WE GENEROUS?
Thanks to Hetty for drawing our to my attention.
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BEN ELTON SUMS UP SUNAK
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BERCOW ON SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE
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THE LAST LAUGH…
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MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 
“although that has now been replace with “God Save the Queen” at Labour conferences.”
Didn’t work though did it! TBF it did for 70 years…
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Did they used to sing it as well as the Red Flag?
Imagine socialists asking god to save the life of the head aristo!
I wonder what Maximilien Robespierre would have made of that.
Emmenez-les à la guillotine?
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Yeah I saw that egregious Express page. Thing is it comes after the Guardian printed a not open for comments article in which Simon Jenkins, one of their most “charming” commentators wrote
“Scotland is a poor country, one of the poorest regions of Europe. Yet with its similar population and resources, it should be as rich as Ireland or Denmark.”
Well we’d be richer than both of them put together if the fecking neighbours didn’t keep stealing our stuff!
I archived it to avoid them getting clicks.
https://archive.is/vuhRW
Nae wonder they didn’t allow comments, we’d have torn the arse off him! Metaphorically speaking obviously!
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Maybe literally too.
If Scotland is poor it isn’t because we are in some ways less competent that the Danes or the Irish, or for that matter the Norwegians (who have less oil than we do) of the Icelanders, Swedes, Finns, Germans, Duch, Belgians, Luxembourgers, Austrians, Italians, etc.
It is because we are tied to a country … and no matter what people say about us being equal partners, we all know that’s b******s…which spends far too much time and energy playing at being important and, as Cameron said, punching above our weight”. (He also said we are loved, respected and feared throughout the world, though, so that shows how stupid he is/was. Ridiculed, more like.
The poorest regions in the UK are now all in England. Some of them used to be in Scotland but since devolution that is a thing of the past. (Not London, of course where Jenkins doubtless lives…although there are some grievously poor areas there too.)
“The lowest income areas were mostly urban areas in the Midlands, North West, North East, and Yorkshire and The Humber. These include Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham — major UK cities with household income among the lowest in the country, even though their levels of productivity are closer to the national average.” Office for National Statistics.
And
https://www.jrf.org.uk/data/uk-poverty-rate-region
They take our electricity, our gas and our oil. They raise billions from our exports. And we are charged MORE for electricity that we are obliged to share for free with England and Wales, because of the grid, than they do.
I wonder how much research he did for that article.
I don’t think he did much…or maybe he knows there is a tiny readership for his paper in Scotland and that that’s what his English audience wants to hear… what will bring in advertising and get clicks.
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Imagine if there had been a sewage spillage at, say, Largs or Ayr, then her Dameship’s soor face and nasty tones would be demanding that heads must roll in the Scottish Government. BBC Scotland would be headlining it with vox pops from ‘ordinary citizens’ of Largs (ie Labour Party members) claiming ‘this was waiting to happen’.
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Absolutely, Alasdair.
Her Imperial Importanceness (or one of her retinue) would have been tweeting her wee fingers off… getting herself on the BBC and there would have been much gloating and suggestions that the SNP’s incompetence would lead to thousands of deaths and ruin the Tory MSP’s hotel businesses as no one would want to ever visit Scotland again for fear of e-Coli.
And can you imagine wee Dougie’s pretty face?
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I was fortunate to be in both of these resorts last week Alasdair, and both had people, and dogs, splashing about in the water. That also goes for Girvan, Prestwick and Troon. Aye, one of the warmest and sunniest weeks I can remember on the Costa Clyde.
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A good “Come to Scotland” campaign for the Tories in Scotland to support, with all their hotel owners.
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About 20 years ago, water quality around Ayr was poor due to sewage discharges. However, subsequent improvements by Scottish Water means that the Firth of Clyde waters have met European standards for a number of years. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency report for this year indicated Scottish Waters were the cleanest ever.
BBC Scotland, of course, published the data for the privatised water companies as ‘UK’ data and had various performatively angry campaigners like Feargal Sharkey fulminating about water quality, thus implying that by association Scotland was as bad.
They found data of the number of overflows in Scotland, aggregated it over a number of years to get a BIG NUMBER and quoted that without context. Then got Alex Cauld-Ham to shout the odds.
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Absolutely typical, Alasdair.
Alex the Coalman is a useful (to them) idiot.
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Looking like the New World Paradigm is Wagnerism.
Prigozhin marches on Moscow, then stops
Fm says next GE is the Indy vote as per thatcher’s Law.
The chairman of Ithaca Energy says starmer’s england will be starved of gas if he continues with his proposals, seems they own the gas, not us. Thanks to thatcher’s Law.
The Chinese owners of our new nuclear station says they control its output.
The rich cynic says a recession is needed.
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Aye, Dave “You can’t buck the market”, didn’t Thatcher say?
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But it appears you can, interest rates have been near zero for over a decade.
New rates have been raised to Stop Inflation BUTT saver’s rates are a bit behind.
We have a Parrot PM, a bullet point recording.
The rich cynic has a cunning plan for …….,The Baldrick
The hunt says ‘Don’t Panic’, the corporal Jones
Don’t panic!
Expansive holidays in Rwanda, £170,000 on us.
The ‘Independent’ pay review committees that we fully respect until they recommend larger pay deals than they’ve been told to give.
The 2 year waiting lists have been reduced!!!, the 18 month lists have grown.
The wee boat crossing are inflating.
The national debt!!! is still growing.
The rich cynic says ‘Judge me on my successes’, I’m waiting.
Thousands of english schools are looking for their students.
Blackpool,as you say is growing e-coli, a great export opportunity.
Think the tory plan is to use tv advert clips, like the Direct Line one, I’m on it.
10 years free accomodation in Rwanda for the price of a rubber boat.
The energy magic meter, your bill has just gone up £170 a year to pay for hydrogen plan.
Dig out a Prince to solve the homeless problem, his dad uses undrunk wine alcohol to power his Aston Martin supecar, very green.
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Savers’ rates are a LOT behind, Dave!
But yes, it’s a summary of what a complete bin fire this dump of a state is.
Good to know that Peggy is going to solve homelessness. He could open up all the unused massive rooms in the palaces … put his £20 million a year private income to good use by donating it… persuade his father to pay inheritance tax on the proper queen’s bequest.
Maybe Rose will open upon up Cholmondeley Castle.
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Catching up on a long weekend away with the IMP.
Took a wrong turning on the journey to the Costa Brava, ended up in a Glorious Stonehaven, people were swimming in the North Sea.
Love the Ferries picture, a huge crowd marched through Glasgow in protest, they need the road tariff system to make economy work, the SNP provided.
A similar ‘Large’ number of people walked through Glasgow a few weeks back wishing to have a normal country, pictures in the media there were none.
The MD of Ford uk says he needs back into the EU, he exports 50% of his small production there and only 15% to the USA.
Can we name the english car manufacturers?
easy None,
all owned by furriners.
The current wooden cabinet of the rich cynic are on the job, no worries then.
The Dross for FM, that’ll solve everything.
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I think he should stick to line running.
The Tories are good at lines.
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If I’d been trying to organise the worst party imaginable, I’d have invited every goon on Rupert Murdoch’s list and added Nadine Dorries, Jackie Baillie, Willie Rennie and a clutch of BBC newsreaders. Hell on Earth.
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They are forming a new party, the ‘Abstensionists’, all exceptionalists welcome to join, only need to work every other GE unless you’re unlucky to get a free go.
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I noticed that. They all off campaigning instead going to work. Still, that’s better than Mad Nad, who hasn’t been seen in Westminster since Boris left. She obviously only went in there to see him.
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LOL. I hope you wouldn’t have invited Munguin. He says it’s rude to decline… but he would have!
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Try making a Spoonerism of the MSP of Dumbartons’ name. Subliminal message?
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LOL
That would be fun. 🙂
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reading the red tory starmer is not supporting the ‘Independent’ wage committee for public service workers, you vote slab at your own risk.
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Also climbing back on the idea of free school meals for primary children.
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