Month: February 2024

RANDOM THOUGHTS

I’m not sure why they don’t just form a coalition

Sir Keir Sunak

Labour has endorsed the Conservative Party’s plans to restrict pro-Palestine protests.

Rishi Sunak has called for a more robust police response to pro-Palestine protest.

The BBC reports that Labour believes “the proposals are sensible”.

I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t think that any Palestinian support protests have been violent or particularly disruptive. Correct me if I am wrong.

Had they been I’d have agreed with them, as I would about any protest that turns violent.

I’d like to ask Messers Sunak and Starmer, if the police should take a sterner line with ALL protests, or just the ones that Starmer and Sunak don’t agree with.

I’m never sure if any of these regulations that they come up with in respect of Law and Order, affect Scotland as, although Law is devolved, state security is not. But I’d like to know.

These days, I never travel to England for a variety of reasons, not least trying to avoid dysentery from their sewage filled rivers. So if it is only England, it won’t affect me.

I think that the English should be free to adopt whatever laws they wish. However I’m less happy about a government that we did not elect taking away OUR freedoms.

If it does affect this country and we are not allowed to protest about certain things, would that list include protesting in favour of our independence or in favour of being allowed to re-join the EU? Would we be allowed to protest against the British government taking us out of the ECHR?

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We really are very different countries

Maybe this is a micky take. It’s weird enough to be. His page says:

Dislike Europe/ Hate EU. Trump was robbed. climate change is FAKE science. Opposing all vaccines. Ban the BBC and RNLI. Free thinker.

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Despite the constant whining from Lady Baillie, we are internationally respected

Be proud, Scotland.

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Remember this charmless auld bloke who was going to give someone a “doing”?

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Are any of them clean?

Danny McCafferty writes that:

Labour Council leaders Cllr S McCabe (Inverclyde) and Martinrooney (West Dunbartonshire) approached Tory Minister Michael Gove to take action undermining the Scottish Parliament over a fundamental principle of devolution) ie finance.

This Michael Gove!!

That apparently makes seven Tories under investigation.

Allegedly Gove failed to register VIP hospitality at a football match with Conservative donor David Meller.

Not much you might think, but Gove helped Meller Designs get £164m VIP contracts.

Odd though that no one is allowed to talk about it. Doesn’t seem to be the case for SNP politicians accused of misconduct.

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Why is the press full of speculation about where Middleton is?

Have I missed something?

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LATE ADDITION

I watched this just after posting this page. It’s hilarious.

President Biden was on Seth Myers’ show, and afterwards they got ice cream and the whole thing was filmed. The president was asked a question by a member of the public about a cease fire in Gaza, and he had the temerity to answer while holding his cone. Fox news went ballistic…

No one should talk about something so serious whilst holding an ice cream apparently. Never mind that he was asked about it. I mean what was he supposed to do… say, “Oh, I don’t think I should talk about saving people’s lives while I’m holding a cone”?

Unfortunately for Fox, Seth’s team found film of Trump in an ice cream shop and of a Fox News team visiting an ice cream fayre…

Duh!

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SOPPY SUNDAY

I’ll be with you in a minute. Please have your entrance fee ready. We take cash or cards.

2. It’s that time already.

3. I don’t know why people are scared of us. It’s not like we are spiders or anything.

4. Sad story with heart warming parts.

5. Well, what are you?

6. When they have storms in Texas, they sure have storms!

7. Aren’t you supposed to smile when the family photo comes around?

8. This is a house warming present for us.

9. Lotus Alpinus.

10. Rare Princess Parrot.

11. I’m off to find Pooh.

12. This tree at Cambo was more roots than anything else.

13. We’re the black and white sheep of the family.

14. What kind of animal are you lot?

15. He actually IS a national treasure.

16. Very rare elephant twins.

17. Now you see me; now you don’t.

18. Some colour coming back into the garden.

19. What do you think of them horns?

20. What? I’m on my break in the recreation area. Want a game?

Munguin’s grateful thanks to Quokka.

Bonus

And from Dave

Spring has Sprung

And because we were talking about them this week …

THESE LOONIES ARE TERRIFYING

A bigger Bazooka?

Seriously, someone, lock her up.

DESCENDING, BY THE DAY, INTO COMPLETE MADNESS

So, there’s old Jacob telling up that only liberals don’t drink unpasteurised full cream milk. Does he realise that most of us don’t actually have an inner Tory?

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Then Liz Lettuce Truss tells us that the West is doomed if they don’t vote in right wing parties that will fight “woke”.

She has said: “In too much of the free world, the left has been in charge for too long and the results are all too plain to see. Their agents are only too active in public and private institutions and what we have come to know as the administrative state and the deep state. I saw this for myself first hand as they sabotaged my efforts in Britain to cut taxes, reduce the size of government and restore democratic accountability.”

Now that’s something. The deep state in her book must be the City of London, the banks, money markets and the Tory Party. Because, the right has been in power in Britain for a long time, and there isn’t really a left wing party in the UK now.

As I recall, what sabotaged her premiership was that she crashed the economy and the mortgage market… and her own party, a right wing one, binned her. And reducing the size of government? She added to the size of government by appointing a load of hard right wing unelected Peers.

All commies, every one of them, and woke as a woke thing!

What amazes me that after her embarrassingly short premiership, she made some sort of a comeback. Not only here, but apparently she is speaking at a Trump Rally this week, while she is being paid to be at work as an MP in Westminster.

I’d be hiding somewhere far away had that happened to me.

Apparently Farage is speaking at the same event.

Trump, Farage and Truss? Jeeez. Only need Hitler and Mussolini and we’ll be right.

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Then there was this fiasco.

Seems lucky that it didn’t go off, otherwise Britain would have been yet another ship down, oh and a defence secretary down too, as Corrine Stockheath or whatever he’s calling himself today, was on board.

This is the second time this has happened. Last time the missile did actually move, but in the opposite direction to which it was supposed to go… ie heading towards America.

With friends like Britbin, Mr Biden, who needs enemies?

And the genius of a defence secretary says:

It didn’t work because it got damp. And the damp caused the second stage of the ignition system to fail.

IT’S IN A BLOODY SUBMARINE, SURROUNDED BY WATER.

Would it not have been an idea to find a way to stop if getting damp?

Hold on Mr Putin, sir. We just need to dry this out a bit.

JEEEEEEZ

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Then there was chaos in the House of Commons over what really should be a very simple and widely agreed motion… at least for anyone who doesn’t like to see children and innocent adults killed.

A ceasefire in Palestine.

By its very nature, a ceasefire means that both side cease firing. No one has ever heard of anyone calling for a cease fire by only one side, although Lisa Nandy appears to have thought that that was what the SNP was asking for. (Lisa is so full of hatred for the SNP that methinks her judgement might have been impaired.)

But nothing goes smoothly in Britbin.

And now, it appears that Hoyle is in trouble.

Senior Labour figures have confirmed that Hoyle was left in no doubt that Labour would bring him down after the general election unless he called Labour’s Gaza amendment.

So it seems that Hoyle overrode warnings from clerks and his advisors to do this. His future seat in the House of Lords is obviously his biggest concern. Democracy on Britain? Bah, not so much.

Is Sir Starmer scared of Lady Starmer?

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And now, the Conservatives have pulled out of the vote altogether:

Penny looking rather bitterly at the SNP benches

Penny Mordaunt, you know, the one who cosplayed carrying a sword for Old Charlie and Mrs Parker Bowles’ big hundreds of millions day has stated the UK Government will play no further part in the SNP’s Opposition Day ‘Gaza’ debate.

Leader of the Commons says the Government will not be participating in the ceasefire vote this evening, accusing the Commons speaker of undermining the ‘confidence of the Commons’.

(As if we ever had any confidence in this set of barnyard animals.)

But you know, Britain, you have your party squabbles. It’s only people’s lives that are lost while you play party politics, and they aren’t English lives so I guess they don’t much matter to you.

It seems to me that the Speaker has to go.

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Late addition…

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Sorry, for the length of the post. But when it comes to utter complete chaotic buffoonery, it seems that Britain has a limitless supply.