You wonder how some officials ever get to a position where they actually become ‘official’. And it is all over the World as well, it seems that the less common sense you have then the more likely you’ll become a politician, or a politician servant (ie Civil Service, policeman, or a councillor!) and generally have to go out in front of the cameras and display your stupidness. https://tinyurl.com/33yu4a2v
Such was the case for this spokesman, actually an ‘interior minister’, who declared after an ISIS knifeman jihadi attacked a policeman outside the Israeli Embassy in Serbia while screaming Allahu Akbar in Arabic that “the police were treating it as a terrorist attack”! FFS! What on earth can it have been if not a terrorist attack? Look up the words ISIS, terrorist and attack and then tell us that nothing applies in this case. Perhaps a case of mistaken identity? Maybe the attacker was well known to the victim, and owed him money? Or just conceivably it was a crime of passion, ‘cos the policeman was the long-ago lover of the Serb attacker – unlikely but you never know these days!
Anyway, the perpetrator is no longer with us – the policeman managed to shoot him dead, and the victim did not suffer any life-threatening injuries. But maybe Mr Ivica Dacic – the minister in question, needs to sort himself out, and calls a spade a spade in the future!
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Budget bits.
Tariffs on baked beans, chocolate and gherkins will be eased – saving 40p per week to the average person – who eats baked beans, chocolate and gherkins! Presumably if you only enjoy one of baked beans, chocolate and gherkins, you’ll save about 13p. Anyway, well done Chancellor!
Just keep delaying decisions. Oh well, apart from the ‘frozen’ stuff and the ‘give with one hand – take with the other’ burdens (income tax thresholds) that have emerged, we must ALL wait until 2027 for the ‘Spending Review’! Then we’ll really start paying for welfare won’t we!? https://tinyurl.com/vtz6h8jm
Energy bills for an average family are due to rise by 27% in January, giving a total energy bill of over £2,200 pounds per household. Healey has given £100 grant to offset. Now THAT is a real saving isn’t it!
We think the present government should be called the Iceland government. After all most items that the electorate are concerned about are frozen until next year!
The end story is that ALL OF US will suffer more taxes, directly or indirectly!
Reform’s response
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We still have a lot of time for JD Vance and indeed from his Pres Don Trump, but both have got an Achilles heel that is continuously shown to the public. In Trump’s case it is his bombastic persona which sometimes goes a little bit too far and alienates even his supporters – but probably not enough to divert them from the GOP.
But JD worries us on the occasions when he makes worrying statements about his religious beliefs. We understand that GOD is an American construct and that ALL politicos in both parties seem to glorify a being as nebulous as Allah, but sometimes – and it is getting more frequent these days, JD really stuffs himself up.
The latest is that the ‘antichrist’ walks among us and is becoming more dangerous. https://tinyurl.com/325shmca If he is talking about Islam, maybe we’d listen, but he isn’t. He really believes that the ‘devil’ is walking among us and dispensing non-christian homilies to the electorate. And he should be looking at MSM and all the other left-wing (that term is as far as we’d go in describing an ‘antichrist’!) outlets – NOT conflating these with HIS religion.
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We do not watch ‘The Traitors’ or Celebrity Traitors’. Nevertheless, every series seems to upset somebody, a bit like Come Dancing, The Pottery Throwdown or Bake Off – which we NEVER watch either! The latest ‘victim’ is James Acaster who apparently has been bullied by fellow comedians(?) Rob Beckett and Romesh Ragamuffin (or some such unpronounceable Ceylonese name).
Now, to call any of the above ‘comedians’ would be a gross overstatement, but we will concede that ALL of them make us smile a few times during their acts. And we would point out that the usual suspects when a laugh is not forthcoming is to take the piss out of the ‘right wing’ and cast aspersions at Reform in general and Nigel Farage in particular. So to see Acaster getting his knickers in a twist because two other are TAKING THE PISS out of HIM fills us with a good sense of karma and well-earned enjoyment!
What was that James? Live by the sword and die by it? Our advice – grow up and do not be a snivelling kid all your life, although we DO recognise that the whole of your act is based upon these attributes.
PS. We notice that Ragamuffin has won whatever it is that he is supposed to have won, and that Acaster has been severely degraded. But, WHO CARES!
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There IS some justice in the World and just occasionally we see it happening before us. A video published a few months ago has finally caught up with a Brazillian-American called Isabela Casahuga-Lemgruber. Despite removing herself from all social media platforms she was identified quickly, and seems to have forgotten that once anything is published on social media it stays there forever – you CANNOT get rid of it.
Anyway a whole shit-storm has descended and now even her parents – who are regarded as privileged and successful, have had to take down all their social media postings from LinkedIn to Tik-Tok! https://tinyurl.com/5eb5suna We originally thought why her parents should be involved then we thought this woman’s views probably reflects theirs so no harm done!
The crass abomination of what is being discussed here is in the video, published by Christian Collins’ and can be viewed by tagging the URL and then watching the separate video.
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Ginge Rayner has finally implemented her ‘Work place and Pub’ restrictions of how and what you speak to your mates can say to each other with the caveat that any stranger within hearing distance can be offended and you’ll be nicked.
Well, if we MOGS still lived over there we’d try this out, deliberately making comments about Ginge Rayner and her ilk, and making it the sole subject of comment in a pub near us.
Also, it is just as well this law wasn’t around when we were in charge of multi-million pound projects or worse, still in charge of a one of Her Majesty’s Ships, where idiots NEED to be called out for what they are/were because otherwise you’d be kissing your career goodbye!