FlyTheNest

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 7:45 am**

Morning all.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 9:14 am**

Good morning.

All being well 'er indoors will be, again, indoors today...

Shocked by this I was, really...

Michael Eboda
@myklee1
I know the type of person the govt wanted on their race commission because with my deep knowledge of senior black UK talent, I was asked by No 10 to recommend people for it. None of mine got in and No 10 later admitted they considered only people with a particular mindset on race
2:08 PM · Apr 1, 2021 from Bromley, London·Twitter for iPhone

I heard a former Met superintendent on Today earlier - sounds like the consultation process was a shambles, some of the people he was on a Zoom call with shouldn't have been there and were removed, and the two commissioner started arguing amongst themselves. And again, he mentioned the lack of diversity of thought in the whole thing.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 9:22 am**

Morning Nesting Bunnies

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 9:23 am**

Never really got the hang of Easter, but am happy to have a few days off

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 10:30 am**

three steaks pam
@alexandrakuri
lolol boris johnson was asked why people in hartlepool should vote tory and he said because we spent £3.5m on the local hospital. turns out he was referring to a hospital in a different constituency and hartlepool’s hospital lost its a&e department to tory cuts

Labour candidate Paul Williams had a rant about this as well.

I'd be very, very surprised if you could find anyone in Hartlepool who didn't know Johnson was lying, because the local hospital has been in the news for years. As North Tees, where the 3.5m went, is showing its age, local NHS had a plan to build a 'super-hospital' and close both North Tees and H'pool General, they never got funding for it and as you can imagine it was very controversial indeed.

They know he was lying and a good number of them will vote tory anyway, that's where we are.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 12:35 pm**

I'm slightly more optimistic, people will surely be more bothered when Johnson's lies affect them personally rather than just other "undeserving" people.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 12:37 pm**

Extreme cap-doffing.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 1:15 pm**

tinyclanger2 wrote:Extreme cap-doffing.

I don't watch that. I prefer BBC1's version - Pro-Celebrity cap-doffing.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 2:20 pm**

Good stuff from Marina Hyde.

The culture war is a box of matches the UK government can't help playing with

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ace-report" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But this is where we are. Every time some cabinet minister rushes eagerly to the frontline of the culture wars, they are espousing a politics indistinguishable from that of a preposterous tit having a midlife crisis. Yet still they rush. It is beginning to feel as if the government wants a culture war more than anything.

and look what popped up earlier...

Tom Hunt MP
@tomhunt1988
The flying of the Union flag should be compulsory for all schools. If any pupils and teachers have concerns about this then surely they can be “educated” about what the flag actually represents. Flag of United Kingdom belongs to every single British person.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 3:09 pm**

Let's ban nationalism in favour of a united species of planet earth.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 4:54 pm**

tinyclanger2 wrote:Let's ban nationalism in favour of a united species of planet earth.

The idea has been around for almost as long as civilisation itself, just never that many takers.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 5:25 pm**

I'm in.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 7:41 pm**

I'm not religious but even I know this is a bit tasteless..

https://twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status ... 2170684416" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And I have 'er indoors back indoors and reasonably OK.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 8:02 pm**

Here's that former Met officer I heard this morning.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... -babu-says" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

“It was a Fawlty Towers-like experience. We were told it was going to be ex-BAME police officers. I turned up and it was youth workers … a whole hotchpotch of individuals,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“We raised concerns that we ex-police officers talked about and then they stopped the meeting [and] got rid of some people who were not supposed to be on there.”

Total shambles.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 9:40 pm**

That's good news RoT.

Posted: **Fri 02 Apr, 2021 10:21 pm**

Triggered much?

Statement from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the- ... -statement" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 1:42 pm**

Nice day today, must be somebody about though?

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 1:43 pm**

(waving emoticon)

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 2:42 pm**

tinyclanger2 wrote:I'm in.

Same here

"I pledge allegiance to the children and to the land on which they stand. Ground and sky are never separated but always one with fair play and holidays for all."

- citizenJA

revision of the US pledge of allegiance

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 2:52 pm**

The word liberty comes before the word justice in the US pledge of allegiance and I object to that because without equity no one can be free.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 2:56 pm**

Get the coronavirus vaccination as soon as you can.
I've had some achy and feverish side effects from the vaccine as well as a sore arm but I'm much better now.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 2:57 pm**

which vaccine?

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:12 pm**

It's almost a full year since we've lost HindleA.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:14 pm**

Well mine was AZ (which some are worried about) a week ago. Felt a bit groggy the day after (not at all uncommon) but since then absolutely fine.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:17 pm**

tinyclanger2 wrote:which vaccine?

Did I make a mistake?
I meant the COVID-19 vaccination.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:18 pm**

When was the last time anyone had a tetanus booster shot? I think we're supposed to have those every ten years.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:23 pm**

citizenJA wrote:It's almost a full year since we've lost HindleA.

He and LadyCentauria apparently shared the same birthday. Of course, they now have something else in common too.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:25 pm**

tinyclanger2 wrote:which vaccine?

COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca
solution for injection
COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1-S [recombinant])

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:32 pm**

AnatolyKasparov wrote:
citizenJA wrote:It's almost a full year since we've lost HindleA.
He and LadyCentauria apparently shared the same birthday. Of course, they now have something else in common too.

I'm terrible with dates
I hadn't realised Friday (yesterday) was a holiday and that lack of attention of mine caused problems in the citizen household

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:34 pm**

RogerOThornhill wrote:---
And I have 'er indoors back indoors and reasonably OK.

(cJA edit)

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:40 pm**

PorFavor wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:Extreme cap-doffing.
I don't watch that. I prefer BBC1's version - Pro-Celebrity cap-doffing.

I don't have a channel yet
Only a handful of people listening to my latest Written Constitution drafts on the village green

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:43 pm**

I've no problem kneeling in front of children
they often need their shoes tied

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:47 pm**

citizenJA wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:which vaccine?
Did I make a mistake?
I meant the COVID-19 vaccination.

I understand what you meant now.
I've got a batch number for the AZ CV19 vaccination injection in the information packet.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 3:54 pm**

tinyclanger2 wrote:Extreme cap-doffing.

people identifying with the wrong characters
it won't serve or save them

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 4:11 pm**

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well mine was AZ (which some are worried about) a week ago. Felt a bit groggy the day after (not at all uncommon) but since then absolutely fine.

Good, very good

I booked my shot early Sunday morning and was in and out of a nearly deserted area within ten minutes. I don't go out so it's not likely I'd caught the virus from someone. I was uncomfortable for several days, aches, chills, on/off fever but nothing to make me afraid of having the second one.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 6:29 pm**

Aubrey Allegretti
@breeallegretti
It turns out Sir Robbie Gibb - former No10 head of comms under Theresa May - had a significant role advising on the media strategy for the race report launch. It was done pro-bono.

One source says there’s now a “blame game” underway in government about “why it landed so badly”.
4:21 PM · Apr 3, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 6:58 pm**

RogerOThornhill wrote:
Aubrey Allegretti
@breeallegretti
It turns out Sir Robbie Gibb - former No10 head of comms under Theresa May - had a significant role advising on the media strategy for the race report launch. It was done pro-bono.

One source says there’s now a “blame game” underway in government about “why it landed so badly”.
4:21 PM · Apr 3, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

I wonder if they've considered "it's all lies"?

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 8:51 pm**

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 25022.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This is possibly the scariest thing i have ever read.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 9:27 pm**

That report really is the gift that carries on giving...

https://twitter.com/LukeLJB/status/1378318087930449922" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Luke Shoveller
@LukeLJB
In the Sewell report, sandwiched between ‘Class B Drug’ and ‘EBacc’, is a new definition of ‘Cultural Capital’.

Like Ofsted’s definition, it is wrong. CC, if it exists, is a mechanism that inhibits ‘social mobility’.

It’s also lifted - verbatim - from Wikipedia

Did they rush this report out to draw attention from anything else?

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 10:02 pm**

This seems to be in front of a paywall right now.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c80f ... dca4d38c8a" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Worth reading - Jeremy Haywood does not come across well in this.

Paying suppliers quicker is really easy - you just stick their payment terms into the master data onto your system, do a payment run and it picks up all invoices that are due for payment! You don't actually need anything else to get in the way.

Posted: **Sat 03 Apr, 2021 10:23 pm**

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA

Posted: **Sun 04 Apr, 2021 10:23 am**

Happy Easter All!

I see Jon Oddwhore (4, 7) is getting well deserved stick for his challenge to ministers who aren’t taking full advantage of Brexit.

Posted: **Sun 04 Apr, 2021 11:34 am**

Oh dear...

Race report boss wanted schools to teach 'the truth' about modern Britain

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... rn-britain" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The chairman of the controversial review of racial disparities drew up plans to introduce a new compulsory school subject to teach children “the truth” about modern Britain, the Observer has been told.

Tony Sewell suggested that an official textbook would be deployed in all schools as part of the new course. According to sources involved in the discussions, he said that the idea had been successfully deployed in Russia.

Posted: **Sun 04 Apr, 2021 2:03 pm**

Happy Easter everyone.

I'm off to roll these down a hill and eat the remains if they don't completely explode.

Posted: **Sun 04 Apr, 2021 2:32 pm**

tinyclanger2 wrote:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 25022.html

This is possibly the scariest thing i have ever read.

Her Tweet is so batshit crazy it got a response from Kevin Sorbo! She's hit the big time!

"Mrs Morrissey, as an executive director of the Foreign Office how have you furthered the interests of the United Kingdom this week?"

"Well, I got a response on Twitter from someone who used to play Hercules on TV in the 90's who recently got publicly humiliated by Xena Warrior Princess after he claimed Antifa were storming the Capitol Building and became a laughing stock."

"I see, jolly good, here's £50,000, you'll get another 50 grand if you can say something so unutterably stupid it gets a response from Rudy Jiuliani."

Posted: **Sun 04 Apr, 2021 3:27 pm**

refitman wrote:
RogerOThornhill wrote:
Aubrey Allegretti
@breeallegretti
It turns out Sir Robbie Gibb - former No10 head of comms under Theresa May - had a significant role advising on the media strategy for the race report launch. It was done pro-bono.

One source says there’s now a “blame game” underway in government about “why it landed so badly”.
4:21 PM · Apr 3, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
I wonder if they've considered "it's all lies"?

Ah yes, it was definitely both clumsy and cynical enough to be him.

Posted: **Sun 04 Apr, 2021 4:22 pm**

https://twitter.com/RosamundUrwin/statu ... 1675052037" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Rosamund Urwin
@RosamundUrwin
Louise Ellman, a Jewish former Labour MP who was a member of the party for 55 years and resigned over anti-semitism, is set fo rejoin. Me with @cazjwheeler in today’s @thesundaytimes

Posted: **Sun 04 Apr, 2021 4:42 pm**

Two of the eggs behaved themselves, the shells cracked a bit on the way down the hill and after scraping a bit of dirt off I was able to eat them. The other one divested itself of its shell entirely on the way down, bounced off a hummock and flew into a child's pushchair whereupon it burst into pieces. Fortunately the child's mother was a good sort and we had a laugh about it. You're supposed to roll eggs on Easter Monday but it's meant to be freezing tomorrow so sod that.

Posted: **Sun 04 Apr, 2021 5:25 pm**

Thanks for all the posts. The political ones are great, but the SGO’s egg roll calamity wins the day

Posted: **Sun 04 Apr, 2021 6:40 pm**

I helped a bloke who lives upstairs yesterday with a drinks cabinet he'd got from somewhere which still had some bottles in it. One was an unopened bottle of Taylor's 'crusted' Port from 1973. I told him it was probably worth a bit of money so not to open it but he's payed no attention and has just been round in a very merry mood offering me a glass. It was extremely tasty and probably the most expensive drink I've ever had. For free.

https://www.vintageportshop.co.uk/SearchResults.cfm

I wonder if I should tell him.

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