Tuesday 1st April 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

What absolute clowns

[Frog222]

OTOH

From 2013 --


HIGHLY organised embezzlement, industrial scale !

""She abused the EU budget for parliamentary assistants - she told her MEPs that they could have one each and that she would assign multiple others to work solely for her national party. [Ringleader]

She even made her bodyguard Thierry Légier an EU parliamentary assistant, hired people for a day or two, hired her sister etc. to milk the system right down to the last Euro. They issued false invoices for services never received, etc. The EU started an enquiry and asked her to repay some of the funds in 2016, she refused and carried on taking the money. French courts intervened, the FN continued to obfuscate and delay during a 5 year investigation, a 98 page police report was released in 2021 with full details. """

Long read, how they worked hard to cover their tracks, but the police tracked them down
https://archive.ph/s07Eg

[Frog222]

It's that day again

[Sky'sGoneOut]

And so it came to pass that Sky had miraculously survived another circumgyration around the sun.

Or to put it another way, it's my birthday.

Been for a pleasant stroll under clear blue skies and looking forward to a balti and a pub crawl later with a friend.

[refitman]

And so it came to pass that Sky had miraculously survived another circumgyration around the sun.

Or to put it another way, it's my birthday.

Been for a pleasant stroll under clear blue skies and looking forward to a balti and a pub crawl later with a friend.

Happy birthday Sky. You and my dad today (he's 81).

[Frog222]

And so it came to pass that Sky had miraculously survived another circumgyration around the sun.
Or to put it another way, it's my birthday.
Been for a pleasant stroll under clear blue skies and looking forward to a balti and a pub crawl later with a friend.

Happy birthday Sky. You and my dad today (he's 81).

Sky, your Dad and my Second Daughter !
In 2009 it was her school holidays and she spent most of them looking after me in hospital. I had an April Fool stroke and she understood my attempts at speech better than the docs.

Usually I try for a dip in the sea, to celebrate survival, but the tide is way out and tho very sunny it's blowing hard .

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Cheers Refit, and happy birthday to your dad, hope he's having a good one!

On a less cheerful note I did wonder how long it would take for Labour to be held to account for their flagrant misuse of statistics and it's finally beginning to happen. This only concerns a couple of their most blatant mistruths but at least it's a start.



https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/ ... ca-figures

The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) received a number of complaints, including one from Benefits and Work, about the claim in the 13 March press release that:

“The number [of people on Universal Credit health with no requirement to look for work] has almost quadrupled since the start of the pandemic when 360,000 people were considered too sick to look for work – a 383% rise in less than five years.”

The OSR found that “The statement that the number of people claiming disability elements of Universal Credit has increased by 383% presents an entirely misleading picture to the public.”

[Frog222]

" This is because the overwhelming majority of the increase is due to the fact that new claims for employment and support allowance (ESA) had been replaced by UC claims. So, as the number of ESA awards shrank, the number of UC awards rose.

But adding the two figures together shows that the actual increase is only 50% and that includes the effect of the pandemic."

For many covid appears no more than a distant bad memory, not to be even talked about .

[Frog222]

Ferdinando Kaiser rodpsoSen708794

Dans un supermarché aux États-Unis. Une femme dans une file d'attente à la caisse parle une autre langue sur son téléphone portable. Il y a aussi un homme blanc dans la file, qui la regarde et lui dit : "Tu es en Amérique maintenant. " Vous devez parler anglais. "
La femme répond : ' Excusez-moi ? "
Et l'homme, en train de syllaber lentement : « Si vous voulez parler mexicain, retournez au Mexique, parce qu'en Amérique, nous parlons anglais. "
Femme séraphique : « Monsieur, j'ai parlé Navajo. Si vous voulez parler anglais, retournez en Angleterre. "

[Frog222]

" As a result the 2% levy on the UK revenues of the big US tech companies could fall. Five have publicly said they pay the tax – Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, eBay and Apple – and some have lobbied the government to pay less, arguing that it discriminates against larger firms and should apply to profits rather than revenues. " ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... mp-tariffs

My heart bleeds for 'larger firms' .

Sniff

[Frog222]

As foreseen, Starmer gave an early Easter present to Trump's allies , who do NOT need the bloody money .

A sign of submission , like little Boy rolling onto his back when he sees me ?

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Ended up in a jazz bar, which was nice.