Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th January 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[gilsey]

Good morning.


Some of you saw my post a few weeks ago about my husband being ill, sadly he died last weekend.
I'd anticipated following a similar journey to poor RogerOT but another complication developed and the end came much more quickly.

I'll be here on and off, as a distraction. Not least from his family.

[refitman]

Oh Gilsey, I'm so sorry to hear that.

I do hope that our angry bollocks can keep your mind occupied, at least for a little bit.

[Frog222]

Sorry to hear that Gilsey, but unsurprised as I remember well that post of yours. Best of luck with the 'family' ! xx

First bit of distraction -

" Reeves was not alone in saying British politicians could learn from Trump.

Simon Case, who stepped down as cabinet secretary on health grounds at the end of last year, praised the US president’s “impressive political theatre” in signing a series of executive orders that range from trade to immigration and civil rights since returning to office on Monday."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... nald-trump

I suppose RR had to say something, but Case ?

Glorifying the Monster and his methods is too much !

[Frog222]

https://bsky.app/profile/oldladyhembrew ... kx462llk2e

[Frog222]

[Frog222]

" Horrendous" indeed , the Mad Bad one is out of control .

How about someone, or a 'group' of people, refusing to take his calls ?

From the beginning of Phillips P OBrien's Newsletter --

""Well, Davos was certainly worth going—if only to observe some gory examples of where things. I cant say that anything you see or hear at Davos is at all definitive—but they are useful snapshots of where things stand. And listening specifically to Americans and Europeans when they talk about Ukraine, for instance, certain things do stand out. Americans are basically operating within a cult—searching for clues of what dear leader is thinking. Europeans are arguably worse. They know that they are faced by a cult—and that the cult is very dangerous—but for now much of their leadership is desperately trying to suck-up to the cult. ""

[Frog222]

Hmm, an accurate Times report --

Ministers warned not to go soft on Big Tech
Pressure on regulators to prioritise economic growth must not weaken legislation to ‘level the playing field’ in the sector, a senior peer writes


" This week, the government pushed out Marcus Bokkerink as chairman of the CMA, with Doug Gurr, a former Amazon UK executive, appointed interim chairman. "

https://archive.ph/9f2cQ

[Frog222]

More HORRENDOUS stuff --



" The healthy alternative – the pro-prosperity case for a more balanced economy – was recently outlined by the sacked CMA chair Bokkerink. Whenever the CMA has stepped in to stop monopolists locking down markets, he explained: “We have seen new investment flow in, from healthcare and pharmaceuticals to construction to railway equipment to gaming to educational software to digital and AI.” Fostering choice and tackling corporate power drives down prices, drives up innovation, and ensures a diverse, resilient economy that can “recover rapidly from external shocks and … avoid becoming hostage to single points of failure”. It also keeps more wealth circulating locally rather than being sucked out and away to shareholders overseas and offshore.

In rejecting this vision of a healthy and balanced economy, this pro-monopoly government has revealed itself to be anti-business and anti-growth.

Labour is playing with fire. Trump and his big tech allies will now weaponise the awesome power of social media firms and broader “surveillance capitalism” – honed to manipulate us first as shoppers, now as voters – to export a hard-right agenda to the UK and elsewhere. That agenda is economic, too, and rather imperialist: they will try to bludgeon open our economy to deregulate it further so as to make it easier for US firms to exploit us even more. Not in living memory have we needed these protections more than today – and voters feel this need, urgently. A government bent on wrecking them will face annihilation. "

[AnatolyKasparov]

Good morning.


Some of you saw my post a few weeks ago about my husband being ill, sadly he died last weekend.
I'd anticipated following a similar journey to poor RogerOT but another complication developed and the end came much more quickly.

I'll be here on and off, as a distraction. Not least from his family.

I am so sorry for your loss. Take care.

[notnowsonny]

Good morning.


Some of you saw my post a few weeks ago about my husband being ill, sadly he died last weekend.
I'd anticipated following a similar journey to poor RogerOT but another complication developed and the end came much more quickly.

I'll be here on and off, as a distraction. Not least from his family.

It’s never easy, however much the loss of a partner is expected. Sincere condolences to all who will miss him.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

It's Burn's night tonight. I had a friend over who doesn't like mashed potato* so I had to make haggis, neeps and roast tatties. With red wine gravy because neither of us like whisky.

I only know one line of Robert Burns poetry off by heart, I admire him more for his excessive drinking than his lyrical scribblings, yet somehow with this one line it's as if he were gazing into the future and describing this Labour government rather than an 18'th century mouse.

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie


*Apparently it's the texture of mashed potato he hates, yet he happily ate neeps which is mashed 'swede' (where I come from we call them 'bagies' or turnips, it's all very confusing...https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/baggie_n3)

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Some of you saw my post a few weeks ago about my husband being ill, sadly he died last weekend.
I'd anticipated following a similar journey to poor RogerOT but another complication developed and the end came much more quickly.

I'll be here on and off, as a distraction. Not least from his family.

Oh Gilsey, I'm so sorry to hear that.

[Frog222]

Oh dear, I had to shut down the Sunday Programme ( conversation c0738 onwards between the presenter and the VERY Trumpist pastor at the inauguration ) when I just couldn't listen any more to the nutter .
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027cg4

[refitman]

Awesome! Leadership based on vibes only. I can only see the Tories getting worse from here.



This isn't helping

[refitman]

Meanwhile, Labour are going to try and save money by harming people. These are just Tory policies FFS. Tories on the 'left' and fascists on the right, what choices were have

[Frog222]

Meanwhile, Labour are going to try and save money by harming people. These are just Tory policies FFS. Tories on the 'left' and fascists on the right, what choices were have

A bit more on that 'hiring staff' bizness here -

( The very last addition to the article is that the standard delay for payment by at least one of the Companies IS thirty days , so you can see how their business model works. As a sort of Uber solution for matching those offering and needing very short-term employment, why not ?? , But the reality is the matching of the lowest-paying employers , perhaps straitened themselves, with many who are part of the impoverished pool of the desperate .)

[refitman]

[refitman]

Also, why the fuck is Reeves writing articles for the Sun?!?! Especially after the Harry judgement earlier this week.

[refitman]

Isn't actual fraud pretty minimal, as a % of the welfare spend? Fuck her so much, Thatcher MkII dipshit.

[refitman]

You know how Labour have been praising and sucking up to Trump? Yeah, well fuck them hard

[refitman]

Pure comedy, with a helping of word salad

[Frog222]

Pure comedy, with a helping of word salad

The 2/2 is worth a look too .

Nice bit on Matt Goodwin at the end of this, I liked the "shrill elite-bashing commentary " --

[Frog222]

I remember Musk referring to Wiedel as "Weedel", well she's just another forrin after all

Good info on Andrew Macintyre too --

[Frog222]

Reminder of some of Ledbydonkeys best hits --