Thursday 28th August 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[Frog222]

Afternoon Afternoon !

A phone initiative there

Vampire session at the hospital today, and skiving since.

Is this a reliable polling company ?

[Frog222]

[refitman]

When you purge all the 'undesirables' and still can't appease those remaining

[refitman]

Well, things seem to be deteriorating in the States

[Frog222]

TBlair going in for 'beachfront property' development along with DJT and the witless Witkoff --

[Frog222]

Ethnic Hungarians are SO persecuted in Ukraine .....

[Frog222]

An oldie, but USEFUL !!!!!!!!!

[Frog222]

Tony Blair Institute, from two minutes --

[Sky'sGoneOut]

When you purge all the 'undesirables' and still can't appease those remaining.

The worst part about it was Starmer thanked those MPs for helping his government get their benefit 'reforms' right (or words to that effect) then sacked them. Make it make sense.

You've got to wonder if they'd stuck to a Social Democratic centre Left platform and stood up to Farage and his ilk whether they'd be in the state they're in now. I don't know a single person who voted for them who's happy with them, friends, family, bring up Labour and I get a mix of anger and resigned groans. I don't think any of us have ever seen a party lose support so early in a parliament. Even Johnson didn't manage 18% at his worst.

They just seem utterly directionless, constantly flailing around in a desperate effort to appease the right and the markets, while continuing a mindless internecine war with the left. They may be able to get away with that in their own parliamentary party but it would seem a hefty chunk of their voters are fucking sick of it.

We're told they're relaxed about it all and their strategy come the next election will be 'vote for us or you'll get Farage'. Which would be exactly what they tried in Scotland when the SNP became a threat and here we are 20 years later with the SNP still in power North of the border. Not only have they failed miserably to learn from that they've raised the strategies' architect, Douglas Alexander, from the political grave and made him a minister.

It's getting hard to tell now whether they even give a shit about winning the next election or if all they care about is settling internal Labour party scores and coming out the other end of it with a bank balance, perks, pension and contacts which set them for life.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Anyway yeah so I did a bit of falconry at a place called Dalhousie Castle which is now a hotel but in its active life was mostly used by the English to invade Scotland. When we were there for the day the whole place had been booked up by a shooting party. We poor falconry scumbags were meant to be confined to the grounds but I wanted coffee so fuck that. Walked in, asked nicely for caffeine, got sent to a bar and waited for nearly half an hour but the lass who eventually turned up was so disarmingly pleasant the wait didn't matter.

So ended up outside with a kestrel on my head, a Russian Eurasian eagle owl on my arm (so heavy my arm started shaking), and a Harris's hawk (American raptors that hunt in packs) chasing a chicken head tied to a bit of string. I also got to pet a little owl called Archie who closed his eyes and looked blissed out if you tickled him behind his ears.

Obviously I asked the splendid lady who took us through all this falconry stuff for nearly 3 hours what she thought about the establishment she worked for being booked by rich morons who gained pleasure from killing birds. You'd think she'd be careful about giving her opinion given her employers, but she wasn't. She was also more than happy to mock people having an owl deliver their wedding ring, despite having a bird trained to do exactly that.

(This was one of those voucher things I got from my brother and his wife for Christmas.)