QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL

[Stanley]

I was wondering whether that pledge survives her.... Take nothing for granted!

[Tizer]

From BBC News this morning...
Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has been encouraging MP colleagues to nominate Mr Johnson, and tweeted his support earlier alongside the hashtag "Boris or bust".
Boris and bust might be more appropriate! Remember that Dominic Cummings accused him of being an 'out-of-control shopping trolley' and that he's known as the “greased piglet”: a man who could slip out of any tight situation. He's also a blatant liar and unreliable.

[Stanley]

If there is one thing that exposure has done for Rees Mogg it's to turn him from a figure to be ridiculed into a deluded and incompetent politician who is too dangerous to be let loose unsupervised. Time for nanny to take him home.....

[Stanley]

The boss of Aberdeen Asset Management was asked this morning for his reaction to the news that Johnson had bottled out of the contest to be PM. He said we should look at the performance of the £Sterling. It dropped sharply on the news that Johnson was coming back to contest the post and since he announced he was backing out the £Sterling has risen a cent against the Euro.....

[Tizer]

A British journalist in Georgia for the US mid-terms has been asking locals about their opinions on the US political situation. One old `person of colour' said: Democracy was a great experiment - it's a pity it didn't last.

[Stanley]

What a great and accurate quote.
Have a look at THIS, things aren't looking too good for the Democrats.
De Santis is in in Florida and Trump has already warned him not to think of standing against him for the Presidency.

[Tizer]

The good news is that Democrat John Fetterman beat Republican opponent Mehmet Oz, a celebrity TV doctor (and I would say a celebrity idiot) in the Pennsylvania Senate race.

[Stanley]

I regret Williamson job ended in resignation, says Rishi Sunak in Parliament.
Williamson has either been sacked or resigned from every job he has had. Keeping a tarantula on his desk should have been enough to disqualify him from every job.

[Tizer]

I wonder what Putin keeps on his desk?

[Tripps]

From somewhere on my web wanderings

"Born in Manchester in 1966,Roger Hallam later moved to Carmarthen in Wales, where he ran an organic farm for 20 years. When his business eventually collapsed, Hallam blamed the loss of his 10-acre plot on extreme weather events.
With his business destroyed, Hallam left for Kings College London, where he spent four years living in his car and studying a PhD in civil disobedience, “in the tradition of Martin Luther King and Gandhi”.

[Stanley]

The name sounded familiar so I went for a furtle. Ah! That Roger Hallam. A man with a troubled mind....?
"In a self-published pamphlet written in prison, Hallam wrote that the climate crisis would lead to mass rape, and featured a story in which the reader's female family members are gang raped and the reader forced to watch. The pamphlet was condemned by Farah Nazeer, CEO of Women's Aid.[30] When Der Spiegel replied to Hallam that "You can't blame the climate change for the rape of women during war", Hallam's response was "No, climate change is just the tubes that the gas comes down in the gas chamber. It's just a mechanism through which one generation kills the next generation""

[Stanley]

Just heard on the news....
"Cause of death: Mechanical Asphyxiation".
This is how Russian authorities in occupied Ukraine recorded the death of a nurse who, according to her sister, was publicly hanged for refuting the Russian Claim to her city. she said it was still Ukranian.

[Tizer]

Donald Trump has been making unsubstantiated claims about the midterms...
"The Democrats are finding all sorts of votes in Nevada and Arizona. What a disgrace that this can be allowed to happen!" he posted on his Truth Social platform on Friday. LINK

[Stanley]

I heard that report and also a discussion about what the mid-term results show about Trump. The consensus was that Republicans are going to blame the Trump influence for the fact that they didn't have the usual mid term claw back of power and influence. Trump's complaint about vote rigging is not going to do him any favours, it sounds like the stance of a man who is a busted flush. Joe Biden and the Democrats can legitimately claim a victory and if the House of Representatives margin gets smaller, as is likely, he will be quite right in saying he is happy (as he did yesterday).
(funnily enough, I have an idea that when Bolsonaro caved in and didn't obstruct the change in power in Brazil he did Trump no favours.

[Tizer]

Florida governor Ron DeSantis is the man to watch.

[Stanley]

I have just heard J Hunt describe the now official recession as 'Made in Russia'. So that's what caused it.....

[Tripps]

Well that's WW III averted - good, that's a relief. Everyone is agreed that it was a Ukrainian self defence anti aircraft misssil gone astray, and was an accident. Everyone except the President of Ukraine that is. He's still saying it was Russian. I think he has an interest in saying that.

Now - what's happening at COP 27 I hear you all ask. Yes, it is still going on.

Here's what The Guardian says -

On Egypt’s organization, they said: “I’m really worried. It’s likely they will drag on until Saturday. I really don’t know if we will get a proper final text. It will really depend how far countries are willing to take things. Some might say unless there’s no agreement on loss and damage, there’s no outcome.” “When there’s no agreement, the presidency usually gets blamed for that so I’m sure the Egyptians will want to avoid that. Just like Copenhagen and the Danish at Cop15. There are a lot of issues that are still open.”

“The cover decision, that is a total mess. They’re still discussing it and the meeting started nearly 6 hours ago. The document doesn’t even contain proper text. It’s just a list of topics. It was supposed to be a two hour meeting.” “On the basis of this round of talks today, I hope the presidency will prepare an actual draft decision. It will take us a long time to agree on a text some it’s a cause for concern.”

“We won’t leave before midnight, I think. We are all pretty tired. I have had food poisoning. There’s no decent food here. I never drink Coca Cola but I’ve been drinking loads here,” the negotiator says.

[Stanley]

That sounds worse than the Council Meeting David. My suggestion would be to draw up a timeline for industrialisation then get the mathematicians to construct a formula that allotted proportions of guilt based on the earliness of the date when full industrialisation was reached. Use those proportions to allocate responsibility for any sums of money needed to pay for efficient progress. QED.

[Stanley]

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security but [also] at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth."

John Maynard Keynes.

[Tizer]

From BBC News report re Twitter...
Despite the turmoil at the company, Mr Musk tweeted on Friday: "And... we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol." Satirist Frank Lesser replied: "'Rome has never been this brightly lit at night!' - Nero" - a reference to the Roman emperor who is reputed to have fiddled while Rome burned.

[Stanley]

I sometimes think Musk is deranged..... But then realise he has more money than me. Method in his madness?
I like the allusion to Nero......

[Tripps]

Jeremy Clarkson the farmer says -

"He said the countryside looks “beautiful” because of farmers. “If I didn’t do anything, it would be a gigantic 1,000-acre bramble bush.”

Tell me about it. . . . .

[Tripps]

"BREAKING: Newcastle's all-weather fixture this afternoon has been cancelled due to frozen ground"

Perhaps the racing surface will be renamed 'Almost All Weather'

[Stanley]

I came across this yesterday.... An announcement by the Flat Earth Society: "Our beliefs have spread all round the world'.

[plaques]

We're short of nowt of what we've got.

The pile of things we haven't got is getting bigger.