QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL

[Stanley]

If they had done that with Priti Patel all this kerfuffle could have been avoided.

[Tripps]

From elsewhere -

"One Tory minister messages to say that the Airbus 320 has the capacity and range to take the entire Conservative Parliamentary Party to Rwanda"

[Stanley]

One thing is certain David, the size of the plane needed is falling and will continue to fall fast.

[Stanley]

"One toilet for 750 people"
Heard in a broadcast on R4 talking about the plight of Palestinians in Southern Gaza who had been forced to flee previously safe areas.
"Millions in a space no bigger than Heathrow airport."

[PanBiker]

Heard in a broadcast on R4 talking about the plight of Palestinians in Southern Gaza who had been forced to flee previously safe areas.
"Millions in a space no bigger than Heathrow airport."

There will be nowhere for them to go shortly apart from into the sea! I am still convinced that the actions of the IDF are part of the master plan to take over GAZA completely and turn it into more territory for Israeli expansion.

[Stanley]

I have to agree with you Ian. I also believe that the more Palestinians are killed the better Netanyahu likes it.
His version of the 'Two State Solution' for the region is to erode one of the states.
Sorry, but that's what it looks like to me. I have every sympathy for the Jews but when it comes to what I describe as 'Zionist policies' I part company with them. Problem is that so many see that as being anti-Semitic when in fact it is nothing of the sort. That view has been promoted by the Israeli far right because it protects their policies and political aims which have no room for compassion for the plight of the Palestinians.

[Stanley]

A quotation popped into my head today. 'Thin rivulets of prose meandering through wide meadows of margins'.
I went looking for the origin and found this on Google. Tizer » Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:07 pm. Wikiquote has:
"You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin." Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal (1777), Act I, scene 1.
It took eight years for that quotation to come full circle.....

[Tizer]

MP Alicia Kearns, chairwoman of Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, is quoted in a BBC report today saying that a truce that could be turned into a lasting ceasefire should be pursued, rather than a focus on the eradication of Hamas: "Hamas is an ideology which recruits into its membership. Bombs don't obliterate an ideology and neither can a stable state be constructed from oblivion."

Meanwhile...
Videos shot inside the Nasser Hospital last night capture the scenes of panic after staff said a children’s ward was hit by an Israeli artillery shell that did not explode. A 13-year-old girl, Donia Abu Mehsen, was killed. She had already lost her parents and siblings and had to have her leg amputated following an earlier strike.

Just hours before the hospital was hit, British emergency specialist Dr Chris Hook spoke to the BBC at the site as he reached the end of a month in Gaza with Doctors Without Borders: “The scale of injury and death, alongside such massive displacement of people in such a small area is unlike anything I've seen anywhere else. I've never seen so many injuries of such significant nature and the destruction of healthcare services to such an extent.”

[Stanley]

"Bombs don't obliterate an ideology"
Which is what some of us have been saying all along. The Israelis know this and that is why I have a suspicion that there is a sub-plot.... the obliteration of as many Palestinians as possible.

[Tripps]

The meaning of the word 'classy' seems to have been changed.

Mykhailo Mudryk sent a classy message of support to Kieran Trippier following Chelsea’s Carabao Cup win over Newcastle on Tuesday night.

Mudryk added on Instagram: “Kieran, I just wanna say to you: stay strong. Sometimes s**t happens but I think you are strong footballer, no matter what.”

PS - Perhaps they meant the use of the full colon?

[Tizer]

Perhaps he had a fundamental problem?

[Stanley]

Or was looking for exposure on Instagram. (PS.... What is Instagram?) (PPS.... Who is Mykhailo Mudryk anyway?)

[Tizer]

My post today in the Attention thread about what the policeman attending the M5 lorry crash said will serve as my Quote of the Day! LINK

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

Speaking about the poor economic performance figures:
"Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the "medium-term outlook" for the UK economy was "far more optimistic than these numbers suggest"."
I think he needs a reality check.

[Tripps]

In depth post match interview with World Darts Championship runner up Luke Littler. ( Winner's name - no idea )

"Is darts a sport or a pastime? "

Instant reply - "A sport"

"Why?"

"Just is "


Collapse of Stout Party again. . .

[Stanley]

" All in all, an unsatisfactory state of affairs, etymology-wise"
You can say that again! That was a long-winded version of saying "I don't know".

[Stanley]

His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary Andy Cooke said:
"There are clear and systemic failings throughout the police service in England and Wales and, thanks to a series of dreadful scandals, public trust in the police is hanging by a thread. We have a small window of opportunity to repair it."

[Tripps]

Found somewhere this morning

If Ed Davey wasn't Ed Davey - he'd be calling for the resignation of Ed Davey.

[Stanley]

Unfortunately that would appear to be true to anyone who has been following the Horizon affair.
(Very few people Give credit where it is due. To Richard Brooks and his determined reporting published by Private Eye.)

[Tripps]

Jenni Murray formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

On being admitted to hospital over Christmas:

For goodness sake, I was jabbed beyond reason. I'd had the Covid vaccine, the flu jab and a pneumonia jab that I thought would protect me, too. How could I be lying here, gasping on oxygen, desperately trying to breathe?

[Stanley]

Might be something to do with the fact that as far as I know she is still smoking..... It was fear of that which drove me to stop smoking, I had a dream I was lying in hospital gasping for breath. Stopping smoking has cured that completely, perhaps Jenni should do the same (Or, if she has stopped, stopped smoking earlier!)

[Tripps]

Is he right? I don't know - but I listen to what he has to say, and I have a think about it.


Andrew Bridgen MP, opening the parliamentary debate on Trends in Excess Deaths, Tuesday January 16.

‘I believe that future generations will ridicule us for what we have just done in response to a seasonal airborne virus. We lost our collective minds. We imposed a brand new type of quarantine on a healthy population, in breach of all previous public health advice, in breach of our own carefully drafted, expert pandemic plan, and in flagrant breach of the sensible and experienced advice from many professionals. Those noble dissenters are being vindicated. One by one. Inevitably so, as the suppressed, shaming real world evidence emerges.’

[Stanley]

I've had a think and I still believe that if he's right a lot of others were wrong.... My daughter has long term Covid and that isn't simply the result of a 'seasonal airborne virus. '.
I survived despite being at high risk. I'm willing to believe that the vaccines and boosters had something to do with that and am suitably grateful.

[Tripps]

My daughter has long term Covid and that isn't simply the result of a 'seasonal airborne virus. '.

John Campbell covered Long Covid with Professor Robert Clancy yesterday. Worth a look - and no real need to see the whole thing to get the message. He sums it up in the first few minutes, describing it as the long recognised 'post viral infection fatigue'.
So it probably is due to a 'seasonal airborne virus'.

Long Covid