How bizarrely it is the Channel migrants who will either keep Boris in his job or push him out1/17/2022 The biggest issue facing Boris is not Partygate, not even gas prices (he can hardly be blamed for global demand pushing up the cost) but the continued influx of Channel migrants.
Last Thursday around 160 arrived on our shores. That was more than the whole of January last year. And last year an incredible 28,000 made their way across the 22-mile stretch of water, three times the number of the previous year. This is bloody serious. We need action. Clearly Priti has been putting forward various suggestions in her time as Home Secretary and either they haven’t worked or been blocked by the liberals within No.10. The benefit of Partygate is that Boris is now fighting for his political life and has recognised that he will only survive if he can solve the problem. So he let it be known to the Sunday Times that he is taking ownership of the issue and will bring in the military. Already, less than 24 hours after the briefing, the game is falling apart. Now No.10 are saying that the Royal Navy will not be pushing back the dinghies. That’s a shame. What will they be doing? Very little by the sound of it. Once again the government are hoping to outsource UK asylum claims to either Ghana or Rwanda. I’m very much in favour of these ideas but they have been around for a long time and they have never moved forward. I am also concerned at how we are supposed to put migrants on the planes - and keep them there - when they don’t wish to go. These are in the main powerful young men. We would literally have to chain them to their seats. I would be in favour of that but suspect the bed wetters in Parliament might have another view. I do accept that if Boris does come up with an answer he would be 10% ahead in the polls rather than 10% behind. The converse of that is if he doesn’t have an answer he will definitely be pushed out. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you.
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My partner has an all-electric car while I have a hybrid (basically a petrol motor with decent PR).
So when we have long journeys what do we do? Use the petrol of course as I do not want to be spending my time a) Worrying about running out of power in a country lane just south of Mansfield. b) Worrying about finding a charger that is working. Range anxiety is the biggest mental health issue facing the electric car owner today. Well, according to Mercedes-Benz that moment has gone. They have developed a new battery which has travelled from Southampton to Inverness on one charge. That is 620 miles without a top up. Remarkable and if true a complete game changer. This is three times the average range of electric cars and 200 miles more than the best-selling Tesla Model S. The Vision EQXX prototype will form the basis of a new car to go on sale in 2024. The commercial model, according to The Times, is unlikely to have the full range of the concept car but will use the same technology to enable much longer distances than is available now. The prototype’s interior is also distinctive. It features vegan silk and faux leather made from mushrooms, as well as a giant touchscreen that spans the entire dashboard. The car’s shape has been designed to be more aerodynamic ‘’than a football.’’ The car uses a newly-designed motor and a bespoke lithium ion battery. There are also thin solar panels on the roof. China may be one step ahead of the Germans. They announced in November that the Guangzhou Automobile Group said its new Aion L Plus could do 621 miles on one charge. It goes on sale this month. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. In what must be a deeply unedifying sight for his mother, the Duke of York's lawyers will go before a New York court later today to throw out a claim for damages by Virginia Giuffre.
Andrew’s hopes rest on an agreement between his mate Jeffrey Epstein and Giuffre back in 2009 when she pocketed $500,000 for her sexual exploitation and in return agreed to keep schtum about ‘’adult male peers, including royalty.’’ His lawyers say that gets Andrew off the hook. If it does it is a disgrace but in reality this case spells the end for Andrew whatever the outcome. Why should Epstein want ‘’royalty’’ included in any such settlement except for the fact that he feared Andrew was going to be named at some stage and he was doing his chum a great favour. The idea that Andrew will then be able to say I’m in the clear and can go back to opening schools, hospitals and the like is for the birds. He has a massive shadow hanging over him and would do best to announce his permanent retirement from public life. After all with her conviction it is now clear Andrew was friends with two paedophiles, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. One is unfortunate, two is careless. Hard to know how thick Andrew is. He must have been pretty stupid to do that Newsnight interview but to claim there were two reasons why it couldn’t have been him at Tramp he used two pieces of ‘’evidence’’. The first was that he couldn’t have been there as he was at a birthday party for his daughter at a Pizza Express in Woking, Surrey. The second was that he couldn’t have sweated while dancing at the club with Giuffre (as she alleged) because he had a medical condition which stopped him sweating. Both those alibis have collapsed as he now says he could not name any witnesses to his pizza visit. That is a surprise as you would have thought Andrew having an American Hot in Woking would be something somebody could remember. Secondly he couldn’t find any medical notes backing up his ‘’I can’t sweat defence’’. You would have thought there was a doctor somewhere, a note somewhere, that would have supported an important push back. But no. It feels like he is making it up as goes along. The British public are not stupid. They do not believe him. A period of silence is required from Andrew. And Charles, as our next Monarch, must make it clear for the record, that there is no way back. Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. Bosses of council children services should not be allowed to quit when there is a toddler killing12/15/2021 How is it that the heads of the council children’s services departments were allowed to quietly resign after the murders of Baby Arthur and Baby Star?
You will probably remember in the shocking Arthur case – his father’s partner got 29 years for the little lad’s murder - that Louise Rees put in her resignation at Solihull council weeks shortly after the six-year-old was killed. Now exactly the same thing has happened in the equally shocking baby Star case. Just five days before the trial was to start of the appalling woman who killed the 16-month-old (she was a gay pub bouncer from a gypsy family), Mark Douglas, Bradford’s head of Children’s Services, was allowed to quit his £121,000-a-year job. I didn’t care for Boris Johnson’s response to the Star murder. This is what he said; ‘’We must protect children from these barbaric crimes and ensure lessons are learnt.’’ What a load of bollocks. Lessons are never learned. He should have said that no Children’s Services boss will be allowed to step down when there is a big case on. The reason, by and large, that they head for the door is that an inquiry may find them culpable in some way and on that basis they could face some kind of financial sanction. I want these people, on their decent salaries to face the music, when something has gone seriously wrong in their departments. It should be included in their contracts. Click Here: Save £££ on your broadband | Compare the best priced broadband deals now If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. Congratulations are in order for law student Jack Simm who at 19-years-old has just successfully sued his landlord over the state of his student accommodation.
The story began when Jack, who is studying at the University of East Anglia, found a flat to rent at Velocity Student, a building in Norwich. His problem was that he had been unable to visit the flat before moving in as he only secured his place through the clearing system days before the term had started. When he arrived at the flat in September last year he was in a state of shock. ‘’It looked more like a construction site than a place to live’’, he told The Times. ‘’In my room the floor was covered in dust and there were loud noises from people hammering away. It was freezing at night with no heating. A smell was coming out of nowhere. ‘’We gave the landlord a week to sort everything out. At the end nothing had been resolved so I moved out and handed the keys in. Simms decided to take the landlords to Newcastle County Court accusing them of fraudulent misrepresentation under the Misrepresentation Act 1967. Jack built a ten page legal claim for a refund of his deposit and first month’s rent. The landlords claimed they had 14 days to sort out any legal problem. But in what Jack described as the ‘’ best bit of revision I’ve ever done’’ the court backed him and ordered the landlord to pay £999 covering his rental deposit, his first month’s rent and his legal fees. Jack, who is now in the second year of his law studies, said;’’ Funnily enough while the case was going on I was studying contract law so I flipped open the textbook and went over the notes. I was in a real situation with real consequences. ‘’I was thrown into the deep end. Winning shows that I can do it. It’s given me a massive confidence boost.’’ The landlords are keeping quiet and refusing to comment. Be interested to know what their argument is. Click Here: Save ££££ on your pet insurance | Get a quote now If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. You won’t have heard of Rebecca Miskin. She has just taken over as CEO at D C Thompson, a company which owns, among other things, The Beano comic
Despite being around since 1938 if I were Rodger the Dodger or Minnie the Minx I would fear for my future. Miskin’s previous role was CEO at an Aim-listed outfit called Gloo which in three years burned though most of the £30million it had raised to buy media companies. In that time they didn’t buy one single company. They have now gone into voluntary liquidation but not before they handed themselves £750,000 in bonuses. Click Here: 51% of customers paid £142 or less from their home insurance | Get your home insurance quote now If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. Cummings says ‘’regime change is coming’’ but is it really possible that Boris is to get the boot?12/8/2021 With that ITV video (the only decent thing on ITV since Piers Morgan quit) showing it was party time at No.10 while the rest of us followed the rules Dominic Cummings tweeted triumphantly; Regime change is coming.
Is he right? Could it possibly be the case that two years after winning a landslide for the Tories Boris could be thrown out. Right now I don’t think so. There’s too much covid around for a change of PM to be likely. But what is clear that this is yet another clanger emanating from No.10. I have said before, and I say again, Boris and his team are making too many mistakes. What is clear is that nobody in Downing Street is taking Boris seriously. They are not frightened of his temper or of his political intellect. That cannot, and must not, continue. Were he to make one more serious clanger, of a Paterson kind, I suspect there would be a serious move against him. With both Truss and Sunak gently polishing the stairs there would be no shortage of candidates. Personally I prefer Truss because she has a vision of our nation while Sunak blotted his copybook for me by taking our taxes back to the 1950s and our old Socialist chum Clement Atlee. With VAT at an eye-watering 20%, with NI going through the roof and corporation tax at 25% what on earth is the point of risking everything so that civil servants and local governments can have gold-plated pensions, huge salaries and an 8-hour working day. What I found quite shocking in the 39-page dossier by Raphael Marshall on the time-serving idiots at the Foreign Office was the fact that when anybody wanted to do more than 8 hours they were told that either they were ‘’inefficient’’ or ‘’selfish’’ as it put pressure on other employees to do the same. That’s what you get with the civil service mentality. If you work hard and show ambition today you are considered a brown-noser. How shocking. I want to see the PM come out for the bold risk takers. Sack the Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office right now. He will not be missed. Either get tough Boris or start polishing up your CV. CLICK HERE: You could save up to £283 on your car insurance | SAVE NOW If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. I was quite shocked by the amount of cocaine being consumed at Sandown races on Saturday. The track were using sniffer dogs and even on the way in had sniffed out quite a lot of the stuff.
I suspect those spaniels would have to go into rehab. Even in the snooty Gold Cup suite there were tables where the marching powder had clearly been snorted in some quantity. When I tweeted about this many responded that the Sandown issue was nothing compared to what is happening at football grounds where one West Ham fan said the beer queues had shortened dramatically over the years as young men had turned to drugs at half time. Another suggested that for the young cocaine had taken over from smoking. So I like the new initiative by Boris to take on the consumers rather than the dealers. Love the idea that when police find their numbers in the dealer phones they will send them texts saying they are on their case. I can think of one well known London PR (well connected in society circles) who will be especially alarmed at the idea. Further the government are thinking of confiscating passports and driving licences for those caught with Class A drugs. I have been reading about these kind of ideas for decades and yet cocaine use has hit new highs every year. Let’s hope this one works. I won’t hold my breath. Or my nose!!! Click Here: Kurt, a salesman from Surrey, saved £300 on his home insurance | Get cheap quotes now If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. One of the few reasons to buy the quite dreadful Sun these days is to read the views of columnist Rod Liddle.
The great strength of Liddle is that he is not soaking up the Lefty views which pervade the rest of the paper and has led to the collapse of its sales, revenue and jobs. When you ask Liddle to speak don’t expect wokery. And, I am pleased to report that the anti-free speech idiots at Durham University didn’t like it when he actually said what he was thinking at a formal dinner held by South College. Liddle, who also writes a column for the Spectator, started by joking that he was disappointed not to see any sex workers in the audience, a reference to the controversary over safety training supplied by the university to their students working in the sex industry. He said colonialism was not the main cause of Africa’s problems and that the underachievement of black pupils had nothing to do with institutional or structural racism. All good free speech stuff. Rent-an-Idiot swung into action with the Durham’s Working Class Students’ Association (I kid you not. So Seventies) swinging into action demanding an investigation into transphobia and racism. A dozen students walked out before his after-dinner speech and few left during it. While protocol is to rise as the High Table gets up to leave, all students in the hall remained seated. I do feel congratulations are in order for Professor Tim Luckhurst who had invited Liddle as he knew him from their BBC days. He shouted ‘’pathetic’’ as the students walked out. In an email to a student who complained he said; ‘’ My guest’s topic was tolerance. ‘’He spoke about the importance of listening to alternative perspectives, He attacked nobody. ‘’We have no right not to be offended but offence doesn’t harm us and freedom of speech means nothing unless it encompasses the right to say things with which others disagree profoundly.’’ We need more Rods and less 1970 throw backs like the Durham Working Class Students’ Association. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW Incredible as it may seem and although up to his neck in tax issues, Senate investigations and God knows what else Donald Trump is back as the favourite to be the next President of the United States. In the first polls that matter since Joe Biden beat Trump, the Republicans have won the Governorship of Virginia and at the time of writing are narrowly ahead in the race for the Governorship of New Jersey. This is a disaster for Biden. Only 12 months ago he won Virginia by 10% and New Jersey 16%. It means almost certainly Biden is going to take a tremendous beating in the next year’s mid-term elections for both the Senate and the House of Representatives. That is the end of him as he will no longer be able to get his laws though. He might as well go on holiday for the rest of his presidency. It will make him a lame duck less than a year into his four-year term of office. How did this happen? Anybody who saw him nodding off while listening to delegates at Cop26 in Glasgow-and who can blame with all that hot air around - knows the reason why. At 78 he lacks the energy for the job. He looks tired, walks slowly and thinks even more slowly. Click Here: Save £££ on mobile phone deals | Compare great value mobile tariffs now Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now
But there is also his competence. Getting out of Afghanistan was not the issue. The Afghans had spent two decades learning how to fight but in the end couldn’t be bothered. If they weren’t prepared to battle for their future why should we? But the reason the Republicans triumphed - and I forecast it will come here - is the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in schools. It deals with alleged white racism as not just hostility towards other racial groups-especially African-Americans - but also the passing of laws which had led to alleged oppression of people of colour. White parents got hot under the collar about such teaching and wanted more control of ability of staff to set such lessons. Anyway it was hot button in Virginia. For Trump, watching the Democrats implode must have been a big moment. He has literally been accumulating millions of dollars from his backers for the 2024 White House race. Is there anybody who doesn’t believe he will win comfortably? Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. These are shocking stats and if you are of a nervous disposition please look away now; 2,669 illegal migrants crossed the Channel last month. That was a six fold increase on the same month last year. The October surge has brought the total migrant number who have crossed the Channel so far this year to 19,741, more than double the 8,420 who arrived in the whole of last year. We are currently housing these people at enormous cost in either old barracks or old hotels. My question is this; When are they going to be returned to their countries of origin? Click Here: Pete Stevenson, a distribution manager from Luton, saved nearly £300 on his energy bills | Search cheap energy deals now Click Here: Save ££££ on your pet insurance | Get a quote now
Cleverly these mainly economic migrants throwaway any form of identification, particularly passports. That way we don’t know where to fly them back too. My suggestion is that we effectively bribe a nation - probably in Africa where ten of the poorest nations on earth reside - to house these migrants until we are clear they are refugees and not just coming here for the money. We should overpay such nations who would take them. They would be doing us the most tremendous favour as the flood of Channel migrants would dry up almost immediately. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. You have to wonder if headteacher Alicia Reid has any brains at all and certainly not enough common sense to run a school. Ms Reid, 52, had been due to work at Stranraer Academy in Wigtownshire (its’s two hours south of Glasgow) on the last two days of term before the two-week break. But, it is claimed, she called colleagues to say she would not be at school because she had come into close contact with someone who had tested positive for Covid and would have to isolate at home. However, she was filmed at Glasgow Airport later that day, masked and queuing at a check-in desk for a holiday flight to Turkey. And that is when her luck ran out. A pupil at the school was also heading for Turkey, but on another flight. Her father said; ‘’ My daughter was really shocked to see her headteacher there. She said; ’It’s Miss Reid. What is she doing here?’ ‘’She started filming and posted the images to let her friends see. We had no idea of the effect it would have as we didn’t know the teacher was supposed to be off self-isolating.’’ Under rules in Scotland there are no automatic fines for parents who take their children out of school for holidays during term time. CLICK HERE: You could save up to £283 on your car insurance | SAVE NOW Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now
But the consequences for Ms Reid are much more serious. She now faces losing her job with education chiefs in the area saying she will be away for a ‘’period of time’’ and that an acting headteacher will be appointed as soon as possible. I cannot understand why if Ms Reid wanted to pull a fast one like this and why would you fly from Glasgow airport where there is a sporting chance you might be recognised by a parent, pupil or both. Why not go from Manchester airport. Yes it’s nearly four hours away but with a bit of luck she would have got away with her deceit. Be fascinated to know the story behind the holiday. It can’t be that she simply needed the break. If she had waited another 48 hours there would not have been a problem. It can’t have been that it was so much cheaper to go before the half-term, started. Stranraer has over 1,000 pupils therefore she will be earning around £80,000-a-year. There will be another explanation. Would love to hear it. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. In a saga that has lasted longer than finding a decent manager for Spurs I am pleased to report that Boris is still determined to make Paul Dacre, the talented ex-Editor of the Daily Mail, chairman of the media regulator Ofcom. Dacre is a critic of the BBC (hooray) and the manner in which Big Tech is regulated. Both would fall under his oversight. The reality is that Facebook, Google and co aren’t regulated and anytime a government tries to curb their power or excesses a US President threatens retribution leading to everybody backing off. Like a script out of Yes Minster the government has now restarted the recruitment process for the job after Dacre, 72, was rejected first time round by an independent assessment panel. Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now Click Here: Save £££ on your broadband | Compare the best priced broadband deals now
A source close to Johnson told The Times; ‘’He is more determined than ever to get his man.’’ It’s one of the reasons he put Nadine Dorries into the post as Culture Secretary and sacked the nice but dim Oliver Dowden. The last panel to reject Dacre was made up of former BT CEO Lord Livingstone, Melanie Richards from KPMG, Paul Potts, a director of Times Newspaper and the real fly in the ointment Susannah Storey, Director General of DCMS. A new panel that will give Dacre the nod is currently being put together. Each will be asked before they join if they have a problem with Dacre. If any answer yes they won’t be on the panel. That’s how it works. The establishment hate journalists. They simply aren’t clubbable. That’s why I like them and why I am one of them. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. If climate change is so bad why has our temperature only gone up 1degree in 170 years? Just asking.11/1/2021 I am not a climate change denier. I am absolutely in favour of electricity delivered free from the wind and the sun. For me there are two real pluses. 1) We don’t have to bow at the knee to Putin or the Middle East sheiks and B) they don’t give you pneumoconiosis, the lung disease which destroyed the lives of our coal miners. That having been said I am puzzled by one stat from the annual report of the World Meteorological Organisation. And this is it; The average global temperature from January to September this year was just 1.09C above the average between 1850 and 1900. So in over a century our temperature has only moved up one degree. I do accept that there have been strange movements in our weather like the summer heatwave in British Columbia and the rise in global sea levels. But might they just be freaks of nature. Back in 1963 the Thames froze over in the coldest winter for 200 years. It previously hadn’t done that since 1814. CLICK HERE: Aaron from Windsor saved £200 on his car insurance | GET YOUR CHEAPEST CAR INSURANCE QUOTE NOW Click Here: Can you save on your home insurance? | 51% of customers paid £142 or less | Get a cheap home insurance now
I am not so keen on Boris constantly ratting the can for the developing world, claiming that unless they take action we can’t move forward. That is tosh. China, Russia, India are important. Nobody else matters. Without asking the voters he announces in Glasgow that he will chip another £1billion of our money to help places like Pakistan. Pakistan has been home to the Taliban for the last 20 years. Do we really want to come to the aid of a terrorist country? What will become of our money? Siphoned by some African dictator no doubt. Increasingly Boris does not sound like a Conservative. Loves spending it and loves us paying for it. He should be careful. There will be more Amershams. The voters will only take so much. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. I note that Boris’s secret weapon Angela Rayner has apologised at last for calling Conservatives ‘’scum.’’ I am puzzled by her conversion to decency after so many weeks. What made her do it? Was she ordered to say it by Starmer who thought she was damaging the party? Was it that the police told her that threats against her on social media would continue to be made until she withdrew the slur? I cannot believe for a moment that decided off her own bat that she would do the decent thing. She hasn’t got the brains to work out self-interest. After all initially she defended her use of the word as ‘’being the street language of her northern working class roots.’’ CLICK HERE: John Clarke, a pensioner from Oxford, saved £150 on his car insurance | GET YOUR CHEAPEST CAR INSURANCE QUOTE NOW Click Here: Save ££££ on your pet insurance | Get a quote now
Let’s go back to what she actually said; ‘’We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, misogynistic, absolutely vile, nasty, vile Etonian, piece of scum.’’ No apology for racist. Nor homophobic. Nor misogyny. When the Tory Sir David Amess was murdered some commentators worried that the killer may have been encouraged to kill the MP by the use of the S word. As time goes on that seems unlikely but words have consequences. Especially if they come from the deputy leader of a political party. One threat, which led to a 15-week jail sentenced suspended for 18 months, said; ‘’Watch your back, and your kids.’’ The man who sent it said he was angry about Ms Rayner’s use of the word scum. I definitely do not approve of threats to our political leaders - or those that are made to me - but could she have brought it on herself? I will leave you to decide. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. I am pleased to report that the Parole Board is at last getting really tough on freedom bids from murderers. In the last week three killers have had their parole attempts rejected. Great news. Killer No. 1 is the disgusting Sidney Cooke. He is 92 and has been eligible for release since 2004. He was jailed for a minimum of five years for abusing two brothers which he started when they were just 13 and continued for five years. Prior to that he had served nine years for killing 14-year-old Jason Swift. He was also thought to be linked with the unsolved murder of Mark Tildesley who disappeared from a funfair in Wokingham, Berks, and also being involved in the kidnap and murder of six-year-old Barry Lewis. Cooke has applied for parole 10 times but once again it has been decided that he remains a risk to society plus he has refused to identify all the youngsters he had abused. Further, they said he should not be transferred to an open prison. Exellent. He can reapply in two years but with a bit of luck he will be dead by then. Cooke’s story is a shocker. He would travel the country preying on vulnerable youngsters setting up Test Your Strength machines in funfairs and using them as an opportunity to lure boys before drugging them and then subjecting them to brutal sexual assaults. Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now CLICK HERE: Alwyn Williams saved £342 on his car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW
Two other killers have also had their parole applications rejected this week. Glynn Razzell is serving life for the murder of his estranged wife, mother-of-four Linda Razzell who disappeared on her way to Swindon College, Wilts, in March 2002. Razzell, 61, denied her killing but was found guilty by a jury. No trace of her body was ever found. And that is what kept him in prison. Under the new Helen’s Law the refusal to say where the body is means the killer can be refused their freedom. An excellent addition to the Parole Board armoury. Another killer, David Harker, faced the same issue when he applied for parole. He received a life sentence on the grounds of diminished responsibility after admitting the manslaughter of Julie Paterson who vanished from her home in Darlington in 1998. Parts of her dismembered body were found in a bin liner hidden in a garden hedge but the rest of her remains have never been recovered. As with Cooke they can both reapply for parole in a couple of years. I much prefer how tough the parole people are getting. Frankly I would do away with parole in its entirety for the most serious offences like murder and terrorism. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. In the old days you were either a Beatles fan or a Rolling Stones fan. You couldn’t be both. It’s quite clear where the musical tastes of Nadine Dorries, a Scouser and the Culture Secretary, lie. Unbelievably she has persuaded No.10 to invest £2million of our money into a major new Beatles attraction on the Liverpool waterfront. Sounds like a good idea. I’m sure it will attract more tourists to the city. But why is taxpayers’ money being put into this venture? This kind of punt is made for the commercial world. Apparently the project could see hologram technology create an ‘’immersive experience’’ of the Fab Four - similar to an upcoming hologram tour by Abba. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now
All well and good but I don’t want to pay for it out of my money. It might work. It may not. That kind of bet is for private investors. The government has no mandate to start using our cash in this way. This budget is chucking around our money like a drunken sailor. Taxes the highest for 70 years and the biggest public spending for 40 years. Watching Boris with his arms firmly crossed during the Budget it was clear he either didn’t approve of what Sunak was doing or didn’t understand the numbers. I am fearful that middle income England will turn against the Tories. They have nowhere to go right now but a vacuum always gets filled. The Southern Party is on its way. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. Two thirds of French fear Muslims taking over country from Christians. Is it the same here?10/27/2021 It’s no wonder Macron spends his time creating the image of the UK as his nation’s great enemy when you see what is really troubling the majority of voters; that the existence of Christians is under threat from Muslims. In a new poll respondents were asked whether ‘’white, European, Christian populations are threatened with extinction following Muslim populations from north and black Africa.’’ A total of 27% judged the scenario ‘’certain’’ and a further 34% ‘’probable’’. The survey conducted by the Harris Institute found about 67% were worried by the idea. The polling comes at a difficult time for France. They have a presidential election next year with Macron being unpopular and a far Right philosopher Eric Zemmour making the running. He subscribes to the ideology ‘’le grand remplacement’’ in which immigrants with large families will take over the country unless something is done. CLICK HERE: Andy Burgess, from Norwich, saved £100 on his car insurance | SAVE ON YOUR CAR INSURANCE NO Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now
He is more publicly strident about minorities than Marine Le Pen, leader of the far Right National Rally. Her deputy, Jordan Bardella, 26, has no such qualms saying the Muslims are a ‘’an implant on our soil with which we share nothing.’’ I am sure our country shares some of their concerns. The murder of Tory MP Sir David Amess by a young Muslim of Somali background will not have helped cohesion between Christians and Muslims. Sir David was an ardent Catholic. Even the centre Right Gaullist of France, who have previously kept schtum on the issue, are voicing their concerns. Gilles Platt, deputy chairman of the centre Right Republicans, says; ’’You have people of foreign origin who are driving out, little by little, what in demography we call the natives.’’ There will be parts of the UK where that will be just as true. Would be interesting to see such a poll carried out over here. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. At last. Foreign gangs face block for pretending their scam calls and texts come from the UK10/27/2021 Pleased to see that phone providers are to automatically block online calls from abroad that are made to look as if they come from UK numbers. The only time my landline ever rings is when there is a scam call. I have noted of late that none are international they all appear to come from within the UK. They aren’t of course but if you're vulnerable you will be tricked. Foreign criminals are behind the scams and while it is the elderly who are plagued (60% have reported suspicious calls to their landline) it is younger people who are more vulnerable to text swindles with 75% of 16-34-year-olds having been targeted. The regulator Ofcom revealed last week that scam calls and texts had targeted 45million people in the UK during the summer and said there had been a significant rise in fraudulent communication over the past 18 months. Click Here: Michael Woodward, from Durham, saved nearly £1000 in 2 years on his previous energy bills | Get cheap energy quotes now Click Here: Save ££££ on your motorbike insurance | Get a quote now
These fraudsters, according to Ofcom, had become increasingly sophisticated such as spoofing the numbers of well-known UK companies and organisations. The Telegraph, which first reported the news, said Ofcom was considering whether customers should be forced to show ID cards when buying multiple sim cards. The fraudsters then send millions of text messages to their victims. Why should legitimate people want multiple cards? Look forward to Ofcom cracking down on them. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. What I am most looking forward to at the climate change jamboree in Glasgow is the global humiliation of Nicola Sturgeon. The leaders of 120 nations arrive in the Scotland’s second city on Sunday. Already union lefties have seen a chance of making a few bob by announcing Scotrail staff and the city dustbin workers plan to go on strike. The city is blighted by rubbish and fly-tipping as well as some of the highest poverty, drug death and crime rates. But if I were a politician walking the streets of Glasgow I would be more worried about the rats. Susan Aitken, the SNP leader in Glasgow, told the Scottish Affairs Committee that all cities had rats but admitted to ‘’possibly two’’ occasions in which council workers had been hospitalised after’’ small incidents’’ with rats. CLICK HERE: Jim, a radio presenter from Glasgow saved a whopping £600 on his car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW Click Here: Save ££££ on your home insurance | Get a quote now
I am pretty sure the council workers did not describe being attacked by rats as a ‘’small incident.’’ That woman is an idiot. She then exposed to the world her small amount of grey matter by saying the problems of Glasgow were due to ‘’historic challenges’’ and said they were the legacy of the Thatcher government which had abandoned Glasgow. Could I point out she stood down 30 years ago and died eight years ago. Ms Aitken’s boss is Nicola Sturgeon. She has known for five years that Glasgow was to come under global spotlight. You would have thought she would get the city pristine. SNP leaders should be ashamed of themselves. And the people of Scotland should be ashamed they have kept this woman in power for seven years. Look where it has got them. A global laughing stock. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. With my own patchy record in the marriage stakes my eye was drawn to a remarkable achievement; the first couple to meet on TV’s Blind Date and then marry have celebrated their 30th anniversary. Back in 1988 nobody could have forecast that Alex Tatham, then a 23-year-old accountant, and Sue, at 22, would still be together three decades later. Blind Date was big news back in the Eighties. It was hosted by Cilla Black and drew an audience of 18million. So how have they built such a successful marriage when so many others have failed, there have only been two other weddings in the 18 series? Sue, now mother to Emily, 27, and Charlie, 25, says: ‘’I definitely wasn’t looking for a husband. I just went on the show for a bit of fun. ‘’ Alex agrees; ‘’I was looking for a laugh - not a wife.’’ They moved in different social circles. Alex had been educated at Eton and Durham University. His family often featured in Tatler, even reporting on his birthday party in Fulham. Click Here: Save ££££ on your motorbike insurance | Get a quote now Click Here: Save £££ on mobile phone deals | Compare great value mobile tariffs now
Sue, the daughter of a head teacher, is the product of a comprehensive in the West Midlands and left school at 18 to at first work in the DHSS and later to become a teacher. ‘’ We may come from different backgrounds but we have similar values,’’ says Sue. ‘’We both hate arguments and make it a priority to have a friendly atmosphere. Family comes first always. ‘’Believe it or not still get goosebumps when Alex walks into a room.’’ That is certainly different from me. People are pleased when I walk out of a room! With the proliferation of dating shows like Love Island and Married at First Sight where the whole point is an almighty explosion it’s good to see that love can last longer than the show’s credits. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. Secretly I threw my brother’s old shoes out while Michael Jordan’s old shoes went for $1.5million.10/25/2021 This is a tale of two pairs of shoes. One pair belong to my brother Drew. He lives some 25 miles outside New York City and when he last stayed with me (pre-Covid) he decided to leave the rather dodgy brown beasts behind as it would stop him having to fly them 3,000 miles back and forth. A couple of years passed and with there being no sign of travel being allowed and with me making dramatic changes to the house I threw the shoes out. It wasn’t an accident. I didn’t like the shoes and in any event he would never know. The other pair of shoes in this story was worn by the NBA superstar Michael Jordan. They were size 13s and Jordan had autographed them and given them to a ballboy after a Denver Nuggets game in 1984. Click Here: Can you save on your home insurance? | 51% of customers paid £142 or less | Get a cheap home insurance now Click Here: Michael Hallworth, an electrician from London, saved £70 on his van insurance | Compare cheap van insurance quotes now
The ballboy didn’t throw them out and they have just been sold at Sotheby’s for, wait for it, $1.5million. Yes I did say $1.5million for a pair of shoes 37 years old. My personal shoe saga did not end well. My brother came over a couple of weeks back. All was going well until he asked where his old shoes were. I had a choice. Start looking and then say somebody must have moved them. Or tell the truth. Unusually I took the last option. He got quite irritable which was surprising since those shoes wouldn’t have raised 20p at action. I was reflecting on how much more sense the ballboy at the Denver Nuggets game had. Supposing he had decided to clear the house and throw out the shoes. Today he would be $1.5million worse off. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. It was a simple enough question in an A-level textbook; ‘’To what extent do you believe the treatment of Native Americans has been exaggerated?’’ Any knowledge of US history would tell you the tribesmen of the Comanches, the Sioux and the Apaches were more than capable of holding their own against either settlers who were trying to drive them from their land or the US Army who wanted to contain or destroy them. Native Americans massacred colonists and were massacred themselves. It was a bloody period. Most died not because of the white man’s bullets but because what they brought bought with them; smallpox, flu etc. That killed 90% of them. So that’s the background. Anyway a lady called Hannah Wilkinson, who teaches history to students who require extra support at Durham Sixth Form Centre, happened across the A-level textbook containing the question and fired off a tweet to the exams body AQA and the publishers Hodder Education. In her tweet she said; ‘’In what world is this an acceptable question/exercise to ask students to complete on the history of Native Americans in late 1800s US? Horrified.’’ Unbelievably Hodder immediately removed the book from sale. Why? It’s a good question. If you don’t believe the treatment has been exaggerated why not say No and then explain why. If the answer is yes ditto. That is surely the point of questions. CLICK HERE: Richard Ford, a retired accountant from Exeter, saved £150 on car insurance | SAVE NOW Click Here: Save ££££ on your pet insurance | Get a quote now
But the idea that that the wokes of Hodder immediately fold their tent in the face of a teacher from Durham shows what is wrong with the book publishing business and teaching. They might be well advised to read new guidelines written by the broadcaster Trevor Phillips - backed by the V&A, the Science Museum and the Museum of Home - saying public institutions should resist ‘’anxious and panicked’’ decisions to remove statues and erase their history. The paper from the Policy Exchange is to help schools, universities and other public bodies find their way in the age of movements like Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall. In the case of calls to rename a street the paper recommends that all ‘’ratepaying residents and businesses, and all those who own properties on the street should be given a role.’’ I agree with that. On that basis other teachers with different views of US history to Ms Wilkinson should be allowed to chip in their views before Hodder throw in the towel. The idea that one teacher, with one narrow view, can change an important question with one tweet is ridiculous. That question should stand. It’s a very good debating point. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: So just to mention again but if you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. What on earth has happened to our GPs? I see that the BMA is to hold a ballot seeking industrial action by your local doctors who are angry at the idea that they will be forced to see face to face any patients who demands it. Further they hate the idea of a name and shame list of surgeries that are not seeing enough patients in person. In one shocking area - Bury in Lancashire - only 36% of patients saw their GP in July. That is not acceptable. I think the doctors are getting above themselves. The old days of them having a God like quality have gone forever. Politicians, police officers, judges and dare I say it journalists have all been through this painful change in the public’s view of them. Doctors clearly didn’t get the email. The reality is that through taxation patients pay the doctors’ wages. They may not like this fact but it is inescapable. The further reality is that the patients paid for them to be trained. If they don’t like this situation I suggest they should not be GPs and go into some other branch of medicine. CLICK HERE: Paula Keeting, a retired nurse from Bournemouth, saved over £500 on her family’s car insurance | GET YOUR CHEAPEST CAR INSURANCE QUOTE NOW Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now
Instead they are to hold this ballot and say that if, as expected, industrial action gets the nod they will start to go slow. How could we tell? One of the problems facing surgeries is that so many GPs are working part-time. If they do a five-day week they £100,000-a-year and they pro rata downwards. The clever ones - mainly women - are doing two 12-hour days in the week and making £50,000. Nice work if you can get it. My advice to the doctors is to stop acting like Seventies dockers or end up being treated and paid like them. Listen to the customer. If they want a face to face (and most don’t) give them it. You have turned into a very odd profession. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: So just to mention again but if you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. I am a big fan of Katharine Birbalsingh. She lost her job at an academy in South London for pointing out that many schools were failing the most vulnerable due to a lack of discipline and standards. You would have thought she would be promoted not fired for that analysis but schools are mainly run by Lefties so she had to go. However she did not hang around feeling sorry for herself and opened up another Academy which has been a huge success as she has very tough discipline giving pupils the chance to achieve rather than being derailed by the trouble-makers. Ms Birbalsingh has just been made the new chair of the Social Mobility Commission and immediately made two good points. The first is that the government should start a campaign telling parents not to give smartphones to toddlers. She said it should be part of the national consciousness that eating five pieces of fruit or drinking eight glasses of water is. CLICK HERE: Marilyn Hill, from Kent, saved £70 on her car insurance | SEARCH FOR YOUR BEST CAR INSURANCE QUOTE NOW Click Here: Save ££££ on your pet insurance | Get a quote now
Her second point was about racism. She said public discussion about white privilege was unhelpful to ethnic minority children. She told MPs at her pre-appointment hearing; ‘’If you go on and on about the fact the establishment is against them a child is likely to give up. ‘’If it is the case that you are telling them all the time you can’t get these jobs because you are black, you can’t do this because you are brown, it’s very hard for a child to see above that. ‘’We are immersed in a culture which has hanged quite radically in the last few years in a way that is not necessarily helpful to ethnic minority children although we think it is’’ Thank God Ms Birbalsingh – who got the job thanks to patronage of Liz Truss - has got the government’s ear. Uniquely she talks sense. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: So just to mention again but if you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. |
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