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CLACTON

2 statistics to bear in mind. In the last election the turnout was 58.7% and Farage got 21255 votes If these statistics are down he will be a loser – it also worth noting that the tories got 12820 votes, so basically right wingers got 75% of the vote. Also of interest is how Count Binface gets on – this is a very British election! If he does not lose his deposit (by getting 5% of votes cast) it will be seen as a victory by those of us who hate Reform – with a passion. Therefore anything less than 20000 votes for the lunatic, a turnout of less than 50% and less than 75% of the votes will lead to an embarassed evil muppet. And then we will probably have to do it all again in a couple of months.

More shite from the right wing climate deniers, thhey are blaming nature reserves and conservation measures for the spate of wild fires across Britain. Whilst just about every species of wildlife in the UK is in decline they balme the victims rather than the perpertrators of the fires – 98% human induced. Perhaps they should be encouraging volunteering and school participation in wildlife rather than the wildlife protectors. And not a mention of climate change – evil bastards! In Scotland there have been calls for the Glorious Twelfth to be abandoned (The start of the grouse shooting season when rich people pay a fortune (for me) to shoot little birds for fun – is this a medieval tradition?). Is it better when the hunting is genuine and the birds shot eaten, rather than reared in sheds causing pollution? I am not vegetarian so my mind remains open on the issue (although we should all cut down on meat consumption for climate change. Maybe we should see more venison in the supermarket – or maybe the Bambi effect is too strong, but there are more deer in the UK than probably at anytime in history. Just thinking out loud1!

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MUCH A DO ABOUT NOTHING!

I ws disappointed with the eclipse, I sat outside with a glass of wine and waited for it to get darker, for the world to go quiet. By half past seven I went inside to check the time, had I got it wrong, or missed it somehow? The papers were full of it, fantastic photos, sports events that were disrupted. So i was nervous about mentioning my dispiriting experience with others. They felt the same as I did. We were not going to get a total eclipse, but 7% of bright sunshine was enough to counter the main expected impact.

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SPORTS ADMINISTRATORS

Just have not got a clue. The European Athletic Championships is a perfect example – over priced tickets and food at extortionate prices. junior members of athletic clubs should have been admitted free, senior members at half price, food trucks should have prices capped. A half empty stadium for the womens 100m was a disgrace. We surely want to encourage children to take up and enjoy sports, swimming pools are closing,nmunicipal tennis courts have disappeared completely. Other sports are also guilty of moneytising youth before encouraging participation. A season ticket for a premier football club is very pricey and the average age of seson ticket holders is around about the £550+ mark. The Infantino affair reflects the distance between participants and administrators. Bezos investing £1.35billion in Liverpool FC has nothing to do with a love of the game. Cricket is a long game but no county games over a bank holiday weekend is madness. I am sure there are other examples (such as basketball getting no funding).

Planning ahead – I wonder how many councils have looked at the weather and decided to plan for potential floods later this year – they will happen. Planning applications for new housing should be adapted to allow infiltration and reducing runoff. So yes we need to instal aircon in schools, hospitals and care homes, but also in new new housing, planners should take geography lessons and environmental sustainability lessons. Farmers should be offered tax breaks to adapt to climate change by building storage pools, but also reducing livestock density (which reduces infiltration and increases runoff – even on hill sheep farms). It is time to stop moaning and get wise, ‘a stitch in time saves nine’!

Meanwhile at home, greenhouse and bedroom plants watered, tomatoes marinating, washing out, Maz asked for some thyme so I have sent her 7 different varieties. And I have more arriving! I think I will bring most plants into the house this winter or/and the greenhouse. Enjoy the eclipse, and be safe.

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THE OBSCENELY RICH

So Bezos decided to use some of his £197bn , not for a legacy project to help the less fortunate, not to contribute to research for a cure for illness, but to buy a 30% share in Liverpool FC for £1.35billion. Fucking appalling. maybe he could have contributed to funds for repair in Venezuela and Colombia to help them recover from horrendous earthquakes.

Another rich twat – Trump has waded into the Infantino affair stating that it would be a big mistake to get rid of the guy? When he gets upset Trump normally find a war to start, football maybe a more elusive target?

How to make a quarter of a £million? Get a large inflatable and load it to capacity with ‘refugees’ at £1000 a go and transport across the English Channel, and then presumably follow up with demands for more money from their families or by some other extortion? I have every sympathy for the genuine refugees, even the economic ones, but surely a scheduled flight for £100 would enable them to be processed properly (preferably before departure), and then provided with barrack accomodation whilst they look for jobs and their own accommodation. Those who get in illegally can be returned to their country of origin. I am sure there are many problems with this, but the government must be seen to be doing something, rather than let the right wing wank all over the front pages of the press!

Solar eclipse – it could be about 90+% here between 19.00 and 19.30 tomorrow. But note that normal sunglasses are NOT ok, But why look at the sun anyway, just enjoy the dusk and quiet , wildlife seems to recognise the danger of a different situation and shut up!

Meanwhile Thames Water have paid executives £4.5 million in bonus’s – are they thick, nasty or just very stupid? Time to nationalise – without compensation, and with punitive measures to reclaim bonus payments where basic levels of pollution have been exceeded.

Then darling Kemi as she is referred to in the gutter press, has appointed a convicted racist neo-nazi to a senior advisory role in the greedy party, I am all for rehabilitation, but not for dressing wolves in sheeps clothing!

Police tow away, and confinscate £8million worth of cars in Mayfair for having no insurance, tax or the drivers lack of a valid driving licence! One Walworth £3.5 million (a limited edition Ferrari Monza SP2 – for the geeks amongst you!).

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TYPHOON DOLPHIN

Over one million people were evacuated in China yesterday due to Typhoon Dolphin. It packed maximum wind speeds of 150km/h (94mph) when it first slammed into Yuhuan in the Zhejiang province at 17:30 (09:30 GMT) on Sunday before making a second landfall in the city of Wenzhou about an hour later, meteorological authorities said. Parts of China could experience upto 500mm rain causing flooding and landslides. This storm is thought to be more severe due to El Niño, Rather than watering down Net Zero, we should be ramping it up, yes car manufactures will squeal but in the end will compete to be more efficient and thus successful! I have considered a heat pump, but think that batteries are not quite at their peak yet (and I love my high powered shower which runs off a combo boiler!). I am pleased to say that my solar panels are contributing to the nearly 50% from renewables at this moment. World sea temperatures are at a record high – be afraid, very afraid!

A study by the Guardian showed that nearly half the tweets , about the June riots in Belfast and Southampton in June, on X were from abroad. I am all for free speech, but if the posters, and the media are not liable for slanderous or subversive comments they should be shut down. Foreign states have a vested interest in undermining our country, and there may be an element of financial gain involved? The thugs attacking our police officers were referred to as patriots rather than the racist thugs that they are!

Netanyahu continues to defy Trump and the world by demanding everything rather than even a small compromise.

Sadiq Khan has overruled Westminster Councils ridiculous decision on “vertical drinking”, it had planned to not issue licences to pubs where people do the British thing of horizontal queueing! A good bar tender knows who is next in line to be served. Other plans by Westminsters Conservative council included ‘last orders’ at 10pm, clubs to shut at midnight. I am sorry if it is noisy, but why buy a house in the entertainment capital of the UK and then complain about the noise? Ironic that it takes a Muslim to uphold British values – suck on that Elon Musk!

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WEATHER

Being British, it is a major topic of conversation – usually because the weather changes frequently. However it is possible that we are facing a change. July has been persistently dry with warm rather than hot weather, next week we are facing yet more dry weather with temperatures above 30C. My garden is holding up well, although the apples look a little sorry, Wild fires seem to be common across the Northern Hemisphere, Canada is the last I noted, South Korea has record temperatures, and still the twats complain about net zero targets. We have no idea about the impact of El Niño yet. Most likely is a wet autumn, and then a harsh January, but nobody is making firm projections yet. What seems likely is that food prices will soar as the Southern Hemisphere reacts to the changes of El Niño.

Netanyahu dismisses Trump’s plan for Gaza – their blood lust seems to be insatiable! Why the fuck does anyone put up with Israel? Kick them out of the UN and ostracise them completely. Russia and China must love the havoc they cause amongst supposed allies!

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SHUSH

I have nothing to say today – I was going to vent some anger regarding the prison system but it is too summery – in summary prison should only be used to protect the public from harm.

I have watered the garden, picked some thyme to dry, filled. a water butt incase of a hosepipe ban – I would be allowed to water plants less than 6 months old, but do not wish to piss off the neighbours with their brown lawns!

I just looked up electricity generation figures -at 10.50 only 7.5% was being produced by fossil fuels (gas). have a lovely day.

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NO NEWS

I can always tell when there is no real news – every paper leads with a different story dominating the front page. The filth are trawling around to find someone to encourage their readers to hate – rather pathetically. It would be nice if, on days with no real news they published good news stories or optimistic ones. They even manage to report heat waves without mentioning climate change!

So, I have put the suppliments in the papers at the shop, done the washing and put it out, watered the tomatoes and chilli, mints, herbs and hanging baskets should be ok for now. I have filled a water butt in case we have a hosepipe ban so 250ltrs should see me through the next heat wave – 31C next week forecast. 19 counties recorded no rain in July. so far we have had 33 days of temperatures above 30C, the record of 34 is likely to be broken this week – and still the RW wankers will call for more drilling in the waters around the UK.

Has the word empathy been replaced in many areas by woke and used therefore as an insult. Some residents in Thetford are proving to be thugs and layabouts!

But I have some questions, the paper last week said that 49 people who had been returned to France under aa government scheme for illegal immigrants, had reappeared in the UK – at a cost of £1000 per person per boat, or £4000per lorry journey, where do they get the money? Presumably someone is paying them? If I could sell everything I own(of value) I doubt I would raise more than £1000 – apart from the house! Setting up a legal route would seem urgent, and then anyone in a small boat could be returned, not necessarily to France, but to their country of origin, legal routes for actual asylum seekers would ensure the victims and poor could get through – and be provided with accommodation – Kemi Badenoch please note. Why do the RWPress refer to her as ‘Kemi’ as a term of endearment, whilst refering to Burnham rather than ‘Andy’?

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RIDICULOUS

Politicians on the right seem to be affected by the hot weather, either that of they are having a competition to state the most obviously ridiculous statements. First up is Rupert Lowe who on TV refused to say that King was a white briton (he has a Greek father) – apparently both parents need to be white and born in Briton to be acceptable! – fucking ejit! He also states that Britain ‘is hurtling towards becoming an Islamic country”Then Trump calls for long jail sentences for anyone who leaks that the us` is running low on offensive weaponsregardless of the truth of the matter. Meanwhile the press is avoiding reporting the disturbance in Thetford where right wing activists have descended to harass possible asylum seekers.

A report on pollution of Englands water bodies finds that every single one is polluted with toxic chemicals whilst only 14.3% of surface bodies achieved a good ecological status. Pollutants included ‘forever chemicals’, mercury and flame retardants, beside the usual agricultural runoffs and chemicals. Most of us regard turning on a tap for water as a right as ubiquitous as breathing. However it is becoming clear that the water industry has been fucked by capitalism and the demand of investors for a quick profit. How safe is our drinking water? For sure they (the water companies) kill the bacteria that makes us vomit, but do they/can they clean out the toxic chemicals? Reports a while back suggested that male sperm counts were halved in the the last 50 years, possibly due to the pill?. What other nasties are we drinking. Also we have a rising population with an individually rising demand (and also data centres?) but have not built any new reservoirs for 3 decades. But do we need to change? Building standards could adapt to use mainly rainwater for flushing toilets, even baths and showers. My house was built with a soaraway for rainwater and bathwater (1950’s build) I guess many more homes could have this. Drive ways could have a lattice to replenish the water table, Nothing is as complex as it seems if treated at a local, small level. How long before we see misting centres prolificating in the UK (walk through and get misted with water to cool down – being the UK it is likely that there will be a charge!

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JOURNALISM HAS GONE ON HOLIDAY!

The press has returned to tired old stories and reguritated them (single sex spaces and early release from prison!) Or taken a totally no interest story of a black academic at Cambridge alleged to have commited plagiarism- to avoid being racist the mail published a large photo of the guy. Only one paper led with a stabbing attack in London which injured 4 (the attacker was a white female!). Other favourites that are being ignored as the public disagrees with the papers owners views – i.e. climate change. The Mail ran an arguement by some tosspot stating that it is too late to stop it and many would love a Mediterranean climate – “see your home burnt and neighbours killed in the inferno – hs appeal?”.

Did you know that 80-95% of taste is via smell? Also Westminster Coucil has come out against vertical drinking! They want the beer to be provided by staff to people sitting at tables! At least a vertical drinker will wobble a bit if they have too many (Gore in Parliament?) rather than fall asleep? By the way the council is Conservative controlled! No woke nonsense here then!

A drone armed with 600lb explosives has been discovered at Leipzig Airport – surely front page information. The airport is a hub for Ukranian planes, so accusing Russia would not be unreasonable. However it would seem that European countries (yes us) should be preparing for drone attacks on different scales – from individual attacks to basically bombing attacks. What happened to the Gatwick shutdown caused ‘by a drone’ – it all went very quiet!

NHS warnings of extreme heat in the future. A suggestion – provide a £40 mobile air con to vulnerable, and give them a £40 voucher for money off their electric. Cheaper than burdening the NHS. I have bought one and it works fine. P.S. also encourage householders to let their garden lawns be populated by flowers – roses are lovely and bush plants can grow to 2m, whilst herbs such as sage and rosemary can provide smells, herbs and shade. The total area of lawns in UK domestic gardens is estimated to be roughly 176,000 hectares (1,760 square kilometers). This is calculated from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) finding that domestic gardens cover about 502,757 hectares and that lawns make up approximately 35% of that space. This is about the size of Worcestershire – the area turned over by householders to a wilderness (at present – scorched and brown!).

Meanwhile in the States things are getting interesting. Democratic primaries seem to be going to the left with the latest El-Sayed winning in Michigan. His opponent raised $50 million but still lost. can America really become great again without the toxic influence of Trump and MAGA?