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We could lose thousands if we
We could lose thousands if we lose our street’s free parking
Traders say the loss of two hours free parking would be a huge loss and could put some at risk of going out of business
Alwen Lewis, owner of Iechy Da, an eco-friendly refill healthy food shop…
“I figured out that the customers I would be losing if that happens are the customers that are spending under £2. I have calculated that I would lose about £7,000 per year.
“Those are the customers that come in and spend under £2 but they are popping in all the time and it mounts up. Now why would you spend another pound on parking if you are only buying a pound worth of porridge. You wouldn’t, would you? It would double the value of what you’re buying.”
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/could-lose-thousands-trade-under-31757730
Monsoon of bees plaguing a
Monsoon of bees plaguing a Worcester street removed
Scared neighbours felt like they were trapped in their homes because of huge swarms of bees that flooded their streets, gardens and in one case, a chimney.
One resident, who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of repercussions from bee activist groups, said neighbours are relieved that the issue has finally been resolved.
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25193903.monsoon-bees-plaguing-worcester-street-removed/
Car crashed into garden
Car crashed into garden
Oxford: Anger over lack of action after BMW abandoned
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25204300.oxford-anger-lack-action-bmw-abandoned/
I’m only going to get up to
I’m only going to get up to the required 52 mph on a good descent, aren’t I?
Sounds like this one is a much older beacon site
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1017893?section=official-list-entry
Telegraph went with we can’t afford 5 holidays a year on 345k with the vat on school fees – here’s the responsehttps://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/i-located-that-five-holidays-a-year
I read that the Telegraph’s original article got well and truly fact-checked: photos from an open source library, no such individuals working where they claimed to work etc etc. Morris’s satirical version is much better 😉
Would love to see the original – will I find it along with such luminaries (can it really be a whole year??) as
Whisper it, but Rishi Sunak is making an extraordinary comeback
With Starmer floundering, Farage flailing and Ed Davey acting a fool, a Tory revival is now on the cards
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/31/rishi-sunak-comeback-general-election-uk-conservatives/
Just spitballing here, but
Just spitballing here, but maybe a bit of peer pressure would help? A man can dream, can’t he? “Update from Lancs Motorway cops: ‘between 5 am and 6 a.m, today RPU4 early shift reported to court 5 drivers in the M6 for speeding, of which one was clocked at 94 mph, one was impounded for no insurance, another for no valid licence and a vehicle was prohibited as overloaded. Clearly, drivers cannot use this road safely so as a precaution the Lancs stretch J6-35 of the M6 is CLOSED for 24 hours.'”
If you’re anti-migrant, it’s hard to see how being pro climate change makes sense as a philosophy.Agreed – but isn’t it even more basic than that? To the extent we are “better” than others (which everyone seems to want) then we can expect them to be envious of us, and some will want to come here!
So … if we succeeded in being that “green and pleasant land” pictured by some of these folks we’d simply have more pressure at the borders.
(And as you note – that’s also ignoring that we’re getting a lot of our benefits by practices which end up making those other places even less pleasant / keeping the wages down elsewhere etc.).
A similar thing is where people who are the descendants of immigrants (maybe one or two generations back) decide that they want to pull up the drawbridge. Like the last couple of Conservative home secretaries. Or Trump.
“In shocking scenes today from the Cambridgeshire /Rutland border, a convoy of Reform-voting migrants displaced by rising sea levels making their homes uninhabitable were turned back by Border Force officials in what some are calling the Battle of Stamford Bridge.”
Telegraph went with we can’t afford 5 holidays a year on 345k with the vat on school fees – here’s the responsehttps://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/i-located-that-five-holidays-a-year
“They try to alternate the days they’re pretending refugees and Turkish barber shops are the reasons public services have been chronically underfunded because corporations have been looting the country, to make sure one of them is around to help with childcare…”
You couldn’t make it up!
If you’re anti-migrant, it’s hard to see how being pro climate change makes sense as a philosophy.Agreed – but isn’t it even more basic than that? To the extent we are “better” than others (which everyone seems to want) then we can expect them to be envious of us, and some will want to come here!
So … if we succeeded in being that “green and pleasant land” pictured by some of these folks we’d simply have more pressure at the borders.
(And as you note – that’s also ignoring that we’re getting a lot of our benefits by practices which end up making those other places even less pleasant / keeping the wages down elsewhere etc.).
So, turn the country into a shithole and no-one will want to come here. I like that line of thinking!
Should have gone to
Should have gone to Specsavers
Stalin, Khrushchev, and
Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev are on a train across the steppe that come to a halt.
Stalin goes off to investigate, comes back and says, “I have shot the driver. Now the train will move again.”
Nothing happens, so off goes Khrushchev, comes back, “I have rehabilitated the driver. Now the train will move.”
Nothing happens, so Brezhnev gets up, opens the window and calls out “now the train is moving!”
chrisonabike wrote:
Presumably it’s “support what’s good business and cheaper things * for hard-working local people * ” but “down with ridiculous climate wokery – that’s hemp-wearing (and probably middle-class) weirdos and some shadowy conspiracy trying to keep us down with arbitrary rules”? * As long as this doesn’t mean surrendering our sovereignty to the hated EU empire or other foreign Johnnies. Of course voluntarily adopting the practices suggested by the fab US is completely different. ** apparently some Reform folks aren’t anti those who can’t work eg. because disability – as long as they are deserving *locals*)A simpler explanation for some of this – When you’ve run out of options and have to leave the kids with your partner’s iffy relatives: “It’s OK kids, while you’re with me you can have sweets and junk food, here you older ones, try some of your grandpa’s home brew. Ain’t it just the meanest thing how your mom is always tellin’ you off – you can’t have this, you can’t a-have that. Well I say you gotta live for today.”
“yaaay Grandma you’re the best!”
‘political’ – well I guess
‘political’ – well I guess that’s one way of describing it: “As DeSmog previously revealed, the party received £2.3 million from climate deniers, polluters and fossil fuel interests between the 2019 and 2024 general elections, equivalent to 92 percent of its funding during the period.”
If you’re anti-migrant, it’s hard to see how being pro climate change makes sense as a philosophy. An analogy: We’ve got a (stray?) cat coming into our garden, it wants to be friendly (and beg some food) – our cat wards it off (when he can be bothered) but every time it’s creeping back within a couple of minutes. So it will be with climate migrants: when you’ve reached a point where staying put is hopeless and you have nothing to lose trying to find a new living.
It’s not even June, and
It’s not even June, and Christmas is cancelled – without notice!
Hereford BID fears Christmas parking could be cancelled
“The idea that this may no longer happen—without notice or a better alternative—feels like something is being taken away, not enhanced.
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/25200473.hereford-bid-fears-christmas-parking-cancelled/
Although there’s no reported
Although there’s no reported fireworks, it seems this week to be The End of the Affair with Musk and Trump.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9y4exj822o
And what’s left of the Conservatives have noticed that their leader isn’t doing very well. Nick Tyrone (https://nicktyrone.substack.com/) often makes the point that the collapse of this party is leaving a gap that Reform are filling – I find myself agreeing, or at least adopting a “maybe not so very bad” position.
However, I might remind the Conservative party that (i) they chose Badenoch (ii) they chose the method by which she was chosen – the same one that had given them Truss.