By Baldmichael Theresoluteprotector’sson
I haven’t done a review of a newspaper for a while so here are my thoughts. A few words used may be rather strong for some so be warned.
‘Trump will be much worse a second time’
So says Salman Rushdie, or Salmon Rusty as I might think of him.
Rushdie in 2014
By © Ed Lederman/PEN American Center, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123127054
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
He was knighted by the Queen for services to literature. However he caused a storm among Muslim world with his book ‘The Satanic Verses’ and is still under a ‘Fatwa’.
He is considering moving back to the UK from the USA if Trump wins. As he is apparently a committed remainer who thinks Brexit has damaged Britain, I am not keen that he returns.
But maybe many in the USA are not that keen that he stays either. I found this.
Salman Rushdie says re-elected Donald Trump will drive me back to Britain
Emma Guinness
Mon, 15 April 2024
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/salman-rushdie-says-elected-donald-155654659.html?guccounter=1
A vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton’s presedential (sic) campaign in 2016, Rushdie was asked whether he thinks Trump will be re-elected when America goes to the polls again in November.
“I’m going to make the same mistake again. I think he might lose,” he told The Telegraph.
Asked to consider the prospect of a Trump victory, he said: “Unbearable. Unthinkable. Because he’ll be much worse this time. He’ll be unleashed. He’s a liar and a bully, and cares about nothing except himself.”
I am not sure he has considered what Joe Biden is. C’mon man! He continues
Rushdie said America would be “unlivable – it’s seriously what I think”.
He added: “[My children] want me to come back to London. I’ve always been torn by having almost all my close family live in London, and to be living here.”
Pressed on whether he would return: “I might do. I’m not going to say more than that,” before adding that Brexit Britain was pretty bad too.
“Brexit. Because I think the damage done to England, not just economically but culturally, is so awful that’s mad too.”
Any damage done to the UK has been much due to the resistance of rabid remainers who fought tooth and nail to sabotage the process.
Rushdie has penned a memoir, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, in a bid to come to terms with the attack (he suffered a knife attack which injured him).
In the novel, the 76-year-old reveals he wondered whether the attack was his own fault for offending parts of the Islamic world with his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, which prompted a fatwa to be issued against him by the state of Iran.
“As so many people had said all along – was it my own fault?” he wrote of the then-removed assassination order.
“But as I grew stronger in body and mind, it was an analysis I rejected emphatically. To regret what your life has been is true folly.
“There were probably few exceptions to this principle, but very few of the people who ought to regret their lives – Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Adolf Eichmann, Harvey Weinstein – ever do so.”
Hmm, he leaves out rather a lot of others from the list. As to Donald Trump well, whatever you may think of him, he did help expose the deep state corruption in the USA.
And in this case the stupidity of Salman Rushdie.
Here’s another link.
Salman Rushdie: ‘A lot of what Trump unleashed was there anyway’
2 Sep 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/02/salman-rushdie-interview
“I had a lecture gig in a city called Vero Beach in Florida: big audience, older people, quite affluent, very well educated, and almost all Trump voters,” he says. “Not at all the cliche of the ignorant blue-collar Trump voter. These were people with college degrees who’d had highly paid jobs, many retired, readers.”
Here is the arrogance of people like Mr Rushdie, because he is educated he looks down those who voted for Trump.
When the author mentioned climate change, he says, “this gentleman – they were all very courteous – disagreed with me and he said: ‘When you say that all the scientists agree on this, that’s not true.’ And I said: ‘Yeah, it is true actually.’ And he said: ‘No it’s not.’ And I said: ‘Sir, we can’t go on like this, it’s silly. But let me put it to you this way: if you say the world is flat, it doesn’t make the world flat. The world doesn’t need you to agree that it’s round in order to be round, because there’s this thing called evidence.’”
What a load of bollox from Rushdie! Not all scientists do agree on climate change, or at least the causes of it, beyond the cyclical changes which are observable.
Did he get the impression these positions were held partly as a way to punish condescending liberals? “Well, I do think there’s some of that; this idea that the elite is now the educated class, rather than the wealthy class, so you’ve got a government with more billionaires in it than ever in history, but we’re the elite – journalists and college professors and novelists, not the ones with private planes and beach front properties in the Bahamas. It’s a weird time.”
Condescending liberals describes Rushdie and his ilk to a ‘T’.
Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States, mostly near Union Square in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Which was just before the Two Towers were demolished in 2001.
Mm…..perhaps the Islamic terrorists were aiming for Mr Rushdie and missed. That would make a good conspiracy theory!
I am sure I could do a whole post on him, but suffice to say what an arrogant tosser he is.
He should be in no rush to come back to Britain. After all, ‘He alarms, dies in mad rush’ is an anagram of his full name (including ‘Sir’) so it would be a risky move.
Iran’s UK centre paid £240, 000 in Covid cash
As opposed to billions lost in fraud overall.
Covid-19 support worth £4.5bn lost to error and fraud
Published
17 January 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64304428
It says
In response, the chief executive of HMRC, Jim Harra, said the figure was estimated to be £4.5bn in total across two financial years, 2020-21 and 2021-22.
Of this sum, £3.5bn was lost through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, £1bn through the Self Employed Income Support Scheme and £71m through the Eat Out To Help Out.
It continues
In the letter, Mr Harra wrote that Covid support schemes “helped millions of people and businesses through the pandemic”.
He said, from the beginning of the pandemic, HMRC was “clear that the schemes would be targets for fraud and also that customers operating at pace and under pressure would make mistakes”.
The whole COVID 19 thing was a fraud, he was aware there would be fraud and yet it happened anyway.
I see Jim Harra is also HMRC’s LGB&T Champion.
Moving forward with Pride
Jim Harra and Russell Barnes, 9 June 2015
It says
Participants can display their government building pass on a bright Rainbow lanyard, which clearly identifies them as actively role-modelling the right behaviours and offering day-to-day friendship and support to LGB&T colleagues.
The right behaviours eh? Like the COVID 19 nudging I suppose, shame people into doing what the LGBTQi+ crowd want.
Of course, to plan effectively, departments need to know more about the people who work in their organisations and what their demographic make-up is. The more our workforces – at all grades – reflect the diversity of our customer base, the better we will be able to understand and respond flexibly to their diverse needs.
If the workforces reflect the diversity of the customer base then there will be quite a few useless idiots employed at HRMC. Long gone then the desire to employ the best and most suitable, just make sure we employ a diverse range of people good and bad.
The worse society gets, the more bad people will be employed, but that’s ok because it reflects diversity.
In HMRC’s Business Tax we launched a ‘Count Me In’ campaign last year, to encourage all our staff to fill in their diversity declarations. I’d like to see all Civil Service leaders leading by example, making sure their declarations are up to date, and that everyone understands why this is so important.
It is so important because then there will be less competent people about to pick up on fraud.
I believe passionately in treating everyone fairly and with respect – behaviours we should all encourage throughout the Civil Service. We need to get to a position where LGB&T people can just be themselves at work, and where they feel completely safe and comfortable in sharing details of their sexual orientation or gender history whenever they wish. Quite simple, really.
I am glad he believes in treating everyone fairly and with respect. But we need to get back to a position where HRMC don’t waste taxpayers’ money on such evil stupidity.
Quite simple really.
I see James Alan Harra, his full name, anagrams to ‘an arse mal rajah’, whilst Russell Barnes, the other author of the article, anagrams to ‘run sell arse BS’.
A couple of arses then, that figures.
Yousaf’s popularity plummets after launch of hate crime laws
The paper version says 29% of SNP voters think he is doing a bad job where as 36% think the opposite. The English didn’t seem quite right so I checked. Daniel Sanderson who wrote the piece got it the wrong way round I assume.
It is possible the online version is different but I don’t have a subscription.
His popularity is 3 points higher than Rishi Sunak, the ‘Hi risk anus’ which is not much comfort. That’s Humza Yousaf, not Daniel Sanderson.
At the rate things are going SNP seats will crash at the next election and labour support increase hugely.
Not that that is encouraging as most politicians we have are useless if not corrupt.
I gather the legislation was launched on April 1st. Hardly an auspicious day but very suitable under the circumstances.
This link explains the situation.
Humza Yousaf’s ‘chilling’ hate crime law to continue as MSPs vote against repealing ‘clype’s charter’ 17 APR 2024
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousafs-chilling-hate-crime-32610865
The above says
Police Scotland has been inundated with anonymous complaints about alleged hate crimes, with more than 9,000 reports being made out. Out of these, only about 450 actually got investigated, with a number of them being described as “vexatious.”
It has meant already overworked officers need to chase every single complaint, with a huge overtime bill being racked up in order to do so. Confusion has also reigned due to the legislation, with even SNP ministers misquoting what the actual law is, despite a huge £400k advertising campaign.
It’s all about wasting taxpayers’ money and causing chaos whilst distracting from other evils.
Scottish Tory shadow justice secretary Russell Findlay opened the debate on the bill, as he stated that “Humza Yousaf’s hate crime law chills free speech and has turned Scotland into a place of international mockery…”
I think Nicola Sturgeon managed that on her own account.
The article link says that the MSPs voted to retain it. This included 25 abstentions from Labour, the Lib Dems and a SNP rebel Fergus Ewing no relation to JR I assume).
As I said SNP support crashing will not be great if Labour take the lead and get into power and can’t see how stupid this Act is. Perhaps they secretly like the law.
Anyway, it just shows how evil and ignorant are the SNP. As to Humza Haroon Yousaf I say this:
Hush you AZ faa moron
That’s an anagram of his name. Not bad I think.
Yousaf is a variant of ‘Joseph’. So like Joe Stalin and Joe Biden. Joseph in the bible was intelligent and became a leader in Egypt. Things have clearly got worse since then.
I see
Community safety minister Siobhian Brown accused her opposition MSPs of “regularly regurgitating misinformation” but failed to give any examples of this when grilled about it by Mr Findlay.
I note Siobhian Brown anagrams to ‘boobs inn a whir’ so I guess she must have a party trick. I also note ‘Rishi NW baboon’ so a version of the London ape.
Smoking ban ‘very difficult’ to enforce, Clarke warns Sunak
Speaking of which, I see he has been warned about the latest Conservative Party insanity. Even Boris thinks the plan is “absolutely nuts”. This is what happens when you have a WEF favourite installed to bugger up the country.
Would-Be British PM Rishi Sunak – WEF Front Man
JULY 19, 2022
Remember Fishy Rishi was chancellor and responsible for the furlough financial scheme so he has a track record of deceit and chicanery under the guise of a so-called ‘health emergency’.
Kenneth Clarke, who was made a lord by Boris Johnson, refers to difficulties as people age. Thus he mentions someone 42 years of age being able at some point to buy cigarettes but not a 41 year old.
As 42 is the number of the season and mentioned in the book of Revelation this might be the reason these figures are used.
Liz Truss has weighed in and said the move is ‘profoundly unconservative’. Just like the microchip cats act I say but par for the course for a corrupted increasingly fascist government.
It all distracts from the fact that the government with support from all other parties has been out to poison, harm and kill the UK citizens it is supposed to support and protect.
Rishi Sunak is an evil bastard among many. Or as an anagram of his name says ‘I is UN shark’.
Grandmother’s leg amputated after four-day wait on A & E trolley
I gather her son thinks that she wouldn’t have had to have so much of her leg cut off if she hadn’t had to wait so long.
There are rumours that she was ‘hopping mad’ and ‘off her trolley’ afterwards.
But I think that may be a delayed April Fool’s joke.
Biden used $1.7 million in donations for legal case
Speaking of fools, Joe Biden has been called a hypocrite for receiving money from donors despite publically accusing Donald Trump of doing the same.
It refers to Joe’s handling of classified documents found in his cluttered garage in his Delaware home.
The special counsel Robert Hur (no relation to Ben I assume) decided against prosecution as Mr Biden would present himself as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”.
Stop laughing, it’s cruel to ridicule the senile.
I see that Robert Kyoung Hur in full anagrams to ‘Bork hunt roguery’ so I guess he was a suitable choice for the role.
Whereas Robert F. Bauer along with Richard Sauber produced a letter in response to rebut the findings.
Robert F. Bauer anagrams to ‘BA refuter rob’ whilst Richard Sauber anagrams to ‘airbrush raced’. Couldn’t be better chosen people I guess.
In any event it sure should make US citizens secure in their beds at night that ‘their’ president (if you believe in that sort of thing) will never confuse the two red buttons on his desk.
You know, the nuclear one and the warden assist alarm.
Britain used to be a civil country – now all we have are nagging signs
Apparently there are signs at the entrance to the National Theatre reminding the visitors that they should not assume “other visitors and staff will necessarily agree with your point of view.”
There is an injunction in red type to be “open, patient and kind”.
It mentions the proliferation of signs in A&E departments, GP surgeries, public transport and in shops, warning of the consequences of aggressive behaviour.
It doesn’t say whether this is from the public or the staff. I imagine things like ‘Never mind the dog, look out for the sales assistant!’
However, from my own observations the writer means the public. Although quite frankly given the nonsense we had from the shops over masks and anti-social distancing she could have easily been including both.
This is all a consequence of the breakdown of what was called godliness in society. People accepted certain standards and sought to maintain them as best they could. But most people abandoned God as irrelevant and here we are today.
It is written ‘a quiet word turns away anger’ and if staff and police were properly trained in such wise words, we wouldn’t resort to the warning signs which I find merely aggressive and worse than useless.
The article was by Jane Shilling. I would say a penny for your thoughts, but inflation has kicked in clearly.
Anyway, she mentions John Donne at the end who wrote ‘No man is an island’. She says an affront to our fellow human is, ultimately, an act of self-harm.
Such signs though are grossly hypocritical in places such as hospitals. Harm has been done by government, doctors and nurses to patients via administration of vaccines and neurotoxic drugs, and they have the audacity to keep such posters up.
They are of course ‘the signs of the times’, the signs that all is not well at all with the people.
But no wonder some people are angry, they have every right to be.
But so is God and He is coming to judge the world. How will we stand before Him?
Sadiq is paving the way for a new tax grab
This is Sadist Khan, the mayor of London. He wants to bring in road pricing on a pay-per-mile, which the article writer thinks will make London a near impossible place to live or work.
Much of the problem lies with the fact that the suburbs are far more spacious than the inner boroughs. When I worked around London as a surveyor coming in from the south coast, I did my best to use the most sensible mode of transport.
Tube, rail and bus are practical and more time efficient within the inner boroughs but outer boroughs are more practical with a car, provide you don’t get snarled up with schools traffic which is a major problem in the early afternoon.
I would use my bicycle to get around and, not having a folding bike, I had to make sure I took trains that arrived and left within the off peak hours.
It was a great way to get about and as annual rainfall in London is not that high I hardly had to struggle with the weather.
But I don’t hold with road pricing as proposed, this merely penalises those who must use a vehicle, whilst the wealthy can afford to pay the costs. There are so many other things that have brought about the huge rise in traffic which need to be addressed.
Of course poisoning the masses with toxic vaccines to make them so ill or dead that they won’t go out is one way of doing it.
But I don’t hold with that either.
Letters to the editor – Pothole peace of mind
There is a letter from a Peter Cadogan of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He read a report in the paper about “UK roads have 100 times more potholes than craters on the Moon” (April 13th).
He says he has developed a software to count lunar craters and that there are in fact 10,000 craters in every square kilometre of the lunar surface.
Maybe so, but we don’t have to drive on the moon, do we?
P.S. These are some links which may be of interest.
I’m pussed off – UK government wants cats microchipped
42 – The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything *
Factcheck: Is Joe Biden the new Nero?
“Why vaccines do not work” in a nutshell
Saturday Snigger – Stugeron and Sturgeon, what’s the difference?
Insanity and Transgender Visibility Day
The Tree of Life 
Don’t know much about his political views but I think the writer Rushdie has degenerated and hopes to sell books because of his name. The first I read was Midnight’s Children, probably over 20 or 30 years back which I liked. The next I tried was a few years back was about some fantastical creatures and events and floating people. I don’t even remember the name now. It was gibberish. It was like a vinyl record playing backwards and sideways at the same time.
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