Geof-Lay Esq

Funny job memories. That’s yours truly and that’s a car in the first floor window of a house. Using all my skills as a detective I concluded excessive speed had been a contributing factor in the cause of the collision. Sharp as a tack me.

I’m following many by moving to Bluesky. @geof-lay.bsky.social

Alternatively… ‘Rebecca was one of those middle class mums who believed the lethal MMR bullshit that Paul Dacre routinely printed in the Daily Mail.’

You know at one time I actually doubted my sanity thinking the UK establishment must know something I didn't. That we were never really going to leave the SM/CU. It was the only *explanation* I could think of for UK leaving knowing what I've always known....

It's been an utterly abominable 24 hours for Brexit news: - The UK gave up on negotiations to extend our trade deal with Canada, leaving us worse off than when we were an EU member bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… - New incoming border checks will add £200 million a year to the cost of our food and drink. eastangliabylines.co.uk/brexit-fallout… - MPs were warned that the EU's upcoming ETIAS/EES border systems may lead to 14-hour queues to enter (the rest of) Europe from the autumn. itv.com/news/2024-01-2… - There were warnings of possible shortages of flowers for Valentines Day because of the new incoming border checks. news.sky.com/story/roses-ar… - A plan to extend visas for British expats in France from 90 to 180 days was blocked by France's Constitutional Council court (a decision which has no right of appeal). lbc.co.uk/news/french-co… - Rishi Sunak's pledge to ensure no future laws can create a border down the Irish Sea has gone down like a bucket of sick in TUV quarters. (And has sent the blood pressure of the usual suspect Brexiters sky-high.) belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit/ji… - The EU's plans to increase bulk medicine procurement across the bloc risk creating shortages in Britain because they have very significantly greater buying power than the UK does. theguardian.com/science/2024/j… Phew! That's a truly catastrophic batch of headlines for just one day...

Today's Times

This is what happens when you activately promote anti-vax nonsense.

So this vile #RwandaBill passes 320 to 276 and takes a wrecking ball to international law, showcasing a dying government degrading our democratic processes and vilifying some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Britain is better than this

Sitting next to a man wearing just his underpants. I hope he doesn't want them back.

My main uses for Wikipedia are to check how old people are or to check when they died.

The Tories have added £1,637 billion to UK national debt since 2010, at a rate of more than £121bn a year on average, but Labour's plan to borrow £28bn a year to save the planet is what will apparently tip us into destitution, according to them. That's total nonsense.

2010: 60k people used food banks. 2023: 2.98 million people used food banks.

Not a Taurus in sight. Perhaps I should run amok with a machete just to prove how useful astrology is.

The case for Brexit rested largely on "taking back control from elites" and yet every single Brexit administration that has followed has rewarded those very people. Britain has become one giant, rancid chumocracy where failure, stupidity and dishonour are rewarded.

Merry Christmas!

🇬🇧 ⚡Britain has only 150 tanks left - The Wall Street Journal "Alarm grows over weakened militaries and empty arsenals in Europe. The British military - the leading US military ally and Europe's biggest defense spender - has only about 150 tanks and perhaps a dozen serviceable long-range artillery pieces. France, the next biggest spender, has less than 90 heavy artillery units. Denmark has no heavy artillery, no submarines, no air defense systems. And the German army only has enough ammunition for two days of intense fighting." - The article says. *Europe has been so defeated and destroyed thanks to Ukraine, that it may now lose a military conflict to Hamas as well.

“I believe history will show that insistence on a UK #nuclear capability was fundamentally misguided, a total waste of resources and a significant factor in our relative economic decline over the past 50 years”. Sir Michael Atiyah OM. President of the Royal Society 30 Nov 1995.

Breaking: Rumour has it that advent calendars are getting less popular. Their days are numbered.

Of all the taxes in the UK that Jeremy Hunt could cut, inheritance tax is easily the most stupid right now. Doing so would save millions for a few already relatively rich people, do nothing for the economy, and increase inequality. A thread….