Recent content by Mad as Fish

They have been suffering/enjoying those temperatures in the Baltic states for a couple weeks now. In Klaipeda (Lithuania) the river froze over for the first time in decades.

Worth 9.4 bn sterling, about twice the size of the Irish tourist trade. https://www.russellwebster.com/carolblack5/

The drugs business is also big business, plenty making a career in the trade, it would be interesting to know just how many are involved. Property prices in certain parts of Spain would take hit if it was stopped.

They still are, YouTube is chockablock with vids saying the place is bankrupt.

But their economy continues to grow, whereas that leading industrial nation, Germany, is heading for the dogs!

Were the Brits or anyone else going to compensate the farmers for the loss of a high value crop? Nope, so it was never going to happen, those pretending that some attempt at burning a few fields here and there is the pinnacle of heroism are merely polishing their chocolate gongs.

Bet he wouldn't say that to Trump!

We are told that scientists are very clever chaps and chapesses, but sometimes they reach such abysmal conclusions that it has to be wondered as to whether they should be allowed out into public at all. The latest comes from a group who delved into the tummies of Brazilian lady mosquitoes to...

Intelligence is no guarantee of common sense.

They also organised relief efforts in India during times of famine, but India was meant to be a money maker for the empire, yet reading an reappraisal of the Indian economy during that period suggests that it wasn't such a mint after all.

Climate alarmists focus only on what suits them and their paymasters. The whole damn scare is flawed in its very foundation, the premise it is based on is nonsensical but is buried beneath all the idiocy of extreme weather events, rising sea levels etc etc, so really it doesn't matter what...

Jeezz you are right, she is one God awful windbag. Basically she's blubbering because her beautiful EU elite didn't get its way, so kicked the can down the road. As soon as she started on about misinformation and the media getting it all wrong it was obvious that it was a damage limitation...

Tut tut Myles, don't be such a cynic! 😄

Too obvious what they were up to. The impression given was that they were being taken away to some holiday camp, encouraging their neighbours to turn them in. Shooting them in the street would probably not have resulted in such a high clearance rate. There was also the economics involved...

Even the Government is asking after Larry Murrin, according to RTE. He admits that Dawn Farms did use Brazilian beef in its products but claimed it was a mere 1%! Righto! Just like Tesco finding horse meat in its lasagna was a complete surprise and limited to half a dozen cases, or whatever...