So the to 10 billionaires in the UK (which seems to include families) totals £153 billion. That is £153,000,000,000. or up by £27 billion on last year. And this is without the bastards with offshore schemes! I have seen no beneficial impacts from these 10 people/families. Do they contribute to communities in this country? Do they pay full taxes? Do they pay all their workers a fair wage which means that they do not have to claim universal credit.
MAY WEATHER
Is it really May 22? Yesterday it was reported that the UK was expected to receive 91% of average monthly rain for May. April was the frostiest on record *since 1960″ – with 12 days of air frost, and also very dry. Last year we had the driest and sunniest spring and May since records began.
COVID STATS 22 MAY
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
FOREIGN AID
WEATHER
Is this really the middle of May? The wind was noisy last night and the rain has been driving in all morning. At least the water butts are full, actually they are overflowing! max temperature 11C again. All the plants in the greenhouse seem to be slowing down? But I am sure they will speed up again.
Northern Ireland
I know I have no right to comment on this by religious or geographical or basically any other reason. However that just puts me in the same position as the present government of incompetents. Watching Israel/Palestine with horror (I could not find a suitable adjective to add), I wonder how far we are away from a similar situation in Ulster?
Green Party
I feel like a teenager (actually I wish), but I am going to deliver Green Party leaflets in my local area – whilst Istill having yearning for a Labour Party! What I would really like is an election system which allowed people to be represented fairly. Like Scotland – their system. seems fair? And then the greens and labours would have to come to a consensus. So much better than tories and Lib Dems deciding who to shaft next.
VACCINES
Bad news. Vaccine supplies to poorer countries and the COVAX scheme are being cut as the worlds biggest supplier in India says it will not be exporting any doses of the AstraZenica vaccine until the end of the year. With possibly millions dying in Africa we should not criticise them too much.
GREAT BRITSH RAILWAYS
If only the government could be believed? They have already refused to reward a popular and profitable, nationalised East Coast Line. Now we have a rebranding, but is their any real subsidence to their plans?