Collins English Dictionary – The rape of an area or of a country is the destruction or spoiling of it. So that is just about every Tory MP
DISHONESTY
We have heard from the Tories that cannabis leads to heroin; it seems that lying and getting away with dishonesty leads to much, much bigger crimes.
LIVERPOOL
The Royal Family are unelected privileged representatives of the ruling class that treats the working person with contempt. Our democracy has not been totally eroded by tories crooks yet, so booing Willie was perfectly legitimate.
NATO
It should be up to sovereign countries to align themselves with whoever they like? When it suits us! Cuba, Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, post WWII Greece, etc. Nothing is ever that simple. It is understandable that Russia should feel threatened in the context of its history.
Ukraine however is preventing a sensible conversation about this between NATO and Russia. I do allocate blame 99% with Putin, but regardless of this there needs to be dialogue, rather than jingoism.
Recipes – Coconut cookies – FAIRINGS
100g Butter – 100g coconut sugar – 100g flour – 100g oats – 100g coconut/pineapple – lemon juice – baking powder
Recipes – lentil burgers
Olive oil – onion – 3 cloves garlic –
NASTY – The party of hate
The press made a coordinated attack on the common people today at the behest of the government. Daily Express states that Johnson is cutting the ban on advertising of crap food fro help struggling families (let them eat crap and die); The Times continues to rail against the levelling up of opportunities to go to Oxbridge (at present the private schools with 7% of pupils get 33% of places); The Gutter Press continue to back the PM against Civil Servants working from home – just because he is a lazy work shy bastard he things everyone else is. Sleaze-Dogg says he suspects CS’s working from home do a 3 day week (whilst MP’s are free to work from the Caribbean. Hate is what they thrive on and create
VEGAN MADELINES
You can find this recipe here: https://biancazapatka.com/en/vegan-madeleines-recipe/
Vegan meal tapas
Potatoes in tomato sauce
Courgette, tomato and pepper stew
Marinated peppers
Spinach, pine nuts and raisins
Pinchos
Marinated olives
Roasted almonds with paprika
Garlicky mushrooms on toast
Cinnamon mushroom skewers
Red pepper and ? Paella
Potato, bean and tomato salad
Courgette and olive flat bread
Braised Spanish vegetables
Butter bean and potato casserole
Chilled gazpacho
Crispy aubergine with honey
Roasted stuffed peppers
CLIMATE ON TV
There should be a 10/15 minute broadcast the latest progress or not regarding climate change. This should include electricity generation on a weekly basis to show renewable/fossil generation. It should also have regular updates of electric car sales, houses insulated, CO2 levels.
All this could be supplemented with relevant innovations and analysis of government policies, both home and abroad (new coal mines, power stations etc.).
It should not be scaremongering, but should attempt to keep the issue at the forefront of everyones minds. Excerpts should be put on social media and politicians asked for comments on specific issues.
There is plenty of material available to make it an interesting programme with a valuable contribution.
Canada, Russia, Brazil and the USA and the Middle Eastern producers are all offering subsidies to fossil fuel companies to expand production. At present fossil fuels accounts for 60% of greenhouse gases – so basically governments are subsidising fossil fuel extraction using your taxes. Britain is not squeaky white on this with one of the 22 mega projects (although one of the smallest of the biggest.
RECYCLING
Recycling in England has fallen to 44% whilst in Wales it has risen to 56.5. Total amount of waste generated by households in the UK is 27m tonnes, up 2.4%
Whist recycling may not be a primary major cause of the climate crisis it is an indication of how we are running the planet and not cutting emissions.