Month: December 2023

You cannot be serious – Rwanda has told the UK that it will pull out of the refugee agreement if the UK government pull out of international treaties. How did Rwanda come to make a fool out of the UK government? More at 11am from Sunak this morning.

Meanwhile Johnson is talking at the Covid Inquiry. Clearly uncomfortable he is having to deny remembering things on a rather regular basis. Today he will have to face ‘Partygate’ accusations. Interestingly he has been stopped from leading arguments onto safer ground by careful questioning.

Sunak – press conference (selected press only) – states that e will change the law to ensure that deportations can take place. So he will spend hours and millions to solve a minor problem which is essentially a result of Conservative policies anyway, whilst doing nothing about the NHS where millions are waiting for treatments.

There is a growing sense that this government is consciously trashing the UK. WHETHER it is to screw Labour when they take over, or just for financial gain for themselves remains to be seen. The latest immigration policy makes no sense economically and is morally oh so wrong. Workers whom we desperately need, will have to pay large amounts to come here, then have to pay for any NHS treatment they need, will not be allowed to bring partners or children. Hospitality centres like restaurants will have to guarantee wages of £38.700 – a hike of £12.500 so we will see them close. As migrants have been proven too be net contributors to the economy, this will take a significant hit. Universities which suffered from a loss of EU funding and tried to replace it with foreign students will close courses. Society will be depleted. At the same time the Telegraph was running an article condemning those who cut their hours and put work to live ahead of live to work.

It fits in with the scenario explained by James O’Bien today “a company boss takes an employee outside to show them his new Ferrari “If you work hard and graft for the next year ” he says -” I can buy another one!”

Starmer will have upset a lot of people with his comments about Thatcher. How many will not vote Labour because of this is likely to be few. Of more importance is that he is not inspiring the non-voter to make the effort. His speech this afternoon is likely to emphasise the chaos that is the UK today. He will emphasise that there is no money to make huge changes. Whilst this may all be true there is te need for hope – I am not sure that starmer can deliver that energising magic touch. If all he can offer is the same old austerity without societal change he is not going to inspire. He will bang on about growing the economy when what he should be doing is promising a more equal society where all can feel that they have opportunities, where the inequalities given to the entitled few are diminished.

The election is likely to be fought (by the MSP at least) on migration and culture wars. So on migration can he broadcast the FACTS that migration is necessary due to the policies of this government and its Brexit obsession. Keep the focus on their failures and plans for future improvements. The Rwanda plans that involve circumventing international law must be met by total condemnation – and putting into context Asylum seekers are a tiny percentage of total migration.

To what extent are we, in the UK, complicit in the massacre of innocents being undertaken by Israel? I am not religious but respectbthe right of others to believe in whatever mumbo-jumbo they like. However when a country embarks on an act of cruelty and genocide surely we should be exerting whatever influence we have to bring about a cessation. The acts that Hamas executed were horrendous and cannot be condoned, howver it is disingenious to believe that they should be considered in isolation from history – even recent history. Recently 3 Israelis were killed in an attack in Jerusalem – they were in all probabliity innocent victims, just like the thousands of Gazan residents slaughtered by the Isreali military machine. This slaughter will ensure that no Israeli can ever be consired safe, nor in all probability any Jewish person, wherever in the world. The killing must stop, and then negotiations that could lead to peaceful co-existance.

The Daily Mail leads with an attempt to create outrage at Muslim children who may have joined peace marches during school time (where these school time peace marches are taking place I am not aware of! No doubt we will be implored to support Sunak as he tries to take us out of international treaties that protect our rights as world citizens. Is it a concerted plot by the right wing zealots to undermine the basic tennants that hold our society together. They should beware that the wealth, which hey covert so dearly, is not examined too carefully. The gated mansions that guarantee them seclusion from the teeming masses of society can dissolve like an early morning mist. In this country we have for too long been enamoured by the ruling classes. Perpetuation a myth of sovereignty since Norman times, those with off shore tax avoidance schemes should beware!

The Covid Inquiry is interesting, but with no sanctions at its disposal, little more than that. The Great Liar is taking the oath next week – surely an oxymoron? He will admit to mistakes but claim that he was overall brilliant. History will prove the opposite!