NO SURPRISE

I think that it was Trump who said; when asked about Russia spying “of course we do it as well”. So it will be no shock that the Chinese Government has spies in the UK – is that not the main purpose of Embassies? And of course Starmer did not want a very high profile trial when he is trying to get a trade deal with China: especially important when Trump is throwing around tariffs like confetti at a tacky wedding. The knock on impacts of Trump imposing punitive tariffs on China could be China dumping products in Europe, thus undermining our economy. But the fuckwits do not care – they want to undermine the UK economy to get their buddies back in power and stop taxes on the rich – fuckers!

We have a polarised nation between centre right and right. The right want to win at all costs – if the economy tanks they will be ecstatic! Traditional conservatives would have been satisfied to see the economy tank, but not overjoyed – they gave a shit about their constituents. Germany is discussing the return of conscription to fill the space vacated by those young who have a choice! The flag shaggers should be signed up, but not given live bullets until they can pass a simple intelligence test! Interestingly Germany is also proposing large tax breaks to encourage those reaching retirement age to stay on at work. 9% of their workforce is reaching retirement age in next 10 years. Due to migrants the UK figures maybe slightly better. Since my own retirement I have advocated a phased retirement rather than a sharp departure. PS. Is is a requirement of Pointless that at least one member of each team, and preferably both should be retired? Maybe a government should come up with an alternative to SureStart, maybe a SureFinish? Give those retired respect and a non-paying job in society?

SHOP LOCAL

OK I use he supermarket for bulk shopping, but my local shop is wonderful. Yesterday I went to get cash out but screwed up my details and card was locked which also locked by phone card. I didn’t realise until I went to pay and it was refused. With no hesitation the manager who was behind the counter whipped out his personal bank card and paid! No questions or hesitation. Made my shitty day 100 times better thank you.

….The store is Sandford Stores and the great manager is AARON BLEACH -a very nice person.

NO CLASS AT ALL

Ahh, Donny is upset cos he did not get the Nobel Peace Prize. Pathetic loser! Why should he be rewarded for enabling the deaths of children, bombing of hospitals and has created himself King of Gaza. Perhaps waiting another year to see if political pressure can get him the prize next year will put his plans for expelling Palestinians and building a walled holiday resort in Gaza will be put on hold? Is he still reeling for not being proclaimed Pope? It is hard to think of anyone who is less cool than the orange baby! If he puts milk in his coffee he will claim the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Next a question! What is the difference between a tariff, sanctions and a trade war? This is a genuine question. When does a tariff become a trade war? 50%, 100% 200% or more? Trump is threatening China with 100% increase in tariffs. I fear this will not end well! With a n internal market of 1.1 billion and many other countries tied in to trade deals with China by its infra structure investments over the last 30 years, China will not be too concerned. The EU and UK maybe caught in the middle however; Traditionally dependant on the US, most white goods come from China.

Digression – the 27 40+ contries in the Eu and Eurooppe in general are both a benefit and a draw back. We have immense diversity but little uniminity. The USA has always appeared unified, but Trump may unravel that; National Guard sent into Portland, Washington, Memphis, and L.A..

Gradually cutting back roses, bay, rosemary, and planing for a riot of colour next year.

ONLY TRUMP

Credit where credit due – Trump may have pulled off a triumph in Gaza? I say may have, the devil is in the detail! His deal is the same as Biden’ but as a coomited Zionist Biden had no power over Israel. Trump however was pissed off with Israel for bombing Qatar (who had just given him a $400m plane! So the super sized ego had a go at Netanyahu and told him to stop bombing civilians or else – and Netanyahu knew he had no option – American finance for his everlasting war would halt. Trump also has a hankering for worldwide recognition by winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Putin is not playing ball, but if he could claim peace in Gaza he would be a certainty – yes? Not this year as the decision should be about 2024. Previous winners amongst American Presidents are Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama. I believe all of these had blood on their hands so maybe the Nobel Peace Committee should stick to really worthy peole and organisations. Please do not sully the name of the likes of Nelson Mandela and the International Red Cross with the likes of Trump who was all for bombing the shit out of Gaza a couple of months ago!

Anyway we wait ad see how the next few days pan out. The orange man-baby is also using the National guard to invade Democrat cities in the USA. Bree ching many constitutional laws in America and offering moral support to the like of Robert Jenprick, who claims to have a list of 35 judges he would disbar or defrock or whatever they do to judges. As none have been accused of undermining parliamentary law, presumably the corrupt little cockroach must be waging a political vendetta against the British  constitutional separation of powers, a principle where the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government are distinct to prevent abuse of power and protect liberty.

Basically I would try him and Farage and others for treason against the state! My keffiyer is ordered – that should wind up the right wing residents of Sandford. Degenerative mental cognience needs to be challenged!!

Cynicism

So Badenoch makes a pledge to young home buyers to try and save her job abd maybe the Conservative Party. Abolishing stamp duty would cost £9bn. The main beneficiaries would be house builders and estate agents and solicitors. The chance of homes becoming cheaper is close to zero if the past has lessons to teach. When women started working full time the house prices surged. And where does the £9bn come from? The party of fiscal responsibility has ear marked savings of £50bn – they are vague about what they would cut regarding services. the last government left a financial mess – so much for traditional competence! Do they really believe that £50bn can be found by efficiencies? I am sure Labour would be happy to find these efficiencies if they exist anywhere but in the fervid wishes of the delusional muppets.

And more tory councillors defect to Reform – their racism was not well hidden before defection. The Mail last week claimed that Starmer had said that being concerned about migration was racism – he said no such thing, and which Party’s government saw the increase in immigration to nearly 1 million. Which party cut Engish lessons for migrants and led to less integration? I think any right minded person will be concerned at te massive increase in immigration, largely because of the paucity of factual information available. I would suggest that this is the fault of all parties – the right want to peddle lies, liberal folks are frightened of sounding racist and the left are confused by migrants accepting lower wages and undercutting the unions, whilst having to accept that racism is most prevalent amongst the working classes (partly due to their being most vulnerable to large influxes of migrants.

Personally I am concerned about the impact of population growth in the UK – Population grew by 10m between 1900 and 1950, then the same again between 1950 and 2000, but now by 10m in just 25 years. And employment in primary and secondary sectors fell? Impact assessment by governments or councils – non-existent! We are aware of the decline in virtually every aspect of wildlife (except maybe rats?). Of greatest concern is the impact on insects and the bottom of the food chain. Obviously a larger population will need more houses, jobs, cars and sewage works, and more pollution. The world population of humans has more than trebled in my lifetime. 6 billion more people having a crap, arguing, cutting down trees, paving the countryside. These are the things we should be addressing, rather than petty squabbles that politicians and the trash media delight in!

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE UK?

The Daily ‘fucking’ Mail, Farage and Brexit. Ok and the Telegraph and Express and GBNews, Trump and Badenoch, Jenprick and many others. Prejudice fed by fear is increasing. I know that in my childhood there was the Black and White Minstrel Show and ‘Till death us do part’ on tv, pubs and guest houses were openly racist; but things seemed to be getting better? My old man was certain that black people (never niggers) were less intelligent – perhaps because he had only met 2! Of course the knuckle draggers were around, as were football hooligans and homosexuality was illegal. But things were brighter ‘Tomorrows World’ on TV hinted at progress, the design Centre in London showed the latest innovations and the best of UK design. The future was bright. Even the class war by Thatcher et al, on the British Working class and manufacturing industry was not allowed to inhibit hopes for the future. Music, fashion and a more liberal society boomed. My parents shouted at my brother for having a ‘Beatle haircut’ rather than short back and sides in I guess 1965, I was not allowed out in jeans on a Sunday – even though parents not overtly religious. Sexist attitudes were fading, but maybe that had more to do with landlords and house builders driving up costs forcing women into work? So definitely not perfect, but for a Greenpeace supporting hippie like me, the world was definitely going to get better. And it did.

Of course social media has changed everything! We all live in our own echo chambers now, and if not we have the bile of the newspapers and TV to frighten us into supporting the protagonists who finance these outlets. I believe people are basically good (unlike the vicar who came round after the birth of my first child and told us to get her christened as she had been born with inherent evil – what a K**t).

It seems that Starmer has sold his soul to Israel and Trump, Labour has not so far offered anything to get a wow factor for the future? The greens are my only hope – but whilst ostracised by the main stream media they will struggle. daily posts on x, facebook, etc.etc. are necessary. The old may not care about climate change (selfish bastards), but most of the young do.

I AM NOT RACIST BUT ….

Jenryck states that he is not racist but after being in Birmingham Town Centre and not seeing a white face he states “this is not the country I want to live in”. So is he offering affirmative action to ensure migrants (especially brown ones) are integrated into our society – of course not!). His thoughts include ” He has used the sexual exploitation of young girls to blanket-condemn “hundreds of thousands of people from alien cultures who possess medieval attitudes towards women” – and calling for their deportation.” A charletan.

Renewable energy produced more electricity than coal worldwide for the first time. The stupid morons who quote that China is building more coal power stations, therefore we should too! – ignore the facts that China’s coal consumption is falling and that they build in more solar energy than the rest of the world combined.. At present – now renewables are producing 40.4% of our electricity. Yet the morons who are allowed amongst us are campaigning to cut renewable energy – is the thought of corruption and greed a conspiracy theory? Perhaps we will always need fossil fuel energy (until its gone!), but using a clean alternative makes complete sense.

IS THIS THE END?

The Conservative Party National Conference is a sham. Badenoch trying to out perform Reform by stating that she would deport 150000 immigrants. Where she gets that figure from no one knows but Jenryck is likely to raise her by a a multiple of that. What they really need is a calm response rather than a rabid poker style competition. Labours monetary policy is vulnerable to dissection, yet the idiots in the CP continue to roll out meaningless crap. “We will cut welfare payments” but decline to offer the who, how, what ? The civil service has grown markedly since 2016 they say (who was in power for most of that time)? They would also cut moves to Net Zero whilst denying climate change. Basically they are handing their party over to Farage. Even the likes of Heseltine and May are wary if not horrified regarding the swing to the right.

Meanwhile Trump wants to be King of Gaza and is already moving on to increase his power in Central and South America with Venezuela a target. Russia and Putin seem to be bombing Ukraine without restraint, and possibly may be behind the use of drones in Denmark and Germany. Militants are taking territory in Sudan, here again I do not understand! Who is funding the sides of this war? Why is it not publicised? It must be known to governments who is spending £millions and shifting thousands of tonnes of armanents around.

A last thought – Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and probably others claim to be pacifist and charitable. My belief is that religeon is a private thing and education shouldbe banned from promoting any religeon at all.

WOW!

Angela Rayner must have committed some heinious crime to warrant yet another front page spread on the Mail on Sunday. Her offence is to continue to use an official car – presumably without breaking the law. Meanwhile Farage has not declared his earnings outside Parliament since 30 May despite there being a 28 day limit. Lettuce Truss continues to take the full ex-PM allowance despite having been in the job for just 49 days. But the MoS has it in for a working class lass who sticks up for workers rights and identifies with them. Do they still see her as a threat to the privileged oligarcy that dominates Britains government via Eton et all, and Oxbridge. Labour appear to have accept this as the status quo. Maybe “Yes Minister” was less of a comedy and more of a documentary? The Civil Service appear to be the same Old Boys Club that has run this country into the ground for decades.

Is this Labour Government better than the last Tory one? Of course – but the bar was so low even I could get over it! Tony Blair has been declared a radical conservative by he Observer. Yes, there were good things that occured under his reign like SureStart, but Iraq should have seen him off – yet here he is again as the saviour of Gaza! Starmer is no Blair, lacking the charisma but does he aspire to the radical conservative status? Very few of the nasty incursions to our civil rights have been revoked, indeed, more are being added weekly.

But back to Angela – presumably the MoS is rattled by the growth in favour by the public of the Green Party under Zac Polanski. And lacking the bottle to go after a Jewish gay man this weekend they had to find another hate figure for their sad readers to stick needles into. Will Polanski appeal to the working class? Maybe with Angela Rayner, Zara Sultana, Jeremy Corbyn and support from the Trade Unions – just maybe. Middle England is swayed towards the right, but its corruption and greed may be its downfall. Most Brits are fair minded people who cannot be fooled by racist rhetoric, but maybe swayed by it. The Daily Mail tommorow will be upside down again – and probably for the future – or I get relieved of my duties!

DOMESTICS

Another batch of pickled shallots made, I do about 500g at a time as it gets boring! Bay leaves from garden added together with come chilli . And I will make a pouliss tonight for tomorrow. Apples nearly ready – thinking stewed apples with cinnamon and cloves and allspice, and maybe some raisins. Then I could also make cookies by just adding butter, flour and oats? Wet and windy today and last night.