Not a chance. Travel from Southern African Countries (S.A.,Eswatini, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Zimbabwe) will be banned from today. Covid variant B.1.1.529 is feared to be more transmissible and has the potential to evade immunity.
REFUGEES
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Untangled and put up outside. Lets hope the wind does not blow them away tonight!
PEOPLE
I have to repost a comment from David Osman ‘ The people we should we worried about come to Britain by Private Jet not inflatables”.
WOMEN AND SAFETY
Despite high profile cases the safety of women in the UK remains perilous. 1.6 million women suffered domestic abuse – cases referred to CPS = 77.812. In the year to March 2020 over 200 women were killed in the UK. Femicide Crisis reports a death toll of 1 woman every 3 days over the 10 YEARS to 2018, with over 90% of killers being men. And yet another young girl is murdered.
MIGRATION
Very sad. The Sun has a picture of French Police watching a boat leave. Xenophobia is promoted. Radio 5 allowed a woman on a phone in to state that ‘many’ migrants were criminals escaping justice and economic migrants. First off – there appear to be more criminals in the House of Commons on the Tory benches. Secondly, I am not sure at what age a child stops being a child and becomes an economic migrant. Hopefully some of these people might start work in one of the many areas we are short of labour as soon as possible.
WEATHER
Presumably the weather forecasters get their data from the same satellites and weather stations? Yet the forecast for Friday morning varies from 28% chance of rain BBC – to 80% METO. Temps about the same 5/6C. These predictions are for Sandford. Both predict high winds although the METO are 30-40mph whilst BBC is around 20mph. So we can forget the hyperbole here – it is winter folks, but nothing unusual – no Arctic blast or dusting off the toboggans at the moment.
BREXIT
The government introduced a fast track scheme to attract the world’s greatest and most celebrated brains to the UK. Number of applicants equals zero.
BREXIT is a disaster – please comment if there are any positives – I would love to know.
DEMOCRACY
First past the post is supposed to give us the best form of democracy. An MP we can see and lobby. However in the majority of cases the MP is elected by a minority of the electorate who could vote. Often they may support a view not held by the majority of their own electorate – e.g. a pro-remain Tory elected by a leave voting constituency. Obviously a far from perfect system.
NASTY PARTY
The social care cap is designed to allow the rich to keep more of their housing wealth than the poor. No surprise at all. After all the poor pay a higher proportion of their income in tax anyway. In some ways it was a shock that owners of property worth over £1 million had to pay anything at all.