So the Court of Appeal have said that the Covid Inquiry should be provided with all the info the government went to court to prevent them seeing. When will we get to know what they are so desperate to hide? Does this mean that fishy Rishy’s days are numbered? Will the Daily Star be buying a lettuce for pictures on its front page? How will the Mail and Express and Torygraph react? My guess is that the Mail knows when it is beaten and will lead on the cost of the plans to combat climate change (Net zero), the Express will slag off woke judges whilst the Torygraph will slag off teachers and doctors and Carol Vordeman. They are getting desperate!.
OUT OF HIS DEPTH
Sunak appears incapable of doing the politican bit! Staggeringly incompetent in interviews and even worse in discourse with the public. He avoids Parliament as much as possible, leaving it to the woeful smug little creep Dowden to take his place at PMQ’s. Nice to see Mhairi Black shunt him into his place at PMQ’s what a loss to debate she is!
All 5 of his pledges seem to be going nowhere, inflation, NHS waiting times, small boats, growing the economy, public debt reduction all going the wrong way. Food inflation should fall during the summer so I am sure he will claim this as a great success. So what has he left – Johnson has bragging rights on Ukraine. So we can expect an onslaught against WOKE – climate change is not happening and doing anything to prevent it will cost families money (WMO recorded the highest average daily temperature for the second day running and El Nino has not got into full swing yet), talk about withdrawing support for International climate aid is being justified. Electric car = woke; solar panels = woke, vegetarian/vegan = woke. then they will pick another target from a long list; doctors; teachers; judges; lawyers; immigrants; students; disabled people; BBC; single mothers; the young, all will get attacked at one time or another by a party of incompetent losers lashing out. And then there are the favourite personal targets – Carol Vordeman, Gary Lineker, most comedians, all trade union leaders (not just for their different opinions, but their ability to be brighter and more articulate than most tory MP’s. One thing is for sure, they will not be talking about policies or their failure over 13 years. They will project failure upon whoever takes over in the next government – Starmer or whoever will need to emulate Captain Bligh to navigate the shambles they will inherit.
TOYOTA
A reprot in the Guardian states claims that Toyota have made a breakthrough with a solid state battery for cars. A range of 745 miles, charge in 10 minutes, half the weight and half the cost. They claim it could be in production in 4 years. It would be a real game changer and could impact on plans for ‘super battery factories’ on the UK. If it also worked with domestic electricity and solar panels it could cut many peoples energy bills to almost zero.
Meanwhile the government proposes to drop £11.6bn pledge to world climate fund. And the WMO states that El Nino is likely to cause extreme temperatures and weather events over the next couple of years. Thus the likelyhood increases of more climate refugees – and we know how the government has a viscreal dislike of refugees. Tackling the climate crisis is not optional, it is not even futuristic. However it is discrimatory between rich and poor. The rich continue to fly their private planes and helicopters with impunity, have central heating and air conditioning without concern for their energy bills. islanders on Tuvalu may have to leave the island sooner than expected as sea levels and storms increase. The poor in the vulnerable countries have no home insurance to compensate them for floods, earth slides, droughts. And the rich British Government will turn a blind eye to their plight. At least boris wanted to be liked – Sunak shows no compassion, understanding or empathy, just a love of money and power.
ATTENTION YOUNG PEOPLE
“The New Conservatives” want to stop your aspirations of a university education and basically force you to become careers!. Being a career is a much needed job, but maybe not an aspirational one? Or fruit and vegetable pickers! The next logical step would be to save money on education by replacing GCSE’s and A level’s with a lowering of the leaving age for children (14 anyone?). Only Public Schools would be allowed to offer qualifications leading to Universities. I totally agree that education shoulkd fit the needs of society as well as that of the individual. That would require proper renumeration for practical skills, along with a societal adjustment of the regard we have for electricians and plumbers, etc.
ENVIRONMENT
The Mail has got Dorries to. slag off electric cars – basically fuck the environment, lets use up oil and gas and pretend that the sea ice around Antarctica is not melting or that sea temperatures around Britain are not at record highs. And Tessla anounce a record 466000 cars sold worldwide in the last 3 months. Whatever MadNads complaints the government needs to up the number of charging points and increase generation of clean electricity. A trade in scheme for old deisel cars would be good. It is all part of the culture wars theme – it is almost an anti-young war, after all the young are the most concerned about the environment.
TEACHERS
£622 million was spent on supply cover teachers last year whilst a net loss of 7838 teachers will exaserbate the problem. The government quites increased dpending on education and health but fails to say how much goes directly into cover payments. having been a supply teacher for a while and worked closely with many tye following statements are true: Students see a supply teacher as game on time; many supply teachers (not all) are doing it because they are not good enough to get a full time job; schools do not care about the quality as long as no problems are created.
Raise the wages and attract a higher quality of teacher and health workers. The money is there – it is just going to the wrong places! Secretarial costs have spiralled at at one time my old school had more than 10 on the SMT with commensurate salaries. Those at the “chalk face” are those deserving the pay rise – we promote the best teachers so they can teach less! Nonsensical! And they are promoted to use skills they have no training or experience of!
CULTURE WARS
You know when the Tories have fukced up – The press pursue culture wars. the Telegrapgh has a new appproach claiming proliferation of electricity pylons due to electric vehicles! The Mail sticks to woke and police being banned from wearing ‘thin blue line badges’ whilst the Express claims that £1.5billion of tax payers money has been spent to prevent the illegal Rwanda scheme. Nothing on front pages of these about the cost of living crisis and the water scandal.
WILDLIFE GARDENING
I have been much criticised for the front garden – they should see the back one! Whilst raspberries have made a bid to take over, I have left some stinging nettles and thistles and buddleja for the butterflies and tiday saw a small tortishell on the buddleja flowers. The grape vine looks rather dead – i forgot to water it during a dry spell – I will have another go! the honeysuckle and wisteria are doing their best to take over having done their bit with flowers and scents. The apple tree looks good and the new apricot is ok I think? The olive tree had mites but is outside and seems ok, the surprise is te avocado which had outgrown the conservatory window sill – I put it outside and it seems ok with. new leaves. The jury is out on the lemon which I put out for the same reason. The table is full of plants hardening up – Hungarian Echinops, Chinese Meadow Rue, Sweet Coneflower, Pale-Purple Cone flower and Mexican Feather Grass. I think these will. go in pots when putting out – which means more bags of soil/grow stuff! But hopefully they will thrive and set seeds for next year, and along the street! Chickory and fennel have already escaped! I have not noticed any Evening Primrose yet this year? But hopefully it will magically appear. Mist of mints and thymes have survived and I think I only lost one lavender due to my awful neglect. Roses are looking different! A bush yellow one is 1.5m high and proliferate, whilst the 2 others bought and planted at gthe same time are 50cm with only te occasional flower – maybe they will get going later. Tje Shropsire Boy rose is also looking a bit sad! I will feed it tomorrow with chicken shit – that should do the trick!. Inside mother-on-laws tongue and aloe vera are doing great, others less so! Most are OK but not on steroids!
Chillies looking okay but i might need to spread them out. The tomatoes are looking good with. the bush ones (small cherry?) covered in flowers and the others all having tomatoes growing, but nothing ripe yet. hanging baskets are fantastic.
ENVIRONMENT
So Zac Goldsmith has resigned with a bang! He has spelt out the PM’s indifference and eregious apathy to climate change, animal welfare and international treaties. What this means on a practical level is a set back for the endangered wildlife of this country. Is it too much to surmise that he will now put all his eggs into the culture wars and migration issues? People may be subsumed by the credit crisis and the cost of living but they are not blind to the woes of our planet? The LibDems are ably placed to pick up votes from environmentally minded toriesm whilst Starmer will need to stop pandering to the economic growth at all costs element of the centerist Labour Party.
The main stream right wing media will continue to bang on about “Just Stop Oil” whose rather childish tactics are seen to be futile. Jeremy Corbyn will be criticised for his allotment whilst Sunak may offer a bail out the sewage shovelers.
PLAN B
I suppose that we should not be to harsh on the government for a lack of a Plan B on the small boats issue – they rarely have a Plan A! TBH though Plan A is diabolical just like its mentor Braverman. Sunak is proving to be more right wing every day. Actually Plan B seems to be joining with Russia and Belarus and leqving the ECHR – hopefully there will be a general election before that catastrophe happens. In the meantime it would be prudent to set up leagal ways of getting to Britain, with permission to work (and pay rent) after a quick security check.
Meanwhile Sunak has done nothing to reprimand those identified as undermining Parliamentary democracy. it will be debated in Parliament on Monday and could lead to a call for a new Priveledges Commottee to be set up as the present one is the subject of the dispute. However such is the undermining of democracy that there are concerns that no one would come forward to be on the commottee due to the abuse and threats the present one has received. Will Sunak attend on Monday or find a pressing meeting with his tailor takes priority – he is a grown up now and should wear long trousers! So Dorries and Rees-Mogg shouyld be denied the whip forthwith, Goldsmith should be sacked as Foreign Office minister, Cruddas and Greenhaigh should have the House of Lords take actionnalongside Goldsmith. As for the others, Clarke-Smith, Jenkinson, Jenkins, Fabricant and Patel – Sunak should make it clear that bullying will not be tolerated. At present he has refused to criticise any of them. Is he trying to outdo Truss as our worst PM in recent times.
The head of the British Army may resign over spending cuts and the money being spent on warships? Evidence from Ukraine would suggest employing ‘gamers’ to control drones as a viable alternative?
Sunak has 5 priorities; small boats which most people do not care about; inflation which he proposes to bring down via interest rates and repossessions and bankruptcies; NHS waiting lists which despite 220000 Covid deaths to mainly old people are at record levels and show no signs of approaching manageable levels anytime soon (he was bragging about waiting times comong down to 18 months ffs!),: Economic growth – without accepting the failings of Brexit there is little chance of that. ; Debt falling – it is increasing and only a higher tax regieme will bring it down in the short term. The poor and middle classes are squeezed enough at the moment so that leaves the banks and energy companies and TNC’s. Which is against his right wing principles. Or he could cut public spending, although with 700000 school children being taught in unsafe and ageing buildings, councils going bankrupt, swimming pools closing, potholes in roads, rape prosecutions at record lows it would be electoral suicide to do so.
BROKEN BRITAIN