Would you cross a road with a 0.01% chance of beingf killed? Latest ocean temperatures are surprising scientists by rising much faster than predicted.
SUDAN
Typical tories. Get out the diplomats but leave the plebs behind. Germany secured an airfield immediately and has airlifted 490 people from 30 countries out. It has now agreed to allow British planes to use the airfield. In typical fashion the FCO is demanding visas before travel on to the UK. In another to late, over the top and probably inappropriate measure, 150 commandos have been sent out to. help the evacuation? Even though British passport holders are told to make their own way to the airpot 15kn from the centre of Khartoum – and reminded to bring their passports. God forbid that someone might illegally enter the country during a humanitarian crisis. Oh how i detest these people masquerading as a government. It is fortuitous for them that the ceasefire brokered by the USA is holding.
It has also crossed my mind to wander where all the weapons and money for them comes from? Research shows relatively low sales but we have allowed exports despite human rights abuses. The two sides in the dispute have been hitting each other for over a week – are they being resupplied, and if so by whom?
ALARMS
Despite 10 years of planning and a 7 figure cost this Government could not get the warning out to all. Those did get it found that the arrival varied by at least 12 minutes – a long time in an emergency. Assuming that those with 4 or 5 G coverage will get the warning, a more important question is what plans are in place for those who for whatever reason do not have a mobile phone? It appears none!
FOOD
Food inflation of 19% does not affect the rich. It is the poor who find that reserves of carefully maintained savings are eaten away, luxuries abstained, even small pleasures like a 6 monthly visit to a cinema or restaurant forsaken. And what does the government do – as usual absolutely nothing. It is obvious to all (apart from JR-M and co) that Brexit has broken the system. Other world events such as Ukraine and climate change have also had an impact. However the policy of blame does not solve the problem. A friend who supplies shops with crisps says that demand has soared recently, at the same time a local food bank refused to take potatoes as they would “go off”!
Mire expensive food drives the demand for quality down, and thus the cost to the NHS up. This is a full blown crisis that should reslut in a COBRA meeting to bring all relevant parties to sit around a table and thrash out a sustainable future.
My invite list would include NFU,organic farming reps, food manufacturers, Jamie Oliver, Marcus Rashford, McDonalds (or similar), NHS nutritionists and clinicians. I am sure there are others worthy of inclusion. Perhaps on the supply chain issues?
CIVIL SERVICE
The Conservative Partuy blame game steps up a notch with Raab’s resignation. Firstly the Civil Service is not robust enough – does that mean someone should just have punched him? Mire concerning is tue move to blame the Civil Service for everything that hgoes wrong. Brexit is such a huge failure due to activist and extremist civil servants. they fail to state that Thatcher did not have this problem. Maybe that was because, although her policies were ugly, they were not illegal or just plain idiotic. Today at 3pm we have another example – even ardent tories I know are not sure why it is happening. Spending £10 mollion to prevent voter fraud, that does not exist, would a non-controversial policy as it is used in most of Europe, until the detail is examined. Young people cannot use their Oyster card or I believe their NUS card, but old people can even use their bus pass!
Brexit snarl ups are due to their incompetence not “leftie” civil servants. The Rwanda Policy and subsequent Immogration Bills are just plain illegal. Laws being passed to give ministers the free reign to impose by-laws are just plain undemocratic.
The ERG has failed democratically with key muppets gone -Johnson, Truss, Kwarteng, Raab and others sidelined like JR-M. So the Sunday Express has started on the culture wars against the Civil Service. It is not enough for them to have experienced members of the CS resign due to the political machinations of ministers – they now want to plant political appointees in key roles to ensure that however stupid or illegal a proposal is, it will get a green light from those who at present are tasked with pointing out the ineptiture of ministers. One only has to look at Coffey torealise that she has no qualifications to have been Minister for Health or the Environment. Perhaps she could get a role as a road sweeper.
RAAB – Supported by Daily Mail
What a nasty little bully Raab is – typically he blamed the victims, and then started crying about the injustice of it all! The Mail then lead with a headline that it wass the end of democracy? Quite how they reach taht conclusion is beyond me! Something about a Civil Service conspiracy against him, or even part of a bigger plot by the leftie lawyers and bureaucrats. He was found guilty and Sunak was weak enough to let him resign rather than being fired. At least the new Justice Secretary has an easy task of doing better than the incompetent bully. Alex Chalk appears to be an old fashioned conservative – one with whom one coild have a sensible arguement with on the facts rather than ERG ideology and vitriol. He is still a tory (with landed interests and a title to inherit? Not sure on the last?) and therefore will be sucking up to the vested interests of business and the elite. Actually it is sad that I regard someone like him as a massive improvement on the incompetence that this government has spawned. Hopefully the next election will see the departureof the likes og JR-M and Guillis and the rest of the rabid pack.
LABOUR MISS OPEN GOAL
All they had to do was ask a simple question – how many people traffickers have the government apprehended, let alone prosecuted and convicted. It seems that gangs can gather migrants, transport them across Europe, get them in boats across a 20+ mile piece of water, land them, then they (or atleast young ones) go missing. Do we have a police force or intelligence service that does anything other than send disgusting images and messages?
The gangs would be out of work tomorrow if the government opened up safe ways to claim asylum in the UK.
RAAB
Of course he is guilty – there would be no hesitaion if he was innocent. But Sunak knows that the ERG will be upset, and that Braverman and others also would be found guilty. there is also the investigation about him to be faced. If he sacks Raab, does this mean that de facto he should resign if found guilty? And how many other ministers, past and present (Johnson, Hancock, Coffey for starters).
So he has been allowed to resign – very ungracefully! What a prat!
INFLATION
So food inflation hits 19%. I fail to understand how raising interest rates will help cut that? A business leader on the radio yesterday said that strikes were irresponsible because in times of difficulty we all need to do our bit to help. Laudible words, but what she meant was that the workers have to take a cut in living standards whilst the rich continue to to have high bonus’ and pay rises. And remember that food inflation will hit hardest those who are already struggling to reach basic standards.
FOX NEWS
Murdoch just had to pay out $787 million for a libel suit based on the lies they told regarding a firms election machines. It sought $1.6billion – but the damage to Murdoch’s reputation will be hard to contain. There is another claim for @2.6 pending and more from an employee who claims she was coerced into making false claims. Daily Mail is awaiting court hearings over phone hacking. The media is looking rather ragged at the moment.
Fox News did not apologise, it just acknowledged the payment and settlement. If the second company settles for similar – that is a $1.5 billion hit on his empire which must surely hurt? Or not – the rapid GOP’s will throw money at him to keep producing the rancid filth.