Category: Environment

Firstly the ‘flu epidemic? Stats show that it is mainly children. Most of us oldun’s have has the stab! My wonderful grandchildren came up yesterday and we went to the park where they spent an hour playing on a pirate boat. I was sad not to see any other children there. there are a variety of activities from traditional swings, a basketball hoop, to a mini zip wire and unquatifyable others! It made me think how everything available for children is monetised or non-existent. The football field in the village is surrounded by a high fence and locked (supposedly to keep out dogs! The local swimming pool has closed, tennis is only available via a club. The old “Strawberry Line Railway Line’ is paved and suitable for cycling and surrounded by scrubland and woods for most of its path between the local villages – but it is rare to see a child! No wonder they get obese and stuck in rooms with their phones and online games. My generation has overseen the deprivation of childhood from our young. Hey government – do not increase benefits for the young, just give them free access to meaningful activities and free bus passes to get there.

Nothing much else to report! I might make some lemon curd as I have just had a delivery from https://www.crowdfarming.com/en – a brilliant company that supports organic farmers and cuts out the supermarkets. I get lemons, avocados, clementines, garlic, olive oil and more from them – highly recommended.

Farage accuses the BBC of bias by not airing climate deniers bollox! Over 95% of the worlds scientists are wrong he says. Pesky facts are irrelevant, Flat Earthers should be allowed on prime time news bulletins, Elvis lives, the Loch Ness Monster is real. 2/3rds of the USA is suffering from unseasonably cold weather with heavy snow likely, Florida has issued a warning about iguanas falling fron trees and possibly injuring people due to cold temperatures. Burn that coal and oil baby. Super-Typhoon Fung-wong hits the Philippines with heavy rain, wind and a tidal surge – Dig for more coal baby. So who is Farage appealing too? Those who find the fuel costs too high. Why does he not campaign for a rent freeze – that would really help the poor and especially the young.

Dinosaurs died out due to climate change it is thought, Farage and Badenoch will go the same way, and also possibly Starmer. Mamdani has shown that sensible policies from the left can win votes, remember that Corbyn got more votes than Starmer; despite being slated at every opportunity by the RWPress, and being up against an undeniably charismatic, albeit fraudster, BJJohnson. The young who chanted his name at Glastonbury may have been swept along by the crowd, but JC offered them hope.

I am ashamed of my generation. I have lived my whole life with no major armed disputes in my vicinity (IRA bombings in London excepted), free NHS and dental, a grant for University, fixed rent before Thatcher, women’s lib (seems to have stuttered to a halt), Gay Pride, music breaking every boundary, fashion likewise, a freedom that as a young teen I was able to go swimming in a pool whenever, play tennis for virtually nothing on council ownedgrass courts.. And what have we done with this largesse? Screwed the next generation. Hopefully my children and grandchildren will benefit from my good fortune. But I see the sad fuckers buying the Mail and Telegraph and tutting about the young today. Whilst they take cruises and drive flash cars to their mortgage free homes and luxury that they could not have imagined when they were young.

So the trashing of national institutions continues. BJ Boris has a pop at the BBC – I suppose he has to justify the wage paid by the Mail. The board of the BBC is a geriatric nightmare withthe youngest being 52. As for left wing bias – they are having a fucking joke. QT has become a political forum for Reform, the Gary Lineker episode revealed the bias to the right. Reporting on Gaza has been weighted towards Israel most of the time. However the right wing seek to portray anything less than MAGA influenced as bias. This is an attempt to sway those on the Board of the BBC and the government to the right. Of course news reporting is always going to show some bias, but the BBC has a reputation for impartiality – or had!

And at last we will get the Budget – tax rises will occur and be criticised to the nth degree. But at least we will not have to put up with former ‘experts’ pontificating about the disasterous impact of any tax increase. Let us hope that the burden will fall on those who can afford it! And also that Reeves makes a point of extolling tax as a way of creating a fair and just society for all. I fear it will be a fudge! Many Labour MP’s are disgusted at the move of Labour to the right. Only Ed Milliband seems to be holding true to the agenda set out in the last manifesto. The Greens are upto 16% in the polls with Polanski raising their profile. Mamdani has shown that leftist policies can be popular – if they are publicised via social media. For too long the rich have used their influence over the printed press and TV to maintain the staus quo. Hopefully we are seeing this hegmony crumbling. The young are realising that the old have been manipulating the economics for too long.

On this – poverty is an issue due to high rents and mortgages – not inaction or laziness by workers. So a reduction in rents is ‘feasible’, a mortgage rate reduction less so. Mamdani has stated that he will impose rent restrictions in New York. Will this cause property to become cheaper as renters sell up? Possibly. That would leave many with negative equity – but they would have a house and mortgage rates should drop with more properties on the market? I am obviously no economist. Reports in the rw New York Times said that a million New Yorkers plan to leave! Where will they go to? The saddoes who said they were leaving London have not unfortunately.

Temperatures have definitely dropped to early autumn levels. And we have had a useful drop of rain. First trees are begining to brown whilst my apple tree is shedding some apples before they ripen. I think the variety is Braeburn – but not sure.

First major earthquake for a while in Afghanistan. The USA has not had a major rumble for a while – whilst not wishing death and destruction on anyone innocent – a quake there would keep Trump occupied for a while – especially if in a MAGA state! Just sayin’.

Farage and Tice object to a christian view! The Archbishop of York has said that the Reform policies are ignoring the facts of the issue. Oh and the economics of it. Fucking morons! And yet they are supported widely. Is the population of these isles so thick? Would they be so uncaring if returned migrants are executed on airport runways? Probably is the answer!

Best opening words from a book? I have finally stopped grining about this one ” Its too hot for sex. I should have just said that before he pulled his shorts down and got his knob out”. This is not from a porn book but a romcom book by Kristen Bailey “Hot to go”. Yes I read rom-coms and wish I had been reading before my marriage went pear shaped! Never look back and say what if!

Angela Rayner is again a hate topic for Murdoch – is there an unholy alliance between Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, and Rupert Murdoch? They seem to alternate between their shite publications seamlessly! Latest that I can see is that she has sold her property up north, and has bought a flat in Hove. Her grace and favour property is irrelevant? How dare a member of the common people actually get to the heights of our society!

WHO issues warning that take up of MMR is 83.7% and polio, whooping cough, tetnus and diptheria was at 81.4% – herd immunity is 95%. Why? Regional differences are not easy to explain with Liverpool and London being below 70% whilst the North-east is above 90%. Ethnicity does come into it with Afro-Caribbean uptake being low. Conspiracy theories are also takinga toll – even the defeat of Covid is not acknowledged by many. The lack of trust in government (and thus the NHS) is concerning. How long before the Mai, Telegraph, Sun, i or Eepress have a horror/sob story about someone reacting badly to the vaccine. They will ignore the 83.% who benefit to spread fear amongst all parents. The latest addition to the NHS range is a vaccine against chicken pox.

Of course it is totally obscene and criminal the Robert F Kennedy Jnr is able to pursue his conspiracy theories and force the resignation of respected scientists in his pursuit of vaccine free policies. The USA has also cut funding mRNA programmes by $500 million – this how America has become a corrupt regeime controlled by an egoistic charlatan.