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.
U HAVE TO BE JOKING!
Consultants being paid £6000- a day (each! the collective cost is over £1 million per day) by NHS test and trace. All part of the £37 billion scam that it is agreed has not met its main objective. I have said many times that the actual facts about Covid spread are opaque – but I could guarantee that I could have organised a more effective scheme for so much less.
FAIRNESS
“I’m not arguing there are no decent people in the Tory party, but they’re like bits of sweetcorn in a turd; technically, they’ve kept their integrity, but they’re still embedded in shit.”
“Not all Tories are liars”.
BLAME
COVID
Where are we now? In the UK numbers remain high at the 500-600 level, and the NHS is coping – just. The government and indeed all of us are hoping that the high levels we have had since opening up society without precautions will have given us some sort of herd immunity. Even though that concept seems to have been discarded as a fallacy 18 months ago.
RACISM
Unfortunately what I call passive racism is ingrained in out society. Many people would declare tat they were not racist at the same time as using offensive ‘banter’. Until we confront our history we will be blighted by the virus of racism. Of course statues to the murderers of the past should be moved, the National Trust should declare where the huge wealth that enabled our stately homes to be built comes from. Perhaps too many in the wealthy echelons of society still reap benefits from the gross abuse of the poor.
BREXIT
ALBANIA
Priti Patel and Dominic Raab state that asylum seekers will be sent to Albania. However this is denied by Albania’s Foreign Minister (a woman not a man – The Times please note) and its ambassador to the UK. So all ministers now feel free to join in the bullshit! It is so sad that they put more time and effort into appeasing rightwing nutters than the problem itself.