Category: Politics

£3120 for the CHEAPEST ticket for the FIFA World Cup Final. If England get to the final it will cost £5137 in total for the cheapest tickets. No doubt the streaming companies will hike their subs as well. Football is a game for the people – not te elite. No average fan is going to have £5137 in spare cash, let alone the cost of air travel (and between grounds in different countries), hotel costs and if lucky the occassional meal and drink! Infantino is being infantine. I recall a friends brother returning from the World Cup in France with tails of multinational games between fans in squares in France. Peaceful and friendly with exchange of addresses. And the profits will go to FIFA headquarters, Trump will glow ever brighter orange and the sponsor companies will grant selected board members admission to privideged seats. I will be interested to see how many tickets are granted to “fans’ who can afford the exorbitant fees. I hope the BBC has the guts to ignore the coming auction of broadcasters. TBH group matches have as much interest as group matches in the European Cup. Maybe the quarter finals onwards might be interesting, but less so than Barcelona of Real Madrid against Liverpool or Manchester City. Think more like Port Vale vs Exeter as an alternative in the early rounds – and even the excitement of the FA Cup is diminished by the ‘group’ stages. I should stop now! But why stop when on a rant!

Infantino gives Trump a peace prize so the C*** goes out and attacks Venezuela – I am sure they were threatening world peace! And has a rant against European Countries – which British Politicians with a few exceptions were too scared to respond too.

celebrates his FIFA award with an act of terrorism. Whilst tankers ply their trade with Russian oil and contraband against international law, with impunity, Venezuela seems to me on Trump’s hit list. Their offence – having a left wing leadership. I am not saying that Venezuela is a paragon of virtue – far from it, but in terms of evil I doubt that it is in the top 10 – but it does have the advantage of being militarily weak – ideal for a bully like the orange peril. The idiot was boasting that the tanker was one of the biggest in the world – with a crew of unarmed sailors. It appears that the boat may have visited Iran recently, thus breaching an embargo. However the raid appears to be targeted rather than a part of a co-ordinated attack on embargo breaching trade. This also follows armed attacks on Venezuelan boats – allegedly plying the drugs trade. This too seems to be an attack of a bully rather than a country enforcing world peace and stopping drugs. Whatever the facts – this has not made the world a safer place. This all begs the question “Has Trump lost it? If he ever had’it'”! Will Starmer call him out? Not a chance – having just stitched up the taxpayer ‘again’ with a deal that benefits ‘Big Pharma’, and failing to condemn DT’s rant about Europe, and then failing to develop strong ties with the EU.

We need another referendum on the EU – the last was obviously orchestrated to some degree by Russia and the right wing. We need Europe and Europe needs us! The rise of populism is not inevitable with a government that shows balls! 5 countries are now boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest – objecting to the genocide carried out by a non-European country! Oh to be Spanish, Dutch, Irish or even Polish! As for the world gurning champion – he has still not apologised for his racist comments as a teenager (does not apologising for being a racist twat as a young man – earn respect? Does not lying and saying sorry earn respect – No – he is a c**t.

The stats are horrific. All statistics are suspect but between 25% and 30% seems average for what a woman receives as annual income compared to men. And also the top 50 richest individuals received 8.51%. Fucking madness! Who does most of child rearing – our future – women.

Not me – although my children might disagree! No, the World Cup Draw. The obnoxious obsequiousness (2 long words in a row!!! YES!) by Gianni Infantino towards the Orange Man Baby who wore a medal like a 4 year old at play school who got a sticker for not poohing themselves. 2 hours of nonsense, and often no translators when the speaker was speaking using Portuguese. The we had stars from other sports doing the draw itself (eventually) – who thought that a good idea? All in all it makes the FIFA World Cup much less attractive. i also love the FA Cup for allowing teams like Chelmsford City their day in the limelight – but a World Cup with Curacao and Cabo Verdi is ridiculous, as is playing games in dangerous heat, and also 7 games in 21 days at top level?

Also most fans in England, Spain and Germany would probably rather watch the Champions League final and leave support of the national team to drunken, racist, nationalistic bigots!

Whilst enjoying schadenfreude at others expense – Farage made a fool of himself and his gurning face. He kept saying “Bernard Manning” as some obscure excuse for his racist and nasty comments. He has denied saying them but we do not believe him (and his supporters will love him for it!). I too was brought up in the same era and earlier (and worse). As a teenager I may have made racist comments with the bravado and confidence and ignorance of a teen, but I was also aware of it being offensive – and Ireally cannot remember any instance, and I would certainly not have insulted anyone in their hearing – but then I was brought up properly! Gurning Farage has obviously not advanced mentally since puberty – bad mouthing less fortunate people is the territory of the bully and pervert – please can he just go away.

So Farage attempts to deny comments he made in his youth. I am sure that we all made errors of judgement and made foolish comments in our youth – however for most these were occasional mishaps on our way to maturity rather than prolonged character defects. Farage has shown that his his racist comments as a youth were just a precusor to a life sustained by by bigotry and racism. He has refused to apologise and maintains that he never made such comments, only banter. What a prick he is – I am sure that growing up with the ‘Black and white minsters Show” and “Till death us do part” most of my generation will have made racist obnoxist comments without realising their harmful context, however on my part these would have been immature lapses rather than prolonged bullying – which is what Farage is accused of. Should he resign – that would be expected of a respectable person – but his electorate love him for being and obnoxious, racist, bigoted little cunt.

Made me laugh! The ridiculous headline in the Sun “Britain’s being fleeced by my niece”. – they found a relative of Reeves to slag her off – my brother would do a better job of criticising my political views! Front page headlines by a possibly deranged relative – journalism it is not and a new low for the Sun. Meanwhile the Mail had to be put out upside down due to yet more crap headlines; as predicted the Daily Crap had a headline of a brain drain (numbers of nationals leaving has been constant for last 10 years) and record number of asylum seekers (45% of whom are turned down), and little mention of the 70% fall in migration. And in shameless hypocracy the Telegraph has front page headlines of young leaving the UK due to high tax Britain (we are below the average for Europe) – did they interview everyone leaving the UK – of course not – many will have left due to the bigotry and hatred promoted by the press. If Britain is a haven for the 50+thousand asylum seekers that are fleeing from opression and personal danger we should be PROUD! AND NOT ONE positive anything on front pages – lets make Britain miserable seems to be a theme.

Overall nothing to shout about. I did see someone complaining about the surcharge on £2000000 houses; cry on baby! He had 5 bedrooms – if really hard up the house would be good security for a £2500 loan? And with house price rises he would not be out of pocket – he can Off!

What else – tax on sugared drinks is essential in meeting the obesity problem. The 2 children rule – again no problem if it lifts children out of poverty.However I do wonder if child benefit should be given in food vouchers. The EV mileage tax was essential for government income but I wonder how effective its implementation would be. As I said yesterday, a mileage tax ic counter ingenuous. Freezing tax levels makes sense when they are trying to raise money. And I do not understand the pension change!

I would have liked to see more devolution although with the caveat that Reform councils seem a disaster. On which “Man of the people” Farage has been hiding from criticisms from his old cronies at Dulwich College who confirm that he was a vindictive little racist whilst a pupil there. Why do people vote for privileged little snots like him and his fellow MP’s (80% privately educated).

Will we see headlines celebrating the 245000 fall in net migration – I very much doubt it! The bigotry will concentrate on channel crossings (marginal up) and emigration (with no evidence of where they were going!