Category: Politics

So the press have dragged up a story of a labour MP and 2 from SNP getting drunk on a flight to Gibraltar. Is this really the best they can come up with? It reminded me of Winston’s response when accused of being drunk “Yes madam, and you are ugly, but I shall e sober in the morning!”.

threatens the EU with cutting gas pipeline from Russia. Not sure Putin would be too keen on this? I(t is interesting how Eastern Europe is so different from Western Europe. Not just the economic differences, but the social and even football ones too. To keep it close we could look at Hungary – formerly part of the Habsburg Empire, and yet seemingly inherently racist and homophobic. Even Austria seems more remote from the liberal west.

I am ashamed that this country has become one of the most corrupt on the planet. We have moved beyond cronyism and favours. Shakespeare would have been besides himself with ideas for tragedies based on the present shambles.

The NHS is on its knees as winter approaches. No longer will words about extra funding (probably spent on dodgy contracts) and nurses in training be enough.

Why are we stumbling from one crisis to another? Even British Democracy is under existential threat?

Cool, so I get a text asking me to book, so I do at 10.20 on 15 November. In Singapore people without vaccination will pay the full cost of treatment. Vaccine passes being tightened in Wales and France.

Dominic Raab thinks it is important to have someone who has some knowledge of what is going on in BVI. General consensus in even the nasty party seems to be that serious questions need to be asked about his commitment to constituents. I suspect that he charges about £1000 an hour and therefore rationalised that he should only spend 70 hours a year dealing with constituents.

With the Daily Mail and The Times running front page articles about the sleaze in the Tory Party I suspect that our PM may soon retire and make a profitable living with after dinner speeches and (to him) witty newspaper articles. Unlike other ex-PM’s he is unlikely to be asked about policy or anything intelligent! It is possible he will head for a safe haven with no extradition treaty with the UK.

Just noting this – he is selling 10% of his stake, worth $21 billion, following a twitter poll. 3.5million voted! Why? Who cares? He is just having fun before having to pay a bi tax bill and repay some loans in August. He will still be worth , sorry I will rephrase that, his financial wealth, will still be around the $300 billion mark. Although that is probably just Monopoly money as he could not cash it all in at that price – could he?