More lies from the Daily Mail. Their headline that 1 in 6 know who the BBC presenter at the heart if the apparant scandal is. Not one of the customers in the village shop here have the faintest idea – Mr.Blobby being the the most common answer. And anyway who cares? Another person they can spread hate about, and another reason to have a go at The BBC!
POLITICS
the Conservative Party seem to be doing all hey can to lose tyhe next election! No sirprise really, Public services in disarray, inflation high, recession always just around the corner, middle class home owners being screwed by new interest rates, national debt spiralling upward, the MSM still making a big issue out of the small boats, climate pledges being abandoned (wait for the next climate issue to hit, polluted rivers and seas, NHS waiting lists at record levels.
Starmer will do well to avoid victory, it is on a plate for him. However moving Labour to the middle ground might guarantee him victory – afterall only a moron with a very small brain would wish for a tory win. However he would do well not to forget about the millions of labour voters who. are socialist to the core. The problems he will face are only to be solved with radical changes in how we do things.
I am not commited to voting labour – only tactical voting to get tories out. The LibDems are great at a local level but are still just more socially minded conservatives. The Greens are closer to the radical changes needed, but lack the depth of talent and charisma to bring it off.
I would welcome a coalition and then PR. However PR needs protection from foreign interference with our democracy. Think tanks need to produce detailed info on funding, as do political parties and the press. Would it not be democratic for the MSM to be British owned? And correspondents who write columns must state which country they live in.
NASTY PEOPLE
Jenrick is trying to be nastier than Braverman whilstLocal Government Minister, Lee Rowley told S.Cambridgeshire District Council to stop an experiment with a 4 day week immediately. Evidence provided by the secretly funded right wing numbskull tank, Tax Payers Alliance suggested an unjustified cost of £30bn. These people seem to hate any signs of improving peoples lifestyles. Evidence suggests better job retention and efficiencies. As James Nash, leader of Bassetlaw District Council said “It is not for the government to say that you must work a 5 day week”. Little creep Gove disagrees and says people must work a 5 day week. It is after all only an experiment. The same people would have complained about the abolishment of the 6 day week and paid holidays.
The railways are also getting a backnash from plans to cut ticket offices., Mean while the Government has failed to comment on the fact that South East Water spent £232mill on dividends(£162m) and interest repayments over the last 2 years, but only £179.8m on upgrading the infrastructure. Nationalised public service companies working for investors not the public.
CLIMATE
Today is forecast to be quyte warm,25C here and 30C in London. Nothing like the temperatures being experienced in China where temperatures in Beijing have exceeded 35C for 14 consecutive days. Torrential rain has also hit many areas with at least 15 deaths in the floods. With El Nino looming we can expect more “biblical” disasters this year and an increase in environmental migrants.
Yet the government is talking about abandoning net zero targets, along with the environmental diversity ones already being missed. With Braverman becoming ever more beligerent and the growth of a Fortress UK mentality I fear for my grandchildren.Will they see the wonderous sights I have? The kingfisher hovering above a lake in Devon, Adonis Blue butterflies on the South Downs, Dolphins whilst crossing the Tagus by Lisbon, Arctic terns on the beach at Seaford. All little things but very memorable to me. With to present government we will continue to use petrochemicals and pollute the environment, put off energy efficiences in housing and permit tye use of harmful agri-chemicals.
DEMOCRACY DEFENDED
So the Court of Appeal have said that the Covid Inquiry should be provided with all the info the government went to court to prevent them seeing. When will we get to know what they are so desperate to hide? Does this mean that fishy Rishy’s days are numbered? Will the Daily Star be buying a lettuce for pictures on its front page? How will the Mail and Express and Torygraph react? My guess is that the Mail knows when it is beaten and will lead on the cost of the plans to combat climate change (Net zero), the Express will slag off woke judges whilst the Torygraph will slag off teachers and doctors and Carol Vordeman. They are getting desperate!.
OUT OF HIS DEPTH
Sunak appears incapable of doing the politican bit! Staggeringly incompetent in interviews and even worse in discourse with the public. He avoids Parliament as much as possible, leaving it to the woeful smug little creep Dowden to take his place at PMQ’s. Nice to see Mhairi Black shunt him into his place at PMQ’s what a loss to debate she is!
All 5 of his pledges seem to be going nowhere, inflation, NHS waiting times, small boats, growing the economy, public debt reduction all going the wrong way. Food inflation should fall during the summer so I am sure he will claim this as a great success. So what has he left – Johnson has bragging rights on Ukraine. So we can expect an onslaught against WOKE – climate change is not happening and doing anything to prevent it will cost families money (WMO recorded the highest average daily temperature for the second day running and El Nino has not got into full swing yet), talk about withdrawing support for International climate aid is being justified. Electric car = woke; solar panels = woke, vegetarian/vegan = woke. then they will pick another target from a long list; doctors; teachers; judges; lawyers; immigrants; students; disabled people; BBC; single mothers; the young, all will get attacked at one time or another by a party of incompetent losers lashing out. And then there are the favourite personal targets – Carol Vordeman, Gary Lineker, most comedians, all trade union leaders (not just for their different opinions, but their ability to be brighter and more articulate than most tory MP’s. One thing is for sure, they will not be talking about policies or their failure over 13 years. They will project failure upon whoever takes over in the next government – Starmer or whoever will need to emulate Captain Bligh to navigate the shambles they will inherit.
ATTENTION YOUNG PEOPLE
“The New Conservatives” want to stop your aspirations of a university education and basically force you to become careers!. Being a career is a much needed job, but maybe not an aspirational one? Or fruit and vegetable pickers! The next logical step would be to save money on education by replacing GCSE’s and A level’s with a lowering of the leaving age for children (14 anyone?). Only Public Schools would be allowed to offer qualifications leading to Universities. I totally agree that education shoulkd fit the needs of society as well as that of the individual. That would require proper renumeration for practical skills, along with a societal adjustment of the regard we have for electricians and plumbers, etc.
ENVIRONMENT
The Mail has got Dorries to. slag off electric cars – basically fuck the environment, lets use up oil and gas and pretend that the sea ice around Antarctica is not melting or that sea temperatures around Britain are not at record highs. And Tessla anounce a record 466000 cars sold worldwide in the last 3 months. Whatever MadNads complaints the government needs to up the number of charging points and increase generation of clean electricity. A trade in scheme for old deisel cars would be good. It is all part of the culture wars theme – it is almost an anti-young war, after all the young are the most concerned about the environment.
TEACHERS
£622 million was spent on supply cover teachers last year whilst a net loss of 7838 teachers will exaserbate the problem. The government quites increased dpending on education and health but fails to say how much goes directly into cover payments. having been a supply teacher for a while and worked closely with many tye following statements are true: Students see a supply teacher as game on time; many supply teachers (not all) are doing it because they are not good enough to get a full time job; schools do not care about the quality as long as no problems are created.
Raise the wages and attract a higher quality of teacher and health workers. The money is there – it is just going to the wrong places! Secretarial costs have spiralled at at one time my old school had more than 10 on the SMT with commensurate salaries. Those at the “chalk face” are those deserving the pay rise – we promote the best teachers so they can teach less! Nonsensical! And they are promoted to use skills they have no training or experience of!
CULTURE WARS
You know when the Tories have fukced up – The press pursue culture wars. the Telegrapgh has a new appproach claiming proliferation of electricity pylons due to electric vehicles! The Mail sticks to woke and police being banned from wearing ‘thin blue line badges’ whilst the Express claims that £1.5billion of tax payers money has been spent to prevent the illegal Rwanda scheme. Nothing on front pages of these about the cost of living crisis and the water scandal.