Category: Politics

So Sunak thinks the IMF are brilliant! A predicted 0.4% rise in GDP does not sound particularly brilliant to me. Food inflation at 19+% and with interest rates rising we, well most of us, are worse off. Energy costs will fall but for how long? (Qatar thinks not long!). Labour shortages continue yet nigration figures are higher than ever – again Sunak goes for the easy target – students: Foreign students pay exorbitant fees and contribute to university funds in a big way, but Braverman and Sunak are happy to sacrifice this income for their own political gain. If the total migration figures can come down they will be chuffed – whatever the cost to the economy in general.

Coffey says we should get into the fields to pick crops – I enjoyed doing that as a teenager (underage as 14 was the limit and I think I was 12!), I earned a few bob and was happy until Ann Richmond who. had got me the job told me off for looking so young and staring at people)! But 4 hour picking sessions for teenagers could be used?

So he had to submit his diaries to receive £240000 of tax payers money to defend his case against charges of misleading Parliament. Then the diaries reveal more possible breaches of the law! His sister also unwittingly provides firther evidence against him by claiming ‘ Covid protocols were followed at all times’ during her visits -What was she doing there in the first place? We have yet to see the examination of Hancocks handling of the pandemic and possible corruption charges. With Braverman also possibly breaking the ministerial code (for what thats worth nowadays!), things are not looking good for Sunak!

First results seem to show small gains for Sein Fein and similar losses for the DUP whilst the Alliance Party seems to be holding up and the SDLPand UUP in decline. These are early results, but it appears that little has changed in the polarised environment of NI politics. Latest results show same pattern with DUP holding its own but SDLP and UUP having losses. Only SF seem to be gaining. how this will affect things I am not sure – I guess it will meed to be evaluated when the conrollers of the super councils are revealed? The Green Party has lost seats and appears to have no traction here.

Overallk it looks good for Sein Fein with the DUP holding steady, but losing some of its influence? What impact will this have on the UK Government and the Good Friday Agreement? And the possibility of a return of Stormont?

The Times reportsthat in an interview with Keir Starmer he said he would encourage more houses to be built on the green belt. I think he probably said would consider houses on the green belt, but that is not what we need. Building in the green belts increases traffic and pollution. Proper planning is needed to provide services and proper drainage for all new housing. Increasing the cost of second homes would release many properties without new builds,, 15 minute cities should be developed with greaster pedestrianisation and play streets. Proper analysis of new housing areas is needed to determine demographic trends.

I am severely concerned at the lack of intelligence in the Conservative Party. This is not about fruit cakes who have formed, de facto, a National Conservatism Party – they gave up their brain cells long ago. No it is the rest of them! Having just been humiliated in the polls and with about a year to the next GE it would make sense for the backbenches to be pushing for reform, for new policies, for a hope of saving teir seats and expenses. What they have at the moment is hare brained policies from the looneys and … well nothing. Changing the voting rules did not seem to work. They are left with criticising Labour for any new ideas they raise, hoping that abandoning labour, environmental and food laws that are mainly obsolete – but occasionally essential to our high standards (and often introduced to the EU by ourselves).

Firstly the Ukraine – I am glad we are doing our bit to help stave off the malicious Putin. But I do wonder just how much the public cares? A war by proxy is OK until we send our children in to fight, is the mantra of the Tories. Johnson based his respectability and reputation as a PM on it and lost! Putin will not be defeated and possibly not even deposed as he will retain support from the Russian Public (who are just as likely to be brain washed as the British Public were over Brexit).

Secondly Taiwan – can someone lose Truss’s passport and boarding pass, or is she still flying at our expense on RAF planes? She is the epitome of “me-me-me-me-me”. She does not represent me or the British Government. A very selfish and silly person!

Thirdly Israel – why has the government not condemned the recent atrocities by the Israeli Government. Where is the desire to ease the situation? If all prominent persons were called out to condemn Israels activities I suspect we would have more Jews voting against their government than suppliant UK politicians. Would Starmer condemn their killings or would he be scared of being accused of being anti-semetic, Sunak the same.

I agree that immigration needs to be brought down in the long term to ensure a sustainable society. However Bonkers Braverman is pursuing the stop migration agenda for her own purposes. Will stirring the migration pot be enough to redress the polls? My sample of just one farmer (supported by newspaper articles and radio) revealed the lunacy of current policy. Migrants are needed to work on farms (and elsewhere). Statements about getting British people picking crops in the fields is ideological fantasy. This is the world where top echelons of the Conservative inhabit a world where the laws of the land and society do not apply to them. The needs of the country are second to their own warped ambitions.