Category: Politics

So the despicable right wing media have a go at Gary Lineker (again) for stating the blindingly obvious, that te BBC is too important to be controlled by political appointees. Will Sunak bow to the ERG and appoint Dacre from the Mail? Political party donors to whichever party should be banded. There will always be bias involved but an open and transparent process is essential. Perhaps a cross party government commottee should make the decision, and the interviews be transmitted. A similar proceedure could be followed in many other areas. It maybe expensive but democracy is under threat and its preservation is worth paying for!

Typical tories. Get out the diplomats but leave the plebs behind. Germany secured an airfield immediately and has airlifted 490 people from 30 countries out. It has now agreed to allow British planes to use the airfield. In typical fashion the FCO is demanding visas before travel on to the UK. In another to late, over the top and probably inappropriate measure, 150 commandos have been sent out to. help the evacuation? Even though British passport holders are told to make their own way to the airpot 15kn from the centre of Khartoum – and reminded to bring their passports. God forbid that someone might illegally enter the country during a humanitarian crisis. Oh how i detest these people masquerading as a government. It is fortuitous for them that the ceasefire brokered by the USA is holding.

It has also crossed my mind to wander where all the weapons and money for them comes from? Research shows relatively low sales but we have allowed exports despite human rights abuses. The two sides in the dispute have been hitting each other for over a week – are they being resupplied, and if so by whom?

What a nasty little bully Raab is – typically he blamed the victims, and then started crying about the injustice of it all! The Mail then lead with a headline that it wass the end of democracy? Quite how they reach taht conclusion is beyond me! Something about a Civil Service conspiracy against him, or even part of a bigger plot by the leftie lawyers and bureaucrats. He was found guilty and Sunak was weak enough to let him resign rather than being fired. At least the new Justice Secretary has an easy task of doing better than the incompetent bully. Alex Chalk appears to be an old fashioned conservative – one with whom one coild have a sensible arguement with on the facts rather than ERG ideology and vitriol. He is still a tory (with landed interests and a title to inherit? Not sure on the last?) and therefore will be sucking up to the vested interests of business and the elite. Actually it is sad that I regard someone like him as a massive improvement on the incompetence that this government has spawned. Hopefully the next election will see the departureof the likes og JR-M and Guillis and the rest of the rabid pack.

All they had to do was ask a simple question – how many people traffickers have the government apprehended, let alone prosecuted and convicted. It seems that gangs can gather migrants, transport them across Europe, get them in boats across a 20+ mile piece of water, land them, then they (or atleast young ones) go missing. Do we have a police force or intelligence service that does anything other than send disgusting images and messages?

The gangs would be out of work tomorrow if the government opened up safe ways to claim asylum in the UK.

Of course he is guilty – there would be no hesitaion if he was innocent. But Sunak knows that the ERG will be upset, and that Braverman and others also would be found guilty. there is also the investigation about him to be faced. If he sacks Raab, does this mean that de facto he should resign if found guilty? And how many other ministers, past and present (Johnson, Hancock, Coffey for starters).

So he has been allowed to resign – very ungracefully! What a prat!

So food inflation hits 19%. I fail to understand how raising interest rates will help cut that? A business leader on the radio yesterday said that strikes were irresponsible because in times of difficulty we all need to do our bit to help. Laudible words, but what she meant was that the workers have to take a cut in living standards whilst the rich continue to to have high bonus’ and pay rises. And remember that food inflation will hit hardest those who are already struggling to reach basic standards.

Murdoch just had to pay out $787 million for a libel suit based on the lies they told regarding a firms election machines. It sought $1.6billion – but the damage to Murdoch’s reputation will be hard to contain. There is another claim for @2.6 pending and more from an employee who claims she was coerced into making false claims. Daily Mail is awaiting court hearings over phone hacking. The media is looking rather ragged at the moment.

Fox News did not apologise, it just acknowledged the payment and settlement. If the second company settles for similar – that is a $1.5 billion hit on his empire which must surely hurt? Or not – the rapid GOP’s will throw money at him to keep producing the rancid filth.

So the stuffed shirt brigade are up in arms about the rebranding of the Brecon Beacons National Park with its wWelsh name – which sounds nice. Actually it matters not an iota. The right wing bigots will continue to call it the Brecon Beacons, and that matters not a jot either.

With languages worldwide disappearing every day it is good to see Welsh making a stand (I think it is down to 17.8% of the population, or 538000. Homogenisation of our culture is sad – Estuary English now covers about half the population of England. Long may local names and accents prevail. e.g. emmets in Cornwall and grockles in Devon!