Category: Politics

seems to have given up! They seem to be just waiting for the next scandal to arise/be found out about. Just go – General Election now!

has not ended yet, and we have Raab and Zahawi fighting for political lives, Johnson brazening out another financial mess, the recent appointment Chair of the BBC under investigtion. Thames Water is pumping sewage into rivers without pause. A major investment in battery manufacture goes tits up.

Brexit bonfire of red tape. Government announce 280 point plan to subsidise environmental improvements in farming. Seems like a lot of red tape to me. And a lack of joined up thinking. Surely geographically cohesive areas need all farms to participate. Could a farmer get a grant for e.g. skylarks in one field whilst spraying the rest with pesticides? Same for neighbouring farmers?

At the Met the Commissioner has said that the public should expect 2 or 3 police officers to go on trial PER WEEK!

Braverman is suspiciously quiet at the moment – something to hide?

They do not seem to be managing anything? I accept there is a difference in definition between governing and managing, with the former implying an element of control. However neither seem to apply to this government. Other than laws to prevent criticism and restricting votes for those who are unlikely to follow them, I am unaware of any other positive moves. Police numbers are to be increased rapidly (probably with less vetting?). TBH the lack of vetting of the police is unbelievable – as a teacher I was not allowed to take photos of students from 40m away in a rainstorm with everyone wearing full wet weather gear – but a police employee does not seem to have to do the more vigorous checks.

Water companies continue to pump shit into our rivers. Public services are closing down.

There seems to be a conflict here. Is Government for the benefit of society or business? I realise that the two are not mutually opposed.

Johnson supporters leak info about Zahawi and in return Sunak supporters leak into about The BBC post and Johnson’s loan. Meanwhile there are strikes, National Grid is paying people not to. use electricity, and government ministers deny that anything is wrong – in fact it could not be better!!

Daily Mail is trying to deflect news away from Tax Evasion and BBC scandal by promoting the criminal Johnson and increasing UK support for the war effort. ( Do I hear “land of hope and glory” in the background or more likely the theme from “Dads Army”. War is never nice and the Ukrainians have been propelled into this situation by Putin and a sector of Russian society that would like to rebuild the USSR. With absolutely no military experience or knowledge, it would seem transparent that Putin’s Russia will not capitulate on the battlefield anytime soon. Any NATO backed offensive would almost certainly be seen as an escalation and treated as such by Putin with serious consequences for Eastern Europe.

Sunak seems to have little power. Zahawi and Braverman are protected by the right wing. Sunak cannot settle the strikes as he is powerless. Johnson is stirring up as much trouble as he can with visits to Davos and now the Ukraine. He also has questions to answer regarding Richard Sharp at The BBC, and why Bamford is providing free accommodation. Truss and Kwarteng are also setting up lobby group for lower taxes. Red wall Tories are crying out for funding. Sleeze-Dogg is on GBNews stirring the pot some more. And party grandees like Clarke, Major and May are calling for a more centrist path.

As Abraham Lincoln said “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”. Truss and the ERG had a go at fooling all of the people some of the time – and what a disaster that was (Costing the country in excess of £50billilon). Sunak is not even fooling some of the people some of the time. Increased use of twitter does not change a lie – it is still a lie, but seen by more people. Gove saying that Zahawi has done nothing wrong is still wrong, even if repeated on BBC. Brexit is still, and will be for ever more, a disaster.

So crystal ball time. Johnson will continue to enjoy his paid for antics for the rest of the year and past the next election. Surely he is not so stupid as to think he can win the next election? The ERG will continue to hamper any hopes of an economic revival by ridiculous claims of tax cuts. Sunak might be pushed out, but the tories would find it hard to justify yet another PM in one Parliament. Johnson unlikely to risk it – he will wait for Labour to struggle with both the mess they will be left with, and with the regressive legislation that will need repealing! Johnson will have built up a large war chest by then, the MSM will be all over him, criticisms will be washed aside with positive (albeit meaningless words). So it will be the election after next which is the crucial one! Will Starmer move to the left enough to gain the public support that Corbyn had before being crucified by his own party and the MSM? Meanwhile have the LibDems and Greens given up and gone home? The Looney Right will also have their moments – are there enough to cause irreparable damage to the Conservative and Unionist Party. The SNP seem to have a hold on Scotland which can only be softened by the SLP, The Scottish Conservative Party seems to be a minority in all ways since Ruth Davidson’s brave last stand.

At the age of 69 I am entitled to. be a cynic I think? I would rather be an optimist but this is getting harder! Charlie Boy the Turd has asked for people to volunteer on his Coronation Day/weekend. So he will be expending £millions of taxpayers money and expects people to also give up their time for nothing! What a schlicthz! London will be presumably grid locked with road closures that make Extinction rebellion look like rank amateurs!

Murdoch papers are trying to resurrect Andrew Winsor who is trying to reclaim the £12+millions he paid to Virginia Giuffre – whom he said he never met! It is clear that he was a privileged toff using his status for sex, whilst the tax payer coughed up £250.000 a year for him. TBH why is he now still getting a royal pension? He is a disgrace.

On which research has found that police regularly victim blame women in rape cases. Prosecutions down to 1.6% Lets do some maths here. In most cases 95% the assailant will. be known (and 4% could be easily identified by others at the bar beforehand – this is not victim blaming – plying with alcohol/drugs is still rape). Why is the prosecution rate so low? One case made the front pages recently of a woman who falsely accused a man – HOW FUCKING DARE THESE PAPERS IGNORE THE 98% OF RAPE VICTIMS.

The establishment is a litany of misdemeanours and actual crimes. Morality must have been ignored in their education. Zahawi forgot to disclose £3 million tax payment, Johnson thinks the laws of this country do not apply to him, conservative donors get pretence for contracts, Lady More walks away with millions. But the workers are told to accept payouts!

This is so wrong at any level. If a drunk sot stated this in a pub near closing time I would be appalled, and probably get hit – my mouth is stringer than my body! For the Deputy Prime Minister to state this has to be unacceptable in a modern 21st Century democracy.

Dominic Raab has clarified his views on misogyny in an interview on LBC News. He said “Misogyny itself isn’t a problem if the woman consents. Some women like it and that’s fine, if it’s consensual.” Mr Raab emphasised that rape is never acceptable, “Even with consent.”

Does it need me to state what “consent” means in either sentence? Misogyny is a word which I am sure he does not understand. To be frivolous it is not just an occasional “dominant” play game, but a 24/7/365 belittling situation. As for rape – oh Raab you are such a moron – rape denies consent therefore cannot be with consent.

RESIGN NOW!

And he says this the days after a serving Met Police Officer has admitted 48 cases of rape and 1000 met police employees are being investigated for sexual or domestic violence.