The Jam Jam

The papers – was preparing a list of the most important (or do I mean influential) womaen in history! Suggestions please.

Then I opened the paper and Starmer was there! His headline was hypocritical crap – Greens are anti-NATO and think it is all right to sell drugs. Thats nuts”. Forstt off the drugs – the governenment makes millions from a tax on alcohol and tobacco; and probably more from unpublicised drugs. So the pseudo-honest man talks bollox. Second – Nato has blood on its hands. It has been used as a political tool by many a POTUS. Now Trump is using it to try and control the narrative in Europe. Polanski is correct in the statement that Europe needs its own non-nuclear force. We do not need the USA to be our paternalistic patrons. Have we paid off the last war yet? And tec companies are repatriating billions $ every year.

I guess I need to read the second line!

I have and it is all OK – just looks a bit spin doctor’ish! Walks in the countryside and family events.

It made me think of the demographics of voters. Die hard old on all 3 traditional parties. Then those concerned about their finances will possibly lean to the right. The bigots are all for Reform whatever the facts and reality. I feel that everyone else is a floating voter now! The last government were so awful that the traditions of the past are gone. Reform offers an angry response for the – basically angry! and those who feel dispossessed due to their own incompetence. The Greens who I would love to support in a coalition (where their more outlandish views are brought to account) appeal to the young – especially since Zac Polanski has taken the argument to the front line. The Lib.Dems – I think Ed. Davey is a lovely man, but with aggresive postering dominating politics his lovely persona, he will need his full team of local activists to maintain his position. Last comment was interesting – local activists will I think win the next election. Who will go door to door saying “I am a bigoted racist and misogynist – vote for me’! I think the greens could become a significant force – and if a three way coalition arises, then we will have PR – at long last.

Now to read the rest of the paper!

Not me – although my children might disagree! No, the World Cup Draw. The obnoxious obsequiousness (2 long words in a row!!! YES!) by Gianni Infantino towards the Orange Man Baby who wore a medal like a 4 year old at play school who got a sticker for not poohing themselves. 2 hours of nonsense, and often no translators when the speaker was speaking using Portuguese. The we had stars from other sports doing the draw itself (eventually) – who thought that a good idea? All in all it makes the FIFA World Cup much less attractive. i also love the FA Cup for allowing teams like Chelmsford City their day in the limelight – but a World Cup with Curacao and Cabo Verdi is ridiculous, as is playing games in dangerous heat, and also 7 games in 21 days at top level?

Also most fans in England, Spain and Germany would probably rather watch the Champions League final and leave support of the national team to drunken, racist, nationalistic bigots!

Whilst enjoying schadenfreude at others expense – Farage made a fool of himself and his gurning face. He kept saying “Bernard Manning” as some obscure excuse for his racist and nasty comments. He has denied saying them but we do not believe him (and his supporters will love him for it!). I too was brought up in the same era and earlier (and worse). As a teenager I may have made racist comments with the bravado and confidence and ignorance of a teen, but I was also aware of it being offensive – and Ireally cannot remember any instance, and I would certainly not have insulted anyone in their hearing – but then I was brought up properly! Gurning Farage has obviously not advanced mentally since puberty – bad mouthing less fortunate people is the territory of the bully and pervert – please can he just go away.

My granddaughter is in Sri Lanka at the moment. I hope she is safe – but Sri Lanka is about the same size as Ireland so whilst the heavy rain will have caused transport problems it should not affect the coastal resort – and she appears to have left a vulnerable area just in time. Having not heard from her mother I assume “No news – is good news”? My brother said that he hoped she was on her way home – I hope not! Her experience will set her up for life! I went to Israel just before the 6-day war, went to Peru during a cholera epidemic and terrorist uprising, was in London during IRA bombings – I am sure these things influenced me. She is home in 10 days – I hope she will tell me all.

So Farage attempts to deny comments he made in his youth. I am sure that we all made errors of judgement and made foolish comments in our youth – however for most these were occasional mishaps on our way to maturity rather than prolonged character defects. Farage has shown that his his racist comments as a youth were just a precusor to a life sustained by by bigotry and racism. He has refused to apologise and maintains that he never made such comments, only banter. What a prick he is – I am sure that growing up with the ‘Black and white minsters Show” and “Till death us do part” most of my generation will have made racist obnoxist comments without realising their harmful context, however on my part these would have been immature lapses rather than prolonged bullying – which is what Farage is accused of. Should he resign – that would be expected of a respectable person – but his electorate love him for being and obnoxious, racist, bigoted little cunt.

Made me laugh! The ridiculous headline in the Sun “Britain’s being fleeced by my niece”. – they found a relative of Reeves to slag her off – my brother would do a better job of criticising my political views! Front page headlines by a possibly deranged relative – journalism it is not and a new low for the Sun. Meanwhile the Mail had to be put out upside down due to yet more crap headlines; as predicted the Daily Crap had a headline of a brain drain (numbers of nationals leaving has been constant for last 10 years) and record number of asylum seekers (45% of whom are turned down), and little mention of the 70% fall in migration. And in shameless hypocracy the Telegraph has front page headlines of young leaving the UK due to high tax Britain (we are below the average for Europe) – did they interview everyone leaving the UK – of course not – many will have left due to the bigotry and hatred promoted by the press. If Britain is a haven for the 50+thousand asylum seekers that are fleeing from opression and personal danger we should be PROUD! AND NOT ONE positive anything on front pages – lets make Britain miserable seems to be a theme.

Overall nothing to shout about. I did see someone complaining about the surcharge on £2000000 houses; cry on baby! He had 5 bedrooms – if really hard up the house would be good security for a £2500 loan? And with house price rises he would not be out of pocket – he can Off!

What else – tax on sugared drinks is essential in meeting the obesity problem. The 2 children rule – again no problem if it lifts children out of poverty.However I do wonder if child benefit should be given in food vouchers. The EV mileage tax was essential for government income but I wonder how effective its implementation would be. As I said yesterday, a mileage tax ic counter ingenuous. Freezing tax levels makes sense when they are trying to raise money. And I do not understand the pension change!

I would have liked to see more devolution although with the caveat that Reform councils seem a disaster. On which “Man of the people” Farage has been hiding from criticisms from his old cronies at Dulwich College who confirm that he was a vindictive little racist whilst a pupil there. Why do people vote for privileged little snots like him and his fellow MP’s (80% privately educated).

Will we see headlines celebrating the 245000 fall in net migration – I very much doubt it! The bigotry will concentrate on channel crossings (marginal up) and emigration (with no evidence of where they were going!

I wonder what it will be like? The RWPress have already trashed every possibility so she can’t win, whatever. The last budget was to clean up the mess left by the incompetent tories, however it did seem to create a new mess! Taxes take money out of the economy, borrowing just feeds the fat bankers and Labour cannot go down the austerity path. The Tories have sold off our assets so there is basically little room to manoeuvre. Taxing the very rich and actually stopping offshore investments to avoid tax, and multinatinal companies using Luxembourg or Ireland to avoid tax would be a start. Traditional tax grabs like petrol, tobacco and alcohol are no longer cash cows. The international situation offers little scope for growth of the economy. A rent freeze would enable more spending and may result in more properties on the market and thus lower prices?

Oil companies are still exploiting fossil fuel reserves and making massive profits so a windfall tax would be good and decoupling energy prices from gas would help.

Although disappointed with Starmer, the last government were awful, alternatives at present are also potentially a whole lot worse. Reform have screwed just about every council they have won, and seem to led by a racist bigot (however that is an attraction to many!). Sorry for being pessimistic – not my normal attitude.

The clamour for growth of the economy is in my view stupid. Basic fact – we live on a finite planet, despite tech mega rich idiots going to Mars!! – fuckwits). What is needed is not growth but a cleverer, smarter and more sustainable economy. However under our present democracy with a 5 year cycle this is difficult. PR would probably lead to greater co-ordination after elections as many parties would remain (albeit with changes of emphasis). But no MP is likely to vote for PR – turkeys voting for Xmas! With PR about 50% would become unemployed!