I have not had a decent rant for a while! So here goes.
First off – WTF are the govt. doing spending £1.75m to do a questionnaire of 175000 people about royalty. Presumably this is part of their culture war bollocks. We can be sure itwill not pose sensible questions like “Why does Charley need so many houses and castles”? “Should the Windsors pay tax”? “Why does the British Public pay over £100m for royal security”? Can we ask how many people know how much the Windsors get from offshore wind farms? Further – will the questionnaire co-ordinators release details of the demographics of the sample. Why 170000 people when it is common knowledge amongst pollsters that 10000 is a more than large enough sample.
Secondly – Brexit. It is now widely accepted that Brexithas been a monumental cockup based on lies and misinformation. Can ALL politicians now accept this and stop the lies about new trade deals done with USA states, etc. Can we have an audit of the costs (financial and social) and a political party which is committed to ameoliarating the horrendous costs.
Thirdly – world politics. Enough of the fear about being anti-semitic. Condemn the bombing of Gaza and the Israeli backed terror on the West Bank. Apparantly we are now fighting the Yemen! Where was this discussed in Parliament? Backing Israel at present is just going to polarise international diplomacy and create unnecessary divides.
Fourthly – met.office issues more rain warnings whilst Greenpeace (Unearthed) announces that studies show 4204 flood defence systems to be in a poor state of repair due to spending cuts. More needs to be made about the horrific cuts to services across the UK in all areas of life. Tax cuts for the rich mean service cuts for the rest of us. The government is keeping quiet about the PPE scandal and it has taken Carol Volderman to expose the corruption. They do nothing about tax evasion and fraud regarding government contracts, leave their own expense system open to massive exploitation, whilst making a song and dance about benefit fraud. Fraud is wrong at all levels but pandering to the numbskulls who read the trash papers (Mail, Express, Sun, Telegraph, in particular), is evil.
Fifthly the press. Press reform is urgently needed. Prince Harry has arguably done more to bring about press reform than anyone! The lies perpetually foisted on the public by these papers should addressed by legislation.
Lastly, for now, morality. We have come to accept that the Conservative Party if full of dirty little misogynistic, racist toads – but when James Cleverly extols the use of date rape drugs to pacify his wife, without censure by the party, leadership or press, we can see just how much damage has been done to this country.