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TRUMP

Totally lost the plot; He has threstened to bomb the shit out of Oman ‘if they get in his way!” whatever that means; he has reduced collaboration in a military exercise with Soth Korea because he likes the President of totalitarian North Korea (my very good friend); He has said that sailors complaining about conditions on USS Abraham `Lincoln, “have not had long enough at sea”; whilst equipping ICE operatives with gloves that deliver an electric shock; whilst appointing Kennedy to be Head of Health; whilst obsessing about vanity projects in Washington. Our own looney duo. Jenprick and NotNice said we should forget about climate change and just enjoy the warm weather as it definitely is not caused by human activity and approximately just under 30% of voters will still vote for the wankers!.

I just had a free eye test (NHS) and despite being bored silly and not reading the bottom line, my glasses prescription is the same – although the optician was fascinated by my Christmas condition (like a snow dome). Tens of thousands of non-racists attended a vigil for Jason Arday who was found dead after a relentless hate campaign by the shit press.

The UK water regulator Ofwat is considering rule changes to allow water companies to trial “surge pricing” and seasonal tariffs during droughts, charging higher rates in summer or when usage passes high thresholds to curb demand. Burnham said he will stop this. OFWAT should be renamed OFRIP – not content with letting the water companies may executives and shareholders money taken from customers, they have also accrued vast debts – nationalise with no compensation – NOW!

We had a little wetness this morning, which may keep my neighbours at bay. More overnight and tomorrow hopefully. I did not realise that we were not under a hosepipe ban – Wessex Water do the sewage, but Bristol Water provide the cool stuff. I think I may need to double my present water butt capacity to 700ltrs,

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NEIGHBOURS

I just had a neighbour complain about my front garden being a fire hazard! Oh well, another one who will not send me a Christmas card! Yes, I could, and should cut back the longer bits of grass, but she wanted me to clear the herbs and roses, the rosemary just itching to ignite, the bay tree was full of oil! The Daily Mail hs a lot to answer for – the wild fires are apparently due to the nature reserves rather than people!

I will of course do what I usually do – nothing! I may strim the longer grass? But wildlife needs some shade from the sun too.

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FIRE

The severe alert continues to agitate the ignorant. So far there have been 1017 wildfires recorded by the fire service, given that 99% are caused by humans that is at least 1000 caused either maliciously or by ignorance. These fires are not like a building fire, they move very quickly and cover huge areas – just one fire in the Peak District covers an area the size of 900 football pitches. Across the world an area equivalent to Spain, France and Germany combined has been burnt. The estimated cost in Europe is £16.3 billion with up to 1.5 million deaths due to smoke inhalation. And the Army has been called in to aid the fire service in the UK. Andy Burnham has also had a COBRA meeting. It has taken me a while to suss out why so many people are getting their knickers in a twist and their hackles up. At first I thought it was a political thing, lets knock the government ‘even if we do not have any facts’; but there is a deeper anger based on selfishness. Wild fires do not affect most people and empathy for others was destroyed by Thatcherism. Personally I do not have a BBQ (do not like greasy burnt food! ), no longer smoke and am intelligent enough to avoid situations where I might cause a wildfire. So should I be incandescent with rage over the governments severe alert (although I agree that it was rather loud!). Fortunately I do not consider myself to be selfish or egoistic, and neither are my family and friends – which is why they are all appalled at the ignorance of the moaners.

Andy Burnham is ‘minded’ to allow the development of Jackdaw and Rosebank gas/oil fields. This might make some sense, but only if it is accompanied with a supercharged environmental programme (actually I think opening up the fields would be abhorrent.

Another interesting statistic is that the triple lock on pensions was £10 billion more for the tax payer than if pensions had been linked to wage inflation. That is ridiculous. I get some arguements regarding pensions and poverty, but again the real problem is rent and property prices. I am fortunate enough to have paid off my mortgage and have 2 supplementary pensions, but the state pension, to which I contributed for 35 years (late starter!), is an entitlement that I paid for. The triple lock is ridiculous as there are many who rightly claim a state pension they paid in for, but should it reward above wages ? We have a welfare state to combat poverty, not supplement the wealth of the rich!

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DAILY MORON

Leads on the severe alert saying thousands have switched the alert off. With the fire service not coping and calling in the Army, just what do they expect a severe alert to consist of? If 1205 wild fires so far this year with 43 in the last 24 hours, 38 homes burnt, 9 destroyed in Stourbridge, and no comments on the polluting impact of the fires. I am genuinely puzzled. An invasion of flying saucers orchestrated by Count Binface? Ok, but I genuinely cannot think of a better use of the system? I think we should now have a weekly Climate alert programme, accessible on all phones, there is too much ignorance. In the last year we produced 43.6% electricity from renewables and just 27.2% from fossil fuels. I am sure we could double the amount using renewables by sensible planning legislation. Announcing new initiatives for insulation measures, the number of EV charging points, together with weather events from around the world. Initiatives by countries like China, and an idiot of the week slot reserved for Trump, Farage, Badenoch and acolytes! It could be financed by a special tax on fossil fuel companies.

And with 2 trains derailed in the last couple of days there are still morons who buy ridiculous papers and beleive every word, even when they are reading shit about issues created by Brexit and the last government (very short memories regarding these issues by the aged!) nb. small boats (none prior to Brexit!), NHS waiting lists spiralled under tories, despite privatisation of swaiths of services. Why is water so expensive?- privatisation. And with AI likely to guzzle more energy than ever – maybe they should pay for new infrastructure?

European Athletics Championships have been spellbinding, not just for the niceness of the athletes, the near lack of nationalistic bollocks (the crowd clapping in time for a Bulgarian or basically any athlete). Maybe I was wrong in decrying the absurdly high ticket prices – it kept the knuckle draggers away! The crowd seemed generally enthralled by the exertions of the athletes before them!

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JASON ARDEY

I have no knowledge of the correctnous of allegations against him, but I am sure the press would not have been so voracious in their condemnation of him – and now he is DEAD. Is the right wing press now content? He might have been employed due to ‘woke’ ideologies, but how many in the past have been employed due to fascist philosophies? Whatever, it seems that Cambridge University has not shown a duty of care to an employee. So what if a dumb kid from a working class background got promoted beyond his worth, it happens all the time with institutions favouring those from Eton and Harrow, etc. So the papers and CU should have to pay out millions to his family and community. Racism perfades British Society.

A third of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland , achieved A or A+ grades. Basically what is the fucking point! If treated like a driving test, fine, but as a measure of ability it is shite! The exams can be duped, private tuition or an expansive public school can guarantee a pass, but not an element of intelligence or empathy. Universities are desperate for newcomers, having had their budgets slashed by the Tory migrant policies – they are becoming more evil the more I look!

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UNBELEIVABLE

Some people are complaining about the severe warning put out by the Government. I am not sure why? Apart from an attempt to make a political point. With fires breaking out and destroying houses in this country, there is obviously a need – 99% of fires are caused by humans, mostly, and I am being generous here, accidentally through stupidity or ignorance. We discussed this at the shop this morning. It was pointed out that many people now have no access to the news, they do not watch news programmes, or listen to radio stations with news. So ignorance is an explanation, not an excuse. Some have said that the warning was over the top, but with the Army enrolled to help fight the fires because the fire service is being overwhelmed by the number of outbreaks. the government would be negligent to do nothing. One old lady even said it was inappropriate whilst we had small boat crossings , a crisis in the NHS (both Tory legacies). I am only aware of the government using the system once before regarding severe weather again, but wind/rain? One guy even said it was wrong because it frightened his child – presumably he has banned all fairy tales, and mention of Farage or Thatcher?

OK the brittle diva himself. Having claimed to have put two fingers up to the establishment (personified by himself) and forgeting the 10000 votes cast for anti-esstablishment figures like a guy wearing a trash can on his head. One can almost hear him sobbing in the corner, complaining that ‘it’ is not fair and ‘don’t they know who I am”. – I guess 22000 people in Clacton do not!

But Burnham is not innocent himself, he has watered down EV requirements and been positive to the development of Rosebank and Jackdaw fields. Is there any touch of irony?

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WARNING

The government sends out a Notification warning people of the dangers of wildfires. Brilliant, as most of the south is unlikely to get any significant rain for the next month, this is aptly timed. Will the Daily Mail and Express, Telegraph etc. complain about a nanny state, the freedom to have a BBQ wherever? Or will they congratulate ‘Andy’, surely not Burnham, for his decisive action. (I would like to see similar regarding Israel and fossil fuels, but whatever! Oh and water companes need to be nationalised NOW! So will the shite press run stories of how the fires are caused by nature lovers?

Tomorrow – standing charges for utilities. “I am selling potatoes’ but you will pay me so much per day whether you buy any or not!’ Rip off Britain. and would you report a neighbour for ……..

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NOT A NICE PERSON

I was brought up to ‘Being magnanimous in defeat and humble in victory means keeping a kind, noble heart no matter the outcome. It means not being mean when you win, and not being angry when you lose.’ Farage is neither, just a spoilt braggart. He also became the first winning candidate since IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands to fail to attend the result. He also cancelled a press conference this morning saying on social media ‘he told supporters at a party down the road: “I’m sad to say that after 33 years of being a candidate in active politics, I’ve been advised tonight by Essex Police that there is an organised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result.” Essex Police deny this completely. So a liar and coward too!

He added: “I’m damned if I’m going to stand on a stage having won a resounding victory, a ringing endorsement of all that I’ve tried to fight for and you’ve tried to fight for and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies.” WHAT AN ARROGANT TOSSER!

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CLACTON

2 statistics to bear in mind. In the last election the turnout was 58.7% and Farage got 21255 votes If these statistics are down he will be a loser – it also worth noting that the tories got 12820 votes, so basically right wingers got 75% of the vote. Also of interest is how Count Binface gets on – this is a very British election! If he does not lose his deposit (by getting 5% of votes cast) it will be seen as a victory by those of us who hate Reform – with a passion. Therefore anything less than 20000 votes for the lunatic, a turnout of less than 50% and less than 75% of the votes will lead to an embarassed evil muppet. And then we will probably have to do it all again in a couple of months.

More shite from the right wing climate deniers, thhey are blaming nature reserves and conservation measures for the spate of wild fires across Britain. Whilst just about every species of wildlife in the UK is in decline they balme the victims rather than the perpertrators of the fires – 98% human induced. Perhaps they should be encouraging volunteering and school participation in wildlife rather than the wildlife protectors. And not a mention of climate change – evil bastards! In Scotland there have been calls for the Glorious Twelfth to be abandoned (The start of the grouse shooting season when rich people pay a fortune (for me) to shoot little birds for fun – is this a medieval tradition?). Is it better when the hunting is genuine and the birds shot eaten, rather than reared in sheds causing pollution? I am not vegetarian so my mind remains open on the issue (although we should all cut down on meat consumption for climate change. Maybe we should see more venison in the supermarket – or maybe the Bambi effect is too strong, but there are more deer in the UK than probably at anytime in history. Just thinking out loud1!