Another adjective to describe our government – spiteful. A fantastically successful organisation that stimulates thousands of jobs in this country is being sacrificed to the rotting edifice of Brexit. Is it a warning to those woke, liberal or leftish leanings that this government will use all means available to maintain their hold on the country – and a warning to the BBC?
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Whilst food costs have fallen (perhaps to unsustainable levels), housing costs continue to rise. This hurts the poorest more obviously – but is a product of the unbalance capitalist system we have. I have no problem with a landlord who works hard and gets a 5% profit on his property and commitments. However we have been dispossessed of the land in this country. There should be a basic right to a living space that can be kept warm at a reasonable cost. Barratt Homes make a £50000 profit per house – estate agents and solicitors and surveyors all make excess sums (although I will concede that estate agents face proper competition and my experience with them has been fantastic).
CLIMATE CHANGE
Despite the horrible events of the past few years Climate Change is the one which will make Covid and Ukraine have the relevance of teenage zits to a pensioner. The normal tory unintelligent are liming up to thwart moves for onshore wind claiming ‘it is unsightly’ – death from climate events is fucking unsightly. I think they look rather nice and would love to see one from my bedroom window – and they are not noisy – can we move the likes of Sleaze-Dogg, petty patel, Nadine dimwit, Heating-haggis, Zahalfwit, et al to live under the Heathrow flight path, or maybe a terraced house near a trunk road.
INCOMPETENCE OR MALICIOUS?
There is no doubt about the first, but are they malicious? I think my ratio is veering to the the second. Their corruption places them in unprecedented territory for this country. They take money from the Russians and anyone else regardless of the costs to the public.
PRICES
My loaf of bread went up by 30% today. Milk and dairy products likely to rise substantially too. Globalisation has brought many benefits, but uncontrolled it has led us into this predicament of higher prices and reliance on unstable product supplies. Employment decisions made in Qatar are not beneficial to UK workers.
NOT SNAP OR POKER
The war in the Ukraine seems to be moving to a new phase. I state again that I am a mere observer and not an expert. Russia seems to have accepted ‘defeat’ or ‘lack of victory’ around Kiev and the north. However it has economic reasons to push for a victory in the south and east. Cutting Ukraine off from the sea would give it a kind of victory as that would impose economic constraints on the country of Ukraine. The Russian speaking states in the east apparently voted to stay in the Ukraine a while back – so where does this leave the west?
GETTING THE BIG DECISIONS RIGHT
CORNWALL
Some facts our wonderful government paid £170m covid grants to Cornish holiday let businesses; Cost of 2nd home owners avoiding council tax to CornwallCC £17 million; There are 12776 second homes and more than 11000 holiday lets – and 21817 people on councils housing register. In the past year house prices in Cornwall were 7% up on the year before and 23% up on 2019 when they averaged at £270,554, now £330097.
SHIT
Raw sewage pumped into rivers 372533 times last year. Our wonderful government and the privatised companies which have dished out millions of £ to shareholders, have agreed to cut these discharges by 40% by 2040. Honestly this is not a typo, and the government say it is a step change! So in 18 years time there will only be 223520 discharges of raw shit into our rivers. What a fragrant government we have!
WATER
Water companies dumped sewage into our rivers and coast 372,533 times last year! How shitty is that?