Category: Politics

The Trooping the Colour Pageant is ok for tourists and OAP’s, but has no relevance to modern society. The abundance of flags is more sinister. Some streets in our cities resemble fascist rallies. promoting nationalism and nostalgia are all this government has left to offer. With poverty rife, prices rising, a chaotic mess for a government they want us to look back. But obviously not to carefully – top rate of tax in 1952 was 97.5%, public services were nationalised, dentists and the NHS was free. Maybe we should look back and see what the good things were that we have lost. Not TB and polio, rigid social norms, racism and homophobia, misogyny and intolerance.

I think what we have lost most of all is hope. Climate change is upon us, and still being ignored. The rich manipulate news outlets to develop fear amongst the population and promote the policies that benefit the status quo. Culture wars and anti-woke campaigns try to undermine harmony and tolerance.

Wave the flag and develop a kind of mass hysteria promoting nationalism and the status quo is the way forward for the government of ineptitude, or should it be the government of incompetents.

The government moves on from the parties to important things like promoting imperial measures. Bonkers! what is the reason for this? The papers arevtrying to make it anti-EU even though the move to metric had nothing to do with the EU and is not banned by the EU. Align with the USA makes no sense as their measures with the same name are actually different e.g.a ton.

We have the highest inflation in the G7. Inflation is caused by a variety of factors. Oil and gas prices have soared due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this has and will also hit grain and fertiliser costs; Brexit has resulted in a labour shortage and the increase in trade costs has spiralled; Climate change is also affecting commodity prices.

Whilst I have sympathy for the Police it seems that there is need for major overhaul, especially of the Met. Racism, misogyny, class bias and lack of staff are the 4 major problems I can identify from an observers point of view. Racism and mysogyny need stamping out immediately – officers found to be racist by an properly independent body would be dismissed without compensation/pension rights. Class bias is presumably exercised at the highest levels so promotion routes/interviews need to be reorganised to ensure ability takes precedence over school/uni/friendship. the lack of staff has been a deteriorating scenario over Tory rule – the public want burglary investigated immediately, not in a weeks time if at all. I am sure many police officers would have valid and useful ideas regarding reorganisation and greater efficiency.

And how did party gate cost £450000? No interviews, a few questionnaires, documents readily available for perusal. And why did it take so long?

Bunting and flags strung across the road – fucking nightmare. they even attached to my trellis. It would be churlish to complain, but the royal family are unelected privileged toffs. I thought that Queeny might keep Johnson in line regarding the law – but as she has not they provides as much benefit to the general public as Coronation Street and EastEnders (gossip and scandal).

Sleaze-Dogg says in retrospect we should consider whether the covid restriction laws were sensible, and therefore breaking them was justifiable. I would suggest anti-demonstration laws regarding climate change are even less sensible – in fact very, very stupid.

Collins English Dictionary – The rape of an area or of a country is the destruction or spoiling of it. So that is just about every Tory MP

We have heard from the Tories that cannabis leads to heroin; it seems that lying and getting away with dishonesty leads to much, much bigger crimes.

It should be up to sovereign countries to align themselves with whoever they like? When it suits us! Cuba, Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, post WWII Greece, etc. Nothing is ever that simple. It is understandable that Russia should feel threatened in the context of its history.

Ukraine however is preventing a sensible conversation about this between NATO and Russia. I do allocate blame 99% with Putin, but regardless of this there needs to be dialogue, rather than jingoism.