Category: Politics

I find the Greg Wallace affair interesting! I am absolutely certain that it does not deserve to be on the front pages for a week though. I have conflicting views though! Perhaps that is why!

I wonder if fame and power addles the mind of men? I went 30 years as a teacher without behaving like him! However I was not rich and famous!

I do not have sympathy but wonder if I can understand. To become rich and famous I would assume that one needs a huge ego matched by massive confidence. He was also likely to have been surrounded by people massaging his inflated ego. The Programme was also one where innuendo and bantering were common place – even a requirement. He also has not been accused of anything other than comments – which were inappropriate and uncalled for. However it does seem that the media has a campaign against the BBC.

Yes it is correct that he should not be retained as a presenter, but I suspect that many more people are guilty of much worse! The last government was full of misogynists and bullies!

Public life and prominent celebrities should set an example – President Biden has just set a truly awful example in the USA which will be compounded, no doubt, by Trump.

Of course I have signed many a petition. I never expected them to be successful though. A petition is a way of showing discontent in a democracy, not a way of enacting change. Badenoch showed great naivity by raising it at PMQT. In the UK we have a thing called General Elections. Labour won with a huge mandate. This petition calling for the Government to resign is not even been run properly with recommended post codes to be used by those abroad!

Sp rule by petition would be a disaster for democracy – we have Parliament to guide civil servants who run the country. In turn these civil servants provide Parliament with information with which to make decisions. Knee jerking ejaculation via the Daily Mail and GB News is to be resisted at all costs. Having lost at the ballot box the right wing seem to be trying to create a situation for a coup? Farage is stupid enough and egoistic enough to go along with this.

Meanwhile Johnson blames the Chuch for Britains obesity problem! Oh well!! Britains children are the worlds unhealthiest! Of course nothing to do with fast food advertising and housing costs that mean both parents need to go out to work. Putting advertising restrictions on is said to be “nany state”, but the same people need telling that it is pissing down outside!

Why are they moaning about the wrong thing!

THAMES WATER – is bankrupt and has not fulfilled statutory requirements – so just nationalise it and take the right wing crap

Russia deploys North Korean troops and then a blitz of drones against utilities and housing in Ukraine. Biden then gives Ukraine permission to use Atacms missiles with a range of 180 miles – i.e. into Russia. Is this a last fling before Trump takes over? Will UK give permission for Storm Shadow missiles to be used?

Whilst Trump supporters are correct that wars like this never end in victory, only compromise, it appears that neither side is prepared to concede anything yet. Russian troop loses are estimated at more than 60000, but the Kremln through history has shown distain for human life. Ukraine has shown a depth of resistance that certainly surprised Putin. The financial cost to Russia is possibly less than expected as `India and China amongst others have replaced the west as purchasers of Russian raw materials.

It keeps bugging me!

Hamas slaughtered many innocent Israelies last year. This was in retaliation for years of Israeli abuse in Gaza and the West Bank (all illegal under international law). I do not condone but understand! In retribution Israel has killed over 40.000 Palestinians (70% women and children). And still politicians state the lines “a contry has the right to defend itself”. I was bullied at school so I have blanket bombed the entire neighbourhood! How is this justifiable? Trump has appointed an obvious Islamaphobe as ambassador to Israel – He would love an illegal holiday hone on the West Bank. Genocide, or ethnic cleansing – it is definitely morally wrong.

Any child could see the rights and wrongs here – yet politicians cannot? Is there really a secret Jewish conspiracy?

The Telegraph leads with Julie Bindel being questioned by police after a complaint from a transgender person. I did not read the article and it was not reported on BBC or Guardian websites! So major news and an attempt to get retired people spluttering in their cornflakes? I readily admit that transgender is a term I do not comprehend or understand! However if this Julie person was being hateful I am all for the police wrapping a knuckle or two! Reading about the hate spread on the net is shameful and just wrong. So if it appears that promoting hate and violence is followed up by the police – brilliant. It might make people think twice before threatening or even wishing harm on someone. Hiding in a bedroom and spouting hate, in between wanks, is a criminal act and should be treated as such. This goes for all intolerence whether racial, religion or sexual.

I have joined the illustrious and growing group of people quitting X. Stephen King, Jamie Lee Curtis, The Guardian. I have tried Threads and Mastodon but neither seems to be as smooth. Blue Sky ticks the right boxes for now! With 16 million users (one million in last week) it is growing fast. Easy to use and deceptively like X it could be a real competitor for posting.

I so wish it did not matter that he was elected. His appointments to his cabinet are beyond the absurd! A Health Secretary who is anti-vax; an Atorney General who is anti-democratic, has been accused of under-aged sex trafficking, and is hard right; an Ambassador to the UN who has criticised it frequently; A head of intelligence with claims of being groomed by Russia against her; Defence Secretary is a presenter on Fox News ad has no military experience.

America – you are a load of fuckwits. I get that Muslims did not vote for Harris as she is pro-Israeli; I even get that the poor are pissed off with the cost of living rises. I even vaguely understand the NIMBY attitude to migration “I was an immigrant, but now is enough”. But what conned you into thinking that Trump is not an egoistic stupid and vindictive c***.