It is quite exciting really, it looks like it may rain here this afternoon, fingers crossed for enough to refill water butts, although the south-east looks like missing out. Basically essex and Kent have a savanna climate regarding rainfall, and recently summer temperatures. However the following week is predicted to be mainly dry. Farmers are talking up prices and certain crops like cereals and cauliflower/brocolli seem to be suffering. Many farmers in Europe will have lost their crops (I was informed of an avocado farm which lost 30% of its trees. The latest country to be reported in the press with wildfires is Greece. El Niño will reach its zenith in December (hence the Spanish name), so we can expect at least another year of strange weather until we return to normal before La Nina takes hold! The Danube is at record lows and has revealled some interesting find in it scorched bed.
The latest poll from Clacton shows Farage at 75% and Count Binface on 20% – even this is humiliation for the toad faced twat! The turnout is expected to be low – if his number of votes goes down that is a virtual defeat in the context of no mainstream opponents! His latest embarrassing publicity attempt is that he would instruct the Royal Navy to intercept small boats and return them to France – which senior military personnel have said is not practicl or legal – like he cares! It is a story that will rally his racist supporters. I am mystified why the government have not yet opened up legal channels to get into the UK – are they frightened by the racists? If we did that, then all small boats arrivees would know that they would be returned to France. I am still mystified as to where these migrants get the money to board a small boat – the owners are doing it for charity or even political reasons. Many may be trafficked. The refugee crisis is one which needs calm appraisal rather than racist ranting.
On/off/on/off/on/off/on/off I fucking give up – latest USA/Iran talks are being hyped up by the US, and ignored by Israeli genocide units! And the price of will fluctuate to the glee of dealers in the petroleum markets – especially American ones who get prior knowledge! Producing oil and gas has a fixed price, selling it is up to the market price – UK motorists and many homeowners are facing higher bill to satisfy the shareholders in the Petro companies (who are ignoring the climate crisis – but not immune!