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Now that most of the GCSE’s are over, we may safely say, Wales was a disaster. Actually the whole of the UK was a disaster. For untold years now Labour run councils and others have meddled in education. The results are dour but today the woke brigade have got their mildew mittens into it. To be fair the handling of the Covid shutdowns by the Conservatives viz Boris Partyman Johnson led by even dimmer medics did not do much good for education. Actually it collapsed. A very fair question needs asking – Where will our scientists come from? Or are we all going to become mediocre artists? Well, I suppose selling crap will still give a tax return. But who will be able to afford it? Even my own family, those who are teachers are beginning to say, the system has collapsed. Estyn are not proper investigators anymore but early retired head-teachers out for an easy retirement. Obviously, there are still some well-informed proper thinking teachers but these can now be counted on the fingers of

Having read one of the Telegraph’s articles, the ones that are sent called Top Stories on mobiles, named ‘Putin will soon turn his war machine on Britain’ , I wasn’t sure whether to start packing my belongings or laugh uproariously. It was attributed to Ben Wallace , a former Secretary for Defence, so it must be taken seriously. Looking at the article at first one can easily dismiss it as a bit of fanciful drivel, much like loads of other ‘ Telling you what is going to happen’ stuff. Obviously most does not, will not happen or are just fancy personal emanations of deep-seated fear of the unknown. Whatever, I wouldn’t think someone like Sir Ben would succumb to such fear. So, I read the article again and picked up the psychological slant on meetings with people who have had little discourse or meetings with opponents in foreign climes. People like Gerasimov, Shoigu for instance. What I picked up was the insular thinking by the Russian leadership. But these are the people who decide or

My oh my, here we go again! Listening to this morning’s BBC News programme we had this Labour luminary trying to explain why they have taken away the winter payments from most pensioners. Interestingly she continued with the usual political claptrap. These dastardly Conservatives having left the country bare and in a complete mess during fourteen years of mismanagement. Yeah, tell ‘m baby. Obviously the present Labour government has people that show a wonderful lighted ring above their heads. I must say, I am impressed by the continuing stupidity of politicians. It never seems to end! There has to be some school somewhere teaching these twits to come up with such banal sayings. Plus, they are told like Hitler was told by Goebbels, tell ‘m lies long enough and they’ll believe ‘m. This is how low Britain has sunk. We no longer are looking seriously at what is needed for the future, we are just making decisions on the spur of the moment. Disregarding needs, disregarding or not even knowin

The flow of migrants to western Europe continues unabated. Whilst already plenty is known about the stresses put upon the various governments, we only have to look at the UK to see that in all its colourful but painful existence. T he facts are it denudes the many countries these people come from. Looking at the number of young, mainly men, coming in hundreds of inflatable dinghies. O ne wonders how this actually will impact the very countries they come from? Plus the enormous sums of money leaving those countries? The money charged for these ‘trips’ runs into the thousands. The gangs operating are in the western countries, France for instance or Belgium, so I suspect money does not go back to those African or Asian countries the refugees are coming from . However, it seems that when immigrants finally find work, usually low paid, some money is sent back to family. The question needs asking, who actually benefits? It seems it is only the criminal gangs. Immigrants themselves unless

Who doesn’t love Julia Hartley-Brewer? I think every hot-blooded male under 60 years of age does and quite a few of the over 75s as well. As a commentator par exellence she was spot on in the Sun newspaper today (23rd August) by pointing out basically the conundrum that is immigration. That is, ALL immigration. But to be specific she pointed out the government’s actions or in-actions over this issue. For myself I have long postulated the intransigence of politicians but Julia simply stated ‘Are they lying to us, lying to themselves or do they think we’re all stupid’? Yes, that is exactly what they are about. All politicians, for some reason or other, continually tell us ‘We will stop the boats, we will stop immigration’, blah, blah, blah. But the truth is they do not really want to do it. So, the question is why? What can be gained? Well, cheap labour, mostly unqualified labour so if they find a job it means they’ll get paid in peanuts. Then there is a social plan afoot that most of us

We certainly have been and still are, very busy prosecuting about everybody who walked the streets protesting about something or the other. Also those who have spouted some very unpopular stuff about other people. Yet nothing is done about the source of these problems, the continuing flow of illegals, the non-policing of the web companies or indeed, proper government control. As usual in this country we continue to punish the results, not the causes. It will take some time to get this sorted out. In the meantime those who have received stiff jail sentences will probably not sit out these extraordinary sanctions for the full time. The continuing mantra heard is, ‘it is all the fault of the ‘far right’ . Yet another soundbite to put to bed a problem. What is the ‘far-right? Indeed, what is the ‘far-left’? What government people mean to say is these are the more aggressive parts of the political spectrum. Well yes, Labour should know all about it, they have their own, it is called ‘Moment

The m antra today, the political mantra that is, appears to be – 'affordable housing'. Sounds good doesn’t it? Well, at least it will sound good for those looking for a home, house or flat, which they can afford. The new Labour government and it was the mouthpiece, the deputy PM who stated unequivocally, ‘We will be building millions of new homes all across the country within three years’. Absolutely bl**ding brilliant. I am applauding. Hey wait, are there any thoughts on this? Has the government researched this properly? Or is it as per the usual government action, a lovely soundbite? Let’s assume they will do what they said they will do. First, the land, where will they be built? Londonistan is full and the land around the city is needed for recreation. They are not going to build on Hampstead Heath. Birmingham and other larger cities similarly, so they will as already indicated compulsory take land. It is not quite clear whether this will include ‘Green Belt’ land but I wou

Watching an uncomfortable TV programme concerning the number of scams going around, it was disturbing to hear we could be the country losing the most money to scammers. That’s a signal to me, most of us muck-dwellers don’t take scams very seriously or rather if we do worry about it, do not take security of our mobiles and other tech very seriously. Shown was a bit of tech that could immobilise WiFi signals around about 300 yards. WiFi doorbells and routers would just cease to work and hence no longer guard your possessions. Even worse, someone lost £120,000 in a proposed property buying exercise in Spain, thanks to a almost identical email address. Meaning whilst the buyer thought she was negotiating and talking to the solicitor, she was writing to the scammers. To top it all she thought it prudent to transfer the money in one lot, not even having seen the property in situ. Only on WiFi. Why did she? Only God knows, in this country you would pay a holding fee or deposit and only pay t

Carrying on my criticism of politicians, now we have the new Foreign Sec, who believes he is important, putting his bit in on the Middle East problem. A problem between Israel and Lebanon. Not so much the nation of Lebanon but Hezbollah. The not very bright gentleman blurted out that British troops are ‘ready and prepared’ to evacuate British subjects. He obviously has not spoken to the generals or even the Defence Secretary before opening mouth. Our troops, all four of them, will help. It’s not before time, presumably they will have to be helped by our Navy. The Queen Elizabeth carrier will be great, unless it breaks down in Gibraltar first. That should be OK because it has done so 10 times already, and had two refits. It will be supported by a small patrol boat just so when the Houthis throw around some ballistic missiles we have an answer. If only to sound the ships' horn. No? I wouldn’t either, let them sleep. All we do nowadays is ‘urging all sides to find a political solution

Yet again politicians do not seem to grasp what they are dealing with. They keep on burbling about the same old thing over and over again. Britain is a good country, British people are not like that (like what, precisely ?), we are a diverse country, multicultural blah, blah, blah. This morning the Policing Minister (Who? Never heard of this government post) continued the show as shown above. Adding that the social media companies must bear the responsibility of policing their sites. OK dear, how precisely are they going to do that? Do you know anything about software, the Internet and how it operates? Why don’t you go first and foremost getting to know all of that before opening cake-hole? Most communication between the organisers of these riots takes place on the Dark web and if they were not then will be soon. It could still be traced but would take quite a lot of resources and time.  So my dear Policing Minister, do you have the time, the money and the people? No? The social media

You could ask yourself, why is Britain like it is? Riots all over the place, wanton destruction of property. Basically it is a stupid question because the answer is already known. At the bottom of all of this is simply weak government. Weak in the sense it doesn’t know how to govern for the well-being of the population at large. Weak in the sense it continues to promise things without knowing how to even start the process. Weak in the sense it has lost complete touch with the reality on the ground. And weak in the sense it doesn’t know what to do with young people. They have tinkered with education, believing everyone must have a degree. Believing everyone from the age of three years old must know about diversity and gender. This all just for starters, I could go on. Now after the stick of dynamite has exploded, wide-eyed politicians blankly stare in the TV cameras of the thousand or so BBC reporters, burbling happily about something called the ‘Full Force of the Law’, without know

Hundreds of people arrested, dearie dearie me, what are they going to do with them all? I know, the Outer Hebrides are nice at this time of the year. Has anyone got a clue what our brilliant government is about? I am sorry to have to say this but what university did they go to? What did they learn bar partying? Somehow or other I think all political party set-ups need a complete rethink. More so, most people aspiring to a political career need re-programming. Somehow or other the idea that politicians should serve the people, all the people of the nation must resurface. Think of Keir Hardi e , he did not worry about side issues, he was set upon improving the lives of working people. Providing jobs to get out of the stinking bits left over from the Victorian era, his example starting the Labour party . He might have been difficult to live with but that in the end happens with determined people. Some good things come out of Scotland! But today and not just today as it has gone on for som

A day or so ago, I read an interesting social media message (Quora) that asked – Why is Islam growing in popularity and following and Christianity is dying in western countries? Well, that is a rather interesting question but basically from western counties views it is due to sharply increased immigration which is continuing. Plus that they tend to have more children within the family. The writer contented it was quite normal to expect that. My answer would be, yes it may be normal to expect that a s we have seen it – so why didn’t our various governments see it? The second thing mention ed was m u slims do not readily assimilate. B ecause it is show n in establishing ghettoes in our larger cities . Some people do not of course but they are the exceptio n I think. The author also mentioned that in his/her view Christianity is not dying, it is changing. Again I concur and personally find that sad. Younger people do not want or appear to want the dogma, the prayers, the s