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Well, our American philanthropist aka Trump has been throwing around accusations of European nations not paying their dues. Dues as agreed to finance NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). Figures banded about are 5% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). But what exactly are we talking about? What is GDP in particular? It measures the total value of all goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific period. In order to compute GDP, economists employ three different approaches: income, expenditures, and production. Although each methodology offers a unique perspective, they should theoretically yield the same value for GDP. The income approach calculates GDP by adding up all the incomes in the economy, including wages, rents, interest, and profits. This approach is based on the premise that all income must come from the production of goods and services. The expenditure approach, also known as the spending approach, calculates GDP by adding up all the spen...

If you want to know the state of British politics and political decision-making you could do no better than reading an article by Julia Hartley-Brewer. To sum it up in a single sentence – If we cannot stop the boats, how could we stop the Russian Army? Correct. Despite Starmer glorifying the so-called Review of Defence spending, the recent calamity of the umpteenth U-turn shows a different situation. The nation is completely submerging itself in a debt of gigantic proportions because it just cannot get to grips with the sickness culture. In particular the so-called ‘Mental Health crisis’. If you want to travel rather than work the only thing you need to do is devising a mental state where you can begin to claim as many benefits as possible. And off you go. Quite the thing to do now for the under-30 age group. It shows that although the Conservatives left an absolute shambles, Labour has just made it even worse. How you can make a shambles more of a shambles defeats me but hey we are ta...

All is well with the world, Glastonbury is happening! The BBC is cock-a-hoop, let’s interview all the weirdos. Yep, it’s the old old story, we dance as the world around us is collapsing. We dance to forget all the rubbish, simply because we cannot do anything about it, or we are just simply too lazy or stupid. Probably the last word. Why worry, the government doesn’t. Politicians are only interested in their own jobs and even at that they are miserably failing. How long have we had to endure the infernal boats? The ever increasing dinghies? Now full of state-sponsored criminals, rapists, and other odious persons. State-sponsored by even worse criminal organisations such as the Russian state. And some of us in high office are applauding. Why are we wondering some people are so fed up they take up a weapon and start banging on the drums leaving death in their wake? All of this just shows how powerless we have become. Once we ran over half the planet, now we are just shivering half-wits, ...

One of the things happening often in UK politics, the government making U-turns. Now ordinarily that’s not so bad because if you have made a mistake and after a year or so you figure it would be better to change, then do so. But in the UK U-turns happen within days! That shows policy is made on the hoof. Like in No.10 the cat has a brilliant idea, the Prime Minister immediately goes on social media saying cat food should be free of charge. Brilliant, great idea, everybody applauding. Two days later after vociferous opposition the PM declares that as cat food is now made from vegetable matter and Tofu, the cats have gone on strike. They want Kitekat back. So, U-turn. Brilliant, aren’t we doing well. Just a waste of time. Because in those few days there were hundreds of meetings, the Speaker of the House needed a private plane to attend a briefing in Honolulu about why cat food was too expensive and the surcharge needed removing. No-one knows why he needed to stay in the Hilton but appar...

Viewing the deteriorating world situation coupled with the meekly calls by European leaders to ‘de-escalate’, which both Israel and Iran will not adhere to but will increase escalation. You only have to listen to the rhetoric from Iran and the responses from Israel. It is time to declare I am signing up for joining a possible Homeguard. I am too old now to join the Army proper but I have had military training. Having been on national service in an European Army, just across the water. We need to be on our guard, also because of the increased sword rattling by the Russians. Coupled with the idiotic US present policy making and attitude, is a wake-up call of some size. It is strange that after so much time of humans being on the planet in some numbers we are ending up like this, fighting and this time it might spell the end of us. The old research about why increased numbers end up fighting each other seems to be absolutely true. In fact I believe it is genetically inbred. That rat/mice...

It was reported a day or so ago that some Senedd (the Welsh government) members felt that social media is used to viciously attack politicians. Even on a daily base. In other words, continuously. Good Lord, a politician complaining about being attacked? That is unheard of, never happened before. What is going on? Where is the Army, can we send the Royal Marines? Well, Trumpy baby can in the US, why not here? We must safeguard our valued politicians, they do such a valued good job it must be protected at all costs. Yes, yes! Well, it makes you wonder what type of politician we have today. Obviously they do not like it up ‘m, although they do not mind putting the hot poker up others. Miss Rayner didn’t mind calling the other side ‘scum’. There again Welsh politicians, at least some of them, are a different breed, coming from the inner regions where you see no-one for years the only thing they know about is sheep. Sheep listen, say nothing, and are easy to herd. So the poor dabs are not ...

D on’t we all feel great now today after the spending review by national accountant Reeves? Personally we should all be impressed that bank tellers know so much about national accounts. Completely ignoring debt levels and obfuscating how money is spent. Bellowing from the dispatch box how good it all will be. Defence spending? No problem, we will include spies, hide payments to foreign aid as defence costs, include embassy costs, include the military housing renewals and upkeep. Wonderful, we spend 3% on defence. Listening, Mr POTUS? And oh, by the way, we will build 12 nuclear submarines. Yes, Keir phoned me at 3am in the morning, he couldn’t sleep, said he had a nightmare about dolphins we had to do something about them. Stop worrying Mr President we are doing our bit, we are an island and safe. Russians don’t like water. What you mean, drones, what are those?  Dear oh dear, how deep we have sunk. The nation that kick started the world we live in today. Railways, penicillin, an...

The world of science is an absolute fascinating world. New things, new ideas happen all the time. Old theories get banished, new theories spring up. For most people the word Quantum is alike to ‘acrabadabra’ or perhaps ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’. Yet, today it has become the ‘In’ word. An article in the Independent newspaper about new research what the Big Bang is or maybe was. Usually described as the ‘Explosive birth of the Universe’, it might turn out not particularly true at all. Personally I have believed there was no beginning and there is by association of that word no end either. This newer research seems to point out that view. Basically saying we are the result of an ‘evaporation’ of a black hole. Black holes are not just an infinite point in space from which there is no escape. Black holes apparently do radiate gamma rays or even perhaps more. Humans are always looking for the easy answers. The question of ‘Where do we come from’, and ‘I had a beginning so everythi...

I t is unbelievable how proper elected governments actually behave. Yes, behave is the correct word because governing is not what they do. The immigrants problem is nearing flashpoint. But they do not care. The Home Secretary is more interested in upping her money and the Prime Minister is more concerned h i s hair looks good but never does. Shambolic is the word. When national newspapers have been treating the immigrant problem softly softly for some time, it is now becoming clear what excessive immigration, illegal immigration does to communities. The money we pay for this abomination is absolutely eye-watering and rising! We pay half a billion to the French police just to stand and watch immigrants going into the infernal dinghies to make sure no harm befalls them. In fact I reckon some of the police cheer the immigrants on their way. Then when the imm i grants arrive and they do in their thousands every year, we put them up in swanky hotels with free meals, free medical support, ...

O ne might think of a man like Jeremy Clarkson as a bit of an idiot. Me, I’m not one of them. In fact although I find his antics of running a farm a bit off the mark it always seems to work out OK as he gets the right people to do the jobs for him. But there is more to Jeremy than you might think, his mind is sharp and he tends to say what most people think but never would say for fear of being deported to Scotland. His right on the spot remarks in his newspaper article tells the story of how this country is run by people who have as much brainpower as a gnat. In a funny way he pointed out that when he dies the government will take possession of his farm, plaster it with solar panels and social housing to house hard-working immigrants. He forgot to say earning salaries and thousands of benefits paid for by taxes levied on real hard working families. It is said now that London town people get more in benefits than the rest of the country. In his hilarious but sad article he pointed out ...

I t’s that time of year when the taxman wakes up. What I find disconcerting is the way people save and on some savings, say Bank interest for instance or savings put away in a Bond of some sort then are taxed at 20%. Although he taxman allows a paltry £1,000 free. So, a person puts hard-earned money away, perhaps over a life-time and then some of it get taxed! Of course there are savings systems that are free of tax and one would be well advised to take those. But it is not always convenient or possible. One can talk, even swear, about taxation but a valid question would be, what is done with all that tax? Does a country, it’s chosen leadership, spend it wisely? It ought to be obvious that taxation is a necessity, simply because as a society we need certain things. That is to say all of the people that live, resid ing in a nation. We need a certain amount of social care, we need to protect ourselves with an army and we need a number of people who lead the system and projects its cour...

W e, in the UK have to face up some facts. In fact, the whole western influence sphere, to name the US, the UK, the EU and their vassals need to face up to the same facts. These facts are very simple, we are re-enacting the 1930’s. OK, we have Starmer here trying his best to f*ck the UK but in the US we have a president who is beginning to sound much like Neville Chamberlain in 1939. We are all being goaded into another conflagration because of weak, powerless governments. It is shown through the behaviour of the autocratic countries, Russia, China and some others. It seems our pol i ticians, as I have said many, many times are powerless nobodies who pretend to know what’s going on. In reality they are only interested in easy solutions without any idea of the possible results. When Russia invaded a free country although not being part of the EU or NATO, all we heard from western governments was ‘We will install sanctions’. Oh, but did we? Really? Sure, some money from oligarchs was i...

S o, yeah, what can you say about these cyber attacks now happening? The cyber attacks against M&S, the CO-OP as well as Harrods and perhaps more to come? I am an avid computer user and I know one thing, or perhaps two things, the weakest part of a computer is the human banging on the keyboard. When you start looking how all the big systems work together, the main frames, the servers, the companies subbing services then you begin to see how it is possible a seventeen year old geek can subvert a bonafide company. Although in the case of these big stores there can be more at the heart of the matter. As was mentioned before if companies use software sources, or services from third parties you will broaden the possible attack front. Even users of VPNs might be wondering how safe they really are? I use VPNs but I also know a lot of them sell data! Now for most of us beer-swillers that does not matter a lot but some of us, in fact an increasing number, use banking and purchase from giant...

R eports are coming in a lot of the time about how insects are becoming scarcer. Well, it might explain why I no longer see swifts in the sky over the southern Rhondda. I noticed one barn swallow. I am told there are a few around the farm areas and woods but it is very, very few. What are we, humans doing to our planet? Are we so dumb? When looking around at the behaviour of a sizeable part of the local population I would say, yes, we are incredibly dumb. In fact I would say, idiots. Our youth cannot even look up into the sky, most cannot identify one bird from another. Every insect that walks or flies around must be killed just because another idiot said that they bear diseases. Well, may be so but it is the way the world operates. The truth is we are so changing, altering the living sphere that it favours those insects that really can harm us. Mosquito e s for instance, or in the past fleas, harbouring bubonic plague because we were dumb enough to drop all our waste, bodily waste in...

W ell, the Eurovision Song Festival has passed. What can you say about it? What I can say and this view is held by many, it is an abysmal show of shouting and performing idiotic movements they call dancing. On top of that as I am British I can also say if we keep sending singers, single or in groups like we seem to do, we will never come to anything but last. There is a remarkable difference between quality of songs and reality. If we contrast songs by some like Adele, Ed Sheeran or even Dua Lipa and contrast that with what we sent then we shouldn’t really have bothered. Virtually the same can be said about most other entries. Some people might say, ‘Oh, he talks because he didn’t win’. Yes, I am British and I want to win! At everything. Including moronic festivals. I think enuf said, what? It also brings me to the political stand we seem to be taking today. We have had a referendum about whether we wanted in or out of the European Union. A majority voted ‘Out’. Why do we now allow th...

A s we here in Europe have been listening and digesting the words from a certain president of a western nation I think we can take from that certain conclusions. The first would be the talk about ‘upping’ nations that are members of NATO to spending 2% or more of their GDP on Defence. It is true that European nations including the UK have been decreasing their commitments for a number of years. Mainly spending their money on social experiments like free medical care. In the UK one of the largest amount of cash is spent on keeping a vast number of people out of work, in other words they are non-economic assets. Whether right or wrong, I am not particularly qualified to discuss but nevertheless it is a fact. On top of that certain policies made in response to doctrine or even dogmatic thinking of those in power, have basically ensured that certain countries are close to bankruptcy. I am not counting out the UK either! Rumours are now circulating on social media about the US thinking o...

I f we didn’t know already, a powerful editorial in the Sun newspaper about the bad situation in Britain will tell us the reason. Also myself have stated many times the dire quality of politicians and politics generally, the attitude problem our youth have and of course the never ending calamity of the illegal immigration. The so-called boat people, although I don’t like that term since you might get the idea we are talking about the canal boats. That is if the canals can get the water they need, which seems debatable nowadays. Politically speaking we have the duff Keir plodding over to the US to lick the ar**** of the Donald in the Oval Office all supervised by the champion drongo Vance. Enough said about that. Next Keir is going over to Ukraine basically to promise help, money, equipment, troops and whatever else comes up in his brain without actually knowing the reality on the ground. That is to say, we are desperately short of money, troops, equipment and on top of that the equipme...

May the Pope rest in peace as some reports stated, ‘He has gone to see His Father in Heaven’. A recent article I read on the web pointed out about the Roman Catholic Church’s position on quite a few things. Positions on women priests, abortion, death by choice (such as with a terminal illness like cancer), and a few others. In contrast with the Anglican Church which it said to be rather too liberal and tried to go along with many changes such as women priests, meddling with the dogma, changing services left and right centre. Although both Churches have had their problems with sexual deviations, in the main the Catholic Church seems to have dealt with these mishaps better. As a result the Catholic Church is reputed to be growing in the UK whilst Anglicanism is on a steep downward curve. We will not hear anything about it as in my own backyard the many Anglican priests have taken the view they should be more ‘in the world’. Meaning to be seen at festivals, embracing a very liberal attitu...

O h why oh why do we have people in charge who just cannot tell what is right and what is wrong. Sitting on the fence all their miserable lives. One of those, Keir Starmer, yes he the one sitting on the prime minister’s chair, he is a case in point. When it suited him was very happy to jump on the bandwagon of wokeness, even declaring women could have penises. Sure, he was part of the Labour opposition so that’s OK then. He boldly declared, showing himself to be a man of powerful intellect, ‘trans women are women’. Right o, we get it Keir. Forward to 2025, some three years later and the Supreme Court has now declared ‘A woman is defined by biological sex’. Obviously we all already knew that, except Sir Keir and quite a few of his mates as well who needed a court decision to get it into their thick skulls that a woman is a person defined by their biological sex from birth. It remains to be seen whether their skulls are too thick for something as profound as that statement to get through...

O ops, Labour is still on the control part. Controlling everything, inclusive of how we behave, speak, sleep, defecate, urinate, kiss, even masturbate. Angela Rayner is on the warpath! Just hoping she told master Keir what's going on. Sure, Labour has this communist legacy, it is not the majority but like everything in this woke country, the minorities have the upper hand. Thanks to their big mouth and willingness to step up onto the ramparts. Whilst most of the ‘normal’ people are just too willing to step back and let them get on with it. But there is a danger to that approach as we are able to note what’s happening in totalitarian countries. Freedom of speech has disappeared, one does what one is told or else. The red-haired AR would love that I suppose, kill off all men for a start. Well, let’s be fair only the Scots now know what a woman is. The rest of the country still dithers to figure out whether a trannie is a tranvestite or a man disguised as a woman with or without oper...

A lot of words have been written as well as spoken about migration. Obviously migration as we experience it today with the so-called boats across the Channel. Firstly of all I believe this will not stop. Certainly not with the way present and past governments have tried to deal with that particular situation. There seems to be a belief by a lot of MPs migration is a good thing. Also it seems the governments are living in a different type of country the rest of us are. The present PM Keir Starmer is incredibly fond of burbling on about ‘Making the hard decisions’. It seems to have said to him it will make people more amenable to accept whatever you might have to come up with as far as taxation is concerned. Well, let’s see what the ‘hard’ decisions really are. As far as I can see it has just been taxation. In other words we all have to pay more for continuing the same ways, the same rigmarole, the same calamities. There have been no ground braking changes in the way we must deal with so...