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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