DutchEnery

It ought to be obvious to every Briton, rich, poor, or even comatose, the UK is not governed. In other words there is no government. There are people in the corridors and rooms of buildings designated to ‘house’ government, leaders of party or moronic personnel from something called Civil Service. Whatever that is. I said obvious because those that occupy the seats are people plucked from the street because they were happen to walk by the door at the time. The present day PM sat in an office, working on his latest diatribe against a nation called Israel when the coffee-lady came in to tell him a political party called ‘Labour’ needed help. As he had just visited his bank to complain about his overdraft charges, the teller who had ‘helped’ him, a nice lady called ‘Reef’ or something like it, he thought would be good at counting. That’s it, we have a new government as no one else could be found. Like this scenario? Who says it isn’t true? Every decision is followed by either a U-turn or ...

There are a few things bothering me today. They are the Post Office scandal and the idea that farmers must pay Inheritance tax. Now, it is beginning to show the government has lost its grip on the economy and hasn’t got much of an idea how to get out. Let’s take the Post Office scandal, we have here a clear mismanagement issue and possibly some bad influence by the then government when purchasing the computer system. Anyone thinking if there were brown envelopes flying about? Of course, there is no evidence and even if there was a smell they would absolutely deny any involvement. Listen to Paula, ‘I didn’t know anything about the system we purchased. I am not guilty and am a priest now, you know’. In the meantime those that were accused are dying still waiting for compensation. Some were offered much less compensation than they lost to the Post Office. I cannot help thinking the Post Office were pretty fast taking sub-postmasters to court and even forced some to sell all they had but ...

Being an avid reader of all matters Universal my eye fell on an interesting bit about ‘Where is the missing matter of the Universe’. Bearing in mind that the matter we all are made of, sun, planets, comets, stars, us only comprised some 5%. The rest is dark matter and dark energy. The word dark here implying it is there but we cannot see it. Now, bearing in mind that what we can see shows all is in motion. The whole lot is moving but we do not know whereto. There is something called the Great Attractor, a conglomerate of massive galaxies attracting our galaxy and all things close by. But now even that is attracted by something larger again! Scientists have termed this ‘Dark Flow’. In Quora it said ‘ Dark flow is an unexpected large-scale movement of galaxies across the universe, and we thought that our Milky Way, together with other local galaxies, is flowing towards the Great Attractor, a dens e conglomeration of many galaxies’. But also ‘It turns out that behind the Gre...

W e should all wonder what the government, and in particular the Civil Service, thinks about how they have let this country down. I would say down the sewer. It is incredibly sad to find our once pristine country, once a leader in the world hierarchy, so badly led. I just wonder in which book it was written that we will have to accept the changes in our once stable society. Of course there have always been those of a criminal mind but we have always been able to contain the numbers. But now with the incredible influx of foreign nationals, in particular those of the Arabian countries, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and under 25 years of age, the problems are now stacking up and virtually unsolvable. The fabric of our society is being eroded at an ever faster pace. This mainly because those that are flooding in across the Channel have no intention of assimilating. Indeed, many have intentions we better not mention but it includes dismantling this country completely. Then the Prime Minister ...

The PBS Channel is always quite interesting if you like history. In particular the world wars. I saw one about the rise of Mussolini and indeed about some of the ways fascism came to power. The situation after WW1 was not brilliant, many western countries were devastated, cities in ruin, starvation. There were also many refugees. It seemed inevitable that someone charismatic and not afraid to use some violence to impose the will of a party or indeed, an individual such as Mussolini became a prime minister. The two decades before WW2 were characterised by the rise of fascism mainly because people wanted law and order. Unfortunately these two things do not really fit into the fascist agenda. They talk about it but the actions are a poignant sign to what is going to happen. What is more worrying that the present period, also visible here in Britain seems to be a time of social unrest brought on by the inability of government to impose its democratic will. Meaning what people have voted fo...

We all have seen advertisements that want to buy your house for cash. Now, that seems great if you have had problems selling it, such as buyers who try their best to cut the price or legal delays such as boundary issues. Thus an ad like selling your house for cash, without legal fees or hassle, looks just the job. Right, but is it really? Recently I had a friend who went through this process. The first approach was simplicity itself, a phone-call which more or less was a reaffirmation of what the ad said. So, after agreeing he waited for the Contract. This duly arrived. After cursorily reading through it he filed it away. He noted the agreed price and although not 100% happy about the reduction from his original price he wanted, accepted it since he would receive the cash very fast. The company after all was buying. Actually, after some time had passed he received a phone-call telling him that some offers had been received but it seemed the original agreed price was too high for his ...

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...