British Standards - If They Can Be Called That

Driving home after New Year the litter alongside the A42 was appalling, what has happened to us? Who are all these people who just toss plastic bottles, tin cans, pizza boxes, cardboard mugs, polystyrene containers and plastic bags out of car windows?

Back home in Stannington I see bags of dog shit and crisp bags and other litter stuffed into cracks in someone's wall, on what planet is that acceptable, civilised behaviour? I could also mention the fly tipping, but what's the point? This country has lost the plot and  there's an argument that it comes from the top down, honest politicians would be a start, Anyone else noticed no one calls them statesmen anymore.

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Rip Off Britain

Went to Chatsworth House the other day, owned by the struggling aristocracy, where one can buy a plastic garden chair, although they call it polycarbonate as if it were some exotic marble, for a mere one hundred and fifty pounds. Buy four and you can get them for the bargain basement sum of five hundred pounds.

A pot of tea for one, that is a teabag, some hot water and a drop of milk is two pounds and forty pence BUT you do get to stick your backside in a one hundred and fifty pound chair, so that's alright then. And we want to leave the sanity of Europe!

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Football's Battle With Morality

Football has lost its moral compass and I'm not just talking about covering up past child sex abuse. The England manager lost his job because of blatant corruption, but that doesn't stop him from finding another highly paid job in the sport without a soul. Shame on Crystal Palace and yet again shame on the FA.

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The BBC Debates The Undebatable

Yesterday the Jeremy Vine show on BBC radio 2 debated the 'post truth world'. The debate seemed to be about the acceptability or otherwise of lying. The most unnecessary debate ever. We don't like being lied to in our private lives, we don't like spouses, partners, offspring, friends lying to us. It causes hurt, resentment, loss of trust and conflict. Lying is wrong and not just the absence of lies, we want the truth, it's why in court we ask for the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Lying in public office has potentially greater consequences than the loss of trust in a family or between friends; lying in public office has national and even international consequences. And yet there were callers defending lying. Has the world gone mad?

Brexit voters saying don't patronise me I knew they were lying, but I still wanted to leave the EU, or words to that effect. Well, I won't patronise you, but I will insult your intelligence, what you've done is handed power to liars and opportunists. You wouldn't want to be lied to or deceived in your private life but you've handed governmental power to the untrustworthy.

Some people of course believed the lies and are now bitter about being lied to, one such person phoned in. Brexit was founded on lies going back thirty years in the media, but with new lies mixed in about Turkey and about money in particular. Liar in chief was Boris Johnson now destroying relationships in Italy, Germany and The Czech Republic. He'll do far more damage before he's done. #notmygovernment #notmyforeignsecretary  #notmyrpimeminister

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It's About Their Future, That's What Concerns Them, It's Not Rocket Science

Mrs May gets my goat, but I bet she gets the goat of our European trading partners and allies a lot more. Demanding Britain play a full role right up until we leave is arrogant rubbish. It's about the other twenty seven now, not about us. The decisions being made are for them, not us. The more she stresses British rights and forgets British responsibilities the more anger she will engender and the tougher it will be. My sympathy is with the EU, not with the Tories or UKIP MEPs who created this mess.

The one thing worse for the world than the UK Govt is the UN in its current form.

Only Now Do We See The Scale Of It!

It's October, the tenth month of the year. Eighteen women have died in custody in the jails of England and Wales so far this year. That's one point eight deaths, or, call a spade a spade, nearly two every month and only now it's making the news! A shortage of staff, drugs in jail, what is going on? Who is running our jails, private firms? It's a bloody disgrace. The only party we haven't really tried for years is the Liberal Party, can they do worse? I doubt it personally.

If Britain's government is letting the UK down the UN is letting the world down!

Justice Or Talk - Take Your Pick

The conservative party 'justice' minister talked out a bill yesterday. Talking out a bill is an immoral device to prevent a vote, you just keep talking until there's no time for a vote, if ever there's something that needs to change in our parliamentary so called 'democracy' this is one.

The motive is uncertain, it might be as simple as not wanting a private members' bill brought forward by a Scottish National Party MP to succeed. Pathetic. We have decriminalised homosexuality in this country, therefore it's obvious  that those convicted previously, men entrapped and put on the police 'queer list' should have their convictions wiped out now that the country has decided that sexuality is not a crime.

In fact the bill wasn't even asking for the convictions to be wiped out, annulled as it were, it was simply asking for a pardon. No justice from this justice minister, it was talked out. You can have a pardon when you're dead according to Mrs May's government, so if you're an elderly gay man and you want a pardon suicide would appear to be the only option. Of course that's a crime too, so you can't win. Vote Liberal as thousands did in Mr Cameron's constituency by-election, not enough but a big swing.It's become the only sane choice.

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