He Who Divides Wants Us To Come Together

Self serving, dishonest Boris has joined a new Leave Europe campaign group, possibly to keep up the pressure on the misguided PM who made him Foreign Secretary. He says he wants Leave and Remain people to work together. The very existence of this group demonstrates just how split his own party is. I think Boris has no conception of the even deeper division in the country, which he fostered with his lies and propaganda.

A few, bend with the wind, remainers might pay lipservice, but the division will not go away. TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady is concerned that worker's shouldn't pay the price for so called 'Brexit' whilst most of the TUC leadership seem to acknowledge that many of their members voted that way to give the establishment a good kicking. Labour is equally divided.

What we see is self interest groups all panicking that their share of EU handouts might be lost or that their members might suffer. If it all goes pear shaped in three years, everyone is going to blame someone else and the easiest scapegoat will be pesky foreigners. Pathetic. If May can make this work she'll be one of the greatest PMs ever, on current performance I have little optimism, well, none actually.

Politicians meddled with my education growing up and all she seems to want to do is meddle again, whilst others around her meddle with the health service, the economy and on and on. By the way did anyone think Theresa May meeting Donald Tusk in a short split skirt was appropriate or attractive?

Malcolm Snook

Blame The Father

A twelve year old American girl was recently seen on social media posing with a giraffe she had shot dead on a hunting trip to Africa with her father. Giraffes, the gentle giants of Africa, have declined by 40% in the last fifteen years, mostly due to loss of environment, but brainless hunters teaching madness to their kids don't help.

Malcolm Snook

The Evil Of Assad

A couple of days ago we learned that a group of British clerics and members of our esteemed House Of Lords went to visit that friendly looking President Assad, you know the charming man in a suit, married to a British doctor's daughter with British kids late of Acton.

Last night we see a tiny girl shivering with fear, clutching an oxygen mask, the victim of a chemical weapons attack. Russia may choose to support this monster, we should not be dignifying his regime with visits, shame on us too. Churchmen and Lords, no more use than our politicians.

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BBC get it right please.

I may be an old fogey, but I'm not against change, I have no problem with regional accents and I don't care what the ethnicity of a correspondent is. However, when a BBC correspondent on a major news show thinks the plural of deer is 'deers' or when another pronounces Le Touquet with a hard 't' at the end I wonder what's happened, et tu, Brute.

I don't know what these people get paid, but I'm sure I'd like the job, do they not rehearse, does no producer, director or anyone else check they know the basics? Standards BBC, professionalism please.

Malcolm Snook

UN Report On British Hate Crime

The Brexit campaign fuelled  racism and lied on an industrial scale. I think Farage and his racist barrage did a great deal of harm and that the whole thing was appalling. I'm not unhappy that the UN has reported on the issue BUT the UN needs to look to its own laurels in a range of areas, something I've been blogging about here.

0.01% A Rate For Savers!

NatWest have just cut the rate on my 'savings account' to 0.01%, won't be saving a lot then! Mark Carney is trying to stimulate the economy by making it pointless to save and cheap to borrow. Spend now, suffer later. One might have hoped for greater creativity, balance and wisdom from the governor of the Bank Of England, but who knows what political pressure is applied?

Of course Mark Carney might have hoped for greater wisdom from the British people too. When no one has any savings left and the vast majority have unsustainable debts and China owns everything, then perhaps we'll wake up. Well maybe.

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Plastic Microbeads

I'd never heard of plastic microbeads until this week when the media told us about the harm they're doing to the environment and ultimately we end up eating the damn things! Apparently these little plastic balls, well tiny really, are put into products like toothpaste and shower gels and skin cleansers to make the product mildly abrasive. Well, that's dubious in itself, I mean exfoliation might have a case, but wearing the enamel off your teeth, putting them in your mouth and maybe swallowing a few, ugh.

Most of course get flushed away down the sink or shower, into our rivers and into our oceans. They are ingested by tiny sea creatures and plankton, clogging their guts and probably killing off part of the food supply our fish and whales depend on. However, moving on, many of these smaller creatures, containing the plastic balls are eaten while still alive by the fish we then catch and eat, see where this is going?

And why do manufacturers include them? I don't know, but I'll take a little wager they're cheaper than other ingredients, that they are fillers to make the product more profitable and health and the environment be damned. It's all about money until they're found out, which they have been so ban the damn things pronto I say.

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