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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There's Nothing Cool About it

There is two million square kilometers less sea ice in the arctic this year. The ice at the poles reflects the sun's rays and helps to keep the planet cool. Forecasters suggest all the arctic sea ice will have gone by 2045. I worry it may accelerate personally, as less and less sunlight is reflected.

Even if all governments keep to their agreed, inadequate quotas on greenhouse gasses etc, which they won't, then the future looks very uncertain, especially if you live on a low lying island, or in a low lying area near a coast or river.

We are not bequeathing the next generation a very cool outlook. Still, if recent outpourings from Boris Johnson are anything to go by we may confront Russia militarily and end the human race. Then maybe the planet will eventually recover without us. A bit of common sense would be better though.

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Hopeless And Heartless Bureaucrats

The migrant camp just across the English Channel in Calais is about to be dismantled. Monday in fact. Within the camp are close to two hundred minors, or children, alone and at risk of abuse and kidnap, even death. Some eighteen have recently gone missing and more before that you can be sure. Many will have been raped and worse. Many of these minors have a right in law to come to the UK as they have relatives here.

We are still a part of Europe for the moment even if we didn't sign up for Schengen. And anyway even if we weren't part of Europe what's happening here is incredibly and seriously wrong.

People need passports and bureaucracy must be appeased, it's the way of the world, I know that. However, if a white middle class British child lost a passport in France you can be sure something would be done about it and swiftly.

Children are at risk of abuse, exploitation and death and it's left to people like Juliet Stevenson to do something about it. Yet again politicians in this country have no idea, no heart, no soul, no integrity, no feelings. You can do it May, Johnson et al; so send someone to get them you idiots, you don't even have to get your hands dirty, process the papers here or there, but go over there and save them while there are still some left to save.

Blaming the French is not good enough.

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Nice One Gary

We think about Clinton and Trump as the only Presidential candidates, but there are others out there, if only to make a point. One of them is Gary Johnson, supposedly a Libertarian although what that means to him is anyone's guess. As a former Republican Governor of New Mexico he's unlikely to be liberal in outlook.

Asked in a televised interview what he would do about Aleppo he responded 'what's Aleppo?' The interviewer couldn't believe the scoop he was getting I suspect. A man running to be President of one of the world's largest economies and of one of the world's most militarily powerful countries, is genuinely that ignorant. No really. He got it was Syria eventually and then suggested cosying up to Russia.

As astonishing as it is worrying.

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