Some weeks are more bizarre than others, and we've had a few belters recently.
The whole world was SHOCKED when Harry and Thingy were pronounced 'Humanitarians of the Year' by some unknown US organisation. Have they been up to something behind our backs? I think we should be told! I quite expect someone will soon regret this very silly nomination, and prize.
The British 'Green Party' have been holding their annual conference. At previous conferences they have announced some very strange policies, including wanting to ban children from keeping pet Rabbits, and to reduce the length of artists 'copyrights'. This year they have declared that they wish to legalise ALL DRUGS (including Heroin, Acid, Cocaine, etc), and they also wish to ban private 'Landlords'. Of course, they don't stand a chance of ever running the country (thank goodness), but one can imagine the MASSIVE amount of homelessness this would create; as well as our streets becoming awash with drug-crazed smackheads. I imagine these policies were adopted after a seriously long night on their favourite mix of Ketamine and Coke.
The Labour party's slogan of 'Stop the Boats' continues to amuse everyone. Their latest policy of 'One in, one out' doesn't seem to be adding up as they imagined. Since this puerile scheme was envisaged, just 26 illegal immigrants (yes, 26) have been returned to France, and just over 36,000 were brought here by our Border Force boats (this year alone); who kindly pick them up mid-Channel, and bring them safely ashore. Like most people, my basic maths says that something doesn't seem to add-up; but then I didn't study at the LSE.
Why was I not surprised to hear that Labour MP Rachael Maskell's "stomach churned" at seeing fellow Labour MP's waving British flags at their party conference last week. "That's not the Labour Party" she said "they're just tatty bits of cloth". How do such people get elected to represent the country that they obviously hate so much?
And finally, Saint Donald of Washington seems to have brokered a peace pact between Israel and Gaza; and good for him if it holds. He is now aiming his peace-making skills at both Iran and Russia. Methinks he may be getting a bit big-headed. Threatening a bunch of Hamas terrorists isn't quite the same as threatening Putin. We'll see.
Unfortunately, I could foresee a situation whereby the Green party were part of a government coalition - a "Stop Farage at all costs" tactical voting campaign ending up with a Labour/Limp Dum/Green/SNP/Plaid Cymru coalition outnumbering Conservative/Reform, and Greens demanding some of those policies as part of the bargaining. After all, we've seen them in coalition with SNP in Scotland, and some whacky policies coming out of that. Given that Labour are no fans of private rented accommodation anyway, they would probably grasp the chance to kill off the private rental sector. But we've still got to survive an indefinite period of Sir "I love China" Starmer first - with his current love-in to them we could easily end up as Hong Kong Mk II under their control. They will probably soon be the only ones mad enough to lend money to the UK to cover Reeve's's spendthrift ways.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should have taken French citizenship after all and stayed there? Although France seemed to have its own set of problems under Macron.....??
Is there anywhere that doesn't have a bunch of plonkers in power? It seems that every time I watch, or read, the news, they are all behaving oddly. I quite expect that 'coalitions' will pay a big part in the next election. They're already taking up their positions.
DeleteIt's amazing that with everything going on politically these last few years, and with the electorate's disdain for politicians, particularly both Labour and Conservatives, that the Lib Dems Party has failed to make any real impact given that they might be seen as an alternative choice. But of course they've now been over shadowed by Reform.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly the original Liberal Party lost full govermental power back in the mid 1920's and were never to see full power again.
I wonder if this will happen to Labour after the next General Election. Will they ever be forgiven for today's mess?