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Conservatism
The Circus is here
I note that this pic is Crown Copyright for the UK MOD. Lets us hope that as a UK resident the ‘UK MOD’ includes me (indeed what is it if it doesn’t?) Anyway, here it is: I’m amazed that so many are so happy. Circuses are certainly in evidence – but where is the bread… Read more
‘Upgrading’ Brexit…
I need to flag up an article by Tobias Ellwood MP, Tory chairman of the Defence Select Committee, who suggests that Brexit needs ‘upgrading’ as a consequence of the grave cost of living crisis. Hats off for his political skill in suggesting ‘upgrading Brexit’ when he is in effect suggesting we rejoin! But at least… Read more
The Brexit Opportunities Ministry now have a list
Allegedly (because the link is, after all, to the Daily Express) there were two thousand suggestions to the Minister for Brexit Opportunities of those actual Brexit opportunities. One might have thought that a government convinced of the advantage of Brexit would already have know about the ‘opportunities’. Apparently not. These (below) were the top nine… Read more
Graduates are supposedly of no use to government ….
This is certainly what a Telegraph article indicates when it suggests that the fast track graduate scheme is to close for a year or more… If graduates are supposed to be good – our brightest – why are they not required in the civil service? It certainly puts into doubt the essence of the intelligent… Read more
Teachers’ ‘Responsibilities’
I thought this was a very striking image for the alleged duties (as seen by most Republicans at least) of American teachers: We thank our lucky stars in Europe that we don’t have the military arms problems that they do in America (which is, of course at variance with the American military itself, where even… Read more
conservatives might show Labour the way…
…as this comment from Richard Drax (who owns, poor chap, only 2% of the land in Dorset) suggests: An interesting insight that a right wing MP thinks that Thursday’s ‘mini’ budget (too little and too late though it was) will, next time round, give the socialists excuses to spend – and we cannot possibly have… Read more
Johnson will never resign
Yet, Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis says that he and his colleagues in the 1922 Committee yesterday were asking the Prime Minister questions about rebuilding trust. Fat chance. Trust is irrelevant to Johnson, who has proved beyond any doubt that he is in it for himself. The country, the Conservative party, Wine Time Fridays and everything… Read more
Health to me – but not government
With those toe-curling pictures of Johnson toasting health, while Britain was in full lockdown and many were not allowed to visit dying relatives, we have established that there is absolutely nothing in government’s so called accountability…. We have now the probability of the Metropolitan Police not having investigated Partygate as comprehensively as they could in… Read more
Failure to control inflation or mitigate its effects helps to control us
Inflationary fears are another useful tool to keep the masses suppressed and more fearful than they should be – particulalrly when this government, as it does, tells us there is not much they can do about it. While usually infation is controllable, government seems to suggest this time it is an ‘act of God’. Actually… Read more