New Agenda on Sunday is out. Edition of 12th March 2017

Good morning everyone

There seems to be a slight problem as the paper has not arrived in my in box this week. However, I think that I have managed "a fix" and hopefully this e-mail will have New Agenda nailed to it. On the assumption that you may be able to read both this and the paper, we shall "K B O" as someone once said.

Swing low, Sweet Chariot.

England 61 pts Scotland 21 pts.

England are the 6 Nations Champions of 2017 and with one game to spare and took the Calcutta Cup with their best team performance of this years competition. Scotland were swept aside as England stormed to victory scoring seven tries in their 61 points total. Admittedly Scotland's game was littered with injuries, but even if that had not been the case, it is difficult to envisage any other result given the England passion and drive. Scotland were down to 14 after only two minutes of the game when their hooker Fraser Brown was given 10 minutes in the sin bin for a late and dangerous tackle on Elliot Daly dumping the English wing on his back. Most of the crowd, the television commentators and I, felt that Brown was very fortunate that the French referee Mathieu Raynal did not produce a red card for the offence.

England travel to Dublin next Saturday as 6 Nations Champions for the match against Ireland, where a win would seal the "Triple Crown" and give England a back to back "Grand Slam" a feat last achieved by France but which would be the first in the revised 6 Nations Competition.

Did anyone see Theresa May and her bizarre outburst of laughter at PMQ's just prior to the Budget speech? The grandees of her own party and the rest of us, should be concerned with her irrational behaviour and her future, after the hysterical and sinister performance indicating that perhaps she is unwell.

I was brought up in London in a bock of flats in Peckham. Very near to the flats on the corner of the Old Kent Road, was a Pie 'n' Mash shop, almost next door to a Fish and Chip shop, so the young Yates was raised on a very healthy and very tasty diet. Having now discovered a source for a traditional London meal and delivered right to my door, I shall be placing orders quite regularly.

See the full story at "A tasty and nourishing meal".

http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/a-tasty-and-nourishing-meal.html (copy and paste link)

Peckham Rye station is to be restored to its Victorian grandeur as architects open up a hidden room which was lost to the public for 50 years. As a boy, Peckham Rye Station was my direct link to the delights of Battersea Fun Fair. Rides, attractions, grotto "Mississippi Riverboat" and much much more. A wonderland of magic for the young Yates.
Pure nostalgia

Image result for battersea fun fair 1951

Meanwhile, back in Jersey someone stabbed and disfigured "Scarlett", a horse which competes in dressage competitions, while it was being kept in a yard on Grande Route de Saint Pierre in St Peter. What is it that makes some people treat animals with such senseless cruelty?

Scarlet

THE Mange Tout chain of sandwich shops have launched their first out-of-town outlet at the Jersey War Tunnels in St Peter. This new franchise takes over from the Pantry and previously to that the Sanctuary. Hopefully, the new Mange Tout will provide better food than the last facility.

Another mixture of fog, rain, sunshine, cold (even frost !) and temperatures sometimes in the mid teens again this week. I am at a loss to understand what is going on.

Have a nice week.

John

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

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