Agenda 2019

  https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/did-you-remember-to-put-clocks-forward-224737/ Sanity returns!!! The clocks have gone forward by one hour and perhaps now I can get some proper sleep, and return to normal in numerous other areas which have been disrupted since 25th October 2020. That pesky little person who steals an hour from my sleep and disrupts my time/body clock for the next 6 months, should be confined to a secure location for ever. Never again should I and thousands like me be disrupted every year and for no apparent reason by an outdated and tenuous notion of "daylight saving". In fact we should probably put another hour at the start of the Summer and then stay on Double British Summer Time (DBST). for the duration. Message for pesky little person "LEAVE THE BLOODY CLOCKS ALONE!"

https://youtu.be/cSotvFWKvhc It is Christmas Day. To all Facebook and Twitter friends, followers and contacts, to all my Blog followers and  to friends and relatives around the world everywhere,  I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. This was my Grandfathers favourite as it is mine. Merry Christmas everyone.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-government-zero-hour-contract-ban-latest-a9257281.html?fbclid=IwAR0OW6qhoVnO9MVH-E9ruKFLnL_V3NQ5PMpYEkGGHEXskJxkAsrr2UJjRIs Two-thirds of voters want  Boris Johnson ‘s government to ban zero-hours contracts, a poll has found. There will be many people over the coming months and years who will tell the "pollsters" that something should be done about the homeless, or the costs of electric, gas and water, or about the costs of public transport, or the failing (and privatised) NHS, or the excessive profits and tax avoidance of large corporations. etc. To all those I say, that if you did not vote Labour then you have only yourselves to blame and you must bear the consequences of your actions. Johnson a nd his sycophant cronies have been given a blank cheque to do as they please and sell off vast portions of the British economy to the Americans, (the takeover of British defence giant Cobham by a US private equi...

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/making-sense-shattering-defeat Brexit was the defining factor. Look at the "leave voting areas" that turned to the conservatives. Leigh, the hometown of my family, elected a conservative candidate for the first time ever. Leigh, a town destroyed by pit closures and mill closures. Leigh, a community which stood firm through the miners strikes and suffered the closures of Parsonage, Atherleigh, Howe Bridge, Bickershaw and many other pits. Leigh, the constituency that voted heavily for Andy Burnham and then Joanne Pitt with thumping majorities now have James Grundy as their MP with a majority of 1965. It was Brexit that was the cause of the defeat.

So be it. The anti Corbyn, Stop Labour winning at any cost coalition, have achieved their aim and handed Johnson a huge majority in the House of Commons. Television, Newspapers, Dis affected Labour Party members, elements of the PLP, those who have shouted from the rooftops that the Labour Party is antisemitic, can sit back this morning and gloat on their success. They have handed Johnson an open cheque to "Get Brexit Done" and then sell this country off to Trump and American business interests. They have given him 5 years to create a society for the few not the many. I despair and grieve for the people of this nation. The people who remain reliant on Food banks to feed their families. The people who are and will remain homeless on our streets. The pensioners who are faced with ever increasing costs for food, fuel to heat their homes, as well as declining cars services. The cash starved NHS where nurses, doctors and other staff who face increasing work loads and frust...

It is time for real change. https://youtu.be/kDIuApfVxBg We are now in the final week of the election campaign battle. Upon this battle lies the very future of our country and millions of our people. The people are in desperate need of a Labour government. The people on zero hours contracts. The people on housing waiting lists or  seeking a home which they will never be able to afford or sleeping rough on our streets. The families reliant on food-banks or other charities to provide a meal on their tables. The pensioners, facing a daily choice between heating their homes or feeding themselves. The cash starved NHS where we are thousands of nurses and doctors short and GP surgeries where we have to wait more than 2 weeks for an appointment because of s shortage of doctors. Crime increases because the government has reduced the police forces by 25,000 officers. This country and its people cannot afford another term of Conservative government with its lying and duplicitous leader ...