Good
morning everyone.
There
seems to be a slight "technical glitch" on the "New
Agenda on Sunday" web page. Consequently, it may not be possible
to open the paper at the moment. However, keep trying because there
are some interesting stories in this weeks
edition.
You
may recall how last week Christina Patterson, of sneering
facial expression and patronising attitude
fame, won
the prize of the week for calling me and
600,000 odd other people, "nutters",
"mad", "insane" and "stupid"
on the Sky News paper preview on the
Saturday night. She
was back on the sofa again this Saturday, this week with Matthew
Sayed, and takes another "Prize of the week" for making
another comment, in the same vein but now reduced to personal insult.
Whether you like Corbyn or not, personal insults of this nature are
never acceptable. In
an extraordinary eruption of personal abuse, she admitted paying her
£3.00 to vote for Owen Smith, but he had drifted off to "the
left". As for the other candidate she said that she "would
rather vote for a jam jar than that nutter Corbyn".
A
comment which had Niall Paterson, the Sky News presenter, and Matthew
Sayed rolling around in fits of laughter.
It
seems that personal abuse and insults are completely acceptable on
Sky News and some other media channels, particularly when levelled
against
Jeremy
Corbyn. There would be outrage and indignation, were the same degree
of contempt used during interviews or presentations against any other
person. It is incredible that Sky television, persists in
inviting Patterson back for further press reviews when she
has demonstrated such awful behaviour on other occasions. Rude,
patronising, personally abusive and obnoxious, it seems that she is
competing with Katie Hopkins for the title of the "Most
despicable person in the media world".
Sky
television and its News programmes can't get enough of her.
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It
emerged this week, that NHS bosses throughout England are
"quietly" drawing up plans for hospital closures, cutbacks
and radical changes to the way healthcare is delivered. The
"proposals", some of which are planned to be implemented as
early as October following, "local consultation," include
ward as well as hospital closures, closure of acute units, and
scaling down of general care provision. These measure are
theoretically proposed to plug a whole in NHS funding budgets and to
meet a projected financial shortfall of £20 billion by the end of
this parliament.
NHS
bosses are fronting this latest attack on health provision in this
country, but there is no doubt that the hand of Jeremy Hunt is
concealed within the glove and behind him is the shadowy figure of
Theresa May, continuing the long held Conservative objective of
smashing the NHS and replacing it with a two (or even three) tier
Privatised healthcare scheme, designed to produce profits for their
business friends and contributors at the expense of ordinary people
who rely upon the health services.
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An
ongoing row about train seats seems to have dominated interest, at
least as far as the media and television are concerned. This
whole "story" is nothing more than a very small storm in a
cup of Virgin Trains coffee, but is (as expected) seized upon by
elements of a hostile media, embellished and blown out of all
proportion to satisfy
their own agenda's.
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I
have been giving some thought to the American Presidential election,
due to take place in November. It has occurred to me that there is
a solution to this dilemma. Arrest Clinton for whatever charge the
FBI actually want to press and make stick, then declare Trump as
unstable and therefore not fit to hold public office. Having removed
both candidates from the Presidential race, the American people can
then try to find another two candidates, from amongst their 300
million odd population, for the Republican or Democratic
ticket.
Surely
among all those American there must be a better choice of
Presidential hopefuls than these two specimens
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The
Philip Green and BHS saga rumbles on. It seems that he is prepared to
stump up some money (amount unspecified) for the BHS Pension fund,
but only on condition that
regulators
will abandon a probe into BHS's vast pension deficit.
The arrogant gall of this
discredited "entrepreneur" is breathtaking.
The
last "Bank Holiday" weekend before Christmas is almost
over. Where has 2016 disappeared to? It seem only a few weeks ago
that we were welcoming a "New Year" !
Weather
changeable and getting warmer we are told.
Have
a nice week.
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