Agenda 2019

Priti Patel blames Jeremy Corbyn for the failure of government policy to control immigration. Blaming Jeremy Corbyn for everything descended to new depths of absurdity on Question Time (BBC Television 10:45. 29th September) last night when panellist Priti Patel, who was born in London to a Ugandan Indian migrant family, stated that immigration to this country is out of control with vast numbers of migrants arriving almost daily, placing an intolerable burden on housing, jobs, social services and the infrastructure of our society. The cause of this problem is, according to Patel, the absolute failure of Jeremy Corbyn to control the numbers of migrants, arriving in this country from Europe and additionally as refugees from outside, and the failure of his policies on immigration. The problem will, according to Patel, deteriorate as Corbyn's policy of allowing uncontrolled numbers of migrants unfolds over time, allowing more and more people to arrive in this c...

https://paper.li/f-1346065353 Good morning everyone. It is almost October and already the nights are longer than the days, which is even now effecting my sleep pattern. Very soon now, the man with the "clock keys" will be creeping around in the middle of the night to tamper and interfere with the clock settings which will disrupt my sleep even more. Ever since I was a boy, I have been severely affected by dark winter nights which seem to start at around 4:00pm every day and continue till around 09:00 the next morning. Altering the time on the clock only exacerbates the situation and I spend some 6 months feeling tired and irritable. I really wish that the "powers that be" would recognise that the winter solstice heralding shorter days is bad enough but at least we could dispense with the nonsense of changing the clocks twice every year. I have managed to avoid "Strictly Come Dancing" on television and also the...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/24/observer-view-labour-leadership-election-jeremy-corbyn-victory-defeat The Observer view on the Labour leadership election. Yesterday morning, prior to the result of the election for the Labour party leadership being declared, I wrote a piece under the heading of, " Has the Guardian become converted to the tolerance and compromise idea? " Today, in its disguise as the Observer, there is another piece of "opinion", now masquerading as " Observer editorial", which appears to have thrown the almost reconciliatory editorial of yesterday, into the editors waste bin and reverted to type in attacking Corbyn and seeking to undermine his position by unquestioned support for the Parliamentary Labour Party. It is hardly in the spirit of "Tolerance and Compromise" as proposed by yesterday's editorial, to spew out, less than 24 hours later (and noticeably after the election result),...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/the-guardian-view-on-the-labour-leadership-wanted-tolerance-and-compromise The Guardian view on the Labour leadership.  Wanted: Tolerance and compromise. Editorial. I read this article twice. The first time, I thought that I had picked up a piece which had strayed into the pages of the Guardian, as if by accident from another newspaper. Only upon the second reading did I realise, with a growing sense of incredulity, that this was in fact a Guardian article and moreover, one written under the heading of, ""Editorial": The Guardian view on the Labour leadership: wanted – tolerance and compromise ". I found the "Editorial" to be a little puzzling, because here they are, calling for , "a collective effort to work together or even merely to coexist tolerantly, based on compromise and mutual respect" when, for the past 12 months or so, the Guardian has been in the v...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leadership-results-live-jeremy-corbyn-owen-smith-poll-incompetent-working-class-voters-a7326486.html Poll for The Independent shows a major disconnect between traditional Labour voters and new Corbyn supporters (well what would you expect from the "Independent")        Labour supporters are still backing Jeremy Corbyn in droves The result of the Labour Party leadership election has not yet even been declared (the time is 06:50 Saturday 24th September), and already the "Independent" is preparing the ground for the next round of the, "We must get rid of Corbyn", smear and vilification campaign. The rest of the anti Corbyn media and television cabal will no doubt wade in with their duplicitous distortions over the next few hours and days (provided of course that at around 11:45 this morning Corbyn is actually declared to have won the ballot) to carry on the deceitful crusade that they have...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-miliband-savages-jeremy-corbyn-and-his-own-brother-too-a7321531.html David Miliband savages 'unelectable' Jeremy Corbyn, and his own brother too There are those in the Labour party who would like to see the return of Miliband Major to British politics. There are also those in the Labour party who rather that he stayed 3000 miles away. Miliband Major never really got over the shock, some may even say humiliation, of being defeated by his brother Miliband Minor, for the "Big Job" in Labour Party politics. Many people, not least of all Miliband Major himself, considered that the matter was a done deal and that he would be anointed as leader, to follow in the footsteps of Blair (via Brown). His disappointment and surprise was evident to all at the special Labour Party Conference, and to those watching on television, as Miliband Minor was awarded the crown, and within a very short space of time, Miliband Major...

https://twitter.com/Grombags If you have been prevented from voting in the Labour Party leadership election, please complete the survey.  There have been a significant amount of expulsions, suspensions and other methods of preventing members from voting in the current Labour leadership election It is presently estimated that more than 100,000 people have either not received their ballot papers on have been prevented from voting by other methods.  On September 12th my wife was suspended from the Labour party, after receiving a letter stating  "Allegations that you may have been involved in a breach of that rule have been brought to the attention of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). The allegations relate to: Comments made on social media including on 31 December 2015 . It is important that these allegations are investigated and th e NEC will be asked to authorise a full report to be drawn up with recommendations for ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/first-food-waste-supermarket-uk-leeds-real-junk-food-project-a7317906.html The UK’s first food waste supermarket opens The food, which may otherwise have found its way to landfill, is used to feed 12,000 children a week. It is a sad reflection on our society that, in the 21st Century in the United Kingdom, there is a necessity for places like this and for Food-banks. We should all feel a sense of shame that we have allowed successive governments to create the environment where the only rapidly growing industries are those charities providing food welfare and even energy welfare in some places, to feed and shelter almost 1 million families in this country today.

https://paper.li/f-1346065353 Good morning everyone. Question Time: 16th September 2016 I, and it seems many others, have lodged a formal complaint about last Thursday's Question Time and in particular about the behaviour of Anna Sourby MP. Sourby was personally abusive and was constantly interrupting. Alastair Campbell was allowed to ramble on at length without interruption and Sourby's use of the words, "you are a nasty piece of work" , directed at John McDonnell was totally un n ecessary and unacceptable. The Express writes that Anna Sourby " roasted " John McDonnell. In fact all we had was a very spoilt, very abusive Conservative politician. who is the Member of Parliament for Broxtowe being as ignorant in the BBC Question Time studio as she is in the Chamber of the House of Commons.. John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons once "advised her "in all courtesy" to sit there and be quiet or to le...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/11/emily-thornberry-sexism-dermot-murnaghan-sky-news Emily Thornberry accuses Sky presenter Murnaghan of sexism Murnaghan's smug smirk says it all Dermot Murnaghan is yet another of those self opinionated obnoxious, patronising "presenters", so favoured by Murdoch's Sky News. Granted that Emily Thornberry could have handled the interview better, she allowed herself to become flustered by the provocative and hostile interview technique which is usual for Murnaghan in this Sunday morning slot. Murnaghan may not have been sexist in this interview, but he certainly was loathsome.

https://paper.li/f-1346065353 Good morning everyone. For the second time in less than a week, we have been subjected to a power cut. On both occasions, power was not restored until around 05:45 and was certainly "off" for at least 1 hour. Power cuts are common in the Bride Valley area of Dorset, particularly during the later part of the year, specifically late August through to mid to late March. This is particularly galling since the vast majority, if not all of the homes in this area are reliant on electricity as the sole source of energy. There is no pattern to the cuts which can occur at any time of day, or in the instances today and as during this week, at any time of night. If these cuts are associated with "routine maintenance" (which I do not believe for one minute) then it should be possible to advise users that power will be "off" during a specified time. However, where power cuts occur at random, for ...