New Agenda on Sunday. is out! Edition of 27th August 2017

Good morning everyone.

It seems that Sky News has been given the tip off by their masters in Conservative central Office that a general election will be called soon and consequently, they should now start their attacks on the Labour party generally and particularly on Jeremy Corbyn. Yesterday the station missed no opportunity to pour out the usual smear and distortions against Labour, starting with Stephen Dixon during their breakfast show and continuing at every news item and link right through the day, to Christina Patterson on the Sky Newspaper preview in late evening shown

The BBC is bad enough, but when it comes to constant hysterical spite and venom, Sky News has no equal.

Big Ben, (the great bell of the clock of course) has fallen silent for the next 4 years as "essential repairs" are carried out on Elizabeth Tower. It seems certain that there will be some exceptions to the rule of silence, as there has been some controversey led by Theresa May herself, who said, "It cannot be rightfor the bells not to chime regularly for four years", and a handful of MPs gathered at the Houses of Parliament to mark the occasion of the bell’s final chimes.

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Labour MP Stephen Pound wiping a tear from his eye. “Bong-o gone-o, that’s so wrong-o,” As the final bell rang, Pound called the sound “misery in the key of E”. Well, MP's are on holiday and it is the "silly season".

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Now that it is all over, we must be thankful that we shall be spared the ridiculous spectacle of Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor squaring up to each other, (almost) nose to knows and growling the usual pre fight insults and provocations in the hysterical hype leading up to the "big night". It has been particularly bad on television (Sky News again) with endless repeated clips and comments thrown in by the usual punits. I am sure that the combatants in this and all the other fights know how ridiculous they act and appear, and that the antics are purely for effect and hype, but do the rest of us have to have this childish stupidity thrown at us on every news programme?

Meanwhile, back in Jersey, Condor have again managed to upset a number of travelers to and from the island, with their latest ferry cancelations. This time it is the conventional ferry Condor Clipper which is to be taken out of service earlier than scheduled, "due to unforeseen additional maintenance work".

Speaking to some friends who are coming over to the mainland in early September and have had their original travel plans disrupted, it was clearly apparent what they, and many other islanders think of Condor. The Clipper, which carries freight and passengers, will be out of service for four weeks from 7 September due to maintenance work. The Goodwill will then enter dry dock for repair work for three weeks.

Sunny periods, warm and humid. The fans in our house will be in use soon it is forecast. Still at least we have not had a visit from Hurricane Harvey...yet.

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