New Agenda on Sunday. is out! Edition of 17th September 2017

Good morning everyone.

I have tried, but Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes are just not credible as the characters they are supposed to be portraying. She is by far too pretty, pleasant and "nice" to be acceptable as the woman who was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and later became Empress of India. He on the other hand wanders around the (not very convincing) sets gruffly mumbling in a (not very convincing) German accent, looking puzzled rather than a man seeking to be master in his own home. Compare these two performances with those of Robert Hardy and Annette Crosbie portraying the same characters in the brilliant television series "Edward the Seventh" from a few years past. I refer of course to "Victoria", the second series of which is now on every Sunday evening. I wonder if this serial will run right through events ending in January 1901? If so, they need to get the historical accuracy and chronology better than they have so far.

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Boris Johnson is bidding for the leadership of the Conservative party. no matter how often he or his cronies deny it. His latest 4000 word article in the Daily Telegraph outling his "Brexit Plan", sparked outrage in some parts of the Conservative party demanding that Theresa May should sack the Foreign Secretary immediately. The other half of the conservative party jumped to the defence of the blond bruiser, screaming that Boris is right and that May is too weak to remain as leader. Can the United Kingdom really afford to have a bunch of squabling egoists running the country at this momentus time in our history? Personally, I preferred Johnson as Chair or pannelist on "Have I Got News for You.

Theresa May's sordid backroom deal with the DUP requires Parliamentary approval. Those Tories who were opposed to the shabby ploy will now have to face the reality of either sticking with their profound objections to being in bed with the DUP, or ditch their principles and support their Prime Minister.

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There seems to be a bit of a flaw in the character of Sebastian Vettel. After his outrageous tactic of driving into the rear and then the side of Lewis Hamilton's

Mercedes when the safety car was deployed in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku in June, he had a bad start from pole position in the Singapore Grand Prix and going into the first bend squeezed Verstappen one of the Red Bull and team mate Raikkonen, in the other Ferrari, causing all three to go out of the race in a spectacular shunt. Again the FIA stewards found that it was a racing incident and no further action would be taken. In Baku, Vettel was handed a 10 second penaly which had no effect at all on the final placings. It seems that Vettel and Ferrari can do nothing wrong in the eyes of FIA. Hopefully, Vettel will calm down before he does some serious damage.

US WARNS OF MILITARY OPTION IF NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR AND MISSILE TESTS CONTINUE

There comes a point in time, when threat, becomes no more than repetative empty blustering verging on the point of farcical absurdity.The United States is churning out the cliche and rhetoric, in the knowledge that the "military option" would be a disaster leading to a catasrophe not seen since the end of WW2.

Read the full post at:

http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/the-only-solution-to-threat-of-north.html

It has become wet and cold over the past week with the Daily Star predicting "Polar chill to savage UK with SNOW, frost and hail. There is a chance of further snow flurries over the weekend". Oh dear. Thermal underware time has arrived

Have a nice week

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