Good morning everyone.
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"Brian" arrived and has now passed into the North Sea. The storm did not, fortunately, cause as much wind damage and flooding coupled with the rain and Spring Tides as was intitally predicted but never the less did cause great inconvenience to many. Brian followed Hurricane Ophelia which lashed Ireland, killing at least three people and which I commented on last week. This is but the latest in the severe weather phenomena which seem to be occurring more frequently not only here, but around the world. Today, the sun is shining but is is very cold. The predictions are that this will give way to very warm air from the South during the week, with temperatures likely to be in the mid to high twenties. The man on the BBC weather forecast says that this is unprecedented for late October in the UK. Now all this raises the question, with me at least, whether this all is due to "Global Warming" creating weather extremes here and around the world.
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However, Donald Trump has tweeted that Global Warming is a Chinese hoax, created "in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive", and more recently "It's a hoax. I mean, it's a money-making industry, OK? It's a hoax". Now there are of course, other "Climate change deniers" who perhaps stop short of claiming it to be a Chinese hoax, but Trump is the President of the United States, (the country which comes second on the list of countries producing the most carbon dioxide emissions), so we should believe everything he says. (shouldn't we?).
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I have written on previous occasions about "Questions to the Prime Minister" or PMQ's as it is commonly known.The way in which the Chamber invariably conducts itself with interruptions from the Speaker with, "Order, Order" and the not infrequent admonishments to individual members for their behaviour or shouting, have often drawn comments from me that Wednesday PMQ's brings this House of Commons procedure into disrepute with members behaving more like very unruly children rather than adults who are responsible for the government of this country.
On Wednesday, (18th October 2017) however it was different.
On Wednesday, (18th October 2017) however it was different.
Read the full posting at: https://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/now-it-is-time-for-prime-minister-and.html
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Why is Sky Television News, some "pundits" on BBC news and the usual suspects in the media, so euphoric about the "agreement to accelerate Brexit negotiations"?
Everyone knows that the "negotiations" are in chaos the whole question of Brexit is a complete mess and that the government are fractured as to where we are and more importantly, where we should be going. There is not even agreement as to what "accelerate the discussions" actually means in any case.
Read the full posting at: http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-euphoria-of-some-of-our-media.html
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Another day, another "cabinet split"as Amber Rudd says "No deal Brexit is unthinkable". Within minutes of this revelation, television news is reporting that there is a "cabinet split" on the question of capping tuition fees! There is no end to this madness. For how much longer must this country endure a fractured and leaderless government?
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A final passing comment on the Express (who else) who are predicting in very excitable terms that 11 (yes eleven) more "Wild Storms" will ravage Britain "before the end of winter". This is coupled with another cause for concern reported in their "story", that " A COLOSSAL plume of freezing air will sweep down from the Arctic and in from eastern Europe THIS WEEK engulfing Britain in sub-zero temperatures until SPRING". Who ever it is that writes these Express stories seems to have a different brand of "ACME seaweed prediction kit", from everybody else.(Keep your thermals handy, just in case)
Have a nice week
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