New Agenda on Sunday is out:

https://paper.li/f-1346065353#/

Good morning everyone.

It is not until you spend some time in hospital that you realise how bad things in the NHS have actually become.The Mirror report deals only with the tip of the iceberg concerning staff levels, and there is no doubt that shortages of staff are common and widespread throughout the NHS. Certainly this is the case in Dorchester NHS Trust. It is not however a problem in staffing levels alone. There is a shortage of everything and I mean every thing, Medicines, medical equipment, ointments, and other what should be essential supplies have either not been ordered or are not available due to "savings" in expenditure.
At one stage male disposable urine bottles were being reused at least twice, as replacements had not been ordered "in order to save money.
The Tory government wit its drive for austerity and cuts is killing our NHS. Soon they may even be killing patients if they have not done so already.

The great Litton Cheney Duck Race (every Easter Sunday ) is over for another year. Many people watching and many ducks sold. We did not buy a duck this year, We are still waiting for the one we bought three years ago to actually finish the course and arrive at the pub finish line.

Tom Watson again weighs in with another unwanted and unnecessary intervention, this time on the so called "second referendum". Each time Watson chips in with a comment it is clear that his motivation is more concerned with personal ambitions regarding the leadership rather than the promotion of party unity. Watson you may recall, was a prime mover in the bids to oust Jeremy Corbyn as leader in 2016/17.
Perhaps his real motives have not changed since then. Only the tactics are different.

As Chamberlain sent the commons on holiday in 1939, May allows today's commons to have an Easter holiday this year.
Chamberlain missed the signing of the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on 23rd August allowing the Germans a free hand to invade Poland on the 1st September. history will record what Theresa May has missed

Tories are not the only ones who think that HS2 should be scrapped as a complete waste of money, and too destructive on homes and communities. We should be building more homes rather than destroying homes, villages and whole communities to make way for a railway, the construction of which will make great deal of money for the builders and speculators.

When will people learn that there is no such thing as the "Special Relationship". It is a myth which exists only in the minds of a few self deluding politicians and in a few sections of the media. The United States remains "friends" with the UK only when it suits United States interests and if necessary the US would drop the United Kingdom like hot bricks if they considered it expedient to do so.
As Clinton reportedly once told Blair, "The only special relationship is that which exists between the United States and Israel, and between the United States and Ireland".
The sooner that people realise this simple fact the better.

Warm over Easter, getting "cooler" mid week. I hope that was not our 2019 summer !

Have a nice week.

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe...

The writing on the wall

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-government-zero-hour-contract-ban-latest-a9257281.html?fbclid=IwAR0OW6qhoVnO9MVH-E9ruKFLnL_V3NQ5PMpYEkGGHEXskJxkAsrr2UJjRIs Two-thirds of voters want Boris Johnson ‘s government to ban zero-hours contracts, a poll has found. There will be many people over the coming months and years who will tell the "pollsters" that something should be done about the homeless, or the costs of electric, gas and water, or about the costs of public transport, or the failing (and privatised) NHS, or the excessive profits and tax avoidance of large corporations. etc. To all those I say, that if you did not vote Labour then you have only yourselves to blame and you must bear the consequences of your actions. Johnson a nd his sycophant cronies have been given a blank cheque to do as they please and sell off vast portions of the British economy to the Americans, (the takeover of British defence giant Cobham by a US private equi...

Greed and envy are good says Boris Johnson.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/embrace-culture-of-greed-says-boris-johnson-8968276.html Embrace culture of greed, says Boris Johnson Boris Johnson. "I stress – I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity." Johnson delivering the annual Margaret Thatcher lecture at the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank, Wednesday 27th November 2013 Boris Johnson seeks to emulate Thatcher. He appeals to the evil side of the "nasty" party, for a society where greed is good, where selfishness is encouraged, where division amongst people by envy and status is championed as a proper objective and where the excesses of business and government are regarded as appropriate and right for the advancement of the few at the expense of the many. Johnson is an evil man with evil intent...

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