Agenda 2019

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-netanyahu-s-darkest-deepest-fear-just-came-true-1.7303674?=&ts=_1559208940695 Netanyahu’s Darkest, Deepest Fear Just Came True Netanyahu has failed to form a coalition. Here is an opinion of why. Perhaps at the next election the Israeli people will elect a person who really does believe in the two state solution and will treat the Palestinians as people rather than as second class class or even non citizens. A new Israeli government could return to the 1967 borders, end the criminal blockade of Gaza, lift the punitive restrictions in the occupied territories, stop and reverse the expansion of Israeli settlements, end the criminal annexation of Palestinian land, hand back the Golan heights to Syria and stop the killing of Palestinians. We can but hope that some if not all of these measures will be part of a new governments policy. We must also hope that the chanting of "kill the Arabs" echoing around the streets ...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-news-latest-diane-abbott-says-labour-wants-second-referendum-for-any-deal-as-pressure-mounts-a4152506.html Labour's day of turmoil There seems to be a sniff of a General election in the air. Today's media led by the Mail, Telegraph, (who else) and eagerly taken up by Sky News, are churning out the anti Corbyn rhetoric on everything from second referendum and Brexit , European election results, through expulsion of Alistair Campbell to dragging up the old "antisemitism" chestnut again to discredit Labour in general and Corbyn in particular. It is as if the order had secretly gone out from the establishment and Central Office to start the smears and disinformation warfare now in order to prevent a Corbyn led government at any cost.One of the Conservative wannabe leaders appeared on television the other day and was asked about calling a General election.He responded that a Corbyn led government would be...

  https://paper.li/f-1346065353#/ Good morning everyone. What a week! Theresa May finally states her departure date with lots of tears and immediately practically everyone except Larry, the Downing Street cat, announces that they intend to stand for election to the post. Philip Green shuts 25 more stores then disappears into the sunset (if only), on his mates super yacht. The Express finds two new witnesses claiming that Dianna's death was not an accident. British Steel goes into liquidation. Donald Trump and John Bolton step up their efforts to drag us all into a war with Iran. Great Britain's  entry in the Eurovision song contest is docked 5 points, but we still come last.Motor racing lost one of the great drivers, with the death of Niki Lauda at 70. Lewis Hamilton takes another 25 points in winning the Monaco Grand Prix and extends his lead over team mate  Valtteri Bottas, well on course for another drivers championship.  Merced...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/27/eu-elections-tories-and-labour-savaged-as-voters-take-brexit-revenge Tories and Labour savaged as voters take Brexit revenge We are all (mostly) agreed that to leave the EU with no "deal" and no solution to the Northern Ireland border problem, would be an unmitigated disaster for the people of the United Kingdom and for the economy of the country. The results of the European elections, demonstrate that there is a majority of opinion in this country which favours a "remain" position as the majority of votes went to those parties which advocate remaining in the EU or favour a second referendum.We ignore Farage and his Brexit party vote at our peril, but the fact remains that the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, SNP and the others from the remain side of the argument, outweighed the Brexiteers by more than the difference in the referendum result. There has been a significant shift in opinion sine the ref...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48410734 Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom enter race. Regardless of who the Conservative party elect as their leader, he or she will as far as I am concerned, always be nothing more than the leader of the Conservative party. Without a General election, being anointed, again, as Prime Minister, is outrageous and strips away any legitimacy that the post should have both in his country and abroad. For just around 100,000 people to decide who is Prime Minister is an affront to democracy and a contemptible slight to 45 million people forming the electorate of this country. He or she will be leader of the Conservative party but they will never as far as I am concerned, be Prime Minister. I had the same criticisms of the anointing of Gordon Brown in 2007 and my views have not changed. A General election must be called to restore credibility and legitimacy to the position of Prime Minister.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/24/uk/theresa-may-legacy-of-failure-analysis-intl-gbr/index.html Theresa May was a disaster as Prime Minister. Theresa May's "legacy" is not one that she can be proud of. Increased usage of Food banks, factory closures, redundancies across the board, more people on "zero hour contracts", Great Britain a laughing stock in Europe, the widening gap between the haves and the have nots, hardship inflected upon the most vulnerable in society with more and more cuts, this is not a legacy upon which to be proud. Years of failure from her position of Home Secretary through to her years as Prime Minister, have seen police numbers cut and police under funded, NHS funds reduced in real terms despite increases in expenditure, the housing crisis worsening almost daily, the Grenfell Tower fire witnessed May’s refusal to meet survivors casting her as a cold, imperious figure. Though she promised to rehouse all residents w...

https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/23/theresa-may-set-quit-hours-amid-shambolic-week-brexit-embarrassment-9655359/ Theresa May set to announce resignation on Friday amid angry Tory backlash The years of the Conservative government merry go round comedy and chaos on the question of Brexit, descended even further into farce yesterday (22nd May), as Theresa May allegedly barricaded herself into the cabinet room at Number 10 locked all the doors and refused to receive visits from Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid and other cabinet members. This was the culmination of a day which witnessed the Prime Minister deliver a statement to the Commons, detailing her plan for the With drawal Bill, which would be the 4th iteration of "her deal" to be presented to the House, in order to reach agreement on implementing Brexit. A significant number of MP's, including Labour, Liberal Democrats, SNP, and DUP, in addition to scores of Conservatives, had already stated that the "new deal" is ...

https://paper.li/f-1346065353#/ Good morning everybody. What has been happening this week? Well, there was the Eurovision Song Contest which produced the usual collection of rubbish songs and the United Kingdom came last as is almost the norm for our performance. I did not watch any of this annual show as the contest came from Tel Aviv (but that is another story), but apart from the results section which is usually hilarious anyway I rarely if ever see the programme. The mystery remains however, that since when has Australia or Israel for that matter, been in Europe? I quite enjoy red wine, but never in a restaurant or anywhere else, have I been served with a bottle of   Chateau le Pin Pomerol 2001,  (at £4500.00 per bottle) by mistake.  I have had a few bottles of cheap tasting plonk poured into my glass by mistake, but never a very expensive Bordeaux. It seems that the member of staff responsible for the error however was told that  ...