A Small Island Man

The Truss/Kwarteng mini-budget was so brazenly "fuck-the-poor" and "fuck-the economy" that there is no way that it could have been anything other than intentional (not necessarily understood by Truss & Kwarteng but whoever is pulling their strings). Someone is creating as much damage to the economy as possible knowing the next government,  no matter who they are, cannot possibly restore widespread prosperity within a single term. If Labour wins, they will face an impossible task. All attempts to reverse the policies, and put right the wrongs, will be like administering a foul-tasting medicine to a child. Four years of sour-tasting medicine and the Tories will be there blaming the pain and suffering on whoever is in power. Tories will be there with promises of sunny uplands and tax cuts and a gullible public who are suffering like never before will take the Tory lies just like they took Johnson's lies on the side of a bus. Labour may win the next GE, but they...

Putting my cards on the table: I am an ardent believer in the EU (for all its flaws, I still believe in the ideals it was founded upon, and rejoice in so much that it has actually delivered). I believe in a fairer-for-all society, and so have never voted blue in my life. Now you see the cut of my jib, I'll add... I long for a more left-leaning 21st-century savvy government. It breaks my heart to say this, but I believe only the end of the Labour party is likely to deliver this. Labour has recently (since being out of power) served best to keep the Tories in power by dint of being too large to let any other parties succeed within FPTP, and yet too weak to win. They are also too 'broad a church' so they consume far too much energy in tearing themselves to bits from within. Labour failed to acknowledge the fundamentals of Brexit insofar as it pivoted UK politics from "Left vs Right" to "Leave vs Remain". Whereas the Tories adopted a UKIP stance and wholly a...

  C***s The Lot of Them Income tax cut from 20% to 19% Estimates that 31 million people getting £170 a year more - 46p a day! Make sure you do not spend that on Netflix and fags you lazy good-for-nothing working class slackers - that goes for you too, nurses, firefighters, lorry drivers, etc. Meanwhile the filthy rich get a tax cut from 45% to 40% on anything over £150,000. So even Kwasi Kwarteng's basic salary of £155,817.00 gets an extra £290 a year benefit. Erm, but hold on, if Kwasi Kwarteng's only income is his ministerial salary I'll eat my hat! And someone earning £300,000 (don't forget those scrapped bankers bonus caps) would see a cool £7,500 reduction in what they have to contribute in tax. Because, you know, they're worth it. A six-month freeze on energy bills to be paid for not by a windfall tax on producers who are raking it in due to profits boosted by the Russian/Ukrainian situation, but by national borrowing which in effect every man (but disproport...

I'm not a Royalist So it means nothing at all Except it's so much to one and all. She was steadfast and constant in a variable world A reference for duty and much we hold dear. Especially in times when the world was unclear. I knew it was coming, but, too suddenly gone There before me and there every day Her passing coincidental with losing our way, So allow me, for now, to be sentimental My wish; we all can be instrumental  And remember it's when we feel our worst Duty demands we behave our best first.

 I bet Liz Truss' school report read "a very bright, enthusiastic and promising student" unfortunately her unbridled ambition, only eclipsed by the enormity of her own stultifying ego caused arrested development meaning the UK is now led by someone with the emotional and intelectual maturity of a teenager. This has already been seen with her comments on Macron, Cheese and her vacant looks into camera when waiting for the teleprompter. Liz's agenda thus far has been to appeal not to her party MP's but to the extreme right swivel-eyed looneys in the membership (at least some of those from the membership who were not swivel-eyed, probably tore up their membership upon Johnson's escapades). She played a blinder on that one and secured her position as the latest court jester. She has also routed any Sunak supports irrespective of their capabilities further depleting cabinet talent. As always, everything that now unfolds will be a desperate race to win the next GE. ...

Not the reading of dreams, but last night, like other nights before, I dreamt I was reading, or at least trying to read.  But, like every dream of reading before, I never manage to decipher what is on the page.  Why is this? In my dreams it frustrates me as often it seems so important at the time. It seems that I am not the only one to have found this and a Google search reveals lots of links on the subject. Why You Can't Read In Dreams And more besides