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For Razan al-Najjar. a poem by Charles Fraser, entitled The Angel of Gaza., In 41 lines
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/06/the-angel-of-gaza/
The people who took part in the Skripal cover up and continue to do so should be truly ashamed
Not because they think it a worthwhile job to fool an already stupid population the majority of which (who still think their vote matters) will go to the next General Election polling booths and vote for either Conservative or Labour because their dad’s did, they didn’t recognise any other names, the man on telly said it was the right thing to do or they just have a sick sense humour.
The core of the British population can be fooled into thinking almost anything and because of this reason alone they are presented with a false reality that is far more easy to manage than the actual reality.
The bonus comes when the British government comes up with a decent wheeze (well suggested by the yanks) like discrediting Putin, eg. blaming the Middle East situation on him, the shambles of the US and British (easily manipulated) election systems and our piss poor cyber security. These are all Putin’s fault.
So when they find out that Skripal has been back to his old ways working for his original masters an opportunity arises to kill two birds with one stone (no skewed pun intended). Put an end to the old spook’s ways and Punish Putin at the same time.
Both commendable objectives; but why? In this case it would have been far better to expose Skripal for his errant abuse of British hospitality and then Punish Putin for his underhand Ruskie ways.
But no they had to be clever and make up a story that Kafka would have found confusing.
But no that’s not the reason why the people involved should feel ashamed. The 100+ “police officers” working on the case in Salisbury attempting to re-shape the evidence into something that doesn’t look like a dog turd.
What they should have done, one by one, is stood up from their desks and said “fuck this its stupid” and walked out.
The evidence says it wasn’t Novichok that poisoned the bench people and the evidence says the bench people were not the Skripals.
The more you massage that turd the messier and smellier it will get and you will attract greater ridicule not just from your wage payers but the international stage who your line managers have you playing to.
Give it up you sad fools, go home, re-acquaint yourselves with real life, family and friends.
Wow !!
Great post, thank you!
What have the Aussies, Kiwis, Tongans and Fijians done to deserve this?
Harry and Meghan’s first overseas tour revealed
The couple’s official tour will be a chance for royal newcomer Meghan to settle into the duties required of her and Harry.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit Australia, Fiji, the Kingdom of Tonga and New Zealand later this year.
https://news.sky.com/story/harry-and-meghans-first-overseas-tour-revealed-11401140
following on from Kate and Wills and Charles and Di.
I suppose it makes a break in their routine of choosing their designer clothes and hats and military uniforms.
I am tired of Ms Markle already – the hair, the smile, the looks, the jewellery, the silly hats, the designer garb, the honeymoon, the love nests, and on and on. All on the backs of the tax payers for a B lister.
By the looks of it Buckingham Palace needs a new and larger balcony to accommodate all of the hangers on and their offspring.
Deepest sympathy for the Aussies, Kiwis, Tongans and Fijians
Two from Norman Finkelstein
The New York Times’ Second Assassination of Razan at-Najjar
June 10, 2018
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/06/10/the-new-york-times-second-assassination-of-razan-at-najjar/
“Fifty percent of those who were wounded will never walk naturally again. Not after a year or two or three or 10 years.”
June 10, 2018
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/06/10/fifty-percent-of-those-who-were-wounded-will-never-walk-naturally-again-not-after-a-year-or-two-or-three-or-10-years/
Imagine if it was captive animals being shot and killed and wounded like that.
The devastating wounds that caused such a high death toll and amputations is due to a hideous new type of weapon:
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/palestinians-face-explosive-bullets-dangerous-gas-bombs-180501091514736.html
That these should be used against unarmed protestors is beyond belief.
Nevertheless, when I asked “Charles Bostock” / Habbabkuk whether he condemned the use of such weapons, his answer was to insinuate that I personally must be an anti-Semite for even bringing attention to the matter, or for showing the least concern. This indicates to me that Israel’s apologists have run out of excuses.
I would have imagined that under international law, that Butterfly bullets (expanding) would be illegal.
However, if this is correct.
“The adoption of an amendment to Article 8 at the Review Conference of the Rome Statute in Kampala makes the use of expanding bullets in non-international armed conflict a war crime.” (Could apply to Israel)
“Because the Hague convention applies only to the use of expanding bullets in war, the use of expanding rounds remains legal.” (Might not apply to Israel as it’s not at war (officially) with the Palestinian protestors).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_bullet
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I have requested Bostock to be banned again, but seeing the mods have let him off from bullying Sharp Ears, which is horrible, he thinks he can test out the latest Hasbara lie-surges on Palestine which are completely evil. “Satan is your enemy , so take him as your enemy” is not the woolly liberal ” bunny-hugging ” theme of this blog. However it, the bunny-hugging, does allow the reality of the evil being practised on the peaceful demonstrators of Gaza to be publicised, which is never going to happen on the BBC.
Memo to self; the people that offend you are deliberately trying to offend you, so don’t give them the satisfaction of getting under your skin.
In my book constantly only focusing on Palestine/ Israel (unless you live there now) is not only a sign of tunnel vision but of something worse too. If you are doing it you might not realize it.
The world is bigger and violent drama is going on in Venezuela, Nigeria, South Sudan, Libya, Syria, “Kurdistan”, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, North Korea, Ukraine: no lack of hot spots.
“only focusing on Palestine/ Israel”
“Venezuela, Nigeria, South Sudan, Libya, Syria, “Kurdistan”, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, North Korea, Ukraine”
The difference is that Israel is massively supported by the West and wants to be considered a paragon of democracy and human rights.
The Palestinian occupation and dehumanisation is 70 years old. This is a story of racism and total disregard for human rights of a people slowly subjected to genocide. Those who said after world war 2 ‘never again’ should also apply this to others and to everyone. Do you now understand why this issue is so important? And Antonyl, you make this point over and over and over and over again. In fact you are obsessed with making this observation. Why do you keep making this point if this issue is not important to you?
You are not trying on the anti-semitism smear are you Antonyl?
How pathetic. It won’t wash.
Spurious and nasty with it; two of the three apartheid shiteholes have gone so it’s only natural that the third and last gets attention. Two down and one to go. On the other hand it might be that crimes against humanity are crimes against humanity and the tsinoiz filth have been doing a lot of them lately.
* “Israel is massively supported by the West”: by the US government mostly, less by Western population like some of you. Ukraine is massively supported by the US and EU; Pakistan and Turkey have been supported by the US longer then Israel – all in the fight against Russia, Russia!
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are constantly supported by the West although totalitarian.
*Jews dehumanization is measured in millenia, not decades. Why I repeat my message: purely as a secondary reaction to your primary poke.
*For me you can criticise Jewish imperialism after you have addressed the much more massive Islamic, Christian, US or now Chinese imperialisms – all in proposition to the square miles/ km2 occupied + number of violent deaths: only then you are fair.
*Apartheid: look at South Africa today – what a murderous mess. Better not mention it.
One Nelson Mandela couldn’t create a miracle – alas. Irak or Libya are other places that went from bad to worse. Not all change is improvement.
‘Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines’
Are also supported by the west to a lesser extent, contested by a revisionist PRC, and arguably more important than Israel and Palestine. Asia, not the ME, is where future markets and thus prosperity lies. I also find the frantic fixation on Israel here disconcerting, very old world, and not just a function of Brit geography.
And now we can add Mozambique, a newer member of the Brit Commonwealth, to the hotspots. The recent Islamist attacks, allegedly by Al Shabaab aligned terrorists in Cabo Delgado, threaten the development of energy projects by Brit US Russian PRC and Aust interests that could prevent the nation going bankrupt and slipping back into civil war. Special Forces have been doing scoping operations in neighbouring east African countries, most probably in Moz too.
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“The IDF was recently described by the Israeli defense minister Avigdor Liberman as the “most moral army in the world”. During his visit to the UK, Netanyahu claimed his government was doing “everything we can” to avoid civilian casualties.”
Well I wonder how many people will believe the above? Not very many I presume.
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2018/06/10/a-shocking-tweet-from-the-idf-destroys-one-of-the-biggest-myths-of-the-israel-palestine-conflict/
The self delusional Israeli’s believe it themselves.
Well here’s something I think, most of us already know about the Tories.
“Ten current serving Conservative MPs and twenty five Tory Councillors have been exposed as being members of a racist anti-Muslim Facebook group whose members have said they want to ‘ban Islam’ and have likened Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott to a gorilla.”
https://evolvepolitics.com/10-tory-mps-and-25-tory-councillors-exposed-as-members-of-racist-islamophobic-anti-muslim-facebook-group/
Two years of this Brexit nightmare and we’re still being waterboarded with “magical thinking”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/11/rees-mogg-no-need-for-customs-checks-at-dover-in-no-deal-brexit
Trump’s separated at birth twin wanted to install a still to be scoped let alone designed electronic border with Ireland because, er, it worked with the Congestion charge.
A man with evidently more imagination than his parents when it came to naming him, wanted a 10 mile wide “free fire” zone at the border.
Now Lord Snooty turned into a real boy says there’s no need for more Customs officials at Dover ’cause we’ll just let stuff through like nothing’s happened.
Perhaps Scotland was in the grip of a kind of nationalist euphoria in 2014, but it was positive, outward looking and progressive. Now we are condemned to a monetarist, laissez faire, isolationist, “gost of Empire past”. All because a politically disenfranchised and neglected English and Welsh working class found its identity in a narrow, prohibitive interpretation of self.
“All because a politically disenfranchised and neglected English and Welsh working class found its identity in a narrow, prohibitive interpretation of self.”
To be fair, most who voted to leave did so under a barrage of misrepresentation from the media and the Brexiteers, who along with the infamous big red bus made the EU out to be some sort of expensive immigrant haven, that stole our jobs and robbed us of our identity.
Now that the dust has settled, I’d say that remain would probably win quite comfortably if a second EU vote were to be held.
Day after day a new Brexit story breaks on how leaving the EU will cost jobs, raise food prices and damage British industry. Yet those who are negotiating our exit from the world’s largest trading bloc, are at best inept.
Did you know that one of the largest votes to leave the EU came from Wales.
Did you know that in Spain in 1936 Madrid successfully resisted the forces of Franco due in large part to the actions of the International Brigade, This Brigade was heavily stiffened in fighting ability and fighting resolve by Welshman. Many people attribute the Welsh presence as constituting the single most important factor in explaining how the Nationalist forces were forced back from the Casa de Campo all the way to Arganda del Rey.
The Welsh – As true today as they ever were.
Loony.
I don’t know if you noticed but those 200 or so brave Welshmen who fought in the Spanish Civil war did so against fascism.
Now correct me if I’m wrong, but since the announcement of Brexit there has been a sharp move to the right in mainly England, ( though I certainly wouldn’t tar everyone with the same brush in England) and a rise in hate related crime, and in my opinion, right wing policies and attitudes pushed by UKIP and the Conservative party, and media, has added to that.
Such as the Windrush scandal, and downright Dickensian policies aimed at hurting the poor and disabled in society.
In my opinion the far right yearn for the long gone infamous days of empire and splendid isolation, where colonials knew their place and acted accordingly. Brexit to a point has allowed them to reveal a little bit more of that mentality, and it is in my opinion, a very ugly sight to behold.
Let’s not forget why those brave Welshmen, and others, fought, and in some instances, died for.
Bollocks. and patronising bollocks at that. You remember me of Emma Thompson whose expression when someone suggested she might vote to leave was one of outright disgust. Get off your classist backside and pay attention. It is possible to walk away and start from scratch. When all who suck from the British tit have to face the prospect of no tit, I guarantee you will find deals made, ways round issues, etc. This slavish adherence to all the EU says and does is pure classism, and not very classy at that.
erm. you remind me.
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GOOD post. Ignore the complete dick-wad Kuladanga.
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Don’t think the propaganda seeds would have germinated if they fell on barren ground.
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No, most of the leave voters were disguted with the fascism of the EU and its development into a billionaires’ masturbation club. I voted out because I’m against the gang rape of the Greek working class, the collaboration of the EU with the US-Ukrainian nazi putsch regime and the EU breaking its own laws to collaborate with the US-faszioist regime in occupied Palestine.
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well, hear hear actually, but I prefer here here
So the Orange Man Child Trump, spent the first five months as POTUS in the Oval office ripping up files, memo’s, letters, documents and deleting e-mails. Accidently or deliberately?
“Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must preserve all memos, letters, emails and papers that the president touches, sending them to the National Archives for safekeeping as historical records.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164
Loony June 11 0809
“It is the case that actual Nazi’s were, inter alia, characterised…”
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Is that you Habbie?
From the incorrect use of the apostrophe in Nazi’s to the use of the term “inter alia” (a favourite of Habbies) leads me to suspect so.
Doug Scorbie
Yes, I sometimes wonder if all the contributors here are just one twit at GCHQ who’s tailoring remarks to push my buttons. Maybe all racists have the lowest common denominator of having no education which makes them angry at foreigners succeeding better than them. That’s a quite different matter to Rees-Mawg using the politics of racism to find a way round trading barriers imposed by the EU. A wheeze by which he and his business cronies could get rich while we end up paying WTO tariffs on everything.
Giyane.
Surely you don’t believe for one moment that Brexit was initiated for the benefit of the masses?
In my opinion Brexit was concocted in the minds of a certain far right faction in the Tory party. Who have very strong ideals as to how they see a future Britain outside the EU.
The EU referendum was to heal the Euro rift in the Tory party and neuter UKIP. It achieved one of those things. Leaving the EU was just a side effect and probably unattended.
Yes I think it is clear that the Conservative party puts its internal politics above the country’s well-being.
RoS and Mighty Drunken – you are both absolutely right of course. any Prime Minister, in this case Treason May who triggered Article 50 without having a clue what the negotiations were about, without a plan, without and end game is one who puts the will of her Party before the good of the Nation. The problem is it is the rabid Brexiteers such as Reees-Mogg, Johnson and Davies who form the negotiating team and don’t have a clue about the parameters of the negotiations – hence this bullish, Empire mentality to the negotiations – we are the UK who once ran half the world – give in and do as we say – a bit like ‘go away and shut up’ really. Well, I am sure the Brexiteers did not vote for the appalling mess this Government are making of the Brexit negotiations in the process of which, they are putting in serious jeopardy the Good Friday Agreement. No Deal it is and we, the British Nation, will pay a very big price economically as a consequence of a No Deal Brexit – the result of the gross ineptitude, bias, empire mentality and hubris of May and her Brexiteer cronies.
Is there some reason that you took half a sentence out of context in order to identify one small grammatical error?
The obvious explanation would be that you are seeking to divert attention so that you and your ilk remain free to continue with smearing anyone that disagrees with you – or who has the temerity to point out that what you consider virtue is in fact very closely related to the modus operandi of RTLM,
Oh say it aint so Joe
Thanks for your confirmation Habbabkuk.
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What’s a ‘habbie’?
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Thoughts? Author?
https://www.wikihow.com/Deselect-Your-Labour-MP
Hey, hey, hey – time to pick your favorite EU country
Is it Italy – refusing to allow illegal migrants to land in Italy?
Is it Malta – also refusing to allow illegal migrants to land, but blaming Italy?
Surely it cannot be Francoist Spain who are allowing illegal immigrants to land in Spain?
Is it Austria who are busy closing Mosques and consequently receiving overt threats from the Turks?
Is it the Baltic states who are pressing ahead with institutionalized discrimination against their largest ethnic minority?
Obviously only English racists would have ever voted to free themselves from this paragon of liberty and virtue.
Interesting that you need to draw comparisons with the most reprehensible behaviour of others in order to normalise your own behaviour. There’s a lot of that going around in less civilised circles.
If we go back around 70 years and apply your standards, it would perhaps be perfectly “normal” and line with what our friends were doing on the continent for Britain to round up and deport Jewish people.
Is this what you stand for?
“Is it Italy – refusing to allow illegal migrants to land in Italy?”
Loony, or whoever?
It’s rather unfair to blame Italy for refusing to accept more immigrants. Under the last government the country attempted to do its best, with regards to immigration.
At least 8.3% or 5.2 million people living in Italy has a immigrant background, with another estimated 670,000 immigrants living their illegally.
Lets try not to forget, that in the most part it was western invasions dressed up as bringing democracy and freedom to some countries, that has led to the huge influx of refugees and immigrants to Europe.
We allowed our governments to do this, so now we are reaping what we’ve sown.
Well said, esp. the “Let’s try not to forget (…)” and what follows.
Remember that Gilad Atzmon did his time in the IDF as every young Israeli boy or girl is compelled to do.
He lives in London. This is his talk delivered at Deep Truth-Countering Deep State Lies (online conference) yesterday.by Gilad Atzmon
2,221 words
Truth, Truthfulness and Palestine
June 11, 2018
Israel has deployed thousands of snipers in Gaza. They are ordered to kill from afar. Not exactly the early Zionist heroic image of a ‘face to face warrior.’ But the snipers are not alone. Israeli pilots also rocket Gaza from a distance while cruising in safety over the Negev or the Sea. Both the snipers and the pilots are supported by dozens of drones that are controlled by boys and girls who operate in safety and comfort in air-conditioned units. Otto Weininger’s diagnosis had some merit. Apparently the alpha male transition didn’t work as the early Zionists wished.
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http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2018/6/11/truth-truthfulness-and-Palestine
He is a talented man. Now being sued for libel. Same old. Same old. Anyone who speaks out against ‘the little democracy in the Middle East’ is a recipient of a High Court writ. This time it’s from Gideon Falter.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/support-gilad/
@ Sharp Ears June 11, 2018 at 17:15
Your link doesn’t work. Try instead: http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2018/6/11/truth-truthfulness-and-palestine
(looks nearly the same – if it does’t work, just type in the search engine: ‘Truth, Truthfulness and Palestine’ + Gilad Atzmon
Here he is on video: ‘Truth, Truthfulness and Palestine-Gilad Atzmon USA 2018 at Shareef Aleem’s Show’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLMG4Oj2Oo
Spain ‘will accept’ disputed migrant ship Aquarius
12 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44441386
Praise be and thanks to the Spanish government. The 629 people, including unaccompanied minors, have been refused entry by Italy and Malta. Food supplies were running low. I believe Seawatch have intervened to give help.
It looks like Malta will allow resupply for the near 1300km and 7 day journey to Valencia. Interestingly it will pass within easy sailing distance of many ‘safe’ ports in Tunisia, Algeria on its way.
Once in Spain these economic migrants will be over the border into France as fast as they can as the benefits system in Spain is pretty harsh and the locals, whose unemployment levels are already pretty high, really do not want them.
While all eyes were on the Aquarius, another 937 migrants were slipped into the port of Catania by the Italian coastguard.
http://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-06-11/the-latest-eu-urges-italy-malta-to-resolve-ship-standoff
“Praise be and thanks to the Spanish government”
Funny bit I could swear that just a few short weeks ago Spain was a jackbooted fascist state determined to beat old women to death just to stop them voting.
Funny how times change – and so quickly
When someone (or a government) does something praiseworthy, they should be praised for it.
When someone (or a government) does something bad, they should be condemned for it.
Something about this apparently confuses you.
Struggling to find anything praiseworthy about letting thousands of sub-Saharan Africans flood into your country when you have 40% youth unemployment.
You must be living in Greece.
I do actually concede you have a point there. However, I was responding to Loony’s pathetic “gotcha” when a poster (SE in this case) approves of one thing a government does, and praises them for it, despite condemning earlier action over which SE did not agree.
There’s no inconsistency with SE here, although Loony obviously thinks himself clever with such a tedious example of tabloid grubby journalism of the most infantile standard.
“Struggling to find anything praiseworthy about letting thousands of sub-Saharan Africans flood into your country when you have 40% youth unemployment.”
How perfectly right wing of you. It’s praiseworthy because they do so even though they have 35% youth unemployment. Your view would of course be, “well, long as it not my problem”, when in fact we should all be helping take the strain at the gates of the EU with funding, aid, sharing integration, and working to prevent that which they are running from.
Nit-picking among non-related facts. Rahoy has gone, apparently. Unless it was fake news.
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So Jaguar Land Rover, has announced that they are moving all production of the Land Rover Discovery to Slovakia.
The official story is that they are re-engineering the factory to allow electric vehicles to be produced in the 2020’s.
But I suppose it does no harm to keep a iron in the European fire for when things don’t work out on Brexit. Still I’m sure they’ll be job loses with the move.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JMPSimor/status/1006176498179506176
Also there’s been quite a few chain store closures around the UK, or announced closures, in the near future as many fall into receivership. Is the economy tanking due to uncertainty over Brexit? And are people playing it safe and not spending as much?
Losses*
Retail closures have little to do with Brexit and a lot to do with the internet. Into this behavioral sea change steps the government – the very same people that have no intention of actually implementing Brexit.
…and what do they do? Why they increase business rates and so drive ever more businesses into insolvency. And why do they do this? Mostly to protect the final salary pensions of bourgeios clerks who bear no guilt, and thus accelerate the social apartheid state they are striving to build. Without irony most of the people busy throwing people out of work in order to protect their own pensions wail most loudly about perceived inequality.
On top of all this you have a slavish dedication to money printing the main aim of which is to boost asset prices (i.e. real estate), and this then drives up rents. At the same time real wages are being crushed and so demand, to the extent it exists, is for cheap products.. Cheap products being sold from high cost premises does not fit too well.
Who benefits from inflated asset prices? In large part the very same people so dedicated to stealing from the poor in order to maintain their pensions.
“On top of all this you have a slavish dedication to money printing the main aim of which is to boost asset prices (i.e. real estate), and this then drives up rents.”
Loony it depends what you use money printing for. In the case of the tories, it is exactly as you describe plus making it easier for corporations to give huge bonuses and for the rich to get labour. However if you print money for reinvestment as Corbyn has proposed, then there would be improvement for everyone.
No – there would be hyperinflation and destitution for everyone.
There is now destitution for 50% and it will get worse. Austerity will never work as a policy to reinvigorate the economy.
“There is now destitution for 50%”
Deary me there are some absolute morons on this blog. It must be a complete fixation with ideology, to come out with statements this retarded?
I thought this was a blog for polite people but it seems to be infiltrated with some who indulge in infantile name calling.
I am not sure why such people bother to turn up here.
Yes Loony online shopping could explain a portion of the closures, however the loss of 5000 jobs at Poundworld, where everthing is a pound, say a lot for the economy that no one has a pound to spend.
“The record-high rate of store closures that rocked the retail industry last year has continued into 2018, with more than 3,800 closures expected this year, according to an analysis by Business Insider.”
http://uk.businessinsider.com/stores-closing-in-2018-2017-12
Yes internet shopping and the continuing popularity of the supermarket/retail park, has hastened the demise of the high street. However years of Tory austerity and the uncertainty surrounding Brexit has only added to the pressure.
The problem with retail shop closures can indeed be affected by Internet on-line shopping. However this is the camouflage behind which the failure of Govt Economic policy is conveniently hidden.
As any man knows about women, shopping is an experience in itself ,.to try on clothes and move around various outlets ,meet with friends and dine.
The core reason for the failure of High St retail outlets is DEBT DEFLATION.
Debt deflation takes a few years to reveal itself, and stems from the EU austerity policies introduced by the then Chancellor George Osborne in the David Cameron Tory Govt.
Debt deflation occurs when there is a shortage of disposable money in the System. This is caused by stagnant wage growth, low Govt spending and cutbacks in funding Govt infrastructure.
Having paid mortgage loans, car loans etc a family has little disposable money left over for shopping. The credit card is then used to tide over ,until that is maxed out and the monthly repayments are prohibitive. These debts take time to filter thru’ the system and are then reflected in the loss of business in the High St.. Shops close, factories close from lack of orders and high unemployment occurs.
Austerity proves to be a descent into the economic abyss and debt is a weapon of subjugation.
Salford Lad June 12, at 10:33.
Yes, I suppose it should have been obvious to even those of the meanest intelligence that you can only borrow, borrow, borrow and spend, spend spend, like we were all encouraged to do and still are, for a limited time until the cost of the repayments meant that both the ability to borrow more and the ability to spend would be severely restricted. All done in the name of pump-priming economic growth to boost politicians’ popularity ratings and enable the government to afford its own reckless borrowing. Well, the priming water has run out and the pump still ain’t pumping, but hey, let’s not go there. Much better to blame Russia/immigrants/Brexit/the EU or whatever your blame sponge of choice happens to be.
Salford Lad, a brilliant analysis – most ordinary people have not had a pay rise for over 10 years yet the rate of inflation (at least the real rate of inflation not the Govt falsified one) is galloping away. Yours is the truth behind the High Street downturn and we have a Govt who does not have a clue how to sort it out. Time for Corbyn and Labour who are disposed, quite correctly, to some solid Keynsian economics and Government investment in the economy.
Employment is at record levels in case you had not noticed Republic.
“Employment is at record levels in case you had not noticed Republic.”
So is the use of food banks.
Geoffrey, Is it? 28,000 jobs in the retail sector lost in the past 6 months, more in manufacturing industry, a sharp increase in companies going out of business and receiverships and administrations. I don’t see that employment is anywhere near at record levels. It’s going in the opposite direction – to recession/depression era records I thik.
Totally agree RoS. Interest rates have not yet risen but it is forecast that from August there will be 6 successive interest rates hike. That will spell record numbers of repossessions and all sorts of other chaos – much like the Thatcher Government really. The real rate of inflation is being hidden by this Govt – I suggest its actually running more like at 7%. And yes, it is the Brexit effect also – the impact of which cannot be denied – especially as a No Deal Brexit is on its way.
Online shopping, you wally.
Your infantile name calling should be moderated because you seek to disrupt not to contribute ideas.
Republicofscotland
June 11, 2018 at 19:16
Still peddling your disinformation about Brexit.these plans were started in 2015 before the referendum.
Jaguar Land Rover is set to open a new European factory after outlining plans to expand in Slovakia.
The automotive giant has signed a letter of intent with the government of the Slovak Republic over a new plant in the city of Nitra to be fully operational by 2018. Check the facts.
https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/business-news/jaguar-land-rover-unveils-slovakia-9831540
Thank you Dave for the link, however I’m not peddling anything I said that Jaguar Land Rover, are opening a factory in Slovakia, which is true.
I did however add that like other savvy companies in the UK, that with the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, that keeping a iron in the EU fire would be a clever thing to do. I certainly don’t want so see anyone else above the already lost 1000 jobs at Jaguar Land Rover, albeit those jobs were temporary.
This is an interesting link, it neither blames Brexit outright nor does it condone it either, the topic surounds Jaguar Land Rover.
https://reaction.life/brexit-blame-jaguar-land-rover-job-losses/
Still the press appears to see the move to Slovakia, in a dim light.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/11/jaguar-land-rover-to-move-production-of-discovery-from-uk-to-slovakia-jobs-solihull
The FT, feels the same way.
“The move requires it to shift all production of its Land Rover Discovery sport utility vehicle to a newly-opened plant in Slovakia, resulting in several hundred job losses among agency workers at the Solihull site.”
It comes on top of the 1,000 job losses the company announced last month,
https://www.ft.com/content/f2c6e930-6d7f-11e8-852d-d8b934ff5ffa
Republicofscotland
June 11, 2018 at 22:02
“The FT, feels the same way.”Well FT would feel that way because it so pro EU that in the 1980`s it
sacked it` Lombard Column editor C. Gordon Tether for writing a piece Common Market Fraud. After his sacking he tried all main stream publishing houses to publish his booklet but found he was backlisted.In the end it was published by a underground counterculture publisher. We live in a great democracy don’t we.
“The peer said Islamophobia is “very widespread” in her party and “exists right from the grassroots, all the way up to the top”. Said Baroness Warsi.
She also said, “The Conservative Party deliberately uses “dangerous” hatred of Muslims to win elections.”
Baroness Warsi, is of course referring to the Conservative party.
Of course the leader of the Labour party Jeremy Corbyn, has in the past attempted to highlight the Islamophobia within the Conservative party, but dogwhistling, by the media (to a degree) over anti-semitism in the Labour party, has drowned out the call for a further look into the claim.
I think most people who are not blinkered, can see that there needs to be a deeper look into the Conservative party’s attitudes towards Muslims as a whole.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/conservative-party-deliberately-uses-dangerous-12681398
Easy way to find out if you have Islamophobia – draw a picture of Mohamed.
One of…The Wonderful Wizards of Truth.. Eva Bartlett talks Syria.. Palestine…” I Won’t be Silenced ” That’s a Heroine May the Ki stay with you Eva.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKryA6FB0QA&t=1s
I agree Brian. A sound woman with a good mind and heart.
For those interested here is a list of this year’s Bilderberg attendees (with biographies) whose purpose is to determine the means of keeping the world’s wealth and resources in the possession of a tiny but powerful elite.
http://sites.harvard.edu/~cesww/ces_dis_Political_Science.html
@ John Goss June 11, 2018 at 21:47
That is certainly not a full list. One ‘surprising’ attendee will be ‘Pope’ Francis’ (Bergoglio) Secretary of State.
I disagree with the site’s knocking of Vatican II (which was a breath of fresh air – to be rapidly rolled back as far and as fast as possible by JP II): ‘Vatican Secretary of State to attend Bilderberg Conference’:
https://novusordowatch.org/2018/06/vatican-pietro-parolin-to-attend-bilderberg-conference/
Here is a fuller attendee list: ‘Bilderberg 2018 Attendee List and Agenda’: https://www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7710
The search and rescue area covered by the NGO ferries is 8-12 nautical miles off the coast of Libya.
The safe port of Zarzis in Tunisia is just 60 nautical miles west of the search and rescue area.
Instead of taking the migrants to Zarzis, the NGOs ferry them 270 nautical miles north to Italy!
It is obvious what is happening. The so-called ‘charities’, which are all militant front organizations for open borders, are colluding with the Libyan traffickers to send the dinghies a few miles out to sea where they can be ‘rescued’ and transferred to the EU by the NGO ferries. It is not a humanitarian mission but a criminal and concerted effort to flood Europe with economic migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
Salvini realises this which is why he is banning the NGO ferries from landing. The Spanish muppet is just virtue signalling, aware that Spanish arrangements with Morocco ensure that not too many migrants start washing up in Spain.
I would like to hear someone enthusiastic about having an open boarders policy in the UK, and listen to them state what the upper population capacity of the UK actually is. 80 Million? 100? 200? Once we arrive at a well reasoned figure, we will know how long we can keep our doors open for. Unlimited immigration forever is clearly impossible on a island of limited size. We cannot accommodate half the world, even with the best of intentions.
Anyone want to give it a shot? If they’re really brave, they can go on to say what we should do with the rest of the immigration applications once that limit has been reached.
It should be noted that our social services, roads, schools, hospitals and so on are rather underused at the moment, so clearly we’re nowhere near the limit yet.
Always ask these types if there should be a limit. Invariably there will be one or two who answer “No”, but they can be safely dismissed as insane. When they answer “Yes” (which most do, because otherwise they would be laughed off as insane), all you have to do is ask “Why?”. And then you get to enjoy the look on their faces as they realise they’ve checkmated themselves.
Btw direct your questions to craig.
Glenn_nl, I think and hope that your last point is thinly disguised sarcasm, because our infrastructure, particularly in the South East of England is in tatters. They announced on the BBC local news this morning, that highways departments are going to have to stop men ding the roads for a while – in order to think how they can proceed with mending the roads. Many GP surgeries are full, it takes two weeks plus to see a doctor. Our two local hospitals have been placed in “special measures” – a way of further demotivating an essential service which should be helped. Rail services are unreliable and far too expensive. We are incredibly crowded with a lot of visible poverty – people sleeping rough on the streets or in tents. Violence, particularly related to drugs and inter race gang warfare is on the increase. There is an increase in people trafficking/smuggling. There is an increase in crime, particularly related to immigrants from all areas – credit card/prostitution/slavery/smuggling animals.
The politicians and media talk about record low lwvels of unemployment, but never talk about the kind of work which folks are pushed into – zero hours contracts, minimum wage.
This is a race to the bottom, and things will not improve if we allow unchecked immigration.
A: ” […] I think and hope that your last point is thinly disguised sarcasm […]”
Indeed, I hoped that would be obvious enough. You didn’t mention the housing situation, where pressure for social housing is beyond a joke and house prices (at least anywhere worth living) make home ownership a distant dream for the mass of “minimum salary” employees. This minimum salary is pretty much the standard salary now for a large proportion of the working population.
In case nobody has noticed, not only are British roads in the worst condition in Europe, they are also the most crowded. But no expense is spared in the monitoring of traffic, in order to criminalise very ordinary behaviour while doing little to counter anti-social behaviour on the road.
Compared with civilised parts of Europe, Britain is desperately overpopulated. It’s also dirty, and run down – it appears to have suffered a couple of decades of neglect, while the rest of Europe progressed. Much of the population seems miserable, and struggling, instead of enjoying their lives.
But still, as Cameron was crowing about, we have 100 billionaires now! That’s something all Brits should feel proud about.
Thanks glenn_nl.
Of course, lots of billionaires means – TRICKLE DOWN??????
Doesn’t it? I was always told it does.
I am in my late fifties,and both my wife and I (she has a masters in biotechnology) are now earning 25% less than average wage (lots of billionaires means the average wage goes up) and far less than we were ten years ago in exactly the same kinds of jobs.
We are both aware that we could be replaced/managed out of our jobs, because our employer could get someone from Eastern Europe and pay them around £13K per year.
Why would there be economic migrants from Africa?
Africa is very wealthy – in Africa they have so much money that they are able to bury their dead in $90,000 cars. Europeans are mostly limited to coffins.
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/nigerian-man-buries-father-in-new-90k-bmw-and-the-internet-is-going-crazy
Ever feel like you have been played?
You should, at this very moment, be packing bags and heading for Africa.
Don’t forget the shovel.
Yes and even the race baiter Anon1 could visit Nigeria, well the South anyway, as it is populated by mainly Christians, which should give him a Panglossian glow, the North is populated mainly by Muslims.
Guess which part is extremely dangerous to visit?
Guess which part is off-limits as it’s too dangerous to visit?
Indeed Loony in my opinion Nigeria is a future giant in the making, it has a population of around 190 million people, with almost 100 million of those young people, only India and China has a higher youth ratio.
Nigeria is the 20th largest economy in the world, and the highest in Africa. Its human development index is low however.
Nigeria, is one to watch out for in the coming decades.
However, Nigeria is ranked 152nd in the World on the HDI (Human Development Index) which takes into account education and living standards.
It is basically a corrupt basket case, with huge inequalities between rich and poor and low life expectancy.
One wonders if you have a viewpoint on the “criminal and concerted effort” to destroy entire African and Middle-East countriies, as was and is done by some civilized Western countries including, apparently, yours.
You have just stated very succinctly what is the problem with you.
-+bj we tried to ignore Hab..i’ts treatment of a Valued one was shocking
I.m Nearly Famous..As AUOB post my Video of Craig Speech.. Well Done them
US and its rebel armies in Syria are planning another staged chemical attack.
http://theduran.com/breaking-syrian-rebels-us-forces-preparing-another-false-flag-chemical-attack-in-syria/
I seen that too John… From Various sources.. The evil Bastards want to Stick to the Plan
@ John Goss June 11, 2018 at 22:15
They’ve been at it from the start, arming and supporting the headchoppers whilst destroying Syrian (and Iraqi) infrastructure and slaughtering civilians (like the total destruction in Raqqa, while they airlift the headchoppers’ leaders out to safety.
‘RUSSIA ACCUSES U.S. OF HIDING THOUSANDS OF TERRORISTS IN SYRIA FROM JUSTICE’:
https://southfront.org/russia-accuses-u-s-of-hiding-thousands-of-terro rists-in-syria-from-justice/
Some ‘terrorists’, the West’s proxies, get the to live like lords in ‘captivity’. Doubtless get payed, as well!
The only thing that has a chance of stopping them is if Syria and Russia hit back hard.
‘Conspiracy Theory Proven Fact as Cops Remove Senator from Walmart Converted into Detention Center’:
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/06/conspiracy-theory-proven-fact-as-cops-remove-senator-from-walmart-converted-into-detention-center.html
One in the eye for all those, including on this blog, who have such a dim view of ‘conspiracy theories’!
Just as the ‘Black Helicopters’ were real, and HAARP was real, the great majority of conspiracy exposures are real, it’s just often hard, and takes time (by which time the Perps are up to yet more serious conspiracies) to expose them.
Except the photographs were taken in 2014 at an entirely different location.
https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2014/06/18/arizona-immigrant-children-holding-area-tour/10780449/
are you saying the pictures are of the same building? Because they look like a different build type to me. Different flooring, different structural build, one newer, higher ceiling etc. The setup of the internal fences/compound though is remarkably similar which suggests it’s a routine setup. Is America taking children because children integrate better and this will eventually boost their worker/population ratio?
No, the photograph linked to was at Nogales, Arizona and not one of the 5 converted Wallmart stores which were also holding detained children. But of course any attack to try to protect the lying government-funded Snopes.
I note with sadness that the SNP is basically demobilising. And even Wings Over Scotland is arguing that the debate needs to be changed towards a longer term strategy of building confidence and avoiding potentially divisive issues that lose support. The general consensus is that Scotland should wait until after Brexit before making any move.
I agree and disagree with all this. If the establishment was to express an opinion, I’m sure they’d be very happy about this more cautious long-termist approach; murdering innocent Muslims aside, kicking issues into the long grass is something that Westminster enjoys and is good at.
I think the SNP should disassociate with the radical left, though. The radical left have no influence in Scottish politics for a reason — they don’t win votes. The left generally is trying to define itself as the conscience of the independence movement, Soctland’s heart and soul, but in doing so they acknowledge that they no longer have a meaningful, legislative role.
Personally, I think an SNP strategy aimed at causing as much political upheaval and instability as possible would have been a more effective approach. This is tried and tested. I think independence should have been put right at the top of every manifesto so that a vote for the SNP unambiguously equated to a vote for another referendum (immediately) and independence.
I would even have considered defining a vote for the SNP as a vote for UDI and if a majority votes for that then its game, set, and match.
The SNP have a lot of power to cause political upheaval and instability. And I think by dictating the parameters of debate instead of pandering to polls and Westminster politicians they could have created huge momentum. If only they had a leader that had guts and was above petty politics.
Speaking of petty politics, if there’s one thing that we now know that we didn’t know before it’s that baby boxes and other loss leaders have not helped towards winning “no” voters over. If the polls are to be believed, the SNP hasn’t made any political capital out of that stuff or Brexit. Staggering really, when you think about it.
Now we are committed to several more years of this merry dance. Why for any reason does Wings and the SNP think the political climate will be improved in a few years? If anything, it will be worse because Brexit one way or another will be resolved.
And to address the Wings argument specifically, I don’t know how you can argue for independence without giving people some clear idea of what to expect from it in terms of the EU, Trident, currency, and other issues.
I’m really not sure independence can be secured by agreement in an abusive relationship, not when the MSM are framing everything against you.
Msm are NOT msm They are War Criminals
And the Spineless .. HeartLess bbc
Good thought Brian.
Nearer home, this seems to have gone unnoticed – Theresa May’s apparent ‘apology’ to the people of Grenfell – a year after the event in which the majority have still not been rehoused – the callous cow may has issued a sort of apolgy on the back of regret about the incident at Grenfell and her government’s very poor response to it.
https://www.rt.com/uk/429402-theresa-may-regrets-grenfell/
I don’t see this as any form of apology or regret rather yet another political whim on her part prior to the votes in HoC on brexit this week – highlighting her more ‘humane’ side she fails miserably and is seen for what she is …. A f***ing nasty, empty. soulless BITCH!
jazza
I replied yesterday to D_Majestic on the topic of Grenfell:
D_Majestic
June 10, 2018 at 19:12
There’s nit-picking. And then there’s counting the number of angels on a pinhead. Thank heaven others perceived my intent. What is the use of having checks and balances in safety of buildings if they are useless?
I’m not going to repeat my entire reply again.
Nearly a year ago I was sacked by Unite Students for making a slightly dodgy joke. They removed me because I objected to the presence of rats chewing the cables in the Student Accommodation in Birmingham and because I insisted that the electrical sockets, showers and shower room lights should all be on RCD trip switches, as per current regulations, which would have cost the company a few thousand quid to complete.
The Compliance team did share my concern about the unmentionable 4 legged friends, but did not share my concerns about safety trip switches. So, they got given my job. My line manager was also sacked so that a line could be drawn under their unfair dismissal tactics. He who laughs last, laughs loudest. It appears now from the Grenfell inquiry that 2013 over-voltages may have caused the fridge freezer to break down and catch fire in 2017. Grenfell is a sad sorry story of everyday cover-up and incompetence, but one thing is certain: IF THE CIRCUIT THE FRIDGE WAS ON HAD BEEN ON A RCBO OR RCD TRIP SWITCH, THE FIRE WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.
This Conservative government and its neo-liberal dogma scrapped all the good work that had been done by John Preston MP on Electrical Safety when he held the position of office of Deputy Prime Minister. That all went down the chute. Preston was going to massively tighten up landlord responsibility for providing safe electrical installations. The rest is history.
Grenfell is entirely the responsibility of the Tory party which is still in power. Neither the fire nor the flammable insulation would have happened if Preston had got his teeth into Building Safety. What Theresa May should have apologised for is Tory callous attitude to making landlords pay for safety. She knew the residents would have torn her limb from limb if she had turned up to talk to them. Do the powers that be think their dirty little secrets of laissez faire, that broke the entire world economy in 2007 and which put London as the capital of a Third World country in 2017, are unknown to the electorate?
I think there is the potential for this government to be removed either this week or next because of the growing frustration over Brexit and Grenfell. Mrs May’s political instincts have brought up a stream of apologies in the last few weeks, Is Jeremy Corbyn the kind of cat that only plays with mice? In which case where have all the macho cats like Preston gone? Seeing May under the claw again and again and nothing happen is getting to be poor viewing.
A good informative comment, giyane.
I remember a real angry mood over the country when Grenfell was burning and it became clear that so many poor people had died. I think that’s the closest this country ever got in my lifetime to a revolution of some sort.
But we are back to business as usual and the people have their minds right — apologies, wiring, cladding, nobody gives a fuck about anything again.
Short cuts leading to short circuits eh Giyane?
Locally a National Trust house, originally owned by the Onslow family, burnt down. There was an inadequate water supply for the fire brigade. The NT is proposing to rebuild the house at a cost of £5m.
‘A Surrey Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) report said the most probable cause was “a resistance heating fault on a neutral bar in the electrical distribution board” in a basement cupboard. It said: “This electrical connection would have repeatedly overheated, when subject to sufficient electrical load, ever since the distribution board was fitted. On the day of the fire this connection and the surrounding area has degraded to the point where it has caught fire.” ‘
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12018812/Clandon-Park-mansion-fire-caused-by-fuse-board-fault-investigation-finds.html
A fire safety consultant commented.
https://www.ifsecglobal.com/clandon-park-fire-questions-from-a-national-trust-member/
The previous Lord Onslow is now deceased. He was a kindly man and the only one on the large Joint HoL/HoC Committee on Human Rights who showed concern and emotion when Craig gave evidence on the UK’s complicity in torture and abuse of human rights in Uzbekistan. **
The present Lord Onslow does not want the house rebuilt.
** “Nobody can hear you Scream”
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2009/04/428966.html
Tony Opmoc made videos of the hearing. Good on Tony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF9spgagSHI No 1 of 7
Mods why is my reply to Giyane in moderation? It was about an electrical fault causing a fire in a stately home and the aftermath.
Sharp Ears
I have burnt-out neutral terminal bar in my collection of electrical horrors. Loose connection.
If you tested and inspected an electrical installation you would see the bent and blackened bar unless it was glowing red.
I first became convinced of the need for RCD trip switches when I saw a lighting circuit acting as a sparkler in the loft above a toilet where rats had eaten through the PVC on a cable. It would hold for about 20 minutes on a normal MCB. It would not even start on an RCD. The fatuous minds of senior managers in the lucrative student accommodation sector found it easier to sack me than do something about safety.
When I reported the problems to the Health and Safety Executive they told me that the company was dealing with the problem and there was nothing they could do.
In this case dealing with the problem meant removing me.
John Prescott lol
Great post.
There is zero accountability for the elite in the UK, and by the elite, I largely mean the Tory party and the Blairites in the Labour party.
Iraq war – nobody in prison
Grenfell disaster – swept under the carpet – how many Tory MP’s are landlords?
The political parties look after the ones who fill their coffers – not the electorate.
I’m learning to love the hardest of all possible crashout Brexit meltdowns, when Quisling refrains from wittering about ‘migrants’ and is forced to turn her attention to the Great Matter of Scots Independence.
That’s been the plan all along — no deal and a deregulated UK economy, with low tax, zero welfare, and the usual rich perverts lording it.
I don’t watch TV news and from where I have stood for around 4 years it is clear that there’s been a hidden hand at work all along. You never see them up front arguing for no deal but that outcome is more or less guaranteed now.
Here’s the final scene;
The EU negotiations break down, a lot of people blame May, the MSM and others tell us May tried everything but the EU was obstinate etc., then a General Election which leads to May being replaced (having served her purpose). Any number of creepy fruitcakes could replace her.
May was a patsy from the start and they needed someone to go through the motions and take the flak. The fact that they let the babbling, crying, crackpot continue after the last election speaks volumes.
But, yes, I look forward to it. I think Britain deserves it. Poverty is going to increase massively, unemployment, everything. I feel sorry for the younger generation but they were getting shafted anyway.
Britain is in firmly in the grip of a bunch of vicious rich perverts and they’re total sociopaths.
Hatuey
yes, intended chaos is a firm base for power. Most of us live our lives like that, being prepared for divorce and financial ruin. Why not stand prepared for simultaneous reversal of rights and fortunes in one Tory masterstroke? The only thing you are ignoring is the vast unsustainability of the neo-liberal system. The Tories have borrowed more than the last labour government and laissez faire keeps delivering chaos like the railways and Brexit.
All of those think-tanks and intellectuals who harness their minds to hitting the TV when it goes wrong, in other words keeping a failed system going, have failed to notice that other countries in the Far East are operating under a totally different and new system. What kinda creepy conservatism says let’s keep the old Vauxhall viva going until it comes back into fashion?
And now you’ve confused me again, giyane.
The problems we immediately face in terms of Brexit, Tory Government borrowing, and the general decline of the economy not only have nothing to do with a failure of laissez faire neo-liberalism, they can be explained in terms of deviation from free market policies and principles.
One of the reasons the EU single market is so important to many of us is because it offers the unhindered free trade and access to markets across Europe. The EU Single Market has been a huge success and it has liberal economic principles at its foundational core. Thus, it demonstrates the effectiveness of laissez faire / neo-liberal economic principles where you seem to be saying removing ourselves from the EU amounts to a failure laissez faire / neo-liberal economic principles.
Artificially prolonging the life of cars like the Vauxhall Viva through subsidy and governments borrowing and spending more than they out to are other examples of deviation from laissez faire liberal principles. EU member states have been propping up their respective car industries for decades, but that can’t be blamed on the EU (which has actually tried to discourage protectionism like that) or the free market.
To be clear, I think the free market when left to operate and function properly offers a lot in terms of dynamism, invention, technological progress, etc. I like it, just as I like the things it has given us such as cars, crisps, and computers.
But I also like the NHS and think government involvement in terms of proving economic stimulation and rules for the free market is important too. We call this the Neo-Classical Synthesis and it offers the best of all worlds, in my option. The crash of 2008, as another obvious example, was a failure of the regulatory system not the market itself, but that’s another story.
Hatuey
As I have just written about the electrical safety in student accommodation, the regulatory authority sided with the management and refused to intervene. A market without a regulatory system is what I call laissez faire. Now that people understand that there are no cameras on traffic lights they frequently go through the red lights. if the police then take no action even though they do have cameras at the junction, one could say that they have indicated that the law has been repealed. It’s all one story, the system and rules.
What do you plan to do with the hind leg off the donkey after you have talked it off.
Casserole or stew?
Giyane, there is a regulatory system. What you’re arguing is that it isn’t to your high standard. It’s accepted in the free market that paying more for quality usually means additional safety and is accepted as normal. If you drive a Mercedes you have a better chance of survival than someone in a Corsa. That doesn’t mean standards have failed.
Hatuey
It’s totally unacceptable in any kind of market that standards are dangerous.
The law states that all socket outlets are protected by RCDs and if they are not because the law was different at the time they were installed, they should be brought up to the current standard. Companies have a legal responsibility to ensure the safety of their residential tenants, because appliances do go wrong and burn dozens of people.
it’s not my high standards it’s the law’s high standards. In practice however, under the bastard dogmaticforprofit shite called Tories, the standards are not applied. Cameron scrapped all the plans to make the law on electrical safety stick. Only because of the Tory dogma of companies having top make profits for their shareholders. To be honest if I knew you were Thatcher spawn earlier I would have skipped you like I skip Charles Sockpot.. You are just another piece of trollery masquerading under the guise of devil’s advocate.
In honour of some sort of international overpaid kick-ball compo, starting soon, why not scour the less-read news for some actualité:
a) Those Russian election “attacks” put into a relevant accurate world-view here:- https://breakingdefense.com/2018/06/russias-real-target-is-us-alliances-ukraine-not-elections-cia-veterans/
b) assuming you are being wined & dined by KGB/SVR spooks who are promising you a gold-mine or two, eh, Aaron? Let’s see how it actually goes down. Transcripts apparently (c) NSA
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/06/10/how-russia-sunk-the-west/
(seems that the KGB’s evil SOP is to promise a lot, not deliver, but get the ‘mark’ drunk at a dinner and give them a small Picasso, signed for!)
Strangely, the Skripal story is not coherent with these accurate revelations of statecraft, just who/what hatched that outlying plan?
Will the missing Melania be suing Donald for divorce on the grounds that his affections have been alienated by Kim?
So funny to see the two overweight men with big stomachs and bad hair performing for the world’s media in Singapore. $20m (the cost of the theatrical according to the BBC) could have been much better spent
Steve Bell’s take – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2018/jun/12/steve-bells-if-on-donald-trumps-massive-golf-club
The sports writers’ merry-go-round.
‘Jonathan Liew has been appointed the new chief sports writer of The Independent. Liew, who has worked his way up the ranks since joining The Telegraph as a graduate trainee in 2008, takes up his new position in October. The 31-year-old replaces Ian Herbert, who has joined the Mail as a sports writer after 18 years at the Indy.
Liew’s imminent exit comes as the Telegraph outsources some of its subbing operation to the Press Association and following the departure of 2015 SJA Young Sports Writer of the Year Daniel Johnson, who was their motor-racing correspondent.’ https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/journalism-news/liew-new-chief-sports-reporter-of-indy/ June 2017
On behalf of Mr Lebedev, Mr Liew has put his keyboard to good use to produce this anti-Russian/anti-Putin rot in time for the start of the football on Thursday.
Part giant squid, part supernova, this World Cup will see politics and football mix like never before
A tournament conceived as a bridge between worlds is taking place in a country that has done more than any other to burn those bridges and drive those worlds apart
Jonathan Liew Chief Sports Writer |
21 hours ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/world-cup-russia-2018-preview-vladimir-putin-fifa-politics-racism-fan-violence-football-jonathan-a8393246.html |
Wonder what he would have written if the venue was based in a country in the USUKIsNATO axis!
PS Where is Sepp Blatter these days?
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Liew, who won the same award in 2011, will be employed by the Indy and not the i or The Standard.
Another load of garbage, nothing more than we expected though to be fair.
I wonder if there will be any criticism of Qatar holding the World Cup, given that they have funded Islamic State?
Remind me, who is it who supplies the bombs and aircraft to Saudi Arabia, in order that they can slaughter Yemenis whilst the Western World looks away.
There are a lot of so called “journalists” who have prostituted themselves for this Russophobic crusade.
I still cannot login to comment on the Indy – not that it is worth doing so.
Thinking of the position of Northern Ireland, and a lack of a competent plan from the Brexiteers, on how to maintain a frictionless border between NI and the Republic of Ireland.
A solution could be found in a similar if not exact fashion, to that of Cyprus, where the EU in 2004 made everyone on the island including the Turkish Cypriots EU citizens.
However the Turkish Cypriots are EU citizens in name only, and they have very little say on EU matters.
One has to ask with regards to NI, and the RoI, whether or not David Davis, is serious about arranging some sort of border deal with the EU and the RoI. Or would it be simpler for Davis to bluster along until the exit date and a no deal with the EU.
Returning to the Cyprus problem, the EU threw away much of its leverage, in an attempt to solve the problem. However the Northern Ireland, problem is a completely different set of dynamics, in the shape of the DUP, who’ve openly stated that they’ll not support any plan that see’s NI outside the UK, even though it could be a nominal one.
The matter becomes even more complicated, by the fact that the DUP are currently propping up Theresa May ‘s government, and she will not want to upset them, or they could feel betrayed and withdraw support for her party.
A look at the Cyprus problem.
https://www.scer.scot/database/ident-6802
There is only one solution to the Northern Ireland problem. That is for the UK government to admit that they sponsored all the terrorism, just as they have in Syria for ten years. If Corbyn came to power he would definitely tell it as it is, that the only thing preventing re-unification of Ireland is the historical scuppering of good relations through state terrorism.
You can’t build a wall on wobbly foundations. It is superb irony that neither of the two main political parties , both of whom want shot of the EU, can ever speak the truth about Northern Ireland. Therefore they cannot separate from the EU because of the Irish border question.
The Alt-Right, Boris Johnson, Fox and Oxford Drawl, are saying they can control the border with spy technology, as indeed they say they control terrorism with spy technology. The reality is that the UK retains control over Northern Ireland by creating terror there as a permanent threat. Funny that, because that’s how they control the Middle East, by creating terror there.
In other words the only obstacle to a renaisssance of UK imperialism is UK Imperialism itself. Quite how the self-contradictions of UK foreign policy, whether expressed as a kind of impossible Venn diagram of having your cake and eating it, or having power over your neighbour at the same time as treating it with respect, can ever be worked out, I don’t know. but if I was trying to solve the problem I would cut the Gordian Knot and admit that all the violence in northern Ireland was created by the failed policies of British imperialism.
Easy innit? O what tangled webs we weave when first we practise to deceive. Line up all Tory politicians, fleece ’em and shoot ’em. Job done.
The problem of Ireland has been exaggerated beyond recognition. Nobody, not the EU or the U.K. government, attaches more than token importance to it.
Once we reach the ‘no deal’ terminus, everything will become clearer. In a no deal scenario it will not be considered in the least controversial for NI to default to Britishness and if that means a return to the troubles then so be it. Once that happens the DUP and others will rally around the flag and wait for some sort of accommodation with the EU that gives them the best of all worlds.
People forget that a lot of people in NI did alright out of the troubles and a lot of them look back fondly on the days when they didn’t need to compete with “taigs” in the job market. They’ll go back to that singing and dancing to their flute music without skipping a beat.
Hatuey
You mean it suits you and the Tory government for Northern Ireland to return to bombs and strife.
That’ll keep them in place. And without the European court of justice who can sort that out. You are indeed the totally unacceptable face of Tory imperialism. Divide and rule . Shoot the wogs.
Arsehole Johnson is now exerting pressure on his brain which resides in his penis by advocating a very l-o-n-g bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland. Cocking his rifle to shoot the wogs while scratching the ticks on the Labrador’s heads. What an evil piece of hypocritical scum he is!.
Meanwhile a selection of stamps from the Royal Mail are on offer, some for the Brexiteers, others for the Remainers.
Just don’t tell them your name.
https://www.royalmail.com/dadsarmystamps?iid=PROMO_H1_DA50
I haven’t used a stamp for ten years. Why do they still make them?
All of the cast are deceased except for Private Pike, Ian Lavender. and he’s 72 now.
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/dads-army-stamps-set-released-14772904
So is the first Bond girl, who made it to 90:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/obituaries/eunice-gayson-dead-bond.html
Oh, it’s a wonderful mock up of “That” picture, you know the one.
In the original Last Supper, by da Vinci, Christ say “One of you will betray me” Luke 22:21, say that the betrayer will have their hand on the table.
Could the mock up artist be of a pro – Trumpian nature? ?
It really would help if I included the picture.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SocialPowerOne1/status/1005750349704126464/photo/1
RoS
The Biblical last supper was as much a work of fiction as Leonardo da Vinci’s helicopters. Trump is a Hollywood star in the uncompleted Zionist trilogy called Trash the Middle East for Greater Israel. Problem is Russia changed the script. The film will now be renamed Trash USUKIS for Islam, but it won’t be a film, it’ll be reality.
WTF was Bolton doing there? It was supposed to be trade based talks. Shouldn’t he have been in Singapore preparing to fuck up the DPRK talks? What was the line Bolton was pushing; “Kim will have to scrap his nuce’s before we deign to think about talks”. Didn’t quite work out that way did it. Jonnie boy forgot about his boss’s need for attention. Wait ’till the “Commander of cheese” finds out the Peace prize is just a crappy little medal.
Good question — because I wondered too.
The BBC used the lunchtime slot to belittle Trump for wasting time talking to lying ningnong wogs.
Bolton was there as a carrot for US investment in NK. The person in need of attention was Kim and he got loads of it. Now North Korea can start a new chapter as a westernised nation which discreetly has a nuclear arsenal it doesn’t swing around to get attention. Trump is a vast improvement on Obama who funded, legitimised and militarily protected Islamic State. So-called because Obama promised it to Saudi Arabia in exchange for destroying Syria and Iraq.
When the Islamic scholars of Afghanistan met to agree a fatwa against all forms of terrorism, Islamic State responded by blowing them up. That is because Obama legitimised them from the start. Trump has not legitimised North Korea threatening to use nukes. Trump has won a deal by which the threats cease.
May this year’s Eden Festival be a talking point for months!
‘Democracy? What happened to it?’: https://goodnewsengland.blogspot.com/2018/06/democracy-what-happened-to-it.html
Sing to the tune of the old song: ‘Treason makes the world go around….’
I wonder what the constituents of (ex-?) Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder will think?
”We’re PROUD saboteurs’ FURY as UK MEPs held SECRET Verhofstadt meetings to REVERSE Brexit’:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/967456/Brexit-news-latest-fury-EU-UK-MEPs-secret-meetings-revealed-Guy-Verhofstadt-Channel-4
Appears SNP’s Alyn Smith is in the group as well.
Sure and begorrah, there’s no such thing as ‘conspiracies’.
Traitors of the world unite! Ve haf vays of turning ‘ve vant out’ to ‘ve vant to stay in’. Jawohl, mein kommandant.