Monday 10 February 2020

Be proud of your country


Boris Johnson now thinks he has the mandate to do whatever he bloody well likes. If it isn't grand projects with his name written all over them, it is fulfilling his promises to the businesses made before the crucial election. The Labour Party have a lot to answer for.

HS2. Hundreds of miles of ancient countryside and woodland to be torn up rather than spend a fraction of the £106 billion (and the rest) on improvements to existing services.

Still sending 'back' the Windrush generation and their children, even today. Correction: They are sending back men who were born in the West Indies, some of whom came here as children with their parents, if they have been convicted of a criminal offence. Their children and wives are at liberty to stay here. It's a bit like Castro sending his criminals to the USA.

A bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland. You couldn't make this up and be taken seriously.

Hua Wei. The are European countries who could have fulfilled this order perfectly, so why did he go to China? That is going to help the vital trade negotiations with Europe, isn't it?

The long-term energy production projects, which favour European (French, to be precise) private companies over home-grown, green and sensible schemes such as tidal lagoons in areas of untapped, natural potential like the Severn Estuary.

Of course, I could go on, and I am sure that some of the 52% of you who voted him and Dominic Cummings in for fear of losing all that you have spent much of your lives accumulating to enjoy a comfortable old age will do.

Don't worry darlings, those horrid Socialists won't be able to get their hands on your savings before you kick the bucket, but I still wouldn't relax right now. Their short-term fixes have long-term repercussions.

Oh, and get ready for another massive rise in food prices because of delays at ports caused by Brexit. Having said everything will go very smoothly, Gove is now castigating transport companies for not doing enough to prepare for the inevitable hold-ups.

21 comments:

  1. No one who'd ever crossed the Irish channel on any of the ferries would ever think of even attempting to build a bridge, let alone use it!

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  2. It's all unbelievable...you have to try and laugh at the ridiculousness...or you'd be crying...

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    1. I'm crying. Trying to get my sense of humour back.

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  3. And I've never crossed the Irish channel, but I have studied the history of Gaelic sweaters. Their family identifications weren't knit in there for nothing.

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  4. It's only going to cost £20bn. What's the problem? *heavy sarcasm*

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    1. If they spent that on the old rail network everything would be fine.

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  5. It's a long way through Galloway from Carlisle to the coast. It would also need roads upgrading to motorway and preferably new railways lines. Are they included in the cost estimates?

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    1. I VERY much doubt it. He is going to put a few quid into cycle paths though. The rest goes to psychopaths.

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  6. When I read any of these stories in the newspaper I turn the page quickly. I can't do ng about it and I really can[t lose any sleep over it.

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    1. I can't do ng about it either Weave. I have other ways of losing sleep.

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  7. I hate to mention this, but Saint Tony Blair of Threadneedle deported 29,040 people in 2006 alone; and I don't even think they were all dangerous criminals, rapists, etc.

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    1. What are you talking about? Deportations in general? Get back to your food.

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    2. I knew you wouldn't like it; truth can hurt.

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    3. The truth doesn't upset me. You know I am no supporter of Blair. What pisses me off is mindless fools like you quoting irrelevant statistics in order to support the unsupportable behaviour of the party you would stick by even if they killed your mother. Like I say, get back to your food.

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    4. You, and those do-gooder left-wing demonstrators who wish to keep very nasty criminals on our streets, are part of the reason why Corbyn lost the election so pitifully. Totally bonkers! If (or when) any of them kill or rape again, YOU and your ilk will be responsible.

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    5. You never think anything through before you trot out the usual guff about left versus right. You are too shallow to make any valid observations on what is going on in your own country as you sit around eating in a community of Brit-hating gourmands. Once again, your ilk have jumped to the predictable conclusions about sensible people's attitude to crime on the streets here while you sit around nurturing your eating disorders in comfort, Colonel Blimp.

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    6. Although, having said that, I do agree with you about Rory Stewart. What I don't agree with is your claim that he is almost as capable as Boris Johnson. You gave yourself away with that gaff. Boris Johnson is no more capable than his puppet masters, who have rolls of gaffa tape on hand to silence him as they silenced Rees-Mogg during the last stages of the election. You really have no idea about what is going on from your rural idyl, do you?

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