A rare day off for me at the moment. Soon I will have finished the current job and will be able to go wandering about amongst the mellow fruitfulness in search of mushrooms. Perfect timing.
Up until yesterday I have been avoiding talking about all our national problems. I mean, what's the point? We all know what is going on. People have advised me to steer clear of politics if I want comments, but I am not so addicted to comments that I can resist putting up the video of our new king meeting our new prime minister, even though it came via the Sun 'newspaper' which I detest. I have lost track - which party does the Sun support these days?
I think Liz Truss is so stupid that she honestly did not realise how she could spook the markets just by trying to apply pointless Tory ideology to the very first bit of legislation she made as prime minister. Why do they not put out the detailed plan until Halloween? Because there is no plan. There never has been. She is now trying to save her dream job as everyone else is trying to save the economy and the party is trying to save itself.
A week ago Jacob Rees-Mogg was being asked some difficult questions by Mishal Hussein on BBC radio, so he made a dark threat about 'impartiality' and the Corporation's future. Miriam Margoyles was being interviewed about the death of Hagrid this morning at 8.30 and right at the end she said 'Fuck you' twice before they could stop her. She said 'I shouldn't say this', then said it. She might as well have said, "Fuck me, I said fuck you!".
The unspeakable managers of Royal Mail are using the excuse of the postal strikes to sack 10,000 workers and some stupid Conservatives are supporting them in their mission to destroy the service. Almost everyone is on strike right now, but you can't sack them all and expect everything to carry on as normal, whether you support the strikes or not. Remember, the Royal Mail managers are the same ones who falsely accused hundreds of post masters of embezzlement, destroying their lives and the lives of their families. They still have not apologised.
Right. This morning's task is to set up a new phone for H.I. I am jealous. It's better than mine.
You would think it would have been accepted by now that sucking as much money as possible money out of public services has not been good for the social fabric. Compulsory Sunday working!
ReplyDeleteWe were trying to work out what might happen in Downing Street, and think the key is that the PM and head of the Conservative Party do not necessarily have to be the same. So Truss resigns as party head and Charles asks someone else to form a new government. Quick fix. Who who?
Why not deem Liz Truss as Defender of the Faith?
DeleteIf you had told me ten years before what happens in our world now I would have laughed and said "Come on, you're kidding!"
ReplyDeleteNow it resembles a knitting where someone pulled at the string, one stitch is pulled - and then the work of a long time goes up in a minute.
I am very angry and aghast.
I would not have believed it either.
DeleteMy father, staunchLabour in the nineteen twenties, when more or less everybody was on strike would have been enjoying all this had he still been alive.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure that anyone - no matter their political leanings - is enjoying this at all. There are no winners in this failure.
DeleteI have to second Britta's comment. Unbelievable. It seems as if we are moving backwards, not forward.
ReplyDeleteThe slogan 'Getting Britain Moving' just makes me think of a very large bowel movement.
I now have that image in my head, for better or worse.
DeleteI hesitated before publishing it. It's so uuuuuuunladylike!
DeleteFor Truss and Royal Mail, read Thatcher and the coal miners.....
ReplyDeleteExcept that Royal Mail have no political agenda outside asset stripping.
DeleteLast year I wrote a blog post eulogising my perception of the Royal Mail (well, an aspect of its history, but that's how it glibly reads) and then almost immediately was shocked into stupefaction after listening by chance to the 2020 BBC podcast The Great Post Office Trial. And have been gripped by the wash-up to the scandal ever since. Scandal really doesn't adequately describe the whole and still ongoing saga.
ReplyDeleteSome of those postmasters have died before being exonerated. Royal Mail management are the real criminals. They knew the program was wrong right from the beginning. They really do want to destroy Royal Mail.
DeleteUS news is saying LT must stay as another change would not bode well. There is no speculation on upcoming changes but change is predicted. US Postal Service is in debt. They are partially privatized. The price of stamps is going up again. Amazon is probably delivering more packages than the USPS. They lost out again.
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