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HERE’S HOPING FOR A HAPPIER NEW YEAR

New Years Eve 2021 First things first – I hope you all had a great Christmas break, regardless of whether you celebrate the religious aspect or not, some kind of respite from the horrors of Covid-19 and the problems caused by Brexit would have come as a welcome relief.  I intended to write before Christmas…
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STILL NO ANGER – WHAT’S UP WITH PEOPLE IN THE UK?

11th November 2021 It’s been a while since I last blogged, for lots of reasons and for which I offer my apologies for those of you who have missed me.  I’ve had a couple of water infections, the second one of which was a bit of a beast that took 5 weeks to really get…
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MEMORY LOSS

Memory loss – or is it just forgetfulness? You might think it’s a simple enough question and why i might be asking it, but as we get on in years the black spectre of Alzheimer’s looms large – even if I wasn’t a good enough football player to have the potential damage caused by headers…
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Conservatives – Crooks, charlatans and chancers the lot of them!

I’ve often wondered on these pages where the anger and the outrage towards Boris Johnson and his coterie of Conservative crooks, charlatans and chancers is – be it about Brexit, their response to the Covid-19 crisis or the total disregard they have shown to Parliamentary process and the decency that British democracy is (was?) world…
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Where to start this month?

What’s your topic this month Jem? That’s Karen’s question of me every time I sit down to blog, rather settle down to blog, because I’m always either sitting or lying down, I have no alternatives.  Anyway this month especially the question begged some consideration what with all the problems in the UK.  If I were…
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On Thursday just remember that Johnson lies!

Thursday 6th May 2021 is the first opportunity for UK voters to exercise their opinion about Johnson, his Cabinet of Cretins and the lying, sleaze ridden swamp that is the Conservative Party following the disasters of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. So here a just a few reminders: He is responsible or over 127,000 deaths…
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Sleazy come – Sleazy go. Same old Tory crooks – no change there then!

I’ve been putting this together for a while now – one thing after another has stopped me finishing it off over the course of the last two weeks such as my health, building works and the ever changing and increasing political pandemonium going on back home in the UK. For months I’ve been asking where…
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The vaccination roll-out seems to be working well BUT

23rd  February 2012 Don’t let the superb achievement of the NHS mass vaccination programme blind you to the reason why we are where we are and why we need this to succeed. Look at the graph above and remember that this is 1st doses only.  The real vaccination figure is at the 1% mark only. …
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So Schools are safe are they Johnson?  Moron!!

28th January 2021 So Schools are safe are they Johnson?  Moron!! Yesterday I watched and listened to Johnson’s tired old diatribe about Starmer not admitting that Schools are safe rather than actually answer the questions put to him.  He conveniently forgot to mention that he’s keeping them closed and that he still hasn’t got a…
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I’ll ask again – where’s the anger, where’s the outrage??

What a miserable state we’re in …. 13th January 2021 As I write this the USA is on the verge of impeaching Donald Trump for the second time following his incitement of a redneck mob to riot and storm the Capitol building, and the UK keeps staggering on towards 100,000 Covid-19 deaths under the inept,…
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