Tory Women

This is Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, the woman in charge of the money.  She is standing there surrounded by the 'Three word slogan,' which is a 'must have' for politicians today as they know voters prefer a slogan to facts.  People, especially today, do not want long explanations they want an understandable slogan they can gather around,  'Fixing the Foundations,' is the one the Labour Party have chosen to lie to the people with.

Now, after 14 years of Tory corruption it is to be expected the foundations are indeed adrift.  Corruption, nepotism, graft, and incompetence have all led to the nations' downfall, let alone thousands of deaths for which they can just walk away freely.  However, the way to fix foundations is to tax the rich, change the Law concerning lies in the press, stop money being hidden abroad as a tax dodge, and spend on the NHS, prisons, probation service, social security, and housing, all this will generate wealth and improve the individual's life.  

But not Rachel.

She has bowed to the corporate and private equity world, her own world as it happens.  The world where they make money and you, the peasant, die!   So, she takes heating cash from those with little money, taxes rich pensioners, reduces payments to the unemployed, the disabled and of course the NHS.  The desire to kill off the NHS is clear, doctors are not being employed, just badly taught incompetents, probably all from Tory houses, in a move to force people into private health and kill of the NHS, all this for the corporate and private equity wealthy.  

You do not matter.

Just wait until all these 'Freeport's' and 'SEZs' get going, just wait until they see the whites of your eyes and steal everything they can from you without recourse to the courts.  

This from the Labour Party, once a party seeking the best for the lowest, now totally sold out to the wealthy.  How easily political elite own the rest of us.

 

Fuss has arisen because Keir has done something most thoughtful people would do, he has removed the portrait of Thatcher from Downing Street.  The fascist rags are up in arms, full of faux anger.  The woman who took away employment security, reduced the NHS budget and disorganised the whole enterprise, cut cash for schools, social security, prisons, police, and public libraries, and began the whole make the rich richer by starving the lower orders way of government, is their hero, as long as they are making money.  Today her children are continuing to destroy the nation by following her selfish policies.  Now, they fuss about her picture. A suggestion has been made that putting the portrait to auction and selling it off would fit her policies and must be tried.  I hope Keir considers this.

Sunny Sat

I spent some fifteen or so minutes sitting in the park watching the clouds above change shape and twist and turn as they passed by.  Clouds, as you know, fascinate me.  They are such huge great monstrosities that we take for granted.  Some reach thousands of feet into the air, other cover whole continents, many are dark and foreboding while today most were of the large fluffy type.  This was the nearest to a rain cloud we saw today.  
I was led to wondering what is actually in them?  Water vapour we know but what else fills these Goliaths in the sky?  Reading today about a man visiting Antarctica and learning of the huge icebergs that contain pockets, if that is the right word, of the air, the atmosphere from five to fifteen thousand years ago.  An air breathed by the Sumerians before they learnt to write, an air early man knew as he spread out about the earth.  How different it is today.  How long will we be able to breathe such air as daily it changes content and each change brings more pollution.  Maybe we will require workers to open the old icebergs and release fresh air!

    
With the weather reaching 80% today and nothing in the news bar the Tower aftermath we run out of things to say.  My tired mind has spent much time looking through the village census for 1911 seeking any link to men I cannot trace.  The facts noted are however interesting.  People in their 70's and 80's still claim to be 'Agricultural labourers' a few being pensioners, the over 70's were granted five shillings by Lloyd George in 1909 and this caused Margaret Thatchers father to leave Lloyd Georges Liberal Party and join the Conservatives.  He did not agree with dole to the unemployed nor pensions to the old, this tells us something.  One poor woman had been married twelve years, had given birth to nine children and only two were surviving.  I noted that neither child was listed at home, only an adult Boarder, and wondered about her state of health and mind and where would the children be living?  I never found my lost men but did get an insight into village living in 1911.

      

Thatcher Departs

The daffodils enhance a rather dreich morning.  Few other signs of Spring, let alone Summer, have been seen around here.  I blame global warming!  In spite of my intense suffering I, who happen to be one who rarely complains, continued on with my duties with no complaints whatsoever.  What?....oh!

The morning was spent with the BBC coverage of Maggies funeral in the background.  Now usually funerals force people to face up to the issues of life and death, let alone the personal grief of family and close friends.  However the somewhat overblown pomp and ceremony took away much from the funeral itself.  The arrangements for this were begun after talks between Tony Blair, then Prime Minister, and Margaret herself.  It appears, rightly or wrongly, David Cameron has added to this somewhat, like PMs do, for political reasons.  Not only does he wish to be associated with her he wishes her fans, the voters in the southern counties, to see him as a natural follower of her ideas.  They will not do this I'm afraid!  4000 police involved, and such pomp, including the Queen, calls for much security, several hundred from the armed forces, their employment criticised by many, and a somewhat strange ceremonial service overall.  The cost, not yet released as it ought to be, around £10 million! 

I found the ceremonial somewhat strange. (That's three times I've said 'somewhat!')  Why was she taken to the RAF church for a service with no-one in attendance?  What was the point of that with St Paul's filling up?  One thing is for sure, these events showed the difference between real Christianity and the church of England!  No wonder they fuss about irrelevant issues.  An event like this is not time to discuss the failings of the deceased but to concentrate on the better side.  This certainly surprised many!  One after another spoke of how nice she had been to them, and spoke sincerely at that.  Quite what you would expect.  As indeed where the words from the Bishop of London, a man who knows how to keep in with the best I think.  

This occasion brings together many heads of state and their representatives from all over the world.  What a headache ensuring the man from Iran does not sit next to the man from Iraq.  By placing the leader of Israel beside the man from Palestine an interesting event may have taken place.  The Argentinians helpfully did not appear.  I was interested in how they coped with sitting there for so long, waiting for the queen, waiting for the body, waiting for the service.  To hear David Cameron read a passage from the bible with little understanding of what he was saying was a treat!  I wonder how they all regard such times?  Does the pomp bore them?  Do they like to be important actors at this time?  The Queen mother I suspect would have been worrying about her racehorse at such moments.

This went on all morning, with more in the late afternoon as the coffin went to the crematoria for a private cremation.  Quite right too!  That is the moment the family can be themselves at last.  Was Thatcher worthy of such a funeral?  Clement Atlee changed the world in a more positive manner after the war yet when he died nothing like this occurred.  He would have opposed that anyway.  Thatcher brought much division, partly through changing many things that required change, partly through the hardness of heart that blamed those that suffered for suffering!  Especially while many lost jobs and her friends lined their pockets, just ask a banker or someone in a privatised utility!  All premiers deserve a respectful end, with no-one 'booing' as a handful did today.  How can anyone 'boo' a funeral?  Disgraceful!  This was indeed overblown and not required, and greatly over the top cost wise.  However it has been done now, life returns to normal, and we are left with this motley lot, none of them with her ability however warped, running the show.  We ought to mourn for us today, not her! 

  

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Eternal Judgement Awaits us All.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. 

Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

 Ezekiel 18:23  NIV

Political Thoughts

Daily Telegraph

Happy Birthday Maggie!
Happy Birthday from the millions you threw out of work.
Happy Birthday from the folk who lost their jobs as your friends pocketed fat profits.
Happy Birthday from the mental who died on the streets under 'Community Care.'
Happy Birthday from the needless dead in the Falklands.
Happy Birthday from the disabled who had benefits cut.
Happy Birthday from those who lost their houses under your policies.

Have a nice day won't you.  

The Conservative Party, the Party that does not change its spots, whatever they say!  
Note how that nice Mr Romney considers this woman a roll model! 
Be afrain America, be very afraid!


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