Current Affairs
Unions, Strikes and Travel Disruption
I run my own little business, so I don’t have a union. However, if I worked for a large corporation or the public sector, I would join one straight away. If you work without representation, you are affectively a slave, hoping things go your way. Not being in a union means I am not an expert in how they operate. However, as I understand it, members vote for a leader and that leader represents them. When there is discontent over working ...
The Nurses Strike
It was just a couple of years ago that nurses were being lauded as national heroes. It was a fair accolade too, considering many of them were on the front line of a health crisis. Covid Pots and Pans! It is worth remembering that during the early stages of Covid, no one knew if there would be a vaccine. PPE was also in short supply increasing workers risks. This meant NHS staff were frantically trying to keep people alive whilst sticking ...
Refugees and the Constructed Crisis
I was talking to a friend the other day and his words intrigued me. He asked me how I would like having an Albanian gangster living next door me. The truth is, I would not like it very much. Then again I would not like any gangster of any nationality living next door to me. Gangsters are not very nice people, particularly people traffickers. However, I'd say the chances of that are slimmer than getting hit by lightning, so I am not unduly ...
Can Sunak be a Good PM?
So, in comes the next Prime Minister, unelected but crowned. The big question is, how will Rishi Sunak get on? Will he fail spectacularly, grovelling to the demands of the back bench crackpots, or will he take the party kicking and screaming out of the 20th Century and away from its imperial delusions? The Positive of Useless Predecessors The positive for Sunak is that he is following Liz Truss. Truss was the final act in a game where ...
The Slow Death of Populism as Truss Runs Down Cul-De-Sacs
As the populist division of the Tory Party collapses, it should be time for the British public to reflect. People who say, “I don’t do politics”, need to look at themselves, be brave, and ask why they fall for politicians that offer simplistic red-meat solutions to complex questions. The Unraveling That’s how we ended up with Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng. It all started unraveling when Cameron’s government was chased out ...