Most days, I wake up wanting to write.
Most days, I can think of something I want to write about.
Today is not most days. The necessity of addressing Starmer's incompetence has got to me. I don't want to write more about him today. Or, come to that, anything else to do with his government that collectively appears to be intent on failure.
It's time to think, walk, snooze, breathe deep and birdwatch.
The government will still be there tomorrow. I'll talk about it again then.
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I concur with your sentiments entirely. I get the same feeling! Its easy to get aggravated by the ignorance and incompetence of the Government, but best to leave it on some days. So today I am concentrating on working in my orchard/wood!! Yesterday I spotted a warbler in the trees which was quite pleasant!
There are still warblers about
Some have gone but I am still hearing chiff chaff
Yes chiffchaffs here and last year Blackcaps overwintered.
Blackcsps still here
Whitethroat and Reed gone
and the Lord rested upon the seventh day. Here endeth the lesson.
Take a hint, Richard and have a well earned break.
You deserve a break. You are an inspiration to us all. Without you there is no hope. Only you can rescue us from this. Stay strong. The Country needs you!
I think you overstate the case
OK WE all need you. But only if you look after yourself.
I’m trying….
“Without you there is no hope”
@Kim Wilde
I must respectfully disagree.
Richard is our “Fearless Leader” but “”We” are the collective hope.
“We” must do our bit whenever possible.
Much more objectve
Kim Wilde is obviously a piss take you clowns
So are you
So what does that make you?
OK. No talking about LINO, how about the other half of the act?
I see that the i are claiming an exclusive that Murdoch is interviewing Jenrick and Badenoch for the Tory leadership. (At least that’s the impression I’m getting, but I won’t click to see what the ‘exclusive’ actually says.)
Sadly I feel the same, after many years of doorstepping, basically facing mouths wide open, ears firmly shut and brains in warp drive, and health issues, I’ve had enough.
Time to retreat into my motorbike workshop, my sanctuary.
Take care!
Good for you.
Enjoy!
Sometimes I find there is actually nothing more to say on these issues and then there is just the anger or disappointment and writing on that basis is not always good. You end up taking the man, not the ball. Although I have to say, it is hard these days seeing which one is worse.
I also find that by sometimes taking a break, new ideas and perspectives emerge.
Thinking too long about Starmer and his myrmidons is enough to get anyone down. Starmer seems unlikely to be amenable to change or to absorb any ideas that diverge from the fixed agenda he has set out – and it’s depressing to think about how this attitude will affect us all for the next few years, more tightening of the screws, more hardship, fewer resources.
Also the road to change through gradualization can look like a long, thankless haul – 1381 to 1945 is long – by any standards – and to see painfully and slowly acquired improvements, unpicked and dismantled within the last forty odd years – is very sad and demoralising.
But there’s cause for hope; in a growing cynicism and refusal to be bamboozled by politician’s lies and in all the possibilities social media offers for mass education about how the economy really works and has the potential to improve our lives and about the power relationship that exists between the 99% of us – from every sector of society and the 1% that are in control. Perhaps this combination of hope, knowledge, cynicism and awareness of ourselves as a “group”, with an oppressor in common, can propel us forward this time, to lasting change.
Having a break from these assholes will be good for both your physical and mental health. Have a good time on your day off.
“I don’t want to write more about him today.”
Then don’t write about him. A person can only write so much about a total loser.
Go visit the water buffalo and write about him.
I am sure Mr. W. Buffalo will provide more substantive conversation than Starmer. W. Buffalo also takes better pictures than Starmer.
Enjoy your day to recharge your Duracell batteries and be ready to “Fight the Good Fight” on another day
Thanks
Indeed, Richard – time off and reach for your volume of …. whichever poet most appeals.
I always find Lister’s “Before The Ball” restorative, especially the last line.
“It was too big a job for seven days.”
Walking is amazing also like other exercise, only way to correct this – https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/ultra-processed-foods-especially-artificial-sweetners-may-increase-depression-risk
I wonder what you would talk about if you encountered Sir Keir on a ramble. The change in weather temperature perhaps?
Why he has got it all wrong
And what he needs to do
Very good. Thank you.
Batteries do need to be recharged and there is a need to step back and find an escape from what is going on with this so called Govt.
So, enjoy the outside, enjoy the weather, enjoy the bird watching and partake of a coffee or a hot chocolate or a tea or something stronger.
Craig
Thanks
Read Vassal State Richard , there are many answers there . He has one arm tied behind his back . Corporations are too big . Our Businesses cannot “Scale Up ” and are snaffled up by them . The American “influence” in our Country is so shocking and has happened by stealth , it is a big Driver of our Economy and of course makes the 1% very Wealthy. Look around , we are sub subservient to them . FDI is a shocking example , US vulture funds scooping up UK companies and moving the profits offshore to launder the tax before money goes to the US .
I think it’s good not to feel you’re obliged to produce content if you aren’t feeling really strongly about something new-to-say.
One thing I put up on social media today (as well as your post about QE) was this:
“It may be that ‘some’ pensioners don’t desperately need a winter fuel allowance, but it’s like child benefit. Not ALL people need that either – not the wealthy. But they get it.
This is a point of principle as much as anything else. Why start with those at the bottom of the heap – many of whom have worked hard in menial and low paid jobs (especially women) part time or full time as well as bringing up the next generation of workers and tax payers, into their 70th decade. That means 50 years of paying taxes.
Why start recouping money for a ‘big black hole’ the Conservatives have left (if indeed there was a big black hole) with these people? Why not with people who already have a lot and are much more comfortable in the winter than many people who have done a lifetime of work and are at the stage of life where they have health problems and are facing the end of their lives?”
Then a discussion ensued about the REAL motivation behind the attack on the poorest and we wondered whether this is to do with ensuring Labour is never associated with socialism again.
It’s already a filthy name, though it is only the ‘teachings of Jesus’ which they all pretend they believe in.
And Starmer was hand in glove with the CIA to get Corbyn out to ensure there could be no socialism in Britain.
Look forward to more of your wisdom when you’ve had some recreation!
Child benefit does get tapered away – but the point is, when people have significant income.
Enjoy a break from all the sad times. Feel your anger at this mess we are in! 40 yrs as MH nurse in the nhs.
Planted apple, pear and plum tree in my new garden today. Just hope people in the future appreciate the fruits. All I can do, maybe need to appreciate our limits.
Gardening is a massive exercise in hope
Eevn from planting those mustard seeds we did as kids, to your planting of a tree
Thanks
It was harmful to hear you say they are beo liberal but it looks like thats irregutable. Its a betrayal. They need to wake up andcsmell the coffee or theyll condemn us tonthe best conservative tebival ever
I endorse the reading of Vassal state. The UK has been bought up by American multinationals and venture capitalists. The tax base has shrunk, profits moved to the US and everyone is paying the US for the privilege of using cashless payments, public services, the internet and much else. The extent of it is far less in Europe who see it as a strategic threat.
In the UK our politicians look upon it as the Special relationship.
The problem with Starmer is that he is an avowed Atlanticist who welcomes an American tilt in policies. This will only speed up the process of the UK being a cash cow feeding the US. Already the NHS supply chain ( non-staff supplies, drugs, IT etc) is predominantly US owned and as prices rise taxes on ordinary people will have to rise in order for the service to stand still; and staff will be sacked in order to pay for IT, AI , new drugs, more equipment, more tests etc., mostly supplied by the US.
Read the Book by Angus Hanson .
“The problem with Starmer is that he is an avowed Atlanticist who welcomes an American tilt in policies.”
Since the UK left the EU (BREXIT) where else does it have to go to seek friends than across the Atlantic to the USA?
bay tampa bay , Read the book , Would you treat your friends in the same way ?
Watch this Tampa Bay ….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7DINiVuPA&t=296s
Just back from a week in the Loire Valley. Roads are smooth, no litter, workers take an hour for lunch, people smile, then back to potholes on motorways, rubbish everywhere,. I know France is far from perfect but there’s a different feel about the country.
Spot On Roger , it is a quite shocking read , almost to the point where i cant see us going back no matter who is in Government . We have aligned ourselves with the allegedly Big Bully in the playground . The chapter on the NHS is frightening too .
WE don’t seem to get swallows here, but the swifts of an evening are a perennial delight. We only had a couple of dozen this year and have had considerably more in previous years.
They have gone.
Winter is upon us.
I don’t think I’ve seen a bat this year. I have grown accustomed to seeing them occasionally, but not this year. (I go outside to smoke tor I’d never see them at all.) No butterflies on the Buddleieia this year (spelling seems to be optional, but not normally like this). and I think I’ve only seen a couple of cabbage whites (same one twice?) and two Peacocks all Summer. I haven’t seen a Red Admiral or a tortoiseshell. Not a one of either.
Birds? Are they the little brown things? We have lots of those. Sparrows. They love the bird bath and the unkempt rambling roses. The Dunnocks are there, but they don’t mix with the sparrows. Even birds do politics apparently. 🙂
Oh! and there was a bluetit today. If it was looking for greenfly it’ll have to look hard: there aren’t many and only any at all on the second flush of roses. Didn’t see a single aphid on the roses in June.
It’s been a funny sort of summer.
It has, especially for butterflies