Our politicians can huff and puff, all they like, but they are never going to sort out the problems around the world, when they can’t resolve the problems in our own country. Indeed they don’t know the boundaries of our country. Is it just England, or does it include Wales and Scotland. And as for Northern Ireland, who knows? Oh and do we have borders anyway? Quite a political conundrum.
Now we have that sorted out 🤡 let’s look at the pressing issues that need to be solved at home:-
- INFLATION – supposedly down to 2%, but it doesn’t feel like it – product sizes shrinking; special offers fiddling; cash disappearing and breaking the link with reality.
- ENERGY – closely tied to rising costs and the knee- jerk response to climate change. We have shut down our coal mines; plan to outlaw gas boilers and frown on nuclear power. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot ☹️
- WATER – privatise the water companies give money to foreign shareholders and pollute the rivers and the sea. What a good idea that was !
- CRIME – what’s a crime these days? Stealing from shops doesn’t seem to be. Taking drugs is now recreation. Scams abound around every corner. Trust is yesterday’s way of life, now it is for the unsuspecting next victim.
- IMMIGRATION – used to be a welcoming harbour for the refugees of war and famine; now it is a white cliff to be scaled by anyone wanting a new life. Rubber boats and a £7,000 bounty are the rights of passage.
- CLIMATE CHANGE – a world of misinformation and uncertainty. A signpost for “ Just stopping oil”; or closing coal mines; or turning off the gas tap. Or the complete opposite if you live in China.
- NHS WAITING LISTS – growing ever- longer requiring more and more money for less and less of a health service. Free, if you can ever reach the end of the queue.
- HOUSING – not enough; too expensive; out of reach of young people; under-occupied by older people; under insulated; over clad with high risk material; empty second homes; nowhere near enough new homes being built. A catalogue of neglect !
There is more, but that’s more than enough to be going on with 🤡
In the past a Great Depression or a war would galvanise a nation into action on this scale of problems, but far better if we have a quiet revolution.
GrumbleSmiles 
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I have enjoyed John’s blog on this subject, and like just like John,I wonder where the Parliamentarians are leading us?? I trust not this world of mistrust and a falsehoods. I note in the rag of the day this friday, our prime minister is making promises to some of our allies, and I just wonderwhere are we going as a world nation as we surrender ou r interest in the islands in the INdian Ocean? Are we listening to Australia nd New Zealand, who in the past help us to defend our shore line in EUROPE. I ask who are our friends and allies. I thought believed the commonwealth of British Nations was a family, with basic common objectives and agreements.