Avago Init.

The Labour government has been in power for 6 months and progress has been slow. Their parliamentary Majority is high, but their Missions are going nowhere fast. Ministers are falling by the wayside, as Mr Musk mocks them from across the pond.

Not daunted, our Prime M-M-Minister Stammer has stolen an idea from the wealthy Musk playbook. Our future prosperity rests with A I. That will solve all our problems very very quickly.

Sir Keir made an inspiring speech about it this week, in which he was very clear. His ideas are based on a report by a young techie entrepreneur. I read through its 50 recommendations and must admit it was a bit beyond me. It was all about ‘ compute’, which apparently we need a lot more of. And ‘data’ which you can’t get enough of. But when you get both of them, everything will be just tick-a-te-boo.

Now Sir Keyer has put his deputy, Angie Raindeer in charge of his new very clear initiative and told her to “Avago Init”. Cos that what this AI is all about.

Just wait for Angie’s first ideas, which will use AI to speed up everything, except the traffic and the railways.

Then we will see what AI is all about and how it will help Angie and Sir Quayer to turn round the Nations prospects for the future.

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What’s Clutter ?

It seems like I have to return to the theme of clutter every year at about this time. 77 blogs already, one for every year of my life. It’s a never ending story. Clutter gets everywhere. Most of all inside my head.

What is a clutter of socks called? A foot overload🤡

GP’s give a clutter of pills, so that nobody need go away empty handed. Some to take before eating; some after food; some before bedtime; some twice a day; some with no alcohol, which is great at Christmas !

Excess pills = a happy day for BIG PHARMA 🤡

Next, there are all the things lying around the house that you have forgotten you have. Gadgets that didn’t do the job; stuff you got just in case and then never needed; clothes you’ve grown out of; things that might come in useful one day. Broken things you never got round to mending.

Junk

There is always more. The advances in technology that leave you behind. Functionality that you didn’t ask for and never use. Cables for your last computer that don’t fit the new version.

EXCESS TECHNOLOGY
EXCESS RED TAPE

More and more rules for everything and complicated forms to fill in. A feast for civil servants jobs and for administrators WFH🤡

EXCESS RUBBISH

Why have one bin for your household rubbish when you can have ten?

EXCESS EXCESS.

My New Years resolution for 2025 :———

🤡LET’S GET BACK TO THE SIMPLE LIFE🤡

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Keeping Fit

In the quiet week of reflection between Christmas and the New Year it is time to consider my progress with keeping fit and my plan for the year ahead.

High Intensity Training in my quest for peak fitness.

Over the last twelve months I have gone to the gymn every week to work on the treadmill; the rowing machine; twice on the bicycle and the some weight lifting. It’s hard work and wipes me out for the next day. Still the physio assures me it is doing me good.

Fortunately The Daily Mail in its ‘Good Health’ pages may have come to my rescue. They report that a Canadian physician, Dr Peter Attia, has championed the benefit of these extreme workouts. He obviously is highly respected because he is followed by celebrities and charges lots of money. Others too, including billionaires are following these extreme fitness gurus, in pursuit of ‘ activating cellular pathways’ and stimulating production of brain-derived neuro-trophies factor (BDNF). Who doesn’t need some of that?

There is more……. You mustn’t forget you telomeres, the longer the better according to research at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

However, the good news is that Johns Hopkins University in the USA casts doubt on long telomeres being good for you. I hope you are still following this🤡

Closer to home Professor Stensei of Loughborough University told The Daily Mail that the evidence wasn’t conclusive that vigorous exercise extends longer life. Other exercise related research at British universities uses very long words to describe research you also need to consider. At Leeds they are worried about ventricular arrhythmias. While at Lancaster Rhabdo is a growing phenomenon and raises concerns about ‘ over training’ syndrome.

I wasn’t concerned about my BDNF or my telomeres and certainly not Rhabdo until these researchers highlighted the issues.

Maybe I will stick to a walk in the park in 2025.

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Spying Washing Machine ?

I know you can’t believe everything you read in the Daily Mail, but there have been some worrying stories recently about spying by foreign countries. How do you spot a spy? Who knows? That’s the whole idea of spying😈

Chinese balloons flying over Washington😈Russian submarines shadowing our submarines😈mysterious Chinese diplomats befriending Hardup Princes😈. Where does it all stop ? What are they trying to find out ?

The latest scary example is a report in Which magazine that discovered that your washing machine can be telling tales on you. So can your air fryer, your door bells, your TV’s and obviously your security cameras.

All these so called ‘smart’ products can potentially collect and pass on endless details about your behaviour. In future you may never have a minute or a secret to yourself🤡

Now President elect Trump has suggested shooting down the balloons over the USA. But it would be a bit drastic to fire a ballistic missile into your washing machine.

I’ve got a better idea. Switch on all your gadgets and turn the radio on to a continuous loop of every episode of the Archers. That information overload will not only totally confuse whoever is listening, but soon turn them off the idea of spying on your everyday life.

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Covid Enquiry Recommendations.

Four years and £200 million on and we still don’t have an outcome from years of inquisition from hundreds of richly rewarded lawyers. Paid by the hour, why would they hurry?

Baroness Hallett has a comfy seat and always looks very pleased with herself and her adoring flock of legal eagles. Yes Malady, no Malady, three bags full Malady. The clock keeps ticking on the money tree and the lawyers can always find another question to ask.

I can’t wait for recommendations any longer, so here is my alphabet of analysis and predictions :-

  • ACTION :- varied between snails pace at the start to blind panic when we needed PPE..
  • Bodj :- totally the wrong man for the job, grasping at straws and full of false confidence.
  • COBRA COMMITTEE :- a talking shop not place for leadership or carefully thought out action.
  • DISTANCE :- an over-simplistic solution
  • EDUCATION :- Schools were closed, doing untold damage to a generation of children.
  • FAUCI :- Doctor Anthony Fauci who led the USA response to Covid, but had questionable links to the Big Pharma and the funding of the Whuhan laboratory.
  • G
  • HOSPITALS :- fought valiantly but were quickly overwhelmed; effectively shutting down all other operations. Resulting in millions on the waiting lists for years after.
  • INFECTION FATALITY RATE :- elderly people were the worst hit with between a 15% and 25% death rate amongst those infected.
  • J
  • KICK BACKS :- lots of opportunities for making money on PPE ( Baroness Bra ) and for Big Pharma.
  • LOCKDOWNS :- seemed like a good idea at the time, but at what long term cost and consequences?
  • MASKS :- doubtful whether the cloth ones really worked.
  • NIGHTINGALE HOSPITALS :- can be built very quickly,but are useless without staff.
  • OLOGY :- in an epidemic get yourself any kind of ology and you can be on tele as an ‘expert’.
  • PARTIES :- no better time if you are a politician and the rules don’t apply to you.
  • Q
  • R :- the all important number on everyone’s lips 💋
  • SCIENCE :- based on fact, what can possibly be wrong? But of course if you don’t have the facts you just have to speculate with a model. They can be spectacularly wrong.
  • TESTING :- would have been useful to trace infected people at the outset, but we got them too late to be of use.
  • U
  • VACCINE :- the answer to everyone’s prayers ?
  • WUHAN :- Where it all started ? But Mrs Hallett didn’t look into that.
  • X
  • Y
  • ZOONOTIC :- one of the many newspeak words falsely used to blame much maligned Pangolins for spreading Covid

Even after four years of legally faffing about we are none the wiser and nobody has been found to be responsible for any failure. More importantly we are no better prepared for the next pandemic !!!!!!!!!!

P.S. please fill in the blanks with your own recommendations 🤡

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LLLP Change Plan.

Our gifted Prime Minister Stammer has just relaunched his Manifesto full of M’s. He has turned his 5 Missions into Milestones. That is going to make a big difference 🤡

He has made it very clear. He has fixed the foundations. He has filled the £22 billion black hole. What more can onem ask?

The Last Laugh Looney Party has a rather different change plan :- “THE STEP BACK PLAN”

  • A doctors appointment within a few days, with the same GP.
  • Real money – cash in pounds / shillings and pence so you know what you have spent.
  • No credit cards, so you don’t spend what you haven’t got.
  • A postal service that delivers letters at reasonable prices in a few days.
  • No more Emails or text messages or Facebook ‘friends’.
  • No more 24 hour news, which endlessly repeats the same old story,
  • No more mobile phones full of scammers and unwanted messages.
  • No more repeats on TV, except for Clint Eastwood films🤡
  • Remote control devices with a maximum of four buttons.
  • All Football and rugby kick off times at 3pm on Saturday.
  • No more ‘juvenile influencers’, just wise old grannies and grandpas to consult.

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Even Dafter Ideas

Government Ministers are falling like flies. No sooner do they get mentioned in my blog than they have to resign for some misdemeanour. Soon there will be an empty cabinet, which will make room for some more daft appointees.

In the meantime the new Health Minister – Coco – is setting about reforming the NHS, from lessons she learned at the Vets :-

  • Too many people are not getting enough exercise so they must take a dog out every day for a long walk.
  • Next humans should only drink water- no more tea or coffee or beer – they are not good for you.
  • Next they eat far too much :- so from now on they should only have one tin of food every day.
  • Every morning people should chase balls around the garden and not just sit in front of the TV.
  • And don’t forget fleas. All people should have a regular wash down with strong smelling carbolic soap, whether they like it or not.
  • And hair cuts with a shears even in the winter, when it’s cold without a woolly coat.

Under this new regime Minister Coco expects a big improvement in people’s health.

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5 year old EduKayshun.

This is another of Prime Minister ‘the gifted’ Stammer’s Missions.

It is the one which is all about our future or more precisely our children’s future. That is the reason why ‘the gifted’ Stammer has had the novel daft idea to appoint a 5 year old – Little Gen – as his new Education Minister.

The fist thought he/she Little Gen. had was to only have skool 4 days aweek, on Mundays, Whensdays and Fridays. Also not to go to skool when it’s raining or snowing or windy.

It/ her/his next great idea was to not have teechers telling u what 2 do. Leave the children to play. The teechers could fetch sweets and fings and stop shouting. And we should bring our phones to skool, and our dogs and cats.

And we don’t want skool uniforms any moor, we shud be aloud to have sparkly dresses and the boys can ware them 2.

We don’t want to do numbers or spelling cause Tick Toc can do that 4 us. And no moor testing, we just want to be given A*.

And skool should only be open from 10 o’clock so that the mummy’s don’t have to get up so early.

When we eventually finish skool we all want to become influencers and have lots of money like the footballers do.

🤡SO THAT’S THE SECOND MISSION SORTED🤡

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Daft Ideas

It’s been a stickey old start for The Gifted Stammer‘s new job as Prime Minister. His early attempts at ‘change’ haven’t really amounted to much. But with help from the Last Laugh Looney Party he is now encouraging some eye-catching, headline grabbing daft ideas.

One of his ‘missions’ is to build 1.5 million new homes in the next five years. The Conservatives didn’t manage that rate of building in 14 years in Government. All because of planning delays; shortage of available land; high construction costs; lack of skilled labour;

The first step to a daft idea is to appoint someone with no housing experience. The new Housing Minister – Matthew Sixpence – is an historian who has appears never to have had a proper job. So he is ideal🤡

The first priority is to speed up the planning process by breeding lots of great crested newts to avoid developers having to spend months looking for them. Next to rename all the green belt as brownfield to prevent NIMBY’s from objecting. Finally to designate flood plains as areas of opportunity.

The second issue is to find suitable land and the obvious answer is flood plains. With global warming they probably won’t flood so much in future and if they do —- the answer is — boats. All new houses will be constructed on a foundation of rubber dinghies. There are a huge stock in a warehouse in Dover.

To overcome skill shortages and high construction costs, Minister Sixpence has done a bulk discounted deal with IKEA for 1.5 million flat pack houses, which can be assembled in two days.

🤡There is the fist Mission sorted with a daft idea🤡

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Lessons from America.

Having seen the successful election results for President-elect Tramp in the USA , what can our Prime Minister, the Gifted Stammer learn? Obviously he needs an even dafter cabinet 🤡!

So when he has finished globetrotting, he is going to have a cabinet reshuffle. Rachel Rivet has stirred up a heap of tax trouble while he has been away, so she has to go. Her replacement will be 🤡 a Ken Dodd look-a-like, who knows a lot about avoiding tax. The Diddymen can run the Treasury.

Then there are the farmers, who are upset about paying any tax. So whoever was the farming minister, isn’t any more. 🤡Jeremy Clarkson will take over the role and promise to make everyone MILLIONAIRES providing they can answer a few simple questions.

Next we come to the Transport Minister- Louise Belisha Beacon Haigh, the one with the shocking red hair. She got into a load of trouble with Rachael Rivet, when she criticised P&O Ferries, but she still plans to upset people by electrifying all our cars and having more train strikes. So she will have to go and become a traffic warden to get some work experience. Meanwhile Bodj could make a dramatic come back with his vast experience of bikes.

In education, Bridget Phillipdaughter, who is going through a gender identity crisis, will step aside to make room for a 5 year old. After all, our children are our future and they are the very best people to tell us what they don’t know. specially bout spelling and mathmattacks and numbers and fings.

Everyone agrees that the Health Service needs a dogged approach to reform, so who better to shake it up than Coco for Secretary of State for Health. There will be a brief paws to consider the options for reform. Then Coco suggests unifying the NHS and the vetinary service, so that animals and humans have equal rights.

The Ministry of Defence is doing a daft job buying aircraft carriers with no aircraft and having more civil servants behind desks than soldiers with guns. Still since nobody seems to know who the current Minister is, they can be replaced with a pantomime Dame, who can bring some fun to any future war with Russia. Or maybe Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raindeer, could just shout at our enemies and tell them to go away. Who needs nukes, when you got Angela in Shocking lime green pyjamas, that’s enough to frighten anybody.

Finally, we mustn’t forget Energy. But there is no need for change there, because Ed Elasticband is already doing such a daft job putting windmills everywhere and shutting down oil wells and power stations, that pretty soon we will all be in the dark. Then there will be no need for energy. Still it will cut everyone’s bill by the £300 he promised.

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