An interesting thread on how misinformation - in this case, about Covid - spreads quickly around the world.
As predicted all of his fans turned out when Johnson visited Scotland today. please log in to view this image
My Tory voting friends do not seem to associate Johnson with the government. They are having serious doubts about voting for them at the next elections, but tell me it is because they are being hit in the pocket. 1. Their gas bills are going to double in April. 2. Their pensions are being cut from what they were promised, and told wouldn't happen. 3. They are seeing weekly rises in their supermarket prices. 4. Their local dentist has stopped treating NHS patients, and told them they will have to pay £35 each monthly if they wish to continue with the practice. This is the fault of the Treasury and nothing that Johnson can do about it they believe. As for the scandals about parties and Johnson lying to Parliament, it is just a media witch hunt. Just for good measure they are still waiting to see why Brexit seems to be a disaster.
Anyone else find this confusing? Rees-Mogg is apparently in favour of "adopting other countries’ rules to cut red tape" - wasn't the whole point (or so they claimed) of Brexit to get out from under the thumb of Brussels? If this comes to fruition, surely the UK will be back under that thumb? As has been mooted by many, perhaps the real reason for Brexit was indeed that it was the Establishment's escape route from the EU's Anti Tax Avoidance Directive. https://www.export.org.uk/news/5955...ing-other-countries-rules-to-cut-red-tape.htm
No perhaps about it. This is all it ever was for as a result, as a referendum it was to save the selfservative party. Absolutely sweet FA to do with the good of the country.
Who would have guessed? The High Court ruled that both Boris and Hancock unlawfully appointed Dido Harding. Not that anything will happen as a result. https://goodlawproject.org/update/dido-harding-mike-coupe-unlawful/
Colder & poorer: pensioners terrified in Erdington of huge gas bills. Only using 2 hours per day, half last year yet ever higher bills. People want cheap British gas, shale gas, not Putins gas nor Macrons electricity. Richard Tice Leader of reformparty.uk Bonsoir M. le Président, M. Tice (un des « Bad Boys of Brexit » ) ne veut pas l'électricité français. Du coup, est-ce que c'est possible de couper l'électricité au Royaume-Uni, s'il vous plaît ? Merci et bonne soirée. A French resident.
An interesting read by Simon Jenkins in The Guardian. "Life outside the single market is an utter disaster"- just as 62% of Scots said it would be. https://www.theguardian.com/comment...it-life-outside-single-market-utter-disaster?
"Bruno Le Maire has asked the Public Finance Department to identify all the property, apartments, luxury items held by Russian personalities under European sanctions so that the French authorities can seize them." If the UK wanted to they could seize properties in London belonging to Russians. The problem is that many are held by off shore companies, and it is difficult to identify the actual owners.
Russia would probably retaliate by bombing them and reducing them all to rouble. Sorry, couldn't resist...
It's a funny old world. The governments of Russia and Ukraine want to meet to discuss a ceasefire but the US apparently seems to be against the idea.
Basically when the Russians get out of Ukraine then the talking can begin. Seems a reasonable stance. In the meantime we need to hurt them where we can: in the pocket, not that putin will care: he has us over a barrel... Or more accurately, over a gas pipline.
