I have been disappointed with the Liberal Democrats in coalition. Nick Clegg as leader did not look assertive enough. Whenever there was some bad news to deliver from the government Prime Minister David Cameron was on holiday, so Deputy Prime Minister Clegg had to deliver the bad news. Cameron, aka Teflon Dave, managed to get …
Category: Politics
Why?
News: Paris 13/11/2015. At least 120 dead, 200 injured, 80 of them seriously are the figures in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Paris.If you count the relatives that is a lot of people affected. The question is being asked, why do they do it? I have no wish to be patronising, but what a …
Rifkind (An open letter)
Former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has entered the European refugee crisis by, on the eve of a day where it is expected the Prime Minister will announce that Britain will take more refugees, called Turkey a safe place for asylum seekers. Really? Turkey, the country which has an area to its east has been a …
Tory Blair.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has waded into the Labour leadership election by warning against Labour moving to the left. Story here. I believe he is wrong. Wrong because what I am hearing from disenchanted voters, some of whom did not vote, and some that did, is that there is no choice. All the parties …
Let’s talk EU
There is one political party in the UK whose existence is all about Britain's relationship with the EU, The UK Independence Party, or UKIP. This week they unveiled their election poster: Are they debating the economics of Britain's membership of the EU? It does not look like it. As in the European elections the UKIP …
Oh dear, Nigel
UKIP leader Nigel Farage says the other political leaders do not believe in Britain, as reported in last Friday's Metro. Now I don't know exactly what the MCC believe in (that's Miliband, Cameron and Clegg) but I believe in Britain. I believe in the Britain that abolished slavery and the slave trade. I believe in …
#QuiEstCharlie?
Qui est Charlie? Or in English, Who is Charlie? I am writing this in the aftermath of the terrible massacre of ten journalists and cartoonists in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week in Paris. The slogan Je Suis Charlie has been used throughout the world. and the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie has gone viral …
Scotland the brave?
Happy Together? I have kept away from commenting on Scottish Independence until after the vote because I feel that it is something for the Scots alone to decide. Scotland has decided not to split from the rest of the UK. And in some ways I'm glad. Like most English people I know we actually do …
More on good countries
When we look at the economics of trading we have to appreciate that thimgs have changed over the last 30 to 40 years. 40 years ago if a bank in the USA sold mortgages to people who could not afford to pay them back it would only be a problem the the borrower and the …
Good countries
A good country is not necessarily a rich country. Nor is it a happy country. There is a lot of information on these two. But recently a new index has come out, one which measures how good a country is seen to be, from the point of view of other countries. The index is published …
Making an ass of myself 