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Tuesday, 28 December 2021

416. Brexit schmexit & Elizabeth III

Talk-to-the-tank Truss or Lizzie III (judging from the tacky, delusional visuals in her alt-Christmas message to the nation Elizabeth III ) is now in charge of negotiating Brexit with the EU. Yes, the Brexit that was DONE this time last year.

Anyhow – here's a final 2021 Teddy talk with Teddy O’ Leary who has something to say about Brexit schmexit and Ireland. Back to full posts next week.

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Tuesday, 21 December 2021

415. There may be snow in Africa this Christmas!

It'll be interesting in 2022(not) to see the Tories use their old trick of ditching a problem leader and pretending all the monstrousness was nothing to do with them – tadaahh. Well, it’s worked for them pretty much since forever… 

Meanwhile – as a Christmas card for all my readers, do please click the link where spoof Ted will wish you all Merry Christmas on my behalf There may be snow in Africa this Christmas!

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Tuesday, 14 December 2021

414. Boris Johnson the clown? – Yes, the Stephen King IT variety…

The serial disdain of the Tory party for ordinary folk has never been more evident and it is hideously personified in Boris Johnson.

Of the privileged elite who have plundered Britain over the decades since Thatcher, he is just a more extreme product – as outlined in this post

British Boarding Schools Breed Posh Sociopaths

At the start of this month there were tepid mutterings when it was reported that French President Macron privately called Johnson a clown. It’s hard to understand the faux outrage when anyone paying attention this side of The Channel was calling Johnson that from day 1. But where is the humour? Johnson had hardly warmed the PM's seat with his lazy fat arse when he illegally prorogued Parliament. 

Back in his jaunty days as London Mayor, there was the purchase of water cannon to use against the folk who were mad enough to elect him. Then the Garden Bridge debacle and huge waste of public funds. 

As Foreign Secretary under Theresa May (who overruled the London water cannon) he helped wreck Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s chances of release in Iran.

His public persona is buffoonish clown. But while this circus has been in town, mass profiteering from the pandemic has taken place, thousands have died unnecessarily due to gross mismanagement, the economy has tanked, the already wide gap between rich and poor has expanded, deaths from alcohol and drug abuse has grown and the precious Northern Ireland peace has been put in serious jeopardy.

Boris Johnson is a wrecker; a man without humanity and certainly no empathy. Yes, he will eventually be gone, and doubtless undone by his own disastrous personality - but there remains the huge unanswered question of how this obvious turd was allowed to float to the top and what that says about Britain.

 What has become clear is that the sort of clown we’re dealing with is the Stephen King IT variety not the entertaining buffoon. 

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Boris de Pitre Johnson

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Tuesday, 7 December 2021

413. Famine, homelessness, covid. The solutions are under our noses…

Dogs before People - before I start this Tuesday - just a brief reminder (click the link) - now that this has blown up properly - of my post back in August because it  partly explains the mess we are in when priorities are set on whims and favours by this corrupt uncaring administration.

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Why are we literally hell-bent on ignoring the solutions?

Why do we simply refuse to do the things that work?

The links between covid, homelessness and starvation are clear as their solutions are obvious. We just love to ignore the obvious. Or, in the interests of greed, selfishness and self-interest we pretend there aren’t any straight forward fixes.

During the first wave of covid lockdown in the UK there was an ‘Everyone In’ scheme in place which got nearly 40k rough sleepers in off the streets. Up here in Edinburgh we went from every other doorway on Princes St packed with a body in a sleeping bag – to CLEAR.

The idea that homelessness is an intractable problem was blown out of the water. And yet we are moving back to pre-pandemic levels.

For years we’ve been told by the pharmaceutical companies that the answer to world hunger is genetically modified crops and that nonsense pervades despite the observations of such organisations as Greanpeace  The reality is that the problem is solvable another way –without the profit motive for big pharma – by fair distribution of the abundance of food we have, global fair pay and a reduction in consumption in the West which would massively benefit physical and mental health levels here too.

And we see the same with covid. We knew before covid that the only way to deal with these global diseases is globally. But voices like Gordon Brown’s were ignored in favour of the likes of our old pal and war criminal Tony Blair and the jingoist pig man Johnson. Grab everything for ourselves then back to Costa-del-barf. And – predictably – the virus is having a ball in parts of the world where vaccination rates are minimal – and new variants are ready to come back and bite us on our selfish Western arses.

We know the answers. That is the frustrating thing. We are unprepared, unwilling and as unlikely as ever to do the right thing. Greed and selfishness almost always get in the way. Easier to pretend it’s all too difficult to solve and we have, like Indiana Jones, to make a very costly epic out of searching for some may-or-may-not exist holy grail.

So

Why are we literally hell-bent on ignoring the solutions?

Why do we simply refuse to do the things that work?

The answer is as simple as the solutions we ignore. Greed gets in the way.

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And remember the spoof Teddy talks this week - not so much turkeys voting for Christmas as sheep voting for abattoirs.