I heard a good comment tonight by Paul Embery that “the political class has got its head in the sand” and those politicians who are blaming social media, ‘the far right’, particular named persons such as Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage or Elon Musk, and other groups such as foreign states using disinformation are “not fit to be in power” [at 6:13-6:15 p.m.]. This was in the context of a debate on the current rioting in English cities. This blaming of others is part of their inability to diagnose what are the underlying issues, and “those issues that have led to the violence have not gone away” [at 6:15 p.m.]. It is good to hear someone question whether people are “fit for Government”.
Only yesterday, former First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousef was reported on BBC Scotland as blaming Elon Musk. In an interview at a festival event in Edinburgh he said: “Elon Musk, in my opinion, is one of the most dangerous men on the planet. He is not accountable to anybody; he has vast wealth at his fingertips and disposal, and he uses it for some of the most wicked, evil I have seen.” Really? One day the greatest evil is Israel in Gaza, now it is Elon Musk. Why should we listen to this failed politician, who has stoked division in Scotland both politically in the SNP and socially with his Hate Crime legislation and his infamous “White” speech. The day before he said that riots could force him and his family to leave the UK, who might not have a future in Scotland, the UK or even Europe. Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, pitched in, according to The Daily Telegraph 8/8/2024 headline: “Khan: I’m no longer safe as a Muslim.” Possibly these politicians are being hoist on their own petard. When I was young, Pakistanis in Britain integrated without trouble into UK society. Now, Khan and Yousaf have so alienated those of whom they are afraid that they are discovering that they have ramped up the rhetoric to their own alarm. Slowly, they may learn to diagnose the public mood better, but too often it is at someone else’s expense.
It is time for people to question the character of prospective politicians whether they are fit for Government. Even mainline political parties discover too late what their candidates stand for, such as the Green’s candidate who celebrated Gaza upon his election victory, or the Labour politician who has just been charged for inciding murder by calling for slitting the throats of “far right” activists.
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9 Aug 2024: other examples: Sir Keir Starmer’s divisive speech labelling concerned citizens as “far right” [at 7:25 p.m. and 7:31 p.m.] reminding me of Hillary Clinton’s labelling half of American Republican voters as “deplorables”.
9 Aug 2024: Patrick Christys on GB News [at 10:07 p.m.] points out that Jews and others also feel unsafe. When will a Christian Voice arise to address the issue of violence on Britain’s streets?
9 Aug 2024: Elon Musk responds to Humza Yousaf. 12 Aug 2024: it is blowing up into an unholy row.
10 Oct 2024: it is interesting that the first question on the BBC Question Time tonight, held in the USA during the US Presidential election campaign, was about the character of a US President. It was evidently aimed at Donald Trump, with scant regard to Kamala Harris’ character, but one woman in the audience pointed out that the international respect shown to the US President was more important than character.
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Hi Donald,Welcome to Stasi-Britain now, it appears that all our emails are going to be monitored by an otherwise unknown police entity? Hope this email passes the censors.GCHQ are probably inundated with sifting through Telegram, X, encrypted messages, even phone calls ~ I wouldn’t be at all surprised. >By the way I found it impossible to use the new input system on your podcast, 2 long replies didn’t seem to register, I wonder if others have experienced problems with its mechanism. What was wrong with the old system?>Yes I’m still a Christian activist & also Church Secretary of an Anglican Church down here below Hadrian’s Wall.>Visited Sutton Hoo, Suffolk with family for a 5 day holiday. Nice to see the uncovering of the Anglo-Saxon 90′ burial ship of King Raedwald who died AD624. That’s a long time before the Vikings appeared on the scene.Closeby, at Woodbridge village they are building an exact replica of this warship, with oak hewn planks & keel, using the 4,000 Roman type wrought iron nails (for rivets), as copied from those found in the dig.There is a recently good film called “The Dig” which shows Basil Brown (archaeologist) & Mrs Pretty (landowner) involved in the find circa 1939.> Anyway I can see th
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This unappealing wanton desire for atomic annihilation by our chosen politicians?
We approach the autumn equinox or the “Fall” and mankind at this time regularly gets very restless. Some people reason that earth’s periodic tilting, intersection of lunar and other orbiting mass gravitational fields etc, bring about the familiar causative seasonal change felt and while not forgetting that we are composed of similar atoms as those of the rest of this universe, then, proximal and distal gravity will also, have an effect on our tissue atoms and so on us us. Also, substantiating this is that the usual intersecting gravitational effect on our salty seas, caused by earths rotation and our moon and sun and other orbiting material’s intersecting gravitational fields clutching the sea water cause the tides. So, all must have a sum changing influence on us too… and so we go on reasoning, till we get lost for reason in equations that cause us to wonder if our Sun’s gravitational effect of the 0.86 arc second bending of light might even have some inapparent very distant indirect thing to do with voting into Government, those entropic childminds to whom we grant the power to war monger …and issue that recurring seasonal war-cry written in their genes that, might express the” Give us Barabus” syndrome…. But, doesn’t that kind of cry, also, occur in the Spring Equinox, “Out with the old and in with the New” So, how do we deal with this permissive and war mongering government office that gambles all our lives against atomic annihilation It’s fashionable, that “office leaders” have all read Machiavelli’s academic treatise on governance, advocating, ” All that’s expected of a leader is that they can take their country to war?” Infected, could it be the fever of renown? If it is, is there a cure?
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I completely agree with this and it is too short of the mark to say that it is only extreme right-wing people when there are also concerned citizens who are often not listened to.
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