MARK ALEXANDER: I have lived a few years already and I must say that I have never lived through times like this before. Absolutely everything is going pear-shaped! Food prices are going through the roof. Prices for energy are scandalous, and for many, are becoming unpayable. People at the top are rewarding themselves with multimillion pound salaries and bonuses for doing FA. Ordinary folk are expected to suffer in order to pay for these excesses of the people at the top. Wages are stagnant. Savings, because of double-digit inflation, are being eroded very rapidly. The prime minister is largely absent. The last I heard, he was away in Greece having a ball whilst ordinary folk are having to suffer.
Brexit was always a very, very stupid idea. Now, the stupidity of the move is being shown to all, being shown to be as stupid as all sensible people knew it would be from the start. There are many things impoverishing us Brits now, but Brexit is one of the main things causing that impoverishment.
When I was growing up, we could always depend on the Conservatives to run our economy in a sensible way. We could always depend on the Conservatives to lead the nation to relative prosperity. That was once. Once upon a time. Alas, no longer. Now, the Conservatives are the architects of our demise. They are the ones enabling the rich to get even richer, and the poor to be impoverished beyond their wildest nightmares. The wages/salaries of the working classes and even of the bulk of the middle classes have been stagnant for years now. Yet the Conservatives, or Tories, have been in power for about twelve years already; therefore, it is the Tories who are the architects of this fiasco. We can blame no-one else other than the Tories.
This country’s politics was historically dominated by two parties: the Whigs and the Tories. The Whigs went the way of the dinosaur: into extinction. It is high time that the Tories did exactly the same. This country can do better than the Tories. What this country needs is a business-friendly party which is both pro-Europe/pro-EU and progressive. The Tories are neither pro-EU nor progressive. On the contrary, the party has ossified. Indeed, it is made up of fossils from a bygone age. Let the party go the way of the dodo. This party is unable to bring prosperity to this nation. Under this backward party, the country can look forward to only one thing: sliding into oblivion.
Trump is not one of my favourite politicians. But he did get one thing right: he spoke of “sh*thouse countries”. Unfortunately, he got the nomenclature right, but he forgot to include the UK in the list! This country is truly becoming one of those nations.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
A Message to the Blogger Team
Many thanks to the Team for restoring full functionality on this blog. Your assistance is very much appreciated. – Mark
Monday, July 18, 2022
Just a short, quick message to you all: I am unable to post anything at the moment. There must be something going on on the Blogger end. Post titles cannot be accepted at the moment. – Mark
It is now 1:12pm and I still cannot post with titles. I am not at all sure what's going on with Blogger. I have never had this particular problem before.
It is now 6:46pm and I still cannot post anything with titles. I really am sorry abut this. I have emailed Blogger for assistance, so I am awaiting their their help. I shall be back blogging as soon as the system allows me to do so.
It is now 1:12pm and I still cannot post with titles. I am not at all sure what's going on with Blogger. I have never had this particular problem before.
It is now 6:46pm and I still cannot post anything with titles. I really am sorry abut this. I have emailed Blogger for assistance, so I am awaiting their their help. I shall be back blogging as soon as the system allows me to do so.
Sunday, July 17, 2022
The Conservative Leadership Race
All of the candidates running to lead the Conservative Party are lacklustre, boring, and clueless. They have shown me that they have absolutely no understanding of economics or geopolitics. If I were able to assess them I would give none of them a grade above C-.
Is this truly the best that the once proud Conservative Party has to offer? Can’t the Party do better than this? Has it been reduced to such mediocrity?
I am old enough to remember leaders in the Conservative Party who were not only sound and able, but formidable too. One could look up to them. One felt that one’s country was in good hands in their hands. Do any of these contenders make YOU feel that way?
Not one of the contenders to lead the Conservatives, and by extension this country, have shown me that he/she understands economics, and still less geopolitics. Not one of them! All they come out with are platitudes to mollify the old dears in the Home Counties and Shires.
This is NO WAY to run a modern country.
Penny Mordaunt is one of the few contenders who has any presence as a leader. But who is this woman really? What does she really stand for. Apart from being a devoted Brexiteer? And for me, that proves that she understands no economics at all!
Moreover, all the candidates have come up with the same ol’, same ol’ line of “cutting taxes”. The Conservatives have been peddling this poppycock since Maggie was in power. That was circa forty years ago! One would be forgiven for thinking that if the success of the economy rested solely on cutting taxes, then the British economy would be in the stratosphere by now! Flying high. We have had lots and lots of tax cuts in the past forty years. And what have they achieved? Our economy has never been in a direr state than it is today! Never in my lifetime have I had to read about people, families having to go to foodbanks to be able to put food on the table for their children. Never! When I was growing up, this phenomenon was unheard of. Homelessness was almost unheard of.
The fact of the matter is this: Nobody with an ounce of common sense and/or understanding of economics or geopolitics would have walked away from the largest single market in the world: The Single Market. Any economist that would advocate such a stupid, idiotic move would not be worthy of the nomenclature 'economist'. Walking away from a ready market of 500,000,000 plus consumers is not only a nonsense; it is economic suicide. And this from a party which prides itself on being the party of business! The business-friendly party. Go figure!
I heard not one word from the lips of these lacklustre, uninspiring ne'er-do-wells, our so-called potential leaders, potential prime ministers, that he/she would make any move to reverse the madness of Brexit. I therefore declare that they are all—ALL—unfit for the office they are aspiring to hold. Conservatives need to go back to the drawing board.
© Mark Alexander
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Is this truly the best that the once proud Conservative Party has to offer? Can’t the Party do better than this? Has it been reduced to such mediocrity?
I am old enough to remember leaders in the Conservative Party who were not only sound and able, but formidable too. One could look up to them. One felt that one’s country was in good hands in their hands. Do any of these contenders make YOU feel that way?
Not one of the contenders to lead the Conservatives, and by extension this country, have shown me that he/she understands economics, and still less geopolitics. Not one of them! All they come out with are platitudes to mollify the old dears in the Home Counties and Shires.
This is NO WAY to run a modern country.
Penny Mordaunt is one of the few contenders who has any presence as a leader. But who is this woman really? What does she really stand for. Apart from being a devoted Brexiteer? And for me, that proves that she understands no economics at all!
Moreover, all the candidates have come up with the same ol’, same ol’ line of “cutting taxes”. The Conservatives have been peddling this poppycock since Maggie was in power. That was circa forty years ago! One would be forgiven for thinking that if the success of the economy rested solely on cutting taxes, then the British economy would be in the stratosphere by now! Flying high. We have had lots and lots of tax cuts in the past forty years. And what have they achieved? Our economy has never been in a direr state than it is today! Never in my lifetime have I had to read about people, families having to go to foodbanks to be able to put food on the table for their children. Never! When I was growing up, this phenomenon was unheard of. Homelessness was almost unheard of.
The fact of the matter is this: Nobody with an ounce of common sense and/or understanding of economics or geopolitics would have walked away from the largest single market in the world: The Single Market. Any economist that would advocate such a stupid, idiotic move would not be worthy of the nomenclature 'economist'. Walking away from a ready market of 500,000,000 plus consumers is not only a nonsense; it is economic suicide. And this from a party which prides itself on being the party of business! The business-friendly party. Go figure!
I heard not one word from the lips of these lacklustre, uninspiring ne'er-do-wells, our so-called potential leaders, potential prime ministers, that he/she would make any move to reverse the madness of Brexit. I therefore declare that they are all—ALL—unfit for the office they are aspiring to hold. Conservatives need to go back to the drawing board.
© Mark Alexander
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Message to Blogger: The Restoration of the Sidebar
I would like to thank the team at Blogger for being so helpful as to restore the sidebar for me. The team’s kindness is deeply appreciated.
Mark Alexander
Mark Alexander
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
The Conservative Candidates for the Premiership: One Duck, Two Ducks, Three Ducks, Four…
The candidates running to become the next prime minister are, to say the least, lacklustre . They are bereft of creative thought: there is not an original idea between them! The record goes around and around, but like a malfunctioning gramophone record, it is stuck in circa 1980! Clearly, they are stuck on stupid! And as an American with a colourful turn of phrase once told me: You can’t fix stupid!
Now let me get a few things straight here: I am no left-winger. And I am no anti-Conservative either. Indeed, I was raised in a Conservative-voting home. The ‘S’ word was a dirty word chez nous. Maggie was a big hit in my home, too. As indeed she was with me personally.
However, in retrospect, I am not blind to her failings. She did a lot of good things for our nation; but she made some fundamental mistakes, too. In short, she was a human being; and human beings err.
To admit this is not an attack on a remarkable lady; and nor is it an attack on the remarkable lady’s accomplishments It is merely my trying to be reasonable in my assessment of the lady and her accomplishments. It is not the hallmark of a mature person to assess someone’s accomplishments only through rose-tinted spectacles; indeed, it is childlike to do so.
Margaret Thatcher stood for small government and low taxation. Those ideas were right for the time. After all, we had lived through a protracted period of socialism; and as a result of that, the country wasn’t working. In fact, in many sectors of the economy, it had come grinding to a halt.
However, just because Thatcher’s medicine was right for the economy in the Eighties, it doesn’t mean that the same medicine is right for the economy today. Today, our economy is ailing, but for very different reasons.
The gap between the superrich and ordinary folk hasn’t been as great as it is today since the ‘Gilded Age’.
Lowering taxes sounds like a sensible and grand plan – until one starts unpicking it.
This is what lower taxes means: Lower taxes means smaller government. Smaller government translates into spending less—far less—on hospitals and the building of new ones, on the NHS in general, on schools and other educational establishments, on roads and infrastructure, and in general on all projects in the public sector. But very importantly, it will mean lower taxes for corporations and the superrich, the groups of people who are awash with cash anyway.
Is this the medicine we truly need for our economy at the moment? Think about it! Think long and hard about it!
Further, I heard at least one of the contenders talking about ‘trickle-down economics. That theory has been well and truly debunked. In fact, it is poppycock. It just doesn’t happen that way. Indeed, it would be more accurate to call it ‘trickle-up economics’, because such policies end up making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.
We have come out of the biggest and the most successful single market in the world, The Single Market, a market of 500 million + consumers. And Tories have the nerve to call themselves the business-friendly party! Go figure!
Most of these candidates are sharpening their swords for a trade war with the European Union. How stupid are these people? How stupid can anyone be?
It is we who stupidly decided to exit the European Union; we were not asked to leave. Indeed, Brexit was the last thing that the EU wanted. But many in the Conservative Party did Putin’s bidding for him. The Kremlin’s tentacles have tightened its grip on Westminster, I fear; especially among the Conservatives.
On the doorstep of Number 10 during BoJo’s resignation speech, if indeed that it can be called, he spoke of a sparkling and bright future for the UK in the years to come if Conservative policies are followed. Such twaddle! I have lived long enough to realise that the UK will never be anything other than what it is: a struggling country trying to make its way in the world. Why do I say this? Because there is a continual fight between the left and the right, each side thinking that it has a monopoly on the truth. Fact is, neither side does.
For the UK economy to become super successful, both sides need to work together for the common good. A properly-functioning economy should, after all, work for all, not just for the select few.
There is nothing wrong with enabling people to become very rich; in fact, such an economy is to be encouraged and applauded. However, the less fortunate in society also need to be helped to improve their lot in life. But this cannot be done without a good education system and a good healthcare system, both free at the point of delivery.
Oh, and another very important thing: We cannot hope to have a hugely successful economy based on the service industry alone. One of Maggie’s biggest mistakes was her decimation of industry. But the fact remains that Germany has not made the same mistake. Germany has a very strong manufacturing sector. Who makes some of the best cars in the world? The Germans. Who makes some of the best white goods in the world? The Germans. And who looks after its workers better than we do? The Germans.
Perhaps, dear Conservatives, there is a lesson to be learnt in these facts. The truth can often be hard to swallow, just like a bitter pill is. But swallowing the pill and cogitating over some harsh realities is the road to self-improvement.
The best medicine for this economy would be to reverse Brexit. But if a full reversal cannot be executed, a second-best solution would be to re-join the Single Market. You know it makes sense to do so!
© Mark Alexander
July 13, 2022
Now let me get a few things straight here: I am no left-winger. And I am no anti-Conservative either. Indeed, I was raised in a Conservative-voting home. The ‘S’ word was a dirty word chez nous. Maggie was a big hit in my home, too. As indeed she was with me personally.
However, in retrospect, I am not blind to her failings. She did a lot of good things for our nation; but she made some fundamental mistakes, too. In short, she was a human being; and human beings err.
To admit this is not an attack on a remarkable lady; and nor is it an attack on the remarkable lady’s accomplishments It is merely my trying to be reasonable in my assessment of the lady and her accomplishments. It is not the hallmark of a mature person to assess someone’s accomplishments only through rose-tinted spectacles; indeed, it is childlike to do so.
Margaret Thatcher stood for small government and low taxation. Those ideas were right for the time. After all, we had lived through a protracted period of socialism; and as a result of that, the country wasn’t working. In fact, in many sectors of the economy, it had come grinding to a halt.
However, just because Thatcher’s medicine was right for the economy in the Eighties, it doesn’t mean that the same medicine is right for the economy today. Today, our economy is ailing, but for very different reasons.
The gap between the superrich and ordinary folk hasn’t been as great as it is today since the ‘Gilded Age’.
Gilded Age: “The unequal distribution of wealth remained high during this period. From 1860 to 1900, the wealthiest 2% of American households owned more than a third of the nation's wealth, while the top 10% owned roughly three-quarters of it. The bottom 40% had no wealth at all. In terms of property, the wealthiest 1% owned 51%, while the bottom 44% claimed 1.1%.” [Source: Wikipedia]Today, we are in a similar situation regarding wealth distribution. A few people own billions at the same time as millions of parents are unable to put food on the table for their children! To add insult to injury, the billionaire class pay little or no taxes; indeed, many of them hide their wealth offshore to avoid paying any taxes at all. And that goes for many in the Conservative Party itself. In fact, more especially people in the Conservative Party. Moreover, these contenders running for the premiership want to lower taxes for them still further.
Lowering taxes sounds like a sensible and grand plan – until one starts unpicking it.
This is what lower taxes means: Lower taxes means smaller government. Smaller government translates into spending less—far less—on hospitals and the building of new ones, on the NHS in general, on schools and other educational establishments, on roads and infrastructure, and in general on all projects in the public sector. But very importantly, it will mean lower taxes for corporations and the superrich, the groups of people who are awash with cash anyway.
Is this the medicine we truly need for our economy at the moment? Think about it! Think long and hard about it!
Further, I heard at least one of the contenders talking about ‘trickle-down economics. That theory has been well and truly debunked. In fact, it is poppycock. It just doesn’t happen that way. Indeed, it would be more accurate to call it ‘trickle-up economics’, because such policies end up making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.
We have come out of the biggest and the most successful single market in the world, The Single Market, a market of 500 million + consumers. And Tories have the nerve to call themselves the business-friendly party! Go figure!
Most of these candidates are sharpening their swords for a trade war with the European Union. How stupid are these people? How stupid can anyone be?
It is we who stupidly decided to exit the European Union; we were not asked to leave. Indeed, Brexit was the last thing that the EU wanted. But many in the Conservative Party did Putin’s bidding for him. The Kremlin’s tentacles have tightened its grip on Westminster, I fear; especially among the Conservatives.
On the doorstep of Number 10 during BoJo’s resignation speech, if indeed that it can be called, he spoke of a sparkling and bright future for the UK in the years to come if Conservative policies are followed. Such twaddle! I have lived long enough to realise that the UK will never be anything other than what it is: a struggling country trying to make its way in the world. Why do I say this? Because there is a continual fight between the left and the right, each side thinking that it has a monopoly on the truth. Fact is, neither side does.
For the UK economy to become super successful, both sides need to work together for the common good. A properly-functioning economy should, after all, work for all, not just for the select few.
There is nothing wrong with enabling people to become very rich; in fact, such an economy is to be encouraged and applauded. However, the less fortunate in society also need to be helped to improve their lot in life. But this cannot be done without a good education system and a good healthcare system, both free at the point of delivery.
Oh, and another very important thing: We cannot hope to have a hugely successful economy based on the service industry alone. One of Maggie’s biggest mistakes was her decimation of industry. But the fact remains that Germany has not made the same mistake. Germany has a very strong manufacturing sector. Who makes some of the best cars in the world? The Germans. Who makes some of the best white goods in the world? The Germans. And who looks after its workers better than we do? The Germans.
Perhaps, dear Conservatives, there is a lesson to be learnt in these facts. The truth can often be hard to swallow, just like a bitter pill is. But swallowing the pill and cogitating over some harsh realities is the road to self-improvement.
The best medicine for this economy would be to reverse Brexit. But if a full reversal cannot be executed, a second-best solution would be to re-join the Single Market. You know it makes sense to do so!
© Mark Alexander
July 13, 2022
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Tobacco-free: Today Marks Three Months Since I Smoked My Last Cigarette
I would just like to inform you, my followers and visitors, that today, to the date, marks three months since I smoked my last cigarette.
I am happy to inform you that the transition from being a smoker to being a non-smoker has been totally pain-free. I have given up without any problems or cravings; moreover, I have had no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. None!
Do I still find smoking fascinating? Yes! Yes, I still do. But it is nothing more than that: a fascination. I love to see a photo of a man smoking a cigarette; but I do not myself need to smoke one.
Hsve there been any downsides to quitting? Not really! Other than possibly relinquishing some pleasure. But on a positive note, I have already saved a great deal of money, not having to buy cigarettes.
I still find smoking fascinating and sexy. Nothing comes close to it. There truly is something about a handsome person who smokes a cigarette, especially a man. However, we now find ourselves living in puritanical times. It will not always be thus; times and moods will return to sanity. People will find out that smoking is not as bad as what will replace it for pleaure. In years to come, the loony bins will be full!
I have no doubt in my mind at all that times will change. Smoking cigarettes will surely become salonfähig and acceptable in polite society again, especially when people eventually realize that there are other 'pleasures' far more harmful than smoking cigarettes. But we haven’t got there yet. Watch this space!
© Mark Alexander
Sunday, July 10, 2022
I am happy to inform you that the transition from being a smoker to being a non-smoker has been totally pain-free. I have given up without any problems or cravings; moreover, I have had no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. None!
Do I still find smoking fascinating? Yes! Yes, I still do. But it is nothing more than that: a fascination. I love to see a photo of a man smoking a cigarette; but I do not myself need to smoke one.
Hsve there been any downsides to quitting? Not really! Other than possibly relinquishing some pleasure. But on a positive note, I have already saved a great deal of money, not having to buy cigarettes.
I still find smoking fascinating and sexy. Nothing comes close to it. There truly is something about a handsome person who smokes a cigarette, especially a man. However, we now find ourselves living in puritanical times. It will not always be thus; times and moods will return to sanity. People will find out that smoking is not as bad as what will replace it for pleaure. In years to come, the loony bins will be full!
I have no doubt in my mind at all that times will change. Smoking cigarettes will surely become salonfähig and acceptable in polite society again, especially when people eventually realize that there are other 'pleasures' far more harmful than smoking cigarettes. But we haven’t got there yet. Watch this space!
© Mark Alexander
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Saturday, July 09, 2022
Hacked! The Sidebar Is Missing!
Some little runt has hacked this website. Some little impolite, ignorant, childish tw*t, I presume. I hope his mummy buys him a rattle soon. Something to amuse him. The little loser might then have a chance to get a life. My advice: Speak nicely to mummy! I feel almost sure she’ll be willing to buy you a rattle. Speak extra gently to her and she’ll probably buy you a dummy (pacifier) as well. What a bonus already! Oh, and please do the decent thing: Undo the cr*p you’ve just done.
© Mark Alexander
Saturday, July 9, 2022
© Mark Alexander
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Thursday, July 07, 2022
Sir Ed! With the Conservatives in Total Disarray and Labour Having Ruled Out a Return to the EU, This Is Your Big Chance. Carpe Diem!
At the risk of stating the obvious, the Conservative Party is clearly in total and utter disarray. Further, it is a divided party – divided between the pro-European wing and the anti-European wing, the so-called Remainers and Brexiteers.
David Cameron exacerbated the problem, of course, by calling the Brexit referendum. In so doing, he projected the longstanding rift in his party onto the nation. And what a rift it has caused! It has divided the regions and even divided families. Many of the divisions are based particularly on age, but also to a great extent on class as well.
Older folk are often more inclined to be Brexiteers, many of whom lived through the Second World War or were told many stories by their parents of life at that time. There is no doubt many have been unable to put the war behind them. They live in the past. In addition, many of them are resentful of Germany's clear and enormous economic success. How many times in my life have I heard old folk say "we won the war, but Germany won the peace"!
In my humble opinion, many of the people who fought hard for Brexit, people like Nigel Farage and his trouble-making partners surreptitiously played on past prejudices to bring people to the point of voting for the suicide of our nation. This, of course, was just what the fossilized Tories needed to pull the wool over people’s eyes.
Coming out of the European Union was the greatest mistake this country has made since World War II. It was an act of self-harm. One could call it national suicide. To walk away from the greatest and best single market in the world—The Single Market—made absolutely no sense at all. It is a market of approximately 500 million consumers. A market with free movement of goods and people, and no impediments to the sale of services either. Moreover, despite Margaret Thatcher’s hostility to a federal Europe, she was for the Single Market. Very much so. Indeed, she was one of its architects! Would the Single Market exist today had it not been in part due to her tireless efforts? And we have walked away from it! Go figure! Further, to add insult to injury, we have walked away from it when ruled by a Conservative administration, the Party which prides itself on being pro-business. My word! What a topsy-turvy world we now inhabit!
By coming out of the European Union, we Brits have relinquished all the privileges that came with our membership: We lost our rights as European citizens. Rights such as the right to live, work and retire to any member country. The right to free healthcare, which is based on reciprocity. Free education for our children, too. In fact, I believe that Germany offers free university education to many, as well. In addition, we have also relinquished the right to fall in love and marry across borders. And so much else besides. Our leaving of the European Union was nothing short of insanity.
A small number of people at the top have been able to gain from our leaving. For most, however, it has been, and will remain, a great loss. For the billionaire class, free European healthcare is not an issue. For most people, it is. A big issue.
As a result of Brexit, many businesses have ceased trading. So how many small businesspeople have seen all their hard work to build up their businesses supplying goods and services to Europe going down the tubes? How much hardship has this act of insanity really, truly caused? Clearly, the MSM is reluctant to inform us.
But even apart from all the economic losses that we have suffered, and all the inconveniences, there was another very important goal of the European Union: the goal of maintaining and cultivating peace and good relations between our European nations. There was cross-cultural exchange between us, the importance of which should never be underestimated.
Despite being raised as a Conservative, and despite having been a lifelong Conservative voter, when Brexit came along, I was disenfranchised. I simply could not vote for a party—any party— which is anti-Europe. Europe is my home. Even outside of the EU, I still consider Europe my home. Wales is a European country/principality. Yes, it is part of Greta Britain, but it is also part of Europe. Certainly, geographically speaking. But also, politically. We have so much in common with our European sistren and brethren.
Keir Starmer of the Labour Party has ruled out trying to re-join the European Union. This, in my opinion, gives the Liberal Democrats a huge opportunity. At the next election, whenever that will be, it can put clear blue water between it and the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. It can offer the electorate a clear choice; it can offer the Remainers, of whom there are so many, and with the increasing disillusionment of voters by the obvious false promises offered by Brexit—remember those sunny uplands we were promised, ‘dem da’ hills of gold yonder? Eldorado?—well it didn’t happen, did it? It came to nothing. And it will come to nothing in the future, too.
The Liberal Democrat Party is a good, solid party with a great liberal history—liberal in the British sense, not the American sense—and it has a great leader: Sir Edward Jonathan Davey , usually known as Ed Davey, who is, I feel sure, a thoroughly decent man. Decency is not a quality readily found in politicians. But from what I have read about this man, he is decent. Decent and solid.
I therefore have a suggestion for him. It is as follows: Be brave and give the electorate a real choice. That way, the LibDems will be able to capitalize on great recent successes in by-elections. I am as certain as anyone could be that if the British electorate were offered the chance to return to the European Union, they would vote for you in droves.
Go for it, Sir Ed! As you well know, fortune favours the brave.
© Mark Alexander
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Ed Davey: Leader of the Liberal Democrats. MP for Kingston & Surbiton. »
David Cameron exacerbated the problem, of course, by calling the Brexit referendum. In so doing, he projected the longstanding rift in his party onto the nation. And what a rift it has caused! It has divided the regions and even divided families. Many of the divisions are based particularly on age, but also to a great extent on class as well.
Older folk are often more inclined to be Brexiteers, many of whom lived through the Second World War or were told many stories by their parents of life at that time. There is no doubt many have been unable to put the war behind them. They live in the past. In addition, many of them are resentful of Germany's clear and enormous economic success. How many times in my life have I heard old folk say "we won the war, but Germany won the peace"!
In my humble opinion, many of the people who fought hard for Brexit, people like Nigel Farage and his trouble-making partners surreptitiously played on past prejudices to bring people to the point of voting for the suicide of our nation. This, of course, was just what the fossilized Tories needed to pull the wool over people’s eyes.
Coming out of the European Union was the greatest mistake this country has made since World War II. It was an act of self-harm. One could call it national suicide. To walk away from the greatest and best single market in the world—The Single Market—made absolutely no sense at all. It is a market of approximately 500 million consumers. A market with free movement of goods and people, and no impediments to the sale of services either. Moreover, despite Margaret Thatcher’s hostility to a federal Europe, she was for the Single Market. Very much so. Indeed, she was one of its architects! Would the Single Market exist today had it not been in part due to her tireless efforts? And we have walked away from it! Go figure! Further, to add insult to injury, we have walked away from it when ruled by a Conservative administration, the Party which prides itself on being pro-business. My word! What a topsy-turvy world we now inhabit!
By coming out of the European Union, we Brits have relinquished all the privileges that came with our membership: We lost our rights as European citizens. Rights such as the right to live, work and retire to any member country. The right to free healthcare, which is based on reciprocity. Free education for our children, too. In fact, I believe that Germany offers free university education to many, as well. In addition, we have also relinquished the right to fall in love and marry across borders. And so much else besides. Our leaving of the European Union was nothing short of insanity.
A small number of people at the top have been able to gain from our leaving. For most, however, it has been, and will remain, a great loss. For the billionaire class, free European healthcare is not an issue. For most people, it is. A big issue.
As a result of Brexit, many businesses have ceased trading. So how many small businesspeople have seen all their hard work to build up their businesses supplying goods and services to Europe going down the tubes? How much hardship has this act of insanity really, truly caused? Clearly, the MSM is reluctant to inform us.
But even apart from all the economic losses that we have suffered, and all the inconveniences, there was another very important goal of the European Union: the goal of maintaining and cultivating peace and good relations between our European nations. There was cross-cultural exchange between us, the importance of which should never be underestimated.
Despite being raised as a Conservative, and despite having been a lifelong Conservative voter, when Brexit came along, I was disenfranchised. I simply could not vote for a party—any party— which is anti-Europe. Europe is my home. Even outside of the EU, I still consider Europe my home. Wales is a European country/principality. Yes, it is part of Greta Britain, but it is also part of Europe. Certainly, geographically speaking. But also, politically. We have so much in common with our European sistren and brethren.
Keir Starmer of the Labour Party has ruled out trying to re-join the European Union. This, in my opinion, gives the Liberal Democrats a huge opportunity. At the next election, whenever that will be, it can put clear blue water between it and the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. It can offer the electorate a clear choice; it can offer the Remainers, of whom there are so many, and with the increasing disillusionment of voters by the obvious false promises offered by Brexit—remember those sunny uplands we were promised, ‘dem da’ hills of gold yonder? Eldorado?—well it didn’t happen, did it? It came to nothing. And it will come to nothing in the future, too.
The Liberal Democrat Party is a good, solid party with a great liberal history—liberal in the British sense, not the American sense—and it has a great leader: Sir Edward Jonathan Davey , usually known as Ed Davey, who is, I feel sure, a thoroughly decent man. Decency is not a quality readily found in politicians. But from what I have read about this man, he is decent. Decent and solid.
I therefore have a suggestion for him. It is as follows: Be brave and give the electorate a real choice. That way, the LibDems will be able to capitalize on great recent successes in by-elections. I am as certain as anyone could be that if the British electorate were offered the chance to return to the European Union, they would vote for you in droves.
Go for it, Sir Ed! As you well know, fortune favours the brave.
© Mark Alexander
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Ed Davey: Leader of the Liberal Democrats. MP for Kingston & Surbiton. »
Rabbits, Hats, Magicians and De Pfeffel Johnson
Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson should be sent packing as soon as possible. If he’s allowed to stay on as a caretaker prime minister, he might not leave at all!
Boris is to politics what a magician is to hat-tricks! Magicians are able to pull rabbits out of hats before our very eyes by deft sleight of hand. De Pfeffel is equally skillful in politics. Before our very eyes, he could pull a fast one, maybe call a general election, and finesse his way into staying on as prime minister for several years to come, causing lots of uncertainty. Be warned!
Likeable, Boris may well be; but, often, so are rogues! In a funny kind of way, De Pfeffel is a likeable rogue with a touch of class.
One will never be sure BoJo has gone until he is well and truly out the door of Number 10! I concur with John Major on this, but perhaps for different reasons.
© Mark Alexander
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Boris is to politics what a magician is to hat-tricks! Magicians are able to pull rabbits out of hats before our very eyes by deft sleight of hand. De Pfeffel is equally skillful in politics. Before our very eyes, he could pull a fast one, maybe call a general election, and finesse his way into staying on as prime minister for several years to come, causing lots of uncertainty. Be warned!
Likeable, Boris may well be; but, often, so are rogues! In a funny kind of way, De Pfeffel is a likeable rogue with a touch of class.
One will never be sure BoJo has gone until he is well and truly out the door of Number 10! I concur with John Major on this, but perhaps for different reasons.
© Mark Alexander
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Tuesday, July 05, 2022
BoJo’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost!
Mr. Johnson weaseled his way to Downing Street by betting on Brexit at the last minute, thinking that he would have more chance of being handed the keys to Number 10 that way; but he was never a committed Brexiteer. Brexit was just a convenience for him to achieve his lifelong ambition: becoming prime minister.
Boris played a dishonorable game to achieve his goal and now, he is paying the price: his administration is falling apart.
We the people, the hapless electorate, were lied to about Brexit. We Remainers didn’t buy into the lies; alas, the Brexiteers did. However, ithe following must be said: the electorate was lied to about the benefits of Brexit and the prosperity it would bring. In addition, we had no robust national debate on this most important of decisions – the most important decision taken by the British people since the end of World War II.
The result of this ill-judged decision to leave the European Union has come with a very high price: a high price for the nation, especially in terms of much slower economic growth and enormous ongoing cost to the economy; and a high price for the people, especially because we Brits have lost all our rights as citizens of Europe: the right to live, work, or retire to Europe; the right to set up businesses there; the right to free health care based on reciprocity; the right to marriage and being able to love across borders, and much else besides.
Boris achieved his ambition by foul means; and now it looks as though, very soon, he might well have to pay the ultimate price himself. Boris’s chickens are coming home to roost.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Boris played a dishonorable game to achieve his goal and now, he is paying the price: his administration is falling apart.
We the people, the hapless electorate, were lied to about Brexit. We Remainers didn’t buy into the lies; alas, the Brexiteers did. However, ithe following must be said: the electorate was lied to about the benefits of Brexit and the prosperity it would bring. In addition, we had no robust national debate on this most important of decisions – the most important decision taken by the British people since the end of World War II.
The result of this ill-judged decision to leave the European Union has come with a very high price: a high price for the nation, especially in terms of much slower economic growth and enormous ongoing cost to the economy; and a high price for the people, especially because we Brits have lost all our rights as citizens of Europe: the right to live, work, or retire to Europe; the right to set up businesses there; the right to free health care based on reciprocity; the right to marriage and being able to love across borders, and much else besides.
Boris achieved his ambition by foul means; and now it looks as though, very soon, he might well have to pay the ultimate price himself. Boris’s chickens are coming home to roost.
© Mark Alexander
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Sunday, July 03, 2022
Camerons Vermächtnis: Ein gespaltenes und immer ärmeres Vereinigtes Königreich
Der Tag in dem David Cameron den Entscheid getroffen hat, ein Referendum über Großbritanniens Mitgliedschaft der Europäischen Union zu halten, wird in die Geschichtsbücher als einer der schwärzesten Tage Großbritanniens eingehen. Er wollte den Riss in seiner Partei heilen; stattdessen hat er den Riss seiner Partei ans ganze Land projiziert. In der Tat ist Großbritannien seit dem Referendum in so vielen Weisen zerbröckelt. Leider ist es nun schwierig zu sehen, wie einer das ehemalige vereinte Land wieder zusammenbringen kann.
Nun gibt es natürlich einen großen Riss zwischen den Brexitern und den Remainern; aber nicht nur das. Es gibt große Risse auch zwischen den Regionen. Noch mehr: Es gibt auch noch Risse zwischen Familienmitgliedern.
Alles nur weil Cameron versuchen wollte in seiner Partei endlich dem Gezänk um Großbritanniens Mitgliedschaft in der Europäischen Union ein Ende bereiten.
Der Weg zur Hölle ist mit guten Vorsätzen gepflastert!
Man muß aber doch sagen, daß David Cameron mehr als ein wenig Naivität und politische Einfältigkeit gezeigt hat, in dem er so einen Entscheid getroffen hat. Er hätte besser wissen sollen.
Dann auf die Bühne marschieren Nigel Farage und die andere Mitglieder seines Lumpenpacks. Er und seine Bande waren extrem laut und hatten viel zu viel zu sagen. Sie hatten mehr zu sagen als sie gesunden Menschenverstand hatten. Aber sie hatten auch viel zu profitieren von einem Austritt.
Im letzten Akt der Farce kommt Boris Johnson, der Mann, der „König der Welt“ werden wollte, aber feststellte, dass er sich stattdessen mit Prime Minister zufrieden geben mußte. Es war ihm eigentlich egal, ob wir in der Europäischen Union blieben oder aus ihr herauskamen, solange er der Anführer und Premier Minister sein konnte.
Das Ergebnis all dessen ist, dass wir in einem höllischen Schlamassel stecken!
Die Inflation ist hoch und steigt noch weiter, schnell. Produkte in Hülle und Fülle sind aus den Supermarktregalen verschwunden. Viele Unternehmen haben den Handel mit Europa eingestellt. Die Exporte nach Europa sind in vielen Fällen so gut wie versiegt, weil es seit dem Austritt aus dem Binnenmarkt zu kompliziert und zu teuer ist, dort zu verkaufen. Es gibt frustrierend lange Schlangen von Lastwagen, die versuchen zu dem Kontinent zu fahren und den Ärmelkanal zu überqueren. Aufgrund der Unnachgiebigkeit von Boris Johnson zeichnet sich ein Handelskrieg mit Europa ab, insbesondere wegen der Probleme mit Nordirland, die Boris und sein Team verursacht haben. Und das Wirtschaftswachstum in Großbritannien hat sich bis auf einen Stillstand verlangsamt. Und daneben gibt es noch viele andere Probleme.
Willkommen in der Post-Brexit-Dystopie, die Großbritannien heute darstellt. Die Brexiters haben eine Shitshow geschaffen. Es wird Jahre dauern, dieses Chaos zu beseitigen.
Wir Briten werden von wirtschaftlich-unwissenden Narren geführt!
© Mark Alexander
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Sonntag, 3. Juli 2022
Nun gibt es natürlich einen großen Riss zwischen den Brexitern und den Remainern; aber nicht nur das. Es gibt große Risse auch zwischen den Regionen. Noch mehr: Es gibt auch noch Risse zwischen Familienmitgliedern.
Alles nur weil Cameron versuchen wollte in seiner Partei endlich dem Gezänk um Großbritanniens Mitgliedschaft in der Europäischen Union ein Ende bereiten.
Der Weg zur Hölle ist mit guten Vorsätzen gepflastert!
Man muß aber doch sagen, daß David Cameron mehr als ein wenig Naivität und politische Einfältigkeit gezeigt hat, in dem er so einen Entscheid getroffen hat. Er hätte besser wissen sollen.
Dann auf die Bühne marschieren Nigel Farage und die andere Mitglieder seines Lumpenpacks. Er und seine Bande waren extrem laut und hatten viel zu viel zu sagen. Sie hatten mehr zu sagen als sie gesunden Menschenverstand hatten. Aber sie hatten auch viel zu profitieren von einem Austritt.
Im letzten Akt der Farce kommt Boris Johnson, der Mann, der „König der Welt“ werden wollte, aber feststellte, dass er sich stattdessen mit Prime Minister zufrieden geben mußte. Es war ihm eigentlich egal, ob wir in der Europäischen Union blieben oder aus ihr herauskamen, solange er der Anführer und Premier Minister sein konnte.
Das Ergebnis all dessen ist, dass wir in einem höllischen Schlamassel stecken!
Die Inflation ist hoch und steigt noch weiter, schnell. Produkte in Hülle und Fülle sind aus den Supermarktregalen verschwunden. Viele Unternehmen haben den Handel mit Europa eingestellt. Die Exporte nach Europa sind in vielen Fällen so gut wie versiegt, weil es seit dem Austritt aus dem Binnenmarkt zu kompliziert und zu teuer ist, dort zu verkaufen. Es gibt frustrierend lange Schlangen von Lastwagen, die versuchen zu dem Kontinent zu fahren und den Ärmelkanal zu überqueren. Aufgrund der Unnachgiebigkeit von Boris Johnson zeichnet sich ein Handelskrieg mit Europa ab, insbesondere wegen der Probleme mit Nordirland, die Boris und sein Team verursacht haben. Und das Wirtschaftswachstum in Großbritannien hat sich bis auf einen Stillstand verlangsamt. Und daneben gibt es noch viele andere Probleme.
Willkommen in der Post-Brexit-Dystopie, die Großbritannien heute darstellt. Die Brexiters haben eine Shitshow geschaffen. Es wird Jahre dauern, dieses Chaos zu beseitigen.
Wir Briten werden von wirtschaftlich-unwissenden Narren geführt!
© Mark Alexander
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Monday, April 18, 2022
Smoking Cigarettes : The bête noire of Our Day
Western politicians make me so angry! They have been waging a war on smokers for years now. They have made it virtually impossible to smoke anywhere outside of one’s home, thus taking away all pleasure of socializing with others in cafés, restaurants, or in any other public space. This, by the way, has led to loneliness in society.
But more than this, they are pricing smokers out of the market. In the UK, the price of a packet of Marlboro Reds is £12.50! Moreover, I have been informed that the price of such a packet will soon increase yet again!
Of that £12.50, probably £12 of that price is tax! So taxing cigarettes so much is a good money-spinner for governments. This is shameless taxation, just as the use of speeding fines is. UK roads are peppered with speed cameras. Another great money-spinner for successive governments. But I digress.
I am fortunate inasmuch as I can do without smokes. In fact, I have gone a week without smoking even one cigarette. Being without is not a problem for me. I have decided that I am not going to fill the coffers of this dreadful government with any more tax than I absolutely must. But I must say that I do resent doing without a small pleasure because our governments are totally and utterly irresponsible re- smoking.
Why do I say this? For a number of reasons… First of all, I do not think that smoking in moderation is particularly harmful. People who have given up smoking look for other pleasures in life, pleasures like sweet foods, which lead to diabetes. I am diabetes-free, and I attribute that fact to being a moderate smoker for most of my adult life.
You see, not smoking is only better than smoking if people do not substitute one ‘bad habit’ with another. But only the few can do that. Most people, when they give up smoking, start partaking of other things to replace the pleasure of smoking.
But what really annoys me about the pathetic Western politicians we are being led by is this: They are relaxing the laws against smoking other substances whilst at the very same time taking the pleasure of smoking a simple cigarette out of the reach of many hard-working people. Such politicians deserve to be voted out of office. Pronto!
© Mark Alexander
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Sunday, March 27, 2022
Wladimir Putin und Adolf Hitler
Seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, haben wir eine Hassfigur gehabt, worüber alle dezenten Menschen sich einigen konnten. Das war natürlich Adolf Hitler. Er war ein Schreckgespenst aller Schreckgespenster! Nun hat sogar Hitler Konkurrenz im Name Wladimir Putin!
Bis vor kurzem, vor diesem Krieg in der Ukraine, hätte man geglaubt, daß hier in Europa Gräueltaten dieser Art wären Taten aus der Geschichte. Leider ist dies nicht der Fall. Wladimir Putin hat uns die schönen Träume zerstört und uns stattdessen unsre Träume mit Alpträumen erstetzt.
Auf diese Weise ist Wladimir Putin unglücklicherweise gar nicht besser als Adolf Hitler.
Putin hat schon bisher so viel Schlechtes getan, so viele Leute ums Leben umsonst gebracht, daß er sich auf gar keine Rehabilitation freuen kann. Was immer von hier aus geschieht, ist Putin nicht mehr würdig wieder in die internationale Gemeinschaft gebracht zu werden.
© Mark Alexander
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Bis vor kurzem, vor diesem Krieg in der Ukraine, hätte man geglaubt, daß hier in Europa Gräueltaten dieser Art wären Taten aus der Geschichte. Leider ist dies nicht der Fall. Wladimir Putin hat uns die schönen Träume zerstört und uns stattdessen unsre Träume mit Alpträumen erstetzt.
Auf diese Weise ist Wladimir Putin unglücklicherweise gar nicht besser als Adolf Hitler.
Putin hat schon bisher so viel Schlechtes getan, so viele Leute ums Leben umsonst gebracht, daß er sich auf gar keine Rehabilitation freuen kann. Was immer von hier aus geschieht, ist Putin nicht mehr würdig wieder in die internationale Gemeinschaft gebracht zu werden.
© Mark Alexander
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Saturday, March 19, 2022
We Need More Europe, Not Less!
The war that Russia is waging on the Ukraine should make one thing clear to us all: We need more Europe, not less.
Europe needs to be united; and Europe needs its own military—its own army, its own air force, its own navy—to be able to counter the threat from the autocratic world.
It goes without saying that we Europeans need to work closely with our stalwart, American friends and allies; however, it is unreasonable to expect Americans always to come and fight our corner. We must also play our part – and in full.
Recent Russian aggression in the Ukraine should have already convinced us that our liberal, democratic continent is no longer to be taken for granted, no longer safe from the dictatorial and autocratic ambitions of Russia and its co-conspirators and like-minded friends.
It therefore goes without saying that we Europeans need a strong military to counter any threats that come our way. No country, no continent was ever strong by showing disunity. Weakness has never been an answer to military or existential threats. Europe needs to be strong, united and militarized.
Let Europe unite; let Europe be strong; let Europe build its military! Long live Europe! Es lebe Europa! Vive l’Europe ! – © Mark Alexander
Europe needs to be united; and Europe needs its own military—its own army, its own air force, its own navy—to be able to counter the threat from the autocratic world.
It goes without saying that we Europeans need to work closely with our stalwart, American friends and allies; however, it is unreasonable to expect Americans always to come and fight our corner. We must also play our part – and in full.
Recent Russian aggression in the Ukraine should have already convinced us that our liberal, democratic continent is no longer to be taken for granted, no longer safe from the dictatorial and autocratic ambitions of Russia and its co-conspirators and like-minded friends.
It therefore goes without saying that we Europeans need a strong military to counter any threats that come our way. No country, no continent was ever strong by showing disunity. Weakness has never been an answer to military or existential threats. Europe needs to be strong, united and militarized.
Let Europe unite; let Europe be strong; let Europe build its military! Long live Europe! Es lebe Europa! Vive l’Europe ! – © Mark Alexander
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Some Tw*t Is F***ing around with My Website Even as I Write This!
I am off to bed. It is far too late to try and sort this problem out tonight. God only knows who is hacking this website at the moment. A Russian, maybe? Whoever it is, I hope he is having fun. What has upset the chump, God only knows. Hopefully, he will have settled down by the morning.
Good night to the hacker and good night all!
Mark Alexander
Good night to the hacker and good night all!
Mark Alexander
Monday, March 14, 2022
Time for the West to Grow a Spine! | Republished from March 1, 2022
We need to re-think our strategy re the Ukraine. Isn’t it high time that NATO and the West change rhetoric on giving full military support to our brave Ukrainian brothers and sisters?
Three things, in particular, need to happen: The European Union needs to suspend its bureaucracy and make an exception to admit the Ukraine into the EU, with immediate effect; NATO needs to grow a spine and give the Ukrainians all the military support it needs, including combat troops; and a no-fly zone needs to be declared over Ukrainian airspace. Call Putin’s bluff! Challenge him! Defy him! Destroy his economy and destroy his military! Bring Russia to its knees!
We need to face-off with Russia. Putin is a bully; and bullies are usually weak little men when all is said and done.
The Ukrainians are not simply fighting for their own beloved country; rather, they are also fighting for our freedoms, fighting for liberal democracy. It is a disgrace that we are allowing them to do this alone, allowing them to do our dirty—and dangerous—work for us.
If Ukraine falls, which country will be next to fall? Poland? One of the Baltic states? The former Yugoslavia? If we value our freedoms, our liberty, our democracies, then we need to step up to the plate and help the Ukrainians to repel the barbarians by whom they are being attacked.
Sanctions are all well and good; but they are not enough to defeat the Russian bear.
Let the Ukrainians join the EU; let Western nations send real military support to help the Ukrainians fight their enemy; let there be controlled airspace for the Ukrainians, too.
These measures are the decent measures to take. They are also Christian measures. How can we, in good conscience, sit idly by and allow a good Christian country be destroyed by barbarians? Moreover, while we are at it, the British government needs to seize the property and chattels of the Russian kleptocrats who have splendid homes here in the UK, particularly in London and Surrey. Let no stone go unturned to help our brothers and sisters in the Ukraine, who find themselves in great difficulties and indescribable danger, and who find themselves having to fight for our freedoms. Let the real war commence!
© Mark Alexander
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Three things, in particular, need to happen: The European Union needs to suspend its bureaucracy and make an exception to admit the Ukraine into the EU, with immediate effect; NATO needs to grow a spine and give the Ukrainians all the military support it needs, including combat troops; and a no-fly zone needs to be declared over Ukrainian airspace. Call Putin’s bluff! Challenge him! Defy him! Destroy his economy and destroy his military! Bring Russia to its knees!
We need to face-off with Russia. Putin is a bully; and bullies are usually weak little men when all is said and done.
The Ukrainians are not simply fighting for their own beloved country; rather, they are also fighting for our freedoms, fighting for liberal democracy. It is a disgrace that we are allowing them to do this alone, allowing them to do our dirty—and dangerous—work for us.
If Ukraine falls, which country will be next to fall? Poland? One of the Baltic states? The former Yugoslavia? If we value our freedoms, our liberty, our democracies, then we need to step up to the plate and help the Ukrainians to repel the barbarians by whom they are being attacked.
Sanctions are all well and good; but they are not enough to defeat the Russian bear.
Let the Ukrainians join the EU; let Western nations send real military support to help the Ukrainians fight their enemy; let there be controlled airspace for the Ukrainians, too.
These measures are the decent measures to take. They are also Christian measures. How can we, in good conscience, sit idly by and allow a good Christian country be destroyed by barbarians? Moreover, while we are at it, the British government needs to seize the property and chattels of the Russian kleptocrats who have splendid homes here in the UK, particularly in London and Surrey. Let no stone go unturned to help our brothers and sisters in the Ukraine, who find themselves in great difficulties and indescribable danger, and who find themselves having to fight for our freedoms. Let the real war commence!
© Mark Alexander
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Thursday, March 10, 2022
Le patriarche Kirill – la guerre en Ukraine ? : C’est un «guerre sainte» de Vladimir Poutine !
Vraiment ? Dieu sanctionne-t-il les attaques contre la maternité ? Comment ce patriarche peut-il dire que la guerre de Poutine contre l'Ukraine est une « guerre sainte » ? De quel genre de théologie chrétienne s'agit-il ? Où dans la Bible Dieu sanctionne-t-il les attaques contre des innocents, sans parler des femmes enceintes ? Si c'est ce que ce patriarche entend par une « guerre sainte », alors les honnêtes gens ne devraient rien accepter ! Quelle absurdité ! – © Mark
Thursday, March 03, 2022
Europe Must Be Totally United in These Desperately Difficult Times
The war in the Ukraine has shown all thinking people the importance of unity on our continent. Europe needs to be strong and powerful. This can only be achieved through unity.
Vladimir Putin has worked hard over the years to weaken the European Union. He wanted desperately for the United Kingdom to leave the Union, in order to weaken the EU and also to weaken the United Kingdom.
By leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom has been cut adrift from its moorings. Putin knew this would happen; so, he worked assiduously in the background to fund the Brexit referendum. How did he do this? By funding the Russian kleptocrats living in the UK, who have been allowed to infiltrate the corridors of power in Westminster. They have poisoned British politics, especially through their influence in the Conservative Party. One can but wonder how many Conservative politicians are actually lining their pockets with ill-gotten gains from the kleptocrats, with ill-gotten gains from the Kremlin!
Perhaps the start of the cancer metastasizing was Putin’s influence on the election of Trump as president of the USA. Clearly, Trump was Putin’s marionette; and were Trump to be re-elected—Heaven forfend!—the cancer will metastasize still further.
There is absolutely no doubt that Trump helped bring about Brexit. Wasn’t that, after all, what Putin wanted? Trump clearly did Putin’s bidding for him! The unsuspecting British electorate who had been lied to played along with it. They were taken in by the lies.
Even Boris Johnson himself has Russian blood and family connections; hence the given name Boris. What role does he play in all of this? One can but wonder.
Johnson loves to liken himself to Churchill. The current war in the Ukraine and the current crisis with Russia are heaven sent for him. If he really wishes to fulfil his Churchill moment, he should find a way of convincing the British electorate that we need to re-enter the European Union as full members. Such a move would strengthen the EU at a time when it needs all the strength it can muster; moreover, it would strengthen the United Kingdom, too.
This is your chance, Mr. Johnson. You’ve got the gift of the gab. Use it! Convince the electorate that they have made a grave error in choosing to leave the European Union.
This, Mr. Johnson, is the patriotic way forward. Everyone wants to join the European Union. No wonder! It’s a great institution! Even today, two more countries have put in their applications to join the Union Georgia and Moldova; and we all know that the Ukraine is desperate to be able to do so. We are the only country to mis-read the geopolitical situation by voting to leave the Union.
Show us all how great a man you can be, Mr. Johnson! Change course! Get us back into Europe! You know it makes sense!
© Mark Alexander
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Vladimir Putin has worked hard over the years to weaken the European Union. He wanted desperately for the United Kingdom to leave the Union, in order to weaken the EU and also to weaken the United Kingdom.
By leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom has been cut adrift from its moorings. Putin knew this would happen; so, he worked assiduously in the background to fund the Brexit referendum. How did he do this? By funding the Russian kleptocrats living in the UK, who have been allowed to infiltrate the corridors of power in Westminster. They have poisoned British politics, especially through their influence in the Conservative Party. One can but wonder how many Conservative politicians are actually lining their pockets with ill-gotten gains from the kleptocrats, with ill-gotten gains from the Kremlin!
Perhaps the start of the cancer metastasizing was Putin’s influence on the election of Trump as president of the USA. Clearly, Trump was Putin’s marionette; and were Trump to be re-elected—Heaven forfend!—the cancer will metastasize still further.
There is absolutely no doubt that Trump helped bring about Brexit. Wasn’t that, after all, what Putin wanted? Trump clearly did Putin’s bidding for him! The unsuspecting British electorate who had been lied to played along with it. They were taken in by the lies.
Even Boris Johnson himself has Russian blood and family connections; hence the given name Boris. What role does he play in all of this? One can but wonder.
Johnson loves to liken himself to Churchill. The current war in the Ukraine and the current crisis with Russia are heaven sent for him. If he really wishes to fulfil his Churchill moment, he should find a way of convincing the British electorate that we need to re-enter the European Union as full members. Such a move would strengthen the EU at a time when it needs all the strength it can muster; moreover, it would strengthen the United Kingdom, too.
This is your chance, Mr. Johnson. You’ve got the gift of the gab. Use it! Convince the electorate that they have made a grave error in choosing to leave the European Union.
This, Mr. Johnson, is the patriotic way forward. Everyone wants to join the European Union. No wonder! It’s a great institution! Even today, two more countries have put in their applications to join the Union Georgia and Moldova; and we all know that the Ukraine is desperate to be able to do so. We are the only country to mis-read the geopolitical situation by voting to leave the Union.
Show us all how great a man you can be, Mr. Johnson! Change course! Get us back into Europe! You know it makes sense!
© Mark Alexander
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Wednesday, March 02, 2022
Ist Wlad wirklich recht bei Trost?
Warum sprechen wir über Putin als ob er zurechnungsfähig ist? Sind seine Taten in der Ukraine nicht ein Zeichen dafür, daß dieser Mann psychisch gestört ist? Ist es nicht höchste Zeit, daß wir uns eine einfache Frage stellen: Hat Demenz eingesetzt? Ist dieser Mann in der Tat recht bei Trost?
© Mark Alexander
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