This week, the railway has been participating in practice sessions to prepare for the new Britain that will fully emerge from the Brexit process at the end of this year. We all recognise that it is important to be ready for a new, independent future. Britain will be a sovereign nation again for the first … Continue reading Get Ready For Brexit
Leave or Remain?Brexit has ceased to be the all important, headline dominating, political story that has been swamping discourse in the UK for the last three years. The Coronavirus has taken its crown. Pun intended. Fear not, I suspect the interruption won’t last for ever.Don’t think that we are not still divided though. To Leave … Continue reading
The government have four stages to move through when dealing with contagious outbreaks. Contain, which we are presently in. Delay, which we’ll be moving onto later today. Then comes Research and Mitigate. The latter two seem pointless in the current situation. I say we should replace them with Sacrifice and Move On. If someone over … Continue reading The Four Stages
Several thousand EU nurses and doctors have left the UK since the referendum and newly registered EU nurses are down nearly 90% The NHS was short of nurses to start with. It seems likely that in the coming months, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of elderly Brits are going to contract COVID19 and require urgent … Continue reading The Brexit Virus
I no longer publish photos to Flickr. The subscription price increase was a bit rich for my liking. So my photos live in a more private Apple based silo these days. But I still upload some of my better photos to 500px. I like the site and it's free to upload a few photos a … Continue reading Out to Sea
The 2019 general election is over, and despite my desire for an unlikely result, my suggestion that the outcome was unpredictable was nothing more than wishful thinking. Boris Johnson will be in Number 10 for the next five years. Life will go on. The campaign to Remain in the EU will not. It is, barring … Continue reading End Of The Line
I'm not going to call Boris Johnson a liar. There may well be a mountain of well documented untruths, deceptions and broken promises to put forward as evidence regarding the question of his honesty. But I've decided I won't stoop so low as to call Mr Johnson a liar.* It's unseemly, undignified and adds nothing … Continue reading Brexit 419
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