This is the Country we Live in!

Quote from Neil Lennon Manager of Celtic football club. The quote came when security officers told him he could not sit in the stand at a football match - advice given in the light of recent would be bomb attacks on Mr Lennon. This is the country we live in. It is the country in which the supporters of his current football club routinely fly the flag of an alien country. A country it should be noted harbouring the ambition to annexe significant parts of my country. Mr Lennon needs to look around.

Live TV News

What a waste of time. Most events are not visual. Most events are over before the News Media start reporting. Most TV news systems insist on having "live" coverage by putting a reporter and a camera where something happened some time ago. They keep doing it for every bulletin. Hapless reporters are seen at 1030 pm stood wherever giving a live report to camera about something that happened long ago. Sometimes it is from somewhere nothing actually happened. In the UK they send TV crews to stand outside the Prime Minister's official  residence to speculate on possible political events. The PM does not even live there and at weekend is far away at his country retreat yet still those poor reporters are required to stand solemnly come rain or shine and bring us the latest "news".
This is plainly expensive nonsense. Most of such reporting can be done from a studio at less cost and with less stress on the reporters. I suspect the reporters are in line with this view so why don't we get it stopped. Email your local TV station and tell them this is a nonsense. Get others to do the same and we might put an end to this crazy practice.

Incentives

In times of economic difficulty we are all urged to pull harder to get us through it. It seems we are slow to take this on and we must have incentives.
If we are poor, the great majority, this is best achieved by reducing wages, cutting benefits and raising unemployment. That will urge us to greater effort.
If we are rich, the tiny minority, incentives mean higher salaries, dividends, bonuses etc for only if we get paid (lots) more will we contribute more. One law for the rich and another for the poor. What about democracy - government of, by and for the people - well at least the majority? Democracy sadly went the way of the Dodo. It is extinct. We now have plutocracy, government of the people, by the rich and for the rich. It does not need to be so. We are the majority and we can have our needs addressed.
This insight is not new or original but it is true and I thought I would share it with you. You know what to do to fix this.

Would you join?

Groucho Marx once famously said something to the effect that he would never join a club that would admit the likes of him. This rings true when we consider political parties. I would advise against joining any political party that let its current membership in. Political parties are tiny organisations which have got a stranglehold on government.  But who would join a political party? No-one who had real contribution to make. To steal a phrase - those who can do and those who can't go into politics.  Which leaves us in the mess we are in. What we need in government are people  with a reaL contribution to make based on an examination of the issues. Party politicians start any issue with their party's view which inclines to know the answer from the outset.
Let us ditch political parties. Write your CV get online start emailing, stand, get elected and do the thing properly. The vast majority of us do not belong to a political party - let us consign them to history.