Making the news today....

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

18 hours ago, AHPP said:

Yep. That’s civil servants for you.

Seems about right given current headlines viz a viz Sir Philip Barton who just about personifies all that is rotten in the civil service. 

 

[sime42]

Defra may approve ‘devastating’ bee-killing pesticide, campaigners fear | Bees | The Guardian

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Department sources say emergency authorisation of neonicotinoid Cruiser SB likely to be announced  

That's great, just what we need. Good job that the insect population isn't already in a massive decline, and that we're not in the midst of an obesity epidemic.

"In 2017, Michael Gove, the then environment secretary, welcomed the EU ban, and promised that “unless the scientific evidence changes, the government will maintain these increased restrictions post-Brexit”". It would be good to see the "scientific evidence" that thiamethoxam is now NOT lethal to bees and other insects.

The dark truth about sugar beet - Feedback

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We all know sugar is bad for our health. But were you aware just how bad it is for our soil? Today, Feedback publishes a report uncovering the hidden damage growing sugar beet is doing to our soil. In the UK we use over 100,000 hectares of prime agriculture land to grow a product we […]

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 hours ago, Macpherson said:

 

This popped up immediately on YouTube blatantly quickly after my post 🙄 What a powerful intellect..

 

 

I remember something very similar you posted maybe a year or more ago. I’m (almost) sure it was the same speaker and similar subject but in a different format. 
 

Strangely, I find myself quite keen on listening to RB. 

[Mark J]

[Macpherson]

6 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I remember something very similar you posted maybe a year or more ago. I’m (almost) sure it was the same speaker and similar subject but in a different format. 
 

Strangely, I find myself quite keen on listening to RB. 

Yep, she's right out there talking sense but unfortunately I doubt that many folk are able to join up the dots, I find it really depressing that almost immediately after we leave the EU things start to change in the direction of the even more corrupt US agenda and this pesticide issue is merely one example..

The biggest and most noticeable to us may well prove to be healthcare but it's all the other little things that are being done silently that are slowly but relentlessly unpicking the very fabric of all that we hold dear,,, imo

 

 RB interviews many folk who deserve to be heard and although I wasn't a big fan of his previous career I respect his sharp mind and willingness to comment on just what's wrong.. 

Also on another website that he provides links to he and his guests speak freely without the current censorship issues.👍

[trigger_andy]

3 minutes ago, Macpherson said:

The biggest and most noticeable to us may well prove to be healthcare but it's all the other little things that are being done silently that are slowly but relentlessly unpicking the very fabric of all that we hold dear,,, imo

I dont really have an issue with that if correctly regulated. What we have now is a top heavy, not fit for propose bludgeoning behemoth that demands more and more money be thrown at it each year with diminishing returns. Something drastic needs to be implemented and as long as its int he governments, or the NHS hands its simply not gonna happen. 

 

But yeh, lets blame Brexit. 🙄

[Macpherson]

3 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

I dont really have an issue with that if correctly regulated. What we have now is a top heavy, not fit for propose bludgeoning behemoth that demands more and more money be thrown at it each year with diminishing returns. Something drastic needs to be implemented and as long as its int he governments, or the NHS hands its simply not gonna happen. 

 

But yeh, lets blame Brexit. 🙄

Ok, I kind of meant that now that we don't have to obey any EU rules there is much scope for a lot of bad shit to happen, I personally would be very sceptical of any ' correct regulation ' being carried out in favour of big money.. and also from reading your posts I have to say that we're very much on the same page ... mostly🤪

 

As far as the NHS goes I found this doctor's statement revealing although I can't prove any of it,  but it reveals a long term plan and I think when change slips along over generations it mostly goes unnoticed except by those who've lived long enough to see it happening... now if I saw anything happening for the better I be fully in favour. 

 

 

[Mark J]

27 minutes ago, Macpherson said:

Yep, she's right out there talking sense but unfortunately I doubt that many folk are able to join up the dots, I find it really depressing that almost immediately after we leave the EU things start to change in the direction of the even more corrupt US agenda and this pesticide issue is merely one example..

The biggest and most noticeable to us may well prove to be healthcare but it's all the other little things that are being done silently that are slowly but relentlessly unpicking the very fabric of all that we hold dear,,, imo

 

 RB interviews many folk who deserve to be heard and although I wasn't a big fan of his previous career I respect his sharp mind and willingness to comment on just what's wrong.. 

Also on another website that he provides links to he and his guests speak freely without the current censorship issues.👍

Private healthcare has become the norm, It shouldn't be that way but it's how it has been allowed to happen.  I would pay money for surgery to avoid waiting lists but that shouldn't have to be the case. 

You don't know what you've got till it's gone
 

[Mark J]

Punk Food Bandita:

“It was just a party”
This is a fairly typical comment on social media that I’m seeing about the Christmas Party that didn’t take place in number ten last year. A party that didn’t take place so hard, that ministers even made a video practising saying that they didn’t have the party, just in case someone asked if they had a party, and still managed to balls that up. 
There was cheese and wine, said Allegra Stratton. So clearly it couldn’t have taken place last year, but obviously some time during the 1970’s.
And so what if they did, eh? Why shouldn’t they have a party, bleats anyone who still actually thinks the government gives the slightest **************** about them and doesn’t care if they are left dead in an open sewer they pay rent for, as long as that Jeremy Corbyn didn’t get in.
It boggles my mind why people are wondering why we might be pissed off. Those very people had put London in tier 3 just a couple of days before.
It’s not just about the risks of transmission and all the people who died or spent Christmas alone, that people are angry about. The Tories gave police powers to fine and arrest people for doing this very thing. They told us to grass our neighbours up.
Just a few months before their little soirée, victims of domestic abuse stayed in violent homes with their kids because they thought they weren’t allowed to leave, as it was literally weeks before the government thought to announce publicly that they could do so without being arrested.
I know vulnerable young people that were dragged to the floor for daring to be outside alone under these laws, despite the fact that there were never any actual curfews in place. 
The ink on their legislation will only stain our skin, as every rave kiddie who ever got battered by the police for dancing in a field post 94’ when the CJB revisions came into play will remember.
Why did the copper who was literally stood outside during the party that definitely didn’t happen do absolutely nothing? Why weren’t the participants charged under their own Covid laws? Or the part V of the Criminal Justice Act just for a laugh, for what are the dreary Tory soundbites we are constantly subjected to if not An Emission Of Repetitive Beats?
Of course we know the answer to that. The rules just aren’t supposed to apply to them. I don’t just mean Conservatives, all the parties have the same vast reserves of entitlement. 
Of course they are going to be surprised about us booting off about it though. We’ve let them get away with it for centuries, and it absolutely isn’t the worst thing they’ve ever done to us. Not by far. They’ve used austerity measures like a knife across the throats of the disabled for years. They decimate our youth, domestic abuse and mental health services then expect gratitude when they give a penny back out of the millions they took. They expect to keep their jobs after countless allegations of bullying and sexual harassment.
They are literally laughing at us, and now it seems, even film themselves doing it.
What more will it take before we say enough?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

3 hours ago, Mark J said: