Sunday, May 1, 2016

Since I last wrote anything the world has bone completely mad. AL Qaeda has morphed into ISIS or ISIL, thousands of refugees stream into Europe every day and are herded into cold damp miserable camps, a referendum to leave the EU is actually taking place, a completely bombastic self satisfied, smug, bigoted nutter is the front runner for RepublicAn presidential candidate and the traffic in London is mad. There are no visible police on our streets and unless there is a camera visible the rules of the road, and the law, have gone walkabout. We have witch hunts about rich tax avoiders in the media and Parliament and I have had to listen to more uninformed claptrap about tax in the last three months than I have had to for many many years. Ad hominem attacks have replaced informed debate. The Leave campaigns have produced no coherent arguments in favour of leaving The EU but no-ne seems especially concerned about that. ir reminds me of the campaign for Scottish Independence. Use the pound as currency following independence? HM Treasury says no. SNP says they're wrong we can use it. REjoin EU at once? EU leaders say no, you will have to reapply in usual way which could take 12 years, SNP says you are wrong we can rejoin at once. And so on and so on... Like I say the world has gone completely mad.

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