We
still have a situation in Europe where we have a massive influx of
middle eastern refugees/migrants. They make a perilous journey
across the Mediterranean crammed into boats that are unfit for
purpose, where lots of people perish along the way. These people are
being trafficked by unscrupulous people traffickers. Why is this
allowed to happen? I don't believe for one moment that the relevant
authorities don't know who these people are! If the people who are
fleeing find it easy to contact these people, then surely the
authorities can find them?
People
don't uproot from their lives and flee with little or no money and nowhere to go to without good cause. You do not make the decision to
take your family away on a dangerous journey with an uncertain
outcome unless you are terrified. Why is this situation allowed to
carry on?
Everyone
who knows anything about world politics knows that the middle east
has always been unstable. So why are governments from all over the
world trying to make it even more unstable?
OIL!
The
middle east is where the next world war will start. It already has
signs of this now, with the mess that Syria is in. We have the old
east meets west philosophy banging heads together again. We already
have Putin, who makes Hannibal Lecter look like a chorus boy. Now we
have the chance of another lunatic getting into power and making
things far worse: ladies and gentlemen, I give you the hairstyle that
no one wants, Donald Trump! These two will be like two playground
bullies fighting over the little fat kids' lunch money! They will, I'm
sure, push the situation to a point of no return between them.
After
the horrible shootings in America we now have one of our politicians
here in Britain being murdered in cold blood. Jo Cox was an MP
(Member of Parliament) for Batley and was murdered in Birstall. These small northern
towns are not far from where I live. I have even written a blog about
the splendours of Batley before. I have been told that I have met Jo
in the past, but I'm so disillusioned about politics now that I pay
little attention when I meet politicians, so I don't remember her
unfortunately.
Jo was
giving a talk about battling the practice of sending young girls from
the Asian community over to Pakistan to marry some old guy! I find
this appalling practice unbelievable, yet another case of abuse
masquerading as tradition or culture. It's your job as a parent to
ensure your child is safe, loved and educated, they are not part of
someone's passport application! I have since found out that she was a
tireless campaigner for many causes and was what a true politician
should be, a person that fought for the rights of the people they
serve. She will be missed.
Many
people have been saying that if the gunman had been Asian, people
would be claiming that it was terrorism. It is terrorism! It doesn't
matter what your background is, if you use violence to force your will
and views onto others then it's terrorism. Doesn't matter if it's one
lone lunatic or a collective of lunatics. The outpouring of genuine
love from her constituents, though, has given an old cynic like me a
little hope for our political future.
Having
faith in our political future is very difficult at the moment as we
have the referendum on whether to stay or leave the EU. There have
been lots of claims and counter claims from each side. If you want to
leave you have been painted as a ignorant racist, so lots of people
have become closet Brexiteers. The truth is no one really knows what
will happen if we stay or if we leave, that is the only true fact we
have! Though we do have lot's of 'experts' telling us everything from
we will have a bright utopia if we leave to we will have a bright
utopia if we stay. We have had warnings of everything from war
breaking out to being over run by migrants in-between. While I'm on
the subject who told the loathsome politicians on the Brexit side
that they are in charge? I don't remember voting for them to represent
me! I watched Johnson in a debate the other evening, and the man's a
moron! Another thing is how can they make promises about what will
happen if we leave? They are not an elected government! I do worry
about who will do our negotiating for us if we do decide to leave, and I
shudder to think that Johnson and co will be our representatives!
On a
lighter note a young man this week told me that he would love to live
in Moldova. I asked him why, as it is my understanding that this
country is part of the former Soviet bloc and has lots of social and
economic difficulties. The young man burst out laughing, saying that I
'didn't know anything'. This may well be true, so I asked him why he
had formed this opinion of me, “Moldova, doesn't exist!” he
laughed. This
statement, I'm sure, will come as a shock to the people of this eastern
European state which borders Ukraine and I think Romania (I should
check that out). They have been going about their business for years,
not knowing that they don't exist.
I asked
this young man why he thought there was no such place as Moldova and
he replied, “Coz it's in The Lord Of The Rings!” then laughed
some more. I have to admit that, though I have read the Tolkien books
many years ago, I don't remember him mentioning Moldova in them. It
was then when I worked out just what he was talking about, because of
his Goth appearance. He was trying to be radical by saying he would
like to live in a scary place (he should move to Batley!).
“Do
you mean that you would like to live in Mordor?” I asked.
“Where
the fuck is that?”
“It's
nearer to The Lord Of The Rings than Moldova for a start.
“I
don't know what you're on about?”
I can't
believe that these people can be so stupid. This lad was on the
internet on his phone all the time, all he had to do was type in both
these names and his education would improve a little. Instead he said
it with a straight face, as he stood in front of me, with thick eye makeup; his lips had red lipstick on them, and he had dyed his hair jet black.
He wore a long leather coat with chains hanging from it and on his
feet he had what can only be described as Frankenstein boots!
“What
are you some sort of wierdo?” With that he walked off
It's a mad,
bad, sad world at times!
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