Curious, Spurious, Furious!

My wife has left me a note this morning before she went to work. This is a common thing with her. If she is working and I have a day off, I usually have a list of jobs given to me to do. I think that after over thirty years of marriage she would have realised by now that I usually ignore such requests unless they really are of the utmost importance!

This morning I received a shopping list. This list was not for important provisions to see us through the next few days, but for facial creams! I hasten to add that the creams are not for me, as a full hijab is the only way to improve my looks! The new wonder cream she has asked me to buy has been recommended by 87% of the women that tried it (survey of 56 women?) Now, I have to own up and say that maths was never my strong point but surely a survey should be taken with as many participants as possible? Or (now I'm not claiming this to be true, but) could they have surveyed thousands of women who they no doubt told of the miracle qualities of they cream? Then when the results came back as only 9% liked it, could they have reduced the figures to the demographic that showed most interest? Thus giving the 87% reading. Surely they wouldn't be so unscrupulous. I bet even the women that didn't like it in the tests buy it now, thinking it new and improved. Ask any credible dermatologist and they will tell you that the cheapest creams are just as good as the most expensive, the tried and tested Vaseline (other brands available) is as good as any and has many other uses which we won't go into just now! My wife pays £6.99 for this cream. Her friend bought the exact same cream from a shop for £192! Any credible dermatologist will tell you that NO creams will make you look younger!

Humans love spurious claims. They always have. If you can't explain it, then give it a supernatural reason, that will do! But now we seem to have adopted this ideology for our politics. Look at the recent referendum. Both sides made spurious claims about what will happen if we leave the EU. None of them could be backed up, because no one has ever left the EU before. Although it is safe to say that remaining in the EU will result in a movement that will become so big it will be impossible for it to be effective, The more economically powerful countries will prosper and the weaker countries will become even weaker, which has already started to happen. The spurious claims that were made at the time were easy enough to check out, but people didn't want to, they wanted to believe them to back their gut reactions. This is not a good way of living, people!

Now we have people who bang on about democracy and the rights of the people who didn't want to leave the EU. Well as far as I understand it, democracy means that people have a right and a voice to vote for what they believe, they then abide by the decision of the majority vote. So saying we should have more referendums until they get the result they want is just so stupid. This seems to be the problem with the Labour party at the moment. Corbyn has been elected as the leader by the overwhelming majority of the party. Because the Blairites who still infect the party don't like this they have done their utmost to bring him down. He is doing the right thing to stay until the electorate says go!

My problem with him is he is like so many men I knew when I was a teenager, they say the right things, attend the rallies, back all minorities and do bugger all! Give us the beef Jeremy, what are Labour going to do if the right wing press ever give you enough coverage to get into power? What are your policies for the economy and for the improvement of the communities that have been long forgotten in this country? What are your plans to increase trade not only in Europe but around the world? How are you going to give people meaningful employment with proper contracts? I'm not interested in who did what to who years ago I want to know who's going to do what many years from now!

Talking of spurious claims over in the land of Trump-ton we have the same problem. America has fallen for the rhetoric of Donald J Trump, Homer Simpson's less educated brother! Trump has spouted some very worrying bile over his campaign if you could call it that. He claims he will make America great again? Great as in when? During the time they, like us here in Britain, had slaves? Or when it was so great during the time of the great depression of the 'Thirties when people lost their land, livelihoods, and eventually their lives! What about when they were at their most prosperous in the fifties, when they still had apartheid. Or the civil unrest of the sixties, depression of the seventies.

Or is he talking about, as I suspect, the eighties when the rich, such as his family, became more obscenely rich and created a massive chasm between the rich and the poor! Is that his idea of being great? He claims that they are to build a wall between America and Mexico and make Mexico pay for it. He said they don't want the Mexicans coming to America, then listed a series of traits which usually only apply to bankers. He doesn't want undesirables in America. He only wants good honest Nazis that the Americans gave asylum to after the war to work on their space program. He only wants to welcome the Saudi royal family to visit America, even though their human rights are just as appalling as any other middle eastern dictatorship! Again lots of spurious claims with nothing to back them up! He hasn't said anything about how he is going to change things for ordinary Americans. But like all voters the world over, the people are fed up with the system the way it is!

We also have the terrible murders in France and Germany this week. We don't really know as yet whether they were terrorist-linked but it makes no difference as the cavemen will claim they were their soldiers that carried out the murders of innocent people. Again we have people believing spurious claims. ALL RELIGIONS are based on spurious claims. If you don't agree then prove me wrong, show me your evidence? I don't want to see your religious books, as this will only force me to become childish and show you a copy of the Lord Of The Rings to prove the existence of Hobbits! 

Show me ANY evidence of a God especially a personal God that listens and acts upon your prayers. I don't want random anecdotal evidence about the time your auntie prayed that your uncle's cancer would go away and it did. I can prove to you that millions of people have prayed for their small children's cancers would go away and were ignored. These spurious claims made by people who give themselves grandiose titles such as his holiness (just what does that mean?) only profit from your devotion. It has been this way for thousands of years. They, like the politicians now, use our lack of understanding and fear against us!

In the past disaffected youths turned to drink and drugs, and they marched and tried to change the system. Now they seem to be turning to the cavemen and their spurious claims. They no longer turn to drink and drugs, they turn to guns and take away innocent lives. They take the lives of people just like them, people who can't make any sense of what is happening in the world, but unlike them they want to make a peaceful world for us all to live in!

Finally I'm curious to know why the banker caught boarding a plane in America this week after being part of a two BILLION pound scam to bring down the pound has not had much news coverage. We all knew the vultures would move in on the markets and the currency when the result of the referendum was announced but these guys bought up as much as possible trying to make the pound worthless (they can safely leave that to the government). They intended then, later, to sell it, when of course as we all know things will settle down and when deals are made the pound will rise and the low life bankers win again! Why has his family not been asked to apologise for his behaviour as this seems to be what increasingly happens to ordinary people when a member of their family does something appalling like claiming extra benefits! I don't condone anyone claiming extra benefits by the way, but as we have a knee jerk reaction to ban things which tend to only affect the innocent this also goes for benefit fraud. A few do it so the majority suffer!

People are quick to hold all Muslims accountable for the behaviour of a few. Why don't we hold all bankers accountable for this greedy bastard's behaviour? Why are we not trying him for treason? I have heard how we are going to try young Muslims that were unfortunate enough to believe the spurious claims of the cavemen and go to Syria to fight for treason. Well this man tried to bring down the whole country so he could make money - surely that's treasonous? To make your country a less secure place to live because of your actions is surely the same as selling off government secrets. Though now all you have to do is sit on a London bus and a civil servant will have no doubt left a dossier on a seat there for you to pick up!

The world is a changing place, of that there is no doubt. Whether this change is for the better only history will tell. For me here in my secure little bubble, politics has become exciting again, we have a true left wing opposition and the ghost of Thatcher has reappeared in number ten! We have become too dependant on banks: they dominate our lives. The use of cash is becoming less each day as the banks put a strangle hold on our way of life. The world will change, of that there is no denying, but lets hope it's for the better.

Now I must go and bow to the spurious claims of the marketing department of a cosmetic company and buy some facial cream at an over-inflated price, but if it makes my wife feel happier about her appearance then who am I to complain. The truth is that she already looks much younger than her years without the use of the cream.