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Back to domestic politics - European Convention on Human Rights (EHCR) - (02-April-2025)
The EHCR was enshrined into UK Law in 1998, so having left the EU, we can still use this law, however, so can illegal immigrants and foriegn nationals. If they commit a crime, they can then use this law to prevent them from being deported, as this would breach their human rights, so come over here illegally, commit a crime and they can't send you back. Sounds like a brilliant scam to me. we should get lots more illegal immigrants over here now.
A Little Bit of calm (31-03-2025)
Well, surprisingly, the Harry charity debacle (we all know which one) has knocked Trump and his antics off of the top of the news for the weekend. Not that I actually did much reading of listening to news this weekend. It was Mother's Day, so that took over a bit, but just like a cockroach, trump came back. Not sure what he is doing, which I am sure puts me into the majority as I think most people don't really know what he is doing or going to do next. A few weeks ago he was berating Volodymyr in the Oval Office, now he is berating Putin for questioning Zelensky's credibility. He said "You could say that I was very angry, pissed off, when Putin said yesterday that - you know, when Putin started getting into Zelensky's credibility, because that's not going in the right location, you understand?
Not that I like anything trump is doing (or trump himself for that matter), but it is good that, for once, he is showing a bit of support for the Ukrainian POresident and not just buddying-up to Putin.
Of course, we have to mention that he (trump, of course) is now saying he wants to serve for another term. How that is going to work, is anyone's guess. He first has to change the 22nd ammendment, which state, 'No person can be elected to the office of President more than twice, and those who served more than two years of another president's term can only be elected once. He has to get it proposed by two thirds of the House or Senate and then it has to be approved by three quarters of the states, so 38 out of the 50. They're not yet 51. And on that point (smooth transition - Ed!) he is insisting he is going to annex Greenland, so that's going to cause big problems for us and the EU, as we would naturally support Greenland. It looks to me like the 'Special' relationship we have with the USA may be in jeopardy, as it is fraying round the edges.
If he does eventually manage to take over Greenland, that will open the flood-gates for others. China has always had its eyes on Taiwan and Putin definitely wants more. It is likely Putin will go after the Baltic States next, so Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania.
It looks like we are going to eventually have a world ruled by the three big powers and all three will be dictatorships, so they may eventually just carve up the world between them.
Have a read of this from Sky news' security and defence analyst Michael Clarke. Should Europe be worried.
Racism (28-March-2025)
Now just to say first. I don't think thhe term Racist is correct, as we are all one race, the human race, so it should really be called something like 'Nationalist', but hey-ho. Just my opinion. The problem with any dicrimination is that it is born out of differences - what people look like, sound like, believe in, etc. It seems that the human is predisposed to collecting together in groups with some commonality and then tend to not like the people who are or think differently. We all know that cultural differences make it sometimes difficult to get on with and properly understand others and then add to that language barriers and the difficulty becomes so great that people just resort to their base instincts and we have discriminatory attitudes, which is the case of peoples from different countries or parts or the world becomes what we refer to as racist. Some men think women should be treated as chattels and have restricted rights. This has mainly gone from the westernised world, however, it persists throughout the countries dominated by Islam. This is one of the differences in beliefs that separates and causes hatred on both sides, so now we have a difference in beliefs. Beliefs are normally based round religion and religious teachings. These are often things that have been interpretted differently by different groups and so causes what we term religious intolerance, bigotry or sectarianism.
So, to the point of this post - This morning I read about Pete Hegseth's tattoo. This is quite obviously his attempt at showing his different feeling and hatred toward people who do not believe in the same deity as himself. This promotes an intense feeling of hatred toward him by people who believe in Allah and follow the Islamic faith. Now, I don't really understand the Islamic faith, but I know enough to know that it is not something I would believe, but if others want to believe then who really does it affect. I know you will be shouting - "It affects the rights of women for a start". Well, yes it does, but is that something we should interfere with. In the Christian religion, in all its guises, we have been the same. Only in recent times did the catholic church allow women to be priests, but we have gradually evolved a more tolerent society. We cannot make the evolution of other beliefs suddenly change. We have to wait for the natural evolution to stear this religion in a more tolerent direction. Hating people who are Muslim is not the way to do this. Showing that hated in such crass things as an offensive tattoo is also not the way to do it. Mr. Hegseth should be ashamed of himself. At the very least he should be removed from this high office, but when the whole of the leaders of the United States are of the same mind, it is time to start worrying. They seem to hate all foreigners and are actively removing many of them from the country. They still repress and dicriminate against black and hispanic people. It seems that the USA in general is still very intollerent of anybody not in their narrowly define 'group'.
We have a president surrounding himself with only people who support his views, sycophants. He has delusions of grandeur and thinks of himself as the rightful and only person who should lead this country. and has designs on other parts of the world as well. Together with Russia and China's despotic leaders, it seems we are entering a new world phase where dictators are going to call the shots. I for one am very glad to be a part of Europe, where, it seems, we still have a desire for tolerance of all people's views, thoughts and beliefs, but against these other very large and powerful countries, will this ideal survive.
Holidays (27-March-2025)
So as the Canadian are now mostly choosing to NOT holiday in or visit the soon-to-be-not-very-United States, I will also be doing the same. In fact, we are planning to visit Canada next year for a 3-week break.
I love the fact that the Canadians are boycotting American goods and services as well.
This is my rant on the crap that is going on in America right now (18-March-2025)
Before I start, I will just say that I will not give trump any respect and his name will always be written in lower case
For a start, the conflict between the Palastinian Liberation Army (PLA), now known as Hamas and Israel. Israel is trying to destroy Hamas, but like our own conflict with the IRA, what you actually need to do is to bring them into negotiations and allow them a legitimate voice in the running of Gaza. They may be classed as terrorists, as were the IRA, but they are fighting for the freedoms of the Gaza people, many of whom have been summarily executed by the indiscriminate BOMBING of the Gaza civilian areas. Israel says this is because they are hiding among them, but so were the IRA, but we did not bomb Northern Ireland to nothing, as they have done.
They have been imprisoning the peoples there for years. Restricting their movements; controlling their supplies, food, medication, etc. What Irael needs to do is to stop commiting GENOCIDE and let the people of Gaza live in freedom and peace. Allow the Hamas rulers to govern the place and to allow elections of a government for the Gaza Strip. Also the world needs to accept that the Iraeli's are actually warmongers and genocidal killers and stop supporting them. Support the Palastinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
It seems to me that the United States and the UK are supporting this genocide and not caring about the civilians in the Gaza Strip, and now that Fucking trump is involved, it can only get worse.
So, onto the trump situation in America. It seems to me that everyone is too afraid to stand up to this TYRANICAL DICTATOR. He is taking over the USA, gradually stripping it of the necessary legal framework to allow him to become the autocrat he desires to be. He has got rid of people in the military who oppose him or are likely to. He is allowing DOGE to remove thousands of people needed for running the necessary processes for a country of this size and complexity. He has surrounded himself with sycophants (Musk & Vance being the primary ones). He is openly supporting and endorsing the fascist parties in other countrties and also trying to dictate to countries what they should be doing. Voicing support for Germany's AfD and the UK's 'Reform' party. Musk saluting in the Nazi style, but trump says nothing. In fact no-one in power in the USA has denounced this action at all. Critisising the UK, saying Britian is lazy, saying we are 'Some random country who has not fought a war in 20-30 years. What relevance is that and why is that a bad thing.
He has taken away support for Ukraine. He is negotiating a deal with his 'Best' friend, Putin for the sharing out of the minerals and power plants in Ukraine. In fact he is only EVER looking at the business he can do and the money he can make. Whether it is for himself or the country, it is still not appropriate. He should be concentrating on whether or not the deal is best for Ukraine and not himself or Putin.
Wars (26-March-2025)
So, there are about 110 wars currently going on round the world. It seems the safest place to be, if you don't want to live in trump's America, is South America, as there only 6 conflicts (wars) currently going on there. There are something like 80 in the continent of Africa and Syria & Yemen. Bloody civil rebelion in Turkey against Ergodan the dictator. It seems that the world is changing and the largest powers ruling the world are autocracies, especially with trump joining in. Hopefully the EU, Canada and the UK can combat this and instill a little calm and democracy to counter this terrible threat.
Iran supporting houthis rebels in Yemen and Hamas. Putin attacking Ukraine. America now threatening to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal. The whole world has gone to pot. Might be time to find a quiet corner in this world to ride out the world war trump is leading us into with his stirring of the pot in so many areas.
So the people we need to remove from this world. If you can think of any other despotic world leaders to add to this list, please let me know;
al-Assad, the dictator - Vance, trump's sycophant - Hitler wanna-be - Tusk twat - Erdogan, dictator of Turkey - Netanyahu, genocidal war criminal - Trump. Racist, Sexist narcisistic twat.
So, Support Hamas' to get them into power. (20-March-2025) Support the stopping of the genocide of civilians by Israel. Rise up in America and overthrow the trump administration. Force another election. Impeach trump. Get the people of America and the wider world to work towards stopping trump and returning America to a proper democratic, lawful peace. trump is a fucking idiot. An imbecile. At 79, he is still acting like a child. He is petulant, uncontrollably impetuous. Plain nasty. He is a twat and needs to be stopped.
I for one, will not be buying anything American, nor visiting the USA until after trump is gone from power and I will likely wait until he is dead, which considering his age will not be long, hopefully.
So now (20-03-25) Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary has insulted a French politician and called him "[a] low-level French politician". She then goes on to remind him [and the French generally] that "...it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now". The United Kingdom and the Allied forces of Europe were fighting the war for 3 years before the USA got involved. The War was won by the United Kingdom's skill, determination and expertise, linked with the fact that being an island, it was more difficult for Germany to invade. Their contributions to the war in Europe came quite late and the US only really joined in the World War when they got their arses kicked in Pearl Harbour. There seems to be a massive amount of plain old lying going on by all levels of the US trump-supporting government.
And now they are throwing people out of the country (a French scientist) because he holds a personal opinion of Fucking trump that they don't like and they have said, "[They] reflect hate toward trump and can be described as terrorism". On that basis, as I hate trump and think he is a donkey's arse and will rejoice with all my heart when he dies, they can now ban me from their fucking country. I wouldn't go there while twats like him are in power anyway.
Rant (24-March-2025)
So today trump says he doesn't like a Colorado State Capitol picture of him. He says it is distorted. I say he is distorted. Anyway, here is the picture - Displayed because trump doesn't want it displayed.
Trump picture displayed in the Colorado State Capitol.
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