A legacy ...

7 July

No blog yesterday, I just don’t feel up to doing much at all and it wasn’t until past dinner time before I began to have any energy at all. Lying in bed last night, my head was spinning badly again and we both thought I had labyrinthitis coming back on. It’s not nice folks, it really isn’t and can come on at any time and can be awkward when it does. Anyway, it’s gone this morning thankfully.

I’ve had another invite to take part in clinical trials this morning. This one is to find a vaccine against C-Diff, a gastro- intestinal infect that can lead to death. The leaflet included in the invite ask three questions; are you over 50; have you or are you expecting to be an inpatient of 72 hours; and finally, have been on antibiotics in the past year. Answer yes to any of them and you are at risk from C-Diff. I’ve answered yes to all three of them. That now has me a tad worried about the up-coming operation of course, but not enough to call it off of course. I shall be looking for more info on the trial though.

Some time ago, I made a comment about Tony Blaire along the lines of, ‘love him or hate him, he was good for Britain.’ The more of learn of what happened while he was in power, the more I’ve come to realise that I was wrong in the assessment. I am right however, in that him and Brown were able to reverse so many of the tory cock-ups. Where I was wrong is in the 2^nd Gulf War and in Afghanistan.

How many people have died because of his actions? I don’t know and I doubt we ever know for certain. That is a question that the Chillcot Inquiry doesn’t go into, but it does lay the fault firmly at Blaire’s’ feet simply because he didn’t question the validity of the intelligence report he relied on to send in our troops. That has to bring a brighter light on the death of the man, one of his advisors, in a field after his advice was ignored or questioned. That death needs to be reinvestigated in the light of Chillcot.

The second major problem that has come back to haunt us is the devolved parliaments. Scotland has already had one referendum on independence and is now threatening another one after the clear BREXIT vote. Even in Wales there have been calls for an independence vote. Every Prime Muppet wants to leave a legacy behind when he leaves the job. In Blaire’s case it will be two pointless wars and the break-up of the United Kingdom.

Did you happen to catch the off-guarded comments by Kenneth Clarke about Teresa May and Mad Maggie? He said that May can be a difficult woman, but there again he and the person he was speaking to, had worked for Mad Maggie. The implication there is that even at the time, Maggie wasn’t so pleasant a woman as she like to portray. But you know what; I have a feeling that for anyone to get to top of the pile and become Prime Muppet, they can’t be too concerned about how they are seen by their supporters as long as they did as they were told. And that attitude crosses all colours of the political world.

It seems to me that this sort of attitude doesn’t mean the People of the country concerned do not get the best from their government. How can they when the elected members have to tread very carefully over the already broken egg shells of damaged egos?  And people wonder why I don’t like politians and politics!

Today’s photo …

Climb to the top.

Today’s funny … an oldie but goody …

A couple of hikers were tramping through the countryside and had lost their way, so by the time they arrived at the "George and Dragon", the village pub where they'd arranged to stay the night, the doors were locked and the owners had gone to bed. They knocked timidly on the front door.
A head appeared at an upstairs window and shouted, 'Go away. Don't you know what time it is? We're closed,' and the the window slammed shut.
Undeterred, the hikers knocked again. 'What is it now?' demanded the head.
'Could we speak to George this time please?' asked on the the hikers.