Voting, wars and the BB partnership

28 November

We will soon be heading for the voting booths again, and I am still in the same quandary I was in at the time of the last General Election. You see, I’ve been a Labour supporter all my life, just as my dad was. He left the Royal Marines in 1948 and went to work in the local pits. At one time he was one of the union reps there. When he was made medically redundant he began work at an engineering works in Coventry and yet again he became a union rep. The thought of voting anything else but Labour was a big NO NO for him.

I’ve said on here and on FB that Tony Blair was good for the UK. Now I’m not so sure. The current problems with devolution can be laid at his door, and so will the break-up of the UK when that eventually happens. The second Gulf War was a real mistake. At the time I was behind him on that but it certainly looks like that war gave false hope to other countries run by dictators, the so-called Arab Spring. Now there’s trouble in all the countries where that has happened. It has also caused the rise of groups like ISIS simply because of the lack of strong and unified leadership.

Moving on to Afghanistan we see the same yet again. Even the loss of 450+ UK forces there haven’t really brought the change that was needed at that time. It seems likely that the Taliban will walk straight back in once the NATO troops have finally left. But what of Yemen, another hot bed of terrorist groups? Nothing has been attempted there; I wonder why? Maybe because the UK got a bloody nose last time they deployed in that area. Perhaps the BB partnership was had thought about it but wiser head prevailed at that point.

And while all this was going Israel was pounding Palestine, and t’ther way about. Hamas, the main political group there have openly declared that they are fighting for the destruction of Israel as their being there main aim. The BB partnership did nothing, or at least very little with that one. Blair hasn’t done much since he left office either.

Local things are not that different really. The public consultation on the so-called Town Plan has been put back yet again, and there are so many other problems with the current Labour run council I couldn’t possible remember them all. But it’s the same with the Tory run county council too. And so I eventually come to where I stand in all this.

Labour has no chance of winning while Milliband is running it. If some miracle did happen, the break-up of the UK will still happen. Cameron will just go on as he is and we will all get poorer while his mates in business will get richer. As for Clegg, gives us a break folks! In reality though, there are no real contenders within the minor parties is there. Farage is certainly making waves at the moment but there is doubt that will continue next year. Whoever gets in, the UK will still break apart, and that is down to Blair!

At least I have a few months to decide.

Today’s photo then … 

A pub sign in Coventry which has a fake coat of arms but which sums up the BB partnership.

Today’s funny …

There were no two ways about it. Rosie was fat. Very fat. “Martha”, said Rosie to her best friend, “it was terrible what happened yesterday after the birthday party. You know how half of the birthday cake was left over? Well, I knew Bob would be fuming at me for eating it,with my diet and all, but I couldn’t help myself, it started with just a small nibble and before I knew it the whole cake was gone!.” “Oh my!” clucked Martha, “was Bob really upset?” “He never found it”, responded Rosie with a full double chin smile, “I just baked another cake and ate half of it!”