4
September
The news
these days is dominated by the refugee problem in the eastern Med area. Our
prime muppet, Daft Dave has said that the UK will take in 4,000 of them
directly from Syria. This leaves me with a bit of crisis of emotions. Yes, I
was sickened at the sight of that three year old dead boy and other images of
what is going over there. And yet we have our own crisis here in the UK. Jan in
involved a food bank here in the Dorktown that is run from her church. Surely
we should be getting that sorted before bringing in more people who will need a
lot of finical support of some sort when they get here.
It’s not
just the money side of it is it? There’s already a serious housing shortage and
that can only worsen when 4,000 refugees arrive here. If a site for them has
been identified, why it’s it being offered to raising homeless people we
already have here?
The NHS
is under huge pressure to cut costs and make savings. How will the added 4,000
hit that? With this one I have a vested interest. I have an appointment at
Hussy for 16 October. Is that going to be pushed back because so many people
will need help and treatment when they arrive? Our daughter Lynda is waiting
for two serious operations and the NHS in Ulster is not all good right now.
Will her treatment get postponed because of this issue?
Oh yes,
it’s a sad situation these people are in, but the blame lies squarely on the
governments of the countries involved, not the UK or wider Europe. Or are well
so blameless? Not so long ago we helped topple Gaddafi in Libya. We went to war
in Iraq and Afghanistan and toppled two more cruel and hateful governments. So
can we sit back and do nothing? But hang on a mow … What is the USA doing about
all this? If we are partly to blame, then so are they, even more so perhaps
seeing as they supplied the larger number of troops during those two wars.
A placard
I noticed on the news earlier said, ‘Where is the UN?’ That’s a very good
question folks, where are the UN and why aren’t they doing more to help out in
this. But there again, the UN has proved pretty well useless in other areas of
the world where they did get involved. Bosnia is one such, as is Rwanda. When
it does take up an issue it gets there too late, simply because it is far too
slow to act. There are too many diplomats who demand their say and nothing can
be done until they have done so. I’m sure some of them do it just to slow the
whole thing down.
Enough of
that, lets have a photo …
A close-up of the white flower I posted earlier this
week.
Today’s
funny …
A young
teenager, listening to some music his mother was playing asked who the band
was. "The Beatles," she told him.
"Oh.
Who's in the group?"
When his
mother told him, he said with surprise, "I didn't know Paul McCartney had
a group before Wings!"
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