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13 September

That item I forgot yesterday came to me later, list was the UN investigation into whether the changes to disability benefits is against the claimants human rights. I don’t have a lot of time for either the UN or human rights as such. The UN is pretty much no more than a talking shop, while human rights only seem to be used by lawyers who want to get their clients off with light sentences after crimes they have commented. It will be interesting to see how they come down on this one and then whether the UK government will take any notice of it. There will be a lot of people hoping that PIP will be shredded and DLA will come back; I have feeling their hope is hopeless.

So now we know who will lead the Labour party for the foreseeable future. There will be a lot of soul search and blame throwing on in various places over the next few days at party HQ. But for me Corbyn was the only one worth looking at. The other three lacked any sort of presence or personality.

As for Corbyn’s policies, well, we will have to wait and see, but one I do agree with is taking the railways back under public ownership. If you have been watching The Busiest Railway in the World on the BEEB, you will have learned that in India the railway is run at 95-98% on time, a target our railways can only dream about. And as much as I dislike the French, their railway runs a lot better than ours does.

I’m not concerned about the energy providers though, the one for me is the water companies. There is no way that private companies should be making so much money of life’s one essential resource. It was privatised in the first place by political dogma, not by need. It’s time to bring back into public ownership.           

Corbyn talks of not replacing Trident; I can live with that idea. The money saved can be used elsewhere within the national spending budget. The Tories will claim that contractual commitments will cost millions, but that didn’t stop them from scrapping the replacement to the Nimrod. Or are they expecting us to forget that little mountain of wasted tax payer’s money. Not sure where he stands on HS2 but I doubt we can afford it right now, if we ever could, and yes, I know, it was a Labour idea to start with.

Whatever, for now we will have to live with things as they are at least until 2020, until Daft Dave really cocks things up; we can but hope I suppose. Mind you, I am looking forward to the referendum on the EU when it comes, the only worthwhile thing he will have done in ten years in my view.

Today’s photo … 

Another dinosaur at WMSP

Today’s funny …

According to hospital regulations, patients are required to be escorted out in a wheelchair when being discharged. A student nurse was having some trouble with an elderly gentleman who insisted that he did not need a wheelchair. After some discussion about rules being rules, he reluctantly agreed. As she was wheeling him out, the student nurse asked the man if his wife was going to pick him up.

"I don't know," he replied. "She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown."