There are times on this blog when there is a substantial gap in postings, this can be for varying reasons. Sometimes it is because I am too bone idle to get off my fat arse and make the effort, other times because too many other things have been taking my limited time and blogging becomes a luxury I do not have a spare moment for, and others because my brain goes dead and I sit in front of a blank page and wonder what to write about that has not already been covered in the press, and by other, more capable, bloggers than myself.
These then are my excuses for being AWOL on this blog for the last week, mostly due to not being able to find the time, with a bit of ‘it’s been covered by others anyway’, thrown in.
A lot has been happening in the disintegrating world of the EU while I have been absent, Greece is going to hell in an EU handcart and its people rioting as more severe austerity measure are being approved, there has been a bit of sabre rattling between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands due to Dave sending one of our few remaining Royal Navy ship there. Sadly, if the Argies really went for it the Falkland Islanders would be really stuffed as both Labour and Tory Governments have been systematically destroying our military capability since the last conflict there.
There was also a snippet regarding a cock-up made by the last Labour Government, it seems that they have given our British rights to the Antarctic to Scotland, which is saying they will not hand them back if Scotland becomes fully independent (you have to weep). Also, some leading SUN journalists have been arrested in raids upon their homes due to the ongoing ‘hacking’ scandal, leaving many to wonder about a threat to the freedom of the press. The news goes on, especially in Greece.
When you do look at the news and all that is going on, you never have to dig very far to see how the EU often affects things. If there had been no folly of creating a nation called ‘Europe’ and the euro had not existed, then the Greeks would not have been a rich nation but by having their own currency and being in charge of their own economy they would not be in the dire mess that has now overtaken them. Sadly, Greece is once again falling under the rule of Germany which is doing everything it can to save the failing euro, and if the Greeks have to suffer, so be it –as far as Angela Merkel and the EU is concerned, the euro comes above all else, including the well being of the people of the struggling countries. We are all sure they will be quite happy to lose their homes, savings and starve just to ensure the euro survives!
These then are my excuses for being AWOL on this blog for the last week, mostly due to not being able to find the time, with a bit of ‘it’s been covered by others anyway’, thrown in.
A lot has been happening in the disintegrating world of the EU while I have been absent, Greece is going to hell in an EU handcart and its people rioting as more severe austerity measure are being approved, there has been a bit of sabre rattling between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands due to Dave sending one of our few remaining Royal Navy ship there. Sadly, if the Argies really went for it the Falkland Islanders would be really stuffed as both Labour and Tory Governments have been systematically destroying our military capability since the last conflict there.
There was also a snippet regarding a cock-up made by the last Labour Government, it seems that they have given our British rights to the Antarctic to Scotland, which is saying they will not hand them back if Scotland becomes fully independent (you have to weep). Also, some leading SUN journalists have been arrested in raids upon their homes due to the ongoing ‘hacking’ scandal, leaving many to wonder about a threat to the freedom of the press. The news goes on, especially in Greece.
When you do look at the news and all that is going on, you never have to dig very far to see how the EU often affects things. If there had been no folly of creating a nation called ‘Europe’ and the euro had not existed, then the Greeks would not have been a rich nation but by having their own currency and being in charge of their own economy they would not be in the dire mess that has now overtaken them. Sadly, Greece is once again falling under the rule of Germany which is doing everything it can to save the failing euro, and if the Greeks have to suffer, so be it –as far as Angela Merkel and the EU is concerned, the euro comes above all else, including the well being of the people of the struggling countries. We are all sure they will be quite happy to lose their homes, savings and starve just to ensure the euro survives!
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