Posted by you earlier today...

Edit: No it wasn't , but same old claptrap as in the Mail you did cut-n-paste earlier

Was up on the downs this morning early (6:30 AM) it was great (for a while) sun, skylarks - utterly tranquil.

........ Then  about 7.30 AM  some utter dick head woke up and decided to  rag his  motor bicycle   without a silencer up and down the A339.  He must have been 6 miles away at the nearest but the sound was annoying and intrusive - God alone what it must have sounded like in the valley adjacent to the road.

The sound of normality returning

Does wikipedia get his qualifications, field, and career details right? Yes. Full stop.

Nope - only read that article this evening - the piece I posted this morning was from the Daily Wail.

Anyhow, what have we got here?

https://events.labour.org.uk/event/99382

"...

The doors will be open for stalls, coffee and registration from 10am, to ensure a prompt start. The broad themes and demands of the conference will be the same as those that galvanised hundreds of thousands at #ourNHS demo:

No Cuts or Closures
No Privatisation
Fair Pay for NHS staff

We have an exciting platform of speakers confirmed from leading trade unions and councillors to local campaigners and life-long activists, including:

Dr Chaand Nagpaul, Chair of BMA
Sara Gorton, head of Unison health
Ken Loach, BAFTA award winning film director
Julian Bell and Steven Cowan, Council Leaders who have rejected STPs in London

..."

I long suspected there was a political angle to the head of the BMA.

Yes, some bloody motorbikes and the lard brains who ride some of them.

Funny how things go round in circles in this place. 

I remember having an argument with Andy (Essan) on this forum about whether or not I was wealthy, over ten years ago now. 😂😂 

Ahh, ok, got you.

Nothing wrong with campaigning for a better world. The problem with XR is they are hypocrites. How many of them would be prepared to live in the poverty they want to keep billions of other people in? There's absolutely nothing stopping them giving away all their money and belongings and living in a hut with the rest of their family and dying from indoor air pollution because they have no other option but to burn wood or dung for fuel. If they want to stop people using the resources that lift them out of that poverty the least they can do is live in it themselves.

And yes I've loved the quiet, the clean air and the birdsong during lockdown but a big part of that has been a result of people not being able to work and earn money to survive. We can't just stop people working but hopefully many people will have found they can work in a different way through technology. Economic growth isn't the problem, the problem is the mismanagement of resources. Maybe we will learn some lessons from lockdown?

Because they are a bunch of middle class hypocrites saying "do as I say", not do as I do. Celebrities fly across oceans to take part in XR and they fail to see the irony.

Canadian report: Ontario at 340 new cases https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-covid-19-may-17-2020-1.5573736

As I half expected, Ford announced some easing of measures just before the Victoria Day weekend. So there is a gradual re-opening of businesses starting Tuesday, but with restrictions in place. I'm afraid for some it's already too late - there are a number of bankruptcy notices on local stores here and one of the best known lakeside bars has just closed

Waiting to see what will be done on schools. I don't see a lot of benefit to re-opening before September as it will only be for a few weeks. Better to try and start the new year as normally as possible. There will be problems -  some of the teachers and particularly the administrative staff are older and may be reluctant to return.

For the younger kids what they miss most from schools is peer group contact. Perhaps small bubbles of kids + families should be allowed over the summer period.

Nice yesterday but lots of rain now forecast for the remainder of the holiday weekend - I am actually hoping for a sweltering backloaded summer now!

It’s not that surprising that people that work in professions involving care for others in society gravitate to Labour party as opposed the Tories is it?

My god, you really lap the propaganda fed you don't you. Sad.

Exceptions are simply that. If you think exceptions are the rule then bigger fool you.

(behind a pay wall, but I think the headline and open paragraph are what captures the attention)

I believe, what is alleged,  is called terrorism 

I chuckled at that.

And it reminds me of the Brexit advent calendar, where each day another door closes.

That 'whoosh' sound you heard a bit ago... that was my point sailing over your head.

So how do you propose to lift people out of poverty? How are you going to provide the energy they need? Why aren't XR (you) prepared to lower your living standards and consumption to the level of billions of people across the world. 

Morgan tried that tactic in the US with gun ownership and he was the one that ended up being fired. He's right though but his trouble is he is a windbag, going on and on to make a point or put a question. Short sharp questions not windbaggery.

I despair of people like you. All judgement and no answers. It really is so dispiriting.

Because Bozo and Cummings dithered whilst other nations were imposing restrictions. Because Bozo went to the 'rugger' and told everyone that mass gatherings were fine, so quarter of a million went to Cheltenham, tens of thousands went to gigs, and 3,000 people from one of the most 'infection hotspot' cities on the planet were welcomed into one of the UK's major cities. Because this government failed to prepare when the warning signs flashed in January that this could well be that global pandemic scientists have warned us about, so didn't procure adequate PPE for health workers, didn't order & fund a massive expansion of testing facilities. Because the government completely ignored the plight of care homes and continued to allow an overstretched NHS to discharge Covid-infected pensioners back into unsuspecting care homes without bothering to test them. Because Bozo and his nationalist nitwits saw an opportunity with the VE75 commemorations to ramp up the nationalism levels amongst the plebs, leading to social distancing being abandoned in a red, white & blue fog alcohol and bbq fumes.

Says the most sanctimonious poster on TWO. Tell me what answers you think XR have?

We get one chance at life; four-score and twenty years give or take. After that, nothing. Our brains - and therefore minds and consciousness - cease to function and we become urn-ballast or worm food.

So whilst meandering through our lives, what is wrong with a bit of wanting a bit of fun, a bit of luxury, a bit of excess?

I think most people know very well the difference between 'need' and 'want'. They just don't want an existence that only fulfils needs and ignores wants.

NS, perhaps there are no answers, except to fulfill a self-affirming need to demonstrate, much as the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign did in the 60s. There will be something reassuringly worse to worry about by the time today's infants reach 20. Vietnam's doing rather well now - but is it thanks to the VSC?

R.