Friday 22 February 2019

Seven days a week report

There's a few things going on this week so far one of which is the New Tumblr that more or less corresponds to the spirit of this blog is gradually picking up traction  and has has made its 1,300th post which isn't bad given the reasons why as explained on this blog that  came into being.
Another kind of connected thing to that is arriving back from Littles Camp which of course meant the post meter would gone around sooner than if it had been the case I was at home but actually just a total digital detox isn't a bad thing at all to be honest.
Let's face it. We all managed pretty well before all that in our everyday lives so being more selective in how much time we use for it and only picking the things that actually benefit us to use it for is no bad thing. Nor is a total switch off.
I'm not so convinced total connectivity from dusk to dawn with the expectation of being available at the drop of a hat  is altogether healthy for us mentally and psychologically with some folks having addictions to status updates and playing multi player games all night.
In the crazy world of British Politics we appear to be seeing elected Members of Parliament resign from the parties that provided their manifestos to an independant grouping with so far 8 Labour members resigning mainly around the Anti-semitism row that most feel the leader Jeremy Corbyn has failed to really address, the perception he is unpatriotic not backing british interests and is pro Marxist with some feeling not backing a second Brexit referendum who for three Conservatives who also left their party is the chief reason.
This so reminds me of 1981/2 when the Labour Party was faced with the "Bennite" and Militant Tendency attempt to control constituency party branches, de-selecting popular Labour Members of Parliament for not supporting their far left political agenda, a move it has to be said kept them out of office from 1979 to 1997 and whose nadir was the Expulsion of the then Liverpool City Council leader Derek Hatton who setting unplausible budgets spending money they did not have, breaching goverment rules on council tax borrowing then issued masses of redundency notices (P45's) by taxi to council employees.
It took Liverpool decades to recover from the damage he had caused and yet he was readmitted to the party in the very same week as these 8 mps all left.
Frankly I can't see Midland labour supporters returning M.P's come the General Election Mr Corbyn so much wants and certainly as someone who has supported labour before now he won't be getting MY support. With friends like Hatton and Momentum linked to much abuse including racial, who needs enemies?

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