Peter Alliss is the latest commentator to fall foul of the ‘Sexist Gestapo’. His comment about Open winner Zach Johnson’s wife and her thoughts about a new kitchen caused a storm on social media.  Needless to say, the BBC stepped up to the plate with an instant apology. Wimps. If the complainants spent more time looking around them and less time in the cloud they might notice real causes for concern in the world. Not that they will. They prefer to spend their lives listening for anything that they can claim is sexist, hoping they can be first to hit the button and bask in the shower of plaudits from those with similar, narrow mind sets. Their attitudes will hold back the cause of equality forever.   

    We heard this week that Britain’s national debt has reached £1.6 trillion. Over a pint we tried to sort out how many zeros we needed to write it down.  That simply resulted in a shout for a bigger sheet of paper.  So, how did it get so big? Well that one is easy. The only people who are spending on our behalf are the Government. In fairness, several governments over more than several years have had to overspend to reach a number like £1.6 trillion. It seems a safe bet that none of those politicians feel any sort of responsibility for the debt. It’s an even safer bet that none of them that have moved on are destitute, scraping by on the basic pension. Accountability is a word they only apply to others. Those of us with grandchildren try to put a few pennies aside to leave to them when we pass. All successive governments do is lumber them with a bigger and bigger debt that one-day will come home to roost. When it does, guess which group in the population won’t bear any suffering. For some reason it reminds me of a great comment made by Desmond Tutu.

            ‘When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the bible and we had

            the land. They said “let us pray”. We closed our eyes. When we opened

them, we had the bible and they had the land.’

Our politicians could even teach those missionaries a thing or two!

    Russian tourist, Juris Dzjabovic, has decided to earn a few pounds during his sojourn in England.  Charging £206 to pedal four people (two were children) a one-mile journey along Oxford Street shows the extent to which he has adopted capitalist principles. There will be a lot of empty Pedicabs in Central London for the foreseeable future. Commons Speaker, John Bercow, is fuming about the charge. He believes it disgraceful that a foreign tourist can undercut the car service he uses for one-mile journeys.

    Scottish left wing comedienne, Rhona Cameron, has claimed that poverty stricken families are being forced to eat dog food in some parts of the country. That may be the case in Scotland since some brands of dog food taste significantly better than haggis. We assume the Scots use their traditional deep-frying to optimize the taste of the dog food.   

    President Hollande has made his position clear as David Cameron seeks to negotiate changes in the EU. Hollande has called for a for a Eurozone government. Presumably this government would need a president and it sounds like a perfect opportunity for Tony Blair.  He may be put off by the quality of the armed forces he’d have at his disposal. Having said that, there must still be opportunities around the globe for an illegal war against an opponent that has no chance of winning – AKA Iraq.  RIP Chilcot.

    Lord Sewel has finally fallen on his sword and resigned from the Lords. We can only assume he will have to take up another hobby due to the lost income. He quoted the Lords allowance to the ladies as £200/day rather than the £300 they actually get. We assume he planned to ask for a discount on the basis of hardship. Joking apart, there are so many Lords now in the house that the building can’t seat them. Leaving aside Lord Sewel, isn’t it time for a cull? Does anyone really believe that this group genuinely delivers value to us, their paymasters?  Cameron and Osborne keep mouthing ‘all in it together’ but no one believes it, and how can they when we see this level of spend from the public purse on a bunch of non-producers.

Politicians don’t equate economics with real life