Monday 8^th April 2019
The original EURO MYTHS BUSTED AT https://www.facebook.com/ayescotland.sco/photos/
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1. "Most of our laws come from Brussels"
2. EU laws are nade by unelected bureaucrats
3. "Norway and Switzerland enjoy all the benfits despite not being EU members.
4. EU migrants are a drain on the economy.
5. The EU does nothing to help ordinary people.
6. Our most important markets are China and teh USA.
7. European Court of Human Rights fprces its will on UK.
8. The British are Different.

Trivia! Deliberately ignoring the fundamental problem that we had our sovereignty handed to the EU without being asked. We were assured we would be asked in 2 years if we agreed, it was nearer to 32. The hassle of reverting is deliberately caused by that failure to ask when promised. They have always known the answer was "NO" because it was not in our national temperament to be acceptable as France twice said at the start and is saying so again now (in effect). That's why we weren't asked earlier. We were promised a binding referendum but it was deliberately not made a compulsory vote (as with national censuses) which would have confirmed its unequivocal finality. Without that obligation we still made it clear where the people stood in relation to reality.

1. Answering specifically : any law from any source other than UK parliament specifically not as a requirement of other legislation is a breach of sovereignty of which we have not agreed.
2. The EU parliament cannot over-ride the executive as our parliament is currently doing to bring governance to heel.
3. What others do is irrelevant, it is how matters affect us that is key.
4. Completely irrelevant. We are the smallest physical entity which is so strapped for cash it cannot provide housing for its own people, people need managing and open borders is a wilful omission of all management.
5. The EU is a publicist dealing with promotion, deliberately not telling us how much of our own money is coming back to us through EU funding. Those are the facts, we contributed in the first place, hidden under “EU gratuities”.
6. Figures are not the latest but there is a validity in principle, save that no calculation is provided for the trade we have lost through not acting independently and allowance for the wilful international reflection on our world status due to EU requirements through EU admitting we needed to change to match their own smaller time standing. We had to say “no” to freedom of access of UK Commonwealth citizens due to our own recognised inability to let so many people in. Commonwealth citizens were at least regulated and the EU wanted no restrictions across several countries contrary to our small geographical size which we had already recognised.
7. This is correct and never entered the equation.
8. Correct, precisely why France said “no” twice and is now disinclined to be co-operative. This derives from de Gaulle’s specific experience of us and with us (he lived up the road from me) for most of the war and worked with us

Sunday 1^st December 2018
BREXIT
What astounds me is that no one seems to have tumbled to the realisation that those who “know” about these things and are in a position to bear influence have always known we would reject the EU, once asked. That is the sole reason the question has been deterred so wilfully for nearly half a century. The fact no proper preparation was made for the inevitable outcome is yet a further example of the number of bumbling buffoons we continually elect to govern us. That is why, unlike America, we employ a permanent civil service, not one whose members depend upon the political nature of the elected government. Theirs is a role to be carried out without variance of favour, although I suspect preoccupation with the EU is a contributory cause of the Windrush catastrophe, since the EU wilfully demanded we ignore the 53 nations of the Commonwealth and their nearly one third representation of the world’s population!
            That arrogance persists, hence my reluctant agreement with Lord Wolfson (CEO of Next) who wrote succinctly in the Mail on Sunday (today), his abstract stating “From a proud Brexiteer and top businessman, a passionate cry, ‘This deal is far from perfect but it means freedom from EU serfdom.’ MPs must grow up and take it.”
            I am wary of press exhortations, never forgetting that a newspaper’s prime motivation is to sell daily copies. For the benefit of any new reader, I provide a reminder of my views from the beginning.
            Originally a Euro sceptic, there was an objective logic to our joining the Common Market. It/they decided they did not want us, twice. Perversely, (like many people I suspect) this triggered me to be interested and that they wanted us out because they feared we’d put right what was wrong and therefore there was indeed a place for us.
            Then we were accepted and the market became a political battleground with all senses of democratic government thrown out of the window, what semblance of democracy was there was mere pretence. Our own politicians were either extraordinarily naïve or wilfully connived in deluding us, like the Lib/Dems whose sole purpose, realising they would never achieve UK government would be to let the EU run us where they sensed they had a greater sway of opinion.
            I am a Brexiteer who voted ‘remain” in 2016 because I naively believed the fundamental flaws in the EU basic construct would be amended. By 2018 it was transparently obvious that the underlying basics of Germany’s hereditary Hitlarian diktat and France’s ingrained Napoleonic code would not tolerate the fluidity essential to every form of truly democratic government. Clearly, therefore the EU was not for us.
            I do not view the past two years as wasted. They have been spent in working practically through and around a diversity of fundamental questions at the heart of moral philosophy. May reduced her majority, ensuring the debate involved a wider grouping of individuals with widely ranging individual loyalties, basically party orientated, through which they have raised the issue of our entire democratic structure and nature of government. People have to think and look around them to see who else is thinking what and why. Nothing is the norm and nothing is to be expected but has to have its justification argued. We all have to think it through from grass roots. It will do us all the world of good.

Saturday 17^th November 2018
DECISION TIME!
What seems buried under all the shouting is that we are treading untrodden ground for the first time for some time. Obviously there are not any route maps or ground surveys to guide us but our own history dating back 800 years, on which much of the world’s democratic governments are based. Following forty odd years of EU diktat we seem to have lost our self-confidence, so there are tremblings of uncertainty.
            Build from rock bottom. The EU is specifically designed as a political entity. The current structure of economics and trade is a façade to hide the reality, just as Hitler’s youth brigade was the ground swell of his future Nazi Germany, which is why there is so much EU emphasis on attracting youth attention and detraction from democratic government: talk, not  reality for the reality is that we, the tax payers are specifically excluded from determining what costs we will incur and in what manner we will pay for them.
            Brexit is a shock to the system, someone is thinking independently and the EU is panicked. The EU has no provision for thoughts that transcend the authorised regimentation. The same mistake religion made, ignoring the truth of Creation—a state of change through time and preferring dream regimentation in opposition to flexibility and adaptability to need. Get the youth indoctrinated and the future is regimented certainty. Hitler got something right!
             It is the Germanic and Napoleonic codes that are the basis of the EU. It is infectious and even the UK catches periodic bouts of right wing mania. Hence the distractions over left-wing machinations behind Corbyn—to distract attention from right wing anti-socialism perceived by many to be behind the implementation of Universal Credit and its scathing indifference to real conditions. Personally, I believe Universal Credit in principle is correct, it is the implementation that is a shambles but that seems “the norm” for today’s Civil Service, how else the appalling ‘Windrush’ mess? 
            What actually lies behind the anti-Brexit mob is the same UK right wing approval of Hitler at the start of WWII.

Friday 31^st August 2018
Am I getting too old and past it? With it, bright and breezy this morning and got my ink cartridge—unnecessary! I had misread BK for PBK and replaced the wrong cartridge. All my problems were of my own making but then, I was suffering aches and pains for no reason and suddenly feeling completely dozy and sleeping! Suddenly I check Sjögren’s symptoms. Other than fatigue I don't have the obvious ones and Sjögren’s sufferers consist of 96% women, only 4% men but nearly 70% of all suffer: confusion, forgetfulness, lack of focus and lack of mental clarity and my aches and pains, my current physical symptoms are the average for all; I perversely feel vastly relieved. I need to keep reminding myself of what my diverse problems are and why. Thank goodness for social media and easy interaction for diverse information at odd moments!

BREXIT!
Stop avoiding the issue! The issue is that having been told we would be asked our own people took forty years to ask us. If they had acted sensibly none of this hassle would ever have happened, nor the hassle of the last forty years, where the EU has made a specific point in getting in everyone's way out of sheer bloody-mindedness, knowing we had not been asked if we wanted them.

Fascinating article from The Guardian.

Sunday 28^th August 2018
'morning world, one P Such Esq. reporting in. Frustrations continue. Won't worry about yesterday but having had a prepared roast dinner and a sizeable portion of heavy fruit cake for dessert I was still feeling slightly peckish and was horrified to wake up this morning feeling famished. I was also all aches and pains and felt a day in bed was the best resolve but lying there feeling fed up I mulled on breakfast out.
      An American tradition I used to use here on Sundays: short, word only service, paper from newsagent next to church, breakfast from one of three hotels other side, going back four centuries, then lunch; it took that length of time to read the paper. Then the Crow's Nest was preferred with its view cross the Aylesbury Vale.
      Half-an-hour later I felt I could get up, even if only hobbling and having got up, feeling breakfast out was definitely required, particularly as I needed an ink cartridge from Hemel and that meant an easy dual carriage drive from one to the other. Managed to wash, dress and still be on my feet, despite nearly knocking myself over as I opened the car door.
      Further problems were looming but I was in one of my moods "up yours as far as I can ram it" and "plough on regardless". 'morning all!

Sunday 26^th August 2018
Most significant in the Guardian's report on the Pope’s visit to Ireland was the speech of the Taoiseach: “ a new covenant for the 21^st century was needed that reflected the modern country Ireland had become and learned from “our shared mistakes”.” He went on “…the country was more diverse, less religious and had modernised its laws on divorce, contraception, abortion and same sex marriage, ‘understanding that marriages do not always work, that women should make their own decisions, and that families come in many different, wonderful forms, including those headed by a grandparent, lone parent or same-sex parents, or parents who are divorced’.”

No matter how old you are you can still learn. Apparently, when shopping in the rain one can get awfully wet, as I did just now. Fascinating! I had intended shopping, having bought strawberries yesterday and forgot the cream but had been absorbed in a day of actually doing something productive when suddenly rung by family, inviting me to a barbecue tomorrow after-noon. Right decision of St Paul's to cancel their day today, felt very sorry for them but tomorrow should be fine

Interesting. Vagnism discussed in several issues of The Guardian questioning veganism which reads pretty good to me.

An electric heater by the window has been switched on and I don't like it, having moaned at too much heat but it is on lightly, just to boost the temperature by the picture-frame window. Double-glazing is due next year. Work planned for this year has been delayed, due to total crash out this summer. Just picking up reality as myself appears to be responding to reduced temperatures and appearing functional. Brain is re-engaging and perhaps things will start to move.
      Very sorry for St Peter's who had planned a music entertainment in the newly renovated old cemetery. Cancelled, anticipating downpour but currently light dampness on grass is sufficient to make ositting inappropriate, so probably the right thing to do. I had made a point of going. Shame.

Next week should show signs of returning sanity, in different format apparently my preferred news programmes return. TV currently off completely.

Change is coming. The length of high heat makes the contrast sharper so it seems autumna. Really it is about the norm for late August but I am distinctly feeling chilly, despite the temperature just being above the point the heating cuts in: horrid thought, heating turning on. It has been a gorgeous summer and I regret not having been able to indulge in it: the heat simply laid me flat. Time lost and wasted irritates but others have worse regrets, so be grateful.

From my Moving On page.
"At a time when the pope is due to arrive in Catholic Ireland we are reminded of why there is division in the Christian church and the reasons are many. Victoria Derbyshire, on her morning BBC programme invited a series of guests to express their views and the range between them was extraordinary, all members of the same Catholic church—the "collective whole"!

Friday 24^th August 2018
ACCOUNTABILITY
'Further Accountability', an excellent article in The Guardian. From the microcosm to the macrocosm there is uniformity: attention to small things does lead to more awareness and openness to the influence of big things. The sooner realisation dawns of the need to correct them, or be involved in the way those larger projects can be for the further good, or the need to warn of potentially disastrous influences, the better.
            I recently had cause to raise an issue regarding local self-employed people and their predominance in the use of cash, when the world is turning to electronic interaction. In our concern for electronic fraud we forget that fivers, tenners and sometimes twenties were forged and usually it is shopkeepers who get caught, hence the pedanticism with which they look at notes handed to them. We forget the ease with which “dud fivers” pass around, or the odd foreign coin gets unnoticed in the change one receives.
            At a time when the pope is due to arrive in Catholic Ireland we are reminded of why there is division in the Christian church and the reasons are many. Victoria Derbyshire, on her morning BBC programme, invited a series of guests to express their views and the range between them was extraordinary, all members of the same Catholic church--as a collective body!
            High on the list was the church’s failure to be accountable for the evil of some of its priests’ actions and attitudes. Amongst 1.3 billion Catholics this evil is miniscule but amongst those directly and indirectly affected this is a wilful perversion; a potential destruction of each life but not just in our time. I am of the persuasion that the essential ‘me’ is a spirit form that controls this organic substance perceived as me, which has lived in other such bodies in previous times. The damage to each individual affected and their immediate family and friends is far more enormous than is generally perceived.
            What is the significance of religion? Of the world population of 7.4 billion around 6 billion belong to the five most populous religions, of which the Christian religion can claim 600 million more members than Islam, the second largest world religion in terms of numbers [Google]. The Catholic church represents just under half of all Christians.
            Now turn, from the macrocosm to the microcosm. Take any pairing relationship: two souls on a life journey. Harmony to break up is the range of likely emotions. Break up could be an early death, thus potentially subsequent partners, as with divorce. All is experience for each continuing soul, adding to experience gained before arrival; and experience to be carried forward to another life in another seemingly appropriate time frame. So, the evil, or ill omens we receive in life, however caused, are they not intended as a spiritual experience from which to learn and mature for our place in the future?
            From my recent personal experience with a blown heater time clock, handled ably and pleasantly at a seemingly appropriate price… in cash but I sensed in a trusting, practical manner from a personal referral who himself was telephoned, when with me, by that friend’s builder, who was with that friend; a previous plumber suddenly went off line when realising I wished to use a credit card for my water heater problem; just as a Watford taxi driver had shown singular annoyance at my only having a credit card available.
            Where lies personal accountability? We must not assume intent to defraud the IR, to which we all contribute but it is wise to have awareness. I trust my plumber but I seriously question the other option and the taxi driver.
            So, to the macrocosm: the majority of people hold freely (or are subject to a diversity of possible cultural dominations) to treligious beliefs. Therefore, there is a logic in the EU allowing religion to wilfully deny the nowadays accepted logic that women’s rights are no less than those of men. It is one of the reasons why I object to the EU. Religion should not need to be taught its place. It should have sufficient knowledge of Creation as to realise Creation is in a state of continual change over time and religion’s views need to be regularly updated; a view held by those of the Quaker persuasion.
            What is the EU but an edifice built upon an uncertain foundation. We, the people who pay the bills do not determine what bills we will incur. The parliament is geared so it does not direct the executive, which performs like ancient biblical kings through the diktat of their egos. Our own parliament is a mess of little egos seeing an opportunity to promote themselves rather than render service, always looking to the next election rather than be relevant to the moment and planning ahead for the future, twenty or more years ahead, not a mere five and ensuring relevance for then, continually reviewing, as do the Quakers—it actually does but that committee makes too little noise and does not move fast enough.
            So, Brexit. We have bemusedly accepted forty years of not getting the referendum. The EU has spent forty years showing us its failings and its wilful determination to direct us, despite knowing full well we had not yet been asked, putting the backs up of the majority of us.
            Cameron, so out of touch with the mood of the country failed to make proper preparations, having failed to present an objective, balanced argument. The EU has wilfully shown the perversity of failing to change its structurally wrong ways and every intention of making things worse by persisting further. Just get out, then worry about it in our own way and time. Then we can sort out the wilfully appalling failings in our own governance which we have resolutely ignored through preoccupation with a foreign irrelevance.
            We have lacked competent management since Thatcher, the only PM to tell the EU where it got off. Yes, there were indications she may be losing it but the poll tax was a clear statement of too many in this country not prepared to play their role in contributing to the benefit of the whole. Hence the “me me” culture, irresponsible strikes and a culture “the world owes me a living”. Like hell it did.
            It is my view that from such attitudes came the belief, now seemingly entrenched in government, that the less fortunate are on the scrounge. An attitude, originally fostered by the unions, themselves motivated by egoists seeking self glory. Times have changed and the mood shift should be the state of society and its responsibility for the collective whole to work for the collective good but attitudes take a while to work through. Religion persistently refused to accept the reality of Creation, just as the EU worries about rules and regulations, rather than the reality of flexibility, adaptability, diversity and continual change which are the facts of life.
            Hmm. Haven’t sat and written a thousand words continuously for a long time. My health must have improved! I think it is dissapating heat.

Thursday 23^rd August 2018
Rationality is at last creeping in. We are preparing to cover the eventuality that we simply walk away from the EU. We should never have joined. The last forty years has seen the downfall and humiliation of a once brilliant, world leading civil service. This has done nothing but humiliate itself and us, the people who pay its costs. It has forgotten how to communicate with our own Commonwealth citizens, which the EU wilfully displaced from our everyday interaction, probably contributing to, if not downright causing the current social disharmonies and our wilful decline in moral values. More on those on my weekly commentary in due course.

Saturday 21^st July 2018
From my Weekly Commentary this morning, "Hopefully one is actually 'with it'! It is going to be hot again, if not hotter but all windows are open and a freshness of breeze filters through enticingly. A good time to settle down to work now that everyone seems anxious to bomb off on holiday: airports chaotic through overload; roadways but elongated car parks and half the trains interrupted by major renovation works, those that are not running according to time tables that do not work, in which case they are simply not running—did they ever?!
      All rather like Brexit, eager to prove we haven't a clue what we are doing. At least we have been consistent from the start. Twice the EU told us they did not want us but we being we, persevered and they finally accepted us, making sure our common sense and rationality was excluded from the essential structure and half of what we were was eliminated, the Commonwealth and world enterprise. We accepted but being cautious said we'd 'put it to the people' which we didn't until 40 years later, by which time the EU had put up the backs of those whom it would have been essential NOT to upset by charging into the country as if they had a right to do so, which we hadn't had a chance to affirm to them were we inclined to do so.
      From such displays of pig-headed arrogance Cameron apparently thought we would accept such pretend 'status quo' and as Prime Minister proved he was so out of touch with the country he was supposed to be managing apparently made no preparation for the result obtained, so promptly left. Hence our present shambles, nothing planned. The same reason why there is so little provision for the NHS, social services and the apparent bewilderment that people get old, requiring more practical support and state expense.    
     While rationality, in terms of sorting out the antiquated social service package, was essential it appears to be in the hands of people who haven't a clue as to what they are doing! Any more than the EU understands the impracticality of its "four freedoms", which we purportedly accepted, despite having reduced Commonwealth access into this country because we had an urgent need to manage this island's population. So we accepted the EU's irrationality which they had deliberately written in before we had a voice to express! It is the EU that manipulated our stupidity to its own advantage and continues along the same path! Even now it has not grasped that we run this country but were only asked if we wanted EU irrationality two years ago, allowing them 40 odd years to believe they ran things. They do not! In the mean time we seem to have lost our grip having spent overlong denying reality.

Monday 9^th July 2018
We are still at the stage when strategy is all and substance is minimal. In the miniscule we are proving why the concept of the EU is fundamentally wrong: it straight jackets that which naturally is fluid and adaptable, wilfully causing contortions contrary to the natural order. Davis has bitten his tongue until there is conformity and then broken free. He has brought to a head the fundamental principle that concentration on detail has failed to address. The argument with the EU is the politicising of what is basically a trading agreement. No more. Remove the politics which wilfully removes democracy and keep to the specifics of trade. That is all that is wanted. History at http://www.petersuch.com/MOVING_ON.html.

Monday 6^th May 2018
Sonia Purnell rightly expresses concern on the possibility of Rees-Mogg becoming PM, an aspect I believe she misses is the wider option available at the particular moment he makes his move. It is balancing conflicting options that determines candidates' negativities in the electors' minds at the crucial moment. That is when memories of historical precedents rise to the fore. Rees-Mogg is not just Catholic, he is archaic Catholic, a church still unable to accept God's determination that the Protestant interpretation is the correct one. Contrarily of course, he could stir Labour catholics to make a switch, back to my point as to the state of the Labour party at that time.

Saturday 5^th May 2018
To take issue with Vernon Bogdanor is a dangerous prospect. He is unquestionable. Whom am I? The same as him, as a voter in a UK general election. That immediately raises the question on an equal right to vote, the complaint of the Remainers that the Brexiteers did not understand the question but had equal right to express their views, as those presuming to claim superiority of argument by voting Remain.
     We both support the British monarchy and the adoption of proportional representation. He is one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and has written extensively on political and constitutional issues. In May's Prospect, one of several divergent magazines I acquire as their covers invite argument, he chooses to warn against the constitutional issues perceived in returning to parliamentary sovereignty from a codified and "protected" European system.
    His argument is that Parliament's authority is reduced by the supremacy of European law [particularly Protocol 30] but that is how it was before the authoritarian presumption of EU law reduced Westminster's and through Westminster our authority over our own country.
     He takes some space to highlight why our opt-out is limited, in other words our independence is even more restricted than we have assumed, one of the many problems with EU interference in even that which is supposed to be "down to us" is circumscribed. In effect he is showing little faith in that we absorb EU law into our own so there is no change in principle following Brexit. He seems to gain little confidence from the historical fact that it is we who have many times led the way into individual democratic freedoms. His key objection seems to be that our law is not codified which I see is its strength. Religion adopted that authoritarian attitude, "we are authority" and where is religion today? Its failure to contend with reality was its downfall: an inability to adapt to the continual change of creation around it. Flexibility, Adaptability, Malleability. Law must adapt to the continuing variability of life, through new knowledge gained, to be always meaningful. That our traditions need review is unquestionable but that is no reason to throw all out with refuse.

Thursday 25^th April 2018
Good morning world (just!). What a state of chaos the EU has so wilfully dropped us in, helped magnificently by the arrogant bigotry of our own small time little politicians thrusting their personal egos instead of endeavouring to render the essential service of governance for which they were elected! ... continued on my Weekly Commentary page.

Tuesday 20^th March 2018 [after-noon]
FROM MY WEEKLY COMMENTARY PAGE:
IS THERE A LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN THE BRITISH?
I offered the following as a reply to someone on a Facebook discussion: the writer was ashamed of being British.
      "Self identity is the awareness of one's collective whole. It is why I do not believe in faith schools. Education is the encouragement of evaluative thinking, hence philosophy but pre-eminence has to be in the practicality of everyday reality. Nationalism is a collection of individuals by physical practicality be it groups, sects, associations, tribal, locality. A fact of birth from which individual identity is derived. We all fail by the nature of our origins. Religiously that could be due to 'the fall of man' within which there is much objective argument. It could be the practicality of biological development and humankind has developed beyond its ability to manage its achievement. There is the Hawking trait of 'knowing the mind of God'. 
     Where then, in context, is your problem with Britishness? In the whole world of present day nations who can show sense of universal leadership is Britain less than those whom you might accept as leading?
     Following on, a cousin of mine posted on a different topic but it seems to be relevant here, so I quote his post. 
      "Something I want to learn from looking at the British Empire is the effect of power on a country. I will say I am proud to be British, in a particular sense of that phrase. I think that British civilisation is really as rational, fair and peaceful as just about any that has ever been. It was believed, arrogantly, that we would translate those virtues into an empire of justice and progressive ideals. While the empire did show these qualities to some extent, it also guarded and expanded its own power in a way that was truly evil. In every great empire you had the same thing - Rome undoubtedly boasted a culture of learning and civilisation, but used incredible cruelty to get what it wanted. What interests me is how those positive ideals become elaborate excuses - 'the white man's burden,' 'civilising the natives,' etc. But on the other hand, do those ideals help to restrain the worst excesses of empire? The fact that the Commonwealth still exists is, for me, evidence that the ideals of the British Empire were not all made up as a flimsy rhetorical dressing for the principle that 'might is right.' Its a question that remains relevant - how can the United States believe so strongly in democracy and yet trample it whenever it suits its interests? I guess that's what I hope to learn from history in this context."

Friday 9^th March 2018 [after-noon]
FOR RICHER OR POORER
This was never a marriage but the rampant thrust of small time political egos seeking a world stage upon which they were never fit to tread, save for one woman, Maggie Thatcher, who told them bluntly what they could do with their EU.
     Twice the EU rejected our purported readiness to join this entity, at which point those with ability would have dealt with reality, let the matter drop and got on with the job of running this country, a quarter of the world's people and a quarter of the globe's land area, as it had so ably run itself for several centuries. It had on its own created a Commonwealth of 53 countries containing almost a third of the world's population against the EU's fifteenth over only 27 countries.
     We had already decided we had to control immigration from around the world and the EU insisted we accept anyone from the EU and disconnect ourselves from our own Commonwealth. It was our own people who witlessly accepted such twaddle without explanation as to the rationality. We were already disastrous at managing house planning and were then expected not to control our borders! Sheer witlessness. Little wonder our housing programme is in a mess.

Monday 5^th March 2018 [after-noon]
NOW AMERICA SHOWS ITSELF AS DAFT AS TRUMP BUT AT LEAST IT IS HONEST
The i Paper today headlines America's push to sell US version of Cornish pasties but apparently, by their own admission, they cannot match our standards so they want to slide their products into the market without clear statements on the label that it is an American interpretation of our products, not the real McCoy. Apparently the EU thinks the product can only be made in Cornwall. This is nonsense but the clarity of the product is essential, so if it is made elsewhere and not necessarily according to the established local recipe then clearly the label must say so most distinctly. America has made a pig's ear of the English language but that is no excuse to bowdlerise our own products in our own country. The Americans have no sense of proportion. All modern day wilful shootings are taken out of the original context. The right to tote a gun against the British. We don't run the country any more, although I suspect many Americans rather wish we still were but that break away has served both countries well. The difference is that we Brits have moved on while America is still caught in a time warp that never kept moved with the world's time line.

A recipe is a recipe, where it is made is not relevant, that is merely a fact of history, provided the product meets the local area quality test.

The i under Ian Birrell's name claims Putin is winning the war against the West. Somewhat fanciful but his depiction of the West falling to pieces under its own mismanaged governments is not unreasonable. The Brexit referendum should have happened when the Maastricht Treaty was signed, for that was when the original dreams faded beyond resuscitation, "make war unthinkable and materially impossible and reinforce democracy amongst its members". The further the operational levers of government are distanced from the electorate that is presumed to control them, the less control they perceive they have and disillusionment creeps in, leading to total dischantment. We already recognise the need for effective government to be further devolved and the creation of area mayors. The EU idea, then of centralising yet distancing with supreme powers delegated to an unmanaged civil service is simply not appropriate.

Sunday 4^th March 2018 [morning]
NOW WE KNOW THE TRUTH! IT IS OUR OWN CIVIL SERVICE THAT IS GETTING IN OUR WAY
“You’re giving up a three-course meal, the depth and intensity of our trade relationship across the European Union and partners now, for the promise of a packet of crisps in the future, if we manage to do trade deals in the future outside the EU which aren’t going to compensate for what we’re giving up,” so The Guardian quoted the former boss of Liam Fox’s international trade department. The British Civil Service is accustomed to dealing around the world and works to international standards, or did until the EU was allowed its head through the gutlessness of our own politicians, who gave way when common sense should have kept the EU firmly in hand. Martin Donelly's (of whom The Guardian equally dismissively wrote, carelessly dropping his knighthood) rather garbled message, indicates the muddled thinking in which our civil service has been coddled by the EU when it is accustomed to global concepts and divergencies within them. Realities of life as it is are matters with which the EU's regimented thinking is unable to cope, so doesn't, just as religion avoids that which is unsavoury and avoiding dealing with what it does not wish to think upon. Our own civil service seems somewhat panicked at once again having to earn its keep rather than simply shuffle papers forwarded on by the EU's diktat.

Thursday 2^nd March 2018 [morning]
ALL OF LIFE IN ONE WEEK
The tragedy of a seven years old girl being killed in her own home because a car crashed into it. The inability for people to understand the simplicity of one simple English word "emergency", overwhelming unnecessarily emergency services because they do not understand basic English. The spirit of "mucking in" in all sorts of situations to help out fellow travellers. 1,500 people stuck on a train through the night without food, heating or lighting; general road side chats in miles of traffic snowed to a standstill. This is the UK welcoming in Spring! Despite the EU doing its best to get in everyone's way, we plough on as usual. [ON http://www.petersuch.com/WeeklyCommentary.html this morning].

Sunday 25^th February 2018 [after-noon]
Will Corbyn now blow it?
Technically it is merely pre-excitement twaddle to attract attention but it sounds like the fool is about to blow all his advantages...

Friday 23^rd February 2018 [after-noon]
" The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience." -W.E.B. Du Bois, educator, civil rights activist, and writer (23 Feb 1868-1963)
     We learned over many centuries that government serves the people, is not their masters: the EU still has not grasped that reality. Its duty is to render service as the people direct through a sensible proportionate accountability, hence devolution from Westminster while the EU persists in concentrating centrally, totally wrong.
     Some of our own people have not yet got the message. People are already wanting to go back into history before history has properly arrived—no wonder the bemoaners have got there times confused. The promoted potential loss supposedly caused by Brexit is a potential loss deducted from a potential gain, not a factual loss at all!

Thursday 22^nd February 2018 [after-noon]
COMMUNITY
The Independent's article was brought to my attention through a Fb post linking the incident with Enoch Powell's 1960's attitude. "I am somewhat t confused. It would help if the summary quoted the prison sentence: 26 weeks for female assault, 12 weeks for public disorder to be served concurrently.
      You state you do not condone his behaviour. By definition you therefore agree punishment. Your article would be more rational were you to debate the nature of that punishment. In murder I object to death: a life time's opportunity for penance is to be preferred. At the opposite end, as in this case, I suggest imprisonment is wrong: community service, specialising in immigration service would be more productive.
      I raise the question of education: his and his ilk's in a wider understanding of life generally and across the diversity of immigrants who have chosen to come here but appear not to have any understanding of what is expected of them. Therein they need to be educated. I think that is quite sufficient on the subject.

Monday 19^th February 2018 [after-noon]
RENEW
A title applicable to quite a few well established ideas down the ages, why do they not use their full title "Renew Britain"? Perhaps it is to avoid the obvious conundrum that we already are renewing Britain! Apparently they have not yet caught on that the idea of remaining in the EU is already an archaic and irrelevant dream... and these are supposed to be our special elite intellectuals!

Sunday 18^th February 2018 [night]
DAMNED RELIGION!
Suddenly I have some freedom on a pet moan. Following the BBC's The Big Questions this morning I find many expressing an extraordinary affinity with my regularly expressed opinion on UK religious education: no single faith schools; universal plurality of religious opinion; do not raise nor reduce the requirement of no more than fifty percent of one faith.
     It was obvious by one Catholic priest in the debate that Roman Catholicism has not changed. It is open to all opinions, it concludes there is only one answer, the Catholic opinion is right! Yet other voices in Northern Ireland declare that open interchange and plurality is responsible for the improved state of affairs.

Saturday 17^th February 2018 [after-noon]
THE UK HAS CONSISTENTLY BEEN MAGNAMINOUS TOWARDS THE EU GIVING TOO MUCH CONTRARY TO OUR INTERESTS.
Cameron failed to gain an ounce of sense out of the EU before calling the Referendum. Prior to that we had already given away the superiority we should have on the basis of our substantial financing of a project increasingly diverging from our national sovereign interests. The EU's purpose is to render service as we, the taxpayers direct it. It has lost all sense of rendering service but has turned into a self perpetuating diktat totally out if control of the people run by civil servants who are too many, all over paid and few fit for purpose.

Wednesday 14^th February 2018 [after-noon]
STILL NOT GOING ANYWHERE BUT...
Boris made a speech. It didn't go far enough but it was more rational than usual, although for a supposedly experienced orator he does tend to splutter somewhat.
      He raised an issue to which I have previously referred but more explicitly than I had at that time: that in 1975 pro EU voters had won the point not the issue. What followed was no attempt by the pro EU's to introduce or sell the EU; the EU merely came charging in without a "by your leave" demanding changes, claiming they were providing the finance but in reality giving us our own money back but under their direction, which was often contrary to what was locally wanted. The EU supporting winners then had remained carefully silent in the voice of the then remainers (opposing the EU). Unlike them, this time round those still opposing the EU, seemingly considerably more in number than earlier and more than previously in our history on any subject, especially now that the EU had proved its inadequacy, those winners now must promote dialogue, not remain silent. Quite right.

Reaction. Juncker has denied he is a federalist, despite last Wednesday, as reported by the Financial Times, "Jean-Claude Juncker has laid out an uncompromising federalist vision of the future of the EU institutions ahead of the bloc’s elections next year." Ego again and again!

Two young men in their twenties counter-argued the vote should be reheld in five or ten years time because there was a split between young and old. Cobblers. The argument is the principle and has nothing whatever to do with age. It is to do with managerial voter accountability and it is frightening that the young do not understand the nature and matter of democratic governance. That indicates the further failing of our own educational system.

Sunday 10^th SEPTEMBER 2017 [after-noon]
Labour really is falling to pieces. This man Adonis hasn't a clue. Referendum said OUT. The EU has done nothing but show precisely why we are leaving, it is inflexible. From that point on it is we who direct, the EU is no longer in charge, we are and it cannot stomach opinion contrary to its own presumption.

Blair, when you were actively in politics you failed, barring cosmetic changes of value. Your ego, which is all you have to offer is not relevant today.

Those who wish to sign a petition for getting MPs to block May are applauding those politicians for our present problems because that is exactly what they did, assigning our rights across to the EU and then took thirty years to ask us if that was o.k., to which we clearly said it was NOT. In that they were acting as Henry VIII's proclamations. All May is doing is being businesslike and practical to get things done, something our politicians have for years FAILED to do!

Friday 8^th SEPTEMBER 2017 [late evening]
ARMAMENTS, SELF-DEFENCE, MORAL CONSCIENCE
The Arms Fair this week in London has created some controversy. Certainly spirituality in activism helps to reduce individual ego, it is the argument, not some people’s opinions and enables moral assessment of the questions to be objective, divorced from personal perceptions, as Bertrand Russell would advocate.
      It is rationality, particularly when in the face of singular irrationality, that really determines action. Where lies irrationality in making due and prudent preparation against what has clearly been set against us?
      To do something is to be involved. The current claimed increase in voting at the last General Election is attributed to “awareness” rather than an actual increase in population. Why were such numbers not involved previously? If that fact had any effect on the authority of the resultant government that is the deliberate action of those who did not take part! Hardly an inspiration to those who did!
       The first proactive involvement is to argue the case objectively. The Arms fair is trade in which we have always been involved and on which we rely, especially in the present time when we are disengaging from one trading relationship to a new one, while hoping to progress forward economically.
       The world is not as we would like it but in it we have to live and currently need the co-operation of other entities with whom we may not like to be associated in particular ways. That is reality and Bertrand Russell perceives “reality” is the only status in which to resolve anything.
       What is actually the argument, as one artist has graphically illustrated, is that denuding ourselves of arms and the resultant trade in dealing in arms is a luxury we cannot afford, a proof which many have given their lives to illustrate: 2017, 22 March, Westminster Bridge. Five were killed in the incident, and 49 people were injured.
       2017, 22 May. Manchester Arena bombing killing 22 individuals and injuring 250.
       2017, 3 June, London attack. 8 people were confirmed dead and at least 48 injured, some critically. The perpetrators then ran to nearby Borough Market, where they stabbed many people. All three terrorists involved were shot dead by police eight minutes after the incident was reported. All three were wearing imitation suicide bomb vests, clearly to provoke the police out of safety, otherwise they would have been arrested and had to account for themselves in public.
       2017, 19 June: Finsbury Park Mosque in London. 10 people were injured, and one person was killed, though it was initially unclear whether this was the result of a previous medical condition. The police declared the incident a terrorist attack.
       This is just against us in or own country, our interests and responsibilities are wider. The spiritual aspirations of Quakerism purportedly lying behind the “Stop the Arms Fair” have to take all the above into account. Reality requires pragmatism and while it is right to hold dear to the idealism of philosophical standards, such standards are for that wider world to which we all subscribe but have no way of attaining until we first understand and master the realities of our present state.

Friday 8^th SEPTEMBER 2017 [after-noon]
OVER EXCITEMENT, TRYING TO MAKE OUT THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING BECAUSE THEY HAVE AT LAST BEEN PUBLICLY RUMBLED
This is the reaction we should have seen when our own MPs cavalierly passed our law over to Brussels without so much as a murmur. What they are now admitting is how seriously they wilfully failed us then. Now is the time to perform rationally and economically by sitting quietly on their hands as they did then, when they should have been up in arms and demanding what they are demanding now, that nothing passed to Brussels without every punctuation mark double-checked and signed for.
     All that is happening now is that Brussels' dirty work (which they wilfully passed without bothering) is now controlled by us. The urgency that determines economy of action is entirely down to them, thirty odd years ago and subsequently. Once it is back under our own control we can play with it as we wish and if necessary make changes as part of any future manifesto. What is panicking our MPs is that they are having to deal with practicality, which until now they have resolutely failed to do. Get on with it and KEEP OUT OF THE WAY!

Sunday 3^rd SEPTEMBER 2017 [after-noon]
Andrew Marr is back, Parliament resits this week. Yesterday we had advance warning of the The Last Night of the Proms at the end of this week, at which point summer truly ends. Suddenly summer has been and gone, for me it has been a good time, thank you Eternal Life for such a time.
     What is current? Brexit. Corbyn's supporters are seeking to be a nuisance with a pretend rationale. Think on it, The EU requires a pointless army of bureaucrats so we are accustomed to also-rans dealing with the every day. Where's the problem? They are our also-rans not foreign ones.
     The EU is trying to be difficult, of course. The mere fact that we are leaving is a clear statement of its failure and it is embarrassed and it has to put on a show as being difficult to discourage anyone else following our example. Why would they? Only if they perceive we have an advantage. The EU, by its intransigence declares we are right, highlighting the EU is never logical which is one of the reasons we are leaving!
     That it will be difficult has been confirmed by the stupidity of our own politicians of all three parties: they failed to hold the referendum immediately it was relevant, within 2–3 years. They waited ten times as long, lost touch with the mood of their own country and so further aggravated what earlier would have been infinitely more simple.


Friday 14^th JULY [morning]
A very frustrating morning. Started off early fairly flamboyantly and I had difficulty getting on line with safety precautions switching in as they should. Now 7:36 and I haven't started. Have had breakfast and about to pour third cup of tea so that is something!
     Well, we are in charge of our destiny but not in charge of ourselves, it seems. The news is full of little people clamouring for their own version of how things should be. The Tories quite properly are absorbing even illogical EU law into our own so there is no hiccup during the transfer. I don't like it but it is logical. Others do, or don't like it? Difficult to know. There is much machination behind the scenes. It may not be what May intended but it has worked out well for practicality's sake. We are now learning precisely who is following what purpose.
     There are those who are adamantly determined we will not leave the EU. These are life's dead ducks whose sole concern is personal ego. They are not a coherent whole as they are unclear of an overall purpose other than their own personally stimulated egos, rather like young teenagers masturbating for the first time.
     Others just want to be bloody minded, thinking May has lost when in fact the debating floor is cleared for all contributions to be presented. The opportunity is there for clear, objective thinking and sense is the only message the electorate wish to hear.
     So, what actually is the agenda? Removal of what was wilfully imposed on us and which technically is unlawful, since it was only last year we were actually asked if we wanted a bunch of foreign fools to run our country. Until that point and particularly following it, nothing that has not been directly under the final control of our courts is remotely legal.      This wilful calamity is our own fault. Too few people for too long have been too bone idle to meet their obligations to society and vote for the last forty years. We are all involved. That is why the Human Rights Act is all wrong and should be the Human Responsibility and Accountability Act. This has come about due to a proclivity of people not paying their taxes and being on the electoral register makes them visible to the tax collectors.
     At which point I have broken off to attend to the garden [two large plant pots] before the next shower of rain. In the mean time a friend has posted on Facebook "Mad Friday morning history essay, status topic: Appeasement. [interwar period, WWI, WWII and its irrelevance to this strange business everyone calls 'Breggsit' (I always call it quite distinctly Brexit)] A Government adviser has compared our EU exit to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.
My post here is about Appeasement *not* our modern day issue of the EU.
       '... Am a bit confused by the claims of Lord Adonis, he graduated Oxford with a First Class Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History and held a fellowship in History and Politics at Nuffield College.  
      'We are negotiating not with an ambitious dictator and his allies but the economic arm of our European identity. We chose to leave with a divided British public, one side shouting for sovereignty and the other for unity. The rest of Europe did not want us to leave, the rest of Europe has urged us to remain connected to mutually beneficial infrastructures. The rest of Europe is not living a more luxurious existence than the UK and it is unlikely to begin doing so in the immediate future. Lord Adonis fears the EU will become more powerful without us and the UK will miss out on benefits we should have clung to, if I understand him correctly.
      'Appeasement is often scoffed at as the worst act of post war sentimentality, giving Hitler leverage and time to augment his machinery of war. It certainly did benefit Hitler but cemented the problem as a definite cause which enabled allies to collaborate decisively. This may not have been the case had we acted pre-emptively and slid into a muddled war of side-changing and blame shifting. In 1939 Hitler violated Appeasement agreements. He invaded Poland, breaking the non-aggression treaty. 
... I could go on but the basic point is Appeasement has very little to do with the UK's current exit from Europe.' [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/tory-mps-call-lord-adonis-sac…/]"
     That quotation is a timely opportunity to state I agree with both presumptions: history is important to an understanding of today; it requires accuracy and careful analysis to be factually relevant and worthy of quoting.
     Arguably, there is a coercion: "we are going this way and we dare you to oppose." The collective whole is a facade, pretending to be one thing while covertly intending to be something else. The base simplicity is expressed by determining that we taxpayers who are expected to pay the bills do not direct absolutely. A civil service determines what it will do for us at our expense. Totally unacceptable from first base. We, the people, are the masters unequivocally.
     To this point the British parliament is debating the whole but it also has to tackle that the collective whole has sustained much damage from the EU authoritarianism which has reduced standards, due to Parliament's preoccupation with EU rulings, completely irrelevant to their getting on with the job of running our country. We even have our own civil service saying it does not know how to run the country because it has been too preoccupied with the EU!
     What the General Election has been about is the detail of Brexit, caused primarily by Cameron's inability to present a cohesive proposal. May chose to take an authoritarian "I'm in charge" line which failed because she made the same mistake Cameron made, they were both totally out of touch with the mood of the country. It is for parliament, not the government to determine our laws. UK centralisation is a quick, by necessity, solution. After Brexit is the time for devolution detail.
     I will choose to lay blame at EU interferences for the increasingly obvious failings of our basic management structure. The fundamental responsibility lies with directors of companies, regardless of the law. The corporate whole of the board is responsible for ensuring the right executives with the appropriate knowledge are on the board. From that point on the board is responsible for the company's decisions. So far, it appears there have been serious company failings regarding the Grenfell tower fiasco. Parliament is reviewing the entire process.
     As indicated by the General Election, there is preference for sound finance; a tiredness of austerity but an acceptance of its need. Not a conflict, a re-adjustment of the way the two are balanced. The Tories have not changed with the times and the times they are a-changing.
     We will learn, over the next few months, who are the egoists and who are there to render service.

Thursday 13^th JULY [morning]
What this is basically about is that our own politicians have never reconciled themselves with the EU from the beginning, hence their disinclination to stand firm on matters relevant to us and the all too easy acceptance of what should never have been accepted.
     This is why Cameron failed to present a logical argument over the referendum. He demonstrated again how incompetent are our own politicians. They do not understand basic management. How could any party put in a leader who is so incompetent as to not know the mood of the country? While I would not have put money on it I knew the mood of the country twenty years ago. All I was was a newly elected town councillor. Why? Because the Conservatives had made my home town such a disaster that a bunch of business friends got together and agreed it was time to move on with a sound business practice and the town agreed! We were all independent anent and of diverse political persuasion.
     Instigated by the previous council we were involved with central government in a traffic management project in conjunction with nine other towns. At my personal expense I visited all the other nine, meeting with electorate, councillors and business people, discussing how they were interpreting the ideas and the effect on their communities.
      I also collected a cross opinion on other aspects, including the EU and twenty years ago acquired the view expressed in the referendum last year. How can I, a fresh-faced councillor acquire this knowledge when a Prime Minister has not? Probably for the same reason an entrenched, over many years, Tory town threw out a Tory council for a bunch of unknown inexperienced independents of diverse political persuasions: it was time for new thinking, basic management and achievement.
     What is the result twenty years on? Subsequent councils have been forced to confirm, re-furbish and continue with the changes we made, some of which the previous councils had resolutely decided they would not do, such as a youth council, youth centre and a "safe house". Apparently this local matter had not penetrated central thinking so that twenty years later the Conservatives made the same mistake nationally. They simply did not have a clue as to what was going on in the world around them.
     As to the General Election 2017, this was the result of our own politicians' muddled thinking. They didn't know which way to go because they themselves had failed for so long to take any real interest, let alone persisting with our national requirements. The collective whole of the EU is a charade, image rather than reality. The EEC was no problem. The failure was to allow credibility to the incredible idea that politics should enter the arena of commerce. There was also the failure to remember that commerce to society is the spade to the gardener. Society must control commerce, just as the gardener directs his spade and determines where and how he will use it.

Saturday 1^st JULY [morning]
Picking up a "forgotten" note which I don't recall previously publishing, "We are not leaving the EU, we never joined, our politicians failed to bring a referendum at a sensible timing, twenty years ago when it was expected and the EU, being the bossy boots foreign civil servants have the habit of being, not rendering service as we the people direct them, tried to push themselves ahead of their time. That is the root of the problem, too many people assuming something that was not established until last year, when we made it clear we didn't want them. All costs are wilfully incurred by EU irresponsibility and sheer pig-headed arrogance of our own singularly stupid UK politicians."
     However, we do seem to be talking to the EU and discussing in parliament, despite the Conservative party's determination to announce almost every hour that it has completely lost site of base camp. Kensington and Chelsea borough council seems as indifferently managed as was my home town council, which is why I and an assortment of mostly business friends decided to "take over" to which the electorate agreed. Perhaps Kensington and Chelsea don't have their own version of independently minded council tax payers! Subsequent councils to ours have been forced to maintain and improve upon what we changed because the local Tories wouldn't implement in the first place.
     This is the beauty of wider concepts than the narrow-minded singularity of most religions. There is an increasing "greater sense of being" beyond this present time and plane, which needs the wider exploration that secular society should be able to accommodate but it hasn't. The EU's secularity has shied away from addressing truly moral issues, allowing religion to be an exception to the moral high ground of sexual equality in organisations. Is this lack of moral fibre the root cause of moral degradation? The EU mentality has insidiously inculcated itself over the intervening years, causing the accumulated resentment expressed in last year's Referendum, with its ridiculous ideas that miles, feet and inches, pounds and ounces should be expunged from use, an attitude deliberately designed to declare, "We are the EU and we are now in charge" to which the only rational response was a clear "up yours as far as we can ram it". The government was so out of touch with its populace that it expressed surprise at the Referendum result. Out of touch applies to all British political parties, they are all at sea in their own ways at both levels of government: nationally, foreign to run our country instead of us (especially the LibDems) and the microcosm at local level, Kensington and Chelsea.
     The Labour party is in no significant position of power to do much damage but get in the way, just a little bit more than the LibDems who compensate for their lack of numbers with hedonistic enthusiasm for anyone remotely foreign and totally lacking in British empathy.
     So, we come to the miniscule that should be local government but suddenly magnified to the world stage, Grenfell tower and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. From my own even smaller experience of my home town to the competence of national government, the Conservative party provides us with a continuity of abysmal incompetence, casually proclaiming to the world at large they simply have not a clue... about anything!
     Nationally, they have failed to see the detail in the context of the overall tapestry of life, that economic reality is accepted in principle nationally but we have been too long in the same gear, a mistake I made with my own car the other night, returning from a family dinner.
      There is an undercurrent of social empathy with the less advantaged members of society and a change of emphasis was needed and expected, so the Tory party charged in with nothing more than "same as usual" but failing totally to explain they were aware of the need for looking further in advance, hence the change in retired preference to the younger members of society, appallingly badly handled by idiots over keen to show the stupidities of their inexperience. How could such inadequates be appointed? They were and that they were is where we see not religion's "Hand of God" but the "Eternal Mind" that is all Creation of which we are all a part, if not all of us sufficiently aware as to recognise it.
     This "Eternal Mind" is not represented by any or even all religions which, even collectively have promoted only a partial understanding of spirituality not the wider world of philosophy, where ego accepts itself as but a cypher in the collective whole, yet feels no diminishment in understanding its place more fully.
     Returning to the microcosm that is now the wider world's focus. Two weeks on the media turns to the shambles of a borough council's planning meeting. The Conservative party in complete disarray, showing itself incapable of organising a party in a brewery such was the inexperience of its councillors. I have written about this in my Weekly Commentary, starting in July.
     The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme held a session for the Grenfell tower survivors, further exemplifying the shambles of the Conservative party's borough council. I found this a great insight, showing up how immigrants simply have not melded into society. Multiculturalism is clearly not working, it is a postured façade to hide the defects of social integration but Multiculturalism should be the acquisition of a full understanding of more than one culture, not the loss or diminishment of the essential culture for day-to-day living and transactions.
      Bluntly, I didn't understand a word of it. Now, we were dealing with people who are still seriously traumatised but seemed to have no understanding of due procedure. To my inexperienced eye it seemed there was no basic bereavement counselling. On my other page I raise the issues expected of a council in that situation, so I will not address those points here. We expect immigrants to recognise and respect the country they have entered and declare themselves multicultural through their ability to operate in both their own and the host country's culture instinctively. The implication that many seem not to have realised is that if that is so, does it not mean the indigenous population has to change and adapt?
      We have, over centuries by accumulating other languages into our own, by extending our vocabulary like 'exeat' and 'bungalow' but have we retained an insularity rather than gained a global view of other cultures, while rightly expecting them to adapt their ways to ours?
      The implication behind this is a failure of our education system, raising May's concern for grammar schools (or a change in non-grammar school curricula). Can insularity think globally? Yet we as an island but through trade have always been globally orientated, hence one of the problems with the EU, in truth it is insular but is that problem a social problem? I am not a social historian but surely it was not solely the masters who were involved in trade? That experience involved shopkeepers and their assistants, sailors etc even including dockers gathering a sense of global awareness through trade. From where and how is this disillusionment sourcing? Is it the insularity of the EU and regulation by diktat instead of our native commonsense which is instinctively flexible to the moment?after
     Through all this turmoil, where lies the eternal guiding moral hand? In philosophy, not religion. There are diverse opinions on spiritual progression before and after this earth existence but at all stages we are a part of the collective enormous whole of which we can only gain the view through a particular window at a particular stage of our own growth in awareness. What has been achieved by the free will of individual egos each knowingly or (more probably) unknowingly of their effect in the collective whole which progresses through our successes and failures?
     The steadiness of this kingdom through diverse turmoil has enabled our present crisis to be safely handled. Parliament is once more truly its own. Through parliament we should gain a rational resolve of our diverse conflicts in both the macrocosm and the microcosm. We are in an era of great change for which we should hold no fear but we need to be aware of the machinations of individual egos whose purpose is not the rendition of service to the collective whole but initially the promotion of their own self-glory.

Saturday 16^th JUNE [morning]
STILL MOVING ON...
There seems extraordinary astonishment that May should carry on. Who else and what else was to be done? What is the advantage? Nothing is routine. Everyone is involved and everyone has to think things through. We have, in effect, a coalition government without the formalities. Every MP's vote counts, it is what parliament is all about.
      So many people doing such wondrous things around the London fire block I realise how useless and inadequate I am in an emergency but at least, were I in administration and had been involved, I hope I would not be accountable for such horrendous failure as must have taken place at some stage since it was built or refurbished.
       Who are apparently inexperienced in property management. This is precisely the problem, too many rank amateurs who have not a clue about property management are acting as landlords, totally inexperienced in the profession. This derives from useless interest rates, hence the concern about the economy and Labour's proven history of indebtedness. Rank amateurs leaving the proven safeness of bank deposits for investment in property but failing to understand the personal liabilities such investment entails.

Friday 8^th JUNE [post meridian]
STILL MOVING ON...
There seems extraordinary astonishment at May's response which raises concern as to what our state schools are teaching. This extraordinarily negative reaction seems to show an appalling lack of knowledge of our own constitution and history, despite one of the main objections to the EU, politicising of a "simple" economic relationship. It is precisely because we do not have a stratified Constitution but one accumulated over time, absorbing the proven success of diverse crises over 1,000 years. We are instinctively flexible to changing times and situations while holding a steady ship.
     As I have just diverted myself to answering a friend's query I'll cut straight to the gist and follow up later with relevant detail.

1. We are the UK and intend to remain a collective whole, welded through consultation and respect for individual opinions in a structure geared to "first past the post". The Referendum was an individual proportional representation that has to fit into a more rigid framework but unlike the EU's rigid structure ours has historically acquired diverse options of adaptability.

2.DUP is part of the UK's Conservative party devolved to NI just as Wales has a devolved government and its own national party with UK wide parties able to also stand. Likewise Scotland. The full title of the Conservative party is "Conservative and Unionist Party".
    Scotland's SNP has abused its role and tried to push its ego rather than respond to the mood of the Scottish body politic as it had a duty to know. Its ego worked against itself, saying "Scotland may have said "no" to separation but we SNP's are determined to counter that view by persisting with independence, so SNP is in a reduced position.
    
3. The UK's seeming negative response to May's handling. There is a complex process of multi-diversity within the UK boundaries. The Referendum said the UK does not want that separation to extend to allowing EU legislation controlling us, hence Brexit. The pros and cons of May's election are diverse and complicated but she had sound reasons because diverse persons were determined to thrust their egos in preference to rendering the country service. The result means the General Election is a Brexit repeat.
     Brexit was the people, as individuals, speaking. The UK 2016 election for May as party leader was countered by objections that May had not been nationally elected as party leader and therefore entitled to be PM. Also, Cameron's manifesto was now outdated, hence the complaints about the budget and times were moving on: Flexibility, Adaptability, Malleability, more reasons why the EU's structure is so wrong, making the same mistake most religions make, standing steadfast in defiance of reality, refusing to recognise that Creation is a state of continual change through time.
     We have once, may be twice, been offered a referendum on a change to our voting system and we have rejected the possibility. We have debated the House of Lords. It requires reform but I do not believe it should be an electable chamber. Our country is a unique institution and, although in fits and starts, manages to adapt over time as time itself progresses and creates the need for change. The EU cannot cope with anything that counters the egos of its little civil servants. Our civil servants are the classic servants being deferential to the lawful conduct of government but in no way subservient to it. They will argue when they feel appropriate.
     Writing purely personally, I have been swayed to vote Corbyn but am inclined to May. In my case it was highly unlikely to have any effect, I am in a constituency instinctively biased to the Conservatives. What has been achieved has been an individual mass move towards socialism but countered in any trades unions intentions or other "hidden" political manoeuvring by a Tory government. A government that was in danger of losing sight of its social responsibilities while being the one party that seemed hard-headed enough to deal with the bizarre irrationalists for no other reason than pure ego. That is where (among other things) the EU fails. Its beholden sense of self-importance rather than the rendering of service.

I feel like a weekend sailor nosing into port, his boat’s rigging somewhat awry from stormy seas deliberately encountered for the experience of a sea change. I was not necessarily aiming for a home port, after looking around at options but finally I am likely to moor in the more familiar of several home harbour options.
                  I started commenting on the Election by stating that the Labour party had at last managed to produce a rational leader with the right policies, unfortunately for the wrong election! That seems to be my final decision. In the same way that twenty years ago I concluded the overall national mood was “EU in your place, this is the UK and it is we who run things here!” Twenty or so years later, such is the managerial incompetence of our politicians on both sides and the middle of our mainstream views, we were actually asked our opinion and promptly gave it, with a higher than usual expression of individual opinion, for once individually expressed opinions were unfettered with the vagaries of indolence that permanently denies us a meaningful voting system—but then, I believe it was us, collectively that could not determine a better choice, albeit the dice were loaded!
                  So, as I enter that curtained booth where will I mark my cross? It has to be Conservative but… Nationally we are approaching the end of our tether of austerity. Why do we have austerity? We had governance by Labour and most recently a Conservative government hampered by daydreaming Liberal Democrats but neither have the Conservatives grasped the chill of a changing mood across the electorate’s face. Neither, I feel, has the electorate grasped the enormity of Brexit, an enormity foisted on us by the arrogance and stupidity of our politicians in all three main parties. Had our own politicians shown the professional competence they perennially persist in displaying by its absence, the Referendum would have been held twenty or so years ago before any serious damage had been sustained by our legal system which has gone completely off the rails as a consequence. That there is much to be put right quickly is entirely due to those self-same politicians once again standing for re-election.
                  We have three years of chaos ahead for which there is no option but to batter down the hatches. This is not the time to be profligate with the little money we have, so the social winds have to be prevailed against. That does not mean our allocations are rightly balanced. There is no problem with a penny or even two on income tax it is simply the way it is allocated, how it is stratified. That NHS decision-making and management, in conjunction with social needs require re-balancing is unquestionable but Labour has never understood sound fiscal policy and as a result of Tony Blair and his cronies would Labour MPs actually obey the leader, most have stated their wilful arrogance in doing their own thing which then brings into play other parties of secondary importance suddenly being given a crow-bar with which they can wreak their own states of chaos totally out of proportion of their significance.
                  In writing this I have convinced myself, I do know what I am going to do. C’est la vie! Que sera sera!

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From The New York Times. "... There are, no doubt, multiple reasons, especially cultural anxiety over Islamic immigrants. But it seems clear that votes for Le Pen will in part be votes of protest against what are perceived as the high handed, out-of-touch officials running the European Union. And that perception unfortunately has an element of truth.
      Those of us who watched European institutions deal with the debt crisis that began in Greece and spread across much of Europe were shocked at the combination of callousness and arrogance that prevailed throughout.
      Even though Brussels and Berlin were wrong again and again about the economics — even though the austerity they imposed was every bit as economically disastrous as critics warned — they continued to act as if they knew all the answers, that any suffering along the way was, in effect, necessary punishment for past sins.
      Politically, Eurocrats got away with this behaviour because small nations were easy to bully, too terrified of being cut off from euro financing to stand up to unreasonable demands. But Europe’s elite will be making a terrible mistake if it believes it can behave the same way to bigger players.
      Indeed, there are already intimations of disaster in the negotiations now taking place between the European Union and Britain. ..."

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