New Agenda on Sunday. is out! Edition of 3rd December 2017

Good morning everyone.

My GP tells me that this will last for, "at least a few weeks",which may go towards explaining the absence of the cynicism and warped sarcasm usually associated with this weekly note. She has always been very good with her prognosis (or is it prognoses?) in the past and I hope that she is on the ball this time too.

Any other person, in any other job, would, by now, have been sacked for gross misconduct and misuse of company facilities. Why is Damian Green so different from the rest of us?

As recently as 18th November last, I wrote a piece asking "What has happened to the Damian Green Investigation?" It seems that we now have the answer. The sound of closing ranks and doors slamming shut in Downing Street, together with the refusal of Theresa May to direct that the cabinet office investigation led by Sue Gray be concluded forthwith and that the findings of the investigation be published without further delay, is in direct contradiction to the assurances that May gave in a previous commitment to full transparency.

The way in which Green is apparently immune from investigation and protected from any consequences in respect of his (alleged) offences, is outrageous and an insult to the public perception of justice.

Read the full comment at: http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/damian-green-inquiry-negated-by-prime.html (copy and paste link)

Meanwhile, back in Jersey, Sir David Kirch is giving away his usual Christmas gift vouchers to all Islanders aged 70 or over. This distribution of £110 Co-Op vouchers has been a Christmas highlight every year since Kirch's own 70th Birthday in 2006. It would be easy to question the motives of David Kirch, but I believe this is a genuine act of individual charity, which is rare. As Kirch says, " I am only too aware of how difficult it is for certain elderly members of our community in Jersey to keep up with the cost of living on a limited budget"

The vouchers are available from parish halls between 30 November and 15 December.

It seems that the Express has now been joined by much of the media together with Sky Television News and even BBC News, in predicting that as from Wednesday night into Thursday, going on over the week end and up to Christmas, we will be hit by sub zero temperatures, minus 10 is forecast, frost and heavy snow! Get the thermals ready. If the BBC are predicting this calamity, then it must be true.

Again, with appologies for the brevity,

Have a nice week

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

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