The intricacies of life in a world about which we know very little

If you asked most ordinary people on the streets about basic details about how governments - national, regional and local - work you would be confronted with a barrage of 'I don't know'. If you asked about basic pieces of legislation, you would be confronted with similar reactions because in actual fact most people don't know how the authorities we elect work and have no real understanding of most of the legislation and regulations implemented.

If you wanted to know about immigration legislation, most probably you would end up asking a solicitor involved in immigration how things work and this clearly shows that the idea of being 'represented' goes much too far to the point that we know very little about the real world in which we live.

It is a bit like walking in the streets or across a park. Do you know most of the plants, trees, bushes and flowers? I bet that you don't. We live in ignorance and these levels of ignorance transform life into a very a very perilous journey indeed. We have eyes and we are unable to see. We have ears and we are unable to hear. We have very little understanding of what is really going on.

Spain selling jet fighters to Argentina?

As if the financial crisis was not enough with more than 40 per cent unemployment, the Spanish government is making things worse by implementing measures and taking actions that put Spain on a collision course against the United Kingdom.

Spanish reactions led to the EU Commission taking direct action and telling Spain in no uncertain words that it must stop antagonizing Britain, but the EU Commission calls seem to have gone unheard because now Spain is taking military actions by offering military support to Argentina.

So here goes the story. Britain helps bankrupt Argentina to get financial lines and Argentina uses money obtained thanks to Britain to buy Spanish weapons to threaten Britain.

National Health Service - Aneurin Bevan MP

"It will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it". Aneurin Bevan MP talking about the National Health Service.

We criticize both Labour's and Conservative's mismanagement of the National Health Service because we care about the National Health Service but we will never forget a Labour Party man called Aneurin Bevan who championed the creation of the National Health Service.

We have a long standing debt of gratitude and this is why we remember the words of Aneurin Bevan.

The National Health Service belongs to the British people.

 

 

Welfare: it is very difficult to understand - or even justify - childcare reforms

The headline: Osborne backs childcare cash for couples on up to £299,000

The commentary: The Chancellor denied it was unfair for very high earners to get government help of up to £1,200 tax-free per child for nursery places.

The group Mothers at Home Matter reportedly says that a single earner family on £36,000 pays £9,000 in tax while two earners with the same total income pay just £6,500.

My angle of the story is to ask the question: why does a family that earns more than £150,000 a year actually needs childcare support?  With such yearly income, what is the point of getting any welfare payments at all?

Gibraltar: a diversion from Spain's financial troubles

Gibraltar: Something to keep the minds of a struggling Spain busy.

It is not by chance that Spain is once again talking about Gibraltar and trying to impose sanctions and more stringent border controls. I wonder where all the regulations of the European Union stands when it comes to political harassment against a European Union country.


Never mind if Spanish unemployment is about 33 per cent. Never mind if entire generations are lost because the Spanish economy is falling apart. "Instead of questioning European Union policies, let's talk about Gibraltar" says the Spanish Government when imposing measures that look extremely suspicious from a legal point of view.

The border crossings between Gibraltar and continental Spain are becoming some kind of Checkpoint Charlie. Because I understand that some readers might not be old enough or well-read enough to understand what I am talking about here comes the explanation.  Checkpoint Charlie was one of the most famous (or infamous) border crossings in Berlin during the Soviet Era.

Can women's nudity become a new form of political power?

For centuries women have been discriminated against. Even today, it is matter of fact that many women doing the same job as men get paid less and many live like in some Ibsen's Dolls House.

Can female nudity break down conventions and transform the world without recognition? FEMEN is a new reality and while some discard it as some sort of passing fad, I tend to see it with great interest and I would say that in the present stale and corrupted world of politics FEMEN might be exactly what we need.

http://femen.org/en

Another side of Islam: Purple Jihad

Purple Jihad?

 

The London Regional Press Office has been doing some research and we are discovering quite a few things that we believe our readers should know about. As always, we deal with facts.