Hermann Göring: No German cities will ever be bombed = NATO: we can attack the Russian Federation, but the Russian Federation will never attack us.

 

The concept of invincibility is still very much amongst us and we see it in the speeches and statements made by politicians and mass media personalities. We see in news reports and commentary about the conflict in Ukraine.

All the talk about using long range missiles is based on the concept of invincibility and of 'it cannot happen to us'.

Reality is exactly the opposite. A war by proxy can really and truly become a direct military involvement that could see Berlin, London, Paris, Warsaw and many other cities turned into ash and debris with no living soul in them.

We are not in the 1930s and 1940s. We are in 2024. The distances have become a lot shorter. What could be done in months and weeks can now be done in minutes.

It takes 15 minutes for a 100 megaton nuclear device to reach London and there will be scarcely the time to evacuate a city of more than 8 million people during the night and of more than 9 million people during the day. Not that policians, military men, mass media and civilians could take any notice of what could land on top of them all. They have got the same of awareness the inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had in 1945. They believe - once again - in the concept of invincibility.  

One only has to read what those posting messages on social media say to know how convinced they are, believing that they can attack somebody else without a care in the world.

Understanbly, people have no personal memories of World War One or World War Two. The scenes of devastation is something that they can see in pictures, but they never had any personal experience of it. I guess those have an idea of what could happen to Europe are now being massacred by Israel and seeing their cities and towns turned into rubble with no living soul in them. It takes time for those who have not been exposed to total destruction to understand they themselves could suffer a similar fate.

Conservative Party: Sarah Woolaston complains that she cannot use an office reserved for the Conservative Party

Sarah Woolaston MP complains that she can no longer use an office reserved for the Conservative Party

When you leave a political party, are you supposed to continue using office space reserved for the said political party? Sarah Woolaston MP seems to think that she is entitled to do so. This shows, once again, her lack of understanding of political realities. If a set of Conservative Party MPs leave the Conservative Party, do they believe that they have some kind of entitlement reserved for the Conservative Party?

She and others left the Conservative Party and joined a new political party only to abandon the new political party not long afterwards. Should there be another General Election, most of them would be lucky to keep their seats - not just their offices.

Whether there is or isn't a new General Election in the autumn, the fact remains that the political spectrum in the United Kingdom is in a state of flux while fundamental issues are not being dealt with. For all the talk about integration, there is a disconnect between Parliament and the Electorate.

There is a gap between local authorities and the people that they are supposed to rule and represent and this is added to the social lack of contact between people that live in the same towns and on the same streets. We seem to be more linked to somebody we find on social media than to our own neighbours. Candidates are appointed by local constituencies or by the top officials of political parties and then the Electorate is supposed to rubberstamp decisions others have made.

If we want change, we will have to revise what we call Democracy.