Insidious, these blog thingies.
I started writing a little blog of my own, as a place to moan without upsetting quite so many people on Facebook (!), and now I seem to be involved in rather a lot - either following or writing, or helping to write.
For instance, I can recommend the blog on the Voluntary Action North Lincolnshire website - it tries to explain what VANL does, which is difficult because it keeps changing with economic circumstance. Green Party councillors on both Bottesford and Barton Town Councils have blogs, which they write between them, and I'm following some other interesting ones which explain about the people who write them.
Blogs are a great way to find out about other people. You rarely have time to talk to people nowadays, so why not read their thoughts in their blog? People you may have thought you would not like become much more understandable when you read about their motivations.
My only problem now is, when do I find time for all the other stuff I used to do?
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
Monday, 7 March 2016
Ch, ch, ch, ch, changes
I've just been reading some of Martin Bell's book about why he turned to politics, and he's quite right.
We all know things change over time. If not, we'd stagnate and get nowhere. But before I was born, everyone respected the UK. Our press told the truth; our politicians were wise and would support and protect weaker nations; we stood for law and order, and we had a place in the prosperity stakes.
What happened?
As Martin Bell says, in the 1990s the press went down the plughole. Rather than chasing the stories that were important, that mattered, that might make a difference, the press were taken over by multimillionaires wanting to make money and possibly put their own point of view as fact. Sales plummeted, but they continued pushing to make papers like the Sun concentrate on naked women and misbehaving single parents, instead of what our politicians were doing abroad. It didn't seem too important at the time - we were all busy trying to make more money ourselves in the 1990s (probably because they'd told us it was a clever thing to do), and we didn't have time to read the papers.
But while we were ignoring the boobs in the tabloids (in many ways!), those same multimillionaires, with their friends, pushed the politicians into supporting their crazy schemes, reducing their taxes and selling their goods to make them even richer. So we got even less news from the rest of the world, wars broke out behind our backs, fuelled by the arms manufactured by these men and their friends, and millions of people were starved, bombed and driven out of their homes through no fault of their own.
And only now do the great British public complain - they don't want these same refugees to come here. They might steal our jobs! Well, we don't have any skilled people here to do many of those jobs; neither do we have any unskilled people to do the unskilled jobs, because they're apparently too busy procreating and stuffing their benefits money up their noses or into their arms - I do, of course, get my information from the tabloid press here!
We now have social media to help us, so perhaps now is the time to set up a new press, like the Victorians did, to pass on the real news of what's happening in the world. In the meantime, use your own social networking skills to find out about it. Don't just believe the tosh they print or publish on TV - even the Russians beam their version of news to us, but we all know from James Bond how reliable that's likely to be. (Having said that, some of it makes more sense than what our lot are telling us!). Take it all with a very large pinch of salt, and work out for yourself what's really happening.
Then Vote Green at the next election!
We all know things change over time. If not, we'd stagnate and get nowhere. But before I was born, everyone respected the UK. Our press told the truth; our politicians were wise and would support and protect weaker nations; we stood for law and order, and we had a place in the prosperity stakes.
What happened?
As Martin Bell says, in the 1990s the press went down the plughole. Rather than chasing the stories that were important, that mattered, that might make a difference, the press were taken over by multimillionaires wanting to make money and possibly put their own point of view as fact. Sales plummeted, but they continued pushing to make papers like the Sun concentrate on naked women and misbehaving single parents, instead of what our politicians were doing abroad. It didn't seem too important at the time - we were all busy trying to make more money ourselves in the 1990s (probably because they'd told us it was a clever thing to do), and we didn't have time to read the papers.
But while we were ignoring the boobs in the tabloids (in many ways!), those same multimillionaires, with their friends, pushed the politicians into supporting their crazy schemes, reducing their taxes and selling their goods to make them even richer. So we got even less news from the rest of the world, wars broke out behind our backs, fuelled by the arms manufactured by these men and their friends, and millions of people were starved, bombed and driven out of their homes through no fault of their own.
And only now do the great British public complain - they don't want these same refugees to come here. They might steal our jobs! Well, we don't have any skilled people here to do many of those jobs; neither do we have any unskilled people to do the unskilled jobs, because they're apparently too busy procreating and stuffing their benefits money up their noses or into their arms - I do, of course, get my information from the tabloid press here!
We now have social media to help us, so perhaps now is the time to set up a new press, like the Victorians did, to pass on the real news of what's happening in the world. In the meantime, use your own social networking skills to find out about it. Don't just believe the tosh they print or publish on TV - even the Russians beam their version of news to us, but we all know from James Bond how reliable that's likely to be. (Having said that, some of it makes more sense than what our lot are telling us!). Take it all with a very large pinch of salt, and work out for yourself what's really happening.
Then Vote Green at the next election!
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