What a mess

Blip was taken at around 15:00 as the sunset behind the house. Shows why we have little PV electricity generation at this time of year. The photo was taken from the sitting room.

This evening yet another TV joke political talk show. For a second I thought it may be interesting. The invited Brexiteer was Greg Hands the MP for Chelsea and Fulham. Like most London districts the referendum vote was around 70% for Remain. Hands voted Remain. He speaks very good German having done a gap year working in Berlin and then marrying a German who has retained her German citizenship and not applied for English citizenship. Hand has both US and UK citizenship.

Hands claims to be above all a democrat and thus obliged to hold up the "huge" majority won by the Leave side in the referendum. With this in mind, he voted against Mrs May's deal on Tuesday. However, as he said again he is a really true Democrat and voted for her in the subsequent vote of confidence called by the opposing Labour party.

And why? To simply save his backside. He has got himself into hot water the last couple of years over the Grenfell fire tragedy on his patch and also trying to get the Notting Hill Carnival restricted. There is a lot of potential and I suspect new Labour voters queuing up to give the Conservatives in that part of the world a very hard time.

Democrat, my backside.

What made the discussion very funny was the young ultra left leader of the hard left "Left party" which emerged from the Communist East German party. She and Hands were tripping over themselves to be critical of the EU. I suspect they had a drink or two after the show.

And when the Leftie laid into the EU in support of English workers saying that the cheap EU immigrants into Europe had forced a drop in workers wages and a vast improvement in wealth the others (excl. Hands of course) laid into her:

It was exactly the awful EU who agreed to every single individual state opting into or out of an agreement with the new EU states of Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria that severe restrictions could be implemented for the first seven years to prevent this mass immigration of foreign workers. All countries had fears, especially Germany and Austria right on the borders to these countries.

Which country criticised this judgement by the EU restricting employees rights to work in other EU countries. The UK of course "Typical EU restricting free markets, the lifeblood of a modern global open liberal (conservative bosses and moneyed elites) economy".

So almost all countries used this step by step integration/matching of labour rates with the exception of the UK which threw its doors wide open with the result that gave us the 2016 referendum result. However, the voters hadn't comprehended that their conservative government had recognised that the EU immigrant masses not only contributed huge amounts to the economy but also allowed them to get rid of all the backup support health service workers as they had attracted thousands. Remember a few years before, the government had to arrange German medical personnel to be flown into the UK on Fridays to do a 48-hour shift in UK hospitals to prevent a total collapse?.

Stupid people being made to look even dumber by their bigot leaders stuffing their pockets. I hate to mention Mr Hands has good contacts in the London Financial World.

The other panellists had a ball including the Guardian journalist in Berlin who has now got German citizenship, When asked if she would have given up her UK passport if there wasn't a dual citizenship agreement between the UK &  Germany, she smiled from ear to ear and said "That is a very mean question" which brought everyone to laugh.