Rogers Randomness

Who wants more tourists?

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Cornwall

In the Cornwall tourists are far from good for the local economy. They drive down wages and incomes, inflate property values, mean that we have the most expensive water rates in the country by a long way, produce mountains of rubbish and waste, clog up the roads with drivers who can't reverse and think their car gets narrower if they go slower, desecrate the natural environment, and generally behave like arrogant tosspots. We need a wall.

What Goes Around

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Its not Sunday, but here's a press release I just came across which you might enjoy:
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The truth is that whether Britain stays in or comes out of Europe we are doomed to continue our industrial decline with all that that implies. World conditions of (increasing) overpopulation, resource shortages and food scarcity will see to that. Europe as a whole will one day have to face the same situation being only about 80% self sufficient.
The choice facing Britain on June 5th is very simple:-

"Are we prepared to accept a sharp sudden jolt of catastrophic proportions in unemployment, food shortages and so on by pulling out now, but by being the first industrialised nation to face up to the realities of 'the post industrial age' use this to advantage to become once again our own masters.(Producing all our own food & living within our resources)"
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"Do we hang onto Europe and sink slowly into the slough and the inevitable eventual even greater catastrophy that faces the Western World over a longer period of time barring a complete shift in fundamental values and policies" ?
The PEOPLE party says 'NO' as the answer in this referendum but looks hopefully to a broader vision of our future needs.
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Dated 31st May 1975. What goes around comes around.
(yes they couldn't spell catastrophe - but remember typewriters didn't have spell-checkers built in)

Trumpt Protest Yawn

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Can anyone point me at an anti-Trump protest or group in the UK that has had any achievable purpose other than blowing off and whingeing?
Trump is president of the US and that is their problem (or not problem). Where it affects us in the UK is only in the relationship between the two countries.
Is anyone actually calling for a withdrawal from the "special relationship" (ie the UK govt as the USA's poodle or gimp), or a boycott on US goods and services? That could be smart (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) even if difficult. The simple mutual hand-wringing about how terrible it all is serves no purpose and when you delve deeper is often simply disguised class bigotry.

There is no Ecology Party

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Thanks to a much delayed bus I found myself driving the A30 to Exeter at 5pm on Friday listening to R3. GP leadership was an item on the news so I gritted my teeth and switched to R4 to listen to the PM take on it.

As reception drifted in and out around Dartmoor I heard their new leadership through the static do a good job of trying to appeal to Labour/Socialist votes and batting away loaded questions by the interviewer (well done there), but absolutely no mention of what should make the GP a unique proposition - no mention of environmental crisis, nothing, nada.

Such a shame there is no longer an Ecology Party in the UK and no representation at all for the wider Green Movement. No attempt to appeal to a wide demographic who are deeply concerned about core green issues like continuing eco-system collapse. Just a narrow attempt to appeal to college educated sensible leftish minded middle class people who think a progressive alliance (WTF ever that is) will somehow make everything all right and lead to the greenest government ever - again