Today is Good Friday, a day which was of huge spiritual significance in Western culture. Nowadays, it’s questionable if ‘culture’ can even be applied to what is presented to us as such.
For the vast majority of people this day only has significance because it’s the start for another holiday. For politicians and MSM editors it’s just another day in which to posture and show off and to predict dire things to come, for example ‘hell’.
‘Hell’ nowadays means another huge traffic jam at Dover, or perhaps some rioting in yon place which necessitated the ‘Good Friday Agreement’. We also must have ‘slavery’. Look at the headline for the BBC’s frontpage collection: “Newspaper headlines: ‘Bad Friday’ and ‘King backs slavery research’” (link). ‘Bad’ Friday – geddit? Clever, innit!
And so to the announcement to all our contributors and readers: Debbie and I are going to take these holidays as well. Debbie is spending time with her family while I shall use these days in the sense of a retreat, by shunning the MSM and the ‘news’ they fabricate.
The site will remain open for comment posts but there won’t be any columns or news review until Monday.
I leave you with music expressing pain, confusion and hope which are part of the human condition.”We” in the ever so modern, ‘enlightened’ West have become conditioned not to mention them, but that doesn’t mean they’ve gone away.
Who else but J S Bach could have poured all this into this opening chorus of his St John’s Passion, composed and performed exactly 299 years ago on Good Friday, 7th April 1724:
This is the original score, written by J S Bach. You might like to read the text below the video where you also find the name of the conductor, choir and orchestra.
That’s all I have for today. Have a wonderful Easter Holiday.
Sorry to arrive at the party late, but now I`m here happy Easter everyone.
Reason for the delay is my elder son in Law has only just managed to fix my lap top, seems “edge” had altered my “display” and I had ended up with a magnified 3/4 screen, i.e. was not able to function the right hand side where the up and down bits live..
Also heard from my Daughter `down sarf` and she told me they had been out rolling their eggs today., a bit of a tradition in our family – does anyone else do it? or know of it? – we used to colour them too or draw funny faces on them.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing tomorrow`s offerings after everybody suitably refreshed and re-armed
Happy Good Friday, a deserved and merry Easter to all.
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might as well take this opportunity Viv to get this off my chest. Things can’t be written in black and white, but as a basis for talk, the following would be my recommendation.
There are a lot of small right wing parties of various levels of success. Only one has been successful . and is . the creation of Farage.. . So Farage must be the eldest statesmen. of any organisation .. . I suspect he enjoys the situation he is in now, but for all our sakes he needs to calm down and lead the easy way.. I would say since it’s his creation he should keep leadership of a thread or three.such as immigration, and Brexit but on both issues the uniparty has all the work and probably no gain.
At the same time the Little Right Wing Parties ( LRWP )can each take one or more sub categories. So ::– King Nigels Round Table.
I shal do this in short bits, because I tend to delete things by one means or another. few of which I remember afterwards
Loosely divide up into your Armies . Each mini army with the necessary . ( Links to Unions are welcome.)speciality but calling on central round table for shared services. ( Governments, Civil Service [ who hope for this role ], but later ], We then start to realise there are already models, but we must not use them -( eg localism-.). Each section to agree its speciality ( horizontally vertically or skewed or etc )
Grannies sayings.
Being cruel to be kind.
Bureaocracy is the oil of efficiency.. But also its enemy..
Like thinking of a family mum, dad, son , daughter , auntie, cousin, Neighbour, Corner policeman, postman etc. People can join any or all with tiny contribution for each ( Say £ 2 ) and Main services ( Wise Grandma, say £ 5 ) where to joinee pays say £ 11 being split with each amount sent to its seperate , different
cause.
more tomorrow.
TG Spokes………what, you mean there’s more….? Sorry, but I don’t understand what you’ve written above. Can you send it to Bletchley Park for deciphering!!!
TG Spokes……..It is obvious that you are not keeping yourself in the loop as to what is going on in this sphere. The leadership of the UK Independence Party, has in recent months made contact with all centre right parties and suggested that they come together under a loose coalition or alliance and fight each election with one candidate and with one overall leader. The suggestion as I understand it was met met by a cool response although some party/parties thought it was a good idea, the majority of these parties wanted to make their way through the political landscape by themselves. However, Reform UK of which Nigel Farage is a shareholder and therefore co-owner did not respond to the request to engage in talks. I have stated on this site many times that there should be a loose alliance of the centre right parties with one overall leader which in my opinion should be Nigel Farage as he is the most able to take on such a role, in terms of his pulling power and ability top make an impact. In fact I have said that it should have been he who should have instigated such a move, and I am not the only one to think that. However, in order to do this he actually has to want to do it himself, and I have now come to the conclusion that he doesn’t wish to do so. Far from him needing to clam down as you put it, I think as it stands at the present time he is far too laid back politically and now prefers to shout from the sidelines from the comfort and safety of a warm studio, and unfortunately to a fairly limited audience. I get the feeling that you think that all these centre right parties like the UK Independence Party, English Democrats, Heritage Party, SDP and the Liberal Party should all pack their bags and go home and join Reform UK. The big problem with that from my perspective at least, is that Reform UK are presently is presently led by someone who is as politically effective as a chocolate teapot who will never lead that party anywhere apart from failure.
Ambition Colin. .. As leaders of minority parties, their chances of MP ship, or even getting on the telly, are none existent. As we all understand, under one umbrella, that totally changes the dynamic. My preferred choice would be Viv’s idea of the under the Independent umbrella.ie A loose confederation, of independents. Whatever the word could be. ( A lot of people think that that is what Lib Dems were until disabused.).
We have got to find some way of getting them together under a sure fire name.or personality. Boris Could do it, Nigel could do it, Prince William, .Even King Charles under the eminently reasonable banner of splitting up an overpowerful Uniparty who pose a threat to us all
OK I do go on ..Sorry.
PS. Alexander the great was only the great, cause his dad cut taxes ?..
TG Spokes……Boris Johnson?……you’re having a Turkish Bath aren’t you (that’s cockney slang for laugh by the way). Johnson has been thoroughly discredited unless it has escaped your attention. Nobody takes the slightest attention to what this has been says anymore , and is finished as a front line politician. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could see him. He had his chance and blew it spectacularly. Of course Nigel could do it, but he doesn’t want to do it purely and simply. My suggestion for bringing those right of centre parties together in the absence of Farage, would be Ben Habib. I believe he too has the ability to pull people together and speaks sense and tells it how it is. One big problem with him though is that he supposedly re-joined Reform UK when their so called ‘big announcement’ was made a few weeks ago, and Reform UK will never cut the mustard in their present format. Not sure why you’ve mentioned Prince William or King Charles with regard to this issue, and put it down to one too many Single Malt’s.
Splendid idea. Have a good rest, both of you. All that carefully compiled ranting must really take it out of you 🙂
I look forward to your return
Seconded.
Viv Recharging batteries Eggscellent idea
Happy Easter to Viv, Debbie, and all who read them.
I second that, Happy Easter everybody
Happy Easter to Viv, Debbie and the team and everyone who posts on here. Enjoy your weekend and maybe a glass of something smooth.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/635904
I know petitions are two a penny these days but how else are we supposed to make our voices heard? This is the rejection of amendments to the IHR.
Happy Easter Sunday everyone.
Happy Easter to you Viv, and to all our contributors and readers.
And to the pair of you too; thank you and enjoy the break.