ACCORDING TO LIZ NICHOLL WE ARE A SPORTING SUPERPOWER

It is no surprise that the language of politics has entered the sports arena.  As a so-called sports superpower we have won more medals than China.  Isn't that great?   Medal tables should be abolished.  They are political propaganda.

The commentators fawn at the feet of winners in adulation. They make me sick.  Losers are forgotten, hardly ever  acknowledged or thanked for taking part.  Winners take all.   

The Olympic games should be abandoned.  They are too expensive for one country to put on.  The legacy is a number of stadiums in a capital city favouring the people who live there. 

Far from being an inspiration, they are a bad example to others.  The philosophy is, if you win, you will be famous and rich.  As in football, the values are all wrong.  The very meaning of sport is undermined.  Nowhere is this truer than in the USA where sport is totally controlled by commercial interests.

     

MR SADIQ KAHN - AN OPPORTUNIST - THE DANGER OF AN ELECTED MAYOR

He has an eye for opportunity.  This came when he put himself forward to be mayor of London knowing that he would have the support of a large ethnic community.  Mr Kahn knows how to win regardless of principles.  Following his success, he now views his domain as his own where he can do and say as he pleases, regardless of what the politicians in Westminster say.  He wants to rule London as a king of an independent enclave of the UK.  The rot has set in.  I don't believe he is a real Labour man at all.  The London electorate have elected a leader of a third front.  I can see the same thing happening in other cities.  It was a bad move to have elected mayors. 

After a long delay, Mr Kahn now tells us that he supports Owen Smith for the labour leadership.  He would love to depose the elected leader Jeremy Corbyn, claiming that Jeremy did not shout about Brexit.  And we know how Mr Kahn enjoys shouting as he shouted down other speakers in the referendum debates.  

Mr Kahn knows why the country voted for Brexit. The vote was won was because the real labour people and workers wanted Brexit. And Jeremy, the Brexit skeptic, knows that too.  

If the whole country could cast its vote on who should be mayor of London, Mr Kahn would be given his marching orders.  So Mr Kahn you shouldn't throw your weight around as though you were President.  You should know your place. 

    

SO LABOUR WANT TO BORROW UP TO 500 BILLION IN ORDER TO 'INVEST'

This is laughable. Smith and Corbyn are competing to be the biggest spender.  If they really want to bankrupt the country then Labour would. This is the politics of the asylum. We will all be poor.  Labour will never be elected with such mad ideas. Tony Benn will turn in his grave.  

But May shouldn't gloat over Labour's crazy policy.  She has to think carefully about spending government money (our money) where it will be most effective for British science, technology, and industry.  We must get back to manufacturing.   

SAY YES TO A RE-BALANCED ECONOMY

It seems that Brexit has caused a downturn in the service industry.  It's long overdue.  The ratio of industrial activity to service providers has been at the ridiculous level of 1:4.  There are not enough doers and creators and too many spouters and experts talking about the economy.  We have made ourselves very vulnerable to a recession.  And it is why the expenditure on the current Hinkley Point project and HS2 are a waste of resources that should be spread around helping to build British science, technology, industry and exports.  We need to get our act together and think again.  

Did you see the Ken Loach documentary?  It depicted his father working in an absolutely massive Coventry factory now wiped from the face of the earth.  The factory was full of machines operated by highly skilled engineers and technicians.  I weep over the destruction of our manufacturing base.     

SAY NO TO HS2

May should save any money that would have been spent on HS2 (and Hinkley Point) and spend it on a real expansion expansion in industrial output helping British science and technology, British industry and our exports.  We are such a small country that we don't need to whizz about.  The existing rail network is sufficient for us to maintain, and yes expand with better local and intercity services.