Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy and right hand man, flew to Scotland on a mysterious peace mission in 1941, which has never been convincingly explained, to meet unidentified politicians who wanted to end the war. The truth has been covered up for generations because to reveal it would somehow undermine the honour and constitutional fabric of the United Kingdom. Who was plotting against Churchill? What were the peace terms on offer? What happened to Hess? Was he killed in the War? Was the prisoner in Spandau a double?
There are many unanswered questions  in the drama involving Churchill, Hitler, leading politicians and an important Royal.  An author  declares his intention to write a book to reveal all, but he is shot dead, apparently accidentally by a poacher. Yet was it an accident? Rick Coleman, an investigative journalist, determines to find out and in doing so to uncover the mystery.
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As the political chaos mounts, with unprecedented disarray in the notion of what is supposed to be government, there is polling evidence that people are going cold on the whole Brexit project. One such poll shows 56% now want to stay in the EU, giving credence to the theory, supported by this blog, that there was so little real information at the time of the referendum that many people did not realize what they were voting for.

Of course the hardcore nationalist Leavers knew what they wanted, which was to leave, no matter what the price. Equally the determined Europhiles would never back coming out of the EU, whatever the alleged gains. But neither of these groups commands a majority and the balance was made up of people who, for very good reason, had never given the issue much thought. They just got on with life as it was. Now that the complexities and risks are quantified, while the advantages grow ever more vague, it stands to reason that the balance is shifting. It is also reported that at least the numbers making up the Leave majority in 2016 have since died and that the young people replacing them on the register are likely to vote Remain to the level of 80%.

The only devastating blow to democracy in prospect, is not holding another better informed poll, but to deny voters their right to have it.

The GP concept is at the heart of a lot of the problems in the NHS. At the beginning, when the NHS was founded, doctors in General Practice did not approve of it and were refusing to join. The Labour government caved in and allowed them to remain independent but under contract to the NHS. This pseudo independence is a bit like having an army part made up of mercenaries. Very useful when the going is tough but not part of the defence structure. The idiotic Commissioning Boards set up by Cameron’s government, supposedly to improve things, made them worse. Some Boards work, some of them don’t but the fragmented nature of the NHS costs billions in the failure of joined up records, planning, and budgeting and, most important, diagnosis. The result is waiting lists and A&E bottlenecks.

The first port of call when feeling unwell should be a combination under one roof of nursing, pharmacy, paramedics and ancillaries such a physiotherapy. Most everyday ailments do not go beyond this skill set. For something more serious the Personal Doctor, not a GP under contract in a separate organisation, but an NHS employee integrated into the whole network, should not only have the ability and resources to treat medically straightforward conditions, but also all the equipment required to arrive at a reliable diagnosis, so the if a referral to hospital is required, it will be to the right specialist.

This would transform what is an office visit of ten minutes time allocation, to a proper medical consultation and diagnosis, putting the patient on the right path from the very beginning to either treatment or hospital referral. In turn the consequential streamlining would cut demands on A&E and reduce waiting lists. But first the nonsense of self employed GPs has to end. General physicians have to be integrated into the NHS team.

It has now emerged that in spite of promises to ‘replicate’ the more than 50 trade deals the UK has with third countries through membership of the EU, including Japan and Canada, none have been made ready for signature nor are anywhere near being ready by March 29th. Trade deals turn out to be much more complicated than the International Trade Department expected (!).

At the moment, as well as the trade deals with the 50+ we have free trade, freedom of movement of people and capital, the right to live and the right to work, in all or any of 27 countries in the EU, which is the largest single market in the world and the biggest in history.

So if we crash out in the No Deal ecstasy of the nationalist Brexiteers’ dreams on March 29th, we will go from being part of the biggest trading group ever and the greatest personal freedom we have ever enjoyed, to trade deals with nobody and old fashioned travel restrictions we have long ago forgotten.

This has to be stopped. And as for that rubbish about doing what the British People voted for, nobody, NOBODY, voted for that. The British people are not anywhere near as stupid as their politicians.

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Not on this Blog’s reading of the facts. The Tory party is terrified of an election in which it fears it would not only lose power, but its nationalist wing believes it might lose Brexit as well. The Government’s life support, the DUP, have only 36% of the votes in NI, are a Leave party in a Remain province and fear what could happen not only to them but also to the Union, on their terms, with the UK. So two political parties cobble together an alliance of opposites to stay in power, but the government they have sustained is entirely dysfunctional and cannot actually govern. All this talk of reaching here there and everywhere and finding consensus is rubbish. As is the notion that a majority will emerge. Something which is not there cannot emerge.

Sooner or later something is going to blow. When it does there will be a big bang. When the dust settles things will have changed. Everything in fact.

Wow! Yes. Some say the biggest defeat in the history of the Commons. Does it resolve anything? No.

The problem is that we have a flexible unwritten constitution which is now flexing, so what should have happened last night didn’t and what will happen is unclear. There is talk of reaching across the House. Meaning? There is talk of going back to Brussels for tweaks. The unanimous answer from the whole EU, all 27, is forget that until you have AGREED In Parliament what it is you want. And at the moment that seems impossible.

What should have happened last night was that the government make the vote on May’s flagship deal on which she has staked all, a confidence motion. In the old system, which we had up until perhaps the Fixed Term Parliament Act, defeat of the government on a flagship policy would have led to the government falling. But not now. Even a record defeat. The confidence motion comes next. The slippery May knew she would lose her flagship but will win her confidence vote on Labour’s motion. So the total fiasco of a party split so deeply on the main, almost now the only, issue of the day to the point where it cannot govern is, under the new arrangements, going to carry on nevertheless, without direction, policy or purpose. The old system which invested our rather quirky approach to democracy with a world reputation for providing firm government, ends up being unable to offer any form of effective government at all.

In other words before there was a check on putting party survival above the national interest. But not now. Meanwhile people have been saying that parliament will ‘take over’ or ‘take control of the government’. It is now urgent that parliament shows us how it plans to do this. There is of course another way. Ask the people. That is what democracy is supposed to be about.

Hello government! Are you listening? Ask the people. That is the way of democracy.

Hello. Is anyone there?