WTFs for the Week.

I thought I'd create this post as I have questions about several items in the news this week.

M62 closed by Snow.

Time was, the M62 was always kept open by a batallon of gritters and snowploughs, as a last bastion link across the Pennines. I remember back in the 90s I remember driving along the M62 in snowy conditions in a queue of traffic headed by a trio of snowploughs pushing the snow to the hard shoulder. Now in these "can't manage a piss up in a brewery" times, that sort of co-ordination and resource provision is a thing of the past 

Head of WHO in Yemen. 

The news is reporting Israeli airstrikes in Yemen against the Houthis close to where the head of the WHO was at the time.

But no-one is asking WTF was the head of the WHO (not some underling, the head of the organisation) was doing in Yemen.

Are Muslims Far-Right?

I'm getting yet more reports of government reporting antisemitism and blaming it on the far-right. Yet that same antisemitism is purpetrated by Muslims. Muslims can't be friends of the far-left AND be far-right antisemites at the same time. Unless someone is lying.

 

Trigger-Happy.

In the past week a US F-18 fighter and an airliner have been shot down. The F-18 by its own side and the airliner by forces in Azerbaijan. People are getting trigger-happy and that's not a good thing.

Boxing Day Shopping Fail.

The shops that opened on Boxing day report a poor response from shoppers. No surprise there as Starmer's financial thumbscrews continue to apply pressure and hurt the public. Retail is going to have some big names disappear next year.

Plus next year car owners get clobbered for higher car tax. Some of the predictions are pretty shit. Car manufacturers should be up in arms because no-one in their right mind will be paying over six grand for road tax on a new car. That's fucking ludicrous.

Peter Mandleson to be UK Ambassador to the USA.

The biggest WTF moment of the week. Isn't he dead yet? If he's alive he must be some sort of living fossil. Seriously, of all the people that could do the job, Mandleson was the best candidate? Fuck me. Starmer really wants to piss the Donald off something fierce. I suppose so he can run to the EUSSR instead. Don't think we can't see it you fucking moron Starmer.