tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961474288335196572024-03-16T18:50:35.769+00:00Delphius' DebateThe Rantings of an Unamused Observer.Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.comBlogger1370125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-87596234948236757892024-03-14T16:44:00.001+00:002024-03-15T08:45:16.754+00:00Covid Illegal DNRs: Is the Mainstream Waking up to this scandal? Well, yes and no. This article in the Independent is the first real mention of the scandal I knew about back at the height of Covid. It's not been reported on much at all by mainstream media even when the Care Industry media started to take note.Now this report says an investigation by the Parliamentary Health Industry Ombudsman has ruled the DNRs were issued "wrongly". Without Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-60419923528580599442024-03-14T12:13:00.002+00:002024-03-14T12:13:25.789+00:00Diane Abbott: The Perennial Victim.Diane Abbott is the embodiment of the "victim culture" that inhabits the middle classes at the moment.She's the perennial victim, excusing criticism of her as "racist" or "Misogynist", but never, ever taking responsibility for doing the things that cause people to criticise her.No matter how crass, how stupid how racist her remarks, any pushback is met with "I'm the victim, support me".It's not Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-64950357590910925582024-03-11T10:18:00.004+00:002024-03-11T11:41:59.025+00:00Nukes and YemenI've always been fascinated by the collective amnesia regarding the use of nuclear weapons.For instance, Israel has nukes. Although they don't make a big deal of it, it's common knowledge they have a working nuclear weapon and could if all else fails use it.So when people are shouting at Israel to be more restrained, they forget Israel are already being restrained by the use of conventional Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-52606760847429788122024-03-06T19:21:00.006+00:002024-03-06T19:21:47.916+00:00GCHQ I see You.Right, this has gone on for a few days now. Contact me directly. Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-89345837132145040572024-03-05T22:07:00.001+00:002024-03-05T22:07:52.266+00:00Spying.I don't know which post of mine triggered your investigation, but just to let you know, I can see you.That is all.No need to spy, no need for illicit software.I assume you are quite new at this. Young? inexperienced? Or poorly trained? Do better. Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-63361124927318724862024-03-05T00:00:00.014+00:002024-03-05T09:37:36.556+00:00Political Class Not Mentally Equipped to Defeat Extremism.Rishi Sunak's speech in Downing Street the other day shows that the political class in this country are not mentally equipped to deal with the very real threat toward them and democracy.Islamic extremism I can get, because it was palpable last week outside Parliament, as it has been for several weeks on the streets of our towns and cities, waving Palestinian flags and shouting anti-Semitic chantsMark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-61727866746379273682024-03-01T10:50:00.001+00:002024-03-01T10:52:28.765+00:00George Galloway Win In Rochdale: The Power of the Muslim Block Vote. I've said before that I've seen the power of the Muslim block vote. The George Galloway win in Rochdale is a classic example of how a minority like the Muslims can get their candidate in office against the main parties.The turnout was just under 40%, so a minority demographic can win under those circumstances, especially when they ALL vote the same way. The news is about how the LabourMark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-7612779951036860362024-02-29T13:35:00.004+00:002024-02-29T13:35:49.972+00:00Lee Anderson Islamist Story: Quick Political Condemnation a Sign of Corruption? I'm intrigued about the Lee Anderson Islamist affair. Not because of the comments he made, but more about the fallout around it and the people condemning Mr Anderson, including his own colleagues in the Conservative Party.I've long since alluded to the amount of Gulf Money Invested in our Economy and how much influence that might have over our politicians. I mean, if someone owns 20% of theMark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-11830802826157006872024-02-26T10:29:00.004+00:002024-02-26T10:50:59.431+00:00New Balloon a Load of Hot Air, or is There More to the Story?Yet another balloon entered U.S. airspace last week. Apparently it has now left U.S. airspace and everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that the embarrassing spectacle of a Billion dollar fighter and a hundred thousand dollar missile being sent to dispatch a spy balloon costing thousands of dollars to build are not repeated.Notice I didn't say thousands to operate. Such a spy balloon, if it was Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-42818234149963963372024-02-23T13:01:00.005+00:002024-02-23T13:01:48.590+00:00Shammima Begum Appeal Denied Thankfully some common sense in the courts. Shammima Begum's appeal against her being stripped of her citizenship and banned from the country has been denied.Thankfully that might be the last we hear from her legally, but I doubt it. I expect now she'll try the ECHR route to gain access to the country.The question I'd like to ask is: who is funding all of these appeals and all of this legal Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-32400933933568526372024-02-21T12:41:00.005+00:002024-02-21T12:42:38.239+00:00Voices from the Past in PoliticsIt's interesting that various voices from past governments keep cropping up or even worse, getting jobs in current governments.Notwithstanding Kier Starmer, who is a left-over from the Blair government (why anyone who identifies themselves as of the left would vote for anyone that had anything to do with that government I do not know). But I digress. Starmer is a voice and an ideology from that Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-22994955980882611492024-02-19T17:18:00.003+00:002024-02-20T08:44:39.597+00:00The Post-Office Enquiry Just Keeps on Giving and A Memory. When Incompetents Collide.Sadly a couple of weeks ago my Mother passed away. As you do at these times, there was a lot of reminiscing.One thing that came up was the various jobs I'd done and the tale of the HR manager manager for ICL knocking on my Mum's door asking for me back in the days before everyone had telephones.My Mum, bless her assumed that he was a friend of mine and kept him on the doorstep while I came Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-72587912000692494202024-02-08T08:58:00.004+00:002024-02-08T08:58:27.642+00:00What's Going on in America? Lawyers Want No-Risk Operations Now? In America, an Obstetric surgeon has been charged with Homicide after a baby being delivered was decapitated during the birthing process. By decapitated it's meant the neck was broken.The neck was broken during the birth as the doctor manipulated the baby to allow it's passage through the birth canal after it's shoulders got stuck.It's fait to say there is a risk in every medical Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-21677298663661638262024-02-05T13:36:00.001+00:002024-02-19T17:20:01.201+00:00Breweries and Piss-ups the Absolute State of UK Management I've said it before: thanks to various things, the management class of the UK cannot manage a piss-up in a brewery. We are completely fucked and bereft of the sort of intelligent manager that can do engineering.The HS2 debacle is one classic example of our abject failure to manage large projects. The Horizon computer system involved in the Post Office scandal is another alongside the lying and Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-73561135905886235342024-01-24T12:13:00.003+00:002024-01-24T14:11:02.357+00:00The Tories Don't Need a New Leader, They Need Leadership. As above, yet again the Tories squabble about who should lead the party, and yet again they squander an 80-seat majority.They could get any legislation run through Parliament with that sort of majority, but instead they're focussed on infighting.JUST STOP IT!!Get the Rwanda deal through Parliament. That's the most important thing right now.What we are seeing yet again are the various Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-29850853167391238022024-01-23T09:27:00.002+00:002024-01-24T12:15:23.969+00:0024 Hours in A&E: Wouldn't be Much Of a Programme at Tameside Hospital. My Mother has just gone into Tameside Hospital A&E For the Third time in as many weeks. And for the third time in as Many weeks it's been over 12 hours before she's seen a Doctor and been admitted to a ward.If they filmed "24 Hours in A&E" at Tameside, they'd just have film of people sat around waiting.... and waiting.Many people make much of how the NHS is available 24 Hours aMark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-55234118517298890172024-01-22T09:31:00.001+00:002024-01-22T09:31:05.377+00:00Measles Outbreak, What's REALLY Going on?The BBC is reporting on the most recent measles outbreak, skirting around the actual cause of the outbreak and instead making rambling statements about how children in school at various ages hadn't had the vaccine.Now, let's look at this a bit more objectively and without a politically correct Kommissar looking over our shoulder.The MMR vaccine is issued to all kids in the UK around the age of 18Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-22984966370065236512024-01-18T12:43:00.003+00:002024-01-18T12:43:44.279+00:00Mass Mental Illness.I think I've about had it with the world, there seems to be a mass Psychosis, some mass delusion or mental illness gripping the Western World.Yes, the gender ideology is part of that, but this rush for collectivism, this rush to embrace Marxism, the absolute antithesis of the capitalism that has brought much of the West out of poverty.Not only the gender nutjaobs, but the climate nutjobs, Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-7997905175951446162024-01-11T16:48:00.006+00:002024-01-11T17:09:32.521+00:00Boeing 737 Max in the News Again. I've waited a few days to get the salient information on the latest Boeing 737 issue, the blow-out in flight of a "plug door" on an Alaska Airlines Max 737-9.The plug door in question is not actually a door. It's a plug in a door-shaped hole. The Max-9 has different variants with different seating arrangements, but to save assembly complexity and cost the same fuselage. The Fuselage has theMark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-2762967867770816612024-01-09T10:07:00.003+00:002024-01-09T10:07:42.365+00:00The Biggest Software Scandal in the UK: The Horizon Postal System. At work there's a big hubbub about the series "Mr Bates Vs The Post Office", the series that relates the sad tale of the Royal Mail Postmasters/mistresses that were prosecuted for missing funds. Funds that were not missing, but inaccurately calculated by a faulty software system called Horizon.I was aware of it from the beginning and was stunned at the viciousness of the prosecutions based Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-27162146541189040002024-01-05T13:20:00.000+00:002024-01-05T13:20:23.879+00:00Not Being Aware of How Good You Are.... We've just had a new computer system go in at work. Lets say that it works, sort of, but it leaves a lot to be desired and there is a lot of tweaking that isn't tweaking. Stuff that should have been caught during testing.It reminds me of back when I wrote applications for Blue-Chip companies. I wrote the first HSBC telephone banking application, the first B.T. 150/151 call steering Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-89401241349739398032023-12-05T09:30:00.009+00:002023-12-05T12:09:30.137+00:00Covid-19 Data Whistleblower Arrested in New Zealand.Last week I watched a video on YouTube. It was a documentary including Barry Young, a statistician with a health authority in New Zealand.He explained that New Zealand was uniquely positioned to provide accurate data on the efficacy of the Covid vaccines, along with death rates. The data was compelling, drilling down even to how many injections were administered by each Covid-19 vaccinator and Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-72943926694806628482023-12-01T17:22:00.005+00:002023-12-01T17:23:14.674+00:00What is "Populist"? "Populist" has been used as a derogatory term for the past decade, but what is it exactly?It's listening to the population (The popul bit of populist: literally "of the population"), it means exactly whet democracy was supposed to do: have the politicians listen to the people that vote for them.If populist is being used as a derogatory term, the people using it as such are not democratic. Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-24994267584435274312023-12-01T09:56:00.000+00:002023-12-01T09:56:40.932+00:00Has The Time Come to Form a New Standing Army of the People?It seems that the Police do not like the working class. It seems the Government don't like the working class, it seems that the working class have lost the political landscape. The views of the working class are not represented in Politics, despite Government relying on the working class to provide their sons and daughters to fill the places in the Armed Forces to do the fighting and dying Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396147428833519657.post-90153803017650854222023-11-25T11:54:00.001+00:002023-11-25T11:54:01.397+00:00What Does "Far Right" Mean?If you're the mainstream media, it men's "someone we don't agree with or approve of" that's all. Not "almost a Nazi", not "hideously authoritarian", just, "We don't approve of your opinion".Mark The Skint Sailorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892877003107509621noreply@blogger.com0