SML4nwi

05/06/2024

https://superbluesays.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/poetry/

This was composed contemporaneously and subsequently rememembered: 1) 1992 It was not our fault, you know Not ours but someone else’s How about the media? They kept reporting us as points ahe…

13/05/2024

https://superbluesays.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/fao-irans-useful-idiots/

How many nations have a Jewish head of government? Just Israel and (for now) Ukraine, nations perenially opposed by the Iran-Russia-China-Syria axis. How did the Hamas kidnappings of October 7 and …

24/04/2024

https://superbluesays.wordpress.com/2024/04/24/an-nhs-reminder/

… of some simple facts since Brexit: As confirmed by the King’s Fund, funding has increased since June 2016 not by the £350 billion mentioned on that red bus, but by £710 million in rea…

17/04/2024

https://superbluesays.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/local-elections/

Nominations have closed in Ipswich and beyond for 2024. Let us hope that all candidates have been truthful about their addresses as it is rumoured not always to have happened in Stockport …

11/04/2024

https://superbluesays.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/some-good-news/

… for Sproughton Road and the two villages will be the new 8B bus service launching on 15th April. It will run hourly Monday to Saturday from early morning until after six o’clock in th…

03/04/2024

https://superbluesays.wordpress.com/2024/04/03/a-world-of-fantasy-2/

A few months ago, Super Blue wrote about the Shadow Chancellor and her problems with economics and basic honesty, despite having ostensibly worked as an economist for the Bank of England. Now it is…

27/03/2024

https://superbluesays.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/do-we-need-so-many-civil-servants/

Here, the Taxpayers’ Alliance reveal that UK civil service numbers have grown over the seven years to March 2023 by over 100,000, or 24%. Taking into account pay rises, the cost has increased…

20/03/2024

https://superbluesays.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/why-are-they-still-dragging-their-feet/

Ipswich Borough Council were allocated £25 million pounds, almost three years ago, to organise post-Covid regeneration under the Towns’ Fund but they haven’t spent it all yet, particula…

13/03/2024

https://superbluesays.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/plus-ca-change-5/

“Burglars have broken into the Kremlin and stolen next year’s election results”. Not a reflection on the present situation but a line used by The Two Ronnies about forty years ago…

06/03/2024

Let us start with growth. As you can see, the UK economy has consistently outgrown its major European and G7 competitors over the last fourteen years. It has probably resumed already and will conti…