Simplz Simon

02/02/2021

This has a good sound to it (though it does not say how many were already of this mindset before Brexit and Covid).

Over half UK adults intend to eat more British produce following Brexit: A survey of UK adults has revealed that more than half are looking to buy more British food and produce this year, in the wake of leaving the EU.
The survey for Cross & Blackwell asked 2,000 UK people over the age of 18 for their opinions, finding that a third are looking to buy British in order to support the economy, whilst 61% said that buying more homegrown produce is a ‘logical choice’.
Nine out of 10 respondents questioned said that following Brexit, they think it is important for major brands to support producers in the UK.

30/12/2020

It is a curious subject. How can anything change, ever?
Of course, all human beings want to be dated, by their opposite s*x unless they are gay.
Trans women are men who 'feel' they are women (and so dress and re-sculpture themselves to look like women), so presumably, they want to be dated by straight men - but - they would have known that would be all but impossible from the start.
Are there any candidates?
Another Trans maybe, going in the opposite direction?
A male homos*xual?
Just like the homos*xual who wants (in fantasy) to appeal to the same tall dark handsome man as would be attracted to a beautiful woman but knows that will never happen.
All people can expect to have very close friends, to the point of 'brother' or 'sister' like, which IS (though platonic) dating.
But I would be surprised to find even 2% of heteros*xual men who could be s*xually attracted to a Trans woman.
And so, unless I am wrong - how on earth can anything be made to change.

20/12/2020

This time a year ago the world watched on as we heard about a new contagious illness in China called Coronavirus, or Covid-19. We were told it came from someone eating a bat from a wet market in Wuhan.
Life carried on as normal for the rest of the world for the next few weeks until the virus gradually spread around the entire world.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson started a 3 week lockdown on the evening of 23rd of March 2020 🚫
This was then extended on 16th April for a further 3 weeks
On the 5th April he was admitted to hospital after 10 days self isolating with the Corona Virus 🧪
On the 6th April he is in intensive care with deteriorating symptoms 😷
The Queen addressed the nation at 8pm on 5th April 👑
Excel now known as NHS Nightingale and will be a hospital for up to 4,000 patients, most of whom are on ventilators.
Similar venues being used in cities across the country.
Opened by Prince Charles at 11am on 3rd April 🏥
Community support groups established, to support the vulnerable, elderly, immunocompromised and people in enforced isolation due to exposure, in their community - told not to go out for 12 weeks🧓🏻👴🏻
From Thursday 26th March at 8pm and every Thursday night thereafter, we all stood united on our doorsteps, balconies and open windows and applauded and cheered for all our amazingly brave NHS staff 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 who so courageously and selflessly battled on to try and save as many lives as possible ❤️
Petrol ⛽️ price close to home 🏡 was £1.02.
Was this an opportunity to go green, only time will tell.
Schools closed on Friday 20 March. 🏫
Remote learning in place 🎓
Self-distancing measures required ☹️
Tape on the floors at grocery stores ❌ and others to help distance shoppers 🛒 (2 meters) from each other.
Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors 🏬
Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed 🚫 People who can work 👩🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻 from home 🏡
Parks 🏕 trails, entire cities 🏢 closed or restricted to locals only in their bubble.
Entire sports ⚽️ 🏉 🎾 seasons cancelled.
The Olympics & Paralympic’s, where athletes would have made their mark and additional Euro 2020 were postponed to 2021. 🔵⚽️⚫⚽️🔴
Concerts 🎫 tours 🚌 festivals 🤹🏻 entertainment events 🎭 cancelled 🚫
Weddings 👰🏼🤵🏻 family celebrations 🥳 holiday gatherings 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 cancelled 🚫
Only very few people allowed to attend funerals & social distancing rules must be adhered to ⚰️ 😢
No masses - churches ⛪️ are closed 🚫
No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, then 10 or more. Now.... Don't socialise with anyone outside of your home bubble ⚗️
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and all other TV networks are on in every home daily now 🎬
Children's outdoor play parks are closed 🎡
We are to distance from each other. Shortage of masks 😷 gowns 🥼 gloves 🧤 for our front-line workers.
Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill 🤒 in many parts of the world.
Refrigerated trucks for the dead outside hospitals in the USA 🇺🇸 Italy 🇮🇹 Spain 🇪🇸 China 🇨🇳 and more. Temporary Morgues set up in the UK 🇬🇧
Panic buying 🛒 sets in and we have limits on toilet paper 🧻 disinfecting supplies, paper towels, staple foods 🥗 hand sanitiser 🧴
Flour is hard to get because the packaging comes from China 🇨🇳 and borders are closed 🚧
Manufacturers 🏭 distilleries and other businesses 🏢 switch their lines to help make visors, masks 😷 hand sanitiser 🧴 and PPE 🧤
Fines are established for breaking lockdown rules 🤑
Stadiums 🏟 and recreation facilities overseas open up for the overflow of Covid-19 🦠 patients.
Public Park 🏕 areas turned into caravan parks for stranded tourists to self isolate 🚐
Press conferences daily from the PM 👱‍♂️ and other government 🏛 officials. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths ⚰️
Government 🏛 incentives to stay home. Barely anyone on the roads 🛣
People wearing masks 😷 and gloves outside 🧤
Essential service workers are terrified to go to work 👮🏻 👩🏻‍⚕️ 👲🏻
Medical field workers 👩🏻‍⚕️ are afraid to go home to their families 👨‍👧‍👦
A 99 year old WWII veteran Captain Tom Moore raised an amazing £29 million for NHS charities walking 100 lengths of his garden before he turned 100. His target was £1000. People from all over the world donated to his cause. 💂🏻‍♂️🎖🏅💷
202,660 deaths globally so far as at 25th April 2020
20,319 of them in the UK 😢
53,418 in the USA
This is the Novel Coronavirus 🦠 (Covid-19) Pandemic, WHO declared March 11th, 2020.
Travel restrictions and having to quarantine for 2 weeks when returning from some foreign holiday destinations and this could change daily.
Three tiers of regional severity issued.
Tier 1 Medium risk, Tier 2 very high risk, Tier 3 extremely high risk.
Second lockdown in UK November 2020 moving back into tier severity December 2020.
Vaccines arrive in UK in December - Army deployed to help vaccinate the public starting with the NHS and people over 80 years of age.
Pubs and restaurants still closed.
18th December 2020 - UK has had 1,948,660 cases to date, and 66,052 deaths related to covid-19. 😭.
Worldwide figures are 75,371,570 cases and 1,670,455 deaths.
Three households could form a temporary “Christmas bubble” to meet together indoors from 23-27 December 🚫 cancelled plan!
19th December, PM announced tier 4 for London & the South East with Wales going into lockdown.
A new mutation of the virus, 70% more transmissible then the previous strain with 6 in 10 new cases, stops the UK for the festive period.
1 day of mixing on 25th December. No travelling between tiers 1 through to 4.
Why, you ask, do I record all this?
One day it will show up in my memory 💭 feed, and it will be a yearly reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted 💕
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20/12/2020

This 'The Immaculate Deception' is a pretty eye-opening read.
https://bannonswarroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Immaculate-Deception-12.15.20-1.pdf
At one level chilling.
Just the introduction makes this Meerkat wonder if there can ever be free and fair elections - in the face of 'big forces' with 'corrupt inclinations' - without a complete rethink upon how an honest vote is achieved.
" . . . I. Introduction. At the stroke of midnight on Election Day, President Donald J. Trump appeared well on his way to winning a second term. He was already a lock to win both Florida and Ohio, and no Republican has ever won a presidential election without winning Ohio while only two Democrats have won the presidency without winning Florida.3
At the same time, the Trump-Pence ticket had substantial and seemingly insurmountable leads in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. If these leads held, these four key battleground states would propel President Trump to a decisive 294 to 244 victory in the Electoral College.
Shortly after midnight, however, as a flood of mail-in and absentee ballots began entering the count, the Trump red tide of victory began turning Joe Biden blue. As these mail-in and absentee ballots were tabulated, the President’s large leads in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin simply vanished into thin Biden leads.
At midnight on the evening of November 3, and as illustrated in Table 1, President Trump was ahead by more than 110,000 votes in Wisconsin and more than 290,000 votes in Michigan. In Georgia, his lead was a whopping 356,945; and he led in Pennsylvania by more than half a million votes. By December 7, however, these wide Trump leads would turn into razor-thin Biden leads – 11,779 votes in Georgia, 20,682 votes in Wisconsin, 81,660 votes in Pennsylvania, and 154,188 votes in Michigan. . . "

28/09/2020

Every time I have heard Laurence Fox speak, from Question Time onwards, I have thought here is a man who should either open a school to teach politicians how to think sensibly - or - start a movement that the large numbers, if not large percentage, of the public who see their own thoughts in what he is saying, can join. In order to get behind him and be part of a 'similar thinking' group.
Forming a new political party is quite a surprise.
Laurence has said he does not see himself as an MP (and that would distract him from setting the pace),
And it gives him a battle of prising people away from the Conservative Party, and the Red Wall that they have borrowed, So in order to succeed he would have to do better than UKIP and The Brexit Party.
So, it will be very interesting to see his game plan and strategies. And who it attracts.
Go here and take a look - https://laurencefoxparty.nationbuilder.com/

23/06/2020

I was not aware that Burnley football club has entered politics.
Please remind me what stand it took in support of this poor girl from Burnley?
Or, did this white life, in the heart of their town, not matter quite so much to the club as that of an American criminal 4000 miles away?

:I've had her bro, you can have her':
Men 'groomed teenage girl from the age of 12 before ra**ng her in drug den'
By Steve Nolan

The girl fell pregnant at 14 during her 18-month ordeal in Lancashire
Six men deny a catalogue of s*xual offences against her
A teenage girl was allegedly groomed from the age of 12 and and taken to a drug den before being 'passed around for s*x' by a gang of men.
The girl fell pregnant at 14 during an 18-month ordeal which saw her r***d and s*xually assaulted by the men at a house in the Brierfield area of Burnley in Lancashire.

Six men from the area have appeared before Manchester Crown Court to face a range of s*xual offences against the girl.

She was passed between the men to be used for their own s*xual gratification. She was treated with indignity and contempt by them.'

Mohammed Imran Amjad, 26, known as Immy , denies r**e, child abduction and intimidation of a witness.

Shiraz Afzal,26, known as Frankie, denies aiding and abetting r**e. Omar Mazafar ,22, known as Bats, denies inciting r**e. Mohammed Suleman Farooq, 23, known as Sully, denies s*xual assault, engaging in s*xual activity with a child, and witness intimidation.

Mohammed Zeeshan Amjad,25, known as Zishan, denies r**e and engaging in s*xual activity with a child and Haroon Mahmood, 22, denies r**e and engaging in s*xual activity with a child.

11/05/2020

IF Corona Virus is killing thousands of people in the UK - then - Why are FEWER PEOPLE DYING in these same Feb, March, months this year than died last year, before coronavirus struck?

The media have become fond of pushing very alarming figures into our faces - and linking those figures to a blame game.
But how real are those figures?

Are 'tens of thousands 'MORE people dying than normal - or is it just that a number of people dying now have Corona Virus AMONG OTHER conditions?

There is no doubt that hospitals are making it clear that people are dying of accidents and illnesses, as they always have.
600,000 per year in the UK.

BUT, those who have died who turn out to have the Corona Virus among their conditions are being INCLUDED in Corona deaths figures.

Dying WITH Corona Virus in the body is quite different from them having died BECAUSE OF the virus, as is often being presented.

Here is a May BBC article on this subject: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51979654.

There seems one quite 'simplz' way to know the actual effect of CoronaVirus upon (the UK) England & Wales - by a study of the number of deaths occurring that, statistically, would not have occurred had there been no virus.

Simply by comparing the number of deaths each month (using week numbers) this year, with the same weeks/month last year, and other years before the virus.

AT THE START:

COVID-19, spread to the United Kingdom in early 2020. The first cases were identified in late January 2020, and transmission within the UK of 15 cases was confirmed in late February 2020. On 5th March the first death where the deceased had COVID-19.

As of 9th May, the overall death toll for the UK has passed 36,500 people, with confirmed infection, who have died.

So does that mean that MORE people are dying every day, week, month than (say) last year - before the virus arrived?

A simplz test is to compare how many MORE people die each month, following the first Corona Virus death in March 2020 - than died in the same month in 2019.

FEBRUARY COMPARISON:

The number of deaths registered in England & Wales in February 2020 was 43,653.

This was a decrease of 2,143 deaths in comparison with the same month in 2019. But it was early days.

By February 29th 2020 there were 15 known cases of COVID-19 and, at that time, no known deaths FROM IT in the UK.

MARCH COMPARISON:
Coronavirus took off in the UK in March.
The TOTAL number of deaths registered in England & Wales in March 2020 (weeks 10-13) was 43,700 - BUT - 43,946 had died in March 2019.
A decrease of 246 in 2020 LESS than in 2019!

So there can not have been 'tens of thousands' more people dying of Corona Virus in March?

We have to assume that April will see a different position - because that has been the month of the virus in the UK peaking - fingers crossed!

But there has been plenty of seeming hype, about and during, the period above. Lies, dam lies and statistics and all that.

WATCH THIS SPACE - and while you are at it - stay safe.

23/04/2020

Cry 'God for Liz, England, and Saint George!'

My slight twist (Elizabeth II in place of King Henry/Harry) to Shakespeare's amazing words - that are a reminder of how Englishmen thought and acted in his times - leaves it sounding just as good.
How different are we, who are mere shadows of this description - OR ARE WE? Has the CoronaVirus given us back some of what is described below (shortened version):
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
Taken from Henry V, the history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1599. Therefore reflecting how we English thought about ourselves 420 years ago.
Shakespeare, as every British schoolchild will know (?) tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt, of 1415, during the Hundred Years' War. That was a series of conflicts from 1337 to 1453, waged between the Plantagenet rulers of England and the French House of Valais over the right to rule the Kingdom of France.

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07/04/2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been placed in intensive care at St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
Thoughts are with his children and his pregnant partner Carrie, who is also battling coronavirus.
Boris, with his purpose, direction, strength and energy is an amazing gift that the British people have been given at a time of dire need. First in 'Getting Brexit done', when all around him could not or would not, and then in having the right man at the helm as we found ourselves in a war with CoronaVirus.
Truly, cometh the hour, cometh the man.
But, if we have needed the right leader in these two conflicts - those needs will pale to insignificance when we come to face the demands of the next five to ten years of recovery and growth away from the EU.
His country, and the Commonwealth, need him, and we need him fit and well to lead us into the future we all deserve. There is no one else.
So important to us and our morale is Boris that every one of us in this country should be praying for his speedy, complete and full recovery. Behind Boris and his strength, however, lies his love, Carrie and their baby on the way. And of course, the rest of his family who he will be fighting to be back with. They to need to feel our support and love and prayers.
So come on Boris, and all those Doctors and Nurses and his family and colleagues around him and supporting him. Let's get coronavirus done!
God Bless and a fair wind!

21/02/2020

MUFFIN THE MULE MAYBE HAS THE TRANS ANSWER
Given that it seems to be less than 1 in 200 people identify as trans, it seems to be a topic that occupies a disproportionately HUGE amount of argument. And at times very bitter argument.
That argument is, generally, not about the right of any one of us to think and feel and act as if we are a different s*x than our ge****ls and other factors dictate.
We homo sapiens are all free spirits with the right to present ourselves as whatever we wish - and should (it seems Simplz to me) be respected as such universally.
No, the problem is that of a person who is born a man wanting to make use of spaces that belong to women or girls. Toilets, changing rooms and the like.
Which leads to some trans men saying 'but we are women' we want to use this area.
And then people who are born women unsurprisingly replying that a 6 foot man with a beard and a p***s, despite wearing a dress, is a man.
And there is no place for a man in a woman's toilet - or any of their 'spaces'.
This is not likely to go away any time soon - because it feels to most women - and especially the mothers and fathers of girls - like an invasion.
People respond at their fiercest when invaded.
What was needed at the outset was perhaps a situation similar to that of MULES.
Mules are neither a horse or a donkey. A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. Horses and donkeys are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes.
This is not quite the same thing as trans though MULES are born as such - just as trans say they are. But - the outcome of a specific name for the type has made everything very easy for all of us to understand, whereas TRANS seems to be a word that causes confusion and argument.
Trans is always going to be wrong because its very meaning is transforming or transitioning.
Not one thing or another. Just started the journey, halfway or going as far as is possible. All are trans - but not all have the same wants or needs as regards their visibility.
No one gets confused about mules, nor has the wrong expectations.
A mule can not do the same things as a horse or a donkey. It can not give birth to a baby mule. Which is a close similarity?
So I wonder WHY OH WHY when the first 'trans' awareness came along - trans people were not awarded a nice name. Disabled is not a particularly nice name for those who need special consideration, but it works perfectly.
And just like disabled people with their own spaces, where appropriate and their own sports events and so on.
Everyone gets it. There is no shame. There but for fortune go any of us. At least similar if not more understood that 'G**s' - who managed to break out of Homos*xuals - by taking over a very nice word.
MULES is a nice word, but it has been taken.
RAINBOWS could catch on perhaps?

10/10/2019

I like it when Poppy Day is in view.
As an ex-serviceman it is a very important day in my calendar.
It is nice to see the huge effort that goes in across the country and across all walks of life to sell Poppys - and the engagement of the public with this event, including the wreath laying events.
What shines through is our county's great love and respect for its service men and women.
Especially those who lost their lives in action - serving their country - us all.
But this wonderful event is increasingly tainted by news of actions against Poppies and Remembrance day, by a few horrible people:
Such as a manager of an Aldi (they are of course a German Supermarket) refusing to allow the Poppy seller in their store. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319906/Aldi-bans-war-veterans-selling-poppies-store.html
Such as a moron (Stella Swain) at Cambridge University Students Union declaring that they would not promote Poppy day - because - seemingly - students should be encouraged to engage in “productive criticism” of war. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1030033/Cambridge-university-poppy-remembrance-Sunday-student-union
Then there was some mindless desecration of the wreaths laid. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/thugs-who-vandalised-edinburghs-garden-13532858
Then - worse - news of people - not of British origin - but living here - who publicly burned Poppies. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-12664346
These people are all a disgrace and do not deserve to be able to live here.
It is good to be able to make more public stand on such things.
So I have been happy to have ordered a new Poppy lapel badge - from the English Democrats. https://www.englishdemocrats.party/_try_burning_these_lapel_badge?utm_campaign=tryburningthesev3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=englishdemocrats