Category: Opinion

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A blight on our Royals

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Last week our family experienced the appalling service so many users of Royal Mail are regularly complaining about.

Our daughter, unable to get to see her Mum on Sunday, had posted a Mothers Day Card, including a voucher for a day out in a couple of weeks, from Sheffield City Centre on Thursday afternoon, 1st Class (next day) delivery expecting it to arrive on Friday.

Not only did it not arrive Friday, but it didn’t show up on Saturday either (yes they do claim to do Saturday deliveries still)

This left both parties embarrassed and upset, on what should have been a pleasant start to “Mums Day” and me running round trying to make the best experience I could cobble together

It is notable that our daughter had grumbled to me after posting the card “do you know how much it costs to send a card by post”? I do in fact know as I had recenly had to use Royal Mail myself, I normally only send parcels and most of those via courier, and I too had been staggered at how expensive it was.

It therefore rubs salt into the wound to see in today’s Martins Money Newsletter a notice that stamp prices are about to soar to over a £1 each

Is it any wonder that so many of us have given up sending cards and simply use email or messaging services. You can have a video call halfway around the World easier, without the expense of buying a card, or getting wet finding a post box.

Yet this shambolic system is still called “Royal Mail”, it seems to me that in the year of his Coronation, King Charles II, should ensure that Royal Mail, becomes simply “Postal (lack of) Service”, and at least the Royal Family would be rid of one embarrassment

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Time for the UK Public to speak?

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With the rest of the World laughing at the antics of the British Government, and our subjects paying a huge price for economic chaos, it is fair to ask for a change.

It is not enough for these Conservative Clowns to ditch the present PM, and “appoint” another, or have some supposedly democratic process between Tory MPs and ossified party members.

We need to have an election to give everyone a say in who runs the show, however there is no way just anyone can do this. The “current lot” must request Charlie to dissolve parliament, so we all get a vote. It is worth everyone registering their desire for this course as there is already a petition up for debate in parliament.


Go here and add your name, give show them that we, the public mandate them to do so
Call an immediate general election to end the chaos of the current government – Sign this petition – Petitions (parliament.uk)

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Why do Girls have all the colours ?

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I was watching the Euros 22 on BBC the other night and can’t help but be struck by the fabulous colours the commentators were wearing, particularly of the “suits”

What I want to know is why “blokes” seem to have a choice of any colour as long as it is virtually black! (OK maybe grey or dark blue).

For Instance take a look at M & S colour selection

Or Perhaps Next

A little better, but still no plain colours other than sheer boredom…

I get that fashion for men, (if it still exists) has been taken over by dark grey and black, and not featuring suits outside proms, Weddings and Funerals (See you need a black suit!), but come on we are not Model T’s, and it seems girls can have light bright cool suits but not blokes?

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SHAME

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Robert Largan - High Peak MP

Did You vote for this man to be your MP in 2019?

If so we hope you are now thoroughly shamed by his actions on your behalf, ( I think it goes without saying that those of us who didn’t vote for him certainly wish to disassociate ourselves)

In spite of stating in Parliament that he was quite prepared to vote against his party when they were wrong he still voted against continuance of free school meals through the holidays

The government shamed us all by refusing to allow needy children to continue to receive free meals, and try to weasel out by quoting that they have given “local councils” £63millon to cover local needs, I am unsure if this is the same £63 million we have seemingly been hearing about from last March but at slightly less than £1 per head of population it’ll have to be better than Christ’s two fish and five loaves, to solve all the hunger, rough sleeping, floods, pestilence, business closures it is meant to.