Non-Political Maman

I am watching the breaking news of a knife attack on a policeman outside the palace of Westminster.   This policeman was doing his job, protecting the people inside from potential harm from those outside.   He has been injured (unconfirmed reports suggest he has died) in the course of doing his duty.   This madness needs to stop. Simultaneously, a car drove across Westminster Bridge ploughing down innocent pedestrians.   The mainstream media will be, no doubt, tying themselves in knots trying not to draw attention to the likely motivation behind the attacks.   Cars, knives, guns are not the problem, they need motivated, inhumane people to use them.   All of the things used to harm and kill the public in the name of the religion of peace are inert.   They cannot perform the heinous actions they are used for without the will of a human behind them No one is saying that, before the mass influx of migrants from mainly Islamic countri...

On Monday, in light of the decision of the House of Commons to pass the Brexit Bill, Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of the Scottish parliament, declared her desire to table a second "once in a lifetime" referendum (I know right?! The irony is not lost!). I wholeheartedly support her bid for a second referendum with the following caveats: All the citizens of the nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have the right to vote. The questions should be modified from the basic Remain/Leave to Remain WITHOUT the Barnett formula OR LEAVE. The vitriol that has emanated from north of Hadrian's wall has been substantial.   The Scottish National Party was elected with a landslide to Scottish constituencies and have taken their seats in the House of Commons with the sole mandate of protecting Scottish interests above all else, even if it undermines the rights of the rest of the citizens of the Union. The Barnett Formula, (which is covered i...

Last night (13 March 2017) the House of Commons voted on the Bill to trigger Article 50 of the Lis bon Trea ty .   This Bill allows the government of the UK to set in motion the process of separation from the European Union, nine months after the people of the UK voted, via a referendum, to leave. Despite the best efforts of Gina Miller (a Soros stooge) and a cabal of self-interested parties to block the UK government from trying to exit without parliamentary approval; a move that was upheld by several self-interested High Court and Supreme Court Judges were proven fruitless.   In compliance with the court directive, the UK government tabled a Bill laying out the specifics of exiting the EU.   Passed by the House of Commons, it went up to the House of Lords, who rejected the Bill and returned it to the elected House with amendments.   The amendments were overturned by the elected House of Commons and it has since passed in the House of...

In light of the lack of media transparency prevalent at the moment, here is another selective news article featured on Yahoo.co.uk home page.    An article about a gang of nine Iraqi immigrants in Austria; eight of whom have been found guilty of the rape of a German woman in Vienna on New Year's Eve 2015/6. The article does not draw attention to the details of the rape, a crime which nowadays seems to be so regular that it is becoming the new normal.   There is no mention of the fact she was dining with a female friend in a restaurant when her table was surrounded by these men.  No mention that she was plied with drink, that may or may not have been spiked.  No mention that this was pre-planned on the part of the attackers and the women folk in the apartment had been told to got out so their men folk could have some "private time"!  No mention that these men took selfies with the woman during their attacks on her.  Finally, no mention tha...

My darling daughter is off on a school outing tomorrow afternoon, bless her!    Now when I was a little girl, a school outing was a much-anticipated affair, lessons were learnt in the weeks preceding the trip, questionnaires were completed (or not!) during the trip, and for a week after there came the dissecting of said trip and what we had absorbed (or otherwise) from it.   One of my biggest lessons that I took away from a school trip was never, ever, put a banana in your sandwich box, leave it in your bag on a stuffy coach and expect to find an appetising smorgasbord waiting for you at lunchtime!   The smell of ripe banana still turns my stomach to this day! Oh! My! How time has a changed! My significant other and I gave our youngest a few lessons, do's or don't's if you will, of how to behave before, during and after this upcoming trip. For those of you who are not aware of it, I live in rural Normandy, France.   The crap storm that ...