Alison Graham

Remembrance Day:tv news, abt ‘towns and cities’.What about our villages?The reading of our young dead’s names, some a 100 years gone, repeats the names of our living families, still here.The impact of these 2 wars was higher, in our smaller communities. As in German villages too.

Not going anywhere today…

PMQs: Louise Haigh’s voice rises to a painful shriek- she seriously needs to learn to lower the height, and slow it down. It reduces the effect of anything she is saying. Burghart is running rings round her.

Nobody noticed? - Russian troop numbers increased, military equipment, and food supplies intended for the remaining civilians, diverted to the now strengthened military ring surrounding the city…ceasefire used to conceal all this.

So Russia has used the ceasefire to reinforce its military position around the city and stock up with provisions destined for the remaining civilians…

Is it true, that Ukrainians wishing to leave during the ceasefire, are forced to go into Russia? I’ve read this…

As a minuscule pensioner at the bottom of the budget ladder, I am grateful for all the so called laughable tit bits that this budget has given people such as me. ‘Every Little Helps’ …so discuss billions all you like, but my weekly food shopping bill will be pennies cheaper!

The budget: first of all Badenoch attacks it because there’s no money anywhere so everybody, is suffering from austerity as a result- while at the same time mocking the government for being cautious, and not bravely -doing what?’Is that it?’she cries, with no solution of her own.

Jackdaw and Rosebank: don’t swallow the Tory line, that it’s all our property. Jackdaw gas input is minimal. Rosebank oil sells on the international market because it’s a private company, so all the government gets is about 2 million in tax revenues. Or pays highest market price.

I wonder whether the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are aware that the residents of East Sussex and West Sussex are under drought conditions, expected to last throughout this winter. Perhaps they could show some sympathy for the people of Sussex, instead of just Nottingham?

That is the face of someone who’s been through the mill and come out the far side - in one piece.

It’s raining- cat content to stay on my bed…

The Israeli closure of the British embassy- ‘a mission’ is no substitute; is it a consulate or an embassy?They are different. Consulates importantly protect British subjects abroad who have problems.Embassies negotiate with the countries they’re in. No embassy, no ambassador.

Badenoch’s line; I’m ready for power. Note: ‘power’. Burnham’s line; care for working class people …note: ‘care’.

Why are the Sussex’s blasting off about ‘reckless’ photographers patrolling the perimeters of their children’s school? They’re only parents. If it’s intrusive then the school itself is the organisation which should be complaining, not two parents who are touchy.

Stop claiming that pensioners are being made to pay for the new social care plan: the existing increase rate for pensions will very soon become intolerable- that’s why it needs to be curtailed, in any case. It’s not ‘going for the poor pensioners’.

Why do Americans talk about ‘Ireland’?Don’t they know the geographical island of Ireland is 2 separate countries?The Republic of Eire is within the EU, in the southern part.Northern Ireland, in the northern part, is within the United Kingdom. How does Trump think they can unite?

And now it’s been matched, by the man who gave Farage five million in the first place….

Trump on the island of Ireland: it’d be ‘cool’ for Ireland to be united… which way would he like it to go? Both inside the EU? Or both inside the U.K.? Does he know Eire is an EU member? Does he have a single iota of understanding?