(0526) Morning all … still dark out there. (0600) Light appearing, overcast, no brilliant dawn as it was yesterday. (0601)

 

10. DAD at 0545 at 1144

a) France’s hard-right and hard-left parties on Thursday rejected a compromise with Prime Minister Francois Bayrou…

b) France: Mélenchon [Neo-communist] threatens Departmental Prefects with prison if far-left LFI takes power.

c) Polls spell disaster for both Bayrou and Macron.

d) Many people choose to move away from Britain, whether to avoid the dreary weather or to start fresh somewhere new; but to where are they going ? *

*JH: And don’t forget they take their mindsets and habits with them.

9. Plastic packaging

8. Rob the people blind

7. Ah, paid “counter-protesters” bussed in

… escorted into position by “impartial” plod … never changes, “violence flares”, token “far-righter” arrested, or if govt is trying to demonstrate to the world beaming, kindly impartiality … token Antifa arrested, demonstrating the new “cracking down on crime”.

6. Taking this up in a subsequent post

… from another angle:

5. Priorities

4. Getting around govt

3. Things operating smoothly