:)WELCOME TO LOOK BACK ON 2016:)


BREXIT

Well first up I made my mind up years ago and was not persuaded by both sides of the referendum. I was disgusted by both sides telling lies and treating the whole thing as a drunken orgy. I feel the voters were badly let down by our politicians during this campaign which was badly conducted.

The City pigs crashed the stock market by placing bets worth millions and who has to pick up the pieces? Not those pigs that's for sure, since then its been a slow climb back up to roughly where we were before their stupidity.

I feel we need a proper re-run, but saying that there is no point if our politicians act like a lode of kids. So for better or worst we have a result and since then our politicians have made a right pigs ear of it resulting in all these court cases.

More to come later in part two when we look forward.

A couple of my disappointments for 2016 spring to mind.

1) What was possibly an unprecedented number of well known people passing away.

2) A lowering of interest rates to record levels, (two sides of the coin here being that it is great for borrowers but terrible for savers) and for the majority of my years I have been firmly positioned in the former category whilst rates were often nearing all time highs.

Labour

Well we saw once again another challenge to Jeremy Corbyn within his own ranks that failed. JC is well and truly well rooted and is not going any where. The sad result of this Labour will loose the next general election which will probably see the old JC tree come crashing down.

Jeremy will be facing a By-Election in a Labour seat early next year and could loose to the Tories, Labour maybe a party of losers but the voters are the biggest losers as Labour as it stands is weak and shows no real sign of a party in waiting for government in these last days of 2016.


The Conservatives

Well we witness the downfall of old toffboy Cameron as the the country voted to leave the EU, Cameron did a runner leaving Article 50 flapping around in the wind. In comes Theresa May and cleans shop getting rid of the likes of George Osborne and his silly hair cut, I will not miss this vermin at all. Mrs May may get the better of old Corbyn at PMQ's but I feel this woman is flapping around ducking and diving. Finally please no more saying...Brexit means Brexit, get on with it!


LibDems

Well if cock a hoot Tim Farron strutting around like a peacock after over turning the former Tory seat Zac Goldsmith held is a sign the LibDems are bouncing back he needs a reality check. The LibDems are a long way away from the days they stood tall right up to the point former leader Clegg jumped into bed with Cameron and paid the price in 2015.

And finally..

UKIP
Wow what a year they have had with in fighting and leadership contests and a number of suppoters and party members leaving the party and rubbing the dirt in. And they are still here! Has Nigel Farage finally stepped down as leader? Well he may have in the dying days of 2016, UKIP is the new Punch and Judy show everyone likes...almost.

Over all for me another tight budget year and now I have to tighten up on that even more until I get a second part time job. But due to my health issues that is on hold for the moment, just hope I can get a second job later on. 2016 under the Tories has been rough for me and I have a feeling it will continual in to next year.

I'll do the SNP entry...

http://i.imgur.com/1KtHyxD.jpg

:haha:

Mike.

^Jim, that would cover many of the politician's today. :03: :haha:

NEWS

I see Obamba continual's to have a pop at this and that leaving Trump to pick up the pieces or not in the new year.

http://news.sky.com/story/corbyn-hit...rated-10709545

Clearly the rest of us are barking mad and howling at the moon. :03:

^ I note Farron grasps eagerly at any opportunity.

Little Tim is just a peacock to busy showing off and doing nothing to fix his own busted party.

Yeah, when I way up the opposition in Parliament I feel saddened that the Tories have probably ever had it so good.

Nothing wrong with an effective opposition to keep the government on its toes.

Spot on, the Tories had a good 2016 laughing at the silly Labour and LibDem opposition. Only the SNP seems to got under their skin from time to time, all nice and dandy for Scotland but no good for England.

Downing Street are now being publicly critical of recent comments made by John Kerry regarding Israel.

Obviously the current US government will soon cease to exist but why didn't the UK exercise the veto option?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38464800

UK foreign policy in the area has had a tendency to favour the Arab side of the issue and has done for decades. Quite a few of the local rulers or princelings have been to Sandhurst, King Abdullah of Jordan and Sultan Qaboos of Oman being two of the most notable:

Sandhurst's sheikhs: Why do so many Gulf royals receive military training in the UK? courtesy of the BBC.

There's also an awful lot of Middle Eastern money in London.

Mike.:hmmm:

Time to look forward to 2017 -

Well I don't see much to look forward to as the Tories will continual to put the screws on and Lab/Libs have lost the plot. If both of these party's carry on like this all they are going to do is to look unelectable in the voters eyes.

I have doubts about Article 50 being triggered and so far the whole Brexit thing has been a mess and probably will continual to be. All eyes on the up coming By-election and local elections for some indication of the new year.