King's Speech

Fanfare heralds lack lustre year ahead!

My immediate take away from listening to the King’s speech to Parliament yesterday, was that Charles must have found it embarrassingly difficult to articulate many of the words he had been instructed to say. Especially on such matters as, annual rounds of North Sea exploratory licences for oil and gas.  Licences which will do nothing to aid the UK economy and everything to putting off the necessary curbing of fossil fuels here.

As a manifesto for the upcoming election, the speech was pretty thin gruel! Though a blessed relief as there was no mention of fining charities for giving tents to desperate homeless people - a community allegedly making the lifestyle choice, according to ‘Cruella de Braverman’, to sleep out under canvas in the depths of winter.

The speech had no positive proposals for improving the economy and tackling the cost-of-living crisis, but ideas for harsher and longer sentences for criminals, when there are no more spaces in our already overcrowded jails, and a failing Criminal Justice system.

However, there are plans for a football regulator and a crackdown on London cycle cabs.  Just what we all desperately need!

Stephen Hardy MBE.

Chair