Here I am at the edge

The day I will never forget What do I remember from 1966; as a ten-year-old soccer fan winning the World Cup is obvious - a victory I realized in later years couldn't have been much easier. One of my most poignant memories is the day a tiny village in Wales become a world headline for the most tragic of all reasons -  a mining disaster   - I can't say what particular reason this tragedy held me by, as there are so many elements why I felt the pain of their loss.  I come from a close family of four generations of fishermen who fished the icy waters of the North Sea/ I had an uncle in the RNLI who was involved in the rescue of a Polish ship / I was a schoolboy at the time. When I was stationed at RAF Lossiemouth, near Elgin, I used to travel home via the Yorkshire mining district, during the   miner's strike   I would pass the massive piles of coal and pray another disaster such as Aberfan befell a community. Little did the miners realiz...

The official version The British government admitted a couple of months ago that white , British people are a racial minority in the United Kingdom .  I hate to tell the  Whitehall fat cats, but we knew that fact several years ago. Soon, the only whites in the UK will be Poles and criminals from the #EU .  Labour party politics This can be laid at the door of Tony Blair , I said putting Labour was a fatal mistake and I was right. I have either lived, or worked, in Bristol - for many years a Labour stronghold - and I've seen how the Bristol City Council squandered taxpayer's money.  When Blair came to power I said it was the worst possible thing for the country. Under Labour, we had endless strikes and rampant inflation through the late 1970's & 1980's. To people of the younger generation, who have no idea what it was like, we never had a summer when one of the big unions didn't hold us the country to ransom. Throughout this period, the ...