The World Needs Saved...

We have all read and heard about the recent (and not so recent) spate of stabbings in London and in other areas around the country. While all forms of killing are awful, being stabbed must be one of the worst. It is up close, almost always premeditated and rarely a quick way to die. The brutality of it lives with both the attacker and, if they survive, the victim for the rest of their days. But what is behind this rise? The government blame everyone but themselves as usual saying it’s not all about money and everyone must step up to this scourge. Sounds good in principle but let’s take a closer look.

Well that cleared everything up didn't it…. OK maybe not. To start with it was the wrong format. The BBC claimed there was not enough time to pull a representative audience together. Weird as Channel 4, an organisation with less resources, managed to do it with even less time. It also needed to be longer and the candidates needed to show a little decorum or at least be put in their place more. I got the feeling they wouldn't have tried to talk over a male presenter as much, and that is not a dig at Emily Maitlis, who I felt did very well, it is a reflection of the candidates lack of respect for a female presenter trying to do her job. Makes you wonder how they would react when speaking with Angela Merkel, Jacinda Ardern, Erna Solberg or any of the many other female heads of state. Feels like an embarrassment for the UK just waiting to happen.

Wow what a selection we have to, well not choose from since we don't get a vote on who our next Prime Minister is, all we can do is wonder which drug using, elitist, selfish,.....you get the point, will take up the reigns and lead us into ruin.  From the time we all knew this was going to happen the candidates have been spouting some of worst ideas to come into their heads. Actually, scratch that they are probably not the worst ideas they have which is even more worrying.

In the news recently was a report about a woman who had killed her husband. Originally convicted of murder she had her sentence reduced to manslaughter due to a psychological condition brought on by the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband for years.