Patriotic Duty

I listen a lot to LBC, specifically the James O'Brien Show (10:00-13:00 weekdays). Every 15 minutes or so there are adverts, some of which amuse me. Some are somewhat incongruous, such as Bet Fred adverts during a phone-in about betting addiction.

There's one for Darwood and Tanner Dentists, the voice-over for which says; "We make teeth great again," but I interpret it as; "We make teeth grate again," which is much funnier.

There's one advert for EDF where the CEO comes on and does a voice-over in heavily accented French. I'm continually surprised that Tory voters don't phone the show and complain about our national infrastructure being in the hands of the bloody French.

Now the solution to this - and it's very patriotic - is to nationalise all the infrastructure where there's a preponderance of foreign ownership. Nationalisation should be seen as a patriotic duty to the right wing, but it's not, and I can't understand why. You'd think they'd be clamouring for it.

On another matter, surely handing £3k and a free ticket to refugees volunteering to go Rwanda is going to encourage a new cohort of people to cross the Channel - those who will take the money and then perform the same trip multiple times. £3k goes a long way when travelling north through Africa. Also, Kemi Badenoch knowing someone who is having 'a lovely Gap Year' there doesn't exactly make it sound like a deterrent. Now I'm not calling Badenoch a liar, but she also said yesterday that Britain is thriving after leaving the EU. OK, yes, I'm calling her a liar.

I wonder of the Gap Year student will be coming back or has a one way ticket.