Before Christmas as from bad to verse
If you had worked together and found a cross party solution,
Instead of childish name calling, and causing confusion.
You would have found the public was better disposed,
To politics in general, not angry and opposed.
Like St Nick, May and her cabinet were tasked to deliver,
But not with reindeer who fly, over a country that shivers.
Horses problem
An animal charity is investigating concerns for the welfare of a group of horses being kept in a field near Helensburgh. The Scottish SPCA is carrying out a probe after people living in the Shandon area raised worries about five animals on an area of land on the Blairvadach estate. One resident said: “We are desperately concerned for the horses’ welfare.”
Helensburgh Advertiser
Because Brexit’s no fairytale led by a jolly, fat elf,
Who gets stuck in the chimney after eating food from the shelf.
It’s a car crash in waiting, a shambles from the start,
A problem needing adults not this pack of spoiled brats.
But deal or no deal, on the 11th we must have a decision,
One for the good of country, not political ambition.
Business needs facts, assured where it’s going,
Because jobs are at risk, reliant on the economy not slowing.
The NHS, education, new housing, roads and the trains,
All urgently need investment to get them moving again.
Austerity has crippled low earners, those on minimum wage,
Universal Credit will have them in a Christmas Day rage.
With families so poor that they can’t heat their homes,
It’s the food bank for dinner or stealing the dog’s bones. So while Westminster bickers, rows and fails to agree,
But ironically joining forces to knock May off her tree. The EU stance hardens, as they don’t have to worry,
As Christmas has come early, they don’t have to hurry.
For Bernier and Tusk, it’s a gift that keeps giving, They don’t have to do anything to justify their rich living.
They can sit back, relax, until a new PM makes a call,
And under their terms, toast Brexit goodnight... and wish a Happy Christmas to all.
Record trade surplus
China’s trade surplus with the US rose to a new high of 35.5 billion US dollars last month as businesses raced to prepare for a threatened increase in tariffs over the new year.
China’s exports to the US rose by 9.7% year-on-year to $46.2 billion in November, while imports dropped 25% to $10.6 billion, according to official data.
South China Morning Post March killer guilty
Sixteen months after swastikatoting white supremacists swarmed the streets of Charlottesville, one of the demonstrators was convicted of first-degree murder on Friday for intentionally driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring nearly 40 others. James Fields Jr, 21, faces up to life in prison for the death of Heather Heyer, 32.
New York Times