Dump Trump Chumps:

The wording of that petition is:

"Donald Trump should be allowed to enter the UK in his capacity as head of the US Government, but he should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen."

Now, I may be proven wrong somewhere, but the majority of people that I know who either have signed it, or who would be most likely to sign it, have previously ventured forth on the immorality, wrongs and entitlement of the Royal Family. If not staunch republicans then certainly believing the Royals should be trimmed.

Why, many refer to HMQ as a drain on society and an aberration from previous generations based on Empire. And these very same people are concerned for her sensibilities because she may be embarrassed by a state visit from a democratically elected world leader who has accepted her invitation.

Hmmmmm!

More Coffee:

There are many people who look in horror at the Trump presidency, and screech "these rights, those rights, some other rights" and demand they are protected.

These are extra rights, over and above other rights that those people already have, yet in all this PC gone mad world those very same basic rights, of your average person, who ticks no minority boxes, who pays for and is supporting those extra rights without any extra rights of their own ... that is forgotten, that is somehow okay and somehow right.

Those are the Trump and Brexit demographic, those whose rights are overridden and removed, and given as extras to others, and still they are made to pay. The current tide is a rebalancing back to equal rights. For all. Where no-one is "more equal" than anyone else. If we are all paying then it needs to be equal, and our rights are equal to everyone else's.

That is the uncomfortable truth of global politics in 2017. Wake up and smell the coffee.

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee:

For a long time the liberal left have waxed lyrical about the woes of the world - in greater and lesser measures they are often right and have a point: globalisation and corporatisation leads to slave labour, poverty, rights erosion and climate change just for starters.

However, they rarely offer anything close to an holistic solution, instead proffering a tweak here or policy addendum there. But largely the status quo remains and the woes of the world continue.

Here is a chance to change all of that, sure, some of it sounds precipitous and most of it is uncharted territory, but it is change. And change for the world, not just America. Some of it is good, some probably unworkable, but the world must now do things differently.

Surely that principle is to be welcomed, but no, the liberal left want to go back to how it was before, maintain the status quo and change nothing: keep slave labour, poverty, globalisation etc.

The reason is clear: despite the ills of the world they were in the unenviable and safe position of being able to preach from within their own comfortable bubbles, and that is really what they are trying to perpetuate - "we want and demand change in the world, just as long as that change does not affect us, that's different, I don't see why I should contribute to the change I demand of others."

Bubbles are bursting, time to wake up and smell the coffee.

How will the Trump presidency affect world affairs? http://news.sky.com/story/how-will-the-trump-presidency-affect-world-affairs-10732131