Nothings Changed

While we was away i  left my work phone at home and tried to avoid the news as much as possible so when i saw a Tweet from the German Foreign Office aimed at Donald Trump and stating how their immigrants don't eat peoples pets it was a bit confusing but i just put it down to Donald Trump being typical Donald Trump and being a complete arse and saying something stupid which it was so nothing new there.
Also not new was Israel still killing people in Palestine as part of their ongoing Genocide although it appears they have now opened another front and have been blowing up pagers and walkie talkies as a prelude to pummeling Lebanon who had been lobbing missiles into Israel.
If only Hamas, Hezbollah and the IDF could find a desert somewhere miles away from anyone else and just beat the crap out of each other there without innocent people being killed but alas, the morons on all sides will keep going for as long as possible, particularly important for Benjamin Netanyahu whose political career and liberty actually depends on it so he won't be stopping anytime soon.      
Surprisingly the Labour Party steamed ahead with saving £1.4bn by stopping the £300 Winter Fuel Allowance for 10 million of the UK's pensioners although they have set the bar extremely low for those who will still receive it which means 1.4 million surviving on less than £11,300 a year will still be eligible. I would have assumed they would have at least moved the line to tax paying pensioners (8m) or even higher rate tax paying pensioners (3m) for means testing it as a way to not lose face but we have a budget coming up in October so things may change by then.  
Mohamed Al Fayed has finally been outed as a serial rapist and sex abuser but those rumours have been swirling, and buried, for years so all it took was for him to die for it to finally come out so after three weeks off it is back to work on Monday and it seems depressingly like nothing much has changed.