My take on Tory leadership election

​So throughout the summer, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been campaigning hard everywhere in the United Kingdom in the race to become the next Conservative leader & the next Prime Minister to replace the outgoing and unpopular Prime Minister Boris Johnson. 

So tomorrow there will be the next Conservative/Tory leader & the PM to succeed the outgoing PM Boris Johnson who have not been popular with the British public, here’s my analysis on the leadership election. Based on my opinion. 

So since that the UK is multicultural country. Unfortunately for the Conservative Party. most of the members doesn’t want him Rishi Sunak (who is Indian by descent) to be the next PM. 

One. They see him (Rishi Sunak) as a backstabber for brining down Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he stepped down as the Chancellor of the Exchequer before other cabinet ministers which it had recorded more than 50 cabinet ministers to step down from the govt. All because of this scandal 

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-resigned-why-prime-minister-quit-chris-pincher-scandal-mp-resignations-1729346 

Even the Covid 19 partygate scandal had tarnished the reputation of Boris Johnson & the government. Even Sunak himself given he used to be popular once he became the Chancellor before the pandemic in 2020. 

2. Conservative (Tory) members are mostly white, middle aged (& elderly = older particularly 60+) and racist (160k of them plus some Tory members used to be an member of extreme far right parties) despite the party itself claims they have diverse politicians but wouldn’t want any of them to be the first PM from ethnicity minority background. That explains why Liz Truss is the favourite to win the Tory leadership. No wonder ethnic minority voters here in this country always doesn’t give a vote to the Conservatives & that they always vote Labour.

3. Rishi Sunak is not popular. Most of cabinet ministers who are loyal to the outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, strongly disliked Sunak cos they see him as a traitor for stepping down as the Chancellor last month (July) from the cabinet which opinion polls shows that he will not win the leadership election against Liz Truss. So it is likely the next UK PM & Conservative leader will be woman for third time since Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher. Two UK female PMs & Tory leaders. 

And 4. Sunak’s own scandals. 

His wife is richer than the Queen & that she pays no tax (nom dom tax) & the revelations that he holds US green card. That really undermined Sunak’s popularity as an politician & even his chances of being the favourite to be Boris Johnson’s successor just before Boris Johnson stepped down last month. 

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/07/akshata-murty-who-is-rishi-sunak-wife

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61044847.amp 

& recently he build his own swimming pool in his home constituency while local swimming pools were shut. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-builds-private-pool-27619489.amp

And he admitted when he was a chancellor that he took money from deprived areas in the UK https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/video-emerges-of-rishi-sunak-admitting-to-taking-money-from-deprived-areas 

As for Liz Truss, the Iron Lady wannabe, she has her own controversies too. 

Every thing from joking whether France is a friend or foe by saying “the jury’s out” which was outrageous for her given she is the UK Foreign  Secretary which she should had known better to saying that British workers “more graft” & suggesting to ignore Nicola Sturgeon (First Minister of Scotland) by describing her as “attention seeker”. 

It is clear to me that the next Tory leader & the Prime Minister will not be better. Just like it was not better when Boris Johnson became the PM three years ago in 2019, succeeding Theresa May or in 2016 when Theresa May who became the PM, succeeding David Cameron over the Brexit referendum results that was held 6 years ago. The referendum that was not necessary. 

With the cost of living crisis, inflation & the impact of Brexit, Covid and 12 years of austerity, whether Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss is the next PM & Tory leader by tomorrow, the Conservatives under three PMs & soon to have 4th PM since 2010, have really tarnished the UK’s reputation in the world stage. We got two or three more years until the next general election. No wonder now the Tories are not leading the polls. So let’s see how it will go with the new PM whether is Sunak or Truss. Only time will tell. 

Summer time in Northern Hemisphere

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Malta Guinness: The brand you never heard of

​When person say Guinness, everyone knows the well known Irish alcoholic brand of beer. ☘️🇮🇪🍺

But when the person say “Malta Guinness”, no one has ever heard of the brand unless if you happened to be from West Africa 🇬🇭🇳🇬 or you know the brand because you either have parents or know someone who is from countries in West Africa like Ghana, Nigeria, etc. it is mainly because of the fact that Malta Guinness brand is not widely well known outside West Africa. 

Now you may be wondering what is Malta Guinness? 

Malta Guinness is a malt drink. It’s an non alcoholic sweet drink. It is produced by Diageo.

Produced in Nigeria and exported to the UK, Malaysia and east Africa. Also South Africa as a well since the sale of Malta Guinness are available in Johannesburg. 

And no Malta Guinness does not come from the country Malta 🇲🇹 despite two words “Malta” & “Guinness” are mixed into together as an non alcoholic version of the Guinness brand. In other words, Malta Guinness is a variety of the brand Guinness. So Malta Guinness brand originates from Nigeria. 🇳🇬In addition, there is an company who is called Guinness Nigeria. 

And finally here is the interesting fact about Malta Guinness. The first country who launched Malta Guinness in the year 1984 was Cameroon. 🇨🇲 

So when you taste the drink of soft drink Malta Guinnesss, it is basically tasted like a root beer. I first tasted the drink couple of years ago when I was dining at the Ghanaian restaurant in Burnt Oak. 

Malta Guinness has an information for ingredients: Carbonated water, sugar, maize, sorghum, Bartley Malt Extract, sorghum malt, caramel, hops from stabiliser and B vitamins. I highly recommend if you want to drink a cold Malta Guinness, store it in cold fridge. The brand really does have finest ingredients and vitamins that can make you go wow with a “top of the world” feeling. Both bottle and cans are 330ml each. Zero fat, zero salt, zero sodium, zero dietary fibre. 

Although within Malta Guinness typical nutrition information, there are sugar (I wouldn’t recommend any person if you do have diabetes or that you are going on diet in order to cut down on sugar. Just saying. Sugar = 11 grams), energy, protein (0.3 gram) and carbohydrates (14 grams). 

I know there are plenty of shops (some are corners shops & African shop) that sells Malta Guinness in some places in London including Finchley, Colindale, Hackney, Abbey Wood & some places where are the presence of people who are originally from Nigeria or any part of Africa. Particularly West African countries like Ghana. 

So here are the TV adverts/commercials that are not aired in the UK. Only in West Africa. 

https://youtu.be/stPv-9UWRg8 

https://youtu.be/Z3-vickBsU4

https://youtu.be/UF_ffYO0i0k

https://youtu.be/TUMJrAx1Yto 

https://youtu.be/37C6kDumwLs

https://youtu.be/Y3rM9z2yams

https://youtu.be/cW-V9yq-DEs 

And here’s more information about Malta Guinness if you are interested. http://katoenterprises.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Malta-Guinness-UK-Stock-V6.pdf

Most of the photos I attached are my own photos that I took on my phone except the ones that I found on Google images. So yeah, I highly recommend everyone to get to know Malta Guinness & start drinking it. 

I now have my Ko Fi account

​Man, where I have been. I have not written any blog post since my first blog post of this month about Platinum Jubilee celebrations in the UK

I have been busy doing things in my own personal stuff & finding a job (especially this day and age with cost of living crisis as I have been struggling to find a job since 2019 prior to the covid pandemic which I am sure you guys are aware of it if you have reading my blog posts for a long time). At least I am happy to be back writing blog posts even I had took a break (& there is no shame in that but it is important for me as an blogger to keep writing blog regularly to engage with you my dear readers). 

Anyways I do have an blog announcement that I want to inform you guys. 

Today I opened my account on the website called Ko Fi Click the link to my account profile page. 

What is Ko Fi

I will explain to you what is Ko Fi 

It’s the site where many content creators earn money as part of income & donations from fans/followers. 

I see many people on YouTube including trainspotters who promote their work by advertising on YouTube description on their channels. 

It’s like Google Adsense but it is more of earning money by receiving donations from fans as they’ll buy “coffees” for the person they are following as earnings. 

So for me, I have thought of an account there for months ago. Now today is the day I joined Ko Fi so that I can engage with many more people like you on any platform. You see, last year as you recall when I spent months of waiting for Adsense to show advertisement here on my blog (as you are seeing one while reading this latest blog post) & that it had finally happened on June 2021 when I earned my first Adsense earning. Fast forward to now, I am not earning amount of money that much so I had made my own decision to find another source of money earning site and that is where I found Ko Fi site. The site for many different type of content creators. 

As always, I appreciate everybody who has been reading my blog since day one and if you do want to show your support to my blog, you can go to my account page on Ko Fi. Thank you so much. 😀🙂

Now I got to get back of planning to write for upcoming blog posts so please stay tuned for that. ✍️💻

My thoughts on Platinum Jubilee

​Today is the day 1 of Platinum Jubilee bank holiday celebrations. 🇬🇧💷👑

It has started today & will finish on Sunday. 

My thoughts on Platinum Jubilee

It is a remarkable that the Queen has reached an incredible milestone. 70 years of reigns on the throne. Queen Elizabeth II - First ever British monarch have three jubilees: Sliver Jubilee (1977), Golden Jubilee (2002), Diamond Jubilee (2012) and Platinum Jubilee (2022). All I can say is congratulations to the Queen. That is something it can be acknowledged. Lifetime of duty to public services. I am not really royalist or Republican so I don’t say anything much about the Royal Family. 

Anyway regarding Platinum Jubilee celebrations, I wonder to myself, why the once in lifetime Jubilee celebration while this country is going through tough times financially and economically due to inflation, rising bills & the cost of living (which are the fallouts of the Covid pandemic) as effects of Brexit & 12 years of austerity cuts under three Tory Prime Ministers (Cameron, May & Johnson). There’ll be some people may not want to celebrate jubilee & that is okay. 

And to be bluntly honest. The last couple of years regarding politics which the divisive topic (Brexit) have torn the country apart & the fact I was once once victimised of racism despite growing up in the UK & that I lived through two jubilees (Golden & Diamond), this year’s Platinum is not something I can confidently say I am proud to be British. That may be the case in 2012 at the time there were two major events: Diamond Jubilee and London 2012 games (Olympics & Paralympics) but 4 years later with the unnecessary & divisive referendum result in 2016 (obviously I am talking about Brexit) & the despicable politicians (the likes of Farage, Boris Johnson, etc) & me being victimised of racism, it is not really the same. The sense of feeling proud to be British.

Now I am not saying don’t be proud to be British, be proud of being British if you want to but the sense of being happy to be Brit in my opinion has gone away long time. Being hijacked by the conservative media outlets. No wonder there are some type of people who do claim to be proud of being British & yet showing his/her true colours by being racist & xenophobic bigot. That is not patriotic. Being patriot means you care about the country. It is not about flag waving or showing love & admiration to the monarchy. It is about doing something to improve the country with action so racism & any form of prejudicial discrimination is the opposite of patriotism. I have to say as someone who is British born African who has parents from Commonwealth countries (Nigeria & South Africa). 

In addition to that regarding Jubilee celebrations 2022 is the different year than 2012, 2002 or even 1977 or 1952. If it wasn’t for Brexit or politics in general regarding the rise of food banks caused by austerity & higher bills due to inflation & cost of living crisis then maybe I would had been proud to say that I am happy to be British. I even talked about in my previous blog post about the idea of adopting UBI to fix the welfare system & helping the poor & feeding the poor. 

And lastly, the two last years has been very tough for us due to the Coronavirus pandemic & that we all equally suffered globally. Now there is no panic about Covid apart from moneypox (which is not really fatal disease like Covid 19) so we won’t have to experience anymore lockdowns except the fact that Boris Johnson is under severe pressure regarding the partygate scandal which I will talk more about it in the upcoming days. 

So that is all I can say about my thoughts on Platinum Jubilee. Enjoy yourselves regardless whether you do celebrate or not. Have a day everybody.