Walaa's Weekly Wrap-Up ~ October 12, 2013

This week was a mixed bag both personally and otherwise.

I hate seeing friends in trouble or do badly. Adam Afriyie’s EU Referendum Bill, was a bad idea especially if ‘as he says’ his intention was not to out manoeuvre Dave.

Tories who hope David Cameron is there ‘for a thousand years’ offer him constructive criticism and loyal support. Call me old fashion, but undermining a leader you don’t want to replace contradicts both.

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Watching Question Time on Thursday, I was in stitches. I laughed so hard when Diane Abbott said she was sacked form Labour’s Shadow Cabinet because of her stance on Syria and opposition to bombing Damascus.

Clearly, she has not read and understood the government’s motion before voting on it.

Oh Diane you are so funny but not so clever. You see these things (Government Motions) are on record for all to see and read – that was one of those times where keeping quiet and smiling nicely would have been better.

And don’t get me started on her “we did some fantastic things” on education comment !?!?

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It turned out Ed ‘I will freeze energy bills for two years’ Miliband has been steeling slogans ‘literally’ left, right and centre, from Neil Kinnock and the Conservatives….

How that is a surprise is beyond me. The man is a student of Gordon Brown, and was handpicked and funded by the unions!

The question people need to ask is, what’s original about Ed Miliband?

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Since the dawn of day, women have been mothers, and as life evolved women’s roles and responsibilities evolved with it. Granted some fifty, sixty years ago all women did and aspired to do was become wives and mothers. But things have changed since then. We ‘women’ are now able to be and do more, and proved to be very good at doing more than one thing at a time.

Today we are able to do more than our predecessors did or could do.

Nonetheless, mothering plus holding down a job, can in no way be the most difficult job on earth. So when some moms’ organization representative, comes on TV to tell us being a mother (which I am for two very beautiful and bright young ladies) is the toughest job, honestly I feel a little embarrassed.

I raised two girls as a single parent, sometimes it was hard and at times even impossible, but I won’t say being a mother was the toughest job. Because I am very sure being a solider on the front line, a fire-fighter putting out fires, a doctor or a nurse working on infectious killer diseases, or a miner working underground …., are all much tougher jobs than being a mother.

Don’t get me wrong mothers are wonderful and becoming a mom is the best thing that happened to me. However, what I am saying here, parenting; especially good parenting can be very challenging but let’s keep things in prospective.

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Understand were the government is going with their latest immigration directives, where involving GPs, State Agents and Banks in vetting and checking that their patients and customers are legal aliens. I also understand that it is added on to what UK Borders will naturally do. It is cost effective, plus collective responsibility is a good civic exercise. However, I fear it will allow for passing the blame.

It is a known fact, wherever you have more than one body responsible, it dilutes responsibilities and allows for more mistakes and blame.

Ideally border security should be carried out thoroughly at the point of entry by trained and authorised borders agents. This way we all know where the buck stops.

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