Clayton's Political View

Nadia Whittome MP has recently disclosed that she is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and has said that she is taking some time away from Parliament and politics for eight weeks to recover. This isn't just a big thing for Nadia to do it's also a big thing for an MP to do,  In fact I think that it is the first time a sitting UK MP has come forward to talk about their mental health not only disclosing it to the public but also revealing that a GP has signed her off work. Over the past decade the discourse on mental health has improved a lot public figures such as celebrities and even royalty have spoken about their mental health. Over in the United States Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that she has had therapy for post traumatic stress after the failed insurrection on the US Capitol at the start of the year that claimed five lives.  However we still need to get better at understanding mental health when Nadia Whittome released her statement about having post t...

It looks like the long running April fools joke is errr still happening, over the past few days Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the Government will carry on with it's plans to commission a new Royal yacht. When the Conservatives were running for election their manifesto pledges were slim to non existent the first was "get brexit done" and "leveling up" on the former policy of Brexit won't be fully done if ever however that's another blog post  The latter policy was to "level up" which is another policy that is still to materialize, all the Conservatives had to say on levelling up was that they were going to build forty new hospitals one has still yet to be built and increase the size of the police for...that was heavily reduced by the...Conservatives....Now it appears the Tory Party want to level up the monarchy's fleet of vehicles.  The Royal family have previously had a yacht which was decommissioned in 1997 and now reside...