Well here is a little topic for debate. Should Harry go "once more into the breach dear friends", like his illustrious ancestor? Or should he be pulled out?
Well he is a trained soldier you say. Therefore its his job to go. Yes that is true. However where did the leak he was in Afghanistan come from?
It was published first in an Australian magazine, but no one cares about celebrity in Australia. Aussies like to live their own lives. It was picked up by our American friends who cant keep anything quiet and they ran with it.
The press in this instance are a bit like Tony and Gordon having a little whisper session between "two gentlemen", and two minutes after, both their spin doctors have leaked the gossip. In this instance though it was to make a bit of money with the scoop.
It is dangerous and foolhardy to publish any information about battlefields, and who is there and in what strength. My reckoning is, we give our foe to much information, because he can watch the T.V too.
Now it is the governments idea to show everybody how well we are doing to justify their original orders to invade a place. Its called spin.
But it is not the politician in the "rock and hard place" situation though. It's the people on the front line. Blair and Brown got to visit for less than a day, where as the soldiers have to be there for months at a time. But then Brown and Blair made sure the press didn't leak that, because it was there own arses on the line that time.
I have to stick my two pennies in here though. If Harry was on the front line for 10 weeks, why was there press around to follow his every move? If he was "just a soldier", and I am sorry if that's a little derogatory to soldiers, because I don't mean it to be (we are the best army in the world!) . Where was everyone else's press contingents? That's right. They don't have them.
Now we all know how good the British soldier is. We know how great they are with out having to say it. Well I will say it this time. Going to places they aren't liked to bring some stability to a region that wont thank them; to come home traumatised or in body bags because some jumped up politician isn't strong enough to say no, we shouldn't interfere. (I talk about Iraq here, by the way, not Afghanistan). They do it because they are proud of what their regiments stand for. They follow orders, and will die carrying those orders out.
Well Harry is no coward, he wanted to go. He is there now, and he is taking the risk like every other soldier out there. It has been his dream since he was a boy. But he should not have gone with the press!
He should have insisted he remain anonymous, for his own safety and to create less of a target. It would then have been a major coup for him and the army once his tour had finished to then tell the world.
Today after the Americans stupidly told the world, he is in greater danger, as is his men. What terrorist in their warped, bigoted, narrow minds wouldn't go out of their way to be the one to capture or kill the Queen's son. The top Brass should also have made sure the press wasn't hanging around. The Press wouldn't give a dam how it happened or why if he was hurt or killed. They would publish it for the scoop and more money.
Friday 29 February 2008
Wednesday 27 February 2008
The Congestion Charge
What's your views on Red Ken's Congestion Charge ? Well here is mine.
The congestion charge is a bit of a piss take to rip off the motorist. The motorist already gets taxed enough in petrol/diesel charges. They have to pay road tax that never gets spent on improving the roads (not down my way anyway), and also have to put up with the poor motoring standards of the dreaded BMW driver.
The congestion charge is a bit of a piss take to rip off the motorist. The motorist already gets taxed enough in petrol/diesel charges. They have to pay road tax that never gets spent on improving the roads (not down my way anyway), and also have to put up with the poor motoring standards of the dreaded BMW driver.
I can see that it is a way to keep traffic off the streets. However the only solution is to cut train and tube fares and get the donut eaters off their backsides and learn to walk around again.
Get the tubes working better and cheaper. Some friends of mine went to New York over Christmas. The tubes ran on Christmas Day! We are becoming a 24 hour society in London and the bigger cities of the UK. Can anyone tell me why the tube shuts 12-12:30am. Well its supposed to aide cleaning and have track repairs. It doesn't impact our foreign brothers and sisters when their tubes are cleaned and repaired. They still run.
Providing a better and more frequent service must be the way forward. Have the kids walk to school - lets get the scumbags off the streets that will stop the kids walking to school. The innocent people shouldn't have to fear walking around their own neighbourhoods, getting raped, stabbed or molested by scumbags that shouldn't be on the streets anyway.
Can anyone tell me if this congestion charge really gets used to to do any of the above, because is is a shed load of cash collected here, and recently I haven't noticed a change in traffic. Now the last lot of statistics that were published say its reduced. What I know is that traffic speeds have definitely gotten slower. My way of thinking is that this is a result of more cars.
Tuesday 26 February 2008
Children Are Innocent
I have just had a little surprise and have heard from my cousin. She is back at work after having little Lottie.
Well this got me thinking about children and how innocent and trusting they are.
So its a bit of a shock that last month in Jersey the councillor who brought up the allegations was shouted down by all the other councillors because they thought he was doing it for political gain.
Now excuse me, but I believe the people elected him. And I believe he was right to bring this subject up and I believe the others should have shut up and listened. I don't care about political gain - its their duty to protect and serve and to bring such issues to light.
Now I have finished the rant, we need to make sure that this sort of lark doesn't happen to vulnerable children again. We also need to make sure justice is served and to do the right thing by the dead children.
I am sorry. But if you have done the crime, and you are a 97 year old fart on your last legs, there can be no hiding behind old age and frailty. You should have your day in court and face the bloody consequence of your actions.
Well this got me thinking about children and how innocent and trusting they are.
So its a bit of a shock that last month in Jersey the councillor who brought up the allegations was shouted down by all the other councillors because they thought he was doing it for political gain.
Now excuse me, but I believe the people elected him. And I believe he was right to bring this subject up and I believe the others should have shut up and listened. I don't care about political gain - its their duty to protect and serve and to bring such issues to light.
Now I have finished the rant, we need to make sure that this sort of lark doesn't happen to vulnerable children again. We also need to make sure justice is served and to do the right thing by the dead children.
I am sorry. But if you have done the crime, and you are a 97 year old fart on your last legs, there can be no hiding behind old age and frailty. You should have your day in court and face the bloody consequence of your actions.
Car Engines/Global Warming
Well what's the views on Global Warming? Well here is mine.
Personally I think the environment goes in cycles, so a lot of this weather/global warming happens anyway. The scientists can prove this. There was the time the Thames froze in the 15&1600's - well it had a little help as arches on London Bridge were spaced so the water flow was impeded. But I digress. The cold spell still froze the Thames and we bear baited, which is the equivalent to MTV today I guess, and we cooked whole cows out in the middle of the river. Now in the late 90s and noughties, it's the turn to put on your shorts and catch some rays. Oh, by the way, one of my readers - and they are few and far between at the moment - pointed out to me that this cold snap lasted until the 1800's.
However, there are those of us out there that probably think man does have a bit of an impact too. It is industry and cars that are to blame here. So we have had the Kyoto agreement, that the biggest polluters didn't want to sign up to, to reduce emissions. So lets point a finger at the Yanks here. "I don't want to sign up, because it will cost the U.S jobs". Well Mr Bush, it could also have created some, in the fact you could corporately police the emissions. We all know that was just a crappy ploy not to cheese the voters off, so that you got elected again. Thank god for small mercies. You wont get a 3rd term. Lets face it, you aren't Franklin D. Roosevelt .
So that never really got off the ground. We can pollute the world, because we cant police industry. I would like to thank India, China and the Good Ol' U.S. of A for killing a planet and we all have an out break of asthma to look forward to.
As for the cars chucking out pollution. That should be a little easier. Now why hasn't anyone in the Department of Transport or what ever Mr Blair or Mr Brown may have deemed to call it now, come up with the solution?
Well it is freedom of choice on what cars we drive. And that's what our grandparents fought for. But there will always be the selfish idiots that live in the city that want to drive their 4*4 tanks on the school run to the bottom of their road, and others that can afford the Mercs and Astons although we have neither the space or the speed limits to test these gleaming hunks of car to the max. We don't want to drive the Ladas of the cold war 50's & 60's, and Henry Ford's "in any colour you like as long as its black!" - because we have this choice.
So what's the solution, you ask? Well here it is in a nut shell. Get the government to pass a law that states all engines must produce more than 35-40mpg. A economic Jag, Merc or Aston surely is better than an uneconomical 10 mpg car. If we have the technology to make them go faster than 150 mph, it must be there to make them more fuel efficient. Now by my reckoning, this cuts pollution too. Another gripe I have, but this one is fairly minor, is this. Why have a car that goes 150mph when the speed limit is only 70 - not that we adhere to the limits! The good thing is we will have less stupid genes in the gene pool when the idiots plough into trees and kill themselves. Bonus you say? I say its waste of a life for going to fast.
Cut the tube fares to a pound a day, The Oyster Card is great for the locals, but tubes rip off the tourists unless they have Oysters as well. It is £4 to go from Embankment to Charring Cross - if they didn't know it was 100 yards away, all well and good you say. But what if things were so cheap it would deter people from "not" paying. Any country world wide has a cheaper tube/train net work than us, and we invented the bloody things! My old economics teacher gave me the concept of demand and supply- if things are a glut and priced so cheap, people will want them (up to a point).
By the way if you wanted to go bio-diesel, there was a tax on the bio-fuel you could make in your garden out of used chip fat! Is that an incentive to switch, No. However I believe someone at HMS Government (god bless him for the common sense) has now adjusted it so that if you make it, but not in an oil production grand scale, you don't need to pay anything.
Man is the most destructive animal on the planet. A bit of consideration and thoughtfulness, a bit unselfishness, and for each and everyone of us to show a willingness to do a little bit, and we should be alright.
Personally I think the environment goes in cycles, so a lot of this weather/global warming happens anyway. The scientists can prove this. There was the time the Thames froze in the 15&1600's - well it had a little help as arches on London Bridge were spaced so the water flow was impeded. But I digress. The cold spell still froze the Thames and we bear baited, which is the equivalent to MTV today I guess, and we cooked whole cows out in the middle of the river. Now in the late 90s and noughties, it's the turn to put on your shorts and catch some rays. Oh, by the way, one of my readers - and they are few and far between at the moment - pointed out to me that this cold snap lasted until the 1800's.
However, there are those of us out there that probably think man does have a bit of an impact too. It is industry and cars that are to blame here. So we have had the Kyoto agreement, that the biggest polluters didn't want to sign up to, to reduce emissions. So lets point a finger at the Yanks here. "I don't want to sign up, because it will cost the U.S jobs". Well Mr Bush, it could also have created some, in the fact you could corporately police the emissions. We all know that was just a crappy ploy not to cheese the voters off, so that you got elected again. Thank god for small mercies. You wont get a 3rd term. Lets face it, you aren't Franklin D. Roosevelt .
So that never really got off the ground. We can pollute the world, because we cant police industry. I would like to thank India, China and the Good Ol' U.S. of A for killing a planet and we all have an out break of asthma to look forward to.
As for the cars chucking out pollution. That should be a little easier. Now why hasn't anyone in the Department of Transport or what ever Mr Blair or Mr Brown may have deemed to call it now, come up with the solution?
Well it is freedom of choice on what cars we drive. And that's what our grandparents fought for. But there will always be the selfish idiots that live in the city that want to drive their 4*4 tanks on the school run to the bottom of their road, and others that can afford the Mercs and Astons although we have neither the space or the speed limits to test these gleaming hunks of car to the max. We don't want to drive the Ladas of the cold war 50's & 60's, and Henry Ford's "in any colour you like as long as its black!" - because we have this choice.
So what's the solution, you ask? Well here it is in a nut shell. Get the government to pass a law that states all engines must produce more than 35-40mpg. A economic Jag, Merc or Aston surely is better than an uneconomical 10 mpg car. If we have the technology to make them go faster than 150 mph, it must be there to make them more fuel efficient. Now by my reckoning, this cuts pollution too. Another gripe I have, but this one is fairly minor, is this. Why have a car that goes 150mph when the speed limit is only 70 - not that we adhere to the limits! The good thing is we will have less stupid genes in the gene pool when the idiots plough into trees and kill themselves. Bonus you say? I say its waste of a life for going to fast.
Cut the tube fares to a pound a day, The Oyster Card is great for the locals, but tubes rip off the tourists unless they have Oysters as well. It is £4 to go from Embankment to Charring Cross - if they didn't know it was 100 yards away, all well and good you say. But what if things were so cheap it would deter people from "not" paying. Any country world wide has a cheaper tube/train net work than us, and we invented the bloody things! My old economics teacher gave me the concept of demand and supply- if things are a glut and priced so cheap, people will want them (up to a point).
By the way if you wanted to go bio-diesel, there was a tax on the bio-fuel you could make in your garden out of used chip fat! Is that an incentive to switch, No. However I believe someone at HMS Government (god bless him for the common sense) has now adjusted it so that if you make it, but not in an oil production grand scale, you don't need to pay anything.
Man is the most destructive animal on the planet. A bit of consideration and thoughtfulness, a bit unselfishness, and for each and everyone of us to show a willingness to do a little bit, and we should be alright.
Emigration Farce
Yep, I have to raise the point. A woman brought to the UK when she was 3 wants to care for her sick and dying mother. She doesn't want a penny from benefits either. So the good people at government HQ are going to deport her.
If you have been raised here from 3 years and on, went to school here, lived most of your life here surely entitles you to stay?! The reason this falls flat is the stamp in the passport. She went home to the country of her birth the good ol' U.S.A for over 2 years invalidating the stamp. There is no way back in for her. Now the harsh people out there will say she should have applied for the UK passport before she left. And they would be right. But I think she has the qualities we need. Determination, willingness to learn and live in the UK. A caring nature which we seem to be losing.
Is it stupid or what. Lets let in murderers, rapists and mad mullah bombers who seem intent on destroying this liberal land, this England. Lets give them housing and support and the freedom to preach hatred, or ruin peoples lives in the country that has given them a chance. Yet once we've let them in, we don't throw the curs back to the wolves once they have defiled our rules. We call it injustice and unfair to "their" human right. It seems a victim doesn't have rights here anymore in the land of "Benefits and Alcopops".
Now excuse me. But this stupidity must stop. If a guest in your home makes offish advances or inappropriate behavior, you throw them out and revise your friendships accordingly. Well I hope you do.
The same cant be said with this story, and others like it. It seems in our fine liberalism, we have lost all of our common sense. We have made all the rules grey. There is no longer "black and white", "right or wrong" - no wonder nothing gets done. Lets all pussy foot around in the middle ground and not move left or right in case we make the move to upset anyone - heaven forbid.
If you have been raised here from 3 years and on, went to school here, lived most of your life here surely entitles you to stay?! The reason this falls flat is the stamp in the passport. She went home to the country of her birth the good ol' U.S.A for over 2 years invalidating the stamp. There is no way back in for her. Now the harsh people out there will say she should have applied for the UK passport before she left. And they would be right. But I think she has the qualities we need. Determination, willingness to learn and live in the UK. A caring nature which we seem to be losing.
Is it stupid or what. Lets let in murderers, rapists and mad mullah bombers who seem intent on destroying this liberal land, this England. Lets give them housing and support and the freedom to preach hatred, or ruin peoples lives in the country that has given them a chance. Yet once we've let them in, we don't throw the curs back to the wolves once they have defiled our rules. We call it injustice and unfair to "their" human right. It seems a victim doesn't have rights here anymore in the land of "Benefits and Alcopops".
Now excuse me. But this stupidity must stop. If a guest in your home makes offish advances or inappropriate behavior, you throw them out and revise your friendships accordingly. Well I hope you do.
The same cant be said with this story, and others like it. It seems in our fine liberalism, we have lost all of our common sense. We have made all the rules grey. There is no longer "black and white", "right or wrong" - no wonder nothing gets done. Lets all pussy foot around in the middle ground and not move left or right in case we make the move to upset anyone - heaven forbid.
Monday 25 February 2008
http://www.dotsub.com/films/moredemands/index.php?autostart=true&l
You need to check this site out. It tells how really liberal we are.
I haven't figured out how to link it directly yet, so you will have to cut and paste to the address bar.
http://www.dotsub.com/films/moredemands/index.php?autostart=true&l
I haven't figured out how to link it directly yet, so you will have to cut and paste to the address bar.
http://www.dotsub.com/films/moredemands/index.php?autostart=true&l
Gorbals Mick and the like . . .
Can someone tell me where the Tory and the Labour politicians get off claiming housing subsidies on homes they own out right?
Does anyone think this is a piss take? Whats the average? I hear some of these clowns get £17,000 in relief. My council tax is about £2,000 for the year, and that's all I feel they should claim. By the way do they penalise themselves for owning two homes? If you or I have two homes we get nailed for it.
The homes should only be eligible for council tax reclamation and not for the bloody mortgages that they seem they have "unfortunately" forgotten they had finished paying for. For I can only envisage this being the reason they still claim these housing payments!
Now excuse me for being a home owner, I say this loosely with a sodding great mortgage. But surely if we good people of the UK ever get to the bottom of paying it all off - not only do we rid our self of the millstone around our necks - will remember the day like it was a birthday of anniversary, and probably have a party to celebrate it too.
If we don't say this is out of order, how many more are going to use it to line their pockets at our expense - because it's you and I that pay their wage and the exorbitant expense bills they claim!
What say you about it?
Does anyone think this is a piss take? Whats the average? I hear some of these clowns get £17,000 in relief. My council tax is about £2,000 for the year, and that's all I feel they should claim. By the way do they penalise themselves for owning two homes? If you or I have two homes we get nailed for it.
The homes should only be eligible for council tax reclamation and not for the bloody mortgages that they seem they have "unfortunately" forgotten they had finished paying for. For I can only envisage this being the reason they still claim these housing payments!
Now excuse me for being a home owner, I say this loosely with a sodding great mortgage. But surely if we good people of the UK ever get to the bottom of paying it all off - not only do we rid our self of the millstone around our necks - will remember the day like it was a birthday of anniversary, and probably have a party to celebrate it too.
If we don't say this is out of order, how many more are going to use it to line their pockets at our expense - because it's you and I that pay their wage and the exorbitant expense bills they claim!
What say you about it?
A Rant At The World
Hey guys and girls.
I would like to tell you what is in store for you on my new blog.
Ever felt the world was run by stupid people? Ran into some jobsworth?
Well this is a blog where I can vent my spleen back at them.
I am looking for a common sense approach to things.
We will be ranting about various topics.
Nothing is sacred - well as long as it's within the libel boundaries, anyway.
I don't want to have to give these scumbags my hard earned cash!
I would like to tell you what is in store for you on my new blog.
Ever felt the world was run by stupid people? Ran into some jobsworth?
Well this is a blog where I can vent my spleen back at them.
I am looking for a common sense approach to things.
We will be ranting about various topics.
Nothing is sacred - well as long as it's within the libel boundaries, anyway.
I don't want to have to give these scumbags my hard earned cash!
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