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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2009
According to the Daily Mail - that bastion of moderation and toleration - the police are making criminals of the middle class to get their figures up and achieve their targets. Confirms what we knew. Don’t worry about real criminals, hoodies and people who mug old ladies. No why not get the middle class for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
So now it is getting dark early - I had to stop gardening because the light went - and now it will just get colder and darker for months which is not very exciting. But right now the temperature is really high for October. Looks like global warming is doing us all some good and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2009
So was the BBC right to allow Nick Griffin airspace or did it just provide a platform for a racist bigot?
As it happens the corporation probably did us all a favour by giving him a chance to fall flat on his face and exhibit all the prejudice bound up in the BNP. But I suspect [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 18th, 2009
The war in Afghanistan is madcap, futile and serves no conceivable national interest. Not my words but those of Sir Christopher Meyer, our former ambassador to Washington. In his new book he apparently argues that after nearly 8 years in Afghanistan there is still no clarity about why we are there. To seek to rebuild [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2009
In case you have not heard, Michael Martin the disaster of a speaker of the House of Commons who was the first post holder to be voted out in 300 years for gross incompetence and an inability to string a sentence together has been made a Lord. Indeed his whole family was there to celebrate [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2009
Just in case you missed it, Mandy Pandy was on breakfast TV this morning presenting the Governments view about the latest instalment in the MP’s expenses scandal. He said that it would be difficult for those who had to repay their expenses and in some cases this amounted to quite a lot of money. It [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2009
So we are back on MP’s expenses again and it looks like a whole bunch of them are going to have to pay back money. Great! But Lord Paul, chum of old Gordie, has apparently claimed £38,000 for a one bedroom flat as his main residence - despite being a multi-millionaire and never having spent [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2009
So it looks like whoever gets elected it is going to be cuts all the way. And now the pissing contest between the main political parties is about who is being the most honest (now there’s a thought) and who will be bold enough to tell the truth and cut the deepest.
Watching Call me Dave, Nick [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2009
Well that is what it says in The Sunday Times. Apparently us old farts are having a great party and refusing to be old or behave ourselves as we should as we get older. We are travelling, partying and generally having a good time, having got the kids off our hands and enjoying our ill [...]