Thee Chancellor

I do believe the tory party has gone mad!!, so the people who happen to be unemployed will have to work for their benefit, just how do they propose to do that??, I am all for getting the long term unemployed into work but has anyone looked about them selves in the party, haven't they noticed the proliferation of the tattoo brigade and I am not only talking about the men, I suggest they look on Chanel 4 Deal or no Deal at 4pm, there is a young lady with tattoos all down her arms and has blue hair, now she is probably a very nice person but the image she projects is not one that an employer would want in his/her work place, looking round there are so many who just would not could not fit into the work ethic, so what are they going to do with these people?, where will they be employed?, just what will they do?, if you are not very careful you will have an angry mob on your hands and god forbid we can do with out anymore Riots but what response does the government think it will receive from these people?, one thing has to be remembered they may be useless, be uneducated a social misfit but one thing they can do is put an X in the ballot paper and it will not be a tory vote,  So Mr Chancellor stop going on about the hard working public you and your collegues have never been hard working you have never known want so may be it would be better that you kept quiet about nothing you have not the slightest idea about!!!. and I am not one of the unemployed I am retired after many years of hard work and as a tax payer I have no axe to grind with the unemployed I understand there plight a pity that the tory party doesn't.

Lee Mills

Well I have now seen it all, Lee's killers have pleaded NOT guilty to his murder, for god's sake it was on TV in full view of the World, they have both changed their names!!, who in hell allowed this??, whoever accepted it needs a size 10 boot up the bum, so now we have to have a full trial at no doubt a massive cost to the country, why do we allow these people the rights that we enjoy they do not in the least deserve our system of justice, my way of looking after them is to lock them up 23 hours a day, no one speak to them, no TV nor newspapers, no radio and no religious books whatsoever, it is time for us to stop being understanding to these people they have no respect for us so why do we show respect to them??, lock them up and chuck away the key!!.

Terrorists also Mr Milliband

So we are told it is all over!, that remains to be seen, they caught 11 how many escaped?, they even had the nerve to rent a shop so they could move arms into the Westgate Complex without arousing suspicion just how cheeky is that??

I have to say I watched Ed yesterday giving it what for at the party conference, you have to give him his due to rant on like that without any papers to refer to was really quite exceptional speaking, but that does not make him a PM candidate, the power companies up in the air about the possibility of price halt for two years, these are companies that are foreign run and make some thing like 70% profit from us over the year, all of a sudden they will not have to money to invest! why not use the share payment to subsidise the improvements, the investors will have to do with out for a couple of years like we have had to with our cash, food as with everything is rising so fast you just can't keep pace with it, so Ed you have a lot to learn it would have been far better if your brother had won rather than you, at least he was an accomplished minister unlike yourself, think again before you jump in with both feet their is always someone just ready to shoot you down. 

Kenya

Kenya once again what to say?, it just brings tears to your eyes just watching the mayhem happening live on your TV, in your living room, it then becomes difficult to realise just what is happening, you hear shots being fired you have to think "has anyone died from this shooting", fire and smoke arise from the scene "who is suffering?" innocent people of course, the hostages must be going through hell !, sick to the core I would think, what gives these people the right to kill people indiscriminately?, religion or political gain I think not, do not all religions quote love thy neighbour?, this is not a war whatever they might say, in war you at least know who your  enemies are, not like this, it is not acceptable to kill people for no reason, if you do it is murder it is pre conceived not an accident so these people are guilty they have foregone  their human rights they deserve to die but that would in their compatriots eyes would turn them into martyrs, this can't happen, the best outcome for the people of the world would be throw them into solitary confinement for the rest of their days, this would deprive them of human contact other than their guards who would be told not to convers with them under any circumstances, this I believe would be a punishment to fit the crime, but of course there are two other outcomes, one the army kills all of them before they can get out of the building (this is the most likely) or the human rights brigade will find numerous excuses as to why they should not be looked after in a humane way as they are poor deluded people who did not understand just what they were doing (this is what I would expect), they are still killing people tonight the 24th at 5pm this needs to be sorted out as soon as possible, and I pray for the hostages and hope they escape with their lives.
 

Religion

Once again we have death and destruction in the world all in the name of religion, so why is it that a religion who says it is all for peace manages to kill so many, and also the possibility of British Nationals involved, not only in Kenya but Pakistan suicide bombers mixed with the congregation of a Christian church just to kill as many innocent people as they can sent out by religious zealots told they will go to heaven, I would have thought that they would have gone to hell, it seems that 50 British men are involved in Somalia what if they decide to return to Britain??.

Bedroom Tax

Isn't this the most stupid tax anyone has heard of, the principal of moving old people from their three bedroomed houses to a one bed house/bungalow/flat is an impossibility, we do not have a glut of 2/1 bed properties in this country, really simple to understand why!, they are not sailable!, so no builders build them in fact builders always look for ways to increase the floor space on any property they are renovating, so it is a grossly unfair tax, but that matters not to the government they say they are just adjusting the benefit (social welfare) budget, so they say the benefit claimants living in social housing receive to much money in their benefit claim, so they will have to make up the shortfall from their other benefits!, so where are we?, we have anywhere up to 50,000 people in the East who are in arrears with their rent being unable to pay this tax, so what will happen to these people well they are going to be evicted, isn't that just great, I am talking about old people here people who lived through a world war, some loosing family in that war, many were involved in Suez, the Korean War, and many other conflicts, so how do we repay these people, why chuck them out on the street, the social welfare budget needs to be cut may be the best way would be to provide JOBS for people so they can work instead of having to grovel for their income, feeling sick to the core having to do it and then being belittled by the benefit office staff, if you have not experienced it please be understanding for once in your life, you may be employed have a good job no worries but you are the lucky ones life is not so good for others, so please do not criticize these people I know some do not warrant your understanding but many more do so be kind in your thoughts for them.`

My Post on the Courts

After my rant about the lady who insists on wearing her face veil in court, more has transpired about this, the lady involved who is so determined to make a stand about her right to wear a veil has I am told a picture of herself full face on Facebook which it seems blows her case for anonymity, so if she is happy to show her face on the internet what right has this women to think that she has the right to attend court as a defendant and think that her human rights would be abused if she was told to remove the veil, this is not the case, the jury has to be able to see the face of the defendant to be able to assess the validity of her evidence, I believe that the human rights act goes way to far, the offenders seem to think that they have every human right invented at their want, it is time that we re invented the human rights bill by some one who has at least a little common sense. 

The Courts

I have to say that the judge who has told the Muslim lady (I really do not know as I have never seen her) who may be a lady or not,  she will have to remove her veil when she gives evidence in her defence, that in my mind is right I as a jury member would want to see the face of the defendant while they were giving evidence facial expressions are a dead give away, so I believe the judge has every right to demand this happens in his court, this is a British court and as such the judge rules  not the defendant!, she is using our softness to her ends, she is defending herself so no doubt the judge has bent over backwards to help her defend herself, but the law is the law, we have the regular set jumping out of the wood work crying racial prejudice as normal, why do they do this, why is it that  we are not allowed to make a statement about one type of religion without being labelled as a  racist, justifiable comments are not racist at all it is racist when it is vicious and nasty and personal, many have had enough of PC and think a return to common sense might just be a better way to go.  

Power

Well at least the Lib Dems got something right for a change, all this talk of renewable energy is pie in the sky, what happens when all the school children and parents return home from school and work?, first they switch on the lights next the PC, Laptop or Games machine then maybe the TV, mum and dad would like a cup of tea and of course tea, what effect does this all have on the national grid? a massive upturn in the need for more power, so how do they do this the bring coal, nuclear or gas powered power stations, all of these have one thing in common they can be switched on line with the throw of a switch, now how can you do this with wind turbines you can't if the wind does not blow so then what, sola power is what it says solar it needs the sun to work efficiently the dark nights are no help and very little sun in the winter and if it does show up it is very low on the horizon, so how does this renewable energy work and is it green, well for a start the wind turbines cost an arm and a leg !!, are they made in this country NO they are not so we have to import them from Europe, so we are benefiting another European country not us, sola power is now the big thing so many companies trying to put it on any south facing roof they can get, the income that is promised has fallen by a half and no doubt will fall even further as the government decides not to subsidise it so highly, we have councils promoting sola panels on some of the best arable land in Cambridgeshire something like 900 acres many sacks of potatoes will be lost, we have much of the land now covered in rape seed to be used as bio fuel, the whole world has gone mad, it really makes me laugh we have many people up in arms in this country about coal fired power statins as they see them as part of global warming, then we have the Chinese who need to expand their power out put so need many power stations what are they going to use as fuel?, why coal and the advice regarding the building and commissioning of new stations is by UK engineers, so we are not allowed to have them but we will help China build them instead, I just cant stop laughing. 

Driving

Well is it because I am a little old but is it that younger drivers have no idea as to what the Highway Code says or means, some examples, you need to indicate to let other drivers know just where you are likely to go but not always you might have left it on when you left home and as you are busy talking you have not noticed that it is still on as it sticks, and what lane to get in on a roundabout oh dear which one should I use why not the left hand lane as I am going to go right or just maybe back where I cam from,  pouring with rain headlight not a chance I will though put my side lights on I can see every one who has their lights on, then we have the slip road, my personal hate  am sick to death  when driving on a duel carriageway of the idiots who seem to think this is a lane to get up to 70mph before pulling out into my lane as a car is overtaking  me I have no choice but to give way or cause a crash, then we have the female Parker's who because they have children in the car (not always it makes no difference to most), decide that they will take the only disabled bay that I was about to use even I might add when the sign says Blue Badge Holders Only, then there are the young females and males who use these bays  because they are in a hurry, If you should dare to point this misdemeanour out you will  get an ear full of every four letter word you have heard finishing with Old Man, how insulting, I passed my test before many of these idiots were still a glint in their mums eye, age brings experience, I drive to the speed limit and follow the highway code a real pity some of these people have never read it!!

Syria, Russia and the USA

Now we have it from the horses mouth, there is agreement between all three that Syria's chemical weapons will be destroyed by the middle of 2014, are they mad??, the people in Syria want them out of the way now not in a years time, will the battles still be raging??, well it has to be said YES, just how anyone believes that it is possible to get all these factions round a table must be mad, it is am impossibility, meanwhile the people especially the children will suffer, it is time to help these kids and their parents, food is getting to be at a premium, and it has to be remembered how the temperature fluctuates in the middle east, hot during the day and very cold at night, many  only have to clothes they stand up in, we all need to help, as a Champion for Unicef I would ask that everybody makes some effort to help, Thank you.  

Royal Mail

I have seen and I have heard some stupid things in my 67 years of life but the sale of Royal Mail takes the biscuit, just what is the government up to?, Royal Mail belongs to the people not private industry, has anyone heard the management begging to be allowed to raise money to invest in the infrastructure, I know for certain I haven't!!, and I would think no one else has either, they are now making a good profit and are upgrading the equipment to speed up delivery even down to trying to make delivery people to walk at 4mph an impossibility carrying a bag full of mail, I understand this was about to trigger a strike in the near future so now we can have two one down to the coalition and one to stupid management, but now down to George Osborn our lovely chancellor, in my mind this is madness, and why this week? could it have anything to do with the TUC annual conference??, if so whoever thought it up should be put against the wall and have his backside kicked, I should point out that I do not have any connection with  the Royal Mail just a concerned user.  

Syria

Here we go again, we now have Russia saying that they can get Assad to put his chemical weapons under the control of NATO, not a chance, this is just going from one heap of crap to another, if he has this type of weapons does that not make the case that it was in fact him that attacked his own people??, he is just unreal he sits there as if absolutely nothing is happening in his country, he obviously thinks that his mates in the Middle East will jump in and protect him from the nasty US/French, I am having problems thinking of this partnership, it is a receipt for disaster, but the US loves failure, so the idea of sending bombers and rockets to destroy whatever is now too late, given time gives the government so much time to move everything into the community so that any attacks now would kill many civilians that  would be a major mistake that would take many years to get over it, and then what the reaction of all the nutters in the world who would take advantage of the situation and do everything that they can to get their own back all I might add in name of their religion, mad isn't it.

Living

I need to ask just how many people in the UK have reached rock bottom, are loosing their houses, are being taken to court for non payment of council tax, gas, electric and water, are they managing to pay their rent, what about food?, we are talking about both adults and children here but children, are they being fed properly?, if they aren't their ability to learn is at risk!, but who cares about these children? not the government that's for sure, I know that the budget had to be cut but not to the extent that children suffer for these savings, but then again it seems that these savings are not likely to happen, the loss at the moment is they say £34 million, we can't afford to loose this amount of money by incompetence it is just not on, civil servants have a responsibility to the electorate to be aware of the need to not over spend on their budget.
The computer software is to blame, now where have I heard that one before?, the software purchased by the government never seems to work out of the box, why is that?, answer is that there is so much data that has to be imputed it crashes, so the software writers must have a responsibility to ensure that the program actually works or am I missing something here?, surely they do not leave any test to the system until after installation?, but this has to be, the population are having to bear the burden of these civil servants mistakes they should be held responsible for their actions and made to realise the pain they have inflicted  on some of the population, another mess we are in with no sign of an end to it, just another day in the office for some. 

Syria

Now we are seeing the true colours of the Chinese and Russians,  they show there is no respect for human life, they show that human rights mean nothing in the scheme of things, here is an opportunity to sort out Syria once and for all but No, these leaders of massive countries who have no regard to democracy a dirty word for these two countries, they are prepared to allow Assad to carry on without any form of retribution.
Putin says that he has to have strong proof of this chemical attack on his own people, we state that there is proof samples  from Damascus have been found to contain Saran, I think that even when the proof is plain for all to see the Russians and the Chinese will still say that it is not enough, again this has to be sorted out over this weekend no later, it is now very dangerous the US fleet is in place along the coast ready to fire, but there are three Russian destroyers on their way to the Mediterranean, just what might happen is anyone's guess, the time has come to sort out this mess once and for all, no messing, no scoring points just straight talking, unfortunately the Russians and Chinese have no idea about how to talk straight, so it looks as if the civilian population of Syria are going to have to carry on being killed, just because world leaders just cant sit down and make a decision, what a disgrace!!.  

Benefits

Watching TV I saw a chap talking about benefits, he was relating them to the USA, he said that all people on benefit should spend 30 hours a week earning their benefit, well I have to say many who are out of work are desperately looking and applying for work, work that is not there, you cant force people to work, if you insist that they do 30 hours a week at some menial task that has no benefit for the person carrying it out all you will do is smash their self esteem, what is the point of that?, yes there are some that abuse the system, why have they not been caught, because they know how to twist the system to their advantage, these are not your normal man/women on the street they are benefit knowledgeable, they know just what they can and can't get away with, your ordinary person has no idea as to what they can get in many instances get nothing, if the new benefit rules are fair just tell me why the food banks are overwhelmed, 100's more have been set up all over the country, I feel ashamed I never thought we as a nation would treat needy people with total disregard, it is sad that people in work can be so callous and see these people who through no fault of their own find themselves unemployed, what people in work should remember is that they just might be out of work in the future so do not slap people who are down on their uppers they can't help it, they do not need to be attacked from all directions but need some understanding, the government have made a pigs ear over the benefit system as they have the NHS, it might be better to admit this mistake before the next election because these people might just bite their bum's!!. 

Syria

I hope no one thinks that I am against helping the Syrian people, I support them all the way I hope that the world will send food and accommodation aid to the refugees, it has to be really bad in Syria if some of these are going over the Afghanistan and Turkey  boarder for safety it would be the last place I would head for, so I would like to see proper education being set up in the Lebanon, Jordan and any country that these unfortunate people should find themselves in, proper food sorted for these people, winter is on its way they are going to suffer the cold,  the West instead of firing rockets into Syria should invest in these children, they have been to hell and back investing in them now just might let them understand that we are not such a bad bunch of people and make friendships that can't be broken by religious zealots.

Unfortunately the US is very likely to send rockets into Syria, the stupid thing about this is that Assad has moved all the likely targets to other locations, so what would the point be, it is too late to do what the US thinks is best, if you give your opponent time he will use it wisely and he will be able to laugh at your attempts to defeat him, also Israel is in the firing line, as Assad cant score with an attack on the USA knowing how sick he is, he is most likely to get his satisfaction by bombing Israel, who will no doubt throw some back and off we go with another full scale war in the Middle East, you have to consider Iran, North Korea possible China involvement so is it worth while, all in all I think not a hope in hell, it is for the Middle East states to force Assad out of power and allow a democracy in all the countries but again my simplistic view has no hope so I am really defeated, I know what needs to be done but it is impossible to get it to happen.

Syria

I  hope that common sense will now prevail!, I have said many times that the West should get this mess sorted out, but only when the uprising was by the Syrian people, unfortunately this opportunity was missed, it is now impossible to help on the ground, there are so many religious factions fighting that is difficult to know who is who, so we are not able to help them on the ground which is a real shame, but religion rules the country.

Assad it seems will never give in, he is sure of help from Russia and Iran and no doubt China, you have to recognise that these three have absolutely no understanding of human rights or free speech, they treat their population like slaves but quite ones, if the US should bomb Syria it is a horrifying thought that Iran  just might attack Israel it will then become a very nasty situation for us all.

How do you stop a despot?, we have allowed many to destroy their countries bleeding them dry using the state taxes as a personal income, also happily taking money given by the UK government from My Taxes, so what can be done, would it not be a good idea to have a multi national group of soldiers that can enter and restore law and order under the UN  Security Council supported by a multi number of countries bearing the cost, I know this is simplistic but we have to start somewhere, I hope tomorrow will bring some sort of respite for the people and children of Syria.