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.