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ANOTHER VIEW

My opinions , attitudes, ideas and views through a window on the world

By Watlingfen

An occasional comment based on items of news:

Tuesday January 1, 2013 14:54

WHO WOULD YOU GIVE A NEW YEARS HONOUR TO....

Well, through the years it seems retired senior civil servants, well favoured (by their party anyway) local councillors, ex-lord lieutenant of various counties in Britain, ex-chief constables , former Prime Ministers and/or their wives and occasionally - very occasionally, a non-elected person who has given great real service (without a bloody good salary and/or expenses) to the ordinary people of the UK.

Oh we've seen some useful people awarded as well , actors who have given us great performances from the late Laurence Olivier to George Cole. Entertainers from the late Frank Carson to Billy Connolly - these past and present we would award 'gongs' to and if Her Majesty were not presented with a predetermined list rather than giving the awards herself - from herself - not from some twit of an 'old pals Act' Prime Minister, then these people whom really deserve honours would receive them.

Of cause there are the doubtful ones perhaps Sir Jimmy S***** .

Sir Elton Sir Michael P******** and Sir Cliff - why is it always the very well off get the 'K's - never we normal folk.......

For the record Mr Olivier became Sir then Lord Olivier , George Cole CBE, Billy Connelly CBE. Frank Carson received the KSG from the Holly See.

31st December 2012

With all due respect to the late great Frank Carson KSG.

2013 windy and wet here in central England , floods , unemployment because 'call me Dave' Cameron thinks building houses no-one can afford ('cause they are out of work Dave) is the way out of our (or the governments ?) economic troubles . So no wonder it seems (we hope) the Tory -Lib Dem cock-up co-illusion is cracking and the plasters falling off the shoddy walls of 'working together'

Come on now Mr Clegg speak out - you have nothing to loose but the British people want the Tory circus to end - but we need to ensure 'New' Labour or for that matter any future UK Government NEVER gives away millions of £'s to banks or any other commercial lobby. We also want the Lib Dems to wake up to the £millions the UK pays being a member of a crapy over-spending EU - instead spend it here on jobs not for EU emigrants but British people. Put a stop to the flood of eastern European coming here and taking the jobs - ironically these eastern European countries already get more money FROM the EU than western European countries and the Euro has become 'toy money' in Greece, Spain, Ireland and Italy.

Mr Clegg - save Britain!

is the only answer to vote UKIP!

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SILENT AIR ......

Since closing their international short wave transmitters three main broadcasting countries have held, in their country, 'Radio Days' or DX conferences , they , like it seems UK Prime Minister David Cameron think everyone has Internet and have no conscience about depriving millions of overseas listeners of a real radio service , their politicians are ignorantly wasting public money on other things , paying millions to keep the EU from sinking, but cutting a most important way to speak peace unto other nations through the radio air waves - shame on them.

Radio is still the cheapest, most reliable and effective way one nations peoples can speak to another, stop the bombs and rockets - start talking on the wireless!

5th November 2012

CLOSE DOWN THE BBC

It's the laughing happy baby grown into the scawling ignorant monster which is ruled by executives who seem not to understand to close down transmitters from Hereford to Cyprus robing thousands of listeners of their radio service - simply based on cooked-up (or cocked-up) audience figures against 'cost saving' conflicts with a monopoly internation short-wave service under Royal Charter.

The BBC have a 'duty of care' to provide transmissions of wireless/radio under Royal Charter - this charter is based on a continued provision not one based on the whim of over paid executives 'cost cutting'.

Yet the same BBC is spending millions on DAB transitters to a small minority of listeners in UK regions and equaly unjustifiable sums on Internet and Satelitee to overseas were the poor are completely ignored by Peter Horrocks who obviously beleives everyone has mobile phones, internet etc.

In some of these countries people are struggling to keep fed so when their cheap sort-wave radio no longer has a BBC World Service because a middle class well fed but totally ignorant BBC executive in London decrees a 'cost cutting' procedure these people are cut-off.

So . if the BBC doesn't want to pay for a broadcast service so in all effect closes it then whats the point of the BBC itself continuing ?

Why should the licence payer (which all goes to the BBC) in Hereford continue to pay when robed of his reliable coverage local medium wave service so a most unpopular inefficient and even now obsolete 'digital' can be promoted in areas where hills and large steel framed buildings screen the signal out?

No, if the BBC see a logic in closing transmissions, withdrawing if effect the service then either the BBC licence should be reduced - we shouldn't have to pay for something we dont get - or more properly the time has come for the almighty BBC to be closed down in favour of franchaised companies and/or not for profit organisations thus saving us £140 compulsory licence fee a year.

Latest : JUST HOW MANY 'REPORTERS' FROM THE CASH STRAPPED BBC HAVE BEEN FLOWN OUT TO THE USA TO COVER A RATHER BORING TWO HORSE RACE?

7th September 2012

Might I mean The Prime Minister and his Deputy ?

DAVE'S (and Nick?) STUPID BUILD EVERYWHERE POLICY

Moving to more brainless degrees our co-illusion (coalition it surely cant be) government instead of promoting British engineering and British technology all they think we need is more house building taking up fields where crops could grow or livestock might provide our needs - no , it seems the so called 'developer' lobby of the tory party (and lib dems?) is too strong and England's 'green and pleasant land' is what we sing about but wont have any of soon if daffy dave and his pals continue their blinkered 'build everywhere regardless of whether ordinary , many unemployed, folks can afford the houses policy.

His latest lame brain idea is to abandon the requirement for 'affordable homes' in any development so only expensive unaffordable houses are built and as the density rule was allowed variation (more houses closer together) by John '2 Jags' Prestcot when the country was serving a sentence of 'hard labour' a couple of years back the combination of stupid old 'relaxation of restrictions' and illogical new 'relaxation of restrictions' adds up to a farcical mess of unrealistic thinking by men paid well by the people to think sensibly but acting as characters from Monty Python' or Black Adder !

I recommend Dave and Nick on their next 'silly walk' wear paper bags over their heads .

2nd September 2012

I like Sky TV but I object to its gate-crashing my site

WHY IS MICROSOFT ABUSING THE 'COOKIE' SITUATION?

The other day I visited all three of the web sites I take part in writing - in each case 2.5" boxes moved out from the right to declare various companies selling shirts to air flights, none of which I had requested to interfere with the sites or put their foot in the www door . Upon investigation I discovered it was Microsoft producing the advert nose-ins because cookies , very much like legalised viruses, had decided what my sites (or their visitors) wanted .

This seems to have been a nasty little inclusion in the latest Windows update which is not just restricted to Internet Explorer 9 but affects Firefox , Opera and other browsers ! So MS have , without telling me and a million or more others using Windows 7, slipped a nasty dll or such into my system to allow this noseying ...

Friends also report that MS Windows is inflicting changes never requested , wanted or willed for, so why is Microsoft bullying its customers?

If a double glazing salesman comes to my door and bothers to read the card clearly displayed he'll depart without bothering me ( I have 95% double glazing anyway) whilst the milkman , meter reader , postman are -as the card informs - welcome. Deliveries of stuff I've ordered are welcome but the rest are upsetting my right of privacy - as , I maintain, is Microsoft by inflicting adverts I never requested onto my web sites .

The 'cookie' law originated in USA - 'land of the free' (don't make me laugh) and if they want ads on their sites put on at will by Microsoft and others ok , enjoy, but I live in the United Kingdom and no foreign ruling should affect my rights of privacy and choice .

If the British government had the b***s it would outlaw cookies entirely in the UK and make it a legal duty of all UK servers to filter them out - the www doesn't need them to run - indeed when that Englishman working in Switzerland invented the World Wide Web for the Internet no such thing as 'cookies' existed. But then neither did Microsoft....

Come on Microsoft play the game - either stop this heavy handed practice or leave the show to Apple!

BAN THE INTRUSIVE 'COOKIES'!

Stop the invading unwanted adverts now.

19th August 2012

IN 2017 LETS SCRAP Auntie BBC

BBC KILLING OFF LOCAL STATIONS - BREAKING ITS WORD TO MILLIONS

In a move to disgust radio listeners from Liverpool, South East of England to the North Midlands the BBC - whose chairman assured listeners he was 'not abandoning' AM -Medium Wave or Long Wave (after he closed a number of short wave overseas transmitters) has broken his word; Four local radio stations have suddenly had their Medium Wave transmitters put onto 'tape loop' type continuous announcement telling listeners they can only hear the station on VHF/FM or DAB (so called Digital Audio Broadcasting or as many call it Dead And Buried because of its unreliability) . This means those on the edge of the reception area who relied on the Medium Wave transmissions are now thanks to BBC cack-handedness and ignorance without a local service.

Radio Kent, Radio Lincolnshire, Radio Merseyside, Radio Nottingham. are all now without Medium Wave programmes

We are advised by the BBC Engineering web site this is for a five week 'trial period'

'The aim of the trial is to get a better understanding of the impact of the loss of MW for our core listeners and also enable us to ensure adequate coverage is available on other platforms in these ....'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/mwtrial/

Presumably the whiz-kids at BBC Complaints will read all the feed-back have a good laugh and bin it having sent the usual general auto - response

BBC Engineering have been responsible for a lot of mis-calculation of area coverage both radio and TV in recent years indeed many of the transmitters were sold off - leased back and non-BBC staff replaced former Corporation workers. They (BBC) claimed 'it reduced costs'

Reduced costs, my ****!

We know a certain high government gentleman wants DAB rammed down our throats (has he got shares in the transmitter companies?) - but by and large DAB has been a resounding failure mainly because some sets cost a lot cheaper ones sound crappy and they all tend to cut out if the bit stream is blocked or lost!

In the UK allegedly the radio license was scraped in the 1970's - in fact most by then had TVs too so the radio fee was just added to the TV license so infact we paid more for our combined Radio/TV license than separately . We now pay £140 a year just to own a TV - even if its broken! - this all goes to the BBC and its debatably if 'Auntie' gives us a fair deal . But taking radio stations away from some listeners who've paid for the right to hear them is unfair and damnably undemocratic.

OH DEAR CANADA !

On 24th June Canada becomes silent to the world

One more voice of reason will not be heard over the airwaves again simply because of funding cuts and a government logic that beggars belief .

Just when the world really needs an international radio station that, through decades of extremist propaganda from elsewhere, has been a refuge for common sense and understanding Heritage Minister James More signs away RCI and commits all the good work the station has done, informing people in green field or dessert, to the flames of ignorance just to save dollars after 67 years .

Radio is expensive - but so is war - and for people overseas in countries where their own radio censors or distorts truth, Radio Canada was a signal of fairness that a great country could be proud of .

Canada, as my generation were tought, has a reputation of always, though never starting wars and international disputes, being ready as a nation to 'roll it's sleeves up' and dip in to help sort things out fairly and responsibly - this attitude was daily reflected on Radio Canada but now the 'on air' sign the 'Oh Canada' first bars of their national anthem will be silenced for ever by their own government.

PLEASE Mr MORE THINK AGAIN for CANADA - and The World!

Sunday June 3rd 2012

WELL ITS 60 YEARS SINCE QUEEN ELIZABETH BECAME OUR COUNTRIES HEAD OF STATE AS QUEEN, I WAS 4 THEN, SO HAPPY JUBILEE READERS

however ....

REPUGNANT REPUBLICANS

REMEMBER WHEN PRESIDENT De GAUL VISITED CANADA AND CAME OUT WITH 'Vive Quebec Libre'

he was shocked by the 'P*** Off' (in French) Reaction - he kept quiet thereafter .

In almost every country in Africa where Monarchy has been abolished and so called 'independence' has freed the downtrodden masses a republic has followed then a political dictatorship - not 'Power to the People' , England was a 'republic' in Oliver Cromwells time and spent the most miserable 6 years of repression under a so called 'Peoples Parliament'. Free we were not .

I suggest those who really feel abolishing the Queen or King in favour of some so called 'republic' first come up with a better system of having a neutral constitutional head of state .

It's one thing to oppose the British Monarchy - quite another to suggest a system which is not far more expensive and complicated - as the USA system has to be - or doesn't create a far more unfair single person political dictator; Is the Peoples Republic of China a democracy where anyone can call the Prime Minister a prat (and not be locked up or shot) is Greece more stable , Russia, are the repressed masses of The Netherlands crying out for freedom from Monarchy under Queen Beatrix when as a fairly new Monarchy its people have done far better than the old Dutch Republic.

Honestly what are this republic mob really thinking - or is it based simply on personal envy of the Queens status and the mutual respect of her people which I beg to offer no president Cameron or Clegg could half replace.

No, these simple sods with 'Power to the people' on sticks (it was a good record of John Lennon's) are miss-led and confused, they should concentrate on political reform not abolishing and destroying a system above and apart from politics - a good system which unites not divides our country and its people subjects or citizens.

GOD SAVE OUR QUEEN

And Good Health Your Majesty

22nd January 2012

'Auction Sniping' being used on Ebay UK

Sorry but a fiddle is a fiddle and some bidders on Ebay are using special software to put in 'edge of time' biding to win items within a fraction of a second of closing whilst legitimate bidders are unprotected - Ebay should see to it that it's UK site protects fair bidders from this cheating, meanwhile until this site acts to protect fair trading my advice is to boycott Ebay, close your account and buy in your local town or county.

18th January 2012

First the barrels Then the books...

FOR DEMOCRACY'S SAKE KEEP THE INTERNET/ WORLD WIDE WEB FREE!

Surely no country on Earth is so powerful it can bully it's industry and that of other countries outside it's borders to prevent free trade in harmless goods?

Surely freedom, after all the wars bloodshed and suffering, should be held and defended by democratic governments - not exploited but certainly not restricted in the name of 'protection'.

During the last world war Nazi controlled Germany invaded neutral Norway 'to protect it from British invasion'.

In the 1950's when the tape recorder became cheaper to buy, kids connected it to their radios and taped record shows because it was cheaper than buying the discs at a shop , this was technically illegal copying but record sales rocketed despite or in spite of what may have been seen as no need to buy if the music was already on tape in listeners homes .

Right through to today this is happening - but sales of CDs are good and though movies can easily be VHS'd or DVD'd from TV it's better to have the film clear of commercials and inane announcers butt-ins.

You might download out-of-copyright material from the www but though sound isn't bad, vision quality varies a lot , nevertheless it's nice to re-live your childhood watching an old TV show of the 1950's or 60's which otherwise would not be available.

America used to brag about being 'land of the free' but now it seems it's going to be as 'free' as China or Iran - hardly examples of open minded , unrestricted society !

If the present Bills before the House of Representatives and Senate are passed it will mean that servers are closed down which have nothing to do with the USA so not only will American's suffer but Europeans, Australians, the UK etc. will have their rights of access taken away by the US Government.

Who needs Communism or radical extremist 'Moslemism'*....

Already Spain with a new inexperienced government has passed a law restricting Internet freedom based allegedly on 'anti-piracy' but actually restricting freedom of access in general .

The EU sits on it's hands .

The irony is these companies lobbying the rather naïve governments to restrict , close and punish those who 'feed' the Internet with copyrighted material often have limited production runs of CD's and DVD's so as to put the price up, they also delete or release DVD's only in some regions or macro encode again to make unfair profits. In any other industry this would be classed as a racket!

Come on - where does 'protectionism' meet restriction of trade or freedom of interest ?

When, in the USA will they again begin axing the barrels of whiskey?

* meant with no disrespect to proper Moslems.

1st January 2012

Happy New Year - but as things are don't bet on it .....

TIME FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM TO LEAVE THE SO CALLED EUROPEAN UNION which imposes rules on us and fails to give freedoms to ordinary folk , a 'Union' where the UK obeys the rules ordered through our government whilst other countries ignore them - latest is ruling on living space for battery hens where our 'coillusion' government enforce EU rules but other countries don't and profit by it - it's not democracy and unfair so our government should give us a referendum to see how our people feel - NOW

Sunday 11th December 2011

As the € sinks slowly in the Mediterranean....

EUROPEAN UNION - WHAT EUROPEAN UNION?

UK Prime Minister David Cameron stood firm , didn't chicken out or sell out and what do we in the so called United Kingdom do -we (well our weasel press anyway) attack him for standing up for our interests . I was never a fan of the Tories and never a fan of Mr. Cameron's, but credit (no pun intended) where it's due . Had he took the cowards way out and linked arms with France, Der Fatherland and all in doing everything, changing everything, to save a discredited Euro at all costs including national independence then the same press would have then still attacked him - I think history in this case will prove him right.

Back in the 1960's the 'Common Market' and then European Economic Community were fine ideas and worked well but the recent 'one size fits all' treaties and creation of the EU and European Parliament have cost £Millions and taken away independent nations powers. As for the Euro currency it's been a 'fools gold' to nations like Eire and Greece and a 'millstone round the neck' of the German economy - how possibly can all this be justified?

The best new Treaty would be to go back to the late 1960's EEC; abolish the European Parliament, Euro Currency and concentrate on trading - not law making.

Wednesday 10th August 2011

RIOTS IN ENGLAND - BUT WHY ?

In a world where the value of Credit for the US$ and € is item one on news programmes on TV / Radio and the famine / war in North Africa where children are dying in numbers every day is second or third item , in a country where court cases are still going on where Members of Parliament and County Council heads claimed £1000's for bogus expenses, in a world where big bonuses were paid to bankers who had actually lost £millions so much so as to make it necessary that governments had to bail these banks out with public tax payers money then later tell the same public to tighten their belts while sickening bonuses and pay-off pensions were still being paid to high bank officials, in a world where one particular newspaper empire financed lunches even holidays for 'certain politicians' so that international 'deals' went through for their 'pals' - we now wonder why kids and teenagers are rioting and looting shops , burning cars and ruining businesses in their very own community when we can no longer trust the people at the head of government because of their associations with 'doubtful people' - where are the heroes who aren't on the 'gravy train' where are the role models - who can these kids look up to when all they hear is gloom and doom , things will get better but not before they get worse higher taxes and living costs lower chances of jobs - go to university in debt, graduate with no real opportunity of a decent position so you can pay-off the uni - loan.

So what's the UK Prime Minister doing about it - promising punishment of the 'rioters' but totally failing , together with the opposition to try to understand the climate that has caused this attitude of 'bloody-mindedness' of destroy or rob .

We have through the actions of those who should have set an example but greedily didn't, now got to put decency back into the minds of those who see a reason to have no faith in politicians and big business.

May I suggest a possible solution

First bring in new and far stronger laws against bank pay-offs and pay-outs, second a law which forces banks to help small businesses which are well run but underfunded . Third incentives to work - not forcing genuine invalid's to take unfair tests . Fourth Bring the offshore jobs back to the UK . Fifth stop being the patsy to the EU start telling the EU what we want - not following it and sticking to all the EU rules whilst certain European countries bend these rules. Bring the manufacturing base - and jobs - back to the UK. Even if we have to pay more for some goods if it means better employment and a stronger economy, its good if taxation can be reduced.

DON'T KEEP PUNISHING THE PEOPLE WHOSE MONEY WENT TO SAVE THE BANKS

PUNISH THOSE WHO, AS BANK BOSSES, CAUSED THE PROBLEMS AND GOT WELL PAID FOR IT !

WHERE HAVE THE BEES and WASPS GONE?

Have you noticed there seem to be less and less of these insects in some areas of England , also not so many birds - this worries me because we need these creatures - are we putting more harmful chemicals in the air? is the build-build houses-houses government policy resulting in less habitat, less open land, less flowers to pollinate so less of the bees, insects, birds - are we going just too far? and will our badly sighted order of precedence (man above all else) one day result in our air being dangerously polluted - but our not knowing because the very animals who are the living indicators of our well being, have, through our thoughtless policy been eliminated.

Tuesday 2nd August 2011

The late Queen Mum But not everyone likes stout!
I still think had they taken Her Majesty into a real Irish pub (not what looked like a bank) to offer her that Guinness - like they did O'bama, Liz Mountbatten-Windsor might well have had a sip or two and certainly prince hubby would. Although I've heard he was a mild (ale) and bitter (beer) man.
One can't help thinking; coming so soon after The Queen's four day visit, Mr Obama was jumping on the band-wagon perhaps a little cheekily.
That reminds me my great-great grandfather was born near Exeter, Devon - must go back and drink to him with a pint of cyder.

May 10th 2011

AV or Not it was a self-inflicted electoral wound

May 5th wasn't so much a voters revolution in England - with many local councils 'changing hands' politically and the populus standing up proudly for change, reform and fairness - as those who could be bothered to turn out to vote (only 37% 'round here) simply taking what was in their naïve minds 'the easy way out' - no change from a 200 year out dated system of one lousy 'X' , it just seemed too complicated to these simple minded folk and might take a minute or two more to write 1 to 6 or 1 to 10 on a ballot form, so they voted (well a third did!) for leaving a very convenient (well to M.P's anyway) system, which in no way reflects public opinion, in place - God help us , no wonder we have a co-illusion government!

However, with Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland electing their national assemblies using Proportional Representation surely England can't continue without its own national assembly - elected fairly - for much longer .....

13th April 2011

Whose 'Doctoring the figures' - whose 'Cooking the books' now - David, Nick, George

Come on what a complete porky-pie to say food prices in UK are actually going down - and what 'convenient' timing, as for that '4%' its not a real reduction its a reduction in the rate of inflation - in real English its a very slight slowing down of the increases - maybe if these gentlemen of government occasionally did the weekly (or more) shop they'd learn how prices if averaged out are going up and up , maybe if they (ever) looked at their gas and electric etc. bills they'd see increases regularly passed-on to brassed-off families, couples and single folks - many on fixed pensions or struggling alone to pay rent and mortgages. So next time you have a stage-managed visit to Tesco David try to consider the ordinary people , next time you raise your hand to deny questioners Nick try instead to answer , and next time you apply that supercilious smile George try to imagine the poor single parents balancing their budgets not in £Ms but in £s and pence!

If we must have cuts -lets have them in real prices too!

March 27th 2011

After decades , a World War , a 'cold' war; after being the voice of truth to the world, a mean-minded co-illusion government does what the Nazis or Reds failed to do - closes the BBC international radio service ...........

'Auntie' BBC's last roar

As The BBC sets in the East and the 'Blue Meanies' also make sure Auntie's only really popular 'digital' radio station becomes truly unknown I ask why the BBC Trust members are quite obviously having a 'larf' at their listeners and license payers .

The well dressed and unelected BBC Trust members get the job through the 'establishment' - not through election , they obviously consider themselves gods as any critisism is ignored and they pay staff to write condescending letters to the peasants who dare to point a finger; recently out of spite of the Foreign Office for withdrawing funding to the BBC World Service, the BBC paid out £1000's in redundancy and began a close down (which also costs a lot in run-down and storage fees) a significant number of shortwave transmitters and the main medium wave transmitter to Europe.

Remember, this was the broadcasting organisation with the motto 'Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation' !

At home some clever over paid executives had the 'bright idea' of re-naming the BBC's most popular (only popular to be more accurate) 'digital' sound station - known for years as simply BBC 7 until some one realised the name 'radio' was perhaps good for a radio station (the knees jerk well at BBC!!) ok so for over a year its been distinctive, had a good 'core' audience' and that because it actually gave '7' listeners what they wanted and that's rare at the BBC.

So some rather stupid but posh 'office speak' talking - you know the kind 'rolling-out' 'making-over' and 'focusing' decided, together with his or her(?) clever chums - (the same 'breed' that turned the Light Programme , Home Service and Third Programme into the far more 'descriptive and imaginatively named' Radio 2, Radio 4, Radio 3)" lets call Radio 7" (mumbles of 'whats radio?' and 'whats se-ven') -" lets call radio seven radio 4 extra - you know so that the radio 4 listeners think its as boring as that station and as its only on 'Dead And Buried' even the '7' listeners will turn off!" Whoopy!!!

And for this the Government take from me and millions £140 a week and give it all to the BBC!

THE WRONG PEOPLE ARE IN CHARGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Why I really have no time to tweet or mess around on facebook

back in the 'bad' old days when AOL chat rooms were the place, then Yahoo - before the rot set in on the Internet, trojans-r-us.com, worms on toast, spywear (ok Spyware) was what 007 once wore - every good thing invented by mankind has been variously buggered up by mankind to make money or corrupt in some other way . The old saying meaning commit adultery in the next town - not in your own was 'don't s**t on your own doorstep' - but of cause on the Internet the trail home is only too easy to spot!

In the UK , shortly in Australia and Europe we are about to make it illegal for manufacturers names to appear on fag (cigarette) packets in the hope that the resultant confusion will put smokers off buying the damn things - what male bovine excrement (not allowed to say bullshit on a 'G' rated web site).

The next stupid idea will be booze bottles or tinies with simply 'beer' 'gin' 'whisky' etc, but no brand name on to stop us getting p***ed - governments are no fun anymore!

HOW OUR WORLD TURNS........

The recent terrible floods, then hurricane in Queensland followed by earthquake in Christchurch New Zealand brought home to us, even sitting comfortably in cold but perhaps more climatically stable England, the fact that with the best scientific aids to mankind the finest constructive principles and strongest societies - nature's power is often beyond any form of control.

The disastrous events of the tsunami and its resulting destruction to the north of Japan asks the most of the character of the civilian peoples of that country yet while the media wrings out all news value from the story, claiming such headlines as chaos, terror - the Japanese, like the Australians, like the South Islanders of New Zealand are not panicking, they are working to put things right.

God bless those in canoes rescuing folks in Melbourne, God bless the people digging out the injured in Christchurch, N.Z. and God bless the helecopter pilots and crew working to save the nuclear plant at Fukushima Daiichi , about 150 miles north of Tokyo.

19th February 2011

So the Pendulum Swings .....

I recall how in the 40's 50's and 60's the United States hadn't a good word for the Soviet Union or the Chinese Peoples Republic , Mr Khrushchev and Mao Tse Tung according to 'Uncle Sam' were leaders of fasist regimes because after the Nazis came the Reds and one was as bad as the other, so Washington felt at the time 'the only good red is a dead red', indeed having been a member at all of the Communist Party prevented one making home in America and whilst one might just get to visit, it was known ones activities might be watched. Nikita Khrushchev

Well ok the Soviet Union is no more, in fact half of the then Unified Soviet States which existed together reasonably well are now at each others national throats the other half are so busy flag waving they don't see their economies disapearing down the pipe.

China remains Communist but the new China allows millionaires as well as the poor and because the workers do longer hours for a lot less than an American a UK worker or a Japanese the cost of the electronic goods, knitwear, plastic goods etc is lower out of the factory gate, the wholesalers and retailers mark-ups much lower , whilst still making a fair profit and that means the Chinese export market clears the decks of US and UK home produced much higher priced but not nessessarily better equivalents . Mao Tse Tung

The Chinese are clever people and one has to admire them, Mao is long gone and they know to beat capitalism one first takes it over, then when all the lazy rich countries are depending on your low profit margins to do the work for them, you up the prices so to get the same Shoes, DVD Recorders, pc circuit boards and hankies (plus 1000 other items!) these folks in the west have to pay much more and because by this time the factories in Milwaukie and Bolton are closed , pulled down and houses built there the bloated capitalists are as we say in Surbiton , buggered!

19th January 2011

I Give the Co-illusion Government 2 years - No More !

Even before we (the poor tax payer) paid-off the banks debts to our own loss we didn't 'have it so good' mainly because our petrol, gas and electricity was one of the dearest, but as VAT was an acceptable 17.5% it didn't seem too bad . Now we are told it'll get worse though the 'little piggies in their clean white shirts' (quote John Lennon) are still at their bank bonus troughs with no visible control by the UK government despite the (empty) threats of the Deputy Prime Minister .

When normal , ordinary peoples lives become more and more miserable 'in the national interest' even the most tolerant people say sod it we're not standing for it and even the placid English can have it too poor. We are told the ministers are making 'hard decisions' - but their salary increases are going ahead - what bloody hypocrisy.

No matter how big a debt Gordon Brown left, I predict the people will have had enough of David and Nick's double standards by 2013.

23rd December 2010

BBC Buffoons choose no radio for Scotland!

So that a minority Gaelic language TV station is available on digital terrestrial (itself suffering blank spots) in Scotland the BBC 'Trust' (surely a misnomer) have in the 'listeners best interest' (!?)chosen that no BBC radio will be available using the Freeview system. The BBC are pushing , in rather sickening and inaccurate commercials for the innocuous and unwanted system DAB all over the UK (including Scotland!), so the seemingly contradictory approach by 'Auntie' continues whilst in honest reality surely even Sir Michael knows AM radio (on Long Wave, Medium Wave and Short Wave) and FM radio (on VHF) are the only sensible choices.

The BBC has spent many £thousands of (TV) license payers money on minority DAB radio which has signally (in more ways than one) failed - the BBC continues to spend on it and tells untruths about the 'loads of stations' on DAB - which in some areas is less than 50 in total (BBC and commercial ) - compared to the hundreds on AM and FM - its wasting our money.

If perhaps the BBC took the brave and sensible course of closing up the DAB (Dead And Buried ?) outlets then ALBA TV the Gaelic station in Scotland and Sianel Pedwa Cymru the Welsh language TV station could have proper funding. But Sir Michael and his 'Trust' would rather not admit that DAB has failed - shops push the sets then wait for returns from customers who find ' batteries cost a fortune' (these set's circuitry uses much more electricity than AM/FM radios) 'stations disappear when the set's moved' (if the bit-stream is blocked even by a wall the signal ends) ' the sound qualities crap' (low bit rates are used to get more channels in, therefore sacrificing sound quality) - hardly a sign of a 'better way to listen'.

7th December 2010

FOR CHRIS'SAKE DONT TELL 'EM THE TRUTH.................

Hear no 'evil' , see no 'evil' .... now comes the gag

I can thoroughly understand that it's really embarrassing for governments and leaders of governments to have the truth revealed about what lies (pun?) behind the sickly smiles of our 'leaders' at international conference photo calls when they appear to be physically standing together when in truth they are minds apart in a multitude of ways , Wikileaks may or may not be breaking the rules telling it like it apparently really is but it does seem to me the UK police will be playing political patsy to compromise themselves on a Euro-arrest charge beamed, I can only guess from Washington D.C. conveniently accusing the boss of Wikileaks 'on sexual assault charges' - obviously once he's locked-up (innocent or guilty) then his Internet site can be taken down (legally or otherwise) and no more nasty - but perhaps true - information be given to the public - I mean we don't want us ordinary tax payers and voters knowing what's going on 'behind closed doors' in Whitehall, Washington or wherever do we !

Sunday 13th November 2010

STUDENT DEMO - or -' RENT A RIOT '?

The Millbank 'event' I think was 'engineered' not by a rather 'brown nosing' Students Union or New Labour in permanent opposition but by those whom have a far more likely 'vested interest' - those who want to take attention away from banks and bankers whose bailing out by the last government really are responsible for the cuts in payement to unemployed , restrictions on spending on everything from care of the elderly to defense of our country!

So why does this co-illision government not jump on the banks - make bankers bonuses , still being paid out, illegal at least untill we , the UK are back in the 'black' - why don't they set an example to the so called 'work shy' that those who cost the country will pay and damned hard for it.

Well, it's Cameron's and Clegg's own 'ruling class' and it wouldn't do to upset mates -rather better wring your hands look serious and tell us simple ordinary sods I'm sorry but this will hurt you much more than me and my dinner guests.

And don't think Mr Brown would be any different - it was his government that after the bankers gigantic cock-up and 'request' (not plea) for help said how much do you want of public money -write your own cheque !

SINKING CAMERON'S NAVY

It's been suggested the de-commisioning of H.M.S. Ark Royal three years early to 'save money' will actually cost more over the three years and the gaps in coverage of its aircraft , others cancelled , will leave the UK's defense in a very poor position because the MoD is being squeezed at quite the wrong time - our overseas commitments are increasing not decreasing and common sense would tell any Chancellor (finance minister) that unless the Frence - UK paly paly agreement means we can borrow Frence ships , planes and tanks we are going to be well and truely in the merde.

Any Questions set-up Radio 4 (BBC)

No sir, when I listen to well saleried people pontificating about those who want money but don't want to work for it I wonder how much these invidual commenters on society are claiming as expenses , how much of their work they are passing onto lesser paid assistants and secretaries to do and why they are sitting in a radio/tv studio when they should be doing real work themselves not playing God!

11th September 2010

YET ANOTHER COILLUSION COCK-UP?

INLAND REVENUE as a separate government department, worked for decades on UKs income taxes without anything like such a cock-up but now the combined tax and duty department H.M.Revenue & Customs - the government of the day love to waste money on new headed writing paper new web sites and buildings / door signs - that in itself cost £1000's of tax payers money - now with its new name new chief, HMRC (sounds like the name of a foreign bank) has made a colosal blunder where 1000's of tax payers have been over charged and some under charged which should mean the head rolls of the chief executive officer but he even refuses to apologise -

where the hell do the 'powers that be' get these morons?

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It seems ironic that while the coillusion government are busy cutting back on public spending , benefits and help to local councils to keep council taxes down, the same government are doing nothing to tell the banks who received millions of tax payers money and who in the first place caused the financial mess these cuts are being put into being to try to put straight, to play the game with customers .

If this government had any b*lls it would come down like a ton of bricks on the banks and financial houses and it certainly wouldn't cut benefits .

2nd August 2010

THE RISKS OF 'POWER LINE TELECOMMUNICATIONS' - a major problem or a myth?

Passed by various EU committees, the Australian house of Representatives , US government departments (FCC etc,) - all on the 'nod', the UK government's watchdog puppet Ofcom - though never properly tested. But perhaps there are no risks, like the RMS 'Titanic', perhaps those with heart pacemakers who fear their life defending devices may be affected (evidence is available) are simply grumblers against progress, maybe its a myth that radio communications (including emergency services) may be blocked or seriously hampered by radiated broadband bit-stream from overhead power lines and even house wiring

- surely wired conventional broadband or WiFi if you must, but for Gods sake lets not risk lives just to make the Internet over-ride all common sense.

Wed 21st July 2010

WHY IS THE PRIME MINISTER NOT REPLYING TO EMAILS ?

From my understanding there is a team who reply (in theory at least) to emails from electors/tax payers to the Prime Minister of the British (UK) parliament, ok 'he' or they can't agree to act on many requests, suggestions or demands - but surely the electorate deserve at least acknowledgment - has co-illusion power gone to our David's head or has his office manager become lazy?

17th July 2010

Is stupidity winning the terrorists war for them?

IS WASHINGTON MINDING YOUR BUSINESS - YES!

In a very cheeky official request from the US Government to the former UK and other EU governments Washington requested, 4 months ago, what ammounted to blanket authority to investigate all bank transfers between EU citizens and those of countries outside the EU , the information to be made freely available to the US government . Excuse 'Anti-Terrorism'. No reciprocal arangement was offered or given.

In a 'brown-nosing' deal to top all others the UK government agreed ! so did other governments of EU countries so it went to the EU parliament for what Whitehall , Berlin, Paris, Warsaw etc, assumed would be the rubber stamp - no rubber stamp and much argument, however 'safegards' added to the still very one-sided deal of our personal infomation on our banking and personal finance were beleive it or not actually agreed.!!

So next time you need to know whats in your bank or especially what you've sent to Australia, Canada etc, dont bother phoning your bank branch, London or Brussels - just phone the Whitehouse or the Pentagon!

I used to beleive America stood for freedom, the right of privacy and respect for other nations rights, it obviously doesn't anymore.God save America!

8th June 2010

A Co-illusion Government

The Prime Minister says 'we're all going to suffer' but I suspect the rich will stay rich and those at the bottom - or those thinking to be at the bottom - will feel the tory/lib cuts the worst!

What of the army of well salaried and well pensioned civil servants in both central and local government , when and who will cut the waste ? in one local authority £1000's have recently allegedly been spent on IT communications equipment for the council itself who then decided to move elsewhere!

What of the junketing and foreign travel , conferences held abroad which could be held in the UK, top rate overnight hotel accommodation - not for ministers -but for local government officials and councillors.

What about such as Ofcom, making stupid decisions which might affect the survival of pacemaker wearers , simply to suit industry. Ofcom, like many quangos the result of 'privatization' by Maggie T (which, to give her some fair credit, she honestly believed would really benefit the customers better than nationalised monopolies) are simply now rubber stamp mobs and a vast waste of public money, offsetting any advantages of private versus nationalised industries - not watching over the customers interests at all.

Anyone who has dealt with any of these mobs will I'm sure agree that Ofgas the Post Office Users Council, the Local Government Ombudsman etc, etc. are hardly champions of the public good - more the interest of the industry and its profits. Remember when the General Post Office (old name for Royal Mail Ltd/ Post Office Ltd) also ran all the phones and came directly under the Post Master General (a government cabinet position then) the Minister of Media, or whatever his title is this week, is a minor cog now.

Is the David/Nick set-up going to have the 'balls' to increase tax on the super rich and the giant companies, supported by banks propped up by the same tax payers David/Nick are going to make life hell for?

Is all the reference David Cameron claims he wants to make to the people of the UK eyewash or will he listen and act when we ordinary folk say 'take from he who hath and give to he that hath not'.

WHY SHOULD WE PAY AND BE PUNISHED FOR THE MISTAKES/BLUNDERS OF WELL HEELED CITY BANKERS WHO SEEM TO CARRY ON, WITH NICE BONUSES, REGARDLESS OF BUGERING UP?

I make no apologies for my 'unpolitical' language - others use far stronger .

IF THIS GOVERNMENT MAKES IT TOUGH ON ORDINARY FOLK WHILST ALLOWING THE 'FAT CATS' TO RUN AROUND AS THEY LIKE, PAYING (VIA TAX AVOIDANCE THROUGH A GOOD ACCOUNTANT) HARDLY ANYTHING IN COMPARISON _ THEN THE DAVID/ NICK COILLUSION WILL DESERVEDLY END WELL WITHIN TWO YEARS.

May 26th 2010

Dead And Buried RADIO

In the latest crack-pot attempt to get people in the UK to accept the rather stupid view of the 'all things digital' broadcasting loonies it seems after the (only partial) success of the car scrapage scheme - an attempt to crush on-mass as many cars as possible and flog off car dealers otherwise rusting as unsold stock - the consumer electronic stores [ its no longer politically correct to call them radio & TV shops!] in the forlorn hope naïve folk will hand over their daily used reliable and efficient AM/FM (or long wave to vhf) analogue radio with bands full of stations from all over the UK and Europe in exchange for about 15% off the price of a Digital Audio Broadcasting receiver (average price £40) offering a magnificent 'choice' of an average 40 stations (from a local 'multiplex') - if you're lucky - actually poorer quality sound and your programme likely to suddenly be lost (not simply fade) should you move from the lounge to the kitchen with the receiver!

NO FOLKS STEER CLEAR OF THIS DEAL it's not worth a candle, especially as the DAB system used at present is obsolete and any other country daft enough to take on digital radio at least uses an improved and incompatible DAB+ system - so these Dead And Buried radios are literally just that!

Following is a letter submitted to the British DX Club by a member, the monitors of the club declined publication but I think it deserves publication here:

Seriously, I'm glad in a way the 'Mail has given this stupid idea 'air'- of cause the scheme will get 'some' support but the back-lash might well cause Currys etc, (remember when they gave up selling VHS recorders far too early) to re-think when DAB sets are returned with reception complaints.

Here's another point , many AM/FM analogue radios of the production period 1950's to 1990's are repairable but few modern sets, by the nature of construction are - so the whole set is scraped , minced up - can't even be incinerated because of toxic smoke and plastic doesn't break down in landfill. So why doesn't the UK government promote more repairable manufacture? - well because there's no money in it and those hypocrites in the DAB lobby at parliament going for 'Digital Britain' (sic) would sooner have loads of imported (from China of cause) sealed up slabs of unrepairable indesposable toxic plastic, that people might buy if told some tale of how clever it is on the basis of 'The Emperor's New Cloths', than have a tried tested and proven reliable quality sound radio system already in almost every home in the UK continue.

No , hang on to your working, completely reliable analogue radio - the weak skinned DAB bubble will burst as stations realise the financial folly of digital radio, FM and AM analogue will be there all over the world for many decades to come.

25th April 2010

THESE BOGUS ELECTION DEBATES!

ARE VOTERS IN OUR 'FIRST PAST THE POST' MESS OF AN ELECTION REALLY CONNED SO EASILY?

Come off it, the United Kingdom general election is not and never will be a presidential election and thank God for that; The thought of any of the 'big 3' being Prime Minister (again) is bad enough; but those rather naïve new voters watching the so called 'debates' on TV with 'picked' audiences and questions already known by the presenter, who base their intended vote on how Nick, Gordon or David glibly talk of tax, social services, armed forces and fat-cat bankers must be taken for what it is -- 'window dressing' nothing more.

The vast majority of us in the UK (62 million) won't be voting for any of these three party leaders simply because they themselves only seek election in their particular constituencies - not nationally. So in fact if everyone who could vote for him - voted for him - Nick Clegg in the constituency of Sheffield,Hallam (Population in 2008 84,912) could at very maximum get 84,912 votes.

In the last general election 26,571 voted for David Cameron

23,710 voted for Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown got 24,278 with only half the registered voters in each of their constituencies bothering to vote!

The results of whom did best in these three TV 'debates' (one presented by ITV, one by SKY NEWS and one by BBC) is entirely bogus, as are opinion poles by politically biased newspapers - he who pays the pollster writes the questions asked of the total 1000 to 2000 people in large cities, not even towns, certainly not villages.

I asked my local newspaper if it would host one debate with the 7 candidates seeking election here - well I knew the answer would be based on cost and that's understandable.

So if you're in the UK reading this look at the figures - work it out for yourself then vote how YOU thinks right not how they try to con you into voting.

If you're not in the UK - be grateful.

Should it be Aildy Mail ?

Being unbiased politically is hardly the august morning publication The Daily Mail's forte, indeed it would seem suddenly the already stamped blue lettering, as like Blackpool rock (the pink stick variety) TORY contributors have, since a non-conservative two-party government became not simply possible but very likely, claimed all is wrong with Gordon of the Labourers and Nick de Liberal Democratique but the sun radiates from a trouser covered orifice of Cameron the mighty wonderful

no not him....

However, with the Mail's keenness to put us right on the bad guys and the good Conservative guy of our UK general election they, the 'Mail, made a blunder themselves - YES!

They are currently giving away free gratis with each copy of The Daily and Sunday Mail the series of TV documentary WORLD WAR IN COLOUR a splendid series well worth collecting as have been past free DVDs from The 'Mail.

However the first Disc of the 13 series telling the story of 'The Gathering Storm' Mr. Chamberlain and Munich - well the sleeve was right, the disc printing ok, but the recorded contents ..... 'Hitler Strikes East' (disc 4) about 1941and the Nazi invasion of Russia.

"What happened to the London Blitz and Battle of Britain Dad?"

"Well David Camaron after being made a Saint.........

Thursday April 15th 2010

CONTRADICTION AS POLICY

In England we put our various waste items , plastics, paper, kitchen waste, garden waste (no not human waste!) into bags of differing colours so on the relevant, local council facilitated collection day we may contribute to the policy, all fine and good, of recycling rather than using up more basic production materials on new containers etc, and filling garbage dumps. Admirable you may say, but at the same time the same councils are allowing green land , despite the politicians promises, to be used for buildings whilst derelict buildings stand rotting and cleared former 'brown', formerly built-on land remains unused - this obvious contradiction continues unchecked -

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY?

MY EASTER MONDAY ADDRESS

(Well, If The Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury can do it, so can I)

'Oh to be in England now that April's there .....' Robert Browning wrote that in a probably much warmer, sunnier Florence (Italy) - well he wouldn't fancy the chilly, grey skies, rain and wind that we , at least in my part of this poor buggered old country, must at present suffer. In a few weeks some of us will perhaps waste our time voting for a group of people whose general reputation has never been lower for the money they 'earn' the money, some of them claim in obscene expenses and the doubtful 'work' they do in representing we , the people. We have a procrastiny not a democracy. Even the UK parliamentary election system, long out of date and totally unrepresentative goes against a fair and responsible division of the House of Commons; But it seems only one political party offers a change - subject to a committee report which can or cannot be accepted if the then Prime Minister sees fit!

Of cause many people will turn out to vote in May (or June) but will it be at all worth it? - reading the policies of the three main parties definitely not, a more out of touch gaggle one couldn't get, in no way reflective of the views of the common man - oh sorry, human (at least that's politically correct!)

22nd March 2010

THE GREAT 'Digital Britain' RADIO CON!

In a recent reply to a rather badly worded petition against the proposed switch-off of analogue (that's Long wave,Medium wave, Shortwave and FM/VHF) radio in the UK - land-fill of millions of working radio sets was skirted-round, listening to overseas radio was dealt with by suggesting using the Internet (severely restricted already by streaming copyright issues which up to now normal international radio has handled amicably) and a suggestion was made that set-top boxes similar to those used for satellite, cable and terrestrial digital TV could be used with existing radio sets (a completely bogus idea as unlike TVs no radios (portable or unit stereo) built in the last 40 years for ordinary home have any means of plugging in such devices even if their circuit design allowed!

The petition was hurriedly and badly worded obviously not by anyone of either a legal or technical ability - it may have even been designed to fail it was so badly written - but it did, by the response, indicate No. 10 Downing Street has no real idea about DAB and how a 'Digital Britain' would function, as far from giving practical answers the Prime Ministers office showed it and the rest of the government had been well and truly conned by a desperate radio industry, or more accurately import trade, who would say anything to try to convince the listening public black really was white to sell poor quality sound and a very limited range of stations compared to the present.

If the Conservatives are elected in June no-doubt they will be no better , though it does seem the Liberal Democrats are, on this subject, better informed on the severe failings of DAB and DAB+ which the government and digital lobby are not telling the public will render even present DAB sets silent !

WHAT A REAL CONFIDENCE TRICK!

26th February 2010

BBC Website extract

Siting on the handlebars and steering with the saddle!

Only possibly two months from a general election the BBC (Bad, Bald and Corrupt ?), on Thursday 11th March, are planning to have one of its flagship political programmes 'Question Time' on BBC1 - or BBCone as they prefer since ITV1 began - a women only audience programme (God forbid a men only show) - if this doesn't contravene the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act (Section 3) nothing does - but surely this is really crap timing by BBC TV - what are the big boys and girls on high salaries thinking about, will the next idea be all 'blacks/coloured folk or all Moslems or Rabbis?

Surely such giant Organisations should be promoting nondiscrimination and an unbiased society - according to the BBC's charter - rather than a slanted angled approach.

We are forced to pay over £130 a year license for such stupid decision making.

Perhaps it's time the Government of the UK abolished both the big headed BBC and the 'one size fits all' ITV if they can't do better than this.

20th January 2010

NOW CADBURY's

SELLING OUT BRITAIN!

Only a few days ago the Directors, obviously as sincere as bankers giving their obscene bonuses to the poor, said 'thank you' to the patriotic movement to keep Cadbury's British - now they sell out to the biggest offer !

I don't blame Kraft for wanting Cadbury's; a failing firm wanting a successful one - even if they (Kraft) have to borrow heavily to buy it.

I do feel that the picture of yet another UK company becoming owned by overseas interests is sickening .

What will happen if/when Kraft have company problems, will they save British jobs and sacrifice US jobs - will they hell!

The British Government should now stop any more British UK firms being bought by 'foreigners' be they EU or not.

Time to say 'thats all folks!' - before nothing's left.

7th December 2009

HEAR THE PIGGIES SQUEAL!!

The fat-cat bankers shocked whiter than their white shirts by the very thought that their pig-at-the-trough bonuses paid out by banks recently bailed-out by the tax payer (to save these banks going under) because these bloated corporations couldn't even speculate to accumulate without cocking it all up.

BONUSES ARE FOR WINNERS NOT FAILURES

We now hear from the various pals in high places of these 'bankers' that if the UK government start taxing the obscenely well paid at a far higher rate that these 'bankers' will waddle off to Switzerland or Hong Kong - we are told these 'quality hard workers' , whose skills nearly ruined our country and caused many firms to close must be overpaid so as to 'retain their invaluable services'

smell of excrement from male uncastrated cattle !

LET THESE BUGGERS GO - AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE AND GOOD RIDDANCE

the UK doesn't need or want them!

4th Oct 2009

OCTOBER IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN UK

Why?

We have millions of human beings coloured pinky white, olive , brown and darker brown and if you're from Nigeria you might be actually black skinned but apart from the colour of your skin you have all the bits of body parts as anyone else be they pinky white , brown or olive skinned - you are no worse or better simply because your skin colour's different .

You can be a Scientist, Surgeon or build cars or drive a bus or taxi etc.

I'm not proud of being pinky white but I am proud of being English though our national history like that of other countries has periods we'd like to forget.

One day, once we learn to be one race - the human race - not 'white' not 'black' - then we'll start celebrating people for what they did for the world - not because of their skin colour.

BRITAIN'S TOOTHLESS WATCHDOGS!

Yet again the truth has been demonstrated that the United Kingdom's so-called 'Watchdogs', quangos set up in the 70's to allegedly ensure fairness to consumers of the products of the former nationalised supply industries (gas, electricity,water,railways etc.) privatised (publicly owned companies sold off often originally at a loss to fat-cat commercial interest to make those fat cats fatter) by the then Conservative government (led by Maggie Thatcher), are a waste of public money because they can't help the consumer and are useless and should either be given more power so they can operate properly or abolished.

Recently in Britain we were told by the gas suppliers though the cost of gas to them had gone down this reduction would not be passed fairly to their customers in fact so called 'British Gas' said there may well be increases in their customers bills !

What's the industry watchdog doing to fight this? - sod all.

TIME TO SCRAP THESE SO CALLED INDEPENDENT WATCHDOGS - SACK THEIR OVERPAID OFFICE STAFF AND CLOSE THEIR OFFICES

OR MAKE EM' BITE THESE PRIVATISED PROFITEERS BACK!

OUT OF 'THE JUNGLE'

BUT NOT INTO ENGLAND -PLEASE !

Well the French have 'taken into captivity' the people from various countries camped outside Calais in 'The Jungle' as these people called it . I have sympathy for anyone living in a country that is at war through politics which these ordinary folks never wanted , in that respect I thank God I live in England.

Now these folks escaped from these warring places to peaceful France but now the Europeans are talking of the UK taking so many - we are a great country but small geographically, we simply can not keep taking foreigners not because of race or colour but simple logic - we haven't the room we haven't the jobs we cant keep building houses until the country is one bloody big town.

There are vast parts of the world - the free peaceful world - which if properly supplied and serviced with the correct infrastructure would no longer be icy wastes, deserts or wilderness and could be made a good safe home for those desperate enough to live in 'The Jungle' .

With reasoned international help , all countries - not just putting the begging bowl out to the USA - we can deliver people out of hell into happiness.

7th September 2009

Studying, passing GCSEs Training --- for the dole
A week or so ago school 'students' (sounds more politically acceptable than pupil) were featured on local regional TV news congratulating themselves on their passes and when interviewed as to what they'll study at 'Uni' said things like social studies, archaeology, design studies .
Remember a bloke named Blair saying "Education, education, education"
On the principal of say it thrice it might make more impact that once!
But we also see on local TV news older teenage kids - uw sorry 'young adults' outside Job Centres where they are fed up with not getting interviews let alone real jobs. These people having worked at school now find they can't even get the work experience (in real jobs - not notional) that is essential for them to stand up for themselves and make proud citizens on a decently earned wage/salary rather than a possible state unemployment benefit.
To hell with the 'passes' on paper let's match kids to proper jobs - give them a future in the real world as workers not simply pointless exam sitters.

Leave the NHS alone - no improve it!
Bringing in 'Management Consultants' (God knows what their fee was) to suggest a seriously undermanned Health Service scraps many jobs simply reflects on the reality thinking (none it seems) of the management consultant company.
Remember (Lord) Beaching whose way of making British Railways more efficient was to close a hell of a lot of the stations - presumably had he closed ALL the stations in his mind BR would have become super efficient !
The National Health Service is something I as an Englishman born in 1947 am very proud of, that doesn't mean I don't criticise it but only in that it goes a bit wobbly at holidays - mainly because of shortages of staff, Doctors, Nurses and Ancillary staff. So if they want to cut manning have a go at the army of non-medical pen-pushers which is the result of too much government interference since Maggie Thatcher said - in those splendidly patronising tones - in the 70's " The National Health Service is safe in our hands" having done her best to promote private hospitals etc .
Of cause she was a politician - who believes them????

Mr Obama

has assured his countrymen that his Health Service will certainly not be based on the UK or Canadian models - well sincere good luck to him and I hope those middle class Americans waving placards saying 'Kill The Bill' (surely a rather bad choice of wording concerning a Health Bill) realise a system in the wealthiest nation in the world which makes people third class without private health insurance is next to a crime.
Perhaps if some of the military effort needed to 'police' such places as Iraq and Afghanistan and the concomitant vast expense , or some of it, was reduced and perhaps other countries made more contribution with tanks, weapons, personnel then the USA could use the money saved on it's own people - on the health of their children and elderly especially . Then instead of Americans having always to be at the 'sharp end' together with British troops they can return and look after the homeland and its people more.

in March 09

and...........

If someone tried to get it published as a story in a book it would be rejected as simply incredible

But the fact is the 'robber barons' and the poor peasants scraping to live - a tale of surely the middle ages not the 21st century - exists in all it's inequality and downright evil today, all over the UK, while people are cueing for a few jobs with little hope and only £60 a week lousy 'dole' whilst 'retiring' bankers are paid £millions after showing not magnificent ability to increase profit, but sickening inability to earn their 'daily bread' - let alone big bonuses - and presumably no clue of the job they were in , it's requirements or responsibilities!

The factory worker knows if he/she doesn't produce the amount of items it's 'get your coat on'

The sales assistants figures have to be above a certain level to make her/his services necessary.

But even though the person behind the bank counter has to do their job - it seems the real top executives can do nothing or worse for a nice salary, bonuses and a princely pension.

And especially in England they get no fraud charges, no orders from a government determined to see justice is done to the people whose incomes have been taken away without their fault, simply because the firm they worked for found even working costs funding was reduced by banks after the 'fat cat' banking executives had cocked it all up...

These men get knighthoods!

Mr Brown 'regrets' the unemployment but does nothing to assure those without work are not shown a picture of gross injustice where obscene amounts are paid out to a failed executive

WHY DOESN'T OUR PRIME MINISTER OUR GOVERNMENT TAKE ACTION

STOP PAYING TAX PAYERS MONEY TO PROP-UP BANKS UNCONDITIONALLY

TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THESE BANKS TO GET THE 'FAT CAT'

BONUSES AND PENSIONS RETURNED - then maybe the poor sods, the small firms closing, the larger companies closing branches, the poor folks cueing in the hope of at least a minimum rate job can get an idea that Mr Brown does more than 'regrets'.

And this is supposed to be a Labour government

My God - not even the lousiest Tory could be so uncaring.

In February 2007 I wrote:

The United Kingdom a Democracy or a 'pink' Dictatorship?

It has become obvious, now that over 80% of so called 'independent' planning appeals are allowed where its houses v. countryside, that the British Government is biasing the so called 'independent' Inspectors and forcing them to go to far too great pains to defend acceptance of the objections of both local councils and local people , regardless of politics, to the despoliation and then total destruction of countryside.

This present government is totally ignorant and chooses to stay that way, of local peoples feelings, pushing through their planning policies and dictating a vile urbanisation . Why else would they even suggest that 'developers' could put in planning applications for building in existing peoples gardens!!

Hitler tried very hard to destroy the Jews , in the same way it seems some sick idea within the 'New Labour party' (no possible relation to the former decent Labour Party ) is to replace our beautiful countryside with ludicrously priced houses. Is the present governing party of Britain funded secretly and conditionally by a group of so called 'developers' .

Is money for honours only the tip of the iceberg?

What other reason is there for such obviously corrupt politics ?

ENGLAND IS A SMALL COUNTRY

ITS TIME TO HALT IMMIGRATION COMPLETELY - FOR SIMPLE PRACTICAL REASONS

AND IF THE EU DON'T LIKE IT - LEAVE THE EU.

'LABOUR' GOVERNMENT and the widening incomes gap .............

In the UK the fat cats of big business, that is those which aren't owned now by the Germans, French, Japanese and oh I forgot - the Yanks , the really splendid pucka British chaps whose salaries monthly equal what most earn in a year or five and who stand to get a seat in the House of Lords - if it's not abolished by these damn 'Labour' (????) government chaps guys or whatever to pay for the obscene rises M.Ps are awarding themselves next year - well with at least two homes to pay for and having to attend the 'House' ( Commons, that is ) at least once a week - that's when the 'House' is in session of course (about 6 months in 12) they need it poor b...

no I mustn't insult their parents.

Personally, I wouldn't pass water on a British Member (male or otherwise) of Parliament if he or she were on fire but I would reprimand the person who set fire to the member - well it might spread to a human being.

With the prospect of the United Kingdom being faced with the replacing of a Prime Minister who toadies to George W' supporting his every whim it seems and volunteering British troops without question in some of the bloodiest theatres of war (with or without essential body armour), with yet another Scottish born leader who refuses England a parliament whilst begging Northern Ireland's factions to kiss and be friends so they can at last have their 'national' assembly, one wonders just how on one hand 'blind' and on the other devious the leader of the British Government can be.

Looking back on john Major calling members of his cabinet 'bastards'

Maggie Thatcher falling out with her Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary

Jim Callaghan paddling in the sea with Jimmy Carter

Harold Wilson's famous smoke screens (in both respects, wonder what tobacco he smoked)

Sir Edward Heath : A Tory Prime Minister whose replacement came to be deeply regretted by Trade Union members!

Ted Heath's 'action not words'

we seem to be going from bad to worse.

and in November 2006:

THE GREAT OLYMPIC FARCE

When London won the opportunity to stage the 2012 Olympics it seems the British Government straight away shelved many community projects based on regional need especially in the under represented area of the United Kingdom called England , community centres, wildlife centres , public parks badly in need of funding will now be ignored as the public pocket is raided for the Billions of £'s required to build the massive structures which in many cases will have little or no use after this prestige event. Open countryside will be swallowed up for car parks with local planning conditions swept aside and objections overturned by D.o.E (Deputy Prime Ministers Office) Inspectors giving firm briefs to 'oil the wheels'.

All this and much more, including far heavier local taxes particularly in London, will be done to achieve what ?

Will SPORT ENGLAND be given powers to tell developers in England to provide local recreation facilities , will town councils throughout the U.K. be told to require proper space, funding and facilities from 'developers' even before their applications go in so as to encourage youth and future generations to train to become champions for England, Scotland , Wales and Ulster - Will the public (of all ages) really benefit ? NO , NOTHING LIKE THAT

AS FOR THE PARTIES IN PARLIAMENT - THEY ONLY LOOK FORWARD TO THE JUNKETING!

ENGLAND DESERVES BETTER

August 2006:

AUNTIE'S BECOME QUITE A BITCH

Remember when in the U.K. we had the BBC Home Service, Light Programme and Third Programme in the 1950's, then in the 70's they became Radio 4, Radio 2, Radio 3 and a new Labour government after making the very popular off-shore pirate stations illegal under a hurriedly concocted and forced through Act of Parliament in 1967 rather coerced a Pop music channel onto the BBC when Prime Minister Harold Wilson realised the true strength of feeling a new generation of voters had against the action of his government , but Radio 1 (such titles as 1,2, 3 hardly show imagination) never captured the following the seagoing stations had .

The Home Service was 'regional' i.e. The Midland Home Service, The Scottish Home Service, The London Home Service etc., spoken word, plays ,but some music programmes , comedies etc.,. The Light Programme was devoted to light music and light entertainment, The Third Programme - later renamed Network Three- was for classical music and classic drama.It was later that the BBC introduced Radio5 (later re-born as '5Live') this station began to build a listener base for itself broadcasting such classic radio as 'The Black Museum' , 'Dragnet' and other dramas of the 40's and 50's and as Radio 5 was on AM Medium Wave one could enjoy the 'mellow bellow' of a wireless set of the 50's producing a 50's radio programme .

However, this didn't please the new boys at the BBC who in a sudden re-vamp removed all the classic drama and in it's place put phone-ins on some of the silliest subjects and football and news and more football and repeated news presumably aimed at the BBC's favourite age group the 20s and 30's .

More recently yet more government meddling in order to sell off to the highest bidder broadcast waveband spectrum has forced the British public to invest in digital television with the aim to free up for yet another 'nice little earner' the UHF bands 4 and 5 vacated by 2012 by the present television (both BBC and advertising funded ITV).

Another innovation is Digital Audio Broadcasting which is radiated on the VHF band 2 (formerly used right up to the 80's by ITV when it was an AM transmission in black and white at 405 interlaced lines) at comparatively low power from the hundreds of mobile telephone masts. Unlike the high powered ITV transmissions DAB is distributed by commercial multiplex system .

Certain pushers of DAB reckon it's the proverbial 'cats pajamas' but DAB stations and transmissions are heavily subsidised in the case of the BBC by the license payer and in the case of commercial stations which deliberately run less advertising on DAB , by FM feeds.

Some whiz-kids in broadcasting even kid emselves DAB is 'popular' and juggle the sales figures to make it seem so. The truth is very different but if your job depends on it you'll say anything .

However, it seems the more people complain about compressed sound quality (in DABs case the bit rate 'stream') the quick-fire presentation by twenty/thirty somethings which can spoil the dramas by giving away the plot, and the almost constant music background on such as the BBC's originally named station BBC7 which after BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4 you might think was perhaps a TV station (?) as well as BBC6 maybe .

BBC7 could, if it wanted to wipe the floor even with the BBC's Radio 2 (formerly Light Programme), the most popular British radio station, if the link announcers didn't try so hard to ensure not even 5 seconds of 'dead air' and musick (I mean that spelling) constantly running as a backing track between and even during some programmes wasn't obviously considered essential , however BBC7 , which has no outlet on either FM or AM so is very limited technically, could be a real winner because it broadcasts some grade A comedy and drama from the golden age (40's to early 70's) of BBC radio. So it remains a minority audience station again because the people behind it are so blinded to the obvious limitations they won't even consider even an 'out of hours' FM or AM output.

Recently I emailed BBC7 about an over keen announcer who I considered perhaps gave just a little of the story away when introducing episodes of Paul Temple , Francis Durbridge's writer cum detective of the 50's. Instead of a reasoned reply taking in my criticisms they defiantly defended their presenter accepting no word of my views as appropriate. It seems this is now the general rule with 'Aunties people' now that they must have training in telling viewers and listeners to know their place and shut-up because one only has to listen to any so called feed back programme to be treated to not 'we understand your point we'll put things right' but 'we don't ever do wrong so sod off and just pay your compulsory license'

WHAT A SHAME 'AUNTIE' HAS BECOME SUCH A BITCH

and ..... definition of a Podcast : a rather nasty secretion left by a Podperson ( see : 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' 1956 Allied Artists)

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY WE ( THE BRITISH) NEVER REFER TO 'OUR' GOVERNMENT (even accepting it's title is officially Her Majesties Government)

One only has to see the expression on our Queens face as she opens a new session of Parliament and reads out the speech prepared by the Prime Ministers office, listing all the wonderful things in store for this tight little island, to see how little pride and how much despairing acceptance she , on behalf of her people, really has in the governing parties' policies (regardless of colour).

THAT'S WHY , WE THE PEOPLE ( HEARD THAT SOMEWHERE BEFORE ) PREFER TO CALL IT 'THE GOVERNMENT' as an entity quite separate and in no terms part of ourselves our loved ones, wives and relatives.

Summer 2006:

BRING BACK GEORGE DIXON

Jack Warner as P.C. George Dixon was killed in 'The Blue Lamp' (Ealing Films 1949) but brought back to life on BBC TV from the 50's to 70's in 'Dixon of Dock Green' - he was in his 70's by the time 'Dixon' ended (by then Sgt. Dixon) - oldest Copper ever !!

Just how bloody stupid (sorry but it's the only repeatable phrase to use) can the British Government get suggesting Identification Cards will 'cut crime' - does the UK Home Secretary really believe there will be no attempt to forge ID cards ? to every way of making them 'secure' technically there will be a way of beating it and forcing anyone renewing their so called 'British' passport to pay at least £100 more for a card no realistic person believes is worth a 'hill of beans' as well as the cost of millions taken in tax is an act of pure stupid waste.

If the Home Secretary still sincerely wants to make England and the rest of the United Kingdom ,a happier, safer and better place he'd better spend those millions on bringing back the traditional 'bobby on the beat' and leaving super regional forces in the department it deserves - in the bin. What is the best thing is not a computerised out of touch police service but quite the opposite a more localised force based in the local town with officers known locally and knowing the locality and the local people - yes, Bring Back George Dixon!

It seems that after spending a considerable amount of tax payers money - funds which could have been used to really help Constabularies where resources are low , the Government has realised what a bloody silly idea larger police areas would be and quietly scrapped yet another lame-brained plan - now before wasting yet more hard earned public money they should realise ID cards are an insult to decent people and an expense thoroughly unjustified in a proper democratic and free society

LATEST: Prior to being , as they say - rolled out nationally (Ukh!!), down in the South East of England Police are trying out a new device which 'reads' finger prints of motorists - if the print reading (obtained by placing two fingertips on reader glass apertures on the recording device) matches those on record presumably the person is then either a 'crim' and has his 'collar felt' as breathing without a license or similar, but should the prints not match a data base (? what data base?) they are presumably instantly told "Very sorry to have delayed you Mr Mouse and my regards to Minnie , mind 'ow you go"

I wonder if any certain government ministers have shares in the firms that make these big boys toys.

I have always thought it should be required that any Government Minister or senior Secretary of State have pertinent specialist qualifications i.e. Defense Minister a former Army,Navy, or RAF Officer , Home Secretary a senior Barrister, Telecommunications Minister a former Telecommunications Expert - in this way they are not misinformed and mislead by 'advisers' and can answer questions from personal knowledge not simply 'reading reports' .

My point on this is that these people's personal expertise would be considered essential in business or industry yet it seems the only essential qualification to being a senior decision making cabinet minister (regardless of party) is being a friend of the Prime Minister !

Philip Harben in the days when TV chefs wore ties!

Recently it seems both BBC and ITV here in the UK have been showing again some programmes and films (both British and from other English speaking countries) from the 1960's, which makes a change from the blood everywhere and 'f' word sprinkled stuff which this way cometh from the USA these days - whilst the powers that be 'protect' the kids from 'funny people' (as my Great Niece calls 'em) the same 'powers' allow all of us to be sickened by severed limbs and detectives that say 'f*****' sometimes before every (other) verb or noun . Come on , John Wayne only said 'bo**ocks' once (then in a British film!) and Henry Fonda 'f****' only twice (very quietly and as if pronouncing a foreign language).

So please can we get back to acting and films we can all watch.

1920's 'Graphophone'advert.

Don't fancy it's chances on that table!

Radio Luxembourg at 5-30pm every Sunday in the 1930's

It seems then children were allowed some years of real innocence - however a world war was coming .....

A few months ago the government told schools what to feed to kids (vegetables and fruit)

O.K. Perfectly correct and a right diet but .....

Now the government is saying how unprepared school leavers are for the 'world of work' - one wonders what jobs will be available the rate this same government is allowing whole industries to 'off - shore' .

it seems these 'young adults' (sic) pass the exams o.k. but can't equate this with the ordinary duties in an office, shop, factory, etc., - they can talk about doing it but can't actually carry out the operation!

ANCIENT HISTORY ?

When I look back to the 1960's when I left school (at 15) no qualifications no uni' no college other than day release from my full time job as Trainee Electrician. There was little problem in getting a job then it was based more on the application letter and interview than bits of paper or certificates and the greeting was not "got a job yet?" but "whe're you working?".

Common sense was a major qualification and even in mid-teens on £3.10s a week if you messed the job up you were simply told off the first time but told to get your coat on the second time. What you have to realise is I went to an ordinary Secondary High School (formerly Secondary Modern School) and the pupils were called pupils not students then. The children leaving our school and those leaving the girls equivalent about three quarters of a mile away who only officially met on school buses taking us out of the town to the villages 3 miles out, when these kids left school to begin 'the world of work' they were expected not to go into offices (unless they were factory offices) or become sales trainees but become carpenters, mechanics, industrial workers or maybe work for the mushrooming supermarket chains.

Industry, despite government, was booming and Made in England was the norm. not a novelty.

O.K. we had no home computers in fact few businesses had one and what was a question of removing a window and craning in a computer weighing a ton then today the same facility can be slipped in ones pocket!

TV was black and white and one or two channels if you lived in the right area. The combined radio/ TV license was £4 annually in 1963 by 1969 it was £6 a year. Average adult wage was £13 to £20 a week in 1965 though in industry £30 was usual.

Pubs opened at about 5-30 to 6pm and closed at 10-30pm sharp but a pint of bitter was 2/- or perhaps 2/6d (10p or 12p) 'shorts' about 4/- (20p) for single whisky or gin.

Test Card'C' used in Britain mainly in the 50's and60's

We in England had one channel (on VHF using 405 lines) in the early 50's by the mid 50's our first commercial channel , referred to by the public as ITA and by the end of the 60's we had three channels - 2 BBC (no adverts) and 1 ITA now all three in colour using (nearly) 625 lines on UHF.

O.K. now we have hundreds - but have we sacrificed quality for quantity?

TV has reached it's lowest with 'Big Brother' - radio with pop and inane chat - yet the broadcasters vaults are full of material many would love to get a chance to hear .

Sorry, but I honestly only pay my tv license because I'm forced too* (by the law of our so called democratic country) and the money is totally wasted.

* in the U.K. it's now illegal to own a TV without a license - even if the TV doesn't work !

ITV is it the END?

After decades of real independent television where Anglia TV (emblem a silver knight on horse back with banner) , ATV's 'eye' and other regional companies proudly showed and declared the region in the UK they covered came the 90's when talks went on to take over companies and form first two groups (*excluding Ulster TV only) the in this century the almost * complete single unit ITV - but now it seems the British public deserves nothing better than SKY-ITV as Mr Murdoch(Fox TV in USA) seeks to control commercial television in the UK totally (He'll get Ulster TV later) .

Meanwhile Sir Richard Branson (of Virgin Trains etc.), major share holder of NTL who recently failed to form an alliance with ITV, cries foul - I don't blame him though I suspect his reasons are hardly as a champion of public rights of choice.

If only ITV had stayed as it was before it got big headed and lost its regional pride, the knight and the 'eye' and Yorkshire TV playing a few bars of 'on ilckley moor ba' tat' and those splendid regional programmes and individual presentations - all change is not progress.

GLOBAL WARMING, RECYCLING, SAVING THE AIR AND THE PLANET - BUNKUM!!

Oh please Mr Blair save us the pious preaching about us not producing so much rubbish - tell it to the manufacturers and marketers , bubble wrappers, foil container producers,electronics manufacturers, non-rewritable CD and DVD producers, synthetic cloth manufacturers , non-bio degradable car panel makers. We are even told the brown paper bags our fruit may be wrapped in at the market stall are not 'degradable. If you want to tax the polluters start at the importers not in our homes.

And Finally-

Podcasting, Digital Audio Broadcasting, The Internet , Means of storing hours and hours of television on one hard-drive (not tape or DVD) it all seems to be making life easier and more fun until the real cost of this implied 'freedom' is added up - each of these comparatively new technical miracles have one great restriction as well as cost in £'s $ € for the hardware and that is licensing through the various broadcast organisations, government departments, encoding systems, distribution networks or multiplexes at each stage of which material can be closely monitored and, if felt 'not acceptable' for publication, censored out. Those whiz-kids (of all ages) who support the changes and replacement of a technically perhaps less 'perfect' system by a strictly ordered and controlled system or systems should beware.

And we have the bald-faced cheek to invade other countries to 'give them democracy' !!!!!!!!!!!

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