DIFFERENT WORLDS AND DIFFERENT STANDARDS

After the terrible events that occurred in Mumbai the difference between their politicians and ours is stark. Two senior ministers resign as a matter of conscience. Over here they lie, thieve and cheat...are packed off to Strasbourg on an enormous salary for a few years and are then bought back into Government, at ministerial level, and given a seat in the House of Lords...and they wonder why we think they are a bunch of cheating polecats....why do we put up with it ???

YES WE CAN'T !!

The apotheosis of Barack Obama continues at breakneck speed. A vision of him hanging limply from a cross, Messiah like, at the end of his term, a martyr to Camelot and the Kennedy tradition, a tradition that has no basis in truth or fact will , I fear, be the only legacy for American guilt at past mistakes. What does he, what does anybody think that one term of office, for a Government that has lost the moral direction that the most powerful nation in the world should, must have, can do ? The American people continue to be the most generous on this Earth...but their expectations can and never will be realised..it is doomed to fail. The seismic shift in the financial system means that American influence will diminish as the emerging economies of the East sweep all before them. Like England before her, Americas failure to read the signs and act upon them has been her downfall and I don't believe there is any way back. American satirical magazine 'MAD' recently had a darkened skinned Alfred E. Nueman on it's front cover with the headline 'YES WE CAN'T''...an eerie portent of the inevitability of what is coming!!

Why I hate safety campaigners

Read in the newspaper that listening to a radio whilst driving your car is as dangerous as drink driving...been saying for years that the safety mafia will not be happy until all cars are off the road...not happy with a 30 mph limit, they are now pushing for , and getting, 20 mph in some places and are even now trying for 10 mph!...how long before these Luddites ask for someone to walk in front of each vehicle waving a red flag?...oh no, we've tried that and we still have the Brighton car run to celebrate it's abolition...exceed the speed limit? why your worse than Hitler!..eating a Mars bar behind the wheel?...it's the Gulag for you!...the next time a hero burns down one of those fixed speed cameras I wish he would include a 'safety' campaigner in the pyre!