I fear that for once Ed Miliband might have uttered the truth in his observation's of Cast Iron and cut price chocolate oranges.
Perhaps the question of what to do about discounted chocolate and real oranges should be a required answer from potential PMs?
Although I doubt nuLabor could come up with a sensible solution at the moment. Ed would probably want to legislate against selling chocolate in anything other than a plain wrapper with a prescription from your local GP before you were allowed any. Whilst Blinky Balls would just see it as a "green" excuse for a chocolate tax, regardless of it having a bigger impact on the poorer end of society than the Ferrero Rocher end.
Last night I did something unusual for a change, I actually put the goggle box on to watch a couple of programs on Beeb Two.
The Hairy Bikers showed the Beeb at it's best, both entertaining and educational, I almost felt like breaking the pots and pans out after watching them. It's also surprising they have survived on the Beeb, I mean can you imagine all those do-gooders cringing as the pair ended up in that sweet shop - all that sugar!!!
The second offering I wanted to watch after the Hairy Bikers was Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery, with "TV historian" Dan Snow.
I'm afraid to say it failed to stimulate my TV taste buds, it neither entertained, nor did it really educate me. I couldn't make out if it was about the Saxon hoard, or trying to teach us a bit about the history of the Kingdom of Mercia?
In the end I just had it on as background noise and was glad to switch my goggle box off when it ended. Dumbed down Beeb Two I'm afraid to say.
I don't agree with the drift of Con Coughlin's piece in the Telegraph that appears to point the finger at our Armed Forces instead of at our politicians over the lack of action in rescuing our hostages.
My feelings over the matter are best summed up by sebastian2's comment, which I will quote in full -
"If our Government was as able to grant permission as our troops are to carry out hostage rescues, then hostage taking would become a thing of the past. The sea bed around Somalia would be littered with sunk pirate vessels; on-shore pirate bases reduced to charred dust; and pirates' delinquent children would be warned to behave or the black-clad and silent SAS will come for you. Problem solved.
When reason fails (And who can reason with pirates?) quaking fear and the certainty of destruction are potent deterrents.
At least they could be if, as I guess, the Government weren't so anxious about the mohammedan Somali backlash from the substantial (and growing) Somali community in, for instance, my own home town. So hostages may be sacrificed for the sake of a certain domestic constituency formerly invited into Britain under NuLabs compulsory multiculturalism and now resident here - resident but not integrated at all.
Such presences in Britain surely compromise our ability to act when necessary against the backward and primitive societies - Somalia; Pakistan - they've migrated from but now are permitted to replicate (shar'ia law; corruption; polygamy; bigotry; mohammedan areas; drugs; honour killings; female circumscision; grooming) on our own soil. Government wouldn't want to provoke trouble from these immigrant quarters by giving their "brothers" the kicking they so often richly deserve and should get.
I suspect this has a role in our reluctance to sanction the very action actually needed. Along with simple, MoD cowardice, of course.
Either way, it's pitiful."
One has to wonder how much this "background" influence affected nuLabor's foreign policy when Tony Wot's His Name was in charge. We were all certainly aware of the Scottish factor when the Bufty frae Kirkcaldy took over!
Yesterday evening I enjoyed a very pleasant family meal at my youngest daughter's home, with my eldest and her son present as well; she was giving her partner time off from celebrating his thirtieth birthday the day before!
It was good to see my youngest appears to have put her tragedy behind her, we did speak about it on Wednesday, hopefully that chapter is finally closed in our family history book.
This afternoon I shall be putting my grand dad's head on, better start bomb-proofing my flat, I hope you all have an enjoyable day.
Perhaps the question of what to do about discounted chocolate and real oranges should be a required answer from potential PMs?
Although I doubt nuLabor could come up with a sensible solution at the moment. Ed would probably want to legislate against selling chocolate in anything other than a plain wrapper with a prescription from your local GP before you were allowed any. Whilst Blinky Balls would just see it as a "green" excuse for a chocolate tax, regardless of it having a bigger impact on the poorer end of society than the Ferrero Rocher end.
Last night I did something unusual for a change, I actually put the goggle box on to watch a couple of programs on Beeb Two.
The Hairy Bikers showed the Beeb at it's best, both entertaining and educational, I almost felt like breaking the pots and pans out after watching them. It's also surprising they have survived on the Beeb, I mean can you imagine all those do-gooders cringing as the pair ended up in that sweet shop - all that sugar!!!
The second offering I wanted to watch after the Hairy Bikers was Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery, with "TV historian" Dan Snow.
I'm afraid to say it failed to stimulate my TV taste buds, it neither entertained, nor did it really educate me. I couldn't make out if it was about the Saxon hoard, or trying to teach us a bit about the history of the Kingdom of Mercia?
In the end I just had it on as background noise and was glad to switch my goggle box off when it ended. Dumbed down Beeb Two I'm afraid to say.
I don't agree with the drift of Con Coughlin's piece in the Telegraph that appears to point the finger at our Armed Forces instead of at our politicians over the lack of action in rescuing our hostages.
My feelings over the matter are best summed up by sebastian2's comment, which I will quote in full -
"If our Government was as able to grant permission as our troops are to carry out hostage rescues, then hostage taking would become a thing of the past. The sea bed around Somalia would be littered with sunk pirate vessels; on-shore pirate bases reduced to charred dust; and pirates' delinquent children would be warned to behave or the black-clad and silent SAS will come for you. Problem solved.
When reason fails (And who can reason with pirates?) quaking fear and the certainty of destruction are potent deterrents.
At least they could be if, as I guess, the Government weren't so anxious about the mohammedan Somali backlash from the substantial (and growing) Somali community in, for instance, my own home town. So hostages may be sacrificed for the sake of a certain domestic constituency formerly invited into Britain under NuLabs compulsory multiculturalism and now resident here - resident but not integrated at all.
Such presences in Britain surely compromise our ability to act when necessary against the backward and primitive societies - Somalia; Pakistan - they've migrated from but now are permitted to replicate (shar'ia law; corruption; polygamy; bigotry; mohammedan areas; drugs; honour killings; female circumscision; grooming) on our own soil. Government wouldn't want to provoke trouble from these immigrant quarters by giving their "brothers" the kicking they so often richly deserve and should get.
I suspect this has a role in our reluctance to sanction the very action actually needed. Along with simple, MoD cowardice, of course.
Either way, it's pitiful."
One has to wonder how much this "background" influence affected nuLabor's foreign policy when Tony Wot's His Name was in charge. We were all certainly aware of the Scottish factor when the Bufty frae Kirkcaldy took over!
Yesterday evening I enjoyed a very pleasant family meal at my youngest daughter's home, with my eldest and her son present as well; she was giving her partner time off from celebrating his thirtieth birthday the day before!
It was good to see my youngest appears to have put her tragedy behind her, we did speak about it on Wednesday, hopefully that chapter is finally closed in our family history book.
This afternoon I shall be putting my grand dad's head on, better start bomb-proofing my flat, I hope you all have an enjoyable day.
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