PM STRANDED IN ZURICH WITH ONLY ONE FOCUS.

Due to essential savings made by the Government, Cameron flies to Switzerland bereft of focuses. The writer has a problem; not knowing how to recognize a focus. How large are they, and can one carry them in a flight bag?

In chasing the vote of the football fan, the Prime Minister is part of the task force endeavouring to secure our bid for the 2018 World Cup. How dim can we get as the second BBC Panorama programme in recent years on corruption within FIFA was shown this week, exposing fraudulent activity of considerable magnitude? Britain, nevertheless, sends high profile delegates chasing a goal which will finish up costing the nation millions of pounds. The devil lies clearly in the small print of FIFA's own contractual clauses, infringing the sovereignty of the host nation.



THIS CAN'T BE THE BEST USE OF CAMERON'S TIME.

WINTER WONDERLAND (Bernard/Smith)

I suppose our intrepid politicians remain adamant that the current icy spell of weather is due to global warming.

We are still in November and our local canal is showing signs of freezing over. In recent years, as nature has returned to imposing colder weather upon us, we are regularly told that we need more ridiculous wind turbines, which in turn is adding to the cost of fuel, for a supply that at best, will only be intermittent. Could we suggest keeping a little aside for a range of thick jumpers and balaclavas for wearing about the house.

We can only foresee that within a few years, due to the lack of power station produced electricity, hypothermia will become a major cause of death.



LOWER THESE TAXES FORTHWITH.

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD (Douglas/Weiss).

This is obviously the place where, in reality, snow is icing sugar, if there are any clouds, they are wispy cotton wool and every day is a holiday.

How can we afford the stupidity played out recently at Westminster, when both the PM and leader of HM Opposition take paternity leave at a time when the nation requires 'all hands' to solve our disastrous financial circumstances. Surely this Government, or at least the party attaining the most votes, the Conservatives, were voted in to reverse all this 'Noddy Land' Nanny State tripe. When the author was at school during the Forties/Fifties, bonding applied to brickwork.

We are now informed that businesses are to make facilities available for breast feeding in the workplace, perhaps we hope that the offspring can do a little filing between feeds.

No one is surprised to know that this drivel naturally emanates from Brussels.



EVEN CAMBERWICK GREEN AVOIDED SUCH LEGISLATION

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUTSPOKEN POLITICIANS.

We appear to have had two mini tsunamis in the last week regarding comments made by people in Government. Firstly, Lord Young, adviser to the Government, remarked that "people have never had it so good". As a pensioner, that comment hardly applies to the author, as the increases in the cost of living far outstrip any advances in my income; we make very little extra on investments. There is, however, a section of society who don't have to bother about such things, as everything is found from myself and every other taxpayer in the UK. In their case, Lord Young had got a point.

The other example is connected, due to tax implications. Howard Flight, a man after my own heart, also saw the credit bubble inflating some years ago, but was considered a fool for so doing; not unlike Wall Street banker, Paul Warburg, who was full of foreboding about the situation in 1929, prior to the 'crash'. Flight's observations, suggesting that procreation will diminish within the middle classes, is right on the button. Why? Because they are the responsible ones; the swathes of people on benefits have no fear here, because their income will increase with every child they have. As the meerkat in the advert would say, "simples".

Naturally, TV's Question Time had to waste time on the subject, with the socialist 'dumb-cluck' suggesting that there are no irresponsible folk exploiting the system. She didn't mention Karen Matthews, let alone the endless numbers of others who will be treating their multiplying as a business enterprise.


THE MORE ASIDES, THE BETTER.

A NATION DIVIDED.

The electorate of the United Kingdom is at odds with the Administration; how can this possibly happen? It isn't democratic to perpetually disregard the will of the public. This notion is not just a personal response; letters to the press are adamant about the nation's need to be consulted on so many subjects, none more so than the European question. One such letter to the press, this week, from Colin James, a correspondent from Glos; he was accused by his MP a few years ago, following his concern at the gathering flood of immigration, of acting in an anti-racial fashion. What a disgraceful reply to a responsible member of the public showing concern for his country, and maybe his children.

The situation regarding our European ties must be debated openly and in depth. The concept of a United States of the member nations is not going to work. How long do we continue to live the lie? The currency, human rights, diversity are all components that are destroying the Western world, I'm including the USA here. There is absolutely nothing wrong with independent nations competing on a level playing field and living in harmony, the greatest bond of all.

The two most successful nations of Europe are not in the Union, Norway and Switzerland. They enjoy the same trading rights as Britain within Europe. For the same privilege, we are paying billions per year.


IT IS TIME TO DEMAND OUR RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION.

THIS SHOULD COVER TRAINING COSTS.

Tuition fees for the suspicious group who spent time at the Guantanamo Detention Camp should not be a problem for their future training, as they seem to be on track for a massive hand out of taxpayer GB cash, irrespective of their recent history.

Maybe it's old fashioned but I, for one, want a court case out in the open. The need to know of the whereabouts of these recipients of our cash is vital. Furthermore, if our secret services get a kick up the posterior, so be it.

Who knows! we could be funding the next attack.


NOW LET'S SEE, WHAT KIND OF CASH REWARD COULD I EXPECT FOR ALWAYS TRAVELLING ABROAD ON A VALID PASSPORT?

BEES WAX LYRICAL.

Two items in the press this last week have a compatibility, the weather. Firstly, we learn that the intrepid army of forecasters, one of whom always follows the news on the BBC, due to savings, is about to follow the' hard done by' newsreaders, by withdrawing their labour, because fewer are needed. We can say that again! The good news, however, comes via a letter from an apiarist in Derbyshire. Since mid-summer, her bees have been building defences from what, her experience tells her, will be a severe winter. This could naturally be referred to as an 'old wives tale', but here we think that nature tells us about a lot of things, if only we were to take notice and not listen to politician's outpourings. We obviously have to wait and see.


LET'S CUT BACK ON MEDIA FORECASTERS IMMEDIATELY.

IF YOU'RE A SOCIALIST, LOOK AWAY NOW.

Television channels occasionally come up with excellent documentaries on the subject of history, but seem scared generally on the realities of current situations. A few years ago, C4 produced the informative 'Great Global Warming Myth', and this week came up with another classic, 'Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story'. Film-maker, Martin Durkin, a Geordie by birth with Irish roots, assembled a line up of experts, to a man; all would be kept from public view in the normal course of events, because they might frighten the natives. Channel 4, nevertheless, got them through the net, enlightening the concerned with some stark facts.

In referring to socialists in the above title, I include the current Government. Any administration funding a burgeoning welfare state is a socialist regime by nature, if not by name. All this welfare is occurring in the wake of an estimated, projected national debt of £4.8 trillion. To put this figure into some kind of perspective: Imagine throwing a £50 note away every second, it would take 3,000 years to reach the amount of the debt. If this isn't scaring the pants off the reader, it should be.

The size of the state machine in Britain, in percentage terms, is almost twice that of China. What on earth for? Job creation at the expense of taxpayer GB is farcical. We don't make enough manufactured items for sale abroad. During the recent visit to China by David Cameron, all we heard from the BBC's political correspondent, Nick Robinson was: "Are we putting the Chinese Administration right regarding human rights?" Not a smart move when looking for business.

The secret of getting out of this hole, has to be based on reducing taxes, giving the entrepreneur an opportunity to chance his or her arm, yes, it makes some folk very wealthy. What is more important, however, it makes the financial landscape much more rosy.

DON'T FORGET, EVEN WITH GOVERNMENT SAVINGS, WE CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE NATIONAL DEBT.

TODAY'S LECTURES.

Whatever the subjects were at certain universities around Britain on Wednesday 10th. Nov, the attendances would have been, at best, a little thin on the ground, due to the fracas in London. There is the usual concern that the havoc was caused by a fringe of delinquent students who had hijacked this opportunity to do the Marxists' work for them.

What then was all this mayhem about? Lord Brown, Tony Blair's favourite businessman and former head of BP, following his review into how university education should be funded, a study commissioned by the last Government, takes the realistic view that students need to be responsible for their own advancement, not funded by taxpayer GB.

In the unlikely event of a BBC news reporter apprehending one of the recalcitrant demonstrators, the chances of interviewing someone studying quantum mechanics would be unheard of; as indeed, the assembled probably could not have produced anyone training in medicine or civil engineering. So what are all these characters doing? Remember, at this stage they are still being funded by taxpayer GB, a debt that will stay with us until each individual earns £21,000. This is all part of the game that is politics, performed mainly for the benefit of the media.

EXAMPLES NEED TO BE MADE.

WE CAN ALL IDENTIFY SAVINGS.

Recently my private pension supplier notified me of a change in my tax rate, which I'm pleased to say was good news. Today this was confirmed by my tax office, twice. Two identical envelopes arrived in the same post with the same message in each; I wonder how often this occurs?

Could one be right in assuming that this kind of waste is going on repeatedly, which will be costing taxpayer GB a fortune.


PLEASE MAKE SUITABLE NOISES.

AN INACTIVE BEEB.

As the useless newsreaders at the BBC take a day off in an endeavour to protect their vulgar pension rights, paid for by the working public whose own pensions have been eroded over recent years; this mainly due to the creaming off by the dim former Chancellor and PM, Gordon Brown; we might call it an example of them wanting another two tier system.

So Wayne Rooney syndrome spreads to the National Union of Journalists, at the licence funded broadcaster; these being, people who appear to live in an economy separate from the mainstream. The writer might not be totally correct in suggesting if many of the regular newsreaders have ever been journos in the true sense of the word. It's a good way, however, for getting some early Christmas shopping done.

How strange that a question about the inaction of these NUJ members did not arise on the previous night's 'Question Time'. The programme continued in it's usual fashion, bashing the thought that the savings, so important to our economy, should be ignored immediately. This particular edition came from Sheffield, following the previous two weeks from Middlesbrough and Glasgow; all strongholds of the left, obviously selected, following Geo. Osborne's financial review. None of the venues having been enhanced by thirteen years of a Labour administration. Even so, the occasional logical questioner manages to get into the audience under the securities radar, to embarrass the producers.


IS SACKING TOO GOOD FOR THESE INEPT CREATURES?

TARTFEST POLITICS HASN'T GONE AWAY.

"Now let me see, perhaps you could be changing the baby's nappy, beaming at the camera simultaneously".

This then remains the same priority that was evolved by Blair, being continued by Cameron in his virtual 'spin machine'. I would like to ask who he thinks he is kidding; probably thousands of folk, unfortunately, who view all life as the X Factor or Strictly Come Dancing. In pursuance of this, the PM has employed a camera team at taxpayer GB's expence; turning politics into a giant video game, to satisfy the lust of web surfers; another activity that is aiding the demise of the western world.


"SAY CHEESE".

THAT'S THREE PEDANTS THEN.

The writer always enjoys reading about an insistence in upholding good standards. Golf legend, Gary Player, who happens to be my junior by one day, recently remarked on the promise of the young German golfer, Martin Kaymer; noting that he is impressed by the fact that the latter is always clean shaven; a break through indeed. The other point arrived at by way of Penelope Keith, who, quite rightly, is appalled at the disgraceful grammar which is now practiced by the majority; flying under a flag of convenience, an evolution which many of us recognize as slovenliness.

This abuse of decent standards is probably a game to the younger generation, along with older folk wanting to appear young. It seems to go hand in hand with diverse sexuality, paying pregnant mothers during confinement, ridiculously low interest rates, and many other weaknesses that are destroying the old western world.


WE IGNORE DISCIPLINE AT OUR PERIL.