THE NEED FOR A 2011 WATERSHED.

The idea that the Government intends debating well supported suggestions by the electorate, on the surface, this sounds promising. The policy is very much in line with what is advocated here in these postings. The downside will be selecting the legitimate ideas, not things that will court abuse. Let us therefore consider a number of important items.

1. The need for MP's and posts in Local Government: In these days of almost instant communication, we can reduce these numbers dramatically. In the case of Local Government, thousands of non-jobs have been created, purely as a means of job creation, being subject to EU directives.

2. The European Union itself must be debated thoroughly, defining lines beyond which the UK will not pass. In retrospect, it is important that we review the nation's relationship with Brussels. If this isn't attained in parliamentary debate, we must demand an immediate review. Parliament would endeavour to fudge such an issue.

3. One of the main purposes of government is for the administration to safeguard our money. The amount extorted from taxpayer GB is disgraceful, mainly due to the profligacy of the last Labour regime; inferring that government can spend our hard earned cash better than us, when we know better. The extortion only means that there is less cash flow in the market place. We also have the imposition of falsely low interest rates, completely useless for retired folk, having saved for a comfortable 'senior citizenship'. The longer the interest rate remains at 0.5% the deeper the hole we dig.

4. The main problem with Government since it's inception in the late 1940's is the NHS. It has got to be removed from government control, where it remains a political football; soaking up money, in many cases to no avail. The better run health services on the continent are not there at the behest of their governments, but for the sick. We have to rid ourselves of political promises of throwing money at the service. Why? Because money is something we don't have, only debt; £4.8 trillion and rising. This must not be exacerbated by printing extra money.

5. The myth of climate change, a favourite subject in these blogs. Just to remind the reader that the author spent years in the timber trade. Timber technology taught us that in old trees lies the secret of climate in the past. Growth rings indicating both warm/hot periods and cooler/cold spells, long before power stations and the internal combustion engine arrived on the scene. We are allowing politicians the opportunity to throw enormous amounts of our money on this child-like escapade.

6. Probably the most important thing that the Government needs to consider is the general mood of the people that they are supposed to be serving. As unemployment begins to rise the mood will deteriorate. Perhaps, therefore, to debate important subjects thoroughly is a start, Parliament, however, must not live in denial.


"THERE COULD BE TROUBLE AT ' MILL".

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION.

It only takes a few short months for a party that wishes to impose a different form of political voting upon us, to reveal the folly of such a move. Vinty Cable, give him enough and he might hang himself, has been chafing at the bit for sometime. As a closet socialist, he has difficulty being responsible for the Nations coffers. He is not alone of course, a number of LibDem, so called allies, will always have difficulty with their profligate policies; unfortunately, they need to remind their diminishing supporters, that underneath the sham of supporting serious decisions regarding the economy, they are high spending socialists at heart.

Thoroughly Modern Miliband was quickly on the case, promising disaffected members of the Coalition safe haven, along with nappy changing classes. Postman Pat, the Shadow Chancellor, will also be available with outrageous ideas on wasting hard earned GB taxpayers cash.



DOES PR APPEAR TO BE A GOOD SYSTEM NOW?

'MERRY CHRISTMAS'

THE BLAME GAME.

Having shivered our way through the latter part of November, the whole of December, which will include a snowy and frosty Christmas, swathes of travellers want to point the finger at someone, anyone. What these folk overlook is the fact that we are spending billions on the myth of 'global warming', when we could be investing a fraction of the cost on things to help us during these severe winters, which appear to be a regular feature now.

The subject of the weather is considered to be a favourite with the Brits, why therefore don't we take Government to task on the subject? Our taxes are far too precious to be thrown at such fanciful nonsense as wind turbines, although the wind is due to increase slightly; so far this month we could not have fried an egg against the amount of electricity produced by such wasteful means.

We can't ignore the fact also that some of these taxes go towards illegal immigration, which does not come cheaply, adding to the National Debt of £4.8 trillion and rising. Much of this debt is also due to borrowing to pay off our loans; this has to be one of the worst forms of accountancy, along with the City of Nottingham charging a work place levy on workers to subsidize passengers on a second tram network, when many of the passengers regularly avoid paying the fare.



THE ONLY CREATIVITY LIES IN ACCOUNTANCY

EASY COME, EASY STAY.

How long are the people that pay the bills, i.e. taxpayer GB, going to continue to tolerate the abuse of the logical thinkers? In the last few days, we have witnessed a so-called UK resident turning himself into a bomb in Sweden; fortunately no one was hurt, apart from the bomber himself, who, evidently, arrived in the UK approximately nine years ago as a bogus student. He obviously pursued the path to radicalisation, a simple task in lawless Britain. The consequence of his drastic action was to leave us with the bill for bringing up his children.

The other case in point is the illegal immigrant who ran over and killed a young schoolgirl while banned from driving. For his actions, he will be satisfied that this qualifies him to become a citizen of the UK, benefits and all. Let us compare this with a driver marginally over the alcohol limit, who will be heavily fined and given an additional driving ban. We are not advocating drink driving here, just pointing out anomalies in the law of the land, or do we mean European law?

We are storing up so much resentment here, any understanding of human nature will tell us that the bubble will burst sooner or later. Let us say when unemployment is increased by another million.



THE SMART POLITICIAN WOULD SPOT THIS.

BARACK AND THE VENDETTAS.

Although the situation in the Gulf of Mexico was more an oil than a blood feud, Obama continues to milk the situation for all it's worth. I don't recall BP at any stage saying that they wouldn't pay compensation, regarding damage to the environment and loss of earnings to businesses affected by the disaster, particularly fishermen.

I recall at the height of the catastrophe an interview with one of the fisherman concerned. He made it quite clear that he was getting a good return without having to work for it. In addition, the experts said at the time that once the well was capped, things would soon return to normal; oil being a natural product and nature tends to correct itself.

Nevertheless, Obama's push for a hit in early summer didn't impress, we can only assume that he wants number one spot by Christmas.


AN ADMINISTRATION FLOUNDERING.

GREEN FINGERS CLUB SPOTTED IN CANCUN.

The intrepid army, and that will be just the British contingent, have been to Mexico, to increase the National Debt of £4.8 trillion. It hardly seems a year ago since the new leader of the opposition, Minnow Marxist, aka: Thoroughly Modern Miliband Jnr. then the Minister for the Environment, was promising £100 million of our debt to ease the burden of being enveloped by CO2, one of life's staples.

This time it was Chris Huhne, the current Environment philanthropist (our money), negotiating with similar veracity to ensure that we're even further out of pocket. All of this to prop up the so-called third world, as 'Doomsday' gets closer.

One could well imagine that we all would hallucinate about global warming, basking in the warmth of Central America, when the UK is shivering with abnormally low temperatures. This extremely sharp cold spell automatically adds to the extra reliance upon fuel, which has a premium tax incorporated to subsidize those ridiculous wind turbines; something that both the Germans and the Danes are having serious second thoughts about.


ALL TOGETHER, WE'LL HUFF AND WE'LL PUFF!

ALL IN ONE'S LIFETIME.

Following a period of violence by students, information of our cascading down the international education performance league, along with the endless examples of disrespect shown to our teachers by some of their pupils, can we honestly be proud of our education system?

As a child starting school in 1940, there was no chance of back-chatting, let alone swearing at a teacher. Not only would the child be punished by the school, but also by their parents. This very point is undoubtedly the secret, discipline; the lack of which must be associated with the overall problems of many wayward youngsters.

When watching TV, particularly at this time of year, we are assaulted by adverts for all kinds of electronic paraphernalia, much of which depicts violence. These, to teenagers in particular, appear to be essentials of life. No wonder, therefore, we have a giant problem. Instead of mind enhancing, they are, in many cases, mind bending. A lot of the students causing mayhem recently, at great cost to the country's finances, will spend much time with these so-called audio games, whilst some will also be taking illegal drugs. How can the state expect the rest of us to subscribe to aimless folk?

The subject of international standings in important areas such as the three R's, the Sciences and
Languages, have almost become irrelevances. Just as long as we can keep this lot off the unemployed list.


BY GOVE! WE HAVE MUCH WORK TO DO.

SO THESE ARE OUR FUTURE.

The great unwashed, a number of whom wish to desecrate some of the capitals revered monuments. This is the state of the dim who think the rest of us should be paying for their university education. Well they won't have done too much studying in the last few weeks.

Study should be the key word in all this mayhem. It would help if and when the media interview representatives of the rabble, enquire what subject they are pursuing? There was a letter in the press this week suggesting that we subsidize more heavily the subjects that are to the nation's benefit, teaching or lecturing along with a few others. This would have to be monitored in case the graduate changed to alternative employment; I'm sure this could be tracked by an addition to the individuals NI number.

The main thing puzzling the writer is, if we need these clowns for our future, why are we £4.8 trillion in debt as a nation?


PERHAPS WE SHOULD MAKE IT £9000 MINIMUM TO COVER COST OF THE DAMAGE.

WINDLESS WINTER.

As the nation struggles on through one of the coldest snaps on record for this time of year; why is it that the world continues with these expensive junkets, chewing the fat on something that is now known to be a farcical bundle of lies, 'global warming'? A vehicle against which governments can increase taxes by scaremongering. The writer is aware that, currently, there is warm air over much of the Atlantic Ocean, stretching up to the Arctic, which looks as though it will be with us, over Britain, by the weekend. So what! It has all happened before.

Particularly concerning is what is this supine Coalition Government doing about it? The only answer that we keep hearing is that we are erecting tens of thousands of wind turbines, all manufactured abroad of course. Well, we have an idea here. Let the Government give us a figure of the maximum number required of these obnoxious monstrosities; it obviously knows this from it's forward planning. We can then estimate, via an independent adviser, the amount of anticipated electricity to be generated the following day, by this 'toy town' method. This can commence immediately , acting as a harbinger for our supplies.

What the rest of us then need to do is decide where the compensation will come from, following the inevitable unnecessary deaths from hypothermia.


LET'S INSIST UPON THE MP's PENSION FUND.

INCONTINENT INTERNET.

Let us not be too surprised at the information now available to the whole world due to WikiLeaks disclosures. The old western world exists in this vacuum of debt and playing with electrical gadgetry, particularly computers; becoming suckers to the blanketing of this strange voyeurism. Not forgetting fanciful mobile phones and moronic computer games. All this adds up to getting what the participants deserve; the tab unfortunately has to be picked up by the intelligent sector, even in retirement.

To make a comparison: the current, extended freezing weather typifies the ludicrous state of a nation, which grinds to a halt at the first sign of wintry conditions. The group of us familiar with winters in the 'forties', when, without central heating, we just had to get on with it. The nation now employs people bent on internet information, retiring at 60 on a good pension, to prevent us from preparing youngsters to face up to the realities of life. All of which ruins the future of a weak, third rate country, busy ordering their next piece of soon obsolete equipment in time for Christmas.

It is difficult, as a lay man, to estimate the damage that could be done by WikiLeaks' revelations. What is obvious, the powers that be are not taking sufficient care with our security.



DON'T LIVE ONE'S LIFE BASED ON THE INTERNET.

JUST WHEN OSBORNE WAS LOOKING PROMISING.

Following the General Election last May, Geo. Osborne had presented himself as the star of the Government; talking tough regarding the economy, explaining clearly the need for considerable savings, particularly in the Public sector. Well, all of that hit the buffers last week when, in his excitement, he almost wet the bed by revealing that fewer jobs in this area were to go than anticipated. Proper conservatives had envisaged far greater numbers to be directed to proper jobs, in an endeavour to rid us of this totally unnecessary burden which is undoubtedly destroying the finances of the nation.

Few of us are surprised to see the current outfit in Westminster falling into the usual ' let's not rock the boat too much' mode. When will we see a government that takes the bull by the horns in pursuance of real prudence? Hiding behind the 'Coalition agreement' is not going to solve our ongoing problems. Even with savings, our borrowing will increase the National Debt of £4.8 trillion.


BRING ME A REAL CONSERVATIVE.