Much has been made in the press recently of the death by suicide of an ex Blairs Babe.
Leaving aside that this experiment was a precursor of the sort of pressures that our government would exert on the nation, I am very concerned about the rumours concerning an as yet unnamed minister using his position to exploit her for his own sexual gratification.
His identity is supposedly an open secret in that cesspit that is politics.
If the story is true, then that individual should be "outed" without delay.
Again, if true, I would hope that the individual concerned never has a restful nights sleep until the day he dies.
I wish him a long life!
Saturday, 10 February 2007
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
THE DESCENDING SPIRAL
Today, I shall consider a subject which should be occupying far better minds than mine.
H5N1: An innocuous series of letters and numbers.
The chattering classes have seized upon them, the newspapers are selling in increasing numbers because of them and politicians are digging ever deeper pits into which to fall over them.
The search for ever cheaper food appears to be the culprit, or so we are lead to believe.
It is my opinion that it is in fact our so called elected leaders over many years who are responsible.
We are in a spiral: Ever increasing demands for state expenditure resulting in higher taxation, an increasing pressure to keep wage bills down and ever increasing energy costs means that there is less money available for discretionary expenditure by the vast majority of us. Add to that an expectation of ever increasing corporate profits. We therefore look to save a penny where we can.
The more money the average wage earner has extracted from their pockets in the form of the above means less available for the important things of life. So I would say to the chattering classes, Don't automatically blame the consumer. Their choices are being made for them by those who would govern us.
H5N1: An innocuous series of letters and numbers.
The chattering classes have seized upon them, the newspapers are selling in increasing numbers because of them and politicians are digging ever deeper pits into which to fall over them.
The search for ever cheaper food appears to be the culprit, or so we are lead to believe.
It is my opinion that it is in fact our so called elected leaders over many years who are responsible.
We are in a spiral: Ever increasing demands for state expenditure resulting in higher taxation, an increasing pressure to keep wage bills down and ever increasing energy costs means that there is less money available for discretionary expenditure by the vast majority of us. Add to that an expectation of ever increasing corporate profits. We therefore look to save a penny where we can.
The more money the average wage earner has extracted from their pockets in the form of the above means less available for the important things of life. So I would say to the chattering classes, Don't automatically blame the consumer. Their choices are being made for them by those who would govern us.
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