Is this another freak weather storm? Or is it another sign of global warming? You decide!
I read an article in today’s Metro freesheet about a new type of tent which can sleep two people in comfort and can be recycled after its use at music festivals.
The Myhab was invented after thousands of tents are thrown away after festivals every year. It is made as a toilet-roll type cardboard structure held together with metal frames. It’s been seen as leak-proof and has foam bedding for extra comfort. It’s now ready to hire for the summer’s music festivals… for £240…
I think I’ll keep my small tent, thanks….
It’s easy to see in hindsight how a once-brilliant footballer got himself in trouble. I was going to post something stupid about him, but what would be the point of that?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown finally emerged from his Downing Street bunker after a night of dreadful election results to go on television to make this short announcement:
“Dear fellow Britons,
“As Prime Minister, I have made too many mistakes. I am very sorry for the very problems that the country is suffering from at the moment. We have not made the effort to serve you, the people of our once-proud nation properly. Before I start my groveling apology, I would like to congratulate David Cameron and the Conservative party for winning the local elections. I also congratulate Boris Johnson on becoming Mayor for London, because I never liked Ken Livingstone anyway.
“I would like to apologise wholeheartedly for Labour’s mismanagement of the nation for the last eleven years. We have made too many mistakes in our period in office, some of the most obvious ones are:
- The increase in overall taxation
- The widening gap between the wealthy and the deprived
- Increased social and racial tension, allowing the far right to thrive
- Unchecked high levels of immigration
- Crime levels going through the roof
- The spread of the Whitehall state interfering in peoples’ lives
- Starting and supporting illegal wars abroad, causing terrorist attacks at home
- An economy which was built on sand, not on firm foundations
- Homelessness at an all-time high, and that fewer homes are built now than in 1997
- The loss of the discs containing the personal data of benefit claimants
- A welfare system that has become too bureaucratic to administer
- Poor transport policy that favours road and air over rail
- Privatisation of the National Health Service
- Mortgaging the future with the use of Private Finance Initiative to guarantee the present.
“There have been too many mistakes that we have made in government, and I deeply make a personal, humbling and humiliating apology to you, the British people. In the interests of public and political opinion, I intend to resign both as leader of the Labour party, and as Prime Minister, with immediate effect, and will dissolve Parliament to call a general election.
“Thank you, and goodbye, Mr Gordon Brown”
Except that the Labour party won’t get rid of him, and that we’re stuck with him for the next two years…
Aussie-born Tim Ireland of “Bloggerheads” celebrates ten years living in the UK, and gives his ten favourite things about the country. The first one made me laugh the most:
“No redbacks, funnel-webs, taipans, tiger snakes, brown snakes, red bellied black snakes, sea snakes, crocodiles, man-eating sharks, blue-ringed octopi or box jellyfish to worry about. In fact, the only things likely to leap out of the bushes and kill me are, I’m reliably informed, roaming gangs of teenagers and paedophiles*
(*Why we haven’t simply set one onto the other is beyond me).”
Read the rest, and have a nice day.
The Labour party has suffered heavy electoral losses in the local government contests last night.
The Conservatives were the big winners, taking 44 per cent of the votes cast, compared to the Liberal Democrats’ 25 per cent. Labour finished third with just 24 per cent, losing over 300 council seats- easily their worst peformance for forty years. To make things worse, Conservative Boris Johnson will almost certainly be London’s new mayor, beating Labour incumbent Ken Livingstone.
This will serve Labour right. They have caused enough problems in the UK for the last eleven years. As one political commentator said, “The writing is on the wall for Gordon Brown, and the Labour party.”
Roll on to the next general election…. and good riddance to rotting rubbish!!!!
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