Happy Shiny People Again

I keep forgetting the world really is full of happy shiny people and that it doesn't actually take much, on a day to day basis, to help people be happier and shinier..... the wonderful community that is the United Kingdom, for those of us that are proud to be part of this small collection of islands, to be tolerant, inclusive, opposed to injustice and unfairness, to be, as a community prepared to fight tyranny to the depths of our souls, regardless of prejudice.

To those bigotted individuals who claim to be patriots, who claim to be 'British' or 'English', there is no such race, and no such Nation. We are the United Kingdom, we are celtic. we are pict, we are roman, we are saxon, we are viking, we are irish, we are norman, we are welsh, we are scandinavian, we are scots, we are dutch, we are asian, we are chinese, we are afro carribean, we are african, we are jewish, we are catholic, we are protestant, we are methodist, we are quakers, we are hindu, we are buhdist, we are calvinist, we are muslim, we are jehovahs witnesses, but above all we are the Borg! Resistance is Futile!

there is a big scary lion out there

What is going on? well actually we all know what going on, the poor will be crushed, the NHS will be destroyed, as will public services! one is beginning to wonder what the Tories, and now the Lib dems consider to be 'front line' services, obviously not the police, obviously not the health service, obviously not education, social care, obviously not local government services ( pest control, benefits services) services for the disabled, the benefits agency, community initiatives.....so what is left, obviously the Civil Service in Whitehall are vitally important.....of course we could move them out of London, no great shakes given that we have the ability to communicate via the internet etc, and the real estate is worth how much? Would be interesting to send a few estate agents in.......

Never thought I would...........

I never thought I would feel slightly ashamed at having once been a member of the Liberal Party, but I am now. So we gained no ID Cards, big whoop, most of us already carry more than one form of ID and most people don't lie about who they are. We have also gained higher VAT, although Darling may have been going to raise VAT, I would humbly suggest it wouldn't have been to 20%. And yet again the rise in VAT will affect the poorer members of society more than the well off, because VAT on fuel affects the price of EVERYTHING. It is amazing how many people I talk to cannot grasp this concept.

And now, these insane plans for the NHS, GP's managing huge budgets, NEWS FLASH, these people are Doctors, they are not accountants, they are trained to look after and treat ill people, to save lives, not to add up accounts. People do not enter any area of the medical and caring proffessions to do sums, they do it because they care.