The email is an ideal format for booring ones friends and family. I don't even have to spell the text backwards to get a result !!!
Have you noticed how many influential bodies are now asking the question, how did we get suckered into a blanket “ground all European flights” scenario. There were so many variables to question the actual danger to aircraft being contaminated by the ash cloud.
A good dose of common- sense would have brought a much more sensible response.
One of the major problem we have in the world at large, especially here in Europe is the lack of value put on an individuals judgement in these and matters.
Our society, is continually in fear of being sued. A state of mind (borrowed from the Americans) which freezes logic and makes cowards of strong, clear minded people.
You see this fear, spread by the strength of the Political Correct lobby. The limits put on free speech in the name of not upsetting minorities, gagging the majority with the race card. Words such as homophobe are thrown at anyone who does not conform to the views of the apologists for, “anything goes” !
The State wants to get in on all aspects of life, from child raising (no smacking) to whether its proper to end ones life painlessly when ones integrity is invaded by the technicians (called doctors) who can, with their machines, prolong life far beyond its usefulness.
A placid, conforming, proletariat is what government wants and that’s what it now has. Up to the eyeball in debt, the population is drawn to consume by advertisements fed, not under the door but down a wire and into the lounge, with you at all times - “the television”
We need danger !!! We need risk !!! We need cowboys !!! ( oh yes, I will be in trouble, we need cowgirls !!! ).
We are having our election in about a week and of course the Lib Dems have made it the first 3 party election in 80 years.
This has drawn every ones attention on how crazy our electoral set up is.
With a first past the post system the winner often comes with a minority of votes.
In the last Parliament the Lib Dems had roughly one third of the votes but only a handful of seats in Parliament. This is due to the way the constituency boundaries are drawn but it all leaves a sour taste.
Proportional representation has always been a no no when there were only two parties contesting the win but now the unfairness has come into the spot-light and something will have to be reformed.
I have always hated the way the Poms will not look around them and see what others do. The argument that PR does not provide strong government and the need to seek consensus from the other parties, is a weakness, in my opinion is flawed.
The winner takes all usually means that at each election the two parties who are ideologically at opposite end of the spectrum bring wide swings in policy. There is no continuity of policy and the country is the plaything of the Right or the Left. Each dismembers the previous 4 years with abandon and leaves the country as a whole weaker.
Why don’t we make voting compulsory.
They complain that the numbers turning up to vote is now so low that it brings into question the legitimacy of the process.
Why don’t we insist on some sort of “compulsory pension insurance” paid by every one.
We have the crazy set up whereby the current pensioners are paid by today’s taxpayer but with the swelling and longer living oldies there’s not enough income from tax receipts.
This is particularly true since the (Thatch rite ) aversion to society paying a reasonable percentage of their earnings into the tax pot and the sympathy given to the wealthy not to tax them for fear they will leave these shores.
When I left the UK the top rate of tax was nineteen shillings and six pence in the pound if your income was above £150,000pa. The argument was that after earning so much (remember the working man was on £5,000pa) you hardly needed the sixpence!
When I came back the working man paid 23% on his income (drawn straight from gross earnings) whilst the wealthy were supposed to pay 40% on their income ( but of course the accountants made sure that they didn’t ) The boss paid less, as a percentage than his cleaner.)
The tax shortfall was made up by VAT. A tax drawn, as was intended, disproportion- ally from the lower paid which of course was massively unfair but with a society that denies that “society” exists, (Thatcher believed in the individual) it was allowed to grow leaving the inequality of direct taxation un-touchable.
The Bankers, what can I say about them.
It seems to me that, as with various religious sects, they are untouchable.
Why is it that they have escaped the legal ramifications of unfair trading, selling products that were clearly not what they were purported to be.
AAA rated bonds, but mix the good quality bonds with A minus and BBB. ( the badge said Rolls Royse but under the bonnet sat a Ford gearbox and a Vauxhall breaking system ) and what do you get , four letters beginning with S
If a manufacturer had done this with his product and sold it to the public he would be in jail !!! The Bankers like the Pope are infallible, beyond the law.
Enough, enough
There must be some meat in their to chew upon , come on chew and lets hear from you.
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