There is a Jewish saying “Don’t be pleased about the fall of your enemy”, let alone someone who did not harm to me or anyone I know. Yet non the less am I the only one ever so slightly irked by the reaction to this rather fallible man.
Yes, he may not have been convicted of any crime, and yes he had a hard life, that does not excuse the wrongs he irrefutably committed. Furthermore what does it say about society that ultimate icon is this?
Most people I speak to are tempted either not to vote at all, or some to vote for the BNP. I know I don’t need to ask you not to vote for them, but if you were mineded to abstain, or to vote for a minor party, you will indirectly be helping them. The only thing that can stop the BNP now in the North West are high turnout. So I urge you don’t forget to go and VOTE Conservative, yourself and to remind all your family, friends and neighbours. After all, we owe it to our for-bearers, who fought both the Nazi’s, and before that for our right to vote at all.
Don’t lets take our eyes off the ball, there are important issues at stake in Europe, not least the promised referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, which only the CONSERVATIVES can and will deliver!
Today I feel signalled the death nail for ordinary people to get into Parliament, from now on it will be just as before, those paid for by the union barons, and the independently wealthy.
If we were ever in doubt who holds the real power in this country, as it was in the days of Lord beaverbrook, so it is today, in the hands of a select few unaccountable union barons.
There once was a day (not so long ago) that I was used to hearing the Conservative spokesman coming on the nightly news rebutting/refuting whatever proposal the Labour government had just come up with. often with some merit. More often than not, the rebuttal was rather frivolous, just fulfilling their role of the peoples loyal opposing. I.e. opposition, for opposition sake.
O how the tables have turned, when David Cameron, still leader of the official opposing (for the moment anyway) comes up with dramatic and tough and fundamental reforms to government not seen in decades by the Conservative party The best Labours Justice Secretary Jack Straw can say is “it’s not new” and the LD’s it’s not radical enough.
Well I have something to say to you Mr Straw, you’ve had 12 years for reform, you have not only let us down by squandering your chance, but destroyed a great nation. And to the LD’s I say, concentrate on your council’s that are the highest taxing and the most illiberal, O and about reforming Party financing, what about the criminal you accepted £2,500,000 of stolen money from and have refused to pay back?
Much has been said over the last week about MP’s abusing the their expenses. I have however reserved judgment on my local MP Hazel Blears, until the full details became/were made public.
Sadly, though being physically tiny, but tall in character, it has become abundantly clear that she has been squeezed between the daily telegraph acting as judge jury and executioner, and number 10 seeking to settle scores with its own side.
Why do I say this you may ask, after all not only am I not a Labour supporter, nor have I or would I vote for her. Just having watched her over the last few years, being a principled and a moral MP, and I had full faith before the full details became apparent, that nothing improper would come out about Hazel. It may not have been wise what she did, but it was not improper, and certainly not illegal. Lets see Gordon pay back his £6000 cleaning bill. It’s a mark of the women that she was of the first willing to pay it back when others kept their hands firmly in their own pockets.
Hazel Blears may be a socialist, and I do hold that against her, but she is a decent, hard working, honest and upstanding public servant who deserves our support.
Just like we get the representatives we vote for, if we hound out good people like her, the next generation of politicians could be far worse. We already have a democratic deficit, let as not make it worse. By all means we must right wrongs, and weed out the corrupt, but lets mend what is still one of the worlds best systems, not break it.
So Labour fail to learn from previous mistakes. Obviously the fact that, last time Labour treated the people of Greater Manchester like guinea pigs, 80%+ of us wisely said a big fat NO! I highly doubt that even 20% of the wise people of greater Manchester will be seduced this time.
i.e. he’s bloody useless and incompetent, but I’ve gotta say something nice, so I’ll say he’s got “integrity”. Sadly for us, both it a’int true, and even if it was, “integrity” alone wont get us out of this global recession, or the mess Gordon has made of Major’s golden legacy.
I almost forgot has patient, polite, courteous and considerate Taxi’s and especially minicabs are. They will always give way, take their time in turning and let people of all ages cross the road,
so long as they have a paying fair – otherwise forget it!
No not on their editorial stance, but on the quality of the BBC political coverage. Watching the Israeli election results with the quality journalist, the catchy displays, and the speed of the results, puts into sharp relief just how poor election nights are with the BBC, and that from a Country one tenth our size.
Twenty years since the Cold War came to an end, and we still are suffering from freezing weather emanating from Russia. You would have thought the Government would have done something by now?
I look forward to the European Union actually doing something for once, and hold Russia to its promise of being a “reliable” partner. Otherwise I expect tough sanctions immediately to stop this annual suffering!
