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As for Bass’s comments – all that has happened is that we are an open door for floods of cheap labour .
We will soon be flying the Polish flag !!!I thought the Poles had started to give us up as a bad job. We ARE Europeans, so it’s impossible to hate ‘them’ without hating ourselves! Do I detect an English Nationalist????
I think Obama will win. I also think possibly Condoleesa Rice stayed away from the race this time because she thought the Republicans were destined to lose and go into a period of refelection. I wouldn’t be surprised if she runs next time round, and wins to become the first woman president of the USA. So Americas first black (partly) president might find himself contesting his re-election in 2012 against a partly black woman.
That’s a whole lot more cheerful a thought than my original post!
I voted tree-hugger – I like cars and I’m interested in them but a world without trees would be worse than a world without cars!
The punishnment for causing death by DANGEROUS driving is the major offence, and in my view it should normally carry a mandatory LIFETIME ban from driving AND a prison sentence. There is a distinction between blatantly dangerous driving and careless driving in terms of blame, even if the tragic result is the same.
Drunk driving in itself, when no accident has occurred, is also a serious offence, and the punishment is quite harsh already. As well as the existing threshhold which leads to an automatic ban, I think there should be an additional lower one, say 50mg, that gives 6 penalty points. As things stand, if you’re just under the limit, you’re in the clear, just over, you’re banned.
One usually thinks of drink drivers as people who habitually think they can get away with it and are irresponsible ‘don’t care’ types. But is there not also the possibility of people who would never normally consider drink driving getting drunk one day and deciding to drive AFTER they have become drunk and incapable. I knew a guy who did that once – decided he was going to try and do a ‘ton’ on his motorbike when he wa already drunk. People tried to stop him but they couldn’t. Anyway, he went off on his bike while his girlfriend was beside herself with worry. He returned a few minutes later claiming he’d done a ‘ton’ but I think he meant ‘ten’!
I’ve always been very pro EU and pro Britain joinung the euro. But I admit that various silly decisions and ideas have come out of Brussels but no more so than from the governments of the individual nations, including ours!
When all is said and done, we are citizens of the EU, and have official status as such. This grants us rights throughout the EU area regarding travel, residency and work. If we leave the EU, all that will be lost.
Whether Mugabe was ever a good man is debatable. But his badness is cumulative. He wasn’t perceived as being as bad in the early days of independent Zimbabwe as he is now.
Saddam Hussein specialised in active cruelty and barbarism, like having people fed into industrial shredders while the next victim was made to watch.
Mugabe has his bully boys too, but his biggest weapon is neglect – just cut people out of the inner circle and let them fade away.
Politicians are accountable to the voters. By voters I mean not just the national electorate but the members of their own parties, who are in effect an electorate within an electorate.
Also there is nothing wrong with supporting local farmers, they have been getting screwed over by the super markets for years
But this is rough justice for all those years of subsidies, concessions and EU handouts that farmers took with one hand while condemning the EU with the other. Where has all the money gone that farmers got paid for set-aside – money paid for doing nothing?
I don’t get all this fuss about the supermarkets at all. They provide a huge range of good foodstuffs and they do it cheap. Isn’t that what we want as customers?
Oh, silly me! Of course not, we all want to go and buy expensive manky food in brown paper bags from a farmers’ market – much better!!!
You’ll always be able to find examples of ‘micro fascism’ carried out by individuals, gangs, rogue policemen etc. But that doesn’t mean the government is fascist!
As for speed cameras and CCTV, they are a good thing. Only wrongdoers need to worry about such devices – they are there to protect the rest of us.
The BNP verges on fascist in the true sense, but one would need to make a detailed comparison with Mussolini’s Fascist regime in Italy or Franco’s Spain before deciding.
