It is truly nauseating

My wife wanted to look at the pictures of the wedding and all the buffoons waiting to see it. Then we were told how lucky those waiting overnight had been because Harry & William had come and talked to them!

It represents everything wrong in our society and probably in the world. It is odd that Nick Clegg has recently objected to people getting internships because of the family connection, but I bet he goes to the wedding! How else did William & Harry get to be so important, they were selected by competition, not really, they were born into a family. Their positions are entirely based on who their Daddy was!

Then there is some sort of claim that this is a private wedding, how come all the troops are parading through the streets, are the families paying for this. Since both William & Harry are supposed to be serving officers you would thinks they might be ashamed of having soldiers parading as a spectacle for the worlds foreign leaders whilst their colleagues are risking their lives in Afghanistan. I would be surprised if they have even thought of it.

Last night there was a programme about Bobby Charlton, a man we have heard of because he had real talent. He came across as a guy who appreciated his luck in being talented with perhaps not quite appreciating how talented he was. True he was born into a family of miners and footballers but he still had to do something to get where he is and the respect he now has.

It is a bun feast for the rich and well connected paid for by the poor, as usual. It represents privilege and wealth, the poor can wait overnight in the rain to watch and the BBC cannot be more grovelling and advertising this "wonderful" event. I dreamed that lightening struck the abbey and that it came tumbling down and I thought that would be a wonderful event, allthose bloodsuckers eliminated in one go! But I woke up:(

Fortunately Norwich, the city I liver in, seems to be more sensible, nobody seems to care, the shops are open and when I asked in the barbers there seemed little response, not even aware that it was a bank holiday.

Clegg- Man or Mouse

Delivered to my door was the literature for the no campaign. The final page is a complete demolition of the Clegg!

This is a campaign led by, his erstwhile co-conspirator in the destruction of the British economy, David Cameron. How come Clegg accepts this abuse, if I were him I would not have responded so calmly. My assumption is that Clegg would do anything for the trappings of office, even being shat upon from a great height by his colleague. Though it is clear that the relationship is more that of lord and servant, Clegg being almost below the salt.

The paper this morning suggests that the Lin-Dems will just accept the defeat and soldier on. Their ministers just doing as their told by their Tory masters. This is not a coalition but an annihilation. I suppose we can wave goodbye the the Lib-Dems for the next 50 years as a force in British politics unless they revolt pretty soon.

His performance on morning television defending AV was pathetic, allthe wrong arguments and in no way attacking Cameron and the rest. As someone pointed out in the Guardian yesterday, Cameron would no be leader of the Tories, nor as a consequence the Prime Minister, if the Tories chose their leader by a first past the post system. It is interesting to observe the double standards that leaders are willing to use. To get me in power in my party AV is good but to get my party in to power, first past the post is best.

Is the public stupid?

I was just reading the Guardian online. They has a report of the latest opinion poll about the referendum. it says that 16% are now against AV!

I found this quite depressing, the no vote literature can through my door and I thought it was clever but mostly misleading, if not downright lies. so why has it been effective.

The main point is that it is simple. One of it claims is that the first past the post is simpler and easily understood. That is true but simplicity is for the simpleton and though it sounds good it is not very good. For example, Simon Wright on the Norwich South election is 2010 despite the fact that over 70% of the electorate voted against him and that was just of those who voted. It might be simple but it gives daft results.

They also claim that only three other countries use the system, yes that is true but most use a more complex system not a simpler system. They also claim the current system is cheaper but I don't know why. We could do what the French do and if no one gets over 50% they have another election, the alternative vote is just a neater way of doing the same thing.

Another statement is that it has done us OK in the past.Is that really true, when we get huge majorities in parliament with parties have mote than 60% of the electorate voting for them. What we have in this country is elected dictatorships with a limited life span. Who voted for the Iraq war, who voted for the poll tax, how many voted for a huge rise in tuition fees. Are we really a democracy.

Note the Tories want bigger constituencies, thus making it more likely that we get MP's forlife with more and more of the population having no effective vote. All I can say wake up to being conned by the Conservatives and the dinosaurs of the labour party. Notice that those from the Labour side are all past it, Lord Reid, an old communist, never known for supporting democracy.

Why have two

They seem to look alike both are owned by google but they are different sites

Perhaps someone can explain the difference?

Found it

I seemed to have posted it to a different blog site All very distressing

Here are the missing blogs

Lamb to the sluaghter

We have had the unedifying spectacle of Norman Lamb changing his mind. Norman Lamb is the Lib-Den MP for North Norfolk and right-hand man to Nick Clegg. You might have read in the papers, or seen on tele, that he is against Lansley's plans for the NHS. My advice is do not believe a word he says.

He represents a district which is having local elections and the Lib-Dems are doing very badly. He has now worked out that the NHS is a major stumbling block for the Lib-Dems. So how he is now against the plans. As Mr Clegg's personal adviser he did not tell Mr Clegg that the plans were wrong and would be unpopular before. Also he voted for the bill in the House of Commons so how has he suddenly realised that he would be willing to resign his position over it.

Let us be clear he is really in favour, even his objections seem to be about speed not the fundamental idea. It is not even clear to me he has any views at all on the subject, he will just go along with the bosses unless it threatens his popularity with his own electorate. It is important to remember he was once a lawyer, this means that he will argue for any case his client wants, whether he believes in anything is totally irrelevant.

He voted for the rise in student fees despite having signed the pledge but argued that Simon Wright, who used to be his gopher, should vote against the rise because he had a big university in his constituency so it would be sensible to allow him to vote against. Mr Lamb who did not have many students in his constituency did not have to worry.

What we see in Norman Lamb is a many with no values and no principles, when in opposition it was easy to get away with it; he could promise anything to anyone and nobody would know what he really was going to do. My guess is that the government will tinker with Lansley's plans, make it sound a big deal and Norman Lamb will cheerfully vote for the plans without a moments hesitation. This will of course be a few months after the local elections.

Arsenal & English football

I have not blogged for some time but the takeover of Arsenal has inspired me. What is left of the English premier league except that it is played in England. How many English managers are there? How many English players are there and who owns the club? I find it odd that so-called English premier teams have any English fans. But is it not symptomatic of the English disease. We no longer own anything, manage anything are, most of the time, produce anything. We are consumers and heavily in debt, as individuals. The government and the experts keep going on about the national deficit but ignore the private debt because without it we would be totally screwed.

I am sure many of the fans will be pleased if they think the new owner will pump money into the club but does it make sense to support a team which is just an excuse form some rich man to have as his play thing. If he is lucky he will make money out of it but it will be the suckers at the turnstile and in the pubs who are paying him. We had an outcry when Krafts bought Cadbury but with football teams it doesn't seem to matter. They bring players from overseas, not giving local players a chance to develop, they employ foreign managers and still don't succeed. We wonder why we do badly at international football, well why would a foreign manager of a premiership club ever consider the needs of the national English team.

There are a number of points, do we not train enough English managers, there are not that many premiership clubs, are our footballers not good enough and why don't English billionaires want to own football clubs. We don't train people to manage things which is why so much of industry is owned by foreign companies.

There was an item on the news today about Longbridge. It is producing cars again, even one's designed here BUT and it is a big but, the only other thing we do is assemble them, everything else is done in China and the whole thing is built in China.

When is Britain going to take education and training seriously, especially with repect to manufacturing industry.

lost blogs

Hi

Iam very confused, I blogged a couple of days ago and the they have just vanished. Did twoon one day and have I blogged them somewhere else.

This is all very confusing, one was about the Arsenal sell out and I expected a response from at least one charming Arsenal fan, if not a few more.

They are not even save as drafts, so where did they go :(