Been raining all day here on the CDS. Good for the reservoirs but gets a bit boring after a while doesn't it. I'm OK because I have no distractions whilst writing my novels, which I really enjoy doing, but my wife is not a great TV watcher, and she only paints for a few hours at a time so she is getting bored.
I see that in a poll across Europe that 90% were in favour of Obama. Even the British Conservative Party support an Obama victory......now that is really strange! I can never see the sense in the USA system, in that last time the US people voted for Obama on the basis of his policies. One of those policies was to introduce Medicare. So he got elected, but the Republican majority in Congress stopped his Medicare bill from coming to fruition. So you have 'democracy' in the USA? I don't think so. Or maybe you do, for those rich enough who don't give a damn about their fellow Americans who happen to be poor. It's a good job for the rich Americans that they own the media, otherwise the working class in the USA might become aware of the total unfairness of the system under which they live. I saw the documentary recently of those poor dispossessed people who live in the storm drains underneath Las Vegas.They were ordinary working class American people who were unfortunate enough to lose their jobs, and then their homes. I am not ashamed to say I wept at their plight.
Thanks to a Socialist government in the late 40's in the UK we have a safety net of healthcare, and other plusses. It's not perfect, and we do get spongers and lazy scumbags, but for the majority of people that might need it at some stage in their lives its there. The rest of Europe has copied the UK's policies with regards to this, and are better off for doing that.When the minimum wage was introduced into Britain, the Tories and other right wingers said it would destroy businesses, it didn't. Businesses continued to flourish.
You've got remain cheerful though, my father said to me once, "Remember the kettle, always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings"
I see a Tory MP is going to Australia to appear on a TV 'In the Jungle' show. I hazard a guess that the creatures she'll meet in that Aussie jungle are far less dangerous than the buggers in Westminster !
I took up speed reading, I read 'The Bible' in less that three seconds, mind you that's only two words.
Someone asked me once that as a journalist did I know a lot of politicians, I replied "I know some, but I prefer real people".
This RAF serviceman who was with me in Singapore, wrote fourteen letters a week to his girlfriend in the UK. He told me that after six months she married the postman.
At the Theatre Royal in Norwich they once had a topless lady ventriloquist, no one ever saw her lips move.
I think I've got a plan to shorten the dole queues, make everyone stand closer together.
Won't it be a great day when the NHS has all the resources it needs, and the MOD has to hold garden fetes to raise money to build a nuclear submarine?