A future government has secret plans to give us our money back?

So the assistant chairman of the Conservative Party stated that their party had secret plans to cut public spending?
Result : ? He was sacked !
To my small mind, a party that was contemplating reducing taxation should be shouting it from the rooftops not hiding it.
Government is there to keep its citizens safe and not to nanny them - alhough most people seem to have forgotten that.
The more taxes , the poorer the country .
I realise that we need to spend on the NHS etc, but it could be done much more effectively in my opinion
So SHOUT it out loud Tories, you want to give us our money back !

Wow blair is quite bright after all?

The following is intelligent supposition based on human nature and specific peoples' personalities.........
Blair - "Look Mr Bush, we have to sort out Israel/Palestine or this terror stuff just will not go away !"
Bush "Sure- sort out a method and we'll have a look"
Blair goes away and gets his brainboxes to come up with a roadplan.
Blair " THere it is - if you agree to it, we'll come on board into Iraq as an ally"
Bush " Fine- lets go with it "
A war later....... Israel is ignoring it and US ditto after initially running with it.
Blair " But you promised ! "
Bush "You know the Jewish lobby is very powerful in the US Tony, it's so hard to do anything- the only way is after I'm re-elected then I'll have power over them for a while"
Tony leaves, Bush thinks or is told more like ' ok he's right , now how do we try to save Israels face ?'
Bush gets re-elected.
Bush allows Israel to assasinate Arafat.
Bush says that Israel must go with the roadplan [in private]
israel ignores the threat as usual
Bush administration says publicly that the US may not be a loyal ally to Israel in the future
Israel says its pulling back and returning some territory to Palestine
US now starts its diplomacy heavily with Iran
Lots of Middle east countries start doing democratic/peaceful stuff .
Nice boy Tony - pity you could never admit to it in public, but Bush has turned sooo much since the election that it has to be you/EU/others.
Just DO NOT invade Iran PLEASE -
Oh the corollary to the above was a speech to the UK where Tony stated that we had to invade Iraq or else the UN would be seen to be a toothless system, knowing full well that the UN had told Israel that it had to return territory siezed in the 67 war- so we shouldnt believe everything he does say though !

How to create lots of consumer wealth in the UK

I wasn't going to try to use personal stuff in here, however......
In trying to move house recently, I noticed that indemnity liability is rife within the housing market, where the slightest error in building regs seems to require insurance up to the value of the house!
Talking to people in the industry and in our 'chain' it appears that about half or moves require this nowadays and at £100-£300 a pop this builds up into a multi billion pound industry [especially as it seems that none of these policies are ever excercised] lots of profits for the banks etc
Why cant the govt just enact a bill saying that if a property has had building on it over 10 years old then the council can do nothing about it ? Dead simple, dead cheap but a major blow to the banks [boo hoo]
Come on Brown show us your stuff !

IRA offers to shoot those who killed

The IRA has offered to shoot those responsible for the killing of that guy recently.
That a bunch of (murderers?) could manage to get into peace talks with legitimate governments was amazing, but when they effectively say ' we dont believe in your rule of Law, we believe in our justice system' there's something seriously wrong with their attitude if not their intentions...........
This stinks
All the media seem to be saying is that it shows that the IRA is getting desperate !

The world dies of the 'flu ?

I dont know what the news has been like in other countries, but here there has been a lot of scaremongering in the media about the next flu pandemic with speculation as to how many millions could die.

This is on top of ZERO news items of people with bird flu.
Plus different states buying huge quantities of vaccines.
Gets a bit suspicious to my mind

Then today I tuned in to a talk radio show where they were interviewing this guy about the above.......

In essence he stated that people in Vietnam were dying of bird 'flu. Not that many and it wasnt travelling fast nor was it easily transmitted. The fatality rate was 80% , unlike the 1918 Spanish flu which killed 18,000,000 people and had a fatality rate of 1% .

He then went on to say that it could easily combine with a more normal flu type which would give it the 'normal' transmittability rate [ie like wildfire] but the fatality rate would probably drop to 1-10%

OUCH !

Here's hoping the world has a lot of vaccines.

Why is the media saying so much about 'the next pandemic is late' and nothing about 'here it comes' ?