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Since I had a stroke back in May I’ve had a lot of time to think, one thing that has been on my mind quite a lot is the state of this country and why it’s such a mess. Having been spending a lot of time walking as part of my rehabilitation and generally getting my strength and fitness back to normal I’ve seen plenty of things that I normally do not see when I’m driving around in my Jaguar. While out walking today I had to cross at a round about, as I was crossing a car was suddenly bearing down on me having exited the roundabout without signalling. Why? Well probably because he couldn’t be arsed like so many other people doing so many other things. The more I think about it the more I see people doing things nearly good enough, and nearly right, nearly 100%. I see shit nearly everyday, piss on toilet seats because people are too lazy to lift the seat, toilets that aren’t flushed, people not washing their hands, people talking on phones while driving, people crossing over the white line while going round corners, even on blind corners with double white lines, cars poorly maintained with bulbs out, people without seatbelts, red elastic bands laying on pavements and in gutters, discarded by the postman, dog shit everywhere, plastic bags with dog shit in them left hanging on gates and fences, cars parked looking like they were abandoned, crap dumped behind bottle banks and recycling bins, recycling left strewn in the street by the people collecting it. I could go on all day, and at some point probably will. My point is, no one wants to be the abso-fucking-lutly best at what they do, hell, they can’t even be bothered to be as good as the guy next to them. What happened to doing your best to be the best and doing everything to the best of your abilities? What happened that people just don’t give a shit? That just ok is good enough? The only place a lot of people seem to compete these days are doing as little as possible as often as possible, being indignant and being slovenly.

Now we know what the problem is, what can be done about it?

Well, lifting the toilet seat before taking a piss would be a great place to start, just making a bit more effort doing very simple things is a great place to start, once people take a little more pride in what they do and how they do it would improve everything, and if everyone improved everything you never know, we might even become great Great Britain again.

I’m trying mobile blogging on my iPhone. So far it looks ok and with the exception of my fat fingers on the iPhone keypad it seems do-able. More posts expected in the very near future.

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Just what are the Great British public going to think if we end up being governed by another unelected Prime Minister?  If you look at a political map of the UK it is mostly blue.  The public

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Are the BBC trying to sublimely influence the result of the forthcoming election?

They interviewed Cameron last and as we know if you are told or shown 2 or 3 things the last thing you are told will be the one you recall and remember most of, Cameron was the third Prime Ministerial candidate to be interviewed on the Andrew Marr show, who did choose the order in which they appeared?  Probably a Thatcherite.  Cameron spoke for longer without interruptions from Andrew Marr and was prodded on some of his more positive notes. Also on this particular interview there was a very arty depth of field shot of Cameron out of focus in the background with a stack of newspapers closer to the camera, the newspaper in the foreground and pretty much the only thing in focus was a front page blaring out the headline “I won’t be voting for Gordon”  Subtle BBC, very subtle.

The Rochdale incident, which should not be confused with the Roswell incident, has shown just what a 2 faced, disrespectful nasty little gimp Gordon Brown is as  he referred to Gillian Duffy as …”that woman” and “bigoted woman”
Just how many times was that story going to be changed and lied about, it started with a spokesperson saying they were discussing an earlier conversation, shortly afterwards it was then brushed off with the excuse that it had been a “difficult conversation”, next and 3 days after the event it was put to us that  he thought she was swearing.  The first excuse was a blatant lie, the second excuse was erm, inexcusable, having a difficult conversation with someone is no excuse for speaking about them like that, and as for the third lie excuse it was obvious from the tone, inflection and emphasis on the words she was using that Gordon Brown’s idiot advisors came up with that one far too late.  Just how thick does he think we are?  Yes I know we keep voting them in, but even so, Gordon Brown and Labour are so removed from reality, they have no idea about what is going on in the real world, people in this country are sick and tired of corrupt politicians, who have their noses in the trough, have no self respect or integrity who treat us like idiots.

The pettiness of politics has raised it’s ugly head again over the weekend, Labour have a protruding bottom lip and are sulking as they must be pretty certain they cannot win this election so Ed Balls has been telling his people to vote for the Lib Dems just to keep Conservative out.  That’s right Ed Balls, grab your ball and go home to mummy and tell her what the nasty boys have been doing and they wouldn’t let you play.

I have to brothers whom I didn’t see or have any contact with for 9 years, they lived with my father in Rhodesia as was and I lived with my mother in England, when I went to visit my father in 1980 and met up with my brothers again we didn’t really get along, I didn’t think it was for any particular reason, we just didn’t know each other, I was 6 when they left, we had grown up in 2 completely different environments and cultures and had nothing in common except for 2 parents who didn’t particularly like each other.  I decided to stick around and get a job in the same city as my 2 brothers and ended up working on the same gold mine as them, it was about 400 miles from where my father lived, I thought it would be cool to get to know them again and build up a relationship with them, well, that was a mistake.  We all used to call my father once a week, usually on Friday evenings, after a couple of weeks my father started to be somewhat abrupt with me during these calls and really sounded quite ticked off at me, I didn’t think too much about it until people at work started to be off with me too.  My brothers were stars at works, much loved and admired by all, they were very good at their jobs, always willing and able to assist and liked to get involved.  I was popular at work, good at my job, got on with things and was always willing to help others and go that extra mile etc etc, so why were people starting to be pissy with me?  It turns out my brothers didn’t like the fact that they had some competition in the popularity stakes, (which was strange as I never knew there was a competition going on) and as they couldn’t make themselves look any better they decided to make me look worse and told all sorts of lies and bullshit about me, generally slagged me off and tried to make life difficult for me.  Unfortunately at some point people started to see through their bullshit and saw them for what they really were, a couple of 2 faced, back stabbing gits with no self respect or integrity.  Now where have you heard that recently?  Oh yes, with reference to Gordon Brown and Ed Balls, because they can’t make themselves look any better, they can only try to make others look worse, unfortunately they are already so busted, we all know exactly what New Labour stand for, it’s the same old crap as the 70s Labour that brought the country to its knees.  There is once difference this time and that’s how rich they have all become, and that makes them such hypocrites, you’re socialists, what happened to equal shares for everyone?

Please do vote on Thursday, and vote wisely, don’t waste it, don’t vote for Labour and don’t vote for Lib Dem, they’ll just make a big mess a whole lot worse.

Another Sign Of The Times

It’s strange that with all the jostling for position, lies and deceit that I’m not more outraged by the Election Campaigning.  Gordon Brown we know is an insincere lying scum-bag who is an unelected Prime Minister without a mandate, but who would probably like a man-date.  This is the man - and I use the word cautiously – who said “British jobs for British people” and promptly gave over 1,000,000 to foreign workers.
Nick Clegg pretends to be left of centre, but is really from a rather privileged background with a United Nations of a family who seems to want to take the front door of it’s hinges and let all foreigners come and go as they please.  He is too boring to make any real policy and rides on the coat tails of the other 2 parties, basically, the guy is a fucking idiot.
David Cameron is a bit too… well… slippery is the only word that springs to mind, he’s a nice chap with a nice family but he needs to stop banging on about his dead son, it’s inappropriate and isn’t winning him any votes, people are just not interested in it, they want to know what you are going to do when you get elected and if you are going to get the bailiffs in to boot Gordon Brown out of 10 Downing Street.  Please please, make policy, let people know what you stand for, what you as a government are going to do to improve things for us, the Great British public.
Who ever gets in to No. 10 assuming it’s not Gordon Brown is going to have the mother of all tasks to sort out his complete and utter incompetence and stupidity.  Remember, this is the person who sold our gold reserves at a time when the gold price was at an all time low, he was the freaking Chancellor of the Exchequer back then, the man holding the purse strings of the nation…  I truly believe that Gordon Brown will go down in history as the most unpopular and worst PM in British history.  I’m pretty sure that when the government changes they will get 1 term in office as there will be 4 years of unrest while they are sorting out the mess, and it will take at least that time to turn things round, and then we’ll have another election and things will change again.
Ferrari F1 team used to fire and change their pit crew on a whim until someone pointed out that there was never any consistency within the team and that although people made mistakes, firing them was not the way forward, re-training was.  As soon as they kept a team together they started winning races.  Now that Labour have had their time and done almost as badly as when they were in power in the 70s it’s time to get a new government in, it’s time for change, as soon as the conservatives get in to power international confidence will improve towards Britain, lets’ face it, no one likes Gordon, he’s a joke, and not in a good way.  As soon as confidence improves our economy will improve, recession will be but a meaningful memory and all will be well.  And no Gordon, you might try to take the credit for the recovery but no one will believe you.

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Finally our stupid, corrupt, inept and incompetent government has told us what we already know; there will be a General election on 6 May 2010.  Why the big announcement?  I have no idea, people have had it marked in their diaries for several weeks now, it’s not like it came as a surprise to anyone.  This time I am voting, I have never voted before so can’t really criticise anyone fro not doing so, but if you don’t vote and the bad people get in again, it really is partly your fault, and if you do vote and vote for the bad people i.e. Labour then you are worse than Hitler and ought to be tarred, feathered and dumped at the town limit.  I never pray, I’m not religious, do not believe in a higher deity/god/he who is all omnipotent, but I do hope to all that is great, good and beautiful that Labour do not retain power in this country.  Never before has there been so much corruption, sleaze, lies, unnecessary legislation and general crap since the last Labour government was in power back in the ‘70s.  Do not waste YOUR opportunity to get rid of the parasites governing our country.  Vote Conservative or monster Raving Looney Party or for anyone else except Gordon “the dick-head” Brown.

The clocks have gone back, the evenings are lighter and the weather is improving, we’ve just had Easter weekend and had plenty of warmth and sunshine – at least where I live.  It’s amazing how much happier and friendlier people are when the weather improves and there is more day light.  I wonder why that is?  Maybe something to do with vitamin B, or is it D?  Neighbours have had their first BBQ of the year, albeit with chattering teeth and not having to wait for their sausages to cool down, the smell of freshly mown grass can be smelt through out the village, flowers and blossoming and that tree I pruned last year looks like it really is dead.

So what’s new in the world of my mother?  Not much really, it’s still same old same old.  Her neighbours and friends have been on holiday for 2 weeks so as she has had no company she invented some ills and went to see the doctor a couple of times for mystery ailments.  She does this regularly, as soon as she gets bored she becomes “ill” For a woman of her age, 73 she’s very fit and very healthy, looks 10 years younger than she is but unfortunately suffers from that common British ailment of being a pain in the arse.  She can’t embrace her health, she feels that because of her age something has to be wrong with her, because it ought to be, because in her mind she’s old.  Some of her friends use walking frames and really do struggle to get around yet never moan about being a bit infirm and make the most of what mobility they do have, yet my mother who really is very fit and very healthy does nothing but moan and feel sorry for herself.  Get a grip other and stop your bloody moaning.