Auld Year

As we see the auld 2011 year out and the new 2012 year in this weekend it is difficult to imagine that the next twelve months could be as bad as the last. But bad and worse is very much on the cards. This year we’ve had national disasters in Japan, New Zealand, Philippines etc; Revolutions in Africa and the Middle East in Tunisia, Yemen, Somalia, Egypt, Libya, Iran and Syria; the global economy with America and Europe again looking over the abyss of another economic meltdown, which could go beyond the worse experiences of the 2008 global recession.

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Mr Huffy

The Prime Minister started the week basking in the glory of his Tory backbenchers who were overjoyed at his outflanking of his Lib/Dem Coalition partners when he invoked an EU veto at the European Council in Brussels the previous weekend. Nick Clegg immediately took the huff even refusing to sit with the PM during his statement to the Commons. His “huff” was supported by all his 56 MPs, when they refused to vote for a Commons motion tabled by the Ulster Unionist congratulating David Cameron on using his veto. The political conspiracy theorists are at work forecasting doom and …

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Veto:

 If you are ever lost in Glasgow and ask for directions; nine times out of ten you will be greeted with the warm words of, “If I was you I wouldn’t start from here”.  If Cameron had used a little of Glaswegian savvy he could have taken a better direction of travel last week and avoided the isolation in Europe and represented the true national interest. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg admitted that contrary to earlier reports, he was not consulted about Cameron’s decision to veto in the early hours of Friday morning. Heady days from the June 2010 Downing …

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Clarkson

When Jeremy Clarkson insulted Gordon Brown describing him as a one eyed Scottish idiot he was hailed as a hero by the Toffs inside David Cameron’s inner circle, of which Clarkson is one. Mocking anybody because of their disability tells me more about the offender than the offended. I normally find his impropriety of language repugnant so last week when he called for public servants i.e., teachers, nurses, and care assistants etc to be shot in front of their children I was fuming. Not so David Cameron who earlier had described the Day of Action as a damp squib. The …

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Pensions Day of Action:

The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons this week will expose the calamitous state of UK economy, compounded by the catastrophic failure of his deficit reduction plan. Public service workers will hold a 24 hour strike supported by their Unions including School Head Teachers unions; Royal College of Nursing; top and middle ranking Civil service unions (Not quite the irresponsible militants the Government describe them as). The belligerence and bullying of the government has known no bounds throughout this year long dispute on pensions. The day of action was avoidable but the government chose to …

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