Monday 31 March 2014

The Time Machine

Barak Obama and David Cameron are shown a time machine which can see 100 years into the future.  They both decide to test it by asking a question each.

Barak goes first.

“What will the USA be like in 100 years time?”

The machine whirs and beeps and goes into action and gives him a  printout, he reads it out.  "The country is in good hands under the new president, crime is non-existent, there is no conflict, the economy is healthy. There are no worries!”

David thinks “It's not bad this time machine, I'll have a bit of that.”   So he asks:  “What will England be like in 100 years time?”  The machine whirs and beeps and goes into action, and he gets a printout.

But he just stares at it.

Come on David” says Barak, “What does it say?”

David replies,  “Buggered if I know! It's not in English!”

Sunday 30 March 2014

Sarah Riding and Mark Menzies

Has Sarah Riding resigned?  Why has Mark Menzies resigned as PPS?

Well they definitely won't be in bed together, politically that is!!!

Fylde Coast Politicians running for cover

With one local civic leader running around the back gardens sniffing at the drying knickers on ladies clothes lines, a colleague tells a jury he is not a paedophile but they did not believe him and found him guilty of child abuse - irrespective of what the law calls it.  The Jury say he is guilty and the Courts find his conduct so harmless they awarded him funds to purchase more film for his camera.  What a sick interpretation or even sop for the victims of his awful crimes!

Now it is rumoured that Ms Sarah Riding's tenure as apologist for another planning disaster, the Talbot Gateway or as it is locally called "'Whatfuckingidiotbuiltthis' just another Road Block up the Councils Asshole Labyrinth and extension to the Promenade f*ckup" to give it its full title, has allegedly resigned.

A bit late girl.
Labour Councillor Sarah Riding


Lieber's favourite immigrant has already started parading his team along Church Street without notifying anyone that the Ward seat is becoming vacant.  Not that it matters much to Blackpool councillors as several Wards have long been short of representation, with several other councillors having vacated positions.  Pity the electorates hasn't noticed.


Lytham St Annes MP Mark Menzies


Not that we are allowed to notice anything.  Major Parties usher in whomever they wish and when they commit heinous indiscretions it is the electorate that is at fault!  I am more than happy for people to behave in private in a manner that adult participants enjoy, but do not do it while you represent me.  Now with Fylde Conservative MP Mark Menzies under scrutiny for activity that would have had most service personnel hung drawn and not quite quartered, it is about time we kicked all the politicians out who fall foul of what the Forces knew as Section 6 of the Navy Act, and Section 69 of the Army Act.  Conduct unbecoming of...

Small wonder politics is now the last bastion of the scoundrel.

Saturday 22 March 2014

One answer to the Burkha question


Has the Muslim World gone so far backwards since Attaturk took Turkey out of the Middle Ages?  Answers please to the Madrassa coming to your street corner.

A petition to ignore


I was 11 years old when police burst into my mum's house and shot her in her bedroom in front of me and my sisters. They were looking for my brother, instead they left my mum paralysed from the waist down. After her shooting doctors said she had just 10 years to live, but she lived for 26 years. My mum never gave up.
Her name was Cherry Groce and her shooting sparked the Brixton riots in 1985. To this day no one has been held responsible for what happened to her.
Now we have a chance for justice. An inquest into my mother's death will take place in June. But we've been denied legal aid, without it we can't afford a lawyer to represent us at the inquest and ask questions of the police. That's why I've started a petition calling on Prime Minister David Cameron and Justice Minister Chris Grayling to grant my family legal aid.

As many readers may have discerned, I am not 100%  pro police.  I am however 100% pro Law.  If a member of a family decides to live and do business outside of proscribed legal boundaries, then it is upon them, the criminal elements that has invited the wrath and weight of the guardians of the law, and those ‘innocent’ members of that family should vent their bile on their lovely, criminal kin and not the law enforcers.



For that reason I most definitely will not be signing this ill-conceived petition.  If you don’t want to be harassed by the law, make sure you and your loved ones don’t break it.  And that goes equally to police officers who work outside of the Law.

Thursday 20 March 2014

Same words, different Parties - can anyone define Democracy...

Words are easy to say but are meaningless when they are not understood.  It is great to remind ordinary people of the effects and reasons for democracy. But for democracy to have meaning, it has to be implemented across the board in its entirety within all political bodies.  One body cannot condemn another, I.E. vilify Unions and their all powerful leaders, whilst exercising identical controls over their sheep!

Just read the minutes of your local Party meetings and scrutinise the context.  Then write and tell me yours is exemplary.  What makes matters bad is the number of people who do attend meetings where subsequent Newsletters bare no resemblance to that meeting, yet the attendee does nothing.  They feel good just by being there and not for what they have contributed, invariably nothing but applause.  But they are the problem not the irate beligerent who wants true democracy and participation.

Note well, rogue parties do not issue reports, official and signed as is required under regulation for each legitimate body of every hue and persuasion, genuine MINUTES for those meetings.  It is the first position of the autocrat, the would be demagogues to deny true facts to the simple minded and often aggrieved citizen.  It is also the first step down the road of submissiveness.  The next will be the audacious way of removing opposition, once the truth has been highlighted, for the self appointed Adolph to confer with his ally and instantly condemn the innocent observer to the Gulags just on his word or that of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

Wednesday 19 March 2014

British Genius pre Modern, Free Schools



Michael Faraday 1791 - 1867



  • Laboratory Assistant, 1813,1815-1826
  • Director of the Laboratory, 1825-1867
  • Fullerian Professor of Chemistry, 1833-1867
  • Superintendent of the House, 1852-1867
    (Acting 1821–1826)
    (Assistant 1826–1852)
Michael Faraday was born in Newington Butts, Southwark, the son of a Sandemanian blacksmith who had moved from the North West of England.
He served an apprenticeship with George Riebau as a bookbinder from 1805 to 1812. He was Assistant in the Royal Institution’s laboratory for part of 1813 and again from 1815 to 1826 (touring the Continent with Humphry Davy (qv) in the interim). He was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the House of the Royal Institution in 1821, Director of the Laboratory in 1825 and six years later the Fullerian Professorship of Chemistry was created for him. In the mid 1820s he founded both the Friday Evening Discourses and the CHRISTMAS LECTURES and delivered many lectures in both series himself. He was appointed Scientific Adviser to the Admiralty in 1829, was Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich between 1830 and 1851 and Scientific Adviser to Trinity House from 1836 to 1865.
His major discoveries include electro–magnetic rotations (1821), benzene (1825), electro-magnetic induction (1831), the laws of electrolysis and coining words such as electrode, cathode, ion (early 1830s) the magneto-optical effect and diamagnetism (both 1845) and thereafter formulating the field theory of electro-magnetism.

Hugh Miller (1802–1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist[1] and an evangelical Christian.



Born in Cromarty, he was educated in a parish school where he reportedly showed a love of reading. At 17 he was apprenticed to a stonemason, and his work in quarries, together with walks along the local shoreline, led him to the study of geology.



Both these brilliant British scientists were born in an age of educational advancement.  Neither had a proper education, or what the modern education establishment of today would call it.  Both made advances for Man beyond what the Modern People would ever imagine, that is a historic reality.  So how come our Forefathers could scrape themselves out of th Stone Age.  Perhaps it was sheer hard work and ingenuity.  One has to hand it to those who wanted to learn, sitting and working for hours in terrible oppressive conditions, squinting with only the feeble help of candle light to see by, often poorly fed and with uncertain future their main goals.


Instead we have to spoon feed every person in the country.  Every organisation proclaims they are not politically motivated, except they say they are determined to have equality with wealth and expectation for everyone.  If that is not a political ideal then I have never heard one.


What is wrong with parents doing the best for their children and children doing the best for themselves?  Afterall, neither Faraday nor Miller was born with a Silver Spoon in their mouths. Just look to see what ambition can achieve!  Or are they just parts of our history that the Modern teacher would like to expunge also?

Anna Soubry from the Gov/MoD to visit near Blackpool

Is this a real invite or are they just playing with former regulars again as they did over pensions, covenants and just about everything veterans stand for?
 
Paul Maynard MP
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
 
Dear Resident,
 
I have invited Anna Soubry MP, the Minister with responsibility for Veterans at the MoD, to Blackpool on Thursday 20th March.  She will be visiting the Service Personal and Veterans Agency in the morning and after lunch has made herself available to attend a Veterans’ Forum which I will be hosting.  I would like to invite those who served in our Armed Forces with their guest or those who may be widowed to someone who served or related to someone who is currently serving to attend this forum.  My intention will be to allow the Minister to set the scene on Government policy for Veterans and then open up the floor so she can field question on any topic concerning Veterans policy and welfare.
 
The Forum will take place at the Hilton Hotel starting at 1400 on 20th March.  Please RSVP to this email so I can monitor numbers of people coming to ensure we have a room at the hotel which is appropriate in size.  Please feel free to share this email with your family and friends who may have an interest in coming.
 
I do look forward to seeing many Veterans and people related to Veterans at the forum for what I am sure will be an informative and lively afternoon of discussion.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
 
 
Paul Maynard MP
Blackpool North & Cleveleys
01253 473071
 

Friday 14 March 2014

Thursday's theatrical revue



It was with great anticipation that I went to glimpse the arrival Dr Who at the studio of Forgotten Dreams.  His Tardis arrived late and minus his beautiful and youthful female companion – some said she was off with the imitation Paddy Pantsdown for a quick 30 miler and a session in the barrel, but that is speculative.

The Dr finally appeared in the strangest manifestation since his creation.  Gone was the long blond wig, the sequined dress and ten inch high heels.  It arrived as the poor mans Ken Dodd, somewhat lost as he sought the solace of the Opera House, in human form of sorts, with an accent my Aunty Mary may have recognised from when she was on the game in Scouseland.  Somehow the adoring masses, both of them, appeared to have vanished in the damp mist of a foggy, cold, spring evening.  Rapturous applause was heard below when a girlie snooker player finally vacated a table and let his prettier sister play. What would Brian London have to say to such shenanigans on his favourite table?  Perhaps more than about that miserable pantomime being hammed in the hollowed theatre above the games room?  Small wonder the TV cameras were chasing the news of the death of Tony Benn, Bless him.

Reverend Black and the Vicars arrived minus their instruments – a blessing as one geriatric band a year has been enough with the Stones appearance in that farmyard down South.  Of the audience, the only five under retirement age settled down, listened respectfully for many minutes before beating a silent but premature retreat to the public bar below.  Snooker and darts was more pulsating.  No one asked for their views or even why they were leaving. In all honesty, no-one seemed to care less.  It was not surprising that later one of the near moribund diehards asked of the speaker, “How are we to attract the youth vote?”  I will have to consult my recording of the night as the reply was equally forgettable?
Finding out why this small group of intrepid youth had departed was left to the reporter who was met with, “It’s just like the Labour Party!”  Forgive the writer for reporting accurately, but facts are facts and the truth will always be the truth.  Here was the perfect opportunity to reach and converse with a captive audience, some for a change beguilingly young, and they not only let it slip but slaughtered their one and possibly only chance.   

Where was the PieMan to add charisma and even a joke or two to the sullen diatribe of despair?  Where were the masses flocking to join the cause?  If thirty seven people are all that can be relied on to attend the pantomime under the hypnosis of the Dame in Chief, and then the performance will flop.  Even the real Ken Dodd cannot perform miracles in front of rows of empty seats.  I’ve seen the place busier, more animated and energised when only the cleaners were in.  The late Len Blakelow must have been sat on his cloud wondering how far his beloved ‘Stute’ had fallen?

Conspicuous by absence was the entire ladies section from that part of town known as South Shore.  It is sad to say that the South group, illegal as The Party says it is, has better attendance, recording history and participation than the wizardry that this Dr Who bonanza attracted.  Sad to say that the Good Doctor may have got his bearings wrong!   It is promised that The South would have a promotional extravaganza to put the Party on Show and expand the allure and media frenzy into the world of the deprived Deep South.  Like the venue, now stripped of the memorabilia that gave it great character, the whole performance was shoddy and not worth missing a Chicken Curry for – Thursday Night at Wetherspoon’s?   

When I read, as I am bound to later today, of the overwhelming success of this theatrical flop, I may just switch on the recording of the farce and pinch myself back into reality.  But there are dreams and there are aspirations.  Then again there’s Show Business.  Thanks for letting me watch, how do the words go in that immortal Ethel Merman song?  There’s No Business like Show Business.  Well, she was definitely correct with the first part of the lyrics!

Now the show's over, return the cadavers back to the Co-op, please.  It's only over the Bridge!

Latest NW gas estimates





by Peter Glover 10 Mar 2014 
The estimate for Cuadrilla's shale gas resource in England's north-west Bowland Shale formation has just received another significant boost. After conducting further studies, a company geologist now puts the deposit at around 330 trillion cubic feet (tcf); an increase of 50 percent on its previous - believed to be a highly conservative - assessment of 220 tcf.
And that is just in Cuadrilla's own licensing area. Last summer an independent British Geological Survey(BGS) suggested the total in the shale basin may well exceed a mind-boggling 1,300 tcf.  
To put that in perspective, even on Cuadrilla's lower assessment, this would make the UK's Bowland Shale deposit the largest shale gas basin in the world. 

I do not know if these figures are accurate or pure propaganda! They ought to be the starting point for discussions.  Personally, I am always wary of such definitive statements and treat them with suspicion until after I have done research.   Unfortunately for me, the person who sent this article to me is a former Cambridge economics graduate, so one expects that he, having been in Banking research and major investments all his life, would have an insight on this subject.  But then again he keeps sending me instant cures for diabetes and arthritis!?!?
You can't win them all!