This is a letter a 72 year old wrote to Cameron and Miliband and is still waiting for a reply...... You BOTH Worry me. (in fact, both of your Political parties worry me) Over the last three years, you both have been turning this country into a place that I no longer feel at home in, or feel part of. I watch you in Parliament, sneering at each other, and acting like children!!! (and if you were my children, I would be ashamed of you). Years ago, aged 15 at grammar school, we had similar "Yah-Boo" debates in the Fourth Form. We quickly grew out of it when we realised that the real world was different. When will you two do the same? What an example you set the viewing millions. Although you would like us all to believe that you are putting the needs of this country first, everyone knows that NEITHER of you are doing that. You are more interested in scoring points off each other. Do you somehow think that will impress people and get you votes next year? WRONG. What is achieved by all those shenanigans in Parliament, is denigrating our once-great nation in the eyes of the world. You would NEVER see the German politicians doing that. They have recovered so wonderfully from WW2 by hard work and IMAGE - being careful never to run down their own country in public. Your Parliamentary debates seem to be all about YOU as individuals, and not about what you are doing for this country. You are not listening to the people you are paid to govern. I am seeing the deterioration of living standards, but according to you, playing with statistics, we are doing better than most countries, yet the gap is widening between the "haves" and the "have-nots". I see our hospitals under-staffed, yet I see multi-millions of pounds being sent in aid to other countries, before attending to this country's needs! Are you quite sure that our precious aid-money is applied to where it is needed, and not funnelled off to despots' bank accounts in New York and Zurich? I see the "selling off of water rights to foreign interests. WHY...? You go to great lengths to tell us that water is a finite resource & supposedly, we must ALL be careful with how we use it. The Carbon Tax, (which we all KNOW is just another tax) will make NO difference, to carbon emissions at all. It is a tax, which in spite of all your arguments FOR it, you are doing alone, because other major countries DO NOT BELIEVE in it. Let's talk about Multiculturalism. People have come here from other countries, for a better life, for more years than I have been alive. Pre & post- war immigrants came for a better life, settled in and became wonderful contributors to this country. They have contributed to the rich diversity of Britain and many have fought FOR this country. They were glad to become U.K.Citizens and they had NO hand-outs ....they worked hard for everything. I have never before had a problem with immigrants coming here. However, I DO NOW. Please tell me why we have areas in towns all over the country, where police WILL NOT GO, for fear of their life? Please tell me why we can no longer have religion in schools for fear of "OFFENDING" someone? Please tell me why Christmas celebration is no longer allowed in some schools for fear of OFFENDING someone? Please tell me HOW Christmas decorations in stores might OFFEND someone? Please tell me why we have to have segregated days in public swimming pools for fear of "OFFENDING" someone? Please tell me why we allow RADICAL Muslim clerics to demand Sharia Law when our religions would never be allowed in THEIR country? Please tell me why our laws need to be changed, so as not to OFFEND someone? Please tell me why we true-Brits are fast becoming a MINORITY voice, in our own country, because of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS? Please tell me WHY Brits must not wear a bike helmet going into a bank and yet it is OK to wear a Burka, covering the whole of the face? And please tell me WHY, when those people who want asylum here, they can wreck our detention centres and STILL be allowed to stay? What does that say about just who and what are this government's priorities? Every British person that I speak to has genuine concerns about becoming a second-class minority in our own country, for the above reasons. Are you so blind that you cannot see this? And no, I am NOT racist. If I did not like Catholics or Protestants, would I be considered racist? Of course not. We are fighting extremist Muslims in Afghanistan and elsewhere, are we not? I hear you say, "yes but the Muslims we have here are not like that." Well how do you know? Do we see or hear ANY of them speaking AGAINST extremists on TV or radio? I haven't. Islam is not compatible with ANY of the values that we hold here in Britain. Are not the experiences of France and the Netherlands examples of that? Why do you think it would be any different here? We even have a British born "radical," who states that Britain WILL become a Muslim country, under Sharia Law, & that we had "better get used to it ". Will both of you grow up and start sticking up for this country and its people? We are the people who put you where you are and PAY you to look after our interests. You are NOT doing that, by any stretch of the imagination. I would appreciate an answer, if only to convince me that once again I am not talking to a brick wall.
Chilcs/Rorsch, okay that date is confirmed now. 13th May at Start The Bus, supporting some Swiss band called Kadebostany.
Like smoked salmon, but I don't suppose there is a lot in the open ocean. Also cod and similar in batter...that's about it.
The minimum wage has gone up by just 20p in 5 years.[/QUOTE] but the amount we can earn before we pay tax has doubled since labour were last in office!
Great stuff, looking forward to it. Maybe the Bristol/Somerset not606ers can agree on a way of identifying ourselves to each other? Or even meet somewhere beforehand? From what I can glean about Kadebostany, Fable is going to blow them off stage and all the way back to Geneva!
The Mod's have discussed having a separate election thread, and we decided that it's not really appropriate on a football board. There is an Election Countdown thread on General Chat, so please head over there for intensive political wrangling and don't bring it to Koeman's. Nobody minds the odd reference to what's happening as far as the election goes, that's fine in the context of an Off-Topic thread, but please don't let it degenerate into personal abuse. Here's a link to the GC thread: http://www.not606.com/threads/the-general-election-countdown-thread.291934/
We could meet up in the Small bar on King street, great choice of beers, quirky and interesting place. If we agree a time roughly, I'm sure we could sort something out to identify ourselves - could just say to the barman when you arrive that you're waiting for a Not606er, and to point them in your direction when they turn up. If everyone does the same, then hopefully it should be easy.
It'll be tricky for me as obviously I'll be at the venue but I'll pm you both my number near time - I'll be driving too (annoyingly) as I'll need to get the troops back to Brighton, but I'm sure she'll have a beer with you instead! With regard to her blowing people off the stage, tbh she'll do that to pretty much anyone. Will be our first show with new keys player mind you, so might be a bit touch and go!
So, Lady Pie and the mini-Pies are away for the weekend. I have to work tomorrow(boo). I have the place to myself(yay) I've ordered an outrageous amount of food from Dominos, some DVDs and Farcry 4 ready to go. ps stripping down to my pants after the food arrives.
The minimum wage has gone up by just 20p in 5 years.[/QUOTE] https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates It's actually gone up 57p
I apologise if posted elsewhere (can't be arsed to look)... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/southampton-defender-ryan-bertrand-buys-5454497
For those who have never been near a motorcycle and wonder what the attraction of real speed and danger is. This is Guy Martin at the weekend job, ie, when he's not a truck mechanic or presenting his latest TV show. Here he chases a member of the famous Dunlop road racing family [Michael] at the IOM TT. Note - when the picture shakes it's because the front tyre is protesting under either heavy breaking and the back wheel is getting very light indeed, so is trying to jack-knife the bike, or massive acceleration, or lack of grip. Steering dampeners stop that, but so does balance/counter steering from the rider. And btw, this is one lap:
Right Mr Stain . Don't you EVER moan about F1 again !!! I have just seen . The worst crowds EVER ! The smallest amount of entrants , think I saw two ? No over taking ( except were these two " Racers " over took someone on a moped ) although it was obvious the one we were with could EASILY have got past the man in front . Team orders ? That would be a YES !!!!!!!
