WE ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER!

Yeah, right, we know it makes sense.  Or do we?  Is there anyone else out there who really finds it offensive to be told to tighten one's belt by a millionaire?  The true blue colours have been well and truly shown - we were subjected to the unedifying vision of smug Tories clapping and cheering at the news that nearly half a million people will lose their jobs and this directly engineered by the Government.  All this aided and abetted by the new right, the formerly self-professed radical and progressive Liberals who, by a quirk of fate, were able to achieve a power they could never have hoped to gain in their own right.  To think, A Libdem councillor - its you Cliff, if you ever read this - once told me that Tony Blair was a Tory. Oh, the irony.

I should however be grateful to Nick Clegg - he forced me to do something I should have done many years ago; join the Labour Party.

Just a thought, how much will it cost the Country in redundancy payments and future pensions when these five hundred thousand public servants are made to go?

I have always remembered the wise words of my mother as I started work, "Always keep your hair combed, your shoes polished and never, ever trust a Tory".

The Government's cuts and the media

What about today's news, then?  The Government's crass, ill conceived and hasty cuts - more economic than strategic, were, quite rightly well reported in the media.  Not much time given to the opposition's response but then, I suppose there wasn't enough time in the news programmes as they had to cover another story which was obviously of vital importance to the nation - Rooney is unhappy at Manchester United!  Oh dear, what a shame.

Not the first time has so much air time has been accorded to a set of cossetted prima donnas.  I guess that there are more people in the country who have no interest in football than are avid fans so why encourage the highly paid practitioners of what is, after all, only a game?

To all you guys in the entertainment - sorry news - business, look to the priorities.  We don't all follow the rise and fall of celebrities and their peccadilloes.

Motoring and the mature gent

Thankfully, I still have a good head of hair, albeit somewhat silver.  The latter description giving rise to some antisocial behavior by some elements of society; they assume that I am senile.  Although irksome, this does provide not a little amusement.  Recently I avoided a minor accident by using my surprisingly rapid reaction (or was it fear?) Instead of being grateful, the occupant of the other car leapt towards me shouting "Dickhead".  The irony was that he was completely bald - or should I, to be politically correct, now say folically challenged.  It is possible that I may have been challenged to a fight in Sainsburys car park, which was not a good idea, but, even if so inclined, I was too amused to respond.  But all this begs the question, where did this bloke's instant rage spring from?  (Sorry all my English teachers, I ended a sentance with a preposition).  There's a lot of this agresssion about; possibly low level but worrying.  Why waste it on a bloke like me, why not channel it into something useful like working towards an early general election so that we have a proper government again.