LAZYNESS AND INCOMPETENCE.

The organisation of our country has been shown again to be pathetic in the recent cold spell generated by Gordon Brown as his contribution to Global Warming.
Let's face it the authorities have been pathetic. Roads not gritted. They always used to be with poorer equipment.


Schools have been closed "on health and safety grounds" so that children do not injure themselves at school and sue.
So what happens. The kids go out sledging on Billinge Hill, Ashurst Beacon and Rivington Pike, not to mention venturing on thin ice and risking drowning.
It's just an excuse for teachers to be off work. And the kids are safer in school.


The solution? Hold schools liable for injuries sustained in school hours while playing at home. Stop teachers pay when they are not at school.
My daughter, doing a responsible job (FOR A PRIVATE FIRM) walked 6 miles to work but she got there and did her job.
How many teachers would do that. No they would rather stay in their cosy homes (heated by the work of power station workers who got to work) and go to the shops (staffed by assistants who also got to work) and use health and safety as an excuse to sit at home.

When I was a kid I NEVER lost a day's school because of the weather, and it was colder (no global warming then) We enjoyed each others company in the school yard (we did not have a field) and made slurs (slides) which we enjoyed going on. Yes we fell but we did not moan about it. And we had proper teachers for which I have always been grateful.

If schooling is so important to our children's future (which it is) and parents can be fined for keeping children off surely the teachers should get off their a**es and get to school and give the kids the start in life we pay our taxes to ensure.

Or are we breeding a generation of namby pamby inadequates? If so God help us in the future when competing against countries such as Japan and China.

A FINAL THOUGHT.

Why can the many deadlegs doing "Community Service" not be drafted in to clear the footpaths of snow and ice which are so dangerous to the elderly who have to go to the shops?
Now that would really would be paying their debt to society.

EUROMED/EURABIA

From Galliawatch a shocking report of what apparently is a EUROMED meeting of ministers:

Writer Malika Sorel's pro-France and pro-nationhood positions are unusually lucid and surprisingly candid. She stands far removed from many other Algerians in France who regularly manifest their hatred of their host country. Recently she wrote an assessment of a meeting of European ministers organized by the French Minister of Immigration and National Identity, Eric Besson. Read more about Malika Sorel a the end:

Yesterday morning I attended a ministerial seminar organized by Eric Besson on the theme "The migrations in the lands of the Mediterranean: constructing a space of shared prosperity". Insofar as many journalists covered the seminar, I feel safe in sharing with you a few high points.

The ministers of Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, and Egypt were among the guests.

One expert set the tone right away by declaring that since the European population was aging, three possibilities ensued. I quote them:

1. We delay the age of retirement. Not a very popular measure.

2. We put more women in the workplace. That would have a negative effect on the birth rate.

3. We organize international migrations.

And with these words, obviously intended to allow the ministers to begin their well-prepared speeches, the main theme of the morning was set: since the North was not producing children, and the South producing many (they actually said it), it was necessary to agree to organize migratory waves from the South to the North. Several ministers even declared that since immigration, in any case, was occurring illegally when it was not authorized, it would be preferable to legalize and organize it. They also said that 75% of the youth of Tunisia were considering leaving their country...

(...)

The Egyptian minister began his speech with "In the name of Allah the most merciful..." and formulated the hope that the Arabic language become more common in the future in the Mediterranean bassin.

Eric Besson concluded the meeting thus: "We must accelerate and increase the mass movements."

But of course EUROMED is just the fevered imagination of right-wing conspiracy nuts, right?

Sorel draws the a conclusion that every living soul in Europe should sear into their memory:

During this entire morning it was patently clear that European peoples were of no interest to the European ministers. It was as if Europe was an uninhabited land, or soon to become one, and there was a need to people it. The only moment when you felt that Europeans still existed in the minds of these ministers was when mention was made of the need to fight against the discrimination that these migrants would be victims of...

This morning showed me, as if it was still necessary to do so, the extent to which this European "elite" was sometimes more concerned about the interests of foreign populations that about those of their own people. It is indeed this elite that is responsible for the current situation, and not the immigrants. Henceforth, only the European populations themselves will be able to spare their countries chaos, and at the same time save their lives and those of their descendants, for it is clear that what is being planned for us by leaders who don't even realize it, is a proliferation of Balkan States throughout the European Union. We are indeed far away from the dreams of the founding fathers!

That is one to remember the next time you find yourself in a voting booth...

 The original, from the Netherlands, can be found HERE 

Morg


The Galliawatch link at the top of the page is specific for this article only. This link is for the basic blog.  I do recommend you visit and shortcut/bookmark it for future visits. (Its currently second item is particularly interesting) France is important to us in that it is our nearest neighbour.

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‘We regret driving out the British,’ say Aden’s former rebels

"It is rare to hear former Marxist revolutionaries apologise for having successfully driven out an imperialist power decades before. In the rundown former British colony of Aden, a backwater that was once one of the world’s key shipping hubs, such regrets are not uncommon. "

A British National Government would have worked with the Nationalist Governments of these former Colonies. Not wage war against them.
The political parties and successive Governments of the time, Labour, Liberal and Conservative waged war on foreign Nationalist Governments.
Where the British once held sway now only TERROR REIGNS.

BUT, They have a RIGHT to GOVERN THEMSELVES.

A British National Government of the time would have been working with these Nationalist Governments, for our Mutual Interest and benefit. We bring them Civilization, we left them on the cusp of being able to run their own affairs, without our help.
We gave them Transport (Metalled roads, Railways), brought them Education,Jobs, Wealth, Medicine, Hospitals. We basically upgraded their infrastructures to Modern standards of the time.
But they all seem to plunge straight back into chaos and corruption.
I wonder why ?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6981556.ece