It must be the 80s again!

Cuts didn't seem as bad as I thought they would be, expecting people to be begging on the streets, it may not be quite that bad. The part about taxing banks and financial institutions to the maximum cheered me. I still believe that income tax revenue needs to be increased for the highest earners though. The NHS and schools seem to have escaped the worst which is good. Local councils are screwed, but council tax is frozen, so less services for the same money. The benefits changes seem fair to me, no one should get more on benefits than working-seems logical really! Child benefit has gone for the rich, but whose going to cry for them? Universities and their funding wasn't covered, but fees will double, and that is simply unacceptable.The Liberals really need to push back on that point, in exchange for the rest. How is it fair to expect new students to pay double for the same end product, especially as the last generation didn't pay anything. Nobody wants to keep on working until 66, but that is a reality we will have to accept, real piss off if you are 54 today as it means instead of retiring in 10 years time, you have another 16 years to go! I don't know anyone who has been able to retire at 60 anyway, so, same same.
New council tenants will have to pay 80% of the market rent, which will be a bit difficult in London! Here in the North, it is impossible to get a new council house or flat anyway unless you are a one legged lesbian with 7 kids on the run from the Romanian gestapo, so that doesn't affect anyone!
Unemployment will soar, and quickly too.This is real 'Boys From The Black Stuff' unemployment. The government have said half a million will be laid off, but once those people have stopped buying crap from Top Shop and HMV, the knock-on effect will be huge.
The debt needs to be paid and this is a start, and after a few more tweaks to get more from the very rich it could work, but at what cost? 4million on the dole? Rubbish on the streets, council buildings falling into disrepair, civil unrest due to police cuts, undermanned military, all we need is for Argentina to invade the Falklands again(as we are retiring aircraft carriers for ten years! And Harrier jets, and throwing away the £3.5bn spent on Nimrod, even though they are already ready to be delivered and ready to fly), so record unemployment, impotent local councils, housing shortages,very unhappy students, and a weak military, but the rich are okay-it must be the 80s again or a Conservative government!
Chris Mercer.20.10.10

BLACK WEDNESDAY!!

Super typhoon Megi-T10?

My playlist-29 songs for that kind of day.

Plane crash windfall!

Yet another possible windfall! This one really does take the biscuit though.The plane crash mentioned is probably a real one, and in my mind it is pretty sick to use the names of the dead! Other parts just verge on the absolute ridiculous. due to poor internet connectivity in my country, you may receive this email in your SPAM folder this medium of communication (internet) has been grossly abused by criminal minded people making it difficult for people with genuine transaction to correspond and exchange views without scepticism. abandoned sum of $15 Million dollars in B.S.I.C Bank Burkina Faso to be claimed legally by both of us kindly send me your Legal Names , telephone numbers and your residential address for immediate more details and mode of conduct to be sent to you The stupidity of this person is breathtaking, but not as much as the idiots out there who they fool-there are apparently people who get fooled by this crap! I may well respond providing the contact details of David Cameron or maybe Tom Hicks and George Gillette who could all do with a few quid.In the end there is only one thing worse than an idiot and that's a greedy idiot! An example of 3 idiots. HON. BARRISTER George Mukamba SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES, Rue 407 Yennenga, Ouaga - Burkina Faso. Email: georgemukamba1960@voila.fr Note; due to poor internet connectivity in my country, you may receive this email in your SPAM folder, kindly forward this proposal into your INBOX folder before responding back to me. I am indeed glad to be in contact with you even though this medium of communication (internet) has been grossly abused by criminal minded people making it difficult for people with genuine transaction to correspond and exchange views without scepticism. With due respect, I am Barrister George Mukamba, financial attorney to the Late Mr. Morris Thompson an America citizen who died in a plane crash with his entire family, you can read more news about the crash by visiting this website; http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/081301/foc_native_corps.shtml I respectfully insist you read this letter carefully as I am optimistic it will be open door for unimaginable financial rewards for both of us. Before the sudden death of Mr. Morris Thompson and his entire family, my late client has a Dormant Account with Bank Sahelo Saharienner for Investment and Commercial Burkina Faso (B.S.I.C.), His dormant account contains huge sum of $15 Million USD (Fifteen Million Dollars Only. I crave your indulgence as I contact you in such a surprising manner; I have desired to have his abandoned sum of $15 Million dollars in B.S.I.C Bank Burkina Faso to be claimed legally by both of us before the bank transfer the fund into Government treasury account as he left nobody alive to claim this fund. Be informed that while participating in this transaction, 50% of this total value will be for you as my co-operative partner while the remaining 50% will be for me as the principal initiator of the deal. If your are interested to run this deal with me by accepting to stand as the deceased next of kin, kindly send me your Legal Names , telephone numbers and your residential address for immediate more details and mode of conduct to be sent to you. Regards Yours Hon. George Mukamba.

Thatcher-let's not forget!

Thatcher is 85 this week.The Tories are once again about to decimate Britain.Miners are in the news, and so are angry Scousers. Time for a look back at the Thatcher years, each picture/cover could quite easily be changed to Cameron.