Apologies for not posting as often as I once did. Especially for the one reader...
The last six months have been really busy. I'm in a new job in a new industry, which is a lot more stressful than before. I've also started playing Bridge, two or three times a week. It's a great game of partnerships and cooperation, maybe something the coalition could learn from.
Which brings me to the wondrous prophet, Vince cable. There's a saying that if you put 100 economists in a room you'll get 200 opinions (or something like that). The business secretary show this admirably.
Today, in the same interview, he says that the banks need to be broken up now but also that his great worry is about growth! Does he not get that a complicated overhaul of banking regulation now will damage prospects for recovery. Better to leave it until the recovery haz bedded in for a couple of years.
He also days that he's not worried about anew financial crisis. In April he said that he was most worried about a new financial crisis. The man is no sage after all.
In fact he's a bit of an embarrassment now. What once seemed refreshing now seems like muddled headed ness.
Squiffy.
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Sunday 28 August 2011
Lewis Hamilton, too many mistakes
I'm a big fan of Lewis Hamilton. He's fast, audacious and exciting. Unfortunately, he is making too many mistakes. Today, in Spa, he had a good chance of winning and yet again a collision took him out. Others thought that it was Kamui Kobayashi's fault, but it is clear that Hamilton took a line which was unnecessary and he wasn't looking to find where Kamui's car was.
It is a trait which is becoming a bit too frequent. His wins are fantastic, and I'm still a fan but please, Lewis, stop making the silly mistakes - just take a bit more care. Especially when overtaking fiery characters such as Kamui Kobayashi!
Squiffy
Thursday 18 August 2011
Livingstone shame
I'm usually one for accepting that occasionally politicians mis-speak and we should let it pass, but I think Ken Livingstone has gone a bit too far this time.
On the back of calling someone a Nazi concentration camp guard a few years ago, he has now said that his London opponent, Boris Johnson, is like Hitler. He also says that the poll will be a contest between good and evil.
Finally, he goes on to say that anyone not voting for him will burn in hell.
He was probably joking and meant it all light-heartedly, but many a true word spoken in jest. I think the jokey comment belies his true inner feelings. So maybe not a joke at all.
Quite a few people on the left think that people on the right are evil. Only today I was reading an article by John Redwood responding to John Harris in a newspaper. Mr Harris thought Redwood seemed to like inequality and poverty. Mr Redwood had to respond that he believes in getting rid of inequality and liberties as much as the next man, but through different means.
We don't believe in paying people to keep them in the ghetto, whilst taxing people so hard that they think working isn't important. We think responsibility, self-respect and saving more of the money you earn will encourage people to make a life for themselves.
Ken believes that these views are wrong, possibly evil. I may disagree with him, but I believe he wants to do good even if he is mistaken in the means. But he has proved that he is not fit to be Mayor again.
Squiffy.
On the back of calling someone a Nazi concentration camp guard a few years ago, he has now said that his London opponent, Boris Johnson, is like Hitler. He also says that the poll will be a contest between good and evil.
Finally, he goes on to say that anyone not voting for him will burn in hell.
He was probably joking and meant it all light-heartedly, but many a true word spoken in jest. I think the jokey comment belies his true inner feelings. So maybe not a joke at all.
Quite a few people on the left think that people on the right are evil. Only today I was reading an article by John Redwood responding to John Harris in a newspaper. Mr Harris thought Redwood seemed to like inequality and poverty. Mr Redwood had to respond that he believes in getting rid of inequality and liberties as much as the next man, but through different means.
We don't believe in paying people to keep them in the ghetto, whilst taxing people so hard that they think working isn't important. We think responsibility, self-respect and saving more of the money you earn will encourage people to make a life for themselves.
Ken believes that these views are wrong, possibly evil. I may disagree with him, but I believe he wants to do good even if he is mistaken in the means. But he has proved that he is not fit to be Mayor again.
Squiffy.
Tuesday 9 August 2011
UK Riots: Day 4
It's been a scary few days in our major cities. Thankfully, my neck of the woods has been ok so far.
The thugs and scum responsible for these mindless acts of violence should be locked up. They have no legitimate excuse for what they have done.
It is such a shame that so many of our young can get involved in this level of disorder. It goes to show how deficient some modern day parenting is. Why were these kids out on the street so late? The parents should have a short sharp shock too.
It makes me feel so sad that modern day Britain can have descended so low in the moral morass. Like some of our politicians, their morals for finding an excuse in poverty, jobs, drop of EMA shows how far some have sunk. Ken Livingston and Harriet Harman are two such people.
It's also a shame that I'm not all that surprised by it all.
Squiffy.
The thugs and scum responsible for these mindless acts of violence should be locked up. They have no legitimate excuse for what they have done.
It is such a shame that so many of our young can get involved in this level of disorder. It goes to show how deficient some modern day parenting is. Why were these kids out on the street so late? The parents should have a short sharp shock too.
It makes me feel so sad that modern day Britain can have descended so low in the moral morass. Like some of our politicians, their morals for finding an excuse in poverty, jobs, drop of EMA shows how far some have sunk. Ken Livingston and Harriet Harman are two such people.
It's also a shame that I'm not all that surprised by it all.
Squiffy.
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