Surface to air missiles in London

What rot. They can't use them any way.
Do they really think that they'll fire missiles at a Jet over London and bring it down?
a) 300+ passengers on board
b) where will it land?
It could be on Buckingham Palace killing how many people.

I think its just propaganda. They (the USA) let 2 jets fly into the twin towers. Why was that?

Doesn't seem to make sense to me.

30% more in Fuel Poverty - shame on the Government

So people in fuel poverty are up by 30%, am I surprised. When you consider that the first few units of fuel you use are charged at double the rate of the rest and then our lovely government add 5%VAT to it!

If you are on a fixed, low income or benefits then you are being taxed at a higher rate for keeping warm than the millionaires! It is tom me an obscene way to raise revenue.

If you are in arrears or on a prepay meter you can’t change company so benefitting from competition.

Write to your MP and demand the VAT is taken of these first unit tariffs. It won’t affect the Toffs who use loads of fuel ‘cos they can afford whatever. They deserve to pay more VAT. Why should poor people claiming Benefits have to pay Tax just to keep warm - daftness.

NHS online - self diagnosis is a risk?

I heard a piece on the radio about looking illnesses up on the net and getting it all wrong.

Well did you know that actually Doctors do the same thing? 

Ever wondered what the doctor is typing while you're talking to him? I happened to see once when I went to my doctor. He was on a medical site (maybe NHS I don't know) but he was following the prompts and asking me questions based on the screen. SO it led him to a diagnosis.

WHat has happened to doctors using their training etc? Do you trust computers? Well without details he wasn't interested really in my problem. He diagnosed back pain and gave me some mind blowing painkillers. After 2 days I was away with the fairies and had only taken 2 tablets - I was supposed to go up to 3 a day. I stopped.

Anyway food for thought - eh?

Toast is bad for you

So apparently now Toast causes cancer.
What else are the health police  going to dictate are BAD for us? Bad enough can't smoke, can't drink, now can't have my toast for breakfast.

Cancer causing chemical in foods

If you make your toast too dark it has this cancer causing chemical acrylamide. Surely we've been eating toast for centuries. If its browning your food what about my nice steak, brown and seared on the outside, no burnt sausages on the BBQ.

Where will this all end. the Government increasingly controls all aspects of our lives.

Tanker drivers - fuel shortages

So the Tanker drivers are to strike again (are they?), and no fuel in Garages, as everyone fills their tanks AGAIN!

Either this is a Government ploy to get us onto Electric Cars or they really do not understand how we all now depend on Cars etc. for LIFE. Everything revolves around transport powered by OIL. Especially outside the Cities we have no choice, what public transport is there?

So what are they to do about it? NOWT I guess. We have to get away from this dependence on oil. It may not be Tanker drivers next holding us to ransom, Iran, or Argentina. WHat ever the oil
WILL run out and Fuel WILL go up in price.

Maybe I'l get a horse?

Government Web Snooping

What's the fuss? Don't they know that they've been doing it for years - unofficially.

I don't care, I've nothing to hide and they're welcome to all those SPAM emails that I get!

Don't they know that 80% of all emails are SPAM. If they're going to keep them all they'll need huge DATABASE storage. Whose servers are they going to use? let me know - I'll get shares in that company.

Maybe not, don't worry. Iif this project is run half as well as the NHS computer upgrades (they were scrapped at a cost of billions) then we've nothing to worry about as it'll definitely never happen, or at best never work!

Teachers Strike overpay/pensions

So they want to strike over their pay and pensions. I don't think they'll get much sympathy when the rest of us are having a hard time. They have a job for life, annual rises (yes I know they're on a pay freeze but they still get increments until they are at the top). They get a damn good pension at our expense - still final salary. My mother was a teacher, and was comfortably off on her pension.

However I do think the Government is wrong to impose "area negotiated pay". It improve teachers. So lets say because Cumbria is a poor area, generally wages are lower than average, so pay teachers lower than average? If you do then teachers will go elsewhere, (if they're good). So you get poor teachers or none at all. Now is that good for schools and children?

Teachers on lower salaries will not influence the local economy, Joe Bloggs on a manual wage will not get more 'cos teachers get less will he? Can he apply for a Teachers job, not unless we drop the qualifications.graduates do now

Really what we need is good graduates entering teaching. What do Good graduates do now - NOT teaching!

Its not just about money and Teachers have themselves to blame. The loony left Trotskiists etc. have reduced teaching to nothing more than glorified child minding with Government contrition.

Remember the pillars of the community as it was, the professionals, Doctors, Clergy, Lawyers, and Teachers. No more. No respect for them.

SO it will take Government, Teachers and Parents to demand a "Professional" Teaching profession. Pay them and set them up as professionals with appropriate qualifications and let them do their job. Oh, you'll have to weed out the riff raff.