save West Cumberland Maternity Unit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrAc8t76oX0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Privatise the BBC

At last some sense about this senseless "Entertainment Tax" how does the BBC get away with it?

Conservative MP John Whittingdale said the licence fee was ‘unsustainable’ and needed to be brought up to date with how people now watched TV.


Hear Hear - sense.

Will the lights go out this winter ? Maybe.

Will the lights go ut this winter we are warned the margin is small. Yes this is what happens when Governments allow reckless Companies to cash in on the Gas boom of the 80's and 90's. Gas power should only be used for "topping up" power at times of peak demand yet Gas power stations were all rage - they were cheap to build and run, low in pollution (but not CO2)  and reaped in the payments. North Sea gas has gone and you don't see so many now.

Wind Power is unreliable - what we don't want is prolonged cold and no wind, then Russia might turn the Gas off. We've even less of a store of Gas - that might worry you. the cold winter before we got down to 1 yes 1 days supply! I can sit in the dark as long as the heatings on. Without Gas what do you do - light a fire.? In the power cut ther's no "heater" to put on.

Be worried. it take 10 years to build a new Nuclear power station. They are just starting on the first one for over 20 years that's why we're in trouble. What about tidal - its reliable, renewable and non polluting and could help with flood defences.

We all need to shout about it.

Transformers Age of Extinction

you really need to be a transformers fan or less than 7 years old to enjoy this. previous films were better. i think Michael Bay was just going through the
motions . Tessa  Yeager (Nicola Peltz), the girl just seemed token glamour.
Given she'd been brought up by an"inventor" Cade Yeager (Mark Walhberg) I expected more techno savvy from her but ended up damsel in distress and lots of screaming .
I've known transformers 30 yrs, nice to see the Dinobots appear though no explanation of them to the masses! yes i expected the story to be evolving over 4 films but the back story was very thin  and disappointing. My favourite character was Joshua Joyce (Stanley Tucci ). 3* (2* if you're not a Transformers fan).

daily mail likes claudia ?

Claudia Winkleman is not brilliant like Jan Moir says. What is going on-am i the only one who can see through the Emporers clothes ? Dare i criticise her? She seems be dumbing down Strictly with her "pants" (if she thought of it, if not then someone is sending her up) and daft "jokes ", even Tess grits her teeth and has to smile! Yes she is clever, too clever. Some remarks are not understood especially by non English dancers and i find them insulting not funny. Claudia is acting like a bad version of Bobby Ball to Tess's  Canon. Yes Sooty and Sweep have more rapport and after all they ARE for children.
Is this what the BBC wants. Perhaps i am wrong?

this IS why UKIP is winning. The Main 3 parties still don't get it.

Tamara Cohen writes in the Daily Mail but quotes a Matthew Parris article from The Times in which he rails against the Voters of Clacton and dismisses them as insignificant.

I think he's very patronising of thousands of voters across the country - he is exactly right about their values and attitudes but we all have a vote don't we and if enough don't Vote for the "Big Three" then someone else is getting the votes and will Win.

He patronises and denigrates these voters with his words. If he is right then what is wrong with these people - are they not free to live their lives as they choose, not how MP chooses?

Somebody has to represent the static caravans and holiday villages, and the people and places that for no fault of their own are not getting where a 21st century Britain needs to be going. 

There are many in a place like this who might be attracted again to the Tories by a noisy display of hostility towards immigration-and-Europe, political correctness and health-and-safety: hostility to a Britain that has forgotten the joys of Ken Dodd, meat pies, smoking in pubs and the Bee Gees

He IS right that part of Britain MUST move into the 21st Century and make the wealth. There is a lot of these in the South East and they are not living in Clacton. What he doesn't realise is how people feel North of Watford. They are hard working but still they do not see the wealth of the SE, they are sick of the Bankers Bonuses that are telephone numbers but WE have bailed out these reckless Bankers and see the Establishment as in bed with them so what are they going to do for us?

With attitudes like yours Matthew they will no vote Tory or Labour because Milliband is not Working Class - he's just as out of touch with real life as the rest.

Paedophiles viewing online porn IS as bad as child molestation

Amanda Plattell is right that John Grisham is wrong to defend his buddy,  she is also right saying "But isn’t that exactly what any man who accesses images of child abuse is — a pervert? They may not harm children themselves, but their search for images of younger and younger looking boys and girls implicitly supports an evil paedophile industry that does — and which trades the images for profits or for perverted pleasure. In legal terms, that makes the voyeurs complicit in the crime."

Then she is WRONG saying that

"while it may be true that not every man who seeks out underage pornography is a danger to children"

EVERY MAN who seeks out underage porn IS a danger to children.

How on earth does she think the Porn gets there? Children are abused to produce the PORN. IT is abuse by PROXY.

Why can't the police catch them all?

Sophisticated Internet technology can track everyones surfing habits from their computer to every porn site and they know exactly what you have looked at. From the ISP records they know who pays the Bills, so come on Police lets track them down. You don't even have to leave your comfy office and face the nasty criminals its like catching speeders - using CCTV and cameras.

NO EXCUSES.