Snow thoughts

Why isn't it spelt (or spelled) snough?

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It was pretty deep stuff, but still some people like whizzing around it in their 4WD trucks pulling people out of the snow.
Thoug some people complain that we don't know how to cope with snow, but seriously, it only happens for a few days each year and for many people it's simply another 'bank' holiday.
The news organisations certainly enjoy it. It enables them to run their "paralysed Britain" stories.
I must say, it's pretty awful for passengers to be stuck on trains or aeroplanes for hours not going anywhere. What I find most awful is that companies such as Southeastern (see the story and the response) don't move heaven and earth to provide hot drinks and food for their customers. If you worked for them you'd surely be phoning everyone you knew to get a four-wheel drive to call by the nearest takeaway...wouldn't you? Go on, use my credit card you'd say. Think of the positive publicity you'd get. Think of the kudos. Has no-one got any idea of how extraordinary circumstances require and extraordinary response?

A happy thing...

...happened on Tonbridge High Street last Saturday...

He is nothing like a dame!

 

They say it's going to hurt ("Oh no it won't!").  Meanwhile the future Baronet Osborne of Ballentaylor and is said to be worth about £4m (including 15% of Osborne & Little - so that's his first pension sorted out).

I think he also gets £131,000pa. Do you think he's worried about having to cut back a bit?

I know it's dodgy photo-shopping, but this just looks right somehow..

Genius...because it's true, and funny

Feed a family of four for £100 a month?

Well these guys seem to think it's possible. You might want to pick your way through the menus, for example you might wonder at 'Brazil and Seed Butter'. I'd try it...
The whole thing looks quite well worked out and makes mention of the importance of avoiding waste.
The recent BBC show on the subject was shocking not for the celebrity chef angle but the sheer scale of waste and how much the presumed taste of consumers is taken as an excuse to destroy perfectly good food. You can read about the Love Food Hate Waste campaign here.

Cuts...feels like we're on the brink

The budget has made me wonder if the Tories really understand the economy. Or, for that matter whether anyone (especially me) does.
There is no doubt that, ideologically, it's easier for them to cut Government and public sector spending. So when George Osborne says he had no choice he's just plain wrong.
There are always choices about what to cut expenditure and where to increase income. An increase in the top rate of tax and even another tax band would have been seen as fair and would have affected fewer people. By definition, the people paying such tax are fewer in number than those below the threshold.
So, the only conclusion you can draw is that it wasn't 'politically desirable'.
The other mistake is to believe that cuts in public expenditure are somehoe free. There will be job losses and an increase in unemployment. There will be an increase in benefit claims. Do these figures stack up?
And if unemployment ends up costing more than the preceding savings - how would this Chancellor balance the books? More cuts?

Incidentally, am I the only one who thinks Osbourne looks like he should be a pantomime dame? When he speaks he also reminded me of someone else and I couldn't quite think who...
I think it may be Piers Fletcher-Dervish, the hapless Tory MP sidekick of Rik Mayall's Alan B'stard.  Time for Marks and Gran to return?

What next?

Are we ready to challenge the political system?
Here's asuggested graphc for t-shirts, banners and more.
The anti-party colour is black.