I am Addicted!

I began my blog five years ago and I thought that I could walk away and never again comment on the nonsense that we repeatedly see aired through the Mainstream Media (MSM). Sorry but I am addicted and I have also been supported by so may people who follow me, many of whom do not comment, that I have decided to take a deep breath and plod on.

This blog is my voice in a world where the individual generally does not have a voice. The blogosphere is the last sphere where an individual can voice honestly held opinions which differ from government and we need that voice.

There is so much evil in modern politics where, in my opinion, every modern day politician appears to be sponsored by someone who supports modernisation that democracy vanished years ago.  Year after year the same stories appear and yet nothing gets done. For example look at the chaos at Heathrow when only a couple of inches of snow arrives.  Look at the benefits issue where foreigners can arrive and somehow immediately qualify for huge benefits without any check.

Nothing ever changes!  Bankers and politicians almost bring down the economy of the counrtry and always the public are punished. The European Union have decreed that very soon hundreds of thousands of Rumanians and Bulgarians, who are not already here, will also get access to our benefits system.  Everyone but everyone realises that this could be the final straw which breaks the back of our education system, our health service and our prison service but how many of our front bench politicians on either side of the house are expressing concern?

In the States Barack Obama and his administration are beyond belief. So much that their media puts into the public domain is being questioned. There is a petition currently doing the rounds that favours impeaching the President on the grounds that he is not and never was an American Citizen. I am one of those who believes that his background is so shrouded in mystery that something is wrong.

We must continue to question and probe.  I know that sometimes I get things wrong but at least I keep questioning because I do not trust anyone with an agenda. Our politics stinks so somewhere we will uncover wrongdoing we just have to keep trying.

The Annual Snow Farce!

The race to the bottom is hotting up! Last week we got almost a week's warning that come Saturday evening we would be under a great heap of snow. Everyone knew it was coming and for once the forecasts were right on target!

Prior to that, amidst a blaze of publicity, Heathrow announced huge sums of money spent on modern snow removing equipment. This was after all the apologies for the chaos they created last year when one of the largest airports in the world could not function because it had snowed.

Now we do have cold snaps in this country but let's be honest this is not Scandanavia, it is not Russia and conditions recently right across Europe have been far worse than they have been at Heathrow. So to cancel flights in two consecutive years because of a snowfall smacks of incompetence.

If the people who run Heathrow cannot cope even though they have had ample warning then may I suggest that they step aside and let someone else try. This country is rapidly becoming a laughing stock across Europe. They are making jokes at our expense. These management boards claim huge salaries so it about time that the government insisted upon competence and regulated to ensure it!

Just to emphasise the point I wrote this last year (and other posts) so I guess nothing much has changed. Are we really surprised?

Useless Britain (continued)

This is far worse than anything that even I could envisage. You may realise that I have often held our Political Class to be particularly useless when it comes to future planning. Now (whoopee) the head of the AA has decided that our government may have to plan for the future and prepare for bad winters. That leads me to question what they have been doing so far?

In the meantime the best that the airport authorities at Heathrow can do to help their customers is to ban the SKY news cameras. I heard that Gatwick bought two new snowploughs which has helped keep things going.

It has been left to members of the public to organise accommodation for those stranded at Heathrow and suddenly something is happening to relieve the misery and suffering. The airport authority is apparently doing nothing and saying even less. There appears still to be no information being relayed to passengers who are having to chase and pay for everything themselves.

It is an utter outrage and a national disgrace that we should treat our people like this but it is an indictment on The Political Class. They have allowed the planning, which used to take for granted, to evaporate while they massaged their own egos and fed off the public purse.

We only have ourselves to blame. We allow them to lie, deceive and prosper. If anyone opposes them like UKIP and the BNP we swallow the propaganda and continue to vote for the sleazemongers. I have long thought that in comparison to the BNP the mainstream politicians have far less integrity.

It is in their interest to retain this three party system and maintain a charade of opposition but no matter who forms a government nothing ever changes,

The snow will disappear, spring will arrive and we will continue supporting people who frankly don't give a tuppenny damn about the British people. Only those who had their Christmas ruined by neglect and incompetence will remember this period. One of the reasons that I write this blog is to jog my memory of events as they happen. Looking back now The Political Class has run the country into the ground and it is now beginning to bite!

Useless Britain

Five days ago I posted a warning about the prospect of bad weather arriving in the country over the Christmas period. I had a pretty good idea that as usual we would grind to a standstill but I thought that just possibly somebody would regard it as a duty if not a challenge to keep the sirports and railways operating.

Thousands travel prior to Christmas to link up with loved ones across the world and as usual our transport managers have let them down. Now I know that in some places the snow was quite fierce for short periods but that should only delay flights not stop them completely.

If some planes can leave then they can all leave but I get the impression that the highly paid airline executives head to the hills at the first sign of trouble. Perhaps that is the reason that airlines just ignore their customers who repeatedly claim that they cannot prise information out of them.

The real scandal however lies in the fact that our international airports have no emergency contingency plans for stranded travellers. Surely they could open a hangar somewhere with warm drinks and some dossing accommodation?
At least it would give people the impression that they cared but at the moment their attitude is 'tough luck you're on your own'!

It really isn't good enough and perhaps it is time that people stopped travelling with British companies until they learned lessons. I have posted before that if places like Gander Newfoundland can stay open then the technology is out there. Perhaps it is just the will which is absent.

The snow is returning....

Well according to the forecasts the snow is soon to return and the bookies are forecasting a white Christmas. Now we have had fair warning. The rail services and the gritting magnates now know what is about to happen. Is it beyond hope that this time they will keep the country running?

Are our airports prepared for a little bad weather? Will they enable people to escape the freeze at Christmas or will we get the interminable excuses like we always do that they didn't know? I recently blogged about faraway places who scoff at our ineptitude to cope with bad weather. This time we have no excuses and we should not listen to them!

Snow, snow everywhere...

My wife and I don't really disagree about that much...well not that often..and not really seriously (gulp) but when the snow falls we have our annual disagreement. When the snow falls British drivers are in the main hopeless. It generally falls every year and every year we have the same panic problems.

Now for fifteen years I lived in Germany. Most of this period I was either in Berlin or somewhere along the former inner German border. Some of the snowfalls that I witnessed were really serious and one had to use everything to just get home or get to work. I often worked shifts which meant that I had to drive through snow at all hours of day and night.

The snow that we get here is minimal. It sometimes gets up to a few inches but generally it is just a covering and yet it invariably sparks a crisis. The reason is that most of our drivers do not use their common sense and more importantly they never learn.

Time to upgrade the driving test and ensure that drivers use a skid patch. No excuses we live in the northern hemisphere and we should all know how to control a skid... even mummies on the school run!