Hello folks
Well we are up and running. The Brit and Grit wagon rolls. As Grit says, this week we are delving into politics, hence the picture of our Prime Minister and sidekick, and you can be forgiven for wondering which one is which.
Over the past month or so, instead of getting on with the job of governing the country, our Labour party has spent most of it’s time arguing about when Blair should resign. This led to MP’s then starting
to bitch amongst themselves about who should take over.
Most thought that the automatic choice would be George Brown, but now it is not so clear. Publicly, Blair and Brown are trying to appear supportive of each other, but in private, the knives are out. Brown is annoyed because apparently, when Labour first came to power, back in 1997, there was an agreement reached between him and Blair. The crux of the agreement was that Brown would allow Blair to become Prime Minister as long as he agreed to step down after a certain number of years and let Brown take over.
Whatever happened to the public vote? In the old days, which I can still remember, the Prime Minister was effectively voted for by the public, and this is how it should be. Now they have decided that it is too important an issue to be passed over to us mere mortals for a decision. I can imagine how Grit would react if George Bush was to turn round and say that he has decided to hand over the presidency to someone else, and by the way there will not be a vote.
What is worse of course is that, whilst all this infighting is going on, no one is keeping their eye on the ball in terms of running the country. George Brown is already in trouble with the IMF for overspending (and he wants to be PM?). In addition, there is talk about key parts of our National Health being sold to overseas operators to try to counteract the huge losses it is making.
We are one of the highest taxed countries in the world. Our highest rate of Income Tax is 40%. On top of this we have to pay a national insurance contribution which, when you add the employers contribution, comes to around 18% and, if that is not enough, we have to pay Value Added Tax (I think you would call that Sales tax) of 17.5% on virtually everything we buy.
So where is all this money going Mr Blair or Mr Brown, or whoever else currently has the keys to number ten?
Ah, I think I have discovered part of the answer – at least I know where £250,000 ($480,000) of it has gone. They have given it to scientists for research, and guess what they have come up with? ….
Cows' breaking wind and burping is contributing to global warming problems, says an expert.
It has been discovered that one cow emits sufficient methane gases from various orifices to fill four hundred litre bottles. The expert said that this was bad for the environment and, apparently, the gas rises into the sky and enlarges to the hole in the ozone layer. He says that the government needs to address this problem… Methinks they are too busy emitting their own gases to notice.
The Brit
Well we are up and running. The Brit and Grit wagon rolls. As Grit says, this week we are delving into politics, hence the picture of our Prime Minister and sidekick, and you can be forgiven for wondering which one is which.
Over the past month or so, instead of getting on with the job of governing the country, our Labour party has spent most of it’s time arguing about when Blair should resign. This led to MP’s then starting
to bitch amongst themselves about who should take over.
Most thought that the automatic choice would be George Brown, but now it is not so clear. Publicly, Blair and Brown are trying to appear supportive of each other, but in private, the knives are out. Brown is annoyed because apparently, when Labour first came to power, back in 1997, there was an agreement reached between him and Blair. The crux of the agreement was that Brown would allow Blair to become Prime Minister as long as he agreed to step down after a certain number of years and let Brown take over.
Whatever happened to the public vote? In the old days, which I can still remember, the Prime Minister was effectively voted for by the public, and this is how it should be. Now they have decided that it is too important an issue to be passed over to us mere mortals for a decision. I can imagine how Grit would react if George Bush was to turn round and say that he has decided to hand over the presidency to someone else, and by the way there will not be a vote.
What is worse of course is that, whilst all this infighting is going on, no one is keeping their eye on the ball in terms of running the country. George Brown is already in trouble with the IMF for overspending (and he wants to be PM?). In addition, there is talk about key parts of our National Health being sold to overseas operators to try to counteract the huge losses it is making.
We are one of the highest taxed countries in the world. Our highest rate of Income Tax is 40%. On top of this we have to pay a national insurance contribution which, when you add the employers contribution, comes to around 18% and, if that is not enough, we have to pay Value Added Tax (I think you would call that Sales tax) of 17.5% on virtually everything we buy.
So where is all this money going Mr Blair or Mr Brown, or whoever else currently has the keys to number ten?
Ah, I think I have discovered part of the answer – at least I know where £250,000 ($480,000) of it has gone. They have given it to scientists for research, and guess what they have come up with? ….
Cows' breaking wind and burping is contributing to global warming problems, says an expert.
It has been discovered that one cow emits sufficient methane gases from various orifices to fill four hundred litre bottles. The expert said that this was bad for the environment and, apparently, the gas rises into the sky and enlarges to the hole in the ozone layer. He says that the government needs to address this problem… Methinks they are too busy emitting their own gases to notice.
The Brit
posted by Brit & Grit at 12:47 PM
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