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If ministers stopped interfering and allowed the Public Sector to actually get on with their jobs it would help. They have to be 'seen to be doing something' or be judged ineffectual, so we get a continuous merry-go-round of policy changes or the latest 'initiative' thought up by some bright young thing, or ivory tower ensonced intellectual with no experience of the real world. Huge amounts of money are wasted in closing down or reversing current practice or projects, especially in ICT. ( And that's a jibe aimed at ALL politicos, not just the current melange ). Also, look at the amounts being spunked out for over valued PFI arrangements, - to the extent that we are about to see an NHS Trust go into liquidation.

Jeremy Kyle could help her find out.

Regarding the rioters and their social poverty : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025068/UK-riots-Middle-class-rioters-revealed-including-Laura-Johnson-Natasha-Reid-Stefan-Hoyle.html http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1456277_jailed-the-middle-class-yobs-who-joined-the-manchester-riots http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/dan-hodges/2011/08/middle-class-riots-jonnie I sure cancelling benefits payments and forcing them to find 'proper' jobs is an ideal solution for that lot.

Every person over 19 was a teenager for 7 years, and should remember that. Similarly, most of today's teens will in 30 years time be moaning about their own hormonally driven spotty oiks.

Looking at some of the other proposals, only pay benefits to the literate : "People could be forced to learn to read, write and count in order to continue getting benefits under welfare plans unveiled by David Cameron today." http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/learn-to-read-and-write-if-you-want-to-get-benefits-says-david-cameron-7880659.html

Doing what ? Not trying to be snide, but where does this "work" actually come from ? Who are they working for ?

But what are they ?

The problem is that doesn't amount to very much. Still I like the quote about the beefing up of the UK forces in the South Atlantic "Only one side in this argument has nukes". Whether that referred to the method of propulsion of the RN subs, or the warheads on the missiles, I'm not sure.

But at least we've still got Gibraltar and the Falklands.

You might ask David Lampitt.

Meanwhile the matter of 'club 12' draws to a head : http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18539483 [h=1]"Rangers newco will not get Aberdeen, Dundee Utd or Hearts votes"[/h]

At least it produces electricity - unlike that main despoiler of countryside, the golf course.

Excluding this thread of course.

How many other industries get subsidies and tax breaks ? How many 'economic development zones' exist only because these 'incentives' are in place ?

Bury market is the best place in the world for black puddings.

Complete rowlocks.

There does seem to be some small irony in the fact that a club notorious for deliberately flouting financial common sense to gazzump players from other teams is now complaining that it cannot even sign a free transfer.

Do they need an excuse ?

An interview he gave in April that doesn't quite reflect the above interpretation: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change?lite "Asked if he was now a climate skeptic, Lovelock told msnbc.com: “It depends what you mean by a skeptic. I’m not a denier.” He said human-caused carbon dioxide emissions were driving an increase in the global temperature, but added that the effect of the oceans was not well enough understood and could have a key role. “It (the sea) could make all the difference between a hot age and an ice age,” he said. He said he still thought that climate change was happening, but that its effects would be felt farther in the future than he previously thought. “We will have global warming, but it’s been deferred a bit,” Lovelock said." " …..stressed that humanity should still “do our best to cut back on fossil fuel burning” and try to adapt to the coming changes. "

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For anybody 'concerned' about the lack of confirmed transfers, check out what all the other clubs have, ( or more accurately have not ), done so far : http://www.premierleaguetransfers.net/your-club-transfer-news

Matthew ( Le ) ...

Although I feel we may disagree on who qualifies as a 'benefits slob', though I accept they do exist, I otherwise totally concur with this statement

I thought this side story was more interesting from the perspective of a 'military enthusiast' : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/9258110/World-War-II-RAF-Kittyhawk-fighter-plane-found-in-the-Sahara-Desert-in-Egypt.html?frame=2215708

Exit and Let Down, but I prefer The Bends as a complete album.