One rule for the BBC & another for.....

The BBC have done it again it appears.
Currently (as I'm sure you're all aware ) there's  an awful lot of bellicose rantings going on between North Korea and the affluent nations of the West. Threats & counter threats emanate between the despotic 'government' in Pyongyang & Washington, London et al.
Now it appears the good 'ole have cast their hand into the melee.
It appears as thought a group of students from the London School of Economics went on an educational field trip to the North Korean capital & surrounding area. But unbeknown to the university & the student a group, of undercover BBC reporters infiltrated the group & went along also with the intention of making a propaganda TV programme on the troubled,paranoid far eastern nation.
The action of the BBC apparently put the lives of the students at considerable risk & the students & university are up in arms about the action of the BBC demanding that the TV programme not be shown this evening on UK national television.
The BBC have refused to withdraw the programme.
So here we have it. Given the psychotic nature of the North Korean 'government' & the pretty good chance there is that the students would at best be thrown into prison with hard labour were the infiltration discovered,it seems a bit risky to go ahead & screen.
The BBC seems to think that's it ok  to do so but not ok to play a record from the top ten hit parade that has the lyrics from the 1938 Wizard of Oz film that goes something like "...ding dong the witch is dead... The BBC refused to play this song (now at number 2 in the Top 20 because they said it was disrespectful to Margaret Thatcher.(!)
Damn it the witch IS DEAD.The students are ALIVE. The BBC behaved with underhand dangerous deceit. They should get their priorities right.

My last rant about Thatcher-I hope!!

The funeral of Thatcher is some day next week. I'm not sure exactly when to be honest. I will NOT be watching any news bulletins on TV from Tuesday thru to Friday in case there is coverage of it.

But I found this today which I thought I'd share with you.

Please left click on the photo to view it in its entirety.

Enough said??

This country is mad, totally insane

Ding Dong the witch is dead....
C'mon, what's all the crap about a state funeral? The type of funeral accorded to The Queen Mother & Lady Di apparently. I could argue that their funeral was a waste of money but lets look at it this way shell we?? The Queen ma & Lady Di din't exactly ask to be born into the status they were born into, they had no choice on their life style or how they lived in reality, However Thatcher did. She chose to reek havoc & wreck thousands of peoples lives & had no conscience about what she did. So why are we, the tax paying people who suffered at her hands having to pay an astronomical amount for her funeral?
I won't bore you with all my objections to her acts, deeds & policies. I cannot see anything decent about the person. She was not, as those with short memories claim "a humble grocer's daughter from Grantham". She was a grocer's daughter who had a millionaire husband who financed her political career.
However I do believe this: You should NEVER judge a corpse by its funeral.

Margaret Thatcher

I don't believe its the sad day that lots of people believe it to be-I mean the death of Thatcher. She .died in her sleep today. God knows, if there was ever injustice in this world it was that that witch died in her sleep after all the misery she poured upon the majority of Britons during her time.
She was a warmonger, a destroyer of morale, robber of children's milk,destroyer of the British coal industry, home wrecker, robber of workers rights etc etc.
I morn her not. A bank holiday should be declared to mark her death.
And what what on earth is President Obama on about in his warm words about the witch? God almighty he was only a fresh faced boy when Thatcher was destroying the United Kingdom!
I morn her not.

Scratch & Sniff...

If anyone needed any further proof that the authorities in the UK are losing the plot it came today.
O Yes.... Apparently every household in the UK will receive a 'Scratch & Sniff' card with instructions that using a 10 pence coin the owner is to scratch he raised dots on the card. This will then release the smell of...Cannabis.
The aim of this money wasting scam is that by scratching the card & having a sniff members of the public will be familiar to the smell of Cannabis and then if a Cannabis factory exists nearby whereby you live you can then inform the police.
Words escape me
Think I'll have a scratch...& sniff.

Is their no end....?

..to the hypocrisy of the leader of the Liberal Democrats  Nick Clegg.
This was the politician who in his blurb & promises before the last general election said amongst other things that ..."public schools are a caustic sore on the British educational system".
The other day he announced that he is seriously considering sending his son to the same school that he was sent to....Westminster School. which is a public school.
So once again Clegg reneges on a belief. First he breaks his word on university tuition fees & now he changes his stance on public schools.
How can you trust this man? Any man who agrees to join Cameron as 'co-leader' in governing the Uk an't worth a second glance in my world.
One things for certian though....Clegg has put the Liberal party back decades.

Why the Brits don't holiday in Britain??

I 'll tell you why:
Me & Kate have a couple of days off in early March. We haven't been away since October last year & Kate has been slaving away continuously since then at work (in the NHS) . So we enquired about renting a small self catering bedsit in Whitby (North Yorkshire) during early March.
Now early March in the UK is usually cold, damp & as Whitby is by the sea, its bound to be windy. We sent an email to a couple of renters asking for a quote for 2 days. The cost came back by return email....£160 for 2 days!!! £160! That's why the Brits don't holiday in Britain. Rip off Britain. They can piss off. No way will I fork out that amount of hard earned money for 2 days away In March.