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I know who i am backing to win

A Choice

Damm it!

I have a choice coming up, i can either spend a day at somewhere i never thought i would or i can stay around.

The problem is spending a day at somewhere would cost money ( money i don't have till payday tho even have spent some of it already) but fulfil a dream and bring me great memories or, living within my means. Yep i have overspent this month ( as like most other months), the problem is that when i run out of money i am borrowing more money out of next months wages.

But the excitement of going to this place is overwhelming!!!!

What do you think?

Should i go and put myself in debt or save my money and try and get back to balance?

Update:

Is "Bamboo Bollocks" an insult or complement ?

I had a May day

Its not that hard to be honest.

A little while ago i managed to get to a place the day before i needed to. Yep i felt like a prat, idiot etc. But what i also learnt is that we are all human and we all screw up at some stage or other.

My point is this, why should we pay MPs 66k (backbench) and 140k (front bench)  and then expect them to be flawless, Hey they get 5 million of our money so they can have subsidised food and booze,Oh and well also buy them a 2nd home.

Its great as they sit and tell us mere taxpayers what we can and cannot do, they ban things because we might be "offended" , they screw us for a pension.

You know MPs, you are viewed as sleazy (all colours) , thieves , even vandals. yet you sit there and blame us for being cynical

I ask you click on this link : This , this is a briefs exchange between me and a MP, Make your on mind up.

My view is they are ALL out of touch.

Oh and for those that wondered what happened on my *Mayday* i had a lovely time catching up with some friends :)

Crisis?

Bad times today.

While using the inter-web today my screen went blank, as normal thought was my fault (cause and fault not yet known), anyway for the best part of an hour and some i try to restart it, alas no joy (tho the blank screen was consistent) .

so in the end i tried the recovery option, this took a while and restored my factory settings which was helpful :)

Just took another 2 hours to re-install flash player!

The only hope is that most crap i had downloaded onto the here is gone and system will run faster.......

One step at a time eh?

Cheeky buggers!

Stop Press!!!!!

Back in January Guido Fawkes reported this story : Hungry for taxes robbery .


Lets make a few things clear :

1: A backbench MP is on £66K a year without expenses ( Link) .

2: average wage in UK is 22-24K a year.

do you see what i see?

I see some cheeky buggers taken the micky out of us taxpayers, i asked my boss if he would subsidis my lunch and booze, the answer i got was not repeatable.

anyway this had slipped of my radar until today, and then Elizabeth Truss MP tweeted this :

https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/206004648857976832

The picture sums them up.





How apt......

Where now?

Its a good question...

Unparliamentry

So the one time i agree with the PM he has to withdraw his remarks.

But what bugged me was Speaker John Bercow claim it was unparliamentry, first of all surely it is a matter of debate (as is everything in the chamber) ?

But to say calling someone as idiot is unparliamentry is a step to far.

Well Mr Bercow i will tell you what i find unparliamentry, over 1 trillion pound debt, a PM lying to parliament over Wmd , the false claim of abolishing boom and bust, over 50% of Mps stealing money from the taxpayers, the subsidised bars and i restaurants , giving away money to dictators so they can by jets and nice cars, give money to the EU which has not had its accounts signed of for over a decade, taxing the voters into poverty.

I FIND THAT UNPARLIAMNETRY!

This is more proof are what a disgrace the current speaker is and also shows the lack of quality in our members of parliament.

Yep, i am missing something again

A few days ago  newspapers and twitter where talking about government *plans* to make it easier to sack workers, this lead to the left attempting to get on the high horse.

Well i ask those on the left this simple question:

Why would an employer want to sack someone who is good at the job they are hired to do?

It may be a simple question but to anyone who works in small business it will be the right one. Why would they get rid of someone who does their job then go to the trouble of interviewing and hiring then training someone else up.

So what other reason could there be for the left to be against it?

Why?

Watching Test match cricket has thrown up a question.

As you all know i am not a middle class person or educated, but something is bugging me.

I am a massive fan of Test match cricket, i love watching the battle between bat and ball. I am also English and support England, However this does not stop me and other England fans applauding Shiv`s great batting at Lords this test match.

But, I am also a football fan and support West Ham as my team and my country England, Yet in football it seems you cant clap if a opposition player scores a "worldy" (as Paul Merson would say). In fact you can only value whatever your own team does, you must back your club 100% no matter what you personally think.

I will say that most fans of football love the game as well as their club, they can see when opposition score a beauty, does some great defending and rightly applaud it. This brings me on to Liverpool FC and Chelsea FC.

Luis Suarez as found guilty of a offence under the laws of the game and handed a 8 match ban, Liverpool didn't appeal but Kenny and players claimed his was innocent (Liverpool signed up to same rules as other clubs), Then their is Chelsea, John Terry caught on camera calling the brother of his England colleague a "Black cunt", Ok JT hasn't been found guilty and deserves a fair trail, but most have seen the tape. How can this be taken out of context?

Side note: John Terry has been picked for the Euros but Rio hasn't....

Anyway, back to my point, what is it that makes football a place of some of the most vile hatred in sport? is it to tribal? do you love your club more than whats right?

And we wonder why there are no openly gay footballers in top two divisions in England.

We are back

What a day of sport yesterday!!!


The Champions league final, the Scottish cup final and the Test match at Lords. But it is clear that the big game happened here in London, That's right West Ham v Blackpool was the one that mattered.

Our fans,players and owners were outstanding yesterday.

However i hope those fans that gave the team some stick earlier in the season ans called on our owners to sack Big Sam now realise how silly they were, the club has maintained the aim of the club was to get promoted back to the premier league with in 2 seasons, Sam got us up at first attempt. Ok it would have been better to go up automatically but at the end of the day the target or promotion was made (only team that got relegated last season to go back up).

I will not deny that Sam wasn't my first choice, But he is the one the owners choose, If he can do with us what he did with Bolton then i will be happy ( mid table finish).

So a big thank you to the owners, fans and Sam and his staff for reaching their target and get the mighty West Ham back where we belong , in the premier league :)

In Big Sam and the owners i trust !

House-keeping

Thanks for reading my blog, i enjoy writing it, i may not be able to put into words what i want.

I had mixed views of what i wanted when i started this blog, I didn't know whether i anted to try and make money from it, don't worry i soon realised it wouldn't make money.

Then someone tweeted me something that hit me in the right place. I thought i would write a blog that others wanted to hear, No, i needed a blog where i wrote what i wanted to say. I wanted to put my beliefs to the test, and so far its gone ok.

I still don't have the best spelling or grammar grasp, but i hope i am improving.

I had ideas to put up a favourite poem each week and a caption contest, but that is other peoples ground.

I want to write, it maybe rubbish to you (sometimes i might agree) , but its my rubbish. I have never had this freedom to get my life across, i maybe never will. Am i trying to sell myself? Yes of course, If i don't seek to impress or try and improve then i go backwards. I cant mix with those that are educated for a long time (eventually my lack of education shows) but i am not jealous, nor do i have envy, I think about who i can make myself better.


Anyway that's me.