Someone sittin on the fence....

What a day, the Labour fightback marches on!!!!

Apparently the PM (Call me Dave) has proposed cutting or scrapping housing benefit for under 25`s,  and as normal someone from Labour goes a little bit over the top.

As readers will know i am all for free speech, but when people go a little bit over the top and rant its always worth reading.

Step forward Labour Councillor Julie Hodgkiss , who doesn't hold back in think what she thinks of Tories:

This

"And what of kids leaving care? Have they answered that yet ? #toryscum"

And then this :

"

#Bedroomtax. Where are we going to build this city of adapted bungalows Mr Cameron? #toryscum"

Followed by  this :

"Let's tell all the kids sitting an exam THAT day, they're all stooopid and their work is pointless !!! Rahhh #toryscum"

And then calmed down with this :

" I'll stop ranting now twitter. Goodnight."

Good idea, If Ed Miliband and Labour want to appeal to potential swing voters maybe its not a good idea to label them as "toryscum" eh? 

Just a thought.....


Update: I missed one :

"People. PEOPLE, human beings, have to live SOMEWHERE. #toryscum"

This will inspire!

As tweets drift down my time line (when i look at it) something sometimes catches my eye, sometimes out of curiosity or someone i always read, So when Better together tweeted this i thought i would have a look as i had only just followed them.

"BBC has sneak preview of our leaflets which start going out in the morning http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-18572750"

That's the tweet.

What caught my attention was the leaflets which they mention this , what a joke, boasting about the amount of money that taxpayers give to other countries, i mean that is really going to win voters over? they see their politicians with their snouts in the trough on a daily basis and the same politicians then boast about how much of your money they give away, still at least they are not buying Jets with it eh?.

Anyway if people were paid to design those leaflets then i say they are as out of touch as the people they campaign on behalf of.

I am all for Scottish independence, but i also what a fair contest.

Links Via BBC and Daily Mail and video from Youtube.

This tune is to help make those lovely People in Scotland  feel very patriotic :)

A tune from my younger days.

Enjoy :)

Oh, how we change over the years......

I wanna tell you something

I love blogging, i love reading an opinion from any side.

I want to focus on one word of that sentence. That word is "reading", as you readers know i am uneducated and from a different background from some readers and followers on twitter, Yes i have had a rough time in my past, but my biggest regret is not being able to read ( and write) properly.

I have so many things i want to say to you but cannot express or explain, while my spelling has improved (thanks spell check) and i strive to learn even by asking what some of you see as silly/stupid questions, well they not silly or stupid to me. One tip i picked up was to always ask questions (even if you get no reply), if you don't ask the question then you have no chance of a reply.

Like i said i want to improve.

Some of you will know that for Christmas i was given two books, They are :

1: Animal farm by George Orwell

2: The original River Cottage cookbook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

 I wanted these so i could learn and improve my reading skills, However my wish to improve has been taken over by a touch of fear. To get into a book you must be able to understand properly ,quite quickly to keep up with flo of story etc.

Reading and understanding a words on a blog is ok, but try reading a book needing to use google to find out what the words mean is slightly different.

The two books i mention still sit their waiting for me to read them with me wanting the same, however fear is holding me back.

But i intend to overcome this, slowly but surely.

Good Strike Rate!

That was a comment from tonight's T20 cricket.

This is what the noble game of Cricket has come to, the player in question had hit 18 from about 10-12 balls (including a massive six) in setting a target for his team to defend (which they didn't). That's it people to be good/great you have to be a 20/20 *star*, i cringe after watching a lot of the IPL, the interviews before the toss, Talking to players during the game dancing ladies and men plus all the fire works. No people this is not cricket.

When players are now travelling the world doing the t20/ipl/big bash roadshow deciding whether they will represent their countries or pick up another fat cheque from a 2-bit circus of *entertainment* and disrespecting the great game of Test Cricket just to stroke their own egos.

How do we turn this around? Its simple, as fans we should use the market, lets stop watching this, If we don't watch they wont broadcast meaning they wont play it. I would love to see more 4 day county games rather than 4 nights/afternoons of bash and scamper.

The highest level of the game is 5 day Test cricket, the fair battle between bat and bat, the real test of your mental and physical ability.

A Test cap is worth more than any IPL cheque, Big Bash trip and domestic slog put together.

We are all custodians of the game.

PC Pain 2

I need to access at wireless network that already exists , am using the same modem.

Need idiots guide (step by step) please?

Update

Thanks for all your tips, However the PC is being very moody, i shall win with this* :)


*Just not today ;)

You have all been very helpful.

Update:

It seems my desktop has not got Wifi.

This problem will be sorted, thankyou again for all your help :)

P.C Pain

It finally arrived.

Nearly a week late my new PC arrived, It looks fantastic, i have a better screen, faster bits inside it and it was fairly easy to set up. So once done i excitedly downloaded firefox (i like it) and then log in to twitter and mail etc, then i came across a problem, it seems a few of the buttons are in the wrong place, the @ button gives you this " and the # button gives you \ .

Now i know that sometimes mistakes happens and the odd rouge bit can slip through the net but it doesn't inspire confidence in the rest of the bits if they cant even get the keyboard right.


Update:

After one failed attempt i done it , so thankyou for your help HappySlayerUK and  Tachybaptus  :)

Another Labour policy?

In an piece today, Jon Cruddas ( Labours policy review) has hinted that the Labour party under Ed Miliband will offer the voters a referendum on our membership of the EU , this is from the post :

"He wants to plug the public into the debate on Europe by offering an "in/out" referendum once the shape of the new Europeon union in known"

While i and many people will welcome this i seem to remember Ed Miliband ruling it out, Has Jon managed to change Eds mind?

The thing is, if any of the main parties offer us a referendum (and they convice us that they will keep the promise) it would give them a boost in the polls and help restore trust in politics.

So i do welcome this policy from the Labour party  and i hope that Ed Miliband will come on and tell us that he does back a referendum.

But what will happen if we vote the wrong way? ;)

Cricket

It`s been a sad day for cricket.

This morning we got the sad news that Tom Maynard had passed away and to be honest I have been trying to get my head round it. I cannot put into words how i feel, this has drained everything out of me today and made me cry.

Tom was only 23.

My thoughts are with Tom`s family and friends.

Rest in peace Tom

This is a statement from Surrey Cricket club : here

Say it again?

I am not a fan of doing politics on a Sunday but, i have just came across this tweet : here which you can also see here .

Matthew Hancock MP says "Very powerful restatement of why it's wrong to leave our debts to our children" , quite right as well.

One slight problem! When the coalition came to power the debt was around 800 billion pounds, yet Treasury says its going to rise to as much as 1.4 trillion pound.


So Mr Hancock , how exactly are you dealing with the debts?

Unless he meant our grandchildren? 

Weekend music

Enjoy :)

How Dare You!

While watching the England V Sweden game from Euro 2012 i was keeping a eye on twitter just to see reaction and emotions to the games events.

As you know on the list of people i follow are politicians, well today its Ian Austin MP with this one : picture or to see original tweet see here , Now i am sure he did not want to offend Liverpool fans, however i do think that that calling Andy Carroll a "donkey" is a bit harsh, this is a player that Liverpool Football Club paid £35 million pounds for.

I mean, imagine in a Tory MP called a Labour MP a "donkey" there would be outrage at Guardian Towers!!!

And, besides i think many donkeys up and down the country will be offended by that comparison ;)

On the other note, England did win 3-2 against Sweden.


Pic via Mister_Snoops