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Do Politicians Ever Really Think?
I sometimes wonder if the politicians of the world ever really think for themselves or just go along with the crowd. We vote them in to represent us, but once that process has been done, we rarely see them until the next election when they ask us to vote for them again. They represent us [...]
Riots, Riots and more Riots!
In the last few days in London here in the UK, we have seen numerous riots involving what appears to be young people both white and ethnic. They have set buildings, cars and even a bus on fire, and have smashed dozens of shop windows and looted the contents. Although the police have been doing [...]
Does Politics really have the answer?
It occurred to me the other day that the problem with most politicians is that they are actually afraid to do anything very much. Take a normal Member of Parliament in the UK. Does he or she feel absolutely free to make what comments or suggestions they feel are correct? Of course not, they have [...]
Should Everyone Be Entitled to Benefits?
In the UK we are faced with a huge deficit which mounts to thousands of pounds for every man, woman and child in the country. Irrespective of how we got to this situation and irrespective of who might be to blame, we are all obligated to do our bit to help reduce that sum. Now [...]
Should We Freely Pay Benefits?
The new coalition government is concerned about all those people who receive benefits of various kinds every week when perhaps they are not really entitled to them. We all know that sometimes things happen in our lives which results in our needing help to manage financially. Perhaps that is because we have lost our job [...]
Retiring at 66, 67 or even 70 plus?
Over the last few days we have been hearing a lot about the proposed changes to the retirement age. For men that is likely to start going up from 2016 to 66 and then progressively until the age of 70 or even later. The issue I have is that the idea is fine, as it [...]
Are We Killing Our Young Peoples Futures?
We have heard so much about the ‘ring-fencing’ of education during the recent election campaign here in the UK that I started to ask myself the question – Why? After all, all our children are getting an education at the moment and by ‘ring-fencing’ education surely all we are doing is allowing any waste to [...]
Cutting that Deficit
Yesterday we heard the new coalition government talking about the huge monumental debt problems that the country is experiencing and likely to do so for the next decade or so. Cut! Cut! Cut! This seems to be what is being said. For whatever reason, it appears that we have, as a country, overspent and over [...]
Employing 18 to 25 year olds – Is it fair?
The previous Government decided that there were to many young people unemployed and as a result they would introduce a scheme to effectively guarantee 18 to 25 year olds who had been out of work for 12 months a job. The scheme provides upto £6,500 per person given a job. That is equivalent of just [...]
