(Just a quick one because I’m knackered. Sunday late shift makes the rest of the week look easy).
Apparently Michael Gove and some other toad-like creatures are pretending to talk tough about the EU. I’m with Quiet Man on this one – I don’t believe a word of it.
Unless we see some actual action on this, it all gets categorised along with the Cameroid’s ‘cast iron guarantee’ that turned out to be wax, and melted in the heat of election. More words will impress only the gullible and the wishful thinkers. If Cameroid’s lot get voted back in, the promise of a referendum will be shifted back to after the next election.
Same thing if the Moribund party get voted in. As for the Lib Dems, this is likely to be their last taste of power for a very, very long time. However, if they manage to tag onto the coat tails of one of the other sets of wasters again, nothing will change there either.
As long as any of those parties are in power (and that does include Oily Al’s spiteful nannying party) we can forget about getting anything back from the EU and absolutely forget about even having the chance to vote on staying or leaving.
We’ll only begin the process of becoming a proper country again if UKIP get in, and they don’t have a single MP yet. The SNP has more MPs in Wastemonster than UKIP, which makes no sense at all but then this is politics. It makes no sense at all most of the time. That’s why most people prefer to ignore it.
We can only hope that, by the time the next election rolls around, people will start to notice that all this talk about getting tough with the EU is nothing more than words. In the words of Little Alex’s probation officer in ‘A Clockwork Orange’, “Actions speak louder than.”
And so to sleep, after I get Carr’s weathering powders off my fingers. Post office tomorrow on the way to work, soon the pay will begin and the frantic eBaying can go back to being a hobby. Better yet, the eBay income can then go back into OO gauge. I’ve taken to buying the broken stuff on sale there, I have three not-too-badly-busted coaches, some bogies and a couple of very nice diecast frames for seven-plank wagons. I plan to build most of my rolling stock this time. No nasty bright coloured plastic, at least some of it will be made of stripwood planking. Also, no Hornby Volvo-bumper couplings that have the wagons about six feet apart.
I have also begun construction of a vehicle for Smoking Head. Well, Smoking Torso now, he has grown a body. Not a truck, that would take too long. Photos will follow.
Have you considered making a fresh start in eighteen mil guage?
I have thought about it but it means building track, and there’d be a lot of track.
Knowing your delight at the encroachments of our ever-increasingly nannying state, I thought this article might tickle your sensitivities, and perhaps ruin your day – to be found on the Supanet website (sorry, can’t do links…):
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One in five British mothers and fathers say drinking helps parenting
Recent survey Charity 4Children calls for a ‘major public information campaign’…
PUBLISHED 14:56 13 October 2012
Charity 4Children’s recent survey has made an alarming discovery: one fifth of Britain’s mothers and fathers are convinced that drinking doesn’t negatively affect their parenting. In fact, these people claim drinking make them better parents.
Of those parents who participated in the survey, seven percent admitted to drinking everyday but only nine percent of them are aware of its negative effect on their children, or on their family life.
One in five parents, on the other hand, believes that drinking has a positive impact on their parenting skills, as referred to in a recent report by the Mail Online.
This shocking revelation has prompted charity 4Children to call for a major public information campaign. It is their aim to educate parents about the negative impact of their drinking on their children.
Mark Bennett, Director of policy at 4Children, is believed to have claimed that the findings back up the belief that many British parents view drinking alcohol “as normal as drinking tea”.
He said, as quoted by the Mail Online: “Part of the problem is people don’t realise that they are causing problems by drinking to excess habitually.
“It could first be one glass, which leads to another. If parents have had a bottle of wine or more, their ability to react to their child, especially a small child, will be impaired.”
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One thing that frightens me is that my other half agrees with this!
Ha! Yes, and in spades! I have four kids, and all my life, drinking alcohol (and almost as much, smoking dope) has been as normal as drinking a cup of tea.
I’m not talking about getting utterly wasted here, just normal tippling. Sure, if you have trouble standing up, it ain’t going to be beneficial to the kids, but normal toping is natural.
My kids have all grown up to be admirable adults; well adjusted, capable, independent, self-reliant and intelligent. None of them have ever thought that their parents drinking was detrimental to their lives. In fact, it hasn’t even occurred to them that it is out of the ordinary. They were loved and cared for at least as well as any of their peers. They were taught how to behave in company so they can now move comfortably in any social circles, their education was supplemented at home so they knew more than just the basics they were taught at school and they were introduced to whatever extra-curricular activities they wanted that would further round-out their characters.
“This shocking revelation has prompted charity 4Children to call for a major public information campaign. It is their aim to educate parents about the negative impact of their drinking on their children.”
Tossers. Fucktards. They know zilch. Why don’t they just crawl back into the abyss from whence they came. The world would be a much better place.
Ahhhh; if voting did any good, it would be made illegal.