Did you know that if you hold a large seashell to your ear you can hear the deafening silence of UKIP complaining about the London Ambulance Service bringing 175 foreigners into the country to be paramedics, with plans to have another overseas recruitment drive in September.
Entries from January 27th, 2015
Fact of the day
January 27th, 2015 · Comments Off on Fact of the day · Politics
Tags: Immigration·UKIP
A blast from the past
January 27th, 2015 · Comments Off on A blast from the past · Life, Technology
While looking for something in the system32 directory of a Windows 7 computer the other day (I still can’t quite bring myself to call it a folder) I came across the file pifmgr.dll It was a bit like when you are on Facebook or Linkedin and see the name of somebody you knew or worked […]
Thumbs down
January 27th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Politics
At tonight’s council meeting, to the surprise of nobody, the council effectively voted in favour of an extra runway at Heathrow. The vote was 25 to 11. Presumably the reason why that only adds up to 36 is because of the very public declaration by one councillor that he wouldn’t vote on something that wasn’t […]
Tags: Gatwick
Churchill
January 25th, 2015 · Comments Off on Churchill · Life
The anniversary of Churchill’s death this weekend saw Nicholas Soames popping up all over the TV. As you may guess, I am not a big fan of Soames. On top of all the normal reasons to dislike a Tory you can add his shamelss trading on the reputation of his illustrious relative. I do think […]
Tags: Tories
Decision time
January 25th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Politics
Tomorrow night the local council will be having a special meeting about airport expansion and deciding whether to support an extra runway at Gatwick, oppose it, or not offer an opinion. It is a strange one because the topic is just about the most significant one locally for a long time, and yet the decision […]
Tags: Gatwick
Permutations
January 20th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Politics
All the so-called experts are poring over sets of inconsistent polls, trying to work out what might happen in the general election. Will the Lib Dems still be in a coalition with the Tories or would the Tories combine with UKIP? Might Labour have to form a coalition with the Greens and SNP and maybe […]
Tags: Elections
