Holidays

Jolly hockey sticks, off on holiday for two months

I wish, oh those poor MP's, they need that long break, to recharge the batteries, I don't think, why do they get such long holidays.

If you have the stamina to watch the reports on the debates from Parliament, you just wonder why we have so many MPs, when the chamber has so few people there.

Still I suppose they need to spend all the hard earned money, what do we do, well I for one will be at the lovely place called stopathome, in the garden planting out veg, and thinking how much I can afford to spend on plants, no food seems to be coming down in price, but there again what has come down in price.

This has been an awful week for the service personal and the families, and the poem written by WO1 still haunts me.

Will we ever know the truth of why we are in Afghanistan, if it is about the Taliban in Pakistan, then we should be there helping them, not the other way round, if some knowledgeable person knows please could you tell me.

When will we be told how many casualties have come back since hostilities have started, and how many may never be able to work again?

Reading what this putrid government now has thought up checking up to make sure these service personal are not faking their injuries, to what level will they go to.

Tell me how do they judge a service man or women has Combat Stress Disorder, put them through what test, loud bangs firing mortars or just shouting at them, I would very much like to know.

With this long holiday, when will the equipment that has been promised be delivered to the troops on the ground?

How many casualties have the other forces in Afghanistan, you never see that printed, why?

On to another subject, that of the Girl Guides and Scouting movement having to pay water tax.

Are we sinking so low that soon my cat will be invoiced for drinking the rain water? Well I would not put that pass them.

Service Families

The Knock on the Door

 

The dread of that knock on their door for all service families, with an Officer in uniform speaking words they can hardly take in.

This is what is happening all the time, and we have politician saying that thy

Have put all the money in excess, I have always understood that when we are on active service, the money and procurement have been assess, as to the conditions that will have to be met.

Yes we know that there will be a percentage of casualties from a conflict, but, the picture that is being sent back belies what is going on.

Why is there not a big push from Pakistan to stop the supply of bomb making materials getting through and their army going forward to meet the other armies in a pincher attack, or am I out of date that is how I would see this operation.

To read the news paper, these families must wonder what equipment they have to work with, when the vehicles have been rejected by the USA forces, why are they good enough for our service men and women!.

Does all this news fill them with dread; they would not be human if it did not.

We hear about the dead, but why is there silence about the number of casualties that have been injured and sent home, and as I have said before why do service personal have to go out and get money so that they can receive care, all the talk of money, this government can bail out the banks, but what do they do for the returning sick and injured both in body and mind. They keep this very quite why?

Is this the time to bring in conscription, just think of all those men who run round knifing and shooting people, I think we might find that there would be a mass exit from this country?

I can just hear it now "I know my human rights" you can not make me,

Just think about it, we would save on benefits, housing, and many more.

All those who shouted abuse at the troops, would they disappear.

I am just an old cynic, who hates to see people who have not put a penny into the system, but are very quick to take out,

 

I will go in detail on the subject of affordable housing in another time.

 

Why did I not write up my blog last Sunday well I was in France taking part in the Twinning of Kingsteignton and Orbec. Thirty years

The people of Orbec really looked after us, and what a programme they put on, my feet did not touch the floor, and I'm in need of a holiday to get over it.

One interesting thing was the push of the EU, they had had a grant to build a facility for the community to use plus playing fields for sports and tennis courts, and I come back and look at this concrete jungle of a Town, and think why do we not have this, plus looking at a farm which had been paid for by the EU grants and a works which made baby washing stands for nurseries and hospitals, that also received money.

Their roads are usable not like ours, with very big pot holes and vegetation growing out of the missing road surface.

Yes I know France is bigger then here, why have we not received money like that, or has money been got for other places too make this government look good!

This is Devon but we are missing the space, what little we have will have concrete poured on it , that means housing, but I ask myself who for?

 

 

It's the heat, my lord

Just what is it that brings people out to jeer at service personal who are only doing what this government has sent them to do their dirty work.

I think we should have all the people who object to what is happing in countries of which they have fled, go back and work to improve the situation, and not just cause agro here,

Talking about money, will there be any money left to buy equipment for the armed forces or will we be sending the Generals out shopping to Harrods for supplies. There I go again with my cynic hat on, but what do you expect.

Are any of you people who read this Governors of schools, just have a good look at your finances, and those of other authorities near to you, you may just wake up with a start.

There has been a lot of talk about rubbish bins, may I ask what would you put you rubbish into, have you any idea how much it costs to dump into land fill, and how much the government charges for that, well you pay, and if a lorry that is for green waste has contamination with other materials that goes to land fill, costs more money and a lot more methane gas.

You should be on the receiving end when residents are complaining about smells, not very funny.

If one was to mention incineration even if it was as green as it can be you would have petitions by the million, so what is the answer, do not buy more then you need, refuse plastic covers and bags, why do we need food wrapped in plastic, oh of course good old elfan-safty, do people not wash their veg and fruit any more. Answers on a post card.

Off to France to see how they deal with rubbish, hope not all the time, this is a twinning trip, it will be good to see how they deal with EU laws, and I will let you know.