Boxing Day madness

No, not the sales, the UK.

Student shot in the head. Killed.
Shopper stabbed. Killed.
Baby sitter stabbed. Killed.

It's hard to convince people the UK has not gone to the dogs.

Well that didn't take long

Throughout the 1980s UK employment was increasing. Thatcher's government used unemployment - threat or reality - as a weapon. As unemployment went up they kept changing the way they counted the stats - eventually counting only those actually receiving benefits while reducing the number of people qualifying; in other words taking money away from people who'd already lost their jobs just to make the stats look better.

Eventually the stats started to rise again what with the tories being the natural party of unemployment.

Fast forward to 2011 and it's announced that the UK has the highest rate of unemployment since 1996.

That was the last year of the tory government.

We are now little more than a year into the new tory government. It didn't take them long to get unemployment up to the levels of when they were last in power.

Hot Cross Buns & Blackberries

Went shopping. Bought some blackberries.

I could pick them for free in so many places back in England. It seems strange to pay for them. But they are absolutely delicious. Plump and juicy and no little bits sticking out. Completely ripe too.

From Mexico.

I was hoping to get some mince pies or a single one if there were no little ones. But I came back with hot cross buns instead. Weird. They're an easter thing, not the run up to xmas.

Friday, 24 June

Further to my post on that date, the man concerned is under a lot of pressure .

It's still too early to say and I'm saving my "told you so" but he has disappointed.