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What is the man thinking ???

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009 ... asset-sale

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ficit.html

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Gordon Brown saying I got the country into it's current economic mess so I'll get us out of it is the same as Bomber Harris nipping over to Dresden and offering to repair a few windows.

Chaos, panic and disorder - my work here is done.

http://www.wildcrafts.co.uk

He's thinking, let's put the knife in even further, before twisting it and killing off the UK, and the pound, once and for all. Let's see how long it takes before the British people start screaming.

Take care
Dixie

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Useless laws weaken necessary laws.

The Labour Party is just about bankrupt, which doesn't give much hope of the running the countries finances

Starting to think the guy does not just need sacking but prosecuting for gross negligence.

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Driving fast is for a particular time and place, I can do it I just only do it occasionally because I am a gentleman.
- James May

Filled my car with tax this evening, prosecution for theft is one option, the other being a blunt instrument.

I happen to think that Blair, Brown and Bush have been the West's worst leaders since WWII and they all came at once.

Or we could just sell him to the states - might just pay something off the national debt ( the shocks were for what the Yanks would get)

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on

Gets rid of the maintenance/repair costs of the various assets and passes them to commercial enterprise. Who will doubtless have to raise prices....interesting that the other two would also do the same but "not at the moment". Hmm. Election soon, so they would say that anyway.
If you seriously thought that the conservative parties "bonfire of public services" would only mean lower car and fuel tax you must be slightly under the 'fluence of something.
Number one:NO (that's NO) party is going to lower fuel tax or car tax. Let me repeat that: NO PARTY (not without putting it on something else...like ROAD PRICING) ( which IS going to arrive no matter WHICH party is in power)
Look at the machinations at Cambridge to get congestion charging in.
The infrastructure is already being installed...and with sales and private financing of roads coming along quite well the actual arrival of pricing and collection is only a matter of time.
Have a read on data handling/problem solving, with road "pricing":
NU As-You-Drive-Pricing
The links are interesting at the page bottom as well....
I just noticed THIS on the news....the Great Conservative Sell Off !

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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing