The Museum Of Modern Thinking

Amazingly, the US bail-out “plan” has been rejected. I say amazingly, as I was expecting it to be blindly voted through and then copied over here. I hope the rejection of the plan by Congress will give the government here pause for thought. It’s very pleasing to see Congress act on behalf of the taxpayer, although I do wonder of the representatives would have voted differently if they had not been in an election year.

And obviously, since my last post touching on Northen Rock, us British taxpayers are now going to be saddled with the toxic debt of Bradford and Bingley, at a cost of roughly £50billion – cheers, Gordon

And don’t even get me started on Gordon Brown’s “age of irresponsibilty” comment – he was in charge of the treasury for the last ten years! Admittedly he did not cause the global credit crunch, but he could have practised some of that prudence he always talked about and put some money inside instead of using my great-grandson’s money (nb great-grandson not born yet) to pay us out of this mess!

For a better definition of this mess that Gordon Brown has got us in, the excellent Taxpayers’ Alliance has published a report on Gordon Brown’s economic failure, which makes for sobering (and blood-boiling) reading – can we not have a general election and chuck this bankrupt party out?

With the taxpayer propping up Northern Rock for £100billion, and the Labour looking like it will have to borrow £90billion (twice the projected borrowing), why is Gordon Brown spending an extra £1 billion on child care and £300 million on providing free broadband to “impoverished” families (bottom of article)? You can get online for free at your local library!

That’s mine and yours and our children’s bloody money he’s frittering away, and taxes will have to increase to pay for these schemes and the debt Labour have put us in. What’s worse is that it will probably be the Conservatives who will have to put taxes up after Labour’s “scorched earth” spending plans, and they won’t be liked for it. Labour have been an awful infliction on this country – I’m sure they mean well, but in many areas, spending has increased and services have been cut or delivery of services is piss-poor (e.g. my mum’s dislocated shoulder being missed by the NHS).

Rant over, for now. To cheer us up, here’s George Osborne and his separated-at-birth twin:

Now, courtesy of the Tax Payer’s Alliance, you can find out how much Gordon Brown has screwed over the British tax payer:

Enjoy! Or, like me, be depressed.

From the Daily Telegraph: “Prescott tells Labour to get behind Brown” – to stab him in the back?

We surely can’t stand much more of Gordon Brown in charge of the country – I’d even be prepared to let another Labour minister have a go, I’m that desperate

Cuddly polar bears, eh?

The photo was taken by Gill Pittaway from Esprick, Lancashire for the Daily Telegraph Big Picture photography competition – nice photo!

Nice to see those endangered polar bears not clinging to icebergs and managing to eat

The above is sarcasm: the photo of the polar bear clinging to the iceberg has been hijacked by the Greens, and polar bear numbers are actually increasing, giving Sarah Palin something to shoot, I guess

Lots going on in-between posts: buying a new car as the Astra was crippling my knees, off on holiday to Malta again (slightly ruined by dodgy stomach, most odd), work, shouting at the television, enjoying the Govt meltdown, not enjoying the financial meltdown, making jams and chutneys and tomato ketchup, building a log store…

Ooh, it’s all go