Lose Eurovision and win the World Cup
Germany did this in 1974. We’ve done the first, so here’s hoping.
The News just gets worse
Every day seems to bring bad news stories;BP,Korea, India, volcanoes etc.
Listening to 5 Live
It’s so much better than CNN.
BP’s Gulf Crisis
I’ve done a lot of interesting things in a long working life. One that might help BP is a type of reusable oil rig/platform, for which I did the calculations in about 1972. It was called a Balaena and the company was called Balaena Structures. It was based in Cambridge. I wonder what happened to the idea.
CNN
I’m spending a lot of time watching CNN. It’s got better since last time I watched it.
The Oil Spill
One of the fallouts of DMW was the ability to mix oil and wster easily. I’m sure it could hrlp.
A Friend Across the Ether
i’m lying in bed listening to BBC radio 5 live through the internet. I hope the BBC realises how important a good worldwide feed of the their internet radio staitons is to people like me.
Coalition of All the Losers
Could we really have a coalition of all those who lost the last election?
Brown thinks so!
But would it last more than a few months? Clegg and Brown have big differences and will the British public stomach another unelected Prime Minister after Brown?
I don’t like it! And a lot of other people won’t either! And what if they bring through an anti-Tory voting system to keep power for the near to mid future?
We just have a lot of questions and no answers.
Coalition of all the C’s
Will it work? Perhaps!
A bit of history should be injected here. My father was very much a left-wing Tory and there are quite a few of them still about; Kenneth Clarke for one.
They have always been pro-welfare and the NHS and Cameron has been saying this all along. They are usually for small government with less state control. I don’t think that the Clegg would object to that.
But Cameron is pro-Trident, pro-business, anti-PR, anti-Euro and anti-Shengen.
I voted for my local Tory candidate, but I’m anti-Trident, pro-Euro and pro-Shengen. John Gummer once described me as a classic libertarian, who should read Hayek. I never have. Perhaps I should.
The problem lies with business and the economy. Here they may well have a lot in common, in that one of the real business problems in this country is all of the regulations that envelop small businesses and stop them growing. And where do eighty percent of all private sector jobs come from? The small to medium business sector. Get this right and this would create their place in history.
They may differ on how much to cut the economy, but perhaps two new brains, Osborne and Cable, may well find that the common-ground they must find actually works.
I wish them well! On the other hand anything will be better than NuLabor.
Remember too, that Vince Cable is a widow, although he has now remarried. He understands pain more than most.
The Anonymous Widower 