The liquid metal gauge reads 70 degrees in old language at
the Castle this morn, a whimsy of mist, a smidge of moving atmosphere and still
not a drop of skywater.
Very late this Saturday, overslept because I couldn’t sleep
in the heat, the Honda is turning yellow again and his Maj has discovered the
joy of digging up the newly planted vegetation to have a pee....
It seems that one in three MPs are not happy with the
cleanliness of toilets inside the House of Commons, and one in five also said
they were dissatisfied with Parliament's dining rooms, restaurants and cafes.
A total of 177 MPs and 961 of their staff completed the
annual questionnaire asking for their feedback on the quality of services and
facilities in the Palace of Westminster.
Many complained their offices were only cleaned
superficially and that the lavatories in the Commons were too dirty.
Apparently Toilets in the Norman Shaw North building are in
particular need of regular deep cleaning and modernisation, and Around 20% of
MPs were unhappy with the dining rooms, restaurants and cafeterias in
Parliament and expressed dissatisfaction with the Commons Tea Room and Smoking
Room.
Oh dear what a shame, I wonder what the result would be if
there was a survey of the population on our satisfaction of MPs?
Allegedly the tower housing Big Ben is almost certainly to
be renamed in honour of the Queen for her Diamond Jubilee after a majority of
MPs backed a campaign.
Parliamentary authorities are now expected to support the calls to rename
the Clock Tower as “The Elizabeth Tower” when they meet in a few weeks. David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband are among senior figures from all three major parties that backed the proposal for Parliament to bestow the tribute to the Monarch.
They are among 331 MPs, from a total of 650, who now support the campaign, which is also understood to have backing from the Cabinet Office and Buckingham Palace.
A further 40 MPs have signed a Commons early day motion calling for the east tower at the Palace of Westminster to be formally named "The Elizabeth Tower".
Other MPs backing the idea include the William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary.
Bye, bye St Stephen, nice to see that just over half of
unhappy MPs have their priorities right...
How to cross a river if you are feline...
The Brussels-based French-language press is a bit miffed
because of the release in English of the EU's annual report cards on the bloc's
27 economies.
In an angry open e-mail to the European Commission, the
correspondent for the daily Liberation newspaper Jean Quatremer said -- in
French: "Once again, all the documents published today are available only
in English. This is unacceptable."
A spokesperson for the Commission told AFP that "the
translations are coming."
Happy now Jean....?
White House hopeful Mitt Romney has launched his “With
Mitt" application for the iPhone allowing users to express support for the
recently anointed Republican flag bearer by personalizing a photo with an
overlaid Romney
slogan.
Unfortunately it says “A Better Amercia”.
Romney campaign spokeswoman
Andrea Saul said on MSNBC "Mistakes happen, I don't think any voter cares
about a typo at the end of the day,"
Time will tell.....
More than 700 tons
of smuggled solid waste has been sent back to the Netherlands, its country of
origin, Chinese authorities said on Friday.
The illegal
shipment consisted of 30 containers holding 763 tons of household garbage,
which had been smuggled into China from the Netherlands. They were loaded onto
ships at Zhangjiagang, in Jiangsu province, on Friday morning and will reach
the Port of Rotterdam at the beginning of July, according to a statement
released by customs authorities in Nanjing, capital of the province.
Smuggled in with
the aid of fake shipping documents, the batch of waste was bought by Hepu, a
trading company in East China's Anhui province, through a firm in Taiwan, the
statement said.
The garbage, which
included musty paper, plastic bottles and rotten diapers, was scattered
everywhere. Among it was trash that environmental experts would not allow to be
imported, said the officer, who did not want to be identified.
Following an investigation,
the customs workers found the case involved a trading company in Anhui province
that had purchased the trash from a fibre company in the Netherlands, using a
Taiwan company as an intermediary, the statement said.
Chen Liwen, a
researcher at Green Beagle, a Beijing environmental protection group, say many
businessmen have benefited from the trade in low-quality solid waste from
foreign countries.
"If customs
authorities can't check for these abuses in a stricter way, domestic garbage
from developed countries will pollute our country and damage Chinese people's
health," she said.
Har fucking har.....
A driver who felt his car was losing power checked under the
bonnet – and found a kitten stuck in the engine.
The motorist found the two-month-old creature wedged inside
the exhaust system, with just its head and a paw sticking out.
It was only when he took the vehicle to a garage to have the
animal removed that mechanics noticed it was still alive.
The part was taken out and rushed to a fire station where a
crew cut the feline free.
The kitten had intestinal surgery and is now recovering at a
sanctuary in Rio Verde, western Brazil.
Not funny I know....but.....that picture...
US police are
investigating after a real life cleaning fairy broke into a home to do some
housework.
The woman broke
into a house in Westlake, Ohio, did some light cleaning, then left a bill for
$75.
She broke into the
house while the owners were out but their teenage daughter was asleep upstairs.
The woman took out
the rubbish, vacuumed the carpet and cleaned up the living room.
Homeowner Sherry
Bush said: "I think our jaws just dropped to the ground. There were some
coffee mugs that my husband had out. She had washed them all.
"She wrote a
note on a napkin and left it on the table, saying, '$75 I was here to clean,'
and left her name and number."
Assuming she had
got the wrong house, Mrs Bush gave the woman a call.
"I said, what
happened, did you get the wrong house? She said, 'No, I do this all the time'.
I do like an optimist...
And today’s thought:
Poor piss MP’s
Angus
