A lack of height in the liquid metal gauge, but it is still
nice, sunny and calm at the Castle this morn.
Woke up this day to find that the one remaining brain cell
has managed to fire itself up; so instead of a three cylinder two stroke DKW it
has returned to a V8 Asbo Martin -took long enough...
Just returned from the stale bread, gruel and pussy food run
dahn Tesco-the go-juice forecourt was heaving with a bit to spare at 07.30-I
see that no one is panicking then...
Nice to be back though.
But it seems he is exceeding even his Piss Poor standards.
Not only is he facing the wrath of the pie gobblers over VAT
on ‘warm’ food, but has plunged what is left of Blighty into a panic over flammable
liquid in large boxy vehicles.
But should we really be surprised; so far he has managed to
bring the economy to a standstill, raise taxes for ordinary folk while reducing
them for the rich, is about to privatise the NHS and the roads, and along with
the rest of the Millionaires Club Coalition has reduced our warm and dry island
to a third world country.
Still, at least he hasn’t taxed air-------yet...
Meanwhile:
Plod has “lost” £113,000 seized from criminals in 2009 from
a "secure storage area" in the village of Leek Wootton.
The force, suspecting it may have been taken by a police
officer, set up a secret investigation in an attempt to catch the culprits. But
after a six-month inquiry no one has been caught and the force has decided to
go public with an appeal for information.
That really gives one confidence in the Woodentops...
It seems that the Duck and Duckess of the place that isn’t
Oxford have decided that going on the piste is more important than attending Friday's
service of thanksgiving for Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Princess
Margaret at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
Nice to see that holidays come before duty....
Moves to start peace talks aimed at averting a strike by
fuel tanker drivers will be stepped up today amid fears that panic buying of
petrol will escalate.
Many garages have reported long queues after Cabinet Office Minister
Francis Maude suggested drivers should fill up any spare jerry cans with petrol
and keep them in garages.
But another Government minister admitted Mr Maude had made a
"mistake" after fire safety experts warned of the dangers of storing
petrol.
Conciliation service Acas is trying to convene talks between
the Unite union and seven companies involved in the dispute over terms and
conditions and safety.
Sales of petrol were up 45% on Tuesday and diesel was up
20%, in what appeared to be a sign of panic-buying by motorists, with the trend
seeming to continue last night.
Unite has not set any strike dates and has been stressing
its willingness to negotiate.
Join the other sixty three million in the same club
chaps....
And finally:
Kazakh farmers have
voiced their opposition to the country’s new ecological legislation that
imposes taxation on livestock manure, which has been declared an
environmentally harmful substance, local television channel 31 said.
All livestock is
currently being registered at the expense of the owners for manure taxation
purposes, the channel said on Tuesday.
“We’d prefer if the
state encouraged people to take up animal husbandry, rearing livestock for meat
and milk,” farmer Viktor Khilchenko was cited as saying.
The annual payment
will be moderate, costing under 1,600 tenge ($11) per ton of manure, a local
official told the channel. The new Environmental Code, which came into force
earlier this year, treats manure as a waste product and not a fertilizer.
Local rights groups
will campaign to have the law overturned, the report said.
This is not the
first attempt by Kazakhstan to tax manure. In 2003, authorities in the eastern
part of the country unsuccessfully tried to impose a similar law, saying it
will prevent local settlements from being clogged with livestock by-products.
Hope son of a B....aronet and alien reptile in disguise
George (the public pays for my go-juice) Osborne doesn’t read this....
And today’s thought:
Angus
