Coldish, cloudyish and calmish at the castle this morn,
after almost two weeks of rest and recuperation which included five days in the
four poster sniffing, sneezing, sweating coughing, farting, vomiting and
expelling stuff from the rear exit; a course of non penicillin antibiotics,
more than a lot of Lemsips and gallons of Tussis medicine I have finally managed
to fire up the laptop and see if my one remaining brain cell is capable of
stringing more than two words together.
Don’t get too excited-this is a “practise” post, just to
see.....
Anyway:
U-Turn Dave’s fag is apparently telling the rest of his “party”
that he will soon launch the Youth
Contract - a programme designed to help young people into work and slash
unemployment.
Calling it a
"Liberal Democrat drive for youth jobs", do dah said the £1bn
scheme will help get every jobless youngster "earning or learning".
But he will also robustly defend the controversial welfare
reforms, arguing that benefit claimants "owe it to the nation" to
"strain every sinew to find a job".
And will insist that the financial statement later this
month has to slash taxes for ordinary workers and be a "budget for
fairness".
However what’s his name’s speech will contain no major new
policy announcements but is expected to focus instead on
"positioning" the party and outlining its achievements in Government.
That’s going to be a very short speech then.....
Captured on camera by local man Steve Esparaza, the chopper is seen nose-diving before smashing into the ground.
Luckily the pilots were able to walk away from the crash -
even remembering to turn off the engine.
Hope the cost of the chopper doesn’t come out of my license
fee....
Hundreds of
scantily clad and nude cyclists took to the streets of Peru's capital, Lima, to
call attention to safety conditions on the city's roads.
Campaigners say
that thousands have been killed on the roads because of reckless driving.
Many of the cyclists
painted slogans and signs on their bare skin.
No wonder they are getting wiped out-not a helmet in
sight-at least on their heads....
And finally:
Liberal Democrats at the party's spring conference have
decided not to vote on the future of controversial health reforms.
Members voted not to take an emergency motion which urged
the withdrawal of the Health and Social Care Bill, which is nearing the end of
its passage through Parliament.
Campaigners against the NHS changes won enough support to
have their "kill the Bill" emergency motion debated on Sunday at the
party's spring conference in Gateshead.
But, under the party's alternative vote system, the attempt
failed on second preferences.
Instead a rival motion on the same Bill that calls on Lib
Dems to support the changes was selected.
That was put forward by Baroness Williams, who initially had
opposed the proposals.
Couldn’t organise a vote in a ballot box....
That’s it: I’m orf not to buy a Raspberry
Pi
And today’s thought:
Angus
