Usual at the Castle this minging Monday morn, wet, cold,
calm and dismal, but the good news is that “they” have finally lifted the
hosepipe ban dahn ‘ere in ‘Ampshire, all I have to do now is find the bleedin
thing under all this water.
No post yestermorn, the vast amounts of skywater finally
managed to overwhelm the subterranean telephonic cables and my land line and
interweb thingy went tits up for the day.
Just got back from the stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food
run dahn Tesco, his fave Whiskas-jelly-meat stuff has been reduced from £4.39
to three squids per box, and as I pulled into the car park I saw a Bomb
Disposal Lorry in one of the spaces so I parked next to it-the safest place to
be I thought, just in case.
C’est la vie
And: The jolly old Farnborough Air Show begins this day, a
week of ten mile detours, traffic jams and noise from “combat” jets which we
can't afford.
U-Turn Cam will be in the next town to Aldershot to
celebrate the signing of a contract worth £50 million for a full flight
simulator for the Airbus A400M.
The simulator will be located at RAF Brize Norton in
Oxfordshire.
The simulators are designed and built by Thales Training and
Simulation in Crawley, West Sussex, with the contract helping sustain 50
high-tech UK jobs and skills.
Which works out at £1 million per job.
I wonder if the Prime Monster read This:
Engine issues have again curtailed the participation of the Airbus Military
A400M in the flying display of a major air show after the manufacturer
announced the type would only be shown on the static park at the Farnborough
air show, which starts on 9 July.
"The decision to have the aircraft on static
display only is based on engine issues that happened last week which need
further investigation," says Airbus Military.
Instead, it will show the first production
representative example, MSN6.
The MoD has ordered 22 of the A400Ms to replace the fleet of
C-130 Hercules, with the first delivery expected in 2014.
Nice one shit for brains.....
The Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition
has gorn and done it again- An attempt by civil servants to pool
resources across Whitehall has cost hundreds of millions of pounds more than it
saved, MPs have found.
The Government announced in 2004 that it wanted Government
departments to share ‘back office’ functions like human resources and finance.
Five departments including the Departments for Work and
Pensions, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Transport, as well as the
Ministry of Justice, signed up to the new way of working.
The new way of working was meant to cost £900million but ran
£500million over budget, and eventually cost £1.4billion, MPs on the Public
Accounts Committee found.
They were meant to have saved £159million by the end of
2010/11 from the new arrangement – but only one department “broke even”, and
two departments reported net costs of £255million.
Nice two fuckwit....
Seeking to protect women from exploitation, Canada is ending
visas for foreign strippers, reports the Globe and Mail. Foreign escorts and massage parlour workers
will also be banned.
The government says the move is to combat human trafficking
but critics say the ruling Conservative Party is just being prudish. The
government has issued 496 visas to exotic dancers since 2006, though just 12
were issued last year. There are about 700 foreign strippers currently working
in the country, but they won't be allowed to renew their one-year visas when
they expire.
Sod it: there
goes my trip to Celine Dion land....
Male officers attended Darwin's Humpty Doo Tavern after
reports of a disturbance and were greeted by an enthusiastic group of women who
shouted that the strippers had arrived and tried to pull their shirts off.
"The girls were in fine form," Northern Watch
Commander Louise Jorgensen told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"They were most excited about the police presence.
"There were various shouts about how the strippers had
arrived."
Jorgensen said the men "nearly had their shirts torn
off, but they managed to escape with their dignity intact".
While the tuna they throw isn't real, it's still quite a feat to toss the 10kg tuna through the air.
The world record for tuna tossing is more than 37m.
And today’s thought:
Oh shit I only won £575,000
Angus
