Cold, damp, dismal and dodgy at the Castle this morn, the
study is filling up nicely with things that do not work, his Maj has finally
stopped bringing me worms and the garden is still in need of the rest of the
vandalism I have had to postpone.
The Castle’s local council is to receive the "majority" of a £1.5m fund set up to ease
the pressure on resources amid an influx of former Ghurkha soldiers.
Up to 10% of the
population of Rushmoor Borough Council, whose area includes Aldershot, is now
Nepalese after a legal ruling allowing them to stay.
In 2009 the government allowed Ghurkha soldiers who had
retired before 1997 to settle in the UK, which followed a high-profile campaign
lead by actress Joanna Lumley.
I used to like Lumley...
Apparently
last night U-Turn Cam described the EU as "out of touch" with
reality, but insisted that Britain would be worse off if it left the 27-nation
club.
In his annual foreign policy speech, the Prime Minister said
the crisis in the eurozone offered an opportunity to "refashion" the
EU. Describing himself as a sceptic, he attacked the union's "grand plans
and utopian visions" and said: "For too long, the European Union has
tried to make reality fit its institutions. But you can only succeed in the
long run if the institutions fit the reality."
That does sound familiar-out of touch with reality, grand
plans and utopian visions-ah, yes it is the Piss Poor Policies Millionaires
Club Coalition.
Brussels has become ‘out of touch’ with ‘pointless
interference, rules and regulations that stifle growth not unleash it’, the
prime minister said.
However, he insisted that with European countries accounting
for half of Britain’s trade, ‘leaving the EU is not in our national interest’.
Meanwhile, the Bank of England is expected to slash its
growth forecast today from 1.5 per cent to one per cent amid fears the crisis
will drag Britain into a double-dip recession.
Unemployment figures, out on Wednesday,
are expected to show youth unemployment has hit one million
It’s all going well then Dave.....
U-Turn Cam was met
with laughter and applause for his attempt at mastering the Australian accent
while recounting a meeting with our very own Prime Minister Julia Gillard
In his annual set piece
foreign policy speech to the Lord Mayor of London's banquet, Cameron described
the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Perth as one of the highlights
of his year.
Cameron labelled
the meeting's decision to allow first-born daughters the right to the British
thrown as an 'historic agreement' and preceded to relate a conversation with
Gillard.
'At the end of this
meeting I turned to the Australian Prime Minister and said thank you very much
Julia for allowing us to have this meeting in Australia,' Cameron said.
'And she said, I
can't quite do the accent but I'll try - 'Not a bit David, this is good news
for Sheila’s everywhere'.'
He isn’t doing much of a job mimicking being a politician
either....
Britain’s furriest eco-warriors The Wombles have decided to
take on the TV talent contest after their Glastonbury performance became the
surprise hit of this summer’s festivals.
The video for Wombling Merry Christmas,
which charted at No.2 in Christmas 1974, sees the novelty stars send up former
X-Factor hopefuls Jedward as they perform to judges, including a Womble Simon
Cowell.
A greatest hits album, The W
Factor, will also be released on December 12, featuring singles such as
Remember You’re A Womble.
Uncle Bulgaria, star of the children’s TV show that spawned the band, said: ‘I don’t watch much television – I leave that to the young Wombles – but I hear The X Factor is jolly popular.
Not in the Castle it isn’t.....
A nun has narrowly
avoided jail in the US after she admitted stealing £620,000 to gamble in slot
machines.
Sister Marie
Thornton, 65, took the cash from a Catholic college where she worked as a
financial officer, reports The Mirror.
Manhattan federal
court heard she would regularly lose more than £3,000 in one session in casinos
in Atlantic City.
She submitted false
invoices and arranged for Iona College in New York to pay her credit card
bills. The college has clawed £300,000 back through insurance.
Thornton admitted
stealing over 10 years and said she was "deeply sorry" for the
embarrassment caused to her religious order and family.
A judge ordered her
to complete 2,000 hours of unpaid work and pay back £217,600, saying it
appeared she had been rehabilitated.
As an act of
contrition, the nun now spends her days and nights in solitary confinement in a
small room inside a Philadelphia convent.
A really bad habit-sorry......
And finally:
Downing Street defended its resident cat Larry on Monday
after Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly flung a fork at a mouse that had
escaped the tabby's attention.
The Daily Mail newspaper said Cameron saw the mouse during a
dinner with Cabinet colleagues at 10 Downing Street in central London and
hurled a silver folk at the rodent as it scuttled across the floor.
Larry was recruited from a strays' home as Downing Street's
"mouser-in-chief" in February after a rat was spotted in television
news bulletins scurrying around outside the famous black door of the PM's
residence.
Asked whether Larry should resign, Cameron's official
spokesman said only: "Larry brings a lot of pleasure to a lot of
people".
Unlike the rest of the residents....
And today’s thought: Do not meddle in the affairs of cats,
for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.
Angus
