England win the Ashes!

Congratulations to the England Cricket team who beat Australia to win the Ashes!

Always good to get one over on the Aussies!

The UK Summer 2009 - Cricket, BBQ's and Gaddafi...

What would a British summer be without annoying disappointment? While the country are off enjoying a burger and a glass of lime cordial with the Ashes Tests on the TV, the unfortunate and unfair embarrassment of our very own Gordon Brown continues. When the Scottish government come out and say that they are "releasing the person responsible for the Lockerbie bomb attack", you just know somebody is going to face the wrath of humiliation. Barack Obama has come out and said that the UK have made a 'mistake' and if that wasn't enough, jolly old Colonel Gaddafi has 'thanked' Gordon Brown for 'encouraging' the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the bomber I mentioned earlier. Of course, as with most things Libya-related, this infuriates me. Gaddafi said; "the UK prime minister had "encouraged" the Scottish Government to take what he called a "courageous" decision. Others went on to suggest it was linked to a trade deal with Libya! A trade deal?! What the hell do we have to trade? We don't make anything and their economy is in freefall, well, come to think of it, so is ours. But they do have a large amount of oil and gas... The Foreign Office have gone on to strongly deny those allegations. He is just generally annoying, Gaddafi, I mean. He knows what affect comments such as his could ahve on British politics and on the Labour Party. But who knows maybe, secretly, he's a raging David Cameron fan! Let's hope not, eh?

F.Y.I

I thought some peeps might not know what the hell this blog is even going on about (Bad Times)....so I thought i'd enlighten you (Good times)...On occasion, I use my blog to write about my own life, but to be honest, that can be quite boring at times, so mainly I use it to vent my anger over a prospective Conservative government.

I hope you feel enlightened and enthused to read more.... :D

The election is emerging on the horizon...

As Parliament is recess, nothing has really happened. Newsreaders persist on claiming what a slow news month it is with nothing to talk about but a 11 year old girl crashing her grandfather's car off of a cliff. With all this quiet, it gets you predicting how the start of the parliamnetary year will begin. Not just a new parliamentary year but an election year, by this time next year, parliament could be in recess with a certain David Cameron in charge of Britain (God forbid). But you never know, there could be a very drastic change in fortune for Labour, and Gordon Brown could win his first elected term in the top job. But in the words of Mr Obama himself, we need change and we need it fast. We need some fresh impetus for Labour and for British politics. A fresh impetus to get the public back an interested in the workings and goings on of Parliament, and that certainly does not mean electing a Conservative government. Enthusiasm is something Westminster has been lacking since the election of 1997. I am sure Gordon Brown can deliver given the chance, but to do this he must use the talents of David and Ed Miliband, Peter Mandelson and Andy Burnham, the first and the latter of those names, I feel, are the future of Labour, maybe even the future Prime Ministers of Britain. Election 2010 will be an interesting one, certainly for the younger generation who only vaguely remember the 1997 election when there was a change in government, from that you can probably tell I expect a change in premier as much as I hope against it.

R.I.P Harry Patch and Henry Allingham

I would like to dedicate this post; one, to Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, the final two British First World War survivors who died today and last Saturday respectively and two, to the recent soldiers who have died in Afghanistan in combat.Gordon Brown's quote today says it all; "The noblest of all the generations has left us, but they will never be forgotten. We say today with still greater force - 'We will remember them'."

Lest We Forget.

I recently visited the battlefields of World War One in Southern Belgium and Northern France. I found the trip immensely fascininating while deeply moving, it brought the horrors of the front line to my own eyes. I hope you find the pictures below of interest to you.


The above photo shows the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium on which are listed the thousands of names who died without a recognised grave.



The above photo shows a close up of an Australian Memorial, erected after the First World War and then sustained this damage seen when it was come acroos in the Second World War,therefore explaining the bullet holes.

I may post some more photos from my trip, although my computer is taking its sweet time to upload them.

From DFID to UKAid...

The Department for International Developement has had a bit of a movearound and is now known as UKAid from The Department for International Development. Personally, despite how much this rebranding may have cost, I like it. It gives the UK a bit more of a contemporary while patriotic look to the rest of the world. Not that the millions dying in 3rd World countries actually care where, who or what it has come from let alone the pretty new logo plastered on the side of all aid. Nevertheless, UK Aid is a bit less of a mouthful than The Department for International Development. There are many other real reasons why this may of been changed, maybe Douglas Alexander, the Secretaty of State for the department, can't spell it as it is so he has decided to shorten it or the government like this new 'corporate look'. The possibilities are endless; maybe the government will soon be known as UKGov.com and the Ministry of Defence, UKBomb? Ok, ok, on reflection perhaps I don't like it very much. But judging on previous rebrandings (Department of Trade and Industry to the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry in 2005, then back again) it should be back as the Department for International Development by Monday...

Sorry about the delay...

Apologies for the lack of posting of the last month and what a past month it has been! Since my last post; Wimbledon has been and pretty much gone, The US have announced they are leaving Iraq (Probably for a quick rest, then straight into Iran!), Sarah Palin has resigned as Governor and the King of Pop is dead. But it is bad times for UK-Iran relations, today even as I speak the BBC are reporting that "British diplomats are trying to establish whether Iran intends to act on its threats to prosecute staff from the UK's embassy in Tehran." Basically, it seems to me like Iran are trying to take the world's eyes off of Iran's obvious democratic problems and blame their own insecurities on the UK.Well, quite frankly, I don't think it is going to work if David Miliband has anything to do with it. David is currently standing defiant on al issues Iran related and hopefully is going to budge on the issue. In an ideal world, Iran should realise their misatkes, apologise and let their citizens have Facebook back, but really we all know that in a few months time, this will all fizzle out, and we will all forget about another country who are defying human rights, just like Zimbabwe. Well, That's What I Think...