My leaflet came through with the mail this afternoon. I must admit to laughing at this risible 12 A5 sided pamphlet and my thoughts went back to the early 1980s and 'Protect & Survive'..
How many elderly, infirm and young died last winter with our normal cyclical influenza outbreak? I think the figures run into thousands. The latest figures still show that your chances of dying from a hospital acquired infection far outweigh your chances of dying from normal influenza let alone 'swine fever'.
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I thought that we still had ONE UK Government and 'assemblies' in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland but this pamphlet talks of UK Governments (plural).
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Have we really reached the demise as a country that requires our Government to spend £millions telling us about basic hygiene? CATCH IT, BIN IT, KILL IT? There is no difference in transmission between this virus and the normal range of flu viruses and the common cold virus, so what's new?
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A disastrous week in politics last week for Gordon Brown? An economy in tatters and Government debt my grandchildren will be paying for? What can we distract the gullible plebs with ?
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Downing Street can't scare us with dastardly terrorist plots; that was exposed as wearing thin with Easter's dreadful plot that ended up with 9 'suspects' being no more than students fiddling their student visas to stay in the UK, like countless thousands of others within our shores. (But of course we cannot allow Ghurkas to reside in the UK despite their history of unselfish service to the Crown.)
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So it seems to me that as cynicism is the political game in Thanet as well as in London, on this chilly May evening. Lie and cheat and scare the plebs out there to distract them from looking critically at the shambles we have created by making them worry about 'flu'. I wonder what TDC can scare us with to distract us from the shambolic reality and lack of integrity of local governance in Thanet in 2009? Man eating oysters migrating from Whitstable?
4 comments:
Bertie, if it really is true that Sandy is there for another year then your blog has to continue, otherwise you could have considered your job done!
Maybe you will have to be a gathering ground for Independants to stand in key wards to split the Conservative vote? Why dont you have an email address like ECR so that anyone interested in standing can give you their name and you can act as election agent? Drastic measures we can't face Sandy for another 4 plus years, another one is going to be quite enough, shame on those Tories who didnt support a change.He certainly did the ground work well giving jobs to any wavers so they will loose them if they vote against him!
A minor point in the Gurkha debate that everyone is overlooking is that the fact that the Nepalese Government wants their citizens to return home to help their economy with the skills and income acquired whilst serving the UK armed services. It's not they have no homes to go back to as, in fact, they'd be welcomed as heroes.
Interesting that on Moores Thanet Dead site, he has, as of last night taken on a new cabinet job as head of customer services. I wonder how that little perk came to mind!
A pertinent comment 10.39. I wonder if the Nepalese Government will continue to support The British Ghurka recruitment process in Nepal if it means eventual migration of some of its finest citizens and a net loss to Nepal's economy.
00:23, have been busy on more important matters tonight and have just caught up with myself. Surely you can answer your own question or think of recent announcements on Thanetlife and various postings their that would indicate that Cllr Moores had had a 'Pauline' conversion in regard to his Leader some time ago.
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