Chinese Porn Bloggers- A Warning

Folks, for every post I blog I am pestered by a Chinese Spammer who sends a 'comment' on every blog I write.  Unfortunately his/her emails contain porn and therefore they are automatically deleted, but he/she may wish to know that his/her emails and comments are being forwarded to Google for their investigations.  Your comments, once they have been reported to Google, are deleted.

I don't read them so you're just wasting your time.

Apologies to the genuine blog readers who genuinely follow me, your comments are always welcome but the Chinese person's comments are never posted and always deleted after reporting, it's is so sad that this person has nothing better, and more constructive to do with his/her time.

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Goodbye Mr Brown.

After the  events of yesterday by senior Labour figures saying that they were in talks with the Lib Dems it has emerged today that no deal was in any danger of being passed.  Labour have now realised they have no mandate to form the government and have finally bowed to the wishes of the British people.  After all my comments yesterday when it appeared Labour would be in power for what seemed like forever Gordon Brown has resigned as Prime Minister and is now at Buckingham Palace where he will be speaking privately with HM The Queen.  It had been bandied about for most of the afternoon by all media outlets that Gordon Brown was resigning and would be leaving imminently.  All this chatter started around 2.30pm and now at just gone half past seven in the evening of Tuesday 11th May 2010 Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah came to the lectern in Downing Street, flanked a little distance away by Downing Street staff, to announce he was resiging with immediate effect.  He then allowed his little sons to have their photographs taken with mum and dad before walking to the car to go to Buckingham Palace.  To be honest I found myself becoming unexpectedly emotional as the moment drew near.  Gordon Brown at least had the dignity to come out of the front of No 10 and tell us his intentions and not leave out the back like his predecessor. 

Democracy has again won the day. 

As was explained by the media too, any alliance of what they called 'The Rainbow Alliance' because of all the colours of the parties needed to get this 'strong stable government' by forming Labour, Lib-Dems, Plaid Cymru (Wales), SNP (Scotland) and DUP (Northern Ireland) would have had no chance of getting anything passed as the time it would have taken to go round every MP of every part of the alliance would mean it would take so long to get anything passed it would not have been feasible to do this; perhaps that is why it was reported today that any such alliance was not workable.

We have just watched Gordon Brown and Sarah met by the Queen's Equerry before going inside Buck House and to be sure he looked like he had just had the cares of the world removed from his shoulders.  Goodbye and good luck to Gordon Brown, enjoy your retirement with your young family. 

Once the Queen accepts the resignation she has to call upon someone else to form the next government and become the new PM, in this case it is David Cameron.  For some reason I have visions of him hiding behind the sofa so that when she 'calls on David Cameron' to form the next government he will pop up from behind said couch and say 'you called ma'am.'  Being a little facetious I know but in the middle of all this gravitas we need a little light relief.

Of course it is going to be horrendous for anyone taking on the mantle of Prime Minister given the state of public finances and the state of the country in general, will it be sorted out soon? will it get easier? - who knows?  All I will say is good luck to Mr Cameron whether he chooses to form a minority government or whether he does indeed form a coalition with the Lib Dems; the latter would be preferable as it would provide this strong, stable government we need.

So there it is, a momentous day in British politics, an outgoing PM, a new PM coming in.  There's a really long road to recovery for this country, hopefully it will now be unified and our problems ratified and sorted in a fair and decent way.

Just as an added footnote here, on the way into the Palace there was a gorgeous rainbow, almost like the Rainbow Alliance was still trying to get the last word ;)

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Banging my Head on the nearest Brick Wall

For Heavens sake!  Labour just don't get it do they?  Soundly REJECTED by the British people they are now 'in negotiations with the Lib Dems to give them what they want so that a new government can be formed' - eh? come again? YOU LOST THE ELECTION!!!  Not even the poor, put upon British people will stand for a government of all the losers cobbled together just to beat the Tories.

Even though Gordon Brown has, finally, said he will resign as Labour leader, the Tory Party are the Party with the most votes, not enough I know to form a majority government, they should go ahead and form a minority government before Labour do it for them!

I am amazed by Labour - they have NO mandate to form a government OF ANY KIND and we will, if they force themselves upon us again, be in another Election in a few months time.  How hoepelss is this country, just come and have a look.

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The Health Fiasco goes on ... and on ... and on

Now at my third lot of bloods being taken to see if the thyroid has been controlled and nope, you guessed it, it's all over the place.  TSH has shot up again to 18 while the T4 has come down to 17. TSH being high means high cholesterol and that's what I also have.  I have been around 8 stone for years and now that I'm 50 and because of the ignorance of the consultant concerning my other health issues I am having more problems heaped on top of those I am already stuggling with.

Seems the more Thyroxine I have the T4 goes up and the TSH comes down, the less I have the more TSH goes up and T4 comes down.  Can this ever be controlled?

In my family there is a history of heart attack and stroke, so high cholesterol country beckons.  Luckily I don't smoke or drink but I do like chocolate and it's a real struggle trying to conrtrol my weight which has now ballooned to 10 stone.  My spine is struggling because of the weight which is impossible to shift.  I can just not eat yes, but that affects the thyroid readings.  I'm waiting on the bone density test to come back but the doctor called today to say that my FBC is all over the place and I need an iron test now.  More blood tests, but the only problem I have is that the nurse taking the blood is hopeless, she can't find a vein and then when she does blames me for 'sending adrenaline round to stop the blood' what a load of old tosh!!!  The tourniquet she uses is lethal, really pulls it tight and then when she gets a vein leaves it tight so it hurts the vein and all the muscles in my arm which today, two weeks afterwards are really sore.  She refuses to use the small needles which i usually have so I'm off to see the doctor this week to see where else I can go.  Because I've been 'discharged' I can't go where the phlebotomists are fantastic, they use a tourniquet but as soon as they have the blood coming out of the vein they loosen it and I have bloods taken with no bruising and no soreness.  This stupid nurse at my surgery doesn't realise that their incompetence leads to no decent veins and yet they still blame me for their cack-handedness when they need blood but can't get it- only in Britain eh?

Meanwhile my doctor is writing back to the consultant, not very happy at the  unhealthily fast way I was discharged.  All I was told before I had the radioactive iodine was 'you'll be fine, if anything you'll just be a little underactive' - try having blood which is a nightmare to take because of cack-handed nurses, high cholesterol when I've never had that in my life, be mightily overweight with an already damaged and fragile spine, a history of heart problems and strokes in the family and then tell me I'm fine.  I can't believe how some doctors are so stupid, but this consultant really is and boy will I tell her so when I see her.  I'm already considering a formal complaint to the hospital .. I'll keep you posted.

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The farce goes on ... and on ... and on ...

In all my years on this planet, I have never been so ashamed of my country as I am now.  How long does it take to form a new government>

If you believe the media (all over every tidbit like a rash, analysing it to death and back) then Gordon Brown will have to be physically ejected from No 10, he is trying to form a government by giving the Lib Dems everything they want.  Firstly, he and his government have been firmly REJECTED by the British people so he cannot form a government of any sort; he is only remaining where he is because the law says he has to - but only until a new governmment is formed.  I am incensed that the Lib Dems are dragging this out to the nth degree, the country is suffering guys have you noticed or do your ideals come first?  You are making your party unelectable in any form in future governments by all this wrangling.  Remember the election last week, that's right last week where you came third? what gives you the right to demand anything? you came third, ie last!!!  If I were David Cameron I'd form a minority government and be done with it.  This nonsense is making a mockery (as if we could be taken seriously in the world anymore) of this country, and while the Lib Dems are banging on about the country needing a firm and fair government they would be better served by believing that and not hammering on for electoral reform, which by the way, was NOT a key factor in the election.  People are more worried about the state of the economy than anything else.  That the markets are in free fall should tell the Lib Dems that they are the only people (apart from the rentamob at the weekend who came out of nowhere demanding proportional representation as electoral reform) who see this as the most important topic in Britain today.  By the way rentamob, PR means you lose your member of parliament and therefore the opportunity to have him/her support you in your consituency, did you know that?

It's no wonder that Britain is seen as a joke around the world, this really is a complete shambles.  I can just see America dithering like this - NOT.

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UK General Election - Oh, where do I start?

Well, way to go Britain, really did it this time. It's blindingly obvious to anyone with eyes that Gordon Brown and his detestable government should go ... but of course he won't. Just like Ted Heath (Tory Party) in 1974 he won't go. Instead he'll have to be physically removed from the premises (akin to clinging on with his fingertips to the door of No 10) but he just won't accept that he has LOST this election. Of course the Tory Party won - not with a workable majority but win they did, and they should now be allowed to form the next government, except that with a minority government trying to pass any of it’s legislation is so difficult it's nigh on impossible.

So where do we go from here? David Cameron the Tory leader is trying to garner some sort of agreement with the Liberal Democrats (or Lib Dems for short) to see if they can get together and form a kind of majority government. Difficulties here are vast and some are insurmountable as both parties policies are at different ends of the spectrum, so getting any sort of deal together will be interesting to see; a kind of ‘who blinks first’ scenario - well, that's what we're up against. The WORST thing that could happen is Gordon Brown and the failed Labour Government teaming up with the Lib Dems. Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader should be careful if he does this because he will be tarred with the same brush as Labour. The people of this country wanted a hung parliament if you believe the media, perhaps they didn't fully understand the ramifications of getting one, more Brown? - Please God No!!!! The people of Britain sent a clear message to Brown, that he is finished as PM and he should go and go with good grace, but like Heath in 1974 he will hang on as long as he can.

The Lib Dems want a reform of the voting system and given the ridiculous Banana Republic Style scale of Thursday's debacle is something people are waking up to, but whereas in Europe coalition governments are the norm, they are not the norm in Britain. Personally, I feel this will be a disaster, as with most of the Lib Dems policies (Illegal immigrant amnesty, scrapping trident, the nuclear deterrent, reform the voting system, enforcing the disastrous Euro on Britain etc al). These policies are damaging for the country but that doesn't matter I feel, as the Lib Dems want these changes and actually think they are good [shaking head here, you just can’t make this up]. The Tories on the other hand will have to give way on a lot of their red line policies like no to any more powers going to Europe, NO to the Euro and No to scrapping Trident, No also to an illegal immigrant amnesty. See the problems? What a shame UKIP (the tiny United Kingdom Independence Party, a good idea but too small to do any good) felt it necessary to poll seats in parts of the country where the Tories would have won those seats and thereby getting closer to a majority government. Did they set out to deliberately undermine the ‘integrity’ of Britain – who knows? All this nonsense makes me seriously question the mentality of these parties deliberately out to scupper the chances of the Tories and leaving us with - God Forbid - more of Brown. Brown (the only UNELECTED PM TWICE) and the Labour government are all for these policies of the Lib Dems, so have a guess how much longer Britain will survive. I would expect Britain to become a region of Europe at some point. No more national identity, no more independence, instead to be ruled by Europe – why did we fight and win two world wars to keep our country safe from this take over, all those lives appear to have been sacrificed in vain; it is a crying shame to see this once great country of ours lying tattered and bruised in the gutter of the world.

The Lib Dems, whilst demanding their policies are non negotiable should be reminded that they came third, they have no hope of getting any of their policies passed in their current position, so it is well worth their while to try and support the Tories in some way. Please don’t foist any more Brown on us, Britain cannot afford it. There are of course other parties 'eager and willing to do a deal' notably Plaid Cymru in Wales and the SNP of Scotland, no doubt at the expense of England (as now) they will be wanting more concessions for their respective countries but it will be England alone who pays for it.   All we can do now is wait and see who says what to whom, and what happens as a result.

So great outcome Britain. Perhaps with the debacle of the voting shambles, 14 year old children getting voting papers ‘by mistake,’ people denied their votes because they arrived too late to vote, others queuing up for hours to be told they can’t vote because it’s past 10 o’clock, (note to the jobsworths who closed the polls dead on 10pm, in other third world countries, they keep the polls open till everyone has voted), postal voting being opened up to 'anyone who wants one' and all the fraud that may have been going on in that area perhaps we should be renaming the GBR of Britain from Great Britain to Great Banana Republic; sadly that is what we have now become. Sad also that for the first time in Britain’s history we have had Commonwealth Inspectors ‘monitoring’ the voting system, this is shameful because they only ever do that in underdeveloped (not developed and supposedly democratic) countries, and Banana Republic states … oh, wait ...

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