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Moving goal posts

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So it seems the EU is screwed, inflation is rising, the Euro is in trouble, the cuts are unpopular, taxes have gone past silly and the economy really isn’t doing terribly well. oh and did I mention the EU is in trouble?. What on earth is a Government to do? Why measure something else instead – something nice and vague and can almost certainly be guaranteed to rise year on year. Not happy must be just you the statistics show everyone else is 5% happier in real terms than last year. Financial measurements that can be checked are so last … Continue reading →

A miscellany of idiocy

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Having muttered about the student “demo” previously I find myself returning to the subject due to comments made by other commentators and people that were there. From the title of this post you can probably gather that I disagree with their points really quite strongly. But of course it’s not just supporters of the student demo’s advocating violence, elsewhere there are green candidates whose response to the cuts impacting “a genuinely shocking number of important animal welfare initiatives” and thus creating the kind of world they don’t wish to live in, is not to look at how they could fund … Continue reading →

Riot for the media

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So the students have taken to the streets to protest at the proposed changes to student funding. On the plus side they start out with some very nice placards clearly stating their cause, then left a load of grafitti which didn’t mention it. The rather pointless riot somewhat spoilt it though, starting initially in the wrong place and then attacking a rented office filled mainly with people with no power or little influence – surely protesting outside Parliament would have been more productive? Whilst the students are angry and have grievances to put across I can’t help feel that it … Continue reading →