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To my mind, Budgets are the same as New Year’s Eve parties, they come high on expectation and are guaranteed to disappoint in the actual event. I feel a touch of sympathy with any journalist having to write anything on this week’s Budget, to be honest, even felt the same for the hapless Ed Millipede…” Millionaires budget…” was the best he could manage, bless.

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As I have expressed previously, “gay marriages” are not really of much concern to me because it is really a cosmetic name change which socially will have no impact on society at large. My one strong reservation given what happened to Catholic Adoption Agencies is that there must be an unequivocal and legally binding undertaking that IF gay marriage passes into Law, there can be no question of a “Right to Marry in/on Religious Premises”.

The rather smug Lynne Featherstone has declared and emphasised that if civil marriages for gay couples were allowed, it would “not force anyone on religious premises to marry same-sex couples.” She added that she wanted to make that “crystal clear.” Now in France that has been made crystal clear by a ruling of the ECHR and Ms Featherstone is shown as totally wrong in her presumptions.

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I was quite amused to read an article today about two people who are “camping” outside the Apple Store in London, a week ahead of the sale date of the iPad 3 tablet just so that they could be the “First to get one…” Whilst rather sad and a bit pathetic too it is also quite thought provoking in an entirely different way when thinking about the wider world economy.

The iPad itself is a device for “consuming” material with limited data input potential rather than the “creative space” fully fledged computers offer. However, this probably more properly reflects the limited use that the vast majority of people have in terms of computing power. However, I suspect that whether we look at smart phones, iPads, Facebook, Twitter and all the rest, what we are really seeing is the start of a major decline in the current business model they all represent…

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My Father used to joke: “When I was 16, I thought that my Father was the most ignorant man on the planet. By the time I was 20, I found it amazing just how much he had learned in 4 years.” We all as teenagers think we know it all, that we have “discovered sex” and our parents could not possibly understand anything about it…

It is in this sense that the furore about “Gay Marriage” totally mirrors the idiocy of politicians ever keen “to do something” and blind to reality and a proper appreciation of the past. Miss Featherstone says the Government has a right to change the definition of marriage and pledges to challenge those who “want to leave tradition alone”, which amounts to one of the silliest things any politician could say because, “It is not in your gift either Madam, the definition belongs to our culture, not Parliament !”

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Although I find the “reader’s comments” on the Telegraph these days, increasingly shrill and stupid, apart from the sheer ‘fun’ of BoJo’s Monday column, Benedict Brogan is also a wonderful “fresh breath” in the dens of the “Right Wing Nutters of the Telegraph”.

He wrote an interesting piece the other day in which he asked, “Where will the voters come from in order to get Cameron re-elected as PM ?” It is an excellent piece which you can read here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100140226/where-are-the-voters-who-will-turn-david-cameron-into-a-winner-in-2015/ But more than that, he raised a series of interesting questions too…

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A journalist I like John Rentoul writes a regular piece for The Independent on Sunday and normally he is of a high standard but this week, whilst the execution was poor, some of the ideas and themes behind it were quite good and thought provoking. Read it for yourself here: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-the-jelly-pm-may-wobble-yet-7174366.html

The essence of what John Rentoul was writing about is trying to “define” David Cameron in terms of what he stands for and in this, describes him as a jelly that is yet to set which would go down quite well with the average ‘Lefty reader’ of the Independent but I suspect, rather misses the whole point concerning the current political scene where political dogma is not welcome. In this sense and like all good politicians, David Cameron is a man of his times.

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Whether Scotland chooses to stay in the Union or leave has fairly rapidly become one of those issues that to the average inhabitant of the UK, likely seems both self indulgent and parochial to the deluded wishes of the politicians of Scotland. Even if I were Scottish and given the current economic circumstances, would this seem the most pressing issue to be dealt with right now ? I rather suspect not.

From the perspective of the rest of the UK, Scotland holding a referendum on the issue tomorrow would be a good idea but, from the perspective of the SNP, they want to string it out as long as possible to ensure the best possible outcome for the SNP. I must say that if I were a Scot that believed in independent Scotland, I would want the vote right now not, later because I would see it as a national rather than a party political issue. Either we are ready to go or, we are not and if not, why not ?

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It has always been a major problem on the political Left for them to grasp the idea that one should aim to “level up” instead of “levelling down”. You do not remove discrimination and enhance ideas of equality by impinging on other people’s freedoms. This was one the consequences of the legislation that in effect outlawed Catholic (or any other faith), Adoption Agencies that on the grounds of conscience and religious conviction, could not place children with Gay Couples.

This was a very poor piece of legislation which arose from “happy clappy liberals” combined with politicians seeking any vote they can but, in trying to “normalise” homosexuality they in the process have ignored the fundamentals of liberty including for Gay people themselves.

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Baroness Warsi who is leading a Government delegation to the Vatican to commemorate the 30^th anniversary of the re-establishment of full diplomatic representation between the UK and the Vatican, wrote an interesting article for the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9080441/We-stand-side-by-side-with-the-Pope-in-fighting-for-faith.html

What she had to say was very sensible in that she was saying that Christianity should stand up proudly rather than be swamped by militant secularists. Her particularly good comment was: “…you cannot and should not extract these Christian foundations from the evolution of our nations any more than you can or should erase the spires from our landscapes.”

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With the UK currently having the rotating chair for the European Court of Human Rights and David Cameron visiting it to deliver a speech to all 47 members with the theme of reforming the way it operates, there is a fluttering in the Dove Cots of the “European Elite” ever prepared to defend their entrenched positions of privilege. As with many things, the actual “truth” behind the operation of the ECHR and our own, one suspects, very badly drafted Human Rights Act may well be fairly complex and difficult to unravel if left only to the Lawyers.

However, the political reality is all too apparent as the recent decision that the radical cleric Abu Qatada cannot be deported to Jordan where he comes from, is a case in point. David Cameron or even Ed Miliband if he were the current British Prime Minister, cannot ignore the political realities even when you warn that “Hard Cases make bad laws…”

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