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A 70 year old idiot called Ray Gosling went on a regional chat show and claimed that he had killed a former lover suffering from Aids by smothering him with a pillow. The Independent wrote an Editorial questioning all this: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-misguided-intervention-1902769.html

Gosling’s claim (if true), was to say the least, totally absurd and if he is campaigning for a “Right to Die”, totally counter productive to the “cause”. This man is no martyr, just another vain attention seeking old gay fart who can’t get a shag and because being GAY is all now ‘de rigeur in the Media’ let his gob runaway with him without regard to the potential audience. It is highly likely that because of idiots like him, the ‘acceptance’ of Gay People generally by the public at large will be put back somewhat rather than’advanced’, silly old Queer !

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To my mind, the most disturbing feature of the MPs “Expenses Scandal” has been the obsequious behaviour of the Media in being unprepared to tackle the real issues involved head on, like politicians themselves, they appear too scared of the “public outrage”.

This public outrage I suspect, has as much to do with with the pomposity of the Labour Government and in particular one Gordon Brown who it is now clear, made a total horlicks of the UK economy whilst Chancellor whilst boasting that he had abolished Boom and Bust. In addition, this Parliament has effectively been dead since sometime during 2008, there should have been a 2009 election and political clear out of Westminster then.

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Although obviously a Labour supporter, a regular contributor to the Independent is John Rentoul who often writes very interesting articles that concentrate on trying to analyse the issues rather than trotting out left wing propaganda, he is always worth reading.

His article in Sunday’s edition is very well worth a read: “How many years out in the cold?” Sub heading; “Labour is likely to lose the general election. Its main concern now is damage limitation “ http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-how-many-years-out-in-the-cold-1870275.html

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There was an Editorial in the Independent today that whilst calling for a Defence Review ended with saying that “obviously” we should cooperate with Europe more on Defence. It amazes me that supposedly intelligent people can’t grasp basic facts and realise that they are looking down the wrong end of the ruddy telescope.

It is not just about Defence, it is about every aspect of major Government spending and Health is a good example. The Labour reforms in funding of the NHS were first trialled in Scotland, much of the additional funding ended up being spent on increased wages not improved outcomes.

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Someone called Liz Hoggard wrote an article extolling the benefits of legally enforceable, all women lists to become MPs. In my opinion, this woman is a total smug metropolitan media person with hardly a clue on her very best day.

This woman has neither any pride nor any shame and is typical of the NIMBY, chattering classes, generation she belongs to, vacuous in both mind and spirit, I’m aware that the Indy has financial problems but allowing a daft cow like this to write is surely not the “answer to their prayers” plus the above picture is likely 15 years out of date too.

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There was an interesting article in today’s Independent by a chap called James Fishkin who quite amusingly calls himself “James S Fishkin” presumably to try and overcome a rather odd surname by adding some kind of gravitas to it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/james-s-fishkin-the-58-ideas-that-could-hold-the-key-to-bringing-the-election-alive-1861198.html

Yes I am being disparaging because I went and looked at the web site of this outfit and was less than impressed because it misses the fundamentals of reform and political progress but judge for yourself my reasoning will follow. http://www.power2010.org.uk/

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Apparently the other day, a Labour Housing Minister addressing the Fabian Society said that the era in which all Britons can aspire to own their own home may be coming to an end. He suggested that Britain may be moving towards a European model, with renting on a roughly equal footing with buying.

He then said that home ownership had fallen from 71 per cent of households in 2003 to 68 per cent today, noting that this trend began in 2005, well before the recession. “I’m not sure that’s such a bad thing,” he said, what a prat ! I notice he neglected to mention the uncontrolled immigration during that same period.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/its-time-to-give-up-the-dream-of-home-ownership-says-minister-1838189.html

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There was an interesting Editorial in today’s Independent on the interim report of a “Speaker’s Conference” and although I think it makes the same mistakes in thinking as most ‘lberal people’ on this topic, it is worth a read: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-lacklustre-reform-1827470.html

If you follow this link, there is a very good comment posted by someone called molitor which makes some very good points which I for one totally agree with. I am not a fan of the current Speaker, any more than I was of his predecessor, both were are are wrong for the job, it seems to have taken Bercow about 5 minutes to turn into an insufferable pompous prat but then again, perhaps that is his natural state.

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Given the current state of the British economy, social problems and unemployment, it can be of no surprise to see politicians considering “voluntary work” as being a suitable path to explore. However and much to my surprise, the Conservative Party has gone one further and via sponsorship, is funding a pilot scheme aimed at 16 year olds on a purely “volunteer basis”.

The details can be found in the following article by John Rentoul, hardly a Tory supporter at the best of times but he writes up a truly interesting article on the subject.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-like-it-or-not-there-it-is-a-tory-policy-1825377.html

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This is a deathly combination, a newspaper, The Independent fighting for survival and a political party, the LibDems knowing that they haven’t made the progress that they should have over the past 12-18 months, joining in a campaign of “Parliamentary Reform.

The Editorial and links to associated articles including Mr Clegg’s can be found here- http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-powerful-case-to-answer-on-the-restoration-of-power-1821274.html

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