21/10/2011 by Ted.

From the Telegraph

“The Prime Minister is facing a significant rebellion among Conservative MPs over his order that they should reject a Commons motion calling for the first popular vote on Britain’s relationship with the EU since 1975.

Downing Street has made clear that every PPS will be expected to vote with the Conservatives on Monday and any who refuse will be sacked.”

Isn’t this the same thing for which Gaddaffi has (with the active connivance of Cameron) just been ousted and shot - for defying and suppressing the will of the people?

Every MP is an elected representative of the people of his constituency.  He is there to respect and reflect by his actions the will of the people he represents.

The fact that more than more than 100,000 people took the time to register their desire for a referendum on our continuing membership of the EU, (the 100,000 accepted by every politician as being a tiny proportion of the number of people who daily feel sickened and disgusted by the effects of EU membership on the country they love and belong to) is a massive demonstration of the will of the people.    No tyrant dictator - whether he be Gaddaffi or Cameron - should be allowed to obstruct that will - especially under the pretence of Democracy. Cameron is making a mockery of his own argument for the intervention of our forces and their killing of numerous civilians in Libya (for which he incidentally condemned Gaddaffi, but justified for himself in the name of Democracy). He is dictatorially suppressing the will of the people, and over riding it - just as Gaddaffi did!

He is a tyrant attempting to obstruct the course of Democracy!

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02/10/2011 by Ted.

From today’s Telegraph.

The long-running battle to evict travellers from the illegal site at Dale Farm in Essex is set to cost taxpayers as much as £22 million, it can be revealed.

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01/10/2011 by Ted.

From the North West Evening Mail

Limited closure of museum may secure future.

CUMBRIA’S tourism boss said there was a glimmer of hope for Barrow following cuts to a leading museum and the town’s tourist information centre.

As part of Barrow Borough Council’s £5m savings package, the Dock Museum will close from November to March and the Tourist Information Centre in the Forum will be manned for only a few hours each day.

The Forum will also open for fewer hours and its programme of events will lose council funding and promotion.

Ian Stephens, Cumbria Tourism managing director, said the cuts were disappointing.

Mr Stephens said: “We can only hope that the local visitor economy doesn’t unduly suffer as a result of these decisions”.

This sort of thing must be happening all over the country at present.

Wouldn’t it be a golden opportunity to bring in suitable volunteers from the unemployed and train them so that they could temporarily fill in the gaps in return for their unemployment benefits. Existing full time paid staff could then have their reduced working hours spread throughout the week or month, supplemented by that of the the volunteers. In the above case the facilities need not then be closed and the tourist income affected.

Unemployed people I know would jump at the chance to get out of the house and do something constructive instead of just loafing around with nothing to do.  It would also help to instill a working routine  into their lives, and, who knows, when things get better they may even find themselves taken on in the job that they have been helping out with.

People unfortunate enough to lose their jobs because of the cuts may also wish to work as volunteers while looking for work so that when things improve they may return full-time to their previous employment if they wish.

My first thought was to volunteer myself, but I regretfully don’t have the spare time at the moment.

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