A Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease

Is it possible that someone has found a cure for Alzheimer's disease and just forgotten where they put it??

Taxation and Legislation: It's No Way To Run A Railroad

Alistair Darling delivers his first budget today with one of the most popular ‘leaks’ being that he will defer the 2p petrol tax rise until the autumn. Why are we expected to hail a deferment of a tax hike as some sort of good news? The Central Soviet (which I believe is a more accurate name for our current government) has not cancelled this tax; they are just waiting for a more propitious time to load this extra burden upon us. Let’s face it, this increase in duty on fuel has nothing to do with global warming or attempting to control climate change, it’s about raising revenue but, more importantly, it’s about trying to get us to “change our behaviour”.

Nanny State says that one of the reasons for increasing the costs of private motoring is to encourage us all to abandon our individual motor cars and use public, mass transport instead. (It occurs to me to ask; with over 100 people on every one, why aren’t airplanes considered as 'mass transport' and therefore a ‘Green’ alternative?). This crude attempt at behavioural change, or social engineering to give it its more correct title, is just another example of the fundamentally flawed thinking of a government bent not on ‘management’ of “UK Plc” but on ‘Social Engineering’ on a scale last seen emanating from the depths of The Kremlin during the darkest days of Stalin. Westminster seems to be determined to socially engineer an entire population which obeys only the rules it lays down. Unfortunately for us it has chosen the two bluntest, crudest, most ineffective, and inefficient tools available to it to supposedly achieve its ends; Taxation and Legislation

Why has New Labour, during its ten year tenure, introduced more laws and more taxes than any previous administration in our history? It is because it is trying to make each of us conform to their world view of what a model citizen should be (whether it’s what we want to or not). As an aside; notice that they continually use the word ‘citizen’, implying a faceless drone who is a member of a state or a republic, rather than ‘subject’, who is an individual who owes allegiance through a personal relationship to a monarch.

George Santayana the Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist famously said in his treaties The Life Of Reason (Vol. 1) “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” As far as I can see there is no evidence to suggest that taxation or even legislation have every successfully achieved long term social change, except by eventually fermenting violent revolution. Perhaps the ‘Old Labourites’ are trying to generate a climate where Fredric Engel’s doctrine of “Continual Revolution” pertains?

Nanny Government Wants To Ban Alcohol

In a further erosion of civil liberties the centralised Labour Soviet appears to me to be on a mission to introduce some limited form of prohibition. Nanny Government has already begun manipulating the press and media with a whispering campaign designed to demonise drink to the point where a gullible sheep like electorate will accept yet a another law designed to do nothing other take away individual choice in favour of dour Scottish Presbyterianism.

As an example of the media spin being applied to this I would cite the recent horrific car crash in the Cotswolds that killed six people on Friday 7^th March 2008. All of the reports have made much of the fact that one of the drivers had a previous conviction for ‘Drink Driving’ with headlines such as “Six die in road horror blamed on convicted drink-driver” and “Crash man 'had drink conviction'”. All the reports clearly imply that ‘Drink’ was the cause of the accident, however there is no report that the driver concerned was over the legal limit at the time of the crash. I am not advocating that drinking and driving is in any way acceptable or that anyone should be allowed to irresponsibly kill others on our roads my point is that there is no evidence that alcohol was the cause or was even a contributory factor to this accident.

The Labour media spin masters have let this rumour and innuendo (for that is all it is) persist as it is another plank in the platform they are building to limit alcohol sales.

I'll Huff & I'll Puff....But Nobody Falls Down

Well, once again the government and their pet weather forecasters have just got it wrong.

All through yesterday (Sunday 9^th March 2008) the government had its pet stooges warning us of dire doom and disaster as “The worst storm of the year so far” tracked across the Atlantic. We were all warned to stay at home and “Only Travel If It Was Absolutely Necessary”.

Well there were some heavy winds and lots of rain but where is the devastation we were all promised?

Another occasion then when the government seeks to control us by issuing warnings about things that don’t exist.

Here We Go, Here We Go, Here We Go.....

Here I am, sat with the writers most dreaded nemesis, the blank page! However having now slain the mighty white virgin beast, by means of the mighty pen stroke (or in this case ‘keystrokes’), I guess I can just dive into creating my first blog?

Government Control
One of the major things to exercise my mind these days is the amount of control this present Labour government wants to impose on all of our individual lives. We appear to be run by autonomous, over zealous, “Nanny-type” control freaks who think that it is their business to engineer even the minutest portions of our individual lives and liberties. I am convinced that, if it had its way, this government would introduce legislation mandating what we should, on any given day, or part of the day, eat, drink, read in the newspapers, watch on television, listen to on the radio or even think.

The sooner we loose these Soviet style, Centralist, Orwellian control freaks the better it will be for all of us.

Well, there it is! I have got my first rant off my chest – now let me continue.