The Miss England contest has turned into another farce concerning phone-in competitions, with the public vote giving Miss Oxfordshire 2,013 compared to the 9 given to Ms Christie, the eventual choice of the judges.........................OR WAS IT. More wasted phone-in money by the gullible public, having their choice overruled by dubious judges. This stinks of political correctness gone mad, a common occurrence in this country now.
Andrew Neil from the "Daily Politics Show" on BBC 2 seems to be an Englishman at heart with a Scottish accent. If he is so against the country of his birth with all its new policies and self government, why doesn't he lose the accent too, and save the people of Scotland anymore embarassment; by other nations thinking that he is typical of Scots. He now stays in England and his allegiance is obviously towards England, so when he is decrying Scotland he might as well speak with an English accent, and go the whole hog. With his attitude and disrespect for Scotland he is no loss to our cause, so do us all a favour and cut all your ties with the proud nation that is "SCOTLAND" and enjoy your new country with its Great Britain endeavours to hold on to the oil revenue and cricket that you seem to like so much. No harm to the English as they are, and should be proud of their nation too, like all nationalists, not turncoats like Andrew Neil.
On question time last night I listened to the ramblings of a disillusioned M.P. as he tried to justify the need for claiming expenses on his second home in London. The poor soul has to travel 37 miles to the houses of parliament meaning he has to get up early to arrive on time even after a long session in Parliament that might leave him with only four or five hours sleep. Does he think that all the other workers in their various professions who work long hours and have to commute to London (some a lot more than 37 miles) warrant an expense account from their employers? Thousands of workers all over Britain have to commute to work with long tedious journeys hampered with road congestion at their own expense, so why do M.Ps. think that they are entitled to claim expenses or buy lavish houses at the tax payers expense when their need is no greater that anyone else. Another question that needs to be asked is, if they only need the second houses for two or three hours sleep why do they have to have luxurious accommodation with so many rooms to furnish (at our expense again)with every mod con available when a simple bedsit would suffice? Also as I have said before, when the houses paid by us are no longer needed and are sold the money should go back into the coffers and not to the rip off M.Ps.
Author based in Scotland.
After years spent at sea as a commercial fisherman I witnessed spectacular sights in the night sky while waiting for daylight to break.
After I retired I decided to write on the subject.
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