If you have to build a motorway where there is a busy road then there are bound to be delays. Especially as the other road is a toll B road and there are only two roads to better health Paying or NHS which is paying from your wage packet using NI. Bit like road taxes and petrol.
The NHS is a dual carriage way which is clogged up Some things move faster than others, bicycles, motorbikes but Vans, lorries and cars are all snarled up and take an age to move, and they take up more petrol.
This all costs money
Whilst we accept that things are not great we are proposing a ten lane highway but in the mean time we will build an A road which is a toll road at the side whilst we plan the motorway.
Anyone who wants to pay to use that road to get to their health back to normal is welcome to use it.
Pay the toll
In the mean time we will start building the five lanes on each side so that all the traffic can move more efficiently.
But its not going to happen over night and it will save petrol in the future, you might save enough even to use the toll road with no problems and then we will upgrade the toll road to a dual carriage way purely for cars and motorbikes.
This is all going to take time planning and effort but would you rather that the old carriage way remains and no work is done but more petrol is made available?
Think about this clearly
You can throw money at the problem and the cars will still reach their destination but ever so slowly or you can take some decisive action and finally get the system working so well that you will wonder why you ever put up with the old dual carriageway.
A modern metaphor for our times.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
The Time Trave(l)ler's Wife
Film Review:
Having never read the book and wanted to many times, but never got round to it I was really going to go see this film. I sensed that much of it fell on the cutting room floor as there were painful gaps in it, but then again I have this thing about long films.
The first thing I noticed is that they used the American spelling for Traveller.
The actors and actresses are pretty, but the story is very bare in the film
Eric Bana is gorgeous though.
I won't spoil it if you havent seen it,but I felt it was too short. Bring back a 4 hour film with a 20 minute intermission and get some books properly done into films.
Having never read the book and wanted to many times, but never got round to it I was really going to go see this film. I sensed that much of it fell on the cutting room floor as there were painful gaps in it, but then again I have this thing about long films.
The first thing I noticed is that they used the American spelling for Traveller.
The actors and actresses are pretty, but the story is very bare in the film
Eric Bana is gorgeous though.
I won't spoil it if you havent seen it,but I felt it was too short. Bring back a 4 hour film with a 20 minute intermission and get some books properly done into films.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Famous Quotes (10)
In the words of Polly Toynbee's father, Arnold Toynbee
"I suspect that a worldwide totalitarian movement of the communist-fascist kind may overthrow existing institutions - including local sovereignty, political democracy, economic private enterprise -
and at the eleventh hour some such worldwide totalitarian movement will stabilise human affairs by taking such drastic actions in which indespenable fundamental reforms will be intertwined with atrocious acts of injustice"
Sounds familiar but he wrote this in the 1960s
"I suspect that a worldwide totalitarian movement of the communist-fascist kind may overthrow existing institutions - including local sovereignty, political democracy, economic private enterprise -
and at the eleventh hour some such worldwide totalitarian movement will stabilise human affairs by taking such drastic actions in which indespenable fundamental reforms will be intertwined with atrocious acts of injustice"
Sounds familiar but he wrote this in the 1960s
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Anna Raccoon is Back
And she is better than ever
More incisive and more pointed than before
You need to get over there now
Anna Raccoon For responsible Raccoontage
More incisive and more pointed than before
You need to get over there now
Anna Raccoon For responsible Raccoontage
Friday, August 14, 2009
Election Carol
On the first day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
A house in my constituency
On the second day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the third day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the fourth day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the fifth day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the sixth day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the seventh day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the eighth day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the ninth day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Nine grand stamp duty
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the tenth day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Ten sets of bed linen
Nine grand stamp duty
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the eleventh day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Eleven pounds of washing up liquid
Ten sets of bed linen
Nine grand stamp duty
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the twelfth day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
12 wine glasses
Eleven pounds of washing up liquid
Ten sets of bed linen
Nine grand stamp duty
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
my expenses paid to me:
A house in my constituency
On the second day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the third day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the fourth day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the fifth day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the sixth day of Parliament
my expenses paid to me:
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the seventh day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the eighth day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the ninth day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Nine grand stamp duty
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the tenth day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Ten sets of bed linen
Nine grand stamp duty
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the eleventh day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
Eleven pounds of washing up liquid
Ten sets of bed linen
Nine grand stamp duty
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
On the twelfth day of Parliament
my true love sent to me:
12 wine glasses
Eleven pounds of washing up liquid
Ten sets of bed linen
Nine grand stamp duty
Eight nice new chairs
Seven hundred pound telly
Six homes a flipping
Five varnish coats
Four breakfast knifes
Three rattan bins
Two adult films
and a house in my constituency
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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