Dec 29
A chilly wakeup call
It looks as though the London Underground system will be shut due to a strike on New Year’s Eve. The original idea, as suggested by London’s wretched mayor, Ken Livingstone, was to get the trains to run into the small hours of the morning, but his idea has been stiffed. It raises a grim smile to see one prominent Man of the People in a faceoff with another bunch of snivelling lefties. The unions claim their strike is motivated by fears about safety, a claim so transparently untrue that one almost admires their cheek. But seriously, this will wreck a lot of people’s plans and hopefully, may wake up the public to the fact that the public sector unions are still highly powerful, and able to cause great harm.
I’d like to see some hard words from Tory leader David Cameron on all this, but he seems determined to pitch for the dim-bulb Lib-Dem vote, so I would not stake the farm on it. Happy days.
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“seems determined to pitch for the dim-bulb Lib-Dem vote”
What a waste of time. (Sounds like some of our Republicans)
Here’s hoping the Lib-Dems become an even less influence on Brit society in 2006…
January 4 Carnival of the Vanities
Welcome to Carnival of the Vanities, Mark II, under new management. Since I’m running CotV now, and this is a bully pulpit for getting the news out, I’m going