Flood we have .
Plague was discovered to have set in this morning.
Ruin has been with us for some time for the UK government indulges in enron economics - off -balance liabilities, intertemporal transfers hiding true liabilities, understating contingent liabilities etc., and the wise check the accounts for sustainability, and watch United Kingdom credit rating by credit rating agencies, for an early warning - though probably too late to put things right. A decade of what Brown's been doing has Ruin staring the middle classes in the face.
Death has yet to put in an appearance, but give the Labour Leader time, at the current disaster-induction rate about another three weeks should bring Death.
Were it to rain frogs who could be surprised?
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I think you could well be right HG.
Have you noticed how timid all the cabinet seem to be these days; you hardly ever hear a proper statement, and what big news do we have; Brown returns from his holiday to chair a Cobra meeting on Foot and Mouth! Of course it's a potential disaster, but lets have the Defra crowd out in force, lots of cancelled holidays, everyone in that department working full time in the UK, not just a new PM driving back from Devon to sit at a table and say he's in charge.
Yet again, I heard the statement 'Learning lessons' this morning. I get very pissed off when I hear that these people need to 'learn lessons' any more. They are supposed to be leaders and in their jobs because they know what to do already, and they're not in very expensive positions to sit on a fact finding mission before they're shunted off to another sinecure.
I think Brown is becoming more presidential than Blair ever was, and his bounce will really bite him in the arse soon - just as you've stated!
A number of British soldiers are dying, due to poor equipment, no support and insane foreign policy, so we have Death already. Teenagers seem to want to stab and shoot each other too.
I thought it was raining frogs on my first date with Boyfriend...It rained hard, and the droplets bounced up off the ground..it took us a moment to realise there were tiny little frogs bouncing through the raindrops, thousands of them...we had to stop walking for fear of crushing them..
The recent letter to postmasters is a straw in the wind:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/03/npost103.xml
I'd appreciate a copy of the entire text of the threatening letter from Sue Huggins.
I once met a sailor who had a girlfriend in Prague in 1968. When the Russian tanks first came in, the crews were fresh-faced youngsters and people sort of felt sorry for them; a few days later, the kids had gone and looking out from the turrets were very hard-faced old sweats.
Anybody else noticed how New Labour uses pseudo-bimbos? Maybe a hangover from student demo days - when the cops arrived, it was "chicks up front".
L, Once before I mentioned clicking on Informed Comment as an every day minimum act of contrition that Iraq was invaded on my watch, regardless of how small and irrelevant, mine.
It's well over a million people dead, maimed, displaced, ruined, now.
As well, the Labour Leader is bearing blights that are delivered or to be delivered, inside the United Kingdom; were I religious, I'd be on my knees about him to the Almighty.
He's called a Jettatore in Italian, an Unglücksbringer in German.
Against him are used all straight, powerful, upstanding entities, and symbols thereof - middle fingers, first and third, other erectible parts of the anatomy..
Such a person is anathema. But we knew that, pity the head of state didn't (and her a German).
'Adam Crozier, the Royal Mail chief executive, is one of the highest paid public sector bosses. He earned more than £1 million in 2005-06.'
The Post Office Labour Woman Apparatchik in charge of closing Post Offices circulated a letter demanding that a set of Labour party pre- prepared responses should be given to customers who might be asking why the Post Office branch was closing, and warning that the manner in which these answers were given would be checked by travelling, incognito inspectors (shades of the restaurant star award for the omelette cooked in catnip).
Seeing as a lot of 'pensioners' are perfectly capable of working - they're certainly capable of cluttering up every airline, every resort, every railway station, why are they not at work after a lifetime of the NHS to keep them in shape?, I'm repelled by the form of the action but I don't care much about the complaining 'old folks'.
After a lifetime to get themselves organised, the so-called pensioners should not be seeking to live off the earnings of the young to the point where the young have stoppages of almost 50% on their earnings. And if we aren't subsidising their cash collection points they have, after all, the whole day to ride cheaply or for free on publically provided and subsidised transport, to collect their self-voted and ill-gotten gains.
Sorry Sackers, I think the pensioners (not the ultra old and frail) are a nasty, selfish, pseudo socialist lot who contribute little and consume beyond their proper claims.
HG, the bit that gets me is the threat of £multipleK "fines" on sub-postmasters for not parroting the pravda, and the use of spies.
I have had cause to remark before that the 10 plagues are all too familiar to latter-day Britons, innit?
Nile turning to blood – Nile, Tiber, I’m sure it’s all the same
Livestock pestilence – no need to elaborate on this one
The Darkness – some good guitar, obviously, but the falsetto, it’s unbearable
Slaughter of the firstborn – in some parts of London the victims aren’t even targeted as precisely as that
Frogs – the Brownite hordes, I mean, have you had a good look at either Milliband? not pleasant, is it?
Locusts - the Brownites again, & their damned stealth taxes
Hailstorm – and the rest, climate change will do for us all one way or the other
Boils – there we go again (or is this just a personal problem?...)
Lice – those Brownite vermin get everywhere
Flies – and worse, it’s the fast-food, wheelie-bins and fortnightly collections I blame, another NuLab curse
I feel sure David Cameron will have a cure for all these ills.
(first given airtime by the good Mr C)
Yes, certainly S, threatening punishment for failure to conform to the state attitude is all of a piece with what is going on.
100% agreement on that, I just flew into a little rant because social redistribution is skewed to a very undeserving but highly organised group.
All of this 'we are listening and learning' stuff is cant, Scroblene, why do we never hear about shame and repentence and reparation?
ND - it's all been set to music by Handel as well! Wouldn't it be the Tamige foaming with much blood, being as it's London?
I am all set to write on enroneconomics but the telegiornale has reported that the Hanbury Gardens are in flames; deliberately fired.
What is the matter with people when faced with a great work of art? Hammers used on the Davide, Titians slashed with knives, renaissance streets scrawled with psychotic tags, and now one of the greatest of 18th century Mediterranean gardens on fire.
HG - you raise a really big issue in speaking of retirees as a political group. The selfishness of the young is a cliche, but we don't call baby birds selfish when they demand food, grooming and protection.
I thought your use of the exam format to invite economic comment was witty and stimulating. Perhaps you should start an essay competition on "the selfishness of the old". Length, closing date etc?
Sackers, I'm not sure the Tripos raised this kind of thing. Well, in the form of discussion about universal benefits, means testing and the nature of moral hazard it would have done.
I'll see if anyone has a good form of question during lunch.
Here, people are retired in middle age; there has been a huge effort even to raise the retirement age to 60.
WHAT? Hanbury Gardens in flames??? there is nothing on the web ....
Lilith, the evening before last the running commentary under the main news said that "the hanbury gardens are in flames after a deliberate act of vandalism" (doloso). Since then I have tried Nice Matin but that needs a subscription, and looked at Ansa, but that is only dealing with the firing of the south of Italy (which is enough to make Angels weep, the Amalfi coast is burning). The University of Genova, which owns the gardens, site says nothing. There has been no further news since that subtitle. My hope is that either it was dealt with very rapidly or that it was mistaken; sadly the doloso fires around Venti miglia are numerous, as indeed for everywhere here when there is a demand a) for building sites, b) for state funds for reforestation after fire (a particularly cruel example of unintended consequences).
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