Our local bobby’s car was beginning to look a little tatty. So, knowing that I had experience in “coach painting” when I was in the Army, he asked me to redo the livery on his car.

Here is the result. I think it looks great, but he didn’t seem very happy with it for some reason; in fact he burst into tears.

There’s no pleasing some people.

I received the following article in my emails today which sums up my situation exactly.

BRITAIN , where did we go wrong? We’re broke and we can’t help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc., but are you aware of the following ? The British Government provides the following financial assistance:

British Old Age Pensioner: (bearing in mind they worked hard and paid their Income Tax and National Insurance contributions to the British government all their working life) Weekly allowance:£106.00

Immigrants and Refugees living in Britain: (No Income Tax and National Insurance contribution whatsoever) Weekly allowance: £250.00

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British Old Age Pensioner: Weekly Spouse allowance: £25.00

Immigrants and Refugees living in Britain: Weekly Spouse allowance: £225.00

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British Old Age Pensioner: Additional weekly hardship allowance £0.00

Immigrants and Refugees: Additional weekly hardship allowance £100.00

A British old age pensioner is no less hard up than the immigrants and refugees yet receives nothing.

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British Old Age Pensioner: Total Yearly Benefit £6,000

Immigrants and refugees living in Britain: Total Yearly Benefit £29,000

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Please forward to all your contacts so that we can lobby for a decent state pension. After all, the average pensioner has paid taxes and contributed to the growth of this country for the last 40 to 60 years. Yet illegal immigrants and refugees are GIVEN so much of OUR money. For WHAT ? Did they earn it? Did we ask them to come here? Do we want them here?

Offensively galling isn’t it ? Isn’t it about time we put our own people first ?

It’s OUR money, NOT THEIRS. Most people won’t have the guts to forward this. I Just did!

Andy McBride.
National Organiser of Britain First
0208 914 8212

Now I never knew this, because this kind of information is not generally available to the public for obvious reasons! I don’t know where Mr McBride got his information from or whether it’s all true or not, but I do know that the Old Age Pensioner figures are correct, being an OAP myself.

The basic pension is actually £102.15 ($165) per week, not £106 ($171).  Mr McBride didn’t mention that most pensioners do have a small amount extra added to that figure, such as Graduated Retirement Benefit £7.25 ($11) making a total of £109.4 ($176).

Out of my weakly [sic] pension I am expected to pay my Council Tax, the gas, electricity, water, phone and other bills!

I am one of the lucky ones(?), I have a small (VERY small) private pension (on which I am taxed!) which does help with the little luxuries in life, such as food and clothing.

If you look at the “About me” bit in the right column most of that is not true now. I wrote that about 6 years ago. The cost of living has gone up so much, but the yearly increments of the state pension (this year 2.5%, not nearly enough) doesn’t keep pace with roaring inflation; so no more holidays in France or anywhere, no more archery (club fees and insurance now too high), and worst of all, I now have to cut back on my visits to the pub, which is the only social life I have left!

I don’t hate the immigrants for getting those benefits, it’s our sick government I hate for turning this country into a land “flowing with milk and honey” to attract the immigrants like bees to a jam pot. If only I could find a land where I could go and be handed more money than I ever had and a better life style just for the asking I would be off like a shot tomorrow, so we can’t blame the immigrants for flocking in their thousands to this country when you look at all the poverty in their own countries.

Sorry about this rant, I know I said I wouldn’t turn this blog into a political one, but this subject gets to me like an arrow through the heart, and I just had to say something!

The Daily Mail today states that the ‘Jamie Oliver health crusade leads to fewer pupils eating school meals’ and goes on to state:

Jamie Oliver’s campaign against the Turkey Twizzler has cost the taxpayer £500million and resulted in fewer pupils eating school lunches, it emerged yesterday.

More than half of primary pupils and around two-thirds of secondary school youngsters are still rejecting the TV chef’s healthier menus.

The meals – which must contain 14 nutrients, a vegetable and a piece of fruit – were introduced in 2006 after Oliver highlighted the poor state of many school lunches.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012340/Jamie-Oliver-health-crusade-leads-fewer-pupils-eating-school-meals.html#ixzz1RVAfMOb3

What a silly person. Doesn’t Mr Oliver realise that children know that a Whopper-burger, a packet of crisps, a chocolate bar and a Coke from McDonalds is tastier and more nourishing than a salad or a roast-beef dinner with cabbage, carrots, onions etc.?

It is a well established fact that children know everything, so who are we to try and change their ways?

Every day between 12noon and 2 you see hordes of uniformed kids in the local supermarket all buying junk food which they eat on the way back to school. There’s so many that they block up the checkouts causing tailbacks for about 20 minutes!

. . . . . that is the question.

Now here is a conundrum to tax your brains. Just suppose I was to build a fully functional, working time-travel machine (I know it’s possible cos I’ve seen one in action on the telly) and I travelled back in time to see my grandmother.

The time machine materialises in a street in Bolton, right in front of a passing young lady who happens to be my grandmother and pregnant with my father. The shock of seeing this strange apparition suddenly appearing in front of her causes her to step backwards right in front of a passing horseless carriage and she is killed instantly, and of course her unborn child (my father) dies as well.

Anxious to avoid publicity as a crowd gathers I jump back into my TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions In Space) machine and put it into reverse without thinking of the consequences of my actions. As soon as I reach the point in time from where I started, 5 July 2012, I instantly disappear because neither the Tardis or I ever existed. Well how could I? My grandmother died young in 1914 without giving birth!

Now the question is that if I didn’t exist I couldn’t have built a time machine and gone back in time to cause the accident that killed my grandmother. This means that she wasn’t killed and gave birth to my father and everything was as it should be, so I do exist and I build a time machine and go back to 1914 and cause my grandmothers demise. Then I come back to my own time and promptly vanish because neither the Tardis or I ever existed. Well how could I? My grandmother died young in 1914 without giving birth!

If I didn’t exist I couldn’t have built a time machine and gone back in time to cause the accident that killed my grandmother. This means that she wasn’t killed and gave birth to my father and everything was as it should be, so I do exist and I build a time machine and go back to 1914 and cause my grandmothers demise. . . . . . .

So am I caught in a ‘time loop’ which goes on forever? Or is there an answer to this?

If I don’t exist I can’t build a time machine and go back to just before the incident, or just after she gives birth to my father; and if I do exist then I am doomed to repeat the same mistake because it would not occur to me to change the time of my arrival in the past.

Help!