Clarkson hates computers

I agree a lot with what Jeremy says in this video.

Should I stay or should I go?

Budget

David Cameron attacking Gordon Brown's budget.

ID cards and Boris don't mix!

What are you planning to do with your ID card?

I might use my one to flick away spiders that don't like friendly enough to hold (only joking of course), but I may use it as a bookmark in books about civil liberties and the nanny state.

Here is what Boris Johnson will be doing with his:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZAAzSzleWk

Thanks for the video Boris Johnson and Justine Greening.

NHS

David Cameron spoke at a protest in London yesterday by 12,000 junior doctors, who were protesting against reforms to their medical training.

It is good to see that David is starting to show his vision for Britain's future and that people from outside the normal political rally were cheering him and booing Labour's running of the NHS.

This is what politics should be about and David is showing that the NHS is safe under a Conservative government, regardless of what Labour says. Things are looking up for us Tories with speeches like this

new video's

Two new video's on my Video Link.

Hayley Dee Westenra
Snow Patrol

A really cool singer

Check out the music video of this amazing singer, I think he does a much better job of copying songs from others then most modern boy bands. I would love to see him in concert one day, but I don't think I would be able to get a ticket anywhere....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y

Surrey Hills is AOONB

Caught the train to Guildford today with my bike and then set out on a bike ride where I intended to cycle through Surrey Hills from Guildford to around the Kent border.

I had a good cycle over the hills and through forests, at one point I went down a very steep hill and went very fast down the hill, I was hoping to have slowed down by the time I reached the pathway at the bottom but I just flew over it and kept going over the bumpy ground and finally managed to slow down and gain control again a few metres away from a massive bushy area, which would have hurt if I crashed into it!

But I saw some beautiful scenery and cycled down some nice country lanes and over interesting fields.

By about 12:30pm I reached a small village called Gomshall which is a few miles away from Dorking, but alas, my bike got a flat tyre there and I had no tools to fix it. I tried to call home on my mobile but as I had no reception and had to walk around the village with my back tyre making a horrible noise, but I did put it through a lot of pain on the trip.

I managed to find a old red phone box, I reckon it must have been the only one in the village and called home to see if I could be picked up as the train station only had trains stop there about every two hours, it was a shock as I always catch trains from Guildford, Waterloo and Clapham Junction.

The station had no ticket machine, no drinks machine, a old gate that blew in the wind and I was the only person that stood on the platform for the hour that I waited there, you could even walk across the track between the two platforms. You could run between the platforms and make a cricket century there before a train passed through!

Anyway I failed to make the whole journey and next time I will have to take a pump with me, but I got some new inner tubes with gel inside that is meant to seal up holes in inner tubes, don't we live in a great technological age!

Red, Yellow and Blue piggy banks

Just seen the news talking about party funding for the three main political party's and if there should be a cap of about £50,000 per person to fund the party and if the public should be more able to fund the party's.

I would not mind doing this as it may be a good thing to know more about where the different party's get their funding from, I just hope the money in my pocket does not end up in the red or yellow piggy banks.

They shook the red and blue piggy banks and they sounded to have the same amount of coins in them, but the video ended before they shook the yellow piggy bank. I wonder if this was to save the Lib Dems from the agony of hearing a empty piggy bank?

1,000 carriages

So the government wants to introduce 1,000 new train carriages by 2014, which sounds a good idea as the carriages are quite overcrowded.

I travel to Guildford via Clapham Junction because it goes through the Surrey countryside and you get a good view of green fields, lakes and great sunsets. It is a shame that I have to do this pressed against the window by hundreds of other businessmen, hoodies and the sound of heavy breathing and the annoying sound of the wheels on the track.

Anyway back to my point, why does this government leave issues until they become problems before they act? and we will have to wait another seven years for 1,000 carriages, I just hope that they meet this target and that it improves the railway.

It will cost around £130 million a year, is that not a better way to spend the Trident money?


BBC News

Trident

Just read that Nigel Griffiths, the Deputy leader of the Commons has quit the government in a protest at the current plan to renew Trident.
I will be missing the debate on Wednesday, which is a shame as it seems that there will be a massive Labour rebellion against the plan with the Lib Dem’s as well.

However David Cameron has said that he supports the Trident weapons system

"I think it needs to be done and I've always supported Britain having a nuclear deterrent, so when Trident comes to the end of its life it needs to be replaced." - David Cameron.

So it looks like the government, with Tory backing will get the Trident system to be renewed which will cost about £20 billions, I would prefer that the money was spent elsewhere though.

At the moment I don’t think we need to renew Trident as we are currently in a War on Terror and don’t live in a world of civilisation against civilisation, but of civilisation against religious fanatics and nuclear weapons are too powerful against them. But who knows what the world will be like in 20 years time and we may need Trident again one day.

So it might be a good idea to keep an independent nuclear deterrent for the future, if Britain wants to keep its military power and influence over other counties we should go for Trident, otherwise we should spend the money elsewhere on hospitals, education or the armed forces.
In my view, the future of our civilisation would be better if we spent the money on soldiers, the RAF or the Navy as they would be better for peacekeeping then nuclear missiles.

Hope to catch the debate later on.

I guess America isn't so bad.

Patrick Mercer

I have decided to talk about the Tory MP Patrick Mercer rather then the terrible mistakes being made by the Commons on the Lords.

Is it right that David Cameron sacked Patrick Mercer from the Shadow Front Bench?

Well here is David's response

Mr Mercer may have made a terrible mistake saying what he did, but he is an ex-colonel and he said that he had met a lot of idle and useless ethnic minority soldiers who used racism as a cover. He may believe from what he has seen that that this is the truth. However it is well known that he is not a racist as:

He has said so his self.
He has said he has always come down hard on racism where he has seen it.
Many black soldiers have come to his defence.
He has raised black soldiers up the ranks.

A former soldier of his said:

"In my 12 years with the battalion no form of racism went unpunished"

I know that abuse (used during training towards soldier to get them to train harder) does exist, as I have been in the Air Cadets and almost joined the army, so I saw a little abuse.

He may have just been saying what he saw, but as he is a member of the shadow cabient, what he says reflects on the party which is working hard to create a relationship with the ethnic society and David maybe felt he had to sacked him to avoid his party getting a bad name among the ethnic community.

In my view, Patrick Mercer is another victim of modern political reality and I believe David Cameron may have had no choice but to take action. But was he too fast to sack him?


Sources:

Iain Dale's Diary
BBC News

Oh yeah, of course it is the British who are to blame....

I read an interesting acticle in the paper today about a new book from an American writer, who did not even do History past the sixth grade. Anyway this book is all about blaming Britain for the world's ills. I had to laugh at this, an American blaming Britain for the world's troubles!

Now I know that Lefties like to attack the British Empire for being an evil and cruel one, however it was nothing like the Roman or Mongal imperial conquests. I am afraid that I don't share this left wing view, I know that the slavery part of the Empire was a cruel trade and wonder why these men throught it was okay to trade people as slaves and even the Christian who wrote 'Amazing Grace' worked on a slave ship.

But there were good parts of the British rule that include:

We brought trade, invention and law to all different lands that know not about them before.

The Indians today still acknowledge a debt to Britain for ruling without corruption and the English language gives them a advantage over China.

Brought peace to Africa and it was a lot better back then.

Britain on the whole did a much better job at running the world then America today.

We managed to rule India with just 1,000 officials in a country of hundreds of millions, won the Battle of Britain and defeated the massive Zulu army with a handfull of British troops, now they were quite an achievement.

He has some cheek to say that it was Britian's fault that the Vietnam War happened as it was our colonial expansion that lead to the country being a French colony and that the First World war was our fault because Germany wanted a Empire like ours.

This is the America that caused about 30 years of Cold War and almost a Nucleur War with all the horrors of the Vietnam War, which Britain was right to stay out off and brought the 'Teenager' to Britain. It was better when teenagers wore flatcaps and spoke in a cockney accent.

The paper suggests that the book is an attempt from the American to taunt the British because we ran the world before them and with all the problems they are having at the moment, they need someone to look down on. Which sounds quite true.

At the end of the day and apart from all the bad stuff that did happen during those imperial days when Britain was a great industrial nation, I am biased as I am a Nationalist, but I think we were a better ruler then American is today, mainly because of the differences between our rulers and style of army.



(C) Max Hastings, The Daily Mail.

Surrey CF

I have added a link to the new Surrey Conservative Future blog on my sidebar, as we are trying to bring the whole County together and I am working on the internet side of things to achieve this.

It is quite new, so it is not that active yet. But keep checking back....

Might be campaigning in Guildford soon, it will be good to get back in the swing of things.

Parking Skills

One of my friends has recently passed his driving test, so I have decided to show this funny clip in his honour...