A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.

Well, there’s a very simple answer.

Nobody bothered to check the oil.

We just didn’t know we were getting low.

The reason for that is purely geographical.

Our OIL is located in the North Sea

Our DIPSTICKS are located in Westminster !!!

I noticed that this day in 1989 the American actor Victor French died. It struck me as kind of strange that the words Victor and French actually appear in the same sentence. Now that doesn’t happen everyday.

Yes, that was the opening line in the BBC’s report of England’s match against the All Blacks.
Personally speaking I switched off when New Zealand scored their two tries in the opening 10 minutes of the second half. The first try (in the second half) was scored after a forward pass. If someone passes the ball a yard before the 22 yard line and the receiver takes that ball two yards in front of said line, then chances are it was forward. The linesman was in direct line the referee was there but yet no not one person questioned the try, not even the commentators.
The second try was a result of an England fumble but seconds previous, the ball was knocked forward, by a New Zealander, thanks to a Charlie Hodgson tackle. While the England players stopped, expecting the referee to call a scrum in their favour, the All Blacks scored.
So the final score of 37-20 with 14 points removed makes it 23-20 - hardly put to the sword for a young inexperienced England team.
The English pack, I thought, were amazing and outshone the New Zealand pack (although perhaps only just) but I freely admit that the better team on the day won, but put to the sword - hardly.
I now find the rules of Rugby Union so complicated and the ability of so many people to have different interpretations of these rules that the game now holds little interest for me.
Ask your Rugby mates to explain certain decisions during a match and they will fail to do this or at best will have a completely different view to the next bloke. Once the Rugby Union fraternity (players, coaches, officials and commentators) admit they don’t know the rules we will have a chance to clean up the game for everyone but I am afraid to admit the obvious would be just too embarrassing.

Derek Conway paid his son £40,000 for doing nothing and was suspended from the house for 10 days and I am guessing he has to pay this money back at some time. This was our money that he used and what I want to know is when the police will be called and charge this man with fraud.
We then had the MEP Giles Chichester who funnelled, an alleged, £4450,000 in to a company where he was a director. He is being investigated by party auditors and has resigned as Conservative leader in Europe. He had the audacity to call this a ‘whoops-a-daisy’ moment. This is not an oversight - this is theft!.
We now have Caroline Spelman who paid her nanny £40,000 for secretarial work. The only problem is the Nanny says she didn’t do any such work. Mrs Spelman is saying she did. One of them is lying, and we are supposed to believe that the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner will sort this out. Let’s hope that if he finds any inproprietary he will call in the police.
We are being taxed to death in this country and these public servants are abusing that position and are fraudulently stealing our money.
Try doing something similar in your job and see how how long it is before you end up in court.

Gordon is a moron, but I think most Brits already knew that. Our idiotic PM is planning to raise tax on older ‘polluting’ cars to save “1.3m tonnes of CO2 and increase the number of clean cars” - his own words in parliament today.
This is a tax on people who can not afford a new car - plain and simple.
From a personal point of view, I have just sold my car and am thinking about buying an old cheap banger. It would be for emergencies only and would do very low mileage. It would produce a hell of a lot less CO2 overall than Joe Bloggs down the road, who has a lovely new car, but uses his car for every journey imaginable.
The Road Fund Licence is nothing but a tax on car ownership. We are already taxed hugely on fuel and this costs uneconomical (polluting) cars more. We do not need another ‘green’ tax when we already pay one.
Gordon Brown must really think we are stupid. He is earning extra VAT (which is a tax on the tax) on the fuel as it increases and the treasury coffers must be overflowing with this windfall. What the hell is he doing with this increased revenue that he could never have bargained for.
I. like many others, will vote for the lesser of the evils and I think Mr Brown is now the greatest of the evils.

OH MY GOD - I think I am becoming a Conservative supporter.