Postaday2011: Describe the best road trip you’ve ever taken

On the road

Describe the best road trip you’ve ever taken Hitch-hiking from Athens to Brussels with only five dollars, a loaf of bread and a carrot to my name. Slept mostly on building sites. Got surrounded by Yugoslav military with machine guns for picking firewood in a military zone. Got drunk three times - toasting Greece and Britain co-operation Continue Reading

Prisoner’s vote issue handled childishly

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David Cameron, a supposedly intelligent person, recently stated that he felt sick at the thought of prisoners voting in elections. This situation arises as a recent court case ruled that it broke prisoner's rights not to be allowed to vote. As a result most of the right-wing newspapers have got very excited. Many traditional Conservative voters Continue Reading

Postaday2011:Describe your dream vacation.

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Describe your dream vacation. Bonus:  describe your last vacation. (extra-bonus, is to compare your dream vacation to your last one). I'm training up for my dream holiday, which will take place in 2012.  It will be a long trip around Europe in my camper van Bongo Little. I will cross the Channel from England  in April travel slowly through Continue Reading

Postaday2011: What is something you believed in, until an experience changed your mind?

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I lost my belief in religion in Bethlehem. I was there three weeks after the Six Day War and Israel really challenges your views. You walk around a corner and you are suddenly in completely different way of life. I got to meet Jews, Christians, Druze, Bahai, Muslims and many different interpretations of these faiths including a town of black, Continue Reading

There are other terrorists.

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I hate the fact that David Cameron, our supposed  leader, made an attack on multiculturalism, which was clearly biased against Islam. There are some terrorists who are Moslem, but I have lived my life under the threat of Irish Republican terrorists. When I was working as a telephonist in the old Post Office an IRA bomb killed a telephonist. I, or Continue Reading

Cameron’s Big Society is a Big Con

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In the next couple of years the existing, real 'Big Society' is going to be bulldozed.  The grant cuts to local authorities are going hack to death many local excellent projects.  For example there will probably be 250 Sure-Start schemes axed. These schemes help turn around mothers in the most deprived areas and help them and their children have Continue Reading

postaday2011 Heroes and Villains

Joan of arc

Topic: Who is your greatest hero This started me thinking of the women in my family and so I'd like to nominate four  women as heroes: Ninny – my great grandmother had a horrible life living in a two up and two down house, which backed onto the railway shunting area so there was always the taste of smoke from trains. Her husband was nasty. Continue Reading

Best job – worst job?

Happy

This is my response to the query what was your best ideal job and what was the worst job you've ever done? Best job Sticking the tassels on the show girls at the Folies Bergere - it's ony $5 per hour - but it's all I could afford.  Woody Allan Seriously I would like to set up a computer training centre in an area of high unemployment, but Continue Reading

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The UK Workers’ Charter

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• You have the right to a minimum wage, but not necessarily a living or a decent wage • You have the right to "agree" to work more than 48 hours a week, but not to be paid an overtime rate if you do so • Women have the right to equal pay to men, but typically to be paid less than a man • You have the right not to be unfairly dismissed, Continue Reading