BRITAIN SWAMPED BY BENEFITS BABY BOOM

THE number of girls getting pregnant and leaving school at 16 has soared since a rise in benefits to teen mums, it emerged yesterday.
A shock study has estimated an extra 45,000 babies were born to poor teenage mums in the year after Government rules were changed.

My Comment  (Well, Well who would have expected that then – certainly not the VERY WELL PAID AND SUPPOSEDLY EDUCATED MINISTERS AND MP’s WE ELECTED. (WELL YOU ELECTED – I CERTAINLEY DIDN’T) – Its was pretty obvious to us simpleton’s …………….. along with dozens of other hair brained schemes like rewarding villains with all expenses paid holidays to name just one.

THE BIG SELL OFF OF THE UN-UNITED KINGDOM

Well after todays secret SALE of our nuclear production plant to the US we don’t seem to have much left.

Royal Mail stake to be sold to private foreign firm in £3bn deal

Extracts from BBC NEWS Friday, 18 February, 2005, 00:01 GMT

also see (SEE 16 December 2008)

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Royal Mail loses postal monopoly

The Royal Mail’s 350-year monopoly is to end at the start of 2006, 15 months earlier than previously planned.

The UK’s postal service market will be fully liberalised from 1 January 2006, regulator Postcomm announced, following three months of consultation.

From that date, any licensed operator will be able to deliver mail to business and residential customers.
Royal Mail, which controls 99% of the market, welcomed the news but the main postal union said it was “ill-advised”.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) warned the decision will place “the country’s cherished universal service in jeopardy”.

The CWU also criticised what it said was a “competition at all costs” ethos which it says will put the Post Office at a serious competitive disadvantage to its European rivals.

Hello world!

This blog is to help vent my endless cries of “I can’t believe it”
So many simple things in life complicated beyond belief by the British Government, the System, the PCC Brigade and not to be outdone our beloved HUMAN RIGHTS ACT … I believe in the KISS system (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID)

Waging war against plastic bags

EVEN the Prime Minister has a view on a tax or ban on plastic shopping bags. And even more stores begin charging for them.

My simple answer is make the manufacturers build in a shelf life of 12 Months after which the bag starts to disintegrate – or is this TO SIMPLE.