I wonder if it is just myself that feels slightly disappointed Banksy has joined the political arena and spoken out about Trade Centre One on his website? Up until a few months ago Banksy had an anonymous mystique that was revered outside the capitol, many in the UK still did not know the cloaked man that inspired a generation to paint what they feel and brought a new chic to what is basically graffiti. I guess eventually we all succumb to media attention if we receive enough of it but I feel that he has joined the ranks of normality in his chosen field whereas before his art had much more power because he was almost anonymous and the very fact that he has been criticised in New York for his work in the area tells us that not everyone appreciates his style, though quite why the Mayor would chastise a near genius for decorating the city is quite beyond me.
Michael Heseltine made the case for HS2 last night, I wonder if anyone has actually told David Cameron that "Tarzan" carries about as much clout in the UK as a meat pie without the chips. He is a "has been" a political dinosaur who along with Kenneth Clarke should have been put out to graze years hence, they are bitter twisted old cohorts who did nothing but stamp their feet and back stab their way throughout their political careers, pretty much sums up the majority of politicians really, but that's another story. The very fact this man asks the UK tax payers to take a "leap of faith" as he so eloquently and convincingly put it shows he is more out of touch with the general population than ever before, how dare he assault the tax paying public's ears with such politically motivated drivel at a time ordinary decent folk are being penalised for having one empty bedroom in the family home, what a detestable individual he really is, it shows he has lost nothing of his arrogance and self righteousness and that this government is so short of politicians with believable clout they are prepared to take a step back to the dark ages to try and get their point over, let's hope one of those vines he swings on is showing it's age and hopefully gives up mid flight, it's time this political grade three listed antique was grounded and hopefully take the ill-conceived over-priced and unnecessary #HS2 with him.
Government is currently looking at increasing the weights and speed of tractors. To you in the City that may be no big deal but to us more rural based bodies it's a disaster in the making. You see farmers are not stupid, they receive hefty subsidies from our European brethren, they get heavily discounted VED for their machines and they also get rebated (red) diesel which more often than not ends up in the family car and Land Rover. If you couple that with land prices growing at their fastest rate since records began you begin to build a picture of an industry that is becoming a monster. So why I hear you ask should I be concerned about thirty two tonne tractors doing thirty miles an hour on our roads? Well one very good reason is that haulage companies deserve fair competition like any industry and if farmers are allowed to "haul" then they are in direct competition and as such should be subject to drivers hours rules, appropriate driving licences and appropriate record keeping, none of which farmers need to undertake, yet a young seventeen year old can drive for fifteen or twenty hours in a field then take a fully loaded thirty two tonne tractor out onto our highways and do thirty miles an hour on tractor tyres and much longer stopping distances, I fear the worst and I also fear that because government has given this such a short consultation time (February 2014) I fear they have not looked at the implications of such a move. Sounds all too familiar from a bumbling idiosyncratic bunch of Eton educated half wits... I may have only been Grammar School educated but at least it gave me something that the present incumbents of government have never had and that's a taste of real life and oh my does it show,
Michael Heseltine made the case for HS2 last night, I wonder if anyone has actually told David Cameron that "Tarzan" carries about as much clout in the UK as a meat pie without the chips. He is a "has been" a political dinosaur who along with Kenneth Clarke should have been put out to graze years hence, they are bitter twisted old cohorts who did nothing but stamp their feet and back stab their way throughout their political careers, pretty much sums up the majority of politicians really, but that's another story. The very fact this man asks the UK tax payers to take a "leap of faith" as he so eloquently and convincingly put it shows he is more out of touch with the general population than ever before, how dare he assault the tax paying public's ears with such politically motivated drivel at a time ordinary decent folk are being penalised for having one empty bedroom in the family home, what a detestable individual he really is, it shows he has lost nothing of his arrogance and self righteousness and that this government is so short of politicians with believable clout they are prepared to take a step back to the dark ages to try and get their point over, let's hope one of those vines he swings on is showing it's age and hopefully gives up mid flight, it's time this political grade three listed antique was grounded and hopefully take the ill-conceived over-priced and unnecessary #HS2 with him.
Government is currently looking at increasing the weights and speed of tractors. To you in the City that may be no big deal but to us more rural based bodies it's a disaster in the making. You see farmers are not stupid, they receive hefty subsidies from our European brethren, they get heavily discounted VED for their machines and they also get rebated (red) diesel which more often than not ends up in the family car and Land Rover. If you couple that with land prices growing at their fastest rate since records began you begin to build a picture of an industry that is becoming a monster. So why I hear you ask should I be concerned about thirty two tonne tractors doing thirty miles an hour on our roads? Well one very good reason is that haulage companies deserve fair competition like any industry and if farmers are allowed to "haul" then they are in direct competition and as such should be subject to drivers hours rules, appropriate driving licences and appropriate record keeping, none of which farmers need to undertake, yet a young seventeen year old can drive for fifteen or twenty hours in a field then take a fully loaded thirty two tonne tractor out onto our highways and do thirty miles an hour on tractor tyres and much longer stopping distances, I fear the worst and I also fear that because government has given this such a short consultation time (February 2014) I fear they have not looked at the implications of such a move. Sounds all too familiar from a bumbling idiosyncratic bunch of Eton educated half wits... I may have only been Grammar School educated but at least it gave me something that the present incumbents of government have never had and that's a taste of real life and oh my does it show,
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