a few things

Once again I must beg forgiveness for my lack of posting. Alas having to actually work, rather than lounging around playing chess and drinking Martinis all day, does restrict my free time. I thought I would just briefly comment on a couple of things.

Firstly I must say I actually agree with something Brown has done. His effective scraping of the Manchester super casino is in my opinion a very good thing. I have no problem at all with people gambling people, have a right to squander their money as they see fit, however to attempt to use a super casino as a method of helping deprived areas is flawed. Gambling an additive vice, is fine when you have money to waste, which communities in need of revitalisation don't have. Also I never did understand why it was going to be built in Manchester, though the cynic in me leads me to suspect the need to shore up the labour heartlands.

His Housing plans, however currently seem to be meaningless, he has stated a figure but so far has failed to explain in detail how he intends how to fund his building plans, where he plans to build, how he is going to insure the communities can deal wit the pressure placed on infrastructure etc etc. Plus Labour has promised time and time to build houses, and then failed to follow through successfully. 30,000 homes were planed to be built as part of the Olympic project it has now fallen to 9,000. Nor have the plans to build 200,000 houses in the Thames gateway gone exactly to plan. On Labour record of good intentions, inefficient implementation, I suspect we shall see once more a bureaucratic mess.

In fact has any of labour's building project gone to plan? The Scottish parliament was three years late and overran it original expected cost nearly 10 times, 431 million compared to 40million. The Dome has only started being used again after 5 years or so of inactivity. The Olympics are costs more and more every day. I cant think of any at all any suggestions?


Also the by election in Ealing seems to be going well, with more and more labour councilors defecting to the party, certainly not a bad sign. Tony lit is clearly a good choice, he is intelligent, has a high profile in the Asian community, his radio station being one of the biggest Asian stations, and seems to be a good man for the job. Even if he does lose this time, I am willing to bet he will win in the next general. A couple of society members are heading off tomorrow to help him campaign, as did a group of Norwich Conservatives last Wednesday, if anyone wants to know how to get involved just send an email to and we will send the links on.