Tuesday, 29 May 2012

New Art Centre called a total success

Yes its Belfast's new £18 million Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) opened over the weekend attracting more than 5000 visitors in just a few days

This new Art Centre cost just £18 million and will host an exhibition of art by LS Lowry and a new Titanic play,

it is open seven days a week and contains

two theatres,
three art galleries,
education and workshop rooms,
rehearsal space,
a dance studio
and not to forget a cafe.

Visitors have called it a total success 

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/unforgettable-opening-for-belfasts-metropolitan-arts-centre-as-5000-visit-venue-16148760.html

Sandwell Tory said     
You can do wonders with just £18 million 

Sunday, 27 May 2012

4,000 Diamond Jubilee beacons

All over the world beacons will be lit by people to honour the Queens 60 year reign.

Australia, Canada , Tonga, Falkland Island, Malta, Kenya and many others.

all over the world our commonwealth cousins are re-affirming the strength of a constitutional monarch



Sandwell Tory said I wonder what the Socialists think of that?

The Beacon system was once used as notification of a pending invasion

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Greece problems mount

We now seem to be watching a classic left wing and right wing finacial battle with Greece, with the news that
Germany has given Greece a few warning comments on their spending, this follows Greece announcing unemployment up to almost 22% 

Greece is due to make a massive debt repayment on Friday and some pundits are questioning if they can make it 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9255637/Germany-warns-Greece-it-will-halt-aid-unless-it-commits-to-bailout-agreements.html
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9255710/Keep-cutting-or-EU-aid-stops-Greeks-told.html

This comes on top of news that Spain nationalised a big Bank(Bankia) Spain it self has an unemployment rate of 25%

Yet the country that is currently bankrolling the EU ( Germany) now has its own politicians openly talking about letting Greece sink.

Sandwell Tory said
Our unemployment rate about is 8% and we are working Damn hard to get that down

Do you feel we should send over a few Labour MP's to help them sort it all out?,

Monday, 7 May 2012

Markets Plunge

Following the elections in Both Greece & France the markets have plunged,  I wonder why ?

Could it be that after borrowing loads of money on their national credit card, now the bills arrived no one wants to pay the bill?

Lets tax the rich, is the battle cry of the socialists, but this was tried before in England and France during the 1960's, with the "We will tax the people" approach

see

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=101


This section is from another site in the US

Wealthy Residents Have Fled New Jersey and Other High Tax States.Similar to the UK, these states thought taxing wealthy residents was the answer to their fiscal woes.
They have since learned the wealthy have other options. Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) has repeatedly emphasized that as taxes have gone up in his state, the wealthy have relocated. The state had a $98 billion surplus from 1999 to 2003.
Then New Jersey significantly raised taxes on the wealthy, and between 2004 and 2008 they ended up losing $70 billion. The Garden State has America’s heaviest tax burden


It goes on to say

The UK’s Upper Class Exodus
The New Jersey lawmakers should not have been surprised because taxing the wealthy an inordinate amount has rarely worked. Denis Healey, who was the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979, was correct when he predicted “howls of anguish” from the rich. He was referring to the tax increases made by the Labour governments in the 1960s and ’70s.

The result was a huge decline in Britain’s income when the upper class fled. The UK’s biggest export turned
out to be its wealthy residents


See for your self
http://diplomatdc.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/the-return-of-the-tax-exiles-the-uks-biggest-export-has-been-its-wealthy-citizens-by-gregory-hilton/


and it finishes with


The UK has a new government, but it inherited one of the largest budget deficits in the world and they are coping with a larger structural deficit than they thought. Similar to the 1970s


let the debate start


Sunday, 6 May 2012

Tony may be back

There are press reports that Tony is considering a come back


Come on Labour welcome him back.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2012/may/03/tony-blair-uk-politics



Well then what do you think ?? Ho Ho