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| My Right Wing Agenda - A mostly political blog by Gordon Taylor ... its right of... well lets just say it's just from the right perspective! |
17/02/2009heard of a company called De La Rue?? in one of my past jobs worked with a company that sold them motors, and I knew they made cash machines and the like... but more recently I found out they also print money...
http://investors.delarue.com/dlr/fininfo/shareinfo/charts/
Now does there share price go up because of speculation of business to come, or is it because they are doing more business at the moment??? one only wonders!! 18/01/2009Today I have been bitten by the nanny sate, BIG TIME... I was shopping in my (up till now) favourite supermarket.. Sainsbury's (Barnwood) with my youngest sister and a friend (who lives with us) 15+17.. ← not that that should be reliant.. We were purchasing sunday dinners Vegies since I went to the butcher on Friday to get the meat... also we were getting chilli ingredients to make during the week.. so you can imagine the checkout belt..
Potatoes
Sweede
Turnips
Carrots
Herbs to make Stuffing. (all fresh)
Onions
Garlic
Tins of Pulses...
Various beans..
Chopped tomatoes
ribean ← the big one.. I love Ribena....
a few bottles of wine..
Yorkshire Puds..
Horseradish sauce... I picked one of sainsburys own.. wanted to try it out since I don't much like the Coleman's stuff... if its anything like the stuff you get at farmers market it should be great.
some crappy alco pops for a party we were hosting..
Tropicana.. of various sorts.. they had a good deal on that !!!
Any way you get the picture....
The checkout assistant asked for id... when picking up a Retail 10GBP bottle of wine (fair enough) though one knows this doesn't happen in France.. but then they proceeded to ask my sister and her friend.. for ID.. since as sated above neither are actually over 18 they wont have id... at this point they decided not to sell me my food...
I complained to the staff in store but clearly that wasn't enough... I left without any of the food I had wanted to buy and wasted over an hour of my time...
On principle I wasn't prepared to just take the food and not the alcohol..so I went to Morirson's and got everything... they were super helpful I didn't have a GBP for the trolley they lent me a token...
I intend to query Sainsbury's on its policies since I don't believe as they claimed they would be breaking the law to sell me some alcohol because I was there with < 18 yr olds... as they were claiming in store.
What is really irritating for me as a councillor is that supermarkets are trying to restrict the sale of alcohol to those who shouldn't be drinking it but at the same time people like me who look 18 (or less)... but are actually 28... get discriminated against (when in a “crowd”) as they claim.
I bet if some one of 50 with a daughter (I guess sister is a strech at that age diff) of 17 wouldn't be refused... the sale of some alcohol.. and this is the Point...
Rant over... Anyone want to advise me on what to do next...
I see the directive is this labour governments fault...but also locally ours for being so ridged .. even though its not actually law..
I didn't let the manager know that i was a councillor till nearly the end of our discussions.. i am in two minds as to hoping it would make a difference... but it didn't..
I guess what needs now to happen is someone from sainsbursys to appologse and srot it.
15/01/2009Airport runway safety project has made it through full council, a most interesting meeting with the public having to be removed due to constant interruptions to the meeting by one environmentalist, with some of the longer standing councillors commenting that they never have seen that since they had been on the council.
The Good news is that now the council and the Airport can get on with all the technicalities of getting the runway ends cleared. The bone of contention seemed to be that people thought it was an extension of the runway which it isn’t the runway stays the same length we just need some grass at each end as “run off” for the larger jets that land there already. If this didn’t get approved and implemented then there would be a danger in the future that the runway would be reclassified and aircraft that come in currently would be unable to do so...
I’m sure there will be some interesting coverage in the citizen tomorrow!
09/01/2009Ok so I"need" to buy a new TV my Lovely Trinitron 8 ish yrs is starting to go the white fades from a dirty white to a bright white and back again quite annoying...
Anyhow I digress.. You see now if I had been listening to the government I would have gone out and dully done my bit for the country and spent spent spent... because that’s what we need to do... apparently...
Ok so the TV I want costs a grand (ish) KDL 40W4500 or poss KDL42W4000 not sure yet...
But I don't have a spare Grand... I do have a credit card though... but that’s expensive and well I don't want to max it out like labour has done with the countries!
Now they have a new idea... ah if we run out of money lets just print some more.... i wonder if the Sony center would take a bunch of laser printed tenners of me? now see how illegal it would be for me to do it... we should be crying out if Labour does this... just look what happens to your currency and inflation (especially if you net import like we do) when you print money!!
But no I am going to be good and wait till I actually can afford one with real cash I actually have saved... a word alien to this administration! 28/12/2008Interesting read on the telegraph about what the bishops have said regarding Labours run in office. particularly its recent policy of spending more to get out of this curent debt crisis. anyone with half a brain can see that spending more will increase debt not reduce it!
The Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, the Bishop of Manchester, condemned Labour for encouraging people to get further into debt. “The Government has acted scandalously. This is not just an economic issue, but a moral one. It’s about what we value,” he said.
“The Government believes that money can answer all of the problems and has encouraged greed and a love of money that the Bible says is the root of all evil. It is morally corrupt because it encourages people to get into a lifestyle of believing they can always get what they want.” 25/12/2008Merry Christmas everyone!.. I've just come back from midnight mass at the cathedral here in Gloucester, one of my fravrioute services at the cathedral throughout the year. After the cathedral some cheese and port, it realy sets up christmas. 02/12/2008Today I had OSM (Overview and Scrutiny) and it was a special meeting, evidence gathering for the Airport. The basic problem is that for the airport to stay as a level 2 airport the run-off at each end of the runway needed to be extended. If this didn't happen then it was quite probable that in a couple of years the CAA would require the Airport to downgrade its "runway length" and the long and short of that would be it could no longer accept the executive jets which would mean a lot of related work and jobs would go. Fortunately the Committee was unanimous in the support of the airport. It was the most interesting meeting I've been to yet, lots of people there speaking for and against. The business leaders and the Airport directors made a very good case for the Airport Runway safety zone. On the against side the arguments were mainly by the environment lobby, though some residents were concerned about extra noise. However with the Airport and both councils putting it on record that the opening hours won't change and the estimate number of extra trips was minimal this shouldn't be too much of an issue.
I think the Airport as time goes on will become more and more important to the economy of the County and will bring direct benefits to the city to, especially as business users fly in and out for business meetings etc. And with the road network getting more and more clogged up I guess flying in and out will start to be a no-brainer. Whilst the Airport has no intention of expanding its commercial carrier type flights, it would be kinda kewl if you get on a small (40-70 seater is all the airport will ever be able to accommodate) jet and hopping over to Ireland or Belgium or similar distanced cities or even just inter British Cities such as Edinburgh, but I think I'm just dreaming at the moment.
With it making it through OSM and now its off to Cabinet, the Airport being successful is just another step towards making Gloucester a Great City! 09/11/2008
Today I spent the day like most (I hope) remembering those who gave there all so that we remain free. Since I was in scouts Remembrance day has been a regular occurrence for me. This year it was good to be back involved as a councillor rather than just an onstander. To me this is probably the most important ceremonial event in the calendar. 18/10/2008Today apart from delivering my Tory leaflets, I fitted a new starter motor to my old Little car (Clio).. Mostly because I've been driving my Jaguar far too much at present even though fuel is heading the right way it's still twice as much to run around in the Jag compared to the Clio. Anyhow it got me thinking about my little Clio which is old it's on a J plate so I estimate that to be about 1993. The car however has only done 22K since it was owned by an old couple from new all its life (Also its an auto and so is the Jag so swapping between them is easy.. I have a few stories about getting back in a stick after driving an auto so now I avoid it as much as possible)... Anyhow back to the Point.. most people would think that the car is too old and should be replaced by a nice shiny new car that is "much cleaner" but this has to be a very upside down way of thinking.. surely the best thing to do is to keep running the older cars as long as possible, just repairing the worn parts as they go... rather than making a whole new car every five or six years and scrapping the old ones... surely this is much gentler on the Environment than mining all the material that is required, and all the energy required to make a shiny new one!! Am I the only one that gets this... it really winds me up when people bang on and on about the environment telling us we need all these new environmentally friendly things when our old ones work just fine.
15/10/2008
I am somewhat concerned after watching FOX that if Obama becomes president then the close relationship with Israel will be weekned. If you were concerned about America's waining its support for Israel then you should be voting McCain. I am worried that this argument has not made it high up the news agenda in the US and only those that actually look into the situation will know that Obama’s support for Israel is not as rock solid as it should be. -> side rant, but why do so many people make complaints about Israel and big up her neighbours who on the whole are tyrannical regimes and Israel is the only democratic state in the middle east??? Hypocrisy springs to mind.. |
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I am Gordon Taylor
I’ve just celebrated my 21st birthday for the seventh time, this year. The photo proves I am still 21(or poss.. younger according to check out girls)!!!
In my spare time I am involved with the local conservative party and I am now a local councillor for the city of Gloucester :-)
I work at one of the local school in the City.. I don't teach.. but keep all the computer systems running.
I've been in Gloucester about 4 ish years. I was brought up in Nottinghamshire, where I went to university and got one of those degree things.... I am technically a Scot since both my parents are from around Mid-Lothian. I’m on my southward Journey.. when I retire and celebrate 29th 21st birthday I hope to have made it as far as Bordeaux, with a wife and a few children, and a large small holding with lots of sheepos and a pigs (not with lipstick on) some Hens and a Horse!!!
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