My dog has got used to my
not having had an early start for a while, and he didn't stir whilst
I was brekkie-ing at 5.30am.
After a little break
today saw me back on the road to work. Now it's not quite so dark the
cyclists cannot be quite so invisible. Instead they now pretend to be
cars; driving up the middle of the road holding up the traffic as
they go.
I've missed listening to
the radio in the mornings. Probably for the best as far as my blood
pressure is concerned. The talk was mostly of floods; for all that
the good people of Somerset have been suffering for weeks, now that
the Thames has flooded in the Home Counties it looks like the
government
might actually do something about the problem.
There was also some
mention of the debacle that is the
proposed bedroom tax; people on housing benefits will face cuts
to those benefits if they have unused bedrooms. The theory is that if
someone lives on their own in a three bedroom house they would be
better off in a one bedroomed house and then a larger family might
use the house.
In theory it's a good
idea. In practice it turns out that there are nowhere near enough
one-and two-bedroomed houses for all the people blocking the three
bedroomed houses. And even if there were, there doesn't seem to be
quite the demand for these houses with more bedrooms that was first
suggested there might be.
One has to admire the
genius behind this scheme.
And so to work where I
did my bit. And with my bit done I came home through a very wet and
windy evening
The evening's radio
featured a discussion about the morality of the health choices of the
modern llifestyle. Should those who drink and smoke to excess have
their self inflicted medical treatments subsidised by those of us who
lead a more healthy lifestyle?
Obviously the answer is
"yes".
Interestingly a
prominenent Conservative politician thought the whole discussion was
moot as he paid his own heathcare costs (because he could afford
private healthcare) and he asked (several times) why he
should be expected to contribute to the healthcare of anyone else.
The implication being that non multi-millionaires should p*ss off and
die.
And people wonder why I
consider conservativism to be fundamentally evil...
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