How Long Before Our MP's Try This

To show just how rotten MP's are the world over is the Case Silvio Berlusconi, you know the guy Italian PM, who is supposed to have bribed David Mills, Fowl Jowells ex husband who she ditched (we are led to believe) when it became clear it could effect her standing as an MP (a bit late really, Fowl Jowell's standing was already ruined), anyway here is the link, make your own mind up, me, ............................ I'm just not surprised.

As soon as I put up this link, the link disappeared off the front page of the Telegraph, is that coincidence?

Rumminations

POI was down for maintenance this morning so I took the opportunity to do my normal browse around. Read the Telegraph on line liked the article PM on the Psychologists Couch, although I disagreed with much of it, as sometimes people are just not up to the job or position they crave or they take on e.g. Gordon Brown (Twatman) or one of my new line managers, who hasn't got a clue of how to manage people, if anyone has seen the John Cleese Management videos, you will swiftly get the picture.

I then checked out www.order-order.com Guido Fawkes site to see that I had beaten him to writing about Gordon Brown sending his cabinet to Crewe (I had hoped on a one way ticket), but as usual he was more eloquent than I was. Having exhausted my normal reading areas, it was time to take a peek at My Telegraph, shock, horror, but I still do, especially if I feel a bit down, it always makes me feel better, seeing the petty squabbles that break out, uninformed and useless comments that are made by some of the 'broadsheet' readers, I can't say too much here as some of the readers and bloggers on My Telegraph also frequent POI and are excellent contributors.

As usual there is a mixture of well written, articulate blogs, with a mixture of well written responses, which lead to informed debate. Then there is the dross, the dross in this case coming from someone called Katz. Why this cannot be contained is beyond me, why My Telegraph states that it cannot control those who use their site is beyond me. Squarepeg a lady I respect from the site, was driven to comment how the postings of this person were bringing the site into disrepute.

Sorry squarepeg, I think that this happened ages ago. One constant poster on My Telegraph stated that POI bloggers were sycophants, and suggested another poster join POI, yet this poster, 'a lady' has never visited POI and would never be invited to, but obviously had 'first hand' information of the site. It still gives me a sad feeling that such an excellent concept as My Telegraph has in many instances degenerated into a morass of ugliness, except when Ralph posted his 'We're Alive' blog about his experiences during the China earthquake. For the first time in a long while the site became what it should be and the dross mongers had the good grace to exert some self control so if they had nothing nice to say, they stayed away.

People decided to leave My Telegraph, because of the dross, one poster who it was claimed posted dross, joined POI and has on the whole made some excellent observations and some excellent posts and what he was called when he decided to leave by some of the 'serious' bloggers was far from friendly, but this poster Katz is far worse.

So life goes on and nothing seems to change, POI is still castigated for having invitation only policy, My Telegraph still has a huge amount of dross being posted, and Gordon Brown Twatman) is still the worst and most unpopular PM we have had, ho hum, oh and I read that Oliver Stone has made a film about George W Bush and has reasoned why Tony Blair liked him so much, so expect more crap at the cinema either later on this year or early next year, as I for one will not sit through a film about that man.

Twatman at it Again

It has been reported that Gordon Brown has sent the whole cabinet to Crewe as a surge to get the votes back for labour. How desperate is that? Finally it may be dawning on the man that there is just a teeny weeny possibility that he might not be very popular, and that he is going to get another drubbing. Has someone let the cat out of the bag? because I'm sure he couldn't work this out for himself.

Will this work? sending the cabinet I mean? Don't be daft, its more likely to convince people to vote the other way, after all who wants Harriet Harlot, Tessa Scowel, Ed Ballcocks, Hazel Fears and Company camping on their doorstep, it would be like a '30's horror movie all they are missing is an appearance by Boris Karloff, and I'm sure that if Brown had thought that might have helped he would have got the shovel out himself to dig up the poor old geezer.

My hopes are two fold:

1. This completely backfires for Brown

2. He gave them all one way tickets.

By the way, if the other lot finally get into power, don't think I will stop being scathing about politicians, they are all a bunch of lying two faced crap artists, who will bleed this country dry given half the chance. I shall just have fun watching as the sycophants have a good year or two (after all they couldn't make it much worse immediately!), then start again as they get comfortable and start the whole ball rolling again. Remember the song by the WHO, Won't Get Fooled Again? Pete Townsend had it completely to rights.

You Have Got to Be Kidding and Oink Oink

You Have Got To Be Kidding

Well although I mainly blog elsewhere I have decided that time has come to return, especially as the one eyed one has had such a drubbing in the local elections and by losing control of London, (but was he ever in control of London?).

I'm afraid I lost it again with Gordon, I still have that song running around in my head, 'Gordon is a moron' and it seems more apt than ever now. Gordon says he will listen to the people. A bit late for that one pal, if you'd listened before you went into these elections and acted on what you heard you quite possibly wouldn't be in this position where you may well be fighting for your political career. Its a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Gordon blames himself - yup I go along with that, it is his fault, just because he has a public school and university education doesn't make you intelligent, and in Gordon's case this much is blatantly obvious as he is blithely unaware of what the British public and some Americans think of him (for clarification on this click this link).

Oink Oink

Now for the grand finale. I have constantly complained about MP's and their expenses and about the fact that they appear to be totally out of touch with reality, after all look at their expenses, don't have to submit a receipt for anything under £250. Blair claimed for his TV lisense, Prescott and Campbell claimed almost £4,000 for groceries, Cameron claimed £23,000 for his mortgage (that is more than I earn after tax in one year) and the list goes on. To me this is abuse of the system, after all this is our money they are spending, and I don't know of any business that is that generous with its money especially on what would be deeemed as normal day to day living expenses.

Now it appears they are not happy with snouts in the trough, they want to get their whole heads in. It appears that we are being held to ransom, there is no other word for it. If we let them (well not us, tax payers do not get a look in) have a £15,000 rise they will relinquish the right to set their own salaries, Aaaaw isn't that big of them? The fact that this rise alone possibly is what most of the country struggle to live on is beside the point. It looks like they have all had a case of Greedy Twat Attack.

Into The Dragons Den

A new care job, it was a great feeling in January to be starting again, helping another home recover from a traumatic time, things had to be done with care so as not to loose an already shaky staff group or upset stressed elderly residents.

I can honestly say that three and a half months down the line things had visibly improved with staff settled and much happier and more confident, and residents almost glowing, it was almost too good to be true, and it was. Friday came along and so did my new line managers two of them on a job share. One I had met before and liked a lot, another had been recruited from outside the company.

Unfortunately the outside one took the lead, the following words are my description of this line manager: Unprofessional, bully, confrontational. To my mind she took the manual on Man Management and threw it out of the window.

There are several points that were either blatantly missed or not even considered. I had been with this company ( a Charity)for 3.5 months. I hadn't had an induction so was left to sink or swim, I still didn't know or understand their paperwork, but this all went by the by. In fact I can't even remember being asked how I had settled in, what have I achieved, what have been my problems, my highs my lows, to be honest I can't even remember her greeting me or introducing herself, the first words I heard her say to me after I explained that I was in the process of distributing a letter to all my residents about a noise issue were (put an abrupt tone to this) "Why didn't you call a residents immediately?", I was taking the personal approach as I knew that if I held a residents meeting only about a third would attend, it also gave me the chance to talk to any residents who may have got upset by the letter and fear that they might 'get thrown out' This personal touch is important to me and from what I have heard from my residents it is to them as well.

When we settled into my office the scene was set, and it was clear that this was not going to be an introducing sort of visit as explained by the chief exc, but confrontational. It was a very uncomfortable hour and a half with this manager taking the lead, being quite aggressive and what finished it off for me, she was clock watching for the last 15 mins, that was obvious.

I have now decided to look for another position, there is no point in fighting for recognition or for fairness, as I don't believe that is in the forefront of this charities policy. I have decided that I will go in my own time, when I'm ready and I will go with a bang, letting the board of trustees and the friends of my home know exactly why I'm going, it may do some good for the future.

UK Care Help

For those of you who follow my posts here about POI I have started a new site. This site is open to one and all, but has a completely different purpose.

The site can be found here.

The site is aimed at trying to help people who need to find a care home for an elderly relative or friend, and is designed to offer free help and support. The only place I can advertise it is here, but there are no restrictions and as I said it is there for one and all, even if its only to try and get answers to questions.

As questions are raised I shall try to either give the answers or advise where the answers may be found. The site is not there to promote any particular care home or service.

Philosophers on Ice - Update

This will now be updated at least weekly. (Last updated 06/05/08)

Late, My Apologies Again

I cannot change what was written here oh so long ago now except to say that POI has exceeded all hopes and expectations. The concerns of those who once actively attacked the site for the ability to monitor and control content and comments, has not been seen, there has never had to be any controls used by either the moderators or by the users of the site itself, and believe me it can get quite heated at times.

We have now risen to 70 members. We have become even more diverse, we have some from China, Turkey, USA, UK, Germany, France, Ireland and Philippines. The different lifestyles are also now much more obvious and yet still the site is pleasant and friendly, even though at times we disagree with what each other have written in blogs especially the God blogs and we have a great discussion going on there, with very differing views. We have authors, Doctors, Scientists, Nurses and Managers among the membership and of course some who are retired or who have the most difficult job of all , parent.

We intend to keep the site invitation only, as new members will have others that they will introduce and will keep the numbers building at a steady rate. People are still able to apply for membership into the site, but this can only be achieved by email and that is:

philonice1@gmail.com

The vibrancy of the site is amazing, it has its quiet times, (which now seem to be decreasing), but the amount of new blogs, pictures video's etc are beating many other better established sites, in terms of postings and it also appears that POI may have set a trend to more reasoned blogging (can I do the, *I told you so.* to the people who have lampooned the site publically?). The blogs are of a very high standard and are extremely diverse, but when they are not of interest, or disagree with views, there still is no personal attacks or abuse, only reasoned debate, or more often than not very amusing comments are left, which sometimes go off subject, but its all done in good humour and nobody seems to mind.

Information

We have a few rules and these are:

1. A blog maybe criticised for its content, its style or for its spelling or comprehension in a non abusive way. The writer of the blog may not come under personal attack.

2. No multiple Identities are acceptable.

3. You may not run down publicly, any other blog site

4. No Advertising for profit

Anyone breaching these four simple rules will be banned.

On POI it is more a social site with blogging, available.

You can load as many pictures into a blog as you want, so far I've loaded 4, each at 2MB.

You can load pictures into a viewer on your page, and have control over who sees the photo's.

You can upload music to your page.

You can customise your page with templates, pictures and music etc.

You can start a Group up for special interests, so far we have Speak Your Mind, Food Glorious Food, The Joke Room and one of our newest members has started a group Photography. Our first photo competition was a complete success with a beautiful picture called Winter Reflections winning, the theme for the February competition is water and already some brilliant photos are being submitted.

We can have a forum where replies can be linked to the comment you want it linked to, not just in order.

You can start a discussion page.

Obviously you can blog.

It has a chat room so you can catch up with friends without having to comment on a blog, (this has proved very popular).

It has its own internal mail system.

and finally you can customise your email alerts, so you only get the email alerts you want.


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