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Eth, Let me know where you go and I'll move in next to you, PROVIDED you promise not to build a dam and flood me out.
Quote from: JimBob on 17/02/2008 20:12:32Eth, Let me know where you go and I'll move in next to you, PROVIDED you promise not to build a dam and flood me out. Once the two of you are settled within your love-nest , please let me know so that I can avoid the country. []
I don't actually feel crime is worse than it was.
Again, it is unfair to really blame this government, since it is part of a long term trend that has effected all shades of government, both in this country and overseas.
That statistics are more important than people is inevitable (not only for government, but for all large institutions - elephants may notice ant hills, but they will take very little notice of individual ants - so the individual members of the public will always be too small to be noticed by large institutions). This is not a problem so long as the government confines its activities to areas where statistics are enough (i.e. so long as it deals in broad brush policy, and not try and micromanage in areas where it cannot possibly have sufficient relevant information).
Quote from: JimBob on 17/02/2008 20:12:32Eth, Let me know where you go and I'll move in next to you, PROVIDED you promise not to build a dam and flood me out.Probably Spain. We've already started looking at properties in Oviedo (not far from Santander in northern Spain) & Sandra has been checking out Spanish language courses.
In Spain, your casa is suddenly the state's casaBy Ciaran Giles The Associated PressPublished: April 17, 2008VALENCIA, Spain: It's been the dream of millions - a home by the sea in sunny Spain. People from all over Europe have invested hard-earned savings in coastal villas and apartments.Now a government drive to clean up Spain's concrete-filled coastline after decades of abuse may wash away many of those dreams like castles of sand.Enforcing a much-neglected 1988 law, the Socialist government is getting tough about what constitutes coastal public domain - the strip of land stretching back from the water's edge - and telling thousands of house and apartment owners their properties do not really belong to them.
The only choice we have is between one set of lying, cheating, thieving, poncing, nosey, lazy, dimwitted, selfish, good-for-nothings and another.
Just a thought; "New labour" - no longer new, and never was Labour.