Month: September 2010

Earlier on this year someone added me on Facebook. Quite soon she was adding many people I knew. We were starting to wonder who this was as there was so little on her profile. To be on the safe side and, suspecting it may be someone pretending to be someone else, I was careful what I wrote to them. Eventually, it did become very obvious it was someone faking a profile. I challenged them to stay if they wanted but, today they deleted the profile.

I have never done anything to upset this person, I just exist. She added me and my family just to take the piss out of us and to try and get extra ammunition to use against my friends, it is all rather sad.

Speaking of sad … Look, I fully understand that James has issues, what they are, I don’t have a clue but he has them and it is for Daisy and him to sort out. I think Daisy would have liked to sort it out between them but, it seems, they are going to have to take the legal route. I totally get all that. I don’t like it but – such is life.

What I don’t get is this … James mum wants to support her son. Quite right too, most parents would want to do that. But, she not only has a son she has a grandson too who is, without any dispute at all, totally blameless of anything and has the right and deserves to have all his grandparents. So, why is it then that, in order to support James, he has banned her from seeing Josh unless he is involved? I’ll be honest here. If Josh lived with James and Daisy was in James position yet, James offered to let me have contact with Josh, well, I am sorry Daisy, but he’s my grandson, I am going to have that contact. Why is James mum not taking the same attitude or, is James intimidating her so much with the possibility that he’ll run off again if she doesn’t do everything he wants that she has no choice in the matter? Now, that is sad.

I am shattered, I mean, totally feeling ill, can’t focus kind of shattered. On the plus side, I have now achieved a lot of the things on my ‘to do’ list despite having to work through loads of interruptions. I do still have several things to do though, some of which are being added to by what I have already achieved. I think I may have some spare time Thursday … I hope

Earlier on this year someone added me on Facebook. Quite soon she was adding many people I knew. We were starting to wonder who this was as there was so little on her profile. To be on the safe side and, suspecting it may be someone pretending to be someone else, I was careful what I wrote to them. Eventually, it did become very obvious it was someone faking a profile. I challenged them to stay if they wanted but, today they deleted the profile.

I have never done anything to upset this person, I just exist. She added me and my family just to take the piss out of us and to try and get extra ammunition to use against my friends, it is all rather sad.

Speaking of sad … Look, I fully understand that James has issues, what they are, I don’t have a clue but he has them and it is for Daisy and him to sort out. I think Daisy would have liked to sort it out between them but, it seems, they are going to have to take the legal route. I totally get all that. I don’t like it but – such is life.

What I don’t get is this … James mum wants to support her son. Quite right too, most parents would want to do that. But, she not only has a son she has a grandson too who is, without any dispute at all, totally blameless of anything and has the right and deserves to have all his grandparents. So, why is it then that, in order to support James, he has banned her from seeing Josh unless he is involved? I’ll be honest here. If Josh lived with James and Daisy was in James position yet, James offered to let me have contact with Josh, well, I am sorry Daisy, but he’s my grandson, I am going to have that contact. Why is James mum not taking the same attitude or, is James intimidating her so much with the possibility that he’ll run off again if she doesn’t do everything he wants that she has no choice in the matter? Now, that is sad.

I am shattered, I mean, totally feeling ill, can’t focus kind of shattered. On the plus side, I have now achieved a lot of the things on my ‘to do’ list despite having to work through loads of interruptions. I do still have several things to do though, some of which are being added to by what I have already achieved. I think I may have some spare time Thursday … I hope

Right now I would be planning huge cuts in services across the board. I’d make thousands unemployed. Once the cost of running all those services is saved I’d invest some modest sums in charities which perform the same task on a smaller scale and, I’d encourage, with the use of volunteers, for them to expand to take up the slack.

The charities could be a lot more ruthless on who they help meaning that a great many will never get the help they need but who can probably cope anyway. The staff to volunteer for all this extra work? Ah, this is the best part. A change in the law to abolish the minimum wage would not be tolerated but, it is what the government needs. What could happen is, all those out of work are told in no uncertain terms that they ‘volunteer’ and, for this they will be paid an amount the government decides is what they need to live on. They’ll have millions doing 35 hour weeks for a little over £1 and hour! Taxation will come from the consumer taxation of VAT which is already announced to increase by a further 2.5% to 20%. Duty on tobacco, alcohol and fuel will also rise at above inflation rates.

In theory, the welfare bill could almost be made so small as to be insignificant. All those remaining in work will be expected to support those living with them out of work.

If anyone thinks, by the way, that the current benefit system is fair then, think again!

Right now I would be planning huge cuts in services across the board. I’d make thousands unemployed. Once the cost of running all those services is saved I’d invest some modest sums in charities which perform the same task on a smaller scale and, I’d encourage, with the use of volunteers, for them to expand to take up the slack.

The charities could be a lot more ruthless on who they help meaning that a great many will never get the help they need but who can probably cope anyway. The staff to volunteer for all this extra work? Ah, this is the best part. A change in the law to abolish the minimum wage would not be tolerated but, it is what the government needs. What could happen is, all those out of work are told in no uncertain terms that they ‘volunteer’ and, for this they will be paid an amount the government decides is what they need to live on. They’ll have millions doing 35 hour weeks for a little over £1 and hour! Taxation will come from the consumer taxation of VAT which is already announced to increase by a further 2.5% to 20%. Duty on tobacco, alcohol and fuel will also rise at above inflation rates.

In theory, the welfare bill could almost be made so small as to be insignificant. All those remaining in work will be expected to support those living with them out of work.

If anyone thinks, by the way, that the current benefit system is fair then, think again!