Last Night of the Proms.....

[Adonis First]

I watched Last Night of the Proms last night, patriotic neck hair bristling in all the usual places, and remember hearing my Grandad's recollections of horror in the trenches in WW1; and my Dad's tales of the RAF in WW2. They felt very strongly about what they wanted for their children, and their children's children. It was all simple stuff: Freedom from oppression, equal opportunity, honour and Fair Play. This morning I reviewed just a couple of observations of routine Life Today:

1. A government which does its best, not for the People it serves, but for itself and its cronies. Which feels that it can "legislate away" any and every social problem it encounters; and that any and every financial problem can be removed simply by printing more money!

2. A business which takes advantage of new technology to covertly help itself to its Clientele's money - at zero risk it openly admits - with the blessing of a government-installed quango which actually licences it to do that ....legally!

Then I ask myself "Is this what my Grandad and Dad had in mind when they told me why they risked all (and why some of their their Friends gave all)?"

NO IT BLOODY WELL ISN'T!

[Gordon McIvor Wilson]

Here! here! Adonis, been away and only now catching up with the pearls of wisdom from the Sports Exchange. Are punters patriotic? You bet!
We are surrounded by free-loaders, self-servers and scroungers: well, thats the politicians anyway.

Note to management: must paste a large Union Jack to our front page.