Is Everybody happy with the way our country is running, in whichever direction it is 

Whoever I talk to Pheonix about the state of the country I get the same answer, that is, this country is in a mess.
Crime,NHS,immigration,are the most quoted.
A sad state of affairs when you cant walk safely at night.Go into to hosps. now not to get well but to catch a bug.
There are too many people coming to this country and living off the state. The police come under fire too, they are reluctant to turn out for anything less than murder, and drunk drivers of course.I cant see any ghange for the better in the forseeable future.

Folks often talk about the good old days. Because we only store up the good things we remember from them.. To be honest the old days were not all that good. LOl no way i would want to go back to outside toilets, dirty coal fires, hot water bottles that often leaked lol.. having to set traps to get rid of the plague of mice in your house... having to put a shilling in the meter to get a light and going to bed early when u had no shillings left..leaving school at 14 or 15 to end up in a dead end job... Men would walk for miles hoping to get a days work only to find 2 dozen men had got there before you, having to have a bath just once a week in a tin bath in front of the fire and in dirty water because five others had used it before you, wearing hand me down clothes and shoes with holes in. having to go to Sunday school so your parents could get a bit of peace lol. If you look further back it gets worse ... 16 families living in a cellor of a house..children no older than 8 working in factories, in the early victorion times there was a drink problem far greater than today when the drinking water was that bad most people drank Gin and it was just has bad going out alone at night, you could get murdered for a penny...If that was the good old days...well you can keep them for me...this life is not perfect but it's a darn site better that in my grand parents Day

My philosophy in life is my cup is always half full...whilst others see theres has half empty.

If our country is so bad why is half the world trying to move here lol. When was the last time you saw anyone dying of starvation in the Street, when was the last time you saw anyone walking about with leprosy. when was the last time you saw someone washing there clothes in a river... People are living longer than ever before, more folks have got cars than ever before, more folks are in work than for a long time.

I like looking back at nostolgia but would i want to go back to the old days ..Not likely lol

The health and safety brigade has struck again !
with the result that many towns cities and villages will have no christmas illuminations this year !
Thank goodness this didnt exist during WW2 or we would have celebrated victory in the dark,and Hubert Gregs popular song ` I`m gonna get lit up when the lights go up when the lights go up in London ` would probably have been banned !

David Cameron will today make his first big speak on immigration.He thinks numbers are too high.
His aides insisted last night that the speech was not a sign that the tories were about to return to tough anti-immigration policies. ( shame why not)
It was predicted that by the end of the decade there will be
65 million people in the UK,an increase of 5million.
I wonder what the true figure will be.
Either way its very scary !

News!! Good/Bad/Indifferent:
Petrol now going to £1 per Litre ??
Many more Homes = Repossesed and Increasing ??
Extra costs for 'excess' rubbish Removal ??
More people coming to Britain ??
More strain on our services = cannot cope ??
More people at the 'Top' on Too High a Salary ??
Too much Coffee is Good/Bad for you ??

In spite of all this !! "Be Happy in the face of ever increasing, Opposition !! -- Or just 'Smile' and ignor ??

Thought I should have a look at some old Postings. There is so many Problems, I just don't know where to Start??
So?? I will leave it out for now. Makes for some Heavy Going