Some accountants are saying interest rates must not rise. I trust no accountants when I consider that the banks and financial institutions were able to 'get away' with ruining the economy. Who signed off  the banks accounts, who were the consultants who advised the banks as to 'invest' in instruments which proved to be valueless.

Of course interest rates must rise, but because of the politics it will have to be held until on, or near the budget. They should be 2%, with the rates of inflation we are all suffering. They should have been raised last year, and as for Queantitaive Easing, this 'wall of money' is the worst decision ever made by any governor, and the policy continued by the government of national unity is a disgarce, this is the economics of the mad house.

I told you some time ago that things were going to be bad, but I don't fall for the 'saying I told you so is not an economic policy'. I not only told you so, I tell you now, interest rates must rise.

it is about time that a boil was lanced over the Dunblane massacre.

It is a fact that Thomas Hamilton killed 16 chlidren and one teacher with a gun. We have even had a similar situation where a man killed adults in our country, randomly bringing terror to the streets of our country. We have had Moat allegedly killing one man, and injuring a former girl friend, and a police man.

So, returning to Hamilton, was Lord Robertson a referee on the shotgun licence granted to Hamilton. If he was or was not is not important, it would be a matter of fact, there is absolutely nothing wrong, or criminal in being a referee on such a licence, so a simple answer to a question, who were the referees on Thomas Hamilton's licence.

Is it true that the Sunday Times has an FBI list of labour MPs who have used credit cards to pay for access to internet child pornography. Now I ask this question simply on the basis that it seems to be government policy, both this government and the last one, to give access to everybody to the internet, and people need to know what the internet has been used for.

Finally, is it true that Blair has even gone so far as to put a D-Notice on any publication of details of any paedophile rings operating in this country of ours.

I know, and to a certain degree can understand why there is an injunction against a close family member of mine on the grounds of breach of contract over Iraq, and also why there is an injunction preventing publication of details of a case brought against six SAS operatives. However, with the latest changes to the laws in respect of defamation I would hope that some senior individuals are not hiding from their just deserts by the use of D-Notices, and High Court injunctions.

This is an extract from Hansard 1947, some things never change

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Please if there is any decency left in the labour party when you hold your party meeting demand an election in October. This appalling situation must not be aloowed to continue. Our soldiers are being killed in Afghanistan and for what, a manifestly corrupt government.

Your party is now an abomination of what it was, your leaders say nothing when a convicted terrorist is freed on humanitarian grounds, and yet have achieved so much in the past, but labour will now be forever associated with Iraq and Afghanistan. This is just so sad and is an insult to the memory of all those who lost their lives, on all sides, in the two Great wars of the last century. It has all been for nothing, who has gained from all the killing, all the pain and suffering, all for nothing!

listened to Milliband on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning. In respect of the release of the convicted Libyan terrorist I think that it is absolutely shameful by our Foreign Secreatary to use what I can only refer to as weasal words.

There seriously must be an election before the Queens speech because I think personally that if it was me I would wretch with igdignation if I had to utter those now conemptiable words 'my government will...' in respect of this shamed parliament. Brown will refer to Afghanistan but on this most important issue of the release of the convicted Libyan terrorist, not a peep, he is still the Prime Minister, yes he is!

I would also like to hear from Lord Mandelson what, if any, conversations he had with the son of Colonel Gaddafi whilst they were together in the Rothschilds holiday home on Corfu. A simple question for Mandelson, did he or did not have any conversations with the son of Colonel Gaddafi whilst on his recent trip to Corfu. I know that there will be no answer given to any such question but what this heinous government cannot do is to stop me thinking what I think, I know, there is no evidence, but then again there is not a lot of evidence that there is a God, in fact there is more evidence that there is a devil, a malevolent, evil being, because the evidence is all around that such a being exists.

I have to ask what exactly is the point in the United Kingdom continuing. The people I have heard interviewed in respect of the release of the Libyan terrorist seem to think that it is Britain which has released this man. It is not, it is Scotland, they are compassionate and merciful. I will assert that in England we would not be so compassionate and merciful, and accordingly I want my freedom from Scotland. This is the end of the UK as far as I am concerned, send all Scottish prisoners held in English gaols back to Scotland. I want an English parliament, with an elected second chamber, and the end of all Scottish rpresentation in England. If any of them want to govern us then they must be elected to an English seat. I am angry at this, but most of all I am angry with the appalling person who seems more concerned with events in Afghanistan than what goes on in our country. Where is Brown, gone away from the flak as usual. Shame on him, this really is not good enough.

I have a problem which I hope some of your commenteers might just be able to help me with. Now back in March April 2006 we had that prince of the realm, Harry 'we do bad things to bad people', on our screens saying that he wanted to be with his men on the front line (in Iraq) and that if he didn't go with them then he felt he would be letting them down and that he would have to leave the army or say refuse a posting to Germany (I paraphrase). Now I think that his comments were tantamount to refusing orders and therefore he should have been courts martialled.

What happens? he was sent to Afghanistan, in secret with the collusion of the British media where he is shown calling up an air strike on a computer and we see the result of the attack. We also see him with a heavy machine gun and walking through towns well surrounded by other personnel, the towns having probably been well swept for IEDs. So, where is Harry now, where is prince William now. That's right training on helicopters, why aren't the 'choppers on the front line where they are needed. I will never forget William (Bill to his military friends like the heroes in WWI were Bill, or Bert, good honest English name) taking time out from his training to get to his girl friend for a week-end away.

I find it hilarious the way in which William and harry can just disapear for months on end. What exactly is the point on training them, they will do nothing, the front is now much too dangerous for Harry, it was possibly due to his presence that the occupation has escalated to the extent which it has.

Afghanistan is a disaster, it is time to withdraw, what exactly have we been doing since 2001 when we had some sort of moral authority to be there, but now, I'm sorry we have lost, time to retreat and to leave the collaborators to their fate. What exactly has happened to the police and soldiers which we are meant to have trained. Just like we have abjectly failed to protect those ineterpretors who are in severe danger in Iraq because we have just dumped them. Worst of all though I hope that massive sums of money have not been squandered on equipment which we have just handed over to the Iraqis, whilst our soldiers continue to suffer from lack of equipment.

I listened to the government person on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning, Phil Woolass I think, when he was being interviewed. What I noticed was the new way he was stressing two words in particular, one citizenship, and the other migration. Now I am not a citizen, nobody in this country is a citizen, we are subjects of the Queen, until the government changes the law then I am a subject. Soldiers take an oath of allegiance to the Queen, or King, and MPs also take an oath when they enter parliament, unless of course they cross their fingers, or they do not treat the oath seriously, that could be one of their problems, I think that many MPs are actually amoral, in respect of their behaviour.

Again the use of the emotive term immigrant will now be replaced by migrant. We all migrate, Brown is a migrant, he is Scottish yet he now operates mainly in England, he is a migrant, much less of an emotive term. I am a migrant I moved from Plymouth to Exeter via many other places, I migrate for various reasons, but I am not an immigrant. As for the patriotic argument, I am sorry but is that not the last bolt hole of traitor.

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I am becoming more convinced that there really ought to be a consolidated written constitution which gets rid of the 'subject' problem. I want to be a citizen, I demand an elected second chamber, I demand the total abolotion of the House of Lords. I am afraid that the Monarchy does not exist any more, the soldiers should not swear allegiance to the Queen, or future King, as for the Princes, and Princesses, please. Where are William and Harry?

We should have an elected Prime Minister, and Vice Prime Minister, call him a President because that is what the PM is in all but name. We must  have a fixed term parliament and the 'President' must be allowed to appoint individuals who must be scrutinised. In fact the more I think about it the first American Civil War which resulted in the throwing out of the English should be repeated here. It need not be a bloody revolution, but there must be cahnge, this cannot go on as it is. Our soldiers are dying in Afghanistan to bring people democracy, but it will not be based on the English model, it will be based on the American model, it is time that our soldiers return to a home fit for heroes, not be treated as cannon fodder, or IED fodder, which does not have the same ring to it but means exactly the same. It is time to refuse orders, it is time to abolish the Official secrets Act, and 'D' notices. As Harry would say 'we do bad things to bad people' well harry the bad people are nearer to home than you think. 

yesterday we had the wonderful specticle of the funeral with full military honours of the Henry Allingham.

Now I wonder why so much has been made of Allinghma whilst so little about Harry Patch, who had, unless it is forgotten, outlived Allingham and has also recently passed away. May I put a thought into some peoples head about Allingham and the link to the current conflict in Afghanistan and the recent retreat from Iraq. In respect of Iraq please note that all our military have now been thrown out from the country, told to leave by the very people we have put in ower and who we liberated from tyranny.

Allinghma has done very well out of the wars. It takes very great moral strength to resist the requests of the generals and admirals to come to this or that ceremony. Consider that nobody had heard of Allingham before the Iraq war. Could it be that the services were struggling with those who disagreed with the war to justify their position. For example Fl Lt Kendall-Smith who was actually courts martialled because he refused orders. You have to understand that our current crop of pilots were not at all happy about indiscriminate bombing of innocent women and children. That is why if you know anything at all that the British soldiers when caught with a problem call up the Americans to do the bombing because the British pilots were always missing the target. The Americans have at last realised in Afganistan that you will lose hearts and minds, big time, over indiscriminate bombing.

So what to do, the British are now spending huge sums of money on Drones, Reaper and Predator are but precursors to our spending on these 'machines' which can be flown from bases guarded by soldiers, but actually operated from bases in America.

So I am afraid I am concerned about Allingham, I am sure that he was a brave man, that he saw terrible things, but at the end of the day, I think he has been used by the government and the military as some sort of example which the current soldiers must follow. That the services will look after you in your old age, that you will go to parades where flags fly and bugles blow. No, I think that the fate for many of the soldiers of today will be PTSD, drinks and drugs, and being found one morning, cold and dead in some alley way.

If Allingham is to have achieved anything then the soldiers of today must all be treated and supported in the same way. All soldiers must be guaranteed the same treatment as Allingham, it would be hypocritical not so to do.

the Iraqi government has not renewed the agreement for British troops to remain in Iraq, so we have been thrown out. This is shameful. we now know that all those lives and injuries have been a complete and utter, total waste of time. So much for leaving with honour.

We have been involved in extra-ordinary rendition; we have been involved in enhanced interrogation techniques; we have been involved in what many regard as being an illegal war, our occupation has been a disaster and now this.

Brown promised an inquiry as soon as the our soldiers have left. Well now they are all gone. The inquiry must start immediately, the lessons must be learnt now, before more of our men and women are lost in Afghanistan. The same will happen, we will leave with our tails between our legs. When is the parade for the Iraq boys going to be held Brown, surely that has not slipped your memory.

I do have a petition on the Number 10 web site deamnding an Iraq inquiry and now an Afghanistan inquiry. There are 34 people who have signed for the Iraq inquiry and so far one other for Afghanistan. I think that both will grow the more the truth of our abject failure in both theatres becomes apparent. Harry Patch was right 'war is murder'.

at the moment the RPI is in negative territory. Now we know from the evidence that costs for pensioners are actually more than they are for some other groups of society. We need to be told now, I repeat now, what will happen when the MPs return from their long recess what they propose to do about pensions in the event that the RPI stays below zero. Mind you with the PM saying that zero is an increase then he is preparing us for a zero percent rise.

I suppose that we ought to be glad that pensions will not be reduced. As for the idea that in future pensions will be linked to wages then just look at what is happening to wage rates as the recession gets deeper, despite the stock exchange rises. It will fall you know, this is just like 1928/29 all over again. The stock market in America was in dire straights in 1928, it was baled out, the same today the market has been baled out by quantitaive easing, only soon the money will be gone and what will there be to show for it.

Consider this, if the stock market is rising then somebody has to be selling to meet the needs of the purchasers. So, why would you sell if you thought that the market was going to rise, you must expect a fall otherwise you would stay in the market. Look at what you Local Authority is doing with their pension fund assets, they are investing, they always do things at the wrong time, it doesn't matter if they lose money on their investments because the taxpayer will pick-up any shortfall.

Hold on to our hats. By the way this should not be taken as the views of an expert but purely and solely the musings of an iterested bystander, this is not financial advice and should not be seen as such...all the usual disclaimers.

I have a problem with regard to the equipment which we took to Iraq after the war and during the occupation. How much has actually been spent on equipment which we have left behind or handed to the Iraq forces, either police or army. I hope that as our soldiers in Afghanistan suffer from shortage of some equipment I hope sincerely that we have not spent vast sums of money on arming the Iraqi forces, and that we are now going to do the same with the Afghans. Are we arming our enemy as we did with the militais in Iraq.

Furthermore, as the Americans begin to withdraw from Iraq how are they going to achieve it without taking on huge losses from the very same IEDs which we now have encountered in Afghanistan. After all the freedom fighters do talk to each other.