WITH the Government cracking down on wasteful public spending, is there still time to cancel the 2012 Olympics?
Such a sacrifice would mean less debt for future generations, improve the UK's credit rating and get us out of the economic mess in record time.
While the coalition is about it, why doesn't it dock the pay of former Labour ministers to help pay off the deficit? Just a thought.
K Jedynak
Birmingham
Friday 28 May 2010
Thursday 27 May 2010
Clegg should not be in a position to run country
I WAS appalled to see the carve-up of the Tory manifesto resulting from the Lib Dem coalition.
The pledges in the original manifesto have been toned down or scrubbed altogether, yet those were the pledges upon which votes were cast. Given the election result, it would have been appropriate to offer Mr Clegg a lesser policy-making ministry but certainly not the post of Deputy Prime Minister.
No one seems to have cottoned on to the fact that, in the absence of David Cameron from Downing Street for whatever reason, the country will be left with a member of a minority party at the helm, a situation that should never have been allowed to happen.
E Woodford
Hemel Hempstead, Herts
The Curator writes: Allow me to share with you a scene from 10 Downing Street which occurred this very morning.
DAVID CAMERON:
Yes, removal man, put the pot plant over there, just next to the blow-up Douglas Hurd sex doll and the book of Evil Secret Plans.
SAMANTHA CAMERON:
Phew, this moving in to 10 Downing Street lark is a right pain in the bottom. And I'm heavy with child, so it's even more difficult. I'm just going to have a sit down and read the letters page of the Daily Express... Fucking hell, Dave! Look at this!
DAVID CAMERON:
What is it, my very posh, if tattooed and coarse, wife?
SAMANTHA CAMERON:
E Woodford of Hemel Hempstead says that if you're out of the country, Nick Clegg will be in charge.
DAVID CAMERON:
Margaret's cock! I had never cottoned on to that fact.
The pledges in the original manifesto have been toned down or scrubbed altogether, yet those were the pledges upon which votes were cast. Given the election result, it would have been appropriate to offer Mr Clegg a lesser policy-making ministry but certainly not the post of Deputy Prime Minister.
No one seems to have cottoned on to the fact that, in the absence of David Cameron from Downing Street for whatever reason, the country will be left with a member of a minority party at the helm, a situation that should never have been allowed to happen.
E Woodford
Hemel Hempstead, Herts
The Curator writes: Allow me to share with you a scene from 10 Downing Street which occurred this very morning.
DAVID CAMERON:
Yes, removal man, put the pot plant over there, just next to the blow-up Douglas Hurd sex doll and the book of Evil Secret Plans.
SAMANTHA CAMERON:
Phew, this moving in to 10 Downing Street lark is a right pain in the bottom. And I'm heavy with child, so it's even more difficult. I'm just going to have a sit down and read the letters page of the Daily Express... Fucking hell, Dave! Look at this!
DAVID CAMERON:
What is it, my very posh, if tattooed and coarse, wife?
SAMANTHA CAMERON:
E Woodford of Hemel Hempstead says that if you're out of the country, Nick Clegg will be in charge.
DAVID CAMERON:
Margaret's cock! I had never cottoned on to that fact.
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Why do celebrity chefs chuck about wrong words?
WHY do celebrity chefs use inappropriate words to describe their preparations when cooking?
Words used are 'throw', 'chuck' even 'dump'. What is wrong with 'put' or 'place'?
Do they really throw or chuck their ingredients into the bowl?
Kenneth Bland
via email
Tuesday 25 May 2010
An insult to allow Chinese to make our Olympic film
TWO more years to go until the Olympics and I wonder how many more embarrassments the great British public will have to endure.
The first big embarrassment was at the closing ceremony of the last Olympics in China. A red bus, nice idea, an ageing rocker and a dance troupe who quite frankly looked so threatening in their hoodies I should imagine it would put a lot of people off coming to the UK.
Then of course there is the famous Olympic logo and the two zany-looking mascots ("One-eyed monsters? No just the Olympic mascots", May 20)
They are meant to appeal to children but I could think of far nicer images to create than these two weirdos.
Now we find out a Chinese company is behind the animation of these two ("British firms' fury as 2012 Olympics promo film is made in China", May 24).
How insulting to the British animation industry. I would love to know exactly who approves these very odd, very un-British ideas, and quite frankly I dread what is to come in the opening and closing ceremonies. I think I may have to keep the television firmly off for these two events which I usually enjoy very much.
Jennifer Attwood
Maidenhead, Berks
Monday 24 May 2010
Seven-year-old is keeping art of letter writing alive
WITH regards to your article regretting the decline of letter-writing as a vital means of communication, I have an amusing story to relate ("The last word... fine art of letter writing dying out", May 21).
After the election, my lovely seven-year-old grandson took it upon himself to write to David Cameron to congratulate him and wish him luck for the future. He also said that he was very, very, very glad Gordon Brown had resigned. The funny part? His parents are Lib-Dems.
M Haynes,
Plymouth
Room 101, May 23, 2010
I WOULD really like to banish people who affect a lisp for no good reason. If they truly had a speech impediment, I'm sure they'd wish they hadn't.
M. Tebb
Pudsey, W Yorks
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