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Saturday night saw the yearly torture as we struggled to decide which of the awful songs was the best of a bad bunch, and so chosen to represent our country, and hopefully bring the
UK To victory in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007.  Poor Terry made a major boob and had his Auntie Beeb blushing as it issued an apology for the “live” gaffe.

I couldn’t care less about the slip-up – always helps to see that there’s no funny business going on and things are as live as they’re advertised to be – but I’m concerned that this will affect Terry’s likelihood for being allowed to do the commentary for the Beeb at the actual event later this year.  Eurovision without Ol’ Tel is unthinkable.  He’s an institution.  He makes it bearable.  Who cares if he slipped up?  I certainly don’t.  It didn’t change who won.  It created a little bit of PR for the Eurovision entry that won.  No big fallout. 

But the BBC is a funny machine, and Terry’s at that age where they might think we’d prefer to listen to ear candy rather than Terry’s dry wit.  They’d be wrong!  I wouldn’t listen to the show never mind the ear candy if it weren’t for Terry’s droll and often catty but nevertheless true comments about the happenings on and off stage.  

This year the one thing I’m thankful for is that there’s no rap representing the
UK This year!  Eurovision is not an arena for rap, it’s the piazza of cheese – which means that things may just fly in the right direction for the song that won!

Finally we have had progress with the website.
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So the BBC is announcing that Tony Blair could soon be announcing his retirement from Number 10.  It’s about time.  It’s a pity he couldn’t just leave office today and allow someone take his place that can start to lower our national debt again instead of raising it.  

I didn’t vote for Labour Party to come into power, and now as I see what havoc the years of leadership under Tony Blair have created, I feel somewhat justified in my first opinion that it wasn’t in the best interests of the country for him to take control out of the Tory hands.  I’m from a traditional working class background in the North East of England and if someone from my part of the world thinks that a Labour Prime Minister isn’t the best thing for the country, then there’s something wrong!  

I can’t think of one event over the entire period of his being Prime Minister where I can think “he did a good job there”.  Nothing positive stands out at all, well except for the birth of the baby whilst at
Downing Street!  If there was something he’d been positively responsible for that had been overshadowed by the war in
Iraq, that would have been fair enough – but that fiasco just seems to sum up the entire period in office.  

Last time there was a good reason for a change in Government it was because the Tory party had no strong leader to step up and say “I can run this country well” in a convincing enough tone.  I think we’re at this place again, only it’s Labour Party who is weak – the only thing that bothers me is that I don’t know whether the Conservative Party have managed to create a strong leader in the time it’s been out of power.  It could be time for the Liberal Democrats to show what they’re made of and create a stir at the polls next General Election.  

Meanwhile, let’s hope that Tony Blair can manage to leave office with the same conviction he led us into war, swiftly and without consultation with the people who believed in him enough to put the future of our country in his hands.

Things seem good on the work front.
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In yet another sign of the worsening conditions in
Iraq, suicide bombers have added chemical weapons to their arsenals, driving trucks full of chlorine gas into busy areas in Ramadi and Fallujah. At least eight people were killed, and 350 more were forced to hospital to receive treatment for burned lungs and skin.

Although the death toll was not as high as other suicide bombings, the three attacks were a true act of terrorism, since the fear of chemical warfare is strong in the Iraqi people. They have had to face gas attacks first-hand in the past.

It is so sad that the best minds in the
UK And US alike have not been able to find a solution in
Iraq That leads to less violence instead of more. The “surge” of additional troops in the area had seemed to have a positive effect before these attacks, and the
US Was attempting to win over civilians by opening medical centers.

However, it is hard to mark true progress when it takes hundreds or thousands of people to increase security, and only a few to wreak havoc.

One way or another, something needs to be done in the area – and soon. Why can’t our leaders manage to come up with a sound and workable plan?

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Poor Heather Mills is at the sticky end of a pointy stick again.  Really, it should be a warning to all women to stay away from influential men and let them use their money to keep them warm!  

This time the news is that the police aren’t happy that she called them out 3 times within a 24 hour period whilst she was being threatened by those not happy at what they assume she’s done to estranged hubby Paul.  So what if she called them 3 times – if anyone feels threatened, isn’t that what we’re supposed to do?  Is there some unwritten rule that says there’s a limited amount of times you can ring, and after that you’re on your own and open for criticism about your behaviour?

As with all things about the end of this relationship, it seems that the McCartney Press Wagon is running all over his soon to be ex-wife.  Yet what do we know about what went on in that home?  How many battered spouses have lived in silence, and have people tell them how lucky they are to be married to such a “wonderful” person.  How many spouses are un-necessarily condemned in public by an embittered partner who found they’d married someone that they later decided wasn’t good enough?  It happens all the time, but the difference here is that the rest of us don’t have that much money to make it interesting, or that much public adulation to make it inconceivable that we might actually be the wrong doer instead of the victim!  

Who knows who’s to blame in the break-up of the marriage?  The press?  The people who are paid to work for them and therefore have an income to protect?  The close friends/family who only saw a 1 or 2 dimensional relationship, and not the intimate 3 dimensional side that goes on behind closed bedroom doors?  No, none of these.  There are only 2 people who know the true story about this, and the rest of us can only speculate – and as such it should be a private affair played out between them and the law courts without this constant hounding of “the evil character” and the continued adoration of “the good character”.  Pantomimes are for the stage, not real life.

Finally we seem to be progressing with the site.
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