Free Speech for the Stupid

I have been frequenting the HYS board at the BBC over the last few days and i am shocked by the staggering ignorance of many of the posters. I could understand if i had stumbled upon the letters page of The Daily Mail or some other out of touch tabloid. But no.

Even on the message board at the castle people are blaming immigrants on the woes of blighty, squatters for being alive, George Bush on not being dead etc..

When Bush / Blair decided to launch their crusade against Iraq there was alot of pro war sentiment on the forum, now its all "we shouldnt have gone to war". Well, too bloody late im afraid. I for one was always against this course of action and spoke up against it only to be chastened by what I thought were intelligent people.

Hopefully HYS does not represent society, hopefully it is people baiting others for fun, but if we take what they are saying seriously then boy i will be on the first boat out of here...

On another note Rolls Royce are scoring with the Chinese and losing face with various airlines. (My little flurry on their shares may have paid off)

And as for David "we really want your trade and will only mention HR as a token measure" Cameron's little jaunt to China, well it just goes to show who's really in charge of the world now.
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The Death of British Industry

As the UK becomes ever more obsessed by Strictly Come X Factor Dancing I have been pondering the yet to come fate of Rolls Royce. One of our best companies and one of the last companies in the UK to actually make anything.

I have flown the A380, a cumbersome machine but an enjoyable flight, only ruined by the time spent getting off and unloading the thing. But to have an engine explode is a frightful affair. It happened to me once in Laos flying Air America and i still bear the scars from that little affair.

If Airbus are right and there is a design fault or build fault in RR's engines then RR will be wrung out like BP were over that spill in the Caribbean. Already their shares are dipping..

Which leads me to think that this is truly the end for British manufacturing. Soon we will be owned by the Chinese as we cant pay off our debt and they can.

I spent a wonderful night in a Mayfair club at the weekend with Baxter and met some wonderful people including an ex computer hacker, a hedge fund manager, an ex stripper and a retired stock broker. If only life was as simple as drinking Vintage Moet.
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Pants, Bombs, UPS and a new Enemy

..and here we go again, not taking away the fact that blowing an airplane out of the sky is not a good thing to do, the media have whipped themselves into an absolute frenzy over the finding of a few (or maybe one) printer cartridges which may or may not have contained explosives being sent to Chicago Jews from a Yemeni student.

Following? Well the alleged student has links with "The Master Bombmaker" (so far so James Bond..) who is a friend of "Osama Bin Laden" who may or may not be dead. Oh, and our wonderful security didnt find it, we were allegedly tipped off by a "Saudi Arabian"

I have no idea what is going on but i do know that this weekend also saw two bombs being found in Ireland, planted by "dissidents", a bombing in Turkey and an awful lot of killing in Iraq and Afghanistan, lots of natural disasters and millions dieing from Malaria and bad sanitation.

On the positive side the pope is considering an apology for all the pedophile cover ups.

I gave up reading news papers along time ago, media frenzy is to blame. Obama should just come out with it and say "Yemen have been bad and the USA need another war but a positive one, unlike Afghanistan and 'Nam'.

A Yemeni student?? Please.

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