Wayne's new Salary

This boy now earns £300,000 / week

Lets think about that

£300,000 per week.

This boy earns more than Obama, Cameron, most Prime Ministers, Most Scientists and more than most of the planet

Staggering

Obscene

Ludicrous

Vile

And the prols still bemoan the Bankers....

Badgers, Ukraine and Regulation

Reading the boards today and there is much calling for the Environment Minister Owen Patterson to resign

From the floods that have outraged a few land owners (who should check their deeds before buying land on flood plains) to the pointless cull of TB carrying Badgers, it has all gone wrong again.

One wouldn't want to be in OP's shoes at the moment, he the climate change denier who has links to both Monsanto and Dupont is the one that has allowed such fiasco's.

Or is he?

Those of us who know know that he is a scapegoat, the problem is endemic in the coalition and in society as a whole. We had it so good for so long under the good ship Nu Labour that we didn't notice the rot. And it is rotten. In a country where we cant decide where to put a new airport or a new train link we are becoming the embarrassment of the world.

Mrs Merkel has come to stay to tell Honest Dave the true plan for Europe, which of course he is not a part of. And as we want to leave due to immigrants and pointless EU regulations Ukraine are descending into civil war.

Oddly enough shortly after Top Gear went to Syria it kicked off and now shortly after their sojourn to Chernobyl its kicking off there. All eyes on Vietnam now...

So Ukraine struggles with the might that is the old mother land and the die hards everyone else just sits around and scratches their heads wondering where it all went wrong.

I have been dealing with a lot of solicitors of late and they are revelling in things, all this new regulation gives them more work to do and at £220 / hr they are going to make a lot of work.

Its going to be a long year...

Flappy Birds, Journalism and the Environmental Agency

As the media whip themselves up into a frenzy about floods, flooding and the end of the world. Lets spend a thought for The Environmental Agency.

An Agency that has been stripped of resources and cash during honest Dave's lets try and sort out the economy fiasco is now being blamed for floods and not dredging rivers.

The Somerset levels back in the sixteenth century were marshes and it is only human intervention that has prevented them being so ever since. So when the EA whose cash pot has been vastly dwindled, has no money to dredge rivers (and whether this is the only action that can prevent flooding is also up for debate) it spends its money in other places were flooding is a greater risk, like cities.

So the argument now becomes one of City Folks v Country Folks.

And the city folks are busy being distracted by another Bird Game.

I am looking forward to the day when news is just that, news. Its not sensationalist, it is not biased, it is not distorted or tweaked and it doesn't apportion blame and isn't looking to sell column space. It wont rely on celebrity or looks or wealth, it will be just that, news.

Unfortunately this isn't going to happen whilst i am around, so I suggest all the journalists go to the levels and the rest of us can pray for some more rain....

On another note i was watching the Snowboarding yesterday and raise a glass to young Jonsey, a fine act. Shame the commentators sounded more like Radio 1 DJ's