How Sez Sees It

Here is the link to the article about all this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/16/osborne-deficit-uk-economy-growth The point I want to quickly focus on is the lack of jobs and the struggles of the 1m young people out of work. In the past when there have been recessions or times of hardship the people and government have turned to the public sector to help out.  After all in times of hardship it is the public services that people most need.  More jobs were created so that meant more people could find work and that meant that more money could be spent by more people.  In a short period of time unemployment figures dropped and the economy strengthened with the increase in spending power of more people. What are the current government doing?  Cutting public sector jobs.  This doesn't help the ecomony and will drag it down further.  Create more jobs so that more people can be helped by the public sector and then some of these 1m unemployed ...

(Everybody!)   It seems today, that all you see, is violence in movies and sex on TV… So the internet blew up about the Glee episode ‘First Time’ that was broadcast in America on Tuesday night and is to be broadcast in the UK tonight.   See here for details http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/singalonga-sex-education-6259617.html As some of you may know, I was mortified when yet another of my favourite shows went on to Sky so as a result I have seen this episode through my own means…but enough of that. The episode itself deals with (as the title suggests) the sexual awakening of two couples at McKinley high.   I think I need to point out though that this episode also deals with other ‘first times’ such as Coach Beiste’s first boyfriend, Artie’s first time directing a musical and Mike’s first time standing up to his father. On to the sex!   The two couples involved are the straight couple of Finn and Rachel and the Gay couple of Kurt and Blaine. ...

Ok, I know there is loads I could write about today such as the horrific accident on the M5 (so sad and so worrying), the stuff going on with Theresa May and immigration (oh sweet justice) and of course the Greek bail out.  I thought I would take a different route. Over the weekend a rather unusual item went on sale and made over $31,000 at auction.  This item was a tooth of John Lennon.  This may seem strange to us today, but really this is something that has been happening for hundreds of years in the form of relics. In prime locations for certain saints pilgrims would flock to the cathedrals and abbeys in order to feel closer to their sain and God.  This was a prime target for peddlers of holy relics.  There were cases of peddlers having something like 50 toe bones for sale from one saint.  This was apparently possible due to God's intervention and apparently people brought it. The main point though is not whether or not these grotesque items were ...

Not in the UK it would seem.  Recent directives would suggest that the government funding for solar panels is being withdrawn.  I must add here that this is currently under consultation, but it is not looking good. A lot of people are fed up with this as they were hoping to get concessions for having them put on their private housing.  What isn't widely known is how the effect will be felt in local government as well.  Many LGs have been spending large amounts of time and people power to try and follow directives from the Government and European Government to look at cutting the UKs emissions.  LGs are supposed to be leading by example to attract people to follow suit with private housing.  Cuts in funding for a project like this are very backwards. In this country we are seeing a rise in energy costs as we have become more and more reliant on gas and oil from overseas.  We don't even have any British owned energy companies anymore. Renewables are ...