Photo 01 - What was served up yesterday!
Latest news from the Scottish
government!
The latest
news from the Scottish Government on the Wild Fisheries Review can be viewed by
clicking the link at the end of the paragraph. There are issues that concern freshwater
anglers seeking species other than Salmon. Have a read, there is a lot of stuff
but if you feel able write in to the government with your views it could make a
significant difference! We will formulate a response.
Salmon fishing!
Well the
season is now well underway and on my travels around the Scottish Borders I see
little evidence of a rush to get a fishing slot. True the water is still big
but on those beats that have fished the result is best described as mediocre! Given
the huge floods we have been subject to recently there will be much change in
the river bed. It has been said that spawning may have been seriously affected,
however we shall just have to wait and see! It’s not looking that great!
The last chance saloon!
If you have
desire to join the club then you only have a few days left in which to get your
renewal or new membership sorted! Go to the sidebar on this page and follow the
instructions and good luck! Your membership entitles you to a boat free of
charge and more importantly the camaraderie of your brother angler!
Hooligans!
Over the last few weeks we have been on the lookout for the returning Oystercatchers (Hooligans). Not a sign of them as yet, of course they could well have arrived and due to the arctic weather that seems to materialise at weekends only could well be sheltering at weekends, I know anglers do! Hopefully they will be heard soon as it's a great sign the year is moving on!
Photo 02 - The type of weather we prefer, with a ripple of course!
The wider world in my view!
Life under the Tories is not a future!
The National
Health Service is a system of health care delivery the envy of the world and
yet we see the Tories intent on dismantling it until there is nothing left. They
call it outsourcing seeking private players entering into what should be non
profit working! These private companies however are intent on one thing only
increasing their profit! Hey won’t say they are privatising because the
backlash would do for them but quietly they are doing just that!
There is no
doubt that the health service is in crisis due to a mammoth shortfall in funds
and morale among staff plummets quicker than a lead balloon! The cause of this
is clear to all but the tories and probably the Puppets it is one failed
restructuring after another disrupting the daily delivery of healthcare! Even
now super rich posh boy Jeremy Hunt has managed the almost impossible task of
forcing junior doctors into industrial action.
The man managed
to do what no other part of the UK has done! Why because of an inability to
understand how the health service operates! Trying to push business values into
a healthcare system simply does not work! It works with cardboard boxes but
cannot be transferred to people!
People who
work in the health service do not work eight hour or twelve hour shifts they
simply work on until it is safe to leave! Now that applies from cleaners to
consultant surgeons it is part and parcel of being a healthcare provider. Of
course there is no payment for this extra work the majority of staff will not
even get their time back!
Hunt does
not have a clue as to how a hospital runs that is quite obvious! Why else would
he be forcing decent very hardworking people into industrial action! A massive
amount of money is required to bring the NHS back to spec and the challenge for
Hunt and his type is how to gather those funds! Another reorganisation wont cut
it, things have deteriorated badly after all of their ill thought out reforms!
Since they
stumbled into government they have set about dismantling everything we hold
dear, they know not what the word society means! They want everything out in
the hands of private contractors so their own kind can benefit and the poor
suffer! There is a real fear that by the time this administration is outed
there will be little left of public services!
They seem
content to bungle on a massive scale hushing things up whilst crying out “doing
the right thing for hardworking people!” they started spectacularly as the “Omnishambles”
government and then raced rapidly in a downward direction! Lord Snooty invented
the EU membership crisis to stave off an attack from UKIP and million have and
will be spent as he scoots all over Europe trying to convince bemused heads of
other countries that his reforms are necessary!
Quite
frankly none of the heads of state seem to have a clue as to what he is
seeking! He made a bold pronouncement on Monday that prison should be rehabilitative
and that is indeed a correct outlook, the only problem being he has been
spouting this from the first week of the Con-Dem fiasco! Yet again they promise
much and deliver nothing!
But that
just typifies this government spending millions if not billions on complete and
utter nonsense whilst institutions such as the health service and our social
services flounder! Couple that with lofty words and you have this directionless
travelling circus the jesters of Europe! The problem for us as taxpayers is how
long the country can withstand this level of bungling! Oh they have sold off
much of the family silver in the Royal Mail and others but thats a one off
scoop! Their policies if you could call them that are now coming back to bite
them!
As one who
has worked and used the NHS it is utterly depressing to see how much it has
deteriorated in the last few years. Staff are under so much pressure they are
desperate to get out, this was never the case in the past so something has
changed recently. What it boils down to
is more bureaucracy more organisational change hence less continuity and less
staff support!
Locally we
see the local hospital in the papers on a regular basis. Occasionally it is to
highlight excellence but more often it is for negative reasons due to under
resourced wards, increasing workloads and plummeting staff morale! The future
for the services we hold dear is anything but rosy. We are one year in with
this government and already they are emulating the havoc caused by the
Luftwaffe!
We are not
being governed by a competent administration if anything turns out right it is
by sheer chance the likelier outcome is yet another costly farce! When Lord
Snooty returns home at the end of the week he will try to look exhausted but
also elated by his success! We however know that absolutely nothing has been
secured!
WE can opt
to keep on with this charade on a revolving door basis or we can seek something
better! With the Labour party in complete meltdown we are faced with a Tory
government in perpetuity! For me and increasingly many like me this is my worst
nightmare!
We do have a choice and that
is the same old nonsense or a new way with Scotland becoming an independent
nation! I think you know which way I will be going and thankfully our number
increases by the day!
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