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Sep. 29th, 2008
If you're the kind of person who follows radio stations or listens to Virgin/Absolute Radio, you can't have failed to notice the recent rebranding, emphasising the fact that it's now Absolute Radio.Unless you're a relative of mine, who thought that the renaming of the radio station was a temporary sponsorship deal with the vodka manufacturers, and that it'd go back to being Virgin Radio in a week or so...
Oh dear, am I becoming right-wing?
Sep. 29th, 2008 08:16 pmI've often thought of myself being a left-leaning liberal, in the sense that a government should be there to help those who can't help themselves, regulate systems so they don't go too far too fast, but generally keep out of people's lives on a social level.
But instead, I'm watching left-wing parties voting in ID cards in the UK, and in the US voting for a plan which gives government money to bail out a banking system. Given that I tend to believe in the maxim "You made this mess, you clean it up" (which also means I think the US should stay in Iraq until it sorts the bloody mess out), it seems a tad interesting that right-wing parties (ie the ones who tended to be funded by the money-men) are the ones voting against a plan to bail them out.
Can someone tell me why the bail plan is a good idea?
Oh, and one UK conspiracy plan suggests that in the run-up to the 1992 election, the Conservative government (widely expected to lose) deliberately ran the economy badly, in order to give the next party an economic headache. Unfortunately, the Conservatives won by a slim majority so they had to manage the mess they had created.
But instead, I'm watching left-wing parties voting in ID cards in the UK, and in the US voting for a plan which gives government money to bail out a banking system. Given that I tend to believe in the maxim "You made this mess, you clean it up" (which also means I think the US should stay in Iraq until it sorts the bloody mess out), it seems a tad interesting that right-wing parties (ie the ones who tended to be funded by the money-men) are the ones voting against a plan to bail them out.
Can someone tell me why the bail plan is a good idea?
Oh, and one UK conspiracy plan suggests that in the run-up to the 1992 election, the Conservative government (widely expected to lose) deliberately ran the economy badly, in order to give the next party an economic headache. Unfortunately, the Conservatives won by a slim majority so they had to manage the mess they had created.