It seems somewhat ironic that the cuts come in the week of the Trafalgar anniversary.

With the half a million public servants who are getting axed, many of the British Rail staff will be heading down under. Seems like 90% of rail management in Sydney is from the UK!
If there are any trades people or miners in the UK who want work, less tax and a change of scenery, Australia is waiting! Also goes for teachers, nurses, doctors and so on.... last one out switch off the light and hand the keys over to last immigrant to arrive!;)

They can get used to a losing cricket team again.:O:

LOL :DL

Well, you're buggered then! :har:

Gordon Brown former PM put the order in for the aircraft carriers by buying votes. So why build them as we are in deep do-do? The contract is tighter than a ducks ass, to many clauses in it will cost the country more not to go ahead. So we have no option but to commit to the building of these carriers.

As for the damn mess of labour's boom time spending spree and the greedy bankers I would have no problem putting those people who got us in to this mess in prison.

The coalition has said the bill will be even higher in 5 years time, and that's after there cuts! The world banks have got this country by the balls now, just watch them squeeze and twist this country's balls in years to come.

I hope the people of England wake up soon and realize the madness of this generations ambitions. Empire is over, we need to leave it to the USA who feel the need to control and police the world, "walk quietly and carry a big stick" one American President famously said, wise words that should be taken to heart and guide our every day thinking.

China, India and Pakistan will do what they want, let them get on with it and discover the price that comes with great power, great resonsibility. Europe moves towards the ideal that Napoleon desired, centralised government and control, American looks toward Bernayes for the answer, I hope that England seperates itself from these immending disasters of control and seeks the freedom she once new and spread around the world.

"The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood"

Tell me something I don't know first hand!:damn: At least I know that many of them are getting axed after the next election.
The opposition (aka the next government) has already tapped on the shoulder the bloke who they want to wield the ax. He has a reputation, he retrenched his best friend, as he saw the job wasn't needed! I'm safe as I work at the coal face and they need us all (train drivers) or things wouldn't go. The office munchkins know whats coming and are trying their best to look productive and needed:har::har::har::har::har::har: Many of them are already looking in the jobs section of newspapers to find somewhere new to sponge a living! The operations side of cityrail is looking forward to the bloodletting!:sunny:

Hopefully you won't get the Aussie version of Dr Beeching show up. At least those 'at the coalface' won't be culled, over here I think it'll be those at the coalface that will be hardest hit, quite literally in some cases (particularly if things go Thatcherite) but I wouldn't be surprised to see an influx of people looking for work outside Britain because with the axing of jobs and welfare, it's creating a nice big black hole which people are going to land up in with no employment, little hope of getting employment and pittance to live on.
It's going to be a busy time for shelter workers I think...

It troubles me....because you might just be right http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/img144...chchingqv3.gif

Alas, I think you will be right too.....:oops:

Saw this today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6h8i8wrajA

They did one with the army too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYC0P_NBLZw

Bird and Fortune....always highly entertaining :rock: