Refugees, Somerset floods and two surpised blokes

30 January

There was no chance to get out birding today, far too wet around the Slimbridge area  where we were looking to go. Local it's not all that good either. Kile's other gran who lives are six miles from us left a message on Facebook that it was snowing in her estate. And speaking of Kile ... we are due to have him this coming weekend but with the weather forecast as it is we won't be going out anywhere and he will end up getting bored again, just as he did the last time he was here. We love having him but if he's bored it's not really doing him any favours is it.

So Britain is to take in a couple of hundred Syrian refugees on top of forking out £600 million in aid. I would have more impressed  if the decision had been made months ago before the Prime Muppet was bounced into it by politics. The figure to brought out isn't large but how will they decide which ones to offer to help and which ones they will turn down? A true blue Muppet Person I heard on telly yesterday was saying that as Britain is Christian country we should take just Christian Syrians. That one won't fly! And I'm not surprised it won't.

Something else that the Prime Muppet has been bumped into is sending the army on to help people in Somerset. That should have been done in the first couple of weeks, not a month after towns and villages being cut off by flood water. Reactions were a lot quicker a few years ago when Gloucestershire was hit by floods, but Hull got left out in the water instead.

A question that has been asked over the last few days is, 'Do you feel any better off now then you did were in 2010?' Not such a daft question that you know. Of course the reply as given by which ever Muppet Person you ask will follow party lines, but what does the public reply. The responses I have heard have all been negative. Of course that might actually be down to an editorial decision but certainly the people I know don't feel any better off. Jan and I don't at all.

All of these items seem to show that the government is out of touch with the public. I agree actually, they're are. But so was the last government which was Labour, not Tory. To some extent these people are isolated from those they represent, there's little choice in that seeing as they are in London most of the week. Certainly as Prime Muppet you are even more isolated because of the security issue when he goes off to constituency at any time. Even when he's off on a good will visit to somewhere security is tight. Occasions where a member of the public get at him as did the lady the other week, they lady in Rochdale that seriously harmed Blubbering Brown or the woman who challenged Terrible Tony over health care and GP appointments, are all rare events in deed.

Have you noticed something there? It was all ladies who made the challenges. The only man I of who tried it was the one who throw an egg at John Prescott and got a thump in the face for doing so. I bet surprised him as much as Prescott was surprised at the time.

And so for a photo ... 

Muppet Central at dusk.

And for a funny I offer ...

  Women believe that giving birth must be much more painful than a chap getting kicked in the bollocks.
Well, it's obvious getting kicked in the bollocks is more painful than having a baby; and here is the reason for my conclusion.
A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, "it might be nice to have another child."
On the other hand, you never hear a chap say, "You know, I think I would like another kick in the bollocks."