Low value of pound to hit foreign holidays?

According to the newspapers the low value of the pound against the Euro is going to stop millions of people from holidaying in Europe next year and they will stay here instead. Really? Are people really that stupid?

France is not the cheapest country in Europe but even with the pound almost on par with the Euro, wine, cigarettes, beer, food, fuel and most other everyday items are still slightly cheaper than in the UK.

Providing I am still alive and well enough Mr Slezy and I are off to the Loire Valley in France in June. We have a three bedroom caravan that is costing us £300 including the ferry. A three bedroom caravan in Torbay at the same time is £500. The average tempreture in the Loire in June is 25%. In Torbay it is 18%. In the Loire parking is always easy and usually free. In Torbay it is very difficult and can cost £20 a day.

In the Loire steets are swept twice a day, bins are emptied twice a day, everything is spotlessly clean, bars and restaurants are welcoming and the staff can't do enough to help. In Torbay by four o'clock in the afternoon the bins are overflowing and the streets are covered in litter. Many bars have bouncers on the door and everywhere you go there are signs telling you what you mustn't do.

Anybody who was planning to go abroad but is staying here instead can either not count or is a complete idiot.

It's time to stop the EU subsidies.

Every year the UK pays billions of pounds to the EU in subsideis, most of which goes on subsidising European farmers. This adds £832 to the cost of our shopping every year because prices are kept artificially high.

These billions could be far better spent in our own country, helping our manufacturing industries, reducing our taxes, giving our pensioners more money, building hospitals, schools etc as well as reducing our cost of living because of lower food prices.

These subsidies also have a knock on affect across the third world, especially in Africa. To put it simply we pay European farmers to produce food we do not need and then send whats left over and sell it in Africa at a price cheaper than they can produce their own, putting their farmers out of work.

If Africa were to sell just 1% more of it's produce than it currently does then it would no longer need aid. Yet we stop this happening by continually producing far more than we need by paying our farmers these ridiculous subsidies. In the UK over 3.4 billion is payed to our farmers, including the ones that are really struggle to make ends meet, Prince Charles and people like him! And while we are handing out these huge sums of money to already rich people African farmers go bust because they can't sell their produce!

If we were to tell the EU no, we are not paying, we would be hugely better off. We could start to pay off our national debt, our food prices would fall dramatically , we wouldn't need to send millions of ponds of aid to Africa, there would be nowhere near the amount of illegal immigrants fleeing poverty in Africa and the only down side would be that a few European farmers would have to renew their Bentleys every two years instead of every year.

A Banquet of hypocrisy

This week world leaders sat down to a seven course meal to discuss the world food shortage. Robert Mugabwe turned up and was quite rightly branded a hypocrit because he is currently starving a large percentage of the population of his country.

But what about gormless Gordon and the other EU leaders? They all agreed to a piece of legislation meaning that every country in the EU has to add 2.5% biofuel to their petrol and diesel.

Because of this ruling wheat growers all over the world are now selling their crops to be used as fuel rather than as food. This has created a world wide shortage, pushed the prive of wheat up and as a result has left millions of people all over the world with not enough food.

Unless this legislation is dumped immediately then gormless Gordon and the elected leaders of the other EU countries will be responsible for killing far more people than Mugabwe has.

Plague will wipe out all frogs in 30 years. Adults Only

Apparantly a plague is going to wipe out all frogs within 30 years! But don't get excited. It doesn't mean that France will once more become a nice place to visit. Unfortunately it is the reptile frogs that are in danger not our cowardly neigbours who think that being a good European is to encourage all their illegal immigrants to come over here. What a shame!

Here is a bird.

Bogus Bulgarians. Adults Only

Since becoming members of the EU Bulgaria has suddenly had a huge increase in the amount of people applying for passports. People from all over eastern European countries are applying for Bulgarian passports because local rules say that anyone who can prove any sort of link to Bulgarian ancestory, however tenuous, is entitled to a Bulgarian passport.

But this doesn't mean that the Bulgarian population is increasing. The people applying for these passports have no intention whatsover of settling in Bulgaria. They are applying simply because it means that they can then travel freely to any country in the EU, with Britain being their number one target.

So once more the tax payers of this country will be forced to subsidise and support yet another influx of economic migrants who will work for peanuts and price our own people out of the job market.

The sooner we get out of the EU the better.

Here is a bird.

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Even Friends of the Earth are upset!

Even Friends of the Earth are upset with the latest EU directive that makes us have biofuel in our petrol and diesel from today.

“Most people will be horrified to know the Government is putting biofuels in our petrol when the damage they do to forests could make climate change worse,” said Friends of the Earth biofuels campaigner, Kenneth Richter. “People want to see real green transport solutions that will make a difference to their lives - like better public transport and smarter cars that burn less fuel,” he added.

Now if even the tree huggers agree that this can only harm the planet then why have the EU pushed this through? I would love to know how many of the European MP's who voted it through have shares in biofuel producing companies.