geekism.co.uk
A geeks blog , with some politics
Get IUJ an Uncensored copy of L4D2
May 20th
Okay, so IUJ is fantastic, aparently, and wants a copy of L4D2. It costs £20 as soon as i get that hugh i will buy it and send it to him. So get donating for him
Help us
May 18th
So, A Hannah and I are trying to buy a flat, why not help us a little and donate a little to help us. We would REALLY appreciate it!
Election
May 10th
Right so i haven’t posted for a while now, sorry. So the general election has happened and we have a result, well sort of.
As im sure you are all aware the Conservatives (David Cameron and his buddies) have got 306 seats, Labour (Brown and his chums) 258, and the Lib Dems, the underdog and my personal favorite run by Nick Clegg got an abysmal 56.
I’m not going to go into great detail about facts and figures we all know you can get those, better written and in more detail on ‘news’ sites. But i will give my opinion, unlike the bbc.
I personally think that the Lib Dems became very unlucky, with the election being held so soon after the 3rd debate the ‘cleggmania’ , as it is being dubbed by news people, had worn off. I think this is partly due to the fact that the other two parties have other high profile people in their parties rather than just the main two in the Lib Dems. What i mean by this is in the Tories people know David Cameron, and George Osbourne, the main two, but they also know William Hauge, Kenneth Clarke and Andrew Lansley. And of course with Labour they know Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, as well as, Ed Balls (Brilliant name by the way) Jackie Smith, Harriet Harman, Jack Straw, David Milliband Alan Johnston,… etc etc etc, the list goes on. Where as with the Lib Dems most people can only name Nick Clegg and Vince Cable, that is excluding Lembit Opik who is really only known for dating a Cheeky Girl and being on big brother. But basically this i feel watered down the Clegg effect where the other parties had people whom people know to campaign the Lib Dems didn’t.
So, on a final note i am terrified of a Tory government. This country doesn’t need a Tory government it would be chaos, rich people getting richer whilst everyone else getting poorer so i plead to you Mr Clegg, do not side with Cameron. I voted for the Lib Dems because i wanted Lib Dems not the Tories!.
So thats me, over and out.
Posting candidates
Apr 22nd
So, I still havn’t heard from the local candidates and so on Sunday the 18th I posted them each individual letters, each copied to the leader of the parties to see if they reply to that rather than the email. The letter basicly just said i seint yuo an email, you havn’t replied this is that it said please reply by post or email.
I havn’t heard from them yet. Don’t forget candidates you only have 14 days left to convince me!
Whom to vote for?
Apr 9th
So, i wasn’t sure who to vote for so on the 7th i sent the following email to my local candidate and the leader of the party where i could find an email address to send it to them. As of yet I have not received any replies. So i shall now send them the link to this as well just to ensure that they have seen it.
The email was:
From: BLANKED OUT
Date: 7 Apr 2010 11:03
Subject: Election 2010
To: ahfrancis@gn.apc.org; carolonelucas@greenmeps.org.uk; spes@cix.co.uk; cleggn@parliament.uk; lancasterm@parliament.uk; david.cameron@conservatives.com; info@andrewpakes.org.uk; mike.phillips@ukipmk.org; mail@ukip.org; mail@labour.uk
Hello.
The election has been announced, thank you Mr Brown.
And i live in the Milton Keynes North constituecy. This will be the first time I have had the opportunity to vote at the general level and I am not sure who I wish to vote for. And who would be better for me.
So let me tell you a little about me. I went to stantonbury campus, got reasonable GCSEs and took the first year of A-levels. I didn’t do very well and so only done the first year. I left school and went straight into work. I am now, naerly 3 years on, part of ‘the store management team’ for a national retailer, i am currently having to work in hemel hempstead but its looking like that may change to somewhere abit further out soon. So, I have a good job, earn a reasonable amount of money yet no one seems to want to let me buy a house. I have tried to purchase a flat at the local genisis development whom told me that i don’t earn enough, I greatly thank Mr Darling for the recent increase in stamp duty allowance, that will help greatly. So what i want to know is what will your party do to help this?
Also on a simlar note, the benefits system. I know someone who had a child at 16, and is now at 20 living in her own place in a very nice part of MK. This is done by her getting on the housing list and claiming for her to be in desperate need of a house as her mum has apparently kicked her out, her mum is a childminder and looks after her son during the day and when she goes on her weekly pub crawls, is this really a sensible way to spend what is efictivle my, as a tax payer, money?
Another thing that irritates me is the money given to students, again more tax payers money. I see people I went to school with going out and drinking my money away. I have no problem with people buying alcohol but if people are buying it with my money it should be for me! I have thought of a fix to this. Couldn’t the money be paid to then in vouchers? They can only be used on specific items, books, essential food etc. NO alcohol etc etc. I am sure most retailers would agree with this and it would mean that what our money is spent on can be controlled, and would also save money for the NHS as students would have less money to spend on drinks and so wouldn’t have so many alcohol related hospitalisations.
And the final thing is jobs. My girlfriend has only just managed to get a full time job. She has been looking for well over a year. She has good A levels. Yet people want expeience. She hasn’t been officially unemployed as she has had a 12 hr a week part time job. How would your government solve this?
I look forward to hearing your responses. This email has been sent to each candidate, according to the bbc website, and the party leaders
BLANKED OUT
General election
Apr 6th
So,
have a date for a general election 6th May. So commece the stunts, battles busses, trains, people and cows. And all should be fun
RMT/TSSA rail strikes
Mar 31st
Between the 6th and 9th April rail maintenance and signal workers will go on strike causing major disruption to the network. I have to travel to work every day on the train, somedays i have to get a 5:54 train there and a 20:40 train back. London midland, my local train operator have issued a revised timetable, there will be 4 trains an hour on my route, sounds good to me. Upton further investigation they are running trains that frequent but they are only running trains between 7:21 and 19:00. There will be no replacement bus service and no trains after this time at the current climate. How it this supposed to help me get to work? And ontop of that I cannot claim and of London Midlands “delay repay” system unless one of the newly scheduled trains is delayed. So its going to cost me a fortune. At the moment it is looking like I may have to stay in a cheap hotel for 3 days, again MORE expense to me. in a world when everyone is strugeling this is not what we need.
I understand the RMT and TSSA feel they need to strike to get there case across but like the BA strike, isn’t it better to have a job that you don’t like that no job at all?
I have sent a message to London midland and now shall wait for a response.
A late review of China
Mar 31st
I realise this is late but I havn’t had much time to post.
Recently, google have pulled out of the China mainland and have moved there services to Hong Kong. Yes HK is part of China but they have different laws defining filtering. China can still filter there results and services as they do with a lot of external services and websites. Many blogs, possibly even this one, is blocked for people inside mainland China. Google have said that the reason that they have left the mainland is due to repeated attacks on their servers from within mainland China blaming them on the government. Google have set up a page to monitor what services are available in mainland china and it can be found here.
If you want to read the full post on the official google blog you can here
I do plan to try and help China and the people of China bypass the restrictions enforced by the regime but that is an issue for another time.
budget 2010
Mar 25th
So, the budget was released yesterday. Yes i am going to talk about it and no i am not going to give an in depth analysis of every word that Alistair darling utterd. Overall the main thing that will affect me is the stamp duty free period of up to quater of a mill. That he has created for first time buyers. As someone who is looking to get my own place and has been for a while this will greatly help me as it reduces what i need to be able to lay down as part of a deposit. As someone not sure how to vote at the next election this could just swing it in favour of labour. That’s it for today nice short one. Thanks Mr Darling !
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