Thanks Brussels! Going Into Hospital Could Become A Terrifying Experience!

'Growing numbers of the NHS’s medical and nursing staff come from overseas, and their English is so poor they cannot communicate effectively with patients.

Yet, far from tackling this dangerous situation, the European Union is set to reinforce rules which ban English tests for doctors and nurses from the EU before they are allowed to work here, branding it a ‘restraint of free movement’ of workers.The European directive, currently being debated in Brussels, insists that British employers can only test medics from Europe after their poor English has endangered patient care, flagging ‘serious and concrete doubt about the professional’s sufficient language knowledge’.

Read the full article below for actual case history!  Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123044/The-doctor-nurses-putting-lives-risk-speak-English.html#ixzz1qfOABzhW

Man Makes A Remarkable Discovery.

Litres Have Cost The Motorist A Great Deal.

Published on Friday 30 March 2012. Yorks Post.

From: David H Rhodes, Keble Park North, Bishopthorpe, York.

A SMALL increase on a small amount appears insignificant. Consequently, dealing in the metric system as opposed to imperial is a boon to the Government when taxing fuel.

Currently we pay £1.40 per litre for petrol which is £6.36 a gallon and when the fuel escalator tax is added in August, the probability of the cost being £1.50 a litre or £6.84 per gallon will be the outcome, an approximate increase of 50p. Nearly £7 a gallon! And to think when I was a lad I remember petrol at four shillings and threepence a gallon (21p).

Mole-In-The-Know With Some Better News.

MITK has now got hard evidence in S. Yorkshire, that restricted benefits to certain longterm unemployed - [SEVEN YEARS for his best example] - has now resulted in a number of wasters beginning to search actively for employment.

Star Trek The Next Generation - Win A Klingon Competition.

To win your very own Klingon, you must put any three characters from the above series in the perfect order considering which you would most like to slap.

My choice would be:

1) Wesley Crusher.

2) Commander Riker.

3) Dr Crusher.

Mark 9:12. [KJV]

'It is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.'

Overfishing Encouraged By EU Stoopidity.

De Standaard reports that Greek fishermen are receiving up to €70 000 in EU funding to destroy their old traditional fishing boats. A spokesperson for EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki admitted that current EU rules increase overfishing, as subsidies are used to purchase more efficient boats.Standaard

Angry Tories.

Cigar-Loving Extreme Leftist George Galloway Triumphs!

Labour stuffed! Lose solid majority.

UKIP vote increases and they were within reach of the Lib Dems. No comfort for Clegg!

In the Bradford West by-election the tory vote dropped from 31% to 8%!!

Conclusion - more tories probably voted for Galloway than did labourites.

Cameron? - Total smack in the eye! Shame innit?

Let Us All Beware A Thoughtless Utterance.

Is This Meant To Be Ironic? Satire Perhaps?

'So few people are applying for jobs in the EU Commission that the official in charge believes it will soon no longer be possible to guarantee a high-calibre workforce.' EU Observer.

Corkscrews Come To Mind.

MEPs looking at the accounts of EU institutions decided to suspend the procedure for three agencies whose staff is said to be too close to the industry they deal with. The Council of ministers also failed the test.http://euobserver.com/18/115726

Tim Congdon.

Talking of de Gaulle, shortly before the D-Day landings he and Churchill had one of their many sharp exchanges. The question was whether Britain’s most profound geopolitical commitment was to Europe or to the rest of the world, including of course the Commonwealth and the USA. Churchill was forthright, “If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.”

Yes, the “open sea” – the world other than Europe – with its 166 countries and its 83% of global output must always matter most to Britain; it must certainly matter more to us than Europe, even in its present allegedly “united” form, which – without us – has 26 countries and only 17% of world output.

Ancient And Modern.

Spicy Food - Enjoy!

'A study, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, focused on a family of substances known as 'capsaicinoids' - the part of the chilli that gives them their 'kick.'
Researchers found that the compounds that give cayennes, jalapenos and other chilli peppers their heat can lower high blood pressure and reduce blood cholesterol. 

They said the chillies have great potential in protecting against heart disease, which is the number one cause of death in the developed world.' (Mail)

Japanese Executions.

To the horror of Amnesty International, three multiple murderers were executed in Japan yesterday.

'The hangings were immediately condemned by Amnesty International and the head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Kenji Utsunomiya. "Executions should be immediately suspended so that capital punishment can be debated nationally," he said. (The Independent.)

National debate, eh? What an excellent argument! At the end of that debate there could be a referendum in every nation with or without the death penalty on a moral issue which should obviously not be left in the hands of politicians.
Kenji Utsunomiya clearly admires democracy! I am sure that he could not possibly be advocating 'debate' only in those nations which do have a death penalty - that would hardly be evenhanded, would it?
(Just thought that for balance, I'd better mention that the latest government opinion polls in Japan put support for capital punishment at about 85 per cent!)

Wind Turbines - A View Which Is New To Me.

From: Bill Dyson, East End Cottages, Woldgate, Kirkham. Yorks Post.

BEN Stafford calls for “some light to be generated in the great turbine debate” (Yorkshire Post, March 17). It seems to me however that Mr Stafford does the opposite of that.
The facts about wind turbines and wind farms have been known for a long time.

It is an absolute fact, easily verifiable by every one of us, that sometimes there is no wind at all, notably in the coldest parts of winter and when it does blow it doesn’t blow at constant speed, it blows in gusts.

Because wind is unreliable and greatly varies, wind farms have to be slowed or backed up by conventional generators which are constantly running. The money to build these generators has already been allocated by the Government. In relation to electricity generation therefore, wind farms are redundant. They may as well not have been built in the first place.

Conventional generators can’t be turned on and off in time with the gusts of wind – their output can only be changed gradually and because they emit more carbon dioxide when they are changing output than when they are running at constant speed, wind turbines do not save on greenhouse gases.
In short, wind farms are useless. They are redundant in relation to electricity generation and they do not save on carbon emissions. They are therefore totally irrelevant in any discussion about climate change.

Binge Drinkers.

Do binge drinkers get tanked up at home on cheap supermarket drinks before heading for the rip-off clubs in town centres?
I spoke at length to somebody on the fringes of this culture last week who told me a rather different tale.
People with 'having a good time' on their minds want to be out of the house asap on Friday/Saturday nights and most head to their local pubs to meet up with friends in the early to mid part of the evening where they buy over-priced booze in large amounts before moving on to where the drinks are then purchased at absurd prices.

Obviously, I cannot  state that the supermarket route does not exist but the tax everything until the pips squeak lobby are clearly overstating their case at the very least! But truth finding is hardly their agenda.

17 Weeks?

The Telegraph reports that the European Commission is facing pressure to overhaul the staffing regulations of the EU’s diplomatic service, the EEAS, after it emerged that generous holiday entitlements topped up by flexitime mean that EU diplomats can rack up to 17 weeks of holiday per year, leaving embassies and delegations empty for "many months".

So 5 weeks annually more than teachers most of whom actually toil in a highly-powered, stressful profession, huh?

Evolution's Homology Debunked.

http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/myht_of_homology.html

Maurice Olive.

I was saddened to learn on Tuesday of the passing of Maurice Olive a month ago.
He possessed one of the greatest testimonies you could ever hope to hear and I had known him for over 35 years.
He went from violent thug - to mighty man of God - to pastor, after Jesus had entered his life.
Maurice was totally 'sold' on the God who became his personal saviour.
There will have been and will be vast amounts of rejoicing in heaven.

Andrew Strauss.

Regrettably, I must now ask if it is time for England to be looking for a new test captain?

It is not his captaincy as the point at issue but rather the paucity of runs scored.

Psalm 23.