Wherever we look in Britain these days, the system is either broken or breaking. But there is always sufficient money for the politicos to send money abroad in aid to countries that have their own space programs.

Today's example of Broken Britain

GP appointments:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nt-GP.html
It used to be quite easy to see a GP; attend the GP's waiting room at opening time and simply wait your turn. Not any more. Now we have to arrange an appointment before we are sick – sometimes weeks in advance.

The next quote is interesting, it highlights the increasingly popular political opinion that pensioners are a major part of the problem; when a major factor is the vast numbers of immigrants that the politicians willingly let into our country every year. I very much doubt that the number of pensioners is increasing anything like the numbers of medical-seeking immigrants every year:

Britain doesn't care about its "oldies" except when an election looms. I often wonder what those who fought in WW2 thought about the way the country went after the sacrifices they made for us all.

I can see an awful lot of 'oldies' voting UKIP as they are not as silly as some think.

I don't care if UKIP don't have the support to win an election but their presence is enough for me. Farage talks a lot of sense and speaks for the native UK person.

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Lets be careful out there !

I don't know why anyone would regard them as silly. That's just a slur from the main parties .

I meant oldies aren't silly

Pensioners I would guess are mainly native british white european and must now realise that the main parties are letting them down.

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Lets be careful out there !

I think the political parties have a downer on pensioners because they are afraid pensioners know and understand far too much. Many pensioners benefited from an education system that was less dumbed-down than today's young people have to endure, and was largely free of political correctness. Pensioners are able to fully perceive the impact that years of political correctness and social engineering has done to their home-land. Pensioners tend to have a more acute sense of 'right' and 'wrong'; and they are more likely to understand the concept of justice based upon a set of morals that today's political class simply laugh at.

The political parties have deliberately created the sense that pensioners are out-of-date, over-the-hill, incapable of handling modern technology, of little use to society, and a burden on the nation's economy. The truth is, the political class are largely judging pensioners by their own dumbed down standards, their true lack of ability, and their distorted powers of comprehension.

The political class are totally incapable of recognising that today's pensioners are the same generation that provided today's politicos and young people with the very technologies they accuse pensioners of being incapable of using. A read through readers' comments on any newspaper report that refers to pensioners will soon reveal how successful the politicos have been at devaluing the 'old' in the minds of the 'young'.

Oh! I feel silly now!

You mean some people are cynical about government....since when?

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a government.
John Adams

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of government. But then I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
P.J. O'Rourke

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
Voltaire (1764)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap...except when government does it.
Anonymous

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan


The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain


There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save government.
Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (RM to become an MP?)
Aesop

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When a crash seems inevitable, try to hit the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slowly and gently as possible.

There is a lot of truth in those quotes, Brian.

BRILLIANT QUOTES.

Nothing new under the sun.