Initial Thoughts

Well it's been an interesting week with lots of things to catch the eye of the average observer. Letters seemed to have played a big part in defining some of the events of the last few days. Now I'm not going to do a Dickie Valentine here and wonder through the alphabet (that's one for the kids!) I'll just stroll through the ones that caught my eye...here's four to start with...U K I & P it's been quite a week for these guys...suddenly they are everywhere (apart from Newark) and nothing they say seems to stick or is just laughed off. Some of the utterances of some of their members have been disgraceful but it's treated like they are a minority fringe, mouthing off but never going to have any power so ignore it...at your peril in my view. Now how about these letters? H&S add a number on the end, let's say...2 and we will be on the fast track to, Birmingham, and we can get there 20 mins sooner than now, and then we will can get connections to the North and to Scotland. The thing is if you want to go further on HS 2 you may have to wait at Birmingham for a little while, about decade or so. I will be honest I still can't get my head around the needs for this...apart from the slight reduction in journey times I can't help feeling that improving what we have by spending a small percentage of HS2 would be more beneficial as my overcrowded train to Leeds last week proved. Other monies could then be used to sort out our roads and get the repairs carried out that are so desperately needed rather than issuing a paltry amount and then asking councils to "bid" for some of it, looks like Ill be continuing to combine my driving with potholing for a wee while yet. And talking of cars that brings me on to our final group of headline making letters, B B C & N if was to add the initials JC to this would it be clearer? No...not that JC! The other one, the one that seems to be able to do or say what he likes because he knows, he has the support of his employer who knows that he is watched by a few million people who really now should be waking up and voting with their remote controls. Part of my job is to talk to young people about equality and diversity and how people should be treated etc... And the consequences of failing to do this, not really much point when they put on the TV and see some of their heroes behave in such a way. I mentioned consequences there which brings me to my final group of letters, if the allegations are true then BBC...Y?