YoungWillz

I don't care how they look, ha ha. I'll let others contribute if they want, so here's my final summary on our current lot who walk out on their consitituents as soon as something better comes along. Labour: Why solve poverty? Why make the poor better off? They won't vote for us. = Red Tories. Tories: Why make the rich poorer? Why pay our own people a decent wage with a secure job, when we can get it cheaper abroad? Our chums in the city won't like that. = Tory Tories. LibDems: We'd like to help. But you won't vote for us. And anyway, did you see that coalition? Bin that flagship policy for power. = Golden Tories. UKIP: The purity of the British race is supreme! Bring back the death penalty! Deport Johnny Foreigner! Bring back the Empire (both British and the local cinema)! = Nazi Tories. Green Party: We can afford everything. Everything looks good in hessian. Everybody wear hessian! Higher spending is investment and everyone will benefit. = Old Labour. Use that vote wisely....

Then again, I thought the Lib Dems just said something is policy then do the opposite. I'm sorry, maybe I'm confused. You are correct. But so do the other parties. That's my point. Even handedness in the treatment of citizens. Stick to what you'll say you'll do. Justify it in the national interest. For the sake of common humanity hold out a hand to those who need it most. It used to be the British way. That's why Scotland has finally rejected every single Unionist party at Westminster. I'm not saying our lot just now are perfect, but the old order of self-interest squeal with every policy announced up here. Good.

Report of the death of Alan Surgal aged 100, writer of Warren Beatty vehicle Mickey One. http://deadline.com/2017/01/alan-surgal-dies-mickey-one-screenwriter-arthur-penn-warren-beatty-1201885740/ Interesting because at the time of writing IMDB has had him dead since 1988.

A hopeless choice of politicians LFN I agree. System is manipulated not in the national interest but the self interest of a couple of hundred folk and their arse-licking hangers on. Maybe if they offered and delivered what is fair, rather than telling you they are you getting it and then swanning off for five years using power for their chums and themselves.... When both major parties have been in opposition, they don't say what they would do, they just bang on about wanting power. Listen to them, they do it all the time.

I read somewhere recently he had his hands up the skirts of 12-year-old and 14-year-old girls in the 70s. Basically a serial predator like Saville. Yeah, he also assaulted a blind woman. Allegedly he put something in her hand and said 'Can you guess what it is yet? How does she know it was him? That "12 year old" was the star witness today - seriously, this ain't going well for Rolf Indeed. Asked for his autograph, got his signature move. (Allegedly).

I don't think we are crowing though. Reminiscing if anything.

Scottish priest Canon Kenyon Wright has died aged 84. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15023141.First_Minister_leads_tributes_as_Canon_Kenyon_Wright_dies_aged_84/ Big old name in Scotland. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyon_Wright

Doctor Who stubbornly resisting a hit.

Hmm I see TK Whitaker was on this list (with zero votes).

Surely you never forget your first? And sorry for calling you Shirley!

You broke Edward Albee, too. Don't worry about it. My first big name was Gunther Grass and only two actual Deathlist contenders, Patrick Macnee and Fidel Castro. Wherever someone's eyes are at the time...

Taylor, Saward, Rafsanjani, Sarstedt and Hollingworth are the actual contenders this week.

Whatever could have possessed him?

Jeez, dropping like flies this weather! The Sun Obit: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2608258/the-exorcist-william-p-blatty-dead-aged-89/

4 teams get a hit with Anthony Armstrong Jones.

Queen has been informed.

Dead. And in the right thread ha ha. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38611497

Daily Express Obit in case he's picked again: http://www.express.co.uk/sport/golf/753766/European-Tour-founder-John-Jacobs-dead-aged-91

Deathray and The Dead Cow Thanks! Another careerist walks away from responsibility and his constituents. They really care about you...not.

News coming in that former DDP pick John Jacobs, GB Ryder Cup player, has died aged 91. https://twitter.com/PGAinNorthants/status/819855144527466496 Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacobs_(English_golfer)

Anyone have Tristram Hunt?

Hmm, sounds very much like the direction in which the UK is going. Most folk forget that one fine day they might be the ones who need a safety net. Whether that be an unexpected illness, the loss of a worker in the family, etc, etc. In the last few years over here (I've possibly ranted about it before) the ideas have been as two-faced as our politicians. It was ok for millionaire David Cameron to take benefits from the state for his disabled son. Then his son wasn't here anymore. He was dead. So it was fine to tar those who were just getting by on the pittance they got while caring for a disabled person (personal experience) that they should be out working as well...and so should the disabled person! And while we are about it, let's laud our Paralympians - they've got out and done something with their lives. And yet....hate crime against the disabled continues to rise. But you know, one fine day, it might be their family hit by tragedy (as was ours) and suddenly everything is different. One pay cheque (or paycheck ) away from being that person who can't find work and is now that same person you accused of being a layabout only a month before. Yes there are users and abusers of the safety net system. Just as there are of the tax system. Only you go to jail if you are caught abusing the former, and cut a deal to pay less if caught abusing the latter. And you are more likely to be caught for the first as the enforcement of it is populated much more than for tax. Life's unfair. I'm used to it. Doesn't stop me dreaming that one day everything will be equal. That's why I like our healthcare system. You want extra, you want quicker, and you can afford it, go ahead. But everybody gets a decent and mostly excellent service regardless of age, disability, gender, etc etc. Maybe if folk applied the principles of the NHS to everything in their life, we'd all be better off. You may say I'm a dreamer....

No more annual health check photos. RIP Bart. Yet another big Aussie death for this year: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-30/bart-cummings-dies-aged-87/6735292 Detailed obit now up: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-30/bart-cummings-a-legend-of-his-time/6735314 Now Bart's children are fighting over the inheritance. They are like horses pigs at a feeding trough: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-28/bart-cummings'-children-fight-over-estate/7973878 Now Valmae, Bart's widow, has died. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/superracing/nsw-racing/valmae-cummings-the-wife-of-cups-king-bart-dies/news-story/0eab3e105d6ab7f764d7c5ec78830789

Trump is already crowing about the repeal of "Obamacare". Now someone Stateside is going to have to explain your system to me like a four year old. Don't people without health insurance die? Are they refused treatment? Why, forgive me, do at least half your politicians bang on about the sanctity of life when it comes to abortion, but deny or limit people equivalent rights to life with regard to healthcare? I was speaking to a Democrat supporter who was over here about 18 months ago (from Illinois of all places) who was completely against "Obamacare", but he really couldn't get me to understand how it all works. It seems crazy. Why not have a health insurance tax that goes to the Government who then provide hospitals, doctors etc?

35 years ago today, things got a little darker for the Academy Award winning director of Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus, aged 69.