Enigin Partner dare, that’s who! They are to Global Warming what Del Boy was to the ideal of going for the prize, even when the odds look threateningly against you. (That’s not to say that Enigin Partner are dodgy or in any way related to Nicholas Lyndhurst or David Jason, of course; just check out the link to see how authoritative they are on energy saving matters.)

OK, I am the first to come out and say it: when I hear that a company is energy-saving and actually cares I laugh—it isn’t that I disbelieve their ethos; it’s more that I doubt it can really happen, what with the world being how it is and human beings generally favouring power and money over things such as a reading a good book and helping an old lady across the street (obviously not at the same time, that wouldn’t be worthwhile for anyone).

But Enigin—and I can back this up—really do know their stuff. Want proof? Well, I dare you to head on over to their website and peruse the various pages they have regarding energy-saving matters. For example, at the bottom of the aforementioned page they discuss how, if you are so inclined, you can contact a member of their team and—an ENERGY CONSULTANT no less—he or she will help you to cut your costs and help the environment! Yes, not just empty words and broken promises as you might be so accustomed to but actual ACTION that really can help in a number of fascinating ways. That’s the way Enigin like to do it, and how can you not love that?

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In today’s world politics seem so different in how the political parties are viewed than they were 50 or so years ago. Back then it was obvious which party was which and what their policies were. Conservatives were 100 percent conservative in their attitude and their policies. Liberals were very liberal and the Labour party, which had grown out of the trade union movement, sought to represent the common man and worker.

Things seemed simpler back then. Now, of course, it is difficult to see the old parties still alive in the new ones. The Liberal Democrats are still liberal but are becoming less and less so in a bid to gain votes. Labour, in 1997, declared themselves to be “New Labour”, and started to appeal to the middle-class of Britain as well as the lower classes to try and gain more votes.

Ultimately this policy worked as Labour were successful in the 1997 general election and have been in power ever since. The Conservatives have become less and less right-wing over the years as they have come to realise that the key to the vote lies in the middle classes of Britain.

It seems to me that British politics has lost its honour and dignity. parties are not fighting for what they believe in, be it a left or right wing government, they are instead fighting only for votes and will say whatever is needed to be said to gain those votes. If it means Labour sounding more right wing with their “New Labour"policies, or Conservative sounding more left wing as they try to reach those people who would not normally consider voting Conservative, then that is what these parties will do.

You cannot simply vote based on your beliefs any more. As every party seems to want to represent and uphold everyone’s beliefs. It is almost as if everyone is sitting on the fence to try and gain the most appeal to the British public. This is not what politics is about and it breeds a lack of strength in our leaders which is excellently portrayed by our current, failing, Prime Minister; Gordon Brown and his opposition number, the cringe-worthy, David Cameron who I really wish would just take a job teaching overseas so that he leaves the country!

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Sir Thomas Legg’s report into the MP’s expenses audit, released today, has been highly critical of Members of Parliament and of the culture that allowed the systematic abuse to continue unchecked.

The figures at the heart of the report are damning for our parliamentarians: 390 MP’s have been told that they must pay back £1.12million; the figure was originally £1.3million but was reduced after a number of successful appeals by MP’s. This means that well over half of all our Members of Parliament made excessive expenses claims that transgressed official guidelines.

Sir Thomas opens his report by saying that “The system (of expenses) could not be properly used as a supplementary form of income"but that many MP’s seemed to use it for precisely this reason and saw expenses as an integral part of their salaries. In one of his most damning statements, Sir Thomas derided a ’prevailing lack of transparency’ in the expenses claims, with the implication that there had been deliberate obfuscation.

It was not just our elected representatives who are criticised within the report. Sir Thomas attacked the people whose duty it was to process and approve the expenses claims, saying that “Officials had a culture of deference towards MP’s"and that “the system is deeply flawed.”

The largest repayment due is from Labour MP, Barbare Follett who must pay back £42,458 but there are many more MP’s who are being compelled to return tax payers money into five figures.

It is hard to imagine how the Legg report could have been more critical to the very people that we elect to set the laws of our land. The MP’s however do not seem to be in the mood to take their medicine quietly and forget about their previous excesses. There is a growing anger within Westminster, with many Mp’s feeling that they are being unduly punished for using a system as they were encouraged to do so. With one Labour minister already saying that he will leave Parliament at the next election it could be that there will be an exodus of the great and the good from public service.

Conservative leader David Cameron MP has taken the hard line stance of saying that MP’s who refuse to pay back expenses must have it taken directly from their salary but this is likely to further blacken the mood in an already despondent House of Commons. Many Members of Parliament are angry and bemused in equal measures but with public opinion firmly against them, they are likely to seethe quietly rather than be too vociferous in their fury.

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I am a very cynical human being when it comes to politics. I don’t trust politicians, I don’t like their character most of the time and I don’t think many of them are in the job to help anyone except themselves.

Recently we have seen that most of our politicians (why we call them “ours” is beyond me) like to fiddle their expenses to gain a little more cash from their already overpaid jobs. This is so wrong I don’t know where to begin and yet all we are doing with the ones that are caught is firing them.

I don’t know about you, but if I was caught stealing money from anywhere I would be prosecuted and punished by the law. Yet, when a politician requests unnecessary expenses in the many thousands of pounds, nothing truly bad happens to them. They actually try to make themselves look good by saying they will pay all their money back. Yeah, right, only the money we know you took.

It is hard not to be cynical about these wastes of space who become so corrupted by the system that they lose sight of what really needs to be done to try and fatten their own wallets as much as they possibly can.

British politics are very weak right now, we don’t have a strong leader in Gordon Brown, a man whose own party doesn’t believe in, and the candidates from other parties look just as terrible. David Cameron in charge of the country? Energy saving aside, no thank you.

We have let the country get like this, us, the general public. We let these people take control when we stopped caring who was in charge. That is something I also have found it hard to understand. Why don’t people vote? We are talking about the one man who will dictate what you can and cannot do in the country and no-one cares. We are as much to blame for the state of British politics as the politicians themselves.

We need the country to care once more, we need a party we can believe in and trust and we need a leader to step up and do his job with commitment, honesty and the willpower required to be a good Prime Minister.

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Now, if you are going to embark on a crusade, you need to be damn sure of who is fighting alongside you. Wappy Dappy was obviously not the best of choices when it came to anti-bullying warriors… Perhaps Mr. Balls (what is it today with ridiculous names?) could have done a little homework on this individual before hiring him. In fact, if Mr. Balls were actually in touch with anything that goes on in Britain he would already know all about him.

Dappy has a rather dodgy track record and it is all very well documented. He has spat in a girl’s face, terrorised passengers on a plane and (allegedly) waved a gun in someone’s face whilst making threats. Does this really sound like a good spokesman for an anti-bullying campaign???? If that is not enough for you then how about the stupid image that he puts across with his ‘music’? Punching people in the face in music videos is the latest in cool when you are a member of the N-Dubz crew. What a plank.

Apparently, this episode came about after Chloe Moody insulted Dappy on air by saying that he was ‘vile’ and ‘a little boy with a silly hat’. These remarks resulted in Dappy threatening to kill her. How very childish and pathetic. Although so many people dislike him it does make me wonder what he has to pay for his Touring caravan insurance…

This whole thing is totally nuts. It is a bit like organising an anti-drugs campaign and electing Pete Docherty as its main representative or an anti-cruelty movement with Robert Mugabe at the helm… What a crazy, crazy world!

However, I shan’t say anything derogatory about Mr. Dappy’s headwear just in case he hunts me down; even if it is the most ridiculous looking hat on planet Earth…

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To assist in the detection of potential troublesome individuals, the BAA has started to train its airport staff to identify these individuals using behavioural analysis techniques. So if you are passing through any of the major UK airports in the coming weeks you will need to be prepared to be delayed. This increased screening will also include the usual sniffer dogs, body search, and baggage search just to name a few.

Whether or not these measures will be enough to stop a potential terrorist attacks is anyone’s guess. These terrorist are finding new and innovative ways to carry out their terror so do not look for these measures to be 100% effective.

There may also be increased and focused passenger profiling or as the Americans would call it racial profiling.

The government has to be careful with these new measures and the ones they may be considering, as not many people will be will to give up their civil liberties, nor are they going to allow them to be trampled upon. A number of civil rights groups are now warning the government that the use of the body scanners may produce images of children that may be illegal and the same is true for all travels including celebrities.

Then there is the belief that the body scanner may never have caught the bomb making materials carried on the plane by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. So what’s the sense of installing them then? Chances are it is to make Brits and the people who travel feel somewhat secure and to give the appearance that something is being done.

It is very clear based on this last incident that those in the intelligence community are not sharing information as widely and as quickly as is necessary. There were far too many blunders with this last situation and this must be corrected.

Finally before I go, I have just comprehended that I have been staring at my computer screen for the last couple of hours and am really tired of my Heroes Wallpaper, I think it is time for a change, these and more updates coming soon!

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