Pushing the Angry Button
Blog URL http://angrybutton.blogspot.com
Located Havant, Hampshire United Kingdom
Tags rant, politics, local, green, environment, current affairs, angry, politicians
Ranting about what's wrong with the UK today
Latest Blog Posts
- I'm laughing for a change on Sep 17, 2009 in Gordon Brown Flying Scotsman joke Sir Humphrey
A bit of an ironic laugh, it's true, but I thought I would share it with you all.At last Gordon Brown decided to throw the towel in and resign. His cabinet colleagues decided it would be a worthy gesture to name a railway locomotive after him.So a se...
- More tales from the benefit queue on Sep 11, 2009 in depression DWP ESA Employment Support Allowance Job Centre state benefits blood test for hypothyroidism Department of Work and Pensions Yvette Cooper
Has the Department for Work and Pensions run out of money for paying benefits? I'm left wondering. For the second time in a month, my ESA has failed to arrive in my bank account on the due date. The last time it happened, I called the DWP and was tol...
- Justice but not revenge on Aug 21, 2009 in Ronald Biggs Lockerbie prisoners abroad Al Megrahi Pan Am flight 103
On December 21st 1988 I was sitting watching television in the small cottage I was renting near Knutsford to the west of Manchester. It wasn’t far from Manchester airport and the aircraft traffic was a ‘feature’ of the location, both low flying...
- Art in times of trouble on Jul 28, 2009 in sailing paintings by pitmen Chichester Harbour art bailout banks Monet public funding Giverny
That, or something similar was the title of a TV programme I watched tonight while I enjoyed a simple supper of omelette and chunky potato fries (rustic oven chips to my Brit audience).It made me think about how I value my eyesight, and how driven my...
- Weasel words to the front line on Jul 14, 2009 in Gordon Brown military budgets. equipment Army Afghanistan troops
At this moment I have less respect for the British Government and our Prime Minister than I have ever had.Gordon Brown's assurances that British troops in Afghanistan are adequately equipped stands starkly against statements of the most senior milita...
- Ageist BBC ousts Arlene on Jul 12, 2009 in Craig Revel Horwood Christine Bleakley Strictly Come Dancing Alesha Dixon Arlene Phillips Darcy Bussell Len Goodman
It's been a bit of a stressful week as you will have seen from previous posts, and it was only listening to BBC's Broadcasting House this morning that I caught up with something the rest of the world knew about on Thursday.Alesha Dixon is to replace...
- DWP and ESA - the final straw on Jul 8, 2009 in UK DWP ESA state benefits Yvette Cooper
This morning a conversation with the DWP and a look at my bank account knocked me back into depression and leaves me even MORE disgusted with the way that the ESA system treats claimants suffering from mental illnesses and breakdowns.I was expecting...
