Afghanistan

interesting that the retail sales figures show that sales have not declined as much as was anticipated, also mortgage lending is up.

So, can we now have interest rate rises, As I have said before, and also the tax increases which are required to prevent the next boom. We are told that we are now in a bust, so we have to prevent the next boom, because either that or Gordon Brown will bring about the next unsustainable boom.

He said that we would not have any more Tory boom and bust, well first we had the labour boom so as not to have boom and bust we must not have the next boom, if you follow! Boom bang a bang boom bang a bang.

In the meantime the occupation of Iraq continues, Somalia is a failed state with pirates, DR Congo is becoming a humanitarian disaster, China is still a problem in Chad/Cameroon, Dafur, now what is happening in that place, you get my drift. Afghanistan is silent again, we must have at least one death this week, or have we now retreated there as well without anybody saying anything.

Actually, after the visit of the Afghan President it does seem to have gone quiet, I wonder if we agreed to keep the troops indoors, and that all the deaths have again been for nothing.