Poverty in Wales?

I went to a concert in my local Church yesterday in aid of Save the Children (a worthy cause of course) and noticed in the event programme that there are (so it said) 192,000 children in Wales living in poverty.This seemed a bit high to me - for a country of only 3 million people.It seemed even higher when I found out that there are only 600,000 children in Wales!
So 1 in 3 children in Wales live in poverty? I don't think so - not real poverty anyhow.
So I looked into how poverty is measured in Britain (and elsewhere?) and it is thus: any person who has an income less than 60% of the average income is classed as living in poverty.
This is obviously an insane way to judge 'poverty' for if, for instance, every household in Wales had an income of a million pounds a year then all those on less than £600,000 a year would be classed as poor!
With this system there can be no end to poverty unless we all earn the same (communism?) which means that even if we all have an annual income of just £2.50 then as long as we all have the same income then there is no poverty.
Utter rubbish.
They are seeking equality in income and not an eradication of poverty.
Real poverty to me is not truly experienced nowadays in the West.
Compare us to Africa or the slums of Calcutta.
Does anyone actually believe that there are 192,000 children in Wales hungry and barefoot? Who is behind all of this manipulation and what are they up to?

David Cameron on TalkSport

David Cameron was on TalkSport radio today and was asked about immigration and of course he was oh so concerned about it. But when pressed by the presenters he said that he thought people's concerns about immigration were only a matter of numbers and had absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity, culture, religion or the social make up of whole towns/cities changing.

When one of the presenters (Mike Parry I think) said that maybe Mr Cameron was a little out of touch with the public on this issue he said that he most certainly was not, and that he speaks to members of the public every week about immigration and their only concerns about it were the numbers coming in and not cultural in any way shape or form (he also said that as long as the number of people coming in and the number leaving more or less matched then that was okay).

He also thought that the French burkha banning thing was going too far as was the Swiss vote on banning minarets.

So, in Mr Cameron's eyes if, say, a million white British Christians leave Britain every year and are replaced by a million Asian Pakistani Muslims then that's okay, and as long as the numbers balance then the good old British public won't mind being effectively 'replaced' in their homeland one bit.

'Out of touch' doesn't come close.

So for all those going to vote Tory because they think that they'll be strong on immigration and support a Christian Britain over an Islamic one - wake up!

Temperatures Set to 'Plummet'!

'Temperatures set to plummet to -3c' says the headline in The Mail online.

What?! -3c!!!! It's December - it's supposed to be freezing. This is not news. Whenever we have anything like normal winter weather nowadays we get pathetic sensationalist headlines like this.

For your information, in my neck of the woods (Wales) the lows for previous December's (recorded by myself) are as follows:

2008 -6.3

2007 -5.3

2006 -4.2

2005 -8.5

2004 -6.3

2003 -5.1

2002 -2.4

2001 -7.0

2000 -10.0

1999 -9.9

1986 -3.0

1985 -10.0

1984 -2.9

1983 -6.9

1981 -11.1

The record low for Wales (it was a January) is -23.3.

So as you can see -3.0 is NOT exactly 'plummeting' and the media know that.

What's going on with them?

Gay Bishop Row

The row about the election of a (second) openly gay Bishop in the Anglican Church in the USA was most notable to me for a comment on the BBC News website that came out during the row: 'conservatives say that the Bible unequivocally outlaws homosexuality, while liberals believe that the Bible should be reinterpreted in the light of contemporary wisdom'.

Mmm...

If the Bible is the word of God are we to 'reinterpret' it? Reinterpret the word of God? Contemporary wisdom? Or modern trendy PC thinking?

If anyone who believes that the Bible is the word of God really wants to reinterpret His word then they're foolish.

I think that people who wish to reinterpret the Bible don't actually believe that it is the word of God.

They just see the Church as some club that they're a member of.

Maybe they should join some other club.

The Egging of Baroness Warsi

Quite big in the news this week was the 'egging' (by fellow Muslims) of Baroness Warsi, the Tory peer.

She was accused by the 'eggers' of not being a proper Muslim. One of them (Sayful Islam, a well known hardliner) said that just by looking at her you could tell that she was not a proper Muslim and that she was not a practising Muslim. He also said that he was against everything that she stands for and criticised her for supporting the war in Afghanistan.

The Baroness said afterwards that the 'eggers' were extremists who did not represent their community or faith - just like Nick Griffin. Quite how she can bring Nick Griffin into this I really don't know!!! (Still hurting after Question Time?)

But anyhow, who out of Sayful Islam - who is a man of conviction whatever you may think of his views - or Baroness Warsi - a career politician - best represents the word of Mohammed?

Game set and match to Sayful Islam I think.

Climate Change Morons

Twice this week on the radio (probably more if I'd paid attention) I've heard people making excuses for things using 'climate change' as a statement of fact.

First I heard someone from the Cumbrian authorities saying that the floods that they've just suffered are going to become more common as a result of 'climate change' and that the government (taxpayer) needs to address that.

Second I heard someone from Thames Water complaining about not being allowed to charge people just what they like saying that 'climate change' is a major problem for water companies and the government (water rates payers) needs to address that.

Bullshit.

Climate change is a theory not a fact.

The government is using 'climate change' as a cash cow, we all (I hope) know that.

Now all the fat cat local authority leaders and fat cat utility companies are trying to cash in as well.

Do any of them actually know anything about so called 'climate change'? Probably not.

It's just a cliche, a bit of an Oliver Twist 'more please' for extra cash.

Very interesting stuff here actually.

David Cameron's Islamic Schools Claim

It has been claimed today in Parliament (by David Cameron) that the government has funded - to the tune of £113,000 - two Islamic schools in England that promote Islamic extremism.

I don't know if this allegation is true or not (it was made by a politician of after all) but, if it is true does that mean that Great Britain is funding Islamic terrorism/training camps?

If that's true then are we now going to be invaded by the USA?