Pay as you Throw

The government seem to have done a -u- turn on the idea of charging households for the rubish they throw away, by allowing councils to carry out this policy if they want. I think that "Pay as you throw" is a good idea as it would encourage people to recycle more, and cut down the amount of waste they produce.

However this policy must only be introduced if people get a reduction in there Council Tax bills, and measures are introduced to stop other households from dumping their rubbish into your bin. The government must also get to grips with producers of goods so that their packaging is reduced as domestic waste only amounts to some 9% of the total going to landfill.

Brunstrom is partly right

This week North Wales Chief Constable, Richard Brunstrom stated that all drugs should be legallised. I disagree that ALL drugs should be legallised, my view is that soft drugs should be made legal & hard drugs should stay illegal. Why?

All soft drug users have to buy their drugs from dealers that make their money from selling hard drugs, no matter how much the soft drug user tries to stay away from hard drugs, it is in the dealers best interest to sell the user hard drugs which eventually they do. By legallising soft drugs you break the link between the user and the dealer. and has been proven in Holland hard drug users become very few and far between. Their are also other advantages. The government can tax soft drugs, ringfence the money so that it is spent on a network of re-hab centres. And also you free up police time and money to concentrate on hard drug dealers & the criminal underworld.

Government should stop pandering to a failed drugs policy and make legal soft drugs, it should also wipe out the poppy fields in Afghanistan where the majority of Hard drugs on our streets comes from.

Gordon Got it Right !

Unlike the media and some tories i am very pleased Gordon Brown has called off an early general election. It is governments that are elected and not Prime Ministers, their is two much trivial personality based politics these days that make most people bored and cynical. No election was called when Macmillan took over from Churchill, or Callaghan from Wilson, Major from Thatcher.

Governments are elected for a minimum of four years & maximum five and this labour government should continue until at least the spring of 2009. After all, the people do not like to many elections only the media do.