Torch the torch © fintag

News comments:
Many column inches, tweets, spins and spans but the reality is the UK's Big Savings day was a big let down. In an attempt to pretend to make lots of cuts in the future, there is a hope that growth and inflation will drown out the unemployment, misery and social destruction.

The coalition is a quasi hippy liberal blairite government. It says NO to welfare scroungers, tax evaders and the pedlars of red tape and YES to more railways, Obama roads and bridges and science students.

The real opportunities missed were:

Putting Rupert Murdoch onto the board of BBC trustees with a remit to wind it up so we end up with a website and BBC1 and BBC News 24.

Slashing the NHS; putting in a proper constitution stating what its purpose is.

Providing more funds tothe police to teach them how to walk and keep peace in the ever increasing violent streets where prisons are closed down and welfare hard to come by.

Giving the banks tax breaks to encourage them to hire more people in the UK. All this bull about the banks costing the UK - the coalition should be privatizing RBS and Lloyds and making a stock market killing.

And so on. I feel depressed now. Even more after playing with my new Blackberry torch and having to send it back. No wonder Steve Jobs is laughing. Low screen res, a slider that needs two hands to open and more clicks than ever before. "Open Tray" - I mean what is that all about?

RIM have lost it. They should outsource their product to Apple.

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