Sunday April 26, 2009 Random ramblings
Sunday April 26, 2009 The UK is projected to borrow £175bn over the next 2 years. The UK is projected to spend approximately £16bn in total, through to 2010 on the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars. Precise figures seem hard to find, but some £7bn approx had been spent through to 2007, so a figure of around £6bn seems a reasonable, rough projection for 2009-2010 spending (winding down in Iraq has been matched by escalation in Afghanistan). These figures are, it seems, by and large supplementary to the main UK DoD budget of circa £36bn/annum.
So something like 3% of that massive 175Bn of borrowing is simply going toward that remaining, failed project of Blair in Afghanistan. That's a huge burden. Will UK tax-payers accept cuts in public-services, while paying for continuing, futile, death and destruction in Afghanistan?
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Friday April 24, 2009 Sniff.. my beautiful Aprilia RS250 disappears tomorrow, sold to a collector.
The money's going on maintenance on my other collectable, my '00 Mini (the real mini in that picture, not that other shameless BMW rip-off of the name) which my parents are using at the moment.
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Thursday April 23, 2009 As per an earlier blog, I'm busy outside of Sun (and Quagga) for the time being, except, however, for the summer when I need to work. Ideally I'd work at Sun, however that seems uncertain, if not unlikely. I'd really like to keep working on Quagga. So if anyone knows of any opportunities, do get in touch.
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