I don't think Ed Miliband wants to be Prime Minister!

Dear Reader, I get the impression that Labour Party leader Ed Miliband does not really want to be the prime minister of the United Kingdom. I read (and hopefully it is wrong) that his favourite sports were basketball and American football. Someone should have told him that he should support a football team. Tony Blair did that with Newcastle United and I remember the great play of John Major supporting
Chelsea (which was genuine).

The teams I follow are Man Utd, Spurs, Watford, Leyton Orient, Bristol Rovers and Barnet. I am 51 pct a Man Utd fan, which might oscillate to 100 pct on Europa League
night (what is Man U's favourite perfume? Chanel 5!).

I HAVE GOT A FEW POSTS IN THE PIPELINE!!

Dear Reader, I have got a few posts in the pipeline with subjects such as David Cameron, Ed Miliband, David Lammy, the European single currency and Manchester City. I have added a few bits to my recent obituary of Welsh footballer and manager Gary Speed, who recently committed suicide.

David Lammy is the Labour MP for the troubled area of Tottenham and he is recently said how it is there. He is also the opposition spokesman for higher education but I think he should have resigned when he served in the late Labour government as the administration was trying to force through some barmy policies.

Was it the banana that did it for David Miliband?

I suppose it is too early to comment on Ed Miliband.

The new leader of the British Labour party, Ed Miliband, says he is not going to squeeze the country's middle class but who is going to believe him? The current coalition government seems to have a few tax-raising initiatives of its own. There is the possibility that HMRC wants to take central control of payrolls so as to deduct
income tax and national insurance and then send the remaining amount to your bank account. Is this Stalinism or Conservatism? I don't know if Tory voters knew this would be in the pipeline when they voted for David Cameron. Apparently, the HMRC wants to cut down PAYE errors with people who get multiple payments from different jobs and various pension payments. I think HMRC would need a few more staff and a bigger computer to cope.
To be fair Allister Heath puts it far better than me:
http://www.cityam.com/news-and-analysis/allister-heath/don%E2%80%99t-reward-hmrc%E2%80%99s-massive-failure

UK lights go out from 2015? Ofgem.

UK power regulator Ofgem has probably timed its intervention into the murky political/energy arena to perfection with its "Project Discovery". The report also probably makes the case that Ed Miliband, the Labour minister for environment, is a a complete **** (you chose the epithet!).
Ofgem chief executive Alistair Buchanan says decisions on energy security
have to be made by 2013 so as to prevent the lights going out in Great Britain from 2015.
One possibility outlined by the Ofgem report is a central buyer of energy, which is the nationalisation of part of the market.
We let Iberdrola take over Scottish Power for a very small premium but if Scottish & Southern wants to buy a Spanish utility the screaming from Madrid would be amazing. As for dislodging the EDF monopoly in France, don't even think about it.
One minute E.on was planning to build a new power station (Kingsnorth) and now it is not. We might as well as offer the Germans a low price for the old assets of Powergen. There was environmental opposition to the new unit at the existing power station but we are going to have to get real eventually.
I am not a little Englander but can we can really let our energy security be dictated by external groups and countries?
The dash into renewables such as wind power will probably prove a waste of money.

I wonder where the Heathrow 3rd runway will be built?

I had thought that UK premier Gordon Brown would do anything to win the next general election. However, I have been proved wrong. His government's decision to give a go-ahead to the third runway at Heathrow sacrifices a lot of votes in West London. The possible forthcoming Tory government under David Cameron says that it will cancel the project.
www.searchaccountant.co.uk
The imposition of supposed "green" flights and the previous dissension of ministers such as H. Benn and E. Miliband undermines the approval package. I had hoped that the two ministers would resign over the go-ahead but I expect they like their ministerial cars etc. Resignations would improve their standings. Gordon Brown won't be with us forever.
The go-ahead was sweetened with possible rail projects. These should be planned for
airports such as Stansted and Gatwick, which probably could do with a new runway each. Possibly, the UK is not very good at airport planning. In 2008 traffic was down at these two airports so the current economic case for new runways does not stack up.