Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:06 am Post subject: Our next Prime Minister?
I just can't believe it. I missed the chance to meet Gordon Brown last Friday. Apparently he'd decieded to pay a flying visit to my home town, and ended up in a lesuire centre less than 100yds from my home. My neighbour knocked excietedly on my door that evening, full of the fact that she had met and shook hands with him, less than an hour previously. She was so excieted she'd almost wet herself.
Personally, I wouldn't have even walked the short distance to see him, and in retrospect I'm glad I didn't. When I read this evening in my local paper that Mr. Brown totally ignored our M.P. (John Baron) and never even had the common decency to inform him about his visit. My area is NOT Labour, but Conservative, although with new Boundary Changes coming up before the General Election, this, sadly, may alter.
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:39 am Post subject: Gordon
Just like you Admin, whenever I hear that name Gordon, it reminds me of that song too! GORDON IS A MORON, I won't repeat the rest of the song as it get's a bit naughty.
Well, no sooner is Gordon Brown the new Prime Minister, then suddenly there's a red alert in London. Two car bombs found in West End
Bomb experts dismantled the first bomb manually
Police have confirmed they are now investigating the discovery of two car bombs in the West End of London. Police said the second device had been found in a Mercedes hours after the car was given a parking ticket in Cockspur Street and towed to Park Lane.
Another Mercedes, with a bomb made up of 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, had been found outside a nightclub in Haymarket at 0130 BST. Both bombs were similar, potentially viable and clearly linked, police said.
'Troubling discovery' and "reinforces the need for the public to be alert".
"There was a considerable amount of fuel and gas canisters, as in the first vehicle. There was also a substantial quantity of nails" . "It is obvious that if the device had detonated there could have been serious injury or loss of life."
Petrol smell
The second bomb was found several hours after bomb disposal experts had defused the first bomb outside the busy Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket.
It was discovered in a blue 280E model Mercedes in a Park Lane car pound, where it had been towed after being given a ticket for illegally parking in Cockspur Street, near Trafalgar Square.
Park Lane was closed for much of the afternoon while bomb squad officers checked the vehicle. It was eventually reopened at 1930 BST.
The Park Lane area was cordoned off for much of the afternoon
The Haymarket area was also cordoned off as police carried out forensic searches.
Officers had been alerted to the first bomb by an ambulance crew who had been called to Tiger Tiger nightclub to deal with a separate incident.
They had spotted smoke - now believed to have been vapour from the petrol in the car - inside a metallic green Mercedes parked outside the club.
Bomb experts manually disabled the device.
Now isn't that a baptism of fire for the new Prime Minister!
I had cause to "visit" that huge underground car pound once, Sylvia. Back in the late seventies when I was living in London, I hired a car for the weekend to visit a friend in North Yorkshire. On returning to London I had to go to work (I was working for London Transport), so I drove the car over to Victoria, parked up, fully intending to return the car to the rental office during my lunch break. In my haste to get to work, I parked inadvertantly in a Residents Parking area. At lunch time, I returned to collect the car. It had gone! At first I thought it had been stolen, so I called the police. They informed me that the vehicle had been removed due to it's being illegally parked, and that it had been removed to the police car pound at Park Lane. After finishing my shift, I went to retrive the car, and was taken into a huge underground parking area underneath Hyde Park. This was the main police car storage area for vehicles that the police had removed due to them being illegally parked. There were Rolls Royces, Mercedes, and many other top of the range cars just sitting there gathering dust. Some looked as if they had been there for months without being reclaimed. My hired Fiesta looked pathetic amongst these top of the range models.
Anyway, having duely paid the fine and one days "storage fee" that was almost £80, I was given the keys, and it was driven out to the entrance for me. I then had to drive the car back to Victoria to the hire firm. This cost me another days rental on top of everything else. So that weekend cost me an awful lot of money. All due to my not seeing the Residents' Parking Only sign!
With regards to these recent car bombs, it's a case of "here we go again". I was in London during the IRA's bombing campaign, and remember it well, being close to three bombs that exploded. At least the IRA gave warnings! _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:03 am Post subject: Prime Minister
I know how you feel Dorramae. I live just minutes away from Thurrock Lakeside, a huge shopping complex with lengthy shopping malls and it is targeted by bomb scares every once in a while.
Sometimes, when I've gone up the escalator to the higher shopping malls, the thought has crossed my mind, that if there were a definate bomb alert, it would take me quite some time to get from this level at Lakeside to the safety of ground level, in order to escape. It doesn't bear thinking about, does it?
Basildon Town Centre, where Admin lives, it also has shopping malls on different levels, but it isn't quite as vast an area as Thurrock Lakeside. These terrorists seem to target the biggest shopping areas.
I can remember a time long before the shopping malls, when my mum used to go into a small butchers shop to buy her meat and then she would walk two or three yards further down the High Street and go into the greengrocers and get the veg. Then onto the corner shop to get the other groceries. There was never any threat of bomb scares in the high street then, you stood more chance of finding an unexploded bomb somewhere deeply buried in your back garden from World War II.
I hate those big shopping centres, and will not visit them. I don't actually live in Basildon, but in a smaller town to the South East of it.
I find that I can get almost everything I need in my own little community, (and I'm not talking Tesco here either).
Anything else I may want, I can usually find it online. Less hassle, no crowds, no chavs, and from the comfort of my own home.
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