- 7pm National News (weekly Nationalist News round up with V for Vendetta and Bedfordshire Beacon)
- 7.10pm British Rock n Roll with The Roadrunner playing classic and new British Rock n Roll
- 8pm National News (weekly Nationalist News round up with V for Vendetta and Bedfordshire Beacon)
- 8.10pm British Rock Music with V for Vendetta playing the best of British Rock music and dedications
- 9pm National News (weekly Nationalist News round up with V for Vendetta and Bedfordshire Beacon)
- 9.10pm British Pop and Folk mix including music from the 40's to the present day and a Letter to Britain Presented by The Beacon
- 10pm National News (weekly Nationalist News round up with V for Vendetta and Bedfordshire Beacon)
- 10.10pm Classic British Tune followed by the National Anthem and close.
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Radio Station goes live next Sunday
Friday, 28 August 2009
You Won't Catch Me I'm Part Of The Union
A cost of "independence"
(a) we don't want to turn the rest of the UK into a foreign country; and
(b) the numbers (now endorsed by the SNP) show that Scotland would be, at best, no better economically out of the Union than in it;
...one of the things that is bothersome is the inevitable and unnecessary costs of duplicating stuff that is currently done on a shared basis through the UK.
It occurred to me that it ought to be relatively easy to get a handle on the numbers for one aspect of this, namely diplomatic representation: embassies, consulates and the like.
Let us look at some facts.
As part of the UK, we are represented abroad by 261 embassies, high commissions, consulates and so on.
The total FCO budget seems to be around £1.7bn. So, very crudely, dividing one number by the other (and ignoring the fact that not all the costs are associated with the embassies and so on) the cost per overseas mission is £6.5m. Of which Scotland's share (at around 8.5%) is only £550k per mission, for a total of £144.5m.
For comparison, Ireland has only 75 missions abroad. Applying the same methodology, the Irish DFA costs €207m, or £178m - £2.6m per mission.
So, Irish embassies, consulates and so on are cheaper than British ones. Not surprising - not only will they be in less grand and expensive premises, but they will be more lightly staffed and less effective. After all, the smaller and more insignificant a country is, the less the rest of the world cares what it thinks - and so the less point there is in that country paying people to explain what it thinks!
The point is, of course, that Scotland currently gets representation by 261 missions abroad for £144.5m. An "independent" Scotland would, like Ireland, have to pay £34m more to achieve less than 30% of the representation it currently gets. (Oh I know, "independent" Scotland ought to be entitled to 8.5% of the embassy estate. This would no doubt be expressed as a cheque for the capital value, offset by the rental of a couple of portakabins in the embassy grounds until the new Scottish diplomats found new digs.)
Now these are only small numbers, but they are illustrative. Multiply these sort of effects across the health, education and social security systems and suddenly you're into billions. And as the saying goes, "A billion here and a billion there, and before you know it you're talking real money."
Divorce is an expensive business."
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Working classes betrayed
Between 1981 and 2006, the proportion of social housing tenants in full-time employment fell from 67 per cent to 34 per cent."
Full time employment has fallen because previous and present governments since 1981 have killed of our manufacturing industry,our mining, steel and fuel industry's and small businesses which is where the majority of these people used to work. There is no work for people who basically will never be the brightest sparks on the planet but they are people who would normally have a niche in society and it is one that is normally essential, but things are not normal in this country any more not since the days of Mrs Thatcher's war with the Unions and the Miners when she effectively killed off the working class communities by closing down their pits and their factories, I like Mrs Thacher mind you but always felt that she acted like a woman scorned when confronted with the nations workers. Then the government decided to sell off the housing stock either to individuals under the right to buy (which was a great idea if they had only built a house for everyone that they sold) or they sold to Housing Associations (private enterprise which means profit making by the way which isn't too bad provided rents stay at an acceptable level and work gets done - not like my local Association Aragon or ARROGANT as their tenants and locals call them).
So what are these working class people supposed to do???? look for jobs that are not there??? retrain - lol the colleges can't keep up with demand??? sit back on the dole and hope they win the lottery before they die??? I find the arrogance of some people too much to bear at times. We should be building our manufacturing base and employing these people and then we would not have to rely on cheap and nasty foreign imports.
Next quote "Critics claim that Labour’s benefits policy has destroyed incentives to work for many families living in deprived areas, leaving them dependent on handouts and public housing. Around five million households are now living in social housing, with about half in council housing and the rest in housing association managed properties."
No answer to that piece of arrogance really except WE LIVE IN A SOCIAL SOCIETY AND WE HAVE TO LOOK AFTER ALL THAT CANNOT LOOK AFTER THEMSELVES and we must not forget this - I pay taxes and am more than happy if my money goes to those that really need it. I hope that you the reader feels the same as one day you might find yourself in that position and will welcome help and social housing, I have worked all my life and live in Social Housing and where I live I find that the people are decent people trying to live lives as best they can with a few exceptions so Daily Express I feel this time you have got it bloody wrong
Monday, 17 August 2009
Traitors, Quislings and Cowards betray our Heroes
It is time for all proper minded people in this country to stand up and say NO MORE to their lies and spin and to recall these traitorous dogs back to their workplace where they belong at this time, Churchill would never have gone on a 3 month holiday and even when he did take a break their was always a speech from him to look forward to on the radio. Our Heroes are suffering for these traitors yet Brown has not been seen or heard from since Parliament broke up for its annual holidays. Personally I would like them hauled through traitors gate and then handed over to the Marines for some preferential treatment.