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Another batch of views from Tom that do not necessarily reflect the views of DaC...
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TOM WHITBREAD
Looking fear in the
We are told this is because we do not have
the money to keep the ships and aircraft on
face...
active duty, yet we see Cameron giving our
money to other countries who are improving
On the 7 July my daughter Caroline, who
their nuclear power, which they could then
used to work in the Dial-a-Cab call centre
use to overpower our nation in the future.
many years ago, decided to go against all of
her fears and do a tandem parachute jump.
Taxing problems...
She was to do it from a height of 12,000 feet
or 2.27 miles, harnessed to a member of the
Even the simplest parent will tell you that you
Red Devils.
cannot keep having children if you do not
This was a young lady who used to get a
have enough money coming in to feed or
nose bleed standing on a foot stool, who
clothe them. This simple fact seems to have
climbed up a steep hill in Guernsey and had
escaped politicians, as they let every murderer,
to be helped down. So the fear which gives
rapist, thief, fraudster and sponger travel from
on, now allowing you to glide back down to
ice cold shivers down her spine was always
all over the world to live here. They then allow
earth slowly. If you are a male and have not
there; her first hurdle being a case of over-
them untold benefits, with no thought of
spread the straps out correctly, a very high
coming the fear of just boarding the tiny
where this money is going to keep coming
squeaky voice and a loss of fatherhood could
plane.
from as more jobs disappear. Our utility com-
be the result!
Looking at the photos she requested be
panies, factories and other money making
As you close in to what has been designat-
taken before boarding, on the plane and the
organisations are being sold to foreign buyers,
ed as your landing spot, you really begin to
journey from plane to ground, the fear can be
so more money leaves the country, money that
take in the beauty of your surroundings - the
seen on her face. But now she says it was the
should be supporting you as a tax payer.
colour of the trees, grass, crops and rivers. As
greatest experience of her life, giving her the
We have just seen Southern Cross, the largest
Caroline put it, the experience is the most
feeling of being a bird flying down to the
retirement homes group collapse but not
exhilarating you will ever come across during
ground. Due to this experience, she has
before many investors abroad had made a for-
your life. Although I believe her, I will contin-
already signed up to repeat the tandem para-
tune from them. There was also the promise
ue to stay within the metal tube that is called
chute jump next year - perhaps having a good
that the Cadbury factory would not close, this
an aeroplane and save on the expense of a
looking instructor strapped to her may have
was made to MPs who believed them. But the
been an incentive!
new owners knew nothing would be done by
I was told the hardest part was sitting in the
our soft MPs, so they closed it.
doorway looking down over 2 miles to the
As I've said before, when you go out to
very hard ground while the wind whistles past
work you (and your loved ones) expect you to
your ears like a tornado. The sound is like a
be protected, but because your taxes are being
thunder clap as it vibrates against your
given away you now have a reduced police
eardrums, then there's the feeling of the wind
force.
trying to rip your trousers off by flapping them
Then you have a Justice Minister who seems
back and forth at 100mph. And that is before
to indulge himself far too much in the sub-
you have even begun your parachute jump!
sidised life in the House of Commons so that
Now you have to leap out into nothingness
when he emerges, he falls over giving himself
with not a grab handle in sight. If you suffer
a black eye! This man wants to put criminals
from vertigo, this would be the time your head
back onto the streets before they have even let
begins to feel like it's swimming and you lose
the ink dry on the jail entry papers. That is if
all control over your faculties.
they ever get to court as police can now give
visit to the underwear department of M & S!
As you do everything within your power to
cautions and warnings so they are back on the
But I must congratulate my daughter for the
stay within the confines of the plane, finger-
street before the officer even arrests them!
bravery of facing her fear and raising a decent
nails screeching as they are dragged down the
I believe they are now going to put revolv-
amount in sponsorship for Help the Heroes,
aluminium door, it is now the Red Devil tutor
ing doors on the prisons and police stations so
the charity for our servicemen and women
sitting behind you who suddenly pushes and
the miscreants can get back to their villainy
fighting to stop oppression throughout the
you are out into a weightless situation.
much quicker as their families do not want to
world.
Do you dare open your eyes to see the
lower the standard of living that they have
The other BBC???
ground rushing up to meet you at what seems
become accustomed to from their proceeds of
to be a speed of 500mph? But you do open
crime.
Over the past few months, I've been observ-
your eyes and you suddenly get a feeling of
The standards of most professional jobs are
ing how we are treated as working taxi-dri-
euphoria, a beautiful feeling of just floating as
being watered down by keeping the number
ving tax payers; this after our ancestors fought
the wind rushes past your face. The plastic
of taxis down while putting thousands more
two wars so that we could live a life of free-
goggles allow you to keep your eyes open
private hire vehicles onto the roads. Keep
dom.
giving you a majestic view of the beautiful
down the number of nurses, but put more
In the last war, Hitler could not crush the
patchwork quilt effect of the surrounding
poorly trained nursing assistants on the wards.
inhabitants of our small island, but now the
farmland, with horses and cows looking like
Keep down the number of teachers but put
BBC (Blair, Brown and Cameron) seem to
ants.
more poorly trained teaching assistants into
have succeeded. Between them they have
Looking at the far horizon of what might be
the classrooms.
brought this country to its knees by giving
some 15 miles away, you are flying above the
If you have an accident, do you get urgent
away our wealth - gold and democracy to the
birds that you usually stare up into the sky to
assistance from a qualified doctor? No, you
EU. If Brown sold our gold at its lowest price,
watch as they complete their own aerobatic
spend half an hour or more parked in the kerb
Cameron is now doing that with the planes of
display. Meanwhile, the instructor is using air
while a paramedic pokes and prods you. As
our Air Force - the Americans must be laugh-
currents to help you turn and dive so you are
good as a paramedic may be, they are not
ing their heads off if the sale goes through. If
able to simulate the bird's display albeit in a
doctors and they do not have access to the
we want to fight a decent sea battle, we need
far more simple way!
equipment that a hospital doctor has at their
to rent ships to complete the task and aircraft
Then the instructor pulls the ripcord and
fingertips.
to give them cover.
you feel a sudden tug as the brakes are put
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