Chasing the Tail

Not much time for blogging at the moment. Writing sermons, preparing Service Sheets,  (unjaming the phocopier**!!**) Carol Services, Christmas School Assembly's, a funeral tomorrow and the last Diocesan Standing Committee Meeting of the year tonight at 6.00 pm which will mean navigating the Christmas Shoppers traffic in Inverness.

All this coupled with the seasonal good will that the Ministry of Defence are making massive cuts at RAF Kinloss, the Health Board are delaying the building of a new Health Centre in Forres and the Moray Council are massively overspent and think that the best way forward is to cut front line services, especially the education of special needs children.

Its enough to make you want to chase your tail!

Ever decreasing cirles

Is it just me or does it seem to you as well that politicians, that august body of elected representatives, are simply going round and round in ever decreasing circles these days?
There are many examples but to take just two:

Why would anyone publicly sack a scientific advisor who offers proven advice about the effects of canabis and at the same time raise millions through a tax on alcohol and tobacco, implying at least that the latter is safer and endorsed by the Government for consumption. Even from my own staistics as a humble parish priest I know which of these kills and harms more people.

Least this seems partisan and I get accused of having a go at Gordon Brown what about David Cameron who seems to think that positive discrimination is the way to get more women into politics. I think that any form of discrimination is wrong, including positive discrimination. There are some very fine women politicians but perhaps the real reason that there are less women than men in politics today is because women have more sense!