Mack's Craic

David Hempleman-Adams and his sixteen year old daughter Amelia have made it to the South Pole. David’s very relieved, he was sick of hearing “Dad, are we there yet?”

David Cameron has told the French and the Germans he has no plans to go to a wife swapping party. He’s also walked away from the talks on the future of the Euro. I’m sure he made both decisions based on what happened a year and a half ago when a party persuaded him to get into bed with some Europhiles.

Meanwhile the European crisis continues. The credit rating agency, ‘Standard and Poor’ say they may downgrade Europe’s credit rating. I don’t know about being assessed by someone called “Standard and Poor”. I want to be rated by “Super and Rich”!

No one seems to know what’s going to happen. Economics is like that. In school they change the exam questions every year, except in economics, where they change what the answers should be.

In economics closer to home, we’re all going to have to tighten our belts this Christmas. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I have to agree with the broadcaster Dave Ramsey; he said “You’ve got to act your wage”. He’s right and you should set out your family budget that way. Another genius is John Maxwell, he says, “A budget is a way of telling your money where to go, instead of wondering where it went”.

Some people facing a bleak Christmas are the 220 people who are about to lose their jobs at Biomet in Swindon. The company is moving it’s manufacturing to South Wales. They asked for a grant from the Welsh Assembly. I’m not sure how we know that, maybe it was a leek. The interesting irony here is that the bloke trying to stop them moving is the Conservative MP for South Swindon, Robert Buckland. He’s originally from South Wales. I’m not sure if the Labour candidate for South Swindon, Anne Snelgrove has anything to say about this. She lost her seat to Robert Buckland at the last election. I’m sure she’d have a lot of sympathy for the workers. She already knows how it feels to lose her job to a Welshman.

Winter driving conditions are here. The RAC say they fix a breakdown every twelve seconds. – I had a car like that once.

Amelia Hempleman-Adams is pretty pleased with herself; she’s the youngest person to ever make it to the South Pole. Teenagers today hey, they sit there at the world’s southern polar axis and think the world revolves around them!

That’s the Craic’s Factor!

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