Winners and Losers ~ September 17, 2010

Posted 17 Sep 2010 by Walaa Idris

Spending most of the day driving to and from Cambridge, where the journey from central London to Whitechapel took longer than the total round trip, with a huge cost to the environment, not to mention my nerves, but it allowed me to think and spend quality time with the radio!

His Holiness the Pope is a winner for bringing to the forefront the issue of Christmas – I never understood where the idea of Christmas being offensive to other religions really came from!? Personally, I think it was an over zealous clerk, who was trying to be sensitive and considerate, but got it horribly wrong. As a Muslim, I do look forward to everything Christmas from the gifts, the decorations, the shopping, and the bingeing and I know many non Christians who share that love.

First I would like to make it very clear that, besides our Armed Forces, who I feel nothing we do, or give them will be enough or equate to the sacrifice they give in our behalf, I hold the utmost respect to our Police and fire-fighters, they also give an unparalleled service, sacrificing themselves selflessly for us, and I with most citizens owe them a lot!

However, for the fire-fighters to vote almost unanimously to strike on the ‘possibility’ the (LFA) London Fire Authority’ might’ rip up their contracts…. makes them losers, because they are allowing themselves to became a pawn in the unions pressure game with the government.

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