Kim has been in NYC for a week and having collected her from Heathrow early yesterday, I drove into London and didn’t get back home until late. Hence my Wednesday 10-miler got turned into a Thursday 10-miler. Based on my run earlier this morning though, I don’t think I like running on Thursdays!
Maybe it was as simple as allowing too much time to elapse between runs, so my legs had a chance to stiffen up, but I didn’t feel great on the machine this morning. Maybe it was also in part that I listened to Radio 4, where I’m fast coming to the conclusion that the BBC is actually the LBC… The Labour Bias Corporation.
This morning’s Conservative target was Lord Ashcroft. Maybe I’m an oddball for believing that Government is stronger for having real, global businesspeople within its ranks, rather than anodyne, career politicians with little or no business experience. And maybe I’m also odd for believing that global business people should pay taxes back into all of the communities around the world that they derive income from, not merely some Colonial master.
But my real beef here is about the timing of these so called revelations… rather conveniently for Labour in the run up to the election. The BBC/LBC was fast to interrogate (a better verb might be to hector) Conservative ministers about how long they have known about the situation. But presuming that the tip-off came from within the Government, to whom the Cabinet Office reported at the time the initial agreement was reached, they were curiously silent as to how long Gordon Brown has been keeping this quietly up his sleeve.
Anyway, suffice to say that by 10 miles I was feeling decidedly queasy, despite having jumped off the machine to open the door to clear my rage and swig some water after 8 miles. Despite also only having set the machine to 7mph or thereabouts for most of the way.
84 minutes, 32 seconds of mostly uncomfortable running. And all in the knowledge that I must climb aboard again tomorrow to do yet another 5 miles. Ugh!
Perhaps the fact that he accepted his peerage 10 years ago on the promise that he would be domiciled for tax purposes if that were granted is relevant here? also his inability to confirm one way or the other for those ten years could be an own goal on the part of the ever beleivable Tories?
is there any little wonder that the BBC would favour anything but the Tories, when as a sop to Mr Murdoch’s empire (tax status?) for his financial and ‘the Sun wot won it’ support, will be the splitting up of the BBC in order that Sky can take over the economically viable bits?