Review of the year 2010 (part 1)

As 2010 draws to a close, here's my personal look back at the events that shaped my last 12 months :

January :

On 12th January, a magnitude 7 earthquake hit Haiti, devastating Port-au-Prince. News that American missionaries were amongst the first people to bugger off home as soon as the airport re-opened made me so hopping mad, that I published my first post on the 19th.

And where are the poor people of Haiti now? Well, they're pretty much still in the shit - but at least the world has had time to forget about them. Gives you a nice warm feeling, doesn't it?

February :

Towards the end of the month, UK political scene was reverberating with the news that despite bollocksing up the economy and screwing just about everything, bankers were still paying themselves bloody great big bonuses. As usual, our toothless government led by the useless snot gobbler Brown didn't have a fucking clue how to deal with it! One wonders if the current government will do any better in 2011?

March :

It's budget time and the nation holds it's breath as Darling gives his last budget. Expected to be a giveaway in anticipation of the election that has to come soon, it turns out to be just another old chestnut from Old Labour. The usual taxes go up - booze, petrol and the like - and we get a new tax band just to prove that soaking the rich is still a traditional Labout sport. And of course there are the tax rises announced last time around which Labour hopes we will have forgotten about...

April :

Yes, there's going to be an election at the beginning of May! Looking at the runners and riders in this political donkey derby, it was hard to pick a winner from what looked to be a pretty lame pack. And the televised debates didn't exactly help - it just seemed that the right thing to do was to just agree with Nick in case of a hung parliament. It was an uninspiring campaign, livened up only by the biggest foot in the mouth moment for many a moon when Gordon called a life long supporter a bigot. The papers loved it! It was another Kinnock moment - and all the Labour high-up started jockeying into position to knife he bloke in the back at the earliest opportunity.

Even Blair turned out to put the knife in - by saying he supported him! That just about finished him off.

I loved the election campaign and really got into this blogging thing after a slow start. More stuff I liked tomorrow...