It was never going to be an easy task putting a budget in place to sort out the problems we have in the economy. But I feel that this budget does not tackle same areas I was expecting and holds fear for the future.

I was hoping he would make moves to stop the huge bonuses paid in certain job within banks,Cut out the middle management roles in sectors like the NHS(maybe this will come later).
I am worried about the 20% VAT hike as I feel this is going to reduce the amount people will spend in shops putting shops at risk again, and indirectly lead to costs going up on everything including food and clothes.

The effects of the cuts to the public sector remain to be seen, But I am personally worried for both my wife and myself in this area as we both have jobs connected to be public sector although not directly in the sector.
I work in the rail industry and my wife works for a company contracted to train unemployed people to regain work.
So it will depend where the axe falls whether we suffer or not.

Either way there are troubled times ahead for all, Lets hope these moves work if not there appears to be no alternative.

Off to one side is safer than underneath.

I agree with you there Scotavia.
To be honest the only time I normally stand outside an airfield is at Biggin Hill on airshow arrivals day and then I always stand to one side of the approach this works in both being safer and a better position to take photos from. I would gladly go inside if the option was available.

Having sadly seen several accidents at airshows I understand how things can go wrong so quickly probably too quickly to get out of the way of if in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Its all about risk and likelyhood of something bad happening in my oppinion, If you chose to view the airfield or airport and something happened to you then you have accepted that risk and any consequences that come with it.
However the innocent people in the situation with the car did not accept such risks.

I can see the reasoning behind the arguement that it has always been legally owned guns involved in mass killing sprees such as this in the UK. But personally would not want to see more legislation brought in as I really feel it will not resolve anything. Sad incidents such as this are thankfully very rare in the UK and we have more laws on firearms than most other countries in the world.

As to the arguement that nobody should need to own a firearm and everyone that owns one clearly wants to shoot someone as it were, Thats nonesense I have fired air rifles when I was young and a shotgun clay pigeon shooting and never dreamt of taking any animal or humans life with a gun, And neither did anyone else I know who did the same. I now do all my shooting with a camera.

I can see why a farmer for example would own a gun. Also there are people who do clay pigeon shooting as a hobby, I would worry about such clubs having all the guns stored in one place as I think that leave opportunity of something happening more wide open.
Not all gun owners are potential murderers and this can not be forgotten when we are talking about such things.

I agree with Kev that a gun makes it easy for a mentally dearranged person to kill many people, But still do not the logic of a full ban on guns.

As to all Police carrying guns I really hope we never go down that route, We have some dedicated armed Police specially trained in this task and I feel that is the right way to do things. I would fear that all Police carrying guns would lead to unnessary deaths when Police had to make split second decisions.

Lovely video and I really like the piece of music he has composed for them too.

You just know the ‘meejia’ would never show it but wouldn’t it be so refreshing if one of those eyewitnesses who was asked how they felt blurted out “I was scared to effing death!”

Gun control? I really don’t know what the answer is but to all those out there saying that people kill people, not the guns, have you ever thought how easy using a gun makes things for the killer? I’m sure if Derrick Bird had been running around Cumbria armed with a colander and potato masher it is likely that the death toll would have been considerably lower.

Regards,

kev35

I have considered how easy a gun makes things for a killer, But I honestly feel with somebody as clearly dearranged as he became he would of found a method no matter what, And it can never be known how many he would of killed by any other method.
There are no easy answers to this one and I doubt there ever will be. But it does cross my mind that realistically even his car could of proved a pretty effective weapon as much as a knife or his choice the gun. A dearranged person can do a awful lot of harm with anything sadly.

Maybe we need to be looking at why some people committ such acts that appear so out of character, rather than just adding another level of legislation to the gun laws. The mind can be the most dangerous weapon of all when its out of control and is the root cause of all these cases where a sudden mass killing spree has occured.

In the UK thankfully such events are very very rare which shows the law overall is controling the situation, Sadly as with all laws they are not a 100% perfect.
The saddest thing is nothing will ever bring these people back and worse very little can really explain why he did it for sure either.

There are two things that this sad case brings up for me really, Number one is that a madman/woman with a weapon of any sort can kill many people in a very short amount of time.
Number two is that persons such as this man always seem to fall through the cracks and are never stopped or spotted until its too late. Maybe society in general is to blame for that.

Changing the gun laws again will not prevent another case like this in the future,Just as past legisation has not stopped such incidents, Its worth remembering that there are many people holding guns fully legally in the UK and this tragic incident is an isolated one really.

Ultimately the guns are not at fault its the mind of the owner of them that was, No amount of laws can cure an unstable mind unless you know its unstable and can take appropiate actions.

As to 24 hour news it seems to me that they sensationalise such incidents as this one and crave useless eye witness reports just to pad out their stories, Sadly a incident like this was/is pure gold to them.

I sympathise will all involved in this tragic event and hope the news networks will soon leave them alone to grieve and rebuild shuttered lives.

Anything that boosts the morale of the troops is valuable as far as I am concerned and I have big respect for David Beckham going there.
It difficult to say who I would want to see if I were in the same situation, But I feel I would not want to see politicians or Katie”Jordan” Price unless I were allowed to shoot at them.