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   LINK co-operative UUA
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Friendly yet  Serious Meetings for jobs, health & wellbeing
Providing Community transport at reasonable rates
Opening our Co-op Centre - Saturdays 1900 - join us, ‘drop in’ 
Sending kids clothes to Kenya pls bring any you can
We are building LINK co-operative and it’s various ventures...  Membership is free and all we really ask is that, when you can, you make an effort to attend our meetings and share your experiences.  - This happens as ‘FRIENDLY FORUM’  every month. Usually on Fridays, occasionally Thursdays; details are in this paper or visit  www.bizbodysoul.com 
     I’m John Broadhead, editor and ‘co-ordinator’ - it means I try to make sure everything happens as planned and of course that’s impossible; but we are here whatever and it’s all part of the friendly fun & liveliness of LINK co-operative.
    Working together on the events and getting people along when they need transport, is Steven Jhakra, who runs E Comm, engaging the community and transport. We met outside the ‘every little helps’ shop and Steven helps more than a little in many ways!
    Evans Gallo is our political editor - he talks, rightly, about ‘checks and balances’, definitely a politician!  Sometimes we do politics and we hope to have a benficial influence on life in general , in finding jobs and homes.    

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There comes a time where good sense must prevail.

The recent Con/ Lib Dem presentation on the coalitions success is my point. Yes, it has been a success, as, though sometimes a bumpy ride, it gives the first signs of govt parties trying to work together. This is an essential if the UK is to move forward in these straightened times.

It even requires that Labour, and all other parties should join this coalition!  Only when govt goes forward with proper and full debate representing all views can we quickly move forward –

Government is not just about producing a leading nation but is about providing a place to live in wellbeing without the stress and struggle we presently have.

Let mps, ministers , and prime minister come out from their  ‘ivory tower’ and travel extensively and join in debate at street level, then they will see what to do We need to be in this process together.

When we have this real effort to put things right, in education, in job provision, in financial management, and in genuine concern for all people,  then, and only then, can the country pull through.

We have the infrastructure already – rather than build, build, build, let us sensibly and carefully provide what’s needed.  An all party coalition,  taking this ‘street level’ approach and allowing full debate without antagonism, will soon find useful solutions to the many problems we are now facing  

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Friendly fun & liveliness at LINK co-operative.

Now we begin to build up LINK co-operative and it’s various ventures...  Membership is free and all we really ask is that when you can you make an effort to attend our meetings and share your experiences.  - They happen as  FRIENDLY FORUMS every month. Usually on Fridays, occasionally Thursdays; details are in this paper or visit  www.bizbodysoul.com 
     I’m John Broadhead, editor and ‘co-ordinator’ - it means to try to make sure everything happens as planned and of course that’s impossible; but we are here whatever and it’s all part of the friendly fun & liveliness of LINK co-operative.
    Working together on the events and getting people along when they need transport, is Steven Jhakra, who runs
E Comm community transport. We met outside the ‘every little helps’ shop and Steven helps more than a little in many ways!
    Evans Gallo is our political editor - he talks, rightly, about ‘checks and balances’, definitely a politician!  Sometimes we do politics and hope to have a benficial influence on life in general , in finding jobs and homes.

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Adventures with The Trailer. .

A little time ago my able assistant and I were heading towards the local tip with the trailer well loaded.  All was well and this was not the first time we had made such a journey. Then, as we got near to our destination, I imagined I could smell burning, and suddenly there was a terrific bang!  I thought at first ‘engine trouble!’  -- but on stopping to inspect discovered the tyre had been catching against the trailer side, got very hot and so burst!  The solid axle had twisted to cause this to happen and a major repair was needed.

So what could we do?  We could not leave the disabled trailer here on a public road and it would be very expensive to get it removed. Our first task was to empty the trailer. We loaded the contents into the car and took them the short distance  to the Tip.

It then took more than two hours to get the empty trailer back home. This including picking up the spare wheel, freeing the jammed wheel hub and lots of ingenuity to keep the axle in approximately the right position so it could be towed. We had to keep stopping to realign the axle and I/we really thought the mission was impossible! But finally, by some miracle, we got the trailer home and into the back yard. Here it rested for two months or more and the axle was taken to a local garage for some patching together,

Then recently, after lunch, we tried again to fix up our old friend. We added bolts to the axle to help keep the patched welding together. Also we ran a piece of angle iron from the axle to a wooden  block to stabilizer the angle and stop axle movement.

“Why don’t you just buy a new trailer’ people have asked me. Well” I said “I like this trailer it’s been with me for so long and while I have had 3 or 4 different cars ---    ‘Now  I decided to go to Lidle and take the trailer, empty, for a trial run.

I get onto that twisty lane near the church, there is sudden scraping noise and I notice a small wheel overtaking me on my LHS, running in the grass and foliage at the side of the road! I realise that the nuts on the wheel hub were not tight and so the wheel had come off! At first I thought our under carriage repair had failed - so it could be worse.
So think I “ it’s poss. to borrow 2 nuts from the wheel still in place to fix back the wheel now in the hedge. I ring DMB who comes along with the correct wheel wrench. On Dorrette's arrival she manoeuvred the wheel in position while I lifted the trailer up. We went home and wheeled the trailer to it’s parking spot.

Just another day and the Trailer, with lots of TLC, is back in use.  

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WAS IT A DREAM?

I DO NOT LIKE RADIO 4 ALL THAT MUCH,  it always seems so negative and my wife is always listening to it!!! “Come on turn it off – you like radio 4’s drone  better than me –  ‘ yes I do’ Says she.. 

Then , on that venerable station, I heard something new about mortgages – It went something like this  ‘And government have decided on this policy and told the banks that people should be allowed to pay less rather than be evicted. The economy is in such a dreadful state and this allows people to keep on borrowing to keep the economy moving and it looks better this way for those in power.’

The banks do not want to take their share of responsibility for this . They have  provided  money for many houses in the hope of high profits and without proper research into the future of the economy.  

Now, in the completely changed economic landscape, they must do as other landlords do and take the lower rents that people can afford.  If they evict they will get less and lose disgruntled and disappointed customers they have helped to produce. Also there will be lots of wasted, empty and degenerating housing stock.

The signs are not good for returning to days of plenty and money wise I do not see things getting any better. The challenge now is to find  ways that, people may deal with the unavoidable austerity measures that have to be taken.

So WAS IT A DREAM? ---this ‘something new about mortgages’       I think it was not. 

What is vital now  is a new time of transparency and truth to relieve people from the trauma and stress of the more austere times that are coming.

This may well encourage us to work for the recovery of the UK. But it can only  happen when we have a caring and fair concensus government without partisan interests.    

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DANGER! the almost real excitement of the internet.

I walk to Wetherspoons for ‘ breki’.    It is not bad, but not to my ‘new diet’ standards. Sometimes, however, we need a change and let someone else do the cooking – or put it in the microwave!

On box is Levenson enquiry.   I’m not too interested but note that perhaps 30 people are involved in running the court room and many more in preparing the rooms---

Also I note that Sky is apparently giving a whole channel to relaying this to ourselves the interested public. Why are we interested? – it may well be because of the virtual world we are slowly but surely being sucked into.   Here is a great danger – a sort of media infection of the mind, our minds.

I read somewhere that this virtual world that revolves around facebook and twitter and the like, is dangerous because instead of intelligent conversation we talk only with typing ‘yes’ or ‘no’. 

No longer do we have mates around because they are all busy typing away to their ‘101’ or many more 'friends' on the computer.

This makes the likes of Bill Gates and Facebook happy and gives the Stock Exchange something to report on. But is it really good for the likes of you and me?

Is real life passing us by in the almost real excitement of the internet.    

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Get rid of cheap drink? For many this is a Coping and Relief mechanism

David Cameron talks of getting rid of cheap drink and putting on a fixed higher price per unit. Basically a good idea and should reduce binge drinking?

Perhaps he and his advisers in this matter need to look further. Why do people drink to excess? Is there a reason behind this apparently stupid behaviour?

Undoubtedly this is, for many , a coping and relief mechanism.

Now if, as government says, ‘70% of UK  people are happy’, why are more and more finding drink necessary? Do they find their happiness in the resulting oblivion; and what pressures are they trying to escape from?

It seems likely then that most people are far from happy. They are hounded by the bad news in the media,  with it’s penchant for negative reporting.  Lately some government action against media lies has been taken but these should be stopped completely – it is not a word game and a truthful media is essential.  

The next stress is the distinct possibility of interest rates rising in an already hard financial situation and annoyance that the banks  go free of any penalties when it was their irresponsible lending that suddenly brought on this hard situation.

We are ‘ all in it together’ but problems seem much bigger for the average person than they are for politicians and bankers.

So David et al’s plan  to impose higher costs on alcohol are helpful;  but as they must well know, far from the complete answer.

To move to a more full solution a strong influence must be taken over the banks.  Reduced interest rates and mandatory controls must be applied with suitable rental purchase schemes offered to those in financial difficulties.  The chance to carry on paying for their houses will help the banks business also.  If, under this pressure, they leave the UK so be it. In fairness they must offer a helping hand help to clear up the situation they have certainly helped to create 

Next a pragmatic effort to provide more jobs must be made; There are opportunities to do this e.g. Open up bio fuels green industries,  reopen many of the closed coal mines and their  support industries. Fund extra work in the building industry, start  and help fund good apprenticeships. Start new car industries , even refurbishment projects. 

All of this is not cheap but it will reduce benefits payments, help to start the economy moving and give jobs and self respect to those who are often forced to sit at home.

And last in my list of solutions ,  but first in importance,  provide an inclusive disciplined education so those many who do not fit the present narrow template that educationalists accept as ‘good’, may move out of school prepared adequately for the difficult task  of obtaining employment. 

Until a more caring  ‘giving approach’, encompassing many of the above ideas is taken there is little doubt the drinks culture will continue with all it’s accompanying social stresses and unease.       

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