Today's The Day...

It's April 1st...April Fool's Day. Where pranks are played by people on each other and yet as each year passes these seem to be less frequent and fewer people are fooled.

Yet we've had some genuine stories in the news that could well have been April Fool jokes...if they were not so serious.

We've had and probably will over the next few days some demonstrations and protests where people from across the UK and the world have travelled into London to make their views known about politicians, bankers, business, climate change(just about anything you can think of)some are genuine in their beliefs and peaceful...some are out to cause trouble and confront the police, break windows, destroy property etc...and are using the present economic situation as an excuse.

I hate to judge but many of those present all seem to have a certain look about them, many seem to be of a certain age and you cannot help but stereotype who you see. Many have a woolly view of the world. One person speaking today simply wanted everyone to watch less television. Even if you could turn back the clock to simpler times it will take years.

I happened to be talking to a person in a call centre of a utility company earlier today(I won't say which)I don't want to get anyone into trouble but we started to talk of things away from the paying of bills and I just know that he was younger than me.

Somehow we talked of climate change and without prompting he said that he could see that the climate was changing, that the Earth goes through cycles but one day none of it will be here and whatever we do will have no effect. Like me, it was only a few years ago the scientific opinion was we were heading for an ice age. That by the time it all goes wrong none of us will be here and probably neither will our grand children.

Also, he has heard(and he's in the business to know)that they are looking into opening up the coalmines again and burning fossil fuel...now what will that do for the carbon footprint that they keep going on about.

The media is as much to blame for colouring the opinion of the public...if you say something often enough, it will be believed.

Also, today quite a number councils around the country dissolved and were taken over by a kind of central body. Many people were not consulted, it just happened and yet many of us felt things were ticking over reasonably well.

We were asked our opinions previously and in some cases allowed to vote and the result always came out against the idea and no politician could be under any doubt that we wanted things left as they were but they just keep coming back and altering things slightly until they get what they want. And they kept telling us that we are wrong. Time will tell. Other parts of the country will have to face this re-organisation of councils later in the year.