Rabbit Thought of the Day

God it’s a morgue in here today, nobody seems around am thinking of eating my lunch and disappearing home. Very little is going on and I have more or less finished what need to done and must admit I am become a little bored. Maybe I should go home!

Following my report on yesterday’s chaos on the rail services into Liverpool Street, the full details have become apparent. The bridge at the centre of the incident was being worked on by Transport for London (TfL) and will form the extension on the East London Line into Shoreditch.

The 1300 ton bridge was being supported by hydraulic jacks when one of the jacks failed the bridge fell 8”, causing debris to fall on the main track below.

According to reports Network are less than impressed and are calling for heads to roll. They have imposed a ban on TfL and will not let work to restart until TfL give assurances that this will not happen again. TfL argue that Network Rail were fully informed about the work and agreed the program for the installation of the bridge. However, Network Rail and passenger groups want to know why work was being called on the bridge while trains were passing underneath.

A full investigation is underway, and a statement from the rail unions said that a tragedy was narrowly adverted.

Should we negotiate with a-Qaeda? The Government has rejected suggestions that it should; the Foreign Office stated that the Government would not talk to any group actively promoting it aims through violence.  

So if that’s the case were do go from here, over the years it has been proven that terrorism can be not beaten through policing alone, in the middle east Palestinian organisation are still attacking Israel, in Spain the Basque are still actively using a bombing campaign to gain independence for themselves.

However, in Northern Ireland it has been proven that if you talk to the so called terrorist organisations it can help in the peace process and eventually bring peace and stop the bombings and killings.

Violence begets violence, so let’s talk, if it helps then great if it doesn’t then what have we lost. It could help to save thousands of lives and money, we all live on this small planet, if we cannot resolve our problems through negotiation then what hope is there for man kind.  

So in my mind then the answer is a resounding yes, we should start talks with al-Qaeda

Friday the last day of a short week, am doing nothing  this weekend, I have nothing planned just  relax and put my feet up, definitely no driving I did enough last weekend.

Yesterday afternoon finished on damp note as the fire alarm went off at just before 4 O’clock, we all had to venture outside in the pouring rain. It was  really good fun, in fact I think we should do it every time it rains, character building we used to call in the army. Anyway when the all clear was given I jumped in the car and headed home. Bloody, right too I was soaked.