First blog for common sense! This blog is intended to be an outlet for the expression of views on topics that concern or irritate us such as bureaucratic bungling, continuing European crises and the crazy examples of political correctness that blight our daily lives. It is in no way intended to be a platform for any political party (How could it be? Those running our political parties seem, at times, to be totally lacking in common sense and seem far removed from those who voted them into power in the first place!). The blog is intended to expose some of the absurdities of modern life, the things that really irritate the ordinary man and woman in the street, people like you and me, people who work hard for a living, pay their taxes and abide by the law only to look on with astonishment at how the country is mismanaged and  misgoverned? Doesn’t anybody listen to us? We all complain at home, at the office and in pubs and clubs but most of us do nothing about it. Well, this is our chance and I intend to post a blog twice a week commencing July 6th, 2011.

PS. The picture is of Thomas Paine a free-thinking Englishman who emigrated to the American Colonies in 1774. Once there he published a pamphlet, popular on both sides of the Atlantic, called “Common Sense” in which he advocated  independence for the Colonies. This blog doesn’t necessarily agree with all that he said but the title of the pamphlet was a good one and the need for common sense in our daily lives is as strong now as it ever was.