Bombs R Us

So it's been announced today that the government has sold it's remaining shares in the AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) based down the road at Aldermaston to an American company. Can't have got a particularly good price in the current financial climate can they? So despite having a so-called "independent nuclear weapons" policy, control of designing and building these things is now in foreign hands. I'm not going into whether the UK should have nuclear weapons but since we do, shouldn't we at least have control of the things from start to finish?

Our nuclear energy generation is now controlled effectively by the French government (see previous posts) but now our weapons are to be run by an American firm. Just look what a cock-up a private company made of our school exams this year...

Elsewhere, despite having a terrible cold and feeling really miserable Little Lad was pleased to meet perhaps the most important man in his life (at least for the next week or so). Yes you got it the man in red himself. Queue was awful at over an hour and a half and nothing to keep the kids spirits up (some dancing Elves would have been nice LOL). But he was happy by the end of the experience. Please excuse the camera phone image.

Reading travelled to second placed Birmingham today for an early kick off match and came away with the full three points. Final score Birmingham 1 - 3 Reading. Nice.