Welcome to my brand new blog, founded on 26th of the 9, 2006, a day that shall live in infamy and so on...

To set the tone, I live in the United Kingdom, so here are some wonderful facts about my wonderful country:

• Where 60,209,500 people live
• Where the average person is 38.8 years old. Which is higher than the life expectancy of Angola (36.6 years)
• Where we produce 330 million tonnes of waste annually
• Where more people live in London than in all of Scotland
• Where the richest 1% of people control 23% of the wealth and the poorest 50% of people control just 5%.
• Where 13.7% of children are obese and over 23 million adults are either overweight or obese
• Where 4 out of every 5 women aged 21-25 spend more than their earnings each month
• Where the average graduate will leave university with £13,252 of debt
• Where we spend roughly £22,550,847,060 on our military each year (the 5th largest military budget in the world)
• Where we spend over £69 billion (over triple our military budget) on the NHS which has a debt of £620 million (which is less than 0.9% of the NHS budget)
• Where the average adult has a personal debt of £26,313 (including mortgages) and an annual income of about £25,170!
• Where we employ universal suffrage but only 53% of people bother to vote in general elections
• Where 192,850 people voted for the BNP in the 2005 election
• Where there were 341 gun related deaths in 1994 and 163 deaths in 2003 a drop of over 100%
• Where over 590 people each year are killed by drink driving (over 3 times as many as are killed by guns)
• Where almost 12,000 people are homeless
• Where our teenage pregnancy rate, cash machine usage, online spending, credit card debts, asthma rates, water residues, childcare costs and rail fares are the highest in Europe. With our infant mortality 2nd highest.
• Where we have 21,400 Operational troops stationed abroad, with 8,300 in Northern Ireland and 300 on UN missions, the rest split between Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.