Welcome to News from the Street.

    A blog by Colin Nash

    Welcome to My Blog!

    Hello and welcome to my blog. I hope you will enjoy what I have to say.

    Like most people, I have strong views on a variety of issues and no views on others.

    As a self-employed trader, I certainly get around and hear all sorts of grumbles (mainly grumbles) from a lot of people of all sorts of backgrounds. The intention of this blog is to report back on what is being said by the average person on the street, although I will usually hear it in their lounges and kitchens, but you know what I mean.

    Unlike politicians who love to tell us what the public is thinking, or to be honest, what they like to tell us they’re thinking, I will be telling it as it is.

    Hope to see you soon:
    Joe Bloggs

    Let’s go for a better future!

    The jabber on the street has for years been about immigration but It has become significantly noticeable recently that talk is turning to emigration.

    A new lad joined the firm part time the other day. At seventeen years old he seems particularly smart with a sense of purpose and a plan to go with it. A great future asset to the country, unfortunately it isn’t our country it would seam

    Lunchtime and I had a chance to sit and have a fairly long chat with him.  His view of things was that the country was well and truly broken (not his chosen adjective) and probably past fixing. 

    I’m going to call him Greg, as despite that’s not his real name, he looks like a Greg!

    Greg told me that a large proportion of his classmates were thinking the same way and few saw their future lives being played out here.  

    I asked him about the issue that seems to be of greatest concern to most people I speak to, immigration?

    He just looked at me and said. ’With any luck I won’t be in this country for too long. They’re welcome to it’.

    Joe Bloggs

    The Electronic Thumb

    Sitting at the bus stop the other day, I couldn’t help but notice a young girl on the other side of the road performing a dance routine with an umbrella. It was very funny, and the lady sitting next to me started to laugh. She said it would have been nice if the mother had been able to see it, but unfortunately she missed the entire performance as she was glued to her phone.

    My bus arrived, and as I stepped on board I glanced around at the other passengers and estimated that at least half of them were totally absorbed in their little screens.

    I sat down opposite a young mother who had a youngster in a wheelchair facing her. It was a good forty-minute journey, and despite the child trying to communicate with their mum—only getting the odd cursory glance and mumble—they were totally ignored for the entire duration.

    I’ve been aware for some time that the mobile phone has taken precedence over other people, but that trip made me come to the sad realisation that it also includes young children.

    Just out of interest, the title of this article does not refer to thumbs texting, but to the use of mobiles becoming an insecurity crutch and replacing activities such as thumb sucking!

    Joe Bloggs