Sunday, June 30, 2013

Paying someone to tell you what to do...

There are fake charities who suckle from the taxpayer teat, they do some good work (in theory) but mostly appear to be sinecures for government supporters to lobby the government to do what the government is going to do, just to give it a semi sheen of 'popular support.'
However it's getting more and more difficult these days to justify supporting some government spending by giving it a charity endorsement. A lot of people look very closely now at the who, what and why's of the matter and claiming that you are independent of the government is no shield, not any more.
Telegraph.
A supposedly independent charity campaign to pressure the Government into spending more on foreign aid was secretly orchestrated by David Cameron, his ministers and aid organisations funded by the taxpayer, it has been alleged.
The IF campaign’s target was to force the Government to stick to its pledge of ring fencing overseas aid with a huge rally in Hyde Park and appeals from a host of celebrities including David Beckham and Mo Farah.
But The Sunday Telegraph can disclose that the project was hatched at meetings in Whitehall and at the Conservative Party conference. Mr Cameron’s controversial policy, which commits the UK to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national income on foreign aid despite swingeing cuts in other departments, has run into strong opposition from backbench Tory MPs and activists. They complain that the target is arbitrary and that aid money is susceptible to squandering by foreign governments. Plans for the IF campaign were first laid almost two years before its official launch, during a meeting in 2011 between the Prime Minister’s aide and five charities which between them receive more than £60million a year from the Department for International development (DfID).
As far as I'm concerned the government should not be using taxpayers money to fund any charity, that's up to individual donators as we should be the ones to decide what's a good cause or not. Nor does the government (and indeed some charities) have a good track record on doling out the money successfully to those who really need it. It mostly goes to corrupt officials in third world kleptocracies. Some of the money also goes to keeping the charity runners in the manner to which they have become accustomed. You'll see the pictures of the aid workers, you won't see pictures of the bosses eating a paid for by you lunch with other ne'er do well's.
Cameron wanted the 'aid budget' to be ring fenced because it was an attempt to show that the Tories are a caring party, another reason was to make him look good on the world stage. He succeeded with neither, which is consistent with his track record so far.
The aid budget is fast becoming a millstone around the governments neck with it's own members. Stunts like lobbying yourself to do what you want are not going to help here, at all.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

What I did on my holidays (By QM Twoflower) #6

The following day after an early night we got up at silly o' clock for one of the highlights of our cruise. At 4am we joined a convoy of coaches for a trip a cross the desert to visit Abu Simbel and the twin temples there. We could have gone by plane as some of our group did mocking us in fun for getting up so early, but we felt it wasn't worth the cost also you spent less time there.

Mamba (miles and miles of bugger all) Desert
One of the reasons for setting off so early is that only madmen go out in the mid day sun that far south, the song 'Mad dogs and Englishmen' is pretty much based on a truism. The reason we were in a convoy is that the Egyptians don't like to lose anyone and if a coach breaks down there are people to help. The other reason is that the southern desert of Nubia is an armed military camp in places and they don't care for spies or tourists acting like spies.
Still at 7am we arrived in Abu Simbel walked around what looked like a hill and came face to face...

Ye gods...
When most Egyptologists talk about Rameses, they are generally talking about Rameses II of the 13th century BC or The Great as he's colloquially known. All other Rameses tend to have their number tagged on the end, there's only one 'Rameses' as such.
Seems when the guy was out visiting the neighbours to check up on their gold and jewel production he halted by two small hills in the middle of the desert and decided that ooh, this looks like a nice place for a couple of temples, one for me and one for the Mrs.
It really is in the middle of nowhere, but that's never stopped Rameses...

36m tall statues Temple for Rameses, yes that's his Mrs at his foot.
So off they went and built them...

Temple of Nefertari

Other than being spectacular outside, they were also decorated inside with Rameses history and spiritual history of Rameses and Nefertari's links to the gods of Egypt too including his greates 'victory' at the battle of Kadesh against the Hittites.

The Hypostyle hall inside with the statues of Osiris.
Rameses killing his enemies
Kadesh itself despite Rameses claims was actually a draw and he was forced to negotiate a ceasefire a year later, but that naturally isn't mentioned.

Lord and Lady QM
The history of the temples doesn't end there though, when the Egyptians started building the second Aswan Dam and creating Lake Nasser they realised they had a bit of a problem on their hands in the way of 36 known temples about to go underwater. An international appeal was made and all the temples including Abu Simbel were moves above the waterline.

The original location of the temple about 63 metres out over the water
So in the case of Abu Simbel they created a concrete dome and built the entire couple of mountain tops including the temples over the top of them about 60 metres higher.



Then and now.
We left at 10 am as the temperature had now reached an impressive 40 degrees in the shade and set off back over the desert viewing a number of mirages en-route.

Yes, that's a mirage honest... there are no hills in the background
When we got back we discovered that the group who were to fly had, had their flight cancelled, apparently it was the first day of the trail of Hosni Mubarrak the ex president and islamists had made a nuisance of themselves.
They were gutted and with good reason, it was the absolute highlight of our trip to Egypt.
We drowned their sorrows in gin and beer, it seemed the least we could do...

Friday, June 28, 2013

The price of envirolunacy

Various blogs and sited have been warning for years that the lights are about to go out due to the governments lunatic energy policy which appears to have been designed by people who haven't a clue about power generation, coupled with inflated design outputs of 'alternative' energy schemes to fill the pockets of those in the political circles by higher tariffs and taxation.
Well now the hour approaches...
Express.
POWER cuts are set to become frequent again as nuclear and coal-fired power stations are closed to meet green targets, energy regulator Ofgem warned yesterday.
By 2015 there will be only two per cent spare electricity capacity and the risk of supplies being interrupted will be 10 times higher.
Millions of homes could be blacked out every four years. At present the risk is only one in 47 years. The last time Britain suffered prolonged power cuts was in the Seventies.
Mark Todd, founder of website energyhelpline.com, said: “We could be looking at a return to the days of regular blackouts. This could be the Government’s green policy spectacularly backfiring. It’s a very worrying situation – time to start stocking up on candles.”
Ian Fells, emeritus professor of energy conversion at Newcastle University, said: “We have been warning of this for four years. It takes just one power station to stop, which happens when things go wrong, and there won’t be enough to replace the lost energy.
There's some curious waffle about increasing storage capacity of bird mincers et al but this just means adding capacitors to smooth the energy flow, not storage capacity which it appears to be what the enviroloons mean.
Successive governments in the UK have betrayed the people of this land by not increasing normal generating capacity in favour of methods that don't work when the wind doesn't blow (or blows too hard) or the sun doesn't shine. All this has done is line the pockets of those funding or managing the useless green energy scam systems.
There's even a bit at the end where the claim is made that foreign gas prices will eventually increase, whilst conveniently forgetting that we are sitting on a bonanza of cheap coal and shale extracted gas. of course the enviroloon lobby doesn't want these used and they are joined by certain politicians and energy companies who want to keep the price of power high, though it looks like the wheels will come off that little scam very soon as the unknowing political morons in Westminster have as ever taken things too far...
There's a saying which goes that we get the government we deserve.
I can't believe we deserve this lot though.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Don't mention the M word

Well the paedo gang in Oxford finally got their just deserts, well as just as our namby pamby system gets. Though as ever only the names are a giveaway to their ethnic group and religion, the BBC simply not thinking it's worth mentioning that they are muslims of Pakistani origin.
No doubt the BBC doesn't think their religion or ethnic group has anything to do with the systematic abuse of young girls, as it hasn't in the past nor in any ongoing cases. Yet a quick check of the facts will tell you that 95% of the members of the grooming gangs are of Pakistani, Bangladeshi origin and the stated religion of all these men is muslim.
BBC.
Two pairs of brothers who were among seven men who abused girls from Oxford in a sadistic sex grooming ring have been jailed for life.
Mohammed Karrar, 38, and brother Bassam Karrar, 34, will serve a minimum of 20 years and 15 years respectively.
Brothers Akhtar Doghar, 32, and Anjum Doghar, 31, were each jailed for life with a minimum term of 17 years.
Their offences included child rape and trafficking between 2004 and 2012. A fifth man was also jailed for life.
Kamar Jamil, 27, who was found guilty of charges including rape and arranging child prostitution, was told he would serve at least 12 years.
I expect a raft of stories over the next week or so bigging up muslims and/or paedo trials of the Savile type to show that the people who live here are as bad as the accused.
Again and again those of us who have pointed out the growing problem in our midst have been reviled as racist, islamophobes, bigots, far right, fascists etc for simply pointing out the obvious. Organisations that have reacted to the problem have been vilified by the press, the broad left/lunatic left and politicians, which admittedly to their dismay have grown as the English at least refuse to believe the lies in our media and those of the liberal left any more.
What the press and the left believe to be extremists usually are anything but, mostly they are concerned citizens who have simply had enough of the inaction and occasional downright pandering to the islamic threat in our midst.
Yet the breaking point is fast approaching despite attempts to silence those opposed to islam. Every ban, every heavy handed action simply strengthens those opposed to this vile religion. Honesty would have been the best policy, as it is we got betrayal and deceit by those who are supposed to look out for our interests.
This will not end well for anyone...

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Freedom of speech?

Now just who would you say deserved a ban from entering the UK, a Saudi Imam who has anti-Semitic and anti-Shia muslim views plus a very different view of domestic violence in that he argues that a man "may use beatings to discipline his wife", but he says, "he must beat her lightly".
Or would you say that someone who uses verses from the quran to justify their opposition to islam should be banned instead as their presence in the UK would not be conducive to the public good?
Well you probably guessed it, if you oppose islam, you don't get in very easily if at all.
Yahoo News.
Two US anti-Muslim activists who hoped to join an EDL march in Woolwich have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has confirmed.
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who set up Stop Islamization of America and run the website Jihad Watch, have been forbidden from entering the country on the grounds that their presence would "not be conducive to the public good".
The far-right EDL is planning a march to mark Armed Forces Day on June 29, ending in Woolwich, south east London, where soldier Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in May.
Ms Geller and Mr Spencer were both set to attend.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We can confirm that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are subject to an exclusion decision.
"The Home Secretary will seek to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good.
"We condemn all those whose behaviours and views run counter to our shared values and will not stand for extremism in any form."
This is the same Home Office who had no problems allowing in a Hate Preacher Muhhamed al Arefe who was banned by Switzerland from entering their country because of his extremis views.
There's the usual MSM caveats about the EDL being a 'far right' organisation despite it being no such thing as it's a code word for 'racist' and appears these days that 'far right' simply means anything the left, MSM or politicians do not like.
Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz (muslim leftist Labour) welcomed the decision to keep two people who have never called for violence against anyone out of the UK. But has yet to comment on Muhhamed al Arefe in any shape or form.
Can't you just smell the whiff of hypocrisy in the air at the Home Office.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

There's an app for that

There are people out there who value Apple products, comparing them to the (supposedly) inferior mass market products out there whom they claim are mere pretenders to the quality product that Apple produce.
And there are those like me who believe it's over-priced, over-hyped and under-supported compared to the mass market products out there. Which is why you'll never see me with an iPhone, iPad or Mac computer. I prefer stuff that has 90% of the software market written for it and am prepared to deal with the odd glitch that comes my way.
Mail.
The iPhone 5 is the slowest smartphone among the best selling brands on the market, consumer watchdog tests claim.
Technical tests to measure processing and memory speed ranked the Apple handset bottom of seven of the most popular phones on the market in the UK.
It is slower than both the main Samsung models as well as rivals from Google, Sony, HTC and Blackberry for popular tasks such as playing games, editing pictures or using apps.
And the top ranked phone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is almost twice as fast, according to consumer champions Which? who carried out industry-recognised laboratory tests.
The findings will be a blow to those iPhone 5 fans who have wrongly assumed their trendy mobile, the best-selling in the world, is also the best.
My only experience of an iPhone was replacing the screen of my son-in-law to be's phone, which was rather simple, though the youtube video makes it appear to be far more torturous than it actually is. Essentially I couldn't believe how fragile the damned thing is compared to my old Samsung model which has survived 4 years in an engineering environment and still has the original bought screen protector on it despite being dropped, covered in grinding spatter and once dipped in an ultrasonic cleaning bath.
Still I doubt learning that the iPhone is a slow phone will deter the Apple fans out there, it's a bit of a status symbol after all. Same with the other products Apple produce at greatly inflated prices.
Just goes to show that the name is far more important than the price or performance...

Monday, June 24, 2013

Injustice

There are several crimes which cause me to get very angry, one of them is child beating. I'm not talking about a smack perhaps done in anger or frustration, but the systematic and callous brutality of some adults who beat their children to the point of serious injury or worse. To deal with this we have the hopelessly inept social services of local councils, who try their best but are often hamstrung by their own political beliefs where certain ethnic and religious groups are allowed to get away with widespread abuse because it's deemed 'racist' to pursue them.
There are also laws which prevent justice being done too...
Mail (usual caveats)
An illegal immigrant who was jailed for beating his children cannot be deported because it would breach his right to a family life.
Antonio Alfredo Bazomba, 49, was sentenced to two years in prison for kicking and punching his two sons and a daughter.
But an attempt by the Home Office to have him deported following his sentence has been rejected.
At an immigration tribunal, a judge ruled he could not be sent back to Angola because it would breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights which guarantees a right to family life.
Bazomba entered Britain illegally from Angola in 2001 to try and claim asylum.
His case was rejected but he was given 'exceptional leave to remain' for another three years. His bid to extend his stay was again rejected but he was also charged with three counts of child cruelty and one of actual bodily harm.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
Yes, that's right, an illegal immigrant can't be deported despite beating up his kids because 'he has the right to a family life.'
One wonders just what rights his kids have to be put in a position where despite their fathers abuse they are the cause of him staying here, in prison, but coming out in less than two years time and having the 'right' to see them...
Figures released to Parliament show that 1,230 offenders have overturned their deportation since 2008, including three child rapists, three murderers, 13 rapists and a terrorist. More than 85 per cent of them claimed deportation would breach their right to a family life.
And yet there are some out there who believe that the Human Rights Act is somehow a good thing? Yes Labour and Lib Dem politicians we're looking at you...
Thing is though, other countries don't appear to have a problem ridding themselves of their monsters, just the UK and our weird judicial system which seems to be used by lawyers to cock a snook at the government by some very literal interpretation of the law.
And yet, despite claims that the current government were going to do something about it. They don't, they just waste money trying to get around it.
I sometimes wonder just when the madness will end.
But that's only on a good day...

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Wonder how they'll blame this on the EDL?

Since the horrendous butchery of Lee Rigby there have been several attempts by media and politicians to try and shift the blame or ameliorate the circumstances around it, from the risible 'islam is a religion of peace' or 'this isn't the real islam' to the EDL (and other groups) are just as big a bunch of extremists and should be treated in the same way as the people butchering, bombing, abusing, calling for violence, raping our kids etc. Despite the facts that mostly the EDL has been on the receiving end of any such abuse and violence, still why let such a minor item like facts get in the way of the narrative. After all, it's much easier to blame the EDL for torching a mosque and print a very minor retraction weeks if not months later which no-one sees or remembers. Particularly as the most recent example had someone spray EDL next to it (It's looking more like an insurance job now, but no one is interested) Or casting aspersions that the EDL are suspected for burning down an islamic school (4 teens arrested, the locals however know that the teens are pupils of the school, not white English even though the MSM will not announce this)
So when this is announced...
Sky News.
Homes near to a mosque in Walsall are being evacuated following the discovery of a suspicious item, West Midlands Police say.
Army bomb disposal experts are currently at the scene and have this morning ordered the evacuation of around 39 homes in the immediate vicinity of the mosque.
The measure is precautionary while a further examination of the item is undertaken.
Police were called to the Rutter Street address at around 10.45pm last night following the discovery in the grounds of the building.
The item was then brought inside the building by a member of the public, police said.
The area has been cordoned off.
Now it's unlikely to be anything other than a hoax, but you can bet that out there the narrative is being prepared to somehow twist this into blaming it on those the state wishes to call extremists. Despite the fact that those 'extremists' have no history of bombing, burning or violence save only if being attacked themselves.
You can pretty much bet that if this is an improvised explosive device (IED) that the first real headlines will read 'Are far right extremists bombing mosques?' Despite the fact that the EDL and most of the groups they wish to label 'far right' are no such thing, or indeed far anything other than exasperated at the state and its minions pandering to an alien fascistic totalitarian violent control system masquerading as a religion.
The truth is getting out there though, it's even starting to percolate down into sections of the MSM and a few politicians. But don't hold your breath on anything changing yet. Expect a few more 'outrages' first before the state admits openly that there is a problem, even then I wouldn't expect them to admit said problem was caused by and exacerbated by the state.

Saturday, June 22, 2013

What I did on my holidays (By QM Twoflower) #5


From Kom Ombo we sailed up the Nile to the city of Aswan, again viewing the stark contrast of the river valley to the surrounding eastern and western deserts.


In Aswan we made several trips, the first being to the unfinished obelisk, which as it's name suggests is still in the ground. Obelisks are made of rose or grey granite and vary from ten to thirty six metres high, were cut out of the rock and barged down the Nile during its inundation.

All that work then you discover it's got a big split in it.
It was discontinued as a long split was found up the side of it and so was given up as a bad job when they discovered that they couldn't even make a smaller one either.
After that we went to see the Aswan Damns, There are two of them, one built by the British in 1912 and another by Pressident Nasser with the help of the Russians. Frankly the British dam looks beautiful and the Russian one look like a big concrete dam.

British Dam
It was of course the building of the dams which stopped the Nile inundation and made the river below the first cataract where the dams were built navigable all year round.


Top of the Aswan dam looking away from Lake Nasser
A moved temple, 36 were moved during the creation of the lake

Lake Nasser is very impressive though a source of tension for Egypt and its neighbours as water will probably be the next major focal point for military tensions.
We then visited the Island of Philae.


Philae is a temple on an island between the British and Russian dams, it's not on its original island having been moved by various archeological teams to its new position. Again it's of Greco Roman design incorporating the old Egyptian styles, it was later occupied as a Christian church.



Philae itself is technically not in Egypt but in the land of Nubia as Egypt proper ended in Aswan or Elephantine as the Greeks and Romans called it. However as Egypt controlled Nubia for much of its history, the temple building reflects their dominance.


Afterwards we visited the Papyrus museum in Aswan and were given examples as to how it was made as well as buying some for the home for display purposes, even getting a twin cartouche with our names in it.


After that we made our way back to the boat and lunch.

We'd noted this hill when we arrived, apparently it's the tomb hill of the local dignitaries of ancient Egypt. At night it's all lit up and looks like a pavlova.

The pictures on show don't really do justice to what we saw and learned. I'd recommend if you get the chance you do it yourself.
Our adventures continue next week.

Friday, June 21, 2013

It's funny how it's only outrage when it's the so called right...

 The morally bankrupt left in the UK never fail to surprise me when their interests and the interests of their islamic pets merge. Usually it's being the first out of the starting blocks to try and divert attention away from islamists being islamists. Next it's trying to blame organisations like the EDL for pointing out islamists being islamists.
Take Keith vaz, a nasty little man who believes that somehow the EDL inviting Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller to address one of their marches is worth trying to get them banned from the country...
Express.
THE English Defence League has invited two far-right, anti-Islam activists from America to a party rally in Woolwich, where Drummer Lee Rigby was brutally murdered.
Note they fail to add that he was killed by islamists...
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, two high-profile bloggers who founded the 'Stop The Islamization of America' campaign, were invited to speak at the march by the EDL.
The pair are infamously known for their anti-Islam subway posters in New York which read, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
Fears have now been raised over the two "incendiary" right-wing American speakers coming to the UK.
Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz has written to the Home Secretary calling for Geller and Spencer to be banned from entering the country.
I wonder why Keith Vaz has never campaigned to keep Islamist hate preachers and rabble-rousers out of the UK? Take Saudi Preacher Mohammad Al-Arefe as an example a pathetic excuse for a man who has been invited to the UK despite his known statements along these lines...
“Devotion to jihad for the sake of Allah, and the desire to shed blood, to smash skulls, and to sever limbs for the sake of Allah and in defence of His religion, is, undoubtedly, an honor for the believer,” the Muslim cleric says. “Allah said that if a man fights the infidels, the infidels will be unable to prepare to fight [the Muslims].”
Yet Mr Vaz and his party have not written to the Home Secretary asking for this guy to be banned whereas his stance even alarms the nutjobs at hate not hope.
As ever it's a case of one rule for muslims and leftoids and another for the indigenous people of the UK. The sooner these traitors are dealt with the better.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Meddling

There are poll's around that tell politicians pretty much what the people of the UK feel about various issues. I suspect the one in which their views about politicians makes for uncomfortable reading and is probably ignored. The one about getting, or rather not getting involved in Syria seems to be getting ignored by some politicians too, but not all.
Express.
TONY BLAIR called last night for Western intervention in the civil war in Syria, warning that countries that stay out could end up paying “a higher price”.
The former Prime Minister said David Cameron and other Western leaders face “ugly choices” over how to deal with the bloodshed in Syria and the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.
Mr Blair’s remarks ignited renewed fury over the legacy of his foreign policy.
Senior Tory MP John Baron, who has been arguing against arming Syrian rebels, said: “Old habits die hard. It beggars belief that some maintain that pouring more weapons into this civil war will not increase the violence and the suffering.
“It would be nigh on impossible to stop weaponry falling into the hands of extremists on the rebel side.”
Most people in this country are against involving ourselves at all in any adventures in islamic countries, for any reason. A lot would be happy to send our own jihadis in to help, though on the condition they don't return. If muslims want to kill each other, then that's pretty much fine by most people who live here, save for the likes of Tony Blair. Sure we know that Syria is under the influence of Iran, but fighting them at ground level is not the answer, nor is arming the rebels as they have a pretty high concentration of extremists amongst them and sooner rather than later they'll use the weapons on us.
Frankly if we're arming anyone it should be those fighting muslims...
You know it makes sense.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Ban the victims! Ban, ban ban!

Now what would you say if you had legally according to your rights organised a march. That you had consulted with the local police and that there were no problems with the route you'd chosen. However there is are a few organisations that oppose you, well funded by union subscriptions and a notable disregard of the law save only when it's used upon themselves. say one of these groups attacks your march and ten of its supporters are arrested compared to none of your own.
What would you expect the reaction of an ex-police authority chief?
Yep, probably the one that the protest group got...
Yorkshire Post.
A FORMER police authority chairman has accused the English Defence League (EDL) of “fascist street thuggery” after a march in Hull that led to 10 arrests.
Trouble flared when about 75 people took part a march along Spring Bank on June 8, although those arrested were protesting against the event.
Police said the men were held for public order-related offences when a “small disturbance” happened just after 1.15pm. Eight were released without charge, while a man aged 19 received a police caution for possession of a class B drug, and a 23-year-old was charged with possession of an offensive weapon in public.
Hull councillor Colin Inglis has now called on police to ban any further marches.
In a motion going before a meeting of the authority tomorrow, Coun Inglis, a former chairman of Humberside Police Authority, wrote: “Council notes the so-called ‘English Defence League’ march along Spring Bank.
“It further notes the deliberately provocative nature of this event with participants engaging in crude and racist behaviour clearly intended to elicit a response from local residents in a typical display of fascist street thuggery.
Astonishing is it not? The people behaving legally are the ones being accused of being fascists, the police arrested no one in the EDL tribute march (yes, that's correct it wasn't even a demo) yet they are the ones being accused of fascist thuggery.
If there's one organisation in the UK who behave like fascists, it's Unite Against Fascism, the organisation is union funded and has a number of convicted felons operating in a manner similar to the Nazi Brownshirts of infamous memory.
Indeed it was Winston Churchill who said 'The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists' The guy seems to have major powers of prophesy.
It's notable that Councillor Inglis has very little support in the few comments in the article so far. Seems the people on the ground know just who the real thugs operating out there are not the EDL.
Just a shame that Councillor Inglis can't bring himself to acknowledge this...

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Ah that word 'could' again

Politicians are inordinately fond of the word 'could' along with 'might' as they often use it to justify their political position as if it were the definite article, rather than a qualifier.
One of the reasons they do this of course is just in case at a later date someone comers along after the position they held has changed and called them a liar.
Telegraph.
Britain could lose out from trade deal if we pull out of EU, says David Cameron
Britain “would not directly benefit” from a multi-billion pound European Union trade deal with the United States if it pulled out of Europe, David Cameron has said.
Mr Cameron has pledged to give Britons a vote on whether to remain part of the EU if he is Prime Minister after the 2015 general election.
The Prime Minster was questioned about new EU trade talks with the US that could be worth £11 billion to Britain, the equivalent of £384 for every household, bringing two million new jobs and “lower prices in the shops. If Britain weren’t in the EU you would not directly benefit from an EU/US trade deal because we would not be in the EU. 
 Actually we won't lose out on any trade deal, both the EU and the USA will still wish to trade with us and we won't have any problem making our own deals to the benefit of us both.
Cameron I suspect knows this, but has to pander to the EUphiles in the Conservative party who are getting very edgy about the way public sentiment is going and the fact that their scare stories no longer appear to be working.
His other problem is that most people know he agrees with such sentiments but risks a leadership challenge if he openly comes out and says such a thing. A leadership challenge I suspect both he and the EUphiles know he cannot win.
So, he has to keep neutral on the scare stories and try to keep the EUskeptics on board as well, a balancing act he's supremely unsuited too.
Still, I expect him to make the effort qualifiers and all, the taste for power is strong in him...

Monday, June 17, 2013

Greed and no shame

Those whom believe they have a mandate from the public due to winning a sort of popularity competition are often enough highly profligate with public taxation, particularly on themselves and various groups and pets they favour.
It seems as if as soon as they dip their fingers into the public purse they start being profligate by offering gifts and favours to anyone they like.
Express.
TOWN hall chiefs will be accused tonight of wasting millions on perks, including company cars, golf lessons, pedicures and luxury foreign trips.
One council even had its own ambassador to foster relations with its twin town in France.
Local authorities also spend millions gagging their own staff to prevent them telling all, an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches programme claims.
The documentary will show how over five years Lord Hanningfield, disgraced former Tory leader of Essex County Council, spent nearly £300,000 on hospitality and travel with his council purchase card.
It included £136,000 on trips to 24 countries, including £7,700 on a three-day seminar in the Bahamas and £2,000 to stay at a five-star hotel in India.
But the peer, jailed in 2011 for falsely claiming £28,000 in parliamentary expenses, defended his spending. He said he entertained people who helped Essex save money, explaining: “It’s worth spending £100 to save a million, isn’t it?”
Of his stay in India, he added: “If you’re going to stay there, you’ve got to stay somewhere you’re not going to be ill.”
The How Councils Waste Your Money programme is based on hundreds of Freedom of Information requests.
The documentary comes just days after the TaxPayers’ Alliance revealed that central and local government wasted more than £120billion of taxpayers’ money in just one year – or £4,500 for every household.
A classic case of not seeing the taxpayers money being in any shape or form 'real' but rather an extension of the magic money tree formula that seems to so enamour the public services that infest the corridors of power in this country.
What people want, particularly people who actually pay into the system is the basics to work. Bins to be emptied, street lights to work, police to be dealing with crime (actual crime not political correctness crimes) Stuff like that, the basics in other words.
What we don't want are payments to special interest groups, payments for translation services, gifts, perks, junkets, freebies, or public funds used for political purposes.
The only way to deal with this is each year form in which the public can tick just which services they are going to fund via their council tax. Certain things like the police etc can be mandatory, but any special interest groups are fair game for the taxpayer.
It's called referism and it's probably the only way we'll ever get these twats back under control.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Yes, but no one's listening

Well, no one's listening anywhere where they'll do something about it.
A recent report out shows that when you take subsidies into account every job in the bird mincer industry costs something like £100,000 to maintain. That's just the subsidies mind you, it doesn't take into account the necessity of keeping a a standby system permanently on standby for when the wind doesn't blow or often enough blows too hard. A classic case of the wrong sort of wind surely?
Telegraph.
A new analysis of government and industry figures shows that wind turbine owners received £1.2billion in the form of a consumer subsidy, paid by a supplement on electricity bills last year. They employed 12,000 people, to produce an effective £100,000 subsidy on each job. The disclosure is potentially embarrassing for the wind industry, which claims it is an economically dynamic sector that creates jobs. It was described by critics as proof the sector was not economically viable, with one calling it evidence of “soft jobs” that depended on the taxpayer. The subsidy was disclosed in a new analysis of official figures, which showed that: • The level of support from subsidies in some cases is so high that jobs are effectively supported to the extent of £1.3million each; • In Scotland, which has 203 onshore wind farms — more than anywhere else in the UK — just 2,235 people are directly employed to work on them despite an annual subsidy of £344million. That works out at £154,000 per job;
• Even if the maximum number of jobs that have been forecast are created, by 2020 the effective subsidy on them would be £80,000 a year.
As the 'climate levy' already adds at least £47  to the average households cost of living it does seem that the justifications used that the development of such power sources would eventually create jobs (it doesn't, not so far) and produce more efficient means of generating by wind power (it hasn't) which will bring the cost down (don't make me laugh) isn't worth the paper it was written on.
Those of us who believe that the idea of climate change was taken as a justification to raise taxes to the point where they became punitive and lined the pockets of those promoting the energy sources. Which in essence is why they have tried (and succeeded) in stifling all competition to their expensive bird minces in the form of shale gas extraction, because the main reason as far as I can tell is to fleece the UK taxpayer rather than provide them with a cheap energy supply that's under our control and actually works when the wind doesn't blow.
Even the recent announce of new nuclear plants isn't really a help as they take too long to build, are expensive to maintain even if they are 'carbon friendly' whatever that means.
We are sitting upon an absolute mass of coal and trillions of litres of shale gas enough to keep us happy for over 300 years, yet the environmental lobby is being used to block such schemes to line the pockets of a few.
Yes, we know this, but unfortunately we are not in a position yet, to do anything about it save club them over the head with articles like this.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

What I did on my holidays (By QM Twoflower) #4

When we'd finished at Edfu we travelled again upriver to Kom Ombo to see the temple there. The river trip itself was fairly spectacular, with numerous villages and farms to be seen on the banks of the Nile including also other river traffic.

Felucca
Most common were the Nile felucca boats which are used for a variety of purposes including transport, fishing and cargo.

The red and the green



Everywhere you looked there was a fringe of green and behind it, hills of red sand and rock, sometimes with the occasional tomb cut into them.
Kom Ombo has an impressive temple where they used to keep and breed the sacred Nile crocodiles.

Kom Ombo temple
Like Edfu it's of more recent build than the Luxor temples having been extensively modified and rebuilt by the later Greeks and Romans who adopted the local gods as their own. What is unusual about it is that it's a double built temple its 'double' design means that there are courts, halls, sanctuaries and rooms duplicated for two sets of gods. The Southern entrance was dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek hence the crocodiles in the temple well. The northern part of the temple was dedicated to the falcon god Haroeris, also known as Horus the Elder.

Evening descends
 As it was evening the sun went down on us whilst we were viewing the site which produced some spectacular lighting effects.

The crocodile breeding well
We also saw the well where the sacred crocodiles were bred, not a job for the faint of heart I suspect. Though there are no crocodiles on the lower Nile below the Aswan dam any more.
What Kom Ombo does have is a crocodile museum where they have several mummified crocodiles. The Egyptians were apparently hot on mummifying anything that dropped dead.

Mummified crocodiles

Sobek
Kom Ombo was a fascinating place to visit although our time was a bit limited after viewing Edfu the same day. Still we retired to the boat knowing we'd have another trip up the Nile the following day to Aswan. So it was an evening of beer and gin and tonics for our hardy if luxuriously looked after fellow travellers.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Will no one rid us of this turbulent salafist?

Abu Qatada, who came here under a false passport and who claimed asylum due to torture from Jordan (unproven) and who supported Al Qaeda and the terrorist acts they carried out in the name of Islam. Theis is the same  Qatada who issued a fatwa in 1995 justifying the killing of Muslims who renounce their faith, and of their families.In 1999 he advocated the killing of Jews and praised attacks on Americans. A real charmer and advert for the religion of peace intolerance as you can see.
Mail.
The British taxpayer has spent £1.7million in eight years on the battle to kick out Abu Qatada, it emerged today.
More than a third of the bill is to cover the legal aid claims made by the radical cleric against attempts to deport him to Jordan.Critics slammed the huge sum which could pay for 90 police officers for a year.
This is one of the unintended (possibly) consequences of signing up to the Human Rights Act whereby we can't simply stick the rancid old goat on a plane and deport him. Apparently there are insufficient safeguards as to Jordan not torturing him. Most of us don't give a damn if they do, he's their problem not ours.
So, instead because of the evil intent of the previous Labour government to remove UK justice from the UK people and hand it over to foreign judges we have spent £1.7 million of legal aid on a guy who is not a citizen of this country and whom nobody but a few islamists and lawyers are happy to see around, though the lawyers would drop him in a second if he wasn't such a cash cow for them.
Frankly Qatada isn't worth a penny of our cash and should have been thrown out long ago. That he hasn't yet is entirely the fault of the previous Labour government.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Fault

Education is always a hot topic in this country where everyone but the teaching unions, associated lefties and the previous Labour government believe that there has been systematic dumbing down stretching over generations.
It's become so bad even Ofsted has noticed...
BBC.
Thousands of bright children are being "systematically failed" by England's non-selective secondaries, education inspectors warn.
A culture of low expectations means England's able pupils are failing to gain top GCSE grades, Ofsted says.
Two-thirds of pupils, some 65,000, who achieved Level 5 in primary school maths and English tests failed to get A* or an A in both subjects at GCSE.
Head teachers questioned the statistical basis of Ofsted's claims.
Association of School and College Leaders general secretary Brian Lightman said: "I have real concerns about Ofsted's evidence base for drawing these conclusions.
"Level 5 is a wide band that includes a range of ability levels, not just the brightest students. The government has said that for children who come into secondary school with a Level 5, expected progress means a B at GCSE.
"Of course we want those children to achieve even higher, but for Ofsted to say that they are underachieving if they don't get an A or A* is unfair to those students and their teachers."
Of course it's never the fault of the teachers, it's always the fault of those compiling the reports, of those employers who fiendishly expect kids applying for jobs to be able to read and write. It's undoubtedly the fault of those snobby universities who have remedial classes to bring students up to an acceptable standard to even begin a university course.
In short the only people who don't believe there is a fault are those with a vested interest in not getting the blame.
The problem with the state school system is unfortunately one of the lowest common denominator, where everyone is treat the same within a broad set of bands. There's no pressure or emphasis for a pupil to push themselves as frankly it wouldn't really make a damn to the school if they did, they'd still have to share the same classroom as Chavvy McChav and his mates who take up nearly 99% of the teachers time as the teacher struggles to cope with their antics. That's assuming the teacher actually gives a damn and is good at their job in the first place.
The education minister has started new style exams to be introduced soon, perhaps he's have been better served by getting people into teaching who can and will get the best out of pupils whilst coming up with a system of ridding Chavvy McChav and his mates into some activity which exhausts and keeps them occupied without involving highly qualified staff.
I somehow doubt that education reform will get very far, there are too many vested interests in making sure it fails whilst shifting the blame.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Bansturbation

No, not about the attempt by politicians and the higher ranks of the armed forces to try and prevent its members from being part of the EDL. Though if it were me I'd be more worried about serving members who are muslims...
No, this is about the lunacy of Alcohol Concern a fake charity funded by the taxpayer via the government to try and stop advertising of alcohol at sporting venues and cinema's showing films which aren't 18 rated.
Sky News.
A charity has called for a complete ban on alcohol advertising at music and sports events.
Alcohol Concern wants the action to protect children and young people from what it describes as "excessive" exposure.
The drinks industry disagrees however, and says the advertising of alcohol is already heavily regulated.
Alcohol Concern claims the current regulatory system is failing young people, citing high levels of alcohol brand recognition and "numerous" examples of inappropriate advertising.
It is recommending new rules that restrict adverts to referring only to the characteristics of the product, such as strength, origin, composition and means of production.
The charity wants a ban on alcohol advertising in the trailers of films shown in cinemas with less than an 18 certificate.
For the cheeldren? Tick.
For our own good? Tick
Because they know best? Tick.
Because they are meddlesome prodnoses given power way beyond sanity? Tick.

Yep, they've managed to tick all the right boxes to make themselves look important and tell the world that their reality is in a totally different place to the rest of us.
Why won't these wankers just leave us alone?
Oops yes, gave the answer myself in the second paragraph, they have to justify their existence by hectoring us because the government uses our taxes to pay them to do so...
This is one of the results of voting for a mainstream party, they use our taxation in ways to suit themselves, not anyone else so indulge in social engineering to make us pliable to their wishes.
That's why I recommend that if you do vote, you don't vote for the Lib/Lab/Con it only encourages the bastards to set up organisations like this.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Double standards

Isn't it interesting how the people who are supposed to uphold the law in our country react when the law is broken by one group or another...
BBC.
A man accused of making offensive comments on a social media website following the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby has had his case dropped.
Mohammed Mazar, 19, of Balmoral Drive, Woking, Surrey, was charged with improper use of the public electronic communications network.
He was due to appear before Guildford magistrates on Tuesday but a prosecutor said his case had been "discontinued".
Police charged several people over comments on websites after the death.
Incidents were reported to police across England with arrests also taking place in Lincoln, Bristol and Hastings.
On Friday, a 23-year-old woman from Hampshire who posted an offensive message on Facebook was sentenced to eight weeks imprisonment, suspended for eight months.
One would almost think that being a muslim makes one a special case under the law, after all, ask Rhea Paige about it...
Considering the complete over-reaction by law enforcement over peoples reactions to the death of Lee Rigby where an 85 year old woman was arrested for swearing outside a mosque, where other people like the woman mentioned were charged over facebook comments you'd think at least there would be an attempt at some form of balance?
Actually, I suspect no-one who reads this will be surprised. Time and time again people from minority groups have gotten away with far lighter sentencing, or charges dropped which if the roles had been reversed would have been dealt with severely by the courts.
True equality means that everyone is treated the same, we do not have any form of equality in our country anymore.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
George Orwell, Animal Farm.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Not quite justice... but close

Well the Birmingham barbarians were sentenced today for the crime of trying to set off bombs in a public area for the crime of insulting their paedophile prophet and associated sky fairy. I've no doubt appeals are underway, though from my point of view the sentences were far too lenient and had the roles been reversed I dare say anyone trying to blow up muslims would have gotten a lot more in the way of a realistic sentence.
BBC.
Six men from the West Midlands have been jailed for up to 19-and-a-half years each for planning to bomb an English Defence League rally.
Omar Khan, Jewel Uddin, Mohammed Hasseen, Mohammed Saud, Zohaib Ahmed and Anzal Hussain had all admitted terrorism offences in April.
Five of them had taken a bomb, knives and sawn-off shotguns to last June's rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
But the plotters arrived two hours after the EDL event had ended.
The men, who all lived in or near Birmingham, were caught by chance after a car being used by two of them, and carrying weapons, was stopped by police on the M1 after the rally and found to have no insurance.
In other words it was only sheer bloody luck that an atrocity didn't take place and innocent members of the public killed. Not that some on the side of the barbarians see the EDL as innocent, however as the EDL hasn't blown up anything, nor even it seems burned anything down, the supporters of the religion of peace barbarism are desperately looking for some way to point the finger at anyone other than islam.
So I guess today's trial will not have been good news along with the portended death of the Tell Mama make it up as you go along junket.
It does seem that anything that the left get their hands on turns to dross, though I suspect this is more of it being impossible to actually get anything right with socialism.
Still, it will no doubt be a rare old time for islamic good news stories and a lot of finger pointing at the activities of the EDL as well as the usual 'this isn't the real islam' cant that passes for public consumption these days, though the general public don't appear to believe this for one moment despite the best efforts of the MSM.
There is no place in a civilised society for a religion that can aid and abet such barbarism. All the other major world religions have grown, changed and adapted, save one. That is the one drowning the world in a sea of blood wherever its followers clash with civilisation.
There should be no place for this vile religion in the UK.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Goodbye and good riddance

Islamophobia as various politicians and the associated MSM and liberal left like to call attacks against muslims (whether there's a racist/religious angle or not has gotten a bit of bad press recently. The so called Tell Mama group who announced a massive increase in anti-muslim attacks was forced to backpeddle furiously when examination of their data proved that most of the attacks were simply twitter comments and indeed some came from sources outside the country. However it's gotten worse for Tell Mama as their government funding is now to be stopped...
Telegraph.
A controversial project claiming to measure anti-Muslim attacks will not have its government grant renewed after police and civil servants raised concerns about its methods. The project, called Tell Mama, claimed that there had been a “sustained wave of attacks and intimidation” against British Muslims after the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, with 193 “Islamophobic incidents” reported to it, rising to 212 by last weekend. The group’s founder, Fiyaz Mughal, said he saw “no end to this cycle of violence”, describing it as “unprecedented”. The claims were unquestioningly repeated in the media. Tell Mama and Mr Mughal did not mention, however, that 57 per cent of the 212 reports referred to activity that took place only online, mainly offensive postings on Twitter and Facebook, or that a further 16 per cent of the 212 reports had not been verified. Not all the online abuse even originated in Britain. Contrary to the group’s claim of a “cycle of violence” and a “sustained wave of attacks”, only 17 of the 212 incidents, 8 per cent, involved the physical targeting of people and there were no attacks on anyone serious enough to require medical treatment.
Once again proving that there are lies, damned lies and statistics islamist propaganda.
The left loved Tell Mama it confirmed all that they claimed about the so called 'far right' and their persecution of their muslim pets islamic brothers and sisters. The problem was of course all the violence and intimidation was coming from their side so they desperately needed propaganda from Tell Mama to counter the actual facts of what was happening in reality.
Of course when you produce facts and figures, you have to detail the sources and unfortunately for Tell Mama and its supporters, producing data that appeared to have no basis in reality or was twisted beyond its natural reality appears to have come round and bit them in the bum.
It's not the only reason that Tell Mama are in trouble of course, it's founder appears to be a man of very little tolerance other than where the money was coming from as it appeared rather than reporting incidents, Tell mama were being pro-active in trying to shut down debate on any subject to do with islam or oddly enough Israel. Though as the left and muslims have a major problem with israel, perhaps not so surprising...
Tell Mama has also been using its budget to threaten members of the public with libel actions for criticising it on Twitter.
In mid-May, before Woolwich, one Jewish activist, Ambrosine Chetrit, received a threatening letter from solicitors after she tweeted that “Tell Mama are sitting on Twitter on the EDL hashtag, threatening anyone and everyone whose comments they do not like about Islam”.
Tell Mama also objected to a tweet in which Ms Chetrit said it was “trying to close down pro-Israel [Twitter] accounts daily”.
How terribly 'islamic' of him.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

What I did on my holidays (By QM Twoflower) #3

It was on the evening of our second full day that the boat set off from Luxor to Edfu via the Esna locks, dusk was just setting on the Nile regions as we headed upriver so the chances of photographs were non-existent, though we got some good ones on the way back. What was amazing was the stark contrast of the fertile Nile valley and the surrounding desert on both sides as we cruised further south just sitting on deck supping a beer or a gin and tonic.
It was midnight when we reached the Esna locks, a sort of flood protection cum river level maintenance on the upper Nile, a bit like the locks on a canal. What did surprise the few of us that were on deck was that there were Egyptians at the locks trying to sell us stuff and they were throwing their wares up on the ship for us to have a look. There were no buyers, but I did admire their tenacity in at least trying to make a sale.
The following morning we went to have a look at the temple at Edfu and we went by horse and cart. We were also warned by our guide Mohammed that Edfu's sellers were extremely aggressive and also not to give anything unless we wanted to, to the cart driver as they'd all been paid in advance.
Edfu itself has not a lot going for it, it's only source of income is tourism and that was hit very hard by the 2011 revolution, so the vendors and the locals are facing an economic crisis. It's one of the few places where we saw real poverty open on display for all to see and one of the few places where the Egyptian 'tourist police' were nowhere to be seen.

Lord and Lady QM
The temple itself is incredibly well preserved and like all the temples of the upper Nile is of Greco-Roman influence on the local religion. Usually you can tell this by the designs on the top of the pillars which combine the flowers of the upper and lower Nile, rather than just one or the other. So the columns were decorated with the lotus (upper) and papyrus (lower)

The entrance to Edfu temple
Top of the columns, both lotus and papyrus
The statue at the entrance is one of the manifestations of the god Horus to whom the temple was in part dedicated.
The sanctuary
Inside the temple following a straight route east from the main entrance lies the sanctuary which has a (copy) of the sacred barge of Horus in which the golden statue of the god was kept and brought out on display every so often.
Whilst Lady QM and I had no problems with our driver and gave him an additional tip, two of the ladies in our party were pestered by their driver with lewd suggestions and he even stopped in the middle of Edfu and refused to move if they did not pay up some baksheesh, they got moving eventually when promising to pay him back at the boat. Whilst it didn't ruin the trip for them, it did spoil the day somewhat and we all retired to the bar as by then it was drinks o clock, though we went easy on them as we were heading upriver for an evenings visit to the temple at Kom Ombo.

towel art
One thing we did discover that the ancillary staff who cleaned the rooms liked to surprise us with was towel art. It started simple with flat peacock patterns to on day 3 this appeared. Yes, it's an elephant.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Just what planet are you on?

There's this trial going on with a bunch of islamist yahoo's who were arrested travelling down to bomb an EDL demo. So far, so good, the police caught them by accident as their car was uninsured, arrested and charged them. The EDL themselves have taken an interest in the trial proceedings, but so far it's been relatively peaceful as the UAF have mostly gone to ground.
However the words of the prosecuting QC have me scratching my head a little.
Mail.
Six British jihadists plotted to blow up an English Defence League rally to spark a ‘tit-for-tat spiral of violence and terror’, a court heard yesterday.
The extremists wanted to ‘execute a terrible vengeance’ on the far-Right group for its ‘blasphemous words and actions’ against Islam.
The six planned to attack the EDL with a nail bomb, shotguns, samurai swords and knives.
Yup, sounds pretty much like the islamists we've come to know and loathe.
Prosecutor Bobbie Cheema QC said the jihadists ‘intended to cause serious injury and anticipated that some may have died’.
‘It takes but a little contemplation to realise that had the retaliatory attack gone ahead as planned it would have had a powerful impact on relations between different groups... and that impact would probably still be reverberating today,’ she said. ‘There can be little doubt that a violent attack of the kind intended to be carried out would have been bound to draw a response in revenge from its target and those who sympathise with the EDL and would most likely have led to a tit-for-tat spiral of violence and terror.
I'm sorry? Tit for tat? Just what planet does she think the EDL inhabit?
There are a few things you get to know when you really get to know the EDL.
1) They are mostly just ordinary people (not far right or far anything)
2) They can be quite noisy.
3) They mostly for all the noise are peaceable and will obey the law and the instructions of those carrying out the law. (Their opponents are the ones usually criticised by the police for not obeying instructions)
4) They are not terrorists or violently inclined to go blowing up muslims in any form of reprisal, no matter the circumstances.

All I can say is anyone who attacks defenceless, men, women and children (for there were such on and near the demo) can hang from the highest tree for all I care, its the Muslim 'radicals' who are without mercy, integrity and honour, not us and the EDL would never stoop to their level. After all, if the reaction to the butchery of Lee Rigby is to be taken note of, muslims as a whole have little to fear from the English... so far.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Gobsmacking

Well that's the word that springs to mind when Millipede E suggests that spending all the money and overloading the country with debt wasn't to blame for our economic woes...
Telegraph.
Labour’s spending in the last Government was not to blame for leaving Britain ill-prepared for recession, Ed Miliband claimed today.
The Labour leader made the claim after he had delivered a speech on welfare in east London in which he confirmed that Labour would remove the winter fuel payment from well-off pensioners, and not reverse the Coalition’s child benefit cut.
Asked whether he accepted that the “Labour party you were part of until 2010 spent too much”, he replied: “No, I don’t agree with that. “You can take two views about this – you can either say that what happened was that the deficit caused the financial crash, or you can believe that the financial crash caused the deficit. “The reason why President Obama is having to deal with the deficit, and President Hollande is having to deal with the deficit, why every country around the world is having to deal with the deficit is because of the financial crash.”
Um yes, we know their was a recession, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't your parties fault for not having the wherewithal to at least assist in ameliorating the effects of it by saving in the good times for the bad times. No, you and your boss just presumed that you could hock the family silver so many times that the interest we have to pay on it means our great grand-kids will have the right to use your name as a curse.
This is the leader of the party whose treasury secretary Liam Byrne insolently left a note declaring that there was no money left.
Because, that's what Labour do, economic competence and socialist economics are pretty much diametrically opposed to each other as concepts go as socialism/leftism believe in the magic money tree of public spending in that peoples pockets are deep and will never run out to pay the taxes. Not that the Tories are any better, their idea of economic competence seems to spring from merely reducing the borrowing, rather than paying it back and getting rid of the debts in a return to small efficient government (I know, I know, wishful thinking etc)
I get the feeling that the politicians know what we think of their pronouncements in the MSM and really don't give a damn about it.
After all what else could you think?

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Misleading BBC headlines

Banner headlines in the BBC and another sign of the malaise/wishful thinking that inhabits the mindset of those who run their current affairs.
BBC.
Al-Rahma Islamic Centre destroyed in 'racist attack'
Not even a throwaway 'suspected in there, you have to look a bit further down for the legal disclaimers.
An Islamic centre in north London has been destroyed by a fire in an apparent racially motivated attack.
The Met Police said the fire, which happened at the Al-Rahma Islamic Centre in Muswell Hill in the early hours, is being treated as suspicious.
A spokesman said the letters EDL (English Defence League) were sprayed on to the building, used by the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association.
It might well be suspicious, though the EDL have no history whatsoever of burning down mosques.That and anyone can spray EDL on a building, the UAF have a history of doing such things after all and trying to blame the EDL.
I'm not saying that this wasn't a racist attack, however, the investigation remains to be seen as to where it leads, it might be an insurance fraud, or as I said before it might just be misdirection from those who wish to turn the public's gaze away from islam.
No doubt there will be many on the left and in the MSM who are determined to pin this on the EDL, that said there is no way the EDL would condone this sort of incident and if it was racially motivated then the EDL would hope that those who perpetrated it are sent down for a long time.

http://casualsunited.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/funny-how-the-story-has-changed-since-this-morning-i-smell-a-fit-up-edl-ukip/

Taken from the Casuals site, Early today they were saying the graffiti on the burnt Somali centre said “love and peace” now they are saying it said “EDL”.



Tuesday, June 4, 2013

The rattled left

Ukip appear to have the left (including the watermelons) very rattled in their current rise in popularity in the polls, so much so that they have tried to disrupt a Ukip meeting in Hove.
The problem with this sort of thing which the left have never learned is that it becomes self defeating, as they usually turn up and cause all the trouble and those whom they protest about come out smelling of roses, just ask the EDL...
The Argus.
Protesters attempted to hijack an appearance by Nigel Farage last night as he tried to spread his political message to hundreds of willing listeners.
Trouble erupted inside Hove Town Hall where more than 400 people had packed in to hear the UKIP leader speak yesterday.
About 100 protesters waving European flags and carrying placards with anti-racist messages had set up outside the town hall to confront Mr Farage as he arrived at the venue, but he was able to dodge them by entering the building through a different entrance.
The scenes weren’t a carbon copy of those a month ago when crowds of protesters barricaded Mr Farage inside a pub in Edinburgh when on a campaign trip.
But his presence fuelled tension and fierce opposition outside the building, which was evident when police had to be called to help the UKIP leader leave.
Ah, definitely the left, they hate the idea that someone might just have ideas which are a) successful and b) not of their own, though successful left wing ideas are pretty sparse on the ground, a bit like rocking horse poo.
This is classic leftism, scream and point method of debate. Where they dare not get into any form of civilised debate or people would realise just who is to blame for mass uncontrolled immigration and just who backs the EU to the hilt (not just the Lib Dems and watermelons) It's much easier to try and close down a debate by screaming racist/bigot/fascist at someone than actually get involved in a debate you know you'll lose.
Farage made the mistake at the end of trying to distance himself from the EDL, he needn't have bothered, the EDL will never tell its members who to vote for, never have, never will. That some EDL members will vote for Ukip is not because they see Ukip as of their own, it's just they are the only party to say they will deal with immigration and the EU and who aren't the BNP whom most of the EDL want nothing to do with owing to their views on Israel.
Still I suppose it's a political necessity for Farage to distance himself from the EDL, but I expect he'd still like them to vote for his party really.

Monday, June 3, 2013

The lowest of the low

What else would you call a group of people who at a war memorial jeered at people and squashed and badly damaged floral tributes? I guess you could call them the left wing UAF if you wanted, though terms like scum also spring to mind.
Oxford Mail.
THE Deputy Lord Mayor of Oxford has criticised anti-fascist campaigners for an “unruly” protest against a far right group at the city’s war memorial.
Liberal Democrat Tony Brett said the Unite Against Fascism demo in St Giles showed “hate” to a planned event by the English Defence League (EDL).
The EDL planned a wreath laying at 1pm on Saturday for “fallen hero” Drummer Lee Rigby, killed in an alleged terror attack in Woolwich on May 22.
The Oxford Mail attended from 12.45pm to 1.15pm and no wreaths were layed. There was no apparent EDL presence except for about 30 protesters.
Oxford City Council member Mr Brett said the protesters “jeered” at people and "floral tributes were squashed and badly damaged".
There was “no sign” of EDL banners, clothing or “behaviour” he said, adding: “What I saw was a loud and unruly bunch who were showing hate towards what seemed to me to be a peaceful and lawful act of remembrance.”
There's a reason no EDL banners or or clothing were on display, the EDL requested its members where possible to simply lay flowers in tribute to Lee Rigby in deference to his family's wishes. That meant in a lot of places the EDL turned up and simply laid flowers as it wasn't a demo, wasn't a march and wasn't a protest. I did the same at Chatham memorial, I wasn't the only one either, flowers were laid from all walks of the public, not the EDL, but i really shouldn't have expected the likes of the UAF to respect this. After all we're talking about the same people who had 58 people arrested in London for attacking a BNP march which was passing peacefully and preparing to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph.
About the only good thing to come out of this is the UAF showing themselves up as the barbarians they are.
But that's scant comfort really as they'll keep on doing things like this until they are locked up for a long time pour encourager les autres.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

I don't think that word means what you think it means...

That word is counter-protest and is used by the BBC as well as the rest of the MSM to describe the events which unfolded yesterday when peaceful marches to lay wreaths for drummer lee Rigby were attacked violently by the leftist UAF. Note that these were intended to be peaceful, all violence that ensued came from the UAF and all arrests made were of UAF supporters.
Counter-protest would appear to imply that a protest was happening and that people had turned up to oppose said protest. Except... except that these weren't protests, these were tributes, but I suppose counter-tribute wouldn't feed the narrative that somehow or other the people laying wreaths weren't the cause of the problem in the first place.
BBC.
Fifty-eight people have been arrested at a counter-protest sparked by a British National Party demonstration in Westminster.
The BNP demonstration was held in Whitehall Gardens following the death of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last month.
Police had asked that it be moved from Woolwich.
The counter-protest in Westminster was staged by members of Unite Against Fascism (UAF).
BNP leader Nick Griffin arrived at the demonstration during the afternoon and told the BBC it was intended to be peaceful.
He said his party agreed with Drummer Rigby's family that his death should not be used as an excuse for attacks on others.
But he said his followers were there to "draw attention to a political problem" adding "...because if people stick their heads in the sand... then more lads will die like Lee Rigby."
This was the only political statement going on yesterday, all other events were tributes to Lee Rigby, whilst many (but not all) contained some EDL members, none of them were 'official EDL events.
Whilst the UAF's modus operandi appears to be to oppose the BNP and EDL wherever and whenever, it appears that they have lost the argument because their first and only action appears to be violent confrontation, it does appear that the UAF and extreme islam were made for each other.
The BNP group had planned to march to the Cenotaph in nearby Whitehall, but UAF supporters blocked their path for most of the day.
Sounds about right, block people from paying their respects, violently too.
The left in the UK in their support of violent attempts to close down any form of tribute to a fallen soldier have proven that they are utterly morally bankrupt, they and the islamists make quite the couple don't they?