Saturday, November 30, 2013

Promising

Looks like the Tories are going to marginally tackle the green crap that posits itself as necessary to our planets well-being. I do not doubt that it won't be anything like enough and I do expect the usual bollocks from those who either have their fingers in the birdmincer pie and the hard of thinking enviroloonies who believe that taxpayer money should be taken without consent and spent on their ideas of what's happening to the planet, not what's actually happening.
BBC.
The BBC has learned the full details of how the government plans to roll back the largest so-called green levy in an attempt to cut energy bills.
The details come in a letter - seen by the BBC - that was sent to energy firms by the government last night.
It sets out how a scheme that forces energy companies to give free insulation to low income households will be reformed by law next year.
The ECO scheme costs firms £1.3bn a year and adds about £50 to every bill.
As I said, nothing like enough and certainly not putting a dent into the green levy as such which currently stands at £112 per year rising probably to £194 by 2020 on average.
Essentially we're being forced to pay for something which doesn't work too well along with a backup which is cheaper to run, more efficient and actually works when the wind doesn't blow or blows to hard, it also is reliable at night when the sun doesn't shine. In any sane world of course the backup would be the main system, but because of the ludicrous carbon emission scam (carbon isn't warming up the planet) we have to use systems which cost a lot more to generate electricity (birdmincers) aren't built yet (nuclear) or solar power which doesn't work too well and is prone to not working when it's dark.
Paul King, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, said: "ECO is the lifeblood of the insulation industry and cuts to it will result in huge job losses and condemn hundreds of thousands of families to unaffordable energy bills, yet government appears to be in the pocket of some of the energy companies when it comes to deciding its fate."
Mr King seems to be ignoring just who is paying for those jobs and that it should not be the job of the state or the taxpayer to support or pay for an industry. Certainly a case can be made for seed money, but wholesale support of industries by the taxpayer is ridiculous and harks back to the days of the inefficient nationalised industries where billions were spent keeping them afloat.
We need to go back to sink or swim time with the green industries, I suspect most if not all would sink if the taxpayer weren't tilting the odds in their favour which is all the more reason to rid ourselves of them.
If or when an efficient eco friendly system is proven to work, I'll support it, in the meantime the enviroloonies and the government should get their hands out of my pockets.
In other good news, Tim Yeo the environment minister and a guy who has lined his pockets from the green scam has been deselected by his local party for being essentially a thief. (expenses scam)
So not a bad start to the day...

Friday, November 29, 2013

The debasing of the language

English modifies itself on a daily basis as new words and meanings to words are added whilst others drop out of common usage. It can take a while or sometimes there's a sort of rush of publicity as a new word enters the language. As an example I now know what twerking is, although I've little use for it nor the desire to partake or witness such an event, still, at least I know what it is.
Other words though have been debased by intent to mean something at times that they simply aren't...
Mail.
A racist thug burst into a petrol station and hurled a lump of raw bacon at the Muslim attendant.
The yob wrapped his face in a green scarf before ambushing the shocked worker, who was alone at the Pemberton Service Station in Wigan.
Police are treating the attack at 4.30am on Monday as racist and said it was 'utterly abhorrent'.
Yes, the police are treating it as a racist hate crime, not because the guy is Asian, but because he's a muslim. I've mentioned it before and I'll probably mention it again because there are some out there who read this blog who cannot differentiate between race and religion. So... muslim and islam are not races, they are religious terms, Asian is not a race either, it's many races from that continent from Chinese to Arab and unfortunately it's a catch-all term used by the MSM usually to describe a person from the Indian sub-continent. Even more unfortunately is the fact that if you threw bacon at the majority of people from the sub-continent, they'd either laugh in your face or think you mad. That's because the majority religion there is Hindu and they are more likely to be upset by a beef sandwich.
This is not an attempt to excuse the idiot who did this, simply a comment on lazy journalism and the utter idiocy of the police who apparently can't, like a lot of leftards tell the difference between race and religion.
Terms like racist have been completely devalued due to over use and misuse by many in the press, law enforcement and politics. It used to be an argument stopper to call someone a racist until people no longer cared and would simply carry on making their point as the caller was usually losing the argument...
Same with fascist, it used to be a piss poor political system a bit like socialism, now it's a term of abuse thrown at anyone who is concerned with mass uncontrolled immigration or the religious intolerance of muslims.
Right wing is a term particularly used by the press, it's a code word for racist or in the case of leftards also a term for anyone they don't like. Yet the term itself is a misnomer to describe non orthodox leftism in the form of Nazism and Fascism neither of whom are actually right wing in the shape of capitalist or market force led.
Sure language changes as do meanings but in the end the over use or inappropriate use of some terms has rendered genuine descriptions as meaningless or into something they simply don't mean at all.
A pity really, because the fascist racist left is a good one along with fascist islam.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Market forces

In the end it all comes down to price, the more expensive it is, the less likelihood anyone will use it. And thus we come to the situation of University top up fees, where there's now a predicted shortfall of 5,000 students applying to universities across the UK, although universities maintain this may drop before the end of the year.
Telegraph.
The number of students applying to university has dropped by 5,000 in a year following warnings over a decline in graduate job prospects.
Figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) show that the overall number of applications from British students is down by four per cent so far this academic year.
The disclosure came on the day that the Government announced it was cutting £100 million from the National Scholarship Programme – a fund for poor students.
It also follows the publication of figures from the Office for National Statistics showing that half of recent graduates are working in jobs that do not require degree-level qualifications.
But university leaders dismissed the figures today, insisting that they were not a “particularly useful indicator of final demand”.
All this is down to the Labour Party's insistence on everyone should have a degree nonsense which totally devalued the standard of a degree and left many students up to their necks in debt when they finally got one. You see in leftard eyes, universities were elitist, and sought to give everyone the same opportunity. A sort of comprehensive style education disaster at a far higher level. That many universities actually had to put in place courses to upgrade students to even take a degree was ignored. Nor was the irony of a lot of employers demanding degree candidates to do jobs that an average O Level student could do seen as a massive flaw by those in charge of the ridiculous scheme.
Well the chickens have come home to roost, people are now saying no thank you to massive debt and somehow I doubt that the cuts in the National Scholarship Program were culpable for the downturn either.
For a lot of jobs, people simply don't need degrees, particularly degrees in useless subjects such as flower arranging, The Beatles, or even media studies come to that. What they simply need are the correct qualifications necessary to to the role involved, normally that isn't a degree, simply experience on top of an O Level.
Socialists have successively wrecked the education system in this country aided ably by ignorant Tories too scared to put right what has gone wrong. Only our top 10% ought to be going to Uni and they should be going with full grants, all others education ends with A levels, with work related courses paid for by employers available for apprenticeships and the like.
Sadly though I doubt the rot can be undone, not without going back to basics and tearing the corrupt edifices of higher education down and our politicians simply won't do that...

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

More or less

I live in the Medway area of Kent which has a staunchly Tory run council and oddly enough some of the lowest council tax rates in the country. Granted there are some things they could do better (why the hell do we need translation services, this is England and we speak English) but by and large they are good value for money... for given values of value for money.
It however does not surprise me that some councils in the North east and Midlands are up in arms about government spending cuts...
BBC.
Councils in the North of England and the Midlands face being hardest hit by government funding cuts, a group representing local authorities says.
The Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities says councils in the North East will lose £665 per person an average between 2010 and 2018 compared to a loss in the South East of £305.
Its estimates take into account the impact of welfare changes.
Ministers say funding is "fair" and the report was a "crude lobbying exercise".
In December, the government will tell councils in England how much money they will get next year.
SIGOMA, which has 45 members, represents many of the big urban councils in England, the vast majority Labour run.
The clue is of course in the last sentence, the councils bitching about the cuts are of course overspending Labour Councils who seem to have a real problem when it comes to giving value for money along with spending like there was no tomorrow on various things that people don't really need.
As ever expect vital services to be cut ahead of non vital to try and force a government to tip up more. Expect to see dustbin men paid off whilst diversity co-ordinators and five a day nutrition specialists remain. Schools will close, but payments to minority groups will remain despite the fact that the money isd wasted frivolously on keeping their relatives employed.
No, socialist Labour run councils have proven time and time again that they are utter spendthrifts when it comes to taxpayer and ratepayer funds and often have the highest levels of council tax in the country. If there are savings to be made, that's where they will be found, not in efficiently run low council tax boroughs.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Follow the money

Green policies, politicians think we love them, opinion poll's and market research tells them that we don't mind protecting the planet, so long as it doesn't cost us an arm and a leg, sadly there are very few green policies if any, which don't.
So it came as no surprise that a greedy few politicians tried to hold Cameron to ransom over his alleged 'drop the green crap' comment over energy price hikes cause by politicians of all major parties really not getting the underlying anger people are starting to feel over the green crap.
Mail.
David Cameron risks splitting the Conservative party if he abandons the green agenda, senior MPs have warned.
The Prime Minister was confronted by more than 25 Tory ministers and MPs demanding he stick to his promises on the environment.
It follows reports he told aides to ‘get rid of all this green crap’ amid warnings that abandoning the modernisation of the Tory party will cost him the next election.
Why do I have the feeling that those politicians are all raking it in from various energy companies, or are so deluded that they actually believe the planet is warming up due to the influence of man rather than the big ball of energy in the sky AKA the sun?
These politicians are also claiming back their energy bills from the taxpayer on second homes as well as raking it in for other things not exactly pertaining to their jobs. Some of those trying to flex their muscles are standing down at the next election anyway including the MP for Thanet which has a huge offshore wind farm employing locals who naturally will be worried if the government pulls the plug on the green scam.
What these envirotards won't accept is that people are dying from the cold because they can't afford to heat their homes due to the green levy. Any MP who voted for the green levy is tantamount to a murderer at worst or a scammer at best in my eyes and yes that includes Millipede E who brought this disgusting tax upon us as energy minister in the last government.
I rather suspect Cameron will lose the next election if he doesn't drop the green crap, but then again there's an awful lot that he simply doesn't get in the psyche of the average voter on green policies or anything else for that matter which is why he'll lose the next election anyway.

Monday, November 25, 2013

Racism again

It's the cry of the perpetually offended, the argument stopper of the hard of thinking leftards the siren call of those who have no problem with racism against their own, but fail to see the double standards of applying different rules towards everyone else.
It's the point and scream method of debate that has brought the entire race industry into disrepute.
Want to talk about immigration = point and scream racism.
Want to talk about the lack of opportunities for young white English people = point and scream racist.
Question why those who were not born here or paid into our system should have exactly the same rights and benefits of those who were and do = point and scream racist.
Express.
ALMOST half of all Britons believe Romanians and Bulgarians should have no right to work, settle and claim benefits in the UK, a new survey reveals.
The latest survey, carried out by Channel 5, also revealed 56 per cent of UK residents feel immigration has had a net negative impact on Britain.
In an interview with Channel 5 News, Romania's Foreign Minister, Titus Corlatean called on David Cameron to reject "in clear terms the xenophobic and populistic and once again sometimes racist attitudes which are promoted by some other British politicians."
As I said, the point and scream method of shutting down a debate, simply say that those who argue against mass uncontrolled immigration are racist. Doesn't matter that we can't afford it, doesn't matter that our infrastructure can't cope, doesn't matter that these people are taking jobs that our own jobless could be made to do.
No, anyone who thinks these things is a racist and should be ignored.
Not that Cameron can stop the influx anyway, the previous Labour Prime Minister signed away any right to do so before Cameron got into power. Mind you Cameron's wishy, washy attitude towards the EU doesn't help either. he wants in and only pays lip service to the wing of his party and others who want out.
No, we've been stuffed up like a Christmas turkey by unscrupulous politicians who have only their own interests at heart, not the good of the country.
Had Cameron had any balls at all, we'd have left the EU by now and we wouldn't have this problem looming. But no, he wants to renegotiate something which is not going to be allowed and he gets hectored by Romanian politicians to not be a nasty racist to boot rather than put his countries interests first.
Can we not just leave?

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Defending our interests

In recent years the governments ideas of what our interests are and what they actually are differs by a great degree. They'll often use humanitarian interests to excuse a military adventure in support of economic interests, which is not the same thing at all. After all, other than oil, we didn't have any real interest in what Saddam Hussein got up too in Iraq, sure he was a destabilising influence on the region, but what isn't?
We interfered in the Balkans, again an area ripe for civil war and if anything left an even bigger mess than when we started as we basically supported the wrong sides and handed over Kosovo to those who didn't own or have a right to it in the first place. The seeds of WW2 were sown in the armistice of WW1 and that's pretty much what we've done in the Balkans...
Again and again we've in recent years taken military action in areas that aren't our concern and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Still, at least some of our MP's are beginning to realise this...
Express.
THE large number of military veterans among MPs is likely to make the House of Commons “more cautious” when voting on sending troops abroad, a Sunday Express survey has found.
A total of 62 MPs, almost 10 per cent of the 650, have served in the Armed Forces.
However, rather than making for a more gung-ho chamber, those who have “felt the heat and smelled the cordite” are likely to be more hesitant in voting for military action overseas.
All the 15 MPs surveyed by the Sunday Express agreed that experience of active service has taught them the importance of caution.
Dan Jarvis, a former paratrooper and special forces major who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, said: “There is no doubt those who experience conflict first-hand are extremely cautious about making sure that deploying troops is only done as a final resort. The fact that I’ve been to war in two places means I understand the implications of putting boots on the ground.” Mr Jarvis, the only Labour MP with an Army background, added: “History will look very carefully at some of the advice provided in the mid-Nineties about our abilities to sustain activities in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Yes, hindsight is a great tool in judging the mistakes of the past, though a little foresight would do our MP's far more good. I mean can you imagine us sending troops to Afghanistan or Iraq? Allowing mass uncontrolled immigration, multiculturalism rather than integration... even the Labour Party electing Gordon Brown.
Then again some leftards believe that mass uncontrolled immigration was and is a good idea...
I don't really ascribe to conspiracy theories, but I do suspect that economic influences rather than humanitarian interests have been at the core of British and the EU's foreign policies for the last couple of decades. Oil being one economic factor, precious metals being another, I suspect water will be the next.
Perhaps it's time to bring the troops home and withdraw from the world for a while whilst we sort out the internal threats to this country from those who live here and hate the very idea of England.
Then, and only then should we look to sorting out other peoples problems, but not with troops, voluntary aid sounds about right and the government doesn't get to volunteer us either...
We certainly need the ability to deal with any direct threats to our country, but Afghanistan or Iraq... even the Balkans were no threat and if anything we made things worse.
Let the world sort itself out, we have enough problems of our own without sticking our noses in elsewhere.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Amoral Familism

Amoral Familism is a term used to describe the institution in certain groups by which they place value on the immediate family/tribe rather than say the common good or what's good for all. Western civilisation shed this concept when it entered the age of the nation state and society extended its outlook from the immediate to the inclusive. We have the concept of England and English and the strong bonds within whereby we'll act according to the concepts of the national interest rather than what's good for me, my family, or my tribe. That's not to say we don't have self interests and don't look after our families, but that it's not the be all and end all of the way we look at things.
Sadly other societies, including some who have settled amongst us do not have this outlook.
BBC.
Attorney General Dominic Grieve has said politicians need to "wake up" to the issue of corruption in some minority communities.
Mr Grieve told the Daily Telegraph it was not restricted to "any one community" but he was referring mainly to "the Pakistani community".
He said it must be made "absolutely clear" that a "favour culture" is unacceptable in Britain.
One Pakistan-born MP accused Mr Grieve of "dividing" communities.
Mr Grieve told the Telegraph he would be "wary of saying" it was just a Pakistani problem, pointing out corruption was found in the "white Anglo-Saxon" community too.
The favour culture is endemic in societies who are amoral familists, it means that in order to get something done, you need to be related to the people doing it or pay over the odds and still have to wait if a family member wants something done first. It also means that certain communities will only vote for their own and will use criminal methods to ensure that a member of that community will get ahead, hence the electoral postal vote fraud in certain communities.
The other problem with amoral familists is that they do not see other communities as 'people' hence high-profile stories involving child abuse, Islamist extremism, slavery and corruption within those communities committed against those who are not are often prevalent in the news and brought to your attention by blogs like this. It's also why those communities are often closed to outsiders, paranoid, defensive and subject to violence if their way of life and beliefs are challenged. That the moronic left are willing to stand and defend them is simply a bonus to them and reinforces their supremacism. This is despite the fact that once those communities gain real power, the left are usually the first up against the wall.
As my previous post said, we are storing up a dreadful legacy for our children by allowing these communities to abuse our way of life.
It will end in tears.

Friday, November 22, 2013

Normalising a debased religion

I don't like islam, I believe that those who bomb, maim, mutilate, rob, steal, rape, groom underage children are all following in the exact words of its founder. That's not to say that all muslims are bad people, it's just my opinion that many are good people in spite of their religion, rather than because of it.
So it comes as no surprise that a leftard headmistress jumped the gun by telling parents that children would be marked down for racial discrimination if they did not attend a workshop on Islam. This is despite the fact that islam, nor muslim is actually a race despite the best attempts by the moronic left to insist that it is...
Mail.
Parents today accused a primary school of trying to 'blackmail' them after they were told their children would be marked down for racial discrimination if they did not attend a workshop on Islam.
The headmistress of Littleton Green Community School, in Huntington, Staffordshire, wrote to parents telling them about the school trip to the Explore Islam workshop at Staffordshire University next week.
They were told the Years Four and Six children would be looking at religious artefacts on their visit - and threatened with being labelled as racists 'throughout their school career' if they did not go.

Going through the various comments also displays a staggering ignorance with few being able to tell the difference between a religion and race. As for the schools reasoning that they have to study another religion, you'd think they'd opt to avoid one with a history of barbarism that stretches through to today. This comes on top of a threat of another twin towers outrage by muslim groups in Norway if they don't get a part of Oslo declared a muslim enclave under shariah law.
This is why there is no place for islam in any civilised society and this is why the left who have been complicit in apologising for these barbarians have no place in government, power or influence in the UK as they too are the enemies of civilisation.
We are storing up a dreadful legacy for our children by allowing this religion a place in our society in pretty much the same way as the left supported Hitler at the beginning of WW2 because of the pact between Hitler and Stalin and ended up horrified by the invasion of the barbaric Soviet Union.
You reap what you sow, something leftards and other apologists for the religion of hate seem to forget.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

You've been googled...

I've played around with Google Earth looking for my house and my (various) places of work. It's interesting enough, but limited in the use I normally use for road maps to get from A to B.
That said, I suspect that there are some people in a housing estate in Hoylake, Wirral who would rather Google Earth didn't exist...
Telegraph.
People living on a UK street fear house prices could suffer after Google Earth images showed their estate resembles a giant penis.
Locals on George Road, Edward Road, and Yeoman Cottages in Hoylake, Wirral, fear potential house-hunters wouldn't want to buy a property in the phallic-shaped area.
When viewed from above, the red roofs on the homes – which have an average £200,000 price tag – make the cul-de-sac look like a penis.
AKA Cock and Balls Road.
 I'm sure someone somewhere would have taken an aerial shot at some stage and posted it, but for potential homebuyers, well Google Earth is one of the tools of choice and whoever designed the estate has certainly put a certain je ne sais quoi into the world of real estate blunders.
Definitely a case of caveat emptor...

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Nice one

Or perhaps that should read eco-terrorists freed on bail.
On a day when HRH Juglugs announced that there could be more natural disasters because of global warming when referencing the recent cyclone in the Philippines and most of us looked askance at the word natural as in happening naturally, rather than unnaturally, after all, if it's natural then there's no stopping it. The Russians showed the world how to deal with the eco-terrorists of Greenpeace.
Mail.
Three of the British activists arrested by Russian authorities during a Greenpeace protest against drilling in the Arctic have been granted bail.
Activists Alex Harris, 27, from Devon, and Anthony Perrett, 32, from Newport and London journalist Kieron Bryan, 29, are the first of the six Britons in the so-called Arctic 30 to be given bail, following similar decisions affecting 12 others.
Mr Bryan's family said in a statement: 'It's amazing news to know that Kieron will be released from prison soon. We have been thinking of him every minute of every day and we can't wait to speak to him and see him.
'Our relief is obviously tempered by the fact that he is still facing absurd charges, despite the fact that he was just doing his job.
Odd that people believe that piracy is a 'job' these days. The good news is that it's Greenpeace who are being taken for upwards of  £2 million in bail charges, most of which they won't get back if their eco-terrorists pirates skip bail, which is a smart move by the Russians as it gets them foreign cash and means they don't have to feed and house the ecoloons if they do skip bail as they are allowed to leave the country. In essence Russia is fining Greenpeace and making sure the loons don't return... not if they don't want the same thing happening.
I guess that ticks Russia off the list of countries to pester to keep Greenpeace in the news, no doubt they'll go back to trespass against oil drilling in their anti-fracking protests.
Well done Russia.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

This is why we need to return to the Peelian principles.

The Peelian principles were introduced by the founder of the modern police force Robert Peel, they are simple, straightforward and very easy to comprehend, something that the righteous and ACPO absolutely hate as they take no account of political correctness or league tables...

  1. The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.
  2. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon the public approval of police actions.
  3. Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observation of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.
  4. The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.
  5. Police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.
  6. Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is found to be insufficient.
  7. Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent upon every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
  8. Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions, and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.
  9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it
Police forces are routinely massaging crime figures to make hundreds of offences “disappear in a puff of smoke”, MPs have been told.
Official crime statistics are regularly skewed to make a police force’s performance appear far better than it is in reality, the House of Commons Public Administration Committee heard.
Retired and serving police officers gave evidence about techniques used to manipulate the figures - which they said were sanctioned by senior officers - such as downgrading offences to less serious crimes or persuading victims not to make a complaint.
In some cases crimes were only recorded if they were solved, and others were kept completely off the books if an offender could not be traced, the committee heard.
The disclosures will further undermine confidence in official Home Office statistics which claim crime is at its lowest level for more than 30 years.
I don't know where the Telegraph gets the idea that the Home Office data on crime statistics is actually believed by anyone with an IQ over 90. Just chat to most people and you'd come away with the impression that crime both petty and major is a factor in their lives and they do not believe that somehow or other society is safer than it was. Indeed cases such as the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes and the death of Ian Tomlinson suggest that the police themselves are perfectly willing to absolve themselves of criminal behaviour if so required. Nor have such high profile corruption cases such as Ali Dizaei helped the perception of the public towards the police being people you can trust.
It does seem at times that the police are no better than the criminals they are supposed to deal with and ACPO lead the way.
The old saying that 'a fish rots from the head' seems remarkably apt here.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Waste of time

Now I don't like child abusers, both mental, sexual and physical, unlike the current justice system we have in the UK my own preferred methods would be quick and permanent for those who abused beyond reasonable disciplinary bounds for physical abuse with the same applied to sexual abuse of a clear minor. Naturally I'd approach said justice with the use of common sense and not precedent nor would I be in support of any waste of time methods used simply to garner votes.
In my eyes it would have to work...
BBC.
Leading search engine companies Google and Microsoft have agreed measures to make it harder to find child abuse images online.
As many as 100,000 search terms will now return no results that find illegal material, and will trigger warnings that child abuse imagery is illegal.
PM David Cameron has welcomed the move but said it must be delivered or he would bring forward new legislation.
Child protection experts have warned most images are on hidden networks.
In July, Mr Cameron called on Google and Microsoft's Bing - which together account for 95% of search traffic - to do more to prevent people getting access to illegal images.
The part in bold is the crux of the matter, considering how Google (at least) scans everything you type into it in order to target you for adverts (Note, if you're getting something for free, chances are you aren't a recipient, but a product, and sold as such) Does anyone else here suspect that those who wish to look at images of child abuse are not going to use Google or Bing? Hell I even expect that they aren't (if they are smart) using a mainstream browser or operating system either.
In essence this is probably simply a method by the two search engine operators to prevent idiots like Cameron coming up with stupid legislation to cripple their operations. You can almost see the mission creep from such legislation creeping into other areas such as MP scandals etc with the introduction at a later date of addendum's to the original bill. After all, look at the abuse of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 since it was introduced to combat terrorism. It's been used to check on abuse of school catchment areas, improper use of recycling bins, neighbourhood disputes etc.
The government knows that any move to combat child abuse will be popular, the problem is that the government can't be trusted to not add to any such moves.
You can bet if the two search engine operators fail to do as the government wants that such legislation will be waiting in the wings.
You can bet it will be popular.
You can bet it won't work as planned.
You can bet that it will be expanded into other areas the government doesn't want us to look at...

Sunday, November 17, 2013

And when they simply leave?

A lot of people like me dislike taxation, particularly taxation that ends up being spent on what we consider frivolities, translation services, quango's, fake charities, community groups, particularly those groups which benefit no one other than an insular community, politicians expenses etc. I'm not opposed to all taxes, however I'm a great believer that we should only be paying the government the bare minimum required to keep the country going, defence, infrastructure, law enforcement etc.
Unfortunately the political classes and the various faux leftards and libtards who infest them disagree with this philosophy and have the oddest set of criteria for grabbing cash from people...
Telegraph.
Nick Clegg says he wants the “super wealthy” to pay an extra £1 billion in tax to fund a cut in income tax for lower-paid workers.
The Deputy Prime Minister said he wanted the Coalition to increase the starting threshold for income tax above £10,000, cutting taxes for basic-rate workers.
His call comes as senior Conservatives debate increasing the threshold before the next election to appeal to lower-paid voters.
Mr Clegg said the tax cut would cost around £1 billion, money he said could be raised by imposing new taxes on the better-off, perhaps a “mansion tax” on expensive homes.
The Coalition has already set out plans to increase the threshold to £10,000, a policy ministers say will cut tax for more than 20 million workers.
Classic smash and grab socialism, looks brilliant to those who seem to believe that the super rich will actually hang around long enough to be taxed. As ever though the problem is that if you start penalising a group with the wherewithal to up and move, guess what they'll do? Instead of looking for ways to cut government spending, the boy Clegg (and other politicians) always reaches for the option of tax more and as ever tries to justify a tax increase by specifically targeting a group that he knows some people out there would love to see hit.
The best way to reduce taxation for all in this country, would be to take a chainsaw to government spending both national and local. Get rid of frivolous spending and remove funding for anything unnecessary to the actual running of the country, this includes removing whole swaths of middle management in the NHS, simply let nurses and doctors treat the sick and set their own priorities including getting people in to keep the wards clean. Destroy the race/discrimination industry, everyone is equal, we have laws to ensure that so stop funding 'special groups'
Make the benefits system a safety net for the unemployed, a comfort for the old and sick and a bloody uncomfortable place to be for anyone capable of working who believes that having more than three kids is a lifestyle choice if they can't pay for them.
We start by hanging the politicians and the lawyers who say we can't do this...

Saturday, November 16, 2013

You what?

Apparently if the government goes ahead and reduces (should be removes, but its a tax and they won't) the green levy on power generation then the price of our gas and electricity may rise! In an argument that only an enviroloony could love, never mind comprehend the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee announced this rather startling conclusion yesterday...
Telegraph.
David Cameron’s push to cut “green” levies on gas and electricity bills could end up increasing energy bills, MPs have said.
The Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee said that cutting support for renewable energy generation will drive away vital investment in the energy sector, pushing up prices.
The committee’s warning came as officials finalised a list of options for changing levies applied to bills, with a scheme that funds home insulation among those facing cuts.
The Government says the UK energy industry needs £110 billion of new generators and transmission networks to remain functional in 2020.
One can only assume these people are bonkers as they seem to believe that such a move will cut investment, although as far as I can see it would only cut investment in bird mincers and solar panelling. There are much, much cheaper ways of generating electricity than the carbon free methods as required by the EU, you can even get lean burn coal generating plants with very low emissions, but sadly the investors behind the bird mincers have used a non-existent fear of the planet warming to push through damaging and costly legislation to line their own pockets via the hidden taxation of the green levy. This has pushed fuel bills up by at least 10% and led to the closing down of far more efficient power stations leaving the country pushed to the limit to keep the lights on... although the reserve means that brownouts are still unlikely despite some alarmist claims.
In the meantime, companies still build bird mincers that don't work when there's no wind (or too much) and sell us solar panel which don't work in the dark and then charge us via the levy for the expensive electricity they produce at the wrong times.
When a cheap means of generating carbon free electricity comes along, I'll get behind it, however I doubt there's any such beast and I shouldn't be paying the cost of finding it, nor should anyone else. People will die because they can't afford to heat their homes this winter, their blood is on the governments and the enviroloonies hands...

Friday, November 15, 2013

Their problem, not ours

I honestly don't know why the boy Clegg bothers, his defence of the EU now borders on the ridiculous as he seems to believe that the EU will be impoverished without us...
Express.
A BRITISH exit from the European Union would "impoverish" the continent as a whole, Nick Clegg has warned.
The Deputy Prime Minister said the Conservatives' "flirtations" with withdrawal would not succeed and claimed the EU was needed to help secure the UK's economic recovery and beat crime.
Mr Clegg, speaking after bilateral talks with his Irish counterpart Eamon Gilmore, said: "Reform is one thing, flirting with exit - which is what the Conservative Party appears to be doing - is something that I think, if it were ever to happen, which I don't believe it will, would be hugely damaging to the United Kingdom.
"I think it would be damaging to Ireland since we're joined at the hip economically and I think it would also in many ways impoverish the European Union as a whole.
 Usual claptrap about us not managing without the EU, although Norway and Switzerland seem to do fine outside. Why he seems to think that the UK leaving the EU will impoverish the EU as an argument for staying in is somehow going to garner sympathy is a bit perplexing to say the least. It really isn't our problem, it's the EU's and I doubt that other than electoral bribes in some sort of media campaign that the money we pay in will even come close to being repaid.
The EU itself is corrupt to the core as only a political organisation can be, it even surpasses our bloodsucking parasites politicians and the boy Clegg surely knows this, yet wishes us to remain in. I believe this is what's known as putting party political interests first, something that the Labour and Tory leadership seem to manage pretty well too.
It's not for me to tell anyone reading this how to vote, all I can say is that if you do vote for the Lib/Lab/Con, you're voting to perpetuate the situation we're already in and politicians like Clegg will keep coming out with the vacuous statements that the EUphiles believe make good reading... though only to other EUphiles, hopefully an endangered species, though sadly not amongst the political classes.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Caveat Emptor

Caveat emptor is basically the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before a purchase is made. However with pre-packaged goods and gift wrapped goods, a level of trust is required on the part of the buyer. However if the goods are faulty, then the buyer usually has the option of a refund, the best of establishments particularly at Christmas, don't even require a receipt. However there are some who seem to have not taken the old maxim that 'the buyer is always right' to heart...
Mail.
A businessman sold a lump of clay instead of an iPad by Tesco was arrested on suspicion of fraud when he complained to the supermarket giant.
Colin Marsh, 47, paid £470 for the Apple tablet computer in Whitstable, Kent, as a Christmas present last year for his young daughters - but he opened the box to find it contained three lumps of clay.
The father, who runs two bakeries, immediately took it back to the store for a refund - but instead of reimbursing him, Tesco staff became suspicious and reported him to Kent Police.
Two days later Mr Marsh, father to Maddie, 11, and Daisy, eight - got a call asking him to report to his local police station where he was held for three hours, and accused of trying to scam Tesco.
He spent two months on bail before being told he faced no further action. The iPad that should have been in the box was tracked down to Wales, more than 200 miles from where he had bought it.
Now Tesco have of course apologised and the errant iPad has been found some 200 miles away in Wales, though how it somehow managed to have been registered to him, Tesco have yet to explain, nor have they explained just how the supposed tamper proof seals were bypassed. I'm still not entirely sure whay a story of last Christmas has eventually turned up at the Mail some 11 months later.
Still, you do have to wonder at just what the hell the police and Tesco were thinking, tracking an iPad isn't too difficult as they have a unique registration IP for each pad which means one can be located to a server within hours and presumably a call to the address in question would have given them answers including who sold it too them (assumption on my part) or what link they have to Whitstable Tesco's in Kent.
Still I suppose the police can congratulate themselves on another addition to the DNA database...
After all, 'Every little helps' as a certain consumer giant is known to say.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Sorry, don't believe he did...

It does strike me as odd the court decision on the spy found locked in a bag in that Scotland yard are convinced he locked himself in it and died.
Mail.
Police today admitted that they are unable to explain the death of an MI6 spy whose body was found locked in a holdall bag.
Gareth Williams' mysterious death has been the subject of fierce speculation since he was found dead in his Central London flat three years ago.
Following a year-long investigation by Scotland Yard, officers today announced that they believe his death was accidental and that no one else was involved, although they concluded that it is impossible to reach a definite verdict on the case.
The finding contravenes the verdict of a coroner who last year ruled that Mr Williams had 'probably' been killed by someone else.
Scotland Yard detectives said that since it was possible for the codebreaker to climb in to the bag and lock it unaided, it is not necessary to posit any outside involvement.
Now other than the possibility that the guy was absolutely way out bonkers and had some sort of locking himself in a case fetish, it does rather strike me that climbing into a bag and locking yourself in it is a rather stupid way to kill yourself, even a yoga expert struggled with the task, nor can anyone explain why he did in in a bath.
Admittedly it is (sort of) possible for someone to do something as daft, which doesn't quite rule out the possibility of misadventure, but in this case the simplest solution (because he could) does rather strike me as a rather tenuous set of conclusions to come too, especially as the police found 15 sets of other peoples DNA in the flat whom they've been unable to identify.
There is of course the possibility of suicide and a bit of an attempt to wind up the investigators, but those who knew the guy didn't think he was suicidal either.
I guess we'll never know, but I'm with those who suspect foul play, even if it looks like something no competent murderer would do either come to that.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

You don't say?

Once again the government seems to have (rather like the previous government) a flawed grasp of good housekeeping where it comes to budgetting. It like Labour appears to believe that the best and most efficient way to do anything is to tax us all to the hilt and then distribute what's left of the proceeds to various groups deemed 'worthy' by them.
Telegraph.
A scheme to “bribe” new mothers to breastfeed with shopping vouchers is flawed because there is no way to check the recipients are breastfeeding their babies, an MP has warned.
Researchers said the trial scheme is an attempt to tackle “stubbornly low” rates of breastfeeding in parts of the UK.
From this week, new mothers living in parts of Yorkshire and Derbyshire will be offered £120 in vouchers for high-street chain stores such as Argos, Debenhams and Poundstretcher and supermarkets Tesco, Asda and Morrisons, if they sign forms declaring that they have breast-fed their child for six weeks, with a further £80 at six months. Researchers admitted there is nothing to stop the women who enrol in the scheme from using the vouchers to buy cigarettes or alcohol.
Gosh, researchers have found that people will behave like people when given vouchers or cash and spend them on stuff they want, rather than what the health fascists believe they should spend it on.
Bribing a woman to breast feed is probably a waste of time anyway, they'll either do it because they want to or simply not, but if you throw in a taxpayer bribe, well hey, they'll agree to breastfeed whether they actually do or not and simply pocket the cash. It's exactly this sort of government profligacy that irritates the hell out of taxpayers because it's simply not necessary, same with green taxation and family tax credits.
Just lower the bloody taxes and stop funding enviroloonies, quango's health Nazis, fake charities and give us all a break from those who hector us from the public purse!
You know it makes sense.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Negotiating from a position of strength

When negotiating for something, it's always best to do it from a position of strength, however the Tory party despite having a significant EUphobe presence cannot deal with the issue of the EU as some see it because its leader wants to keep us in as he's repeatedly stated.
Express.
DAVID Cameron last night hit back at opponents inside the Tory party over his battle to win better terms of membership from the EU.
The Prime Minister struck out amid claims that by repeatedly saying he wants the UK to stay in Europe he is weakening his own chances of getting a better deal.
Opponents inside and outside the Conservative party are increasingly concerned about current membership terms, which will allow in a new flood of migrants when Bulgarians and Romanians get the right to come to Britain from January.
“The Prime Minister couldn’t have been clearer – there will be a referendum by the end of 2017 at which point everyone will be allowed a say. Most people in this country want Britain to be part of a reformed EU, not staying in with the status quo or out altogether."
Unfortunately that last statement appears to be a bit of wishful thinking on Cameron's part as a poll back in July had 71% of the UK public eligible to vote actually wanted out of the EU. There is no reforming the EU, the bit of it that makes decisions isn't even subject to scrutiny nor recall via elections it's basically a self sustaining committee whose aim appears to be to enforce political unity across the board in all countries of the EU whether the voters like it or not. The EU parliament as such appears to be a rubber stamping body with no power to institute bills, merely discuss them.
It will be interesting to see how the EU elections go next year though (assuming they aren't cancelled as there are fears amongst the EUphiles over the rise of anti-EU parties across Europe) I rather suspect Ukip will do rather well at the expense of both Labour and Tories, possibly the Lib Dems being wiped out in the poll.
Still, I believe Cameron is merely stalling for time in the hope that somehow public opinion will change and the EU becomes popular again.
I have my doubts that he's in for a pleasant surprise (for him)

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Lest we forget

 
 
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Asking for it...

It should come as no surprise that terrorist subjects are roaming the UK and are being observed by the security services. It should also come as no surprise that periodically such observations are reviewed by a parliamentary committee. Sadly it should also come as no surprise that with Lib Dems in the government there's a problem...
Mail.
A would-be suicide bomber, a jihadi fighter and an extremist who trained with the failed 21/7 attackers are among six terror suspects who will have restrictions lifted in just two months.
The British citizens, aged 25 to 39, all have close links to Pakistan, Somalia and Iran. They have all been under the supervision of MI5 thanks to Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Orders, which involve tagging, restricting their movements and who they can talk to.
But, according to The Sun, the orders expire on January 26 after two years - and so far Liberal Democrat ministers have refused to allow their renewal.
Now whilst I believe the state has far too much power over us and has with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act allowed some in power to abuse their spying on us, I do believe that there are occasions when some people need to be watched. Not necessarily hindered or prevented from living their lives, but kept under observation because they may pose a threat to the rest of us. By threat I do not mean trying to get their kids into a better school or putting the wrong recycling in the wrong bin.
Why do I also have the suspicion that these people do not see themselves as 'British' except when it's convenient for them to be British but rather see themselves as something else, possibly beginning with the m word.

Suspect 1: A British man, 25. Involved in liquid bomb plot to blow up transatlantic flights.
Suspect 2: British train driver, 31, married with three children. Went to Pakistan for terror training in '08.
Suspect 3: Thirty-nine, British, married with five children. Funded brothers' terror activities in Pakistan.
Suspect 4: Trained in 2004 with failed 21/7 bombers. Plotted attacks on UK. Aged 29.
Suspect 5: Iranian/British, 29, went to Somalia in 2006 for training.
Suspect 6: In Afghanistan to fight western troops in 2008 and had terror training in Somalia in 2009. Fought with al-Shabaab.
Can't help but think that there is some sort of common factor linking these people, but it escapes me at the moment ;-)
 Yet again the Lib Dems appear to not have the best interests of the people of the UK at heart... though why the Tories allowed them influence over security measures is beyond me.

Friday, November 8, 2013

Yes... and?

You can always rely on the Lib Dems to come up with some entertaining if useless/pointless defence of the EU, the Human Rights Act, taxation, envirolooniism, defence, sex, politics etc. The list being somewhat endless and meaningless and is merely a demonstration of how out of touch with the general public/reality they are...
Still, this one's a corker...
Telegraph.
Gibraltar could be expelled from the European Union against its wishes because of David Cameron’s desire to hold a referendum, a Liberal Democrat MP has warned.
Martin Horwood, the MP for Cheltenham, said that a private member’s bill setting out demands for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union by 2017 could mean that Gibraltar is forced to leave the EU.
He said that when the European Union (Referendum) Bill was initially drafted, voters in Gibraltar were excluded from any poll, despite being able to participate as part of the South West of England constituency in European elections. James Wharton, the Tory MP for Stockton South who is bringing forward the legislation, has now introduced an amendment which will include Gibraltar in any referendum after the omission was spotted when the Bill was in committee. Mr Horwood, who sat on the committee which analysed the Bill after second reading, warned that the people of Gibraltar may choose to remain in the EU and then be forced to leave.
It appears that Mr Horwood has failed to recognise that democracy is the dictatorship of the majority of one. Essentially, Gibraltar, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and indeed England are all in exactly the same boat, same with the Channel Isles too I presume. It may be that any such referendum of  our membership of the EU may produce a result that the majority of people in a country disagree with. But that's the joy of our current democracy, the majority rules, though admittedly only in the case of England there may be a problem with the lack of democracy therein whereby the Parliaments/Assemblies of the other places can go it alone and leave the UK and overseas territories if enough of their people want and vote in a government of their own to do so, the people of England have no such recourse save only violent overthrow of the government at the moment as they have no parliament of their own.
So, that's the price Gibraltar will pay for being part of the UK if we leave the EU, so do they, of course they can leave the UK and apply for membership of the EU if they so desire.
That however is their problem should such an occurrence happen and they wish to remain part of the EU, not ours...

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Justice today

Let's face it, British justice is a joke, it's arbitrary, two tiered and has the oddest set of values where theft is regarded far less tolerable than violence. Nor has the Human Rights Act helped where the legal profession has brought itself into disrepute several times owing to cases brought and judgements made.
Still, this is a new low.
Mail.
In 2011, Lucy Walsh was abducted by three men after a night out
They raped her repeatedly, laughing when she cried out
Two were convicted and sentenced; police are looking for the third attacker
But the two successfully appealed and were given less prison time
And one of them was granted British citizenship while in jail
Fearful for her safety with an attacker still at large, Lucy has fled to Canada
Lucy Walsh woke up in a dimly lit, grubby room she didn't recognise. She quickly realised, to her horror, that she was naked, and that she was not alone.
A man was on top of her, pinning her to the floor, while another raped her. There were others there, too, talking in a foreign language, and laughing when she screamed in terror and pain. The 24-year-old was subjected to a horrific two-hour attack, as the men took it in turns to rape her.
But the repercussions for Lucy went far beyond the physical injuries she sustained that night. It would destroy her faith in her country and its legal system, which she'd always trusted to protect her, but which seemed to her to favour the rights of her attackers above hers.
Her ordeal was described by a judge as 'among the worst to have come before this court in recent years' - yet in a sick irony, one of her attackers was granted British citizenship as he awaited trial.
A case of rape jihad, where muslim males believe that any woman not a muslim is fair game (and some muslim women too who dress western style) However that is by the bye, I would be disgusted and outraged had the men been white Anglo-Saxons, though I have a sneaking suspicion that they at least would have been given a much tougher sentence and certainly would not have had their sentence reduced to a mere 12 years on appeal.
A true justice system would have had these men (though clearly they are not real men) castrated or hung for doing this, but as we only have custodial sentencing, then life would probably have been far too short, by life meaning remaining under lock and key until they die.
This woman has had her life ruined, she's fled the country and our legal system has decided to rub salt into her wounds.
Words cannot express just how disgusted in our legal system I am today...




Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Nineteen, not out

Well it's nineteen years and once again the EU's auditors have failed to sign the account books off, citing fraud as the main culprit for £6 billion going missing.
Express.
The EU misspent almost £6billion in 2012, official auditors found, as the amount of money squandered on fraudulent, illegal or ineligible projects soared by 23 per cent.
And for the 19th year in a row, the auditors refused to sign off Europe’s annual accounts.
The spending watchdog found that, overall, 4.8 per cent of the EU’s £117billion budget was spent in “error” on projects that were either tainted by fraud or ineligible for grants under Brussels’ rules.
This meant £832million of British taxpayers’ contributions was wasted at a time of public spending cuts.
Strange thing is, there are still people out there who think the EU is somehow a good thing, though whether they'd think the same about their banks if they were dipping into their pockets and misspending their cash  is anyone's guess. These are the people who believe that ever closer political union is a good thing, despite the facts that recent headlines shows politicians to be utterly corrupt and untrustworthy with the taxpayers cash.
Sure, we should leave for any number of reasons, immigration, corruption, Human Rights Act, constant meddling and imposing stupid laws (at least we could have home grown stupid laws) the use of sanctions and tariffs to keep us from buying cheaper goods and products from elsewhere.
Essentially the EU is holding this country down and preventing us from trading with the world as a whole and setting our own policies to deal with economic matters that are relevant for us.
Quite frankly the biggest reason for leaving now looks like we simply cannot afford the EU.
So let's just leave... now!

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Honesty doesn't pay

I like to think I'm an honest man, opinionated yes, but I'd like to believe if I found a bundle of money in the street or on someone's premises, that I'd hand it in...
Well at least until today I did...
Mail.
An honest builder who handed in nearly £18,000 in cash to police after he found it stashed in a fire-damaged flat will go without any reward following a High Court judge's ruling.
Steven Fletcher found the hoard of 'neatly bundled' notes in a metal box in a burnt-out property he was renovating in King Street, Leicester, in September 2011.
The £17,940 cash haul - all in £20 notes and neatly packaged into £1,000 bundles - was concealed under a kitchen unit.
The flat had been empty since a fire gutted it six months earlier and Mr Fletcher immediately handed in his find to police.
But a High Court judge has ruled Mr Fletcher does not have any right to the cash after police failed to trace its origins.
Police experts and forensic analysts examined the mysterious hoard. Drug-testing was, however, 'inconclusive', although some notes showed minute traces of cocaine.
Magistrates nevertheless ordered forfeiture of the cash under the Proceeds of Crime Act after Leicestershire's Chief Constable, Simon Cole, successfully argued that it probably came from 'unlawful criminal conduct'.
I was always under the impression that lack of evidence doesn't constitute proof, though it does appear that the legal system of the UK operates under different rules (surprise, surprise)
Now it may well be that the cash was being used for criminality, or was the proceeds from criminal activity, but there's no evidence that it was (or wasn't)
There is of course the drug traces, however as the Mail itself told the world back in 2010...
Every bank note in the UK is contaminated with cocaine within weeks of entering circulation, experts have revealed.
Police have stopped testing notes for traces of the drug in criminal investigations as the contamination is so widespread.
According to the Forensic Science Service the results are now meaningless as every note tests positive for cocaine.
So, other than the fact that the police were suspicious about the way that the notes were carefully sortied into bundles of one denomination which meant they were 'unlikely to be the profits of legitimate cash trading in their eyes and in the eyes of the court. This along with the fact that no-one came forward to claim the cash meant they felt justified in keeping it.
I'd be willing to bet the next time Mr Fletcher or anyone else reading the Mail article finds a wad of cash hidden away, handing it in to the police will not figure in their thought processes.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Well, there's a surprise

Seems the Labour party's troubles in Falkirk are not going to go away so easily, despite a police investigation, it appears that the accusations of vote rigging by Unite can't be brushed under the carpet quite so easily.
Mail.
Labour could reopen its inquiry into vote-rigging scandal which exposed union dominance, the party's leader in Scotland said today.
Johann Lamont admitted the original investigation into Unite's influence on candidate selection 'wasn't entirely complete' and should be looked at again.
The leader of Labour MSPs and MPs north of the border also said the long-running row had left people in Falkirk 'embarrassed' to be members of the party.
Lorraine Kane triggered a major probe into alleged electoral corruption when she revealed her family had been signed up to the Labour Party without their consent.
The investigation into Mrs Kane’s case was dropped suddenly in September, after Unite officials produced documents stating that she had withdrawn her claims.
But, speaking for the first time, Mrs Kane, 61, told the Mail: ‘I did not change the testimony. I did not change anything. I did not withdraw anything.’ She is now demanding to know whether the evidence she gave was tampered with by Unite.
Always the problem with declaring something with the testimony open to dispute, something you'd think the left would be very wary of having been involved in scandal after scandal in... well pretty much its entire history.
You get the feeling that 'the end justifies the means' is a mantra running through the collective consciousness of the left as they will say or do anything to try and enforce their will on a populace who frankly cannot stomach socialism when it comes out in its own clothing and has to wear the colouration of the Labour Party to try and get itself elected. Unions themselves have a major problem in that whilst most of us can see the point of having someone to represent the workforce in negotiations over pay and conditions, unfortunately those that representation tend to be full time activists with their own 'political' agendas. which are often at odds with what the ordinary members want.
I suppose it comes down to the fact that Union members get exactly the leadership they deserve, then again they rarely get a chance to elect their leadership once its in place, nor do they usually get a chance to select the candidates. Which I suppose is pretty much socialism in action where 'the people' are merely cannon fodder in the great scheme to enslave mankind in leftist barbarism.
After all, what else can you think about an economic and political philosophy which has failed time and time again yet still is advocated by Unions and leftards as the way forward?
The only way that these people can ever get elected is by sneaking in under the radar of the Labour Party, this time Unite looks like its fingers will be burnt...
Let's hope so.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Bansturbation

Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason, why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

Bonfire night as it's sometimes known as, a celebration in the UK of a plot foiled to destroy our Parliament and possibly herald in a different regime more friendly to Catholicism. Or in my eyes a reminder to Parliament that next time they might not be so lucky.
Still, as ever there's someone out there who wants to ban it, but not for the usual 'fireworks are dangerous' meme that comes around at this time of year.
No, they want it banned because it's anti-Catholic.
Express.
BONFIRE Night should have been stopped years ago ­because of its anti-Catholic overtones, campaigners say.
Burning an effigy of the Pope at Lewes, East Sussex, is especially offensive, they insist, and setting fire to a likeness of Guy Fawkes is just outdated.Bonfire Night commemorates the Gunpowder Plot of November 5, 1605, when ­Catholic rebels tried to blow up Parliament and kill the Scottish Protestant king James I.
They were caught, tortured and put to death, but Fawkes ­declared: “Our intention was to blow back the beggarly Scots to their native mountains.”
Now Edinburgh Secular Society chairman Gary McLelland wants to purge Bonfire Night of sectarian links. He said: “I think we should have stopped years ago. Bonfire Night should become a purely secular event.”
Well, I have news for Mr McLelland, bonfire night is pretty much a secular event as even Catholics take part in it and thoroughly enjoy setting off fireworks like the rest of us.
Again though this is simply just another case of someone (or society) with an agenda looking to generate headlines at a particular time of the year. The various Secular Societies are not particularly nice people in that they believe that those who are religious should be treat differently from the rest of society, not just the dangerous religions though, all religions. It is these killjoys who would ban Christmas and Easter,  something even Cromwell tried and failed at. Naturally though the Secular Societies usually pick on religions they know will shrug and get on with things, you rarely hear of them having a go at islam for instance which shows that self preservation rather than actual commitment is at the source of their litany of complaints.
As it is, Edinburgh Secular Society chairman Gary McLelland has his fifteen minutes of fame and the rest of us know what a tosser he actually is.
There is nothing religious about Bonfire Night any more, hasn't been for several generations. I know that, you know that, the Roman Catholic Church knows that.
Shame Gary McLelland doesn't appear to know it...

Saturday, November 2, 2013

I'm surprised its actually that many

The Human Rights Act with its various annexes as used by the legal fraternity to remove common sense from the legal system is a bit of a sick joke. Sure there needs to be some sort of rights for the vast majority, but nothing like what the HRA actually allows for and are interpreted by lawyers. A lot of people believe that there should be a gradiated scale of rights from absolute basic (we won't shoot you without a trial) to full citizen. In other words we treat lawbreakers differently from those who are innocent.
And hence lies the big problem with the HRA.
Express.
Metropolitan Police figures show only one in 100 foreign ­nationals arrested are removed from Britain.
Senior officers have raised concerns over the sheer number of foreign offenders.
Around 70,000 people arrested in London a year are from overseas – half from outside the European Union.
But Scotland Yard said a mere one per cent ended up ­being deported.
Isn't it a joy to know that we arrests them, try them, imprison them and yet they are allowed to stay for various spurious reasons due to the UK's legal systems interpretation of the HRA, which is apparently far, far different to that of judges anywhere else. The main reason used to stay is of course the odious 'right to a family life' despite the case that a lot of the time, the family are estranged and in a few cases the offender is/was a child molester or rapist and their rights trumped those of societies for remaining safe.
In a sensible world, any foreign national who commits a crime would find themselves kicked out after serving their sentence and even charged with the bill for doing so, but sadly the bleeding heart liberals and hard of thinking leftards who came up with the HRA do not usually have to live with the mess they created and so they get the right to remain.
No wonder the first cry in a lot of revolutions is 'kill the lawyers'

Friday, November 1, 2013

Bollocks

As in talking bollocks.
Apparently the people who can't mind their own business when it comes to what we do with our bodies have told the government that a 20% tax hike on certain soft drinks might make some people less fat.
Mail.
Slapping a 20 per cent tax on soft drinks would cut the number of fat Britons by more than a quarter of a million, claim experts.
Researchers say a price hike would drive down sales of the sugary beverages and therefore benefit the nation’s health.
A new study claims a 20 per cent tax on sugar-sweetened drinks would reduce the number of adults who are obese or overweight by 285,000.
In other words preparing the grounds for the government to raise revenue, the evidence is out there that raising taxes simply doesn't work and people will either carry on the same or find something else that they enjoy drinking/eating. It didn't work with cigarettes, it didn't work with alcohol and it won't work with fizzy drinks, it's simply an excuse to raise revenue. Indeed there's a direct correlation on the price of something going too high and people switching to illegal and untested substances when cigarettes became expensive. It even drove people into the hands of criminal gangs and I rather expect the man in a van who sells cheap ciggies and booze from France will add another sideline to his trade.
No, in this case as with most other cases involving the government raiding our pockets, the experts involved will simply be telling the government what they want to hear.
Nothing more, nothing less.