Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Earning your pension

Cameron to right of them, 
 Milliband to left of them, 
 Voters in front of them 
Volley'd and thunder'd 
Storm'd at with hue and cry 
 Boldly they rode Into the jaws of Death 
Into the mouth of Hell 
 Rode the Lib Dem EUphiles 

 With apologies to Alfred Tennyson...

The boy Clegg announced the suicide of his party today, struggling against the rise of Ukip and the voters growing distaste and hatred of the EU Clegg firmly nailed his parties colours to the mast in supporting the EU and gaining his pension for the year from them.
BBC.
Nick Clegg has used his new year's message to tell voters the Liberal Democrats are "Britain's party of in" when it comes to the European Union.
The Lib Dem leader said other parties would put "narrow political interest" ahead of the UK economy.
Mr Clegg said UKIP "want out" of the EU, the Conservatives were "flirting with exit" and Labour "don't have the courage of their convictions on this"
As this blog has said many times, Cameron and Milliband do not want to take us out of the EU, despite the wishes of many in their parties, what they are aware of though is the growing threat of a party who are determined to take us out and who are taking votes from their core support, both left and right. This means that they are having to go against their base instincts and at least court the anti-EU wings of their parties in order to shore up their support.
Clegg however refuses to do this, he somehow believes that there may be support for the EU in the coming EU elections and that the Lib Dems can tap into it. The fact that he has to big up the EU as part of his pension deal is of course not mentioned by the BBC.
Mind you, bucking national trends is second nature for the Lib Dems, it's part of their mythos of always being the party of choice in protest vote politics, although they've discovered the price of power now in that sooner or later everyone despises you.
So perhaps all this is a cunning plan to send the Lib Dems permanently into protest vote obscurity?
Wouldn't put it past them...

Monday, December 30, 2013

One law for us...

I wonder what a judge would say to most people if they were accused of a crime yet attempted to get the judge to set up a gagging order to prevent anyone knowing they were on trial for breaking the law? I rather suspect that if we weren't a muslim/politician/policeman/lawyer then we'd get pretty short shrift, the legal people looking after their own and in the case of a muslim, falling for the 'cultural' reasoning that they seem to come out with to keep their names out of the press...
Mail.
A judge allowed two Muslim solicitors accused of trying to cheat the legal system to hide behind a cloak of secrecy for ‘cultural reasons’, the Daily Mail can disclose.
He banned reporting of the case of Asha Khan, 30, and her brother Kashif, 34, to prevent them allegedly being shamed in the eyes of their community.
In the latest farce involving secret justice, the pair were told they could enjoy the court’s protection because members of their family would pass judgment if the case was reported.
It is a privilege rarely bestowed on defendants in the justice system, which has operated on the principle of transparency for centuries. However, following a challenge by the Daily Mail, the restriction was lifted – enabling the case to be reported.
Judge Peter Hughes reversed his original ban after deciding that the principle of open justice was more important than saving the embarrassment of a defendant.
One wonders just what kind of judgement their families would pass on a speeding fine... although the real killer charge was perverting the course of justice, neither of which I suspect would faze their community, it's not like they doodled the paedo-prophet now is it?
Not that points swapping is entirely unknown either, just ask Vicki Pryce the ex-wife of ex-MP Chris Huhne and the ludicrous lengths he went to, to cover up his misdemeanour.
No, I suspect most of this was simply personal to try and keep their names out of the press and perhaps... just perhaps not give muslims in general another bad news day.
Yet it does strike me that if the ruling had not been overturned, this would have set a precedent, with all ethnic and cultural groups saying their trials should not be reported for fear of shaming them in their community? After all, precedents are the basis of most new legal decisions with regard to dealing with points of law.
Then again I rather doubt a Christian Lawyer or a Jewish Lawyer would have had the stones to attempt something so blatant to keep their names and their communities names out of the press. I rather suspect this was an attempt to try and tag 'muslim' onto a submission in an attempt to avoid publicity, it's not like judges have not attempted to block publicity on muslim trials in the grooming cases ongoing within the country after all.
Still, kudos to the Daily Mail (for once) in getting this precedent removed, God alone knows what would have happened if it was allowed to stand.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Out of touch

It comes as no surprise that there are people in the Tory Party who believe the best place for Britain is in the EU, fortunately in most cases they are essentially nobodies, though some like Lord Howe of Aberavon have a past of pandering to every EU whim as he's never really had to live with the true consequences of the EU's diktats...
Express.
Lord Howe of Aberavon, who served as chancellor and foreign secretary in Margaret Thatcher's government, said the Prime Minister had made his position more difficult by his "repeated concessions" to the Eurosceptics.
He said that Mr Cameron now must give a lead on the issue, and not leave it to outside individuals and organisations.
Mr Cameron is currently committed to renegotiating the terms of Britain's membership and then putting the outcome to a vote in an in/out referendum after the next general election if the Conservatives win power.
But while the Prime Minister has said he wants Britain to remain in the EU, Lord Howe - whose resignation over Europe in 1990 triggered Baroness Thatcher's downfall as prime minister - said that it was not enough.
In a statement released by the pro-EU British Influence campaign, Lord Howe said: "The more people understand and experience the reality of Britain's place in today's interdependent world - an interdependence which Conservative policies in the 1980s did so much to promote - the less likely they are to want this country to leave the European Union.
Unfortunately for Lord Howe and the Pro-EU campaign, the people whom they have to convince are a growing majority of sorts who hate the EU and pretty much all it stands for and simply want a free trade zone, not a political union.
Unfortunately for us the person leading the Tory party has also admitted that he wants to keep us in and I expect he'll rig the vote to keep us in if he can win a few minor concessions from the EU to justify a Neville Chamberlain moment moment for the UK public.
Interdependence does not mean the UK has to remain in the EU, if anything the EU hinders trade and development because it's a trade cartel and doesn't allow cheaper food and good from abroad into itself for sale. Were we independent of the EU we could perhaps rejoin EFTA and trade happily with the world (and the EU) without being tied to the ridiculous regulations that they put in place to hamper trade and innovation.
I still believe we'll only be offered a referendum if they know the vote will be a pro-EU one, Cameron has given me no other reason to believe so.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Parish Notice

Lady QM and I are inflicting ourselves on my step-daughters in-laws down in Devon.
I expect I'll eat and drink far too much, but hopefully avoid a mass family punch up.
I'll be back blogging on Sunday I expect.
 In the meantime have a happy Christmas (Solstice, Hanukkah, Yule, your life your belief) and may your troubles be minor if any at all.





Monday, December 23, 2013

It's that global warming thingy innit?

Last May I was in Cairo visiting the Pyramids and the museum, it was fascinating stuff and compared to the UK bloody warm. So just the other day this picture caught the eye of Lady QM...

Yes, that't Cairo and yes it's snowing
Oh I'm sure a lot of people of the enviroloon movement can be trotted out to tell us that weather isn't climate... except when we hit a warm spell then apparently it is... go figure.

Not snowing
It hasn't snowed in Cairo for 112 years and now they're enjoying the odd snowball fight one assumes.
Perhaps we ought to get our power stations out of mothballs and start belching some carbon into the atmosphere... just in case there's an ice age and we can stop it...

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Pandering

There's a guy I work with, he's fairly new to the company and a really nice guy. However one of the jobs he has to do is erect ancillary equipment on scaffolding and this means working at heights. When he first started he said he had no problem with heights and appeared to get on fine doing the job. There have now been two incidents however in which he has run into problems working at exposed heights, even with the harness system we use for protection.
Disciplinary proceedings (of a sort) are now ongoing and despite being counselled over the first incident, it rather looks like the guy will lose his job due to his unwillingness (or fear) to carry out his duties.
It's a shame, he's a nice guy, but the company isn't willing to employ someone who can't or won't do the job they are employed for.
You'd think this would be the same in most businesses, well you'd be wrong, particularly if you're dealing with a member of the religion of perpetual offence...
Telegraph.
Muslim staff working for Marks & Spencer have been given permission to refuse to serve customers buying alcohol or pork products
Its policy decision has highlighted a split among the big food retailers over whether religious staff should be excused certain jobs.
In contrast to M&S, Sainsbury’s said it had issued official guidelines that stated there was no reason why staff who did not drink alcohol or eat pork for religious reasons could not handle the goods.
The advice followed consultations with religious groups, said a spokesman.
Tesco said it treated each case on its merits, but said it “made no sense” to employ staff on a till who refused to touch certain items for religious reasons.
At M&S, Muslim staff who do not wish to handle alcohol or pork have been told they can politely request that customers choose another till at which to pay.
Now I have no problem with the muslims having difficulty handling glass and plastic for after all it's not like they will actually come into contact with the articles their silly god has said they can't touch. The problem I have is stores employing people who cannot or will not do their jobs and cite religious reasons for doing so. If the job requirement is for you to work at a checkout and deal with the good sold in the store, then that's what you do. If there's a problem handling said goods for you personally, then you really shouldn't be working there, nor forcing your religious driven phobias on other people who are actually paying your bloody wages!
Pandering to religions, not just the islamic one is simply not a path to be going down. Yet Marks and Spencer are doing just that by pandering to certain staff, rather than refusing to employ them because in essence they are making themselves unemployable in the role they've applied for. Would you expect a scaffolding company to employ an erector that refused to work at heights for religious reasons? Or a doctor who would refuse to treat the sick if their skin was the wrong colour? Yet this is essence is what Marks and Spencer are permitting, they are employing those who are refusing to do their jobs and allowing them to use their religion as an excuse not to do them.
This is a slippery slope that we're going down and pandering to these people here and in other areas simply makes them attempt to try for more concessions from companies, politicians and other organisations.
If you can't do a job, then you should not apply for it, simple as that.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

It's for your own good

'It's for your own good' the cry of the bansturbator, along with the perennial 'Think of the children' memes which haunt the places of influence that these odious people frequent in order to force us to abide by their decisions. Essentially they treat us like children with blanket bans rather than tackling the real problems...
Telegraph.
Betting machines in book makers which let punters bet hundreds of pounds every minute are to be banned if Labour wins the next election.
Ed Miliband said he would pass a new law giving councils the power to ban so-called Fixed Odds Betting Terminals if he is Prime Minister after 2015.
The Labour leader said the terminals, which allow punters to bet £300 a minute or £18,000 an hour, were turning bookies into “mini casinos”.
Mr Miliband said the machines were being targeted in poorer areas, which people could ill-afford heavy losses on the machines.
I'm sure there are problems with gamblers not knowing when to stop, it's the same with any pastime or enjoyment, we see it with people who like a drink and get violent, sports fans, union activists, politicians etc. Some people just don't know when to stop.
The problems start when idiots like the current leftards in the Labour party or the self righteous Daily Mailer's of the Tories decide that 'something must be done' and their solution is not to apply specific solutions to a problem but always to opt for the blanket ban. So they penalise the person who spends a little time playing a slot machine and not a fortune to save us all from those who do. In a similar manner they ban ordinary folks from having a drink outside a pub in the summer rather than go after those causing a problem. They'll hike the price of alcohol through the roof and penalise all rather than simply use existing laws to round up drunken troublemakers. They then panic when counterfeit (cheap) booze suddenly comes onto the market because the real stuff is too expensive. They banned smoking in pubs and hid the results of a survey which told the world passive smoking actually does not increase your chances of getting cancer.
Bansturbation or taxation is all these people know and use the foolish to force their views on everyone else and it's all about power and control to those trying to treat adults like children with their 'we know best' attitudes which more often than not have unforeseen consequences which shows that they definitely don't know best.
The list of people we're going to have to hang in order to bring sanity back to this country grows ever longer.

Friday, December 20, 2013

A damning indictment of racism against the white working class

It seems that our police fearful of being racist against certain scum whose religion has become a byword for extremism, intolerance and criminal behaviour decided to ignore the victims of the grooming scandal in Rochdale, because... they were from council estates.
An excuse that is only part of the truth I suspect.
Mail.
One of Britain's worst child sex-grooming gangs was allowed to flourish in Rochdale because police ignored their victims when they found out they were from council estates, the local MP has said.
Labour's Simon Danczuk said officers' class snobbery was one of a catalogue of failings by Greater Manchester Police and other agencies in their handling of the scandal, highlighted in the Serious Case Review published today.
According to its findings, a 'significant part' of the sexual exploitation committed against young girls should have been predicted and prevented.
Five of six victims on whom the report focused were 'clearly in need of early help and at times intervention' by safeguarding agencies for several years before they were abused.
The abuse centred around nine men, eight of Pakistani origin and one from Afghanistan, who worked for or were connected to taxi firms and takeaway food outlets.
Part of the report which showed that, of 40 child protection conferences, for one of the victims there is no record of police attendance or involvement.
You'll note that the racial part of the scandal has been pretty kept under wraps, but has been reported in the press elsewhere that muslim males of Pakistani descent have a major problem with civilised behaviour where it comes to other cultures, particularly women. It's reinforced by their barbaric tribal customs and exacerbated by the religion of the paedo-prophet who had no problems raping, enslaving and deflowering girls at the age of nine. Plus we know that muslims see Mo as the most perfect of men and to be emulated by muslims, so there is a major problem when islam runs up against civilised values.
Where it really goes wrong though is where the political correctness culture becomes a roadblock in the way of treating all victims equally as the police, social services and the CPS were all afraid to act due to having to deal with a minority culture and were afraid of accusations of racism.
Not that this excuses the Pakistani community, they bloody well knew what was going on and condoned it because it wasn't their women being raped and abused!
There is simply no place for islam in a civilised society, we need to be rid of this evil in our midst as soon as possible.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

New phone

New grief, new frustration, nuff said.

Bloody hell why do they make this so bloody difficult!

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Not quite a Darwin award

It never ceases to amaze me, the sheer stupidity of some people when trying to do something funny, illegal, or simply for a bet. Take Karl McGarry for instance (please) he wants to be an arsonist, he wants to be an arsonist so much he set fire to himself...
Express.
Karl McGarry was left looking like the bumbling burglar in Home Alone when his Russian-style furry hat went up in flames.
The 25-year-old eventually managed to extinguish the flames but his attempts at arson left him writhing in agony and with red burn marks to the top of his head.
The incident occurred in July 2011 after McGarry had been recruited to firebomb the cars in St Helens, by local drugs baron Eugene Price, 34, who was engaged in a 20 year feud with a rival family.
But McGarry goofed when he put his head inside one of the cars to light the petrol and set his hat on fire in the process.
He was seen being driven away with his head still in a "blaze of flames."
He got six years for it, but frighteningly enough he's still capable of breeding...
If he had managed to kill himself I'm sure he may have been a candidate for the Darwin Awards, given out to the most lunatic deaths by accidental design on the planet.
It is of course possible that in some future McGarry could possibly become a useful citizen, though at this stage it's difficult to see how he could manage to raise his intelligence above that of your average housefly approaching a bug zapper.
Still, I'm sure the streets are far safer with McGarry off them...

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Satisfying my inner elf

Tonight I'm off to see The Hobbit (Desolation of Smaug) as my Christmas treat, it's something I've been quite looking forward too since seeing the previous one.
Yes I know there are purists out there who don't like the Peter Jackson touch with the addition of a few scenes and characters not in the original book, although in the case of Legolas as his father was the King Elf then at least he has a reason (sort of) for being in it.
Other bitches I have heard are that it's far too long (all three movies) both in the number of and the length of the films themselves. In my case like the Lord of the Rings there's no such thing as too long and was a tad disappointed that Tom Bombadil didn't make an appearance in the first Lord movie.
However this is my treat as well as Lady QM's and I'm pretty damned sure we're going to enjoy it having read the books and other addendums.
I do however wonder if Jackson would or could tackle the Silmarillion, perhaps that would be a step too far...

Monday, December 16, 2013

Big brother is blocking you

The Daily Mail is as ever going into it's usual orgiastic 'we've saved the world from paedogeddon' with the announcement that an internet provider is going to automatically block people from stuff they think we don't want to see rather than give us the choice...
Mail. (usual caveats)
BT has announced all new customers will have parental control filters switched on when they subscribe to its broadband service.
The company has offered the free Parental Controls service for a number of years, but this is the first time new customers will have to actively choose whether to turn the filters off.
During the set-up process, a box that turns on the controls - which block a number of sites including pornography, those containing self-harm and violence as well as hate sites - will be automatically ticked.
Subscribers will then have to actively turn the blocks off and instead decide what level of protection - if any - they require.
The company will also extend its filter service to all internet devices including games consoles and tablets. Previously parents could only block potentially harmful sites on desktops and laptops.
BT will also be contacting all of its existing customers from the start of next year, forcing them to make a choice about the level of controls on their broadband.
Whilst not a case of Big Brother is watching you, it's definitely a case of big brother is making damned sure you don't see anything they don't want, unless you switch it off and then have the whole world know you as a pornographer, for if you do switch the filters off, BT will bloody well know about it...
Not that at the moment it's difficult to get around the filters, a quick Google will tell you how and the use of a VPN or proxy server will do the job quite adequately too. Which does seem to suggest that the kids will be OK whilst the parents will be confused as to why they can't watch the Robin Thicke 'Blurred Lines' video on youtube any more.
The thing with this sort of creeping authoritarianism is that people become accustomed not to think for themselves. Parents will assume the internet filter is in place and doing its job without as ever actually checking what their little darlings are up too.
In the end it ought to be our responsibility to monitor what our kids watch, not BT's or the states or especially the Daily Mail's.

Friday, December 13, 2013

Parish notice

I'm inflicting myself on relatives over the weekend intending to eat all their best food and drink.
Normal blogging will resume Monday.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Safe at last

Well I'm off the hook, a law which pretty much describes me has been taken off the statute books, although only the description applies...
Telegraph.
Incorrigible rogues can sleep safely at night - it is no longer a criminal offence to be one in England and Wales.
''Being an incorrigible rogue'', under the Vagrancy Act 1824, is one of 309 offences to be repealed and removed from the statute book in the year up until May. This is compared to 201 offences repealed in the previous 12 month period.
Other crimes removed in the period include ''solemnising marriage outside specified hours'' under the Marriage Act 1949, which was repealed by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, which removed restrictions on the time of day marriages or civil partnerships can take place.
The figures released by the Ministry of Justice show only one offence - ''conspire to sell/transfer a pistol it being a prohibited weapon'' - had any prosecutions from January 2008 to September 2013, with a total of 16 prosecutions between 2011 and 2012.
Mind you, I suspect there are any number of other laws I could be found guilty of, that's what's unique about UK justice, if the police wish to arrest you, they can, they may not be able to hold you very long, but yes, they can arrest you.
So yes my family see me in part as an incorrigible rogue, if only because of my political views and libertarian leanings. Mostly they think I'm a daft old bugger of course and I'm pretty sure that one is still an offence on the statute books.
Of course the really bad thing about losing 309 laws which had little or no meaning or use in today's society is that...
A total of 327 new criminal offences were created in the same period, a 12% increase compared with the previous 12 months.
And I rather suspect that most if not all of those 327 laws will be used to full effect and many were EU laws passed on the nod by our feckless MP's.
Thing is, we mostly do not need specific laws targeting areas that existing laws already cover, this is why hasty law is bad law. All we need are a few laws properly applied, but sadly politicians are control freaks and will simply not leave well enough alone.
Still, at least I can get on with being an incorrigible rogue in peace now...

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Ignorance is bliss

At least according to Gwent Police who have come up with a rather novel way of reducing their crime figures.
Telegraph.
A police force which boasted the largest fall in crime in England and Wales failed to record dozens of incidents, a report found.
An investigation into Gwent Police's figures discovered half the reported crimes it looked at were incorrectly recorded by officers.
It comes months after Police and Crime Commissioner Ian Johnston accused former Chief Constable Carmel Napier of manipulating the force's crime figures.
Mrs Napier strongly denied this but quit in June after an order from Mr Johnston to "retire or be removed".
Gwent Police recorded the largest fall in crime in England and Wales for the year 2011-12.
A rather simple solution to the states insistence on documenting everything by way of league tables is it not?
Get to the top of the table by lying or misrepresenting the figures that you submit, after all it's what the climate change lobby have been doing for years and no one's pulled them on it (much) well by way of politicians anyway.
The problem is of course sooner or later you have to provide proof of your figures and that's where Gwent fell foul in it's marvellous little scheme to be the best of the best. It's like a 100 metre athlete claiming he can do it in under five seconds, sooner or later he has to prove it to someone other than himself. Still it does make you wonder who else is out there lying about things...
Cameron's 'this isn't islam' springs to mind as a more blatant example. As does Gordon Brown's 'no more boom and bust' too. Though picking on politicians saying idiotic things is a bit like grenading fish in a barrel. Other examples were/are the ever increasing exam achievements by our kids, despite the headlines from bosses and universities that they could barely read, write or do maths in some cases. The polar bears will all drown being another as their numbers are increasing and the voracious buggers can swim really well.
We are lied to on a daily basis, it's just nice to see someone finally getting pulled on it...

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Showing your true colours

When in negotiations, do you for example send in a guy who is known to sympathise with the opposition to do your negotiations for you no matter how experienced he is? Or do you send in someone who will fight like hell to get what you want, even if they aren't as experienced?
I rather expect that most would send in the attack dog, however when it's the EU and it's Cameron sending in a team to negotiate...
Mail.
David Cameron has risked angering Tory Eurosceptics by refusing to appoint a powerful figure to spearhead a renegotiation of Britain’s relationship with the EU.
The Prime Minister insisted Foreign Secretary William Hague and Europe minister David Lidington were ‘making good progress’ and headed ‘one of the most expert groups of people I could have’.
There have been growing calls from Conservative MPs suspicious of the Foreign Office’s attitude to Brussels for Mr Cameron to bring in a senior Eurosceptic to start talks with other EU leaders.
Eurosceptic Tory backbencher Douglas Carswell expressed concern about the Prime Minister’s remarks.
‘It is very unlikely that the Foreign Secretary or the Europe Minister are even minded to get a great new deal for us, let alone likely to get one,’ Mr Carswell said.
Sadly I believe Douglas Carswell is right, Cameron has no intentions of offering us any sort of deal with the EU that would actually repatriate powers, we may get a shiny new treaty that he can claim to support in his promised referendum, but it isn't one that the EUskeptics want or indeed possibly a majority of the UK public want. Cameron is desperately playing for time, there are doubts that he will win the next election, which is why he promised a forced upon him referendum, but also if he does win the election he needs something in order to fool the UK public in not tipping over the Brussels gravy train.
It's still my belief that Cameron will only offer us a referendum if he's positive that the result will be the one he wants, otherwise all we'll get is delays. The other outcome will be if we lose, we'll be given the opportunity to do it again as Ireland found out.
What we really need is to elect a party who will simply take us out, unfortunately none of the big three will do so...

Monday, December 9, 2013

Soldier of allah my a**e

I did think that when the barbarians who butchered Lee Rigby were allowed to go on trial that they'd simply use it as an excuse to expound islam as it is, rather than islam as our idiot politicians and assorted leftards want us to believe islam to be.
Granted it makes them look like utter barbarians, but giving air time or MSM time to these people is also counter-productive as it only encourages the other buggers to come out of the woodwork.
Express.
A MAN accused of murdering Drummer Lee Rigby told a court today he does not regret what happened to the soldier, whom he admitted killing as part of a "military operation".
Michael Adebolajo, 28, told the Old Bailey that he would never regret obeying Allah.
The defendant also claimed he loves al Qaeda because they were his "brothers of Islam".
The defendant told the court that his defence to the alleged murder is because he is a soldier and it was a "military operation".
"I'm a soldier. I'm a soldier of Allah," the jury heard.
No uniform, no country, no conscience. This does not make him a soldier but an agent provocateur  and as such ought to be shot... or even better drowned in a vat of pigs blood. You see saboteurs, spies and other military clandestine groups are subject to different rules if caught not wearing uniforms. That's why we have different courts for our armed forces as civil courts simply cannot know or take into account the stresses they are under. But terrorists are not and never will be soldiers, the clue is in the 'terror' part of the description therefore different rules ought to apply. It's also why our idiot politicians and leftards don't get militant islam, becuase they simply do not understand the mindset of these barbarians and will often welcome them into our midst without realising that they actually believe they are at war with us.
No, these men aren't soldiers, they do not fight like soldiers nor do they behave like soldiers, they behave like muslims are supposed to in the quran. They are terrorists, murderers, rapists, looters, slavers and overthrowers of civilisations.
They do not belong amongst us, now or ever.
That they are allowed speaks more for the failure of our politicians not to recognise the threat, they'd rather target so called right wing groups and their supporters for pointing out the bleeding obvious.
I truly fear for our countries future if we continue to treat this menace with kid gloves.

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Nice money if you can get it

So, MP's aka thieving parasites are to get an 11% wage rise via an independent agency and oddly enough, some believe they are due more. The leaders of the three main parties have naturally stepped in to say they oppose such a huge rise but their hands are tied. a rather simple get out for them as no doubt they'll pocket the cash anyway.
BBC.
MPs are set to receive an 11% pay rise when a parliamentary watchdog publishes its final recommendations on salaries this week.
The rise is due after the 2015 general election and will take pay to £74,000.
But the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is also expected to announce a squeeze on pensions and the resettlement grants that MPs are given when they leave Parliament.
All three party leaders disagreed with the rise when it was first proposed.
However Ipsa does not need to get the agreement of Parliament to bring in the changes.
OK, first off, no one expects them to do what they do for nothing, though as a group they do tend to take the piss an awful lot with their expenses scams, gold plated pensions and general ignorance as to what the public wants as opposed to what party dogma wants. And it is rather a truism that we tend to get exactly what we vote for, 'we' being those who vote for the big three whenever there is an election rather than those like myself who have not voted mainstream for at least two decades and naturally have yet to see anyone we voted for elected to parliament save only in the EU elections.
However in a year in which people in work are struggling to make ends meet and many of whom have not had a rise at all in several years never mind one in line with inflation IPSA do appear to be out of line with the public's idea of proportional... to put it mildly. Sure they are increasing the amount that MP's have to pay for their pensions and some of the expenses scams, but in reality all that people will see are a bunch of corrupt thieving ne'er-do-wells once more dipping into the public purse to feed their already well subsidised lifestyles.
Still at least every time they do this it brings their inevitable end at the hands of an angry mob ever closer...

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Jobsworths uber alles

There are those out there without a spark of humanity, whose adherence to petty rules and regulations forms their raison d'etre and to whom an exception has to be authorised from on high.
Such is the life of a Department of Work and Pensions civil servant who applied the letter of the law to a poppy seller.
Express.
A VETERAN soldier has lost his jobseeker’s allowance – because he was selling poppies instead of “actively seeking work”.
The decision to take away the benefit from father-of-four Stephen Taylor, 60, who served in Cyprus, Kenya and Northern Ireland, caused outrage last night.
He admitted when he signed on at his local Jobcentre that he had spent 24 hours over a two-week period selling poppies to raise charity funds for veterans.
His honesty was rewarded by staff deeming he was in breach of rules governing benefit payments and his £71.20-a-week allowance was withdrawn.
The former pub manager has been out of work for a year and has now missed out on four weekly payments for selling the poppies outside an Asda store in Bury, Greater Manchester, in the run-up to Remembrance Day.
This is the mindset of those who work for the state, all must be declared and penalties will be given for breaches of the rules no matter what you're doing. It wasn't as if Mr Taylor was even earning money, as he was selling poppies, technically he wasn't actively seeking work so the Dept of  Work and Pensions penalised him for doing a good deed and having the temerity to honestly admit to them what he was doing. Had he just sat in his house with his feet up, no problem, down the pub (assuming he can afford too) no problem, shopping, no problem. Sell poppies for a very worthy cause down comes the wrath of the state...
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: “We make it clear to people what the rules are and that they risk losing their benefits if they don’t play by them. Sanctions are only used as a last resort.
Sounds like they were used as a first resort here and no doubt someone in the Debt feels particularly smug about putting the boot into a veteran soldier.
In other news, Trafford Council landed a £300,000 bill because a bunch of asylum seekers were dumped on them by the Home Office.
Makes you wonder just where the priorities of the government in the UK are, doesn't it?

Friday, December 6, 2013

An apt choice...

An article in the Mail caught my eye, it's the usual mix of sensationalism and wind-uppery that the Mail's readership are drawn too. Essentially it's about a psychopathic rapist who served a prison sentence and then after release immediately took up his chosen 'hobby' with another unfortunate 18 year old.
Mail.
A psychopath who repeatedly raped a teenage girl just four months after being released from prison for an identical attack was jailed for life today.
David Brierley, 34, repeatedly assaulted the 18-year-old victim during a 45-minute attack in Swindon town centre in February this year.
A court heard how the victim thought she was going to die and begged Brierley to stop his violent attack but he ignored her pleas and carried on the attack.
Brierley, who is 5ft 10 and weighs 19 stone had been jailed for eight years at Warwick Crown Court in 2001 for repeatedly raping and assaulting an 18-year-old girl in a Stratford upon Avon churchyard the previous year.
But had only finally been freed from prison in October 2012 after being recalled for breaching the license of that release.
Well I'm glad he's been put away for life, though in my view life should have ended about five minutes after being found guilty beyond all doubt (not reasonable doubt) with a bullet to the brain and all his worldly goods forfeited to his victim. I could have gone on about the absurdly short sentence for the crime, or the fact that there were warning signs that he was unrepentant in his attitude owing to a breach of his license.
However it does appear that Brierley has made an apt choice for his disgusting crimes.
Brierley, who has now converted to Islam, had also unsuccessfully tried to change his guilty pleas after realising that he could be jailed for life and did not want to be portrayed as a 'horrible beast'.
Yes that's right, Brierley has taken the religion notorious for rape, paedophilia, child grooming, murder, extortion, theft, genocide and eternal victimhood as his religion, an apt choice if ever there were one. You can take a look at its founders crimes to see that Brierley would have fitted in perfectly with the false prophet of Islam.
That's not to tarnish all muslims with the same brush, many are good folk despite their religion, many not even knowing the crimes of its founder, though many were shocked at the Lee Rigby barbarism and the fact that its perpetrators were acting in the way and words of their prophet.
It's only a pity that the child molesters who have been found guilty of grooming our young women weren't given similar sentences.
Brierley again makes it plain that there's no place for islam in a civilised society.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Talentless

Whilst in certain forms graffiti can be spectacular, thought provoking, occasionally beautiful, generally it's just tags and mindless vandalism, pretty much on property which isn't owned by the 'artist' if artist isn't too generous a term for a vandal.
Mail.
A grafitti ‘artist’ who caused thousands of pounds of damage has been spared jail after a magistrate described him as ‘the next Banksy’.
Tom Dewhurst, 22, is responsible for spraying more than 50 locations across Manchester but magistrate Leslie Bottomley chose to focus on his potential talent rather than the acts of vandalism, handing him only a fine and community service order.
Admitting the decision might raise eyebrows, Mr Bottomley told him: 'I will probably get my wrists slapped for this but you seem to have talent and could be the next Banksy.'
Not exactly a talent worth keeping out of jail.
 Why is it that a judge has decider to be a talent scout rather than applying the law to a little scroat whose talent is dwarfed by my 3 year old granddaughter when it comes to art?
Banksy at least has talent and imagination (even if he is breaking the law), the few examples of Mr Dewhurst art appear to show that he lacks either. Essentially the guy is a tagger, he has some talent, but mostly uses it to scrawl a signature of a sort around Manchester. As it is he's supposed to have done thousands of pounds worth of damage, yet only gets a £1000 fine. His mates are trying to raise the cash for the fine by selling graffiti...
One does wonder where he gets the money for the paint too...

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Not far right

Far right is a misnomer used by lazy journalists and leftards to denounce groups they see as racist, the groups so accused are often not right anything, racist or doing any real harm. Some are simply nationalist groups, pressure groups or concerned citizens, but if their modus operandi falls foul of what the state or leftards see as unaccepting of political correctness, diversity or multiculturalism with regards to the states pets then the group is inevitably labelled far right. There are however some groups who basically are racist, bigoted barbarians, however labelling them far right again is a misnomer, because a quick check of their credentials shows that they are anything but...
Telegraph.
Hundreds of unsolved killings and attempted killings in Germany over the past two decades may have been committed by far-right extremists, officials said on Wednesday.
The stark admission comes two years after a series of murders German police had linked to immigrant criminal groups. Now, it turns out, that the killings may have been the work of a secretive neo-Nazi group.
Lazy journalism, there's nothing remotely far right about Nazism, the Nazis, with their statist economic policies and penchant for nationalisation, bear almost no resemblance to modern right-wing thinking in the way of market forces or indeed capitalism.
”We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions”
- Adolf Hitler, Hitler’s speech on May 1, 1927.
Of course we only have his word for it, though it appears Hitler did not see the Nazi movement as one of the right... Nor did the NSDAP (The Nazi Party) for instance...
Nationalization of corporations and industries
“13. We demand the nationalisation of all (previous) associated industries (trusts)”
- The 25-point Program of the NSDAP
So which party supports nationalization of corporations and industries? Is that more left-wing or right-wing?
Profit-sharing
“14. We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries”
- The 25-point Program of the NSDAP
Profit-sharing is definitely a left-wing idea.
Expansion of pension
“15. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare“
- The 25-point Program of the NSDAP
Expansion of old age welfare? You couldn’t be a right winger if you supported it...

So once again we have the same old terms trotted out to differentiate the barbarians of the left and right, even if a quick check will tell you that it's like differing branches of the church, one is regarded as orthodox, the others as heretics, even if a close check tells you that apart from a few odd things, you couldn't slip a cigarette paper between them.
No, what the Germans are looking for is an extreme left group following the Nazi philosophy, not a bunch of free market capitalists with a racist bent.



Tuesday, December 3, 2013

It's the system or the teachers, you decide

An OECD (Economic Co-operation and Development) report is out stating that British kids have stagnated in standards achieved in core academic subjects by more than 500,000 pupils aged 15 in 65 countries.
Telegraph.
British schoolchildren are lagging dramatically behind their peers in the Far East despite a multi-billion pound rise in education spending under the last government, a major international study has found.
Standards achieved by pupils in the UK have failed to improve over six years as teenagers elsewhere in the developed world continue to pull ahead.
Figures published by the respected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) compared standards achieved in core academic subjects by more than 500,000 pupils aged 15 in 65 countries.
I do wonder if the rise in education spending actually went on infrastructure rather than raising standards.
However I suspect the biggest problem our kids have isn't that they are less bright, but that the system is designed to hold them back and possibly too many subjects are taught along with occasional problems in schools where the first language is anything but English.
Years of meddling in the system by politicians trying to put right the degradations caused by leftard thinking have left us with a lowest common denominator system where the best are swamped by the mediocre. There's little or no streaming in schools, merely banding and the emphasis is upon passing an Ofsted test rather than actually teaching the kids something.
The teaching Unions themselves do not help matters by fighting like furies to keep incompetent teachers in place as well as their pilgrim system where activist teachers actually spend no time in the classroom and instead spend all their time on union duties (all paid for at taxpayers expense)
Our system was wrecked years ago when the comprehensive system was introduced, the retirement of the last able teachers from the era before has been the death knell for our kids when it comes to getting a state education. Envy and malice from the leftards reduced a system which produced a well educated generation into adult life into a mess which benefits no one and has employers bemoaning the fact that often enough kids come for interviews unable to read, write, do basic maths or even articulate a sentence verbally.
So I suspect we'll continue to slip down the league tables until we scrap the system we have and replace it with one that gets rid of political correctness, multiculturalism plus allows teachers to teach and keeps the unions out of education.
In other words, not for a long time.

Monday, December 2, 2013

Not our problem

In a week where the UK government struggles to actually get rid of a failed asylum seeker, comes another tale of someone we don't want trying to get back in our country.
Despite the fact that the guy is a known extremist and an explosives expert, naturally the usual suspects are up in arms over the UK governments attempts to keep someone out of this country.
Mail. (usual caveats)
An Iraqi terror suspect has become the first person to have his British passport revoked twice by the Home Secretary.
Hilal Al-Jedda, alleged to be an explosives expert, previously won a Supreme Court battle to have his citizenship restored, on the grounds that he had been rendered 'stateless'.
But Theresa May has now ordered him to have his passport taken away again, claiming his terror links make him dangerous to the British public.
The move will be welcomed by campaigners who have argued that Al-Jedda should be banned from returning to Britain.
However, human rights activists have spoken out against the decision, saying that it is unfair to strip someone of citizenship if they do not have a passport from another country.
It goes without saying that the guy is a muslim, whilst not all muslims are terrorists, a lot of terrorists are muslims and most atrocities committed in the world today are done by extreme islamic groups.
Naturally enough most sane people do not want terror suspects running around loose in the UK, particularly those who are known to be explosive experts, though what manner of expertise he has is not stated, still we'd be right to be cautious.
However the insanity of the human rights activists knows no bounds and I'm pretty sure they will attempt to use a lot of taxpayers money via legal aid to attempt to have the guys passport and right to terrorise return allowed by the courts.
Thing is that the fact that he may become stateless isn't really our problem, there are places like Somalia where he can go and live in an islamic paradise and not bother the civilised world. But no, the guy wants to come back to the UK because he'll get benefits, a house and time to plot in comfort here.
It remains to be seen if Theresa May will be successful,  her track record against the scum loving UK judiciary hasn't been a great one so far.
Still, I suppose it will keep him out whilst the wheels of justice turn (hopefully very slowly)

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Human wrongs

The Marxist ethos in the Human Rights System can cause all manner of problems in that it normally is used to allow the guilty to avoid the consequences of their actions. There are those out there who believe that even if scum have rights then so do the rest of us and can make a compelling case for such, however in most cases, only the bad get to make headlines...
However for the servants of the state, the rights of some can be over=ridden when they decide that a danger is posed, the current scandal with the family courts held in secret, sometimes even from those who are being judged by one is one of them, however there are also the actions of social workers and local councils to be considered too...
Mail.
Social services forcibly removed a pregnant woman's unborn baby by caesarean section and put it up for adoption after obtaining a high court order on the grounds the mother had suffered a mental breakdown.
Essex council obtained an order allowing them to sedate the woman against her will before taking her daughter and placing it into care.
The Italian woman, who was in Britain on a work training course, claims she had not even been warned that she would be given a caesarean. It is not believed a natural birth would have posed a risk to her or the child's health.
Social workers argue they were acting in the best interests of the baby, who is now 15 months old, and are refusing to hand her back to the mother despite claims that she has made a complete recovery,
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, reportedly suffered a panic attack while staying at a hotel which her relatives believe was a result of her failing to take medication for a pre-existing bi-polar condition.
She called the police and was taken to a psychiatric hospital where she was sectioned under the mental health act.
The baby was born five weeks later after which the mother returned to Italy.
The case has since escalated into an international legal row with an Italian High Court judge questioning whether British care proceedings should have been applied to the child of an Italian citizen.
Now I'm pretty sure bi-polarism should not be grounds for removing a child from a parent unless they are refusing to take medication, I'm also pretty sure in this case that forcibly removing a child by caesarian breaches so many human rights that I'm amazed a High Court Judge even sanctioned it. after all, first the Council would first have to find that she was basically unfit to make any decision herself and then shown there was an acute risk to the mother if a natural birth was attempted.
Or rather I would be if this weren't the UK and the courts have been kidnapping children via the family courts and putting them up for adoption wholesale.
I do have a horrible suspicion that a caesarian was used to prevent any emotional bonding between mother and child as it's known the mother was rendered unconscious during the process, but that's simply my opinion.
In this case the power of social workers and the courts appears to be based not on facts, but on fear, misjudgement and abuse of power.
I hope the Lady gets her child back, but knowing how the system is played in this country, I'm not going to hold my breath.