Friday, January 31, 2014

Unlawful? So change the law... oh you can't it's an EU law...

No surprises when the Tory rebels failed to add an amendment to the effects of the Human Rights Act on UK law, still it was interesting that so many came out of the woodwork and embarrassed the Prime Minister who said such an amendment was unlawful.The amendment called for the clause 'the right to a family life' to be illegal for judges to use as an excuse for foreign criminals including child molesters, rapists and murderers to remain in the UK despite being convicted of such heinous crimes.
Telegraph.
David Cameron’s authority has been called into question after he was forced to rely on Labour and the Liberal Democrats to block a Conservative backbench move to toughen human rights laws.
More than 90 Conservative MPs voted for an amendment intended to make it harder for foreign criminals to avoid deportation – even though Mr Cameron had said the plan was unlawful.
The amendment also split the Coalition, as Conservative ministers sat on their hands but Lib Dem ministers voted against it.
Mr Cameron was forced into his awkward abstention by the defiance of Conservative backbenchers over the Immigration Bill.
MPs wanted to use the bill to curb judges’ ability to block deportation because of a foreign offender’s family connections in the UK.
The “right to a family life” is enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. Many Tories want to restrict the convention’s influence in British public life.
Almost 100 Conservative MPs had backed an amendment to the Bill tabled by Dominic Raab, a Tory backbencher, which would prevent most foreign criminals invoking family life to resist deportation.
The Government had refused to support the amendment, saying that official legal advice suggests it was unworkable and could be challenged in the courts.
In one sense Cameron is right, the way the HRA pervades current law would mean such an amendment could be challenged as illegal, but that presupposes the primacy of European law over UK law via the European Court of Human Rights. As our legal system is undermined by this court, the best way around it is to change the law which gives criminals access to it which of course means scrapping the HRA and withdrawing form the EU.
Anyone here think Cameron, Clegg or Milliband will go for that?
Essentially it means that foreign criminals have the right to stay here if they can show a family connection and only a leftard or Lib Dem would see that as common sense, the rest of us see it as madness and believe that if the family are so enamoured of scum then they can bloody well join them if they are deported should they so wish.
The HRA is too complex and covers too much in the way of frivolity, it should have stuck to basics such as no incarceration without trial, right to a fair trial, protection from torture to gain a confession. The right to a family life is no right at all, it's just wishful thinking on the part of namby pamby libtards and has been twisted beyond common sense to allow scum to remain in the UK against the wishes of its people.
This is why a vote for the big three political parties is a wasted vote, they have no intentions of taking us out of the EU or scrapping the HRA, it's just words to get votes.
A vote for Con/Lab/Lib is a vote to maintain the current system, frankly they don't deserve them.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Unaccountable cash grab

Seems the higher you go up in the EU the less grasp you have on the basic concept of just whose cash it is you're pronouncing on when it comes to telling national parliaments what to do... something that really they ought not to be able to do anyway...
Mail.
Eurocrats sparked fury last night by ordering the UK to double dole payments.
The Council of Europe claims the handouts given to Britain’s jobless are ‘manifestly inadequate’.
Ministers have been told they are in violation of the European Social Charter – potentially opening the door for claimants to take the Government to court to get more money.
But ministers say obeying the diktat from the Council, which oversees the controversial European Court of Human Rights, would cost the UK billions of pounds and plunge efforts to reduce the deficit into chaos.
To comply, Jobseeker’s Allow- ance (JSA) would have to be hiked by £71, from £67 to £138 a week.
Last night Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith accused the Council of Europe of ‘lunacy’.
So where's all this extra cash going to come from to pay more to those who don't work?
Oh yes, that's right it'll have to come from the taxpayer both individually and the business world.
All this is because the previous Labour Government signed us up to the Social Charter when they also signed us up to the Human Rights Act and now the ECHR has passed a judgement which will allow the UK courts to penalise the taxpayer by forcing the government to increase benefits.
The only way out of this is to withdraw from the Social Charter, the HRA and probably the EU as both sets of rights are built into the EU's mandate. Sure, no one wants people to live in poverty, but, the cost of all the benefits combined also make living on benefits a viable lifestyle choice and that is simply wrong. Being employed should vastly improve your finances and choices, at the moment it simply doesn't because once you go over a certain threshold you lose the housing benefits and health benefits and a benefitee life becomes an easy option.
It should never be easy to live on state benefits, save if you're ill, disabled or a pensioner, all others should be in the position where a job... any job is a desirable thing to have.
Instead we have the ECHR telling us we should be making it easier for those on benefits to remain there.


Wednesday, January 29, 2014

So how temporary is temporary?

I've worked on several jobs that have occasionally required a temporary solution simply to get a machine working. The onus has always been to get a permanent repair/solution in place as soon as possible. That said, the number of temporary solutions that have simply had to stay in place until it breaks again would probably be a list far longer than my arm. The main problem was as ever that some other breakdown always took precedent and so many jobs became fire fighting exercises and planned maintenance took a back seat as cost benefits and bean counters reduced maintenance departments due to the lack of problems only to realise after a few months why there were so few problems...
BBC.
Some of the "most vulnerable" Syrian refugees will be temporarily resettled in the UK, Deputy PM Nick Clegg says.
He said girls and women who had been victims of or were at risk of sexual violence, torture victims, and elderly and disabled people would get priority.
This meant the coalition was ensuring Britain's "long and proud tradition of providing refuge" lived on, he said.
The government expects the number of refugees accepted to be in the hundreds but has not set a specific target.
The UK's resettlement programme is to be separate from the ongoing UN High Commissioner for Refugees scheme which has seen Germany commit to admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees and France take 500.
The BBC understands the refugees will be given temporary visas allowing them to stay for at least three years.
I'm sure some out there are thinking great, more useless mouths to feed, but according to various treaties the UK is obliged to take in some refugees. It could be argued that we should never have signed any such thing, but that's the state of play.
My problem stems from the temporary nature if the visas, as I rather expect in three years time most will be allowed permanent residency and won't be turfed out as the Human Rights Act will be used to prevent this (Watch this space)
Despite the bleatings of Clegg and his Lib Dems as well as the Labour Party, I feel absolutely no moral responsibility for the victims of the Syrian civil war, but unfortunately if Labour and the Lib Dems pushed it, they possibly could (and would) open the floodgates, after all, Labour have form for uncontrolled access to the UK.
Hopefully this will be the end of it, but I have my doubts, if the leftards can't get us fighting for the revolting barbarians in Syria, they'll settle for us taking in their useless mouths.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Typical

It's amazing what the legal profession getup too in their never ceasing quest to grab cash off the taxpayer. Take the case of Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, the guy who was under a terrorist watch system and then absconded from a mosque wearing a burka. Now I'm pretty sure the police want a word with him and would like to know his whereabouts.
It does appear though that his lawyers know where the terror suspect is, as he's instructed them to appeal the order which requires that his whereabouts are known...
Express.
BRITAIN’S £1billion legal aid gravy train was branded “absurd” yesterday after it emerged tax­payers are funding an appeal by a terror suspect while on the run.
Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, 27 – who is feared to have had terrorist training – wore a burka to flee a mosque and evade control orders last November.
He has been missing ever since but was still granted legal aid.
Now his lawyers are asking Appeal Court judges in London to quash High Court orders aimed at protecting the public.
The October 2012 High Court rulings upheld a decision by the Home Secretary to restrict Mohamed’s movements.
Legal aid costs taxpayers more than £1billion a year, with some barristers raking in more than £500,000 from such fees.
Kind of unbelievable that a guy who is a fugitive and technically on the run from the law still has access to legal aid. I could kind of understand it if he was appealing it whilst living under the conditions, but he isn't and if anything rather proves that he must have something to hide by going on the run.
Personally I'm of the opinion that anyone who goes abroad to get terrorist training ought not to be allowed back in the UK, however that's common sense talking, the legal system is far more absurd than that and common sense approaches need not apply. Though it appears anything unlike a common sense approach will qualify for legal aid.
Now I don't know if Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed is a danger to us, I rather suspect he is, but I've no proof, what I do know is that if he's on the run then legal aid should not apply... not now, not ever.
If he hands himself back in and goes back under the restrictions fine, we'll look at that, but no aid until he does.
Sadly it appears that's not going to happen...

Monday, January 27, 2014

Rights and wrongs

I have often railed against human rights abuses when known criminals have used various clauses to remain in the UK, the most common being the right to a family life, which has even been used by a serial child abuser to remain, such are the soft touches that make up our senior judges today. I'm also aware that there are some out there who have committed no crimes yet are watched as the security forces know that they are a risk to the general public.
Mail.
An Al Qaeda-trained bomb-maker was last night free to walk Britain’s streets under a cloak of state-sanctioned anonymity.
The fanatic is one of seven men released from Government anti-terror control orders this month under rules meant to protect their human rights.
He undertook terror training in Pakistan and was named as an alleged terrorist by an American supergrass whose evidence helped to foil a massive UK bomb plot. The 41-year-old was part of a London group of Islamist extremists that included one of those who plotted to blow up the Ministry of Sound nightclub and Bluewater shopping centre in 2004.
Am I happy about this guy walking amongst us? No, I would have thought such a creature would have been banned from living here, however I'm not the one who makes up the rules.
That said, he does have a right to anonymity, if only because he hasn't actually committed a crime here and much as I'm loath to admit it in his case, it's a right I believe any decent society ought to have.
If however he does go on to commit some form of atrocity here, I will be amongst the first to be wondering why he was allowed to wander around unmonitored. But so far other than allegations, he hasn't been convicted of anything.
This probably need regulations for monitoring suspects with far more teeth than the T-PIMS but that is by the bye, until convicted or arrested then these people have a right to be give enough rope to hang themselves in anonymity.
After all, if it works to protect them, it works to protect us...

Sunday, January 26, 2014

So don't let them come back.

The government and law enforcement are apparently worried that the islamoloons who went out to Syria to join in their civil war might just be coming back intent on jihad here. Unfortunately it seems that they couldn't even do a half-way decent job and get themselves killed over there so the government is (sort of) looking for ways to keep them under control.
Express.
SYRIA's bloody civil war is increasing fears over the threat of radicalised extremist fighters returning to Britain.
It is thought more than 200 Britons are currently in the Middle East nation.
Already this year, at least 16 people are reported to have been held as part of a new security crackdown.
They are accused of returning from fighting in Syria or attending a training camp, or planning or attempting to travel to the battle-worn country.
One counter-extremist group warned the domestic threat from Syria's war could prove greater than that sparked by British involvement in Afghanistan.
You'd think that the simple solution would simply be to revoke their passports, it's not likely we'll have any use for them in the future if all they want to do is slay the enemies of islam now is it? Just imagine several hundred of the ilk that butchered Lee Rigby wandering our streets and turning any problems they have into violence simply because that's the way they think.
Not that I think the view that this is like another Afghanistan holds much credence, it's not like British troops are fighting in Syria, but unfortunately to an islamoloon an insult to one muslim nation is an insult to all, they are conditioned to believe they are at war with everyone including some sections of islam itself. Shia's don't like sunni's don't like ahmadi's don't like druze and so on down their whole perverted religion which coupled with tribal disputes between villages essentially means that the islamic nations don't tend to be good places to live and so naturally they move out only for the next generation to try and bring a little bit of home back into the system with the same tragic results.
Truly there is no place for islam in a civilised society.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

That's a good one...

Anyone reading what Ed Balls is promising the UK public on creating a surplus from the current deficit ought to be reminded of a previous Labour saying as let slip by a barrister acting on their behalf. @Manifesto promises are not subject to legitimate expectations.'
Telegraph.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls makes "binding fiscal commitment" if the Labour Party wins next year’s general election
Labour has given a deadline on when it would eliminate Britain’s budget deficit.
Ed Balls will say in a speech on Saturday that the party will clear the £86  billion deficit in current budget spending by 2020 if it wins the next general election.
The shadow chancellor will make a “binding fiscal commitment” that a Labour government will balance the books as soon as possible after 2015 and by May 2020 at the latest.
It is the first time that Mr Balls has given a deadline on eliminating the deficit, which is forecast to be £51.4 billion at next year’s election.
George Osborne, the Chancellor, has committed by 2017-18 to eliminating the current account deficit, the shortfall between government tax revenue and spending on services. Labour is carrying out a “zero-based review of public spending” to root out waste and inefficiency “by examining every pound spent by government from the bottom up”.
Apart from the fact that no politician can possible imagine what's round the corner you do have to laugh at a Labour politician going on about spending as they are very much not their own masters when it comes to budgets. The minute the pinch hits their union masters, the minute the purse strings and borrowing will go through the roof. Ed Balls is a time served follower of the socialist magic money tree philosophy of economics where if money is required, taxes and borrowing go up and keep going up as the various pet projects of the comrades keep getting piled onto the bonfire of vanities. Sure there's a place for looking after those who are struggling, but Labour take it upon themselves to not only gild the lily, but to cover it in an inch of 22 carat gold.
To put it simply, politicians in general and Labour specifically simply don't have the common sense to stick to their word and apply sound financial sense to the countries finances.
So giving us a budget surplus Labour style is probably a figment of Ed Balls imagination and about as likely as five beans growing into a giant beanstalk...

Friday, January 24, 2014

Not allowed to make our minds up...

There are those out there who are determined to censor what we can hear, say or do, they range from the petty bureaucrat who misleads people over reports to the Prime Minister who approves various laws to infringe freedoms. However the biggest culprits and hypocrites are those of the left who are quite happy to have muslim hate preachers come into the country without a murmur but will stir up a lot of wrath and hot air if a speaker comes whom they do not approve of. They call it hate speech when denouncing them, though most of the hate appears to come from the left.
Express.
MORE than 12,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Government to ban this weekend's planned UK visit by a prominent far-right Hungarian politician.
Gábor Vona, is leader of the Jobbik Party - Hungary's third largest political party which has been accused of promoting anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic views.
He is due to arrive in the UK on Sunday to encourage Hungarians living in Britain to support nationalist parties such as Nick Griffin's British National Party (BNP).
A petition calling for him to be excluded will be presented to Home Secretary Theresa May this afternoon by anti-fascist group Hope not Hate.
Now whilst I agree Jobbik are not nice people and are basically the inheritors of the Nazi mantle in Hungary, I believe banning them or attempting to ban them usually ends up giving them more in the way of publicity than perhaps they warrant.
Hope not Hate of course have form in trying to get those whom they see on the 'right' (whether they are or not) banned, although they take a far softer approach on islamic hate speakers in mosques. They managed to get Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller banned, they've attempted to silence the EDL and were instrumental in assisting in the banning of Geert Wilders. Essentially they only target their own limited blinkered view of a hate speaker, one that ticks all the right boxes of the left, rather than dealing with hate speech as a whole.
However my view is that these people should be open to be heard and if necessary criticised. You can't do that if you silence them and it only makes them look good and you petty. However the leftards are very heavily into the 'no platform' style of debate where they will attempt to ban or violently silence debate which goes against their corrupt useless dogma, after all if you don't know the alternatives, you can't adopt them.
The one problem the left have with freedom of speech is that they only want people to have the freedom to hear what they have to say, no one else.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Failing targets?

It's interesting to see how public bodies such as the police, education and health meet targets, They could (and occasionally do) argue that such targets are unrealistic, but mostly they come up with ways to circumvent them... which is also known as lying.
Express.
HOSPITAL patients are waiting three weeks longer than records show, a report has revealed.
NHS targets require that 90 per cent of patients who need to be admitted to hospital start treatment within 18 weeks of referral by their GP.
This rises to 95 cent for those who can be treated as outpatients.
But research by the National Audit Office found NHS trusts in England were “mis-recording” data.
That's pretty much what some police forces were doing with crime data and similar to what educationists in government and schools did with exam results, they went ever higher whilst churning out 1 in 5 kids who did not understand reading or writing in any meaningful way.
Still, it does go to show the mindset of those who work in a target driven environment, if you can't meet the target, invent or misrepresent the results to make it appear as if you did. That's essentially what the previous Labour administration did for society (amongst other things) they wanted good results and to hell with what was actually going on, a mantle taken and ran with by the current administration, or rather those working for them.
For too long now the political process has worked on the 'make it so' principle of judging results by the paperwork, rather than what's actually going on. That's why we had ever higher exam pass rates, low crime numbers and now low waiting times. It gave ministers something to crow about and the likes of the BBC would never call them on it nor come to that the rest of the MSM unless it was a scandal they couldn't cover up.
They say we get the government we deserve, if that's the case what a seriously moronic nation we must be.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Couldn't happen to a nicer chap or party

The ongoing Rennard scandal with the Lib Dems is making me chuckle a bit as I don't really have much time for that bunch of opportunists since the days of Paddy Pantsdown. That Rennard is accused of being a sexual predator of a minor type (no accusations so far of bedding) is a given, that he knows where the bodies are buried within the Lib Dem structure was a bit of a surprise, but on the whole not that big a surprise...
Mail.
Nick Clegg was last night warned by allies of Lord Rennard he faces a legal ‘bloodbath’ that will rip his party apart.
The peer has instructed a senior QC and plans to seek an injunction unless Mr Clegg halts an inquiry into the charge that he has brought the Lib Dems into disrepute by refusing to apologise over sex pest claims.
Lord Steel last night raised the stakes by saying the threat of expulsion should be withdrawn from Lord Rennard.
Ah the joys of expediency over common decency. You'd have thought that given the seriousness of the charges against Rennard that at least he'd be suspended pending an enquiry, though this is politics we're talking about here and usually not even an arrest is enough to stir the power brokers. Nor despite the claims that it was just a bit of leg touching does it seem to be so trivial, but until all the facts come out we don't know, but I rather suspect that the guy is a bit of a serial groper and has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar despite his high standing in the Lib Dem hierarchy and this has come back to haunt them big time due to their rank hypocrisy when it comes to politics, they are not the genial lentil eating sandal wearers of media myth, they are as cynical and duplicitous at grass roots level as they come, changing official policy on the hoof from door to door depending on the views of those they speak too.
With a bit of luck this scandal will be the final nail in their collective coffin, although their propensity to survive has taken them past the scandals of Thorpe, Oaten, Pantsdown, Huhne, Smith and into power with the Coagulation.
Still, we can hope...


Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Clawing back powers?

One of the promises Cameron is making is that he's going to attempt to claw back power from the EU. Many think he's simply using delaying tactics to try and delay the inevitable to when he's out of power and the next government will refuse to do sod all about the promises he's making.
So naturally the Tories unveil a massive clawback of power from the EU just to prove me wrong...
Express.
THE EUROPEAN flag will no longer have to fly outside Government departments, it was confirmed today.
The “petty” European Union regulation agreed under the Labour administration has been scrapped following top government talks.
Today Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said this was an example of the UK being able to claim back powers from Brussels.
Speaking in the House of Commons, he said: "The last Labour government signed-up to a petty EU regulation that forced my and other Government departments to fly the European flag outside our buildings.
Impressive is it not?
Top level talks were required to remove a petty bloody regulation that could simply have been overruled by our national Parliament. Christ Almighty if this is the kind of clawback that Cameron plans to negotiate on then truly we are all doomed to EU membership pending the inevitable bloody revolution.
This. Was. Nothing. It's like being sold into slavery but being told that you don't have to wear the iron collar, it doesn't mean your circumstances have changed, just that it looks a bit better to others...
If it takes top level talks to remove the obligation to fly a flag, then quite frankly the EU is not an organisation we really ought to be in. A freedom loving organisation simply wouldn't care if we flew their flag or not and wouldn't plough billions into various schemes to try and make us love them. Respect needs to be earned, not bought or enforced.
Can we just not leave? Now?

Monday, January 20, 2014

I think you may be forgetting something here...

Because of the current furore over EU immigration from the likes of Romania and Bulgaria along with the fear that somehow or other the EU will somehow get Turkey in by hook or by crook, the party which presided over the damaging uncontrolled immigration spate when last in power have a solution. They intend to make all benefit claimants pass a test in basic English, maths and computing skills.
BBC.
Unemployed people who lack basic English, maths and computing skills should be stripped of benefits unless they take up training, Labour will say.
Under the plans, all new claimants of Jobseeker's Allowance would have to sit a basic skills test within six weeks.
The move is set to be unveiled by MP Rachel Reeves in her first major speech as shadow work and pensions secretary.
I suspect Labour are forgetting that under their rule, education was dumbed down to the worst levels since Victorian times with 1 in 5 pupils leaving school struggling to read and write back in 2010.
So, I reckon that any test will leave a lot of people unhappy, never mind immigrants or the test will be so useless that it will be almost impossible to fail. In fact I suspect that this measure will have to be quietly shelved as it attacks Labour's core demographics when it comes to getting votes in.
Still it makes for good headlines and as an attempt to capture the public mood, it's not a bad one. The problems start with anyone with a bit of common sense realising that the people it will hit won't be a lot of immigrants who speak, read and write English generally better than a good few English, but that it will hit those badly let down by our poor education system and its politically motivated curriculum which has failed a generation of kids and left them unable to progress any further than the benefits queue.
The foul results of political correctness (all must have prizes) modern teaching practices (rather than using what worked) and endless tinkering with the examinations and curriculum to get ever higher results (rather than actual ability) has left many out there simply unprepared to pass any meaningful test on English, maths or computer skills (I doubt text speak is a computer skill or indeed an English one)
Still it makes for good headlines... which sums up political thinking these days.
Truly we are doomed.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Let's see if he actually does.

One of the biggest costs to the country today is translation services both at local and national level. It literally costs millions more to print pamphlets in various languages other than English (Yes there's a case for Welsh in Wales and Scot's Gael in Scotland) There's also the cost of providing state funded translators to those who use the benefits and health systems too.
Oddly enough if you tried this in France you'd have to deal with everything in French, no exceptions, so Cameron is looking at the problem here...
Mail.
David Cameron plans to strip welfare handouts from immigrants who cannot speak English.
In a radical bid to slash Britain’s benefits bill, the Prime Minister intends to stop printing welfare paperwork in foreign languages and prevent claimants using taxpayer-funded translators at benefits offices.
The move – which would also hit British residents who cannot speak English – was due to be announced tomorrow, but has been delayed following a row with Nick Clegg.
Tories hope that axeing foreign-language versions of documents explaining how to claim benefits would make it harder for immigrants such as newly arrived Romanians and Bulgarians to cash in on the UK’s benefits system, encourage others already here to learn English – and save money spent on translators.
Referring to the controversial Channel 4 programme, one Conservative aide said: ‘The Benefits Street culture must end. Period.’
OK, it's been announced, let's see if he can carry it through, it does seem unlikely considering the Lib Dem part of the coagulation will probably oppose it along with the leftard drones of the Labour Party. After all, they see benefits for all as a right for all, not as a safety net for those who either were born here or have contributed via taxation to the system.
It should never have been the responsibility of the taxpayer to fund translators and translations, that should have been the job of those trying to use the system, you either spoke English or brought someone along (paid by yourself) to translate for you. It would also have been an incentive to learn the language of the country you were living in as well.
Anyway, this might be a start to saving millions, I have my doubts that it's anything but a media headline grab, but at least they are thinking along the right lines.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Possibly because they don't think these are crimes?

There are certain communities who the police refuse to name, but I suspect we know which ones who appear to be strictly law abiding in that the police have never been called out to deal with a problem with them. (Lack of) Honour killings, domestic violence, sexual abuse of children and female genital mutilations are some of the offences that are believed to be unreported in some communities.
Mail.
Parts of the UK are becoming no-go areas for police because minority communities are operating their own justice systems, according to the Chief Inspector of Constabulary.
The rise in ‘community justice’ means crimes as serious as murder and sexual abuse are going unreported – a situation reminiscent of Belfast in the height of the Troubles.
Tom Winsor said police officers were simply never called to some neighbourhoods, where law-abiding people rather than criminals administer their own form of justice
He said: ‘There are some communities born under other skies who will not involve the police at all. I am reluctant to name the communities in question, but there are communities from other cultures who would prefer to police themselves.
‘It’s not that the police are afraid to go into these areas or don’t want to go into those areas,’ he said. ‘But if the police don’t get calls for help then, of course, they won’t know what’s going on.’
Honour killings, domestic violence, sexual abuse of children and female genital mutilations are some of the offences that are believed to be unreported in some cities.
I suspect we now know which communities these are, but a big clue is that they begin with m and ends with uslim.
The problem being of course that (Lack of) Honour killings, domestic violence, sexual abuse of children and female genital mutilations are not crimes to many muslims (particularly the men) and so may not have been reported anyway and the community as a whole does not relate to our society via their traditions and their vile religion which tells them that it's ok for 53 year old perverts to have sex with nine year old girls. It also tells them that they can rape their enemies women, keep slaves and butcher anyone who offends them whilst demanding protection money from those who live in their midst. So in a closed off community, which is what many muslims aim for, such 'crimes' would never be reported anyway as that is the norm for many of them and they see nothing wrong with it.
That is unfortunately where the great socialist/liberal wet dream has left us, with whole communities cut off from the mainstream and encouraged to do so in the name of diversity, keeping traditions which in the modern world would rightly be condemned as barbaric.
Instead of being 'pulled' on such acts, any criticism is met with cries of 'racist' bigot' islamophobe...
A spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain said: ‘We all rely on the police to protect our communities and this can be only done through full co-operation and partnership.
‘Co-operation is particularly important for Muslim communities who have experienced a rise in Islamophobic hate crimes.’
That rise being non-existent as the criticism of the Tell MAMA showed when such examples of islamophobia were shown to be mostly words on a computer screen or simply made up.
Until we have a level playing field with total integration, such crimes will carry on, no doubt about it, this is one of the dire legacies mass uncontrolled immigration coupled with multiculturalism and socialist (lack of) ethics where we're the racists never the immigrants/non whites.
And then they'll wonder one day why it all kicks off...

Friday, January 17, 2014

Rather disquietening

One of the areas of trust in society (for given values of trust) is that doctors are trustworthy in general and apart from the odd few and far between rogues, our lives are safe in their hands. We also trust that those who fail the rigorous standards we expect from the medical profession are weeded out and removed.
Telegraph.
More than one in five disciplinary cases against doctors which is dropped without a full investigation is botched by regulators, a major review has found.
Ministers on Thursday night described the findings as “very concerning” while patients groups’ called for an urgent review of the way the General Medical Council (GMC) handles concerns about rogue medics.
More than 9,000 cases are referred to the GMC each year, but just over 200 are considered by full tribunal hearings, with the rest closed at an earlier stage.
The national audit examined 100 cases which were closed - and found that in 22 per cent of cases, blunders were made - suggesting that more than 2,000 medics a year may be being allowed to continue working even though allegations against them have not been properly investigated.
This sadly is one of the problems of a culture monitoring itself, the tendency to brush under the carpet or in this case botch the job and allow the possibility of further malpractice. No, this is about trust and the fact that those who monitor the doctors cannot be trusted to do a proper job. It may actually be that those who 'got away with it' as it were are innocent, but now, guilt is presumed because their cases haven't been examined properly and action (if necessary) taken.
When dealing with professionals, we expect professional standards, unfortunately in a lot of cases that appears to be exactly what we aren't getting where those in positions of authority over the likes of professionals are simply not doing their jobs properly or being very lenient on miscreants.
Trust has to be earned, once it's lost it can never fully be recovered as there will always be a nagging suspicion that something isn't quite right.
Doctors are now joining the likes of the police in losing public trust.
They only have themselves to blame.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

You presume we want to remember

The anti-alcohol brigade are crowing about a report that says if you drink just two pints of beer a day you'll risk accelerating mental decline by the time you're sixty. The report presumes of course that there are some things we'd like to remember and that we drink as it were to forget the sheer bloody mess that successive politicians and their meddling with our lives have brought us too.
Mail.
If you’re a middle-aged man looking forward to a couple of pints tonight, you might want to stop at one.
Men in their 40s who drink just two pints of beer a day risk accelerating mental decline by up to six years by the time they reach retirement age.
In the first long-term study of its kind, scientists tracked more than 5,000 British men for 20 years and found heavy drinking was behind premature damage to the memory.
Moderate drinking, defined as less than 2.5 units a day – roughly a pint of beer or a large glass of wine – was found to have no effect on memory, reasoning or problem solving.
But men who drank more than 4.5 units a day – less than two pints or two large glasses of wine – suffered a deterioration in their ability to recall information, the equivalent to an extra six years of ageing.
And the decline of the brain’s ‘executive function’ – which includes attention span and reasoning skills – was hastened by an extra year and a half.
First off, despite their trotting out on every occasion, we all know that the safe units of alcohol were plucked from thin air by a panel of 'experts' because they sounded about right.
As for the rest, I rather doubt many of us would care to remember the bad things and if your memory's gone, I rather doubt you'd care anyway.
It's the usual scaremongering which along with the raising of alcohol prices by the health Nazis advising the government which is designed to try and assist the health service to the place where all the money goes to administrators and 'experts' rather than treating people. After all, if they get to a place where treatment is denied if you eat, drink, or anything else enjoyable then they'll be happy, the money will roll in and those pesky patients will be no more. (Yes I'm exaggerating though possibly not by much)
After all, they changed the definition of obese, they've changed the definition of too much alcohol and they have reduced tobacco consumption to that of flirting with demons, so you do have to wonder why they simply don't turn around and say that the health service is only open to healthy people.
Truly these leeches seek to draw every ounce of joy and happiness out of peoples lives in their never ending quest to have power over us...

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Why the government cannot be trusted with our money

No, not about expenses, but accountability, the way that many so called high level administrators and executives in public services funded by the government either at local or national level are getting way more than it would appear the job requires. Currently more than 800 Whitehall mandarins and associated Quango bosses are on over £100,000 a year, some up to £300,000, all coming from the public purse.
However that pales into insignificance when it comes to the boss of Motability a not for profit organisation funded by the taxpayer.
Mail.
The chief executive of a taxpayer-funded scheme that leases cars and scooters to the disabled earned about £850,000 in pay and perks last year.
Mike Betts, 51, received the money as boss of Motability Operations, a not-for-profit company funded by the state.
Four other senior directors at the firm also earned large sums, taking home more than £2million in total in 2012.
Motability Operations, which received £18.3million in government grants last year to cover its running costs, leases various types of vehicle to around 600,000 disabled people.
It receives their mobility allowances direct from the Department for Work and Pensions.
Yet strangely enough the people who gave taxpayers cash to Motability when the guy was appointed in 2003 are often far more critical of bankers bonuses over the years, despite most banks being private institutions and the bonuses they pay being no business of the government or anyone else but their shareholders for that matter. Now Motability is owned and ran by a private consortium of banks and as such is not publicly owned. However as its only source of income is from the taxpayer I'd say that we had the right to ask just what the hell justifies anyone with a salary in the region of £850,000 including bonuses and perks? Particularly as we're the daft sods paying for these leeches. Same with any public servant or executive whose pay depends on the taxpayer.
Personally I'm of the opinion that no organisation in receipt of public funds should be allowed to have anyone on the payroll on who earns more than the Prime Minister. After all, he runs the country (in theory, though not in practice) and therefore his pay ought to set the level of any senior position funded by the taxpayer.
No, what happened was that the political classes saw that they could help themselves to the public purse to boost their incomes to disgusting levels and were aided and abetted by politicians, civil servants and the unions. We're seeing the direct result of that avarice and it's still ongoing. The next politician to go on about corporate greed needs to be reminded of the robbing of the public purse by those supposed to be servants and representatives of the people.
This is why you should never vote for the big three, they are complicit in the system to rob us blind and give our cash to the totally undeserving.
One day, I truly believe we'll hang them all, problem is that the money they've taken will never be recouped...

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

And whose fault was that?

Millipede E has announced that he will be the saviour of the middle class, a group of people that the left are known to despise (particularly the white ones) He announced that the falling living standards we're all facing have caused problems for the middle class and that Labour will step in to help...
BBC.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said middle class families are facing a "crisis of confidence" over falling living standards.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Miliband said the economic essentials that once drove and sustained the middle classes had all been undermined.
Their children's prospects must also be urgently addressed, Mr Miliband added.
The reason for the falling living standards for anyone not in a government post being that the previous Labour government spent all the money and then to add insult to injury proceeded to borrow way above the countries means to support their frivolous administration leaving the new government with a mountain of debt and a note telling them all the money has gone...
The Conservatives said Mr Miliband had no plan, and offered only more spending, borrowing and taxes.
I suspect Millipede E was actually looking at the previous administrations record on that as it was Gordon Brown his predecessor who formulated that policy for Labour and I suspect it hasn't been ditched yet as all that Labour do is tax and spend taking money out of peoples pockets and spending it on things ordinary people didn't want.
No, the current crisis that working people are feeling is entirely down to Millipede E's Labour party and no amount of flannel or sheer gall is going to make them forget it.
No doubt much as he'd like to wish... 

Monday, January 13, 2014

Charity? More like pickpocketing!

Charity is supposed to be voluntary giving, where you choose a cause and give some of your cash towards it. At least that used to be the definition of charity in the old days before the government decided which causes your cash was going towards...
Telegraph.
A mandatory “charity” plastic bag charge which comes into force next year will rake in millions of pounds in tax for the Treasury, Telegraph discloses
Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, unveiled Government plans to charge 5p for plastic bags from October 2015 at September’s party conference.
He justified the new plastic bag charge next year by saying it will raise money for charity and stop damage to the environment.
However ministers have now admitted that the charge will raise millions of pounds a year in VAT for the Treasury.
Dan Rogerson, the environment minister, told MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee that he expected the charge to raise £95million a year, only £70million of which will go to “charitable causes”.
Now I suspect that many people might just start taking their own bags to supermarkets, although there will be times when it isn't possible. That said giving the government £25 million in VAT because the boy Clegg wants to be a poster boy for the environment strikes me as a step too far in the usual ill thought out government scheme. Nor do I like the idea that the government deciding where the rest is to go on 'charitable' causes, mostly because their idea of a charitable cause isn't mine. They are quite likely to spunk it away to enviroloon causes and global warming prevention rather than somewhere where it might actually do some good.
Essentially we are in the realms of fake charities here where groups suckle at the governments teats for funding, some of it to do with lobbying the government to do what the government wants to do anyway, but making it appear like its a popular decision by 'the people.' You can normally spot them by the name, although some long established so called charities have gone down this route too where they are doing very well (paid directorships etc) from supposedly doing good, although a quick check of the accounts will tell you the majority of the funding goes on wages and lobbying, rather than charitable works.
This in essence is why charitable giving by many members of the public is tailing off simply because the bloody government is giving away our taxes direct from out pockets and deciding who gets our cash, rather than us deciding who if what gets it.
Unfortunately whilst we have morons like our current crop of politicians who believe they know best who should get their ill gotten gains, this will continue... at least until we hang them all.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Tokenism

There have (as ever) been calls that owing to the current hoo-hah over the current Commissioner of the Metropoloitan Police over the Plebgate affair, corruption at Scotland Yard and questions over his own role as a former South Yorkshire officer in the aftermath of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.that the next Commissioner should be from an 'ethnic minority' background.
Express.
SCOTLAND Yard has a “diversity crisis” and should be forced to consider appointing a black or Muslim officer as its next commissioner, an influential MP urged last night.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said trust in the country’s biggest force was being eroded and it was time for “dramatic” solutions.
He said a form of positive ­discrimination was needed to ensure at least one candidate on the next shortlist to run the Yard was from an ethnic minority background.
The country’s highest ranking ethnic minority officer is the Met’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner Patricia Gallan, meaning a black woman could soon become ­Britain’s top police officer.
Essentially they are saying that 'old whitey' needn't apply as they wouldn't be considered for the post should they get their way. Nor do I believe that Scotland Yard has a diversity crisis, I rather suspect that they have invented this as an excuse for their fifteen minuted media grab to try and push their racist agenda. (although their view is that ethnic minorities cannot be racist no matter what they do) Despite current statistics which show owing to their backgrounds and upbringing that certain minority groups are corrupt to the core because they always put their family/tribe/countrymen first.
Nor does the fact that certain minority (ex) officers scandalous behaviour such as Ali Dizaei who if not for some courageous whistle-blowers his meteoric rise through the ranks might have ended up with him being the Commissioner, was only halted after he was exposed as a liar and a crook by the Daily Mail.
Meaning that just because someone is from an ethnic minority shouldn't make them fit for any job, never mind a top one.
No, this is just another attempt at tokenism writ large by those who believe all whites are racist and that only ethnic minorities are fit to lead us.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Pointless no, but liable to be sabotaged yes...

Labour appear to have come up with an idea that I've been in favour of in the past...
Actually no, they've come up with an idea similar in which rather than have teachers working as self employed on a fixed term contract by a school, they want them to be licensed with a licence coming under renewal every so often.
They believe it will make it easy to get rid of the teachers who can't or won't teach to a given standard...
BBC.
Teachers would have to be licensed every few years in order to work in England's state schools under a future Labour government, the BBC has learned.
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said regular re-licensing of teachers would allow the worst ones to be sacked whilst helping others to receive more training and development.
The last government made a similar proposal for what became known as "classroom MOTs" but then dropped it.
Unions criticised it as "pointless".
I suspect the teaching unions who think it pointless may just be a tad worried over their activists not getting a license renewal as many of them are 'Pilgrims' and don't actually teach at all and it might be a tad tricky getting a renewal approval from your head teacher if you don't actually do anything save sup at the taxpayer teat (well I can hope)
Personally I reckon my thoughts in that they should be self employed works a lot better and will require a lot less in the way of bureaucracy. After all, the choice would then be down to a headmaster (him/herself subject to a contract held by the school board) and they could choose to only allow the best to re-apply for the posts and get rid of anyone not up to scratch.
So... expect Labour to drop this if elected, have it torn to shreds by their union paymasters or put in a measure clogged with so much bureaucracy that it costs a fortune to run and means nicely paid jobs for the boys...
Probably the last knowing Labour.

Friday, January 10, 2014

Not really a surprise

The odious Keith Vaz made headlines last week greeting a Romanian jobseeker at Luton airport who was apparently one of the first of a veritable tidal wave of immigrants heading here to work/seek benefits.
So naturally it comes as no surprise that the guy who he greeted has done a runner...
Mail.
Romanian migrant Victor Spirescu’s career at a car wash lasted just a day before he quit, it emerged last night.
Spirescu, 30, arrived in Britain on New Year’s Day to be greeted at Luton airport by Labour MP Keith Vaz – the chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee.
Spirescu was one of the first to arrive as controls on migrants from Romania and Bulgaria lapsed.
Earlier this week it emerged that Victor had a previous conviction for assaulting his former girlfriend in Bucharest in 2009.
Doesn't appear to be that nice a character so it's no wonder Vaz chose him.
Now as he's an EU citizen and not a criminal basically he can go where he wants and do as he wants so long as it's lawful in the UK. Which is probably why Viviane Reding the vice-president of the European Commission has told us all today that it's the fault of anti-immigration politicians who are going to wreck our future in the United States of Europe...
On top of that apparently Romania wants the term illegal immigrant banned and those who are illegals given access to the National Health Service...
Oh and Derby City Council have decided to spend £120,000 to fund a programme to help eastern Europeans find work at the same time it is sacking 350 staff.
And just to rub salt in the wound...
Mail.
The British people must not be given a say on whether to leave the European Union because it is a ‘lottery’ which way they will vote, Lord Mandelson claimed today.
The former Labour Cabinet minister said Britain’s EU membership is ‘absolutely fundamental’ and must not be put ‘in the hands’ of an unpredictable referendum.
 So even if we don't like where all this is going, there are those out there in the pro-EU ranks who are hell bent on denying us a choice if we should stay or go because it might produce a result they don't want.
And yet they wonder why the EU becomes more unpopular by the day...

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Numpty

I don't use social media, I barely use my pc for blogging and my phone for texting come to that. Not that I'm a technophobe, few engineers are and I co-exist quite happily with various test equipment linked to pc's or with their own output/input monitors.
Yet even if I did, I certainly wouldn't announce to the world where I was or if I was going somewhere, were I to be so stupid as to be on the run from the police, doubly so.
There are some though...
Express.
A THIEF who went on the run for almost a year after stealing £8,000 from his workplace was arrested after positing his location on Facebook.
The 33-year-old stole thousands from the safe at a travel agents in Warrington before running off to Scotland for 10 months.
He was arrested after posting his location on Facebook and was jailed for a year at Chester Crown Court.
PC Graham Davies from Cheshire Police said: "I nearly fell off the chair when I saw that he had decided to not only leave his Facebook profile unprotected but also list his new employer. It was very rewarding to get this offender."
Initially I was wondering why the police are monitoring facebook rather than being out on the beat, however having seen what the police do take seriously on social media and some of the ridiculous arrests made because of faux outrage by various people I probably shouldn't have been wondering at all, it makes for easy arrests and boosts their figures, though sadly does little to stop actual crime other than childish insult. That said, it does strike me that this guy really should have known better because the police may have been informed by anyone looking at his page. You also have to wonder why the idiot didn't change his name or open a different account...
So what's happened is this numpty has justified the police trawling social media for crimes both real and imagined.
Clearly we are turning into a nation of dullards.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Storm in a (Welsh) teacup

There are some idiots about, this time it's the idiots who presume that something is what it isn't.
Mail.
A sick baby was rushed to hospital after a supermarket pharmacy refused to hand his medication to his father because part of the prescription had been written in Welsh.
But staff at the supermarket in Bangor, north Wales, refused to give him the steroid tablets because they could not read the note as not all of it was in English.
Writing on Facebook earlier this week, Mr Mann said: 'I can’t believe Morrisons wouldn’t give us Harley’s prescription for a chest infection today because it was in Welsh.
Arfon Wyn, a local councillor, said the news was 'disturbing'.'This is totally diabolical. It is the trend of these large supermarkets not to employ bilingual local people and so such terrible events as this can take place.'
OK, Morrisons wouldn't give out the prescription because they didn't understand it as it was written in Welsh. Can you imagine the headlines if they'd guessed what the Welsh was and killed the baby? Knowing Welsh is not mandatory in Wales despite what Mr Mann or Councillor Wyn believes either any more than knowing English is mandatory in England (although it helps a bit more than knowing Welsh in Wales)
Secondly Morrisons can employ who the bloody hell they want and I'm pretty sure that a knowledge of Welsh at the pharmacy wasn't an issue of real concern to them as I rather expect that until this cropped up they'd not had a similar problem.
A Morrisons spokesman said: 'The pharmacy team are looking into it and are working with the store and area pharmacy team to find out what has happened.'
That's fairly simple, the staff on duty did not understand the language the prescription was written in and erred on the side of caution. Yes it's a Welsh community, but surely a more competent doctor might just have added a translation just in case?
This seems more like a case of Mr Mann carping about not everything being the way he (and Councillor Wyn) wants it with bi-lingual speakers being mandatory in all places.
To which the answer is that not all people in Wales speak Welsh, nor wish too and it's not mandatory to speak Welsh in Wales. Perhaps they'd be better off asking the doctor to make bloody sure the prescription is printed in both languages? After all it's a childs life at stake here.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Not a mistake at all...

The BBC have admitted to making a terrible mistake over immigration back during the previous Labour administration. A 'mistake' I believe that many at the BBC and associated leftards believe was no mistake at all.
Express.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson yesterday admitted the Corporation was too slow to acknowledge problems and concerns about mass immigration under Labour.
He said that the BBC made a “terrible mistake” in the late 1990s and early 2000s by avoiding a proper debate amid fears it would “unleash” a wave of racism.
As a result, the BBC, along with many in Whitehall and Westminster, had been too slow to recognise and reflect concerns or address evidence of problems brought by large-scale immigration such as falling wages and community tensions.
Speaking ahead of a documentary called The Truth About Immigration that he is presenting tomorrow on BBC2, he said: “In public life, in politics and, I accept, historically at the BBC (we) didn’t have a warts-and-all...debate about immigration.”
Their solution at the time mirrored that of Gordon Brown was to label anyone who brought the subject up as a bigot, racist or right winger and essentially avoided the subject despite a growing awareness by the public that unfettered uncontrolled immigration was proving to be an utter disaster for communities, leading to factionalism, wage crisis and ghettoism along with the rise of islamist agitation.
No, this was no mistake, but deliberate BBC support of the then Labour government and an attempt to blacken the name of any group who pointed the finger at Labour and their new voting pets along with a tacit support of the EU from whom a tide of immigration was flowing and who left many skilled British workers struggling to find decent jobs paying a decent wage.
Still the BBC have come up with a solution, an absolute masterstroke if I don't say so myself...
A BBC spokesman said: “As we’ve previously made clear, this was a historical issue and we now believe our reporting is in the right place.”
Sorted... right?

Monday, January 6, 2014

Doing their bit for the environment... not.

What is it with leftards and enviroloons that leads them to believe that they can act with impunity to the law? It's almost as if they believe that the rules of civilised behaviour should be set aside for their cause. After all, what else can you think of the group who did this?
Mail.
Officers have raided an anti-fracking protest camp after a flare was fired at a police helicopter as it came in to land at a nearby airfield.
The aircrew said the flare appeared to come from the Barton Moss site, in Salford, police have claimed, but protesters at the camp have denied the claim.
Police claimed the incident, which happened around 12.15pm on Saturday as the helicopter came in to lane at Barton airfield, could have had 'catastrophic' consequences.
Whilst I have occasionally taken the police to task about making up or going in on suspicion, I rather doubt they'd lie about someone shooting a flare at their helicopter. Nor do I believe for one instance the claims by the unwashed enviroloons that they did no such thing, after all, they do have form for breaking the law when it's convenient for them.
You do have to laugh at the claims of tapwater catching fire in the ludicrous pictures and defence of the group in the Mail comments, these claims have already been debunked after they were promulgated by director/activist Josh Fox in his first Gasland movie when he showed a resident of Colorado striking a match as water came out of his tap; the natural gas dissolved in the water burst into flame. Yet the water was tested by the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, which reported to the resident: "There are no indications of any oil & gas related impacts to your well water." The agency concluded that the natural gas in his water supply was derived from natural sources—the water well penetrated several coal beds that had released the methane into the well. Same with the claims it poisons the soil, just enviroloon propaganda and a hindrance to their desire to impoverish us all in some grand global wealth distribution scheme by making us pay extra for useless birdmincers and solar panelling.
One could wonder just what these soap dodgers are doing protesting and whether they are getting benefits whilst doing so. It's not likely they'll find work there now is it?
Still if it keeps them happy and off the streets...

Sunday, January 5, 2014

The risk of allowing celebs airtime...

Being a celebrity means that what you say is gobbled up by the press and your views subject to scrutiny. Unfortunately it doesn't necessarily mean that you spout sense or that your words are worth listening too. More often than not it simply proves that talent doesn't necessarily come hand in hand with common sense or indeed any sense at all...
Mail.
Smiths singer Morrissey has said he sees 'no difference' between eating animals and paedophilia.
Matthew from Preston asked, 'Knowing that you are a loyal and proud vegetarian, I would like to ask you what is it that motivated you to stop eating meat for good?'
The answer read: 'I see no difference between eating animals and paedophilia.
'They are both rape, violence, murder. If I'm introduced to anyone who eats beings, I walk away.
Later, Paddy from Stockport asked: 'What achievement are you most proud of in your life?'
He replied: 'Many people have told me that they stopped eating flesh because of something I said. I can't ask higher than that, and I wouldn't aim for higher than that.
'If you believe in the abattoir then you would support Auschwitz. There's no difference.
Morrissey is clearly lacking a sense of proportion here, Hitler was a vegetarian after all and appeared to have not only supported Auschwitz but other death camps as well which if you're going for allegory suggests that meat eaters are probably a safer bet when it comes to agreeing against mass murder.
Fortunately these days the rather unhinged Morrissey is no longer that much in the limelight, although his views are extreme, you can find them amongst others who are over active in their support for some causes and will frequently link to non related surveys or allegorising to past events as to how they feel about those doing something they don't care for.
Still associating meat eaters with paedophilia is a new one on me and shows a lack of proportion on an over-hyped and not terribly good singer in the first place. One does wonder how Morrissey would cope with being in a room with real sex abuse victims and give them his views on eating meat as being anything like as terrible as the suffering they've gone through?
This is the problem with the cult of celebrity, they usually have nothing worth listening too, but it gets reported nevertheless...

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Colonists claim colonists are occupying 'their' land.

Argentina must be in severe economic difficulties or its government in trouble, because as with Spain they've focussed on something that they have hyped up in their nations psyche in order it appears to distract from their people what a shithole they apparently live in.
Telegraph.
Argentina has ridiculed Britain as an impotent colonial aggressor on the wrong side of history in the Falklands dispute, insisting it will not be cowed by "verbal and military threats" as "the lion roars but does not inspire fear".
In a lengthy denunciation of British policy published in Argentine daily Pagina 12 (Page 12), Héctor Timerman, the country's foreign minister, painted Argentina as a valiant underdog cheered on by the world in its David and Goliath-esque battle with an arrogant but ailing colonial power.
He accused Britain of "inappropriate" aggression in its attempt to maintain sovereignty over the Falklands, attributing such behaviour to its "failed attempt to confuse the world" - a reference in part to the islands' 2013 referendum - over what he characterised as the "colonial and military occupation of Argentine territory".
I do wonder what the 35 indigenous groups or Argentine Amerindians make of Mr Timerman's claims to a set of islands 300 miles off its coast. After all, it's the Argentinian colonists who are occupying their land after all. There's also the oddity that the UK gives Argentina £2 million in direct aid and another £7 to £50 million via the G20 group. Perhaps we should look at this source of funding and give it to more worthy (grateful) causes.
As for their economy, they defaulted the payments of their foreign debt, they are currently being taken to court in the United States for the millions of Dollars that they still owe, and now they put themselves on the same footing as a Military Junta that launched an unprovoked and cowardly attack in the middle of the night without a Declaration of War. Only this time without an air-force which has been grounded as unable to be flown safely.
Still no doubt there are a few leftards out there more than happy to hand a people who voted to remain part of the United Kingdom overwhelmingly to a corrupt bankrupt foreign power simply because it's always our fault in their eyes...

Friday, January 3, 2014

So why not just send in the bulldozers?

There's a story doing the rounds which may be apocryphal but which strikes a chord with those of us who are utterly sick of Human Rights Act abuses...
Some travellers set up in the car park of a company and as is their wont, refused to move on when requested to do so. The owner of the factory then used a JCB to dig a huge trench around the car park as it was his property and block the travellers in. Despite protests by the travellers to the police to stop the JCB the police pointed out the guy wasn't breaking the law, the last traveller left the site bare minutes before the digger started on the last few feet of the trench... job done as it were.
Mail.
A group of gypsies who were facing eviction from their illegal camp are claiming it would breach their childrens' human rights if they are forced to move on.
The 78 Irish travellers - who hail from just four families - were told to leave their camp in Hardhorn, Lancashire, by the Court of Appeal in October.
A four-year legal battle has already left taxpayers with an estimated legal bill of £200,000.
So why didn't the council simply let them stay by barricading them in via a trench and earthen walls? Blocking their vehicles on the site and making their lives an utter misery by playing loud music 24/7 along with other non lethal methods of intimidation rather than paying £200,000 to lawyers who have failed (so far)
There's probably some provision in the HRA to prevent it I would guess, still, it does seem like a rather obvious solution to travellers simply not travelling, you get 24 hours to move on... or else.
Hell I'm sure the assorted bleeding hearts and other immature leftards could have come and stood in solidarity with the feckless law breakers, might have kept them occupied and not causing a nuisance in the real world.
Yes I'm sure a case could be made that there aren't enough proper sites available, however travellers behaviour and the effect they have on local communities more or less makes certain that any attempt to set them up grinds to a halt against local opposition. Travellers generally being about as welcome as a dose of bubonic plague.
Just another day and another abuse of the Human right Act...

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Not gonna happen

It's always amusing when a member of the government steps forward to announce that something is going to happen, particularly when you read the small print and know a few things about the process they are talking about.
Express.
Pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights is one option being considered for inclusion in the Conservative 2015 election manifesto, said Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.
He has been an outspoken critic of the European Court of Human Rights which polices how Convention rights are implemented in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.
He has also backed Tory criticism of Britain’s Humans Rights Act by which Labour wrote Convention rights into UK law and which is blamed for enabling legal judgments that critics say are out of line with public opinion, common sense and the national interest.
Such decisions range from ordering Britain to lift its ban on votes for prisoners and outlawing whole life jail terms to blocking the deportation of foreign criminals because they have fathered children in the UK.
Mr Grayling’s determination to secure change will be widely welcomed within Tory ranks.
The problem for Mr Grayling and indeed the Tory Party is that unless we leave the EU, you cannot amend the Human Rights Act because it's tied to our membership of the EU and once enacted by Tony Blair to give his Mrs a nice little earner has tied us to the European Court of Justice as the highest arbiter of Justice in the EU. So unless The Tory Party intend to take us out of the EU in their next manifesto, removing us from the confines of the HRA isn't going to happen either.
What we have is a Tory trying to give his party a good news day by having a pop at something deeply unpopular with a lot of the UK public and having a dig at their coagulation partners for 'preventing' them from doing something about it now. Despite the fact that the Lib Dems even if they supported such a move wouldn't be able to alter it one bit either.
The only way we can remove the HRA from British law would be to remove ourselves from the EU and then begin the task of removing its insidious links from all law referencing it passed since Labour foisted its madness on us back in the 90's and took us away from common law (and sense) to the code Napoleon of the continental system the EU uses to produce laws allowing you your rights as opposed to the UK system of laws which had to specifically deny you a right.
Still no doubt some people will think they can do it, which I guess was the point.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Happy New Year

2013 was a year of major upheavals for me, the highs were that I finally visited Egypt and had the holiday of a lifetime and that I married off my step-daughter. The lows were losing my job and struggling to find something new and having to do agency work from February to August. At the moment I've just come back from Devon visiting the step-daughter's in-laws for Christmas only to get back and find they had a massive argument after we left (nothing to do with me honest guv) and they followed us back so I now have a house full of my grandchildren as well as their parents.

Wtf was I drinking last night?
So having had an incredible success with my predictions last year where I got all but one right I thought why not try again.
Sadly the muslim problem will only get worse as again and again they'll press for concessions that the powers that be will be only too happy to grant whilst wondering why their popularity with the majority of the population is nosediving.
There will be as usual one major scandal causing a senior politician to retire in disgrace.
Ukip will dominate the EU elections though again won't manage a domestic MP as yet, though will scare the major parties mightily in by-elections where they will push one or more of the big three below them in votes.
The middle east will continue to hold the worlds attention as the regions instability will cause further so called revolutions. The Syrian civil war will rumble on and we won't get involved despite the best attempts of leftards and muslims to try and force us.
President Obama will continue to be highly unpopular at home (his ratings currently are lower than his predecessors and he has the press on his side) his inability to act decisively on the world stage along with his economic mismanagement will leave him as a lame duck president with nothing the people of America can do about it.
The Coagulation will continue to stand, politicians once again proving that power is addictive and trumps common sense and decency any day in their minds.
Scotland will vote on independence and reject it, most ScotNat's will wish they'd asked the English to decide for them instead ;-)
Finally sport, Newcastle will finish above Sunderland in the premiership and if God loves me, Sunderland will be relegated.

Enjoy your year in the safe knowledge that it can only get interesting... in the Chinese style of interesting.