I am not here to make friends. This blog is to remind those who deem to rule over us that they will be held to account. They exercise power on our behalf and on our terms. People should never be afraid of their Governments, Governments should be afraid of their people.
Remember -A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves


Friday, 31 July 2009

The Explosive Launch Of The 'New' ID Card



This morning against my much better judgement I sent back my driving licence and paper counterpart to the DVLC. Why, because my photo has 'expired' and the State needs to know what I currently look like. The fact that I have to pay £20 'administration ' fee is another cause of irritation. How the hell did we all cope before photo ID's were dreamed up ? Apart from my passport I cannot think of one piece of ID that I had through out the IRA terror campaign that had my photo on it.

My recollection of that period was of almost daily incidents in Northern Ireland, and the regular 'spectaculars' that the IRA pulled on the mainland. For home grown terrorists they are free to apply for driving licences and or passports, so driving licences and ID cards are not going to be much help.

Because I still want to drive without plod jumping all over me, I will comply. Thats the bit that drives me insane !

Postman Pat is still going ahead with a 'voluntary' ID card- to 'help' the citizen ??

Spyblog has another more sinister use for these cards, they can be used to trigger a bomb when a British Citizen is in the locality- any takers ?

H/T Raedwald

UPDATE SUNDAY 2nd Aug

Checked out of a Hotel this morning in Edinburgh, and the bloody machine for paying the bill just needed my card to be in 'proximity' to read it and take the details. So I had a perfect example of how this technology could act as a trigger ! Scary Stuff.

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Thursday, 30 July 2009

Negligence enshrined in Law (if you are the State)

Debbie Purdy won, and I am pleased there is going to be some clarification in the Law from the DPP

BUT

Andre Power lost

I lost! Mr Justice Blair agreed with the defendants that the case should be dismissed because agents/servants of the Crown who are negligent in their duties are not liable in law, so they can do what they like and we have no recourse. Does anyone see the bitter irony in this? The Ministry of Justice at The Royal Courts of Justice won by arguing that Justice should not apply to the select elite who work for them

We officially now have a two tier legal system one for the righteous and one for the rest of us. The Crown can sue ABC Ltd or Joe Bloggs but ABC Ltd or Joe Bloggs cannot sue the Crown for negligence.

The irony of it being another Blair who made this decision.

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Law What Is it Good For



Today Debbie Purdy is awaiting for a decision from the Law Lords on whether her partner would be prosecuted when she decides to end her life when it becomes intolerable.

For all the moralising by the Church and the State, Debbie Purdy's Life is her own, it does not belong to the State or the Established Church. For her partner to be with her on her final journey to Switzerland, is surely not a crime but an act of compassion and love.

Today Andre Power is in the High Court, when Treasury Solicitors will argue that the Civil Service is not responsible in Law for the negligence and incompetence of its employees. A two tier legal system will come in today if he loses as it will enshrine in Law that you cannot sue the State for the effects of its incompetence.

UPDATE Corby Borough Council has been found to be be negligent in the way they disposed of toxic waste from a disused Steel Works, so why do the treasury solicitors think they are above the Law ?

Politics.co.uk is running with this story has the lead today. However you heard it here first folks on Old Holborn and the Libertarian Party blog !

The Police have finally realised that they are fighting a losing battle against the drug culture, as did the prohibitionists did in pre war America.

The Law is something very few of us want to get involved in, because ninety five per cent of us cannot 'afford' Justice. However the Law is imposed on us and has a direct influence on the way we live our lives. Unless we can all economically insure ourselves against prosecution. The battle between the State and the individual will be lost.

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Tory own goal.......


Whilst the main stream media is working itself into a lather over Cameron's apology for using the word 'twat', I shall take this opportunity to turn the word inwards - and head it straight back into the Tory press office goal.

The Tory press officer is a 'twat' - a complete 'twat', in the full offensive version that he has had his boss apologising for.

Late yesterday, the Tory Politico blog quite reasonably attempted to get his facts straight before writing a piece regarding the Cameron/Brown spat on TV debates. He phoned the Tory press office and asked for a copy of their press release.

Press Officer: “who do you work for?”
TP: “tory-politico.com.”
PO: “so your not a member of the media.”
TP: “No I am a Conservative party member and a blogger.”
PO: “sorry I cant help you.”
TP: “Why not?”
PO: ”Bloggers don’t count as media so I cant send it to you.”
TP: “Right, so you don’t see blogs as important then, is that right?:
PO: “Yes.”
TP: “So what about the likes of Iain dale and ConservativeHome, are they media? are they seen as important?”
PO: “Yes we feel that they are representatives of the media, and yes we do see them as an important conduit?”
TP: “But you just said blogs don’t count as media.”
PO: “We see them as important conservative commentators not bloggers, we feel that independent bloggers do not provide an efficient means of communicating the Conservative message.”
TP: “Not efficient means of communicating the Conservative message - Im a Conservative blogger, all I blog about is politics and the Conservative party, I think that’s evident from my blogs title.”
PO: “Im sorry, but I have already told you that I cannot send you a copy of the press release you asked for.”
TP: “OK, can you add my details to the press release distrobution list so that future releases and notices are sent to me?”
PO: “No.”
TP: “Because bloggs are not important.”
PO: “Yes.”


Now I already know that the Labour party are prepared to give me a press release.
The Libertarian party that I am affiliated to are only too happy to give me a press release.
UKIP have in the past sent me a press release without being asked.
I am fairly confident that the BNP woud be happy to oblige, as would the Green party, the Lib-Dems would probably deliver an MP to my computer, never mind a press release, they are nothing if not obliging. (they can confirm if they like - annaraccoon@gmail.com)

It is tempting to believe that Tory Politico just managed to get an utter twat on the phone; a look at the requirements for past vacancies shows that they need to be fairly highly qualified twats.

Skills Required

  • Minimum 2:1 degree or equivalent
  • Excellent analytical and research skills, with meticulous attention to detail and accuracy
  • A strong political instinct and a clear understanding of the British political landscape today.
  • Ability to write concisely, fluently and swiftly
  • An ability to work quickly under pressure and to prioritise competing tasks
  • An ability to co-ordinate and edit other people's research
  • Good oral communication skills
  • An ability to handle statistics effectively
  • A commitment to the Conservative Party
Overnight they have posted the relevant press release on their site - so their treatment of a blogger who was trying to get his facts straight is all the more peculiar.

This isn't a rant becasue my ego is offended on Tory Politico's behalf - this is more profound.

The Conservative Party thinks that blogs are not important? How are they going to sue for defamation when the occasion arises and they feel they have been defamed by a blooger? - they have already said that blogs are 'not important'? I shall particularly enjoy watching them forced to eat their words in front of Mr Justice Eady.

When the next election comes round, assuming it ever does, how many 'unimportant blogs' do they imagine are going to be interested in the Conservative Party line?

I have a feeling that they are going to regret that conversation far more than Cameron's Twitter Twat.

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Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Dear God ! He Is The Chancellor As Well



Is there no end to his talents ?

This is Peter Poppet's way of telling us all that as usual after a period of Labour Government there is a whacking great black hole in the Public Finances.

This twittering about 5% cuts is a nonsense, the State is still growing,while private industry throwing people out of work because they cannot get finance.

The man is unelected,unpalatable and unacceptable

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Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Helmand Excluded- Terms And Conditions Apply



Some bastard shot me, I got £43 000 in compensation, then my employers sued me in the High Court to get it reduced to £9 000, because they think I am the scum of the earth, and they needed the cash for second homes and stuff.

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Fighting The French And Horse Guards



That is what Wellington is reputed to have said on his principal enemies in the Penisular War.

When more dead servicemen are flown back to the United Kingdom, and the wounded and disabled are brought back sotto voce in case any body sees them. The MOD is having a legal challenge to the levels of compensation paid to disabled servicemen.

You can loll around drinking lager all day, and get 'me rights' , but get wounded on behalf of the country, and Whitehall sets the lawyers onto you


My other favourite quote is Wellington on being Prime Minister

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

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Esther All The Way !




All you need is a millionaire and and be a celeb.

No policies needed, because we all love and admire her because we 'know' her from the Telly.

Thats Politics in the dumbed down celebrity 21st Britain.

Katie Price where are you ?

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Stazi Spies.


SNOOPING residents are being offered rewards of up to £500 to spy on their neighbours.

Taxpayers’ money is being used to pay “covert human intelligence sources” who report bad conduct to authorities.

Anyone who photographs dog fouling, litter being dropped, graffiti crime or fly tipping which result in prosecution will receive a cash reward.

The amount is staggered, according to how far the prosecution is taken.

If a court summons is issued the snooper gets £100. On a conviction he gets £150 and if the offender gets a maximum sentence he receives £500.

The scheme has been given the Big Brother-style motto “See them, report them”.

It tells residents: “We need your eyes and ears to help us wipe out enviro-crime.” The local council scheme is being launched in London and could eventually be rolled out across the country.

Last night the payments were slammed by critics who said they were a waste of vital public funds.

TaxPayers’ Alliance spokeswoman Susie Squire said: “People are sick and tired of being spied on by their local councils.

“There are far more constructive and cost-effective ways to encourage people to obey the law.

“This initiative is going to cost us dear – in terms of financially and damaging community spirit.”

Doretta Cocks, founder of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collection, said the scheme for recruiting spies was shockingly reminiscent of East Germany’s Stasi secret police.

Waltham Forest council’s Conviction Reward Scheme was introduced last week after the council claimed residents wanted more to be done to tackle environmental crime.

Their website says that the “reward scheme” offers cash to “anyone providing evidence that leads to a prosecution against enviro-criminals, including graffiti, fly-tipping, dog fouling and littering.”

The council describes the money as a “thank you” for alerting them to crimes.

The scheme is just the latest example of councils paying residents for information on offences.

Some UK councils are even paying children to supply them with information on environmental offences like leaving recycling bags and rubbish bins out on the pavement.

Harlow Council, in Essex, employs 25 Street Scene Champions, aged between 11 to 14 who are encouraged to report vandalism to bus shelters, graffiti, abandoned vehicles, fly-tipping and other offences.

Crawley Borough Council, in West Sussex, has 150 Streetcare Champions who are asked to “report on individuals if known”.

Other local authorities recruit adult volunteers and at least 4,841 people are already patrolling the streets in their spare time. Some are assigned James Bond style code numbers, which they use instead of their real names when they ring an informer’s hotline.

Last week it emerged councils are still using surveillance technology to spy on suspected minor offenders despite being banned by law.

Since 2003 they have only been able to use undercover methods in suspected criminal law cases.

But Chief Surveillance Commissioner Sir Christopher Rose said it was of “significant concern” that local authorities were going beyond what was allowed.

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There are more important things than the legitimacy of the Presidency!


A major news story has been brewing for days in the US. One that has been systematically ignored by the BBC. It concerns the legitimacy of the US Presidency. Note: of the Presidency NOT of the President. I have not seen so much 'bluster' and deliberate swerving around the pertinent issues since the early days of the Madeleine McCann saga.

I blogged yesterday here of the particular legal points involved.

In short, this is not an issue of whether the President is a US citizen, he is; it is an issue of whether he complies with the particular requirements of the constitution to be a 'natural born citizen'.

Anybody born in the US can take US citizenship, and there seems no doubt that he was born in Hawaii. He has produced a shortened form of birth certificate to prove that.

The President has refused/claims he is unable to/that it is unecessary to produce proof that his Father was also a US citizen (It appears that Barack snr was a British citizen at the time)

This requirement was placed in the constituion to prevent a royal heir from being in a position to take the Presidency for obvious reasons.

The story becomes more interesting because so few people are actually arguing over the legal points, but hurling ad hominem abuse at anyone who raises the isssue.

So far, the people in the firing line are Major Cook - for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan until the legality of his orders is sorted out - generally along the lines of 'draft dodger'.

Various Senators - for daring to raise the issue on the floor of the Senate - 'aligning themselves with the lunatic Internet fringe'.

Lou Dobbs of CNN - for daring to give air time to the matter - 'racist'.

A resolution was brought in the house yesterday to declare that Hawaii was the President's birthplace (Note - that is not the problem, but a nice attempt at swerving round it!)

And now we have this video clip of the White House spokesman saying that there are 'more important things to discuss'........really?

If the Presidency is not legitimate, then it follows that a lot of other things are not - like British soldiers being deployed to support the American offensive in Afghanistan.

A simple 'long form' birth certificate would solve the issue, once and for all.

Quite fascinating to see the lengths they are going to, to avoid producing this, or allowing discussion on the subject.

A story worth following.







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Monday, 27 July 2009

Give Me Strength He Is In Charge Of Universities As Well




Saving The Poor,whilst his party destroys education in this country

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Thats what Field Marshal Haig Said As Well




Gordon Brown has signalled the end of the Pathers Claw Offensive

Mr Brown insisted that the mission had not been "in vain" despite the deaths of 20 British troops over the past month.

"The efforts of our troops in Helmand have been nothing short of heroic," Mr Brown told the Evening Standard. "There has been a tragic human cost. But this has not been in vain."

Mr Brown said it was now time to "commemorate" the British troops who have died in Afghanistan.


What crap

Do we hold the ground that has been fought over ? or have UK Landforces pulled back to the bases allowing the Afghans to retake the ground.

What are our war aims (Not the old one about 'not firing a shot')

What are our extraction goals

The truth is that we have to talk to the Taliban, and they will share power in the Afghan Government. Milliband has admitted that.

Before anybody goes and starts any more wars of agression in somebody elses country, get them to read a few History Books about previous wars fought there from Alexander through to the Raj, through to the Russian occupation.

Stop the killing and start the talking.

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Can We Have Our Money Back Please


Mr Darling said that the Government did not bail out banks out of "some kind of charitable act".



No you panicked with our money, our childrens as yet unearned money, and our unborn grandchildren's money.

You threw billions at the banks, you printed money in a Mugabesque fashion to pay your bloated State.

You threw money at a virtual monopoly of Banking, you ruined one profitable bank by 'suggesting' that it merged with a bankrupt one.

At no stage did you consider letting these banks fail, put in administrators and break the monopoly up into regional banks, that would lend to industry, that makes things and provide services that people want, that pay taxes to pay the State.

No you just cut the middle man out, the wealth producers, to ensure funding of the State.

Its no use asking them nicely what they are going to do to increase lending, unfortunately we are now the major shareholders in these misbegotten banks. Exercise shareholders power, and sack the Directors and break them up now.

Silly Darling

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Sunday, 26 July 2009

Make yer mind up, Darling........


Alastair Darling to the House of Commons 12 February 2009

"It was recognised as being absolutely necessary to recapitalise the banks because we were within hours of the banking system collapsing last October; that is why we did it."
Alastair Darling to the Financial Services Authority 27th March 2009
"Banks everywhere took on too much risk, and worse, risk that many didn't properly understand. [...]Turning to the G20 next week, Mr Darling demanded a new system of regulation "to ensure banks do not over-extend themselves."
Alastair Darling to the Andrew Marr Show 26th July 2009 (Today)
"We did it because if you don't have a banking system that creates credit for businesses then you will make recovery and prosperity after that much more difficult."
"That's why we will be going through with each individual bank asking them why is it, at a time when the cost of borrowing is coming down, it would appear that the cost to small business appears to have gone up?"

Possibly because they don't want to take on 'too much risk', nor 'over-extend themselves'?

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Friday, 24 July 2009

Above The Law?

"Feeling Lucky, Punk?"

Some plod who definitely should have known better "accidentally" shoots someone with a rather powerful handgun.

He does not face any criminal prosecution.

He's even pleading not guilty to breaches of health and fucking safety.

I wonder if I could get away with it? I can think of a lot of cunts I'd like to accidentally gut shoot with a Magnum .44.

The Penguin

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The US gets it right........

US law enforcement agents on Thursday arrested dozens of politicians and rabbis in an anti-corruption sweep alleging money laundering, extortion, bribery and even trafficking in human organs.

The stunning New Jersey swoop netted 44 people across a state long seen as one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden in the country.

Five rabbis were among the suspects, along with the mayors of the cities of Hoboken, Secaucus and Ridgefield, the Jersey City deputy mayor and council president, two state assembly members, and numerous other politicians, prosecutors said.

Acting US Attorney Ralph Marra told a press conference the arrests demonstrated "the pervasive nature of public corruption in this state."

The money laundering ring allegedly stretched from New Jersey and New York to Israel and Switzerland, while US politicians easily exploited loopholes in state law to disguise bribes as contributions in bitterly fought campaigns.

"The politicians willingly put themselves up for sale," said Marra, while "clergymen cloak their extensive criminal activity behind a facade of rectitude."

Although New Jersey is more famous for a history of Italian Mafia families, it was Jewish clergy who allegedly played a central role in this crime network.

The Department of Justice said in a statement that the international network "laundered at least tens of millions of dollars through charitable, non-profit entities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey."

The bribe-taking meanwhile was connected to fund raising efforts in "heavily contested mayoral and city council campaigns in Jersey City and Hoboken."

Authorities raided several synagogues and among those arrested was the chief rabbi of Syrian Jews in the United States.

One rabbi, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, was also charged with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for transplant.

Marra said that Rosenbaum's "business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for 10,000 dollars which he would turn around and sell for 160,000 dollars."

He'd allegedly been peddling kidneys for a decade.

Raids began shortly after dawn, officials said, targeting a who's who of state leaders.

Television footage showed FBI and tax agents bringing a stream of handcuffed suspects, including rabbis wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish garb, into custody in the city of Newark. Other suspects were shown being put onto a bus.

The operation was believed to be one of the biggest such actions ever in a state deeply associated with organized crime, and famous as the setting of the hit Mafia television drama the "Sopranos."

Officials said the arrests were part of an ongoing 10-year probe into statewide corruption code-named "Bid Rig."

If found guilty, suspects face prison sentences of up to 20 years for political extortion and money laundering, 10 years for offering bribes to officials, and five years for conspiring to transport human organs.

Democratic State Governor Jon Corzine said "the scale of corruption we're seeing as this unfolds is simply outrageous and cannot be tolerated."

"Any corruption is unacceptable -- anywhere, anytime, by anybody," he said in a statement.

The dramatic crackdown came as Chris Christie, a crusading former US attorney, stepped up his campaign against Corzine in an election this November.

Christie, a Republican, previously won fame for his relentless and successful prosecution of political corruption in New Jersey.

Corzine is battling widespread dissatisfaction with his performance as the state reels from the national recession, spending cuts, and shorter working weeks for state employees.

FBI agent Weysan Dun was quick to deny any political motivation behind the arrests, a majority of which appeared to involve Democrats, rather than Republicans.

"This investigation has transcended multiple administrations of both political parties," he said.

This is "not about politics, certainly not about religion. It is about crime. It is about criminals who use politics and religion."

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Malloch Brown And Misrepresentation




So you were leaned on by Gordon's goons, you did your time as a GOAT why don't you just come clean and say that Brown is delusional and tells lies

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So Much For The French Foreign Legion


I don't know if they are allowed to participate in things like Afghanistan because of the odd on-off relationship that the French have with NATO, but it seems that the French Foreign Legion are getting a bit trigger-happy.

Oh well, it's only Marseille.

The Penguin.

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Thursday, 23 July 2009

We Hate Gordon Too



To apply anti-terrorist laws to freeze Icelandic assets is a long way beyond what is acceptable and it has left a lot of bad feelings," he told The Daily Telegraph. Almost nobody on this island nation can fathom what made Britain think it proportional to list Iceland's central bank alongside al-Qaeda as a terrorist organisation.

"Somehow we have to solve this problem in a civilised manner, but the IceSave agreement is very unpopular. People feel that this imposes a terrible burden," he said. Indeed, he himself has to walk a daily gauntlet, passing youths wearing "IceSlave" T-shirts on the Hverfisgata drag.

In Iceland they now realise they are going to be in debt for generations, in Britain Nu Labour are still spending our money in their heads and making promises the national credit card cannot support.

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Les Bonnes Vacances


Old Holborn is about to set off for three weeks of sun, sand and surfing on the French Atlantic coast avec les enfants - well not me surfing, fuck that obviously. Internet access will be sparse. Wine will be flowing. The oysters are plump.

Please be sure to give them all hell whilst I am away, the bastards.

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Wednesday, 22 July 2009

New Kneeling High Jump Record

In view of the silly season, I would like to post a photo just before a recent successful attempt at the kneeling high jump record, in Nice, France


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An Answer At Last

A Big Supporter of the BNP(A)

Dear Mr Penguin,

Thank you for your email to John Wadham, Group Legal Director, dated 24 June 2009.

We can confirm that one of our predecessor commissions (the Commission for Racial Equality) did contact the Black National Police Association some years ago. The Association reviewed their constitution and membership and now advertise that there is no bar to membership based on colour.

The Commission values all the information it receives, from members of the public and others, about possible breaches of equality and human rights legislation. We rely on the public to bring us evidence of discrimination or unlawful acts by public bodies, companies and organisations covered by the equalities legislation so that we can consider whether action is required. Therefore if you have any information of unlawful activity, please supply this to us.

Yours sincerely

The Legal Enforcement Team

Equality & Human Rights Commission

3 More London

Riverside

Tooley Street

London

SE1 2RG

The Penguin.


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What could possibly go wrong?


Bouncers in Norwich's notorious nightclub district have been given the power to issue on-the-spot fines without consultation with judges or magistrates.


Now they fear the move could undermine attempts to deter persistent trouble-makers in the city's Prince of Wales Road area where two men have died this year.


The Norfolk police initiative, aimed at training and accrediting members of the community to bolster their work, has seen selected door-staff given powers more commonly associated with police officers. Though the force insists the scheme will only add to law enforcement on the streets - already enhanced by an increased frontline presence - there are concerns that the powers could be misused and may only gloss over serious offences.


Concerns centre on Prince of Wales Road as it once again becomes infamous for alcohol fuelled violence as thousands of young people from across the region visit to enjoy the area's pubs and clubs on a night. A 23-year-old man is currently in the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with serious injuries after an attack outside the Qube nightclub following the deaths of 46-year-old Phillip Ward from Drayton and 30-year-old Timothy Moore from Norwich. Paul Allen, chairman of Norwich magistrates, said the “bouncer” scheme had been introduced last October but had only now come to the attention of JPs - and police did not consult with either magistrates or judges before introducing the powers.


I wonder if Norwich Police will get to keep some of the "takings"? *wink*

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The Scales of Justice Are About To Tip In Favour Of The State

One of the most significant hearings of recent times is passing by unheralded on July 30th at The Royal Courts of Justice and it is one that will ultimately affect every private citizen in the UK if it is found in favour of the Defendants, being The Ministry of Justice, represented by the Treasury Solicitors.

Andre Power, the Plaintiff, had a County Court Judgement emplaced on him for £254,000 by mistake via Her Majesty’s Court Service. Mr. Power was unaware of this for thirteen months whilst seeking funding for his company to launch a business, four years in the creation and with investment by the principals of over £400,000. Unfortunately, as HMCS failed to advise Mr. Power that a CCJ for £254,000 showing unpaid was now registered against his name on public credit files such as “Experian”, he/the company failed to raise any funding, despite the company having no indebtedness whatsoever, save for a £15,000 bank loan, which was paid up to date at that time.


A Circuit Judge has ruled that the CCJ should never have been emplaced on Mr. Power’s name and it has been removed, after showing on credit files for thirteen months. Mr, Power has had four separate apologies and clear admissions of negligence from HMCS in correspondence thereafter. However, they declined to pay any compensation on the basis of spurious and unfounded allegations that there must have been further debts (though not specified) which prevented the company from being funded.
Therefore, Mr. Power started a legal action for compensation.

Included in his submissions were letters from noted funding groups stating that they would decline any such funding requests where due diligence revealed the Managing Director of the company had an unpaid CCJ registered on his name for £254,000.
However, none of this has been argued before a Judge as yet. The first hearing was on 6th March 2009 before a Master Foster. The Defendants asked that the case be struck off based on an alleged precedent. Mr. Power received the “skeleton argument” for this action some five minutes before entering the Court. In a previous court case a man who was given two years and three months imprisonment after being found guilty, was accidentally sentenced to two years and six months. As some of the sentence was due to run concurrently, a mistake had been made in the totting up of the sentence and he served an extra three months. At some point, (presumably after completing his sentence) despite himself, his legal representatives, the Judge and the court staff, all missing the original error, he sued for the compensation for the loss of three months liberty.

The Judge upheld the Defence’s claim that a civil servant who makes a mistake whilst discharging the normal duties of his job cannot be liable in law for such a mistake and therefore found against the Plaintiff.
This same precedent was therefore represented to Master Foster as the reason Mr. Power’s claim should be struck off. And Master Foster allowed this flimsy reasoning to stand and found in favour of the Defendant’s, although immediately granting Mr. Power the Right to Appeal.

This appeal is to be heard on July 30th.


Mr. Power will argue that the precedent cited bears no resemblance or comparison to his case. Firstly, he was not guilty of any offence in the first place, as proofed by a Circuit Judge ruling that the CCJ was wrongly emplaced on his name in the first place. Secondly, Mr. Power was never advised of the CCJ so unlike the chap cited in the precedent who was present when he was found guilty and sentenced, he had no opportunity to redress the situation. Thirdly, the Treasury Solicitor’s argument that a civil servant who makes a mistake whilst going about his job cannot be declared negligent is also being contested by Mr. Power. He maintains that it was precisely because civil servant/s (unknown to this day) were NOT doing their job properly in the first place that this situation arose. If they had been discharging their duties, for which they are paid from the public purse, then this circumstance could never have occurred.
If this precedent is allowed to stand, thus preventing Mr. Power from ever seeking compensation before a Judge in an open court then a dangerous and unsettling precedent is in place that would have shocking repercussions for every private citizen in the UK. It would mean any civil/public servant and/or offices of the civil service could commit any act of wilful negligence without fear of legal action and with absolute impunity.

You are already aware of the growing disparity between private business and public employ. We pay the taxes for civil servants wages and pensions. Indeed our pensions have collapsed whilst theirs have been growing. We work under an ever burgeoning set of directorial responsibilities, red tape and laws that prevent us from ever running our businesses in such a cavalier fashion. And of course we have no such protection in law from claims against us resulting from the negligent actions of our staff and ourselves if they are proofed to have negligently impacted on any of our fellow citizens. We work longer hours and enjoy significantly less absence from work due to sickness, holiday time and sundry days off.
If this precedent is allowed to stand it will mean a new two tier society has been created, effectively an act of apartheid, legislated via the highest court in the land. It will mean that all the millions of civil/public servants will be working under a completely different circumstance to the army of self employed and private businesses who fund their existence. The only examples of such civil service power over the people can be found in communist, fascist and totalitarian regimes. They have never been implemented in any state before that has declared itself to be a “democracy”. The power of the individual will therefore be subsumed before the power of the State. No longer will we be able to sue any state body or its representatives. Indeed, they will be able to perform all manner of objectionable and dubious acts against the citizen without the citizen having any recourse in law. Would any taxpayer willingly pay taxes to support an unelected elite in the pursuit and maintenance of this goal? Therefore, if you wish to make a stand against the erosion of that most historic right, whereby both public and private citizens are held to be under the same principles of English law and jurisprudence, then I ask that this case be given as much prominence and publicity before it is too late and we are drawn into an “us and them” gulag mentality whereby the private individual no longer enjoys the same legal rights and privileges as the Government employee.


I received the above email this afternoon at the Libertarian Party Offices, and having spoken to Mr Power who has given me permission to publicise this case which could establish the legal precedent that no Civil Servant can be held accountable for his or her negligence.

For the first time, the ' rulers' will have enhanced legal protection from the consequences of their incompetence over us the 'ruled'. No more messy inquests into the shooting of unarmed electricians on the underground, no legal consequences for battering an innocent bystander at a demonstration so that he dies. You can now lose your life,your property and your wealth, and you will not be able to sue the State for redress.

In the dying days of this corrupt Parliament, the Treasury Solicitors are ging to argue that Civil Servants have no duty of care to the public and cannot be sued for negligence

If you wish to discuss this further please contact Andre Power anytime on 01702 389005.

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Silly Week


Click for an explanation

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Kangeroo Courts

How Cool Am I ?


This is not a court, members of Parliament are entitled to express views

John Whittingdale
Committee chairman

Then why do you act as if you are the Judge, Jury and Hangman ?

Tom Crone acting for News International objected to Tom Watson sitting on the select committee panel yesterday in what was another piece of political abuse by this Rotten Parliament trying to get some payback against the media for the mauling they have received over the last few months.

There is a nasty habit developing amongst Politicians and their acolytes to presume that they are the arbiters of the Law. One thinks of Harriet Harman citing 'The Court of Public Opinion' (A lynch mob), as a lawyer she should have been struck off for bringing her profession into disrupte.

Side stepping the Courts ie the speeding tickets farago, and discounted 'sentencing' if you admit your 'crime' without going to Court is the Nu Labour way.

The State does not like people or Organisations that stand in its way, and certainly does not like uppity Lawyers telling them to their face that what they are doing is against natural Justice.

Inside their heads they are protecting us, the reality is they are oppressing us all.

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The Shape Of Things To Come


The Libertarian Party has been out and about campaigning in Norwich North, so have the BNP, so have UKIP, so has Craig Murray, you would not think it watching BBC East, because they only seem to have considered that only one third of the twelve candidates are worth listening to. The ones committed to 'social democracy' and spending vast tranches of your taxes.

Nich Starling 'Norfolk Blogger' reveals that the Election Special audience was packed out with Tory Supporters and Councillors from outside the area, so the Tories and Destiny Dave have learned how to do things in Nu Britain

Meanwhile, the BBC has 'outed' itself by saying that it must encourage 'left of centre' thinking,
So thats propaganda paid for with your licence fee/tax. Having trod the streets myself, there is a real anger in Norwich North, worries over debt and employment. The Election Special was utterly embarrassing. Soft lobbed questions, well practised answers. Nothing to do with the real concerns of the people of Norwich. Nothing to do with the BBC Charter either.

Politics should be a battle of ideas, not a tacit agreement between four parties that the State is Good, People are bad, and we all need protecting tosh being spouted.

Then the Labour Candidate went down with swine flu, so much for the Government saying it could protect us from everything including nature.

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Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Yours for $397


There's money in Global Warming. 90 pages of SHITE for just $397

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Mandelsonia Revealed


Mandelson, our new Richelieu sits on thirty five out of the 43 Cabinet Committees, listed below

National Economic Council NEC
Better Regulation NEC (BR)
Democratic Renewal Council DRC
Domestic Policy Council DPC (which he deputy chairs)
Domestic Affairs DA
Borders and Migration DA (BM)
Communities and Equalities DA (CE)
Food DA
Families, Children and Young People DA (FCY)
Health and Wellbeing DA (HW)
Justice and Crime DA (JC)
Local Government and the Regions DA (LGR) (which he chairs)
Public Engagement and the Delivery of Services DA (PED)
Life Chances LC
Talent and Enterprise LC (TE)
Economic Development ED
Environment and Energy ED (EE)
Housing, Planning and Regeneration ED (HPR)
Olympic and Paralympic Games ED (OPG)
Productivity, Skills and Employment ED (PSE)
Constitution CN
National Security, International Relations and Development NSID
Europe NSID (EU)
Overseas and Defence NSID (OU)
Africa NSID (OUA)
Afghanistan and Pakistan NSID (A&P)
Trade NSID (T)
Protective Security and Resilience NSID (PSR)
Public Services and Public Expenditure PSX
Public Sector Pay and Pensions PSX (P)
Pandemic Influenza Planning MISC 32
Post Office Network MISC 33 (which he chairs)
Flood planning MISC 36
PM’s ad hoc Committee on International Climate Change
PM’s ad hoc International Climate Change Negotiations

He is the most powerful 'pink' person in the country, he is unelected, he will remain at the centre of power, even after the corrupt edifice of Nu Labour is swept away. He will remain in the Lords until somebody places a stake through his dark heart.

One 'man' rules this country unelected, unaccountable, unpalatable, the result of the fear and cowardice of Nu Labour.

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Cost Effective Advertising?

"What's Your Number? And Do You Fancy A Kebab Afterwards?"

It seems that the Home Office spent £3.5 MILLION of taxpayers' money to advertise some fuckwit text messaging scheme whereby you could find out a phone number for your local plod.

Only 3,000 people used the sevice, which has been suspended prior to being quietly swept away altogether.

So that's 3,500,000 divided by 3,000 equals £1,167 per text.

Great value for money. Even 118 118 is cheaper.

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Lunar Landing



Hat tip Obo

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Monday, 20 July 2009

Litter - the new Stasi


I notice Defra, via the fake charity "keep britian tidy" people has started a campaign to report people seen dropping litter from cars. Your chance to stitch them up for a change.




Go on, you know you want to. Blue Jaguar, Reg LX06 EGY, Soho, Russian Condoms and Teddy Bears.

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A Righteous in Libertarian Clothing.

An unwilling victim of the 'You Must Watch Mucky Movies' Brigade.
(Picture found corrupting weak minds here).


Can a film critic claim to be libertarian while calling for the banning of a film he hasn't watched?

This (oxy)moron thinks so.

There's a new film out filled with sex and violence. Sounds like fun. I know there are those who think Libertarians would have infant-school day trips to watch it, but not so. It would be the parents' responsibility to decide whether their child can watch it and once they're old enough to join the Army, they're old enough to make their own decisions. Joining the Army can be a life or death decision. No bigger decision is possible so if they're judged old enough for that, they're old enough for anything. Currently the Army takes recruits at 16 and a half years old and they could be killed defending the country before they're old enough to go into the booze aisle of a supermarket. If you think that makes sense, I have a very nice bridge for sale.

Back to our authoritarian libertarian, Christopher Hart.

A film which plumbs new depths of sexual explicitness, excruciating violence and degradation has just been passed as fit for general consumption by the British Board of Film Classification.

General consumption? You mean they'll shelve it with Disney films?

They have given the film an 18 certificate.

Aha, this is the restricted general consumption that goes along with compulsory volunteering, killing in the name of peace and A* grades without knowing the subject - also known as 'freedom is slavery, war is peace, ignorance is strength' in that order. I see.

As we all know, this is meaningless nowadays in the age of the DVD because sooner or later, thanks to the gross irresponsibility of some parents, any film that is given general release will be seen by children.

Ah, but Libertarianism is all about responsibility. Corrupting children harms them, and the central tenet of Libertarianism, 'cause no harm to others', is therefore violated and the parents will be held responsible for their actions. As it is, they aren't allowed to take responsibility, so many of them don't. Besides, films like A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist, Hellraiser and much stronger stuff is all on DVD now. If parents are likely to let their kids watch this one (which I doubt many would) then those kids have already seen some blood and boobs. I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying it's happened already.

You do not need to see Lars von Trier's Antichrist (which is released later this week) to know how revolting it is.

Actually, I would need to see it to know how revolting it is. There's no other way to judge. I'm not going to take your word for it just because you didn't like it.

I haven't seen it myself, nor shall I

Huh? So you're telling me I shouldn't be allowed to watch a film you have decided is utterly without merit, and you haven't even watched it yourself? How did you come to this conclusion, pray tell?

and I speak as a broad-minded arts critic, strongly libertarian in tendency.

You're not sounding very libertarian here. You're sounding New Labour to the core, I'm afraid. Are you trying to give the impression that libertarianism is the same as Labour, Tories, Lib Dems etc? It's an interesting new approach but it's not working.

But merely reading about Antichrist is stomach-turning, and enough to form a judgment.

Is it? Depends who wrote what you're reading, wouldn't you say? Someone who didn't like it, wrote a review and exaggerated? Someone in PR thought it might be a good idea to hype it up? The British Board of Film Censors actually watched it and let it through. They didn't rely on second-hand reports. Neither will I. As a 'libertarian critic', neither should you. At this point I'd like to ask - isn't watching films your, ah, job?

The husband and wife go to stay in a log cabin to recover from their grief. There, horrors the likes of which I have never witnessed unfold in graphic detail.

Well of course you've never witnessed them. You've never watched the film. You don't know what these horrors are, how they are portrayed, whether they are on screen or off screen, nothing. Yet you deride the film and call yourself libertarian!

Now the anonymous moral guardians of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), in their infinite wisdom, have passed this foul film for general consumption

But you don't like it, so the anonymous moral guardians are wrong. We must all bow to the Morals of Hart, for they are superior to ours.

Oh, and he doesn't miss the 'for the cheeldren' part...

Another bizarre but typical judgment from this panel of experts whose names we don't even know (and so we don't even know if they are parents).

No, they are Augustine monks watching films on a remote Scottish island in a cinema powered by harnessing lightning with a big machine run by a hunchback called Igor. I don't know if they are parents either but odds are, some of them have children. But we don't know their names, remember, because Hart has said so twice. Then he says -

We do know that its president, Sir Quentin Thomas, gets £28,000 for 25 days' work a year. Nice job if you can get it.

How can this be? The name nobody knows is here, in print before our eyes. What dark magic is this? And he earns £28,000 a year for 25 days of work. Shocking. He could be on triple that if he was an MP. But we cannot possibly know this man's name, salary or working hours because he is an anonymous moral guardian. Mr. Hart, meet Mr. Logic. You haven't met before.

I tried to find out more from the Institute, but to my small surprise they disdained to reply. But you can be sure that they in turn are funded by the EU and so by my taxes - and yours.

Possibly. But you're assuming here, not declaring a definite truth. It would be wrong to carry on as if your assumption were true.

How do you feel about that? If not shocked, then weary, furious, disgusted? Well you can complain all you like, but no one is listening. Our arts mandarins, along with the rest of our lofty liberal elite, don't work like that.

What, you mean how do I feel about your assumption that the film was paid for by taxes when you present no evidence? Shocked, perhaps. How would I feel if the film actually was funded by taxes? Well, our taxes are spent on much more wasteful and pointless things than films so I don't mind all that much, actually.

Oh, and I don't agree that our elites are 'liberal' in any sense of the word other than the doublethink one.

How odd that while government-appointed health czars are so obsessed with anything that might harm the nation's physical wellbeing - hanging flower baskets, conkers, too much sunshine, not enough sunshine - any concern with the nation's moral or spiritual well-being has completely vanished.

Ah, Mr. Pretend Libertarian, you seek to justify adding more control to our lives by saying 'well, all that stuff is controlled so we should control this too'. That is not libertarian, that's insidious Righteous creeping totalitarianism, which is what we're going through now. Those things you mention cannot harm the nation's well-being, only the individual's, and the individual should be allowed to assess their own risks and make their own choices. You use these spurious examples to justify control of the entire population's morality. Specifically, everyone must think as you do or they are immoral.

As for this -

Censorship today seems to have been reduced to the feeble principle that if it doesn't harm children, then it should be allowed.

As soon as it's released on DVD, Antichrist will harm children anyway, deeply and irrevocably. But when did this principle of protecting only children arise anyway? What about harming adults?

He's extended 'For the cheeldren' into 'For the adults too' and he calls himself libertarian! He wants to decide what ADULTS can and cannot watch! Look, some people won't want to see this film because it contains sex and violence and that's fine. Nobody is going to pin their eyelids open and force them to watch it. It's a matter of choice. A Libertarian would understand that.

A Righteous would not.

If I were to see Antichrist, I don't believe for a moment that it would incite me into copycat violent behaviour or make me a danger to others. But it would poison my mind and imagination, with explicit, ferocious scenes of sexual violence that would stay with me for ever.

Then don't watch it. Some of us have minds made of stronger stuff. We haven't all lived permanently comfortable lives and some of the stuff I've seen - without choosing to - in real life means that nothing on film is going to 'poison my mind'. I can tell what's real and what's not. Most adults can.

Isn't that good enough reason to ban it, or at least demand extensive cuts?

No. Just because you don't like a film you've never watched, funded from a source you imagine is taxes but might not be, passed as okay by nameless people you then name and give salary details for, is not a good enough reason for a ban. You don't like the sound of it. Fair enough. Don't watch it. Do NOT attempt to control everyone else's morals and then have the gall to call yourself libertarian.

But have we - that is to say, the hesitant, fumbling, comfortably cushioned, value-free Leftish elite who now govern us - got the guts? I doubt it.

All I can say is - wow. What planet has this man been on for the last decade? Have the government got the guts to ban something? Look around, Righteous Hart. They've banned pretty much everything and you, calling yourself Libertarian, want to ban some more!

It seems 'Libertarian' has become a 'cool tag' now, and is used here by one of the most ferocious Righteous I've come across. He clearly has no idea what 'libertarian' means.

Here's a clue for the clueless, Righteous Hart. It does not mean 'total control'.

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Sunday, 19 July 2009

BBC no longer dumbed down


Nope, not at all. I've just had a look at what we are to be treated with using our money
A season of programmes exploring what it is like to be young and growing up in Britain in 2009.

Boob Job: My Big Decision - series-->
Underage and Pregnant - series
Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum- series
Baby Beauty Queens
Otto: Love, Lust & Las Vegas
Britain's Most Embarrassing Parents
The Autistic Me

Can't wait.

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Saturday, 18 July 2009

Whoops!


It seems Amazon have been spying on their Kindle readers, watching them from afar they have.......

And they didn't approve of what they were reading either.......so they deleted the book from the Kindle service.

Which book? Hmmn, George Orwell's 1984..........

Some interesting comments from disgruntled Amazon readers HERE

UPDATE: Ayn Rand's book, Atlas Shrugged, has been removed too.

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The Benefits Trap: First Hand Experience

A guest post by Hektor Reborn

When you lose your job or you get sick, the State steps in to look after you. That's a good thing, right? Well, it is until you get hooked on it. Like painkillers, it helps to begin with but you can become increasingly dependent on them and find that you can't get off them. Having read The Welfare State We're in, which details how the benefit culture may have contributed to a breakdown in British society, I know that the trap is now sprung and I am on the verge of becoming stuck.

I am not sick, but I did lose my job in November. I got a reasonably generous redundancy package that was not enough to live on but with savings it was too large to qualify for benefits. That was fine. I would rather make my own way in the world than rely on the State's handouts. All well and good, but life goes on. I had a flat that I had to pay rent on. Food to eat. People to see and some fun to have. Not having a job but having some money has the upsides of being a student and having a job: both Time and Money at the same time.

I wasn't being stupid though. I had enough money coming in from doing odd jobs to keep afloat and I wanted to save most of the money to offset various debts (student loan, etc). However, with interest rates crashing down this seemed less and less viable. What is the point in having a full ISA if you get £8 a month?! Additionally, oddjobs dried up, so my bank balance began to creep down to the point where my savings no longer close to offseting my debts. At this point I decided to empty my savings and pay off as much of my debt as possible.

The reason for this is simple. If you have any savings then you get less dole money. But this doesn't take debts into account. If I wanted to get my Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) then that is what I had to do. It was painful getting rid of everything that I had saved up and leaving myself with no financial cushion or room for manœuvre if something went wrong but it had to be done. So I called up the Department of Work and Pensions (0800 055 6688) and spent 45 minutes telling them all the tedious details that they need. They seemed more concerned with finding out which disability I might have had than actually processing my claim. It was almost as if they wanted to register me as disabled so that I didn't count as unemployed.

I went to the JobCentre Plus in Hammersmith the next day for an interview only to find that they had put me down for contributions based rather than both contribution and income based JSA. The difference essentially being that if you haven't paid enough NI then you can't get contributions based and income based is limited to about £64 per week, the level that the State thinks is the minimum you can live on. Sky dishes on council blocks anyone? That's another story....

As this was my first job since university and having been working in Zug, Switzerland my NI contributions were not enough and additionally I had to fill in a form explaining why I hadn't been working in the UK (more money, less taxes & better services just about sums it up). Obviously I was seen as Patriotic enough and passed that test. I even managed to make it through the interview with an incredibly patronising fat woman. She didn't seem interested in what I had done or was good at, but wanted to tell me exactly what I should be doing (reading the Guardian twice a week) and she didn't ask for a copy of my CV. Why would she? She probably knows exactly what kind of job is right for me just by looking at me.

So, I got my money each week, but not before agreeing to certain conditions, the Jobseeker's Agreement. This sets out that I will be looking and available for employment, make suitable efforts to find work, etc. I record everything I do in a little book but must make sure I complete three jobseeking steps per week. An example of this would be to phone the local baker to see if he has any work. So not exactly strenuous. I filled up the book and went onto another sheet of paper in my first two weeks and from listening to the other people, it is clear that you don't actually have to do anything for them to give you the ok. Indeed you could make it all up.

There are two conditions that are important. One is that you can't work for more than 16 hours in a week and the other is that you earn money you will get your benefit + and extra £5 - the amount you earnt. So if you earn £20 in the week you will get £64+£5-£20=£69. There is a small incentive to work if you are going to get less than your benefit amount, but not much. And if you are going to earn just more than £69 in a week, then you are going to have to do a lot of work for it when you could do nothing and get your money anyway. Also, you can't do more than 16 hours unpaid work. The reason: you won't have enough time to conduct your job search properly. Seriously, that is taking the piss. Weekends? Evenings? They can't actually want anybody to be looking for work.

And now, the best part. Hammersmith & Fulham is my council. They have an eight year waiting list for council housing, but those on JSA can claim housing benefits. I would be eligible for around £150 per week renting a private flat and £15 per week council tax benefit. All of this is income dependent so if you are earning money you get less benefit. So let's add this up. £64 JSA + £150 Housing Benefit + £15 Council Tax Benefit = £229 per week. Let's call it £230 for simplicity. That works out at £11,960 per year. Not a bad wage (starting salary as a squaddie is around £15,000) for doing 5 minutes work per week.

So, how much would you have to earn to take home £11,960 after paying council tax at £15 per week? About £15,675 by my calculations. The State has decided that there is an income that people need to survive but they still tax you if you earn that much. How does that make sense?

So you have a choice when offered a job worth around £15,500 or less: take it, work hard, earn your own money or do nothing and get the same amount of money. What if you are offered a job for £16,000? You would be better off by £6.63 per week, not £9.61, due to tax. That's not a lot of money for a lot more work. £17,000 makes you £19.90 better off per week instead of £28.85 because of tax.

The State seemingly doesn't want people at the job centre to get jobs (or it would be making them do a lot more), and even if they are offered a job, unless they are offered a good wage (average in the UK is about £25,000) there is little incentive to take it.

If I decide to move into a flat on housing benefit, I will have a large incentive not to take a job unless it comes with a good. So, no bar jobs, no part time waiter work, etc. It just doesn't pay. The same goes for the other 2.38 million people.

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Friday, 17 July 2009

Is swine flu selective?


I've noticed that Swine Flu is being quite selective in picking victims. Apart from Slotgob, the most cases seem to be affecting a certain "community".

Tower Hamlets - 759 flu consultations per 100,000
City and Hackney - 392
Islington - 306
Newham - 293
Luton - 272

Has anyone told New Labour?

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Nothing to hide, nothing to fear


Meet Beatrix Campbell of the Grauniad. Here is a little piece she "wrote" for Pravda


Philip Pullman is fizzing… dark antibodies are fighting his freedom of speech. He is one of a clutch of esteemed children's writers and illustrators protesting against a vetting scheme that would extend to writers what already applies to anyone working with children in schools: a vetting scheme.
They protest that they're never "alone with children", so why should they be vetted. They've been going into schools for years, they say, so why now?
Pullman, in particular, feels that vetting is "demeaning and insulting", another index of "corrosive and poisonous" state intervention.
What on earth is their problem?
Any writer-in-residence working with young people in schools, prisons and care facilities is vetted – I have been, several times – whether or not they work with crowds, groups or individuals.
We should be glad to do it if it confirms childrens' rights to safe access to adults. The gesture – so slight, after all – should signal to young people that their school thinks their bodily integrity matters; and that it matters more than a minor interruption of adults' privacy.
This institutional promise should exact no less commitment from us than our routine surrenders to scrutiny in the name of public safety. Why are these writers threatening to withdraw from schools and children when, presumably, they submit to the plethora of surveillance systems that are proliferating across public space?
Whether we agree with passports, identity cards, frontiers or road safety, we generally assent to their impact on our individuals freedoms. Liberty, the civil liberties and human rights guardian, was taken by surprise when it conducted a survey of public attitudes to CCTV in the streets – most people approved.
We give ourselves up to body checks when we travel by Eurostar and when we take a plane. Do these same authors refuse to travel other than by their own bicycles or cars on the grounds that such searches of our property and our persons imply a "demeaning" suspicion that we're all terrorists?
Custom officers now check your eyes when you cross our national frontiers. Do the writers boycott foreign travel?
In every corner shop, in every railway station, at every junction, there is CCTV. The artist Banksy has marvellously satirised the phenomenon with his image of a camera and "what you looking at?" stencilled on an empty wall. The cameras are, of course, looking at everyone and no one.
They signify that everyone can be under suspicion. But they also signal a wish to contribute to collective safety.
Whether any of this is any use is, of course, another matter. But if it is worth letting someone check your body and examine the contents of your bag at an airport, then it is worth letting the computer check whether you've committed crimes against children before you are allowed to attract their attention in their schools.


OK Beatrix, I am not going to get into a longwinded rant about the assumption of guilt before innocence, the tardy "if you've nothing to hide" argument, the idiocy of your argument that CCTV is good for the "collective safety" or your that having your details on a State computer is a "minor interruption of an adult's privacy".
Instead, I am going to show you that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Consider yourself a fully paid up member of every Islamic Extremist organisation in the world. I have just put your name and email address on their mailing lists. You are also now a member of the BNP AND Respect. I have signed you up. You will shortly find your name and photo on Gaydar. You have joined Pro Palestinian and Pro Zionist organisations. You are now a member of the friends of Huntingdon Life Sciences AND an eco warrier. Your email address is the weapon I shall be using against you on the big wide Internet. The one that is closely monitored by the ever so nice State.
Don't worry, you have nothing to fear, do you?

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Thank Fuck The Days Of Celebrity Sucking Are Over!


Otherwise who knows how much the entertainment bill for Jonah's dinner parties at Chequers might be.

You'll recall he disavowed the celebrity cult of Bliar, along with spin and lies.

So there's a relief, otherwise the cost may have really gone up, instead of just doubling.

"Chequers, which historically used to receive foreign dignitaries, diplomats and ministers, also played host to a string of celebrities.

Names from the world of showbusiness included Little Britain comedy duo Matt Lucas and David Walliams, comedian Jimmy Carr and veteran presenter Bruce Forsyth.

Big Brother hostess Davina McCall was another unlikely guest, as was football commentator John Motson, and actors Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson and Greg Wise.

Labour activist Derek Draper, who quit as editor of a Labour blog earlier this year amid the scandal over a planned smear campaign against senior Tories, also enjoyed Mr Brown's hospitality, with his GMTV presenter wife Kate Garraway."

Oh, and a few bankers.

The Penguin

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Thursday, 16 July 2009

I ain't touching YOUR hand

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Cherie Blair has swine flu


I really really hope she dies, covered in shit and piss after coughing up her own lungs. Go on Tony, give her a big sloppy kiss. Gordon, wish her a speedy recovery.

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Wednesday, 15 July 2009

Be A Goat,Be A Lord, Be A Twat

If you want to be a member of the House of Lords become one of Brown's GOAT's (Government of all the talents) its guaranteed !

Lord Darzi has just paid for his by being a GOAT, now he has decided to chuck it in as well as this twat above Lord Digby-Jones.

Three years ago I reported a French company to the Police and the DTI for fraud, theft, VAT, fraud,demanding money with menaces, secreting goods before a liquidation and perjury.

What did the State do, they got Digby-Jones to give the slimy little shit who runs this company a prize at a glittering event for Anglo-French trade in Paris the following year, and then the State in the form of Mandelson turns on the Directors of my company.

My MP about to see jobs disappearing abroad to get away from the thugs at the DTI, has written to Mandelson for an explanation on what background checks were done on this French company before giving them British Taxpayers cash as a prize.

If no response or an inadequate response is received from the new Cardinal Richelieu he is going to the press

Be A Goat, Be A Lord, Be a total twat

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£100,000 needed to nail Jacqui Smith


I am a member of the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics and we have decided to nail the bitch Jacqui Smith for being a complete cunt.


Any contribution you might be able to make would be greatly appreciated. Sorry to bother you if you have already donated to the campaign. You can donate via PayPal through the link above (click on the picture). If we can successfully prosecute the former Home Secretary this would be a major step toward cleaning up Westminster and proving to our law makers that they are not above the law.


So put YOUR fucking hands in your pocket for a change, instead of Darling and let's teach the fuckers a lesson. Do it. Do something. Put the fear of fucking 60,000,000 of us into the 646 bastards who run every minutae of our lives for their own bastard benefit.
UPDATE: It's looking good


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Arrested for being tall




Kent Police set a new legal precedent last week, as they arrested a photographer on the unusual grounds of "being too tall".



This follows a year of increasingly unhappy incidents, in which continued reassurances from on high appear to have had little impact on how Police Forces deal with photographers – and reinforces a growing concern that the breakdown in trust and cooperation with the Police warned of in respect of demonstrations could soon transfer to photography too.

According to his blog, our over-tall photographer Alex Turner was taking snaps in Chatham High St last Thursday, when he was approached by two unidentified men. They did not identify themselves, but demanded that he show them some ID and warned that if he failed to comply, they would summon police officers to deal with him.



This they did, and a PCSO and WPC quickly joined the fray. Turner took a photo of the pair, and was promptly arrested. It is unclear from his own account precisely what he was being arrested for. However, he does record that the WPC stated she had felt threatened by him when he took her picture, referring to his size - 5' 11" and about 12 stone - and implying that she found it intimidating.



Turner claims he was handcuffed, held in a police van for around 20 minutes, and forced to provide ID before they would release him. He was then searched in public by plain clothes officers who failed to provide any ID before they did so.



Following his release, he further claims that the police confirmed he was at liberty to take photographs, so long as - according to the PCSO - he did not take any photographs of the police.
This is just the latest in a long line of PR disasters that have dogged police forces over the last 12 months, with tourists, schoolboys and passers-by all subject to arrest for the heinous offence of pursuing their hobby. Each incident is followed by much police hand-wringing, and statements to the effect that these are one-offs: the fault of over-zealous individual officers.



The Home Office has issued numerous statements reaffirming the public’s right to take photographs. Last week, the Met issued its own guidelines, which may go some way to explaining why the Police so persistently get it wrong.



At the heart of the present controversy is the question of when behaviour becomes suspicious. Advice we have received suggests that the police may arrest an individual under PACE s.1 or the Terrorism Act s.44 where they have reasonable suspicion that an illegal act is being carried out.
In other words, photography on its own is not suspicious behaviour: police suspicions need to be grounded in other evidence, and it is not reasonable to throw a blanket suspicion over the activities of all photographers.



Yet here is the Met guidance in respect of s.44: "Officers have the power to view digital images contained in mobile telephones or cameras... provided that the viewing is to determine whether the images... are of a kind, which could be used in connection with terrorism."
Not quite. The Met guidelines make no mention of reasonable suspicion: in effect, they duck the single issue that is at the heart of so much grief.



We asked the Met to explain this omission, but at time of writing, they have not come back to us.
In the case reported above, a spokesman for Chatham Police was prepared to confirm only the arrest and de-arrest, and that it was in respect of suspicious conduct under the Terrorism Act 2000. He added that Kent Police have voluntarily referred the complaint to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.



On the issues of what a citizen may lawfully do in the High St – whether ID must be supplied on demand, and whether photographing a police officer, or even being too tall, was grounds for arrest – neither Chatham nor Kent would provide any further comment. Kent police appeared especially unhappy at providing the public with any guidance as to what constituted an offence.
However, as debate in parliament a couple of months back revealed, MPs on all sides of the House are beginning to notice a pattern: and the demand for police to act lawfully in respect of their policing of photography is growing. Even Home Office Under-Secretary Shahid Malik, who responded in this debate, was forced to concede that the events now being brought before Parliament were regrettable, and that counter-terror legislation was not intended to be used in this way.



Despite this, the message still does not appear to be getting through to police at the sharp end. This raises the final concern that continued failure by the police to address this issue and to ensure that their officers are interacting lawfully with the public is likely to lead to a breakdown in relations.



Following the G20 earlier this year, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary issued a report (pdf) warning that unless police responded to public concerns, public support for the policing of demonstrations was likely to break down. Comedian Mark Thomas has already gained headlines for his campaign against unnecessary police stops, with its slogan: "If the police choose to waste my time, I will certainly waste theirs."



More seriously, lawyer Anna Mazzola observed in last week’s Guardian: "If the police truly want to convince journalists that they are committed to allowing freedom of expression and to enabling members of the press to do their jobs, then they should engage with these issues rather than issuing guidance which is likely to hamper them."



Update
Kent police has supplied us with the following statement, giving its take on the incident:
Assistant Chief Constable Allyn Thomas said: "Our officers are extremely vigilant and their primary concern is always the safety of the public.



"At the time of this incident, a police officer responded to a report concerning a man who was taking photographs of buildings and people in Chatham town centre. When challenged by the police officer the man refused to give any personal details which it was thought was suspicious.
"As a result, he was arrested and asked to wait in a police vehicle while his details were checked. He was released a short time later after these details had been properly verified, and no further action has been taken.



"A formal complaint has subsequently be made in relation to this incident which has been recorded and an investigation has commenced."

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Don Blairlioni and the EU


I notice that her Royal Highness, Baroness Glenys Kinnock of Troughvillegochgochgochinthevalleys has let the cat out of the bag by announcing to the peasants that Lord Blair of Baghdad is to be the UK’s candidate for President of the Known Universe and the EU.

Oops. Apparently, this position can only be up for grabs once the Lisbon Treaty is ratified and to do announce such a thing would indicate that the treaty is to ratified whether the bogtrotters, Krauts and various other assorted “criminals” throughout the EUSSR agree to it or not.

Get ready to take to the Streets. The Mafia are appointing a new Super Don. It is going to be bloody.

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Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Une célébration de la liberté


If we tried this in the UK, this child would be taken into care for showing BNP tendencies, her parents would be fired from their jobs and the Righteous would have us wearing hairshirts for the rest of our lives

Vive la France - whether you like them or not is irrelevent. They really do as they fucking well please. Good on them.

Joyeaux le Jour de Bastille

UPDATE: Anna does it so much better....

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Transparency In Government?


By Martin Sixsmith, ex-Whitehall Spin Doctor.

"I smile when I hear this Government insisting that it is committed to openness about its own behaviour (MPs’ expenses, Iraq inquiry passim).

This is partly because I was a member of the senior Civil Service when the Freedom of Information Act was formulated in 1999 and I remember all the whispered discussions about how to circumvent it (never write anything down, don’t keep minutes of sensitive meetings), and partly because I have just emerged from a gruelling battle to make use of Britain’s information laws and have found the odds stacked firmly against me.

My Whitehall stint ended seven years ago after Downing Street tried to blame me for the misbehaviour of Stephen Byers, the Transport and Local Government Secretary at the time, and his spin doctor, Jo Moore.

The Government eventually made a public apology to me and paid substantial compensation, but I was curious to find out who had picked me as a scapegoat, and who had led the smear campaign against me when I refused to go quietly.

So in April 2006 I filed a subject access request for all the information the Government held on me and expected to get it within the 40-day deadline specified by the Freedom of Information Act. Some hope. The Government didn’t even reply within 40 days let alone provide the data.

When I asked why it was not sending me the information, I triggered a mildly surreal sequence of excuses that went on for two years: we have faulty IT equipment; manpower shortages; new priorities; “I am on holiday in France, R. Smith, Data Controller”; pressure of other business; change in IT supplier; the need to consult widely; Christmas leave commitments; third-party interests; concerns over data security . . .

I was patient and polite, but I was being fobbed off. I complained to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which enforces the information laws, and it replied that the Government “is likely to have contravened the Act”. Months went by and I heard nothing more.

When I rang, the ICO said that it had mislaid the case file. I asked for a meeting. At ICO headquarters in Wilmslow, Cheshire, I found an understaffed, cowed and demoralised organisation with nothing like the clout and resources the job demands. Staff members told me that they were stressed, overworked and scared of challenging the Government (which pays their wages).

Around this time, a friend in the Civil Service informed me that ministers were holding discussions about destroying the information I had asked for, potentially a criminal offence. When I asked about this, the Government’s departmental knowledge officer, Richard Smith, wrote: “No information is held relating to discussions or correspondence regarding the provision or non-provision of the information you requested.”

But I later discovered that he wrote on the same day to another official: “We have needed to consult widely on this request because of the nature of the data we hold . . . Please regard this as confidential and not for passing on to Martin Sixsmith.”

I urged the ICO to demand that the Government hand over the data. The ICO threatened enforcement action, but the Government did not reply. So the ICO set another deadline, which the Government also ignored. When the Government failed to meet a third deadline, the ICO moved it back again.

It was clear that the Government was accustomed to bullying and ignoring a toothless ICO, and that the ICO had no stomach to take it on. It was not until September 2008, after some vigorous lobbying from me, that the ICO finally agreed to issue an enforcement notice. Surprise, surprise, the Government still refused to comply and the case was sent on appeal to the Information Tribunal, the FoI equivalent of the High Court.

I thought that I was getting somewhere now, but if the ICO was bad, the tribunal officials were worse: communications from its proper officers were shambolic, contradictory and semi-literate.

When the case opened at Crown Chambers in the Temple, the Government was calling the shots. I requested that proceedings be held in public, as permitted by the act, but the Government’s QCs harangued the chairman into closing the doors, and the public (including me) were locked out.

I asked how much taxpayers’ money had been spent contesting the case — the Government was represented by two QCs, the ICO by one, and the panel of judges included a further two QCs — but I was told that it was not in the public interest for me to know this. One of the lawyers told me later that the figure was in the hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The information I was seeking had no bearing on national security but, because it was politically embarrassing, the Government was prepared to spend three years and substantial public funds to keep it secret. If I weren’t so bloody-minded, the ICO would have caved in and the Government would have got away with it.

But last month, three years after it all began, a heap of documents landed on my doormat. They are heavily redacted, but they show that senior civil servants backed up the view that Stephen Byers misled Parliament and that it was Alastair Campbell who circulated false information about me.

Campbell’s language is delightfully choice: it might turn up in the rantings of Malcolm Tucker in the next series of The Thick of It.

I am still trawling through the contents of the documents — they will provide a story for another day — but for now the lesson is clear: there is no truth in the rumour that the Government has embraced openness and honesty."

From The Times

The Penguin


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Cuckoo


2 million on the Dole, 3.9 million on "invalidity" (the smart dole), a million illegals. Over 50% of the population dependent on some form of State benefit, 7 million paid directly by the State. 100,000's of asylum seekers, 29,000 professional politicians, 500,000 hairy arsed "students" learning clay pot throwing or Beckham studies.

No wonder I'm knackered. I'm the only one doing any fucking work around here.

Bastards. The government is even training the next clutch of cuckoos at Calais how to use a fucking MOUSE to answer the new come and get it, it's free test.


Don't worry if you don't pass the test the first time that you try it; you can try again when you feel ready. There's no limit to the number of times you can take the test

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Who Do You Believe Brown Or Lt Evison


I HAVE A LACK OF RADIOS, WATER, FOOD AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT. THIS WITH MANPOWER IS WHAT THESE MISSIONS LACK.
INJURIES WILL BE SUSTAINED WHICH I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TREAT AND DEATHS COULD OCCUR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED.

WE ARE WALKING ON A TIGHTROPE AND FROM WHAT IT SEEMS HERE ARE LIKELY TO FALL.


Lt Mark Evison Welsh Guards Died of wounds May 2009


The omens could hardly be grimmer. Not only are the military objectives hazy, but a campaign costing $20 billion a month has no political direction. Voters here, as in Afghanistan, deserve the truth. We are pouring blood and money into a black hole, and the flow will not be staunched unless a political solution is found.

Until then, 18 year-olds with the fresh faces of your sons, or mine, will fight and fall. They do not require passing-bells, or candles; only good equipment and the guarantee that they are the brave architects of a better future. No civilised nation should ask its soldiers, young or old, to die for less.

The Telegraph

The LPUK candidate in Norwich North is nearly nineteen, 'wise heads' have been tut tutting 'far too young', but I don't hear the same people saying eighteen, thats far too young to be blown to pieces in ramshackle vehicles with dodgy ammunition and kit- No just too young for an opinion apparently.

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Monday, 13 July 2009

Perfectly Sensible Legal Advice



In the case of Mandelson V Guthrum (as posted recently)

Precis of a legal opinion given this afternoon-

You would be an idiot taking Mandelson and BERR on in open Court, you were targeted a year ago and you know it, you would run up a huge legal bill because they will drag this out for years until you bankrupt yourself, so even if you win you will lose.

If you lose you will lose everything, because the Taxpayer is funding Mandy, she/it/him will employ the best barristers that the taxpayer will pay for.

Which bit of 'the Law is just another weapon for the likes of Mandelson' do you not understand ?

Justice in this country died along time ago, the final nail in the coffin was when an innocent man was gunned down on a tube train, and nobody was prosecuted, lost their job or was demoted.

Nobody gives a flying fcuk about Justice, just entitlements and rights that somebody else will pay for.

Mandelson will not be here for ever, restructure your business overseas, make your staff redundant, regroup and fight the State from a safe distance.Don't go for any walks near woods.





That told me !

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Sunday, 12 July 2009

Free Speech For Brummies- Not In This Country

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We Have No Allegiance But To The State



Berliners and the citizens of eastern Germany are struggling to digest the news that thousands of former members of the dreaded Stasi secret police were working as their local civil servants, police officers and teachers, almost 20 years after the Iron Curtain collapsed.

More than 17,000 staff currently employed by Berlin and eastern Germany's five federal states were estimated to have worked for the all-pervasive communist police organisation, according to evidence compiled by historians at Berlin's Free University.

The Independent

In all societies there is a class of people who believe that for personal advancement they should always 'serve' the State. It does not matter what the ideology of the State is, their petty bureaucratic Authoritarian minds will readily adapt to changes of Government.

It is the petty power and being part of the righteous that keeps them going. It is the mindset in Mandelson's 'post democratic' age that allows local authorities to put CCTV cameras in every street, to spy on your dustbins, to put adverts on the TV 'we know you live' etc, whilst defrauding the Taxpayer, failing on every level of competence, losing £1 Bn of our money in Iceland, then cooking the books to cover it up.

Lord Malloch-Brown resigned for 'family reasons' from an administration that he now states he has seen more strategic thinking in third world countries and in South America that he has seen in no 10.

The Germans should not be surprised that the Secret Police are still amongst them, we had the same here in post Civil War England, the turncoats protested their undying allegiance to the throne as equally fervently as they protested allegiance to the English Republic.

The Hydra that is the State has many heads, served by amoral people whose primary allegiance is to the State or the Corporation because their income is derived by sucking at the teat of the State.

For years we have been picked off one by one not until we expose in Court the likes of Blair and Mandelson, and the apparatchiks that sustain them and repress this country, The United Kingdom will never be free.

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Saturday, 11 July 2009

Barracking the BNP


Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons, the newly elected (note: elected, in free, fair and democratic elections) as representatives to the European Parliament, are to be dangled like carrion at the gates of Strasbourg to ward off any other upstart party that dares to encroach on Labour's core vote.

Under new guidelines drafted in Whitehall and in the Foreign Office following the June elections to the European parliament, the two BNP leaders will be kept at arm's length from the kind of routine contacts and socialising that take place between British civil servants and MEPs in Brussels and Strasbourg.

This is setting a dangerous - though appealing on several levels, new precedent. It seems that the majority party can now instruct the (impartial) civil service to ostracise a minority party. That will be highly amusing when Labour become, as they inevitably will, a micro minority party at the next election.

I shall resist the temptation to insert here the standard clause when discussing the BNP - hateful people, disgraceful, thugs etc. The truth is that although I have been told, ad nauseum, that this is so, I have only read their election manifesto and am thus not privy to the privileged 'background' information that others claim to have. I am thus in the same position as the vast majority of voters. I judge each party on their manifesto - you wouldn't want me to be put off voting for a party by listening to scurrilous rumours of Peter Mandelson's antics in Morocco, or tales of Jeremy Thorpe's dark deeds on Dartmoor, would you?

Apparently the heinous crime of having convinced 1,000,000 million people to vote for policies, policies that were helpfully promoted at every opportunity by Nu-Labour, of sending recent arrivals to these overcrowded shores back whence they came, was 'racist', and racist is bad, don't you know.

Quite how anybody is supposed to have a discussion regarding the advisability of allowing hundreds of thousands of new 'would-be' citizens into the UK without being racist is beyond me. The race that inhabits the United Kingdom is the British race, if the people who wished to come and live in the UK were British, there would be no discussion, they would merely be 'returning home' and not applying for citizenship. Those who are queueing up for citizenship are by definition of another race, and therefore any comment regarding disallowing them to do so is by definition racist.

I am aware that 'racism' is colloquially held to be solely in respect of discrimination of those with coloured skin. I have seen nothing to support the view that the BNP wish to see an end to, say, Sudanese people, arriving here, as opposed to Chinese people. They have said loud and clear that they wish to see an end to immigration. 1,000,000 people agreed with them. 1,000,000 people who probably have most to fear regarding losing their low paid and unskilled jobs to people who come from countries where £100 a week sounds like a fortune, and who have not yet acquired the habits and aspirations that cost more than that to support. Chinese cockle pickers are quite content to live 10 to a room and have enough to eat at the end of the day, thank-you, and that drives down the wages below which the average British cockle picker is used to living and working at.

I doubt very much that any out of work British cockle picker gives a monkey's fig what colour person he is losing his job to, and would have voted BNP even if the Nu-Labour government had managed to find an army of albino cockle pickers to come in and take his job. It just so happens that all of the incomers, arriving from economically poor countries, are not white. That doesn't make the BNP racist in a colour prejudiced manner, it makes them racist in an anti immigration manner.

If we remove the tag 'racist' from the Nu-Labour arsenal of anti-BNP slurs, then we have a situation whereby a minority party, elected on a platform of policies that the incumbent party disagrees with, is to be ostracised and 'any requests for policy briefings from Griffin or Brons would be treated differently and on a discretionary basis' by the (impartial) civil service.

We already have the situation where a future government is intended to be bound, by threat of judicial review, to meet targets set (and not met by) this Nu-Labour government (the Child Poverty Bill), we have the Human Rights Act, which has hobbled both our legislature and our judiciary, irrevocably, from passing or amending laws which conflict with a piece of Labour legislation, now we are told that minority representatives are to be legally prevented from representing their constituents in the same manner as other MEPs - purely because Nu-Labour disagree with their policies.

Nu-Labour are making sure that even when they are not in power, they will still be controlling the levers of power. Any future government that wishes to repeal that control - in respect of the HRA for instance, will be told that they are in favour of Torture; if they attempt to repeal the Child Poverty Bill, then they will face accusations of being in favour of child poverty; and God forbid that they should attempt to repeal these new guidelines restricting access to information afforded to minority MEPs. Racist obviously.

We have a de facto Dictatorship, (given their fondness for dubious statistics, perhaps that should be de tracto) one that will continue to blight our lives long after its architects have disappeared into the shadows.

An election will do us no good, we need a revolution. We need to be disobedient. We need to remove our consent to be governed in this manner.

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Summer with Stanislav - Dining Out

An organic freetrade Bangalore Phal and a Poppadom, yesterday


stanislav going out for curry is, in house of ex-pats live up in Scotland, best part of England. Think would get roast of fucking beef and pudding from Yorkshire, ‘appen is fucking right, lad, ‘appen is right, or maybe tripe and fucking onion like from good Queen Victorian cookbook –take ye one whole cow’s stomach and wash out half digested grass a bit and then boil ye it in large copper pan for several days with cloves and quince and saffron and rosemary and tarragon and anything else with disguising properties, consume ye it as quick as fuck with large draughts of pale Indian ale to wash away the taste, or else just take ye away unto the privy and sticketh thine finger down thy throat and sick ye the bastard up into the pan, stopping only briefly on thy return to the dining room to interfere with the twelve year old kitchen maid – something English, or even fish fucking finger and chip with Heinz Tomato Ketchup, would do for stanislav, but no, fucking curry is, and other blokes is both fucking macho nutter Oh ah’m proper man Ah am, curry gotta be red hot for me, like burning aviation fuel from nine fucking eleven, otherwise is pansy, innit, and me, too, and I must have mine all season-up with broken fucking glass and side order of drawing pin, marinade in turpentine. Mah Mrs knows what I like and I like it proper hot. And then I like to get liquid fire out from bottle and pour all over rotten stinking roasting hot ten year old goat meat flown in special from Birmingham HalalButchersRusUlike and would be better and less painful to take fucking blowtorch to open mouth for thirty seconds. And to arsehole because next morning has le posterieur flambee and firing red hot liquid shrapnel all around toilet is, for fuck’s sake, would rather go out to auto-asphyxiation party with lonely Tory MPs than fucking curry dinner with mad bastard expats.




One bloke pilot was with BOAC and play big white chief in India and everywhere really and so proven record has of eating madness, slug and snail and snake and fucking dog and horse and maybe five hundred degree Celsius dinner is no big deal to him but stanislav think Lee and Perrins from Worcestershire Sauce is heavy shit and attendance needs from brigade ambulance of Saint John the fucking Baptist with Head Chopped Off From Body. Other bloke is Aussie and would shit eat so no hope of helpings from him when is menu time. Hotter the Better, mate, wossamatter, you gay or somethin? Wanna fight?




Stanislav think of doing Bunbury like in great English poet Oscar Wilde – just send telegram to Curry HQ and say Oh fuck me, cousin Bunbury dying is down in England, awful sorry but come and assault digestive tract with vile, fiery poison made from dead goat and firelighters I am most unfortunately unable to do, am deva-fucking-stated at missing wonderful repast and companionship of fucked-up nutterblokes, please tender regrets of mine to Lady hostess of fine soiree gastronomique, 4ever your servant, stanislav. But Mrs says must go. Maybe can have flat tyre or complete permanent refusal to engage of automatic gearbox in Subaru Forester Sports all driving wheel sporting utility vehicle, instead of just most of time, as fucking usual. No point is in change gearbox even for brand fucking new bastard from factory, gearbox is shit, Google is full up of epic of tribulation from owners of this vehicle, is one bloke on veldt in Africa been seven years stuck, waiting for fucking drive to engage, another bloke is weep with embarrassment inAnchorage Alaska, car stop at traffic light and take three month to move away, is fucking rubbish, maybe tonight will save stanislav from food poison getting.

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Friday, 10 July 2009

Authoritarian Tories Start As They Mean To Go On

Iain 'Nice Tie' Dale

Anyway, later this morning I am driving up to Norwich to do some by election campaigning today and tomorrow. I gather that all Tory candidates are supposed to clock in and out like schoolchildren and get forms signed. That won't be happening. What a shame my printer doesn't work.

Iain Dale

You are a rebel Iain !, trouble is this is how destiny Dave wants to run the country.

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ID Cards again....(sigh)


The Identity and Passport Office has appointed another advertising agency to persuade the public of the apparent benefits of ID cards.

The IPS has chosen Proximity after also hearing pitches from EHS Brann, Tequila and TMW. The firm will deal with "below the line" marketing - typically PR and promotions rather than billboard or media advertising.

The three or four year contract covers ID cards, passport and promotion of the General Register Office - where births, deaths and marriages are recorded.

The IPS already employs M&C Saatchi to promote the introduction of ID cards for foreigners to employers.

Back in March the IPS announced a "three to four year" contract with ad agency Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO to promote its services.

The IPS is already buying Google search terms to get its own website at the top of results for surfers looking for ID card information.

Apart from spin doctors the IPS has also awarded other contracts for the £4.7bn project.

These include CSC, which has grabbed the £385m contract for the enrolment system, while moneymaker De La Rue gets £400m to print new passports.

IBM will make the biometric database in exchange for £265m.

From the register

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Jockey-wheeling for position


Given the intensity of Jeremy Clarkson's assault on the reputation of the caravan, you might have expected that the Caravan Club would need the services of a heavy weight Public Relations Outfit, and perhaps at a pinch, the 'non-political' services of their most famous parliamentary poster girl - Margaret Beckett MP, but it seems that the Club is a political force to be reckoned with.

They have 3 MPs on stipends of up to £10,000 a year, presumably they get Ms Beckett for free, or at least she doesn't declare an 'interest'. Something she would have in common with David Amess, who failed to declare his caravanning interests an improbable six times when asking pertinent questions in parliament.

ILLSLEY, Eric (Barnsley Central)
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Parliamentary adviser to the Caravan Club. (£5,001–£10,000)

ÖPIK, Lembit (Montgomeryshire)
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Parliamentary adviser to the Caravan Club of Great Britain. (£5,001–£10,000)

AMESS, David (Southend West)
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Parliamentary Adviser to the Caravan Club. (£5,001–£10,000)

Whilst looking into the apparently sleepy world of Formica and maroon banquettes, I discovered that no less than two Acts of Parliament had been passed of direct benefit to this Club.

Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960

Caravans Act (Northern Ireland) (1963) Chapter 17

both of which provide exemptions only applicable to members of.......The Caravan Club. With 1,000,000 members and an annual turnover of £86 million, this outfit is not small fry, but there cannot be many private clubs or companies of a similar size who require 3 retained MPs to take care of their interests.

Can any political bloggers throw some light on this hotbed of lobbying?

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Interesting

The web is changing things more than we can imagine. Now imagine if you could simply make stuff that you would normally have to buy via a huge logistics chain starting China and ending at the local shop. Bear with me. Very nerdy but also very radical.

RepRap from Adrian Bowyer on Vimeo.

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Is This Sarah Brown Before The Slap?

If so it might explain why Jonah stays up late rather than going to bed.....

The Penguin

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Currently Reading



The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison

Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' attempts to fight that threat by reducing freedom in our own societies - think the 42-day detention controversy, CCTV surveillance, increasing invasion of privacy, ID Cards, not to mention Abu Ghraib, rendition, Guantanamo As Grayling says: 'There should be a special place for political irony in the catalogues of human folly. Starting a war 'to promote freedom and democracy' could in certain though rare circumstances be a justified act; but in the case of the Second Gulf War that began in 2003, which involved reacting to criminals hiding in one country (Al Qaeda in Afghanistan or Pakistan) by invading another country (Iraq), one of the main fronts has, dismayingly, been the home front, where the War on Terror takes the form of a War on Civil Liberties in the spurious name of security. To defend 'freedom and democracy', Western governments attack and diminish freedom and democracy in their own country. By this logic, someone will eventually have to invade the US and UK to restore freedom and democracy to them.' In this lucid and timely book Grayling sets out what's at risk, engages with the arguments for and against examining the cases made by Isaiah Berlin and Ronald Dworkin on the one hand, and Roger Scruton and John Gray on the other, and finally proposes a different way to respond that makes defending the civil liberties on which western society is founded the cornerstone for defeating terrorism.


Borders Review

Read this and quake, by Professor A C Grayling, who I saw being shouted down by some BBC puppet on BBC 24 'Hard Talk '

(PS He is not a great fan of Bloggers)

Grayling is certain to be on Mandelson's list of subversives to be 'dealt' with at some stage. He has a naive belief that the State can be persuaded it has gone too far and cites Jack Straw and others rowing back by suppressing Civil Liberties. This is only because I believe that Straw and nu labour are aware that Labour has strengthened the State against the individual, and with the looming election he is about to become an individual again, and that power can be used against people like him.

With Mandelson there should be an inquiry into his methods that has so damaged this country.

Blair should be arraigned for the lies and deceit in leading us into a war.

Then they will know the power of the overweening State they have created, where political necessity outweighs Justice.


"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force".

Ayn Rand

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Thursday, 9 July 2009

ACPO and NETCU ltd


I know I am not the first on the case here, but does anyone else find it slightly worrying that the Association of Chief Police Officers is A PRIVATE COMPANY?


ACPO is a private company and the Office of the Information Commissioner has confirmed that the Freedom of Information Act does not apply to the Association,
since Schedule 1 of the Act does not include a definition which covers ACPO.

ACPO is not a police force and therefore does not investigate crime.



Does anyone else know that NETCU ( The National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit ) is another private company that employs the Police to monitor and spy on "domestic extremists"?



Out of interest, the Police swear their allegiance to the Queen, not the CEO of a private company and if they are employed by a private company, they have absolutely no authority over you. None. They cannot stop you, search you or even ask your name. Tell them to fuck off.

280 Members of ACPO are also Senior Police Officers. By membership of APCO, they lose by default their authority as sworn Police Officers. I am writing to all of them to remind them that their allegiance is to the Queen, not the Board of Directors of a private company called APCO Ltd and they should resign their membership immediately.



I suggest you read TPUC who is busy turning the relationship between the common man and the Police on it's head.



Netcu Ltd. They even publish the names of domestic terrorist "suspects" on their website, without charge or the right of redress. Remarkable. I feel an FOI coming on.

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£1 a drink!!

Some EVIL bastards, yesterday


Following on from Leg Irons excellent piece below, it now appears that the Police will "take action" against licenced premises selling the evil drink to people at £1. I kid you not.

Pubs and clubs in a Leicestershire town are being urged not to sell cut-price alcohol, as part of a police campaign to discourage bad behaviour.

Venues in Loughborough are being asked to keep drinks prices above £1.50.

Sgt Andy Thornley said "irresponsible" promotions, in which spirits are sold for as little as £1, can cause young people to drink too much and misbehave.

The officer also warned that bars running irresponsible drinks promotion "could face action and penalties".


I wonder when the Police will stop the sale of petrol to people who might drive too fast?

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Luton

I confidently predict that when it kicks off (and it will very shortly), it will be Luton first.

What IS the matter with our government, do they want this?

Luton



Luton

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Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Drink is the New Smoking.


DIY - Drink it yourself.


The Tories are confident of winning the next election. They probably will, too. When that happens, many left-leaning blogs imagine that those they call right-wing (which is everyone who doesn't agree with them. I've even seen the SNP called right-wing!) will fall silent, and it'll then be their turn to rage against the machine.

Not going to happen, in this case at least. I don't care about 'left' and 'right', these are just labels and they have lost most of whatever meaning they ever had within the last few years. Along with words like 'racist' and 'Nazi', they have been bandied around so much, in such irrelevant and inappropriate situations, that they are no more than vague terms of abuse now. We might as well go back to calling each other 'cad' and 'poltroon' for all the effect the current round of words have.

The Tories are so confident that they are already making pronouncements and already spinning the figures. Doesn't look like Dave's Change is going to be all that much different after all.

Here comes one of the New Puritans now. Shadow Home Orifice Monster, James Brokenshire, has decided that we all drink too much. Not that we have any reason to, oh, no. It's all because of those deadly 24-hour drinking laws that the Terrible Labour let through. The Lovely Tories plan to take them back and control us some more. No smoking in pubs, and soon no drinking and no talking.

Data obtained by shadow home office minister James Brokenshire shows that the number of deaths related to alcohol rose 40 per cent to 7,341 between 1999 and 2008.

Rose from what figure precisely? Well, let's see. Working backwards gives an original figure of, interestingly, 5243.57 for 1999. Don't bother arguing about 'rounding up'. Look at his figure. It's not rounded. It's a 'spammer's number' - the sort of thing spammers use when trying to get you to hand over money because a precise-looking figure is more believable than a round number. So, working with the Monster's made-up number, someone in 1999 was only half-dead from alcohol related illness. If you're going to invent your data, try to make sure it matches up.

The difference between the figures is 2097.43. That's 200 people a year, roughly, over the period mentioned. Out of a population of 60 million, that's not too harsh a level of alkies, I'd say. In fact, 7500 represents 0.0125% of the population. Even that's not a huge level of alcohol deaths, even if it was real. It will include the meths drinkers and the sherry-bottle-in-a-bag park bench brigade, most of whom die of exposure after drinking themselves insensible in winter. It will include the drunk drivers who mistake a tree for a parking spot.

It will also include anyone involved in a collision with a driver who was over the limit, whether or not the drinker was to blame. If you drive over the limit and someone crashes into you, it's going to be your fault no matter what. That's the best reason not to do it. Whatever happens, you'll get blamed. Everyone involved in every accident where one or more people was over the limit (not necessarily pie-eyed) is counted.

Everyone involved in a fight where one or more were drunk, is counted. Everyone who stumbled into the road and was mown down by a sober driver doing twice the speed limit, is a drink-related death. He's also a traffic statistic and if he was smoking, they claim him too. If he was also overweight, he's died four times.

The reason all these Terrible-Thing-related deaths increase so fast is that the definition of what constitutes a related death is cast wider and wider. Jimmy Brokenbottle is well aware of this. He's anticipating the reins of power and the yoke of control and getting ready to take over where his predecessors leave off. Interfering in every little detail of our lives until we can be arrested for wearing the wrong kind of hat.

Mr Brokenshire said: "I am increasingly worried that the Government's decision to introduce 24-hour drinking is having a real impact on antisocial behaviour in our town centres and not nearly enough is being done to tackle it.


Drunk and disorderly is an offence. Why not arrest the disorderly drunks and leave the jolly, quiet drunks alone? Drink does not make people violent and abusive. What you see there are violent and abusive people who happen to be drunk. Arrest them. Leave the quiet ones alone. Is it really so complicated?

The Tories will continue the Ban Frenzy just like Labour. There will be no change. Rather than tackle violent and abusive people, who might be difficult to deal with, the Tories will criminalise us all and then arrest the easy targets. So they'll fill quotas and make not a jot of difference to the violence. Just as Labour are doing now.

Lest we think he's forgotten the Great Victim:

"The impact on services like the NHS really can't go on. The Government seems to be completely unaware of the enormity of the problem of binge drinking in our society and its effects on society and our communities, and its tragic consequences."

Does anyone know what the NHS is for? I thought it was there to cure the sick and heal the injured. Apparently not. We are to pay for it but we must never use it. There are already mutterings about withdrawing treatment from smokers. There are already murmurs about how expensive it is to treat the fat. Now it's too much bother to treat drinkers. NHS treatment. Only the pure of body and soul need apply. The NHS is there to patronise the healthy and kill off the sick as fast as possible. That seems to be the Tory line these days. We must protect the NHS by living pure lives and never going there. For what it's worth, I'd advise you to avoid going there anyway. They have diseases that are yet to make the news.

Where did binge drinking come into the figures? He's added that in for effect. The figures make no distinction whether the deaths were due to a binge or a glass of wine. He sounds just like the hysterical harpies we have running the country now, and he has no more idea of what to do about it than do they. The 'enormity' of the problem affecting less than 0.0125% of the population is his hobby horse. I certainly won't be voting for this party. It's New Labour with a different rosette.

Expect no relaxation of the derision pouring from blogs when the Tories take over. They are going to be exactly the same.

Even the SNP are starting to look very similar indeed. Their new booze rules come into effect in September and will make no difference at all to the dedicated pissheads, but will inconvenience everyone else. Since they won't work, and they know it, they'll be drafting the next level of control now. Just like all the other parties.

Why am I sure it won't work?

In India, few people can afford licensed booze. Just the situation our government wants here, because they believe if we can't buy it, we can't drink it. In parts of India, booze is banned. Our politicians would love that - no booze, no alcohol problems, right? Well, perhaps they should read this little article for a taste of the effect their meddling will really have on alcohol-related deaths. Or this one. Or how about a situation where brewing or drinking alcohol is punishable by jail or the lash? Will that help? Booze is easy to make but it's also easy to get it wrong. As the price goes higher and control gets tighter, more people will try, and more will get it wrong. The NHS had better brace themselves because they're going to be very busy indeed.

The Tories had better brace themselves too. They'll get no easy ride from the blogs.

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Stanislav - old dogs teach old dogs new tricks

Some can win Crufts, some are merely very lucky mongrels


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The Chinese Are Not Interested in Mere "Kettling"

I wonder if they have been told to display identity numbers? Or maybe they are all imposters?
If I was an itinerant newspaper seller I'd keep out of the way for a while.

The Penguin

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Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Imagine.....(free night out in Westminster)


I've been alerted to a rather interesting event tomorrow evening in Westminster. Lord Puttnam is showing as many MPs as he can find a film called "Us Now"



It looks at the way the Internet is going to change democracy and basically asks the question "do we need Parliament anymore? Why not just vote on bills yourselves via the internet instead of trusting an MP to do it?"



You can view the film here and you can get tickets to the event inside Westminster, free of charge (or registration) here. I am going just to see the colour drain from 646 faces as they are faced with the concept that we may no longer need them to have a democracy. After all, we no longer need auction houses, postmen, record shops or cinemas to get what WE want, do we?



This film has been shown to other European Parliaments as well.



Is this the EU telling us that we can get rid of National Governments as they are no longer relevent or is it real democracy in the hands of the people?



Interesting stuff. I'll be in full dress uniform of course. Buy me a drink (cheap booze at Westminster) and let's have a smoke in the bar afterwards. All invited



See you all there.

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Everybody APPLY


Tyne and Wear Museums
Discovery Museum

Diversify Museum Trainee (Positive Action Traineeship)

Ref: M920Living Allowance of £10,940 - £11,468 per annum 37 hours per week

Temporary Traineeship for Two Years

Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums/North East Regional Museums Hub are offering a two-year full-time traineeship to prepare a person of African, African-Caribbean, Asian or Chinese descent for work in museums and galleries. This traineeship is being offered as part of the Museum Association’s Diversify initiative aimed at improving access to museum careers. The traineeship is funded by the MLA (the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council) via Renaissance North East. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience of working in a range of museum functions at the equivalent level of a Curatorial Assistant, whilst studying for a recognised qualification. The Diversify traineeship includes part-time training in Museum/Curatorial practice at Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, a free place on the part-time MA in Museum Studies degree course at Newcastle University, and free attendance to the Museums Association annual conference and other events.

You will be flexible, enthusiastic and committed to developing a career within museums and galleries in the UK. You will also have a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent qualifications/experience that will meet university admission requirements, be eligible for home student university fees, and be of African, African-Caribbean, Asian or Chinese descent (Section 37 and Section 38 of the Race Relations Act 1976 apply).To apply, please complete the application form attached, or contact Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums on 0191 232 6789 (Answer Phone) for an application pack. Please Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Closing Date: 9 July 2009

Quick, everyone APPLY : 0191 232 6789

Leave this address for your info pack (it is an answerphone):

P.O. Box 1132, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE99 4YT. (local BNP)

Remember, we are all equal now. Harriet said so.
UPDATE: AS Mark Wadsworth reminds us, we are ALL of African descent.

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Top Ten UK Blogs

According to Wikio, the following blogs are the Top Ten most influencial blogs in the UK


1. Mrs Dale
2. Guido Fawkes
3. Liberal Conspiracy
4. Labourlist
5. Political Betting
6. Liberal Democrat Voice
7. Dizzy Thinks
8. Harry's Place
9. Old Holborn
10. Tom Harris MP

Remember, if YOU have an article that you feel needs to be heard, just email to me and if it adds to the debate, is libellous, highly offensive, possibly illegal and will upset the status quo, I'll post it up. Probably.

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Open Your Mind

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Old Holborn converts to Islam


It is official. I am now a gay Muslim transgender.

I have decided that if I wish to have two wives (although it is illegal in the UK) and claim benefits for both of them, Islam will let me do it.

If I want to hide my identity in public and never be questioned, Islam is the way to do it.

If I do not want to be deported to the US for a crime committed here, once I embrace Islam , they cannot touch me. They wouldn't dare.

If I want free housing and to jump to the top of the queue, Allah will provide. Everything else is "discrimination".

Government departments will actually dismiss the opposition and hire me based purely on my new “religion” and gender status. ££££ . Help them to reach their "diversity" targets.

I can get funding for just about anything I want. To deny me is racism.

352 Labour MPs are working JUST for me, rather than the normal one.

Do it today. It costs nothing and you can always decide to be something else if it suits you later. Carry on drinking, just say you are in “rehab”, you don’t have to actually pray or visit a mosque, just stuff yourself with bacon and shag who you want.

From this moment on, I am a gay Muslim transgender. No fucker can touch me. I cannot be denied ANYTHING. I am free to do as I wish.

PS. Don’t forget to fill out every form in Arabic. They provide translators, free of charge. Work them hard.

What fun.

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Monday, 6 July 2009

Bilderberg list 2009

Psst.

Here it is

Bilderberg2009

Osborne AND Mandelson I see

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The mother in law won't be coming round again

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Islam, the BBC and young children


A guest post today from Paul Weston posted at Gates of Vienna


Although the BBC has a reputation for bias, dishonesty and the promotion of cretinous infantile ideologies designed to destroy civilised society, they appear to have surpassed themselves in their attitude to Christianity and Islam on their GCSE Bitesize revision website which is so fantastically biased, so hatefully anti-Christian and so perversely pro-Islamic that when one considers it is aimed at the unformed minds of young school children it must surely be tantamount to child abuse.

The BBC religious studies page, which can be found here has various sub-divisions, but for the purpose of this article I am going to concentrate on Prejudice & Discrimination and again, for the sake of this essay I will ignore Judaism, Hinduism and Sikhism, and centre only on the attitudes of Christianity and Islam.

For those readers who do not wish to read this article in its entirety, then the four links in the paragraph above will take you to all the relevant pages, but be sure to do the Christian test as well as the Islam test at the end of each revision section. A word of caution however; if you suffer from high blood pressure or have a dicky ticker I would advise you to steer well clear.

Opening with Christianity, the first BBC page reverts to Marxist type as it explains that discrimination can only occur when prejudice is combined with power. As no minority race or religion in Britain is deemed to have power, so they can never discriminate against an indigenous British Christian. And so the scene is set for the evil BBC propaganda that follows their publishing of the UN Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

We are also told:

All forms of discrimination go against the first two articles.


Page 2 informs us:

Christianity teaches that everyone is equal in the eyes of God and so all forms of prejudice and discrimination are unacceptable and against God’s will.

Leaving aside the small matter that we discriminate every day on any number of things, such as a preference for good wine over Bulgarian wine or holidaying in Tuscany rather than Arkansas - both examples one would imagine are outside the remit of God’s will - there then comes the inevitable however:

However….there are occasions when Christians are guilty of prejudice and discrimination.

In South Africa, for many years the Dutch Reformed Church supported apartheid, the system which meant that black people were separated from white people and treated inferior (sic).

When Europeans were colonising other countries around the world they often killed the native people there and treated them as slaves.

John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, is from Uganda and he has done a lot to raise awareness and put a stop to racism in the Anglican Church, and in wider society.

Sexism is still a problem for the Christian Church – women are not always treated as equals in roles within the Church.

Page 3 informs us:

Many people think the Christian Church is sexist. It does not treat men and women equally.

So although Christianity teaches that everybody should be treated the same, this doesn’t always happen.

Page 4 is a revision page where you have to match up the end of a statement with the beginning. If completed correctly it reads as follows:

Discrimination = Prejudice + Power

The Roman Catholic Church does not allow women to be Priests

Article 1 states that all humans are born free and equal

There is neither Jew nor Greek slave nor free

The Dutch Reformed Church supported apartheid

Paul (St) said: women should be silent in Churches

You shall love your neighbour as yourself

Native people were treated as slaves

If you get all the above correct on their interactive site, a little message pops up stating:

Congratulations, you remembered all the facts about Christian prejudice and descrimination. (Spelling mistake courtesy of BBC educationalists.)

The test bite concludes this section on Christianity. You are presented with an interactive statement to which you have to answer true or false. It mimics most of page 4 so I will draw attention to only 2 out of the 10:

Christians believe most people are equal in the eyes of God.

If you answer TRUE to this, then you are admitting that Christians do not believe all people are equal in the eyes of God, which means Christians discriminate, which means Christians simply by existing as Christians are in contravention of article 1 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, so artfully inserted by the BBC propagandists on their opening page.

If you answer FALSE, as most unwitting 16-year-old schoolchildren will, having been repeatedly bludgeoned around the head with instances of Christian sexism and racism, then the BBC propagandists’ job is done. As it happens, FALSE is the correct answer, because Christians believe everyone is equal, as opposed to most people are equal. Very clever. One wonders what regimes recent BBC employees once worked in.

The second statement reads:

John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York is trying to reduce racism in the Anglican Church.

Another clever question, to which the correct answer is TRUE. Notice there is no argument as to whether there really is racism in the Anglican Church, it is just presented as fact, and provides the BBC with the opportunity to subliminally brainwash whilst promoting the only Christian they admire based solely on the fact that he is an African, an enormous positive that far outweighs the inconvenient fact that he is far more hard line than the liberal rank and file excuses for the British Clergy epitomised by the Archdruid, Rowan Williams.

Islam, as I am sure you have probably guessed, is treated in an altogether different way.

Page 1 is identical to page 1 for Christianity, detailing the meaning of discrimination and quoting the Human Rights act.

Page 2 informs us:

The Qur’an (the divine book revealed to the Prophet Muhammad) teaches that everyone was created by Allah and that everyone is equal.

Therefore there is no reason to treat people of different races differently. The Prophet Muhammad showed how important this teaching was in his last sermon, when he said…

…All mankind is descended from Adam and Eve, an Arab is not better than a non-Arab and a non-Arab is not better than an Arab, a white person is not better than a black person, nor is a black person better than a white person except by piety and good actions. Learn that every Muslim is the brother of every other Muslim and that Muslims form one brotherhood.

Page 3 informs us of Islam’s attitude to women:

Islam also teaches that men and women are equal in the sight of Allah. They are individually accountable for their actions, and will be judged equally by Allah.

However, although men and women are equal, they are not the same. They have different purposes. It is part of Allah’s design and purpose for men and women to have different physical characteristics; likewise it is the duty of a man to provide for the financial needs of his family, and for the woman to look after the home and family.

Although the rights of women are different to those of men, they do have the right to choose whom they marry, to divorce, to study, to own property, to conduct business and to take part in politics.

The Prophet Muhammad stressed the importance of women and the respect that should be shown to them when he said – paradise lies at the feet of your mother.

Page 4 is a revision page where you have to match up the end of a statement with the beginning. If completed correctly it reads as follows:

Discrimination = Prejudice + Power

The Qur’an teaches that everyone is equal

Article 1 states that all humans are born free and equal

Women have the right to take part in politics

Men and women will be judged equally

All mankind is descended from Adam and Eve

Paradise lies at the feet of your mother

Sometimes men have the final word

If you get all the above correct on their interactive site, a little message pops up stating:

Congratulations. You have understood all the arguments about Islamic prejudice and discrimination.

Notice how the BBC uses the word “facts” in relation to Christian prejudice and discrimination, but replaced it with “arguments” with regard to Islam.

The test bite concludes the section. There is nothing surprising in it; just a continuation of the BBC’s overt propaganda suggesting Islam is divine, pure, non-racist and non-sexist.

There is a different section on Christian and Islamic attitudes to fighting and warfare. It is worth browsing in its entirety but the general thrust of the propaganda is that Christians and Jews are warlike and Islam is a religion of peace.

That the BBC should peddle such overt and dishonest propaganda is obscene in itself, but to whitewash Islam with its arranged marriages, honour killings, global violent jihad etc whilst painting Christianity as a religion of racism, sexism, colonialism, enslavement and murder leaves me struggling for a word stronger than “obscene.” And to peddle it to innocent school children? Words fail me.

The BBC hate the Britain our fathers and grandfathers fought and died for. They realised many years ago they needed to eradicate Christianity if they were to destroy Britain from within. And they have virtually done so.

The Rt Rev Paul Richardson penned a recent article in which he argued that Christian Britain was dead, destroyed by multiculturalism and heading for complete extinction within 30 years. He did not mention the part the BBC has paid on their long ideological march to economic, social and moral ruin, but as you can see, they have certainly played their part. Perhaps the BBC felt it was only possible to select a Muslim as the head honcho of its religious affairs department now Christianity is powerless in its death throes.
I suppose there must come a day of reckoning with the genuinely evil apparatchiks of the BBC, and when that day comes I will gladly watch the bastards swing from the lamp posts such is the rage they ignite in the soul of a pacifist man.

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Quango Time!



There are 1,162 quangos in the UK, running at a total cost to the taxpayer of £64 billion, equivalent to £2,550 per household. Even under the Cabinet Office’s restrictive definition of quangos, the cost of these bodies has risen 50% in the last ten years.

UK quangos now employ an army of almost 700,000 bureaucrats.

Even the Government itself does not know the full extent of the unaccountable quango industry, which range from the massive e.g. Job Centre Plus (Staff: 70,042, Cost: £3.5 billion) and the Courts Service (Staff: 19,986, Cost: £704.8 million); to the bizarre e.g. the British Potato Council (Staff: 49); or the West Northants Development Corporation (Staff: 34, Cost: £15.3 million)

When the total number of quangos is added to the other government subsidiaries such as local authorities and NHS trusts, the total number of organisations controlled by the UK Government rises to 2,063, costing the taxpayer £257 billion and employing over 5.1 million people.

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Alex Smith, please publish Gary Elsby!


Spotted at Labourlist. I really, really can't wait to read Gary Elsby, the biggest HOON on the planet.
(for those who know him, Gary is priceless - black is white, up is down and the sun comes out at night)

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Sunday, 5 July 2009

Norwich North By Election



We have a goodly number of LPUK members and supporters going to Norwich over the next few weeks, if any local readers of OH who feel the same way we do about the cosy arrangement Labour/Conservatives/Social Democrats and now the Greens are cooking up to spend your tax pounds, please lend your support if you are a member or not. The campaign there is dull dull dull, Labour are in a mess, the Tories are not guaranteed to win this- and Dave needs a wake up call that we are not going to put up with a massive State for another five years whilst the private sector goes to the wall.

We need to make a noise that Tory and Labour dishonesty over piffling amounts of cuts of 5% in State spending, when Whitehall Mandarins are already preparing 20% is going to be the minimum.

We also need accomodation/floors to sleep on if you can help contact members@lpuk.org

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Mandelson Kicks MG Rover into the Long Grass To Save His Arse



Poppet Peter is kicking the investigation over to the SFO, despite refusing them to lead the enquiry from day one if there was a suspicion of fraud, despite the administrators finding there was no evidence of wrong doing by the Directors, despite refusing several requests under the Freedom of Information to reveal the Governments role.

This investigation has cost £16m to date, and Mandelson is still determined to cover up the role of Nu Labour, because publication of the report will show glaring holes in the Governments story (ie a pack of lies) in the run up to a General Election, starting a criminal investigation is a way of ensuring publication will be delayed for years.

Mandelson is already facing meltdown in the West Midlands, this is just crude damage limitation.

The 'Man' is a curse to British industry, we have been down this line before with the Tories over Matrix Churchill, it was only when Alan Clarke told the unvarnished truth in Court about the Government's role did the action against the Directors collapse.

In the Stasi State that is the UK now being a Director of a company is morely likely to be a road to financial ruin that financial wealth, I would advise nobody to sign up to being a Director of a company without looking at what the BERR can do to you.

In fact I would strongly advise you to move your business out of the UK while Mandelson is anywhere near the levers of power.

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Kamikazi Bankers



Alistair Darling has uttered a half truth about Kamikazi Bankers, unfortunately Darling you gave the 'Divine Wind' of Corporatism a lifeline to carry on. Literally you gave them thousands of 'Zeros' in days without any preconditions in days because you were scared and your master was panicking.

I know for fact that State owned Banks are still bankrupting SME's, changing the rules, back tracking on finance agreements to save their scrawny necks. Necks that should have been stretched by bankruptcy.

Yet again it was Party not Country first with you Alistair, you are the last person to be bringing in regulatory reform, slaming the stable door after the horse is three miles away in a field.

A tough chancellor would have allowed the affected banks to fail, and broken them up, if you have to prop up a bank with our money, it should have been with smaller more regional banks, not megacorp.

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Saturday, 4 July 2009

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Socialism/Corporatism Its All The Same Tyranny or' Hitler Had A Bad Press'



Bernie Ecclestone one of Tony's Friends, who exposed very early on how venal and corrupt Nu Labour were, and gave a tantalising glimpse of just how incompetent Nu Labour really were, when he gave Tony a £1 million 'donation' in exchange for dropping the tonacco ban especially for F!, then Tony had to give the £1m back and Bernie still got his exemption.

Today he his sharing his thoughts with us that little Hitlers have a lot in common with the real thing.

Socialism and Corporatism are two sides of the same coin, creating elites that know best how we should live our lives as individuals.

Yes- Bernie he got things done, millions dead, cities flattened etc, just because you have a monopoly on a game that requires cars to go round and round and round, does not give you the excuse to have a Napoleon complex.

Corporatism- the thing that the Tories embraced under Heath, Authoritarianism with a very nice tie and shiny shoes.

Mr Ecclestone endorsed the concept of a government based on tyranny.

“Politicians are too worried about elections,” he said. “We did a terrible thing when we supported the idea of getting rid of Saddam Hussein. He was the only one who could control that country. It was the same [with the Taleban].

That other Autocrat Mandelson calls it the 'Post Democatic Age' , different words same shit

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The BBC Charter

4.The Public PurposesThe Public Purposes of the BBC are as follows—
(a)sustaining citizenship and civil society;
(b)promoting education and learning;
(c)stimulating creativity and cultural excellence;
(d)representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities;

For this largely unemployable people in any other walk of life, get to live high on the back of the licence fee (Tax) from everyone of us that is compelled to have a State Licence to watch TV or even own a set through threats and coercion.

They then fail to honour their own charter-

They are not sustaining citizenship because they deny access to any party unless it is the Labour Party or Conservatives, even the Lib Dems struggle. So impoverishing our democracy. The Expenses scandal would not have been reported by the BBC which once upon a time had a hard hitting current affairs format.

Education & Learning ! more like lecturing and hectoring

Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence- considering the output of the BBC would you say that they were honouring their side of the deal ?

As to Regions & Communities- never has an organisation been so Londoncentric in its views and dogma.

Lets face it the BBC is the Propaganda Ministry of the State, it is funded by a Tax, and who ever is in power controls the BBC.

Its time it was scrapped along with the 'Licence' Fee.

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Give me strength....


Slot God parasite Cherie Blair thinks we should let everyone out of prison over at Labourlist.
Over the last few years, as a part-time judge, I have on occasion given custodial sentences to the guilty.
Get over there and add your abuse to the list

Meanwhile, Nick Clegg feels left out of the handbags at dawn squabble over the "vaseline" vote, also at Labourlist


I'm off to have some heterosexual sex with my wife, whilst my children climb trees and play in the park. What a fucking pervert I am. Can I get funding too?

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Norwich

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Friday, 3 July 2009

Fame at last.....



The Econimic Whatever

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Thursday, 2 July 2009

100,000 visits a month


Many thanks guys. The Old Holborn blog now has more visits per month than Manchester United or Arsenal.


Just to remind you budding bloggers out there, it started just one year ago and is about to approach 1 million page visits. Go. Make YOUR voice heard. Start your own blog or submit something to me. It makes Politicians and newspaper editors FURIOUS.


No advertising, no moderation. As ever. Say what you want. We certainly do.
PS: Play with my Stats if you want, I don't care, it isn't password protected.

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Betrayal of a Generation



One Million 18-24 Year Olds have no job or prospect of training, Labour and the Tories have created a new 'lost' generation.

Thomas Burridge PPC LPUK Norwich North

We have the obscenity of companies, being forced to pay employers National Insurance ,over ten per cent of the employees gross salary, therefore a tax on employment, then the disincentive of paying corporation tax,also operating as unpaid tax collectors with VAT, NI, and PAYE.

Before the welfare state most people were trained as apprentices or trainees in SME's or large enterprises. Getting an apprenticeship or a training post with a reputable local firm was an ambition.

Yet again the Government thought it could do better, thanks to Tories and Labour alike, appenticeships died the death as a form of training, in favour of training my civil servant training quango's which seem on to employ yet more public servants and not turn out commercially viable skilled people.

The State would prefer to finance lager swilling tattooed covered anti social young people through the dole/jobseekers allowance.

Stop this travesty now !

Stop jobseekers for under the under twenty four year olds, it just creating a depressing mind set of dependancy.

For Apprentices and Trainees in Industry, no Employers NI, and each company can off set apprentice/trainee salaries,training costs and tools, against Corpration Tax, VAT payments etc- lets just cut the middle man, the Quangos and Government out of the Equation.

The Young are the future, we have already saddled them with decades of Debt thanks to Brown. Let's give them the skills to at least pay it back.

If the LPUK was in power, this sort of economic decision would be devolved to County level not the deadbeats in Whitehall.


OH UPDATE: It appears people wish to contribute to the fighting fund. You can do so here

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Minimun Income Calculator

Hello! Are you poor? Have a banana. I am VERY rich you know. We all are now. Well, not you obviously but us. In New Labour. Chortle


In a very shrewd political move, a new calculator has been introduced to show us all how poor we are (in other words, how much MORE we need from the State). Labour list are up in arms of course.




Now that everyone feels more vulnerable, maybe we’ll start thinking more carefully about how to move towards a minimum level of protection that genuinely reflects people’s needs.



You fucking bastards. What you really mean to say is tax people even more and give it to the millions of feckless oafs we love to feed, clothe and house in return for a vote.




(seethe)




My response is that I would suggest the very minimum someone needs to survive in our society is a decent education, two parents, some discipline, knowing the difference between right and wrong, self respect, responsibility and ambition.

No wonder that after 12 years of New Labour, nearly one million NEET’s are being paid to sit on their arses all day drinking Stella and watching Trisha.

Education – Dumbed down to the level where even the mentally handicapped can get GCSE’s. Really. Here, have some certificates Johnny, you really did try to behave in school and only stabbed a few people

Parenting – You name it, Labour have done it. Gays adopting children, single mums passport to free housing, tax credit bonuses for one parent families. Broken homes everywhere.

Discipline – Vanished. Gone. There is none. So we now have Police in schools, PCSO’s asking drunken teenagers to behave themselves and 12 year olds beating people to death for “dissin’” them.

Morals – Gone. Vanished. Want to beat up your girlfriend? Go ahead. It’s a cultural thing, we understand. Fraud? Help yourself, we do. Grab it quick, it is your RIGHT!

Self Respect – Now earned by owning the most guns, knives or bling.

Responsibility – Nah mate, ain’t my fault. No one EVER gets the blame anymore. “Lessons will be learned”

Ambition – Footballer, lottery winner or Big Bruvver contestant.

12 years and look what you have done. You will retire to your lovely cottages on enormous pensions whilst your victims still sit, uneducated, criminal, too stupid to think, sucking on the teat of the welfare state in their festering social housing built by Labour funded Guardian reading architects who now live in the Dordorgne, far far away from what they created. Millions and millions of welfare “clients” too scared to change a thing in case they lose £20 a week fag money.

YOU enslaved them in poverty. YOU did it. New Labour. Not the filthy capitalists who hog all the A Levels, not the right wing “nutters” who want their kids home before dark, not the Liberals who insist their children sit at a table to eat a meal instead of eating off the floor in front of the telly at Nans because Mum is going out with her new boyfriend tonight after cashing her Giro.

YOU - YOU FUCKING CUNTS




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Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Projects


As you know, OH is determined to make life difficult for the 646 who rule over us. So, I want to launch a few projects that will put them on the spot. I need help though. I cannot do this alone.


So far, pending projects include:


"Straight Pride" - A march through London for heterosexual men and women. I am applying for funding through the Mayor, Equalities Commission and the EU. No, really. If they can, I can.


"Animal Farm" - I am awaiting the delivery of hundreds of copies of Animal Farm to personally hand to every single MP who has stolen money from us and then paid it back hoping we will forgive them. I won't forgive them.


"Citizens Arrest" - There are some MPs out there who need to be in Jail. I am going to arrest them.


"Equality for ALL" - Harman has said that we are all the same. By law. So I want people to join the Black Panthers of Brixton. They CANNOT refuse, by law. I am putting myself forward for the Muslim Parliament of Britain. Please vote for me. They CANNOT refuse, by law.


Fuck with them at EVERY opportunity. 646 people are the only people that can change anything yet they choose not to. There are 60,000,000 of us and 646 of them yet they can't hear us.


Let's start shouting.


Green card your MP. Actually turn up and demand to see him/her/it. It is your right.


Go to council meetings naked. They can't stop you.


Tell anyone who isn't a copper to fuck off when they want your name.


Tell coppers to fuck when they want your name


Smoke where you want. Drink where you want. Say what you want. Think what you want. It's YOUR life, not theirs.


The system only works as long as we agree to it working. 646 people are controlling us to make themselves richer. Stupidly richer. Kinnock, Blair, Thatcher, Brown, Mandelson. This is why there is such a queue to get into Parliament. They don't care about you, they care about THEM.


All we have to do is say "NO" and it collapses. Lock, Stock and Barrel.


Can you say "NO"?


I can. Will you join me? It costs nothing. All you have to do is say "NO" now and again. When they least expect it. "Can I just take your name?" "NO, it is not important" and your address? "NO. You do not need to know where I live". "Can I just take your postcode and house number? " "NO"


646 of them. That's all.

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Save Our Pubs

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Milliband and Global Warming


Over at Labourlist


(vested interest alert. OH's company is involved in European Wind Energy ££££££££)

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Summer with Stanislav - A Memoir


stanislav visitors have, come up in Scotland, best part of England, from Western Middle Lands. Is old chum and Mrs but fuck me, is pain in bastard arse. Drive down in stanislav lane ripping-up hedge with big fuck-off mobile home, not Winnebago or anything, just load of plywood and teak-effect plastic shoved inside big, noisy Citroen diesel van, banging and fucking clattering to wake the fucking dead, engine sound like someone shaking set of spanners inside biscuit tin – come in, mind your head, whoops, watch that step, look, looks like cupboard but press this handle and look...... is ok, work in a minute..... stick sometimes, have to take back to dealer and get fix, is only toothing trouble, three-piece suite normally fold out from tiny little cupboard so guest and fellow campervanners can sit around in shorts, singing and having good time, like fucking Hitler Youth - cost forty fucking grand, honest, not invent, forty fucking grand, can buy stonking BMW and still stay in top jolly hotel for forty fucking grand and also not be driving about with shit cassette under feet.


Is call cassette but is shit bucket just as same. stanislav plumber is but draw fucking line at driving around in mobile toilet and need airfield to turn around in bastard thing. How would look in car crash, shit flying all over the shop and bog roll, only is not proper bog roll but that stuff, thin and cold, IZAL, good for fuck all, not even for wiping of arsehole which is supposed to be; every bastard with mobile home has IZAL toilet paper, only isn’t toilet paper but bad fucking joke, like in Viz magazine, or Jeyes, sometime is Jeyes but same old fucking rubbish is. What for you have this fucking rubbish ? Is bad enough take dump in van like fucking savage but then can’t even wipe rusty sheriff badge clean but instead smear shit all over bottom, like Jock, or finger go through and get all filthied-up with spread-out bit of shit, better would be with handful of grass from roadside and never mind IZAL trick bogroll. Manufacturer of IZAL is rolling about on floor, laughing off bollocks at mobile home driver and boy scout.


Is all to do with weight, says chum, like was fucking Apollo mission and not rust-before-your-eyes plumber van conversion, it’s lighter. Lighter? Is fucking rubbish is what it is. Is better off not wipe arse at all and hope for best and have good half hour in bidet at home than fuck about with IZAL. Can stay in Travelodge for nearly fuck all and take dog, Buster, and get breakfast…. Ah, but we were able to pull over by a lochside and smugly make a cup of tea. So fucking what, is fucking Thermos flask in Tesco for fiver and not forty fucking grand. And not get disenfranchised in great arse-wiping democracy of Life.


And mould is growing all around windows, would be alright on narrow boat down canal with old codgers in waistcoat and moleskin trouser and kerchief round fucking neck like cunt, walk upside-down through fucking tunnel and stop at Black Country pub like was Fred fucking Dibnah and eat faggot and fucking pea, mould is quite decorative but rubbish all the same, never get mould growing on BMW. And can sleep, reclined, in shiny black Seven series bought for a few grand and park near public toilet - only not in Wales or anywhere is lorry drivers, could solve all murder or nearly all, apart from people killed by constabulary in split second decision, just by putting all lorry driver in fucking Dartmoor, just round the bastards up, especially those cunts in ties at Eddie Stobart, lorry driver in fucking tie, who ever heard of such shit, that Stobard bastard, needs quick rub-down with housebrick, no wonder his drivers murder so many schoolgirls, eh, fucking bastard, You ‘as gotta work for me and you ‘as gotta wear this fucking tie under your brown overalls and you has gotta salute every bastard who look in your cab - or better still go in fucking hotel with four stars on like Christian and not sleep in smelly old van like Pikey. Maybe Pikey is Christian but act even less like Christian than proper Christian, like Presbyterian nutter in Downing Street, horrible fucking bastard. – stanislav have many encounter with Pikey and is unfailingly bastard and put in jail should be. Is only any good for go and live next door to Tessa fucking Jowell and burn tyres in field. Get Pikey come and do tarmac in plumbing yard once and fuck me was like surface of fucking moon. Is rude, ignorant, thieving, cheating, smelly useless bastard and sonoffuckingbitch, every single one has ever met is nasty arsehole, is not prejudice, is what clever bastard call empiricism, never in whole life has met Pikey was good for fuck all - And also in Beemer can go up motorway at hundred and twenty miles an hour at 500 rpm and not trundle along at sixty with engine banging and shit bucket slopping everywhere and exhaust fume pouring in. Fucking rubbish. Can buy eight good BMW for cost of smelly old van falling to bits and never in a hundred years work right; wiring is always wrong, turn on tap and hazard lights flash, fridge is always fucked, cooker only fucking work on fucking Wednesday, never mind can get fish and chip, and if shunt has fucking thing falls apart like was made by life-sentence prisoner out of Swan Vestas and blow away down fucking motorway in splinter and bits of shit plastic and gay crewcut Motorway Old Bill in hi-vis jacket stand smirking, looking to make arrest, because all copper is bastard, right? as if forty grand blowing away down Southbound M6 is not enough shit for one day. Can’t stand-up and walk about in BMW but can’t stand-up and walk about in camper van, either, only after fashion - stoop over, just right to get slip fucking disc and scream like bastard and wind up with blue badge on car and every bastard saying You ain’t disabled, disabled people no legs has, look, you legs has got, is fucking cheat and steal my parking space, I could go in there - or if is dwarf, like Hazel Blears. Fred West had fucking camper van and look at him, spent his spare time chopping people up, squeeze into box and bury under patio, like Brookside. Fred was made mad having to cope with life inside rubbish camper van, driving round Forest of fucking Dean, banging fucking head and choking on shit fumes and pots and pans falling out from cupboard every time is a bend, no fucking wonder was serial killer. Was very nice bloke by all accounts, apart from being raving lunatic and him and Rose killing people, mainly children. Bit like Tony and Imelda, only not so accomplished.


Retirement, something happens and every bastard wants to sleep in van at lochside, is like Candice Marie and Raymond from Nut in May, pair of stupid, fucked-up, calorie-counting, bird-watching, shitbrain useless mouthy bastard, only on wheels, Look at Us, here we are in our camper van, Silver FoxesRus. Can’t change fucking fuse at home and have to become best friends for life with builder and electrician and Godfather to all their horrible bastards or else house fall down but see a camper van and metamorphose into capable, derring fucking do Kings From Wild Frontier.


Often see iron-muscled, greyhair German lesbian professors riding round High Jocklands, crying, on big, farty Harley-Davidsons and that’s OK, apart from being Dykes and Hermans, of course. Always seem to be crying over some lost Helga, I giff her all zat money und pussy-munching und still she haf run away mit filthy man, Donner und Blitzen, mit nasty cock und balls, ze dirty bitch, how I loved mein Helga und zis how she treat me is, I vill ride up to John of Groat and drive into ze Pentland Firth und drown, or maybe I vill go back in Stuttgart und check-out zat little minx, Heidi, mit ze pigtails. And is other band of nutters who jump on bicycle and pedal like demented hobgoblin speedfreaks up highest roads in the country shouting Gimme A Fucking Heart Attack, I Can’s Stand Being A Teacher For Another Twenty Years! Is fucking rubbish, driving in High Jockland in Summertime. Road is rubbish at best of time but filled-up with Herman lesbian Hells Angel and demented lunatic nutter on bikes and smug bastard in camper vans is like something off Prisoner programme with Patrick McGoohan, dead now, of course, but was nearly a hundred and so never mind. I’ll be seeing you. But not for a very, very long time.


These two are old friends otherwise should have said when they arrive, OK van is so good, sleep in fucking van and not come in stanislav gaff with proper toilet and bathroom and quadruple thickness Andrex bogroll and bed made from treewood with sheet and pillow made of Egyptian fucking cotton from Mark and Spencer and not made from Jap wipe-clean fucking plastic, like in van and Mr not have to go and stumble round in dark, thistly wilderness while Mrs takes dump in van and vice versa, look, is toilet each, both can go and dump, and not in fucking bedroom. Joined together in holy deadlock is all very well but is only for sick and health and rich or poor and not for content of bowels, unless, of course, is Liberal Democrat.


stanislav and Mrs stay in hotel often and is always en fucking suite arrangement, as though having shithouse in bedroom was great idea and height of civilisation and everything and get extra stars off thieving bastard at JockTourist Board and AA, as though ancestors come crawling out from sea and into cave and up fucking tree and across plain and make tools and farming and Internet just so’s can have shit in bedroom, fuck me, was better off in fucking ocean at least can swim away from turd and not have to pretend is no smell. Oh, fuck me, vistors, this is the Executive Master Bedroom, look, has fitted wardrobe and matching bedside table all made from best compressed Executive cardboard to match and tone-in with the one-inch skirting board, and this, this little plywood cupboard over here, in the corner, this is the shithouse, opening right up into the bedroom, it is a miserable stinky little shithouse but we call it the Ahn Sweet, windows? no, fuck me, it doesn't have any windows. But it has an automic six-volt extraction fan which sometimes works but not very well. Soundproof? No, not really, the Mrs and I just love to lie here listening to each other farting and splashing and splattering away, it's quite romantic really, especially after a night on the Vindaloo and we both have a case of le posterieur flambee and it sounds like the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is rehearsing in there. Clean my teeth ? Course I clean my teeth. And yes, I do keep my toothbrush in the Ahn Sweet shithouse. What of it?


But Mrs and stan would rather have third degree constipation than use ensuite for anything else but having shower in, and maybe steal towel or two. Is easy to go down to shithouse in bar or dining room and not stink-up bedroom which is bad enough, anyway, with dog, Buster, is old boy now and sometimes stink like rotten hedgehog although since several hundred pound of VetUlike dental work is not so bad, or only from one end anyway. Can never understand why anybody would think that combine shithouse and bedroom is good idea. But is better than ensuite camper van. Imagine, on some lonely mountainside is in pitch black and hubby goes for walk with dog so Mrs can dump in private and comes back and find Mrs sat outside van in gale and is saying Would give it half of fucking hour, darling, before go in there.But it wasn’t just the van. Fuck me, no.


To be continued(The galling thing is that so many, so blessed by the post-war settlement have so sold-out to careerism and a little holiday place in France and obsess, now, dribbling and narcissistic, about their grandchildren; fascism, unemployment, hunger and rickets defeated in order that the Guardian-reading totalitarianistes nouvelle might manage the poor on behalf of the rich, pensioning and ennobling one another as they go.)

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Balls gets bounced.

Plays the same tune over and over and blinks continuously.
Get your own Education Secretary
here.


A friend visited this evening, one of those who can smell an open whisky bottle from five miles away, and helped me to kill off the last of the Glenkinchie I opened last night. I didn't tell him about the Ledaig or we'd still be drinking now, although we'd have been doing it by candlelight.

As he left, the power went off. All of it. Fortunately I have one of those emergency battery units that saves the computer from crashing at such times, and gives me time to shut it down properly. It stayed off for an hour and a half. Anyone relying on a radio alarm tomorrow morning is going to get a nasty surprise.

It's back on now (well, duh) and the first thing I found when I went into the news was the story of Bouncy Balls telling us how he's going to 'fix' the mess of education. You know, the mess it's not in if you listen to Labour spout tractor stats disguised as exam results. Michael Gove, someone I have ignored so far, had this to say:

Mr Gove said promises of personal tuition outlined by Mr Balls had previously been announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in June 2007.
And he told the Schools Secretary: "I know you relish your role as this Government's attack puppy and your special vocation as the Prime Minister's mini-me.


I'm starting to like this Gove chap. This is a nice change from the barely-heard voices of the opposition so far in this government.

"But when will you realise that simply repeating the same old nonsense over and over again ad nauseam hasn't exactly helped the Prime Minister to new heights of popularity and it won't help you."

It's a taste of things to come. Balls is practising to be the next Prime Monster, so he's emulating the style of the current droning sack of saggy misery because obviously, that's really worked well. It's produced excellent results at the polls. For every party other than Labour.

Tory spokesman Michael Gove said Mr Balls was offering "old material" and told MPs introducing legal obligations on schools to drive up standards was evidence that Labour had failed to do so in the last 12 years.


There go the 'legal obligations' again. Not content with making it illegal to be poor, the government now want to make it illegal to be stupid. Of course, the poor and the stupid won't be the ones punished, because they are 'the criminal' in this law. Under the Labour legal system, the criminal gets understanding and compensation while the victim (everyone who isn't poor and/or stupid) goes to jail. We're all to blame for poverty because we earn money by working and don't want to hand it all over to those who don't want to work. We'll all be to blame for stupidity because we listened at school, learned things and worked at getting qualifications. Those who didn't, well, its not their fault they're stupid. It's those capitalists hogging all the qualifications for themselves.

Mr Balls had said that teachers will in future need a "licence to teach" which would be regularly reviewed.

What can he mean? Some kind of teacher training system where teachers learn how to run a class? Why didn't we think of that before! We did? So, what he means is a licence that can be revoked if the teacher doesn't comply with New Labour indoctrination teaching methods. The kids must all come out equally stupid or it's rip up the licence time. Can't have those terrible elitists learning things. Everyone must be stupid to a level equal to that of a Labour minister. It's quite a challenge.

Labour are trying to get their party handbook made law. The trouble is, their handbook no longer makes any sense at all. The Tories will have to scrap the entire statute book (is it a statute library by now?) and start from scratch. It'll be quicker than trying to pick out all Labour's petty and generally insane legislation.

This Gove might be worth watching. He has a way with words.



UPDATE: The Daily Politics has it on video.

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