Old Holborn

Don't cap it, scrap it.

2012-01-23T11:38:00.004Z

"Keep them enslaved and they'll vote for us"

And it begins. The long awaited clamp down on exactly how much of our money the idle can lay claim to as "entitlement", the Welfare Cap will be tested tonight in the house of Lords.

The unelected and appointed and the Bishops will pontificate over whether £26,000 is enough of a free handout for a family to raise children and buy necessities whilst up and down the land, the employed are cleaning toilets and stacking shelves at night to make ends meet.

The left is apoplectic, as it's client voters are told by evil men that they might, just might have to make do on less. Except of course, they aren't making do on less. The poor never saw a penny of the huge rents private landlords were able to charge the Council for ex council houses they bought at knock down prices just 25 years ago. As long as the money tree was there, they could charge what they liked, safe in the knowledge that the Council Tax payer and "Central government" would rather cover it than see one homeless person on the street.

So let's spare a minute to think about the poor employed person in London. His wages are kept low because someone else is paying his rent for him. His landlord and his boss are laughing all the way to the bank as the state makes up the difference between what he should earn and pay for rent if the market were free, his Labour MP is delighted knowing he'll never bite the hand that feeds him and his social worker gets to keep her job making sure he never knowingly misses a state benefit to keep him hopelessly dependent on handouts.

It's a step in the right direction. Personally, I see no need to fund the feckless, let them live off the land in Wales if needs must. After all, their grand parents did before a hairy lipped Oxbridge Fabian turned up and told them they could have exactly what the rest of us have, by force if necessary. If you want to free the poor, strip them of the enslavement of State funded landlords and employers happy to exploit the taxpayer, they'll do just fine in the real world.

Falling rents, higher wages, lower taxes - all due to the State just leaving us alone for a change. About time too.

Oh, and don't forget to read my Monday column at Blottr

PAY ATTENTION - YOUR LAST CHANCE

2012-01-12T10:38:00.002Z

His Grace, one of the few Christians to spout some sense, has drawn my attention to a Home Office Consultation that is currently running online AND FINISHES TOMORROW, regarding various topics very, very close to my heart. Namely:

the relevance of the word ‘insulting‘ in section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986
new powers to request removal of face coverings
new powers to impose curfews

Where to begin.

If you are reading this, chances are, you are a moron. There, have I insulted you? I'm asking because I have no idea if what I just stated has insulted you. Only YOU can be the judge of what you find insulting, yet plans are afoot for it to be a criminal offence to "insult" someone. So if you feel insulted, there is nothing to stop you ringing 999 and having the evil perpetrator banged up, DNA'ed and given a criminal record, although they will have had absolutely no idea that their actions or words have insulted you. If we criminalise "insults", we shut up everyone and everything. For ever. Do you want to live in a society where you dare not speak in case the State decides your words may cause offence to people you will never meet? Now's your chance to speak against it, USE IT, whilst you still can.

Now, I choose to be anonymous on my many public outings because, well, my face is my business. Unless I am actually committing a crime, it is not the business of the State to know what I look like anymore than it is the business of the State to randomly sweep bus stop queues for fingerprints. One of the reasons I wear a mask is because of the habit of the state to record the faces of those "who might" cause trouble, "for future reference". The Met employ teams of photographers to take photos of any members of public who may be dissenting, sticks them on a database and cross references them. No thanks. My face belongs to me, it is my property, I will cover it when and if I choose. Naturally, this proposal is stop women wearing Burqas because some sensitive souls "may be offended" (see above), but as always, I say it is not the role of the State to dictate how I may dress. Here's a video of me winding up the Met's "future intelligence Team" trying to take my photo whilst I was minding my own business (for your amusement)

Lastly, the Police want to have powers to impose curfews as and when they decide it would be far easier for them to just clear the streets and not have to deal with pesky members of the public going about their lawful business. Be warned. Once this starts, it will NEVER stop. Long gone are the very principles of Peel whereby the Police are the Public and the Public are the Police: this draws the line very clearly indeed. Them. And Us. It HAS to be stopped. This land belongs to us, not the authorities, we are not sheep, to be herded back into our pens at the whim of the shepherd.

I'd hope things would get better after 13 years of the ridiculous authoritarianism of Labour. It looks like they are going to get worse. Make a stand, do it now. If you don't, the Police will have the right to shut you up, photograph you in the street on demand and then ban you from leaving your house.

Quite, quite remarkable. Possibly the last chance to have our voice heard. Right HERE

High Speed Fail

2012-01-08T12:22:00.000Z

A politician inspects "the Peoples Train" yesterday

Once upon a time, some entrepreneurs spotted that there might just be a market for transporting goods up and down the country and producers would pay them to carry their goods to new markets. Low and behold, the industrial revolution began. Gangs of imported Irish labour toiled relentlessly to build the canal system in the UK and suddenly, Britain became a powerhouse of engineering and commerce. Cost to the taxpayer? ZERO

Next, some entrepreneurs decided that there might also be a market for transporting people around the country. Once again, the Irish navvies were sought to lay thousands of miles of tracks across the nation, the postal system was revolutionised, fresh produce could be transported the length and breadth of the country and people could actually choose to live away from their place of work. The age of the commuter was born, giving rise to the middle classes and massive wealth redistribution across the entire social sphere. Cost to the taxpayer? ZERO

So why is the taxpayer being asked to fund a high speed rail network to Birmingham? I have no problem with high speed rail, indeed, I find it infinitely preferable to being stuck behind some old biddy in her Nissan Micra on the M6 and am happy to pay for that service, but I will not be forced, through taxation, to subsidise the building of a network that I will then be charged to use. As if we don't have any experience of letting private finance raise the capital, our Government is keen to plunder the earnings of people who will never use a high speed railway network to the Midlands so that the history books will gleefully show the Transport Minister cutting the ribbon on yet another vanity project designed to show us, the people paying for it all, how benevolent our Politicians are for "facilitating" a new era of transport.

If business wants a high speed rail network, business knows what it has to do. Raise the capital and build one - build it and they will come. But no, our glorious politicians are FAR too interested in the glory of the State for national infrastructure to be left to people who actually have money to risk, so once again, a shelf stacker from Truro will be forced to cough up for a political project that will add no value to his existence and our glorious leaders can pretend they are doing something for the "nation", using money we don't have to spend if only we would allow the market to decide.

Dig deep folks, there's plenty more "national infrastructure" projects to come as Government tries to spend money we don't have on projects we don't want and can't afford. All in the name of State "progress"

Justice for Stephen Lawrence?

2012-01-03T17:29:00.000Z

Well,yes.

No matter what you may think of Blunketts decision to introduce double jeopardy in order to re try the original suspects of the Stephen Lawrence murder, we now have convictions. There is no doubt in my mind that these Sarf Lahnden thugs killed him and have used a combination of Police incompetence, police corruption and CPS idiocy to escape the law. They will be sentenced tomorrow as juveniles and can expect moderate sentences although they have yet to spill the beans on who helped them stab an innocent man because of the colour of his skin.

In the 18 years that have passed since his murder, we have seen a great deal of political manoeuvring and many vested interests playing their hands in this case. Our Police are still corrupt, still racist and the CPS is still incompetent. Perhaps the one good thing to come out of it is that an acquittal through the incompetence of the prosecution is no longer final. And in the case of justice, I find that rather comforting.

Modern Britain

2011-12-26T19:31:00.000Z

Watch and weep. The Police actually have to draw tasers at 1.09 to keep the baying mob off a dying man in Oxford Street this afternoon. And people wonder why I've had enough of this corrupt shithole of a country. Happy New Year, all

the Family Credit Card

2011-12-26T14:42:00.000Z

This has been doing the rounds for a while, so I thought I'd translate it to UK standards

UK Tax Revenue 2010 £548,000,000,000
Uk State Budget 2010 £660,000,000,000
New Uk State Debt 2010 £112,000,000,000
National Debt including PFI and Pensions liablities 2010 £2,990,000,000,000

Now let's pretend that the UK is a family, living in a rented home. Here's the same figures, reduced to hammer home the point

Family Income 2010 £54,800
Family spending 2010 £66,000
New debt slapped on credit card £11,200
Debt already on family credit card £299,000

Makes you wonder just when the bailiffs will turn up, doesn't it?

John Galt speaks

2011-12-21T11:22:00.002Z

Worth 15 minutes of anyones time. Enjoy

In the name of Freedom

2011-12-20T11:20:00.000Z

George Moonbat has kicked off to attack Libertarians in the Gruaniad. Time to put on my fisking gloves.

Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy.

In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.

Well George, here's the rub. Freedom also includes the freedom to earn money and the freedom to do nothing. It's the freedom of choice. Ugly as it is, it means the freedom to sell your labour at the price YOU dictate, not the power of the State to force you not to work because your labour is only worth £5.99 an hour. Banks didn't wreck the economy. Saving the banks with our money has wrecked the economy. Politicians demanding that, in the name of equality, a worker on minimum wage *must* have what the rich have has wrecked our economy. Demanding banks lend to unemployed black men in string vests who could never afford to pay it back has wrecked the economy, not Libertarians. The powerful who have exploited the weak are not Libertarians, George, they are the Politicians.

Rightwing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers' Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs, and Policy Exchange. Their concept of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.

Libertarians do not adversely affect the lives of others. It is our core principle. We seek freedom FROM others, not the power to act on the behalf of, or to the detriment of others. It's why we aren't Tories. We do not have the right to interfere in the lives of others and kindly request they grant us the same. If wanting wealth achieved through creating things that people want to buy, rather than being forced to buy is "greed", so be it.

Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrongfoot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned "freedom" into an instrument of oppression.

No, George. I do not exploit anyone. It is not Libertarians ripping half the wages out of the hands of the poor every week to hand back to them in tax credits and aircraft carriers. It is not Libertarians carpet bombing the poor of Iraq or telling people they may not buy whiskey at 5pm on a Sunday. It is not Libertarians buying up bankrupt financial institutions at a loss with money forcibly extracted from those on minimum wage. That, my dear George, is the all powerful State. The greatest instrument of oppression yet known to man.

It is the poor who need the most protection FROM the State. Ask the citizens of North Korea.

Shocking scenes from Egypt

2011-12-18T11:14:00.000Z

On the aniversary of the beginning of the Arab spring, truly shocking scenes of the State doing what the State does best.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

David Camerons New Vision

2011-12-15T17:28:00.002Z

The Freedom to Ignore

2011-12-14T11:53:00.002Z

It warms the very cockles of my cold, icy heart to note that SIX million of us are not even bothered enough to register to vote, a huge 1/5th of us are so disenfranchised with what the Political elite have to offer, we prefer not to bother to even attempt to play the game in which at the first sight of losing, our opponents can change the rules in their favour.

Slowly, but surely, we are turning our backs on a system that has done nothing except enrich those already in power or privilege. Tired of endless promises on the best way to spend our money, extracted by force, we are doing what every Politician most fears. Declaring them irrelevant after decades of minority rule, unenforced manifesto promises, thrown to the wind upon election, ignored pleas for referendums whilst gratuitously lining their pockets with the profits of lobbyists, big business and unions.

Good luck to them, I say. Carry on your pontificating and legislating because the more of us that choose to ignore you, the more grains of sand are slipping through your fingers. If "austerity" is teaching us anything, it is teaching us how to live without you and soon enough, you will be as relevant to our lives as we are to yours.

You're welcome. More please

Back to basics

2011-12-07T13:33:00.001Z

It's finally sinking in that when times are tough, the tough get going. In Greece, sacked diversity coordinators are heading back to their parents farms and learning how to milk goats again. No more inflated public sector sector salaries financed by State borrowing, no more retiring at 50 and no more Mercedes bought on cheap credit. Twenty years of being told they are as productive and worthy as the Germans has finally collapsed and a cold new dawn of reality is being served up to the melon farmers. Likewise, the Portuguese, Spanish, Irish and Italians are also putting down their iPads and picking up ploughs and shovels and getting on with the job of living within their means. Nothing to be frightened of guys, your parents managed it until they were seduced by the promise of "free" money by Politicians.

Will it happen here? I certainly hope so. My Blottr post this week dealt with the absence of a peasant class in the UK (and I mean peasant in the sense of actually producing something). As you know, I'll be headed off to sunnier climes to do the same shortly and I'm not expecting anyone else to pay my bills for me. I've made sure I won't be relying on a state pension or welfare handouts and in return, I'll be rewarded by minimal State and taxes and the chance to live my life as I see fit, taking responsibility for my own actions.

As luck would have it, more and more citizens are beginning to feel the same.The National Centre for Social Research's 28th annual British Social Attitudes report shows that people are sick to death of handing over an ever greater amount of what they earn with their own labour to those who will not. The majority now believe the State hammock, designed to keep the feckless voting Labour, has to go. No more taxes, no more handouts.

Now I don't believe this will have any immediate effect as the State is still desperate to grab as much of your wealth as it can lay it's greedy little hands on, but eventually, when the cuts have really taken place, the entitlement classes told to do one, the welfare state once again reduced to something that you fall back on, not into, then those who actually earn the money are going to start asking why they are still paying eye watering amounts of taxes. And when they do, the next cuts they demand will be in a reduction of the State.

People are paying off their mortgages, debts, saving for a rainy day, shunning the shops and rightly bolting down the hatches. When this is over, millions will wonder why they ever paid so much to Politicians in the first place, why they allowed the State to grab so much and inflict itself upon them so totally.

Bring it on. Those who are forced to feed the beast are slowly realising it serves no useful purpose with its gargantuan appetite and grasping tentacles. It can't be long now until they work out how to starve it to death.

Meanwhile, a little story to amuse you:

It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note. The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works

Hat tip to Elsa

One out, ALL OUT

2011-11-29T11:32:00.001Z

I'm old enough to remember when the Unions really did have the power to bring the country to its knees. Management would carefully and warily tread their way around them lest a shop steward decide that actually working was not in the interests of the Comrades and everyone downed tools. Remarkably, it didn't make them rich or society equal. It just ended up in misery for all concerned. I was also a member of a Union (I had no choice) once and since that day have utterly detested them and pretty much all they stand for.

So tomorrow will see our "public servants" striking to defend their slice of the Government pie when the rest of us have already worked out that the Government is not to be trusted with our pensions and have quietly made our own provisions for old age via property or investments. They will march and scream and stamp their feet, the soundbites of vital public services being decimated will broadcast across the airwaves and Socialists, simply unable to believe that they didn't win the election will rant and demand we do as they say or else.

I have no problem with anyone striking. Go for it. In all honesty, most of the public sector already withholds their labour by ringing in sick 10 times a year on average, one more day won't be noticed. Except of course, should your position be outsourced in the near future, any private HR manager worth his salt will be looking through the attendance records of any staff he is expected to take off the State. Having "absent" on November 30th 2011 is pretty good indicator of work ethic, loyalty and value to any potential private employer.

Should you encounter any donkey jacketed placard waving dinosaurs on your travels tomorrow, hand them one of these:

Racist Tram Woman

2011-11-28T10:52:00.001Z

Another trending viral has popped up this morning, showing the outburst on public transport (one reason I never travel on it) of a racist woman when confronted with a tram full of people she was obviously not happy sharing the same space with. Cries are going up for her to be named and shamed, arrested, her child taken into care.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Be careful what you wish for. I find her views laughable, ignorant, misguided. But they are her views and she is perfectly entitled to hold them. There is no law to protect you from being offended and I am certainly not going to lobby for the introduction of "thoughtcrime" legislation where she must sit in silence. What IS interesting is that she is not alone. Just this morning, a report comes out telling us white, lower class English are marginalised and feel victimised by what they perceive as a bias towards foreigners and minorities soaking up their precious "entitlements" to benefits, housing etc. Coincidence?

Treat the disease, not the symptom.

Guido called before Leveson

2011-11-27T19:16:00.001Z

Oh dear. Guido published Alistair Campbells Leveson evidence this morning. Campbell was FURIOUS and now Guido has been summonded to the Leveson Enquiry to explain where he got the evidence from. Best of luck Guido.

Oh BTW, if YOU would like to appear before the Leveson Committee, just read this

The EU import tax on Garlic. It reeks

2011-11-24T17:05:00.001Z

Whilst watching my twitter stream today, I spotted a press release from the EU stating that Britain had been a very, very naughty boy and owed the EU £20 million in unpaid taxes. For importing Garlic.

Between 2005 and 2006, the UK customs authorities allowed imports of fresh garlic from the People's Republic of China under wrong authorising documents. They have erroneously stated that the goods imported were frozen garlic for which significantly lower import duties apply. The Commission considers that the UK authorities did not act with all due care when issuing the authorising documents and failed to collect the correct amount of duties.

They are therefore held financially responsible for the loss of own resources (approximately £20 million) to the EU budget.The Commission is determined to protect the common EU interest. Fair treatment of all Member States must be ensured. If a Member State fails to make available all the money it owes the EU budget, the other Member States need to pay more as a result.

I'm going for a lie down. Anyone care to clarify why we are forced to pay import duties on Garlic?

#OccupyLSX - The Pepsi Challenge

2011-11-19T11:38:00.001Z

After watching the various crusties and social misfits take over the #Occupylsx movement for their own agendas and turn it into an anti Capitalism campaign - as opposed to the #Occupy movement, which is against Corporate Greed - the time has come to actually challenge them.

I propose a debate. I am prepared to publicly defend Capitalism and Libertarianism, the minimal State and the freedom of the Individual against whatever #Occupylsx want to throw at it. I ask fellow Libertarians and anyone interested in a different perspective to ridding us of big Government and croney State Corporations to join me.

Date to be announced by #Occupylsx

Who is Old Holborn?

2011-11-16T10:05:00.001Z

Total Politics magazine have asked me the following questions, so I thought I'd share the answers here.

Who are you?

Anybody can be Old Holborn. The reason I choose anonymity is that the focus remains on the message, not the man. Poilitics and the blogosphere is full of those trying to promote themselves for their own ends, desperate to climb the greasy pole, whilst I can sit back and smile every time I bump into them safe in the knowledge they have no idea who I am and can't vent their frustration by rummaging through my dustbin to undermine my arguments. Even standing for Parliament last year as an independent in Cambridge, I became the first person to stand completely anonymously. It drove the electoral commission and my fellow candidates to distraction, much to my amusement and that of my readers. Humour is the key, until they find a way to tax it.

Where do you blog?

I use blogger. I did host my own domain, but it was closed down as I refused to give the authorities my name and address. I will probably take it offshore to an anonymous US host when I have time and let the 1st Ammendment do it's job.

When and why did you start blogging?

I started blogging four years ago because I was sick of being censored and moderated on Internet forums. There is no moderation or censorship on my blog at all. The comments section is, as far as I am concerned, a white wall. I refuse to be held responsible for what a passing individual chooses to daub on it.

How would you describe Old Holborn to the uninitiated?

I fight for the individual. I'm sick of being told what I must do or finance "for the common good", sick of legislation that removes my freedoms to do as I please when I'm not adversely affecting the lives of others and have nothing but contempt for Politicians. In my ideal world, I would live as a hermit and shoot anyone that trespassed on my land. Small State, anti authoritarian, leave me alone, not right or left just stop telling me how to live my life. It's mine, not yours.

Why the name?

No reason at all

What has been your best or most controversial blogging moment?

Well, I have released people from prison who shouldn't have been there, I did name the murderers of Baby P and I do my utmost to upset anyone who assumes they hold any power over me that wasn't expressly given to them by me and I'm always ready to break super injunctions or challenge authority. It's a hobby of mine.

What are your thoughts on the Occupy movement?

What a wasted opportunity. No sooner did something get started than it was hijacked by the usual suspects. Anti cuts, Greenpeace, the Unions have all piled in to attempt to make it a Fabians wet dream, a cooperative of the left. A great shame as not one banker or Politician, those who we really should be hanging for the utter mess we are in, has been touched by any of it. I can actually hear them laughing yet again whilst the European Central Bank installs new leaders all over Europe to protect the very same banks from the consequences of their own actions.

In your ideal world, how would our political system look?

Direct democracy, no borders to immigration (yes, odd isn't it?), no political parties, minimal state, minimal voluntary taxation and where the rights of the individual trumps the rights of the collective. Sadly, it'll never happen, so I hope to buy an Island and run it as an international tax haven, issue currency based on Gold reserves (remember them?) and declare war on the unelected EU Commission.

What other blogs do you read?

Any blog that attacks the status quo will find its way onto my radar. I rabidly consume news in the hope of finding the nugget of information that will hang the great and the good who assume they are my master.

the Power of the State

2011-11-15T13:42:00.001Z

Greece is having something of an interesting time. A new leader has been installed, handpicked by the European Central Bank to ensure that the debts racked up by socialists do not go unpaid, just forty years to the day after the Greek people overthrew their last unelected Government of the Generals. Austerity measures WILL be pushed through, ensuring that those who had nothing to do with the debt end up paying the bankers with their carefully saved personal wealth and Merkels dream of a Germany by the Sea can continue.

Of course, certain assets of the State could be sold off to cover them, but be sure, the National Power Company won't be one of them. You see, controlling the electricity the citizens need is a way to control the citizens. Greeks are just about to be handed a new property tax that will simply be added to their electricity bills. Refuse to pay, and the State cuts off the juice.Using a State monoply Corporation to get to your wealth.

Now you know why socialists want so much of the state infrastructure firmly in the hands of their Politburo. Never trust a politician to provide what the market is capable of doing, as the Greeks are finding out once again

Thursday will see the largest Demo in Athens yet seen. Expect real fireworks.

Perpetual Growth

2011-11-13T16:34:00.001Z

The whingeing, the whining. I can't stand it any more.

The Western world is obsessed with "growth". Our useless politicians seem to be of the opinion that if there is no "growth" we will all die (or hang them from lamp posts) and every thing MUST be done to maintain growth. Out taxes must be reinvested in programs that will bring growth, our labour and effort must only be used to promote growth, God help us all if we don't have at least as much as our parents had, we will have all failed miserably and the world is doomed.

Except of course, it isn't. Growth promoted by the State usually means growth of the State. It isn't a coincidence that for every major technological breakthrough, the Government manages to employ an army of bureaucrats to monitor, measure, licence and tax it. Not content that something is actually working, a stranglehold must be placed upon it to ensure that every last drop of growth is squeezed out of it "for the common good", so a Politician can sit back and bask in the glory.

Sorry guys, I see perpetual growth as a tumour. In the rush to make sure everyone on the planet owns a Govt funded iPad just because our parents didn't (and that MUST be progress, right) all we have ended up with is enormous corporations feeding from enormous Governments feeding from us. It might be "admirable" that the unemployed can now drive fucking cars because I'm paying their rent and council taxes but if that is growth, I'd rather keep my own money, thanks.

I've reached that stage in life where I'm not looking for growth. I have all I need, certainly all I want and now, I'd like to enjoy it without the constant nagging that someone, somewhere hasn't and therefore society has failed and I need to work harder or pay more in taxes.

Growth in the Greek state has bankrupted the nation, likewise in a basket of other Southern European countries. Growth for growths sakes has killed them. Not much point in handing out iPads to schoolkids if they can't afford the electricity bill to recharge them.

So I say kick back. Maintain, adjust, prune where necessary but stop looking for perpetual growth. you'll end up throwing away a fiver in the hope you'll find a tenner. Be thankful for what you have and enjoy it. In just 100 years, we have seen remarkable things and now is the time to slow down and make use of them. If that means living with an Xbox2 whilst claiming the dole, is that really such a sacrifice?

A silent Plan B

2011-11-08T17:42:00.002Z

the Elite handing back the small change from your taxes at a Greek soup kitchen, yesterday

For those of you who watch the tellybox, last night had a little gem in it. A program showing how the Greek economy manages to bumble along just fine in the background whilst the Greek State has bankrupted itself by taking the EU shilling.

It comes as no surprise that the EU have just installed the Vice President of the European Central Bank as new leader in Athens. After all, the entire country is now owned by the EU bankers, lock, stock and barrel, having your own man on the scene makes perfect sense. Rather like the Mafia ensuring only their bouncers and accountants get to the run the nightclub you thought you owned. At least the Rothschilds ran the show from the sidelines, the EU hasn't even got the subtlety to enslave a population quietly. I wonder what his first priorities will be; the people he is supposed to represent? Or re filling the coffers of the ECB with Greek money? Anybodies guess.

Back to last nights TV. Of course the Greeks wised up pretty quickly that the only way to survive what the State had done in their name, was to hide what they have from the State. A massive black market has opened up. Cash is King again, just like it used to be before the State and the bankers got too big to fail, remember? Capital has flown to Switzerland and Bulgaria, precious life savings have been ferreted out of the country where the ever more intrusive tentacles of the tax authorities cannot touch them. Bartering, cash in hand, envelopes are back in fashion.

Sure, those dumb enough to work for the Beast or obediently pay their taxes are now the ones queueing at soup kitchens (one in eleven Greeks now eats at one) whilst those who saw how much power the State had awarded itself are not going to go hungry. They had a personal plan B to ensure their individual wealth did not suddenly become the collective wealth to be plundered by the new Banker Emperor from Brussels.

You would do wise to do the same. At some point, the State is going to come for what little you have left. It's needs FAR outweigh yours and whilst it may supply a soup kitchen in return, to stop you from actually starving, it will be the final mediator as to what you may purchase with your own hard labour, ensuring that what you own, it can also claim ownership to, if needed.

Arbeit Macht Frei, Comrades.

Let's do it again sometime

2011-11-07T11:06:00.000Z

Well, that was fun. For those who were otherwise engaged on Saturday November 5th, you missed a great day of fun, drinking and political mischief.

Alas, as no debate was held in the Commons, the price of admission to our Parliament was 15 quid a head, cash up front, guv. So we went to the Westminster Arms instead (traditional) followed by a trip up to St Pauls to show my followers what a real protest doesn't look like.

So many vested interests, all jostling for the mic, a chance to remind the massed throng that their cause was the real reason for the protest and everyone should pay attention to them and save a whale or show solidarity with a tribe of goat herders in Kurdistan. And the bogs in Starbucks were bust - can't think why.

Oh wait, #OccupyLSX were going to march on Westminster to demand...er...no idea and out came the Socialist Workers banners screaming all sorts of nonsense. Quick, grab one, Jocasta, this is REALLY happening.

Now as it happens, a couple of the 99% - US, had also bought along a banner stating that taxes are slavery and we really ought to cut the deficit a bit deeper if we are ever going to get a smaller State and less intrusive Government. Our voices count, right? Freedom of speech, right?

So we led the march. And I do mean march. No public sector dawdling when OH is at the front. St Pauls to Trafalgar Square in half an hour, keep up at the back. Now one of the advantages of being at the front of the march is that your banner becomes the head of the snake, the message, if you like, and soon it became apparent to our fellow protesters that our message might not be entirely aligned with their message. First came the hysterical fat arsed black woman (on loan from Tower Hamlets Council, no doubt) , denouncing us at 110 db as "EDL Infiltrators". When that failed to motivate the mob to hang us from lamp posts, our banner was ripped down by outraged crusties - furious that we were not advocating "free speech and a new democracy where every voice is heard".

One of the major problems of a strictly vegan sustainable eco diet is that you do not have the strength to retain whatever banner you may have just ripped out of the hands of your fellow protesters, especially when the one who wants it back is me, six foot two, masked and built like a brick shit house.

We abandoned the March at Traflagar Square for the pub (again), leaving a few hundred out of breath and wheezing protesters to make their way to Westminster where 30 of them sat down (knackered no doubt) until they were told they would be arrested and then ran away. Bravo, comrades.

Many thanks to those who joined me. Let's do it again sometime.

November 5th update

2011-11-04T18:15:00.000Z

What a week. Greece in meltdown, Europe in chaos, sabre rattling at Iran. Should give us plenty to discuss when me meet at 11am in the Chandos Pub (excellent, cheap beer), Traflagar Square tomorrow as usual on this hallowed occassion. All are welcome, even those who harbour grudges or have no masks. A walk to Parliament, followed by some robust debate with those at #OccupyLSX, who have decided to march to Parliament as well to demand well...er..who knows?

If you feel, as I do, that things are just about to take a very serious turn for the worse, now is your chance to let your feelings be known to the numerous media outlets scouring the streets for soundbites. See y'all there.

Update: This is too good.

Germans not happy - Papandreou

2011-11-02T20:33:00.002Z

The Emperor is naked.

2011-11-01T13:27:00.001Z

Hang on a minute, that wasn't in the plans. Greece has decided to hold a referendum on whether to return to a simplistic existence herding goats and growing olives or propping up a Ponzi Euro with the sweat of their childrens labour.

The carefully crafted bailout package that nobody understands but would save the arses of Europes elite bankers and politicians has managed to last just four days. The man behind the curtain has been rumbled.

How come?

The people are going to be asked whether they are happy to be enslaved in EU debt and living for a pittance whilst prices for a coffee remain as high as Berlin or simply say "sod it. I'll make do like my parents did, this bloody growth bubble not helping me at all, innit"

The markets are not in panic. They are adjusting quite naturally to a hard dose of reality that some people might not get their money back because no matter how much can be extracted forcibly from German taxpayers, the Greeks will simply say "thanks, but no thanks". Capitalism is being allowed to work, banks who recklessly over invested because the Politicians told them the well would never run dry are losing their shirts and the Greeks have spotted that the EURO emperor is naked as the day it was born.

More please, Toto. Keep pulling at the curtains....

OccupyLSX to take on the Big Boys

2011-10-28T11:05:00.003+01:00

Finally, after two weeks of milling around demanding nothing except the right to camp outside a church, the Occupy movement in London have finally grown a pair. No more "tranquility Tent" and vegan meditation idiots, some very astute souls have decided to take on the beast itself. The corporation of the City of London.

Yes, the city of London is a corporation - complete with a private Police force, the ancient right to have a lobbyist in the House of Commons and more Freemasonary than you can shake a rolled up trouser leg at. It is the epitome of undemocratic corporatism and it runs the UK Financial sector.

Expect some serious sparks to fly as the many layers of this ancient order of privilege is exposed to the cold hard reality of the media spotlight.

This is a revolution worth fighting for. Let's get started.

Over the border...

2011-10-27T10:13:00.000+01:00

I notice that our masters have struck up a deal to keep the endless stream of free money flowing, greasing the wheels of their own vanity promises to make us all rich and equal. One trillion Euros is to be produced to recapitalise the banks that lent the money to the states that made the promises they couldn't honour. Only another €4000 debt for every man, woman and child in the EU, nothing serious....

As my more astute readers will know, I have a plan that revolves around getting the hell out of here. I have achieved what I wished to achieve financially and no longer see the point in supporting a state that would happily grab 100% of my wealth if it could just find a way. Meanwhile, the promises of more wealth for all continue to spout forth from politicians in the pockets of the banks who will lend it to you, just sign here

So let's have a quick look at what happened to Greek prices when they decided to take the offer of endless EU cash that was on the table and Southern Bulgaria, the country I plan to make to make my home, that didn't. Indulge me, I am moving to a village just 40km from the Greek beaches and want to know what my carefully managed savings will buy me.

A little research tells me that Greece is around three times the price of neighbouring Bulgaria. You can find detailed prices here and here

A Greek peasant now has to find three times the money of his neighbour to buy a beer ( I'll focus on the important things). Why? All part of the dream, I'm afraid. If Greeks are going to drive BMWs like their Northern European backers, they'll have to pay the same prices as Northern Europeans, even if it means borrowing the money to do so. In the glorious EU, no one is allowed to live a simple, low cost life. That would be treason against a state that is designed to invade every aspect of your life, control your finances and your thinking and dictate how you may live. In the name of "equality"

The Greeks have now been told that they can't have any more money to buy BMWs and their wages have just been slashed by half. Yet a coffee still costs £3 and they are still burdened with the crippling and expensive debt, legislation and regulation that a Northern European is taxed to death to supply. No wonder they are rioting.

Greece was sold a pup and is now trapped in poverty. Greeks will return to riding donkeys and herding goats for a pittance but unless they drop the Euro, they'll still be paying the same rate as you or I for that mandatory EU health and safety audit or translation of their benefits forms into Latvian. Drink up Kostas, another coffee?

Brussels attempted to place Bulgaria in the same position as Greece when they joined the EU. Sofia refused to take the shilling and as such, has a flat income tax rate and corporation tax rate of 10%. Coupled with bank deposit interest rates of 7% per annum, a shrewd businessman will pay just 3% tax per annum. My kind of State. Sure there aren't as many diversity coordinators in Bulgaria as Brussels would like, and their commitment to climate change is appalling, probably best not to mention building regs or planning permission or vehicle emissions zones or disabled access and cycle lanes, but then again, Bulgarians are not hopelessly in debt to the bankers whilst admiring a gleaming new airport either.

Sorry, Kostas my short jaunt over the border to visit the beaches of the Aegean will almost certainly involve a picnic hamper and a thermos flask. Brussels made sure of that.

Fight fire with fire

2011-10-25T15:48:00.004+01:00

Aw, they didn't do what we asked them to. So let's do what the EU itself does. Ask again. And again. And again. Until we get the answer we want.

Sign the NEW ePetition on an EU referendum here and keep signing until they realise they are supposed to represent us, not their party.

147 state aided Corporations rule the world

2011-10-24T11:11:00.001+01:00

As my readers will know, I am a fervent capitalist. It puts food on the table, allows me to sell my unique talents at market rates, drives ambition and increases my standard of living. I repeat, I have no issue with earned wealth or capitalism. It isn't perfect because more often then not, it is controlled by someone with a vested interest in distorting the market for personal gain, be that Corporations who crush or "acquire" their competition or Governments who regulate to the Nth degree so that only established players stand a chance and entry to market is effectively closed for newcomers who do it cheaper or better.

One of the major problems I have with the Occupy movement is their anti Capitalism. Their solution, socialism, has been proven time and time again to drive DOWN standards of living whilst driving UP prices for you and me. No amount of well meaning rhetoric and concern for my fellow man will ever see me take money out of your pocket against your will and hand it to someone else to appease any ingrained guilt complex I may feel. I stand ready to help people to help themselves, but that does not include the contents of my wallet without my permission.

In the effort to control markets and over regulate free trade, all governments have been rewarded by those who stand to gain most from their tinkering. It is no coincidence that a behemoth of a Lobby industry knows exactly how to get richer. Control the Politicians, who control the treasuries and the Statute books and you're pretty much home and dry in the get rich quick stakes.

So it comes as no great surprise that Corporations now dominate the markets. Take a walk down any identi-high Street. Any originality, any niche supplier is snapped up and killed or "assimilated" into the portfolio of Corporations like drones to the Borg.

A recent report in the New Scientist shows that just 147 companies control Capitalism.Complex interwoven networks propped up by States and Central banks. Here are the top twenty. I'll leave it to you to spot how many have been bailed out by Politicians using YOUR money, taken by force. Then you might like to find out how many have ex politicians on the board or fund Party coffers.

We're being robbed and there is not a single thing we can do to stop them. They are 99% of the problem

1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc

Don't forget, I have a new column on @Blottr today.

Cast out!!

2011-10-21T15:48:00.000+01:00

I note that the Dean of St Pauls Cathedral has decided enough is enough and called time on the anti Capitalist Occupy protest that invaded his courtyard last weekend. Rather brilliantly, he has used the "health and safety" universal get out clause so beloved by unions and the State to throw the few remaining jugglers and "colour therapists" off his steps.

It is a shame that the modern protest movement seem unable to unite to address what is a uniform grievance. Most people are genuinely pissed off with the State handing money, OUR money to failed banks that under proper capitalism would have gone to the wall whilst their overpaid Chairmen jumped from the top floor of their office blocks. Alas, instead, the usual rent a mob grabbed their Samba drums, crayons, stilts and loudhailers and set up "workspaces" where they could all agree with each other as long as no one actually did anything sensible. Media tents, meditation tents, crystal therapy tents. And a piano.

Meanwhile, in Greece, half a MILLION people decided enough was enough and no way were they going to pay back the money their Politicians had borrowed in their name to buy votes. Greeks are screeching that their wages have halved (well, they would when the other half was borrowed and your credit card is cut up) and no sooner had they arrived at Parliament, than the Statist communists decided to encircle the place and attack anyone who was protesting. Only one dead - this time.

This is how it works. Do not vote for Politicians who borrow money in your name if you are not prepared to pay back that debt. Do not expect money unless you have earned it and it rightfully belongs to you. Do not go and protest unless you actually know why you are protesting and have an alternative plan that can be offered, tested, tested again and proved. Simply sitting on the steps of a Church and demanding that brain surgeons be paid the same as litter collectors and aeroplanes should be banned because they are made by corporations is not the way to win over your fellow citizens.Setting up recycling facilities and art groups are not the greatest priority when the system is about to collapse. The Occupy movement STILL have no coherent demands, no theory, no alternative - well, that doesn't involve yet more of the same idiocy we have just elected out of office and bankrupted the country anyway.

For the same reason I do not belong to a political party is in all truth the same reason that Occupy has failed. Everybody wanted to be leader and everybody had an agenda that trumped their neighbours. All sought to control the herd and replace the farmer - the irony that they squatted on the steps of a Church because they were "friendly" was not lost on me last weekend.

So where now? Simple. We sit back and study what those with genuine grievances, the Greeks get up to. I suspect a collapse in their government, followed by a default, followed by a military coup, followed by a return to sanity where they herd goats and farm melons instead of borrowing French money to buy BMWs. The natural state, if you like. Sure, it will shock many of the idealists who assume every single economy can be "leveraged to engage with equality" or some such shite but you cannot escape the consequences of avoiding reality.

I have no answer for the UK. I'd like to see a major UK bank go bust - as Northern Rock should have, I'd like to see us renegotiate our relationship with the EU along the same lines as the Swiss have managed and I'd like to see more than the equivalent of a one party State filled to the brim with Party apparatchiks and spin doctors selling our souls to the highest bidders but sitting on the steps outside a church with a set of maracas certainly isn't going to do it - and why should it?

No, I'll continue my own little individual protests whilst gently extracting myself from their clutches. No TV licence for me, no census, no voting in their pointless elections and financing their vanity projects, no yielding to their demands or salivating at their promises. Like a single grain of sand circulating through an expansive highly oiled machine, eventually my presence will either produce a pearl or a seizure in a cog. I can wait, unlike most, I have made my plans to live without state intervention or a pension from a Politician - much to their annoyance.

My final message to Occupy? Don't use the system you detest. Go off grid, stop demanding the corrupt state employ you and pay you benefits, arrange your own finances and exploit the loopholes it leaves open. Realise that Politicians only have power over your lives because you allow them to. Develop your own individual ways to avoid the system and pretty soon, you won't have to protest because the actions of banks and politicians will no longer be relevant to your life.

And then, like the Church, like the Monarchs, like every dictator or tyrant who insists you do it their way, they'll hate you because you simply don't need to. Then you win. Got it?

Cameron: We need a referendum on the EU

2011-10-21T10:26:00.000+01:00

Remember, this is the same person who takes half your money by force and promises you an old age pension in return.All three parties promised a referendum, a chance for your voice to be heard in our "democracy". All three have decided, on your behalf of course, that the referendum you have requested will not take place.Still think you're free?

Do as you want, or do as you are told

2011-10-20T11:06:00.004+01:00

If you are happy with our membership of theEU, do nothing

If you are not happy with:

Enforced rules dictating how you may earnyour living

Enforced rules dictating a foreign Policeforce may roam our streets

Enforced rules dictating what you may buyand from whom

Enforced rules dictating how much VAT youmust pay

Enforced rules dictating how much incometax you must pay

Enforced rules dictating who may travelthrough our borders

Enforced rules dictating how your personaldata is held and shared

Enforced rules dictating how our budgetmust be spent

Enforced rules dictating how you must liveyour life

Enforced rules dictating what you may own

Then you have a chance, just one, to holdour elected representatives to account.

Write to your MP and tell them that youwill not accept being dictated to by an unelected European elite who haveunlimited access to your property, your money, your sovereignty and your life.

Do it here.

Get out of that castle, Englishman, others need it

2011-10-19T11:15:00.000+01:00

It isn't a coincidence that I was awoken at dawn by the Pravda box informing me that State Riot Squads with tazers were evicting owners of property from their own land this morning. Whatever your views on the traveler community, they owned that land and improved it from a fetid scrap car dealers yard into a place they could raise children in safety. Still, their crime was to "develop" the land whilst not making anyone rich. "Prime green belt land" should be worth millions, not the £50K they paid appears to be the argument from the "victims" of this heinous crime, the property developers. "If they get away with it, anyone can get away with it - uphold the law! And our property portfolios"

Then, beautifully placed came the second Pravda article. People "hoarding" the houses they bought and paid for with their own money. The crime of owning a spare bedroom, therefore denying others the "right" to own a cheap property. Old people should be bribed with er..taxpayers money, to abandon their family homes and move into smaller, specially developed high density properties, presumably on green belt land and costing a fortune to free up their houses for those who need them most (and will pay stamp duty to the Govt to move into them).

We are rapidly approaching a state where ownership of anything is to be discouraged unless it can be reclaimed by a corporation (for updating) or the State to be re taxed. Just buying it with your own money isn't enough, you have to surrender it again so it can be revalued and resold, generating profit on profit and more taxes for the treasury. Trust me, if you can be "persuaded" out of your house because you have more room than you absolutely need, it won't be long before the State decides it cannot justify allowing you to own a four door car if you are not a family or a garden if you are housebound.

Please, leave us and our money alone. We earned it, you took as much of it as you possibly could without us actually burning down Parliament and hanging you from lamp posts, so stop telling us that we cannot have what we want and have paid for. When you get the Queen to live in a retirement studio by the A12 and turn her palaces into three bed housing association flats for "the vulnerable" who cannot get on the housing ladder/property bubble, come and see me. Not before.

EU debate 27th October

2011-10-18T15:38:00.002+01:00

Dear Brooks,

On October 27^th 2011, you willhave the opportunity to represent your constituents in a debate on the EU inour Parliament, the House of Commons, the one that represents the People (notbusiness, not the vested interests of your Party donors, not unions, but US,the people).

I am a European. My children are Europeansand like the Swiss and the Icelanders, I would like them to remain Europeans,without being dictated how to live their lives from the unelected Committees inBrussels.

I am not interested in how much bigbusiness would lose, or how difficult it would be to extract us from thespaghetti of legislation spun by you and your predecessors to ensure we cannotleave the web we were led into. I want out.

I am happy to trade with the EU, visit theEU, discuss with the EU and spend my holidays in the EU, but just like theSwiss, I see no need to embed myself in it and be dictated to by people I cannever vote for. So do us all a favour and vote for an exit, or I’ll move heavenand earth to make sure Priti Patel gets the Braintree seat when the boundaries arechanged.

Love and kisses

Old Holborn

Occupy LSX - Eye witness report

2011-10-17T14:43:00.002+01:00

After much jazzhands and posturing via steering committees, and much lentilbake consumed, the protesters at St Pauls Cathedral have finally issued theirdemands.

1 The current system is unsustainable. It is undemocraticand unjust. We need alternatives; this is where we work towards them.

2 We are of all ethnicities, backgrounds, genders,generations, sexualities, dis/abilities and faiths. We stand together withoccupations all over the world.

3 We refuse to pay for the banks' crisis.

4 We do not accept the cuts as either necessary or inevitable.We demand an end to global tax injustice and our democracy representingcorporations instead of the people.

5 We want regulators to be genuinely independent of theindustries they regulate.

6 We support the strikeon 30 November and the student action on 9 November, and actions to defend our health services, welfare,education and employment, and to stop wars and arms dealing.

7 We want structural change towards authentic globalequality. The world's resources must go towards caring for people and theplanet, not the military, corporate profits or the rich.

8 We stand in solidarity with the global oppressed and wecall for an end to the actions of our government and others in causing thisoppression.

9 This is what democracy looks like. Come and join us!

I visited yesterday to see what all the fuss was about. A couple of hundredof the usual suspects were there. When you are a political activist you get tosee quite a few of the same people at any protest from fox hunting to ban thebomb and sure enough, a rich seam of swivel eyed loons, frothing at the mouthand ranting about chem trails, 9/11 and fluoride in the water seemedto be the main agenda.

It became clear they had no agenda other than to simply be there in caseanything important happened. It didn’t. Eventually, the self appointed “leader”decided that everyone should huddle together and make up a list of “demands”. Seeabove.

No one is more disappointed than me. There seems to be a genuine movementbuilding to expose the connection between our corrupt politicians and ourcorrupt bankers and simply say STOP, something which always has had my fullsupport. However, much to my dismay, it wasn’t long before I uncovered theusual piles of Socialist Worker in the recycling bins along with “Stop the Cuts”and “Hands off our benefits” placards.

I sat down with a few and tried to ascertain why they were there. 50different people gave 50 different answers, all of them involved protectingpublic sector jobs, abolishing student fees and maintaining a massive welfarestate. Oh, and don’t give the banks any more money., And some unicorn tears tomake it all better. You can’t use logic to get people out of a mindset logicdidn’t get them into. Why are you at the Stock Exchange, I asked? We hatecorporations, they answered whilst tweeting on their iPads and sipping aStarbucks Latte – I was deafened by Irony Klaxons blasting in my ears. WallStreet companies were bailed out butthe London Stock Exchange has never borrowed money in my name, so why not go toParliament or the Banks, where the real cowards and thieves live? “Erm…thechurch here has been really nice to us”

Bottom line? These protesters want MORE taxes, an enlarged welfare state, abigger Government, State jobs and death to bankers – and a bath. Marx wouldhave been proud of them. I give them a fortnight at most. The Police havealready removed the portaloos and it can’t be long before Starbucks and PizzaExpress get fed up with toilets blocked by Lentil casserole and organic dysentery.As much as I hoped people had woken up from the stupor of a decade of Labour benefitaddiction, the OccupyLSX protest is nothing more than a cold turkey sweat ofthe terminal welfare junkies.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

PS, I'm sure you will all love my Blottr column today

Ship of Fools

2011-10-15T14:26:00.003+01:00

It seems no one has learned a damn thing. Four years after the beginning of the banking crisis and the subsequent carnage as Politicians poured in trillions of our money to prop up the ponzi schemes and protesters are once again heading down to the City to "occupy the Stock Exchange". They may as well be occupying Billingsgate fish market for all the difference it will make.

No one has EVER forced me to buy shares. Contrast if you will, the £100,000 of PUBLIC debt carried by EVERY family in the UK, thanks to Politicians and the Central Banks raiding our currency, yet no one has demanded to occupy Parliament or the Bank of England. Germans are protesting outside the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, thousands of them who know EXACTLY where the criminals are. Us? Sitting on the steps of St Pauls Catherdral and being kettled once again by the laughing Policeman.

Wise up fools. Go for the bankers and the Bond traders. Go for the Politicians who expect you to work harder and longer to pay for their narcisstic promises. Go for the REAL theives, the ones whose hands you are not allowed to remove from your own pockets, the ones who use the LAW to steal your money and place your children in debt. Let me know when you do, and I'll be there, on the front line, as usual. Ranting that people are richer than you is the politics of envy, nothing more and as history proves, just makes everyone pennyless.

Fox Fucks Off

2011-10-14T16:48:00.000+01:00

And about time too. I remember when the slightest hint of a whiff of lavender would have a minister resigning in an instant.

Let me make myself clear. I do not want ANYBODY who assumes authority over me to be open to blackmail. Hague did it, Fox did it. Taking young men away on "business trips" might be very liberal and trendy in our PC bubble we have created for ourselves, but most of the world doesn't live by our morals - and no one has to deal with them more than our Defence or Foreign Secretaries.

Clean up your act guys, it's a dangerous place out there. Now of course, the REAL challenge is going to be finding a replacement who isn't a millionaire, a closet poof, in the pay of lobbyists or defence companies and has a clean record that cannot be exploited by those who seek to exercise power over those who hold power over us. I'm not holding my breath.

Rejoice!! Glorious 5 year plan announced!!

2011-10-13T17:23:00.003+01:00

You have to love Ed Balls. "Something must be done!" he screeches "This is something. Do it"

Now call me cynical but I have yet to meet a UK Government who plan anything in the long term. All activities by the powers that be are designed with the sole aim of short term gain and re-election so they can keep their greasy hands on the levers of power and deep in the pockets of the tax victims (I refuse to call them taxpayers, it isn't optional, after all). Let's have a look at Ed's Glorious 5 Point Plan to return Britain to the boom, boom, boom of those wonderful Labour years under Gordon "the ruiner" Brown.

Repeating the bank bonus tax - and using "the money to build 25,000 affordable homes and guarantee a job for 100,000 young people" - that'll be the banks that will need recapitalising because they have..er..no money, right?
Bringing forward long-term investment projects, such as schools, roads and transport, to create jobs - No Ed. We are a trillion in debt because of your PFI specials and my kids certainly do not want any more piled on them
Reversing January's "damaging" VAT rise now for a temporary period - why temporary Ed? If you want people to consume, reduce the consumption tax permanently.
Immediate one-year cut in VAT to 5% on home improvements, repairs and maintenance - ah, and create a housing bubble as Dawn and Keith rush out to buy a Jacuzzi to add a few quid to the value of their two up, two down in Droitwich? Boom and bust, remember?
One-year national insurance tax break "for every small firm which takes on extra workers, using the money left over from the government's failed national insurance rebate for new businesses" - "money left over" ? Ed, there isn't any money, you gave it all to the banks, remember?

There is a global adjustment under way, Ed. A monumental fight between the banks, Corporations and Politicians and us, the ever suffering public who serve them. We, as a planet, have run out of money we never had in the first place (yet strangely will have to repay). We cannot afford what we cannot afford, as Greece is slowly finding out. Promises from Politicians are as worthless as the bonds they sell to finance it. The game is up. Poor? Cancel your fucking SkyPlus box and stop ordering Dominoes pizzas from your iPhone then. Try and make do with last seasons nylon football shirt, no matter what the shame. Jobless? Go and join the Poles in the factories and the fields actually earning a living until things look up again.

Pay off your debts and start living within your means, just as 2/3rds of the planet has to.Ask the older generation how they managed without a iPhone or a television in every room because no matter what our elected Emperors may tell you, we are not clothed in fine silks supplied by them, we are skint. Proper skint, naked and utterly exposed to the cold wind of reality.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses,
And all the king's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

“You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand

For better, for worse.....

2011-10-10T19:56:00.003+01:00

I had the misfortune to hear Vera Baird on Radio 4 earlier, demanding that forced marriages should be left as they are, as to prosecute the perpetrators would only "alienate the victim from their immediate family."

After a short lie down, and a trip to the garden to retrieve the radio, I composed myself.

I understand that humans in groups develop their own cultures. We have no inner core value so invent them to suit our surroundings and ensure the survival of the fittest. If it doesn't succeed, the group die out. Yes, it's that old monster, evolution.

Some cultures have decided that the best way to ensure wealth, power and property are transferred correctly is to arrange marriages - actually a smart idea, if both partners consent. Then some cultures have decided to really keep it in the family and forcibly marry you to your own cousin, presumably to reduce the amount of presents at Christmas. One set of Grandparents keeps the bills down.

Alas, nature has a way of dealing with this. Genetic defects soon put a stop to that little game. Ask the Ashkenazi tribes of Israel of the Pakistani tribes of Bradford how well that is going. It isn't. We weren't designed for forced marriage (read procreation) to close relatives. Studies show that the "natural state" is that a man and a woman part after seven years of child raising to increase the genetic chances of successful offspring. don't put all your eggs in one basket as they say. Probably a lot of sense in that argument. Not many species marry for life.

Back to Vera. Vera is not dumb, she once held high office in this land. Vera attained high office by pandering to every culture she encountered in the hope that it would increase her share of the vote. Vera knows that women are enslaved by marriages they never agreed to, yet Vera will not and cannot upset the multi cultural apple cart for fear of losing influence - I would have love to have seen her offering dinner to cannibals in exchange for votes, but I digress.

Vera. If prosecuting the immediate family of those who abuse a girl is "cruel" and "unnecessary", because it would alienate her from her "loving family", why did we not hear you decrying the rights of victims of Paedophilia to challenge their tormentors for the same reason? Not enough votes in it?

Of course a Fabian like Vera will always take the side of those who tell, not ask. Never, ever, trust a Politician. Ever. Bastards.

November 5th Walk, Westminster

2011-10-08T15:10:00.003+01:00

It would be a shame to let a November 5th pass without protest at that most sacred of institutions, the Royal Palace of Westminster, so I have decided that this years protest WILL take place.

For those who are unaccustomed to my November 5th walks, it involves large amounts of beer, Guy Fawkes costumes, a great deal of humour and a willingness to poke the great and the good on their own turf. no one usually gets arrested, although we all usually get stopped and searched, giving us all the perfect opportunity to show that we know our rights and tell those who would usurp them where to get off - "no officer, you may not detain me".

Past walks have been a great chance for likeminded Libertarian or anarchist individuals to meet up and of course, as this time it falls on a Saturday, you'll have no excuse to confuse tourists, test your law skills, upset the ground staff at Hogwarts, get in the paper and on the tellybox and show that you care a little for the abuse of our rights and freedoms by the 650 idiots who pretend to act in our name and with our mandate.

So it's time to dig out the V for Vendetta masks (or a Burqa - try removing that, Constable) and meet up with me to discuss how we continue to be the thorn in side of those who would be our masters, using money taken by force from us, the people.

Meet Saturday November 5th, 11am, Chandos Pub (cheap ale), Trafalgar Square, London.

Our Jobs, who art in Heaven

2011-10-06T08:12:00.000+01:00

Apple Store in San Francisco, right now

Our Brave New World

The New God has risen unto Heaven, avail yourselves of more Soma and pity the savages with iPhone3s

Hours after the sad but not unpredicted demise of a senior industrialist, points of sale of his products have been inundated by faux worshippers to the religion of consumerism, bereft that their ability to display their wealth and status may be drastically afffected by the absense of the man who made the lives of little people a bit more interesting by giving them shiny things.

Excuse my cynicism. I am an anti consumer. Whilst I can recognise that Steve Jobs was extremely creative, and a cut throat businessman determined to succeed, he was and will remain in my eyes a human being, not the new Messiah. I have never owned an Apple product because I believe money is too precious to squander by displaying to others how much of it you have. And that was the marketing ploy of Steve Jobs. Design something that works, then create an image of something unattainable to the masses, treble the price and watch the demand soar. Mass produced designer goods created to make sheep look a bit less like sheep whilst acting more like sheep. Display your individuality by buying what no one else around you can afford (yet ship millions). Offer special versions in white plastic and watch the faithful queue through the night to be yet more unique and attain a higher order in the Holy Church of Apple.

I find no comfort in humanity from watching wannabee Alphas fall on their knees at the departing of "our Jobs", devasted that their desire to be admired for owning a "product" may be coming to an end. How will they attain their superior intelectual status and affirm their now that "the creator" has i-shuffled off this mortal coil? Is our society so shallow and baseless that we can only be happy if we own what others cannot?

Steve Jobs will not be mourned by the majority of humanity. He created extremely expensive consumer products, designed to be built, shown off and discarded by the fools whose money could not wait to part from them. Out there, families are cutting back yet would never dream of owning an outdated model of any of his products, lest they be judged to have failed. No private number plate on the four year old car to disguise its age, Apple would never allow that. No, you buy new, you upgrade, you stay with the Alpha elite or you become a Beta, destined to merely work and consume, rather work, consume and be admired.

So long Steve,

Signed

John the Savage

The State Bank of Debt

2011-10-05T09:47:00.002+01:00

The Collective debt, not just of ourprofligate politicians, keen to please all of the people all of the time usingour own money, but of our private households is truly astounding. Long gone arethe days of careful spending, budgeting, saving, putting something aside for arainy day, we are all maxed out on credit cards, personal loans and mortgages.

Just today, the Belgians and the Frenchhave been called upon to support Dexia Bank after it was revealed that thosewise chaps had bought up huge chunks of Greek debt that will never be repaid bythe Greeks, so it’s down to the taxpayer once again to support a bank thatbecame too big to fail. Cameron advises that the UK starts to pay off private creditcard debt (in other words, save the banks) whilst grabbing as much taxation aspossible to pay off the debt racked up by the previous Government. All in all,your money is either going straight to the banks or via Government to the banks.

Meanwhile the European Central Bank isissuing worthless bonds it is not allowed to issue, whilst dictating to electedpoliticians how they must set their budgets and pensions. Voters in SouthernEurope now have no say over how their country is run, a diktat is issued fromunelected bankers and EU Officials in Brussels.The ballot box is now redundant, the banks grow bigger and more powerful andthe theft of your money and labour by States and banks continues unabated.

Of course, I take a great interest inthings Bulgarian at the moment, as I have decided to base myself there.Yesterday, their Parliament suggested that any Govt that has a deficit greaterthan 3% should be declared illegal (UK is currently around 10.7%, Greece has 10.5%). The prime minister politely reminded otherEU states that if they paid out the same rate of pensions as Bulgariansreceive, they wouldn’t be in the mess they are wallowing in. Of course, withincome tax and corporation tax fixed flat at 10%, the Bulgarian state knows it haslittle money to play and has no desire to enslave its citizens yet again. Norunning to the Central Bank in Sofiaand printing off a few billion Lev to fund a shiny motorway, Bulgarians deal ingood hard cash, hoarded under the mattress for decades.

Remember, debt IS slavery. Money is the crystallizationof labour and if you create money before the work is done, you are a slave tothat money. It owns you and your future labour. The past 50 years have seen oneof the biggest scams ever perpetuated by banks and politicians- have it now,your kids can pay, they’ll earn more than you ever did anyway and will be ableto afford what you cannot. Suddenly kids have realised that a degree in Aromatherapyand the Medium of Dance is not worth £9000 a year (now they have to pay for it,not me) and they are pretty soon going to twig that all this State debt isgoing to have to be paid off by them because we don’t have any money. Whateverwe have is already being fleeced off us by the State every time we spend orearn (up to 73% tax for some low earners SOURCE).

The solution? Let the banks that acquiredthe profligate debt caused by Politicians fail. To the wall with them, begonefoul moneylenders. The cosy relationship between banks and the access totaxpayers money must stop. Until it does, the very real risk of a bank becominga functioning State, able to dictate policy over citizens, able to extracttaxes instead of charges and able to control the entire money supply is simplytoo great to tolerate.

Don’t say you weren’t warned.

The Pit of Despair

2011-10-03T14:45:00.000+01:00

Ian Duncan Smith has landed the blame forthe UK riots where it needs to be landed. The destruction of families and the welfareState.

Our youth have no need to work. The benefitspaid by an army of State “facilitators” will be enough for them to get by on,and those pricey designer phones or trainers can always be funded by nefarious drugdealing. No parent there to stand in the way of our up and coming gangsta andremind him of his responsibility as a citizen, the State assumed that roledecades ago.

Well done Tyson. This certificate isbecause you almost attended some lessons last year, this gold certificate withstars is because you showed such promise as a footballer and this shinymedallion is for being the most caring 16 year old father in the class. Now offyou go into the big wide world and show them all what our fantastic educationsystem has created.

An opportunist thief, with no hope ofindependent income or aspiration other than to own designer shoes and a hatthat may make your peers respect you. The voice that demanded “your rights”from your hairy lipped Fabian teachers while you sucked your teeth at them forasking you to sit still in class now demands “your rights” from society ingeneral as you demand money from the Job Centre to top up your iPhone, innit. Respect,braaaap.

We really have allowed a truly horribleexperiment on humans to take place under our very noses. As much as the vilepsychological experiments with the emotions of new born apes shocked us during the 60’s, we allowed politicians to do exactly the same with our children.

“These experiments involved rearing newbornmonkeys with surrogate mothers, ranging from toweling covered cones to amachine that modeled abusive mothers by assaulting the baby monkeys with coldair or spikes”

So now we have swathes of inner cities fullof bitter, uncaring, violent youth, denied the chance of a loving family by apolitical system that replaced the parent with a benefit cheque, the home witha “council flat” and affection with material unearned “rewards”. No future forthem, just a lifetime of misery, created by a step parent who has long lostinterest in what it adopted and created.

No wonder it’s so fucking dangerous outthere after dark.

All over by Christmas?

2011-09-29T16:34:00.001+01:00

Germans rounding up the Greeks again

It won’t stop.

Unelected Marxist EU head Barosso, afterdecades of acquiring power only to watch his visions fail has finally decidedthat if he cannot get his hands on the money to allow Greeks to drive BMWs likethe Germans, he will take it from those who have it via “Robin Hood” tax on bank transactions. Inother words, you and I.

He assumes, as all Marxists do, that all moneyis evil unless it is in their hands. He assumes that banks generate theirprofits from thin air (central banks under socialist control actually do, I’llgive him that) and that any cost will not passed straight on to us, thecustomers.

On the day when German politicians votedfor more of the same failure, despite the wishes of their electorate to call ita day and stop the sheer idiocy of throwing their hard earned money at the profligate backers of melon farmers, the EU decided that what they neededinstead of a bucket full of holes was a LARGER bucket full of holes, bailingmadly whilst the Titanic gently slips beneath the waves. Taxes, more taxes,more taxes, yes, that will save us all.

It can’t go on much longer because theresimply isn’t the will to keep bailing. Sure, Politicians love it, bankers loveit and 24 hour media loves it, but eventually it will dawn on the millions ofpeople who actually DO work for a living that 73 per cent income tax is nothingmore than State slavery, no matter how much it is dressed up with tax creditsand child benefit refunds.

The great German Political dream todominate Europe could once again bankrupttheir nation because although wars are expensive, endlessly printing moneyinstead of simply invading with an army never ends well. Especially when theGermans do it.

Message from the past.

2011-09-27T06:41:00.000+01:00

Interlude

2011-09-25T17:48:00.000+01:00

I do apologise for lack of blogging. You've all heard me bark on about getting out of the UK and I'm currently abroad researching a suitable hermitage.

I demand:

Low/minimal taxation
Minimal State interference
Free markets
Low criminality
Solid values of community
Minimal consumerism
Nice weather
Good Internet
Low living costs
Great views
Land to own that suits my need for self reliance

No welfare State.

Nearly there.....

Lord Haw Haw of Cable

2011-09-19T14:47:00.002+01:00

St Vince of Cable has raised his ugly headat the LibDem group therapy hug and stated that “the UK is at economic equivalent of war”

Conference hyperbole? Possibly, but onething is for sure, I can certainly hear the distant rumble of trouble. REALtrouble. German banks are going to have to be “recapitalised” at a cost to theGerman taxpayer of €167 billion, so that they can hand money to the Greek bankswho in turn can repay the French banks for the projects they financed to makethe European Union the bundle of democratically elected fun it is today. VanRompuy states it would be “mind boggling” if the Eurozone were break up into atwo tier system and word is afoot that the Chinese housing bubble is about toburst.

In other words, our exalted leaders arestruggling in the quicksand they created. More so, they are pleading to standon our shoulders. Having plundered our money, they are hiring 2,000 new tax inspectors tohunt out the last few remaining morsels of other peoples money and still, theyrefuse to stare into the abyss that faces us.

A collapsing system, built of straw on asand foundation is not going to stand up to the battering it is about toreceive. The obedient Germans are not going to take much more of bailing outGreek Banks on behalf of the French Banks. Already Merkel has been told in nouncertain terms by the voters of Berlinthat it stinks and more is to come.

But to return to Vince’s quote, he may wellbe right. Our money, our earnings, our labour has been subjected to a brutalassault at the hands of Politicians. Propaganda floods the airwaves telling usto “pay our fair share” of a cake I didn’t order and have no appetite for, andin the background, the Generals of the banks belly laugh at us. No strugglingin the swamp (or a single jail sentence) for them, just a vague threat that innine years, if they haven’t won the war and created what the Politicianspromised us all they would create, they will be forced to sit on the naughtystep for a bit.

Personally speaking, I am prepared foreconomic war. I have kept my powder dry and learned my craft. I am no mindlessdrone slaving away to own an iPad in the hope it will bring me happiness. When thebanks come calling, via Vince Cable of course, for more of my money (to fightthe good fight – onwards comrades), they will be met by my own littleresistance. War is a choice and there is no way I intend to fund the realenemy, the ones who opened fire on us, contrived to enslave us whilst Lord HawHaw of Cable bleated how we must work longer, harder and faster otherwise the “state”will face great problems.

Bring it on Vince. I’ll see you on thebeaches – mind the quicksand, quantitive easing has diluted it to perfection.

A Gazan Summer?

2011-09-15T10:00:00.001+01:00

Rumblings from Gaza are getting louder. Whilst Cameron andSarkhozy fly into BPistan to inspect their new acquired oil wells andcongratulate themselves on deposing an oil owning dictator without having toput boots on the ground (finally) and conquering a country with no deficit(drinks all round!), the Palestinians are quietly going to the UN to ask for acountry to call their own.

The right are kicking off. Hamas willslaughter everyone (whilst the Glorious rebels in Libya,Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen,Bahrain, Saudi and Syria will not) and USS Israel will be holedbelow the water line if it allows Palestinians to own a bit of Palestine. Threats are issued that Israel willtake by force what it cannot take er…by force if the UN dares to give a man a pieceof land he can call home. A piece of land he used to call home, a long, longtime ago.

How often have I rolled my eyes andmuttered “if only they had oil”, except of course, the Gazans DO have gas. Lotsof it. One of the main reasons Israelsimply refuses to let them own the rights to it and imprisons them until theyelect a government that will allow the Israelis to claim the resources in thename of Israel, not Gaza.

Following the Arab Spring, Israel issuddenly finding that decades of back room deals with dictators are no longeron the table. Turkeyhas decided that if anyone is going to fill the power vacuum, they will. In myopinion, a secular Middle Eastern State doing so is the least worst outcome ofwhat could have been a very ugly scene. Compromises will have to be made allround if Israelis to survive. Israelis may have bought the peace with US moneybefore, but the Arabs are no longer buying. They want nothing to do with thebillions of “aid” paid to keep the Palestinians prisoners and the likes ofEgypts Mubarek in diamond encrusted Learjets.

So Israel is going to have find a wayto accommodate neighbours, just as the Palestinians will have to learn thatowning a State comes with responsibilities to uphold the law and protect yourborders.

I wish them well. The stalemate of the Middle East has lasted too long, it served no one inreality bar a few religious extremists and generations on both sides wereblighted by poverty, oppression, terror.

Israelcan safely give them their state, build the walls as high as they like, dustoff their hands and tell their settlers that what they have, stays. The Palestinianscan get back to goat herding and the world can breathe a sigh of relief.

Long live the Arab summer.

Top 3 for Leg Iron

2011-09-12T10:18:00.001+01:00

Well deserved.

Tighten your belts says Gideon

2011-09-12T10:00:00.000+01:00

Oh noes, living standards are set to drop10% as the State attempts to make up for falling tax revenues by squeezing useven harder to maintain the flow of funds into the ever emptying coffers. Panicensues on the left, as we head back towards Victorian England where allchildren died up chimneys before they reached the age of 6 and 12 Landownersenslaved the entire nation in textile mills.

So where will you make the cuts? 3^rdholiday to Disneyland off the cards? Paintyour own nails? Learn how to cook a curry yourself? Let the season ticket towatch 11 footballers run about for 90 minutes lapse?

I can imagine the scenes now. Schoolchildren walking to school, fruit and veg stalls being set up in towns tosupply the ever growing demand for people who can no longer afford to buy readymeals from Waitrose. Second cars flooding the market with people no longercommuting from Newcastle to London everyday to shuffle paper around adesk.

Austerity is a GOOD thing. It preserves wealth. Greed andconsumerism is a BAD thing, especially when it is financed with credit. We havebecome addicted to what we feel we are entitled to, instead of what we haveactually earned. It’s not just the state benefit addicted sofa surfers who willbe outraged when requested to actually contribute or lose their beer vouchers,but the “hard pressed Mums” who will no longer be able to sip skinny latteswhilst someone else looks after their children. I'm expecting riots when a Starbucks in Swindon goes bust.

We are where we are because Politiciansbelieved the banks who offered limitless growth using money they invented. What better device to bribethe electorate with than their own money, not yet earned? The very samePoliticians now attacking the banks for lending them all this free money thathas yet to exist, yet refusing to destroy what the endless money allowed themto build. The behemoth they control. The ever growing bloated tumour of “Government”

If the very least we can expect is a 10%drop in living standards for the utter chaos reeked (sic) by 13 years of Socialism,we will have got off very lightly indeed.

We’re all in this together, remember. Me? I’lllook after my own pension, my own health and my own wealth thanks. There willbe no drop in my living standards, I already live within my means and I’mdamned if I’m paying off the profligate spending ambitions of corruptPoliticians.

Old Holborn joins #Blottr

2011-09-08T16:22:00.001+01:00

I’m not a professional blogger orjournalist and I don’t carry advertising because I believe the industry of “news”and “comment” is changing dramatically.

We know we can’t trust the media,politicians or lobbyists yet we trust our own eyes and ears to disseminate thevast quantity of information made available to us via the Internet. Everyday,stories and scandals break on Twitter long before media spin doctors and alliedEditors can manipulate the news to their own ends. The mainstream media and inparticular, the dead tree press can no longer count on a readership drip fed morselsto please their appetites. They are demanding more. Not just news, but a voicein how that news is broadcast.

We’ve set up blogs, we leave angry andcritical comments wherever we can, we analyse in real time, we research our ownfacts and reach our own conclusions.

So I am delighted to have been offered a twice weekly column on Britain’snewest “Citizen Journalist” platform, Blottr. I will take my vitriol andPolitical disdain to a wider audience and in return, hopefully hold yet more ofour Politicians to account. You too have the option to add your own articlesfor publication, break important news and reviews spread your voice to themasses.

So what are you waiting for?

Choose Life

2011-09-07T09:04:00.000+01:00

And they squeal again. A quarter of parentsare falling into debt because of the high price of childcare - children theypresumably wanted and planned for.

Ever since the State decided that it wouldreward parents for producing future economic units to tax, the decline of thefamily has been carefully planned. An army of “experts” have been trained to supersedethe family unit. Nursery workers, teaching assistants, social workers,diversity coordinators. All on the State payroll and ready to whisk yournewborn off and into the arms of others whilst you concentrate on working 60hours a week to pay for it all.

It has brought chaos to society.

Where once a family was a strong bond thatstayed together, taught and nurtured, protected and cared, the chosen model isnow either the single parent on benefits, sucking greedily at the teat of theState, or the overworked two parent model, desperate to climb the greasy poleof materialism, out do the neighbours on the Barretts estate who throw their 6 week old infantsearest nursery at 7am so they can power breakfast withcolleagues to hit this quarters sales targets (and the reward? A trip with thekids to Disneyland, Paris)

House prices have ballooned as mothersabandoned the home to pursue careers to acquire “more stuff”. What oncerequired a working father to finance, now requires both parents to finance andthe State happily makes up the difference with tax credits and child allowance,safe in the knowledge that votes can be bought by bribing us with our ownmoney. The gym subscription, the twice yearly holidays, the pampered Chefparties, the private number plate on the BMW, all so much more worthy ofadmiration than a couple of loving, well adjusted kids, with good manners andan understanding that the family is where the home is.

Our children are farmed out to strangers sowe can work harder and pay more taxes. Our parents are farmed out to care homesso our daily routines are not disturbed and the army of State workers haveemployment doing what used to be the responsibility of the family.

If you open the window and listen veryhard, you can actually hear the State laughing at us – like the useless parentit is.

Children are the only thing you will leaveon this earth, your most treasured creation on your short visit to this life.Enjoy them; leave the BMW, the Golf course, the Gym, the Next catalogue. Youwon’t lie on your death bed worrying about missed sales targets or promotions,it won’t be your work colleagues mopping your brow, it’ll be the people youbrought into this world. If you have taught them that iPads and manicured lawnsare more important than devotion and love, fitted bedroom suites are moreimportant than manners and that you didn’t have time to care for them becausethe State enabled you to be selfish, expect a bitter harvest and the cheapestheadstone. You’ll have earned it.

You got it, I want it.

2011-09-06T09:33:00.000+01:00

Ken Clark rants about a feral underclass and Ian Duncan Smith says “reoffending rates are ludicrous” shocker.

Last night, I watched the Radio 4 debate on the Birmingham riots. An invited “panel of experts” along with an “invited audience” chewed the collective cud whilst ticking off all the usual “diversity boxes”. Lessens must be learned, poverty is to blame, people are not respected, cultures are clashing.

I gave up in the end. It was fairly obvious that no one was going to engage a little common sense. All were too frightened of standing on someone else’s eggshells, laid out more meticulously than any iron curtain minefield.The Statisticians are busy analysing the figures. Most looters were aged over 29, only 50% were black, etc etc etc, whilst swathes of the audience, invited because of their vested interests lobbied for more funding, fewer cuts, a greater slice of the pie.Not one questioned why an unemployed black kid/white kid smashed a window to grab a 52” TV. Sure, the opportunity was there. An entire block of youth permanently glued to their blackberries didn’t have to wait long to work out the best places to hit. Texts and tweets flew as the mice evaded the Police cats.Again, WHY did they feel they could just smash open a shop and loot the contents? After an earthquake, a Tsunami AND a nuclear meltdown, not one single Japanese looted. They collected discarded family photos and pets and tried to reunite them with their owners. Quite simply, the reason shops were looted was down to two causes.

Opportunity. A black man had once again been shot by the Police, so the black community were “expected” to smash up and loot. Precedents had been set and the Police could not intervene to protect businesses, property or innocent people caught up in the mob. To do so would be “victimisation” of “an oppressed minority”, regardless of the terror they were inflicting on their fellow citizens.
Entitlement – the same entitlement that was taught from birth by sociologists. Entitlement to “respect” regardless of behaviour. Entitlement to “certificates” though not one scrap of achievement endured. Entitlement to benefits, housing, free money, free welfare, cultural status, a loud voice. I’m “entitled” to take what isn’t mine because that is what I have been programmed to do my entire life.

They are a feral underclass because our Political masters MADE them an underclass whilst telling them they were equal to hard working, honest, law abiding, ambitious citizens. They were entitled to all the trappings of success because no one had the courage to tell them they were not successful, they had failed.Their re offending rates are high because it the behaviour they have been taught. In the rush to not to offend, to award respect where none is due, to indulge in the name of diversity, we forget to tell people what is right and what is wrong. In case they didn’t like what they heard.

You will not remove this underclass by prison sentences or “rehabilitation” or yet more “diversity”. You will only remove them by removing their entitlements. Refuse to work? Face the consequences – no money, no support. Refuse to study? Face the consequences. The only work you will ever find is manual, minimum wage. No Disneyland for you, no Nike trainers, no iPhone. People who work hard can have them but you have not earned the entitlement to what they have until you have made the effort they have made.They have to be shown the cold, hard facts that all of our ancestors knew. You get out of society what you put in, no more, no less.

The sooner we start, the better, because once this generation have run out of shops to loot, they will come for YOUR stuff because they genuinely believe, as they were taught by endless armies of bearded sandal wearing Lesbians, that they’re entitled to it.

Boiling frogs in Evian water

2011-09-05T08:42:00.002+01:00

My weekend reading was a book by a Bulgarian who aged 17, fled her homeland and the totalitarian regime, finally ending up in New Zealand only to return 18 years later and try and make sense of the new country, as opposed to the brutal socialism she was raised under.

Whilst we rage and rant about liberty, this woman experienced it all. The lack of identity, the starvation, the brutal repression of the IngSoc hammer crashing on her skull every waking moment. We may refer to 1984 as mere literature, this woman lived it, as millions did. Totalitarianism of the extreme. The only freedom being the one to worship the party whilst it enslaved all in its path. All her choices were made for her by who she knew and how connected she was to the elites. This was accepted because no one knew or cared for anything different. Just to survive was a triumph to be celebrated. This was a mere 21 years ago.

She arrived back in modern Bulgaria hoping to heal the wounds that Totalitarianism has inflicted upon her. Deeply scarred, without identity or purpose, it makes fascinating reading.

And I awake this morning and count my blessings that I do not live under the yoke of the elite. My destiny is not planned by a central committee; I am not expected to toil to achieve the glorious 5 year plan of politicians in record time. I am not a production unit, to be controlled, measured, exploited and silenced by a ruling elite. My life is not dictated by “permissions”, my thoughts are not controlled and manipulated to serve “the greater good”.

Except of course, it is.

Just as the hammer and sickle was used to flatten and enslave, our version is taxation, media manipulation and “credit”.

Behave yourself and tow the Party line or your credit rating will ensure you live in grey decaying social housing, on the piss stained 18th floor of Nelson Mandela House, Democracy Street.

You will read newspapers and watch television owned by the elites who appoint politicians as the god fathers of their children or are appointed by Politicians to broadcast their lies

You will live where the State tells you to live through strict planning laws designed to maintain the value of Dachas owned by the elite

You will obey the glorious 5 year plan to transfer your money to the banking elites or the unelected in Brussels for their “plans”. Object, by withdrawing your compliance to pay tax demands and you will be imprisoned just as quickly as any Soviet dissident was for refusing to pick his quota of turnips from the field.

Mindless, endless rules, designed to protect us from ourselves, whilst our Politicians bribe and corrupt, our Police bribe and corrupt, our media bribe and corrupt.

Our children are forced to achieve worthless State certificates of “excellence” whilst being nothing of the sort. Our Police are handed draconian powers to control us, lest we become disruptive and unproductive. At every turn, we are “persuaded” to conform, to obey, to consume – sure, the methods may not be as clumsy and brutal as a Soviet regime, but the power still remains, as ever, with an elite Politburo with no care or interest in the individual.

Hyperbole? Possibly. Of course, you can always test it by selling a 100w light bulb to people who wish to buy a 100w light bulb.

As Goethe said, “there are none so truly enslaved as those who believe they are free”

The book by the way? The Street Without a Name

Lifting Potatoes

2011-09-02T10:32:00.002+01:00

The absurdities of “population”

I was listening to an article this morning on the touchy subject of “population control”. In essence, a local Mayor in Serbia has been hosting “romantic evenings” in his town in a desperate attempt to increase the population. Serbians are leaving en masse and he fears his “herd” will vanish, leaving him as the most important person in an unimportant town.

The interviewer spoke to the local young people to find out why none are raising families

“No job. How can I afford to raise a family?” was the standard answer.

Of course. The simple arithmetic dictates that an unemployed person will not be able to support a family, so Serbs are leaving, finding work, sending money home. And sure enough, when they return, pockets bulging with cash from picking English potatoes, they will buy houses and settle down, as all migrant labour usually does. Turkey is awash with money earned by hard work in Germany. The mayor of the Serbian Town may not like it, but he will have to adjust to a population that find their own solutions to lifes problems. No amount of coaxing by a Politician is going to help.

Compare and contrast, if you will with the UK. No Mayor in the UK is desperately trying to bring couples together. Our society is blighted by single parents and unemployment. State sponsored bastards, spawning another generation of unemployables, soaked in the drip, drip of welfare benefits. Tax credits, housing benefit, council benefit, unemployment benefit, endless top ups to ensure that no matter what decisions they make, no matter how bad their choices may be, the responsibility lies firmly with the State – and the taxpayer. 1.8 million UK children now live in a household (I was tempted to write “family” but don’t want a knock on the door at 3am) where no one works. FOUR MILLION households where no one works. Just breeds. And claims “entitlement” and "benefits". Quite remarkable, quite unsustainable and utterly ridiculous.

Meanwhile, our Politicians will spout further nonsense about “lifting people out of poverty” whilst the fields of Lincolnshire are full of Serbians. Lifting potatoes.

Even as a plantation owner, the State is so utterly useless that we need to import genuinely free labour from abroad to bring in the harvest. Whilst our “workers” sit on the sofa, breeding yet more sofa surfers, all sponsored by the taxpayer – including Serbs with aching backs and ambition.

Untouchable Corruption

2011-08-31T15:22:00.003+01:00

I give you the "European Stability Mechanism", now adjusted so that no referendums will be required

TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN STABILITY MECHANISM (ESM)

ARTICLE 27

Legal status, privileges and immunities

3. The ESM, its property, funding and assets, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy immunity from every form of judicial process except to the extent that the ESM expressly waives its immunity for the purpose of any proceedings or by the terms of any contract, including the documentation of the funding instruments.

4. The property, funding and assets of the ESM shall, wherever located and by whomsoever held, be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation or any other form of seizure, taking or foreclosure by executive, judicial, administrative or legislative action.

5. The archives of the ESM and all documents belonging to the ESM or held by it, shall be inviolable.

6. The premises of the ESM shall be inviolable.

7. The official communications of the ESM shall be accorded by each ESM Member and by each state which has recognised the legal status and the privileges and immunities of the ESM, the same treatment as it accords to the official communications of an ESM Member.

8. To the extent necessary to carry out the activities provided for in this Treaty, all property, funding and assets of the ESM shall be free from restrictions, regulations, controls and moratoria of any nature.

9. The ESM shall be exempted from any requirement to be authorised or licensed as a credit institution, investment services provider or other authorised licensed or regulated entity under the laws of each ESM Member

ARTICLE 28
Staff of the ESM

The Board of Directors shall lay down the conditions of employment of the Managing Director and other staff of the ESM.

ARTICLE 29
Professional secrecy

The Members or former Members of the Board of Governors and of the Board of Directors and any other persons who work or have worked for or in connection with the ESM shall not disclose information that is subject to professional secrecy. They shall be required, even after their duties have ceased, not to disclose information of the kind covered by the obligation of
professional secrecy.

ARTICLE 30
Immunities of persons

1. In the interest of the ESM, the Chairperson of the Board of Governors, Governors, alternate Governors, Directors, alternate Directors, as well as the Managing Director and other staff members shall be immune from legal proceedings with respect to acts performed by them in their official capacity and shall enjoy inviolability in respect of their official papers and documents.

ARTICLE 31
Exemption from taxation

1. Within the scope of its official activities, the ESM, its assets, income, property and its operations and transactions authorised by this Treaty shall be exempt from all direct taxes

2. The ESM Members shall, wherever possible, take the appropriate measures to remit or refund the amount of indirect taxes or sales taxes included in the price of movable or immovable property where the ESM makes, for its official use, substantial purchases, the price of which includes taxes of this kind.

3. No exemption shall be granted in respect of taxes and dues which amount merely to charges for public utility services.

4. Goods imported by the ESM and necessary for the exercise of its official activities shall be exempt from all import duties and taxes and from all import prohibitions and restrictions.

5. Staff of the ESM shall be subject to an internal tax for the benefit of the ESM on salaries and emoluments paid by the ESM, subject to rules to be adopted by the Board of Governors. From the date on which this tax is applied, such salaries and emoluments shall be exempt from national income tax.

6. No taxation of any kind shall be levied on any obligation or security issued by the ESM including any interest or dividend thereon by whomsoever held:

(a) which discriminates against such obligation or security solely because of its origin; or
(b) if the sole jurisdictional basis for such taxation is the place or currency in which it is issued, made payable or paid, or the location of any office or place of business maintained by the ESM.

In a word? Untouchable.

hat tip Muffled Vocifieration

Your castle

2011-08-30T19:18:00.004+01:00

There is much gnashing of teeth over reports that home ownership has fallen to mid eighties levels and our "Yute" will never own a property of their own and will have to rent (or be subsidised by those who own properties, more like) in their desperate struggle to climb the greasy pole.

Let me be blunt. Home ownership is not a right, it is a privilege, born of hard work, self discipline and responsibility.

I know of only three reasons why anyone would purchase a property.

1. To speculate, hoping the price of the mortgage each month will eventually be outstripped by capital gains and on sale, a tidy profit will be made

2. To rent to others, hoping the price of the mortgage each month will eventually be outstripped by rental income, and a tidy profit will be made

3. To own the house you live in outright, thus reducing your monthly outgoings and allowing you to enjoy the fruits of your labour or work less/retire.

In all honesty, I have used all three reasons to build my tiny little property empire. It now provides income, allowing freedom and choice. Property is GOOD, for any of the reasons above because it gives options.

Grant Shapps is currently promoting ways that more can own property, all of them useless of course, because he does not understand WHY people buy property, just that they should. Those who bought their council houses at knock down values in the eighties didn't plant rose bushes and tend their gardens. They sold the bastards at market rates and bought cheap villas in Spain with the profits. He recommends living on a houseboat (expect stamp duty on marinas anytime soon)

Mortgages have never been cheaper, the average UK wage is £25K and the average house price is £168,000. Meaning a couple on average wage can buy a less than average starter home. They can borrow 2.5 times earnings and they are on the ladder. Where's the problem?

Ah yes. They can't afford to live where they want to live. Hoxton. Islington. Camden Lock. Well, to be frank, neither can I. So I don't. No penthouse in Mayfair for me.

In honesty, the British model of buying a property aged 21 and retiring at 65 with a mansion is a good one. It promotes hard work, focus, responsibility (hence most kids can't get a property) but it is also extremely lucrative for the State. Endless stamp duties, soon to be announced land taxes, insurance taxes, income tax, capital gains taxes and inheritance taxes, plus reduced pensions and care home fees make home ownership the goal of any large state (unless you intend to enslave your voters, then build council homes). Most Europeans don't own a house until their parents are dead. They never expect to move.

So how do we help people own property, whilst starving the State? Quite simple. Demand building land. We live on 13% on the UK land mass. All of us. The rest is owned by 166,000 families and has been since they took it from us, using violence. The Normans. Half of it is not even registered with the Land Registry because it will never be bought or sold. Or taxed.

Reform land ownership and set the people free. Not communism, I don't call for land redistribution, but I do call for an equal chance for all of us to own the soil beneath our feet. If Grant Shapps wants to keep Government pension costs down, he needs to give our children the chance to acquire wealth through property. It certainly worked for those now residing on the Costa del Sol.

House. £40K

You wanted equality, you just got it

2011-08-28T09:49:00.004+01:00

The endless plundering of our money by the State is about to take a new twist.

Since the end of the second World War, the State has grown to immense proportions. The fabian logic being that the State can provide all for all, as long as everything belongs to the state. It can redistribute wealth to those unable or unwilling to earn their own in return for votes. It can provide health, housing, education, justice. It can provide all that is required to keep the citizens happy by taking away the burden of responsibility. All it requires is the power to take your money.

This week saw the Treasury plunder the bank accounts of British citizens in Switzerland, grabbing hard earned money for itself whilst declaring those who place their wealth beyond the reaches of Government "parasites". The irony was not lost on me. The 50p tax rate will stay, meaning that more than half of the labour of a successful citizen is now purely to keep the States ability to redistribute his wealth to others.

Except it isn't.

There will no longer be wealth redistribution. The State is now abandoning the Fabian principles of steal from the rich and give to the feckless. No, the State is not giving to anyone. It is hoarding our wealth. Drastic cuts (sic) designed to place the responsibility of services once again upon the individual are not resulting in tax cuts or incentives to business. The claim of ownership by the State to all our money is not changing, it is increasing.

Unemployed childless citizens, long despised by the state as unproductive and "zero yield" are now being forced to pay full Council tax. The contempt of the Plantation Owner for those not "leveraging synergies" is about to become highly visible. The consequences will be interesting.

For decades, the "poor" have been shielded by subsidies, tax credits and handouts - from the State. It was not their concern that it was all paid for by those who earned their money or borrowed from future generations. Entitlement was engraved in the "have nots", just as we are now seeing the ruthless state demand "entitlement" over our money. All of it.

The Danegeld paid to keep the lower orders peaceful is no longer to be paid and they will now face what the rest of us face. Full exposure to the grasping claw of Government. No stone is to be left unturned as Osborne scrambles to find the finances necessary to keep the beast fed, and yes, the poor are shortly to realise that the benevolent State, the generous all providing Nanny that has poured endless billions in keeping them voting the right way has suddenly turned nasty.

No point in the left screaming that the rich should pay more. The rich are rich because they know how to earn and acquire wealth. No point in fleecing the middle earners. Their disposable incomes are already at record lows and their desire to endlessly consume is fading. The housing market has collapsed and they are busy repaying their credit binges.

So the state is now going after the childless poor. Those most useless of citizens. Those wastrels of no value to the exchequer will finally be exposed to the full demands of the greedy Beast of Government.

It will amuse me to watch the anger shift. Those who were happy for me to pay for Diversity Coordinators are about to be handed the bills. Those who had no concern that the state was growing faster than a primary tumour because they benefited from it are going to feel the cold icy grasp of the Treasury turning its all seeing eye to them. Whilst they cheered when Osborne raided the offshore accounts in Zurich, they will howl when Osborne raids their benefits and subsidies for cash.

The treasury will not allow the luxury of "class" to stand in the way. The beast is hungry, it sees no divisions and will seek sustenance wherever it finds it.

Sorry guys, you wanted equality from the State, you just got it. We are finally all equal under the State. Free to be robbed, taxed, threatened and abused. Freedom is slavery after all

"Arbeit Macht Frei"

Round them up.

2011-08-25T08:02:00.002+01:00

The UN is shocked, shocked I tell you that there are people still wandering around without “statehood”. They estimate that between 12 and 15 million people are currently free range as opposed to part of the flock. Apparently, the don’t exist (on paper).

They have no access to “bank accounts, are unable to legally marry and cannot register the birth of their children. They have no rights”. Well not with the State anyway. I‘m quite sure they get along just fine without the “necessary paperwork” to buy and sell, fall in love and make babies. Every other species on the planet manages it (all 8.7 million of them) perfectly well without permission from the people who issue bits of paper.

It will come as no great surprise to readers that I crave statelessness and reject borders. The geography of my birth is of no importance. Rights issued by the State are meaningless and opaque. What the State allows me to do today, it may ban tomorrow. It dictates how I must live my life and plunders my bank account for the privilege of ruling me.

I return to the analogy of the farmer and his herd of sheep. Sure, since the farm became one big European Co Op, we may wander to other parts of the now enlarged pasture (as long as we are pure breed. Half breeds like Romanians and Poles must stick to the hogweed infected corners) but branded and stamped we remain. The property of the farmer. Labeled, measured, taxed and controlled. This is why the UN is concerned. There are free range sheep, managing perfectly well without er…the UN.

Round them up, brand them, vaccinate them, check their teeth and issue them with their papers. Immediately. For their own good. Before they spread.

Once again, I write

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.

To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.

It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is it's justice; that is its morality.

I will be putting that on T- Shirts. Available soon. Now get back to work.

The hard facts

2011-08-24T10:52:00.003+01:00

It's time to act people. One thing is apparent. Government spending is not going to decrease, the deficit is not going to be reduced and the state is going to plunder your labour, your assets and your wealth to survive.

Today sees a devastating report on the State of the UK published by Dr Tim Morgan, head of research at Tullet Prebon entitled project Armageddon – the final report. (PDF link)

The project was established to analyse whether any political party had a hope in hell of saving the UK economy. The conclusion, should you wish to wake up and smell the coffee, is that the endless binge credit, public sector pension commitments, PFI contracts and private debt have killed us. Dead.

Quelle surprise, but what does this ACTUALLY mean for a UK citizen? It’s all very well recognising that Brown ruined the UK, we know that all Labour governments drive the economy into the ground and then abandon ship, wait for the hull to be repaired and then proceed to drive it onto the rocks again at the first opportunity, but what will anyone else do?

Simply, the Government is betting on growth. Growth will pay the mounting debt interest, growth will increase the tax revenues required, growth will pay off the deficit. Sure, profligate Socialist spending will also have to stop, and we have seen some attempts to reel in the waste, but we are too far gone, too far down the road of the massive State with millions of employees to simply turn off the fountains of easy money that Brown found by borrowing.

Ok, so the Government wants growth, is betting on growth but has no idea where the growth will come from. Just “growth”. No reforms, no slashing of the bureaucracy of running a business, no dismantling of the ridiculous legislation that hinders business. Just low interest rates to keep homeowners (already artificially inflated) happy and consumers (already up to their eyes in cheap credit) spending in the vain hope that whilst the Government realises it cannot spend its way out of debt, the public and business somehow can. Remarkable.

I’ll be blunt. The Government wants YOU to borrow more money so it won’t have to. It wants you to buy shiny things and be happy, whilst it continues to rake in the revenues from taxes. Keep buying houses at inflated prices, keep buying iPads, whilst the Government will cut spending and all will be well.

It won’t. Not one single Politician has the guts to turn round and say, in a firm, steady voice:

See everything you have? It isn’t yours. The Government and yourselves have awarded us the finest things money can buy. Sparkling schools, four lane motorways, foreign wars. Our unemployed drive cars, we house and feed people who will never work, nor have the intention of doing so. We send money to nations who waste every penny we send. You buy televisions and Jacuzzis for the garden on credit because you believe you have failed if you cannot have what others have. You judge people by the car they drive and the clothes they wear. Both you and we the Government have completely lost the plot. We gave the dealers of the heroin we are both hopelessly addicted to, the banks yet more money so they could supply us with yet more heroin.

Put down your credit cards and the Government will do the same. We will go back to a time when we lived within our means. You will drive one car per family because we will take away tax credits. You will have one television in your house because we will remove child benefit. We will ask you to help educate your children because our system of educating of them is not working and is bankrupting the very children we are here to educate.

In short, we are skint. Get used to it. No more £50 a month on Sky TV, no holidays three times a year, and no artificial interest rates that allow you to live in houses you cannot afford. In return, we will slash the cost of Government and allow you to keep the money in your pockets. Those who work hard and save, will have their money. Those who don’t will no longer have the “right” to demand others pay their bills. They can expect the poverty that not working brings with it, not to be subsidised by those who do.

You will be free to set up businesses, to exploit markets and to earn money. If your labour is only worth £4 an hour, you will be able to sell your labour for £4 an hour and we, the Government will get out of your way. We will end entitlement by removing the faux insurance schemes that we call “welfare” but are nothing more than bribes for votes. You will learn to rely on yourselves, not on others. Our only role will be to stand out of your way, remove the hurdles of the State and not endanger your wealth with endless interference. We will not punish those who achieve because others have not.

It will not be comfortable, but if you want comfort, it is your job to earn it, not ours to distribute your money to those who WE feel should have it. We will not judge those who are rich, we will not judge those who are poor. It is not our task. All we will provide is secure borders and the rule of law. You are now free to be free. You are free to grow because the state has been constrained. We will shrink as you grow. Find your fertile soil and plant the seeds of enterprise.

We wish you well,

your Government.

Old Holborn - The digital hermit

2011-08-19T10:28:00.003+01:00

I am still amazed how many politicians are still screaming that social media is to blame for the various reactions to the society they created. From welfare addicts who decided they weren’t get enough danegeld and needed to loot shops to the Chinese State cutting off Facebook and Twitter to stop their citizens talking to each other.

Of course, our own Louise Mensch MP is demanding that she should control when we are allowed to speak to each other via mobile phones and the general consensus from those who would rule us is

You may talk to each other, when WE allow it. It is not a right, it is a privilege

With the original invention of the printing press, the matrix rippled. Our media is still “licenced” by those who impose their laws upon us. Huge state quangos exist to make sure we are not talking too much, saying too much, criticising too much and whilst we pretend to have the freedom of speech, our citizens are now jailed for posting on Facebook.

I’m currently planning to flee the UK and set up shop in a country where Politicians are accepted as corrupt, make no bones about being corrupt and in return for 10% taxation (flat) leave the public alone. Nothing is expected from them and duly, very little is given to them.

There is no “welfare” system to speak of, and in return, people make their own arrangements for healthcare. Family bonds are strong because the State is weak. People are left alone, to live their lives in peace, as they see fit.

In all honesty, you won’t even know I’ve gone. Most of my friendships these days are online. Long gone are the days where I tolerated going to boring “dinner parties” where I was forced to listen to some consumerist bragging about his golf skills or his BMW because his wife worked in the same office as my wife. Nope, I talk and converse and consume my information from my “networks”.

I read my news where I choose to read my news, regardless of whether OFCOM thinks I should. I watch TV from the country of my choice via the Internet. I chat with people I find interesting or engaging, 24 hours a day, regardless of their location. My work allows me to be based anywhere in Europe. All I need is a phone and an internet connection. My clients care not one jot that my telephone number is UK based and I am not (see Vonage). They care not that I don’t have an office in the City of London.

The control of media by the State meant something when the State meant something. Put simply, it doesn’t anymore. If I don’t like your rules and regulations, I can move. I can take my wealth, my assets, my business anywhere I choose. I am no longer bound by “locality” because I no longer “live” locally. I live on the Internet. I buy from the internet, not Globalist out of town shopping centres. I source what I require from those who supply what I require, not what a Corporation that dictates what I may purchase. I am not beholden to fashion or marketing or upgrades. I am not enslaved to banks because I OWN my properties. My dependence on “credit” is zero because I do not crave shiny things.

So, my views are similar to millions of people I have never and will never meet in “the real world”, yet I can freely mix them, converse with them, cooperate with them, buy and sell from them, and interact with them, in real time. We have similar beliefs and similar values, similar outlooks on life, similar goals and similar minds.

Conclusions

The Political Party is dead – no longer needed.
The State is dying – petty borders mean nothing to my life anymore
The digital individual is taking control of his life – “not who is going to let me, but who is going to stop me?”

Whilst our elites believe they built and control the Matrix, and for a while, they did – with licences, D notices, censorship. All of us, just by being online and talking to each other have proved they are no longer in control of any of us. And I have no need to talk or listen to the opinions of those who assume they know better than me how to live my life. Like town criers bellowing in the market place, they are no longer relevant to any of us.

The real revolution begins when you stop listening to them.

Some elected Common Sense

2011-08-17T17:50:00.002+01:00

A little sense from the Mayor of Philidelphia facing riots by feral teenagers. Oh that more of our elected officials had a spine like his.

Guilty as charged

2011-08-16T19:04:00.005+01:00

Today, after 9 months, the attacker of my daughter was found guilty of assault by beating. For those who are new to this blog, allow me to explain.

I am a very proud father of 6 exceptional children. They have been raised to speak their minds, stand up for justice and each posses a moral "core". They know the difference between right and wrong and understand that they are responsible for their own actions and deeds.

They travel a considerable distance to attend a school with a curriculum designed to maximise their international potential. When founded it was unique in that only children of an international background could attend. Mine qualified as they were born in Germany and were multilingual. One of my daughters has just passed her International Baccalaureate and awaits her A level results in 2 days before heading off to University. They understand "diversity" and "multiculturalism" better than anyone. Their classmates are Japanese, Angolan, Chinese, Brazilian. Children of diplomats, businessmen, academics.

It was on this journey to her school that my 16 year old daughter was confronted on a train by a black gang with nothing better to do than travel the railway network looking for victims. They picked the wrong one that day.

They simply wandered up to her and demanded she suck the cocks of all four of them. On a train. Or else. And they weren't joking. It was obvious they had done this before with success but apples tend not to fall far from the tree. My daughter is made of sterner stuff. They were instructed to fuck off in no uncertain terms.

To keep the story short, they followed her to school, even invading her 6th form. They were challenged by staff and evicted from the premises, even though they protested, in full view of CCTV that no one could touch them, as they were "Africans".

Of course they waited. And at the end of school, they assaulted my daughter at the railway station for refusing to suck their cocks. She had "disrespected" them and was "due a slap". so they gave her one.

Today, the perpetrator sat in the dock, in full gangsta attire, with his "baby mother" waiting for him outside the "youth court" (he is now 17) whilst the evidence was shown to him. Evidence SO overwhelming I can only gasp in amazement that he didn't change his plea to guilty whilst he had the chance. He made my daughter go through cross examination from the defence whilst he fell asleep in the dock, texted his mates, sucked his teeth and yawned and stretched his way through the proceedings. He was found guilty of assault by beating and will be sentenced next month. He will probably face a "community" punishment which he will not bother to do and a fine which he will not bother to pay. So much for justice.

I instructed the British Transport Police to pursue this case, in the full knowledge of the outcome. My motive was not revenge. My daughter absolutely insisted he be prosecuted because whilst she is made of nails and can fight back, the next girl this gang "made demands" to wouldn't be. And that may be a daughter of yours. Unable to fight back and easily silenced by threats.

He couldn't have been in court at a worse time. A Nigerian wannabe gangsta, with arrogance dripping from him, shown to assault an intelligent, articulate, educated girl on her way home from school did not go down well with the magistrates. They knew, as my daughter knew, that the only way to stop this feral is to convict him. Had they not, no woman on the train network would be safe and eventually, his actions would escalate. As they always do.

I thank the British Transport Police, who despite the CPS (!) pursued this. And would ask you to thank my daughter, who has saved other women from the feral demands of this gang. Including your wife and your daughters.

Her comments in court?

"This is wrong. You do not do this. No one has the right to terrorise me or anyone else on the train. If I don't stop you, God help the next victim you pick, and frankly you pick on everyone"

When he is sentenced, I will name him. Right here.

In the meantime, I am immensely proud of my daughter, not because she stood up to feral Nigerian youths - that was always going to happen, but because she did it for those who will not or cannot. I hope she infects her entire generation.

UPDATE. He will be sentenced on September 7th, but have just been told he is facing other trials, so unable to name him. Yet

Sparing the rod....

2011-08-15T08:59:00.003+01:00

Aw bless, our Politicians are playing the blame game as to why the Utopia they promised us (using our own money) hasn’t materialised. All those think tanks, pressure groups, SpAds, vested interests, working groups, lobbyists and not an ounce of common sense between them.

Whilst the analysts and spin doctors ramp up the ante, the Police are outraged that other solutions than their own failed ones might be called upon and a battle between the Police and our masters ensues.

Meanwhile, back on the housing estates created by Politicians, the feral classes, created and paid by Politicians to be feral will continue to hide the loot, continue to buy and sell drugs to supplement their benefits and when challenged will scream “poverty, inequality, prejudice”

An army of Sociologists, the same ones who told us this was the route to Nirvana will now scream that we must have more of the same to overcome the very problem they created, whilst legions of Righteous will attack anyone who dares suggest that by sparing the rod, we have spoiled the child.

There is no way back from this. The Fabians have won. They have destroyed the family in their vision to build the all powerful State, they have destroyed decency because a minority refused to be decent, they have destroyed morals because only the State can provide morals and they have silenced their critics with violent accusations of “bigotry”.

An utter betrayal of a generation intentionally taught that wrong is right, black is white, greed is good. And all for the heady scent of “power” for a few.

Break it all down, destroy it all and rebuild it using common sense, decency and hard work. It CAN be done but it will have to be done by individuals, not the collective. Individuals standing up and being counted. Individuals demanding that their children are taught how to read, write and count and educated to a level where they are employable by wealth creators, not hip hop dance troupes. Individuals demanding that those who create havoc behave themselves, individuals taking responsibility for their actions, individuals refusing to comply with the systems and rhetoric that brought us here. Manners, a respect for the lives and property of others and a moral backbone.

Not a chance. The individual is the enemy of the state. The individual is a danger to corporations and marketing. The individual who thinks and acts for himself is public enemy number 1.

Thank God we have a new series of X factor starting this week. Vote early, vote often.

Stop feeding the beasts

2011-08-12T15:59:00.003+01:00

Oh dear. The looters who attempted to destroy their communities are facing eviction from their Social housing if they are convicted. The first eviction order has just gone out to a family in Wandsworth and the Internetz is kicking off.

Social housing is provided at great cost to the taxpayer to provide a safe and stable base for citizens who would otherwise be unable to rent privately or purchase a property of their own. At no point does it become “their home”, it is rented from us, the people, at greatly subsidised rates.

Quite why a looter, who took the conscious choice to destroy and steal from those who are subsidising his very housing, expects me to continue to provide for him is beyond my comprehension. It is the most BASIC of parenting skills. You break it, you buy another.

Families were made homeless by these ferals. Who then go back to their addresses subsidised by the very people they have made homeless and wait for their bills to be paid by me.

Today, hundreds have appeared in Court to face the music. At Westminster magistrates, the beak had to stop one case when a 14 year old girl arrived with no parents and no bus fare home again. I repeat, WE sponsored that. The useless state nurtured that child instead of her feckless parents and whilst we paid for it.

No. Hold the looters and those who raised them to loot to account. Take the power away from the State to grant them further “entitlements” whilst demanding my money. They are demanding I house them whilst they would burn down MY house!

Forced to pay private rents or buy, chances are they will be forced to find employment- like the rest of us. Responsibility. Problem solved. Get Nanny State off their backs and kick these bastards off the publically funded sofa.

40 years of handing people what they don’t deserve got us here in the first place. Stop feeding the beast, it bites.

Time to grow up

2011-08-11T08:27:00.003+01:00

You will hear much talk in the next few days about responsibility. The responsibility of parents, teachers, the individual to behave and “do the right thing”

I’m sorry, the horse has not just bolted, but has long since been at the knackers yard. Since the 1960’s, the left and the authoritarian right have empowered anyone BUT the individual. I use this analogy often, but just stop and look in the room around you. Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING in the room is not monitored, registered, measured or licensed by the all powerful State.

I still sit and wonder how we got here. Naturally, I reject the interfering state but I know I am in a tiny minority. Most of the population are quite happy to sit back and let the farmer look after the details whilst they graze on tax credits and look forward to £2000 a year gas bills and two weeks in Tenerife.

There won’t be a sea change. Politicians will spout their usual nonsense and grasp the opportunity to inflict yet more of their policies on us. Our liberties will be curtailed yet more, the State will begin measuring and monitoring the flock with an ever greater zeal and the farmer will pay a little more attention to the condition of the paddock but there’ll be no real change. We are too far gone and no one will say a damned thing.

The riots were not political, they were envy and greed. You have what I want, so I will take it. If I cannot have what you have, I will destroy it. You have given me every opportunity to have what you have, but you have also given me every opportunity to not bother. You paid me to go to school and fail. You paid me to stay at home on the sofa all day and fail. You will pay for my housing, my taxes, my heating and my beer. I will repay you with spite and destruction. It is my right. I am equal to you. You cannot touch me because I have chosen to be “deprived” but I can threaten, rob and steal from you because you gave me a label that says I can have anything I damn well like.

So, the much lauded “equality” that we have built over the past 50 years is nothing more than an excuse to be feckless and lawless and have others rebuild what you have torn down in a fit of jealous rage. And it’s my fault, of course.

Here’s the plan. You get nothing. You want it, go and get it with hard work, application, self discipline, ambition, pride and self respect. You will not get a “certificate” for trying, you will not have your bills paid by me “to get you started”. You are entitled to nothing from me. You will stand on your own two feet and take responsibility for your own life. You will not rely on the endless handouts of hardworking taxpayers, you will not beg Politicians for a bigger slice of the cake you refuse to help bake and you will not cling to the apron strings of the State whilst throwing tantrums because others might have what you do not.

It’s time to tell our children of the State to grow up and get on with it. Kindergarten is now closed. And that includes the fucking bankers.

Cure the illness, not the symptoms

2011-08-10T09:30:00.003+01:00

I’ll leave the commentary to others. This is how you cure the illness.

Apprenticeships- Genuine recognised trades that bring secure employment. Not useless certificates. No apprenticeship, no job. Works in Germany

Restrict unemployment benefit – 12 months from leaving school and you are on your own. Apprenticeships available in manufacturing. No work, no dole.

Restrict welfare to single parents – Sorry guys, the family unit gets priority on State housing. Your sprog by some errant scrote, your problem. Not mine

Restricted benefits to those with criminal records. Stuff it, I’m tired of paying Danegeld to you to behave yourself if you refuse to behave yourself.

Lower tax for married couples – The family that plays together, stays together.

End “entitlement”. Earn it, stop demanding it from me.

Lower taxes - The best way to put money in peoples pockets is to leave it there in the first place.

Minimise the State – Your are an individual, do not hide behind the “collective”. Take responsibility instead of blaming others.

Hold Politicians accountable for their actions, just like company directors. Fuck it up and you’ll go to jail

Equality of opportunity – that means if you want what others have, you have the opportunity to earn it, not steal it or simply demand it.

It won’t happen. Our wise and wonderful Politicians just have a new excuse to tear it down and rebuild it just as badly.

Reap the harvest

2011-08-08T09:24:00.002+01:00

Libertarians respect private property, so you won’t hear any cheering from me at the weekends “riots”. What we witnessed was not a political protest by a community frustrated at Police corruption and victimisation. That happened on Saturday afternoon outside Tottenham Police station. We witnessed the rewards of decades of “radical” “progressive” politics by those who will never have to face the consequences of their actions.

I’ll be blunt. We have tolerated the expansion of a feral class of youth. We have celebrated “diversity” whilst they have celebrated the freedom under the auspices of “equality” to turn parts of London into gang run shooting alleys. Whilst we chuckled at Ali G, life was imitating art. The result? An entire generation that is not educated enough to earn a living from anything other than drug dealing and crime. A dangerous generation that values “status” above morals, materialism above society and has no concept of “improvement”

I saw a tweet yesterday that blamed inner London poverty on people “trapped by long term mobile phone contracts”. It is just the beginning. The usual suspects of community leaders will be dragged out, the left will blame “cuts” and “poverty”, the right will demand more restrictions to immigration and nobody will speak of the elephant in the room.

WE created this. WE told black kids it was OK to be a gangsta. We protected them from the consequences of their actions under the banner of equality and diversity. We told them it was fine to act and behave as a lawless thugs as if challenging that behaviour would somehow offend them.

I’m in court next week as the 16 year old Nigerian thug who assaulted my daughter, innocently sitting on a train, has decided to plead not guilty, even though the evidence against him is overwhelming. I explained to the Police that I will not tolerate inaction on this because he needs to understand that his behaviour is not just unacceptable to me, but unacceptable to the society he is part of. If I don’t stop him now, he won’t be stopped. It is my duty to people I have never met to make sure he does not attack them by forcing him to take the consequences of his actions. He does not need a “community leader” condemning his actions, or a diversity coordinator creating excuses for his “culture”. He needs to know that his actions will not be tolerated.

Whilst “da bruvvers” are celebrating an intake of free widescreen TVs, those who defend them by inaction against their lawlessness are preparing to complain to me that no businesses or jobs will come to the areas they trashed. And it will be my fault. Again.

None of the looters over the weekend is “trapped”. All of them make a choice, as we all do. Live your life as you see fit. If you choose drug dealing, theft and violence as a career choice, don’t you dare call me a bigot when I refuse to support your “diversity”

The survival of the fittest.

2011-08-04T16:49:00.003+01:00

I'll leave the rest of Twitter and the blogosphere to argue over the death penalty, suffice to say that Libertarians don't ask the State to kill people.

Moving on, I notice that the Stock market has just dumped 3% of its value today alone and gold has put on 5.5% in two weeks.

There is, of course, a reason for this. Something politicians cannot spin or control. The public knows that something is afoot. We are more informed than we have ever been. We seek our information in places we trust instead of being slowly spoon fed what those who rule us choose to tell us. And the truth is beginning to unravel.

There is no money, only "faith" in money. It isn't supported by rare and precious metals anymore and we know now that when pushed, central banks will simply invent more of it to postpone the day when they have to admit the emperors are naked. And it's coming. Ask the Greeks.

I read stories that the "public" are going to suffer and our living standards are going to head back to the seventies. In other words, 40 years of political lies have finally caught up with us and we are no richer than we were back then.

Good. Bring it on. Some sanity. Some reason.

I remember when "poor but honest" was a virtue. I remember a time when a household had ONE tv, ONE car (if any) and when a holiday was something enjoyed by a family once a year. I remember when meals were cooked and then eaten at a table by the family.

I am currently on holiday with my six kids, plus a couple of others, in the UK. A cost saving measure? Certainly. I would need to buy 5 passports (exit visas) to travel abroad with them and I refuse to hand over the best part of £500 for permission from the State to take my children abroad, so we're currently on the Norfolk Broads, in a rented riverfront villa.

My children are messing about in boats, camping in the garden, fishing, hiking. They are not glued to mobile phones, PS2's or facebook. Meals are bought at the market and cooked by a team, eager to prove they CAN cook, that they CAN plan and prepare what is required, in advance.

I am not alone in thinking that there is about to be a very serious blip in the matrix. Families (what little of them that remains) are going to be utterly fucked when it goes tits up. The unemployed are going to lose their "human right" to own a car, an Xbox, Nike trainers and a mobile phone because there is simply not going to be the money to finance it when we decide that the paper issued by governments is not worth anything. Tax credits? State pensions? Fine. Russia used to issue them as well whilst massive queues formed outside shops selling anything of real value that could be easily transported.

In our rush to own it all, we allowed those who promised us the world to make up the money they would use to pay for it all. We are not any richer, we just have bigger debts - and as you know, debt is slavery.

Remember, when the shit hits the fan, three things count. Property, energy, food. If in doubt, ask your ancestors. They knew this which is why you exist. Their cravings were not for designer handbags but making sure the family could eat and stay warm through the winter.

I am shortly selling up, converting whatever cash I have to gold or silver, getting rid of my properties in delusional UK and heading for somewhere I can thrive. One acre of land for me, one acre for some livestock and wealth I can easily transport. I suggest you all get yourselves a plan B because we are indeed about to be tested. Do your ancestors a favour and make sure you survive - trust me, that subscription to the gym or the tanning salon count for nothing in the great scheme of survival of the fittest.

How to conquer a country with not a shot fired

2011-07-27T11:49:00.002+01:00

"tyranny"

If you want to own someone, put them in your debt. Enslave them. Own their labour and you own them.

In a week where a mad man went on the rampage at what he saw was an ever encroaching threat to his way of life, I am simply stunned to read this quote from Wolfgang Schäuble, the German Finance Minister

“A state with problems, that receives help, must be willing to give some of its sovereign rights to the EU.”

Already, the citizens of Portugal, Ireland and Greece are beholden to external, unelected powers in the form of bankers and the European Central Bank. They MUST form political policies as dictated by the holders of their debt or face ruin. And now, the Minister of the country currently robbing its own citizens to buy up the debt of other countries is indicating that yet more power should be ceded to the creature that created the mess in the first place. The EU.

What couldn't be achieved through war, will be achieved through debt slavery. Not hyperbole. Not scaremongering. But part of the "plan" for European Union.

Yesterday, Anders Breviek stated through his lawyer that in 60 years time, the people would thank him. I really, really hope he isn't correct.

If you rob people of their identity...all they are left with is nationalism and violence

2011-07-25T10:30:00.002+01:00

This is the third time I’ve tried to write a blog post regarding the atrocity in Norway. It isn’t easy because, if I’m completely honest, I cannot understand why it didn’t happen sooner.

The internet is alive with Europeans spouting the same fears of Islamisation invading the West. The English Defence League was founded on fears of Islamisation, choosing to march instead of picking up arms, but the sentiment is still there.

The left cast aside the cultures of the indigenous without imposing the same values on the new arrivals, and were simply too scared of faux vilification to mention that the values of Islam are incompatible with modern Western democracies.

We were warned on numerous occasions. From Jack Straw spilling the beans on raping Muslims to John Ried, the then Home Secretary being told to get out of a Muslim Area in the UK. The public was concerned and in return, was told it was racist, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, bigoted.

Remember Brown being forced to apologise and losing the election because he deemed the genuine concerns of a citizen to be nothing but the rantings of a “bigoted woman”?

The left will scream at the right, the BBC have already accused Anders B of being a Libertarian (nothing could be further from the truth) and panic levels will rise that a new Nationalist White Supremacy Army is on the rise. Measures and restrictions will be brought in to put the lid back on Pandoras box and proclamations of “all is well, he was a lone nutter” will ring out. Meanwhile, the serving of Halal meat to UK school children will continue, mothers will continue to send their 13 year old daughters back to Pakistan to marry their cousins and radical Islam will continue to spread as we pointlessly bomb their children back into the stone age in Afghanistan.

I’m not a nationalist, I don’t do flag waving or sing the national anthem. I’m happy for people to live their lives as they see fit as long as they do not adversely affect the lives of others. Anders B believed, rightly or wrongly, that the lives of his countrymen was being negatively affected by the refusal of Politicians to address his fears. In his eyes, he is a Christian Martyr, and will happily play his role. No different to the swivel eyed Islamoloon that will fly an aircraft into a building to preserve his way of life or stop the ever encroaching West from adversely affecting his fellow countrymen.

The most interesting, and perhaps telling event in the whole saga is that Anders B did not attack Muslims. He didn’t wander through the new Muslim ghettos of Oslo created by Politicians spraying the burqa clad masses with machine gun fire. He decided another generation of Politicians would not be allowed to do the same and chillingly executed those he suspected of selling “his country” to more of the same in the next 40 years.

The next time the people call our Politicians traitors, it might be wise of them to listen a little harder before simply dismissing them as “bigots”.

The Mayor of Oslo has bravely declared that he will fight this attack with “more democracy, more transparency”. Perhaps if a little more democracy had been in place, last Fridays dreadful events would never have taken place.

I quote Nigel Farage.

"If you rob people of their identity...all they are left with is nationalism and violence"

Amy Winehouse dies

2011-07-23T17:18:00.002+01:00

So long, sleep well and thank you for your enormous talent

Dear Government

2011-07-21T14:07:00.000+01:00

Animal EU Farm

2011-07-21T09:13:00.003+01:00

Today will see the German taxpayers once again slaughtered to worship the Holy Grail of "economic and political union" within the EU. Hardworking, educated Northern European citizens will be forced to cover the promises of useless Socialist politicians who saw entry to the Eu and Euro as nothing more than a cash cow to be milked for more votes. And it worked. The cash flowed, melon farmers grew rich and the bloated public sectors gleefully retired at 50 whilst their Northern counterparts were told they may not retire until their late 60's.

France, with perhaps the largest vested interest in economic union and Germany, the largest producer of things people actually want to buy, will not allow their vision to fail. The banks and private investors, happy to lend an endless supply of cash to feckless politicians have point blank refused to take the losses, the citizens of impoverished countries are simply refusing to accept that a German can afford a BMW whilst they can't and Merckel refuses to let it go.

My prediction?

A few more riots in Spain and Greece, a bank levy to force banks to cover their own debts, Eurozone taxpayers handed the rest and the can will be kicked further down the road. Move along now, nothing to see here and a great deal of muttering from Northern European politicians and taxpayers.

All this cost, all this pain. For what? Why does Europe NEED a single currency? Well, it doesn't. It might help if you are trying to build an empire, and they certainly are but the main aim of the EU is the classic Fabian "equality for all".

Except we aren't equal. An educated German, with a work ethic will always produce more than a 14 year old goat herder in the Balkans. Yet under EU Socialism, all have the same value, all deserve the same prizes. Paid for, of course, by the educated German with a work ethic producing good quality products that people want to buy. Germanys success is being nationalised across the EU without anyone questioning WHY Germany is successful - because they WORK HARD at being successful.

I don't buy French cars, because they are shit - badly designed, badly made and forever breaking down. This, of course, makes me a thought criminal. There is no reason why a Frenchman cannot produce a car to the same standards as the Germans. Except he would have to be a German, think like a German, take pride like a German, be educated and qualified like a German. Not possible. He is French, drinks wine at lunch, insists his design for electronic fuel injection is better than any other established system in the world and refuses to work in the summer. Don't even start me on why the Greeks will never build a car. But French cars reach the same imposed EU "norm" as a German car, so MUST have the same value. Bumper tractor harvests all round.

And yet, the EU insists we are all the same. Our work, our ethics, our "value" and applys one single currency and one single political solution to us all, using our money to enslave us even more in the "four legs good" nightmare. Whilst working the Germans ever harder to pay for it all.

1984 failed when the wall came down. This IS Animal Farm - live.

Rome can burn

2011-07-18T11:37:00.003+01:00

So, it is all beginning to unravel. The cosy relationships between the Police, our ruling Elite and the Media barons is slowly being opened up for inspection and today will see another bent copper “resigning” after years of shitting in our faces.

Cameron, who “was destined to rule” simply because he could be manipulated by all and sundry is suddenly looking very unstable and may be forced out himself, much to the delight of the Left, who did exactly the same for the past 30 years, using the BBC, Guardian and Maxwell (yes, and Murdoch) to get what they wanted.

In a nutshell, we have the Press, the Police and the Politicians we deserve. We all knew what they were up to. Private Eye has been opening cans of worms since long before the Internet handed us the tools to do the job, yet for whatever reason, none of us was interested.

We simply sat back, looked at the tits on page 3, watched another episode of Eastenders and let them get on with it.

So what has changed? Well, nothing really. The “faux” outrage of other Media barons and the Left is merely positioning to ensure that their favoured elites are in place when push comes to shove.

Our MPs are still wined and dined by every vested interest Lobby group on the planet, our Police chiefs are still appointed by the very same people they are arresting and our Mainstream Media publishers still know they control the hand that feeds them.

Miliband is calling for stricter regulation of “large Media” yet is happy to watch the BBC remain a monolithic monopoly spouting Fabianism at those forced under threat of prison to pay for it all.

Meanwhile, our Politicians prepare us, the idiots paying for all this, to bail out yet another tranche of feckless bankers who lent the Politicians the money to promise us the Earth whilst failing to deliver anything but bankruptcy. Our enormous Armed Forces are still protecting the vested interests of anyone but us. Our hard earned money is still seen as a “Govt resource” to be tapped into whenever the unelected EU or UN or fake charity or Treasury decides your needs are secondary to theirs.

One thing is for sure. If we let these ashes give rise to another Phoenix of the same ilk, we will have missed the opportunity of a generation. The chance to get these parasites off our backs and out of our lives.

Now is the time to simply refuse to put up with more of the same. News International was brought to it’s knees in under a fortnight and yet we still pay 80p tax on a litre of petrol. The head of the Metropolitan Police is gone and yet our children will be forced to pay the debts of Greek Socialists.

If you have an ounce of Libertarianism in you, now is the time to throw off the chains that the last 70 years has encased us in. We allowed them to put us where we are, and I will not allow them to do it me again.

I will not be ruled by an “elite”, I will not be Policed by their “appointees” and I will not be fed information deemed” good for public consumption” by those who refuse to leave me alone, "for the greater good".

If the institutions that have enslaved us are really crumbling, do not expect me to mix the cement to rebuild them. Rome can damn well burn - and good riddance.

Hackgate - the Movie

2011-07-17T13:54:00.001+01:00

Strange that Rebekah Brook has been arrested by the Met (who are under investigation for corruption) *just* before she was due to tell Parliament all she knows. Now she claim subjudice and refuse to say a word.

Brilliant politics.

At last, an apology

2011-07-15T16:22:00.002+01:00

We are sorry.

The Labour Party was in the business of holding citizens in a vice like Soviet grip, watching their every move, recording every phone call, reading every Email, taxing you all to death and stealing your wealth. It failed when it came to itself.

We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred.

We are deeply sorry for the hurt suffered by the individuals affected.

We regret not acting faster to sort things out.

I realise that simply apologising is not enough.

Our business was founded on the idea that a free and open press should be abolished and no one should ever doubt the word of the Fabian BBC or the Grauniad. We need to live up to this. We tried by doing whatever powerful media barons told us to do as long as their media supported us and our quest for total and complete power over the individual citizen

In the coming days, as we take further concrete steps to resolve these issues and make amends for the damage they have caused, you will hear more from us. But there is absolutely NO FUCKING WAY we are paying back the money we handed over to our other friends, the bankers. Your kids can pay that back, suckers.

Sincerely,

Gordon Brown.

Roll up, roll up...

2011-07-12T09:19:00.003+01:00

The ingredients of total control

I don’t read the News of the World or the Sun because I’ve always found them boring. I have no interest in the contents of Jordons knickers or a desire to be kept closely informed about the sex lives of people who play football or act or sing badly. I rarely buy a newspaper because I prefer to read media from the Internet where I can be my own editor and tailor my consumption to what suits me.

It comes as little surprise that Murdoch became the ruthless Media baron he is. All he had to do was give the public what they wanted, tell them they wanted it and tell Politicians that he now controlled what the nation read and watched. Tits and scandal. Do as I say or you’ll be on the front cover next week, fuckers, ruined, discarded and finished

And in the rush to be “aligned” with the rabid consumers of tits and scandal, our Politicians looked to the circus master for guidance and advice on keeping the masses amused. Every policy change was checked and double checked that the 7 million readers of the News of the World would approve. Meanwhile, the circus master quietly collects the scandal to control the Politicians and keep his eager audience happy.

If you are shocked and appalled by the revelations that newspapers would rummage through bins, hack voicemails, open mails, steal evidence, hire criminals and corrupt the Police and Politicians to supply you with your fix of scandal, God forbid you ever find out how food reaches your table.

When Murdoch fails, we will simply promote another Circus Master to the ring, who in turn will do exactly the same. Throw innocents to the Lions for our amusement, whilst we fake surprise and horror from our front row seats. He will control the very people who make the laws we live under, he will manipulate and extort from the audience and we will sit back and let him. As long as he gives us tits and scandal.

To break the grip, we have to stop craving circuses.

We live in a new age of free voices. You too can add your comment to a million articles, start your own blog, scream and rant via twitter or facebook, select your consumption of news and media from a plethora of sources. The Circus is no longer the only show in town. Go out and find what suits you and starve the media beast of the one thing that put Murdoch in the position of power he holds over all of us. An audience.

Alas, I fear the majority will still be sitting in the big top gawping at Babara Windsor being spit roasted by two Premiership footballers when the whole thing burns down.

From the ashes..

2011-07-07T17:04:00.004+01:00

"We'll be taking all the files and shit we have on you and moving them to the Sun. Understand, bitch?"

Whilst the idiots that run our media and country are wandering around "dazed" that James Murdoch has announced he is closing the News of the World, all you have to look for is the devil in the detail.

And here it is. Dated 28th June 2011, from Rebekah Brooks herself.

"We will take a comprehensive look at where there is common ground across our titles and where we should remain unique.
Where there is common ground we will find ways of implementing efficiencies to editorial systems and processes and, where appropriate, we will find ways of introducing seven day working."

Calm down, carry on, all is well. Meanwhile, we need to name the bent coppers who took their money...

Eat it up

2011-07-06T17:10:00.002+01:00

I suppose it had to be on the cards. Ever since the National Health Service was created by the State, the State had claimed ownership of your health, as well as your wealth. And it appears the health of the people of Hungary is costing the glorious State too much of their hard earned money.

So, from next year, you will now be taxed on what you smoke, drink AND EAT. Yup, Hungary is to introduce Europe's first "fat tax" on foods that might make you fat. If you eat too much of them.

people must choose healthy alternatives or the tax revenue will be high.

How about the state gets out of the health game? I didn't ask for an NHS, I'm not asked to contribute, I'm TOLD. And even IF I eat healthily, I will be taxed to pay for those who don't. No, they are not my responsibility and they are certainly not the responsibility of Government.

Keep the slaves fit, or fine them if they cannot work on the plantation for the Owner through their own "choices". Perfect. Work harder, faster, longer. Arbeit Macht Frei.

Tiny Dots. Them. Us

2011-07-04T18:58:00.000+01:00

Libertarianism explained.

650 of them. 62,000,000 of us.

Gissa Job

2011-07-01T09:32:00.002+01:00

As regular readers will know, I am of the “no borders” Libertarian camp. Before the nationalists amongst you send me death threats or tell me we will be swamped by Muslim hoards, I’d like to explain.

If you believe, as I do, that the State is a false construct, then you also have to believe that the borders of a State are a false construct. A state cannot “own” property. It can certainly defend the individual property of a “collective “of citizens who have chosen to group together to defend their properties (quite rightly), but I see that as the only function of a “state”. In times of threat, protect the borders of our “collective” properties.

Today, will see “leaders” of the “State” demand that I employ not the best man for the job, but the man born within the borders of the State. Simple nationalist rhetoric designed to divide and rule. It suggests that those who are not “British” should have a lesser right to work than those who are. Deeply un- Libertarian. Deeply tribal and deeply divisive. As it is intended to be by our masters.

There is a simple reason your cleaner is Polish, the bus driver is Estonian, your waitress is Spanish and the road sweeper is Czech. They desire to earn money and do not qualify for welfare handouts from the State. There is a reason so many “British” citizens do not work as cleaners, bus drivers, road sweepers and waitresses. The State pays them not to, via our bloated welfare system.

Tax credits, council tax credits, free school meals, housing, dole, invalidity benefits, you name it. A British person cannot climb out of the carefully crafted bed of Socialism because to do so will inflict yet more poverty upon him. Like a slave deciding the plantation, a roof over his head, three square meals and a master that won’t beat him too often is a better option than the fearful territory of freedom, with rights and responsibilities, risk and reward.

The reason immigrants are queuing at Sangatte is not access to our benefits system, no matter what the Daily Mail tells you. They want access to our job markets that the State has decided cannot support the “British” worker, so pays him to stay at home watching Jeremy Kyle and X Factor all day. If you want to get rid of “immigrants”, stop paying millions of British to do nothing whilst the immigrants do the work we are paying the British NOT to do. Abolish minimum wage and the ridiculous benefits hammocks and let the market decide who can best do the job. Because if we keep producing citizens that are too stupid and lazy to function in society, there really is little point in defending the borders from those who can and will.

Learn to thrive in SPITE of the State

2011-06-30T16:06:00.002+01:00

Today, of course, saw the bloated “public sector” finally hit the streets after 13 years of gorging on money borrowed and stolen from future generations. An army of Lesbian Outreach Diversity facilitators and Nail Extension and Spray Tan Lecturers blubbered that it wasn’t fair that just because their Fabian masters gave all the money to the banks they might have to live on a smaller pension. Like the private sector does. They have my full sympathy, of course.

“But the only reason you can read this is because a state teacher taught you how”, was the battle cry. Bollocks to that. The Telegraph points out that 1.7 MILLION children in the UK are now “defined” as having “special needs”. 1 in 5 of our children is classified as a mong by the very people who get paid YOUR money to teach mongs (except they are on strike today, for not getting enough of your money to retire on to Tuscany).

I’m not a great fan of the State educating ANY child. I certainly do not believe it represents good value when the exam system throws out millions of shuffling idiots incapable of finding gainful employment but gleefully clutching a “certificate of welfare entitlement”, so an army of yet more Fabian “specialists” can be employed to counsel the little darlings when their anger management techniques, taught aged 5, cannot cope with being skint, stupid and futureless.

I have six children. I sat with them, read with them, worked with them, encouraged them, imparted wisdom on them, nurtured their intellects, fed their ambitions, opened their minds, instructed them in life, all its failures and successes. I conversed with them, poured over dictionaries with them, pointed and showed them the world around them, explained their rights and their responsibilities to them. I cared for them because I am their father, it is my job.

If the State wants to assume all of the above, then 500,000 Fabians are the very WORST people to do it. All they have been taught is dependency, entitlement, compliancy, uniformity and slavery, the very WORST education a child can receive.

My children deserved better. So I made sure they received it. They thrived in spite of the State, something we all need to learn. But don’t expect to be taught it by anyone employed by the State.

Are you sitting comfortably?

2011-06-26T11:27:00.002+01:00

Thursday may be a watershed in the public education system of the UK.

You see, union members of the teaching profession have decided that their needs come before anybody elses and have decided to strike. Rather than close down the schools, Michael Gove has decided to let parents run them for a day instead.

I know many in the teaching profession who openly admit that they are little more useless "riot control" attempting to instil some sense of order in the lives of children who are the very lowest priority of their parents. The new car, the jacuzzi, taking Nana to Disneyworld are far and away the only things that matter in their hectic lives.

And an education system built merely to measure and monitor, to "empathise" and "emasculate" the little darlings results in a system that all must receive prizes no matter how badly they failed and were failed by those supposed to teach them.

Thursday will see the parents being confronted with the products of their own selfish existences and they will witness how Fabians in their vice like grip over education have corrupted learning to the very core.

Stand by for some interesting articles in the press next weekend. Parents are about to receive a strong dose of the same medicine the State has been force feeding their children for the past 40 years

Vengence is NOT Justice

2011-06-24T16:32:00.003+01:00

NO NO NO NO NO

No sooner is the murderous wife beating father of 11 sentenced to never be released do other “Libertarians” demand the reintroduction of the State death penalty.

To hand the 650 corrupt, spiteful, vindictive law making Politicians in OUR Parliament the power of execution over us, the citizens, is frankly beyond my comprehension

Murder is a vile crime, the murder of a teenage girl even more disgusting and there are plenty of people on my shit list (not least the QC who took such delight in destroying the family of Millie Dowler that he even links to it on his website) but to hand “lawful murder” to those who rule us.

The answer of course, is simple. Allow us to defend ourselves. with lethal force whilst taking the consequences. Manners improve dramatically when you relaise the person you are squaring up to and planning to stab for asking you not to throw chips at other passengers on the bus may well be the last person you ever bully.

Don’t hand the power of life and death back to those who took ours away. Vengence is NOT justice.

The Cards are on the table. At last

2011-06-21T10:48:00.002+01:00

The Cards are on the table and now we will find out who is bluffing.

The IMF, European Central Bank and a large selection of French and German banks have decided that if their “investments” are unlikely to be repaid by the Greeks then the European taxpayer must cover the losses.

Sarkozy and Merkel both know that the Euro project will fail if the ECB fails (and fail it should, no bank should lend what it doesn’t have) but both are frightened stiff that demanding the taxpayer cover the losses the banks will make might rock their gravy train and show the entire Euro project to be built on sand, backed up by taxpayers with guns to their heads.

We all know the answer for Greece is to stop greedily sucking on the Welfare tit of the EU, pretending that they are as rich as Germans, dump the debt, reissue the Drachma and get used to farming goats and melons again. Or “cutting their cloth” as the phrase used to go.

Since the end of the 2nd World War, Politicians have been bribing us with our own money, and when they ran out of that, the banks simply invented more to “lend” us. Our future labour has long been sold as “bonds” and the gold stuff that backed it all up was sold off to pay for more public sector jobs and votes a decade ago.

Take a good look around you. This explosion of “invisible credit/debt” has built great things. Motorways, airports, fat farmers, a ruling elite, banks more powerful than nation states and endless wars. The “entitlement” classes, something unheard of 70 years ago are now demanding that free “care workers” attend to their elderly parents every need whilst they push “enforcement” papers around a council office to repay the loan on the BMW sitting on the drive. The State has never been bigger and intrudes into every single thing we do, eat, earn, save, own, say or think. Our earnings are stripped of any value by taxes, fines, levies and interest. Bankers and Politicians dividing the spoils of greedy exploitation of the masses with “shiny things” equally. Corporations corrupting the very democracies we fought wars to build.

And in the words of my alter ego, V,

“If you are looking for someone to blame, you need only look in the mirror”

We, just like the Greeks, were seduced by easy credit and greasy Politicians. It didn’t matter that our manufacturing or industry was decimated as long as our entitlement to a behemoth Welfare state was left intact. Who needs to work, in fact, who even needs a job anymore? The State has long since replaced the family unit as a stable foundation to a fruitful and purposeful life. Any charities that genuinely helped the vulnerable was snapped up by Social services to ensure that the vulnerable were kept vulnerable and grateful for State handouts.

I will be leaving the UK. I simply do not wish to be part of this great pantomime anymore. I’m sure it will continue in one guise or another, just as I’m sure if the banks offered enough credit, we would all be “force counselled” by a diversity coordinator who arrives in a new Council BMW. My faith in the British to simply say "no" has expired. They are whores to Politicians, whores to Corporations, whores to Banks, fatally addicted to the Welfare state and unable to take responsibilty or be self reliant. They are complicit slaves to a system designed to enslave them whilst their masters meet on luxury yachts to decide how to extract more juice from the lemons on the EU plantation.

My plans are being set in motion. It will not involve iPads or credit cards. It will not include “planning permission” or licenses from the State or a rabid addiction to public sector borrowing or a shiny new BMW. It will not involve fake paper money or a desperate, gasping attempt to appear more successful in life than my neighbour. No Gucci, no endless TV demanding I consume yet more otherwise the Ponzi scheme will fail. It will involve living the life I want, not the life they are hell bent on imposing upon us all. True, peaceful revolution in every sense of the word. Not of others, but of me.

I’ll keep you posted

Minimum wage is actually £1.65. Enforced by the State

2011-06-17T16:07:00.002+01:00

Much gnashing of teeth by all and sundry today over a suggestion by Philip Davies MP that disabled people should have the choice to sell their labour for less than £5.93, the national minimum wage. Cruel, heartless, Victorian, they say.

It may be worth noting that rich countries with highly developed societies do not rely on the State to impose a minimum wage. Denmark, Finland, Norway, Switzerland and Germany don’t have a minimum wage. Unlike Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, who do.

I find it evil that a state can force you to do nothing rather than earn £5.92 an hour selling the one thing that belongs to you. Your labour. You MUST sit at home on £1.65 an hour instead. Paid by “the State” (other taxpayers). Right now, we are paying 2.4 Million people nearly £4 Million an hour to do nothing, instead of them earning themselves £14 Million an hour.

Because minimum wage creates poverty. It creates clients for a welfare state. And it allows politicians to bribe you with your own money in handouts. Imagine if they imposed a minimum price for housing?

If you want to be free, then be free to sell your labour for it’s true value. Rich people do. Ask the Swiss.

Majestic Silence

2011-06-17T11:19:00.003+01:00

I’m a republican.

Not because I detest the accident of birth that perpetuates the undemocratic concept that a “head of State” is born, not that money is extracted from us (£200M a year), under threat of violence to pay for their luxury existences and not even because I am required to be a “subject” to their authority by having the misfortune to be born in the UK.

I object to the very concept that one human may rule over another.

I’ll admit, the monarchy does not intrude into my daily life much, certainly not as much as the shenanigans of the 650 idiots in Parliament with their endless law making, vested interests and corruption but the Queen, as unelected head of State is ultimately where the buck stops.

I can see where the concept of monarchy came from and frankly, the chances of Prince Charles leading an army into Brussels to protect his subjects from European tyranny are pretty remote. Whilst loyal (ie. useful) subjects were rewarded with lands (and the indentured serfs who lived on them), it is now watered down to little gongs on bits of ribbon and a mention in the local papers.

Yet our land is still owned by the distant relatives of William of Normandy who plundered us a thousand years ago, taxes and subsidies are still levied on huge swathes of the UK based on ancient conquests of the royal inner circle and patronage of those who further the “will” of the monarchy is still rewarded by the House of Windsor.

Of course, we have free speech in this country (we don’t) and (almost) the right to protest, so it surprised me little to see that a protest by fellow republicans outside a house paid for by the taxpayer should be banned on the principle that it might embarrass the inhabitant – the richest woman in the UK.

Care to join me outside Brenda’s council house on the 25th of June to remind her who actually pays for it all?

Winner takes all.

2011-06-16T08:33:00.002+01:00

Greece has always been poor. It's a country of goat herders and melon growers. Since the early 90's, successive Socialist and Communist politicians have raised living standards by simply borrowing money. Entry to the EU provided yet more "infrastructure grants" and raised living standards further as it soaked up "free" money from Brussels.

Along came the Euro, which Greek politicians held up as the new standard of civilisation, the melon farmers and goat herders were now as rich as their cousins in Germany, without all the effort, or taxes that built the German state.

Of course, the bankers sat back and lent as much as they were asked to lend. An Olympic stadium? No problem. Ports and airports? Sign here. Politicians lined their pockets and basked in the glory whilst the Greeks retired at 50 and ordered new BMWs. From their cousins. With credit provided by their nephews, the French. One happy family.

The bills racked up and still no one could explain how Greece was going to pay all this money back. Unimportant, as long as Brussels could point to shiny new motorways and wind farms.

And now, the cold hard truth is out there. Not only does Greece have no money, it NEVER had any money. The banks were always hedging their bets that Brussels would bail them out should the Greek secret become known and Brussels always knew that the glorious Euro project would force other nations to support the poor relative if required.

Well, the shit is about to hit the fan. German and French banks want their money back and they know they can't get it from Greeks. If Greece simply defaults, French and German banks, along with the European Central Bank will fail. The consequences will be catastrophic. The Euro will plummet, shares will plummet and the whole ponzi scheme will be exposed.

If Greece doesn't default, someone other than banks will have to find the money to keep the goat herders accustomed to this wonderful new standard of living before they burn their Parliament to the ground and hang their politicians. And that will be you, me and the Germans. Money will be taken from our pockets and handed to French and German bankers. Meanwhile, the Greeks will hire more diversity coordinators and the Euro will limp on until the next country has the bailiffs knocking.

This IS new socialism. This is how they redistribute your wealth. Via the banks, who are only too happy to play their part. Take from the taxpayer and hand to the banks who handed to the Socialists. Fiendishly simple.

There IS no crisis. The Greeks will still herd goats and grow melons, as they always have. No one will starve. They will adjust to life without new motorways and BMWs. The only crisis is within the cabal of bankers and EU politicians who have shown their hand too early.

Stand back and watch the fireworks. This may well be something your grandchildren will study in school.

God told me to do it...

2011-06-14T17:39:00.003+01:00

How often do we reach for the straight jacket when the next in a long line of unstable fruitbats appears in the dock after stabbing/eating/raping/shooting another human being to plead that "God told me to do it"?

We shake our heads that anyone could be so fucked up as to actually believe that an imaginary sky pixie was ordering them to harm another human being. And off they go to the funny farm and we all breath a sigh of relief in the knowledge that the world is just a little safer.

So why the uproar when it is suggested that San Francisco is about to ban the mutilation of an infants penis by parents who shout "God told me to do it"? I am against most bans except when they protect a child WHO HAS NO RELIGION to be violently assaulted with a knife by parents who are deluded enough to believe they must, or endure the wrath of their sky pixie.

Do what you want to your body when you are a consenting adult. It is yours, it belongs to you. You certainly do NOT have the authority (religious or otherwise) to mutilate an infant with a knife, regardless of your "freedom of religion". If we cannot protect 5 day old infants from their knife wielding parents, then we should empty the prisons of those who assault grown adults with knives.

Aid to India cancelled...

2011-06-13T11:54:00.004+01:00

All it takes is shouting the right thing at the right person. The one spending your money

The Government has come under pressure to explain why British taxpayers are giving millions to countries like India at a time of public sector cuts.

£800M saved. No need to thank me. @Sunny_Hundal will be FURIOUS

where Angels fear to tread

2011-06-09T21:04:00.002+01:00

I was out with Guido today, attending the "Tea for Change" lobby which is demanding that even MORE than £16 billion a year of your tax money is handed over to all and sundry in the 3rd world so that they too, may own iPads and therefore reach "equality" with us filthy capitalists in the West.

I spoke with various delegates and all them had no answer to my simple question:

Why are you demanding people on minimum wage here fund a nation that has a £1 billion a year space program and more nuclear weapons than us?

All of them umm and ahh'ed. Really. Not one could answer. And then, they threw us out. And then they attacked the man, not the message.

The reason Old Holborn stays anonymous, despite offers of TV and newspaper columns is that anyone can be Old Holborn and Old Holborn could be anyone. I will not be attacked for anything but my message. Feel free to act in my name, all you need is a Guy Fawkes mask. Or a spacesuit.

If you are tired of politics, then it's up to you to change it. You have the internet, you have the vote and you have your voice. Use them. There really are only 650 of them.

Tea Time for Taxpayers, Tomorrow

2011-06-08T16:15:00.005+01:00

Tomorrow will see an interesting event at Westminster Hall.

Whilst the UK is finally being weaned off hand outs from the treasury and slowly learning that Politicians have been bribing us with our own money and borrowing madly when they ran out of it, charities have been screaming that their handouts from the public purse are being reduced. Of course, the logical option would be to raise funds themselves, but alas, the last 13 years have seen them grow into bloated de facto Government Departments (with none of the accountability of course), unable to survive on donations alone.

So Action Aid (£65M), Cafod (£49M), Christian Aid (£104M), Oxfam (£318M), Save the Children (£7M) and Tearfund (£65M) are lobbying Westminster for yes, you guessed it, MORE taxpayers money.

The "Tea Time For Change" campaign will meet at Central Hall, Westminster at 11am, hosted by the man who is giving "developing nations" £16 BILLION of our money (ring fenced via DFID), Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International Development and that bastion of "equality,""Harriet Harperson, shadow secretary of International Development.

On the agenda, naturally is the Robin Hood Tax, whereby every financial transaction you choose to make will incur a levy, to be handed to "developing nations", a "living wage" in 3rd world countries and of course to ensure that 0.7% of GNI is taken, by force, from taxpayers, every year to fund bizarre schemes in fly blown hell holes across the planet. - including handing India £280 million a year in "aid" whilst they spend over £1,000 million on a space programme and donate Aid themselves to China.

At worst, Aid is a corrupt method of handing out taxpayers money to ensure that our weapons manufacturers and corporations will be handed it straight back in orders, with profits going to shareholders and at best, it is a ruinous path to "global government", with "fabian" equality for all, subsidised via your pocket.

I will be in attendance, along with Guido Fawkes, to lobby against the raiding of the public purse, without our consent, to pay for the vanity projects of Politicians.

11am, Westminster Arms, just across the road from the Commons.

Charity is voluntary. It is NOT a government department. If your cause is just, you will raise the cash you need by appealing to the good nature of individuals who have earned their money (see RNLI for further details). If you feel you have a right to raise taxes, without consent, to fund your "charity", I will be there to remind you who earned it and who it belongs to.

See you there.

Prevention Better Than Cure

2011-06-06T20:06:00.005+01:00

I am not Old Holborn

I don't often make a habit out of reading newspapers, I generally get my news online via the various news outlets, why spend money on the crap they spew? Yes, every so often newspapers come up with the goods but hardly worth buying a whole paper for really.

I commute most days, and on the odd occasion I pick up a London Evening Standard, simply because it's free and it gives me something to do while the train operating company I use tries to spunk our taxes away by trying not to provide a service. I don't spend a lot of time reading the paper, it's just something to do really. I generally just sit and turn page after page until a story catches my eye.

Today was one of those days where not only did I pick up a paper, but a story poked it's fetid head out at me too. It took two reads before what I'd read actually dawned over me. The red mist descended quickly.

Britain isn't so much becoming a police state, it's becoming a state of spies, something akin to Nazi Germany and subsequently East Germany.

Look!

Earlier today Holby wrote about how the government is going to start regulating the clothes our children wear. That pales in comparison to this. In my opinion anyway. In the end they'll have everyone spying on everyone else, perpetuating fear because of that new “Boogey Man” terrorism.

HOSPITALS will be told to identify patients and staff who could be engaged in extremism, under a new government counter-terrorism blueprint to be unveiled tomorrow. The "Prevent" strategy, drawn up by Home Secretary Theresa May, will tell doctors and NHS bosses that they have an ethical duty to alert police if they suspect radicalism.

Emphasis mine. Since when did doctors, nurse and orderlies become part of the security forces? And why?

I have many problems with the NHS, and this is a gross generalisation, but fair I believe, the NHS is a cluster-fuck, it is over managed and it often under performs. If they can't get THAT right how the bloody hell are we to expect them to get this right? A doctor's first priority is the health of his or her patient. It certainly is NOT to determine whether the poor bastard who is pissing blood out of his eyeballs is an extremist.

I suppose though that I shouldn't be surprised that they've gone down this avenue. Anyone who has spent a night in A&E will have dealt with the triage nurse before seeing a doctor, the triage nurse determines which cases get priority, sometimes, they get it wrong. What I'm trying to get across here is that they have to make a quick decision based on what they think. I have absolutely no confidence in them getting this right. At all.

One aim is to ensure patients whose mental health problems lead them to adopt extremist ideas are stopped before they commit acts of violence.

Emphasis mine again. I find that paragraph scary. Am I the only one?

The new approach follows the involvement of Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla in the failed bomb attacks on Tiger Tiger nightclub in London and Glasgow airport in 2007. He was jailed for life the next year for conspiracy to murder and cause explosions.

So this extreme measure is because of the actions of one person. The old addage and title of this post is: “Prevention is Better than Cure”.

I have a message for Theresa May:

You can prevent this from happening without becoming a quasi Soviet state in one simple step.

Don't let the fuckers in, in the first place!

Sir Olly

The Holy Church of Government

2011-06-06T13:27:00.003+01:00

No, the temptation was just too great (sic). I couldn’t help myself, it was just so, so attractive, you know, to have all that power over something so weak and helpless, something I could manipulate, make do as I wished, you know, like, utterly control...

Not the words of Paedophile but a Politician, desperate to indulge their fetish of “making the public do as I say” and knee jerking after calls from vested interest groups to stop “ the sexualisation” of children.

Ban this, stop that, forbid this because it’s always worked in the past. Never mind the reason WHY children are becoming sexualized, never mind that it’s up to parents, you know the ones who actually created the child and will pay for it as it grows up, no, Ms Nanny State has to been seen to be in control, even though nothing could be further from the truth.

You see, we, as parents are not responsible enough to be trusted to raise children. Some parents, in their mad rush to watch X Factor, buy the Sun, consume more shite and appear on Big Brother, as is the new religion, have been neglecting the needs of their children to follow the path set by Politicians. You don’t have to do a thing, the State can do that all for you. If you encounter problems, the State can offer a myriad of “services” to doubleplusundo whatever damage you mistakenly feel has happened. You are not to blame. Society is not to blame, Gangsta rappers are not to blame. Government is not to blame. So Government needs to get involved and tell you how to dress your children. Well, not tell exactly, LEGISLATE.

Instead of trying to understand that the reason a bra exists for a seven year old is that society is so shallow, to stand out in a crowd, a child must look and act like an adult, ready for their first audition on “the only way to make big money these days is look and act dumb , get drunks and get your tits out” and deal with it, no, instead it is going to ban burqas whilst insisting your child wears one to protect them from the prying eyes of us "filthy adults."

Sars, Bird Flu, Paedophiles, Islam, Bean Sprouts, Aids, Global Warming, poverty, weather, speeding, smoking, drinking, TV, Cinema, travel, housing, diets…there is NO part of the future of you or your child that the Government does not seek to control in its entirety through simple fear. "The public are their own worst enemy, we must protect them from themselves"

Government is the new religion and according to them we’re all headed straight to hell. No wonder we’re fighting the “oppressive” Taliban. We’re two heads of the same coin.

Ihre Papiere Bitte!

2011-06-03T09:09:00.002+01:00

I remember back in the days when we were regularly told by the Media that the people of the Soviet Union were enslaved by their governments, not allowed to speak out, elections were rigged or only ever had one candidate, criticise the party and your house, your job, your pension were gone. "How awful it must be to live under such a regime" we were told, not free to travel about, meet up with friends.

Trillions were spent on Defence systems to make sure the evil Reds could never inflict their restrictive authoritarian systems on us, the Free, in the West.

I wonder why we bothered. I just got a press release from West Midlands Police stating that between Friday 27 May to Thursday 27 October 2011, they will enforce an order allowing the dispersal of two or more people if their behaviour is deemed "anti Social".

Freedom of movement and Association have consistently been abused by our beloved "Police Service". From ASBOS banning people from walking the streets of their own town, to super injunctions shutting the mouths of the masses, we are where the Soviets were.

Hyperbole? I think not. Just because the masses ignore it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Government for the Elite, by the Elite. And don't you forget it.

Simon Cowell censors the Internet

2011-06-02T20:23:00.003+01:00

I have no idea what is going on. I was reading something on the interweb and then it went away.

This is what I was reading

BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT and the RONAN PARKE CONNECTION

For reasons which will become obvious, I can't reveal my full identity. But let me just say that, I am an executive with Sony Music UK with many years experience in music mangement. My work involves close liasion with Simon Cowell's SYCO company (specifically SYCO Music and SYCO TV) and, as a result, I have seen what goes on from the inside and this has left me increasingly uncomfortable about the integrity of Britain's Got Talent and particularly the workings of SYCO.

It's long been known that there is a quite a degree of "fixing" in BGT. ( Daily Mail http://bit.ly/fxkWne ) But press reports on "fixing" are only the tip pf the iceberg when it comes to SYCO's manipulation of, not only the show and the contestants, but also the viewing public and hopefully, in this email, I can shine some light on the smoke and mirrors trickery of SYCO.

Take BGT 2011 for example. Scouts working for SYCO first saw Ronan Parke (the 12 year old singer) some two years ago when he was just 10 and was singing at a birthday party for former Norwich City goal-keeper, Bryan Gunn. Following that, Ronan was privately auditioned by SYCO scouts on two more occasions and, as is usual practice on BGT, he was "invited" to audition for the show as a "preferred" contestant. At the same time, Ronan and his parents were "required" to enter into a contract with SYCO. Like all SYCO contracts, it is heavily weighted in favour of the label and are notoriously bad, even in the cut-throat world of the music industry. Simon effectively signed Ronan for life and he's got little or no chance of ever getting out of it...unless Simon decides to terminate. Recording contracts are legally extremely complex and usually require input and advice from very expensive, specialist contract lawyers. SYCO knows that such legal advice goes well beyond the means of most contestants. As one senior SYCO executive said to me recently. "These people are mugs. They'll sign away their own mother just to get on tv. It's a fucking turkey-shoot and then we own their arses!"

As is common for "invited" contestants that SYCO likes and have already signed, Ronan and his parents were provided with a car to drive them to the audition in London. These "invited" contestants don't have to queue up with everyone else, they don't go through the preliminary auditions with producers, but perform straight to Simon and the judging panel at a prearranged
time-slot. And so it was for Ronan back in 2009 when he was just 10.

It was at this initial audition that I first met Ronan and he looked very different back then. He was a skinny, 10 year old lad who, even at that time, was a bit effeminate. His voice needed a bit of working on, but that wouldn't be a problem.

Unfortunately, nerves got the better of Ronan and he was unable to perform. Simon however, had already seen the audition tapes from the scouts and took Ronan into an unused dressing room and got him to sing in there with his mum for support.

Clearly Ronan was not going to be part of BGT in 2009 and nothing from this was ever televised.
Ordinarily, you would think that would be the end of things, but with Ronan already signed to SYCO, far from it. This was just the start of a two year grooming and manipulation process to prepare Ronan for stardom.

It's no big secret that Simon has been looking for an artist who could crack the very lucrative pre-teen market for some time, particularly in the US. If you like, he wanted his own rival to Bieber and, taking a leaf out of how professional football academies develop youngersters to feed their main team, Simon wanted his own singing academy and Ronan was just one of a number of identified youngsters, with whom SYCO intensively works with.

A development package, which included professional singing, dancing and stage-craft tuition was arranged for Ronan and the SYCO machine kicked into gear with the view of Ronan entering BGT 2010. Lots of work had been done with Ronan and his voice was much improved, unfortunately nerves were still a major issue for him and it was decided by SYCO not to
enter him into the 2010 series. At a following senior exec meeting at SYCO it was suggested that Ronan be dropped, but with Simon confident that he could be the kid he had been looking for, it was agreed that Ronan would receive "intensive support and input" to ready him for the 2011 series. Although Ronan's voice was now stunning, there were other major problems to be dealt with in order to sell him to the public. With respect to Ronan, he was nothing more than a cooky-looking, skinny runt of a kid and this was identified as a major handicap to sales.

It was agreed at a high-level, secret SYCO meeting, that if they were to do anything with Ronan, he needed totally restyling from the toes up. And so with time running out to develop Ronan into the star Simon wanted, SYCO went into overdrive.

Ronan was even given speech and elocution training to rid him of his rural Norfolk accent, again in preparation for the potential US market. As for his effeminate and girlishness, this posed a bigger problem and resulted in many highly confidential meetings. At one of these meetings, the unthinkable was raised as a way forward....

Until now Ronan had been encouraged to "boy-up" and it was planned to present Ronan as an everyday skater-boy. But with his girliness still showing through, the image just wasn't believable. So a decision was taken to encourage and allow Ronan to "release" and enhance his campness . Disgustingly, SYCO planned to sexualise him. They were well aware of course, that if they sexualised a young girl to look sexually older than she is, all hell would let loose. But with Ronan, as one executive put it, "no one has ever seen a 'gay' kid before, it'll be a novelty." As for the pre-teen market, it was accepted they wouldn't care if Ronan appeared gay or not...most probably don't know what gay is anyway. And so, with a total gaysexualisation of Ronan secretly planned, SYCO got to work. I should stress, Ronan's parents were not aware of any of this
and were never consulted about Ronan's development or management. When I first met Ronan he was a bit effeminate in his ways, but nothing like the camp, girlie-giggling kid you see now on BGT and this is a direct result of SYCO's styling. Even his clothing worn at the audition and live semi-final were chosen for him by SYCO to match his new image.

SYCO took over everything to do with Ronan. His hairstyle, his clothes, his poise, giving tv interviews, you name it, Ronan was styled within an inch of his life and all on the promise of stardom, just as long as he worked hard and listened to his mentors. As for Ronan's parents they were constantly reassured that Simon was personally looking after Ronan and "it's all good".

And so to BGT 2011. With Ronan ready to be unveiled, SYCO bosses, under instructions from Simon did something not done in previous series of BGT; the winner of BGT 2011 was decided long before the first auditions took place and that winner HAD to be Ronan Parke. With Ronan now 12, he looked and sounded just as SYCO had planned, but time was running out. Soon Ronan would be going into puberty and his voice would eventually break, so BGT 2011 had to be the vehicle to launch Ronan's career; another year and as a singer he would probably be beyond any meaningful career and the opportunity will have been missed. With all this investment in Ronan, the production managers at SYCO TV are ready to deliver Ronan as ordered. Again, I need to stress, Ronan and his parents know nothing of this and have no idea Ronan will win BGT this weekend.

So far in the history of BGT and X-Factor, for that matter, no one has ever won who has not been an "invited or preferred" contestant, and it does sadden me that, all those thousands of people, lining up outside, often in the rain and cold, are basically wasting their time. The producers of BGT are not looking for the talented people, they aready have those. The reality is that the producers are hunting out oddities, freaks and, I'm ashamed to say, mentally ill people, to act as amusing fillers in the audition shows. They are nothing more than unpaid extras and they don't even qualify for traveling expenses!

It's quite disgusting and shameful really, how the production team on BGT operate. People come from all over the country, often at great personal expense, because they think BGT is a talent competition and they stand a chance of realising their dreams. I can tell you from the inside that BGT is no more a "competition", than I am an astronaut. Nothing is left to chance on BGT, everything is micro-managed, choreographed, manipulated and planned down to the last detail including, the telephone voting.

The ability to manipulate viewers opinion is vital if you are to control telephone voting and indeed get the required result.

SYCO see this as essential to the success of the show and are very open about fact; planning and delivering live shows of quality is impossible if it was purely left to the public vote. As Simon said in a meeting once. "The public NEED to be told who to vote for." Everything on BGT is geared towards telling you who you should for, particularly on the production side. It's an art really, which Simon has honed to perfection and SYCO are now world leaders at.

The micro-management of Ronan's audition performance was incredible. I was really quite shocked at his new image. From a starting point of wanting Ronan to look cute for the pre-teen market, SYCO had totally gayed him up in the process. Ronan's not a 16 year old expressing his sexualty for the first time, he's a 12 year old boy. It was horrible and I was very uncomfortable as to where this was going to end. Ronan, still suffering from nerves, performed his song and received a standing ovation from all three judges...why? Because it was in the script to give Ronan a standing ovation. As for Louis comment. "Ronan Parke. Remember that name. This kid's gonna be a star!!" - that was actually fed to him from the production gallery and I know the guy who wrote the line. And when it comes to Ronan's tears...well, check it out on YouTube or something. You see Ronan crying and wiping away tears. Only you don't see any actual tears, not even on close-up and on an HD tv. Yep you guessed it, even that was choreographed, right down to the lip-biting!

It was also interesting to see that even before the final credits rolled on Ronan's audition show, SYCO TV had uploaded the offical video of Ronan onto YouTube. Today, that particular video has been viewed over 2.5 million times and growing.

SYCO don't do that for other contestants, so why Ronan? The gaying-up Ronan plan slightly backfired on SYCO when lots of negative comments were being posted on YouTube and Twitter about Ronan's image and the supposed sexuality that represents. Things got so bad on YouTube that the posting of comments had to be suspended. But SYCO learned from this and dressed Ronan more appropriately for his semi-final show; preferring a much more Bieber inspired look to the 'gaykid' image presented in the audition.

In another unusal move for BGT contestants, SYCO created Ronan's Official Facebook Fan Page and Twitter account. Both these services are managed from within SYCO and they post messages and pictures, not Ronan. This is because they don't want Ronan posting anything controversial and is standard practice for currrent artists signed to SYCO.

And so this weekend will see Ronan crowned as winner of BGT 2011. Oh and let's not forget the £100k prize money. It's unlikely Ronan will see much or any of that. He's been signed to SYCO for two years now and under the terms of his contract, while SYCO stump-up for costs in advance, this is paid back from future earnings. So he will need to pay for all those lessons, coaches, cars, clothes, styling and management... I wouldn't be surprised even after winning BGT, if he is not still in debt to SYCO.

As a recording artist Ronan has a relatively short shelf-life. Simon knows he is going to have to hit the ground running to maximise Ronan's earning potential, particularly if they go ahead with a planned break into the States and the pace is going to be frantic for Ronan. If you think the music industry is bad in the UK, you haven't seen anything until you experience it Stateside.

With an "anything goes" attitude all morals have long since gone out of the window. There will be no allowance for Ronan's age and he will be expected to perform on late- night shows and dinners etc. And if he get exhausted, there's always some sleaze-bag on hand ready to put a line of coke under his nose. I've seen it a million times.

I know for a fact, that the songs have already been chosen for Ronan's debut single and album, and that the backing and drum tracks have already been laid down.

Of course, once Ronan's voice breaks, it's game-over and he will be commercially redundant for a few years. By the time he gets through that, the world will have moved on and his fan-base will have grown-up a bit. Will he make a comeback? In my experience I'd say probably not.

I've met Ronan a few times over the past couple of years. He's a really nice kid with a generous, warm personality and the most wonderfully cute, girlie-giggle. There's nothing to not like about Ronan. He's a really sensitive soul and this comes across as him being a bit effeminate. But in a world of thuggish chavs, Ronan's a real breath of fresh air really and a real delight to chat to. Do I think Ronan's gay? No, is the short answer to that. SYCO have got a lot to answer for in their initial styling and image for Ronan. Like many 12 year old boys, Ronan may have issues in coming to terms with his sexuality in a couple of years. But right now, he's just a great kid...a bit different, I admit...but a great kid just the same.

I hope Ronan is not damaged by this experience, unforunately, history warns otherwise...but whatever, the genie is already out of the bottle and come this weekend, Ronan's life will change forever. Whether it's a good or bad experience being a 12 year old star in today's music industry, only time will tell. But as an industry insider I have serious reservations about what is about to happen to Ronan Parke and I doubt he or his family are ready for what's coming.

Thanks to my friends on Twitter and Facebook for getting this document out. Without you my voice would be silent.

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Anon
Sony Music UK

Am I merely your servant whilst you pretend to be mine?

2011-05-31T09:25:00.003+01:00

Hi Brooks,

You’re my Member of Parliament apparently. Not that I vote, or am even registered to vote, you understand, I can’t be doing with it. Let’s be honest, you’re not there to represent me or my wishes, that’s why you joined a political party. So that you can represent the interests of the party in Government, whatever they may be.

I digress. You won the election, even though most people in Braintree didn’t vote to be represented by you in Parliament so now I’d like to ask you a very simple question.

How do I withdraw my consent to be governed by you?

I’ll assume you believe that the population are governed by consent and not force, so how do I withdraw mine? You see, I don’t want anyone to represent me in Parliament. I want to be free of other people assuming responsibility on my behalf, making laws on my behalf and raising taxes on my behalf. I want to be free of all the Statutes and Acts you guys spend your days creating “on my behalf”, “with my consent”.

I’m not an anarchist or a troublemaker, I’m just asking you a simple question.

How do I withdraw my consent to be governed?

Or MUST I be governed and taxed? I know if I refuse to pay whatever taxes you decide are in my best interests, you will put me in prison, I know if I refuse to abide by whatever laws you decide are in my best interests, you will put me in prison and I’ve decided, actually, that’s not a very good deal. Not in “my best interests” you might say.

Before you decide that MY paying taxes is in the best interests of everyone else, remember that I was born a free man, not a labouring serf to whom you can dictate that half my labour must be used for the betterment of others, or else I will go to jail. That is akin to slavery or bonded labour, something made illegal in 1956 by the UN. I demand nothing of Government and in return, ask that it demands nothing of me.

Well, Brooks? Am I free or am I only free to attempt to choose my master who will inflict his laws and his taxes upon me in an election? In which case I am not free and my labour belongs to the State, regardless of which political party holds office. A bonded labourer if you prefer.

I await your response. Please don’t use the “you are free to find somewhere else to live” argument, I was born here, here I will stay, and am perfectly capable of governing myself thanks. So, how do I withdraw my consent to be governed by you or Parliament and NOT be thrown in prison by you? Am I free or am I trapped in what Conservatives used to call a "closed shop"? Am I merely your servant whilst you pretend to be mine?

Write to YOUR MP and see what response you get. Hat Tip to TPUC