Slideh…

Foolish kittehs..

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AJ

Puppies Eaten. Tasted Alright.

Spotted at http://www.utterzebu.com/blog

Another animal charity who are much more interested in pushing an ideology than actually caring for, or saving, animals.

For PETA has its own animal shelter. Its aim presumably, is to find people to adopt discarded cats and dogs. In ten years, however, over 22,000 animals have been killed there. A rapidly declining adoption rate saw just 7 animals from PETA’s shelter finding homes last year out of a total of 2,216. The rest, 95% of the cats and dogs it was looking after, were all put down.

It may seem unbelievable, but the proof is in this report dated January 2009.

We spoke to the Battersea Cats and Dogs Home. They would not say what rate of adoption they achieve, but when we revealed the “success” rate at PETA’s shelter, there was a loud gasp of disbelief.

Between them and the RSPCA, animals have never been better ‘looked after’.

AJ

Labour wreckers again…

So, for better or for worse, we the taxpayer own circa 75% of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Much hoo-hah is underway about the matter of bonuses for the big boys at RBS.

Plenty has been written in support of these bonuses, which boils down to this: If you cap the bonuses, the best and brightest will bugger off elsewhere, where their earnings won’t be artificially limited. That will leave RBS without the skilled people required to get the bank back on its feet and viable again as a private business. We need RBS to be a viable business again ASAP, so we can sell it to make back the money of ours Gordon Brown threw at RBS last year.

And a bunch of thick lefty wreckers are launching a campaign to disrupt RBS’ retail banking business. You know – the side of the business that had FUCK ALL to do with the disastrous state of things.

And who would be at the helm of this fuckwittery? That coronary explosion in waiting, John Fucking Prescott.

Thick cunts. No doubt BevaniteEllie will be all over this bandwagon like a whore on an oligarchs lap.

AJ

UPDATE: Dungeekin has dun us proud once more.

Join me for Undead Blogging of Question Time…

Apparently, Dimblebum was a Bullingdon boy, you know. Well I never, said I.

AJ – Pioneering Sleep Blogging.

Perfect Labour Material…

In the confected pre-election class war we’re entering into, Sally Bercow (Illman), the wife of Speaker John Bercow is a glistening beacon of Labour propaganda.

This political serpent with mammaries, first came onto my radar when CF relayed news of the hot water of her nebulously crafted CV had got her into.

The wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow was sacked from a leading City firm after it claimed she had lied about having a degree from Oxford University.

Sally Bercow was dismissed by public relations business Consolidated Communications after it contacted the Oxford authorities and discovered they had not granted her a degree.

The company accused her of having lied on her CV. It also claimed that Mrs Bercow – who at the time was known by her maiden name, Sally Illman – had used ‘multiple CVs’ with different ‘facts’ about her past on each one.

Via various twatterings, I know she she’s given an interview to the Evening StanLaurel, which contains some quite revolting quotes.

While I am not going to cast judgement on her lush cavorting past (glass houses etc), I do think that since she seeks public office, what she thinks now and how her personality influence her politics are important.

Just one line in the part of the interview that deals with her past stands out for me as worth reposting:

A boyfriend warned her that she was behaving badly while drunk. "I said he was being sexist and misogynist. My response was to attack him rather than think about the truth."

Okay.. one more. Think ‘Zeal of the Convert’, and what that likely entails in her future proclamations on the eeeevils of booze.

She stopped drinking abruptly in October 2000, "because it wasn’t fun any more. I went to AA for a couple of meetings. It was very helpful at first. But I thought I could give it up myself: and I did. Never touched a drop since".

So why also the fuss over this flibbertigibbet?

Now she’s trying to become a Labour councillor in a Pimlico ward that is solid Tory and has her eyes on a Parliamentary seat at the next election.

Right, so…

He’s still very Eurosceptic, I’m pro-European.

"I’m really keen on Harriet Harman and her equality agenda – she’s done such a lot to advance the cause of women and I completely agree on her all-women shortlists: they transformed the Labour Party.

"I don’t even want to send the children to the grammars in John’s constituency. I’m strongly against selection, because it entrenches privilege."

And in spite of her having, on account of an inheritance, attended Marlborough College and Oxford:

"Deep down, I do think the Tory party is for the privileged few and what it stands for isn’t in the interests of most ordinary people."

In remarks that will grate with the Tory leadership, she says she doubts his commitment to the public services. "They’re not really interested in opportunity for all. He has his children at state school now but let’s see what happens at secondary level. There’s not a real commitment to the state sector among the Tories. The vast majority of the shadow cabinet send their children privately."

And plenty of the cabinet too, dear, like your esteemed Hattie…

In 1996, Harman sent her younger son, Joseph, to the non-Catholic St Olave’s Grammar School, Orpington, after she had sent her eldest son, Harry, to a Catholic grant-maintained school the London Oratory School, on the grounds that her family were Catholic. This appeared to go against the spirit of the pledge by David Blunkett not to increase selective education. Harman said of her choice: "This is a state school that other children in my son’s class will be going to. That he has got in has got absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I am an MP. Any child in Southwark can apply, many go and admission is open to every child in Southwark irrespective of money or who their parents are.".^[32]

There’s sure to be amusement ahead, as it becomes clear that:

In this class war, Labour are on the side of those with none.

On a more superficial note, Conservative media handlers will be on high alert to make sure she doesn’t get on the same platform as poor old Nadine Dorries:

Sally Shagger

  
Nadine rushed from the chamber shouting
“I’ve gotta fly – Bingo starts at 3.”

Know what I mean?

AJ

UPDATE: No sooner have I clicked Publish than a new update comes via @sscrltt on twatter.

Mad Nad is already there with her claws. Protesteth too much? Lol…

Nadine Dorries, a Tory MP who opposed Mr Bercow’s selection as Speaker, said: “We desperately need to restore both authority and respect to Parliament. What this interview has done is remove any painstaking progress Parliament has made and reduced the Speaker and his office to that of a laughing stock. How can we ask the people to trust us, when the man who holds us to account has such poor judgment that he allowed his wife to give such an appalling self obsessed interview?”

Self obsessed? Ha! Politician, vote for thyself.

Bare faced cheek and double-standards…

Since the Labour agenda in the run up to the election is to paint the Tories as a bunch of toffee-noses old Etonians, it’s with great pleasure (and not a little audacity) that I reproduce a list painstakingly drawn together by Working Class Tory.

This is the list of 58 Labour MPs who are known to have been privately educated.

• Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood)
• Hugh Bayley (City of York)
• Hilary Benn (Leeds Central)
• Bob Blizzard (Waveney)
• Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
• Charles Clarke (Norwich South)
• Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
• Jim Cousins (Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central)
• Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West)
• Quentin Davies (Grantham and Stamford)
• Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside)
• Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire)
• Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
• Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
• Linda Gilroy (Plymouth Sutton)
• Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East)
• Peter Hain (Neath)
• Patrick Hall (Bedford and Kempston)
• Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
• Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham)
• John Healey (Wentworth)
• Margaret Hodge (Barking)
• Geoff Hoon (Ashfield)
• Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley)
• Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood)
• Sally Keeble (Northampton North)
• Ruth Kelly (Bolton West)
• Jim Knight (South Dorset)
• Martin Linton (Battersea)
• Ian Lucas (Wrexham)
• Denis MacShane (Rotherham)
• Fiona Mactaggart (Slough)
• Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley)
• John Mann (Bassetlaw)
• Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West)
• Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South)
• Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway)
• Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton)
• Chris Mole (Ipswich)
• Julie Morgan (Cardiff North)
• Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West)
• Nick Palmer (Broxtowe)
• Gordon Prentice (Pendle)
• James Purnell (Stalybridge and Hyde)
• Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich)
• Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West)
• Andrew Slaughter (Ealing, Acton and Shepherd’s Bush)
• John Spellar (Warley)
• Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West)
• Howard Stoate (Dartford)
• Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East)
• Mark Todd (South Derbyshire)
• Kitty Ussher (Burnley)
• Keith Vaz (Leicester East)
• Malcolm Wicks (Croydon North)
• Michael Wills (Swindon North)
• Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central)
• Shaun Woodward (St Helens South)

WCT comments:

Does anybody else notice the high frequency of past and present Cabinet members, as well as government ministers? I hope that isn’t an admission that a private education makes one more able to do a job.

It seems to me it’s an admission that, as with politicians all, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

AJ

Battlecats…

AJ

Another lunatic Tory council…

Over at StasiNation, is a fine example further to the earlier post.

Although I first spotted it at Tax Payers Alliance, this has been picked up by the MSM quite extensively since then:

A cash-strapped council that recently made 30 staff redundant has spent almost £100,000 employing two ‘bin police’ to make sure residents are recycling. The so-called ‘waste advisors’ will visit households to check that all recyclable material is going in the right bins.

Councillors and residents are fuming over what they call a gross waste of money.

The Taxpayers Alliance has lashed out at the Tory-controlled Test Valley Borough Council in Hampshire, saying that employing ‘more busy bodies to inspect people’s bins’ was the last priority for local taxpayers. A spokesman said: ‘As well as being sick to death with draconian council officers, local residents need lower taxes to help them through the recession. ‘If the council has any spare money it should give it back to local people.’

This is what voting Tory gets you. More of the same.

AJ

Borrowage…

To put in my sidebar.

Origin unknown, but I got this from Obo’s blog.

AJ

UPDATE: I’m obliged to commenter kiddr, for pointing out that it was the very eminent Grumpy Old Twat who came up with the campaign from which this is taken.

Cameron’s Health and Safety rant comprehensively deflated…

I wouldn’t normally have ended up at this blog, and less likely still am I to find anything I can agree with, but after the number of stories reposted by me and other bloggers, regarding insane Tory councils.

Tory hypocrisy on health and safety

Hat-tip to John Spellar MP for spotting the case of pots and kettles in David Cameron calling for an end to the UK’s "over-the-top" health and safety culture.

In a speech today, he said this had created a "stultifying blanket of bureaucracy, suspicion and fear". In recent years, he added, children had been told to wear goggles to play conkers and trainee hairdressers had been banned from using scissors

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8388025.stm

Maybe the Tory researchers who got him in to trouble at PMQs last week should have told him that it is Conservative Councils who lack common sense and are guilty of the worst excesses of health & safety culture.

Forcing children to wear goggles to play conkers.
This story (in it’s latest incarnation – it’s a bit of an old chestnut!) hails from a school in East Cheshire which is a Conservative-run LEA. The Health and Safety Executive have said “the dangers of a game of conkers had been exaggerated and there was no national ban”.

Banning Scissors.
It was in a Camden Council run library which is run by a Tory/Lib Dem administration that a woman was refused the loan of a pair of scissors because of health and safety worries.

In other cases –
A school crossing patrol officer was banned from tying tinsel on his lollipop stick by Tory Hampshire County Council because of health and safety fears. Despite protests from parents, council officers banned him from using the tinsel after an anonymous complaint from the public. Lollipop Man Kevin Simpson said that he decorated his stick each Christmas and that he and the school children who use his crossing were in tears over the ruling. Tory Leader Ken Thornber failed to condemn his council officers and meekly promised to “see if a balance can be struck between fun and safety”.

Tory run Barnet bans its Sikh pupils for wearing traditional ‘kirpans’ on health and safety grounds – not recognising that the Kirpan poses no greater risk than scissors or cutlery that exist in the school.

Tory controlled Daventry District Council told a local head teacher to call off a school play to avoid the threat of jail and a £20,000 fine because the school did not have an entertainment licence. The play was not open to the general public and was not going to make a profit although a small entry fee was being charged to raise money for charity. The Tory council said that they were unable to apply any discretion.

Tory controlled Sherborne Council in Dorset branded a pensioner who voluntarily cleared rubbish from a disused allotment adjacent to her own plot a ‘vigilante’ and told her to desist her good deed immediately. They were shamed into apologising after Mrs Dunn attended a council meeting to give councillors a piece of her mind.

Tory Dudley Council have spent more than £5,000 on Braille signs to advise squash players what colour sport shoes are acceptable and tell users about safety on court. The Royal National Institute of Blind People said, “Blind and visually-impaired people are able to play many sports but not squash.” A council spokesperson said, “The signs conform to legislation set out in the Disability Discrimination Act”.

Also in Tory run Dudley roadside snack vans will be forced to close unless they offer healthy alternatives such as salads and low fat yoghurts, environmental health officers from the Tory authority will inspect menus during routine hygiene checks. A council spokesperson said “the aim is to give consumers a wider choice and move away from the sole provision of high calorie, high fat fast foods”. Anyone who fails to meet the strict new standards will lose their street traders licence.

A gardener in Tory run Bromsgrove in Worcestershire who fenced off his allotment with a 3 foot high ring of barbed wire after being targeted by thieves has been ordered to take it down by the Tory council – in case intruders scratch themselves. Mr Malcolm erected the fence in desperation after around £300 worth of equipment was stolen, the council ordered its removal on health and safety grounds.

As Tory Blogger Iain Dale has said…

“I’m not going to rant on about it all being political correctness gone mad (although it is). What it demonstrates is that these councils are presided over by weak politicians who have little control over their officers. It’s about time they learned what the word Conservative actually means”.

posted by Luke Akehurst

I can’t argue with any of this, and, though I’m sure there’s a similar list for the Dib-Lems and Labour, that is somewhat besides the point. Cameron should have done a much more to rein in lunatic Tory councils.

AJ

Harman’s Eeekwallitee bill passes through the Colon…

Another road to ruination…

Harriet Harman’s flagship legislation to tackle inequality cleared the Commons tonight, amid protests that it promoted positive discrimination.

MPs gave the Equality Bill a third reading by 338 votes to eight, majority 330. It now goes to the Lords after being carried over from the last Parliamentary session.

The bill was savaged by Shadow business minister John Penrose who claimed the could  mean employers discriminating in favour of minority applicants rather than handing out jobs purely on merit.

Political parties will be allowed to use positive action to boost the number of black and Asian candidates and permission to use all-women shortlists will be extended.

Critics also claimed there had not been enough time for debate at its earlier report stage.

And in the latest round of voluntary, to become mandatory, measures:

The Bill requires certain employers to produce a ‘gender pay report’ each year to reveal the level of pay discrimination.

Private sector firms will initially be part of a voluntary regime, but a legal requirement will be imposed to force companies employing more than 250 people to produce a report if ’sufficient progress’ has not been made by 2013.

Which is likely to impact upon my pay rises, because my female colleagues are at liberty to spend half their time reading Heat magazine and the other half on maternity leave, massaging their piles.

Critics fear businesses already hit by the recession could be landed with the extra cost of implementing the measures.

Employers will be allowed to take on candidates who have a ‘protective characteristic’ in preference over someone else as long as they have the same qualifications.

The legislation will make it illegal to force breastfeeding mothers out of public places such as coffee shops, restaurants and galleries, and bans private clubs from discriminating against women members.

Well, I thought it right to find out exactly what the implications of this, so I went to the government website, and found this:

So, if I don’t agree, it’s because I don’t understand, yeah? It’s gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better:

 

This is a government leaflet. Or is it the school project of a 10 year old girl?

No – I’m not making this shit up.

Here are some of the proposed outcomes:

Right.

What’s in it for me, motherfuckers?

AJ

Scientist discovers all bears shit in woods…

lol… duh!

Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users.

But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it.

“We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography,” said Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse. “We couldn’t find any.”

Sit tight – it turns out okay…

Prof Lajeunesse said pornography did not have a negative effect on men’s sexuality.

“Not one subject had a pathological sexuality,” he said. “In fact, all of their sexual practices were quite conventional.

“Pornography hasn’t changed their perception of women or their relationship, which they all want to be as harmonious and fulfilling as possible,” he added.

Unless the whole thing unravels in this statement…

The study found that men watched pornography that matched their own image of sexuality, and quickly discarded material they found offensive or distasteful.

Uhhhh.. yeah. Absolutely.. umm. lol.

AJ

Can’t live with ‘em, can’t pour petrol over them and.. oh wait

Scotsman batters and deep-fries his woman.

Jessica, 17, became engulfed in a ball of flames when Stewart Blackburn set her alight in the bedroom of his flat in Arbroath, Angus, on April 25 this year.

A jury took less than two hours to find 18-year-old Blackburn guilty of murder after a 10-day trial at the High Court in Livingston.

Judge Lord Bracadale said Jessica suffered a "terrible death" at her boyfriend’s hands.

He said the crime would "deeply disturb" all right-thinking people.

I guess that’s me going straight to hell then.. lmao..

AJ

Spain co-opted to G20 under emergency measures. Spain bemused.

A couple of weeks back, I relayed news from Guido that Britain was the only G7 country still in recession.

Well, now, we’ve gone one better – we’re the only country in the G20 still in recession.

Well, we were, until Gordon Brown drafted ailing Spain into the G20, so he wasn’t lonely. Obviously, Spain isn’t in the G20, as pointed out by Guido and Tory Bear, who may well have broken the news, which was picked up on by some senior Tories.

Guido has posted a video of Broon’s truly pathetic splutterings:

In keeping with today’s sickly climate of victimhood and apology madness, the Tories have stepped up to the plate:

As Guido notes from this article,

The Tories have unearthed a quote that should settle the matter, ‘Spain is not a member of the G20’, or so said the Prime Mentalist himself at a press conference in October last year.

I appreciate the Tories slapping Brown, but I do wish they’d frame it in rather more grown-up terms.

AJ

Gordon Brown Did This…

Oh, he cosied up to the City for as long as he thought them useful to him, but ultimately, in putting Barrenness Ashtray up for EU Foreign Minister, he has caused this:

Alistair Darling has delivered a blunt warning to the EU’s new French finance chief against meddling with the City of London.

As Nicolas Sarkozy gloated over impending curbs on the City, the Chancellor said that such moves would drive financial services out of Europe.

The French President’s glee at the appointment of Michel Barnier as Commissioner for the Single Market took on an edge of menace yesterday when he said that unfettered City practices must end.

“Do you know what it means for me to see for the first time in 50 years a French European commissioner in charge of the internal market, including financial services, including the City [of London]?" he said yesterday.

"I want the world to see the victory of the European model, which has nothing to do with the excesses of financial capitalism," he said.

His implicit threat was just what Downing Street had feared when Mr Barnier, formerly an agriculture minister, was given the portfolio last week.

They feared it? They fucking caused it. Even Mandelbum agrees on that.

Perhaps another contribution to us sliding back into recession in 2010.

Is this what we need to happen before there’s a big enough growndswell to make leaving the EU a politically viable option?

AJ

Schadenlollage…

Back in Cameron’s early days, when he was drawing up his ‘A-List’ of PPCs, I knew he’d run in to a spot of bother with some of them. But, I nearly spat my fucking tea out when I saw that Zac Goldsmith was amongst them.

It was at that time I realised I may never vote conservative again. My barmy ex-girlfriend had a subscription to The Ecologist, Zac’s own personal rag. So, in the manner of compulsion with which one views car crashes, I started to read said periodical.

Quite apart from the fact that The Ecologist lost vast amounts of money, and was heavily subsidised, it was (don’t know if you can still get it) utterly insane.

The unavoidable conclusion, for people was whatever political hue, was the same “Well, it’s fine and good to spend all day worrying about the environment when you’ve got BILLIONS OF FUCKING POUNDS and fuck all else to do, isn’t it?”

So it has tickled me mightily to see Mr Goldsmiths association with Dave turn out a bit sticky, since Mr G is a non-domiciled avoider of UK taxes.

Now, don’t get me wrong – I would want to be a non-dom too, if I had that sort of money, or even a fraction of it. But experience shows that it is an absolute no-no for British politicians. Morally, you can’t compel others to pay tax when you avoid it yourself. That much should be pretty fucking obvious. And yet Mr G has been an advocate of all sorts of lunatic green taxes.

Because he’s a silver-spooned, soft-headed cunt and a hypocrite. Which is why he fits in so well with Cameron’s gang.

And in classic “too fucking little, too fucking late” style, Cameron’s telling Goldsmith to end his non-dom arrangements. Which, having had much time to prepare for, he’ll probably do by putting all his assets in a trust, held off-shore by his family, then he’ll register for UK taxes paid solely on any income from politics.

It’s fair to assume that Cameron knew about Goldsmith’s arrangements long ago, and is only addressing them now because he’s been fucking rumbled.

In fact, Cameron claims only to have found out when it came out in the papers at the weekend. Which can only mean he specifically avoided asking the question, or becoming aware of the answer.

Remind me: What is it that Cameron offers again? Oh yes.

MORE OF THE FUCKING SAME.

AJ

Finally, the bitch came…

.. to her senses at least.

I’m not deliberately avoiding the subjects of the Mansion Tax or the quiet dropping of the commitment to the EU Referendum. I’m not trying to hide our Lib Dem Policies ‘404′ shame. I just think… I think I’m about to crack. I may have reached the point of ‘had enough’.

Read on…

It is truly an epiphany.

I’m not gloating, or looking to bother CG, but it’s about fucking time.

AJ

Contenders for best band name ever…

More anon…

AJ

A vicarious dedication…

This tune was written and recorded to celebrate the birth of @BevaniteEllie.

Sweet memories..

AJ

Stolen wholesale…

A superb schadenfreude spot from Man Widdicombe.

sweet justice

The BBC is reporting

A former MP who had a conviction for harassment overturned on appeal is demanding her DNA, taken at her arrest, is removed from the national database. Helen Clark represented Peterborough between 1997 and 2005. She was arrested after a row with staff at the city’s Great Northern Hotel in June 2008. The ex-teacher received a conditional discharge in March, which she said stopped her from working with children.

What they don’t report is that she’s an ex-Labour MP who explicitly supported the legislation that allowed DNA retention as it passed through the House of Commons. She said

The first issue is DNA samples and fingerprinting. As we know, forensic science is, rightly, growing in importance in the fight against crime: in convicting or, it should be stressed, in exonerating an individual accused of a crime. The advance in the science and technology of DNA will make it more useful to the police, provided they have the powers to make optimum use of it.

I have absolutely no sympathy for her current plight as she had the chance to prevent this from happening but never thought she’d be on the receiving end. Welcome Helen to the world you helped create you ignorant, arrogant cunt.

My thanks to Mr civil libertarian for the link to theyworkforyou

My thanks to all concerned. Apart from the cunt hoist by her own petard. Well, I suppose thanks for the hilarity, you thoughtless evil do-gooding bitch.

AJ