Me in 2012

On pre-empting the DailyMash and reaping the whirlywind.

WORTHLESS, ILL-INFORMED OPINIONS IN EVERY HOME BY 2012

EVERY home in Britain will have access to an endless stream of worthless, ill-informed opinions by 2012, under new government proposals.

The Digital Britain strategy, unveiled yesterday, will mean no-one will be able to hide from the jibbering mess cascading from blogs, chat rooms and inexplicable newspaper comment threads.

The drive for universal broadband comes amid claims there are still too many homes across the UK where people are forced to read books and have actual, fully-formed thoughts.

But from 2012 every consumer will be able to use the internet to pick up a random falsehood and weave it quickly and efficiently into their own offensively bizarre world view.

Glorious money shot….

Tom Logan, of the Institute for Studies, said: "The technology is rather complex but basically what we’re talking about is a big pipe full of nutcases shoved through your front door.

"Not only will you be able to gape in horror at their unsettling combination of wide-eyed naivety and poisonous bigotry, but you’ll also be able to spit your own half-chewed mince back at them."

He added: "You will experience the joy of watching a perfectly harmless chat forum about Subarus degrade into a series of furious, expletive-filled exchanges about why everything these day is run for, and by, Jewish homosexuals."

Culture secretary Andy Burnham stressed the internet can also be used to order useful products, invade your privacy, manage personal finances and access millions of photographs of Swedish vaginas.

Hail to the Mash. Bastards.

AJ

Every household to have interactive pornography by 2012

In an effort to reverse the trend that has recently seen whiny, sickly, hormonal – and evidently careless – women losing jobs at twice the rate of men, Harriet Harman has announced measures to ensure equality. She said today:

“Male comedians have often joked that if men could fellate themselves, they would never leave the house.

We conducted a two-year feasibility study, which showed that the cost of the spinal surgery for Britain’s working men would run into hundreds of billions of pounds.

In light of the need to bolster public investment at this time, we had looked at the opportunity to inject this money into the economy. In the event, we gave that money to Sir Fred Godwin, so we have proposed the next best thing.

By 2012, every household will be entitled to have interactive web pornography at 2 Megabits, for free.

We estimate that, by taking 6-8 million men out of the workforce, employing and retaining women will finally be a practical alternative to taking on someone who knows what he’s doing.

No spokesman for the project was available for comment.

AJ

Data Abuse

Having reached 1000 posts, UK Liberty is running a ‘Best Of’ post at the moment, which has drawn my attention to this:

Data Abuse

This page has some real-life (as opposed to hypothetical) examples of abuses of our personal data. See also Data Loss for information on data that has gone ‘missing’. This document is updated from time to time. It was most recently updated on 23 January 2009.

And this:

If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear

The contention that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear presupposes that those with access to information will not abuse it, whether on behalf of themselves for (say) curiosity or money, or on behalf of the state.

Unfortunately there is plenty of precedent to suggest otherwise, ranging from individual abuses to the facilitation of mass abuse, such as by the Stasi, or those committing genocide.

There are also several other nuggets to be deployed in the battle to retain what liberty we have, in the face of an indifferent public, and authoritarian government and an alarmingly pragmatic opposition.

AJ

Guido Nails Them Good and Proper

A marvellous post on Order Order, showing the levels of the FTSE 100 over the last 30 years.

Tee-hee…

Election. Now.

AJ

NHS Priorities

Via LegIron at Old Holborn, I see that the NHS is getting so much cash thrown at it now, that it doesn’t even have to spend much of it on, you know, healthcare.

Hospitals will take meat off menus in bid to cut carbon

Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service.

The plan to offer patients menus that would have no meat option is part of a strategy to be published tomorrow that will cover proposals ranging from more phone-in GP surgeries to closing outpatient departments and instead asking surgeons to visit people at their local doctor’s surgery.

Some suggestions are likely to be controversial with patients’ groups, especially attempts to curb meat eating and car use. Plans to reuse more equipment could raise concern about infection with superbugs such as MRSA.

Dr David Pencheon, director of the NHS sustainable development unit, said the amount of NHS emissions meant it had to act to make cuts, and the changes would save money, which could be spent on better services for patients.

The NHS has a ‘sustainable development’ unit. I think I need to lie down.

On Tuesday, Pencheon and the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, will publish the strategy – Saving Carbon, Improving Health – which will set targets to cut the organisation’s carbon footprint, and proposals to meet them. It follows a government pledge last year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050.

The plans cover all aspects of patients’ care, from building design to transport, waste, food, water and energy use.

Among the most talked-about is likely to be the suggestion that hospitals could cut carbon emissions from food and drink by offering fewer meat and dairy products. Last year, the United Nations climate chief, Rajendra Pachauri, provoked a global debate…

No, Grauniad, he provoked paroxysms of howling laughter.

… when he said having a meat-free day every week was the biggest single contribution people could make to curbing climate change in their personal lives, because of the chemicals sprayed on feed crops and the methane emitted by cattle and sheep. Last week, the German federal environment agency went further, advising people to eat meat only on special occasions. Pencheon said the move would cut the relatively high carbon emissions from rearing animals and poultry, and improve health. Last year the NHS served 129m main meals, costing £312m, according to Department of Health figures. "We should not expect to see meat on every menu," said Pencheon. "We’d like higher levels of fresh food, and probably higher levels of fresh fruit and veg, and more investment in a local economy."

If ‘climate change’ were something that we can and do influence, then these ludicrous ideas may have some small merit. As it is, we’re betting the lot on a straw man constructed by socialists defeated by the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Reality truly is a rarely sighted phenomenon.

AJ

It’s The Sun Wot Legged It….

From The Lone Voice via the (much more balanced and sedated than me) Landed Underclass comes this news. About a year/month/week/day/hour after Blogworld decided the time has come for Gordon Brown to be eviscerated, it appears Rupert is finally on-board, via his favourite boarder of the next ship to sail, Trevor Kavanagh.

Want to see light at end of the tunnel? Ditch Labour

It was only last October that Chancellor Alistair Darling promised the economy would keep growing, slowly, then recover after a slight hiccup.

Suddenly it turns out he and Gordon Brown didn’t have a clue.

Not only did the slump catch them by surprise, but every bleak development is overtaken by alarming new events.

Some experts now predict the economy, far from growing, could shrink by a shocking eight per cent.

…

The silver lining to all this gloom is that Labour has been well and truly found out.

When this Government is ditched, as it so richly deserves, it won’t be able to complain it never had a fair chance.

After 12 long years, Labour can’t say they had too little time to make back-door Socialism work.

Having used landslide majorities to bully their experiment in social engineering into every nook and cranny of our daily lives, they cannot pretend they had one arm tied behind their back.

After inheriting a robust economy, they cannot claim they had no money. They could have used that time, power and cash to carry out all their 1997 election vows.

Election, Gordy. Now.

AJ

Sun-Wot-Won-It crap here.

A trip down flummery lane…

This whole Labour Lords Lolly4Laws business minded me of Blair’s ‘whiter than white’ quote from 1997. Actually, it ran as follows:

“We do, as a new Government, have to be extremely careful after 18 years in opposition. A lot of people who worked for us, they then go on and work for the lobby firms. I think we have to be very careful with people fluttering around the new Government, trying to make all sorts of claims of influence, that we are purer than pure, that people understand that we will not have any truck with anything that is improper in any shape or form at all.”
Daily Mail, 8 July 1998

But there are also some other pearls from Blair at the marvellous Wikiquote. Such as:

“I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so … prudent.”
Speech to the Labour Party conference, 28 September 1999

Of course, Monosnot doesn’t go without a mention, and you don’t have to go back 10 years to trip him up.

I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place – where I will always strive to be – and that is on people’s side.
Speech at the launch of his leadership campaign, 11 May 2007

Empty words, Mr Brown, or you’d call an election right now.

AJ

Cracking Brownies, Gromit…

Unbelievable….. Friday it was:

Gordon Brown admits he failed to see economic crisis coming

Today it’s:

Gordon Brown: "I called for global financial reform ten years ago"

Gordon Brown claimed today that he had been warning for ten years that the international financial markets needed to be more strongly regulated.

The Prime Minister said that it was a decade ago in Harvard that he first called for an international early warning system to alert countries to developing crises in any part of the world, because the huge global growth and reach of financial systems meant that all markets, all economies and all banks were now interdependent.

Mr Brown said that he had recognised the need for a stronger regulatory framework ever since the crisis in Asian markets in the 1990s.

But as Guido points out:

"by moving away from the old blanket approach, of 100 per cent form-filling and 100 per cent inspection that is inefficient and wasteful of your time, to a new approach based on risk… And I believe, too, we should consider how we can continue to extend our risk-based approach, applying the concept of risk not just to the enforcement of regulation, but also to the design and indeed to the decision as to whether to regulate at all… And we will take the fight on deregulation to Europe.”

Source: Speech to the CBI, 5 June 5, 2006

Is he delusional, or counting on the rest of us to be?

AJ

Global Warming, My Arse – More evidence…

Via Obo, come these nuggets…

Snow falls on United Arab Emirates

DUBAI (AFP) — Snow has fallen over the United Arab Emirates for the first time ever, leaving a white blanket over the mountains of Ras al-Khaimah as the desert country experienced a cold spell and above-average rainfall.

Dubai airport’s meteorology department told AFP Thursday that snow fell over the Al-Jees mountain range in Ras al-Khaimah, which is the most northerly member of the UAE federation.

The English-language Gulf News reported that the mountain cluster, 5,700 feet (1,737 metres) above sea level, "had heavy night-time snowfall for the past two days as a result of temperatures dropping to as low as minus five Celsius (23 Fahrenheit)" and stunning the emirate’s residents.

and

Greenland’s Ice Armageddon on Hold

Ice loss in Greenland has had some climatologists speculating that global warming might have brought on a scary new regime of wildly heightened ice loss and an ever-faster rise in sea level. But glaciologists reported at the American Geophysical Union meeting that Greenland ice’s Armageddon has come to an end.

So much for Greenland ice’s Armageddon. “It has come to an end,” glaciologist Tavi Murray of Swansea University in the United Kingdom said during a session at the meeting. “There seems to have been a synchronous switch-off” of the speed-up, she said. Nearly everywhere around south east Greenland, outlet glacier flows have returned to the levels of 2000. An increasingly warmer climate will no doubt eat away at the Greenland ice sheet for centuries, glaciologists say, but no one should be extrapolating the ice’s recent wild behavior into the future.

Mmmmm maybe it’s all those burning EU flags…

AJ

What the blithering fuck?

Via Devil’s Kitchen, I am pointed towards Raedwald’s blog – which I’ll let speak for itself.

Integrated EU blacklist of ‘criminals’ is here

Have you paid a parking fine recently? Got three points on your licence? Been formally warned by the council for your bin protruding on the footway? (yep, I have had the £1,000 fine threat on the last one) Been suspended from your Sunday football league for rough tackling? (yes, seriously) Congratulations! Your records could soon be added to a pan-European database of subversives. This EU Council decision of 20th January on the establishment of a pan-EU ‘criminal’ database includes the following ‘offences’ :-

• Offences related to waste
• Unintentional environmental offences
• Insult of the State, Nation or State symbols
• Insult or resistance to a representative of public authority
• Public order offences, breach of the public peace
• Revealing a secret or breaching an obligation of secrecy
• Unintentional damage or destruction of property
• Offences against migration law – an "Open category" (offences undefined thus all encompassing)
• Offences against military obligations – an "Open category" (offences undefined thus all encompassing)
• Unauthorised entry or residence
• Other offences an "Open category" (offences undefined thus all encompassing)
• Other unintentional offences
• Prohibition from frequenting some places
• Prohibition from entry to a mass event
• Placement under electronic surveillance ("fixed or mobile" – eg: home, car, mobile phone etc)
• Withdrawal of a hunting / fishing license
• Prohibition to play certain games/sports
• Prohibition from national territory
• Personal obligation – an "Open category" (offences undefined thus all encompassing)
• "Fine" – all fines. inc minor non-criminal offences

All those of us who have ever accidentally spilled a cupful of diesel in the water when refuelling, dropped a piece of litter or called the EU circle of stars a fascist and totalitarian symbol are now, officially, criminals. Welcome to the club.

This is just unreal – NO democracy should be putting all this in place….. but then since when was the EU a democracy? And since most of our legislation comes from the EU, how can we imagine that we live in a democratic country? Utterly astonishing.

In response, Guthrum is burning an EU flag – the only thing stopping me doing the same is the need to get an EU flag. Ah – here it comes….

AJ

The Winter of Our Discontent Marches On…

After the 30th anniversary of the start of the Winter of Discontent was celebrated last Thursday, The Indypedant on Sunday today reports on the lurching of the national workload – in the general direction of the three-day-week.

Britain is facing return of three-day week

The prospect of the three-day week returned to haunt Britain yesterday as it emerged that ministers are considering paying firms to cut hours in order to survive the recession.

Tens of thousands of businesses are already planning to scale back working hours this year in an effort to stay afloat. But as the country comes to terms with the reality of a recession, it emerged that the Government is looking at compensating employees, through their firms – thereby drawing comparisons with the shutdowns of the 1970s.

While the move would safeguard jobs, it would mean that the financial crisis is on a much larger scale, further undermining confidence in the economy with the suggestion of Britain grinding to a halt.

This country would benefit most from the government and civil service going on a permanent 3 day week.

As Wat Tyler reminds us, every Labour government of the last 100 years has driven the British economy into a ditch.

Labour governments always always ALWAYS end in economic disaster.

Look, let me spell it out for you:

• Ramsay McDonald – economic disaster
• Clement Attlee – economic disaster
• Harold Bloody Wislon – economic disaster
• Jim Callaghan – economic disaster
• Bliar/Brown – economic disaster

See? See the pattern?

I want Brown’s head on a platter.

AJ

H/T Political Betting

Labour Lords Trade Lolly for Laws…

Or so undercover reporters for the Sunday Times are reporting today.

LABOUR peers are prepared to accept fees of up to £120,000 a year to amend laws in the House of Lords on behalf of business clients, a Sunday Times investigation has found.

Four peers — including two former ministers — offered to help undercover reporters posing as lobbyists obtain an amendment in return for cash.

Two of the peers were secretly recorded telling the reporters they had previously secured changes to bills going through parliament to help their clients.

Lord Truscott, the former energy minister, said he had helped to ensure the Energy Bill was favourable to a client selling “smart” electricity meters. Lord Taylor of Blackburn claimed he had changed the law to help his client Experian, the credit check company.

Taylor told the reporters: “I will work within the rules, but the rules are meant to be bent sometimes.”

The other peers who agreed to assist our reporters for a fee were Lord Moonie, a former defence minister, and Lord Snape, a former Labour whip.

Well… if cash for questions fucked the Tories, then surely lolly for laws will cause significant damage to the already terminal carcass that is this Labour government.

Unsurprisingly, the BBC are putting a rather less dramatic spin on it….

‘Concern’ over peers cash claims

The leader of the House of Lords says she will pursue allegations four peers were prepared to accept cash to change laws.

And there’s been ‘right-of-reply’ there…

The former energy minister Lord Truscott did admit to having had "discussions" with the reporter, but told the BBC that "to suggest I would offer to put down amendments for money is a lie".

Lord Moonie, a former defence minister, told the BBC that he had been suspicious of the people who had approached him.

He acknowledged discussing a fee of £30,000 with the undercover reporters but said: "I am not aware of having offered to do anything for these people that was outside the rules."

He went on to say that any arrangement would have been based on a written contract and would have involved advising them on how to get amendments to legislation – but he would have been acting strictly as an adviser and consultant.

A third peer, Lord Taylor of Blackburn, said two people approached him claiming to work for a lobbying firm and looking for help with a bill they wanted amending.

He said they suggested paying him £5,000 to £10,000 a month as an adviser but he never said he would accept, no contract was signed and no money changed hands.

Asked about his alleged suggestion that the rules could be "bent", he said: "’Bent’ to me means you will try to persuade the bureaucracy of the House to change them."

Aye. Fuckin’. Right. Mandelson’s only been in the Lords for five minutes, and already half of them are bent now.

AJ

Global Warming, My Arse – Dénouement Approaches

When I saw this from the BBC, my Jahomometer went quite mad…

New evidence on Antarctic warming

The continent of Antarctica is warming up in step with the rest of the world, according to a new analysis.

Scientists say data from satellites and weather stations indicate a warming of about 0.6C over the last 50 years.

Writing in the journal Nature, they say the trend is "difficult to explain" without the effect of rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.

Meanwhile, scientists in Antarctica say a major ice shelf is about to break away from the continent.

In line with recent form, I knew that the frankly fantastic Christopher Booker would be along to break up the party of muppets, as reported over at EUReferendum.

One of the first to express astonishment was Dr Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a convinced believer in global warming, who wryly observed "it is hard to make data where none exists". A disbelieving Ross Hayes, an atmospheric scientist who has often visited the Antarctic for Nasa, sent Professor Steig a caustic email ending: "with statistics you can make numbers go to any conclusion you want. It saddens me to see members of the scientific community do this for media coverage."

But it was also noticed that among the members of Steig’s team was Michael Mann, author of the "hockey stick", the most celebrated of all attempts by the warmists to rewrite the scientific evidence to promote their cause. The greatest of all embarrassments for the believers in man-made global warming was the well-established fact that the world was significantly warmer in the Middle Ages than it is now. "We must get rid of the Mediaeval Warm Period," as one contributor to the IPCC famously said in an unguarded moment. It was Dr Mann who duly obliged by getting his computer-model to produce a graph shaped like hockey stick, eliminating the mediaeval warming and showing recent temperatures curving up to an unprecedented high.

This instantly became the warmists’ chief icon, made the centrepiece of the IPCC’s 2001 report. But Mann’s selective use of data and the flaws in his computer model were then so devastatingly torn apart that it has become the most comprehensively discredited artefact in the history of science.

The fact that Dr Mann is again behind the new study on Antarctica is, alas, all part of an ongoing pattern. But this will not prevent the paper being cited ad nauseam by everyone from the BBC to Al Gore, when he shortly addresses the US Senate and carries on advising President Obama behind the scenes on how to roll back that "spectre of a warming planet". So, regardless of the science, and until the politicians finally wake up to how they have been duped, what threatens to become the most costly flight from reality in history will continue to roll remorselessly on its way.

Keep chipping away… unreason has to be broken at some point…

AJ

EU and UK governments see civil unrest as key to more powers…

Guthrum, over at Old Holborn, has a selection of YouTube clips showing some of the unrest spreading across Europe… We’ve had Greece, now we’re getting Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Iceland.

So, it should come as no surprise to learn that the Euroweenies sniff and opportunity.

Are they getting worried?

Strictly speaking, civil disorder in member states is none of the business of our supreme government in Brussels. Maintaining law and order on the streets is a matter for provincial governments.

However, the ever-watchful Bruno Waterfield tells us that the euroweenies have called for "emergency talks" to discuss the groundswell of social unrest and violent street protests that have spread across Europe.

So far, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Greece and Iceland (is that Europe?) have all faced social unrest and rioting as unemployment soars and – so Bruno says – as many European countries have been forced to impose severe cuts to government spending. Thus, the March European Council is to examine the increasing unrest, regarding it as one of the "major challenges" for the Spring Council.

And when has bootface Jacqui ever missed an opportunity to stand on the throat of Joe Public?

As further evidence of the freefall panic this Government is in, Jacqui Smith is calling in the Police and ‘other interested parties’ to a conference to combat the upswing in violent crime and burglary cause ‘by this recession’ (for recession read Government).

We now know that the Police from a FOI request have been downgrading the real level of violent crime (for downgrading, read lying), we know that repossessions are up 92% from figures released today.There is serious distress out there. We always knew that the Police figures did not tally with the Hospital admissions records for knife wounds, and yet Jacqui Smith peddled the lie that this Government was presiding over year on year falls in recorded crime.

This crime busting ‘conference’ will not protect you, we all know that the Police cannot get to you for days,let alone instantly.

I predict a wave of new ‘emergency powers’. Oh, and rioters will be referred to as terrorists – a word that the media won’t use about Islamists who blow people up, but will happily use to refer to anyone who protests the status quo.

AJ

Misdirection 101…

While senior coppers are being paid large bonuses, that make them political pawns liable to coercion, ‘City Minister’ Lord Myners is shouting, “Hey! Look over there”

City Minister Lord Myners attacks bankers for greed and arrogance

A furious onslaught on banking’s “masters of the universe” has been unleashed by Gordon Brown’s City Minister.

Too many top bankers fail to realise they are grossly over-rewarded and have no sense of society, Lord Myners says in an interview with The Times.

Meanwhile, Guido points out that:

Myners made his millions in the City, he was until recently a director of GLG, the hedge fund spawned by ex-Lehmans staff, that made fortunes for traders taking short-term bets. It was one of the funds that profited the most from the collapse of Northern Rock.

[David Coleman]Errrrrrrr….. Quite remarkable.[/David Coleman]

AJ

More great PR work by Plod

Pub landlord charged with assault for grabbing drunken youth

It cost Peter Lucia-Hennis £5,000 in legal fees before the case was thrown out by a magistrate who said there was no case to answer.

The 60-year-old grandfather of five, who runs The Charlotte pub in Crayford, Kent, said he would never trust the police again.

His wife Geraldine, a local Tory councillor, said her husband was treated like a criminal for doing nothing wrong. She said they had lodged a complaint with the police.

Mr Lucia-Hennis, a retired fireman, called police after a youth threw a stone through a window in his pub in June last year.

He ran outside and spotted two teenagers and gave chase. He grabbed a 17-year-old who was clutching a bottle of vodka and waited for the police to arrive, thinking the boy would be given "a clip round the ear".

To his dismay, the police immediately closed down the pub and called him in for questioning four weeks later.

Mr Lucia-Hennis was subsequently charged with one count of battery and released on conditional bail until the case finally came to court in December.

At the hearing at Bexley Magistrates Court, the teenage boy did not turn up and the chairman of the bench Eileen Wilson dismissed the case, saying the publican had suffered enough.

Yesterday (mon), Mr Lucia-Hennis said: "It was so stupid, I was numb from it – the police didn’t even listen to what people were saying to them.

"I don’t think I can ever trust another policeman again. I’m upset because I think the police are there to protect you from the criminals, but they try and turn you into one."

Quite. And ‘they’ wonder why the ordinary citizen no longer feels like the coppers are on their side.

Rule-driven, target-chasing, knuckle-dragging simians to a man.

AJ

Reading the barometer…

Previously I wrote:

I think of the BNP as a barometer of racial tension in the UK. As such, they do perform a useful function, which is to remind the major parties that the vast majority of the UK are white Anglo-Saxons and while we are extraordinarily relaxed about sharing our little island with fuzzy-wuzzies and the like, we don’t like having our noses rubbed in it by troughing politicians and the righteous.

Well, it seems to be little reported, but via Iain Dale, I read that there was a local council by-election in Bexley on Thursday. The voting went as follows:

East Wickham Ward By-Election – Thursday 22 January
Patricia Rose Ball (The Labour Party Candidate) – 700
Michael John Barnbrook (British National Party) – 790
Elizabeth Grace Goodlad (Liberal Democrats) – 564
Steven Frederick Hall (The Conservative Party Candidate) – 798 ELECTED
Laurence Williams (English Democrats – "Putting England First") – 128

You’ll note that the victorious Tory candidate got 8 more votes than the BNP candidate, who got 90 more than the Labour candidate.

The BNP vote, by the measure I outline above, is unsurprising. What I cannot comprehend is how these 700 utter imbeciles voted Labour. What part of ‘ruining the economy, poisoning society, trashing education’ don’t they understand?

Commentary on Conservative Home here and here. Including Wat Tyler’s golden comment:

I’d just like to congratulate Conservative candidate Steven Hall on his trouncing, nay, annihilation of the vile, odious BNP by over seven votes.

Furthermore, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made this momentous victory possible:

The millionaire Conservative donors
The LibLabCon activists/canvassers/smearers
The Hope not Hate team
The Love Music Hate Racism posse
The NUJ crew
Those cuddly Searchlight people
The impartial BBC brotherhood
The rest of the impartial media fraternity
The church of England cabal
The Holy Trinity
The Sugababes group
The chap from the Fruit & Fibre advert, his wife, and any other Z-list ‘celeb’ I may have deliberately overlooked.

You sure socked it to ‘em!

lol…

And here’s something that may have contributed….

Plans for radical new laws to boost the numbers of ethnic minority MPs have been shelved by the government because of fears of a white backlash, the Guardian has learned.

Labour ministers had been under pressure to introduce all-black shortlists to make the House of Commons more representative.

The controversial measure was being considered for inclusion in an equalities bill, due to be unveiled this year. But ministers have dropped the plans, fearing stiff opposition from white MPs and a backlash from voters.

The party’s deputy leader, Harriet Harman, and justice secretary, Jack Straw, favoured all-black shortlists, which would have seen constituency parties choosing their election candidate from a list comprised of only ethnic minority Britons.

Genius.

AJ

Twat was the week that was….

Well, it’s been quite a week in politics. I refer not to the intercontinental cluster-wank that was the Barrython. First up was Bodger and Badger’s de-whelming second bank recapitalisation on Monday. Next came Monosnot & Harridan’s reversal over a statutory instrument exempting MPs’ expenses from Freedom of Information requests. There has been intervening squirming from this moribund government. Peter Hain was upbraided by the Parliamentary Standards and Privileges committee for his dodgy funding.

Meanwhile over the fence, one Tory MP seems to have handed over correspondence, from a constituent, to the coppers, and all without any warrants. Stephen Pollard previously took the measure of this man, and he annoyed Melanie Phillips. Next up, Call me Dave is bolstering his communist credentials.

In today’s papers, though, the tin lid has been put on the whole week, if not month.

Alistair Darling: bear with us, we need more time to beat recession

Today’s 1.5 per cent fall in GDP follows a 0.6 per cent fall in the previous three months, meaning that the widely accepted definition of recession as two consecutive quarters of falling output has finally been met.

This puts Britain officially in recession for the first time since the early 1990s episode that is seared into the memory of millions of homebuyers, workers and business people.

Sterling slumped to a new 23-year low today, with the pound falling to $1.355, down more than 12 cents since the end of last week.

There was widespread pain in all sectors of the British economy except agriculture, which managed to eke out a 0.1 per cent expansion in the final three months of the year.

But manufacturing output plunged by 4.6 per cent, while the services sector, which accounts for nearly three quarters of the economy, shrank by 1.5 per cent.

The construction sector also contracted by 1.1 per cent, as housebuilders struggled amid a sharp downturn in homebuying.

Precisely how much more rope will you be needing from us, you Scotch twat?

Meanwhile, over at the Tellygraph:

UK Recession: Gordon Brown admits he failed to see economic crisis coming

The UK has slid officially into its worst recession for 29 years, as Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, admitted that he had failed to see the economic crisis coming.

Click through, if you can bear it. And here.

Guthrum reminds us, on Old Holborn’s blog, that yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the winter of discontent.

Some fine commentary from Wat Tyler at Burning our Money.

Meanwhile, there are further erosions of liberty due to come into force next month.

Bring on the election, you bunch of evil, thieving, looting cunts.

AJ

Animal Rights Evil Fuckers Imprisonment Update

Muahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Previously featured here and here.

Jail for animal rights extremists who waged six-year blackmail campaign

SHAC animal activists who were jailed today. Clockwise from left: Gregg Avery, Nathasha Avery , Gerrah
Selby, Heather Nicholson, Dan Amos, Gavin Medd-Hall and Daniel Wadham

Seven animal rights extremists who waged a six-year campaign of blackmail and harrassment in a bid to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) were jailed for between 11 and four years today.

Gregg Avery, the 41-year-old founder and mastermind of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), was sentenced to nine years while his wife Natasha, 39, and ex-wife Heather Nicholson, 41, who helped him establish the campaign in 1999, were imprisoned for nine and 11 years respectively.

Four other members of the SHAC hierarchy received jail terms of between eight and four years for their parts in the conspiracy.

Described by the judge as "urban terrorists", SHAC targeted hundreds of people whose employers did business with HLS, one of the world’s largest animal research companies which has a laboratory in Cambridgeshire.

They received hoax bombs, sanitary towels allegedly contaminated with the HIV virus and letters threatening violence against their children, as well as nocturnal home visits from balaclava-wearing vandals. Their neighbours were sent anonymous letters warning that they lived close to a paedophile, while victims were told that the persecution would continue until their company severed all links with HLS.

Amid the “climate of fear” created by this relentless campaign – much of which was carried out in the name of the Animal Liberation Front – more than 270 businesses capitulated.

Although the campaign spread throughout Europe and across the Atlantic, prompting the FBI to begin investigating SHAC’s activities in the USA, the court heard it was conducted with “almost military precision” from an inconspicuous cottage in Hampshire.

Yes – less than a mile from the UK’s National Police Improvement Agency. For six years.

The cost to victim companies in Britain of the criminal damage caused and increased security measures they were forced to implement – excluding the lost business caused by protests and the intimidation of staff – was £12.6 million.

After a three-month trial at Winchester Crown Court, Nicholson was convicted of conspiracy to blackmail along with Gavin Medd-Hall, 45, SHAC’s “research engine” who led internet research into potential victims.

The unemployed former computer technician from Croydon was jailed for eight years. Daniel Wadham, 21, and Gerrah Selby, 20, two further “trusted insiders” and part of a new generation of SHAC extremists, were found guilty of the same charge. Wadham was sentenced to five years and Selby was given four years in a young offenders’ institution.

Daniel Amos, 22, who like the Averys pleaded guilty last July, received four years.

Passing sentence, Mr Justice Butterfield described the group as "urban terrorists". He said: "You cloaked your activities in what was a hypocritical sham pretence that SHAK was a vehicle for legitimate lawful protest in an area of public concern. It was nothing of the sort. It was a vehicle used to terrorise."

He added: "You are not going to prison for your beliefs, you are not going to prison for expressing your beliefs, you are going to prison because each of you has committed a very serious criminal offence.

"Hundreds, probably thousands of ordinary, decent, men, women and children have had their lives made a living hell by your activities."

In comments targeted at Gerrah Selby, who had been preparing to go to university when she became embroiled in the group, he said: "What a tragedy – you should find yourself in the dock convicted of conspriacy to blackmail," adding that she was "basically a thoroughly decent, highly intelligent, capable and hard-working young woman" who had been "seduced into partiicpation in a vile and wicked conspiracy."

After the hearing, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Robbins, who led the £4 million investigation into SHAC, said: “While rarely causing physical harm, these offenders thrived on the fear they created through threats and intimidation.

“I hope today’s sentences send a strong message that, in a democratic society, campaigning needs to remain lawful, and that those who cross the line into extremist activity will be brought to justice.”

And this is just priceless:

DCI Robbins warned the public that the almost £1 million in donations that SHAC raised through its stalls, although donated in good faith, was used to finance the blackmail campaign.

“By donating to ordinary street collections organised by members of SHAC, the public unwittingly contributed to this conspiracy.”

Have that you thick, deluded, evil, calculating, communist cuntbags.

Click here and here and here to see more like them who have yet to be removed from society.

And don’t forget to stop by the “Free the evil cunts” MySpace page. Remarkable.

AJ

Fuzzy Logic

I managed to miss Bazza’s coronation the other day, because I had shit to do. In fact, if you came into the room now and put his shit on YouTube, I’d suddenly find a septic tank that needs urgently emptying after an outbreak of cholera.

However, I knew I could rely on updates from elsewhere.

Obama’s speaking Style : both-this-and-that, or neither-this-nor-that

We have said this about Obama from the beginning. He never talks in concrete terms, thereby everyone has a chance to fill his blanks by their own perception and that’s the danger in Obama’s speeches. Spill it out, Mr. Obama!

Here is another blogger’s take: Source
"Is this good for our democracy? Aren’t we better off when politicians speak eloquently not only of lofty ideals but also of concrete action plans? Aren’t we better off when we know the exact stances our candidate would take–whether he will stand with Russia or with Georgia and Poland, for instance, and how exactly he will stand with Poland, whether he will defend the missile shield, and so forth?”

Now, I’ve always had Barry down as a commie windbag. But the next passage suggests another two words that may be more accurate:

“Obama has remained a fill-in-the-blank space. Call him the Mad-Lib President. His words are so lacking in substance that one can fill in the blanks with whatever promises one suspects Obama is offering. America will be worse off if more American politicians follow Obama’s example.”

Those two words are ‘empty vessel’ and that doesn’t sound great when you consider some of the nut-jobs he’s surrounding himself with. Such as the one who wants animals to be able to file lawsuits against people, or swivel-eyed mentalist Billary Clinton. Full list here, but if you’ve any brains at all, you’ll do your own research and not rely on the BBC’s communisment.

Alternatively, have a look here, for some of the commie shit he’s got planned for America. There’s help for mongs, loafers, spazzes, fuzzies, wimmin, rag-heads, poofs, coffin-dodgers, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all.

AJ