Global warming, Fuzzy Barry: My Arse, Cato’s Arse

Via the excellent climate realist blog Watt’s Up with That, I see that the Cato institute have gathered a bushel of signatures from the good and the great of climate science, all telling Fuzz Bazz to get back in his box regarding his ludicrous AlGoric Globule Warming pronouncements.

"Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change.The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear."
— PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, NOVEMBER 19 , 2008

With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.

We, the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated. Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now.^1,2 After controlling for population growth and property values, there has been no increase in damages from severe weather-related events.³ The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior.⁴ Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate is simply incorrect.

See the full page ad with the signatories listed here (PDF).

Can there be anyone who doubt that the whole Global Warming scam is a socialist political programme, and that it is therefore a combination of corruption, coercion, denormalisation and disaster?

AJ

Thanks a fucking bunch says everyone…

They’re bound to go for this. This government’s eye for a lose-lose-lose strategy is just uncanny. You have to laugh.

Cut in maternity leave to give fathers more time off

Statutory maternity leave should be cut to six months and new paid leave given to fathers, a report from the equalities watchdog says.

The focus on maternity leave has entrenched the notion that only mothers look after children and damages women’s careers by making them less attractive employees, the group warns.

I can immediately spot three groups who could lose out from this:

i) Women who have given birth. Do they want to go back to work ‘so soon’?

ii) New fathers who would rather be paid to polish the toilet floors in the Blue Oyster Bar than to spend any more time with their miraculous new shitting air-raid sirens.

iii) The productive members of the economy. The trouble with post-natal women, and I speak from a position of complete ignorance, is that they’re either completely mental or utterly baffled. With most it’s quite clear that their brains take a while to return to proper functioning order. Others will never recover. About a year is probably right to know for sure. So what’s the point in having them back in the business sooner than that, with all the post-natal prolapsed rectum treatments they’ll be excusing themselves for? In the meantime, productive men will be taken out of the economy for longer.

I just can’t see how these proposals can benefit anyone – certainly not an economy under such pressure as this.

AJ

Sunday Roll-Up

There’s way too much good stuff to cover today, and I want to do it while at least giving the impression that I have better things to do with my day.

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Via Mummylonglegs, I see that Mr Jacqui Smith has been found out for claiming porno films watched via cable at home on MPs’ living expenses.

Here’s the thing: Hypocrisy cuts both ways. In almost any hotel in the UK you can charge ‘pay movies’ to your room, which will then be picked up on expenses. These items will be listed, with the specific purpose of being ambiguous, as ‘Room Service’ and frankly, they are an entitlement if you’re staying away from home and you’d rather spend £7 of your overnight allowance watching Bruce Willis than drinking beer. The available films always include one or two adult titles. Therefore, it’s legitimate to assume that thousands of travelling businessmen watch porn, on expenses, with impunity.

At least nail Smith for something she’s done that was wrong.

AJ has never indulged in this opportunity, because the sort of porn that is allowed to be screened on UK TV (even adult cable channels) is total rubbish. YouPorn is infinitely better value. Mr Timney is a mug.

Although, it makes me wonder if people will start asking what MPs and their lackeys are using the broadband for that we pay for.

The Devil also has this and makes some worthwhile points.

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The Devil has identified another powerful weapon in the armoury of the Righteous.

The most evil word currently being used…

… is, in the opinion of your humble Devil, "consensus".

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Anyone who uses the word "consensus" to justify any argument should be viewed with deep suspicion, if not outright hostility; what they are justifying is mob rule and that is always a bad thing.

Plus, they are probably a total cunt.

Seems reasonable to me.

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Also via DK, is a paean to the sheer mendacity of David BonzoDogDooDahBand.

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Via Old Holborn, the view is expounded that the government are actively formenting trouble on the streets, in order that they can invoke the Civil Contingencies Act.

Why am I convinced of trouble next week? Firstly, because the police are actively soliciting it. Secondly, because a large part of the protests are being organised by Government-sponsored quangos. Not by spontaneous public groups. Not by the furious public. The protests are organised by Government lackeys and the police are gearing up for big trouble. Police statements sound like those announcements made by boxers before the big fight. They are not appealing for calm. They are playing up the ‘there’s going to be trouble and we’re ready for it’ line. Apparently Trafalgar Square has been prepared for battle.

I hope OH’s scenario doesn’t play out. If he’s right, we’re in a world of shit.

Mark Wadsworth has more on the organisations behind the protest and their financial backers.

The Times is reporting that plods at the demonstrations this week will be carrying Tasers. Which we know are classed under the law as a firearm, but one that the police are much more likely to use.

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Guido points to the News of the Screws latest on Nigel Griffiths, who’s been videoing himself shagging his secretary, in his Commons office. Gordon Brown was best man at Griffiths’ wedding. Griffiths at first denied the whole thing and applied for an injunction. The injunction was denied, in the public interest. Of course, the expenses and entitlements aspect is the one with the more hope of doing political damage these days, sadly.

Remember that his Remembrance Day Frolic took place in his office paid for by the taxpayers, then went on to presumably his flat, also paid for by the taxpayers.  Far from it being a drunken and forgotten frolic it turns out that he took the deliberate trouble to ensure he would not forget, by uploading the pictures to his laptop – a laptop computer also paid for by the taxpayers out of his parliamentary expenses.  Presumably this would be so he would be able to reminisce over the 27 photos and later he too could enjoy a state subsidised w**k over the memory.

It’s a shame that the wider moral implications have no bearing. Griffiths was cleared of misconduct last week by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner John Lyon.

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The splendid India Knight takes a dim view of wimmin who cry rape after a drunken shag.

Stories such as this have been driving me absolutely mad for years. For a start, they undermine genuine rape cases, which are still woefully underreported to the police and of which only a tiny minority come to trial. How a woman who wakes up next to some bloke she was too drunk to remember having sex with is able, in the cold light of day, to compare herself to the victim of a genuine sexual assault is beyond me. It’s repellent – the most grotesque embracing of faux-victimhood. It reminds me of celebrities who blame something that elicits sympathy, such as “exhaustion” or “depression”, for their stay in rehab rather than the fact that they’ve been up all night smoking crack.

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Waking up and thinking, “Cor, don’t fancy mine much,” is called a mistake. It is embarrassing, cringe-making, humiliating – but feeling a bit surprised, or ashamed of yourself, or sickened at your lack of taste, or whatever normal human emotions you feel when faced with the snoring non-stud, does not make you a “victim” of “abuse”. Women who think that it does need their heads examined.

Quite.

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Obo pretty much covers my views on the Eric Pickles Question Time Lynching this week.

"On BBC’s Question Time last night, Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles became visibly agitated after being questioned on his use of his second home allowance for his constituency in Brentwood & Ongar.

During the debate he said that it was "no fun" doing the commute and that he would leave at 530am in order to make sure to be at the House of Commons by 930am.

Trains run from Liverpool Street Station every ten minutes to Brentwood. The train journey time is forty minutes.

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Eric. You are one of those people who believes that he knows better than us, exempts himself from the laws and rules which he inflicts on us, troughs at our expense and then has the gall to stand up and tell us all how hard his life is.

FUCK YOU, ERIC PICKLES: ordinary people get up at 5AM every fucking day to go to work, and leave late every day. They have to do it out of their own pockets, after paying the taxes that pay your fucking salary and the taxes from which you exempt yourselves.

I don’t think like Iain Martin that you should be under house arrest. I think you should be swinging from a fucking lamp post, you thieving, arrogant, mendacious cunt.

Can’t really argue with that.

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More greedy public sector bastards in the NHS (see previous post).

Top managers in the health service have seen their pay rise by more than three times the average for the rest of the public sector, figures reveal today.

Directors of NHS trusts England received average pay increases of 6.4 per cent last year, far exceeding the Government’s 2.2 per cent pay rise for nurses and midwives, and its 2 per cent target for other public servants.

Since 1997 the average earnings of NHS chief executives have increased by 98 per cent compared to 50 per cent across the public sector as a whole.

And what wonderful effects these wise increases have yielded.

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Via Mummylonglegs, The Dunfermline Building Society is about to be forced into a merger.

Some of the factors seem to be:

• Decision to get into sub-prime & >100% LTV mortgages.
• Decision to get into corporate finance.
• A disastrous IT strategy.

And just as I pointed out, regarding the RBS bonus recipients being in or around Ally Darling’s constituency, the DBS is in  Gordon Brown’s constituency and home town.

It remains to be seen precisely how much this one will cost us, but with a loss of £25m, it’s not the same order of magnitude as RBS & HBOS.

Still, it’s another bunch of porridge munching, pale blue pricks being bailed out by the English taxpayer. And I’m not sure why, considering that:

The Dunfermline board was confident that it had secured £30m from the Building Societies Association, and £25m from the Scottish government to help keep it afloat. Those pledges left it just £5m short of the £60m the board believed it needed to continue, and directors were hopeful the Treasury would step in to complete the package.

So, there was every opportunity for this responsibility to remain in Scotland. But no.

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That’s all for now….

AJ

Labour: Party of the NHS

Spotted this in the Tellygraff:

Time for the NHS to go back to basics

Paul Steane went into hospital to be cared for but, after a catalogue of medical blunders, took his own life.

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Paul Steane did commit suicide. He didn’t do it because he wanted to die. He did it, terrifyingly, because he was afraid to live.

”That was how the NHS had left him,” she says wearily. ”Terrified of life. He didn’t kill himself because he was depressed at his condition, but because he was frightened of what else they could do to him if he had to go back to hospital.

”His legs had been amputated. He was blind. His vocal cords were so damaged that he could no longer speak. His breathing was laboured and painful. And his hands were so painful that he was petrified he would choke to death if the tube in his throat became blocked and he couldn’t pull it out.

"But most of all he was utterly terrified he would have to go back into hospital. That he would end up lying in a bed, unattended. Dying alone. The one thing Paul had left that was in his own control was ending his life.
He left me a suicide note in which he wrote:
‘I hope you understand why I had to do this, but life has been hell for me since they did this to me.’ ”

So what happened to bring a man to this awful point?

The true tragedy of Paul Steane’s suicide at 45, however, isn’t that he could no longer endure the agony of his disabilities – but the fact that it was the health service on which he had to rely that had caused those very injuries in the first place. As a result of poor nursing care, a hitherto healthy man became one of the 59,000 people in this country who are permanently disabled or die each year because of poor hygiene or care in our hospitals. And in Paul’s case, all because he was denied the most basic of human needs: a drink of water.

Paul’s life, as a happily married husband and father of two sons, was blighted for ever after a spell in hospital for what should have been routine tests. On three occasions, none of the nurses on his ward bothered to check his fluid intake. No one noticed that he wasn’t drinking any water and, ultimately, he became so dehydrated that he suffered renal failure. After a litany of repeated mistakes and neglect by inexperienced doctors and over-burdened nurses, he returned home a helpless invalid.

With a close member of my own family about to go into an NHS hospital, it puts the fear of God into me, I can tell you.

Whatever any of these Labour imbeciles say, could the Tories have done any worse, with the most scythe-happy administration? I don’t believe for one moment that this Government is anything but a worst case scenario for the UK. I hope I’m right and we can look back on this last 12 years as a salutary lesson.

AJ

UPDATE: Paul’s widow has posted a comment linking to the website of the book she has written about Paul’s experience. I hope it makes a difference. http://www.nhs-whocares.co.uk/

I send Amanda and her family my very best wishes.

The case for a free market in consumer terrorism…

I was reminded of this when I received a cold call a few minutes ago and told the imbecile on the other end to fuck right off.

The Nameless Libertarian is irritated by some information campaign being run by Notwork Fail, aimed at preventing the travelling public from swearing at their otherwise cloth eared employees.

For those of you lucky enough not to be in the know about this one, I’m talking about a Network Rail poster campaign. There’s an example up by one of the entrances in Victoria station. It depicts a young man having a mug shot taken – presumably he has just been arrested. His placard says “Say Cheesed Off”. The inference is that he was arrested for swearing at some Network Rail drone.

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See, there is a big difference between punching someone, calling someone a fucking cunt and pointing out that a situation is fucking ridiculous and you are pissed off about it. The latter comment is true; you are threatening no-one, you are insulting no-one. Yes, you it is arguably better to phrase your words more carefully and you probably don’t *need* to swear. But anyone who commutes in London will know just how frustrating it is to have to force yourself into some rancid fuck’s armpit on a delayed train because the fucking rail system still can’t sort itself out. Sometimes – the recent collapse of the London transport system because of a couple of flakes of snow, for example – the situation is fucking ridiculous, and you are well within your rights to say that you are pissed off.

He (I assume He) concludes:

Working in a customer service position is always difficult. You are exposed to the public, and they can sometimes be frustrated, irrational, angry and insulting. But guess what? It is part of your job to deal with that. I know, I’ve been in the situation and dealt with it. I worked in retail for years. So if you are a customer service bod, and you encounter someone who tells you they are fucked off, swallow your negative response and listen to them. Once you have heard their problem, try to help them. That is your job.

Quite right. Now – the free market part. The corollary to the ‘invisible hand’ is to give them the ‘invisible finger’.

As the nameless one says, frank and open feedback from customers is an essential part of the cycle of quality assurance. There are a number of aspects to the feedback mechanism. One of these is staff happiness and satisfaction. If staff are getting frequently harassed, it’s probably because the customer experience is poor, frustrating, overpriced and/or not as advertised.

In such circumstances, the staff will become dissatisfied, disillusioned, become difficult to manage and make daft pay demands or get the union involved. Recruitment will become more difficult and costly.

In these circumstances, then,  management can either (i) improve the customer experience in order to improve the way their staff are treated, or (ii) pay their staff a compensation package that offsets the poor working environment. The latter is unlikely to succeed as a strategy – particularly in unionised environments.

Of course, there is the third way, which is the one chosen by Notwork Fail. Prosecute people.

Well I say we should continue to let the ‘invisible finger’ have its influence on the marketplace.

AJ

EU mandate: Kettles to boil at 62°C

The EU have been uncharacteristically quick to act, following recent reports from Tehran University that drinking hot tea (above 65°C) causes oesophageal cancer.

EC Directive E17445 will mandate that no kettle shall carry the CE quality mark (mandatory for electrical goods sold in the EU), unless and until the boiling point, at which the kettle switches off is changed to 62°C.

Critics quickly pointed out that the boiling point of water is in the 98-102°C range, so the liquid will never boil. The EU office of scientific discharges said, “this is a concern we share, but a resolution is in hand. Chloroform boils at 62°C, so why not try a relaxing cup of chloroform and camomile tea?”

The UK Department of the Environment was quick to identify the carbon reduction that would be instantly achieved by this move, and sponsored the bill through the EU parliament.

Today Ed BonzoDogDooDahBand confirmed that in light of the environmental benefits, he would be introducing legislation to make the use of a kettle that boils above 62°C an imprisonable offence. Jack Straw subsequently mooted the possibility of making such legislation retroactive – perhaps to January 2007.

The Houses of Parliament, however, will be exempt as a Royal Palace. The use of existing kettles will continue until 2015 at the earliest.

AJ

Another turd that will float across the pond…

A couple of months back, Melanie Reid, wrote in the Times on the possibility of introducing ‘compulsory voluntary work’. As you’d expect, she was excoriated in the article’s comments section and across the blogowossit.

Well guess what – this is another one that Fuzz Bazz is running with, and it’s passed through the Senate.

MANDATORY "VOLUNTEERISM" ARMY PASSES THE SENATE

Any Republican who voted for this slave legislation should have his ass kicked out of the party.

It’s the same two traitors who wanted the bailout bankruptcy of America:

Name
Voted

Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME]
Aye

Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
Aye

Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY] Abstain

The “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act” (GIVE act). HR 1388 has just passed the  Senate.

In the bill, Obama sets up the mechanics that he passed in the Stimulus Package for his volunteer operations — including setting up a government funded corporation with a Board of Directors and CEO. What is frightening is the tentacles that this will entail as all agencies need to create positions for these volunteers. Yada … yada .. I could go on as how he has tied his FEMA Scheme for the Civilian Security Defense Force into this legislation, but now they’re called “National Volunteer Reserve Corps.” This creates images of the Peace Corps, but it is something far more sinister. In addition, the legislation is targeting foster kids, disadvantaged teens and more specifically BLACK colleges and universities. Reading the provisions, it smacks of a program tailor-made for ACORN. It is a bill that has reverse discrimination all over it as it is NOT designed for middle-class Americans to benefit from — regardless of your race. But this is NOT what has piffed me off.

In the bill, Obama sets up the mechanics that he passed in the Stimulus Package for his volunteer operations — including setting up a government funded corporation with a Board of Directors and CEO. What is frightening is the tentacles that this will entail as all agencies need to create positions for these volunteers. Yada … yada .. I could go on as how he has tied his FEMA Scheme for the Civilian Security Defense Force into this legislation, but now they’re called “National Volunteer Reserve Corps.” This creates images of the Peace Corps, but it is something far more sinister. In addition, the legislation is targeting foster kids, disadvantaged teens and more specifically BLACK colleges and universities. Reading the provisions, it smacks of a program tailor-made for ACORN. It is a bill that has reverse discrimination all over it as it is NOT designed for middle-class Americans to benefit from — regardless of your race. But this is NOT what has piffed me off.

The GIVE Act has 12 amendments. The one I am outraged over is House Amendment 49. It reads: “H.Amdt49 Pass Amendment to prohibit organizations from attempting to influence legislation; organize or engage in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes; and assist, promote, or deter union organizing.”

If I read that right, your First Amendment rights of Free Speech just were legislated out the door. ( Kalani in the Atlas comments section here)

I blogged on it when it passed the house here: House Passes Mandatory Service Bill

Nice.

AJ

Post boxes must become as socially unacceptable as chair legs.

A very similar sentiment was expressed by Ed BonzoDogDooDahBand yesterday when he said:

The Government needs to be saying ‘It is socially unacceptable to be against wind turbines in your area – like not wearing your seat belt or driving past a zebra crossing.

???

His comments were made at the screening of new climate change documentary The Age Of Stupid.

Oh, that’s right… The Age of Stupid is being pitched as a documentary. In the same sense, I hope, that Spinal Tap was a documentary. Anyway, back to the point.

Teddy’s words were but a clumsy wielding of a technique known as ‘denormalisation’. There’s a rather good paper on the subject here, which I was lead to from Taking Liberties.

Basically, denormalisation is the modus operandi of the meddling Righteous classes, when they want to put a stop to something they don’t like. Smoking, drinking, junkfood, speeding, 4×4s, flying, global warming ‘denial’, cash economy, tax avoidance, unregulated freedom – you name it. Rather than tackling the object of their meddling, the approach is to demonise those people who partake of the unapproved activity – paint them as pariahs and social outcasts. Thanks to the collaboration of the fourth estate, and the collusion of the many agents of righteous and the gullible in society, the vision can become the reality – look at the way smokers are treated now.

Anyway, the X is as socially unacceptable as Y formula works like this:

1. Let X equal something we want to ban.
2. Let Y equal something that is already egregious in the public mind.

An extreme example would be:

Derek Draper said, “Guido Fawkes’ blog should be made as socially unacceptable as child pornography.”

A real world example would be:

Road safety experts believe speeding must become as big a social taboo as smoking and drink-driving.

The divisiveness of this strategy and the insidious, fragmenting impact it has on society are dealt with nicely in the above paper – here’s a quote:

These campaigns dehumanise whole categories of people, which is arguably the most damning conclusion possible. Whatever one may or may not think of the smoking habit and of smokers, themselves, one unavoidable truth is that the smoker’s social status (or lack thereof) in the modern era foreshadowed the current, lowly social status of the fat Briton, and it sadly foreshadows, with equal accuracy, the descending social status of the responsible adult gambler and drinker.

So, have you spotted the obvious flaws in Ed’s statement? Let’s look at it again:

‘It is socially unacceptable to be against wind turbines in your area – like not wearing your seat belt or driving past a zebra crossing.

• X = Opposition to wind farms

This is not a social group you’re going to marginalise easily, because it’s not a social group at all – opposition to windfarms comes from rural folk, NIMBYs, bird enthusiasts, climate change deniers realists, hikers and people who have calculated the energy lifecycle of a wind turbine, including manufacture and erection and realised that the thing would have to run 24×7, in a force 9 gale for 400 years before it generated the same amount of energy used in putting it there.

• Y = Seatbelts

I may not have my finger on the pulse here, but I’ve never been upbraided by a righteous for not wearing my seatbelt (that said I have been ticketed by a 9 year old copper). In fact, the argument for seat belts starts to fall apart under scrutiny, since the theory of risk compensation shows (and road safety statistics back this up) that drivers take less care the more safe they feel. Which is why, when seat belts became compulsory, the number of RTA casualties inside cars fell by the same amount that pedestrian and cyclist casualties rose. The casualties were not reduced – they were displaced from inside the car to outside of it.

The optimum pattern for seatbelt usage is for all passengers to wear them, but not the driver.

But there’s another value that Ed offered for Y:

• Y = Driving through a zebra crossing.

I doubt Rodney King shares your view, Ed.

AJ

Who’s not the daddy???

UPDATE: The Mirror have taken down the story – but it was there – look:

Maybe they read this:

Schoolboy dad Alfie Patten: DNA tests to be secret
19/02/2009

Dna tests to determine if 13-year-old Alfie Patten is the father of a baby cannot be made public, a judge ruled yesterday.

Oops…

Oh well… it’s being reported outside the UK anyway.

AJ

There’s a lesson in here somewhere…

Via the Ambush Predator Daily Mail Aggregation Service (;-))….

Man accused of a rape that his lawyer victim ‘was too drunk to remember’

A man has gone on trial accused of raping a lawyer who claims she was too drunk to have agreed to sex.

The alleged victim said she found PXXX BYYYY lying naked next to her in bed one morning with no memory of what had gone before.

I’m damned if I’m going to name the man, who has yet to be found guilty of anything. The newspapers have no such obligation.

She immediately accused the chef of taking advantage of her, shouting: ‘It’s because of b******s like you that the law has been changed.’

Prosecutor Kerry Malin said the woman was referring to a 2007 legal ruling that someone who is drunk may not be capable of giving consent.

‘She told him she was a lawyer and knew it was rape if she was unable to say yes. She had no capacity to say yes,’ added Miss Malin.

The woman was still twice the drink-drive limit later that day when she had a medical examination. Tests proved the pair did have sex.

But here’s the proof that this guy was born yesterday…

Bxxxx, 26, voluntarily went to a police station and told them what the lawyer had said when he woke up in her bed.

He said he wanted to find out what his legal position was but was arrested and later charged.

I suppose making a voluntary appointment to have your cock scraped for samples inside and out (yes!) is better than then dragging you from your home or workplace.

The lawyer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been drinking heavily on the night of the alleged attack, Winchester Crown Court was told.

She shared a meal and four bottles of wine with her former flatmate, who then invited Bxxxx over to the house for a few drinks. By that stage the lawyer said she was so drunk that she cannot remember the chef arriving or her former flatmate leaving half an hour later.

But the court heard the woman, who is in her 30s, then shared another two bottles of wine with Bxxxx before going to bed.

Fuck me – I don’t know how many people were sharing those bottles of wine, but that’s a lot even by my standards, and afterwards, sex would not be on the cards… lol.

Judith Khan, defending, claimed that the woman had consented at every stage of sexual activity during the alleged assault on February 17 last year.

During cross-examination, she told the woman: ‘You got into the bed first and Mr Bxxxx got in after you. You helped him to remove your clothing.’

She said that she had performed a sex act on him and then had sex.

Sex act. Yeah. That’s one of those legal euphemisms, which I guess means a hand shandy or a nosh. She was medically examined afterwards, and I’m guessing there were no signs of force. Apart from her fingernails in his arse.

‘Throughout, you were participating in all areas of sexual activity. At no stage were you unwilling to participate.

‘The next morning you asked him if you had had sex and he said yes.

‘You may have regretted what happened the night before but you had fully participated and consented with what went on between you.’

The alleged victim repeated that she was too drunk to have consented to anything. Miss Malin told the court the woman was aware the law surrounding rape, alcohol and consent had changed because of her legal experience.

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Bxxxxx, of Bxxxxxxxxx in Kent, denies rape. The trial continues.

Yeah. The lesson. Don’t fuck with lawyers. Still, she can only have been a junior lawyer though, or he’d have woken up with a sore arsehole and she’d be having a new Audi delivered.

As for drunk women? Well, some of us thank the lord for them.

AJ

PS – I know her name – it’s Kerry Cuntface and she works for Robespierre, McGillicuddy and Patel LLP.

PPS – If this woman is wrong and her gambit fails, she will likely be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice or some-such. She’ll have thrown her whole legal career away over her laddettishness and her affliction with denial and victimhood. Silly cow.

UPDATE: He was acquitted after a 45 minutes of jury deliberation hearing – but what about the bitch?

Tom Harris – Award Nominated Bloggist….

In the wake of the (almost) global success of Daniel Hannan’s EU remarks, as posted here (there and everywhere) yesterday, Tom Harris – for whom I’ve previously despaired, has come up with an absolute classic of a response from his end of the blogoplayground.

Daniel Hannan for Tory leader? Sign me up!

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

SOME Tories are getting awful excited by the three-and-a-half-minute diatribe that Daniel Hannan MEP launched against his prime minister in the European Parliament this week.

And lots of people who are not Tories, Tom. ‘His Prime Minister’? Oh please. No one voted for Brown to be leader of the Labour Party – let alone PM – not even you, Tom.

The mainstream media are being criticised for not giving the same prominence to a speech by an unknown MEP as they did to the speech by Gordon Brown. Hmm…

Here’s where shades of grey come in, Tom. No-one is expecting the ‘same prominence’. As it goes, it looks like he may get it anyway. Daily Politics had it in what was possibly the most entertaining edition in living memory. PM on Radio 4 will have it (had it?).

In any case, covering Dan’s remarks would have lightened the mood after seeing the face of Brown – the man who almost everyone now agrees has fucked our country for 12 years and is leaving a legacy of barbed buttplugs for generations to come, Tom.

And now, according to Political Betting, he’s being talked of as a future candidate of his party. I can think of nothing more likely to turn moderate voters off than his strident, smug, arrogant neo-Thatcherism. So best of luck to him.

Yeah – at a 100/1 shot, for 10 years time. In any case, I may be wrong but I can think of a few things that may put people off more than a bit of ‘smug, arrogant neo-Thatcherism’. For example, Gordon Brown, who has never won an election south of the border. Who has smug down to a fine art. Who ‘saved the world banks’ (including Lloyds TSB) without a hint of arrogance. Who swallowed the Thatcherite bible sideways when it comes to laissez faire (FSA, Tom?).

What was truly repugnant about his speech was the total absence of any sense of patriotism. Some Tories on the extreme right of the party share the problem of some Republicans in the States: they don’t regard the head of government to be the nation’s leader unless he or she is also a member of their little party.

Oh no… like the Democrats always held President G W Bush in such high esteem, and never, ever, attacked him or undermined him at home or abroad. Please. And what’s with the straw man ‘some Tories on the extreme right of the party’? Who are they? Are we still talking about Dan Hannan? Slept through Critical Reasoning 101, did you Tom?

Gordon Brown isn’t just Labour’s prime minister; he’s Britain’s prime minister, and for any UK politician to launch such a disgraceful, personal attack on his country’s leader — in a foreign country — is nothing short of disgraceful.

Talk about sanctimonious. This is what boils my piss about politicians. We’ve already talked about this. I don’t care what the legislation says. He’s not my Prime Minister. He shouldn’t be The Prime Minister.

I’ll tell you what’s disgraceful, Tom. People like you who come to Westminster from your banana-republic-in-waiting, legislating on matters that affect me but don’t affect the people who vote for you.

Which is why he’s so popular in David Cameron’s Conservative Party, I suppose.

You say ‘David Cameron’s Conservative Party’ like it’s a bad thing. Far rather that than ‘Gordon Brown’s Labour Party’, old chap.

Gordon’s going to be retiring next summer and you’re going back to the opposition back benches, Tom. From where you can continue to be a pain in the English arse until Alex Salmond finally terrifies the Scotch with Tory Demons and leads your ultimate withdrawal from the Union.

Orwell Award nominated blogger, my arse.

AJ

Gran Torino

See it. Clint Eastwood is the MAN.

That is all.

AJ

State Subsidised Newspapers

Arrrggghhhhh Toynbee.

Yesterday, Mr Eugenides pointed us towards her protestations about the need for newspapers to survive what is an inevitable decline.

Polly today, with a heartfelt plea for the government to bail out the Guardian Media Group, which is losing money hand over fist (not least, one suspects, due to her inflated salary) and being forced to close down or merge several local titles – and a heartfelt plea to you, the reader, to do your part as well:

Democracy without the scrutiny of good journalism is unthinkable. In the end, it’s up to you. If you always read this on the web, go out and buy a copy, skinflint. Use it or lose it.

Don’t say you haven’t been warned, friendo. You’ll wake up one morning, maybe not too long from now, and they’ll be gone; no Polly Toynbee, no George Monbiot, no Seumas Milne; no Joseph Harker, no Richard Gott, no Jonathan Steele. They’ll all be gone, and it’ll be your fault.

Tragic…  and funny. Until you realise that the country we so often follow, is already halfway down the road to state-sponsored commie rags thanks to Fuzz Bazz & Co. Atlas shrugs comments:

These leftwing yellow rags deserve to go out of business. They are guilty of criminal conduct. There is a coup on the constitution and they won’t report on it. There is blatant criminal activity between Obama and ACORN – and they won’t report on it.

In the greatest act of perfidy, they did not vet the candidate when the American people rely on our media to maintain some journalistic standard (ha!) and vet our politicians.

The leftwing media will be government run? This is a socialist Democrat proposal. This party is evil. They must be stopped. Notice all the newspapers mentioned in this article are left wing tools of the Democrat party.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Quite.

AJ

Alarm…

I thought I’d watch Draper on the Daily Politics. I’m most alarmed, therefore, to see that his first contribution was to agree with my post here.

I didn’t have myself down as a scruffy communist con-man. I must have been wrong. Scruffy? Hell yeah. I must spruce up my CV… now then. How would ‘Post Doctorate degree in Peace Studies from the University of Ulan Bator’ sound?

AJ

Nothing to add to this…

From Old Holborn:

Pot Calls Kettle Brown

Now totally divorced from reality, our Great Leader lectures leading American Bankers and criticises them for losing track of honesty and integrity.

This is the Lying Bastard who claimed to have done away with Boom and Bust! Who claims to have lifted 65 million children out of poverty! Who claims no-one is disadvantaged by his 10-p tax fiasco! Who can’t tell the difference between spending and investing! (I could go on, and on, and on!)

And whose integrity is such that he plotted against his boss and undermined his initiatives. And claimed that his cowardice was nothing to do with opinion polls.

But his hubris and arrogance is such that he sees no problem in attacking people for being dishonest or lacking in integrity.

Fucking deluded hypocrite.

The Penguin

He’s just unreal, isn’t he? Is this what becomes of anyone who end up leader? Is that what you have to be to become leader?

AJ

On wimmin…

In the post I pointed to last, by the frequently surprising Mummylonglegs, there is a great analysis of the path womanhood took through the 20th Century ending up where we are today with a bunch of brainless, grasping split-arse mechanics. It restores one’s faith in women and humanity, in the face of the vacuous, the blokish and the entitled wimmin that we see daily in the media.

So, firstly Jade Goody. ChavTwat Princess. The leader of the pack when it comes to pointless, vacuous women, that serve no purpose in life but are (for some reason) held up by the MSM as some form of icon for the rest of female kind to emulate. Women that make a lot of money by being thick, brain dead, girlies. They earn money by being and portraying them selves as dumb women, doing stuff that dumb women do. 100 years ago women had no rights what so ever. The men at that time believed women were too weak, un-intelligent, fragile and fickle to be trusted with any kind of importance. Many women fought for many years to obtain the ‘Rights’ us women take for granted today. Equality for women started with ‘The Vote’ but we came into our own during and after the Second World War. Women became an essential, if not indespensible part of society. In the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s women went from strength to strength and were a force to be reckoned with.

Then came the 90’s. Women decided they needed to not just be equal to men, but they had to emulate them. We had the rise of the ‘Ladette’. Now why women felt that to be really equal we had to be just as cuntish and twatish as certain members of the opposite sex, I will never, to this day, understand. A step backwards was taken. ‘Ladettes’ came and went in a flurry of beer, fags, kebabs, casual sex and vomit. In the ‘Ladette’ years, many, many women felt that a man could only be a suitable partner if he respected/feared/bowed to their prowess as a party hard/love em and leave em kind of girl. Strangely enough, many ‘Ladettes’ are still single and are now regretting their over bearing power trip.

So we enter the Noughties. Men have been scared out of their wits by vomiting, power hungry, piss head birds. Women have realised that being a ‘Ladette’ means that you spend your life looking like the lowest kind of wanker that you would never, ever consider dating. ‘Ladettes’ fade out, but what can replace them? Along come the ‘Noughty Numpties’. Wags, Airheads, Heiresses and Reality Stars. Throw in some Soap Stars, Pop Stars and Porn stars and Bobs your Aunty. Women that are happy to be held up by the MSM and displayed as ‘Dumb Blonds’. They are happy to be portrayed as a stereotype that demeans all women as long as they get a wedge of wonga for it. In reality they are nothing and do nothing, but the MSM whack them up there and certain women believe they should aspire to be like them. Why? I don’t know. But they do, and the MSM know this.

So these days we have the ‘Numpties’. Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham, Lindsay Lohan, Jade Goody, Nichole Ritchie etc, etc, et-fucking-cetera. And what a fucking waste of space they all are. Anyone, ANYONE that aspires to be like these girls should be shot. They are an abomination and should be rounded up and shipped to Afghanistan. Over there they could find out what it is like to be viewed as a piece of thick, stupid, pointless, worthless, brain dead meat, day in and day out, with no big fuck off pay check to make it all better. May be 6 months in a place like that might teach them some fucking sense and some fucking apreciation of how hard women had to fight for these rights we have today. These women make me fucking sick. And it’s not just the thickos that grip my shit, it’s the likes of the ‘Twiitering Clits’, JaqBoots, Hattie Harmperson etc, who all expect a ton of money because they are female. Not because they do a job well, because they have tits. They all want/expect to earn a wedge of cash for being nothing more than female. If Emily Pankhurst could see what her legacy has become and how women in this country have abused it for their own ends I think she would be deeply ashamed.

..which echoes and supports my suspicions about the rise of wimminhood in the last 20 years contributing to the mediocrity and pussification of our culture.

AJ

Disclaimer: I hold no brief in particular for ‘blokes’ either, the vast majority of whom are ignorant, vain, cretinous, thuggish and (paradoxically) pussy-whipped.

Special Chavspensation….

I wondered what Mummylonglegs was on about, with her splendid rant about The Goody’s ChavThug husband… but I suspected.

Earlier in the week, a headline screamed that Jack Twat may miss her funeral because he’s due up for sentencing after his latest round of kicking the shit out of people. Lo and behold, just as his parole curfew was waived so that he could get married to her, his sentencing is now deferred so that he can go to her funeral.

It really does sicken me that, with so many choice bureaucratic bunglings and abuses of justice under this government, which have fucked up thousands of people’s lives, that they can find time to make special exception for a jailbird chav thug.  If his sentence is, in the end, suspended ‘in light of the extraordinary circumstances’ I will vomit.

They love talking about ‘sending a message’, this lot. What fucking message does this send, you vacuous bunch of bastards?

Anyway… Mummy’s words are sheer poetry:

As for Jack Tweedy. He is a CUNT. A big CUNT CUNT CUNT. Jade Goody died, and this government is trying to use it to their own advantage. We all know what Jack (kick the fuck out of any one that looks at me because I’m shagging a ChatTwat) Tweedy is like. But Labour think that all people in Britain are thick ChavTwats. Labour think that if they treat Jack Tweedy like a ChavTwat Prince we will all understand. Labour think that we are all so Chavvy and thick that we will believe that some Chavs are more special than others. Labour think that that we are happy to except that if you are famous, rich, privileged etc that the Laws and Rules of this land don’t actually apply to you. Labour are trying to get back in touch with the electorate. The same electorate they have ignored and alienated for the last 12 years. They need us now, more than ever. So they have decided to employ the human touch. By showing care and compasion. To a fucking ChavTwat. This shows, quite simply, what labour think of the electorate. That we can all be bought by a simple show of sympathy, paid to the kind of person that 95% of Britons despise and detest. And that is supposed to make us all feel better. That’s taking the piss.

Obviously poetry without the benefit of a carriage return, but nobody’s perfect….

AJ

It won’t have gone unnoticed…

That there have been some inspiring clips from YouTube over the last day or two… Seen via pretty much every blog I read.

The first is Dan Hannan’s barnstorming hatchet job on Brown in the European Parliament:

The second is a corking smackdown delivered to Brown, again in the EU parliament, by Nigel Farage:

And finally, Gordon responds to the barrage of criticism.

Nice action, sirs.

AJ

MPs’ pay and perks…

In the post by Tim Montgomerie that I linked last time, I saw this – my response to which started off as an aside there, but grew to warrant its own post.

We should also say – and I hope we get there first – that MPs and ministers will take a temporary pay cut.  The political class must lead by example.

With a completely pointless, distracting and counterproductive gesture, Tim? And one which by some amazing co-incidence is rather like what Blair & Brown did in ‘97 – freezing ministers’ pay.

Personally, I think that if the Tories really want a split in the party before the next election, this would be a bloody good way to achieve it, but that is incidental and I don’t really care about Tory politics any more, since they’re evidently just The Blue Labour & Spineless Teddybear party under Cameron. (As an aside, did you notice that Brown bound up his call for a review of MPs’ pay and expenses with the question of outside interests, which is bound to hurt the enterprising Tories more than the Labour looters? Indeed this question has already caught Cameron out in 2009.)

I think pay cuts – temporary or otherwise – would be a bad thing.

Of course we all resent the troughing MPs – I hate most of them, but the troughing is far down the list of reasons I’d rather stab them than vote for them.

The reason I (and I think many others) resent the expenses and entitlements system that prevails for MPs is that it is so bloody reasonable and circumspect compared to the bloody awful one we all have to put up with. Examples:

• Free coffee and tea removed from workplace? That’s because the local tax office advised your employer that this is a taxable benefit to employees, which must be declared on the P11D.
• Meanwhile, MPs and peers enjoy massively subsidised prices in the House of Commons bars (in which they can also smoke!).
• Lost the receipt for your meal last time you stayed away? Or maybe you decided to frequent the type of restaurant where the receipt is pretty shaky and hand-written. Getting paid on that is dependent on whether your expenses team are happy to do battle with the revenue on your behalf.
• Meanwhile, MPs don’t need to produce receipts for each instance of such expenditure.
• Work away a lot and use hotels? Resent being put in a Holiday Inn Express or a Travelodge on an industrial park every time? That’s because HMRC would also deem anything above the absolute most basic to be a taxable perk. On the other hand, I’m able to claim a £35 stipend per night I stay with a friend or family instead of in a hotel – but then I can’t claim for food, drink or any other incidentals.
• Meanwhile, Jacqui Smith claims £120k for staying in her sister’s house and Tony McNulty claims £60k for the house he used to share with his Mum and Dad in North London, and now uses as a constituency base, which is actually further from Westminster than the house he lives in with his family, but still only 8 miles away – a 2 quid tube fare or a quid on the bus.

Of course, it goes without saying that the same people who exploit all these perfectly within-the-rules ‘loopholes’ are the same ones who imposed most of this ridiculousness on us – particularly Brown as Chancellor. Just as they are the ones bemoaning perfectly legitimate tax avoidance methods, while taking on Lord Myners as City Minister, less than two years after he departed from his role in setting up and running an off-shore reinsurance company for the express purpose of tax avoidance.

So, to my point:

All of these unpalatable truths notwithstanding, I’m probably in a minority here when I say that I think the salaries of MPs and ministers are pretty damned paltry considering the responsibilities they (ought to) shoulder. A middle-management HR or health and safety drone can earn the sort of basic an MP earns. Half of the senior snivel service and local government execs earn more than the Prime Minister. There’s absolutely no bloody way I’d work in London for £65k like MPs do.

Of course there’s the expenses thing – and it’s difficult to be surprised, against the above backdrop of pay comparisons, that the system is taken advantage of.

So my solution would be a one-off boost in pay of elected Westminster representatives and Ministers by [plucked out of the air like a climate change statistic] 30%. The pay off would be that all expenses claims would have to be supported by receipts and their whole entitlements regime would become the same as the rest of us, as dictated by HMRC – they’d be taxed on anything deemed a benefit.

I think I’ve adequately expressed my thinking around the expenses thing, so to justify the salary increase I say this: I’ve already outlined the unlikelihood of me, or anyone I know of calibre, wanting to do the job they do for the money they earn. So make the money worth doing the job for.

This brings me to the question of people who think MPs are well paid. I mean come on. If you’re in your 30’s and have carved out a career, are you honestly telling me I’m wrong about the pay? On the other hand, I can quite understand that there are millions of people out there who think that MPs are very well paid indeed. Some of these people become Labour MPs. Which is how they come to be representative of the lack-lustre, the un-driven, the envious, the spiteful, the underachieving and the feckless. It is also why they are determined to lock the unfortunate and the wronged into their client state rather than encouraging them out of it.

If anything, a nice fat pay rise for all MPs would cost less that the road signs for the 2012 Olympics and would focus the minds of the public regarding MPs’ accountability.

Again, in terms of my proposed salary boost further worsening the public’s view of politics and politicians, well I can think of about 100 things that they have done in the last 20 years that make a much stronger contribution to the borderline-pathological hatred I have of most politicians.

Just one other thought, which is on the subject of MPs’ expenses being made public. Well, that’d be okay if I also wanted mine to be public. As it is, the fact that I spend a fortune on tea and eat at McDonalds more often than nanny would approve of is a matter between me and my boss. The former, I address with a quote from Ed in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels:

The entire British Empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I’m going into battle without one, you are very much mistaken.

The latter doesn’t need addressing, because my boss is a fat cunt.

AJ

Tory tax dilemma laid bare…

While I’ve been busy calling Osborne Piers Fletcher-Dervish and Cameron a Tefal-headed cunt, more level headed sorts have been scrutinising and arguing the issues.

In this case it is Danny Finkelstein (Times leader writer) and Tim Montgomerie (ConservativeHome).

Mr F, writes, in an extraordinarily pusillanimous open letter to Mr M:

If the Conservative Party announced that reversing the 45p would be a priority, they would be running in the election saying the following:

We’ve looked at the books. We can see that there is no money. Gordon Brown has left us with unimaginable debt and his forward plans are unaffordable. We have hard decisions for years to come. We have abandoned many of our plans for public spending. We are going to cut Labour’s plans down and services will feel the pinch.

We’re sorry, but we can’t help it. We’ll get things going when we can.

Oh, but just as a start we don’t need the £2bn that Gordon Brown was going to raise from people who earn more than £150k. We will find that by cutting spending even more. Vote Conservative.

Can’t you see Tim that this isn’t an election winning position? I believe you can. You may not, ideally, want this new rate. And you have, understandably expressed your frustration and anger.

But the politics are surely compelling.

Aren’t they?

I don’t think the politics are compelling – I think the presentation put on it would be significantly different from that Mr Fink offers, but I think it’s time the British Public hears it loud and clear. It seems Mr M agrees:

It wasn’t until twenty minutes into a conversation with a member of Team Cameron at the weekend that we got into the economic arguments for 45p.  For twenty minutes all I got was the politics of why the position had been changed.  Last week I was briefed that the party was backing away from forcing the BBC to share the licence fee because we needed broadcasters on side.  A month ago a frontbencher told me that we couldn’t upset Muslim opinion by questioning the ban on Geert Wilders coming into Britain. Of course, of course, of course politicians have to make tactical political decisions but I worry that tactics are now too dominant.  Voters may actually vote for some authentic truth telling!

The 45p tax won’t raise much or any money.  It may damage the recovery.  It won’t stop Labour attacking us as the party of the rich.  I’m sorry, Danny, my mind is unchanged.

Read the whole thing – I have to say I agree pretty squarely with Mr M, but perhaps I’m just not being as pragmatic (cynical?) as Mr F.

AJ