British Justice…

Remember that most of the members of the Labour government who have been responsible for framing legislation are barristers. Which is to say if they don’t know about perverse laws, who the fuck does? So they can only have done this on purpose.

From Constantly Furious:

Paul Clarke of Reigate can tell you.

Mr Clarke found a discarded shotgun and – rather than blagging a bank, or shootin’ up some boyz in da ‘hood – decided that he should hand it in at the local police station.

After all, possession of an unlicensed firearm is an offence, innit?

Oh yes. It is. But, unfortunately for Paul, it’s a ‘Strict Liability’ offence. Remember them? No excuses.

So, when Mr Clarke arrived at the local nick – having had the courtesy to ‘phone ahead to announce his intention – was he offered a cup of tea and the thanks of several beaming Bobbies?

Was he fuck. He was promptly arrested, and thrown into a cell.

When the case came to court, was he given an apology for the misunderstanding and sent away, without a stain on his character?
Was he fuck. ‘Strict Liability’, see?

The judge, directing the Jury, sealed his fate, saying,

"This is an unusual case, but in law there is no dispute that Mr Clarke has no defence to this charge.

The Jury, not really knowing what the fuck was going on, and probably slightly disappointed that this was not really like on the telly at all, took a scant 20 minutes to go along with the Judge’s direction, and find the poor sod Guilty. Guilty. For fuck’s sake.
So, will the judge now unravel this mess, and sentence Mr Clarke to something proportionate and tolerable: "you will be taken from this place and given a cup of tea and your cab fare home" ?

Will he fuck. He can’t, even if he wants to.

There’s a minimum sentence for the crime of possessing a firearm. A mere judge can’t be trusted to know what’s appropriate, so he’s given guidelines from on high.

So – and here comes the sit down and brace yourself bit – when Paul Clarke is sentenced, on December the 11th, he must be sent to prison for a minimum of five years. Five fucking years. Five years in prison, for doing what pretty much every last single fucking one of us would have done in the circumstances.

Holy crap. The number of ways you can have your life fucked up at random is just ever-growing. This is another reason that mandatory minimums are grossly unjust and a politician’s knee jerk ‘seen to be doing something’ response.

But remember, as I said at the start, that many of those political kneejerkers are high fucking practitioners of law. Jesus fuckiing wept.

AJ

Brown’s Britain leading the way out of recession. Not.

Obliged to Guido for this handy illustration of the UK’s relative economic performance in Q3 2009:

Which means that Britain [is the] Only G7 Nation Still in Recession.

Go Gordon, go.

AJ

LOLLAGE…

Apparently, Labour winning a by-election in one of their safest seats, in Scotland at that, is a “dramatic victory”.. LMAO

Low-expectation-having motherfuckers.

Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland, the Scottish Secretary also claimed Labour’s victory was "an endorsement of Gordon Brown and what he is trying to do".

That can’t possibly reflect well on the people of Glasgow, then.

But it does confirm that Labour is truly the party of the delusional.

AJ

A small return on my investment…

Labour have finally provided me with some kind of a return. I had them to win Glasgow NE by-election, at 8/13.

Sadly, because they taxed everything I have, I only had £20 to put on it.

Still, Alan, Harriet, Andy et al. You’ve provided me with enough cash for a p0rn mag, 20 cigarettes and a half bottle of whisky.

Cheers.

AJ

So that’s where the Labour core vote is… well duh!

Labour isn’t working. Still.

AJ

Emotional incontinence…

I’m upset at you being upset, and that upsets me.. bah.. you pussified bitch-assed motherfuckers…

Vis. Broon’s cack-handed attempt at a letter of condolence:

Asked about the controversy, Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, told the BBC that Mr Brown would be horrified at having caused offence.

"I think anyone who sees Mrs Janes’s upset will very much regret what she is feeling," said Mr Miliband. "And I’m sure the Prime Minister will feel that he intended to offer her some little comfort at the most difficult time for her. I’m sure he will be very upset himself at the upset she’s feeling."

Jesus Titty-Twisting Christ people. These fuckwits are supposed to be running the country. The country that they have managed to seriously fuck up, during their thirteen year Laurel and Hardy telethon of doom.

And as for Ed Bonzodogdoodahband, I think he’d make a brilliant leader of the Labour Party garden gnome.

If he’s a man, then I’m a Klingon warrior with an MBA from U.Bogota and a white tiger called ICanHasSiegfried…

AJ

Clothes to become as socially unacceptable as Range Rovers…

Give me strength…

Large wardrobes of seldom-used clothes are no longer environmentally acceptable and people should instead rent outfits and accessories, according to the Government’s waste watchdog.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap) claims that overcoming our obsession with owning goods could be a “secret weapon” in meeting climate change targets. It has called for a fifth of all household spending, £148 billion out of an annual total of £732 billion, to be converted to renting by 2020

Just fuck off. I’m off to buy a pair of polar bear underpants. Bu there’s more…

Wrap identifies five categories of goods suitable for renting: high-end clothing; glassware and tableware; tools and equipment for house and garden; vehicles; and telephone, audio and recreational equipment. On clothing, the report proposes that hiring should replace 10 per cent of the retail market within ten years.

Do what??? When do I get to decide how I spend my hard-earned and rapaciously taxed income, you fucking communists?

AJ

It’s difficult to tell…

whether Tom Harris’ tongue is in his cheek, or up his own arse some days…

I SIMPLY cannot understand why, as David Miliband says, the Tories are “playing the man, not the ball” with regards to Tony Blair and the European presidency.

Ahem. A lefty complaining about someone “playing the man, not the ball” … lulz are sure to follow.

Objecting to the former Prime Minister becoming the new president seems peculiarly petty and short-sighted for someone who needs the votes of former Labour voters in order to become PM himself.

looking at the opinion polls, Tom, I’m not convinced that he need worry. People remember Blair as a liar, a spinmeister, a war-monger and an egomaniac. Now he also attends the church of kiddie fiddler. The only way to cast Blair in a positive light is to stand him next to Gordon. Ah yes. Your fellow porridge slurper Brown is running a great campaign for the Tories :-)

Obviously Tony Blair is eminently qualified for the job and would do it well.

If you mean it requires a criminal ego-maniac? Sure.

You’d have to be pretty stupid to dispute that.

Stupid, am I? Play the ball not the man, Tom.

I’m looking forward to seeing you waste away on the opposition benches, finishing your political career in penurious working conditions with the least pay and benefits you’ve ever had as an MP. If your lucky, you might make it to retirement before your beloved party totally collapses through factional ideological fights and calamitous finances.

AJ

What the blithering fuck???

This is more wrong than… well pretty much everything.

Draconian police powers designed to deprive crime barons of luxury lifestyles are being extended to councils, quangos and agencies to use against the public, The Times has learnt.

The right to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property will be given to town hall officials and civilian investigators employed by organisations as diverse as Royal Mail, the Rural Payments Agency and Transport for London.

The measure, being pushed through by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, comes into force next week and will deploy some of the most powerful tools available to detectives against fare dodgers, families in arrears with council tax and other minor offenders.

You see that? Used a statutory instrument to hand over unfeckingbelievable powers to local authorities and quangos. Democracy? Fuck that.

Even the fucking coppers are aghast.

The radical extension of the Proceeds of Crime Act, through a Statutory Instrument which is not debated by parliament, has been condemned by the chairman of the Police Federation. Paul McKeever said that he was shocked to learn that the decision to hand over “intrusive powers” to people who were not police was made without consultation or debate.

So are the shysters.

His concerns are shared by leading legal figures, who believe that there is a risk of local authorities abusing the powers to search people’s homes, seize their money, freeze their accounts and confiscate their property. They also see parallels with the spread of counter-terrorist surveillance powers to monitor refuse collections and school catchment areas.

Yes – we have ample evidence that the council will go to fucking town with any powers given to them. Tis the nature of the beast. A who watches the watchers? Another Quango.

An “explanatory memorandum” says that a swath of financial investigators attached to the newly empowered bodies will be accredited, trained and monitored by another quango, the National Policing Improvement Agency. The memo adds that asset seizure will result in financial rewards: “Investigation bodies will receive a share of money recovered as additional funding to incentivise further work in recovering the proceeds of crime.”

Councils and other bodies had access to asset recovery powers before but only with with the authorisation and involvement of the police. Now they will be able to act independently of any police force or law enforcement agency.

And existing powers of confiscation under the Proceeds of Crime act have not been without problems. Ask anyone who has a safe-deposit box.

The extension of such draconian powers to civilian investigators coincides with mounting legal concern about the operation of the law of confiscation. But the Home Office maintained last night that the measures would “boost the fight against crime” and “free up valuable police time”.

Lawyers who specialise in confiscation law have been expressing concern about the extension of the powers for some time. One judge said: “It looks like this has been sneaked through.”

Andrew Bodnar, co-editor of a book on asset recovery law, said that the Proceeds of Crime Act had been carefully crafted and designed but its implementation often left much to be desired. “The theory behind the law is right. But if these powers are to be used to seize the assets of — to take an extreme example — fare dodgers or council tax defaulters, it is very difficult to see how those theoretical aims are being met.

“The extension of these powers should be monitored very closely. The spectre of counter-terrorism powers being used to monitor people’s bin- filling habits, or what school they’re trying to send their children to, should be cautionary.”

Indeed they fucking should.

Talk about driving a coach and horses through democracy and justice. I’ll say it again.

FUCK YOU LABOUR, YOU JACKBOOTED, NATION WRECKING FASCIST CUNTS.

Fuck this bullshit country.

AJ

Only the BNP takes the fight to the Islamists…

A very thought provoking piece by Mad Mel in the Speccie this week…

Some truisms in there, for sure, lots of words about the disenfranchised, ignored and marginalised British working classes, the disillusionment with the mainstream parties, the ghettos begat by multiculturalism.

The really important observation, though is the apparent correlation between support for the BNP not in areas heavily populated by black or Indian folk, but in areas with high density of Muslins (Pakistani and Bangladeshi mainly).

It is highly relevant that Griffin is an MEP for North West England — and did not stand in the old National Front power base around London. His party’s new appeal is based on a new power base — the north-west and Yorkshire. Research by academics at Manchester University reveals that support for the BNP is highest in areas of high Pakistani and Bangladeshi concentration — but significantly, not where there are concentrations of Indians. Strikingly, BNP support actually falls away steeply in Afro-Caribbean areas.

So to try to damn the BNP as racist misses the point by a mile. Not that the accusation is untrue — despite its attempt to rebrand itself, the BNP remains a racist party with strong neo-Nazi overtones. But it attracts votes talking about religion and culture. Crucially, it is cynically using the Islamisation of Britain as cover for its animus against all Muslims and non-white people.

This is why it is strategically important for the BNP to take up cudgels against radical Islam in the UK. And we all know that someone has to. We also know that the main 3 bunches of spineless Islingtonites aren’t doing. They need to, urgently if they want to stop the BNP.

The fears it exploits are those of ordinary white folk in areas of high Muslim immigration who have watched the transformation of their neighbourhoods from communities of people like themselves into a landscape they no longer recognise. The voters the BNP are seeking are bewildered and distraught that no one in authority seems to notice or care — and that they are dismissed as ‘racists’ for expressing such concerns.

One rule for the mad mullahs, and one for the rest of us you see.

It is this asymmetry of anger which helps the BNP so much. Those who this week seemed to be risking an aneurysm over Griffin’s TV appearance either dismiss the jihadis as an exaggerated problem — or, on occasion, even march behind their incendiary and hate-driven banners. There is no Griffin-style outrage over the regular appearances in the media by the fanatics of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas supporters or Iranian-backed jihadis, even though they endorse terrorism and the extinction of human rights.

She also has some interesting thoughts on the EDL and UAF.

As a result, the debate is allowed to descend into a clash of extremists. Last March, for example, Islamists demonstrated against a parade in Luton of Royal Anglian Regiment soldiers returning from Afghanistan. The jihadis were protected by the police, while the only people arrested that day were locals protesting at this provocation. That event led in turn to a demonstration in Birmingham last August by the self-styled anti-Islamists of the so-called English Defence League (EDL) and other groups.

The cycle continued. The EDL provoked a counter-protest organised by Unite Against Fascism and a day of violent disorder. Similar clashes have subsequently occurred in Luton, Birmingham and in Harrow — brawls invariably characterised in the media as between the ‘far right’ and ‘anti-fascists’.

This is where it gets messy. The so-called ‘anti-fascists’ include a number of Islamic fascists, not to mention far-left boot-boys. As for the ‘far right’, the EDL furiously protests that it has no connections with the BNP and stands against them. But one or two individuals in the EDL have been associated with the BNP in some form or other. Most tellingly of all, EDL leaders have admitted that it is opposed not only to Islamist extremism but to ‘all devout Muslims’ — a BNP-style pitch.

Think on this when Islam4UK (currently throwing a MySQL error) are marching through London this weekend to demand Shariah law in the UK. I have no doubt the EDL and the UAF will both be out in force. Observe how the media report it.

Do read Mel’s article. Tis very good.

As a bit of background, a few choice bits from Old Holborn…

Oh and don’t think it came to this by accident…

The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right’s nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.

He said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its "core working class vote".

Really? Who’d a thunk it.

Unutterable nation-wrecking cunts from day 1.

AJ

Dip once in the ass, and once in the mouth…

Murmurings abound about a ‘double dip’ recession.

Recent economic figures caused much consternation, if little surprise.

Now, Brown’s saying we’ll be back in growth by the end of 2009:

And here’s where the much anticipated double dip will enter it’s second phase of decline.

For the nation as a whole, it has been a year of shitty news on the economy, hectoring from the state about every damned thing we do, utter desperation about the state of education, the NHS, justice, law & order and the ghastly corruption, venality and greed of our elected ‘representatives’. Faith in democracy is draining away. People are fucking pissed off. Depressed. Deprived of joy.

In the meantime, a bunch of people have moved onto tracker mortgages at tasty rates, freeing up disposable income (but not for paying down capital, natch).

In this society, many people acquire and consume goods as an abstract pursuit. An end in itself, which satiates psychological needs imbued by aggressive and invasive advertising. Tis a given, right?

These factors combined with the continuing availability of (not cheap) credit cards will fuel a Christmas consumer binge. We know that much of the economic growth in the last 10 years has been driven by insane consumerism. This binge will drag the economy back on to an upward trajectory. But only for Q4 ‘09.

In January, we’ll all sober up from our binge, open our bank statements and discover we’re gonna have to eat tinned beans on Tesco value toast until payday.

At which point the economy falls back into diminution. Brown’s getting on with the job of taking the tough decisions and, wait.. what?  just fuck off, you shameful bunch of nation-wrecking cunts.

Oh and it wouldn’t be the first time Gordo’s economic snake-oil has given us a W-shaped graph.

Although now that I think about it, rather than a W, it looks like a pair of tits, doesn’t it?

AJ

Let the bad times roll…

Brown’s already been talking about “Labour economic recovery.”

Ho hum.

AJ

Bitch fight!

Via Ambush Predator and needing nothing in the way of commentary…

Violent crime committed by women has soared since Labour came to power, it is revealed today.

The number of women found guilty of murder, vicious assault and other attacks has risen by 81 per cent since 1998.

The massive increase, revealed in the Government’s own data, means that women are now being convicted at the rate of more than 200 every week.

Murders have more than doubled, life-threatening woundings are up by a fifth and common assault has soared by 151 per cent.

…

Women are fast becoming as likely as men to be caught up in alcohol-fuelled violence in bars and town centres.

Dr David Green, director of the Civitas think-tank, said: ‘The idea of a violent woman really was something of an oddity 15 or 20 years ago.

‘But there has been a trend among a distinct minority of young females to become more like men, and the role models they have chosen to emulate are the worst men, rather than the best.

‘Add to that the drinking, and that adds up to more violence.’

The figures come just days after five women were caught on CCTV kicking and stamping on Matthew Campbell, 38, in a random attack.

One of the women was shown stepping forward and kicking him full in the face.

Then, as he cowered on the floor, he was subjected to a barrage of blows and kicks from the gang.

All the attackers, aged between 21 and 42, are members of the same extended family and had been drinking heavily.

In a separate incident, two 17-year-old girls were arrested after a 62-year-old gay man was beaten to death in Trafalgar Square.

Some 12,573 women were convicted for violence in 2007 – the year covered by the latest figures – compared to 6,937 in 1998. Common assaults were up from 3,209 to 8,068.

…

Violence is now the most common reason for women being arrested in England and Wales, overtaking theft and handling stolen goods.

Well done Jack, Harriet, Tony, Charles, Jacqui. Pat on the back, ‘y’all.

Not.

AJ

Rampant Labour injustice for motorists…

I’m much obliged to the Quiet Man for bringing this to my attention:

 

Drivers will fall victim to reforms which will see people who are acquitted by the courts expected to foot the majority of their own defence costs. It is thought some innocent motorists will plead guilty to reduce their costs.

Currently, somebody who is cleared of a motoring offence can expect to be reimbursed most, if not all, of the money they spend clearing their name.

…

Couldn’t possibly affect me or thee, could it?…

According to the Ministry of Justice’s own statistics, 24 per cent of 1.4 million motorists prosecuted in the courts in 2007 were cleared. It meant that nearly 380,000 motorists recouped about 80 per cent of their costs.

Under the new arrangements, which come into force next month, acquitted defendants will only get a fraction of their money back.

The reimbursement of lawyers’ fees is being limited to the legal aid rate of £60 an hour – around a quarter of the what is normally charged.

Defending a speeding case can cost at least £2,000, so under the new system an acquitted driver would be reimbursed just £600.

Legal fees for a drink-driving case can run between £5,000 and £10,000, and the reforms will mean that a driver walking free from court could have to pay as much as £7,000 from their own pocket.

Once again the party of the working man makes justice accessible only to the wealthy. Fucking cunts.

And lets not forget that a lot of motoring prosecutions are the result of police targets and indiscriminate automatic devices, where previously, a traffic copper would have just ‘had a word’. The fines we are faced with are nothing more than extorted taxation, which means that the targets are on a non-stop escalator.

Think the Tories will fix this? Bollocks they will. They were the cunts who introduced speed cameras in the first place.

AJ

UPDATE: Sign the Downing Street Petition here.

Nick Griffin on Question Time…

I can but echo the views of Juliette and Obo on this one. If the Labour party had any clue at all, the only politician they’d ‘no-platform’ is Gordon Brown, because every bit of publicity he gets drains support away from him.

I don’t care much about goading Griffin into saying anything about immigration, repatriation, Jews, Asians, Blacks, Muslims or Martians.

What I want from tonight’s inevitable debacle is one simple thing:

I want the viewing public to be left in no doubt that the BNP are a far-left party.

Then I want everyone to wake up to the BBC’s (and New Labour’s) lie about the BNP being a party of the right.

AJ

Cameron’s bottling it? Bollocks he is. This is a classic Brown stitch-up.

The lefties are spinning that Cameron is backing out of his commitment to a live TV debate with Brown.

@JohnPrescott: Now he’s bottling the TV debates should we call him David Camera-off? Empty seat him

After only a few weeks of negotiations, David Cameron has rejected the idea of a series of debates between all three party leaders, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.

Gordon Brown has proposed up to six debates while the Liberal Democrats are demanding three three-way debates.

Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are accusing the Tory leader of "backing down" after months of calling for a television debate.

So far, it’s an open and shut case. Right? Wrong…

Mr Cameron has proposed the most slimline option, involving one debate with all three leaders. But Mr Brown has told broadcasters he wants at least six.

Brown insists on six. You don’t need me to tell you how intransigent, unreasonable and calculating Brown is.

He and Mr Cameron would go head to head in one, Mr Brown would face Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, in another while Mr Cameron would face Mr Clegg in a third. Then there would be three more debates between Mr Brown and Mr Cameron focused on a different issue each time, such as the economy.

See, I may not be in the premiership of politics junkies, but I play enthusiastically in the lower leagues. And here’s the rub:

I don’t want to see 6 debates. I won’t watch 6 debates. And if I did, I’d be sick to death of all three of these muppets. So you’d be lucky to persuade the millions of marginalised and detached Joe Publics to watch even the one debate.

And that’s Brown’s game. Cameron knows the dangers, Brown has nothing to lose. Clegg has everything to gain by a one-on-one with Brown.

This is about Brown derailing the whole shebang and blaming it on the Tories.

And for Brown’s camp to be brandishing terms like ‘bottled’ in relation to Cameron are so ludicrous as to be hilarious. We all remember the election that never was.

Just more evidence that the likes of Prescott are just in a different plain of existence, where the sky is quite different to the one here on Earth.

AJ

Like father, like son…

Just an arrogant, inept, self-righteous, commie chip off the block.

If Hilary Benn had any sense of public accountability he would resign. But the Environment Secretary will no doubt cling on until the bitter end, despite the fact that the National Audit Office believes he has presided over a "masterclass of misadministration".

This is strong language from the suits who have been checking up on the two bodies that directly affect farmers’ livelihoods – the Rural Payments Agency and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. But I would go further: Britain’s rural bureaucracy is responsible for a £620 million orgy of ineptitude.

You do surprise me. A minister in this shower of twats proving to be inept?

And there are the paw-prints of that hideous inflatable Barbara Cartland-alike Margaret Beckett all over this, too.

But, thanks in part to the hideously complicated system that Margaret Beckett – one of Benn’s predecessors – imposed, the RPA has made a right Horlicks of the task.

A hideously complex system, you say? You mean like the UK having THE LONGEST TAX CODE IN THE WORLD?

Fucking idiots.

AJ

Go Fourth and Multiply…

Derren Brown’s future under threat from new Soothsayer Thinktank.

 

Yesterday, Sherlock Holmes was denied a shit by Watson, and was unavailable for comment.

AJ

Another victim of our terrifying extradition treaty with the USA…

I only discovered this chap, hence his sorry story, because he started to follow me on Twatter.

I give you Brian Howes (follow Brian on Twatter…)

Couple faces extradition over chemical sales

US jail threat to Scots family

By Craig Robertson

A SCOTS mum facing extradition to the US still doesn’t know when her fate will be decided — despite being due to give birth in just 10 days.

Mum-of-four Kerry Howes, who has been diagnosed with severe depression and post traumatic stress disorder, appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday but a hearing date was not set.

It means the 31-year-old faces a home birth without knowing if she will soon be taken 5000 miles away and thrown into jail.

Up to 98 years

Kerry and husband Brian (45) from Bo’ness face up to 98 years in an Arizona jail if found guilty of exporting chemicals US authorities claim were used to make the drug crystal meth.

The couple ran a legal chemical business — Lab Chemicals International — until targeted by undercover agents posing as buyers after a tip-off by one American citizen.

They accused Brian and Kerry of selling iodine and red phosphorus in the knowledge they would be used to manufacture the highly addictive drug. The couple maintain they were simply selling chemicals to be used in amateur pyrotechnics.

Red phosphorous is perfectly legal in the UK but strictly regulated in the US.

“We’ve done nothing wrong,” Brian told The Sunday Post. “We sold chemicals online to be used in fireworks, some as medication for animals and for sheep dip. We sold them everywhere except where they were embargoed.

Registered

“We were registered with the Special Branch and the Home Office. Central Scotland Police visited us regularly and we would ask if there was anything on the site we shouldn’t be selling and they always said no. Also we only dealt in credit card sales so all transactions were traceable.

“They even asked us to report any Muslim names among the people buying from us and we agreed to do that. Then the next thing we know we face extradition to the US without any evidence against us whatsoever.”

Brian and Kerry spent 214 days in separate prisons without charge last year, he in Saughton and she in Cornton Vale.

The couple were eventually released on bail but only after Brian went on a 30-day hunger strike to prevent the children being put into care.

That episode has left him with minor brain damage. Kerry has been left depressed at the prospect of losing her children — Denni (11), Bethaney (10), Ellie (6) and Leela (3).

One-sided treaty

The couple are victims of the one-sided post-September 11 extradition treaty which allows UK citizens to be forced to the US to stand trial. It allows Britons to be extradited without prima facie evidence of criminality.

“We’re being extradited on false information and none of it can be challenged,” said Brian.

The couple’s cases are now being considered separately and Kerry returned to the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday. She met with a new advocate and new medical reports were called for.

“No date was set, not even for a preliminary hearing,” explained Brian. “The judges said they were unhappy that our cases are being dealt with separately.

Refused

“My case is scheduled for May 26 to 29 and Kerry’s will not be set until after that. If I win, she wins automatically, that has been made clear. If I lose then she will go into court after that.”

The couple have been refused application to have their bail conditions changed to allow both of them to attend hospital for the birth of the baby.

Brian’s curfew insists he is at home from 8 pm to 8 am and both must sign on at their local police station three times a day. As a result they feel they have no option but to go for a home birth.

The extradition was formally approved by Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill. A Justice spokesman said they could not comment subject to the appeal to the High Court.

I’m just fucking dumbstruck.

For more coverage, get over to Brian’s blog – he, his wife and their children deserve the support of every UK citizen.

Never ever forget what Labour have given away of ours. To the EU. To the USA. Where Blair and Brown get gongs and honours to say nothing of sinecures.

AJ

Guilt Complex…

Via Obo…

Nothing we didn’t know already, but a decent read nonetheless…

At a time of diminishing employment opportunities, there’s a sector of the British economy that continues to expand. For the right type of applicant, it often offers above-average remuneration with attractive perks, notably an assumption of moral superiority.

You won’t find it listed in the "sits vac" columns, as such. That’s because this booming business embraces many organisations, across a range of activities: charities, social work, local and national politics, even journalism.

It is the Guilt Industry. No, not the gilt industry (though that too is flourishing, thanks to the Government’s borrowing binge). The Guilt Industry is completely different; it provides a living for those with an eagerness to demonise fellow citizens who spurn "progressive" values.

The Guilt Industry’s target market is largely, but not exclusively, Britain’s middle classes, those to whom Benedict Brogan referred to in his column yesterday as "pilloried, taxed, stripped of their privileges, bound by red tape and lined up for fiscal execution".

If you have a private-sector job, pay your bills, service your mortgage, invest in your property, commit no crime, save for old age (and that of your parents) and seek the best education for your children, then you have probably experienced an onslaught from the Guilt Industry’s sales force.

Read on…

AJ