There’s karma in spades here. Lush.
LOL.. so a screw screwed a con, now she’s totally screwed because she’s also a con. OOooohhh lesbian abuse in the laundry.
Anyway, how did this all come out?
McDade was arrested by Thames Valley Police after she sold her story to Closer magazine for £1,000.
Glorious. Fucking stupid cow.
AJ
Oh…
More than 15,320 people have complained to the Criminal Records Bureau over the last six years to dispute the information the agency is releasing to potential employers.
Last year, a record 2,509 people challenged the CRB – twice the figure of 2002/03, and the equivalent of seven people every day.
The errors are being blamed on applicants having similar personal details to an offender, as well as identity fraud and mistakes made on court and police records.
The figures were revealed just weeks after it emerged more than 11million adults will have to be checked on a new database to be run by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).
An estimated 11.3 million people – including parents who join school rotas to take pupils to sports events – will face having their backgrounds checked.
Well… I’m glad I’m not an Andy Smith, a Dave Brown or a Jack Jones.
AJ
One piece just started to fall into place… this is from October 25th 2009:
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.
Today in the Times:
Are you optimistic? Or are you spending to numb the pain and face the consequences later?
Today’s poll will boost government hopes that voters may be feeling more positive by the time of the general election next spring. It shows that the number of voters thinking the country as a whole will do well over the next year has risen from a quarter to a third since July and is now the highest since April 2008.
But nearly two thirds still think that the country will do badly over the next year.
So, 65% think we’re still gonna be fucked for the next year. And yet:
Its findings come as the best October high street sales for seven years have fuelled hopes that a pre-Christmas surge in spending could confirm the country’s emergence from recession.
Hmmmm… with this in mind, I think my reasoning for a predicted election date of 8th April is looking more solid.
AJ
The squirrel ‘fell foul of a “hit and run driver”’ eh? Well I’ve been driving for 20 years and I never knew there was a duty to report running over a fucking tree-rat. Was the driver expected to leave his insurance details, perhaps?
Citizens of Dorking. You’ve lived up to your poxy town’s name in fine style, you complete and utter cretins.
AJ
Obviously not from me, but a round up of interesting views on how ‘the fear’ is instilled into us by the state.
We are ‘ruled’ not with consent by honourable people, but by avaricious power-seekers who rule by fear.
We are told to fear Terrorism, because the fear of terror garners our tacit consent for legislation that removes our rights and liberties. Our soldiers, who volunteered to defend our nation, are dying in a foreign field not for our freedom or for the liberty of others, but to satisfy the need of Government to keep us scared of ‘terror’.
That fear is used to enact the laws that make us guilty until proven innocent, forced to prove our own identies, restricted in our right to protest.
We are told to fear infection. Swine ‘flu, Bird flu, SARS, whatever the latest potential pandemic might be. Fear of infection reduces human contact and interaction. We are in fear for our health, the Government instructing us on our salt content, our fat consumption, our exercise levels.
We are taught to fear injury, under the auspices of ‘Health and Safety’. No risk, no pleasure, no life, in the terror that our actions may bring our life to an early end.Our own children are taught to fear. They are taught that paedophiles lurk in every corner, that they cannot trust their parents. They are taught what to eat. Taught everything, in fact, than how to think for themselves.
The ‘Oh no, you can’t do that’ attitude is prevalent now. A lot of people really believe that any deviation from ‘the Norm’ is actually illegal. I’m still amazed how many people believe it’s illegal to take a photo in the street. Nobody ever said it was. When Jacq the Ripper was two-home secretary, she stated that it wasn’t. Yet that ‘it’s not the Norm so it must be illegal’ is still prevalent.
Doing what we did today, we were never going to get into any trouble. There isn’t any there to be had. I’ll let you into a little secret. What we did today was not daring in the slightest. It was not subversive, not radical, not anything.
From my perspective, OH’s line about it only being a walk is not some mechanism to get around protest laws in Westminster, it is a clear statement of fact. The way some people react when I tell them about it, you’d think that we were running the risk of being cast into some Cat. A prison somewhere, never to be seen again.
The sad thing is, this says more about the public’s perception of what is permissable, than it does about any laws Westminster and Brussels have passed. If they can suggest that doing this is likely to end badly, if they can insinuate that going for a walk and wearing a silly £5 plastic mask is some form of civil disobedience, then the gig is up. They don’t need to pass any laws, they don’t need to explain to the electorate why they’ve done it. We’ve done it for them.
It makes me very sad that people’s automatic reaction to the act of wearing fancy dress, walking down one of the busiest streets, in one of the world’s busiest cities, carrying nothing but a few quid in your pocket, could somehow result in ‘trouble’. As a result, they don’t do it.
And as Thomas Jefferson said:
Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.
Go figure, as he may say today.
AJ
I spotted this little story in the Mail on Sunday.
Labour has been accused of relying on the ‘welfare vote’ after the Conservatives published a provocative league table ranking Commons seats according to the number of benefit claimants.
A total of 189 constituencies in the first 200 are represented by Labour MPs, which the Tories claim explains why Ministers are failing to tackle the spiralling welfare bill.
I could have a good old rant about this, and the fact that the top five scroungers constituencies are über-entitled Scouse cunts, porridge wogs and mono-browed morlocks. Look:
Happily, however, Old Holborn has covered matters off nicely here:
One third of the seats in Parliament are represented by dole scounging, benefit sucking fucking wastrels, high on tax payers money and living the fucking life of Riley at the expense of everyone else.
There it is. Labour’s "client" state. Wonder why the streets are full of Stella swilling, Argos blinged mongtards without a care in the world? Labour WANTS it that way. Wondered why most of London speaks Somali and dresses in fucking tents? Labour wants it that way. Wondered why gun crime and violence in the UK makes us the most dangerous fucking place in Europe? Labour wants it that way.
You traitorous bastards. You have used our stolen money to fuck us. A country ruined so that YOU could have the power to bribe yourselves to yet more power.
In an adjacent post, OH also highlight’s a wonderful tale of pecksniff state drones, thinkofthechildrenism and thought crimes. Unbefeckinlievable.
AJ
Who’d have guess it would come up as a topic on Moral Maze? But in light of the recent twatterstorms vis. Carter Ruck, Jan Moir and A.A. Gill, the day has come…
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nkcfk/Moral_Maze_04_11_2009/
Makes interesting listening.
AJ
Spotted by chance in the comments on a post by Tory Bear regarding the Conservatives’ dismal attitude to the current Nutt debacle around cannabis classification…
Sara Scarlett said… Cute. Very cute but wrong. You, and the people you associate with, are not representative of the Conservative Party’s grass-roots. David Cameron is not ignoring the grass-roots – he’s not listening to the twitterati and the blogosphere. The average Tory (as shown by the graphs you’ve used) is not remotely libertarian they are in fact "ignorant and disgustingly stubborn." The Conservative Party is torn between extolling the virtues of personal freedom and its vulnerability to slipping into authoritarian paternalistic governance. It’s instincts as a whole are essentially those of authoritarian common prejudice. And this little tear between modernity and the past is what’s going to make David Cameron’s administration wet and ineffective.
This comment precisely nails why I fear a Conservative landslide at the next election, and why I’ll campaign against them. Not for anyone, just against them.
AJ
Last week, apropos of the angry internet lynch mob whipped up on twatter with the help of Fry and Brown, I wrote this:
And everyone’s aghast at this one column. Why?
An angry mob, whipped up on Twitter with help from Stephen Fry and Derren Brown intimidate the Mail and their advertisers into backing the fuck away from the Moir column.
That’s not justice. It’s just an angry mob. Ocholocracy. I presume this is just the brimming over of the hubris accrued in the Twattersphere from the Carter Ruck ruck. I hope it doesn’t continue to snowball.
As if there aren’t more important battles to fight than what some silly woman has written about a dead celeb.
The success and power of Twitter could easily be its downfall as the media and corporates abandon it to the savages.
Well frottage me frontwards with a fine French tapestry if that there twatter ain’t been and gawn and done it again.
Courtesy of Steve Shark:
These days I’m always a little worried by what I’ll find in a list of Twitter ‘Trending Topics’.
All too often it signals that a bandwagon’s just rolled by and dozens of fuckwits have jumped on it.
One of today’s offerings is ‘#aagill’.
A A Gill – author and restaurant critic – has just confessed to shooting a balloon bassoon baboon.
Smell that?
Yes, it’s the heady reek of moral outrage.
And Constantly Furious:
AA Gill, the journalist and restaurant critic, wrote a typically amusing piece for the Sunday Times this weekend, which included a description of how he’d – while in Africa – shot a wild baboon.
Naturally, a huge contingent of weeping bunny huggers have railed against the horror of this act, and yet another fucking vast Twitter witch-hunt has begun. This time the tag is not #janmoir – Twitter ‘got’ her – but #aagill. Yeah, Gill, you’re next.
Fucking mongonet.
AJ
UTA:
I’ve a feeling I’ll be needing this again in the future.
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.
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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.
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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
… on yesterday’s news.. Dundee Council have taken the rest of their kids.
In the comments on the previous post, Angry Exile alluded to a post he’d written on the same sort of theme. Well worth a read.
AJ
People who slow down to go past an average speed camera, then speed up again, only to slow down at the next one.
A-V-E-R-A-G-E SPEED BETWEEN THE CAMERAS.
Stupid cunts.
AJ
Hole-in-one from Leg-iron:
I have no sympathy at all for the protestors who were bitten by police dogs. The dogs were on their leashes throughout which means that the protestors could have avoided them with ease. They didn’t because in their bubble-wrap world, dogs aren’t allowed to bite them. Unfortunately, dogs don’t do political correctness and they don’t avoid fights with reasoned arguments. Dogs are a lump of muscle with teeth on the end and that’s the only tool of argument they know. Consider from the animal’s point of view – no matter how well trained, that dog is still a dog. The dog sees a howling mob threatening himself and his handler. He is going to react like a dog under pressure because that is exactly what he is. It’s not the dog’s fault. He didn’t start the fight.
In the past I have railed against police idiocy, against the arrest of the victim and of those who have committed no real offence at all, and all of that stands. In this case, I am one hundred percent on the side of the police. Taking down a power station at this time of year is something terrorists do. It’s an act of war. This is not some power outage caused by a surge that trips a transformer and can be fixed in a couple of hours. This is the whole power station, and if these ragged terrorists succeed, a whole swathe of the country can look forward to a few days, at least, with no power at all. How many pensioners are the Green God’s acolytes willing to see freeze to death for their cause? How many businesses are they happy to see close? How many families with no heat, hospitals lit by candlelight, operations cancelled, broken bones unset and cancers undiagnosed because the scanners are off…how much death is enough for them?
Do read the whole thing… and if you’re on twatter, follow the tag #swoop to get a taste of the fantasyland these filthy hippy fuckwits inhabit.
AJ
So this guy’s dead, in circumstances that almost certainly implicate Michael Barrymore and Boy George.
Very sad and tragic for his friends and family. Terrible thing.
To the rest of the world, who cares, right? None of my damned business. None of your damned business unless you knew him.
Enter Cruella De Ville protégé Jan Moir, with, if we’re honest a pretty unpleasant column, that expanded on the sort of assumptions I opened with above.
This column is published by the Daily Mail. The same Daily Mail that has been decried as hateful, prejudiced and fascistic for as long as I can remember. They publish taudry, ghastly and squalid words and pictures every day.
And everyone’s aghast at this one column. Why?
An angry mob, whipped up on Twitter with help from Stephen Fry and Derren Brown intimidate the Mail and their advertisers into backing the fuck away from the Moir column.
That’s not justice. It’s just an angry mob. Ocholocracy. I presume this is just the brimming over of the hubris accrued in the Twattersphere from the Carter Ruck ruck. I hope it doesn’t continue to snowball.
As if there aren’t more important battles to fight than what some silly woman has written about a dead celeb.
The success and power of Twitter could easily be its downfall as the media and corporates abandon it to the savages.
AJ
In the Times, indomitable conservative philosopher Roger Scruton presents arguments for ditching your idiots’ lantern.
To my amazement the Australian Government has come out against television. Admittedly its report is confined to the effect on small children, and takes the form of undemanding guidelines: the report says that no child under the age of 2 should be allowed to watch telly.
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It has been known for 20 or more years that television induces mental disorders, such as enhanced aggression, shortened attention span and reduced ability to communicate, and that these disorders involve an even greater social cost than the obesity and lethargy that are TV’s normal physical side-effects. Research by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Robert Kubey has shown that television is also addictive, setting up pathways to pleasure that demand constant reinforcement. As a threat to the nation’s health, it stands far higher than alcohol, drugs or tobacco, and the worry is that it may be too late to do anything about it, since the addiction is all but universal.
Yet worse than the effect of television on adults is its effect on small children. The human brain is not fully developed at birth and goes on growing through the early years, in ways that depend on a constant exploration of the environment. This feature of our development is unique to our species and lies at the heart of what it is to be human. Many of the connections vital for a fulfilled life — notably those involved in social understanding — do not exist at birth, and come into being as the brain develops in the first five years.
Brains subject to the wrong input in early years will be wrongly wired; vital capacities, both intellectual and emotional, will fail to be acquired, and the result will be a stunted human being. If you don’t believe this, just ask how you might explain the sudden emergence in the age of television of so many young people who are inarticulate, short-fused and unable to form lasting or genial social relationships.
This syndrome — which we witness everywhere, in the classroom and in our streets — is exactly what neurologists predict. When children are distracted by a flickering screen from the earliest age and never encouraged to explore the real world, they will not develop the capacity to communicate with other humans, or to cope with the stresses of real encounters. They will take the short way out, which is not the way of communication but of aggression.
Like every medium of communication, television has its uses. There are important educational programmes, in which visual images communicate what can be conveyed in no other way. There are TV classics, and forms of innocent entertainment ideally suited to the screen. A serious TV programme should be treated like a book, or a visit to the theatre — to be absorbed in a critical frame of mind.
But that is not how television is used. It is a constant flickering presence that competes for attention with all the necessary goings-on of everyday life. Over the years, as its impact has stalled, it has had recourse to ever more vulgar colours, ever grosser language and ever more mesmerising facial close-ups. When the telly is on, and in a third of Australian households, apparently, it is never off, conversation is impossible, and conversational skills cannot develop. Moreover, even the wisest and most affectionate remark will lose its flavour when heard against the clamorous vulgarities that issue from the screen.
All that was obvious long before psychological research confirmed it. I have to say that this research came as no surprise to me. In my childhood television was a rare luxury; broadcasts would begin at 6pm and were constantly interrupted by technical faults. My father took a principled attitude to this intruder, which his mother-in-law had smuggled into the household, and would turn it off whenever he walked through the sitting room. In the few years before he finally dispatched it with a hammer, the telly never gained a foothold that would enable it to compete with books and music. So I grew up outside the culture that television has spawned.
His argument is sound. I long ago recognised the syndrome posited by Csikszentmihalyi and Kubey in my ex-wife, in whom the ups and downs of Eastenders and Big Brother correlated with her own moods, reasoning and state of mind. Until you’ve had a Christmas Day ruined by Pete Beal or Phil Mitchell, I reckon you’ll not understand, or believe, this crucial point.
To this day I know well educated people who cannot fathom my complete absence of interest in anything the gogglebox has to offer. Sure, I’ll watch Top Gear on iPlayer, or whatever, but X Fagtor? Nah. Soaps? Fuck off. Big Brother? Just no fucking interest whatsoever until they’re given lethal weapons and an incentive to use them on each other. Rape and kill, kill and rape. Dismember and disembowel. Cook and eat.
And all this is before you consider the fucking disgraceful nest of socialism that is the BBC, and the extortion with menaces that is the TV license.
Just bin it.
AJ
Why no arrests, plod? Why no baton charges and invocation of Anti Terrorism powers?
See, if I were going to protest about something, I would choose something that (i) were real and (ii) humanity could actually do something about.
They might as well protest that the fucking sun comes up. Dicks.
I hope it starts to snow and they all slip off to their icy deaths.
AJ
H/T @TimMontgomerie
I put it to you that ‘chillax’ is the most annoying fucking portmanteau word ever to emerge from the English language.
Not least because, directed at me at any rate, is has quite the opposite effect to that intended.
Still, I gather its fluent, if teeth-grindingly infuriating, use is an entry criterion for anyone who wants to be on that TV show where they compete to be Paris Hilton’s friend.
Fuck off.
Although, I may be open to killing all of these people with an Ice Axe, on the offchance that’s what they meant.
AJ
This case should be of interest to us all… via Obo & Salty.
Dave’s Part (one of the decent left-wing blogs) is in the middle of a libel case because one of his commenters once said something vaguely unkind about a deranged would-be politico:
Interestingly, the jury will be asked to rule on whether or not it is libellous to call somebody ‘one cherry short of a Schwarzwalderkirschtorte’. Not my words, but those of a reader, left in the comments box. If I lose on that point, the consequences for internet freedom of speech are clearly considerable.
Personally I don’t think this case has legs, but the phases ‘common sense’ and ‘British libel laws’ are not friends, so we’ll see.
Yet more nonsense that the next government isn’t going to sort out.
AJ
We’ll all know who to go looking for. This dog-on-a-string cunt:
Environmental activists claimed a major victory last night when plans for Britain’s first new coal-fired power station for 30 years were shelved after a sustained campaign.
The announcement by E.ON that it would delay a decision on Kingsnorth for three years is a serious setback for the Government’s principal environmental policy of supporting the capture and storage of carbon emissions from coal plants. The delay also heightens the risk of power cuts after 2015, when EU rules will force Britain to close nine of its largest and most polluting power stations.
E.ON’s decision was greeted as a victory by Greenpeace and will encourage activists to redouble their efforts to block other controversial schemes, including the planned third runway at Heathrow.
Fuck off swampy, you cunt. Where do you think the electricity is going to come from? Solar? Wind? Not a friggin’ chance.
AJ
