Closing the shop

Harry Haddock is off on his jollies, so there won’t be any posting for a week. Comment moderation is turned on, just in case we experience an influx of loonys.

Ask the experts

Then ignore them.

 

Best not to upset the Daily Mail brigade, who are clearly the real experts in this matter. And while we are at it, lets get the gays back in the closet and bring back national service and make long hippy hair illegal for boys. And those witches ~ why don’t we burn them any more? Wot about all those asylum seeking darkies, when are we going to kick them out? Bloody spongers. Back in my day, etc etc etc etc

 

Its not just the authoritarian left we have to fear in this country, ladies and gentlemen.

Compare and contrast

The Left argue that the BBC / Nu Labour alliance TV poll tax is essential, otherwise we would just get commercial rubbish, such as the terribly lowbrow, pro-Bush Fox News.

 

Reet then. Here is the completely unbiased, tax funded BBC / Nu Labour alliance interviewing Dave. Here is the horrid free market funded ‘pro Bush, lowbrow’ Fox interviewing Ron Paul (who is no Bush fan).

Now, you can see an obvious, and admitted bias in the Fox interview, whereas the BBC bias is just as obvious, yet not admitted. Now be honest ~ which piece of programming informed you the most about a politicians position, which was the least lowbrow?

 

Time to abandon Auntie.

Friday tunes

Signing off now to attend publand. Miserable weather, strikes, crappy government, loss of freedom. Need cheering up.

So, some tunes from happier, carefree times. Anyone got any e’s?

It’s that man… again

Not content with demanding an end to free speech, the Archbishop now believes that the Church should tell us how to run the economy, what is acceptable wealth, and various other statist rubbish.

I can’t be arsed to fisk the article ~ some of it is stupid, airy fairy left wing nonsense, some of it (for instance the call for regulation of salaries) is borderline communist, but it strengthens the call for disestablishment of the Church. And then preferably Williams’ head from his body.

The real shocker comes at the end;

Alan Duncan, the Conservative business spokesman, yesterday backed the Archbishop’s call. “Too few politicians have appreciated the plight of poorer people trapped in debt,” he said.

Errrr… he said what now?

Little Hitlers

From the Torygraph;

A single mother has been fined £75 for “littering” after her daughter dropped a piece of sausage roll on the pavement.

Right ~ mother feeds child some sausage roll. Small piece falls on ground. Pigeons eat small piece. Two penile deficient jobs worth wankers in tracksuit bottoms working for the ‘Environment Crime Unit’ (you couldn’t make it up) inform on her, and council send out a £75 fine. Utter wankers.

“I went back to take a picture of the ‘litter’, but it had been gobbled by pigeons. There was no litter there at all.”

So, what was the ‘environmental crime’ committed then? How, exactly, could she have avoided it? By shooting the pigeon and recovering the piece of food from its gullet?

As I said ~ utter, utter wankers.

MP’s debate the ‘make supermarkets even more intolerable for single folk’ Bill

Concerned that they hadn’t had an opportunity to ban something for almost a week, MP’s are today going to have the chance to extend the ‘junk food’ advertising ban to all areas, not just TV. This is bad news, chaps. Consider;

The British Heart Foundation, which supports the bill, said a survey carried out for it suggested almost one-third of parents leave their children at home to avoid rows during the supermarket shopping.

Good. Leave the little spoilt brats at home, sounds good to me.

In a YouGov survey of 900 parents during April, 64% of parents had actively tried to prevent rows, with 29% leaving their children at home.

Again. Sounds sensible.

Twenty-nine percent of parents bribed their children with something other than junk food and 19% avoided the confectionery aisle.

Super. So they either gave them something healthy to eat, or avoided the sweats all together. Jolly good ~ noisy spoilt kids left at home, well behaved kids given carrots, and I get to admire the handsome collection of cakes. In fact, apart from a minority of parents, these people seem to have it under control. No ban needed, then. Wrong.

The charity’s spokeswoman, Betty McBride, said: “Banning junk food ‘pester power’ ammunition from supermarket shelves will make it easier for parents to make healthier food choices for their families.”

Yes, we must think of the children. Oh, won’t someone, please, think of the children.

Look, its quite simple. ‘Pester power’ can be defeated with a tiny, two letter device, known as ‘no’.

‘can I have some sweets?’

‘no’

‘please?’

‘no’

‘whaaaaaaaaaaaaa (etc etc)

‘no’ (repeat until strange wailing noise stops).

See? Simple. Either that, or give them a good beating.

Duped or gutless?

The SMF is saying that Cyclop’s u-turn may well be more of a slight dodge, concluding;

a report published by the Social Market Foundation suggests that any feasible package could only compensate a proportion of those who lost out from the changes.

If this turns out to be the case, the labour rebels must be feeling pretty stupid. Either they were lied to, and were gullible enough to believe anything Cyclops and Darling were saying, or they were telling porkies to the media in order to avoid a damaging government defeat and possibly their own jobs. I couldn’t give a monkeys either way, but it does seem particularly perverse to take money in the form of taxation from the poorest, and then give some back in the form of credits and such, perverse that is, unless you are trying to create a client state.

One of the possible ‘adjustments’ being muted is an increase in the minimum wage to compensate, on which the Guardian chirps;

And young workers could be compensated by an increase in the national minimum wage for 21-year-olds, at no cost to the Treasury.

I wouldn’t bet on that, if I were you. Increased labour costs may well result in employers looking to cut down hours, or otherwise save on labour, which would have most definite effects on the amount the treasury will be able to steal take.

Of course, every cloud has a silver lining ~ the many posts on statist websites, such as labour home, that received yesterday’s news with a triumphant ‘right, that’s sorted, now let us unite against the nasty Boris et al’ look a tinsy bit silly. Or cynical.

Idiots

Pay has increased by 19% in real terms since 1997, and yet they strike for more. More that would, ultimately, come from the majority whom earn less than they do. A strike that will hit those on low wages he most, as they loose a days pay to look after their kids who are at home due to school closures. All of this in a system that you are forced to contribute to under penalty of violence.

Nope, I have zero sympathy for these bunch of jokers.

Is the Torygraph correct ~ has the invasion begun?

From here;

The new European plan splits England into three zones that are joined with areas in other countries.

The “Manche” region covers part of southern England and northern France while the Atlantic region includes western parts of England, Portugal, Spain and Wales.

The North Sea region includes eastern England, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and parts of Germany.

A copy of the map, which makes no reference to England or Britain, has even renamed the English Channel the “Channel Sea”.

Each zone will have a “transnational regional assembly”, although they will not have extensive powers. However, the zones are regarded as symbolically important by other countries.

We have to consider that it is our national day, and that this story presses all the right buttons for their readership. Interestingly, all of the links on google that point to the Daily Mail & Evening Standard article are now dead. The Express has this, naming the plan ~ ‘Interreg IV’

As we can see from this website, this plan has fairly broad aims;

Wholly financed by ERDF and with a budget of ¤192m, it will focus on the following priorities:

* Encouraging entrepreneurship, in particular the development of SMEs, tourism, culture and cross-border trade;
* Encouraging and improving the joint protection and management of natural and cultural resources, as well as the prevention of natural and technological risks;
* Supporting links between urban and rural areas;
* Reducing isolation through improved access to transport, information and communication networks and services, and cross-border waste, water and energy systems and facilities;
* Developing collaboration, capacity and joint use of infrastructures, in particular in sectors such as health, culture, tourism and education.

In addition, the Programme may contribute to promoting legal and administrative co-operation, the integration of cross-border labour markets, local employment initiatives, gender equality and equal opportunities, training and social inclusion, and sharing of human resources and facilities for R&D.

A plan to reduce the sovereignty of England? Quite clearly ~ 192 million Euros (of taxpayers money) allocated by unelected ‘regional assembly members’. No taxation without representation, and all that. But there is nothing ’secret’ about the plans. The information has been placed on the web since about 2007. No, this isn’t a secret plan, it is yet another conspiracy of silence by the political class ~ standard fare for the federalists.

As the reduction in our democratic freedoms marches on unabated, Harry Haddock wonders ~ what will be our equivalent of throwing boxes of tea into the sea, and will it have the same outcome?

Let us hope we can rise up and say ‘no’ through the ballot box, rather than leave a far more gruesome solution for future generations.