The Sun stops shining on Labour

The Sun newspaper has given a Churchillian two fingered salute to Gormless and the ZaNuLiebour Party... and switched it's allegiance to David Cameron and the Conservatives.

Already, the liberty-loathing Labour control freaks are starting to feel what it is like to suffer this setback from Britain's biggest newspaper.

Strike one: the morale zapping front page to demotivate all conference delegates.



Strike two: the scathing editorial

Strike three: The Sun symbolically turns the air blue over it's Wapping HQ - by releasing blue smoke to signify it's switch to the Conservatives.

Strike four: the newspaper gets personal with Gormless, highlighting his "TV meltdown"

Strike five: the gloves are off - and The Sun is on collision course with Hattie Harperson.

Strike six: The Sun puts an entire sub-section into it's online news area to highlight Labour's policy failures.

Strike seven: Things look set to get personal between The Sun and Mandelson after the latter apparently told News International's boss Rebekah Brooks that they were "total cunts". Mandelson apparently denies this and claims he said "chumps".

So, nice one my Sun. We have reservations about the role of the media in influencing British public opinion. But we want these civil liberty hating control freaks out before they make us wear symbols on our jackets. And we want OUR country back from the European Union. We want to govern our own affairs. And when all that lot has been dealt with, we want to work to rebuild communities and the relationships between citizen and state.

ZaNuLiebour have disconnected the British public from the way we are governed with it's evil control freaking ways and it's lies. We don't believe what we are told and we don't trust anything that the State does.

That is a dangerous organisation of the fabric of British life. Labour have been extremely damaging. They have fragmented communities and established an order of accountability where the public is under constant monitoring and suspicion. Labour must go, never return, and the Conservatives - who will more than likely be the Government with nine months - must strive to turn back time to 1997... before Labour almost fatally damaged our nation.

Just pick up a pen, go through every act of statute brought in since 1997 and decide which are in the favour of the public and which are used against us. Cancel all of the latter. That would be a start.

Make no mistake. The Sun's decision is the final death knell for ZaNuLiebour. Thank goodness. The Sun must now unite with civil liberty groups to highlight what damage Labour have done to the British way of life. Let's get our country back.

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Labour are apparently fighting back against The Sun - and fighting dirty. They have apparently taken out ads using Google's adwords and, according to reports, people searching for 'Labour' were temporarily being greeted this afternoon with a message which said: "You can't trust The Sun. Wrong on Hillsborough, Wrong on Labour".

Elsewhere, Mandelson has apparently stated the view that The Sun's four million readers are "losers".

Is "behaviour training centre" the same as an internment camp?

A few days ago, we cynically quipped that if ZaNuLiebour were to rig the election... errrr... somehow win the next election, then we wouldn't be surprised if their totalitarian, control freak tendencies were to manifest in internment camps.

Well guess what - laugh no more!

Have a read of this story. Not on any conspiracy website. Nope. It's in the Telegraph. We're not making this up. Gormless really has announced this.

It's ZaNuLiebour. Read between the lines, chaps. They spy on us. They monitor our every thought and movement. They want all of our biometric data on a database. Yes this from the people who brought you 90 days detention without charge... and read The Guardian to remind yourself of the rest of their track record.

And now the ZaNuLiebour freedom haters really are planning "behaviour training centres". And the difference between those and an internment camp is..?

It's sold to be palatable to the "something must be done" brigade as being for dysfunctional families. But remember this is ZaNuLiebour.

And then remember the poem by Martin Niemoller:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Mugabe seemingly has nothing on this lot. Really...

Rules? What rules? 'No' vote? What 'no' vote? Now give us your bank account details...

The Daily Telegraph today reports on how the European Commission may face legal action against it after intervening in the forthcoming Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty - the vote that most people of Europe have been denied but which the Irish are having to do a second time because the European Empire didn't like the first answer which was a resounding 'no'.

The EU is accused of breaching rules by inserting a 16-page propaganda leaflet into 1.1 million Irish national newspapers.

The Telegraph reports that the EU even called in lawyers for advice before going ahead with their attempts at influencing the vote.

Meanwhile, the Daily Express is reporting on a new EU proposal to establish a new body which will spy on salaries, spending habits and the bank account transactions of people in all member states - including Britain and Ireland.

Conservative MP and proud patriot Bill Cash says: "It is a true mark of how British citizens have come to live under Britain’s undemocratic surveillance state where their personal data is shared across Europe, without their consent or knowledge. This makes a mockery of Labour’s data protection legislation which does not protect people and it demonstrates the futility of so-called human rights legislative protection".

UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom says of the proposal: "The idea that the Government is prepared to hand over personal data to Brussels is chilling. Time and time again the state seems to think the answer to every problem is a new database. Then they lose or give away our data".

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In other news, the really nasty, freedom-hating ZaNuLiebour party have dropped to third in the polls, behind the Liberal Democrats.

Hopefully, the British public will give these evil control freaks such a bloody nose when we finally get an election that they will self-destruct - never to impose their complete police state, ban everything, civil liberty eroding powers on us ever again.

We can but hope.

Notice: Mandatory Vaccination Protest

This blog has never posted any details of any forthcoming political protest before. However, we received this via the Whole Truth Coalition and we have some concerns on this issue - particularly in respect of "swine flu", so thought we would post the info we received here unedited and let you make your own minds up.

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Saturday, 3rd October 2009 at 12 Noon - Houses of Parliament, Parliament Square Garden, Westminster, London, till about 2pm

Here are the details of our protest against mandatory vaccination (for more details on this issue see further down this page):

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) have taken over the control of the UK vaccination schedule and now have the power to bring in new vaccines without government approval even if they haven’t been safety tested. Prior to this, all new vaccines would have to pass through parliament and be voted on before they were introduced. Now the government is compelled to agree with anything JCVI say, even if there is no science to back it up.

JCVI are also exploring whether to get a ‘guardian of the state’ for all unvaccinated children and sue their parents to FORCE them to vaccinate - this means that vegetarians will be forced to take animal products via vaccines, people will be forced to be injected with cancer-causing chemicals and those people who have already had vaccine reactions and disabilities will have their lives put at risk.

They write in their meeting minutes:

‘What exactly ‘right’ meant [under the new NHS constitution] with respect to the right of a child to receive a vaccine when their parents were opposed to vaccination and

* How the constitution affected the recommendations of the JCVI with respect to legal challenge.’“ See the meeting minutes here:

http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@ab/documents/digitalasset/dh_097411.pdf

Those on the committee are also on the boards of the drug companies who make vaccines and so are profiting from their recommendations.

To safeguard our right to choose the healthcare for ourselves and our children, Vaccination Awareness Network, the advocacy group for parents who don’t vaccinate, will be protesting against mandatory vaccination and conflict of interest.

If you are a parent who doesn’t vaccinate, if you would like to choose which vaccines you have, if you or a loved one are vaccine injured, please come along and show your support outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster at 12 noon on Saturday 3rd October 2009.

What you will need:

A banner or poster

Some change for Veggies food

Waterproof coats in case it rains - there is NO undercover shelter

Some people are wearing T shirts with anti swine flu vaccine or other health freedom slogans on them, myself included

Some people have suggested coming dressed as rabbits because the vaccine has not undergone clinical trials (we are the trial) - so fancy dress is permitted and might even be nice for the little ones

Please NO loudspeakers, sound surround systems or big TV’s and DO NOT attach anything to the garden unless it can be removed afterwards.

NO alcohol, NO VIOLENCE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES - remember, there are babies, toddlers, pregnant mothers and disabled people who will be present.

There is no parking on site but there is a car park nearby called Abingdon car park where you can park your car and we will have a steward or two to help you find your way.

We will also have a trained first aider on site in case of a medical need.

Babies and children are welcome.

Please contact Jo on 0870 444 0894 if you require more information.

The Vaccine Awareness Network

Sunday Paper Review: 27th September 2009

The Sunday Express has a report on how the British taxpayer has coughed up for 25 MILLION gallons of heavily subsidised EU farmer's milk... which is simply being thrown away in fields all over Europe under the Common Agricultural Policy. Meanwhile, UKIP's Marta Andreasen blows another whistle on the EU. Apparently, 1.5 billion euros were given to a country to help improve it's security. But the money has not apparently gone through the appropriate channels and is being siphoned off to pay for terrorism. Wonder if that's real terrorism or ZaNuLiebour's "thinking for yourself" variety?

The Conservatives may be forced to show their hand on the EU Constitutional... err... Lisbon Treaty (same thing) at their party conference if a report in The Independent on Sunday is to be believed. Though do we really want to believe an article that suggests that "Tory right" MPs and "hardliners" led by "controversial" MEP Daniel Hannan are "mobilising" for an "ambush" of the party leadership? Such emotive hogwash. Can we try and re-write that for the Independent?

How about this. "Proud patriot Dan Hannan MEP may or may not want to demand Tory leaders honour their promise on a referendum over the EU Lisbon Treaty. Hannan's sensible party colleagues are aware that the British public are very concerned that the European Union is an undemocratic dictatorship and are writing to MPs telling them that they want their country back".

Oh goodness sake. Just when we thought we might soon see the end of the liberty hating, freedom banning ZaNuLiebour idiots, today's Sunday Times carries an article which may well be seen as a job application - from Peter Mandelson to work for a likely Conservative government. Coming on the eve of the Labour Party conference, such an utterence from the biggest name in the Labour party surely spells their demise. Such a relief for us all, huh? Mandelson - aka 'Lord Voldemort' - is quoted by the broadsheet as saying of such a proposition: "Of course, it wouldn’t be serving the government, it would be serving the country and I wouldn’t be doing it by becoming a member of that government". No Mandy. You don't do anything for your country. Unless your 'country' is the Empirical Dictatorship of the European Union. He'll probably get whatever job he wants in any Government. Isn't that how this all works these days? Why go through the inconvenience of the ballot box, eh Mandy? Remember what happened last time?

From running 'the country' even under the Conservatives to making sure he runs the Labour Party too - the Sunday Telegraph reports that Mandelson is to throw his support behind Ed Miliband for the future leadership of the party. Poor Gormless. Remember him? He hasn't even gone officially yet, and already Mandy's planning to work under the likely Tory Government while anointing/appointing Gormless's successor.

The Mail on Sunday has a poll which finds that people think Gormless is even worse than Neil Kinnock. They needed a poll to find out we think Gormless is not up to the job? Good grief.

Meanwhile, Muppet Sam the Eagle - sorry - Alistair Darling tells The Observer that the Labour leadership "has lost the will to live". Oh, shut up the lot of ya. Take some Prozac. You might be facing electoral wipeout, but in the words of Monty Python - always look on the bright side of life.

We, the British public, are also thinking about the demise of ZaNuLiebour and - for many of us - that makes us very, very happy indeed.

And finally, the News of the World has a story about Leona Lewis's breasts seeming to be bigger than the last time they looked. So, if you want to have a nosey at Leona's boobies, here's the link to click onto. Deary me...

Broadsheet calls for UK referendum on Lisbon Treaty

In an editorial, the Daily Telegraph has today demanded a referendum on the UK's involvement with the EU under the Lisbon Treaty.

Their comments - on the whole - chime very well with this blog author.

The broadsheet says: "...the EU has become a vast, bureaucratic, unaccountable empire whose remit runs way beyond policing the common market. Its policies are made in secret, then insufficiently scrutinised in Brussels or national capitals. Yet its directives and regulations affect the lives of half a billion people".

The article is also critical of the Conservative Party's failure to state what they will do if Lisbon is in effect when they (if they) are elected to power.

Interestingly, at the time of writing, the overwhelming majority of responses on the article's comments section was from people saying that they were intending to vote for UKIP in response to this issue.

And so say all of us...

Swine flu: for readers of Alex Jones & David Icke

With a hat-tip to a poster on the Telegraph's comments boxes, we thought we'd flag up a swine flu story from the UK.

Now, this blog author has read what David Icke says on the matter. We know what Alex Jones says on the matter. We also know about what the Daily Mail has said on the matter.

This blogger has no experience or knoweldge whatsoever about the health worker website Management in Practise.

However, have a read of their story and see what you make of it all.

If, like this blogger, you've followed the reports and opinions elsewhere, you might have a view further established after reading what's on that link.

Review: BBC Question Time, 24th September 2009

And so just like it had never been away, the BBC's flagship political programme Question Time bounced back onto our screens tonight just like it had never been away. Thursday nights finally have something worth watching again (depending on what night of the week ITV can make their mind up to push Coronation Street into). How warming for the nights that are drawing in to have an hour in the company of Dumblebee once a week again. Let's just hope they take care not to appear to rig the studio audience balance... The Beeb brought in some big hitters for this first show of the new season.

Michael Heseltine condemned Gormless and accused him of being desperate to get a photo opportunity with Obama. Questioned the "special relationship" between the US and UK, making reference to the historic funding of the IRA. Rounded squarely - and with great effectiveness - on Harperson when she tried dodging questions on Libya. Said he likes and admires Baroness Scotland and so is saddened to have to say that - as architect of the law of which she is mired in scandal - she should leave her position in office. Rubbished the LibDem conference as not a conference at all. Spoke firmly on the issue of the LibDem's "mansion tax" and talked about London property values. Won cheers from the studio audience for his continuing attacks on the proposed LibDem policy and the personality attacks that the LibDems use in their campaigns. Said the UK does not have effective border controls and that those seeking to enter the UK via camps in Calais are economic migrants. Had the best line of the night when he said Harriet Harperson would be out of work in six months so he would campaign for her to read the news...
Our Rating: 9/12 - a man with stature who speaks with great authority.

Harriet Harperson continued the Government line that the release of the Lockerbie bomber was a Scottish decision and nothing to do with Gormless making deals. Dismissed as "a whole load of rubbish" stories about Gormless being granted a meeting with Obama in a kitchen at the UN. Was booed and made to look pathetic by Michael Heseltine when evasive on questions concerning the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Said Baroness Scotland had not broken the criminal law in her "mistake" for which she had paid "a civil penalty" and said that she thought the Attorney General should keep her job. Said she found the LibDem party conference unintelligible and those watching were less clear at the end of the week about what the party stands for than they were at the start. Welcomed the closure of the would be immigrant camp in Calais - and used the issue to attack the BNP.
Our Rating: 5/12 - made to squirm a few times, though not as annoying tonight as we know she can be.

David Laws said the release of the Lockerbie bomber had tarnished Britain's global image. Spoke first on the Baroness Scotland furore and said she should have resigned. Said those who pass a law must adhere to a law. Attempted to defend the LibDem "mansion tax" proposal, by reminding Michael Heseltine about the Conservatives' poll tax of the 1980's. Said that France and Italy need to do more to take asylum seekers fleeing persecution.
Our Rating: 3/12 - who is this man? Who are the party he represents? Why are they bothering?

Fraser Nelson conjured up an amusing mental image of Gormless stalking Obama for attention while in the US for the G20. On the Baroness Scotland issue, he said ZaNuLiebour have become incredibly heavy handed with the normal everyday public but appear to let the rich and powerful get away with everything. Said that the public do not know what the LibDems stand for... and the LibDem leader Nick Clegg doesn't know either. Said that we have a problem with illegal immigration due to lax control and said the only way illegal immigrants are caught is when they are found cleaning the houses of Government ministers.
Our Rating: 6/12 - he writes very well indeed, but didn't get much of a dartboard to aim for the bullseye on.

Digby Jones said trade deals with Libya were no different with any other nation and in May 2008, nobody mentioned prisoners to him as part of any talks. Said the Baroness Scotland issue demonstrated another disconnect between the governed and the governing and that she should step down. Said the LibDem conference was an example of typical "mainstream" party political "cock-ups". Dismissed the LibDem "mansion tax" as "ill-thought through". Praised the LibDems for wanting to raise those earning below £10K out of income tax. Said the French "have previous" on "ushering" migrants towards Britain.
Our Rating: 8/12 - one Conservative and two senior members of other parties... but it was Digby Jones who stood up most credibly as the opposition to the inevitable incoming Conservative Government.

The official BBC Question Time website is HERE.

Politics are back - 'chuck off Gormless' meets... Last of the Summer Wine character for PM?

Are we back? Is politics about to become interesting again? Seems so. So many interesting stories in the last 24 hours.

First up, we had a rare sight - a Labour MP finding a moral compass and resigning. The individual concerned is Stephen Hesford MP who was a PPS to the embattled Attorney General Baroness Scotland.

Now, back in the day - even under the John Major Government and EVEN under Tony Blair, ministers who were caught out resigned from public office. Not under Gormless, of course.

So, Mr. Hesford appears to have recognised that we, the public, find it shocking that Baroness Scotland is still there in her job and he's quit.

In his resignation letter, he writes: "...whilst I have great personal regard for the Attorney General, I cannot support the decision which allows her to remain in office. In my view the facts of the case do not matter. It is the principle which counts, particularly at a time when the publics' trust of Whitehall is uncertain to say the least. We have to be seen to be accountable".

Meanwhile, on the day that Charles Clarke told Gormless to - if we paraphrase - chuck off (and do it for his own dignity) for the sake of the Labour Party's future, Gormless himself had to come out in public and scotch rumours that he is poised to quit on health grounds. Not that he was ever elected to the job he may or may not resign from, of course.

Now, some bloggers are unaffectionately referring to Gormless as the "Prime Mentalist" due to stories about supposed temper tantrums.

What then, to make of Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg who has stood up at his party conference and urged voters to make him Prime Minister? Oh yes... like that's ever gonna happen.

8 out of 10 voters who haven't really expressed a preference said they'd rather vote for Cleggy from TV's Last of the Summer Wine.



Cleggy - the LibDem leader rather than the Summer Wine character - thinks it good form to plan to use a speech at his party conference to imply the Conservatives' William Hague is somehow like a member of the Nazi Party.

...which is rather interesting, because this blogger thinks that if New Labour win another term in office, we'll see internment camps in Britain. Look at their tyranny. Read the Guardian and see ZaNuLiebour's track record on civil liberties. Look at it's databases, it's sinister ID card plans. The party that bans everything and criminalises every little thought and action.

If Nick Clegg wants to liken anyone to a Nazi, he should look at the policies of the party he likes to cosy up to sometimes. ZaNuLiebour... the former National Socialist British Workers' Party. We choose our words pointedly...

People of the Czech Republic... we love you!!

Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you to the wonderful people of the Czech Republic!

We have previously praised Czech President Vaclav Klaus... and now SEVENTEEN Czech senators have a petition lodged to force a complete review of the Lisbon Treaty in their national constitutional court.

It means that the Lisbon Treaty may well be held up for several months... meaning Vaclav Klaus will not sign it.

This means that even if the Irish are hoodwinked into caving in on a forced second referendum on the exact same document as they rejected last time ("we don't like your answer, vote again until you vote as you're told"), then the Czech's could still play a part in delaying the damned thing...

...putting David Cameron and the Conservative Party well and truly in the hot seat. And we want a referendum. No 'ifs'. No 'buts'.

Anyway, a BIG THANK YOU to the wonderful, wonderful Czech Republic who are constantly finding new ways to save us - the people of Britain - from undemocratic tyranny.

Sunday Paper Review: 20th September 2009

The Sunday Telegraph runs with the results of it's ICM poll which finds that 70 per cent of British voters expect and demand an election winning Conservative Government to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty - even if the damned thing has been ratified and brought into effect by then. The same poll has found that 40% of the wonderfully sensible British people want our once proud nation to withdraw from the European Union altogether. So, up yours EU... we Brits don't want you and watch what you do or don't promise Conservatives - we hold the keys to your power. And we'll tell you what we want, what we really, really want...

The Mail on Sunday has a story based on a book by Sky News presenter Adam Boulton. From it, they claim that Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson have given up on Gormless - branding him a "quitter not a fighter" and "weak". You don't say? And apparently, Mandelson is only continuing to prop Gormless up to ensure that the EU Lisbon Treaty goes through (against the British people's wishes) so that Blair can become it's President. You don't say? Whatever their need for what they think is power, why don't these people just naff off and give us back our country?

The Independent on Sunday suggests that Gormless, our unelected Prime Mentalist, is planning a mini-reshuffle this week. He's found another blast from the past to bring back while facing the resignation of another controversy swamped minister. In the same story, there are warnings that ZaNuLiebour have plans to put up our taxes by another 3p in the pound. Seems Gormless saved the world of bankers, but normal man and woman on the street are to him just idiots who he can continue to bleed dry.

The Sunday Times runs with news that Ed Balls has become the first ZaNuLiebour minister to come clean on the fact that they'll have to make cuts - which they will save until after a General Election, obviously. The schools secretary has £2billion which he will be seeking to lob off the budget for his brief. We applaud the honesty... but it only serves to remind us of the dishonesty of Gormless who banged on about "Tory cuts versus Labour investment". Now that Ed Balls has decided that the British people are intelligent enough to deserve honesty, we'd advise him not to be too close to Gormless if the latter should have a stapler close at hand...

The Observer has a report on a UN claim that the inability to handle the supposed "swine flu" in poorer nations could lead to anarchy. So we in Britain have to cough up million upon million yet again. In the spirit of charity, this blogger hereby formally offers to let the Government send our dose of the vaccine to someone in Africa. Well, let's face it - you're not coming near us with the damned thing. We'll drink lots of water, take a couple of paracetamol and retire to bed if we get the flu (swine or otherwise)... but you ain't coming near us with no vaccine.

Our next electoral reform idea... link MP's pay to how 'representative' they are

Several weeks ago, this blog shared an idea about electoral reform which mostly focussed on party leaders. In this follow up, we'd like to present our radical idea on how to completely reform the MP system to not only counter the abhorrent party whip system but also - positively - to ensure that we, the people, are represented by our politicians.

Our radical idea also has an impact on MPs' pay, ensuring that we - the taxpayer - get value for money based on democracy and representation.

Step 1 - here, the boundary commission would control constituency boundaries in exactly the same way as is currently the case. These constituencies would become known as the "primary constituency". Additionally, they would establish the six geographically based nearest "neighbouring constituencies" for each individual postcode.

Step 2 - after a general election in which a MP is elected, it is this MP who would serve their "primary constituency". For this, they would be paid a flat fee - say £100,000.

Step 3 - members of the public would be able to change their MP and instead correspond freely with the MP for a "neighbouring constituency" provided:
3.1 The constituent informs the electoral authority citing three Parliamentary votes in the current session of Parliament in which they believe the MP for their "primary constituency" has not voted in a way that represents their views on any political issue.
3.2 The constituent can indicate to the electoral authority how a MP for a "neighbouring constituency" has voted on three occasions in the current Parliament that represents their views more accordingly.
3.3 Once agreed, the electoral authority will issue a certificate of validity to the constituent concerned which must be attached to all written correspondence or presented at each surgery meeting. This certificate will be the proof to the new "neighbouring constituency" MP that they are the nominated representative of the constituent who selects their representative in this manner. Similarly, the rejected "primary constituency" MP will be notified that they no longer represent the views of the constituent concerned and must reject and ignore any lobbying or correspondence from this transferring constituent.

Step 4 The electoral authority will manage the payroll of MPs and their salaries will be governed - pound for person - by how many constituents transfer in or out of their representation.

For example, if an individual MP has 10,000 constituents from "neighbouring constituencies" selecting to be represented by him/her instead of their "primary constituency" MP, that MP will have their pay increased by £10,000 and thus be paid £110,000.

If, however, an individual "primary constituency" MP loses 10,000 of their constituents who choose to migrate their representation to a "neighbouring constituency" MP, they will lose - pound for person - from their flat salary and would thus be paid £90,000 rather than the full amount.

The number of times that a member of the public could transfer their representation within the lifetime of a Parliament whilst living at the same address would be restricted to prevent abuses of this system.

Conclusion While bureaucratic, this system will motive MPs' through their salary to listen to their constituents and to represent their views above the demands of their party whip. In addition, it means that members of the public will be empowered to find a Member of Parliament who will listen to them and agree with their views and press for action on the matters concerned without that member of the public having to wait five years for a General Election.

Got any better ideas?

Postal workers... get back to work!!

Those flipping Royal Mail workers are on strike again. Again.

This blog has sympathy with those who take industrial action against tyrannical employers who abuse or neglect their workforce.

However, we have absolutely no sympathy for the Royal Mail postal people.

We might have more sympathy if the people they employed could actually manage to deliver the mail through the right letterbox, but all too often, things go astray.

We might have more sympathy if we could have our mail at 8 o'clock in the morning followed by a second post if need be - as always used to be the case. Now, it's just the one delivery at 2pm that may or may not be once a day depending on whether anyone can be arsed to bring it from the local delivery office.

So, postal workers - members of the CWU trade union or otherwise. We've got absolutely no sympathy with you. We'll shout against Lord 'Voldemort' Mandelson and any attempt he makes to sell the business off... but don't even dare think we, the public who you are failing YET AGAIN today have any great sense of sympathy for you.

Get off your picket line, get into that sorting office, and bring us our post. Now. Today.

And if you keep not bringing us our post through error or strike, we'll have to consider whether Mandelson's plans to sell you off might not be for the better after all.

Think on.

Sunday Paper Review: 13th September 2009

A bit of EU-bashing always goes down well with this blog, so we take great pleasure in pointing to the Sunday Telegraph investigation that reveals that British people's taxes are being spent by the EU on such things as puppet theatres, fake silkworm farms, projects to define God and a crocodile zoo. Remember the paper. This is not a lightweight tabloid piece of frivolity. It's the Sunday Telegraph saying it. And guess where all of this money is being spent? Clue: not in Britain.

There's another great opinion piece in The Observer from Henry Porter - whose masterful understanding of civil liberties issues have been applauded by this blog in the past - in which he discusses the hellish effects on liberty and freedom that the vile ZaNuLiebour machine has inflicted on the ever more repressed British people. Porter uses his article to call on the current Opposition parties to bring about a "Great Repeal Bill". This call mirrors this blog author's own thoughts and - quite frankly - the best thing that the Conservative Party could do is to promise to repeal almost every statute introduced since May 1997. The only good things we can think of that Labour have introduced concern lesbian and gay rights - everything else Labour have touched or brought in ('brought in' normally means banning something) should just be repealed. Let's turn the clock back to 1997 - and fast.

Over in the Independent on Sunday, John Rentoul invites us to grab a bag of popcorn and await the imminent doom of Gormless. As MPs think about returning to do the job we pay them for after their ninety-seven year summer recess, he predicts plots to oust the unelected buffoon will again gather pace. The key, Rentoul suggests, is the action or inaction of David Miliband and Alistair Darling. Meanwhile, the same newspaper has a feature interview with Unite leader Derek Simpson in which the trade unionist calls on Gormless to get rid of Voldemort himself, Peter Mandelson. We'll get the Butterkist.

In the News of the World, Fraser Nelson has a lot of fun with conjecture about the state of mind of our unelected, unwanted Prime Minister. He picks up on rumours that Gormless is cracking under the strain and might quit on health grounds. The country should be so lucky. Still, it's an article that combines humour and cold analysis of the disaster that is Gormless and cheekily refers to him as "the Tories' No1 weapon" for electoral success.

The Mail on Sunday has an article in which it claims that ZaNuLiebour are finding it difficult to build their election campaign team - because no-one wants to work for Gormless. The article contains an unattributed quote from someone with Labour leaning tendencies in which they defend Gormless against claims of temper tantrums by saying: "Gordon is a very intense person and gets cross when things go wrong because he cares so much". So remember. Angry outbursts are just a form of passion. If you're on the receiving end of an ear-bashing or if you have a stapler lobbed in your direction, it's just an expression of love.

The Sunday Times has an interesting piece which probes the Conservative idea of decentralising everything and giving local people what is claimed to be more of a say in how local matters are decided in an era of supposedly new transparency. It's a very interesting article. What was also interesting was their description of David Cameron, who they call "[t]he would-be prime minister". What? You mean he isn't already? The fact that it's been a foregone conclusion for quite a while seems to be playing tricks on the brain! Tricks on the brain, I say!

Sunday Paper Review: 6th September 2009

This blog would like to spend just a little time congratulating two or three mainstream media organisations as part of our newspaper review this week.

First up, we would like to congratulate the Mail on Sunday. It takes very big bollocks for them to have run with the story they've run with. But they obviously do have big swingers.

Only, the Mail on Sunday - through columnist Lauren Booth - has gone and printed what really happened to the marvellous and much missed Diana, Princess of Wales, in our conclusion. Which is also what Mike Mansfield QC thinks happened. And the Mail on Sunday's columnist - at least - seems to be intelligent enough to have worked it all out, too.

This is the second story mentioning Princess Diana and Mike Mansfield this week - the first coming in the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday which cited from the memoirs of the lawyer who this blogger frequently applauded when we read the transcripts of Diana's inquest. It's only a shame that the British media decided not to print or even mention 95% of the detail of the inquest.

The Sunday Times has a report on a change of policy at the BBC. Now, this blog was very down on the BBC over their failure to cover UKIP proportionately - in our view - during the recent by-election in Norwich. Now it seems that the BBC might be getting the message and are really going bravely into impartiality territory. In a move that has ZaNuLiebour up in arms, the BBC is to allow the BNP onto flagship political programme Question Time. Apparently, the Conservatives and the LibDems aren't getting overly wound up by the move. But Labour are. And it's easy to see why such a move should upset Labour. Those voting for the BNP appear to be former Labour voters. And anyway, we don't promise to agree with anyone's opinion, but this country has been built upon a tradition of defending a person's right to say it. So, while those on the "left" will no doubt be ranting and raving, this blog strongly supports the BBC's decision to allow the BNP onto QT. That's true democracy being allowed to do what it does, that's true representation of real people, real people's lives, real people's hopes and fears and should be supported. And now everyone in the country will get a chance to judge for themselves whether the BNP are as odious as is claimed. Not many people under the age of forty have ever had the option of listening to anything the BNP says. Well, have you?

Spotted!

Spotted Boris Johnson out and about today. He was held up at the same set of traffic lights that this blogger was crossing.

He gets about a bit, huh? One day he's taking on the N-EU World Order, next minute he's staging a takeover of the plodders, and then he still manages his diary well enough to be able to cycle about his business.

Actually, this cycling must be doing him good. He was looking like he's lost a few pounds, in our opinion.

Are us Brits allowed to refer to pounds and ounces? Only, we haven't a clue how much weight he might have lost in grams and kilos.

It's a bit like one of those "how many sweets in the jar?" things that you probably remember from your school special events, before everyone who ever went within twenty miles of a school became deemed a threat or suspicious under ZaNuLiebour.

So, how many grams less in weight is Boris carrying this week?

Answers on the back of a now banned bright light bulb's cardboard box packaging to...

...eeek, sorry I mentioned the cardboard boxes. They'll probably note that and ban the boxes from these dull bulbs we all have to have now...

We all live in the environmentally friendly dark, now. Hope ROSPA still do those shiny badge things for cyclists. We need a few around the house now that we can no longer see around in the dark any more.

We love the EU today. We've decided if we treat them as a comedy show, we'll get far less wound up by them.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we can't vote for UKIP or the politicians that we actually like...

Our poll: MPs are pointless

In our August poll, we asked our blog visitors:

"Does a member of the public writing to an MP have any influence on how that MP votes in Parliament?"

Although only a small number of people voted, the results are quite alarming.

A majority - more than half of those who voted at 53% - said that NO, they did not believe that writing to an MP had any effect on the way their MP voted in Parliament.

Even worse, NOT ONE single person said 'yes', they thought it did make a difference.

There was not total pessimism. In the month where the most searched term to bring visitors to this blog was "George Galloway", a significant proportion of people - 26% - said they thought it depended on the MP. Does this figure have any correlation with visitors interested in the free-spirited Mr. Galloway?

A smaller number of people - 13% - said that they thought writing to an MP would influence that politician's Parliamentary voting "sometimes".

A further 6% of our visitors opted for the "don't know" option.

So, here's the state of democracy in Britain, in the opinion of our blog visitors. NOBODY AT ALL believes that democracy works as it should - that when a constituent writes to their MP, then their opinions influence a politician when he or she votes at Westminster.

A total of 39% of people thought that sometimes it might have an effect, depending on the MP.

And the majority - 53% - do not believe that we, the people who are meant to be represented - have any effect on how a MP votes at all.

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics - obviously.

However, there is surely food for thought for democracy in the statistics generated by visitors to this blog during August.