Category: Politics and Society
Keep off the grass!
Glad to see my parents don’t pay their council tax in Merton for anything trivial!
From Big BrotherWatch:
Merton Council have found themselves the subject of ridicule after sending out two council workmen to install a ‘keep off the grass’ sign on a patch just two feet by three feet. Despite mockery from local residents in Elm Walk, Raynes Park the local council have defended the sign. A spokeswoman said:
“The sign was put up to remind motorists that it is illegal to park on the footway and is designed to deter indiscriminate parking.”
It really does beggar belief that along the line no one had the common sense to cancel this waste of money and time. The patch does seem rather small for ‘indiscriminate parking’, unless you’re using, as one local resident quipped, a unicycle…
England, whose England?
Fascinating video unearthed about the early days of non-white immigration into Britain.
It is wrong to ban Wootton Bassett march.
Don’t people see the irony in calling for a BAN on the Wooton Basset march? We should certainly oppose it but we should not call for it to be banned. Do we want to live in the kind of repressive backward society these people advocate?
Either you believe in freedom or you don’t. Freedom means having to listen to views you do not like. You can’t suspend freedom just because you don’t agree with what is being expressed. It seems far too easy today just to call for something to be banned rather than actually doing something to oppose it.
I wonder how many people calling for a ban and signing petitions will bother to go and oppose it if it does go ahead? It is very easy to take away somebody else’s freedom by signing a petition started by a newspaper whose owner wants the internet to be controlled. But unless people are prepared to actually put themselves outside their comfort zone and actually go and oppose this should they have the right to restrict anybody else’s freedom?
Calling for a ban is playing into the hands of those who have inflicted this situation on us; the people who planned the mass Muslim immigration into Britain and who send our troops to go and kill people in far off countries to prop up the oil and drug trades.
Every time we ban the freedoms of those we disagree with we hammer a nail into the coffin of our own freedoms. It is a very dangerous path to go along.
We often say that people who come here should live by our laws. If our laws still (although only just) allow people to express views that offend others do you really want to part of taking away that too?
What a week. 7 days have shown:
The war in Iraq was illegal and murderous and was done purely for “regime change”. Body count of innocent civilians is now 102,000, yet Blair still walks the streets. No, really
People are being arrested for being too tall. No, really
People are being put in mental hospitals for “remaining silent”. No, really
Billionaire Bankers spoke to their friends in Gummint and got to keep £26 Billion they stole from us. No, really
Our elected representatives are going to jail for stealing from us. No, really
Our unelected representatives rule us from Brussels. No, really
An unelected politician now owns the Internet in the UK. No, really
Man made global warming, something we are told is going to cost us trillions to fix, is nothing but a Nigerian super scam. No, really
That’s just the last seven days….
Rome is well alight. Bring more petrol and let’s do the job properly.
Smith: I’ve been disgraced
Smith: I’ve been disgraced – politics.co.uk:
Jacqui Smith’s reputation is now in disgrace, the former home secretary has admitted.
NO SHIT SHERLOCK! Jail the crooked piece of scum.
22 Economic Models Explained
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk
away.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of
credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity
swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back,
with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a
Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells
the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one
more.
You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States , leaving you
with nine cows.
No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull..
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want
three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it
worldwide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk
themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and
learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
One is mad and the other has had to be put in storage because of the health
and safety risks of milking it.
AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
Nobody believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your
country.
You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ECONOMIC MODEL
You are an MP and have one cow.
Your boss says he can’t give you a pay raise as it wouldn’t go down well with the voters.
Instead he tells you to buy a second cow on credit and charge the interest to expenses,
then milk it for all it’s worth.
You buy a moat to prevent it from escaping and put a floating duck house in the moat so
the cow has the company of wildlife.
You buy a a three piece antique leather suite to sit on so you can be comfortable while
milking the cow and of course a 50″ plasma TV and two DVD players.
Then you redecorate the cow.
All of which you claim on expenses.
Now you ‘FLIP’ your cows, and milk your original cow for all it’s worth too.
This time you buy it several imitation Tudor oak beams, an italian portico and a BBQ for those
fine summer evenings, oh plus a couple of porn videos and a bath plug.
Now you flip your cows again to avoid Capital Gains Tax, treat the secondary one as a cash cow, and sell it for a large
profit, pocketing all the money.
Continue claiming interest on the cost of the cow you sold 6 months earlier, then retire to The House of Lords
on the very large pension the public have so kindly, if unknowingly, provided for you.
McGuinness: Republicans trying to kill me
Dissident republican groups are understood to be planning an attempt on the life of deputy first minister Martin McGuinness.
The life-long republican was told of the plot by police in the last 24 hours.
In a statement issued this morning, he said: “It is believed this threat comes from a so-called dissident grouping.
“I have spent my entire adult life engaged in the republican struggle to bring about Irish unity and independence.
You forget to mention murdering people. Reap what you sewed you murdering piece of filth, reap what you sewed.
NO SURRENDER
Drink driving and MRSA
Nobody in their right mind, condones drink driving but here are a couple of statistics that I think you should be aware off.
Last year, national records show that 460 people were killed in drink driving related accidents. Grim figures indeed.
During the same period, 8,324 people died as a result of catching either the MRSA or C-difficile hospital superbugs. Even grimmer and more shameful figures.
Now, with the Christmas anti-drink driving campaign in full swing, with hundreds of thousands of people being randomly stopped on their way from work and early next morning, now might be a good time to have a Christmas Campaign on the wards of our hospitals checking for the spreaders of the disease.
Just thought you might like to know also, that since Labour have been in power, over 37,000 people have died as a result of their inaction in enforcing hygiene in our hospitals.
WHY HAS PATRIOTISM BECOME SUCH A DIRTY WORD IN THIS COUNTRY?
The question was put to me with stark simplicity. ?What was it all for?? asked the elderly lady, a wistful look in her eyes.
?The country that they died for has gone,? she continued, glancing down at the red poppy on her lapel.
I had fallen into conversation with her on the steps of the Imperial War Museum in London. Against such a backdrop, dominated by two mighty naval guns at the main entrance, it was inevitable that our thoughts should turn to war and sacrifice.
She explained that she had lost close relatives in both World Wars and as a teenager had endured the horrors of the Blitz. Mixed with her admiration for family heroes who had lost their lives in conflict, she also felt utter despair at the state of Britain and a profound sense of betrayal.
Although her loved ones had given so much for their country, she now felt like an alien in her own land, living in constant fear of crime and surrounded by foreigners with whom she had no sense of mutual belonging or trust.
Her insistent question ? ?What was it all for?? ? has also been echoing through my mind as I research a book about Bomber Command during the Second World War. It mounted perhaps the most bloody and dangerous British offensive of the conflict, as crews of the heavy bombers flew night after night over Germany through vicious flak from the ground and from Luftwaffe fighters.
long-term chances of survival were minimal. More than half of all men who served in air crews were killed in action. The courage required to step into those aircraft for the long journey in blackened night skies over enemy territory is almost beyond imagination.
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Yet thousands of young Britons volunteered for this hellish role, motivated by their deep love of country and an abiding sense of a higher duty to others.
They died for their nation but that nation barely exists any more. It has been destroyed by the politicians, its sovereignty handed over to an unelected continental bur
Genius..
“Lehman Brothers is a great company today that can both look backwards with pride and look forwards with hope. And in wishing Lehman Brothers the success it deserves for its future, let me thank you for the privilege of being here and formally declare this new building open.”
Gordon Brown, opening Lehman’s flashy new European HQ, Canary Wharf, 5 April 2004 !
