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“Immigrants make Britain ‘far more exciting’ says [Ken] Clarke in rebuke to PM”
Not another UKIP plant in the Tory Party?
ken Clarke is a silly old fool. Why did Cameron give him a job?
Saw Jack Whitehall at Warwick Arts Centre in Cov last night. It was a trial out for his new tour so only £10 each for the tickets.
Maybe not everyones taste but well funny.
No political stuff. 🙂
Alexsandr, Ken Clarke and David Cameron think the same, that’s why he has a job. They have the same purpose in common.
Fergus Pickering 06:47
Not bad, not bad at all, your muse must have woken up more than refreshed this morning except for one small, very small hick-up, the ‘gettin ready for icy blast’ needs either an ‘an’ before icy, ‘another’ instead of ‘icy’, or a three part extension ‘getting ready for a mighty icy blast.’ The alternatives roll off easier from the tongue. Fair critique of the technique or not?
RobertC @ 08:49
The tosser should visit Southall around 22.00 hours on Friday. He’ll get a doze of excitement he won’t forget in a hurry.
We should start a campaign called ‘Move’, actioned by a charity set up to persuade politicians who favour the multy culty idiocy to move into the rainbow areas. It could actually work whether they do so or not, just think of the publicity it would generate.
Ladies of the CHW!
Fancy making a few bob giving makeup tips?
These guys need your help…
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/01/syrian-al-qaeda-leader-captured-in-mascara-lipstick-and-a-burqa/
Alexsandr
January 13th, 2014 – 09:43
Because Cameron is an even bigger fool!
EC
January 13th, 2014 – 10:53
A dangerous rent-boy! 🙂
Anne.
Last Friday (10th) I posted a reply to your query about the suggestion that certain types of medication might be withheld from the elderly. I now see that it has disappeared. Hope you do not think I was ignoring you. Read your comments on charities, they are largely a con, set up to benefit those who work for them, and I should know because I am chairman of one, but in this case all are volunteers. Anne, you were refused a job because of your race and for no other reason, the discrimination in this field is nothing short of offensive, if you are white don’t bother applying. charity is for coons.
stephen maybery
January 13th, 2014 – 14:30
Dear Stephen, you are correct, and it is really very sad. When I was in a position hiring people,I always selected the most qualified; their race, religion, colour or sex had no bearing on my choice. This was in the days before PC. Now, I am becoming what I would have once called a racist, and I am filled with disgust at the establishment ( institutions such as the BBC, Local Councils, etc) that have made me change a lifetime of believing all men (and women) are equal. Who removed your posting? I am sure Peter didn’t, perhaps you missed it. On a lighter note,I wonder what medications were denied the elderly – Viagra! 🙂
stephen maybery January 13th, 2014 – 14:30
“Anne Last Friday (10th) I posted a reply to your query about the suggestion that certain types of medication might be withheld from the elderly.”
You did and it is still there, see below.
stephen maybery January 10th, 2014 – 13:30
It seems that they who rule are considering denying certain drugs to the elderly in order that more can be freed up for the young, no surprises there then. Well, I for one am spitting feathers, I have worked hard all my life and paid extortionate taxes, only to now be told that medical treatment could be denied me. However I can not see medical treatment withheld from pregnant Nigerians and other suchlike. Bollocks to this, Civis Britanicus Sum and I expect to receive the care I have toiled for. The political class should take note that there are a lot of us and we are more likely to vote than the self absorbed and largely ignoraqnt section of society who they are so eager to court.
Baron
“blasts”
Fergus Pickering @ 18:0
Got it, ‘blasts’ do it nicely.
Re: Ken Clarke’s default bullshit position on immigration:
Austin Barry might have been banned from the New Spectatesman but he is still in action, and on fine form, on the blogs at the other Barclay Bros’ organ (of the press)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10567766/Ken-Clarke-hits-out-at-Cameron-immigration-claims.html
I have,in various places,pointed-out how exciting life is just across the river from Ken Clarke’s fiefdom.
Various reports say the best places to live are North Yorks. and South Notts. A Telegraph report had Rushcliffe the best place to bring up a family.Even it’s Council schools are excellent (as these things are judged).The leading Comprehensive won the Steven Lawrence Award for multi-culturism (in spite of the fact that Rushcliffe is 97% white).It was for a project on Japan (presumably not touching the Death Railway;the Rape of Nanking;etc.)
Across the river in The Meadows is one of the most exciting places in England.It has about 90% non-white population;the lowest household income in GB;very low academic levels;very high levels of unemployment;very high levels of crime:it was a gang from The Meadows that crossed the city and killed a 14 year old girl in a drive-by shooting in the rival suburb.
One group of bimbos has set-up a `free school` in Rushcliffe.(Note:there are no `free` schools–only private schools being set upset with large amounts of tax-payers money [some of them Madrasers-but that’s another story] ).This group wants to set up another school in Rushcliffe;although there is no call for it from Ken’s voters.They, nor anyone-else, has any intention of setting up a `free`school in The Meadows.
I have maliciously suggested we could add to the diversity of society (and to the general excitement,as I now see) by instituting the American system of `busing`. Bus half the pupils from Rushcliffe (including from the tax-financed `free`school) to schools in The Meadows,and pupils from The Meadows to Rushcliffe.
Radford NG @19:33
Yes, The Meadows by all means, but please don’t leave out St Ann’s and Sneinton.
Let Rushcliffe share and enjoy in all the fabulous diversity that Nottingham has to offer!
stephen maybery
January 13th, 2014 – 14:30
Guess there was some slight confusion.
David Ossitt
January 13th, 2014 – 15:57
Yes, David I saw this and replied to it. Can’t think why, but I thought there was a later posting, describing the drugs and giving source of the informtion
EC – 19.17
Clarke gets carte-blanche to say what he wants as it seems, as far as any of us mere plebs can deduce, he’s the senior Bilderberger in the Cabinet, and probably gets to pull strings, unlike our corrupt and corrupted PM and Chancellor who get their strings pulled.
Nobody is allowed to hold these offices of state unless they are corrupt, it’s just a shame that their corruption destroys so much and so many but for them, having a sociopathic nature and a compliant press allows them untroubled wealth and privilege rather than a long spell in Pentonville.
I’ve made a pledge not to vote for the Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative parties.
Why don’t you at…
http://www.notvotingforyou.org/index.php
Mendip Man
That site looks like a great idea.
In the USA, a more specialized approach to defying the common-or-garden politicancan be found at http://oathkeepers.org/oath/about/
“Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to “defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” That oath, mandated by Article VI of the Constitution itself, is to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and Oath Keepers declare that they will not obey unconstitutional orders, such as orders to disarm the American people, to conduct warrantless searches, or to detain Americans as “enemy combatants” in violation of their ancient right to jury trial. See the Oath Keepers Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey for details.”
The difficulty in forming a British “Oath Keepers” is that we are not entirely sure what our Constitution is and we are not 100% sure whose side the monarch is on.
http://www.notvotingforyou.org/index.php though looks like a step in the right direction.
IRISHBOY
January 13th, 2014 – 21:21
Well said!
Quotation on the op.cit. Oath Keepers page:
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” — Thomas Paine
“The tide is rising for America’s libertarians.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc9a31b8-7928-11e3-b381-00144feabdc0.html
http://www.dailypaul.com/309903/ron-pauls-texas-straight-talk-congress-defers-to-president-on-nsa-reform-1-12-14&sss=1
I have just witnessed a Christian eating the leg of a Muslim man in Africa.
Good job that we know they have the same God.
Fergus Pickering @05:19
“I have just witnessed a Christian eating the leg of a Muslim man in Africa.”
Yes, the true horror was that the leg was flambéed in gasoline, Fergus. No herbs, garnish and no sauce either. It must have tasted absolutely ghaaaasstly! I blame the BBC, and possibly the French. Millions of pounds of TV licence fees spent on all those master-celebrity-chef-bake-off-cookery programs, and this is what you get…
Send in Ainsley Harriot!
Fergus Pickering
January 14th, 2014 – 05:19
On the hoof?
Anne Wotana Kaye 1@January 14th, 2014 – 08:45
You have no sole.
sorry, bit of a heel to say that.
Alexsandr
January 14th, 2014 – 10:01
You are a true ray of hope!
(Something fishy there)
‘Fergus’ @5:19.
Last week, my Spectator sock puppet challenged the real Fergus with a few limericks that first appeared on this site. Fergus pronounced them ‘crap’ and gave no indication that he had seen them before, as he certainly would have indicated had he viewed these pages at the relevant time.
This is the strongest evidence that you are not the real Fergus. Not to put too fine a point on it, you are a sock puppet of that mottled fleck of fraudulent slime, t*l*machus. Time to crawl back down your drain, tele boy, cos we’ve got your number.
ACP, I have thought that the person posting here as Fergus Pickering was telemachus for a very long time.
Peter from Maidstone
Definitely!
The pro-EU campaign continues at the Barclay Brother’s Daily Telegraph. Today there is a piece about the Head of the Office for Budget Responsibility, Robert Chote, saying that we need a continuing and large-scale flow of migrants for the sake of our economy. As usual, his wife is also sucking at the public teat…
“HMT has today announced the appointment of Sharon White, the current Director General over at Horseguards, as Second Permanent Secretary. Who she? Well, she’s none other than the wife of Robert Chote, the chief of the Office of Budget Responsibility. The OBR was set up in 2010 by George Osborne to provide independent analysis and advice on Treasury policy. It is meant to be completely independent, so no pillow talk please”.
We also have a devious piece by Peter Kellner telling us that migrants don’t cost the country anything and in fact produce countless benefits. And his wife? Well of course he is also Mr Ashdown, the partner of the Supreme High Panjandrum to the EU.
The Daily Telegraph certainly is investing a lot into the EU.
I want to come home, but don’t know how to find affordable accommodation. I am looking to share a flat or a small house. I don’t want to live alone any more.
I have three clean, neutered, well behaved cats who have their implants and cat passports.
Are there any sites specialising in this kind of search?
Verity…. This might be a start…
http://www.houseshare.com/
P from M, thank you so much for responding so quickly, but oh those prices for shared accommodation! I am looking to save money!!!
Doesn’t a widow or a widower have a small comfortable place with an extra bathroom (or extra loo) for a more realistic price? These prices, for shared living space are too extravagant!
Have you investigated whether you would be able to claim Housing Benefit?
No. Don’t know how.
You need to visit the website and complete the form. If you are eligible then this will help you very much.
https://www.gov.uk/benefits-adviser
ACP,
The real Fergus Pickering’s real name is Whitworth. Could he have gone nuts?
On last week’s wall in response to “Fergus’s” invitation to a pub poetry night in Nottingham city centre :
Radford NG, January 8th, 2014 – 18:08
A. C. P. at 16-55.
It isn’t for me to `out` him;but I will say:-
Fergus Pickering-
I know thee for who thy art.”
So perhaps NG of Radford could give us a hint?
Also, was it the real or the bogus Fergus that used to carry torch for “The Chipmunk?”
EC
January 14th, 2014 – 14:25
Surely his initials should be KP – Kinky Peanuts!
EC – I have come round to the view that Fergus (John Whitworth) is a pretty decent cove once you get to know him and our exchange last week ended amicably. He may be a Tory but nowadays Cameron is so generally reviled that his few remaining supporters without vested interest deserve respect for standing up to be counted.
http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/14905/John%20Vincer+WHITWORTH.aspx
I rather like the sound of Bogus Fergus. It has a sort of retro, Raymond Briggs ring to it.
Steady on with those FP initials, Peter. Could cause some reputational collateral damage to one who occasionally resorts to ironic doggerel. Not a sly deflection there, I hope? Wouldn’t want there to be any mistaken identity raps. particularly when in the cause of free speech this FP has batted for both Pickering and the Bubble ‘n’ Squeak on the grounds that challenge or even ridicule is better than censure. 🙂
Frank, I have expanded the abbreviation I used so that there can be no confusion.
So the court case brought against William Roache (Ken Barlow Coronation Street) starts today, he faces 5 charges of indecent assault and two of rape.
The five complainants were aged 11 or 12 or 16 and these occurred between 1965 and 1971, basic maths will tell that these were between 43 and 49 years ago and the complainants are now aged between 54 and 65.
How on earth can this case be brought to court, how can these middle-aged women after all these years bring forward charges of assault and how can two claim that way back then he raped them?
Mind if they were under age then they can call it rape even if they were the instigators.
This is shoddy work and leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.
Roach is now 81, 49 years ago he will have been 32, Coronation Street first broadcast on 9th December 1960 and Roach was in the very first episode, this means that he had been in this popular soap for 4 years prior to the first of these accusations.
Is it logical that a handsome popular successful young man would find the need to have a six year period of kiddy-fiddling but none in the 43 years since?
David Ossitt
January 14th, 2014 – 16:22
David, sensible reasoning and your final paragraph says it all. It is disgraceful that three ‘historical’ rape trials are going on and gaining prominence in the newspapers. Far better if the media concentrated on criminal politicians cheating and lying to a naive public. Seems only 25 Romanians entered the UK since entry restrictions were eased, and that the cost of food has gone down! Believe that, and you will believe that most politicians are honest.
Much talk here about who or what is Fergus Pickering.
At the other place some years ago someone posted as Fergus Pickering, this chap was sensible, moderate and modest, definitely not the Fergus Pickering who is posting here.
My excellent GP has today referred me to a hip specialist, with the intention of my having my right-hip replaced.
Any pro or ant comments for this procedure?
Did the White House just inadvertently confirm Obama ID fraud?
“President Obama’s personal data is “not in particular government data bases” so his identity cannot be verified. And this according to White House sources. Huh?”
/cont
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/12/did_the_white_house_just_inadvertently_confirm_obama_id_fraud.html
E.C. at 14-25
I had deduced that F_P_ was J_W_ (aka Phoebe Flood).It’s debatable whether someone else is using the name.
Radford NG
See recent posts elsewhere.
“Few people in England give Mr Salmond a thought. Most of the posters on this sort of site are Scots. I am half scot myself and I live there when I was young. But I am an exception. Most people in England don’t give a toss. I doubt if most people in England know who Mr Salmond is.”
Most folk round Nottingham also hate Scots. Google the above to get the origin.
BTW Peter I am not the Communist Troll.
FP not Frank.
I don’t believe you are the Kent based poet John Whitworth for a variety of reasons which I do not need to go into. You may or may not be telemachus, who cares, but if the offsite Fergus is John Whitworth then you are definitely not him.
Attention all — I am trying to come home with my three (microchipped and immunised against rabies) three cats and want to find a small flat or house to share with someone. I would like to get an MP’s help. Does anyone know of an MP who might be open enough to investigate this for me? I want to come home very much, indeed, pine to come home, but they won’t accept cats. Even cats who have cat passports certifying their injectiions and health.
All suggestions welcome as I am getting very weary of trying to get back to England.
Verity, I am sure that some of us would be willing to form a team to help you. But you must check whether you are able to claim housing benefit using the form I have provided you.
David Ossitt 14th, – 16:49
“with the intention of my having my right-hip replaced.”
After several months of increasing discomfort and reduced mobility I had a replacement 3½ years ago. Best thing I ever had done; in at 07:30 on a Tuesday, out almost exactly 3 days 8 hours later. My house had been prepared for the post op rehabilitation, within 48hrs I was walking 100 yds+ and down to one elbow crutch, within a week I was walking several hundred yards and the crutch was at home, forgotten. After 6 weeks I was back driving. Mind, for the first 3 months you are allowed to sleep only on your back. Mine’s a large ball, metal-to-metal joint, and although the NHS has concerns about specific models of M2M joints, my particular model does not have an abnormal level of failures. Nevertheless they bring me in once a year for a couple of hours of monitoring. I now fell-walk, go to the gym, swim, anything I want to do.
All I can suggest is, “Go for it!”
David Ossitt, January 14th, 2014 – 16:49
I know several people, some in their eighties, who have had replacement knees and/or hips. The general consensus in those that have had both is that hips are “a doddle” compared to knees. (i.e. the recovery time is much shorter)
If you need a replacement then go for it because having either procedure will transform your life. My chum who lives in a northern outer spiral arm of the UK chose to have his knee done in Harrogate as he thought, after careful research, that they were the best team. He is very pleased with the results.
Sincerely, good luck.
Verity
January 14th, 2014 – 18:36
Dear Verity, you sound very distraught and nor at all yourself. Face facts, the cats will not be welcome here, you admit that yourself, so do you still want to live here without them? I have seen so many expats burn their bridges in emotional stress. Calmly take a trip here and look around with open eyes. You cannot claim housing benefits from abroad, all these details must take place in person. Come on a long holiday, cheaper than selling up and quarantine, etc. and see for yourself your options. You have moved around the world independently.so this too should be possible if you wish it. All good wishes, Anne
Verity our MP is Alec Shelbrooke he is the Conservative MP for Elmet and Rothwell.
His contact details are Alec Shelbrooke House of Commons London SW1A 0AA, the telephone number that follows will be his constituency number T: 01937 589 002 and his email is E: alec.shelbrooke.mp@parliament.uk.
He is an awfully nice chap, do give him a try.
MPs will not normally assist anyone who is not a constituent. You normally have to give a local address before they will respond.
Ostrich (occasionally) January 14th, 2014 – 19:23
Thank you for your kind words of encouragement, mind I do not like sleeping on my back.
EC January 14th, 2014 – 19:28
Thank you, coincidently it is to Harrogate that I am being referred to.
I agree that Verity cannot claim benefits until she lives here but the page I pointed her to will allow her to determine what she might be entitled to, which must surely be a necessary component of her plans.
Peter from Maidstone January 14th, 2014 – 19:38
“MPs will not normally assist anyone who is not a constituent.”
You might well be correct, but it is worth a try “damsel in distress” and all that.
Verity.
Anne Wotana Kaye 1 at 19:28 does write a lot of sense.
An extended visit to look at various parts of England would be very sensible.
Is it not sad that the world and his uncle can turn up in the UK and be housed etc and yet an ex-pat like Verity is finding returning home difficult.
I don’t believe you are the Kent based poet John Whitworth: You are correct on this but John & I were in Colchester in the heady days of the early 70’s and sank a jar when the Bollingen Prize for poetry was awarded to Richard Wilbur.
Not quite Thomas Gray’s Elergy.
But Good.
So memory and expectation set
Some pulseless clangor free
Of circumstance, and charm us to forget
This twilight crumbling in the churchyard tree,
Those swifts or swallows which do not pertain,
Scuffed voices in the drive,
That light flicked on behind the vestry pane,
Till, unperplexed from all that is alive,
It shadows all our thought, balked imminence
Of uncommitted sound,
And still would tower at the sill of sense
Were not, as now, its honeyed abeyance crowned
With a mauled boom of summons far more strange
Than any stroke unheard,
Which breaks again with unimagined range
Through all reverberations of the word,
Pooling the mystery of things that are,
The buzz of prayer said,
The scent of grass, the earliest-blooming star,
These unseen gravestones, and the darker dead.
David Ossitt@January 14th, 2014 – 16:49
I havent had any replacements done but I know people who have
1. think about and discuss having it done under an epidural. This means you can start moving the joint as soon as possible after the op rather than lying in bed recovering from a general. Early movement is good for maximum movement later.
2. do the exercises after the op. The more you stick to the physios instructions the better the movement you will have eventually. Worst case is they have to break the joint to get it moving. so do the physio.
3. take the time how long they tell you the prostetic will last with a pinch of salt. I know some people with some very old joints still working.
4. attend to your weight if you are overweight. Takes a lot of strain off your joints
5. expect other joints to ache. You will be walking in a different way which will cause ache. don’t worry, it will go.
6. you wont break it.I know someone who tripped and landed with her full weight on her new knee. It was fine -ached a bit for a week.
7. make sure the surgeon is a good un. ask around. The medics wont slag off their colleagues. but ask people who have had it done. You can demand your GP sends you to a good hospital.
check the BUPA website. They have excellent factsheets on medical stuff. far better then NHS direct.
I have been able to confirm that John Whitworth does not post here, only on the Spectator. That rather exposes our pseudo-Fergus as the fraud we believed.
There is an interesting article in the Guardian:
The one theology book all atheists really should read
What if most modern arguments against religious belief have been attacking the wrong God all along?
http://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2014/jan/14/the-theology-book-atheists-should-read
The article discusses what Atheists think they are rejecting when they reject a monotheistic God. It states that if Atheists think that by rejecting a superhero God, one that can do anything he likes to the universe, including creating it to begin with, they have made their case, then they really should think a bit more!
“Monotheism’s God isn’t like one of the Greek gods, except that he happens to have no god friends. It’s an utterly different kind of concept.”
It is quite a refreshing change to find an challenging article in the Guardian!
I have been able to confirm that John Whitworth does not post here, only on the Spectator. That rather exposes our pseudo-Fergus as the fraud we believed.
See 1953
I have never ever claimed to BE John.
He is a true poet.
I am an amateur observer of the human condition from a perspective of profound Sherwood Forrest and Scottish indifference.
Verity @ 18:36
Verity, why don’t you find a nice, comfortable, friendly accommodation for the cats, then organise either the visit, or a permanent move. Cats may appear to be attached to us, but they easily switch loyalty. It won’t be a problem for them, more for you, but you can easily acquire as many cats as you like here, it’s a cat loving country. It may pain you for a while, but knowing that your cats are well looked after ill be a consoling thought. Your priority is you, it may sound cruel, but you are the number one. If you complicate things insisting on bringing he cats with you in the end you may regret it.
When you re-settle your kitties then you can decide where to go, contact the MP, the Council, any agencies that may be of help.
David Ossitt @ 16:49
David, as Ostrich says, go for it, and worry not abit. Hip replacement is on par with the removal of an appendix. One of Baron’s very good friends, a fanatical squash player, has had a second go few months ago (the left one, but he had done both before), the idiot is back on court. People just don’t learn.
And good luck, my friend.
David Ossitt @ 16:49
And another thing, David, Alexsander gave Baron the hint, look at the Mayo clinic site, too, Baron has some 1st hand experience of the outfit (it’s a charity) from his travels in the US.
Put either hip replacement or hip arthroplasty in their own search engine (the window appears at the op of the page), follow it. It tells you why it’s done, anything else you may like to know.
Fergus Pickering @ 19:53
Pretty good, the verse, but if you’re telemachus, Baron will despatch his herd of hairy Mongolian warriors, and it won’t be a pretty sight when they finish with you, Fergus.
RobertC @ 20:32
But the definition of God as ‘the light of being itself’ (not particularly a good one) isn’t that different from the understanding some scientists like Einstein offered, Robert. The caricature of God as a bearded, wise, and omnipotent being is the creation of the fanatical atheists. In the article itself, the guy also says that those who believe in intelligent design see God like that, too. This is nonsense. People like Behe, Denton. others don’t talk about God, they talk about an intelligent force, entity, power that transcends anything we know, can sense, understand.
HOUSING BENEFIT.
The system is virtually incomprehensible and council workers don’t like working on it.
It appears to be:-
ELIGIBILITY-
Any British citizen with less then £16,000 assets.
It is paid on a sliding scale.
Those on a low income can get 100% of rent paid.
It is not clear what the maximum income is to get this but it is somewhere between £115 and £155 per week.
MAXIMUM PAYMENTS
In private accommodation it is £250 per week.
In council or Housing Assoc accommodation it is the local average;perhaps between £100 to £200 per week.
This appears to be the basics of it.
Radford, the form to provide an estimate of benefits is fairly straightforward but only Verity knows her circumstances which is why I keep urging her to fill it in. If she us entitled to benefit this will change the possibilities open to her.
These historical child abuse cases do raise many worries and, putting aside the rules of evidence which have been eroded in these sort of cases I believe, the outcome must depend a huge amount on how the complainants are questioned.
I actually think that the trials of Roache, Dodd and DLT are a deliberate and orchestrated distraction to cover-up and give protection for political figures. Nothing was done about Savile when he was alive, and yet we have all seen photos of him with a succession of Prime Ministers and Royalty too, and I’m presuming that Savile was never brought to trial to save them and others from being called to give account in the witness box – these cases are ones where adult witnesses were present, and indeed since Tom Watson’s question in the Commons to David Cameron about the question of a paedophile being run out of No.10 I’ve heard not a peep.
A minutes googling and you may find the names Heath Blair Brown Dunblane Kincora all throwing up (sic) horrible stuff. If what is sitting there for all to see is nothing but fictitious malicious gossip it seems odd to me that those with so much influence, some indeed who have taken recent legal action, allow it to stay for public perusal.
I’ve often wondered how the above named PMs could have perverted the single most admirable nation ever, but perversion was seemingly what flowed through their veins, and of course in law as well in decent minds, those who also knew are just as guilty, and I hope that one day their evil will be widely known and retribution meted out in buckets.
How to stop worrying and love your bank…the following may have been missed by conservative eagle-eyes here on the Wall, diverted by the festive spirit of the run-up to Christmas –
“…[Assistant US Attorney General] Breuer this week signed off on a settlement deal with the British banking giant HSBC that is the ultimate insult to every ordinary person who’s ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge. Despite the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels (among others) and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to pursue criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a “record” financial settlement of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is about five weeks of income for the bank.
The banks’ laundering transactions were so brazen that the NSA probably could have spotted them from space…”.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213#ixzz2qPyyBUZo
Fortunately, we have a foreigner, Mark Carney of Goldman Sachs, as Governor of the Bank of England who I am sure will set a new standard for the profession, at least in the United Kingdom.
Seems Fergus has yet another alias, if the following is anything to go by…
The people’s flag is eau de nil,
We know just how the bourgeois feel,
We hope our planned electric freeze,
Will help to pay the prep school fees.
We’ll scrap the anti-hunting law,
And keep Ed Balls off Radio 4;
If comradeship is what you seek,
We meet in Waitrose every week.
(with apologies to Jim Connell)
Mind, the perpetrator, who says he’s Peter Oborne, doesn’t claim liability, but to blame his old English master is some cheek!
“Unfortunately I cannot claim the credit (or take the blame) for this doggerel, which was written by Robin Bailey,”
🙂
IRISHBOY 14th, – 21:50
“Nothing was done about Savile when he was alive, and yet we have all seen photos of him with a succession of Prime Ministers and Royalty”
Indeed. The jokes about Savile and his carrying-on were legion; so much so that they even came to the ears of my good Lady (who only hears what she wants to) in the early ’70s. Mind, after having repeated what she’d been told by her student midwife colleagues, she did sometimes have to ask me their full meaning!!!
Baron – 21:33 ‘God?’
The article isn’t perfect, only that is was encouraging that someone (in the Guardian!) had made a little more progress than RD!
And recently, scientists were saying that life started in mud. Well I never!
Too Big to Jail
“Federal and state authorities have chosen not to indict HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank and, in the process, endanger the financial system. (New York Times) ” Ibid..
Ostrich (o) 23.46
My dear old Dad used to sit in front of the TV and during Jim’ll Fix It say what good work the man did, though he clearly had his ear more to the ground in Omagh during the 60s as, when I was but a wa’en, he warned me many many times about never accepting lifts from strangers and to walk away if a strange man ever tried to talk to me.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/01/13/battle-of-the-branches-judicial-vs-executive-supreme-court-justice-scalia-rips-obamas-abuse-of-executive-power-during-oral-arguments-on-illegal-recess-appointments/
To all the kind hearts who responded above to my questions, it is too late here to answer them as thoughtfully, and respectfully, as they deserve. I will do so tomorrow (or “inshallah”, as the flannel heads say). I will respond to every one of the good suggestions above, tomorrow morning.
In the meantime, thank you very much for thinking of ideas for me. I am most appreciative.
Ostrich(occasionally)
I guess Peter Oborne is not referring to the Robin Bailey maths teacher from Milton Keynes.
Nor even a master from his Alma Mater Sherborne.
Do you know which Prep School he attended?
Baron:
Fergus’ skin will remain intact.
No communist he.
“When challenged by peaceful assembly, they crush it so nimbly.
Commies!
They censor the coverage by press with violence and arrest.
They’re Commies!
They search without cause, and aggregate our thoughts.
Commies!
Without trial they detain; inflict cruel and unusual pain.
They’re Commies!
They deny the right to civil damages for all corporate ravages.
Commies!
They grab private property; a pipelines for plutocracy.
They’re Commies!
Their political theatre is propaganda to distract us,
for, when all political power in a very few hands,
and the economy runs at their very command,
You have what communism always was in practice!”
(after Fisher)
The said shortly to be pulverised troll should heed.
Why is everyone stressing about high street banks. Surely we should be moving to the peer to peer model, where people lend direct to lender. No middle man to cream off the massive spreads banks have.
I am lending to businesses through funding circle and funding knight and getting 5% return. They are getting funds at about 7-8%. (The difference is because of the small proportion of loans that go bad)
The idea is business a wants to borrow £1000. 100 people lend it £10.
but there are many businesses, so the lenders lend £10 to many borrowers. So the risk is spread.
Think of it like 2 forks laid handle to handle. loads of lenders go down a hub to loads of borrowers.
These guys are lending serious amounts of cash. and you know our money is going to a UK company. You can pick and choose which companies you lend to too.
and no casino banking needed.
There is Zopa for personal loans but I have found their bad debt chasing is poor.
IRISHBOY – 23:59 ‘JFI’
I can remember, in about 1968, thinking that if ever my (younger) brother and I were ever invited onto TOTP (which would NEVER have happened!), I would NEVER have left him out of my sight. Then I thought, “so why would we go anyway?”
At the time, I wasn’t thinking of any physical damage, only the emotional confusion of adults acting in such a disconnected way and leading teenagers into such an aimless activity.
I could see, aged about fifteen, that the BBC could not cope with the influx of the pirate radio station DJ’s in 1967. They just went along with it, and everyone involved took advantage of it: the Management, the DJ’s, the viewers, and the kids on set – though they, in particular, didn’t realise what the price was, to them.
What was most spooky was that BBC studios appeared to have a different set of laws to normal, where consequences were as inconsequential as in a James Bond movie and the worship of celebrity status was the norm! It was a forerunner of pop singers thinking they knew how to run a country.
Alexsandr – 09:38 ‘the Peer to peer model’, ‘So the risk is spread’
The problem with that is getting your money back, if you need it.
If you have £20k saved, ready to buy a house, I don’t think putting it into a peer to peer scheme would be wise. You are advised not to put it into shares, which may go up or down in value, but I would expect that they are more liquid than peer to peer lending.
As soon as you want risk management, you will be back to the conventional bank. There may be better and worse run banks, but that is a different issue.
It’s interesting that no pop and rock stars seem to be implicated in sexual activity in the 60s and 70s, nor politicians. It is almost impossible to believe that all rock bands were models of propriety.
I still find it hard to consider DLT putting his hand up a girls skirt 50 years ago to be the equivalent of violent rape. And if it is then what is the deliberate sexualisation of a whole generation of young girls by the state to be called?
RobertC@January 15th, 2014 – 10:05
You get your cash back by selling your loans.
its a longer term investment. I am saving for retirement.
but if you only want 0.5% then banks are for you.
Baron
January 14th, 2014 – 20:53
TO VERITY
Dear Baron, as a cat lover I read your posting addressed to Verity with very great interest. You write that Verity must consider herself first “Your priority is you, it may sound cruel, but you are the number one. If you complicate things insisting on bringing he cats with you in the end you may regret it.” I think I can understand Verity’s feelings, that her cats are an integral part of herself. Twelve years ago I had to leave my beloved sixteen year old cat with loving people. To this day I miss him, and deeply regret that I did this. I am not a frustrated “old maid”, I am a married woman and grandmother, and have no hang-ups, but my cat was deeply loved and loved me. People will see me as odd when I say I put my cat before anyone in the world save my husband and son, and it was due to my husband wanting to return here that I left my cat. Verity would find it a mistake to bring her cat here, if it was possible. The people here are not cat-lovers en masse, especially landlords and housing associations which view pets warily. Many cats and dogs are abandoned here, especially when the economic climate is hard. Verity, again I strongly advise you to make a pilot trip, nothing to lose, except your illusions, and you may have an interesting break and return refreshed to Mexico, or perhaps another country. Good luck, Verityin whatever you decide.
And if Verity makes it here for a pilot visit I am some of us would wish to arrange a meeting somewhere appropriate to express our support and friendship.
Anne Wotana Kaye 1@January 15th, 2014 – 11:05
Landlords view pets and children as a problem because they often leave the property at the end of a lease with repairs to be done. Especially if the property is furnished.
… And while our ‘leaders’ are vigorously dredging up and prosecuting the sexual antics of the moribund (or already dead) of the Sixties/Seventies showbiz milieu and its victims (??), they are studiously ignoring the comprehensive current buggering of Western Civilisation, which continues apace.
Here is the latest assiduously annotated and blood-chilling research from Soeren Kern of the Gatestone Institute. [Remember his round-up of the ‘Islamization of Britain’ which I posted here a few weeks ago].
I won’t diminish this new report of the Islamization of Germany, by merely linking it; it deserves column inches where ever it can be reproduced, so here is the the Full Monty, please read it all, assimilate the implications and disseminate it widely – you particularly Verity, as you seem hell-bent on returning to this beleaguered shit heap of a Continent and its appendages, currently in the grip of idiots, traitors and perverts:
The Islamization of Germany in 2013
by Soeren Kern
January 15, 2014 at 5:00 am
In December, two new studies, one funded by the German government, found that the majority of Muslims believe that Islamic Sharia law should take precedence over the secular constitutions and laws of their European host countries.
“Critics of Islamic ideology and its organizations are constantly confronted with lawsuits and have to legally defend themselves against the accusations of blasphemy or incitement-to-hatred. Even if it does not come to a conviction, such processes cost a lot of time and money…Thus… we are experiencing a de facto application of Islamic law.” — Felix Strüning, Gustav Stresemann Foundation Report.
“[It] must be recognized: democracies must beware of those who believe a free society is something that needs to be vanquished.” — Die Welt.
What follows is a chronological review of some of the most important stories about the rise of Islam in Germany during 2013:
In January, the Turkish-run Kuba Camii Mosque in Eschweiler, a city situated along the German-Belgian-Dutch border and about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Cologne, for the first time began publicly calling Muslims to prayer.
The call to prayer was described as an “historical event” and was attended by numerous dignitaries, including the Turkish consul and the Turkish attaché.
The Turkish imam of the Kuba Camii Mosque, Bahri Ciftci, declared his hopes that “the public prayer call will be a symbol of a tolerant, intercultural and interreligious common coexistence.”
The mayor of Eschweiler, Rudi Bertram, said, “Tolerance must be practiced on a daily basis. We are all responsible for ensuring that there is a co-existence.”
The mosque is one of a growing number of Islamic institutions in Germany publicly calling the Muslim faithful to prayer—five times a day, seven days a week—with cries of Allahu Akbar! (“Allah is Greater!”).
The sonorous prayer calls (known in Arabic as adhan) can be heard from great distances when amplified through electric loudspeakers. Critics say some German towns and cities are beginning to evoke the sounds and images of the Islamic Middle East.
On January 14, the City-State of Bremen signed a so-called state treaty with city’s 40,000-strong Muslim community. The agreement guarantees the protection of Muslim community properties, the approval of the construction of mosques with minarets and domes, the allotment of land for Muslim cemeteries, the supplying of halal food at prisons and hospitals, the recognition of three Muslim holidays, Muslim representation in state institutions and several other rights and privileges.
According to Erol Pürlü, the spokesman of the Koordinationsrat der Muslime [Muslim Coordination Council], a Turkish-Muslim umbrella group, the treaty with Bremen “sends a clear signal that Islam belongs to Germany.”
Bremen is the second German state to sign a treaty with local Muslim communities. Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, concluded a “historic treaty” with the city’s 200,000-strong Muslim community in November 2012.
Critics say the agreements do little to encourage Muslim integration into German society and instead will boost the growing influence of Islam in the country by encouraging the perpetuation of a Muslim parallel society.
Also in January, a court in Berlin convicted two Islamists of being members of al-Qaeda and sentenced them to a combined 15 years in prison.
Yusuf Ocak, 27, from Lübeck, Germany, and Maqsood Lodin, 23, an Austrian of Afghan background, were assigned by al-Qaeda to collect money and recruit members for the terrorist group in Europe. Ocak was arrested in Vienna and Lodin in Berlin in May 2011.
At the time of their arrest, police uncovered a treasure trove of intelligence, including more than 100 al-Qaeda planning documents that described some of the terror group’s most audacious plots and a road map for future operations. Future plots include the seizing of cruise ships and carrying out other large-scale terrorist attacks in Europe.
Meanwhile, German security officials warned that the country’s support for France’s fight against Islamists in Mali had increased the risk of a terrorist attack targeting German interests both at home and abroad.
Citing a classified government report, the daily Bild said on January 29 that more than 100 German Islamists are believed to have received paramilitary training at terrorist training camps abroad, and that half of that group had already returned to Germany. The classified report said the militants included many German converts to radical Islam who have received training from al-Qaeda on how to plan attacks as “autonomous cells” in Germany.
In February, Muslim plans to convert the Kapernaumkirche [Capernaum Church]—a former Lutheran church in the city of Hamburg—into a mosque, generated controversy across Germany.
From Berlin to Dortmund to Mönchengladbach, the proliferation of mosques housed in former churches reflects the rise of Islam as the fastest growing religion in post-Christian Germany.
Major German newspapers greeted the news with apparent resignation, and published editorials with titles such as “When Mosques Replace Churches,” “Tenant Allah,” “Christian on the Outside, Muslim on the Inside,” and “The New Normal.”
Also in February, a German-born Islamic jihadist calling himself “Abu Azzam the German” threatened to attack Berlin and kill German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In a three-minute video posted on the Internet (the video has since been removed), the man can be heard singing in German an Islamic a cappella battle hymn known as a nasheed.
“We want to see Obama and Merkel dead!” he sings. “Our troops are already there [in Germany], what joy. You’ll bleed, your heads will roll! … Oh Allah, give the German people what they deserve!”
A screenshot from the video of “Abu Azzam the German”, threatening attacks on Germany and Chancellor Merkel.
Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich that Berlin was guilty of “a human rights violation” for insisting that Turkish immigrants who want to live in Germany must integrate and learn the German language.
In March, Germany banned three Salafist Muslim groups the Interior Ministry said wanted to overturn democracy and install a system based on Islamic Sharia law.
The Interior Ministry said on March 13 that it had banned three Islamic groups “DawaFFM,” “Islamische Audios” and “An-Nussrah,” which is part of the “Millatu Ibrahim” group [The Religious Community of Abraham] that was outlawed in June 2012.
In an effort to enforce the ban, hundreds of German police officers raided the homes of radical Islamists in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gladbeck and Solingen, and seized computers, cellphones and electronic storage devices, as well as money, documents and Islamic propaganda videos in Arabic and in German.
“Salafism, as represented in the associations that were banned today, is incompatible with our free democratic order,” German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said. “The groups aim to change our society in an aggressive, belligerent way so that democracy would be replaced by a Salafist system, and the rule of law replaced by Sharia law.”
On March 10, Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), told the German newsmagazine Focus that the number of committed Salafists in Germany had jumped to 4,500 in 2012, compared to 3,800 in 2011.
Around 70% are Germans and 30% are non-Germans, coming from a variety of nations including Turkey, Morocco and Bosnia, according to an anonymous security official interviewed by the Associated Press. About a quarter of the Salafists in Germany are Muslim converts.
Although Salafists make up only a fraction of the estimated 4.3 million Muslims in Germany, authorities are concerned that most of those attracted to Salafi ideology are impressionable young Muslims who are especially susceptible to committing suicide attacks in the name of Islam.
Maaßen said the Salafist threat to Germany is rising and he warned that unless the government “takes decisive action against violent Islamists” the Salafist groups “will continue to grow and the threat of violence will increase.”
On March 13, German police announced they had foiled an Islamist assassination plot against Markus Beisicht, the head of the anti-immigration party PRO NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia).
Police arrested a total of four Salafists involved in the plot. Two of the suspects were apprehended in Leverkusen near Cologne, where they were apparently observing Beisicht. Two others were arrested in Essen and Bonn, where police discovered a loaded firearm and ingredients to make explosives. Police also found a “death list” with the names of eight individuals marked in red.
On March 24, the citizen’s movement Die Freiheit Bayern (Freedom Bavaria) organized a demonstration against a project to build a mega-mosque in the southern German city of Munich.
The massive mosque complex—known as the Center for Islam in Europe-Munich (ZIE-M)—will cost an estimated €40 million ($51 million) and is designed to be a key strategic platform for spreading Islam throughout Europe.
Speculation is rife that the Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar will pay for the project, although the Qatari Ambassador to Germany told the newspaper Münchner Merkur that no final decision has been made.
In April, Peer Steinbrück, the chancellor candidate for the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), said at a campaign stop in Berlin that he supported the idea of physical education classes in German schools being divided by gender as a courtesy to Muslims.
Steinbrück said: “If schools are able to do it, then they should.” After his comment was greeted with silence, Steinbrück added that the measure should be taken “out of consideration for [Muslim] religious convictions.”
The reaction to Steinbrück’s comments was immediate and fierce from across Germany’s political spectrum, an indication that overt support for multiculturalism is becoming a political liability in Germany.
On the same day that Steinbrück made his controversial comments about Muslim-friendly gym classes, Germany’s Central Council of Muslims (ZMD) demanded that the German government introduce statutory Muslim holidays throughout Germany.
In an interview with the daily newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) on April 3, council chairman Aiman Mazyek said that granting one day during the month of Ramadan and another on the fast-breaking day of Eid al-Fitr would be “an important sign of integration” and “would emphasize tolerance in our society.”
The proposal was not well received. Wolfgang Bosbach, a member of parliament for the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), told WAZ that he sees “far and wide no need” for the legal recognition of Muslim holidays, adding that Germany has “no Muslim tradition.” The current public holidays—such as Christmas and Easter—are part of a Christian-Western heritage, Bosbach said.
Also in April, Bavaria became the first state in Germany to classify so-called Islamophobes as extremists. The Bavarian branch of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, also began monitoring German activists accused of fomenting hate against Muslims due to their “unconstitutional” opposition to the construction of a mega-mosque in Munich.
The move to silence critics of the mosque was announced by Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann in a press conference on April 12, and represented an unprecedented threat to the exercise of free speech in post-reunification Germany.
Herrmann made the announcement while presenting an annual report about threats to democratic order in Germany. A seven-minute video of the press conference with subtitles in English can be viewed here.
Herrmann singled out Freedom Bavaria as well as the Munich branch of a highly popular free speech blog called Politically Incorrect (PI), which focuses on topics related to immigration, multiculturalism and Islam in Germany.
On April 28, a major research study on religious attitudes in Germany found that more than half of all Germans view Islam as a threat to their country and believe it does not belong in the Western world.
The findings confirm the results of dozens of other surveys, and reflect a growing divide between the views of ordinary Germans and those of Europe’s multicultural elites, who for decades have promoted mass immigration from Muslim countries.
The study, entitled “Religion Monitor 2013: Religiousness and Cohesion in Germany” (German and English), was produced by the Bertelsmann Foundation, one of the most influential think tanks and lobbying groups in Europe, and a strong proponent of “progressive” causes such as multiculturalism and global governance.
On April 29, the television news program RTL Extra (a 23-minute video of the RTL report can be viewed at YouTube here) explained how Muslim polygamists are being financially supported by German taxpayers.
Although polygamy is banned in Germany by Paragraph 1306 of the Civil Code and Paragraph 172 of the Penal Code, in practice these laws do not apply to Muslims.
The RTL report shows how Muslim men residing in Germany are taking advantage of the social welfare system by bringing two, three or four women from across the Muslim world to Germany, and then marrying them in the presence of an imam, a Muslim religious leader.
Although these polygamous marriages are not officially recognized by the German state—they are technically illegal and punishable by fines and imprisonment—the practice is commonplace among Muslims in all major German cities. In Berlin, for example, it is estimated that fully one-third of the Muslim men living in the Neukölln district of the city have two or more wives.
Once in Germany the women request social welfare benefits, including the cost of a separate home for themselves and for their children, on the claim of being a “single parent with children.”
The RTL report says that even though the welfare fraud committed by Muslim immigrants is an “open secret” costing German taxpayers millions of euros each year, government agencies are reluctant to take action due to political correctness.
In May, a major conference on German-Muslim relations ended in failure after Muslims attending the event refused to acknowledge the government’s concerns about the threats to security posed by radical Islam.
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich had wanted the eighth annual German Islam Conference, held in Berlin on May 7, to focus on finding ways the government could work together with “moderate” Muslims in Germany to combat Islamism and extremism.
But Muslims attending the gathering were apparently offended by the insinuation that Islam could be radical or violent, and demanded instead that the German government take steps to make “Islam equal to Christianity” in Germany.
In June, an appeals court in northwestern Germany decided a contentious divorce case based on Islamic Sharia law. The ruling was one of a growing number of court cases in Germany in which judges refer or defer to Islamic law because either the plaintiffs or the defendants are Muslim.
Critics say the cases—especially those in which German law has taken a back seat to Sharia law—reflect a dangerous encroachment of Islamic law into the German legal system.
The Appeals Court [Oberlandesgericht] in Hamm, a city in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, ruled on June 2 that whoever marries according to Islamic law in a Muslim country and later seeks a divorce in Germany must abide by the original terms set forth by Sharia law.
The case involved a 23-year-old Iranian woman who married a 31-year-old Iranian man in Iran according Sharia law in 2009. The couple later immigrated to the German city of Essen, gave birth to a daughter but then separated in 2011. A lower court in Essen granted the woman a divorce in November 2012 and the husband appealed the decision.
The appeals court in Hamm sided with the woman because, according to the German judge, the couple agreed to abide by the principles of Sharia law at the time they were married and thus the case should be decided according to Islamic law, regardless of whether the couple was now living in Germany.
The court ruled that the woman was legally entitled to talaq, an Islamic means of obtaining a divorce by reciting the phrase “I divorce you” three times. The court also said the husband had violated the original terms of the Islamic marriage agreement by failing to provide financial support for his wife for a period of six months.
In a similar but separate case in April 2013, the appeals court in Hamm overturned a previous decision by a lower court in Dortmund and ordered an Iranian man to pay his estranged wife (also an Iranian) the equivalent of 800 gold coins as part of a divorce settlement.
That case involved a couple who were married in Iran in 2001, immigrated to Dortmund and later obtained German citizenship. The couple separated in 2007.
As part of the marriage agreement, the husband had promised his wife a dower of 800 Bahar Azadi gold coins payable upon demand. The court ordered the husband to pay €213,000 ($280,000), the current equivalent value of the coins, in compliance with a marriage contract he signed in accordance with Islamic law, even though both individuals are now German citizens.
Also in June, a Turkish mosque in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia began sounding public calls to prayer from an outdoor loudspeaker system mounted on the roof of the edifice.
The Fatih Camii Mosque in Wipperfürth, a factory town situated 40 kilometers (25 miles) north-east of Cologne, began publicly calling the Muslim faithful to prayer during a formal “muezzin-induction ceremony” on June 21 attended by local and foreign dignitaries, including the Turkish consul.
The Fatih Camii Mosque—run by the Turkish-Islamic Union for Islamic Affairs (DITIB), a branch of the Turkish government that controls over 900 mosques in Germany—received municipal approval for a muezzin publicly to call Muslims to the mosque for prayer five times a day after Mayor Michael von Rekowski said he wanted to show the world that Wipperfürth “takes pride in being an intercultural and interreligious community.”
At the request of the mayor, leaders of the Wipperfürth mosque met with representatives of the Protestant and Catholic churches in town to “integrate” the timing of the Muslim prayer calls into the traditional schedule for the ringing of church bells.
On June 11, the head of Germany’s federal agency for domestic intelligence, Hans-Georg Maaßen, presented the annual intelligence report for 2012. Among many items of interest, the 450-page report states that 30 Islamist groups were active in Germany during 2012. The number of estimated Islamists jumped to 42,550, up from 38,080 in 2011.
The report also shows that Hezbollah is using mosques and other Islamic organizations in Germany to raise funds for the terrorist group’s activities in Lebanon. The report also shows a steady increase of Hezbollah operatives in Germany: 950 in 2012, up from 900 in 2010.
On June 25, German police foiled an Islamist terror plot to use remote-controlled airplanes filled with explosives as guided missiles. Nearly 100 police raided homes in the German states of Bavaria, Baden-Wurttemberg and Saxony. Two of the suspected plotters were students in the aeronautics department at the University of Stuttgart, who were developing systems for using GPS to guide pilotless aircraft, according to the German public broadcaster SWR.
Meanwhile, the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt and the Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen opened a joint center for Islamic theology. The center is the fourth taxpayer-funded department of Islamic theology in Germany.
In addition to the center in Frankfurt/Giessen, Islamic theology departments have also recently opened at universities in Tübingen (January 2012), Erlangen/Nürnberg (September 2012) and Münster/Osnabrück (October 2012).
Islamic theology courses at German universities are so popular that they are “changing the German religious landscape,” according to the news service Deutsche Welle.
German Education Minister Annette Schavan says the Islamic centers are a “milestone for integration” for the 4.3 million Muslims who now live in Germany. She says Germany has a demand for more than 2,000 Islam teachers, who are needed to instruct more than 700,000 Muslim children.
The German government claims that by controlling the curriculum, the schools, which are to train Muslim imams and Islamic religion teachers, will function as an antidote to “hate preachers.” Most imams currently in Germany are from Turkey and many of them do not speak German.
But the idea has been criticized by those who worry that the Islamic centers will become a gateway for Islamists who will introduce a hardline brand of Islam into the German university system.
In July, Muslim mobs ushered in the beginning of Ramadan with three nights of rioting in Hamburg. The unrest began on the evening of July 12 when more than 150 Muslim youths attacked police and burned cars in Altona, the westernmost district of Hamburg. More than 100 riot police were deployed to restore order. An 11-minute video of the Hamburg unrest, with cries of “Allahu Akbar!” (“Allah is Greater!) can be viewed here on YouTube.
Also in July, the German news agency Deutsche Welle reported that German military canteens have adapted to Ramadan and altered their menus to provide Muslim soldiers with foods that are prepared according to Islamic Sharia law.
According to Deutsche Welle, army canteens are better equipped than many other large kitchens to prepare food for Muslim and non-Muslim soldiers separately: “The cooks use separate forks and ladles and make sure that the meat is stored separately. And if we grill together, the cooks always have some aluminum foil with them, so that the turkey breast doesn’t touch the bacon.”
In August, a gang of Islamic radicals in Eisenhüttenstadt, a German city near the border of Poland, attacked a young Muslim couple for violating the Ramadan fast.
During the incident, at least ten Chechen jihadists broke into an apartment at the asylum seekers facility in Eisenhüttenstadt and beat the couple, who are refugees from Chechnya, to the point that the woman suffered a miscarriage. According to local police, Chechen gangs have a history of enforcing Islamic Sharia law in the city.
In September, the state of Lower Saxony signed a preliminary “state treaty” with local Muslim representatives to recognize Islam as an official religion. The document, dated September 30, addresses 30 specific grievances presented by the Muslim community, which constitutes around 7% of the overall population of the state.
“A mutual skepticism has occurred in the past and our government wishes to show its respect to the Muslims with this treaty,” according to the minister-president of Lower Saxony, Stephen Weil. Similar “treaties” have also been signed in Bremen and Hamburg.
On September 11, judges at the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ordered a Muslim schoolgirl to take part in mixed-sex swimming lessons. Her parents had insisted that the girl, 13, not take part in swimming lessons at her school in Frankfurt because she felt “uncomfortable” swimming with “bare chested” boys near her. She either wanted to be allowed to skip the lessons or be given special instruction on her own.
The court ruled that the “social reality of life in Germany comes above her religious beliefs,” and ordered her to attend swimming lessons wearing a full-body-covering garment known as a “burkini” in order to accommodate her beliefs.
On September 19, a dispute in Berlin over efforts by multiculturalists to ban Christmas was resolved after Mayor Klaus Wowereit stepped in to declare that Christmas is still legal. A row erupted after the left-leaning Green Party in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin announced that the traditional Christmas markets that have taken place in the neighborhood for generations would henceforth be held under the religiously-neutral term “Winterfest.” Muslims make up roughly one-third of the population in Kreuzberg. Wowereit said he had received complaints about the ban from angry people all across Germany and said the dispute had harmed Berlin’s reputation.
Meanwhile, the first Desert Flower Center was opened in Berlin in cooperation with the hospital Waldfriede. The center is the first medical facility in Europe to offer comprehensive treatment for victims of female genital mutilation. Around 50,000 women in Germany are affected by FGM, 20,000 of whom live in Berlin.
The German parliament recently redefined FGM as a criminal offense in its own right, punishable with a jail term of up to 15 years. Previously, it fell under the grievous bodily harm category, with sentencing restricted to a maximum of ten years.
In October, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported that 200 German Islamists fighting against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad have gathered in northern Syria and established their own camp, known as the “German Camp.” The war-torn country is currently “by far the most attractive location for jihadists,” according to a classified intelligence document that was leaked to the magazine.
According to Der Spiegel, the 71-page document sheds light on the extent to which Germany’s Muslim population is supporting the Syrian jihadists. Humanitarian aid charities and fundraisers have amassed hundreds of thousands of euros in what intelligence agencies dub “trigger events,” where imams collect funds for weapons acquisitions and call on young men to join the jihad.
The newspaper Die Welt said that German security services are increasingly concerned that the fighters will return to Germany more radicalized after potentially receiving terror training from Al-Qaeda and Islamic groups in the country.
In November, the Marzahn-Hellersdorf Adult Education Center in eastern Berlin sparked a nationwide debate after it removed a series of six nude paintings out of deference to Muslim immigrants. Critics said the decision was an overzealous bid at cultural sensitivity.
School officials feared the works may shock Muslim students and prevent them from attending class. The school is located nearby a newly established refugee center, which draws immigrants and asylum-seekers to the neighborhood.
In December, a new study found that the majority of Muslims in Europe believe Islamic Sharia law should take precedence over the secular constitutions and laws of their European host countries.
The “Six Country Immigrant Integration Comparative Survey”—a five-year study of Moroccan and Turkish immigrants in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Holland and Sweden—was published on December 11 by the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, one of the largest social science research institutes in Europe.
According to the study (German and English), which was funded by the German government, two thirds (65%) of the Muslims interviewed say Islamic Sharia law is more important to them than the laws of the country in which they live.
Three quarters (75%) of the respondents hold the opinion that there is only one legitimate interpretation of the Koran, which should apply to all Muslims, and nearly 60% of Muslims believe their community should return to “Islamic roots.”
The survey shows that 44% of the Moroccans and Turks interviewed agree with all three of the above statements, which makes them “consistent fundamentalists,” and fundamentalist attitudes are just as widespread among younger Muslims as they are among older Muslims.
In a commentary on the study, the German newspaper Die Welt said the findings cast serious doubt upon the unbridled optimism of European multiculturalists, who argue that Muslim citizens will eventually internalize the liberal democratic mindset of Western society.
“The data are not suitable for simple conclusions,” the paper writes. “But it must be recognized: democracies must beware of those who believe a free society is something that needs to be vanquished.”
Also in December, a discussion paper (German and English) published by the Berlin-based Gustav Stresemann Foundation—a think tank dedicated to the preservation and advancement of liberal democracy in Europe—warns that national and international Islamic organizations are increasingly putting pressure on Western politicians gradually to criminalize any critique of Islam.
The author of the report, the German political scientist Felix Strüning, provides a meticulously detailed analysis of the Islamic lobbying effort—by means of a “human rights lawsuit”—to silence Thilo Sarrazin, a prominent German banker who has criticized the refusal of Muslim immigrants to integrate into German society.
Strüning writes that German political authorities are increasingly bending to pressure from German Islamic organizations by adopting Muslim definitions of “Islamophobia” in public discourse, thus creating legal uncertainty as to “who can say what about Islam and Muslims in Germany.”
“Critics of Islamic ideology and its organizations are constantly confronted with lawsuits and have to legally defend themselves against the accusations of blasphemy or incitement-to-hatred,” Strüning writes. “Even if it does not come to a conviction, such processes cost a lot of time and money, which in many cases includes one’s reputation and possibly even his or her job. Thus, also in the West, we are experiencing an increasing de facto application of Islamic law in matters of Islam.”
Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. <<
The "Gathering Storm" of Naziism that was rumbling in the year that I was born in the mid-Thirties and the subsequent war that required much blood and treasure for Western Civilisation, spanned about a decade – and we won – allegedly!
The current war on Western Civilisation – both overt and covert – by the Unholy (temporary) Alliance of Communism and Islam has been waged ever since and was, indeed, being waged during the Gathering Storm and WWII.
We have been, and are, losing it comprehensively and, I fear, irrevocably. This is further evidenced by the whoops of victory by Ali Khamenei yesterday in a speech to the faithful. claiming a rout in the 'negotiations' with the arch-idiot John Kerry.
Meanwhile Jimmy Savile is still dead.
Btw the links to other articles and reports which Kern based this seminal report are highlighted on the Gatestone blog ( inclkuded on our blogroll) and can be clicked up there – the highlights failed to transfer over when I cut and pasted it.
This bibliography is useful; he’s a very busy boy:
http://kern.pundicity.com/articles/
Coming home from New South Wales to Wales.
Amazing. This guy rode through some of the poorest, most dangerous countries in the world only to get robbed at home!
Full story: http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Round-world-motorcyclist-bike-stolen-Langland/story-20440253-detail/story.html
“Meanwhile Jimmy Savile is still dead.”
I thought he’d been spotted, along with Michael Jackson, working in a chippy in Swansea.
EC@January 15th, 2014 – 12:32
Don’t be daft. that’s Elvis!
Alexsandr – 10:47
Maybe you can get your cash back by selling your loans, but at what price, and to whom?
If Kern didn’t alert you to the existential threat, then let Alex Boot try from another angle:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/osborne-doesn%E2%80%99t-mean-it-way-it-sounds
I repeat: idiots, traitors and perverts!
Who nicked Martin Williams’s bike?
(a) Jimmy Savile
(b) Bogus Fergus
(c) Owen Jones?
and so it goes on:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-25679982
RobertC@January 15th, 2014 – 12:43
Funding circle & funding knight both have a part of their websites dedicated to the buying and selling of loans. The sites charge a small fee for this, and the seller can put a premium (negative on if he wants) so he gets a different price to the face value of the loan -if he sells it.
Of course you cant sell loans when they are late or in default.
Probably best you go on their website and read ‘how it works’
Peter from Maidstone
January 15th, 2014 – 11:21
And if Verity makes it here for a pilot visit I am some of us would wish to arrange a meeting somewhere appropriate to express our support and friendship.
Most certainly! Feel I know you already, Verity.
Alexsandr
January 15th, 2014 – 11:29
Anne Wotana Kaye 1@January 15th, 2014 – 11:05
Landlords view pets and children as a problem because they often leave the property at the end of a lease with repairs to be done. Especially if the property is furnished.True, but it is a case of poor training by ignorant and selfish pet owners. The same types as have uncontrollable children. Also, pets do not get drunk and wreck property, nor do they play loud music and raise hell. Many landlords are selfish and greedy, they get what they deserve.
And still the establishment bangs on about how immigration is good for us, these people are not out of touch, they are perfectly aware of how we view these matters, they simply do not care a damn for out opinions. But we have been here before, there is nothing new under the sun. In ancient Rome it was called panem et circusi. The populares were given the corn dole and lots of free entertainments. Successful charioteers became multi millionaires and all the work was done by countless legions of slaves. Fast forward to modern Britain. Large sections of the people live on the dole and are entertained by the likes of Coronation Street, footballers are millionaires and millions of immigrants are imported to do the work the natives are to idle to perform. Things do not change much do they?
Thank you from the bottom of my heart AWK, but I cannot afford to take a test triip across the Atlantic and then back again with three cats. It is very expensive, and the law says that microchipped pets with a veterinarian’s certificate and an anti-rabies microchip is what is required. But the government, probably at the behest of the quarantine companies, completely ignores this EU law.
Peter from M 11:21 – Thank you for your kindly message. This is breaking my heart. Medical care in Mexico is not up to standard and at my age, I am better off in Britain, but they are breaking EU law regarding cats who have been given legitimae rabies tests and, if cound clear, vaccinated against rabies and microchipped. Cats who have been microchipped and vaccinated cannot catch rabies. Yet it seems that “quarantine facilities” won’t let go and are more powerful than governments. A cat who has been vaccinated against rabies and microchipped cannot catch rabies.
I am at my wits’ end. The government is breaking the law. I have had my cats vaccinated against rabies for five years now, and they are microchipped. Even if they were bitten or scratched by a cat with rabies, it could not possibly transmit rabies to them.
Who are these kennel owners paying off?
Can anyone call their MP for me? If I had a letter from an MP to show at the border, it may help.
Otherwise, I will have to apply to go to Canada, and I don’t know if I qualify, giiven the high cost of living. Or perhaps Spain or Belgium where EU laws will be applied.
Can anyone help me getting my three vaccinated and microchipped cats back to my own country?
Thank you.
Alexandr (13:10)
A quote from the proceedings:
“Jurors were warned they would hear “very graphic descriptions” of what allegedly happened to the girls, and they would have to put their emotions and sympathies to one side during the trial.”
Heaven forfend that anybody should FEEL anger or disgust towards our barbaric Muslin invaders. That might lead to ‘guilty’ verdicts and not be at all conducive to community cohesion.
One wonders whether it’s possible to find a jury in Peterborough that isn’t already riddled with the bastards.
PS -. I have written to MPs, and they all spout the (illegal) government line.
I want to come home, to my own people but I cannot leave my beloved pets, who have done nothing wrong, behind to the horrors of the over-crowded cat kennels here. And they love me and trust me and I love them. I am desperate.
Andy Car Park (13:04)
“Who nicked Martin William’s bike?”
An off duty Police Federation spokesman insisted today that it was:
(d) Andrew Mitchell.
Moreover, he witnessed him doing it … allegedly.
The videos of the theft, taken at the time, are inconclusive as the quality is very grainy due to the Welsh mist.
My naughty niece suddenly has either become an homoeopathy devotee, or joined the ranks of the Procter & Gamble sales team. Dunno which – I report, you decide:
“From an American friend:
Vicks VapoRub – VERY INTERESTING!
During a lecture on Essential Oils, they told us how the foot soles can absorb oils. Their example: Put garlic on your feet and within 20 minutes you can ‘taste’ it.
Some of us have used Vicks VapoRub for years for everything from chapped lips to sore feet. But I’ve never heard of this. And don’t laugh, it works 100% of the time, although the scientists who discovered it aren’t sure why. To stop night time coughing in a child (or adult as we have discovered personally), put Vicks VapoRub generously on the soles of your feet, cover with socks, and the heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. Works 100% of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly.
Just happened to tune in A.M. Radio and picked up this bloke talking about why cough medicines in kids often do more harm than good, due to the chemicals in them.
This method of using Vicks VapoRub on the soles of the feet was found to be more effective than prescribed medicines for children at bed time. In addition it seems to have a soothing and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly.
My wife tried it on herself when she had a very deep constant and persistent cough a few weeks ago and it worked 100%! She said that it felt like a warm blanket had enveloped her, coughing stopped in a few minutes. So she went from; every few seconds uncontrollable coughing, she slept cough-free for hours every night she used it.
If you have grandchildren, pass this on. If you end up sick, try it yourself and you will be amazed at how it works.
DON’T SHUN THIS ONE … TRY IT THE NEXT TIME YOU GET A LICKLE TITTLE IN THE FROAT. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO LOSE ~ ONLY YOUR COUGH …. “
Verity
January 15th, 2014 – 13:38
Verity, I really feel for you, but I did say leave the cats at home with a trusted and good friend whilst you look around. The NHS here frankly stinks. I had surgery, and my old vet would have made a better job of it. I was placed in a ward where a woman with MRCA infection was touching everything including the loos and shower! Came here too old to take out private insurance, and despite paying a fortune into the NHS it is a waste of money. Have medical friends who went to Canada and are very satisfied. Cheaper medical care than the States but well organised. Also good reports from France, and further afield, Australia. Verity, please keep calm and don’t let this become a source of constant misery. Easy for me to say, but no other way is possible. G-d bless you and be strong.
Andy Car Park (13:04)
“Who nicked Martin William’s bike?”
(e) Neil Kinnock (with Glenys “riding bitch”)
(f) Julia Gillard (with Kevin Rudd “riding bitch”)
(g) Stephen Kinnock. A sure thing for Aberavon, the coat-tailing little shit.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/14/labour-stephen-kinnock-aberavon-welsh-candidacy-election
Frank P, January 15th, 2014 – 15:12
Re: Vicks Vapour Rub
Only a woman could have written that:!:
It should surely come with the same dire warnings as did Veet for ?men 😯
A crime prevention tip:
Soak your bike saddle in Vicks Vapo Rub. It’s proven to send bicycle thieves into a deep sleep with thirty yards and even caused a famous Tour de France winner to shout, “Fuck the Queen” after melting the crutch of his lycra shorts.
… She, being the Lady that she is (or or pig ignorant of the characters of those on her Honours List) merely retorted by saying, “Arise Sir Wiggers”.
Wall commencing 30 May 2012 really is a work of art. Not only is Bogus Fergus called for an impostor by everybody who’s anybody but there is a hitherto overlooked blinder by Austin Barry. The two minimal but eye-catching parts only achieve their impact when read together (a ‘blogpost bikini’).
May 6th, 2012 – 23:15
Well, I suppose to Paddick ‘husband’ is a synonym for ‘bender’ or perhaps ‘pillow biter’. It really is hard not to laugh at this nonsense. Has the world gone bonkers or have we?
May 6th, 2012 – 23:18
That should of course have been a synonym for ‘wife’. My apologies to ‘benders’ and ‘pillow biters’ everywhere.
EC (15:35)
Spot on! One can only hope that at some stage there will be a mix-up at the Pharma factory and someone will substitute Vapo Rub into the KY Jelly production line. Or perhaps that would just add to the excitement, come to think of it (so to speak).
“Mother stopped as she walked along promenade by police after someone called 999 to report that her daughter might be COLD”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2539872/Police-confront-mother-baby-called-999-report-child-COLD.html
A creeping police state. “Papers please ❗ “
Andy Car Park (15:52)
Pass! 🙂
see HMG is pissing our money on the mid east again 🙁
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25743571
Verity at 13-38
It seems that before travel you need to get a certificate which is valid for TEN days only.
This can be found at the link below (updated on 2 Jan 2014).
`Third country official veterinary certificate` (as from 1 Jan 2012).
`Annex 2 certificate`for non commercial movement of up to 5 pets.
Valid for entry into the EU for 10 days from the date of issue.
There is a link to a form that can be down-loaded.
If there are any problems it probably should be taken up with an MEP.
https://www.gov.uk/pet-travel-information-for-pet-owners
Radford Ng – Thank you. I will try to figure this out.
Herbert Thornton – are you anywhere around? I am considering moving to Canada as I have a valid British passport. But don’t know where to start.
Verity
See http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/index.asp
And now for something completely different:
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/putin-vs-obama-pictorial-comparisons-t12846.html
For a lengthy interview with the poet John Whitworth(aka the real Fergus Pickering and Phoebe Flood) conducted in 2002 by a Romanian;see-
http://www.lidiaviana.scriptmania.com/john_whitworth.htm
The above link has disappeared.Itwas available via google.
Verity
You could try immigrationdirect.ca to find out about going to Canada
Radford – Here it is and it’s bloody interminable. The egos on these arty types …
http://www.e-scoala.ro/lidiavianu/poets_john_whitworth.html
Frank P 16:03
Khyber Pass, more like!
This must be a country filled with sex maniacs. Not the land of my youth, where decency and good manners were the norm. Not only do we have our own home-grown nutters, the huge moslem contingent and other scum, but now we have Romas who state they cannot speak English. “Judge John Bevan QC said: “Because some of the defendants do not speak good enough English, despite having lived here a long time, three interpreters have worked full time during this case, at a cost of over £30,000.”
Read this on the BBC website. We are really being taken for a ride by these untermenschen, and how I wish we could destroy them as the mad dogs they truly are.
Anne Wotana Kaye 1
January 15th, 2014 – 17:59
This must be a country filled with sex maniacs
Yesterday we had wall to wall:
Rolf Harris
William Roach
Dave Lee Travis
And today:
“Two men and three teenage boys have been found guilty of a series of rapes and sexual assaults in Peterborough.
Zdeno Mirga, 18, Hassan Abdulla, 33, and three boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were convicted at the Old Bailey.
The group targeted five teenage girls and are due to be sentenced on 20 February.
Mirga’s brother Dusan, 20, David Ziga, 19, and a fourth teenager were acquitted.
One of the group’s victims, referred to in court as Victim A, was a 13-year-old girl with a severe learning disability.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it was “one of worst cases of child sexual abuse we’ve seen”.
“If the Greens get into power they’ll turn RED faster than a frog in a blender.”
Kelvin MacKenzie
United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.
http://www.thegwpf.org/climate-chief-communism-fight-global-warming/
Well, whaddya know? She went to the LSE !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiana_Figueres
Yup, sounds like we have a gen-u-ine “Heldin Der Arbeit” here! Who love ya baby? Not me!
My favourite bit in the Wiki article was: “A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (October 2010)” Bwahahahahaha, come back Korski – oh how I miss you!
Bogus Fergus – You ain’t no substitute for Korski!
Fergus Pickering @ 18:43
Quite right, Fergus, to point to the case, as is Anne with the obscenity of the interpreting service for the Roma villains.
And why shouldn’t others do the same? The culprits will get few years if that, will be out to rape again, the whole myriads of agencies of the State, charities, other suckers leaching on the public purse similar or identical those ‘missed’ it will appear on the scene, comfort the villains, caress them, arselick them….. until they or others totally undeterred by the laughingly lenient punishment do it again, and so it goes, a case after case after case.
It’s not a sick country, it’s a country run by the the sick, the perverts, the deluded.
EC @ 9:01
Had Adolf been buried, someone could have dug him up, he would have been better still than the Mandarin speaking commies. How stupid of him, he would have loved the job.
When John Denver composed and sang “Rocky Mountain High” I’m certain that he wasn’t talkin’ ’bout reefers!
Andy Car Park @ 17:28
Funny that the author of the verse “the poems are all failures, never/Quite what I meant….” castigates rhymes but slips a couple in.
And the “Birthday present” poem? Well, the kid follows the advice (except perhaps for the warning to avoid the Guardian for it’s the one of the papers that would endorse most of the advice), and turns into an illiterate moron claiming benefits.
Expanding on Soeren Kern’s research, here is a video of Clare Lopez being interviewed by World Free Press about the cult of Islam and its intentions – and its collusion with the Soviets. It was recorded almost two years ago but is prescient in its content. Only 380 people have watched this video, which just goes to show ho disinterested hoi poloi is in the perils that engulf them
It also pre-dates the death of Hugo Chavez, who is mentioned. Which reminds us that no matter how bad the bastards become, the Reaper gets them all eventually.
Sadly, the parallel ideologies seem to survive regardless; just as the gullibility of Western Civilization seems to have no bounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWI05ySZzQ8
You won’t be seeing Clare Lopez interviewed by the MSM any time soon.
Will it ever stop pissing, the weather? It has been 6 months of an almost uninterrupted watery deluge. Baron’s fed up with it.
With all the foolish concern about vaccinated animals still being capable of spreading rabies, etc., how come this insane government allows carriers of AIDS, T.B. leprosy and other horrible diseases carte blanche in polluting our country? I am not even counting the unknown number of cannibals who are possibly swarming in, machetes at the ready to violate the native population.
“Will it ever stop pissing, the weather? It has been 6 months of an almost uninterrupted watery deluge. Baron’s fed up with it.”
Then don’t move to Yorkshire, Baron. That’s the way they like it up there.
🙂
Baron (20:19)
It has been the sunniest, mildest January I have ever known; you’ve chosen the wrong patch. Luck of the draw on these quirky islands.
Pretty miserable here in Kent. The Medway burst its banks like I haven’t seen since I was a small boy
Frank P @ 22:30
And how is food in the Canary Islands, Frank, as good as the weather?
The man’s getting better and better:
http://bogpaper.com/russell-taylor-the-lefts-lifeboat-logic/
EC 15th, – 16:03
“Ausweise bitte!”
Baron 15th, – 20:19
“Will it ever stop pissing, the weather?”
Well, ectually, up norf (that’s proper up norf, 100 miles norf of Yorkshire, but still in England!) it hasn’t been that bad…yes, it’s been wet but our usual signs of wholly saturated ground haven’t yet shown. Compared with the lashing rain of previous winters it’s a gentle, typical mizzle out there tonight.
Not pissing in Manchester.
Just saying.
Baron, January 15th, 2014 – 23:05
“And how is food in the Canary Islands, Frank, as good as the weather?”
Variable, but eat local.
I spent all last winter in Holland and it was bloody awful – the food and the weather! Gastronomically, the whole country should be twinned with a Glaswegian chippy. (Very friendly people the Dutch but I couldn’t understand, given the diet, how they were all so tall and thin)
This year, weather-wise, Surrey has been twinned with wild west Cumbria!
h/t Pat Condell (@patcondell)
“More “cultural diversity” as gender-based abortion comes to Britain. Am I allowed to be offended, or is that racist?”
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/britains-ethnic-communities-have-high-rates-of-illegal-abortion-of-female-foetuses-9060694.html
Baron@January 15th, 2014 – 20:19
Pissistant rain, eh?
EC@January 16th, 2014 – 07:44
Try Belgium then. All they seem to eat is moules et frites. And carpet burger from a chain called ‘Quick’.
Still they have loads of beer so they probably don’t notice.
AWK
“…I am not even counting the unknown number of cannibals who are possibly swarming in, machetes at the ready to violate the native population.”
Yup, wouldn’t one give an arm and a leg to stop it?
Alexsandr
January 16th, 2014 – 09:15
Some of the worst culinary offerings I have ever seen. They can’t make decent coffee, forget about tea. When I ordered a hot chocolate, in despair, they gave me a cup of foamy hot milk and a plate of chocolate smarties. Ugh! The moules et frites were disgusting.
Noa
January 16th, 2014 – 10:29
As a chav would say “They do my head in”!
One redeeming feature of the belgys is on the coast round Ostend, when you order a coffee you get a small glass of advocaat to go with it, with some foamy cream on the top and a teaspoon to eat it with.
One caff gave me a tiny cup cake too, all for 1 euro. But that was 2001
Then a nation that calls cream ‘slagroom’ cant be all bad.
Almost 108 Fahrenheit in Australia and so the tennis is suspended.
Alexsandr January 16th, 2014 – 10:59
“One redeeming feature of the belgys is on the coast round Ostend, when you order a coffee you get a small glass of advocaat to go with it, with some foamy cream on the top and a teaspoon to eat it with.”
In the posher coffee bars in Amsterdam they give a small glass of Kahlua also with cream on the top.
OK, if everybody is pissed at the weather how about a bit of comedy?
File under: towelheads
Laurel & Hardy in “Beau Hunks”, 1931 (aka Beau Chumps)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_1_NH1U0l8
If you don’t like L&H, or can’t take the full 35 mins of them, then skip forward to 31 minutes to see how L&H foil the attack by the Riff-raff on the desert fort. It is, imho, one of the funniest scenes in cinema.
Anne Wotana Kaye 1 January 16th, 2014 – 10:39
“Ugh! The moules et frites were disgusting.”
Oh but the Herring is wonderful but not with chips.
David Ossitt
January 16th, 2014 – 11:58
David, herrings are my favourite fish, better than salmon and all the dearer fish. Equal to halibut and turbot. I love the roes too, but fresh ones (not frozen) are hard to find today. When I was last in Belgium, I found a wonderful fish market in Ostend, but the horrible cafes ignore the fine offerings and just push moules upon us.
Precipitation in sight.
Manchester.
Who hung the monkey?
Andy Car Park January 16th, 2014 – 15:11
“Who hung the monkey?”
The Monkey Hanging Story
The monkey-hanging legend is the most famous story connected with Hartlepool. During the Napoleonic Wars a French ship was wrecked off the Hartlepool coast.
During the Napoleonic Wars there was a fear of a French invasion of Britain and much public concern about the possibility of French infiltrators and spies.
The fishermen of Hartlepool fearing an invasion kept a close watch on the French vessel as it struggled against the storm but when the vessel was severely battered and sunk they turned their attention to the wreckage washed ashore. Among the wreckage lay one wet and sorrowful looking survivor, the ship’s pet monkey dressed to amuse in a military style uniform.
The fishermen apparently questioned the monkey and held a beach-based trial. Unfamiliar with what a Frenchman looked like they came to the conclusion that this monkey was a French spy and should be sentenced to death. The unfortunate creature was to die by hanging, with the mast of a fishing boat (a coble) providing a convenient gallows.
Anne Wotana Kaye 1 January 16th, 2014 – 13:26
“David, herrings are my favourite fish,”
Hello Anne I love them dipped into oatmeal and then fried in butter, or soused and cooked in the oven or as pickled rollmops, unfortunately my beloved is not too keen but she will serve them for both of us as kippers.
By the bye, I love mussels but unfortunately they make me very ill.
EC
January 14th, 2014 – 19:28
“I know several people, some in their eighties, who have had replacement knees and/or hips. The general consensus in those that have had both is that hips are “a doddle” compared to knees. (i.e. the recovery time is much shorter)”
Hello David. Don’t know about hips, but I had a knee replacement operation 2 months ago (will have the other knee done in a few weeks). Speaking to the anaesthetist after the op, he told me that replacing hips is an easier and much less painful procedure than knees. I am still getting painful twinges even after 8 weeks and am not looking forward to having the other knee done but I know the results probably justify the nasty business of being semi-disabled for months. A friend has had both his hips replaced a few years ago and has been absolutely fine ever since. When I had the initial X-rays I was hoping it would be my hips rather than my knees that needed replacing, but no such “luck”. For myself, I used crutches for about 3 weeks, and now just use a stick. Walking is OK but getting up from a low seat is hell. 🙁
David Ossitt
January 16th, 2014 – 16:15
Delicious fried in butter! I don’t like them pickled, but my husband does. They are very good as Shmaltz Herring (found in Jewish delis). David, in my youth I tried mussels on a day out at Southend on Sea. Then went to the old Kersel, and went on the dodgem cars. Don’t know whether it was the cars or the mussels, but I was very ill!
Lesley C., January 16th, 2014 – 17:10
Sounds like you are doing OK for 8 weeks.
When the new knee starts to hurt less than the old one things become rapidly better!
(also the exercises they give you to do are a must)
My chum who has had both knees done had at least 6+ months between the ops. He said that the second one was easier.
A cerebral review of Mark Steyn’s book “America Alone” with very good commentary thereafter:
http://elusivewapiti.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/book-review-america-alone.html
Seems there is a solution to the existential threat that faces the West, provided our young men take up the battle with their pork swords. The answer is demographical.
Too late, of course, for all us old codgers, the Wallsters, who all seem to be cursed with dodgy claret, crumbling fish ‘n’ chips and/or biscuits and cheese, but at least we can yell encouragement to the lusty lads who still have ink in their pens. Get breeding fellas! Your country needs the fruit of your loins.
And so the trial of William Roache continues; on tonight’s BBC News we are told that the witness was speaking behind a screen for her protection and to hide her identity.
We are also told that she claims that Roache when she was sixteen raped her at the bungalow that was then his home and that sometime later he again raped her at a house that he had moved to in the interim.
The BBC news went on to say that as a result of the Saville enquiry she mentioned to her son (she is now in her sixties) that Roach had raped her and it was he who persuaded her to inform the police.
Why is her identity, kept secret?
Why is she and presumably all of the others who are bringing charges being allowed anonymity?
If any of these people have tried first to profit by selling their ‘story’ to the press, we might never know.
If any have colluded with each other we might never know.
If any were with friends who might tell a different story this will never come out.
If any have a past history of crying rape we might well never know.
This is shabby justice; Roache is visible to all in court, virtually the whole country is aware of the charges against him, he, his honour, reputation and liberty are challenged but his accusers are kept a secret.
This reminds me of a time when one of my staff made complaints about me by letter, not to my line manager but to her line manager. As a result I was called into the office to answer to her boss but with my boss present at the meeting, I was asked to give an account but when I asked to read the letter first, my request was denied when I then asked my boss had she read the letter I was told by her boss that she had not nor would she be shown the letter.
I told her line manager where to stick this letter and that the interview was over, I never heard another word.
Anne Wotana Kaye 1 January 16th, 2014 – 17:17
“Don’t know whether it was the cars or the mussels, but I was very ill!”
It was the mussels, you can count on it!
ACP
“Who hung the monkey?”
Dunno, but there seem to be far too many spanking it, if what Steyn augurs is correct.
David
You have my sympathies.
I am sick to death of the culture of anonymous whistleblowing being stoked up by the do gooders in the education, health and social service spheres.
If they have something to say they should put their name to it or shut t f up.
David Ossitt
January 16th, 2014 – 19:38
Sound odd that she went back for more. Her excuse, “she was naive”. Greedy, more like it! Also, would anybody confide in and discuss such a thing with their son? Ah well, All In The Family!
http://www.press-report.co.uk/clanek-9769224-army-medic-exposed-to-uraniu…
Army medic expos
What has Philip Hammond to say about this? Pity he and his cronies are protected from such problems.
AWK1 16th, – 20:15
“What has Philip Hammond to say about this?”
Not sure it’s Philip Hammond who should be answering, unless the issue is one of the soldier’s aftercare. Depleted Uranium was first used in anti-tank shells by the Yanks around 30 years ago (much heavier than lead, therefore far better penetration). Unfortunately, when the shell strikes and fractures, uranium dust flies everywhere. Not a problem, if it’s the enemy who is having to deal with it but, hey, if you’re planning to WIN this battle it’s YOUR troops that have to tidy up and take out the trash afterwards. The skewed thinking that existed when DU rounds were first deployed looked on DU as ‘the gift that keeps on giving’. They didn’t properly plan for the possibility that they might have to protect own troops.
Alexander 10:01 — No, no! Keeps us on our toes!
Ostrich (occasionally)
January 16th, 2014 – 20:53
Hammond is Minister of Defence. This unfortunate woman was an army medic, and in the course of her duties suffered. The MOD is surely responsible for her welfare, including paying for vital medical treatment. Not interested in whose shells they were, the concern is for the injured party. Are we returning to the ethos of World War I, when blinded and amputee servicemen sold matches on street corners?
Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline 2h)
“The Netherlands is the best place in the world to eat”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2540612/Which-country-healthiest-diet.html
HA !
Frank P January 16th, 2014 – 19:43
Here is a cautionary tale from the Spectator archive of a chap who spanked the monkey so hard he ended up in hospital.
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/28th-june-2003/16/self-abuse
AWK1 16th, – 21:05
“The MOD is surely responsible for her welfare, including paying for vital medical treatment.”
Indeed, but perhaps the problem would not have arisen if the deployment of DU rounds had been outlawed under the Geneva Convention, given the unseen (and undetectable, except by specialist equipment) mess they leave behind on battle fields. There is a precedent for this, with biological and chemical weapons.
As they pop Goggins in the ground, I’m still waiting for the DM to move on from one comment. Mine is clearly queued.
“Given the bile that flowed from the left on the death of Thatcher, I’m minded to comment in kind. Goggins is dead. Good, that’s one less socialist stealing oxygen.
Ostrich (occasionally)
January 17th, 2014 – 09:49
The main and only issue involved in my posting, is the rejection of help and support for somebody who served the military and as a result was severely injured. Heartbreaking that this young woman is left with the responsibility of raising funds that may give her a chance to live.
Ref. the Roach case. A woman claims she was raped twice. Once would be unfortunate, to go round for a second helping suggests she had acquired a taste for it. And why the anonymity, if she is prepared to sling crap then she should be prepare to do so in public.
On yesterdays news. An 84 year old man, suffering from dementia, dies in centre for illegals. Why in the name of almighty God was he allowed on a plane to this country in the first place? and why was he not turfed out on arrival? Being a cynical son of a bitch I would suggest he was sent here by his relations to avoid the cost of care in his own country, well tough, the World and it’s misfotu7nes are not our responsibility. When Cameron and his cohorts talk about reducing immigration I get so angry, the contempt they have for our intelligence would drive me to drink if I had not got there on my own volition years ago, as it is I have had to double the dose on my blood pressure medication.
Frank P, January 15th, 2014 – 11:50
Further to your post above, it is reported that in Germany aspiring little islamists are being encouraged by their mosque imam-ies to take time off from choking their own chickens in order to practice decapitating real ones – in case they ever meet a Jew.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4pT95hk2gg
When a speeding car hits a slower moving vehicle coming from the side, the speeding car’s driver often swears he didn’t see the vehicle coming from the left or right. He often isn’t lying even if the accident happened in broad daylight.
This phenomenon on the car drivers’ part is known as “Motion Induced Blindness”. Here you can see it for yourselves.
http://www.msf-usa.org/motion.html
Now to return to aggravations to my blood pressure. Lighting. It is impossible to get an old fashioned strength light bulb these days, with the result that at night I have difficulty in reading anything. Perhaps there is someone out there who could explain how condemning me to blunder about in the dark is going to save the Planet, especially as the Chinese and Indians, sensibly, could not give a stuff about such matters.
stephen maybery @ 13:09
Itmay not be for your liking, stephen, but either Lidl or Aldi often sell the bulbs, well, one of them has ssold them as recently as few months back. Baron has bough half a dozen, but only low wattages.
Baron,
Thanks very much, I will check them out.
stephen maybery – light bulbs
You can buy all the old type of bulbs you like on the internet – there are lots of sites but you can browse this one for starters
http://www.thelightbulb.co.uk/
stephen maybery – light bulbs
check out LED ones rather than the usual fluorescent tube ones.
far brighter, don’t take an age to get bright, but the light is a bit blue.
stephen maybery
I agree with Alesandr about LED lights for reading – I have one of those you’ve probably seen advertised in the Weekend Supplements sold by Serious Readers. excellent.
Or have a look at this site for old fashioned edison filament bulbs which look gorgeous around the house
http://historiclighting.co.uk
Many thanks to all for the advice on lighting. I have already spotted what I want. As I always say, you can rely on the wallers, even if we are a dying breed.
Andy Car Park (09:11)
Hmmm. I remember another Spectator stalwart, the diminutive, balding and bespectacled, Toby Young, writing a similar confession some time ago (not suggesting that those physical characteristics are as a result of his nocturnal flips ‘o’ert wrist – those could just be genetic).
But they do seem to have a penchant for onanism at The Barclay Bugle. I wonder if they encircle Frasier’s desk of a Wednesday evening and all do a ‘cross hands boogie’;
Wednesday night is Wanking Night
And Saturday Night is Spanking Night,
In Old Queen’s Street!
They could put that to music.
I wonder they blackballed me?
Frank P – Fraser Nelson is just a hair-flicking metrosexual creep who deserves a Berkeley Castle enema (known in C14 as a molten lead job). Trouble is, the little shit would probably enjoy it.
ACP @15:26
He has a very good radio hairdo though.
He loves the sound of his own voice, obviously oblivious to his irritating nasal problem. I wonder if he takes anything for it?
https://audioboo.fm/boos/1859345-fraser-nelson-on-ed-miliband-s-worrying-plans-for-banks
Good ole Mandiba and the ANC sure turned SA around:
“Seven-year-old boy is shot walking to class on his first day at school in Cape Town suburb.
Police recorded more murders in Cape Town – a popular tourist destination – than in Johannesburg and Pretoria combined between April 2011 and March 2012”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2541156/Seven-year-old-boy-shot-walking-class-day-school-Cape-Town-suburb.html
“Nelson Mandela’s grandson Madla charged with armed road rage incident”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2541120/Nelson-Mandelas-grandson-Madla-charged-assault-pointing-firearm.html
Andy Car Park@January 17th, 2014 – 15:26
not heard of a Berkeley Castle Enema before.
To what does this refer?
Nothing to do with the battle of Nibley Green is it?
anyway, what would you do with the resulting casting? Tate Modern perhaps?
stephen maybery January 17th, 2014 – 13:09
“Now to return to aggravations to my blood pressure. Lighting. It is impossible to get an old fashioned strength light bulb these days, with the result that at night I have difficulty in reading anything.”
Stephen quite a few years back on the very same day that I heard our very own Queen of Twats and the then European Commissioner Peter Benjamin Mandelson, now the Baron Mandelson of Twatland announce on the radio that he was to phase in the gradual abolition of all traditional light bulbs in order to save the planet.
I thought oh no you won’t stop our use of proper light bulbs and so I did a quick inventory of our house to find just what we had in use.
I was quite surprised at the different types that we had in use, I then tried to assess our future need and then doubled this amount.
I placed a test order with http://www.lampsavers.co.uk/ this original order was delivered in two days and so I ordered half of what was required, when this was delivered satisfactorily I ordered the remainder. In all I spent just short of £200 and I have never regretted this outlay.
Everything that I ordered be it 46/60/100wat bayonet cap or screw and all of the various sized candle bulbs bayonet and screw were ordered clear and not pearl.
To give you an example of how good these people are, on the last mixed order 100 60wat candle bulbs were sent instead of 100 60wat bayonet cap bulbs, when I telephoned, the owner apologised and said he would ring me straight back, he did; telling me the correct bulbs would be with me tomorrow, when I asked if the candle bulbs would be collected at the same time, he said “please keep them at no charge it was our fault” you can’t get better service than that.
Do give them a try.
IRISHBOY January 17th, 2014 – 13:54
“I have one of those you’ve probably seen advertised in the Weekend Supplements sold by Serious Readers. Excellent.”
Hello I sent for the catalogue and though they all look very good the prices are very expensive, then I looked at the technical details and found that the light bulbs that these lamps use were the very same as those that I use in lamps in my workshop (I turn wood) these I buy for a fraction of their price at IKEA.
David Ossit, and all those who do not like PC Bulbs
Lady Mandelson, ugh! So she is responsible for us ruining our eyesight, and causing CHWallers to have high blood pressure. I’d like to crush a few of the bulbs she advocates and get somebody to ram them up her where the sun don’t shine. Only problem is she would probably enjoy it. Please forgive my vulgarity, blame it on raised blood pressure.
David Ossitt
Forgive me not spelling your name correctly.
An appaling opening item to the BBC News at Six, featuring the ‘leader of the opposition’ – his clinically mutilated mush now one of the ugliest in public life and his voice that of a catholic castrato — amounted to a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party. As the audience comprised a group of devotees of almost equal unprepossesive appearance, it is to be hoped that the BBC’s effort to further the cause of socialism failed miserably.
The content of his waffle about the ‘big banks’ was as peurile as his lisping delivery. Happily I noted that his PR team failed to notice that a pigeon had shat on his heavily dyed Barnet, making the event even more surreal. Sadly, so fucked up are the UK electorate, it is not only possible, but probable, that he could become Prime Minister.
On the missing Edinburgh boy: it wouldn’t surprise Baron if the boy were to be found somewhere in the building where the flat is, perhaps tucked into a cupboard, not necessarily it the family abode. It beggars belief that a 3-year old could wonder around a major city, and nobody spots him.
David Ossitt – 16.51
I know you’re right about those bulbs, though I bought the tall light on a sort of bendy stalk which makes it easy to direct the light where I want it. Though I can hear my dear old Dad’s voice saying “more money than sense”!
Frank P @ 18:49
Baron switched off immediately he appeared, the barbarian cannot afford another heart attack, he’s now kicked the energy companies, the press, the short term lenders, the banks, who’s next?
You’re right, the future does look bleaker than bleak unless events interfere.
Farage tells the Greek `president`of Europe how it is.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/454491/Farage-on-Friday-After-my-latest-Strasbourg-speech-even-the-Greeks-want-to-join-Ukip
Unfortunate but not unexpected result in hunt for missing boy.
Frank P
Re your leader:
Is it accepted that the increasing Helmand production of opium is the fault of the predominant military occupying power in that province.
If so is it the fault of Hoon, Reid, Browne, Hutton, Ainsworth, Fox or Hammond?
Or all of these?
Or Bush for giving us Helmand?
Or Plausible Palestinian Blair?
Welcome to multi-culti Britain:
Murders and rapes going unreported in no-go zones for police as minority communities launch own justice systems
* Rise in ‘community justice’ in Midlands cutting number of police calls
* Forces warn genital mutilations and honour killings are being kept hidden
* Follows conviction of Muslim Patrol group last year for ‘enforcing sharia law’
“He said: ‘There are some communities born under other skies who will not involve the police at all. I am reluctant to name the communities in question, but there are communities from other cultures who would prefer to police themselves.
‘There are cities in the Midlands where the police never go because they are never called. They never hear of any trouble because the community deals with that on its own.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2541635/Murders-rapes-going-unreported-no-zones-police-minority-communities-launch-justice-systems.html
Interesting parallel between Hugo Chavez’ mafia government in Venezuela and Obama’s administration as examined by Michael Savage (I am one of his promoters) at about 30 minutes into his radio show on 16th January at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ItAeXHuQsk
Am I alone in being alarmed at the lack of alarm on the Wall at the direction of the American polity?
“Last year, high-ranking NSA official Bill Binney said, “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.” Now, Binney says that the U.S. has already become a full-blown police state.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/nsa-official-we-are-now-police-state#sthash.LOUz0Dxo.QZYmPYE6.dpuf
YAWN!!
The Empire fights back; or just a softening up process for the ‘promised’ ‘referendum’ in 2017?
A “Make the sheeples believe we are fighting for their sovereignty” shtick?
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4134/echr-uk
Huhne knew?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10579604/Newspaper-pursued-Chris-Huhne-over-liaisons-with-men-court-hears.html
I reiterate – idiots, traitors and perverts!
One for JJBA MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.) .
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy). Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be dissolved. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:-
1. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘colour,’ ‘favour,’ ‘labour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters, and the suffix ‘-ize’ will be replaced by the suffix ‘-ise.’ Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up ‘vocabulary’). 2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ”like’ and ‘you know’ is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter ‘u” and the elimination of ‘-ize.’
3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you’re not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can’t sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you’re not ready to shoot grouse.
5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.
8. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of the British Commonwealth – see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat’s Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears removed with a cheese grater.
11. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
12. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
13.. You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.
14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
God Save the Queen!
Note the absence of traffic controls; absence of traffic cops – and absence of traffic jams. The latter undoubtedly being a direct result of the two former phenomena.
The paradoxical order of spontaneous human chaos; about to be disrupted by the happenstance of awesome planetary upheavals. Gather ye rosebuds!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q5Nur642BU
h/t American Digest.
RobertC
January 18th, 2014 – 10:42
“Reluctant to name the communities involve” Bloody Moslems! Afraid to make waves?
So my old mucker McAlpine is dead.
I now feel guilty
(Fergus Pickering-January 15th, 2014 – 18:43)
But I did not kill McAlpine
“However, in 2012 he was again in the news when he was wrongly implicated by the BBC’s Newsnight programme in allegations that politicians sexually abused boys in the care of the Bryn Estyn children’s home in Wales in the 1970s and 1980s.”
Did the BBC?
IRISHBOY January 17th, 2014 – 19:14 David Ossitt – 16.51+
“I know you’re right about those bulbs, though I bought the tall light on a sort of bendy stalk which makes it easy to direct the light where I want it. Though I can hear my dear old Dad’s voice saying “more money than sense”!”
IKEA have short/medium and tall all with a bendy stalk,
RobertC January 18th, 2014 – 10:42
“Welcome to multi-culti Britain: Murders and rapes going unreported in no-go zones for police as minority community’s launch own justice systems”
This should be stamped on immediately, as should Islamist polygamy there should be one justice system in this country.
The practice of Sharia (primitive) law in this country should be rooted out as a priority.
I can’t remember whether it was on Question Time or on Any Questions but someone spouted the oft quoted tripe that 99.9% of Muslims are peace-loving.
That this is; is pure humbug is without any doubt, where in their holly book is anything to compare with the ten commandments of the Old Testament?
Or the command “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you”.
I would be happy to believe in the 99.9% myth if those self-same 99.9% rounded on the supposed .01% castigating them for their evil deeds and turning them into the police and be willing to give evidence against them.
How many of these 99.9% keep their women as third class citizens, mutilate pre- pubescent girls, marry cousins to cousins, commit polygamy?
Telegraph.co.uk-16 Jan 2014Share
“Cyclists should not be fined for mounting the pavement to escape dangerous sections of road, a transport minister has told police amid claims officers are ignoring official advice”. As a person who is neither a motorist nor a cyclist, I believe my safety and rights are of no interest to those in control of traffic. Pedestrians are in constant danger, not only from road users who go over the speed limit and ignore pedestrian crossings, but also from the many arrogant cyclists in their stupid day-glo clothing and helmets, who weave wildly through traffic lanes, blocking buses and nearly running over pedestrians as they cross the road. Cyclists should be compelled to take a test, showing that they understand the rules of the road, and are proficient in their control of a bicycle. Until they pass this test, they should not be able to use public roads. A fee should be charged for taking the test and gaining a certificate and the monies collected should be used directly for building dedicated lanes for cyclists to use.
David Ossitt 16.01
I’m very glad to know that as I’m moving house soon (from Nigeria, formerly known as Lewisham, back to England, Faversham Hurragh!) and a couple of extra reading lights will be on my list, so thank you for that.
David Ossitt@January 18th, 2014 – 16:01
one that plugs into your usb port is nice too.
http://www.decks.co.uk/products/Deck_Accessories/AVLink/USB_LED_Light?gclid=CJ_RvvyViLwCFU_KtAodS2YA-g#.Utqvk_vFJH0
“The practice of Sharia (primitive) law in this country should be rooted out as a priority.”
The main priority should be to repeal most of the statutes enacted since about 1960 by the UK legislature and efficiently enforce those that existed before then.
Most of the current problems posed by inimical invaders and indigenous traitors, whether through open perpetration or stealth, would then disappear. The laws of official corruption and treason should be the top priority – thereby removing a large proportion of the current incumbents of the lower and upper houses; together with summary execution (and I speak as a life-long opponent of the death penalty – except for politicians, of course) – pour encourager les autres.
Frank P January 18th, 2014 – 16:45
“together with summary execution (and I speak as a life-long opponent of the death penalty – except for politicians, of course) – pour encourager les autres.”
Slowly but surely you will join the hang them high brigade.
What’s the betting that when they find out who killed the Edinburgh little boy the penalty will be peanuts?
On reading lamps:
Last year in the main English bookshop on Hong Kong island, I found some small reading lights which clip on to the book. I bought a couple for the children. They don’t seem to mind the quality of the PC illumination from the tiny bulb. Personally, when lying on my back I wish to avoid as far as possible any suggestion of being stretched out on the mortuary slab.
Frank P – 16:45 … You took the words right out of my mouth. The last three or four decades of British law should be, somehow, declared invalid, and all the issues referred to in those fiats should be redebated in public, on TV.
A removal of a large proportion of the incumbents of both houses should be tackled stat. All the newly created “lords” (with the exception of Norman Tebbitt) should be de-lorded in a humiliating manner, citing the reasons these individuals are not fit to sit in our ancient seat of ultimate justice. Indeed, they’re not fit to clean the lavatory pipes.
Lord McAlpine : Now the original story can be safely referenced (true or not).
http://scallywagmagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/scallywag-magazine-article-on-lord.html
Opium Poppycock
I see from Frank’s latest piece, the Gathering Storm, that the United States is inspecting itself in Afghanistan.
For those inured to official versions, and who want something less than a light year from the truth, I would resommend numerous alternatives, for instance:
“…There are powerful business and financial interests behind narcotics. From this standpoint, geopolitical and military control over the drug routes is as strategic as oil and oil pipelines.
However, what distinguishes narcotics from legal commodity trade is that narcotics constitutes a major source of wealth formation not only for organised crime but also for the US intelligence apparatus, which increasingly constitutes a powerful actor in the spheres of finance and banking.
In turn, the CIA, which protects the drug trade, has developed complex business and undercover links to major criminal syndicates involved in the drug trade.
In other words, intelligence agencies and powerful business syndicates allied with organized crime, are competing for the strategic control over the heroin routes. The multi-billion dollar revenues of narcotics are deposited in the Western banking system. Most of the large international banks together with their affiliates in the offshore banking havens launder large amounts of narco-dollars…”.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils-of-war-afghanistan-s-multibillion-dollar-heroin-trade/91
Students of the Vietnam War will have learned earlier than most that the 58,000 American deaths there supported the CIA habit. Just the bad apples dontcha know? Same old same old in Afghanistan – and elsewhere. Why my own bank was found guilty of money-laundering for drug cartels. Fortunately for international security and public order. no-one was imprisoned. See my earlier post “Too Big to Jail” January 14th @ 23:54.
Quis custodes custodiet?
Verity 18th, – 21:49
” Indeed, they’re not fit to clean the lavatory pipes.”
Depends on whether you’re merely instructing them to clean said pipes, or using them as large diameter bog-brushes that fit neatly down the ‘ole…like a larger scale version of what my ole gran’dad used to clean the dottle out of HIS pipe!
David Ossitt @ 19:18
That’s a dead cert, David, no pun intended, we go into extraordinary length to find the culprit, give him or her due process, that costs dearly, then the judge passes a life sentence, which the newspapers carry on the front page, only to set a laughable tariff few weeks later, which is mostly ignored by he press.
Since we abolished the death penalty over 150 murderers murdered again after they’ve served their tariff. And that’s only the ones the police catch. The leniency of the whole set up that costs the taxpayer £16bn a year is a crime itself, and those who hoisted it on us should be brought to justice.
David Ossitt @ 16:31
David, as Baron tried to argue before, it didn’t get him very far though, it wasn’t always like that, the Muslims did behaved in a civilised manner, didn’t reject outright what the West offered, interpreted sharia almost as we interpret the Christian teaching. Have a look.
http://www.steynonline.com/6020/dolly-birds-of-the-hindu-kush
It was our losing confidence in our culture, going beyond self-criticism, finding faults in what we do where there were none combined with the massive inflow of oil money into the coffers of the governing Muslim elite that fugged it all up.
Not that Baron spends time reading the Guardian or the Observer, but this piece caught his eye. In he middle of it the author says ‘such views (that gays are dangerous with kids) have been outlawed. Are we outlawing views already? Not that Baron thinks that gays are more dangerous around kids heterosexuals, but how can a law criminalise a view, it’s beyond parody.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/18/putin-winter-olympics-homophobia
Malfleur
Quis custodis custodiet?
‘Michael Savage’? ‘Tommy Robinson’? Malfleur?
I’m certain that Sopko would welcome the advice and assistance of an erudite, well travelled expert with a knowledge of the Far East and Viet Nam War, such as your good self. Why don’t you apply for a job with his Inspectorate? He’s always on the lookout for talented investigators – or indeed finks.
Frank P
Did I confuse you with the facts? Try addressing them. You have a touching faith in a press release from an appointee of the criminal administration in the White House.
And since you appear to have an interest in Michael Savage but no doubt rarely if ever listen to him under the advisement of our two most recent Home Secretaries, here he is last Friday – not on the US government drug business in Afghanistan, which appears to have escaped your old pal’s notice in the course of his duties, but on Obonko and the NSA in the American dictator’s recent speech. Note his quotation from Cicero.
Click on the link, Frankie – and turn the sound up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35khrKaUda4
With regard to the suggestion that I apply to Mr. Slopko for a job with the Inspectorate, there is little additional information which I could supply that is not covered by the article from Global Research posted at 23:14 or generally available to the public online. My fee for drawing the involvement of the US government in drug running to the attention of Mr. Sopko will be US$320,000. This may be paid to me in Hong Kong as my bank there is already well practised in laundering money from such sources and it will therefore be clean funds of non-criminal origin when it reaches my account. My lips are sealed.
Sorry about the ‘did behaved’, Baron changed the past tense to one with more emphasis, but didn’t remove the offending letter d. He’ll try harder next timee
time, time, time, time……with reference at 10:10.
Peter, if that’s hard, let’s forget it, but the Spectator, few others have an edit facility for bloggers. may you fit it in, too?
I see the Member for Maidstone & the Weald is making a public prat of herself again!
As our friend Baron remarked on the other thread, Mr Sopko is only pointing out some obvious facts; which I did address in my little postscript. What is important is that at least one official working under Obama’s aegis, is willing to discuss those facts and prognosticate accordingly, much to the consternation of some of his peers whose integrity seems to have been somewhat dubious, given the mess he’s trying to sort out in Afghanistan.
I can vouch for the integrity of John Sopko having worked with him and received considerable assistance from him during our joint efforts to expose and prosecute the ungodly on both sides of the Atlantic.
I’m not sure that your friend Michael Savage and your other source, Professor
Chossudovski, who I note earned his bones at Manchester University (that well known nest of conservative activism) – and as a United Nations wonk – would like to remain in the same room together for too long.
Anyway, I was just addressing your misquoted Latin cliché (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) and making a couple of suggestions, as no one else has bothered to answer it since Juvenal first posed it (and no doubt plagiarised it from some old peripatetic bubble ‘n’ squeak). Perhaps you’d like to offer some suggestions of your own, if you think Mick Savage and Tommy Robinson aka etc, etc. couldn’t fulfil the role?
And I have occasionally dipped into the rants of ‘Savage’ and have done so long before you became enamoured of him. Let’s just say I’m less impressed in that regard than you … but then … each to his own.
OO I am following my wife around town so cant easily follow the news. What has Helen Grant done now?
Seems she wants to stick her nose into touchline parents at sports fixtures getting overexcited and into scuffles and fisticuffs. If government is allowed to intrude into this little issue, who knows where it’ll end up!
Not bad, not bad at all for UKIP, Frank, we may yet surprise everyone.
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Poll-shows-voter-viewing-Ukip-favourably/story-20463576-detail/story.html
Peter from Maidstone January 19th, 2014 – 13:11
“OO I am following my wife around town so cant easily follow the news.”
Peter drive your wife into town, buy a couple of papers, find a decent coffee shop and then sit down read and relax, when your wife joins you buy her a well deserved coffee and Danish.
Baron at 00-41
It can,effectively,be regarded as a crime by the police and CPS to say or `tweet`anything negative about `gays`.
Some time ago the Bishop of Chester was detained by the police for writing in a parish magazine that some people thought homosexuality was a mental illness.
The Chief Constable then said they had to let him go because they had discovered it was not a criminal offence…..”but it should be”. It is now.
Sometime ago the caretaker of a progressive school went on holiday,had `the operation`,came back wearing a wig and dress and was promptly sacked .A tribunal upheld the dismissal.Today it would be a criminal offence.
Sometime ago three men in wigs and dresses (in training for having `the operation`)turned up one Sunday at a rural pub-restaurant causing consternation. They were thrown-out after being found in the Ladies toilets.They went to the police who arrested the landlord,who was brought to court by the CPS.He was found not guilty by 12 sane jurors.It is now officially a criminal offence for a landlord to so behave.
In the work-place if A makes to B a remark about C which is overheard by D,who regards it as `offensive`and who goes to the police,then A can be arrested and brought to court by the CPS.
This is Cameron’s Britain.
Peter from Maidstone
January 19th, 2014 – 13:11
Glad it is indeed your wife you are following……… Joke 🙂
Anne, I try my best to show an interest and commit myself to following her and making a few comments that indicate I am at least conscious of which shop we are in.
Radford NG @ 17:41
Radford, point taken.
For those who couldn’t bother to click on the Guardian trash, this is what the progressively deluded female said:
“Certainly, much of the opposition to gay parenting seemed to centre on how “unnatural” it was, which at times seemed to be weird code for: “Why should gay men want to be near children unless they’re pederasts?” Thankfully, such views have been outlawed, but this doesn’t mean that they no longer exist in the western DNA; it’s rather more likely that bigots feel they can’t be as “out” about their homophobia as someone such as Putin”.
We seem to have moved a full 180deg on the gay issue in fewer than a couple of generations, from sending them down (well, not that many suffered imprisonment, if any) to putting them on a pedestal as untouchables. Both options are wrong.
As it happens, Baron’s more against the gays adopting kids that he’s against their marrying for a good reason, and it isn’t pederasty. What if the kids brought up by gays resent it when they reach maturity? After all, 97 out of 100 of us are heterosexual, hence it’s likely the vast majority of the gay adopted kids will be heterosexual. What shall we do then? Are we going to tell them ‘well, tough luck, equality was what did it, live with it”?
Peter from Maidstone
January 19th, 2014 – 17:58
Alas, my husband hates shopping with me when I am out looking for dresses, etc. He is convinced that M&S have lost business since they removed all the seats where men could sit in comfort whilst the ladies try on fashions. He believes seats, and a table with newspapers on it would result in husbands in a better mood and sales would go up.
Anne Wotana Kaye 1 January 19th, 2014 – 18:35
“He is convinced that M&S have lost business since they removed all the seats where men could sit in comfort whilst the ladies try on fashions. He believes seats, and a table with newspapers on it would result in husbands in a better mood and sales would go up.”
Anne our nearest M&S store is in Harrogate and they have reduced the seating to two seats near to the ladies changing room, one of these is slightly larger than the other and so encourages some fat chap asking “can I join you” the only paper available ‘The Yorkshire Post’ is usually yesterdays.
A larger M&S store on the outskirts of Leeds used to have up to a dozen seats at the entrance to the ladies changing rooms with a copious and varied supply of newspapers but then two or three years back on a hunt for my beloved to buy lots we found that every seat was removed.
I asked to speak to someone on the management team, after a long wait a stroppy young woman came and when I pointed out the lack of seating she gave me a withering look as though I were some kind of pervert and said “we have had complaints, it makes some customers feel creepy having men sat at the entrance” this despite the fact that the check in desk was 20 feet away from the seating and the changing rooms were way off behind a corner.
They have recently put back six of these seats but not the newspapers.
Baron
“After all, 97 out of 100 of us are heterosexual…”
Rather more than that, 98.9% of us are.
According to the Office for National Statistics most recent report in October, just 1.1% of the population (or 545,000 people) identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.4% (220,000 people) identify as bisexual.
Not surprisingly the homosexuality lobby is up in arms about it, knowing that politicians will soon lose interest in the paucity of voters from such a minority, even if the sodomites and catamites form a distinctly higher perecentage of polly-ticians in the Lords and Commons latrines.
David Ossitt
January 19th, 2014 – 19:23
“it makes some customers feel creepy having men sat at the entrance”
I give up!
A Brief History of British Gun Control
(or, How to Disarm the Law Abiding Populace by Stealth)
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle558-20100221-07.html
Noa
January 19th, 2014 – 20:01
You speculate that politicians will lose interest in the paucity of gay voters even if they form a distinctly higher percentage of people to be found in the Lords and Commons latrines.
I think it would be very interesting to know whether those higher percentages also apply in other fields and what effect does that have? For example, are Gays quietly given preference when it comes to promotion within the ranks of the Police?
Is it now better to be lightfooted than flatfooted?
Herbert Thornton
“Is it now better to be lightfooted than flatfooted?”
Ha ha ha ha. Very good,
It certainly worked for Lord Paddick.
A flighty young copper called called Paddick
Shacked up with a ginger beer addict
Who grassed to to the papers
The gist of their capers
And caused quite a fuss for the bad dick.
But because of the state of his arse
The Commissioner gave him a pass
And further promotion
Without much commotion
And now he’s a Lord of the Realm.
The last line doesn’t rhyme, of course. But neither should it! His ennoblement didn’t rhyme with me either.
Apologies to Fergus, who has the unintellectual property rights for bad poetry on this blog. I promise I won’t do it again.
Better not say that the recent deterioration of police-public relations is God’s punishment for permitting police pouffery, or I’ll have my UKIP membership cancelled. 🙂
I suppose I should have dubbed him Lord of the Khyber Pass. It would have been apt – and rhymed.
Monday morning here again
A wicked wicked world
A soup of revulsion in my brain
As today’s news unfurled.
Hundreds of Christians in the Sango district of Bangui watched on as a number of people beat two Muslim men to death and continued to stab their bodies as they were dragged onto the streets of Bangui on Sunday.
A Reuters cameraman witnessed the two bodies being burnt using stacks of tyres on the streets. Some people threw rocks at the bodies long after they had died.
People in the crowd said the attack was justified because some Muslim Seleka fighters had abducted a Christian man who was driving a taxi on Saturday (January 18) night.
“We will continue to do this for as long as Muslims will go on (with their attacks),” said Yacinthe, one of the men in the crowd, observing the lynching.
– See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/car-two-muslims-lynched-bangui-revenge-attack#sthash.Njaekech.dpuf
And like the BBC
For balance:-
A nun in Germany has recently done a presentation in a conference of an independent investigation she conducted of the treatment of Christians in Syria under the hands of Muslim fundamentalists. She revealed that Muslims are butchering Christians, draining their blood in bottles, and selling each bottle for $100,000 to Muslims in Saudi Arabia who take it to wash their hands in Christian blood, with the belief that it atones for their sins.
So Fergus you say:
Where lies the problem?
Arabs?
Religion?
The human condition?
All of these?
Just two things to say about the Lord Rennard affair. I loathe the Liberals, but that creep Lord Carlisle is correct. If one is innocent how can one apologise? Secondly, looking at the horrible, misshapen ugly females in that Party, the Lord must have very bad taste. No wonder there are so many poofters in the Lib Dem Party!
Anne Wotana Kaye 1 January 20th, 2014 – 10:15
“Just two things to say about the Lord Rennard affair. I loathe the Liberals, but that creep Lord Carlisle is correct. If one is innocent how can one apologise? Secondly, looking at the horrible, misshapen ugly females in that Party, the Lord must have very bad taste. No wonder there are so many poofters in the Lib Dem Party!”
Anne this chap has form for inappropriate touching as opposed to ‘full on groping’, from what I have read young women in the party have been complaining for years and “The Party” have cast these complaints aside.
You make the point “If one is innocent how can one apologise?” I would turn that on its head, if he is guilty, then an apology would be an admission of that guilt, I suspect that he has been counselled by his legal bods not to apologise.
I hope that this runs and runs he is a slime ball and the longer that this goes on, the more bad press the LibDems will get.
When I worked I would have to attend business meetings and conferences that involved staying away from home one two or even on occasion more nights, we men were well aware of any in our number who after a few drinks were a menace and great care was taken to make sure that these were kept under control.
David Ossitt
January 20th, 2014 – 12:20
David, you are correct. Let’s hope this drags on and the Lib -Dems lose votes.
Anne Wotana Kaye 1@January 20th, 2014 – 14:41
What votes? have they any left?