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“You’ve heard of Live Aid? Well, this is Drive Aid,” an ardent young man says, as he approaches London pedestrians. “Greedy people in developing nations are eating huge amounts of food that could easily be turned into biofuel to power our cars. African acreage the size of Belgium is being used for food, and we’re saying it should go to cars here in the UK. Can we have your support?”
Yes, but it is spoof:
Greedy Africans are starving our cars
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/23/greedy-africans-are-starving-our-cars/
Melanie performs the last rites as the death throes of the NHS emerge.
http://melaniephillips.com/the-real-cover-up-at-the-heart-of-the-national-health-service
May we all rest in peace.
Oh … my naughty, naughty niece:
A three-year-old boy was examining his testicles
while taking a bath.
“Mummy” he asked, “are these my brains?”
“Not yet,” she replied.
Physiologically impossible, of course – but the point is made nonetheless.
Frank P – 12:58 ‘Melanie performs the last rites. May we all rest in peace?’
I notice that few solutions are being offered. I expect it is because anyone with a worthwhile suggestion knows that it will be blasphemous to anyone still entrapped in the historical illusion that the NHS is perfect, if only more money was available. And, at the moment, we cannot offend without the risk of loosing our position in the hierarchy, or even our job, as has been reported.
Taking information from Wiki: After Beveridge(Lib) produced his 1942 report ‘Social Insurance and Allied Services’, the Beveridge Report, it was Willink (Tory, Minister of Health) that produced the 1944 White paper ‘A National Health Service’, and proposed many of the bases later taken up by the Labour Party.
“When Labour came into office in 1945, they presented their own plan in preference to Willink’s, although they had supported it up until that point. The principal difference was that Willink’s plan talked of a “publicly organised” rather than a “publicly provided” service, whereas Labour’s plan brought hospitals into full national ownership. Bevan did however make concessions to General practitioners.”
No wonder it is so dysfunctional! It doesn’t work that often in the private sector.
We mustn’t forget the thousands of decent people employed within the NHS that are battling this every day, and walking the tightrope of keeping their job and their conscience clear and, as each day passes, credibility is being lost faster than those involved appear to acknowledge, and not a tourniquet in sight!
One of the problems is that there is no consensus of where we are. An an example, senior doctors are expected to call for NHS patients to pay top-up fees for some services, arguing that the state can no longer provide everything for free, while the NHS does NOT collect money from those it treats, but are not covered.
We are still waiting for reality to strike home. I expect any changes will consume resources which we can ill afford, what with having no money left, but as the NHS hierarchy is disintegrating before our eyes, we may have to resort to removing the top few layers and giving responsibility back to those who used to have it, without a pay rise, but they keep their job.
And it might even work!
Diversity managers and outreach can be wound down, translations stopped and any national differences, the famous post code lottery, can easily be addressed by national monitoring and reporting back, for action by managers. It is why they are employed. Responsibility needs to be owned within the group.
RobertC @ 15.34
The NHS will never work in its present form and shape. It’s a direct replica of the communist regimes of the Est, the only difference between the two is the NHS culture is restricted (so far anyway) only to the health delivery part of our society.
Look, the tenets both monstrosities are based on are identical, we own the NHS but because we have to earn a living the government looks after it, appoints the apparatchiks to run it on our behalf. The same was the case for the regimes of the East. People owned everything, but because they had to slave the Government …… No competition in either, it’s all co-operation, learning from one another. Quality is ‘assured’ by committees, quangoes, agencies charged to keep a watch. No different from the ‘quality’ set-ups the commies ran; The same approach in both constructs in regards efficiency, introduction of new gadgets, processes, treatments. Also, individuals got out of the system what they needed, contributed according to their abilities. A top surgeon with no kids had a flat, a salary of X, a man with five kids who swept the roads qualified for a mansion and a salary of 3X. Here, the NI contribution are graded, too, the more one earns the more one pays, but when it comes to getting treatment it’s one’s needs that matter. This, of course, feels noble and compassionate, but it’s unworkable not only because it’s unfair, but because it encourages a misuse of resources.
The only area where the NHS hasn’t yet fully equal that of the communist societal arrangement is in PR. The tossers of the Red Menace requested and got every single independent unit of the regime to run a book called, surprise, surprise, ‘the book of complaints and suggestions’. One doesn’t have to be a masochist to imagine what that led to. Virtually everyone in the society had a complaint and a few suggestions to make on everything that ran from the idiotic to the bizzare, enabled the bureaucrats that ran everything to set up more committees, sub-committees, study groups and such. You recall the Skoda car joke, you double its value by filling it up with petrol? Well, Baron’s wife had a job with the exporter of the junk, she can tell you there were seven agencies dealing with the quality of the contraption, twenty seven sub-groups, more study groups involving university professors. (Today, the quality of the car is adjudged by the market, the car is as bad or as good as the rest of the offerings).
The East European constructs collapsed because the system couldn’t fund itself. The same will happen to the NHS, the latest suggestion by the doctors is but the first step. It pains Baron to say it because many of you, like the rest of the country, feel ‘proud’ of the NHS, but the monstrosity just cannot continue as it is.
The former post I was typing sailed off into the wild blue yonder without my even waving a finger over “Send”, so to repeat. The NHS should be dismantled and the last rites read and a pin for pin copy of the French system set up ASAP.
It is a superb concept and works – although I am sure not absolutely pefectly – very well indeed.
If you don’t know, it is run along purely commercial lines (although it is free at point of use). Hospitals, clinics, X-ray facilities, etc are paid by volume. And the choice for the customer/patient is free. When your surgeon hands you a prescription for treatment, you, the patient, decide where to get that treatment … whether it is tests, Xrays, prescription drugs or surgery. You decide.
The facilities that attract the most patients get the most money.
Cigar Chompin’ John Jefferson ‘Yessiree’ Burns CCCCXLIV
If I’ve told you once I’ve told you a hundred times, we don’t want your half-baked cigar-chompin’ views in this forum. For the last time, take a dump in your ten gallon hat, clap it upon your head and then take a running jump, you foot-tappin’, thigh-slappin’ all American halfwit.
It seems that Common Sense is not yet entirely dead –
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/06/24/mcdonald-restaurants-drop-halal-food-after-suit/
GEORGE LLOYD (1913–98),British romantic/classical composer,is this weeks Radio 3 Composer of the Week[12noon and 6-30pm].How things change.He was one of the lost generation of British composers “black-listed by the BBC for writing tunes”(Simon Heffer).Others were Arthur Butterworth,Ruth Gipps and Gordon Jacob.In the 1960s the 3rd Programme had been taken-over by serialists and the avant-garde who banned all un-progressive composers (much as un-progressive thought is anathema today).As the BBC is at the cultural peak of society it the 3rd. didn’t programme composers their works were-not programmed by concert promoters either.——-Just shows;Comrade STALIN was right:Formalism in music is to be deployed;even if it’s promoters are not shot.
Baron 16:49 ‘NHS will never work in its present form and shape’
Totally agree! I will read the rest of your post later.
Someone told me that the moral behind the parable of the Good Samaritan was that when someone you really and truly hate offers help, especially when there is no chance of anyone else offering, take it!
Here is a modern version:
What a silly bollard: Prankster has to be freed by police after getting head stuck inside traffic marker
* Man could be seen walking around Hemel Hempstead for two hours
* Shoppers left amused by bizarre sight
* Police officer placed the man on ground and began yanking at his legs
* Man was eventually freed and said ‘thank you so much’ to officer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2347385/What-silly-bollard-Prankster-freed-police-getting-head-stuck-inside-traffic-marker.html
Baron @ 16:49
How are the health services in the East doing now that the communist regimes have been disbanded? I ask in all ignorance and innocence.
In Switzerland, i understand that the adult population is required by law to keep assault rifles at home. There have not been too many massacres of schoolchildren there that I recall. Furthermore, the trains, so I have heard, run on time without the downside of other times and places. The people seems able to feed their common sense directly into government policy.The government does not have the reputation of being unwieldy by reason of its size and ambitions. The lovely Hélène Grimaud, pianist and lover of wolves, is able to move there without fear of muslim hostility.
http://helenegrimaud.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw9DlMNnpPM&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
Could it be something to do with the racial mix of the Swiss or are they just saner in their approach to government? Do they have an objective and civilized Swiss broadcasting Company?
It has been suggested on the Wall from time to time that the way the Swiss run things has many lessons for us in Britain. No serious proposals have been made by our own hopelessly compromised political parties to adopt any part of the Swiss model.
I have not heard complaints of a failed or unfair health service in Switzerland, although perhaps it is because they are all too rich there.
The fast approaching economic and political crisis should afford some opportunity for creative reconstruction of society in Britain – but along Swiss not Obama’s totalitarian lines, please.
Could we therefore start with the assault rifles, pour encourager les politiciens?
RobertC @ 20:17
I think you may have hit upon a way of restraining jihadists while otherwise allowing them freedom to go about their lawful business.
Malfleur @ 20.18
The barbarian’s short on time, will tell you when he has a minute.
Baron 16:49 ‘NHS will never work in its present form and shape’ – PART II
I still agree! My last post on this subject was really an attempt to work out what is going to happen. No one, apart from my semi-jest, has been forthcoming. All have predicted collapse, but, as is well known, failure to plan is a plan to fail, so what will happen?
I suppose ‘collapse’ does not need planning.
There are so many good people at the sharp end who do their job effectively and the headlines are invariably about those who would be quite happy in the organisations that you mention!
My suggestion was the shortest distance between two points.
I cannot see the current NHS running, without a murmur, while we dismantle it and re-build it in a new form as when even good teams are dismantled and reconstructed, they often loose people. It’s not a good idea for a national policy.
Malfleur, sir, here’s Baron’s minute.
He has no knowledge of the health delivery system in countries other than the Czech Republic. There, it’s insurance based with additional payments to top the premiums.
Everyone must pay health insurance, but for children, students, the unemployed and the retired it’s the Government that pays. Those in employment pay altogether some 13.5% of gross earnings split 4.4% the employee, the rest the employer. Self-employed pay an equivalent amount.
The money’s paid not to the Treasury, but to privately owned health insurance companies. Currently, there are nine of them, one just went belly up, members deserted it, it had fewer than 100,000, which is the lowest membership allowed.
It’s the insurance companies that negotiate with hospitals individual treatments, it’s up to them to get the best treatment or rather the treatment they think people want, appreciate for the lowest cost. In addition to the insurance premium, the companies also require the members to pay extra for most of the treatments (it differs from one insurance company to another), and that includes an initial visit to a GP (other visits for the same ailment are free) or towards the cost of drugs. These extra costs are often very low, a couple of quid, but everyone has to pay even children, students, the unemployed and the retired (every one in these categories may ask for a refund, it depends on the local office of the Dept. of Health if he or she actually succeeds getting it).
Every citizen can change the insurance company once a year, unless there are reasons for saying no (that cannot be for health reasons) the insurance company must take the new member on. The hospitals offer only treatments, procedures approved by the Health Department, they are inspected in an ad hoc manner, the inspection team includes a member of the public.
Baron reckons this ain’t an ideal set-up, but it’s better than the NHS in that it does bring in quite visible and severe competition between the insurance cos without endangering the people who use it. The insurance companies have to figure as best as they can what really matters for the punters, then try and buy the package from the hospitals. These are also private and have an interest in offering what they believe will ‘sell’ to those they treat. The medical treatments, procedures may be standard, approved by the Dept. of Health, the adds-on is what attracts, and what most people are quite happy for contribute paying towards .
The utilisation rate of an expensive piece of diagnostic gear is also higher there than here. Baron’s sister got a CT scan in an establishment that specialises in the procedure and is run 24/7/. For the actual procedure, she had a room of her own, spotlessly clean, fully equipped, was taken to the hospital for the operation and back after it in a private car, and had three follow-up check-ups even though one would have been more than sufficient. She’s retired, paid the equivalent of some £30 for the extras, the rest was paid in her case by the State).
RobertC @ 21.17
Please, my blogging friend, read Baron @ 21.59
Malfleur @ 20.18
On weapons held by law abiding people:
Before the Firearms Act 97, the UK didn’t have a bad record for criminal offences by individuals who had licenses to own hand held arms. Just two bad cases of misuse in 1987, 1996. In both cases, the criminality could have been prevented, it was more the fault of those who were supposed to administer the system. Did you know four files containing post mortems, medical records and profiles on the victims remain sealed under the 100 year order ‘to avoid distressing the relatives and survivors’. That’s the official explanation. The real reason may well be that some of the stuff shows it was the authorities’ fault, the man Hamilton should have been stripped of his license well before he went of a rampage.
What’s telling is that the number of incidents involving firearms have doubled within only seven years after the passing of the Act. Instead of preventing the misuse, the illegal use of firearms, the Act actually boosted it. Lunacy.
Baron June 24th – 22:03 ‘but it’s better than the NHS!’
My concern is not finding that there are not better alternatives as there are many to be seen in other countries!
My concern is that the NHS has become so corrupt that we cannot just say, “go and reconfigure yourselves”, except as a tension relieving activity!
There needs to be decisions on:
1) how the working group will be chosen
2) who will sit on the working group
3) the objectives, scope, approach, time scales, the number of phases, budgets and appeal procedures
For the approach, do we pick one that is working somewhere else and modify it as little as possible, or do we graft several together to get an even better system(!?!) or do we start with a blank piece of paper? All sound a bit scary!!!
Given that many in the NHS have said that they are fed up with reorganisations, having yet another one, no matter how necessary, will require every skill in the book to keep it on track given that not everyone will be pulling in the same direction.
Then, after we have an idea of what we want, we then need to work out how to get there! I have this feeling about it, and it isn’t very positive.
We could implement the Tardis solution: go back to, say, 1997 structures, before it became so bad!
Baron
Thank you for your informative summary of the Czech health service system. It seems clear that a better system than the present NHS could be established in the United Kingdom, if we were able to find the will.
Did you by any chance develop your fine English under Zdenek Stríbrný of Charles University? I met him in Los Angeles in 1967-68 and then lost touch. A quick google just now discloses that “…he was dismissed in 1970 for his resistance to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He subsequently worked as a translator in the Computer Center of Charles University until his retirement in 1988” but “In 1990…was reinstated in the English Department as emeritus professor and director of graduate studies”.
Whether any kind of health service resembling the one we have known will be possible in the near future is questionable if this analysis of the debt-based American economy inescapably steaming to a new feudal society is correct:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAdWn_vXVYk
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2013/06/patriot-snowden-heads-to-neo-marxist-ecuador-via-moscow-and-cuba/
“So “patriot’ Edward Snowden bugs out to ChiCom dominated Hong Hong, leaves via KGB ruled Russia, heading for Neo-Marxist Ecuador via communist ruled Cuba, aided by Julian Assange, who has worked for Kremlin propaganda channel Russia Today.
His main media spokesman, Glenn Greenwald, received a media award in 2009, named after Soviet spy I.F. Stone, from a panel which included Marxist media academic Robert McChesney.
Greenwald addressed a Marxist-Leninist conference in Chicago in 2011, where he openly called for the weakening of America. He was back in 2012 and is due to speak at the the 2013 event in a few days time.
Couldn’t get much more “patriotic” than that.”
Frank P
As Snowden wasn’t in his seat when the journalists crowded on to the plane for Cuba, who knows?
Obama foreign policy cartoon:
http://usawatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/43.jpg
Oh, and flying in to take up his position as Governor of the Bank of England next Monday to direct its role in printing unlimited amounts of paper money and digitalized sterling for the global Ponzi scheme in which we are all forced to participate is Mark Carney, from the stable of the robber barons, Goldman Sachs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/mark-carney/10139893/Mark-Carney-golden-chance-for-return-to-prosperity-beckons.html
“The incoming Bank of England Governor has the Chancellor squarely behind him”
The other way around I think.
Malfleur (01:11)
Indeed.
Dan Collins sums it all up with a whimsical rant that neatly frames this latest ‘national/international security’ fiasco within the wider context and provides a little perspective.
http://www.conservativecommune.com/2013/06/snowden-still-in-russia-do-us-authorities-really-want-to-catch-him/#comment-87008
Oh dear!
Another “whistleblower” betraying his patriotic duty to his country to cover up skullduggery, among bankers this time as they screw the taxpayers in the interests of national security, bank integrity, or whatever is the plat du jour…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10139214/Anglo-Irish-bankers-tricked-government-into-bailout.html
Wouldn’t you just like to put a bomb in the glove compartment of the journalist’s car set to go off before he could make public his disclosures deeply damaging to the national interest as they are? May be the Americans know someone – for next time.
Over on today’s Jihad Watch; Robert Spencer has a post, Pork no Killing Infidels Sí.
Do read it, he finishes it with:-
Pork is forbidden, but the blood of the infidel is not. Until Western authorities understand that fact and its implications, more serious jihads will continue to explode upon free societies.
Once I have had my annual Cystoscopy tomorrow we intend to take a break and to have five or six days in Devon.
Iit has been our habit to do this each year and then in late July or early August take a four or five day European City Break.
But yesterday ‘she who must be obeyed’ said that she would prefer somewhere small, not too far (no long distance flights) and in the ‘sun’ and then said “you know something more fishing village.
Any ideas or suggestions.
David Ossitt:
We like Antalya, S Turkey, but it might be too far. However, in summer you can fly direct, avoiding Istanbul (4 hours). Stay in the old town – nice food and no traffic.
An interesting dissertation, but sadly the message has already been lost in the winds of change:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/06/whats_wrong_with_same-sex_marriage.html
David Ossitt
How about Dinard in Brittany?
And we’re striving to SAVE the Western World??
http://moonbattery.com/?p=32200
David Ossitt
Provence used to do the trick for me: Mustiers Sainte Marie in he Haute Alpes – breathtaking drive to get there; peace and quiet when you arrive. Idyllic.
http://www.booking.com/searchresults.en-gb.html?aid=303948;label=moustiers-sainte-marie-kIO2DAfCYTORbDrXL97MGgS8396096901%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap1%3Ap2%3Aac%3Aap1t1%3Aneg;sid=f934eb0b8606682c1c9deadd3ac3e8f5;dcid=1;city=-1454083;redirected_from_city=1;src=city
David Ossitt
I have just returned from a small fishing village in Brittany by the eponymous ferry and a comfortable overnight cabin with en suite to aid cystoscopy recovery.
It is full of French hating Bretons which makes it all the more acceptable.
Malfleur
You forgot Carney’s Brysongate:
OTTAWA – Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is rejecting criticism of potential bias over his cosy relationships with some members of the Liberal Party, saying his actions have been appropriate.
Speaking publicly for the first time since it was revealed he vacationed last summer at the vacation home of Liberal finance critic Scott Brison, Carney said he has a right to a private live and stands behind everything he’s done as governor of the central bank.
With Carney expected to field similar questions when he testifies before the Treasury Select committee in London next month relating to his pending appointment as Bank of England governor, he seemed prepared for the issue to come up at a news conference Wednesday.
“My actions were appropriate. They’ve been looked at by the general counsel of the bank in consultation with the independent lead director of the board of directors of the bank, they came to exactly same conclusion … actions were appropriate,” he said.
“I understand a few people had questions about it, but in the end … what we are talking about is my private life, my private vacation. I don’t see that I need to detail my private life and my interaction with my friends.”
I’m sad that Mick Aston, the archaeologist has passed away. He was only 66. I have hopes of organising a conference on Christian Archaeology and had hoped that he would speak.
Frank P – Mustiers Sainte Marie
A bit light on fishing boats though, one suspects.
Andy Car Park, June 24th, 2013 – 17:14,
“Cigar Chompin’ John Jefferson ‘Yessiree’ Burns… etc”
Are you sure that’s a cigar he’s a chompin’ on? I can’t find our self-styled “souther’ baptist” friend’s homily on this week’s board. Has it been removed?
I don’t remove anything.
Wow! Just when my back was turned then up you pop, John. Not by any chance a LibDem? “Bunnies can and will go to France”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10140678/Edward-Snowden-has-not-crossed-Russia-border.html
Would someone please just arrest the Obama junta and replace it with a legitimate government that is competent to represent the American people and the interests of Western civilization which it presently has an obligation in this dark time, God help us, to lead?
Neathergate is alive and living in the United Kingdom AND the United States. Has anyone been following the Amnesty Bill going through the bought-and-sold US Congress? Any views, Fraser Nelson?
Andy CP
Give a chap a chance.
I gave up cigarettes in my third University semester and have never touched cigars.
You limeys are obsessed with doing down those who do not share your Anglo Saxon race or Christian faith.
You even hate my fellow coutry Blacks.
I just heard some Wimbledon hack decrying the Great Arthur Ashe’s comment:
“My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.”
I think you will agree he was a hero.
From the DT: “British Wimbledon hopeful attacks critics of our female players”
“People that are tweeting @ElenaBaltacha and @annekeothavong abuse don’t see what they and all tennis players go through day in day out….” She also invited the critics to “try one week in our shoes” so they could “see the effort we put into training and not just for the Wimbledon 2 weeks you guys seem to see…”
Which part of the word ‘competitive’ doesn’t she understand?
Frank P, John Jefferson Burns thank you both for your suggestions.
Malfleur, you have just triggered a memory we spent an idyllic holiday in Dinan thirty five years ago and visited Dinard a few times as it is close by and we always thought of returning, thank you.
John Jefferson Burns June 25th, 2013 – 10:31
“I have just returned from a small fishing village in Brittany”
John, which one?
J J Burns @ – 10:31
Did you try any of Brittany’s beer? Or cider.
Two reasons why it’s the best part of France. And they hate Parisians. And they love their pork.
DO
Trebeurden.
Not far from.
A bit off the tourist trail and splendid food.
Hexhamgeezer
They are very like the People from Wales both in looks and outlook.
It is not just Parisians but they hate all the French with a passion. They suffered under the Germans.
They love us and wear our baseball hats.
“and wear our baseball hats.”
That’s a recommendation?
And here’s the reason why you should never, ever use Faecebook.
http://bogpaper.com/2013/06/25/not-even-your-amusing-cat-photos-are-safe/
Kevin Marx on Monday- how could you even think of missing him, Comrades?
http://bogpaper.com/2013/06/24/marx-on-monday-obama-the-food-stamp-president/
Baron
June 24th, 2013 – 16:49RobertC @ 15.34
The NHS will never work in its present form and shape. It’s a direct replica of the communist regimes of the Est, ….’
You are wrong my Dear Lord,
The NHS is working just fine. The object of the NHS is to increase state power. Lenin said ‘no sociaslised medecine, no socialism’, for good reason.
The ‘health outcomes’ are irrelevant as is obvious to any honest adult.
The waste is irrelevant.
The deaths are irrelevant.
Just like ‘welfare’ it makes no difference if rich people benefite or poor or foreigners or OAPs or whoever. The whole point is to increase state power.
As with great state power comes perversion, madness, murder, corruption and all the rest. You will have your own favourites.
As for those who are ‘proud’ of the NHS I wish them their just rewards. Don’t we all at least deserve that?
To be proud of the NHS requires you to hate reality.
Those who love the NHS love slavery.
They hate those of us who are born to be free. They carry some twisted ‘slave gene’ or ‘slave spirit’ and they HATE the likes of me. They HATE choice, freedom, responsibility and anyone who loves to be free.
This is why the spit blood when an honest person in the NHS tells the truth but they are easy about the rich getting the best treatment either through the NHS (Cameron) or by paying.
The true slave does not hate his master but hates the ‘uppity’ slave who may escape one day.
See what I mean?
This is why so many decent people stood against ObamanationCare and it took a corrupt Supreme Court to defend the slavery….as they have done so often before.
Here’s the thing…………..
‘The East European constructs collapsed because the system couldn’t fund itself.The same will happen to the NHS’.
Caution, My Deal Lord.
The same power block exists after ‘the collapse’ in Russia and if anything, a corporate/socialist future awaits us.
The power authority altered. No-one was hung. Not even a show trial like ‘Nuremburg’. All the top Commies became oligarchs or power brokers. The people collapsed not the system.
The same could happen here because the supporters of the NHS would rather acrtually die in their own shit rather than change.
Some do.
They would rather die in their own shit while grabbing money from others for ‘investment’ in ‘equality’.
That’s who they are. I know loads of them. They do not understand their own motivation and are therefore incredibly dangerous.
They will probably never change.
Regards (keep well).
John Richardson – 20:09 ‘NHS’
Brilliant!
I am toying with the notion of returning to England — a small or medium sized town. Anyone have any ideas? Thoughts? Negatives or positives?
Verity – June 25th – 23:39 ‘returning to England’
Are you looking to buy a house?
If so, then it is surprisingly easy to tour houses using the Internet, such as:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/map.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E61307&maxDaysSinceAdded=1&minBedrooms=2&maxBedrooms=2&displayPropertyType=houses&oldDisplayPropertyType=houses
Just change the options, then when you have picked a house, use Google and walk down the street. Although the house you choose won’t be around when you arrive, it does concentrate the mind and give some idea what it would be like in that town.
A while ago, we were in a position of possibly moving with no place in mind, other than it was somewhere else. In the end we didn’t move because there was no need to, but it was surprisingly difficult to choose anywhere!
In some ways it is easier when moving to a new job, there is no time and the location is chosen for you!
There are so many factors, such as:
1) small/medium/large village/town with Waitrose/Sainsburys/Morrisons/etc nearby
2) close/not close to larger town/countryside/river/seaside/hills/mountains/lakes/church/swimming/library pool/choir/theatre
3) transportation: train/bus/airport/none
4) hobbies and social groups
5) distance to friends/relatives (large or small possible!)
6) main industry of town: office/military/tourist/academic
Good luck!
Robert C – Thanks for the common sensical thoughts.
I never want to be stuck owning a house again, so I will be looking to rent. One has the freedom to move immediately if the environment proves inadequate. When I sold my last house, I decided never to own another one. Your other thoughts are fair enough, though. That’s where I am going to fall down as it is so many years since I lived in Britain, I don’t really have a feel for the regions any more.
Bogpaper is beginning to get the hang of things: “bust the fiat money fraud in the same stroke and buy gold and silver bullion”
http://bogpaper.com/2013/06/25/czechs-caused-the-crisis/
May be it can do a Hastings/McChrystal interview with Mark Carney before the new Governor settles in and sorts out who is who in the British media.
David Ossitt,
Hope all goes/went well today
Re: Yesterday’s enquiry:
From the information that you gave San Vicente de la Barquera, Cantabria would seem to fulfil all your wife’s requirements. I have been there, and it’s a really beautiful place. It is very easy to get there, being only about 45 miles west of Santander. The Brittany Ferries service from Portsmouth to Santander is superb. (P&O also run down to Bilbao)
See also Llanes and Ribadesella. The great thing about this part of the northern coast of Spain is that if you fancy a change from the coast then you can do day trips into the mountains (Picos De Europa) The best of both worlds!
Good luck with whatever your final choice is.
Verity,
You can use the “Rightmove” website that Robert C. mentioned to search for rented property. (houses/apartments/flats)
See: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/draw-a-search.html
Follow the instructions to draw a box around the area that you are interested in.
Where is affordable these days? The rents in the S of E are generally hideously expensive, but Dorset/Somerset are worth a try. Also, avoid the new “University” towns as the rents there are skewed by the student population.
Affordable areas where there is a reduced risk of being decapitated? Avoid the West Midlands at all costs! My sister tells me that she is swore at on a daily basis whilst out shopping or walking her dog – by the children too! They are taught these things by their parents!
Try parts of: Forest of Dean, S.Wales, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, N Yorks, Northumberland and the NW (not Lake District)
Rightmove is by no means the only website for rented property (e.g Zoopla and lettingweb .com are others) but it will give you some ideas of the rents being asked.
John Jefferson Burns,
Are you actually resident in England, or are you just ‘on tour’, so to speak? If the former, and you really are a bona fide colonial, then please tell us what your attraction to the UK is. I am intrigued to know why you think that life here is better than in the USA.
EC
“My sister tells me that she is swore at on a daily basis whilst out shopping or walking her dog – by the children too! They are taught these things by their parents!”
Why are our politicians, central and local, not confronted publicly with these outrages and forced to take a position? Rabid Bumblebee of QT, and other media dignitaries, should have their noses rubbed in it. Of course anyone doing the confronting, the forcing or the rubbing must be prepared to be tarred as “far right”.
John Jefferson Burns 25th, – 13:21
“You limeys are obsessed with doing down those who do not share your Anglo Saxon race or Christian faith. You even hate my fellow country Blacks.”
Ah, well; that appears to assume that posters on here all tell the absolute truth, rather than a version of it that serves to illuminate the point they’re trying to make. 🙂
Malfleur,
My sister is a widow, not in very good health, and she doesn’t trust the police. There is nothing I can do, at present, to improve her situation.
John Jefferson Burns, 25th June @ 16:49
“They love us and wear our baseball hats”
Have you heard of our Foreign Secretary, a career politician from the age of 16 called Haig – though he had a short stint as a “management consultant” after getting an MBA.
He shares that taste in hats, though he has indulged it sparingly of late. Perhaps it is something Celtic. His second name is also Jefferson. He has written what is said to be an excellent life of William Pitt the Younger, but his biography of William Wilberforce seems to have taught him as little about islam as a study of Pitt about defvending Great Britain from its enemies. He has thrown the full weight of his office behind president Odumbo’s support of the Al Qaeda dominated Syrian rebels whose commander, Ahmad ‘Issa is quoted in interview with Al-Jazeera as follows:
,
“Islam must be the single source of authority of the state…
Interviewer: Would you object to a Christian becoming head of state?
Ahmad ‘Issa: Yes, we would not accept that..”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/syrian-rebel-commander-islam-must-be-the-single-source-of-authority-of-the-state.html
You never know where a love of baseball hats is going to lead you, Jefferson, my old pal my old beauty.
EC
I am sorry to hear of your sister’s plight. My rhetorical question was aimed at our politicians.
This makes me wonder again if there is scope at present for a website to report all such abuse. Would it play to the strengths of our enemies? or would it be beneficial to reveal how many British people find themselves on the end of abuse?
If it were a national and universal reporting mechanism then it could not be smeared as being racist, xenophobic, hate-filled etc.
EC – 09:03 ‘sworn at on a daily basis’
I expect it is the dog causing offence. Even Guide Dogs are offensive for those restricted to ‘optical sight’.
Malfleur 10:01 ‘You never know where a love of baseball hats is going to lead you’
I think WE do.
John Jefferson Burns 25th, – 13:21
“You limeys are obsessed with doing down those who do not share your Anglo Saxon race or Christian faith. You even hate my fellow country Blacks.”
Beheadings are so un-English, don’t you think? And in the street too!
Even the French, who were Christian to some degree but prone to such uncivilised behaviour, turned it into feat of engineering to disguise the grotesqueness of the act.
RobertC 26th, – 11:34
“a feat of engineering to disguise the grotesqueness of the act.”
🙂
It has been reported that Chinese mobile users sent over 900 billion text messages in 2012. The National Security Agency of the USA is, inter alia, handling these. The messages are presumably largely in Chinese.
Good luck with that…
John Jefferson Burns 25th, – 13:21
“You limeys are obsessed with doing down those who do not share your Anglo Saxon race or Christian faith. You even hate my fellow country Blacks.”
Just goes to show what a sensible lot we are, by that I do of course mean the English, nobody in his right mind would include the Irish, or the Welsh as to those savages who live north of the border, well enough said.
Are you familiar with the expression ‘tong in cheek’?
Peter from Maidstone
June 26th, 2013 – 10:49
This makes me wonder again if there is scope at present for a website to report all such abuse. Would it play to the strengths of our enemies? or would it be beneficial to reveal how many British people find themselves on the end of abuse?
What a sensible idea!
What is all of this rubbish about baseball-caps, hideous apparel.
I would not be seen dead in one, no nothing beats a good old flat-cap in Harris Tweed, or Donegal or any good country cloth or even the very pretty check ones that Daks used to make.
Bloody foreigners.
David Ossitt – 12:48 ‘‘tong in cheek’’
A misspelling! Did you mean ‘thong in cheek’?
Verity – 01:05 ‘moving to Britain’
You may be getting in on a rising market, as far as hope for the future is concerned.
Toby Young has reported it here, where:
Guardian robot baffled by Generation Y’s embrace of Thatcherism.
Incredible as it may seem, they’re not pro-immigration, pro-welfare or pro-redistributive taxation. According to Ipsos MORI, only 20 per cent of 18-34-year-olds agree with the statement “the creation of the welfare state is one of Britain’s proudest achievements”.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100223531/guardian-robot-simply-cannot-understand-why-generation-y-arent-all-good-socialists-does-not-compute-does-not-compute/?placement=mid2
We have always lived in hope, but now it is a little more hopeful than it used to be.
David, interestingly enough http://www.ukhatecrime.co.uk is available. I do think it might be useful and important to be able to measure and report the various types of abuse suffered by people, without being partisan in the way that some organisations are, such as Tell Mama. And without massaging the figures. I think it important to know who is abusing who, and in what way, and where.
For Verity on housebuying:
The same that was visible decades ago is even truer today. The West of London is populated by far more than East Anglia, not only by recent immigrants, it’s also dearer. In the east, there you find smaller towns, larger villages, still by and large populated by people who can trace their ancestry to at least the first Elizabeth. Plenty of old churches, timber frame thatched buildings (better avoided if you were to buy, expensive to maintain, much better to look at than to inhabit), also vacuous of wind turbines, still the feel of the dying good old England if one looks – concerts in barns in the summer, many villages opening their gardens for the weekend, tea and cakes and stuff like that.
If you think you want to go to London often, by train (car surcharge and parking charges are crippling in the capital, driving often impossible) then a small town, alargish village with a co-op shop or Tesco nearby alongside the Liverpool Street station to Norwich line may be something you should consider. Baron’s favorites: Bures and Sudbury, the Gainsborough country, both within less than an hour travelling to London, house prices, rents are quite reasonable, all can be googled.
RobertC @ 13:19
Thong between the cheeks, no?
Peter fmM @ 13.41
Peter, this may the hook you’re looking for, something that gives your site a unique feature which should draw people in. Provided oof of course that you cover the subject well, and not only in a non-partisan way, but that you capture as many of such ‘crimes’ as possible, and certainly more than anyone else. It needs some thinking about, you may even attract some funding from for isnt. a newspaper, for a fee you may offer the first use of the data each month, stuff like that. If Baron were you he would avoid any goovernment sourced funds, you want to stay away from the people who fiddle data.
Or, if you’re Michael Douglas, possibly tong between the cheeks. Of course, this is lateral tongking or tongking outside the box.
Malfleur @ 12.17
The language difficulty extends to arabic, Russian, other languages, too. Amazing, isn’t it that with all this data gathering the two Chechens were able to go ahead, bomb the runners, the two Woolwich thugs could slaughter a soldier…
Baron
Constable?
John Richardson @ 20.09
Only scanned your response quickly, Baron has missed it, (the barbarian always starts reading this blog from the latest back, why? God only knows0, he has to dash out again, duties, you know, but he’ll be back for you make some exceedingly good points, my blogging friend.
BARON @ 14.0
Probably because they were preoccupied translating and checking for coded messages exchanges such as:
Q; What’s for dinner?
A: Dumplings.
Q. Dumplings – again?!
RobertC June 26th, 2013 – 13:19
David Ossitt – 12:48 ‘‘tong in cheek’’
A misspelling! Did you mean ‘thong in cheek’?
Hello Robert, when I am a bit tired my dyslexia can catch me out, of course I meant ‘tongue’, my spell check did not pick up the error.
Malfleur June 26th, 2013 – 14:15
Q; What’s for dinner?
A: Dumplings.
Q. Dumplings – again?!
Nothing wrong with dumplings again, as long as they are proper suit dumplings floating on top of a good beef stew.
Baron’s favorites: Bures and Sudbury, the Gainsborough country, both within less than an hour travelling to London, house prices, rents are quite reasonable, all can be googled.
Spot on baron. Close to me, wonderful area with easy access to snape maltings and the Suffolk coast, constable country around Dedham and flatford, lovely small villages with very little of the problems of the modern world.
Also known as the secret Cotswolds by the number of well known people who live there who want to keep a low profile
For access to London go to Epping and take the tube. Don’t even think of useing your car unless you have some private parking at the destination .
What about the name http://www.reporthatecrimes.co.uk?
I’d have links to and from the CHW but keep it functionally separate?
To anyone going to this area , for a meal go to THE CROWN at stoke by Nayland .
Quality is higher than the cost.
Never had a poor meal there.
It gets very busy so I would advise booking.
When busy it’s not a problem as the children are well behaved, as children should be when in a nice restaurant .
Great church in Stoke by Nayland. Our rich knew how to spend their money in those days. Now we have the Gherkin…
Constable country! Constable country!
Peter from Maidstone June 26th, 2013 – 16:27
What about the name http://www.reporthatecrimes.co.uk?
I’d have links to and from the CHW but keep it functionally separate?
Or even http://www.reporthatecrimespseudoandreal.co.uk?
David, that might be part of the outcome of any analysis of reports, but it is probably too long a name to use, and too truthful.
Peter and Baron
Great idea.
I walk my black lab between Dedham and flatford .
Leave Dedham on the footpath to maningtree , at the judas gap turn left towards flatford and at flatford bridge cross and turn right towards willy lots cottage.
Just before the cottage is the mill pool of the haywain .
My dog loves swimming in the haywain pool.
Mind you , she loves swimming any where, I think it’s only me who appreciates where she is.
PAMELA GELLER and Robert Spencer BANNED from entering Britain.SEE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23064355
HOME OFFICE letter to Pamela Geller is at http://www.atlasshrugs.com
BAN has support of BOARD of DEPUTIES.Access their site by scrolling down at Atlas Shrugs.
Nigel Farage gets a heavyweight puff from St Mark of Steyn:
http://www.steynonline.com/5605/ukip-shakes-up-westminster
Not many have warranted a 3000 word Steynfest in the National Revue before. I think we can safely assume that Nige has arrived. Some terrific one-liners, too. Eat your heart out Davey boy. Whaddabaht thetthen, Noa me old flower?
And anoter thing Nigel; let’s hear you on the gating of Geller and Spencer, please.
Malfleur 24/7
OK, you win, Constable country it is, has always been, but it’s more John birch’s way the great man Constable painted. Baron’s favorite local painter must be and is Gainsborough who was born in Sudbury, you come, have a look, he looks upon the burghers of this little town from a pedestal in the middle of the market. He also painted scenes from around here, Baron doesn’t remember exactly the names but one is of Cornard forest (Cornard, a next door village to Sudbury, also a picture of a park (or a meadow?) near or in Ipswich, even his portraits had a background from around here, the Andrews? And to top it all, at the Sudbury station a big poster says ‘welcome to Gainsborough country’.
But, my blogging friend, and this will make you so envious of this corner of Britain (Baron calls it ‘the deep wilderness of the British Isles without the haggis and the kilt, the unrivalled garment for fornication and diarrhoea). In Sudbury, we have the dried head, the real Monty of one Simon of Sudbury who was beheaded by the Tyler’s crowd way back in the 14th century for an idea whose time it seems never comes – the poll tax, not many towns or villages can say that, so therre you are, Malfleur, eat your heart out.
and another thing, Malfleur: nothing’ s wrong with dumplings; look at the Germans, they eat alot of them and in between go try conquer people, if they fail to do it with arms, they do it with prudence. Alot to be said for dumplings, my friend.
John birch @ 17.14
lucky you and your lab, it’s lovely in and around Dedham
I’ve seen some shit emanate from the Home Office in my time, but that letter takes the cake. Roll on 2015. If this is the way that the Security Services’ increased budget is going to be used, then the quicker we get these fucking traitors out of office, the better. Mrs May is definitely ‘not conducive to the public good’ to use her own words (fuck-me-shoes notwithstanding). Perhaps she thinks she can get away with it because it’s the silly season? Surely there will be a Midatlantic eruption over this? WTF is going on??
David Ossitt 26th, – 12:48
“nobody in his right mind would include the [Northern] Irish,”
Racist! I’ll have you know, my son has taken up his missionary duties, educating the natives…he’s moved to Otley! (from Harrogate).
ps…sorry I missed the “tong in cheek” thread; now it’s so well developed there’s nowt I could gainfully add to it.
Malfleur 26th, – 14:07
Well, maybe just one…I haven’t seen “Dong in cheek” yet.
John birch 26th, – 17:14
Until I visited Suffolk for the first time, (for a funeral, unfortunately) 2½ years ago, I’d had an impression it was flat, like its western neighbour. It was a surprise to find how delightfully lumpy bits of it are. Constable and Gainsborough had a head start with scenery like that to work with.
Here we go again .
Oxford sex gang and underage white girls.
Same faces
Same looks
Could be the same people. !!!
REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Please take a moment to comment on a proposal. I’ve been asked to set up the site so that comments are paginated after 20 or 30 messages, and I have in mind having the latest comment at the top of the list.
If folk are willing for me to trial this I’ll make some changes and we can see what we think. If it doesn’t work for folk I can put it back easily enough. But there is a reasonable view from some people that having hundreds of comments makes it hard for some devices to view the page.
You have to ask, why do these girls go with such ugly bastards. ????
“The Home Secretary will seek to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good.
“We condemn all those whose behaviours and views run counter to our shared values and will not stand for extremism in any form.”
So no Pam then, strange how it doesn’t seem to relate to radical Muslims though.
John birch – 18:33 ‘why do these girls go with such ugly bastards’
For many, they are the only people people to show an interest in them, and their motives are not considered.
John Richardson @ 20.09
The barbarian from the East has always thought he occupied the top bitch spot on cynicism, but obviously he doesn’t. It’s an enjoyable rant, and Baron means it in the most positive way, sir. He reckons that two things will prevent the NHS from genuinely reforming, first, the current generation of the British don’t just dislike, they hate the notion of profits, hence no serious private money in any of the front line, key health delivering units, and second, the country lacks an individual of the Winston/Margaret kind, someone people may dislike but trust, someone of integrity, someone who has both the guts and the vision to tell the unwashed ‘it’s undoable, it’ll be bury us unless we radically change’.
The second part of your ‘essay’ sinks even deeper than the first into pure cynicism. You are both right and wrong. To drag people out of communism seems on reflection much easier than dragging communism out of people. The Czechs appear as corrupt, if not more, now than before. If we were to flop on the health delivery front many of those milking it today will again be at or near the top of the new medical hierarchies, but that’s only to be expected for they have the know how, the contacts. Hopefully, the generation or two after the current one the integrity of the set-up will get better, the example of the Czechs proves it, the younger judges, politicians, police officers seem less corruptible, if fact, they are the ones doing the ‘cleansing.
Peter from Maidstone
June 26th, 2013 – 18:33
Sounds OK to me, although not top of my priority list…”nice to have” but not “essential”.
What I’d really like is to be able to pull and edit a posting for a short period after posting, to correct any typos or unintended double entendres. Fb does it, but I suspect it might be so deep in the coding as to require a complete rewrite.
But then we’d miss having fun with “thongs in cheeks”.
Peter from Maidstone June 26th, 2013 – 18:33
“REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Please take a moment to comment on a proposal. I’ve been asked to set up the site so that comments are paginated after 20 or 30 messages, and I have in mind having the latest comment at the top of the list.”
Hello Peter, I visit the site at least twice a day; often five, six or seven times (not that I post on every visit) for me I would prefer to leave ‘The Coffee House Wall’ just as it is.
I have a number of reasons for wanting this, the first one is very simple I am a conservative and I dislike change (particularly change for changes sake), second and my main reason not wanting change, altering what works so splendidly would be folly.
Let me explain, if as I suspect, most regulars start on a Monday by reading the first half dozen posts and then probably make comment or add their own thread, this is how I start a new wall but then on each further visit I first hit the ‘end button’ and then read from the bottom up to where I had previously read to, by doing this I never miss anything nor do I have to re-read anything (unless I want to).
And so I beg you not to paginate but if you do, please do not start with having the latest comment at the top of the list, this would be dreadful, as this might well be commenting on what has gone before and this will lead to unnecessary confusion..
Ostrich (occasionally) June 26th, 2013 – 18:12
David Ossitt 26th, – 12:48
Racist! I’ll have you know, my son has taken up his missionary duties, educating the natives…he’s moved to Otley! (from Harrogate).
Otley has the second best fish and chips in Yorkshire at the ‘Cove Café’ just before the church as you drive down to the river, mind there must be at least another dozen in Otley, the best is in Harrogate ‘Graveley’s’ this is opposite the rear of Harrogate Theatre a superb fish restaurant, mind we always have the same OAP special offer.
Peter from Maidstone June 26th, 2013 – 16:55
“David, that might be part of the outcome of any analysis of reports, but it is probably too long a name to use, and too truthful.”
You are right of course but is it not a sad day when an Englishman could be ‘too truthful’?
David Ossitt@June 26th, 2013 – 19:23
Twas me who suggested pagination, for the simple reason that when on holiday the B+B had a rubbish wifi offering, and the whole of the weeks postings would not load before a timeout. Not everyone had a whizzo connection.
Or you could get this board software that does it all off the shelf. Dunno about cost.
http://www.invisionpower.com/apps/board/
David Ossitt@June 26th, 2013 – 19:33
Not been to the Magpie in Whitby then?
http://www.magpiecafe.co.uk/
(God I miss yorkshire grub. Especially the piggy pies there, known as ‘growlers’)
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2013/06/26/politicians-that-look-like-peppers/
🙂
Hello M.D.Lord & thanks fore the response.
‘It’s an enjoyable rant, and Baron means it in the most positive way, sir….’
You are correct that I am ranting. However, I’d do much more than rant if I or my ‘loved ones’ fell into the tender mercies of NHS staff I have known well. I recall one lady (I was best man at her wedding to a close friend) laughing with genuine delight at the blood and human feces on the floor of HER hospital ward.
Zero shame.
Zero responsibility.
It was honestly unpleasant to here her giggle and laugh as she described this. I felt dirty, y’know; being let in on the joke/truth.
My real ‘cynicism’ probably knows it’s origin from the disgust and pure hatred a gang of geriatric nurses I got to know harboured for their victims. They would tell us how they taunted them, you see about 20 years ago these girls started to follow me & my friends around town. Again, my experience is that staff of the NHS can be PROUD of their attitude.
That’s cynicism
Everyone has a story about the NHS. No-one wants to join the dots.
Once illusions are removed it is hard to ignore the conclusion that the NHS represents a diseased spirituality.
‘The closest thing Britain has to a religion’ in that horrid phrase of Lawson’s.
You see I agree.
It performs exactly as a false and debased religion should.
Just like socialism, the planet of **** around which the NHS orbits.
Just like socialism it’s followers SIMPLY DO NOT CARE about the painful deaths and they…..oh wait I’m repeating myself. Back to your response.
‘He reckons that two things will prevent the NHS from genuinely reforming, first, the current generation of the British don’t just dislike, they hate the notion of profits, hence no serious private money in any of the front line, key health delivering units, and………………’
Yep.
But you see this is my problem. The British worship money. House prices. lottery numbers. How many lie awake dreaming of ‘compo’ for some imaginary reason.
Yet they expect others to nurse their sick children or their dying parents and be satisfied to be called ‘Angels’.
It’s just a crock of **** a we should say so.
Oh! They don’t mind individuals being paid well, just not ‘business type profit’?
I don’t buy it.
Why don’t they care about private heath profits then?
Why not get ‘offended’ by that?
It just does not add up M.D.Lord.
Beneath ‘our pride in the NHS’ lurks a mean spirited and destructive atavism.
I call it a slave type spirit and cannot persuade myself I am harsh.
‘…..second, the country lacks an individual of the Winston/Margaret kind….’
What the country now lacks is a people WORTH LEADING back to freedom.
If my grandmother (M G R H Soul) had died in….had died in the way that we know so many have; I would have done time over it M.D.Lord. I mean real time.
No lie.
Though all that may have resulted was more secure geriatric wards (for staff obviously) and more secure I.T. databases of staff’s home addresses and movements and such like I would not have lost my soul, my self respect or my right to be treated with dignity by PRETENDING to be shocked and PRETENDING to believe the lies of authority about ‘lessons being learned’.
The NHS is a huge stinking toad squatting on this nation.
People are AFRAID TO GO INTO HOSPITAL and the bloody well should be.
The NHS is the mad bastard firstborn son of the NHS. If we do not oppose it we deserve what we get.
Regs.
Oh….that’s…
‘The NHS is the mad bastard firstborn son of the Welfare State. If we do not oppose it we deserve what we get.’
Radford NG
June 26th, 2013 – 17:46
Disgusting. I have just sent the Board of Deputies an email stating that they are all KAPOS. As far as the Home Office is concerned, it’s just what one would expect. May is just a rubber stamp controlled by the Arabists in the government. She has ordered the guy who disrupted the Boat Race to be deported, despite having a pregnant British wife, whilst Choudry and the other racist scum are free to pollute this land.
John Richardson @ 20.18
Listen, young sir, you do have a unique take on things, you should have a monthly column in print, you would be a true success even in our society of the ‘worthless’.
People only behave the way the system they live under forces them to behave. That’s one of Baron’s life tenets. And you right, many of us have got corrupted to the point we don’t deserve to be free, we haven’t resisted the mendacious, thieving politicians, they were given near free ride, either brainwashed or bribed the masses, who quite happily swapped the harsh but dignified life of the past for the chance to get obese. Fortunately for mankind, this corruption will have to end either voluntarily or in some cataclysmic implosion, but end it must. Can anything be done to speed things up? To paraphrase Claire Wolfe ‘we are at that awkward stage, it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards’.
Peter FM on pagination
How would that help, Peter? It’s an innocent question, Baron just cannot see it would make it easier to navigate through the hundreds of postings. What may help is to break the postings naturally, the way other sites do, you know, allowing a reply to a posting to be coupled with a posting. This would crate strands that are more organically grouped, make it easier for any of us to feed them without quoting either who it is we are responding to, or the time of his/her posting. If it’s difficult, just leave it as it is as David Ossitt suggests.
Peter from Maidstone
Peter, David has written it so well. It’s exactly what I think too.
David Ossitt
June 26th, 2013 – 19:23
No problem. I’ll leave it as it is. I was only responding to a post from Alexsandr. But if the general feeling is to leave things alone then I will do.
John birch @ 17:14
“My dog loves swimming in the haywain pool.”
Not yet against elf ‘n’ safety regs., then?
‘we are at that awkward stage, it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards’.
Excellent! 🙂
Frank P @ 7:55
Hear! Hear!
Although I fear that Mr. Farage is not yet strong enough politically to come out on the subject where it is limited to opposition to government exclusion of American citizens who talk frankly about the unacceptable face of islam; but if he does speak up, he might want to include the American radio talk show host, Michael Savage whose “unacceptable behaviours” range into aspects of the decline of western civilization other than pusillanimity in the face of free speech.
“[Michael Savage] holds master’s degrees from the University of Hawaii in medical botany and medical anthropology and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine. As Michael Weiner, he has written books on herbal medicine and homeopathy; as Michael Savage, he has written four political books that have reached the New York Times Best Seller List…
…Savage has characterized his views as conservative nationalism, while critics have characterized them as “fostering extremism or hatred.”He opposes illegal immigration to the United States, supports the English-only movement and argues that liberalism and progressivism are degrading American culture. Although his radio delivery is usually characterized as confrontational and politically themed, he also ruminates on medicine, nutrition, music, literature, history, theology, philosophy, sports, and culture, and tells personal anecdotes.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Savage
Recently he has taken a rather robust position against the Obama administration…
In 2009, Jacqui Smith excluded Mr. Savage from the United Kingdom on the grounds that he was “considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence”.
That same day Mr. Savage somewhat overstepped the bounds which limit characterisation of British politicians by calling Ms. Smith ‘a lunatic’ on his show.
The Wikopedia entry for Mr. Savage, though extensive, does not appear to be up to date. His radio talk programme can be followed most days of the week at You Tube, for instance on 25th June:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcWVrnIVJsA
Geller, Spencer, Savage; does anyone have the full current list of excluded persons?
The time is ripe to draw up an “Unacceptable Behaviour Policy” for British politicians and put their name on a list.
EC
England is quaint. I went down to Cornwall and loved a little place called Clovelly. Problem was that the only eaterie there was full of Germans? It reminded me of rural Pennsylvania.
The great problem I see is that you make do and tolerate second best particularly in service, whether hotels or eating
Your politics is very sad. Seems to me that Cakmeron is more liberal than Obama.
Baron @ 18:05
I am an Essex boy – Chelmsford (Galleywood). I was christened in the Church which was built in the 19th century as a counter to the gambling at that time at Galleywood racecourse which surrounds it – the racing was another civilised victim of WW2, though the Church survives) – but my parents knew the area you mention intimately and retired to Stoke-by-Nayland. An ancestor was a Sudbury wine merchant in the early 18th century.
You may be thinking of this painting of Cornard Wood which came to public attention around the time Jacqui Smith was banning Michael Savage from visiting England:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5407381/Rare-Gainsborough-uncovered-by-Antiques-Roadshow-presenter.html
Here is Constable’s Stoke by Nayland:
http://www.sandrobotticelli.org/upload1/file-admin/images/new9/John%20Constable-672932.jpg
Clovelly
Clovelly, and this seems to have escaped Mr. Burns’ attention, is usually found in Devon, (Devon-SHIRE as the Americans pronounce it), not Cornwall, a lack of attention to detail on his part which perhaps explains much.
Since I am down memory lane, I spent some time with a friend many years ago revising for Finals in Clovelly to repair the only too sizable holes in our knowledge far from the madding crowd, where we stayed in rooms above a tea shop supplied by donkeys drawing sleds if my recollection holds. My friend and I, taking a break from our studies in a rowing boat one afternoon, had to be rescued by the Clovelly lifeboat, manned by volunteers before the tide swept us to Pennsylvania. The lifeboat service has since been abolished. The rowing boats?
By the way, didn’t we decide that John Jefferson is telemachus, or am I thinking of someone else?
CLOVELLY: Glad to say an inshore lifeboat is operating at Clovelly which can be seen at RNLI/About us/stations/Clovelly/lifeboats.SEE http://www.rnli.org
Radford NG
Thanks for the news on the Clovelly lifeboat – those volunteers in the RNLI are special.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvFpmb-j8_8
Just one more time about Michael Savage: Here he is yesterday kicking off against the grab by the Obama administration to take control of the New York Police Department as part of what he sees, from a conservative position, as a coup – and goes on to play a clip from Eisenhower’s speech warning in 1955 against the military industrial complex – and much more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvFpmb-j8_8
Radford
You need good footwear in Clovelly.
And to others. I went to Clovelly on the way to Cornwall, after staying at quaint Lynmouth also in Devon, I think, if not Somersetshire.
All beat Brittany but Brittany and Cornwall are alike. Also Brittany lacks Rick Stein in a little place called by the locals Padstein.
I’m back home to day to civilisation but I will visit with you again very soon.
Savage is trying to figure out how to use the internet to bring government to account. Hear him out – if only on the principle that anyone whom Jacqui Smith doesn’t want you to hear, you should listen to.
Malfleur, June 27th, 2013 – 01:29
It’s amusing to speculate but I think that he’s far too witty to be tele.
Malfleur June 27th, 2013 – 01:29
“By the way, didn’t we decide that John Jefferson is telemachus, or am I thinking of someone else?”
No, no, JJ is far too erudite to be the nasty illiterate troll telemachus.
Beware Hildegard Hinxey!
John Jefferson Burns June 27th, 2013 – 00:16
“The great problem I see is that you make do and tolerate second best particularly in service, whether hotels or eating
Your politics is very sad. Seems to me that Cakmeron is more liberal than Obama.”
Noun: Liberal lib(u)rul.
1. A person who favours a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
2. A person who favours an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets.
By those definitions neither are Liberal but then the word ‘liberal’ has been stolen by the left to hide all socialist/Marxist tendencies.
As to us tolerating second best particularly in service, whether hotels or eating, is I am sure way off of the mark, our middle price range hotels and eateries are these days very good and the top class are truly superb.
As to the food in the US of A, I have always found the fast food, dinners, and deli’s to be of the very best but the top range restaurants have for me lacked the flair that you find in the UK.
Bill Whittle as the VPOTUS – Questioned about “Gay” marriage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAbzWiYPv6k
(un)Common sense!
John Jefferson Burns 27th, – 07:02
“Also Brittany lacks Rick Stein in a little place called by the locals Padstein.”
Isn’t that a ‘plus’ for Brittany?
David Ossitt 27th, – 09:30
🙂
I wonder when liberal stopped meaning anything pleasant. For most of my life it has not been a compliment. Did it ever mean anything good?
A liberal helping of mashed potato would be OK. But liberal theology is bad. Liberal Democrats are very bad and in any case it seems impossible for Liberals in that sense to be Democrats so it no longer seems to mean anything other than Socialist and/or anti-Traditionalist.
Peter from Maidstone
June 27th, 2013 – 10:22
My beloved maternal grandfather was a Liberal. This went with his ideas of fair play, gentle tolerance of all people, love of cricket, catholic taste in all music, from grand opera to Edwardian music hall ditties. In memory of him, I voted Liberal in the first and only time I voted at a general election. Never again. Like the expression ‘gay’, ‘liberal’ has been hijacked by the marxists in our midst.
Peter
Liberals back home are dangerous socialists conspiring to destroy the enterprise that is the essence of Our Dream.
If I were your Mr Clegg I would rename his party ‘Democrat’.
A bit pink but not red.
Apologies for interrupting the holiday atmosphere hereabouts, but this piece dropped into my mailbox today. So much for the claim by Cameron and Obama of a ‘successful’ Libyan incursion (successful for whom? … is my question). Seems that when Al Qaradawi shouts “shit!” then his courtiers (Obama and Cameron) sit and strain – or just jump on the shovel, even.
Clare Lopez in characteristic coruscating mode:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3785/us-intervention-jihad
“Libya has now become the main [North African] base for Al Qaeda. Shi’a and Sunni find common cause in hating the infidel with an even greater intensity than they hate one another. As Angelo Codevilla wrote, “They are not our friends and are unlikely to become such.” ”
Who could reasonably disagree with her inference, given the timing of both rallying cries from Al Qaradawi, that Obama is singing to the hymn-sheet of the Muslim Brotherhood? There will be blood.
Peter from Maidstone, June 27th, 2013 – 10:22
“I wonder when liberal stopped meaning anything pleasant.”
Well, it was before Jennifer Archer got up the duff, that’s for sure. Then there was the Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott affair. There was a terrible stink when it got out.
Mark Steyn weighs in over the Geller/Spencer gating:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/352156/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-mark-steyn
On the other hand a complete radio silence from our own media.
Back to holiday mode – bordering on the bizarre:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qMkYlIA7mgw
h/t Vanderleun.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/allow-pamela-geller-and-robert-spencer-to-speak-in-uk.html
Signed it.
Cigar-chompin’ John Jefferson ‘It’s a Gift to be Simple’ Burns MDCCLXXVI
I call you, Sir, for an attention-seeker and a mountebank. I hope one of your decadent country’s hydrophobic coyotes sneaks up and urinates on you one night while you are camped out under the starry skies above, not being fenced in and plotting to assassinate H M The Queen.
Somewhere on a past ‘Wall’ I gave a very long list of successful prosecutions of Muslim men almost all Pakistani or Bangladeshi from all over the UK, now I want to refer to it I can not find it.
What prompted me to look was tonight’s BBC1 six o’clock news reporting on today’s sentencing of a large group who performed their evil in Oxford, the news went on to say that the police are investigating or questioning a further fife-hundred individuals.
WHAT IT DID NOT SAY, (though it did show photographs) WAS THAT THESE EVIL MEN WERE ALL MUSLIMS.
Please let me remind you what we are always told:-
Islam is a religion of peace. = No it is not, we see it clearly demonstrated daily that it is the exact opposite.
Islamists (terrorists) are extremists and not the same as those who follow Islam. = oh yes they are, they are all out of the same nasty religion (political ideology and belief).
These evil men do what they do because they can and because their evil book that they live their life by tells them that these young girls have no value, other than as pieces of young fresh meat.
Further to my last post, it is our fault; we have lost the way, we are no longer a civilised people, we do not meter out proper justice nor do we seek to punish any of those who do foul deeds.
If there were any real justice these men (Muslim rapist gangs) would hang.
We allow debauched mothers; to almost get away with butchering their own children.
Each and every day we hear of atrocities committed by the inadequate degenerates that our despicable benefit system has produced and nurtured in their thousands.
I am heart-felt sick of it.
PfM – 10:22 ‘A liberal helping of mashed potato’
Is that a generous portion, but not necessarily where it’s wanted?
On the day that the Telegraph reports that:
Risk of UK blackouts has tripled in a year, Ofgem warns
The risk of future blackouts has trebled in the last year as Britain is facing an energy crunch that will push up bills, the energy regulator has said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10145803/Risk-of-UK-blackouts-has-tripled-in-a-year-Ofgem-warns.html
Did they realise this before or after the closure of many of our dependable power stations and construction of intermittent and uncontrollable (wind and solar driven) power stations, due to EU driven legislation, including the 2008 Climate Change Act?
We also have the announcement that
Britain’s shale gas deposits ‘could supply country for 25 years’
UK sitting on deposits that could hold at least 1,300tn cubic feet of gas, much more than previous estimates, British Geological Survey report says
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/27/britain-shale-gas-deposits-supply-25-years
Watch out for alarmism from WWF(aka WTF) and GreenPiece!
And we also have to report this sad news:
Twitchers flocking to see rare bird saw it killed by wind turbine
Scores of twitchers flocked to the Outer Hebrides to see a bird that has been recorded just eight times previously in the UK in nearly 170 years – only to see it slain by a wind turbine.
“It is tragic. More than 80 people had already arrived on the island and others were coming from all over the country. But it just flew into the turbine. It was killed instantly.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10146081/Twitchers-flocking-to-see-rare-bird-saw-it-killed-by-wind-turbine.html
David Ossitt at 19-20: You probably want `Muslim grooming paedo map`.SEE http://www.kafircrusaders.wordpress.com
Can we have a word from the gentleman who occasionally contributes from BC? I am considering going there and would appreciate some tips.
That may be me, Verity? Would you like to know anything in particular, or my own general advice too?
Are any questions going to be raised in Parliament about the circumstances in which the gang of muslim pimps recently sentenced to jail at the Old Bailey came to be living in England and the logic of the policy which determined that our economy should have available to it an increasingly large population of muslims from Pakistan and other backward areas of islam?
Silly question?
Malfleur, June 28th, 2013 – 01:19
How dare you pose such a question after all the effort that has gone into the recent campaign of, sometimes posthumous prosecution/show trials of 60’s & 70’s louche BBC slebs, and random other elderly showbiz types with one foot still in the departure lounge of life.
Any politician asking the questions that ought to be asked about the case that you mention would immediately be denounced as a racist and ejected from the Westminster gravy train forthwith. The only UK politician with the balls big enough to comment on the matter would be Nigel Farage.
Much hot air has been generated by the Wimmin of the Westminster village about the fact that, apart from HQ Queen, there will shortly be no women featuring on British banknotes. If they want to get on to banknotes ,Women face some stiff competition from the men.
Talking of stiffs, after reading this…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255054/60-000-patients-death-pathway-told-minister-says-controversial-end-life-plan-fantastic.html
… the other week, I am wondering how long it will be before Dr. Harold Shipman appears on a Tenner.
Jeremy “Logan’s Run” Hunt, eh?
Ahem. That should be “HM Queen”.
My apologies.
Please pass the Brompton’s.
As usual, e&oe
A Tory MP has said, ‘Grant all illegal immigrants an amnesty to stay in Britain’. He calls calls for a ‘seismic’ change in policy to attract the minority vote.
Who says?
Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi believes the all illegal immigrants should be given an amnesty to remain in the country
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350471/Grant-illegal-immigrants-amnesty-stay-Britain-Tory-MP-calls-seismic-change-policy-attract-minority-vote.html
You couldn’t make it up, could you?
RobertC – 09:54 ‘Tory Party intelligence’
I am really fed up with these UKIP recruiting agents, even if they are beneficial!
They get everywhere!
Seems the moslems are aware of the paedo problem in their midst – a sermon is to be given at mosques throughout Britain calling for respect for vulnerable children. Sadly, the BBC can’t quite match this outbreak of candor, and felt obliged to preface the headline with the assertion that “Most grooming is done by white males online” (Radio 4, Today).
Even if this is true, why mention it?
It’s interesting that Nadhim Zahawi is one of the co-founders of YouGov and was its Chief Executive until 2010 when he walked into a Parliamentary Seat.
Wheels within wheels.
He is of course an immigrant himself.
In fact it is interesting that the MP for Stratford upon Avon resigned and was made a Peer and then Nadhim Zahawi was parachuted into a very safe Conservatve seat, guaranteed election.
Wheels within wheels.
All the more reason for an independent polling organisation I think.
If fact, listening to it on iPlayer, I see the beeb has shrunk from using the words Islam or Muslim (though it does say Pakistani – racist!), settling just for imam and mosque. And the religious affairs chap seems to play down the imam’s assertion that this is a real problem in the muslim world.
Hear the evidence here, 1:03:50.
Frank Sutton 28th, – 10:42
Broadly agree with you, except that I believe the moslems who are the problem won’t be seeing themselves as a problem.
Questions I have (with faint hope of ever seeing answers) are:
Who selected this imam (from Keighley, I understand) to write this sermon?
Is this sermon his genuine view, or is he simply practising taqqiya & kitman?
In what language will it be disseminated?
Which is important because, given the likely absence of kufr at any of the sermons nobody knows if the imam reading the sermon is going to prefix it with, “This is all a load of sh*te but I’ve been ordered to read it out. Feel free to ignore it as you will.”
How are we going to be sure that there is full attendance at mosques to hear the (hopefully uncorrupted) sermon?
Will there be a way to compel every mosque to have the sermon read out?
Is the reading of this sermon going to be used as an excuse for this pusillanimous government to say, “OK, that’s the problem solved. Nothing to see here. Move on.”
and do sod all else?
Coming soon at that new ‘community centre’ (cum grooming parlour) near you:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3786/germany-mosque-loudspeakers
RobertC
June 28th, 2013 – 09:54
“A Tory MP has said, ‘Grant all illegal immigrants an amnesty to stay in Britain’.”
The Senate of the United States just Neathered the American people on the question of granting amnesty to 30 MILLION MEXICANS ILLEGALLY IN THAT COUNTRY. That’s their House of Lords filled with the same kind of placemen and vendors of principle and bation as we have here. With any luck, the House of Representatives will throw this criminal legislation down the Capitol steps.
We are witnessing a coordinated attack on the Anglosphere.
Frank P – 12:23
The Gatestone Institute looks like a good source of information.
Frank P . 12.3
Drip, drip, drip.
A little more
A little more
!!!
I know what I hope happens to that muslim gang from Oxford when they are in prison. I think Frank P could describe what their fate should be, far better than I can. Then, if they are still alive, I’d like to see them thrown to the hyenas and jackals in the Zoo. Alas, I think that they will have an easy ride, since the bleding heart judiciary will take pity on them when they complain about the other prisoners persecuting them.
Herbert Thornton 00:42 — Yes, general advice is always a good starter. Cost of renting a two-bedroom flat in a quiet, OK neighbourhood would be useful. Is there an NHS service?
I get the feeling it may be rather expensive … although the same can be said about ust about anywhere, but are there nice, reasonably-priced normal neighbourhood with rentals. I never want to own another house again. I’m assuming that the people are generally courteous and well-behaved, as Canadians tend to be.
Where would be the best place in BC to live, given price considerations?
How’s the medical care?
Thank you!
Thank you.
PS – I didn’t intend two effusive “thank you”s at the end. I was interrupted by a phone call.
AWK – Yes, it would be easy for them to have a forray into victimhood for audience of the bleeding hearted judiciary system, but I like to think that a lot of our common louts have more nous than the judges and may impulsively take matters into their own hands.
I have a feeling those prisoners are in for some interesting times ahead.
Telegraph today bought midday.
1/12 of a page, which is page 18.
Child sex gang given life terms.
No photos. Tiny story lost inside the paper.
I missed it first look.!!!
Just how much pressure is being put on newspapers to play down these ongoing story’s .
Anne Wotana Kaye 1, June 28th, 2013 – 14:57
They will be segregated from the kuffars and infidels. They will mix freely with their own kind, and become more radicalised and dangerous to our society. Depressing isn’t it.
EC – I think our own, British louts are cleverer than the muslim louts. I have no doubts who will will get the better in any little disturbances and look forward to the news with pleasurable anticipation.
EC
June 28th, 2013 – 15:40
Agree with you. We must have Capital Punishment.
Verity
June 28th, 2013 – 16:15
Verity, I’m afraid you have been away a long time. The authorities will come down heavily on the ‘British louts’ like they do with the EDL. The judiciary bend over backwards, ass in the air to the scum.
AWK 1 – 16:26
You post reminds me of the impossible: He bent over backwards to lick his boots.
RobertC – 17:38
Someone else’s, of course!
Anne Wotana Kaye 1 June 28th, 2013 – 16:26
“We must have Capital Punishment.”
Yes hang them, that is after they have had their ‘whatsits’ cut off and sewn into their mouths.
Perhaps I should have been born an Athabascan Apache.
Verity,
BC is roughly half the area of Mexico, with large mountain ranges, so there’s a big range of climates. It varies from very rainy to semi-desert and from moderate average temperatures to harsh. Victoria at the extreme south west of BC is at roughly the latitude as Paris but with drier summers and usually mild winters. For example, in Victoria we had no snow last winter – though about once every 20 years we’ve had heavy dumps of it.
The interior of BC includes an area running north-south called the Okanagan Valley – with high Mountains to both the west and east of it. The climate there is generally sunny with moderate rain at the north end and much less rain at it’s south end where there are a good many vineyards). The Okanagan valley has three towns, all very pleasant. Vernon is at the north end, Kelowna in in the middle and Penticton is at the south Another very dry town in the Interior is Kamloops. It reminded me a bit of Aden.
Vancouver is by far the biggest city. It’s on the extreme south west corner of the Canadian mainland. Some people confuse it with Vancouver Island but Vancouver Island is a roughly a 1 1/2 hour ferry journey away. Vancouver is quite cosmopolitan. One of the suburbs (Richmond) has become so Chinese that some people now talk about Hongcouver.
Vancouver Island is largely mountainous. It’s about 12,000 sq. miles and 50 miles wide. Most of it’s population is in or near Victoria but there are various smaller towns up its east coast – some of them popular with people who’ve retired from the military. The climate on the east coast of Vancouver Island is rather like the English south coast.
If you want big city life – then the choice is Vancouver and suburbs. Somewhere not quite so big and bustling – then Greater Victoria at the south end of Vancouver Island. Everywhere else is either smallish town or rural.
Cost of renting a 2-bedroom flat in a quiet, OK neighbourhood is difficult for me to assess. Vancouver would probably be the most expensive, with Victoria not far behind. Even for Victoria I can only make what an appraiser would call guesstimate. Maybe somewhere between $800 to $1500 a month for a nice 2-bedroom flat (here – “apartment”). At this point I suggest you Google the name of a town that you think might appeal with “newspaper classifieds” – e.g. “Victoria Times Colonist newspaper classifieds”. For Vancouver, try the classifieds in the Vancouver Sun and The Province newspapers. All sorts of rental accommodation is listed.
To see what a place actually looks like I recommend Google Earth or similar. If you type in the name of any place – town street or even rural road, you can not only get a satellite view of it, but you can switch to a street view and – on your computer screen – actually drive up that very street, looking at the properties on either side. (It even worked when I typed in ONLY the name of the country lane where I grew up (“Snapewood Lane”). I could hardly believe my eyes, but there is was, including every bend in the lane, & every hedge, gatepost & house.)
BC has a sort of NHS. There are complaints about it and a shortage of doctors too, but I’ve not heard of problems anything like so nasty as we read about in Britain.
We seldom, these days, read Good News. Here, at last, is an exception –
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/27/hate-speech-no-longer-part-of-canadas-human-rights-act/
Let’s hope that the de-fanging of politically correct tyranny continues until it’s complete.
From an Australian correspondent in my dispatches this morning:
CONVERSATION BETWEEN A LADY INTERVIEWER AND A MALE BEER DRINKER:
LADY INTERVIEWER: DO YOU DRINK EVERY DAY?
MAN: YES.
LADY INTERVIEWER: HOW MUCH A DAY?
MAN: AROUND 3 SIX-PACKS STARTING AT NOON.
LADY INTERVIEWER: HOW MUCH DOES A 6-PACK COST?
MAN: ROUGHLY $10_ _AT A DELI.
LADY INTERVIEWER: AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING LIKE THAT?
MAN: 15 YEARS.
LADY INTERVIEWER:SO WITH A SIX-PACK COSTING $10, AND YOU CONSUMING 3 SIX-PACKS A DAY, YOU ARE SPENDING ROUGHLY $900 EACH MONTH. IN ONE YEAR, YOU WOULD THEN BE SPENDING $10,800, CORRECT?
MAN: CORRECT.
LADY INTERVIEWER: IF IN 1 YEAR YOU SPEND $10,800 ON BEER, NOT ACCOUNTING FOR INFLATION, 15 YEARS PUTS YOUR SPENDING ROUGHLY $162,000; CORRECT?
MAN: CORRECT.
LADY INTERVIEWER: DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU THAT IF YOU DID NOT DRINK FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS, YOU COULD HAVE BOUGHT A FERRARI?
MAN: DO YOU DRINK?
LADY INTERVIEWER: NO.
MAN: SO WHERE’S YOUR FUCKIN’ FERRARI?
A visa for a visit to the United States for Tommy Robinson?
fuhgeddaboudit
A visa and invitation to the White House for Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah?
Come right this way, Sir (bow, bow, scrape, scrape).
Sheik who?
“a leading supporter of Hamas and endorsed Islamist terrorism against U.S. troops in Iraq. If that isn’t enough, he’s also a disciple of radical Egyptian cleric Yusuf Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who is banned from the U.S. as a result of his repeated calls for the murder of both Jews and Americans” (h/t Commentary Magazine)
http://www.investigativeproject.org/4055/exclusive-banned-cleric-outspoken-deputy-visits
Another halal canapé, your Sheikship? Now, you were saying to the members of the National Security Council…?
If you are a British government official anxious to stay quids in with the newly formed banana republic in Washington DC and so are considering an invitation to members of the Muslim Brotherhood or other islamist terrorist organisations for discussions, here are some recipes. You are advised to pass these recipes to the sharia court in London for review and approval, before serving any of them:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/canape
United States Ambassador Anne Patterson to Coptic Pope Tawadros II on how Christians in Egypt should respond to the efforts by the Muslim Brotherhood to establish an islamist state in Egypt:
“Stay home”.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/u-s-asks-egypts-christians-not-to-oppose-morsi/
Ed MILLIBAND calls for second-most-famous female member of Conservative Party to appear on Bank-notes:that’s Mrs.Emmeline Pankhurst……She was very keen on Canada,too.
An impeccable denunciation by Melanie Phillips of Teresa May’s decision to gate Geller and Spencer. Imagine how much better our country would be managed if Melanie were Home Secretary:
http://melaniephillips.com/the-british-governments-jihad-against-free-thought
… not sure which party would be fit to accommodate her talent, though.
RobertC (13.40)
Yes indeedy: the Gatestone link is on our blog roll; a number of the best US righters (sic) contribute and so does Douglas Murray from time to time. The most clued up lass is Clare M Lopez – Company (rtd) … do they ever? … who is one of the best ME analysts in the world and has the Muslim Brotherhood nailed. She has her own website too. You may have read some of the stuff I’ve been linking from her over the past month or so? Her opus major (imho) is this one which I’ve posted twice before, but it’s worth another reminder:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3726/axis-of-jihad
Take the time to follow all her highlighted sub-links. Her notations and sourcing are assiduous. A fellow culture warrior of the highest order.
Here’s her biog:
http://lopez.pundicity.com/about/
Melanie Phillips
Ms. Phillips is under great pressure by reason of her strong views on the moral and political disaster that is unfolding in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. I believe that this pressure forces her into a tactical position of drawing a line between what she pleases to characterise as the “respectable” on one side and the unrespectable on the other. This is of course the formula which underpins the notion of the “politically correct”: thus if you are not politically correct, so you are unrespectable, and as members of the unrespectable you can be excluded, whether from debate or entry to countries where the politically correct are in power.
Ms. Phillips writes on her blog on the Home Secretary’s attack on free speech and free assembly this week: “Personally, I believe the EDL is not a respectable platform to join”.
I repeat that I recognize the precariousness of Ms. Phillips’ position in the media, but I suggest that if she wishes to stand on only respectable platforms then she should continue to accept invitations to join Question Time.
I am sure that Ms. Phillips is only too well aware that there are influential people who consider her views on many matters she deals with in her blog, her columns for the Daily Mail and as spoken on Question Time to be unrespectable, “and at worst are truly racist or xenophobic”.
I do not. She is a robust defender of freedom, liberty and civilised conduct.
On this occasion however, with regard to her opinions on the association of Ms. Geller and Mr. Spencer with the EDL I consider her to be ill-informed, perhaps for the tactical reasons which I have mentioned and which I would understand.
RobertC
Further to my 01:23 – actually this was an earlier link that I posted in April, which was the one I meant to cite as her ‘opus major’ – which includes the details of the Muslim Brotherhood Project (which the regulars here are familiar with, particularly those who followed Scott Burgess on the now defunct Daily Ablution blog);
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3672/muslim-brotherhood-us-government
You will note that Clare’s report was dated at 5am on 15th April this year – just a few hours prior to a very significant development in the ‘war on terror’. Prescient, or what? Obviously the FBI dealing with the Boston Marathon bombing hadn’t bothered to consult Clare, never mind ignoring the warnings from Russia.
Melanie Phillips and Robert Spencer (further)
Since posting my comment at 01:44 above, I have come across the following riposte to Ms. Philipps blog by Mr. Spencer:
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/melanie-philips-friendly-fire/
Ill informed?? Au contraire! Tactical reasons? I suggest you take that up with her: let us know how she responds.
Melanie Phillips and Pamela Geller (further)
Here is Ms. Geller’s response to Ms. Phillips’ piece.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/06/with-friends-like-melanie-phillips-who-needs-enemies-articulate-and-useless-phillips-writes-i-do-not-support-the-appro.html
Nah, my choice would be Maggie. Just imagine – all the lefties having to put up with being confronted by her on a daily basis! 🙂
Previous comment addressed to: Radford NG, June 29th, 2013 – 00:49
Re: Women on banknotes!
As usual, e&oe
Perfidious MP for stratford talking carp again
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350471/Grant-illegal-immigrants-amnesty-stay-Britain-Tory-MP-calls-seismic-change-policy-attract-minority-vote.html
Well I wont be voting for him in 2015 if he spouts rubbish like that. (He is my MP)
He is the founder of YouGov, Alexsandr, and your previous MP was given a peerage to make way for him in a very safe Tory seat. It is a mockery of democracy.
You might have well just had David Cameron announce ‘Behold, your MP!’
Peter from Maidstone@June 29th, 2013 – 13:53
his predecessor, John Maples, had to leave the Commons because he claimed the Royal Automobile Club was his main residence, therefore claimed his house on the south midlands was a second home and claimed expenses for it. A crime for which he received a life sentence -to the House of Lords.
I’d like to know more about Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd tho. but no website.
I have just a few observations on this current, this latest case of Muslim child molesters and rapist centred on Oxford.
But first, some time ago, I did some research and posted the results here on the ‘Wall’ but for the life of me I can not find the link that I found that showed that previous to the Oxford Case and the recent Rotherham case there had been 62 such cases, NOT 62 individuals but 62 cases of gangs of Muslim men (nearly all of Pakistani origins) who were defiling young white girls. The numbers of men in these gangs were anywhere from four or five to as many as nine ten and eleven over and over and above this are the literally 100’s of men who paid these gangs to rape these children.
Throughout all of these obscenities; social services, the police and councils have in effect turned a blind eye to all of this suffering.
And we all know why, because we must not upset the followers of the profit.
I started by writing “I have just a few observations on this current, this latest case of Muslim child molesters” well here they are.
The mainstream media in particular the BBC are playing down the reporting of these cases, in this latest case I have found no mention anywhere that these evil men are all Muslim but what I have noticed is the BBC in particular roles out the same old garbage that most child molesters are white, yes they are, but they are not working in gangs like packs of hyenas picking off these poor vulnerable young wretches.
Up until now none of the girls have been anything other than white non-Muslims but now we have one young Muslim girl telling her story on the evening news and the BBC has as you might well have expected is falling over itself to show that we have been wrong all along to see these Muslim/Pakistani rape of white girls as a racist act.
Nearly done, my final observation and if there are any of you who can explain this to me I will be very grateful, we are told that when the Judge Peter Rook was sentencing these sadistic evil men to terms in prison ranging from 7, 12, 15, 17, and in one case a Mohamed Karrar (I think an Eritrean) will serve a minimum of 20 years, the report goes on to say that Mohamed Karrar had refused to appear in court to be sentenced.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT AN EVIL SHIT HEAD CAN REFUSE TO BE IN COURT TO HEAR HIS SENTENCE?
Should he not have been dragged into court in manacles.
Alexsandr….
Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd is an Active business incorporated in England & Wales on 16th June 2010. Their business activity is recorded as Other Business Support Service Activities N.e.c.. Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd is run by 2 current members. 2 shareholders own the total shares within the company. It is not part of a group.
The latest Annual Accounts submitted to Companies House for the year up to 30/06/2012 reported ‘cash at bank’ of £1,440, ‘liabilities’ worth £77,676, ‘net worth’ of £108,243 and ‘assets’ worth £76,669. Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd’s risk score was amended on 02/04/2013.
David Ossitt@June 29th, 2013 – 16:02
could you post a list please?
Alexsandr June 29th, 2013 – 16:53
David Ossitt@June 29th, 2013 – 16:02
“could you post a list please?”
Hello Alexsandr, that is just the problem I can not find the link that took me to the full list of cases, it is as though these are being hidden.
Alexsandr..
Every month this is added to the Register of Members Interests..
28 April 2013, received monthly salary of £2,916.67. Hours: 7 hrs.
That’s about £420 an hour for something. He attends board meetings of SThree, an international specialist recruitment business once a month.
Also…
Clients Of Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd:
YouGov Plc; research and consulting. Address: 50 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8RT
IPBD Limited; steel manufacture, property development and general trading. Address: PO Box 122361, 14th Level, Al Safa Towers, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE.
Execution Noble Ltd (incorporated by Espirito Santo Investment Bank); investment banking. Address: 10 Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7AL (Registered 2 September 2011)
Killik & Co; independent advisory stockbroking and investment service. Address: 46 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 3HN (Registered 8 November 2011)
Christofferson, Robb & Company (UK) LLP; private money management firm. 28 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AB. (Registered 8 November 2011)
Afren Plc; independent exploration and production company in the oil and gas industry. Address: 10001 Woodloch Forest Drive, Suite 360, The Woodlands, Texas 77380, USA, (Registered 2 July 2012)
And he makes visits to Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
He remains a shareholder of YouGov.
Peter from Maidstone@June 29th, 2013 – 16:57
But is he dodgy?
I wouldn’t trust the founder of YouGov. And do you really think that someone given a safe seat by David Cameron would then say something like ‘Let’s grant an amnesty to all illegal immigrants’ without it being exactly what Cameron wishes to be said. He is saying it because to object to him is to be a xenophobe and a racist.
Why am I sick of life in Britain today? Example: Went to the WestEnd to visit the wonderfu; Wallace Collection in Manchester Square. En route down Oxford Street, we saw the main road was closed to traffic and men wearing London Pride T-shirts were manning the barricades. We thought it was a march respecting the armed forces, and checked. It was GAY PRIDE! Now why they should parade just because they commit sodomy I do not know. The fact that Cameron has lauded them, I can guess why. Just look at his prissy little mouth, need I say more? In the meantime, two EDL supporters have been arrested for doing nothing more than planning a walk from Aldgate East. Why cannot normal people have a parade proudly proclaiming that they survive and fight on despite this depraved and corrupt government?
Well said to AWK, as always! Applause!
Alexsandr, I notice that Zahawi has:
Voted strongly for more EU integration.
Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT.
Voted for Labour’s anti-terrorism laws.
Voted very strongly for university tuition fees.
Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year.
Out of 647 votes he has only voted other than with the majority of Conservatives on 8 occasions. These were only for 2 bills. In one of these he was boting with Cameron that there should be no legal redress for those who cannot accept ‘gay marriage’ on principle. So his rebellions even were against the consevrative view and in support of Cameron.
He is a very loyal Cameroon and deserves the gift of a parliamentary seat.
Verity
June 29th, 2013 – 17:37
Thanks Verity. I am afraid that this is a Police State, and before you commit yourself taking out a lease here, I strongly advise you to make a trip and seriously feel out what is happening in the country today. It was rotten here in Brown’s time, but he was a socialist, and a mad one to boot, so one couldn’t expect much else. Cameron was elected on the Tory ticket, and it’s hard to believe he would be here today if he had revealed his true colours. He is a degenerate braying Quisling, who is pure evil.
Peter from Maidstone@June 29th, 2013 – 17:44
Yhey would vote for a baboon round here if it were a tory. There was a liberal revival in the 90’s but that will go.
But Stratford Disctrict Council is full of daft tories, and is hated in the towns and villages outwith stratford.
anyway, why do i need 5 layers of government. parish, district, county, westminster and EU. Should be room to prune some of that. I’d get rid of the district councils.
AWK – Thanks for the response and I take your points, and I am certainly not looking for an exciting life or a life where the politicians would drive me nuts (although, except for Singapore and a couple of other countries, this is a normal condition). But I’d like to find a small (one-or-or-two small bedrooms) to settle into and be back in Britain. Home. I have three clean, well-behaved cats who have nudged me as I write this, reminding me of possible trees to climb).
Britain, northern France, Denmark or Canada would all be suitable candidates.
P from M – Apologies for trespassing with a Want Ad and won’t do it again!
Alexsander – I’d vote for the baboon and prune the rest.
Verity@June 29th, 2013 – 19:28
Look at the marches, like Hereford, Leomisnter, Ludlow and Church Stretton. Proper unspoiled old england. May be pricey to rent there tho.
Alexsandr – Thanks. Not looking for pricey and not looking for “unspoiled old England”, which I already saw when I was growing up in Britain. Just an ordinary small house in a settled neighbourhood to house one person.
Re Zahawi and the illegals amnesty: I wonder (and this is a genuine question, I don’t know) how many legal immigrants and settled descendants of same would support such an amnesty?
It seems that Zahawi has caught progressive whitey’s patronising assumption that people in ethnic minority groups are all of one mind.
Alexsandr at 16-53 : You will find a list under `Muslim grooming paedo map`at http://www.kafircrusaders.wordpress.com
Malfleur, sir, how com you’ve missed this, ha?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p-l1bNYosc&feature=player_embedded
Verity,
I was going to suggest Uruguay – until I saw this:
“More recent immigrants include Peruvians and Arabs.”
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uy.html
So, even little old Uruguay is on the Saudi funded hit list!
SHARIA LAW IMPOSED ON LONDON. Tommy Robinson and friend intended to walk at lunch-time carrying wreaths from central London,through the bandit country of Tower Hamlets, to Woolwich where they would be met by Geller and Spencer.The Met first warned they would be arrested if anyone accompanied them.Then yesterday an order was taken-out forbidding their walk as it would cause public disorder and if they attempted it they would be arrested (this was only reported by the Belfast Telegraph).The Met declared they could only go from Hyde Park to New Palace Yard where they would be allowed to stay for two hours.//….//As it was they both set-out and were stopped by police on the border of bandit country[and were assulted by two bandits].When they refused to go back they were arrested and taken to a police station.Further information is at the usual places(G. of V. and Atlas Shrugs)and at http://www.barenakedislam.com/category/islamic-britain/
It’s shameful that just two men can be seen to pose such a threat to law and order that they must be arrested for walking peacefully on the Queen’s Highway. The fact is that the peace was likely to be disturbed by those on the extremist left, supporters of Islam and totaliarianism. I hope that they can sue the police for wrongful arrest.
TOWER HAMLETS is the historic,Cockney,East End of London [not to be confused with BBC’s Eastenders].It includes such places as:Bow;Millwall;Limehouse;Popular;Spitalfields;Stepney;Wapping;and Whitechapel.Also Brick Lane[which I thought was south of the river]. The 2011 Census has it that 41% are Asian (mainly Bengalis,32%);7%are Black (mainly Somalis).Religion,where stated,is:Islam 32%….Information from Wikipedia.
“The 2011 Census has it that ….”
The last census that there will ever be!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10584385
Censuses are obviously haram!
Attention: Canadians. I want to vacate Mexico and move back to Canada where I will have the rights of a citizen of the Commonwealth. Does anyone gave any suggestions about areas I should look in (in a temperate climate), modestly-priced area? I’d like a comfortable train ride as I haven’t been on a train for at least 20 years. Ideas?
(Please forgive the intrusion, Peter. I know this isn’t a Want Ads column and won’t refer to it again.)
Melanie Phillips responds to criticism:
http://www.melaniephillips.com/a-hysterical-and-ignorant-response
This is about a virus of the biological kind:
Fears new deadly virus in Middle East could go global as millions prepare to visit the region for annual pilgrimage
* Health officials in Saudi Arabia prepare for Hajj pilgrimage this autumn
* Middle East Respiratory Syndrome currently causing concern in area
* Deadly new virus is believed to be even more dangerous than SARS
* Millions from across globe are preparing to visit region for pilgrimage
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351555/Middle-East-Respiratory-Syndrome-Fears-deadly-virus-global-millions-prepare-annual-pilgrimage.html
Frank P – June 29th – 01:44 ‘The Gatestone Institute’
Thank you! I have been speeding past the Blogroll list, down to the latest postings.
I will need to pause a little more often at this link-fest.
Obama is forgetting of which country he is president:
Obama calls for calm as Egypt braces for more violence
President Obama has called on Egypt to step back from confrontation as supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood armed themselves for a fight for the country’s future.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/10150459/Obama-calls-for-calm-as-Egypt-braces-for-more-violence.html
RobertC (01:42)
This guy thinks that the POTUS should be more concerned with things closer to home:
http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/pray-for-the-safety-of-president-obama/
Must say, I’m amazed he has lasted this long.
EC (23:07)
🙂
MUFTI CULTURISM : Scimming through the many comments [c.2,000] at Yahoo News about the arrest of Tommy Robinson;in one of them I misread `multi culturism` for “mufti culturism”!—– Was I right first time?
Frank P, June 30th, 2013 – 02:18,
Some interesting scenarios there! Several things rang true, even over here in the UK. eg.
Former LA Cop Paul Hueb’s misgivings about an upcoming societal meltdown are supported by the fact that in the US there is a nationwide shortage of ammunition. The shelves of gun stores across the USA are bare! The shortage started in 2008 partly due to some panic buying by gun owners fuelled by their mistrust of the incoming Obama “administration.” In recent years the shortage has been caused almost entirely by US government contracts. They’ve been buying up ALL the ammunition- across the board!
There’s nothing in the US constitution about having “the right to ammunition.” A ban by the back door, or am I being too cynical?
Baron
June 29th, 2013 – 20:02
Thanks for the link to answeringmuslims.com through the piece on youtube. I had not previously been aware of the blog. The speaker, possibly the man who posted the video, David Wood, comes across as a North American Pat Condell. Among current blogs, the site points up the deplorable politicisation of the English police by noting:
(1) that when Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll of the EDL were attacked on Saturday by an EDL opponent, it was the two EL leaders who were arrested;
and,
(2) “A month after her 15th birthday, she [Katie] told police that one of her abusers, Akhtar Dogar, was forcing her to have sex with him and other men [following “grooming” which had begun when she was 12].
But instead of following up these allegations, she said officers threatened to arrest her for wasting police time”.
The obvious response to an intrusive state is to intrude right back. This is especially true where the state is not applying the law equally. In the United States it has been grudgingly and patchily confirmed that video-taping of police is protected under the First Amendment although many police forces in the USA have yet to take the constitutional refresher course. See for instance:
http://www.flexyourrights.org/7-rules-for-recording-police/
http://gizmodo.com/5900680/7-rules-for-recording-police
The question of the rights to freedom of speech and assembly, not to mention the much curtailed right to bear arms, is a much more murky area of the law in England where we do not of course have the clarity, or what was the original clarity, of the American Bill of Rights.
Nonetheless, I would suggest that it is important that we push back in the United Kingdom and this should begin with studying how we may lawfully spy on the spiers, arrest the arresters, inform on the informers, and generally hold the state to account when it chooses against the grain of the law and the constitution, and in contravention of natural rights, to use its power against those exercising their rights rather than those who are violating the rights of others.
It is often said that there is too much emphasis today on rights at the expense of responsibilities. Quite true – so let us press the state on its responsibilities.
Thank you again, Baron, for the link – another one for my rapidly growing personal blogroll!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351774/Social-workers-meddle-family-home-bid-prevent-accidents-children.html
Faced with a social worker on the doorstep, I would urge all decent folk to overcome their inhibitions and upbringing and respond with extreme violence.
Whistleblowing on a Corrupt and Dangerous State
The police mind, at its best, may grapple with the idea that a man could betray the state yet remain a patriot, but is finally unable to wring a blessing from the angel.
So new stress awaits such a person with the news (h/t Drudge Report) that yet another* treasonous hound, Mr. Wayne Madsen, has surfaced from the NSA pack to disclose the scope of agreements between NSA and European governments, including the UK, to spy on their own citizens. The police mind will automatically respond that these arrangements must be “conducive to the public good”, the woolly catch-all test it will be remembered that kept Michael Savage, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer out of England, and thus whoever disclosed them cannot be a patriot – end of any further though required on behalf of our real patriot.
http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/incision/former-nsa-contractor-warns-of-murky-interception-arrangements/
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/29/nsa_reportedly_has_secret_data_collection_agreement_with_several_european_countries/
* see also for instance William (Bill) Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe whose simple and economic approach to the investigation would not only have saved the fortune spent by NSA but, in their estimation, had it been adopted would have anticpated and prevented the detruction of the World Trade Center towers.
Good News – Attracting More Butterflies to England
Robin Lane Fox, classicist and amateur gardener par excellence, reports in his regular column on the back page of the House & Home section of the Weekend FT that as the result of vinous dinners with the Oxford professor of ecology, Jeremy Thomas, who recently reintroduced the large blue butterfly into England, their Oxford college is about to give birth to hundreds of brimstone butterflies as a result of the judiciously sited planting of buckthorn. More news in August when they swarm.
How are the butterflies doing in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Yorkshire?
Malfleur 29 June at 23-46 : Here is a response to Melanie Phillips.She writes:”…..provocative stunts [link to video]…..the punch….comes in response to being pushed”.Not quite so.In a narrow tunnel `man in red`steps in front of Tommy blocking camera view,but showing `cross armed man`.Tommy clearly staggers to his left;then Kevin pushes `cross arm`away and is punched.Police move-in and chase off the two bandits(I’m not sure if they got arrested).Police block end of tunnel and arrest Tommy and Kevin.There is a series of annotated `stills`explaining this,if the link works.SEE pic.twitter.com/UwZg2P8HSF
Above:possibly; http://www.pic.twitter.com/UwZg2P8HSF
Probably: http://pic.twitter.com/UwZg2P8HSF
Malfleur 30th, – 09:19
“How are the butterflies doing in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Yorkshire?”
Crap in Northumberland…I’ve seen one small tortoiseshell & one large white so far. But I guess after last ‘Summer’ & Autumn not many will have even made it to chrysalis stage.
The blue tits fledged on Monday. 🙂 By Wednesday there were two dead, having flown into windows. 🙁 But the others seem to be managing OK, flitting around the feeders in the apple tree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mEI0TKkX9_o
Any of you who think you still live in a free Country are just fooling yourselves.
The`bandit`in the above video is identified as Richard Purcell,a left-wing activist.SEE http://www.casualsunited.wordpress.com
Clear Memories
Thank you for the link.
I feel sorry for these rank and file policemen and policewomen.They seem embarrassed to appear under orders to manufacture an arrest. They are constrained to bring the law and their uniform into disrepute.
Radford NG
Very instructive to see these agents provocateurs, Cole and Purcell, in action – characters like Bushy and Green in Shakespeare’s Richard ll.
It points up how dangerously naive Melanie Phillips is on the question of the EDL.
Ostrich (occasionally)
All may not be lost.I think the insects should be only in caterpillar form just now.
Malfleur 30th, – 13:06
“All may not be lost.I think the insects should be only in caterpillar form just now.”
Indeed, but I was referring to last year’s lost brood. Most years we see small tortoiseshells overwintering in the garage, also the occasional wasp queen, but this winter we had nix, nada, nowt.
On the other hand, my sparrow nesting box has been taken over by bumble bees…not what I would have desired, but nature has her own wonderful ways…
Malfleur 30th, – 09:19
“How are the butterflies doing in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Yorkshire?”
http://butterfly-conservation.org/52/first-sightings-2013.html
Here in the South none of the usual suspects have failed to appear but, like last year, everything is a little later due to an arrested/dismal Spring. Happy to report that Brimstones have been as common as muck, so to speak. We are eagerly awaiting the first Purple Emperor.
I see that the Polish Tory MP, Daniel Kawczynski, received a standing ovation from the Shrewsbury Conservative Association when he told them he had a boyfriend.
He suggests that he is a Catholic, but it is very difficult to see how being a faithful Catholic is compatible with divorcing your wife, having sexual relations with a man, and proposing that you might well have sexual relations with women, or other men, in the future. It might be the definition of a Tory MP, but it is not the definition of a committed Catholic.
I’ve been wondering what the House of Commons would look like if the reasonable US requirement that the President be a natural born citizen were applied in these troubled times to representatives in the UK. I’m going to take a look at all 650 MPs and see who would not be eligible.
Anyhow. I thought I’d look up Daniel Kawczynski.
Among various business consultancies (I’d like to earn £3000 for 8 hours work), he is the sole director and sole shareholder of SAH (Solutions) Ltd. What is interesting about this business is that until January this year it was called Sarayah Al-Hamra Consulting Limited. I know only a few Polish greetings, but that doesn’t sound like a Polish company. Why would a Polish MP in England create a company connected to the Middle East and be the sole director and shareholder. What is it for?
He has connections with the Arab world..
“Kawczynski has received donations in kind by a number of foreign individuals, organisations and Governments, including Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Morocco, Israel, Sudan, India and the Conservative Arab Network”
All seems a little odd for a Polish born MP representing a Welsh Borders constituency. Just as odd as the Conservative Association giving him a standing ovation for announcing that he has got a boyfriend, but may get a girlfriend.
Excellent information Peter of Maidstone – I think this would be a very good article…
Telegraph: “David Cameron’s pledge to guarantee a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU was in doubt last night after officials warned that proposed legislation would not be legally binding.”
Is there nothing that this man can do without some screw up?
Who, , employed this man to run our country?
RobertC, nothing happens by accident in politics. So let’s ask ourselves, who did employ Cameron as Prime Minister? How did someone with so little talent float to the top of the Parliamentary pond.
More evidence that cameron and Hague are not fit to walk the streets. They ban Robert Spencer from the UK and yet are willing to risk weapons and/or funds reaching these barbarians
http://www.news.va/en/news/asiasyria-a-catholic-priest-killed-bishop-hindo-he
Watch this video with caution.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ead_1372329728
Verity – This will probably add to your uncertainty about where you might choose to live in Canada since the two most expensive cities are in BC. The rest in central and eastern Canada are not just expensive, but have (in my opinion) little to recommend them in terms of climate or scenery. –
http://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/10-most-expensive-cities-canada
I’m completely rooted in Victoria, but if I were moving to Canada from Mexico, I’d look into settling in one of the smaller towns on the east coast of Vancouver Island – from north to south – Courtney, Comox, Parksville, Nanaimo, Ladysmith, Chemainus, Duncan & Mill Bay. All with climates similar to England’s south coast.
FARAGE tweets[Sun.30 June]:Croatia to join EU at midnight after 800 years of seeking independence.Crazy.
O tempora! O mores!
“It has also been revealed that the British intelligence service GCHQ operates a similar program under the name Tempora with which global telephone and Internet connections are monitored.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/nsa-spied-on-european-union-offices-a-908590.html
“The demonstrations that began Sunday in Cairo, Egypt against the Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mohamed Morsi have attracted “millions” of supporters and many counter-demonstrators as well, making the protest the largest political event in the history of the world, according to the BBC. ”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/06/30/Anti-Muslim-Brotherhood-Protests-Largest-Political-Event-in-World-History
Whoops! President Zero is now on a public relations trip in southern Africa has Muslim Brotherhood people in his administration and as wannabe allies in the Middle East and here are the Egyptian people saying “Thanks, but no thanks”.
Perhaps the Zero could sort things out in Cairo by stopping off in Cairo on his way back to Washington DC and could give the Egyptians a speech to solve the problem. Willy Hague and some choice Arabiists from the FCO could tag along too. Perhaps they could also avoid war over Syria with China, Russia and Iran. That would be nice – but not good for the economy of course. Is the will in Willy the only will Zero has?
“Oh wait a minute. We’re not quite ready to join Russia and Iran in a war with the West over Syria until we can get our ATM machines working again. We may have to print some more funny money.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/06/30/citibank-caught-in-china-cash-crunch-not-making-money-transfers/
Herbert Thornton 1st, – 00:29
“Nanaimo”
Ah! The smell of freshly sawn lumber on the breeze…each day, every day.
Am I insensitive?
Or might I be a closet racist?
The reason that I ask is that I am fed up with hearing about Steven Lawrence, in particular I am fed up to the back teeth seeing and hearing the opinions of his brother and his father and if I never see or hear about his mother it will be a blessing.
Ostrich (1 July 08:01) –
““Nanaimo” – Ah! The smell of freshly sawn lumber on the breeze…”
Ah, so that’s’s what it is. I’d always assumed it was the smell of money.