Yesterday my 8 year old son was accused of racism at school.  One of his black friends was pulling monkey faces and he pointed to a picture of a monkey in a book that he was reading and said the boy looked like the monkey.  He realised that the boy might have been offended so [...]

No matter how hard the BBC try to bury the story, it just isn’t going away …
The Business
Next May is the 300th anniversary of the Union of the Scottish and English Parliaments, which followed the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and began the United Kingdom. It should be a cause for much celebration of [...]

The nominations are in an it’s time to cast your votes.
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Let us have a national anthem for the English 
Shrewsbury MP, Daniel Kawczynski, has launched an Early Day Motion calling on Parliament to promote Jerusalem as the English national anthem.
For too long now England’s sporting teams have had to stand through God Save the Queen before matches and put up with ignorant commentators calling it the [...]

Princess Tony has told the Yorkshire Post that if the people of England were asked if they wanted an English Parliament then they would vote for one.  He denied that they would vote for the breakup of the union despite a Sunday Telegraph poll showing that 48% of English people support independence.
This is the first [...]

Yesterday’s phone-in poll amongst Sun readers resulted in 81% of people saying they wanted English independence from the rest of the UK.

Yesterday’s poll in the Sunday Telegraph was possibly the most important news story of the year.  The results of the poll combined with the SNP’s projected win in the Scottish elections means that it is increasingly likely that the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union next year will be the last.
So where is the [...]

Well, there’s certainly no shortage of contenders this week.
Please let me have your nominations asap, either in the comments or by email.

Douglas Alexander, MP for Paisley & Renfrewshire South, Transport Minister for England, Secretary for State for North Britain, is introducing legislation to impose congestion charging on England.
However, the legislation won’t apply in North Britain where the people who voted for him live because transport is devolved to the North British Parliament.
Why should an MP elected in North [...]

A poll in today’s Sunday Telegraph shows that a massive 68% of English people believe that England should have an English Parliament and 48% of people believe that England should declare its independence.
What is most interesting is that English support for North British independence is higher than in North Britain.
The figures are as follows:
Should Scotland become and [...]

The Ignorant Jock is at the North British Labour Conference today (well he wouldn’t be at the English Labour Conference – there isn’t an English Labour Party) to tell the North British Labour Party faithful that independence would be a disaster for the nations and regions of the UK.
No doubt he’ll harp on about this [...]

Former British Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, has suddenly decided that England needs devolution and that the current discriminatory devolution settlement is threatening the union.
This isn’t the sort of opinion you suddenly have, he must have had the same opinion when he was in the cabinet and in a position to actually do something about it.  [...]

A clear winner again this week.  Matthew Taylor is the New Labour lacky who blamed bloggers for harming the relationship between politicians and the electorate.  He went on to say that bloggers make unreasonable demands and suggests that they don’t have a right to criticise politicians or question their actions.

Twat of the Week

Terry Grange

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A British MP has suggested that North Britons should be charged £1.50 for driving over the border to England.
The SNP have denounced it as another example of how North Britain pays through the nose for England (just don’t mention the £11.3bn subsidy or they might change their mind about North British independence).
Can’t find a link [...]

BBC Question Time had a question and answer session with the Demon Headmaster and somehow a question mentioning England managed to slip through the net.  His answer is below, my comments are in italics:
Question from Stephen, London: As Leader of the Commons, how can having two Scottish MPs as the front runners for PM be [...]

The European Federation has ruled against a Dutch wine club which tried to get a ruling that they didn’t have to pay duty on fags and booze being imported from another EU member state.
The ruling will disappoint smokers and drinkers alike who woud have been able to order their cigarettes and alcohol at booze cruise [...]

The European Federation is pressing ahead with its plans to introduce EU consulates around the world.
The consulates were part of the EU constitution which was rejected in a referendum by France and the Netherlands – both traditionally eurofederalist countries although my Dutch friends tell me that our clog wearing friends are rapidly cooling to the [...]

The bill for hosting the 2012 Olympics in London has risen by another £900m.
The Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell, was hauled in front of MP’s to own up to the rising cost of hosting the Olympics.
What isn’t clear, though, is how much of this £900m is down to the European Federation’s demand that the British government [...]

I saw a very interesting story in the Shropshire Star tonight involving the leader of Telford & Wrekin council.
The council has set up a limited company which will be responsible for carrying out a lot of the executive functions currently vested in the elected council.  This company will be funded by the taxpayer, minority owned [...]

Please cast your votes for this week’s Twat of the Week competition.
Click here to find out who Matthew Taylor is and here for Terry Grange’s nomination.
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A Christian woman has lost an internal appeal at British Airways for her right to wear a small crucifix.
BA has a policy of not allowing jewelery or religious symbols for its uniformed staff but does not extend this rule to Sikhs who are allowed to wear turbans or to muslims who are allowed to wear [...]

DEFRA, the incompetent British government department that looks after the environment and rural affairs in England, spent £170m on consultants last year.
Some of these consultants were no doubt responsible for overseeing the farcical farm subsidy scheme which has been bankrupting English farmers and has landed the British government with massive fines from the European Federation.
While [...]

Sikh’s from all over the country have travelled to North Britain to hold a vigil to call for peace and tolerance.
What motivated this gathering was the racially motivated attack on a 15 year old Sikh boy in which his hair was cut off – something deeply offensive to Sikhs.
What happened to the boy was wrong [...]

Labour flunky, Matthew Taylor, has criticised bloggers for a crisis in politics by exposing shitty politicians, government stupidity and making unreasonable demands.
Taylor says that politics and the internet aren’t necessarily a bad partnership of course, citing Traitor Blair’s recent online interview and David Milliband (the cretinous minister in charge of DEFRA that has overseen mass bankruptcy [...]

Potty mouthed, haggis eating blogger, Devils Kitchen, is making a guest appearance on 18 Doughty Street on monday from 9pm to midnight.
Should be worth watching, if only to see him sweat trying to string two words together without resorting to traditional Anglo-Saxon vocabulary and/or obscene and biological insults.

My local authority, Telford & Wrekin Council, has taken it upon themselves to offer to borrow £20m from the British government to help bail out our local hospital.
The loan would be paid through increases in our council tax bills but the people of Telford & Wrekin haven’t even been consulted – the decision has been [...]

I thought I’d upset someone at the Shropshire Star as it’s been weeks since any of my letters have been published and then this one from a couple of weeks ago was published …
Farmers worse off as British Citizens
Farmers in the UK, like farmers in the rest of the European Federation, receive farming subsidies.
In Scotland, [...]

Four Christian Student Unions have been banned from universities for refusing to allow non-Christians to address their meetings and for not embracing gays and he-she’s.
The unions have been banned because their beliefs and constitutions don’t fit in with the multi-cultural “positive discrimintation” policies.
I wonder if the other faith unions allow all and sundry to join them [...]

Please let me have your Twat of the Week nominations for this week.
For more details, click here.

New passports feature a “secure” RFID chip with all your details on them.  The RFID chip allows the details on your passport to be read by a scanner without actually coming into contact with the passport.
The British government introduced the RFID chip for a couple of reasons – firstly, the American’s will only waive the [...]