I’d like to wish all my readers a happy new year.  Even the Tartan Army knuckledraggers who popped in to abuse me on this post.
2006 saw 315,496 unique visits to Wonko’s World with the number of visitors increasing from 18,760 in January to 43,618 in December.
I don’t know what it is that brings so many […]

According to the Daily Express, the European Federation has drawn up plans to finance itself with a £510 direct tax á-la income tax.
The plans have been drawn up by eurofederalist MEP’s rom the Committee on Regional Development.
The direct tax will be in addition to reduced national contributions and will supposedly reflect the relative prosperity of […]

Former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, was hanged at 3 o’clock this morning.
The execution was carried out by Iraqi’s under close supervision of the Americans in an American camp.  The execution was witnessed by a handful of Iraqi’s, a representative of the Iraqi Prime Minister and a Sunni cleric.
Personally I would rather have seen Saddam rot in prison until […]

Saddam Hussein’s automatic appeal against his death sentence has been rejected and his death warrant has been signed.  Under Iraqi law he can be executed at any time in the next 4 weeks.
One of the judges has apparently said that Saddam will be executed on Friday or Saturday but there is a rumour that it […]

The Prime Minister of Somalia has driven into the Somali capital, Mogadishu, at the head of a convoy of armoured cars.
Mogadishu had, until the last few days, been under the control of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) - a group of Islamic fundamentalists who want to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.  Earlier this […]

Hazel Blears, Labour Party Chairman and Minister without a job Portfolio, wants to know whether you think everyone should have to carry ID cards.
Click here to get to her website, the poll is on the left hand side.  Currently it’s 46% Yes and 53% No.

Boxing Day hunts attracted in the region of 320,000 supporters this year.
The hunts were monitored by police and animal rights terrorists, the League Against Cruel Sports.
The Police used video cameras to record meets claiming that they were doing so in case things got out of hand althoug they’re probably building up a database of hunt supporters […]

Source: BBC News
John Prescott, feeling unwell on Christmas Day, was visited by a doctor at his home, admitted to hospital, diagnosed with a kidney stone and discharged in the afternoon.
Getting a home visit from your GP is virtually impossible at the best of times, let alone on Christmas Day.  As for being admitted to hospital […]

The BBC News website has an article on the union in which the writer - a political editor for BBC Scotland - questions the value of the union.
The article only appears on the Scotland pages of course, we can’t have English people seeing someone questioning the value of the union after all.
The article asks “So […]

A quick update on the Twat of the Year poll - in a word: close!
There are literally a couple of votes between the top 4:

Tony Bliar
 
57 (20%)

Gordon Brown
 
56 (20%)

Minge Campbell
 
9 (3%)

John Prescott
 
59 (21%)

David Cameron
 
52 (18%)

Charlie Falconer
 
21 (7%)

Peter Hain
 
5 (2%)

Ian Bliar
 
16 (6%)

AA Gill
 
4 (1%)

Geoff Hoon
 
8 (3%)

The poll runs until the end of the year so it’s […]

Dear Santa,
Thank you for the belated gift.  The news that Labour has lost so many members in the last few years that it averages out at one member every 20 minutes was fantastic.  I’ve obviously been a very good boy this year.

I don’t anticipate being online much over the festive period so …
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

You can sign a petition in support of animal testing here.
21,857 have signed the petition so far - how many signatures would the animal rights terrorists get if they stopped terrorising people for long enough to set one up?

Since Labour came to power in 1997 and installed the Tartan Taxman as Chancellor amid claims that everyone would be better off under New Labour, the tax burden has increased significantly and we now work well over half the year solely for the benefit of the Treasury.
Income Tax has now increased to 23.6p in the […]

An elderly Christian couple who wrote to their council criticising it for wasting taxpayers money promoting homosexuality have been paid compensation for the police investigation that followed.
The couple believe that homosexuality is a sin and wrote to their council telling them that they were offended by their council tax being spent on promoting homosexuality and […]

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Last month Shropshire County Council started their decriminalised parking scheme accompanied by a series of press releases reassuring residents that the wardens would mainly be giving people advice for the first couple of months.
In the Shropshire Star tonight, they report that wardens have issued a whopping £68,000 in fines since the scheme started in November.
How […]

A fairly heavily edited letter in the Shropshire Star tonight (bits cut out are stuck out

Query as PM backs regional changes
A poll in the Sunday Telegraph on the 25th of November asked a random selection of English and Scottish members of the public if they supported the establishment of an English parliament or English independence.
Of […]

Just a quick hello to my colleagues at Capgemini in North Britain.
Don’t forget to purchase a souvenier …

Shropshire County Council is trying to replace local councils with a single unitary authority for the whole county (excluding Telford that is already a UA).
Salopians (people from Shropshire) are pretty opposed to the plans, as evidenced by independent polling commissioned by the council itself.
Some councils in the county are in favour, others are against.  One […]

Arsenal Football club has banned national flags from its stadium after some greeks complained about a solitary Turkish Cypriot flag in the crowd.
Arsenal says:
“Arsenal as a club prides itself on being inclusive with respect to all nationalities, cultural and ethnic groups.”
“We are asking that only Arsenal flags, without any national emblems, are displayed within the […]

Iain Dale has a poll for your Right Wing Blogger of the Year.
Vote DK!

Lord Elis-Thomas, presiding officer of the Welsh Assembly, has called for the establishment of an English Parliament.
This is the latest in a line of increasingly high profile supporters of devolution for England.
Don’t get too excited though - Lord Elis-Thomas’ vision of the UK is a “United Kingdom in a United Europe”.  Which would make him […]

John Reid, the Scottish Home Secretary, has announced that plans for a single ID database have been scrapped and that the National Identity Register will instead be serviced by three existing systems.
The single database was proposed - at a cost of £5.4bn - with the intention that it would be a “clean” system with no […]

The European Federation is planning to include airlines in its carbon trading scheme to help fulfil its obligations under the Kyoto Treaty.
First question - why does the European Federation have any obligations under the Kyoto Treaty?  It’s not a country and I believe most member states signed the treaty and have their own obligations so […]

According to BBC News this morning, the suspected killer of PC Sharon Beshenivsky is believed to have escaped the country wearing a muslim woman’s veil.
A few months ago, 4 male suicide bombers dressed in women’s veils blew themselves up killing innocent civillians.
A few weeks ago, the highest ranking black policeman in the UK introduced proposals to ban […]

English Blogs has a post about English accents.  You have to be registered to post comments so I thought I’d pick up on it here.
Living in Shropshire, we have quite a wide range of local accents that are substantially different from each other.  The traditional Shropshire accent is almost extinct now although it is possibly […]

Alex Salmond asks if, given that the majority or MP’s with Scottish constituencies are opposed to Scotland hosting Trident, they are to have it “forced down the throats of Scotland”.
Whilst the SNP choose not to vote on matters that affect only England (for which they should be commended), the same cannot be said of their […]

Please let me have your nominations for this weeks Twat of the Week Award.
As usual, either post your nomination in the comments or email me using this spangly new contact form:
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EU not to blame for NHS woes
According to certain readers the EU is to blame for the failures in the NHS.Stuart Parr (Starmail, November 20) claims it has issued a directive removing the individual opt-out from the Working Time Directive, hereby forcing hospitals to cut services.
This is not true. The EU cannot just issue a […]

Someone is entirely missing the point here.  I am proud to be English and yes, long may Her Majesty reign, but I don’t see why being proud to be English and a monarchist precludes you from wanting an English national anthem.  Does that mean Scottish people can’t be proud Scots or monarchists because they have […]

NEWS from BOB WALTER MP
Member of Parliament for North Dorset
Date: 13th December 2006
Release: Immediate
BOB WALTER MP’s BILL WILL PROPOSE ANSWER TO WEST LOTHIAN QUESTION
Robert Walter MP (North Dorset) today (13th December) launched a NEW bid to stop Scottish MPs voting on issues that only affect England and Wales.
Bob Walter will today present his Private Members […]

It’s been a busy couple of days so blogging has been light.
Anyway, straight to the point - a very tight result this week with only 1 vote in it.

Twat of the Week

Gordon Brown

8 (32%)

Bob Piper

7 (28%)

Tony Bliar

1 (4%)

David Cameron

4 (16%)

Cherie Bliar

5 (20%)

The survey has ended

The Tartan Taxman just managed to pip Councillor Bob “Not a […]

Traitor Blair was questioned by the police yesterday over the cash for peerages investigation.
A spokesperson for Bliar’s office said it was only natural that the police would want to question him as their investigation is drawing to a close.
Why?  Is it because they’ve turned up evidence during the investigation?  If he’s done nothing wrong and […]

BBC research has shown that the cost of translating official documents into the myriad native languages of immigrants to the taxpayer is in the region of £100m per year although they believe the real figure is much higher.
The British government is to investigate whether telling immigrants not to bother learning English stops them from integrating […]

The New Labour election fund Barnett formula has been sending even more English money to our neighbours.
The Times has today published an article explaining exactly how much of our taxes goes to our thieving, subsidy junkie neighbours leaving our health service so underfunded that cancer patients are told to shut up and die because we […]

Well, the nominations are in and it’s time to cast your votes.
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About 12 months ago, following a report commissioned to prove that the publishing industry is institutionally racist, Penguin Books announced a book-writing competition only open to non-white people.
Several complaints were made to the Commission for Racial Equality - including one from myself - and I received the following letter today (address incorrectly but never mind):
The […]

In the last 12 months (since Dave took over at the helm of the Tories) I’ve heard nothing but bloody carbon this, carbon that carbon the other.
Carbon is a pretty inert substance so what exactly is the problem with it?  Why has nobody been harping on about carbon footprints or the like before now?
Can someone […]

No, not Bliar, General Pinochet.  Hopefully he had a protracted, painful and lonely death.
Guess his doctor’s weren’t lying a few days ago when they said he was too ill to stand trial.

Oh dear, Councillor Piper has been a naughty boy.  A very naughty boy in fact.
Bob has been very vocal about the BNP councillor elected in Sandwell in the past.  Vocal to the point of presiding over his own personal witch-hunt but now he’s found himself in trouble with the Commission for Racial Equality over a […]

NØ2ID has just released the following press release:
Schoolchildren to be targeted for ID interrogation
In a document leaked to the Sunday Times, the Home Office Identity and Passports Service (IPS) states that from March 26th next year children as young as 16 will be made to attend an intrusive “interview” at one of 69 interrogation centres across […]

English curd cheese producer, Bowland Dairies, has been put out of business by the European Federation.
The European Commission’s Food and Vetinary Office (FVO) issued an alert saying that the curd cheese broke their rules on antibiotic residues and was therefore unsafe.  The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) inspected the premises, found that the FVO’s report was wrong […]

Busy, busy, busy.  Always busy.
Please let me have your Twat of the week nominations for this week either in the comments or via email.

I sent a couple of emails to David Wright recently and got a reply yesterday.
Dear David,
I wonder if I can bring EDM 296 to your attention? I was very pleased that you signed the previous EDM that I pointed out to you on the need for an English National Anthem - all we need now is […]

Good news!  Labour lost the Dawley Magna By-election yesterday to Telford & Wrekin People’s Association which means they now tenuously cling on to Telford & Wrekin Council without a majority.
The leader of Telford & Wrekin Conservatives and the Lib Dums are both keen to form an alliance and the independents are likely to join up […]

A No2ID press release today brings our attention to The Big Opt Out - a campaign against the national NHS database and the mass upload of patients details to the database without patients permission.
The Department of Health has instructed GP’s to upload patient details they hold - personal details, medical history, records of GP visits, etc […]

The European Federation is pushing for a further 25% reduction on fishing for cod and smaller reductions for plaice, sole and hake.
The proposal will be put before unelected EU fisheries ministers some time this month and no matter what they decide, the British government will be powerless to veto the decision.
And here was me thinking it […]

Labour took a serious beating at the last round of local elections and are probably going to suffer the same fate again at next years local elections.
The resignation of a Labour councillor in the Dawley Magna parish in Telford has triggered an election which could see the balance of power tip out of Labour’s favour.
Telford […]

The Tartan Taxman has released his pre-budget report today and surprise, surprise, the theme is more taxes with the motorist bearing the brunt.  How nice it must be to have a free chauffeur driven car paid for the taxpayer.
“Green taxes” are a big part of this mini-budget with Gordon not letting the fact that global […]