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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [CONTACT-FORM]

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 [...]