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Archive for January, 2007

31 Jan

Happy Birthday to me

I’d just like to say thank you to Lord Levy and the Metropolitan Police for the lovely birthday present I had this morning when I turned on BBC1.
I am referring, of course, to the arrest of King Tony’s mate Lord Levy in the cash for peerages investigation.
Lord Levy - whose job with the Labour Party […]

30 Jan

Shropshire Star: Debunking the myths peddled about EU

It seems that I’ve upset one of my MEP’s.  Conservative MEP, Phillip Bushill-Matthews, is a rampant eurofederalist who seems to have taken exception to my accusing anyone who supports the Europen Federation of treachery.

Debunking the myths peddled about EU
Stuart Parr (Star, January 11) claims I “peddle the myth that the EU cannot impose legislation upon us”.
I did […]

27 Jan

Is the Home Office jinxed?

Is it actually possible for every Labour Home Secretary since 1997 to have been utterly incompetent or is there some gipsy curse on the Home Office?
Jack Straw was responsible for some decidedly illiberal laws and allowing General Pinochet to return to Chile without standing trial for human rights abuses and was expected to be demoted in 2001 […]

25 Jan

Britishness lessons in English schools

A report for the Department of Education has concluded that English schools should put more emphasis on a British identity in lessons.
Citizenship lessons are now compulsary for secondary school pupils but the report says that not enough emphasis is placed on Britishness and Gordon Brown’s mysterious values than bind us all together.
Education is devolved in Scotland, […]

25 Jan

Petition the PM: Abolish regional quangos

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/regionalquangos/ 
England is infested with undemocratic, unaccountable regional quango’s. These include regional assemblies, regional development agencies, regional observatories and the new city regions.
None of these quango’s are elected and none of them answer to the public yet they cost the taxpayer billions of pounds.
This whole tier of unwanted regional government should be abolished and the powers […]

24 Jan

Whose right is right?

The British government is trying to pass a law preventing any form of discrimination.  The Catholic Church, which believes homosexuality is a sin, is opposed to the new law because it will make it illegal for their adoption agencies to refuse tp place a child with a homosexual couple.  In light of this the Catholic Church […]

22 Jan

Home Office Split

It looks like the Home Office is going to be split in two creating a Justice Ministry headed up by Charlie Falconer, the unelected Lord Chancellor.
It has been hypothesised that the proposed changes to the Home Office are a ruse to take the heat off the cash for peerages investigation after one of Bliar’s bitches […]

20 Jan

EDM670: English Parliament

Frank Field MP has launched Early Day Motion 670 calling for an English Parliament.
That this House notes that those polls that have questioned the English report a clear majority in favour of an English parliament; and further notes that it is this issue, and not Scottish independence or even House of Lords reform, that is […]

20 Jan

Scottish Accounts Commission Hypocrisy

The Scottish Accounts Commission, an agency of the Scottish Executive, has told the Shetland Islands Council that it must do more to live within its means and start spending only what money it raises.
Does this mean that every council in Scotland is going to be told to only spend what it raises?  Currently, Scotland has […]

19 Jan

Ministry of Deference

It was announced the other day that RAF Cosford has lost its bid to keep the DARA (Defence Aviation Repair Agency) training centre to RAF St Athan in South Wales.
It has been mentioned that the winning consortium contains QinetiQ (formerly DERA - Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) which is 21% owned by the British government and […]

18 Jan

St Georges Day petition

The Prime Ministers petitions website has a petition for St Georges Day to be made a public holiday.
The petition is here.

18 Jan

Apology from Rural Payments Agency

The former boss of the Rural Payments Agency has apologised for the agency’s shambolic administration of the payment of farming subsidies.
Thanks to the RPA’s inability do their job, countless farmers were forced to sell their farms or go bankrupt.  The whole cock-up cost English farmers an estimated ÂŁ21m but only affected Welsh and Scottish farmers who also […]

17 Jan

Was it worth it?

The head of communications at Shropshire County Council has been suspended from his job pending an investigation for trying to cheat a BBC poll.
The county council is trying to promote the establishment of a unitary authority covering the whole county of Shropshire (excluding Telford & Wrekin) - regionalisation by another name - but has been […]

16 Jan

BBC say the “E” word

The BBC have been uncharacteristically keen on discussing the break-up of the union, nationalism and they even seem to have rediscovered the “E” word (England).
A BBC-commissioned poll showed that 61% of people were in favour of the establishment of an English Parliament.  This is despite the BBC weighting the Scottish and Welsh contribution to the […]

15 Jan

Hain tells Welsh to protect union

Anglophobic bigot, Peter Hain, has followed the Tartan Taxman by warning that the union is being attacked by the Tories and nationalists.
He tells the Welsh that “the contribution of Wales to the industrial development of Britain was enormous, helping to create prosperity and to turn us into a world power.  In return, Wales has long […]

15 Jan

Crap service

I had a doctors appointment this morning and as I turned up 10 minutes early I went to the chemists next door to pick up my father-in-law’s prescription.
There were eight people behind the counter at the chemists but only one person serving.  I had to wait 10 minutes to get served while the other 7 […]

14 Jan

Man considers moving for cancer treatment

A man living in England is considering moving to North Britain so that he can get a cancer treatment that he is not allowed in England.
The man, who is in remission from a rare terminal bone cancer, wants to be prescribed Velcade when his cancer comes back but the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) […]

13 Jan

The Penny’s Dropped

English wankers
If you listen very carefully you can still hear the tinkling of the dropping penny down at Downing Street.According to our leader-in-waiting, the UK is being menaced by an “opportunist group of nationalists” who are “playing fast and loose” with the union.
Apparently, “it is very important to recognise that Britishness and Britain itself is […]

12 Jan

School leaving age to be raised to 18

It looks like the school leaving age in England is going to be raised to 18 by 2013.
Apparently, this is to mop up the 18% of children that don’t currently go on to further education because 82% of kids going on to college and university isn’t acceptable.
Frankly, I’m astonished that 82% of kids go on […]

12 Jan

UKIP Plymouth Branch has NOT been disbanded

The following just dropped into my inbox from a senior UKIPer:

Dear All,
There have been various unofficial reports concerning Plymouth branch recently and many of you have voiced concern, or have asked whether the reports they have read are correct.
Having checked with Piers Merchant the situation is that 4 or 5 disaffected members of the Plymouth […]

12 Jan

Happy Anniversary

The Act of Union was ratified in the Scottish Parliament on the 16th January 1707.
What will you be doing to celebrate the Act of Union?
Personally, I’ll mark the occassion by calling for the repeal of the Act of Union and the establishment of a federal British government.

12 Jan

Muslim Health Service

A “muslim expert” has called for the NHS to provide a faith-based service.
He calls on the cash-strapped National Health Service to provide better access to prayer facilities, more information on alcohol-based treatments, circumcision of children and guaranteed same-sex medical staff.
The NHS is already short of cash and this is an unncessary and unreasonable demand to […]

12 Jan

Former UKIPer joins EU far-right group

The European Parliament has a strange system of political groups in place of political parties.
The EPP is probably the best known of these groups in England, being the eurofederalist right wing group that David Cameron pledged to withdraw from when he became leader of the Conservatives but didn’t much to the annoyance of the majority eurosceptic party […]

11 Jan

West Midlands NO! article in Birmingham Post

The following West Midlands NO! campaign article appeared in the Birmingham Post on 27th December:
If someone were to tell you that the biggest threat to England right now was regionalisation you would probably laugh at them but it’s true and it’s happening right now.
England is infested with regional quango’s – all unelected and all paid […]

09 Jan

Tory Lords defect to UKIP

Two Conservative peers - Lord Pearson of Rannoch and Lord Willoughby de Broke - have defected to UKIP.
The two peers are forming a UKIP group in the House of Lords in protest at the lack of “sufficiently Eurosceptic policy” in the Conservative Party.  They go on to say that UKIP are the “only party telling […]

07 Jan

Worcestershire News: We must keep on scrutinising quango

We must keep on scrutinising quango
SIR — I read, with interest, the debate about the proposed Worcestershire unitary authority.
There are, to my knowledge, two county councils in the West Midlands proposing a unitary authority - Worcestershire and Shropshire.
In Shropshire, the proposal is being supported by councillors Pate and Mosley — both are members of the […]

07 Jan

Labour promises “best education” for Scotland

Jack McConnell, First Minister of North Britain, has promised to give Scotland the best education system in the world by 2020.
He plans to open specialist centres of excellence to push bright pupils and to make it compulsary for all 16 and 17 year olds to be in education, training or a job.
There’s no mention of […]

06 Jan

Illiberal Democrats

An Illiberal Democrat councillor at Bridgnorth suggests that Bridgnorth District Council’s decision to defer a second vote on a unitary authority for Shropshire whilst the chairman of the council was on holiday (the chairman had cast the deciding no vote last time) was of dubious legality because it was a common law from 1895.
Said councillor […]

06 Jan

Shropshire Star: No mention of English people in our anthem

No mention of English people in our anthem
I read the letter by Mr R Dunn, of Telford, regarding the national anthem and the monarchy. Surely he ought to get his facts right before putting pen to paper.
I would point out the anthem he refers to is a German anthem.  It was chosen by a German monarchy […]

05 Jan

Falconer backs fellow Scot for PM

The unelected Scottish Lord Chancellor of England, Charlie Falconer, is backing Gordon Brown for Prime Minister.
So far only two MP’s have been mooted as replacements from Bliar - Gordon Brown and John Reid, both of which are Scots and have constituencies in Scotland.

05 Jan

Plug

I may regret this but I’m getting Mrs Sane into blogging. :s
She’s obsessed with reality TV so she’s started blogging about it with Reality Show Zone.

05 Jan

Protester guilty of incitement to murder

Source: BBC News
Breaking news this one, literally just been posted on the BBC News website.
A British muslim who chanted “bomb, bomb, bomb Denmark, bomb, bomb, bomb USA” has been convicted on charges of soliciting murder and uses words likely to stir up racial hatred.
About bloody time - these new illiberal laws supposedly targetting terrorists but, […]

04 Jan

Elect the PM, not the Lords

I’ve made my views known on many occassions on electing the Lords and the disaster that this will prove to be for democracy in this country.
One of the main reasons why an elected upper house would be a disaster is because it would expose the House of Lords to the party politics that plagues the […]

04 Jan

EU Serf: Why the EU is unreformable

EU Serf has an article on why the EU is unreformable.
The main crux of the argument is that the European Federation is political, will do whatever it can to perpetuate its own existence and that, in a nutshell, they want something that we don’t.
Can’t argue with it really.  The main problem with the concept of […]

01 Jan

It’s getting a bit full in Brussels

With the ascension at midnight of Bulgaria and Romania, the European Federation buildings in Brussels must be getting a bit full.
Maybe it’s time we helped them out and vacated some office space.  All we need to do is repeal the European Communities Act and they can have the UK’s offices.
Membership of the European Federation is going to […]

01 Jan

Somali Islamists lose last stronghold

The Islamists trying to overthrow the vaguely legitimate Somali government have lost their last stronghold thanks to Ethiopian troops.
The Somali government have offered talks with the Islamists but they refuse to talk until the Ethiopians have left the country.
It’s early days yet - the Somali government is weak and the African Union are reluctant to […]

01 Jan

Smoking Age to rise to 18

The minimum age for buying cigarettes and tobacco products is to rise to 18 from October this year.
The new age limit will only apply to England and Wales and will bring England and Wales into line with the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia who also have a minimum age of 18.
Increasing the minimum legal […]

01 Jan

Twat of the Year: the result

The voting has concluded and all that remains is to announce the winner of the 2006 Twat of the Year award.
In total, 389 votes have been cast with the top 4 (Tony Bliar, John Prescott, Gordon Brown and David Cameron) accounting for 80% of the votes between them.  The top 4 all held the top spot at […]

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