Telford & Wrekin Council set up a private limited company with the Advantage West Midlands, the unelected regional development agency, called Transforming Telford.
The company spent over £1m last year whilst running as a “shadow company” (ie. not doing anything).  Only 2 of the board members are elected councillors, the rest being representatives from regional quangos and […]

I know there have been a few surveys recently but can I just point you to the State of the Union survey?

Tony Sharp of The Waendel Journal has a short survey on devolution, the union and the traitors heading up the top 3 parties.
The survey is here.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is holding “consultation” on whether the British flag should be flown from English public buildings all year round.
Regardless of the results, the English flag will be supressed in favour of the British flag because that’s what suits the racist British government but it’s still worth putting in your views, if […]

The SNP have ruled out flying the British flag over Scottish Executive buildings and are planning to force public buildings in Scotland to fly the Scottish flag instead.  They are also planning to change the rules north of the border to allow the Scottish flag to be flown with precedence to the British flag.
The Welsh […]

Iain Dale would like people to contact him with their top 20 political blogs and is even offering a prize of £100 worth of political DVDs for the list randomly pulled out of a hat.
Click here for more information from Mr Dale.

The English language sometimes makes it hard to convey your actual meaning in writing but, on the other hand, it makes for suitably ambiguous headlines like this one.
Some time ago, the British government tried to change the law so that “terrorist suspects” could be locked up for 3 months without charge.  The attempt failed as even […]

I’m all for sharing a bit of blogger love so if anyone links to me and I don’t link to them, leave your details in the comments and I’ll add a link.
Also, what does everyone think of picture blogrolls?  I’ve seen a few but they make the sidebar 3 miles long and they slow down […]

Shambo the sacred bull has finally been taken away for slaughter.
The bull was being kept by a bunch of (mostly white from what I’ve seen) Hindu’s in Wales who, of course, revere cows as sacred animals.  The bull tested positive for Bovine TB which is highly contageous and, if allowed to run its course, would […]

A couple of months ago Gordon Brown said that he wanted a “different kind of politics”.  He said that he would “listen and learn”.  Gordon Brown is a liar.
When Shropshire County Council first proposed abolishing local councils and replacing them with a single, sub-regional unitary authority, people said they didn’t want it.  Three of the five districts […]

The meeting of the British-Irish Council last week agreed to tie the UK and Irish driving licence penalty points systems into each other.
Steps are already being taken to harmonise the UK and Northern Ireland systems as the way the law stands at the moment, the holder of a British driving licence can accumulate 9 points on […]

When the smoking ban was first proposed, I don’t think anyone would have predicted a situation where the “rights” of a smoker would be put above those of disabled people.
Believe it or not, the Holiday Inn in Telford has painted out one of its four disabled parking spaces and put picnic tables and umbrellas on […]

Our celtic friends have long memories.  Half of them couldn’t tell you what caused either of the world wars or who took part in the Boer or Crimean wars but they can give you a magnificent account of the Battle of Banockburn or the Battle of Culloden.  They’ll reel off a long list of everything that the […]

The BBC seem to be incapable of performing their duties as a public service broadcaster just lately.
Their role, as a taxpayer-funded public service broadcaster, is to provide honest, quality, factual and unbiased programming.  They are specifically prohibited in their charter from following a partial agenda, including that of the British government.  They are most certainly […]

A black binman from Burnley has been banned from wearing his Cross of St George bandana at work because it might be racist and/or offensive.
Pendle Council told Matthew Carter that they had received complaints and gave him a verbal warning.  He was told that he is not allowed to wear any clothing with a Cross […]

There is some serious flooding around the country, particularly here in the Midlands.  We’ve escaped most of it here in Telford - only Ironbridge really suffers from serious flooding and it’s not really in Telford anyway.
Ludlow has been hit quite badly again having lost a bridge a couple of weeks ago but the south Midlands […]

Liebour have managed to hold on to the Sedgefield and Ealing Southall constituencies but have lost big chunks of their majorities to … the Illiberal Dumocrats.
Traitor Bliar’s old constituency of Sedgefield returned the Liebour candidate, Phil Wilson, but Liebour saw its majority drop by 14% with an 11% swing towards the Llib Dums who leapfrogged […]

The Biased Broadcasting Corruption Corporation is doing No Mandate Brown’s work for him again.
The Scottish weather presenter on BBC Breakfast this morning declared that there was a flood warning for “Southern Britain”. Where is this “Southern Britain?” I hear you ask. The map pans out to reveal heavy rain sweeping across … England […]

I phoned Evesham yesterday to find out the progress of the repair on my Evesham laptop. “It’s repaired but it’s not been shipped yet”. Brilliant, it’s round the corner, I’ll go and fetch it. “I don’t think you can do that sir” …
I’ll cut out the disagreement that ensued, you can fill […]

An interesting piece in this months Private Eye. Shropshire has a reputation for producing fearsome judges and it’s good to see Judge Onions carrying that on.
Down on the Farm
A MURKY drama unfolded recently in a Shrewsbury courtroom reminding us yet again of the unhealthy closeness between the officials of Defra and the pharmaceutical industry.
John […]

Ruth Kelly, the new Transport Minister, has denied claims that the Department for Transport was blackmailing local authorities in England into introducing road pricing schemes.
This is an absolute lie and I know for a fact that at least one local authority in Shropshire is being blackmailed into introducing road pricing.
Shrewsbury is the mediævil county town […]

No Mandate Brown has already spoken in favour of giving the state the power to detain people suspected of terrorism for 3 months without charge. Now Lord Carlile, the “independent” advisor to the Goblin King’s rump cabinet on anti-terrorism laws, is saying that politicians should make the decision on how long suspects can be […]

Edwina Hart, the Health Minister, recently announced that nurses should be made a 2.5% pay increase.
Nurses in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been given their full 2.5% pay increase in one go but nurses in England are to be given theirs staged throughout the year amounting to a net increase of only 1.9%.
They all […]

No Mandate Brown is jetting off to Belfast today for a summit - called a Council of the Isles by an Irish minister this morning - to discuss issues such as crime and drugs.
Also attending are representatives from the Republic of Ireland, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Irish Assembly, the Isle of […]

The aptly-named Minister for Waste was on the telly this morning defending fortnightly bin collections amid warnings of a “peasants revolt” over proposals to fine people who don’t recycle enough (in England only, obviously).
The Minister (her name escapes me and she doesn’t merit a mention on Google) said that the introduction of fortnightly collections has […]

Jack Straw, the British Minister for Justice and dead-ringer for the Demon Headmaster, has accused the Tories of trying to make English people jealous of Scotland.
Earlier in the week Jack Straw told English MPs to show restraint on the English question in an unintended admission that English MPs are getting considerable flack from their constituents […]

The Metropolitan Police spent £111k last year trying to remove Brian Haw, the anti-war protester who embarasses the British government outside Parliament.
The British government brought in a new law banning any form of protest - peaceful or otherwise, within 1km of Parliament and sought to use it to remove Brian Haw. Unfortunately for them […]

Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland, wants the Scottish Executive to represent the whole of the UK at Fisheries talks with the European Federation.
Under the anti-English devolution settlement Liebour brought in in 1997, this is possible - something the CEP objected to from the outset.
Scotland has 70% of the UK’s fishing rights and Salmond […]

No Mandate Brown and his band of merry fuckwits are intent on destroying the English education system.
New changes to the curriculum - in England only - include:
Taking Hitler, Churchill and Ghandi out of the curriculum (but leaving in William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery protester, because we must all atone for the rest of our existence as […]

Eveshambles told me my Evesham laptop was going to China to be repaired and that’s why their engineer couldn’t pick up a new motherboard from the Mitac factory down the road from my house and repair my laptop on-site even though I have one of their worthless on-site warranties?
I couldn’t guarantee I’d be in the […]

Historically, VAT has never been charged on food, childrens clothes or domestic fuel. They’re not luxuries, they’re essential items and should therefore be VAT free.
Then the European Federation demands that VAT be introduced on domestic fuel - coal, gas, electricity, fuel oil - and the British government conceded. It started of at a […]

I’m using the Safari Web Browser for Windows now on both my Laptop and my Desktop.
All in all, I’m happy with the browser. It’s fast and it’s not prone to the hijacks and trojans that Internet Explorer and, to a lesser extent, Firefox are targetted by. However, it’s not without its bugs.

There is […]

Jose Manuel Barroso appears to have declared himself the first Emperor of Europe.
For some reason he has decided that the EU is like an empire and, being its president, he must surely be the emperor. If ever there was evidence needed that the EU has imperialistic ambitions, Emperor Barroso has just provided it.
My grasp […]

Well, surprise surprise, Evesham are still shit.
The keyboard on my Evesham laptop is broken and they won’t honour the on-site warranty. Apparently they don’t have motherboards in stock even though my colleauge had his motherboard replaced in the carpark at work a month or two ago. No, they’re going to collect my laptop […]

Regular readers of Wonko’s World will remember the absolute disaster that is Evesham … or Eveshambles as I like to call them.
Last year I got an Evesham laptop, it broke, they didn’t attempt to repair it on-site even though I have an on-site warranty, they lost the laptop, they lied repeatedly for weeks and then […]

Yellow Swordfish is feeling the strain of attempting to blog about every shitty thing the British government does.
It’s just not possible. It’s a bit like painting the Forth Bridge - you get to the end and then you realise that the rot’s been setting in behind you so you have to start again. […]

The incompetent, bungling idiot who headed up the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) when the decision was taken to introduce the computer system that messed up farm subsidies has been given over £1.4m of taxpayers money so far since being sacked and may be in line for some more.
The RPA - part of DEFRA, a byeword […]

I posted this into the comments section of Caroline Hunt’s blog and thought it was worth reproducing here:
There are a couple of misconceptions in the comments thread that Gareth didn’t pick up on.
Firstly, the “huge extra cost” of an English Parliament. There is no “huge extra cost” involved. Currently, the British parliament has […]

Jack Straw has called on English MPs to show “self restraint” over the unfair, racist Barnett Formula which gives Scotland more public spending than England with the English taxpayer footing the bill.
The Labour back benches are starting to get more vocal about the fact that their constituents in England can’t have life saving cancer drugs […]

According to yesterday’s Daily Mail, the geography curriculum in England is being changed to “make it more relevant”, the usual reason given for changing something that doesn’t need changing.
Kids will now be taught “themed” issues like global warming, third world trade and the 2012 Olympics. They will be taught about the impact of buying […]

The Liebour Party, having failed to secure a workable majority in the Welsh Assembly elections, have been forced to form a coalition government with Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru.
This is a blow to Liebour who have lost control of Scotland after 50 years to the Scottish nationalists and made all the worse because Plaid actually […]

The drunken failure, Charles Kennedy, has been caught smoking on a train.
The former leader of the Illiberal Dipshits was not given an illegal on-the-spot fine but was given a talking to by British Transport Police. The ginger whinger apaprently told officers that he thought he was allowed to lean out of the window and […]

Robert Mugabe, the batshit dictator of Zimbabwe, has extended his policy of price-fixing to steminflation and threatened to sieze any business that doesn’t comply.
Mugabe claims that it is profiteering by private enterprise that is responsible for the official 4,500% rate of inflation in Zimbabwe (which most independent financial institutions put at near 9,000%) and not […]

I’ve had two letters in the Shropshire Star this week:
Blair could gather tips
It is reported 200,000 people signed a BBC petition to Hamas militants that kidnapped reporter Alan Johnston - and he was released.
About 1.8 million people signed Peter Roberts’ petition calling on Government not to introduce road pricing and they ignored it. Maybe […]

A week or so ago, Quentin Davies defected from the Tories citing spin as one of the reasons he had changed from being a lifelong Conswervative to being a lifelong Liebour supporter.
It’s a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire for flip-flop Quentin whose carefully orchestrated defection was planned to the […]

The Goblin King has made it known that to receive the favour of His Twattiness, all public buildings and homes and businesses in Britain must fly the British flag.
All buildings in Britain that aren’t in Scotland of course. Or Wales. Or Northern Ireland. Oh yes, nearly forgot - not the Channel Islands […]

The Tibetan government in exile is visiting England on an official fact-finding visit to the British Parliament.
The Tibetan government in exile has its base in Dharamsala in India and are looking for tips on how to form policy and introduce laws but, says the BBC, “this is tricky when you are not actually in the […]

Monty Python eat your heart out. The Ministry of Silly Walks has nothing on the Ministry of Ridiculous Appointments.
It started with appointing a no-mandate Scottish MP as Prime Minister without an election, followed this up with Traitor Bliar as Middle East Peace Keeper and excelled itself yesterday by appointing Jabba Prescott as the British […]

No Mandate Brown has shown that he is hell-bent on the destruction of our country and the imposition of regional government whether we want it or not.
Hot on the heels of his appointment of regional ministers to each of the euroregions in England (the West Midlands has been lumbered with Liam Byrne, MP for Hodge […]

No Mandate Brown has ruled out banning MPs from Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish constituencies from interfering in matters that only affect England over which they have no say in their own constituencies.
Gordon the Goblin King says that he will Britain only Britain support Britain constitutional Britain changes Britain that Britain will Britain make Britain […]