The One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan has proclaimed that all failing schools in England will get a visit from a specialist management team to help turn them round.  If that doesn’t work then a change of “management” will be instigated and if that doesn’t work then the school will be shut down. It was pointed [...]

Got home from work and the trick or treaters were out in force. Made sure they didn’t bother me though, I blocked the path with a wheelie bin. My parents came to visit and said I was tight.  Be honest, was that tight? Technorati Tags: Halloween, Trick or Treat

Letter in today’s Torygraph …  Sir – The Conservative proposal for an English Grand Committee is nonsense. Simply grouping together the same British MPs who have allowed a system of apartheid to grow following devolution into a Grand Committee will not mean better representation for England – these MPs have demonstrated where their loyalties lie [...]

The British government has given the go-ahead to English councils to implement a pay-as-you-throw rubbish tax. An EU Directive means that unless we cut down on the amount of rubbish sent to landfill, the English taxpayer could end up with a £180m fine per year from Federal Europe.  To try and avoid paying this again [...]

Christian fundamentalists and pro-lifers have celebrated the anniversary of the legalisation of abortion by calling for a reduction in the time limit on abortion from 24 weeks to 20 weeks citing medical advances as a reason for the change. Anyone know what medical advances these are? Pregnant women have a detailed scan at 20 weeks [...]

The Crossrail project – a huge train network in the south east of England, centred on London – is estimated to cost the taxpayer £16,500,000,000. The breakdown is as follows: Building Crossrail – £16,000,000,000 Buying Scottish votes – £500,000,000 Under the Barnett Formula, Scotland is entitled to £500m purely because £16bn is being spent in England.  [...]

The media has been awash with stories of the Conswervatives “new” radical plan to save the union and solve the West Lothian Question. It’s not a new idea though, they’ve been talking about it for a couple of years at least and even then it’s not an original idea – someone told me that it [...]

The Great Britain rugby team beat New Zealand today. The level of interest in the British team is so low that I didn’t even know it was happening or had taken place until it was on the news and it only made the news because the winning try was so farcical. I wonder how much [...]

According to Prodicus, enough Danish MPs have signed a motion to force a referendum on the EU not-a-constitution. THis is excellent news – the not-a-constitution theoretically can’t go ahead without every member state ratifying it.  With the leaders of every member state desperately trying (and mostly succeeding) to avoid a referendum, we could very find [...]

The BBC is shedding thousands of jobs to cut costs.  People like Jonafan Woss and Jeremy Clarkson are looking like losing their jobs for being too expensive. However, the mini-budget the other week announced new farsi and arabic channels from the BBC but there’s no mention of cutbacks on that front.  Nor is there any [...]

Fraser Nelson, Political Editor of the Spectator, needs to pay a short visit back to reality before he goes on national television and comes out with anything else like this: Right now we don’t really notice that we have 14% of the population on benefits, a huge figure.  But if immigrants weren’t here then my [...]

Philip Hollobone, the Tory MP for Kettering, is calling for a change in the law to stop Police from telling asylum seekers to find their own way to immigration centres. Quite why this is a shock to an MP is a mystery to be honest.  It’s been happening for years and if I remember rightly, somewhere in [...]

Results of the Blogging Habits survey: “Because I’m not Iain Dale, size isn’t everything” … is it Iain? Technorati Tags: Blogging, Survey

Up to 200 muslim prisoners in a high security prison in Leeds are planning to sue the British government because they were offered ham sandwiches during Ramadan. The menus were printed in error and given to the prisoners who kicked up a fuss because they’re not allowed to eat pork.  Most of them chose cheese [...]

The Welsh Assembly is trying to get control of bilingualism from the British government so that it can extend its language rules to the private sector. Large numbers of public sector jobs are restricted to Welsh speakers only in an attempt to force more Welsh people to learn the language.  The Welsh Assembly, responding in [...]

Israel is planning to cut the amount of power it supplies to the Gaza Strip claiming that because it has declared Palestine as “hostile” it is not bound by international laws requiring it, as an occupying power, to supply utilities to the civillian population. The view of the “international community” is that Israel still has [...]

The One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan is still harping on about his new Bill of Rights and how important a British Bill of Rights is going to be and how it’ll prevent the Prime Minister from going to war without a vote of MPs first. Now David Camoron is promising to introduce his own British [...]

I get the occasional email from my UKIP MEP, Mike Nattrass, about dodgy votes he’s seen in the European Parliament. Yesterday he sent me this email: Votes were fast and furious and as usual with hundreds being taken by a show of hands, some were wrongly counted. I screaméd “CHECK!” after one particular vote was [...]

Orange sent me one of these yesterday … Technorati Tags: Orange, HTC Touch, Gadgets

… Scots. The Scottish government is abolishing prescription charges in Scotland for all Scots.  At the moment, 96% of all prescriptions are dispensed free of charge. Abolishing prescription charges north of the border is going to cost the English taxpayer another £70m. In April this year, the Welsh government abolished all prescription charges in Wales [...]