Virgin Atlantic employees have threatened to go on strike because they don’t like the pay deal they’ve been offered.
Virgin have offered a 8.3% pay rise over 2 years with 4.3% in the first year. This is well above the pay rise offered to nurses and police and well above inflation.
Richard Branson has written to 4,800 cabin [...]
The Russian government has banned a TV ad that denied the existence of Santa Claus who, in Russia is known as Father Frost.
The Federal anti-Monopoly Service said that the advert broke rules on undermining teachers and parents by saying that Santa doesn’t exist and couldn’t be shown on TV.
Quite bizarre!
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Benezir Bhutto has been injured by a suicide bomber who targetted her entourage as she left a rally near Islamabad.
She is said to be in a serious condition in hospital.
It was bound to happen at some point because she has so many enemies – both in the jihadi’s that live in the north of the [...]
Serbia’s parliament has passed a motion condemning any declaration of independence by Kosovo.
Politicial leaders in Kosovo have been talking to Serbia for a while on the future of Kosovo but the talks have failed and Kosovo’s leaders are intending to declare independence in a few weeks.
Serbia has threatened to cut off diplomatic ties with countries [...]
A week ago, No Mandate Brown said that all the sleaze, corruption and gneral criminality of Liebour would all be forgotten soon.
Unfortunately for the One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan, the Metropolitan Police are apparently proposing to press criminal charges against Peter Watt.
Peter Watt was the General Secretary of the Liebour Party and was responsible for [...]
Iain Dale has kicked off a blog meme – Eight for 2008 – where you list your top 8 wishes for the new year.
Iain’s are:
The Campaign for an English Parliament step up a gear
Dominic Grieve in the Shadow Cabinet
Audi let me have my long awaited A5
West Ham qualify for Europe
The Politico get as many readers as this [...]
There hasn’t been a Witanagemot Blog Roundup for a long time so, in the final days of 2007, here are a selection of posts worthy of note from Witan bloggers in December …
Councillor Tony Sharp of the Waendel Journal questions the motives of the Torygraph’s “Call Yourself British” campaign. “As a supporter of the Union [...]
The following safety warning was found last night inside a christmas cracker:
Safety Warning
These crackers are for adult use only and not suitable for children under 5 years of age as they may contain a functional sharp point of edge, or small parts, which may constitute a choking hazrd.
Did I mention that the warning was inside [...]
The Republic of Ireland will hold a referendum on the EU not-a-constitution thanks to the provisions of their constitution.
Denmark was expected to hold a referendum when it was reported that a majority of Danish MPs wanted one but this appears to have fallen by the wayside.
Enter Alex Salmond:
When the constitutional treaty was alive, the Labour [...]
… is good for the gander.
The British government has capped public sector payrises in England to 2% but the Daily Mail reports that MPs are now asking for a 10% pay increase over the next 3 years.
British MPs are paid £60,675 per year as a basic wage and then claim expenses for anything and everything. They are [...]
No Mandate Brown was pretty shit as far as Chancellor’s go but even he wasn’t as bad as Mugabe.
Robert Mugabe turned Zimbabwe from a prosperous, self-sufficient, largely democratic African nation into a bankrupt, decimated police state.
Official inflation is currently over 8,000% but independent experts reckon it’s more like 11,000%. The Zimbabwean Dollar has been restructured already [...]
The Illiberal Dipshits have appointed Lembit Öpik, MP for Montgomery, to their shadow cabinet with responsibility for housing.
Housing is devolved to the Welsh Assembly in Mr Öpik’s own constituency so his constituents were unable to give him a mandate on English housing. I’ve just sent the following email to his constituency office:
Dear Mr Öpik,
I note [...]
Tony Bliar converted to Catholicism on Friday in a ceremony in Westminster.
Hardly a surprise – his hideous wife is a member of Opus Dei and he has been attending catholic mass for years both with and without his catholic family.
The question is, why are the media whores so interested? Bliar has always been a christian [...]
PRESS RELEASE: ADVANTAGE WEST MIDLANDS
For immediate release
Advantage West Midlands (AWM), the unelected Regional Development Agency for the West Midlands, has announced its budget for the financial year 2007-08. The taxpayer will give this unelected, underperforming quango £296m for the financial year.
AWM have just given jobs to two “local” entrepreneurs – Jas Bains and Angela Maxwell [...]
No Mandate Brown thinks that the English are a nation of goldfish who will forget the recent scandals – fraud, sleaze, incompetence, treason – that have marked his first few months in power.
He actually had the gall to say “I think people know that when a problem arises we will deal with it” – it’s [...]
Today, Her Majesty overtook the record set by Queen Victoria to become the oldest English monarch and the latest addition to the Windsor dynasty has left hospital.
The Countess of Wessex gave birth to her second child, a boy, on Monday who is now 8th in line to the throne.
Looking good for 81 years of age …
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The Independence and Democracy Group in the European Parliament has started an EU-wide petition on a referendum on the EU not-a-constitution.
Signatures from the UK are pitifully low which certainly doesn’t reflect public opinion so do your bit and sign the petition and show those gutless, eurofederalist bastards that we don’t want their constitution.
There’s also a [...]
Federal Europe has appointed an Ambassador to Africa even though it doesn’t have a mandate to do so until January 2009.
The EU Diplomatic Corps is part of the EU not-a-constitution which has yet to be ratified by any member state and with a bit of luck it will never be ratified here, slowing down the [...]
I just sent the following email to Nick Clegg after reading that he has already dismissed a suggestion that we should have an English Parliament by saying that he will devolve power to “regions and communities” rather than the our country as most people want …
Dear Nick,
Could you please tell me what plans the Lib Dems [...]
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Birmingham City Council were criticised yesterday for arranging a seminar for local businesses on how to move their business away from the West Midlands.
The President of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, ironically, has a seat on the board of Advantage West Midlands, the unelected regional development agency whose job [...]
Advantage West Midlands, the unelected Regional Devleopment Agency, has some targets set by what is now the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
The half-year results for April-September 2007 have now been published and on balance it’s looking … well, a bit poor really.
The first target is job creation – how many jobs have AWM [...]
I’ve taken the MSN and Skype online status out of my sidebar to speed things up a bit, tweaked the header to display better on smaller screen resolutions and I’ve made a few festive additions.
Let me know if I’ve broken anything.
Technorati Tags: Christmas, Wordpress
The British government has announced that a review of market liberalisation in the postal sector to see how it has affected Royal Mail and to consider how to maintain the universal service.
The BBC says that the report has the following 3 objectives:
Assess impact of market liberalisation
Look at future market trends
Consider how to maintain universal service
How [...]
I’d forgotten all about the Britblog Roundup until I saw an incoming link from Matt Wardman.
My post on the EU admitting it was a tinpot dictatorship gets a mention.
Funnily enough, I was thinking this morning that we haven’t had a Witanagemot roundup for a long time. I was going to do one today but the [...]
A group of scientists in America have predicted that Arctic summers will be ice-free in 5-6 years time.
Eco-terrorists have been bleating about the receding ice caps and declining permafrost for a while now with their doom and gloom predictions about mass flooding all over the world. The BBC provides a helpful graphic to illustrate the [...]
About 18,000 trade union members have taken to the streets in Belgium to protest about rising prices and the fact that they haven’t got a government.
The protest was organised by the three main trade unions in Belgium which collectively represent about 3m people. The population of Belgium is approximately 11m so that’s quite a protest.
King [...]
The One Eyed wonder of Wankistan, Prime Minister unelect, leader of the rump cabinet, Gordon “No Mandate” Brown, is travelling to Lisbon today to sign the EU not-a-constitution.
The EU Constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch in referrenda and has now been repackaged into another treaty that is 96% identical but has a different [...]
Not my words, Terry Pratchett’s. My favourite author of all time, the man who brought us the Discworld, has announced that he has early onset of alzheimers.
I have read every single novel he’s written, I buy his new books on the day they’re released, I have read and reread them all over and over again. [...]
The British government is still determined to press ahead with plans for 42 day internment for “terrorist” suspects.
As I’ve pointed out, several times before, anti-terrorism laws have so far caught 0 terrorists but have been used to arrest, detain, harass and deny liberty and fundamental constitutional rights for many innocent people.
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has [...]
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