Archive for December, 2007
31 Dec
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 […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
5 Comments
27 Dec
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!
Technorati Tags: Santa, Russia, […]
Posted in WTF? by: wonkotsane
1 Comment
27 Dec
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 […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
4 Comments
27 Dec
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 […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
1 Comment
27 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Labour, Sleaze by: wonkotsane
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24 Dec
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 […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
11 Comments
24 Dec
I’d like to wish my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
2 Comments
24 Dec
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 […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
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24 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Funny, WTF? by: wonkotsane
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23 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Scotland, Federal Europe by: wonkotsane
4 Comments
23 Dec
… 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 ÂŁ60,675 per year as a basic wage and then claim expenses for anything and everything. They are […]
Posted in WTF? by: wonkotsane
2 Comments
22 Dec
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 […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
3 Comments
22 Dec
The Illiberal Dipshits have appointed Lembit Ă–pik, MP for Montgomery, to their shadow cabinet with responsibility for housing.
Housing is devolved to the Welsh Assembly in Mr Ă–pik’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 Ă–pik,
I note […]
Posted in Lib Dems, No Mandate by: wonkotsane
2 Comments
22 Dec
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 […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
4 Comments
21 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Regions by: wonkotsane
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20 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Labour, Traitors, No Mandate, Come the revolution, Sleaze by: wonkotsane
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20 Dec
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 …
Technorati Tags: […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
3 Comments
20 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Federal Europe, Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
2 Comments
20 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Federal Europe, Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
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20 Dec
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 […]
Posted in England, Regions, Lib Dems, Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
3 Comments
19 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Regions, WTF? by: wonkotsane
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18 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Regions, WTF? by: wonkotsane
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18 Dec
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
Posted in Wordpress by: wonkotsane
1 Comment
17 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Federal Europe by: wonkotsane
5 Comments
17 Dec
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 […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
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17 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Climate Change, Propaganda by: wonkotsane
4 Comments
15 Dec
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 […]
Posted in General, Federal Europe by: wonkotsane
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13 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Federal Europe, BBC Bias, Traitors, Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
1 Comment
13 Dec
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. […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
7 Comments
11 Dec
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 […]
Posted in Terrorism, Propaganda, Traitors, Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
5 Comments
11 Dec
David Camoron gave a speech in Edinburgh yesterday in which he extolled the virtues of the union and dashed any hopes that England under the Conswervatives might ever achieve equality.
Camoron is a tit. A complete and utter fucking idiot. The Tories will never be elected in Scotland yet at every possible opportunity, Camoron treks up […]
Posted in England, Britain, Anglophobia, Traitors, Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
6 Comments
10 Dec
According to the Transaction 2007 website, nationwide fuel protests will commence on 12th December.
Technorati Tags: Fuel Tax, Protests
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
3 Comments
10 Dec
Kosovo has suffered terribly at the hands of the Serbs ever since Yugoslavia broke up.
For a while now, Federal Europe has provided mediators to try and come up with a solution that would allow Kosovo to remain part of Serbia which would be acceptable to both the Serbs who don’t want to lose Kosovo and to […]
Posted in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Federal Europe, Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
3 Comments
08 Dec
The Portuguese president has described the EU-Africa summit as “a summit of equals”.
Human Rights Watch has concerns about the following African nations:
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo (Brazzaville)
Cote d’Ivoire
Democratic Republic of Congo
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Somaliland
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania and Zanzibar
Togo
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
That’s a good 90% of African nations on Human Rights Watch’s list. So what he’s saying is that the EU and […]
Posted in Federal Europe, Propaganda, WTF? by: wonkotsane
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08 Dec
The Road Haulage Association have agreed to back Transaction 2007 in “legal protest action”.
The price of fuel in the UK is now higher than ever and mostly thanks to the crippling amount of tax put onto it by the British government. The average price of a liter of petrol is now over ÂŁ1.00 thanks to […]
Posted in Transport by: wonkotsane
14 Comments
08 Dec
About a year ago, Transforming Telford was officially launched for the first time. I say first time because they’ve been officially launched at least twice under the name Transforming Telford and once under the name Telford First.
The company, Transforming Telford, is another one of these taxpayer-funded, unelected quangos put in place to ensure that public […]
Posted in WTF?, Sleaze by: wonkotsane
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08 Dec
Liebour was given ÂŁ183,000 by the Electoral Commission in 2001-02 to help them train staff to understand funding rules under the new Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
Despite having full training at considerable expense to the taxpayer, Liebour has continued to accept various illegal donations.
So, not only did they break the law by accepting […]
Posted in Labour, Sleaze by: wonkotsane
4 Comments
07 Dec
Britishness Brown has boycotted a Federal Europe-Zimbabwe summit because the tyrant Mugabe was attending.
However, his moral stance doesn’t stretch as far as refusing any representation from the UK - he sent Baroness Amos in his place.
Mugabe’s flight should be redirected to the Hague where he should stand trial for crimes against humanity. Tens of thousands […]
Posted in Federal Europe, Traitors by: wonkotsane
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07 Dec
Yesterday I posted an email I sent to my MP giving just a few reasons why the state doesn’t need to extend the amount of time someone can be held without charge from 28 days.
Today there is a perfect example of why it is unnecessary.
The canoeist, John Darwin, who was reported missing 5 years ago […]
Posted in Police State by: wonkotsane
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07 Dec
Hazel Blears, the Communities Minister, is going to tell local authorities and public bodies to stop needlessly translating documents.
Documents are routinely translated into any number of foreign languages so that foreigners who don’t speak English don’t feel left out. The City of Westminster has gone further and started translating road signs into Polish.
Blears says that there is […]
Posted in Political Correctness by: wonkotsane
8 Comments
07 Dec
English police are on the receiving end of the same racist treatment as English nurses when it comes to pay increases.
Earlier this year, our nurses were told that they would be getting the same percentage pay rise as Scottish nurses but rather than a single pay increase like in Scotland, their pay increase was to […]
Posted in England, Scotland, Anglophobia by: wonkotsane
8 Comments
06 Dec
The unelected Regional Development Agency, Advantage West Midlands, has appointed its Deputy Chief Executive, Mick Laverty, as its new Chief Executive.
The current Chief Executive, John Edwards, is taking early retirement (although AWM’s PR company seems to think he’s not) in March next year.
Laverty will take over an unelected quango with 300 staff, a ÂŁ300m annual budget and […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
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06 Dec
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has pronounced that the state should be allowed to detain “terrorism” suspects without charge for 42 days. The 28 day limit that we currently have is already longer than any other developed nation. The British government has already admitted that there have been no occasions when the current 28 day […]
Posted in Police State, Terrorism, Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
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06 Dec
Wendy Alexander, the disgraced Scottish Liebour leader who took an illegal donation for a Jersey businessman, has gained the support of the Scottish Conswervatives and Scottish Illiberal Dumbasscrats for a devolution review funded by the Scottish Parliament.
Alexander will be calling for a review today into devolution in general and how the Scottish Parliament’s financial accountability can […]
Posted in Labour, Sleaze by: wonkotsane
3 Comments
05 Dec
A review of prisons is to recommend that sentencing is linked to the availability of prison places.
Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, has called for more fine and community rehabilitation instead of prison sentences.
Setting aside the fact that simmary justice is illegal and that a massive percentage of court fines either […]
Posted in WTF? by: wonkotsane
3 Comments
05 Dec
Just sent this to my MP …Â
Dear David,
Your Prime Minister signed the Scottish Claim of Right in which he pledged that the interests of Scottish people would be paramount in all his acts and deliberations.
Now that he is your British Prime Minister, the interests of all people in “Britain” should be paramount in all his acts […]
Posted in Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
3 Comments
04 Dec
As previously blogged, I upgraded my phones with Orange a few weeks ago.
I got an excellent deal - phones I wasn’t actually entitled to 3 months before the end of my contract. So good was the deal, in fact, that when Mrs Sane’s phone eventually came into stock they tried to get out of sending […]
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
3 Comments
04 Dec
Inspired by Alfie, I put pen finger to paper keyboard once again and asked the RFU to stop playing God Save the Queen before England matches.
Hi,
Our glorious leader has pronounced that deciding which national anthem to play before sporting events is not a matter for the British government and is, instead, the responsibility of the […]
Posted in England, Sport by: wonkotsane
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04 Dec
The English teacher who was banged up by jihadi’s in Sudan for allowing her pupils to call a teddy bear Mohammed has been released.
The Sudanese president yesterday granted her a presidential pardon and she was released just after lunch time.
She arrived back in England today.
Technorati Tags: Sudan, Mohammed, Teacher, Teddy Bear
Posted in General by: wonkotsane
2 Comments
03 Dec
The law is the law and all men are equal in the eyes of the law. This is one of the most fundamental concepts in English law but the most serious of crimes - treason - is committed regularly and goes unpunished. Other fundamental rights that we have had for centuries and are guaranteed by the constitution are […]
Posted in Federal Europe, Come the revolution, Sleaze by: wonkotsane
9 Comments