Via Bob Piper, it appears that Guido has been a naughty boy.
According to the Ministry of Truth, Mr Fawkes has been caught drink driving for the second time in 5 years and apparently with no insurance as well.  For this offence he faces a mandatory driving ban, up to nine grand in fines and up [...]

My MP, David Wright, has got a blog!
So far he’s managed to mention the fact he’s “a local lad” in every post I think – this seems to be the entire basis of his manifesto.
He’s getting a slating from the locals though, which is entertaining.
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Haulage companies from Shrewsbury (my cousin is there – I saw him on BBC News!) have travelled to London today to protest against rising costs of running their trucks.
Fuel prices are at an all-time high and hauliers are asking for a cut in road tax for lorries.  If they get their way it won’t make [...]

BP and Shell have made a combined profit of almost £9bn in the first quarter of 2008.
The oil companies have, of course, been criticised for making such large profits.  Most of them either don’t – or don’t want to – understand that oil companies have only one responsibility and that is to make as much [...]

The two factions of MDC have reunited to form a larger opposition to Robert Mugabe. Zanu-PF is now outnumbered in the Zimbabwean Parliament – even after the “re-count” of ballot boxes that had been in Zanu-PF’s control – by 109 seats to 97.
Mugabe has had over 200 MDC activists arrested and MDC says that [...]

Robert Mugabe has demonstrated his commitment to democracy by having the offices of the MDC and the independent election monitor, ZESN, raided.
In total about a hundred people have been arrested and ballot counting and computer equipment has been taken under a warrant issued for “subversive information likely to overthrow a constitutionally elected government”.  This would [...]

The English Democrats’ candidate in the London Mayoral election, Matt O’Connor, has dropped out of the race.
O’Conner was the founder of Fathers 4 Justice and my brief encounter with him a while ago when I tried to talk to him about the dangers of forcing knee-jerk reactions around fathers rights without adding any protection for [...]

Hamas has formally offered a truce in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has dismissed the offer saying that it’s just a ploy to let Hamas “rearm and regroup”.
Gosh, how nice it must be to know everything all the time.
Looks like my question has been answered.
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Question Time has “the three men who want to be the next mayor of London” going head to head.
Three men? Last time I checked there were a number of candidates, not just three. And they can’t use the argument that they’re the only three in with a chance because the Illiberal Dipshit candidate stands about [...]

The Ministry of Justice has decided to include Wales in a new bill to introduce specific offences relating to mental and physical abuse in hospitals.  The Welsh government said they didn’t need the law but some Liebour MPs and a peer complained and the MoJ has changed its mind.
I’ve spent a lot more than average [...]

Let’s face it, things are going seriously wrong in England right now. For the first time in my life I am actually worried about what the immediate future holds.
Fuel prices are through the roof and there’s no sign of them going back down again. Over 80% of the price of a litre of [...]

A few weeks ago I asked what the apocalyptic non-event of the next decade would be.
It was a close race right up until a few days ago but there is now a clear winner:

The four “other” were:

An as yet unknown disease will sweep the world
New feudalism
English nationalism continues to rise, threating the existence of the [...]

The results of last weeks Twat of the Week Month so Far are in and the clear winner is No Mandate Brown with 65% of the vote.

If you want to nominate somebody for this week’s Twat of the Week award, let me know.

I’d like to wish all my readers a Happy St Georges Day.

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Dr Bob Spink MP, who resigned from the Conswervatives last month after his local Conswervative Association tried to deselect him, has joined UKIP.
UKIP now has one MP, nine MEPs, two Lords and about 30 councillors.
It might not seem like much but from little acorns grow mighty oaks.
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Three things that piss me off on the roads:
1. People driving 4×4’s or road versions of World Rally Championship winning cars driving down the middle of the road to avoid driving over speed bumps.
2. People driving tractors down a busy road at 8 o’clock in the morning.
3. People who drive round islands in the outside [...]

The Conswervatives have spent nearly three years “consulting” and debating the West Lothian Question and have finally come up with an “answer”.
The “answer” to the West Lothian Question, according to the Conswervatives, is “don’t answer it”.  A marginal improvement over “don’t ask it” but hardly a constructive use of three years and god knows how [...]

Former US President, Jimmy Carter, has met with the exiled leader of Hamas in Syria.
Hamas (the political party) won free and fair elections last year but Israel, the US and the EU refuse to deal with them and are actively seeking to undermine their control of the Gaza Strip which they have controlled since winning [...]

The insurance company finally paid out on my broken laptop so I’ve finally been able to get a replacement.
It’s a nice bit of kit but it came with Vista, Microsoft’s most controversial operating system so far.  I’ve read and heard good and bad reports of Vista but so far I quite like it.
After a couple [...]

After three weeks, votes are being recounted in 23 seats in Zimbabwe that Robert Mugabe’s ZanuPF lost.
The Zimbabwean Electoral Commission is a pro-Mugabe, ZanuPF-controlled quango and party officials are believed to have had free access to the ballot boxes for the duration.  The opposition MDC says that it will not support any recount because they [...]

If you read the following on the BBC News website …
The American housing ministry has invited tenders for the construction of 100 new homes at American settlements in occupied Iraq. 
… people would say that it was wrong and that America had no right to build homes for Americans in Iraq against the will of the Iraqi government.  [...]

This was in tonight’s Shropshire Star …

Pensioners in England missing out
On April 1 a new scheme came into force to allow pensioners to have free off-peak travel around England. Previously they were entitled to only off-peak travel within their local authority.
Pensioners in Scotland and Wales have been entitled to free public transport at any time [...]

No Mandate Brown has told a meeting of the UN that “no-one thinks” Mugabe won the Zimbabwean presidential elections.
He then had the audacity to say “The credibility of the democratic process depends on there being a legitimate government”.
What’s that you say?  Legitimate government?  Is that like the leader of the country asking the electorate to [...]

Thanks to Arden Forester for the YouTube video of Gerard Batten MEP’s London Mayoral election broadcast.  I missed it earlier as I was attending a UKIP meeting, of all things!

Embedded Video

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After posting this yesterday I sent a shitty email to the webmaster of the pm.gov.uk website giving them until 10am today to remove the link to the Liebour website or I would complain to the Civil Service Commissioner and contact the press.
They got an extra couple of hours because I was busy but no email [...]

The signal on my Orange phone has been dropping off all morning so I checked a couple of other Orange mobiles and they’re all doing the same thing so I phoned Orange.
Apparently there’s scheduled work going on with four transmitters nearby resulting in the intermittent coverage.  Which is nice.
So why wasn’t I told about this?  [...]

Charlie Marks, one of the only left wingers in England that doesn’t need their head looking into (surgically), has some background information on Liebour’s new poverty adviser.
Jennifer Moses will be advising Gordon Brown on poverty (combatting it, not causing it – he already knows how to do the latter) as part of his Cabinet of all the [...]

I’ve just been emailed this link by a UKIPper and told to read the last two paragraphs.
If you can’t be bothered to read it yourself, basically a footnote in the EU not-a-constitution says that we accept the European Union Charter and a footnote in that charter says that the death penalty is abolished “except in [...]

Erm, this isn’t what I pay my taxes for …

The excellent PJC Journal has spotted a link on the 10 Downing Street website to the Liebour Party’s website.  Not only that but it’s the local election campaign section of their website.
This is against the Civil Service Code, it is against electoral law and it is a [...]

Researchers at Cardiff University reckon they can “cure” osteoarthritis using stem cells.
I have quite bad osteoarthritis in both my knees.  On my left knee, parts of the joint have no cartilage at all and the rest is poor quality, rough cartilage.  On my right knee, it’s poor quality, rough cartilage.  They both make some very [...]