The Chief Constable of Cheshire, Peter Fahey, has said that “whispering campaigns” might be happening to prevent black or asian police officers from getting promoted and has called for a “fairer” system to ensure more of them get promotions.
Fahey has previously called for a change in the law so that police forces will be able […]

The Commons Scottish Affairs Committee of British MPs has decided that responsibility for holding ballots should not be transferred to the Scottish Parliament.
They cited the lack of faith amongst the electorate for the electronic voting system used in Scotland as a reason for keeping the responsibility with the British government’s Scottish Office.
Alex the Salmon won’t […]

The Birmingham Post is claiming that a Tory plan to strip Regional Development Agencies of some of their powers will damage the economy of the West Midlands and centralise decision making.
This is absolute nonsense. Removing the regional quangocracy will empower local communities, increase democratic accountability in the decision-making process and could provide a vital boost […]

The Liebour Party is on the verge of bankruptcy and needs an extra £4m funding before auditors will sign off its accounts as a going concern.
In 1997 Liebour had 400,000 paying members, today they have less than 200,000. In the last quarter of 2007 they had £2.86m in funding from members, in the first […]

Via An Englishman’s Castle, a 73 year old former Grenadier has been tagged for failing to stop at the scene of an accident which he says he wasn’t involved in.
He says that a woman ran out in front of a car and the car knocked her over and then drove off.  He says that he […]

Federal Europe is currently working on plans to fine car manufacturers for every vehicle they produce that exceeds the finger in the air figure of 130g/km of Carbon Dioxide emissions.  The fine is expected to be £68 per gramme.
Of course, with this being the EU, the regulations are ridiculously ill conceived and designed to benefit […]

According to a report by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, fat people are to blame.  For everything.
Global food shortages?  You thought it was because the world population is growing too fast at the same time as the Chinese are moving to an inefficient protein-based diet and farmers in the developing world are […]

The belligerence within the English tradition is still a fresh memory and for some people the national flag is associated with football violence.
Billy Bragg 

The British flag is associated with the racist far-left BNP and the violent Brit-Scot nationalist Rangers fans and Bragg has the nerve to claim that the Cross of St George is associated […]

No Mandate Brown says he wants to win the argument for 42 days internment of “terrorism” suspects.
As I’ve pointed out many, many times, the terrorism laws we have now are appallingly slack resulting in people being arrested under anti-terrorism laws for such heinous offences as carrying a blank placard within 1km of Parliament and reading […]

Got my knee braces yesterday. Thank god I only have to wear them for an hour a day to start with!

And no, they don’t make me run at 100mph or jump buildings like the Bionic Man.
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No Mandate Brown has set out his no-mandate “reform” programme (there’s that fucking word again - reform) to try and recover from the devastating trouncing Liebour had in the last by-election and nosediving support from traditional Liebour voters.
Let’s take a look at what batshit ideas he’s pulled out of his arse this time. I’ll […]

I had to get petrol today so I went to the petrol station and stopped when I was dead on £20.  I carefully removed the nozzle, held it upright and dropped it onto the holder.  As the pump stopped the gauge rolled over to £20.01.
I went to pay and the bloke behind the counter said […]

My useless Liebour MP, David Wright, has thrown his teddy out of his pram after a spoof blog was set up in his name.
It was pretty obvious it was a spoof but there were a lot of comments from people who thought it was real and comments saying they didn’t agree with him but they […]

Just a quick update on the diet - I’m 2lb off losing 2st, thanks in part to the 24 hour bug I had Sunday which caused me to lose 3lb overnight!

Getting close to half way to my target.
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The Scottish government intends to do more to help Scottish fishermen cope with rising prices and unfair advantages of Spanish and French fishermen who receive state aid.
Rising fuel prices, crippling EU regulations and reduced quotas are damaging commercial fishing so the Scottish government is giving up to £400,000 towards the annual costs of maintaining lifeboats […]

This is a step too far:
The government has set out new guidance calling on councils to monitor communities and do more to prevent local tensions.
Communities secretary Hazel Blears called on councils to keep track of who is living in their area and be aware of potential “hot spots”.
The guidance also says local authorities should be […]

Ian Taylor, a builder from Gloucestershire, has cut his car in half with and angle grinder rather than let wheel clamping bandits, NCP, take his car away.
He bought a knackered old Fiesta for his son but it was beyond economical repair so he declared it off-road and parked it on his drive while he waited […]

Via the Secret Person, apparently we don’t take Eurovision seriously enough.
No shit Sherlock.  Bjorn Erichsen, the Danish producer of Eurovision, has been bitching about Terry Wogan, saying that he is part of the problem and that we should treat it with the seriousness it deserves.
What a fucking joke.  If it wasn’t for Terry Wogan, Eurovision […]

Guido has a copy of a Liebour election leaflet for the Crewe & Nantwich by-election.

Mrs Sane and I occasionally spend a weekend at a nice hotel just outside Nantwich and there are a lot of nice big houses round there.  Of course there are some scutty houses as well but just because someone lives in […]

Good old Sky, you’ve gotta love ‘em.
I introduced a friend to Sky and got a free Sky Plus box for the introduction. I phoned the number on the letter and gave them the details. A couple of months passes and the phone call to sort out the installation hasn’t materialised so I phoned […]

I’ve just signed the petition for a .ENG domain courtesy of DotEng.
The rules on top-level domains are being relaxed and this will make a .ENG domain much easier to secure than previously. If the .SCO or .CYM campaigns for Scotland and Wales are successful that will set a precedent for all the home nations.
We […]

Zimbabwean police have been instructed to campaign for Robert Mugabe and the War Veterans - an armed ZanuPF militia group - will be inside polling stations wearing police uniforms if a run-off for the presidential election is held.
According to this BBC News article, it would appear that the War Veterans are being incorporated into the police […]

ZanuPF and the MDC have both filed petitions with the Zimbabwean Electoral Court challenging the results of a total of 105 results from the recent elections.
MPs will still be sworn in and the government - such as it is - will continue whilst the Electoral Court rules on the results.
There is only one way that […]

Nourishing Obscurity has a post on bloggers’ coats of arms. Not sure if the College of Arms will approve of his choice of a badger and hamster.
Of course, being the terribly important person I am, my family already has a coat of arms which you should see to your right here.
It’s a bit basic […]

No Mandate Brown will shortly be getting his first test since the battering at the local elections last week when the Crewe & Nantwich by-election takes place on the 22nd.
Gwyneth Dunwoody held the seat for for Liebour for 25 years until she passed away a couple of weeks ago.  She had held the seat since […]

Mrs Sane and I need to go to the Netherlands in October for the christening of our godchild.
Contrary to popular belief, booking flights at the last minute doesn’t get you a cheap ticket.  In fact, it generally gets you a more expensive ticket because someone will pay through the nose if they absolutely have to […]

We went up to Chester to Mrs Sane’s cousin’s house yesterday for their daughter’s first birthday and now I’m jealous.
No, they don’t live in a mansion - their house is lovely but it’s about half the size of ours.  No, it’s not nestled amongst million pound houses in a leafy suburb - it’s a nice […]

Richard Barnes, the Conswervative Leader in London, has told the BNP that they will have problems finding secretaries and support staff in the London Assembly and that they won’t be forcing admin staff to do their jobs.
Whilst I find the BNP quite reprehensible, I don’t see how the Conswervatives can claim any moral justification for […]

Tonight’s Shropshire Star reports that a man has been badly beaten - so badly that he needed an emergency operation on his head - just round the corner from where the racist fight took place on Thursday night.
The police believe the man in his twenties was attacked by two 16 year olds and that it’s […]

A number of children, some as young as 9 or 10, were involved in a racial attack in Telford last night.
From what I am told, a group of black youths racially abused a group of white youths and a fight followed during which a 10 year old child had their head stamped on several times. […]

Some of the hauliers that protested in London earlier this week arranged a surprise blockade of the Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port yesterday in protest at fuel prices.
According to my local rag, the Shropshire Star, “Jim Jordan, of Shrewsbury-based Jordan’s Transport, said the surprise protest was aimed at building a momentum following an earlier […]

The Zimbabwean Electoral Commission has released results of the Presidential elections and confirmed that Mugabe lost.
However, neither candidate officially reached that golden 50% mark which would have avoided a run-off election between the two candidates.  I say officially because Zanu-PF have had possession of the ballot boxes since the election.  It is an indication of […]

Stuart Wheeler has been granted a judicial review at the High Court on the British government’s refusal to hold the referendum they promised on the EU not-a-constitution.
In all honesty it is highly unlikely that he’ll be successful but the important thing is that it now makes the matter of the Lisbon Treaty sub judice which […]

The results of yesterday’s elections are almost all in and it looks like being a brilliant result.
With 148 of 159 councils declared, Liebour have so far lost control of 8 councils and a spectacular in 293 councillors in what has been described as the worst result for Liebour since the 60’s. Research by the […]

The already discredited global warming propagandists will be reeling from the latest evidence that they’re a bunch of lying shits.
They’ve yet to offer a reasonable explanation for why, despite their claims that the earth is warming, it has in fact been cooling for the last few years and is lower than it has been several […]

Having finished my daily dose of the Daily Mash I popped over to BBC News to get the serious news.
Or so I thought.
I thought perhaps the Daily Mash had managed to hijack my browser and spoof the BBC News website somehow when I saw this: Lesbos islanders dispute gay name.  Apparently, the islanders of Lesbos […]

May the fire of socialism burn inside you as strong as the cars and shops your friends will be setting on fire today.
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