A group of retired Gurkhas brought a test case against the British government in the High Court for the right to live in the UK today. The judge ruled that we owe a moral debt to the Gurkhas and that it is unlawful to deny them the right to live in the UK. The fact [...]
The FTSE has dipped below 5,000 points for the first time in a couple of years after Sunday night’s announcement that Bradford & Bingley was to be nationalised and asset stripped. It’s gone into a downward spiral again today, along with the major world markets, on the back of the US congress’ refusal to approve [...]
It’s been confirmed this morning that Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised and its savings business sold to the Spanish bank, Santander. Bradford & Bingley has £50bn of debts, including £41bn of outstanding mortgages, which the taxpayer will take on whilst the profitable £20bn savings business is to be sold to Santander. Someone’s got [...]
According to the BBC, Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised. There was speculation yesterday that it might have been sold to Banco Santander, the Spanish owner of Abbey National, but it looks like Santander and the other banks will instead be able to cherry pick which bits they want because B&B is going to [...]
Pirates have hijacked a boat 200 miles off the coast of Somalia. This is nothing new, of course, 2008 has been a bumper year for piracy. In fact, I blogged about Somali pirates back in April when some muppet thought it would be a good idea to take their million pound yacht to the piracy [...]
El Gordo is steering us expertly through these difficult economic times, as promised. He’s expertly steered Northern Rock into bankruptcy and nationalisation, he’s expertly steered the economy into a recession, he’s expertly steered HBOS into an emergency takeover by Lloyds TSB and now he’s expertly steering Bradford & Bingley either into the hands of the [...]
Metric Martyr, Neil Herron, was in the High Court in London today to seek a judicial review into the civil parking fines system. Neil has argued for a long time that the parking adjudication service isn’t impartial because it’s funded by taking a percentage of any fines that are paid. The Human Rights Act says [...]
I changed the blockquotes the other day, got fed up with seeing all that angry red on the page. If the blockquotes don’t look right – the images are mismatched or the text is white on a white background or some other strangeness – press Ctrl+F5 to force a reload of the page. Don’t come [...]
Regular reader, KeithS, send me this message this morning: You can rely on the EU never to give up on a bad cause… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/3075189/EU-resurrects-daytime-running-lights-plan.html You’re not wrong Keith. Back in October 2006, Federal Europe said that it wanted every vehicle to have its lights on at all times. They said it would save lives but motorcycling [...]
It’s no secret that Federal Europe hates blogs – they don’t like the idea of a source of topical information and commentary that they can’t control. Hence their calls for regulation of blogs. Sadly, they have found a way of silencing Gawain Towler, the author of England Expects. Gawain works for the Independence and Democracy [...]
Why oh why oh why do I do these things? I got a Google alert with a link to El Gordo’s conference speech so I clicked on the link and started reading. Still, my pain means you don’t have to read his evil words. Taking one for the team, what a guy. So, where to [...]
Federal Europe is going to force mobile phone companies to cut the cost of text messages in Europe from an average of 23p to 9p. Whoop de fucking do. Hands up who’s been abroad this year. Hands up who sent loads of text messages while they were there. Hands up who regularly uses their mobile [...]
Just looking for some information on a recent event held by Telford & Wrekin Council and came across the Leisure, Culture and Tourism page. First thing I noticed was the missing comma in the title so it reads “Leisure Culture and Tourism”. It’s just a little thing but without the comma the title means something [...]
Gordo: “That’s right young man, national debt is just the right size” Boy: “David Cameron’s lead is much smaller when you look at it through these special glasses Uncle Gordon” Technorati Tags: Gordon Brown, Caption Competition
Everything he touches turns to shit. Everywhere he goes disaster follows. Jonah Brown is a living, breathing curse. The BBC reports that Tory defector, Councillor Les Byrom, collapsed yesterday minutes after addressing the Liebour Party conference. Councillor Les Byrom, from Southport, Merseyside, was given a standing ovation after saying Mr Brown could become “an iron Prime Minister”. [...]
All I will say is good fucking riddance. Thabo Mbeki is a racist shit who is an integral part of the problems in the south of the continent and Zimbabwe in particular. The world will be a better place without this two-faced turd. Technorati Tags: South Africa, Thabo Mbeki
Supermarkets pay people a fortune to come up with ways of squeezing more money out of people that walk through their doors and the most of that effort is concentrated on enticing people to make spontaneous purchases. But they’re missing out on a trick here … How many times have you walked into a supermarket [...]
UKIP and the Ind Dem group have produced a new video called “Out of Control: How the EU is costing you the earth”. There are two versions: Low Res (less than 2mbit connection) High Res (2mbit connection or higher) Technorati Tags: UKIP, Climate Change, Video
Just fired this email off to the School Food Trust, a British government quango that runs school meal promotions in English schools … Hi, I am writing to complain about the High School Musical promotion being run by yourselves in the school my children go to. Under the terms of this promotion, children having school [...]
JK Rowling has donated £1m to the Liebour Party, saying that poor and vulnerable people would fare better under Liebour than the Conswervatives. For fucks sake. Did she not notice the 10p tax band being abolished? Of course not, the hourly interest on her £560m fortune is far and above the amount a poor and [...]
An Englishman’s Castle has been kind enough to reproduce a list of words and phrases that are now considered offensive by the British Sociological Association. The list of racist, disablist and sexist terms include: Old Masters Immigrants Developing nations Black Patient The Elderly Special Needs Civillisation Seminal Disseminate Chinese Whisper I’ve checked the list and [...]
Stuart Wheeler, one of the Tories’ biggest donors, has brought David Cameron back down to earth with a thud greeting the news that the Tories have just polled 52% in an IPSOS MORI poll compared to Labour’s 24% with a threat that he will defect to UKIP next year if the Tories don’t buck their [...]
Firstly, a new site for UKIP supporters: Secondly, they say curiosity killed the cat but in this case it just resulted in me registering a Twitter account: Technorati Tags: Twitter, UKIP
Fatty Prescott has told the BBC “Today” programme that Liebour MPs should get behind their liability of a leader because “disunity kills”. He didn’t call No Mandate Brown a liability of course, what he said was … you’ve guessed it … “the best man for the job”. Oh yes and he casually slipped in the [...]
The American insurer, AIG, asked for a $40bn emergency loan from the US Federal Reserve the other day and overnight they gave them $85bn. Curious. Meanwhile, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) has lost half its value in a couple of days on the back of the imminent collapse of the American banking sector. LloydsTSB is [...]
Lehman Brothers, the third largest investment bank in the US, has gone bust. The US authorities refused to bail them out because Lehman hadn’t taken advantage of previous chances to sort themselves out. The word on the (Wall) street is that the regulators were making an example of Lehman to show American banks they aren’t [...]
I was bored the other day so I thought I’d have another pop at getting the Home Office to tell me how to renounce my EU Citizenship … Hi, I have emailed about this a few times but nobody ever comes back to me. I suspect the answer is inconvenient for you but I really [...]
I haven’t seen this mentioned on the news (surprise, surprise) but according to the UKIP website, five Sharia courts are now allowed to have their judgements enforced by the High Court or a County Court. Muslims have been calling for their barbaric Sharia Law to be given equal status to English law for years and [...]
I just took #4 to bed and read a book with her. It was a simple book – One Apple, Two Ducks, that kind of thing. Normally she’d have something with a bit more of a plot but I’m trying to teach her to read. Anyway, she did well reading out the letters and doing [...]
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