Mark Pritchard, the Tory MP for Telford, has made a cryptic announcement on his website:
Under Parliamentary rules governing the pre-election period, this website will not be updated from 1st January 2010 until the General Election. 
What rules say that a sitting MP can’t update their official website before an election has been called?  I’m not aware [...]

Let’s get this straight right now – I do not support English Votes on English Laws.  It’s an insult to our nation and a constitutional fudge that is doomed to failure.
It is, however, a recognition of more than a decade of institutional discrimination against England at the hands of the British establishment and the need [...]

Since the scum-sucking-pig-gate affair kicked off, David Wright MP has been a bit quiet not only on the Twitter front but I’m told his office telephone has been going unanswered when people are ringing for comments.
My spies tell me that David has been hauled over the coals but don’t worry, the Brownshirts haven’t sent him [...]

Euthanasia and mercy killings are back in the news again, largely thanks to my favourite author, Terry Pratchett.
Terry Pratchett has a rare form of Alzheimers and wants to shuffle off the mortal coil on his own terms, in a chair in his garden listening to music taking an overdose of painkillers with alcohol.  And why not?
He [...]

Beijing has been brought to a standstill after being buried under 12″ of global warming snow – the most they’ve had since 1951.
The Chinese Met Office has warned that the far north of China could be globally warmed to as much -32°C.
Airports and roads have been closed in China because of the global warming and [...]

According to BBC Radio Shropshire, there has been an explosion in Shrewsbury town centre.
The emergency services aren’t giving much information but there have been injuries.  Three people have been sent to the nearby Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and one has been airlifted to Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham.  Three air ambulances and ten land ambulances are [...]

Happy New Year

The Daily Mail has an article on the English Defence League with the snappy title “This is England: Masked like terrorists, members of Britain’s newest and fastest -growing protest group intimidate a Muslim woman on a train en route to a violent demo”.  It used to be called “This is England: On the trail of [...]

Merry Christmas to all my friends, relatives and enemies *

* Except Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson, you’ve gone through enemy and out the other side.

Switzerland has voted to ban the construction of Minarets in a national referendum.
They have an excellent system in Switzerland – one that Lord Pearson has made a key policy for UKIP – where a petition with 100,000 signatures calling for a referendum has to be acted on by the government.  This particular referendum was arranged [...]

I’ve been tagged by Toque on a top 10 films meme, in the hope that he’ll find some inspiration for his LoveFilm rentals.  In no particular order …

Final Destination
A kid has a premonition that the plane he’s on is going to blow up, panics, gets thrown off with some school friends and … the plane [...]

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To [...]

Google has had a Sesame Street logo on its site for most of the week to mark the 4oth anniversary of the show.
Presumably the makers of Sesame Street are presumably paying them to display the logo because not only did the Google UK site fail to mark the 5th of November, but they have also [...]

Just checked the Big Ben webcam and I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news – the Houses of Parliament are still there.

It’s traditional to bedeck websites with scary images at Halloween.  Google has this rather tame offering:

I prefer something a bit more scary …

The trial of Radovan Karadzic starts today at the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.
Karadzic is defending himself and has asked for a 10 month adjournment to prepare his defence, a request that has been dismissed as a delaying tactic.
But the prosecution has filed over 1m pages of evidence against him which raises concerns.  Whilst [...]

The unelected English Transport Minister, Lord Adonis, says that he and the unelected English Business Secretary, Peter Mandelson, would love to sit in the House of Commons to answer MPs’ questions directly instead of by proxy in the House of Lords.
The BBC points out that the Shadow English Transport Minister and the Shadow English Business [...]

Despite appearances to the contrary, I’m not just a keyboard jockey.
On Thursday I will be at the Campaign for an English Parliament’s protest at the pantomime that is the regional grand committee for the West Midlands euroregion.
The regional grand committee for the east of England euroregion was a complete farce – hardly any MPs turned [...]

This Wordpress theme is creaking at the seams. It doesn’t support widgets and I’ve butchered it quite extensively over the years so it’s time for a facelift.
Any recommendations on a nice new Wordpress theme for me to personalise?

The removal van has dropped off the last bit of furniture, the gas and electric has been turned on there are boxes everywhere but Wonko’s World has finally moved into its new home.
Runtime UK is a local internet firm here in Telford which runs the Telford Live website that I frequent regularly.  They also host [...]

Harriet Harperson, the man-hating fascist Minister for Women & Inequality, has written to the Tartan Taxman 2.0 and demanded that he bans companies from claiming VAT back on entertaining staff and clients at lap dancing clubs because it’s demeaning and effectively excludes women.
Isn’t it a little presumptuous of Ms Harperson to assume that no woman [...]

A number of unions, including the Fire Brigade Union (FBU), Unite and UNISON, voted yesterday to boycott Israel and disinvest from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The unions that supported the motion at the TUC conference represent 6.5m people in the UK.
The motion also condemns the Israeli trade union, Histadrut and calls [...]

Today is Mrs Sane’s birthday so after the presents, crumpets and bacon butties we went to Sheriffhales Village Fair.
Now, village fair usually means WI, homemade skittles and dodgy cake stalls but this is in a league of its own.  The entire village of Sheriffhales is closed off to traffic and the locals make scarecrows and [...]

About this time last year we received a statement from Engage Mutual Assurance, the company the British government “invested” #4’s Child Trust Fund in, showing that it made a 6.2% loss.  I reiterated my belief that the Child Trust Fund is “a fucking rip-off scheme designed to make rich companies richer”.
Today we’ve had the latest [...]

This is about the fifth or sixth time I’ve done a political compass test and it always comes out pretty much the same – slightly right of centre libertarian.

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Mrs Sane has just been watching last night’s X-Factor and spotted what can only be the product of a secret genetic experiment …

Will Young
Danyl Johnson

He’s got the Will Young lisp, he sings like Will Young, he dances like Will Young, he looks like Will Young and likes to take it up the chuff.  If you’ve [...]

I had some sad news the other day.
A fellow Leader at the vbCity developers forum, Martin de Klerk (aka emdek), has died of cancer.
He told us that he’d got cancer a while ago and that it was terminal but it doesn’t really make it any easier.
Martin was an excellent role model on vbCity – even [...]

I’m back from my English seaside holiday.  Felixstowe was an unusual place to go for a holiday but it was nice – plenty for the kids to do, a nice town centre, very clean and well maintained and surprisingly quiet.
The caravan site we stayed on was a bit of a disappointment.  The caravan hadn’t been cleaned [...]

My first reaction when I read this was “what the fuck”?  The taxpayer is going to pay graduates to go on a working holiday?  The British government is actually going to hand over £500 of our hard earned money to a bunch of students so they can go on a taxpayer-funded jolly?  We’re bankrupt, do [...]

Total Politics (Iain Dale’s latest venture) are running the annual top blogs poll.
Send your top ten list of UK blogs to toptenblogs@totalpolitics.com to take part in the poll.
If you included Wonko’s World, Bloggers4UKIP or the Campaign for an English Parliament in your top 10 list that would be lovely.
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