It’s been a quiet blogging year here this year but I’ve been very busy on Bloggers4UKIP and my councillor blog, Stuart Parr for Brookside. Let’s have a look back at 2011 … January saw two sports presenters lose their jobs after secret recordings of a private conversation in which they made sexist comments were made [...]

The South American trade group, Mercosur, has banned Falklands-flagged boats from docking in their ports in solidarity with Argentina. Uruguay proposed the ban and and the other three members – Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina – agreed.  There are less than 40 boats registered in the Falklands so it doesn’t affect a huge amount of people [...]

I went to the ENT clinic at the hospital yesterday to see if they could figure out why my hearing is so bad and came away being told I’ve got to have a hearing aid.  I’m 33 years old for god’s sake, hearing aids are for old people! I must say, I wasn’t expecting to [...]

The London Evening Standard had a story back in 2007 which I’ve only just seen about a cleaner who pays 22% tax on her part time wages while the people who own the company she works for only pay 10%.  It’s old news but it’s pertinent in today’s climate of fierce jealousy of anyone rich [...]

Kia Abdullah, a Guardian columnist, has apologised for making fun of the death of three teenagers in a coach crash in Thailand. The three boys – all educated at a state school – were taking a gap year and ended up in Thailand where they were involved in a bus crash that killed them instantly. [...]

Happy New Year boys and girls.  Let’s hope 2011 is a happy and prosperous year for everyone (even Scottish people).

I haven’t been posting much recently but for those of you that still pop along and keep in touch, have an excellent Christmas and I’ll be back in the new year and I promise to post more often.

It’s been over 2 weeks since I last posted, I’ve been neglecting the blog a bit recently. So what’s been happening in the last couple of weeks?  Well, I went to the UKIP leadership hustings in Birmingham last week.  I’m backing Nigel Farage for leader of course, he’s the best candidate by far.  The second [...]

The British government have banned adverts for “the sex industry” in Job Centres because they might lead to exploitation of vulnerable unemployed women. I’m not an expert in “the sex industry” so I’m happy to be corrected but this all seems a bit daft. For a start, I’d imagine the kind of strip club or [...]

Having spent four nights in the world’s most uncomfortable hotel bed in Leicestershire, I woke up tired and grumpy this morning which is not a good way to start the fourth day of a five day training course. Actually, I was woken up by a phone call from an excitable Mrs Sane rather than my [...]

My mother-in-law is in the final 3 of the Pride of Shropshire Awards in the Carers class. My father-in-law has an über-rare disease called superficial siderosis.  As of 4 years ago there were only 270 confirmed cases worldwide so as you can imagine, there’s not much known about the disease or what is likely to [...]

Well, it looks like people didn’t use their vote wisely after all. The expected anti-LibLabCon backlash didn’t materialise with people voting for the LibLabCon coalition.  The Leaders “Debates” shown on Sky, ITV and the BBC successfully deflected attention from the local candidates and onto the party leaders even though only a few thousand of us [...]

The polling stations have been open for 20 minutes now and today is probably a once in a lifetime chance to change the face of English politics forever. For too long, English politics has been about the same tired old parties – the dishonest Conservatives, the illiberal and economically illiterate Labour Party and the weak [...]

I’m quite a placid person, despite the occasional often ranting outburst on this blog but there are times when someone pisses me off and makes me ranty in real life. At half 8 tonight I finally had enough of listening to the incessant revving of a car engine and went to investigate.  Surprise, sur-fucking-prise, if [...]

If there’s one topic that can cause heated discussion, it’s immigration.  For too long it’s been a taboo subject and public criticism of unfettered discrimination has been left to the far left BNP, assorted nutjob organisations on the fringes of mainstream politics and a relative few individuals prepared to put their heads above the parapet. [...]

We’ve just returned home from a long weekend darn sarf for a visit to Legoland and Chessington. Legoland was a bit of a disappointing day out because the queues for everything were just enormous.  Traffic was backed up for miles just to get in the car park.  We had to queue for ages with our [...]

No Mandate Brown has announced that he will be asking the Queen to dissolve parliament tomorrow and call an election. He is expected to announce a May 6th election. I can’t wait to see the smug grin wiped off McBroon’s gurning face and the deflated look on Camoron‘s face when he realises that he hasn’t [...]

Is it any wonder English people of all colours and religions are supporting the English Defence League? Over 4,000 people gathered at an English Defence League demonstration in Dudley to protest against the planned £18m muslim mosque which over 20,000 locals previously objected to in a petition.  The protesters were herded into a large fenced-off [...]

Mrs Sane had to take the dog to the vets this morning.  When he did his business on his morning walk it was full of blood which isn’t a particularly good sign so we called the emergency vet recommended by our normal vet. It cost £109 for a consultation – triple the normal amount – [...]