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		<title>Another racist gaffe by Diane Abbott</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2012/01/06/another-racist-gaffe-by-diane-abbott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diane Abbott MP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know whether to despise Diane Abbott just that little bit more or whether to pity her for her evident stupidity. Not content with insulting one fifth of the world&#8217;s population, she&#8217;s also said that taxi drivers are racist! A spokesman for the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, Steve McNamara, said: We find it amazing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 190px"><img class=" " title="Diane Abbott" src="http://db3.stb.s-msn.com/i/51/59CFE1B9B976791D90C622D339F661.jpg" alt="Diane Abbott" width="180" height="180" /><p class="wp-caption-text">We must cleanse the streets of the racialist taxi drivers!</p></div>
<p>I don&#8217;t know whether to despise Diane Abbott just that little bit more or whether to pity her for her evident stupidity.</p>
<p>Not content with insulting one fifth of the world&#8217;s population, she&#8217;s also said that <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8997510/Diane-Abbott-taxi-drivers-refuse-to-pick-up-black-passengers.html" target="_blank">taxi drivers are racist</a>!</p>
<p>A spokesman for the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, Steve McNamara, said:</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>We find it amazing that in this day and age someone in Diane Abbott’s position can try to resurrect the stereotypes from the 1960s. At worst she is racist and at best she is stupid in making comments like that. Either way, she should go.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">[...]</p>
<p>She might have trouble getting a cab in the future and it won’t be because she’s black, it will be because she is stupid. I certainly won’t be stopping for her.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>You can always rely on a cabbie to tell it how it is and I would <em>so</em> love to see her flag down a black cab and be told to get stuffed!</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the bungling idiot <s>Ed</s> <em><s>Dave</s></em> Ed &#8230; whichever one it is &#8230; Milliband had an <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083175/Bob-Holness-dies-Ed-Miliband-BLACKBUSTERS-Twitter-gaffe.html" target="_blank">unfortunate Freudian slip</a> on Twitter earlier:</p>
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<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Who you gonna call? Blackbusters!" src="http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/393241_144496515664176_100003114840107_192270_514795378_n.jpg" alt="Who you gonna call? Blackbusters!" width="700" height="700" /></p>
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		<title>Diane Abbott MP broadcasts casual racism on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2012/01/05/diane-abbott-mp-broadcasts-casual-racism-on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Abbott MP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diane Abbott MP, well known for her snide racist remarks, has finally stepped over the line saying that &#8220;white people love playing divide and rule&#8221;. Abbott has tried backtracking after being outed as a racist, saying the comments were taken out of context but if you read the exchange of tweets that the comment is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diane Abbott MP, well known for her snide racist remarks, has finally <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16423278" target="_blank">stepped over the line</a> saying that &#8220;white people love playing divide and rule&#8221;.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Diane Abbott racist tweet" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57715000/jpg/_57715869_abbott464.jpg" alt="" width="464" height="79" /></p>
<p>Abbott has tried backtracking after being outed as a racist, saying the comments were taken out of context but if you read the exchange of tweets that the comment is part of, she clearly believes it&#8217;s &#8220;us and them&#8221; and that black people should close ranks.</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p><strong>Bim </strong><strong>A</strong><strong>dewunmi: </strong>I do wish everyone would stop saying &#8216;the black community&#8217; though. WHICH ONE?</p>
<p><strong>Bim Adewunmi</strong><strong>: </strong>Clarifying my &#8216;black community&#8217; tweet: I hate the generally lazy thinking behind the use of the term. Same for &#8216;black community leaders&#8217;.</p>
<p><strong>Diane Abbott: </strong>I understand the cultural point you are making. But you are playing into a &#8220;divide and rule&#8221; agenda.</p>
<p><strong>Bim Adewunmi</strong><strong>: </strong>Maybe. I find it frustrating that half the time, these leaders are out of touch with black people they purport to represent.</p>
<p><strong>Diane Abbott</strong><strong>: </strong>White people love playing &#8220;divide &amp; rule&#8221; We should not play their game #tacticasoldascolonialism</p>
<p><strong>Bim Adewunmi</strong><strong>: </strong>I don&#8217;t advocate &#8216;divide and rule&#8217;. But I wish we could deal more effectively with issues without resorting to monolithic view.</p>
<p><strong>Diane Abbott</strong><strong>: </strong>Ethnic communities that show more public solidarity &amp; unity than black people do much better #dontwashdirtylineninpublic</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Taken <em>in</em> context, the comment is even worse.  The Labour Party is institutionally racist, I have said this before.  They are prejudiced against the English and now one of their MPs has openly made racist remarks about white people on Twitter.  Perhaps we need an inquiry into the institutional racism in the Labour Party?</p>
<p>Bim Adewunmi actually makes a bloody good point which will sadly be lost in the furore over Abbott&#8217;s racism which is a shame.  I find it extremely irritating when the media, politicians and police talk about &#8220;the black community&#8221; and &#8220;black community leaders&#8221;.  Have you ever heard the term &#8220;the white community&#8221; or &#8220;white community leaders&#8221;?</p>
<p>Abbott is a racist, I hope she gets hung out to dry and deselected.  We have enough problems with racism in this country already without racist politicians making it worse.</p>
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		<title>And the winner is &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2010/09/25/and-the-winner-is-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harriden Harperson, the fascist man-hating bitch of an Acting Leader, has finished her speech and some scary looking woman (it has to be a woman of course) has announced the winner of the deckchair rearranging competition on the SS New Liebour and the winner, with xx% of the vote, is &#8230; Ed the Millibeast Right, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Harriden Harperson, the fascist man-hating bitch of an Acting Leader, has finished her speech and some scary looking woman (it has to be a woman of course) has announced the winner of the deckchair rearranging competition on the SS New Liebour and the winner, with xx% of the vote, is &#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone" title="Ed Miliband" src="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_01/edMS0812_468x450.jpg" alt="Ed the Milibeast" width="281" height="270" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Ed the Millibeast</strong></p>
<p>Right, now the excitement&#8217;s all over I&#8217;m going to go and find some paint I can watch drying.</p>
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		<title>Election Prediction</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2010/05/03/election-prediction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 20:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The election is almost upon us and it&#8217;s time for a prediction I think: Nick Clegg will be Prime Minister. Now, don&#8217;t get any silly ideas about the Lib Dems winning the election because they won&#8217;t.  The Tories will win the election with most seats but they won&#8217;t have a working majority and Cameron would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The election is almost upon us and it&#8217;s time for a prediction I think: Nick Clegg will be Prime Minister.</p>
<p>Now, don&#8217;t get any silly ideas about the Lib Dems winning the election because they won&#8217;t.  The Tories will win the election with most seats but they won&#8217;t have a working majority and Cameron would rather go without than share power.  The newspaper ads and constant talk about how terrible a hung parliament would be confirm that Cameron is out for absolute power and nothing less.</p>
<p>There will be no shortage of offers to form a coalition with Cast Iron Dave but they will be rebuffed.  The party faithful will be told that it&#8217;s better to let a LibLab coalition limp along for a few months before collapsing and then the Tories can romp home to victory in a snap election.  Most of them will fall for it of course and those that don&#8217;t will accept it <em>for the greater good</em>.</p>
<p>So that just leaves the Lib Dems and Labour.  The Lib Dems will come second on Thursday, relegating Labour to third place.  Clegg will want a coalition of the left which rules out the Tories and whilst the SNP and Plaid will make gains at the election (the former more so than the latter) they won&#8217;t have enough lobby fodder for Clegg to see off the Tories so it will be a LibLab coalition with Clegg as Prime Minister.</p>
<p>Whether El Gordo will manage to cling on as leader after the election remains to be seen.  Mandelson is already leader in all but name and I expect him to take over the reins from El Gordo at some point after the election.  Clegg says he won&#8217;t work with Brown but once he smells victory he&#8217;ll soon change his tune.</p>
<p>And what about the non-LibLabCon/celtic nationalists?  Well, UKIP will come out with a handful of MPs &#8211; I think between three and five.  The BNP will retain some deposits but they won&#8217;t win and seats.  The English Democrats will spring a few surprises but won&#8217;t win any seats.  The Greens will come worryingly close to winning a seat but won&#8217;t quite make it.</p>
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		<title>Five more years of hurt?</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2010/01/10/five-more-years-of-hurt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tory MP, Eric Pickles, is saying on Twitter that No Mandate Brown has told the News of the World that he will stay on for a full term if Liebour is re-elected in this year&#8217;s general election. So that&#8217;s 5 more reasons not to vote for Liebour when Bottler Brown eventually calls an election. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Tory MP, Eric Pickles, is saying on Twitter that No Mandate Brown has told the News of the World that he will stay on for a full term if Liebour is re-elected in this year&#8217;s general election.</p>
<p>So that&#8217;s 5 more reasons not to vote for Liebour when Bottler Brown eventually calls an election.</p>
<p>Just as well El Gordo stands as much chance as a ghost&#8217;s fart in a force 10 gale.</p>
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		<title>Gordy, Gordy, Gordy! Out, out, out!</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2010/01/06/gordy-gordy-gordy-out-out-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt, both former Ministers, have written an open letter to all Liebour MPs calling for a secret ballot on No Mandate Brown&#8217;s leadership of the party. They say the party is &#8220;deeply divided&#8221; and that the question of McBroon&#8217;s leadership needs to be &#8220;sorted out once and for all&#8221;. The Liebour [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt, both former Ministers, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8443769.stm" target="_blank">have written an open letter</a> to all Liebour MPs calling for a secret ballot on No Mandate Brown&#8217;s leadership of the party.</p>
<p>They say the party is &#8220;deeply divided&#8221; and that the question of McBroon&#8217;s leadership needs to be &#8220;sorted out once and for all&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Liebour Party is battling with crippling debts and is technically insolvent.  It is facing regular revolts from the unions that are keeping them out of the bankruptcy courts and MPs are in open revolt.  There are more unelected peers in the cabinet than there has ever been in history, making a mockery of Liebour&#8217;s claim to be the party of the working class man.  Liebour was virtually wiped out at the EU election in June last year, coming in fourth place behind the Tories, UKIP and &#8211; embarassingly &#8211; the Lib Dims.  The state of the economy would shame a third world finance minister and the Liebour propaganda machine just churns out meaningless drivel about &#8220;our message&#8221;, &#8220;shared values&#8221;, &#8220;fairness&#8221; and &#8220;getting on with the job&#8221; to mask the fact that they have absolutely no idea what to do next.</p>
<p>It remains to be seen whether Liebour MPs ditch El Gordo this close to an election.  Not only does it show how weak and divided they are, but surely even the Liebour Party wouldn&#8217;t dare to impose yet another no mandate Prime Minister on us without an election?  Has there ever been a case in our history where we&#8217;ve had three Prime Minister&#8217;s from the same party with only one election?  Perhaps that&#8217;s their plan &#8211; to oust McBroon, call a snap election and try and stem their losses?</p>
<p>I have a feeling the One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan will call an early election and hope for a career-saving miracle rather than lose a ballot on his leadership but once the election is over, he will be gone and Peter Mandelson will flounce in to take his place.  Mandelson has been hogging the limelight ever since he began his bizarre <em>third</em> stint in government and only yesterday <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8441972.stm" target="_blank">he announced</a> plans for a one-off Queen&#8217;s Jubilee bank holiday in England in 2010 despite the British Department for English Media, English Culture and English Sport being the ones running with it.</p>
<p>Mandelson&#8217;s leadership campaign started the minute he was brough back into McBroon&#8217;s cabinet of all the talentless.</p>
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		<title>Liebour holds onto Glasgow East</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/11/13/liebour-holds-onto-glasgow-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liebour has managed to hold on to the Glasgow North East seat vacated by the disgraced ex-Speaker, Micheal Martin (now Lord Martin but, like Peter Mandelson, entirely undeserving of the honorific), albeit with a reduced majority. Liebour won with 12,231 votes, followed by the SNP with 4,120.  The Tories just managed to keep their deposit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Liebour has managed to hold on to the Glasgow North East seat vacated by the disgraced ex-Speaker, Micheal Martin (now Lord Martin but, like Peter Mandelson, entirely undeserving of the honorific), albeit with a reduced majority.</p>
<p>Liebour won with 12,231 votes, followed by the SNP with 4,120.  The Tories just managed to keep their deposit with 1,075 votes (5.22%) closely followed by the BNP with 1,013 votes (4.92%) who were a few votes short of keeping their deposit.  The Lib Dims came in <em>sixth</em> with 474% of the vote, behind the Solidarity Party who got 794 votes.</p>
<p>One commentator yesterday said that if Liebour put a donkey up for election it would win and they weren&#8217;t wrong but elections are won and lost in England and Liebour is about as relevant as the Monster Raving Loony Party south of the border.</p>
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		<title>IPPR wants to stop loans for middle-class students</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/08/29/ippr-wants-to-stop-loans-for-middle-class-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liebour&#8217;s pet far-left extremists, the IPPR, have suggested that students from &#8220;middle class&#8221; families in England should be refused student loans to pay tuition fees to make more money available to students from poor families who are more likely to vote Liebour. They are also calling for grants and bursaries to be restricted to students [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Liebour&#8217;s pet far-left extremists, the IPPR, <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8221142.stm">have suggested</a> that students from &#8220;middle class&#8221; families in England should be refused student loans to pay tuition fees to make more money available to students from poor families who are more likely to vote Liebour.</p>
<p>They are also calling for grants and bursaries to be restricted to students from poor families who are more likely to vote Liebour rather than being made available based on ability so clever people judged by a panel of failed communists to be from a &#8220;middle class&#8221; family can be denied a university education to make way for semi-literate chavs from sink hole housing estates.</p>
<p>The British Department for English Business, Innovation and Skills is conducting a review of student funding for university education in England and is planning to increase the amount English universities are allowed to charge for courses.</p>
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		<title>Liebour: Rewarding Failure since 1997</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/08/29/liebour-rewarding-failure-since-1997/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working class! Failed politician, life-long member of the Scottish Raj and millionaire class warrior, Michael Martin, is being rewarded for the gross incompetence that resulted in him being the first Speaker of the House of Commons to be forced out of office since 1695 with a Baronetcy. Gorbals Mick will now be carrying out his [...]]]></description>
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Working class!</span></div>
<p>Failed politician, life-long member of the Scottish Raj and millionaire class warrior, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/05/21/the-working-class-can-kiss-my-ass/">Michael Martin</a>, is being rewarded for the gross incompetence that resulted in him being the first Speaker of the House of Commons to be forced out of office since 1695 <a target="_blank" href="http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/119329-michael-martin-awarded-peerage/">with a Baronetcy</a>.</p>
<p>Gorbals Mick will now be carrying out his scathing attacks on the middle and upper classes from his mansion house in Glasgow under the name <em>Baron Martin of Springburn, of Port Dundas in the City of Glasgow</em>.  That&#8217;ll earn him some respect in his local working mens club.  I&#8217;m sure the commies in the Springburn Liebour Party are practicing walking backwards out of the door and doffing their caps as I type.</p>
<p>Why do socialists feel the need to reward abject failure with honours from the class system they devote their lives to destroying?  Am I the only one to notice the rank hypocrisy?<br /><p><img src="/images/social/technorati.png" alt="Technorati" /> Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Liebour" rel="tag" target="_blank">Liebour</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Micheal+Martin" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Micheal Martin</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Peerage" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Peerage</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hypocrisy" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Hypocrisy</a></p>
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		<title>Burnham is a prick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Burnham, the British Minister for English Health, has written an open letter to David Camoron calling on him to withdraw the whip from Dan Hannan and any other Tory that criticises the NHS. What a prize prick. He rubbishes claims the Tories are the party of the NHS as Camoron claims because Dan Hannan [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andy Burnham, the British Minister for English Health, has written <a target="_blank" href="http://www.labour.org.uk/burnham-nhs-letter-cameron">an open letter</a> to David Ca<em>moron</em> calling on him to withdraw the whip from Dan Hannan and any other Tory that criticises the NHS.</p>
<p><img align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bEGvu4VNi6Y/SXMJ4BfW_xI/AAAAAAAAAZE/bjxc5QhLRCs/s400/burnham+cunt.jpg" />What a prize prick.</p>
<p>He rubbishes claims the Tories are the party of the NHS as Ca<em>moron</em> claims because Dan Hannan has criticised the NHS.  Apparently &#8220;every single MP, MEP and member of the Labour Party endorses the NHS&#8221; which is a bold claim to make bearing in mind the fact that he cannot possibly have canvassed the opinions of all MPs, MEPs and Liebour Party members.</p>
<p>He asks if Ca<em>moron</em> will ban members of Atlantic Bridge &#8211; a transatlantic group of conservatives &#8211; from attending the Tory conference because they have criticised the NHS.</p>
<p>He calls on Ca<em>moron</em> to demand Tory shadow ministers resign from the Cornerstone Group &#8211; a traditionalist, eurosceptic, anti-devolution group in the Conswervative Party &#8211; because they described the NHS as stalinist and called for it to be replaced.</p>
<p>I have a few points to make about Burnham&#8217;s letter.</p>
<p>Firstly, there is no &#8220;the NHS&#8221;.  There are four National Health Services in the UK and only the English NHS is under the control of the British.</p>
<p>Secondly, it is perfectly possible for a party to be in favour of something whilst some, or even most, of its members have a different view.  The Tories are a eurofederalist party, for instance, whilst the majority of its MPs and members are eurosceptics.</p>
<p>Thirdly, withdrawing the whip or otherwise punishing an MP or MEP for voicing an opinion that doesn&#8217;t concur with the official view of the party is a ridiculous suggestion.  What sort of fascist, anti-democratic autoritarian political party would spouse those sorts of views?  That&#8217;s a rhetorical question, by the way.</p>
<p>Fourthly, the suggestion that members of Atlantic Bridge should be banned from the Tory conference for criticising the NHS is pathetic and has nothing to do with their views on the NHS and everything to do with the fact that Atlantic Bridge is a conservative organisation.  If they were socialists, like the Liebour Party used to be, Burnham wouldn&#8217;t have mentioned them.</p>
<p>Fifthly, setting aside the fact that it would be morally wrong to insist shadow ministers resign from the anti-socialist Cornerstone Group because they think the NHS is stalinist and needs replacing, wanting to <em>replace</em> the National Health Services doesn&#8217;t mean they oppose them, it means they want to replace them.  The clue is in the word &#8220;replace&#8221;, which doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;abolish&#8221;.</p>
<p>Sixthly &#8211; and finally &#8211; if you&#8217;re going to criticise the Tories then at least do it for genuine reasons, of which there are plenty.  Criticise them for being anti-English or eurofederalists.  Criticise them for being socialists in blue ties or for being vague and evasive on policy.  It will mean being hypocritical but that shouldn&#8217;t be a problem for a Liebour minister.</p>
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		<title>Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Liebour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Millibeast, the 14 year old work experience Foreign Minister, has called for a reinvention of the Liebour Party. I wonder what name he envisages for this newly reinvented Liebour Party?  New New Liebour?  New Old Liebour?  National Socialist British Jobs for British Workers Party? The Millibeast said that the only left wingers that had [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img height="186" width="200" align="right" src="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/im-with-stoopid.png" />David Millibeast, the 14 year old work experience Foreign Minister, <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8134911.stm">has called for a reinvention</a> of the Liebour Party.</p>
<p>I wonder what name he envisages for this newly reinvented Liebour Party?  New New Liebour?  New Old Liebour?  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Nazi">National Socialist</a> British Jobs for British Workers Party?</p>
<p>The Millibeast said that the only left wingers that had done well in the EU imperial elections were the Greek socialists who boast 10% of the population as members.  Contast that with Liebour who have 200,000 members &#8211; 0.33% of the population.</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>We should be looking at the way in America they have registered Democrats and registered Republicans on the electoral roll &#8211; we should be looking at that here.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I think he&#8217;s suggesting marking the electoral register with political party membership like some US states do.  I really don&#8217;t see what benefit that would bring at all unless he&#8217;s suggesting an American-style system where you only get to vote in the final ballot unless you declare your allegiance to one of the two main parties.<br />
He went on to say &#8230;</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>We have more than 3m trade unionists who pay the political levy, but we don&#8217;t make half enough use of them &#8211; either to listen to them or to lead them.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>How many of those 3 million realise they can opt out of the political fund and how many realise that the phrase &#8220;political fund&#8221; actually means &#8220;donation to the Liebour Party&#8221;?  And more importantly, how many union members want the Liebour Party to lead their union?</p>
<p>The Millibeast even suggested that as a show of &#8220;corporate responsibility&#8221; the Liebour Party should donate money to charity.  The Liebour Party is about £24m in debt and the Millibeast is suggesting that they give away money to charity.  Unbelievable!  This is why socialists always fuck up the economy, they just have no concept of how budgets work.  Liebour&#8217;s debt is about 120% of their annual income.  If they were a company, their credit rating would be junk.<br />
He also said that the Liebour Party has an &#8220;open and honest&#8221; published budget planning tax rises and spending cuts to halve the budegt deficit.  But El Gordo keeps saying that they&#8217;re not going to cut spending, they&#8217;re going to spend their way out of recession.  So if the Millibeast says they have an &#8220;open and honest&#8221; budget planning spending cuts for 5 years, is he saying that No Mandate Brown is being dishonest?</p>
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		<title>Bloggers4UKIP: Mandelson says UK will join Euro</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Mandelson (I won&#8217;t call him Lord Mandelson, a man without honour doesn&#8217;t deserve an honourary title) says that the UK will join the Euro. Does it remain an important objective for Britain to find itself in the same currency as that single market in which it interacts? Obviously yes.&#160; Important objective for who Mandy? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter Mandelson (I won&#8217;t call him <span style="font-style: italic">Lord</span> Mandelson, a man without honour doesn&#8217;t deserve an honourary title) says that <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/5506385/Britain-will-obviously-join-euro-says-Mandelson.html">the UK will join the Euro</a>.</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>Does it remain an important objective for Britain to find itself in the same currency as that single market in which it interacts? Obviously yes.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y2tNRaA7Lu4/SezamXwd2YI/AAAAAAAAAD4/XkHs0rVroPY/s400/Mandy+9+Euro+Small.png"><img border="0" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 170px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y2tNRaA7Lu4/SezamXwd2YI/AAAAAAAAAD4/XkHs0rVroPY/s400/Mandy+9+Euro+Small.png" /></a>Important objective for who Mandy? Not for me and not for the vast majority of the electorate who would rather return to bartering with livestock than replace the pound with the Euro.</p>
<p>Nobody in their right mind would willingly abandon the pound and adopt a currency that&#8217;s run by and for France and Germany. But then Mandy isn&#8217;t in his right mind, not by a long shot. The man&#8217;s an utter fruitcake &#8211; like most eurofederalists his mind doesn&#8217;t inhabit the same planet his body does.</p>
<p>Of course, Mandy&#8217;s suggestion that we should adopt the Euro might have something to do with the fact that he risks losing his very generous taxpayer-funded EU pension if he fails to promote the European Empire.</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other.</p>
<p><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/6-24.htm"><span style="font-size: 85%">Matthew 6:24</span></a></p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Mandelson serves two masters &#8211; the British government and the European Empire. So where does his loyalty lie and who does he love and hate? I think we all know the answer to that question.</p>
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		<title>Lord Sugar of Shit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Mandate Brown&#8217;s choice of Sir (soon to be Lord) Alan Sugar for his cabinet of all the talentless is interesting when you read the Telegraph&#8217;s brief bio on him &#8230; While Sir Alan spends the majority of his time on The Apprentice, he has not completely severed his ties with the business community, still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No Mandate Brown&#8217;s choice of Sir (soon to be Lord) Alan Sugar for his cabinet of all the talentless is interesting when you read <a target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5454089/Alan-Sugar-profile-of-Governments-new-business-tsar.html">the Telegraph&#8217;s</a> brief bio on him &#8230;</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>While Sir Alan spends the majority of his time on <em>The Apprentice</em>, he has not completely severed his ties with the business community, still chairing a computer company, Viglen, in which he is a major shareholder.</p>
<p>Just a month ago, the company won a £30 million contract to supply Government departments, such as the NHS, with 70,000 computers.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Interesting.  But there&#8217;s no conflict of interests of course, Sir Alan Sugar says so and you can trust him because he&#8217;s an honest and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gordon-youre-fired.png"><img height="181" align="right" width="154" title="Alan Sugar - Gordon, you're fired" id="image1853" alt="Alan Sugar - Gordon, you're fired" src="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gordon-youre-fired.png" /></a>successful businessman.</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>At its peak Amstrad, which made hi-fis, car radios and helped pioneer home    computers in Britain, was worth £1.2 billion</p>
<p align="center">[...]</p>
<div align="left">In 2007 he sold the company for £125 million to broadcaster BSkyB, a 10th of    its value during the boom years.</div>
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<p>So, he took a £1.2bn company, turned it into a £125m company and now he&#8217;s going to make policy on business and enterprise?  I suppose it&#8217;s no worse than No Mandate Brown taking a booming economy and turning it into a national debt roughly equal to 150% of GDP.</p>
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		<title>Replacing people who&#8217;ve resigned isn&#8217;t a reshuffle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s not been much of a cabinet reshuffle so far &#8230; more sort of replacing the people who&#8217;ve resigned because El Gordo is such a dick. The Defence Secretary, John Hutton, has resigned and is yet to be replaced.  Alan Johnson has been made Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper has been made DWP secretary and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it&#8217;s not been much of a cabinet reshuffle so far &#8230; more sort of replacing the people who&#8217;ve resigned because El Gordo is such a dick.</p>
<p>The Defence Secretary, John Hutton, has resigned and is yet to be replaced.  Alan Johnson has been made Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper has been made DWP secretary and Alan Sugar has been made &#8220;enterprise czar&#8221; which will explain his public support for El Gordo this morning.  In fact, I listened to my crooked MP, David Wright, this morning claiming that Liebour isn&#8217;t dead yet and El Gordo has a broad base of support based solely on the fact Alan Sugar praised him.  If the only people they can find to publicly support El Gordo are Fatty Prescott, a back bench nobody and a c-list celebrity who he&#8217;s just given a job to, Gordo&#8217;s position is more desperate than many people thought!</p>
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		<title>Dead Man Walking</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/06/04/dead-man-walking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought Gordo would hold on to power until the next election, that the ragged remains of his cabinet would rally round their leader to postpone the inevitable electoral destruction.  But not now &#8211; El Gordo is a dead man walking. Jackboots Smith, the fascist bitch of a Home Secretary has resigned.  Hazel Blears, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought Gordo would hold on to power until the next election, that the ragged remains of his cabinet would rally round their leader to postpone the inevitable electoral destruction.  But not now &#8211; El Gordo is a dead man walking.</p>
<p><img height="144" align="right" width="216" style="margin: 5px" src="http://www.discovery.org/blogs/discoveryblog/gordon_brown.jpg" />Jackboots Smith, the fascist bitch of a Home Secretary has resigned.  Hazel Blears, the psychotic ginger dwarf has resigned.  Beverley Hughes, another fascist bitch, has resigned.  Patricia Hewitt and David Chaytor are resigning.  But the most important resignation is James Purnell, the no-mark DWP minister, who has blamed No Mandate Brown for his resignation and called on him to resign as leader of the Liebour Party.</p>
<p>When ministers are resigning on an almost daily basis, a secretary of state openly challenges you to resign, an email is doing the rounds of your MPs gaining signatures to call for your resignation and your party is slugging it out with the Lib Dims for 3rd spot in the euro-elections, you&#8217;re fucked.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no doubt about it, El Gordo is in the last few days of his leadership.  The only important unknown is whether Liebour will have the brass neck to try and go on for another year with another unelected Prime Minister or if they&#8217;ll bite the bullet and call a general election.  Who knows, her majesty may decide that enough is enough and dissolve parliament herself.</p>
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		<title>Liebour unveils latest clone PPC</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/05/17/liebour-unveils-latest-clone-ppc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 08:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erith &#038; Thamesmead Liebour Party have chosen a tax investigator as their PPC, according to the BBC.  I&#8217;m assuming she&#8217;s a former tax investigator as it would be incompatible with being a civil servant. Teresa Pearce&#8217;s website is an interesting read &#8230; Only Labour would have introduced the NMW and its up to Labour to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erith &#038; Thamesmead Liebour Party have chosen a tax investigator as their PPC, <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8053934.stm">according to the BBC</a>.  I&#8217;m assuming she&#8217;s a <em>former</em> tax investigator as it would be <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/cabinetoffice/propriety_and_ethics/assets/electguide.pdf">incompatible with being a civil servant</a>.</p>
<p>Teresa Pearce&#8217;s website is an interesting read &#8230;</p>
<div style="width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tr.gif) no-repeat right top;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/tl.gif) no-repeat left top"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/br.gif) no-repeat right bottom"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background: url(http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/images/bl.gif) no-repeat left bottom;"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px;" class="bqdiv"><p><p>Only Labour would have introduced the NMW and its up to Labour to defend it. (<a target="_blank" href="http://teresapearce.co.uk/2009/05/12/fair-pay/">link</a>)</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Really?  The National Minimum Wage (NMW) was introduced as part of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eu-working-directive.co.uk/news/2007/rate-rise-for-minimum-wage.htm">EU Working Time Directive</a>, not by the Liebour Party.  Whichever of the eurofederalist LibLabCon was in power at the time would have had to introduce it.</p>
<p>Further down the home page, she examine&#8217;s Boris Johnson&#8217;s record after his first year as Mayor &#8230;</p>
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<ul>
<li>The “letting go” of Sir Ian Blair as police chief</li>
<li>A rise in public transport fares averaging  6% overall &#8211; higher than the rate of inflation</li>
<li>Three year freeze on bus expansion program</li>
<li>Environment budget reduced by £139k</li>
<li>The Greenwich Waterfront Transit Scheme cancelled.</li>
<li>Mayor’s decision not to proceed with the Thames Gateway Bridge.</li>
<li>Failure to provide leadership over police mishandling of G20 protests</li>
<li>2/3rd cut in funding for London Cycle Network</li>
<li>Dropping of £25 emissions charge for gas guzzlers and Western Extension of congestion charge.</li>
<li>Abandonment of 100 public spaces program.</li>
<li>Planning for new transport schemes abandoned: Cross River Tram; DLR extension Dagenham Dock; Croydon Tramlink, Oxford Street tram; large number of step free access tube schemes</li>
</ul>
<p>(<a target="_blank" href="http://teresapearce.co.uk/2009/04/30/what-a-difference-a-year-makes/">link</a>)</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Ian Bliar was shit at his job, he was a Liebour Party stooge and he was deeply unpopular.  He wasn&#8217;t sacked by Boris or &#8220;let go&#8221;, he resigned because he couldn&#8217;t carry on bumbling through his job without the protection of the Liebour administration.  Ian Bliar will go down as a liar and a weak commissioner whose primary purpose was to serve the Liebour government.</p>
<p>Public transport fares have to go up everywhere &#8211; London included &#8211; because the Liebour Chancellor keeps putting up fuel duty and road tax.  The Liebour Transport Secretary is also busily extending the annual MOT test to include all sorts of spurious checks that have nothing to do with safety but increase the cost of a test year on year.</p>
<p>The three year freeze on the bus expansion programme (note the spelling Teresa, we&#8217;re not Americans), the reduction in the environment budget, the cancellation of the Greenwich Waterfront Transit Scheme, the cancellation of the Thames Gateway Bridge project, the funding cuts in the cycle network, the abandonment of the public spaces programme (spelling again Teresa) and cancellation of the other transport schemes are all necessary because the Liebour Prime Mentalist and the Liebour Chancellor have destroyed the economy and we can&#8217;t afford them.</p>
<p>Abandoning the £25 emissions tax on big cars and expansion of the congestion charge is a popular move and reflects the wishes of the majority of Londoners and commuters</p>
<p>And it is not the Mayor&#8217;s job to take a lead on the investigations into the bad policing of the G20 terrorist protests.  The Mayor isn&#8217;t the head of the Metropolitan Police, he isn&#8217;t the head of the CPS, he isn&#8217;t the head of the IPCC and he isn&#8217;t the Home Secretary.  Ultimate responsibility for the Metropolitan Police and their actions lies with the Liebour Home Secretary, Jackboot Smith.</p>
<p>Going further back, she even has the nerve to <a target="_blank" href="http://teresapearce.co.uk/2009/04/13/public-service-or-private-profit/">complain about the Post Office being hung out to dry</a> when it is the Liebour government that has withdrawn state services from the Post Office and implemented the EU Directives that have allowed that postal service to be plundered by foreign (mainly state-owned) companies.</p>
<p>What is it with the Liebour Party and hypocrites?  Is it a requirement to be an ill-informed, hypocritical party mouthpiece to get selected as a candidate?  The only consolation is that Liebour is going to be decimated in the next couple of elections and Teresa Pearce has got about as much chance as a ghosts fart in a force ten gale of getting elected.<br /><p><img src="/images/social/technorati.png" alt="Technorati" /> Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Teresa+Pearce" rel="tag" target="_blank">Teresa Pearce</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Liebour" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Liebour</a></p>
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		<title>Telegraph exposes thieving bastard politicians</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/05/08/telegraph-exposes-thieving-bastard-politicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 06:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph has details of our thieving bastard MPs&#8217; thieving bastard expenses and come to the conclusion that they&#8217;re thieving bastards. The thieving bastard Prime Minister paid his brother over £6k for cleaning his flat. The thieving bastard Justice Secretary, Jackboot Straw, claimed back the full council tax bill for his second home even though [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Telegraph <a target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5293679/MPs-expenses-Gordon-Brown-and-Cabinet-face-questions-over-claims.html">has details</a> of our thieving bastard MPs&#8217; thieving bastard expenses and come to the conclusion that they&#8217;re thieving bastards.</p>
<ul>
<li>The thieving bastard Prime Minister paid his <em>brother</em> over £6k for cleaning his flat.</li>
<li>The thieving bastard Justice Secretary, Jackboot Straw, claimed back the full council tax bill for his second home even though he had a 50% discount (he paid it back yesterday when he <strike>found out that it was going to be in a newspaper</strike> <em>noticed the mistake</em>).</li>
<li>The thieving bastard crook, Peter Mandelson, claimed thousands of pounds for improvements to his constituency home <em>after</em> he&#8217;d announced his resignation as an MP and then sold it for a profit of £136k.</li>
<li>The thieving bastard Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears, claimed £5k for furniture for <em>three</em> different homes by changing the title of her main home.</li>
<li>The thieving bastard Chancellor, Alistair Darling, changed the title of his second home four times in four years so he could claim second home expenses at all his properties.</li>
<li>The thieving bastard Transport Secretary, Geoff Hoon, spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers money improving his second home and then changed the title of his second home to another property and spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers money improving that home.</li>
<li>The thieing bastard Culture Secretary, Europe Minister and Welsh Secretary, Andy Burnham, Caroline Flint and Paul Murphy, all bought flats or the freehold for properties that they <em>already owned</em> and then claimed moving costs and stamp duty.</li>
</ul>
<p>Hazel Blears said there would be no resignations because all the claims were within the rules but that they recognised the rules needed changing.  So they recognise that the rules are open to abuse, that thieving bastard MPs are robbing the taxpayer and that the rules have to be changed but they still abused the rules knowing that what they were doing was wrong?</p>
<p>Thieving.  Bastard.  MPs.</p>
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		<title>Harriet Harperson doesn&#8217;t want to be PM .. honest</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/05/04/harriet-harperson-doesnt-want-to-be-pm-honest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 20:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harriet Harperson says she doesn&#8217;t want to be Prime Minister. Thank god for that, the last thing we need is to lose a one-eyed Scottish dictator and gain a man-hating fascist bitch. She says she&#8217;s staying loyal to El Gordo &#8230; My ambition is to remain his loyal and supportive deputy&#160; And if you believe [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="right" style="margin: 10px; width: 150px" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/28/article-0-02C7C96900000578-381_468x373.jpg" />Harriet Harperson <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8032125.stm">says she doesn&#8217;t want</a> to be Prime Minister.  Thank god for that, the last thing we need is to lose a one-eyed Scottish dictator and gain a man-hating fascist bitch.</p>
<p>She says she&#8217;s staying loyal to El Gordo &#8230;</p>
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<p>And if you believe that the extent of Harriet Harperson&#8217;s ambition is to spend the next few months as El Gordo&#8217;s number two you shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to even <em>look</em> at a ballot paper, let alone cast a vote.</p>
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		<title>Liebour scared of the BNP</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/04/11/liebour-scared-of-the-bnp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The corrupt media bought into the left wing lie that the BNP are a far right party but many bloggers know the truth &#8211; that the BNP are a far left party, more akin to Liebour than the parties on the right &#8211; and try our best to make sure as many people as possible [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The corrupt media bought into the left wing lie that the BNP are a far right party but many bloggers know the truth &#8211; that the BNP are a far left party, more akin to Liebour than the parties on the right &#8211; and try our best to make sure as many people as possible get to know the truth.</p>
<p><img align="right" alt="Labour and BNP - peas in a pod" style="padding: 10px" title="Labour and BNP - peas in a pod" src="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/liebour-bnp.png" />The left&#8217;s propaganda is further discredited by Harriet Harperson&#8217;s <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7993595.stm">admission</a> that Liebour is scared of the BNP.  Harperson says that the BNP &#8220;are a bigger threat than they have been before&#8221; and are so scared of losing votes to the far left BNP that they&#8217;re using a different election slogan in areas where BNP have a lot of support, are working with (ironically) with anti-fascist groups and even have anti-BNP battlebuses.</p>
<p>You will note that there are no such concerns from the right of centre Conswervatives or UKIP, nor is there a sustained campaign against the BNP from any party other than Liebour.  Now that support for Liebour has collapsed, the left will be casting their protest votes for the BNP.</p>
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		<title>Liebour Lords offer money for amending bills</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/01/26/liebour-lords-offer-money-for-amending-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Liebour Lords have been caught out by undercover reporters apparently offering to change bills for money. The 4 Lords &#8211; Lord Truscott, Lord Moonie, Lord Taylor of Blackburn and Lord Snape &#8211; were all approached by undercover reporters for the Sunday Times and allegedly agreed to introduce amendments to bills going through the House [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Four Liebour Lords <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7850428.stm" target="_blank">have been caught out</a> by undercover reporters apparently offering to change bills for money.</p>
<p>The 4 Lords &#8211; Lord Truscott, Lord Moonie, Lord Taylor of Blackburn and Lord Snape &#8211; were all approached by undercover reporters for the Sunday Times and allegedly agreed to introduce amendments to bills going through the House of Lords in exchange for a fee of up to £120k.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that all four of the Lords in question are Life Peers, appointed to the House of Lords rather than inheriting their seat and further evidence that the appointment of Peers, or even their election, would be bad for democracy.</p>
<p>These Life Peers have made a career out of politics and shown themselves not to have the best interests of the country in mind but their own career and that has led them to the monumentally bad decision of apparantly accepting bribes.  Would a hereditary peer have taken the bribe?  There&#8217;s always the chance that they might because even Lords and Ladies get short of cash but it&#8217;s far less likely &#8211; they tend not to make a career out of politics and there are easier ways of getting your hands on cash if you&#8217;ve got a title than taking a bung off a dodgy businessman.</p>
<p>The problem with appointing people to the Lords or with electing them to the House is that they are reliant on the job for their income.  You only have to look at the amount of fraud and corruption amongst MPs to see what happens when you put people of limited substance into a position of power.  Corrupt politics on the scale experienced now is a relatively recent phenomenon.  A century ago most MPs were wealthly landowners, Lords, doctors, etc. &#8211; people with money, a career and a reputation.  The job of an MP was a philanthropic choice of career rather than one with a hugely inflated salary, an effective immunity from prosecution and a retirement package that will keep you in luxury for the rest of your natural.</p>
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- Plato</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
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