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		<title>Switch on your lights for Earth Hour tonight at 20:30</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WWF has jumped on the global warming band wagon and organised Earth Hour, where it hopes people around the world will switch off their lights to save the planet. They&#8217;re hoping lots of fools with nothing better to do with their time will get out their solar-powered laptops, connected to their wind powered telephone exchanges [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" title="Earth Hour is a load of bollocks" src="http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq197/equipbiz/sidebar.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="250" />WWF has jumped on the global warming band wagon and organised <a href="http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/" target="_blank">Earth Hour</a>, where it hopes people around the world will switch off their lights to save the planet.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re hoping lots of fools with nothing better to do with their time will get out their solar-powered laptops, connected to their wind powered telephone exchanges and sign the pledge on WWFs website which is, I expect, hosted on recycled servers in a carbon neutral data centre powered by a fast breeder reactor.  What, you mean people don&#8217;t solar powered laptops? And the internet doesn&#8217;t run on wind power?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t imagine it will come as any great surprise to my regular readers that I will be going round the house turning on all the lights just to piss off the global warming scammers.  I know <a href="http://antiearthhour.blogspot.com/2010/03/earth-hour-verging-on-occult.html" target="_blank">I won&#8217;t be the only one</a>.</p>
<p>So who else is going to be &#8220;celebrating&#8221; Earth Hour with a big switch-on?  I would have burnt a few tyres in the front garden to try and combat the global cooling we&#8217;re currently experiencing but Mrs Sane wouldn&#8217;t be best pleased and have you seen the price of tyres lately?  You&#8217;d have to buy new ones because they recycle all the old ones!</p>
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		<title>Danish police beat back climate change nutters at Cophenhagen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of eco-terrorists and assorted left wing fruitcakes and swivel-eyed loons have had to be beaten back by police in Copenhagen after they tried to break through a perimeter fence designed to keep the unwashed nutters away from the terribly important politicans that are going to save the world at the Copenhagen World Government Climate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hundreds of eco-terrorists and assorted left wing fruitcakes and swivel-eyed loons <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8415307.stm" target="_blank">have had to be beaten back</a> by police in Copenhagen after they tried to break through a perimeter fence designed to keep the unwashed nutters away from the terribly important politicans that are going to save the world at the Copenhagen <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">World Government</span> <em>Climate Change</em> Conference.</p>
<p>No Mandate Brown was on BBC Breakfast this morning spinning like a maniac, telling us that &#8220;there is no doubt about the science&#8221;, that the first climate change refugees have already emerged and our children will be living in floods and droughts.  Presumably he doesn&#8217;t mean at the same time although that wouldn&#8217;t be the most bizarre claim the environ<em>mentalists</em> have come out with.</p>
<p>He didn&#8217;t say exactly where these mythical climate change refugees were but he was talking about Bangladesh which has, of course, been experiencing terrible and unsual flooding this year which is all caused by <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">global warming</span> <em><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">climate change</span> CO<sub>2</sub> pollution</em>.  And in 2007.  And 2005.  And 2004, 1998, 1991, 1988, 1987 &#8230; in fact, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_Bangladesh" target="_blank">according to Wikipedia</a>, there have been 18 major floods in the last century in Bangladesh but let&#8217;s not let facts get in the way of an outrageous lie.  <a href="http://www.duryognivaran.org/ban.php" target="_blank">This explanation</a> of the Bangladeshi climate from the perspective of disaster planning and prevention draws on pre-global warming hysteria reports and indigenous knowledge to explain the flooding in Bangladesh.</p>
<p>Or he may have been talking about Ethiopia which has been talked about this last few days with the droughts and desertification it is suffering being blamed on <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">global warming</span> <em><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">climate change</span> CO<sub>2</sub> pollution</em>.  Again, some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia" target="_blank">basic research</a> and a reasonable memory for anyone over the age of 30 will confirm that the droughts and famine of the last few decades were caused by war and deforestation and that much of Ethiopia is desert.  But once again, let&#8217;s not let facts get in the way of an outrageous lie.</p>
<p>Anyway, back to the fruit loops in Copenhagen.  They were apparently trying to break into the compound because they&#8217;re angry about the lack of progress at the conference.  And at the lack of access to information about what&#8217;s going on at the conference.  But let&#8217;s not let a lack of facts get in the way of some mindless violence.</p>
<p>The Africans have been throwing their teddies out of their prams again today, complaining that the Danes have been tailoring the agenda to fit the pre-determined outcome decided by their EU masters.  They walked out of the conference the other day because people weren&#8217;t throwing enough money at them.</p>
<p>Despite the large number or world leaders at the conference talking about a subject they&#8217;re completely uneducated in and unqualified to talk about, the chances of the promised &#8220;global deal&#8221; on climate change actually materialising are looking pretty slim at the moment.  The only openly-stated objective of the conference that is likely to be achieved is- keeping global warming to below 2 degrees, on account of the earth cooling for the last decade and the hockey stick graph being a load of bollocks.</p>
<p>All these protesters seem to be having lots of fun getting angry, waving their placards and shouting at people which made me wonder today how many of the sensible majority in this country who see through the global warming scam would turn up to a climate change non-believer&#8217;s protest.  I might even organise one for a laugh, who&#8217;s up for it?</p>
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		<title>The Times forced to change misleading climate change advert</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/12/09/the-times-forced-to-change-misleading-climate-change-advert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Advertising Standards Agency sent me a letter the other day in response to a complaint I made (prompted by another blogger who I really can&#8217;t remember at the moment, sorry!) about adverts for the Times plastered all over London Underground stations claiming they have more climate change experts than any other newspaper. The posters [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Advertising Standards Agency sent me a letter the other day in response to a complaint I made (prompted by another blogger who I really can&#8217;t remember at the moment, sorry!) about <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/06/times_thermageddon_r_us/" target="_blank">adverts for the Times</a> plastered all over London Underground stations claiming they have more climate change experts than any other newspaper.</p>
<p>The posters have a picture of an ship in icy waters and claim that the North West Passage has just been opened for the first time to commercial shipping.  The poster implies that this story verifies the expertise of their &#8220;experts&#8221;.</p>
<p>The truth of the matter is that the Canadian government has been licensing commercial shipping through the North West Passage since the 1930&#8242;s.  The Vikings navigated the North West Passage using wooden boats as opposed to the huge metal ice breakers used nowadays.  At various times throughout history, the North West Passage has been navigable and at others it has been impassable.  It&#8217;s all part of the natural cycle which is being used by eco-fascists to push their environ<em>mentalist</em> one world socialist agenda.</p>
<p>News International, the owners of the Times newspaper, have agreed to change their adverts to avoid the Advertising Standards Agency launching a formal investigation.</p>
<p>Still no news on the complaint about the British government&#8217;s &#8220;drowning puppy&#8221; child propaganda advert.</p>
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		<title>Biased BBC: no mention of climate change fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/11/24/biased-bbc-no-mention-of-climate-change-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you just love the BBC?  Balanced reporting?  Na, that&#8217;s something for amateurs. The BBC News website is reporting that &#8220;three UK groups studying climate change&#8221; have pronounced that &#8220;the science underpinning climate change is more alarming than ever&#8221; and are warning that carbon emissions must be cut. These three groups say that persistent droughts [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t you just love the BBC?  Balanced reporting?  Na, that&#8217;s something for amateurs.</p>
<p>The BBC News website <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8375576.stm" target="_blank">is reporting</a> that &#8220;three UK groups studying climate change&#8221; have pronounced that &#8220;the science underpinning climate change is more alarming than ever&#8221; and are warning that carbon emissions must be cut.</p>
<p>These three groups say that persistent droughts in Australia &#8211; you know, that huge continent in the southern hemisphere that&#8217;s been mostly desert for the last few thousand years &#8211; are because of man-made climate change.    They also warn that the Maldives &#8211; the island chain that is asking for billions of pounds in international aid to combat climate change <a href="http://frank-segler.blogspot.com/2009/03/help-maldives-is-sinking.html" target="_blank">because it is <em>sinking</em></a> &#8211; could soon disappear under the sea because of man-made global warming.  They go on to say that evidence for &#8220;dangerous, long-term and potentially irreversible climate change&#8221; is growing.</p>
<p>So who are these three groups?  Well, there&#8217;s the Met Office &#8211; a British government department with a huge climate change budget that was part of the IPPC report on climate change that has been proven to have been based on fraudulent data and predictions.  Then there&#8217;s the Royal Society, also with a huge climate change budget, that <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/green/isanewsletter.pdf" target="_blank">has been criticised for bullying and unscientific behaviour</a> in closing down debate that doesn&#8217;t support climate change theory.  The third is the Natural Environment Research Council, a British government funded quango with a huge climate change budget and is responsible for advising the British government on crackpot climate change policies.</p>
<p>So no vested interests there then.</p>
<p>The science if fraudulent and the only thing that is growing more alarming is the way the lies and fraudulent data and predictions these &#8220;scientists&#8221; are paid to make up are actually still being taken seriously, even when <a href="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/11/21/a-very-inconvenient-truth/" target="_blank">their own words have exposed them</a>.</p>
<p>Balanced reporting from the BBC?  Don&#8217;t make me laugh.  There&#8217;s not one single mention of the fact that the &#8220;science&#8221; these British government funded global warming propaganda merchants are quoting is a fraud.</p>
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		<title>A very inconvenient truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the wheels are coming off the global warming bandwagon at last and not a moment too soon. With the Copenhagen Climate Summit almost upon us, some enterprising hackers have managed to find their way into the University of East Anglia&#8217;s network and copied over 1,000 emails, data files and code from their climate change [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, the wheels are coming off the global warming bandwagon at last and not a moment too soon.</p>
<p>With the Copenhagen Climate Summit almost upon us, some enterprising hackers have managed to find their way into the University of East Anglia&#8217;s network and copied over 1,000 emails, data files and code from their climate change propaganda department.  And they make interesting reading &#8230;</p>
<p><img class="alignright" style="margin: 10px;" title="Al Gore didnt invent the internet but he did invent global warming" src="http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/files/2009/10/Al-Gore-invent-global-warming.jpg" alt="" width="156" height="170" align="right" />One &#8220;scientist&#8221;, Tim Osborn, told his colleagues to delete data rather than release it under the Freedom of Information Act.  Another &#8220;scientist&#8221;, Phil Jones, explained how he used a &#8220;trick&#8221; pioneered by another &#8220;scientist&#8221; to hide cooling trends.</p>
<p>Michael Mann, another &#8220;scientist&#8221;, said he would be contacting the BBC to find out why a journalist was allowed to write a vaguely sceptical article.  Another one, Kevin Trenberth, admits that they can&#8217;t explain why there is no global warming.</p>
<p>The Information Commissioner has apparently advised &#8220;scientists&#8221; on how to avoid releasing information under the Freedom of Information Act.  Tom Wigley, another of the &#8220;scientists&#8221; admits that &#8220;scientists&#8221; have been dishonestly claiming their predictions fit the IPPC climate model.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re being taxed and regulated into the dark ages in the name of climate change and here we have evidence that it&#8217;s nothing more than a scam motivated by hundreds of millions of pounds of government funding available for &#8220;scientists&#8221; that come up with the right answers.</p>
<p>Some excellent reading on Climategate:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_warmist_conspiracy_tthe_emails_that_really_damn_professor_jones#63704" target="_blank">Herald Sun</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2009/11/20/climate-cuttings-33.html" target="_blank">Bishop Hill</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2009/11/updating-list-of-kitchen-posts.html" target="_blank">Devil&#8217;s Kitchen</a></li>
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		<title>Three more drugs advisors resign</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/11/11/three-more-drugs-advisors-resign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three more drugs advisers from the British government&#8217;s Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs have resigned following the sacking of Professor David Nutt. Nutt was sacked by the British Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, after publicly saying that LSD was less harmful than alcohol, cannabis was less harmful than nicotine  and that the British government&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Three more drugs advisers from the British government&#8217;s Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8353685.stm" target="_blank">have resigned</a> following the sacking of Professor David Nutt.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2065" style="margin: 10px;" title="101 Downing Street" src="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/101downingstreetdoor-150x150.png" alt="101 Downing Street" width="150" height="150" align="right" />Nutt was sacked by the British Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, after publicly saying that LSD was less harmful than alcohol, cannabis was less harmful than nicotine  and that the British government&#8217;s decision to upgrade cannabis to a Class B drug was politically motivated, not scientifically.</p>
<p>There are now 6 vacancies on the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs following Professor Nutt&#8217;s sacking and the 5 resignations that have occured in protest at the sacking yet Alan Johnson still won&#8217;t admit he was wrong and the British government refuses to put scientific fact before personal opinion and populist propaganda.</p>
<p>Just like the British government ignores the science that proves climate change propaganda to be false, so they ignore independent scientific evidence on the level of danger certain drugs (including alcohol and nicotine) present.  The British government isn&#8217;t interested in fact, they will continue to spread rumour and false information until the population accepts it as fact.</p>
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		<title>Science Museum poll changes again!</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/10/31/science-museum-poll-changes-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The joke that is the Science Museum&#8217;s poll on climate change has taken another bizarre twist with the apparent reversion to the previous poll results prior to the poll being reset back to zero then changed to an almost 50/50 split.  It now shows 5,000 more &#8220;count me out&#8221; votes than &#8220;count me in&#8221;. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The joke that is <a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/proveit.aspx" target="_blank">the Science Museum&#8217;s poll on climate change</a> has taken another bizarre twist with the apparent reversion to the <a href="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/10/27/science-museum-start-again-with-climate-change-poll/" target="_blank">previous poll results</a> prior to the poll being reset back to zero then changed to an almost 50/50 split.  It now shows 5,000 more &#8220;count me out&#8221; votes than &#8220;count me in&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Science Museum should be forced to change its name under the Trade Descriptions Act.  There is nothing scientific about this poll.</p>
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		<title>Science Museum start again with climate change poll</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/10/27/science-museum-start-again-with-climate-change-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The excellent Englishman&#8217;s Castle tipped us off last week that the Science Museum was asking people to vote on whether they were convinced by climate change propaganda and wanted the British government to negotiate a return to the dark ages (count me in) or whether they were unconvinced (count me out). The poll was massively [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The excellent Englishman&#8217;s Castle <a href="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/10/24/count-me-out/" target="_blank">tipped us off</a> last week that the Science Museum was asking people to vote on whether they were convinced by climate change propaganda and wanted the British government to negotiate a return to the dark ages (count me in) or whether they were unconvinced (count me out).</p>
<p>The poll was massively in favour of the &#8220;count me out&#8221; option so, predictably, the museum have <a href="http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/007903.html" target="_blank">cleared the thousands of votes</a> already cast and are inviting visitors to vote again in the hope of getting the &#8220;right&#8221; answer this time.</p>
<p>So please do visit the <a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/proveit.aspx" target="_blank">Science Museum&#8217;s website</a> and cast your vote again.</p>
<p><strong>Edit:</strong><br />
The poll now asks you to click a confirmation link from an email and still gives you the option to read the &#8220;evidence&#8221; again when you click the &#8220;count me out&#8221; button.  When you cast your vote you are then given links to five external websites to read  more &#8220;evidence&#8221; and an invitation to a couple of events about man made climate change and why we&#8217;re running out of time.  There is no science involved, just opinion.</p>
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		<title>Count me out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via An Englishman&#8217;s Castle, the Science Museum is inviting you to tell them if you&#8217;re convinced about climate change &#8220;evidence&#8221; and want the British government to negotiate a dangerous and expensive deal strong, effective, fair deal to return us to the dark ages prove they&#8217;re serious about climate change.  It even helpfully invites you to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/007892.html" target="_blank">An Englishman&#8217;s Castle</a>, the Science Museum is inviting you to <a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/proveit.aspx" target="_blank">tell them if you&#8217;re convinced</a> about climate change &#8220;evidence&#8221; and want the British government to negotiate a <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">dangerous and expensive deal </span><em>strong, effective, fair deal</em> to <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">return us to the dark ages</span> <em>prove they&#8217;re serious about climate change</em>.  It even helpfully invites you to change your uneducated and clearly limited mind if you join the 84% of respondents and tell them to count you out.</p>
<p>You can even send them a message.  So I did &#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>The &#8220;evidence&#8221; is opinion, much of it bought with taxpayers money.  The climate is changing as it has done for billions of years and will continue to do so for billions more.  The predictions have all proven to be wrong so far and the suppression of alternative opinions that challenge the climate change religion is completely unscientific.  Climate change &#8220;science&#8221; isn&#8217;t science at all, it&#8217;s opinion auctioned to the highest bidder.  Climate change &#8220;scientists&#8221; are making more money than they could ever have dreamed of from selling propaganda to governments.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>On a related note, I&#8217;ve had two letters from the Advertising Standards Agency confirming that they&#8217;re investigating both the Telegraph&#8217;s false claim to be the most informed newspaper for climate change and the British government&#8217;s &#8220;Act of CO2&#8243; child propaganda advert.</p>
<p>The Telegraph falsely claims in a poster that the North West Passage has just opened to commercial traffic for the first time when the Canadian government has been licencing commercial trade to use the North West Passage since the 1920&#8242;s with a break only during the second world war.  That&#8217;s excluding the Vikings using it in their little wooden boats around the time they discovered Greenland (so named because it wasn&#8217;t covered in ice back then).  The poster claims that the Telegraph is the most informed newspaper on climate change when it clearly isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>The Act on CO2 advert I won&#8217;t go into too much detail on because it makes my blood boil every time I see it.  Suffice to say, when you have to resort to broadcasting a cartoon showing a crying little bunny rabbit and a drowning puppy you&#8217;ve quite clearly lost the argument (and the plot).  Propaganda aimed at children is illegal, even when it&#8217;s the British government disseminating it.  The advert was commissioned when a poll showed that 60% of people were unconvinced by the bullshit propaganda the British government puts out abo<a href="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/wp-admin/post-new.php">Add New Post ‹ Wonko&#8217;s World — WordPress</a>ut climate change.  Judging by the fact that&#8217;s increased to 84% according to the Science Museum&#8217;s poll and that the Advertising Standards Agency had received 357 complaints about the advert as of Wednesday, the argument has been well and truly lost.</p>
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		<title>Manchester Councillor and UAF activist trying to ban EDL march</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Faith groups and traders&#8221; and councillors in Manchester are asking the Home Secretary to ban a protest by the English Defence League that is planned for next month citing the violence at their Birmingham marches as justification for depriving them of their constitutional right to protest. The Daily Telegraph says: Gangs of men and youths [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Faith groups and traders&#8221; and councillors in Manchester <a target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6199406/Council-appeals-to-Alan-Johnson-to-ban-right-wing-protest.html">are asking</a> the Home Secretary to ban a protest by the English Defence League that is planned for next month citing the violence at their Birmingham marches as justification for depriving them of their constitutional right to protest.</p>
<p>The Daily Telegraph says:</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>Gangs of men and youths hurled bottles at each other and pelted riot police    with bricks as frightened shoppers looked on</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>This is absolutely correct but it wasn&#8217;t English Defence League protesters that were throwing bricks and bottles at each other or the police, it was the Unite Against Facism thugs and the young muslim troublemakers that turned out to protest against them.  Wherever the UAF goes, voilence follows and there is no excuse for not reporting who the violent troublemakers were because it was correctly reported in the news and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211414/Anti-fascists-clash-right-wing-protesters-Birmingham.html">the Daily Mail </a>even had pictures.</p>
<p>Councillor Jim Battle of Manchester City Council 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>Wherever the so-called English Defence League have gone, there has been    violence and disruption to ordinary people who just want to go about their    business.</p>
<p>These people do not have a legitimate cause – they merely wish to vilify,    insult, intimidate and provoke one section of our community. That isn&#8217;t    protest or legitimate democratic debate and it certainly is not welcome in    Manchester.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<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>The city council isn&#8217;t a lone voice making this request. We are standing    together with faith groups and city centre traders. Manchester does not want    the EDL, and we stand united against their poisonous, disruptive and    un-British outlook and actions.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>But we know that the trouble is being caused by the thugs in the UAF &#8211; there are pictures showing their violent counter-protests against the English Defence League &#8211; so why is he blaming the English Defence League for the violence?  <a target="_blank" href="http://complexsystemofpipes.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/manchester-uaf-relaunch/">Thank you Google</a> &#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Unite Against Fascism Re-Launch Meeting<br />
Monday 14<sup>th</sup> July, 7.30pm, Manchester Town Hall</strong> (Cttee Rm 2)</p>
<p>Proposed Agenda to include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Speaker from Unite Against Fascism National Office</li>
<li>Planning a major Gtr Manchester UAF event for the autumn</li>
<li>Agreeing a North West statement against the BNP</li>
<li>Campaigning against the BNP – particularly if they stand in next June’s European elections</li>
<li>Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) events – eg the planned LMHR Northern Carnival for next year</li>
</ul>
<p>yours in solidarity,</p>
<p>Sharon Green (Manchester UAF Treasurer)<br />
<strong> Councillor Jim Battle (Deputy Leader Manchester City Council)</strong><br />
Colin Barker (former chair Manchester UAF)<br />
Karen Evans (UCU Nat Exec pc)<br />
Steve Ratcliffe, (CWU)<br />
Sarah Holden, (Unite the Union Regional Equalities Officer)<br />
Mike Killian, (Manchester UAF)</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>No wonder he&#8217;s hiding the truth about the fascist UAF, he&#8217;s a UAF thug himself abusing his position as Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council to promote the UAF and its violent fascist agenda.  And as an aside, the English Defence League&#8217;s actions aren&#8217;t likely to be &#8220;British&#8221; on account of them being &#8220;English&#8221;.</p>
<p>I have no interest in the politics of ethnicity, I&#8217;m not a white supremacist and I don&#8217;t share the racist views of the English Defence League but I would defend their right to protest and express their views &#8211; that is what democracy is all about.  UAF is the cause of all this violence yet they seem to be immune from public criticism thanks to the number of councillors, MPs and senior police officers that are members who all quite happily spread UAF propaganda and abuse their power to try and ban legitimate, legal protests.</p>
<p>The English Defence League are not my type of people and they don&#8217;t speak for me but I would rather have them on the streets than the vicious, far left extremists of Unite Against Fascism.</p>
<p><img src="/images/social/technorati.png" alt="Technorati" /> Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/EDL" rel="tag" target="_blank">EDL</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/UAF" rel="tag" target="_blank"> UAF</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Manchester" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Manchester</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Propaganda" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Propaganda</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Police+State" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Police State</a></p>
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		<title>Ho hum, more climate change propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British government reckons it&#8217;s saved £7m in the last year through &#8220;green&#8221; measures in government departments. The &#8220;green&#8221; measures referred to include double-sided printing, turning computers off at night and replacing PCs after 5 years instead of 3. These are not &#8220;green&#8221; measures, they&#8217;re common sense money-saving ideas!  They may have a positive effect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The British government <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8255320.stm" target="_blank">reckons it&#8217;s saved £7m</a> in the last year through &#8220;green&#8221; measures in government departments.</p>
<p>The &#8220;green&#8221; measures referred to include double-sided printing, turning computers off at night and replacing PCs after 5 years instead of 3.</p>
<p>These are <em>not</em> &#8220;green&#8221; measures, they&#8217;re common sense money-saving ideas!  They may have a positive effect on the environment &#8211; less pollution and less landfull &#8211; but they are primarily common sense ways of saving money.  Turning electrical items off at night saves electricity which saves money.  Printing on both sides saves paper which saves money.  Replacing PCs after 5 years instead of 3 means you don&#8217;t have to buy new computers so often which saves money.</p>
<p>Whether these &#8220;green&#8221; measures were good for the environment or not, they would have saved money anyway.  The environmental benefit is just a happy co-incidence &#8211; the civil service has been on a cost-cutting drive since before the global warming scam started.</p>
<p>There is plenty of money to be saved by businesses and governments through &#8220;green&#8221; measures but they are all common sense cost saving ideas that have nothing to do with environmentalism and everything to do with saving money.  But ultimately, any cost saving made from this type of thing in the private sector is going to wiped out by &#8220;green&#8221; taxation.</p>
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		<title>Protest Propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesters from the English &#038; Welsh Defence League and anti-fascist fascists rioted in Birmingham yesterday &#8211; a repeat of events a couple of weeks ago when the English &#038; Welsh Defence League marched on Birmingham City Centre and the fascist Unite Against Fascism came out in force to protest at them. The BBC News website [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Protesters from the English &#038; Welsh Defence League and anti-fascist fascists rioted in Birmingham yesterday &#8211; a repeat of events a couple of weeks ago when the English &#038; Welsh Defence League marched on Birmingham City Centre and the fascist Unite Against Fascism came out in force to protest at them.</p>
<p>The BBC News website seems to be a bit light on information about the protest but there are pictures and a video on the Daily Mail website.  The BBC did mention the fact that there was going to be a protest a couple of days ago but they mysteriously <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8240414.stm">seem to have glossed over the finer details</a> of the violence during the protest itself.  Well I say mysteriously but there&#8217;s not much mystery about if you look at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211414/Anti-fascists-clash-right-wing-protesters-Birmingham.html">the pictures on the Daily Mail website</a>.</p>
<p>The pictures show the English &#038; Welsh Defence League protesters (who the media have decided to rename the English Defence League) and the &#8220;anti-fascist&#8221; protesters who are all Asians.  So not actually anti-fascist protesters, but Asian protesters.  This is the reason why the BBC have been vague.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that the English &#038; Welsh Defence League are racists and intent on causing trouble but why were the UAF allowed to stage a counter-protest a fortnight ago and muslims allowed to stage a counter-protest yesterday in the same place as the English &#038; Welsh Defence League, knowing full well that it would end up causing trouble?  The police have the power to prevent the two protests from taking place in the same place at the same time so why didn&#8217;t they use it?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not interested in race politics and I would certainly never support a group like the English &#038; Welsh Defence League but the biased reporting irritates me.  They are not the English Defence League, they are the English <em>and Welsh</em> Defence League and the protesters yesterday were Asians, not anti-fascists.</p>
<p>The British establishment will be wringing its hands over the emergence of the English &#038; Welsh Defence League and trying to think of ways to shut them down but none of them will accept any of the blame for the existence of groups like this (there are more that have recently come into being) despite it being almost entirely down to their anti-English policies and refusal to deal with moderate English nationalist groups like the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thecep.org.uk">Campaign for an English Parliament</a>.  Maybe now their head-in-the-sand approach to English nationalism, immigration and self-imposed segregation has spawned various extremist groups the British government will pay more attention to moderate English nationalists before they have home-grown terrorists to deal with as well as imported ones?<br /><p><img src="/images/social/technorati.png" alt="Technorati" /> Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/English+%26%23038%3B+Welsh+Defence+League" rel="tag" target="_blank">English &#038; Welsh Defence League</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Fascists" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Fascists</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/UAF" rel="tag" target="_blank"> UAF</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Muslims" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Muslims</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Birmingham" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Birmingham</a></p>
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		<title>UK Citizenship Test: Load of Bollocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just took the bullshit UK citizenship test on the Home Office&#8217;s practice website. I&#8217;m not entirely convinced that creating a website that gives you the answers to the questions you&#8217;re going to get in the test is such a good idea although if you want to make sure that nobody fails, it&#8217;s a brilliant [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just took the bullshit <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ukcitizenshiptest.co.uk/">UK citizenship test</a> on the Home Office&#8217;s practice website.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not entirely convinced that creating a website that gives you the answers to the questions you&#8217;re going to get in the test is such a good idea although if you want to make sure that nobody fails, it&#8217;s a brilliant plan.  Hopefully the English test isn&#8217;t judged by the person who wrote the website because they used the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gcse.com/english/practice.htm">wrong spelling of practice</a> (the website is a <em>thing</em>, not a <em>doing</em>).<br />
I got 50 which means I failed.  Which is hardly surprising because the questions really are, as I mentioned in the opening line of this post, bollocks.</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>Q1: In the 1980s, the largest immigrant groups were from the West Indies, Ireland, India and Pakistan.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I said true but apparently it wasn&#8217;t, it was Americans, Aussies, South Africans and Kiwis.</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>Q2: Which TWO of these are names for the Church of England?</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I said Anglican and Presbyterian but apparently it&#8217;s Anglican and Episcopal.  The other option was Methodist.</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>Q3: How many parliamentary constituencies are there?</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I said 646 and I was right.  The other options were 464, 564 and 664.</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>Q4: Which of these statements is correct?</p>
<p>Education at state schools in the UK is free and this includes the cost of school uniform and sports wear<br />
Education at state schools in the UK is free but parents have to pay for school uniform and sports wear</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The second one is the right answer of course, unless you&#8217;re an asylum seeker in which case you can get a grant.</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>Q5: Many job applications will require a covering letter and</p>
<p>a document showing proof of identity<br />
your national insurance number<br />
a Curriculum Vitae<br />
a signed photograph</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The answer is, of course, a CV but a lot of companies now are so scared of being prosecuted for employing illegal immigrants that they insist on a copy of your passport or driving licence even if you&#8217;ve lived your whole life here.</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>Q6: &#8216;Ulster Scots is a dialect which is spoken in Northern Ireland.&#8217;</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I said false but the answer was true which I actually did know but I must have misread the question.</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>Q7: In which year did married women get the right to divorce their husband?</p>
<p>1837<br />
1857<br />
1875<br />
1882</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The answer is 1857 but really, who actually knows the answer to that question?</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>Q8: In which TWO of the following places does the European Parliament meet?</p>
<p>London<br />
Strasbourg<br />
Paris<br />
Brussels</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The answer is Strasbourg and Brussels which I got right naturally.  Interesting that a question relating to EU citizenship should be in the British citizenship test but it&#8217;s not the only one.</p>
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<p>People aged 60 or over<br />
People aged 18 or under<br />
Pregnant women or those with a baby under 12 months old<br />
People on the minimum wage</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Now, there must be a different version of this test in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland because in Wales the answer is everyone and in Scotland and Northern Ireland it&#8217;s nearly everyone.  The answer in England is People aged 60 or over and pregnant women or those with a baby under 12 months old.  I answered that one incorrectly, I think I was too busy seething about the question.</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>Q10: &#8216;Adults who have been unemployed for six months are usually required to join New Deal if they wish to continue receiving benefit.&#8217;</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I answered true because I&#8217;m not au fait with this particular bullshit scheme for occupying lazy unemployable people.  It&#8217;s false though, it&#8217;s 18 months.  Like it matters.</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>Q11: The number of children and young people up to the age of 19 in the UK is</p>
<p>13 million<br />
14 million<br />
15 million<br />
16 million</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The answer is 15 million, I said 16 million.  Why would anyone need to know this?</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>Q12: The percentage of people in the UK in 2001 who said they were Muslims was</p>
<p>1.6%<br />
2.7%<br />
3.4%<br />
4.2%</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I said 3.4% but it&#8217;s actually 2.7%.  The others presumably said &#8220;no speaky English&#8221; like they usually do when a white man in a suit knocks on their door (I&#8217;m speaking from experience here).</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>Q13: A quango is</p>
<p>a government department<br />
a non-departmental public body<br />
an arm of the judiciary<br />
an education establishment</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>None of those is really correct (it&#8217;s a <strong>Qua</strong>si <strong>N</strong>on-<strong>G</strong>overnmental <strong>O</strong>rganisation) but non-departmental public body was the closest and &#8220;correct&#8221; answer.</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>Q14: &#8216;You can attend a hospital without a GP&#8217;s letter only in the case of an emergency.&#8217;</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The &#8220;correct&#8221; answer is true according to the test but the right answer is false because hospitals provide many drop-in clinics where you don&#8217;t need a letter from your GP.</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>Q15: Information about training opportunities can be found from which TWO of the following?</p>
<p>The local library<br />
The local council offices<br />
Learndirect<br />
The Home Office</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The answer is local library and Learndirect.  I got that one right.</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>Q16: Which of the following statements is correct?</p>
<p>Information in the census is immediately available for the public to search<br />
Information in the census is kept secret for 100 years</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I answered that it is kept secret for 100 years (not strictly true &#8211; it&#8217;s shared widely with quangos) which was the &#8220;correct&#8221; answer.</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>Q17: Which TWO of the following can vote in all UK public elections?</p>
<p>Citizens of the Irish Republic resident in the UK<br />
Citizens of EU states resident in the UK<br />
Citizens of the Commonwealth resident in the UK<br />
Anyone resident in the UK</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I said EU and Commonwealth but it&#8217;s Irish and Commonwealth.  I was going to disagree but I just noticed the word &#8220;all&#8221; in there.</p>
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<p>150 days a year<br />
170 days a year<br />
190 days a year<br />
200  days a year</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>I randomly chose 190 which is the right answer.  I have 4 children, 3 of which are in school and I really didn&#8217;t know.  Who, other than a teacher, would know?</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>Q19: From which TWO places can you obtain advice if you have a problem at work and need to take further action?</p>
<p>The Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB)<br />
Your local MP<br />
Your employer<br />
The national Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The correct answer is CAB and ACAS.  I got this one right too.</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>Q20: The official report of the proceedings of Parliament is called</p>
<p>the Speaker&#8217;s notes<br />
Hansard<br />
the electoral register<br />
the constitution</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The answer is, of course, Hansard.</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>Q21: Which of these statements is correct?</p>
<p>For cars and motorbikes the speed limit on single carriageways is 60mph<br />
For cars and motorbikes the speed limit on single carriageways is 70mph</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The &#8220;correct&#8221; answer is 60mph but that&#8217;s not true because the car hating British government has encourage the car hating nazis in local councils to reduce speed limits to often ridiculously low speeds and as a result, the speed limit on single carriageway roads can be anywhere between 5mph and 60mph.</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>Q22: A by-election is held</p>
<p>half-way through the life of a Parliament<br />
every two years<br />
when an MP dies or resigns<br />
when the Prime Minister decides to call one</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Again, one that can&#8217;t be answered correctly.  The &#8220;correct&#8221; answer is when an MP dies or resigns but an MP can&#8217;t resign, they have to apply for a job as a paid agent of the Crown &#8211; usually the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham or Steward of the Manor of Northstead &#8211; at which point they become ineligble to sit in the Commons and are removed from office as an MP.  You see, this is the sort of thing that should be in a citizenship test.</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>Q23: Which of these statements is correct?</p>
<p>Children aged 13-16 cannot work more than 12 hours in any school week<br />
Children aged 13-16 cannot work more than 10 hours in any school week</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The correct answer, apparently, is 12 hours.  I said 10.  But again, who knows this sort of stuff generally?</p>
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<p>The governing body of the EU is the Council of the European Union<br />
The governing body of the EU is the Council of Europe</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>It&#8217;s the Council of the European Union apparently but I&#8217;ve only ever heard it called the Council of Europe.  The right answer, of course, is France and Germany but that wasn&#8217;t one of the options.</p>
<p>So there you have it, 24 questions of complete bollocks, some of which were impossible to answer correctly and all utterly trivial.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[El Gordo wants to set up a £60bn climate change fund to help poor countries come up with bullshit ways to deal with climate change. Meanwhile, BBC News is reporting this morning (on the TV but not on the website for some reason) that an extra half a million families could be forced into fuel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>El Gordo <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8120432.stm">wants to set up</a> a £60bn climate change fund to help poor countries come up with bullshit ways to deal with climate change.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, BBC News is reporting this morning (on the TV but not on the website for some reason) that an extra half a million families could be forced into fuel poverty because electricity companies are being forced to spend billions on expensive, inefficient and unreliable windmills instead of cheap, reliable power stations to hit bullshit government targets.</p>
<p>This is just getting beyond a fucking joke.  Climate change has been happening for millions of years and it will continues to happen for millions of fucking years.  There is no proof &#8211; not one single piece of evidence that stands up to the briefest of scrutiny &#8211; that the climate is being changed by human activity in any significant or detrimental way.</p>
<p>Windmills and solar panels can&#8217;t even come close to producing enough electricity to meet demand.  Relying on &#8220;renewable&#8221; energy will turn electricity into a luxury that only the ruling classes can afford which will, of course, solve the problem of electricity rationing which we will be seeing in the next few years.</p>
<p>And to rub salt into the wound, we&#8217;re going to be contributing our &#8220;fair share&#8221; of a £60bn fund so that corrupt third world despots can come up with similar bullshit claimte change policies while an extra half a million people are expected to be spending 10% of their income on gas and electricity in the next 12 months.</p>
<p>Where on earth can I get away from this fucking bullshit?  I swear to god, much more of this and I&#8217;m going to go postal in Westminster Palace.<br /><p><img src="/images/social/technorati.png" alt="Technorati" /> Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Climate+Change" rel="tag" target="_blank">Climate Change</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Bullshit" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Bullshit</a></p>
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		<title>Institutional discrimination in the Ministry for Inequality</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/05/13/institutional-discrimination-in-the-ministry-for-inequality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry for Inequality really is a bottomless pit of hypocrisy.  I sent the following Freedom of Information request the other day: 1.  What proportion of the Ministry&#8217;s employees are: a. Male b. Female 2.  What proportion of the Ministry&#8217;s employees are: a. White English (or British if you don&#8217;t record English nationality) b. White [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Ministry for Inequality really is a bottomless pit of hypocrisy.  I sent the following Freedom of Information request the other day:</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>1.  What proportion of the Ministry&#8217;s employees are:<br />
a. Male<br />
b. Female</p>
<p>2.  What proportion of the Ministry&#8217;s employees are:<br />
a. White English (or British if you don&#8217;t record English nationality)<br />
b. White non-English (or British if you don&#8217;t record English<br />
nationality)<br />
c. BME</p>
<p>3.  What plans there are to appoint a Minister for Men.  If there are<br />
none, why not?</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>The Ministry for Inequality has a Minister for Women but no Minister for Men and the three Ministers for Equality are women.  As expected, the Ministry for Inequality is heavily biased against men in its workforce as well:</p>
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<p>GEO/09/FOI/000024</p>
<p>Thank you for your request for information sent on 28 April, which we have dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act.  I can confirm that the Department holds the information you are seeking.</p>
<p>1.  What proportion of the Ministry&#8217;s employees are:<br />
a. Male<br />
b. Female</p>
<p>Of our 118 staff in post:<br />
42 are male &#038;<br />
76 are female.</p>
<p>2.  What proportion of the Ministry&#8217;s employees are:<br />
a. White English (or British if you don&#8217;t record English nationality)<br />
b. White non-English (or British if you don&#8217;t record English<br />
nationality)<br />
c. BME</p>
<p>Of the staff that have declared their ethnic identity:</p>
<p>36 are White British<br />
30 are from Another white backgrounds<br />
11 are from Black African/Caribbean background.</p>
<p>3.  What plans there are to appoint a Minister for Men.  If there are<br />
none, why not?</p>
<p>Ministerial appointments are a matter for the Prime Minister.  The second part of your question is not strictly a Freedom of Information request, however we are sometimes asked about a Minister for Men. The following is the response that we use :</p>
<p>&#8220;The Government recognises that there are areas in British society where men face disadvantage or discrimination but the quickest glance at our income and poverty figures will show that overall, women are the main victims of inequality in our country.</p>
<p>This remains true today despite the passing of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination legislation almost 40 years ago. For example:</p>
<p>Women account for over half of the United Kingdom’s population, but only make up 19.4% of MPs and 29.3% of local councillors.<br />
Black, Asian and Ethnic minority women account for 11.6% of the UK’s female population but make up less than 1% of local councillors.<br />
Only 11% of the directors in the boardrooms of the top 100 FTSE companies are female;<br />
The gap between the pay of male and female workers is currently 12.6% for full times and 39.1% for part-timers.<br />
In 2007/08 there were 106 homicides where the perpetrator was the partner/ex-partner of the victim. Of these, 72 victims were female and 34 male;<br />
Women still shoulder the lion’s share of caring for the old and the young and 90.5% (2001 Census) of lone parents are female.&#8221;</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>So almost two thirds of the Ministry for Inequality&#8217;s employees are women, they have no male ministers and there are no plans to create a Minister for Men to represent the specific interests of men in the same way that the Minister for Women does for women.  White &#8220;British&#8221; (I would imagine &#8220;British&#8221; in this case mostly means English as the Ministry for Inequality is in London) employees are also in a minority if the recorded information is representative of the whole workforce.<br />
How on earth can the Ministry for Inequality use the way people vote as justification for discrimination?  If we didn&#8217;t vote for <em>any</em> women in the next election, what business is that of the state?  The whole point of democracy is that we can vote for who we want, when we want.</p>
<p>There are plenty of women working their way up through the ranks at FTSE100 companies but large multi-nationals tend not to employ people just because they&#8217;re women, being able to run a large multi-national is usually one of the key requirements.</p>
<p>How much of the &#8220;gender pay gap&#8221; is down to the type of work being done rather than the fact that they&#8217;re women?</p>
<p>Is the Ministry for Inequality <em>really</em> suggesting that a Minister for Women can reduce the number of women murdered by their current or former partner?  Does Ms Harperson also have the answer to the problems in the middle east and a cure for cancer?</p>
<p>And the reason why 90.5% of single parents are women is because the system is institutionally biased towards women.  In cases of marital breakdown, the mother will automatically be given custody unless there is a good reason not to.</p>
<p>So the Ministry for Equality really doesn&#8217;t live up to its name at all.  Institutional discrimination is clearly rife in the Ministry for Inequality but they don&#8217;t seem to have any intention to clean their act up despite intending to pass a bill forcing companies to publish this sort of information.  If publicising the gender bias in the Ministry for Inequality doesn&#8217;t banish discrimination in a government department, why is it going to make a difference in a private company?</p>
<p>Harriet Harperson is a shamelss hypocrite.  Don&#8217;t forget to sign <a target="_blank" href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/equalitybias/">the petition</a> calling on the Prime Minister to appoint a Minister for Men and deal with the gender bias in the Ministry for Inequality.<br /><p><img src="/images/social/technorati.png" alt="Technorati" /> Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Harriet+Harperson" rel="tag" target="_blank">Harriet Harperson</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Ministry+for+Inequality" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Ministry for Inequality</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Freedom+of+Information" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Freedom of Information</a></p>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the Daddy?</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/04/20/whos-the-daddy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A committee of MPs has produced a report saying that the British government get more involved in the parenting of &#8220;disadvantaged&#8221; children. The report is looking at disadvantaged children in social care but the term &#8220;disadvantaged&#8221; has plenty of scope for expansion into other areas &#8211; children with learning difficulties, children with behavioural problems, children [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A committee of MPs has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.politics.co.uk/News/news/children-and-family/government-should-become-a-parent--$1288715.htm">produced a report</a> saying that the British government get more involved in the parenting of &#8220;disadvantaged&#8221; children.</p>
<p>The report is looking at disadvantaged children in social care but the term &#8220;disadvantaged&#8221; has plenty of scope for expansion into other areas &#8211; children with learning difficulties, children with behavioural problems, children from poor families.  Anyone familiar with George Orwell&#8217;s 1984 will see yet another parallel between the Orwellian society in 1984 and England under Liebour where children are indoctrinated with propaganda and end up shopping their parents to Big Brother for thought crimes.  The British government&#8217;s current healthy eating propaganda programme (in England only and which fails to promote a healthy, balanced diet) provides materials to primary schools telling children to challenge their parents if they prepare a meal that the British government has deemed to be unhealthy.<br />
Far from taking a more active role in parenting, the British government needs to poke its nose out of our private lives and get on with what it&#8217;s actually there for &#8211; to make sure we&#8217;re safe and to provide essential services.  We don&#8217;t need to be told how to live our lives, what to eat, what to drink, what to think.  We need the state to basically just fuck off and die and leave us to live our lives.</p>
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		<title>Wilkins Ice Shelf still hanging on by a thread, apparently</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/04/06/wilkins-ice-shelf-still-hanging-on-by-a-thread-apparently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), government-funded &#8220;scientists&#8221;, have announced that the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is on the verge of collapsing. Funnily enough, the BAS said exactly the same thing last year except last year the Wilkins Ice Shelf was the size of the Isle of Man and this year it&#8217;s the size [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), government-funded &#8220;scientists&#8221;, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6041360.ece" target="_blank">have announced</a> that the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is on the verge of collapsing.</p>
<p>Funnily enough, the BAS <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7313264.stm" target="_blank">said exactly the same thing</a> last year except last year the Wilkins Ice Shelf was the size of the Isle of Man and this year it&#8217;s the size of Wales.  That&#8217;s a hell of a lot of growth considering that global warming is supposed to be melting all the ice.</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s still no explanation from the BAS or any other global warming propagandists as to <a href="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/03/25/10-year-old-story-used-as-climate-change-propaganda/" target="_blank">how the Wilkins Ice Shelf can collapse in 1998</a> and again in <strike>2008</strike> <em>2009</em>.</p>
<p>There is, of course, one explanation for all this: it&#8217;s another piece of outdated propaganda, invented by the author of the IPPC work of fiction on climate change (who happens to be the BAS lead &#8220;scientist&#8221;) and faithfully reproduced by lazy journalists in the mainstream media.</p>
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		<title>ContactPoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department for Children, Schools and Families had a full page advert in the Shropshire Star last night for their ContactPoint database. ContactPoint is a massive centralised database that local authorities in England are legally obliged to populate with the details of every child under the age of 18, along with details of their parents, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Department for Children, Schools and Families had a full page advert in the Shropshire Star last night for their ContactPoint database.</p>
<p align="center"><a title="Contact Point Advert" class="imagelink" href="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/contact-point-advert.png"><img alt="Contact Point Advert" style="width: 400px" title="Contact Point Advert" src="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/contact-point-advert.png" /></a></p>
<p>ContactPoint is a massive centralised database that local authorities <em>in England</em> are legally obliged to populate with the details of every child under the age of 18, along with details of their parents, school, GP and childrens services.  The advert says the database is secure and can only be used by people who are security clared and trained but as with every other government database, it&#8217;s not secure enough for the children of MPs to be put in it.</p>
<p>The advert is pure propaganda, nothing more, nothing less.  ContactPoint is an instrument of the British police state and will be abused from day one.  The advert says that children will only be on ContactPoint until they&#8217;re 18, it doesn&#8217;t say what will happen to the records.  Data Protection laws say that the records have to be kept for a reasonable amount of time after they&#8217;re no longer used and after collecting all this information, there is no way the British government will get rid of it &#8211; it will simply be moved to the adult identity database where even more information will be added to it so the authorities have a complete picture of every proles life from cradle to grave.</p>
<p>I refuse to accept that details of my children and myself can be put on an insecure database without my consent.  It&#8217;s a breach of our right to privacy under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act and if it&#8217;s not secure enough for Gordon Brown&#8217;s children then it&#8217;s not secure enough for mine.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve just sent the following email to my local council:</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>Seeing the full page propaganda piece from the Department for Children, Schools and Families has done nothing to convince me that ContactPoint is simply a benign repository of information to keep children safe.</p>
<p>The database won&#8217;t be secure, that&#8217;s why MPs children won&#8217;t appear on it.  I cannot allow my children&#8217;s details to be entered onto an insecure database, I want them to be safe.  ContactPoint is also a breach of the right to privacy guaranteed under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.</p>
<p>I forbid you from entering details of my children on the ContactPoint database.  If you do so against my express wishes I will take legal action against the council and the individual responsible for the details being entered.</p>
<p>My children are {censored}.</p>
<p>Please ensure that all relevant departments are made aware of my instructions.</p>
<p>Stuart Parr<br />
{Address}</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
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		<title>Climate change propagandists are getting desperate</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/03/10/climate-change-propagandists-are-getting-desperate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A massive gathering of climate change propagandists in Denmark have upped the stakes in the increasingly ludicrous and alarmist game of apocalyptic predictions. The current prediction by the propagandists is that sea levels will rise by about 2ft in the next few years but not enough people are panicking and throwing money at them to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A massive gathering of climate change propagandists in Denmark have <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7935159.stm">upped the stakes</a> in the increasingly ludicrous and alarmist game of apocalyptic predictions.<br />
The current prediction by the propagandists is that sea levels will rise by about 2ft in the next few years but not enough people are panicking and throwing money at them to save the world so they&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s now going to be somewhere between 3.5ft and 5ft.</p>
<p>The &#8220;scientist&#8221; who seems to have come up with the new prediction is Konrad Steffan.  I can&#8217;t find much about him other than the fact that he&#8217;s backed by Nasa and has made a lucrative career out of climate change, appearing in a film and a book on the subject.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, as money gets tighter, the propagandists are going to come up with more and more batshit scare stories to try and justify the massive grants they need to fund the expensive lifestyles to which they&#8217;ve become accustomed on our taxes.  Expect to see more of this kind of alarmist, scientifically baseless shit as time goes on.<br />
On a related note, it was good to see Prince Charles <a target="_blank" href="http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/007122.html">doing his bit</a> for the environment, flying to South America on a chartered jet and travelling by stretch limo with a 6 car motorcade to talk about climate change.  I wonder if the Brazilians will show him the cast swathes of CO2 recycling rainforest that are being cleared to grow crops for biofuels?</p>
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		<title>Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics</title>
		<link>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2009/03/10/lies-damn-lies-and-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wonkotsane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British government is seriously considering dropping the national speed limit from 60mph to 50mph. There will be an option for local authorities to increase the speed limit on major roads back to 60mph if they can give a good enough reason to do so.  Although, as the highways departments of most local authorities seem [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The British government is seriously considering dropping the national speed limit from 60mph to 50mph.</p>
<p>There will be an option for local authorities to increase the speed limit on major roads back to 60mph if they can give a good enough reason to do so.  Although, as the highways departments of most local authorities seem to be filled with car-hating nazi&#8217;s, it isn&#8217;t likely to happen very often.</p>
<p>The state propaganda machine kicked into action as soon as the story got out, quoting statistics about deaths on country roads and blaming &#8220;speeding&#8221; motorists (which includes anyone driving anywhere near the speed limit on a country road) for the deaths.</p>
<p>The BBC are, of course, dutifully mis-representing the facts, telling us that the British government is planning to reduce the speed limit on rural roads.  This isn&#8217;t the case &#8211; the plan is to reduce the national speed limit on all single carriageway roads with average speed cameras to enforce the speed limit.</p>
<p>Jim Fitzpatrick, the British minister for Transport in England, 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>There will be some in the driving lobby who think this is a further attack and a restriction on people&#8217;s freedom. But when you compare that to the fact we are killing 3,000 people a year on our roads, it would be irresponsible not to do something about it.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>And how many of those 3,000 were killed by speeding motorists?  And of those speeding motorists, how many were drink driving, using their mobile phone, playing with their car stereo, doing their make-up in the rear view mirror?  I&#8217;d be surprised if more than a quarter of those were killed because of someone speeding and no other reason but you won&#8217;t get statistics like that out of the British government because that doesn&#8217;t fit in with the evil motorists ethos.</p>
<p>He went on to say:</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>If you look at the figures on rural roads, there are disproportionately more people dying there than on any other roads. The nature of some rural roads, with dips and bends and difficult conditions, means that the 60mph limit is not enough.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>So why can&#8217;t local authorities use the powers they already have to reduce the speed limit on dangerous rural roads?  The national speed limit applies to roads that don&#8217;t have a specific speed limit so if there is a dangerous road, the relevant local authority just needs to put a speed limit on it.</p>
<p>Fitzpatrick finishes by saying that:</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>I’m sure that the vast majority  of motorists would support the proposals.</p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
<p>Well, there&#8217;s one easy way of finding out isn&#8217;t there?  Put it to a referendum, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;d all love to tell you what we think.</p>
<p>One thing I&#8217;ve not been able to determine &#8211; and the British government certainly wouldn&#8217;t say in a press release &#8211; is whether this is another England-only policy being imposed on us by the British government.  Transport is devolved, after all, and most single carriageway roads aren&#8217;t trunk roads.<br /><p><img src="/images/social/technorati.png" alt="Technorati" /> Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Speed+Limits" rel="tag" target="_blank">Speed Limits</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Propaganda" rel="tag" target="_blank"> Propaganda</a></p>
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