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Sorry kids, election’s cancelled

July 13, 2008 Education, WTF? 8 comments

The primary school that my children go to has a School Council which gets the kids involved in how the school is run and even how some of the money is spent.

Last year the children who wanted to take part stood for election and were voted in by their peers.  However, next year (this is school years obviously, starting in September) they have decided that the current Chair will remain as Chair even if their peers vote for someone else.

Their “constitutencies” are individual classes so a whole class of children will be deprived of the right to vote for their representative on the School Council.

This is bad enough in it itself but what makes it worse is that for months, the Chair has been bullying one of my children quite badly.  She is, to put it bluntly, an obnoxious child with a very real attitude problem.  The mental abuse was so bad she had several sessions with teachers to talk to her about what she was doing and it took several attempts to get her to stop.  This is a role model for other children in the school.

I’ve sent the following email to the Deputy Head of the school:

Dear Mr xxxxxxx,

[My Child] has been talking to us about School Council, in particular the fact that it has been decided that [The Bully] will be chair of the School Council again next year even if her peers don’t vote for her.  [My Child] feels that it’s unfair and so do we.

For the last few months [The Bully] has been bullying [My Child] so badly that he couldn’t sleep and was sitting in his room crying.  She has had sessions with teachers to talk to her about mental abuse and bullying.  I believe she still has some sort of anti-bullying role in school which I find quite ironic.  That’s not a good role model for other children.

This year the School Council was elected by the children – an excellent practical demonstration of democracy at work.  Next year [The Bully] will be the chair again, even if her peers don’t want her to be.  What does that teach the children?  That the wishes of the majority can be disregarded by the privileged few?  A sad reflection of real life, I’ll grant you, but perhaps if our children were instilled with some sense of how democracy should work, in a couple of decades they might be the ones who make it work in real life?

If [The Bully] gets elected to the School Council then fair enough but if her behaviour towards her peers over the last year resulted in them not voting for her again then that will teach her that actions have consequences – a valuable lesson for a 10 year old child, especially one that has a predisposition towards bullying.

School Council was such a good idea but this has spoilt it.

Stuart

Obviously, I’ve removed the names because it’s kids involved.  Is this what our kids should be told?  Democracy is a privilege that can be taken away on a whim and the consequences of bullying is more privilege and responsibility?

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Harman wants companies to discriminate

June 26, 2008 Apartheid, Come the revolution, Labour, Political Correctness, WTF? 5 comments

Straight from the horses mouth, Harriet Harman wants companies to practice discrimination when considering similar applications for jobs:

They might think we don’t want an all male team.

We’ve got a new post coming up, we’ve got equally qualified men and women going for it, we are going to pick the woman because we want to have a more balanced top team.

Under a new law that she wants to bring in, companies will be banned from any form of age discrimination but will be allowed and encouraged to take into account sex and colour when considering two people with similar qualifications for a job to ensure that they have a “balanced” workforce.

Once again, the young white Englishman is going to be discriminated against to meet arbitrary quotas.  Already the police, fire service, local authorities and British government departments run racist recruitment campaigns that ban white English men from applying but now they are going to extend that same racial and sexual discrimination to the private sector.

Is it any wonder so many people are joining the fucking BNP?  It’s the same hand-wrinnging liberals that complain about the BNP that are causing the problem in the first place.

We have got to get rid of this illiberal, racist fucking scum.

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Bishop likens climate change deniers to child abuser

June 2, 2008 Climate Change, Propaganda, WTF? 11 comments

The Bishop of Stafford has written an article in a parish magazine likening climate change deniers to Josef Fritzl, the Austrial child abuser that locked up and raped his daughter for 24 years.

As a “climate change denier” myself, I find these remarks highly offensive so I got on the blower to the office of the Diocise of Lichfield and told them I wasn’t best please with his remarks and wanted to complain.

They’re obviously a progressive bunch in Lichfield because you can complain to the Bishop of Lichfield directly by email to bishop.lichfield@lichfield.anglican.org.  Alternatively, if you want to complain by snail mail then you can write to the Rt Revd Jonathan Leadhill, Bishops House, 22 The Close, Lichfield, WS13 7LG.  I would urge anyone who taks offence at anyone being likened to a child abuser for not believing humans are causing climate change (or anything else for that matter) to write and complain.  It would be far easier, after all, to liken vicars to Josef Fritzl bearing in mind the number of priests and vicars that have been convicted of child abuse but strangely, “climate change deniers” don’t go around accusing the Bishop of Stafford of being a paedophile.

Dear Bishop,

I am writing to complain about the offensive and highly inappropriate comments made by the Bishop of Stafford in a parish newsletter likening people who don’t agree with the discredited propaganda surrounding climate change to Josef Fritzl, the Austrian child abuser who locked up and raped his daughter for 24 years.

As somebody who doesn’t believe the propaganda that comes out of the Treasury or the “scientists” paid by the Treasury, I find this extremely offensive.  I agree that climate change is happening – just like it has for millions of years – but I believe we need to adapt to the changing climate rather than try to stop it chaning which is, in itself, an exercise in futility.

The Bishop of Stafford is out of order and I insist that he withdraw his comments and issues an apology to those of us he labels as “climate deniers”.  Belief in something that defies both logic and evidence is, of course, an essential qualification for a man of the cloth but it doesn’t give anybody the right to liken me to a child abuser for disagreeing with their views on climate change.

Stuart Parr

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Fat people are to blame

May 16, 2008 WTF? 4 comments

Rick Waller - Greenpeace Most WantedAccording to a report by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, fat people are to blame.  For everything.

Global food shortages?  You thought it was because the world population is growing too fast at the same time as the Chinese are moving to an inefficient protein-based diet and farmers in the developing world are turning over fields previously used for crops to biofuels.  But no, fat people are eating all the food and because they use more petrol in their cars the price of oil is going up making food more expensive to transport resulting in poor people not being able buy food.  And because fat people use more fuel they’re damaging the environment.

Therefore, fat people are to blame for poverty, starving pensioners, climate change and global food shortages.

With the number of obese people in England growing, this obviously presents the British government with a dilema … just how the fuck do you tax fatness?

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Three years and this is the best they could come up with?

April 21, 2008 Tories, WTF? 6 comments

The Conswervatives have spent nearly three years “consulting” and debating the West Lothian Question and have finally come up with an “answer”.

The “answer” to the West Lothian Question, according to the Conswervatives, is “don’t answer it”.  A marginal improvement over “don’t ask it” but hardly a constructive use of three years and god knows how much money.
For the last few years, the Conswervatives have had a policy of English Votes on English Matters – an inadequate proposal that would have allowed any British MP to debate a bill that only affects England but only allow MPs elected in England to vote on it.

The latest “answer” to the West Lothian Question is … wait for it … to allow only MPs elected in England to debate an English-only bill but allow any British MP to vote on it.

The Conswervatives under David Camoron have refined the ability to piss off pretty much everybody, including their own members and supporters, almost to an art form and this is no exception.  If they can’t get support for this balls-up on a Conswervative fan-blog, it’s got to be a dud.

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Welcome to Planet Gordo

April 14, 2008 Labour, WTF? 3 comments

Charlie Marks, one of the only left wingers in England that doesn’t need their head looking into (surgically), has some background information on Liebour’s new poverty adviser.

Jennifer Moses will be advising Gordon Brown on poverty (combatting it, not causing it – he already knows how to do the latter) as part of his Cabinet of all the Talentless.

Ms Moses is the obvious choice for advising the British government on combatting poverty being a multi-millionaire “non-dom”.  She lives in a huge £10m mansion in London that’s so large she and her multi-millionaire husband find it easier to email each other in the home than get close enough to shout.  Her mansion was paid for with a £10m mortgage from an Isle of Man bank which allows her to be officially classed as a non-domicile, saving her thousands in tax.

This is the most blatantly inappropriate appointment in government I’ve seen since West Midlands Regional Assembly appointed a Birmingham City councillor as its rural affairs advisor.  Good to see Liebour are keeping in touch with their socialist roots.

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Immigration policy in safe hands

April 2, 2008 WTF? No comments

A cross-party committee of Lords has called for a cap on immigration after saying that immigration in the last 10 years has had little or no benefit to the existing population.

Talk about stating the bloody obvious.  It’s very easy to “prove” that there’s a net benefit to the economy and quality of life when you take into account the improved lifestyle of the immigrants and don’t set off the cost of immigration against the benefits.

People coming from Eastern Europe of Jihadistan will work longer hours for less money but at what cost?  Unemployment figures are rising and the economy is on the rocks.  We can’t keep shelling out more money on social security whilst immigrants work 60 hours a week for minimum wage and we’re on the brink of recession.

The British government has introduced a points system inspired by the Australian and Canadian immigration system but it only applies to non-EU citizens and half of immigration to the UK is from the EU.  This clearly doesn’t address the root of the problem and there is no way to restrict immigration from Federal Europe because the British government has given away the right to do so to foreign eurocrats.

But it’s ok, Gordon Brown is taking the report very seriously.  He’s pledging to do more to ensure people are trained to work in the kitchens of curry houses to sort out staffing problems expected when not enough Bangladeshi’s can be imported to do the jobs.

Your country in safe hands!

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Vigin on ridiculous

April 1, 2008 WTF? 8 comments

I tried to buy train tickets to get to the CEP Conference on the 26th today.

Last week they had tickets for £13 each way on Trainline but this week they’re not available.  The cheapest tickets available at the moment from Telford to London are more than a return from Edinburgh which takes the piss so I phoned the national rail enquiry line who put me on to Virgin.

I told the woman at Virgin that I wanted to be there in the morning, I don’t care what time within reason and come back in the evening.  She told me the cheapest they could do were £13 each way and they were heavily discounted because they are only available for advance bookings.

Marvellous.  I’m giving 25 days notice so I’d like the tickets.  Ah, they can’t sell me the tickets because they’re not available yet.  I have to ring back in a week and see if they’re available.

WTF?  And they wonder why people don’t use public transport.

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Wonder why she keeps doing it …

March 28, 2008 WTF? 3 comments

Via This World is Boldly Going Nowhere, a woman has been hauled in front of a judge for shoplifting … for the 175th time.
Apparently it has cost the taxpayer £700k to prosecute this woman for her unfortunate habit and yet she’s still managed to escape going to prison.

Wonder why she keeps on doing it. Complete mystery. If anyone’s got any idea then you can let the CPS know by writing in words of 2 syllables or less with a wax crayon to: Roger Coe-Salazar, Chief Crown Prosecutor, Priory Gate, 29 Union Street, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1PT, quoting reference “Even a fucking retard would realise that Joanne Jones will keep on nicking stuff if you don’t lock the light fingered bint up”.

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25 years for microwaving a baby

March 27, 2008 WTF? One comment

A Texas man has been given 25 years in prison for microwaving a baby.

Joshua Maudlin apparently has a history of lying about being mentally ill and guess what his defence was … yup, he was insane when he put his daughter in the microwave for 20 seconds causing second and third degree burns to her face and body.

Texas still has the death penalty, why wasn’t this sick bastard put on death row?

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Institutional Anglophobia in the Police

March 22, 2008 Anglophobia, England, WTF? No comments

For years ethnic minority groups have accused the Police of institutional discrimination – now it’s the turn of the majority to make the same accusation.

Former soldier, Craig Briggs, has wanted to join the Police since he was a child and joined the army to get some experience before applying. After serving 4 and a half years in the army he’s about to leave any day now and has applied to Greater Manchester Police. However, he’s been turned down before even getting an interview because he has the word “England” tattooed on his arm.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said “A family who aren’t of English origin who see England on your arm could feel you might discriminate against them. We live in a diverse society and try to ensure we give everybody equality.”

But not if you’re English though, that would just be too offensive wouldn’t it? If a “family who aren’t of English origin” living in England are offended by the word “England” then they really chose the wrong place to live. This is nothing short of racial discrimination – I very much doubt that people “who aren’t of English origin” would find themselves barred from joining the Police if they had a tattoo bearing the name of their country and the very idea of banning potential recruits from joining the English Police force because they have the name of their country tattooed on their arm is not only deeply offensive but absolutely outrageous. A complaint will be winging its way to the Equality and Human Rights Commission shortly.

Update:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to make a complaint about racial discrimination.

In today’s the Sun newspaper is a story about a soldier who has been refused an interview for Greater Manchester Police because he has the word “England” tattooed on his arm. Apparently this could be considered offensive to people who are not of English origin.

This is outrageous – why should the word “England” tattooed on the arm of an English policeman in England be considered offensive to anybody, regardless of their origin? Would this rule be extended to the same people who are not of English origin if they had the name of their own country tattooed on their arm? I very much doubt this is the case.

To show pride in your country of birth is not something to be ashamed of and this rule – which apparently emanated from the Home Office – is clearly discriminatory towards English people.

Stuart Parr

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Screw Galileo, we need the money ourselves

March 7, 2008 England, Technology, WTF? 10 comments

The British government has announced its intention to shut down England’s radio telescope array, Jodrell Bank.

The Science & Technology Fund is facing an £80m shortfall in its budget which it intends to plug by cutting funding.  So far, £8m of taxpayers money has been spent on the e-Merlin project which is an upgrade to the radio telescope array.  The decision to close Jodrell Bank will also put at risk the decision to site the headquarters of the Square Kilometre Array project in England as we are likely to lose the expertise required to operate the facility when Jodrell Bank is shut down.

As of February, the British government estimated its contribution to the EU’s Galileo spy satellite system at £96.7m.  Galileo is a duplication of the perfectly servicable and free GPS system owned and operated by the US Military.  The private companies involved in the Galileo project have all abandoned it after they realised, at considerable expense, that it could never be made to pay for itself but rather than writing it off as an unjustifiable and unnecessary expense, the EU has instead raided tens of millions of pounds from a slush fund it has built up of money it has taken from member states but not spent to cover the costs.

So which would you prefer your taxes to be spent on?  A European sat-nav system that will cost the taxpayer billions in perpetuity and be used to track your movements around the country and charge you to use the roads that you have already paid for in your taxes or our own radio telescope facilities that provide jobs and income to English people and has helped England to become one of the foremost authorities in radio astronomy?  Tough choice.

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Hard Shoulders to be used as extra lane

March 4, 2008 Transport, WTF? 3 comments

The Department for Transport has decided to allow drivers to use the hard shoulder of motorways during busy times in a bid to ease congestion.

Great for reducing congestion because it gives you an extra lane and good for the taxpayer because it means they won’t be spending billions on widening motorways.  Not so great for the people who have an accident on the motorway – which, of course, are more common when the motorway is congested – who find that the ambulance can’t get to them because the hard shoulder is blocked with traffic.

Genius.

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Education is already enough of a lottery

March 3, 2008 Education, England, WTF? 3 comments

Getting your children into a decent school and getting them a decent education is already enough of a lottery without the latest batshit scheme from British government.

Today saw the introduction of new admissions rules for English schools that will see English children getting allocated places at English schools based on a lottery system.  You may live next door to a school but if your name doesn’t come out of the hat then tough, you’d best get yourself a bus pass because you’re going to have to travel to another school.

This is supposedly to make the admissions system fairer but it doesn’t – it just makes it virtually impossible for parents to ensure their children go to a local school.  And it only applies to England of course, the One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan’s constituents will continue to get the admissions system that we’ve had for decades.

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You must be joking … right?

February 7, 2008 Come the revolution, Political Correctness, Terrorism, Traitors, WTF? 10 comments

I thought I’d mistakenly typed the wrong url in and got a spoof version of the BBC News website when I read this but no, it’s not a joke.

Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says that adopting Sharia Law in the UK is inevitible and we should just get on with it.  He says that nobody should be forced to choose between cultural loyalty and state loyalty.

Cultural loyalty, that’s hit the nail on the head.  Immigants moving to this country expect the state to bend over backwards to accommodate their alien culture and they’re not disappointed.  The only time they have a problem is when they expect us, the natives of this once green and pleasant land to change our way of life to accommodate them.  I wouldn’t move to Saudi Arabia and expect them to adopt English law so that I can sit in my front garden in Riyadh with a bottle of Stella in my hand and my wife sitting next to me in a bikini.  Their culture and law forbids it and as much as I may think their reasons for doing so are utter bollocks, it’s their country and they should have to change for me.  So why shuold we change for people moving into our country?

Forget about chopping off the hands of thieves, the public lashings and stoning of adulterers and concentrate on the “civil” aspects of Sharia Law – divorce, finances, etc. because they’re the ones that aren’t quite so morally reprehensible to the civillised world.  There is nothing wrong with taking out a bank account that doesn’t pay interest if that’s what you want – the banks would love us all to give them our money without them having to give anything back in return.  The right of a man to divorce a woman without her even knowing about it isn’t the way we do things and we don’t do bigamy but it’s not a major no-no like shagging your sister or mutilating women’s genitals.  But whether it’s morally acceptable or not doesn’t matter.  We have our own culture, our own customs, our own religion and our own way of life.  We might whinge about how shit things are from time to time (or most of the time in my case) but this is no reason to capitulate to the advancing Islamic caphilate and adopt a barbaric, mediævil theocratic legal system.

Dr Williams should remember that his duty is to this country, the Church of England and to the Christians living in this country.  I’m not a Christian but our society is based on Christian values and it should continue to be based on Christian values, not on the values of a religion that practices female genital mutilation and the murder of raped women, tells its followers to kill non-believers and has brought suicide bombers to the world.

Fuck Dr Rowan Atkinson, fuck multi-culturalism and fuck Sharia Law.  This is England and if you don’t like it then fuck off somewhere else.

There, I feel much better now.

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Bargain

February 6, 2008 Wales, WTF? 5 comments

A passenger sevice between Ebbw Vale and Cardiff has been restored for the first time in 46 years.

The line has been used by freight trains but to make it suitable for passenger trains 18 miles of track had to be refitted at a cost of …

 

£35,000,000

 

Count the zeroes, that’s 35 million pounds for an 18 mile stretch of track.

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British government approves bigomy

February 5, 2008 WTF? 4 comments

The British government has announced that bigamist muslims will be allowed to claim Income Support and Tax Credits for all their wives.

Bigamy is illegal here but muslims who marry abroad where it is legal to take up to 4 wives will be allowed to claim the extra benefits which could come to about £10k per year.

Not only does this make a mockery of the law but it also exposes Liebour’s promise to cut the social security bill as a sham.  The “muslim community” is getting more and more like a state within a state.  We have enough problems with European laws without recognising Sharia law as well.

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And today’s winning numbers are …

January 25, 2008 Education, England, WTF? 3 comments

As if getting a decent education in England wasn’t enough of a lottery already, the Brit-Scot government in Westminster has decided that schools in England should be required to take a percentage of their intake from outside of their catchment area with those places allocated by a lottery system.

This means that in over-subscribed schools, a child living opposite the school gates could be forced to go to a school miles away because the quota for local children has been met and someone from outside the catchment area has got a place instead.  Genius!

So much for reducing our collective carbon footprint – more car and bus journeys to get to school.  What about road safety?  How many more accidents are there going to be involving kids getting hit by cars on their way to school?  And this will only apply to England of course because education is a devolved issue.

In the words of Pink Floyd, leave them kids alone.

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Turn vegetarian and save the world

January 21, 2008 Climate Change, WTF? 4 comments

Paul McCartney says that the biggest single thing that anyone can do to combat climate change is become a vegetarian.

The McCartney household must have been a right barrel of laughs when he was still married to Heather Mills – it wasn’t that long ago that Heather Mills suggested we should drink rats milk.

What he says has some truth about it.  Cattle produce a lot of methane and other “greenhouse” gases so the more beef we eat, the more gas they produce.  However, it will take a damn sight more cattle than are eaten at present to match the amount of carbon produced by the biggest carbon “polluters” on the planet – ants.  Should we take up a diet of nuts, berries and ants?

The biggest problem with cattle, though, is the rate at which the Chinese (yes, them again) are adding it to their diet.  It takes 10 times as much water to keep a cow as it does to grow a ton of grain and it also takes 5 tons of grain to keep a cow leading to a shortage of cereak crops.

Humans have evolved to become omnivores.  The natural diet for humans is a mixture of meat and plants and turning vegetarian means you’re not getting the correct diet your body requires.  And for what?  A vain attempt to stop naturally occuring climate change happening as it has done for thousands of years?

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Who says crime doesn’t pay?

January 20, 2008 WTF? 6 comments

A 14 year old boy in Telford has been given an ASBO after terrorising his local estate, jumping up and down on neighbours cars, wrecking peoples gardens and setting things on fire.  As part of his ASBO the judge has rewarded him with quad bike lessons.

Apparently this is to show him that you can get a buzz by doing something good but apart from the fact that it shows him he can get a treat for all the things he’s done, it sends out a message to all the other 14 year olds that if they get into trouble then they can get rewarded as well.

The ASBO tells him that he’s not allowed to be abusive or threatening or vandalise things.  Why does the judge need to make a court order to tell him he can’t do things that are illegal anyway?

Does anyone think this a good idea?  What’s he going to do when he finishes his lessons?  He’ll probably start terrorising the neighbourhood on a quad bike instead!

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