Comments for Wonko's World

Comment on Lying Hypocrites by axel

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:09:36 +0000

It was always devolved, to the scottish office in bygone days and probably to its eqivalent now, remember, we have our own laws up here.

Comment on Lying Hypocrites by axel

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:08:18 +0000

Yes, like a NiNo card but more useful and accepted and implemented.

Comment on Lying Hypocrites by wonkotsane

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:36:25 +0000

I think ID cards would be useful, imagine, a single laminated plastic document for fighting your way through the various government departments we have to deal with.

Such as a National Insurance card?

Police districts are bigger than councils down this way too but there are local agreements with the police. Nowhere near enough involvement if you ask me. Of course, policing here in Telford is controlled by British MPs in London. Same applies to the police in Berwick on Tweed. In Scotland it’s devolved.

Anyway, they don’t really make a point in their leaflet do they? The council has very little input into policing and sentencing is the responsibility of the British government which is run by … Liebour.

Comment on Eurovision - what a joke by wonkotsane

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:29:18 +0000

Not half Cherry. How can Bjorn the Viking take it seriously? Does he not stay for the voting or something? Actually, he’s probably busy counting his airmiles and calculating his carbon footprint.

Comment on Eurovision - what a joke by CherryPie

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:20:52 +0000

Not so much Eurovision more like Europolitics!

Comment on Lying Hypocrites by axel

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:08:53 +0000

I think ID cards would be useful, imagine, a single laminated plastic document for fighting your way through the various government departments we have to deal with.

As a person with a ‘chaotic lifestyle’, their designation, not mine, my life would be so mucg easier with a single peice of ID that makes my continual war with the system easier for both them and me.

Comment on Lying Hypocrites by axel

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:04:46 +0000

No, our Police districts are bigger than our council areas, I must be stupid, I dont get what this is getting at

Comment on Eurovision - what a joke by axel

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:02:35 +0000

I think what makes Eurovision a joke for us is that our music industry is an actual international success on its own, our people dont need all the bullshit to become successful.

Comment on Lying Hypocrites by wonkotsane

Sun, 11 May 2008 17:31:06 +0000

The Tories are wet, they don’t do much in the way of opposition. Councils don’t have much control over the police - I don’t know if they do up there, it’s entirely likely as policing is devolved.

The Tories are opposed to ID cards and the ID database whether it’s for immigrants of natives.

Comment on Campaign for a .ENG domain by axel

Sun, 11 May 2008 16:32:30 +0000

I think the problem here is, the people that decide such things, only decide them every so often, so we will all have to wait, until they next decide to decide on such a thing

Comment on Lying Hypocrites by axel

Sun, 11 May 2008 16:30:09 +0000

Soft on Yobs?

Are your Tories not frothing at the gash floggers?

What can your counvcils do about yobs, do they have control over the police?

ID cards for foreigners?

Is this a joke, that I am too thick to get? I would have thought the tories would be for that?

Or is this an example of how ‘english’ politics are radically different from ’scottish’?

Apart from the fact you dont have a Babe like Wendy Graham in charge?

Comment on Zimbabwe election challenge by axel

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:31:46 +0000

No, you are missing out the whole scale of the place, going via mozambique is worse than you going to Germany via Bordeuax!

Zimbabwe is almost twice the size of Britain

Comment on Zimbabwe election challenge by wonkotsane

Sun, 11 May 2008 09:45:14 +0000

Yeah but the French could get us in through Mozambique I’m sure.

Comment on Zimbabwe election challenge by axel

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:50:47 +0000

I think, however, the major point we are all missing out on is distance, Zimbabwe is miles from the sea and good transport.

I think we forget how big Africa is, when we see a map of it in TV and then in the next minute, we see a map of Britain, it stilts our perspective.

Comment on Zimbabwe election challenge by axel

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:47:53 +0000

Or maybe they want to leave to rot as a startiling memorial to how well left wing economic/communist policies work in the real world?

Comment on Mugabe’s armed militia to police election by Letters From A Tory

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:36:15 +0000

Make no mistake about it, Mugabe is not going anywhere.

Comment on Zimbabwe election challenge by Charlie Marks

Thu, 08 May 2008 20:28:53 +0000

In Kenya a similar (but crucially different) disputed election was successfully resolved through power-sharing. The old president clinging to power in Kenya had the backing of the World Bank, so there wasn’t a lot of media demonisation - despite similar violent reprisals…

Why won’t Tsvangirai’s MDC go through the motions? Well,
they’ve probably been instructed not to by the US/UK governments who don’t want power-sharing - they want Zanu-PF out of power completely because it is committed to a programme of land reform and the indigenisation (creating a native upper class at the expense of foreign owners of capital).

Comment on Letter: Shropshire Star by economist-wallah

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:54:30 +0000

DOn….Have you considered reading some reputable histories of medieval England and Scotland? I recommend Prestwich, King, Barrow, Nicholson, Woolf, Keen, Duncan, Boardman for starters. Robert I was an Anglo-Norman to a far lesser extent that the Queen is German, Prince Charles is Greek Michael Howard is a Rumanian and Michael Prortillo is Portugese. What made the Bruces a ‘big deal’ in Scottish medieval politics was thge status of his mother, who was a Gaelic magnate.

Comment on Scottish Labour leader defends subsidy by economist-wallah

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:45:50 +0000

This is all good fun and everything, but there is an issue about the ’subsidy’ theory. In the ’70s Harold Wilson commisioned a report into Scotland’s economy. The conclusion was that an independent Scoltnad would be ‘chronically in surplus’. Harold did not want to hear that so he snet it back to the team and demanded an answer he WOULD like - one that would undermine the ‘independence’ option. He might noit have been successful in this if he had not had the collusion of Margaret Thatcher, who agreed that progress for4 the antionalists would not be good for the Labour or Conservative parties. Tories, Labour and Liberal (Lib-Dem nowadays of course) have been even more dsihonest than the SNP about the Scottish economy - no mean feat in itself - and have spent years telling the people of England that they subsidise the Scots. This true if you select and reject the right evidence; one ‘oficial’ piece of research has concluded that the Scots ARE subsidised - but only if you assume that Scotltish companies pay no corporation tax, excise or VAT…..and as long as you include Scotland’s share of UK Coast Guard arrangement, the Crown Prosecution Service, Legal Aid, Education and Environmental Protection, however Scotland has it’s own agencies for these areas and they are paid for out of the Scottish budget. Neither Unionists nor Nationalists have a monopoly of ignorance and dishomesty on this topic, but it is only fair to ask - ‘If the Scots are such a drain of England, why have English MPs worked so hard - and told such whoppers - to keep Scotland in the UK?’ Also… If Tharcher, Wilson, Callaghan, Blair, Major and Brown agree on something, how likely is it to be true? Finally….London is the most heavly subsidised part of the UK, directly in terms of simple governemt funding (and why not? London has plenty of problem areas that need investment desperately) but also indirectly through the enormous concentration of govermment departments and offices in a region where office rental is among the most expensive in the world. Now we have the Olympics on the horison. Londoners will benefit from it and the rest of the country will have the privilege of paying for it, since the cost to Londoners has been ‘capped’ at the equivalent of a walnut whip…..

Comment on Letter: Shropshire Star by Don Nicholls

Thu, 08 May 2008 05:10:49 +0000

I was told that my posting had been disallowed, so you’ve got two, sorry. I meant to say that the Highland Gaels call the lowland ‘Scots’ Sassenachs (English).