Oh you little back stabber!

The old uniform cap is getting doffed for the last time this year in young dizzy's direction for bringing a remark Tony Wots His Name has just made over at Yale University during one of his begging bowl lectures -
"It is true that we had ten years of record growth when I was prime minister. I have, unfortunately, come to the conclusion that it was luck."
Nothing to do with the snot gobbling gay cyclops next door then?
So perhaps instead of calling our glorious unelected Leader, Mr. Bean, we should stick to "Lucky" instead?

Update 1.01.09
I thought Toenails Robinson might have picked up on this but I presume hes still on his hols, so nothing on the Beeb yet.

Update 2.01.09
Finally the MSM have picked up on this, the old uniform cap is getting doffed to James Forsyth over on the Spectator's Coffee House blog.
Phones-4-U should expect an order from der Bunker very soon.

New Year's Eve blogging.

Blogging today will be a bit hit and miss, first of all we are having a bit of a family and friends luncheon here later on.
Then I am doing my daddy's taxi service for both of my daughters who have decided to attend New Year"s Eve bashes in different places.
Finally, I shall be on baby sitting duties for the rest of the night, although I'm hoping my grandson will be fast asleep when the New Year arrives!
So where ever you all are tonight, I wish you all the very best for 2009, it looks like it is going to be a bumpy ride.

Happy New Year

Any excuse will do!

For those of us who like to combine alcohol and a big juicy steak, here is a healthy excuse to do it!
Researchers have found that marinating your steak in beer or wine for a few hours before you throw it in the frying pan cuts down the levels of a cancer causing chemicals produced by the cooking method.
Right I know what I'm having for tea tonight - just got to choose the beer!

MSM living in cloud-cuckoo land?

As the coming recession begins to sweep over us I wonder if many journalists in the MSM inhabit the same country/world as I do?
Patrick Hosking, the TimesOnLine banking & financial editor, is a classic example of this with his piece today regarding the advantages of a falling pound!
If Mr. Hosking would like to get out of his office in London and journey up thru the Midlands to the North, he would notice the absence of big smoke bellowing factories turning out all the exports he thinks we still make.
His journey might also convince him this country is not exactly a very nice place to visit, what with our poor transport network and run down infrastructure, for all the hordes of foreigners he thinks will be rushing to visit us.
Whereas from the comments of Max from Gerrards Cross & Mike in Alicante, they seem to be living in the same world as me.

Another sickening piece of Beeb propaganda.

Well after the propaganda job Nils Blythe turned out for the Beeb on Boxing Day, where he managed to not once mention the main culprit OGUL for the state we are in, we now have another piece of wishy-washy propaganda from the Beeb.
Your downturn questions answered.
I'm just wondering how many of those "supposed" questioners are NuLabor stooges? Because they are the most mild & timid inquiries I would have expected from Joe Public, when the country is going down the pan because of OGUL.
Still I suppose the Beeb can only work with the material they get fed from der Bunker.

Cynical? Its political not technology stupid!

Terence Blacker over on the Indy today seems to have got hold of the wrong end of the stick, with which he is trying to beat bloggers over the head with.
We have become more cynical as a nation because technology has allowed us to see the contempt in which our politicians hold us.
Technology has uncovered the true facts about the sexed up Iraq Dossier, it has allowed us to see the true cost of keeping the piggies snouts in the troughs of Parliamentary largesse, with technology revealing everyday the sheer corruption and dishonesty of our elected representatives.
However it is cynicism I feel everytime I see these tonks getting away scot-free, infact actually avoiding any responsibility for their dishonest actions.
So Mr. Blacker when are you going to get off your backside and do some proper investigative journalism?
Or am I just being cynical?

Trust the lawyers to turn up!

Well I suppose we should have expected it, but it now appears that lawyers are going to also be benefiting from the pirates activities, as well as the pirates themselves!
It looks like the actual number of pirates involved in an attack could lead to the lawyers taking their grubby fees out of the pot, as less than twelve pirates means its not classed as a legal riot, which then determines which insurance policy the shipowner claims from.
I attended a course a couple months back given by a two marine lawyers about who could and could not arrest me in the course of my normal duties, the rights I am entitled to, and of course shipping being a worldwide trade all the national laws as well as international ones that apply.
I now carry around a USB memory stick (1Gb) with it all on, I just hope I can get access to a computer to read it, as the officials are coming up the gangway to arrest me!

Pre-pack stitch up?

Whilst I am not saying Sir Tom Hunter did anything unethical, nor illegal with his USC retail deals between parts of his business empire, it does appear he "played" the rules to his advantage. Which as the astute businessman he is you have to tip your hat to him, and look at the rules he was allowed to use instead.
Because I fear that many less honest businessmen than Sir Tom will be taking advantage of "pre-packing" as the recession bites harder into the UK economy.
However, this does rise the question of whether OGUL will want to upset the business community he seems to be so enthralled to.

Conservatives plan purge of Town Hall fat cats.

Well for once we are seeing some sensible plans coming from the Opposition, I was beginning to think they had gone off on their summer holidays already, so a purge of the fat cats inhabiting our town halls is a start.
In no way can some of the bloated salary packages that many chief executives enjoy in our councils up and down the land be justified. Its about time someone brought some common sense back into local government, next stop the excessive expenses enjoyed by local councillors.
I don't think OGUL will be stealing this idea, local government has for too long been the incestuous breeding ground for NuLabor, so he won't want to upset the apple cart on this one.

Happy retirement Mr. Bush.

When the drunken chimpanzee leaves the White House for the last time very soon, I for one will not be wishing him a peaceful retirement, instead i hope he ends up in an orange boilersuit sleeping rough on some wind swept damp island.
So it is with some glee I notice that his retirement might not be getting off to a good start with the question of his service in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War era coming back to haunt him.
Over here I wish they would hurry up and release more details on Tony Wots His Name's sexed up Iraq dossier. I would like to see the poodle join the chimp for an unhappy retirement together.

Wheres Tony?

Well No. 10 might be appalled by the violence being unleashed in Gaza by the Israelis at the moment, but more importantly where is Tony Wots His Name?
After all if my memory serves me right, wasn't TWHN appointed as Middle East peace envoy?
It would appear he has taken a lesson from the Fifeshire Feartie and disappeared when all the broon stuff started to hit the fans.
Looks like OGUL will now have to save the Israelis from those nasty Palestinians, as well as the rest of the world, hard work being a superhero!

Could we slip into a one party state?

Whilst many punters are unsure if OGUL will spring a Spring election on us in the New Year, or hang on till the very last moment before facing the electorate, there is a growing consensus we may end up with a hung Parliament.
From the way the Conservatives are failing to pin the tail of economic disaster on OGUL's behind, you sense a half-heartiness in their efforts, almost as if they were just going thru the motions because they are the Opposition not because they have a hunger in their collective bellies for government.
Which I suppose when you look at what they may inherit from NuLabor does not exactly fill anyone with a burning desire. Probably they view being elected to power as a poisoned chalice, where for five years they will have to take the flak from voters as they try to clean up NuLabor's mess, only to be thrown out at the next general election.
We already have had OGUL trying to float his "big tent" idea for government. Might it not look attractive to both the Conservative and Liberal parties if we get a hung Parliament?
Once captured inside OGUL's canvas trap, looking outside at the bleak prospects in the recession ravaged private sector, but with plenty of benefits available in the many public owned institutions. The banking sector is one I am particularly thinking of.
Then the slide into a one party policy might seem a very nice place to hide away till the old golden pension scheme kicks in.
I fear this outcome because of Tony Wots His Name, who brought pure naked greed into our politics. Ever since he appeared upon the scene we have had less and less principled politics, but more of whats in it for me politics.
The only thing that seems to make OGUL's NuLabor party any different from the Tories is their feverish desire to get as much of the cake and eat it than the other lot.
"And so, my fellow Americans(insert Britons here): ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
Should be chiseled on the foreheads of everyone of our politicians, backwards of course, so that they maybe reminded every time they look in the mirror.

One pound equals one euro - spin that Beeb!

Just by a smidgeon are we actually avoiding parity with one pound Sterling equalling a Euro, but we will be there very soon, and probably sink even further.
So how does the good old propaganda arm of NuLabor, the Beeb, spin this one?
Well firstly, it is all the fault of those nasty foreigners having higher interest rates than us.
Whilst secondly, its a quiet day on the foreign trading desks, so any movement is exaggerated/magnified.
Oh, and quietly mention it might be because those horrible analysts believe our economy is fecked!

Bun fight over at Mrs. Dale's Diary.

It would appear that UN peacekeeping forces will be parachuted into Mrs. Dale's Diary very shortly to put in place a ceasefire between Mrs. Dale and Old Holborn over Mrs. Dale's post today on Israel.
Gosh I love something like this for a pleasant lunch time read.
I might even put my own head above the parapet this afternoon on this one.

Panto antics being played out on a political stage?

So our glorious unelected Leader & Glove-Puppet are being mocked in pantos across the land at the moment. Bringing a smile to the face of adults amongst the audience, whilst they forget their everyday worries, and just enjoy the atmosphere a good panto can generate.
Whilst we may laugh at the antics of the actors in the panto, on a more serious stage OGUL is acting out a farce cum tragedy, one that will impact upon us all and we won't be smiling about it.
The sooner he and his cronies are yanked from the stage the better for us all.

China now the threat on the horizon?

I suppose it goes to show that America is loosing it's place at the top of the economic superpowers, when the Times leading article is more concerned with the Chinese economy than the American one.
However, I feel once again it shows a lack of understanding of where to place the Chinese and their economy in the world order. China will do what is in it's interests, with-out considering helping the West, nor it's own citizens.
China and Russia are both threats to the West, America is up to it's eyes in Chinese debt, whilst Russia will end up in control in Europe thru it's energy reserves. So expect to see half of the world ruled from one side of the Great Wall of China, whilst the rest is enthralled to the other side.
Going back to the Times leading article, it observes that the Chinese economy has great potential for Western exporters. Well since under NuLabor our manufacturing base has been allowed to fold, that counts us out of the equation!

Did One-Eye do a Nelson over the coming economic storm?

Whilst Ashley Seager over in the Guardian is directing his scorn towards the experts in the BoE and the City, regarding their not seeing the recession coming, politicians should also be included in the list of failed soothsayers.
With the biggest one at fault our own glorious unelected Leader, who as a former Chancellor, had better access to all the information on the economy, and also knew how many PFI bodies he had buried around the place.
So once again OGUL's competency is called into account, did he do a Nelson by putting the telescope to his bad eye, so he could say he did not see the coming train wreck of our economy?
Mr. Seager makes a chilling observation in the last paragraph of his piece, that OGUL & Glove-Puppet might have left it too late to save the UK.

Jaws gone down under for the winter?

From the report in today's Guardian it would appear that Jaws has left the waters off Amity Island, and nipped over to Australian waters for his Xmas hols.
Probably because of the recession in America there are fewer who can afford to go to the beach, hence less tasty tit-bits for Jaws.

Broon mad?

So the Beeb is preparing us for our glorious unelected Leader's New Year message with today's snippets leaked out of der Bunker.
Well quite frankly I think OGUL has finally lost the plot, to compare the mess he has made of this country to the threat this nation faced from the Nazis, is an insult to those very people who laid down their lives for the future generations that followed them.
It is only a cowardly, self serving politician who could make the connection in his callous mind with the economic recession he was a major cause of, with the momentous events of WW2.
And Mr Brown will demand that the public work together in an effort to build a "better tomorrow".
Demand does he?
Well I demand we work together to get him and the other NuLabor war criminals the same treatment melted out at Nuremburg then we would enjoy a better tomorrow!
If he wants wartime spirit I'll give him wartime spirit at the end of a piece of thick hemp. No make that piano wire!

Minimum wage to be frozen?

So here we are again at the tail end of a Labour government with the economy once more in tatters, with the very people who should be looked after by a Labour administration, now being told they must face the prospects of a freeze in the minimum wage for next year at least.
I would take this call by David Frost, British Chambers for Commerce (BCC) director, more seriously if he was advocating a cut in his and other members of the BCC salaries of say 10-15% as well.
Of course our glorious unelected Leader could help the poorly paid by raising their personal tax allowances.
Oh sorry I forgot he can't do that as he has wasted all of our money, and now needs every bit of tax he can get out of the less well off.
Mr. Frost quotes a figure of about £300million for next year's rise in the minimum wage. Well OGUL I'm sure you could find that sum by just stopping some of the tax avoidance schemes your rich pals run at the moment?

Me? I'll stick with the string vest theory.

Just what I could have done with Christmas Day morning, a discussion about quantum physics, the VCR and, life in general.
Obviously I was too busy unwrapping presents, looking after my grandson and, other more important things that particular day.
However, I did find a book on quantum physics was the best sleep aid I ever read, I could never get to the end of a chapter before I was so confused I dropped off. But I do wonder if a lot of it isn't made up by the scientists as they go along.
String theory is one, I completely disagree that there are thirteen (at the last count) different dimensions hiding down the back of the sofa.
No I'll stick to three good old fashioned dimensions, with Yorkshire Puddings possibly occupying the fourth one, if Schrödinger's cat hasn't licked all the batter mixture up!

C of E - The new opposition party?

It would appear that the Church of England is now taking on NuLabor, probably fed up by the poor showing of DC and his gang, accusing it of being "morally corrupt" and "beguiled by money".
Whilst I applaud that the bishops have finally woken up to what devastation NuLabor have caused to this country, turning from a party for the ordinary voters, to one that loves brown-nosing with the rich and famous; the Church's awakening is a bit too late to save the nation now.
The 10p tax debacle should have shown most ordinary Labour voters the contempt our glorious unelected leader held them in. Viewing them only as election folder to vote for the NuLabor piggies to keep their place at the trough.
For the Conservatives the worry is that they are letting OGUL get away from them, every lie and false statistic he uses should be denounced not only from the pulpit, but also on every news outlet the Conservatives can get access to.

I like the comment Peter.

Having recently been into an Adams store in search of a pair of reins for my now staggering/walking grandson, I was intrigued to see that Adams is on the brink of administration due to the recession.
With our local Woolworths due to close on January 5th, the High Street is looking more and more like some ghost town from an old Hollywood Western, all thanks to our glorious unelected Leader's incompetency.
So I was glad to see that Peter from London is on the ball this morning, with his comment at the bottom of the Sunday Times article.

Beeb up to their NuLabor propaganda role - again!

I have just read the Beeb's take on the recession that is now hitting us, which has stiffened my resolve not to pay my licence fee until they stop being the newspeak/propaganda department of NuLabor.
They have managed to go thru the whole economic meltdown with-out once mentioning, or even hinting at, our glorious unelected Leader's major role in this whole sad affair.
"Britain is now suffering for having become too reliant on imported goods and borrowed money."
No we are not!
We are suffering because we had an idiot as a Chancellor, who became addicted to spending our money with-out any thoughts that he should put some aside for a rainy day, who actually believed his own Brownie about ending "Boom & Bust", and then to add injury to insult he got Tony Wots His Name's job when he ran away.
The only point they did make that is worth repeating is -
"The steady economic growth we enjoyed for so many years has begun to look like a sort of confidence trick."
No it doesn't look like a confidence trick - it was a fecking con job!
I just hope Nick Robinson & Robert Peston are the first of many to get their P45s when the Beeb has to trim it's budget like the rest of us.

Wallace & Gromit are tops.

Glad to see that Wallace & Gromit led the way in the TV viewing figures out today.
I certainly enjoyed their latest advneture, and the Royle Family episode brought a smile to my face, mainly because I was thinking ahead to next Christmas when perhaps my eldest daughter might be inviting her old dad to Christmas dinner!
Oops just had the youngest on the phone asking me how long you cook an omelette for, obviously she wasn't paying attention when I was teaching them that particular culinary delight.

In praise of clockwork!

Yesterday was of course Boxing Day, luckily for my daughter Boots was open where she could buy some more cough medicine for my grandson, who seems to have developed a forty-a-day cough since we have been in Cornwall.
So reading today's editorial in the Guardian brought a smile to my face as I recalled that most customers in Boots seemed to be more interested in buying batteries than any medicines!
We actually came home from the West Country last night, deciding to travel overnight in the hope my grandson would sleep most of the way, but he let us know along the way he was not going to fall for that old trick!
Anyway we are all back oop north now, having survived the family Christmas bash, and with New Year's Eve baby sitting duties already booked for me.
Hopefully blogging will be back to normal with a Sunday review tomorrow.

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a Merry Christmas, and hope you have a peaceful 2009.
My three wishes for the New Year are that truth and justice may prevail amongst our politicians, whilst for the rest of us I hope we might have some spare cash in our pockets as this recession sweeps the the lands.
Enjoy the day, don't eat too much, and remember its only one day of the year.

Nice thought - Fat chance!

Jonathan Freedland over in the Guardian today on Christmas Eve wishes that Bush, Cheney et al, are held to account for all their war crimes they have committed in office.
I'm sorry to disappoint Mr. Freedland but Corporate America will never allow their puppets to be put on trial, they know too much, and probably know where a few bodies are buried.
That nice Mr. Obama is not going to look too deeply into it either, hes as much tangled up in the strings of Corporate America as the out going crew.
As to anyone ever seeing Tony Wots His Name, our glorious unelected Leader, or any of the other NuLabor straw tonks facing up to their crimes?
Follow the money to find the answer.

Thars gold in them there carparks!

No I don't mean they are a wheel clampers paradise over the Xmas period, but the report from the BBC of a Birmingham woman finding a hoard of golden coins whilst on an archaeology dig in Jerusalem.
Dating back to the seventh century they are believed to have been hidden by their owner during an attack by the Persians.
Its an interesting piece of news as too much of the archaeology from there is influenced by religious as well as political factors.

Its murder out on the High Street, and on the Home Front!

Yesterday we went shopping in one of the bigger towns near to us, at the local Woolworths they had the individual tills/counters priced up at £100 each; whilst at another well known chain store my daughter enquiring about an item of a black polo shirt'd assistant was told to ask at the counter as they were from the administrators doing a stock check!
Now this morning we have reports of Whittards on the brink of collapsing. It is worth noting Whittards is owned by Icelandic concerns, so might we see more Icelandic owned retailers folding on our High Streets?
Yes I think this time next year our High Streets will look very different!
On the Home Front my services as bottle washer and baby sitter seem to be in very great demand, as you can see from the lack of blogging!
Right off to feed myself and my grandson.

NuLabor getting tough on the poor!

Yesterday we had the government proposing that interest should be payable on emergency loans for those on benefits. Which followed their talks of welfare reform just as a recession is hitting us.
Now today we learn NuLabor is giving more powers to bailiffs, even the power to restrain you as they cart off your possessions, having first of all legally kicked your door in!
I'm beginning to wonder who's side NuLabor is really on, led by our glorious unelected Leader, the son of the manse. As they seem to be more interested in kicking the poor when they are down, than in truly helping them, John Smith must be squirming in his grave at the way his former party has gone.

Damian Green row rumbles on.

I was shocked when the Damian Green arrest first hit the news headlines, but also filled with hope that this stupid move by Jacqui "IQ smaller than my bra size" Smith, might be the one to bring NuLabor toppling down.
Of course they managed to kick it into the long grass, where NuLabor's bribed/paid for electorate are not going to care about democracy, or the steady march of a police state.
So I am surprised to see that it is still rumbling along, with some Met anti-terrorist policeman crying because some newspaper clocked his address.
I'm beginning to wonder if the Keystone Cops are made of better stuff than the Met's anti-terrorist division!

Unbelievable!

First this week we had Mandy telling us how good it would be for the country, Royal Mail, but more importantly for his EU friends if the Dutch were allowed to run our postal services.
Now we have a proposal, at a time of rapidly rising unemployment, that the government is considering allowing someone else to run the emergency loans operations for the benefits department. A proposal that includes allowing interest to be charged on these emergency loans!
This is a LABOUR government!
It is supposed to help the less well off in society, instead we now have it looking at making money (or allowing someone else) out of being unemployed. Is this how Glove-Puppet intends to pay for all the billions he is wasting of our money in the banking sector?
Mind you I have a feeling this might be one of those NuLabor leaks/spin operations, softening us up, ready to accept some other attack on the less well off which we consider not as bad as charging them for emergency loans.
So keep your eyes open!

Traveling day today.

Blogging will be light today as we are going down to the West Country for the festive season.
I suppose I ought to think about doing some Xmas pressie shopping, mind you I have got a big list of who I'm not going to buy a present for!

Blinky Balls & the Agony Aunts

Sounds more like some X-factor pop group, but it would appear that Blinky Boy Blunder Balls (4B) is having a meeting with an "anguish" of agony aunts to see what can be done to support children when their parents relationship starts to flounder/break up.
Perhaps he might like to ask them what scars his own children will have, having both parents as NuLabor tonks?

Its the truth stupid!

Chris Ames must be extremely dense if he has to ask what our glorious unelected Leader fears from an inquiry over our illegal venture into Iraq?
Its the truth stupid!
Second only to Tony Wots His Name, OGUL is the main NuLabor figure who has the guilt and blood of our fallen heroes smeared all over himself, so he will do everything he can to avoid being around when the inquiry reports.

PS
I urge everyone to demand of your MP, regardless of their affiliation, that a full open public inquiry is held. I for one do not want to see NuLabor & the Conservatives stitching us up with a closed/out of the public eye inquiry.

Dangerous Chinese beer bottles.

One of my regular commentators remarked upon the Indian Navy managing to sink the ship it was rescuing from pirates recently.
Keeping to the pirate theme, we now learn that Chinese beer bottles are the best weapons to defeat pirates with.
I'm sure the crews of our warships operating out there will welcome this news!

Its the marginal seats stupid!

Nigel Morris over on the Indy this morning leaves it to his last paragraph to give us the truth about Mandy wanting to throw our money in the direction of his Indian friends who now own Jaguar.
Its the marginal seats stupid!
I'm sure that if the collapse of Woolworths had threatened a number of NuLabor MPs constituencies we would have seen Mandy rushing in with our cash to bail them out.

Its frightening out there!

Coming home to find Woolworths in it's finial death throws, unemployment in all sectors rising at an alarming rate, yet NuLabor ministers talking of welfare reforms; quite frankly I am frightened by the prospects for this country.
OGOl's throwing of our taxpayer's money around like confetti, with reports that the failing car industry is next in line after the banks to benefit from his largess, seems to me to be encouraging a certain sense of recklessness in people.
Instead of battening the hatches down and preparing for the coming recession that is going to hit us all very soon, people are behaving as if they too will be bailed out by OGUL.
Well I am afraid to say they are living in a cloud cuckoo land, OGUL with his golden pension and his nice little position at the IMF already lined up, will along with the rest of the bunch of NuLabor tonks be putting two fingers up at us all when they are kicked out at the next general election (if we are allowed one!).
Once again a Labour government has fecked this country up, for the middle classes who were mesmerized by Tony Wots His Name into voting for NuLabor, it will be too late regretting it as they find out how much benefit they are going to receive when they sign on.
For the rest of us?
I am now seriously thinking of following my ex partner to New Zealand, taking my daughters and grandson with me, NuLabor have destroyed a country I was once proud of. For at least the next decade it is going to be a barren wasteland of which I no longer feel my future is worth investing.

Iraq - NuLabor's shame & scandal.

The imagines I saw on television last night of our glorious unelected Leader trying to spin the withdrawal from Iraq next year as a "Mission Accomplished" were sickening.
He hid behind Tony Wots His Name in the decision to join America in this illegal invasion, stabbing our Armed Forces in the their collective backs as Chancellor by not providing the funds to properly equip them, but quite happy to exploit them for his own political ends when he became OGUL.
As for the demands for an inquiry into how we got into such a mess in the first place, I fear that as long as we have the same politicians from all sides who voted for this shameful episode in our political history, it will be conveniently kicked into the long grass.
The blood on the hands of NuLabor of our fallen heroes, spilled for petty political ends, is something I can never forgive them for.

Hes back!

Yes folks I'm back and roaring to get blogging again for you all.
I have just spent an interesting three weeks paired up with an former Green Howards soldier, who worked his way up thru the ranks to leave as a captain, so it has been an educating time hearing from a former infantry soldier. Especially someone who was one of the last to get his commission that way.
Quite amusing examining the different mess customs!
Anyway I have a bit of a runaround today, but I will trying to find pieces to keep you amused.