Au revoir - again!

Yes believe it or not it is nearly three weeks now since your barnacle escaped the clutches of the sea. Tomorrow I must go back to serve that other mistress in my life - Mrs. Neptune.

Then again in these enlighten days of same sex marriage it maybe Ms Neptune, or even Master Neptune!

Whilst I'm away this time we will be remembering on April 2nd the thirtieth anniversary of the last time our Armed Forces had an honourable success. Supported of course by our Merchant Navy.

Well I hope you have all enjoyed the past three weeks, I look forward to you joining me again when I return. Whilst I expect Total's problems in the northern North Sea will still be with us, Cast Iron's grip at the top of the Coalition's totem pole might not be so sure.

I'm taking the SCCRC's Lockerbie report back as bedtime reading, so I might have figured out the Golfer's idenity by the time we all meet up again. So till then -

au revoir

Forget Cast Iron's blow out, Elgin's one could really set the sea on fire!

Instead of watching all the hot air escaping from the Westminster village bubble over our political elite's latest scandalous fund raising wrong doings. I have been keeping an eye on the unfolding gas leak up in the northern North Sea.

I would say things in Total's Elgin field are balanced on a knife edge at the moment.

It would only take a spark to ignite the gas escaping from this well, then Total would have a major disaster upon their hands, even now it's going to be very tricky shutting this well down.

I remember the Ekofisk Bravo blow out back in 1977, if this goes up it'll will make that seem like a walk in the park for whoever gets the job of capping Total's well.

Update
For a more explanatory post on Total's woes have a look at Man in a Shed's post.

Well last day at home today, so I'll be running around trying to get this leave's To-Do list completed (no chance!), I'll wish you all a nice day for now.

Hands out my pockets Cleggy & Co!

Well it wasn't so long in office before a party funding scandal has blown open the Tories transparency. Reminding us all that nowadays no one political party has the upper hand when it comes to sleaze - they're all at it in one way or another.
So I wouldn't go overboard with the fake indignation Ed if I was you!
There are still too many skeletons lurking in nuLabor's closet, as well as the ones that we already know about, for you to claim your party is whiter than white. So a bit of humility wouldn't go amiss at the moment.

Of course whilst nuLabor and the Tories have been arguing the toss the Lib/Dems will have been rubbing their grubby mitts in secret delight.

This whole scandalous affair will only strengthen their leverage with their coalition partners when it gets around to the next lot of discussions about us taxpayers funding political parties. Which any fool can see is where this whole tragedy for us is going to end up. Steered there by some of the most corrupt helmsmen I have ever seen.

Well if you want taxpayers to fund your political parties let it be only those who are fully paid up registered members of your own respective parties.
No ifs, no buts ...
Yes I would allow affiliate membership from unions, or other interested bodies, but only where you can produce a signed affidavit from each individual affiliate member agreeing for their "subs" to be directed that way.
As for donations, in cash or in kind, I would limit those to say a bag of sand (£1000) per person/per company per annum. All registered and only from UK tax payers, or UK registered companies.

Because as far as I am concerned none of you have shown that you are deserving of my hard earned cash. You are the biggest bunch of corrupt, immoral crooks I have ever seen.

Now get on and do some honest party fund raising - if you can remember how!

Is Cast Iron's No. 10 Diner's Card a fake gold one?

Sorry Cast Iron your pathetic pleading that Downing Street is your "home" is not a good enough excuse for you not to reveal who you have been entertaining there.
Nor is the excuse that you paid the "entertaining" costs valid.
We pay your salary and expenses as Prime Minister, we the nation provide you with very generous accommodation during your tenancy, we even give you a nice "Golden Good Bye" when we kick you out of Downing Street.
After all if you've got nothing to hide ...

Perhaps we should give departing politicians their "Golden Good Bye" made up with the recent gold ingot found in the UK filled with tungsten.
What better way to show our contempt for them by giving them devalued gold, after all they will have probably ruined the Pound during their time in office, fair's fair!
So any of you with a few 1kg gold ingots stashed under the bed had better get them checked out.

Right I'm off out to enjoy this delightful day oop north, I hope you can too.

PS
I'm still researching who the Golfer is in the Lockerbie case, some interesting names have come up!

Lockerbie - Who was the Golfer?

Instead of creating mythical border checks that may, or may not, be one of the outcomes of Scottish Independence. English Home Secretary, Theresa May, should be considering what sort of extradition treaty she will want with the newly released Scots.

Especially as the truth is now out about how Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the supposed Lockerbie bomber, should never have been prosecuted in the first place.

Although in this case the trial took place when Tony Wot's His Name was in charge, we all know how our political elite stick together when they are caught out, so Mrs. May might consider how best she will protect those south of the border from ending up in another Camp Zeist.

I've been ploughing thru some of the eight hundred odd pages this afternoon, great thing to be doing on such a fine day, already it is apparent to your old barnacle the SCCRC's report opens a very, very big can of worms.

All I'll say for now is, in my best Deep Throat imitation: "Identify the Golfer!"

Latest Tory corruptions allows shameful nuLabor legacy to hide.

When the MPs expense's claims scandal brown stuff hit the fans the Queen should have dissolved that "Rotten Parliament", dis-enfranchised every MP, then told the political parties she would not call a general election until every candidate was whiter than white.
As far as I was concerned everyone of those offspring of unmarried parents were corrupt and guilty. Only the degree of their criminality remained to be decided, from those blatant troughers, to those who merely looked the other way.
No ifs, no buts ...
Instead we allowed them to throw us a few sacrificial lambs whilst they just bided their time till the "all clear" sounded. Mr. Peter Crudas obviously thinks it's time to get back to business as normal again!

Of course this story is a golden nugget to the propaganda arm of the Beeb, expect it to be the first item on every news report they can throw at us, we'll have wall-to-wall two-faced nuLabor tonks decrying this.

It also gives the Beeb the excuse not to give us too in depth reporting about the latest sex grooming/trade arrests.
A certain Mr. Dogar, Mr. Jamil, Mr. Ahmed and a Mr. Karrar are suspected of being involved in various sexual offences with under aged victims in this most recent case.
Meanwhile a rape trial here in West Yorkshire has been ended by the principal accused, a Mr. Mohammed Ali Rehman, changing his plea to guilty half way thru the trial. He will be sentenced at a later date, but I am surprised to see how lenient the CPS is being with the other defendants?
Whilst across the Pennines there are a number of trials under way as I speak, all involving gentleman with good old sounding English names.
Another aspect of nuLabor's shameful legacy of their covert immigration policies that we are having to endure. If you're a white woman, or a white mother with daughters, just remember the respect nuLabor had for you when you come to vote in the next general election.

So just bear in mind as the likes of garage claiming, ghost writer and nuLabour MP Denis McShane opens his mouth; three little words - Pot, Kettle and Black.

Whilst the Beeb could do with adding "Asian" to it's vocabulary.

Filling up? We accept kids as well!

I have realized that fuel prices have this year been creeping ever upwards, with motorists once again the easiest to mug, yet when the Telegraph reports it now costs £100 to fill up the average car up in the UK.

It suddenly jolts one wide awake!

For some poor families it is going to be a question of the car, or the children? Particularly where a car is a necessity to securing and continuing in employment. Which applies to many parts of this country. The Underground doesn't extend all over the UK you know Cast Iron!

Then he had the cheek to suggest we pay more to use our roads!

Those who come to the UK for this year's Olympics, who manage to escape outside of Gulag Londonistan, will be in for a shock when they see the joke of a public transport infra-structure we plebs have to pay to endure.

Still with a bit of luck Londonistan will become gridlocked during their visit, so they'll still get to enjoy the benefits of travelling in the UK.

However, it is still concerning that energy prices hit the poorest in our society the most, of course a certain section can just bung the whole lot on expenses! With the "poorest" in our communities now extending up into the middle classes.

A disgruntled middle class coupled with an even more pee'd off car worshipping lower classes could make for an unholy alliance for all our present day political parties. The price at the pump may become the trip wire for civil unrest in this country.

So Cast Iron your jest about making us pay to drive on our own roads may fall a little flat if we can't afford to even get the car out of the garage, but after a whipround we might have enough for a couple Molotov cocktails!

Boy George's tiddy oggy tax

Well I had not noticed that one of the effects of Boy George's VAT harmonization announced in Wed's smash'n'grab would be increasing the VAT on hot Cornish pasties sold by supermarkets.

So not only has Boy George followed the Fifeshire finiancial fool by attacking pensions in his budget but he's also having a go at our warmed up Cornish pasties.

This means war!

I shall being formulating some proposals to put to the government's consultation, we may have to push the "Independence" button on this one!

Although I suppose this could also be viewed as another display of Cast Iron's "green" credentials; taxing us poor plebs if we want our food hot!

If it's generic - Forget the label!

I'm not sure where I stand on generic drugs, half of me is all for having a go at the apparently excessive profits big pharmas make from exploiting the patent protection of a particular drug. Whereas my other half is concerned over quality control and patient protection that appears to be somewhat lacking with generic medicines.

Especially as I have now learnt that generic drugs do not have to be an exact copy of the original but there can be up to a fifteen per cent variation either way, including how the drug is delivered as well. Or at least across the Pond it's allowed!

It would also appear that because of a Supreme Court ruling over in the US of A, concerning labels on generic medicines, patients who suffer from known side affects cannot sue if they have been given a generic drug and not the brand name one?

Welcome to the crazy world of American laws and Corporate America!

I do wonder if this anomaly is because somewhere down the drug manufacturing line American big pharmas have got themselves heavily involved in generic drug production as well. We all know that the US cabal of big business and the legislature is not there to protect the little person. So I doubt if we will see the FDA acting this side of Paddy O'Bama's re-election fight.

NB
Some of the more observant of you will notice I'm still here and not back on the high seas a week early.
Well I've picked up a chest infection, so I'm still at home on sick leave now instead, carefully reading the packaging that came with the antibiotics I'm on for now!

Glow in the dark scrap exposes union fraud. & All Blacks miss the black stuff.

It's not so much the fact that there seems to be an increase in the old glow in the dark scrap but where it subsequently ends up that is worrying the authorities.

A recent case of radio active tissue boxes across the Pond illustrates how increasingly common this is becoming. Along with self-illuminating French lift buttons and radio active Taiwanese rebar.

Perhaps our own Trading Standards officers should be equipped with Geiger counters as they go about their business?

What does nuLabor and the Unions have in common?

Shafting the working class to enrich themselves, as typified by the case of the UDM leaders who decided that home improvement came before improving the lot of their injured members.

In this case the shafting offspring of unmarried parents have been caught, hopefully they will be punished for their shameful deeds. Meanwhile even more of the vampircal, nuLabor/union horde continue to enjoy the benefits of their ill-gotten gains at the expense of those they were supposed to serve.

I mean, how the hell can you have a millionaire running the Labour Party?

It's like leaving Lord Melton of Mobray in charge of the cake stall at the local church fete with a younger impressionable girl assistant.

Both would be fecked before you got back!

So it's Budget Day today?

The good old give with one hand and take back thrice as much with the other con day. One of the Fifeshire financial fools favourite days. probably the only day he came out of the closet and displayed some cunning.

Boy George might like to look south of the equator to a potential export market in New Zealand as stocks of Marmite run out because of problems caused by last year's earthquakes.

My ex is coming over here from the South Island in June, I should imagine she's been told to fill her suitcases up with the stuff for the return journey, better hide my stock as she's borrowing Barnacle Towers for her stay.

Stool transplants hide castrating priests whilst Hovis upsets Mr. Kipling.

No I am not talking about some furniture moving exercise but the latest medical advance to come from across the Pond for treating Clostridium difficile and the Norovirus.

Actual fecal transplants from healthy donors to those suffering from the more drug resistant forms of the two above mentioned gut infections.

The idea being that all those healthy bacteria in the donated stool will restore the balance of bacteria in the affected intestines.

So I suppose UK hospitals will soon be looking for stool donors? Certainly one reform of the NHS I hadn't thought Cast Iron would bring in.

The sickness with-in the RC Church concerning child abuse, the extent to which it was allowed to be carried out and those in high places more than willing to cover it up continue to amaze me.

Now we have the revelation that the Dutch RC Church was using castration as a means of revenge upon those who spoke out about their abuse by RC priests. With allegations that the cover-up led to the Dutch PM's door.

Certainly don't look to the present Pope to rid the RC Church's Augean stables of child abusing priests and bishops. He's got too many skeletons in his own closet to worry about.

Sticking to what you are good at should be tattooed on many a CEO's forehead, so he may see it every morning before he goes to work as he looks in the bathroom mirror.

Premier Foods is a classice example of this, they allowed themselves to be suduced by their bankers into taking over Hovis and also thinking they could pull a fast one in the interest rate swaps market.

Well they got themselves that stitched up by their bankers I expect to see Premier Foods go bankrupt before the next two years are up.

If you're a baker you can't be a wheeler-dealer-banking-baker too!

A toll too far kills honour safely.

One has to wonder sometimes about the competency of the present incumbent of No. 10, we all knew the last one was a raving queer bampot from north of the border, the current one seems to be living in la-la fairy land!
Perhaps his closeness to the Lib/Dems fruitcakes is starting to show?
Anyway you just have to shake your head in amazement at his jolly wheeze of calling for private firms to become involved in our roads system.
It always used to get my BP sky high to see the state of roads under nuLabor, with the amount of taxes the Buffty frae Kirkcaldy extracted from us motorists, all the A-roads in this country should have been up to dual carriageway standards at the very least.
As for the promise we won't see the existing road network subject to tolls: would you believe anything Cast Iron promises?

The news that six per cent of young male Asians believe that honour killings are justified is a horrifying six per cent too many.
Just as worrying is the one per cent of young female Asians who take the same view!
These are Asians who have been nurtured in this country, supposedly adopting the culture and values of our land; yet they can still have these barbaric ideas?
I'm actually surprised the Beeb is reporting this, it doesn't exactly fit in with nuLabor's and their's multi-culturalism propaganda. Although I suppose they'll spin it as ninety-four per cent against honour killings.

I've always thought that if you added a pinch of humour into something people come to take more notice of it than if you just boringly read the rulebook to them.
So hats off to Air New Zealand for this -



The bloopers can be found here, enjoy and have a nice start to your week.

Greek eruption of cat fighting nuLabor carp.

Now if I was to advise you not to visit Greece for your hols this year, you would presume it had something to do with the Greek debt/financial situation about to erupt- again!
However, this time my recommendations are based more on the ground under your feet in Greece, rather than the Euro avalanche.
It would appear that the volcano under the island of Santorini is showing increasing signs of activity, that might be the prelude to an eruption. This in turn could have a far greater catastrophic effect on Greece and the surrounding area than any Euro default.
So perhaps Herr Reichsleiter Merkel should be more concerned with the geology beneath the Greek banks vaults than she is with their contents?

So Blinky blinked first eh?
With his quote in his Times interview:
"Nobody is going to look back at any point in history and say that Gordon Brown was a great Prime Minister."
Of course he should have added the loony was also a fecking financial imbecile of the first order, but perhaps he does not feel strong enough yet to give us the full truth about his former mentor.
No doubt very soon after the gnashing of teeth and Nokia throwing has subsided north of the border. The Buffty frae Kirkcaldy will be leaking his own personal opinion of Blinky and his ladyboy partner.
Looks like we could be in for an interesting year of nuLabor re-writing of history - meow!

Meanwhile those inscrutable Chinese have been fishing for a meaning behind Paddy O'Bama's decision to go after an invasive fish species known as the Asian carp. Which could very soon be dining in the American Great Lakes.
The Chinese should understand it's nothing personal just Paddy buying some green votes.

I think in my title I may have got the a & r the wrong way round in the last word?

America's Afghan Anomalies

So we now know the name of the American suspect in the latest US Armed Forces outrage to occur in Afghanistan.
Whilst Karzai is getting ready to throw his toys out of the pram.
Here is a classic example of one of the anomalies under which America's policies operate in Afghanistan. On the one hand it is prepared to pour $14million into improving conditions in Pul-e-Charki prison just east of Kabul.
Yet it stops short of providing Xray machines for scanning visitors to this prison.
Then it complains when the guards start making invasive body searches of female visitors to the very same prison. Citing this as also being an example of the waning of women's rights as the West's influence diminishes day by day.
I'm sure that at some airport back in the US of A there must be a few old redundant Xray machines as the TSA goes mad installing the latest perv-o-scanners to keep it's security officers amused on duty. This old machines could just as easily have been shipped out to Pul-e-Charki prison.
But it seems each side is frantically trying to give the other side the excuse to go at the moment.


So you never know the troops maybe home for Christmas - from Afghanistan that is! 

Ah Dinnae Ken.

Well it's a lovely start to the day here oop north, yesterday I was across on the Wirral, where it was more like a damp, misty autumn day than the beginning of spring time.
Tomorrow isn't looking too promising weather wise, which is a pity as we were planning on a big family visit to Donny Zoo; or Yorkshire Wildlife Park to give it it's proper name.
I was going to post on the con of globalization foisted upon us proles by our political elite which only benefited the few not the many. Something that seemed to be accelerated under a nuLabor administration. Then again nuLabor was ashamed of it's roots, hated it's sheeple followers and did everything it could to kick them in the privates.
Instead I'm going to send you north of the border to enjoy the delights of a new blog I stumbled across today.
Having lived and worked north of the border I can almost hear the words in my head in their native dialect. Plus the humourous take on Scottish life goes with my feeling of well being today. I hope it adds to your enjoyment of this fine day.
Take care out there but just as importantly have a smile on your face!

Paddy O'Bama's cunning Afghanistan exit plan?

The contempt in which the Americans hold the Afghans and their laws in their own country is amazing to say the very least.

It is reported that the US soldier who allegedly killed at least 16 Afghan civilians has been flown out of there. The excuse being they did not have a suitable jail to hold him in - what!

Just a minute, he committed this crime on Afghan soil, killed Afghan citizens and yet the Afghan authorities let the Americans spirit him out of the country?

Oh, I forgot he's a Yank!

Anyway didn't the CIA have a spare shipping container to put him in at Bagram airbase?

However, with Cast Iron over brown nosing Paddy O'Bama, where we know the question of getting out of Afghanistan ASAP will be discussed; might this not be the start of a cunning American plan?

The Afghan government demand this soldier is returned to them, the US says "No", in a fit of pique the Afghans demand the Americans leave. Expecting to call Paddy's bluff. Only he says "Good Bye" and pulls out with a big sigh of relief and the Brits following on his coat tails.

Then as he faces re-election Paddy can look the American sheeple squarely in the eye from behind his tele-prompter, telling them he was kicked out of Afghanistan by the ungrateful bunch.

It will also give the USA a whole lot of freed up armed forces to mop up the mess made in the Middle East by Israel's forth coming attack on Iran. Which has been planned for just after Paddy hopefully gets re-elected.

Firing blanks? Get the fish & chips in!

As you read this post you will realize that it probably isn't a good idea to follow any medical advice I offer on my blog!
So with that disclaimer out of the way ...
Research published in the journal Human Reproduction, found in a plain wrapper on the top shelf of your local newsagents, suggests eating fatty foods makes your sperm limp. Or at least affects it's quality.
I'd guess it would also make other parts of your body limp as well!
Sperm samples from about one hundred men with a variety of lifestyles showed that those on a diet high in fatty foods had poor quality sperm. Whilst those whose diet was rich in Omega-3 polyunsaturated fats had superior sperm.
So let her eat the chips whilst you scoff the fish and Bob's your uncle you're away with the cement mixer on the starting a family front!
Unfortunately with all published research nowadays, peer reviewed or not, one has to look behind the covers to find out who is sponsoring the study.
This one is probably a joint venture by the Association of Fish Oil Producers (AFOB) and the Lard Importers & Exporters Society (LIES).

The murky, swirling waters beneath New Scotland Yard

The police's reaction in the ongoing phone hacking investigation of Fleet Street has somewhat puzzled me. Sledge hammer to crack a nut and OTT are phrases that spring to mind. The dawn arrests and confiscation of personal property is reminiscent of anti-terrorist or, even gangland related drug raids, seen more in popular television programs than in real life.
Scratching my head I have pondered if the police might be acting so heavy handed so as to create a smoke screen over their own recent past.
As my somewhat limited knowledge leads me to understand the whole sordid saga is as much a two-way affair, involving journalists and police officers accepting "favours/gratuities", as it is just about phone hacking.
Yet I have not heard of any police officials having an early morning knocking upon their front door. I have learnt a few have taken early retirement or, suddenly discovered serious health problems; but that might just be a coincidence?
However, the calling for the re-opening of the Steve Lawrence inquiry by his mother, with her implying police corruption may have clouded the whole process, begins to clear the fog I have been peering thru.
Was it the lesser of two evils for the Macpherson inquiry to find the Met "institutionally racist", than for it to say "institutionally corrupt"?
The murder of a young black teenager back in 1993 and the recent police action in 2012 involving Fleet Street's finest may not seem linked on the surface. Then again who knows what is swirling around in the murky waters running beneath New Scotland Yard?
However, I still expect this to turn into a triangular affair with our good old politicians appearing at one of the apexes. Especially when one recalls who investigated the Cash4Peerages scandal Or is that me just wearing my tin foil hat again!

Sub prime aircraft carriers in desert Titanic voyage?

So Cast Iron and his motley crew of political dwarfs are that desperate for any signs of growth in the UK economy before they have to face the electorate again; they are prepared to adopt the very scheme that brought the houses down globally, by promoting sub prime mortgages.
Or at least to anyone with a mote of common sense would understand that to be the idea behind the latest gimmick to come out of Downing Street.
Probably when all the dust settles we'll find out the real benefactors will be the banks and the parents of the richest buying for their children.
However, if the government wants to invigorate the house building market it should do so in a more open and direct way by funding the replacements of all the council homes being sold off and growing the pool of public housing.

Meanwhile a reminder of both the legacy this government inherited from the Buffty frae Kirkcaldy in one of his most blatant vote buying moves and it's own bungling of defence matters is coming back to haunt us.
The Royal Navy's aircraft carriers.
It appears there isn't enough money in the pot to convert HMS Prince of Wales to operate the Joint Strike Fighter jet. Maybe Cast Iron could ask Paddy O'Bama if we could buy back our Harrier jump jets the USMC snatched up when the Tories were selling off the Armed Forces' family silver.

Talking of the nuLabor financial bampot from Kirkcaldy, reminds me there must be many of his crew having sleepless nights over revelations of the l'Dwarf Francais and his Gaddafi funding. Still at least a dead man can't tell tales, or can they, perhaps the Strawman would like to comment?

Finally, it appears Bob Ballard only found the Titanic in the time left over from his other top secret mission on that epic voyage.

Has Hague been droning on?

Night after night the aircrews of RAF Bomber Command would personally face the terrors and perils of all that the Nazi air defence could throw at them as they crossed Occupied Europe to deliver their bomb loads.

Not for them are the air conditioned control rooms, many miles safely behind the Front Line, that are enjoyed by the "pilots" of the drones America is using nowadays.

However, the RAF aircrews did know that they flew under an actual declaration of war, not this extension of the war on terror the USA uses to justify it's breaking of both national and international laws.

Extraordinary rendition was only one of America's more blatant campaigns in it's continuing war on terror. Our own nuLabor government shamefully tried to con us into believing it was doing a "Three Wise Monkeys" act over the USA and extraordinary rendition.

Sadly the news leaking out shows it to have been more an active player rather than the hiding on the sideline it would have liked us to think. Hopefully we might yet see the Strawman get his collar felt on that score.

Instead we now have William Hague facing legal action over the UK's support of American drone strikes. I wonder what ignominious details will we be learning about this government's aiding of the USA?

Paddy O'Bama has not only taken on the mantle of Commander in Chief of America's armed forces but also the role of final arbiter in who lives or is killed in the US's war on terror.

An image re-enforced by seeing him present in the control room when the attack to kill Osama bin Laden went in.

Although he probably leaves the actually day-to-day executions to his minions, whilst getting on with improving his snake oil salesmanship rhetoric skills.
Whilst I am not against the use of drones; the unaccountability of those behind the directing of these strikes is the most worrying aspect of it. Plus the unquestioning support that once again a government of this land is giving to the USA.
On top of which it is not exactly putting the good old US of A at the top of a lot of people's Christmas card list!

A traitorous viper squatting in No. 10?

In all we do in life to get to the top or, to gain the upper hand, there has to be a compromising of values along the line.
However, there are certain core values that if changed/compromised would entirely change either one's whole persona or; in the case of an organisation/philosophy the reason for it's continued existence would come into question.
I realize that Cast Iron had to make a few compromises to get the keys to the door at No. 10, but as each day of his occupancy of that particular address goes by I wonder if he is fit to continue his squatting there?
We are now faced with a Conservative PM seeking to apparently criminalize Christians in this country for wearing the Cross. Whilst at the same time his government wants to legalize Gay marriage despite this being a supposedly Tory led coalition.
Is this the same Conservative Party I was brought up with?
I understood that Tony Wot's His Name anti hunting legislation, the parliamentary time it took up, was just pure spite on his behalf.
However, the path that Cast Iron seems to want to go down is so alien to those Conservative beliefs I was led to believe were it's core values, I'm beginning to wonder who he is actually governing this country for?
We can all see for ourselves the cultural and social damage that nuLabor wrecked this country with using it's covert immigration policies. Now it appears Cast Iron and his followers want to plough salt into the ruined remains of our British fabric.
Is this to make the European federalization of our once proud land easier?
It is beginning to look more and more like we have a traitorous viper squatting in No. 10 than a real British PM. A pity Steve Irwin is no longer available to help us rid Downing Street of it's snakes nest.

LCPD - Loony Cuckoo Plan Diktat more likely!

Daily as we plough our courses up and down the coastline from Norfolk to the Foreland we are reminded of the continuing farce of offshore wind farms.
The other night on passage from just off Harwich down to North Foreland I was amazed to see both visually and on the radar screens the amount of development going on out in what previously had been bare empty North Sea!
Before any apologist for wind farms sprouts out the benefits this construction is bringing to the UK, let me tell them UK firms are well down the pecking order offshore, a real missed opportunity to even get some of our own money back.
Now I know I only understand things at the most basic level but if all the energy costs being wasted out there to construct these wind farms, lay all the cabling infra-structure, etc ... was included in the final bill - would wind farms ever make economic sense - let alone enviromental ones?
Now comes the news that Kingsnorth power station is to close next year.
We pass it everytime we take a cargo into Rochester or, end up in Chatham for running repairs, just lately it has been quite a busy power station. Yet it is running out of hours of life left because of the Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD).
Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD)?!?
Only the troika ruling our lives could have come up with something entitled like that!
Yet here we are sat on centuries of stable future energy supplies in the form of the black stuff - coal. Whilst the bampots across the Channel are forcing us to close the very stations we are having to use because of all these other alternative energy supplies can't meet demand now and they certainly won't on a windless day in the Thames Estuary.
Still I suppose when the commuters in the SE can't wait for their toast to be done because of the local brown out. Nor can they be sure their electric train will be running. Will anyone spare a thought for Kingsnorth power station?

My word is my bloody bond?

Cast Iron must be tossing and turning, sleeplessly wondering this morning why the Gods are not smiling down upon him and his efforts to gain popularity. As he now finds himself for the second day running covered in blood. Only this time there is some Italian red chianti mixed in with the English claret.

Perhaps honouring one's word might regain the God's favour Cast Iron old boy?

I'm sorry but I suppose I/we must have been spoiled by all those years of that slippery snake oil salesman, Tony Wot's His Name; expecting TB mk. II, Cast Iron to be as good a smooth operator as TWHN.

Instead it is looking more and more like Cast Iron and his pals in government could not organise the proverbial shindig in a brewery, let alone be allowed to run the government.

Talk about rabbits caught in the event's headlights!

I should imagine that the rest of the EU is busy checking they have no hostages linked to any UK kidnapped nationals as Cast Iron desperately flounders around for something to save himself with.

Now what great 30th anniversary are we celebrating this year?

On the Home Front, I haven't even been home twenty-four hours and I had the office on telling me I would have to go back a week early this leave.

One of our hypochondriac chief officers has decided to go sick - again!

Business as usual.

My happy home coming yesterday was somewhat marred by two pieces of news.

The first of course was the very sad news of further Fallen Heroes being added to the toll we have already paid for by Tony Wot's His Name slavishly following on America's coattails in the Middle East.

Now these names will go in the ledger under Cast Iron's leadership.

Again the lie springs from the politician's lips that this is being done to make our streets safer.

It's not!

It is being done that the defence industries and others may continue to profit from government largess whilst publicly defence spending is supposedly being cut. Or mangled depending on your point of view.

Cast Iron and his crew know which side their bread is buttered on when it comes to being looked after and that doesn't include the poor squaddy's future!

The second bit of news that both sadden and filled me with shame was the news over the cuts at Remploy.

I would say it's the "unacceptable face of conservatism" but nuLabor had plans to make attacks on Remploy themselves - so pot, kettle, black.

The few millions these cuts are going to save are a mere drop in the ocean of foreign aid we are giving away to all and saundry - even if they want it or not!

Charity begins at home Mr. Cast Iron, these are your citizens who deserved to be treated with respect by all and if having a non profit making job is part of that - so be it!

I wonder how many of your friends/donsors have been eyeing the profits that these cuts could put their way?

Little theme running thru both the above stories - if you're a pleb you'll end up as canon fodder to satisfy some politician's ego.

Or if you're disabled it's back up the chimney with your brush for you!

Have a nice day!