Is 'big state' the problem or the solution to society's ills?
The Solution: 13.69%
The Problem: 63.65%
Don't Know: 22.66%
YouGov Quick Poll
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Is the Big State A Problem ?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Queen Electioneering For Labour
I have just listened to Peter Poppet trying to justify the Queen's speech today. A raft of proposals that are never going to see the light of day. You know that if Peter Poppet is telling you it is not electioneering, it is electioneering.
Balls after twelve long years of dumbing down, has decided with six months to go that every child will have the 'right' to a good education.If ever there was a tacit acknowledgement that education,education, education has failed under Labour that was it. The State just needs to get out of Education, and stop using it as a tool for social engineering.
Peter Poppet did not sound that well on Radio 4, I hope it is nothing trivial.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Why Give It To Them ?
Why give your personal data to them, suffer the lectures on identity fraud. Then the silly bastards put it on a laptop or memory stick then promptly lose it/ allow it to be stolen.
I have lost count of the same incidents over the last two years, the classic being when the DSS lost all the child benefit records.
Does nobody get sacked any more ? They are all at it
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Just A Brick In The Wall
Yesterday, was the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, all of the big political players of the time still alive, bar Thatcher were there. However the fall of the wall if anything demonstrated that politicians are inconsequential bit players in this drama.
The people took the initiative and the people won a spectacular victory. In 1956 and 1968, popular discontent was crushed by the State with the assistance of Russian tanks. This time the Russian Tanks were held back and the DDR simply collapsed.
Remembrance Sunday is something that still binds the British People, although I suspect more people were in shopping malls on Sunday than observing the two minutes silence. However it was there, a bit like the Church of England, in the background.
The episode over Mrs Janes letter of condolence from Brown, is going to be one of those nerve jangling moments, when a mother’s grief and anger is trampled on by an incompetent man with no empathy will trigger a growing tide of resentment by the people of this country.
Six more dead servicemen will return to the UK today on a wet cold autumn day. I have always believed that a Minister should be in a attendance to see the consequences of their decisions, no longer. They should just stay away.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Friday, November 06, 2009
Quote of the day
You are the storyteller of your own life and you can create the legend or not.
~Isabel Allende
In The Words Of Max Boyce- I Was There
I could not make OH's stroll last year, but I am glad I made the effort this year, just to make an active point that some of us are not very pleased with the current set up. This is about the first 'manifestation' that I have been on since about 1973.
It was good to catch up with the Devil, Anna Raccoon, Dick Puddlecote and OH, and others that had travelled the length & breadth of the country. Well done the Girls from Newcastle. Anna's discovery in the Ladies at the House of Commons is worth a read.
The stroll from the Chandos to the Westminster Arms was relaxed enough, Douglas Carswell stopped and had a chat. The guy with the placard 'Politicians know best' was a classic.
The Westmister area was crowded with ex military types at various memorial ceremonies who took our antics in very good part. Less so the twitchy Police at the House of Commons and at No 10, the plain clothes trailing us around like some low rent spooks were fairly obvious.
I will admit that being let through to the public gallery was a surpise. The security was a bit of a farce, especially as most of the security were not from these shores, and a debate was held on the very large foreign 'lady' security officer who had an adams apple.
The security theatre continued I was asked to fill out a form promising to behave myself, which I duly filled out in the name of Simon Mann, c/o Black Beach Hotel , Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, other signed in as Guido Fawkes the Cellars Westmister, Eli Callil. Childish I know but they never looked at them.
As we got into the Public Gallery Elliot Morley, (claiming his payment on a paid off mortgage fame) was droning on about climate change, and what utter piffle it was, then upped jumped Simon Hughes to talk more piffle about climate change with all the honourable members nodding in agreement. There were more of us in the gallery than were in the Chamber. Where were the other 630 members ?
I just could not believe that they were actually getting paid for this posturing nonsense.
Going through the members lobby, the 'guy' infront of me was confronted by a policeman who objected to him wearing a hat, I had just put mine back on as well. Well you are wearing one- but I'm a Policeman- so ?- This is the Queens Palace, on Queens and Policemen are allowed to wear hats- (I saw the funny side of this) - Its the rules (heard that one before) -what if I tell you that I wear this hat for relgious reasons- Don't be funny with me sonny. At this point he had his name and details taken in an ante-chamber. Guy TV were told that they could not film on that step as it was in St Stephens Hall, but the step lower was in Westmister Great Hall.
It was all mind numbing archaic rules like some worn out public school, like nailing 1st formers to the upper floor wall on the second tuesday after Lent was acceptable.
The Houses of Parliament are a medieval backwater where thieves and liars pretend they are all 'honourable', the rules so arcane that nobody can remember how they came about. The architecture just reinforces the two party system. 'Us' one side, 'them' the other side. The Chamber will not accept that there are many parties (not represented) and many political views across the political spectrum. The Chamber just reinforces the two party state.
If nothing else the Stroll just confirmed to me that most of this country's problems, start from the top, with social inadequates who have very rarely held a real job, hiding behind glass screens and Police with Guns talking utter drivel.
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