1. Gordon Brown 38%
2. Robert Mugabe 28%
3. Michael Martin 9%
In the year Gordon Brown has made his political comeback, he has learned one big thing - to listen.Nice to hear things are going well for you, Gord.
As he sits in the living room of his Downing Street flat he is listening to the sound of his children playing with Buzz Lightyear lasers. He listens to his two-year-old son singing Happy Birthday after a friend's birthday party.
And it is the effort he has made to listen harder to the people of Britain which is giving him a quiet confidence about the year ahead. At the end of an hour in which he has given an exclusive interview to the Mirror, he says:
"When things are going well people call me Gordon.
"When things are going badly they call me Mr Brown.
"At the moment they are calling me Gordon."
MORE than £320,000 of taxpayers' money has been spent on flat-screen televisions, hi-fis and DVD players for Whitehall departments, the Standard can reveal.But guess who comes top of waste:
The Tories said today that the figures, released in Parliamentary answers, were an "insult" to the recession-hit public.
The biggest spender was Lord Mandelson's Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which ran up an £87,000 bill for stereo equipment, DVD players and flat-screen televisions over the past three years.Fucking Mandelsnake, not happy with being an EU parasite now he leeches off us all here in the UK.
The second biggest bill was at the Treasury, which spent £42,000 on televisions, £25,000 on DVD players and £9,600 on hi-fis - despite Treasury Minister Yvette Cooper's claims to be leading a "war on waste" across government.
Other departments, including the Prime Minister's Office, claimed that the information could only be made available "at disproportionate cost".
All the departments claimed that purchases were "incurred in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury handbook on Regularity and Propriety".Get a load of this as well:
The Department for Transport's central HQ revealed it had spent more than £14,000 on flat-screen televisions alone. Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon said the new TVs were used in some cases for analysing witness videos for rail crash investigations, but others were for "monitoring news coverage".Well thats okay then, tell you what Geoff why not pop down mind and just open my fucking wallet and help yourself to the contents. Better still I will give you my bank card and pin an whenever your a tad strapped for cash just get some money out.
Within the Treasury, the biggest spender was the Valuation Office Agency, which spent £16,740 on flat screen televisions and £9,652 on stereo equipment in 2005-06, £6,838 on flat screen TVs in 2006-07, and £2,056 on flat screen TVs and £178 on DVD players in 2007-08.Stereos! TV's at a push I can understand but are they that bored at the VOA that they need to plug in headphones and listen to music all day?
The spending figures come as Chancellor Alistair Darling seeks to slash more than £30billion from Whitehall costs through lower costs on IT, the sale of property and other assets and improved procurement deals.
Criminals wearing orange jackets while working in the community have been abused and jeered at by members of the public, according to study by leaders of the probation officers.Well hear is the deal: stop beating up old grannies for their pension money to turn into drugs, stop beating folk up after a few tins of wifebeater on a Friday night out, stop robbing our homes and leaving us to pick up the bits.
Community, church groups and at least one local council are refusing to accept placements involving offenders dressed in jackets bearing the words “Community Payback”.
Speed-limiting devices should be fitted to cars on a voluntary basis to help save lives and cut carbon emissions, according to a new report.You watch the cunts pull a trial, then say that we all need one in the motor asap. After all the Peruvian whelk has to be saved and so they will work out a cost and behold:
The government's transport advisers claim the technology would cut road accidents with injuries by 29%.Where do they get that figure? Why not 30 or 10. What proof do they have, oh I get it we have to take the BBC's word on trust. Yeah right, thats as trustworthy as HM Govt stats on knife crime.
The device automatically slows a car down to within the limit for the road on which it is being driven.
But charity Safe Speed says the devices are dangerous because they encourage drivers to enter a "zombie mode".
Ministers are planning to help councils draw up digital maps with details of the legal speed on every road.The speed-limiting devices will then use satellite positioning to check a vehicle's location and when its speed exceeds the limit, power will be reduced and the brakes applied if necessary.
Now hang on a fucking moment at the start of this Pravda sorry BBC stated this was a "voluntary basis" So quite what are Ministers doing planning some database on road speeds for this system?
Unless they plan to roll it on out at some future point that is.
No one, an I mean no one plans a database unless they are planning to use that database at some future point.
Now what happens if you have an emergency and need to get your foot down? I can but assume that the state watching will issue a ticket the moment one go's one mile per hour sorry EU wank measures should be used I meant KPM over the legal limit.
The Commission for Integrated Transport and the Motorists' Forum, which both advise the government, are calling on ministers to promote a wide introduction of the system.Of course they are - after all its a volutary system - designed to save lives, give more power to unelected quango's that HM govt loves so much as well as saving the beloved Peruvian Whelk from dreaded Global Boring.
John Lewis, from the Motorists' Forum, told BBC Breakfast he believed the devices would help drivers obey limits and therefore keep their licences.
"But we believe that the system should be a voluntary system, that the drivers decide if they have fitted to their car or not, and that they decide if they want to over-ride the speed limit - that should be their choice," he said.Until the pr spin comes in from Labour. Save the planet, reduce accidents, the state knows best, save the whelks in Peru.
There would also be a positive impact on emissions and fuel consumption, he added.See the cunts have started already. Thankfully there are some sane voices out there.
But Claire Armstrong, from the road safety charity Safe Speed, said that the devices could be dangerous.Next up you watch the fuckers bring in the "save the babies" arguement.
She said truck drivers using speed-limiting devices had been shown to "go into fatigue mode or zombie mode" and stopped paying attention to the road.
"That makes it highly dangerous in those scenarios. So you've taken the responsibility away from the driver and that is not [good] for road safety."
Derek Charters, from the Motor Industry Research Association, believes limiting speed automatically could cause accidents.
"The last thing you need is one car to be overtaking and then pull back in, in front of the cars in front, because that braking event will then cause everybody to start to slow down, which will then compress the traffic, which then causes an incident."
Motoring journalist Quentin Wilson said he also believed taking away driver control was a "really, really bad thing".
"Remotely policing the roads from satellites in the sky - I would worry about it an awful lot."
The homeowners, who were among 3,500 respondents to mid-Bedfordshire district council's Gypsy and Traveller Consultation, received letters rejecting their contributions on the grounds that their comments were racist.
Lucy Clarke, a retired company secretary from Stotfold, a planned site for one of the camps, said she was shocked to receive the letter.
Mrs Clarke, said: "As far as I am aware I objected to the camp for entirely reasonable grounds. And yet I then get this letter from the council.
"They even accused me of incitement to racial hatred," she told The Daily Mail. "It's ridiculous - like putting me on a par with Abu Hamza. I am not racist, but I am concerned about what one of these camps could do to our town."
The letter was also sent to the town council, which wrote a response summarising residents' concerns. Brian Collier, the council's chairman, told the newspaper: "We were totally shocked when we then received a letter from the district council saying that was racist."
A spokesman for the council admitted it had been "over-zealous"
He added: "We had no intention of offending those who took the time to respond to the consultation and certainly were not trying to label residents as racist."Yet more 1984 newspeak from the local council.
Look the situation is like this HM Govt or rather the New Labour filth who make up what passes for our government have decided to build camps for these animals.
The consultation process is a whitewash, nothing more it will be going ahead and so they have the counters already worked out for residents complaints. Now they have the perfect excuse as the locals are all paid up members of the Waffen SS according to the council they can now ignore these people and carry on regardless. QED.
After all according to the folk in the council offices pikeys come first and the needs of locals come a poor second.
As for the claim that they had been over-zealous, that is just rubbish. Local authorities hate it, I mean really hate it when the plebs decide to go against policy.
Now at least the residents are not alone as Tessa Jowell has pikeys on her door near enough.
Also lets remember that pikeys are rather sensitive souls, when not robbing houses and fiddling the dole they get offended by Basil Brush(Whats the odds they don't have a tv license either...)
Tags: Itinerant Travellers, PIKEYS, Gypsies, Cool Britannia, Political Correctness, Tony Martin
Drivers will have to declare every 10 years whether they are medically able to get behind the wheel, according to proposals to be set out early in the new year.
For the first time, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) will issue a series of minimum physical and mental requirements motorists must fulfil including eyesight performance and reaction times.
Tests, costing up to £80, will be offered to drivers to check whether they are fit to drive.
Anyone who chooses not to take the tests but declares themselves able to take to the roads will be committing a criminal offence if they fail to meet the established standards.Naturally you have to pay for the
"At the moment the DVLA is sifting through a large number of medical records and simply ends up giving people their licences back."So what is being said here by government is that the DVLA (a government agency set up to administer driving licenses etc) is unable to do their job. That although people are being honest and ticking the box to show they have an illness that should stop them driving, the DVLA are unable/unwilling to cope and sending them their licence back.
In the Birmingham Hippodrome’s version of Robin Hood, Maid Marion praises Robin for robbing the rich and giving to the poor. To which the Sheriff of Nottingham replies: “You’re a proper little David Cameron, aren’t you? I prefer Gordon Brown, he robs from the poor and gives to the banks.”
In Aladdin at the King’s theatre, Edinburgh, Widow Twankey pokes fun at the prime minister’s claim to have saved the world economy. Proffering the magic lamp, she says: “Now you’ve got the lamp maybe you can save the world . . . sorry, the banks.” (The Times)
'It's hard for us making ends meet, it really is. I try to cook healthy food for the kids and keep them looking presentable and the money just goes on food and clothes. Our two older children only want the best trainers because they're at school and don't want to get picked on so what can we do?Well closing ones legs, using contraception and maybe working for a living might be a start?
The rest went on cigarettes, mobile phone bills and pocket money for the children.In all, the family received housing benefit, child benefit, child tax credit, carer's allowance and incapacity benefit.
"I don't know if at the bishops' palaces there has been too much mulled wine passed around over the past few days."Well here is a message to John and co. on the Labour side of the House, it is all well and good to smear politicians as that is all part of the great political game but he should really lay off bashing the Bishop(s).
And Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell, who represents the Church in the Commons, called the bishops' claims "nonsense". Coming from an old champagne socialist like Sir Stuart I am sure they will take his words with a pinch of salt, after all Sir Stuart only sees the poor when he is driven past them at high speed in his state car.
1. First up this on how churches with low attendance could be turned into gyms, restaurants and multi-faith centres. His comments follow his suggestion earlier this month that libraries could benefit from being modernised with coffee bars and abolishing the silence rule. I covered this here
2. He voted to keep that lovely second home allowance for MP's. List of MPs who voted for this here.
3. Then there was his spreading tales about Shami Chakrabarti and David Davis: Link
Human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti hit back at Cabinet minister Andy Burnham for trying to "smear" her association with resigned MP David Davis.
Ms Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, demanded an apology and threatened legal action if the Culture Secretary continued "down the path of innuendo and attempted character assassination".
Her comments came after Mr Burnham suggested she had been "seduced" by the former shadow home secretary's opposition to 42-day pre-charge detention and that they had taken part in late night "heart-melting" phone calls.
....He went on to say he found something "very curious in the man who was - and still is I believe - an exponent of capital punishment, having late-night, hand-wringing, heart-melting phone calls with Shami Chakrabarti".
4. Does anyone else find it strange when he is concerned about the wee little kiddies seeing Abdul lop off someones head but he has no problem with voting for 42 days to detain folk for having a touch of the tar brush about them: Link
5. Then we have him supporting post offices in his area then voting to close them. And again Andy shows himself to be a cunt.
6. He comes up with something called culture hour...
7. He cleared some £129,289 in expenses for the year 2006/07: Link.
8. He likes ID cards, the cunt.
For fucks sake this utter tosser gets more and more insane as the days go by.
All we can hope is that just like WW2, this whole recession gets ended with its architects topping themselves in a bunker in the capital
Teachers in England will have to act as "role models" both in and out of school under a proposed new code of conduct.They could face losing their status if they get drunk and into arguments while out socialising, or do not get help for drink or drug problems.
The draft code has been published by the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE).
GTCE chief executive Keith Bartley said the code set out to teachers that they had to consider their place in society.
Indeed no more shall we have any of that tiresome innocent until proven guilty nonsense. Far better to accuse people in communist style show trials of behaviour against the approved norms.
The document says teachers should "uphold the law and maintain standards of behaviour both inside and outside school that are appropriate given their membership of an important and responsible profession".
The GTCE said the behaviour of teachers could still be inappropriate even if it did not involve doing something illegal.
GTCE head of professional regulation David James said: "You might have an incident in a pub, someone has had too much to drink and there's been some pushing and shoving.
"It hasn't resulted in a criminal offence, but we would look at it in great detail. It is not something we would want teachers to do, but professionally would it have an impact on their registration status?"
You see should you fall fowl of these rules, not follow the doctorine of the New Labour left then you will face a show trial and although completely innocent in the eyes of the law face losing your job.
"On alcohol or substance abuse, he said: "We have the ability to impose restrictions on registration, ways you can remain as a teacher, but you must undertake some training, or counselling or you must give us a medical report."
1.The Bishop of Durham said: “Labour made a lot of promises, but a lot of them have vanished into thin air. We have not seen a raising of aspirations in the last 13 years, but instead there is a sense of hopelessness. While the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer.”2. The Bishop Winchester is of the opinion that the Government has done precious little to help the poor, and refers to the abolition of the 10p tax rate as a ‘disaster’. He said: “It is imperative that this Government help the poorer people and hold the hard-hit communities in its sights, but it seems to have its eye on re-election instead.”3. And the Bishop of Carlisle accused the Government of ‘playing with people’s livelihoods’. He said: “I agree with the Conservatives that the breakdown of the family is a crucial element in the difficulties of our present society. He argued that Labour’s failure to back marriage and its ‘insistence on supporting every choice of lifestyle’ had had a negative effect on society. He said: “I think Labour has got tired.”
In short, Labour have led Britain to family breakdown, burgeoning debt, a growing divide between rich and poor, and a state of hopelessness. They have subordinated their moral and fiscal judgment to political opportunism.
4. The Bishop of Manchester has accused Labour of lacking integrity, of being ‘beguiled by money’ and being ‘morally corrupt’. He said: “The Government has acted scandalously.” They believe that ‘money can answer all of the problems and has encouraged greed and a love of money that the Bible says is the root of all evil. It is morally corrupt because it encourages people to get into a lifestyle of believing they can always get what they want’.
5. The Bishop of Hulme is persuaded that Labour are ‘morally suspect and morally feeble’. He said: “It is unfair and irresponsible of the Government to put pressure on the public to spend in order to revive the economy.”
The European Union is spending £2.3 billion a year on advertising — all drawn from taxpayer revenue paid over by individual governments. This figure is more than Coca Cola’s entire global marketing budget.Oh and lets not forget this, which they are not mentioning in the £2.3 billion spin exercise.British taxpayers contribute £200 million to this staggering swindle, much of which goes into promoting the EU in schools.
A report just issued by the think-tank ?Open Europe’ has revealed that amongst the bizarre waste of money are projects such as getting schoolchildren to “work with Members of the European Parliament to create a directive on chocolate.”
One website called ‘Europa Go!’, aimed at ten to 14-year-olds, included a quiz called ‘The Euro Game’ which promoted the single currency.
The Open Europe report authors concluded that the EU was “geared not towards providing neutral, balanced information, but towards trying to convince people to support EU integration.”
Open Europe director Lorraine Mullally said: “In Britain, the EU is the most unpopular it has been in 25 years, and yet the Commission is doing nothing serious to correct this.
“Instead of throwing taxpayers’ money at propaganda, EU leaders need to take a long, hard look at what is going wrong.”
The European Union’s institutions in Brussels have been accused of squandering millions of Euro of European taxpayers’ money by paying for their employees’ Christmas travel expenses at a time of economic crisis. Hans-Peter Martin, an independent member of the European Parliament from Austria, wrote to the press denouncing this “shocking privilege.”
“The money would be better spent financing meaningful social projects,” Martin wrote. Last year, the European Commission and the European Council jointly spent just under 47 million Euro (USD 65 million dollars) to pay for the Christmas travel arrangements of their 22,800-odd employees.
"Gordon Brown saying he should be allowed to fix the economy is like Bomber Harris offering to fix a few windows in Dresden."
Pinter was a man who wrote lousy plays.
Turned his back on his people.
Claimed to be a pacifist to escape National Service, but sought police protection when attacked by fascists.
Left his wife and children for an aristocrat.
Espoused the working class while living the life of the rich.
Attacked all that was good in the world.**And now the cunt is dead.
These illegal migrant scum commit a crime against you, your family or property and our government rather than remove them out of the land, lets them stay, feeds them and even rewards them for their crimes against you.
"If you commit a crime you will be deported. You play by the rules or you face the consequences."But then Labour also promised us a vote on Europe, still with Gordons record, why should anyone believe a word this fucker says?
One of Gordon Brown’s chief aides is a senior figure in a lobby group that has attacked Vladimir Putin’s leadership of Russia as “corrupt” and “bullying”.Jon Mendelsohn, the Labour party’s chief fundraiser, is a director of the Russia Foundation, a London-based think tank financed by expatriate opponents of the Russian prime minister and of Dmitry Medvedev, the country’s president.Last week David Clark, the chairman of the foundation, told The Sunday Times that he had planned for Mendelsohn to help with fundraising. However, yesterday he said that Mendelsohn had “clarified” with him that this would no longer be possible....
Thousands of Christmas gifts are sent to UK troops abroad anonymously by the public to unnamed soldiers every year.
But Defence ministers are refusing to deliver them - warning that unsolicited goodwill parcels could put a significant strain on logistic supply chains and cost £19million to deliver.
The British Forces Post Office (BPFO) says the free mail service for troops on operations is intended only for the use of close friends and family.
Last year 21,000 sacks of unsolicited mail weighing 170 tons went to frontline forces.
But the Post Office was told in October only to accept parcels from families in the festive run-up.
So for all his shit about how he sees the troops as heroes, our Gordon government beancounters are quite happy to fuck over the troops on the front line. Expect some urgent soundbites from the mono eyed leader about saving the world and getting on with the job.
News of the MoD bonuses come just a month after the department was accused a "gold standard cock-up" over the purchase of eight Chinook helicopters seven years ago. The aircraft are desperately needed in Afghanistan but are still sitting idle in hangars following a string of problems that have increased their cost to £422 million.Some more on this helicopter fuckwittery:
The RAF took delivery of 8 Chinook helicopters at a cost of £259m. But the special purpose bespoke avionics the MOD in its wisdom had ordered were so dysfunctional they couldn't be used.The same MOD that the Commons Public Accounts Committee exposed as totally inept, its 20 biggest projects some 5.9 billions over budget and more than 17 years behind schedule.
Now seven years after delivery and 13 after ordering they still don't work. At a total a cost of c£500m, they are still sitting in a Wiltshire shed. Even though our troops in Afghanistan are desperate for more helicopter support.
The National Audit Office has today issued a damning report, prompting PAC Chairman Lee to describe the whole mess as “one of the most incompetent procurements of all time”.
He went further: this is "a gold standard cock-up".
A couple who have lived in a tent for two years have been told they will remain homeless for Christmas.
Karen and Richard Smith endure freezing nights as they sleep under canvas.
The Argus highlighted their case in November.
At the time they were hoping their housing list bid for a flat in Saltdean would be accepted – but they have discovered their bid has failed.
“We are just stuck at the moment. We haven’t been able to bid for the last six weeks, while we waited to see if we would get this flat. “It is a big disappointment.”
The couple have been forced to move from the cemetery opposite St Nicholas Church in Dyke Road, Brighton, where they were living when The Argus raised their case.
Karen said: “We had to move out of the graveyard.
“One night we got hassled. Kids were saying: ‘Set fire to their tent’ and ‘Burn them at the stake.’”
Karen and Richard, who survive on working tax credit and by selling the Big Issue, are struggling to pay a council tax bill they were sent for six weeks they spent in a temporary flat while Karen recovered from an operation earlier this year.After waiting two years, they do not expect to be successful in finding a council flat in the immediate future. The state however produces its tractor production stats...
According to Brighton and Hove City Council, there were only ten people sleeping rough in the city in June.
But homelessness charities said the way council figures are collected meant they could reflect just a tenth of the real number.
Brighton and Hove City Counciltold The Argus the couple had been offered support. A spokeswoman said: “The couple have been supported by Brighton and Hove’s rough sleepers and street service team, operated by the Crime Reduction Initiative, for many months now and there is no need whatsoever for them to be spending Christmas in a tent.
“In fact, Mr and Mrs Smith have not been seen sleeping rough since they last appeared in The Argus.“Even though they are not residents of Brighton and Hove, Mr and Mrs Smith were offered a deposit for a private rented flat and were found accommodation in Crawley. Both were turned down.“They were also advised that they could request a Community Care Act assessment for the purposes of the National Assistance Act, which also would have given them emergency shelter during the recent cold weather, but they did not take advantage of that either.”
However the people affected deny the accuracy of New Labour tractor production stats:
But Karen said: “That is the first time we have heard that we have been offered anything in Crawley. If they offered us help or temporary accommodation we would take it. Of course we would. We’re not stupid. They are just fobbing us off."
“This is their problem. I don’t know why they pay so much.”
Were I a council tax payer in that authority I would be asking questions of the local councillors as to quite why so much taxpayer money is being pissed away on a woman with 7 kids in tow, who quite evidently could not keep her knees together for very long.
Hell she seems quite put out at people being annoyed at her getting all this for fuck all off the taxpayers whilst the rest of us get exactly fuck all as we either don't qualify or some other tick box fails when we ask.
She adds this fucking gem: “I can’t help it if the law says I should get paid that amount of money.”
Well the law is an ass, rather than tell her ass to keep your knees together and stop popping out babies and to fuck off to some bedsit hovel and a pittance, it keeps you in the lap of luxury at our expense.
Secondly yes you fucking can help it but choose not to. That option is the tough one, its called work. Yes the four letter word itself, the ultimate expletive to the feckless, the indolent, the lazy shiftless workshy Labour voting fucks.
But in a way Toorpakai Saindi has worked, she has whored herself as surely as if she had spread for payment for services rendered.
She has worked at fucking each and every taxpayer in the land in that the place that hurts them the mos. Paying benefits to a shiftless fucker who believes it their God given right to take and take and take again.
So she has worked hard at whoring her self to state benefits.
Yep its the old travel half way around the world and fuck me its a "free"- and I use the word free in a Gordon Brown use of the word - ie free for her as the rest of us daft taxpaying fuckers who drag ourselves to shitty jobs each day for it, that is what I mean by free - council house, meals for kids and no doubt Sky cunting TV thrown in as well.
As for her landlord, well he is taking money off thick council cunts who should know better so I can't blame him for seeing an opportunity but her and the council.
Cunts, total cunts who I hate to see wasting my money.
New Labour a huge "gold standard cock-up", amoral, corrupt and evil to the core.
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