So his spreading of the celeb but cheeks for New Labour has been rewarded with a knight hood in the honours list. So getting an knighthood has come down how much semen one is prepared to swallow from the New Labour lot.

So time for a repost:
Ah Patrick, you lovie champagne socialist, you think its all jolly good fun to support New Labour do you. Well yes like many in the media, you can avoid the poverty they have imposed on the majority, the huge taxes, the restrictions on our freedoms and well all that annoying stuff that affects us poor folk.

Yes, you can offer support to an amoral party that has lost touch with the working person and their interests, take part in their petty propaganda on some Euro party no one here in the UK really gives a toss about.

Well you are in fine company with the anti-white racist Jo Brand, pro labour cock muncher Stephen Fry (who I abused previously here) and the nutters from the unions.

Still as one of the elite Patrick, you can afford to avoid the dole lines, the vast numbers who's lives have been ruined by the party you support.

So do be a good Thespian an to paraphrase your own words: "Fuck off and make it so."

New Labour whores, sell outs and shrills bleat about some chaps in Europe. Patrick Stewart, what a fucking cunt.


Strange how this cock sucking, new labour penis sucking cuntmonkey gets an award for whoring his arse cheeks yet Joanna Lumley who supported the Gurkha's gets fuck all....


Strange that;-)

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She seems rather concerned about rights of dusky folk in hot sandpit nations...

But not your rights to have a value for money MP, as it was Ann Clwyd who claimed £2,300 for carpets, tables and a chair a snip at 375 quid from Maskreys department store.

She sees it as a vital right for her to claim mortgage interest paid for by you, its her right to charge you for a cleaner to clean the house you help pay for.

Who thinks it is her right to claim all her utilities off you, so when your huge electric bill turns up you can be pleased knowing you paid Ann's electric bill for her.

Who deems it her right to charge you twenty five quid for each night she spends at her second home. How cool is that! Get the taxpayers to help fund the second home, get them to pay for its upkeep and cleaning and we even pay her when she sleeps over.

She deems it her right as this shows to grab the maximum 400 quid food allowance each and every month, which explains why she has such a fat arse.

She also sees it as vitally important to keep her cushy MP allowance as her right.

Who thinks the state has the right to lock you up for 42 days.

Who can pontificate about rights abroad whilst voting to shaft Gurkha's.
Her concepts on rights and ours seem rather different.

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First up they run a scare story about how women are drinking to much of the demon booze an they may have a few units over the recommended amount.

Then they decide to go all consumer rights and run a story about how drinkers are not getting a full pint measure in their local.

Re the first units are utter arse gravy and were dreamed up by some chaps on the back of a fag packet and have been used for years, despite having no basis in science.

As for the second, if you don't get a full pint then complain.

Although do take care about complaining over a short pint measure if you are in JD Wetherspoon,  the supplier of booze to the social underclass as the staff may bar you for doing so.

Also I had best point out that customers who fancy a pint the Hornblower in Newport, should also refrain from asking for a clean glass. Myself and Brew Wales stopped off for a pint and when he asked for a clean glass and was abused for his crime.

Having been back in I have noticed it is under new ownership and even the mould stain creeping up the wall has been removed.

Customer service alive an well in Wales. ;-)

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Some very fine mockery of the Piers Fletcher Dirvishe's a couple of political piggies who have done fuck all of worth other than flip their homes and pick your pockets.

Jingle Bells Jingle Balls
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Via GOT, yes YOU can send a suggestion for a New Year Resolution to the mono eyed, snot munching, gold selling, economy fucking, regarded as a joke on the World stage, inept cuntmonkey of an unelected PM James Gordon Brown.

Fancy that, or just call the worthless cunt a cunt for the sheer joy of it. Fancy telling him he should fuck off and his wife has a whiffy fanny, then feel free and direct the love direct to him, via this handy little widget.


But it gets better, no really as not only do you get the chance to abuse McCyclops but you can also give some advise to Tory boy SPAM Cameron, Nick Clegg(over), Alex "lard arse" Salmond, Leuan "come home to a real fire, buy a holiday home in Wales" Wyn Jones, Martin "Don't mention the gun running" McGuiness and Peter "also a terrorist" Robinson.

Fuck it, call them all inept hogging cuntmonkeys, out to play tribal politics and loot your pockets for their own end and who are long overdue to be lynched and be left swinging from the nearest lamp post.

I did :-)

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I decided to do an obituary of a parasite and so reposted this.

It is an ex-MP, it is no more, it has shuffled off this mortal coil an gone to meet the choir invisible.

One MP who will be getting to enjoy his ill gotten gains, I am raising a glass to the removal of another parasite from the body politic. Still, at least there'll be no more taxpayer funded flats for his daughter.

I do hope the thieving scrotum paid us all back that £8000 quid before dying.

An so I present for you the obituary of David Taylor.

Those who knew him well are disappointed by the wholly misleading inadequate accounts of his work. In his years as an MP he gave his all into doing fuck all and blaming everything on the evil smokers

Inevitably there is a prurient interest in a possible by-election embarrassment. The spin machine will be in overdrive and there is no truth in Nokia phones being thrown across the No.10 bunker as Gordon calls Taylor a cunt for dying on him.

He was known for his sense of humour and would no doubt appreciate the irony in dying before he could stand down as an MP and enjoy his ill gotten gains.

It was his fellow MPs who voted him the Backbencher of the Year in 2007, an example in political whoring, cock suckery and rubber stamping any old shit. I

He pursued the higher aims of class warfare, blaming everything on baby eating Tories and the BNP; playing the animal welfare card to have a go at everything countryside related.


He demonized the smokers and helped push the nanny state ban that stops people engaging in legal activities just because they are in a public space.

He was hurt in the last twelve months by off-target grotesquely unfair criticism. Indeed if anything the expenses he fiddled over his years in Government far exceeded the rather piss poor amount he was asked to pay back. 


He will be sadly missed come the day when the masses haul out the 646 sorry 645 MP's and stick their heads on spikes. 


Mind you, they dug Oliver Cromwell up so maybe he will be joining them after all. 

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As I gaze out at a few inches of the white stuff outside my abode, I see Old Holborn has posted this by some eco doom sayer.

Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become **“a very rare and exciting event”.”Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Professor Jarich Oosten, an anthropologist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, says that even if we no longer see snow, it will remain culturally important.
“We don’t really have wolves in Europe any more, but they are still an important part of our culture and everyone knows what they look like,” he said.
David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold.

**So we had a “very rare and exciting event” the other week as Newport saw the discarded alco pop bottles and burger wrappings all covered in snow, an lo an fecking behold today has given us another “very rare and exciting event”.

Would like to take that virtual cold and ram 12" of virtual cold in the form of an iron spike up these dickheads back passages.

March 2000
Hat tip to EU referendum

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The Daily Mail run with some classic howlers in this load of old horse cock. Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has sparked fears it is encouraging binge drinking by selling beer at just 99p a pint.

It is re-running its controversial ‘January sale’ campaign from last year – but this time it is extending the 99p deal to include glasses of wine and shots of gin.

Charities have condemned pubs which slash drink prices as ‘irresponsible’, saying it simply encourages people to drink more. Drink is already 60 per cent lower than it was in real terms in 1980.

Now I am no fan of chav booze seller JD Wetherscum, indeed I have often described them as a supermarket in pubs clothing. A soulless clone pub chain, devoid of all originality, with none of the games you find in real pubs and less atmosphere than the fucking moon. However, the demon booze argument has been debunked and should be nailed to cross and left to die once and for all.

Really? Sure about that "fact" about cheap booze are we Daily Mail? The truth as the Office of National Statistics shows, this is utter horse cock:

Between 1980 and 2008, the price of alcohol increased by 283.3%. After considering inflation (at 21.3%), alcohol prices increased by 19.3% over the period.

Nope, so that's one lie debunked.

It comes just a week after it emerged that almost a million people were admitted to hospital for drink-related reasons last year.

Okay, now lets debunk this one the almost a million people sounds a lot. Yet how many of them were mad pant pissing alcoholic's from Scotland, who see a trip to A and E as a weekly trip out. I am sure should the figures be broken down, the largest numbers will be spotty teens and repeat offenders like Mad Jock McPant Pisser.

Plus if factor in the fact that each night millions of people go out, enjoy themselves and do not end up splashing half a gallon of alco pop over some junior doctors shoes at 3AM, neither do they get arrested and suffer nothing more than a sore head in the morning. That however fails to make a story in the Daily Mail.

And naturally the self appointed moral guardian and new age prohibitionist one Don Shenker of fake charity and taxpayer funded quango Alcohol Concern : 'This is a shocking indictment on the Government's failure to tackle harms from alcohol misuse.

'The Government must take strong measures on the affordability and availability of alcohol to reduce the unnecessary burden on the NHS and improve everyone's health.

Note that Don is speaking as someone not elected to any office, who is funded by your taxes and believes he knows what is best for you. No matter what you may think.

Last year, the fake charity and quango Alcohol Concern condemned Wetherspoons’ move, saying that if the drinks industry did not regulate itself, the government should step in.

Don Shenker, chief executive of fake taxpayer funded non job quango Alcohol Concern, said: 'Alcohol is not an ordinary commodity like bread or milk.

'Alcohol causes harm to the nation's health and economy, and there appears to be a strong link between cheap alcohol and the high levels of binge drinking.'

If those are not the words of a thin lipped prohibitionist, a member of the New Labour funded temperance movement then I don't know what are?...

See also http://donshenkerisacunt.blogspot.com/

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Some well deserved mockery of the snot munching, economy wrecking, "world saving", likes it up the bum mono eye'd gurning PM Gordon "McWhere's me feckin pills" McBroon.

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I see that over Christmas some Islamoloon decided to try and blow himself up - along with a load of other people.

Naturally this has caused loads of hassle for everyone planning to travel from points a to b. As if Christmas was not stressful enough, now the stressed travelers have to deal with even more checks and pissing about in the airports.

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Some people are Darwin Awards in the making. As a native of Wales I know what our weather is like, in a word shitty.

Rain, sleet, hail and snow and occasionally we get teased by a big yellow thing that has the window lickers in Merthyr Tydfil building a wicker man to their pagan Gods.

But get this for stupidity:

Mountain rescue teams say two pairs of walkers are lucky to be alive, after trying to climb Snowdon in treacherous weather in tracksuits and trainers.

Two men from Warrington, Cheshire slipped 200ft (61m) down a snow face before being located by an RAF crew.

Rescuers had been involved in reaching two students from London who became tired on the mountain on Tuesday.

Rescue teams said it was "utterly unnecessary" and they were horrified both pairs were so badly-equipped.

Its evolution in action, leave them there as a lesson to others. Odds on these Darwin Award nominees will find some other way to remove themselves from the gene pool.

Mind they were students, no doubt dim witted types filling one of the Polyversities taking an oh so important "media studies" course...

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GOT has produced this little gem.

Abolutely spot on, the local councuntscill has legions of fucking staff, all sitting about in comfortable offices, viewing porn and playing bastard solitaire.

The town centre is relatively clear, but for those on the side roads or more than a hundred yards away, the view appears to be that we can all go fuck ourselves.

Getting any place is putting life an fucking limb at risk, I like ice skating as much as the next chap but sure as fuck don't wish to engage in it when ever I step outside my humble abode.

Not a sign of a gritting vehicle up my way, an you can bet that should we get a decent amount of snow later today or in the next few days the fuckers will not do shit.

Get the overpaid scum out of the offices, give them shovels and grit an clear the roads.

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To everyone* and a Happy New Year.
*By everyone, I don't mean everyone as some do not deserve a Happy Christmas: Like the thieving MP's, quango heads who do fuck all for a huge wage, lazy scum from Merthyr Tydfil who claim sick pay and all have taxi jobs.

The weird unwashed eco loons, socialists, illegal migrants, daft third world fucknuts who lack the brainpower to move off a fucking flood plain or build their homes on stilts; Africans who spend all day fighting an eating their neighbours and who then beg for aid.

Plus the French, garlic and cheese eating euro surrender monkeys, The BBC, New Labour and the daft fucks who vote for them.

All the arse scratching lazy scum in the public sector who bang on for fucking hours about what a great job they do for a huge wedge of cash; whilst producing fuck all and doing exactly the same.

Dumb as fuck PCSO's/Community Streetwalkers can all catch cancer an die, along with all the other clipboard wielding wankers who stick their noses into our lives.

Plus a belated fuck the fuck off to Patrick Stewart for whoring his arse for New Labour; fuck off and make it so and everyone who has ever appeared on here
(Pic's lifted from B3TA)

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From Tractorstats(David Forward)

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Then this removes that doubt and yes they are and everyone who votes for them are complete and utter syphilitic aids infected cunts.
A judge has sentenced a businessman at the centre of a fraud case to 3½ years in jail despite admitting the existence of fresh evidence that casts doubt on the safety of his conviction.

Lawyers for Philip Bowles, who claim his ability to defend himself was impaired after his assets were frozen by the courts, were seeking his release on bail yesterday, pending an urgent appeal against his conviction for cheating Revenue and Customs.

Bowles, 60, was imprisoned amid extraordinary scenes at Oxford Crown Court on Monday evening, as Judge Anthony King publicly wavered over jailing him. Defence lawyers had asked the judge to avoid a “grave injustice” by taking the unprecedented step of sending the case to the Court of Appeal before passing sentence. That request was rejected.

An appeal would centre on a forensic accountancy report, which claims that far from owing taxes, Bowles’s companies were due a refund.

From Oldt Holborn
To ensure that he could not adequately fight back or mount a defence, HMRC seized his assets. No innocent until proven guilty for people who have offended the sensibilities of the State whose credo is the money belongs to us, unless proved otherwise.

The Judge has so little independent freedom of action under this Rotten Parliament, despite there being more than adequate evidence that there is significant doubt that the man is guilty in the Judge's mind, that he has to go to jail, pending an appeal.

Best comment go's to Peter Avery, assistant director of HMRC Criminal Investigations, who welcomed the sentence, saying: “This sentence will serve as a deterrent to anyone who thinks that tax fraud is a risk worth taking.” - Know your place scum, pay up, be jailed even if you have over payed us.

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So I was sat in the pub with the author of Brew Wales and a random text comes through:

Hi Kate U missed lush nite. mega drunk me. u now robbie price he passed me a lesb pic and it tha gal u use 2 work wiv from newbridge. U b mega shockd her poor b.friend.

Tamara X.

Now most people might have deleted this right off, or ignored it, maybe a text back to say that one has the wrong number; yeah right like fuck is that going to happen this is me and some chav bird has sent a misdirected text my way; thus me and an equally drunken mate issue a reply:

Hi Tam x! I luv u cos i cun out as a les an me her had fun already(smily face logo) U up 4 a 3 some as we both think U hot

x Kate xxx

So I figure that should either piss them off or confuse them, either way its a jape and amusing. Maybe nothing more will be heard, well yes it was....

U r mad Kate Who phone U on? Got tha gals pic 4 U. R u the theif who nicked my thong last w.end(smily face)

Okay so they back for more and also misspelt the word thief an so between our twisted minds we sent Tamara this:

Yer thong smell nice as me an my gal get it on. Was you on the rag last week as it really pongs? On 4 a 2 way les sess jus u an me XXX Kate.

Now if that don't piss someone off, I don't what will. Well not 2 minutes later comes a reply.

Na i aint up 4 it babe. U welcome to my liam x.

Note this text appears a lot shorter and somewhat worried about the context of the conversation between what I can but assume what was two platonic and happy friends and the boundaries suddenly moving somewhat. So we had to send a last and so far un-replied text which read:

Dont want liam as he takes it from jon up the arse. Still want u n facied u for ages. Cant wait to kiss yr moist lips an I dont mean the ones on yr face(smily face)

Lvs ya kate XXX

It kept us drunken types highly amused for a good few hours. If you wish to add your 2p worth to this, then do let Tamara know on +447812483815.

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Well you have been, four times in fact.
1.First off by the banks who stick these charges on, often for their own admin errors or for the "crime" of going 2p overdrawn and then your fiscally raped by the banks for £35 quid plus as a penalty.

2.Then after stealing your money, the supreme court that we pay for decides it will support the banks in their theft of your money.

Seven major banks and Nationwide Building Society had challenged High Court and Court of Appeal decisions that the charges come under 'unfair contract' rules and are therefore subject to regulation by the Office of Fair Trading.

Today's shock ruling will come as a severe blow to the hopes of millions of bank customers who had hoped to claim back billions in charges.

Campaigners had claimed that the cost to a bank of a customer going overdrawn was less than £2.50 - while banks were charging up to £35 if they went over their agreed overdraft limit.

3.Now the Office of Fair Trading(should that be unfair) has stated that it will happily bow down to the almighty corporate banks and take no further action against banks over unauthorised overdraft charges, but will continue to monitor the personal current account market.

It said it still has 'significant concerns' about current accounts. Although not 'significant enough' to actually do anything for the public.

But the OFT said it still believed 'fundamental changes' were needed to ensure the market worked in customers' best interests. Well that's jolly nice of them, but don't expect any action from them.

4.Oh and just to rub salt in the wounds, these are the same banks who all fucked up and were bailed out by money from you. The banks generate around £2.6billion a year from the charges, which they claim is used to subsidise free banking for other consumers; this is an out and out lie and an excuse to carry on what is extortion and backed up by threats should it not be paid.

 The fact is they do not want to lose the money extorted by bank charges.

We have a situation where banks refuse customers on low incomes over draft facilities and after they have been hit by charges, often leave them caught in an expanding loop of debt.

So what's a fiscally raped customer to do? Well first off move, let the bank know an just give them a few days notice that if they don't do something your off. The other bank will even transfer all standing orders etc across for you.

Then complain, so what if you can't win don't let that stop you. Tie the fuckers up in complaints, then stick in a complaint with the Financial Ombudsman. After all they are there in theory to support you in any dispute.

Since I left Shat West a few months back, I have three ongoing complaints with them and enjoying every minute of it.

Log each an every conversation, dates, times and the names of the people you speak to. Note the excuses and refuse to accept them, all the banks want is the complaints to go away.

Oh, there may well be that the reason the good overtaxed, put upon people have ended up losing at each and every turn. Yes, it's the good old curse of Gordoom who cursed the process.

The long-running court battle over bank charges could reach an early conclusion after the prime minister, Gordon Brown, told bank chiefs today to negotiate a solution and resolve the dispute "without further delay".

More than 1m reclaim requests over excessive bank fees and charges have been on hold since July 2007, following the start of a test case brought by the Office of Fair Trading against seven banks and one building society. The case has gone through the high court and the court of appeal and is currently in front of the newly created supreme court.

But in his first intervention in the case, Gordon Brown said : "I believe that a negotiated solution could be in everyone's best interests, and so we have called on the banks and the regulators to explore a quicker way to resolve this without further delay."

Ahhhh! That's why we are a lot poorer.

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Sikander Khoso for The Nation, December 13

JACOBABAD - A 20-year-old girl was auctioned at village Badani Bhutto of Taluka Kashmore in consideration of Rs2,70,000 on Saturday.Azizan, daughter of late Allah Bux Bhutto, was divorced on the allegation of Karo-kari some time back. She is stated to be mother of two children and was residing with her brother who held the open auction for her 'sale' at village Badani Bhutto.
A large number of villagers showed interest in the auction that started with Rs50,000 and ended at Rs270,000. Bilawal Bhutto, 50, of the same village purchased her for the said amount. Initially he paid Rs210,000 for the girl.
Maulana Azizullah Bhutto performed their nikah [marriage] later.
It is irony of the situation that no one condemned the inhuman act. The groom will take the bride to his house after paying the rest of the amount. The auction money was distributed equally among all the brothers of the girl.

Slavery and forced marriage, all the joys of liberal Islam.

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The 12 Days of Jihad. A little ditty for the Christmas Holidays.

On the first day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... An AK and a stolen Humvee. 

On the second day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.

On the third day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.


On the fourth day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 4 Pounds of Semtex, 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.


On the fifth day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 5 RPGs! 4 Pounds of Semtex, 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.


On the sixth day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 6 Checkered Towels, 5 RPGs! 4 Pounds of Semtex, 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.


On the seventh day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 7 Flying Lessons, 6 Checkered Towels, 5 RPGs! 4 Pounds of Semtex, 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.


On the eighth day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 8 Roadside Bombings, 7 Flying Lessons, 6 Checkered Towels, 5 RPGs! 4 Pounds of Semtex, 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.


On the ninth day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 9 Virgins Dancing, 8 Roadside Bombings, 7 Flying Lessons, 6 Checkered Towels, 5 RPGs! 4 Pounds of Semtex, 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.


On the tenth day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 10 Infidel Beheadings, 9 Virgins Dancing, 8 Roadside Bombings, 7 Flying Lessons, 6 Checkered Towels, 5 RPGs! 4 Pounds of Semtex, 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.


On the eleventh day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 11 Pictures of Yassir, 10 Infidel Beheadings, 9 Virgins Dancing, 8 Roadside Bombings, 7 Flying Lessons, 6 Checkered Towels, 5 RPGs! 4 Pounds of Semtex, 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humvee.


On the twelfth day of Jihad, Allah gave to me... 12 Freedom Fighters, 11 Pictures of Yassir, 10 Infidel Beheadings, 9 Virgins Dancing, 8 Roadside Bombings, 7 Flying Lessons, 6 Checkered Towels, 5 RPGs! 4 Pounds of Semtex, 3 French Passports, 2 Healthy Kidneys, An AK and a stolen Humveeeeeee!

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Yorkshire priest Tim Jones has some strange views with regards that old rule "Thou shalt not steal"

“My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift,” he told his congregation, according to a report in today's Times.

“I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither.

“I would ask that they do not steal from small family businesses, but from large national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices."

Fr Jones said even God might turn a blind eye. "My advice does not contradict the Bible’s Eighth Commandment because God’s love for the poor and despised outweighs the property rights of the rich," he went on.

But has he not stated that the costs will be passed on "to the rest of us in the form of higher prices.", also does he think this applies to downloading music from the internet?

It's just I happened to get some stuff off of Pirate Bay the other week and wish to make sure it's all fine with the chap upstairs...

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Another slight sprinkling of global warming this evening, little more than a few flakes. Alas as the other lot from the other day, has laid unmoved for and sadly unmelted; the whole of my town has turned into a glorified skating rink for both pedestrians and motorists.

Not a sign of gritting machine to make movement possible as the council has pissed away the budget on eco-bin coordinators, junkets and jobs for the boys and dildo's for black lesbian single parents (probably).

Roll on global warming in order to get rid of the fucking stuff.

Bastard snow post 1 here.

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Remember all that bashing of the Lords, staffed they said with baby seal clubbing, fox hunting Tory peers who eat babies for breakfast.


It needs reform they said, it needs the life peers who are their through the privilege of birth removed they said. They waved the red flags and promised a second house staffed with honest fine folk, but they meant their own; rewards for the champagne socialist elite....
And what a very expensive parasite she is:

She has cost the taxpayer £200,000 in expenses since becoming a peer four years ago but Baroness Adams of Craigielea’s voice was heard just once in House of Lords proceedings.

Her maiden speech on the issue of the West Lothian question in February 2006 was to be her first and last contribution to the cut and thrust of repartee in the Lords chamber.

However, Labour’s Lady Adams, who as Irene Adams represented the constituency of Paisley north for 15 years from 1990, was the second most expensive peer in the Lords last year, charging £66,896, including £30,212 for overnight accommodation.

She would be better suited rooting about a French forest for truffles. Oink, oink, oink.

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McCyclops hiding in his bunker.

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Now I left the tender embrace of Shat West some time back but took the liberty of popping in a complaint to the  Financial Ombudsman Service, who wrote to me on the 30th Nov. This was followed by an acknowledgment letter from Shat West on the 7th of Dec. advising that they would be in touch and from an Amanda Harris on the Customer Relations dept.

Today I get a letter from Shat West, which quite frankly had bugger all to do with the complaint and the many, many points that I had raised.

Instead it whittered on about the couple of pennies that I left in the account and how that was closed and a further charge of £12.95 was due for the Advantage Gold Subscription. How they used the few pennies to clear that and waived the rest of this charge. They added "For this reason there was no credit balance due to be paid to you.

I hope you will find this a satisfactory resolution to your complaint."

Well as they did not deal with, indeed not even mention my complaint or rather complaints; then no I do not find this a satisfactory resolution.

So I decided to call them, an this is where the fun began.

First up was Mr Drone, very polite which is a vast improvement on 99.9% of the staff they have. I gave him the ref. number and was then told that as I did not have an active account I would need to write in and he could not discuss this matter with me.

I pointed out that the letter from his department and from someone called Nick Murphy and actually said ""Please let me know if you remain dissatisfied by either phoning me on 0800 015 4212..." Apparently that was not good enough an the "computer says no attitude returned."

I ended the call and called back asking to speak to the elusive Nick Murphy, a lady advised that someone would call me back and took contact details...

So two calls and no joy, then the callback came.

I explained that my complaint was not about the closing balance but about the rather shoddy service from their call centres, the Newport branch and the total lack of communication and hiding behind the rules are rules argument.

I gave the example of them refusing to pay out on my washing machine and my being a few hundred quid down on the deal. Something that I covered here, here, here, and here.

She barely acknowledged that, they may consider that matter closed but I sure as fuck don't. So I got back onto banking matters, and their attempts to shaft me for charges. I also mentioned that I advised them by mail and they utterly failed to offer a resolution leading to my closing the account.

Brought up the unhelpful attitude of those in branch who refused point blank to remove the charges and keep a customer and my offering to put the cash into that account from another there and then.

Helpful banking, not at Nat West in Newport.

I did mention that they were kind enough to mail me back after I had actually closed my account.

I did mention that I had mailed them a couple of times, and they not appear that bothered over losing business  and that explains in part the current state of the banks. Although I got a half arsed attempt at apology.

Then she mentioned that there had been a telephone conversion which she claimed had been resolved, something I denied having not been offered a satisfactory resolution I was not willing to close off the complaint(s). Especially when I also found out during that call that had I stayed with Nat West I would have been charged at total of £108 in charges.

The lady I spoke to seemed rather confused saying that I had been reimbursed this money, I had not they were written off by the bank as I had closed my account prior to them being put on. She did grasp it finally bless her, but it took time.

Then the conversation got around to what did I want, well for them to improve their service and maybe(and I am not holding my breath on this) someone to call up and apologize over bloody shoddy service, rude staff and hiding behind rules to which I had been subjected. Oh and a total lack of the oft talked about and never seen by me "helpful banking"

She attempted to defend the £108 quid, I said that as I was not charged it, it was not that important but still wrong and spent her time defending the banks position.

Not a single sorry passed her lips, or admission in any way shape or form of any error on the banks part.

She said that another letter would be sent me in 7/10 days re the Newport branch and the level of service I had received.

And so another mail has gone to customer.relations@natwest.com

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Was informed by the better half that it was snowing, only a John Prescott's cock's worth(that's about half a fucking inch) on the steps outside; but fecking snow and it is as cold as fuck as well.

Have to go out tomorrow, about a million bastard things to do and have a feeling that I shall be taking a licensed bandit trip in a taxi run by some Abdul straight off the Eurostar to points B, C, D and then back to A.

If this is global warming, it needs to speed the fuck up here in Wales.

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