The Museum Of Modern Thinking

From a recent speech: “Bankers must obey right and wrong like children”

Just like MPs do, eh? Unbelievable…

Apparently, MPs will be able to redact (look it up) parts of their expense claims before they are published later this year. What part of honourable still applies to this sorry shower? We have a Home Secretary who, whilst filddling her second home allowance, claims porn for her husband and we pick up the tab. Mr & Mrs Balls also “have done nothing wrong” on their second home allowance, but that doesn’t mean it’s right, does it?

And now this, allowing the very people who fought tooth and nail to keep their expenses secret will be allowed to edit them before publication? It’s a joke, and not a funny one. When will they wake up and see how deeply disillusioned (i.e. pissed off) the voting public are of them? Do they not realise the exceptionally low esteem they are now held in? Incidentally, this isn’t a Labour thing, too many MPs of all parties have their snouts in the trough, and it’s got to stop. At least Brown is doing the right thing by bringing the inquiry into MPs’ second home allowances forward, he’s gone up a notch in my estimation - he’s now on notch -2,176,287

HT The Telegraph (not the great Tory bastion it once was, sadly)

Patrick Boivin is a genius at stop-motion animation, here’s the proof:

Courtesy of The Movie Blog

Holy crap, Daniel Hannan (MEP for South East) totally eviscerates Gordon Brown in the EU. What a speech…

UPDATE: According to Guido Fawkes, Daniel Hannan’s speech made the front page of Drudge AND is the most viewed world-wide video on Youtube today - outstanding! Maybe now the MSM will run it…

Also, Nigel Farage had a good go as well:

Interestingly enough, this isn’t being reported in the mainstream media (especially the BBC) - I wonder why?

Via Guido Fawkes and Iain Dale

Some talented folk here It encapsulates the whole of Kill Bill 1 and 2 and contains comic violence:

Well, a couple of weeks ago I became a statistic - one of the 2.03 million unemployed. After a great couple of years at Northcliffe Electronic Media / Associated Northcliffe Digital, a cost-cutting exercise led to a number of people being made redundant, me being one of those people.

Obviously it gives me more time to blog, but I’d rather get back into work as quickly as possible. In between applying for jobs, I’m working on a new stretching program (Paul Zaichik’s Elastic Steel), decorating the house (well, intending to), walking our son to school and jogging back, keeping my hand in with C# / ASP.Net development, etc.

A fun time, but not really - getting kinda desperate to obtain a new position, and in the current environment, it’s all a bit quiet.

Now I’m off to do the hoovering

A humourous look at what a Watchmen game might play like…

Hat-tip to Cinematical’s Those Wacky Kids with their Watchmen… post (check out the I’m Marvel / I’m DC Youtube clip)

Q: What’s the difference between Bernard Madoff and Gordon Brown?

A: One has drained fortunes from gullible victims, plundering their income and savings to create an illusion of prosperity. The other is going to jail.

From Jeff Randall’s article in The Telegraph, worth reading in its entirety.

Disturbing news, this: the (almost) nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland (bailed out by Labour with our money) is now asking people about their political affiliation, under some crap about anti-fraud via the (oh-so-useful) FSA. You can see it now:

Bank: So you need a loan?
Me: Yes please.
Bank: Ah, I see you’re a conservative sort of guy - we don’t appear to have any products for you…

Here’s Fraser Nelson’s post at Spectator’s Coffee House about it, it’s a rather worrying read…

Here’s Jon Stewart’s humorous take on The Man Who Saved The Banks and Maybe The World ®:

Ah, Jon Stewart - pointedly correct as usual. He calls Gordon a nerd, which is quite tame…

Hat-tip to Guido Fawkes