Awesome – a h/t to Old Holborn for it

Although this has been known for a while, the Yes vote group has received a substantial amount of financial sponsorship / backing / bribe from the Electoral Reform Commission, who just so happen to be in charge of running elections in the UK. They also just so happen to make £millions if we move to an AV system; as usual Guido Fawkes has the story. It is a grubby little band, and if people vote for AV, more and more grubby coalitions will be formed for years, with the chance that there will never be an outright winner again.

There are two things you should know about AV:

1. It is only used in three countries, and of those, two want to get rid of it
2. Nick Clegg wants it

The second point is enough to convince me to vote No.

Anyhoo, here’s my good friend Alan B’Stard to explain why AV is a terrible, terrible idea:

Please note that you’ll need to watch it all the way through…

VOTE NO TO AV.

Rally Against Debt

This is certainly a great cause – anything to show the State-addicted that the private sector is no longer willing to support them is A Good Thing

Rally Against Debt

Any visits to Fortnum and Mason’s by protestors will only be to marvel at their selection of quality goods and perhaps make the occasional purchase.

I think this is a great idea – it should not be hijacked by any left-wing anarchic idiots as the UK Uncut march on the 26th was. Mind you, the majority of the people in the march were just left-wing idiots, scared at seeing their State-supplied lifestyle being cut off. I firmly believe that more, deeper cuts will be required, preferably diversity co-ordinators instead of front-line services.

I work for a living, I have a private pension, will be losing Child Benefit in a couple of years, and can’t even get a required operation on the NHS despite barely using the NHS over the years. I require nothing from the State, and as such, the State should require nothing from me – it even takes taxes under threat of violence.

Perhaps this is what I should point the remainder of my life at – the shrinking / rolling back of the intrusive State…

• George Osborne is right to target benefits, it is not right that they are seen as a “lifestyle choice”. At my pervious job, I would go to the gym, walking past several pubs full of people – what were they doing all day? Why am I working, so that someone else can choose not to? Lord Tebbit’s recent post on the public sector contained a wonderful quote from the architect of the modern welfare state, William Beveridge: ‘unemployment benefits should be limited “lest men become habituated to idleness”.’
• Speaking of the public sector, the news that 9,000 public sector employees are paid more than the Prime Minister is shocking, but not surprising. The public sector badly needs cutting, and the ever-excellent Burning Our Money blog has a chart that ably demonstrates where to start, go have a look.
• Vince Cable at the Lib Dem conference: he’s not spoken yet (it’s 5am or so on 22/9/2010), but you can’t have the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills bashing capitalism. Or saying that a cap on immigration is bad. Or perhaps we just can’t have Vince Cable in the coalition. Lord Tebbit’s post linked above has some ire for him. Worringly, the more I hear from Nick Clegg, the more I like his style
• More Lib Dem madness: why is a eco-nut (Chris Huhne) in charge of energy policy? Not only is he talking up 70′s-style oil prices, but he is also advocating (in the time of recession) a green (bleurgh!) tax rise of £800 a year for motorists and holidaymakers. I thought the war on motorists was meant to have ended? Incidentally, our energy bills have gone up 15 – 20% thanks to the green taxes imposed by the last useless Labour government, thanks a bunch.
• Finally, the best for last: remember the HMRC? The HMRC that lost the child benefit details of 25 million individuals? The HMRC that sent personal details of 19,000 tax credit claimants to wrong people? They now want to calculate your tax for you, not your employer, and let you have whatever’s left. You really couldn’t make it up…

I’m a bit dismayed that the coalition is acting like the last Government, but I believe this is down to the LibDem influence. Never mind, a quick email to my MP via WriteToThem may garner a response

Whilst it’s nice to be owed a refund, spare a thought for the 1.4 million who are being asked, nay, demanded to repay an average of £1,400 or so. It’s not really up to them to decide whether to repay it or not, as HMRC will be taking it directly from their salary. This is, of course, only affecting the middle classes who actually work for a living instead of sponging off the state.

There was some talk about HMRC taking control of tax collection directly, i.e. bypassing the employer, but this total cock-up clearly demonstrates their incompetence and reason why they shouldn’t be even left to run a whelk stall.

Add to that the news that 1 in 5 tax records could be incorrect, and the HMRC look even more “not fit for purpose” (a rare link to The Independent there )

The Telegraph View on the matter gets right to the heart of the question: “The crisis raises a wider point about the degradation of institutions of which this country was once justifiably proud”. Or, in plainer terms, when did we all go to pot? What happened to pride in a job well done? Or even just a job done? The gross incompetence of the HMRC lays bare the UK’s lacksadaisical approach to work, which is shocking.

The coalition government has taken the wrong stance by blaming the previous Labour government, which is a complete cop-out. The money should not be reclaimed from those who owe, as it was HMRC at fault. The new computer system will no doubt be blamed, but as some chap on Sky News said, people operate computers. Perhaps that’s where the problem lies: people rely too much on computers these days to do their thinking for them, and don’t bother to check what they’re actually doing.

Needless to say, the overbearing, big-brother style bullying tactics of the HMRC (“pay up or else”) will make a lot of people nervous, but there is some good news: As Anna Raccoon details in her take on this, the information in this Daily Mail article shows that it might be possible to tell the taxman where to go, so have a read.

It really is hard to be surprised any more about how truly awful the public sector is these days, but this slow-building story has finally hit the front pages and people’s doormats, requesting monies when we’re still in a recession and probably heading for another one. It is just wrong for the HMRC to be demanding money at a time like this when it was their cock-up. The HMRC really need to have the auditors sent in, the head should be sacked, the tax system vastly simplified (no more tax credits, simple bands, nice and easy) and the hundreds (thousands?) of incompetents (not a spelling mistake) be placed in jobs where their skills are more apt, like staring out of a window.

That is all.

The man who is standing out at the moment is Eric Pickles, currently wielding the sword of cuts against various quangos. His latest target, however, is all the visual clutter on England’s streets – all the “20mph zone” signage, all the arrows, all the pointless signs, the railings preventing you from getting somewhere, etc. As such, he has written to councils reminding them that they are not legally required to put up so many signs, and the money saved could be spent on other things, like repairing the roads.

A good example of pointless signage can be found in the next village: I turn into a country lane (which has no footpath) and halfway along the road is a sign, saying “No footpath for 450 yds”.

I KNOW THERE’S NO FOOTPATH – I HAVE EYES. There was no footpath on the main road, there was no footpath for half the road distance, now there’s a sign telling me there’s no footpath for the rest of the road? I KNOW. What a pointless sign.

Apparently, the Govt. will be asking members of the public to send in pictures / locations / complaints of all this clutter and will be acting accordingly, like they did with the Freedom Bill. I’ll be sending the aforementioned sign in, along with many others. I’m also considering putting a page up on this site with my pics.

Anyway, it’s good news – now, if we can only get them to put roads back to the speed limits they were before speed cameras came along and the limits were reduced and cameras were slapped on them BY LABOUR to raise revenue, that’d be great

Unfortunately, that’s very likely to happen thanks to the hatred cultivated by Labour towards anyone who dares to be British and White and proud about it, or speak out about unlimited immigration without seeing the “benefits” it brings us.

Still, soon I hope we will be shot of this truly awful, incompetent Labour government and have a strong Conservative government that can start repairing the huge damage done by Labour to this once-great Britain.

Old Holborn reports that the leaders of the English Defence League were arrested today on the way to a static peaceful protest in Edinburgh. Moreover, some of their homes were raided by armed police and computer equipment was seized – here’s a full report on what happened from the EDL.

I don’t see the police doing any raids on United Against Facism.

Make no mistake, a vote for Labour is a vote for more of this treatment from the virtual police state Labour have built – and mostly towards the indigenous population as they force us to bend over backwards, or more accurately forwards, and take their multiculturalism bullshit, along with their now-leaked policy of mass immigration as a method of changing Britiain irreversibly.

I’m not sure what to make of the EDL, I support what they are trying to do and some may compare them to the BNP, but last time I checked, we still have freedom of speech in this country – just. If some “radical” muslim zealot can hold up a sign saying “Death to those who insult Islam” and not be prosecuted (oddly enough), surely the EDL can march carrying signs that say “Laugh at those who insult freedom” and not be arrested.

A more important point: the EDL has been deemed to be dangerous (or whatever) by Labour / the police – who’s next? I doubt they will crack down on the United Against Fascism fascists (whose slogan should be “It’s not Fascism when we do it!”), but perhaps another small minority group like Fathers 4 Justice, who got unpleasantly shut down. Then maybe something closer to your beliefs – and then you.

Again, I have to break out Pastor Martin Niemöller’s poem “First they Came”:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

In case that’s not clear enough, and as Old Holborn says, what they do to the EDL today, they do to me tomorrow…

I cannot WAIT until the General Election and throw the current shower of shit out, and hopefully begin to reverse the horrendous damage they have done to this once-great sceptred isle of Britain.

Damn you Labour, damn you to Hell.

The emails contain details on how to get round FOI requests, someone thinking it was “good news” that a leading sceptic had died (classy!) and this wonderful tid-bit:

“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”

Fraudulent scientific shenanigans indeed! Oh, by the way, it’s taxpayer-funded research as well – I understand that some more FOI requests have already gone in.

Here are some links on the story, which all should be required reading:

• Start of the story on Watt’s Up With That?
• Commentay by the Devil’s Kitchen, who was a hell of a lot to say on the matter
• James Delingpole at The Daily Telegraph
• Melanie Phillips at The Spectator

Unsuprsisingly, the mainstream media isn’t really reporting it, which is shameful. In addition to this fraudulent “science” being paid for by taxpayers, governments around the world are using this AGW as an excuse to raise taxes, to create complex carbon trading schemes (of which Al Gore is almost a billionaire off of) and some Labour twat has even suggestion a “carbon ration” for citizens in order to move about – usual Labour, restriction of freedom.

I always said it was a con, and hopefully now people will start to see that and be as mad as hell and not take it any more – the increased green taxes, made to feel guilty whenever they start up their car, that godawful advert on TV where the dad is reading that propaganda to his daughter, all that crap can stop.

Anthropogenic (man-made) Climate Change is a CON.

(That said, I’m all for reducing pollution, recycling things and solar panels – but not those sodding wind farms, they suck ass.)

Incidentally, here’s a telling picture of how the CRU have form for distorting data:

Cat’s out of the bag, methinks!

Lord Mandelson to become Minister of Information

I mean, wow… But… I…

Seriously, I need to have a lie down now. Am I really living in a 1984 world?

No one’s gonna take me alive,
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive

Whilst the rest of the country is sitting on its arse, claiming benefits, not working, not being productive, watching X Factor / Jeremy Kyle, terrorising the streets, those of us who do work – and I mean proper work, not some jobsworth crap in the council, suckling at the teat of the state – are taxed more and more, penalised more and more, and just basically screwed over more and more.

Well, no more. I vow to always rail against big government, to always question pogroms, to always question, to always fight for my rights (and not the Yooman Rights that Blair foisted upon us) – even when there may be no chance of winning:

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves” – Winston Churchill

Labour have absolutely ruined the Great Britain I loved. They have systematically destroyed the goodwill they inherited in 1997, pissed away all the money that came their way, allowed unfettered immigration to radically alter the look of the land (with no benefit whatsoever), screwed us over on Europe, ruined education, massively increased the surveillance state (no surprise given that the Left were friends with the KGB until the early 80s), turned us all into wishy-washy people who can’t think for themselves, launched unjust wars – ah, generally they’ve just f’d up the entire country.

I sincerely hope that the new Government (please don’t let it be Labour) will begin to rectify what Labour have done; they can start by having an “in or out” referendum on the EU, if we’re still in they can repatriate our powers, MASSIVELY cut the state in all areas (including those godawful quangos), sort out immigration, and for Pete’s sake, sort out the police, i.e. get them arresting criminals as opposed to members of the public. Oh, and they can drop that ID card AND the databases that will support it.

This rant is over, but there’s more, lot’s more. I read somewhere that Labour may become insolvent after the next election – I sincerely hope so. Anything that will keep them from EVER coming back and screwing us over again would be great.

And I do not believe that all politicians are the same. Thanks to the expenses scandal, there is going to be a considerable changing of the guard at the next General Election, with young blood should come change.

If not, I’m starting a civil war.