Reviled for doing nothing … or something …

Today, I am officially confused and bewildered. By all accounts 14 British Muslim advisers have warned the Prime Minister that Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip had prompted “acute levels of intensity” in what is described as “their” communities (my first point of contention, I rather stupidly thought this country was one big community, I stand corrected).

Furthermore, the dire warning is that if Britian doesn’t act to change the US stance on military operations in Gaza there will be a violent Islamic basklash in the UK.

So, here’s my confusion; we’re despised and reviled for intruding in the affairs of Islam in Iraq and Afghanistan but when we decide to keep our noses out of things that don’t concern us we’re accused of not caring. Either way, someone representing said religion seems to want to kill us.

It’s a foregone conclusion that the Prime Jester will involve us in this religious ruck at some point in time – after all, Tony had a war of his own and the chance to divert attention from the, frankly, risible attempts to stop the ecomony from collapsing must be mouth-wateringly tempting.

Perhaps we could even print a few quid and send it over as a token of our esteem, though, being British, we’d have to give to both sides equally and that result in bad blood with the side that gets a fiver less than the other.

If this was 60 years ago we’d be wearing tin hats and sheltering in the underground, thanks to a wide variety of religious nutters, even that’s not safe these days…

Thank you Popbitch

We are recipients of an email that is sent weekly called Popbitch. It’s mostly humorous gossip about celebrities who have usually been up to no good and don’t want you to know about it – the stories come from insiders and usually don’t make the news – however they also publish a few funny snippets here and there.

Today’s email had this – which just made me laugh:

>> Hitler v Brown <<

Pointlessly random comparison thingy

As we reel from Gordon Brown telling us he’s saved the world, and from countless commentators comparing the here and now with the 1930s,here’s a handy comparison chart between our PM and… Adolf Hitler.

* Adolf Hitler was once a chancellor
Gordon Brown was also chancellor

* Adolf Hitler only had one ball
Gordon Brown only has one eye ball

* Hitler was born on the 20th (of April)
Brown was born on the 20th (of March)

* Some people thought Hitler was gay
Some people gossiped that Brown was gay

* Adolf Hitler was in power during a recession
Gordon Brown is in power during a recession

* Hitler was known for his tantrums and sulks
Brown has been known to go into tantrums and sulk

* Hitler was born in Austria and became leader of the parliament in Germany
Brown was born in Scotland and became leader of the parliament in England

* Hitler’s name said backwards is reltih floda
Brown’s names said backwards is equally meaningless

Political correctness – the cancer within

So nurses have been told they cannot use  words like luvvie, pet or dear to address their patients.

This is the latest madness to emanate from the jobsworths who now occupy over paid positions in many of our major public services.

What is wrong with these people? Are we really offended when lying in hospital if someone calls us “love.” I for one regard it as a friendly, caring sort of greeting and have never met anyone who objects about the use of such words.

But then this is all part of the new speak which is steadily eroding our traditional ways of communicating with each other.

Yet those who seek to inflict this upon us are it seems actually winning, How many times these days do you pass a comment only to be told: “You can’t say that?”

We have got to the stage where we really do have people who use phrases like chemically inconvenienced (drunk) and uniquely co-ordinated (clumsy).
And they are the ones who through persistence and stealth are inflicting upon us ideas and actions that are both alien and frightening.
It’s called political correctness and its origin has been traced back to Chairman Mau of China’s infamous Little Red Book.
It is, of course, not just the way we speak that is under attack.
The latest trend is to destroy what remains of the great British Christmas.
Some cities have banned the name and refer to it now only as a Winter Festival.
This year Oxford has decided that traditional street themes – you know, Santas, reindeers that sort of thing – will be replaced by a 25-metre high mobile of lanterns in the shape of the solar system under the title of Winter Light Festival which will include events marking the Hindu Diwali and Jewish Hannukah festivals as well as Christmas. It also coincides with the start of International Year of Astronomy 2009.
Those who make these ridiculous decisions claim it’s to involve all sections and all religions yet in Oxford it’s brought criticism from muslims and a local rabbi.
But you can bet your life the interfering busybodies who want to tamper with every aspect of our way of life won’t give in easily.
For proof look what happened in  Scarborough a couple of months ago  when the local college decided Christmas and Easter  were “out” and replaced them  on calendars and diaries with “end of term break.”
And so it goes on
The PC brigade tell us  the ending of Humpty Dumpty is upsetting. And Snow White no longer has seven dwarfs.
Recent years have seen good old fashioned Punch and Judy shows banned in case they encourage domestic violence.
Council chairmen are now known only as “the chair” or “chairperson.” Manholes are now people’s holes,  school sports days are changed to ensure there are no winners or losers in case some kids get upset, parents  have been stopped taking pictures of their children so no-one can think they are paedophiles.
Even government ministers fall foul of the masters of newspeak.
Home Office minister John Denham was criticised by the police for using a well known phrase because of race relations rules.
He was told that officers could face disciplinary charges for saying “nitty gritty” because it dates from the slavery era.
I reckon it’s time to rebel, to fight back, to talk like we were taught to talk, to express ourselves in proper, simple, everyday English.
And start by telling those who try to force us to do otherwise in in equally understandable language to go to hell.

Death of a nation

I am Mr Nobody. Joe Average. The bloke in the pub, the ordinary fella who is no-one special, nor even wants to be.

I have no degree in this or that, have never been in trouble with the law and have done my best to provide for my family.

Academic success eluded me apart from a handful of GCE’s obtained more by good luck than good learning. It mattered not, for I did what I wanted. I worked hard and enjoyed it.

Above all I did it safe in the knowledge that I was secure, living in a state where people mattered, a country that looked after its own, a nation that stood proud, a place where justice prevailed, where free men enjoyed the right of free speech.

Now I look ahead to my remaining years in confusion and – increasingly – in desperation and trepidation.

And above all I realise that many of those I have elected to help ensure my security and well-being in those years are men and women of dishonour.

For I see a discredited government spewing out false utterances, professional politicians bending the truth to suit their own ends. I look with distrust and contempt on the words poured out by the army of propagandists, truth benders and professional liars, employed to try to win my support for policies that within their hearts they know will be unworkable and ineffective.

Freedom of speech is no longer that. Voice any opinion on certain vital issues of prime importance to this nation’s future other than that approved of by the authorities and I could end in jail.

I see the same judiciary that would put me there taking the side of known and often vicious criminals

When I walk the street I do so in the knowledge that I could be attacked and robbed in a country that appears to accept such actions as undesirable, but uncontrollable.

Like others of my generation I believed an Englishman’s home was his castle, but not one at constant risk from those who queue up to raid it safe in the knowledge that even if caught – and that is highly unlikely – they will escape without punishment.

I listen to statements ranging from half-truth to downright lies about the flood of immigrants which still pours across our borders and I am afraid to speak out about it .

The government thought police dictate how I should think and what I should say. Politically correct madness on a scale approaching that seen in the days of Stalin’s Russia threatens my daily communication with others.

I squirm at the sight of a Prime Minister offering comfort to the families of men he sent out to fight someone else’s war and I ponder on what international adventure he will next embark upon to detract from the growing problems within his own land. And I witness a once proud nation he purports to lead descending into a moral and cultural hell fuelled by his political dogma.

The Nanny State rules – whether you like it or not.

But what is the Nanny state? And just where did the description originate?

It sounds good, but is it? Sadly, no. For Nanny State read government interference in every aspect of your life. Live as they tell you, not as you wish.

Political correctness is a part of this, threatening to overwhelm our language. “You can’t say that,” they tell me when I utter phrases I have used since boyhood.

I now know that black coffee no longer exists, that a blind person is visually challenged, that the disabled are physically challenged. I know that sports days at school are bad for youngsters who may actually come second. I see, I hear, I despair at this systematic destruction of my language and my thoughts.

I see a new generation without basic manners, self destructing on ill-discipline and the scourge of ever more readily available drugs, lawless, uncaring, unshackled. The law is scorned and ridiculed.

Morality is a dirty word among young people fuelled on casual sex and drugs members of a generation in which four out of every 10 kids has committed a crime. Violence is a part of all our lives. Drunken mobs rule town and city centres.

And our Westminster masters pretend concern, but with what result?

The coming months will see this shabby and discredited government again appealing to me and millions like me for my vote, telling me that the years ahead are filled with promise, that fears such as I have expressed are groundless.

Before a single word of their election campaign is uttered I know I can only regard their claims with the utmost cynicism.

This Mr Average – and I am sure I express the thoughts of a great many people like me – has had enough of empty promises and political failure and looks upon the present disreputable government with the contempt it surely deserves.

At heart I remain just an ordinary bloke who loves his homeland and who in his earlier years read a book entitled 1984 and still clearly recalls one sentence from its pages:

“‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

I think about it in relation to my country as a general election creeps closer. And I am very afraid.

Britian is now a police state

Is Labour using the police? was the headline that I read this morning – the article continued..

Within minutes of the news of Damian Green’s ‘Stalinesque’ arrest breaking at Westminster, dark questions were forming in the minds of the Tory high command.

Namely, just how involved was the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in a decision to arrest a man who had been a thorn in her side for the past 14 months?

And, even more worryingly, was this the final proof – if any were needed – that Labour has turned the police service into a political beast, defending the Government’s interests at every turn?

To read the rest of the story go here

At the mercy of the Saudi’s

A late posting, but worthy of comment I feel.

Last week it was revealed that the Saudi’s forced arch-traitor Tony Bliar to stop investigations into their arms-dealing activities or they’d make it easier for terrorists to launch attacks on British soil.

Like a true Briton, Bliar immediately gave in and gave them what they wanted, ensuring that (in the words of the street) we become their bitch forever.

Funny how he was so keen to invade Iraq but so defensive in this instance, but then, the cult of history and celebrity only remembers those who fight wars they actually “won”…

Saudi Arabia’s rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.

Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced “another 7/7″ and the loss of “British lives on British streets” if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.

Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.

He was accused in yesterday’s high court hearings of flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family.

The threats halted the fraud inquiry, but triggered an international outcry, with allegations that Britain had broken international anti-bribery treaties.

Lord Justice Moses, hearing the civil case with Mr Justice Sullivan, said the government appeared to have “rolled over” after the threats. He said one possible view was that it was “just as if a gun had been held to the head” of the government.

The SFO investigation began in 2004, when Robert Wardle, its director, studied evidence unearthed by the Guardian. This revealed that massive secret payments were going from BAE to Saudi Arabian princes, to promote arms deals.

Yesterday, anti-corruption campaigners began a legal action to overturn the decision to halt the case. They want the original investigation restarted, arguing the government had caved into blackmail.

The judge said he was surprised the government had not tried to persuade the Saudis to withdraw their threats. He said: “If that happened in our jurisdiction [the UK], they would have been guilty of a criminal offence”. Counsel for the claimants said it would amount to perverting the course of justice.

Wardle told the court in a witness statement: “The idea of discontinuing the investigation went against my every instinct as a prosecutor. I wanted to see where the evidence led.”

But a paper trail set out in court showed that days after Bandar flew to London to lobby the government, Blair had written to the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, and the SFO was pressed to halt its investigation.

The case officer on the inquiry, Matthew Cowie, was described by the judge as “a complete hero” for standing up to pressure from BAE’s lawyers, who went behind his back and tried to secretly lobby the attorney general to step in at an early stage and halt the investigations.

The campaigners argued yesterday that when BAE failed at its first attempt to stop the case, it changed tactics. Having argued it should not be investigated in order to promote arms sales, it then recruited ministers and their Saudi associates to make the case that “national security” demanded the case be covered up.

Moses said that after BAE’s commercial arguments failed, “Lo and behold, the next thing there is a threat to national security!” Dinah Rose, counsel for the Corner House and the Campaign against the Arms Trade, said: “Yes, they start to think of a different way of putting it.” Moses responded: “That’s very unkind!”

Documents seen yesterday also show the SFO warned the attorney general that if he dropped the case, it was likely it would be taken up by the Swiss and the US. These predictions proved accurate.

Bandar’s payments were published in the Guardian and Switzerland subsequently launched a money-laundering inquiry into the Saudi arms deal. The US department of justice has launched its own investigation under the foreign corrupt practices act into the British money received in the US by Bandar while he was ambassador to Washington.

Prince Bandar yesterday did not contest a US court order preventing him from taking the proceeds of property sales out of the country. The order will stay in place until a lawsuit brought by a group of BAE shareholders is decided. The group alleges that BAE made £1bn of “illegal bribe payments” to Bandar while claiming to be a “highly ethical, law-abiding corporation”.

From The Guardian

“Sympathy” for the devil

In yet another staggering display of contempt for the British people, the coward Brown and his gang of no-hopers, liars and cheats have refused to ban Muslim hate preachers from entering Britain. Indeed, support of the Sub-Humans Yusuf al-Qaradawi has been been granted a medical visa to enter the country for treatment for an undisclosed illness.

A Government lackey said refusing entry to al-Qaradawi would effectively be playing into the hands of extremists, the indication being that it’s better to let him in to preach loathing and hatred then to do the sensible thing and ban him.

In the past al-Qaradawi (a plague of lice be upon him) has openly supported the execution of gays and defended suicide bombers  saying: “Through his (Allah) infinite wisdom he has given the weak a weapon the strong do not have and and that is their ability to turn their bodies into bombs as Palestinians do.”

This is just another reason why the spineless, gutless Brown should be stripped of power immediately and replaced with someone who has the British people’s best interests at heart.

In related news, a “British” man pleaded guilty to hatching a plot to behead a  soldier in Birmingham (for my money it’s impossible to British and a terrorist …) and on the day both stories broke, what was the Prime Incompetent doing? Announcing that it’s possible to get qualifications from the University of McDonalds – questions about terrorism, the state of the nation, knife crime and immigration were carefully sidestepped by the old technique of “pretending to not hear the question”.

Perhaps the epithet coward lacks sufficient punch for Brown, traitor would be closer to the mark – we still have the death penalty for traitors, don’t we?

What happened to Britain?

Why have we set up this blog? It’s simple – every day we are presented with news stories that are becoming increasingly worrying, every day I read the news I’m angered by what I read to the point where some days I just don’t read it! But avoiding the issues won’t make them go away, writing this blog won’t make them go away either, but I hope that it will make people realise that this country is falling to pieces around us and right now we are powerless to stop it.