HMRC is suggesting that our wages should be sent to them instead of to us. They will deduct the tax due and only then send our money to our banks.

Not mine, they won’t.

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Of course, we all trust the bureaucrats to look after our money and not, for example, to lose the dvd containing the payment authorisation for our cash, or losing our record so that, hey, what do you know, you’re not getting paid this month.

We know, don’t we, that they are not going to make any mistakes, and that, if they do, some bureaucrat in Glasgow* is going to confess its** error and cough up your cash straight away, don’t we?

And, heaven forfend that your cash or your personal financial details will end up on some eurocrat’s desk in the EUSSR, that could never happen, could it?

Time for the Tea Party to return to the Mother Country, methinks.

*No offence, JM, just that if you live in Polperro and your wages are sent to the other end of the country instead of to you…

** Non-gender specific – applies particularly well to bureaucrats 🙂

Are they going to happen?

British Gymnasts try out their accommodation in the athletes’ village.

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The eco-fascists expose themselves.  In the Grauniad there is this article, which details, but does not condemn,  James Lovelock’s statement that:

I have a feeling, that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

Worse, the programme of one of the worst eco-fascists, Pentti Linkola:

His bold political programme includes ending the freedom to procreate, abolishing fossil fuels, revoking all international trade agreements, banning air traffic, demolishing the suburbs, and reforesting parking lots. As for those “most responsible for the present economic growth and competition”, Linkola explains that they will be sent to the mountains for “re-education” in eco-gulags.

The Grauniad correspondent urges a slightly less Stalinist approach: Continue reading “Vote for the greens, get fascists.”

This just about sums it up, I reckon.

Teenagers to be awarded ‘GCSE in sex’

Akhmed Zakayev, who , fought Russia as a senior rebel commander in two wars in 1994-2000, has been granted political asylum in Britain since 2003.

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Why? Because

Motorists being ripped off when looking for bargain second-hand cars, OFT warns.

Aren’t our civil servants wonderful?

Hurrah! My only question is, why was it left to developing countries to put the kibosh on this? Should our own Government not have reminded the whacky Belgian and the equally whacky EU ‘Foreign Minister,’ that the UN Charter refers only to membership for sovereign states?

…that the troops got all the equipment they needed Continue reading “Gordon Brown insisted…”

On September 10, 1683, the papal legate sang a great outdoor mass on the Kahlenberg, west of Vienna, for King Jan III Sobieski and his 16,000 troops.  The king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had been named commander of the field army of some 85,000 troops, including not only the Polish–Lithuanian contingent, but also troops of the  Habsburg Monarchy,  Bavaria,  Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the Zaporozhian* Cossacks — collectively: the Holy League. (Note that only Louis XIV of France had refused the Pope’s rally call and was using the opportunity to seize Hapsburg territories in the Elsass and other parts of southern Germany. The Elsass (Alsace) would eventually become part of France, and we all know where that lead. Continue reading “The other 9/11”