Category: General

We have already seen the UK Courts defying the elected government, preferring to follow the line dictated by the EUSSR.

Now, mirabile dictu, we have the unedifying spectacle of the Association of Chief Police Officers openly defying the Prime Minister.   I hold little truck for Cameron, who is a weak and deceitful post-holder (but then he’s a politician, so what do you expect?), but the government is the government and ultimately the various police forces must do as they are instructed.

Or are we really facing the prospect of an EUSSR-run police state, with Parliament and the government sidelined and “the people” even further removed from any democratic principles?   Strange place, the UK.   It is not the country I left 20 years ago.

According to the Met Office, the summer is now over and we might as well pack up the barbecue and wrap up warm.

Given their recent record, I would suggest it is time to stock up on Factor 50 and charcoal!!
Continue reading “Summer is acomin’ in!”

One other circumstance is worthy of remark; and that is, that from the moment of their first outbreak…every symptom of order or preconceived arrangement among them, vanished.  When they divided into parties and ran to different quarters of the town, it was on the spontaneous suggestion of the moment.  Each party swelled as it went along, like rivers as they roll towards the sea; new leaders sprang up as they were wanted, disappeared when the necessity was over, and reappeared at the next crisis.  Each tumult took shape and form, from the circumstances of the moment…in a word a moral plague ran through the city.  The noise, and hurry, and excitement, had for hundreds and hundreds an attraction they had no firmness to resist.  The contagion spread, like a dread river: an infectious madness, as yet not near its height, seized on new victims every hour, and society began to tremble at their ravings.  

So, what do you think?  Is this a description of events in London last week?  It’s a description of events in London alright but it’s not August, 2011; it’s June, 1780, the Gordon Riots as depicted by Charles Dickens in his novel Barnaby Rudge. Continue reading “England Shamed”

Energy-saving light bulbs leap in price

The cost of energy saving light bulbs is rising sharply ahead of the European Union ban on the traditional 60-watt bulbs.

And, what’s more…’the CFLs that are replacing them (real light bulbs, you know, the ones that actually emit light you can read by,) contain small quantities of expensive rare earth elements. Makers say that growing demand for the substances, particularly in China where they come from, has forced prices upwards.

So, we get another ‘green’ solution that doesn’t work, it hoovers more money out of the pockets of taxpayers and sends it off to China.

I’m really glad I speak Chinese – should get me a good enough job oppressing the rest of you lot when the Chinese call in our national mortgage.

HT Theo Spark

The riots spread to Berne…

Life and times of an average banker
For the past two to three years we have heard nothing but how the bankers have nearly ruined the world, how rich bankers are and of course the rabid rantings from Brown, Prescott, the rest of the Labour lefties and of course the very Biased Broadcasting Company.
I am not trying to make excuses or say that the banks did not play a major part in the financial woes of the world, nor will I say that a few (very few) are grossly overpaid, but no more so than the top people in other Limited companies and PLC’s; though most of their earnings are based on bonus payments, they bring in the dosh they receive a percentage the same as any other salesman, just bigger numbers. Continue reading “Life and times of an average banker”

I have resisted the temptation over the past few days to post extracts and links to a range of Australian articles about the UK’s metamorphosis into a second-rate remake of The Rocky Horror Show.  However, the current Daily Telegraph editorial on the subject, which I’m sure you’ve all read, is a reasonable summary of a sensible position.   I commend it to The Chariot.

While I’m here on my soap-box, I shall make two additional points and I shall make them strongly, so those of you with delicate sensibilities should not click on “read more”.  Continue reading “My turn on the soap-box”

Which makes some very apt points.  It’s worth reading, even if it is a bit long.

Now I must say first: two things. One: Some of you may know that 30 Americans died overseas, an elite unit of our military. Whether you agree with our foreign policy or not, I certainly ask that you would pray for the men and women who risk their lives each and every day to make sure that we can enjoy the freedoms, as Americans, that some of us seem to take for granted. They’re serving their country. Other people make the decision about what they do and where they go, but they’re doing their job. And unfortunately, one of those 30 is the son of a Philadelphia police officer. So I would ask that you would keep all of them, but especially that Philadelphia family that’s been affected, in your hearts.

Now, I’m gonna say some things this morning that I know, from time to time, many of you think but may not say. It will not be PC, now, that might be interesting?