Curiouser and curiouser

The Independent today reports that when Scotland secedes from the Union, it (no, not she) will align itself with ….. (fanfare)….wait for it, Scandinavia. (Pause while you digest that).

Now that seems to me to make eminently good sense: a clutch of little countries huddling around the Mother Hen (the oil and gas industry), giving each other moral support against the big, bad Euro-lands and the Auld Enemy. So far so guid.

But, but, N, S and DK are all independent monarchies! And Scotland can’t take ours with them, innit? It can co-opt the Princess Royal, I suppose, but can they declare her Queen? OK, why not? Then the Royal Regiment (which they also plan to filch) won’t have to change its insignia.

It will all take some getting used to. Plus ça change…….

For the intrigued…..http://www.independent.co.uk/hei-fi/news/snp-would-join-the-scandinavian-circle-if-country-was-independent-6272464.html?origin=internalSearch

Screw you Cambuffoon!

Who the hell does that unelected arsehole think he is?

The Brit public and now his own Tories have asked time and again for the right to have our say over the EU. Even if he does believe that membership is in our best interests, that is not his call to make. He is a Public Servant, allow me to transpose, he serves the public. We decide what we want then it is his task to manage that. If enough voters register a concern, and they have via the dubya cubed, then it is his sworn duty to seek the truth. Not to arbitrarily decide what is best for us like petulant children. Lets have a referendum, if the public as a majority still want to be a part of the ridiculous conglom run by the nation we stuffed twice and the cowards who spent their time wedged firmly up Fritz’s exhaust then I will gladly eat my own litter tray.

What a condescending, arrogant prick.

Debtor’s Prism

The recent discussion of money and its inherent value (only of that for which it can be exchanged) sent me back to my sketchy records of something I read back at the start of the present financial debacle (when the CDO’s first hit the fan so long ago).   I posted this way back then on that other awful site, but it is still a good read and even has some familiar seasonal references.

Since ancient times, the notion of debt has been deeply interwoven into our culture, literature and social structure. With the global markets in turmoil, Margaret Atwood looks at the history and meaning of being in hock. Continue reading “Debtor’s Prism”

Unemployment solution

I have come up with an idea that will create hundreds of jobs in England and solve the Barnett formula problem.

Get the unemployed to rebuild Hadrian’s Wall but a lot higher, install electrified razor wire and put up gun posts to shoot any trespassers. Then cut off Scotland and let them go it alone.

On going we can have border control posts ensuring that any from north of the border who wish to come south have funds and can pay their way.

Billions saved, thousands employed. Win win

The UK is sick

Thank heavens I no longer live there.   I feel very sorry and concerned for those of my rellies that still do.

Three Muslim tarts beat up a white girl, pulling her hair out and kicking her while she was on the ground, and shouting “Kill the white slag” (it’s all on video).   Their defence was Islam.   And the frigging judge let them go free.

Meanwhile, a slightly ‘touched’ English girl is imprisoned and her children taken away because she said things on a tram.   Words – nothing more.

What a horrible cesspit of a country.   A nation of politically correct apologists for Islam, motivated entirely by fear.   Anyone feel like defending it?

Budgets never did solve anything

Sorry to hog the home page but the Europrats are really getting my goat. The Twin Tw*ts (Merkel and Sarko) want to tighten the budgeting process to solve the Euro problem. ‘Beat them into submisssion if they don’t behave,’ they say. Er, excuse me. How? When? How often?

Any cherished member here who has been in biz or some other ‘profit-responsible’ position, will appreciate my point – that coming up with a budget is the easy bit. Delivering is not. So the Disastrous Duo will have to wait until countries default before they do anything and then what? Send them a bill? Come on! A further charge on the account won’t help! By which time the Euro has disappeared down the pan.

As Standard and Poors are trying to say, the Euro crisis is about debt, not budgetary control and about the EUrozone’s failure to deal with it, leaving Sarko in no position to pontificate on it, given his own precarious position on the cliff-top. (Bit of a mixed whatsit there, sorry.)

Let’s face it: Germany wants to rule the roost. France knows that but is powerless to act. Same old.

Dead right

There’s a nice story in the DT about the Dead Sea. Apparently it all but disappeared 120,000 years ago when things hotted up in the region but it returned, salted but not deterred, and has kept on evaporating quite contentedly until its neighbours started robbing it of fresh water fairly recently.

Now I don’t take much notice of climate conferences and stuff but this news seems to me to confirm my suspicions that our climate is pretty cyclical and only extremely determined efforts from homo sapiens to change it will make much difference in the long run.

PS This might also be one in the eye for some of our Fundamentalist friends whose Creation apparently came later.