Not fit to be king

I don't have a lot of time for royalty at the best of times, bit of respect for the Queen, yes, like Prince Philip for what he says when he speaks his mind, yes. Prince harry for at least going into combat sure. The rest I wouldn't miss save only that they are probably a bit cheaper than a presidential system. However one royal I simply cannot abide is our next king Prince Charles, more for his utter hypocrisy in saying one thing and doing another.
Mail.

Prince Charles ‘consorted’ with ministers to push his agenda on climate change, alternative medicine and grammar schools, politicians have admitted.
The revelations show for the first time that Charles is not only listened to at the highest levels of government – his views can sometimes influence policy.
Former Labour environment minister Michael Meacher said he worked behind the scenes with the Prince of Wales in a bid to persuade Tony Blair to ‘change course’ on green matters and to block genetically-modified crops.
Charles prompted Peter Hain, another former Cabinet minister, to promote the provision of complementary medicine on the NHS.
And he tried – but failed – to persuade then Education Secretary David Blunkett of the merits of grammar schools.

Well we all know what an utter scam climate change lobbying is, it's simply been used for a tax grab and those who believe that humankind is responsible for a major change in the planets climate are deluded, charlatans or fraudsters. As for complementary medicine, some of it is efficacious, however a lot of it on the herbal side is useless and in some cases downright bloody dangerous. Genetically modified crops are not as dangerous as some would like us to believe and could be a godsend to countries struggling with drought or pests, but the green lobby has dubbed them frankenfoods and is determined that millions starve because in their view the planet is massively overpopulated.
Frankly Charles should not be meddling in politics, the Queen meets the PM once a week to be filled in about what's going on, whilst I'm sure she has views, she never openly interferes with government policy. Charles however is a meddler and believes he knows best, despite the fact that he often enough doesn't. Still the last thing we need heading the country is an opinionated man who will try and influence policy, particularly the hypocritical Charles who although he promotes a green lifestyle has when staying in Scotland had his food driven up from Cornwall in fume belching Rangerovers rather than use local produce.
The man is clearly unfit to be king, hence long live the Queen!

I bet they weren't Chinese

I am coming to loathe the MSM and various other state organisations for their use of euphemisms when it comes to the depredations of certain immigrant groups. Take the word 'Asian' a buzzword used to cover the crimes of a certain subgroup to make sure that people don't know exactly who they are and where they hail from (historically) Asia itself has a population of nearly 4.5 billion and we're supposed to guess which part of Asia these criminals are supposed to look to be a part of.
Mail.

A teenage girl was gang-raped by a group of Asian men in a wooded area, police have said.
The 17-year-old victim met a group of men in Slough, Berkshire yesterday evening.
The girl went to an off-licence with one of the group and continued to a residential street, where they were joined by four men in a small silver hatchback.
The girl walked with the men down a footpath towards a river surrounded by woodland where she was raped by several of the men.
Detectives confirmed today they were looking for five Asian men in connection with the brutal attack which happened near the Jubilee River in Slough.

Now there are a few points I could make as to why the girl was stupid enough to go with the guys, whether it might be a false claim to hide embarrassment etc. But I figure these days that the truth will come out one way or another eventually. However by the term 'Asian' I figure we aren't dealing with Chinese or other orientals here, nor do I suspect that we're even dealing with those of the middle east. I suspect Asian here means Indian subcontinent and I'm going to hazard a guess that it will be at the north end of it rather than India itself.
I know from one or two discussions I've had with people from Asia that they are also fed up to the back teeth of the word being used by our press to describe the criminal acts of a certain subgroup who appear to be operating in grooming and rape gangs throughout the UK but mostly England. When the term 'Asian' is used in a criminal context, I cannot be the only one to read 'Pakistani/Bangladeshi muslim' in that context so the MSM are fooling no one. Why they continue to do this can only be due to the reluctance of those in power to admit that we have a serious problem with a certain community who don't see the rest of us as being their equals and have been encouraged by the bias shown towards them due to the false doctrine of multiculturalism to believe that they are beyond reproach.
Yet people are no longer fooled and indeed stories like this where there appears to be some sort of attempt to use the term 'Asian' seems to simply confirm in peoples minds that there is a serious problem that the authorities are not dealing with. People are also not stupid enough (in most instances) to believe that Orientals, Hindu's Jains, Sikhs, Russians, Armenian's, even Iranians and Iraqi's aren't the 'Asians' involved even if we have problems with what some of those groups get up to in the world.
All the state seems to be doing is after ignoring the problem, declaring that 'we' were the problem for mentioning it and now trying to cover up the problem is storing up massive amounts of trouble for another day. You can also bet that the side effects of the anger will affect others who had nothing to do with said communities crimes.
This will not end well, mark my words.

One step closer

Well J C Juncker got chosen as the next President of the European Commission by 26 votes to 2 and has put Cameron in a position where if he were a real EUskeptic he could start the process to remove us from the EU. As it is, he isn't and he won't, though I suspect a campaign for the next UK elections with a Tory pledge to take us out would gain him a lot of support. Support of course he doesn't want and fears...
Express.

The Prime Minister admitted it would be "harder" to keep the country in the EU after the man he branded "the career insider of Brussels" was designated as the next President of the European Commission.
"It makes it harder and it makes the stakes higher," Mr Cameron said.
A bitterly-divided EU summit offically declared the former Luxembourg premier as president-designate in the powerful post following an unprecedented vote that shattered the Brussels tradition of consensus decision-making.
Only Britain and Hungary opposed the appointment, tearing open a massive rift in the EU.
After the overwhelming defeat, a clearly rattled but determined Mr Cameron said: "Frankly, sometimes you have to be ready to lose a battle in order to win a war."
He insisted he had no regrets about being virtually isolated and said he would do it again.
Mr Cameron warned that his fellow EU leaders will "live to regret" the decision, saying: "Europe has taken a big step backwards."
He had opposed Mr Juncker because of his career-long record as a Brussels insider dedicated to increasing EU meddling.
Britain would accept the result and try to work with Mr Juncker, he said, adding: "This is a bad day for Europe."

The key clue is Cameron's statement at the end of that passage, he still believes he can somehow work with Juncker's to get reform, despite the fact that Juncker's idea of reform is 'ever closer union' which is anathema to getting on half of UK voters. The facts as I see them are id that there is  no chance of a successful renegotiation and the thing we'll have to watch for is the EUphiles trying to pull the wool over our eyes and telling us that there was. Cosmetic changes to the EU are not acceptable to me or I suspect many others in this country, real change such as going back to a trading block would be fine, but that has never been the 'vision' of the EU or indeed the EEC before it, the end game was always a United States of Europe only without the inconvenience of democracy keeping the checks and balances in place.
The election of Juncker's has made our exit slightly more likely, however the EU and the EUphile traitors and their deluded followers will fight tooth and nail to keep us in.
The game is on now, but the game is definitely not over.

Silly season

Imagine a country school, small, only 13 pupils all of them from the same ethnic background. The one thing you wouldn't expect is it to be put into special measures due to a 'hate crime' yet such are the rules when a child uses the word 'gay.' Well Ofsted's rules that is, normal common sense rules don't apply when dealing with what is essentially an inspection bureaucracy...
Mail.

A village primary school with just 13 pupils was put into special measures after an Ofsted inspection found too many incidents of racist or homophobic bullying and serious acts of violence.
But the chairman of governors at Ravenstonedale Endowed School in rural Cumbria has fought back, claiming the report was based on a single incident of children using the word ‘gay’ as a throwaway comment and not knowing what it meant.
Liz Morgan said it had been ‘blown out of proportion’ and also denied there had been any racism at the remote school, where all of the children are white.
She said she believed Ofsted had an agenda against small schools and suspected they’d been unfairly labelled racist because racism and homophobia were treated as one category by Ofsted.

Whilst I suppose it is possible the school is bringing up a secret sept of the UK version of the Hitler Youth you have to start wondering just what the Ofsted inspector was taking when they came to the conclusion that the school was guilty of too many incidents when there appears to be only one and that of a child probably using the term gay as an insult, not to gays, but in its other usage as something not terribly good. English is a terribly slippy language often picking up loan words and changing the meaning of others to suit new circumstances. The word awful was once used to describe St Paul's cathedral in London. It didn't mean that it was rubbish, but that it inspired awe to look at as in full of awe. Same way that gay used to mean happy (still does, though not in current usage)  then meant homosexual and now has turned not into a homophobic insult but means a bit naff when used in context. Now the gay mafia and the politically correct brigade may not like it, but in certain contexts the language has shifted and the word now has another meaning as well as the old ones.
It will be interesting to watch what happens to the hate crime school of Ravenscar, the accusations quietly shelved at best or some petty nonsensical measure put in place to sop Ofsted's position.
Seems like the silly season is now well under way.

Consequences?

Apparently Cameron is threatening consequences if J C Juncker is appointed president of the European Commission. One wonder if it will be a childish tantrum, or a right royal snit or even heaven help us a shuffling of papers during a speech.
Telegraph.

David Cameron will threaten the European Union with “consequences” if Jean-Claude Juncker is appointed president of the European Commission.
As European leaders prepare to meet in Ypres and the diplomatic battle enters its final stages, it emerged that the Prime Minister has been warned by his Attorney General that there is no legal way to avert a humiliating defeat.
Mr Cameron is understood to have asked Dominic Grieve whether he could use the “Luxembourg compromise” to block a vote on appointing Mr Juncker to the EU’s top job, by insisting that Britain’s vital national interests would be damaged.
A source said that the Government “examined all conceivable options” but was told the Luxembourg compromise, a rarely-used device that lets member states defer European Union decisions, “is not applicable”. Kenneth Clarke, the minister without portfolio, angered senior Conservatives by downplaying their concerns.
The Prime Minister believes that Mr Juncker, an arch-federalist, will make it impossible to reform Britain’s relationship with the EU ahead of an in-out referendum in 2017. But Mr Clarke told the BBC that while Mr Juncker was “not the most vigorous reformer”, he was not an “arch-villain”. “No one knows what he’s supposed to have done wrong,” Mr Clarke added.

As ever Clark the arch-federast muddying the waters by implying that the government thinks Juncker has done something wrong and is being bullied and wrongly lambasted rather than simply what he is, a tool of the 'ever closer union' brigade.
As for consequences by Cameron, well it's difficult to see what he can do about what appears to be a done deal. Granted a lot of us would love to see a referendum with a simple in or out question but Cameron will only ever offer that if he thinks we'll vote for in as he's on record saying we're better off in. Nor can he now offer us a referendum on promised reform as the only reforms allowed will be those towards ever closer union and that as far as a lot of us are concerned isn't reform at all simply ever growing tyranny.
So expect some grandstanding gesture quietly shelved after a few days from Cameron, nothing will change and our disquiet will grow. Whether it will reach a peak, I don't know, at the moment staying/leaving is about 50/50 but i suspect a lot haven't made their minds up yet and a lot of our younger people have known nothing but the EU.
Still, Juncker may be the straw that breaks the camels back...

Presumption

The Lib Dems love affair with the EU carries on apace despite their drubbing in the recent election, though no doubt they've convinced themselves that it was simply a protest vote and that come the next election things will go back to normal. Still they've seized on figures drawn up recently by the treasury that show that 3 million jobs would be at risk if we left the EU, leaked despite the fact that the Tory chancellor didn't want them released.
Telegraph.

Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury, will say that official Government figures show that 3.3 million jobs could be at risk if the UK leaves the EU, prompting a row with senior Conservatives
More than three million British jobs would be at risk if Britain leaves the European Union, an official Treasury analysis has disclosed.
Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury, will today inflame tensions in the Coalition by making public Treasury figures that show Britain’s reliance on the EU.
He will say that Treasury experts have calculated that 3.3 million are connected to Britain’s continues membership of the EU.
It will anger senior Conservatives and comes just one day before David Cameron travels to Brussels for a major clash with EU leaders over the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission.

The question is of course is the risk defined? Bandying words like could and would simply implies that if things go terribly wrong and the EU decides to cut off its nose to spite its face and suspend trading with the UK  then jobs could be at risk. Trouble is, the EU is unlikely to do so as they sell far more to us than we sell to them and they will not want to get into a trade war. The treasury report will be as other reports do giving best, worst and middle grounds and it may be that the best report simply says that things will carry on as they are without the cost of the dead hand of EU bureaucracy upon us. Certainly there may be some jobs that will go, particularly in the civil service, but its hard to define if industrial jobs will go, we may find new markets outside of the EU or our products become cheaper to sell in the EU without their oft stupid regulations on hours and paperwork.
Any argument put forward using words like 'could' and 'would' falls at the first step as it implies that they don't know. I rather suspect Mr Alexander doesn't either yet has seized on a report which on the surface appears to support his position like the old Clegg battle cry of 6 million jobs which has been quietly shelved as people now doubt the EU has done so at all.
I still doubt Cameron and co have the balls to leave the EU, I suspect it will take a little while longer for the dissent amongst the population to filter through to the political classes.
We knew this was a long road when we started, but in the end we'll get there.

It's not complacency

Again and again whenever there's a problem to do with muslims some useful idiot is wheeled out to give some pronouncement about what islam is, who muslims are and what muslims should do. Unfortunately as the idiot isn't usually a muslim they are ignored by muslims who generally take no notice of non-muslims and the rest of us who have come into contact with real islam and know bollocks being spoken when we hear it.
Mail.

Muslim communities in Britain are guilty of ‘complacency and passivity’ over the threat from home-grown jihadists, the UK’s top counter-terrorism officer warned last night.
The Metropolitan Police’s Assistant Commissioner, Cressida Dick, said there were many cases where ‘warning signs’ about extremists were not brought to the attention of authorities.
She also indicated some Muslims were too accepting of radical views, saying it was the police’s ‘greatest challenge’ to make them ‘wholly hostile to violent extremism’.
Her comments came as the Government was confronted with a damning assessment by a former head of the military of Britain’s capacity to confront terrorism.
Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, chief of the defence staff until last year, said the military was ‘not good enough’ to deal with the global threat from jihadis.
The crossbench peer, formerly General Sir David Richards, called for a rise in defence spending and warned that without it, the effectiveness of the Armed Forces would inevitably deteriorate further.

I'm pretty sure such warnings were given over the Nazi party too.
No, the complacency lies with those in authority and the political classes who don't see the real threat because they don't live with it. It's the same reason that criminals get off lightly and the Human Rights Act has become such a burden on our society with its allowing violent criminals to remain amongst us. The muslim communities are not complacent, they've at best given tacit consent to the preachers who are encouraging  jihadism in this country as jihad as they see it is a noble cause no matter how ignoble its methodology as it's usually carried out against non-muslims and they aren't real people. That is the problem of trying to dictate to something that has tied its barbarism to religious trappings, you are dealing with faith, a written book and traditions which encourage barbarism and it's run by a bunch of imam's who see no reason to moderate what the quran and hadiths say, most of it coming from the life and works of a murderous child molesting slaver with a psychopathic god complex.
So no, telling muslims what they should do won't work, if you aren't a muslim then your words are meaningless, four times as meaningless if you're a woman.
Yet it doesn't stop idiots like Cameron and Cressida Dick telling us and muslims what islam is and what it should be doing.
Nor apparently those in power deliberately disarming our military strength to deal with them in the future.

Apparently we're thick

It appears that in certain political circles that a conclusion has been reached that one of the reasons people voted for Ukip is that they weren't computer literate, didn't know how to send emails and look things up via google. In other words we're thick...
Telegraph.

Ukip voters feel disconnected from mainstream politics because they don’t know how to send emails or browse the internet, Labour’s shadow business secretary has suggested.
Chuka Umunna, said that “a lot of those voting for Ukip” in the local and general elections were not computer literate and “can’t do things like” sending and receiving emails or browsing the internet.
The UK Independence Party stormed to victory at the European elections, the first time since 1906 that a party other than the Conservatives or Labour had won a national election.
Nigel Farage's party also picked up more than 100 seats from Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems in council elections nationally.

This does seem a bit rich from a party who used to rely on votes from working class communities to the extent of a running joke that if you put a red rosette on a donkey it would get in. Thing is though that those communities and groups who traditionally voted labour wised up when said Labour government flooded their communities with masses of immigrants who caused problems and disruption for the people there reducing wages in semi skilled jobs and removing the chances for the school leavers to find work. The strain on health facilities and education as well as the ongoing sensation that they were taking the pee over benefits as well as the feeling often enough that when you went shopping you were no longer in an English speaking country was just the icing on the cake as it were.
Yet these people aren't stupid, they can use computers, pads and phones to see what's going on, the read headlines and they've learned not to trust said headlines or politicians who spout off about who or what they think they are and why they do what they do.
Essentially Labour like the Tories are losing traditional voters because in their scramble to make new friends they trampled over their old ones and in the case of Labour called them racist bigots to boot.
For years political parties have presumed their core groups would vote for the proverbial donkey with a coloured rosette, they are now finding that it was possible to go too far in their arrogance and hubris, they no longer can count on our support so believe us to be stupid or ignorant.
Once again it appears that they never learn...

Never met a tax they didn't like

There are those out there who are determined to force us into doing something they think is good for us. They've tried persuasion, they've tried restrictions, their current favourite is price controls and that's something which as ever gives our ever avaricious politicians ideas...
BBC.

A campaign group has called on the UK government to introduce a "sugar tax" to help curb childhood obesity.
Action on Sugar has produced a seven-point plan to discourage children from consuming foods and soft drinks with high levels of added sugar.
The group wants measures brought in to cut added sugar in food by 40% by 2020, to cut fat in foods and to ban sports sponsorship by "junk food" companies.
The Department of Health has said it will consider the recommendations.
Action on Sugar is a group of specialists concerned with sugar and its effects on health. It says one in five 10-11 year olds in the UK are now obese, while one in three are overweight.
The group has produced an action plan for the government following a request for its views from Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Almost perfect, you can just feel the emotive phrase 'it's for the children' rising like a turd in a cesspool on any justification for the tax which will price many foodstuffs away from those on lower incomes.
Now I will be honest and admit that there do appear to be far more overweight kids around than when I was young, though we never seemed to have a problem with getting hold of sugary sweets of various kinds. What we did have was a far more active lifestyle, limited tv, no computer games, no social media. So we walked, ran, cycled and generally behaved like little savages in our inter tribal gang warfare.
So, the problem isn't that kids are eating too much sugar, it's that kids live a far more sedentary lifestyle, what with few schools offering sports (voluntary or not) and the paranoia from parents about letting their kids play in the street due to traffic/paedo's etc.
What we are being lined up for is a tax grab by unscrupulous politicians similar to that of green taxation and the oft proposed but never implemented alcohol tax forbidden by the EU.
Prodnose pressure groups like this for all they may have some well meaning members are never a good idea for the general public as they rarely contain members of the general public. Their focus is often too narrow and they rarely see the big picture which is why I suspect politicians like them so much. Any group proposing a tax hike is likely to get the attention of a politician particularly if they think they can sell it back to the public and a for the children meme is no doubt a winner in their minds.
Expect a raft of such measures in the near future as the global warming scam finally comes off the rails...

Lowest common denominator

One of the main reasons for the failures in some of the state schools is that they default to having to try to spend more resources teaching those at the bottom end of the learning spectrum. The brightest and best have a tendency to become bored or are simply ignored as teachers struggle to cope with the disruptive and struggling in their classes. Because of the insistence of only moving kids forward one year at a time and massive resistance to streaming the brightest into their own classes to learn at a higher pace, we ended up with a train crash of an education system...
Express.

COMPREHENSIVE schools are still linked with “mediocrity and failure”, the chief schools’ inspector said yesterday.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of watchdog Ofsted, believes too many are still clinging on to poor teaching methods which are a “throwback to the 1960s and 1970s”, such as “informal learning”.
He also attacked a lack of academic rigour, a neglect of basic literacy and numeracy and a resistance to exams and “meaningful” qualifications.
Sir Michael warned that nearly one in five is not up to scratch and many others are in a “constant battle to avoid slipping backwards”.
In a speech at Wellington College in Berkshire he said: “Even though the ideology that afflicted so many... has been largely discredited, its damaging effects remain.”
These include a half-hearted pursuit of high standards and a toleration of poor behaviour.

As mentioned above, one of the reasons for a half hearted pursuit of high standards is many teachers are forced to deal with kids who don't want to learn to the detriment of those who do. Add to this a heady mix of uncontrolled immigration and a set of pupils who initially do not understand English any too well and the situation is far worse than it need be.
Once upon a time we had two types of schooling, grammar and modern, kids took the 11 plus exam and the brightest went to grammar schools the rest went to the modern system which was biased towards trade skills rather than academic ones. It wasn't particularly fair to the late developers, but it worked and owing to misplaced leftard delusions of fairness it had to go so all could have prizes. So instead of helping the best we had to do the best they could, we drowned them in a sea of comprehensive education.
We have sacrificed far too many of our children on a bed of political dogma where teaching methods and curriculum were messed with by politicians and leftard so called academics until we have the situation where a lot of kids now leave school barely literate and numerate, something almost unheard of in my generation.
Fairness is for adults, not kids, the schooling system should be aimed at getting the best out of all, but streamed towards the brightest getting preferential treatment. No, it isn't fair, but it will work.

All must have prizes

For a long time now the policy in state schools by those whose allegiance to the left both in government and in teaching has been to downgrade sport. They followed a policy (however idiotic) that competition was somehow denigrating to those who did not win and this somehow damaged them.. Rather than assisting them to understand how the real world worked with winners and losers, they went for an all must have prizes groupthink which as kids are not stupid simply meant that the brighter and better ones simply didn't bother to apply discipline in sport to themselves and those who couldn't thought they were better somehow than they were.
BBC.

Too many state-school pupils are denied the chance to take part in competitive sport by head teachers who treat it as an "optional extra", says Ofsted.
Schools where pupils lack opportunities to excel in sport tend to have worse academic results, says a report from the watchdog.
It explores why so many top athletes are from private schools.
The National Union of Teachers said Ofsted's comparison between state and private school sport was "ridiculous".
The report, Going the extra mile: Excellence in competitive school sport, was commissioned after the 2012 Olympics to explore why so many Team GB athletes had been educated in private rather than state schools.
The report finds that in the most successful schools, both state and private, heads recognise that competitive sport can help build an ethos and boost grades.
Strong teams rely on teachers prepared to dedicate time and energy before, during and after school, as well as at weekends, say the authors.
Staff need to be able to identify talented pupils for extra coaching and ensure matches are accessible to everyone else, they add.

Not every state school of course, but the majority simply fail to see sport as a necessity in developing the children in a positive way. Nor does the NUT's bleat about  State schools having neither the same facilities nor time and space in the curriculum for sport as independent schools hold much water either, facilities possibly, but time? I'm pretty sure that independent schools teach the same curriculum generally as the state ones, though perhaps without the namby pamby leftard nonsense like climate change and multicultural bullshit.
A lot of this is down to political meddling with the curriculum in the past and no doubt future politicians will try to get into the act as well. Yet education is far too important to leave in the hands of anyone who has an agenda other than producing a bright and well educated next generation. Playing political skittles with kids brains to try to be fair to those who don't do so well has been a disaster, kids generally don't think like that anyway and so switch off from the process.
The ethos of all must have prizes needs to go and be replaced with a competitive edge. Sure there will be some who fail, but the winners will gain self confidence and the losers will develop mechanisms to cope and succeed in other ways.
Don't hold your breath on things changing soon though, those who believe that all must have prizes are too well entrenched in education to let go easily.

Storm in a (Daily Mail) teacup

Certain news papers have certain agendas which come out obviously when you read them, they're either populist or in other cases designed to get the readerships blood boiling. The Daily Mail has a reputation of winding its readers up with stories about immigrants, criminals cocking a snook at the law, the dangers to children from porn etc. They're good at it too, but relentlessly authoritarian as the response is usually to ban or demand ever more laws.
Mail.

Thieves, burglars and violent thugs will be free to work in schools, hospitals and care homes after a ruling by judges.
The Supreme Court said thousands of criminals should be allowed to wipe their record clean so they are not haunted forever by past offences.
The change means people will not be forced to disclose some convictions to prospective employers – because this breaches their human rights. Those affected by the ruling include people applying for certain kinds of jobs involving work with children or vulnerable adults.
Up to now, anyone wanting to work in these areas has had to disclose any previous convictions or cautions, which stayed on their records indefinitely. But a panel of five Supreme Court judges yesterday upheld a Court of Appeal judgement that blanket checks could breach a person’s right to a private or family life.
The Home Office challenged that judgement, saying it compromised the protection of children and vulnerable groups, but in the meantime introduced a system to filter out single minor convictions or cautions during an enhanced criminal records check.

Actually I'm with the Supreme Court on this one, caught nicking a bicycle age 11 shouldn't mean that you be denied a job working in a care home at age 25. Under the old rehabilitation of Offenders act, any crime which got you a prison sentence of less than ten years did not have to be declared after ten years had passed. It was presumed if you could stay out of trouble over ten years, you'd reformed. CRB checks, particularly the enhanced ones more or less told your past criminal history back to the year of your birth. Sure it kept the dangerous ones away from the vulnerable, though it couldn't prevent one off's or check on those who did a crime after being offered the job.
Some crimes are of course going to remain on the checks, the sex offenders register is not covered by this ruling. Crimes of violence in certain categories will also mean you remain on the register after ten years. Expunging a caution because of drunken folly after five years however will.
It means those who have reformed their lives after perhaps a stupid mistake will now be able to find work in expanded areas. Hopefully the ruling will still keep the dangerous ones out.
But lurid headlines sell papers and the Mail is convinced paedogeddon is on its way because a guy who stole a bicycle when 11 in 2002 is going to have his criminal record expunged.
The blanket CRB check one size fits all was never a good idea. Giving people a chance after time has passed is.

Silly talk

Cameron went on record telling us that the gravest threat to the UK was the ISIS group (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) currently causing trouble in Iraq. The reason he thinks they are trouble is that jihadis from the UK are amongst them and they may come back armed and extremely dangerous.
Express.

INSURGENCIES led by religious extremists in Iraq and Syria are the most serious danger Britain faces today, David Cameron has warned.
The Prime Minister insisted the prospect of battle-hardened jihadists returning to the UK was a “real threat to our country”.
But he denied that the Government was restoring diplomatic links with neighbouring Iran in a bid to win Tehran’s help to quell the spread of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militants.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Chinese premier Li Keqiang, Mr Cameron said: “No-one should be in any doubt that what we see in Syria and now in Iraq in terms of ISIS is the most serious threat to Britain’s security that there is today.
“The number of foreign fighters in that area, the number of foreign fighters including those from the UK who could try to return to the UK this is a real threat to our country.
“We will do absolutely everything we can to keep our people safe. That means stopping people from going, it means arresting people who are involved in plots, it means focusing our security, our policing, our intelligence effort on to that area of the world, on to those people.”

My solution is simpler, revoke their passports if they go or are proven to be out there.
Naturally there are leftards comparing the jihadi's who go as equivalents to the Brits who went to fight for the International  Brigades during the Spanish civil war in the 1930's though then they went to fight tyranny (as they saw it) rather than take part and revel in it. Most came back disillusioned with war too, though somehow for our jihadi's I cannot see this being the case.
Nor do I believe cosying up to Iran is wise, their government which is essentially controlled by religious clerics and is pretty much the other side of the same coin, just as fanatical but with the resources of a large state behind it.
Meddling in that area ought to become a maxim similar to that of never getting involved in a land war in south east Asia, it's simply not worth the time or effort and no matter what you do they are going to hate you anyway. Nor should we allow them to come here spreading their poison.
We should simply sell them arms and play one (or multiple) sides off against each other whilst making sure the oil flows.
We can always talk to the last man standing... eventually.

I doubt this will change things

A government funded survey has told the political classes that they ignore the rise of anti-immigrant sentiments at their peril. Problem being that as they don't live with the people who have to live amongst the problems being caused by mass uncontrolled immigration and the debacle of multiculturalism where every other culture but the native one is prized and the native one is held in contempt by many of the political classes as racist and bigoted because it does not live as they do in their comfortable little bubble.
Telegraph.

Politicians have contributed to a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment because of a widening “disconnect” between the “liberal political class” and public opinion, the UK’s most authoritative barometer of public opinion suggests.
Almost half the population now believes that a decade of mass migration has not only harmed the economy but undermined “British culture”, the annual British Social Attitudes survey shows.
The “persistent public anxiety” over immigrant numbers is something the main political parties “ignore at their peril”, the Government-funded study warns.
Significantly, the study — which has been charting public opinion for more than 30 years — found signs of a rejection of a multicultural notion of Britishness.
In striking contrast with a decade ago, when the survey showed rising acceptance of minorities, increasing numbers now single out factors such as being born in the UK or having “British ancestry” as important elements of “British” identity.

A decade ago perhaps we were a little more tolerant, but the determination of the thrice damned Labour Party to rub the so called right's nose in multiculturalism has stretched that tolerance to the limit. Nor does the article mention where the real stresses in society lie. EU immigration is a problem, but it's solvable by taking us out of the EU as most of their immigrants don't have UK citizenship and will have to leave. The ones that are here such as the Poles etc aren't that big a problem though groups such as Roma are a bloody nuisance. The real problem has been the governments invitation of islamic immigrants whose creed and practices are anathema to everything that Western civilisation stands for. The political classes permitted them to get away with said practices by either ignoring them or rounding on those who did complain as racist or bigoted for having the temerity to say something critical about their little brown buddies. hence we had the grooming scandals, Female genital mutilation, homophobia, misogyny, a rise in genetic defects due to the tribal custom of marrying first cousins, militantism and finally murder on our streets as this alien creed refuses to integrate and see 'us' as the problem, not them All of this was swept under the carpet by leftards in local and national government until finally they could keep their squalid little secrets no more and the rise of groups who knew what was going on and were going to fight it became inevitable.
Yet still the political classes cannot and will not change, much of what I said above simply does not affect them.
Sooner or later we'll have civil war and they will be to blame...

The last refuge of the scoundrel

Now there are times when wrapping yourself in the flag is a sign of genuine patriotism, though it should really be left to sports fans or ordinary people. When members of the political classes start to do so or promote 'British' or 'UK' values then you you know that they're getting desperate about something or trying to hide something.
Express.

DAVID Cameron has demanded a British uprising to promote democratic values and stop extremism which has been allowed to "flourish" on our soil.
The Prime Minister has spelt out a call to be more British, backing Education Secretary Michael Gove's plans to promote British values in the classroom, with proposals to also add the Magna Carta to the curriculum.
Mr Cameron has called Brits to be more "muscular" in flying the flag for democracy, freedom of speech, tolerance and equality saying these values are "as British as the Union Flag, football and fish and chips."
His rigid stance appears to be a direct response to the 'Trojan Horse' scandal which revealed Islamist extremism in schools in Birmingham.
He said: "It isn't enough simply to respect these values in schools. They're not options, they're the core of what it is to live in Britain.
"In recent years we have been in danger of sending out a worrying message: that if you don't want to believe in democracy, that's fine; that if equality isn't your bag, don't worry about it; that if you're completely intolerant of others, we will still tolerate you. That's not just led to division, it has also allowed extremism - of both the violent and non-violent kind - to flourish. We need to be far more muscular in promoting British values and the institutions that uphold them."

As ever, a politician is running roughly ten years behind the rest of us.
The thing is though the majority indigenous groups no longer recognise themselves as British, they tend now to think of themselves as English, Scots, Welsh and most unfortunate of all and where the real problem stems from, muslim. Indeed the only groups with a tendency to think of themselves as British are the Northern Irish and any number of immigrant groups who tag 'British' before or after their country of origin, even if they've been born here.
Cameron seems to be following in the footsteps of the former PM Gordon 'Jonah' Brown who had a thing about British values whilst doing his level best to remove the English as a political force by mass uncontrolled immigration.
In essence things are getting worse as the politicians are struggling to cope with immigrant groups who are used to the idea because its been promoted within them by leftards and libtards that they can tell anyone who criticises them to get lost, whilst calling the indigents racist to boot. Naturally they fall back on the flag and try to rally support, a support which isn't really there anymore... not for politicians anyway.
Still, you know things are really getting bad when the Prime Minister does this, so I wonder what he knows that we don't?

Time to stop the postal vote?

Postal votes were originally set up to assist those who could not make it to a polling station to vote in an election. Right up until the previous government they were a good idea and enabled the ill and the elderly their chance to have their say on an election. Come 2001 and Tony Blair's Labour government the rules changed and anyone was allowed to apply for a postal vote, not just those where under strict criteria it was deemed unreasonable to expect a them to go to a polling station on polling day as a result of employment, disability or education restrictions.Generous of Labour wasn't it, after all, what could go wrong?
Telegraph.

A police investigation into fake voters in Tower Hamlets has been widened to include fake candidates after at least two fielded by the borough’s extremist-linked mayor, Lutfur Rahman, in last month’s elections appear to have given false addresses.
One of the candidates is standing again in a council by-election next month using a different name from the one he gave only three weeks ago – and a second, apparently false, address.
Making a false statement on a nomination paper is a criminal offence punishable by up to six months’ imprisonment.
The Telegraph has also identified a number of fake postal votes cast at last month’s election by people who do not live at the properties the votes were cast from.
Other, genuine postal voters told this newspaper that their blank postal ballot papers had been taken from them, against their will, by people working for Mr Rahman, even though they did not want to vote for him.

 Ah yes, the islamic republic of Tower Hamlets, quelle surprise. Unfortunately the electoral traditions of Pakistan and Bangladesh have been brought to this country by immigrants and their idea of a vote is pretty much vote early and often. Indeed the Pakistani and Bangladeshi governments have commented that our electoral scrutiny of voters is appallingly weak compared to their own systems which have been designed to prevent fraud.
Now I really don't want to take a vote away from anyone, but the system as it is needs to go back to what it was or scrapping completely and something else set up in its place. Electoral fraud is a serious problem in the UK now and certain communities led by unscrupulous, corrupt (and often extremist) leaders have used it to get votes necessary to force their candidates and supporters into political power.
I don't know if Rahman would have won without the postal votes, but it wouldn't surprise me if he hadn't, nor do I see any real solution other than removing the postal vote from any who aren't disabled and going back to the original system.

A problem of their own creation

Apparently with little else to do because the EU makes up most of our laws other than try and figure out how to sell an intervention in Iraq to us (not going to happen) our MP's are decrying the lack of action in dealing with tobacco smuggling. It's the usual 'something must be done meme' being advanced by those who don't realise that the problem isn't really a problem at all, but a self inflicted wound caused by their own actions.
BBC.

Efforts to tackle tobacco smuggling have been hampered by a "farcical" lack of action by the government and its agencies, a committee of MPs has said.
The number of illicit cigarettes smoked in the UK rose by 49% to a billion in 2012, suggesting a reduction in enforcement action, the MPs said.
The Commons home affairs select committee said the failure to deal with rogue products was "of grave concern".
HM Revenue and Customs said tackling tobacco smuggling was "a priority".
The committee was particularly critical of the failure to fine a single firm for deliberately oversupplying cigarettes to high-risk markets in order for them to be smuggled back to the UK.
Taxpayers lose out on around £2bn in unpaid duty because of the illegal trade.

If the idiots in charge of us hadn't made the price of the things so expensive in the first place then smuggling them wouldn't be a lucrative activity by those who do it. If it didn't pay to do it, then they simply wouldn't bother and as for those who buy them, well it's clear they couldn't give a damn who supplies them as they look at the price from a man in a van and the state price in the shops and it's simply no contest. This is the lessons learned by the USA during prohibition, if people want something and its banned or priced artificially high then the criminals will come in and start selling it to the law abiding. Essentially the government have driven a lot of smokers into the hands of criminals and are now bitching that its costing them £2 billion in revenue.
The answers simple, drop the price and regain the revenue, however that's never going to happen as there are others out there who hate the idea that people smoke and it is they who at root have caused the loss in revenue and are not willing to compromise so want crooks arrested not realising that there are more out there to jump into the gap (and our prisons are full)
Anyway, this is definitely one to sit back and get the popcorn out as neither side will admit they made a mistake and the loss of revenue will continue to roll into the pockets of the criminal classes. That plus smokers are getting a bargain too and that's going to rub the noses of the anti-smoking brigade right into the mess of their own making.

Not our problem

Whilst the passport crisis carries on with people struggling to get out of the country and Labour blaming the Home Secretary personally for it (as if it's her job to check passports) let us turn our gaze over to those struggling to get in... illegally.
Mail.

Migrants in the French port of Calais have gone on hunger strike demanding to be let into Britain.
Around 35 refugees from Afghanistan and Egypt have vowed to refuse food until a list of demands issued to Calais officials is met.
The hunger strikers are being backed by around 260 more migrants all calling for the French and British authorities to resume talks aimed at allowing them to move legally to Britain.

Hold on a sec, it's Friday so let me check my notes here..

Nope really struggling here as to why I should give a damn if illegal immigrants in Calais starve themselves to death whilst waiting for the UK government to let them in. The clue is in the word illegal of course, that plus being Afghani's and Egyptians essentially means they are islamics (most likely) and more trouble than they are probably worth.
We have a big enough issue in the UK at the moment with legal immigration and now a bunch of people want  to force the UK government and the French to resume talks (why were we talking anyway?) to let them in.
The fact that they are trying blackmail should mean an automatic NO! in the first place, governments simply cannot capitulate to blackmail or threats over issues like this, if they did it simply sets the ball rolling for the next bunch to try. That in essence is why I'm opposed to an amnesty on illegals in the country, give in once and the next bunch will pour in hoping for the same as a precedent has been set.
No this bunch of chancers are going to have to wait till the next Labour government to open the floodgates for them to get in. Or try to get in illegally as most of their brethren do...

Snap

The so called Trojan Horse affair rumbles on though there are doubts to the veracity of the original letter. In the end though it comes down to what's happening in various schools where the majority of pupils are muslim and the things that they are being taught and the teaching staff are being encouraged to teach by the school governors. Whether there's a plot to take over the schools I do not know, I'm pretty sure some islamists would love to, yet it does strike me that even if there were no plot, we'd still have grounds to be worried over what muslim dominated schools are teaching as a matter of course...
Mail.

Fears were raised yesterday of more ‘Trojan Horse’ Islamist plots to infiltrate schools across the country.
Ofsted is carrying out ‘lightning’ inspections at schools in the north and south-east of England amid concerns over governors abusing their position and narrowing the curriculum.
Snap visits have already been made to schools in Bradford, Luton and Tower Hamlets in East London, and more are expected to follow.
One inspection – at a private Muslim school in Luton – uncovered books promoting stoning, lashing and execution.
In Bradford, Ofsted has visited Laisterdyke Business and Enterprise College, where all governors were sacked in April to prevent inappropriate interference in the running of the school. During a visit yesterday, pupils were allegedly forced to revise for exams in the street as staff did not want them speaking to inspectors.

Normally one would wonder what they have to hide, though in this case I suspect we know, it will be behaviour that muslims think is justifies by their religion, yet they know is frowned upon by civilised people.

This is the direct result of multiculturalism and the state holding the rights of minorities above integration and essentially allowing them to think that they are above criticism and reproach for the twisted medieval views islam promotes in violence, misogyny and homophobia. The problem is not what is going on in the schools, it's islam and always has been. Yet there are those out there who will ignore all that islam does simply because they believe it's being persecuted by the state, they believe we are at fault and that somehow or other we are to blame for islamists.
More and more its becoming apparent that there is no place in a civilised society for islam, never has and never will be.

Lord Haw Haw

William Joyce (amongst others) was a wartime broadcaster from Nazi Germany who 'encouraged' the British to give up fighting and praised to high heavens Nazi victories and spouted Nazi propaganda in a series of radio broadcasts during WW2. Essentially he was a tool of the Nazi's to undermine morale and to disseminate propaganda to make it look like the Germans were winning (a bit easier in the first part of the war than the latter days)
Even today though we have apologists for foreign powers telling us that we need to accede to their wishes and roll over to give them what they want, so step forward Lord Davies, ex-Tory now Labour peer...
Express.

In a House of Lords debate, former minister Lord Davies asked the Government to remain “pragmatic” when it comes to assessing what should be run by Brussels and what should be governed by the UK.
Lord Davies, who defected to Labour from the Tories when sitting as MP for Grantham and Stamford in 2007, asked: “Will the government be guided in these negotiations by an honest and value and evidence based assessment of the national interest, and if so, is it not the case that such an assessment might well throw up opportunities for repatriating powers but equally well might throw up areas where it might be in the better and national interest for more powers to be concentrated or given to the Union or at the Union level?
“Will the Government maintain entirely pragmatic about that or will the government reject out of hand or shy away from conclusions of that kind?”

I suppose it is possible that Cameron could come to that sort of conclusion, God alone knows the boy Clegg believes it with all his heart. Yet I fail to see how removing powers from (vaguely) democratically accountable levels in the UK and handing it over to unelected, unaccountable EUrocrats in Brussels who don't have a clue as to local needs and wants is going to help anyone.
All Lord Davies is, is a mouthpiece for the EUphiles who want ever more interference in our lives by Brussels or as they put it, ever closer union. He's even reading the mood of the country wrong by spouting his guff in the face of Ukip's electoral success in the last election in that there appears to be no great desire from the British to give more to the EU or indeed remain in the EU. Nor do his credentials of leaping ship from one party to another stand him in good stead in my mind and simply confirm to myself that politicians are mostly unrepresentative of what the public want and follow their own desire to remain in power rather than resign if they are totally at odds with their party and seek re-election elsewhere.
Btw, we hung Lord Haw Haw... perhaps Lord Davies should bear that in mind.

Other way round

Seems the islamoscum who decided that ordinary patriots attending an EDL rally were fair game for a bomb have tasked their lawyers into appealing the sentences because they were too harsh and non-muslims would have got less.
BBC.

Six men jailed for planning to bomb an English Defence League rally are challenging their jail terms, saying they were treated more harshly than non-Muslim extremists.
The West Midlands men were jailed for between 18 and 20 years for plans related to the June 2012 rally, in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
The men are Omar Khan, Jewel Uddin, Zohaib Ahmed, Mohammed Hasseen, Anzal Hussain and Mohammed Saud
They were sentenced in June last year.

Lawyers and leftards tend to think this way too, though in the case of the lawyers it's the legal aid money they'll get that's the driving factor, not the perceived injustice. Yet from my admittedly biased point of view the problem is that the cases they brought up as examples should have got more jail time, not they get comparable ones. These men are simply dangerous and should have been put down like dogs, it's not like those they opposed were planning to bomb mosques now were they?
Whilst I believe that people should be free to appeal once, after that it really should only be if new evidence is introduced, so I have no problem with these guys appealing, I do object to the 'but he got away with it' style objection they have come up with, pointing out that a Nazi bomber got less of a sentence than they did is not grounds for appeal in my eyes. Nor do their claims of dissimilar harsher treatment for muslims hold much ground, this blog and others are full of examples where muslims have received far lighter treatment and lesser charges for some violent and outrageous behaviour.
No doubt they'll be hoping for a pardon and a compo claim if they win, wouldn't be surprised if some out there believe they deserve it...

We've lost control

It's something bloggers as well as other elements of the so called 'far right' have been railing about for years now. It's something that ordinary working people know about as they live with the mess it's caused. It's something that successive governments have denied even as the evidence mounted and the scandals grew.
Illegal immigration is out of control, it's bad enough that legal immigration is growing uncontrollably as well, but only one in seventy illegals are being deported if figures are to be believed.
Express.

Government data handed to the Daily Express shows 28,442 were held in Britain in the past two years despite migration experts putting the total of people here without permission as high as two million.
The figures – reporting that the foreign nationals come from 159 different countries, one from nearly every nation on earth – have sparked fresh calls for Britain to quit the EU and reclaim control of our frontiers.
Critics say the problem is the result of a soft-touch approach to immigration over decades and the majority of hard-working Britons now put it as one of their major concerns.
Newly-elected Ukip MEP Tim Aker said: “It is out of control.
"These arrests barely scratch the surface and show the Government’s distasteful go-home wagons were a gimmick and not a reflection they were serious about combating illegal immigration.
"Tackling this epidemic would be a top priority for Ukip as we are the only party that would get back control of our borders.”
The number of suspected illegal immigrants held in the past two years accounts for less than 1.5 per cent of the total number estimated by the pressure group Migration Watch to be here without permission.
The figures, which were obtained under a Freedom of Information request, show individuals from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh account for more than half those arrested.

Not only illegals, but islamic illegals too, as if we didn't have enough problems with the homegrown ones. Unfortunately the Border Agency's softly softly approach hasn't worked, it's been undermined by the previous government and from within by leftard sympathisers who don't seem to care a fig about the problems immigration is now causing the country, only that the demographics are changed to either help with votes or in the case of the leftards remove or marginalise the indigenous racist English as they see it.
Being in the EU doesn't help, the illegals simply get into some country and travel to Calais before paying up to be smuggled in, it means that with the free movement of Labour it's difficult to keep them out once they are in as they can move freely to our border. Nor does the HRA help as they often use that to plead persecution from their home country and delay the process, frequently enough vanishing again if given the chance. The scam on student visas helps a lot of them, they are easy to get and once they are in, amazingly enough a good few don't go back.
All this can be laid at the governments door, the current and previous one, their pandering to the EU and slavish adherence to the HRA has made the UK a haven for illegals as if they get in, there's a good chance they won't be going back.
I doubt we'll ever get control back until we leave the EU, even then it could take decades to sort out the mess politicians and the political classes have made of the border system.
And all the time it's getting worse...

Whatever happened to brightest and best?

Labour wrecked the university system we had in this country and generally have been a negating factor in education from without and within via the leftist leaning unions with their 'all must win' philosophies and emphasis on dragging all down to the lowest common denominator. They've even used left leaning think tanks to undermine the education system and make suggestions which frankly do not make sense if we wish our schools and universities to produce the best in educated pupils and scholars.
Telegraph.

Universities should drop their entry requirements for pupils from state comprehensives to prevent them missing out on sought-after degree courses, according to research published by the Department for Education.
Teenagers should be admitted to university with lower grades than peers from the private sector to close the gap between state and fee-paying schools, it was claimed.
The study, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Warwick University, said performance in GCSEs had the biggest bearing on pupils’ chances of gaining good A-levels and getting in to top universities.
Millions of pounds spent by universities each year to “widen participation” in higher education should be focused on pupils aged 14-to-16 to push them towards degree courses, it said.
But the research warned that the sheer gulf in standards between comprehensives and academically-selective state or private schools was so vast that more drastic measures were needed.

So rather than tackle the real problem of failing state schools the leftard solution is to reduce the entry requirements for failing schools at top universities.
Truly idiotic is it not?
It does not seem to have occurred to anyone making this report (or perhaps it has and it's all part of the plan) that allowing more poorly educated pupils into university doesn't help them, the university, nor the ones who've really earned a place there. If you go in with a lower standard you've got to be brought up to the required standard for one thing and so several will find themselves dropping out because they cannot cope with the far more rigorous requirements that universities need in order to get a degree in a subject that actually means something.
Education has been wrecked by the so called progressives in this country who demanded an everyone wins formulae to make the system look like year on year things were getting better despite the obvious reality that things weren't and we were producing an underclass to whom reading and basic maths was a foreign concept. It was then taken further to try and force higher education to expand and take on pupils who were manifestly ill equipped to cope with the rigours required in studying at that level.
So now we come to another biggie, lower your standards to let the ill educated in so all can win prizes...
You'd struggle to make it up wouldn't you?

And whose fault is it that we have extremists?

The gall of the left when it comes to blaming someone for the problems they originally caused knows no bounds. Currently they are using the BBC with whom they march hand in hand to lambaste the government for failing to deal with extremism properly...
BBC

Labour is to accuse the government of a "serious failure" to deal with the threat of extremism, in the wake of a row between two cabinet ministers.
Yvette Cooper will claim departments have failed to work together and anti-radicalisation funding has been cut.
David Cameron has vowed to get to the bottom of a spat between Theresa May and Michael Gove over the issue.
But Ms Cooper will say this is "missing the point" and there is no proper strategy for schools and communities.
Differences of opinion between the home secretary and education secretary, both seen as potential future Tory leaders, about how to deal with Islamic extremism were laid bare in a public row.

This would be the same Labour who allowed uncontrolled immigration of groups known to contain extremists, who pandered to their desires for segregation and who ignored all the warning signs as they worshipped at the altars of the deviant and false doctrines of diversity and multiculturalism and enabled the extremists via the odious Human Rights Act.
In essence Labour and the moronic left are to blame the government for failing to clear up their mess.
Hypocrisy writ large is it not?
Granted the government have simply carried on with their head in the sand over the activities of the islamoloons amongst us and haven't dealt effectively with those who mean us no good at all, some of this is institutional (the leftards in the bureaucracy), some due to 'human rights' constraints, some due to the utter unwillingness of idiots like Cameron to admit that islam is incompatible with civilised values.
However as much as Labour would like to deny it, they were the ones who brought the problems to our shores, not the current government. The row between Gove and May is a simple spat, he wants a hard line attitude, she can't as the HRA prevents it so Labour are attempting to take advantage of it.
Labours solution?

Ms Cooper will say the government needs to work more closely with community leaders, councils, faith groups and other bodies to hammer home the dangers of radicalisation.

Because that's worked ever so well in the past, hasn't it? Some community leaders are hard line radicals anyway and some faith groups harbour them.
We're doomed I tell you...

Another day, another scam

Well the Tories fended off Ukip in the Newark by-election only for another reason for people to vote Ukip emerge on the day after the election, a more suspicious man than I might think the news was suppressed in order to assist the comfortable status quo of the current establishment.
Express.

Loopholes in the system mean cheats are free to return to their homeland while being paid £87.55 a week. Workers from the EU see our 28-week statutory sick pay as easy pocket money.
Some even claim the payments while holding down second jobs back home. The deception was ­rumbled by company managers across Britain who say they are ­powerless to ­act.
The scandal confirms Britain has “lost the plot on immigration,” said a Ukip MEP last night.
It comes days after the Government conceded it was helpless to stop £30million a year in child benefit payments flowing out of Britain for the off-spring of EU migrants working here.
The Department for Work and ­Pensions said the system is not abused but admitted it does not keep records on sick pay for migrant workers. But it is worried enough to urge companies to report staff suspected of lying.
Last night a payroll manager at a firm in the South-west employing Polish drivers said one took 16 weeks sick leave last year and has racked up 12 weeks this year.
The company says the man has a second job abroad but as they receive certificates from his Polish doctor the absence goes unchallenged.

One wonders how the DWP can claim the system is not being abused whilst also saying they don't check or keep records.
Still, because the EU says we have to treat migrants here the same as someone born  here or who has paid into the system here even if they just sell Big Issues after stepping off the ferry it means that they can claim all their benefits here, take a 28 week sicky and return home to get their local doctor to keep signing them off whilst keeping their original job or enjoying a better lifestyle paid for by the UK taxpayer. Yet we're constantly told that the EU is good for us... It certainly appears to be good for anyone who wants to leach off us, along with its ruling classes to whom the corrupt lifestyle they lead enables them to pocket millions at the taxpayers expense.
We need to leave, yet the big three insist on keeping us in and telling us it's for the best, that's why I'll never vote for them, they are the ones responsible for the mess in the first place and don't seem to have a lue as to how to deal with their problems nor the gumption to tackle them.
Can't we just leave?

Guilty until proven innocent

Her Majesties Revenue & Customs don't seem to like the idea that people for a variety of legal reasons (some admittedly obscure) do not pay the tax that they believe they should and so have come up with another wizard wheeze to get their hands on cash they believe is theirs...
Telegraph.

Taxpayers will be treated as “guilty until proven innocent” as HM Revenue & Customs gets the power to force them to pay up front if officials suspect them of tax avoidance.
Under plans announced in the Queen’s Speech, people using tax avoidance schemes will be made to make “accelerated payments” as part of plans to raise around £2 billion.
Treasury figures suggest that 65,000 people could be affected by the new powers. HMRC could raise a more than £2bn in all.
The most controversial aspect of the new plans is for the new rules to apply to a “legacy stock” of pre-existing cases, where people invested money in contentious schemes several years ago.
George Osborne earlier this year announced a major Government crackdown on tax avoiders following a series of high-profile cases involving celebrities including Gary Barlow, the Take That singer.
Experts have warned that it will lead to tens of thousands of potentially innocent British citizens being forced to pay their taxes before they are even due.
The all-party Treasury Select Committee last month expressed concerns about the plans for up-front payments to HMRC.
Neal Todd, corporate tax partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner, warned that the HMRC are acting as “judge and jury”.

Yep, they decide you owe them and force you to hand it over and they hold onto it until you prove it's not theirs. It's a bit like a shop grabbing your wallet before you go in and deciding how much you're going to spend.
HMRC of course have form for getting it wrong and being extremely slow to put things right, it appears once they have our cash in their hands they're very reluctant to actually let go of it again under any circumstances whether its a mistake or incompetence on their part. And what we have with this proposed legislation is the equivalent of letting a fox into the chicken coop with instructions to go after specific chickens, you know it's going to be messy and mistakes are going to be made.
No doubt the leftards out there who bleat about avoidance as if it's a crime will be pleased that companies and individuals will be targeted, yet avoidance isn't a crime, evasion is and it needs to be proven, not simply suspected before you paid up or paid back.
Well you'd hope...

The enemy within

The Home Office is responsible for dealing with illegal immigration, unfortunately due to previous wishy washy legislation, the Human Rights Act and the indolence and corruption of the Borders Agency and its leadership it faces an uphill task. A task not made any easier by leftard moles working within its structure warning about raids on businesses employing illegals...
Mail.

A Whitehall mole has sabotaged hundreds of raids against immigrants working illegally in Britain by leaking sensitive government documents to activists, it was claimed last night.
Small businesses suspected of illicitly employing foreigners were tipped off after a radical protest group was covertly handed the hit-list.
The Home Office launched a two-week crackdown – codenamed Operation Centurion – to target workplaces, including care homes, hotels and restaurants and construction sites that were believed to be employing illegal immigrants.
But the Anti Raids Network, a left-wing pressure group, said it had warned the companies to expect officials to bang on the door after being passed the paperwork by the mole, Channel 4 News claimed.
The leak threatens to scupper the crackdown by allowing illegal workers to escape capture. The Anti Raids Network said it was justified because the swoops were ‘racially-profiled and unfair’ – a claim the Home Office said was ‘abhorrent and completely without foundation.’ It said the raids were ‘intelligence-led’.

One can only presume the dearth of actual intellect in a leftard group who believe that going after illegal immigrants is racist as by definition they will be of another race/nation/culture/religion to which the current definition of racist  seems to cover like a wet blanket. Generally illegals are economic migrants and work under the radar of the system for slave wages and do not contribute generally to the economy save in the area of VAT on sales of whatever they produce for their employer. They don't pay tax, they leech off the system in general and take jobs from those who actually are entitled to them. Naturally leftards love them as they in a very small way destroy trust in the system by their presence though how the moronic left justify the profits made by an employer indulging in employing illegals demonstrates hypocrisy of the highest order.
Unfortunately the civil service is rife with people who lean to the left in extreme ways they constantly sabotage government programs and their unions are amongst the most hard core militants of the TUC and who use their membership to rob the public via the taxpayer to pay for benefits the private sector workforce can only dream of.
That some are traitors to their country is a given, it's what the left do...

Aiding the recovery

Only an utter lunatic, leftard or EUphile will believe that picking peoples pockets by way of taxation will aid the recovery. By taking more away from us they believe the government will assist growth by spending it on projects they believe will be popular.
Mail.

Brussels has infuriated ministers with a provocative series of proposals to boost economic growth in Britain – including higher taxes, new levies on expensive homes, and more free childcare.
The European Commission acknowledged the UK economy had roared back to life over the past year, but warned of ‘imbalances’ that required action from the Treasury.
In an assessment of the state of the main EU economies, the Commission identified ‘risks in the housing sector’ as a problem for the UK and backed calls from other international organisations for the state’s Help to Buy scheme to be reined in.

Considering that the UK's recovery even if a lot of us haven't noticed is racing away from our EU rivals you'd almost suspect that the EU was trying to trip us up to help said rivals regain some ground. It's the typical solution of the leftards though, the magic money tree economics that caused the recession to be even worse than it actually had to be by pumping masses of cash via quantitative easing into the economy only to cause problems with inflation and see no measurable results by the use of it either, other than saddling the taxpayer with enough debt to cause our great grandchildren to be in hock up to their eyeballs.
The UK electors rejected EU meddling in the last election even if the biggest winner was the can't be arsed to vote party. You'd suspect they'd try to keep their heads down for a while, well you might, but the hubris of those idiots knows no bounds. As far as they are concerned, they know best and the rest of us have to simply do as they say, or that's the plan and always has been...

The end result (so far) of pandering to extremism

It has been a truism of politicians and the political classes over the last two decades at least to give lip service to the false doctrines of multiculturalism and political correctness. Slowly over the years this poisonous fruit of placing the desires of the few ahead of the wishes of the many has caused a change in our nation where speaking your mind or advancing even mild criticism of certain groups and religions has led to arrests of the complainants and/or a torrent of abuse heaped upon them by the self loathing leftards and compliant idiots of the UK establishment.
Yet slowly the truth of their pandering to extremists who they placed above criticism and investigation has come to light via the grooming scandals, barbaric butchery of ordinary people and the attempt finally to infiltrate our education system...
Telegraph.

The head of Ofsted is expected to reveal six schools have been placed in special measures following worrying evidence of religious interference in the classroom
Teachers are to be sent on training programmes to help them stop extremism entering the classroom, as damning reports show that some state schools have been imposing Islamic practices and attitudes.
The reports are due to be published by the education watchdog Ofsted next week, after inspectors carried out emergency checks in 21 schools in Birmingham following complaints of homophobia, the segregation of boys and girls in some lessons, refusal to teach sex education, bullying and invitations to extremists to speak at assemblies.
It is understood six schools, including Park View Academy, have been placed in special measures after inspectors found worrying evidence of religious interference in the classroom.
According to The Sunday Times, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of Ofsted, will claim next week that children in Birmingham are being denied a “rounded education” to prepare them for life as British citizens.
The Ofsted boss is expected to warn the education secretary Michael Gove that his inspectors have found evidence of some governing bodies being dominated by individuals intent on changing the character of schools.

This sadly is what islam does, it attempts first to ingratiate itself in a society when a tiny minority and when it grows it seeks to bend said society to its ways first by persuasion and finally by violence and intimidation until it becomes a majority and the country involved is simply another islamic shithole that the people want to get out of as islam as a political concept is deeply flawed and highly unworkable. Yet that doesn't stop islamists from hating and wanting to destroy societies from without and within who don't bow the knee to their demonic demigod.
What Ofsted has found will turn out to be the tip of the iceberg as the first arrests in the grooming scandal were the tip in that particular islamic activity. The islamic communities either cover up or ignore the activities of their extremists and let them get on with destroying the society they live in.
This is why islam is incompatible with western civilisation, it seeks not to integrate, but to dominate and destroy, that's why it needs to be rooted out completely and expunged from our shores, if we do not, it surely will destroy the land we live in beyond all recognition.

The idiocy of the easily offended

The are those out there who are easily offended, they are the type who can get a program suspended with one complaint, cause major offence to others by being offended in their name, even find offence where there essentially is none. They tend to be self loathing types who look for problems and issues where there are none and who seek the glare of publicity for their fifteen minutes of fame to highlight an 'issue' which essentially isn't...
Telegraph.

Customers say the £3 St George's Cross, with the word "England" on the red cross looks like the hoods worn by the racist US organisation
Supermarket Asda has defended a "wearable England flag" it has launched for the World Cup after claims it resembles a Ku Klux Klan outfit.
The £3 St George's Cross, with the word "England" on the red cross, features a hood which Asda said was to allow fans to wear it and stay dry despite the unpredictable British weather.
But some fans took to Twitter to point out what they believe were similarities with the hoods worn by the racist US organisation, also known by its initials "KKK".
One user called Kieran posted a picture of himself at his @KieranCPhoto account, writing: "Asda are selling wearable England flags, they look dodgy to say the least ..."
Another user called Simon replied on his @HungryHatter account: "'ENGLAND RULES OKKK' Honestly, do Asda simply not bother to see how these things look when worn? *sigh*"

As the KKK aren't an English organisation, nor do they have much if any support in England clearly this is a case of morons with too much time on their hands. Nor as far as I can tell do the hoodie flags cover the face and have eye holes in them as the KKK outfits do.

England fan

KKK member

Rather easy to spot the difference you might think.
I'm rather surprised that local witches and wizards haven't come out of the woodwork to complain about associating to their beliefs by wearing a pointy hat, nor anyone who wore a dunces cap either complaining about the memories invoked either come to that.
I suppose you could even get complaints about the Guatemalan cucurucho garb being mocked if you really want to get down to some serious being offended.

Cucurucho style

You see its only a flag, not an outfit and not meant to offend anyone, though the easily offended will no doubt continue to believe that anyone who drapes themselves with the flag of St George is a racist (closet or otherwise) simply because their self loathing will not allow them to do anything else.
It's one of those things where if you go looking for something long enough and hard enough, you'll find it, even if no one else save a few of your fellow morons can see it or wants to see it.