Other people's money

I never bought into the Diana sainthood thing, nor the various conspiracy theories around her death. Whilst I kind of sympathised with her landmine campaign, I could only see it benefiting those insurgents who were being blown up by them. She campaigned successfully to remove a defence from our troops, our armed forces have taken casualties because insurgents can approach their camps a lot closer than they ought too. Yes the civilian casualties were bad, but they were mainly due to landmines left over from the insurgents, not regular armies.
Mail.

The Princess Diana Memorial Fund, to which millions of her admirers donated money, has been hijacked by Left-wingers to fund a pro-immigration propaganda campaign.
Directors of the charity set up a secretive project called Changing Minds and then channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into a string of associated organisations.
The aim of the scheme is to alter British attitudes to immigration – which are currently in favour of far stricter border controls.
Among some of its most successful achievements, it lists the establishment of a new ‘independent’ think-tank – criticised by a Labour MP as a front for Left-wing views on immigration.
The Migration Observatory is advised by a senior journalist on the Left-wing Guardian newspaper, and the husband of its star columnist, Polly Toynbee.

Yes, the left have always been pretty free with other people's money, seeing it as an extension of their aims and desires and anyone who objects is some sort of fascist/racist/bigot. That they wish to promote the ruination of this country by mass uncontrolled immigration is no surprise. They do the same over any cause designed to emasculate, ignore, dilute and drive the UK people into a place they simply do not wish to be, hence their support of islamist groups and those involved in the grooming scandal.
Every country needs to control immigration, the results of failing to do so are pretty self evident to the UK public. Yet to left wingers this is suppose to be part of an end game where people take to the streets and 'they' will lead the inevitable revolution, forgetting that in most recent revolutions, it's the left who go to the wall first.
Left wing thought (for given values of thought) seems mired in taking from all to pay for something no-one other than the left wants. Their attempts to do so need to be constantly publicised until the day comes when these people have no influence on society at all and the term socialist is viewed in the same way Nazi is today.

For God's sake just play the bloody thing!

The BBC in an effort to promote their hatred of Thatcher whilst desperately trying to remain 'impartial' ave manage to offend just about everyone, which I suspect is not the impartiality they wanted...
The problem they have is the song ♫ Ding dong the witch is dead ♪ which is not to surprisingly heading for chart success as many of those who are buying it have no idea who or what Thatcher was and have simply bought into the idea that she was the anti-Christ.
BBC.

The BBC has defended its decision not to play in full on Radio 1's Official Chart Show a song at the centre of an anti-Baroness Thatcher campaign.
A five second clip of Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead will be played in a news item on Sunday's show.
BBC Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper said the move over the Wizard of Oz film track had been a difficult compromise.
He said he had to balance respect for someone who had just died with issues around freedom of speech.
Sales of the song, from the 1939 musical starring Judy Garland, have soared since former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher's death on Monday, aged 87.

That's right, they played five seconds of it and upset a lot of people. Yet the daft thing is, had they played it all, it would have been (probably) a five second wonder. As it is, the BBC may just have put themselves in the position of having to play it again next week bringing with it more opprobrium.
When you ban something then it becomes oddly enough something that people feel inclined to try out. people are bloody minded like that so the BBC is in fact fuelling the sales of the song (perhaps it's deliberate) yet is being forced to try and defend its decisions at large putting them in a no win situation.
Now an impartial (as in really impartial) organisation would have simply just played it without comment and got it out of the way and next week it would have moved onto something new.
The BBC are simply incapable of doing such a thing and so managed to upset just about everyone with an interest in the matter from those who wanted their little mass media protest to those who were horrified by it.
Banning simply doesn't work, those calling for it should have simply ignored the BBC not given it air time over a crisis. For those who wanted the song, get over yourselves, you wouldn't like it done to one of your heroes.
Yet it still should have been played.
Not the stupid games over it...

The bansturbationists...

What is it with people who seek always to prevent others from making informed choices in their actions by seeking legislation to ban everything they do not like?
BBC.

Advertising aimed at children of primary school age and younger should be banned, a group of authors, journalists and academics has said.
The group supports a new campaign called Leave our kids alone which says techniques aimed at manipulating adult emotions and desires are being used on children as young as two in the UK.
Campaign co-founder Jonathan Kent says the adverts are like "kiddie crack".
But the advertising watchdog says rules on advertising to children are strict.

Do these people not realise there is an off button (or standby button on the remote) and that parents really should not be allowing the tv to be the oblong babysitter? Oh yes I'm sure some advertisers believe that they can persuade kids to badger their parents into giving them what they want. However that's a reflection on the parents, not the advertisers or kids. Parents after all have the right to say 'no' no matter how hard their kids throw a wobbler at them. That some parents can't is probably a reflection on the infantilism that successive governments have made of our populace, certainly the pressure group is a reflection of a lobbying campaign that seems to be in danger of giving the government a new set of powers, something which will later come back to bite the buggers on the arse no doubt when the legislation suffers from some politician using it in a way that the group never envisaged, it's known as mission creep. After all, those in favour of RIPA never envisaged it being used to track down people suspected of school catchment fraud.
'Leave our kids alone' will hopefully drop the issue eventually, I do hope so as there's a real danger that they'll get what they asked for in the worst possible way...

They have a right, as do we...

The Thatcher legacy rumbles on in the press, on social media such as twitter and Facebook as well as in various blogs. What can certainly be accurately said is that the woman certainly produced strong feelings in many, from adulation to vitriolic hate, despite being out of power for nigh on 23 years.

Never forgive, never forget

There has been arranged a ceremonial funeral (rather than a state one) with a Falklands war theme running through it perhaps the one even which most find it in their hearts to believe in this Thatcher got it dead right. as for the rest, well it depends on your point of view...
Telegraph.

The woman behind an internet campaign to organise street parties to "celebrate" the death of Baroness Thatcher can be named as Romany Blythe, a drama teacher from Brighton.
Romany Blythe, 45, created a group on Facebook called The Witch is Dead followed by more than 5,000 people, calling for “demonstrations of disapproval” across the country. A number of places on the list were locations of riots and demonstrations that took place across the country on Monday, including Bristol city centre and George Square in Glasgow. Blythe is a drama teacher with a workshop company that visits secondary schools. She specialises in “facilitating workshops for young, excluded and potentially criminalised individuals and uses drama techniques she has developed to explore resolution of conflict and oppression,” according to the company's website.

Actually just reading her profile on there tells you pretty much all you need to know about a woman who doesn't really have any experience of the real world.
However she does have the right to organise her protests as do others who cannot forgive Thatcher for dealing with socialisms poisoning of the UK via the unions and militant tendency. Nor do I blame them for holding onto their hatred, it's their right, however silly it would appear to be to many others.
And that's the rub isn't it?
They have the right to trumpet their hate, yet many of them would attempt to stop others from going into mindless triumphalism 
One of the things we've lost in this country is a right...
That's the right to face up to the consequences of our actions. Now say this woman did hold a street party (Bet Brighton Council forego a elf n safety review) you can bet the police will step in if say such a party came under threat from a counter-protest. Same if it were vice versa, though the English at least don't tend to celebrate death as such which is why the leftist parties look distinctly churlish or even moronic.
The people holding such parties will be expecting to be protected if they come under threat because of their actions. These would be the same people who in the past tried to stop Nick Griffin speaking on Question Time, who attempt violence during their own protests, who issue threats on social media and generally believe that everyone should believe as they do.
They want their rights, but forget we have rights too. They expect the full protection of the law, but protest if the law protects others.
Hypocrites all.

 

Parish Notice

No real blogging tonight as I've just gotten back from hospital after my lovely granddaughter slipped off the settee and sliced open her lip on the edge of a coffee table.
She'll be ok, but it looks pretty deep and I suspect the use of superglue might not be enough.
Blogging will hopefully resume tomorrow.

A chapter of history closes

Margaret Thatcher, like her or loathe her died today, she was in many peoples eyes the greatest post war Prime Minister the country has ever had and won three consecutive general elections increasing her majority each time, something no other prime minister this or the previous century managed.
Yet there are some out there who will be delighted that a frail old lady suffering from alzheimers died today from a stroke. Some with good reason though they tend to be a minority of the left and those who came into direct conflict with Thatcher's government (ex miners mostly) No doubt they will be the ones making the embarrassing headlines here and there about dancing (or worse) on graves and will mostly be ignored.
Eulogies will no doubt become endless too, as Thatcher's life and the events she had power over will be gone over time and time again. Some will no doubt go completely over the top there too.
To me Margaret Thatcher was a direct reaction to the times we lived in when she took power. The militant left had decided that they could and would make everyone's life a misery with their actions via the union barons. The electorate decided to elect a Prime Minister to put a stop to this and indeed Thatcher did. That said had it not been for the Falklands conflict she may not have won a second term (never mind a third) as the cure as ever was proving unpalatable to many who fell upon hard times as the UK's industrial base changed beyond recognition and the service sector grew to replace it.
As it was, the Falklands conflict showed the people that we had a true leader, not just a person in charge and Thatcher reaped the benefit of this until her untimely demise at the hands of a group of fearful EUphiles.
The Prime Ministers who followed her could not hold a candle to her achievements, nor are they men of true worth, simply shades of bland grey. Talentless nobodies whose only desire is to achieve and hold onto power no matter the cost to the UK people.
So RIP Margaret Thatcher, you are sorely missed.

Did I like her?
No.
Did I admire her and what she achieved?
Hell yes!

Oh my a touch of common sense

The Tories are still in a bit of a tiz over Ukip and what they see as that party poaching their 'natural' voting group, though a quick check of the demographics of Ukips voter base suggests that support is coming from all over the political spectrum, not just the Tory vote. Ukip seem to have established a foothold into the traditional working class vote that Labour thought was theirs as well as certain voting groups that the Lib Dems saw as their core support.
So naturally the Tories (and others) are trying to position their policies in areas in which they believe Ukip are stealing a march on them ie immigration...
Telegraph.

Foreign migrants are to be banned from obtaining legal aid for civil claims until they have lived in Britain for at least a year.
The crackdown on immigrants’ rights is among the changes to be announced by ministers this week to cut the £1.7 billion legal aid bill by approximately £300 million.
It will hit illegal immigrants, failed asylum seekers and even those on tourist or student visas who have taken advantage of the lax rules or lack of checks on their status.
Under the range of new measures, prisoners are to be banned from using legal aid for cases that do not relate to the length of their sentences. “I am proposing to take legal aid away from prisoners who don’t like the prison they are in, or don’t like the cell they are in, or don’t like a part of the regime,” Mr Grayling said.
In a separate move — with ministers determined to take a tough line on offending — Mr Grayling disclosed that he is planning a change in court guidelines after a criminal convicted of attacking three people had his curfew lifted so that he could go on holiday to Thailand.

Of course talking the talk is easy, the question remains, can they walk the walk especially as our judicial system has proved that it is perfectly prepared to ignore the laws of this country if they are 'overridden' by international or European laws.
Yes all these measures sound pretty good, particularly the prisoner ones, the immigration ones not going nearly far enough. Personally other than appeals regarding their sentences prisoners should not have access to the legal aid system, there is a principle involved which should deny them access to things that those not incarcerated take for granted. They get meals, housed and given something to occupy them. That's pretty much all they need.
As for immigrants, well unless they've paid into the system a certain amount then they get no help from the system, that should also include benefits as well as legal aid. Personally I'd set the bar far higher than a year, more like five years, though if the lawyers wish to do pro bono stuff that's up to them.
All this reform I believe is a direct result of Ukip's recent surge in support, though whether the Tories or Labour can do anything about it simply with words remains to be seen, because at the moment words are all I'm hearing, not action and I certainly won't believe it until someone legally challenges it as I believe that EU and European laws will stop this in its tracks...

It could just be that he's not that good

The hate-mongering business as set up by the left to justify their social engineering and exclusion policies in order to change society into the way they believe it should be (ie not one anybody with common sense or decency would wish to live in) constantly throws up cases where prejudice is assumed simply because of the colour of a persons skin, or religion (or the now vast other 'special' groups out there) Quite often it's in the interest of the hate industry to make such cases media events, after all, if they don't, people might start asking pointed questions as to why we are employing them...
The Sun.

ONE of Britain’s oldest youth football clubs has been accused of repeatedly subbing the same boy — just because he’s Asian.
Furious mum Fehnez Khan reported the team to cops and the FA — claiming her nine-year-old lad Jaedon was the victim of race hate.
The raging parent insisted: “My son was the only coloured boy in the side and I am sure that was why he wasn’t given as good a chance as the rest.”
The conveyancing assistant, 42, even hired two undercover coaches to watch Jaedon play — and she said they couldn’t understand why he was often taken off.
But officials from Knowle FC in Solihull, West Mids — which was formed in 1926 — have angrily denied any suggestion of racism.
They told cops the youngster was only ever substituted or put on the bench for football reasons.

Ah the classic 'is it cos I is black' cri de coeur of someone who refuses to accept any other explanation other than the one where it has to be prejudice, as we all know that prejudice is rife in our society. After all it must be, we're constantly being told it is by the race industry and the moronic left.
The real explanation though is somewhat more prosaic...

They quizzed the parents of nine players, including one Asian boy, who said Jaedon was a weaker squad member.

In other words he simply wasn't good enough for the team, not necessarily useless, just that if you are in a squad of very good players then you might just struggle to keep up with them, or your game style simply does not suit the teams style.
It's usually not because your skin colour doesn't fit.
That however does not stop the race/hate-mongers deciding to leap into action as it gives them an excuse to get their cause into the press as well as getting a wad of cash in compo should they get their way.
Altogether now... ♪It's never your fault, it's never your fault. Always the victim, it's never your fault.♫
(To the tune of the Sloop John B chorus) 
The sooner we get a government with the balls to dismantle the hate industry and move us all to the same status rather than believe some animals are more equal than others the better.

Unless of course you're 'special'

Hate crimes, you'd think that they'd apply to any specific attack on anyone citing their colour, religion, social/sexual/gender group and now the newly created fashionista's of the goths and emos clans. Except that we know that such hate crimes cannot be committed by those groups unless they are white, mainstream and most likely male. Indeed such attacks by the minority groups that are clearly hate crimes (Rhea Paige ring any bells) are simply not treat by the law with the same rules and rigour.
Express.

A POLICE force has begun recording offences against members of alternative subcultures, such as goths and emos, as hate crimes.
Greater Manchester Police is believed to be the first force to add abuse towards groups such as goths, emos and punks in the same way they do attacks based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity.
Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan said: "People who wish to express their alternative sub-culture identity freely should not have to tolerate hate crime."
The police force has worked with a charity set up following the murder of 20-year-old goth Sophie Lancaster in 2007.
Miss Lancaster was kicked and stamped to death because she was dressed as a goth in a park in Bacup, Lancashire, in August 2007.
She slipped into a coma and never regained consciousness.

Whilst I do see any attack specifically aimed at someone because they belong to a certain group, it does behove me to point out the hypocrisy of such classifications when the CPS resolutely refuse to prosecute on such grounds when the victim is white mainstream. At the moment it's only Greater Manchester police who are adding these groups to the classification, though I suspect as with any other minority initiative it will soon become commonplace.
It would be nice though if we could all be treated equally, though at the moment I'm afraid it's still 'game on' for victimhood poker, where race, religion, gender and alternative sexuality all define just how seriously the law will perceive your case...

Must be nice...

I have often wondered what it would be like to be able to afford to go on strike, it must after all be nice to be able to do so. That said, I've never been in a position where I've needed too, or felt pushed into going on strike, not even during my sojourn in the public sector as a railway and bus worker. The other places I've worked for if I haven't liked them, I've simply moved on to something different (not necessarily better, but the trend was ever upward)
Telegraph.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, is understood to be leading calls for a super-strike in protest against the Government cuts. A document drawn up by the union described a general strike as "desirable", according to the Financial Times. The newspaper reported that Unite believes: “It would be a landmark in our movement’s recovery of its morale, strength and capacity to play a leading part in a society crying out for credible and honourable leadership." However, other less radical unions would be likely to oppose the idea.

This would be Unite as led by Len McClusket on £122,434 per annum plus perks who can clearly afford to go on strike with his members, bearing in mind that they'll be on strike and he'll still be raking it in. I also had to stifle a guffaw at a communist union leader going on about 'credible and honourable leadership' as most communists (and indeed much of the more strident left) wouldn't know credible and honourable leadership if it came up to them and nutted them in the face. Indeed much of the history of the left shows that whatever happens, the scum always rises to the top and then proceeds to murder, intimidate and jail any and all opposition whilst running the economy into the ground via corruption and magic money tree economic policies. It should also be noted that Len was a supporter (though not as member) of the infamous Militant Tendency movement which nearly crippled the Labour Party and made them unelectable for years.
If such a strike does happen (unlikely in the extreme) it will be a massive own goal for Labour and a gift to Cameron.
Whilst I have no problem with the far left causing Labour to commit political suicide, I do wish they'd find a way to do it without impoverishing union members and inconveniencing the rest of us.
I can live without either...

Fifth Column

A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group, such as a nation or a besieged city, from within.The term was first coined (according to Wikipedia) by Emilio Mola who told a journalist in 1936 that as his four columns of troops approached Madrid, a "fifth column" of supporters inside the city would support him against the republican government.
BBC.

A council worker from east London has admitted storing 300 computer discs of terrorist material in his car and home.
Khalid Baqa, 48, who worked as a revenue officer for Hackney Council, had one of the discs in his office computer, the Old Bailey heard.
Baqa, of Priory Road, Barking, pleaded guilty to two offences of disseminating terrorist publications.
A further seven offences of having material likely to be useful in terrorism were ordered to lie on file.
He was remanded in custody for sentencing on 26 April.

What we have with islamists is the equivalent of a fifth column living and working (or claiming jihad seekers allowance)in the UK with the avowed intent of causing mayhem until the day when 'they' will take over. The problem is, is that many ordinary muslims simply ignore their activities in a sort of them and us attitude where incitement to violence, slander, bigotry, misogyny, terrorism, child cruelty and other similar offences. (Google channel 4 undercover mosque) is happening under the mainstream populaces noses. Oh sure the claim is made that not all muslims are supporters of terrorism, but there does appear to be a large majority of them passively ignoring the extremism in their midst. Indeed some are well known Labour party activists who have threatened to bring a violent mob to the Houses of Parliament if they don't get their own way.
Our own leaders have connived to admit as many of these people into our midst despite knowing that some of their behaviour is not compatible with civilised values, they even support them when genuine criticism is levelled at them despite knowing about the grooming scandals for years before it finally surfaced in the MSM. Many of the idiotic left indeed stand shoulder to shoulder with the child molesters against protests because they define the protesters as 'racist' which appears to be a leftard term for 'not thinking like we do' same with fascist, bigot etc. etc.
What we have is a growing, intolerant ideology masking itself in religious trappings determined to wreck civilisation and remake it in its own hateful image. It tolerates no rivals, uses an outdated set of inflexible rules to keep muslims on top and everyone else subservient underneath them so long as they pay protection money (and sometimes not even then)
This is a problem that isn't going to go away and will probably become worse. Longer it goes, the worse the 'cure' will be and it's all aided and abetted by our powers that be and the denizens of the idiot left.
Truly we will live in interesting times...
Consider... (From Gates of Vienna blog)

• Only nineteen percent of Pakistanis have a negative view of Al Qaeda and by default the Taliban, whilst seventy-five percent wish to see Sharia law implemented. British-born Muslims make an estimated four hundred thousand trips a year to Pakistan, where as many as thirty threats against Britain are being monitored at any given time.
• Thirty-three percent of Muslim students in Britain think killing in the name of Islam is permissible. Only thirty-seven percent oppose the introduction of Sharia law and only twenty-five percent oppose the creation of a worldwide Muslim caliphate.
• MI5 believe there are up to four thousand potential terrorists and thirteen thousand Al Qaeda sympathisers living in Britain. The CIA devotes an astonishing forty percent of their anti-terrorist homeland security operations against suspects not in Afghanistan or Waziristan, but in Britain itself — a country described by one CIA operative as “a swamp of Jihadis.”
• Barack Obama’s counter-terrorist advisor Bruce Riedel recently stated: “The British Pakistani community is recognised as probably Al Qaeda’s best mechanism for launching an attack against North America.”

Throwing your toys out of the pram

What is it about the political left and childish behaviour (to go on top of malevolent, genocidal, eugenetic, dictatorial behaviour to name but a few) It's like they simply cannot accept that other people might have different views and go out of their way to denigrate, minimise or more usually misrepresent them. Take anything that sniffs of right wing thought (whether it's right wing or simply a different type of left wing) and suddenly the toys go out of the pram...
BBC.

Ex-foreign secretary David Miliband has resigned from the board of Sunderland football club over new head coach Paolo Di Canio's "past political statements".
Mr Di Canio has previously described himself as "a fascist, not a racist".
Mr Miliband had been serving as the club's vice-chairman and as a non-executive director.
He said he wished the club "all success in the future. It is a great institution that does a huge amount for the North East".

One can only assume that the huge amount Sunderland do for the North East is for the vast amusement of Newcastle fans... but I digress.
I was aware of Millipede D's association with Sunderland, though that wasn't the main reason for disliking him, I mainly disliked him because he was simply another Blair clone with all the economic ineptitude that goes with such a position. Bluntly, anyone of the left of the political spectrum should not be allowed anywhere near the countries finances, they simply haven't a clue and mistake political dogma for economic policy. (Think magic money tree, union corruption and spending more than you take in)
Still you have the amusing story of Millipede D quitting his (well paid) position of non executive board director of Sunderland AFC because the new manager admits he holds fascist views (not racist but fascist) which is quite laughable as Fascism is a credo or political movement of the left as it simply does not accommodate free markets or capitalism. However it's not orthodox leftism so that immediately makes it right wing (it isn't) and a threat to leftist orthodoxy (which it is as it appeals to the working class far more than Marxism being of a nationalist pride in your country bent)
However anyone holding political views that the left cannot subvert or twist is seen as a threat so the extreme gesture is called for and most people will never know just what it is that Di Canio said or believes (it isn't in the BBC article surprise, surprise) Milliband is a creepy Marxist who Sunderland (and his constituency of South Shield's) are well rid of, I wish Di Canio well (but not that well, I am a Newcastle fan after all)