Votes For Criminals

Some bits and pieces mostly for my records.

1 John Hirst exemplifies the horrifying reality

2 A background

3 New Statesman　

4 An interesting comment -"It is perfectly possible for the UK legislature to derogate from the ECHR should it

really want to" -Are you sure about this? In the Convention Article 15 it says derogation is permissible "In time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation any High Contracting Party may take measures derogating from the obligations under this Convention to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation..." I'm not sure that a signatory would be able to justify a derogation in this case. ( Link)

　 The staggering arrogance of Zoe Williams

……they're in favour of very heavy sentences (for other people, mind), there's plenty of support for the death penalty among them – they're essentially Melanie Phillips.And there are good reasons for this: the median age of a prisoner is 23, the peak age of offending is 17. Some 30-40% of any given prison population will have a reading age lower than 10, though this is improving with peer mentoring schemes. It's basically an immature, semi-literate population, and is commensurately rightwing (this doesn't explain Phillips herself, of course).

More Worrying News

Housing

Worstall Wrong

Usually like Tim Worstall but he is profoundly wrong here
Last time I looked I had the last word thusly .....


Tracey – Its about competing identities . Your atomised ‘ooman born with “Rights” , the National identity and the sinister European super state of which , like many dippy Liberals you are a useful idiotThe latter uses your sweetly jejune Enlightenment Liberalism,at times, to attack the nation state (In this case judicially ) .It also uses the disbursal of funds to regionalist movements .Eg Cornwall , Wales and so on.As you are support the judicial attack .I assumed you were also mentioning the regional attack .Old ground , keep up or shut up.
You have written supporting the rapist or murderer on the basis of individual “freedom” from the Nation. This is why I suggest that freedom and democracy are not theoretical things but culturally and communally based phenomena of which laws are only a partial expression. You are attacking a real thing , the integrity of the national laws and its underpinning or moral rights , with a piece of theoretical Liberal posturing about criminals .
If its as obvious as the fact a Duck is not “ The Bulgarian Navy in operations somewhere “ as you hilariously remark , then we agree .
You say “What scares me about the idea that we can just exclude those who attack the very framework etc is who gets to define those who are attacking the very framework.”We have evolved over the last thousand years a complex and constantly modified solution to the problem . It is called the Law and your concerns would apply equally if not more to incarcerating someone in the first place .

Tax Cuts Cause Growth

So Sunny Hundal seems to think and this is his source . Can we have some tax cuts then ? Call me a wizened old but oddly atractive cynic but I think if he thought that was true he would not be recommending the vast tax increases Red Ed has in mind for us .

I`m From The Criminal Party....

Super wheeze this votes for crims idea . The paedophiles can support a lower age of consent and terrorists lobby for bomb construction to be part of the National Curriculum. I hope to see the day under PR when a new Party emerges pressing for prisoners not to be in prison any more . With any luck they will hold the balance of power and direct our Navy back into the Piracy . Come to think of it fraudsters will fit in nicely either as MEPs or quango-crats.

Vodaphone Protest

Great thread Tim J rocks , and mocks

“What do we want?”
“Unspecified changes to the UK Controlled Foreign Companies tax regime!”
“When do we want it?”
“Retrospectively to apply to transactions carried out in 2001!”

The Rat Is Delicious Mon Sewer

Hang on, hang on, there is something fishy here .The left are hugging themselves with glee that, courtesy of Brussels fat cats, their fans in Prison will be able to vote for lighter sentencing and beds of the softest down. Cameron is nabbing my child benefit to throw at the increased EU contribution, ( hmmm could we pay that out of increased International aid ?). British soldiers will be taking order from the fromage eating surrender monkeys, and that’s without even knowing the French for “Hide until its all over.”
Honestly you give £15 billion away and there are still people that don’t like you, I despair .
I smell a rat ,( and a fish). No-one looking at the history of exporting our rights can ignore the black-run slippery slope of lies that has been European integration . Cameron was only pushed into his Euro scepticism and Red Ed nailed him with the " No , maybe , oh go on then" gag.
Dr Fox insists that the deal to pool resources would not lead to a loss of sovereignty, no matter how much having the SAS eating Moules and Froggy orders might look that way. His denial is telling .
We know that the pan European elite conspiracy would dearly love an army so they can swank around the word distributing Nordic Socialism at our expense. Thus far it has been difficult to hide such an ungodly entity from the people who they supposedly they work for ,but this is the way to get it done. Stealth.
The European Coal and Steel Community ( oh how innocuous that sounds ) was first proposed by Les Grenouille ( un nom vernaculaire donné à certains amphibiens ), in1950 as a way to prevent further war between France and Germany. It was an essentially bilateral and pragmatic response to a perceived military problem.
The eventual Treaty of Paris (1951) however , was also signed by Italy and the three Benelux states. From here it was a hop and a skip to a United States of Europe telling us our convicted child molesters can vote for a lower age of consent .Am I paranoid ? In the Telegraph a letter supporting this Anglo French accord channel is signed by the following

Elite Patrician Swinish Traitors ...One Pace Forward !

Roland Rudd – PR magnate ,elite courtier ,close friends with Ed Balls and Lord Mandelson ,and Chairman business For New Europe (lobbies to support the UK's active engagement in Europe, and a reformed, enlarged and free-market EU – he also has Conservative ties at the top .
Claude Bebear - Claude Bébéar-founder and former CEO of AXA and a man with reaosn to fear the French liking for Socialism ( Keen Pro Community Campaigner )
John Grant – Director of Centre For European Reform ...and gravy train old boy (Permanent Representative to the EU 2003-2007).....

And there follows a long list of Euro –worthies not one of which care about the rights of little people to decide the fate of their Nation .
Now why would people like this be so keen on a bilateral military agreement ? I smell a rat, a fish and an assortment of smelly animals, served in a rich wine sauce and given a French name in the hope we will eat them.

Fire Brigade Rip Off Still On

Private Sector 15% unionised ,Public Sector 66%. Public Sector average earning (2009) £539 , private sector £465 and even then the Public Sector take was rising at 3.15% to a private sector`s 1%.
Union members are more likely to be owner occupiers and , as we know cannot be fired. Nice life .Firemen are on £33,000 basic up to £50,000 with the bits and overtime , and we know how that works . They work two nine hour day shifts and t6wo 15 hour night shifts followed by four days off .1780 of them hold second jobs and above half commute. They get a London weighting of £5021, depite this and can retire at 50 on full penions with thirty years service .
Last year out of a work force of 5600 in London only 15 quit and there were 26 applicants for each post. Fancy
The risks they run are statistically far lower than those taken by any construction worker and not remotely comparable wit the ordinary soldier who gets sod all.
Worse than all this is the fact they are making fires worse . This year Tony Mc Guirk (Chief Fire Officer Merseyside) , said " We`ve got some bone idle people in the public sector ". The TUC went nuts but the fact is this man started with 2140 fires and 15 deaths in his area and last year had 1300 and 7 respectively
In the meantime they had reduced the numbers from 1400 to 850.
We have to do more with less , everyone else has to, but so long as the Unions stand in the way we are all going to be ripped off and badly served .
Who is going to have the guts to take on the big vested interests , Unite , GMB. They have just bought their puppet Red Ed but thus far Posh Dave is bravely running away.

Halloween In Lewes

When I can to Lewes four years ago I was told to avoid getting into any whicker statuery, they are a bit nuts. Last night with the streets of Nevill shrieking with mini witches and warlocks, and some ace displays as well( respek), I did wonder what all these pagan hobgoblin-esque shenanigans meant.
Look at the bonfire, I know the history a bit , but the impression is of pandemonium, more Samhuin than Protestant. Last night my neighbour said " Aha...this is old school Lewes tonight... " What does it mean?
The area has been a bit witchy but it is also conspicuously Christian as well as almost religiously rational . Its a fascinating paradox .
So what is it with Lewes , the battle between Dionysian and Apollonian principles? Order and mayhem, reason and animal , Kirk and Spock, Holmes and Watson. Mind and body, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ?
Is Lewes a uniquely theatrical exploration of the soul ?
Or are Lewesians just a bit nuts ?