I would Pay But Its Illegal

There has been a growing concern about sex slavery which has made an unwelcome come back of late . The WI had some interesting suggestions to make about legalising and regulating brothels which make a lot of sense, but the real problems are these
1 A failure to enforce existing laws which amply cover rape kidnaps and extortion
2 A failure to control our borders
3 A failure to have the slightest idea who is here and what they are doing
4 The failure of our Police to catch , prosecute and imprison criminals in general.

The shivering terrified wretches hidden in dingy rooms around the country are another of Brown’s achievements while he has been running the domestic show . Good job Gordon although the 25,000 mentioned is probably a fiction .
Enter stage left Denis Mc Shane, a serial liar whose Labour apologist articles in the Telegraph are Lord Haw Haw level farce justifiable for their entertainment value only. Instead of trying to sort out the mess that is the Home Office and the Criminal Justice system he suggests ……..( roll on the drums ) , an ill thought out and cheap political gambit they hope will make the Conservatives appear anti women.
MacShane's amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill will give power to the police to prosecute a man who pays for sex ,fine him or send him to jail. Henry Porter in Guardian Unlimited comments as follows.
..”it will not be illegal for a woman to sell sex, as long as she complies with the laws concerning the sex trade, chiefly soliciting. Also, it will not be illegal for a man to buy sex from another man or a woman to buy sex from a man, or a woman from a woman, though all these variants in the sex trade - some extremely rare, I grant you - will have to comply with the law in other respects.”

So its mess and patently unjust . No doubt we would prefer that men did not buy sex but they do and I doubt it will be in the power of Gordon Brown to stop either buyer or seller. (Christ do you think anyone ever shagged him for his looks and charm!) Men and women agree a deal and they freely entre into a contract. Never have myself ( due to a severe squeamishness about STD`s), but I would say about half of my male acquaintances have at some point, probably more.This is none of the governments business

In any case who is to say when payment is made . Get the Dinner bill and you could end up doing a stretch at her Majesties pleasure . If she pays she is in the clear, which at least provides us with the best excuse I have heard for while ….. " Sorry you`ll have to pay for sex with me now .I would do the honmours but its illegal ..."

The Great " I am"

I was just watching the 100 AFI best films and a story popped into my head I have always hoped was true . Kirk Douglas appeared in a Spartacus excerpt and it was then that it came back to me …..
Joel Douglas, or at any rate one of the unsuccessful sprigs of this Hollywood dynasty , found his napkin was the wrong colour or something in a London Restaurant .He made the sort of embarrassing complaint Z list celebrities often do and ended up with the iconic arsehole tag line , “ Do you know who I am ….I `m Joel Douglas! “
Hearing this nearby diner upon who Joel had inflicted the pitiful display stood up and said
“No I`m Joel Douglas “
In the back of the restaurant to other chaps followed suit chorusing “ I `m Joel Douglas “ until the entire place was on its feet claiming to be Joel Douglas and congratulating itself for being so jolly funny
As I say I hope its true

The Ghost Of Leaders Past

John Kamfner pondered curiously on Brown’s road back today . Were the dour one to curl himself into the foetal position and cry, who could blame him, but Kamfner seemed to want to thread vertebrae into the gelatinous feartie ……
“Does he believe eradicating child poverty is his most important goal, then he has to tell voters it can be done only with an element of self sacrifice”,…..or ,“ Has he reluctantly come to the conclusion that redistribution has run its course, and that personal taxation must now be reduced , if so he must admit that”.
. Westminster educated and opulently housed John Kamfner would not be feeling the pinch himself of course . His suggestion that tax pounds are directly equated with child poverty is a lie , and in any case this poverty is relative and nationally conceived and has been worsened by Labour’s largess with other peoples hard earned‘….
Ignoring the moth eaten three hanky script there is an interesting point . A few weeks ago Rachel Sylvester the Blairite pundit mentioned a source who said of Brown, “Its not that Gordon is going backward or forwards , he is going sideways like a crab”. He looks the opposite of a leader.
To undrestand how he got here you have to understand Gordon’s baggage . The BBC documentary "The Blair Years " showed how Brown consistently argued that there were ‘limits to the market’. Health , education, University top up fees and so on were all Blairite reforms that emerged mangled into insipidity by Brown’s centralising instinct and power base . At an early point in his ‘reign’ , the Spectator recognised the crucial significance of Brown’s attitude to the Academies .This flagship Blair project has been reclaimed from consumers into the belly of the state . Make no mistake ,the right of the Labour Party were quietly routed .
Significantly Brown has cocooned himself away with a set of fawning acolytes . Balls of course ,the unspeakable “New friend” David Millimoron and a host of salaried advisers like Gila Sacks , who, at a cost of £1,000,000 , tickle his tummy and baste him in aromatic oils.
“Target a day” Brown had no intention of changing his views or approach and given the support of the Unions , required to shore up Labour’s tottering finances (£25million just before his coronation) you wonder if he had any choice . Irwin Seltzer pointed out that many in the Public sector are paid far above private equivalents and they know full well that choice will be the end of their closed shop. So by ideological inclination and also by political indebtedness Brown has found himself well to the left of where “electorally “ he needed to be.
True to form he dithered and hid in obscurity. More boggle -eyed alchemist than statesman, he tried to transmute political base metal into gold . A soupcon of Britishness ,a pinched policy or two acquired only a scarring reputation for dishonesty. I doubt the arch calculator was himself fooled by a brief credulouness about emaculate re-conception but the barrenness of his feeble tactics are now clear for all to see . If he is to have any chance of reclaiming momentum he has to make the lie about setting out his vision a reality , and it has to be a vision far closer to the centre ground .I wonder if he hears voices in the night ……voices like this one . Ghost to his Hamlet…..
“ The Labour Party should take heart . It is dominating the battle of ideas and will continue to do so as long as it remains New Labour. It is about our instincts , our ability to keep the core coalition together : those who need help to get on the first rung s of the ladder if opportunity and those who are already there but aspire to do better still. Ambition and compassion, the combination of those instincts remain the basis of New Labour’s three successive victories . They remains the basis of the fourth. “ ( Blair )

In fact only economic good luck ever gave the appearance of support for aspiration and in tougher times to get back that support Brown would have to go to right of where Blair was to where he would like to have been without Brown to hold him back( and as he made explicit in the above quoted speech) .This means breaking up the great state behemoths , the NHS , the educational system and reducing taxation on enterprise and work . I don’t think Brown has the guts , support or the brains to see this, and I expect him to creep on to obscurity .He would be better off going in either direction with some conviction than this craven and nothingness . He may well be to scared of the "Labour is best when its Labour "head bangers well.... 'Mr. Tony ' had an insight there... “You can’t please all the people all the time“.
That my New Year`s message to Gordon. Mr. Tony was right . If I wished you any good I would advise you to suck it up and makes some moves . As I do not , please carry on as you are …and I will enjoy your authority bleeding away ..until you are to weak to do anything but expire.

( Moo ha ha ha !)

A Hopeful New Year

...a glorious Suffolk Church no doubt in the way of some dreadful slum New Labour have planned .Perhaps its time we stopped laughing at the Church of England .......

Scarcely a week goes past without some new wave of derision crashing into the poor old C of E. They are overtaken by the Catholics in the bums on pews contest, and told today that they are all , apparently, over paid and over manned .

“One in five Bishops faces the Axe”, squawks her Majesties Daily Telegraph, in a headline reminiscent of the ‘printing’ demarcation disputes. I feel a Christian pity for them, and I note with interest that record numbers of people turned up at Christmas this year in line with increased attendance of late . Why, I wonder would that be , with such fearsome antagonists as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens unleashing a new confident atheism into the book shops ?

Personally I started out as an atheist and I daresay I am as acquainted with the philosophical arguments against religion as well as most tolerably ignorant people . Whilst at University I came across “Humanism “as manifested in the works of George Elliot . She was influenced by Feuerbach ( worth looking at ) (1) ,but her beliefs do not make her revile organised religion. She saw God as a vision of what man, at his best, could be, and part of moral evolution whose ultimate source was still human .In her collection of short stories “Scenes of Clerical Life” , which I recommend, this affectionate ambivalence is at its most explicit.Do read them...

So as far back as my twenties I was past sneering and happy with poetic or symbolic ways of reading the Christian message .For me a personal relationship with God is out of the question but not every Christian in the past was required to see visions .

There is a the question of ethnicity as well .A Jew without faith is still a Jew, and the Rabbi would say “ You lack faith ? ... Come along anyway...do you think he should worry ? ”. I admire the Jewish people enormously and this strikes me as a good way of accepting ones place in a belief system with doubt and outright denial if necessary. Why should I, in other words , be denied access to my past, a past I peculiarly value .
Then there is “love “. This great indisputable fact of our lives about which materialism has nothing to say. How can we be happy when the most important this we apprehend is left to one side by the prevailing Metaphysics ?

(2 )Thus I find myself in an empty tube station where, although there is nothing to be seen, there is the shudder and echo of something that has been and might be again .Leaflets and tickets still stir and we grasp what scraps of philosphy,art and lifes experience we can from the palpable emptiness.I have no conclusions about what this might mean but my own tradition a deserves respectful attention at least . So ,I would like to encourage the Church of England whose worst enemies would admit, is full of good people . After all you have lost Tony Blair and in that fact alone there is ample reason for great good cheer


1-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Andreas_Feuerbach

2 Pinched loosely from somewhre in TS Elliot ...I think

Turkey Sandwich Post

Iain Dale has a list if most influential gayers and as I am still in festive period semi purdah it prompted a lazy post.

Having recently been the object of primitive bile courtesy of , septuagenarian thug, and Queen mum look –alike - Bob (the animal ) Piper , for my supposedly un PC attitudes, I hardly dare comment but ......

What political attitudes do this pink mafia share , if any ? In this country, the Gay constituency is will soon cease entirely to be a “Victim” group and will be dropped of the left`s, ‘pity list’, just as the white working classes were. I see that there is also disenchantment amongst black people, penned into a “Community “ when they would prefer to enter the main stream of cultural life in order to work and integrate as most do.
Recess Monkey recently claimed that the Labour Party was actually defined by the fight for rights for these groups and I wonder when they see they are neither wanted or useful what they are claim to be for . Mathew Parris brilliantly shone his torch into the void of coherent belief on the left consisting of a nebulous assertion that they are “Nice”.
What an end for a movement that was once a moral force and an intellectual Catherine wheel. “ We are ...nice “...sad really .

The dust heap of history surely awaits them and the new Liberal small state Communitarian consensus is destined to stub out the fag end of the old and usher in the new. Its painful to wait while this detritus administration clings on but the new year is full of hope for better times to come .

Oh Yes He Would !

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the ‘house’

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

No journalist scribbled no pundit aired views

The perfect moment …

......to hide some bad news !

That Could Feed An Entire African Village ....

On the subject of yuletide excess I enjoyed Peaches Geldof reporting , in the Sun that if she’s leave so much as a brussel-sprout on her plate her father shouts “ Peaches remember the fucking Africans “ . She further illuminates the hidden life of the celeb brat , with her description of Christmas at her Grandpa’s
“ Dad will be there drunk on wine , spewing on about the past and singing a coupe, of old Boom town Rats numbers ,. I `ll be quietly crying in the corner...”

I `m quite coming round to her

An Inconvenient Truth

The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 as well as every year since 2001. Global warming has, temporarily or permanently, ceased.

David Whitehouse:...New Statesman

Rockin` Yule Y`all

Lets get on the naughty list ..back soon

Girls Like Pink ...Fact

I keep reading that 99 % of scientists say that we are all in the oven at gas mark six and nothing short of making our own clothes out of turnips can possibly save us . You have to admit that sort of figure impresses you a bit . Then again science seems to prove so many things. , surveys and statistics even more These are some of the recent egg headed offerings

1. That clever people listen to more heavy metal music ( Study at Warwick University)
   


2. That tone deaf teachers are killing off singing and music in schools ( Alan Johnson announced £30,000,000 to throw at this desperate situation at the time )
   


3. That disposable nappies are greener than reuseable ones ( Ooops after £30,000,000 over three years was spent making us feel guilty)
   


4. That women ogle more than men( Dr. heather Rupp of the Kinsey Institute used eye tracking technology to prove the sisters were go doing it for themselves) , in fact they are also worse at the old elevator eyes routine , apparently . Tut tut
   


5. That Britons are amongst the biggest whingers in the world .( A study of 14,000 showed us joint second in the world with Sweden but behind France, the Dutch were best, stoned probably )
   


6. That teenagers experience symptoms close to clinical mania when they fall in love ( Hypo-mania was diagnosed by researchers at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Basel)
   


7. Men find pictures of women more rewarding than visa versa ( Research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society monitoring triggered reward centres showed this )
   


8. That men are better at cheating ( Dr. Kuemmerli in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences , shoed results from a long study setting the “Prisoners dilemma “ for men and women . Women trusted twice as often ….suckers !)…incidentally a ‘What Car’ survey showed that men get better deals on cars….. Can’t argue with that can you
   


9. That left handers are more at risk of mental illness ( The gene LRRTM1 may be responsible for both lefty and loony)
   


10. Bright blue eyes and academic achievement are linked
    


11. That girls really do prefer pink( Prof Anya Hulbert speculated it was to help them find berries …..
    


12. That oral sex increases the risk of throat cancer (keep that one quiet)
13. That it is a scientific possibiolity to create a magic carpet

I begin to wonder about all this , it is all quite true but had I slipped the fact that Santa`s favourite Pizza is "Deep pan crisp and even " would anyone have noticed ? I was relieved , to see an answer on the environmental panic brigade at least. How many people studying Women’s Studies , agree with the statement ,'Wage levels are not unfair and reflect different work life commitments ". The answer will be none, but that position is probably close to the truth . How many environmental scientists think their discipline , which they took up because the believed it all anyway , has turned out to be a sham and a waste of time ….same number . None ……

Fancy....

Iain Dale Deserves Better

Iain Dale Deserves Better
I do not always agree 100 % with Iain Dale and his collumns sometime fall short of inspired ( We need less bureaucrats ........yup). But he is deservedly acknowledged as the best blog for commentary and opinion and a touchstone for me and countless others . So what are the qualities that make him the Jungle VIP.Firstly a naturally clean and accessible prose style and an encyclopaedic knowledge of Politicians , journalists and their world , but more than this, it is reliability and balance . With Dale you are in safe hands. You know his position, and beyond that everything is in proportion. He is the opposite of the Time Out film reviews who might send you to some god awful baloney because the reviewer was obsessed with Polish Super Realism. He has no infatuations and well.......everything you want from a effortlessly modern Conservtive . You trust him, people trust him . People would vote for him
As a Politician his ability to handle the media experience and mentat powers of concentration would be a huge help to the Conservative Party nationally. Lets not imagine that we have a full slate of outstanding candidates . Good lord no ,dull mediocrities are everywhere, and we desperately need such an outstandingly talented chap in the right position to help the Party and the country.
I felt extremely angry therefore to see that Maidstone have , it appears , given him hardly a hearing . If they had better candidates , I would be staggered , and it can only be the usual self important jealousy that infest Commitees everywhere .These people , whoever they are, have done us all a disservice, and it would be nice, as they grumble together over G and T`s ,if someone would mention to them what a dead weight they are for the rest of us to carry.
I would be happy to

'Liberal' is the New Liberal

Looking at arch courtier Iain Dale’s speculation about the position of Mr. Huhne I cannot help getting the déjà vu all over again feeling . What do we have here , a posh and plausible moderniser determined to get the Party elect-able by ditching its crazy socialist past. A Blair .Enter the older , better candidate ,passed over who has cemented his strength in the Party and must now be included Mr. Huhne who in our little play will be taking the part of Brown .
Clegg has had a clumsy canter or two at Cameron , one assumes for strategic reasons , but was able to win the leadership without committing himself to too many suicidal Liberal Dreams , notably keeping Trident .
Was his heart really in it anyway? He said ...“Conservative party which has no answers to the big issues: environmentalism without substance, social justice without money, internationalism without Europe."
Well adding substance to environmentalism is all too easy when you are not the government but actually turning growth off, or cancelling air travel, is politically ever so slightly touchy if you might have to do it . Clegg knows this, of course, and as a professed fan of a smaller state , his promise to spray tax payers money at “social injustice “ lacks a little substance itself. No no , leaving the EU aside for the moment , he is really offering Conservatism with a friendly face . Sound Familiar ? Blair again .
Of course while the wilder shores of activist placating were negotiated safely said activists proved themselves to be as politically unrealistic as you would, expect from a party whose raison d`etre , is to be Black Adders Queeny who wants “Oooooo just everything !” Kennedy has made rueful c remarks about the Herding Cats “ experience of leading the “none of the above” brigade and Huhnes impressive campaign achieved a damn fine run thing. Huhne cannot be ignored .It also cracked the always preposterous illusion that the Liberal are a nice Party. Au contraire, they are , as we all know past master at Dirty tricks from Simon Hughes “Straight Choice “ assault on Peter Tatchell onwards .
With ‘Calamity Clegg ‘and that ‘spat on air’, hanging around like an office Party snog , we can expect ill will , back biting and a slow but deadly wrestling match , Blair / Brown , again.
So I was wondering then when we were going to start referring to “New Liberals “ and “Old Liberals “ but it appears Mr. Clegg has come up with the perfect nomenclature . As we know the Liberal Party is composed of socialist refugees who jumped for labour too early and Liberal Liberals hence the name Liberal Democrats. What better sign of ditching the socialist element than return to being ‘Liberals’? It could imply going right back to Gladstone and Simon Heffer could join.
Alan Cochrane has noticed Clegg doing just that....
“I may be missing something but time and time again during his acceptance speech and his subsequent media interviews, Nick Clegg kept referring to himself and his supporters as 'Liberals'. There was hardly a mention of the name Liberal Democrat.”
So just as black ins the new ‘black’ , Liberal is the new Liberal . I wonder if Huhne , will demur and begin the long cold war. Nothing would be better news for the Conservative Party , he is more powerful than Brown was and it may all fall apart if Clegg tried to deal for power.

PS He`s Back........( The Europe Problem ...Heath reborn)
Cameron has said he can “Do Business” with Clegg but I doubt it .He may be able to do business with the Liberal voters bemused at their Party handing power to unelected faceless Bureaucracies in Brussels. Clegg is a Euro fruitcake with topping and cream he is more like Edward Heath than anyone else I can think of .. What was it Heath was saying in 1973, “There will be no loss of essential sovereignty “...and Clegg is telling the same lies now . If there is any supping to be done with this Blairy –man let it be with a very long spoon indeed.
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Christmas Top Of The Population Changes

The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry
Came loud--and hark, again ! loud as before.
The inmates of my cottage, all at rest,
Have left me to that solitude, which suits
Abstruser musings ....... (ST Coleridge born Blogger obviously and inventor of the concept of social cohesion)

I have been reading Balls in the New Statesman telling us how he used to love the Christmas Radio Times . That sense of seeing what the whole nation would be watching .A feeling of comfort, social cohesion,a country at peace with itself , settling down to Morecambe and Wise , Parkinson and The Queen. All armed with Snowball`s and Port and Lemons and perhaps a lardy-dar for Grandad . One of the highlights was the Christmas Top Of The Pops and in order to recapture the sense of belonging I present my own festive Top Tens ( All ONS figures)

The top ten local authorities for percentages of live births to mothers born outside the UK (Cue the Led Zep)
1 Newham: 74% 2 Brent: 71% 3 Westminster: 70% 4 Tower Hamlets: 69% 5 Kensington and /Chelsea: 68% 6 Ealing: 63%7 Camden: 62% 8 Harrow: 61% 9 Haringey: 61% 10 Waltham Forest: 57%
The top ten authorities with the highest percentage of pupils whose first language is not English :
1 Tower Hamlets: 75% 2 Newham: 71% 3 Westminster: 69% 4 City of London: 65% 5 Brent: 58% 6 Camden: 58% 7 Hackney: 54% 8 Ealing: 54% 9 Haringey: 53% 10 Kensington and Chelsea: 52%
Social Cohesion
J S Mill claimed that Cole ridge (yes the poet) invented the concept and amongst other things saw the need of ‘a strong and active principle of cohesion among the members of the same community or state.’
….
‘We mean a principle of sympathy ..... We mean, that one part of the community do not consider themselves as foreigners with regard to another part; that they set a value on their connexion; feel that they are one people, that their lot is cast together, ...’

Gord Bless Us , Everyone

I have had a revelation . , perhaps every additional sausage is torturing an African child. It is a worry. With the zeal of the converted I am determined to have the perfect New Labour Christmas . Sorry , I mean no smoking , low power, fair trade vegan, carbon offsetting health and safety certified , multicultural , ecumenical /secular inclusive orientation neutral , access friendly non-sexist ....I `d rather be dead...Winterval...... In this spirit it is clear that some traditional songs will have to be altered and I intend to do my bit

So .....

On the first day of Winterval my partner gave to me
...a Carbon Offsetting tree
On the Second day of Winterval my partner gave to me
Two married gays and ......
On the Third day of Winterval my partner gave to me
Fair trade goods
On the Fourth day of Winterval my partner gave to me
Four speed cameras
On the Fifth day of Winterval my partner gave to me
ONE NUMERICALLY CHALLENGED FOUR !!

Anymore ?Anyway Gord Bless us .....said Timmy ...Gord ,bless us everyone.... ( in line with the findings of the Dickens ‘review’ )

Its Only Words

Miss Belgium was booed for not speaking Dutch



One of the things that makes me wonder if I really do want to lose the sweaty socks is the thought of who it would please, namely the Euro piglets everywhere, sucking on the teat of the Brussels pig. Large Euro budgets , that’s our money , are diverted into undermining national states funding ludicrous movements as that for independent Cornwall. You would be amazed at how many flags there are about the place nowadays. Lindsay Jenkins Disappearing Britain tells the tale of EU skulduggery and I recommend it
The country in an advanced stage of dismemberment is Belgium. The Flemish majority of 6million out of the 10.4 are demanding that public figures are tweetalig , ie fluent in Dutch as well as Walloon French .The country is currently between Governments, and has been since June. The EU will be rubbing its hands with glee . Naturally the lack of a PM did not prevent the Libson signing going through .The EU decided to allow Guy Verhofstadt,who is a caretaker figure,to sign what’s left of that nation away. The lack of government was ,of course , no obstacle.
Feelings are running so high between the linguistic communities that the newly crowned Miss Belgian Alizee Pouiceck, pictured here, was actually booed when she failed to respond to a question in Dutch. I yearn to comfort her in a pure and chivalrous manner :)
With new Language tests to be imposed on immigrants ( but no limit on numbers of course), and schools struggling to provide an education for 8 different languages many with English the minority now ,we are somewhat linguistically challenged here . The most directly comparable distinction however is between Brown`s Scots bagpipe drone and the richly varied dialectal heritage of the English..
As has often been mentioned Blair was as much a member of the Mac Raj as the odious one, but did not do the vowels. Brown cannot do without the unreciprocated 69 seats that Scotland and Wales import into the English legislation. Without them English Labour is finished and they also have a language problem. They do not speak the language of aspiration , self reliance and small state decentralised modernity so popular south of the cold flint strewn pictish moors. I suspect they will not be able to learn this language either judging by the odd noises emanating form the Brown bunker.An IT driven ‘personal relationship’ with the state ,is emerging as his vision . Oh boy I feel confident that will work .... .Brown always did do ’choice ‘the way Indian Musicians do the national anthem , god knows what cacophony we have in store after he has lined up his reviews which will magically agree with him.
Balancing the con trick perpetrated on the English , not so much financially as democratically, with the desire of the EU to break us up, I favour David Cameron`s pragmatic approach. Rectifying clear inequities in the context of retaining Union for now . He is right to cool English frustration

The fact is that the Scots and the English do not speak a different language no more than the Brumwegians and the Surrey toffs . We currently speak a different political language but when I think of who would be most pleased to see the end of the Union I wonder if we should try harder to reach a friendly accommodation. English votes and a re-examination of the funding would help. Many of the most irritating Salmson promises are actually unfunded and Scotland may well not be permanently wedded to the oxymoron Independence within the EU. Latest figures do indeed show an increase in the popularity of Independence especially among the young but I am not convinced the UK is going the way of Belgium just yet. Personally I would not boo Miss Pouiceck if she spoke Martian.....I would not throw her out of bed for eating crackers if she was Scottish , but them some languages are universal.

Norman Baker Cheats On Campaign Funding

The Miss Marple of Lewes Norman Baker wrestles with his ravenous ego























The Standards Committee On Norman Baker ,http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmstnprv/182/18202.htm
Wikepedia
“In December 2007 his parliamentary sleazebusting reputation was destroyed when the Standards & Privileges Committee found him guilty of misuing tax-payers money. The Standards & Privileges Committee report concluded: "We agree with the Commissioner that this element of Mr Donovan's complaint should be upheld, and we reiterate that the inclusion of material of a party political nature is not permissible in publications funded from parliamentary allowances."
When I retire I think I will take up a hobby .Perhaps I will also pretend to be a superannuated TinTin and seek out skulduggery wherever I go. Gosh it will be exciting although expensive .How would I be able to conduct this delightfully perfumed project of self adoration . I mean you would need a lot of money and I have no idea where to get it . Also you would need plenty of spare time and I find it hard to conceive of having no other responsibilities at all. What could the answer to this be ?
Perhaps I should ask Norman Baker our far left Liberal MP now dutifully trimming over the Clegg side of the bearded ones with an eye to his continued fun at our expense. In an article entitled “Is Norman Baker the most hated man in Westminster?” Nigel Morris, at the Independent noticed that he has been busy bodying about the place on our time and money non stop . Well Norms , about that £1,000,000 you have spent on self advertisement ; does anyone think any of it will make a jot of difference.?
Norman Baker I should explain ,is a high tax big state dinosaur of the Beveridge group . The trendy arts graduate of the 70s preserved in aspic does not see the contradiction .Of course you are going to get waste under the very conditions he wishes to perpetuate. He also wants the country floated out to Brussels and left there at a a cost of about £5000 per household . Well that will solve the corruption problem eh? . I cannot say I did not enjoy see him catch his own potential Party leader wasting cash though…
,”There might also be a certain froideur in the air when Mr Baker next bumps into Chris Huhne, his successor as the Liberal Democrat environment spokesman.” said Nigel Morris “ Mr Huhne spent £3,284 on car mileage - but only £176 on train tickets, even though his Hampshire constituency is easily reached by rail.”

Naughty naughty . Thus our hero becomes cordially loathed and an irrelevant part of an irrelevant Party incapable of delivering any support to his Constituency and having the effect of helping Brown the most illiberal PM we can remember. Its not as if he gives much time to Constituency matters anyway.His stupid book about Iraqi death squads swooping down for poor David Kelly was the self serving focus of his attention for a year . For a £50,000 fee and the serialisation rights in the Mail no doubt it served him well.( Mysteriously the proof of his fantasies was lost …….fancy)

Clearly we are dealing with an ego rampaging out of control . It may well live in a back room shouting ‘Feed me Norman feed me’, sending him off some other futile and costly act of self aggrandisement . To the entire pantomime the moral perfection of Norman Baker is essential .It is the spoon that drips the nectar of public notice into the ravening gullet with what delicious schadenfreude do I notice him in emereded in corruption controversy himself .
This from the Argus

“An MP known for campaigning for transparency in other politician's spending habits has been rapped across the knuckles for his own.
Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, was criticised for sending out an expenses-funded constituency newsletter which featured an advert about work done by a fellow member of the same political party.
The eight-page document is funded by Incidental Expense Provisions IEPs which, according to Parliamentary regulations, should not be”

And get his pathetic excuse which really draws together all the fine qualities this self satisfied showman brings to Lewes

He said: "It is very important that the highest standard of probity is maintained”
Pontificating … “so of course I accept the judgement.“ Irrelevant . You have no say( as usual)“The inclusion of advertising generally was an attempt to reduce the cost on the British taxpayer.”As Cherie would say “ That’s a Lie “If I had charged taxpayers more the trouble wouldn't have arisen. This is a marginal case, which is clearly reflected in what they have concluded."Next year I will avoid advertising and charge the taxpayer, which is the implication of what they want me to do."Sulky sanctimonious and disingenuous and this was after an endless Standards Board investigation itself a fabulous waste if money achieving little .


We need an MP with some leverage in the real world not a licensed clown and not as cheap one. With the Conservative Party as socially Liberal and as green and as localist as the Liberals nowadays I am wondering what the point of Norman Baker is at all.

The Paedo Accusations Go On

I have been exchanging views with lefty shnozilla Alex Hilton . He has a post up with the not un-amusing title ‘Conservative are evil’ , or something , but as his defence emerges it is apparent that he actually believes it. Not only that but we are the moral equivalents of paedophiles . See this shrieking explosion of sanctimonious pre-pubescence .


‘But abandoning people to a life without hope or opportunity ( This apparently is what people who are Conservatives do ) is tantamount to torture; and abandoning their children is child torture. So if you like you can perform the same self-justifying moral and semantic acrobatics we see from rapists, murderers, paedophiles and torturers of the regular kind.
But it doesn't take away what you really are inside……’

Well there’s not a lot of point in bothering with that gloop which I can get from the soaked mendicant at Croydon station. Not a lot of harm in a vacuous bore sounding off here and there of course but why the attention. ? Anyone know?

Christmas Message

The nativity scene . Not the fixture it once was as there are so many foreigners at schools now it is deemed divisive and beginning to be replaced with celebrations of ‘The world of hope’, and other glutinous fatuities. I was once a suitably majestic King (or wise man ) carrying my gift of Gold to Mary, and Christ child . This transcendant being was perhaps inadequately represented by a hideous plastic doll ,swathed…in swaddling , whatever that might have been.Its meanings come later and I am sorry to hear yet another tradition is under attack


This mother and child carry layers of theology about which wars have been fought ,but it also has a simple resonance. The miracle of new life, and the mother that made it ,are transmitted perfectly .Shepherds and animals jostle but above the bru-ha ha of makeshift domesticity a star announces that the most important thing ‘ever’ has just happened . I know the feeling , all fathers must do.
You might therefore , imagine this central purpose of humanity would be cherished .Not amongst England’s dark satanic mills I `m afraid .


Take the actual willingness have a child . Without immigrants London’s birth-rate would have halved during the Blair Brown infernal ministry of torment , so it is entirely possible that modern Mary would not bother at all .The overall fertility rate among indigenous ethnicities is up to 1.7 from 1.3 the overall rate of 2.6 is misleading .Excluding inward migration , this would also have been the first year in which more children were born out of wedlock than in. So, if Mary had persuaded Joseph to make a decent women of her she would be lucky.

Even had Joseph played ball,the welfare system makes it highly tempting not to . A single mother working 16 hours a week , after tax gains a total income of £487 a week while a two parent family on the minimum wage has to work 116 hours to the the same . (Frank Field ) .. Since we are diving into the travails of what I will call Chav Mary I think we can forget that business of Joseph being a carpenter. One in seven children is growing up in a workless home and in parts if the UK it is , of course , entire areas . Last week the Statistics commission , showed that four out of every new job supposedly created has been taken/made by an immigrant. A quarter of the population of Liverpool , Middlesbrough and Glasgow are dependent on benefits in this supposedly booming country which by many measures (like the ones UNICEF use) is the worst place in the developed world to be a child anyway.

Joseph is most unlikely to get into the picture. Britain now has 1.9 million lone parents an increase of over 200,000 from vertiginously high levels when Labour came to power . The highest teenage birth-rate in Europe as well
Given that The baby Jesus was likely to be in a work free and Joseph free environment we cannot hope for much early promise despite his inherited deity status . Children aged 12 in a one parent family are 2.4 times more likely smoke four times more likely to be expelled . US figures show 63 % of teenage suicides , 90 percent of runaways and 85 % of juvenile prisoners are from fatherless homes . There can be little doubt that marriage not merely cohabitation is important as well. One in two cohabiting parents split up before their child’s fifth birthday . For married couples the comparable figure is one in twelve.
Leaving chav Mary to her obese fatherless Nintendo addicted young drug taking basket case already enmeshed in a web of social services, we can turn to the coping classes and above . Only 3 out of 10 children now live in the traditional family of male breadwinner . This account for 29% of households the rest are formed of endless permutations .Yuppie Mary has different but oddly similar problems .

Women are on their way to outnumbering the number of me in the millionaires club and although wages lag somewhat behind , at 80% it is doubtful that this represents anymore than the differential commitment over a working life men put in . A brave new world has grown in which the father is non existent , if you can find any sperm that’s is now he is also potentially traceable.( not a problem for Mary I suppose) .Science promises that women may be able to make their own sperm ,the equal opportunities commission has ceased its work, and whiners like Yasmin Alibhai-Brown , admit that women have never had it so good .
Nonetheless this breed seem less keen to have any offspring than anyone . A third of couples face infertility problems and the majority of women now do not start to try until after thirty with 65% saying they regret it . The problem, 35% spend an average of £5000 on IVF alone and that’s after the Post code lottery has done its brutal work. Only seven primary care trusts will fund three cycles and as we know only the privileged Millibands of this world get to adopt nowadays by going abroad to avoid out nauseating jobs worth misery factories. A national scandal I would like to see some little weasel pay for.

A survey of 2000 women combining home and work makes the 30s the hardest decade .They snack , they miss sleep, they accept tiredness as a way of life . They no longer live in a community , nor , often , can they rely on a married partner . Research also shows that mothers today manage on 3.5 to 4 hours sleep . This is because their greater family around them to pass on the tricks of the trade one of which is leaving the baby to cry for longer . By contrast to their grandmothers, women are on their knees, creating untold pressure relationships already strained by trying to pay mortgages personal debt and blurred roles ..

They cannot content themselves with the knowledge they have down the best for their child either . A survey of all; studies on day care showed 41 % of children in day care for more than 20 hours a week were insecure only 26% were when they were cared for full time by their mothers . Sorry Polly Toynbee the state cannot take over where the mother once was, much as it would suit your vile inhuman nightmare vision.

The left scream Sure start and flexible working is the answer and we should abandon the traditional family . Well flexible working may well be a luxury we can no longer afford and even now it is unworkable outside the Public sector who are sending other peoples money. As for Sure start , its works well enough if you ignore value , but the bald equation of poverty with child problem is a nonsense if you provide no way to create wealth. The left , of course , no less than nothing about that . On mainland Europe the proportion of children cared for by parents is far greater with obviously beneficial results here the coping class simply cannot afford it.Here they are trapped on the mortage slave ship pulling away to the dreadful beat of necessity. Then the Labour government wonders why property value and IHT exploded in their face.

Without women voting we woud have had Labour Governmentas since 1945 and while we all know there are single mothers who deserve support struggling married mothers working and cleaning and taking , by the way , more than their share of housework , are less sympathetic than the sisterhood might wish .
They are one of the reasons that the Labour Party have slid backwards and Cameron`s resurgence may be traced back to his support for marriage by removing dsome of the disincentive as well as the conference . Labour roared support for single mothers at their embarrassing deputy leadership farce .Hilary Benn an aristocrat with £230,000 of United Business MEDIA Shares , Ms Harman a top private school product relative of Lord Longford who sent her brood to Grammar , and Mr. Hain from the opulence of Hillsborough Castle ( One of eight homes)!All of them were determined to continue to punish those heroically doing their best under huge pressure and the active loathing of progressives and socialists . ‘Married Families with Children ’.

I know someone thought it awfully “challenging” to cast Mary and Joseph as asylum seekers which they were not . How much more thought provoking it would have been to cast them as decent English people unable to keep up the slavery required to support the swollen state which does little good for the recipients anyway.
There is a deep division in our society between the two income family and the no income family but if they look across the chasm they face many of the same problems and neither group of mothers are getting what they want. When we look the nativity scene , for as long as they will allow us , and recognise the its universality we should not conclude Christian charity implies taxing marriage and funding its reverse . We must look for ways to return our society to the eternal humanity represented in the scene. This means three kings bearing tax breaks , support for marriage and welfare reform.


Blessings

Nick Coen Turns The Heat Up Under Livingstone

Newmania is unwell and this tremendous reminder of the sort of reptile Livingstone is cannot be improved upon. Suspicions that GLA money has found its way into the coffers of hard left agitators Compass continue to buzz around the web but with no proof yet avaiable.Nick Coen write about the Standard’s investigation into why public money ended up in companies and charities controlled by the friends of Lee Jasper, his adviser on equality and policing......


"Like everyone else, Jasper is innocent until proved guilty. If we were demanding that he be punished without due process or damned without evidence, Livingstone would have every right to complain. Instead he choose to bring Lord (Herman) Ouseley, Richard Taylor, father of Damilola Taylor and other black leaders to the Mayoral press conference to denounce the Standard as “racist”. You had to listen very carefully to notice that during his bloodcurdling condemnation of a newspaper “hate campaign” against London’s blacks, Livingstone did concede that, yes, well, auditors would be checking to see if the story was true.
Innocent readers will wonder why Livingstone had to bring racism into it. Either the funds were used for their intended purpose or not. As Lord Ouseley and Livingstone’s other guests hadn’t audited the books, their opinions were beside the point. Surely the argument is about accountancy not bigotry.
Such naïve thoughts take no account of how Livingstone fights. He can’t see a belt without hitting below it.Today he denounces the Standard as “racist” for applying the same criteria to black organisations as any other organisation. A few weeks back it wasn’t race but religion as he denounced newspapers that criticised the Holocaust deniers in the Iranian regime and a BBC investigation into the links between the totalitarian right and his allies on the Muslim Council of Britain as “Islamophobic”. Before that he said that Trevor Phillips would “soon be joining the BNP,” a revolting insult against the black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality that was provoked by Phillips’ failure to agree with the crude multiculturalism of the Mayor and his allies.
The pattern of wild assertion against real and imagined enemies has been there from the start. Early in his career, Livingstone formed an alliance with a Trotskyist sect called the Workers Revolutionary Party. It’s remembered now for having Vanessa and Corin Redgrave among its cultists, when it should be known as the nastiest organisation on the late 20th century Left. The WRP spied on Iraqi dissidents for Saddam Hussein and took money from Colonel Gaddafi. Its primary purpose, however, was to worship the sect’s leader: Gerry Healy, a squat little Hitler – and a rapist to boot. In 1985, 26 women members came forward and accused him of ‘cruel and systematic debauchery’ on party premises.
Only the Redgraves and Healy’s most adoring fans stuck by him after that. Tellingly, Livingstone was among them. At Healy’s funeral in 1990, he dismissed the abused women as conspirators. Their testimony was a part of a “sustained and deliberate decision by MI5 to smash the organisation”.
Then as now it wasn’t enough to argue with those who disagreed with him. Criticisms can never be legitimate. There always has to be a scandalous motive. In 1990, those who upset his allies were the pawns of a dark plot by the security services. In 2007 they are racists or Islamophobes. The years pass, but his frenzy never fades."

The Stars Come Out

Celebrity Blogger Dizzy and equally celebrated blogger Devils Kitchen will be floating down from Mount Olympus to hob nob with the usual suspects . These will include highly respected Croydonian Erudite Nick Drew witty City Unslicker and Ed.Do pop in for a splosh of egg nog if you cannot resist ,6.30 PM 1-3 Tooley Street,Southwark,London,SE1 2PF

The Death Of The Nation

... for I will into the vale of Avilion to heal me of my grievous wound: and if thou hear never more of me, pray for my soul."
( Arthur`s Last words )

Today is actually it isn`t it? Might be a bit of yap in the HOP but basically we are now a part of the United States of Europe and nothing is going to change that.
Denied referendum despite 8 out of 10 wanting one ,lied to about the Constitution at the Election ,the EC to set Welfare handouts,foreign Police to arrest UK citizens in Britain,the EU to dictate new shop floor rules ,a new directly elected EU president, an EU Foreign Minister, a ratchet within the Constitution for “Ever Close Union” without further consultation and if that wasn`t enough....
A European Anthem to be shoe-horned into the treaty which will be to the tune of ‘Ode To Joy’

Ode To A Traitor
My suggested Lyrics are under comments as I though they detracted from the funereal atmophere


PS Thanks TO Cassilis For the excellent new look. No more fiddling."What Never?".. " Well hardly ever"

Nothing To Fear But Beer Itself

Blimey , time to get out the opera hat and cape.Naturally the hostesses of London will miss me dreadfully but I really ought to go and throw some Maundi Money at these socially beknighted waifs and strays...It sounds ghastly I know, but to see their shining faces all glistening with gratitude makes it all worthwhile.Oh and anyone else who wnat to come along is welcome. It is rumoured that the famous anmd fabulous Devil`s Kitchen will be making an appearance

From City Unslickers Blog

"Mr Drew and I are having a few drinks this Thursday. In a wild bid to increase the entertainment we thought it might be nice if the odd visitor from here were to join. We have already couple of trusty loudmouths to make-up for our somewhat dull conversation in the form of Ed, Newmania and Croydonian.

See you HERE from 6.30 - if you email me at dominicdm@yahoo.com then I can give you my mobile so that you will be able to recognise us (as if a group of bloggerati was unrecognisable, don't you watch Doughty Street?)

See you there. Don't expect Mr Drew to buy any drinks...."

Mr. Drew , I should explain is a legend for the tightness with which his fist grasps his wallet. I have heard that a shark`s arse is about the tightest thing in the world but its close.Apparently he never breathes out ! He once dropped 50p and bent down so quickly it hit him on the back of the head.Last year we were going to give some money to charity and Mr. Drew suggested we threw it in the air and whatever god wanted he would catch....and so on ..... and so on

Feebles Excuses No. 94

I tend to be wary of Liberals who often sound reasonable but turn out to be busy bodying fidgety socialists when you scratch them. However , you have to hand it to Vince Cable who has been laying into the newly christened Mr. Bean with terrific verve and élan. I am find increasingly difficult to dislike him when I discover that he shares my guilty obsession with “Strictly Come Dancing” According to Hugh Muir ( Guardian) he skipped a tedious Liberal chat about Party Administration to attend the Christmas edition of strictly . Well you would .
The chance to see a national institution , I mean of course Sir Bruce Forsyth..( well he should be Sir) , enjoy his last gallop. The chance to see the colour and movement , the magnificent live orchestra, with just a suggestion of the Music Hall in the great tradition. The chance to see..........Aleesha............mmmmmmmmm . I would kiss her on a first date , I would you know

For You Tommy , Ze Education Iz Over

Continuing the education theme , its is hard to listen to the platitudes coming from the mouth of Balls when we know the raised leaving age is to artificially get the NEETs numbers down, as well as crime . It is no coincidence that policemen are going to be permanently stationed at these schools, in towers I should think . I know from friends what the state of discipline at some inner city Comprehensives and the though of the men they propose to intern for two years and what they will do fills me with dread. It is akin to a social concerntration camp , literally concerntrating all your problems in one building .

I can see the good side of it though . My wife who had a typical Bermondsey childhood said it would have helped her and things don`t look so bad from inside . But once again ill thought out and the sort of plan only those who attended posh schools could come up with. as it stands.

At the other end of the scale Lisa Harker in the Guardian suggests convincingly that the school entering age should be raised. I have a lot of time for this in theory , internationally there is evidence that the higher entering age not only helps the child’s learning but would also lessen the great disadvantage that Summer children have .Fins and S Korean Children start at six and seven respectively France Germany Spain Canada and the US, Denmark and Sweden all have higher entering ages and seem to do well at it .

Is this really a mystery though?. The reason that children appear to do better is because they are taught at home in a play /learning one on one nurturing environment. AKA their mum. Well when you put it like that they would do better wouldn’t they. We will not be having this in this country though as you now need two incomes for a house and the five year stretch is already beyond snapping point . I know I am in that one income poverty trap now . This problem is really what is driving earlier and earlier state care provision , ‘Sure start’ , now two year old`s at free nursery and then starting school for the most part at four years old . What we have is a crèche that I evolves into a prison for young offenders . What we used to have was a family and parents. They call that progress you know

So take a step back and it is the desperate financial pressure on families that mean they cannot give their children the early nurturing start they need .For this reason many of them have to be locked up in policed “schools” where they terrorise the real sixth formers .

The indigenous English birth rate has slightly increased to 1.7 but is still far below the immigrant birth rate of 2.7 overall with some groups like Pakistanis at 5. A survey came out yesterday showing that most people are made miserable by having the few children they do have . This is undoubtedly the pressure of over -population on services , housing and money. So again we come to the problem at the heart of every problem , too many people, the unique housing problems in this country , high taxes on families and the attempt of the state to take over from parents .There is not a quick solution but we are moving in the wrong direction on almost every front

Turn Over Your Papers

1 Emily Thorn berry , Dianne Abbot and of course nuclear powered, coach built ,silk lined velour upholstered hypocrite ,Ruth Kelly got their kids out of what

A Burning building
B State Education

2 Funds thrown at education in the last ten eyars
A £400million
B £400 billion

3 What proportion of teachers have been attacked at school.
A 20% B50%

4 Children will be obliged to declare their parents degree applying for university
TRUE/ FALSE

5 The share of working-class children attending University is lower than in the 60s
TRUE/FALSE

6 Proportion of Parents backing selection at 11 A 92% B 61%

7 Proportion of exams taken in Independent schools were awarded 'A' s an A 23.3% B50.8 %

8 Proportion of exams taken at Comprehensive awarded 'A's
A50.8% B15.3 %

9-1 in 5 Teenagers are unable to point to Britain on a map
TRUE/FALSE

Maths Labour style .
10-No1 Educational priority for labour too simplify the system whereby selective status can be challenged ( as it embarrasses the Conservatives ) guess how many occasions in the past decade there have been when parents have tried to challenge selective status … A 36 B 1

11-Teenagers read so badly they are now unable to use a Karoake machine , they have had to dumb down the lyrics. TRUE/ FALSE

12 Compose A Long and Tedious Grumble About The Failure of New Labour`s Educational Policies




On Sunday I watched the rather creepy Mr. Balls adopting the classic apologists opening on education.” Things have got a lot better but we have to do better still”. It is the sort of smarm that leaves you speechless and a necessary lie for the Brown interregnum because he was there. They cannot admit that they have been wrong for years . The gross facts are these . Three quarters of children from low income families in England and Wales failed to get five good passes at grade A in 2005 and 980,000 are in failing schools by the Governments admission and they are probably lying . David Cameron lanced the boil of fake statistics when he pointed out English and Maths were declining amongst the snow storm of useless and stupid subjects . Since then this has become to key marker amd lately there has been a lot of evidence that our international position is sliding sharply

.When we read that parents are asked to produce six forms of identification to prove they are in the catchment area they claim, we know something has gone badly wrong. . 16 London Boroughs have caught people , but then if you are the Blairs you simply get a Mr. Robinson to buy a flat in the right road and you are sorted . By this and sundry other devices the middle classes have colonised the best schools now far more privileged than Grammars .

Not that it is easy to tell if the school is any good or not . A levels have slipped into utter disrepair I lose track a bit but they were going to have an A * back in Blair`s days I remember Johnson announcing it . funding for schools to offer a Baccalaureate . Why not just stop lying about exam results ? The study of modern languages has disappeared. You see its difficult to claim you speak German when you palpably cannot . Beauty therapy , oh well we have oodles of proficient little girls in that rigorous discipline .Nearly 75 % of all pupils at state schools have dropped all languages by 15.

Education attainment and its measurement is like walking into a hall of distorting mirrors . It is said by some that Faith schools , for example do no better than others when you take their intake into account . How could you possibly measure such a thing ? These statements are trotted out on the basis of vapid assertions and self sustaining methodology. Polly Toynbee`s classic tactic is to appear to be referring to neutral research when she is referring to politically motivated number adverts which academia churns out to order. .I read in New Statesman that it was proven that grammar schools did not do particularly well if you discount for their intake.. Really ,what we know in the real world is that in N Ireland where the system has until recently remained, results are about 10 %better across the board . The point is that those not attending the Grammar benefit . What is the excuse now ?

“Well you see N Ireland has a cohesive and structured faith based society. “
“ So that improves results does it ?
“ Aha ha ha I didn’t say that now did I ….”

I was recently told off for using anecdotal information. I think as a Conservative you will tend to trust you own eyes before somebodies statistical white Rabbit .Sir John Bourne took a minute from lunching the tell the Home Office that all its measurements were so unrealisable as to be useless for prediction. We see government tables with superb schools languishing at the bottom of the table because of social intake discounts and we must again wonder if there is any science in it at all.
The Public seems to agree with 76% wanting a return to more rigorous streaming . Psssst Blair agreed hence the idea of getting religious groups to run academies ….sadly Brown has brought then back under the Council.( A little noticed but dramatic shift to the left).

13 Compose A Trite and Self Satisfied Cure All In The Manner Of A Taxi Driver

1 Allow Teachers to exclude Pupils quickly and easily . Make them legally strong and pupils weak
2 School Uniforms strictly adhered to
3 Schools rules strictly adhered to and the evolution of traditions. Brutal discipline if necessary
4 Setting in schools and a top stream , a Grammar stream.
5 Reset O and A levels back to meaningful; difficulty don`t ditch them they worked and have one national standard. Appoint a body to maintain that standard and ditch al other measures.
6 Pay teachers in difficult subjects more ( The NUT are against idea of course), also make it easier to fire failing teachers of which there are many
7 Reintroduce school sport and make it inclusive but competitive as in the class competitions we had
8 Abandon many of the foolish ~”personal teaching “ideas on the teaching colleges .
9 Defeat the teaching Unions
10 Remove charitable status from Public schools and oblige then to teach the national syllabus which will be exactly the same as everyone else and vastly simplified for all
11 Introduce vouchers and allow a wide variety of bodies to start schools in competition with the state


14 Have a dig at Progressives

Some of this may well be be Conservative Party Policy and certainly many parents would be relieved.Andy Warhol had a gorgeous collection of renaissance classics in his New York flat, well he had to live with them didn`t he I wonder how many progressives would , like Ruth Kelly , send their child to a newmania model school if no-one was looking and they thought sheer social privilege wasn’t going to be enough.


PENCILS DOWN !

TEST ANSWERS

Answers are all B and TRUE , of course

Read Them and Weep

Since 97 taxes have risen by nearly £10,000 per family in cash terms ( see HM treasury Public Finances databank )Weekly disposable incomes fell in 2005-6 and have grown by an average of only £2.15 a year a staggering achievement .( ONS 05/06) The length of the Yellow tax Handbook has doubled to 9000 pages and the British Chamber of Commerce say the cost of additional labour regulation has topped £50 billion. In 97 we were the 9th lowest taxed in the OECD now we are the 14th./ Stamp duty has quadrupled to over £10 billion( HM Treasury Budget 1998). Over 60,000 occupational pension schemes have been wound up( Hansard6.2.06) Frank Field said "5/6 of final salary schemes that have closed have done so since 2000 . In other words they have closed under our watch“. Britain has dropped from fourth to tenth in the international competitiveness league ( Global Competitiveness report 06/07) and productivity growth slumped from 2.6% per year (92-7)to 22.1% peryear(97-2001)

Meanwhile …
The tax payer is now bankrolling 3259 press officers across Whitehall and its quangos ( Hansard 6.7.06),)In 2005/6 £2.7 billion was lost to benefit fraud and error. Neither has social justice been served The difference between the life expectancy of the richest and poorest is greater than at any time since Queen Victoria( BMJ 30.4.05)The gap between mortality rates between professional and unskilled men is to and half times greater today than in 1930( Tackling health Inequalities Dept of health 11.8.07)

In an unprecedented period of prosperity Labour have failed the nation on a cataclysmic scale . In the past their errors were quickly found but early caution and global conditions have hidden it .With brown in the Indians have got hold of the whiskey and they simply must be rounded up and sent to their teepees before it gest even worse

If I was not hard as nails I would indeed weep hot salty tears ,( but I am)

Been Chatting

The Tories stand for arrogance and idleness - what else explains a £2m IHT threshold (OK £1m if you're thick)? Tory kids will be able to retire nice and young and waste their days in inane pursuits such as reading your drivel.



The Labour Part is the one which pays people for idleness. Incapacity benefit is well known to be a sick note culture, as even so colossal a prat as Peter Hain admitted . The whole point is to encourage working, which the Labour Party has not by taxing at extreme marginal rates..
On IHT , taken in isolation you views would make some sense but the history of IHT and the tax environment ,pensions , and so on make it a different issue. The Public sector who vote Labour retire five years earlier with gold plated pensions which are a liability of about £40,000 per household . THGos efunding them often have none themelves . 4000 ex civil servants have £1millionm pension pots .Ordinary working families work forever to maintain Labour’s slums


the Englaish are demonstrably more tolerant than the competing cultures"

Since when? During the 1000 year story you are so obsessed with, where is your evidence of that?Tell it to the European cities and tourist resorts are lovely youths delight in trashing, and wallowing in greasy "full" breakfasts.
THe Dam Busters theme, anyone? Lovely.


Inventing Parliamentary Democracy
Inventing Unions
First Industrialised Country
Inventor of capitalism, modern Insurance especially
Philosophical heart of the enlightenment
Inventor of football, rugby etc.
Leading light in Women’s emancipation
Protection of children
Invention of modern science and the scientific method
Universal suffrage
Birthplace of the world`s greatest writer and the world’s leading language
Resisted Napoleon, Philip of Spain and (since you mention Damn busters) Hitler
Home of Common Law and principles of jurisprudence admired and copied the world over
Banned Slavery .( Muslims are still enslaving black Africans to this day)
Sorry about the greasy spoon but the “English Breakfast “ is an internationally loved repast, in fact one of our few food exports.



It is a measure of the backwardness of the Muslim world that the Jewish world with a population of 12 million has won 163 Nobel prizes, 151 of them in science, while the Muslim world has produced only two Nobel laureates in science.
You have to go back to the dark ages and that myth has been exploded onn many occasions http://mwillett.org/atheism/islamicgoldenage.htm

....now what did the Muslims bring to the Party then ...remind me ?

The Lure Of Mucking About

I have just spent about an hour and a half mucking around with the title which I still can`t get right . Others appear a tad more savvy than me at this mularky and its too big. Still thats it , had enough now it is staying there. What a pathetic waste of time.span

One Large Donor Please.....

This information is taken from the Electoral Commission website and shows the sum total of donations of some key people between January 2001 and late 2007 , I stole it from super Tony Sharp . I do have slight nervousness about the reticence of Lord Ashcroft on his tax status but then he has a clean bill of health and thems the rules.In terms of large donors we can see the Labour Party are vastly more indebted to Supermarkets , Private Equity , Mr.Mittall,shadowy Muslims and of course,the Unions



CONSERVATIVE PARTY

Bearwood (Lord Ashcroft's UK based company) - £ 2,585,931.31
Types of donations:
Cash (146 donations) totalling: £ 1,297,365.69
Non cash (16 donations) totalling: £ 1,288,565.62

Lord Ashcroft (personal donations) - £ 111,726.09
Types of donations:
Cash (3 donations) totalling: £ 36,996.09
Non cash (5 donations) totalling: £ 74,730.00

Midlands Industrial Council - £ 1,430,470.23 (membership declared transparently)
Types of donations:
Cash (58 donations) totalling: £ 1,417,570.23
Non cash (2 donations) totalling: £ 12,900.00

Individual Donations (over £250,000) - £ 25,006,311.91
(excluding Public Funds)
Types of donations:
Cash (34 donations) totalling: £ 24,581,352.91
Non cash (1 donations) totalling: £ 424,959.00

Total -
Cash - £ 27,758,243.92 Non cash - £ 1,801,154.62


==================================

LABOUR PARTY


Lord Sainsbury - £ 8,516,000.00
Types of donations:
Cash (8 donations) totalling: £ 8,516,000.00

Lakshmi Mittal - £ 4,125,000.00
Types of donations:
Cash (3 donations) totalling: £ 4,125,000.00

Lord Drayson - £ 1,105,000.00
Types of donations:
Cash (4 donations) totalling: £ 1,105,000.00

Sir Ronnie Cohen - £ 1,800,000.00
Types of donations:
Cash (8 donations) totalling: £ 1,800,000.00

Muslim Friends of Labour - £ 330,950.00 (members not declared)
Types of donations:
Cash (12 donations) totalling: £ 330,950.00

Individual Donations (over £250,000) - £ 47,289,543.50
(excluding Public Funds) (mainly from unions)
Types of donations:
Cash (97 donations) totalling: £ 47,289,543.50

Total - (exluding more than £ 600,000 from David Abrahams of course...)
Cash - £ 63,166,493.50 Non cash - £ 0


** Please note these are not exhaustive details of all donors, which would be far too long to post here - these are just illustrative and comparative examples.

Mathew`s Passion

What Did They Do In Gomorrah ?


Mathew Parris disapproves of proposed “ Hatred On The Grounds Of Sexual Orientation” legislation ,in the Speccie Finding a formula which allowed Jacobean hot poker scenes whilst prescribing rap`s batty boy baiting will be impossible . With,“ High thresholds for prosecutions “ ,it is clearly only there to “send a message “.“Sending a message “is an inappropriate use of the statute book ,to put it mildly.The mind wanders into deliciously absurd actions . The bible , for example , is fairly unpleasant about Sodom and if anyone knows what they did in Gomorrah it was not very nice about their bizarre and mysterious habits either. 2000 years of incitement ?.I like Saintly Matthew’s conclusion.
“ I hate homophobia and I have no doubt that it is stupid and wrong . I feel the same about racism, and about the demeaning of the disabled or women. My mind is made up and my opposition ferocious. Yet in no way would this incline me to legislate .”

Its A Farce That Charlie`s Aunt

The attempts of the PC constituency to reduce our courts to a farce is superfluous . We have enough comedy.I was watching 100 great stand-ups yesterday and there was fascinating interplay of class tension between the alternative or modern comedians and the working class crafts men. Chubby Brown, Manning , of course and in the US Dice Man sat uncomfortably with Perrier award winners .Peter Kay and Jimmy Carr are both reconnecting intelligent comedy with anarchic amorality but I still enjoy the politically correct Eddie Izzard on the Empire as the “Cunning use of flags “

“ I pronounce this continent British “
“ Hey hang on we`ve all been here for ages there are load of us ..”
“ Do you have a flag ?….”
“ Well no not exactly …”
“ Then it is all now ours … ha ha ”

The EU Flag is not dissimilarly ridiculous.

My Name Is Newmania And I Laughed At Jim Davidson

Primitive tribes often have formal sort of humour consisting of elegantly avoiding the taboo word . There is an example where “ Bees “ are the unmentionable creatures “Those little buzzing creatures , I would not hint at their yellow and black stripes … oh no not I” would be the Oscar Wilde of the tribe .Why do we have this desire to say the unsayable , I wonder if it has a balancing function.I could not watch him for long but the bit that I laughed at most, was this from Jim Davidson …pure succinct tabboo breaking …

“ You would not believe what I get paid for doing this , its ridiculous , makes you think , there are people in Africa that could live half a life on what I make tonight ……
( Turns into profile and inhales deeply and thoughtfully on a fag…… quickly turns head surreptitiously to face the audience )
“Fuck ` em”

Add an old pros timing though and it still works . .Iain dale and David Cameron found out in Rwanda,you can go a bit too far and then they start laughing.As Johnson said "That's cant, Sir. ..: publick affairs vex no man.".True enough.

A lot of the more aggressive humour around is reacting to being pushed too far but before you know it jokes petrify into attitudes and the tolerance we prize is injured.So stop sending stupid messages with the law and start using it to send criminals into unpleasant prisons for a long time.Thats my message

A Shiver With No Spine

More disturbing signs of the mental breakdown of Gordon Brown. I have previously reported rumours of anti-depressants he has been taking and Peter Oborne, a trustworthy journalist, hinted at a physical abuse of the secretarial staff at No. 10 . He apparently flung a girl , in a rage , from her seat to use the keyboard.There is obviously a source form within who has been distressed . Today we read that he reduced a grown man to tears . That is Spencer Livermore the mis-director of political strategy at No. 10 . I have to wonder quite how difficult that would be .The dopey looking 32 year old Labour maggot has little to fall back on but the life of a ligger. Nonetheless a pattern is emerging ,of a piece with his bizarre physical betrayals at question time.
.Peter Watts has allowed it to be known that he was not impressed with Brown scuttling away from the funding scandal like a rat .It was after all , for him , that the money was collected .
Meanwhile Bonkers Broon says , or rather his dead eyed acolytes say for him ,‘This government will be judged on its record .’ Well ,he has increased revenue to the exchequer by £250 billion every year and yet miraculously managed to acquire very little . The Health budget has doubled to no good effect and education ,despite a Niagra of funds ,is actually getting worse. I seriously begin to wonder if Mc Bean has lost his grip entirely

There is a rather ripping story in the Hornblower oeuvre when the ship is in the command of Captain who has gone mad. Below decks the officers cannot believe what they are seeing . Many are opposed by instinct to mutiny that most dreadful of naval sins .Others fear the consequences In the end the behaviour of the foaming Captain , his cruelty and delusion provoke a series of ill lit furtive meetings, in whispers they plot, and finally the Captain is taken prisoner. Then the awful question…now what ?

No doubt such meetings are taking place and the air is thick with rumours but , as Harold Wilson put it it’s a “ Shiver with no spine to run down” . Where is the alternative . Milliband is not ready and Balls is seen as the Brown poodle . Alan Johnson pronounced himself too stupid to run on Desert island Disks . A party that endured Michael Foot for three years and Neal Kinnock for nine is unlikely to find the cojones to act decisively. The truth is they have the leader they deserve . The guts left the Labour Party at Blackpool , now they are left with screaming bitchy courtiers .who dominate the Harem but are little use otherwise.

Cherie Baby Spill The Beans

Peter Oborne reports in the Mail this morning that Brown’s plans include a regional tour, a possible cabinet reshuffle and a rapprochement with the Blairites ,.... oo thats gonna be painful to watch. Oborne reveals: “There is now lively talk inside Downing Street that Alastair Campbell might be brought back in a senior strategic role in the New Year and, apparently, there are indications that Blair's controversial former Press Secretary would welcome such a role.

Cherie Blair is now certain to receive a peerage says the rumour factory but will be enough to ensure that Cherie’s autobiography glosses over the Blair – Brown feud as tactfully as Campbell’s The Blair Years did. Cherie’s book is scheduled to be dominating the news at the Labour conference next year, the Brownites are desperate to minimise the damage that the book will do.


What do you think , will she take the gonmg and shut up or will she not be able to resist " Thats a lie "

Norman Baker

This is the picture of Norman baker our nauseating local MP I found . He is one of theose MPs who is busy doing nothing . Thanks to Flo for pointing out his pointless trip to Tasmania to comment on the Rainforest there. We already know about the silly and lucrative book and his support for faddy causes like Animal Rights.If he has ever done anyhting for Lewes I am yet to hear it. Typically despite a life of far left opining he has clung onto bookies favoutire Nick Clegg...Fancy...

Being The Change

Still trying to get into then local paper sadly this is too long …,happily I can be as boring as I like here

As a committed Conservative , Councillor Susan Murray (See letter 7.12.07) is of a type I used to back away from with a raised crucifix. Not any more ,in an effort our beloved leader would appreciate, I am trying to “Be The Change“ ,and determined to seek areas of agreement.

She wanted to hijack Remembrance Day to express the startling insight that no nuclear weapons would be safer .I agree; with the addition of three little words ;“In”, “Iran”, and ,“ever“. That only ‘some’ of the Councillors though the gesture outside the scope of a provincial district Council has left my eyebrows in a permanent gothic arch. Only some? Still it’s a good start.

Admittedly her letter on Post Office closures piles error upon error like a glutinous trifle.“ Neo Liberalism “ cannot be said to be responsible the destruction of public services as she claims as we have not had any. If public spending were now at 1997 levels income tax could be abolished, state governed expenditure has risen from 38% to 45% and the public sector is now more bloated than Germany’s . Naturally the gentlest puff of global chilly wind has us stocking up on tinned foods and gold but just imagine what the Green Party would have done to us. Think medieval period. I appreciate it was warmer then, but it was more the dentistry and leeches I had in mind .

Ms Murray’s charming generosity with other people's money is not altogether to my taste either so this isn’t going very well, sorry Dave. She wants a to give 6,000,000 Public sector workers job security not enjoyed by the over taxed private sector employees who pay for them and their pensions ?These are presumably not, “ordinary people “,a class she boldly speak for en masse. Then we come to her brilliant plot to force people to pay benefits into post offices by which quixotic route she arrives at what is in effect a subsidy. Well Councillor, we either chuck the money in or not but lets not pretend we can un-invent the internet re-monopolise services or maintain luddite practices, much as you might like us to be returned to the wood fire and bodkin. These are the real reasons for the £260 million down the plug`ole (2005)and worse since .

Fortunately for “Being the change",in the matter of Post Office closures we are one.Of course they should be subsidised .If it costs £250 million, so what! In the context of torturous New Labour waste and squander that’s a light tickle. The pointless development agencies have a budget of £2.3 billion. We are spending £5 billion and rising on a detested ID card scheme,£30 billion goes straight to Scotland,£60 billion to the EU we are £30 billion in debt with another £30 billion hidden under the carpet in PFI contracts. Absolutely we should subsidise these vital engines of precious communities. The money involved would hardly cover a Northern Rock Bonus .

It gets better . I also agree with her that, as usual, the EU ,which quietly makes 70% of our laws, has taken away our right to make any decision on then matter at all so we are wasting our time talking about it.I presume she agrees with me that this disgraceful position which is about to get much much worse should have us asking why our politicians are so determined to do to us what Phillip of Spain Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolph Hitler could not.

All in all then a spirit of delightful accord has broken out. I agree that we should treat the environment responsibly and to cap it all I am a great admirer of their Party’s leader. Or at least I might be if they are ever got serious enough to choose one

Newmania

Lewes Conservative .




Newmania

Lewes Consevative .