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Crook? That's ok your pass is still valid
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Were I to do something as stupid as robbing my employer I'd expect to be sacked, I certainly wouldn't expect to keep my loyalty card to the company shop and premesis. yet this is exactly what's still on offer to the troughers of Westminster.Times. DISGRACED [...]
Vote for change?
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Do the Tories still believe that somehow Obama's slogan will match their ambitions? Haven't they been watching as he's slid down in the approval ratings? Didn't they notice his lack of support for the UK's stance over the Falklands recently including [...]
Poll axed
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So what do the Tories stand for? or rather what does Ding Cameron stand for?People (at least 36% of voters would like to know)Guardian.David Cameron today suffered a blow when a poll revealed that fewer than one third of voters "know and like" what the [...]
The lights are going out
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Those of us who have done a bit of checking into the background of the power situation know there is a crisis coming. Our ageing power generating plants are coming to the end of their useful limits and succesive governments have failed to upgrade them, [...]
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Musings,
power generation
Not racist, just silly?
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A store in Scotland had a little word in its ear from Grampian police.BBC.A company selling "Anyone but England" T-shirts for this year's World Cup has rejected suggestions it is racist after police in Aberdeen visited its [...]
Pop goes the weasel
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The Guardian is in full gloat today over the latest opinion polls showing the Tory lead narrowing over Labour.Guardian. Guardian/ICM poll graphic, 22 February 2010, showing the Tory lead falling to just seven points. [...]
Rather defeating the object
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An Asian Millionaire is going to attempt to join the BNP to try and change it from within.Independent. A millionaire Asian businessman who has applied to join the BNP said today he was doing it to "fight them from the inside". Mo Chaudry, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, [...]
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Musings,
Nationalism
We'll all hang together
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Apparently Michael (The Mace wielder) Heseltine thinks Ding Cameron's blandist Tories aren't going to get an overall majority in the general election, he may have a case in point, Ding has so far reneged on at least 2 key vote winning propositions (Lisbon [...]
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Musings,
Nationalism,
politics
Look through Fashion Magazines Model
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Once you have decided upon a date and time to shoot the next step is hiring a make-up artist. If one is not offered through the photographer, search for one the same way you did for the photographer. The next step you [...]
The beam in your own eye.
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Matthew 3:7And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?Gordon Brown asked today that we should look again, acknowledging that Labour is not perfect, but urged Britain to take a second look [...]
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idiocy of the highest order,
Musings,
politics
Of rats and sinking ships
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Well another one bites the dust and leaves the trough, though I suspect James Purnell (Labour) is far more disenchanted with the Labour regime than with the farcical house of corruption is the commons.Times. James Purnell, one of the few remaining Blairites [...]
Sometimes it's best not to ask
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There's a saying which goes a bit like this..."If you don't think you'll like the answer, don't ask the question."Unfortunately the government at times just can't help itself.Sky.A new scheme asking for ideas on how to punish [...]
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civil liberties,
law,
Musings
Social engineering at it worst?
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Well it seems that the leftists are right, all that hard work over the years brainwashing people has finally paid off as white people are institutionally racist........................................ against white people and no-one else.Telegraph.White [...]
Another surprise
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Quantitative easing, a harmless sounding term yet with very serious consequences. Back in January 2009 the government announced that because of the recession (that started in America and we're best placed to come out of it, yes that recession) they were [...]
Rewriting history, for convenience sake.
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History is important to me, particularly the history of Britain or more specifically the history of the English, it should be important to everyone as it tells us who we are and how we got here.Over the last 50 years though the nature of history has [...]
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History
End this farce now!
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One of the current anomalies of devolution is that for all they have their own parliaments and assemblies with their own devolved powers Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MP's can (and do with certain honourable exceptions) vote on matters pertaining [...]
Future fantasies 1975 as imagined from 1925
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Hugo Gernsback wrote a syndicated piece in 1925 that imagined the world of 1975. It appeared in the February 8th edition of the San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX) and has an interesting mix of hits and misses. Highlights from the article are excerpted [...]
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Musings,
predictions
Cold
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Well I was working nightshift last night (tonight as well) and wow I discovered a new level of meaning of the word cold. I'm usually wrapped up quite warm anyway though the warehouse is exposed to the elements a little mostly [...]
So, what about a proper referendum, like the one you promised?
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So Parliament has decided to offer us a referendum........ though not the one most people seem to want on the EU, I doubt those in charge of their respective political parties will ever offer that though as they know they wont like the answer they'll [...]
Here we go again
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Seems the corrupt and venal EU Parliament has decided it's time for a new EU commission and commissioners.BBC.The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of the new 27-strong team of European commissioners.Each [...]
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corruption,
EU,
politics
Tit for Tat
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Seems Iran is a tad upset at us keeping something of theirs (for a change) as opposed to just generally being upset with us. Well, not quite upset, more miffed than irate, though our initial acquisition of the item is probably in the grand style of the [...]
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revenge
Wrong, wrong, wrong
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Vernon Croaker on Tory Schools proposals.With no planning restrictions schools will be able to open... without the sort of decent facilities all children should have.He doesn't get it, yes in an ideal world all schools would have all manner of facilities [...]
This is where libertarianism and legalisation would have worked.
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Drugs are bad, addictive, will kill you, will turn you into a criminal......Well so say the do gooders and control freaks that make decisions in this country, the ones who wish to control our lives and make sure that we do as we're told. One of those [...]
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Musings
Business as usual........................probably tomorrow but no promises.
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I'm going outside now, I might be a while, the siren call of the pub is overwhelming my resistance.Oh yes, my first batch of sloe gin is ready too..........it's very, very strong, but very very ni [...]
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Musings
And so the betrayals begin
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One of the things that EUsceptics like myself and others pointed out was that it opened the way to a massive raft of EU legislation being able to simply go through our parliament on the nod, without being scrutinised. We pointed out that even were such [...]