Lest We Forget

The Law Commission has just published a report recommending the repeal of "at least" 1500 of Labour's laws.  They also recommend that no further crimes should go on to the statute book without Parliamentary scrutiny.

Most of the new offences were slipped into law on the say-so of quangocrats without being debated in Parliament, it found...
...Since Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the commission said, more than 3,000 such crimes had been created.
New crimes brought in since 1989 fill three volumes of the criminal law record, Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales, taking up 3,746 pages.
All the crimes established in the 637 years between 1351 and 1988 fill only one volume.

It's too early for celebrations - there's no word yet from the government about what it intends to do about this. The report confirms what many of us have been complaining about, that quangocrats and lobbyists make the rules and our waste-of-space MPs don't do their proper job of representing us.   Shame on anyone who voted for a sitting MP without properly vetting their expenses and voting record first.

Source

You can have this for good measure too. It's a reminder about who have been the muppets here - clue: it wasn't Mandelson and it wasn't the Labour govt if their near-30% support is anything to go by:



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Lest We Forget

The Righteous Mendacity of Blair

Blair defends Iraq war, even without WMD

Britain would have backed the invasion of Iraq even if it had been known that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), former prime minister Tony Blair said Saturday.

A correction is needed there; it should read 'even though it was known that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.'

Blair is obviously preparing the ground for his appearance at the enquiry.

No doubt he'll be at pains to preserve the shining righteousness of his conscience as the justification for everything.

Sick bags at the ready, folks.

The Righteous Mendacity of Blair

Brown's Conjuring Tricks

"Somebody shake me, wake me, when it's over.
Somebody tell me that I'm dreaming and wake me when it's over..."

Another day, another dollar pocketed in the global elite's snooker table of life.  Gordon Brown (*sigh*) has shown he's not one to keep his flaky ideas to himself; here's the latest:  an international satellite monitoring system.  As the article suggests, there are a few countries who might be instinctively opposed to this, not least China.

He's already pledged £800m, that we don't have, to his proposed £10bn fund to alleviate the burden on 3rd world countries between 2010-2012:  "Together the collective power of the Commonwealth must be brought together to tackle a new historic injustice, that of climate change.”

Why can't he just stfu and hie himself off to a nunnery where he can pray for world harmony all day long - he'll love the ankle-skimming garb and face-framing snoods.  That would be a better way for him to live up to his father's principles of wealth redistribution and it  would be cheaper for us as well.  (Dubai, courtesy of RSB, here we come!)

As an aside to all this largesse, I read on another blog (sorry, I didn't bookmark it) that he's also given £275m in aid to another country in the past couple of days whilst Cockermouth with the worst flooding for years has been given only £1m.  I don't suppose Brown understands the old saying: Charity begins at home.  Look at that phrase, it isn't a selfish ideology, what it means is that you have to be strong yourself in order to help others.  If you're fubar'd yourself you're not in a position to help anyone.  UK plc is fubar'd.

A superfluous illustration:  Imagine a truck carrying adults and children breaks down whilst crossing a desert.  There's no communication, no one will look for them, supplies are limited and they have no choice but to set out walking.  It's a long, hard slog.  Who should have first call on the food & water?  Adults or children?  My answer is at the end of the post.

Brown, Blair, the Fabians, Common Purpose & their adherents are 'the greatest historic injustice' this country has ever faced.  I've often called them muppets for their ill-thought out plans and half-baked ideas but really, there's only one muppet here, and that's me.  Something more than blogging must be done and the way things are developing, some thing more than voting will be needed.

* The adults - they'll have the strength to continue walking and will carry the children to safety.  The other way round and they'll all die.

2ozs of Olde English Humbugs to my favourite Grumpy Old Twat for the graphic.

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Brown's Conjuring Tricks

Rogue Gunner Says It All

Cato is right. It's a shameful disgrace.

If you haven't already visited Rogue Gunner's blog, here's the link to the blog and the full article:

"On a day when the bodies of four UK servicemen are flown back home after making the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan the MOD are in the Court of Appeal. Why may you ask are they costing the British tax payer tens of thousands in legal bills? To make the lives of our young injured servicemen some who have horrific injuries better? No, they are once again making our Heroes fight another battle for adequate compensation that must last them for the rest of their lives.
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Sometimes your longest War begins when you hand your uniform in and rejoin civvie street."

That's from a man who's been in the thick of war and knows what it's like. He also knows what it's like to be on civvie street with PTSD and no support. We ask so much of our Armed Forces; is it too much for us to demand our government treats them better? So many charities are springing up in an effort to fill the void left by government. Here's a link to Help for Heroes.

Rogue Gunner Says It All

Corrupt And Dirty EU

The EU: an iron fist in a velvet glove. An anthropomorphised EU would look like Peter Mandelson. It's corrupt, sleazy, unaccountable and undemocratic.

Marta Andreasen, who was elected as a Ukip MEP for South East England last month, has been blocked from becoming vice-chairman of the European Parliament's budgetary committe. They even broke convention on the allocation of committee posts by demanding a vote by secret ballot to do it.

Andreasen, the European Commission's former chief accountant, was fired in 2004 by Lord Kinnock after she publicly claimed there was a £172 million discrepancy between two sets of Brussels accounts. Kinnock accused her of "disloyalty and breach of trust" after she went to MEPs with her concerns.

Inge Graessle, a senior German Christian Democrat MEP, admitted that Andreasen had been opposed for the senior post because of her 'trouble-making' past. "The role she played in the past, what I feel was a certain scandalising of issues, is not really one we want endorsed by her becoming vice-chairman," she said.

"This is a message about how much they fear me. But I still know what I know and they will not stop me," Mrs Andreasen said.

Source: Daily Telegraph

Also, before I forget again, here's a link I've been meaning to post for ages:

Petition against the nomination of Tony Blair as President of the EU

Sarkozy is much more luke-warm towards Blair's candidacy than he once was and seems to prefer the Spanish Gonzalez these days but we should never underestimate the vaunting ambition of the Blair-Mandelson team. Machiavellian back-room deals are being struck all over Europe in anticipation of full ratification of the Lisbon Treaty and we still don't know which side of the fence Cameron will climb down from. It won't hurt to sign it - just in case.

Corrupt And Dirty EU