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Archive for April, 2009

It is very common for people with a right wing view of politics to accuse the BBC of being biased towards the Government in its reporting and frankly, it is hardly a wonder at times as per the following example. Today on the BBC News, “Gordon Brown cracks down on MPs Expenses…” was the headline which would have pleased him but in reality is a million miles from the truth.

The House will have a vote on whatever is proposed and will likely turn down any change that is disadvantageous to them as they have done previously. Instead of tinkering with the details, all politicians should grasp the real nettle and “present to us” on their true costs and the value for money they deliver in return.

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Born in London, I am by nature a “City Boy” and although I have lived in other places and other cities my love and feeling for London always plucks at my heart. For some, perhaps many people, cities can be both frightening and lonely places but I always find them motivational because when you are tired or have run out of ideas, all you do is standstill and both watch and feel the City move around you, it doesn’t take long to be back up and running again !

But for all that, in the almost 5 years I have lived by the coast, I have got used to seeing the sea everyday and would miss that if I moved away. I would also miss sights such as this, my friend the Heron who is a great character. Herons are very big birds and tend to keep away from humankind but I caught these moments a couple of days back and thought that I might share…

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Between them, Blair and Brown, have totally hollowed out the Labour Party over these past 15 years of feuding so that there is no rising generation of potential Labour Leaders and Front Bench politicians to replace them. The proof of this being that there are no serious contenders in the House and on the Labour benches who could take over from Brown should he ‘accidentally’ get shot by a sniper.

Brown’s latest is to demand a vote on ending the “Additional Allowance” for MPs, as ever tinker with a problem but never try to resolve it properly, just go for the soundbite and tomorrows headlines after which – nothing happens.

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The question that surrounds the Home Secretary is whether she can survive in her current job, the answer I suspect is that yes she can and will, but not because of any personal merit. Without being partisan, she has a poor track record, has demonstrated that she is incompetent, unlucky or a combination of both plus has a very marginal seat.

Bearing in mind the the former “Home Office” has been divided into two, Home and Justice, one wonders just how much worse she might have been with the full job. However the truth is that she is symptomatic of a Government on its last legs and is hardly much different from all the other talentless deadbeats that collect around the Cabinet Table in Drowning Street.

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I often read the following web site because it is interesting: – http://conservativehome.blogs.com/ Being as it were “inside” the Conservative Party, it gives insights into the party workers views at grass roots level and gathers in quite a lot of the opinions of the highly diverse people that make up the average pan national, UK wide political party of today.

Although I am broadly ‘pro-Tory’, I am not a party member, but it is quite fascinating to read stuff on Local Government which most of us ignore this (at our peril) and instead look starry eyed at the National level only so worth a read. Today was a piece by Jonathan Isaby in ToryDiary concerning whether post McBride the “Toff” slur was unusable by Labour in the future. This plus the responses of others, sparked off a series of thoughts…

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In the scandal of “Red Rag” and made up political slurs directed at the Tories, of McBride, Draper, the Labour Party and Gordon Brown, the biggest losers are the last two and one might say that perhaps that is a well deserved poetic justice.

Whether Brown knew or not is in some ways, rather academic, he certainly won’t own up to it let alone issue a personal apology. The reality to quote a phrase from an article in today’s Independent “his secretive, sectarian and cabal-ridden style of government”, puts Downing Street and Gordon Brown himself, at the epicentre on this one.

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I have always found little to distinguish between the sheer bestiality of both Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Russia towards human beings. From this as a young man I used to joke about people being Communist but with Fascist tendencies which was to say, these two apparent extremes are really the same.

I believe that right across the globe, change for the better will come and will sweep away the Socialist scourge that we have seen in Europe and most especially in the UK where under New Labour we have seen the the combination of a Government of control freaks who have also managed to be totally incompetent and corrupt at the same time as failing to control anything.

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I don’t hate Europe and my fellow Europeans, I just hate Brussels and the EU because it is such an artificial construct. It is like a 1950s SiFi Movie where the ‘spaceship’ is very obviously a cardboard cut-out and moved at right angles. For those who thought Blue Peter was rough and Blakes 7 questionable, 1950s SiFi was the total pits just like the EU and similarly unrelated to reality !

I don’t know why but earlier on as I was reading some stuff on the latest EU eurofolly, I sort of drifted back on a cloud of memories to my 1950s childhood and thought I might inflict these on the world at large…

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I have written before about the deplorable Bob Quick over the Damien Green Affair and Mrs Quick’s wedding car hire service run from their home:- http://baldysblog.co.uk/2008/12/21/an-early-retirement-decision/

His latest cock up was to walk into Downing Street for a meeting and clearly on show, a detailed A4 summary sheet of an on-going anti-terror operation which was photographed by the crowd of press photographers and transmitted around the world before you could say “Bob Quick”. The man should have been fired last time, finally the creep has resigned but this ‘blog’ is not about these events, it is about Public Service Pensions.

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Recently Tony Blair gave an interview to a gay magazine called Attitude and ever the populist decided to challenge the Pope’s “entrenched attitudes” on homosexuality. This is of course as banal an assertion as any fool can make considering whatever views the current Pope has are built upon some 2,000 years worth of thinking.

As a Catholic, I despaired of getting this fool as a convert especially as he was not a brave one having deferred his ‘conversion’ until after he left the Office of PM because “People might think me nuts if I did it whilst in Office…” Clearly no candidate for martyrdom any time soon !

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