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News and Politics

richard — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:12:52 +0000

What is it about major TV news channels that they think we want to see all the news about politics day in day out? Not all of us care for it, isn’t there any other news in this country? For that matter, this is the BBC we’re talking about, isn’t there any other news in the world?

Gordon Who?

richard — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:16:26 +0000

The British public have spoken, or at least responded to a poll. We like polls. We seem to think that polls mean everything and when they go down and stay down that that’s it.

Sadly for us, British politicians tend to ignore polls. Well, Gordon does. Oh, I mean, Prime Minister, for a moment there I almost forgot he was the PM since he does f*** all for us.

His numbers are dropping, have been dropping for some time, and appear to be continuing that way. I’ve taken my few brief minutes of relaxation from work to talk about how pathetic him and his numbers are. Yay!

Labour’s Fall Starts Today

richard — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:26:41 +0000

And today is possibly one of the worst days for Labour. They have lost council after council and 331 council seats so far, man what a bad day they’re having.

So, for our esteemed leader PM Gordon Brown, who is listening and learning (as he puts it), maybe now you’ll listen and learn about the stupidity of your 10p tax rate abolishment? Can you hear us now?

And to make their miserable day complete, they’ve probably lost the mayorship of London. Out goes Ken, in comes Boris. Boo hoo Ken, so sad, too bad, off you go.

Zimbabwe’s Recount

richard — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:12:28 +0000

Doesn’t it seem blatantly obvious to anyone with more than ten brain cells that having taken this long to not announce the election results and to order a vote recount, that Robert Mugabe has fixed the election and is on his way to becoming President of Zimbabwe? Again. Illegally.

Blaming Britain is fine with me, because no-one in the world believes him. And incidentally, no-one in Britain wants Zimbabwe. Why would we want a run-down corrupt and financially bankrupt country? We already have our own …

Fingerprint Them As They Enter

richard — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:32:50 +0000

Once it was just the way that things were done in America. Now it might just happen here in Europe. I say ‘Europe’ because apparently we’re a “bloc” now – strains of socialism creeping in here, getting me a little worried. Comrade.

From the MSNBC post entitled ‘EU proposes fingerprinting visitors‘:

The European Union’s top justice official proposed Friday to replicate U.S. border security measures in Europe with plans to fingerprint and electronically record the entry and exit of all visitors to the 27-nation bloc.

This is a Justice official! I thought that Justices were supposed to sit and judge on points of the law and so on, not propose new laws, isn’t that the job of the politicians?

Ageism, Sir Menzies

richard — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:23:46 +0000

If this nation is so preoccupied with political correctness, why is it that the political party of the Liberal Democrats, and the news agencies that reported on it, used age as an excuse to get rid of Sir Menzies?

It’s not like a potential Prime Minister is running laps you know, they sit on their arses all day long, occasionally get up to go to Parliament or out to kiss babies on political rallying, but come on, he’s only 66 after all.

Oh Darling

richard — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:37:13 +0000

I am reminded of Blackadder, how difficult it must be for the Tory frontbenchers to refer to the Chancellor in this way.

‘Oh Darling, couldn’t you have thought of something original instead of nicking our ideas?’

Come on Prime Minister, get your lackeys to put their grey matter to work! Stop stealing the Tories’ ideas!