Sunday 31 December 2017

The 20th century was better than this one!

Something else that couldn’t be made for TV today is The A Team with B.A. Baracas and his obsession with looking out for the welfare of little kids. He would fall foul of the ‘see evil in everything’ lobby and be branded a paedophile by Scotland Yard’s Prevert Squad when the superintendent in charge did a TV appeal for victims after staging a dawn raid, with helicopters, on the A Team’s hideout.

More guesswork

“Why does a new Hollywood film about P.T. Barnum gloss over his outrageous cruelty and racism?” a story title in yesterday’s Daily Mail demanded. Possibly because it’s a film made in Hollywood and the producers thought they’d get a bigger box-office from something entertaining than from something miserable, dull and worthy.

Saturday 30 December 2017

Just guesswork

2017 has now been demoted to the 5th warmest year ‘on record’. It was the 3rd warmest just one week ago. Which demonstrates how dodgy the judgements are when the accuracy of the measurements is considered and also when dodgy judgements are applied to results which fall well within the error limits of the measurments.

Just overblown with self-importance

When are agents of the FBI and NCIS going to realize that if everyone is pretending to be ‘special’ then no one is?

Ideas that really suck

I’m reading Eye, a collection of SF short stories by Frank Herbert, which came out in the year before he died. There’s one in which beings from some galactic civilization land on Earth and deliver an ‘or else’. Which left me thinking: like some galactic civilization would be aware of what’s happening on a planet of an insignificant star in one of the spiral arms. And like that civilization would regard humanity as any sort of threat or worthy of membership.

Friday 29 December 2017

It’s all to do with who you know

Some rotters have been expressing doubt, when told yesterday’s joke, about whether J. Corbyn could pass through the training course for Downing Street cleaners and emerge with the necessary qualifications. But if he knows the union boss, he’ll be able to get himself appointed as the non-playing captain of a cleaning team.
    Problem solved!

More cloth-ears

Were they really advertising Nescafé Dodgy Gusto on TV last night? Everyone is sure to want a mug of that!

Thursday 28 December 2017

A pre-New Year joke

This one is doing the rounds where I live:
    Jeremy Corbyn knows he’ll be in No. 10 within a year. He’s just applied for a job as a cleaner and he’s a pal of the relevant union boss.

Buncha Beefers!

Political correctness is applied by the Jedi in the military – that’s the Joint Equality, Diversity and Inclusion unit, which distributes its BS equally to the army, navy and air force, and all their sub-divisions.

Out of his tree

Lord Tarzan would have us believe that Brexit will be worse for the country than Wolfie Corbyn as PM. Clearly, all those free lunches with free booze have clogged his brain cells.

Wednesday 27 December 2017

Preservation is not verification

Let us not forget that a daft idea dreamt up by an ancient philosopher (e.g. Plato) is still daft, even if it is over 2,000 years old and still being quoted.

Not even close

What we watched on Xmas day? Nope, didn’t watch any of the alleged top ten of irresistibles.

Not so Merry

Are there enough bullets in the world to shoot all the feet at Tesco after their Xmas turkey fiasco? The lack of PR skills of some of their management suggests that the rottenness is spread further than among their products.

Tuesday 26 December 2017

Time distortion

Easter eggs for Xmas? Yes, some of the big stores have stretched holiday crossover to this point. At this rate, it will soon be possible to celebrate next year's Xmas this year!

Three seasonal good cheers

Hooray for President Trump! He has abolished Happy Holidays and given Merry Xmas back to the world. What a terrific bloke he is!

Here we go again

Well, that was a nice Xmas present for Bremoaners, the sneerocracy and was-beens like Edstone Milipede. They can now sound off about the return of blue passports and pretend there’s something wrong with not being ashamed of your country and its glorious past.

Monday 25 December 2017

Thinking ahead

No newspaper today? What to do about it? In my case, it was read the Sunday Post yesterday and save the Sunday Telegraph for today. After all, there’s no point in getting out of bed if there isn’t a paper on offer.

Who needs education?

I have just finished reading a 1973 SF novel called The Phaeton Condition by Douglas Mason. The title is rather revealing. Back in the 70s, people were still educated and they were expected to know who Phaeton was. These days, we have the internet.

Mysteries in the skies

According to the former director of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which was run at the Pentagon using black ops cash, UFOs do exist. US pilots have spotted things in the sky which are objects which fly and are of unknown origin. So many unexplainable sightings have been logged that it is possible that some could have contained Little Green Men from Venus, or elsewhere, but there is no proof one way or the other.    Some might say that the cash spent on AATIP was wasted. But it did give the boss and his minions the illusion of useful employment, so it did do some good.

Sunday 24 December 2017

It's your fault, mate

It's all very well for Donald MacLeod to rant about Tory cuts and austerity in the Sunday Post, but let us not forget how we got here. It was New Labour, led by Tony B. Liar (Scottish) and Gordon Brown (Scottish) who spent the country into an enormous mountain of debt and left nothing to show for all the wasted cash. And it was left-wingers like MacLeod (Scottish) who voted them in to office.
    Consequently, unless MacLeod is prepared to be a man and stand up and admit his share of responsibility for the need for austerity, and accept that he is to blame for any misery about which he rants, the rest of us will continue to make noises about pots, kettles and empty barrels.

More 'believe it or what?'

According to another of these surveys (this one by an appliance retailer), 42% of the population has experienced an appliance failure at Xmas and 35% of the failures were of cookers. Is this proof that the Universe really does hate us? Not unless surveys in countries where other holidays are celebrated produces a parallel result.

It's cloth-eyes again!

Who is the patron saint of . . . I saw 'chi' and assumed it was 'chickens'. In fact, it was 'children' but it set me wondering. Do chickens have a patron saint (specific rather than generic St. Francis) and if not, why not?

Saturday 23 December 2017

Saving the world: the hard choices

The only way to clean up the planet is to use less of its resources, which means reducing the population; not gradually by natural wastage as populations go up, not down, but quickly and by billions. But who will decide who is to be killed and who will survive? And will those picked for slaughter understand that no usual suspects can be culled because they are too vital to be lost?

No perspective

We might be a bit impressed by claims that 2016 was the warmest year on record, and 2017 was the third warmest, if that record went back 2,017 years rather than just a small fraction of that span of time.

Friday 22 December 2017

New word in search of a meaning!

How easy it is to read ‘inadequate’ as ‘madequate’! All we need now is a definition for this new addition to the language – ‘infuriatingly okay’, for instance, or ‘insanely bog standard’?

Reality Bite

We’ve all been dreaming of a white Xmas? There’s another misleading inclusive. Wet, grey and warmish will suit most of people, thank you very much, no matter what newspaper cliché-mongers would have us believe.

Thursday 21 December 2017

“We don’t care too!”

The Foundation which hosts Wikipedia leaves decisions on what goes on the site to its editors; a “washed-hands” policy which ensures that hijackings by tiny gangs of nasties are inevitable. Which is something to remember when ‘facts’ on the interweb encyclopaedia don’t seem terribly factual.

“We also don’t care!”

The Europeon Court of Justice, home to some very dodgy characters, has ruled that Uber is a taxi firm not an internet service. US-based Uber sez: “Whatever!”

“We don’t care!”

That’s a refreshingly tough attitude President Trump is taking toward the aid junkies who condemn his plan to move the US embassy in Palestine to Jerusalem. If they won’t back him, they won’t get American cash.

Wednesday 20 December 2017

Big deal? No, very small, actually.

The French parliament has voted to end all oil and gas production on French soil (that’s France and occupied territories abroad) by 2040. Wow! Amazing! Well, not really. The annual oil production by the French is about what Saudi Arabia produces in its lunchbreak on one single day. Which means that the impact on the planet is not going to be huge.

Tuesday 19 December 2017

Bodies get busy at this time of year

Leicestershire county council has approved the appointment of an Xmas Sprout Controller to ensure that no resident consumes more than 6 festive Brussels sprouts on Xmas Day.
    A large team of Reallocation Prevention Agents will have to be appointed to ensure that people who do not like sprouts do not hand over their rejected vegetables to a sproutoholic and cause the recipient to exceed the Six-Per-Person Rule.

Monday 18 December 2017

A weird notion of justice

The former girlfriend of Scottish Labour’s former deputy leader is bent out of shape as the party has declined to investigate a complaint, which she made about him. The reason for dropping the investigation is that she refused to let the accused know what she was accusing him of!
    It comes as something of a surprise, but it’s nice to know that some vestige of justice and fair play remains in pockets of Corby’s Labour; possibly only because Scotland is a long way from his centre of power in London.

The world is saved

The Clash of Titans has been averted. The Royal Weeding will take place during the morning of a Cup Final played at stupid o’clock in the evening [5:30 pm instead of 3 p.m.]. So no clash.

Sunday 17 December 2017

“It doesn’t MATTER what you think, Jabroni!”

Can you imagine the consternation if America’s leader were to tell the above to the Big Boss of the Russians or Chinese? It’s something which could well happen if the 2024 US election gives us another President Johnson. That's Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, who has political ambitions and a desire to be another actor turned leader of the Western World, like Ronald Reagan.

Brown smiles, anyone?

What is the fad for drinking cider vinegar going to do to the teeth of the idiots who have fallen for this latest dotty diet craze? As any fule kno, vinegar contains acetic acid and acids eat teeth.

The Meerkat Plot

It would make a great script idea for an update of the 1960s version of Batman: the bumbling EC president J-C Druncker under threat of assassination by the sinister German Angular Meerkat, who is about to be dumped out of power in her own country, and who is looking for a comfortable and secure billet at the home for failed politicians. Maybe the estate of Robert Ludlum could be persuaded to commission a book?

Saturday 16 December 2017

Clash of Titans

Am I bothered that Prince Harry is marrying Mrs. Merkel’s little girl on Cup Final Day? As I already have my Cup Final day out booked, not really.

Friday 15 December 2017

He cannot be serious!

If the Archbish of Canterbury marries Prince Harry AND Meghan Merkel, isn’t that bigamy? [Or trigamy, if his Archbishness is already married?]

Entity: Or is there a ‘non’ involved?

This guy Kevin who does the EE ads on TV – is he a real person we’re supposed to have heard of? On an imaginary person, like the Oxo Mum? It’s difficult to tell and looking him up on Mr. Internet would be too much trouble.

Thursday 14 December 2017

Just one glass, please

Britain is become a nation of drunks thanks to a sinister plot by the people who run wine bars and pubs. Wine glasses have doubled in size over the last 30 years such that the standard glass now holds about 3/4 of a pint; but there are real whoppers around with the capacity to hold a full 750 ml bottle of wine with room to let it breathe.

Reshaping the world

TV adverts featuring mothers who can cook and run a household, and ads featuring fathers who are miserable incompetents, are to be banned in the name of banning gender stereotypes.
    In future, all mothers will be shown as drunken slags, for whom wine o’clock comes at breakfast time and fathers will be portrayed as high-powered executives with staff to attend to menial parental duties.

Wednesday 13 December 2017

Cowboy accounting

People can’t get cash in lightly populated areas because banks have closed branches but there are still ATMs in shops. Which prompted local councils to come up with the bright idea of shoving an extra £5,000 on their business rates.
    Of course, the result with be even fewer cash machines and no extra cash for the councils. But practical considerations have never ever stood in the way of thoroughly boneheaded ideas in the public sector.

Rattling cages

Brexit Secretary D. Davis has got the spivs in Brussels really rattled if they are reduced to cheap gibes about behaving like a gangster. The more upset he makes the Eurocraps, the better job our Mr. Davis is doing!

Tuesday 12 December 2017

Another of life’s mysteries

Why does Virgin Media think I’ll be impressed by getting a “value statement for July-September 2017" . . . in December 2017?

Compulsory bending?

There’s a firm called Land’s End which keeps sending me catalogues and special offers for frocks and female clothing. I have told them a number of times that they’re wasting their time and postage on a bloke who isn’t a cross-dresser, but they take no notice.
    Could it be that they’re softening me up for some future Labour government making cross-dressing compulsory on a couple of days per week to placate the trans lobby?

Monday 11 December 2017

S’not Sunday

The weather bods on TV were going crazy about Snow Sunday. Here, we got a token few flakes in the late afternoon but nothing that stuck. Not that anyone is complaining, mind!

Sunday 10 December 2017

S’no problem here

I was somewhat agog when viewing the pix of snowbound areas on the lunchtime TV news. It’s bloody cold here but we had a sprinkling of snow yesterday, which melted on a warmer day, and we had no more overnight and there has been none so far today. I guess we just live in the right part of the country!

No Contest!

There’s a veritable industry involved in generating complaints about BBC repeats, especially over Xmas. But seriously, if you had the choice, wouldn’t you rather watch a repeat of the A Team on Forces TV than tripe like BBC 1's Come Dancing on a Saturday night?

Saturday 9 December 2017

Out of sight . . .

The Chinese have decided to stop taking our low-grade plastic and cardboard waste any more as their 4th World approach to ‘recycling’ has been busted embarrassingly by nosy investigators. But there is no need to panic.
    Britain has lots of holes in the ground and one permitted solution to disposal is ‘temporary storage’. All we have to do is get creative with our definition of ‘temporary’ and have the courage to tell creeps who try to argue with it to get lost.

Freedom from police harassment

Motorbike bandits can get away with it by taking their helmets off to avoid police pursuit. Muggers on foot can escape the forces of law ‘n’ order by running across boggy ground because coppers hate getting their designer footwear muddy. As the Blesséd Little John says: “You couldn’t make it up!”

Friday 8 December 2017

No excuses for traitors

The Defence Sec. has really upset Labour and the Libertines by making British-born jihadis valid and necessary targets for the armed forces. Why are Lab and Lib upset? Because anyone who hates British values has to be a natural supporter of one or the other of them against the Tories. And they don’t want their voters wiped out abroad when they could be voting Lab or Lib here (when they’re not murdering people).

The power of self-interest

We don’t have real wide-spread poverty of that sort that was about between the wars any more. What we have is the usual suspects making too good a living out of government anti-poverty schemes to get an honest job.

Thursday 7 December 2017

Trigger words

‘Subtle’ and ‘subtlety’ in an EU context are coded warnings that an Establishment stitch-up is in progress to the benefit of the Druncker class, and taxpayers are about to be swindled.

Wot Cuts?

If the Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa (?) University is paid £808 million pounds as her annual salary, imagine what the boss of the university, the Chancellor, gets!

Putin forever!

Old age pensioner V. Putin has warned the Russian peasants that he intends to do a Mugabe on them and remain their president for another 30 years. Having ‘acquired’ an estimated $235 BILLION from the pockets of those Russians who pay taxes already, he is extremely well placed to buy as many election victories as he needs.

Trump Unites the World!!

One thing that Donald Trump can never be accused of is a lack of the means to make an impact. Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel rather than Palestine is a classic example of how he can bring together all the nations of the world. Even if it’s to condemn him and call him a nutter.

Wednesday 6 December 2017

Victim, boo-hoo, sob!

The rest of the world is ganging up on poor old Russia! Isn’t it dreadful that they’ve been banned from the next Winter Olympics just for institutional doping? How dare the rest of the world hold a bit of cheating (well, a lot, actually) against Mother Russia!

A wealth of experience

The BBC, a notorious purveyor of fake news, is going to train children how to spot it? Shirley a case not of poacher turned gamekeeper but poacher expanding operations.

Tuesday 5 December 2017

Dark Daze Ahead (possibly)

Labour councils are being advised to hide their vast reserves abroad in case Corbyn Labour wins the next election and wrecks the British economy, like Labour does. But will the councils be sensible enough to do it?

Standard Operating Procedure

Is anyone surprised to learn that the people shovelling Britain’s aid cash down black holes are dumping it into the pockets of terrorists as well as spivs in their desperation to make it disappear? Of course not. That’s what they do.

The Unwholly Grail

The EU and the Irish were all set to stitch up Mrs. May, and their meeja machine was burbling at full blast, when . . . splat! The wheels came off. The details of the stitch-up reached the boss lady of the DUP and it was a case of once more, “Ulster says NO!!”.
    Nice to know that there’s one politician in the UK prepared to stick to her guns and stand up for what she thinks is right in the face of an EU swindle.

Monday 4 December 2017

Forlorn hope?

The Police Service of Northern Ireland, which prosecutes British troops but not IRA terrorists, thinks that bumping into someone under the mistletoe constitutes rape. And even posted a warning for the twits on Twitter.
    We could be reassured to know that the police over the water are just as crap as those on the mainland. But we would be enormously more reassured if we had police who weren’t crap.

Hypocrite to the last

What do you call leaping out of the job you got by being Nick Clegg’s mate just after you’ve been told your contract won’t be renewed, and doing so in a bomb-burst of fake self-righteousness? Doing a Milburn.

Sunday 3 December 2017

Everything of clay

It’s not really surprising that the Millennials of GO magazine, who had bought the Corbyn promos, found the man himself underwhelming when confronted with reality and that he was ‘not fantastic with detail’.
    Now they know why J.C. is kept in a box and wheeled out only under carefully stage-managed conditions; some PR which the current Old Labourites learned from the failed New Labour Experiment.

The usual result

Peter Oborne asked in yesterday’s Daily Mail: How would Americans react to a British PM who stirred up racial division in the US by praising the KKK? 99.8% wouldn’t hear about it or give a rat’s ass, 0.1% would applaud and 0.1% would get their knickers in a twist. In other words, just the same as for any other politics-based question.

Uncut truth

It’s high time the Trade Descriptions Act was applied to Labourites who go on about ‘Tory austerity’. They should be required by law to state the full truth, namely: ‘Tory austerity to repair the nation’s finances after Labour wrecked them’.

Saturday 2 December 2017

Clingon Rossi

We’re not getting rid of motorbike champion Valentino Rossi anytime soon. He’s always zooming off somewhere, which makes a steady relationship with another human bean so difficult that he reckons that he is: “happily married to his motorbike, which reciprocates his love, if not always.” Which explains September’s broken leg, which put him out of competition for all of three weeks.

Alibi/Abuse

Baby boomers, born between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s, are to blame. They went out to work, 10% of them went to university first, and they bought houses and raised families and saved for their old age; unless they were low-level Labourites, of course. [Posh Labourites did the buying and saving thing too.]
    Millennial snowflakes, born from the 1980s on, need an excuse and theirs is that the baby boomers left nothing for them, and they should definitely not have to make any sort of effort on their own behalf because of it.

Friday 1 December 2017

It’s all completely self-consistent, really. Honest!

Snowflakes hate old people for voting for Brexit. Snowflakes worship Saint Jeremy. But the elderly J. Corbyn has been a long-term opponent of the concept of the EU and he’s happy to see us on the way out (despite politics-based posturing to the contrary). But who says anything to do with politics and young people has to make sense?

Blighted perception

Sky News was describing the fall in net immigration as “the worst on record”. The highest, maybe, but how did they get to worst? Unless Sky thinks that the New Labour policy of trawling the world for migrants to upset the Tories was a good idea.
    On a note of accuracy, the rate of immigration is still higher than it was five years ago.

Thursday 30 November 2017

One or the other

Is a 10% drop in the number of drivers caught using a mobile phone down to the Daily Mail’s admirable campaign to increase the penalties available to the courts? Or is this just something else which the nation’s police farces have decided they can no longer be bothered with? Like burglary and shoplifting.

Twit

Would someone kindly tell the Daily Mail quick crossword compiler that treacle is not the same as golden syrup? One is black and comes in red tins. The other is golden and comes in green tins.

Poly-something!

What a weird concept it is; the UK being divorced from the EU, which implies that there is one spouse on one side and 27 on the other. No wonder we keep ending up screwed by the Europeons.

Wednesday 29 November 2017

Make me miserable, please!

Isn’t it remarkable, how much time the wibble-mongers spend trawling the Daily Mail website looking for things to upset them. What sad, empty lives they lead. But it would be interesting to know just how many hits on the DM website come from offence junkies in search of fodder.

Just a thought

The EU thinks that UK cities are no longer eligible to take part in the European Caterpillar of Culture junkets. Maybe Mr. Druncker should be locked in a darkened room until he sobers up and realizes that Europe is a geographical continent and independent of the extent of the Europeon Union, which had no problem with including Turkey in the CoC list.

Tuesday 28 November 2017

You just can’t win

President Trump is always being told off for having something to say about almost everything. Now, he’s being trolled for not going on about some American divorcee bagging Prince Harry.

More TV wisdom

A homily from the elder DCI Barnaby (Tom, the former Bergerac) in last night's Midsomer Murders: “Revenge is no remedy for loss.” To which the only response can be: “Only in your opinion, Inspector, which no one else is bound to accept.”

Timely reminder

After the mosque massacre in Egypt at the end of last week, there was a thought-provoking episode of the epic SF series Babylon 5 on TV last night. The events of Believers, episode 10 of the first series, remind us that evil is always evil, especially when performed in the name of religion. And especially with regard to the ethnic cleansing going on in western Burma. Evil will flourish when good men do nothing. Not to mention former saint Aung San Suu Kyi.

Included out

I find that I am uninvolved in many things, which are claimed to be essentials of modern life. Add salted caramel to the list. I am not one of those unfortunates who can’t stop eating it because I never started.

Monday 27 November 2017

Miracle man

Did I win the 105th Grey Cup for the Toronto Argonauts? I was just thinking how great it would be if they could get a TD and draw level as the Calgary Stampeders were on the point of putting the match away and lo! suddenly it was 24-all after a fumble recovery for a TD.
    And when the Stampeders were on the point of scoring at least a field goal to get to 27-all, I was thinking wouldn’t it be great if the Argos stopped them? And lo! an interception in the Toronto goal by Black did just that and let the Argos win.    Spooky, huh?

Here’s a good one

The next time someone tries to tell you that leaving the EU without paying a Brexit ransom is like trying to walk out of a restaurant without paying – ask the idiot when he last spent 40-odd years in a restaurant.

Sunday 26 November 2017

Calm down, dears!

Does it really matter if the former leader of Labour in the Scottish parliament is spending three weeks doing a TV show in Australia? Her star is in the wane, she’s had her turn in the spotlight and she’s been booted out in favour of a Corbynite trade-unionist zombie bloke. An alternative career as a Z-list celeb will probably be more fun.

No news like fake news

Two blokes having a bit of a barney in a Tube station becomes a machine-gun massacre and stampede in the web postings of the wibble-mongers. But anything to get noticed, right?

A prayer for today

“Oh, Lord, give us the courage to act manfully and say ‘bollocks!’ to hate-filled snowflake harridans.”

Saturday 25 November 2017

Brace yourselves! Clothears strikes again!

Oh, no! We’re under threat from something new and deadly: “Cereal Two emissions”. Luckily, there’s help at hand. I caught part of a TV ad for something offering “Ultra-low Cereal Two emissions”. I must remember to keep an ear open for that one to find out what it is.

Good as far as it goes

What a weird concept ‘lucky underpants’ is. What sort of weirdo takes the trouble to track a pair of pants through washing cycles? And what happens when the pantist finds himself in competition with someone else wearing lucky pants?
    Probably the same thing that happens when two Christian countries go to war and God has to toss his lucky penny to pick a winner.

Topsy-turvy

What a weird world we’re heading for if all the women’s organizations end up dominated by militant men who have decided to be women and vice versa.

Friday 24 November 2017

Confusion reigns

What was it for that Uber paid $100,000 to their hackers? Erasing stolen data doesn’t make much sense as how could they rely on hackers to do it and not take copies? Or do it after they had sold on copies? Cash for the hackers to keep quiet about how easy them found it to get in to the Uber system sounds credible. Pretending it was a security test arranged by Uber doesn’t.

More!

The US national anthem was played on a saxophone with flourishes in Detroit and then as a trumpet voluntary in Dallas for the initial Thanksgiving NFL matches. Which reminded us how much better anthems can be performed as an instrumental, especially in an era when excessive vocal twiddly bits by alleged stars is the norm.

Thursday 23 November 2017

Yes, you, mate!

How do you push J. Corbyn’s buttons? When he demands more cash for care for the elderly, accuse him of naked self-interest.

Watch out

Attention any British people thinking of celebrating the American Thanksgiving today: do so and you will be guilty of ‘cultural appropriation’ and the Hate Police will be round to rake you in whilst you’re still stuffing the turkey.

Wednesday 22 November 2017

SUBB (Screwed Up Beyond Belief)

Only in these weird times could a guy running a Corbynite outfit called ‘Stop Funding Hate’ be running hate campaigns against newspapers which fail to bow down to his party line. Maybe we could invoke the Trade Descriptions Act (Exceptional Circumstances) to make him change the name of his secret society to ‘Stop Funding Hate Unless I Sponsor It’.

Would you like some garlic with your tripe, sir?

The insinuation by the Bremoaners that Brexit is proceeding outwith the normal boundaries of ‘politics as usual’ is a sign of desperation. But, like all conspiracy theorists, they do have to maintain that something monstrous is going on. All we can do is tell them to relax, take a deep breath and get off their grassy knoll because the council wants to mow it.

Tuesday 21 November 2017

Nice thought, shame about the product

I can never remember what the advert is about but I don’t get fed up with listening to Fleetwood Mac playing “Don’t Stop”. Great tune, nice to sing along to, but I can’t make a connection to what it’s supposed to sell.

Fair trade

If we’re paying £40 Billion to the EU for access to their single market post Brexit, we should be telling them that’s on condition that they pay us £60 Billion for access to the British market.

Monday 20 November 2017

We know, we know

Watching Canadian Footfall head for the last hurrah yesterday, I started wondering why the commentators try to astound the listeners with revelations like one team’s head coach and the other’s defensive co-ordinator has the opposite roles the last time they met in a Grey Cup match. Given that the CFL is a small and incestuous pond, it’s just pointless noise and no one is impressed.

The Brexit hate campaign

We seem to have a remarkable number of quislings around, who are willing to pay any amount of British taxpayers’ cash to the EU and willing to come up with all sorts of spurious analogies involving things like booking a holiday and dining out at a restaurant to justify their demands. Not a word about what basis there is for the EU’s demands or guarantees that the money will be spent on something worthwhile (which is highly unlikely if the EU is involved; bribes and fraud losses and feeding Mr. Druncker’s habit are the norm there).
    One wonders what the quislings hope to get out of it; other than the satisfaction of seeing the British taxpayer being ripped off for cash, which would be far better spent here than meekly coughed up to the EU.

Sunday 19 November 2017

Clueless in Africa

One gets the distinct feeling that the army in Zimbabwe has no idea how to stage a coup. Given Mugabe’s generally zombified condition, any competent outfit would have polished him off and launched three days of national mourning for a departed hero before getting on with the job of installing the next appalling butcher.

Saturday 18 November 2017

Mug punters

There are tough times ahead for the next generation of snowflakes at the hands of the world’s fraudsters if 25% of 8 to 15-year-olds really do think that if something is listed by Gooble, it has to be genuine (rather than just listed by Gooble). Which explains why the current generation of snowflakes would rather be reassured by the recycled opinions of ‘experts’ of doubtful provenance than risk exploring something original and thought-provoking.

More wisdom

The bitterness of the Undeserving can be truly tragic at times. But maybe the Universe hates them a bit more than the rest of us. Especially Bremoaners.

Today’s Wisdom

Modesty, even when false, is to be applauded, even if with a one-handed clap. But let us remember that few can aspire to the level of modesty enjoyed by President Trump.

Friday 17 November 2017

Clean hands? Hardly

Racialist black people, and those trying to be their pals, keep accusing white people of living on the proceeds of slavery. They’re doing it again in Liverpool right now. Maybe it’s time to remind them that there wouldn’t have been a slave trade if black people like them hadn’t rounded up their fellow Africans and flogged them off to anyone with a bit of cash. Which means that every black person living in Africa is enjoying the benefits of the cash which came into their area’s economy and, therefore, profiting from slavery. No chance of an apology from them, though.

Welcome to Paradise

What do the leaked Paradise Papers really tell us? That it is terribly wrong to be caught in the act of doing nothing illegal. Well, it is in the eyes of envious socialists and their hypocritical buddies.

Thursday 16 November 2017

You cannot be serious

Don’t you just wish someone would say that they are taking a batch of “she said/he said” complaints frivolously? It would really put the world back into focus.

Nothing to see, move on

It’s not a coup in Zimbabwe; those tanks in the street are just there for a bit of fun. But if the country is about to swap one blood-soaked thieving tyrant for another, the people won’t be getting much of the fun.

Learning to lie

Can a university’s staff be trusted to be honest about the institution in self-promotional material? No, the Advertising Standards Agency has found.

Wednesday 15 November 2017

Whatever happened to Austerity and The Cuts?

Only in London: nursery school pupils are to get lessons in dressing up from drag queens, courtesy of the taxpayer. But if this is progressive, how come no cross-dressing females are included in the party? Discrimination!!!

Clear neglect of duty

How come the Church of England isn’t waging a campaign against Bet365? Why isn’t the Church complaining that betting on a Sunday is immoral and that the 365 should be reduced by 52 or 53 Sundays, as appropriate?

Moggy gets myth-mania

Would someone mention to Saint Rees-Mogg that no one promised £350 million/week to the NHS if the nation opted for Brexit? The message was always that some of this wasted cash could go to the NHS.
    The concept of £350M/week going to the NHS is just another of those silly myths created by people who just don’t get it. Like the one about Enoch Powell making a speech about rivers of blood. He didn’t. Being a Classical scholar, he quoted Virgil and the people reporting the speech were too thick to get it.

Tuesday 14 November 2017

“Who’s saying it?”

That’s a question which should be asked a lot more. Followed by: “What does this person know?” and “What’s his/her record for being right?” [Especially if it’s some alleged financial genius like G. Osborne or the Gov. of the BoE]
    If the answer to the primary question is “Some anonymous troll on the internet” or “a known enemy of the person being trolled”, then there’s no reason to go on to further questions, which would save a lot of time if the rule is applied ruthlessly enough. Although, the BBC might have to cope with lots of silences and newspapers would have to publish lots more ‘news’ stories about stars no one has heard of.

We’re really quite nice!

The new head of the Metropolitan Police, C. Dick, has launched a PR campaign with instructions to coppers to stop treating journalists as criminals. The campaign’s broad aim is to convince the public that the police are their friends – bumbling and terminally politically correct, but friends nonetheless.

Monday 13 November 2017

Does my halo look dim in this lighting?

Knowing that J. Corbyn is prepared to take £5K a pop for doing spots on an Iranian TV channel puts him in even more stringent perspective as another bought-and-paid-for mouthpiece, especially when one of our enemies is involved.

They’re French; of course they don’t get it

Why do French people say fu*k so much, even to the extent of having a weekly TV show called What The Fu*k France (yes, really)? The answer is simple. They’re French. They don’t know what the word means but it’s foreign and therefore clever to say. And as a nation, the French adore swearing and do it more often than any other nation in the EU.

They’re not people . . .

. . . they’re Iranians, North Koreans, Europeon stooges, global warming fraudsters, Bremoaners, Corbynist activists, Libertine Democraps, internet trolls, traffic wardens, council jobsworths, senior coppers, snowflakes, Islamist terrorists . . . feel free to join in.

Sunday 12 November 2017

Pull the other one!

According to a Did You Know in today’s Sunday Post:
    “85 million years ago, the Moon was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet surface.”
    Really? And were all those giant plant-feeding dinosaurs with long necks having to remember to duck when it came past?

To be clear, comrades . . .

Vlad, the Putin of all the Russias, would like it to be known that he is mortally offended by the thought that had he meddled in the last US presidential election to spare Americans the horrors of another Clinton presidency, he would have left any evidence with his fingerprints on it.

Nothing changes

The NHS was set up in 1948; despite fierce and sustained opposition by the medical profession, we must remember. A year later, the saintly Aneurin Bevan was worrying about how to stop foreigners from coming to Britain to steal items to which they were not entitled; medicines, wigs, etc.
    70 years on, there is still nothing being done about it.

Saturday 11 November 2017

In his master’s footsteps

David Cameron has backed up his resolution to be the heir to Blair by going down the same money-grubbing road; another big cash-in deal for him this week. Are we now supposed to admire him for being a man of his word?

Keep an eye on this one

Mrs. May has offered to pay £20 million to the EU to avoid leaving gaps in the current budget, which runs to 2021. Let us not forget that this budget includes EU spending in the UK, which could well dry up mysteriously in 2019 and 2020, while Britain is making transitional payments.
    Given that the people running the EU cannot produce a set of books which can satisfy an independent audit, and are therefore completely untrustworthy, we would do well to get any agreement with the EU written in blood and make our tribute in monthly payments, which can be stopped the moment the EU starts any of its usual funny business.

Friday 10 November 2017

Wrong direction

Oh, dear, the Green Police have got it all wrong. According to the European Commission, 50% of the particulate matter in the air is dust from tyres and brakes on road vehicles. Which means that cutting air pollution is not just a matter of going cosmetically and delusionally electric, it also requires cuts to the number of vehicles of all sorts on the roads.

No dice

Is it mitigation for allies of the sacked overseas aid minister P. Patel to claim that the F.O. leaked details of her private jollies with public figures in Israel? The words ‘own petard’ and ‘hoist’ spring to mind, coupled with the knowledge that the Westmonster village is a veritable information sieve, especially now, and nothing (well, hardly anything) remains unleaked.

Thursday 9 November 2017

Maxims for today

No. 182 : There is no smoke without fire – except on anti-social meeja.
No. 183 : the 2012 Lord Levison rule that “People will not assume that what they read on the internet is trustworthy” requires a 2017 extension: “unless the libel applies to one of their enemies, real or imagined”.

Brotherly hate

The fate of the Welsh Assembly member Carl Sergeant just confirms what we know to be true about Labour party justice; the instinct is always a brick through the window and a lynch mob rather than due process.

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Freedom from hurt feelings

The nation is agog, waiting for the first time that a British team will be withdrawn from a major event, such as the World Cup or an Olympic Games, so that snowflakes on the team won’t have their feelings hurt if they fail to win.

Stopppp

A guide dog charity is seeking to remove a hound from the clutches of a partially sighted pervert, who has been convicted of possessing indecent images of children. Presumably, the charity is worried that the dog is clever enough to help the paedophile to navigate Windows 10.

A bit off here, a bit on there

An all-male club is letting a member stay on the books, even though he has decided that he wants to be a woman, because: “he’s a terrific guy”. Which is a pretty effective way of telling him: “You’re not fooling anyone, bud!”

Tuesday 7 November 2017

Socialist envy

Other members of the HUTAgonian tendency include those who are ‘accusing’ people of tax avoidance. Accusations are charges brought against law-breakers and tax avoidance is legal. Which means that anyone making vexatious accusations is involved in a hate campaign – which is a criminal offence. But don’t expect the police to be arsed when it comes to doing anything about it.

What’s going on between the ears?

Do the world’s comic opera countries, e.g. Iran, ever listen to what they’re saying when they go on about one harmless individual trying to topple the regime? Or do they have their heads jammed so far up their own arses that they are effectively deaf and blind?

Monday 6 November 2017

Bearded-face lie by Corbyn

If someone with lots of money puts cash into an off-shore tax haven, that doesn’t create a tax deficit, which other people will have to fill – as the prime-minister-in-waiting would have us believe. If it is done legally, there is no impact on the government’s income as the Treasury has no expectation of receiving income from the money and, therefore, no deficit is created.

Scold’s Bridle for MeToo-ers

The Parliamentary Sex Mania Tsar will have to get to grips with nomenclature quickly to reduce the temperature of the current hysteria. For instance, ‘sugar tits’ has to be classed as a legitimate expression of affection between consenting adults while ‘twinkle tits’, especially if applied to a bloke, is always a term of derision; which may be entirely justified, according to the degree of appalling behaviour shown by the recipient.

Sunday 5 November 2017

No, don’t get it

What is the psychology behind using a bloke with an Indian accent to do TV ads for computer stuff? Given that most people associate that particular accent with the Indians who ring you up and pretend to be from “Windows Operating System” or BT and have a story about getting distress signals because your computer has trawled all sorts of nasties from the internet, and would you kindly fall for their scam?

“It’s simple, mate.”

“I have no idea why people who hold these views should want to be a member of the Labour party,” the chairman of the Parliamentary group said about people who make and publish violently anti-Jewish comments.
    The short answer is: “Because they are made welcome and because they feel right at home there.”

Saturday 4 November 2017

The usual multiple standards

There is to be a new code of conduct for Tory MPs. The other parties will continue to observe the Pants-Down/Prescott Code.

News? Really?

Is it really worth a slot on main news bulletins – the non-story that some hissy git who was on the way out blocked President Trump’s Twitter account for 11 minutes in the middle of the night, when no one noticed?

Corbyn Explained

The mistake everyone is making about Jeremy Corbyn is to treat him as a credible political figure rather than just Wolfie Smith’s (q.v.) grandfather. One you get him into the proper perspective, everything he does starts to make a sort of sense.

Better than UFOs

Here’s a wonderful conspiracy theory . . . Mrs. Leadballoon was trying to drum up support for a Tory leadership bid, because she thinks Theresa is making a bog of it and she’s the next Maggie Thatcher, but she became worried that the PM would sack her from the Cabinet. So she made herself into a Victim with some MeTooSlag sleaze against the Defence Secretary. [Him in particular because he had described her as a dud who needed to be sacked.]
    And it gets worse: If Mrs. May bought the Victim story, then she is clearly faulty of judgement and unfit to be the leader of a major political party and prime minister. And the Tories should pick someone better to lead them, like . . . the woman who thinks she’s the next Maggie Thatcher? And who has children and understands people.

Friday 3 November 2017

Power-seeking

J. Corbyn is being yah-boo’d for supporting Islamists at the expense of Israelists. But he’s just being a political pragmatist. There are more votes to be had from migrants from Islamic countries, who have no idea just how awful and incompetent Labour governments always turn out to be.

It gets worser!

The latest whinger is someone complaining about feeling powerless. Remind me, but when was being able to feel powerful [shades of Mandelsleaze!] make a ’uman bloody right?
    No danger of any of these characters producing recordings, CCTV, 14 independent witnesses, etc., to back up the whinges, of course.

Boo-bloody-hoo

That’s Commons leader A. Leadsom off the list of candidates for the next leader of the Tory party. Nobody wants a pathetic victim in that job, especially one who comes up with ‘she said he said’ stuff from six years back. It’s Leadsom the lead balloon now.

What are the odds?

The major bookmakers are said to be deliberating on whether to take bets on when the Bremoaners will decide that no one is going to give them another referendum (with the attendant risk that Brexiteers will demand a best of 3 if the Bremoaners win and the Bremoaners will demand best of 5 if they lose again).
    What to do about someone trying to back ‘never’ is proving to be a sticking point.

Thursday 2 November 2017

Pur-lease

Apparently, Berko, the Squeaker of the Commons, used to brag that he became a very popular target for improper advances from non-male persons when he first got the job. That would be the very short-sighted ones, of course.

There’s a couple of words for it

This could come only from the snoflakes: they’re refusing to wear Royal British Legion poppies because ‘they glorify war’. But then, the words remembrance and glorification are so close together that they are easily confused.

The award is in keeping with the sentiment?

‘Fake News’ is the Word of the Year for 2017, according to Collins, the dictionary company. [Personal interest note: I have quite a number of their excellent products.] How appropriate that this ‘word of the year’ is, in fact, two words.

Try harder

Retired Defence Sec. M. Fallon is in trouble for calling a non-male journalist ‘a shit’ three years ago? BFD! That’s way down among the tomato plants at the sewage factory and the MeTooSlag lobby is getting really desperate.

Wednesday 1 November 2017

Pot, Kettle, Brown

Gordon F. Brown, the man who got the idiots running LloydsTSB to take over bankrupt HBoS as a favour to him and jobs in Scotland, is telling us that the banksters who cause the financial crash on his watch should be gaoled. One law for them, another for their political accomplices?
    Like the accomplice who took all the teeth out of financial regulation for the banking industry and used the banks to help him spend the nation into bankruptcy. Let us not forget that Fred the Shred was one of Brown’s creatures.

Stock slump

The BBC and the Bank of England are still pushing Project Fear as hard as they can; to the point of deliberately misleading their audiences, in the case of the BBC. They are clearly worried about the share price of PF hitting zero and wiping out their HUGE investments of credibility.

Tuesday 31 October 2017

Snowflake Heaven

Sussex University has a free speech society; which is policed by a snowflake students’ union, which demands the right to vet advance copies of speeches on the topic of free speech so that they can issue warnings to any snowflakes who might be upset by being challenged by free speech. As Richard Littlejohn keeps on having to say: “You couldn’t make it up!”

Misconnected facts

The UN’s weather agency, the WMO, is telling us that the last time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were at the value they are now, sea levels were 20 metres higher than they are now. No danger of an explanation of why today’s sea levels are so low if carbon dioxide levels are dangerously high (according to the GWFs).

Politicians kill

Air pollution is being blamed for 40,000 premature deaths per year, and the dash-for-diesel by Labour in the Noughties in pursuit of the global warming fraudsters’ agenda is getting a major chunk of the blame.

Monday 30 October 2017

Wrong medium, half the message

“Don’t Read Everything You Believe” it said on the side of a bus. By the time I’d digested the mangled quotation, the bus was past me and I never got to the tag line. It was a cute idea frustrated by the execution, and I never did find out what it was advertising.

Well done, Lewis

It was more like a day out than a Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton in Mexico yesterday. Naturally, the Ferrari Intentional Assistance took no action against Vettel for driving into him and giving him a puncture which dropped him to the back of the field. But Hamilton won the driver’s championship anyway. Good!

Sunday 29 October 2017

What is the point?

Ex-president O’Bummer has been told that he will be required to report for jury duty in an area of Chicago, where he has one of his homes, in November. Which is clearly just a publicity stunt on the part of the judge who called him up. After all, what prosecutor or defence counsel in his right mind is likely to want such a huge distraction from their arguments on a jury?

How do you know he’s lying? His mouth is moving.

Jezzer Corbyn, the people’s champion, said his party will not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment. His nose promptly lengthened by 7.39 inches.

No, shame on you, comrade

These trade unionists are a blinkered bunch. In today’s Sunday Post, one from the boilermakers’ union is quoted as talking about “Scotland’s austerity shame after a decade of cuts to local government funding and . . . education budgets”.
    Not a hint of recognition that the austerity was due to the fiscal stupidity of Gordon Brown (Labour, Scottish) during 13 years of New Labour misrule – supported by the boilermakers and other trade unions, of course.
    If you’ve overspent recklessly and you’re deep in debt, austerity is inevitable. And the only shame belongs to the politicians and the trade unions who made the austerity happen.

Saturday 28 October 2017

Look in a mirror

The ‘entertainers’ on Radio Four’s The News Quiz did one of their knocking jobs on the concept of balance in broadcasting this week. How ironic that not a one of them spotted that they are part of the counterblast to sensible items and people who know what they’re talking about.

Mega-foot-dragging

The UK has a £3 BILLION stake in the Europeon Investment Bank. We are being told that it will be repaid in dribs and drabs over the next 37 years and the account will not be settled in full until 2054. But this is not punishment for Brexit.
    If that is true, I would hate to see what the bastards come up with if they decide to be vindictive.

Friday 27 October 2017

GWS with the hump

Is anyone surprised that the BBC had to offer a grovelling apology after affording the right of freedom of expression to Lord Lawson in defiance of the Hutagonian convention on the not-so-great global warming swindle? Thought not.

Time Warp(ed)

A lady in Cornwall thinks the BBC's shock-horror executions in the Gunpowder Plot play were justified because “executions were family entertainment 400 years ago”. Maybe someone should mention that times have changed a bit since 1605. But maybe not in Cornwall?

Pick of the moment

One minute, we’re being invited to believe that President Trump is as thick as three short planks. The next, we’re being told that he’s at the heart of a vast international conspiracy. It’s wonderful. Can’t wait for the book, the films and the TV series, which should run and run now that the steam has gone out of UFOs.

Mental not physical

Here’s another reason to back Brexit: the Euro Court of Justice has ruled that bridge is not a sport, to the chagrin of the English Bridge Union, which wanted to be let off VAT on tournaments.
    HMRC, in contrast, got the result it wanted, but there may be a bump on the road if bridge can be classified as a VAT-free cultural service.

Thursday 26 October 2017

Propaganda which won’t stand up to scrutiny

The Tory MP who asked universities what they are teaching about Brexit seems to have touched off a firestorm of left-wing shame and guilt. Why else would they have accused C. Heaton-Harris of McCarthyism? Clearly, the outraged academics are wriggling furiously in an attempt to prevent light from being shone into their black hole.
    What are the sneaky sods hiding? And have they stopped beating their spouses?

No heart attacks here

Hillary Clinton tried to sleaze Donald Trump during the presidential election campaign using a fake-news dossier compiled by a guy who used to work for MI-6. Not a piece of news calculated to make anyone fall over in amazement.

Fake amazement

Why should anyone be surprised that MPs will be voting on the Brexit deal, if there is one, after the UK has exited from the EU in March 2019? That’s the way the EU operates. It’s never possible to get that many states to agree on anything until after the deadline has passed because there are always two or three hold-outs/awkward sods who want more for themselves. Never has been, never will be.
    Getting the EU to agree on anything is like trying to get 27 rats in a sack to agree on a common lunch menu to get a quantity discount.

We need a new name for them

We used to have universities, which were centres of learning and inquiry. Now, they have been reduced to monoversities with one view – one permitted view – on everything.
    Global warming is going on at a dangerous rate and it is (entirely implied) man-made; Brexit is a disaster; politics must be left-wing with everyone taking a contrary view excluded/evicted; and students need ‘distress warnings’ about obvious facts of life. Purpose, fit for, not spring to mind.
    No doubt Bremoaners will deny that the £1.2 billion which universities receive from the EU; with all the attendant obligations to pretend that the EU is the best thing since the invention of the bread slicer; has anything to do with their attitude.

A place for everyone

The experts at Plymouth university have decided that psychopaths are essential to the human race as only a person devoid of empathy can take tough but necessary decisions, like choosing to shoot down an airliner before terrorists can crash it into a tall building.

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Unequal under the law

On the same theme, Labour MP J. O’Mara, who did the nation the favour of evicting N. Clegg at the last election, thinks he shouldn’t have to resign for making sexist and racialist remarks 15 years ago because that rule applies only to Tories.

Update

Further to the story about the Tory MP who’s also a referee (Oct 22): it seems that Labour MP L. Pidcock was on holiday in Venice instead of attending her party’s vitally important session on Universal Credit. No censure for her, of course, especially as she went on anti-social meeja to create the impression that she was in London on that day.

Bankster to be banged up?

GOOD NEWS: a former HSBC bankster has been convicted of currency fraud in the US and faces up to 20 years in gaol. M. Johnson is now 51. By the time he comes out, the pension age should have reached 71, so he'll be okay for income. Alternatively, he might do a deal to rat on other banksters and go into Witness Protection.

There’s still a lot of fat around

Despite “The Cuts”, local councils are still managing to pay their employees over the odds for using a car at work; anything up to 50% more than the mileage rate approved by HMRC. No wonder they’re ripping off motorists for every possible penny for parking charges, straying into undefined bus lanes, etc.

Tuesday 24 October 2017

Peak car condition achieved

The reason for the decline in car sales has been revealed by the motor trade. It’s nothing to do with Brexit or ‘pay to pollute’ scams. The simple fact is that everyone who wants one now has a car and there’s no need to build lots more.

More bad news for Snowflakes

Some universities have decided that they really need to warn trainee doctors that they might be upset by being confronted with dead bodies and talk of people dying.

If anyone deserves to be told to F.O. . . .

Some FO stooge is lobbying the UN to ban the term “pregnant women” in favour of “pregnant people”. Which kind of ignores that it’s a biological fact that only female humans become pregnant (apart from the odd hermaphrodite mutant?)

Monday 23 October 2017

Weasel words warning

When you hear an earnest voice on a TV advert saying something like: “especially with living costs going up”, it’s time to duck because living costs never do anything other than go up, which means that the soothing voice probably has a pig in a poke to unload.

The obvious solution

If the Spanish PM wants to “restore some order” in Catalonia, why doesn’t he just send for QuickQuid?

Pragmatic and practical

At least one government minister knows what has to be done with British citizens who join terrorist groups abroad – kill them all in the interests of public safety.
    We can only hope that they use something a bit cheaper than £75K-a-pop missiles to take out the traitors.

Two and out

The WHO has sacked Saint Mug, the president-for-life of Zimbabwe, from his goodwill ambassador job after a couple of days. Insiders are hinting that he didn’t come through with a big enough bung.

Sunday 22 October 2017

SNAFW (that’s W for whinge)

An SNP gobsworth is complaining that the Scottish Tory MP who’s also a football referee is ‘treating his constituents with utter contempt’ after he skived off a cosmetic Labour session on welfare reform in the Commons to do a match in Spain. But if there’s any contempt around, it has to be reserved for the gobsworth hacks and their confected outrage.
    The SNP guy thinks the Tory should give up his reffing, but if he did, that would mean that the entire Scottish team of refs would be out of the World Cup in Russia next year because the rule is that if it’s one out of the team, then it’s all out. But if that happened, the SNP guy would get another whinge opportunity. So he’s probably all for it.

Yet another survey

Ever wondered why some high streets are wall-to-wall coffee joints? The industry would have us believe that everybody in the UK spends £45,000 over a lifetime buying plastic containers of coffee, and it believes in shoving lots of temptation in the potential customer’s path. Spare a thought for the poor sod who’s having to spend £90K to make up for my non-participation in the racket.

Ill-mannered loutism endorsed

An ‘expert’ has decided that standing is good for old people and it is therefore okay for youngsters to hog seats on public transport, like that do.

Technology too far

A Virgin Media Tivo box is a bloody menace. I turned my back on it for a minute during an advert break and it changed channels to something I had no intention of watching! Worse, I saw two red lights at the right-hand side, which turned out to be the box recording two programmes in which I had no interest at all.

Saturday 21 October 2017

Persecution!!

The luvvie tendency is going big with faux indignation about the story that it costs 55p/minute to phone the Universal Credit helpline. This is nothing to do with the government, of course, and all to do with rip-off charges by mobile phone companies. But then, luvvies feel they shouldn’t be constrained by boring facts and the truth.

The larger the organization, the more out-of-touch it becomes

The management of the WHO has been declared insane after appointing Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. The new head of the WHO is full of praise for the state of health care in Zimbabwe; but he’s from Ethiopia.
    Had he consulted people who actually live in Zimbabwe, he would have been told that Mug has trashed the health system there and he always zooms off to Singapore when he needs medical treatment.

The default is a swindle

I had a Virgin Money bond, which matured. The alternatives on offer were accounts paying derisory amounts of interest or an account paying 0.1% (at a time when inflation is running at 3%) as the default. Not exactly calculated to prolong customer loyalty, which explains why the cash came out of Mr. Virgin’s coffers pronto.

Friday 20 October 2017

Not ‘me too’, just ‘me’

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that the genius who came up with the idea of intergenerational inequality had just seen the film version of Logan’s Run. (rather than read the book, of course) Because that’s the direction the snowflakes and those pandering to them seem to be taking.

Just trying to dilute the HUTAgonian somewhat

I’ve been asked, “Xav, why bother?” Well, we are constantly bombarded with dodgy conclusions drawn from dodgy data, especially in the world of politics, and some of us civilians like to join in to let the professionals know that anyone can do it and we ain’t impressed.

The new luvvie pecking order

One gets the impression that all the world’s celebs; male, female and don’t know alike; have now been bunged into 3 categories:
(a) were harassed, (b) said “No!” and (c) always have been totally unshaggable. And that everyone in cat (c) is busting a gut to be promoted to cat (b) at least.

What do MPs do all day?

Some of them spend an hour in the bath, making themselves all soggy and wrinkly, before wasting their time and taxpayers’ money on the proceedings of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness. There can’t be much wrong with the world if that’s all they have to do with themselves.

Thursday 19 October 2017

One-sided outrage

As another institution removes the name of a patron who was involved in the slave trade in a cloud of confected indignation, let us demand some proportionality. Why is the outrage never directed at the Africans, who rounded up and sold their fellow countrymen (and women and children) and flogged off their bodies to anyone with the asking price? Probably because pandering to the imagined grievances of current generations of racialist minorities is mandatory in luvvie circles.

It makes as much sense as any of the others

Conspiracy theorists are suggesting that the current Weinstein Obsession, which some are seeking to broaden from the entire film industry to the music industry as well, is being fomented by the Burmese government to push attention away from the ethnic cleansing, which is being performed by the Burmese army in the area bordering Bangladesh.

Don’t kno nuffink generation

You have to wonder what sort of people universities are letting in these days if Cambridge has to issue Snowflake Distress Warnings to new recruits to tell them that course material based on the works of Wm. Shackspere and other playwrights could contain sex and violence, which will distress them. If they’re bright enuf to go to Oxbridge, you’d expect them to know stuff like that.

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Semantics, dear boy!

Firms which offer a “made to order” pizza feel entitled to take one out of the freezer and defrost it but still deliver the slogan. How come?
    Because the industry allows a product made in response to an order to be called “freshly prepared”. Even if the “order” is a hypothetical one, which someone might just make sometime in the future, and the firm assembles and freezes the pizza in anticipation of that future order.
    ● Customers are advised not to believe “hand-made”, “fresh”, “home-cooked” and similar cute claims.

As you sow, you reap

It’s all very well for sometime quarterback C. Kraepernic to file a grievance against the NFL’s team owners but no one owes him a job and they are entitled to look beyond a player’s stats to who he is. If they think he’s likely to be a huge distraction from the club’s march toward the Super Bowl with his me-me-me agenda, they are entitled to make individual decisions not to have anything to do with him.

Tuesday 17 October 2017

New Deal

Austria has chosen a teenage president, who wants to stop economic migration and creeping Islamism, cut taxes, give everyone a good minimum wage and kick the EU out of his country’s business. Sounds like he’ll be a big hit.

And equality for all

Two holiday food-poisoning scammers are caught and sent to gaol. The bloke gets 15 months. Does his partner-in-crime get the same? No, she’s going down only for 9 months, which will probably work out as that many weeks in practice. So much for fairness and everyone being equal under the law.

No discrimination here!

Here’s a good one, which someone pointed out to me on antisocial meeja:
Dear Landsend.co.uk,
    I received a mailing addressed to MR [name redacted], which would indicate that you know that I am a bloke. But inside, I found a leaflet with offers for female clothing.
    Was this a not-very-clever attempt at humour? Or were you just taking the mickey? Neither of the above is likely to build up a high degree of consumer enthusiasm.
    Yours, [name redacted] (Mr.)

Monday 16 October 2017

Open Season

The message now seems to be that you’re no one in the movie biz if Harvey Weinstein didn’t make a move on you. The smart ones are saying that they fought him off and no, they’re not making it up for PR purposes; knowing no one is going to call them a liar for fear of being trolled.
    Worse, everyone who turned out to be a flop, or has a floppy relative, is blaming Mr. Weinstein for wrecking the relevant career.

Nice, but pointless day out

Hundreds of people gathered in Edinburgh on the 2nd Saturday of the month to protest against Brexit @ a Bremoaner rally.
    Hundreds of thousands of people boycotted the event.

BFD

Are we impressed by 57-year-old Nigella announcing that she has only just found out how to poach an egg? Maybe she should have consulted my mother, who can turn them out three at a time from her egg-poacher pan, which has been around for decades.

Sunday 15 October 2017

Well-meaning if futile

In Switzerland, public toilets are illuminated with blue lights so that drug addicts can’t find their veins. Which seems to assume that everyone in need of a fix is too dim to pack a torch in their kit or take along a miner’s helmet.

Saturday 14 October 2017

We’ll let you know, mate

Looks like the Europeon Commission president, J-C-Drunker, has engaged a new scriptwriter in an attempt to appear a bit more human. This is evident from his latest offering, in which he thanked Britain for winning World War 2 and saving the world – and then went on to renew his demand for €100 billion as a divorce bill settlement. The spirit of Monty Python lives on!
    Despite the welcome addition of a few jokes, his speech was viewed widely as ‘as unhelpful as usual’, suggesting that M. Druncker’s focus remains as blurry as ever and he rambled off piste during the delivery.

Telling it like it is

According to a BBC lunchtime comic, joining the EU is like joining a snooker club. Strange that he didn’t go on to add: ‘But after you’ve been in it for a few years, they tell you that playing snooker is now the last thing they want to do. And they look surprised when you leave.’

Say cheese!

These ‘experts’! They come at you from all angles. A study for a firm which makes shoes has found that on average, adults smile 11 times per day; and mean it 9 of the 11 times. Surprisingly, things that make people feel good are most likely to promote smiles.
    70% of those surveyed said that grinning at other people made them feel happy. No information was released on how the recipients of the unsolicited grins felt, however.

Friday 13 October 2017

Another stick to beat Corbyn with

Following the announcement that the CIA took out British Islamist terrorist S. Jones with a drone back in June, our Man of Opposition refused to say whether he would order a similar mission against another of the country’s enemies if he were PM. Probably because he didn’t want to say out loud that any enemy of the Tories is a friend of his. Not very fair, but fair is what politics isn’t, and no one is holding a gun to Jezzer’s head.

Thursday 12 October 2017

There’s always a way

Venezuela, the spiritual home of PM wannabe J. Corbyn, has run out of the materials for creating new passports. Paper and printing ink have joined food and medicines on the list of things which are unobtainable unless you’re a member of the regime.
    But these commies are nothing if not tricky, and the president has recycled an old wine list as an emergency degree extending the life of existing passports by two years.

Dwelling on divorce

According to the Centre for Europeon Policy Studies, the EU has assets of €160 billion and liabilities of €232 billion. The EU is therefore in the red to the tune of €72 billion. As the UK is contributing 14% of the EU budget, the maximum divorce payment that can reasonably be expected is 14% of the deficit, i.e.  €10 billion rather than the €100 billion which the EU is demanding.
    An even fairer settlement would be 1/28th of the deficit, i.e. €2.6 billion.

Life’s mysteries

How does Weinstein become “winesteen” rather than “wheenstine”? Especially if the spelling indicates “winestine”. Or “wheensteen” if you want to be perverse.

Something else the ‘experts’ got wrong

The news wings of BBC and Channel 4, all sorts of MP rent-a-gobs, ditto academics and, of course, the Eurocrats scoffed at the idea of people flocking from East Europe to the UK when their transitional limitation period ran out in 2014. Even though this is exactly what happened when New Labour opened our borders to spite the Tories a decade earlier.
    The last count of Romanians and Bulgarians here came to over 400,000, most of them Romanians. And people wonder why there’s a housing shortage and schools are bulging.

Who exactly is doing the exploiting?

We seem to be seeing a “Real People for Weinstein” movement developing in response to all the anguish by luvvies, who prostituted themselves for some reflected glory, and who are now claiming they didn’t do it for the money and the meeja attention.

Ultimatum, Schmultimatum

The Spanish government has given the Catalan president until next Monday to reveal whether he actually signed the Declaration of Independence in his Ignore Tray. Or what? The tanks go in and bombs start to fall on Tuesday?

Wednesday 11 October 2017

Yes, but not now

Catalonia has declared independence from Spain but the signed declaration has been filed in the regional president’s Ignore Tray rather than his Action Tray. The region’s departure would drop the same sort of financial bombshell on the regime in Madrid as Brexit will drop on the vultures in Brussels. Which explains why the Spanish government is reviving the worst of the nastiness from the country’s experiences under anarchism, communism and fascism.

Selective-opportunities employer

On the other hand, if you’re white, male and normal, don’t try getting a job with British Transport Police, which has no vacancies for this category of employee due to an obsession with diversity at the expense of competence.

Equal-opportunities employer

If you’re an honest terrorist and you fancy a public sector job, try the council for Southwark in London. They don’t bother to check their job application forms for such details as declared criminal offences.

Tuesday 10 October 2017

Copy-catting is okay

In America, they have a POTUS - President Of The United States. After Brexit, we should have a POTLUK – Prime-minister Of The Liberated Untied Kingdom.

Experts at it again

Alleged traffic experts say that the traffic scheme which got 10 people injured in Kensington & Chelsea is intended to make drivers proceed more slowly and cautiously and show greater consideration for the pedestrians milling about among them. Whoever came up with that notion seems ideally qualified to take over the Wiltshire police farce!

Fiction factory

The Wiltshire police farce’s list of ‘credible’ accusations against the late Sir Edward Heath includes one from a man who is known to be a habitual liar and a paedophile serial sex offender, and someone known to confess to murders in his spare time. No doubt he felt right at home with the fantasists in charge of policing in Wiltshire.
    M. Veale, the chief constable, seems to be doing his best to talk up his delusions of an Establishment cover-up and turn it in to a conspiracy on the level of all the cover-ups of UFO sightings by officialdom. Sounds like he needs to be sacked for wasting police time and resources, and told to do his fantasizing on is own time and at his own expense.

Hype expiring

The case of the Uber taxi driver who crashed in to 10 pedestrians has been downgraded from terrorism to what looks like a case of an accident arranged to happen by Kensington & Chelsea council.
    The incident took place in an area designed to make vehicles and pedestrians share the same space with no kerbs or markings to separate them.

Pointless pensioners

The ‘experts’ would have us believe that there is no biological reason for humans to have evolved to live past 50 or so, and especially not for females to live past breeding age. Which invites either the conclusion that the reason is not biological or that the experts are too dim to spot it.

Monday 9 October 2017

At least there will be someone doing the work

Chief constables are hoping to build up their small army of unpaid volunteers to help out in back-room jobs. The police union is muttering about the perils of enthusiastic amateurs doing jobs once tackled by “highly trained professionals”, but it is a way of getting around the Spanish practices and letting people with time on their hands make a contribution.

Political stupidity

There’s not much point in having a census if it doesn’t collect basic information such as the sex of the customer. If ticking the boxes is optional, all the census becomes is just make-work for the people employed by the census industry, which is outwith government control, like the Bank of England, and the statistics manufacturing industry. Pandering to tiny minorities at the expense of doing a proper job also renders census data worthless to future generations of historians.

Sunday 8 October 2017

A whiff of honesty

Ofcom is giving new rules to broadband providers. In future, they will have to bin their 'up to' garbage and reveal actual peak-time speeds. They will also have to guarantee a minimum speed, which could become the basis of contract-busting or even compensation claims.

The stoopidest advert ever made?

That one with the little robot with the cartoon Arnold Schwarzenberger head going, "Do it now!" has to be the No. 1 contender for the biscuit.

Saturday 7 October 2017

Accessories of questionable legitimacy

There is no excuse for the bump stock. Anyone using a gun to shoot cuddly critters or targets has no need of more than one bullet per pull of the trigger. Anything else is frivolous recreation of the sort practised by militia in the Middle East, which should be discouraged in allegedly civilized countries.
    Silencers, or more correctly sound suppressors, do have more legitimacy in that they prevent damage to the hearing. Telling shooters that they need to wear ear-defenders is all very well, but it does nothing for anyone standing nearby, who might have a profound religious bias against ear-goggles. Don’t laugh, someone will claim this.

The less they know, the more they wiggle

The Vegas mass murderer may have had an accomplice and an escape plan, the cops are saying. There’s nothing like being clueless to fuel the imagination.
    The FBI has found 2 dents, which look like bullet strikes, on some giant jet fuel tanks some 300 yards from the concert venue. Paddock may have loosed off a couple of rounds in that direction, or not, but he seems to be getting the credit for it.
    And there’s a mystery woman, who was seen with Stephen Paddock. Or a woman who happened to be in the same CCTV shot and completely unconnected with him.
    Paddock may also have had an accomplice, who lumbered the guns and ammo to his hotel suite. Or he may just have had lots of luggage and let the hotel staff hump it.
    Knowing so little for sure, the cops have admitted that they are taking their lack of solid information as a licence to speculate wildly. This is one which will run and run.

Which is it?

There are differences of opinion on the logic behind our new plastic banknotes. Are they meant to be user-friendly to Millennial snowflakes, because they feel like bank cards and pocket-phones? Or are they intended to make people give up cash in favour of electronic transactions because banknotes feel cheap and plasticy and worthless?

Friday 6 October 2017

Multilingual cloth-ears

Whilst watching TV: “What was that he just said: ‘damn cochon’ or ‘danke schon’?”

Murkier and murkier

We are now being given to believe that the Wiltshire police farce nobly resisted opportunities to have Sir Edward Heath labelled a Satanist. Presumably, because the chief constable thought that adding Satanism to an already ludicrous charge list would confirm to everyone that the police were just extracting the urine. And, of course, giving aid and comfort to even more people with spurious compensation claims.

For the good of the party?

Or is it for the good of the wallet? The gang of ‘rebels’ lining up to try to get rid of Mrs. May seems to comprise Cameroonies who were ditched, and who seem to be trying to get someone friendlier to them in to Downing Street – someone more likely to give them a well-paid job with lots of lovely expenses and perks, that is.

Thursday 5 October 2017

Begone!

Supporters of the Conservative party are calling for the sack for all MPs who called for Foreign Sec. Boris Johnson to be sacked over his dead bodies in Libya comment. Such people, the Tory grassroots feel, are humourless robots who are unfit to represent a great party of real people.

Expensive failure

The Wiltshire police are doing a desperate PR job to make their attempt to pin child abuse charges on the former PM Sir Edward Heath look like proper police work. But as they made it clear from the outset that “guilty” was the only verdict they were looking for, and spending millions of pounds on trawling yielded just a crop of fantasists, it’s not going to wash. They’re not fit for purpose and everyone involved should be sacked.

More choice, please!

There is a move afoot to make organ donation the default, which means that people will have to opt out – rather in, as at present. In that case, it would be an excellent idea to provide a tick-box for “Please DO NOT harvest my organs whilst I am still mobile, aware and compos mentis” in case a future fascist leftie government extends its concept of everyTHING being the property of the state to everyBODY.
    This is something which could happen later in the century, when the Blessed and Eternal Leader Jezzer the Corbyn the Magnificent is in need of his umpteenth full-body transplant to keep him going.

So what?

Party conferences: do they really matter? Does anyone remember what happened at any of them last year? Or the year before? Or the year before that?

Harmless host

In case anyone is wondering how Spain would treat Gibraltarians if the Spanish were allowed access to the Rock, just take a quick keek at what happened in Catalonia.

Wednesday 4 October 2017

That’s one way to bend the rules

One of the women-only colleges at Cambridge university is to end its discrimination against 50% of the population by admitting men. But only if they pretend to be women.

Way to go, Moggy!

Jacob Rees-Mogg seems to have found a devastating weapon to use against Corbynasty fanatics. He’s polite to them and treats them as if they could be something resembling a decent human being, which baffles the hell out of them because they don’t have a strategy for someone who doesn’t start screaming and trying to start a punch-up when confronted by an opponent.

We know, we know, already!

Is anyone in any doubt that Boris Johnson published an “unauthorized” 4,000 word essay on Brexit? Something you’d expect from an experienced newspaper journalist. Or that, as Foreign Secretary and the champion of Brexit, he painted some red lines just before the Tory conference?
    In the light of the above, we don’t really need to be reminded of it by lazy journalists with space to fill.

Tuesday 3 October 2017

There must be a good reason

It’s all very well for Democraps to moan at President Trump about gun control, but why didn’t their guy, Obama, get guns out of private hands during his 8 years in the White House? Clearly, gun control wasn’t anything the Democraps were bothered about when they were in charge.

Put the blame where it belongs

By Labour rules, the blame for the mass murder in Las Vegas has to fall on J. Corbyn. If Labour can blame the Tories for the Grenfell Tower fire, even though the cladding was there because of Labour and EU policies and the blaze was started by a foreigner’s dodgy fridge, then it is only fair and reasonable to blame Corbyn for what happened in Las Vegas.

Ads Forever

Aren’t some firms real cheapskates? How old is that kid, who has been wanting to make a spaceship out of the Fairly Liquid bottle for . . . decades, is it? A teenager? A snowflake student? Time for something new and different.

A new victim card

Royal Mail staff are getting ready to vote on whether to strike over pay and conditions. One of their problems is with the Royal Mail’s policy of ensuring that staff work all the hours for which they are paid. Which discriminates against skivers, presumably.

Monday 2 October 2017

Spain turns Corbynasty

What do you get when the Catalans hold a meaningless independence vote and thumb their collective noses at the Spanish government? Police brutality on a hysterical scale and the Spanish government in the dog house for totalitarian tactics worthy of the Corby Cult’s trolls.

Explanation needed

If Labour manages to abolish capitalism, what then? If there is no wealth generation going on at the level need to sustain the economy for a population the size of ours, we need to know how Labour will get the money to pay a vast army of public sector clients and service their generous pensions.
    Borrowing will work only until potential lenders realize that they have no chance of getting their capital back, or payment of the junk-bond interest rates, which Labour will be forced to offer.
    Hint to J. Corbyn: no one believes in your magic money forest.

Sunday 1 October 2017

There’s nowt as annoying as tourists

The latest craze for Chinese and Japanese tourists is to take selfies with the remains of Grenfell Tower in the background. The locals are up in arms but they are bound to be fighting a losing battle with the forces of history. Grenfell Tower is the new Colosseum for some.

Well, that was a bit of a laugh

Talk about driving the wheels off the bloody car!!! It was Vettel’s fault that his Ferrari became a Reliant Robin on the slow-down lap of the last Malaysian Grand Prix for a while, so the stewards just looked blank and pretended it never happened.

U kip if you want to, we’re still here!

UKIP has a new Farage. He's ex-army, a holder of the OBE for services to international security and he used to work for the F.O. in Brussels. His tipple of choice has yet to be placed prominently on the record.

There’s another investment opportunity gone

The bottom is dropping out of the classic car market as the skilled mechanic becomes extinct. The current generation of car fixers can’t do anything if there’s nowhere for them to plug in a computer to do a diagnostic. They just don’t know how to strip down a vehicle and spot faults.

Here’s a new one

It seems there is a cloth-eyes equivalent of cloth-ears. How else would you describe someone who misreads an on-screen caption about the CFL team the Montreal Alouettes and asks: “Is that an Arab team, the Al Quettes?”

Saturday 30 September 2017

Cycles of despair

The Labour party’s strategy in power, as outlined at the party conference, seems to be to tank the economy and debase the currency, borrow vast amounts of money (from whom?) and hope to steal enough from the public purse to tide themselves over until the next Tory government has repaired the economy and the electorate has become stoopid enough to give Labour yet another chance to wreck things again. It relies on that saying about no one ever learning from history being true; which is exactly what the evidence of the past suggests.

Free language lesson

What is the real meaning of Gleichschaltung, a Nazi term revived by the Corbynites? The dictionary definition is co-ordination, unification. In a European context, this translates as harmonization – the crushing of individual national identities down to a grey Europeon sludge. In a lefty luvvie context, the translation would be diversity – every opinion has equal value, no matter how nutty, obscene or extreme.

All we need to say . . .

“We will pay whatever we are legally obligated to pay according to the terms of the EU treaties to which we are signatories.” There’s no need to say more to the EU’s gang of foot-draggers.

Yep, compared to you, mate . . .

A looney left MP has come up with a new term for the Conservatives: neo-liberals. Which makes its own sense. Anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the fascist, BIG state, robber baron policies embraced by the Corbynites has to look like a hopelessly wet liberal.

Friday 29 September 2017

Standard response

The police shoot a guy who was driving around waving a gun for an hour or so. It happened near Bristol so will there be riots by the criminal community there this weekend?

Decisive Action

If the Eurofokkers are not prepared to start talks on a post-Brexit trade deal then our team should just leave them a note inviting them to send us an email when they are ready – and go home.

It’s cloth ears again

I’m sure I heard the newsreader say Metabolic Police (rather than Metropolitan), which sounds like something that could exist. If obesity is such a crime against the nation’s wealth – reinforced gear in hospitals and other strains on the NHS – maybe we should have a special squad dashing round like the Sweeney used to in the good old days of Inspector Regan and George Carter, busting bulging bad guys.

Right idea, wrong approach

‘We must sell capitalism to the under-40s says Theresa’ read the headline in today’s Daily Mail. But what needs to be sold is self-sufficiency, managing on your own resources and enjoying what you have instead of moaning because someone else has been clever enough, or lucky enough, to have more than you. And what needs to be torpedoed is the Labour promise of a magic money forest and everyone getting a free ride on the backs of ‘the rich’.

Labour turns its back on grown-up politics

The keynote speech by the party leader at their conference revealed that he has ditched adult attitudes to running the country. Given that Ho Chi Corbyn doesn’t really have a magic money forest on offer, all he can do is promise a return to the failed politics of the 1970s at the hands of politicians without a scrap of decency, honesty or national pride in their bodies.
    This explains why he is now so keen to keep Britain in the EU. If he gets his way, everyone with any portable cash will leave, the country will stagnate and become a Venezuela clone and Britain will join of other pauper nations in the queue for hand-outs from the German taxpayer.

Thursday 28 September 2017

They’re calling anything a uni, these days

The decision by the powers that be at Bath Spa University to 86 a piece of politically incorrect research suggests that their brains have been cooked for too long in the steam room.

No family pride

Anyone else surprised that Mrs. Merkel lets her daughter, Megan, be seen out in public with a royal prince wearing jeans which are fit only for the dustbin? Still, if the most powerful woman in Germany isn’t bothered by not having a majority in her nation’s parliament, I suppose she’s hardly going to be bothered about tatty trousers.

Wednesday 27 September 2017

Don’t buy a car just yet

Women are to be allowed to drive vehicles in Saudi Arabia. By the middle of next year. Maybe.

Alien invasion theory?

“Conservatives are not human beings,” one of the Corby luvvies claimed at the party conference. “And your proof of that is, love?” Silence.

Buy your dollars now!

Should Labour’s plan to strike, strike, strike to bring the country to its knees and oust the Tories succeed, then we will be in a whole lot of trouble. J. McDonnell, Labour’s comic opera shadow chancellor, has dared to reveal that he expects the pound to nose-dive in value and investment in business to collapse if there is a Labour government.
    This scenario could make it a tad difficult for Labour to borrow the trillion-plus pounds, which McDonnell will need to meet his nationalization and giveaway promises. But hey! Making deals your ass can’t cash is the Labour way.

Look at me! Look at me

Contemptible K. Livingstone has an interesting slant on the anti-semitism, which is rife in the Labour party under the blessed leader J. Corbyn. He thinks that when people make offensive comments, it does not mean that they hate Jews.
    No, it just means that they’re trying to get themselves noticed. Right?
    The Labour party’s formal approach seems to be that if Islam’s hate preachers are tolerated, or even allowed to flourish, so should theirs.

Tuesday 26 September 2017

Labour to go Tory?

J. McDonnell, Corbyn’s repellent shadow chancellor, is violently opposed to the Tory idea (allegedly) that it is normal and acceptable for people to be saddled with debt. But according to the beastly Balsoverite, D. Skinhead, Labour is gonna borrow, borrow, borrow if Corby ever makes it to the White House.
    Doublethink is NOT dead!

Silly Season on Steroids

North Korea is so desperate to be noticed that the regime is claiming that President Trump has declared war on them. (no, he hasn’t)
    The BBC is trying to pretend that it isn’t rabidly left-wing by claiming that its Jewish staff are being harassed by Labour’s nazis at their party conference.
    Tony B. Liar is claiming that the public think he was right to start a war in Iraq on a lie. (no, they don’t)
    Wot next?

Monday 25 September 2017

‘Pro’ almost always heralds a swindle

According to the rivals for the leadership of Scottish Labour (now that inconvenient woman has been torpedoed), Council Tax is not a progressive tax. Translation: their supporters are having to pay a share and the Labour leaders would like to redo the tax so that people likely to vote for them get a free ride.

Be sure your sins will be outed

It comes as no surprised that the inept current Chancellor, P. Hammond, was offering to help Boris Johnson to ditch Mrs. May right after the general election in June, even if Hammond makes no secret of thinking that Boris is a disaster area. (Takes one to know one?)
    Hammond is the very model of a fickle politician, who thinks he’s the bee’s knees and if you don’t like his principles, like Groucho Marx, he has plenty more on offer if they'll keep him in a job.

The next big thing?

Across the pond, and at Wembley, the American football players who refuse to stand during the ritual playing of their country's national anthem have latched on to the trend of inappropriate exhibitionism. The urge to yell “Look at me!” can be irresistible in all circumstances.

Deutschland über Alles

That’s the message from the AfD party in Germany. The weekend’s election result can be seen as a long overdue response to the default attitude of the fascist left, including our own dear lefties, of putting their own country’s interests last.
    On the same day, we heard Labour's Brexit person saying that Labour will be working in the national interest instead of just for the party’s advantage, as it usually does. That’ll be the day.

Don’t let the door hit your bum on the way out, mate

A British actor called Colin Frith has thrown a Brexit hissy fit by becoming an Italian citizen courtesy of his Italian wife. No sign of him quitting London to live in Italy, though.

Awful thing happens to dear friend

Oh, no! The Sunday Post has designer disease; lots of white space on the pages, bleached out pale grey page numbers and the all important text reduced to a grey smudge of tiny type this week. Stand by for a drop in circulation, chaps, as your readers decide to buy something readable instead, if you’re not prepared to let bigger type eat in to all that white space.

Look at me! Look at me!

Whilst President Trump is in a glaring match with the North Koreans, Iran has decided to stir the pot with a missile test. The current incarnation of Iran’s Eternal Leader, the Ayatollah Bunchofcommies, insists that the missle is just a deterrent, not something anyone expects actually to use. So that’s okay, then.

Saturday 23 September 2017

Not what we wanted to hear

Mrs. May tells the EU in Florence: “I want you to walk all over us, like you usually do. And with my blessing. Brexit means Brexit, but not for two more years and you can keep your hand in the British taxpayer’s pocket for even longer.”

Friday 22 September 2017

Not mine but worth sharing!

This gem appeared with the headline: Getting up to date

They’ve had to rename it the National Truss because now it supports just a load of old bollocks.


You’re irrelevant, mate

New York resident Martin Amis whingeing about Brexit, like Salman Rushdie doing a rant, is never going to impress anyone. Brexit is more like cancer surgery than Amis’s self-inflicted wound, if we're going to be medical about it.

Cosmology crunches curiosity

If, as we were told on Horizon on BBC 4 last night, no part of the observable universe is special, if everything looks exactly the same from every other part of it, what’s the point in going anywhere else? So much for Star Trekking!  But at least no one will be at the mercy of cowboys like Ryanair if there's no point to travelling.

Urban architecture

The Tate Organization is believed to have made a multi-million-pound offer for the 130-ton fatberg, which is currently clogging a Victorian-era sewer in East London. The only snag is that the monster has to be removed intact with all of its knobbles and bobbles still in place.
    The fatberg is 800 feet long, four feet high and just over two feet wide, and it is composed of
fat, oil and grease mixed with used nappies, wipes and condoms, and the odd dead rat. Exactly where the Tate Organization plans to exhibit this obvious health hazard remains unclear.

Thursday 21 September 2017

Alternative career?

Prince William is being aired as the next leader of the Liberal party after his warm endorsement of their ‘legalize all dangerous drugs’ campaign.

Buy-off bid = nerve failure?

The PM is planning to offer the EU £20 Billion as a Danegeld divorce settlement to get trade talks started, even though the Germans are agitating for such talks and will agitate even more if they see nothing happening. There is no mention of the EU paying the UK for its share of EU assets bought with British taxpayers’ money, however.
    It is unlikely that the greedy eurocrats who are making the ransom demands will settle for such a paltry sum. It is as unlikely that the Bremoaners in the Cabinet will be prepared to go for a “no talks = no cash and no deal” stance.

Backing off, boss!

Under pressure from the Big 9 supermarket chains, the Food Standards Agency has been persuaded to stop naming and shaming major retailers who sell chicken contaminated with the food-poisoning bug campylobacter.
    In future, the FSA will concentrate on softer targets like small butchers, independent stores and farmers’ markets. The switch of focus has been described as ‘bizarre and unnecessary’. But hey, it’s only public safety that’s at stake.

A classic accident waiting to happen

It comes as no surprise that Mexico City has been wrecked by a Richter 7.1 earthquake with an epicentre 75 miles away; the second really major quake in 2 months. The city is built on the bed of what used to be a vast Aztec lake and town complex close to the junction of two of the Earth’s tectonic plates. That sort of location; a dried up lake full of very soft soil; has been found to amplify the force of a quake by up to five times.

How very EU of him!

The Liberals’ temporary leader Vince Cable has a wonderful recipe for democracy: his supporters can have any number of individual votes and there can be any number of ballots until they get it right and go for Vince’s preferred option on any issue. Then the outcome is set in stone.

Wednesday 20 September 2017

Expect to pay more in green crap taxes, not less

The ‘experts’ have been forced to admit that they got their dire warnings of a looming climate catastrophe badly wrong. The problem turns out to be that their computer models failed to predict the future (something which has been pointed out tons of times over the last couple of decades), and gazing at a crystal ball would have been as effective.
    Even so, despite wasting VAST amounts of other people’s money, and lining their own pockets, of course, the global warming fraudsters have no plans to apologize. They intend to do no more than adjust their message sideways. It will now read that, in fact, they got everything exactly right (if for wrong reasons) and the world should keep throwing money at them and their dotty scams.

No surprise

The death toll from the Grenfell Tower fire was inflated by fraudsters seeking to make cash in the confusion, the police in charge of the investigation have revealed.

Bravo, Boris!

Foreign Sec. Boris Johnson seems to have made his point rather effectively. He has succeeded in reminding the PM that we are on our way out of the EU and a majority in the country thinks that this is a good idea, which Bremainers; like Mrs. May and the Chancellor, should not be striving to screw up. Neither should they be so eager to pay to the EU enormous amounts of cash which would be far better spent here.

Labour to lose 90% of its voters?

The Electoral Commission has suggested that trolls who abuse MPs and candidates for political jobs on anti-social meeja should be evicted from office, if they hold one, and/or removed from the electoral register. Like that’s going to happen!

Tuesday 19 September 2017

Platform or accessory?

Google, Facebook et al claim they have no responsibility for items related to porn, terrorism and other bad stuff when they appear on their respective websites because they are platforms, not publishers, and therefore exempt from complicity. But they do seem to be making themselves accessories after the fact, which should expose them to criminal prosecution if the government has the will to try it on.

Saintliness gives way to an embarrassed silence

Aung San Suu Kyi has suffered the worst possible fate for the professional protester. After spending years under house arrest in Burma, and becoming the darling of the world’s political luvvies, she is now her country’s figurehead.
    She is now in office but not in power. Thus, when the real wielders of power; the Burmese military; start doing a spot of routine ethnic cleansing, all she can do is hunker in her bunker and pretend it’s not happening. Oh, dear! The Universe really does hate us!

Two out of three ain’t bad (according to Jim Steinman)

Some Tories are calling for poise, purpose and unity on Brexit. Foreign Sec. B. Johnson has combined the first two: he’s doing porpoise! He’s leaping out of the political pond to announce that he is not going to stand idly by whilst the Bremoaners sabotage leaving the EU completely.

Get it right!

Ryanair has fallen foul of the Trade Descriptions Act. The non-flying el cheapo airline has been obliged to change its name to Ryangrounded.

Diversify or die

The Hebrides; how do they get away with it? They should have been renamed the Non-Gender-SpecificSpouses years ago.

Old and ga-ga

Vince Cable, the Liberal leader, thinks he’s a plausible candidate for Prime Minister. There’s a ‘Nurse, he’s out of bed again!’ moment if ever there was one.

Monday 18 September 2017

Business as usual

The EU is running one of its weird scams in Nigeria in relation to migration, the BBC TV programme Panorama has discovered. European taxpayers’ cash is being used to persuade the Nigerian government to confiscate vehicles used by the migrant-movers, then more cash is going to the truckless people-smugglers via third parties to persuade them to take up another line of work.
    As usual, very few receipts are issued for all the cash sloshed around and the usual suspects are taking their usual cut.

Well spotted!

President Trump has renamed Kim Jong-whoever Rocketman. It would seem that he has spotted a resemblance to Elton John, who is also a bit (if not a lot) of a chubby-chops now.

Dispensable cliché

I happened to be watching some Canadian football last night because the NFL was having a weather delay, and that got me wondering. Why are we told that the Three Minute Warning is going to both benches? Is it ever likely to happen that only one team would be told about it? And that the other team would be too dim to notice that there were three minutes left in the half?

Sunday 17 September 2017

Ferrari International Assistance

Who do Ferrari think they're kidding, blaming Verstappen for the shunt caused by Vettel, which took out both Ferraris and Verstappen's Red Bull?
Who do the stewards think they're kidding, letting Vettel get away with it?

Saturday 16 September 2017

Even more outrage junkies

Oh, dear, the Venerable Mogg is in trouble again with the luvvie set for daring to be delighted that there are charitable people who support food banks with donations of time and cash. But let us not forget that there are a lot of luvvies making money out of food banks – the more there are, the more they get because even though the front-line staff don’t expect pay, you can’t say the same about the back-line bunch.

Another outrage junkie!

Liberal MP N. Lamb has just got himself in a lather over Poundland selling chocolate-covered peanuts in packets with the brand-name “nutters”, a crime against humanity which has been going on for a year with no complaints from normal people.

Fantasyland

How can foreigners living rough in Britain be a product of Tory austerity? Maybe the BBC can show us the rule that says we’re required to house anyone who inflicts their presence upon us?

The heart bleeds

Isn’t it a shame that TV news industry veteran, Remoaner and self-preener R. Peston has had his Europeon solidarity tested by fans of Köln FC giving him Nazi salutes and peeing on his doorstep!

Friday 15 September 2017

Enuff!

A term I’d like to see banned is ‘improvised explosive device’ because it sounds much grander and a whole lot more official than what it’s supposed to be describing: a small, home-made bomb. A smack round the back of the head every time someone on TV utters the phrase needs to be mandatory.

Diversity daftness

The headmistress of Tunbridge Wells Grammar insists that her teachers have to go round a class shaking the hand of each pupil before every lesson to make the kids feel welcome and appreciated. How many pupil-days does that waste during the course of a school year?

Good, clean fun

One thing that struck me whilst watching the Cincinnati Bengals hosting the Houston Texans on TV was how clean the Bengals looked in their white uniforms. No unsightly grass or mud stains. It could have been a commercial for a washing powder rather than an American football match!
    “Wash with Viggo and stay white – no matter what!”

Alibis and faking

Professional tax-dodgers Amazon have felt obliged to remove a shower of faint-praise fake reviews of the appalling H. Clinton’s book. Noises from the White House suggest that President Trump does not have it on his ‘to read’ list. But what the rest of us would like to know is if the appalling Hillarious has read it.  Shouldn’t think there’s much danger of a Nobel for it!

ISS still there

Kim Jong-warmonger has failed in his latest attempt to shoot down the International Space Station. Like last month’s effort, this month’s overflew Japan and disappeared in to the sea. Environmental groups would like to protest about the adverse effects on marine life of being shelled by NK rockets – but they daren’t!

Wanted: Magic Money Forest

Public sector workers are 11% better off than those in the wealth-creating private sector, according to the Taxpayers’ Alliance. Staff at private firms have lost an average £305 of income in real terms over the last year, according to the Social Market Foundation. The fall in spending power for the public sector was £258.
    Unsurprisingly, no one is prepared to say where the money is coming from to pay the public sector more with government borrowing still higher than income rather than falling back towards a balanced budget.

Thursday 14 September 2017

Too well-lunched to realize what he was doing?

J.-C. Druncker, the president of the Europeon Commission, is being considered for a merit award by the British Brexit Council. A BBC spokesperson revealed that his contribution to explaining the true awfulness of the EU and its management, and its future plans for more and worse, played a significant part in persuading the British public to vote Leave in the EU membership referendum.

Serious quality deficit

Yesterday, I was reminded that past prime minister Sir Winston Churchill was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature in 1953 (I had occasion to look the year up). Can you imagine any of the sorry crew of politicians running the world right now achieving anything remotely similar?

Just say ‘get lost’

The government also needs to tell anyone who claims that the British territories which were wiped out by Hurricane Irma are too rich to get a share of the foreign aid budget to go take a jump. If the likes of China and India qualify, so do the Caribbean islands.

It was YOUR fault

The government needs to be robust in its response to the holiday-makers who had a bad time at the hands of Hurricane Irma. If they were stupid enough to put themselves somewhere noted for extreme weather at this time of year, they have no automatic right to expect everyone else to rush to save them from their own recklessness.