Friday 14 May 2010

"Might the Tories be rehabilitated by the partnership and no longer be seen as the nasty party? And could the coalition deal Lib Dems a hammer blow come the next election?"

Conversely could Labour be marginalised as they can't take up the Socialist Mantle and the Social Democratic label is too closely associated with New Labour of Iraq and 10p fame.

Their new leadership candidates are cosmetic though able and intelligent - but there are no great thinkers in there to chart a new course but are more likely to go with a catchy slogan.

The Tories could be rehabilitated but in shedding their reactionary right they can't make up ground in the heavily occupied centre.

The Lib Dems won't let them merge or collapse them and neither will they let the Labour/New Labour coalition take their ground.

Its clear that first past the post belongs to another era when class politics determined the shape of the choice for electors.

Those days are gone largely as even the elite nature of much of the cabinet is not the issue for most - its not where they are from but where they are going that counts.

In the long run people will go with those who have consistently promoted an open and inclusive and fair society obtained via a proportional representation system that elects to the Commons and the current Lords.

Enough of men in tights and also the sofa politics of neo-Presidential cliques that answered to nobody.

How is your son doing, Brightyangthing?

The Cable-Osborne relationship will be difficult but then it could yield benefits.

For instance Cable would break up the big banks but though I support his views in general I can't quite see that four smaller banks who are taking the same total volume of risk unreasonably could still be too big for our economy and mean four times the regulation. I do accept that some banks could just be too enormous.

But is it the bank size or the risk that they take that is the big issue? How do you ensure that Repo 105 and Fabulous Freds and vague fraud laws and internal audits make it impossible for a clique of six, I think, to take down Lehmans and nearly the global economy?

Then again if the regulation means that we subdivide the retail and investment activities perhaps size won't be the biggest issue.

So far as I know there is still a lot of potentially toxic debt out there so the issues are in sharp focus I hope.

But I suppose that Osborne and Cable do have a huge problem in that they have to send out clear signals and take coherent action quickly.

Fear concentrates minds ....

Can we please have a report tonight from the Newsnight financial market gurus on the EU hedge fund regulation proposals please as reported in the Finacial Times today.

This is indeed a really big story as Gavin Esler remarked at the close of Thursday's edition as he went through Friday front pages.

I especially would like to hear from representatives of each party what their position is.

We could perhaps have the hedge fund manager on the other night with Kirsty who was rather intense on a possible banking crisis consequent of the Eurozone crisis and in particular I would like to know how a hedge fund would attempt to profit from markets in turmoil as a result of this crisis, what the ethics of that is and how or otherwise hedge funds will be constrained by the regulations proposed.

Alternatively someone from Barclays Capital (who were heavily implicated in the hysterical trading on the Dow on election day Thursday) might also be interesting.

How is it that the Independent is allowed to report:

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"A white supremacist who created deadly ricin will be sentenced along with his racist son today.

Police said former pub DJ Ian Davison, 41, was plotting to use the killer chemical which was found in a jam jar in his kitchen when officers raided.
....

The US Centre for Disease Control suggested that as little as 500mg - about half a grain of rice - could be lethal if injected or inhaled, and has no known antidote.
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The Aryan Strike Force was in the early stages of preparation when it was raided last summer, and planned paramilitary operations which aimed to topple the "Zionist" government. "
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and the BBC seemingly does not regard this as news?

Hopefully they are waiting for sentencing before exploring how close they were to mass murder and why there have been so many far right extremists who generally have received tolerant sentences.

Personally I can't see other far right head bangers being inspired by such mindless evil.

In fairness Lewington, the ex-BNP member, got a fair sentence for carrying his explosive tennis balls about and having a bomb factory.

I would hope the the new Home Secretary is going to ensure resource is available domestically and I wonder what will become of the old Prevent strategy that latterly included the far right but apparently alienated many Muslims.

Sorry Gof I'll correct that for you,

Economically inactive, sorry it's just the Telegraph and Daily Mail, and not the Guardian

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7257667/Eight-million-people-economically-inactive.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251666/Unemployment-reaches-highest-level-Labour-came-power.html

And of course those figures will have risen by now as unemployment has increased. Perhaps an exageration to say there are 8 million unemployed, but on the other hand how would you like to compete for work if disabled, or a student, or a single mother with childcare problems, when you have a young, fit, keen, needy, doesn't care how hard he works, or for what pay, and lives in multi occupancy house, immigrant that will fill the job.

Gof ~ Immigrants have created wealth and contributed fully to the country and we are content as a multi-racial country as the last general election showed.

I know you keep repeating this tired old mantra, as many others do, but here is some research that at the time was fully endorsed by the media, and recognised by the then government, carried out by the House of Lords. Net contribution of mass immigration is approximately 1%, I wouldn't call that a great boost to our economy would you?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583500/Limit-immigration-warns-House-of-Lords.html

And analysis of...

https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefingPaper/document/20

Much of what the Coalition has done so far is smart; I don't necessarily agree with it all, but it is smart.

Best of all is the Cable - Osborne - Laws triangle and I hope you at NN can break out of your binary obsession to see these three, repeat three men as pivotal.

George has been surrounded; Cable at Business, Laws the one who does the REAL work at the Treasury and George does the absent-minded smiles.

Reason will rule because of these two LibDems and there is no danger whatsoever that George will be able to play old pals with Dave to get things through.

This whole Coalition looks like the British version of US "checks and balances" and we need to realize this and move on.

And stop being so smart alecky, snide and sniping about it; anyone would think NN people were Nulabour groupies.

WHY CALL THESE 'CHANGES' EXTRAORDINARY?

Surely if ever invocation of the Titanic and deckchairs were in order, this is the time?

OK: someone has made a fractal pattern with the said deckchairs, but the ship is still sinking because NO ONE REALLY KNOWS HOW TO SAIL - AND THEY ALL WANT TO BE CAPTAIN (or at least a 'go' in his cabin and uniform).

The crew were hired because they salute nicely. As for the officers: the blind one (with five languages) is lookout, the Typhoid carrier is cook and there are far too many Mates.

While Westminster stands over all, the bizarre will be achieved daily, and the ludicrous will take a little longer.

I've just been double 0 sevening again, this time with both hands in action

m

Otherwise, more on a positive note

mim

4 x 4 is 16
I've just had a win

given the next election is likely to be on a different electoral basis who knows what will happen? the coalition might be a success. how depressing would that be for the Leftist cells in the media?

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..anyone would think NN people were Nulabour groupies..

given the background of some its not misplaced thinking.

we all know...it will all end in tears...only trouble is ....when?

“For the heinous crimes of sedition and of condemning representatives of the current government to the backwaters we, the President(s) of the the Republic, sentence you the British People to five years hard labour without any possibility of remission. Permission to appeal denied!”



Q: Toll Roads anyone! No, we aren’t asking, we’re telling!


A Spokeswoman for the Department of Enviroment, Food and Rural Affairs is preparing to make the announcement that, in future, all home based childcare fees, and other admin costs, will be funded by an above inflation increase in agricultural taxation.



The comparison has been made in the press as to President(s) Cle-on being as potentially beneficial to the GBP as Morecombe and Wise.

Heresy!

Off with their picas!

The Westminster ‘Chums’ - aka ‘Senior boy and fag’ - are not, as were Mssrs M + W, masters of their craft!

Inevitably, credibility ceases when you sell your soul!

It is not hard to consider the old addage that if a man betrays his wife he will betray his country, these ‘chums’ have betrayed the electorate and GB - and it’s P - is now up for sale!

“Bring me sunshine” ....

With Mr Blue and Mr Yellow (Stealers Wheel anyone?) we will get inital ‘glimpses’ of sunlight just to placate, nullify and schmooze ....

And then the bodily waste will hit the star struck follower!

As an alternative ‘evaluation’ consider the lyrics of the song made ‘famous’ by the (artistic) wizard from oz .... i.e. Two Little boys.

When was this pact - constructed so generously for the benefit ( to us sic, the constituents ) of the nation - initiated? Where was the seed planted, nurtured and - Doh! - fertilised? How long did it take from genesis to revelation sic? Refute, if you will, that the earth was assembled in Taiwan in just seven days yet surely such a ‘game changing’ contract of such historic proportions - believe it .... for it is as we have been told - might just have taken a bit longer than four to five days?

Possibly, maybe ....Really?

We need to know! We have the right to be told!

Collective public investigative journalists rise up!

Seek the truth!

A pulitzer is out there waiting just for us ....

We can do it .... (All chant) ...


Yes we can!


Oops!

Be joyous ....

They’re carrying me away at this very moment!

“Yeah, OK! Le’go my arm! Yooz breakin’ it! Not da face man! Like dude, I’ll do the sedatives .... ‘lright”

(Thinks .... )

“Not!”


In GB no-one will hear you scream!

Less likely even than the Nn editorial team taking any notice of these posts!



(That’s my 5k earnt then! And, with due respect for efficiency savings, it took less than an hour! Application form for Mayoralship of London next methinks.)

#15

The question remains, however, who's going to shed tears the most.

m

vince is a far better opposition spokesman than he could ever be in Govt - Jeremy took him apart just a few months ago in bare *seconds* in his interview. He is a terrier, which is great for gripping on and never letting go, but not much use when you need a St Bernard with a rum casket around its neck, to warm up your circulation and guide you homewards.

he will be coached *thoroughly* by his Tory masters on why "cuts are necessary", and why "privatisations are necessary", and thrown out to the lions in the media-circus. I *really* feel sorry for him, this is not a good reward for the work he did in exposing the lies and corruption amongst the Banksters. Now he will be their spokesman, and he will be fully expected to suck it until he chokes. He would have made a far better business secretary in a rainbow coalition - or else he should remain as a back-bencher, fighting the economic fight on behalf of the Public, and Truth.

as for how they will "work together" - watch how he changes as he goes through 'intensive reprogramming' by the Tories and the Treasury. It may take a small while, especially now it has been mentioned, but you will see the "People's Chancellor" becoming the "Spokesman for Privatisation", step by step. There will be no working together - he WILL DO what he is TOLD TO DO.

as for this "laws" person, can anybody tell me why he isn't in fact a Tory? What actual differences does he have with them economically? Lets be serious about this - he is in reality, just like Clegg, a Tory in the 'wrong' Party.

the Liberals "moderating" the Tories?? Dream on. ALL that has changed is that Public attention can now be diverted from things they SHOULD be being told about, by irrelevant arguments deliberately started between the 'parties' in our Coalition Dictatorship.

it may all be new to our media, but many in the new coalition have ample experience with working within cross-party coalitions (such as in the EU) - and the possibilities the present to hoodwink the public, and the few remnants of a critical media we have left.


if we had an election tomorrow, i doubt we would see more than 30% of the electorate even bother to turn out, and already even only the few LibDems who have ANY credibility left (sarah teather for instance) would have the smallest chance of re-election. We are in early days yet, and it is extraordinary that the first thing this new Govt does is to change the Constitution to keep itself in power regardless of the wishes of either the Electorate, or even Parliament Itself! It is also extraordinary to see the LibDem poodle bouncing upon the lap of the Tory Pit-Bull, dropping its desire for PR in exchange for an electoral pact that will see its ultimate doom as an electoral force.

this has been a stitch-up from beginning to end, and whilst the fascist press are understandably 'over the moon' about the result, and busy promoting the idea that "the Public voted for this", and "we should give them time" - well, they would, wouldn't they?

roflmao@#9&#16

---is that readable? :)

#2 Mimpromtu

Thanks mim, he is now home and beginning the slow recovery. Not easy for a fit young man to feel so low but he will bounce back. Quite looking forward to him eating me out of house and home and asking to borrow the car again before too long!


I am keeping a low profile on blog - due partly to tiredness and busy ness, but also because I find those all to ready to hammer in the coffin nails before giving anything a chance.

Perhaps I appear naive and the situation is not perfect (what is?) but I think we have to a) give the new team a chance and b) be prepared to accept some unpalatable rises in costs and cuts in services but sometimes the medicine is worse than the symptoms but bring the

Now is the time to stop wingeing 'I didn't vote for..............' and get behind those who are mandated to try and bring the patient round.

Attacked doing his job - Get well soon Stephen Timms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxmo9DskYE

#20: Brighty, when a patient needs CPR, for a nurse to leave the ignorant and blind-on-power surgeon intending to amputate the lungs instead *without* screaming in alarm is for the nurse to betray the medical Profession.

i may or may not be a nurse, but i sure as HELL know some 'bad medicine' when i see it.

and to find out later the Surgeon works for a private "organ farm", and will make a fortune selling the lungs after this "mistake", is far too late for that patient.

i'm a part of that 'patient', i feel *somewhat concerned* about the future that will come from this amputation!


"leaving them to it", when their first move is to secure a Dictatorship, their second is to cut the incomes of families living on less than £5k a year, their third is to force people to work for exploitative, abusive, and blood-sucking Tesco for peanuts - most of those wages paid for by the tax-payer(!), as though Tesco don't make enough profit from us already, their fourth will be to "split" the banks leaving the tax-payer with the bad debts, and their friends in private Banks running off laughing with all the loot.

"leave them to it"??

only when there is no other option.

its nothing to do with "Sour Grapes", and a hell of a lot to do with absolute terror.

...have *you* been watching the news on Greece recently??

REMEMBER YOU ARE NOT A GOD - DAVE

I am watching Shiny-Boy Dave, and what I see worries me. Tell me: has he announced any All-New changes THAT PUT RESTRAINT ON HIS PERSONAL POWER?

I see a boy who has grown into the job in a nano-second, AS IF IT WERE ALWAYS HIS BY DIVINE RIGHT. I see no awe, or humility.

THIS WAS HOW GREAT TONY WAS - AT THE BEGINNING. Now look at him . . .

Until the feudal power of a British Prime Minister is removed, along with party politics, whips, baying and waving of order-papers, the Westminster Malaise will keep this country mired in all that is unconducive to good management.

WELL? HAS DAVE CURBED HIS OWN POWER? Or is he above reproach?

#20: ...glad your boy is on the mend. :)

23; you read like the political editor of the New Statesman, Mehdi Hasan ,sounded on Questiontime last night.

Go to youtube, type in his name and you'll hear more enlightened and enlightening stuff from Mehdi and his opinions.

Was it quota filling that got him the job?

I am speechless.

#26: mehdi hasan and melanie philips were the only ones on last nights QT panel who gave ANY hope for the future of this country.

although hasan was annoying at times with over-argumentativeness, the notion that a tired old warhorse like Heseltine, the eye-twitching and hate-mask of the LibDem, or that 'pro-slimy-Millepede nuLabour smirker and winker' are in ANY way representative of this Country is just downright disheartening.

yes, i am sure the 'electorate' are tired of all the constant politicking, and want "business as normal" to resume. Well, you may hate to hear this - BUT IT IS NOT GOING TO.

all that talk about "savage cuts" is GOING TO COME TRUE - have a look at Athens, do you imagine our 'Chavs' are going to sit back whilst even the scraps thrown down to them are reduced even further? What do you imagine the people who voted BNP are going to be doing as those cuts make shortages even worse? What do you imagine having another 2 MILLION PLUS people made unemployed is going to do to our Society?

hasan (and i) may be out-of-mood with the Public right now, and i have absolutely NO doubt the right-wing press will keep the 'sleep.....sleeeep....sleeep little children' messages coming until the Tories have secured the Constitutional changes required to ensure their intended Dictatorship is achieved (you may recall melanie also had some VERY strong words about that?), but shortly after that...

well, its a rough guess, but i think in future years, many people will be wishing they had actually voted Green nationally, to keep the Nasty *PARTIES* out.

listening to heseltine, its rather doubtful the Tories will allow us to rethink our choices any-time soon. A 5 year Dictatorship? Do you REALLY like the sound of that??


a bit of REAL political anger is *exactly* what is required now, as our ancient Parliamentary Democracy is under greater threat than it has for decades - if not centuries. I'm sorry if that is not in YOUR taste.

I've always been for a fixed term Parliament but especially this time round, what with all the dithering, paralysis and uncertainty for the last year or so. A great move from the new Prime Minister:

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8681624.stm

#20

So your son can eat like a horse then, Brightyangthing!
Is he nevertheless of a slim build despite his appetite?

Regarding the latter part of your post, some people are incurable, BYT, and will always moan and winge about everything and everybody apart from themselves and will always expect or beg for something they cant'get or do themselves, and in extreme cases they'll resort to brutal force feeling very 'proud' of themselves as illustrated by several NN bloggers.

mim

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#29 addendum

In the case of Gordie and Mandy it was also the case of resorting to dirty tricks and abuse of the most fundamental human/female rights which they try to pursue to this day.

The JUDGEMENT DAY is nigh.

M

#31 CORRECTION

AT #31 I WAS REFERRING TO #28

M

3 X 3 is 9

3 x 9 is 27

and we get 007

https://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/05/beck-exposes-big-boys.html

I'm 100% sure that one of the NN bloggers thinks he has Barack Obama 'wrapped' round one of his fingers.

It can only take a schizod megalomaniac to have such grandiose 'ideas'.

M

The politicians are acting like grown-ups, why can't the BBC and Newsnight? Desperately digging for dividing lines, differences, stirring up controversy as if they were a tabloid newspaper. I'd have thought the BBC could, for once, also act responsibly and report facts, instead of trying to create a story!

cameron looks like a cross between Nick Griffin and G W Bush. How *nice* he has "unilaterally removed his right to call a General Election", odd how he didn't also mention that he has also unilaterally ensured his Govt will last 5 years, ignoring the wishes of 54% of Parliament, let alone Public wishes.

nasty little man.

i wish the journos would stop talking up the likelihood of the Coalition Dictatorship cracking up. Its FAR more worrying if it doesn't. Spend more time looking at what they intend to get up to, and less sniggering at the chances of them doing it. Please? x

---can anyone tell me the name of the track as the bloke got into the lift in the film clip about advertising on review???? :o

i've been trying to find it for years!

THANK YOU, AND MORE PLEASE, NEWSNIGHT

Hoorah for a chance to prove that I do not criticise adversely, just for the sake of so doing.

Tonight, Newsnight, you showed-up the vile nature of adversarial (Westminster) politics. You showed Vince is no saint, and Dave is as duplicitous as they come.

Might you feature a different pair every evening (until the edginess wears off)? The stark reality of just how amoral/immoral ALL party politicians are, needs driving home. This alliance of convenience, after the usual vile campaigning, is a perfect opportunity for reality to dawn.

I have not forgotten Sayeeda Warsi, on Question Time, caught between hard Islaam and 'Rocky' Dimbleby, over the matter of Homosexuality. Dimbo backed off, but the panic was visible. Perhaps Crikey Crick should ask her where she stands, now she is sort of in Cabinet.

Oh - it's all going awfully well.

I agree with rtc_k.

Which part of comprise does the BBC not understand - i comprise and move toward you and you comprise and move toward me. We both leave stuff behind.

This is the best we have at the moment. I

n the face of really adverse conditions. Why does the BBC focus on where the enterprise might unravel and on single issues, black white, up down, go no go ? Single issues are pulled out and highlighted with no regard to context.

Watch the BBC and you can go suicidal. Watch CNN and CNBC and you get a view of the world.

We give the BBC £3.2Bn. Why do we pay you to drag us down. MP's expenses are a nit on the BBC. Try finding a reason why the new government might work, please. Just give it a shot.

All who are addicted to the "idiots lantern" or the "glass teat" could once more become social and productive if the BBC gave them some info and allowed them to make up their mind.

Neurons are in short supply at the BBC. I don't want to pay £3.2Bn to have my mind stultified by an endless diatribe against people who might be trying to do do something.

The BBC focuses on failure. To have success we need to be able to fail without being pilloried for it. Edison failed 999 (about) times before he made the light bulb. Every failure was one thing less he had to do to reach his goals.

This country has to work and you should be trying to figure out how you can help.

Best JAWS

Barrie one for you....

https://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1278387/Milton-Keynes-hires-15-times-interpreters-decade-ago-cope-residents-84-mother-tongues.html

MANGLISH coming to a town near you! ; )

Just why do we have all these immigrants, please tell me WHY?

#35

I've just found a 'fascinating' interview that Jeremy conducted with Jesus of Nazareth and find myself wondering whether there is any connection between the schizoid megalomeniac I mention in #35 and the bloke that Jeremy spoke to.

https://philipstreehouse.blogspot.com/2010/05/paxman-interviews-jesus.html

Perhaps the Newsnight team might be interested in showing next week the bloke who's planning to save us all??

mim

Singie

Ignoring the bizarre, I've been having a wonderful time on my blades, improvising and all that (^_^).

Plus, for the first time in my life, earlier this evening I was fascinated to read:

https://www.usconstitution.net/const.html

I wonder how many bloggers have read it themselves?

#43: rofl!! :D :D

--but if bright REALLY was JC reborn, wouldn't he just heal his son by touching him??


you might like this, mim, it was random facebook stuff straight after i read your post... Synchronicity City!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3518178&id=294515654562

#42:

"Just why do we have all these immigrants, please tell me WHY?"


--because it makes Life more interesting?

#18: it was interesting to learn tonight that Laws had already been the target of an intended 'conversion' to the Tories by Osborne, and was the person chosen to complete the deal with them by Clegg.

no wonder Clegg and his new buddies are worried the LibDems might jump ship early on, and 'need' to prevent their removal from office by changing our Constitution - how long did they expect to be able to hoodwink the pretty-darn-clever ACTUAL Liberals in the Cabinet? Presumably long enough to force this Constitutional change through Parliament, that keeps the Tories in power even if the LibDems wash their hands of them.

sometimes i wonder if i am too cynical - and then i LOOK at the state of the World, and the UK in particular. And then i wonder if i am still too trusting.

:((

#30: mods, i don't mind if you remove the word "bl**dy", it is only an emphasis in the sentence about PR, if it is *that* giving you collywobbles on the post.

if it is more, send it back and i'll work on it. :)

#45

There you are, gnu, I thought it was you who thought 'they' were Jesus and now you seem to suggest that it is Brightyangthing or another female who've been turned into the Saviour of the World, or both perhaps?

As I have pretty much all of BYT's postings (I do not save yours but they are available on the BBC Blognetwork), I can easily prove that she does not share your views on most issues.

#49 addendum

And why are you calling Brightyanthing a 'him' while the person is a 'she', may I ask?

Didn't I use to say that the scandal, and perhaps some 'Treasure' to go with it, was huge?

If the Treasure is Huge, the details are not available to me at present, but the SCANDAL certainly has HUGE IMPLICATIONS and a history that started in 1984, when I first set my foot at SSEES, Senat House, London, UK.

I shall post rhe reason and the pure chance of my taking that first step under a separate post.

No 52 – Gnu – LF, LN, left side or switching sides ‘as you please’, back to front and vice versa – what are you trying to prove? That you are hot or something?

And Jeremy of Pacland said to Jesus of Nazareth:

'under close questioning you've shown you're clearly not as clever, funny, aggressive or well-paid as me'.

Let's forget the financial side as it is of least concern to me, but in my books the 'Jesus of Nazareth' that Jeremy interviewed is like a pinprick in terms of cleverness, sense of humour, aggressiveness when absolutely unavoidable but otherwise a likeable and a friendly kind of chap, and in at least one other way that I better not spell out here.

mim

#46

--because it makes Life more interesting?

How Gnu, how? None of them can speak to you in English. (Of course you may be a multi language person!) We are on the whole keeping them, so our infrastructure gets even more overloaded. We cannot continue like this, the cupboard is bare, yet still we take in more. Do you want to be taxed to death, because as sure as hell the rich won't be paying for them. The British are fools to themselves.

#54

The cupboard is bare/bear, Ecolizzy

Taxed to death, kicked to death, a 'part' of the body amputated or condemned by The Supreme Court - it looks like one of the four!!!!

By the way, does anyone know when precisely the interview between Jeremy of Pacland and 'Jesus of Nazareth' took place?

NO BETTER ILLUSTRATION THAT PERSONALITIES, NOT POLICIES, RULE (#42 link)

Hi Liz - thanks for the link. I wonder how many posters here know the film 'Heaven's Above'? It showed how blind delusional do-gooding, can lead to the do-gooder-host being run-ragged by the unscrupulous.

SOMEHOW this country got caught up in a fad for unfettered generosity, Jesus-style. We then added Political Correctness (The Bullies Charter) such that no one dare cry 'Hold enough!' And here we are.

Now we have a 'man' who tilts his head to one side, in charge of niceness.

Fairness isn't working - demand MITIGATED UNFAIRNESS.

Oh - it's all going awfully well!

#42/54 liz

“Just why do we have all these immigrants, please tell me WHY?”

Look around and you’ll find the answer is staring you in the face!

To start with, we obviously need many of them as interpreters; to fill the jobs, panels and focus groups that ‘community integration’ has imposed; and many more jobs in health, education, police, social services and other public services due to the increased population and workload resulting from - uncontrolled immigration.

Brown boasted of the ‘new’ jobs his government created, later revealed to be almost all in the public sector (taxpayer burden) with 80% of them established as going to immigrants.

As the TaxPayers’ Alliance observed: ‘many council translators end up dealing with people who have lived here for years without learning English. It’s ridiculous that people are claiming benefits for years but can’t even fill in a form about themselves in our national language.’

And a spokesman for Milton Keynes council said the centre was ‘cost neutral’ because it charges some customers – and other costs are billed to different public services such as the NHS.” If their wagebill (for 300 interpreters) is known as ‘cost neutral’ because it is ‘hidden’ in other public service costs then it is no wonder that we can never get the true facts on the ‘financial benefit’ from immigration.

Just one word of support from my own experience: Filipino immigrants all speak English, usually with an American accent (Twanglish not Manglish)!

so people are getting all vestal virgin about the coalition. Lib dems are not thinking strategically. that anything is worth it to get a referendum as a yes becomes a game changer for further reform. Yet like hysterical children they go on about vat or nuclear. they are missing the big picture. which means small minds.

the media always harking back to election speeches to show 'divisions' is shabby and amateur if not juvenile.even worse its boring.


what is this equality obsession? its like a disease. to focus on equality means you do not focus on the good. which means crimes against humanity result in the form of human sacrifice. people died because nhs was not allowed to give people drugs merely because it would not have been 'equal'. Students are held back because 'it would not be equal' to let them 'get ahead' of the others who just want to lark about? Kirsty, like a Lady Bracknall missing the big picture, whines on about the background of new ministers rather than examine if they are qualified to do the job? how dictatorial, how marxist is that?

uk is class ridden society because people believe class is important and have taken it as the highest idea of the mind. So they ignore and denigrate the Good which is why there isn't much good about.

#57

Singie of the Syringe and Sinland

Tell 'Jesus' I shall be getting up to something even more extraordinary in the next few days, weeks at the most and please do not forget to keep him 'well hidden'.

M

Modified #58 with one quote deleted from earlier link (but still based on facts):#42 liz
“Just why do we have all these immigrants, please tell me WHY?”
The answer is staring you in the face!
To start with, we obviously need many of them as interpreters; and to fill the jobs, panels and minority group funding that we apparently need to achieve 'community integration’; and many more jobs in health, education, police, social services and other public services due to the increased population and workload resulting largely from - uncontrolled immigration.

Brown boasted of the ‘new’ jobs his government created, later revealed to be almost all in the public sector (taxpayer burden) with 80% of them established as going to immigrants.

“A spokesman for Milton Keynes council said the centre was ‘cost neutral’ because it charges some customers – and other costs are billed to different public services such as the NHS.” If the wagebill (for all those interpreters) is known as ‘cost neutral’ although some of it is concealed in other public service costs then it is no wonder that we can never get a comprehensive cost/benefit calculation of immigration.

Just one word of support from my own experience: Filipino immigrants speak English, usually with an American accent (Twanglish rather than Manglish)!

#61 Filipino immigrants speak English, usually with an American accent (Twanglish rather than Manglish)!

Ha,ha, yes I can believe that Indi, it's the americans not us that have increased the use of english.

Did hear about this on the radio recently....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish

And then found others....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinglish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish

They've got to learn english to help all the english and american tourists they all get! ; )

Popped into my local market town (pop20,000) this morning, split a front tooth in half, was amazed at all the eastern block women around with children and babies. They are working hard to increase our population too exploding point. I don't suppose any of them work. We are even importing chavs now, I thought we had enough of those! ; )

I may play around with sweatshirts with a "Queen' logo on, etc., but it's in support of The Real Queen rather than having any aspirations myself in this respect, not even to the title of the dancing queen on ice. I twirl like no other skater that I'm aware of but it comes and evolves with time naturally and spontaneously.

As for my political involvement, it remains to be seen.

From the personal point of view, it should be quite obvious where my feelings lie. Suffice to say, we all tend to fall in out of love, or, in fact, mere infatuation a few times in our lives.

mim

Singie

I'm currently outside 2 hospitals. Could you please ask 'Jesus' which one I should go into, or should I call an ambulance? Or, perhaps, 'Jesus' is expecting me somehere else?

when you have a coalition and you need a 55 p/c swing to boot someone out......isn't that what you call a dictatorship???

MAD HATTER-SLEY

Why the BBC wheels out Hattersley as an asset in debate, when he is manifestly a Labour bigot, defeats me.

Today's Hattersley 'wisdom' is that Brown was above TRIVIA, yet he had yards of form in the area of PETTINESS. Are not 'trivial' and 'petty' close relatives?

Can someone persuade The Mad Hatter to 'drink up - move round' and spend more time with his dog?

Look mummy, there's chem trails up in the sky

A Trilateral commission meeting took place in Dublin recently. They generally meet before the Bilderberg meetings so as to set out the agenda of what the Bilderbergers are gonna discuss. A chief adviser to the Russian Govt who was at this Trilateral meeting let slip some info.
Mikhail Slobodovsci said that they are planning a war with Iran. Slobodovsici also let slip that the Trilateralists and their Bilderberg counterparts are intent on exploiting the economic crisis to finalize plans for a world government, but that this agenda is being severely hampered by so-called “nationalists” who are becoming increasingly aware of the impact that global government will have on their freedom and standards of living.
“We are deciding the future of the world, We need a world government,” he said, but, referring to Iran, said “we need to get rid of them.”

There you go, a little nugget of information that wont hit the main stream news. And that's because there told not to. You may be aware Rockefeller -a Bilderberger and Trialatralist member - once told a gathering of the great and the good of the print and TV media, he thanked them for "keeping the Bilderberg meetings out of the news for all these years"
Is the big fascist superstate, Europe - the one Hitler tried to impose -starting to unravel?..me hopes so.

Comment on Stephen Timms stabbing....

https://londonmuslims.blogspot.com/

Didn't watch NN last night but the Vince question is the most important.

In his position Vince wont be able to break up the banks and credit derivatives will not be properly regulated in time to stop the flawed financial model - adding debt to debt; sooner or later backing paper money to gold will have to happen. Maybe the tipping point will be China's melt down. What we really have is the super rich hedgfunds and banks with their hands up the politicians and its everyone else for themselves. As ever, for me the only sound advice is not going to happen by the mass - remove savings from banks and buy gold/silver. We have a very bleak future for the ordinary man and women in the street - who don't really have a cat in hells chance. Its hard to see how there will not be serious unemployment/inflation.

SOONER OR LATER SOME NUT HAD TO GO FOR WORLD DOMINATION (#67)

I have looked into some of this global governance stuff, Kev. Don't know what to make of it. Surely if a tiny island like Britain gets a succession of incapable nutters in charge, no one who gets to 'rule the world' will have the least idea how to do it, and they must - predictably - be barking also!

If 'they' plan a war on Iran, it must surely be just the next 'New Pearl Harbour' that brought us the 9/11 scam? Ah - it does sort of add up. We are NOW all primed to believe that Iran has nukes and rockets - maybe they do. Start a 'war', and nukes rain down on major cities that 'they' want destroyed (like WTC 7) and we blame Iran. (Do you think they will use the war-games trick again to confuse the defences?)

But WE must be alright: that nice Mr Cameron is as straight as a die. No - scrub 'die' make that 'ram rod'.

Oh - it's all going awfully well.

A FURTHER CHILLING THOUGHT (#70 additional)

When a 'GLOBAL DEFENCE EXERCISE' is declared, perhaps we should be 'very afraid'?

'Wars and rumurs of wars - earthquakes in diverse places'.

What did Nostradamus have to say?

on this 62nd anniversary of the Nakba and the continuation of the israeli policy of removing palestinians from east jerusalem, the support that hague is giving to the americans for acting against iran and more support for the afghan war - on the day that reports that 12 afghan civilians have been killed by isaf/usa forces seymour hersh reports of allegedly that usa forces are engaged in 'battlefield executions'.

apparently hersh reports that what they've done in the field is to tell the troops that they have to make a determination within a day or two or so whether or not the prisoners they have - the detainees - are taliban.

they hjave to extract whatever tactical intelligence they can get as opposed to strategic, long-range intelligence, immediately. And if they cannot conclude they're taliban they must turn them free.

hersh claims that in practise what it means is through anecdotal evidence by five or six different people - that battlefield executions are taking place. he says that if they can't prove they're taliban "bam" and if the usa soldiers dont do it themselves they turn them over to the nearby afghan troops to do the dirty.

"Just why do we have all these immigrants, please tell me WHY? "

so that you dont have to moan on about single mothers ..

Singie

I'm having an interesting day today. After visiting The Queen's Gallery to feast my eyes on the countless testimonies of Victoria's and Albert's love of love and art, ii'm having a long walk via the Houses of Parlliament, Westminster Abbey, St James' Park, where I think I saw 'Jesus' and the Buckingham Palace front square, hoping eventually to have a rest in my armchair.

I don't think I need to tell you how many sws I've seen but luckily there were plenty of others as well, men, women & kids of different ages.

#74

I can see there are at least 2 errors but it was already getting darker and I was sending the message from my Iphone sitting on a bench where a homeless young lady once lived for a few months.

I must admit that I am quite pleased with the outcome of our recent election, the coalition means that nobody can do anything really stupid. No third runway at Heathrow, ID cards scrapped and all in all a programme I can broadly support. It will fracture over the climate change scam, Cameron has very cleverly given Energy and Climate Change to Lib-Demmic Chris Hulne. He should be easy for me to attack as he has form as a major stock market parasite in his past. When the shine wears off the climate scam Cameron can pin the full blame for any money wasted on eco lunacy firmly on the Lib-Demmics.

Brightyangthing

During my journey today, as described above, I took quite a few snapshots which I'm just transferring on to my laptop. It's a shame you can't see them. They may not be photo masterpieces but are a testimony to what my eyes felt and saw. They include photos of the Victoria Monument in front of the Buckingham Palace, of the Monument in honour of the British soldiers who lost their lives during World War II and quite a few snaps of nature - trees, flowers, clouds and so on.

mim

mim

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I can't quite grasp why my last post got eaten by the blog dog but perhaps its all part of a media conspiracy to bounce one of the Miliband's into the job of leader of the opposition. After all its alleged that the BBC pension pot does rely on the perpetuation of the Climate Change Scam, and perhaps suggesting Andy Burnham as the best next leader of the opposition could threaten that ?

LET'S HAVE LIMITED ED FOR LABOUR LEADER

Miliband D is a stuffed shirt. Ed is a hoot. I don't think he would know how to take himself seriously. He reminds me of Scooby Doo. Anyway - what harm can he do?

#49/#50: brighty is a woman? Oh, ok. That surprises me - can't ALWAYS be right though, eh? ;)

as for gender - i would certainly argue that it is time for Sophia to return, the Human Race has had quite enough male "prophets" to last a lifetime. Or few. Heh.

apologies Brighty, i meant no offence if you took any. ;)


#52: "LF, LN?? My apologies, i simply do not understand this post. I have no "sides" to switch, i argue only from my OWN perspective. Currently the Greens have far and away the best policies - the only ones that can pull GBLtd out of the current disaster. It was *very* noticeable to someone who has lived and breathed politics for most of my life that the "progressive" Clegg lifted most of his 'bulletin points' directly from the Green manifesto in the laughable 'debates' - and equally obvious he had ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTION of ever trying to get them implemented. "Fairness", lol.

#53: "Jeremy of Pacland" rofl! :D

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#59: jaunty:

"what is this equality obsession? its like a disease. to focus on equality means you do not focus on the good. which means crimes against humanity result in the form of human sacrifice. people died because nhs was not allowed to give people drugs merely because it would not have been 'equal'. Students are held back because 'it would not be equal' to let them 'get ahead' of the others who just want to lark about? Kirsty, like a Lady Bracknall missing the big picture, whines on about the background of new ministers rather than examine if they are qualified to do the job? how dictatorial, how marxist is that?"

firstly, there is so much focus upon the word "equality", because so many of our political class wish to hide the simple fact that they are doing everything they can to *reduce* equality - whilst claiming the opposite.

the problem with the drugs on the NHS was that it is intended to be a comprehensive service - to break that absolute principle, to allow individuals to "top-up" their service, was DEFINITIVELY prevented at the formation of the NHS, as it would allow the NHS to be reduced to a band-aid for the poor, and the rich getting *everything*. Before the NHS, only the rich could afford doctors and nurses, you may dislike "equality", but do you not agree that *EVERY* Briton has the right to decent treatment??

--and if not, why not?

the same principle stands for education - why should kids from a poorer background get poorer education, when THEY are the ones who could benefit most? The problem with English State education is NOT 'equality', although it is true that some interpret this wrongly as "equality of result", which is not what education is about in any rational sense, it is because it has been deliberately designed to be intolerable for most children from non-academic family backgrounds. Yes, *deliberately* designed. Students learn more when they are enjoying the lessons, and are motivated to learn. NOT when they are forced through constant, irrelevant testing, and under constant electronic surveillance. And with 35+ pupils to a class.

a bit more "equality" would NOT go amiss in the educational system, but as i said, i totally agree with you that aiming for "equality of result" is a stupid, Marxist, High-Modernist inspired lunacy.

as for the ministers - would you put G W Bush in charge of West-Islam International Peace Accords? People who have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what poverty is like, who have only benefited from the high wealth inequality in the UK, who only care about cutting taxes upon themselves and their friends (remember the inheritance tax move?) - are THESE the best people to sort out the wealth gap, and force the wealthy to invest again in the country to rebuild it, cutting poverty and unemployment? Or do you imagine they would prefer to continue the 'debt upon debt' model?

do you not think there is VERY good reason why the multi-£Bnaire Rupert Murdoch supported the Tories into power?

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Posting:
#54: as someone who travelled to other Lands without a working knowledge of the local lingo (sometimes a *complete* lack of the language!), i find it much easier than most, perhaps, to give travellers to our Lands some leeway. I *enjoy* talking to people from other countries, who look at the UK with very different eyes to what we do, and i *enjoy* helping them with improving their English.

as for the tax - the solution seems pretty darn simple. Make *EVERYONE* pay a "fair" amount of tax! Those immigrants by and large are working and paying a high share of tax, *they* cannot afford professional accountants, and in the main (as i was in Denmark) they are HAPPY to pay the taxes because they ENJOY living in the UK.

again, you are blaming the blameless for faults within our OWN society.

the wealthy are not just expecting not to pay for immigrants - they are also refusing to pay for ANYTHING! As i said to you in yesterday's web-page, an objective view can only come to one conclusion - it is not *immigrants* that are the 'problem' (they work and pay taxes if they are able to), it is the WEALTHY.

do you know what economic policies brought down the Roman Empire? I'll give you a clue - its called "wealth gap", and "tax avoidance by the rich".

you can also add in wars on foreigners...

"The British are fools to themselves."

indeed. We worship, through a Class System, people who despise us.


#57: Barry, do you know that most Americans in the last election believed the US gave more in "foreign aid" than they spent on their military? I can assure you that the 3rd World countries that 'our' multi-nats operate in have a somewhat less rosy view of "British Generosity". Mores the pity.

the most generous act that most Brits do for poor people in other countries is buy Fairtrade. Which, btw, i regard as one of the best basics FOR helping other countries - i am not knocking it in any way.

"PC" sucks - have you read 1984 recently, and what Orwell wrote about 'language reduction' by the Ruling Class? I would also recommend the episode of South Park: "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson".

--

i originally used the slang term for this episode, i may have skirted close to being banned. If you get to watch the episode, you'll probably understand why... :D

#57: kevsey: you're on the ball.

the "event" that is intended, is an Israeli attack upon Iran's "nuclear" facilities, that are expected to be able to make a warhead... in around 5-10 years. The attack will however be well before that, after all - what *actually* is the chance that Iran would nuke the SECOND MOST HOLY SITE IN ISLAM??? (Jerusalem)

none whatsoever. This attack is to prevent Iran from preventing the US from launching a full scale assault upon Iran by holding a warhead to use against the US invasion forces.

btw, just imagine the consequences for the World's economic systems if Iranian oil is removed from the market? Think China would be happy with that?

what do you think the oil price will do? And what kind of profits do you thing the US oil companies will pocket?

and what will that do to eg food production around the World?

the UK is to be prevented from moving to a post-oil permaculture model (as argued passionately by the Greens) - how many people do you imagine the UK's current oil-thirsty agribusiness could support if the oil flow was cut off dramatically?

try not to think about it, everything is cool, we have a Coalition Dictatorship now, moaning is sour grapes, and everything is in "The National Interest". Go back to sleep people, all is well.

all is well.

--isn't it odd that so many people still think the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergers are just fantasies of paranoiacs? Even though the Bilderbergers have been raised in at least ONE Parliamentary Question? (by the MP for Lewis, E. Sussex - Norman Baker).

do people REALLY think this 'banking crisis' was 'accidental', caused by 'market forces'? "Lax regulations led the Market to behave erratically" LOL.

nope, no human intervention or planning, no sirREEE!!!

there you go mim, evidence of paranoia, just for you. Early CHRISTmas present! xxx

post #85 was obviously also intended as a reply to post#70.

#71:

"What did Nostradamus have to say?"

"1986: The Chernobyl Disaster

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water - the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

St. John of Patmos (B.C.E. 81-96), Rev 8:10, 11

It is here that the great conflict will occur - America, Russia...the time is not far off....The Lady [vision of the Virgin Mary] extended her hands in a protective gesture over a region that seemed to me to be the Ukraine. And I saw an infernal fire raging above, to the left of me in Russia. It appeared to me to be the result of a great explosion that erupted from the earth. The lady said: “And so you see, nothing remains." And looked upon what was virtually a deserted plain.

Seen by a girl from Holland between 1945 and 1954"

"Wormwood" is "Chernobyl" in Ukrainian.

https://www.hogueprophecy.com/prophecy/nostradamus-pope.htm


#72: Hearts and Minds?

who needs that when Home Democracy is stifled, and the wars are intended to cause catastrophe in the region? Or - 9/11 was NOT a 'false flag' operation, and our troops are there to "prevent terrorism in the West". Presumably our Great Leaders saw this future, which is why they have sent our armies to Afghanistan so many times in the last 200 years... sure.

"Oh - it's all going awfully well. "

isn't it just.


#73: you got it rofl :D

#76: brossen: the third runway was ALREADY dead in the water - not only was there massive Public opposition (admittedly usually ignored - see "Iraq War"), but also some luvvies had clubbed together to purchase land in the proposed site - to break *that* would have required changing some core laws about Land ownership, weakening our Rulers control. Or else through the courts, taking many years. Also, it should be quite obvious that with Peak Oil passed, the notion of building MORE runways when flying is about to become expensive again is just ludicrous. An easy pledge to make.

as for ID cards - its all yet again a smoke screen. The CORE element of ID cards is a central database, tied into the new biometric passports. THAT is still going ahead, which means all the Govt has to do is pass a requirement for ID cards in the future. It may be in this Parliament, it may be in the next. The ONLY way to ensure its prevention is to scrap that database. How many of those Civil-Liberty-preaching MPs are arguing for the database to be scrapped?

how many times have you heard Cameron and Clegg even MENTION it??

-exactly. I would have thought YOU were cynical enough about politicians and "good intentions" to have looked deeper. Personally, i would say that is more important than speed restrictions?

"When the shine wears off the climate scam Cameron can pin the full blame for any money wasted on eco lunacy firmly on the Lib-Demmics."

lol, from a slightly different perspective on that, i tend to agree. :)


#80: barry, i was pondering just that this afternoon. The thought i was pondering was - WHEN did the UK Political System get turned into an X-Factor competition?

look at the millibands/clegg/camoron - do ANY of them have the gravitas you would expect from a PRIME MINISTER!?!

they all look like hopefuls, all smiles, energy, and fake optimism. I am reminded of the last Xmas's number 1 'competition' - and i also find myself wondering which way all those who chose Rage's single instead of the x-factor bland corporate crap, voted in the General Election?

the memory of those twits saying they chose the x-factor because "He is sweet, cute, and deserves to win", as opposed to any actual creative musical talent, explains a great deal about the last election when you think about it.

"Oh - it's all going awfully well. "

:sobs into hands:

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Posting:
#28: regarding fixed-term parliaments, so have i. Giving the PM the ability to dissolve Parliament whenever they wished was always a somewhat thorny aspect of UK Politics.

BUT!!!! Enforcing a fixed term Govt, ALONG WITH removing the ability for Parliament to remove the executive on a majority vote (which forces the Govt to turn back to the People for their votes), WITHOUT putting in extra Constitutional safeguards against Tyranny (such ...PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION!!!), is absolutely INSANE.

LORD Heseltine said it himself last night - these changes are NOT to improve British Democracy, they are PURELY AND ONLY intended to keep a Conservative Govt in power in the face of enormous Public and Parliamentary opposition! That is the ONLY reason according to him!!

ANY Govt that is truly sincere about "strong and stable Govt" MUST build coalitions amongst many groups within society, it MUST get its way only through reasoned discussion, and it MUST be ready to admit when proposals are shown to be flawed. To change the Constitution to PREVENT opposition, to allow them to IGNORE other opinions, and to maintain their grip on Power when all else in the country (barring Banksters) are screaming for them to go - this is a Govt that has Tyranny as its objective, a Dictatorship that cannot be removed by fair means - and more than willing to use foul means to keep itself in Power.

fixed terms yes - but fixed terms tempered by other arrangements to increase the ability for actors *other* than the PM to dissolve Parliament, a bigger yes.

and NO WAY should fixed terms be used as a shockingly cynical attempt to maintain a deeply unpopular, tyrannous Dictatorship in power.


in my, very very humble, opinion. :/

#74 addendum

Singie

I forgot to mention that on my way back from the Houses of Parliament, I stopped for a few moments in between the Supreme Court and the monument of the formidable figure of Abraham Lincoln standing in front of an armchair to contemplate on the British/American history and their subsequent 'special relationship', particularly concentrating on the future co-operation between the New UK Government and Barack Obama's Administration.

M

Brightyangthing

I've been waiting for the right kind of shift to start taking root and expand perception wise and seem to have glimpsed plentiful evidence of it throughout my journey yesterday.

mim (^_^)

P.S. I realise there will be 'claims' and 'counter claims' but it seems to be that the main thing is to have quiet faith in oneself without trying to become 'Jesus', i.e. the one Jeremy interviewed, or 'gnu' like, etc

If the Labour party genuinely want to get back into power and gain back votes lost to both the Tories and the Lib-Demmics then Andy Burnham is the man to back as the new leader of the opposition. Andy Burnham did a really competent job at health, and unlike the Miliband's he is not tainted by association with the Blair " Corporate Nazi " ideology, or the eco-fascist " Copenhagen " quasi-religion.

#90

Otherwise it will be more of mickey for mickey, 'sofa' for 'sofa', deception for deception and so on, and a few more Birthdays gone.

The times they are a-changin'!

mim

#63 expansion

There was a time when I did toy with the idea of the Queen of the Hearts and even had a pink t-shirt to this effect but then Princess Diana said in her interview with Martin Bashir that she wanted to be one, so I never wore that t-shirt again.

Then, there is Jacques Brel's song 'Ne me quittes-pas', i.e. '/Please/ Don't Leave Me' but this is only a metaphor. And he also sings about never resorting to brute force when trying to reach his 'star'. No wonder he had quite a few female fans, from what I know.

mim

What is 50 + 44?
It is 94!!!!

M

I said yesterday that I would briefly outline my purely chance enrolment at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Before coming to this country I used to listen to the classical radio station where occasionally they played music from around the world, mainly so called author songs/ballads. One day I heard a Russian song, it may have been Zhanna Bichewskaya, I'm not sure, but the sound of the language and the soulful portrayal of whatever the singer was singing about, moved me so much I thought I might one day pursue the study of the language which we were forced to do at school.

Then I worked in a Bistro in Putney. One day, when I was working as a waitress, I overheard a Polish girl talking to a friend of hers about her having already enrolled on the course at SSEES. Being completely unaware of the fact that I might have already had enough qualifications and the right to study in the UK, I asked her for details and in the end followed her steps. Little did I know at the time, I was enrolling for an entry to future Hell.

mim

NEW BRANCH OF BODY-LANGUAGE: 'INTONATION FACTOR'

David Cameron ALWAYS talks down. This has to mean he sees himself as inherently SUPERIOR. Oh dear.

With Marr, today, he referred to there being 'opportunities' for his deputy (aka inferior Clegg) to do things - er - from time to time. Oh dear. I just love the word OPPORTUNITIES. Arbeit macht Gelegenheit! Oh Nick - what have you done?

Dave trumpets: "I am the first Prime Minister to fix the parliamentary term, THUS (selflessly) REDUCING MY OWN POWER." (But not the first, Dave, to pull any stunt going, in order to hang on to power as long as possible, WHILE PLOTTING THE NEXT MOVE.

I think we have GOT OURSELVES ANOTHER ONE. Westminster has laid another bad egg. Well, why not? We love a tradition . . .

Fair report on the Vince Cable/George Osborne love-in and I'm glad that the question of hedge fund regulation I had posted on in these forums was raised.

Nick Cohen later made a verty relevant comment I think when he remarked that never before had a capitalist boom and bust been presided over by a Labour government and as Osborne and Cable now dismantle the banks too big to fail as they must (as recommended for example by Mervyn King) there's not much that Labour can do to stamp its own political identity on the process.

But dismantling banks to big to fail is a done deal. The banks cannot cry foul and say they weren't responsible because plainly they were and in any case they had to be rescued by government and in a couple of cases are still essentially owned by government.

But this sense of guilt and culpability is not one shared by the hedge funds. Although deeply unpopular and unquestionably implicated in the financial crisis as well quite plainly the moving force in the current market turmoil surrounding the Euro they insist essentially that they do no more than oil the machinery of the markets, even that they are a benign force for the good. Remarkably they have mostly survived the financial crisis and have emerged stronger. We grow daily more accustomed to events like election day Thursday when the Dow briefly fell by more than a thousand points on the back of hedging trades initiated in Kansas and executed in London a few hours before our polls closed for the accounts of clients of a hedge fund whose identities we will never know.

Our new masters of the universe are no longer bankers but hedge fund managers (with egos to match judged by the performance of the one on with Kirsty the other week) and on the evidence of election Thursday perhaps not for long them either but rather computer trading algorithms and ultimately the machines executing them themselves.

What we do about regulating global speculation in the financial markets seems to me to be an issue which should divide the political parties and serve to differentiate them and I do hope Newsnight will keep the issue on its radar screen.

Eric Sprott talking about financial lunacy :-

https://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2010/5/15_Eric_Sprott.html

Lunacy here lunacy there lunacy everywhere.

Janet Tavakoli on 'Banging' the US stock market -

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-tavakoli/banging-the-us-stock-mark_b_570239.html

'A few days before the announcement, "bang" the market.'

'Meanwhile, take the heat off of yourself by leaking "fat finger" rumors'

Your such a turn on Janet

THREE TERMS AND OUT - BUT WHY?

Westminster's answer (any party) is always that the electorate are just nit pickers, who don't realise how well it is all going. Let's have a look at that assertion:

We are at war on a dodgy prospectus. Social cohesion is declining. Obscene wealth is rampant. Emotional/psychological health is declining. Scams are the norm in trading and banking. Media promote degradation, bullying, casual sex and casual violence. Mothering is labelled menial.
'Celebrity' is disproportionately lauded. Governance itself - both UK and EU - is CORRUPT.

In short: Westminster governance isn't working. If Westminster knew how to govern, we would be a very different country by now. But we elevate devious gottabes, and reap a continuous whirlwind.

Labour are out of office due to 'all of the above'. Dave will go the same way.

Dave Tweedleband's candidature speech made as much sense as a bladder on a stick and Ted Tweedleband on Andy Marr's show this am sounded like a reforming Ancien Regime aristo; long way to go yet before Labour gets real.

Another example on Marr's show also of the New Interview; ask a convoluted, three part question and when the interviewee draws breath to answer, interrupt them with a presumed answer!