This is so very wrong...

I don't have much time for Simon Jenkins normally. He is usually so arse-full of himself that his manufactured 'opinion' pieces...read: what can I write today that is mildly outrageous that will get people worked up...demonstrate that he has no moorings of any kind other than his belief that having been born with fingers and supplied with a keyboard, he must be a writer.

After today I actually have less time for Mr Jenkins, but cannot let this egregious shite-shower go without a forearm to his smug Swiss Smile. Like most of the MSM British political commentariat, Jenkins is pure arrogance coupled with a striking inability to say anything very interesting. He is consummately preoccupied with the superiority of the political class, and the rest of us can, well, get fucked.

Meandering (I really can't think of a better word) for just over 1,000 words on what an incompetent, impossible nut job Gordon Brown is and what a problem he is for the Labour party that has turned on him, he inserts this insulting absurdity into an otherwise unremarkable filler:

If I were Brown I would tell the whole lot of them to
get lost: "You acclaimed me, you voted for me, you wanted me and now you are
going to have me, the full distance to 2010." Since Blair made Labour's leaders
as impregnable as Castro, Brown's position is very strong. He has never been
overly concerned by the opinions, or interests, of his colleagues, and is
unlikely to start being interested now. Instead he has an ideal opportunity to
practise the old Trotskyite maxim, "weak is strong".

Errr....we didn't vote for him. There was no vote. Brown has no mandate from the voting public as to his prime ministerial role. Gordon Brown was foisted upon the country by a Labour party that has, for all intents and purposes, repudiated their own choice of PM and the manifesto it ran on in the 2005 election that returned the party to power.

Sorry, Jenkins old chap, but this isn't just a little disagreement between members of the Labour politburo we are talking about here. This is about the rest of us. The ones that swept Labour clean out of just about every place they stood for local election. The ones that put a Tory mayor in London. The ones that delivered an eye-watering shot to the nose in Crewe & Nantwich.

If we have to wait another year and a half to vote the rest of these little fuckwits out of office, so be it, but this suggestion, nay encouragement, that this monstrous sociopath do whatever he feels like in the meantime is beyond irresponsible. Brown should be tied to a chair and sedated until the time comes to remove his fat arse constitutionally. He should not be allowed to do or say anything that would cause any kind of action to be taken.

In the same way that a responsible member of the public would likely refrain from directing an arsonist laden with petrol and matches to your digs because they just happened to be there, we would ask that you undertake the same duty of care for the general public you so despise.

In light of Crewe & Nantwich, a little blast from the past...

It's a new day all round...

"When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe?" - Racine

It was tempting, last night watching the election count for Mayor of London, and listening to Ken Livingstone deliver his polite and wistful valedictory to the assembled mass, to think, "Here's a decent chap, one who loved his city and despite how I have disagreed with his views or policies, he's been a credit to London and we're a better city for it."

But I am jerked back to reality quickly when I see this on the BBC website. How poignant that on the day that Ken give's his position over to Boris Johnson, Cuban's are from this day allowed to own personal computers. I can't believe I am writing these words on the 3rd day of May, 2008. Last month they got to have mobile fucking phones and DVD players. This month computers. Whatever next?! Ain't it grand. There is, however, one tiny little detail that bears mentioning. It is still illegal in Cuba to have internet access. You can have a computer, but don't think about jacking in to the net, mate. Still, it's a step.

In November of 2006, this odious little tosser went to Cuba in a show of solidarity with the late Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, presumably to tell the Cubans how great they have it. Well, now maybe they have a chance.



I know, I know, there are so many reasons this vile little man should be doing the Mussolini waltz, and just having him out of office should be reward enough...but there is some poignancy in the fact that on the day he loses the one thing that means the most to him, a nation of people in whose subjugation he is complicit gain something that will in time be a key factor in their future and their freedom.

Fuck off, Ken.

My reaction to the election results...

...can best be summed up by Karl Urban's immortal line from Lord of the Rings...

"Drive them to the river!!!"

Rubbish, indeed...

It appears that on the very day that the shower that is our Labour government was being rubbished by the voters from one end of the country to the other, they were in their own inimitable way trying to slide one by....announcing quietly that the number of councils moving to bi-weekly rubbish collection has risen to 169, affecting 20 million taxpayers.

The councils themselves say it is the government that is bullying them to force the changes through. Their dirty little secret is that it is European Union legislation that requires this action in the face of stiff fines that will be levied from 2010.

Better management of our rubbish is the answer, we are told. Recycle, recycle recycle!!!

Wednesday last I stood in my first floor bedroom window at 6.45 am and watched as the bin men came along, as they do. Pulling the wheelie bins onto the kerbside and setting the two recycling bins (full, I will have you know) next to them. As the lorry approached, the bin man managing the process flipped open the wheelie bin lid and emptied both recycling containers in with the rubbish. He then set the bin onto the lifting arms of the lorry and emptied the whole lot.

I have rung the council twice asking for an explanation. I am told someone will be getting back to me. After the results of the council elections are tallied I assume.

Errr, what's this then??

Global warming has come to a halt (eh, we knew that) according to a new study published in scientific journal Nature. And it's based on observable evidence - evidence that shows this cooling is part of a natural cycle of warming and cooling is likely to last until 2015. And as always, they are on top of it at EU Referendum....