BilloTheWisp

So when is the English Debate?

Billothewisp eagerly watched the Great Good and Extremely Well Fed engage in their little televised tryst over running the country.

At the end, Billothewisp watched the nice Mr Dimble-Thingy proudly announce the other debates that will be taking place.

There will be one in Scotland, broadcast live (Rah Rah Hoo-Ray!)
The will be one in Wales broadcast live ( Yip Yiop Yo!)
There will be one in Northern Ireland broadcast live ( Rah rah hurrah!)

Billothewisp eagerly awaited the finale in this roll call of nations within these islands. With glowing eyes he stopped filing his teeth and wrung his furry little hands in expectation. He watched like an obedient child about to be rewarded with sweeties for being good and not complaining.

But then Mr Dimble-Dumble simply went on to the next item, telling us that UKIP and the Greens would have a small slot on the following news broadcast.

Billothewisp was puzzled. There was something missing. In fact it was more than a something. It was a whole nation. An Identity spanning 50 million souls.

Billothewisp scratched his head. Puzzled and confused he wondered about the missing nation. He watched the news in case it may appear there. All he got was a virtual repeat of the leaders debate and about 90 seconds of Nigel Farage. Even the Greens did not seem to make an appearance (or maybe they were so irrelevant he just didn't notice).

Still no mention of the missing nation.

Billothewisp racked his poor brain. He had vague memories that the missing nation was actually, quite famous. Funnily, he vaguely remembered it had a long history and a football team that didn't win much. It had a name. But what was that name?

Suddenly Billothewisp looked up with a start. Oh yes! Now he remembered. It was the word that was always to be avoided. The identity that must be denied and derided lest the Proles push past the crappy football team and seek their own governance under its name.

Billothewisp shuddered and gulped. With his heart racing he dared to speak it out loud.
“~~England~~” he said.
He furtively looked around him in case others had heard. But they were all too slam dunked by four cans each of Old Speckled Hen to notice.

Billothewisp had that old feeling of betrayal that swam up whenever he heard or mouthed the name of the non-country with its no-identity and no-representation and no-parliament and non-assembly.

He comforted himself with another Old Speckled Hen Suddenly the world was a little rosier. The sense of betrayal lessened. He replayed the Weasel words of the divine three and felt comforted. For the moment the loss of his non-nationhood receded from his thoughts. He went back to filing his teeth to jaunty little points.

But deep down, he knew that sooner or later, the issue of ~~English~~ sovereignty and identity would have to be addressed, however much the ruling elite wished to avoid it.

Billothewisp knew that one day, the nice Mr Dimble-Dumbly would have to add to his role call of national debates. That there would have to be a debate for the ~~English~~ on ~~English~~ issues.

Or there will be hell to pay.

I Am Sorry Too, Gordon

Billothewisp would also like to offer his grovelling apologies to the population of our ravished little land.

Taking a lead from Gordon our great magnifico, let me say:

Sorry Sorry Sorry Grovel Squirm dribble wriggle whine.

Oh God. I AM SO SORRY.
Really.
Honest.

I am so grief stricken.
So overwhelmingly contrite and guilt ridden I can only repeat:

Sorry.

If you wish you can watch me flagellate myself (that is flagellate - you pervert)

I will cut myself with knives, gouge my flesh, smash my head against a wall anything to show my penance.

Sorry, sorry sorry

Oh GOD. I am so so so so so so Sorry.

But my sorrow is somewhat different to yours Gordon.

You are sorry because you were caught being a duplicitous conniving arrogant elitist bastard.

I am sorry because I voted for your bunch of criminally negligent do-nothings at the last election. (I hasten to add that is not a mistake I intend to repeat.)

So Gordon, after you are consigned to some powerless (but no doubt lucrative) backwater I will still be sorry, along with about 60 million other of your victims.

So to you Gordon, I can only that I am really sorry that you ever got to a position of authority.

As to my voting aberration during the last election, I must say to my fellow sour faced little ~~Englanders~~:

Sorry.

So Why Exactly, is Gillian Duffy a Bigot?

The Dear Leader has got himself into a spot of bother.

The trouble is, our Gordon is so accustomed to dishing out the laws and edicts it must come as a shock when one of the proles starts asking pointed questions. Especially if they are questions about the Great Taboo.

And what is the Great Taboo?

It is, of course, the topic that must not be mentioned.

It must be avoided at all costs.Any queries must be crushed.

Anyone querying the great taboo must be vilified, smeared, derided and despised.

Gillian Duffy, a working class grandmother and pensioner crossed the line.

She mentioned the Great Taboo. That was her sin.

To be fair, she also gave the Dear Leader a good kicking about several other pertinent topics. But without doubt, Gordon Browns vilification and dismissal of Gillian Duffy was triggered by her mentioning the Great Taboo.

So what did she say?

This link offers the full transcript.

The words that propelled this otherwise straightforward, compassionate and dare I say,"normal" person to Bigot status were these:

"You can't say anything about the immigrants because you're saying that you're... but all these eastern Europeans what are coming in, where are they flocking from?"

That is it. That is all. No more.

The Great Taboo was mentioned.

Suddenly Gillian Duffy is a bigot, racist, Nazi or whatever.

The Dear Leader, in response, huffily announced that 1 million Brits have gone to Europe which, in his rather bizarre world, somehow compensates for the several million immigrants (some legal, some not) who have deluged our shores.

These are his words in reply:

"A million people have come from Europe but a million British people have gone into Europe. You do know that there's a lot of British people staying in Europe as well."

Dare I suggest that most of the Brits staying in Europe are retirees or in high demand jobs. Essentially they are fleeing our ravaged little ~~England~~ and seeking sanctuary across the water.

The million(s) coming in are at best (like the Poles) looking for work and contributing through taxes. Although it can only be unhealthy for both ~~England~~ and Poland to have such a large number of workers dislocated from their own country. Like it or not, it does also mean less work for the locals.

Then at worst, there are the parasitic and narrow minded who actively despise our culture, while forever extending out their hand and demanding more.

So there you have it. The Great Taboo.

So perhaps we should say to Gillian Duffy:
How dare you?
How dare you question the unmentionable?
How dare you bring up the topic the cognoscenti wish to hide and obscure?

Perhaps she should be warned that her words were bordering on a hate crime.
Maybe she should be questioned, examined, watched.

Just in case.

A Wonderfully Subversive Election Video

This is so damn good I had to put a link to it here.
This video has probably changed the way I will vote. It is just so ruthlessly accurate.
Unless you are happy and content with our present ugly political status-quo, watch this today.

Lib-Dems: The Return of the Care Bears.

Or is it the "My Little Ponies"?

After returning to our ruined little ~~England~~ from far away I made the mistake of looking up a synopsis of Lib-Dem policies. All I can say to you my fellow sour faced little ~~Englanders~~ is God help us all if this bunch of tosh gets anywhere near legislation.

Really, I would expect better from a group of nine year olds. Some of this junk simply beggars belief.

First off I will blame the cause of my unpleasant foray into Lib-Dem dream-world on this post by Ian Dale It describes the proposed Lib-Dem tax break for illegal immigrants. Basically, if you evade our laughable boarder protection for ten years, you do not have to repay any of the tax you have avoided (ker-ching!). Illegal immigrants only will be eligable for this concession. Nasty little ~~Englanders~~ need not apply. In fact YOU will be paying for this. So bugger off to the back of the queue as normal.

Regrettibly, after reading Ians post, I then Googled this Lib-Dem policy synopsis.

I was going to make a list of the most ludicrous and vacant of these touchy-feely pie-in-the-sky statements but then I read the section marked "Environment".

Then I got worried. Very worried.

There is crass stupidity elsewhere in their policy synopsis. But in the Environment section it gets worse. Much, much worse. So bad in fact, I fear for the future safety of our frail and elderly.

Get this:

"Setting a target for 40 per cent of electricity will come from renewable sources by 2020 rising to 100 per cent by 2050"

This is totally unachievable.

It is a pair of targets that are so ludicrous you have to question the technical ability (if not the sanity) of anyone suggesting them.

Worse than that, by implying it is achievable they will end up killing people. These victims will mainly old ladies who will freeze to death when the inevitable power cuts stop their gas or electric heating from working.

Now get these two further statements:

"Blocking any new coal-fired power stations"
"Rejecting a new generation of nuclear power stations"

So how exactly are they planning to generate electricity? Obviously no-one has told them that those mighty wind turbine thingys don't actually produce much power. Especially when you need it. Are they going to rely on gas? From the generous Mr Putin no doubt?

I had to take a break in writing this to cool down. This is just so bloody unbelievable. Do these people have any contact with reality at all?

I am really, really, worried that people with apparently no understanding of basic physics let alone real world energy generation and managment are "planning" our future energy strategy. The crass incompetence and cowardice of the Labour party has got us into a situation where there is likely to be real difficulties in avoiding power cuts in the next 5 years anyway. This lunacy from the Liberals would make things much worse.

To ensure this countries energy requirements are met we really must have a set of policies based on the real world and what can actually be achieved.

Ridiculous fashion statements will not suffice.

Normal Abuse Resumes

Dear spotty, ugly, fellow little ~~Englanders~~, BilloTheWisp has returned from his hols in ethernet challenged parts. Internet access is now assured (I hope). Abuse and slander will shortly follow.
More love and Kisses
Billothewisp

Temporary Interruption

Unfortunately I have internet difficulties at the moment. Normal abuse/sarcasm/wit will be resumed A.S.A.P
Love & Kisses
BilloTheWisp

Spoil it for England

My dear dissolusioned fellow little ~~Englanders~~, how should we address the choice presented to us during the forthcoming election? How should we choose between the bland tasteless porridge of spin and despair that is offered to us?

Maybe you are one of the millions of fair minded ~~Englanders~~ who is now in such a state of despair about our country they will choose not to vote. If that is you, read on.

First lets look at the sorry options we have.

Should we vote for King Gordo?, the Eternal Leader, the Nokia Ballista? The latter day McBeth? The Macawber-esque financial failure?

Or should we choose Posh Dave who has made such a hash of this election campaign thatt he has turned a dead cert into a possible catastpohe.

There is Thingy in the Liberal Doo-Dahs who is simply all things to all men. The political colour equivalent to Hearing-aid beige.

The host of small parties may be honest, but you may consider that they lack gravity.

So what can you do if the small parties do not attract you and the larger ones make you want to vomit?

You are (quite rightly) outraged by the fraud, corruption, hidden agendas and sheer incompetence. You despise the jobs for the boys, the champagne socialism, the privilege and control freakery.

So what are we to do? How can we show our rage? How can we breath life into the bloated corpse of our democracy?

Firstly, always try and find someone worth voting for, but if there is really no one you can stomache voting for, why not indulge in a little constructive bureaucratic vandalism.

Spoil your ballot paper.

Write "Spoilers" or "Thieves" or whatever you like across the paper. But remember the blushes of the nice lady doing the counting.

People who do not use their ballot paper aree ignored. But imagine the effect if there are hundreds of thousands of spoilt ballot papers. The crooks will have to take notice.

So whatever you do, whether you vote or spoil your ballot paper get out there on election day.

At the very least you can register your displeasure.

The Edge Of Space

Doesn't it just make your heart sing when you hear about someone like Rob Harrison with his high altitude balloon project featured in the Telegraph here.

Essentially this guy has waved two fingers at the "can't do" "shan't do" culture that infests our broken little land, and has gone on to produce something quite spectacular.

And all for 500 quid.

Today he has NASA calling and is something of an international celebrity.

I bet the control freaks who feast off the bureaucracy that usually stifles such endevour are blowing blood vessels.

All I can say is: Well done mate! Excellent!

There are others who are also breaking the mould and pushing the edge. See Here for another HAB (High altitude balloon) group that has some spectacular results.

Up and down the country there is an army of grubby little ~~English~~ engineers, in their sheds, plotting against the dead hand of state lethargy that infects these shores.

Not everyone gets to break the mould like Rob, but you can guarantee that his success will inspire others to even greater feats.

If anything will dig this country out of the morass it has got itself into, it is barnstorming technical invention.

Each spectacular achievement is a hammer blow against the current ~~English~~ mind set of apathy and technological despair.

Maybe each industrious little shed in this country should have a new plaque on its door.

“The Recovery Starts Here”

Redcar Steelworks. An 11th Hour Rescue?

It looks like there is a consortium trying to take back the Redcar steel works from the hands of TATA.

That's the good news. (See Gazette article here )

But TATA will still keep the coke works. This means they maintain a strangle-hold over the steel works. A functional Redcar would be a direct competitor with other TATA owned steel production plants.

Even so, lets hope the consortium make it work. The hard working people of Redcar deserve a bit of good news for a change.

A modicum of support from the government would not go amiss either. If the government implemented some controls over the predatory flooding of the local market with foreign steel, Redcar could prosper.

But don't hold your breath.

Cuts for the Old. Foreign Aid Ring Fenced

I cannot believe this. Our political leaders have all queued up to emphasise how they are going to ring fence foreign aid. Now Clegg wants to cut winter fuel payments to the over 60's. See BBC news report here

I must be missing something here. Who comes first? British people at the end of their working lives or foreign governments?

Most of the aid recipients are massively corrupt. Others like India and China are running huge budget surpluses. They have the money, but they choose not to spend it on their poor. They let us do it instead.

I appreciate that the winter fuel payments for the under 65's may have to go due to the catastrophic economic situation we are in, but surely at least some of the £8 billion foreign aid budget should go first.

If you want to see why people in this ruined little land of ours cannot be bothered to vote then this must be a iconic example.

With this we see our political leaders displaying exactly how unimportant they regard the common people in this country. They seem all yearn to strut about on the World stage showing how generous and globalised they are, while their own people can go to hell.

Its about GREED Not Green (Stupid)

Hat tip the S Margetson, a commentator on Times article here. Their comment was so good I nicked part of it for the title.

Previously in my posts about wind turbines I have made the badly wrong assumption that they only produced about a third of their rated power. (i.e. a capacity factor of 33%)

No chance. Not even close. Please accept my apologies.

At best look to about 25% more typically 15-22% BUT that is averaged over the whole year. So that will include times, when they are running well but nobody wants the power (like at night). It will include periods (like the recent winter) when there was virtually no wind for long periods.

If you look at the comment in the above article by Roger Young you will see that when we were in the depths of winter the actual out put of one wind farm approach 0.0%.
Chris Pavelly also makes some sharp observations on this farce in the Times article

The propaganda bullshit sprayed around by the blinkered supporters of these white elephants is simply based on wishful thinking. If they are allowed to keep on driving this nonsense forward we will end up with insufficient and unaffordable energy supply. Then there will be a cold snap and people will die.

These things are unreliable ugly and economically unviable. They are merely fashion extras for a morally bankrupt government and a ruthlessly greedy utility sector.

It is time we learned the lesson. Stop this ridiculous waste of money and resources now. Otherwise we will end up in real trouble, without enough real generating capability.

Christmas, Turkeys and their Children

Unite, through their charismatic and vocal leaders have led the BA cabin crew into a strike that will at the very least, cripple BA for years. It could well spell the end for the company.

Perhaps those swayed by the likes of Charlie Wheelan and Tony Woodley should remember the fate of BMC, aka British Leyland, aka Austin Rover, aka Rover Group.

Each name change was a desperate and vain attempt to restore the brand name from the fatal strike and self interested tarnish that beset our car manufacturing in the 1970's

At the bitter end, Rover Group products were pretty good. Its work force dedicated and committed. But the brand never recovered from the petty strikes and stoppages of the Wilson/Callaghan era.

The final nail in the coffin for Rover Group was a government disinterested in its own people and industries.

Rover Group died.

The innocent children of the self interested strikers of the 70's truly inherited the sins of their fathers. They now collect the dole while their fathers collect their pensions.

Perhaps this will be the sad fate of BA in ten years from now.

If not sooner.

At least the cabin crews will have their perks and pensions.

As for their children. Who Knows?

Exploiting the Public Purse

So, you thought the MP's expenses scandal was bad? Forget it. It was mere trivia.

You were appalled by cash for honours? Believe me. It was just a set of grubby little deals.

If you really want to see an appalling and exploitative manipulation of public funds for party political advantage, if you want to see a cynical theft of public money to engorge a corrupt ruling elite, see this Telegraph article here.

The Telegraph describes the devious circular transfer of funds from the public purse to Unite and then to the Labour party's coffers. It calls it money-laundering and that is not far from the truth. Whatever way you look at it, it can be barely legal and is an appalling indictment of this corrupt politburo that controls our sinking economy.

People who indulge in such appalling manipulation of public funds for their own benefit have no place in government. It is time for them to be booted out.

Snog Marry Avoid

OK, I admit it. Its a fair cop.

I watch “Snog Marry Avoid”. I find it entertaining and mildly amusing.

There I've said it.

Now I will have to live with the shame.

It's on BBC 3 on Thursday night. Basically it takes two or three twenty-something women who have, to say the least, lost control of their urge to wear make-up.

The essence of the program revolves around giving each girl a make-under.

This involves wiping off the tango coloured fake tan, removing the bizarre piercings and generally turning them into natural ~~English~~ beauties.

It is entertaining and has a feel-good factor. But, while it is a valid piece of entertainment, should this be really be funded by a compulsory tax (aka the television licence) just to pad out the listings on underwatched BBC 3?

If there are places for programs like “Snog Marry Avoid” (and there are) why can these not be financed by either adverts or subscription?

Anyway, while I have to pay to keep the wealthy BBC elite in the style and comfort they have become accustomed to, I will continue to watch "Snog Marry Avoid".

In fact, if the glorious day ever comes where the BBC are brought to heel I will miss “Snog Marry Avoid”. But at least my basic freedom of choosing what pay to watch will be restored, and the BBC will be forced to return to true public service broadcasting.

I imagine the “Snog Marry Avoid” format would migrate to its proper place on a pay-to-view or advert supported channel.

Even then I would probably continue in my shame and watch and enjoy “Snog Marry Avoid”. It is just so, tackily good!

Unemployment Statistics: When Less is More

Today it was announced that the quarterly unemployment figures showed a fall of 33,000 to 2.45 million. (See BBC Here) and (New Statesman Here)

So why is this not good news?

Unfortunately there are several sad but straight forward reasons.

1.The number actually in work fell by even more (54,000).
2.99,000 students left the labour market and so were excluded from the figures
3.The number of long term unemployed continued its relentless rise to 687,000
4.A massive 90,000 jobs have been rapidly “created” in the public sector

The bottom line is that 147,000 people left the labour market. 99000 went into further education and the rest just stopped bothering. On top of this the figures are further distorted by an extra 90,000 jobs magically created in the public sector. Many of these will be short term and are unlikely to last long after the election, whoever wins.

Read This Blogger Here and get an idea of the cynical manipulation of the statistics by the use of careful wording to define who gets included and who gets excluded from the jobless figures.

It would be really great if this country started to pull itself out of the mire. But until things change and we start building real employment and not just manufacturing extra fake jobs in the public sector or forcing kids into 3 more years living off their parents, we are going to go downhill.

We need honest politicians not spin doctors. We also need to be told the truth about how bad things are. Until we know the truth about how bad unemployment is, and what we need to do to remedy the problem, things will not improve.

The Great Petroleum Swindle

Incredible as it may seem, Billothewisp is losing faith in the honesty of the Great Good and Extremely Well Fed who benificiently rule over this ruined little ~~England~~ of ours.

Particularly the current price of fuel smells strongly of decomposing fish and rotten cabbage. See Guardian Here and Live Oil Prices Here

Today the AA announced that petrol would reach 1.20 per litre. That is even higher than it reached at the peak of the oil price rises of July 2008.

But then, in 2008, oil was $146 a barrel. Today it is a little over half that at $82 a barrel.

Even with Gordon “The Abyss” Browns devaluation of the Pound the figures scream robbery.

Lets do some arithmetic.

If we use the £1.20/litre on July 2008 as the bench mark ($146 per barrel with exchange rate of $2 /£1)

Excluding the devaluation, the price of a litre today is about the same. (£1.20)

Factor in the devaluation (now about $1.50 / £1) we get the price equivalent what £1.20 should be if Gordon Brown hadn't wrecked the economy. That is 90p litre.

Working out the price difference, compensating for Gordo's cock ups. (i.e. being "nice" to the Dear Leader)

146 = price barrel oil 2008
1.2 = price litre petrol in 2008
82 = price barrel oil now
0.9 = price litre petrol now adjusted from 1.20 to accomodate Browns devaluation

146/1.2 = x * 82/0.9 where x is the rate of increase

x = (146 * 0.9) / (82 * 1.2) = 1.335.

So even after accommodating the devaluation, compared to the price of a barrel of oil, petrol is now over 33% more expensive than at its peak in July 2008.

If you are less sympathetic to Browns incompetence and ignore the devaluation, the price increase compared to crude oil price shoots up to a staggering rise of 78%.

Some fresh bullshit I heard on the TV explained this was due to a refining capacity problem.

What a load of bollocks.

There was and has been no shortage of refining capacity now or any appreciable change since 2008. Who do they think they are kidding?

The truth of the matter is that we are being screwed.

Top of the list of those robbing us is our Dear Leader For Eternity Gordon Brown. Just to make it as bad a possible he now plans another 3p hike. No doubt so he can squander some more of our money before we get a chance to throw him out.

This cosy cartel among the Oil barons is cynically exploiting the incompetence of Browns hopeless government. We are the ones getting fleeced while those who are supposed to be in charge stand around with their hands in the pockets. Happily counting the extra tax revenue that just happens their way.

Don't expect any fair play on fuel any time soon.

Financial Honesty from David Cameron

The Conservative party are to outline their strategy to tackle the immense debt before the election. See Guardian here

Financially this country is screwed. It is going to take a lot of pain and suffering to get things back from the precipice.

David Cameron is going to tell us what he is going to do, whereas today, the odious Ed balls was prattling on about flushing even more cash down the toilet.

I hope Cameron doesn't spare us the gruesome details. It is important that folk know how bad things are.

If as a consequence of this honesty the electorate sticks its head in the sand and votes for Brown and his cronies then they/we deserve the consequences of our democracy.

It would be far, far better in the long term for this country for Cameron to lose honestly than to win (or even worse nearly win) on a fudge.

So I hope for all of us that Cameron really does lay it on the line.

Tell it like it is Dave. Someone has to be honest and do the right thing.

The Liberals New Secret Weapon

Thingy, who runs the Liberal Doo-Dahs along with his dad (the old bald bloke who acts as their treasury spokesman) has a secret weapon.

In these days of dull self-serving politicians, the Liberals have now have something very different. A real vote winning candidate with extensive experience in a popular area of the media.

Her name is Anna Arrowsmith a 38 year old film maker. She is their candidate in Gravesham in Kent. (See Mirror Here) and (See Times Here)

The secret weapon in the Liberals armoury is Ms Arrowsmiths particular area of media expertise.

Low budget pornography.

We can all imagine how politically disinterested young men will be particularly enthralled by Ms Arrowsmiths offerings. If she was put in charge of the Liberal party propaganda machine then they would be unassailable.

Maybe if the Liberals exploit this new area of expertise, others will be forced to follow. Perhaps we could watch the Labour party doing to each other what they have been doing to the country for the last 13 years.

Truly, Party political broadcasts would never be the same again.

English Railways and English Taxes

It was enchanting to hear that our Scottish cousins, particularly those in the SNP are keen to get a high speed rail link extended into Scotland. (See BBC Article Here)

Evidently such a link would reduce the journey time between London and Edinburgh to three hours. Although, to me, this seems rather counter-intuitive. Why would Scottish Nationalists wish to be closer to London?

But never mind.

One day soon, as many Scots desire, Scotland may become an independent country.

Maybe then the non country of ~~England~~ will also get its own parliament. Strange as it may seem, this ~~English~~ parliament would be primarily concerned with ~~English~~ issues. Including ~~English~~ infrastructure projects and ~~English~~ taxes.

Of course the Scottish parliament would in turn be responsible for Scottish infrastructure projects and Scottish taxes.

Anyway should this all happen, I hope that tradition will dictate that we, the grubby despised Little ~~Englanders~~ will extend the hand of friendship and camaraderie to our noble Scottish cousins.

Yes! We will help build the rail link all the way up to Edinburgh.

Immediately after the cheque has cleared.

No More the World Role

I have never figured out why the Labour party is so enslaved to the Victorian concept of a “World Role” for our Island. Take this article by Ed Milliband FT Article Here.

You have ask:

Why?
Whats the point?
Does this make our countries safer, fairer or more worthwhile?
Do we need to be the worlds policeman?
Was it absolutely necessary to fight 5 wars in the last 13 years?

True, in the past we were the driving force for World Order. We controlled the Worlds economy and progress. But that was then.

Do we really want that now?

Or is this just another piece of control freakery from our Labour political elite?

According the noted historian, Simon Schama, during the 150 years the British Empire dominated the world, the whole of the empire always ran at a financial loss. Not one single year did the colonies and dominions ever produce a net profit. The flow of funds and resources was one way. Out of Britain.

In reality, the 19th /early 20th century British empire was funded and built by Welsh miners, ~~English~~ engineers and Scottish ship builders. In other words, by the the working class of these islands. Not by the mythical plundering of foreign lands and their populations.

The 19th century working class was really working and genuinely down-trodden. They were the true victims of empire. Their hard labour and wealth has been used, (and so often squandered) funding the development of far away lands. Places like Zimbabwe, Yemen, Uganda, Burma. A small sample of many countries now laid low by the corruption and greed of their rulers.

Milliband is wrong.

We can and should (if necessary) turn our backs on this futile grandstanding. In our current financial circumstances, we should certainly do no more than countries like Germany and France.

Particularly, we should not use our soldiers as a blood sacrifice to give Brown, Milliband and others a shabby meaning to their Global ambitions.

We need to close our doors. We must reduce the haemorrhage of money flowing from the country. We need to look inwards and solve our own desperate problems, rather than torturing ourselves with the problems of others.

In essence, we do need to put the people of this land first for a change.

Gas Price Cuts:
It Must Be Spring!

Billothewisp suspects our great and illustrious masters have much more pressing problems than worrying how much the plebs get ripped off by gas companies. After all winter is now nearly at an end and there is an election in the air.

Funny though it may seem, those wonderfully honest and non exploitative gas companies are all announcing cuts to the price of their gas, just as the daffodils start to poke their little yellow heads up through the frost. (See Here)

What a wonderful surprise for the general riff-raff who have been hammered by massive and unwarranted bills over the last six months.

What a coincidence though that the cheap gas will only come on tap as the temperature rises and the demand goes down. Such a pity for the average peasant who just won't need the gas, just as the price becomes less expensive..

Only a cynic would guess that the closeness of spring and summer could be the driving force for the downturn in the price. Only an even bigger cynic might well suspect the prices will go back up again come October, just as the demand rises.

More Money for Scotland
Say the Liberals

News from the Liberal Doo-Dahs suggest more money should be spent on Scotland. As you may remember, the Liberals, are led by .. Er, Um...Thingy.

That is the infinitely forgettable young suit who, with his dad, rules over our Mung bean eating friends in the Liberal Thingy-whatists.

A brief diversion from the topic of this post follows, as I try to remember his name. Avoid as you wish.

---diversion starts here---

But what is his name? Something to do with Christmas as I recall. Rudolph? Santa? No.
Something about hell also breaks into my memory. Daemon? No? Nick? Yes!

Its Nick!

As in old Nick or St. Nick!!

But Nick What?

Ah Yes! Its Nick Griffin!

But no. No. That's not right. Same sort of meaningless drivel but he is more nasty and less woolly than our Liberal Doo-Dah Friend.

A derogatory electronics term comes to mind: Kludge. Yes that's describes the Liberal ping-pongs.
Nick Kludge, Klodge,Kleege, Cleege, Clegg. Clegg!

Its Clegg!

Nick Clegg Rules over the non-carnivorous plant hugging Liberal-wot-sits

But never mind he is not the point of concern about this post.

---diversion ends here---

The report concerning more money for Scotland is in this BBC report here.

It looks like another of the Liberal Bing-Bongs wants to spend even more money on our Scottish brethren. This is despite the Scottish being given 117% of the funding per head of the ~~English~~ riff-raff. Courtesy of the Barnett formula.

Of course this unfairness does not really matter. The ~~English~~ have no parliament or representation so how are they going to complain?

As one of the unrepresented ~~English~~ riff-raff may I suggest to my ruffian ~~English~~ colleagues that they give our erstwhile and ferociously sincere Liberal bing-bongs a piece of their mind. They could do this while being door-stepped during the coming electioneering.

One topic for discussion may be the selective amnesia the bing-bongs have concerning the financial and electoral injustice done us sour faced cruel little ~~Englanders.~~

Remind them how close they have come to political oblivion in the past.

Then further remind them that the ugly and despised ~~English~~ have long political memories. Especially about those who have swindled them out of their fair share of resources in order to buy votes and toady up to others in our Island.

I expect their eyes will glaze over and you, my ~~English~~ barbarian associates, will be regarded as assorted forms of lunatic. But never mind.

Unlike Thingy and the rest of the Liberal Ding-Dongs, ~~English~~ democracy has a future.

Why has this country of ours been so badly treated? Why have the ~~English~~ become the despised whipping boys and cash cows for the rest of these islands?

When they have to answer such questions, then maybe our lettuce crunching friends in the Liberal flip-flops may get the idea that each part of these island deserve the same representation, financial allocation and fair play.

We Need Teachers
Not Academic Elites

Labour has been an utter catastrophe for education. But Cameron has got it wrong by suggesting teachers should only be chosen from an academic elite.

Academic ability, beyond that required to deliver the syllabus has no correlation with the ability to teach.

Many of the finest teachers in the 50's and 60's had no degree at all, but had charisma and enthusiasm. Many of the worst teachers today have excellent qualifications but little enthusiasm or life experience.

Increasing the requirements to teach will simply narrow the pool of available talent down further. The net result will be more and more kids being taught by untrained teaching assistants.

Academic ability and the ability to teach are not the same thing.

Fishy Economics at the BBC

So our grossly underpaid director general (£800K per annum) has announced savings of £600 million at the BBC. To achieve a saving which amounts to 20% of the BBC's annual poll tax income, two virtually unknown radio stations are to go. Half of the content of the BBC website is also to go.

I don't know if I am just confused by high finance but really, this does not sound like real cuts of £600 million to me.

Could it be that our magnificent BBC establishment are pulling the wool over our eyes?

The DG also proudly announced that 90p out of every pound will go to “content”.

A cynical little voice in my head makes me inquire as to whether this could be achieved by giving a few hidden pay rises to the already grossly overpaid luvvies.

Think about it.

The more it costs to produce “content” the less as a percentage is the cost of buildings and infrastructure. Hence by having a few more of the cognoscenti on £200K will soon make the BBC more "efficient".

To me, the whole dark self serving edifice of the BBC stinks of corruption. This cost cutting is just a devious little ruse to deflect criticism about the disgusting rises in the licence fee during a time of national crisis.

Subliminal Propaganda

I awoke this morning to a set of adverts on the radio. Not nice at the best of times.

I counted. There were six.

Of these, four (yes four) were self promotional government propaganda.

Of the other two, one was for Vauxhall vans. (fair enough)

The other was for a foreign car manufacturer bragging about how you/he could extract £2000 of my taxes for your old banger.

One of the pieces of government propaganda one was actually repeated. Once at the beginning of the ad slot and once at the end.

How do these crooks get away with this?

This country is supposed to be broke and yet there is plenty of dosh floating around to buy the Labour party a little more subliminal promotion at our expense.

How much do they spend on this stuff? I know the grotty little global warming diatribe cost £6 million. I imagine this trite junk costs about the same.

Have we got money to burn?

There seems to have been a noticeable upturn in this dirty political self promotional rubbish. The government sponsored propaganda is everywhere. I do not know how to tap into this but there must be a way of seeing if this is (as I suspect) being ramped up as the election nears. Anyone know a way?

True Believers and Earthquakes

Now our true believers are blaming earthquakes on Global Warming. Not only that, but any other climatic abnormality is also up for grabs. See Green Fudge Post Here

This nonsense does a great disservice to Climate Science. It even maligns the average believer in AGW. But it also highlights what anyone questioning the science is up against. Essentially the science really doesn't matter any more. Now it is faith and conviction.

It might seem somewhat extreme to draw parallels to the Nazi's but the parallel exists. The whole basis of Nazism was a bogus but deeply held conviction of racial superiority. This was in turn was based on an unquestioned and extreme theory of Eugenics. Whether the Nazi's concept of Eugenics had any real scientific basis was totally irrelevant. After Hitler was in power the Science was Settled. The Germans were the Master race.

First of all I do not wish to insult Heidi, the author of the Green Fudge post. I expect she is an otherwise charming and kind person. But her blinkered unquestioning belief in what she has been told concerns me. A willingness to blame anything on Global Warming in order to support your belief is a step on the slippery slope.

Blaming earthquakes and random calamities on Global Warming and then by inference pointing the accusing finger at those who seek to challenge the concept of catastrophic global warming is worryingly reminiscent of how every problem/disaster/crime in Nazi Germany was placed at the feet of the Jews and political dissidents. We all know how that ended.

The Science is Never Settled.
Consensus must always be held up to scrutiny.
Questions must always be asked.
Criticism must always be allowed.
Data must always be available for analysis.

We ignore or forget these truths at our peril.

BBC Thief and Destroyer

I may be getting old and grey. But I still love artistic and technical innovation. Likewise I am always going to hate bloated corporate theft.

You may remember an earlier post praising the innovative radio station “Amazing Radio” Post Here

This small station only broadcasts unsigned musicians. The radio station is innovative and fresh, and so are the artists and the presenters. As with all things, some will be to your taste, other less so. That's what comes from innovation. It is a breathtakingly new approach. Especially when compared to the morally and artistically bankrupt self serving monoculture presented by the BBC.

You can find Amazing Radio on-line Here and also on DAB radio.

Now the ugly BBC has tried to steal the idea. (Guardian article here) This threatens the viability of Amazing radio.

This is not the first time this has happened.

In the broadcasting industry many small production companies have seen their niche overwhelmed by an intrusion by the BBC. The small companies have to make a profit. The BBC has money to burn. This arrogance has, at times, been so outrageous that even the supine BBC Trust has had to haul in the BBC. Although when it suites the BBC, the BBC Trust has simply been ignored. (see Guardian here)

The BBC was set up as a public service. But instead it now acts like the ugliest of corporate companies. It can snuff out any competitors by simply using its huge resources to destroy the competitors financial viability. It wealds massive political and economic control over our nation, where it should have none.

This ugly self serving monster must have its wings clipped. It is laughable to regard this demon as a public service. It is no longer under any form of impartial control and is acting like a state within a state.

The BBC is clearly an enemy of innovative companies like Amazing Radio. But today the mere presence of the BBC is now a major disincentive to new innovative production companies considering setting up in this country. They do not want to risk having their ideas poached by the monster in the wings.

It has now reached such a point that the self serving arrogance of the BBC, backed by its own compulsory poll tax, not only threatens independent innovation but threatens fair and diverse debate as well.

Today the BBC can only be regarded as an enemy of innovation and possibly of democracy itself.

It must be brought to account.

John Redwood: On The Nail

Until now I have never really paid much attention to John Redwood.

But Blimey! The bloke has some breath-takingly incisive comment on his blog.

It is really good to see someone from high office who actually seems to understand the need to actually “make things” here in ~~England~~.

As a couple of examples:

First off, take this post from last year on the banks versus manufacturing (particularly the motor industry). He asks why should we give huge subsidies to the banks and yet be effectively banned from any form of support for manufacturing? He points out subsidies are generally a bad thing-including banks.

The second post I highlight is a lament for the disinterest most of the political elite have for anything that involves producing goods. See here
[quote]
For all the fine politicians words about manufacturing, government often does not want industry.
[unquote]

And that really is hitting the nail squarely on the head.

He also gives the banks a good hammering in his recent posts.

Great stuff.

The Falklands: Time to Deal?

I suspect that this post is not going to be too popular. But I believe that the time has come for us to try and negotiate with the Argentinians and hopefully come to an amicable agreement over the the future of the Falkland Islands.

Politicians are the same the world over. Currently the Argentinian government is in trouble. As a result it is playing on the patriotism of the Argentinians and appealing to their sense of injustice over the Falklands. You could easily imagine Brown and his bunch of reprobates doing much the same if they had a chance.

In playing the Malvinas card, the Argentinian government is also attracting support from all the lunatics and psycho's that control much of South America. The ruling elites in Cuba and Venezuela are loving it and are keen to ramp up hostility. See This BBC report

It wrankles most Brits when foreigners start making demands, especially when they are backed by the likes of Castro and Chavez. But we must see the bigger game that the dictators are playing.

They win even if Argentina gets nowhere. They want to destabilise the new democracy on their doorstep. A successful democracy in Buenos Aires must be a real nightmare to the likes of Castro and Chavez. The Cuban and Venezuelan oligarchy are keen to exploit any division that may do down a fair democracy in Argentina. Then maybe they can expand their bankrupt Marxist ideology southward.

While we should never do deals with dictatorships or military juntas, we should always seek to deal with democracies. Even if it means meeting them half way.

A fair and accommodating solution could be found if there was a will to do so on both sides. But negotiation would have to be conducted without the drunken megaphone diplomacy that so pollutes Anglo-Argentinian relations in both directions.

There is potentially a great deal of wealth and resources available in and around the Falklands. Sharing it would cement democracy into Argentina. It would also make extracting that wealth much, much, easier for us as well.

A deal between honest democracies, before the harridans can pollute the agenda would guarantee the Islanders security for a far longer time than the current military solution.

Remember while East Falkland has a population of about 3000, West Falkland is essentially uninhabited. Would it be so terrible to accommodate decent democratic Argentinians with an honest and binding deal? Say splitting the Islands in two?

If we don't, we risk the unthinkable of a conflict between two democracies. If this catastrophe ever did happen you could guarantee Castro and Chavez would be happily gloating at our expense.

English Sour (and Fusion reactors).

Greetings my fellow sour faced cruel little ~~English~~ chums. Just for a moment, desist from sucking those lemons and stop poking the cat with that sharp stick. Read this this tale of woe regarding your non country of ~~England.~~ and fusion technology.

Once upon a time, not so long ago, our grubby little cancelled nation used to lead the world in technology. In association with the real nations surrounding its non borders the lot of humanity was improved and many great deeds were done.

Today things are different. Things are Global. Grubby little ~~Englander~~ projects are despised and insulted. Take this article in the Sunday Times

The article tells us that great leaps forward have been made in fusion technology. Some foolish little ~~Englanders~~ hope to build a fusion reactor at Didcot. This would be a major technological milestone in not just the un-history of our non-nation but would be of massive benefit to the world. But the Department of Energy and Climate Change has put them firmly in their place.

Brace yourself for the full force of their enthusiasm.

[quote]
“This is something that we would look at as long as it is in the framework of a global project.”
[unquote]

They would look at.

As part of a global project

Great.

You may find that disgusting.

Outrageous.

But our magnificent leaders have far far better things to spend our taxes on.

Well, like bankers bonuses for example.
Or first class railway travel, away from the grubby plebieans.
Don't forget the foreign aid for corrupt governments.
Or the Wars
Or the baled out banks (£400 billion wasn't it?)

Remember, that you, a member of the ~~English~~ riff-raff is now subsumed into the Great Global Oneness. Even the Brussels Elite take a back burner. There will be no more grand inventions or technological breakthroughs by this despised dismembered and regionalised non country. Thats official. A firm dead hand is to be applied to ensure that no dirty little ~~Englander~~ ever again gets to push the technological art forward.

Whenever you or your ruffian associates try to up the game, you can just watch the dead hand of of the hidden agenda descend on your craft and aspirations.

No parliament.
No representation.
No investment.
No progress.

Depressed?

You should be.

Now go back to poking the cat. And don't forget to suck those lemons dry.

Eight Million Reasons for Change

The polls have narrowed. The Conservative lead has been cut to 6 points. This would in all probability lead to a hung parliament. So why is this happening?

The issue here is not the dynamism of the Labour party. Irrespective of your political leaning, when you look at the Labour Party, what you see is divided, tired and direction-less. The only thing stopping another coup attempt against Brown is the nearness of the next election. They are currently beyond redemption and really, they are a bit like the proverbial dead man walking.

So why are they closing the gap?

The answer has to be the utterly lack-lustre performance of the Conservative party. They have failed completely to get across anything resembling a coherent set of policies. We have the utterly ludicrous commitment to maintaining the foreign aid budget. They have ring fenced “this” and ring fenced “that” and pandered to every fashionable diatribe imaginable. This is not leadership. It is simply dishing out the weasel words in the hope of election by default.

I am sorry if that sounds harsh.

I really, really, really do not want another five years of the rotting cadaver that is this present government.

But it has to be replaced with something that has something other than platitudes to offer the electorate. The only worthwhile thing so far that they have come up with is the idea of selling off the bank shares in a privatisation style sale.

While Osbourne's idea shows merit, there needs to be a raft of new thinking not just one plank.

If they were short of a few ideas and aspects of this failed government to emphasise they would only need to read the Sunday Times today. See Here.

8 million “economically inactive”
1.7 million new jobs created since 1997. 81% have gone to foreigners.
20% companies now recruit overseas

Now add to that:

Stealing Medics from poor countries but cannot offer our own home trained medics jobs beyond their F2 year.
3000 new criminal offences since 1997
The greatest divide between rich and poor since the 1930's
Open door immigration.
Poorly equipped military used to slake Labours thirst for war.

I could go on and on and on.

But all we hear from the Conservative Party is a mumbling set of fashionable greeny feel good statements.

So far Cameron has failed dismally to marshal both his thoughts and his support.

He needs to pull his finger out.

Submerged Optimism and
Ruined Hope

There are times when I really love the output of Labour spin doctors.

Here they are, Labours finest, facing potential oblivion and they still come out with preposterous concepts based on how wonderful they are.

Now they have decreed that the country is bathed in “Submerged Optimism” (see Guardian here)

Oh Joy.

Submerged optimism.

Like Submerged Ocean liner?
Submerged city?
Submerged Island?
Submerged swimmer?

When exactly does submerged turn into drowned? Murdered. Done away with. Ruined.

Lets try the last one. And substitute it in the spin.

“Ruined Optimism”. Oh yes. That sounds much more like the Brown Government.

The other great saviour they are looking to is Barack Obama and his electioneering approach with hard sell telephone polling.

Unfortunately they have forgotten that ~~England~~ is not America, and Gordon Brown is most certainly not Barack Obama

The Problem with True Believers

Today, although it will make no difference to the true believers, "Watts Up With That" have published another rather damning piece on IPCC data.

Anthony Watts is a skeptic, not a denier. There is a very important difference. I wont bother expounding on the difference here. Most non lunatics will know what it is.

Humanity has always had a taste for Catastrophe. There have always been those hyped up on imminent end-of-the-world hysteria. You can try to rationalise with the true believers, but you usually end up being regarded as "the enemy" or as a denier or heretic.

Take a look back through history. You will not be able to count all the victims. There are simply too many.

Lets hope the climate change devotees do not decide that "for the good of humanity" a few car bombs or assasinations will help the cause. I bet some are dreaming about it already.

Far fetched? Just look at the lunatics in Animal Rights, Baader-Meinhoff, Angry Brigade, Shining Path, IRA, UDA etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum, ad infinitum. All with an unshakeable certainty to their moral crusade. All keen to add a little power and meaning to their wretched little lives.

The problem with the true believers is that to them, the science is not only "settled" it is now also unimportant. The important part to the true believers is that the IPCC have justified them doing just about anything to "Save the Planet". Once justified, nothing else then matters.

The lunatics can now freely indulge in a fashionable orgy of bigotry. Even if the CRU came up and publicly changed their minds, it would be too late to stop them now.

You know the chant. "The science is settled". The science is NEVER settled. That is any science not just Climate science. But do not try telling that to the average zealot.

Personally, I suspect that the CRU climatologists have found some data that shows the earth is warming up. One possibility of this, is due to man made CO2. But in order to get attention and the associated finance, they overstated their case. Spiced it up a little, pandered to the nutters.

Now they have the nutters on board and it is going to be very difficult to progress their argument in a scientific manner.

This is all a big shame.

Now that power has been ceded to the lunatics, Climate Science will be damaged for years. Global warming or not, we are all losers

Interesting Times

On Channel 4 News the other night there was a discussion between three financiers regarding the Greek crisis. Two were issuing the usual soothing words about how all would be well with the world, and the Euro will weather the storm.

The other financier made the claim that in Germany, many people are closely examining their high value Euro Notes. Evidently you can identify the country of issue from the serial number.

The Germans are getting picky about whose notes they accept. If it has been issued by the Bundesbank then thats fine. If it has been issued by one of the PIIGs (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece) the notes are refused. The claim was shunned by the others and the discussion quickly moved onto less controversial ground.

You have to ask, how damaged is the Euro?

We live in interesting times:- In the true Chinese meaning of the phrase.

Economists: Cut Deficit NOW!
Brown: Mumble. Mmmmm

According to 20 leading world economists, the Labour party lacks a credible plan to deal with the huge deficit. (See Here)

Well, knock me down with a feather duster.

I thought this was such a strong economy that:

[quote]
We are in a better position than most of our competitors.
[unquote]

Who was it that said that again? Some weepy Scottish bloke if I remember. Previously referred to here as “The Abyss” mainly due to his financial skills (of which he has none).

So, what are the prospects of someone (anyone) in this government sitting up and saying:

“Crikey!”
“These blokes think we have got it wrong.”
“They are 20 of the most influential economists in the world. We need to look at this again urgently!”.

Yes.
Quite.
Dream On.

The actual response from the Treasury was that it had already outlined a detailed strategy for cutting the deficit.

When?
I do not know.
I must have missed it.

The chances of Gordon Brown and cohorts doing anything to prevent further financial haemorrhage before the next election is nil. The chances of them doing anything with any sense of urgency even after winning an election is pretty low. Basically all the options left to recover the economy are going to affect their sacred cows and their power base.

We are already barrelling down the same road as the PIIGs (Portugal, Ireland, Italy & Greece). If Labour got re-elected then this would simply continue. But unlike the PIIGs, we would not have the Germans to dig us out of the shite.

The BBC Licence Fee and Injustice

The other night a BBC presenter was interviewing one of the three Labour Party crooks who have been charged with false accounting. He retaliated to her questioning by asking how much she earned. The lady grandly announced that she earned a sum in excess of £90,000.

She was not a particularly well known presenter.

We hear today Here that nearly 400 BBC employees are being paid in excess of 100,000 a year. Of these, 58 earn more than the Prime Minister (£196,000). Of course all of these individuals will be on what can only be described as excellent pension, sickness and holiday allowances. Don't forget this is nothing to do with the so called “talent” who are paid even more.

While this may be shocking, excessive pay is not the problem with the BBC. It is simply one of the symptoms of a much more serious malaise.

Each year the BBC is guaranteed £3.8 billion to spend roughly how it likes. As we all know, most of this money is raised by what amounts to a poll tax on televisions. A single mum living in a bedsit pays the same a multi-millionaire.

The BBC aggressively and proudly defends what it declares is its independence. I would argue that what the BBC actually defends is its own position. If anything threatens their cosy guaranteed tax income they will pour on the pressure and vilification until the threat is removed. Everything they do is subservient to this.

Long ago the BBC ceased to have a real objective viewpoint. Today everything is tailored to ensure it can maintain its own power base and maximise its already bloated income. It's news reporting is only as objective as serves its purpose. It is out of control, self serving and threatens our democracy. The BBC has become a monster.

But it would have to be a very brave government who took on this state within a state. Today the BBC is capable of breaking any government that threatens its position. It is in an almost unassailable position. They have the ability and ruthlessness to manipulate any presentation of the truth so that it comes out in the BBC's favour.

I do not know how the BBC can be brought to heel. I only hope that as time goes by, the already obsolete and corrupt licence fee will become more and more unacceptable. Then perhaps something will have to be done.

Really, if we are to have a any form of public service it should be funded centrally by direct and fair taxation by the democratically elected Government.

Allowing the unelected and unrepresentative BBC to raise its own grubby poll tax in order to fund its excesses is frankly an outrage against our society.

An English Identity

Goodness me! Billothewisp has to rub his eyes in disbelief.

We have here an article in the Guardian about ~~Englishness~~.

I really said that. Yes. The Guardian.

See Here "Englishness:The forbidden Identity."

The article has some good points but starts off by indulging in some ritual hysteria about far right conspiracies. It hangs its hat on this purported far right agenda by detailing Nick Griffins attachment to English Folk music.

But the article does acknowledge the rising tide of a fair minded English identity. It ends with an appeal to our Great, Good and Benificient leaders to stop regarding ~~Englishness~~ as a forbidden Identity.

At least that is a step forward.

But the article clearly comes from someone who wishes to remain on the outside. Someone who has no real wish to identify themselves as ~~English~~. The article is very much worded as an “us and them” document. With the ~~English~~ as the “them” and the “us” being the cognoscenti at the Guardian and their peers.

The most corrosive aspect of this article though, is the implied and unfair insinuation throughout that an ~~English~~ identity is easily manipulated into being a prop for the far right.

Perhaps our friends at the Guardian, should consider why and how Ugly politics gets a grip in any society. I would hazard to suggest that it usually comes down to a lack of representation. No votes. No parliament. A running sore of cultural and fiscal injustice. A sneering disregard from the political elite.

When people get ignored and marginalised within their own land, they are by definition more likely to listen to anyone who says they have a solution. It is to the eternal credit of the ~~English~~ (and even the Guardian article recognises this) that this non-country of ours is arguably the most inclusive and compassionate country in the world.

May I suggest that the defenders of the truth at the Guardian should perhaps run an article or two on the rising tide of ~~English~~ identity. Perhaps this time they could stay away from the boringly hysterical diatribes about a far right conspiracies and focus on the just grievances of the fair minded ~~English~~ people.

MPs Expenses: Another Outrage

You foolish little ~~Englanders~~. So you thought that the Great and Good would have learned their lesson from the MPs expenses scandal.

You would have expected that they would refrain from sticking their noses in the trough. At least for a little while.

But you forgot that we are talking about the established order. The ruling elite.
Those who administer your taxes, decide on your laws and control your information.
The great ones who decide just what you can and cannot do.

You also forgot that this wonderful and magnificent grouping also extends to the Lords, Sirs and Dames. It includes those who are handsomely rewarded to investigate, query and administer the duck houses and porn movie rentals.

There are 646 MPs. From this report See Here, the new Parliamentary expenses watchdog is to have a staff of around 80 and cost £6.6 million. Just to cap it all, the honourable overseer of this, Sir Ian Kennedy, is paid £700 a day.

I'll just to show you the lay of the land here. This bastion of the establishment, this guardian of justice and fair play, Sir Ian Kennedy, recently claimed £15000 for taxi fares for travelling from home to work. See Here

Perhaps we need to appoint a watchdog to watch the expenses of the watchdog.

The cost of this new unbelievable gravy train bureaucratic outrage comes in at £10,500 per year per MP. Remember, that is simply to administer the expenses for these benevolent leaders of ours.

God knows how much it will all come to in total.

To me, it seems we have just added another layer of pig like troughing corruption and outrage onto the existing pestilence.

This is not the honesty and transparency we were promised. It is more like the barbarian ruling scum making sure their wealth, power and prosperity is maintained at our expense.

They are laughing at you. Mocking your fair mindedness. You, the peasants, the riff-raff, the plebs. You are derided and despised.

Am I just having a nightmare?

Have I lost contact with reality?

This new corpulent bureaucratic expenses fiddle simply cannot be true.

Can it?

Weather Forecast 247% Accuracy

Dear ignored, unloved and forgotten Little ~~Englander~~ friends. As you may remember, this paltry old ~~English~~ serf made some detailed weather forecast predictions for 2010. If you remember (This Post Here) I used my neighbours entails as a rune (and not as a bungy cord as some have mischievously suggested).

Well, preliminary results for January are in.

I am proud to announce that Billothewisp has successfully forecast the weather for the whole of January.

Remember the prediction? “January would be cold”

How about that for hitting the nail on the head.

The best the Met Office could do was to predict we would be eating our new year lunches around the barbecue as we sunned ourselves in the back garden. All thanks to Global Warming (also known as Climate Change. But only when the weather is inclement)

So, all I can say to my friends at the Met Office (of whom I have none):

Read this and weep.

“January would be cold” That is 100% base line accuracy for you.

Now using standard statistical practice from the IPCC, I include the air travel enhancer multiplied by braking efficiency of a Toyota Prius.

I then divide by the honesty factor for the average Labour back-bencher.

You then get 181.763112 %.

Feed this through the Mann hockey stick data selection process and it comes to 247%

That is exactly 247%.

Not 246.73% or 242.56%

247% EXACTLY. I rest my case.

Perhaps the Met Office would care to flog off their expensive computers and borrow my neighbour. I am glad to say he is now out of hospital and his entrails were successfully re-installed. Although he views further disembowelments with trepidation, he is so sick of politically correct half truths from the amply fed and watered of our ~~English~~ non-nation, he is willing to go through it all again.

The NHS and Ugly Bribes

A few posts ago I pointed out how Gordon Brown and cohorts were peddling a series of little bribes to key groups of swing voters. Roughly one a week. But I never thought that even our Magnificent Citizen One would sink as low as this.

His target this week is cancer patients. The offering is treatment in the community with a dedicated nurse. Although, he has been in office for thirteen years, this “good idea” has obviously not been a priority until now.

There is a big issue here. It is avoided by all parties. This is whether politicians, especially dishonourable one like Brown, should ever control what the NHS spends its money on.

This would not be an issue in France or Germany. There, politicians have much less say or control over their national health care systems. Incidentally the French and German health care systems still knock spots off ours. That is not because of the medics or the money spent. But it is a lot to do with the politics, spin and bureaucracy. Not to mention the bright little ideas spawned by the likes of the Great Leader. Especially when he needs to buy a few votes.

What would really get my attention would be if somebody stood up and announced that they were going to remove the NHS from political control. Then Brown and others would not be able to use it like a political football.

If freedom from political control is good enough for the Bank of England and even the Great and the Good at the BBC then why should our health service suffer the indignities of the dirty little publicity stunts of Gordon Brown?

Foreign Aid and Africa

We spend between £6 and £8 billion a year supposedly relieving third world poverty. Much of this money goes to Africa. But in Africa, nothing gets better. (See this Coffee House Article Here)

In total from us and others, Africa has received over £500 billion in aid over the last 50 years. Yet, in most all African countries, life expectancy, wealth and literacy has fallen. The only thing that has risen, and it has risen astronomically, is corruption.

Essentially we are donating money to the gangsters of Africa in the vain and stupid hope that they will get a conscience and help the poor. This is about as likely as trying to help the poor of the East End of London by donating money to the Cray Twins and Ronnie Biggs.

So what do we do? He have all seen the debacle of Iraq where Tony Blair and Co tried to impose a 19th century colonial solution to a similar problem. Hopefully we won't make that mistake again.

A different approach to foreign aid has been successfully and rigorously pursued by Cuba. Even though Cuba is a pretty rank dictatorship itself and has very little money, the Cuban foreign aid policy is something to be reckoned with.

Basically the Cubans train legions of medics and engineers, then temporarily “export” these experts to poor countries. (see Wikipedia here). Currently Cuba has 20000 (yes, twenty thousand) medics helping in the third world.

Think on this: Say you were a poor African. On one hand you look upon the western supported corrupt dictator who brutally reigns over you. On the other hand you see a local Cuban field hospital. There you watch as the Cuban communists save your child's life. Which system would you consider the best? Where would your political support go?

How bizarre that a crumbling old style Stalinist dictatorship can hold the moral high-ground over the Western democracies.

Just to make matters worse, instead of training medical staff and using them to help in Africa we actually have sent out recruitment teams to go and steal the medics away from poor countries. Then, couple of years down the track, we then cannot find places for our own home trained talent (See Daily Mail article Here.) We end up stealing medics from the third world and then forcibly exporting our own to Australia and the States.

The irony of this is that Cuba, even forgetting about the political agenda, gains massive popular support from little expenditure. Our largesse only gains us hate and despair.

We cannot afford to keep on financing the crooks of Africa. But we can afford to help the common people of Africa by training our own people and lending their expertise to Africa. Just like the Cubans do.

Arrogance and Parliamentary Privilege.

So the troffers that have been charged with false accounting are looking to use Parliamentary Privilege as a defence. We have Cameron declaring himself “disgusted” while Thingy, the leader of the Liberal Doo-Dahs reckons the public will be “appalled”. (See Here)

Actually, I have to inform our mighty and benign leaders that the poor old plebeian ~~English~~ riff-raff are pretty appalled and disgusted already.

It is all strangely quiet from the divine leader Gordon “The Abyss” Brown. Then again, the three MPs so far charged are (or were) members of his party.

Besides, I do not think Uncle Gordo really considers the concerns of the grubby and unwashed of ~~England~~ worthy of his time. He has much more important world-wide grandstanding to do.

Parliamentary Privilege is one of those concepts that make many people very uneasy (including yours truly). Arguably, it is necessary to protect the rights of elected representatives to speak freely. It ensures they are unfettered of the risk of being sued by the rich and powerful. But it is also vitally important no-one is considered above the law.

Unless it is kept under close control, Parliamentary Privilege can take us down a very dark and ugly path.

If these troffers get away with this, and use Parliamentary Privilege as their defence, then we become little better than Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

No one should be above the law.

Labour 3 Conservative 1

So, some of the troffers in the Commons have been charged. Three Labour MPs, one Conservative Lord. All with false accounting.

Let me just remind my poor putrid peasantry ~~English~~ brethren what false accounting means. False accounting involves fabrication of financial records. It is closely associated to similar crimes like forgery and deception. It is the type of crime committed by loan sharks, confidence tricksters, con artists and swindlers. It involves blatant bare faced deceit and an arrogant disregard for both the legal and moral fabric of our society.

It is one of those crimes that is often left undetected or difficult to prosecute. That is, unless those committing the crime are so brazen, so arrogant that they feel above the law. No doubt these champions of our democracy also consider themselves far, far, above you, my grubby Little ~~Englander~~ chums.

If there are four that have been charged, you can bet there were ten times that number where the evidence was not robust enough for charges to be brought.

I expect the toilet block at Westminster has had a lot of use lately as forty or so crooks have been wondering whether their little frauds and shenanigans will stand up to scrutiny.

There are undoubtedly many honest MPs. Regrettably, and just as certain, is that there are many crooks as well. Poisoning our democracy.

If any job should be done honestly and as a vocation, it is being an MP.

Today MPs are paid very well and their expenses are out of this world. Not many appear to be doing the job because of their beliefs.

The concept of being an MP to serve the community rather than a way of lining your pockets appears to have died a long time ago.

We need a return to politics based on honesty, concepts and ideology. We must move away from the ridiculous self serving expense and inflated salary culture that now infects our government.

Southampton Taxi Shock Horror Probe

Greetings my fellow cruel little ~~Englanders~~. As you know, occasionally, Billothewisp likes to try and lighten everyone's day with a little bit of sardonic observation.

But yesterday Billothewisp came across some news that was so preposterous, so unbelievably Pythonesque he was acutely stumped for adding to the sheer lunacy of the story. In fact the story was so outrageous, this particular blogger had a haemorrhage and nearly bled to death.

But today, after being inspired by the wit of the above little ~~English~~ bleeder, I have decided to have a go.

I of course, refer to our noble elite who so benignly rule over the grubby ~~English~~ proletariat who infest the city of Southampton. Particularly the taxi drivers of the said city who have had the temerity to display certain blood curdling items, of which I will come to later.

First of all may I warn all those of a nervous disposition to sit down, or at least stand well clear of breakable objects as I relate this dreadful tale.

The taxi drivers of Southampton, share many of the traits of other ~~English~~ ruffians. They share in the same non-voting system that ensures that no ~~English~~ party is ever elected. As there is no Assembley or parliament to elect them to, this is, of course,not a problem.

Being non citizen of a non country with no parliament, should be gratefully accepted. But evidently it led some of this ~~English~~ underclass to forget their place.

It appears that some of these taxi drivers took to displaying an outrageous icon within their cabs, measuring at least 5 inches by 3 inches. It was none other than the foul flag of the non country of ~~England~~. To this disgraceful act they added a massive written insult across the middle of this emblem by writing the disgusting phrase “~~English~~ Speaking Driver”.

Of course they had a cover story. They said some people (probably other foul and cruel little ~~Englanders~~) found the ugly national display useful. This was probably only due to the fact that these lazy ~~English~~ customers had not bothered learning Urdu or Polish and found communicating with the non ~~English~~ speaking taxi drivers difficult. Well, all I can say it that is their fault. If they don't like it perhaps they should emigrate.

Today Southampton council has rescued the insulted, abused and traumatised from these barbarian taxi drivers. The flag and associated message has been banned from Southampton taxi cabs. The council has threatened to remove taxi drivers licenses if they fail to comply. No doubt there will be letters issued. The council will watch and monitor. They know where you live. Watch out for the knock knock knock on the door at 4 am.

Billothewisp is rather nonplussed by all this. In our imposed multicultural society he would have thought that showing a little consideration to the populace by indicating your primary language would have been helpful. But alas no. Billothewisp is after-all, just a drab and dirty ~~English~~man himself. So what would he know?

We all should know by now that the ~~English~~ are, by far, the least important citizens of these islands.

After all, they don't even have their own parliament.

A Cruise for England's Finest.

Billothewisp is not a great fan of cruise liners. To be fair he has never been on one, but they look far too posh for a citizen covered in excess body hair.

However he has come up with a great scheme involving just one Ocean liner. This scheme may solve ALL of the nations tribulations and woes.

It will require the full participation of the Great Good and Extremely Well Fed. Especially those who rule over our cruel little non-nation of ~~England~~. These magnifico's will simply have to do what they do best. In other words get their noses fully into the trough.

Billothewisp envisages an all expenses paid extravaganza on the high seas. All the duck house recipients, those flip-flopping their second homes or making an honest expense claim for some porno films should be invited.

If there is any space spare, perhaps we could invite some no-win no-fee lawyers and of course, we must not leave out those poor underfed bankers whose selfless denial and patriotic zeal surely bring a tear to the eye.

Finally, perhaps we could pack on some of the Islamic extremists who so reasonably expect us to change our laws to accommodate their modern and forward thinking ideas.

We could all wave them off, cheering from the quayside as they sail on their pleasure excursion to the more exotic parts of the Pacific Ocean.

Particularly Billothewisp envisages our fine collective example of humanity sailing over the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench (depth 36,201 feet). Just to show how wonderful and important they all are, we could arrange a small rendezvous with one of Her Majesties submarines.

We all know how careless sailors can be. It would be no surprise to anyone if they were to accidentally fire a torpedo salvo into the liner. Of course, as they are the Royal Navy, one would expect them to reload immediately and “Oh darn, done it again”. Well, what do you expect?

The crew would, of course, get a serious telling off. That is, after they got back from ticker-tape parade through the streets of London.

So, I hear you ask. How would this solve ALL of the nations problems?

Well, regrettably it won't.

But it would be a bloody good start.

Obama, NASA and the Slippery Slope.

Normally this blog is ~~English~~ centric, but Obama's cuts to the US space programme have prompted me to worry about where they, and we, are all heading.

America (like us) is broke and needs to cut back. As a result, large sections of the space program have been axed. It must be remembered that NASA is one of the main driving forces behind American technical innovation.

Obama and the Americans need to tread very carefully. They are on the edge of a very slippery slope that eventually leads to the purgatory of technical dependency.

Going down the slope is easy. Getting back up it again is murderously hard. Even just stopping the descent is awesomely difficult. Just look at us in the UK.

We have all got in this position because of the overblown banking sector. The banks should be a support player to industry. Today they have become the tail that wags the dog.

It was encouraging to see Obama recently lay down the law to the US banks. But he needs to make sure that Wall Street stops selling out American industry. The traders and the various ruling elites around the world all worship at the feet of Globalisation and would sell their mothers (let alone their country) to turn a profit or maintain their position.

A bit of good old protectionism against unfair competition for some strategic American industries would really set the cat among the pigeons. Maybe then we could also protect some of ours. That is after we get rid of the arch globalisation fetishist, Gordon "The Abyss" Brown.

Export/Import should be there to fill in the gaps and add the extras. It should never be allowed to destroy native industries wholesale.

Unfettered and dogmatic Globalisation has wreaked havoc across the world and led to untold misery and suffering, both in the West and in developing countries.

Now is the time to reign it in.

Thorium Nuclear reactors

Here is a little tale of despair. A tale of our country and how it is slowly withering away. It is also a tale of how you can do something, even if this little something is only a gesture.

A bit of background. What is a Thorium nuclear reactor?

Currently all nuclear reactors are based upon using uranium as their fuel. These reactors are, arguably, at this point in time, the best way forward to provide us with cheap,clean power. There are potentially a number of other solutions. These other solutions potentially offer even cleaner and more cost effective energy.

One is nuclear fusion, but this is technically a long way off.

Another is to use Thorium as the nuclear fuel instead of Uranium.

Thorium is even more plentiful than Uranium and arguably could be regarded as a limitless fuel source. The waste produced by a Thorium reactor would also be less, with shorter half-lives, minimal plutonium and the reactor would be intrinsically fail-safe. There are a number of problems that need to be solved, but really, compared to fusion, the engineering is far less complex.

Today Thorium nuclear reactors are either being built or heavily researched and prototyped by France, Germany, USA, China, Japan India and Australia.

Our sole entry is this one research grant of less than £250,000. (here)

This is from the country that once, not so long ago, led the world in nuclear research. It makes you weep.

I expect that in our straitened financial state, items like development of Thorium reactors will get short shrift, especially by technological luddites like Gordon Brown. But really we MUST start gaining our technical confidence again . We must do the science and the engineering to push our country forward. Otherwise we will simply end up being forced to buy foreign equipment while our country retreats ever further down the tables of national prosperity.

It is no accident that the countries that live in poverty have no dynamic technological development.

It is no accident that countries emerging from third world status like India and China are progressing mainly by techological research and development.

Unless we do something to address our crazy abandonment of technological development we will soon be taking their place with a third world status.

So what can you do now. By chance I came across an e-petition to the Prime Minister here which is a respectful request to Gordon Brown to fund development in Thorium nuclear reactors.

When I signed up it only had 20 signatures. This is but one small area of our neglected technical sector and arguably you (and me) are merely tilting at windmills. But at least by signing it, you show where you stand.

The petition was raised by Chris Camacho and states:

When Thorium is used to generate power because most of it is "burnt" there is very little radioactive waste.

Mixing the fuel with molten salt allows for high temperature *low* pressure reactions systems that are far safer than current technologies. Allowing the salt to "freeze" (ie fall to room temperature) means you can effectively temporary switch off the reaction, and later restart it.

In addition this process cannot be weaponised and can be made in mobile units, ideal for "axis of evil" scenarios

Thorium needs far less processing and is far more abundant than other nuclear sources.

With comparatively very modest amounts of money this existing but out of fashion technology could provide safe and clean plentiful zero carbon power

We therefore call on the government to start a 1GW power station project as soon as is practicable

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to start a crash program to provide a far safer a method of nuclear power using molten salt and Thorium.....

The blog this e-petition is on is here at thorium energy blogspot

A direct link to the petition can also be made here

In no particular order, more information on Thorium Reactors can be found here

There is an excellent PDF by NASA Here

and finally there is another description Here

Is This Brown's Gameplan?

So Gordon “The Abyss” Brown plans to go On and On. (see here)

Machiavellian? A touch of the Macbeth's? Maybe a little like a dishonourable Don Quixote?

I glean from the above article that his reasoning is that even if Labour loses the election badly the main losses will be among the anti-Brown camp. This then would actually strengthen his position within the Labour party.

Like all leaders who have outstayed their welcome he will hang on until the bitter end. Even then, he will want to ensure a king-like succession for the chosen pretender, Ed Balls.

But maybe there is more to this.

Maybe he is hoping that a newly elected Conservative government will have to make such massive and unpopular cuts to save the economy that they lose the support of the electorate. Then King Gordon can make a comeback, a little like Harold Wilson did in the early seventies.

And that IS a worry.

The economy is screwed. There is going to be little but economic misery for the next three years. That will be the case even if the economy is under the control of someone who actually tries to run it properly, rather than just get carried along with the tide.

Gordon Brown is an extremely adept schemer and a ruthless assassin of his enemies. That is why he is still there. After a losing election he would actually have fewer enemies within the Labour party than now.

The risk is that Cameron gets elected with a small or no majority, then after a calamitous year in government trying to sort out the mess, he gets turfed out and Gordo gets back in.

Far fetched?

I hope so.

But I suspect that is the turn of events that Brown is banking on.

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