I can't get my head around JSP. Something seems to compel me to like her, but I can't think why. She doesn't possess any particular talent and yet the girl done well in the artificial world of the media. Her performance on QT was typical.
On some levels JSP talks sense, but then you get this sort of thing; the subject was the proposal to increase the speed 'limit' on motorways to 80mph. JSP started by saying she didn't like driving on motorways and then rattled on about people already driving too fast and increasing it was madness. Her first statement kind of precluded the second part being a rational, objective and considered opinion. It was a prejudice.
That's OK though, the Left these days have become adept at saying things that amount only to their own personal opinion, as if it were an established fact. A truth that cannot be gainsaid. Her opinion was also that Top Gear was the cause of fast driving and Jeremy Clarkson in particular, irresponsible in this regard.
Top Gear of course does like speed, but has never suggested it should be applied inappropriately (they do theirs for instance, on a track). Clarkson himself is intolerant of the intolerance of the Left and thinks that people should be allowed to make more decisions for themselves. Consequently, he is a dangerous person for the Left and politicians in general and thus created as a figure of hate. It was suggested he would be bad company, though I imagine he would be great company, not least for an intelligent argument.
But anyway, JSP had a point to make and it was her view. She then berated Caroline Flint for Labour's lack of positive discrimination in favour of women. She was disappointed that companies were not forced to have a certain percentage of women on their boards. JSP didn't concern herself with ability or talent, which I suppose in her experience isn't a prerequisite. Public broadcasters low quality output being unconnected I imagine.
There has been and I'm sure there still is, much discrimination against women (though women bosses I have known have been among the best), but that doesn't make the promotion of those of the female gender regardless of ability, a sensible decision. Maybe JSP would put the 16 year old girl who tried to murder her grandfather for an inheritance, in charge of a bank. She has at least demonstrated a keen interest in financial matters and her overweening self interest must appeal to the Left.
Aside from JSP though, there was something else in QT I found amazing. A woman in the audience, on the subject of increasing the speed limit said it was just a ploy by business to get their products to market quicker, despite the increased danger. I don't know if she is a Left leaning individual or if she merely says things like these because of Left indoctrination, to which we are all subject these days.
It was a strongly voiced opinion, but as commercial traffic is time limited and speed limited with on board monitors that ensure regulation, I don't think she had any understanding of the subject she was happy to spout about. And nowadays, no-one thinks to ask a question to understand. She could just as easily have said that she feared it was just to aid business and would limits for commercial vehicles be raised too?
But no, the Left has insisted that we all assume we are each, individually much more important than anyone else, so an opinion, however ill-informed is valid. The removal of respect for others has been a key plank of the Left's undermining of our social structure.
Friday, 30 September 2011
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Get Out, Stay Out and Get the Brigade Out
QT is in Liverpool and the audience are strangely split in their own minds. Whilst they resolutely stick to their 'sponger' reputation in opposing anything that doesn't end with people getting something for nothing, they also seem to grasp that the EU is wasting money. Maybe they are happy for money to be hosed over scousers but not Greeks. You would have thought the kebab would have built some bridges, but hey ho.
It was interesting though to see the squirming by the panel at the vehemence of the objection to the EU, full stop, not just bailouts or technical detail. The usual tosh was talked about jobs relying on the EU. The only jobs that rely on the EU are those of politicians. Let's be clear; companies in the EU (as in any foreign country) buy from Britain because of the efforts of their sales force and then lorries and ships. Those are the 'links' not any rubbish about a political union.
There was also some suggestion that whilst the Euro isn't helping the financial crisis, it didn't cause it, the banks did. Well, yes and no. The banking crisis just shone a light on what the EU was up to; the Euro was actually designed to cause a mild shock to the economies of countries like Greece and Ireland and allow the empire-building French and Germans to take them over (ever closer union). But with another crisis bursting over them the tail began wagging the dog.
It is reported that the belief is that 75% of Germans do not want to continue throwing money at Greece, but the politicians are thankful that democracy has its limits and the people cannot say but can pay, for their folly. That is what the EU is about, using the people to support a small political class. It is corrupt, immoral and anti-democratic.
William Hague has correctly judged that the Eurozone is a building on fire with no exits. For my part I would repeat what I have said before regarding the EU (and mis-quoting an old Fire Brigade advert); Get out, Stay out and get the Brigade out. (The Brigade here being the Brigade of Guards, the bulwark that ensures our sovereignty, which the EU and our politicians certainly do not).
It was interesting though to see the squirming by the panel at the vehemence of the objection to the EU, full stop, not just bailouts or technical detail. The usual tosh was talked about jobs relying on the EU. The only jobs that rely on the EU are those of politicians. Let's be clear; companies in the EU (as in any foreign country) buy from Britain because of the efforts of their sales force and then lorries and ships. Those are the 'links' not any rubbish about a political union.
There was also some suggestion that whilst the Euro isn't helping the financial crisis, it didn't cause it, the banks did. Well, yes and no. The banking crisis just shone a light on what the EU was up to; the Euro was actually designed to cause a mild shock to the economies of countries like Greece and Ireland and allow the empire-building French and Germans to take them over (ever closer union). But with another crisis bursting over them the tail began wagging the dog.
It is reported that the belief is that 75% of Germans do not want to continue throwing money at Greece, but the politicians are thankful that democracy has its limits and the people cannot say but can pay, for their folly. That is what the EU is about, using the people to support a small political class. It is corrupt, immoral and anti-democratic.
William Hague has correctly judged that the Eurozone is a building on fire with no exits. For my part I would repeat what I have said before regarding the EU (and mis-quoting an old Fire Brigade advert); Get out, Stay out and get the Brigade out. (The Brigade here being the Brigade of Guards, the bulwark that ensures our sovereignty, which the EU and our politicians certainly do not).
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Is This Just Pandering To Politicians Egos?
The single European currency cannot work and should never have been installed. Of course, it could work if the whole of Europe was a totalitarian superstate, with wealth shifted around to support corrupt and failing regions. A bit like Labour did with Britain; no attempt to cure problems just tax and spend (on friends).
Naturally, a European superstate is the whole point of setting up the EU in the first place. But the genius of the people running it from the outset has also been their downfall. The genius centres around the pragmatic realisation that a construct, serving only the political class would never be accepted by the electorates and cancelling national democracy first couldn't be achieved either. This all had to be done by stealth.
Stealth in politics means lies and so Edward Heath did his best pre-cursor of Blair role in lying about joining the 'Common Market'. It always seemed far away and foreign so we pretty much ignored it and let the politicians play their games. Now we find that they were deadly serious and deadly dangerous. Trying to keep it quiet meant that the single nation had to wait, but the single currency would make it inevitable.
Once the crisis occurred that was the only outcome of a single Europe wide currency, then the technocrats could step up and say, 'well, the only solution is to make the whole of Europe one country'. It isn't of course, but it is the desired outcome of those pronouncing on it. When Argentina pegged their currency to the dollar and the economy went to pot, did they say, 'oh well, I suppose we must become part of the US'? No, they broke the link.
The worldwide financial crisis that is being fed by the US and its refusal to put proper checks on state spending and reduce taxes, is being exacerbated by the entirely artificial crisis in the Eurozone. Don't forget, the Euro is not only wrong for the Greek economy (and Irish, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian....), the EU itself created the environment in which corruption could flourish.
And don't misunderstand; these are not just bad political decisions, or dodgy ideology. No, these are crimes and as we saw with Blair here in the UK, when the people who run the show are messing up, even a democracy struggles to deal with them. The EU is not, never has been and was never intended to be a democracy. So how do we get rid of them....? We stop paying them.
Naturally, a European superstate is the whole point of setting up the EU in the first place. But the genius of the people running it from the outset has also been their downfall. The genius centres around the pragmatic realisation that a construct, serving only the political class would never be accepted by the electorates and cancelling national democracy first couldn't be achieved either. This all had to be done by stealth.
Stealth in politics means lies and so Edward Heath did his best pre-cursor of Blair role in lying about joining the 'Common Market'. It always seemed far away and foreign so we pretty much ignored it and let the politicians play their games. Now we find that they were deadly serious and deadly dangerous. Trying to keep it quiet meant that the single nation had to wait, but the single currency would make it inevitable.
Once the crisis occurred that was the only outcome of a single Europe wide currency, then the technocrats could step up and say, 'well, the only solution is to make the whole of Europe one country'. It isn't of course, but it is the desired outcome of those pronouncing on it. When Argentina pegged their currency to the dollar and the economy went to pot, did they say, 'oh well, I suppose we must become part of the US'? No, they broke the link.
The worldwide financial crisis that is being fed by the US and its refusal to put proper checks on state spending and reduce taxes, is being exacerbated by the entirely artificial crisis in the Eurozone. Don't forget, the Euro is not only wrong for the Greek economy (and Irish, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian....), the EU itself created the environment in which corruption could flourish.
And don't misunderstand; these are not just bad political decisions, or dodgy ideology. No, these are crimes and as we saw with Blair here in the UK, when the people who run the show are messing up, even a democracy struggles to deal with them. The EU is not, never has been and was never intended to be a democracy. So how do we get rid of them....? We stop paying them.
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Getting Angry? You Should Be
Lunchtime news on BBC. An article about BAe shedding 3000 jobs (which is mainly a political stunt, played out with people's jobs) is quickly followed by a report from the Labour Party conference. From the latter you become aware of the sheer volume of people hanging on to politics, who 'earn' their living from this circus. It is insulting to the highest degree when people in productive, high technology jobs are dispensed with but those around the public sector and particularly government, carry on like it is Christmas every day.
What about the Euro? Have you become angry yet about the huge amount of your money that goes, without you having any say, or ability to affect, to the EU? Not just to be a member, but to prop up their currency, the one that cannot possibly work in the real world. And now there is talk of cancelling some of Greece's debt. Yeah, that will make them behave more responsibly in future! We may as well not punish the London rioters, as their behaviour will improve if we allow unfettered looting.
What about state theft? Are you likely to get annoyed that government resorts to illegal measures to extort and bully money out of you? Today we read more people are going to be allowed to issue fines for littering and such like. This of course is not to improve society but to pull in funds; money that they need to make ends meet but do not, for political reasons want to put on direct tax. Money they need because they will not restrain their areas of involvement (interference) nor cut back on waste.
My son chose to pay more for a 'course' after a speeding 'offence', rather than pay a fine and receive penalty points. The target driven authorities though, still awarded the points and added a 50% uplift to the fine, for not paying within the prescribed time! Can you complain? No, it goes to the same people who ignore you and claim 'no one made a mistake', which doesn't answer the question but is the final answer you are going to get.
I was pursued and threatened relentlessly by HMRC for years over allegedly unpaid tax, until at last someone answered the question I had asked from the outset, 'why do I owe anything?' and realised they had got it wrong. So far, they have investigated themselves and, you guessed it found that 'no one at HMRC made a mistake'.
We have found, huge, really huge deposits of shale gas off our coasts and it could stabilise our economy much more quickly, but the Greens don't like it. It is capitalist and would mean keeping carbon dioxide producing technologies. As Man Made Global Warming is, put simply, just a lie, we should ignore these communists and get on with producing a working economy. But you have to do your part, You have to let the politicians know you are angry. Angry about their stupidity and theft.
They have to understand the consequences of continuing to ignore those they happily see as 'the little people'.
What about the Euro? Have you become angry yet about the huge amount of your money that goes, without you having any say, or ability to affect, to the EU? Not just to be a member, but to prop up their currency, the one that cannot possibly work in the real world. And now there is talk of cancelling some of Greece's debt. Yeah, that will make them behave more responsibly in future! We may as well not punish the London rioters, as their behaviour will improve if we allow unfettered looting.
What about state theft? Are you likely to get annoyed that government resorts to illegal measures to extort and bully money out of you? Today we read more people are going to be allowed to issue fines for littering and such like. This of course is not to improve society but to pull in funds; money that they need to make ends meet but do not, for political reasons want to put on direct tax. Money they need because they will not restrain their areas of involvement (interference) nor cut back on waste.
My son chose to pay more for a 'course' after a speeding 'offence', rather than pay a fine and receive penalty points. The target driven authorities though, still awarded the points and added a 50% uplift to the fine, for not paying within the prescribed time! Can you complain? No, it goes to the same people who ignore you and claim 'no one made a mistake', which doesn't answer the question but is the final answer you are going to get.
I was pursued and threatened relentlessly by HMRC for years over allegedly unpaid tax, until at last someone answered the question I had asked from the outset, 'why do I owe anything?' and realised they had got it wrong. So far, they have investigated themselves and, you guessed it found that 'no one at HMRC made a mistake'.
We have found, huge, really huge deposits of shale gas off our coasts and it could stabilise our economy much more quickly, but the Greens don't like it. It is capitalist and would mean keeping carbon dioxide producing technologies. As Man Made Global Warming is, put simply, just a lie, we should ignore these communists and get on with producing a working economy. But you have to do your part, You have to let the politicians know you are angry. Angry about their stupidity and theft.
They have to understand the consequences of continuing to ignore those they happily see as 'the little people'.
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Oops, HP
Ah well, being CEO shouldn't be a secure job. It seems that a change at the top suggests the idea of drastically changing the direction of HP did not have wide support and and also that the CEO hadn't tested the temperature internally.
The next set of pronouncements should be very interesting, but I bet the move away from computing hardware will not be on. So my earlier disbelief at the future that was being mapped out was spot on and the planned drastic and incorrect change has been cancelled. Good.
The next set of pronouncements should be very interesting, but I bet the move away from computing hardware will not be on. So my earlier disbelief at the future that was being mapped out was spot on and the planned drastic and incorrect change has been cancelled. Good.
Party Conferences
The silly season of political parties getting together to show just how pathetic they are, is upon us. The Lib Dems are desperately trying to hide how having some access to power has shown up how fanciful their policies are.
And now the Labour party are about to start their own shindig. For the people of the country, as opposed to the nonsense inside a party, the political scene is relatively simple. The Coalition has some problems but we cannot know how well they will deal with the financial crisis we are engulfed by. Labour however are very much a known entity. They got us into a terrible position as an uneducated country, with rising levels of crime due to the politicisation of the police and no justice for victims and a country flooded with immigrants seeking favours.
Labour are the party of extreme ignorance; they took no care over any aspect of the 'work' they did; the Fire Control system anyone? How about a computer system for the NHS, the whole of the PFI scam or the run down of the military (whilst expecting much more of them)? Then there are the insults the Labour system added to these injuries, such as the overpaid monkeys in the MoD bureaucracy and their inability to run a procurement system properly.
Prescott, an insult to any country anyway, was responsible for the illegal structure of regional governments (as well as the fire brigade farce) and then there is the management of the NHS who have spent all their energy protecting their own positions and destroying well performing hospitals.
So, what we know is that Labour cannot be trusted with any aspect of government and certainly not the economy. The New Left, the Lib Dems have been exposed too as a bunch of dreamers and the Conservatives still seem to have no idea that the country, which wants proper Conservative policies to effectively get us out of recession, is in fact right and Cameron is wrong. Remember, it was the people who kept Britain out of the euro, not the politicians.
And now the Labour party are about to start their own shindig. For the people of the country, as opposed to the nonsense inside a party, the political scene is relatively simple. The Coalition has some problems but we cannot know how well they will deal with the financial crisis we are engulfed by. Labour however are very much a known entity. They got us into a terrible position as an uneducated country, with rising levels of crime due to the politicisation of the police and no justice for victims and a country flooded with immigrants seeking favours.
Labour are the party of extreme ignorance; they took no care over any aspect of the 'work' they did; the Fire Control system anyone? How about a computer system for the NHS, the whole of the PFI scam or the run down of the military (whilst expecting much more of them)? Then there are the insults the Labour system added to these injuries, such as the overpaid monkeys in the MoD bureaucracy and their inability to run a procurement system properly.
Prescott, an insult to any country anyway, was responsible for the illegal structure of regional governments (as well as the fire brigade farce) and then there is the management of the NHS who have spent all their energy protecting their own positions and destroying well performing hospitals.
So, what we know is that Labour cannot be trusted with any aspect of government and certainly not the economy. The New Left, the Lib Dems have been exposed too as a bunch of dreamers and the Conservatives still seem to have no idea that the country, which wants proper Conservative policies to effectively get us out of recession, is in fact right and Cameron is wrong. Remember, it was the people who kept Britain out of the euro, not the politicians.
Friday, 23 September 2011
'Dale Farm'
I am amazed at the stupidity of people in this country (and by being able to vote, we have got the politicians we deserve). Here is what has happened at the nice sounding Dale Farm site. A group of Travellers (who are reluctant, it seems, to travel) bought a plot of land. They had planning permission to build on some of it. They exceeded the terms of that permission and have been pursued by the law.
Hardly rushed, the situation today is the result of ten years of to-ing and fro-ing. That is it. But whining Lefties are pitching up saying something is unfair, but we are not sure what. A cry goes up that there are not enough pitches for them. Why should the authorities provide any?
The only contact I have had with people who claim to be Travellers have been when a group camped in a Mercury Communications car park and proceeded to attempt to break into cars of the staff. Told to clear off by my wife, they came back and loosened the wheel nuts on her car. The other incident was when a group occupied a business estate over the road and all the garages were rifled in the nearby streets, mine included.
Oh and our council had to build high berms as we have large grassed verges around here and Travellers tended to use them. For a short while to live on and then to leave whatever detritus they didn't want when they moved on. There may be many lovely people in their community, but the Travellers are disliked for very real reasons. They might want to address that, before spouting off that any laws they don't like shouldn't apply to them.
Hardly rushed, the situation today is the result of ten years of to-ing and fro-ing. That is it. But whining Lefties are pitching up saying something is unfair, but we are not sure what. A cry goes up that there are not enough pitches for them. Why should the authorities provide any?
The only contact I have had with people who claim to be Travellers have been when a group camped in a Mercury Communications car park and proceeded to attempt to break into cars of the staff. Told to clear off by my wife, they came back and loosened the wheel nuts on her car. The other incident was when a group occupied a business estate over the road and all the garages were rifled in the nearby streets, mine included.
Oh and our council had to build high berms as we have large grassed verges around here and Travellers tended to use them. For a short while to live on and then to leave whatever detritus they didn't want when they moved on. There may be many lovely people in their community, but the Travellers are disliked for very real reasons. They might want to address that, before spouting off that any laws they don't like shouldn't apply to them.
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