George Whitefield.

"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher."

George Whitefield.

It might well be said that this Blog has been created on similar principles.

Barth. [No. Not the town as pronounced by the pseudo posh.]

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

Karl Barth.

The Campaign for real Christmas cards - please encourage others!

I bought 40 cards from Home Bargains this week for the princely sum of £1-98. They are a really nice quality with two designs - one being a nativity scene and the other the Magi.

It can still be done. We do not have to accept cartoon dross, cards with no Christian connection and the extremely offensive!

Never mind!

Nicholas Sarkozy, The French President, recently spent £250k on a shower he never used.
Never mind - the dosh was from the EU!
£16 million was spent on renovating a building for the EU summit. Never mind - the dosh came from the EU.
£1 million was spent on a dinner for 'important' EU leaders.
Never mind - it was only dosh from the EU - after all we wouldn't have wanted them to have a Macdonalds - or would we?
TRANSLATION: "Dosh from the EU" = our hard earned taxes.

Good point!

"The Bible is so simple you have to have help to misunderstand it."

Gladders.

"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."

William E. Gladstone


Hmm.

Albino pairs?

Halt that couriered feline!

Cat's special delivery. From: G Atkinson, Thirsk Road, Northallerton.

THE story of Percy the railway cat (Yorkshire Post, October 19) reminded me of an experience a friend of mine had.She was in charge of all the parcels that came to her station. In one was a cat in its basket. Unfortunately, it must not have been happy being cooped up and it managed to escape.My friend was horrified when she saw it running along the platform. She shouted to those around: "Stop that cat – it's a parcel." It got away and, not knowing quite what to do, she got hold of the station cat and secured it and sent it off to its destination. No-one ever made any complaints, much to her relief.

Chuckle, chuckle!

'She has been quick to criticise other politicians for not doing enough to combat climate change.
But it seems Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, is failing to practise what she preaches when it comes to cutting carbon emissions. (Odd looking lass too.)
Infra-red thermal images reveal that not only does her constituency office waste more energy than that of any other political party boss, it also pumps twice as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the average family home.'

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223622/Thermal-imaging-reveals-Green-Party-leaders-office-energy-efficient-main-parties.html#ixzz0VJRdoLTA

No comment: I want to avoid bad language!

'One of the country's most prolific thieves has been allowed to walk free from court after a judge was told he had turned over a new leaf.
Bradley Wernham, 18, has committed hundreds of offences during a £1million crime spree that began when he was 12 and involved stealing luxury cars and breaking into churches, homes and pubs.
But after admitting 20 burglaries and asking for another 645 offences to be taken into account, he was told that rather than going to jail he was to be relocated to a new town and given a rent-free home to live in with his girlfriend.
The punishment was handed out by Judge Christopher Ball QC, who has caused uproar in the past with a series of lenient sentences.'

'

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223453/1m-stolen-665-raids-Yet-burglar-walks-free--given-new-home.html#ixzz0VJQ0VaSI

UKIP respects people.

UKIP and the BNP are the only two parties of import fighting immigration in our nation.

Naturally, our cunning enemies choose disingenuously to class UKIP as racist for daring to represent the majority view and so propagate their dishonest portrayal of UKIP as 'BNP in suits'.

The only tiny problem with this is that it is utter piffle. UKIP RESPECTS PEOPLE. We have no intolerance of immigrants whatsoever. Our targets are the appalling politicians who have not only permitted rampant immigration onto this overcrowded island but have actively encouraged it!

Over to the mighty Melanie!

Truly evil policymaking; democracy shunned; outright treason by our representatives!

'So now the cat is well and truly out of the bag. For years, as the number of immigrants to Britain shot up apparently uncontrollably, the question was how exactly this had happened.
Was it through a fit of absent-mindedness or gross incompetence? Or was it not inadvertent at all, but deliberate?
The latter explanation seemed just too outrageous. After all, a deliberate policy of mass immigration would have amounted to nothing less than an attempt to change the very make-up of this country without telling the electorate.
There could not have been a more grave abuse of the entire democratic process. Now, however, we learn that this is exactly what did happen. The Labour government has been engaged upon a deliberate and secret policy of national cultural sabotage.
This astonishing revelation surfaced quite casually last weekend in a newspaper article by one Andrew Neather. He turns out to have been a speech writer for Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
And it was he who wrote a landmark speech in September 2000 by the then immigration minister, Barbara Roche, that called for a loosening of immigration controls. But the true scope and purpose of this new policy was actively concealed.'

Melanie - on the ball as ever!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1222977/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-The-outrageous-truth-slips-Labour-cynically-plotted-transform-entire-make-Britain-telling-us.html#ixzz0VIYrk1NU

China still has much to learn.

'Long-suffering Beijing pastors Zhang 'Bike' Mingxuan and Hua Huiqi have been detained yet again – apparently as part of the government 'clean-up' for China's National Day.
Police took Pastor Hua Huiqi from his home on September 17 because, they said, their boss wanted to discuss his work over dinner. In fact, police forced him into a car and drove him out of the city – and, at the time of writing, they appeared to be holding him until the Communist Party's 60th anniversary celebrations last Thursday were over.
Meanwhile, officials took Pastor Bike and his wife on a 'forced vacation' to a mountainous area of Henan on September 23. Pastor 'Bike' is head of the Chinese House Church Alliance. Both he and Pastor Hua have been detained repeatedly over the past few years.'

LINK: http://www.releaseinternational.org/pages/posts/china-prominent-pastors-detained-during-communist-celebrations614.php

Swine flu jab? - Not me. No thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzD-TvV8sM4&feature=related

Ludovic Kennedy

I pray that God will have mercy on the soul of Ludo Kennedy who died last week.

An avowed atheist, he was also not above twisting truth to make his points and martyrs to his cause!

As a confirmed abolitionist, he conspired with Eddowes to give publicity to a wickedly false picture of the trial of Timothy Evans in 1950. He and Eddowes worked hard together to claim that the mass murderer John Christie was responsible for Evans' victims - his wife and child.

So successful was this piece of chicanery that even today the average man on the Clapham omnibus still believes that Evans was the victim of a grave injustice.

So - how do we know that this was not actually the case?

John Eddowes - the son of Ludo's 'partner in crime' was so ashamed of what his father had done, he wrote the definitive examination of the case as seen in his book "The Two Killers of Rillington Place" and has also exposed the tactics used.

Comparing health care.

In this last week's Costa Blanca News is an article on El Hospital de Torrevieja by one Nuria Perez.

The centre is large, new and incredibly successful. It has completed 53,000 operations since its inception three years ago - the operating theatres work all day - and even on Sundays. {And it IS most certainly lawful 'to do good on the Sabbath!'}

Just one thing to note for all of those who believe that the NHS is 'the bee's knees'; is the envy of the world; is a sacred cow; is the only way of delivering healthcare and is not an ancient mechanism designed for progress into the 1950s which has just about caught up with the 70s -

IT HAS NO WAITING LISTS.

When will that happy day arrive in the UK? When will patients' welfare become the principal target of funds and bureaucracy become of decreasing significance?

Luther was not wrong!

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."

Martin Luther.

Torrevieja Christian Fellowship.

I have visited this church on many occasions over the last seven and a half years. It comes with a very hearty recommendation to anybody holidaying on the Costa Blanca.

They recently moved into large, new premises on the Cortes Valencianas on the northern entrance to the town.

Services are crisp, tight and Christ-centred. It serves the English speakers in the locality and Pastor Roy Davies and wife Wendy seem to be doing a splendid job!

It is heartwarming to see a work which is growing so well.

Last Sunday, I felt that I was learning things about the Scriptures that I didn't already know. Loved it!

Evolutionists wrong shock!

They claimed 'Ida' was a 47 million year old ancestor of mankind; Attenborough pontificated; books were written; documentaries produced; the scientific community was 'awash with excitement'.

Hmm. It turned out that the fossil was a lemur.

Give an evolutionist a nudge and he/she will soon make a fool of themselves.

Again and again and again.

They really MUST all be awarded the coveted LoonyTunesWatch coconut!

Katie Price

When oh when are the media going to stop giving publicity to that TFZ (Talent-Free Zone), Katie Price?

Wouldn't you just want to take him home and give him a giant hug?

"Death is the solution to all problems. - No man .... no problem!"

Joseph Stalin.

Untrue.

The liberal left play a silly game of pretence. They claim that inside every criminal, toerag, voluntary member of the underclass, there is a serious-minded, valuable citizen anxiously struggling to get out.
They are wrong!

Griffin.

Yesterday, Diane Abbott MP advocated the 'gagging' of Nick Griffin. I think that with such attitudes, which she claimed were democratic, she scares me more than him!

No price? - Then I can't afford it!

If shops do not display the price - don't expect me to ask. Nine times out of ten I won't.

If I read your ad and there is no mention of P&P until the very end - expect to lose my custom!

Mother Teresa.

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

Mother Teresa

'Song of the Nightingale.' Helen Berhane.

'Helen was detained for two years by the military junta in Eritrea, during which she was severely beaten and kept in a metal shipping container in the heat of the desert.
She and many other Christians who had been rounded up by the authorities were locked in the airless, unsanitary steel container, and left to bake in the desert by day and freeze by night.
She tells her story in her powerful new book, Song of the Nightingale, which is being published with the support of Release International.'

LINK: http://www.releaseinternational.org/pages/posts/the-nightingale-sings-of-persecution-in-eritrea-619.php

My 'My Way' point - nice one Vic!

Having a loved one laid to rest to the blaring strains of Simply The Best might seem a fitting tribute to assembled mourners.
But whenever the Tina Turner hit - or any other pop song now popular at funerals - booms out, it leaves one vicar feeling 'like a lemon'.
Father Ed Tomlinson, 35, said he wonders what a clergyman's role is at such services as he feels 'spiritually unwanted'.
Writing on his internet blog, the vicar from Kent lamented the decline of Christian farewells centred on a 'beautiful requiem mass'.
He said: 'The best our secularist friends can hope for is a poem from Nan combined with a saccharine message from a pop star before being popped in the oven with no hope of resurrection.
In the last few years, it has become painfully obvious that many families I have conducted funerals for have no desire for any Christian content.' QUITE!

LINK:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221450/Vicar-complains-feeling-like-lemon-pithy-funerals-blare-My-Way.html#ixzz0USCDyeQb

Proverbs meets Psalms.

In Proverbs 17:15 it says: "To acquit the guilty and to condemn the innocent are both abominable to the Lord."

Compare to Psalm 94.

Fairness.

I always try to be fair. I spread my attacks on the political elite broadly; I argue whenever the odious BNP are refused a voice; I say whenever the duplicitous Conservatives get it right and I even made a small, positive remark about the Lib Dems at local level recently.

When it comes to the Greens and the silly Christian Party which was entirely culpable in the election of Nick Griffin in the North West, the best I can manage is "They probably mean well."

Labour .... No. Leave me a while ... I'll come up with something.

Oh no! Another tory 'wet'.

'Michael Heseltine could make an astonishing comeback if David Cameron wins the General Election, sources have told The Mail on Sunday.'

World government? Do NOT skip this link!

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/16/obama-poised-to-cede-us-sovereignty-in-copenhagen-claims-british-lord-monckton/

Thanks, Jo!

Police on the ball halting crime spree.

I know that I firmly believe that the age of criminal responsibility must never rise above ten - but OH DEAR!

'A two-year-old girl accused of hitting a car with a stick was investigated by police on suspicion of vandalism.The vehicle’s owner called the police claiming the child had deliberately damaged his car.It has emerged that the toddler’s name and details are being held on file with Wiltshire Constabulary following the incident.'

Wiltshire Constabulary are hereby awarded the coveted and much-merited LoonyTunesWatch coconut.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220645/Two-year-old-girl-investigated-police-car-vandal.html#ixzz0U4vtTrSD

Hypothesis.

I recently viewed a home made video on YouTube showing a possibly drugged, extremely angry young lady who was ranting wildly in rather moderate English because creationists have the temerity to repeat that 'evolution is not proved but merely a theory'.

In one sense she was perfectly correct to criticise - but not quite in the way she would have meant it!
The point being that evolution is emphatically NOT a theory. It is a mere hypothesis!
To be 'a theory' it would have to be capable of 'being tested' - and it ain't! That is what I was taught at school and it is a term which is clearly in the process of being redefined to add a degree of plausibility to evolutionist claims and assertions.

Definitions:

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]

Tee hee.

A judge stunned a courtroom when he told an ASBO thug he 'deserved a good kicking' for punching a woman police officer's private car.
Speaking off-the-cuff, Judge Anthony Scott-Gall told binge-drinking Dexter Vidal he was 'not surprised' the WPC's two grown-up sons had confronted him in the street after he attacked their family car.
Judge Scott-Gall told the court: 'I'm not surprised he was given a good kicking, it's what he deserved.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220656/Judge-tells-ASBO-thug-deserved-good-kicking-punching-policewomans-car-drunken-rage.html#ixzz0U4pqcIMx

Dishonest to God.

In 1963 a momentous volume was published which set the modest Anglican decline into a kind of avalanche of disbelief.
Although not entirely devoid of merit, the book 'Honest to God' by John Robinson was in effect, a justification for the undermining of belief.
Riddled with the dubious theology of Bonhoeffer, the so-called demythologising of Rudolf Bultmann all added to a twist of heresy, a soupçon of blasphemy, a smattering of existentialist philosophy and an over reliance on situation ethics - it is hardly possible to consider this to be a Christian work of any type.
Its influence however, permeated through the liberal theological colleges like a dose of salts and ran into mainstream churches like a torrent of effluent into a watercourse.
Naturally, this downturn was not confined to the Anglican Church - its influence ran far more broadly.
It was a true Satansend for the godless 'chattering classes' and the atheistic 'liberal elite'.
The Church today is paying a massive price from the effects of this book by a true fifth columnist.
It is to be hoped that John Robinson repented before meeting his Maker!

Climate - schmimate!

By Paul Hudson Climate correspondent, BBC News:

"... The warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise."

Against this backcloth, the doom merchants were out in force on radio this morning claiming that 'the ice caps are melting quicker than we thought'!

LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299079.stm

Rohn.

“Giving starts the receiving process.” Jim Rohn.

I am not sure that it is quite what this glorified debt counsellor intended - but it works admirably in a spiritual context too! Give to God and you will be astounded by how much He will do for you.

Wheat and chaff.

'The scale of Britain’s sicknote culture was laid bare last night as it emerged that only one in six adults claiming incapacity benefit may be entitled to do so.
Figures suggest that only around 400,000 men and women out of the 2.6million who claim the handouts are too sick too work.
It means that more than two million could be receiving the £89-a-week benefit even though they are fit enough to find a job – a figure far higher than previously thought.
Target: An advert warning against benefit fraud highlights the problem. Figures suggests that only 400,000 incapacity claimants out of 2.6m are too sick to work
The official statistics are the first revealed by the Work Capability Assessment, a strict new test that decides whether claimants are fit to work.'

I do not doubt for a moment that there has been massive abuse of this system with some not meriting the benefit in the first place, some having got fully better and some being well enough for non-physical work even though not 100%.

As previously pointed out though, this abuse has been a two way street with a tacit conspiracy between the fraudsters and successive governments.

It is inconceivable that the numbers should be at the current level.

As a magistrate, I saw a succession of wrongdoers, week after week, 'who couldn't be properly punished as they were on sick benefits'. I am fully aware that just because a person may look healthy that may be misleading - but oh, the numbers involved just told a story!

Had we not permitted this as a society, perhaps our nation would not have been quite so attractive to countless immigrants if far fewer basic jobs had been available.

Curing the problem is going to be an absolute nightmare. The vast majority of genuine claimants will want the cheats removed BUT will be intensely fearful that some arrogant official will consign them to the wrong grouping. It is so unfair!

Hiding unemployment figures was the real reasoning behind this. Yet again, our major parties show themselves as being utterly unworthy of our trust.

Those of us who have endured jobs we have hated for large portions of our working lives are entitled to feel some resentment.

I have absolutely no proof for this point but my gut feeling from court experiences is that the bulk of the fraudsters will be found in our ever burgeoning, anti-social underclass.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220211/Just-incapacity-benefit-claimants-genuine-tough-new-test-reveals-TWO-MILLION-cheating.html#ixzz0TsaZWDZy

Saint Ignatius of Loyola quotes.

“Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.”

“We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.”

“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.”

Somehow, I don't quite know what it is, I just can't put my finger on it, but I just know that I would not have made a good jesuit!

Peter Oborne.

Forget the crowing of a tory-supporting journalist (who incidentally, often talks a great deal of sense) and look at the substance.

"The party conference in Manchester was managed with great skill. Many commentators predicted a great internal row about whether David Cameron should support a referendum over the Lisbon Treaty. This was averted - an important sign that unity has returned to the Conservatives."

This is no good thing for the nation. It is just the tories returning to their default position when in power - an absolute, unwavering, unmitigated support for the European Union in all its foetid glory.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1219365/PETER-OBORNE-Week-tectonic-plates-politics-shifted.html#ixzz0Tn0pAaVo

The Sudan remains a glimpse into hell.

'A Sudanese bishop has called on the international community for help after guerrillas crucified seven Christians.
Militants from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed and murdered six of the Christians in a forest near the town of Nzara in Western Equatoria State near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The seventh was snatched from a church in Ezo.
The LRA, a Ugandan rebel force influenced by Islam and the occult, has been terrorising southern villages for years but stepped up its attacks at the end of last year – training its sights particularly on Christians.'

LINK: http://www.releaseinternational.org/pages/posts/sudan-church-appeals-for-help-after-christians-crucified-by-militants613.php

'The Abolition of Britain.'

In this excellent work, Peter Hitchens puts it perfectly when he states:

"This is the joy of being a progressive ... whenever your views are rejected by experience, common sense and tradition, it is because you are ahead of the rest of the population, never because you are eccentric or wrong or just plain arrogant ... "

When should Christians forgive?

To this question when Christians are dealing with other people, the answer is reasonably straightforward.

What about when we are dealing with institutions though? - I suspect that a great deal depends on our motivations - if arising out of anger or hatred then we have no entitlement.

However, if we feel that we have been cheated by an insurance company or a power giant or similar where clearly the personal element is entirely lacking, I suspect that the same thinking does not apply.

If I have been victimised by a large body, I shall tell everybody I know and shall do my utmost to avoid the wrongdoer in the future.

If however this results in cutting-off-the-nose-to-spite-the-face syndrome - we should act with wisdom.

Being a believer certainly makes you consider hard the motivations behind your actions!

Stolen by social workers.

"Churches should be aware of the threat posed by social workers stealing children from their parents, Christian Voice has warned. Secret family courts continue to forcibly remove hundreds of children from their parents throughout the UK every year. The children are then put up for adoption and prevented from seeing their biological parents, many of whom have not committed any abuse."

Christian Voice is perfectly correct.
Furthermore and not unrelated to this topic, let us not forget that the inimitable Professor Dawkins has actually advocated the removal of children from Christian parents - along with his qualified support for some sort of eugenics!

LINK: http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/Press/press101.html

Ben Franklin talking about the EU - probably.

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

Benjamin Franklin

Does policy matter a jot?

The other day, I was pondering how Lib Dems ever get any votes at all in national elections.

Unlike UKIP, where the party is in tune with the electorate on almost every single policy, the Liberal Democrats are largely out of step on most issues. They are 'very big on telling voters what to want'.

If UKIP were ever to make a breakthrough under first-past-the-post, it would surely spell the end of the Liberal Democrats as 'the alternative' which they so assiduously pretend to be.

That they gain votes in local elections is perfectly understandable however, as they try very hard to campaign, politically neutrally, on local matters. They succeed and in fairness, often deserve their success.

In national voting and policy however, they rely entirely on the following:

1] That voters who supported them locally will automatically transfer allegiance in national elections without bothering to ask the important questions.

2] That a great many perceive them - very wrongly - to be 'in between the Conservatives and Labour. Hopefully as the LibLabCon is becoming ever more apparent, fewer will fall into this trap.

3] That nobody ever really knows their policies. If they did - their share of the vote would plummet.

4] That if Labour is supposed to be for the working man and Tories supposed to be for the wealthy, voters fail to discover that they truly are the party of the PC brigade, the left-leaning university lecturers, thwarted Greens, mad utopian europhiles, the proponents of the 'nanny state', government interference and sellout to Brussels merchants.

5] That they are not actually of the centre but are in fact, the most leftwing portion of the LibLabCon.

6] That leaving the polling booth, the majority of their voters would not be able to list three policies - or possibly even two which are in their manifesto! [And they brazenly and ironically claim that the voters do not know the BNP's agenda!]

Their success levels overall are undeserved. They have cooled a little in their desire for PR but still ask for it. It is something which would eventually see their destruction. They naively believe that it would be their route to power.

Coming fourth in the EU elections should have given them warning - success under PR is not the 'shoo-in' they had hoped it might be.

Even the evolutionists have finally backtracked.

'Neanderthal Man ... was originally portrayed as a half ape, half human, but right from the start, Berlin University Professor Virchow said this was a deformed human who had suffered childhood rickets and old age arthritis – an analysis which would eventually be proved embarrassingly correct by staff at the Natural History Museum in London, who would confirm that he indeed was a human being who had been suffering from at least Vitamin D deficiency. Later research hints that he probably also suffered from sexually transmitted diseases. There was also evidence right from the start, Neanderthal man had more brain space than a modern human.'

LINK: http://www.evidenceweb.net/photo_search_results.php?p_SERIES=Brain%20Drain

Thanks, John.

A REAL warning!

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!"

Pericles.

There IS a vacancy.

If you were to go to the average Labour voter in traditional, Labour areas and offer them policies they liked, they would still not vote for the Conservatives. Their hatred is visceral and ongoing.

So with the tories not interested in being right of centre any more, there must be literally millions out there who are fed up with Labour and just as many who feel that the tories have let traditional supporters down.

UKIP MUST fill this gap.

The extra advantage of a UKIP, right of centre is that the party is not in hock to bankers, global conglomerates and the 'old boy networks'.

UKIP must stop trying to be 'all things to all men'!

The campaign goes into its fourth year.

I should like to renew my clarion call for all readers to both boycott and encourage the boycotting of Christmas cards which have no Christmas connection. These range from Robins to Santa; nineteenth century coaches to silly, trivialising cartoons; sick jokes to the deeply offensive.

This is: THE CAMPAIGN FOR REAL CHRISTMAS CARDS.

Please join in. The cards are appearing in the shops now. ASK for real Christmas cards where none appear.

Embarrass the shopowners!

Christians have the power of the consumer. USE IT!

We are celebrating the arrival of GOD INCARNATE. Nothing must be done to remove this fundamental truth from the public eye at this one opportunity each year. [Easter has already been downgraded in society - probably because there aren't any prezzies!]

What are we coming to?

'A CHRISTIAN nurse from Exeter, facing disciplinary action for simply wearing a necklace on which hung her Confirmation Cross, has, under duress, today accepted an offer of redeployment and has instructed lawyers to file an action at the Employment Tribunal for discrimination.
Shirley Chaplin, 54, having served as a nurse for nearly 30 years, was threatened with disciplinary action after refusing to remove a necklace bearing a Cross – a symbol of her deeply felt Christian faith. NHS bosses had insisted that the Cross must be removed from sight.'

LINK: http://www.ccfon.org/view.php?id=854

Live near an illegal gypsy camp? - Tough!

'Gipsies and travellers are to get special favours under planning guidelines when Harriet Harperson's equality law comes into force, ministers admitted yesterday.
They said travellers will receive preferential treatment because of the 'many socio-economic disadvantages' they face.
The legislation is likely to raise the chance of travellers winning approval for official sites as well as greater tolerance of illegal camps.'

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218646/Harmans-law-green-light-camps-travellers.html#ixzz0TEA3FyVb

Gee, thanks to the mainstream politicians.

It appears that Labour and the bankers have created such an unholy mess that old age pensions must be attacked.

The conservatives have no better ideas apparently, and if my calculations are correct, I shall personally lose a year's old age pension when my time comes around to commence official old age.

I am not best pleased particularly when there are two far better targets than old people.

Why do we not withdraw from the EU and why in addition is there no full frontal assault on our massive, hideously expensive, largely unaccountable quangocracy?

The wise words of Tacitus.

'A bad peace is even worse than war.'

Tacitus.

'I disagree.'

Neville Chamberlain.