Thanks for this, Jack.

Are we feeling brave today?

Then try this one.......

Now here's a thought . . . . If you are ready for "The Adventure of a Lifetime", try this:

A] Go to Pakistan , Afghanistan or Iraq illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense.
B] Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care for you and your entire family.
C] Demand that all nurses and doctors be fluent in English, and that all food be cooked according to your special specifications in the hospital
D] Demand free local government forms, bulletins, etc. be printed in English.
E] Procreate abundantly.
F] Deflect any criticism of this allegedly irresponsible reproductive behaviour with, 'It is a cultural thing; you wouldn't understand.'
G] Keep your original identity strong. Fly your previous country's national flag from your rooftop, or proudly display it in your front window, or on your car bumper.
H] Speak only English at home and in public, and make sure that your children do likewise
I] Demand classes on English culture in the Muslim school system
J] Demand a local country driver license or national insurance number equivalent
K] This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimise your unauthorised, illegal, presence in Pakistan , Afghanistan or Iraq
L] Drive around with no MOT, tax or insurance and ignore local traffic laws. m.. Insist that local country law enforcement teaches English to all its officers.
M] Organise protest marches against your host country, inciting violence against non-white, non-Christians and the government that let you in.

Good luck! You'll soon be dead. It would never happen in Pakistan , Afghanistan or Iraq (or any other country in the world for that matter) except in the UK, US, or Canada, because we are run by soft, politically correct politicians that are too scared to 'offend' anyone. Go ahead and try the above in Pakistan , Afghanistan or Iraq - and good luck.

I do not publish this as a criticism of Muslims but to show just how ridiculous successive governments in the UK have become!

Why are we in a recession?

Why are we in a recession? The most logical response I have found comes from Andrew Alexander and so I invite you to read his excellent assessment, as I cannot do it justice by attempting a summary.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081892/Recession-You-aint-seen-yet.html

Pay gaps.

It has long been clear that any pay differentials between men and women are virtually all down to 'lifestyle choice' and not discrimination as the 'equality industry' would claim.
The proof of that particular pudding is found in the fact that differences in the under 30s are demonstrably negligible.
I have argued that point previously on this Blog and also referred to the survey I had to do on this issue at the end of the 1980s which clearly made the point that it is the decision of women to have an 'interrupted career pattern' in order to bring up families that is the main factor.

Now, Professor John Shackleton of the University of East London has said that in reality the pay gap hardly exists for workers under 30.
He said men work longer hours in more dangerous jobs and face a greater risk of being sacked, while women who take career breaks outnumber their male equivalents by more than five to one.
This was in a paper for the Institute of Economic Affairs.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079258/Pay-gap-men-women-discrimination-lifestyle-choice-says-study.html

Reading matters.

Now there is a book I must get around to reading sometime!

Surely it is racist.

I have long argued that having a Black Police association is racist.
Below is a link well worth following:

LINK:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081318/Tory-MP-addresses-National-Black-Police-Association-annual-conference--blasts-THEM-racist.html

Lennie is back.

The truly awesome talent of Leonard Cohen is on display in London in the next couple of weeks and there are some very reasonable ticket prices.

http://www.double8tickets.com/ is just one site where you will not mind paying over the odds to see the greatest songsmith the world has ever produced - and if like me, you adore the deep, bass voice which bears no resemblance whatsoever to the squeaky-voiced youngster of the late 60s - you will be staggered.

The purity of his voice in the concert I saw in Manchester was simply beautiful!

Oy! I ain't fick, innit?

'The intellectual ability of the country's cleverest youngsters has declined radically, almost certainly due to the rise of TV and computer games and over-testing in schools.
The 'high-level thinking' skills of 14-year-olds are now on a par with those of 12-year-olds in 1976.
The findings contradict national results which have shown a growth in top grades in SATs at 14, GCSEs and A-levels.'

I have been making this point non stop for many years and it has now been reinforced by a study from Kings College. My time as a teacher coincides most congruently with these dates and at last, I have some evidence for the frequent claims that I have been making along these precise lines and the overview must obviously have a strong link to the disappearance of Grammar Schools.
The decline has been a grave concern to me as the social consequences are potentially horrendous. Thus far, the evidence has had to be largely anecdotal from me and countless others.

Perhaps the most frightening of all these was when a Doctor, who was a teacher of medical students at the local university, explained to me how he had been an unwilling partner in the covering up of this point when taking on students to do Medicine. Students of considerably lesser ability than some 25 years ago were being granted places on the courses - and were of course, passing with flying colours.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080791/Dimming-How-brainpower-todays-14-year-olds-slipped-radically-just-generation.html

Numbers 32: 23. " ...and be sure your sin will find you out."

One of the greatest tragedies facing the godless generations of today is that so many firmly believe that personal actions do not have consequences; they seem to work to the principle of seeing 'how much we can get away with in life'.
On the grandest scale they cannot see that ultimately they must answer to God for the lives He has lent them. Consider the Parable of the Talents.
But on a more mundane level, they fail to grasp the idea that actions have consequences, here and now.
Consider the reports which suggest that considerable numbers of young women will tragically find themselves unable to conceive in the coming years because of the STDs which result from their promiscuous lifestyles.
The trouble is that this is yet one more example where the taxpayer will be hit because of the uncontrolled behaviour of some members of our society. We shall have to foot the major bills for the considerable amounts of NHS time and effort which will be taken up in desperate attempts to reverse the situation for these women.
If smokers contract cancer, at least they will have paid in taxes many times over for the costs of their treatment.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1081657/The-sex-timebomb-Its-unthinkable--generation-girls-facing-infertility-sexually-transmitted-diseases.html

Heating.

Surely, if you can walk around your house in a short sleeved blouse or shirt in winter then your heating is at least three degrees too high.
What is so terrible about wearing a cardigan or jumper?
Think of the money which can be saved and currently, the waste of non-renewable fuels. [Apologies to those with windmills on their rooftops!]

Airport car parking.

Before my recent sojourn in not all that sunny Spain, I hunted around online in an attempt to find cheaper airport car parking prices for East Midlands as it is horrendously expensive there.
Whichever company I used it made no difference. The astronomical prices came back the same.
It was cheaper to book a flight to Alicante than it was to park my car for a week!
This suggests two things:
1] Rip off.
2] A cartel?

Watch them wriggle.

First October snow in London in 74 years. Ah well. That's global warming for you!

Sack. Sack. Sack!

That foul-mouthed, talent-free zone known as Jonathan Ross, 'earns' £6 million per year. The Beeb has been presented with a perfect chance to get him out and start spending our licence fees more wisely.
Any office worker would have been sacked for the disgraceful acts which I have heard reported.
Incidentally - who is Russell Brand? What is he for?


LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtmlxml=/arts/2007/12/06/nross106.xml

Spend a penny?

It is quite disgraceful that local councils - many of which have ideas well above their station - are failing so badly in one of their basic functions.
How often today are you able to use a Public Convenience?
I am fed up of having to seek out a Macdonalds whenever I'm in a town centre. When it's crowded - no problem but when there are only a few customers it gets rather embarrassing as you dodge inside, furtively pretending that you are browsing the product range.
Perhaps councils should be reducing the business rates on such franchises!



LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079476/MPs-demand-public-loos-half-elderly-afraid-case-need-toilet.html

Puzzled.

Have just got back from sunny Spain and on Radio Murcia, Spaniards are getting most excited that their roads have seen the biggest fall in casualties of any EU country.
I wonder how their figures for dead pedestrians might have simply plummeted if they stopped people parking on zebra crossings!

Blog battery recharge.

Your Blog is taking a week off. May I suggest that there are few of my regular readers who have read all of the 1,600 or so articles which have been published on here in the last two and a half years.
So. For your daily fix, why not have a good trawl; throughout the archives and see if you can catch me out - all the places where my predictions have been off beam for example.
Secondly, of course - there is an excellent search engine where you can look up specific points.

Best wishes,

Your loving Blog.

God bless you Gayle.

'Gunned down: Gayle Williams was shot dead in Kabul, Afghanistan.
She was a British woman who was working to better the lives of disabled children in Afghanistan and has been shot dead by Taliban gunmen because she was working for a Christian organisation.
Gayle Williams, 34, was walking to work in Kabul when she was gunned down by two men on a motorbike.'





And some people deny that there is evil in the world!

Dear Gordon - petrol.

Dear Gordon,
I understand that you are unable to drive - but heck - never mind, you can be chauffeured to wherever you want to go.
I realise that you have a nice fat salary and so the matter of price increases to petrol and diesel are things which you just cannot comprehend and you do not see that these are costs, which literally wreck the careful budgets of millions of people and are devastating to the hardworking and thrifty.
Just as you were getting that little 'bounce' in the polls too. [What a laugh that was, eh? You start a fire and then get praised for throwing a bucket of water onto it!] - Somebody here advises this to get the Treasury a few bob back.
Yes, Gord. An extra government 9p per gallon by April. Breathtaking in its brilliance and its simplicity; truly once again, the mark of a fiscal genius!
The proles won't mind, will they? Petrol has dropped in price recently, hasn't it?
Great.

Your pal.

PS. Oh, you don't think that any of those voters who had thought of going back to Labour might get angry and vote against you for this treachery, do you?
No. I'm sure that you will have thought that one through! After all you understand their pain - or maybe you don't.

Bill Cash.

From The Times,
October 19, 2008.
EU advice on money
Should the EU give counsel on resolving the credit crunch?

Sir, It is truly disturbing in the current economic and financial global crisis to witness Presidents Sarkozy and Barroso strutting about at Camp David with President Bush. The idea that the European Union can offer a solution to current world problems must be weighed against its own systemic failures over the last few decades.
The failure of the Lisbon economic agenda, the high and increasing levels of unemployment in the euro-zone, the massive costs of over-regulation which are destroying enterprise, the total failure of the Stability and Growth Pact, the assumed irreversible nature of the European Union legal framework, and the promotion of bureaucracy at the expense of democracy is testament to the reasons why the current model of the European Union is not fit for purpose.
International conferences and co-operation based on free and fair markets and democratic principles are necessary and laudable, but no confidence can possibly be placed in the track record of the current model of European Union speaking with its so-called single voice, whose economic failures precede the current financial crisis and are partly responsible for it.
Economic success will only come about if the European Union reverts to an association of democratic nation states co-operating together but without a centralised, bureaucratic, undemocratic model of government.

Bill Cash, MP House of Commons, SW1

Well Dave - now you know!

Back in the 1990s when I could not get any more disillusioned with state schools and was dreadfully unhappy in my work, a friend asked me at our weekly prayer meeting what I actually wanted to do.
I told him instantly that I wanted to become a troublemaker.
I have once stood for parliament; I have stood for the Sheffield Council at least three times; I have written a Christian-based, anti-leftwing novel; I write constantly to newspapers attacking the EU whilst encouraging others to do the same and I produce this daily Blog.
Well, Dave. I reckon that I have achieved my ambition - don't you?

EU propaganda hits home.

Yesterday, I met a most agreeable young lady but one who tragically believes that the EU 'is a good thing'. How could she not? She has just done an 'A' level in politics which conveniently leaves out all the countless bad bits!

Had it been Economics, the same would have almost certainly applied.

Last year, I was speaking to a young languages graduate who told me how heavily the idea of this 'good thing' had been pushed in his university course.

In addition, glossy EU propaganda floods into our schools - some in the form of blatant politicising - some is considerably more subtle.

Not only does this draw unwary and callow students into its grotesque web but it also ensnares many a teacher too - the teaching profession has always had more than its fair share of the terminably gullible!

Frank Field just gets better and better.

'Schools Secretary Ed Balls was last night accused by a senior Labour MP of cynically using controversial Government education policy to boost his hopes of succeeding Gordon Brown as Labour leader.
Former Minister Frank Field said that Mr Balls had ousted Andrew Adonis as Schools Minister as part of a power struggle over the future of the city academies programme, which was established by Tony Blair to give schools more independence from town halls.'

Photo: Frank Field.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078790/Frank-Field-accuses-Balls-criticising-academies-help-future-leadership-race.html

A disturbing statistic.

"About 11 per cent of prisoners [in the UK] are Muslim - three-and-a-half times the proportion in the UK population."

The liberal left would automatically claim that this is down to prejudice as this is their default position.
A few percent maybe - but remember that I have been in the system and would emphatically state that there is NO prejudice whatsoever in sentencing in my experience!

We shall have to draw our own conclusions, I suppose.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077861/Muslim-fanatic-prisoners-programmed-using-controversial-techniques-cure-beliefs.html

Good John - but could do better.

The excellent John Sentamu makes a spirited defence of church schools in an interview in today's Mail on Sunday. [See LINK]
He also points out how masses of the population see these as being an extremely good thing.
Where he fails to stick the knife in is by dodging the issue of where virtually all these attacks originate from.
Perhaps somebody could send the Archbishop the address of this Blog, wherupon he would learn that these attacks are exclusively from THE LEFT - liberal and otherwise.
He might perhaps be surprised to see how many liberal Christians - most themselves of left-wing persuasion - would oppose such education.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078798/DR-JOHN-SENTAMU-Critics-making-ferocious-attack-Church-schools---I-speak-out.html

How to rescue democracy.

I am deeply concerned. I have just listened to an American reporter asking questions on the streets of Harlem.

He asked Obama future voters why they supported their man and then presented, seemingly intelligent people, with the policies of McCain and EVEN referred to his vice presidential sidekick being Sarah Palin. Not only did they emphatically endorse the policies of McCain but thought that Palin WAS indeed his running mate.

Those of us who are democratic to the bone are stunned but not surprised. I have posted several articles on here which have pointed out how so many vote for what they don't actually want.

We have been told that a bald man has no hope of election as a a party leader in this country.

Obama is considerably more handsome than McCain.

I despair!

There are only two ways I can see which can repair the damage of such dangerous voting patterns:

1} The use of referenda must come to the fore. The Swiss model would be a good starting point. At least if the terminally stupid and the uninformed cannot see the bigger picture, there is a strong chance that they will be able to express their views on a single policy issue and

2} We must consider having a set of say, 5 simple questions on the issues at the top of each ballot paper - if computerised systems are used these could vary from voter to voter - if the voter scores less than three out of five, then the vote would be automatically discounted.

Harsh perhaps, but how else do we protect ourselves from fools?

The first of these ideas is enormously attractive to me but the second troubles me deeply - it is clear that something must be done, however.

Dear Gordon ...

Dear Gordon.
It appears that once again you need my help. On this occasion it is to stop you looking totally foolish.
'The PM says that he's kept his promise about "no more boom and bust" because, as he told an interviewer, "What I actually said was no more Tory boom and bust".
Ah.
Well.
Oh dear.
So my suggestion is that you simply shut up. Stop talking - you are clearly not sufficiently good at it.

Your pal.

Right about cannabis dangers.

Time and time again, we see the common sense spoken in this Blog vindicated. The trouble is that so often it gives me zero pleasure to be proved right. This time it is the folly of effectively legalising cannabis use by reducing its classification to 'C'. At last, it appears that the government are admitting that they were wrong and will take the drug back to class 'B' status.
This week it was also reported that Labour's policies of liberalising gambling have come back to bite them.
The week before that it was how their 'all day drinking' had backfired and alcohol related problems had run riot.

These are people who have liberal 'gut reactions' which are utterly untrustworthy.
A big 'sorry' to so many of my libertarian friends who would have probably supported all three of these liberalisations as well as my points on marriage in another of today's postings going against their grain - the trouble is that once a freedom begins to cause social damage beyond the immediate individual himself, that freedom is no longer easy to justify.

'A senior police officer delivered a fierce attack on the reclassification of cannabis yesterday after a long-term user who ignored medical pleas to kick the habit was jailed for murdering his girlfriend. Detective Superintendent Andy West said the decision to downgrade the drug from Class B to C was the 'worst thing' he had seen in 28 years of policing. He spoke out after a judge jailed Marc Middlebrook for the murder of Stephanie Barton, a 32-year-old trainee accountant.'

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078151/Going-soft-cannabis-worst-thing-Ive-seen-28-years-policing-says-senior-officer.html

Politicians take heed - we were right, you were wrong!

Married parents are more than twice as likely to stay together than those who are unwed, pioneering research showed yesterday.
The study found that one in four children of cohabiting parents had suffered the break-up of their families before they reached the age of five.
By that age 23 per cent of children were not living with both their natural parents, according to the largest survey on family life yet performed.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078311/Children-unmarried-couples-TWICE-likely-suffer-family-split.html

Campaign.

Please play this video in your Churches this weekend Final Days to Make a Difference for Life The final stages of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HFE Bill) will take place Wednesday 22nd October. This Bill is one of the most destructive pieces of legislation that we will see in our lifetime. It is anti-life, anti-family and anti-God. It will liberalise abortion law, create animal-human hybrids and create fatherless families unless we pray and act to stop it. Will you do so? Each person’s contribution counts.Join us the following:Attend Rally for Life in Westminster, London this Saturday 18th October at 1pm: http://www.ccfon.org/docs/procession18oct8.pdf For those in Northern Ireland, attend Abortion Rally this Saturday 18th October at 1pm: http://www.preciouslife.com/Attend Lunch time Prayer Rally on Wednesday 22nd October at 1.00pm – 2.00pm to campaign outside Parliament, Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3JY, the day the Bill is being debated in the House of Commons. Please come. If you are in London, please use your lunch hour to come and pray with us: http://www.ccfon.org/view.php?id=146 Find out where your MP stands on life issues: http://www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org/mp/searchmp.php Contact your MP about the Bill. Email or telephone with a message is best at this stage. You can download our Information and Action Pack which provides information on all the relevant issues within the Bill to contact your MP. It also provides guidance on contacting your MP and contains example letters for you to use: http://www.ccfon.org/docs/HFEBriefingPack_Oct2008.pdf Sign the Alive and Kicking Petition:http://www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org/petition/ Watch Video Clips on HFE BillWe have a number of video clips on the HFE Bill on our Mediacentre web pages, including news reports featuring CCFON staff and colleagues from other Christian organisations. Watch the videos here: http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avpl=1 Help fund the campaign: http://www.ccfon.org/donation.php Andrea Minichiello Williams Christian Concern for our Nation.

Sorry - I'm angry again!

'Truant and classroom troublemakers should be offered rewards for good behaviour, according to advice from Ofsted.
The education watchdog urged schools to use privileges and awards to persuade uncooperative pupils to abide by school rules.
Inspectors said rewards such as days out and other activities helped schools 'manage behaviour' and improve attitudes, boosting attendance and exam results.'

What an excellent idea. Let's bribe the worst of pupils to show some semblance of good behaviour whilst the better behaved ones get no recognition for behaving tolerably in the first place.
This is not just ill-conceived, subject to the law of unintended consequences and expensive - it is profoundly immoral.
Dare I ask - whatever happened to carrot and stick? - That at least, was fair to ALL.

A LoonyTunesWatch coconut has been awarded to Ofsted!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078019/Give-truants-day-good-says-Ofsted-plan-boost-school-results.html

Pinocchio Blair.

Follow the link to a long suspect Blair assertion being proved a lie.

Well done, Stephen Glover.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077720/STEPHEN-GLOVER-The-lie-lays-bare-rank-corruption-Blair-years.html

Quangos.

Dear Gordon,
As you will recall, of late, I have been writing to help you run the country rather better than you have managed thus far.
I expect that you will already be pondering my advice and be poised to sack Mandy and to dump the windmills.
The next step is to take all the quangos and have a good look.
Do we really need a hidden layer of government in the first place, I ask myself? Should we really be rewarding loyal party apparatchiks with golden sinecures?
Just what are most of these totally unaccountable bodies actually doing?
Of course some of them have their uses, but what measures their levels of efficiency?
Which ones are exercises in pure futility?
With these things costing a an unimaginable £170 billion every year - the opportunities for savings are phenomenal.
Drop me a line when you've got these sorted and I'll tell you what to do next.

Lots of love,

Your mate.

John 13: 34/5: the essence of Christianity.

"By this love you have for one another shall all men know you are my disciples."

Christians are required to reject selfishness, self promotion and greed. We are expected to show love to all.

I hope that we are good at this as we are Christ's representatives on earth.

Remember, "We are the only Jesus some people ever see!"

Do leopards really change their spots?

Peter Oborne writes: "When young Alistair Darling first flirted with politics in the Seventies he was the classic bearded Leftie of popular legend.
One old comrade recalls Darling as 'pressing Trotskyite tracts on bewildered railwaymen at Waverley Station in Edinburgh'.
The future Chancellor was extremely close to an organisation called the International Marxist Group, heavily penetrated by British intelligence, one of whose primary objectives was the nationalisation of the British banking system."

Hmm.

Even the unions are spotting the dangers.

TUC votes to oppose European court rulings and Lisbon!

Trade Union Congress delegates overwhelmingly backed a call for Europe-wide protests against European Court of Justice (ECJ) rulings that are a fundamental attack on collective bargaining and the right to strike.
The successful motion from the RMT union also pointed out that the Lisbon Treaty would exacerbate attacks on trade union rights by handing the misnamed court huge new powers.

Melanie on Obama.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076957/MELANIE-PHILIPS-Everyone-destroy-Palin--Obamas-past-examine.html

Prejudice?

My pro-Polish, racial prejudice has come out on this Blog a number of times. They are a race of whom I have known many - and have been impressed by them all.

In these days when quite a few nationalities have been rightly suspected of 'dipping their bread' at our expense as immigrants - the Poles have stood apart as a group who have been hardworking, skilful and a genuine asset to the nation.

[Remember that of the Somalis amongst us, a mere 19% are in work.]

It is therefore with some regrets that I learn that the government is stating that more than 100,000 Poles have now returned home, probably because of the economic climate here.

Dear Gordon,

Dear Gordon,

I think I may be able to help in the present crisis. I know where I can save you £100 billion to help in bank nationalisations.

You remember that you had earmarked this phenomenal sum in order to buy some highly inefficient, magic bean windmills at the behest of our Masters in Brussels?

Well. Tell them to get stuffed and use the savings to help offset the present crisis.

Next time I shall advise you on how to deal with quangos ....

Lots of love.

Time to Act on Embryology Bill.

CCFON Announcements – Abortion, Bioethics, Church & State, Crime, Economic Crisis, End of Life, Family, Islam
Destructive Embryology Bill: Final Commons Date Set The final stages of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HFE Bill) will take place on 22nd October. This Bill is one of the most destructive pieces of legislation that we will see in our lifetime. It is anti-life, anti-family and anti-God. It will liberalise abortion law, create animal-human hybrids and create fatherless families unless we pray and act to stop it. Will you do so? Each person’s contribution counts.

Newsflash Video and play in your Churches, Home Groups and Christian Gatherings.:http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avid=127&avap=1

Captain Blackadder.

Yes - I know all too well that the Blackadder series was largely produced by a bunch of godless lefties but credit where credit is due.

I adored the series.

I remember back in 1989 when the final episode was played of the fourth series - Captain Edmund Blackadder led his troops 'over the top' into shell, mortar blasts and machine gun bullets and we realised that all these favourite characters were going to die.

Then with what is perhaps the greatest and most poignant moment in all of TV history, the film slows, freezes and gradually turns into a field of poppies.

I cried. The impact was almost beyond belief.

Let us not forget. The British Legion poppies will be on sale again soon!

Nationalisation.

With the government merrily nationalising banks et al, we must remember that in the short term, this can be 'a good thing' as its aims are short term and undoubtedly this is necessary. It is quite possible that of the vast sums mentioned - much will be recovered.

Nationalisation per se, is a problem, however. It is based on two false premises, the first being that the government will run a large body more efficiently and secondly, it will run it in the public interest in a way that private capital never would or could.

Why does the left make the first assumption which simply goes against all the evidence? Governments shore up failing industries which CANNOT be repaired. Consider British Steel. It was grossly overmanned and its wage levels meant that it was unable to compete internationally. This business saw countless amounts of taxpayers' money absorbed for social rather than business reasons.

In other words, there are NEVER profits to cut taxation for ordinary people. It is all theory and fails in practice.

It is this social element which wrecks the second assumption.

Nationalisation is no alternative to capitalism; it is an exercise in optimism combined with wishful thinking.

Morality is actually necessary.

"Where morality is present, laws are unnecessary. Without morality, laws are unenforceable."

Anonymous

Great news on stem cell research.

Most Christians have long been deeply troubled by the ethics of using aborted foetuses for stem cell research.

I consider myself a pragmatist but that seems a step too far and reminiscent of the idea of using horrific, concentration camp experimenting as a basis for medical research. But now some good news:

'Scientists have developed a new way of creating human stem cells that does away with the need to create and destroy embryos.
In a breakthrough that could revolutionise medicine, and end the ethical dilemma of using cells from embryos, they have shown that the cells can be created from tissue removed from a man's testicles.
These could eventually be used to grow 'spare part' tissue to treat a host of diseases - including diabetes, Parkinson's and heart disease.
And because this tissue comes from a patient himself, there is no issue of rejection.'

Madness of the left never ends.

That this country has no death penalty is an affront to the democratic process. Successive governments have trampled on the wishes of the people for 44 years.
I believe that I am correct in saying that no poll of opinion has ever returned a result suggesting that a significant majority do not want a return to the death penalty.
The 'we-know-better-than-you-do mentality' of politicians is an abomination!

That is one thing but to refuse extradition to other countries because a criminal may face capital punishment there is quite something else.
Iran has been told that Fowzi Badavi Nejad, the only survivor of the Iranian Embassy siege 28 years ago, will not be extradited because he would face the death penalty in Teheran for murder.
Our beloved government knew that this is how they would act, so how appalling that this dreadful man should be released from prison in the first place and he is now going to leech off the British taxpayer for the rest of his natural life - if that were in prison - I think I could live with the costs.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1074589/Terrorist-survived-SAS-storming-Iranian-Embassy-free-days--life-benefits.html

Abe.

‘Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power’

Abraham Lincoln.

Rip off!

The last thing that the consumer needs at this point is to be ripped off by the large oil companies. Oil prices have dropped from a peak of $147 in June to around $86 dollars per barrel yesterday.

At the pump, I was paying almost £1-20 per litre. I am still paying an absurd £1-07.

I know that it takes some six weeks for prices to filter through but it is NOW time that petrol was falling to around 80 pence per litre!

[15/10/08. I am now paying £1-03 per litre and my economic adviser reckons that my 80p target is unreasonable and that it should be adjusted to 90p as this is the best we can possibly hope for.]

Rent dodgers beware,

Don't you just love it? These signs are being erected in Liverpool for reasons rather too obvious to mention.

They are NOT used for those who have fallen on hard times but solely for those who have received government money and who have not passed this on to Sutton Estates; those wanting a free ride, in other words.

Naturally, the ridiculous Human Rights Act will be dusted off or a court order will succeed against this enterprising firm and then I shall get VERY angry!

Letter to the Queen.

MRCP Kingsmere Meadow,
Shawford
Winchester S021 2BL .
29 September .

Your Majesty,
It is the right of the British people to petition their monarch. My first petition to Your Majesty was a letter of the 25th of June. It was answered by Mrs Sonia Bonici, who said, "I should explain to you that there is no question of Her Majesty, as constitutional sovereign, refusing Royal Assent to an Act which has been passed by both Houses of Parliament". I wrote to Your Majesty again on the 11th of August. I have not received a reply to my second letter although it makes a constitutional point of the gravest importance for Your Majesty and the British people and the continuation of the Monarchy itself. In Canada, in 1964, Your Majesty made unequivocally clear what the people expect from their constitutional sovereign - "The role of a Constitutional Monarch is to personify the democratic state, to legitimate authority, to assure the legality of its measures and to guarantee the execution of its popular will." Parliament may try to persuade Your Majesty to obey it, but Your Majesty has pledged to defend the laws and customs of the people and Your Majesty’s constitutional writ extends to protecting your people from a tyrannical Parliament and from any unjust statute that Parliament may pass. What would Your Majesty’s father, our dearly beloved George VI, have done if he had been told by Parliament to give away Britain’s freedom and sovereignty to Hitler? Would he, could he possibly have agreed to do Parliament’s bidding? The answer, again, was made by Your Majesty - "I shall work as my father did throughout his reign to uphold Constitutional government and to uphold the happiness and prosperity of my peoples". In giving your Royal Assent to the Lisbon Treaty, Your Majesty has ignored the wishes of your people, which were also ignored by Parliament. Tyrannical is a realistic description of Parliament, which promised the people a vote on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty and then broke its promise. Negligent is an honest description of many MPs who admitted that they had never read the Lisbon Treaty. Foreign leaders are agreed that the Lisbon Treaty is the same as the EU constitution. Parliament is forcing the British people to accept this unwanted political settlement, which is sweeping away their long-treasured liberties, laws and customs, which have stood them in such good stead for hundreds of years. Our Declaration of Right and Bill of Rights plainly state "That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm". Giving any foreign body authority over the British people is unconstitutional. Britain’s Constitutional government includes a sovereign, a parliament and a judiciary. Are we to believe that Parliament’s overweening domination has reduced the champion of the people, Your Majesty, to a cipher, who cannot speak for us or defend our liberties and whose Royal Assent means nothing because it can never be denied? Perish the thought. It was and is still Your Majesty’s responsibility as our constitutional monarch to refuse Parliament your Royal Assent when Parliament passes unconstitutional statutes.

Yours sincerely,

David F. Abbott.

Copies to: HRH The Prince of Wales HRH, The Princess Royal HRH, Prince William HRH, Prince Henry.

Not a copout at all!

'For centuries, writers have attempted to predict the future of the human race.
Some have argued that we are destined to evolve into super-beings, others that we are turning into dim-witted goblins incapable of anything more demanding than watching TV.
But according to a leading geneticist, both visions are wrong because human evolution has ground to a halt.

From ape to modern man: A leading geneticist told a lecture human evolution has ground to a halt.

Professor Steve Jones, of University College London, says the forces driving evolution - such as natural selection and genetic mutation - no longer play an important role in our lives.
The people living one million years from now, should Man survive, will resemble modern-day humans. '
Permit me to paraphrase: "We have run out of proofs for evolving humans et al, so we are now going to have to claim instead, that the human evolutionary process which has been going on inexorably for countless millions of years, has suddenly and arbitrarily stopped when we look for ongoing evidence!"

What really gets me is that any rational human being can ever take these jokers seriously. If it weren't all so very serious, it would be laugh-a-minute stuff.





LINK:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1070671/Evolution-stops-Future-Man-look-says-scientist.html

WHERE DID OBAMA’S MONEY COME FROM???????

I apologise for the length of this important piece which I publish without comment:

Subject: New York Times Editorial By MAUREEN DOWD. Published: June 29, 2008.

OBAMA’S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING

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Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election cycle came this week from one of the Obama’s campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama’s internet fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history – and this was all from the internet campaign.What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules that can’t be broken and no ethics that prevail.
Obama’s internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking , lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign web sites.
Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than pleased by the results.Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were “programmed” by a very sophisticated user.While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia , Iran , and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia . Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges.It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign financing laws. It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway.This is a shocking revelation.We have been concerned about the legality of “bundling” contributions after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an even greater problem.I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so. If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen?I believe the Obama campaign’s internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well.

Heartfelt advice to Brown - without barbs.

The saying appears in both Shakespeare and Chaucer: "He who sups with the devil should use a long spoon."

In view of George Osborne reporting that Mandelson's comments about Brown to him several weeks ago were 'pure poison' we must assume that Gordon is operating to another pithy saying: "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
Seriously Gord', I do not like you and have no respect for you whatsoever but I do feel that this mistake is a biggie so I shall proffer honest advice as I would to a friend.
Get rid - as Blair kept having to do!

Hmm. I wonder why Mr Osborne was dining with this gentleman?


LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1069051/Mandy-dripped-pure-poison-Brown-Shadow-Chancellor-just-weeks-shock-return-Cabinet.html

Wanna know about the 'new' tories?

Wanna know about the 'new' tories? Then read this LINK from Peter Hitchens and you will.

There really is no point whatsoever in voting tory to rid ourselves of New Labour.

Cameron's lot ARE New Labour merely with different personnel. Don't rejoice if and when they take power or you will become extremely disappointed.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1068205/PETER-HITCHENS-Full-fake-Tories-political-grasp-Teletubby.html

A good bad example.

I am always mightily encouraged in my Christian life by King David. Here was a tremendous man of God with some extremely bad habits, up to and including adultery and the murder of Uriah the Hittite!

So often so close to God - so often falling victim to temptations.

I perhaps should not do it but I always manage to say to myself that although I do things I know are wrong, at least I am not as bad as him! The point is rather better made in pointing out how much God still loved David.

The secret to making life considerably easier for oneself as a Christian is perhaps found in being consistent in your walk with God, I believe. It is not easy and not something I am good at as I always tend to blow hot and cold yet the reality of God is unchanging.

In the New Testament, I look at Simon Peter and think, 'If God can do so much with material as unpromising as that, then I should not be too much of a problem for God.'

It is an unworthy thought.

Seems sound!

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve. -

Henry George

Rare scaly cricket found safe after being tempted out of lair with . . . a Cornish pasty.

YOU JUST DON'T GET HEADLINES LIKE THAT ANY MORE!

North or Gore?

It was 1987!
At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning! He was being drilled by a senator;'Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?' Ollie replied, 'Yes, I did, Sir.' The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, 'Isn't that just a little excessive?' 'No, sir,' continued Ollie. 'No? And why not?' the senator asked. 'Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir.' 'Threatened? By whom?' the senator questioned. 'By a terrorist, sir' Ollie answered. 'Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?' 'His name is Osama bin Laden, sir' Ollie replied. At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?' the senator asked. 'Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of', Ollie answered. 'And what do you recommend we do about him?' asked the senator. 'Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.' The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip. By the way, that senator was Al Gore!

Voodoo?

Oh dear. I shall be telling our Betterware man for the last 20 years not to call again.

It's not his fault that he is selling voodoo products, I suppose, but this is an abomination.

I shall tell him why and all other Christians can send a message via their local guy by doing the same.

I shall tell him that when this stuff is no longer in the catalogue, he is welcome to return.

LINK:http://www.betterware.co.uk/productdetails.aspx?pid=038826&language=en-GB

Nice one, Boris!

Apparently, Boris Johnson has engineered the resignation of the appalling Ian Blair, the Scotland Yard boss. This is a triumph. Mr Blair [no relation] has featured on this Blog a number of times for his political correctness. There are now sleaze allegations as well.

Bye bye!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

One more freedom ceded to the EU.

Voltaire wrote; " I may not agree with what you say but I will defend with my life your right to say it." Ironic coming from a Frenchman, I know, but this has long been the principle enshrined in British Law.

Thanks to our acceptance of the wicked EU arrest warrant, that freedom is no more.

In spite of promises that this could not happen it has. Somebody has been arrested on a warrant for a matter which is not even a crime in the UK!

He was arrested at Heathrow whilst merely in transit between the USA and Dubai.

The Mannheim-originating warrant was aimed at the historian Dr Frederick Töben who is regarded as being a 'holocaust denier'.

I hold no brief whatsoever for this rather sad, overweening and misguided individual but I am angry that 'thought crimes' are now 'real crimes' in our brave, new EU state.

No use denying it - this matters!

LINK: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4863800.ece