Ironic?

Wouldn’t it be the ultimate irony - the Labour Party creates a culture which encourages dependency and laziness to such a degree that its own natural supporters cannot even be bothered to register for voting, let alone actually vote?

Inflation only 2.5%! - [And I have family in Holland.]

Food rises running at 15%+. Petrol, gas electricity all into double figures. Higher mortgages, Council Tax and insurance.


Abracadabra! Pwoooof! "Ladies and gentlemen. The Consumer Price Index is showing that inflation is just 2.5%!



[Point this deceit out to any of your friends still silly enough to still be voting Labour.]





AND for their next trick - the government will pull a hat out of a rabbit!








LINKS: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/25/dl2502.xml


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560392&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Not fighting cancer.

"Professor Mike Richards, the national cancer director, said figures showed Britain spent £76 per head in a year compared with £143 in Germany and £121 in France.
Studies have linked the UK's limited access to cancer drugs and the length of time it takes to approve them for use to its appalling survival record for the disease. "

May I remind everybody that we pour money into the NHS - indeed it is the largest employer in W.Europe and globally, is only beaten into third place overall by the Chinese Army and the Indian Railways!
So where does all this money go? It certainly ain't to 'the sharp end' is it? And why such delays in gaining approval for essential drugs? Surely, if the drugs have been accepted by other [?] medically advanced nations, why can we not follow on their coat tails?

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560159&in_page_id=1770

Mike Fuller.

"Britain's highest ranking black policeman, Mike Fuller, the Chief Constable of Kent, [has]told the Government in a leaked letter that 'migration surges' had contributed to an increase of more than a third in violent crime over five years to 7,800 incidents in 2007."

Well. Three and four and five years ago, I was horrified in the Sheffield Courts by the numbers of offenders from: Rumania, Albania, Afghanistan, Iran, Nigeria and Iraq.
People from Afghanistan & Iraq in particular. Why are they here?
Haven't our troops been killed in trying to liberate their countries from oppression. Our lads die there; so many of theirs commit crimes here.
It just does not seem fair does it?




LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560181&in_page_id=1770

And why not?

"A youth of 17 was last night charged with the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons .... "

So just why has it been forbidden for so many decades to name criminal youths? What social purpose does it serve to 'protect' scrotes of any age?

Where an indictable offence has been committed this anonymity should be waived in all cases.
With summary offences and much younger offenders - well perhaps.
Post conviction however, all names should be in the public domain. If families are embarrassed - then good!
It is rare that secrecy serves a positive purpose and here it contributes to high levels of youth crime.






I wonder how many of my readers had realised that youth court proceedings are not open to the public either. A victory for the hand-wringing left who do not want individuals to have to take responsibility for their actions.

Emigration hammers Third World.

In 2005, there were 44 nurses who qualified in Malawi. 86 nurses left the country for the West that year. One must pray that many of these will eventually return but I doubt that most will.
My younger son worked in medical aid and acted as main assistant in major operations. His qualifications were zero; the 'surgeon' he worked alongside was only part qualified. It was either that or nothing!
The appalling European Union has wickedly come up with its insidious Blue Card Plan which results in 'skill theft' from those who need it the most. People from these countries are being ACTIVELY recruited to top up the shortfalls we have here because of governmental incompetence such as spending on bureaucrats rather than placing money 'at the sharp end'.
This policy kills people in large numbers.

This time it IS the magistrates' fault!

My anger is seldom greater than when I see situations like this one arise. Yesterday a 17 year old was NOT jailed by a bench of totally wet magistrates in Eastbourne.
This animal led a group of 50 yobs on a drunken rampage through Eastbourne: abusing, threatening, pelting passers by with cans, causing terror, inflicting criminal damage. This near riot went on for several hours!
Not only have the magistrates already told him that he will not face custody but the law does not even allow for his name to be published!
I weep for our poor, sick society and wonder at times like this begin to wonder whether those who advocate birching might not have a valid point as a comfortable prison stay would have been insufficient in any case.


LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559841&in_page_id=1770

Not sexist.

"Women in their forties are the biggest losers in the pay divide between male and female colleagues. Official figures show they earn an average of 20 per cent less than the men, with female managers likely to experience an even wider salary gap. Women start out earning roughly the same as men."

This will be cleverly marketed and sold to us a scandal. But the key here is the equality at the start.
Do these discrepancies exist? - Indeed they do.
As previously explained on this Blog however, I conducted an in depth study on this topic about 20 years ago in S. Yorkshire.
What clearly emerged was that these inequalities arose almost exclusively because of the interrupted career patterns of females when they have families.
An additional point today is that there is so much protective legislation for females who take maternity leave, and within most family setups it is the female who stays home when the children are poorly.
When they are in crucial management positions, clearly employers who do not have the bottomless resources of councils and government, may well decide to employ men in higher positions as they may be the safer option.
Apparent fairness? Meddling? Political correctness? Or just not thinking the consequences through?
The response will be for the left to demand UNfairness and MORE "Equality of outcome."
At some point the needs of the firm must also be taken into account. Surely.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559559&in_page_id=1770

Uninsured mayhem.

"More than two million rogue drivers escaped prosecution last year as an underclass of untaxed and uninsured drivers grows at an alarming rate, figures reveal today."
I am guessing that the police have simply stopped bothering. It just isn't worth the form filling nonsense to achieve a few points on a probably non-existent licence and a £60 fine.
If the points amount to a disqualification - big deal. If the bad guys then drive - they will not go to prison.
What is the point? It is so much easier to target drivers who go out of their way to be 100% legitimate and make a minor slip up.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559506&in_page_id=1770

Yes. But WHY is there so much family breakdown?

"Support for a senior Family Court judge [previously mentioned on this Blog] has come from a Christian prayer and lobby group.
Christian Voice agreed today with Mr Justice Coleridge that family life in the United Kingdom is 'in meltdown' BUT the group blames no-fault divorce, the bread-and-butter of the solicitors whom his lordship was addressing."



Good point!


LINK: http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/

Now it's fruit and veg!

Oh dear. Here we go again. Scientists of one hue or another contradicting themselves.
"Mrs Almond, a guest lecturer on child health at Brighton University, said toddlers' bodies needed energy-rich foods, gleaned from a number of small meals and snacks spread through the day.....Youngsters were being put at risk of developing nutritional deficiencies as a result, she said." TOO MUCH FRUIT AND VEG! She is probably right, of course.
I am sure the response will be that this is merely a 'corrective'.
But what about the 'mixed messages' on:

Vitamin C

Vitamin E


Margarine as opposed to butter


Too little sun/too much sun


Too much fat/ we eat too little fat

Salt bad/ salt good etc, etc.


Ozone layer holes/ holes closed up


Global cooling/ global warming


Cholesterol bad. Then cholesterol good. Then cholesterol - mixed.


Red wine bad for you, then good, then dodgy.

ETC.

In fairness, some of these arguments may well be about BALANCE, in which case why was it rammed forcibly down our throats in the first instance?
Heaven preserve us from scientists with an axe to grind.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=559952&in_page_id=1774

Nigel Lawson.

Once accepted as a 'fact' by the media, some scientists and most politicians - it is incredibly difficult to get any fad reversed. It inevitably takes rapid root in the education system as well where it will be 'taught as fact' .
One of the worst has been: Multiculturalism = Integrated Society.
The word has been bandied around to such an extent it becomes part of the vocabulary people use and the more sinister idea which underpins it is then lost.
'Climate change' and/or 'Global Warming' are the same.
I strongly recommend the article in the LINK below.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=557374&in_page_id=1770

Deportation.

I cannot think of a single, good reason why this country should be the repository for the deadbeats of the world.
Haven't we already got enough of our own?
Why is it that every foreigner convicted of an indictable offence, and every foreigner guilty of two summary offences, is not automatically deported at the end of their sentence?
One murder in five in the UK is committed by a foreigner - a great many of whom have already got extensive criminal records here.
Sorry. I DO NOT CARE about their so-called human rights - only those of their victims. Get rid! Ignore the whinging lefties.


LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/13/ncrime113.xml

Booker gets to the point! Another BBC scandal.

Warmists beat straying BBC man back into line.
A talking point among "climate sceptics" on both sides of the Atlantic has been the bizarre tale of how the BBC's chief reporter on climate change censored an item on the BBC website after being harried by a "climate activist".
On April 4 Roger Harrabin posted a story on the fact that world temperatures have not continued to rise in the past 10 years, and this year will fall to a level markedly below the average of the past two decades.
Citing the World Meteorological Organisation, Mr Harrabin accurately reported that "global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory".
This was a red rag to Jo Abbess of the Campaign Against Climate Change (Hon President, George Monbiot), who emailed Mr Harrabin demanding that he "correct" his item.
Mr Harrabin insisted that what he had written was true. There are indeed eminent climate scientists "who question whether warming will continue as predicted".
This only angered Ms Abbess further. She said it was "highly irresponsible to play into the hands of the sceptics", to "even hint that the Earth is cooling down again".
Mr Harrabin, though he has led the BBC's tireless promotion of warmist orthodoxy, stood firm. Even in the "general media", he replied, "sceptics" highlight the lack of increase since 1998: to ignore this might give the impression that "debate is being censored".
His item had, after all, added "we are still in a long-term warming trend".
This was too much for Ms Abbess. She responded that this was not "a matter of debate". He should not be quoting the sceptics "whose voice is heard everywhere, on every channel, deliberately obstructing the emergence of the truth".
Unless he changed his item, she said, "I would have to conclude that you are insufficiently educated to be able to know when you have been psychologically manipulated". She threatened to expose him by spreading his replies across the internet.
At this point the BBC's man caved in. Within minutes a new version appeared, given the same time and date as that which he had consigned to Winston Smith's memory hole.
Out went any mention of "sceptics" who question global warming. After a guarded reference to this year's "slightly cooler" temperatures, a new paragraph said that they would "still be above the average" and that we will "soon exceed the record year of 1998 because of the global warming induced by greenhouse gases".
Of course we have long known where the BBC stands on climate change. But it is good to have such clear evidence that, even when one of its reporters tries to be honest, he can be whipped back into line by a pressure group.
In the end, Ms Abbess still circulated the exchanges on the internet, to show the great victory she had won for the "emerging truth".

No. I just do not get it!

I just do not get it! How come the excellent Frank Field - [the only labourite to have received actual praise on a UKIP leaflet] - is still in the appalling Labour Party?
Look at this from today's Sunday Telegraph:-




Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, has carried out a "near criminal" attack on high-performing faith schools, according to a leading Labour MP.
Frank Field, the former welfare minister, said Gordon Brown's closest colleague was "ranting" and using the row to position himself for Labour's "next leadership contest".




Come on Frank. Defect to UKIP. You know you will feel better!

LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/13/nschool113.xml

My regular request.

Please think who might respond well to this Blog and let them have the address:

http://christianityisnotleftwing.blogspot.com/

I have attempted to make a Blog which 'goes where no Blog has gone before'. Christianity is a must - Political Correctness is the outworking of diluted marxist theory.
I am of the view that it is largely the abandonment of the one and the takeup of the other which is why our poor, hurting society is in the mess which it finds itself today.
The Blog is anti-leftwing. That does not make it rightwing.
So many of the ideas I put forward would have been considered 100% reasonable by Labour voters for years after my birth and are still held by countless numbers of voters today who vote Labour 'as a family tradition' and who actually disapprove of labourite policies.
Politics is now entirely a centre-left phenomenon. It is only in the fact that this Blog rejects that, that it may be considered of the right.
In the past it would have been called 'conservatism'. Indeed, I suppose I am in fact a conservative - just happening to be one who does not like tories!

Sartre the freak and his sickening sidekick.

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir! They 'invented' the promiscuous lifestyle based on licence rather than freedom, with naturally, no reference to God and which became the feature of post war Europe. Just soooo cool!
Sartre was an interminably tedious intellectual who today would be described as 'having his head up his own **** ' - {Please pardon the crudity.}
He was barely readable {except of course in the 'trendiest' of circles and university literature departments where his 'Nauseating' opinions were a 'must'}. Simone de Beauvoir was an opinonated libertine who gave much to that brand of feminism, previously discussed on this Blog, which had nothing whatsoever to do with the emancipation of women but had a great deal to do with the quasi anarchistic, socially destructive, leftwing liberalism which plagues our society to this day.
Between them they embraced the nihilistic philosophy of existentialism which wickedly denies the faintest hope to a lost mankind.
It has now been revealed that this odious, drug-ridden and ironically, nazi-fraternising pair of vipers, did not merely encourage promiscuity but she also acted as his procuress for bringing under age girls into his priapic clutches.
Although I do hope of course, that these vile low lifes repented their evil to the Lord Jesus, I should be profoundly surprised to learn that they were not rotting in hell at this time.



{The sestina below is amusing and to the point.}





LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=559137&in_page_id=1879

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/sestinas/14JoeGreen.html

Child Benefits in France.

I was told many years ago that in France, if your children misbehaved, you would lose child benefits.
My source at the time was a good one so I expect it was true but I have been unable to find any background on this.
It is the kind of measure which, if implemented on the second piece of truancy, the second time an under 16 was found hanging around a street corner after dark, the first suspension from school and the first criminal act reported to police, it might possibly have a significant effect on juvenile misbehaviour.
We must however NOT attempt it in this country!
We would be incapable of seeing it through - for even say, a year . There would be hand-wringing appeals, sympathetic articles in The Mirror, outbursts of anger from The Guardian. There would be countless different ways found by social workers to ensure that no benefits were actually lost. To top all of that, the bureaucracy would be a nightmare.
If made mandatory however, with NO excuses then .....

The correct egyptian dating matters.

Many readers of this Blog may not be aware that egyptologists who follow traditional, but now largely discredited datings of the chronologies of ancient pharoahs, have had to throw out virtually all links to The Old Testament as these flawed datings simply did not match up. The Old Testament has stood up really well to the tests of time and academia. [I wonder why they took the egyptian histories as 'true' first and not the correct way around?]

In the 50s came the first cracks in the traditionalist structure when Immanuel Velikovsky - a most controversial historian - appeared on the scene debunking the chronologies but with some rather weird ideas tagged on.
As scholarship became more realistic with James, Rohl, back to Yahuda and latterly, Emmet Sweeney, it has become ever more clear that the datings in egyptian history are not only wrong, but badly so - dates are out by centuries and evidence which showed this has been wilfully ignored.
Once again - if a scientist or academic has built a career on the 'truth' of one idea or another - how hard to admit it when you are wrong. Your reputation just goes down the toilet. [How like other scientific areas which this Blog frequently exposes.]
If compared to the OT then a whole bundle of sense starts to appear.
Clearly the Vizier of Pharoah Djoser, known in Egyptian history as Imhotep, is none other than the man who takes up nearly a quarter of the first book of the Bible - a certain JOSEPH!

Straw & co, PROTECT US WE BEG!

I do not yet know his name as the Police have not told me. The man who burgled The Handsworth Christian School last month kindly cut himself on glass and bled DNA profusely all over the new carpet. He has admitted only to other crimes which police can actually prove - possibly a mistake on his part.
He is 35, a longterm career criminal and inevitably,the kind of druggie who 'gets clean' in prison but immediately reverts to type upon release.
He has been jailed for a total of four and a half years in the last three but is, nonetheless, out committing more crime!
He commits crime when on bail and crime just one day after release. He commits crime when he is given a community penalty. And of course, magistrates and judges cannot make him 'work for the community' as guidelines do not permit you to do this with a druggie as 'it sets them up for failure' - he would obviously commit more burglaries whilst on the order in any case.
He has tormented the Handsworth Community and is almost certainly the one behind our burglary last June.
He has brought fear, anger and frustration to the community. To our school he has brought disturbance and chaos and does not care. Almost certainly, our insurance premiums will rocket just because of him alone!
Do I feel any animosity to this man? - No! Not a single jot. All my venom is pointed at the 'do-gooders' who allow this man to be released into our community; the do-gooders and the soft-in-the-centre liberals who do not have a clue.
He is representative. There are literally many tens of thousands just like him spread throughout the nation.
With his atrocious record, he should now get a sentence of seven years or more without possibility of parole.
Having spoken to local coppers, they think he will get 12 months with half off for good behaviour - [That has worked so well in the past!]
At school we shall have to expect him to be popping around again within the year!

Note the cartoon. It's all a bit of a joke, innit?

Humility.

In my own life, I can count ten separate situations where I have knowledge of a Church minister who has gone off the rails by taking the path of adultery.
If we consider the big name evangelists such as Bakker, Marvin Gorman and Jimmy Swaggart, we have added 3 very big names to this list.
The trouble is, so many truly genuine people get too big for their boots; they see themselves as being more important than they actually are. 'God cannot do without their ministry'. It is arrogance by any other name.
It is a classic form of temptation from the enemy - the simplest and the most effective and when compounded with using the hapless victim's libido ....
Leadership is dangerous. If not accompanied by humility it will turn to ashes.
" Blessed are the meek ..."

The wisdom of Wesley.

"Earn all you can; save all you can; give all you can," said John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, a quotation of which Mrs Thatcher was rather fond. In such a world view, failure was not something to be indulged, let alone celebrated. If you failed, you let down yourself, your neighbours, and your God.







LINKS: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2008/04/11/ftthatcher111.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2008/04/11/ftthatcher111.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100