Littlejohn.

At his wicked best!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1087974/LITTLEJOHN-Exposed-The-sinister-secrets-Labours-party-list.html

A greeeaaat Christmas gift idea!

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You may even buy it to treat yourself!

BNP membership lists.

I have so many reasons to dislike the BNP that I consider it quite embarrassing to have to come to their defence - but you see, I believe in democracy and liberty and therefore have no alternative.

In view of the 'amended' membership lists maliciously published this week and apparently also doctored to add the names of people who have never been members, as well as the publishing of the list in the first place being so appalling, I have to register my horror.

One of my first reactions is to say that I believe this will give more grist to the BNP mill! Many decent people will now vote for them as a reaction - and NO - it is not a clever ruse by Nick Griffin!

Last night on TV news, a leading leftie was wheeled out to describe the BNP as being 'racist' and advocating the sacking of its members who are in positions of authority.

This brings up two important matters. The first is that the BNP clearly attracts more racists than any other party but that does not make it racist per se [even though aspects of its constitutions are less than palatable] - and the frequent declarations from the far and liberal left that this is the case does not make it holy writ.

The left must refer to 'hidden nazi agendas' and as usual interpret being anti immigration as equating to thepurest of racism.

The second point regarding the lady on TV last night in her demands for sackings [or was it heads on platters?] is that surprisingly she was not calling for the sacking of all extreme lefties in positions of authority. I assume that the point must have slipped her mind!

This Christmas the Post Office are to issue both secular stamps and religious stamps; but just like last year, you have to stipulate if you want Christian stamps!!


PLEASE DO SO!

Dan Hannan and why the euro is unthinkable.

As usual, if somebody can put it better than I can - I let them. This is what Dan Hannan has to say about euro membership:


THERE WILL NEVER BE A GOOD TIME TO JOIN THE EURO
The slide in the pound has Euro-enthusiasts slavering with anticipation. “Calls for the euro are likely to reach fever pitch if there is a collapse in sterling,” writes Roland Rudd, chairman of a pro-euro lobby group, in the London Evening Standard. “Suddenly membership of the euro is beginning to look a very attractive escape route,” agrees Will Hutton in The Observer.
Hang on, chaps: weren’t you arguing that we should join eighteen months ago, when the pound was more than 30 per cent more valuable than now? What if we had taken your advice then? The financial crisis in Britain could not have been cushioned by the exchange rate; it would instead have been felt in output and jobs. Rather than a 30 per cent reduction in sterling, we’d have suffered a 30 per cent reduction in wages, with a cycle of strikes and sackings as people struggled to adjust to the new reality.
Happily, being outside the euro, we are able to respond to the shock with policies determined by our own needs. We have fiscal and monetary independence, and we are using both. The cheap pound means that Britain can now price itself into the market. It makes possible an export-led recovery.
I know that the decline of sterling is painful for some of this bulletin’s overseas readers. It’s no picnic for me, either: I’m paid in sterling, and I work in Brussels and Strasbourg. But there is a reason why the pound is taking a pounding. Investors can see that Gordon Brown squandered our resources, leaving Britain with the worst deficit of any advanced economy.
They know that he has committed more to the bail-out than any other country. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but the sterling crisis is a market comment on eleven-and-a-half years of Labour profligacy. The Broon, to borrow John Smith’s phrase after Black Wednesday, is “the devalued prime minister of a devalued government”.
If the ERM taught us anything, it is that there is no such thing as a permanently correct exchange rate. After Black Wednesday (or, rather, White Wednesday), Europhiles toured the studios telling anyone who would listen that “we joined at the wrong rate”. But the idea that 3 DM to the pound was too high a rate is hard to reconcile with it having been too low a rate two years before; and, sure enough, we had reached that rate again within five years.
The Hutton/Rudd arguments for joining the euro are terrifyingly similar to the arguments for joining the ERM. Then, as now, Europhiles claimed that membership would boost business. In fact, more than 100,000 firms went bankrupt during our 23 months inside the system.
Then, as now, they promised that membership would create jobs. In fact, unemployment doubled to just under three million. Then, as now, they claimed that it would bring lower interest rates. But interest rates were in double figures for most of our time in the ERM – despite inflation at barely three per cent – and 1.75 million homes were overtaken by negative equity.
Then, as now, they assured us that participation would bring stability. In the event, our trade-weighted exchange rate was less stable during membership than before or since.
Is there any circumstance in which these zealots would not advocate euro membership? If the pound bounces back on the basis of a recovery, will they still be whistling the same old tune? How many times do they need to be proved wrong before we stop listening?

Immigration madness.

Immigration has swollen the population of Britain by 1.8million since Labour came to power, according to Government statistics.

This to England, the most crowded country in Europe. Note I say England, because the migrations have left Scotland, Ireland and Wales relatively untouched.

Madness!

Joan Bakewell.

"Old people should be allowed to die if they become 'vegetables', Joan Bakewell has said.
Labour's czar for the elderly said she had made a living will that will mean she is 'not kept alive if I'm a vegetable'.
She added that people should not be helped to go on living by machinery if they had outlived their normal lifespan."

I hope that I do not upset too many of my Christian readers on this one but I have much sympathy with her views and have expressed that in writing to my GP.

The argument that God must choose the very moment of our deaths does not hold any water. If you look at Genesis 9:6 - that is left to man.

Also, it is very unlikely that those who would argue with Joan have taken into account the "Science has moved the goalposts" argument.

For me, I have more problems with where the lines are drawn.

Freezing heat - or why we should not necessarily trust scientists.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml

Charity.

If we recall the story of the widow in the Temple, Jesus said that the tiny amount she had given was worth more than all the hefty donations from the wealthy.

A question to all my fellow Christians out there.

- Does your giving hurt and if not, why not?

Who needs these statistics?

"Black women are earning more than white women in Britain for the first time, official figures suggest. "

Good. Fine. Excellent. - So what?

Thanks, Melanie.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1086398/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-The-liberals-did-destroy-family-share-blame-Baby-P.html

Tragic.

To nobody's great surprise, The Office of National Statistics has revealed that children from broken homes are five times more likely to suffer emotional disorders.

LINK: http://www.christian.org.uk/news/20081022/broken-homes-leave-children-miserable/?e241008

Harriet

So. Harriet Harperson wants to have a major increase in the number of openly homosexual MPs to represent their 6% part of society.

Just how many problems this represents, I cannot say but here are two:

The figure of 6% is a gross exaggeration. The only figures worthy of stating are those from the largest sex survey ever, which used a sample of over 40,000. To the best of my recollection, that was by the Wellcome Trust and their figure was around two and a half percent for male homosexuals and about half a percent for lesbians.

Furthermore, she implies that there are other non 'open' MPs.

Does not her system leave homosexuals over-represented?

Maggie wouldn't have done that!

For all her many faults, I think it fair to say that Margaret Thatcher will be very kindly treated by history.
Perhaps it is very the fact that she attracted so much opprobium from the left that makes us recognise that she must have got most things right!
She took the courageous, unpopular decisions because they were the right ones - a true conviction politician.
She got the big decisions right, broke the back of the marxist unions by democratising them, standing up to them where necessary, and at the same time, turned our sick-man-of-Europe economy into a success.

When she took over, the economy was in the same kind of mess that a decade of socialism has brought us to today and her tactics were diametrically opposite to the ones being used by Brown today.

'Spend, spend, spend' did not work for Viv Nicholson and I doubt that it will work for Brown, especially as it is based on criminal levels of borrowing.

If anybody told a couple who were in debt to spend and borrow - we would laugh in their face.
And the difference is ...?

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1085934/PETER-OBORNE-Have-Tories-guts-voice-financial-sanity.html

Sky - boxing.

I am one of the suckers who pays for Sky Sports. I do quite well on cricket, reasonably well on football [too much emphasis on the 'big names'] and truly badly with boxing.
About 40 times a year they put on a reasonable bill listed as Friday Fight Night - which generally is their only programming of British Boxing in any week.

Amateur boxing is generally shunned - surprising for such a cheap option and professional bills from around the UK other than Fridays are noticeable by their absence.

The insult-to-injury comes with the really big fights with British boxers such as Hatton and Calzaghe. These sharks MAKE US PAY AGAIN! Not satisfied with taking £9 per week off me, they want to grab an extra £15 quid every time there is a top bill!

It doesn't happen when Manchester United play Chelsea, does it?

The feminist lie - nailed.

Sex equality - YES! Special cases - NO! Special treatment - NO! Feminism - NO!

'Further sex equality legislation should be stopped because it is unfair to men, according to an analysis published by a Labour think tank. [???]
The idea that all women at work are victims of discrimination is a 'feminist myth', argued a senior academic. Many want to raise families rather than pursue careers.
'The myth that all or most women would be just as careerist as men, if only they were given the opportunity, has been exploded,' Dr Catherine Hakim said.

While women can choose between work and family, men have fewer choices, a senior academic said
'The trend towards flexibility in the workforce has also made it clearer that some occupations and jobs will never be family friendly.'
The call from Dr Hakim will provoke unease among ministers and Labour MPs because it has been published by the Institute for Public Policy Research, the party's most influential think tank over the past decade.'

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083966/Feminist-myths-making-equality-laws-unfair-men.html

Déjà vu?

'It has plagued scientists and politicians for decades, but scientists now say global warming is not the problem.
We are actually heading for the next Ice Age, they claim.
British and Canadian experts warned the big freeze could bury the east of Britain in 6,000ft of ice.'

Déjà vu indeed! Back to the old story we had to swallow back in the 1970s!
Pardon my deep suspicion of these pseudo scientific know-it-alls.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1085359/Global-warning-We-actually-heading-new-Ice-Age-claim-scientists.html

Unitarianism.

All the worst features of a cult, with the possible exceptions of kidnapping, low carbohydrate diets, brainwashing and leaders who are sexual predators, can be found in unitarianism.
The theology is fundamentally a rejection of Scripture and goes beyond the modalism and monarchianism et al found at times in the early church.

Although broad as a movement, it has a marked tendency towards liberal christianity which is unsurprising when you consider how ready it is to abandon substantial amounts of the Scriptures. It happily reduces God the Son to the status of a mere man or on occasions, to a vague, supernatural being.
It holds an optimistic view about 'the basic goodness of man' - it is at this point where even the most unscholarly Christian will see the basic flaws in their teachings.

The Arianism which underpins their beliefs has long been the 'mark of a cult'. Indeed, it is difficult in the extreme to find any cult which is not essentially unitarian in character.

Happily, their influence seems to be declining year on year.

Cuckoo!

If your political philosophy is based around the false notions that: we are all victims; there is no God; we are not ultimately responsible for our actions; that we have all been put under subjugation in 'the class struggle' and however we live our lives we should not have to face the consequences thereof - then you are part of the 'cuckooland conspiracy' which has been dragging this nation to its knees over the best part of 50 years.

These are ideas which stem from within certain parts of socialism, the liberal elite, the very worst of do-gooders, ivory tower dwellers and the essentially 'nice but dim'.

What you have brought is a society with a burgeoning underclass, wall-to-wall criminals, summat-for-nowt lifestyles and a system where justice is becoming increasingly rare.

THANKS A LOT!

Whither weather?

I am really getting fed up with the poor quality of weather forecasts. I believe that they are actually getting worse.
I use BBC online for 5 days of local weather. Quite often it is 100% wrong - even on the day.
For example, on one recent day it forecast 'dry' at the same time as I was looking out of the window at a major deluge.
On other occasions, the weather just three days ahead may change as much as three times in the runup to the actual day.

And to think the 'experts' claim to be able to predict 'warming' umpteen years ahead!

Fill these hands, please.

Beware of Texans bearing gifts!

Justice? - I think not!

'An air stewardess who stole up to £100,000 donated by her passengers to a children's charity was yesterday given a suspended prison sentence and fined £13,000.
Gillian Paterson was described as 'despicable' by a judge and told she was lucky to escape jail.'

I despair!