Mr Joyce.

Two years ago this adorable and cuddlesome sweetheart was revealed to be Britain’s most expensive MP with an expenses claim for 2007/08 of £187,000.
This week Labour's very own Mr Joyce, (then the party’s Northern Ireland spokesman) launched an astonishing rant against middle-class voters, branding them drunkards, liars, racists and even paedophiles.
Last night he resigned from the party’s front bench after being banned for DRINK DRIVING.
Normally, he hates hypocrisy but in his own case he is happily prepared to make an exception!


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331164/Labour-MP-branded-middle-class-hypocrites-drunkards-spends-night-cell-arrested-drink-driving.html#ixzz15o96KuPG

YP.

From: Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

LET'S be honest. If the euro was a horse, we would have shot it by now.

Sociology expose by MITK.

Mole-In-The-Know has discovered that in a university, not a million miles from his molehill, sociology students who produce work which goes against the accepted 'wisdom' of leftwing 'thought' - FAIL!

UKIP General Secretary speaks out on state pensions.

http://www.ukipsheffield.co.uk/

Hotbed of UKIP support.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUP9McWTo_4&feature=player_embedded

Marta tells the horrible tale in the EU Parliament.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYxNQsu9yEg&feature=player_embedded.

Eritrea scandals - again!

Nov 09 2010.
'Christians in Eritrea face a Christmas clampdown in a drive to purge so-called illegal believers from the country, human rights organisation Release International has been warned.
Since 2002 the regime in Eritrea has been persecuting and imprisoning Christians who do not belong to traditional church groups. Things may be about to get worse. 'Eritrea has declared there will be a purge of Christians by Christmas,' Selam Kidane told the Release conference in London.'

More 'neanderthal claptrap'

An 'invented' image of a neanderthal child. - Note the countless differences with modern humans.

Sinking ship.

If the euro fails - the whole cursed EU could go down with it.
Fingers crossed!

Cannabis is seriously dangerous.

'For 150 years it has been known that acute intoxication with cannabis can induce hallucinations and delusions. However, this was thought to be a transient effect which usually rapidly resolved itself. Then in the late 1980s and 1990s psychiatrists like me began to see growing numbers of young people with schizophrenia who were taking large amounts of cannabis.
We first thought that they were self-medicating in an attempt to ameliorate their anxiety and paranoia. However, since their families often told us that cannabis seemed to exacerbate the symptoms, we decided to examine this. When we followed up 119 young people who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, we discovered that far from being helped by cannabis, those who continued to take the drug four years later were three times more likely still to be hallucinating and deluded than non-consumers.'

Professor of Psychiatry, Robin Murray, Maudsley Hospital.

Put these two very worrying stories together.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330734/White-Britons-outnumbered-immigration-continues-2066.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330517/Facebook-death-threat-boys-girl-excluded-school.html

Caning? - No thanks, it doesn't work.

When the cane was abolished in schools we were told that this would actually lead to better behaviour.

We now have the statistics to prove it. Only 1,000 pupils are sent home from school for assaults on teachers and pupils every day.

So a mere 5,000 a week.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330657/1k-pupils-sent-home-school-assaults-teachers-pupils-day.html#ixzz15bx1oawN

Ostriches.

Ostriches do not actually bury their heads in sand and pretend that nobody can see them.
Metaphorically speaking, vast numbers of humans today do precisely that.
The point is that they pretend that if they don't look behind them, God won't realise that they are there.
This is the bosom buddy of "If I have the opinion that God does not exist - then He probably doesn't."
It takes real ability to live a life which is quite that devoid of all logic - not to mention common sense.

Not rape?

' .... the research found that nearly a half of all of those surveyed don't consider it to be rape if the person they are having sex with is too drunk or too out of it to know what's happening.'

Just what have we become?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330387/A-quarter-young-men-wont-answer-comes-sex.html#ixzz15XaaMmxb

Beeb weather forecasts.

I am a little tired of the shocking quality of weather forecasting found in BBC Online. It promised a frost-free night on Sunday, Monday and last night - indeed some 4 degrees above for Sheffield.
On each night there has been a deep frost - the one from Monday night was still present on the footpaths into the afternoon! (In all fairness, I must add that the severe frost at the start of Tuesday did abate during the night.)
Just what is the point if they are so far off beam and so regularly?
And when you link this kind of inaccuracy to 'global warming' they say "Ah well, that is climatology not meteorology."
I say, "Big deal!"

(Okay. Perhaps the photo is a slight exaggeration.)

MITK exposes mad euro-interference.

MITK (Mole-In-The-Know) yesterday discovered that the AA Relay has been hogtied by more euro nonsense.
No Relay trailer is allowed to travel more than 60 miles.
Apparently, this means that a journey of 180 miles to return a car to its home means that three trailers must be employed with all the expensive connections to be calculated.
When drivers are allowed to be on the road for ten hours - it defies sanity to have such a stupid, bureaucratically-inspired system imposed.
But that's what being part of the EU really means!

Alcohol Concern.

Don Shenker of Alcohol Concern is an irritating, simplistic member of that class which wholly believes that 'the innocent must be attacked and even punished in order to capture the guilty.'

He complains bitterly that litre bottles of spirits will be on sale in supermarkets in the runup to Christmas at a mere £15!

Does he not realise that for literally millions of people, this rare treat is already beyond them? - No rum and cokes at their house this year!

He complains of alcohol-related crime as if this is committed by most of the population when in fact, it is a tiny minority.

This problem would be both targeted and properly resolved by the simple expedient of severely punishing the guilty - a thought which has apparently not even crossed his mind!

Source: The Metro.

Forgiveness: it doesn't have to be impossible.

When Jesus made it so very clear that our forgiveness is, to some extent at least, conditional on our being forgiving, we should all grasp how vitally important this is.

If this is hindering your spiritual life - then maybe, just maybe, I can help a little.

1) Bitterness is a negative which damages us. Nonetheless, do not worry too much about your feelings where institutions are concerned. It is better not to hate if at all possible but I would not get too 'hung up' on your feelings towards the Inland Revenue, for example, which appears to have robbed you. (It could never accept your forgiveness, in any case.)

2) Ignore people who tell you that you must 'forgive AND forget', thus implying that you have to trust somebody who is clearly untrustworthy. This is nonsense.

If somebody has punched you on the nose - you forgive but DO NOT fail to walk past them very carefully in the future. If there is a Scripture that tells us that we have to trust under such circumstances - then I have no idea where it may be found!

3) Do remember that you cannot forgive on behalf of other people.

4) When you really cannot forgive, perhaps because the wrong is so enormous, try this:

Ask yourself if you would forgive if that person came and asked you for forgiveness. (If you would refuse at this point - you do have real problems.)

The answer should be a resounding "yes" and you are well on the way back to spiritual health - but do ensure that any negative feelings are not allowed to resurface.

Take these steps and I am certain that God will help you to go the rest of the way.

Imperfect though this advice may be - if it helps just a little - I would be delighted.

A 'cracker' from the Yorks Post.

Maureen Hunt, Woolley, near Wakefield.

DISREGARDING the rights or wrongs of Rowan Williams' vehement criticism of the Government's plans for long overdue welfare reforms (Tom Richmond, Yorkshire Post, November 9), it seems to me that the leaders of the Anglican Church devote far too much time to politics to the detriment of their real function, which is to be our spiritual guides.In our secular society there are plenty of journalists to enlighten us, who are well-versed in all aspects of politics, not to mention a strong Opposition party in the House of Commons.Our permissive, amoral society continues to slide down the slippery slope into the abyss. From the Church, there is a deathly silence. Politics appears to be a safer option.We need religious leaders, with the courage and tenacity of Old Testament prophets, who will stand up and speak out in the face of hostility before it is too late.Four days before Christmas last year (Yorkshire Post, December 21, 2009), the Bishop of Wakefield wrote an article in which he discussed the forthcoming election in the spring. There was no mention of Christmas. What a missed opportunity. This year, let's hear the real message about the birth of Jesus. There are people out there who may never have heard it.Jesus said: "The harvest truly is plenteous but the labourers are few." Today there are many labourers but, if they are engaged in other work, how will they be able to gather in the harvest?

The monarchy.

I have often made the point that rampant atheism has been on the increase.
What also needs to be seen in the same context is that these are almost invariably the same people who attack the monarchy.
I am no more than a lukewarm monarchist myself - but it does need to be remembered that we do have a constitutional monarchy which serves the people with no hint of despotism.
So why is it so important to attack the Queen whose principal role is as a mere figurehead,
And as for the financial implications - we spend much less on our Head of State than do almost all the major democracies - and what monies are disbursed are because the Crown had voluntarily yielded considerable wealth to the nation in exchange for the comparatively modest Civil List.

Sir Thomas More.

"Man's folly hath enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas nature, like a kind parent, hath freely given us the best things, such as air, earth, and water, but hath hidden from us those which are vain and useless."

Sir Thomas More.

'The Democratic Peace.'

A vital truth:
'No democracy has ever gone to war with another democracy.'