George Osbourne on the way out, John Redwood, Ken Clarke or Nigel Lawson to fight it out.

Simon Heffer writes today in the Telegraph, in indignant tones, about the luck of Gordon Brown. He blames George Osbourne. It’s not really George’s fault though, Cameron isn’t much better. Simon says that John Redwood would sort them out. Had to laugh at that one.

Turkey waiting for Christmas

John redwood would be manna from heaven from Gordon Brown’s perspective. He’d gobble it up and spew all over the tories. Redwood is far too right wing and finds it impossible to hide it. His measured rhetoric cannot conceal the Thatcherite within. Osbourne is useless, Cameron isn’t much better. They’ve both been put to the test and look like keen sixth formers at their first Young Conservative regatta. Brown saw this financial crisis coming from a mile off, it suits him so well you’d have to suspect he engineered it in 2006 and 2007. The government didn’t stop the bank charge bandwagon by fixing the case via the OFT for nothing. They new they’d be paying in the end.

Brown is the teacher, Cameron and Osbourne the snotty sixth formers who think they know better.

It’s child’s play for Brown to squash them. He is a financial expert, he has the cheque book, he gets the advance intelligence and he can interpret it and manipulate it to his own purposes.

Ken Clarke would be a better choice, or even Nigel Lawson, but not Redwood, he’s just too lightweight. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling isn’t much better but he can always ask the boss…

Queen of England worth a trillion pounds or two trillion dollars - minimum - puts her hand in her very deep pockets.

If it wasn’t so pitiful it would be funny. The Tories lining up to proclaim the astute business sense of Gordon Brown. And why? Because he has guaranteed the class system’s continuation: the working class bailing out the independently wealthy. This is not universally applauded of course, but when 95% of the House of Commons are what most “ordinary folk” or as they say “hard working, hard pressed families” would call rich it’s not surprising that they all backed the idea of bailing out their relatives. A lot of them must have their loot stashed off shore in Iceland as well then? So it’s going to cost us a billion quid to bail out Iceland. We should invade them and nick all their cod if they’re going to steal our money. It’s a disgrace.

The reason there is a compensation scheme is because depositing money in a bank, in return for an interest payment, is a risk. Minuscule it may have been, a million to one they may have said, but then again there probably is life on Mars as well. Saving the banks is one thing, bailing out the risk takers is out of order. What about Billy’s Chippy up the road, he paid to much for his spuds, and can’t pay his VAT bill now, they going to let him off then? Not likely matey, the bailiffs will be round there at dawn kicking his door in and taking his fryers to sell at auction. Bailing out the banks with our money is just another example of the complete lack of democracy in the UK. Most of us are skint, if most of us had to sell everything we have, and pay off what we owe, we’d all be bust; it’s the same the world over. Of course there is one person in the UK who has more money than anyone on the planet. More money than God even, more even than the government, because she is the government really.

Queen richer than God

The Queen was left fifty million cash by her dad in 1953, she has a whole department at the Bank of England managing her shares, of course they aren’t technically hers they’re all in trust, but a tax free return of ten to fifteen percent a year for fifty five years is going to make that more than enough to cover the trillion quid it will cost, let her pay for it I say. Alternatively that makes about £20,000 each for every single person in the UK, that would help the economy along nicely, better in our pocket than hers eh? Anyway she reckons she’s only got a couple of hundred million so she won’t miss it then, will she?

But then again Gordon Brown has to go and see her every week doesn’t he? To explain himself, and there is an army of standard English speaking spankers who continually monitor activity in the government, and then there’s the third degree, Duke of Kent is it, you know the Freemason’s boss. A secret army of men who look out for her and keep the prols in line, the judiciary, coppers and banks are full of them.

Makes you wonder who really is in charge. Not the people that’s for sure.

A Telegraph leader the other day argued that the conduct of the ex Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair justified a directly elected Police Chief in every county. Of course then one would say, well what about Judges then, and local CPS bosses, local tax commissioners and the rest. So obviously this is dodgt ground for the Tory party, after all in the the last government they all had their wives sitting on quangos or shoe horned into jobs that should be directly elected. So obviously the thought became watered down, so much so that they didn’t really say that at all, a hint of democracy flavoured the otherwise tepid tap water that dripped from the author’s lips ad splattered onto the page thus:

“Blair was a walking advert for why we need directly elected - or at least more democratically accountable - police chiefs.”

What does that mean: “at least more democratically accountable” eh?

It’s either democratic or like it is now: authoritarian. Don’t you know?

So, steady on, don’t want to get caught in overdrive on the Motorway towards democracy, do we? Best stay in first, 5 miles an hour, don’t want the plebs thinking they can drive, in say, “The North”, do we?

Run on Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays Bank as Administration feared

Alistair nabs the swag as RBS and Barclays go bust

As the Icelandic banking system begins to close down and savers and depositors realise they will have lengthy waits for their cash, as Iceland prints enough money to cover the guarantees, the effect ripples around the world. The ripple reached Tsunami proportions as the wave gained momentum during early day trading. British banking stocks lost billions during a deluge of bad sentiment and waves of panic drained billions from the stock market as panicking investors shift their money into tangibles like platinum, gold and copper. Nigh on 30% in value was wiped of RBS as it drowned in a sea of sludge entirely of it’s own creation. Not only that but both RBS and Barclays have gone cap in hand to the government. Imagine the conversation:

“Err, Alistair…”

“I’m determined to listen in whatever way I can,” said Alistair sternly

“We’ve got no cash left mate,” the banker cringed as  Alistair flicked an imaginary fleck from his left lapel.

Pregnant pause, eyebrows bristling.

“yes, I’m still listening,” he said whilst continuing to stroke his lapel and gazed into the distance.

“We’re shagged boyo.”

“And….hmm, I see that would be a problem. You’re fired, give me the keys to your office and bugger off.”

So, RBS and Barclays is to be nationalised, but the savings are safe, even though there’s no money left and the bailiffs have taken all the computers. It’s okay he can print billions of fifty pound notes, that’ll do the job.

RBS Busted Flush

The banks will end up being nationalised and the money in them will plummet in value. Anyone with half a brain and more than a fiver in Royal Bank of Scotland or Barclays Bank should get it out now, transfer it or convert it to gold, do it now before the run on the banks gathers pace.

Now who are the government going to borrow all that money from that they need to pay the wages? I know the Russians, they’ve got £600,000,000,000.00 in reserves, about $1.5 trillion dollars, hmmm that’s a coincidence, you think we’ve been hacked then?

Tags: bankrupt, Banks, nationalisation, RBS

Is your favourite company buggering off to Dublin, like Google did? Or shifting staff out to Bangalore?

UK business does a runner

The British people should take a stand, especially the natives: any company wanting to trade in the UK that was or has been a British based company must remain domiciled in the UK or we all black list them. It worked for call centres, people won’t deal with Bangalore customer services willingly because they are stealing our jobs and putting downward pressure on our wages. It worked and they advertise UK based call centres now.

It’s not xenophobic it’s patriotism. Blank them.

Greedy bankers steal all our money and head for the beach or go fishing after causing economic meltdown. Stock Markets are plunging and lending dries up as the cash disappears.

Greedy Banker steals your cash

The markets are collapsing amidst complete economic meltdown, anyone with any money in any bank should get it out NOW! Buy gold, platinum, copper, lead, zinc, corn, pork bellies, anything tangible. Ideally something that you can see and touch, not a piece of paper guaranteeing it, that’s all money is. It will be worthless if the banks collapse.

So what if the government guarantee it all? Not much point having a million quid if it only buys you a tomato or a bag of chips is it? The only way the government can pay is if they print more money, which leads to inflation, or more simply put money becoming worthless. They aren’t guaranteeing anything really, it’ll be devalued to nothing. This is true redistribution, we’ll all be as skint as each other. Is this Marx being right again?

No just fiddling on a mass scale, bankers and other “professionals” associated with the housing market have acted in such a way as to artificially ramp up the value of property in order to increase secured lending and thereby ramp up the value of their balance sheets. In the process the humans involved have earned massive  commissions, the rest of us are left with massive  debts or savings that will soon become worthless numbers in a database, private pensions will disappear in a cloud of foggy confusion that is nobody’s fault. No one will spend one second of hard time inside prison for wrecking the lives of billions.

There is no money, it is all an abstract idea called capitalism, there are no bars of gold behind it all any more: Gordon Brown flogged it all at the bottom of the market, remember? Houses are for living in not investing in, they make no money, the whole thing was a bubble of gum waiting to burst all over our faces, the shopkeeper bankers are laughing all the way to the beach.

Tags: Add new tag, economic meltdown, greedy banker

Once again the Ranter is bang on the money, today in the Times it is reported that the roll out of phorm across BT, and that Dick Branson’s Virgin Media, is being monitored by MI5. Of course this is the real purpose of the politico yank who runs the Phorm business. The Chinese, Saudis, Russians, let’s face it all of them will be at it.

Phorm allows the storage and analysis of all telephone calls, emails and web browsing. Of course now we know why the Information Commissioner and the Home Office are giving the nod to an illegal surveillance system. Not money, err, possibly not but then why would that Dick Branson be involved, ah, altruism and patriotism. Perhaps he’ll even tear himself away from his little island in the Caribbean and live in the UK. Oh no, perhaps not he pissed off the mafia when he tried to be the people’s non-profit lottery, been keeping his head down, and on his shoulders, ever since eh?

Now we’ve been told that all the information is going to be anonymous, and not used to profile users for political views, affiliation, sexual proclivity, spending habits, when they are at home, what sites they visit, what posts they write on blogs, what their user names and passwords are, gaining access to their computers, fitting them up if needed, and so on. Of course not. But then again it might and the government will be keeping an eye out to make more cash for ministers, sorry tax payers, by selling the data to marketing companies and banks.

They’ve earmarked a billion pounds so far, and are going to spend another £12,000,000,000.00 on it, to keep it all in a gigantic database.

Now the Ranter can see the future:

ID cards, or prison.

No Cash (ID card doubles as credit card - you get what MI5 says you get).

No Privacy at all, or prison.

Total filtering, monitoring and censoring of the Internet.

I guess this is what happens in quasi-Monarchical “democracies” like our own, as well as Russia and China, together with that other quasi- Monarchical “democracy” and American satellite Saudi Arabia.

We won’t be able to buy anything, look at anything, go anywhere, say anything, or do anything without some public sector worker spying on us. And it won’t be a secret either, any more than our bank details are. The idiots at the HMRC have already lost all of our bank details, without it costing a penny to them. The information will be sold, abused and used to contain and control us all even more. Of course rich folk, like that Dick Branson will be alright.

The story has been reported in The Times here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4882600.ece.

Funnily enough Virgin Media scanned this site last night from an office in London from this IP address 82.26.211.66: on a Mac OS X, Firefox 2: client-82-26-211-66.glfd.adsl.virgin.net
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 and checked out my last article on Phorm.

The Ranter has intuition, he knew.

This is the spy’s address:

IP address location & IP address info:
IP address [?]: 82.26.211.66 Copy [Whois]
IP address country: ip address flag United Kingdom
IP address state: London, City of
IP address city: London
IP address latitude: 51.500000
IP address longitude: -0.116700
ISP of this IP [?]: Virgin Media
Organization: Virgin Media
Host of this IP: [?]: client-82-26-211-66.glfd.adsl.virgin.net [Whois]
Local Time of this IP country: 2008-10-05 10:37

They were located just off Lambeth Palcace Road, A3035,just before you get onto Westminster Bridge Road (Westminster Bridge). Is this a Virgin Media spy? Lets find out if that Dick Branson knows.

Time for a SAR pursuant to the DPA, cost me a tenner for a District Judge to look at it.

PHORM PROHIBITED

The contents of this site, and communications between this site and its users, are protected by database right, copyright, confidentiality and the right not to be intercepted conferred by section 1(3) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. The use of those contents and communications by Internet Service Providers or others to profile or classify users of this site for advertising or other purposes is strictly forbidden.

Err, Wot’s Phorm matey? Check it out here nodpi.org

Deep packet inspection is what it is, or possibly deep packet intrusion, anyway it’s a violation of the Data Protection Directive and the Human Rights Act and The European Convention on Human Rights.

It’s an intrusive form of advertising Phorm is. They install some spyware on the exchange and track all of your browsing and email. The ICO (Information Commissioners Office) have said that Phorm’s argument that users must opt out rather than in is okay, it is of course unlawful. But the ICO stick their fingers up at the law quite regularly, and let’s face it without Legal Aid who’s going to fork out five or six hundred quid in court fees, let alone lawyer’s costs to fight the buggers in court? Me.

Problem is that without locus standi I can’t do so, also it’s the problem of damage, what damage is there? The cost of a phone call that’s what. Now if you’re with BT Broadband or Virgin Media you’re going to be spied on, you can opt out but they take no notice.

The Ranter sniffs a smell of dodgy dealing in the air. Why would the ICO and the Home Office say somethin’ is legal when it’s not? Hmmm, money? Nah. They wouldn’t do that, so they must be stupid.

The only way to clarify this is to issue a summons and get a Judge to decide the point.

Anyway BT, Virgin Media and Phorm, you come anywhere near my website me old chinas and I’ll issue, you black list it and I’ll issue. Thus Spake The Ranter. You’ve had fair warning.

Check out nodpi.org for the full juice on the goose.

The goose-steppers and spankers will be shedding tears over their pomagne now. Gordon Brown has played to his strengths with a deft touch. The delicate fianchetto against Milliband a superb wing attack, and to finesse Hutton at the same time - the opening moves of a true Grand Master. Albeit six months late, but if one reflects carefully upon Brown’s best moves over the last three or four months then one must conclude that evasive inactive quiet play, and a closed game to be the best tactics.

The whole thing now looks planned. But with the precision of a watch maker, chess master, and supreme Machiavellian politician. On reflection the ranter must grudgingly concede that Gordon Brown hasn’t played a bad move for months.

Quack Vets Rip Off Your Pets and You

Quack Vet

Perhaps it’s just me, I don’t know, but I have a dog who is now 12 and a quarter years old. He hasn’t been castrated and now he suffers from prostate problems. I did take out a policy of insurance for the old boy when he was a pup, then when he was about two he got a stiff leg and the vet said he had arthritis, and needed these tablets and those tablets and would do so for life. So the premiums went up, the excess went up, and up, and up, to such an extent that we had to cancel the policy. Now when he needs insurance he hasn’t got it, and we’re forking out a fortune.

Thing is, being a geek and a gnome, as well as a knarky ranter, I checked it out on t’internet. Now all he needed for arthritis was half an aspirin a day, and glucosamine, and cod liver oil, just like a human, or a gnome come to that. And for his prostate problems saw palmetto is just as good for dogs as a human. So the quack vet ripped off the insurance company, me, and my dog for years. He got really ill a couple of weeks ago so we trooped of down to the vet, long faced, fearing the worst, tears welling up like a New Orleans levee waiting to burst, a knarled knot in my stomach - real fear for the lad. So once again they saw me coming. Hello (£30), he needs a scan (£80) it could be cancer (£10) but might not be (£10) he’ll need these tablets now and another pack in five days (£80), oh yes and this injection (£25) probably every month, oh yes exclusive if VAT by the way, is the bill an issue? Aren’t you insured?

So I forked out about £250 for them to tell me he had prostatitis.

I asked the vet if aspirin was okay, yes he said, half a day is okay, glucosamine? Oh yes that’s what we give them but it’s called something more expensive sounding. Ah, I said. What about Saw Palmetto for prostatitis? Erm, err, no he said. I knew he was lying. I trusted them for years and all the time they ripped me off. Pet Insurance? Just another racket, always get it but don’t claim unless they’re really ill, and always check on t’internet. Don’t give a dog paracetamol or ibuprofen but aspirin is okay (check the dose and make sure it’s after a meal). If you’ve got a male dog give it saw palmetto it’s whole life to prevent Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (come to that if you’re e bloke take it yourself as well). Give them glucosamine to keep arthritis away and a good multivitamin.

Wish I’d known that for my poor old lad, bloody vets, quacks like doctors and dentists, can’t trust any of them (another story).