Proportional Representation only way to save New Labour

The Tories are desperate for an election. Why? Well apart from the obvious answer that they want to get their sweaty privileged paws stuck in the till there are several:

They want to preserve the right of MPs to have directorships and outside “interests”. This is of course political double talk for being able to accept back handers for favours.

Secondly they want to keep the expenses much the way they are.

Third, they realise that the talk of reforming parliament is double talk for changing the voting system to PR.

The majority of the country don’t vote Tory, so it’s in the majority’s interests that they not be permitted to win. The queen will already be pencilling in dates for royal weddings to give them a boost when they plunge the majority of us into poverty and servitude. So there would be a consensus for PR even if rushed through. It’s Gordon Brown’s only chance of power.

No wonder the chump wants an election now, so does the queen. Check out the seventies she stuck her unelected nose in then as well, and condemned us all to nigh on twenty years of chump government. Thatcher and Major, remember them?

Cameron is a chump Etonian with a multi-millionaire wife and stinking rich family. He pretends to be “ordinary” while claiming £1250 a month for a mortgage, he doesn’t have to pay council tax and uses the NHS because he gets a private level of service completely free of charge.

Gordon Brown might look dumb, might be dumb, but he’s fundamentally honest. Cameron is disingeuous at best. A Liberal, Labour and SNP pact would be democratic; it might be dysfunctional, but it’s what democracy is all about.

Tags: Political Comment, politicians, politics, proportional representation, tories

The two most powerful ministers connected with the Justice system are bent. Jack Straw, self proclaimed procedural “expert” doesn’t understand the what Council Tax rebate is…Yeah right, we believe you. So, a big cheese, big head “expert” lawyer doesn’t understand that if you only have to pay half a bill you can’t claim all of it? Of course not, he’s a liar as well as a thief. And a very clever one at that. But perhaps that’s a calumny as well. Now a more pompous, opinionated and chippy bloke you’re not likely to meet. He sells whatever principles he ever had for a few hundred quid. Now realise this: he is a QC, he’s prosecuted petty thieves, ruined careers and lives for less than the money he’s stolen. He’s a bent hypocrite who should be fired, disbarred, arrested, charged, tried and when found guilty given fourteen years as an example to the rest of the crooks in Parliament.

Jack Straw Blags the Swag

What will happen though? Nowt.

Jackie Smith, well, she’s an idiot waiting for a brain cell.

Given that all ministers have a second home and so are investing in the housing market, as well as fixing it, shouldn’t they declare this somewhere? No wonder house prices rocketed up - they were all speculating. Greedy goats will stuff their faces with anything, and these goats are full to bursting. The irony though is that they’re so cheap. For the sake of a hundred grand or so they’ve completely knackered the economy, they’re now trying to prop up house prices to protect their own assets, using our money! Houses make no money, people do. Labour creates wealth, not property. This simple economic fact eludes these greedy goats, intelligence is a stranger to them, their common sense has been clouded by a collective greed, and we are all paying for it.

It looks like half at least could be charged with fraud, ironically under their own Fraud Act of 2007. Now Jack Straw would easily be caught by this, the pompous little twit won’t get charged of course, weasels like him always - well - weasel out of it.

They keep wittering on about the rules, but the rules are effectively the same as the Inland Revenue’s test for allowable expenses, and must be wholly necessary to do the job. Council Tax isn’t allowable, it’s a tax.

Chris Huhne reckons he’s applied the same principles to claiming expenses as he did in business. Hmm. Perhaps the Inland Revenue should dust off its files and check him out, he obviously doesn’t understand that “looking smart” isn’t necessary to do his job and nor is a trouser press, unless laundry is part of an MP’s job, but then again they are all having their dirty linen washed in public so perhaps he can claim for it.

These people are thieves plain and simple, let’s not beat about the bush, they have committed acts of dishonesty and should be arrested. Tony Blair set the standard and his corrupt practices have rubbed off on the rest of them. As for Michael Martin, please will someone put him out of his misery, he’s a joke without a punch line, a living brain donor, and a disgrace.

As a nation we should vote them all out, any of the current MPs who stand should not get any votes at all. We should all vote for someone else, we need 650 independents. If they won’t resign we should collectively sack them. The argument against this is that nothing will get done if Parliament is full of Independents. So what? Leaving well alone is often the best idea. The US does so well because it’s so hard to change anything at all, it’s the opposite over here, it’s far too easy for the greedy, self serving MPs top help themselves and their mates, and sod the rest of us.

Now pompous dimwit Stephen Fry reckons it’s okay to fiddle expenses and he’s done it. So as well as being thick, pompous and not funny he’s a thief as well and as far as he’s concerned that’s okay. Well perhaps the BBC should suspend him, check his receipts and then call the Police. You’ve got to wonder if he’s stopped taking the tablets or if he’s just naturally a complete fool.

With idiots like Stephen Fry and thieves like Jack Straw and Jackie Smith running around it’s hardly surprising that the public sector is fundamentally corrupt, that the Civil Service pay £2000 for a computer you could pick up for three hundred quid at PC World, and that we’re all paying through the nose for their luxurious lifestyles. I mean how can an IT system cost billions of pounds? It doesn’t of course it’s the back handers that cost.

Sack ‘em all, arrest the thieving urchins, and throw away the key.

Vote for someone else!

Tags: Add new tag, Expenses, Fraud, Jack Straw, Jackie Smith, Stephen Fry, Thieves

Phorm, Privacy, Hiding and The Home Office

So Jackie Smith has now decided she won’t be spending £14,000,000,000.00 on a giant database of emails, web pages, texts, phone calls etc. No, she’ll spend £1,000,000,000.00 instead. Why? Well there’s the rub, “privacy concerns”. Yeah right. All this means is that they are definitely going ahead with it but not admitting it. A similar ploy has been adopted by many bent MPs when claiming for empty houses, hard core porn films, butt plugs - erm, sorry bath plugs, and the kitchen sink. In other words it’s another pack of lies.

Phorm is like one of those duck decoys you see them use in the old Tom and Jerry cartoons, it lures in the hapless and,  it has to be said, stupid ducks who get blasted as soon as they are seen. The dimwitted ducks are swimming towards Phorm quacking away about how terrible it is when all the time the hunter (The Home Office) is hiding behind the reeds ready with a massive database with which to whack them over the head and shut them up for good. Phorm is just a commercial application of what the Security Services in this and most other countries have dreamt of for years: an automated sytem of customer/voter/agitator profiling that allows them to spy on everyone.

Phorm is a clever bit of kit, but it’s probably been running for years on behalf of HMG. As we know HMG and the Home Civil Service is riddled with corruption, idleness and self interest. If there’s money in it and it can be applied to advertising, for politicians campaigning, they’ll push it. This will happen all over the world.

The problem is that too many closeted goose steppers and spankers, of both genders and all ages, are of the view that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about. Such aphorisms have an instant appeal in that there is always a certain logic in their construction. However, note the use of the word “you”. The goose steppers and spankers never think it applies to them. Why would it? Daddy drives a Volvo after all. Politicians are the same, believing they’ll always be in power; civil servants think they’re indispensible - confusing this with unsackable. Of course the idea of a giant database is too much to resist for the greedy politicians and civil servants :their hands are itching to have their palms greased by the dodgy IT brigade that feed them and rip the rest of us off. A billion quid? Add a nought more likely.

The Internet is insidious in its destruction of everything: the music business, soon the movie business, the newspaper industry, soon the publishing industry, TV, millions upon millions of back room staff and now privacy.

T. H. E. Ranter believes that the Internet should be crumpled up into a little tiny ball and flung onto a fire to burn forever. While we’re at it screw up mobile phones and throw them on, and cars, and all forms, and all politicians, and all the cranks, crackpots and the generally disaffected or confused who make as much money complaining about it all as the evil doers who put it all into practice. They all piss in the same pot.

Advertising and marketing is what the Internet was created for. It’s what we all do here, anyone who has a website is like any one who has written anything: we all want to be read. We all submit our sites to search engines, count or visitors, page views and so on. We wax lyrical about increases in traffic and sticakbility. We’re no different to Phorm. Phorm is all of us. And now we can all look into the souls of everyone else. So you see Phorm is a force for good, we’ll all know everything about everyone. Won’t that be nice?

Stopphoulplay.com is such a website, it seeks to persuade the casual visitor that people who campaign against Phorm are nutters with their hands in the till taking back handers from the competition. But the campaigners are doing exactly the same thing: using marketing techniques to peddle their wares, which in this case are opinions. Most people don’t give a monkey’s about any of it, they go about their day to day activities blissfully unaware of it all. They will never be adversely affected by any of it. This is why the Internet is such a force for destruction. Greedy self opinionated folk (I don’t include myself in this: I’m not greedy) spend a good proportion of their waking hours glued to a screen, damaging their eyes and stretching their ulna nerves like elastic bands to guarantee RSI and a bad back. Just to make sure the insidious creep of t’Internet stains everyone.

Burn it I say. And that twat who invented it.

Anyone who believes in anything at all would agree with me.

Tags: cranks, data protection act, home civil service, phorm, politicians, privacy issues, Public Sector Corruption