Broken Britain

Pity the poor family who lost their home to Gypsy squatters over the Christmas holidays.

The police were more interested in accusing them of being racists than they were in helping them get back their home.

Thankfully, the story has a happy ending.  The Gypsies have now gone home — to a house 100 yards down the road — to “stay with relatives”.

Is the term racist losing its meaning through overuse, I wonder?  A bit like the term terrorist which is now used to describe anything from a tourist photographing a building within the M25 to an octogenarian heckling at a Labour party conference.

Either way, thank you to our reader, Lisa, for reporting this one.

As the reports roll in of thousands of schools shut around the country, have a thought for the South Korean children who are training at a winter military camp in Ansan.

Whilst Surrey grinds to a halt buried beneath a whole four inches of snow, these children are being taught to “train through the pain”.

British children, on their diet of reality television, ipods and health-and-safety-diminished lifestyles will not know what’s hit them when they join the ranks of the global workforce.

Gordon Brown is to make an election manifesto pledge that will see all 16-18 year olds vetted by the Independent Safeguarding Authority.

When I read for my degree in physics I learnt there were four fundamental forces of nature.

Today I read irrefutable evidence that there is only one fundamental force of nature that rules over all others: the force of politics.

James Delingpole has uncovered chilling evidence of political machinations behind so-called scientific research into so-called Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).

AGW has been a convenient quasi-religion for the political elite: a 21st century opiate for the masses.  Something to fear, something on which to focus our attention whilst politicians destroy our democracy and fiddle their expenses.  Something to provide us with a “new economy” and save us from an economic death spiral that was created by the political elite in the first place.

I doubt that James Delingpole’s revelations will get widespread press attention and will only be of interest to “domestic extremists” and “climate change deniers” but it comforts me to see him trying in the face of such political opposition.  Rock on, James!

Environmentalism’s march towards full-fledged religion took another step recently as the Department for Children, Schools and Families issued guidance to teachers that our children should be taught about the needs of insects.

No doubt, after Peter Oborne’s documentary last night on the Pro-Israel Lobby, they’ll likely be taught that the needs of Palestinian children are best met by showering them in white phosphorous.

I used to laugh at a colleague who told me “perception is reality”.  I shudder in the realisation that he was utterly correct.

A convicted murderer described by police as dangerous and not to be approached by the public has been lost by the prison service.

Despite being a dangerous murderer serving an indefinite sentence — and convicted only three years ago — the prison service lost her whilst out on an “escorted shopping trip”.

You can imagine the next Alan Johnson announcement: “we’re re-introducing capital punishment: shop till you drop,” or Alistair Darling proclaiming Broken Britain’s 21st century version of the chain gang: cohorts of convicts out on the streets shopping us back to economic health.

God, give me strength.

Via the telegraph:

With a broadened remit as agents of social change, the police are now taking it upon themselves to judge the fitness of people to be parents based on such things as the state of decor of their homes.

This is appalling state sanctioned social engineering.  Of course it won’t work and in the meantime scores more children will die whilst really unfit parents and child abusers run amok in society unchecked.

We’re losing the plot and I haven’t seen anything from the Tories that suggests these trends will be reversed.

It’s not often I stand up for Gordon Brown.

However, I feel I must say something about the recent “handwritinggate” affair running its course in the tabloid media.

It is wholly right that Gordon Brown should write a personal letter to each of the families bereaved by the conflict in the Middle East and he should be respected for that.

It is right too, that Brown apologised for seemingly misspelling one of the late soldier’s names.

So what’s the problem?

There isn’t one.

The Sun has overstepped the mark in an otherwise slow news week.

I despair:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6507537/Sex-and-drug-lessons-from-age-5.html

Why can’t they leave our children alone?  This is yet another tickbox for Ofsted savvy teachers and further sexualisation of young children.

The burdens on four and five year olds are immense now (my four year old recently had to give a five minute speech on Batman, for instance).

At these tender young ages children should be learning only a few things: self-esteem and social skills and that school is a positive and good place to be.

Although I have a great deal of respect for Chris Grayling, my local MP, I have a growing sense of disquiet the more I read of what he’s proposing for post-broken Britain.

Reading in the Telegraph today that he intends to stop supermarkets from choosing their own prices for alcohol makes me very wary indeed.  Also, although he rightly wants to push powers down to local people when it comes to licensing premises the whole approach is NuLab-esque: put in place new and badly thought up rules in a hope to shape people’s behaviour.

Until a government forgets soundbites and short-term media-led government Britain will remain broken.

Supermarkets should decide how best to price the products they sell.  Local people and local government should have power over things that have an affect on the lives of local people.

When it comes to binge drinkers: let them binge drink, let them stab each other and vomit in the street.  Then round them up, try them under existing laws and punish them properly.  They’ll soon get the message.

Thinking up rules for social engineering that look good when reported in the Daily Mail hasn’t worked for over a decade and it won’t start working when the Tories are in power.

Just a quick note to congratulate the BBC on letting Nick Griffin on to Question Time.

Whatever people say about freedom of speech being less important than fighting “extremism” (a much overused and now almost meaningless word), I think the BBC were proved right and at the same time Nick Griffin has been outed as a complete incompetent not fit to lead a political party.

My son started primary school this September.

Since then he has lost a number of items of clothing including a brand new coat, brand new pair of trainers, brand new PE kit bag, brand new jogging bottoms and T-shirt and a tie.  All the items were clearly labelled.

On two occasions he was made to sit out PE because of missing kit and yet the teacher didn’t once let us know that he was missing vital school uniform.

I wouldn’t mind if this were a sink school in a sink estate but it is meant to be the best state primary in Surrey.

From what I read this morning, I wonder whether they’re too busy reporting racist incidents amongst the four year olds in my son’s class for offences such as these.

Sitting next to a couple at a Burger King after a boozy night out in the city this evening, I overheard a rather disturbing conversation that I fear may be being repeated around the country as I write this.

The man concerned was describing his cashflow for the month and attempting to persuade his partner of the merits of lending £200 to a friend for Christmas present purchases.  The woman was gently attempting to persuade him to pay more than the minimum payments on his credit cards and reminding him of various debts he owed relatives.  He proudly recounted all the payments he had to make this month (including a mortgage) and decided he had £80 to tide him over until he received his earlier than usual December pay.

Their conversation then moved on to the financial situations of their relatives including the sister who — working full time whilst on full benefits — was conning the housing benefit out of £1600 a month.

I was horrified and decided despite having put away a skinful and being surrounded by drunk people on the penultimate train home I ought to write about it here.

My horror is threefold.  First, a man living £80 per month from insolvency has a mortgage.  Second, he feels quite at ease discussing his sister’s theft from the state in a public place surrounded by people.  Third, I am going to have to pay for this sorry shit show when it all goes to shit.

I didn’t buy a house whilst house prices were rising out of control because I decided I couldn’t afford one.  It was too risky.  I didn’t buy a 4×4.  I didn’t build up balances on credit cards.  I saved.

I did all the things I should have done.  I acted with prudence.  I acted sensibly.  I did everything that Gordon Brown should have done for our country and what this pair of good-for-nothings should have done for themselves to avoid people like me having to bail them out.

No one bailed me out when the housing market was running away from me.  No one bailed me out when I couldn’t afford a 4×4 because I didn’t have a house to remortgage.

Unfortunately a bailout funded through my taxes is exactly what these people are going to be begging for in the next few months.

They should be rounded up and put in a modern equivalent of the Victorian poor house.

George Osborne broke the “convention” that politicians should always tell lies with regards to currency strength. I say give him a medal of the realm. It is so frustrating to see Labour brand someone “irresponsible” after selling off the countries gold reserves in 1999 and then taking the country into an abyss of debt over a period when tax revenues could have been used to build a nice surplus instead of blowing it and then some on illegal wars, asylum seekers, diversity police, Olympics etc etc ( see previous posts )

I am aware that the moment an official hints at the weakness of a currency it automatically lowers its value and believe me a decrease in Sterling strength hurts me financially but you have to be objective and listen to what GO is saying because if we had not been told a pack of lies over the last 10 years we may not be in such a bad position.

I think GO saying this is a lot more sensible that a certain someone in 1997 saying he was going to end boom and bust….

Seek the truth and the truth shall set you free…

This is just insanity. I just could not handle some retarded jobsworth interfering in my life like this.

Via Daily Mail :

“A father is demanding an apology from police after he spent a night in a cell for smacking his son.

Mark Frearson, 47, was arrested on suspicion of assault after he slapped his seven-year-old son Harry on the back of the legs.

Mr Frearson, a company director, punished his child for leaving his side and wandering off on his own in the dark.

A witness called the police and three hours after the incident, four police officers and a specialist child support officer arrived at Mr Frearson’s home in Plymouth, Devon, to question him and examine Harry for bruises.

They then drove the boy away in a police car and took his father to the station where they locked him up in a cell overnight.

Mr Frearson later found out that he should have been questioned immediately but was locked up because the ‘witness’ was ‘in no fit state’ to be interviewed.”