Indications of a policy bankruptcy....

Listening to Today on Radio 4 this morning I found my blood pressure rising as an interview with our so-called Eductaion Secretary was interviewed. Instead of answering questions about his own Party's policy and spending plans he kept brushing the question aside and trying to tell the interviewer what the Conservatives would do - a twisted version of course, but typically misinformation and double speak from this bankrupt Party and their failed Socialist philosophy.

The sooner we kick them out of government and into a wilderness the better!

They have obviously launched an election campaign without actually calling an election. But what we are not hearing about is the tax increases they will be forced to impose after one. Nor are we hearing anything about how they propose to reform that den of iniquity called Parliament. Instead they have leaked the Royal Household's expenses - revealing coincidentally that the Queen and the Royals collectively cost us far less than the Parliamentary thieves and their hangers on. And of course, that old favourite, if you can't say anything about your own policy and plans - you present a twisted and misrepresented version of the oppositions.

Having lived in South Africa during the Nationalist years, this was the stock in trade of that Party and it is intensely annoying to find that Labour are every bit as bigoted and as bad. A remarkable thing about the Nationalist Party in SA was that they were, to a man, career politcians, the vast majority had never been or done anything else. So to hear Labour's motor mouths sounding off about the need for their "professional" expertise is a sick joke. They haven't any. Equally their attacks on the Conservative MP's who do have jobs outside Parliament is equally misplaced - at least those MP's have declared their interests and their incomes - and more importantly they bring to the House something no Labour W*nker can - practical experience of a work environment, workplace or business that is in the real world - not the Planet Westminster/Whitehall Labour's idiots inhabit.

Frankly I think it is high time we introduced a rule forbidding anyone from standing more than three terms as an MP. Let them taste the realities of the world they have created like the rest of us instead of being protected by the bomb-proof pensions and perks they currently enjoy. And the same rule shgould be introduced for the Whitehall W*nk*rs, those Senior Civil Servant Oligarchs who actuially run the country to their own advantage regardless of what the politicians think. They too should be removed after a maximum of ten years in post.

Labour is bankrupt politically, bust economically and can't tell the truth - in short it is a Party of thieves, ideologues, bureaucrats and careerists who have never done a meaningful days work in their lives and are terrified of finding themselves out on the street.

A promise of rain?

It has been a long hot and tiring day - again! The threat of storms has been looming all day, but now the big thunderheads have wandered off to somewhere else and we swelter still. And I got the first comment of "Well we better get used to it, we humans are heating up the planet ..."

He'll be out of hospital soon they tell me. And I'm not really rabid. But I'm not very patient with prats who go off half cocked and believe everything the Greenpeace liars push as "scientific truth" when even a little research turns up the information that their "carbon emissions" data is at least ten years out of date for most cars and even further adrift for modern power generation plants - especially nuclear. The fashion for blaming western "consumer society" for all the world's ills is nauseating in the extreme - especially as it is founded on the garbage that our "wealth" is somehow "stolen" from the Third World populations which are destroying rain forests and exterminating wildlife for their own food, fuel and internal use. If I hear one more time that this is "forced" on them by "MacDonald's" "cattle feeding" and "ranching" and "bio fuel" use of "food" I shall probably end up on a murder charge.

After all it was Greenpeace and Fiends of the Earth that pushed for "renewable" fuel sources ten years ago. Now the oil consuming societies are using them - suddenly we are "stealing food from the mouths of the poor to make bio fuel." They can't have it both ways - and some of us do remember what they push and get wrong, even if the majority of their foot soldiers are to damned naive and stupid to do so.

OK, so the heat is getting to me, I'm tired, I'm impatient and I have to work again tomorrow in a closed environment. Bah, Humbug! Let it rain!

Where did yesterday go?

Sorry to say it passed in a flurry of activity, though mosty of it was productive. UNexpectedly I was invited to partner the Vicar on a supper date which starts off at one house and ends up in another. It was great fun, with different table partners at each house and for each course. Some fascinating conversations along the way, some of which will require picking up again at some time.

The night was hot, humid and sleepless however, so my ministry duties this morning have been more or less on autopilot!

If it wasn't so funny ....

I really cannot resist sharing this as widely as possible. It says everything you need to know about the Labour voting masses that now regularly travel and ruin everyone else's holiday ....

Thomas Cook Holiday complaints
(Survey by Thomas Cook and ABTA)

"I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."

"It's lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time - this should be banned."

"On my holiday to Goa in India , I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food at all."

"We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels."

A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel "inadequate".

A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she'd been locked in by staff. When in fact, she had mistaken the "do not disturb" sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.

"The beach was too sandy."

"We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white."

A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.

"Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."

"We bought 'Ray-Ban' sunglasses for five Euros (£3.50) from a street trader, only to find out they were fake."

"No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."

"It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home."

"I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends' three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller."

"The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation' We're trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying here?"

"There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners."

"We had to queue outside with no air conditioning."

"It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."

"I was bitten by a mosquito - no-one said they could bite."

"My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."

As I said .....

OK, so I'd like to be in charge .....

Right, I can't sort out the HTML Code from this test so here is a short version of the result without the fancy Graphs.....

Your true political self:
You are a

Social Conservative
(38% permissive)


and an...

Economic Liberal
(35% permissive)


You are best described as a:


Totalitarian


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.
Test

Todays post won't post.....

I had a post ready to post this morning, a rather fun one, but as its a "Quiz" HTML it won't post. I keep getting an error message which says that certain "tags" are not closed and it won't allow me to post it, yet several other blogs have successfully posted this and I have copied and pasted exactly what it gave me on the original. I have tried several differrent things, but nothing seems acceptable, so there.

What was it? Well, it asked what kind of politician I am. It turns out that I am "Social Conservative; Economic Liberal" and it ends up with my being actually a Totalitarian.

No surprise there then. My default when faced by a committee who want to endlessly go round in circles and refuse to make a decision is to go - "You, do this!"

Mister Speaker - reformer?

I note with interest, that the proclaimed intent to "reform parliament" seems to be losing impetus, or at least it seems to be being watered down. Not unexpectedly the focus is already on "getting the expenses sorted" and nothing more. No longer do we hear of any suggestion of reducing the number of the buggers, making them more accountable or even reforming the way they work.

And the new Speaker seems to have been elected precisely because he was the man the Tory Party, of which he is a member, didn't want him to be. Probably, it is suggested, because the Labour Louts realised they wouldn't get away with having three members of their party in a row as "Mister Speaker" and, if the reforming process stalls or goes wrong, they can now blame the Conservatives as one of theirs is the Speaker ....

What a way to run a country. What a reason for choosing Mister Speaker. Perhaps it really is time to do away with the lot of them.