Big Brother goes undercover……
Late last night, after the House of Commons had virtually emptied, a vote was taken on on a new clause of the Political Parties and Elections Bill right at the end of the Report Stage, sneaked in just before the Bill was rubber stamped by the Commons for the Third Reading.
Just one MP queried the legality of this act. He was briskly rebuffed by Madam Deputy Speaker.
Madam Deputy Speaker: I have made a decision, and given my ruling and the reasons why this vote has been taken. I have nothing further to add.
The clause that was added was to enable MP’s to conceal their address from the electorate. Never again will an MP be embarrassed, as Jacqui Smith was, by discussion of which is their main home, and which their second home. Nor will you know whether your MP even lives in your constituency.
Every facet of your life is laid bare to our government via electoral rolls, census, CCTV, Data bases, DNA records, and surveillance of the Internet.
You, however, won’t have the right to know even the most basic information about your MP. Woe betide you if you try to find out and he is an ex-policeman or member of the armed forces. Ten years in clink!
This is becoming a farce.
Hat tip to Spy Blog
Illustration lifted from the superb artists web site
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March 3, 2009 at 3:17 pm -
Having had a tricky family problem to resolve and done so successfully, I am now free to have a BLOODY BIG RANT ABOUT THESE BASTARDS. We won’t need to know where these trough swilling pigs live because none of them are going to get home. We should string the filthy criminal little shits up on lamposts and leave them all there as a reminder to any other sod who even contemplates doing anything remotely similar ever again. I want my country back.
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March 3, 2009 at 3:23 pm -
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March 3, 2009 at 3:35 pm -
Trough swilling is no longer the exclusive club it once was. In most walks of life we have a “what’s in it for me attitude”.
Once upon a time being an MP was seen to be a public service, now it is just a way of lining their own pockets. I’m sure other party MP’s are not squealing about this, as it suits them too.
This is the reason for the pathetic voting record in this country, everyone thinks it doesn’t matter who is in power as they are all the same.
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March 3, 2009 at 3:44 pm -
Oh,
okay,
I’ll just look forward to Brown’s safe return from the USA, where all the economic troubles started, thereby enabling our great leader to do all he can for hardworking families and spend all my money on his mates and deny me the life I could lead by his corrupt and INCREASINGLY LUNATIC BEHAVIOUR. HANG ‘EM ALL NOW.
I knew it wouldn’t last, sorry. They’re wonderful, all of them.
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March 3, 2009 at 4:29 pm -
Yes, MPs in general and the government in particular do like their control. You only have to look at the spread of unitary authorities in the country to see that.
Cornwall, one of the last bastions of a two/three tier system of local government, toes the government line and switches in the next few weeks. This is despite fears that neither councillors nor officers have developed the capability to manage the process and requests to the Minister for Local Governments to defer the date of change.
By creating an England ruled at local/regional level by soulless, unconnected unitary authorities the government will be able to exert more control over everyone, mainly because they will have smaller numbers of councillors to deal with in the event of strife.
Councillors do however, in the main, do the work as a public service and up to now the range of people from all walks of life (most of whom are male unfortunately) do more or less understand those they represent. The introduction of unitary authorities will reduce this range and, as a result, the pubic benefit and, eventually, become a little brother of big brother.
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March 3, 2009 at 7:53 pm -
And ……………….. All police officers in the UK are being ent on courses courtesy of the tax-payer to learn crowd control.
You want to see some of the stuff they will have in their armoury!
The people who will be using these barbaric instruments such as extra-high-powered Tasers are not made of Armed Forces material! They do not have the personality types of the our Armed Forces – they are individuals who but for the Grace of God would generally be detained at HM Prisons – but for the fact that somebody once taught them to read and write so they managed to get a job as a copper!
We truly have not been told what we are in for!
I don’t want coppers becoming hench-men for an unstable crooked Government!
Gordie’s arse wants kicking! I bet the Grand Masters of the Masons are really pissed off with him. He is moving things forward too soon! This should not be happening until at least 2011.
He has been warned!
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March 3, 2009 at 7:58 pm -
Oh my!
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March 3, 2009 at 8:05 pm -
A nice haze of smoke around here…
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March 3, 2009 at 9:03 pm -
Protectionism is the new “buzz” word that is going to drive us all up the wall. It may also be instrumental in undermining the EEC.
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March 3, 2009 at 9:03 pm -
Three points to make, appropos of nothing:
1. Being the ‘consulted one’ in a large family is both a blessing and a curse.
2. The telephone is for other people’s convenience only.
3. I am glad I did not succumb to the temptation to call my daughter Patience. It would have been bitingly ironic.There. That feels better.
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March 3, 2009 at 9:10 pm -
Oh yes. And when I read the details of this thread earlier today, I wasn’t at all surprised. Not surprised at all.
Saddened, yes. Struck dumb by the inevitability of it all, yes. Surprised, no.
Outrage fatigue and all that, don’tcha know.
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March 3, 2009 at 9:17 pm -
We are doomed to destruction. Doomed I say!
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March 3, 2009 at 9:19 pm -
Aha all the smokers together!!!
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March 3, 2009 at 9:32 pm -
I am not supposed to find a smoker avatar too…?
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March 3, 2009 at 9:34 pm -
And still tonight’s challenges spring at me!
4. When you see a surge of liquid pooling its amber way across your sitting room floor, run quickly through the options in your weary maternal head and eliminate:
i) the loosened Tommy Tippee Sippeee Kup lid having been prised off by infant fingers;
ii) the latest 3-for-2 apple juice offer having been knocked over in a sibling punch-up;
iii) your pelvic floor exercises need re-visiting;
– NO! It is none of the above. Face the facts! It is one of your horribly spoiled juvenile cats who has decided that a windy evening is too blusterous to venture outside and do a neat little evacuation.Coco – if you have any kittens-into-mittens patterns that you’d like to share, believe me, now is the time. Now is definitely the time.
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March 3, 2009 at 10:10 pm -
I know. I have completely squandered tonight’s surprise access to the PC. I blew it with my histrionic screeching, my harpy harangue and my hormonal rantings. You all fled. I can see why. I’m off now; he who must be e-bayed is on his way home for some food and what’s left of the evening bidding on the finest that the well-known auction site has to offer. And why not.
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March 3, 2009 at 10:31 pm -
What was that about women ruling the country…..
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March 3, 2009 at 11:02 pm -
Oh Gloria! You must treasure these little mishaps! You must positively embrace them! I wish my little Burmese was still leaving her little deposits here, there and everywhere for me.
How I wish that I could still see those piles of partly-digested blends of sardines and Whiskas on the tiles. I am seriously missing the big bucket with the bottle of diluted cider vinegar, sponges, cloths and squirty Dettox that had almost become a part of the hall furniture.
Embrace everything that your kittens do for you Gloria – unless it’s that horrible yellow vomit that tends to bleach and take the colour out of your denims. That is a proper nuisance! Unless you have thick blue felt-tip pen!
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March 3, 2009 at 11:06 pm -
Saul 03.03.09 at 10:31 pm
What was that about women ruling the country…..
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Soon Saul ……………. Soon!But hopefully none of the leaders will be of child-bearing age – but if they slip through the net …………… we will have them neutered immediately! And they will be put on hormone replacement therapy.
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March 3, 2009 at 11:07 pm -
Noooooooo! Matilda is facing the wrong way again. What is wrong with that tank?
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March 3, 2009 at 11:09 pm -
Janes! What do you keep in that tank? Do you wear khaki? I love wearing khaki even though it drains my colour. Please will you take us all for a ride to Number 10 in your tank. I need to see a man about a dog.
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March 4, 2009 at 12:14 am -
Boo!
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March 4, 2009 at 12:23 am -
Phew!
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March 4, 2009 at 12:32 am -
Every facet of your life is laid bare to our government via electoral rolls, census, CCTV, Data bases, DNA records, and surveillance of the Internet.
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Spot on. Worrying. Unpleasant. I wish to draw attention to the fact that the last census was conducted just weeks before the last general election and I thought it odd at the time that the government chose not to co-ordinate the two events to provide a truly accurate snap-shot of the country’s social AND political statistics; the British public was threatened with fines if it did not return completed census forms because apparently it is vital that G. B. submits a regular and officially recorded account of its social circumstances, yet wouldn’t it have been a more accurate record if there had been an equally threatening ‘encouragement’ persuading the populus to vote?Answers on a postcard please.
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March 4, 2009 at 1:03 am -
Gloria ………………. They are coming to get us. Make no mistake!
They want to count us all in and count us all out again …………….. and then they will probably use all this information so that they can capture us and make us work in fields of GM crops. They will make us fit and healthy to work the land.
All the weak members of society will soon be dead anyway ……………. Because the Government and GPs have suddenly said that anti-biotics are crap for everything ……………. and they have probably never worked anyway!!!
Does everybody remember when it was difficult to leave your GP’s room without a prescription for anti-biotics?
The New World Order wants us with a low immunity to germs!
The weak will succumb to early death ………… and the strong will be growing beetroots and turnips ……………. or building runways and terminals for Alien spacecaft. Apparently not all Alien space-craft take off vertically.
Ask NASA!
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March 4, 2009 at 1:03 am -
G.B. = Great Britain btw, not the other G.B.
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March 4, 2009 at 1:07 am -
Coco.. I think…they’ve…. yes, they’ve… .. already …. got me……Urrgh… Unge… uhurgh….(sound of excess flesh flipping on laminate flooring) … unge… uuuuuuuuuhhhhhgggghhh… (flashing lights seen taking off at diagonally and at high speedby pin-headed neighbour) (cats found dead days later in pools of cat pee)
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March 4, 2009 at 1:28 am -
Gloria! Hope they flung you back to Earth! They did that with me one night. Aliens are picky eaters and they didn’t like my cheese and onion pie one night. That will teach them. Thieving little bastards.
Aliens get on my nerves sometimes. …………………. Usually with something that looks like a little cattle-prod with a blue light at the end! And it hurts and I scream ………….. Then whoosh-clunk …………. it is as if it never happened and I am all tucked up and cosy in my bed again.
I have an understanding doctor fortunately. He alters my medicines according to how many Alien visits I get in a month. He is always very reassuring. Which is nice. Some doctors wouldn’t ever believe me.
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March 4, 2009 at 1:35 am -
Aliens ate my children once Gloria. I don’t know if you will remember that episode in my life.
It was horrible and I felt really guilty. I had only gone to the bottom of my garden to have dinner with a bottle of wine! Orhad I gone to the wine-bar with my girl-friends??? Anyway – I got home and the French windows were wide open! I had only left them open at a 30 degree angle – in case of fire.
Anyway, I ran up to the nursery and ………….. I was just in time to see an Alien munching on one of my 18 mnths old twins. He had already eaten my three year old and the other twin – I was devastated.
I vowed never to leave them alone again. Fortunately the Aliens didn’t leave a trace of what they had done …………… So I told the police that they had been abducted.
I couldn’t have gone to prison for neglect. They don’t have eye-liner and Tia Maria in prison.
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