Shocking Pinkoes…
Happily in the pink myself, feeling tons better; shocked to return home to find that our illustrious Justice Minister has joined a campaign to ban ‘being in the pink’. What is she thinking of? Half the Labour Cabinet is pink.
Is this really what Government has become all about? Jumping on one fast moving news bandwagon after another? Is no one at the helm steering the great ship away from the looming iceberg?
It would appear not. It seems that the Pink Princess Extraordinaire, Lord Mandelson of Foy, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Council, President of the Board of Trade, and Church Commissioner, Lord Chief Justice, Commander-in-Chief, Lord High Admiral, Master of the Buck Hounds, Groom of the Back Stairs, Archbishop of Titipu, and Lord Mayor, both acting and elect, all rolled into one, and Royal Backside-in-Place on no less than 35 of the 43 committees which order our lives, has retired to her boudoir in a mighty sulk.
Surrounded by her attendants, she whinnies to those paid to listen, that those ‘horrid little men’, Gordon and his Gynophobic Groupies – Ed Balls, Gus O’ Donnell and Charlie Whelan, the Testosterone Trio, are being beastly to her City friends. Mandy and her ‘Darling One’ yearn to return to the spin of the Blair years, sweetness and light, all things sugar and spice. Baubles and Ermine handed out to those who please.
Gordon and his Glowering Gang sit in the opposite corner like rough trade rent boys in Heaven nightclub, intimidating the prancing, preening, prissies that squeal with pleasure every time Mandy deigns to look in their direction, determined that salvation lies in picking the Union’s deep pockets rather than do an honest days work.
Are there no real men left in the civilian world? Or real women? The Army seems to have collared them all; men who get up in the morning and tackle the task ahead with fortitude and resilience, men who would see the towering National Deficit as a challenge they could not wait to get started on, a battle ground to yomp over regardless of its seeming impregnability. Can you imagine Colonel H being diverted from his duty by the need to defend his expenses claim? Or Kate Nesbitt MC complaining that there were no facilities for her to breast feed in the battle ground? General Dannatt found trussed up like a Christmas turkey with an orange in his mouth, and his best sheer nylons over his head, the victim of auto-asphyxiation, when he should have been leading the troops from the front? It is unthinkable.
Ye Gods, what have these French Doctors been prescribing me? A military coup is beginning to sound preferable to life ruled by these high stepping, bottom clenching, faux Hinge and Bracket characters, with their endless whining, their belief that expense accounts are there to meet every conceivable household bill from porn to fancy parasol, accompanied by their fag hags, the humourless harridans who seek to socially engineer every last child in the country into an indebted, dependent, despairing, degenerate.
I must be careful. Whilst I was absent with out leave, the mighty Taw (Don’t worry, I’d never heard of him either, but that link might enable him to permeate outside of his own protected bubble) took me, along with several other Libertarian Party members who happen to run blogs for the amusement of their readers, rather than to promulgate, or indoctrinate with, any particular ideology, to task for not sufficiently illustrating Libertarian ideology in my last five blog posts……..to wit, (total absence of wit, as it happens, but never mind) writing about smoking booths without ever mentioning the harm that passive smoking is alleged to do…If he thinks that I’m calling for a military coup, the poor dear will probably implode!
I am tired of this charade. Tired of the UK being ruled by a Government of bullies, split asunder by a battle between the bigots who shout the rhetorical abuse of a non-existent class war, and fairie Queens who whimper in the corner when thwarted.
All we actually need are a couple of hundred men and women of substance, honour and dignity, who can fill the great offices of State, and get on with the bally job. We don’t need fresh ‘initiatives’, we don’t need a fraction of the legislation foisted upon us, we need real people out there producing real goods that make real money. We need to pay off our debts, cut our expenses to a minimum, shoot the Dissenters.
Let’s give MPs a free rail pass to London once a week, they can have all their votes in parliament on one day, come to that they can vote via their computer keyboard, and tune into Parliament live, as the rest of us have to. The remainder of the time, they can tour their constituencies, with their collecting plate in front of them, like the clergymen of old, finding out what really matters in their area.
I’d like to see Vera Baird personally dependent on her constituents for her salary, collecting it week by week, door to door, regular as clockwork, a modern day tally woman instead of dipping unseen fingers into the Great National Handbag. That might put an end to their fanciful notions.
“Good morning Redcar Man or Woman. Last week I voted to give £150 Million to lactating Mothers in Lethoso, would you like to contribute to my wages?”
” Corus, you say, yeah, shame about that”
I don’t suppose the Army would agree to loan us a couple of hundred of their finest? We could replace them with some shocking pinko wimps who could dally with the Taliban to their hearts content, and lecture Al Qaeda on the dangers of unlicensed sun bed operators. They might even get shot, merciful heaven.
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December 13, 2009 at 15:37 -
Welcome back!
This post is representative of the kind of reasoned-rant that brings me to the blog repeatedly.
I don’t care about the sexual orientation that they have, but is it too much to ask for some backbone, ethics, intelligence and clear thinking? Not to mention basic scientific and mathematical skills…
I enjoy watching ‘This Week’, not the guests (sorry) but Portillo and Brillo (and Diane when she says what she thinks, not covers her back politically). The last couple of weeks Portillo has developed some climate objectivity, BUT it is SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that he has no scientific understanding of CRUdgate facts (Check WattsUpWithThat and Bishop Hill).
This country is handicapped by the fact that nearly all our politicans are politics / history / politics and history grads. But they can decide that AGW is true – 100% true.
Ministers should be required to have previous knowledge of a subject bfore taking office. No Brown (history) chancellor, No Jackie (cookery) home secretary, short story – no laba government.
Actual ability is not required for a role in politics – we need to change this.
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December 13, 2009 at 15:42 -
Ye Gods!
As you say: what have you been getting from your doctors? This latest rant reads like the Anna Raccoon of old – no, better. Your facility with the language is something to behold. More, please. -
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December 13, 2009 at 15:43 -
storms in, pushing everyone out of the way, a kick here, a shove there, move man, get out of the way you pil….
“I’m here”
Now, what to do first??
“Ha Ha!!”
“The whole bloody cabinet, here NOW”
BANG
“Next”………………
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December 13, 2009 at 16:02 -
Keep taking whatever it is from the French doctors Mme Raccoon – this had me tittering all the way to the lavatory.
I think your idea about politicians having to go and collect their wages door-to-door is the best thing I have ever heard – if only we could make it happen.
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December 13, 2009 at 16:12 -
a stark image of what challenging the authorities means in a democracy:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/13/copenhagen-protesters-freed#start-of-comments
disregard the issue and focus on how it is ‘managed’……
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December 13, 2009 at 16:17 -
Great piece, Anna.
As for the door-to-door idea, I wrote recently about Labour’s Kevin Barron deeming us all rather irrelevant in that democracy thing.
“We would be a lot better as legislators if we did it ourselves, because party politically we are frightened to death of the nanny state, but as individuals we can see the need for intervention in all our communities—in respect of different age and gender groups and everything else—and we can defend those decisions on the ground.
We are the state’s representative in our constituencies and we should not be frightened of taking decisions on behalf of our constituents, because that is to the general good.”
So, they might come door-to-door, but only to tell us what they have already decided.
Lovely.
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December 13, 2009 at 16:49 -
If they come door-to-door round my way to tell me what they have already decided, I’ll tell them what I’ve already decided – and I’ll tell them right in the backside with the toe of my boot.
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December 13, 2009 at 17:33 -
What’s so masterful is that she’s manages to convey both rage and something approaching civility at the same time.
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December 13, 2009 at 20:12 -
Superb piece…I’m giving up blogging
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December 13, 2009 at 20:35 -
” ” We are the state’s representative in our constituencies and we should not be frightened of taking decisions on behalf of our constituents, because that is to the general good.” ”
And he’s wrong there too: he is NOT the state’s representative to us, he is OUR represetative to the state. Completely arse to tit.
How can we expect these tosspots do do the right thing when they don’t even know what their job is. Get them ALL out, with no exceptions.
Yes, even the occasional decent one because they play a part in this too: they provide the cover and camouflage the troughers need.
Replace ALL.
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December 13, 2009 at 21:47 -
I have to say Mr Thaddeus that your sole rival in the titfer stakes has turned up in the shape of Mr Shark. Now that’s what I call headgear.
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December 13, 2009 at 21:50 -
Makes you wonder what your object of choice would be to slap Lord Mandelson with….
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December 13, 2009 at 22:02 -
Here is the USA there is a series of ads
“if only [insert tough image here] ruled”
for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6DORwBzuA
not sure a military coup is the right answer – but a few people with clear direction, honour and a sense of self sacrifice might be good.
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December 13, 2009 at 22:02 -
Welcome back Anna. Another first class post. You are so right about the Army being the last place where you will find real men. I admit that as a soldier myself I like to think of myself as a real man. The reason that you won’t find any real men in civilian life is that they have all been turned into NEW MAN NONCES ,the sort of wimpy feminised men so favoured by Harridan Harmsmen and the rest of the Feminazis. As for real women the best place to find them is Eastern Europe ( see Gissa a Jobski) especially Prague.
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December 14, 2009 at 00:27 -
Aw, Mr Thaddeus, woe you not – after all, who could resist your winning smile?
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December 14, 2009 at 01:27 -
So mark, the last place you will find real men is the Army.
Oh the irony….
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December 14, 2009 at 11:32 -
Dear Mrs Racoon
You will be aware of your cousin Pogo the Possum of cartoon strip fame in the NYT whose most famous quote is “We have met the enemy – and he is us”?
Like Pogo, I find myself becoming more and more bewildered and despairing over our general public cowardice, indifference, disinterest, ignorance, selfishness, subjugation and/or laziness – in failing to see who the real culprits (enemies) really are when they are literally staring us in the face when we brush our teeth every morning. We have been suckered into believing that our ‘elected’ representatives are OUR representatives when their most recent act of democracy in action on our behalf was to surrender our souls and shirts to the great unelected Jobs for the Old Boys and some Odd-looking Girls Club , the EUSSR? Rumpy and Frumpy – I rest my case.
Backbone, panache, leadership, courage, eloquence, intelligence, reason, credibility, style, humility, compassion – it’s probably all there somewhere – but not in a million years would the owners of such decency and expertise stoop so low today to become a politician……….but isn’t that our fault in our continued indifference to and acceptance of a political system that is serving the wrong masters.
Just imagine if our NHS could lay their hands on the pharaceutical goodies that have revived your spirits – perhaps a better additive to our water supply than flouride.
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December 14, 2009 at 14:33 -
Wot’s a “real man”?
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December 14, 2009 at 15:27 -
I don’t know, but apparently the Army is the last place you would look.
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December 14, 2009 at 19:34 -
I’m a little late in arriving, but can I please lead the ..
*standing ovation*
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December 14, 2009 at 19:47 -
Saul.I have just read your comment and I have just realised my mistake. What I meant t o say was that the Army is the ONLY place where you will still find real men. Thank you for pointing out my error.
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December 15, 2009 at 11:55 -
mark December 14, 2009 at 19:47
I prefered your first version…….I found your veracity refreshing!
…..dons tin hat…….
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