I must state at the outset that I have precious little time for Stonewall as an organisation, as they seem to relish “positive discrimination” and I find Peter Tatchell a brave but rather irritating cock.
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Immigrants…
Will it never end?
No wonder they flock to our shores. Two immigrants have been given a £275,000 house, and guaranteed £600,000 a year in benefits for ten years. Not only that, but they are being encouraged by the authorities to breed
Continue reading →The Enterprising Blogger.
This saga reminds me of the fabled Victorian melodrama ending ‘and with one mighty bound, Jack was free’. A tale of extraordinary determination and a desire to grab life by the scruff of its neck.
Imagine
Continue reading →Disingenuous Language.
Hand wringing Liberals are the undoubted masters in the use of disingenuous language.
First we had the ubiquitous ‘joy riding’ to describe theft of a motor car, the property of someone who had paid for it
Continue reading →Pension Raids.
Last Friday, the Portuguese Government quietly filched almost £5 Billion pounds from the pension fund of Portugal Telecom which was sitting in the vaults of four Portuguese Banks, and added them to the country’s assets in order
Continue reading →Friday Limerick Contest.
Brighton – where they invented camping, and the mince pies mince just so….
“Oh Daddy please buy me a tent”
“My humongous allowance is spent”
“There’s mammon to smash”
“And
Rejoice – the end is nigh!
The demonisation of the elderly continues.
Yesterday we were told that bed blocking ‘by elderly patients’ was costing the NHS ‘more than £500,000 per day’ without a shred of evidence that the bed blockers were
Continue reading →N30 strike in London
Anna Raccoon’s Special ‘Protest’ Correspondent files his on the spot report, with exclusive pictures…
A FAILURE – This is how I would describe my current attempt to stop smoking. Despite the help of my GP and the wonder
Continue reading →Time Honoured Traditions.
When the Spartans threw the envoy of a Persian King down a deep well, they set in train a desire to protect envoys from malicious harm that has resulted in the present system of ‘diplomatic immunity’.
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That went well didn’t it?
Can we have another public sector strike soon? Next week maybe?
Travellers at Heathrow airport were delighted, racing through passport control manned by ‘scabs’ who only took two days to be trained to perform this arduous
Continue reading →A Slice of Pond Life.
I heard news of my (thankfully, very thankfully) ex-brother in law this afternoon. The youngest of the clan.
He was 19 when I first knew him. 4 years younger than me. A gilded youth with long
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