The answer to the euro question.

Britain is considering joining the eurozone as a direct consequence of global financial turmoil, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Sunday.

"We are now closer than ever before. I'm not going to break the confidentiality of certain conversations, but some British politicians have already told me: 'If we had the euro, we would have been better off'," Barroso told a weekly French news programme, referring to the fall in the pound's value since markets and liquidity meltdown earlier this year.

"The British have an enormous quality, one of many, that is they are pragmatic," he said on the panel of a joint RTL-LCI radio and television broadcast. "This crisis has emphasised the importance of the euro, and also of Britain," he added.

"I don't mean this will happen tomorrow, I know that the majority (of British people) are still opposed, but there is a period of consideration underway and the people which matter in Britain are currently thinking about it," the former Portuguese prime minister said.

Barroso pointed to the case of Denmark, another EU state which has so far refused to accept the euro but is now planning another referendum on the single currency. The Danish voted against joining in 2000.

The cheeky cunt, I think you will find that "the people which (sic) matter", the ordinary people, are not thinking about it.

He confuses scotch politicians with the British People

Stuff that could get you arrested....

Close UK borders, says 'curry king'

Sir Gulam Noon, known as the "curry king" because of his ready-meals firm, said a ban was required to prevent extremists such as the British National Party exploiting tensions."I strongly feel that whoever are the immigrants here, we better give them jobs and give them dignity to live here before we import some more," he told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show."I do not want a situation whereby a party like the BNP say that 'listen, all your jobs are being taken away by immigrants'. We have to be extremely careful. Some sort of a ban should be there."The suggestion that the ban could last up to a decade comes from a forthcoming autobiography, the Mail on Sunday reported.It said that Mr Noon writes in the book: "We should wait for five or ten years, until all the newcomers have been properly integrated and assimilated into the country. Until then we should just shut the door."We can only accommodate so many. If the room will only hold ten people, hold a meeting for ten people and not 20. It is simple logic. There is always a danger that for the sake of political correctness, or a party's political advantage, we find ourselves filling up the country with too many immigrants who will disturb the balance and upset the people, particularly the young people, of the host community."

If I had said that on national TV I would have been shouted down as a racist...

What he has not said is that unfortunately our problems come, not from immigration, but from colonisation. The people he talks of do not want to integrate or assimilate; their village is not a place in Yorkshire or any other English county but somewhere over on the sub-continent. They demand we change our culture to suit theirs, our towns to be like their villages.

"Immigrants come to a country expecting to change their lifestyles. They can and often do maintain key elements of their culture for generations, particularly their religion, but in many ways they adopt the dominant culture in such aspects as work, dress, leisure, housing and family composition. Colonists do not, they come into a country to displace the existing culture and establish their own. Colonists impose their language and customs. Once these facets are established, further incomers become immigrants accepting the society they enter.

From colonist to immigrant is the dominant pattern historically, however, this process seems to be thrown into reverse in Bradford. The Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities now expect to recreate the environment of their country of origin. They have settled in village patterns which reflect their origins and they constantly reinforce this by bringing in new members from the country of origin. This, in turn, leads to spatial and social immobility, communities which are internalised on themselves and are relatively self-sufficient in social and cultural terms although reliant in many ways on the economic and government resourced infrastructure."*

*from here

Worms

William Lenthall 1652

Several blogs have quoted this Speaker's words when he denied the King the information he was seeking.

"May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here."

It seems to convey defiance, but further reading shows the man to be much like Speaker Martin (aka Gorbals Mick ), a craven lickspittle on his knees before his boss.

"a worse choice could not have been made, for Lenthall was of a very timorous nature. He was treated with little respect, and was unable to control the proceedings."

He had already called attention to the inadequacy of his salary and been granted a sum of £6000,

an early example of getting the nose into the trough ,

£6000 in 1642 was a huge amount of money .... he threw in his lot with Parliament.

His whole career was of buying favour and of self aggrandisement.

In his will, Lenthall asked to be buried without any state and without a monument, 'acknowledging myself to be unworthy of the least outward regard in this world and unworthy of any remembrance that hath been so great a sinner'. The most he would permit was a plain stone carved with the Latin inscription
Vermis sum, which means:
I am a worm..

History does repeat itself.


Gorbals Mick

"Vermis est"

Rats

Old Holborn has posted an item about a rat and the welfare industry, of course the rats are doing what rats are inclined to do if not trapped and are allowed to multiply.


Robert Browning (1812 - 1889 ) wrote a poem concerning rats..... and identified the cause of the problem

At last the people in a body
To the Town Hall came flocking:
"'Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy;
And as for our Corporation—shocking
To think we buy gowns lined with ermine
For dolts that can't or won't determine
What's best to rid us of our vermin!
You hope, because you're old and obese,
To find in the furry civic robe ease?
Rouse up, Sirs! Give your brains a racking
To find the remedy we're lacking,
Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!"
At this the Mayor and Corporation
Quaked with a mighty consternation.

it's time to send them packing



A dolt in ermine

who pays ?

from here

"Lieutenant-General Sir David Richards, who takes over as chief of the general staff in August, expressed his concern that servicemen were pilfering and abusing the Army's joint personnel administration (JPA).

Introduced last year, the JPA system allows expenses to be claimed by soldiers via computer, which are checked randomly.

In a document published on The Sunday Times website - which the Ministry of Defence confirmed was genuine - Sir David wrote: "I am becoming concerned over the prevalence of fraudulent behaviour as well as what I can at best describe as 'sharp practice' and at worst dishonesty."

He added: "There are soldiers and even some officers who view JPA as a 'cash machine' and are processing fraudulent claims in the belief that if caught they will claim ignorance and hope to refund the monies with no further action."

Well, why not ?.. it works well enough for MPs

Porkies

The government has agreed to release a detailed review into the Baby P case to opposition MPs, a day after claiming it had been told to keep the document confidential.

"The children's secretary, Ed Balls, told the Commons yesterday that lawyers had advised him not to make the full serious case review available....... ........Yesterday there was confusion among officials about the bearing the Data Protection Act had on releasing the report."

The House of Commons was told the information commissioner had ruled that the full report could not be released to opposition MPs because of the risk of identifying professionals involved.

But the Information Commissioner's Office said later that it had not been consulted over the case.

When asked exactly .....who told him?..... which Lawyer?... Mr Balls, who is thought by many to be lying through his teeth, said ....

"It was a big boy.... and he ran away"

I'm not sure you had spoken to any lawyers Mr Balls, I think you were being a devious fucker and were telling porkies.

freedom of thought.

Back in the days of the Nazi totalitarian rule of Germany, people who had 'unacceptable' beliefs or were from an 'unacceptable' group were made to wear an identifying symbol.

The employment of this group in the public sector was forbidden.

I wonder what symbol our totalitarian government will make BNP members wear.

I wonder when the 'Libertarian' blogs will start demanding the rights of people to believe in whatever they want to believe in.

I wonder when the press and television will talk of the National Socialist party rather than the Nazi Party...... and use the correct descriptor of left wing instead of 'extreme right wing'

I wonder why the politically correct left cannot see the irony of it all.

UPDATE

"The Association of Chief Police Officers said that all 43 forces in England and Wales were checking the list against names of officers and staff. ."

The list is subject to a court order forbidding publication. 43 forces ignore this, download and publish the list so that it may be checked.

I wonder if evidence obtained in this manner can be used against anyone, would it be admitted to a court of law ?

Why do the police think it is OK to break the law that binds the rest of us.

More

from the The Independent Police Complaints Commission website

Ms Naseem Malik, IPCC Commissioner for the North West, said: “I have every confidence that Merseyside Police will investigate this matter thoroughly. The national policies are clear that membership of the BNP is incompatible with the requirements of the role of a police officer and I know Merseyside Police will act robustly if necessary.”

I wonder if these 'national policies' have the force of English law behind them, I'm sure that the issue has never been debated in parliament and that no law exists.

I wonder how reassured a BNP member might be that a 'Ms' and a 'Naseem Malik' will be keeping an overview, without fear or favour..... of course.

Workfarce

Over on Old Holborn's blog kev g left a comment

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/763630/integrated-working-workforce-development-manager/
I know I'm exploiting a structural ambiguity here, but WTF does a non-working workforce look like?

They look like this


They have a big van, like this



On the way up through the town I watched the two of them mixing a few cups-full of sand and cement in a bucket. When I returned about half an hour later they had slopped some of it in the joint around a loose paving stone, and exhausted by the rush of activity, had taken a much needed fag break.

The place name says it all.

Employed by Ridgeway, privatised, but following the grand tradition of council workers countrywide.

*Old joke warning*

Seeing his 'work'mate stamp on a snail a council 'worker' said "why did you do that ?"
his mate replied, "Fucking annoying thing....... 'bin followin' me around all day.

There is no true peace in the world

Today the talk is of remembering the wars that have been fought, the wars that are being fought.

It is all grim listening and viewing.

So, a little Vivaldi for you, just to remind us there is also great beauty in the world..... and that can bring tears also.

Well said, Ma'am !

the late Queen Mother was “a ghastly old bigot”.

......After he told her he was back from a European summit, she said: “It will never work, you know . . . It will never work with all those Huns*, wops and dagos.”

A little indelicate of phrase for our modern commentators on the BBC perhaps but the content was perceptive enough.

and speaking of Queens, the Mail gets the headline wrong

*if I were to be pedantic, I would argue that to capitalise the huns is wrong; one does not afford johny foreigner that courtesy

Opposition ?, What opposition ?

Prediction.

The final Grand Prix result, you heard it here first.

Massa drove a great race but not enough to beat Hamilton on points. Celebrations of Hamilton's World Championship win are spoiled by stewards deciding that Hamilton " had given one of the blokes driving a red car 'a funny look'...." so have deducted 10 championship points.
This allows a red car to win, "which is just as it should be..." ( said a steward )

What shall I shout ?

I'm visiting Swanage later..... I have seen that ranker Woss often in the town..... any suggestions of an edgy contempory way of shouting "hahaha, you cunt" at him if I see him today?