[Shaw]
There are no fewer than three (1, 2, 3) stories in the Times about the disorderly collapse of the British electoral system into a Third World farce.
It would be easy to have a good rant about the whole theory of conspiracies between (in particular) the Labour party and those immigrant groups in which it would [...]
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“Votes for children! Votes for babies! Votes for monkeys!”
Posted in Politics, tagged electoral reform on 2 May, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Resign! Resign!
Posted in Politics, tagged Brown, petition, resign on 25 April, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I don’t do online petitions either, but I did this one.
When I did so more than 5000 people had signed it.
More = merrier.
“Rear rank! Fire! Advance!”
Posted in Politics, tagged BNP on 21 April, 2009 | 9 Comments »
[Zulu]
Encouraging stuff from Dan Vevers, the Devil,
and Guthrum.
The LPUK rises up to confront the socialist monster, much in the manner of St. George (who was, it now emerges with an elegant inevitability, not even British).
However, Mr. Vevers also remarks upon the apparent success of the deplorable BNP.
My personal belief (having always detested skinheads, their primitive [...]
A matter of definition
Posted in Politics, tagged definitions on 4 April, 2009 | 8 Comments »
mummylonglegs:
…could some kind soul explain to me, Left Wing and Right Wing and The Middle.
Left Wing politicians believe that everything and everybody ought to be owned by the State. The larger the State, the better.
Right Wing politicians believe that everything and everybody ought to be owned by giant corporations. The larger the corporations, the better.
Centrist [...]
The Republic
Posted in Politics, tagged royal family on 27 March, 2009 | 16 Comments »
In my absence all kinds of funny things appear to have been going on at Buck House.
Ian Parker-Joseph:
Whether you are a Monarchist or not the idea that having any form of state sanctioned religion (Iran and the UK are the only ones I think) is slightly medieval.
I personally am not much of a monarchist. In [...]
The safety-critical system
Posted in Politics, tagged as engineering on 6 March, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Telegraphic harrumphment time.
This fellow, perhaps desperately ill, perhaps merely a couple of quarks short of a proton, tried to kill himself by washing down handfuls of pills with rum & Coke (this should, I suppose, tell one quite a lot about his personal style).
He was found by his family and taken to hospital. At the [...]
Uncharitable, curmudgeonly snarl
Posted in Politics, tagged bereavement on 25 February, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I note with satisfaction further recognition from Andy at the Adur Brewery; one assumes that the pressures of the Christmas trade, and the necessary period of convalescence thereafter, have led to the accumulation of a certain backlog. Much obliged in any case; I look forward to months of harmless amusement arising from the government’s attempts [...]
Prats that look like Himmler
Posted in Politics, tagged lookalikes on 25 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am obliged to Trooper Thompson for clearing up the business about Mr. Straw. He is indeed something to do with the government.
What was confusing me, I suppose, was his change of appearance. He is that same fellow who until recently looked like Heinrich Himmler. He has dropped the spectacles, lost a bit of weight [...]
Public interest
Posted in Politics, tagged Iraq on 24 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a Mr. Straw on the wireless; evidently something to do with the government, he is agonising about the question of ‘public interest’ in respect of the disclosure or otherwise of Cabinet minutes from 2003 relating to the illegality of the Iraq war.
I would have thought this was quite simple really, and that Mr. [...]
A combination of silence and faint applause
Posted in Politics, tagged Conservative Future on 17 February, 2009 | 5 Comments »
An actual post about libertarian politics, as opposed to anything further in the line of cases of mistaken identity (not being an opera expert I’m not sure which Mozart opera is involved here but suppose that it is probably the same as Clive James’ one – “Mozart couldn’t make it, but he sent a telegram. [...]
