Completely agree with this about UKIP. You ignore the voters at your peril, you show disdain for the population at your peril, other parties. What is still worrying though is that there are still tribalists voting Labour, an utterly discredited party, whilst they’ve done for the Lib Dems. Or have they? The Lib Dems still have a hell of a lot of councillors, far more than UKIP although they’ve had…
This appears at 11 a.m. but was written early morning, after South Shields and before other results. It’s not intended to make friends and influence anyone. What do you call someone who believes: # People should be left alone to run their own lives and the State and PCists should butt out of telling us what to do, eff off with their bansturbation; # The state should be small-to-non-existent, maintaining…
Let’s start with Macheath on the State: Over the intervening years, the arrival of tax credits has dramatically skewed the picture, as have the abolition of MIRAS for the family home and the inability to transfer tax allowance to non-working partners. That’s just an example of the State or people under the State feeding on its teat, interfering because they deem that they need to interfere. Busybodies, dogooding incompetents who…
Following a post at NO on Hollande and the blunderbussing of gay laws, followed by demonstrations up and down the country, commenter Richard wrote: I am an atheist and gays (or wooly-woofters as I refer to them) are involved in voluntary relationships so intellectually I don’t see a philosophical problem with gay marriage. But, oh but… every country debating this “problem” at the same time as if it was a…
If I were the anti-Christ, as someone on my testimonials page said, if I knew that Enoch Powell was basically right about non-assimilating cultures, if I wanted an end-result of a society with no free movement of people but wanted to make mischief and sow discord along the way, I ‘d firstly give the people a bubble. Never mind that they can’t afford it and are living on credit which…
The Slog [John Ward] makes reference to the “business community” in Germany demanding over Cyprus: Business community discontent pushes EC into plans for total control To an extent that’s right but there are others in Germany and always have been who are far more demanding, as they see themselves as carrying German destiny to its logical conclusion. It has never changed, right back to the Hapsburgs. This by Edward is…
Part reprinted from El Reg in case you weren’t there today: Bloggers have discovered that the Department for Work and Pensions is using an obviously defective personality test in a bid to get jobseekers off the dole and into work. The psychometric test in question is supposedly designed to assess an unemployed person’s “signature strengths”. However, it was actually primed to give nothing but positive statements regarding the user’s employability,…
People don’t do things for no reason. Even if the violence seems mindless, there is a cause and effect somewhere but too often it’s so diffused by the time you get to it, others can say you’re in the realms of fantasy. The person I quote from time to time, Svali, said that these people think they’re “doing a good work”, truly believe they’re looking after society in the interests…
Great post by AKH on a group of people in our society who need all the help we can give them: We have a huge problem in the largely unrecognised plight of special pleaders, especially when we include the government, MPs, lawyers, landlords, bankers, the arms industry, large charities, the BBC, the NHS, high street retailers, the CBI, house builders, landowners, local government, trade unions, quangos, minorities, car makers, energy…
First, a good article via haiku: Just in case it’s not utterly obvious, I’m glad that the two murderous cowards who attacked civilians in Boston recently are off the streets. One dead and one in custody is a great outcome. That said, a large percent of the reaction in Boston has been security theater. “Four victims brutally killed” goes by other names in other cities. In Detroit, for example, they…
Schooldays: Rules are always made about others, never about oneself. When something draconian is brought in, playing to the gallery, it’s nauseating. I’ve been in many jobs not education related and they’ve ranged from the cushy [civil servant] to the tough [storeman and head of a school]. This blog has many times been down on today’s so-called education, lefty teachers and teacher training – all of that. One thing it…
IPJ sent this EU/US guff to make our day: On 12 April 2013, Director-General for Trade Jean-Luc Demarty, Deputy US Trade Representative Ambassador Miriam Sapiro and US Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Kathleen Doherty met in Washington in their capacity of “Facilitators” of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC). The meeting was also attended by a large number of representatives of the various US agencies and Commission services involved in the…
So glad CityUnslicker raised this one: Am I a nannying lefty after all? He goes into some new game involving money. Normally of course the rule would be Caveat Emptor (albeit the games are almost always offered free now). However, with minors involved it is different, my little boys have only a vague concept of money (learned from their mother, they simply ask for unlimited amounts of money and then…
You can sign it here should you have the time and be so inclined. For anyone from the Planet Zog who has not been following its nefarious doings, there are so many posts on Common Purpose that it might be best to enter it in the search engine and click. If the community knew about this organization, there’d be more than one e-petition about it. But it’s a start. [H/T…
So far, the mini-series has looked at a small business moving towards a medium business and asked who produces the wealth. This is the last part. JD has suggested looking at these two books- Wheels Of Misfortune by Jonathan Wood, in which: “He argues that the key to the industry’s failure lies in its long time reliance on insular, self-taught leadership and a national environment where engineering has been relegated…
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