English Yokel

ID Card Honesty, NOT!

Our latest new Home Secretary is trying to portray the new low profile trials of ID cards at Londond City and Manchester airports as good news for the advocates of freedom.

No. No. No.

He will continue the drive for the National ID Register database, which has always been the sinister bit. From next year anyone requiring a new passport will have their fingerprints taken and entered, along with other personal details, on to the database.

Time now to renew your passport. OK it will have an RFID chip in it, but some aluminium foil wrapping will overcome the worst problems of that. At least it won't have your fingerprints in it.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear? B*(%^&)*"$%ks!!

You have seen what IBM managed to do for the National Socialists in Germany from about 1930 to 1945. Think how much the technology has advanced since then. And be scared witless.

Financial Honesty

There seem to be differing standards of financial honesty, depending on who you are.

Pravda tells us that the One Eyed Son of the Manse is being honest about his plans for spending the national wealth. And no, he hasn't noticed that he has spent it all already.

And this lady had plans for spending her own wealth.

Spending all this dosh brought no happiness to either. The difference is in the size of the mess they left behind. If we think this recession is nearly over, we are in for a very rude awakening! There is still far too much bad debt that has not yet been declared bankrupt.

Bercow gets job for life

So, a rather pink BluLabour candidate gets the Speaker's chair. Given his expenses record, he is the most important Commoner in the land? The slimy toad.

Now we must start planning for the General Election. There must now be a single "Anyone But Bercow" candidate. To Hell with tradition as it disenfrachises the constituents of Buckingham twofold. Firstly he is not a Tory but NuLabour in a skin, and secondly as Mr Speaker he is supposed to be returned unopposed. A state of affairs that must not be allowed to persist.

Unless of course Dan Hannon is right. In which case it matters not a jot.

These are rapidly becoming the "interesting times" of the ancient Chinese curse!

As we slide further downhill

Yokel doesn't venture to the Daily Mail all that often, for he cannot stand the unremitting pace with which the United Kingdon of his parents' generation is being destroyed by the current political opportunists. The Mail is the mainstream media's closest to understanding what is going on.

Let's just look at half a dozen items with direct links from the front page today.

Jack Straw tells his officials to do one thing, and then sacks them when the outcome (two murders) gets public disapproval. OK, so Jack Straw is a liar. Yokel could have told them that from Jack Straw's days as President of the National Union of Students.

Yokel had better become a pikey if he wants medical treatment on the NHS this side of Armageddon.

The institution of Islam as the State Religion comes ever closer. For the first time in Great Britain (as opposed to Northern Ireland) prisoners are being segregated along religious lines. It appears that the Muslims didn't get their separate wing at first trying. Yokel reckons they will be back again, and again until they do! How long before they try for "political prisoner" or "prisoner of war" status, just like the IRA before them!

The London Borough of Islington continues its victimisation of honest Bible believing Christian employees. The only consolation is that Jesus said it was coming. Stand firm.

John Bercow is bribing the greedy pigs in Parliament to vote for him as Speaker by proclaiming that Bercow wants to see MPs on £100,000 pa salary. Why should we pay that much for a Rubber Stamp? Who else "leaked" that letter that the Mail got hold of? If the pigs vote for him, then its time to start planning an "Anyone But Bercow" candidate at the next general election.

And then Peter Hitchins reports the widespread belief that the Presidency of Europe is already stitched up for a Mr Anthony Chales Linton Blair, formerly Prime Minister of the Province formerly known as the United Kingdom. And has a valid swipe at one or two other things as well.

Why does bread and circuses spring to mind?

Thank goodness the pubs are open.

UPDATE

Yokel missed Daniel Hannon in the Telegraph explaining why Mandelslime is propping up the Brown administration. Its the EU stupid, follow the money (Mandelslime's EU pensions for a start).

How to HELP and NOT HINDER the Iranian bloggers

Someone helpfully put up some guidance on how to help and not hinder the Iranians who are using Twitter to get the message out about the real situation in their country. Needless to say, the web provider has taken the site down. So here are the copies from Google cache and from Yahoo cache.

The Times "outs" pseudonymous blogger

Yokel wonders about the morals of the major national newspapers. They insist on taking unattributable briefings themselves for the parliamentary lobby correspondents, but refuse to give others the same breathing space. The Times takes out Nightjack, reporting that DC Richard Horton of Lancashire Police has received a written warning for his blogging. Three or four weeks earlier, The Independent wrote an article in which they said: "Jack Night's identity is known to The Independent but we have agreed not to reveal anything apart from the fact that he is a detective constable, aged in his mid-40s. His force area and his real name remain a secret." Why was it so difficult for the Times to do the same? Yokel leaves you to design your own theory.

But this is all the more reason, dear reader, to go to this post, and make your own copies of both the links. At this rate, we may all need the information some time soon.

While Nightjack's blog has been taken down, it is still possible to read some of his posts by opening the google search engine and putting this into the search box:

http://nightjack.wordpress.com site:nightjack.wordpress.com

In the yahoo search engine just put this as the search term:

http://nightjack.wordpress.com

In each case be sure to click on the cached link, not on the main or usual link.

Yokel did not post the search links directly, because there seems to be sufficient data in there to show who you copied the link from. Let CyberPlod work out details like that for himself.

Pretty much shows that the nouveau establishment (ACPO Ltd) react visciously when crossed. Probably explains why World Weary Detective got out when he could.

UPDATE

It seems that MetCountyMounty has gone the same way, deleted all his posts and left a farewell note. Yokel didn't read too much of his posting when it was around, just never got round to it. Now Yokel is wishing he had. Still the cache method will work for a while. Enter:

site:sheepdogsandwolves.blogspot.com as the search term in google. His layout doesn't print too well, probably needs a copy and paste into a word processing program if you want to make a copy for yourself.

UPDATE 2

Of course the Humbert Wolfe quote is getting around at present: You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.

Another quote that deserves a bit of an airing just now is from Hunter S Thompson, an American journalist. He is reported to have said: If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Playboy journalists should consider the potential effects of their actions before acting. Real life doesn't have a "replay" button.

MP's Expenses

There will never be an investigation into, or prosecution for, the "MP's Trougligate" fiasco. The Met Police were at it as well! As Inspector Gadget has remarked, "Whenever the police are looking good again, the Met will always mess it up." Follow this link to the Inspector, and scroll down to point number 6.

Bercow for Speaker? - No thanks!

Yokel supposes that he really should be glad for Mr John Bercow MP.

After all, it was Mr John Bercow MP that drove Yokel to blogging in the first place.

Career politician, greasy pole artiste, GoAT, potential (just) changer of sides, just the sort of person that NuLabour will want as the next Mr Speaker in order to continue the good work done so ably by Mr Speaker Martin (aka Gorbals Mick). It seems that NuLabour are running a scorched earth policy at present. Saddling the Commons with Mr Speaker Bercow is just another initiative in that same programme.

If Bercow gets the job of Mr Speaker, then another tradition must be broken. He must not be allowed an unopposed return to the House at the next election. Lets work to getting the constituency opponents to unite around an "anyone but Bercow" independent.

Electoral Reform?

From THIS bunch of control freaks?

"Porcine Aviation announces the arrival of flight number PIG1 from the Isle of Sty"

This isn't even enlightened self interest, just plain self interest!

Anyone for a "beneficial crisis"?

British WW2 Propaganda - a la YouTube

Have a bit of a laugh at this from the Internet Archive:

Think, they had to do it all by hand, cutting bits of celluloid with razor blades and then sticking them back together again.

And then worry because these days it is not allowed to make fun of our enemies!

Guides for the Customers of the Police

Yokel has just noticed that Nightjack has just fenced off his blog, unless you have a Wordpress sign on. So the time has come to put up Yokel's copy of the page that everyone should read.

First off, go to Sgt Custerd to see why the officer can't "Just have a word with him". You see, the Police only do Arrests and Prosecutions. They are forbidden by law, it seems that RIPA might be to blame, from exercising any form of common sense.

Then you will know why you are being arrested. This is what to do about being arrested from Nightjack. (If anyone spots Nightjack making his blog available to ordinary folks again, Yokel will happily point that link back to him.)

It is frightening (but a sign of the times) that one has to behave like the "evil poor" in order to get the System to work correctly. Yokel was going to use the words Criminal and Justice with System. But it seems that there is no Justice, and although the System may be Criminal it won't like being told, so Yokel won't.

British Standard for Data Protection

In amongst Yokel's junk mail today was a publication extolling the virtues of BS10012:2009 as "the first standard for Data Protection. Specification for a personal information management system".

Yokel wonders whether we need to have a special collection for HMG to enable them to buy a copy. We know that there isn't any dosh left in the Treasury after Gordon and Alistair have been naughty boys and pissed it all up the bankers' wall.

A quick visit to the BSI web site tells us that it will cost non-members a cool £100 (half price for members). So the gift of a copy to HMG shouldn't make too much of a dent in the average citizen's purchase programme for piano wire and hemp rope.

What else has been hidden under the carpet?

In the media feeding frenzy that has accompanied the rather conveniently timed exposure of the rotten heart of this rotten parliament, it seems that quite a few other stories have been "buried" in the manner of Jo Moore in 2001.

A quick roundup of the stories that have worried Yokel over the bank holiday weekend:

Already obvious to the rest of us, confirmation that Pravda's science coverage is evangelical, and adheres to a pre-determined party line. You can guess the causes it espouses!

A group of wealthy Americans met secretly on 5 May to plan the reduction of the world's population. Secret, because they didn't want to be thought of as an alternative world government! And that was followed by a group of the wealthy and powerful from all over the world who met in Greece about ten days later. That was the annual Bilderberg meeting that has been alleged to have pulled a few strings in recent years. For example they are said to have orchestrated Margaret Thatcher's removal from office because she would not agree to Britain's sovereignty being subsumed into the EU.

This surveillance society thing won't go away at all. Even Pravda are doing a bit about it. A bit of the story hits one person's local rag. And the database state's keeping of records on us all shows no sign of slacking off. Accompanied by the erosion of whatever civil rights we can be be persuaded to give up. Of course, after they have gathered up lots of data, we can all be sure that it is in safe hands, can't we? Not only do they lose sensitive data, they lie by omission to cover it up!

Building on the "benficial crisis" that is this rotten parliament, we have some politico wanting to further entrench the role of the Party in selecting our representatives for us. Yokel wants to see single member constituencies with Single Transferable Vote, which gives the voter a continuing say in the election even if his first choice is ruled out early in the count.

The campaign against Christianity continues. But we knew it was coming.

In just the same way that the first year of the 1939-45 war was described as phoney war, so the first year of this depression has been a phoney. Sure it has hit some people hard, but now that the credit rating of the British Government has been called into doubt, it can only get MUCH worse. Another "beneficial crisis". With one reported view that it would be best for "an intense but shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

And finally the "You must be scared" story. Its a shame that we have learned to cope with AIDS, that Asian bird flu didn't do anything but give Bernard Matthews a lean Christmas one year, and now this Swine flu thing just isn't living up to expectations. In the month since the scare started, some 137 people in the UK have been infected, and none have died. Over the same period on the roads however, if we have continued at the same rate as last year, a few short of 250 people will have been killed on the UK's roads. Fortunately Yokel is not the only one to question the sense of proportion of those who should know better.

A Very British Coup D'Etat?

Yokel is relieved to see others holding similar views.

Yokel had been puzzled as to how the EU would abolish the Westminster Parliament once it had become surplus to requirements when the Lisbon Constitutional Treaty was brought into effect later this year. For such abolition would have to be done in a very careful and gentle manner to avoid provoking the English to rebellion against the Brussels government.

Then it slowly dawned on him that the Telegraph had been chosen to drip feed the poison that would cause the English to demand the abolition of their own Westminster Parliament. Now we know that it was an ex-SAS officer who passed the information on to the Telegraph, a paper that has shown a steadfast trend of late to be a NuLabour Government stooge. Just how the ex-SAS officer came by the disks has yet to emerge, but the Metropolitan Police won't be looking for the culprit as it is not in the "public interest"!

Then we have the focus of the story on "MP's expenses", and trying to draw a parallel with the expenses that employees claim for out of pocket expenditure on their employer's business. But the focus is actually on the Additional Costs Allowance, a nasty little trick to provide a tax-free increase to MPs' pay during times of formal pay restraint, and one that was introduced in the early 1970s, ie over 30 (yes, thirty) years ago, and which was widely known about by the MPs themselves, and by the lobby hacks who fawn all over them.

Which begs two points. Firstly if it is a legitimate allowance, then it is not the MPs who should be harassed by the press but the governments that introduced and operated it. After all, it is said that the Commons Fees Office was known to ring up MPs and tell them that they had not been claiming enough! Secondly, why explode the system now? The dust has not yet settled enough to know the answer to that, but there must be something nasty going on, that the "powers that be" do not want the British public to know about until it is all irreversible.

In an attempt to comment on this affair, Nadine Dorries (Con) has made some rather strong assertions on her blog. It matters not one jot whether you agree with her assertions or not. Be worried that the Telegraph's owners have used the British law of defamation to gag her, and have her British hosted blog taken down. Of course it is currently still available in the Google cache, which has been copied by a number of concerned bloggers. One of the first things that happens in an old style Coup D'Etat is that the newspapaers and TV stations get a visit from the would be government, and are closed down unless they toe the new Party line. These days, we already have a very compliant press and TV, so that just leaves the bloggers to be shut down.

We live in worrying times.

Building a docile population

Once we have become used to doing exactly as we are told, the government has another treat in store for us. Chemical & biological warfare alerts. Fears of dirty bombs.

Several years ago, the County Fire Brigades (or whatever they are called under Political Correctness these days) had systems foisted on them by their (EU) Regional commands to address the fear that "you might have been sprayed with something that is no good for you so we must decontaminate you". And staff trained in how to use them. Inflatable tents to process the people getting them all to strip off completely, and walk through the showers. No chance of ever seeing your old clothes, or the possession you were carrying, ever again. The Nazis used to pretend that the gas chambers were showers and "de-infestation" units, didn't they?

Mark you the last time the London Regional Resilience Team had an exercise with this kit at Bank Tube Station one Sunday, the whole procedures went horribly wrong!

Can't be the time for them, just yet then.

But at Kingsnorth, G20, and many other excuses, the police are giving plenty of their officers practice in containing, surveilling, and detaining large crowds. Might be a handy skill to have, when people don't want to be stripped and showered and have their possessions confiscated.