February 2009

For a long time Yokel has been bemused by the absence of large denomination bank notes in UK circulation. Given the way that the value of money has fallen in the recent past, he was expecting to see plenty of £50 notes in circulation nowadays. But intermittent enquiries of the till clerks at his bank kept telling him that they never order stocks of £50 notes and so the only ones in their tills are the moth-eaten ones banked by other customers. He just put that down to incompetence by his bank, as the same story emanated from several branches.

Then on recent occasions when Yokel went to an ATM (Cash machine) in order to withdraw a substantial sum he found himself with a big bundle of £10 notes instead of the expected £20s. Yokel tends to withdraw large-ish sums infrequently as it saves trips out of his way to get cash. For living out in the sticks, where Yokel lives, getting most things must be a planned trip out of the village. On the most recent occasion, Yokel was rather annoyed, so he went to the otherwise unoccupied teller and exploded about the lack of warning that the machine was only stocked with £10 notes.

Interesting riposte from behind the counter: "You will find that more and more machines are like that. All the banks are getting warnings from the Bank of England that they are issuing too many £20 notes."

At which point Yokel's conjecture mode goes into overdrive. Strikes him that there are a number of possible scenarios:

1. They are planning to abolish the pound, but will limit the number of notes that can be exchanged for the new currency in one transaction, in order to assist with investigations into illegal/untaxed transactions or other population control measures.

2. They wish to push us to a cashless society (to make surveillance of spending that much easier) and therefore they will make the use of cash more cumbersome, so that many will change to plastic and breathe a sign of relief, not understanding the true cost.

3. They really have run out of money and can't afford to print any more £20 notes.

If you have any better ideas, please add them in the comments.

Of course the real reason that Yokel reacted like a startled rabbit is to be found in Revelation 13:17.Yokel sees the push to do everything by plastic as the first stage of implementing this strict control of the financial system/process.

This isn't a problem, its part of the solution; the FINAL SOLUTION!

" UK may get cash injection 'soon'" says the Ministry of Truth. Yokel supposes that the only saving grace in that article is that it wasn't written by Robert Peston. Sure as eggs is eggs, this will result in rates of inflation that many alive now have not ever seen before in their lifetime. But Yokel lived through the 1970s, so he has seen sustained high interest rates and the damage they do. It was another Labour government in charge! Alas, the thought in some quarters is that this time round, it will be even worse.

But to answer the question, the blunt truth is the Gordon Brown will destroy Yokel's savings because Yokel does not vote NuLabour, and must therefore be punished. "Savers are evil Tories" goes our Dear Leader's dogma. No? Well it sure seems like it from here! Evil Tories must be crushed goes the official Labour/Socialist action plan. So they will make everybody as poor as the idle underclass.

But perhaps it won't matter come April, anyway. If the anti-capitalist demonstrators, and the State's agents provocateur get their way, there will be such mayhem on 1st April that Gordon will have his excuse to bring the Civil Contingencies Act into force. Bye, bye free speech (what's left of it), private property, freedom to work live or travel where you wish, etc. Ever since Bliar got his dumb sheep MPs to pass the measure it has been a solution looking for a problem. This might be it. It'ld certainly resolve Brown's problems with elections! There just won't need to be any more. Not the Euro elections this year nor the UK Provincial "General" election next year.

Yokel has himself seen the old fashioned attribute of common sense bled out of police forces, to be replaced by Common Purpose Political Correctness.

Irrefutable evidence of the absence of common sense is provided by the Metropolitan Police. They have demonstrated that they now do not have the mental capacity to recognise HP Sauce when they find it! How on earth are they going to recognise a terrorist when one blows up in their face? If this is how clever our premier police farce is, there will be plenty more following De Menenzes to an early and unwarranted grave. But it won't all be bad. At least they will be able more easily to identify suitable candidates for promotion.

So it seems that some "angry complaints from Muslims" have caused the Middlesex Crusaders Cricket Team to change their name.

Yokel is planning to make angry complaints about the Saracens Rugby Clubs. They use the name of an angry invading horde that rampaged throughout the Middle East and North Africa conquering, murdering, and displacing the original inhabitants so that Arabs could grab the land in line with the words attributed to their Allah. Saracens Rugby even use the Islamic crescent and star as part of their branding! What sort of dhimmi is it who chooses this mob as their heros, as the role model for their players and supporters? Do they pay the Jizya to be allowed to use the crescent and star?

Yokel is offended. Yokel demands that they change their name.

Updated: Spelling and Grammar corrections!

Yokel had thought Trevor Phillips to be quite a brave man. Well, after a decade of constant drip, drip denigration, to turn round and say that the Police are not, now, institutionally racist must have been a deliberate decision on his part.

It is clear however, that he was "off message". His pager must recently have been going into overdrive to get him to shut up as the Righteous resume their onslaught onto ordinary police officers. Once again, the Ministry of Truth has the details.

So the Inspector can relax. No-one is telling him what to think. They are just telling him to look over his shoulder twice as often, because he will never know which gang are in the ascendant, which gang are going to attack this week. Yes, Yokel has serious problems with ACPO and their politically correct wannabees, but the poor officers on the ground deserve a bit of compassion. Even if they are only following orders.

Straight from the Ministry of Truth is this report.

Isn't it such a good thing that our Beloved Leaders enshrined the European Yuman Rites treaty into UK legislation? Yokel can't think what you mean by that reply!

This isn't a problem, its part of the solution; the FINAL SOLUTION!

A few snippets jumped out at Yokel today:

Ban on Photography of Policemen. A few friends met in front of New Scotland Yard to take some photographs. See Old Holborn, and follow his links to others.

Data Retention. It seems that the government is to get BT Wholesale to rifle through all the internet traffic it handles on behalf of smaller resellers. That is to make sure that no-one slips through the data retention net.

Government by Private Company. We have had policing by private company for quite a while now. See the ACPO web site for more details. [Aside: Interesting press release about police timesheets in which ACPO seems to be telling Chief Constables to ignore the Home Office instruction.] Now the people in the South West of England seem to be getting government by private company. Step forward Southwest One, a joint venture pratnership of various local authorities and police forces and a company called IBM for the better management of "back office" functions. It is alleged that IBM's Hollerith punched card system was enthusiasticly sold to a certain european government that thought it had a problem with the Jews. The sales and royalty payments continued throughout the 1939-45 war. It is alleged that IBM made the Holocaust possible, after the censuses of 1933 and 1939. What could possibly go wrong?

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None of these is a problem, they are all part of the solution; the Final Solution.

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Updated to correct link error

As the message sent by the UK Government's refusal to permit Geert Wilders MP to enter the UK sinks in to those who have the power of thought, and fades along with yesterday's chip wrappers for the rest, it might be worth thinking about the story so far.

Mr Wilders is worried about the Islamisation of his country, The Netherlands. He looks for ways of communicating his worry to his electors, and to a wider audience. He is faced with a cartel by the Politically Correct Mainstream Media (PC MSM) that refuses even to acknowledge that such concerns exist. [It is worth remembering that PC is a technique used solely by the Left to ensure that they have control over public discourse, and to forbid the airing of views contrary to their political dogma.] So, in this age of e-government, he considers that e-publicity might be good. He puts together a collection of images and quotations that would have done Yokel's mother-in-law proud. You know the person who is trying to put her daughter off the man she is starry eyed about, with phrases such as "Handsome is as handsome does". She meant that her daughter should ignore all the fine promises, and watch what her beau actually did in various circumstances.

Of course there is no problem for the UK Government to let in the preachers who recruit jihadis, because they are only discussing the finer points of Islam.

So Mr Wilders juxtaposes quotations from the Koran with self publicity from the jihadis committing various atrocities, leaving the viewer to discern whether the jihadis were doing exactly what the Koran had instructed them or not. Remember of course, that jihadis always go into action proclaiming that their Allah is Great, and their actions are in response to the commands of the Koran. It is only when such information is translated from the Arabaic (where it is never disputed, but always taken as truth) into English, that the Dhimmi apologists need to get busy saying how it has all "been taken out of context".

See it for yourself on Google, or on various P2P streams. Make up your own mind about who is creating community tension. Wilders, as Jackboots Jacqui and Lord Ahmed (of "I will raise a mob of 10,000 Muslims") claim? Or the jihadis as Wilders claims?

In a comment about the complete lack of government action after Whacky Jacqui's speech more than a year ago about denying terrorists the use of the internet, one person wrote: "Perhaps the government are worried if they deny the extremists the opportunity to communicate via the web then they will be unable to carry out their nefarious schemes & remove an excuse for the said government to continue passing repressive legislation." Yokel too is of the opinion that our terrorist problem is home grown, a Whitehall speciality, essentially nurtured for the imposition of a police state.

Then for a bit of light relief have a look at Ahmed the Terrorist. We need gallows humour, its the only thing left!

This isn't a problem, its part of the solution; the FINAL SOLUTION!

The Evening Standard has news of a Department for Transport "Consultation" on special traffic lanes for the athletes, and officials, and other important hangers on, to get about London during the Olympics. At speeds that ordinary Londoners can only marvel at!

Others have already spotted the likeness to the traffic lanes in Moscow that were reserved for the members of the Party. If the likeness continues, these convoys of the Specially Important will have blue light escorts, or even blue lights on their own vehicles.

Yokel wonders if the traffic laws will be changed to align itself with those in Moscow at that time: If someone, authorised to drive in these traffic lanes and with his personal blue lights on, crashes into an ordinary driver then it is always the ordinary driver's fault and he will be convicted for that fault.

When the Olympics bandwagon has passed on to plague another city, with the Righteous even think of giving up their priviliges?

As widely rumoured at the time of his magical conversion to Roman Catholicism, we are to get President Blair of the nation of Europe. Further comment fails Yokel.

Yokel was reading an article in The Observer when the following phrase screamed at him off the page: "... ... the Association of Chief Police Officers' national community tension team is responding to intelligence by issuing weekly patrol directives to chief constables instructing them ... ..."

ACPO issues directives/instructions to Chief Constables.

A private limited company acts on its presumption of equality with our (however foolishly) elected government (see earlier posting), and directs Chief Constables?

In the context of the rest of the article, someone has to co-ordinate a response to the locally bred jihadis, but that is not Yokel's point. His concern is the manner in which it is being done.

Yokel is having great problems getting his head round the idea that the UK is to be run by a private limited company. Perhaps he should go talk to the Iraqis who have experience of Blackwater. For this shows what can happen when a private "security" company is allowed to do whatsoever it wants. Regaining control of Blackwater is proving to be a rather difficult task.

But going to talk to Iraqis does make a rather big assumption. Will Yokel be granted permission to travel. After all, he is not a member of the Righteous, the ruling elite.

Yokel has long been aware of the need to disbelieve any government pronouncement until it has been denied.

Of course anything channeled through the Ministry of Truth (aka BBC) must have its focus corrected to remove the bias in favour of: Left wing, Arab, Roman Catholicisim, Islam, Big government, and telling lies; and also to remove the bias against: Protestant Christianity, self reliance, work ethic, Britain, United Kingdom, and honesty

Now Yokel is wondering about apologies. In a blatant betrayal of trust, a private conversation has been publicised and and blown out of all proportion. Yes Ms Thatcher made a silly comment that got some people genuinely upset, and a great deal more onto the "I'm Upset" Bandwagon for Political Gain. (It really is amazing just how many of the techniques honed by The Religion of Perpetual Offence have been adopted by the Left as part of their strategic alliance!). The adult way to deal with foolish comment is to correct it, and put it behind us. Instead we must have high profile sackings and rubbing of faces into the dirt.

Then Jeremy Clarkson, someone who regularly courts controversy, pointed out a few home truths concerning our Dear Leader calling him a one-eyed Scottish idiot. The facts? Our Dear Leader himself tells us that he lost the use of one eye whilst at school. He represents a Scottish constituency in the UK Parliament, speaks with a Scots accent, and generally portrays himself as a Scot; so it is a reasonable assumption that he is Scottish. The idiot bit? Surely by now it is clear to all that his reign at the Treasury, and then at No 10 has been less than perfect, that in fact he is a Marxist bully. So, everything Clarkson said (and plenty more besides) is provable fact. BBC "Apologise, Clarkson!". Clarkson "I sort of apologise for a bit of it"

In these Politically Correct days, it is clear that everyone who does not toe the Party line is a problem. Fortunately the Party's response at present is only to demand an apology, in due course it will become a criminal offence.

Learning point? Never believe it unless someone has been ordered to apologise for it.

This isn't a problem, its part of the solution; the FINAL SOLUTION.

As Yokel sat thinking in a traffic queue this morning, marvelling that "they" had said that it would be alright to go to work today. So the world and his wife obediently went back to work after two unexpected days of "holiday" or "working" at home. Others have speculated that the shut down of Britain was a COBRA sponsored event.

Whether it was COBRA, or Common Purpose "leading beyond authority", Yokel was wondering if the ANPR records will be interrogated to determine who actually went to work. After all, there are many programmes currently trying to turn the UK citizen into a sheep. It would be quite useful to the authorities to have a quick check on who is proving resistant to the brainwashing, so that they can be singled out for special treatment.