June 2009

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!

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"?

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!