English Yokel

A miscellany of disasters on the boil

So much going wrong. So little time to blog about them in. So a quick reference and a comment for several.

Private equity bidder Olivant pulls out of battle for Northern Rock says the Grauniad. Olivant are up front that they don't know how to make any money out of the deal. So things must be dire! That leave Branson's Virgin group and a Northern Rock management team headed by a former Mergers and Acquisitions banker at Merrill Lynch. ML have had a spot of loss making bother themselves recently, and thrown their former CEO out. Yokel's guess is that the nation will end up paying another state subsidy to the nation's favourite beard. (Try Virgin Rail for starters)

The Afghans don't want us there, we've made the situation a whole lot worse they say. Yokel vigorously disagrees with the reasoning behind Karzai's attack, but agrees that the British troops are doing no good. How can the forces of a Christian country be there fighting to establish an Islamic state. Written into the new Afghan constitution is a requirement for the state to be Islamic. However, our troops will not come home quick. Yokel is convinced that Brown needs them out there, out of the way, so that they cannot object when a complete the British subjugation into the EU.

Its OK for the Police to bug MPs because the Wilson Doctrine only cover the Security Services! Yokel can't phrase a question with sufficient invective. This lot clearly don't know right from wrong. The ends perpetually justify the means.

Mandatory fingerprinting in order to be able to fly within the UK gets off the ground at Heathrow. And gets lots of protest, but its all from the usual suspects, that is those who have form in protesting about the oncoming police state. Why are the mainstream media mostly so deaf to the issue? How will they benefit from its introduction? Yokel suspects that the old adage to "follow the money" might be lurking here somewhere. BA appear to have a work around for us stroppy Yokels who refuse, but it is planned to be as inconvenient as possible. For the time being, don't fly with BA. But how long will it be before NuLabour think they have got away with it and impose it on everyone? Oh, don't try catching the boat to Shetland after the end of April 2008 without official ID either! Yokel thinks he will have to visit Shetland in April for the first and last time ever.

Sorry there are no pictures, nothing suitable in the library at present. And now Yokel had better go find his palliasse and go sleep this lot off. The times are not good.