Pick of the Day: Life is Never Fair. So Why Does Labour Pretend it Can Be?
Tory Totty Online // Wednesday, February 24, 2010Life is Never Fair. So Why Does Labour Pretend it Can Be?
Daily Telegraph
This article by Simon Heffer discusses the notion that, in it's quest for 'a future fair for all,' New Labour are punishing the 'haves' for the sake of the 'have nots.'
The irony is that in Labour's Britain, the so called 'haves' are honest, hardworking, law-abiding people on very modest incomes. People who are now facing a stark future of unemployment, high taxation, and debt just so Labour's welfare-dependent 'have-nots,' (a large portion of whom are a feature of Labour's deliberate mass immigration trick) can flourish.
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Whatever we think should be our just deserts, there will always be someone who gets them instead. So how can Mr Brown possibly justify the fatuous, meaningless, drivelling, recycled garbage of a slogan – "A future fair for all" – on which he has decided his party will fight the election? He knows, unless his delusion reaches heights most of us cannot imagine, that nothing can be fair: and even if that were not the case, he must know that fairness could never be enforced by a government. For him or any of his henchpersons to suggest otherwise is an enormous lie.
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Labour's record of government speaks for itself. Turn on the TV and you can witness 24/7 the aftermath of 13 years of boom and bust. People's lives tossed onto the scrapheap, unprecedented levels of household debt, astronomical fuel and energy prices, the highest rate of welfare dependency anywhere in the world, a stagnant education system, erosion of civil liberties and an actual increase in some areas of crime . . .to name but a few.
The promises Labour made to get elected in 1997 have been swept under the carpet. They expect this to go without question, determined not to be judged on their record. It has proven to be a government intent on shamelessly lying to and deceiving the British people. But perhaps the biggest lie of all came in the form of immigration.
This piece is written by Melanie Phillips in today's Mail. It tells a story that every one should read and consider, when it comes to voting this year.
Of all the issues of concern to the public, immigration is possibly the most explosive — and the one about which the most lies are continuing to be told.
During the period that Labour has been in office, mass immigration has simply changed the face of Britain. The total number of immigrants since 1997 is pushing three million.
Ministers claim that immigration policy has been driven principally to help the economy. They have always denied that they actually set out deliberately to change the ethnic composition of the country.
Well, now we know for a certainty that this is not true. The Government embarked on a policy of mass immigration to change Britain into a multicultural society — and they kept this momentous aim secret from the people whose votes they sought.
Worse still, they did this knowing that it ran directly counter to the wishes of those voters, whose concerns about immigration they dismissed as racist; and they further concealed official warnings that large-scale immigration would bring about significant increases in crime.
The truth about this scandal was first blurted out last October by Andrew Neather, a former Labour Party speechwriter.
He wrote that until the new points-based system limiting foreign workers was introduced in 2008 — in response to increasing public uproar — government policy for the previous eight years had been aimed at promoting mass immigration.
The ‘driving political purpose’ of this policy, wrote Neather, was ‘to make the UK truly multicultural’ — and one subsidiary motivation was ‘to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date’.
Misters, however, went to great lengths to keep their real intentions secret from the public — with, said Neather, a ‘paranoia’ that these would reach the media — since they knew their core white working-class voters would react very badly.
Accordingly, a report about immigration by a government advisory unit, which formed the core of a landmark speech in 2000 announcing the loosening of border controls, went through several drafts before it was finally published — and the Government’s true intentions about changing Britain into a multicultural society were removed from the final version.
After revealing all this, Neather subsequently tried to backtrack, saying that his views had been twisted out of all recognition by the media. They hadn’t been.
Nevertheless, Jack Straw, who was Home Secretary at the time the immigration policy was changed, said he had read press reports of Neather’s remarks with incredulity since they were ‘the reverse of the truth’.
Now we know, however, that they were indeed the truth. We know this only because details of the advisory unit’s report which were excised from the final published version — just as Neather said — have been emerging into the public domain through Freedom of Information requests.
The pressure group MigrationWatch obtained an early draft which revealed that the Government’s intention was to encourage mass immigration for ’social objectives’ — in other words, to produce a more ethnically diverse society — but that on no fewer than six occasions this phrase was excised from the final version, published some three months later.
Now we further discover, from what was removed from seemingly another early draft, that the aim was not just to implement this policy of mass immigration without the knowledge or consent of the British people.
It was done in the full knowledge that the people actually wanted immigration reduced.
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Brown bullies middle Britain into funding welfare state
Now, New Labour want middle Britain to fund broadband for all. You guessed it. You and I will now have the pleasure of funding high speed internet access for welfare-dependent Britain, as the government plan yet another tax.
Reports today suggest that an influential group of MPs are branding the tax as 'unfair' on the grounds that it would penalise the poor. The Indy writes
The Commons Business Committee branded the levy "regressive", saying it meant poor people would end up paying for a service that only the wealthier used.
However, the government are proposing the 50p tax on fixed landlines in order to
"ensure that every home can access a minimum speed of 2Mbps (megabits per second) by 2012."
It's a standing joke in state schools today (how ever 'un-PC' this may sound) that it's the kids on free school meals who have homes decked out with 50 inch plasma screens, every games console known to man, and at least 1 home computer. Don't tell me these people aren't on the internet?
This is nothing more than another insidious attempt to suck yet more life out of the middle classes. Not content with the way in which hard working families keep people like this in the manner to which they've become accustomed in gravy train Britain, they're intent on inflicting even more misery should they return to power.
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A future farce for all
Her timing is priceless, as is the timing of Rawnesley's book serialised in The Observer yesterday which made very interesting reading indeed.
The fact is, in the immortal words of Barack Obama, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. No amount of excruciating smiles, new pink ties and rhetorical candy kisses can change the fact that Gordon Brown is a paranoid, incompetent megalomaniac who couldn't run a bath, let alone the country.
I hope this case continues to expose the true character of the man who would be Britain's next Prime minister.
Footnote: Brown's pursuit of the top job is just as much about his desperation for public approval as his obsession for power. The fact that he's an unelected PM must add to his paranoia and insecurities. Goodness only knows what happening in the No. 10 bunker as we speak . . . .
Gordon Brown forced to deny hitting staff - Sunday Times
Alan Watkins - Labour's Gift for Picking the Wrong Leader - Indy
So Much For Labour's Crackdown on Cannabis as 5 out of 6 people caught with drug escape court - MoS
Celebrities Paid £325,000 to appear in Government ad. campaigns - MoS
Labour borrowing 'poisoning wells' for Tories - B.B.C.
Brown, Mandleson and Alexander Teach Tories a Lesson - Wall St. Journal
Projectile vomiting Labour MP downed so much champagne in drinking contest on official trip, friends thought he might die - MoS
Blogging
Gordon Brown: Paranoid Thug - Barking Spider
Political Artist Goes For Brown - Iain Dale
Hat-tip to Tim at Conservative home for this.
The Sun reveals today that the Labour Party have yet again used a BNP slogan as part of their election campaign.
The Sun reveals today that the Labour Party have yet again used a BNP slogan as part of their election campaign.
and to make matters worse, prospective candidates have been told by party bosses to ensure the government's record does not become an election issue.
"The leaflet reveals party chiefs are terrified the election will be a vote on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's grim record in power. If that happens they will lose, the document suggests.It explains: "Labour need to ensure that the next election is not seen as a referendum on the Government."
This is where the Tories need to be on the ball. David Cameron absolutely must make this an election issue. 13 years of failed policies which have led directly to a broken society, a monstrous level of national debt, rising unemployment to name but a few, have be exposed throughout the Tories' campaign.
Labour will undoubtedly do everything they can to cover it up, and this cannot be allowed to happen.
An excellent message which endorses an excellent Tory policy.
After popping over to take a look, I discovered that the post was made by a 16 year old guest blogger, going by the name of Samuel 'Sam' Bumby. Apart from sounding like some dark, machiavellian Dickensian character from yesteryear, I found his immaturity quite staggering.
It alludes to this piece in yesterday's Independent, which discusses an article by the C.E.P about the Tories' plans to follow the Swedish education model.
Bumby squarks:
"It sounds to me just like an idea to privatise the school system, an idea which allows any idiot with a ton of money to influence and indoctrinate youngsters with their own opinions."
Having been involved in state education for almost 15 years (thereby including all Labour's time in power) the indoctrination of young people through increasingly narrow and selective curriculum content, will form part of Labour's legacy. What does Bumby, (surely a case in point,) think the youth of today are learning about, if it isn't socialist propaganda dreamed up by the likes of Balls et al in the No.10 bunker?
Socialist fanaticism like this makes me fear even more for the future of the country. This insatiable jealousy and absolute hatred of people with prosperous backgrounds is astonishing. So what if people are educated at Eton, Harrow, Gordonston. Who cares? I wasn't privately educated, but I certainly wouldn't hold anything against someone who was. It's what makes the world go round.
The chip on Bumby's Socialist shoulder get's even bigger
"The wonders of a central education system mean that every child has access to the same basic education and whilst it may vary regionally, what is taught is practically the same."
The wonders of a central education system?
What a load of old cock waffle. The wonders of this particular education system are that Labour get to extend their control over the state even further, waste billions upon billions of tax-payers money and, as usual, have sod all to show for it at the end of the day (except a country on it's knees of course.)
There's nothing wonderful about every child having access to the same education. Do we really want to be churning out robots - taught by robots - who think, act and feel the same? Is this what a Sam Bumby classroom would look like?
Sam Bumby's idea of a good education system?
So if Labour's take on education is so effective (according to Sam,) let me ask this:
2. Does he think it's right that a large number of schools in the UK are employing teaching assistants and unqualified teachers to teach specialised subjects?
3. Does he think it's fair that class sizes are going up to cater for overcrowding of schools? (another symptom of uncontrolled immigration)
4. Does he agree with Labour's massive U-turn last year on the national literacy and numeracy hour?
5. How does he defend the unmitigated rise of violence and knife crime in schools due to Labour's unequivocal disempowerment of teachers and school staff?
6. Can he please explain to me, after thirteen years of Labour government (which began when he was three) how, by 2007 (after 10 years of Labour) Britain's child literacy levels were amongst the worst in the developed world
And it gets worse. He continues:
"And anyway, how would people not trained in education be able to make the right choices about curriculum?"
Errr - not sure you've been following events Sam (as you're obviously so up on these things) but, under this government, any Tom, Dick or Harry can now be a head teacher - without having to be a teacher first. How is that 'trained in education?' I have seen first hand the disastrous consequences this can bring.
Not only that, this government are fast-tracking professionals from outside the teaching profession (with no experience or relevant qualifications) into teaching to compensate for the thousands of teachers (including myself) who have quit. How are these people 'trained in education?'
Under Labour, it has statistically become the most stressful job in the country, not to mention dangerous and unpleasant. And please note, under the Tories' plans, the government will set the curriculum, and not the schools.
What alarms me about Labour in general, is their total refusal to encourage people to have choices; to be able to take charge of and manage their own lives. And this is never more blatant than in Bumby's hysterical, childish rant.
He finishes off his ghastly tirade with this:
"This is certainly a point to campaign about in the upcoming elections and certainly something I’ll be asking my local Tory candidate before I shut the door in his face next time."
Lovely. Bit of the old 'two jags' in that sentence if I'm not mistaken. When desperate and behind in the polls, resort to stamping feet, (punching the public) and shutting doors in peoples' faces.
I'm actually not one to patronise - unless I'm absolutely forced to, hence I'll end on this note. If I was you, Samuel 'Sam' Bumby, I'd stick to revising for your 'A' Levels so you can scoot off to Uni. and live a little.
(That's always providing there are still places after Labour's cuts! ;-))
Footnote: It may also be worth noting, that as of April 2009, our glorious Labour Britain was classed as 'one of the worst places in Europe' for children to grow up. A survey by the Child Poverty Action Group compared health, education and housing standards across 29 states over the continent, and put Labour Britain at 24th place, behind countries like Slovakia and Hungary.
For all his faults George Osborn excelled himself during this commons speech, where he exposed, in no uncertain terms, the legacy of chaos that Labour governments habitually leave behind.
In 1979 it was Thatcher's charge to bring Britain back into order. This time it's Cameron's.
For all Labour's hot air and empty rhetoric, we must be under no illusion about the importance of spreading messages like this:
In 1979 it was Thatcher's charge to bring Britain back into order. This time it's Cameron's.
For all Labour's hot air and empty rhetoric, we must be under no illusion about the importance of spreading messages like this:
Sir William Gladstone one remarked
In 1850 iron ore was discovered in the beautiful Cleveland Hills south of Middlesborough near a small town called Eston.
It soon replaced coal as the lifeblood of the area and by 1851 the first blast furnace was built by Middlesbrough's John Vaughan and his German business partner. By1900 this amalgamated into the Dorman Long company, now producing steel, and by the turn of the twentieth century it was producing over 450,000 tons per year.
Coal and coking plants were set up to fuel the furnaces. Ship building led to bridge building and steel construction. Sydney Harbour bridge, amongst other famous constructions was built from Middlesbrough steel. The Limpopo Bridge in Africa was built in Middlesbrough, as was the Otto Biet Bridge over the Zambezi river in Zimbabwi and the Bangkok Memorial Bridge in Thailand, to name but a few.
Few people appreciate the enormity of the town's industrial legacy. There aren't many towns in the world that can boast of coating half the planet in steel and metal. At the height of it's productivity it employed over 40,000 men from all around the North East. Two of whom I knew - my late grand fathers.
Sir H.G. Reid, the famous architect who worked for Victorian iron master Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell once wrote,
Brown and Mandleson may squeal like stuffed pigs about their 'heroic' efforts to save this plant and the community it serves. The truth is their pathetic efforts have thus far been grotesquely and embarrassingly inadequate, and I hope the sound of grown men crying, and the sight of once proud communities crumbling, haunts them forever.
If ever there was a time to humbly listen to this - it's now. Ironically, one of my favourite songs of all time. Nothing tells the story better. Enjoy.



"This remarkable place, the youngest child of England's enterprise, is an infant, but if an infant, and infant Hercules."In 1800 Middlesbrough did not exist. It was nothing more than a truck stop for travellers and traders.
In 1850 iron ore was discovered in the beautiful Cleveland Hills south of Middlesborough near a small town called Eston.
The Cleveland Hills (left to right Hasty Bank, Cold Moor, Cringle Moor, Carlton Bank, Live Moor) as seen from the western slopes of Easby Moor below Captain Cook's Monument looking south-west
Photo - Don Burluraux
It soon replaced coal as the lifeblood of the area and by 1851 the first blast furnace was built by Middlesbrough's John Vaughan and his German business partner. By1900 this amalgamated into the Dorman Long company, now producing steel, and by the turn of the twentieth century it was producing over 450,000 tons per year.
Coal and coking plants were set up to fuel the furnaces. Ship building led to bridge building and steel construction. Sydney Harbour bridge, amongst other famous constructions was built from Middlesbrough steel. The Limpopo Bridge in Africa was built in Middlesbrough, as was the Otto Biet Bridge over the Zambezi river in Zimbabwi and the Bangkok Memorial Bridge in Thailand, to name but a few.
Few people appreciate the enormity of the town's industrial legacy. There aren't many towns in the world that can boast of coating half the planet in steel and metal. At the height of it's productivity it employed over 40,000 men from all around the North East. Two of whom I knew - my late grand fathers.
Sir H.G. Reid, the famous architect who worked for Victorian iron master Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell once wrote,
"The iron of Eston has diffused itself all over the world.
It furnishes the railways of the world. It runs by Neopolitan and papal dungeons. It startles the bandit in his haunt of Cicilia. It crosses over the plains of Africa. It stretches over the plains of India. It has crept out of the Cleveland Hills where it has slept since Roman Days. And now, like a strong and invincible serpent, coils itself around the world"It seems the serpent is no longer invincible. As the plants are left to cool and the furnaces drained, the veins of the North East are left to bleed like an open wound. These men have known pride and kinship the likes of which can only ever be found in a working community such as this. To allow it to die is tantamount to social genocide.
Brown and Mandleson may squeal like stuffed pigs about their 'heroic' efforts to save this plant and the community it serves. The truth is their pathetic efforts have thus far been grotesquely and embarrassingly inadequate, and I hope the sound of grown men crying, and the sight of once proud communities crumbling, haunts them forever.
If ever there was a time to humbly listen to this - it's now. Ironically, one of my favourite songs of all time. Nothing tells the story better. Enjoy.



Burley at her best: "What's happened to his head?"
"Maybe he's been having a go on one of those tea-trays down the luge"Classic!
Bless her. She was only saying what the rest of us were thinking - myself included! And then to top it off with
"I've said 3 Hail Marys. Everything's going to be fine"
Hilarious.
Clearly, in this age of fanatical political correctness, the loony left brigade would protest that she should have known it was Ash Wednesday!
I disagree. Coming from the Pantheist school of thought I don't subscribe to organised religion, and I certainly wouldn't know when on earth Ash Wednesday is. I laughed with Burley throughout the segment, and it was actually Milam who suggested said mark may have come from an accident during the Vice President's visit to Vancouver, at the opening of the Olympics.
Perhaps the funniest part of the whole story is that The Mail saw fit to run a piece on it today, which only adds to the comedy. It states, rather stuffily, that
"While her colleague Mr Milam concentrated on talking about a fiscal stimulus package being unveiled by Mr Biden in Washington, Miss Burley was more interested in the 'nasty' brown mark.Suggesting that the 'large bruise' might be caused by an accident at the Winter Olympics in Canada, she encouraged Mr Milam to find out."
This is classic Burley at her best, and I wouldn't have her any other way.
Her interview style is cheeky, provocative, brazen and as such entirely unique. She' clearly one of the most entertaining and watchable anchors on T.V. today.
Keep up the good work!
I've taken the liberty of listing a few examples here, basically to highlight the kind of levels to which these awful specimens are prepared to sink.
Martyn Jones MP to House of Commons security officer: "Fuck off you know who I am"
Bob Ainsworth to Tory MP John Baron in debate over troops kit-shortages. "Absolute bollocks"
Tony Blair venting his spleen over poor 1999 Welsh Assembly election results. "Fucking Welsh"
Former Labour MP Helen Clarke in the Great Northern Hotel Peterborough to staff and other customers in the bar: "That's what you all are pigs! Look everyone I'm being arrested by the pigs" before calling the barmaid (who refused to serve her any more liqor) "a fucking Portugese bitch"
Jack Straw threatening to punch Ed Balls over an alleged bust-up over territorial 'man-stuff'
Apparently we should be used to this type of Neandethal behaviour? Remember this?
Is black Britain flying in the face of MLK Jnr?
The Voice proudly describes itself as "Britain's Best Black Newspaper". It appears to revel in the fact that it has become "a thorn in the side of the establishment" and brashly claims to "champion the causes of black people nationwide."
The article, entitled "The Voice Fantasy Government" suggests a fantasy black government for the United Kingdom, and encourages readers to do the same.
There seems to be arguments for and against articles like this. One could, for example, argue that this type of article is socially divisive, bordering on racist, in advocating an all black government. (Cast your mind back to this memorable speech by Shahid Malik in 2008 at the 'Global Peace and Unity Conference' and the brouhaha that followed!)
But of course the counter argument is that the piece is written for The Voice, a publication produced solely for black people, and therefore the protestations of non black readers have little significance.
Any government, as in any organisation, should without question be formed by drawing upon the best people for any particular role. It is concerning therefore to read an article that implies the only people fit for top UK political office are black.
The words of Martin Luther King Jr still resonate today
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
Articles such as this could be construed as the antithesis of this sentiment, promoting a divisive message which could prove disastrous for young black people of the future.
Where would you rather live?
It seems Australian anti-migrant campaigner Pauline Hanson, who warned her country it was being over-run by 'Asians,' can't take any more of the loony social experiments being imposed by the lefty Rudd government. She's upping and offing to our side of the world apparently in search of a better life.
The 55 year old stated
"Our governments lack enough people with the fortitude to speak up without fear or favour. Over-regulation, increasing taxes and lack of true representation are affecting our way of life. I feel very much for the young ones. Once it was common for them to own their own home. Not now. It's a harder place."
Errrr . . . hasn't any one told her? You know . . . that it's like a billion times worse over here?
When I read this article in The Guardian it did make me chuckle. I mean let's face it - if one has to live under a totalitarian regime, where would one rather be? In a cold, grey, wet, over-crowded little island, spied on by the state at every turn, lied to about phoney diseases for which bogus vaccines are issued as a covert form of population culling, and where Brits are persecuted for being patriotic and prevented from flying the Union Jack of St George Cross outside their homes? (To name but a few)
Or, in a warm, sunny, out-doorsy, spacious environment where the type of state CCTV intrusion experienced over here just wouldn't be possible, where people go surfing on a morning before going to work, and are encouraged to be hugely patriotic and proud of their heritage.
Don't get me wrong. I'm hugely patriotic, and I love my country. I won't leave on account of it being ruined by this government. But I'm English. I can't for the life of me understand why any self-respecting middle-aged Aussie would want to come over here and live. If the politics are the same (and clearly they're becoming so), just from a purely geographical view I'd stay in Australia. Sunshine, barbies, beaches, space and a generally more laid back approach to life?
No contest really.
Personally, I thought Brown came across quite well last night - seemed to be quite a good sport and a surprisingly good laugh. I certainly wasn't horrified by his performance.
But. That makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to the fact that he's an egomaniacal, bullying control freak who's wrecked the country and will continue to do so if allowed back in.
Leopards don't suddenly change their spots. He's a walking disaster. End of.
Here's what the others think . . .
Quentin Letts: I suspect Mr Brown will live to regret this appalling show: Daily Mail
Morgan-Brown interview was hardly Frost-Nixon - WSJ
We do feel sorry for Brown but in the wrong way - Guardian
Please Gordon, don't brown nose to the culture of trivia - The Scotsman
New Media Reviews
PM on PM - Guido
Review: Gordon Brown on Piers Morgan - Iain Dale
So will in win back Labour votes in the marginals? - Political Betting
BBC Scriptwriters Tried to Use Doctor Who to Bring Down Margaret Thatcher - MoS Left-wing scriptwriters hired by the BBC during the 1980s tried to inspire a 'Tardis Revolution' by using Doctor Who as propaganda to undermine the Tory PrimeministerThe Tories' lead over Labour has grown significantly in the past fortnight, according to a poll.
A new Death Tax on every estate is being considered by the government as a way of funding care for the elderly
Gordon Brown Deserves Our Sympathy - Not Our Vote - Sunday Telegraph
The pain in Gordon Brown's interview with Piers Morgan is real, but he makes for a rather desperate romantic, says Matthew d'Ancona.
Top Economists Warn that Britain's Economy is at Risk and Call for a Rapid Deficit Cut - MoS
A group of leading economists have warned that the government is putting Britain's economic recovery at risk without a 'credible' plan for cutting it's massive budget deficit.
The government's policy of mass immigration was intended to remodel the social fabric of the nation, says Janet Daley
Brown's Fear of Donor David Abrahams Will Cost Region Dear - Sunday Telegraph
David Abrahams has donated over £500,000 to the Labour party, but he has become so controversial that Gordon Brown is allegedly encouraging Hitachi to avoid investing in a business park that he owns in the North East
Gordon, Sarah, A Modern Love Story and Irritating Mothers
Tory Totty Online // Saturday, February 13, 2010Coming to a Mental Health Clinic Near You
'Mumsnet' was set up in 2000 by sports journalist Justine Roberts after she apparently had an unfortunate experience whilst on holiday with her twins. The screed on the site states
"Justine found herself wishing, along with all the other disgruntled poolside parents, that she'd known about how un-child friendly this resort was prior to shelling out any dosh."
I'm sorry, but if one has kids doesn't one check out the 'child-friendliness' of said holiday resort before one 'shells out dosh'? How ridiculous. Not having any myself (and I'm a staunch defender of the adults without kids brigade) I purposely look for resorts without kids. Surely the opposite would apply?
'Mumsnet' is nothing more than an extension of the infamous 'Mothers Army.' A brigade of women who have nothing better to do all day than overly interfere in their children's lives - both in and out of school. And now, God forbid, they have this newly found voice through the 'Mumsnet' website - surely the first murmurings of an impending 'Mumsy' revolution in the making?
My granny, God rest her soul, would be spinning in her grave. How is it, that when women raised children with manners, self-respect, integrity, respect for their elders and a genuine sense of civic duty, there was no 'Mumsnet' telling them how to do it! They did it naturally . . .instinctively . . .without making the type of balk-inducing fuss that today's mothers seem to revel in.
It really is astonishing to think that, on the whole, we have the most disrespectful, materialistic, rude and violent generation of young people this country's ever seen, and yet we have sodding 'Mumsnet', which boasts,
"Our philosophy is simple: To make parents' lives easier by pooling knowledge, experience and support."It is clearly failing.
Having worked in education for a number of years, these types of women used to be the bane of my life. Fussy, results-obessed busy-bodies who were of the understanding that they knew more about their child's educational needs than me. God help me if I shouted at little Johnny for being a pain in the backside . . .I'd be the one getting the rollocking come 3 o'clock! (and hence I'm no longer in the 'profession'!)
Interestingly, last Sunday's Telegraph has an excellent piece entitled 'Pushy Parents Should Devote Less Time to Their Kids and More to the Their Marriage,' in which Kirsty Young lambasts this culture of obsessively counter productive pushy parenting.
The article focusses on the bestselling book written by Wall St. Journal author David Code entitled 'To Raise Happy Kids: Put Your Marriage First' and claims that
"Children who receive too much attention from over-anxious "helicopter parents" who hover over them constantly will end up demanding and dissatisfied."
Today's Telegraph publishes some of Sarah Brown's 'Mumsnet' pearls of wisdom entitled
"Sarah Brown: My Normal Life With Gordon and the Children at No.10"
At one time I would have credited her with more nouse than that. Surely she couldn't be stupid enough to think we'd be stupid enough to fall for that one? Alas, she does and clearly she is. And that's what this whole sickening charade is about. Trying to (surreptitiously) hoodwink the public into thinking that Britain's answer to Ryan O'Neill and Ali McGraw live a 'normal' life, and in the process get you to vote for them.
Do you think it'll work?
Piers and Gord
Good ole fashioned (champagne Socialist) drinking buddies!
Like most self-respecting people I was sickened by the 24-7 news footage of Brown snivelling on TV yesterday. A show which has yet to be aired for goodness sake!
It seems to me that the greasy Labour spin doctors were at work again. With Brown's cosy fireside chat to be broadcast late on Sunday night (Valentine's night - when I suspect a large number of people will have better things to do,) they release this stage-managed piece of drivel,
two days before-hand, aimed at stoking up sympathy from people who likely won't be staying up late on Sunday night - for example mothers with young children, and the elderly.
It's an absolute brazen disgrace.
Norman Tebbit makes an intelligent and fair analysis of Brown's interview here, amongst other things commenting that
"We should say immediately that Mr Brown and his wife have shown courage in dealing with the death of one child and the serious illness of another. We do not criticise him for talking about these things, any more than we would criticise David Cameron for talking about the death of his own son. But, generally speaking, this sort of interview is not a healthy sign: politicians who invite questions about their emotional lives are nearly always facing political crisis and reaching out for a sympathy vote. Mr Cameron should resist the temptation to follow suit."
In the light of Tebbit's comments it was interesting to hear Michael Booker, Deputy Editor of the Daily Star, on Sky News this morning. He was mooting that the only reason Cameron won't agree to be interviewed by Morgan, is because he's phased by Morgan's famously forthright questioning techniques.
Ho-Hum.
Inspiring, because it outlined in plain English how much worse off Britain has become under Gordon Brown's stewardship, and drives another nail in the coffin of a Prime minister now condemned to using his children as 'props' in order to gain a sympathetic vote here and there.
"In short, sterling is in the toilet, our pensions have been slaughtered, cash savings yield almost nothing, the country is up to its neck in unprecedented debt, the banking system is awash with funny money, our gold reserves were sold off at rock-bottom prices, and Britain’s dole queue is considerably longer than before Crash Gordon began cooking the books. Apart from that, it’s not too bad"Compelling stuff indeed!
Read the full article here
"Some people have been asking why I haven't served my children up for spreads in the papers,
My answer is simple,
My children aren't props, they're people."
Gordon Brown, Speech to Conference, Sept. 23 2008
What a difference 17 months (and an impending General Election) makes!
A 'strategy vacuum at the heart of government' and 'extraordinary flashes of anger' are just two of the latest revelations about Gordon Brown's alleged 'reign of terror,' to be chronicled in a compelling new book by former Labour spin doctor Lance Price.
With Alastair Campbell firmly back in the Labour fold, desperate attempts to paint Brown in a pre-election sympathetic light may prove futile as further details of his increasingly unstable behaviour come to light.
'Furious rages,' 'jabbing an angry finger,' 'shouting at staff' and 'kicking the furniture' are all phrases used to describe Brown's conduct in the No. 10 bunker.
The book 'Where Power Lies' was written after hundreds of interviews with former and serving Downing St. staff. One reported,
'It isn't a very nice place to work. However bad it sometimes looks from the outside, it's far far worse from the inside. And the atmosphere is very much set by him.'Describing the 'poisonous culture' inside No. 10 which apparently, 'comes from the top', in reference to the alleged description by Alastair Campbell of Brown as 'psychologically flawed', one person commented
' . . .it doesn't come close.'The book, entitled 'Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers Vs The Media backs up claims made earlier this year by Peter Watt, and those detailed in Andrew Rawnesley's book due out on March 1st, in which the PM apparently hurled foul-mouthed abuse in a state of semi-undress at two aides in his hotel room after an apparent snub by President Obama.
His suitability for the role as Prime minister must be severely called into question after this (if it hasn't been already.) No amount of candy-kisses or hearts and flowers come Valentines Day evening on ITV1, can detract from the simple fact that Gordon Brown is an unstable, egomaniacal bully who will stop at nothing to cling onto power for his own self-serving ends.
It's clear that Brown likes to run his office through aggression, fear and coercion, and as I wrote here, it's exactly the same way he runs the country.
Not content with vilifying smokers - banning them from smoking anywhere in public and more recently forcing cigarette companies to sell their brands in grey packaging, (in order that Andy Burnham can move towards his utopian vision of a 'smoke-free' future); this government is now moving onto the next phase of it's assault on our civil liberties aimed at innocent alcohol consumers.
Instead of targeting the growing levels of binge drinking among the lost and demoralised young victims of socialist society - addressing the causes and modifying social policy accordingly, Labour are targeting innocent, hardworking, middle-aged, middle-income adults who let's face it, have very little to smile about in the present economic climate. In some cases, probably turning to alcohol in desperation after Labour have savagely wrecked their lives through foul means over the past 13 years.
Labour are famous for their vicious scare-tactics and sculduggery when it comes to trying to put the frighteners on the public. Take this, for example
or this
And now, low and behold, we have these two commercials. Both of which imply, that if you drink
more than 2 pints a night (for a bloke) and half a bottle of wine (for us ladies) we're destined for a
future consisisting of strokes, mouth cancer and high blood pressure! (To name but a few!)
future consisisting of strokes, mouth cancer and high blood pressure! (To name but a few!)
The Government's plans to provide free home care would increase strain on an already overburdened social services system, council leaders have warned.
How Labour Threw Open Doors to Mass Immigration in Secret Plot to Make a Multi-Cultural UK - The Mail
Labour threw open the doors to mass migration in a deliberate policy to change the social make-up of the UK, secret papers suggest.
Middle class families could be hit by a new death tax worth tens of thousands of pounds to fund Labour's pledge to provide social care for the elderly.
Obese benefit claimants who are officially too fat to work have cost the taxpayer £80million under Labour.
More than 70 leaders of social care throughout England are warning that the Government’s plans to provide free home care are flawed, unfunded and will force cuts to current services.
MPs Approve Gordon Brown's Referendum Plans for Voting Reform - Evening Standard
Gordon Brown's plans for a referendum on changing the voting system were comfortably passed by MPs.



























