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Bob’s been a naughty boy!

December 10, 2006 wonkotsane Funny, Labour 3 comments

Oh dear, Councillor Piper has been a naughty boy. A very naughty boy in fact.

Bob has been very vocal about the BNP councillor elected in Sandwell in the past. Vocal to the point of presiding over his own personal witch-hunt but now he’s found himself in trouble with the Commission for Racial Equality over a mocked up picture of David Cameron with his face blacked up like a minstrel. The picture is accompanied with captions saying “Is it because I’s black?”, “Take the homeboy test” and “Yo Niggahs”.

Sandwell is a particularly … diverse … place and his picture, I think, will go down like a lead balloon with the locals.

The leader of Sandwell MBC said “I think it overstepped the mark quite frankly and I will be taking measures to see Councillor Piper as soon as possible.”

Ah Bob, I hope you forgive me chuckling to myself as I read the story for all those times you’ve accused me of bigotry and xenophobia.

The picture has been removed now but Bob, if you want your picture saved for posterity, send me a copy and I’ll be more than happy to host it for you.

Update:
Don’t worry about it Bob, I’ve already got myself a copy. 😆

Children to face passport interogations from next year

December 10, 2006 wonkotsane Police State 2 comments

NØ2ID has just released the following press release:

Schoolchildren to be targeted for ID interrogation

In a document leaked to the Sunday Times, the Home Office Identity and Passports Service (IPS) states that from March 26th next year children as young as 16 will be made to attend an intrusive “interview” at one of 69 interrogation centres across the UK, involving a round trip of up to 80 miles at their own cost. The request for proposals from advertising agencies suggests that one in four new applicants will fail to get their passport in time to travel.

The interviews with officials, which are expected to last around 20 minutes, are intended to probe the personal background of each applicant “to ensure that the identity actually belongs to the individual making the application”. An official file will be collated on each person from various sources, and they will then face cross examination by officials to check out their story against it.

Phil Booth, NO2ID’s National Coordinator said:

“If you’re planning on having a gap year, be prepared to answer a few questions.

“The Government is setting itself up to tell everyone who they are. And they are starting with impressionable teenagers. Submit to a grilling, and match what we think we know about you, or you won’t be able to travel, is what ‘Authentication by Interview’ really means. This is just a glimpse of the “papers, please” ID regime that is to come.

“Desperate to avoid another humiliating meltdown of the passport service, and wary of tipping its hand on ID cards, the Government now intends to burn taxpayers’ money in the millions propagandising your children to believe the state is the final arbiter of their identity.”

No justice for English firm

December 10, 2006 wonkotsane Federal Europe No comments

English curd cheese producer, Bowland Dairies, has been put out of business by the European Federation.

The European Commission’s Food and Vetinary Office (FVO) issued an alert saying that the curd cheese broke their rules on antibiotic residues and was therefore unsafe. The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) inspected the premises, found that the FVO’s report was wrong and that the products were, in fact, entirely safe.

The FVO again claimed that the curd cheese was unsafe and the FSA responded that the FVO seemed to be confused about what type of milk was being used and that the product was completely safe. The FVO appended its own comments to the FSA’s report saying that the product was unsafe.

Bowland Dairies took the FVO to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) who concluded that, based on the legal and scientific evidence, the product was safe and the FVO were wrong to try and ban it. The FVO tried to append its own negative comments to the ruling saying it had only lost on a technicality. The judge refused and FVO were ordered to withdraw their claim that the product was unsafe.

The FVO again spent 2 days inspecting Bowland Dairies but couldn’t find anything wrong. Despite this, the European Commission asked its Standing Committee on the Food Chain to approve a ban on Bowland’s product. Of the 25 members of the committee, 22 of them approved the ban whilst the UK abstained. The committee was not given access to the ECJ’s judgement or the scientific evidence proving that the FVO was wrong in its assessment. The only “evidence” provided was a defence of the antibiotic residue test by the company that invented it.

Even though Bowland have done nothing wrong and the European Commission has broken an ECJ court order, the British Department of Health has rushed through statutory instrument Curd Cheese (Restriction on Placing on the Market) Regulations 2006 which has immediate effect and says “No person shall place on the market any curd cheese manufactured by Bowland Dairy Products Limited”.

Yet again, it’s one rule for us and one for them. An English company has merely tried to go about its lawful business yet the European Commission has contrived to illegally put this company out of business with a complicit British government helping them to do so.

Hat-tip: Eurealist

Twat of the Week nominations

December 10, 2006 wonkotsane Twat of the Week 3 comments

Busy, busy, busy. Always busy.

Please let me have your Twat of the week nominations for this week either in the comments or via email.

Letter from David Wright MP

December 9, 2006 wonkotsane General No comments

I sent a couple of emails to David Wright recently and got a reply yesterday.

Dear David,

I wonder if I can bring EDM 296 to your attention? I was very pleased that you signed the previous EDM that I pointed out to you on the need for an English National Anthem – all we need now is a nation to have an anthem for!

EDM 296
ENGLISH INDEPENDENCE
27.11.2006
MacNeil, Angus
That this House welcomes the recent ICM poll showing a majority in both Scotland and England for English independence; feels that the time has come for England as Europe’s largest stateless nation to become visible again amongst the independent nations of the earth whose number has quadrupled over the 20th century from 50 to around 200; notes the benefit to the aggregate GDP of the British Isles of an independent Ireland; and asserts a belief in England’s ability to govern itself in the same manner as France and Germany without any direct help from the Scots.

You can’t ignore the opinions polls forever David, whether you agree with devolution or independence for England or not it’s what people want. As I’ve said before, I don’t have any particular desire to see the union broken up but can you really see our Scottish masters allowing us to run our own country? I’m afraid that I’m increasingly of the same opinion as a lot of my previously unionist associates with respect to independence, ie. it being the only way to cast of the tartan shackles.

I don’t imagine you will sign the EDM but I can’t help wondering at which point you’ll finally accept that the union has been destroyed by Labour’s discrimination against England – will it be before or after the union breaks up do you think? It could be the difference between you getting a job in the English Parliament and being cast out for opposing a fair deal for our country.

Stuart

David,

Here are some more EDM’s I would like you to support:

EDM 223 – That this House believes that St. George’s Day should be declared an official public holiday in England.

EDM 89 – That this House condemns the recent escalation of Israeli violence in Gaza, particularly the Beit Hanoun offensive, which has resulted in the killing of 80 Palestinians, including 13 members of the Al-Athamna family and the fatal shooting of two unarmed women, and the death of one Israeli soldier; condemns all acts of violence on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East; asks Israel as a democratic state to act according to the norms of such states; notes that these latest acts of violence are indiscriminate and represent an illegal and collective punishment which have resulted in the deaths of 694 Palestinians and 4,000 wounded since August 2005, when Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip; expresses grave concern that such actions serve merely to weaken and undermine the peace process rather than bolster it; believes that Israel should rethink the brutal and inhumane tactics of the IDF, which provide fresh impetus for Palestian militias, thus perpetuating the cycle of violence; calls for an immediate halt to all acts of violence on both sides; and further calls on the Quartet (United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia) to use their influence to end the blockade of the Gaza Strip, which is causing unnecessary suffering and hardening public opinion amongst the Palestian people.

EDM 44 – That this House recognises the vital role DNA and the DNA database play in the detection of crimes but is concerned about the retention of DNA samples on the National Police Database of those individuals who are neither charged nor cautioned; further recognises the potential detrimental effect the retention of DNA samples has on innocent juveniles; further recognises that there is a disproportionate number of DNA samples retained from members of black and ethnic minorities; and therefore calls on the Government to bring forward legislation to remove the DNA samples of non-charged and non-cautioned individuals currently on the database, except when the individuals concerned give their willing and continuing consent to the retention of their DNA.

EDM 29 – That this House notes the National Audit Office report on delays in administering the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England, which lays bare the full extent of the Government’s incompetence and the financial hardship it has caused English farmers; believes that English farmers were treated in a deplorable manner; regrets that errors and procedural mistakes in administering the Single Payment Scheme could end up costing each taxpayer £4.30; and calls on the Government to give all English farmers at least 80 per cent. of their due payment by 25th December 2006, helping them to have the financial certainty they need to continue producing the best food in the world.

Stuart

Here is David’s reply:

Dear Stuart

Thank you for your recent e-mails. I can confirm that I signed Early Day Motions 223 and 89.

I do not support the concept of an English Parliament. I would prefer to see English reigonal government. This is not the same as the City Region proposal which I support as a tool to encourage growth of the local economy and draw in investment from government departments.

With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

Yours sincerely

David Wright

So, while he supports a national holiday for England on England’s patron saint’s day, he still supports regionalisation which will break England up. At least he’s not blind to the state-sponsored terrorism perpetrated almost daily by Israel. He also appears to be in favour of the national ID database that will assume every citizen is a criminal that requires 24 hour monitoring but doesn’t seem too concerned about the farmers in his constituency that are still waiting to receive their farm subsidies because of the incompetence of the British government.

Despite the fact that as an MP he’s pretty naff and as a card carrying champagne socialist, I actually quite like the guy. No matter how much stick I give him he’s always polite and, with the exception of a few months about a year ago when he wouldn’t speak to me, he’s always responded to my emails. With Labour’s new-found environmentalism you’d think he’d start replying by email but he still insists on sending letters printed on expensive Commons paper.

Labour lose local election

December 8, 2006 wonkotsane Labour No comments

Good news! Labour lost the Dawley Magna By-election yesterday to Telford & Wrekin People’s Association which means they now tenuously cling on to Telford & Wrekin Council without a majority.

The leader of Telford & Wrekin Conservatives and the Lib Dums are both keen to form an alliance and the independents are likely to join up with them to get Labour out.

Adrian Williams of Telford & Wrekin People’s Association took 649 votes, followed by the Labour candidate Santokho Sekham with 476 and the Tory candidate Harvey Unwin with 446.

No2ID Take on the NHS database

December 7, 2006 wonkotsane Health, Police State One comment

A No2ID press release today brings our attention to The Big Opt Out – a campaign against the national NHS database and the mass upload of patients details to the database without patients permission.

The Department of Health has instructed GP’s to upload patient details they hold – personal details, medical history, records of GP visits, etc – to the new database when it comes online without first obtaining the permission of the patients. Sensitive information such as terminations or mental problems are supposed to be able to be locked away in the database but that system isn’t being implemented straight away meaning all these details will be available to over a million NHS workers – including temporary workers and secretaries – and will be maintained by a private company based in Warwick.

All is not lost, however. You can instruct your GP not to upload these details using this form.

And here was me thinking it was our fish

December 6, 2006 wonkotsane Federal Europe No comments

The European Federation is pushing for a further 25% reduction on fishing for cod and smaller reductions for plaice, sole and hake.

The proposal will be put before unelected EU fisheries ministers some time this month and no matter what they decide, the British government will be powerless to veto the decision.

And here was me thinking it was our fish.

Labour on the brink of losing another council

December 6, 2006 wonkotsane Labour No comments

Labour took a serious beating at the last round of local elections and are probably going to suffer the same fate again at next years local elections.

The resignation of a Labour councillor in the Dawley Magna parish in Telford has triggered an election which could see the balance of power tip out of Labour’s favour.

Telford & Wrekin was split into two separate constituencies to provide Labour with a safe seat. The Telford constituency – where Dawley Magna lies – contains all the housing estates and is a traditional Labour heartland. The Wrekin constituency consists of the old towns and rural parts of the borough which is traditionally a Conservative area.

Telford & Wrekin Council is run by a cabinet which is dominated by Labour councillors but indications are that Labour will lose the seat, possibly to a residents association candidate. If they do lose the seat, Labour will only control 26 of the 54 seats meaning that a coalition of opposition councillors could oust the ruling Labour cabinet – who are doing a pretty crap job incidently – and lose Labour yet another English council.

The Gord giveth and Gord taketh away

December 6, 2006 wonkotsane General, Labour No comments

The Tartan Taxman has released his pre-budget report today and surprise, surprise, the theme is more taxes with the motorist bearing the brunt. How nice it must be to have a free chauffeur driven car paid for the taxpayer.

“Green taxes” are a big part of this mini-budget with Gordon not letting the fact that global warming isn’t actually happening stop him from spouting the usual global warming doom and gloom and using it as an excuse to tax us. Fuel duty is going up by 1.25p per litre with effect from midnight tonight and the tax on short-haul flights is going up from £5 to £10.

Bearing in mind that the majority of goods are transported by road in this country because the rail network is so crap, who will end up paying for the increased costs of transporting goods to the shops? The general public of course. It’ll cost more to get to the shops, when we get there everything will cost more and we’ll all have less money to spend causing recession … but hey, at least Gordon will be saving us from global warming which, I may have mentioned previously, isn’t happening.

It’s almost worth him becoming Prime Minister just to get him out of the Treasury.

Finland ratifies EU constitution

December 5, 2006 wonkotsane Federal Europe No comments

Finland has become the latest European Federation member state to ratify the EU constitution.

Like almost every other member state that has ratified the constitution, the decision was made by career politicians and not by the people of that country. A public referendum was held a few months ago in France and the Netherlands, both founding members of the European Federation and historically European federalists.

The constitution would give the European Federation, with all its corrupt, unelected eurocrats, the stepping stone they need to create a true European Federation which – despite their best efforts to deny this is the case – is what has been intended for the EU since its conception as the European Coal Board. The document written by the founding father of what is now the EU proposing its creating actually says that it is “the first step towards a federal Europe”.

More city region lies from Telford

December 5, 2006 wonkotsane Regions No comments

On the front page of the Telford edition of today’s Shropshire Star is a story about the cost of the city region to the council taxpayers of Telford.

Taxpayers are likely to stump up more than £100,000 over the next few years to finance Telford’s new role in the West Midlands City Region, it was revealed today.

Borough councillors are being urged to spend £22,571 on “management and administration costs” in the current financial year. And this is likely to be an ongoing demand on the authority’s budget, says a report to Telford & Wrekin Council’s cabinet.

The decision to join forces with Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country in a new role on the West Midlands City Region was made by the cabinet in April.

Gerry Dawson, the man in charge of Telford & Wrekin’s city region project, has told the cabinet to set aside £100k to cover their share of the administrative and managerial costs of the city region for the next 4 years.

What is interesting isn’t the fact that all this taxpayers money is going to be spent on an unelected quango without the electorate getting a say in it but the fact that Telford & Wrekin Council still claim not to have any idea of how much the city region or any of the other quango’s cost the taxpayers of Telford. In fact, just yesterday Gerry Dawson claimed not to know how much membership of the West Midlands Regional Assembly costs. Where does the money come from? How does anyone know if it is cost effective for Telford to be a member of any of these quango’s if they don’t even know how much it costs?

Telford Council Watch have this to say:

Telford and Wrekin Council have recently issued a press release with regards a 3% increase in Council Tax and openly stated that they

“Operate with tight Financial Constraints”

But are still able to juggle budgets to finance schemes THEY WANT.

Initially it was £1.3 million into a private venture that was known as Telford First – now known as “Transforming Telford”.

Now

The Council are prepared to pay huge sums of Tax Payers Money into an unelected quango that is not needed, cumbersome and ineffective. Again this is a venture that has been shrouded in Secrecy and AGAIN the Residents of Telford and Wrekin are being forced to Finance an expensive Political Mechanism and not allowed to have a say.

£100,000 will, without a doubt be a minimum figure. There will be a huge amount of other costs associated with the City Region that the Council will hide.

It is clear, that Council Chiefs operate a Policy of Secrecy and even avoid answering questions that are asked under The Freedom of Information.

It is about time that all who oppose these Dirty Tricks carried out by the Council Unite as one voice, they cannot turn our Democracy into an autocracy.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Comments on West Midlands NO! please.

Hippies launch animal rights party

December 4, 2006 wonkotsane Terrorism 2 comments

A group of hippies, vegans and animal rights terrorists have launched a new political party called “Animals Count”. The party is a sister organisation to a Dutch political party of the same ilk.

The party is purely for those who believe that animal rights are more important than human rights and, if it hasn’t already been infiltrated by the animal rights facists already, it soon will be.

The party manifesto bangs on about animal rights, a complete ban on hunting, “reforms” to farming methods (state interference in farming has been so successful throught history), banning testing on animals and the establishment of a pet NHS.

Meanwhile, those of us who don’t exist on a diet or organic rice and lentils and therefore still have the strength to use a keyboard might like to visit the Countryside Alliance and Pro-Test who, between them, will tell you all about hunting, farming and animal testing from the perspective of people who actually do it for a living and consequently have more of an idea what they’re talking about than a bunch of dreadlocked hippies.

You might also like to take a look at VARE – Victims of Animal Rights Extremism – or just a simple google search for “animal rights extremists” to find out what the cuddly animal rights terrorists are getting up to. Things such as exhuming and hiding the body of a guinea pig farm owners mother, sending letter bombs to companies, blowing up the cars of employees of research companies, forcing banks to withdraw banking facilities and investments for research companies and general assault, theft and criminal damage.

I’ll have to stop there – it’s time to order some dead burnt animal from the sandwich shop.

Ian Paisley to be First Minister of NI?

December 4, 2006 wonkotsane Northern Ireland No comments

Sieg …

Reverend Ian Paisley, terrorist mouthpiece and sympathiser, says that he will accept the nomination of First Minister at Stormont if all his conditions are met.His conditions are that Sinn Féin prove that the IRA has been disbanded and its weapons decommissioned.

A war criminal heading up the British government and a terrorist heading up the Northern Irish Assembly. Best learn the words to Starspangled Banner because the UK is fast becoming a rogue state.

I’m the only unionist in the village

December 4, 2006 wonkotsane Wales One comment

A Welsh hotelier who was been forced to temporarily remove a Union Flag flying outside her hotel in Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, is now under pressure from the local council to move the flag poles closer to her hotel so visitors understand that it’s nothing to do with the residents of the village.

The hotel flies both a Welsh Dragon and Union Flag at equal heights from poles outside the hotel grounds on the hotel’s land. Residents weren’t content that the hotelier had already broken the flag flying rules by flying another flag at the same height as the Union Flag instead of in an inferior position and started a campaign to have it removed. The hotelier eventually caved in and took the flag down but has since had it put back where it was.

Since putting the flag back, she has received a letter from the local council trying to convince her to move the flag poles closer to the hotel so that visitors understand that she is the one flying the Union Flag, not the village or its residents.

I personally don’t care much for the Union Flag and you won’t ever find it flying at my house but if this woman is a unionist then she should be allowed to fly the national flag of the UK if she wishes. There is no law against it and she doesn’t require permission to fly it.

Looks like the “shared values” argument isn’t winning over bittoted ~~sheep sh~~ Welsh people.

EU to get involved in Litvinenko case

December 4, 2006 wonkotsane Federal Europe No comments

The North British English Home Secretary, John Reid, is to discuss the case of radiation posining that killed Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko at the European Council.

He says that it will be an opportunity to exchange information with colleagues that might help the investigation. That’s all well and good but what other involvement will they have? The European Federation is already trying to get its grubby mits on national law and justice and this isn’t a normal thing to do. Has the Federation told the Home Secertary and his counterparts in other member states to refer high profile cases to the European Council or is this part of the traitor’s multi-million pound “sell the EU” project?

Twats of the Week: Gordon Brown and Peter Hain

December 3, 2006 wonkotsane Twat of the Week One comment

Yes, yes, it’s about 5 days too late but I’ve been a busy boy.

Peter Hain		6 (25%)
Charlie Falconer		4 (17%)
Gordon Brown		6 (25%)
Tony Bliar		8 (33%)
Douglas Alexander		0 (0%)
George Bush		0 (0%)

In the first ToTW tie, this week’s Twats of the Week are Gordon Brown and Peter Hain.

The EU is good, the EU is great …

December 3, 2006 wonkotsane Federal Europe, Labour No comments

… surrender your will as of this date.

Traitor Blair has got so fed up with euroscepticism that he’s planning on spending millions of pounds of taxpayers money telling us how fabulous the European Federation is.

Actually, that’s not strictly true. What he’s doing is banning references to EU directives, the European Commission, Brussels, Strasbourg and CAP and bigging up things like the Eurovision Song Contest, UEFA and Blue Flag beaches – none of which are anything to do with the EU but which apparently give the general public a nice warm fuzzy feeling about Europe.

That’s the theory anyway, the reality is different.

Euroscepticism is on the increase. The EU and British government are so desperate for any glimmer of positive thoughts about the European Federation that they are reduced to pathetically claiming that people support the European Federation if they tell a federation pollster that they would like more information on how the European Federation works. I’d like to know more about how it works as well but I’m a eurosceptic. Sad isn’t it?

Under these new plans our taxes will be spent on a senior press officer for each Whitehall department to concentrate solely on pushing out pro-EU propaganda. The idea was cooked up by Howell James, a friend of EU Commissioner Peter Mandelson. James is paid £180k of our taxes to come up with propaganda for the British government.

This is a sad, sad, pathetic attempt to try and sell a corrupt and unwanted federal superstate. Next to nobody in this country would piss on the European Federation if it was on fire. Membership of the EU costs us around £52bn every year – that’s £873 for every man, woman and child in the UK. That’s the financial cost taking into account all the “benefits” of being in the European Federations such as … oh, giving us some of our money back to build roads and … ah yes, being able to work in Poland for a sack of potatoes a week and all the turnip wine you can drink. The non-financial cost in terms of the European Federation’s determined efforts to wipe our country off the map, undermining the sovereignty of our democratically (well, sort of) elected government and damaging our relations with the rest of the world is inestimable. Even the Queen is an ordinary citizen under EU law for gods sake! How long will it be before an enterprising German police officer turns up at Buckingham Palace with some trumped up EU arrest warrant for crimes against the German nation during the war and demands the Queen be extradited? Ok, it’s unlikely but it could happen.

EDM on English Independence

December 2, 2006 wonkotsane England 6 comments

Angus MacNeal, SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles), has introduced an Early Day Motion – EDM 296 – calling on Parliament to give England it’s independence:

That this House welcomes the recent ICM poll showing a majority in both Scotland and England for English independence; feels that the time has come for England as Europe’s largest stateless nation to become visible again amongst the independent nations of the earth whose number has quadrupled over the 20th century from 50 to around 200; notes the benefit to the aggregate GDP of the British Isles of an independent Ireland; and asserts a belief in England’s ability to govern itself in the same manner as France and Germany without any direct help from the Scots.

Will the Scottish Raj ever allow England the right to govern itself? Not much chance really is there? Write to your MP and ask them to support EDM 296.

Why is it always the English that pay?

December 1, 2006 wonkotsane Anglophobia, BBC Bias 6 comments

Alistair Darling, the English Transport Minister elected in Scotland, is set to introduce a pay-as-you-drive scam in England but not in Scotland where he was elected.

The story was reported on BBC Breakfast this morning, minus the bits about the discrimination unsurprisingly.

Why is it always the English that pay? Even when Scots drive in England they won’t have to pay because they won’t have the tracking equipment fitted to their cars.

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