Mrs Sane has finally accepted that we’re not having another baby and decided on a puppy instead so last night the Sane family welcomed Charlie, an 8 week old West Highland Terrier crossed with a Toy Poodle.

And before any bright spark makes a comment, yes I am well aware of the irony of me having a half Scottish, half French dog.

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One day the people of England will realise that socialists just cannot run the country.  The last time Liebour was in government they left the economy in tatters and sure enough, the economy is in tatters again.  Is it a co-incidence that most of Europe is run by socialists?

The Bank of England has dropped the interest rates again to 0.5% and asked the Chancellor for permission to start quantative easing which, being a clueless idiot, he agreed to.

Quantative easing is where the Bank of England magics money out of thin air to buy assets off banks which gives the banks more cash.  The value of the pound reflects the value of UK Plc and inventing another £75bn of cash dilutes the currency, reducing its value against foreign currency.  This makes imports more expensive, exports worth less and all the foreign money the British government has borrowed to bail out the banks more expensive to pay back.
The Zimbabwean central bank has been doing this for the last couple of years and has just had to knock 12 zeroes off the Zimbabwean Dollar to bring the exchange rate down from 161 trillion dollars to the pound.  It was also used by the Germans between the two world wars, devalued the reichmark to a trillionth of its pre-war value and as a direct consequence, the Nazi’s came to power on the back of a policy of national socialism depriving Jews and bankers of their wealth.

The general feeling of the ruling class – certainly in the European Empire – is against national socialism and in favour of international socialism.  More iNazi than Nazi – very 21st century and the Apple logo will look great on the EU secret police uniforms.  Bankers and stock market traders are being held up as the cause of the recession and while the bankers, certainly, have to take some of the blame, they are not the cause of the recession.  The British government’s attempts to deprive Fred Goodwin of his pension is precisely the sort of policy the Nazi’s pursued between the two wars.

Quantative easing is going to cost us a lot of money and it will take decades or an event on the scale of the second world war to rid ourselves of the consequences.

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There’s lots of talk about trying to take Fred Goodwin’s pension off him and the British government are making vague noises about a legal challenge but is there a case to answer?

I’m sure the British govenment has a team of lawyers going through every clause of Goodwin’s contract, looking for any get-out clause but they might be missing something more fundamental – Wednesbury Unreasonableness.

Wednesbury Unreasonableness is a legal precedent set in 1948 in the case of Associated Provincial Picture Houses -v- Wednesbury Corporation in which the judge ruled that the courts could only overturn a legal administrative decision if the decision was “so outrageous in its defiance of logic or accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it”.

That Fred Goodwin should receive a pension which the media is now telling us is over £700k per year after taking the UK’s second largest bank to the brink of bankruptcy is certainly outrageous and in defiance of logic.  Rewarding someone so handsomly for bankrupting a bank and costing the taxpayer billions of pounds to bail it out is morally objectionable and no sensible person would have given him a £700k pension given the choice.

But a pension isn’t a performance related bonus and Goodwin’s contract says he’s entitled to it so, understanding that fact, would a sensible person still have failed to come to the conclusion that he should be paid his pension?

Any armchair lawyers out there with an opinion?

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Basque nationalists have won 37 out of 75 seats in the Spanish general election which leaves them one seat short of a majority.

The Basque Nationalist Party will have to form a coalition with Aralar, Eusko Alkartasuna and Ezker Batua and hope that the conservatives don’t jump into bed with the socialists if they are to form a government.  It’s certainly unlikely but as we know in England, when the unionists are faced with nationalists they can be thick as thieves.

The nationalists’ performance was hindered by the Spanish High Court banning two nationalist parties in the run-up to the election.

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I’ve just had an interesting heated discussion with my parents and ended up calling them communists!

My dad was having a bitch about the RBS chairman, Sir Fred Goodwin, and his eye-popping pension.  Naturally he thinks it’s a disgrace and that he should lose his pension because he’s failed at his job.  God, it was like listening to someone reading the front page of the Sun.

I tried to explain that a pension isn’t performance-related pay, that his contract said that he was entitled to it and that the British government can’t just ignore the law and tear up a contract because someone is shit at their job.  I said that once they’d got away with doing it once they’d do it again and again.  I tried to explain that socialists are jealous people and that they would do it to more and more people and that it wouldn’t be the people at the top with all the money that lost out because they’re the ones who give the parties all their money.

“Yeah, it’ll be Joe Public that loses out, not them buggers in charge,” said my dad.  Erm, isn’t that the point I’ve been trying to make for the last 10 minutes?

There’s was no talking sense to them, they were convinced that Goodwin’s pension was so outrageous it was worth giving the British government carte blanche to break the law whenever it suits them and I ended up telling them they were communists.  Like so many people, the poll tax was the straw that broke the camel’s back and they voted Liebour to get rid of the Tories.  They can’t wait to get rid of Liebour now after the balls up they’ve made these last few years.  They’re just the sort of fickle swing voters that make or break a party’s fortunes at an election, people that will vote for a party that they don’t support and one to which they are ordinarily diametrically opposed on the strength of a single issue.

Disaffection with the whole system has caused such a general disinterest in politics that people see no problem voting for someone they don’t want to get rid of someone else they don’t want or because they agree with one thing a party says on a topical news item.  People feel like they aren’t being listened to and that no matter what they say or do, nothing will change.

It’s a sad state of affairs but that’s English politics for you.

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Back in December …

Prime minister Gordon Brown wants investment in technology to be at the heart of the UK and Europe’s economic recovery.

Speaking after a summit with business leaders from firms including Vodafone and BT, as well as French president Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso, Brown said the time had come “to build the technological and environmental infrastructure of the 21st century”.

And yesterday …

Mobile phone operator Vodafone has announced plans to cut about 500 jobs in the UK in an effort to reduce costs.

Jonah strikes again.

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A senior Met Police officer has warned that we are likely to experience a “summer of rage” caused by “known activists”.

Superindendent David Hartshorn says that “known activists” are likely to organise protests and the recession will provide them with the “footsoldiers” they need.

The “known activists” are most likely the BNP.  The timing – just after the BNP trounced Liebour in a Kent by-election – is too much of a co-incidence.  He also mentions banks as a viable target.

Would the BNP use the banks as an excuse to wind people up?  Does a bear shit in the woods?  The BNP are left wing socialists with a policy of extensive nationalisation.  Most of their members are only interested in booting foreigners out of the country but the party is about more than that.  The BNP want a nationalist socialist country with prison sentences for people who weaken the state and nationalisation of key industries.

But the police are wrong to be concentrating on the BNP – they should be looking at the eco-terrorists as the biggest threat.  These are people that are evangelical in their belief that the world is about to end in a man-made climate apocalypse.  Sensible people who realise that the global warming scam is a load of bollocks have already been labelled as worse than the nazi’s and likened to holocaust deniers and virtually nobody dares question the climate change propagandists in public.  Importantly, they vast majority of eco-terrorists are also anti-capitalists and they see capitalism as the cause of the man-made climate change they’ve invented.

The eco-terrorists have a judgement in their favour that they can use to justify whatever damage and destruction they want to cause.  They argued that they were justified in causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage to Kingsnorth power station because the law says you can cause reasonable damage to prevent even greater damage from happening.  This was intended for things like breaking down the door of a house to turn off the gas supply in times of emergency or breaking into a petrol tanker to move it from a car fire, that type of thing.  But a jury agreed that the eco-terrorists at Kingsnorth were justified in causing £30k worth of criminal damage to the power station because of the damage it causes to the environment.

That ruling gives the eco-terrorists a get out of jail free card.  In fact, it gives them an avoid jail in the first place card.  They’re motivated, the British government is doing their propaganda work for them and the law appears to be on their side.  Rather than obsessing over the BNP where the entire establishment is working against them, the police and politicians should be more concerned about the eco-terrorists that are already on the inside.

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Mrs Sane and I went to a 40’s and 50’s themed party last night.  I’ve never had to wear a monkey suit before – we don’t get invited to those sort of parties usually!

I felt like a waiter in an Indian takeaway.

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Another day, another victim of the curse of Jonah Brown.

Yesterday it was the turn of Saab who, following talks between their Chairman and El Gordo on setting up a new factory in the UK, are now considering filing for bankruptcy protection in Sweden.

Today’s victim is the mining company, Anglo American, which has just announced 9,000 job cuts worldwide.

The link with Jonah?  Cynthia Caroll, Chief Executive of Anglo American sits on Jonah Brown’s “Business Council for Britain” – a group of unelected representatives from big business who advise him on business policy for England (it’s devolved in the rest of the UK).

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Jonah Brown is continuing to wreak havoc on the global economy.

A week ago he visited an Ericsson R&D plant, a Mini factory and a Corus factory.  A few days later Ericsson announced 5,000 job cuts, BMW announced 850 job cuts at Mini and Tata announced massive job cuts as part of a £600m cost saving exercise at Corus.

When I saw the announcement that Saab is considering filing for bankruptcy protection in Sweden, my first reaction was “what’s the link with Gordo?”  And sure enough, it didn’t take long to find evidence of Jonah’s involvement.

El Gordo has been talking to the head of General Motors in Europe, Carl-Peter Forster, about setting up an electric car factory in the UK.  Carl-Peter Forster also happens to be Chairman of … you’ve guessed it … Saab.

How different things might have been if Jonah hadn’t been allowed to spread his curse around the globe.

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Jade Goody shot to fame for her … interesting … performance on Big Brother and has kept herself in the papers by doing daft things and insulting people.

Sadly, she has terminal cancer and her time on the mortal coil is coming to an end.  She will leave behind two young children.

Doctors are doing what they can to prolong her life and it’s a cruel twist of fate that Jonah Brown has chosen to curse her by praising her determination.  He visited John MacDougall, the MP for Glenrothes, days before he lost his battle with cancer …

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