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“English” Booze Culture

June 6, 2007 England, Police State, Propaganda One comment

The British government wants to tackle the “English drinking culture” which makes binge drinking, drunkenness and anti-social behaviour acceptable.

Vernon Coaker, a pretend minister at the Home Office, wants to change the perception that it’s “acceptable to drink to get drunk” and the campaign will not only target young binge drinkers out for a night on the tiles but older people drinking at home.

Caroline Flint, another pretend minister at the Department for Health, said middle-age, middle-class drinkers will mainly be targetted.  Presumably her BA (Hons) in American literature and American history qualifies her in some way to pontificate on the subject of drinking and the whole alcohol industry.

Vernon Croaker said “It’s almost regarded as acceptable to drink to get drunk and we want to change that attitude.”  You’re wrong though Vernon – it is acceptable to drink to get drunk.  It’s this little thing called free will – just a silly tradition really – where people are free to do what the fuck they want as long as they’re not breaking the law without having an over-bearing, interfering nanny state dictating what they are and are not allowed to find acceptable.

Alcohol abuse kills one Scot every six hours yet it is the “English drinking culture” that needs to be changed and English lives that need further intereference from the state. If people want to drink too much – in public or in the privacy of their own home – then that is of no concern to the state. Get on with running the country and get your noses out of our private business.

British government says we can’t have equality

June 5, 2007 Anglophobia, Come the revolution, England, Propaganda 2 comments

The treacherous British government has responded to a petition with over 1,700 signatures demanding an English Parliament.

The petition said:

The 1998 Scotland Act has left England uniquely without its own Parliament or Assembly. Simple fairness requires that an English Parliament now be created.

The response is below.  To see my comments, hover over the speech bubbles The comment would be here.

Devolution has been designed to meet the varying demands of the people of the UK The English are demanding devolution. The great virtue of the British Constitution is that it has for centuries, been able to accommodate difference and anomaly in order to meet the specific aspirations of the British people The English have aspirations of self governance, just like the rest of the UK.

English constituency MPs currently total over 80% of Members in Parliament and they represent over 80% of the population of the UK But they're British MPs and they are concerned with the whole of the UK, not just England. An English Parliament would turn the UK into a federal nation Good!. History shows that where one country in a federation contains more than 30% of the economic wealth or population, the federation is unsustainable An example would be ... ?. England’s dominance within the UK would make a federal UK unsustainable Wrong - an English Parliament would be concerned only with devolved English matters. There would be continued tension between the policies of the English Parliament and Government, and those of the federal Parliament and Government, with the English institutions determining most of the economic and social policies, including public expenditure, but the federal institutions responsible for defence, taxation and macro-economic policy This is what happens in Scotland and Wales now.

The highest priority was given to the creation of a parliament in Scotland, and a national assembly in Wales, since the demand for decentralisation in these countries was long-standing What, so we can't have it until we`ve waited for decades just because Scotland and Wales had to?. Indeed, proposals to create similar institutions were enacted in the late 1970’s but failed to secure the necessary majorities in referendums Ok, so give us a referendum and see what happens. The existing devolution settlement introduced in 1997/98 was designed to meet varying needs, and enabled better local decision making, in response to local issues But not for England ... which is the point being made you cretin!.

Millibeast singles out English over recycling

May 24, 2007 Federal Europe, Propaganda One comment

The Millibeast is planning to introduce a “pay as you throw” scheme in England to encourage recycling.

He is due to publish his “England Waste Strategy” because he fears that England is falling behind the rest of Europe on recycling.

The urge to force us to recycle as much as possible isn’t an environmental one, it is because the weak British government allows itself to be dictated to by the European Federation which fines us billions of pounds for missing their recycling targets.

Charging for the amount of rubbish we throw away will result in more fly-tipping.  Of those that do pay, the poorest families and large households will be the ones that will be hit the hardest.  Budget goods contain more packaging to make what is being sold more appealing to the buyer.  If you buy an expensive packet of some meat product it will likely be wrapped in the minimal amount of plastic.  Buy the budget equivalent and it’ll be wrapped up in all sorts of exciting packaging to convince you that something with that amount of fancy packaging isn’t just a lump of offal and animal bones pressed into a mysterious shape.

Observant readers will note the emphasis on the word England in the first two paragraphs.  These proposals, of course, don’t apply to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.  As far as I know they don’t do things any differently to England when it comes to recycling but only the English are being singled out for punishment.

If our neighbours continue to underperform on recycling and bring down the UK average below the minimum required to escape the EU fines who will pay the fines?  The Scottish or Welsh taxpayer?  Of course not – only one nation pays more money into the UK Treasury than it spends – the English taxpayer will pay to have their bins emptied, extra depending on how much rubbish they throw away and then they’ll pay the EU fines for not hitting targets.

Regional Bullshit Report

May 15, 2007 Propaganda, Regions No comments

Too angry to talk about this any more – just read this.

Whose oil is it anyway?

April 26, 2007 Propaganda, Scotland One comment

The Tartan Taxman is adhering faithfully to Labour’s new policy of reminding Scots how much they stand to lose financially if they cut the English purse strings.

He’s told the SNP that they can’t have it both ways – if they claim all the revenues from north sea oil and gas (including English oil and gas that was donated to Scotland without our permission) then they can’t have all the money from the Barnett Formula.

The SNP’s screwy maths leads them to think that the oil and gas is worth almost a billion a month in revenues when it’s actually £7bn which is £4.3bn short of the amount English taxpayers subsidise them by and presumably why Gorodn Brown is saying they can’t have all the money they currently get under the Barnett Formula rather than telling the scrounging subsidy junkies that they can’t have anything.

EU national anthem at football matches?

March 28, 2007 Federal Europe, Propaganda, Sport No comments

MEP’s will vote this week on proposals to enforce the flying of the EU rag and singing of the EU “national” anthem at European football championships.

It’s not clear whether the proposal is to have it playing instead of national anthems of the countries involved or whether it will be played in addition to the national anthems like they do in the cricket when England have Jerusalem played before the British national anthem.

I’m unsure what the reaction would be to the EU anthem being played at a football match involving England.  It’s a nice enough tune – Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s 9th – but we are the most eurosceptic country in the EU.  Either the song will be ignored because nobody recognises it or it will be greeted by boos and whistles.  I’m leaning toward the latter.

There’s also the question of what happens when a non-EU country’s team is in the finals.  Say, for instance, the final was between Norway and Switzerland (yes, it’s unlikely, but how many people put money on Greece in 2004?).  Neither of these countries are EU member states – would their fans be forced to watch some jumped up eurofederalists parade around the pitch waving that blue rag and listen to a piece of classical music that apparently represents the values of the EU (I’d have though Deutschland über alles was a more appropriate choice personally)?

I mute the telly when they play God Save the Queen before England matches, I’d turn the telly off rather than see the EU take over the event for its own propaganda purposes.  This is just a step too far – sport is the main expression of nationalism in Europe (in England, it’s the only one we’re still allowed by the Scottish Raj) so it’s easy to see why the eurofederalists are keen to take control of it.

I am not an EU citizen.

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