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23 June 2010
United In Austerity by Vince Cable
recommended by John De Roe

Liberal Democrat economist and Secretary for Business in the coalition government opens his review of the emergency budget with these words:
The emergency budget will be painful. The cuts in spending and the increases in tax will be felt by everyone, resented by some but understood, I think, by most. Our coalition government is united in accepting that its first duty is to clean up the fiscal mess it inherited. Not any old mess but a great, steaming pile of manure. Someone has to remove it. We can't just hide the smell beneath the perfume of optimistic forecasts or rely on natural decay ...

Read all Vince Cable's United In Austerity here

Vince is right, at the Daily Stirrer we only get about 2000 readers a day but we have been warning since we started to publish of the dire state the economy was really in. Labour leaning media organisations are still trying to sell the idea that Gordon Browns bust and bust, borrow and spend economics left the economy in great shape. Even the Conservastive sector of mainstream media has soft peddalled on the true state of the economy. Raising tax and curbing spending was the only available option, Labour commentators who still insist we should have carried on borrown and increasing spending are insane.

The truth is, to be brutally honest, we are up shit creek and the boat is leaking. George Osborne's public spending cuts were necessary and urgent. Somehow public sector spending must be brought under control before Britain's international credit rating is downgraded which will mean the Bank Of England having to pay a higher rate of interest to the organisations that take up the bonds it sells to finance our monthly overspend.

I am not a George Osborne fan but at least he had the guts to face up to the reality Labour could never stomach. At some point the government has to stop spending more than it can earn. It's a no brainer.

The Truth About The Budget Cuts
by Anna Raccoon
recommended by Ian R Thorpe

As the New Labour mafia try to orchestrate the whining about tax rises and public spending cuts in the coalition's emergency budget (made necessary by Labour's financial mismanagement) Anna Raccoon points out a few home truths about the cuts and their effects.

Leaving the sentimental stuff aside I was shocked by Polly Toynbee’s maligning of the budget because the VAT rise will “push the country back into recession”

Now if Georgie Osborne had slapped an extra 20% on goods that might make me think twice before spending but an extra £2.50 on a hundred quid item will not even register on the radar. And it is still my choice whether I pay it or not.

The real danger lies in your suggestion Anna that if people can no longer afford to buy a sandwich from Pret a manger they could buy a loaf, a tin of spam and make their own. If people learn to do thinks for themselves again it will expose how few real jobs there are in the economy.

22 June 2010
Was The Gulf Oil Spill A Tad Too Convenient? by Ed Butt

Was the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster just too perfectly timed for a strugging administration smarting from being made to look foolish because of its support for Global Warming science and desperate to get its Cap and Trade law through congress?
Some people may ay so, we of course could not possibly comment. When you see the video embedded in this post from Citizen Wells you just might think it is very feasible however.
Oil Leak - Too Many Coincidences?

21 June 2010
Clean Energy Pipedreams
by Xavier Connolly

When JFK was President he launched a project to put a man on the moon by 1969. It was called the Manhattan Project. When faced with plunging poll ratings, ridicule at home and abroad and a nation more horribly divided than it has been since the civil war Obama, ever the great imitator decided to launch his own "Manhattan Project" by publicly stating America would be carbon neutral by 2050. He's talking bollocks of course.
Clean Energy Is A Pipedream

None of the "sustainable power" technologies available or in development so far are capable of producing the amount of power a modern society in a developed nation needs twenty four hours a day, thre hundred and sixty five days a year. The current fad among scientists and politicians is solar power. They seem to overlook the fact that the sun does not shine for half the year (at night) and across most of the world rainy days make another hole in potential power generation time.

Wind is not only useless when the wind does not blow strongly enough to turn the turbines (less than about 10mph) it also does not work when the wind is too strong and when the wind is gusty. There is a very narrow band of wind speeds at which the turbines work at optimum efficiency, most of the time they run well below what is economically viable.

As for biomass, don't even go there. Which leaves waves, tides and marine currents as we have always argued at The Daily Stirrer. And though the technologies in that area are more promising nobody is putting adequate funds into research and the weirdie beardies are already yelling "Save the two toed shrimp."

Fear and Panic

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19 June 2010
Strrings
by Ed Butt

A bleak weekend for The Stirrer with one writer on holiday, one at a family wedding and one solving a technical problem (not the oil spill fortunately) for a friend's business. Here are some stirrings from around the web however, should give you plenty to get wound up about until we get our usual flow of controversial opinion and orthodox comment flowing again.

£1.8 billion down the drain
The recently deceased Labour government, it has been revealed, spent £1.8 billion on consultants. How's that for mismanagement, thy were happy to pay top civil servants big fat salaries and give them bomb proof pensions even though consultants had to be emloyed to do the useless fuckers jobs for them

Humans Will Be Extinct Within 100 Years says scientist An Australian scientist has predicted humans will be extinct within 100 years due to overpopulation and the effects of climate change. Nothing like spreading a bit of fear and panic when you're fishing for a research grant is there

Gulf Oil Disater Hypocrisy As Obama and members of his administration run round like headless chickens trying to shift all the blame onto BP, Citizen Wells shows the administration is as much to blame as anyone.

18 June 2010
Nations Mutiny As The Eurozone Unravels
by John De Roe

The rebellion against the 1930s fiscal and monetary policies of the Euro-complex is gathering pace.
Il Sole has published a letter by 100 Italian economists warning that the austerity strategy imposed by Brussels/Frankfurt risks tipping Europe into a self-feeding downward spiral. Far from holding the eurozone together, it will cause weaker countries to be catapulted out of EMU. Others will leave in order to restore sovereign control over their central banks and unemployment policies.

On the same day we learned of that we also learn that Angela Merkel's coalition government in Germany is on the brink of collapse as German taxpayers rebel against constantly having to carry the Eurozone basket case economies on their Teutonic shoulders. And Geert Wilders, the right wing Dutch politicians who was banned from entering Britain by Gordon Browns populist authoritarian regime is poised to sweep to power or at least a big share of it because the Dutch voters are also sick of the Euro shenaneghins. Meanwhile Belgium is about to split into two nations, the divisions of this synthesized nation having been exacerbated by economic problems associated with Euro membership.

Nations Mutiny As The Eurozone Unravels

Only little Luxembourg still meets the economic criteria that were applied to nations wanting to join the Eurozone when the single curency was launched.

it was always obvious to anybosy with the least amount of economic nous the Eurozone had to fail. Unfortunately the European superstate gan, the world government suporters had the upper hand at the time. And look what happened... RELATED POSTS: Interesting Times
The folly of lending money in the bond m,arkets at 0.5% interest only to borrow it back from banks at 3.5% interest. This is what our governments have been doing in effect. Are you surprised we're up shit creek? Piigs Might Crash And Burn
A recent warning of the current financial meltdown in the Eurozone posted in The Daily Stirrer as the G20 leaders were claiming their timely action had averted such a crisis. The words of politicians re cheap because there are no principles, only expedients in politics. The words of The Daily Stirrer however contain jewels of wisdom crystalised by experience. They are as valuable as any commodity you could possibly own because they could help you hold onto what you own
. Next Financial Crisis
We had already told you what would happen in finance, here we tell you why it had to happen.
Magic Money
How conjuring money out of thin air led the world into economic meltdown. When money can be produced out nothing then no value can be attached to anything.

Debt Crisis

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17 June 2010
The Absolute Necessity Of Curbing State Spending
by John De Roe

The left, already laughable styling themselves "the opposition" even as Labour splits into tiny factions including the "old left" the traditional party of the working class, the people with traditional Labour values who recognise there are no magical solution, the "progressive left", the kind of people my colleague Ian Thorpe refers to as The Politically Correct Thought Police, who are currently working themselves into a frenzy about the coalition's proposed cuts to public spending that will at least go some way towards bringing the public sector deficits under control and the "power at any price spinmeisters of New Labour, the people who have no idea how to solve the problems but believe during their thirteen years in power they infantilise Labour's core vote sufficiently for them to be able to spin their way out of the abyss by talking of abolishing child poverty and making internet access a human right.

The traditional left can be ignored, they will always be there, sustained by that sector of the Labour constituency covered by the phrase "they'd vote for a dog turn if you pinned a Labour rosette on it.

New Labour can be ignored. They are the dead parrot of politics, a party within a party, political operators completely unencumbered by anything resembling a principle.

This leaves us with the progressive left. Theirs is a siren song that can turn the heads of the feckless who hear meaningless talk of abolishing poverty and imagine a socialist utopia where cash handouts are available on demand, can delude the identity politics players who all too easily convince themselves that racism, homophobia, islamophobia and other completely irrelevant issues are the biggest problems our society faces.

It is the progressive left, the thought police, who are trying to spread fear and panic about the very necessary and urgent spending cuts. Article after article in The Guardian and on left leaning blogs (not that anybody reads those) warns that public spending cuts now will endanger the "recovery."

What recovery? When will these economic illiterates understand that public spending does not grow the economy, it merely grows the deficit. Printing money, which is what Labour were doing for most of their thirteen years in power and what in the guise of quantitative easing they did over the past two years that have exacerbated the damage done by the financial meltdown that followed the bursting of the housing bubble in 2007, is accomplished by selling debt. Running up debts does not grow the economy as this idiot is suggesting (National Debt Is The Money Government Owes Us) and another idiot is arging here (an excuse to shrink the state)

In support of their economically suicidal argument that the state has a bottomless pit of money from which it can keep funding pointless projects and financing futile policies the left likes to cite how Franklyn D Roosvelt's government tacked the great depression by funding huge infrastructure projects in the 1930s. There are a few small, barely significant differences. The first of these is that prior to World War 2 world demand for oil was booming and America at that time was the principal, indeed the only bulk supplier. Second was that vast tracts of the American mid west were undeveloped, still a horse and cart economy. Third was that America had the grain and cattle states of mid west, the great plantations of the south and the farms of the north east and the west coast, a vast agricultural base. America had stuff to sell that the world wanted to buy. We have financial services. America in the 1930s lacked infrastructure. Britain in the second decade of the 21st century does not lack infrastructure. So perhaps Roosvelt's solution is not quite appropriate for our situation.

Basically the advice given by Wilkins Micawber in Dickens' novel David Copperfield is more appropriate to our current situation. Annual income £20, annual expenditure £19.95p; result happiness. Annual income £20, annual expenditure £20.05p; result misery (for pedants I put it in current money terms for our younger readers).

To put it even more simply so that even members of the progressive left can understand, if you keep spending more than you earn sooner or later your creditors call in the debt and then you're in big trouble.

Debt Crisis

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16 June 2010
Afghan Surge Hits The Armco
by Ed Butt

It had to be a bad idea, Barack Obama claimed the credit for thinking it up all by himself.

With allied casualties rising in Afghasnistan and areas the United Nations forces recently claimed to have "liberated" now slipping back towards Taliban domination the much hyped surge sems to have hit the crash barrier. Afghan guerilla fighters are repeating the tactics that have served them well for a thousand years, that of melting away into the hills and desert in the face of superior forces and then regrouping to launch small attacks ('war of the fleas') one the invaders have become entetnched in their positions and thus easy targets for a highly mobile, virtually invisible force.

Will Obama's Afghan Surge Run Into The Sand? asks leftie writer Simon Tisdall. The left are totally out of touch with reality aren't they. He's asking "Will it?" when anyone can see it already has.

The Afghan war was lost from the moment George W Bush launched the invasion in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks. Obama has only shown his weakness and ineptitude as a leader, his ignorance of any history except the fictionalised histories of Black America and British colonialism. As long as this clown and poseur remains in the White House the world will continue to stumble towards permanent low level clutural conflict.

15 June 2010
Is It Time To Ban Maths From Schools?
by Ian R Thorpe

Academics and politicians are always banging on about how school pulpils have no interest in maths and science. They blame everybody but themselves of course. When you get down to it, maybe the way Maths and Science are taught in schools is to blame. Or maybe it is the nerds who teach it and try to infect pupils with their own irrational enthusiasm for the uttrly pointless that has made these subjects so uncool.

Read full article Is It Time To Ban Maths From Schools?

Science & Technology Menu

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14 June 2010
America's New N Word
recommended by Ed Butt

Othrodox wisdom held that with the election of a black President, Barack Obama, America would enter a new post racial phase in its development. Unfortunately the much anticipated and hyped Obama effect has been the opposite of what the President's fans predicted. Halfway through Obama's second year in office there is more racial tension, more mistrust and more animosity than there has been at any time in the past 40 years. And it is not just the whites that are feeling it.

In Negrophilia
a new book by black America writer Erik Rush with this title will be published later in the week. Rush argues that the greatest social force working against black Americans is the excessive affinity to opportunistic and self serving black leders by guilt tripped white liberals. I couldn't possibly comment except to say that Mr. Rush demonstrates yet again how seriously fucked American society is.

13 june 2010
Will Wind Power Be A Way Of Farming Money For Operators.
by Xavier Connolly

The Daily Stirrer has never doubted that climate change is happening and that is poses some serious problems for humanity. Whenever you hear the climate scientists ranting about climate change deeniers remember that our position is similar to that of most sceptics. Where we diverse from the science is God squad is that we are not convinced of the infallibility of "scientists" and their mathematical models or the abilities of their favoured technologies to do anything but make the problems worse.

In Does Money Grow On Windmills Andrew Gilligan takes a close look at the reality of the wind power industry against the hypoerbolic claims of its supporters.

Despite the wailing of the Green lobby and the Climate Change evangelists and Science worshippers wind power is a bloody stupid thing to invest money and effort in if we want to create a sustainable, non - polluting energy source to power the nation. If we are simply looking for ways to channel taxpayers money into the pockets of immensely rich and powerful energy corporations and landowners however it is hard to think of a better way to do it.

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12 June 2010
Pentagon Hunts Wiki Leaks Founder
recommended by Ian R Thorpe

Pentagon hunts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in bid to gag the website. Soldier Bradley Manning said to have leaked diplomatic cables to whistleblower, . Plus video of US troops killing Iraqis; fear and panic in Washington DC is a story in todays Guardian

American officials are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks in an attempt to pressure him not to publish thousands of confidential and potentially hugely embarrassing diplomatic cables that offer unfiltered assessments of Middle East governments and leaders.

US news reporting and opinion website The Daily Beast reported Assange is a wanted manearlier this week after Wiki Leaks revealed plans to post security related documents stolen by US Army intelligence worker Bradley Manning, a serving soldier. Some of the 260,000 documents contained information that could make United States military installations vulnerable to terrorist attacks or expose the identities of intelligence workers and technical specialists.

Now we may call this blog The Daily Stirrer and we like to stir things up a bit even if than means sometimes giving publicity to some fairly whacky conspiracy theories. It is not our job to tell you what to believe but to make you think about what those in authority want you to believe. Having said that, we deplore the actions of both Bradley Manning and Wiki Leaks in this instance.

Governments, no matter how much we hate the idea, must from time to time get involved in some unpleasant activities. There are many people and organisations in the world only too eager to make life unpleasant for the citizens of rival nation, followers of rival religions or simply for the reason of furthering a political or financial agenda. We cannot expect to be protected from such organisations and then come over all Jane Fonda and start bristling with self righteousness when things get a bit messy.

Wikileaks have been irresponsible before in revealing sensitive information and surely aren't so far up themselves as to think they could keep getting away with it forever. Bradley Manning is a stupid little prick who for the sake of his own ego was prepared to put the lives of colleagues at risk. Those colleagues have parents, wives and children maybe, brothers and sisters, friends. A little twat like Manning, supported by Assange an even bigger twat and a supporter of the self styled "progressive left" who are neither progressive nor liberal but a bunch of evil little Nazi syphilis sores, think their Nazi liberalism (Ve haff vays of making you politically correct) think they can play God.

The Daily Stirrer knows there are a lot of shits employed by the government to do shitty things. Fortunately they usually only do shitty things to equally shitty people working for the other side. Wikileaks and Bradley Manning have not made the task of those people any easier however by spreading fear and panic on behalf of those who seek to disrupt our ways of life by spreading fear abd panic.

When you threatened the human rights of others you forfeit your own human rights. What's difficult to understand about that.

Pentagon Hunts Wiki Leaks Founder

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11 June 2010
Third Climategate Report imminent - Whitewash manufacturers report sales boom.
recommended by Ed Butt

If you were planning to do a spot of DIY over the weekend you may encounter a problem – an acute shortage of whitewash in your local store, as it may have been appropriated for more urgent purposes. The estimable Bishop Hill is reporting he has heard on the grapevine that the publication of the third report from the investigation of the scientific fraud known as climategate will be as big a whitewash as the first two.

The previous reports have cleared the suspect scientists of any wrongdoing while admitting their data was wildly inaccurate and the conclusions drawn from the results of their exercises in mathematical modelling bore little relation to the evidence compiled by real scientists who based their research on observations of things that were happening (or not happening) in the real world.

The sad thing about this is the idiots who have tried to make science into a religion, who have relied on mathematical modelling as "evidence" for their theoretical guesswork and assumptions, have destroyed faith in the process of scientific research and development as a tool for solving real problems in the sphere of reality.

Third Climategate Report imminent - Whitewash manufacturers report sales boom.

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10 June 2010
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - The Tide Turns
by Ian R Thorpe

It seems that after managing to pass off several weeks of dithering indecision about how to react to the catastrophic oil spill that has resulted from the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, Barack Obama in asking whose arse should he kick has provoked the same reaction from the oil industry and the American voters, "Your own, Mr President." In the end, forced to at least be seen to be doing something Obama announced he was shutting down all offshore drilling activities. With the global appetite for oil and the American economy's appetite for the back stuff increasing at an accelerating rate Obama has decided to take the very worst course of action he could both economically and socially. The economic consequences for America will be dire, Obama might just as well have handed the Arab nations a gun and invited them to point it at America's head. The social consequences for the millions of people living and working in the populous states that have a Gulf shoreline will be even worse with thousands of jobs lost and millions of dollars removed from the local economies. Obama was already the least popular President ever at this stage in his Presidency. Could this finish him and will the Democratic Party allow him to serve out his four year term and be defeated honourably or will they force him to stand down in order to prevent him dragging the party into the abyss with him? We could not say, but it may be no coincidence that the elegibility issue, always simmering on the back burner, has come to the boil again in the past two weeks. US Bloodlust and the BP Oil Spill
Has Obama's anti Britain rabble rousing against BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill gone too far? It is beginning to lok as if a bsaklash against Obama himself is gathering momntum following his knee jerk reaction to shut down offshore drilling.

Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Rick Saunders examines Obama's question "Whose arse should I kick" and finds the fingers of accusation all point to one man, Barack Hussein Obama.

Science & Technology

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9 June 2010
The Gulf Oil Spill - Whose Arse To Kick
by Xavier Connolly

President Obama described the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico as America's worst environmental disaster ever. That is not true, the oil spillng from the fractured well has a long way to go before overtaking a similar blowout in the Gulf in 1979. What do we expect from the rock star President other than posing, posturing and crude attempt to make political capital out of catastrophe...

Read full artile Obama's Deepwater Horizon
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7 June 2010
Free Gary McKinnon, Jail The Real Criminals
by Ed Butt

Charlotte Gore blogs "Free Gary McKinnon, I'm Not So Sure An article questioning the veracity of presenting the Aspergers Syndrome affected hacker who broke into U.S. Military computers as nothing worse than a geeky teenager who got a bit carried away.

While I agree with Charlotte's assesment that there is more to McKinnon than we are being told, for example what he did required a higher level of skill than the average "script kiddie" hacker, I still think the response of the U.S. Government is driven more by a ned to lash out at somebody who embarrassed them by exposing the weakness of their much hyped computer security than by a desire to see justice done.

There is a world of difference between Gary McKinnon hacking the Pentagon computers and making US Military Security look like a bunch of clowns (military security a bunch of clowns? Who'd have thought it) and a bunch of shifty, swathy complexioned guys walking into an airport and TWOCing 4 planes.

There is little difference in the criminal incompetence on the part of government employees it took to make both crimes possible.

You Just Can't Be Too Paranoid
There's A Chink (oops, pardon) In Our Armour

6 June 2010
Now It's No Longer Racist To Bash Barack
by Ed Butt

This is another of those irritating "We told you so" posts from the writers of The Daily Stirrer. We find ourselves saying "we told you so" quite a lot having predicted how events would unfold. This is not because we are psychic or unusually prescient, it is because we all have a wealth of life experience in roles that involve managing people so we can spot the phoney, identify the skiver and recognize the bullshitter at long range.

In this articleCool To Bash BarackToby Harnden reports the American left is deserting Obama in droves. It seems only the kool aid drinkers of the Obamessiah cult and silly celebrities like Paul McCartney are still taken in by Obama's 'Hey, you can't call me incompetent, I'm black' routine. People have seen through Obie's Healthcare Bill which will make healthcare more expensive for mid income Americans, put decent care further beyond the reach of poor Americans and channel vast amounts of taxpayers money into the pockets of health insurance providers. His cap and trade initiative to curb carbon emissions is a dead duck. The "scientific" case for carbon based AGW has been exposed as a fraud, built on the pursuit of corporate profits rather than concern for the planet.

The proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants has gone down like a lead zeppelin, so well in fact that while some fear any attempt to drive it through congress using the kind of pork barrel politics that pushed healthcare through will result in civil unrest while other point to the fact that several states have considered secession from the Union if Obama even puts his amnesty to a vote.

All in all then this is one of the most successful Presidencies ever - for America's enemies.

5 June 2010
Bilderberg Blog
Latest From The Bilberberg Conference In Stitges
recommended by Ed Butt

Don't let the complacency of mainstream media fool you, don't be put off by the sheeple who style themselves "the progressive left" calling you a tin foil hat wearer or a right wing nut job. When the financial and political leaders of the free world meet in secrecy, exclude the media, deny there is a meeting going on, declare an exclusion zone around the hotel complex with heavily armed guards patrolling constantly to ensure no independent reporters, protesters or members of the public get near. When a no fly zone is declared around that same hotel complex and helicopters of the security services hover overhead constantly, when the event is barely reported in newspapers and on TV and there are never any press releases or reports of the discussions you can bet what is being discussed is not their nations chances in the upcoming world cup and also is not in the best interests of Joe Public.

But if you really want to know what the Bilderberg Group is all about the secrecy and security paranoia is no obstacle. They are not shape changing lizards or 8,000 year old members of an Ancient Egyptian priestly sect. All you have to do is read George Orwell's novel 1984.

British Bilderberg Attendees
Why the protestors are your best friends
The security lockdown begins

4 June 2010
With No Common Culture A Common History Is Impossible
recoomended by Xavier Connolly

"There are two overriding objections to modern culture's eagerness to put labels on people. The first is that, often intentionally and sometimes merely carelessly, a label diminishes the complexity, nuance and uncertainty of the person on whom it is stuck. The second is that the label provides a lazy excuse to stop thinking about what the neatly labelled person is actually saying."

In With No Common Culture A Common History Is ImpossibleMartin Kettle make a argument for teaching an English history curriculum instead of framing our children's historical knowledge withing the distorted and totally untruthful narrative of Martin Luther King and the U. S. civil rights movement which has little to do with Britain.

Similarly pupils are leaving school barely able to read and write, incapable of expressing moderately complext ideas coherently and in reasonably good grammar and not conversant with basic arithmetic. Far more important to the modern politically correct educationalist of course, they are well versed multiulturalism, tolerance, gay and lesbian studies, historry of feminism, civil rights classes and in the theoretical (or more correctly, fairyland) physics of the big bang theorists and those "scientists who think if we would only give them enough money to buy a big enough computer they could through mathematical modelling recreate big bang and unravel the mysteries of the universe. It becomes more apparent every day that the educational establishment is determined to push a curriculum biased towards "science" (meaning sociology, psychology and other pseudosciences) down pupils throats and eradicate humanities and anything to do with British or North European culture altogether. Perhaps we should campaign for George Orwell's 1984 to be made required reading for all pupils before they leave school.

3 June 2010
The Great, The Gullible and the Apple iPad
by Ian R Thorpe

One of the reasons we established this page was to fire broadsides at marketing and public relations hype. Apple is a company that built is success on highly manipulative hype by persuading people to buy expensive gadgets that perform less well than much cheaper versions. The launch of Apple's most pointless gadget yet, the iPad was a natural target.
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2 June 2010
Politically Correct Thought Police Create An Alien Species
by Ian R Thorpe

Us old boys all remember being teenagers, the spontaneous embarrassing bulges in trousers, the very real risk of breaking your pyjama trousers walking downstairs, the prurience, the wanking, the porno mags hidden behind the wardrobe, obessive fascination with girlks underwear even though you had not seen what was lurking behind it. The fear that you were some kind of sex maniac that made you so reluctant to talk to anyoby about you worries or ask the questions everybody you knew was bursting to ask an older, more experienced person too.

It was all part of the pain and joy of growing up.

Needless to say the Policitally Correct Thought Police are aware of the vulnerability of young males at this stage of life. And when at their most vulnerable young minds can be manipulated most easily. It is no surprise to learn then that adolesence is under attack.

Teenage Boys Becoming An Alien Species
Anna Raccoon posts a truly frightening story of the power of the Politically Correct Thought Police and their brainwashing techniques.

1 June 2010
The Poor Get Richer
recommended by John De Roe

Burning our Money blog shows how in real income terms the botton 25% income wise are now twice as well off as they were in 1961. It does not always seem so as expectations are so much higher but as Wat Tyler says in his post, povery is a very subjective thing. Back in 1961 a decent, warm home, plenty of food in the larder and a few luxuries were enough for most people.

Far from a majority of homes had a telephone, clothes, furniture and househoild goods were all made to last longer. My family were by no means poor, we had a car and a phone, a fridge and washing machine adorned my parents kitchen (again things we consider necessary now that were far from universal 50 years ago) yet I remember my mother "end to middling bedsheets, that is cutting a threadbare sheet down the middle, hemming it and sewing the former outer edges into a new centre seam.

This was not tight fistedness, it was how most people lived. Extravagance was frowned on. Now of course we live in a throwaway society and so although the inflation adjusted income of the lower quartile has more than doubled relatively people do not see themselves as much better off than their parents.

How The Poor Got Richer

31 May 2010
Why Laws, Why Now
by Xavier Connolly

Why did the Daily Telegraph choose to bring down David Laws now. Surely the Conservative paper knows if the coalition fails quickly we will be saddled with another Labour government led by a Milliband or even worse Mr. Bollocks.

So are they just flexing muscle in order to force Cameron to quite the EU or something similarly foolish but passionately supported by the right wing of the Consrervative Party? Snowolf blog has an interesting theory linked below.

What Else have They Got On The Coalition

30 May 2010
Silly Secularist Makes Year's Most Stupid Statement
by Ian R Thorpe

The arrogance of scientists gets more gobsmacking as time goes on. Terry Sanderson, President Of The National Secular Society says: “I look at it this way. If science disappeared from human memory, we would soon be living in caves again. If theology disappeared from human memory, no one would notice. Theology is a completely and utterly useless pursuit. It is self-indulgence of the first order. It grieves me that public money is spent on theological colleges while real education struggles to gain the funds it needs to maintain itself.” OK, it's an opinion but look at it another way and science, we see, is responsible for all the world's ills. Just think, without science there would be no global warming, no overpopulation, no oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. If Newcomen had not invented the first steam driven pump deep seam coal mining would not have been possible and we would not have coal fired power stations belching out pollutants. We would also have very limited amounts of electricity but

Read full post Silly Secularist Makes Year's Most Stupid Statement
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29 May 2010
David Laws And The Lib Dem Closet
by Ian R Thorpe

Strange that the party responsible for pushing through the law that decriminalised homosexuality should have had three senior MPs in the past decade who preferred to stay in the closet. Or is it? The gay Mafia is so active in politics a desire to stay out of the limelight they generate is understandable. Mark Oaten, Simon Hughes and now the highly promising Chief Treasury Secretary David Laws have all damaged their political careers by trying to keep their sexuality secret

So why are Liberal Democrats quite so coy about coming out of the closet?

Could it be perhaps that as Liberals they are simply exercising their right to treat their sexuality as a private matter? Why should people feel pressure to come out? Is there the same pressure on people who like to indulge in a bit of mild to moderate S & M, some casual cross dressing or a little fetishism to share the details of their private life with the world.

If Laws is forced to resign we will lose a man who was starting to look like a very competent Minister at a time when the new government needs all the competence it can get. What he did may or may not have been wrong, it was certainly unwise. But consider, after outing himself as gay he would be forever a gay Member of Parliament, a gay finance minister. David Laws has, has he not, a right to be judged on his ability not his sexuality.

And for the record we have already had a gay Prime Minister although he stayed in the closet until his death. Not that it did him any good, he was still a crap Prime Minister.

29 May 2010
Reason, Order and Logic Are Not Always The Answer
by Ed Butt

The old science vs spirit argument is raging again at Comment Is Free ( Is reason always right ). The author of the article makes a good argument and in pile The CIF Scientific Thought Police to shout down anything that questions their God, Science.

I liked one of the comments though as it sort of slaps all down those who believe this vague, ill defined thing called science is always right:

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with REASON and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Gautama Siddartha (Buddha)

Science, which means formal and universally accepted knowledge, is a fine tool for many aspects of business, commerce and industry but the arrogance of modern scientists in deluding themselves that nature can be controlled and subjugated poses a bigger threat to human civilisation than any in nature.

28 May 2010
Health Fascism With Teeth
by Ian R Thorpe

Ian with his satire hat on as he lays into another of those stupid health scare stories Open In A New Window

28 May 2010
How Long Do You Work For The Taxman?
by Ed Butt

The Adam Smith Institute publishes an annual report showing how far into the year we must be before we stop working for the taxman and make some dosh for ourselves and our families. A more interesting perspective from the Taxpayers' Alliance shown in this post at Devils Kitchen show how much of each working day we spend making money for the state.

Either of these should be enought to shut up those idiots of The Progressive Left who are screaming against public spending cuts.

If the fuckers are so ken on paying tax why don't they just give all their dosh to the government and live on jobseekers allowance while holding down a full time job?

27 May 2010
Orthodoxy Imposed By Stealth: Big Brother And Your Shopping Habits
by Xavier Connolly

Just because the perniciously authoritarian Labour government has been kicked out don't think the march to authoritarianism has been halted or even slowed down. We are still being pushed towards "orthodoxy" every day in every way. Look around your town, where do people get their main shopping. Now if you are lucky enough to live in a semi rural area as all of us do here in the Ribble Valley you will be able to go to an ancient market town like Clitheroe where there are still old fashioned butchers, craft bakeries, greengrocers with a colourful display of fruit and veg in the window and outside the shop. There is an independent bookshop, a wine merchant, an old fashioned tea and coffee merchants from which the most delicious scents of freshly roasted coffee emit, the world's foremost designer sausage shop and a thriving open market.

Highly individualistic, idiosyncratic (pricey) furniture is on sale in two local shops, there are many delights. The town has a small Sainsbury's and a branch of E. H. Booth, a regional supermarket chain that keeps Waitrose out of the area. Those who can afford to shop in Clitheroe are fortunate.

Contrast that with the larger towns of East Lancashire, Blackburn, Burnley and Accrington. Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Netto. The bookshops, independent butchers and craft bakers are long gone, replaced by multitudinous pound shops and charity outlets. The big naional chains are represented but small local businesses have been squeezed out by what could be seen as a conspiracy between the local authority and central government. The traditional town centres have been usurped by out of town retail parks where cheap, utilitarian and shoddily samey are the norm. The problem with these retail parks is they are not well served by public transport so the argument that the low prices offered by the chains benefit the poor is proved false because anyone who cannot afford a car or taxi fare cannot get there.

Meanwhile certain people, mentioning no names, continue to drive their two litre car twenty five miles each way to a favourite clothes shop and spend more on a tie than a suit would cost from Matalan or George. The poor are not raised by this cult of cheap nor are the affluent constrained.

The Government has recently changed direction and has been promoting "the digital economy" and helping online businesses to attract our custom. Do people not see the attack on liberty here. With nothing to buy in shops only cheap, unserviceable crap we are isolated, pushed into shopping online, solitary consumers hunched over our computers instead of going out and associating freely with other human beings. And so it goes on. Keep a gooid grip on the real world or you may find you have lost touch with reality as so many almost did in the debt fuelled consumer boom of the past decade.

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Charlotte Gore on how "orthodoxy" the only state of mind tolerated by The Thought Police in Orwell's 1984, is being imposed on us by stealth.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Out of order Xav, I did noy spend more on a tie than a suit can be bought for in a cheap outlet. It was a shirt, the tie only cost £30. And my car is more fuel efficient than many 1200cc models. You're an effing engineer you should know about power to weight ratios.)

26 May 2010
The War On Booze Has Just Begun.
by Ian R Thorpe

We have said for a long time that once smoking had been made a social crime the Thought Police would start on alcohol. And we were right. Follow these links to see how the war on booze is being stepped up. Turning The CorkscrewDick Puddlecoat attacks the latest Politically Correct Thought Police Scheme to plaster big health warnings over the lables of wine, beer and spirit bottles. We really are marhing towards a 1984 style regime and it will not matter which party is in power. It is always the same self righteous, superior, patronizing people who run the country.

Worse, we read an item at Nanny Knows Best that told us one of those charity/quango hings, Drinkaware commissioned a survey of 1,000 people about drink problems and their booze consumption habits.

The results show 520,000 people go to work each day with a hangover.

Every day? Fuck me! That's over half a million people who are having more fun than us.

The purpose of all this of course is to stop people costing the NHS money by getting sick and dying, money that is urgently needed in the war for Malawian shirtlifters' rights.

The true folly of all this poltically correct bullshit is that while the anti - sex- drugs - booze and watching Mock The Week On Dave League of purity might save a little in the short term by preventing a few boozers needing hospital treatment in the long run, when nobody is allowed to die of anything, the pensions bill will be so huge all the developed nations will go broke and the sub turd burglars of tropical Africa will have to do without our help.

In The Future You Will Not Be Allowed To Die

25 May 2010
Blair's New Job
by Ian R Thorpe

Tony Blair has a new job (hint to coalition leaders: pass a law restricting ex Prime Ministers called Blair to one job and you will solve the unemployment problem.)

Mr. Blair's new job is as a consultant to a Silicon Valley company Khosla Ventures that is involved in ~~stealing taxpayers money~~ developing environmentally friendly technologies. Their recruit will be helping to persuade government's to pour vast amounts of taxpayers money into these whacky and unpoven ideas, or as the job description says, "to develop mutually beneficial global relationships."

Blair said of his new job: Solving the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions is more than just an item on a political agenda, it requires imagination, creativity and vision.

That should be right up our Tone's street then, he is one of the most creative liars in recent history.

We must ask however how will our former Prime Minister find time to do his new job when he already has so many and is still occupied 24/7 insisting there are Weapons Of Mass Destruction stashed somewhere in Iraq. When asked about the remuneration for his latest role all Mr Blair would say is: "It's not a pro bono role."

Mind you neither was being Prime Minister. As he already commands a seen figure salary for his consultancy job with Wall Street bankers J. P. Morgan - Chase, receives an undisclosed sum for his function as Middle East Peace Maker and earns £400, 000 per speaking gig we can bet after paying the new recruit Khosla Ventures will not have much change from the $1billion they recently raised for research and development. Still Khosla are going to be rolling in it. CEO Vinod Khosla says instead of simply trying to reduce emissions his company will be looking for "clean alternatives for oil, coal, steel and cement.

Right so. They are obviously planning to put a giant pie in orbit abound the Earth and have a squadron of flying pigs running a shuttle service to it. Sounds about right for something Tony Blair is involved in.

24 May 2010
Pain in Spain, Damage To Denmark as Green Fraud Exposed
by Xavier Connolly

Green Economy Crisis Spreads To Denmark
A few days ago we linked you to an article about the crisis brought about by the mandatory greening of Spain's economy. Now the other "green beacon" nation, Denmark has revealed its committment to clean, green, sustainable power far from boosting the national economy and creating jobs has exacerbated the effects of the global financial crisis in Denmark.

Spain's Much Praised Green Economy Model Discredited Spain's Green Economy model that had "progressive" world leaders and opinion makers creaming their pants has been exposed as unviable, built on unrealistic mathematical modelling as as having contributed to Spain's debt and unemployment models. So why do idiots like Cameron and Obama still want to copy it?

So long as we are restrivted to curently available technologies green power does not work. We told you so.

23 May 2010
Not Listening Cicero, La la la la la la la
by Ian R Thorpe

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
- Cicero, 55 BC Wonder if he knows we're still not listening?

22 May 2010
It's Life Craig, But Not As We Know It.
by Ian R Thorpe

American Biologist Dr. Craig Venter(stein) claims he has created artificial life in a test tube. Venter and his team have built an artificial genome and implanted it into a bacteria. Naturally the team, because they are Americans remember and Americans are addicted to four things; hyperbole, the internet, recreational drugs, fast food and.... American are addicted to five things.... Among the many things Americans are addicted to as well as hyperbole are fame, success and money. Therefore we should reduce everything they say by a factor of 1000.

OK, what is a realists assessment of what Venter has done?

Well he has not created life for a start. He has merely taken a living organism and meddled with its genome. Geneticists have been doing this for many years in their research into preventing hereditary diseases. Next, can his creation truly be described as "life." Just as computer scientists in their eagerness to convince the world of the possibility of true artificial intelligence have tried to redefine intelligence, to equate thought to an ability to parse and filter vast amounts of data very quickly, so Venter's team have adopted a very restricted definition of what life is. They have created a self replicating organism but laboratories have been creating self replicating polymers for some time so again nothing new.

To put Venter's modus operandi in perspective this is the greedy, money grubbing twat who tried to patent the human genome after claiming (falsely - but he's fucking Yank, all mouth and no trousers) to have been the first to decode it. For the record the multinational team that were actually the first to decode the human genome decided not to try to patent it because it belongs to the world and indeed understanding of how our genes work could benefit all human kind greatly. Venter was only interested in how much money he could make from his "invention" so we think that proves he's a total piece of shit and we should all sue the greedy fucker for a billion dollars each for trying to steal the blueprint to our genes.

In the case of this new "breakthrough" which as we said is no different to things other less vain, less egomaniacal biologists have been doing for a while Venter hopes by fooling politicians and bureaucrats into believing that by reinventing the wheel he has made a scientific breakthrough that will transform the future of humanity for which he hopes to net a cool $1 trillion. One Trillion Dollars - do you see any similarities with Dr. Evil here?

We should dismiss this fraud now, ridicule his false claims and belittle his bogus science. He's just a wannabe celebrity in a white coat. Or a practicioner of scientific onanism maybe

by Ian R Thorpe

John De Roe is not about today, it being a beautiful late spring day here in the north of England. It's only fair though to make sure he gets the credit he deserves as the sticking plasters of quanitative easing, stimuli and bailours can no longer cover the festering wounds in the global economy. John, a former bank manager in a local bank back in the days when banking was a respectable professon, has been warning of the true state of the global ecoomy ever since we started The Daily Stirrer. We would have liked to help more people but only about 2000 a day look at our humble publication and the mainstream media have ben sticking to the orthodoxy demanded by the "inner party" and enforced by the Politically Correct Thought Police and talking up the non existent recovery. Consequently many people who pinned their hopes and their savings on recovery are now kissing their future goodbye. Forward this DailyStirrer article you all you friends by emailing our link (right click link & copy shortcut to paste into your email) The Perfect Economic Storm so they can see how accurate we have been, as is demonstrated in all the posts below and many more...

Interesting Times
The folly of lending money in the bond m,arkets at 0.5% interest only to borrow it back from banks at 3.5% interest. This is what our governments have been doing in effect. Are you surprised we're up shit creek? Piigs Might Crash And Burn
A recent warning of the current financial meltdown in the Eurozone posted in The Daily Stirrer as the G20 leaders were claiming their timely action had averted such a crisis. The words of politicians re cheap because there are no principles, only expedients in politics. The words of The Daily Stirrer however contain jewels of wisdom crystalised by experience. They are as valuable as any commodity you could possibly own because they could help you hold onto what you own
. Next Financial Crisis
We had already told you what would happen in finance, here we tell you why it had to happen.
Magic Money
How conjuring money out of thin air led the world into economic meltdown. When money can be produced out nothing then no value can be attached to anything.
Bond Villain Targets Britain
Some insights from the biggest trader in the global bond markets on how bond trading works and how the economy of Britain, over reliant on domestic consumption, the housing maket and financial services is particularly vulnerable to international speculators. Debt Crisis Menu
A roundup of our posts on the debt crisis, stock market meltdown and the plunge into global depression.
Jobs Crisis Menu
Creasting jobs in public service, keeping people in full time education longer and forcing earlier retirement was only ever going to temporarily mask the real unemployment rate. This is a roundup of posts on the employment crisis that has run parallel to the economic crisis.

Economy Returns To Growth Sort Of
Public Debt Nightmare
Burgeoning public spending deficits is driving smaller nations to a situation where the income of government is not adequate to service its debt.
Unbalancing The Economy
How to skew the economy in order to create the illusion of growth through out of control public spending and placing artificial values on assets.<
> Real Unemployment Rate
How to gague the real unemployment rate and expose the official statistics as complete fabrication.

Where do we go from here. Read The Daily Stirrer and we will show you the way out of this swamp.

20 May 2010
A Conversation With The Council
Dizzy Thinks - recommended by ~Ian R Thorpe

Politicians may promise change and governments may come and go buit bureaucracy stays the same forever. Read Dixxy Thinks' account of a converation his wife had with the council refuse that proves yet again to the bureaucratic mindset procedure always trumps common sense. Yet still the dark forces of the "progressive left" tell us we need more government, not less.

True Colours Start To Shine Through
Trixie - recommended by John De Roe

This excellent, shoe loving blogger provides as good a critique as any on the new coalition government's plan to massively increase capital gains tax and how it will depress the economy while driving more money offshore to tax havens. Bloggers get it, you'd think a conservative Chancelloor like George Osborne would too. People don't like handing over half the money they make to government.

19 May 2010
When The Cutting Starts
by John De Roe

The election party has wound down, the last revellers have staggered off into the cold light of dawn and the hangovers are beginning. While Nick Clegg speaks optimistically of the dawn of a new political era and the biggest shakeup in Britain's democratic process since the Great Reform Act of 1832 the Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers moving into jobs in the Treasury are holding ice packs to their heads and reaching for the Alka - Seltzer.

Chancellor George Osborne has already launched an audit of the departed Labour government's spending commitments to try to rescue more that the already identified £12billion "efficiency savings" from the hungry maw of out monstrous deficit. It will be a difficult task to reduce spending in non essential areas sufficiently to make a hole in the £163billion (and growing) annual deficit without starting to cut the kind of high profile and electorally sensitive areas of health, education, policing, pensions and care. In normal circumstances to attack such a deficit would be a daunting task but the British economy having been under attack for three decades by governments determined to undermine the nations great providers of real jobs, industry and agriculture, really has no solid base on which to build a recovery. Labour's answers were typical of the folly of socialism. In the final years they borrowed money by issuing bonds to fund public sector jobs keep young people and many older ones in full time education and thus off the unemployment statistics and while publicly making noises about getting many people off disability benefits and back into work really created a labyrinthine benefit system that made it virtually impossible for the disabled to make that leap from dependency on the state into employment, earning at least a portion of their income. But what benefit is there to public finances if the people being pushed into work are being paid from public funds? The Conservatives too must shoulder their share of the blame. The years of Margaret Thatcher's Premiership saw a wholesale destruction of the industrial base particularly in the traditional heavy industries that drove local economies in the industrial areas of the North West, North East, Yorkshire, The Midlands, South Wales and Central Scotland. Much as the South Eastern bourgeoisie hate to admit it, until the 1980s it was those areas that supported the British economy, the millions of mid income range skilled jobs in factories, mills, mines and workshops gave The Treasury a much bigger and more reliable source of income than the money jugglers of the financial sector would ever provide. That part of the economy was sacrificed however to Mrs Thatcher's desire to wage war on a few powerful trade unions, the Miners, Engineers, Printers and Transport Union. The problem leaders of our "new politics" now face is how do we get people back into real work, work that is funded from profits rather than tax revenues raised by the government. Labour pumped money into the economy but it only went to those companies that contracted to provide public services at vastly inflated prices. There was no industry to pump money into. Traditionally an upturn in the construction industry signalled the start of a recovery. Many years of using inflated house prices to underwrite personal debt which funded consumer spending thus masking a decline in earning in real terms has left us with an overpriced housing stock. First time buyers, the young employed, are priced out of the housing market and so construction is depressed. Small tinkering with property taxes aimed at boosting house sales are insufficient to make a significant difference. Naturally the banking and finance sector scream for a return to the status quo, yet more of the wild, irresponsible speculation that led to the crash of 2008 in the first place. But how would the banks, unable to unravel the tangled web of dodgy trading and work out who owes what to whom, ever finance another round of speculation? By borrowing from governments of course. And how would governments raise the money to lend to the banks. By borrowing it. That road can only lead to an inflationary spiral with commodity prices for essentials going through the roof. The hangover from the years of madness is a real bitch. It is going to take more than a couple of Alka - Seltzers to cure it. RELATED POSTS:
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Jobless Economy
Jobs Crisis
Interesting Times
Magic Money
Bread and Circuses
Economy Of The Living Dead
The Future Is Cancelled
Minimum Wage Folly
No Real Jobs In The New Economy
Stating The Obvious Will Not Rebuild Our Economy
Holy City
Chasing Bubbles
18 May 2010
Anti English Vendetta
recommended by Xavier Connolly

Anna Raccoon wonders why the Politically Correct Thought Police are always on hand when an English person utters the slightest criticism of the non English but are quite happy to tolerate the overt anti - English bias shouwn by people of other nations against the English.

Vendetta by Anna Raccoon

18 May 2010
There's No Money Left
recommended by Ed Butt

Burning Our Money Blog explains why the country is even more broke than we thought we were. Far be it from us humble bloggers at The Daily Stirrer to blow our own trumpet but we have been telling you this since our blog started to publish

17 May 2010
Legacy Of Labour's Rogernomics
by Ian R Thorpe

I read today of the first signs that government by the Conservative - Liberal Democrat "coalition for change" will change nothing except the names at the top of the news.

Coalition finance ministers are warning that "crazy spending commitments" made by Labour during their final months in power have left the British economy in a worse state than anybody could have guessed. Your Daily Stirrer writers of course and other Libertarian freethinkers in the blogosphere were reporting throughout that period exactly how bad the situation was but what do we know? We're not politicians. Now that Conservative and Liberal Democrat economic experts have been able to look at the books they are saying public expenditure will have to be cut much more deeply than was predicted and the cutting will have to start from yesterday. It's that bad (but the blogosphere told you that). Anyway wen the cuts bite it will all be Labour's fault.

So that's the new politics for you:

"We're fucked Nick, the punters will not accept the cuts, what shall we do?"

"Blame it all on Labour Dave, always blame the other lot who were in power before us."

It brought to mind something my daughter told me of on her return from a year in New Zealand, Rogernomics.

The Roger in question was Roger Douglas, finance secretary in the New Zealand Labour Government in the 1980s. Douglas implemented Thatcherite economics so draconian he thoroughly rogered the nation and his party. New Zealand Labour was made so unpopular by Rogernomics they did not return to power until the introduction of Proportional Representation enabled them to become part of a coalition government.

There we see the way forward for the new leader of the UK's Labour Party after Gordon Brown and Tony Blair have so comprehensively rogered the nation. Embrace proportional representation and learn to work in a coalition rather than claiming to have inherited the divine right to rule from the monarch, abandon the use of working class tribalism to frighten people off voting for the party they actually support be it Lib Dems, Greens, UKIP or The Monster Raving Loony Party and learn to collaborate with coalition partners rather than stabbing them in the back.

16 May 2010
Rebellion Of The DHWFs
by Wat Tyler (Burning Our Money) - recommended by John De Roe

Wat Tyler at Burning Our Money blog has been giving it rice with his calculator and worked out how much it is going to cost the ConDem-ned coalition to clear up Labour's economic mess. And he reckons the burden will be too much to bear for the DHWFs (Decent Hard Working Families) who pay the bulk of direct and indirect taxes. Wat predicts a middle class tax rebellion. But then Wat has a track record for that kind of thing (Wat Tyler - Peasants Revolt). I hope to see the masses on Middle Class voters advancing along Whitehall towards Parliament weilding their pitchforks and cudgels menacingly.

Seriously though, few people including those running the new governing coalition have really understood the depth of the financial mire the Labour government of 1997 - 2010 have left the nation in. In the good years early in their first term they balanced the books by selling of national assets as the Thatcher government had, thus leaving the British economy denuded of its manufacturing base.

Then to create a feelgood factor they relaxed financial controls to make it easy for people who were not earning great money to enjoy lavish lifestyles by running up unsupportable personal debts and also raised welfare benefits beyond what the Treausry could afford from its tax revenues. And so the deficit economy was begun.

Finally when the "spend and spend" economic model went pear shaped the Labour government embarked on a programme of such gobsmacking irresponsibility no intelligent person can comprehend how they ever thought the nation could avoid going into an inflationary spiral on a par with Zimbabwe.

What form will the middle class rebellion take? Wat Tyler thinks something like the American Tea Party movement might arise. I feel the bigger danger is Britain will slide into self destructive apathy and nihilism.

15 May 2010
The Scottish Question
by John De Roe

SNP leaders Alex (Rab C.) Salmond wants £700 million from British taxpayers as a way of showing that we respect Scotland's separate national identity. Cameron should respectfully tell him to fuck off and here's why.

Ever since the Labour party became the second party on British politics Scotland has done very well out of the English taxpayer. I am not being anti Scottish although if we allowed comments here I'm sure I would be attacked by thousands of aggrieved Scots citing the atrocities of King Edward 1, the Highland Clearances and random references to chilly jocko land and deep fried Mars Bars as evidence that England's innate racism is directed mostly against the Scots.

The fact is the over - representation of Scotland and particularly the solidly Labour voting central industrial belt distorts British democracy. If we agreed to the next demand for full independence for Scotland not only would Mr. Salmond and his nationalist friends crap themselves at the thought of how their country might fare economically with the intravenous drip of English money withdrawn, the Labour leadership would crap themselves too.

Without that Scottish block vote Labour would have little chance of ever winning another election for the Westminster parliament. Even the "Vote Liberal Democrat and get The Conservatives" would not work. The English by and large are slightly left of centre but have little taste for Labour's brand of populist authoritarianism. Indeed it is only the tribalism of the working class vote in English industrial conurbations plus the outrageously gerrymandered constituency boundary changes enacted by the Labour government that ruled from 1997 to 2010 that would maintain Labour as a political force of any significance.

Although English voters lean slightly to the left we should not write off the Conservatives as a bunch of right wing, free market nutters. The Thatcher era was an aberration. Apart from that, since the Great Reform Act of 1832 more social reforms, more acts to emancipate the lower classes have been enacted by Conservative Governments that any other. And I say that as a Liberal.

This attachment to Conservatism might seem perverse if as a nation we are the fairness loving social libertarians we like to think. It is however not a contradiction at all. As liberals we do not like to see the poor or minority groups being discriminated against but as libertarians we do not like governments telling us what to do, how to live. And we certainly do not like Labour's paternalistic attitude that causes the party's governments to treat the electorate like dull witted children who must be constantly protected from the consequences of their folly.

English people do not have much time for the politically correct do - goodery of Labour activists.

So long as Scotland remains a disproportionate force in\Westminster however, the voters of England will not get the kind of liberalism they want. While Labour can rely on Scottish tribalism they can ride rough shod over English libertarian feelings to impose their will on the nation.

14 May 2010
The Death Of Nanny State
Anna Raccoon recommended by Ed Butt

The excellent libertarian blogger predicts and celebrates the imminient death of Nanny State as the Con Lib coalition shape up to start snipping away at all those politically correct stupidities Labour politicians traditionally love to lavish taxpayers money on...

13 May 2010
That Little Matter Of The Oil Spill
by Xavier Connolly

While the other guys have been having fun sounding off about the duplicity and hypocrisy of politicians, your truly has been watching the goings on in the Gulf of Mexico where there has been an oil spill after a bubble of methane gas blew the lid off a deep sea oil well.

This spill being off the American coast than the White House incumbent being a "progressive liberal" not only would you think this spill heralds the end of the world but from looking at some comment threads you on news blogs of the "progressive left" one might think that President Obama's politics are a bigger factor in stopping the leaking oil than the skills of the oil well engineers, geologists and technicians.

First let's deal with the "end of the world scenario. There have been bigger oil spills in locations that made them more difficult to operate on. Discount the propensity of that benighted nation for hysterical and what we have is a very run of the mill disaster. These things happen, we deal with them and unless America is involved everybody keeps calm and carries on.

What about the ecological effects. Will this wipe out marine life in the Gulf Of Mexico as the "progressive left" proclaims? Probably not. Oil is a natural substance and is rapidly broken down by nature. Paradoxically it is full of the ideal nutrients for the micro organisms that break it down so the oil spill will in the medium term help marine life.

There will be heart rending scenes on television of sea birds and marine mammals but those species have survived much worse ecological disasters.

Finally will it be possible to stop it? Yes but due to the depth of the well head, about 18000 feet under water I believe it is not going to be easy. Not easy is nothing new to engineers especially those whose job is to fix problems. If fixing problems was easy they wouldn't be problems.

Is this spill then a reason for shutting down the oil industry as the greens and the progressive left are claiming? Hmm, look where those claims are coming from, look who funds the scientists supporting such idiotic claims, follow the money and you will find it leads back to people peddling some very dubious alternative energy technologies. Given how much modern society depends on fossil fuels it is simply not feasible to shout down the oil industry or even curtail oil exploration. Green Technologies are a good twenty years away from being able to supply the needs of modern societies and even at that range the success of green power depends as much on a radical change of lifestyle as new technologies coming on stream.

12 May 2010
I'd Get A Lawyer To Look At That If I Were You
Anna Raccoon recommended by John De Roe

Give a Labour politician a sniff of our cash and they have this overwhelming urge to splash it all on a 3 legged nag, usually as the result of a dare. Even when he’s halfway out the door he couldn’t resist the temptation to blow a cool 25 billion because his mates in Europe said it’d be great. Trusting soul that he was he went straight over there popped 25 billion in the slot, while his Euromates sniggered behind their hands, pressed the button and all he got out was a single piece of paper on which the word ‘Thanks!” was written in Read more: Get A Lawyer To Look At That

11 May 2010
Unempoyment Rises In US Despite Confusing Statistics
recommended by James Dahlberg

Unemployment Facts in the USA
The Daily Stirrer has reported on the weird and contradictory unemployment statistics issued by the UK government. In this article Citizen Wells finds the same kind of confusion concealing a picture far worse than anyone imagined in the USA. It appears the situation is much the same in the UK but I'll let the British guys comment on that.

The situation is much worse than statistics suggest. When will politicians realize they can't fool all the people all of the time?

10 May 2010
Will Cameron Seduce Clegg With PR Offer?
by Ian R Thorpe

Electoral Reform and the introduction of a voting system in which every vote counts has long been the goal of the Liberal and later the Liberal Democrat parties. Although most people have believed a Lib Dem alliance that could deliver electoral reform could only be made with Labour because Labour are traditionally the party that makes fairness a major plank of its election manifesto.

What political pundits and social commentators forget however is that Labour has traditionally benefited much more from the discredited first - past - the - post system than the Conservatives. Even in this latest election campaign Labour were looking set for a crushing defeat until in the last week they invested heavily in fear and panic tactics to scare potential Lib Dem voters back to the shelter of the red umbrella. The irony is Gordon Brown probably swung as many seats for the Conservatives with his anti - Liberal drive as he did for his own party, thus denying himself any chance of forming a stable coalition government.

Apart from the closely packed safe Labour seats in the industrial clusters on the north west, midlands, Tyne Tees region and inner London and the distortion of the electoral map caused by Scotland being vastly over -represented at Westminster, areas where Labour has exploited working class tribalism to retain huge majorities, the colour of the electoral map is overwhelmingly blue. Labour knows this of course and has exploited what one independent candidate in 2005 described as the "they'd vote for a dog turd if it wore a Labour rosette tendency" to its advantage. They have also show almost criminal self interest in adjusting constituency boundaries, pushing traditionally Conservative wards from seats winnable by the Conservatives into neighbouring safe Labour seats and moving solid Labour wards into seats vulnerable to the conservatives.

In other nations such behaviour would be decried as electoral fraud. Under a Conservative government it would be decried by Labour as electoral fraud. But it is OK for Labour to do it because in the Labour Power - At - Any - Price mindset the end always justifies the means.

We hope for a Lib - Con coalition, as I write it could be announced within minutes (but that would need another article) Those who are relieved we will not have another elected dictatorship such as the nature endured under Thatcher and then under Blair and Brown (John Major's government with a wafer thin majority and a faction of Thatcherite "bastards" in the Conservative ranks always had to show restraint.) We must also hope the Liberal Democrats will use their influence wisely and and bring about a permanent end to the Labour Conservative duopoly that has served the nation so badly over the past half century.

If David Cameron does seduce Nick Clegg and his colleagues with an offer of Proportional Representation the Liberal Democrats must be tough enough to make sure the Conservatives do not wriggle out of the deal. And they must be prepared to brink down Cameron and his Conservatives should they not honour their promises.

9 May 2010
Populist Authoritarianism, Fear And Panic
by Ian R Thorpe

The Labour Party may talk of socialism but their Nanny State tyle of ovrbearing governmental control freakery rather than protecting the weak according to the political philosophy of John Locke seeks to suppress individualism and impose uniformity by spreading fear and panic. This approach achieves equality by making all weak and dependent. Unfortunately it debilitates the nation
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8 May 2010
Clegg Could Redeem Himself The Liberal Democrats must consider their election campaign a failure, although the loss of momentum was more due to the main party's scare and smear tactics than Lib Dem mistakes. As a partner in government however the Lib Dems can show they are fit to rule.

Labour Loved The Lib Dems Yesterday Did Gordon Brown & Cool really think the Lib Dems were tamely going to keep them in power? They just did not know who the Lib Dems were, which shows why they were always unfit to govern.

All the Daily Stirrer writers have been labelled bigots during the course of the election campaign for daring to suggest New Labour's failure in education, immigration, the economy, jobs and health and their cynical use of obviously rigged statistics to try to mask their failures and incompetence and manipulate public opinion clearly demonstrated they are unfit to govern.

It is an opinion of course, an opinion shared by the electorate as it turns out. The Daily Stirrer has never questioned anybody's right to disagree with us or to express their point of view in their own online publications. Our not allowing comments on articles is a policy based on technical grounds, it is not denying people the right to free speech as has been blogged about us elsewhere. We deny nobody the right to express their opinion, all we are doing is choosing not to provide the public a platform on our pages. It is in fact the New Labour supporters who tell us we have no right to disagree with them who are bigots, as they would understand were they intelligent enough to look up the word's meaning in a dictionary.

In view of that attitude which is widespread among New Labour supporters their shock and outrage at the Liberal Democrats failure to prop up their dysfunctional party and its failed leader are hardly surprising. People with minds of their own, who have their own point of view and insist on thinking for themselves? Such bigots should not be allowed to enter politics.

7 May 2010
New Financial Crisis Will Lead To Autumn Election
by John De Roe

We're all being a bit lazy today after the all - nighter of election night. If you. like most people, are glad it is all over don't relax too much. The unfolding financial crisis in the Eurozone following the collapse of the Greek economy means we are almost certain be to back to election land in October or November to rerun the whole process.

In reality another election will solve nothing, the sovereign debt crisis is much bigger than the sub - prome meltdown or the failure of investment banks. The only way we will get out of it is by abandoning political point scoring, appointing government's of national unity, rejecting the idiotict notions of globalism and multiculturalism and getting back to nations running their own affairs.

From the decline of the Roman Empire to the present all attempts to unite many clutures, economic systems and tribal lifestyles under a single political entity have always failed. Why did anybody ever think now was going to be different?

So even while Conservative and Liberal Democrat Leaders are haggling over the terms of their coalition the new sovereign debt financial crisis that started in Greece and is spreading throughout the Eurozone and further afield is scripting the failure of their government.

7 May 2010
Need A Degree In English To Write Your Name?
by Ian R. Thorpe

An article in today's Guardian suggests free degree courses in English should be offered.

The study of our language and literature is so fundamental to society that everyone ought to have access to it, argues Alex Hay.

For English degrees, the future does not look good, Mr Hay tells us. The cost of a degree will skyrocket if the top-up cap is removed, while the money an arts graduate earns is all too often pitiful, with some undergraduates never breaking even after their hefty debts are repaid. Worse is to come. Academics are warning that the present "age of austerity" will lead to big cuts in university budgets, and so English and other less "economically viable" departments may well get the axe.

Take philosophy, for example. Middlesex University announced last week that it was going to shut down its well-regarded department in that subject. The official reason was, you guessed it, financial.

Why degrees in English?

I'm pretty ancient at 61 I know, but even when my kids were t school in the 1980s and 90s a GCSE O level was a good standard of basic English while A level in language taught them to handle gerunds, subjunctives, participles etc. and to comment on stylistic aspects of writing and in Literature introduced concepts of literary criticism.

Degree level English was a specialise area of study.

Has education really dumbed down so much that people now need a degree level education in order to be able to construct a simple sentence?

Or is this just another example of Academic empire building?

6 May 2010
Is Carbon Dioxide The New Oil?
by Xavier Connolly

Imagine a green fuel that could power our cars, keep the wheels of industry turning, and wean us off our addiction to oil - a fuel called CO2", says the lead paragraph of an article I read today.

Some scientists have come up with a scheme to convert CO2 into energy. The atmospheric gas is cheap, plentiful and...

Hang on, CO2? Isn't that they stuff they have been telling us is fucking up the climate. Hmmm, typical scientists, spreading fear and panic they when they have us all running round like headless chickens they change their tune. Could it be the sniff some research grants, Nobel prizes and guest spots on TV shows nobody watches might be the payoff for coming up with the most unlikely sustainable fuel imaginable?

Poor scientists though, they're getting hysterical prematurely as usual. You see to convert CO2 to useable hydrocarbons requires such an energy intensive process it will consume twice as much fuel as it will produce. Not long ago the science army made the same mistake when they became over excited about biofuel. Great idea but we would have had to stop growing food in order to release land to grown the fuel needed to fuel the machines that turn biomass into energy.

So its all a lot of hot air about nothing as is usually the case with science. Why will they not learn just to leave the clever stuff to engineers and technologists.

. Could Carbon Dioxide be the fuel of the future 5 May 2010
The Power of Povs
by Ed Butt

As journalists in papers controlled by the Politically Correct Thought Police fell over themselves to praise Cordon Brown for a "barnstorming speech" full of platitudes and banalities borrowed from the scarcely literate Barack Obama we are busy turning our attention back to the real issues.

Brown's speech, far from being praised should have ben damned as one of the most schmaltzy, schlocky, bogus exercises in the politics of fear as you are ever likely to see outside the USA. What's more he was preceded on stage by an all female family of three povs who talked tearfully of how they could not get by on the mother and grandmother's combined earnings of over £500 a week (tell that to a pensioner on £59 a week) and how they had to eat lentils for a week in order to buy the girl's school uniform. As grants are available to the truly hard up (see this page from Tameside Borough Council we must assume that:
a) Brown's povs were three actresses hired in for the job
b) They are illegal immigrants who could not apply for a grant
c) There are spending all their wages on booze, ciggys and drugs
d) The kid is going to a private school and thus is not eligible for a grant

The secondary message however, in view of the message in Brown's speech being that only he can keep the economy on track, is that Labour have created a society in which a family of three people cannot get by on a household income of over £500.

Labour have overplayed the fear card, sending potential Lib Dem voters scurrying back to the Conservatives, now they are trying to guilt trip us into giving their useless, morally bankrupt government another five years in which their grred, incompetence and lust for absolute power can further damage this country for future generations. The have gerrymandered consituency boundaries, politicised the civil service and the academic community, introduce the teaching of a political agenda in primaryschools and abused power in the service of their pymasters in the international banking community. Could there possibly be a worse government than these arrogant duplicitous, despicable, self righteous scumbags? Even the odious BNP would be preferrabe to anybosy with a sense of decency.

Enough of that however, we shall have a frivolous weekend whatever happens in the election then your freethinking commentators will be back to writing on the problems that are not going to disappear just because their has been a change of government; jobs, the economy, the climate change crisis and the three even bigger crises the politicians and mainstream media are hiding from view.

Meanwhile lest you forget that The Politically Correct Thought Police are not going to go away in a hurry either, here's Dick Puddlecoat on Pushing The Green Agenda In Schools

4 May 2010
How Will We Be Governed Next Week?
by Ian R Thorpe

With the Labour vote in key marginals having entered its meltdown phase and Labour journalists and politicians already being enthusiastically engaged in the sniping, backstabbing and betrayal games that traditionally follow a Labour defeat the election looks to be all over bar the horse trading that will decide how many cabinet positions Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats hold in the governing coalition under Prime Minister Cameron.

So how will we be governed next week? A progressive government looks undesirable since "progressive" like "liberal" is a word that has been hijacked by Stalinist advocates of the all powerful central government. One wonders how these people who call themselves "progressive" can be so enthusiastic about authoritarianism. The traditional labels of left and right indicating respectively individualism, self determination and devolution of power and authority, suppression of dissent and hierarchically structured society and progressives should remember that both Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany ere based on the idea of an all powerful central authority controlling every aspect of individuals' lives.

We should be very wary of those who call themselves "progressive" then. All too often the only progression they are interested in is the progression of the Politically Correct Thought Police in their effort to control our minds.

Fortunately by this time next week, barring disasters, they will be gone, the unspeakably odious "New Labour" regime of the traitor and war criminal Tony Blair and the coward and bully Gordon Brown will be gone. The first improvement we hope to see is a lightening of the oppressive atmosphere that has weighed down the nation, no longer will we have to tolerate being described as bigots every time we question the official line of the Politically Correct Thought Police on Climate Change, Immigration, Mass vaccine against minor infections, Binge drinking, Obesity, Foreign aid, Minority rights or bogus statistics on crime, education and unemployment.

The next change we can hope for if a Conservative government is moderated by a strong Liberal Democrat influence is that fair will once more mean fair and imply that all people are treated equally rather than the interests of minorities being placed above those of the mass of people.

And thirdly we an hope for a return to sanity on jobs and the economy. Just as Margaret Thatcher failed to learn that we could not all make a living by selling financial services to each other so the New Labour Corporate State Stalinists have failed to learn we cannot exists as an economically powerful nation if everybody works in the public sector.

We can all hope for these things. Trouble is those who get carried away by promises of change can be Let Down By Hope.

What you may rely on however is that The Daily Stirrer will be right on the case of whoever emerges triumphant on Friday morning, questioning, challenging and ridiculing. No wool will ever be pulled over our eyes, we will never fall for the deception of statistics or the diversionary tactics advocated by King Henry IV in Shakepeare's play as he prepares his son to assume the throne:

Therefore be it thy course my Harry
to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels
that actions thus borne out may erase
the memory of former times

The minds at The Daily Stirrer will not be giddy and will not be busied with deceptions. We will focus like lasers on the actions of politics, business, religious leaders, bureaucrats and who ever seeks to serve their own interests while claiming to serve the public interest.

Other people must have noticed how the three main parties, having had their weakness on policy exposed and their failure to understand the true depth and nature of the economic and social problems that are dragging Britain towards the abyss are now resorting to the politics of fear.

With the Liberal Democrat vote confounding predictions that it would collapse both Labour and Conservatives are resorting to the fear factor. "A vote for the Lib Dems will mean five more years of Brown, and Labour tax - and - spend financial irresponsibility" wails David Cameron. Gordoin Brown responds by saying a Lib Dem vote will help usher in a Conservative that will cut public services and benefits while introducing tax cuts that will only benefit the rich."

Nick Clegg and Vince Cable rely on the "time for change mantra, pointing to the failures of the other parties over the past half century.

In truth we have, to quote Franklin D. Roosvelt, nothing to fear but fear itself. Voters should not be intimidated by this scaremongering. A Liberal Democrat Government could certainly do no worse than Labour from 1997 or the Conservatives between 1979 and 1997 but there is not going to be a Liberal Democrat government. In the event of a hung Parliament a coalition of either main party with the Liberal Democrats would have to be better that having either rule alone and the Liberal Democrats price for participating in a coalition, Proportional Representation would end forever the elected dictatorships whose governments have served the people of this country so poorly.

Do not be browbeaten by the politics of fear, it is the Labour and Conservative Parties and their leaders who have to fear a hung Parliament, not the voters. On Thursday May 6 use your vote wisely, vote for the party your conscience, common sense or gut feeling tell you will serve you, your community and your country the best. They will just have to put aside their hubris and find a way to work together.

When we observe the British Constitution instead of letting vested interests use scaremongering tactics to hijack it, there are few places in the world with a healthier democracy or national community than Britain.

2 May 2010
Epitaph For New Labour
recommended by Ian R Thorpe

I am not a Conservative but a Liberal through and through ad by that I do not mean a pinko Lib Dem. I destest Labour's authoritarianism as much as I detest the cynicism of The Conservatives. So I'm not a great fan of the Daily Telegraph. Having said that, the paper today carries a superb epitaph for the New Labour project which is surely dead with the Tory poll lead increasing while the Lib Dems score is holding up.

What has made New Labour so despised is their elitism, their sense of moral superiority and the way they have treated the people of Britain like children.
New Labour's Corrosive Legacy

Meanwhile former Labour MP Jackie Ashley writing in The Guardian says Power Has Rotted Labour But It Does Not Deserve To Die

The way The Daily Stirrer sees things, The Labour Party died after the 1992 general election, blown so spectacularly by Neil Kinnock with and ill advised triumphalist speech a week before election day.

New Labour, the love child of Old Labour's self righteous lust for power and the personal ambition and fascination with wealth and power of a new political class that progressed straight from University to a career in politics without gaining any experience of the real world was born rotten. John Smith had valiantly tried to kick some life back into the corpse of Old Labour after the 1992 defeat but his premature death opened the way for the solipsists and self aggrandizers to make their backroom deals that would take the party further and further away from its core vote.

The last man who could have saved Old Labour by challenging the cosy progression of leadership from Blair to Gordon Brown, the result of a deal hatched in an expensive restaurant long before the 1997 election victory, Robin Cook also died young. And so the "project" ruled, unchallenged except by its own arrogance.

New Labour was not rotten, it was corrupt, preferring to do its business in private, away from democratic scrutiny, preferring to rely on appointed "special advisers" rather than elected representatives. Eventually it became depraved as the leaders came to believe they were above the law. It is not a question of Labour not deserving to die, it has become a tumor that must be cut out and destroyed so the host body may live.

The corrosive legacy its successors must avoid is that authoritarianism, the addiction to power, that made Labour's rule so toxic.

1 May 2010
Which way is the election going?
by Xavier Connolly

Greetings on this May Day or Beltane if you are of a pagan disposition. Apart from those who are preparing to dance naked under the moon tonight and the many people who will be obsessing over the outcome of a few football matches, the question sure to be on everybody's lips today is "Which way will the election go?"

The party leaders' debates are over now, overall the Liberal Democrats probably benefited from pretty strong performances by Nick Clegg although he was not the winner of the final round. David Cameron was solid but not convincing enough to give the Conservatives the breakthrough they were hoping for. As the unpopular leaders of an even more unpopular government Gordon Brown always had a mountain to climb. The fact that he is not by any stretch of anybody's imagination a "people person" did not make things easier for him.

Overall then, though the Lib Dems saw a massive boost in their polling scores the television debates did not produce and decisive change in the nation's mood.

What is happening then? The Daily Stirrer predicted that the Presidential format of the debates would focus mainstream media attention on party leaders when most voters concerns are more local. We have lost sight of the fact that in the UK we hold general elections to elect a Parliament of 650ish members whose job is to represent the interests of their constituents. It is not their job to represent the interests of the political parties that sponsor them or the wealthy donor that fund those parties.

Electors are far more aware of that than politicians like to think. Thus while the Liberal Democrats are picking up votes from Conservative and Labour, the Labour core vote in inner city constituencies and industrial areas appear to be haemorrhaging away to UKIP and the BNP.

The excellent UK Polling Report provides detailed analysis of recent polls. In the explainer to this ICM poll of Lib Dem target seats some interesting trends are revealed. Polls conducted in Conservative target seats have showed similar trends but the latest of these is rather out of date now.

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Lord Marland, an Energy minister, hit out at the cost of so-called feed-in tariffs, which the Government has axed as part of the cuts programme. Last week Court of Appeal ruled that the sudden axing of the tariffs ...
Goodbye Great Britain
Recently, there have been two powerful challenges to the conventional wisdom about the United States. First, Robert Kagan published a lengthy essay in The New Republic, arguing that predictions of America's decline as a global power are woefully premature. .Is it possible, I found myself wondering, to do something similar for Britain? Robert Colvile has a go in this Daily Telegraph article ...
Our rising debt levels are becoming unsustainable – soon we may be talking about wealth confiscation (By Daniel Knowles, Daily Telegraph)
Debt, debt, debt; we’re drowning in it. This morning, the Office for National Statistics published the latest estimates of public sector borrowing. Though borrowing is falling faster than anticipated, thanks to the fact that spending cuts are finally beginning to kick in, the national debt has risen to 64.2 per cent of GDP. More significantly,…
The Obama administration knifes Britain in the back again over the Falklands - By Nile Gardiner World
In yet another display of disdain for the Anglo-American Special Relationship, the Obama administration has weighed in on the mounting tensions between Great Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. Just two days after Prime Minister David Cameron issued a robust statement in the House of Commons vowing to defend the sovereignty of the Falklands,…
Drones In The Hands Of The Paparrazi - It's an ethical minefield
America's use of drones for targeted killings is serious enough. But commercial and law enforcement uses are on the horizon. Whether you view them as model aeroplanes for grown-ups or the handmaidens of the killer robot, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are taking off in earnest. ...
The Observer uncritically regurgitates Trotskyist smears against Katharine Birbalsingh- By Toby Young, Daily Telegraph
There’s a disgraceful attempt to smear Katharine Birbalsingh in this morning’s Observer. Under the headline “Katharine Birbalsingh criticised over ‘wasteful’ free school project“, the paper’s policy editor Daniel Boffey tries to create the impression that there’s growing local opposition to the Michaela Community School – Birbalsingh’s free school – which is due to open in…
We’re being sent the bill for the euro crisis again – this time by the IMF - By Daniel Hannan First it was individual banks; then whole industries; then entire countries; now it’s the world. Western leaders have reacted to the failure of each bailout by decreeing a bigger one. Unable to admit their mistake, slaves to the defunct economist whose thinking dominates our economics faculties and central banks, they act like so many Nick Leesons,…
The Three Parent Family More on the progressive left's war on the family and the scientific dictaorship's attempts to dehumanize us all. Babies with three biological parents could be born within three years. Scientists have come up with an IVF technique that uses the undamaged DNA of a third party when couples risk giving their children a genetic conditions such as muscular dystrophy or ataxia. The Wellcome Trust has funded the research (the figures vary between £4 million and six million …
As Obama Positions Himself For A War In Syria We Learn That Like Gadaffi, Assad Is Popular With His People
Most Syrians back President Assad, but you'd never know from western mediaAssad's popularity, Arab League observers, US military involvement: all distorted in the west's propaganda war. Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major news? Well one did and we never heard a word of it in the Obama felching western media ...
Bullshit Sherlock
While other blogs are full of how great the cliff - faller ending of Sherlock Holmes was I felt a bit let down. The fake suicide was telegraphed all through the show. And the coda assured us Sherlock had survived. We should not forget of course it was the habit of ...
Will bringing back grammar schools boost social mobility? by Toby Young Daily Telegraph
The possibility that England may shortly see its first new grammar school in over 50 years has, predictably enough, re-opened the debate about selective education. Yesterday, for instance, Allison Pearson came down firmly in favour, while Fiona Millar shot back with an instant rebuttal. I’ll get into that argument in a moment, but first let’s be…
So Why Read Books Anymore
There is great “truth and beauty” in Homer’s Iliad, but I would not try to make his sale on such platitudes. Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remains a classic. But I confess it can be hard to get through. Conrad’s Victory or Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil, if authored by writer X this year, would be trashed on Amazon.So what are the reasons, in this age of ...
Eric Holder and the Chicago Way In America Obama's Brownshirts are getting hysterical as they try to make race the major issue in the election campaign.
Dystopian Prophecies Are Coming True - The Government Will Soon Choose Our Wives
Thinking of this entertaining new literary award – “the Hatchet Job of the Year” – it was natural to turn to Macaulay’s Essays, for few reviewers have ever been less reluctant to wound. I had in mind two long review-essays, one on Robert Montgomery’s Poems, the other on The State in its relations with ... FOR OLDER COMMENTS from our blog index click here. MORE Featured posts

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Eurozone ministers set tough conditions for a bailout deal for Greece, as Greek unions plan a 48-hour strike in protest against cuts.
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China's exports and imports fall
China's exports and imports fell in January, raising fresh concerns about the impact of a global economic slowdown on its economy.
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Steve Jobs' FBI files made public
The FBI releases its files on Apple founder Steve Jobs, revealing a man who commanded respect but was questioned on his honesty and morality.
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England hit by more snow and ice
Severe weather warnings for ice and snow are in place across much of England, after the second significant snowfall in less than a week.
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Be realistic on budgets, MoD told
The Ministry of Defence may be "over-optimistic" about how much its military equipment budget is under control, an influential group of MPs says.
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Cannabis users double crash risk
Drivers who use cannabis before driving double their chances of causing a collision, research suggests.
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US 'sobriety' tests for Londoners
Problem drinkers in London are to be given American-style sobriety tests aimed at keeping them away from alcohol.
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Murder suspect found dead in cell
A lodger accused of murdering his landlady and her mother in Southport is found hanged in prison.
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Sainsbury's relaxes freeze advice
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More Climate Science Fraud Exposed: Himalyan Glaciers Are Not Melting
The Himalayas has lost no significant ice over the past decade, according to a new study, that found melting ice from glaciers is having a much smaller effect on sea levels than previously thought. Previous studies relied on physical measurements of ice caps and glaciers on the ground. It's ironic that people who have relied on high tech modelling techniques to conceal the reality of what is going on are now exposed (again) as crooks and liars by new high tech methods of measuring glaciers ...
Bank Of England To Print Money To Avoid Recession
Monetary policy policy-makers at Bank of England have unveiled plans to inject an extrat £50bn of stimulus money into the economy in an attempt to avert a second recession. Before we go on to look at how much harm this wil;l do there are one or two things that must be understood. When we talk about printing money in a modern economy it is not simply a question of buying paper and printing ink and setting up the presses ...
Greek trump card fails as stronger Europe shrugs off break-up threat
The European Union's strongest economies and institutions for the first time gave a clue that they are willing to risk a Greek default and the departure from the European Monetary System (EMS aka The Euro) if Athens refuses to comply with austerity demands. The governments and central banks calculate that the eurozone is now ...
Lay Off Our Adele, Limpdick.
Here at the Accrington end of the Boggart Blog operation we love Adele. She is a talented and original songwriter, has a wonderful voice and comes across as a really fun person who is not up her own arse. OK she's not a bag of bones like ...
U.S. Drones target aid workers and mourners at funerals.
Another "We Told You So" moment for The Daily Stirrer. We have reported many times that the Obama administration is interfereing in places where it has no business interfereing all around the middle east and east Africa. "President" Obama announced with great fanfare and to rapurous cheering from his pseudo - liberal, crypto - Nazi supporters that in any conflict his administration would ...
Can The Euro Survive If Greece Leaves The Single Currency System?
Away with banners and air horns and out with batons and knuckleduster in Athens this afternoon as a wave of public protests agiants the EU imposed austerity measures and the hijack of Greeek democracy by European bureaucrats swept the country.. Greek police have been trying to disperse protesters with tear gas, leading to a few violent clashes outside parliament. Police say up to 8,000 people ...
Zombies Getting Back Together
Older punters may remember the Zombies, younger followers of Boggart Blog will perhps have heard their biggest hit "She's Not There" with singer Colin Blunstone straining his vocal cords to sing way above his natural range and behind him probably the greatest bassline in ...
Klondike 2: The Great Arctic Oil Rush
As the case for CO2 driven climate change continues to crumbe we start to look at how we can keep the wheels of our national economies going. Drilling for oil in the Arctic is a high risk activity but absolutely necessary
Shakespeare's Proud Loner and The Wisdom Of Crowds

Internet billionaires and trendy, fad following media pundits like to talk of the wisdon of crowds suggesting a mob can produce a better, more intelligent result that a small team of specialists. If we look at a few examples of the widom of cowds however we soon find things are not what they seen to be.
UN Veto On Military Action Against Syria Shames The West Says Hague
In yesterday's United Nations Secirity Council meeting Russia and China provoked international outrage for using the veto to block attempts to initiate military intervention by the west in Syria's internal affairs ostensibly to end the violence but really to bring about regime change. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague accused the two major military powers of ...[ War ]
Mrs Obama and the most expensive knickers in the world. The Currant Bun las week was full of news and comment about Mrs Obama going on a spending spreed in sexy undies shop Agent Provocateur that ended up with her spending £32,000 ($50,000) on sexy knickers. In one way this is hrad to believe. Why would the first lady lash out on ... [ more comedy and satire posts ]

Middle East Problems Getting Worse Human rights groups claim 200 civilians killed in Syria by government troops as demands for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad's regime goes before the UN security council. As news of the violence spread, a crowd of Syrians stormed their country's embassy in Cairo and protests broke out outside Syrian missions in Britain, Germany and the United States. The Syrian government says reports of the violence and numbers of dead is greatly exaggerated and it ... [Middle East]

Argentina accuses Britain of using the Falklands as a distraction from economic woes

hrgentina has accused David Cameron's government of fanning the row over the Falklands Islands in an attempt to distract the British public from high unemployment. The moves "have to do with British domestic politics, with the high ... [ War by Proxy] ... [World Politics]
Environment Minister Resigns. Environment Shouts 'There Is A God' Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne resigned this morning from his role as Energy Secretary after being charged alongside his ex-wife Vicky Pryce with perverting the course of justice over speeding cover-up allegations. Mr Huhne and Miss Pryce have both been charged with the same offence after Miss Pryce allgeged that he asked her to take speeding points ...[UK Politics]
Green Policies Will Not Save The Planet But Are Costing Poor Families The Earth>
Politicians bleat sabout the plight of the poor then press on with their clean, green, sustainable energy policies which include stealth taxes to subsidise expensive and inefficient wind turbine and solar panel power generators. Can they not see it is the green agenda that is driving up inflation ...[Environment]
Globalisation can work, but only with a unified international plan says Will Hutton. WRONG!
by John de Roe.
>We need global economic and social institutions working across national borders economist Will Hutton who now appears to have been re educated and started working for The New World Order argued recently. If only it were that simple. Unfortunately globalization is the enemy not the trigger of the kind of economic recovery we need ... [Money - Finance]
Egypt Football Riot kills dozens
Remember the hope and anticipation that followed the downfall of former Egyptian President Honsi Mubarack. Remember how American President Barack Hussein Obama strutted around the world stage as if he had personally led the protests in Tahir Square that led to the overthrow of the dictator's regime? Remember how The Daily Stirrer told you it would all end in tears? After the outbreak of violence at ... [Middle East]
No Jobs For The Masses In The New Economy Despite University Education
No matter how leaders like David Cameron and Barack Obama try to talk up their economies or assure voters the jobs market is improving, growth returning and unemployment will soon start falling, the truth is change does not equal progress and forcing the pace of social change has only masked the true depth of economic and social problems. One of these is unemployment and particularly joblessness among the young. Even a universdity education does not provide a guaranteed career path ... Education
More Old People Are Falling Through Gaps In The Care System Old people are increasingly being let down by a lack of co-operation and communication between the NHS and council-run social care, MPs looking at the crisis in care will reporert this week.
Conclusuions drawn from a study by the all-party health select committee ... [Age Problem]
Not Qualified To Press A Button
Janice Woodward spent 75 minutes trapped with her granddaughter in a lift at her local ASDA store at Portland, Dorset, after health and safety rules stopped staff pushing a button to rescue them according to ...
Drivers Cool About Electric Cars
Have you purchased your new, clean, green, politically correct, all electric car yet? No? I thought not. Neither have I. It is not so much that I hate the enviroment or that I do not want to support the fabulous clean, green, sustainable job creating indistries fabulous, clean, green Dave has promised us will ...

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One Decent Jobs Report Does Not Make A Recovery
There are two reasons why President Obama rushed to the microphone on Friday shortly after the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released relatively good news (by recent standards) that the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3% in January, while the economy added 243,000 seasonally adjusted jobs. ...
Let's Learn From Libya Before We Get Involved In Syria
If we are not careful we are soon going to find ourselves getting into the same mess over Syria as we did in Libya. This time last year the clamour for a military intervention in Libya was gaining ground as forces loyal to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi threatened to overrun the eastern city of Benghazi ...
India Disses UK Aid: 'More Importasnt To Donors Than Recipients'.
Congratulations to Rahul Bedi for putting into words what we all half-suspected: India neither needs nor wants UK aid. Such grants are outdated and patronising, he says, and encourage corruption. Indeed, Indians have ‘become so contemptuous of Britain’s contribution that they accept it merely to avoid causing the embarrassment’.
London Atheist And Secularist Societies Under Attack From Islamists
I know on occasions in the past I've asked you, dear readers and fellow bloggers to share something widely that needed wider exposure. Well this situation desperately requires that wider exposure and all the help we can provide, especially as the mass media are notably silent on the issue - very likely because of a self-censoring trend itself inspired by fear of what has befallen ...
Unemployment at 8.3% Still Leaves A Vast And Destructive Jobs Deficit Robert Reich, The Guardian
The most significant aspect of January's jobs report is political. The fact that America's labor market continues to improve is good news for the White House. But as a practical matter, the improvement is less significant for the American workforce.
President Obama's only chance for rebutting Republican claims that he's responsible for a bad economy is to point to a positive trend. Voters respond to economic trends as much as ...
Much Media Ado About Nothing What connects seemingly disparate works such as The Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, Mad Men, and Seinfeld? It is the philosophy of nihilism, first popularized by Friedrich Nietzsche in the late 19th century. But in the last few decades, how did it become the dominant worldview of Hollywood? Dawn Of The Ice Age Signals The End Of The Global Warming Scam Back then, the media and activists trumpeted the arrival of a new ice age, with the specter of ice sheets and glaciers covering half the northern hemisphere, and brutal winters in the remaining ice-free zones. The fact that the media and popular culture and academia have veered from one panic-inducing disaster scenario to another one which completely contradicts the first one is funny enough in its own right. But reading The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age opened my eyes to an even more significant aspect ...
Hundreds of Independent Bookshops Face Closure
Hundreds of independent bookshops could be forced to close unless local authorities do more to support them, a leading retail group has warned. The Booksellers Association (BA), which represents 3,500 independent bookshops across the UK, has written to almost 400 council chiefs urging them to do more to support their local high streets or risk ...
Solar Panels Subsidy Was The Most Ridiculous Green Scheme Deramed Up
A plan to subsidise solar panels on homes was “one of the most ridiculous schemes ever dreamed up”, a Government minister has said.
Lord Marland, an Energy minister, hit out at the cost of so-called feed-in tariffs, which the Government has axed as part of the cuts programme. Last week Court of Appeal ruled that the sudden axing of the tariffs ...
Goodbye Great Britain
Recently, there have been two powerful challenges to the conventional wisdom about the United States. First, Robert Kagan published a lengthy essay in The New Republic, arguing that predictions of America's decline as a global power are woefully premature. .Is it possible, I found myself wondering, to do something similar for Britain? Robert Colvile has a go in this Daily Telegraph article ...
Our rising debt levels are becoming unsustainable – soon we may be talking about wealth confiscation (By Daniel Knowles, Daily Telegraph)
Debt, debt, debt; we’re drowning in it. This morning, the Office for National Statistics published the latest estimates of public sector borrowing. Though borrowing is falling faster than anticipated, thanks to the fact that spending cuts are finally beginning to kick in, the national debt has risen to 64.2 per cent of GDP. More significantly,…
The Obama administration knifes Britain in the back again over the Falklands - By Nile Gardiner World
In yet another display of disdain for the Anglo-American Special Relationship, the Obama administration has weighed in on the mounting tensions between Great Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. Just two days after Prime Minister David Cameron issued a robust statement in the House of Commons vowing to defend the sovereignty of the Falklands,…
Drones In The Hands Of The Paparrazi - It's an ethical minefield
America's use of drones for targeted killings is serious enough. But commercial and law enforcement uses are on the horizon. Whether you view them as model aeroplanes for grown-ups or the handmaidens of the killer robot, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are taking off in earnest. ...
The Observer uncritically regurgitates Trotskyist smears against Katharine Birbalsingh- By Toby Young, Daily Telegraph
There’s a disgraceful attempt to smear Katharine Birbalsingh in this morning’s Observer. Under the headline “Katharine Birbalsingh criticised over ‘wasteful’ free school project“, the paper’s policy editor Daniel Boffey tries to create the impression that there’s growing local opposition to the Michaela Community School – Birbalsingh’s free school – which is due to open in…
We’re being sent the bill for the euro crisis again – this time by the IMF - By Daniel Hannan First it was individual banks; then whole industries; then entire countries; now it’s the world. Western leaders have reacted to the failure of each bailout by decreeing a bigger one. Unable to admit their mistake, slaves to the defunct economist whose thinking dominates our economics faculties and central banks, they act like so many Nick Leesons,…
The Three Parent Family More on the progressive left's war on the family and the scientific dictaorship's attempts to dehumanize us all. Babies with three biological parents could be born within three years. Scientists have come up with an IVF technique that uses the undamaged DNA of a third party when couples risk giving their children a genetic conditions such as muscular dystrophy or ataxia. The Wellcome Trust has funded the research (the figures vary between £4 million and six million …
As Obama Positions Himself For A War In Syria We Learn That Like Gadaffi, Assad Is Popular With His People
Most Syrians back President Assad, but you'd never know from western mediaAssad's popularity, Arab League observers, US military involvement: all distorted in the west's propaganda war. Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major news? Well one did and we never heard a word of it in the Obama felching western media ...
Bullshit Sherlock
While other blogs are full of how great the cliff - faller ending of Sherlock Holmes was I felt a bit let down. The fake suicide was telegraphed all through the show. And the coda assured us Sherlock had survived. We should not forget of course it was the habit of ...
Will bringing back grammar schools boost social mobility? by Toby Young Daily Telegraph
The possibility that England may shortly see its first new grammar school in over 50 years has, predictably enough, re-opened the debate about selective education. Yesterday, for instance, Allison Pearson came down firmly in favour, while Fiona Millar shot back with an instant rebuttal. I’ll get into that argument in a moment, but first let’s be…
So Why Read Books Anymore
There is great “truth and beauty” in Homer’s Iliad, but I would not try to make his sale on such platitudes. Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remains a classic. But I confess it can be hard to get through. Conrad’s Victory or Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil, if authored by writer X this year, would be trashed on Amazon.So what are the reasons, in this age of ...
Eric Holder and the Chicago Way In America Obama's Brownshirts are getting hysterical as they try to make race the major issue in the election campaign.
Dystopian Prophecies Are Coming True - The Government Will Soon Choose Our Wives
Thinking of this entertaining new literary award – “the Hatchet Job of the Year” – it was natural to turn to Macaulay’s Essays, for few reviewers have ever been less reluctant to wound. I had in mind two long review-essays, one on Robert Montgomery’s Poems, the other on The State in its relations with ... FOR OLDER COMMENTS from our blog index click here. MORE Featured posts