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No Jobs For The Masses In The New Economy Despite University Education

by Ian R Thorpe.

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.

No Jobs For The Masses

There has been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from most of the usual suspects on the "progressive left" (for progressive left rational people should read authoritarian right) about record levels of unemployment in the 16 - 24 demographic (demographic is progressiveese for social group). One point universally missed by the wailers and gnashers of teeth is that youth unemployment is nothing new. It has been climbing every single year since 2001. There are full statistics here; in 1990, 10.4 per cent of those under 25 were unemployed. Last year, it was 19.6 per cent. I'm not sure that the headline figure released yesterday is directly comparable to the eurostat number, but this year, it is 21.6 per cent. Since 2007, things have got much worse, of course, as they have in all countries. But in the UK this has been an acceleration of a trend, not a new one entirely.

Youth unemployment was even higher until governments of both political colours cooked up the scam of hugely expanding higher education. Up to the mid 1970s about 15% of school leavers in Britain went on to higher education. By the late 1990s we had Mr. Smarmy Tony Blair bleating about how our education system was failing they young if they did not all get a university education and setting a mid - range target of 50% of young people staying in education to get degrees. His plan of course was to keep more 16 - 25 year olds off the unemployment figures for a few years.

To consider "youth" unemployment as a single, homogenous problem is a gross oversimplification. An the OECD study of youth employment in Britain in 2008 reported:

"Highly qualified young people fare better on the labour market in Britain than do their counterparts in many other OECD countries. But low-skilled 16 to 24 year olds in the United Kingdom perform below the OECD average, the OECD report makes clear. In 2005, the ratio of low skilled to high skilled youth unemployment rates stood at almost five to one, the second highest in the OECD."

Translated to plain English, the brightest here do better than in other countries, but those who do less well at school do worse. That's hardly surprising. In this country still we have some world-class schools and universities. The expensive and exclusive private schools such as Eton and Winchester (ironically these are called public schools because when they were granted their charter by medieval kings any member of the public could enroll their sons so long as they could afford the fees.) Some of the old Grammar schools, in Britain the schools that take brighter pupils from eleven to eighteen, went private and still provide excellent education too. Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and the various colleges of the University of London consistently score top in world ranked universities. For a graduate of these alma maters there will always be work available somewhere, whether it is in a bank (still going), or in Japan teaching English. But at the same time, we also have a state run school system which self-evidently fails many students who leave at sixteen lacking basic literacy, numeracy and social skills. As the British Chambers of Commerce very succinctly puts it, many of our school leavers (and even many of our university graduates from the "new universities" or glorified polytechnics) are "fairly useless". A qualification in being "fairly useless" is hardly going to help anyone get a job (more graduates, less graduate jobs).

The standard solution proposed is to try to increase skills. For the last fifteen years the government has been pushing the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths syllabus in the fond belief that depriving pupils of cultural awareness will position our nation to move boldy forward into the new technological age. If this new technological age is analysed critically however, rather than being eulogised by technology geeks, it becomes clear technology is a job killer rather than a job creator. A current controversy concerns the plight of independent bookshops now that e-books have arrived as a viable proposition. Booksellers were already suffering because of online sales and supermarket chains cutting prices on popular titles. With the advent of Kindle and other e-readers more than half of those that remain are likely to close within two years.

The Government has been pushing a plan to increase the number of trade apprenticeships which, as well as providing a non academic or not entirely academic route to secure employment are also intended to offer remedial training for children who can't read and write. This second part of the plan undermines the first, apprenticeships used to be for electricians, carpenters, plumbers, construction skills, engineering trades, mechanics, printers and such specialised trades, to lump these in with remedial education is not going to attract a high calibre of entrant. More worryingly, the government's outsourcing of job centres with perfomance related payments to contractors passing their targets for getting people into work has provided an incentive for managers and staff to force young workers to spend weeks working for no pay supermarkets in the hope that they will learn the skills of shelf-stacking or carrying boxes. On the political Right, MPs call for the suspension of the minimum wage for young workers: the logic being that at Ł6 an hour, the young are priced out of jobs. The important thing is to get them onto the "job ladder", from where it is presumed that they can rise. The left naturally strongly oppose this and argue that the government should create public sector jobs for everybody.

An article by Aditya Chakrabortty points out that in 1979, manufacturing employed 6.8 million people in Britain. Today, we produce almost as much, and yet the sector employs just 2.5 milion people. Robots and Chinese people have taken over the sorts of jobs that 16 year olds could get without any qualifications straight out of school and work in for a lifetime. The only jobs left for the under-educated, or often just the less academic, are in service industries: serving coffee, cleaning toilets, stacking shelves. These jobs are not the first rung on the ladder. There is no ladder; no one hopes to work in Pret a Manger for life. In one of my previous articles on this topic I had one commenter smugly inform me that the answer is for people to specialise. Sadly he had missed the main point of the article that it was the specialists who were being squeezed. Carrying boxes and stacking shelves is hardly a specialist skill.

As Chakrabortty notes and I have observed many times in my UK blogs, the Labour Prime Ministers between 1997 and 2010, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair chased a fantasy of the "knowledge economy". They believed that if they invested enough money in education, we could become a nation entirely of software engineers, 3D computer game designers, lawyers, academics, scientists and Goldman Sachs bankers. Unfortunately, it's rubbish. Just as not everybody is suited to academic pursuits and wee will always have people whose natural abilities are better suited to practical tasks, so society will never have need for so many professionals and academics. And only a fool or an ideological dreamer could delude themselves that China, Japan, India, the Arab world and emergent nations of Africa, South East Asia and South America and, or even from the Eastern European would have to few highly intelligent and educated young people to meet the needs of their jobs market and thus would be forced to buy in suck skills from Britain.

One of the most difficult problems for our society is what can we offer those people who simply don't fit into the high tech modern economy? Ever worse pay and ever longer lines of unemployed people shuffling aimlessly around like the epsilon semi morons of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World cannot be a long term solution. Even if we have the resources, relying on an ever shrinking proportion of the population for the taxes which clothe, house and feed the rest as well as funding government vanity projects and caring for a larger population of elderly people is not politically or economically sustainable.

To talk of protectionism, of keeping jobs at home in the domestic market, is politically unfashionable but it may be necessary. Globalisation has failed, Barack Obama and David Cameron may make windy speeches about free trade and when they tell Chinese and Indian audiences of the advantages of opening their markets to the west the listeners will nod, smile and applaud politely and then carry on doing things the way they always have. I recall a story from the days when Margaret Thatcher was busy exporting British jobs to the east and destroying whole industries. While the Iron Lady was tearing up import controls on Japanese cars claiming she had secured a treaty with Japan to allow British cars into the Land of the Rising Sun, it was reported that indeed the Japanese the Japanese had scrapped their import quotas. Britain could send as many cars as we liked to Japan where our quality and sports cars were in demand. When those cars arrived however they were subject to a forensic inspection by a small team of Japanese customs officers which required each car to be taken to pieces, each component inspected for compliance with specification and the car then rebuilt.

Few customers were prepared to wait over a year and then get a rebuilt car.

Free trade was seen as a panacea for economic problems by neo - cons, an engine which would provide infinite economic growth. Even if everybody understood free trade to mean the same thing however, in an increasingly automated world it would still fail to fulfill expectations. Problems of employment, welfare dependency, falling educational standards and ageing populations must be dealt with locally and there are no quick fixes.

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University guide 2013: Liverpool John Moores University

Our at-a-glance guide to Liverpool John Moores University

Established in 1825, Liverpool John Moores University is proud of its reputation for recruiting students from all walks of life and today attracts people from more than 100 countries worldwide. Its World of Work programme sums up its commitment to ensuring that every student graduates with the skills, experience and knowledge to succeed professionally. Set up in collaboration with FTSE 100 companies and leading business organisations, such as Airbus, CBI, Ford Europe, NHS, Marks & Spencer and Sony, World of Work is delivered as part of every undergraduate course. Links with regional and local employers mean students have access to a range of work placements, internships and other work-related opportunities.

Liverpool is a fun place to be a student and it's fairly cheap for a big urban centre. With three large campuses in the city, you're never far from a university base.

Fees
ÂŁ9,000 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

ÂŁ4,000 for the foundation year of any course with an integral foundation year.

Bursaries
If you are in your first year in 2012-13 and your household income is ÂŁ25,000 or less a year, you will qualify for a non-repayable bursary of ÂŁ500 for each year of your course. You can spend this bursary as you wish - towards your everyday living costs, to pay off part of your tuition fees or to reduce the amount of student loan that you take out. LJMU bursaries are paid automatically to eligible students - you do not need to apply for them.

A range of scholarships and bursaries will accompany the new fees in 2012-13. For details, visit ljmu.ac.uk/feesandfunding/119234.htm

Accommodation
Guaranteed for all first-years, including those who apply through clearing. Self-catering halls range from ÂŁ69 to ÂŁ114 a week.

Facilities
LJMU's three campus-based learning resource centres combine traditional library facilities with everything you'd expect from a modern university: social learning zones, pods for group work, WiFi access throughout, 24/7 opening, loads of computers and on-site staff to answer queries on every aspect of student life.

Riba-award-winning art and design academy, new life and sciences building with world-class laboratories, indoor running track and body scanner. With industry-standard TV and radio studios, the new ÂŁ37m Redmonds building will open in 2012, housing the faculty of arts, professional and social studies, including the Liverpool screen school.

LJMU's Centre for Entrepreneurship supports students and graduates who want to start up in business, become self-employed or work freelance, as well as working closely with programme teams to provide enterprise education through the curriculum. The centre has co-working facilities and a networking, and provides financial support and training. Sporting facilities include a 25m pool, an Astro pitch, an indoor sports hall, gymnasiums and dance studios, and outdoor netball and tennis courts.

Transport
Two campuses are in the middle of town; a third is a 15-minute bus ride away.

Contact
Tel: 0151 231 5090
Email: courses@ljmu.ac.uk
Web: ljmu.ac.uk
Accommodation: accommodation@ljmu.ac.uk

Publ.Date : Tue, 22 May 2012 00:20:00 GMT

University guide 2013: University of Liverpool

Our at-a-glance guide to the University of Liverpool

Liverpool is arguably the redbrick university - the phrase was coined by a Liverpool academic familiar with the local architecture, like the (red, brick) Victoria building, the administrative heart of the university. And it has everything you'd expect from a classic redbrick: excellent ratings in teaching and research, a large and diverse student body, a strong sense of self and a location in a top city. Now would be a great time to apply to Liverpool - in 2008 it became the European Capital of Culture, and the investment is paying off.

In 2006, the university opened the first independent Anglo-Asian university in China in partnership with Xi'an Jiaotong University in Suzhou. Students can opt to take work placements in Suzhou. And the university is planning collaborations with universities in Chile, Mexico and Spain. ÂŁ200m of investment is also taking place on the university's campus near the centre of Liverpool. Facilities for fun are great (the student union building is the largest in the country), the cost of living is low, and there is a real commitment to opening access and to the local community.

Fees
ÂŁ9,000 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

Bursaries
The university intends to commit 30% of its additional fee income in 2012-13 to supporting students from lower-income backgrounds and will offer enhanced outreach activities alongside new measures to support retention.

Approximately 30% of students joining the university in 2012 will qualify for a minimum bursary of ÂŁ2,000 a year for the duration of their course. In addition, some students will qualify for up to ÂŁ9,000 of support in bursaries and fee waivers during their course.

Accommodation
The university is investing ÂŁ45m in its new Eco Residences project, which will involve the development of 700 en-suite study bedrooms on its city centre campus. The scheme will also include shops and a new 250-seat restaurant. The residences are planned to open in September 2012.

Facilities
Two main libraries, one of which enjoyed a ÂŁ17m redevelopment in summer 2008. Extensive sports grounds and the student union offers a choice of three bars.

A ÂŁ25m development of state-of-the-art teaching laboratories for the physical sciences to include 15 state-of-the-art teaching laboratories is due for completion in 2012. Overall, the university is investing ÂŁ600m on teaching, research and residential estate over a 10-year period.

Transport
The campus is situated about 10 minutes' walk from the city centre. Good for trains and coaches, and there are motorways almost on the doorstep.

Contact
Tel: 0151 794 2000
Email: ugrecruitment@liv.ac.uk
Web: liv.ac.uk
Accommodation: accommodation@liv.ac.uk

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University guide 2013: Nottingham Trent University

Our at-a-glance guide to Nottingham Trent University

NTU is one of the largest universities in the country, with more than 25,000 students. It has a diverse international community, with students from over 104 countries. Courses are spread over three campuses: one in the city centre, another four miles away in Clifton, and a third in the Brackenhurst countryside, about 14 miles out of town.

The university has close links with more than 6,000 employers across the world; most courses are vocational and many students spending up to a year on work placements. The employment rate is excellent, with 94% of graduates employed or in further study six months after leaving.

NTU has invested more than ÂŁ130m in its three campuses over the past decade. This includes ÂŁ90m on the regeneration of two grade II listed buildings, Newton and Arkwright, at the heart of the City site. This development has won multiple awards from the Royal Institute of British
Architects. Their green-estates strategy has also helped them rank as the most environmentally friendly university in the country.

Nottingham has something for everyone. If shopping is your thing, then there is a wide range of independent boutiques as well as all the major chains. The newly built Nottingham Contemporary has hosted exhibitions from major players such as David Hockney and, in 2011, was chosen to open the British Arts Show. There are two major theatres, a handful of cinemas, a wide variety of professional sports teams, and some of the UK's best nightlife and live music venues.

Fees
ÂŁ8,500 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

Bursaries
In 2012-13, NTU scholarships of ÂŁ1,400 and 568 National Scholarships of ÂŁ3,000 are available to eligible students. Both are paid in each academic year (up to three years) in the form of a fee reduction.

Accommodation
All new students who have NTU as their first choice are guaranteed an offer of university-allocated accommodation. Self-catering accommodation ranges from ÂŁ74 to ÂŁ142 a week.

Facilities
Recent investment across all three campuses has seen a major rise in the quality of facilities on offer. Developments include a sports centre endorsed by golfer Lee Westwood, a science Superlab, new libraries and 24-hour computer rooms. By 2013, there will also be a brand new student union building with bars, shops and a 2,000-capacity music venue.

Transport
The city centre is easily accessible due to the great rail, tram and road links, and an award-winning Unilink bus service between City and Clifton campuses. East Midlands airport is nearby, offering cheap flights across Europe. The university runs a popular cycle hire scheme across all three campuses.

Contact
Tel: 0115 941 8418
Email: ask.ntu@ntu.ac.uk
Web: ntu.ac.uk
Accommodation: accommodation@ntu.ac.uk

Publ.Date : Tue, 22 May 2012 00:30:00 GMT

University guide 2013: Middlesex University

Our at-a-glance guide to Middlesex University

Middlesex University is dedicated to unlocking potential in its students, through its research and within business. It is located in north London across three campuses, with the flagship campus in Hendon. There are 35,000 students studying at Middlesex; 8,500 of them study at campuses in Dubai and Mauritius, and at a range of worldwide partner institutions. The university is opening a third international centre near Delhi in India in autumn 2011. With such international links the university offers a real global perspective; it was one of the first UK universities to deliver British higher education overseas.

Middlesex is also a pioneer in work-based learning and enables employees to gain academic credits in the workplace, helping them to make a greater contribution to their organisations. All courses provide the opportunity for a work placement, preparing students for the world of work.

Middlesex has invested more than ÂŁ100m in the redevelopment of the Hendon campus, which boasts state-of-the-art facilities and eco-friendly, award-winning buildings.

Fees
ÂŁ9,000 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

Bursaries
From 2012-13, Middlesex will offer a wide range of fee waivers and scholarships. Visit mdx.ac.uk/scholarships.

Accommodation
Middlesex prioritises first-year students who have made the university their first choice and those from furthest away. Rent prices range from ÂŁ94 to ÂŁ120 a week.

Facilities
A new art, design and media building will be opening at the flagship Hendon campus in 2011, with ÂŁ80m invested in creating an environmentally friendly building to provide specialist creative facilities and workshops.

There are state-of-the-art teaching facilities and laboratories at the Hatchcroft science building, and ÂŁ4.5m has been spent on a student venue, the Forum. Each campus has its own learning resources centre. In summer 2011, the university launches its Red Loop design and innovation centre, making links with businesses and providing students with a range of work placement opportunities.

Transport
The campuses are in London, with all the transport benefits that that implies. Each campus is within short walking distance of a tube station.

Contact
Tel: 020-8411 5555
Email: enquiries@mdx.ac.uk
Web: mdx.ac.uk
Accommodation: accomm@mdx.ac.uk

Publ.Date : Tue, 22 May 2012 00:30:00 GMT

University guide 2013: Newcastle University

Our at-a-glance guide to Newcastle University

Newcastle is a perennially popular choice with applicants, and small wonder. It's got an impressive academic track record and is located in a city that has been named the UK's best university city (MSN travel website 2008-2011), one that inspires immense affection in locals and visitors alike. Newcastle is famous for its nightlife, and, with a relatively low cost of living and a compact city centre, going for a trawl around its varied pubs and clubs couldn't be easier. But it's also a regional centre for the arts, theatre and live music. It's close to great countryside and the dramatic coastline. The university has a modern outlook - it has Fair Trade status, is a smoke-free campus, and was the only university to formally back the Jubilee Debt Campaign for the cancellation of debt in developing countries, and it has a strong commitment to the Make Poverty History campaign.

Fees
ÂŁ9,000 for full-time undergraduates in 2012-13.

Bursaries/Scholarships
See the website for scholarships and information on fee discounts.

Accommodation
Guaranteed for eligible first-years. Prices from ÂŁ71.89 to ÂŁ125.75 a week for self-catered, and ÂŁ102.34 to ÂŁ120.05 for catered (two meals a day). Most accommodation sites are within 10 minutes' walk of the campus and the city centre.

Facilities
The University Library Service has more than 1 million books, 100,000 electronic resources, over 500,000 e-books and many specialist collections. It is the only one in the UK to have been awarded the government's Charter Mark for excellent customer service five times in a row and the new Customer Services Excellence standard. There is excellent computer provision across campus, including 24-hour computer clusters, free wireless connectivity and all student bedrooms are wired for internet and university network access.

With first-class sports facilities, including a state-of-the-art fitness centre, a range of high-quality pitches and a water sports centre, Newcastle has finished in the top 15 out of 146 in the British Universities and Colleges Sports table for the past six years.

Recent developments include an ÂŁ8m refurbishment of the grade II listed student union. Work is ongoing on a multimillion-pound teaching and accommodation complex for international students, due for completion by summer 2012. Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed) opened in November 2011, making Newcastle the UK's first university to develop an overseas campus offering full UK medical degrees in-country. Newcastle also has a campus in Singapore offering degrees in naval architecture.

Transport
The campus is in the middle of the city and close to the Metro. There are easy links to London and Edinburgh, as well as a ferry port and an international airport.

Contact
Tel: 0191 208 3333
Email: Inquire online at ncl.ac.uk/enquiries
Web: ncl.ac.uk
Accommodation: www.ncl.ac.uk/enquiries

Publ.Date : Tue, 22 May 2012 00:30:00 GMT

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Electricity bills set to rise to pay for wind farm subsidies
While sensible people agree that the climate is causing serious problems few people still think this is due solely to CO2 emissions from human activity. Even the author of Gaia theory has said the problem is more complex. Unfortunately climate scientists with their snouts in the tax money trough are still pushing the discredited idea that wind turbines and solar panels can meet our energy needs. Well if that is the case why are domestic fuel bills rising to pay for subsidies paid to the operators of these failed technologies. [ also Daily Stirrer 21 May 2012

Frankencops - Boggart Blog
Police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have admittted storing body parts and organs that are no longer required as evidence, a report published today reveals

If Your Beard Infringes Copyright, Shave Now!
Experience has shown Russian mathematician and blogger Mikhail Verbitsky that there's a price to be paid for being flippant about about peiople's beards. This is bad news for Boggart Blogas in the past we have blogged about beards of terror, beards of mass destruction and ...

Facebook's Stockmarket Launch Fizzles Out
Facebook's much hyped stock market launch fell flat. We examine the folly of trying to pass off a social networking fad as a real, monrey making business.

Americans Flock To Vote For The Local Nutter
The American Primaries leading up to elections are a bit of a mystery to us British punters but they throw up some interesting stories. Like the one in the 2010 mid term elections when a Mr. Alvin Green won the Deomocrat Party nomination for ...

Parenting Classes Not Nanny State - They're Worse Describing vouchers for parenting classes in England as a "nanny state" policy is "nonsense", David Cameron has said, defending another nonsensical policy aimed at extending the ability of a Orwellian Big Brother regime to reach into the private ... Paranoid?
Its coming to something when the general public of the world are so paranoid that a dead bird is mistaken for an Isreali spy.Now, the bird in question was found dead in a field in south east Turkey, with a metal ring around its leg that was stamped 'Isreal'. That in itself may not seem ...

Parenting Classes: A Bad Idea But Consistent With The Globalist Agenda
Describing vouchers for parenting classes in England as a "nanny state" policy is "nonsense", David Cameron has said, defending another nonsensical policy aimed at extending the ability of a Orwellian Big Brother regime to reach into the private lives of citizens and control behaviour. The "parenting" (and who the fuck uses words like "parenting" except neo - Nazi public servants?) classes will be aimed at ...

UN Says Food Is A Human Right
In a gobsmacking example of bureaucratic idiocy and politically correct stupidity a Brussels bureaucrat has said food is a human right and accused prosperous, enlightened Canada of human rights abuse for not ensuring all it's 30 million plus inhabitants get an 'adequate' diet. What planet do these people live on?

Golden Orwell Award: UN Says Food Is A Human Right Canada is know a one of the most stupid politically correct nations on Earth, more politically correct in fact than Sweden. After passing a same sex marriage law a few years ago the Canadian bureaucracy has banished perfectly good ...

How the gay-marriage campaign has unleashed a bureaucratic assault on people's identities
Do gooders, progressives and bleeding hearts hurl hatred at those who question gay mariage. But these politically correct fools have as usual wallowed in their own self righteousness too long without thinking of the social consequences of this law which will devalue mainstream society to set up the gay community as a precious little elite.

Teresa May Bullying The Boys In Blue
Home Secretary Theresa May was forced to deny her relationship with the police is beyond repair after she was heckled by delegates at the Police Federation conference. In a speech to rank and file officers the Home Secretary was trying to justify budget cuts of 20% in England and Wales, and some of the most radical reforms in 30 years.Mrs May said police needed to "share" in government austerity measures but said change was in ...

Truth Murderering Greens
When the Heartland Institute launched an ad campaign comparing climate alarmists to mass murderers the green lobby rather predictably threw a hissy fit. Unfortunately the weirdie beardies, tree huggers and raffia mafia had forgotten they were the first to introduce this Nazi tactic into the debate.

In the future your f*** - buddy will be a Robot. The Sydney Morning Herald ran a report last week which claims that in the not too distant future not only will sex robots eliminate real women in the sex industry but buying a robot fuck - buddy will also be a good way for ...

Why The Intellectual Elitie Truly Despise The Lower Classes
Have you noticed that the professional hand wriners of the left have shifted their focus from 'the poor' to minorities. They did not succeed in abolishing poverty so whaty's going on? Simples. The intellectual left having elected themselves to speak for the poor found the poor were able to speakl for themselves and resented posh pokenoses pontification about matters of which understanding cannot be gained by reading books. This article exposes the hypocrisy of the left ...

Europe's Crisis Is Going To Get A Lot More InsaneHow would you go about solving your personal debt problem if your credit cards were maxed out, your overdraft wasd on it's limit and your income would not stretch to buying basics after all the interest on your morthgage and loans had been paid.? Go to a loan shark? Of course not, that should be a no brainer even for politcians and bureaucrats. But it is exactly where Europe is heading.

Europe Says Eff U To Democracy
Only the Bureautwats of Brussels would be unable to see the joke in calling their new financial integration treaty the F U treaty.
But in their defence the Brussels mafia are as unfamiliar with humour as they are with what consitutes

Obama Talks The Talk But Dare Not Visit Afghanistan In Daylight
Todays mainstream news papers and broadcast bulletins are full of the Superhero Barack Obama's daredevil visit to Afghanistan. The man who liberated Libya single handed and took out Osama Bin Laden (or a Pakistani pensioner with a beard) in a daring solo raid behind enemy lines stormed into the Afghan capital, Kabul, made a speech that left hundreds of Taliban fighters dead and saw others fleeing for the mountains with their arses on fire then left again all in the space of ...

MPs Say Murdoch Not A Fit And Proper Person To Run Britain
Rupert Murdoch "is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company", MPs have con cluded. Parliament's culture committee questioned journalists and bosses at the now closed News of the World, as well as police and lawyers for people whose private data held on internet and mobile phone devices. Its report says that Mr Murdoch exhibited "wilful blindness" to what was going on in ...

Green Energy Causing Global Warming
Fancy A Laugh? Here's a good story. A new scientific study says wind farms can cause climate change. The new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures. Usually at night the air closer to the ground becomes colder when the sun goes down and the earth cools. Simples. But on huge wind farms the motion of the turbines mixes the air higher in the atmosphere ...

ILO warns global employment situation is 'alarming'; Eurozone in crisis:
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has reported that the global employment situation is "alarming" and unlikely to improve soon. The agency said that austerity measures, especially in advanced economies, were hurting job creation and the situation was likely to get worse amid slowing global growth and more people entering the workforce. They have a point of course but it is just not feasible to keep borrowing money to pay for ...

Things Must Be Pretty Bad When Primark Fakes Are Selling In Dubai
Fake Christian Louboutin shoes I can understand although those wanting to plug such crap in my comments thread can eff off, I'll just delete you. Fake Louis Vuitton bags, Dolce and Gabbana wossits, ...

Boggart Blog Select vol 1
Boggart Blog styles itself "probably the funniest blog on the web" and most of its loyal band of followers would say that is an understatement. It is not just the wit of the Boggart Blog team or the style and skill with the written word they bring to their humour but the range. From sharp political satire they will leap to wild, surreal fantasy, dark, almost cruel ironies, incisive parody and ...

Bank of England's Disastrous Quantitative Easing Policy Destroying Pensions and Lives
Big News today is that the shortfall in the final-salary pensions schemes of the FTSE 350 companies has risen to Ł80bn at the end of last month, four times higher than at the same point last year according to pensions analysts Hymans Robertson. The figures expose the extent to which repeated rounds of quantitative easing (QE a.k.a.creating money in computers) has distorted the value of ...

Argentina's Lightweight Government Throws Its Weight About
The government of Argentina, still deluding itself that the Falkland Islands belong to them, has threatened to press criminal and civil charges on British oil companies exploring off the Falkland Islands if they do not "justify their actions" by a May 2 deadline. In its latest display of megalomaniacal lunacy over the disputed islands, The Government of Argentina said it had ...

Spain's Jobless Hits New Record
Nearly one in four Spaniards are now out of work, according to figures released by the government on today, as Standard & Poor's cut the country's credit rating by two notches over its debt burden and ailing banks. The number of unemployed people hit 5,639,500 for March, with the unemployment rate reaching 24.4%, the national statistics agency reported.The figures came on the same day as rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Spanish sovereign debt ...

The Folly Of Trying To Inflate Away Debt
As the debt crisis grinds on and the creit crunch mutates into the credit famine the clueless politicians and even more clueless economists and academics who advise them can only think of one course of action. That is to inflate away their debt problem by devaluing currency to the extent at whic a bag of potatoes or wheat grain costs $Ł€ 1 trillion. Inflation is the cruellest tax, destroying the savings and pensions of sensible people and rewarding irresponsibility.

Asinine Eurocrats Want To Waste More Of Our Money
On reading the news about the Bureaucrats of Brussels, those smug, smooth faced spawn of a pox whore's scab lice who control our distiny and their demand for a budget increase of twice the official inflation rate after ...

Meanwhile As Punters Suffer Brussels Bureaucrats Throw Away Money As If It Is Infected
European Commission bureaucrats have squandered millions of pounds on bizarre projects that provide little or no benefit to member states, it has been revealed. Wasteful schemes include spending Ł20m on building three ports in Spain and Italy that remain unused four years after their completion and sending a ‘blogging donkey’ equipped with a solar panel and a video camera around Europe as part of ...

The Demon Stagflation Is On The Loose
The Credit Crunch is stil crunching European economies and the savings and pension funds of individuals.Demand for housing loans has falled 70pc in Portugal, 44pc in Italy, and 42pc in the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2012. Enterprise loans fell 38pc in Italy. This puts a rather different perspective on the UL Labour Party's outraged squealing about our economy contracting one fifth of one per cent over the last ...

Mathematics and Reality
In all of our blogs and web sites the Greenteeth team have been critical of those science fans who are turning science into a religion. Scientists deny this of course even in the face of the evidence. Here Ian R Thorpe shows you that the idea of mathematics as God is nothing new, it has been around longer than Christianity in fact.

Cameron Gazes Into The Abyss
At Prime Minister's questioin time today David Cameron was given a threashing the like of which he had not experienced since he was at his very posh school, and he did not enjoy it. After less than 10 minutes of suffering "the slings and arrows of outraged MPs from members of his own and opposition parties, the Prime Minister looked like a pit bull with piles. The Leverson inquiry ...

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COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDED READING AROUND THE WEB

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The Question That Wob't Go Away: Who Is Barack Obama?
So now Chris Matthews isn’t the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s until the day before yesterday—or, to be more accurate, until Obama made his decision to run for president—a biographical pamphlet circulated by his literary agents described him as having been “born in Kenya” has been setting the world of ...

How The Grexit May Make Things Worse In Greece
It looks more likely that Greece will crash out of the euro. But if it attempts to return to the drachma, there's a pretty big problem, which no one's really come up with a way to fix. The printers at De La Rue or its rivals are, according to reports, preparing to run off some new Greek banknotes ...

Is America Really A Post White Nation or Is This Writer Spouting Typical Progressive Claptrap When is a majority less than a majority? Answer: when the minority is bigger. This is what has just happened in the US: births to the white majority in America fell in the first six months of last year to just 49.6 per cent of the total, meaning that Caucasians, as they are quaintly known, may within the next 30 years become an endangered species.Given America’s boast that it is a land of ...

The New Reactionaries by Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media
About fifteen years ago, many liberals began to self-identify as progressives—partly because of the implosion of the Great Society and the Reagan reaction that had tarnished the liberal brand and left it as something akin to “permissive” or “naďve,” partly because “progressive” was supposedly ...

Wind farms can cause climate change, finds new study
Wind farms can cause climate change, according to new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures.

I Promise You The President Has A Big Stick says vice president
Vice President Joe Biden went after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a campaign address at New York University, questioning the former Massachusetts governor’s chops on foreign policy. And, he was there to try to prop up his boss’ credentials ....

Minimum Alcohol Pricing Shambles by Dick Puddlecote
You have to wonder if UK politicians who have been promoting minimum alcohol pricing might have been a bit pissed when they made the decision to go for it. Consider this response to a parliamentary question tabled by a UKIP member of the House of Lords ...

Asinine bureaucrats
I shared Gildas’ rage yesterday; he fared better than I, he was actually able to articulate his rage. PMQs left me quite speechless and I abandoned the effort to write.PMQs has become a monotonously unfolding pantomime of ...

A Spectacular Devaluation But no Recovery In Sight
The sterling effective exchange rate is one reason why the UK has recorded the highest inflation rate of any advanced economy. With the onset of the crisis, the Bank of England allowed sterling to depreciate dramatically ...

Salt Tax Again
Salt is now the same as tobacco. Soon there will never be a heart attack again, anywhere in the world, and the drones will live in morose greyness for all eternity. Well, I like tobacco, but I won’t die if I can’t get any. It’s a fun part of life ...

Obama Message Booed ~ In Massachusetts (by Allahpundit)
Well, it stands to reason. Massachusetts is a deep red state. Wait, what?
I held off blogging this yesterday in hopes that video would emerge but after almost 24 hours I’ve given up hope. It started when Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom tweeted: ...

The second front - the new fear and panic tactic to replace AGW
Apr 22, 2012 Greens If the struggle to put climatology back on a scientific footing were not bad enough, the UN has just set up a new intergovernmental body, which will push biodiversity as the new excuse to "scare 'n' tax".

Inequality: a middle-class obsession by Daniel Ben-Ami
Unlike past warriors for equality, today’s campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.

Executive Order 13547: “The Sleeping Power Grab” (by Erika Johnsen)
To be fair, President Obama’s executive-order output hasn’t unreasonably outpaced that of his predecessors – his especial willingness to actively circumvent Congress and snatch huge gobs of power for the federal bureaucracy only makes it feel like he has. In July of 2010, President Obama signed executive order 13547 – “Stewardship of ...

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