Saturday, August 18, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
Quotes of the Day 17.8.2007
"Someone in the Sunday press reminded me of the worst words on TV, that's "except for viewers in Scotland, who have their own programme" this was usually met in our house with a chorus of "whit ? F.F.S. no again" over to the white heather club while the rest of Britain get the live football and , me and my brothers got slapped about the head by our mother for our language." - Cllr Terry Kelly on how he came to be brain-damaged
"People moved between West and East Berlin before, during and after the period 1961 to 1989 - people do not move anywhere that I know of without restrictions and security, the Berlin Wall was a very obvious example of that.
It was built to protect the interests of the Soviets who were entitled to their share of said influence. Do you think that they should have said 'now that we have made this sacrifice and saved the world from Facism we will just toddle off home and you guys can dominate the world at your leisure' ?
My ! Political awareness ? Good god man what kind of an idiot are you ?" - Cllr Terry Kelly rewriting world history
I'm surprise that Adolf Blair didn't make him a spin doctor!
A Blogging Islamofascist
It looks like Terry Kelly is being challenged by a Radical Muslim for the wooden spoon of 'Worst Blogger Ever'.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Quote of the Day 15.8.2007
"No-one else in the world has copied our top-down, process driven, impersonal health system. Why? because it dehumanises patients and lobotomises professionals, who are in thrall to tractor production targets from Whitehall instead of the well-being of the patients. If you think the NHS is anything other than an abortion of a system, you're an idiot, or a socialist. Which is the same thing, really." - Jackart
Wish Me Luck Tomorrow
I have got a big job interview in Cardiff Bay at 1:10pm and I need all the moral support I can get.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
2007 Conservative Mind Blog Awards
To celebrate this blog's second anniversary in a couple of months time, I have decided to have my own blog awards to both honour (and in some cases shame) my fellow bloggers. The list of winners is enclosed below:
The Tom Baker Award For The Blogger Most Similar To Anthony Ainley: Iain Dale
The Edmund Blackadder Award For The Blogger Least Likely To Be A Real Historical Figure: Archbishop Cranmer
The Kerry Katonia Award For The Blogger Most Likely To Be Sectioned Under The 1983 Mental Health Act By A Bunny Boiler Who Is After Their Family: Guido Fawkes
The Michael Jackson/Private Eye Award For The Blogger Most Misunderstood & Libelled: Devil’s Kitchen
The Jabba The Hutt Award For Best Blogger [Non-Homo Sapiens Sapiens]: Councillor Terry Kelly
The Duke Of Edinburgh Award For The Blogger Most Likely To Inadvertently Cause An International Incident: Rachel North
The William Hague Award For The Master Debater Of The Blogosphere: C4’
The Richard Nixon/Tony Bliar Award For Blog Fiction: David Lambert
The Jack Nicholson Lifetime Achievement Award: Theo Spark
The Alistair Darling Rebate Award For The Most Boring Blogger: Paul Burgin
The Chuck Norris Award For The Blogger Most Able To Achieve World Peace Through Superior Firepower: Shotgun
Inflation Falls To 3.8% From 4.4%
LONDON (Reuters) - Inflation tumbled below the Bank of England's 2 percent target in July for the first time in more than a year as supermarkets slashed prices, triggering speculation that borrowing costs have peaked.
The unexpectedly sharp fall drove the pound below $2 for the first time in nearly two months and interest rate futures leapt as investors bet the Bank's five rate hikes since last August would be enough to keep prices under control.
Official data showed consumer price inflation fell to 1.9 percent last month, its lowest since March 2006. That compared with a rate of 2.4 percent in June and stunned analysts who had expected only a modest easing to 2.3 percent.
Policymakers had expected inflation to fall sharply this year, but even they may have been surprised.
Forecasts published by the central bank only last week showed it did not expect inflation to return to target until late next year at the earliest and signalled rates might need to go up to 6 percent to bring inflation back to target in the medium term.
"This will undoubtedly take the wind out of the sails of the Monetary Policy Committee hawks, and will boost expectations that interest rates have peaked," said Howard Archer, economist at Global Insight.
Those economists who still see rates going up hurriedly pushed back their expectations for the timing of that move, especially given recent turmoil on financial markets.
Other measures of inflation have also weakened sharply. Retail price inflation eased more than expected to 3.8 percent in July from 4.4 percent, reaching its lowest since last October.
House price inflation is also looking subdued, according to a survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, while data on Monday showed manufacturers' costs unexpectedly fell last month.
PRICE WARS
Tuesday's data from the Office for National Statistics showed consumer prices fell 0.6 percent last month, as a supermarket price war drove down the cost of food and drink to shave 0.2 percentage points off the annual rate of inflation.
Furniture prices had a large downward effect, reversing a sharp increase in June, and weaker fuel price growth also helped.
However, some analysts warned it was too early to sound the all-clear on inflation and a further rise in rates to 6 percent by the end of this year was still likely, given the strong economy and the risk of a resurgence in food price inflation.
Torrential rainfall this summer has ravaged crops, which, along with strengthening global demand for food, threatens to propel food prices in the coming months.
The ONS also said wet weather threatened supplies of vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts and peas in the run-up to Christmas. Milk prices were also expected to increase as a result of recent flooding.
"With growth still robust and inflation likely to bounce back, we still see UK rates hitting 6 percent by the end of the year," said James Knightley, economist at ING.
A brief respite for the British economy and consumers, but the rate of inflation is still volatile thanks to cumbersome socialist regulation, a bloated public sector funded by oppressive rates of taxation and McStalin's massaging of the maths.
Fewer make the grade in maths
Ministers missed their key education targets for 14-year-olds as figures showed a marked fall in maths and writing standards this year.
The Government set a target for 85% of 14-year-olds to pass their national tests in English and maths at Level 5, the standard expected of the age group, by 2007.
But only 74% of pupils made the grade in their English "Sats" tests this year - the same proportion as in 2005. And just 76% did so in maths, a drop of one point since last year.
In their writing tests, 73% of 14-year-olds in England reached Level 5. This represented a 3% fall since 2006.
The Government played down the decline. But shadow schools minister Nick Gibb said the maths figures were "deeply worrying".
"With English results back to where they were two years ago, it is clear there is a serious problem," he said. "The results confirm Ofsted's view that half of secondary schools are performing at a level that is 'not good enough'.
"The Government's response to these results is therefore complacent. Frankly the Government is too easy on itself."
Mr Gibb called for "a rigorous focus on raising standards of behaviour" in secondary schools and demanded that pupils be placed in ability sets in all academic subjects.
Schools Minister Jim Knight stressed the trend since 1997 was for rising standards. "Whilst I'm disappointed to see a drop in maths and writing, it's important to put this into context," he said.
"The overall trend remains upwards and there have been dips in the past that have been quickly reversed. I'm particularly pleased to see a six percentage point improvement in reading for boys.
The Nulabs, their wasteful tax-and-spend policies, Health & Safety mania and politically correct 'trendy teaching' have once again failed the children of this once great nation. Fuck you Blair and Brown!
Quote of the Day 14.8.2007
"Politicians like high turnouts because it gives a sense of legitimacy to their abuses of power.
A Labour politician (in a nutshell) is somebody who makes a living saying “I am going to help the poor” and once elected gives himself 100,000 to spend on upgrading his office.
The chief value of democracy is that allows you to take away politicians power when their arrogance and greed becomes so blatant people begin to notice.
Which raises the question why they are the Labour Party currently ahead in the polls? Well as one of the Labour sock puppets explained the other day, it is your client base innit.
You justify re-distributing ever increasing amounts of the money from wage serfs by expanding your client base - yes all those lazy, arrogant, pension hungry, public sector worker have to be paid – and then remind them that they would not have a job if they had to compete in a free market with those who work harder and are more competent.
Of course the numbers do not quite add up (in the long run the economy will collapse” and so it has to be accompanied by a propaganda campaign telling you how well the government is performing, and that anybody who dares does not have the correct thoughts ought to be punished in some way - indeed you might even put some legislation in place to make sure.
It is hardly a new strategy. Socialism is just a variation of an ancient theme – great for politicians, good for their clients, and a source of great satisfaction for the terminally resentful, but bad for everybody else." - Chris Goodman on Iain Dale's Diary
Monday, August 13, 2007
Quote of the Day 13.8.2007
"We have allowed the most devious group of shysters since Hitler to run this country and yes I am very mad that putative primative countries outshine us." - the blogger Wrinkled Weasel about the death of British libertarian democracy thanks to Adolf Blair and the PC brigade on Iain Dale's Diary
Kurt Angle: TNA Wrestling Grand Slam Champion
Angle beat Samoa Joe with the help of his wife Karen to hold all the gold and the retain the IWGP Championship.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Another Awesome Kurt Angle Tribute
Kurt Angle fights Samoa Joe tomorrow for all of the TNA Wrestling gold and Angle's IWGP Heavyweight Championship.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Quote of the Day 10.6.2007
"Homosexuals are now free to flaunt their sexuality in public and force it down the throats of Christians, but if Christians were to carry a placard saying ‘The Wages of Sin is Death’, or ‘Homosexuality is a sin’, they would certainly be arrested.
So Islam and homosexuality both now trump Christianity. Perhaps they are not so mutually exclusive or reciprocally antithetical after all." - Archbishop Cranmer
David Shayler - Fruitcake
LONDON (AFP) - A renegade former spy who was jailed after blowing the whistle on alleged wrongdoing in the intelligence services has claimed to have new-found powers as a mystic.
David Shayler told cable channel More4 News that he had visited a psychic who he believes channelled the spirit of Mary Magdalene and anointed him as the Messiah.
"Suddenly my whole life made sense," the 41-year-old former officer with the domestic intelligence service MI5 said in an interview broadcast Thursday evening.
"I felt a sense of peace, I suddenly realised why it had been how it had, why I seem to get such a strange deal from the universe, when I seem to be trying to tell the truth about everything."
Shayler told the programme his new powers included the ability to change the weather and that he had helped prevent the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow in June through meditation.
He also claimed that his favourite football team, Premiership side Middlesbrough, won a place in the 2006 UEFA cup final against Spanish side Seville because he had "channelled the light". Boro lost.
Shayler was released from prison in in 2002 after serving seven weeks for breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act.
He left MI5 in 1996 and subsequently made a number of allegations, including that the overseas intelligence service, MI6, plotted to assassinate the Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.
He has since tried his hand as a novelist and a conspiracy theorist about the September 11, 2001 attacks and planned to run against then prime minister Tony Blair in the 2005 general election on an anti-Iraq war ticket.
More4 News said his latest claims would provide ammunition for his critics within the security service that he was a loose cannon, comparing his comments to those of former BBC sports presenter David Icke in 1991.
Wearing a lilac-coloured tracksuit, Icke was publicly derided after proclaiming himself the "son of God" during a television chat show. He believes the world is run by giant shapeshifting reptiles.
But Shayler denied the reporter's suggestion that he had "lost it".
"Do I look mentally ill? Do I sound mentally ill?... I'm absolutely convinced, as convinced as I can be, that the universe is changing shape, that humanity has to change, that I'm here to help teach people," he said.
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