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Alan Duncan - That's rich!

Remember this twat?

The Rt Hon Alan Duncan MP, Minister of State for the Department for International Development, will be addressing issues surrounding public financial management, transparency, accountability and value for money at an international conference organised by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in London on 15th March.

Hang on, though! Isn't this the same Alan Duncan who was forced to repay £4,000 in expenses he shouldn't have claimed in the first place? Isn't this the same Alan Duncan who famously proclaimed that MPs were "treated like shit" and had to "live on rations"?

Isn't it a bit rich to ask this man to talk at a conference about "Trust and Accountability in Public Financial Management"?

And even more amazingly, what the fuck is he doing in the government handling International Development, possibly the most unaccountable department of all?

Immigrants oppose immigration

A new survey has revealed that more Asians than whites believe that immigration to this country must be stemmed.

Research commissioned by the Searchlight Educational Trust found that 39 per cent of Asians, 34 per cent of whites and 21 per cent of blacks believe that immigration should be halted either permanently or at least until the UK's economy was back on track.

Almost half of those questioned, 48 per cent, were open to supporting a new far-right party as long as it eschewed 'fascist imagery' and did not condone violence. And 52 per cent agreed that ‘Muslims create problems in the UK’.

So it would seem on the face of it that the Labour party were right to brand the people of this country who opposed immigration as bigots - but the bit it seems to have got badly wrong is that an awful lot of the bigots are not caucasian Brits!

Surely, this is clear case of the pot calling the kettle black?

(You can read a fuller report by clicking here.)

The Milipede's judgement

Is it just me that finds the Mighty Milipede completely unbelievable?

On Thursday, his shadow Chancellor resigned from the shadow cabinet. Whilst undoubtedly a likeable fellow - well, for a politician anyway - he was certainly behind the door when God gave out the economics degrees. Luckily for the Milipede, Alan Johnson gave him the perfect 'personal reasons' excuse to give him the chop.

Then he replaces him with a Brown clone. This is apparently good judgement.

On Friday, here is the Milipede again. This time he is crowing at the resignation of Andy Coulson, Cameron's communications director. This is because of the phone hacking row at the News of the Screws. Apparently, allowing him to stay on calls Dave's judgement into question.

So let's understand this clearly. When the Milipede appoints the wrong man, this is good judgement but when Cameron allows a man to stay on - innocent until proven guilty - this is bad judgement?

To my way of thinking, this is double standards by any stretch of the imagination...

Red Ed can't make his mind up

Last Saturday, Ed Miliband made a major speech to the Fabian Society which warrants close scrutiny not least of all for what it tells us about the man himself.

It seems that the trouble with the Mighty Milipede could be that he simply can't make his mind up...

Having accused the Conservatives of making no effort in the Oldham East by-election on order to favour the LibDems, he went on in his speech to say that "David Cameron became the first Prime Minister in recent years to campaign in a by-election." Sounds a little contradictory to me, Ed...

Then he went on to call for Labour to show "a willingness to reach out to others beyond our party at the heart of the way we do our politics" having just slagged off the Conservatives and LibDems as a "coalition based on political convenience rather than values." Seems to me like you calling on your own party to do exactly what you are condemning.

And then there is his comment that Labour's "managerialism took us away from the instincts and values of the broad progressive majority" whilst at the same time attacking the coalition government for decentralising decision making.

"Of course I am proud of the achievements of our last Labour government" he goes on to say, but then again admits they were guilty of "failing to properly regulate the banks, ignoring concerns about economic security".

Mr Miliband says of the country's woes "it was the crisis that caused high levels of public borrowing" but then goes on to say "our economy was too vulnerable to the crisis because we were too reliant on financial services", the very financial services that Gordon Brown as Chancellor and later as Prime Minister derugulated!

But for me the best statement in his speech was when he said : "when we you see some of our leading bankers constantly threatening to leave the country, trying to hold the country to ransom and thinking only of themselves, it makes me angry."

Well I'm sorry Ed, but when I see rampant left wing socialists manipulating the trades union movement in order to try to bring down a democratically elected government and, what's more, to use your words "trying to hold the country to ransom and thinking only of themselves", then it makes me absolutely bloody furious!

And the word 'hypocrite' springs readily to mind...

93 Men in a Boat (4) : The Champagne Socialist

As my regular reader will confirm, there's nothing I hate more in life than a bloody hypocrite - and the worst sort of hypocrite is the champagne socialist. You know. Bastards like Blair for example....

Anyway, I will not embarrass myself or you by telling you how much this latest trip cost us, but it does not take a genius to work out that 5 weeks in a boat cruising the South Pacific doesn't exactly come cheap! I don't think there were any poor people on board unless, of course, you count the crew and the expedition team.

While we were on a coach trip around Tahiti, we had an English guide who was married to one of the locals. At one point, she asked how things were going back home. One idiot immediately yelled out "We've got a bloody Tory government now that wants to put 490,000 of us out of work." My response was "That's about two million too few, chum."

Turns out that this paragon of the Socialist State works in local government, so might might ask how the fuck he can afford this trip in the first place on the back of the taxpayers' money?

But I digress...

One of our fellow passengers was injured in a fall on the bus. A sort while later, Mrs D was enquiring as to her well being, and commented that on a previous trip the boat seemed to have enough doctors on board to start up our own hospital. This was enough to prompt this twat to launch into a major rant about doctors' pay rates. "Well", she replied looking him straight in the eye. "There aren't any poor passengers on this trip either!"

This was like a red rag to a bull, and off he went again. "Some people can afford these things easier than others!"

Well, matey, this is what I suggest : The next time you are in agony and fearing for your life, after the operation just pay the surgeon half of what you were prepared to give him before he treated you.

But the piece de resistance in respect of this useless, two faced, hypocritical bastard is that his cabin was on the next deck up - so it cost even more than ours! What a prat!

I hate wogs

After all this stuff about eco-fascists, I think we need a little light relief, so here's an interesting ditty by Eric Bogle.

Not very politically correct, but that's Australians for you!

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A Nun's Vow of Poverty

OK. It's Sunday, so time for my regular look at the workings of religion - and, believe me, this one is a real piss boiler...

According to the Daily Telegraph, "A Benedictine nun who faces an impoverished retirement is challenging the Government's refusal to give benefits to members of religious orders.

Sister Mary Scott, 74, and one other nun run the Oulton Abbey community near Stone in Staffordshire, where they manage a small nursing home and playgroup, but she is getting too old to keep working.

Sister Mary has never been paid, so never paid National Insurance, and what money she makes goes on food and clothes.

A Government regulation excludes 'members of religious orders who are fully maintained by their order' from pension credits, but her lawyers argue that the abbey is not supported by the Benedictine order which has no central hierarchy. She has been given permission to take the case to the Court of Appeal.

Her barrister, Stephen Knafler QC, said poverty was an 'endemic' problem facing the country's 5,000 remaining nuns and 1,400 monks, most now past retirement age."

Well of course it is, you stupid bugger! It's endemic because they take a vow of poverty! Although clearly in the light of the scandal of child molestation by priests, religious vows count for fuck all these days!

And another thing, if she has "never been paid", where did she get the money from to spend on "food and clothes"?

You two faced, hypocritical bastards! I hope that this is all going down in St Peter's ledger ready for your day of judgement. You make me sick, the lot of you!

Blair - The ultimate hypocrisy

I shamelessly nicked this diagram from a 2009 article in the guardian which you can read by clicking this link

In the ultimate irony, as the fat hypocrit, Lord Prescott, warns that the Labour Party is going bust, the same cannot be said of it's ex leader Blair. Believe it or not, the bugger is actually opening his own BANK.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has last week registered Blair's new Mayfair-based investment bank, Firerush, which could act as dealmaker in investments for the super-rich. It will contribute to his considerable fortune, which is already reported to be in excess of £20 million. Coincidentally, that's the same amount Prescott says that Labour owes. Spooky, or what?

20 bloody million... and after all the scheming hypocritical sod said about bankers and rich people avoiding tax through complex tax avoidance schemes. Pass the bloody bottle... and a large glass!

Now I'm not for a minute suggesting that Blair is doing anything illegal, but my God his moral compass is pointing in a very odd direction indeed.

Still, now he's a Catholic, I expect he'll be meeting the Pope next month - and he'll give him absolution...

Religious sensitivity

There has been a big who-ha in the States over the plans to build the Mohammed Attah Memorial Mosque on the site of the World Trade Centre in New York.

Apparently O'Bummer supports the plans, which only goes to show just how in touch he is with the people of America.

However, our reporter has learnt of similar schemes for Mosques in this country.

Plans are afoot for the building of the Hasib Hussain Islamic Cultural Centre in Tavistock Square, London. Mayor, Boris Johnson, said "The building of this cultural centre will help to heal the wounds between the Christian and Islamic communities following the events of 7th July."

Also in the pipeline north of the border is the building of the Al Megrahi Mosque in Lockerbie to be funded by donations from the Libyan government. The Libyan ambassador commented "We hope this will demonstrate to the Scottish people that we respect them deeply and are very grateful to them for the way they treated Mr Megrahi after he was found irrefutably but falsely guilty of the bombing of PanAm flight 103."

This spirit of co-operation and understanding between the two religions comes as construction starts on the new Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Crusades in Mecca.

Da Pope, he's a comin'

Praise be to God, da Pope is coming to pay a state visit to Britain!

Now I have nothing against God, but I do happen to think that religion is one of the greatest evils ever perpetrated on the human race. It has caused more death and suffering than anything else on the planet. If it did not exist, then we would have to find another reason to kill each other.

Having got that off my chest, da Pope is a head of state. It is a complete mystery to me why the Vatican is a seperate state, but that's up the the Italians. Nevertheless, as a head of state he is entitled to pay a state visit to other countries. No problemo. Bring it on...

But what is out of order is that one of the richest states - if not THE richest state - on the planet has the brass neck to put out the begging bowl to pay for the trip. That is, of course, on top of the millions we have to fork out to keep the old sod safe while he is here.

Now look here, Benny. You've got plenty of wedge. Don't take the piss by handing round the begging bowl. Just pop down to your museum and flog off a painting.

And don't rip off your flock by selling tacky souvenirs and T-shirts to swell your own obscene coffers.

And while we're at it, don't lecture us on the evils of materialism while you swan around in your gold threaded robes.

In other words, stop being a bloody hypocrite. When I see you dressed like Gandhi, then I'll take you seriously. Until then, sod off back to Rome...

The great graduate scam

This year, there will be more graduates than ever leaving university and trying to get a foot on the job ladder.

So I think that the time has come to lift the lid on one of the most disgraceful scams of the New Labour years.

When Blair came to power he proclaimed that the three highest priorities of his new government were "Education! Education! Education!" Nothing wrong with that, I hear you say. But you are wrong.

In 1997, unemployment was falling largely because of the measures put in place by the outgoing Conservative administration. Labour was happy to let this run as it made them look good - but it knew that wouldn't last and the numbers out of work would start to rise again. So it brought in the great scam...

Labour persuaded ever increasing numbers of young people to stay on in full time education and made it easier to get to university by vastly increasing the numbers of available spaces. Now I would not want to insult students by suggesting that A level examiniations have got easier, but what cannot be disputed is the increase in pass rates. So not only do more people sit these exams, but a higher proportion pass them.

The effect of this is that ever increasing numbers of people are kept off the dole queues by spending another two years at school and three more at university, totalling 6 years if you add in the increasngly popular gap year. Unfortunately, this is a temporary respite which must eventually unwind, but it worked long enought for Blair to win two further elections.

Now it is all coming home to roost. There are far more graduates than jobs and the dole queues will swell again - but now Labour is gone and they will no doubt be quick to blame the new administration.

Cynical, hypocritical and effective. All the characteristics of a really great scam...

Eating biscuits in Biafra

I get slagged off a lot for my views that charity begins at home - like for example should we be giving free milk in schools rather than using the money to give water to Pakistanis?

Yes I know it's a disaster, just like the Ethiopian famine, the boxing day tsunami, Biafra, the Haiti earthquake and many others. Oh, I nearly forgot - there have been disastrous mudslides in China this week as well.

But what really gets up my nose - and I don't know if you have ever thought about this - is what do the news crews eat when they are filming famines? How do they get about when they are covering floods? Should that place on the helicopter have been filled with food and water rather than a camera crew?

A prime example of this was on BBC breakfast news on Sunday morning. Pictures of some poor sod and his family standing on the roof of his crumbling mud hut surrounded by flood waters. And what are the news crew using to get out there and take these pictures? Let me think - oh yes! A boat.

And did they stop and rescue aforementioned poor sod and his family? I doubt it...

ANT and DEC - The Charity Appeal

As the President of Pakistan is visiting Chequers today, I thought it would be a good time to roll out my good friends, ANT and DEC.

No - not that Ant and Dec! - ANT (Another Natural Tragedy) and DEC (the Disasters Emergency Committee). These two are once again asking for your money to bail out the flood victims in Pakistan.

Perhaps when Asif Ali Zardari is taking to David Cameron today and, no doubt holding out the begging bowl for Britains cash, he should be reminded that Pakistan is the same nation whose people last week were out in the streets burning our national flag and effigies of the man he is talking to. Perhaps he should also be reminded that our government has already pledged millions for their aid.

That aid is, of course, not government money. It is taxpayers' money. Donated without a mandate on our behalf. Money we don't actually have.

So whilst the appeal launched last night is tugging at your heart strings, do what I do and remind yourself of this : "I already gave"

Oi!...Prescott...No!.....

Did you see that hypocritical, sanctimonious prat Prescott - sorry!..Baron Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull - on the Andrew Marr show on Sunday morning?

He was banging on to Martha Kierney about how chuffed he was to be sitting in the House of Lords because it gives him the opportunity to make a real contribution to politics. Why, only next Wednesday he is giving a speech about the environment which is really, really important...

Well, get this into your head Prezza :

No-one elected you. No-one gives a flying fuck for your opinion. You are a rejected has been political thug who has been thrown onto the scrapheap of politics - or to put it another way, inaugurated into the House of Lords.

This is the man who slagged off the institution he has now joined as having no place in the modern world. But, all of a sudden, he seems to have changed his opinion and praised it as a really, really important debating forum.

No, John. You're there because if you stuck by what you have always said, Lady Paulene - God help us - would serve up your bollocks in a pie for your tea.

You have debased the peerage system. You have sold out. You are a solid gold 24 carat hypocrite.

If ever there was a case for replacing the House of Lords with an elected chamber, then I think you just made it.

Hypocrisy makes the world go round

The 'Hypocrisy' two bottle gift set
Fine Caret for me - Vin Ordinaire for you!

Hypocrisy - if only we could bottle it, then we could sell it for a fortune!

Let's look at some of the recent examples :

David Laws - put in charge of cutting the public sector and then caught fiddling his expenses

The five MPs currently being prosecuted for expenses fiddles - they sit in parliament and makes laws, and then when they are caught breaking them say they don't apply to them. Unbelievable!

Diane Abbott - bangs on about education based on merit rather than ability to pay, and then sends her son to a private school.

Alex Salmond - branded a hypocrite for slagging off Westminster's gravy train and then accepting a golden goodbye when he stands down as an MP - despite the fact that he is still in a job in Scotland with a 6 figure salary

The government bangs on about cutting costs and then spends 18 grand topping up the House of Commons wine cellar

John Prescott - takes money for making a documentary about the unfairness of the class system and then accepts a peerage

But there are a few glimmers of hope.

David Cameron this week turned down the lifetime pension that he became entitled to as soon as he became PM

Nationwide building society's CEO turned down the proportion of his huge bonus that would have meant he got a big pay increase compared to last year.

John Baron, the Conservative MP, gave the £60,000 profit on his second home to charity when he was perfectly entitled to keep it.

I could go on and on - and to be fair I usually do - but I am sure you could think of a good few more I haven't mentioned....