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Thoughts on British politics and life...
Sunday 5 June 2011
"Naksa" Day
Today was what the Palestinians fondly refer to as Naksa Day. This is a commemoration of the Six Day War. Aside from the fact they are marking a war they lost, this provided us with an insight into the mentality of Israel's Arab neighbours.
Syria has spent around 2 months oppressing their own people and murdering them en masse in cities across the country. They have used Naksa Day to divert attention away from their behaivour.
The Left have already begun their customary condemnation of Israel's actions. Would they condemn any other country if foreign nationals were invading their country?
All right thinking people will support Israel on this day. And all others for that matter.
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Someone call the Taxpayers Alliance to Northern Ireland!
Watching the lunch-time BBC NI News the headlines were -
Policing Board elects new Chair (OK its is an acceptable use of money)
£100m to ease Belfast Bottle neck. (Yes thats right, £100m to replace a junction)
£400,000 Public Art nearly finished (This "art" consists of a giant ball in the middle of a roundabout. According to the Art Council NI this is a "good use of money")
These are just some of the hundreds of idiocies that the British Taxpayer wastes their money on here in Northern Ireland.
We need someone to stand up to this waste. We need the Taxpayer's Alliance!
Policing Board elects new Chair (OK its is an acceptable use of money)
£100m to ease Belfast Bottle neck. (Yes thats right, £100m to replace a junction)
£400,000 Public Art nearly finished (This "art" consists of a giant ball in the middle of a roundabout. According to the Art Council NI this is a "good use of money")
These are just some of the hundreds of idiocies that the British Taxpayer wastes their money on here in Northern Ireland.
We need someone to stand up to this waste. We need the Taxpayer's Alliance!
Public Sector Unions Explained
This is a bit American but still very informative
Tuesday 31 May 2011
ConHome and the Tory Right need to stand up to Cameron
On Monday I read another worrying article on the marginalisation of the Right in the Tory party on Conservative Home. These articles are becoming a regular affair on the Tory blog and yet no one will stand up to Cameron before it is too late.
David Cameron has abandoned Euro-scepticism, embraced the Climate Change scam, relaxed on "prison works" and destroyed much of what the party of Thatcher stood for.
Many of us will sit back and bear this because we are in government (well kindof) But this could well be the death knell of true Conservatism.
Tim Montgomerie as ConHome Editor has done an excellent job curating the blog but he now needs to act.
The Conservative Party is in serious danger of becoming another Centrist socially democratic party of the Left. Cameron must be curtailed one way, or another
Monday 30 May 2011
Is Liyba worth it?
By September the bombing campaign on Libya will have cost us £2bn
With no clear end in sight there is need for us to look at this in a different way.
With the savage and immoral cuts to our defence budget (with increases in Aid budgets) our country is being worn down to a second rate power. With no aircraft carrier we will have little ability to export our might anywhere in the world.
We have two choices facing us now
1) Leave Libya. Show we can be beaten by a looney in a bunker in the desert. Give up the title "Great" and intergrate with the non-countries like Belgium.
2) Use Special Forces, SIS etc and show we are capable of removing key officials clinically. The SAS could assasinate Gaddafi if we actually wanted to, so we should do it.
Sure Dave will have to make a U-turn about his "boots on the ground" claim, but after his other U-turns it wouldn't be that interesting. This sort of action would make other dictatorial looneis stop and think about ignoring calls to stop (Mr Assad for example)
Just a thought...
With no clear end in sight there is need for us to look at this in a different way.
With the savage and immoral cuts to our defence budget (with increases in Aid budgets) our country is being worn down to a second rate power. With no aircraft carrier we will have little ability to export our might anywhere in the world.
We have two choices facing us now
1) Leave Libya. Show we can be beaten by a looney in a bunker in the desert. Give up the title "Great" and intergrate with the non-countries like Belgium.
2) Use Special Forces, SIS etc and show we are capable of removing key officials clinically. The SAS could assasinate Gaddafi if we actually wanted to, so we should do it.
Sure Dave will have to make a U-turn about his "boots on the ground" claim, but after his other U-turns it wouldn't be that interesting. This sort of action would make other dictatorial looneis stop and think about ignoring calls to stop (Mr Assad for example)
Just a thought...
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