That £1,500 - by Richard... Thursday, November 11, 2010

That £1,500 - by Richard... Thursday, November 11, 2010

We are advised that the news story about foreign crims being bribed £1,500 to go home in order to do their bird is not necessarily true. One of our readers tells us that a distant relative from Colombia got paid £3,000 when he was deported after three months for a violent offence. It seems that the £1,500 could be a minimum amount.

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The biggest enemy of Europe - by Richard...

There is nothing to fear but the European Union itself - or words to that effect – says Autonomous Mind. Actually, I'm not sure he does say that ... but he should have, in which case he probably will - if he hasn't already. Confused? I am. Read the piece. It isn't.

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Restoring the link - by Richard...

Of course, if our brain-dead, self-obsessed MPs extracted their heads from their backsides occasionally, and looked at the world around them, they might see things like this, a report from Australia on solar energy. More than $1 billion of taxpayers' money has been wasted on subsidies for household solar roof panels, it says. The subsidies favoured the rich and did little to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

However, at least in Australia, the federal government solar rebate scheme has been scrapped. It is being junked in Spain and wound down in Germany. Yet here, our shit-for-brains climate change secretary keeps the system going, while our MPs play their little games, and old ladies on fixed incomes subsidise those who can afford to milk the system.

If there was any justice – and sense – those students, along with the rest of us, would be in London, not just trashing Tory HQ, but Portcullis House and No. 7 Millbank – a much more juicy target. So, with the deliciously affronted Tory Boys (of both sexes and all ages) now baying for blood, they might reflect that the purpose of the Criminal Justice System, about which they are suddenly so enthusiastic, is to create a link between action and consequences.

With MPs, though, that link between action and reaction has been broken. They can approve – or continue to permit – obscenities like the Feed-in-Tariff, and there is no penalty for their action or neglect. Restoring that link is one of the most urgent tasks in modern politics. If it means trashing a few buildings, that is a small price to pay.

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Join the club - by Richard...

And now Euroslime Dave is whinging about the police failing to protect Conservative headquarters and for underestimating the strength of a student protest that turned into a riot.

In the real world, however – the one where you don't have machine-gun toting police guards on your doorstep and a fleet of chauffeur-driven cars – we are quite used to this. This is the world were the police cannot (or will not) prevent burglaries and vandalism, where our newsagent, in a prominent position on the high street got turned over by thieves smashing down the front door.

This is the world where the police do not bother with vehicles causing dangerous obstruction on the roads, even asserting that such obstruction is not against the law, yet happily sit in their fast cars on the motorway to pick off "speeders", mostly in the small hours of the morning when there is little traffic, because it is "safer" to stop cars then.

And, of course, this is the world were the police break into your house at midnight to cart you away to prison for not paying the police precept in protest against the useless shits who wear a uniform, take our money and don't do their jobs.

Well, it is nice to see little Dave and his Tory Boys suffer a little inconvenience from our useless plods. He joins a very large and disaffected club who were very, very happy to see Tory HQ trashed. Now you know how we feel when you wake up in the morning to find the back door wide open and treasured possessions gone.

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Caught out again - by Richard...

The police are complaining that they didn't see the violence coming at the Millbank demo. Yet students from a number of universities say they co-ordinated the Millbank raid via Facebook weeks ago. One 19-year-old student from Bournemouth University, said: "This has been arranged for ages and I’m surprised the police didn't do their homework." And "arranged" included the entertainment at Millbank.

But it was exactly the same with the London rave a fortnight ago. That had been planned well ahead and had been all over the internet. But the police don't get the internet, any more than do the politicians. They don't understand it, and as a result don't use it properly or effectively. Thus, we have an alternative system of communication to which these groups are completely oblivious.

Their great problem, of course, is that they believe the internet is just another means of getting their message out to a captive audience. They are incapable of understanding that the "conversation" is there, going on without them. They are not part of it because they have no listening mode. And so, they are going to get caught out again and again and again. They will never learn because they can't learn.

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