Politics made easy. The Labour way.

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, 'What is Politics?'
Dad says, 'Well son, let me try to explain it this way:

"I am the head of the family, so call me The Prime Minister".

"Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government".

"We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the People".

"The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class".

"And your baby brother, we will call him the Future.
Now think about that and see if it makes sense".'

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.
Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his nappy.
So the little boy goes to his parent's room and finds his mother asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny..
He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy say's to his father, 'Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now. '
The father says, 'Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.'

The little boy replies, 'The Prime Minister is screwing the Working Class while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit.'

7000 words

 

Further to my post Yesterday concerning computer illiteracy.

It would seem that our beloved Police Farce Service cannot use their computers properly either.

A police force has issued officers with 22 pages of guidance on how to write e-mails and use the internet.

I'm not surprised as most of them are shaven headed louts in fancy blue/black urban warfare suits.

In two documents, totaling 7,000 words, staff at Nottinghamshire police are warned of the "risks" associated with the world wide web and the importance of addressing e-mails correctly.

At least some other farces can manage with less.

Other forces have managed to get the message across in a more concise fashion. Cumbria Police wrote just 600 words of guidance for police about what they do online.

To have to write 7000 words either implies that the Plods  have no commonsense OR that the author of the Guidance is not gainfully employed. If the latter, can we please have him sacked. A bit more money back into our broken economy would be nice.

H/T to The Telegraph.

Nope. Wont be going there then.

 

The Times and the Sunday Times are to start charging for content online in June.

Must be desperate

Aaaargh. Euthanasia for the computer illiterates.

Will relations and friends of mine please get into the computer era? If as a pensioner, I can find my way round a computer, why can't you?

I seem to spend half my life these days on the phone trying to sort out computer problems of people at least a decade or two younger than me.

The usual excuse is "No-one taught me". Well to these Luddites, my reply is. "No-one taught me either".

I've just spent two hours on the phone trying to sort out why this Fuckwit relation couldn't access her Hotmail. In the end, after accessing it for her, I finally convinced her to open a new one. Mind you that was a saga in itself. (Mind you I must admit I found her dating habits on the old site a tad interesting).

Why can't people try and learn about new technology, rather than expect others to sort it out for them.

Then of course the explanation is:

She's a Teacher and votes Labour. Nuff said

Booking fatigue.

 

The whole world is going to Lake Garda it would seem.

I've just spent the last two days trawling websites trying to book hotel rooms for 10 people. As fast as I tried to book, some other bugger beat me to it. As the hours went on the rooms dwindled, along with my sense of humour. It was like being stalked. It was as if people were waiting till my mouse was poised and then clicking a fraction of a second before me. It was like bidding on E bay.

If it's going to be the same when I try booking flights, I'm going to hurl my keyboard into the bin.

The Budget.

All I'm going to say is:

I've been shafted in every budget since time begun. So what's new.

Please Gordon, If I voluntarily re-classify myself as lower class, can I be let off this time?

Webeurope/Easycms/Pumpkinmedia. Or whoever you're called now.

It doesn't appear to have very good Employer/Employee relations it would appear.

From the comments on my Blog comes this. I hope XWEBEUROPE EMPLOYEE that you don't mind me posting it for the edification of the readers.

I used to unfortunately work for webeurope!

BIG MISTAKE!!!

Too good to be true for sure! I could tell many a fascinating story regarding Mr Karl Winn (aka Brick Top, Snatch) and his beloved WEBEUROPE/EASYCMS/PUMPKIN MEDIA (ran under Mark Peach), awesome stuff! I love the fact they are still using agencies under many names to get employees... In 2 days 3 seperate companies have called me regarding a position in Taunton for £30k etc, im like "PUMPKIN, or webeurope by any chance?!?!", LMAO!!!

Well this is known as KARMA WEBEUROPE for stiffing me out of a months wage and just "letting me go" for no reason! they are lucky that i had no money because I was at the final stages of an employment tribunal but needed to fork out for the courts, and i was skint! so they got away with it.

K A R M A its a bitch! hahahahhaha

And if there is anything else you can tell me..............?

Byers. You are toast

The petition to remove Privy council status from "The Right Honourable Stephen Byers is gathering momentum.

This is the man that was caught out trying to sell influence to a "sting" Lobbying firm. He doesn't deserve to be called "Honourable". Indeed he should be prosecuted.

Sign the petition

The Power of the Blogosphere.

God forbid I've just strayed onto Left wing turf.

Over at Left Foot Forward there is a guest article by a Andrew Regan(???).

Here is a snippet or two of what he has to say.

Anyone who follows the BBC News site, or who reads a newspaper, will be familiar with a good few interest groups and think tanks. Where their news releases aren’t the entire basis for the story, they are invited to comment at length, in the name of political “balance”, or on the basis of an often-undeserved authority.

He singles out The Taxpayers Alliance as corporate shills trying to influence governments.

Mind you he refrains from talking about the fake charities/Quangos that are in large funded by the Government to get the Government  message across.

Here's where he doesn't get the real reason, why people blog.

What I propose is a collective – and non-partisan – organisation of political bloggers, which will challenge the interest groups in the name of honest and open politics, and provide newspapers and online news sites with a central resource that allows them to dispense with the services of self-interested think tanks and self-styled experts.

In my case the reason I blog, is that I want to expose any wrongdoings of anyone, when I want. I don't wish to be in some self congratulating "Labourlist". Blogging is about being "Individual", not part of some Borg collective.

That's why Left leaning blogs are so dull. Groupthink is all.

Petition to strip Stephen Byers of his Privy council membership.

It's over here. The count is up to 1906. And that's in only a couple of hours from a count of 160.

H/T to the Sunlight centre for open Politics

 

UPDATE: Nearly 3000 petitioners now. Keep up the good work.