The Labour Election movie coming to a cinema near you

Feel free to watch the movie when it flops in May.

H/T to the Red Rag

The Man with the Gun at your door.

Just read this at The Devils Kitchen:

My friends, We are broke. Our country—whatever it may once have been—is now laden with debt. And this isn't "the government's debt": it is our debt. The government has no money but what it takes—what it extorts—from us. We have gone beyond consensus politics: if a man were to come to your door, with a gun, and demand half of everything that you earned—on pain of severe punishment, on pain of the total ruination of your life—would you not protest?

Go and read the rest of what the Devil has posted, it's food for thought. A Polemic from the Leader of the Libertarian Party.

How very daring.

From the Times on line:

“absolutely clear strategy for buggering us after the next election”.

Ooh Err, whatever next?

Lord Monkton's letter to the Prime Minister of Australia

A very well written letter by Lord Monkton to the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd. In it he sets out very precisely why no action should be taken in regards to the supposed AGW theory.

I've created a link to it here on the What's Up With That site

Red Labour

Just to add a little balance to my last post.



I have shorted futures in piano wire if anyone is interested. beats carbon anytime

H/T to GOT

Blue Labour

The more I hear from David Cameron, the more dispirited I become. Although I'm of a libertarian persuasion, I always thought that if there was no Libertarian candidate in my ward, I would vote conservative. Now I'm not at all convinced that I can tread that path.

All I seem to hear is the soundbite spin speak, so beloved of the Blair years. I want radical change in politics, not more of the same that we have endured for the last 13 years.

I want a politician that stands for the good of the country. I do not want a politician that just wants the power his office gives him.

I shall be writing to my MP setting out my demands of why I should vote for him.

PS. I'm still waiting for a reply to the last E mail I sent to him.

Kent Pensioner slips on Icy Pavement and dies.

That got your attention didn't it.

Well it might come true if KCC don't grit the streets. I'm fed up with sliding my way to the shop.

Mystic Meg could do better than the Met Office

Yesterdays forecast for the South East today was that it would be clear and bright. I suppose that was meant to mean the snowflakes that are falling on my patio as I write this. Tossers. And they really mean to say that they can predict the weather in 30 years time?

Try getting the next 24 hours correct.

Obviously that £30,000,000 computer is no good for forecasting the weather. As you've proved it's so useless, can I have it as a gaming machine?

44 years in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Part 3.

When I left you last time I was just about to land in Singapore.

Now for a young lad whose only experience of foreign travel was a single holiday in France, this was an astounding experience in the difference between West and East.

Firstly, the weather, hot and humid, like nothing I'd ever imagined.

Secondly, the smell. Fragrant plant smells with a coupcon of open drain.

Thirdly, everyone was smaller than me.

I'd been told that I would be met by the "Agent", whoever he was. Surprise surprise, I was met by a very polite Chinese Gentleman who informed that the ship hadn't arrived and that he would convey me to a hotel.

The hotel was one of those old colonial buildings of which many were built in the time when Great Britain ruled most of the world. Lofty, large, airy, and truly amazing compared with the average british house.

Anyway back to the tale of this young Engineer cadet..................

The following morning, after a truly amazing breakfast of Nasi Goreng, the agent returned to take me to my ship. The RFA Retainer. (Pictured above).

The Retainer was an ammunition stores ship which carried a variety of those very stores that make very loud bangs when they're angry. Even the biggest known to man. (still covered by the Official Secrets Act, so I'm being discrete here).

Armament Store Issuing Ships. RFA Retainer. A329. (Ex Chungking). GRT 9498. Built 1950. RFA service 1955 - 1979.
Length overall: 477ft. Beam: 62ft. Draught: 25ft. Depth: 35ft.
Machinery: 1 X 6-cylinder Scotts'/Doxford diesel engine, 6500bhp, single shaft. Speed: 15 knots.
Complement: 132 RFA, 34 naval stores staff.

Anyway. having walked up the brow I was sent to see the Second Engineer who would be like a God to me. The power of authority on ships in those days was truly immense. After being suitably humbled as to my lowly state in the heirarchy, I was shown to my cabin. A rabbit hutch that I had to share with another cadet.

That's enough for now. Next episode will be about............................. Doxfords. Maybe.

David Cameron's speech.

After all we need balanced coverage.



H/T to Martin