Scroungers

I'm now expected to feed the second daughter's cats over the weekend. Bloody scrounging animals. But we love the little devils. I'm not sure why?

Another Quango that should go

the National Centre for Social Research.

From their website:

Let's take the various sections and break it down.

Education. I thought that would be handled by the department of education.

Crime and Criminal Justice. What's the Home office doing then?

Employment, skills and training. I'm pretty sure we have a ministry for that.

Income and benefits. Yep. A ministry as well.

Family Life, relationships and children. Keep your noses out of our lives. What I do in my house has fuck all to do with your snooping.

Health and Nutrition. I'm sure we had a health service for that. I'm pretty sure I pay a lot of tax for that department.

Transport and the Environment. I most certainly pay through the nose via VED and taxes on flying.

Social Inclusion. A fuzzy left wing phrase that says I have to pay more tax to house Shaz and her 8 kids in the style they think they are entitled. (46 inch plazma in every room).

Social and political attitudes. None of your business.

This is an outfit that is a registered charity. But look where the income comes from.

What I'm trying to get across is, if all those Ministries, with all their vast staff, can't do their own research, then they deserve a culling. FFS £41 million.

ASH at it again.

 

As they say. Tell a lie enough times, and people will believe it's the truth.

I was just trawling through their site and found this recent press release:

A study measuring the impact of England’s smokefree law on hospital admissions for heart attacks has shown that the legislation resulted in 1200 fewer emergency admissions to hospital in the 12 months following the implementation of the 2007 law. [1] This is the latest of a number of studies measuring the short-term health benefits of smokefree laws [2] and the first to evaluate the impact on heart attacks in England.

This has been trotted out on various occasions since the smoking ban came into force.

The fact is that there has been no significant change since the ban in 2007. The downward trend was already well established. Most likely for a multitude of reasons.

The simplest way of showing this is by the use of the actual data in the study:

Emergency AMI admissions in English hospitals

2002/03: 61,498

2003/04: 60,680 (a fall of 1.33%)

2004/05: 58,803 (a fall of 3.1%)

2005/06: 55,752 (a fall of 5.19%)

2006/07: 53,964 (a fall of 3.21%)

2007/08: 51,664 (a fall of 4.26%)

To me the figures speak for themselves. I think ASH should stick their figures up their pipe (I.e. the fundamental orifice in their backside) and smoke them.

Wimbledon

Just watching two players who have been on court for 9 1/2 hours. 2 sets each. However they are playing for the 56 game each in the final set.

Certainly more than our world cup squad could ever achieve.

Why?

The Government will support any bid for a special grant from Cumbria Police following the massacre of 12 people by gunman Derrick Bird, a minister said.

The force is conducting a "huge and complex" inquiry that involves 30 crime scenes, 12 victims and 11 seriously injured people, Home Office Minister James Brokenshire said.

Why is it at all  complex? As I see it, you have a deranged man with two guns, who shot a number of people in full view, and has since killed himself. Seems like an open and shut case to me.

Then again is it because of this:

The Government's offer of help comes after the police grant for 2010-11 for forces across England and Wales was cut by £125 million.

Sherlock the engineer has spoken.

 

SOURCE

*I was going to do another post about my daughters, but I've been rumbled*

Quiet

 

Since the budget today I haven't heard a squeak out of ASH or Alcohol Concern.

Not only is minimum pricing  not coming in. But shock, horror. NO tax rises on fags and booze.

This may be the quiet before the storm. I expect a whining like the sound of a 1000 vuvulesas in the coming days.

On that note I'm off for a drink and a fag*

*If you are a citizen of the USA. In the Uk, a fag, is slang for a cigarette.

The phone rang......

 

Sure enough it was from the eldest daughter. Just yesterday we had been trawling around for wedding venues. So I presumed it was about that.

Oh no.

(I won't bore you with the one asking how to bake a potato)

She and her prospective husband have put in an offer for a flat in St Albans. Fair enough you think. Good on them.

However.

I expect the next call will be asking me to help out with the deposit.

What should I do, as a pensioner living near the poverty line. (Ok, not quite).

1. Tell her to F off?

2. Lend her everything she asks for?

3. Haggle?

4. Tell her to walk the streets?

5. Sell her cats?

6. Borrow from a lone shark?

5. None of the above?

Answers on an E card.

Noooooooo.

I'll never be able to watch Lord's of the Ring ever again.

  

I'm devastated

H/T to OBO

How did you spend Fathers' day?

 

I spent it driving to prospective wedding venues for my daughter. Again.

Apart from the price, the two we visited today were wildly different. One was a Tudor manor and the other was a large palladian style mansion.

The tudor style manor house although being smaller was breathtaking in it's simplicity and olde world charm and had a certain warmth with vast amounts of timbered beams.

The mansion although very grand in manner with fluted columns in the hallway and fountains in the drive, was let down by health and safety laws. Where there would have been arches allowing the reception areas to flow together, these had been replaced with hideously modern fire doors. Everywhere you went, you felt compartmentalised into boxes.

All in all, I think the tudor manor will be the choice of venue.

Then of course I don't get a say in the decision. I'm just the mug father of the Bride. I'm just expected to pay for the damn thing. Oh and make a speech.

Diary of a secret Blogger.

My family are most definitely Middle class. However over the years they have all been conditioned to accept what the MSM puts out.

My Wife, when she watches the Beeb, believes all the Lies and spin. She's a highly paid Business analyst, though why she can't analyse real life is beyond me.

The eldest Daughter works in the City, and also believes the crap we are fed.

Second daughter fills me with hope as she does question what she reads in the MSM.

I give up with the boy. He's got a Masters in Chemistry and believes in global warming.

Should I care?