My Blog Reading Today
March 13, 2008 by Ken
Filed under The Great British Media
I have been updating my blogroll this afternoon unfortunately it took a lot longer than it should because I got into reading instead of concentrating on creating the links, I have already fund one that need attention.
PJC Journal
In a free society, the rights and laws protect the individual from the government.
In a dictatorship, the rights and laws protect the government from the people.
When governments begin to abuse laws to protect their own wrongdoing, we should be rightly worried, but more so when the supposedly impartial Speaker of the House shows his bias by siding with government in a court of law.
We have for centuries trusted our judiciary to do the right thing in the protection of those members of the public who need protection from overbearing and authoritarian government, likewise we have expected that the office of the Speaker remains impartial, no matter what the event in hand.
Today, we can see this NuLab government, showing its full totalitarian and dictatorial colours, in our name and at our expense are using lawyers paid for by the taxpayer, in collusion with lawyers for the Speaker of the House, also paid for by taxpayers, in court to stop the publication of the ID Cards gateway reviews, so that you, the taxpayer may not know what the government is hiding about ID Cards.
Prodicus
Is interested in a story concerning Tory-lead Essex County Council apparently NuLab wants us all to shut the fuck up and stop pestering our local councils with awkward questions OR ELSE.
Freedom and Whisky
Dustbin of history
To be frank, there’s only so much nonsense a sensible person can take from Party C. As many others have pointed out, the Tories seem to dread the idea of positioning themselves more than 1% away from Labour. Why do focus groups support much of the status quo? Because the Tories haven’t argued for any alternative. Does anyone seriously think that they’d retake British sovereignty? Or abolish the ID Database? Or privatise schools and hospitals? Or sort out the politicians’ expense accounts? Of course not.
Ranting Stan
Rita Chakrabarti, said on Breakfast this morning. The government doesn’t have ANY spare cash – it has no cash at all.
It is OUR money – money which the government takes from us as tax under a contract for them to provide essential services which we stipulate as being a necessity for the preservation of our freedom, status and way of life.
The Anger of a Quiet Man
I s fuming about MPs John Lewis list
MPs are allowed to claim expenses of up to £10,000 for a new kitchen, £2,000 for furniture and £750 for a TV or stereo for their second homes. Other claims allowable include £6,335 for a new bathroom, £299.99 for air conditioning units, £300 per rug, £50 for a shredder and £1,000 for a bed.
The figures are in the so-called “John Lewis list” used by Commons officials to list maximum amounts for items.
Most MPs can claim items from the list up to a maximum of £23,000 a year.
The Monarchist
asks the best question of the year “do you believe in the supremacy of Parliament” and then points out that most MPs obviously do not because they voted accordingly on an amendment to the
Vote Result: Yeas 40, Nays 380
Cranmer
Labour’s atheistic zealots have attempted to eradicate the last vestiges of orthodoxy from the church schools. Like the adoption agencies, they are coming under pressure to conform, and should the rising tide of intolerant secularism become unbearable, some of them may choose to go the way of the agencies and close, rather than offend their consciences. It is no exaggeration to say that centuries-old schools with Christian foundations are suffering political persecution, and it is church leaders who are having to confront the power of the state.
Climate Sceptic Why Do We Only Look At Skeptic’s Money?
I would be happy to leave funding sources and related ad hominem attacks out of climate discourse completely, but, given these attacks seem to be an element of, oh say, 99% of all media articles on the topic, why is the scrutiny completely directed at skeptics? Sure, ExxonMobil has probably spent a couple of million dollars funding skeptics. But here is an example of $1.3 billion put behind the alarmist position. And this is just one such example. Gore just raised a $5 billion fund whose success or failure entirely depends on alarmists winning the political debate. These are direct incentives powerful people now have to lobby the government for climate “action” of some sort, whether or not it makes sense, just as ADM lobbies Congress for corn ethanol subsidies that have been proven to make no sense environmentally or economically.
Apparently there are usually only ever been 20 to 30 MPs in the chamber. When they are debating the EU amendment Bill
Anoneumouse at Saxon Times asks
How these elected ARSEHOLES (the house as a whole) can vote against something that they all promised in their election manifesto’s, without hearing the argument is beyond me.
The Secret Person
Is worried about the NUT considering siding with the Palestinians and tell them to teach facts and critical thinking, provide both sides of the story.
Waking Hereward
Is fuming at the BBC well someone has to.
The BBC has, since 1997 (year Zero), let itself become corrupted, emasculated of independence, denuded of integrity – eagerly prostituting itself and its core values in order to fulfil NuLabour’s basket case view of YouKay PLC and ‘Britain-Lite’ – (England, to you and me). As surely as Matthew Corbett shoving his hand up Sooty’s furry little sphincter, the BBC has obeyed, followed orders, rolled over and waved the white flag of surrender – in absolute awe of its Huggy-beared bedallioned pimp – the Government. And in turn, buggered us into a stupifying oblivion.
Thanks for the link EUrealist. Keep on fighting the good fight.