Another good result from the European Elections was that Richard Corbett, a long-time mudslinger of UKIP lost his seat.
Running a pathetic website, UKIPWatch, I wonder what he will do now.
Perhaps we should make a site called Corbettwatch, following his trips to the Dole office.
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Monday, 15 June 2009
The Media Are To Blame For The Rise Of BNP
So there I was at that memorable night in Manchester Town Hall surrounded by fellow Ukippers, Labours, LibDems, Cons, Greens, BNPs and Independents.
We had to double the BNP vote to get 2 seats and keep them out. We were well on course but all of a sudden the BNP are oh so slightly ahead of us.
Then by 900 votes, Nick Griffin gets elected.
So what does this mean?
Well it means that we have an extremist party sitting in the European Parliament.
What exactly will Nick Griffin do there remains to be seen but over the next 5 years Paul Nutall, UKIP North West MEP has made it clear that he will expose the BNP for the "frauds that they really are".
He also blamed the media for the BNP getting elected and I can't help but fully agree with the guy.
For a party which is fringe, has 0.2% of councillors across the country, the BNP got excessive media coverage, rivalling that of Labour and Conservatives. The BNP got nowhere in the last EU elections, yet UKIP, who came 3rd, got nowhere near as much publicity as the BNP.
The Media played up the BNP and as a result they got more attention and more votes.
We must work hard to stop the media playing into the BNP's hands.
We had to double the BNP vote to get 2 seats and keep them out. We were well on course but all of a sudden the BNP are oh so slightly ahead of us.
Then by 900 votes, Nick Griffin gets elected.
So what does this mean?
Well it means that we have an extremist party sitting in the European Parliament.
What exactly will Nick Griffin do there remains to be seen but over the next 5 years Paul Nutall, UKIP North West MEP has made it clear that he will expose the BNP for the "frauds that they really are".
He also blamed the media for the BNP getting elected and I can't help but fully agree with the guy.
For a party which is fringe, has 0.2% of councillors across the country, the BNP got excessive media coverage, rivalling that of Labour and Conservatives. The BNP got nowhere in the last EU elections, yet UKIP, who came 3rd, got nowhere near as much publicity as the BNP.
The Media played up the BNP and as a result they got more attention and more votes.
We must work hard to stop the media playing into the BNP's hands.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Amiga Machine For Sale
Due to space restrictions and poor cash situation I have decided to sell up my Amiga setup.
It consists of:
A1200 w/3.1 ROMS in POWER TOWER
CD-RW DRIVE & CD-ROM DRIVE
E-Matrix 030 accelerator board @ 40MHz with 32Mb RAM (very stable)
Internal floppy disk drive
80Gb HD w/registered OS 3.9 & utils installed
PS/2 Keyboard w/Amiga adaptor
Modern black Amiga mouse
This is for collection only due to the nature of the item and weight
I am based in Cheshire, UK. I can arrange to meet halfway or can demonstrate it working.
I will throw in free of charge:
CU Amiga Magazines/af ew others in excellent like new condition dated 95-98 most have disks/CDs with
If you like I can include a 17" Acer LCD Monitor complete with Amiga converter to stop flicker (it is not a flicker fixer but works well)
If you are interested then comment this post :-)
It consists of:
A1200 w/3.1 ROMS in POWER TOWER
CD-RW DRIVE & CD-ROM DRIVE
E-Matrix 030 accelerator board @ 40MHz with 32Mb RAM (very stable)
Internal floppy disk drive
80Gb HD w/registered OS 3.9 & utils installed
PS/2 Keyboard w/Amiga adaptor
Modern black Amiga mouse
This is for collection only due to the nature of the item and weight
I am based in Cheshire, UK. I can arrange to meet halfway or can demonstrate it working.
I will throw in free of charge:
CU Amiga Magazines/af ew others in excellent like new condition dated 95-98 most have disks/CDs with
If you like I can include a 17" Acer LCD Monitor complete with Amiga converter to stop flicker (it is not a flicker fixer but works well)
If you are interested then comment this post :-)
Friday, 13 February 2009
It's Official, We're Going Backwards
Progression is something that is natural and somewhat inevitable as time passes. Progression despite what some on the right say, can usually be a good thing.
Progression despite what some on the left say, is not always necessary.
Some notable examples of progression being a good thing: Women winning the right to vote, the creation of the United Kingdom, cars becoming ever more economical consumption-wise and enviromentally.
The first woman Prime Minister, the first black President, the first man in Space.
It is slightly harder to think of examples where progression hasn't been a good thing, primarily because where progression has occured and had a negative impact it is usually not viewed as a progression itself and more of a "step backwards".
Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental rights that every person born in the United Kingdom of Great Britain has always embraced and been proud of. I guess until recent years you could say that it has been taken for granted but it is in those recent years that we have witnessed the topic arousing strong debate.
Unfourtunately no matter what Gordon Brown says, we have one of the most UNfair Governments in our history.
We live under a Government that created the monstrous "positive discrimination"; when it is perfectly acceptable to discriminate a British citizen if it is in the interest of an ethnic minority. This staple of politically correct dogma is one of the many reasons why we are going backwards as a nation and if we are not careful then we will be living in the supposed "post democratic" society; effectively under a dictatorship of the EU with probable president Tony Blair (remember him?) overseeing the whole undemocratic morally corrupt organisation.
Freedom of speech as a phrase has also been grossly overshadowed by political correctness, since New Labour came to power but even moreso after the Millenium.
We have had the socially conservative 1920s and 1930s, the 50s began the birth of the social backlash against authority, the birth of the rebel and Rock & Roll, a genre of music which many people as young as 30 failed to understand and dismissed as "music of the devil", onto the 60s hippy culture followed by 70s glam, cross-dressing, heavy metal and punk, the indie and grunge of the 90s, dance, hip hop, rave, hardcore, nu-metal and more genres than ever. TV and Movies were pretty much the same. Things that wouldn't have even been thought of in the 50s or even 60s were broadcast without a flinch by the 90s. Everything was out of the window, seemingly nothing was out of bounds and anything was possible.
Then something happened.
The EU became more involved in our affairs, we had a Labour Government which became increasingly oppressive with its nanny-state approach and censorship and political correctness lifted their ugly heads and gone and spoilt everything that had been achieved progressively for the last 50 years and we have now started drifting backwards.
There are things you could say in the 90s that are no longer acceptable.
The politically correct have gone from a bunch of sad losers to employed working people on overpaid salaries and bloated pensions, thinking of ways to make our lives as miserable as possible and creating a verbal minefield while lawyers watch and rub their hands with glee, pound signs above their heads.
Just the other day I was horrified to see an episode of The Simpsons on Channel 4 completely ruined. Homer had bought a gun to protect his family but Marge leaves Homer with the family until he gets rid of the gun. The irony in the closing scene is that Homer throws the gun in the bin and walks off.
The punchline at the end of the episode is that Marge sneaks into the bin, picks up the gun, poses with it and puts it in her pocket.
But something strange happened. It was put in the bin, then there was a badly edited scene of Marge walking out of the room.
What is going on??
Not to mention the fact that we now have people getting stabbed for a few quid, or sometimes nothing in the street. If things carry on like this we will soon be back in caves killing anyone that dare steps in but being careful not to say anything that one or two people may find offensive.
Progression despite what some on the left say, is not always necessary.
Some notable examples of progression being a good thing: Women winning the right to vote, the creation of the United Kingdom, cars becoming ever more economical consumption-wise and enviromentally.
The first woman Prime Minister, the first black President, the first man in Space.
It is slightly harder to think of examples where progression hasn't been a good thing, primarily because where progression has occured and had a negative impact it is usually not viewed as a progression itself and more of a "step backwards".
Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental rights that every person born in the United Kingdom of Great Britain has always embraced and been proud of. I guess until recent years you could say that it has been taken for granted but it is in those recent years that we have witnessed the topic arousing strong debate.
Unfourtunately no matter what Gordon Brown says, we have one of the most UNfair Governments in our history.
We live under a Government that created the monstrous "positive discrimination"; when it is perfectly acceptable to discriminate a British citizen if it is in the interest of an ethnic minority. This staple of politically correct dogma is one of the many reasons why we are going backwards as a nation and if we are not careful then we will be living in the supposed "post democratic" society; effectively under a dictatorship of the EU with probable president Tony Blair (remember him?) overseeing the whole undemocratic morally corrupt organisation.
Freedom of speech as a phrase has also been grossly overshadowed by political correctness, since New Labour came to power but even moreso after the Millenium.
We have had the socially conservative 1920s and 1930s, the 50s began the birth of the social backlash against authority, the birth of the rebel and Rock & Roll, a genre of music which many people as young as 30 failed to understand and dismissed as "music of the devil", onto the 60s hippy culture followed by 70s glam, cross-dressing, heavy metal and punk, the indie and grunge of the 90s, dance, hip hop, rave, hardcore, nu-metal and more genres than ever. TV and Movies were pretty much the same. Things that wouldn't have even been thought of in the 50s or even 60s were broadcast without a flinch by the 90s. Everything was out of the window, seemingly nothing was out of bounds and anything was possible.
Then something happened.
The EU became more involved in our affairs, we had a Labour Government which became increasingly oppressive with its nanny-state approach and censorship and political correctness lifted their ugly heads and gone and spoilt everything that had been achieved progressively for the last 50 years and we have now started drifting backwards.
There are things you could say in the 90s that are no longer acceptable.
The politically correct have gone from a bunch of sad losers to employed working people on overpaid salaries and bloated pensions, thinking of ways to make our lives as miserable as possible and creating a verbal minefield while lawyers watch and rub their hands with glee, pound signs above their heads.
Just the other day I was horrified to see an episode of The Simpsons on Channel 4 completely ruined. Homer had bought a gun to protect his family but Marge leaves Homer with the family until he gets rid of the gun. The irony in the closing scene is that Homer throws the gun in the bin and walks off.
The punchline at the end of the episode is that Marge sneaks into the bin, picks up the gun, poses with it and puts it in her pocket.
But something strange happened. It was put in the bin, then there was a badly edited scene of Marge walking out of the room.
What is going on??
Not to mention the fact that we now have people getting stabbed for a few quid, or sometimes nothing in the street. If things carry on like this we will soon be back in caves killing anyone that dare steps in but being careful not to say anything that one or two people may find offensive.
Monday, 9 February 2009
More EU Woes
If you have recently lost a job or suffered harshly from the recession then you might not want to read this entry.
A damning report from the OpenEurope think-tank revealed in yesterdays Sunday Express newspaper has revealed the true facts that the EU is a costly waste of taxpayers money.
Red tape has cost Britain more than £100bn just in the past decade and it is set to increase to £356billion - the equivalent of £14,300 per British household.
This is the first comprehensive study into the impact EU legislation has on our lives and it has been found it lands British businesses and society with a huge bill.
The findings from the think-tank also reveal that new EU regulations cost the UK economy £107bn; more than the annual cost of the NHS!
It has been revealed the biggest losers to the EU are those on lower incomes and small businesses. Mats Persson, author of the report said "The cost of regulation has skyrocketed over the past decade".
The European Commission claims to have removed 5,000 pages from its statute book since launching a "Better Regulation Agenda" in 2005 but still...
- New EU health and safety legislation has cost Britain £5.7bn in the past decade
- Since 2005, the EU's law book has grown by an average of 1,887 acts per year, the equivalent of 10 per day
- One EU directive on the exhaust systems of motor vehicles required 26 more regulations in the UK to fully implement it
For more check out the Open Europe website.
A damning report from the OpenEurope think-tank revealed in yesterdays Sunday Express newspaper has revealed the true facts that the EU is a costly waste of taxpayers money.
Red tape has cost Britain more than £100bn just in the past decade and it is set to increase to £356billion - the equivalent of £14,300 per British household.
This is the first comprehensive study into the impact EU legislation has on our lives and it has been found it lands British businesses and society with a huge bill.
The findings from the think-tank also reveal that new EU regulations cost the UK economy £107bn; more than the annual cost of the NHS!
It has been revealed the biggest losers to the EU are those on lower incomes and small businesses. Mats Persson, author of the report said "The cost of regulation has skyrocketed over the past decade".
The European Commission claims to have removed 5,000 pages from its statute book since launching a "Better Regulation Agenda" in 2005 but still...
- New EU health and safety legislation has cost Britain £5.7bn in the past decade
- Since 2005, the EU's law book has grown by an average of 1,887 acts per year, the equivalent of 10 per day
- One EU directive on the exhaust systems of motor vehicles required 26 more regulations in the UK to fully implement it
For more check out the Open Europe website.
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Keane Blow Audience Away At Liverpool Echo
Five short years ago if you mentioned to me I would be going to see Keane in the future I would have laughed in disbelief.
It was during their "Hopes and Fears" period that I openly mocked the band and dismissed them as more dull indie music a'la Snow Patrol, Travis et al.
Then of course the second album got released in 2006 and I didn't mind them too much though I still did not rush out and get "Under The Iron Sea" (and still don't own a copy).
Fast forward to the back end of last year and they release "Spiralling"; the soundtrack to my Cyprus holiday and a track by what surely aren't the same band who did that droney anthem "Everybody's Changing" just four years previously? Well actually, yes. But that is something that I have grown to admire about Keane a lot over the last 6 months; their sheer versatility, to go from a disco-pop choon to a melodramatic ballad at the click of a finger but still sound like the same band.
Their current album "Perfect Symmetry" is fantastic and highly recommended, of course there is the odd ballad here and there, but 95% of the tracks on it are simply really, really good.. and so I had high expectations when I went to see them live last night at the Liverpool Echo Arena.
It was my first trek to the Echo but was pleasantly surprised how nice the place is having only been to the Manchester Evening News Arena for a venue of a similar size.
The Echo is a fair bit smaller but with much better acoustics and making for a more intimate gig. The support act Frankmusik were promising to start with, but the high-pitched squealing vocalist tended to grate on the nerves after 10 minutes or so and every half-decent song they performed throughout their set was followed by an absolute stinker.
Keane came on at 8.30 and kicked off the show with recent single "The Lovers Are Losing" followed by old favourite "Bend And Break" before harking into "Everybody's Changing". Eagerly waiting for more from the new album I was pleased to hear them churn out "Better Than This" followed by an excellent performance of "Again And Again" complete with super-cool retro computer graphics (search Youtube for footage).
They performed all the "big hits" in fact including "A Bad Dream" from their second album, a good song which most casual fans like myself had completely forgotten about.
Mid-way through the set the band walked centre stage and did a few subtle acoustic numbers with guitar and piano, then pumped into a startingly good version of "You Haven't Told Me Anything", my favourite album track and by far the highlight of the night. After 2 encores they decided to end the show with Bedshaped which had pretty much everyone singing along.
There weren't really any low points to the gig, and you really begin to admire the vocals once you have seen them live, which were flawless. The only slight downer was that only the trimmed radio edit of "Spiralling" was played. Given that the track is so popular I can't see why they couldn't perform the full version but other than that it was a gig far better than I'd ever imagined it to be from a band that used to bore me so much!
It was during their "Hopes and Fears" period that I openly mocked the band and dismissed them as more dull indie music a'la Snow Patrol, Travis et al.
Then of course the second album got released in 2006 and I didn't mind them too much though I still did not rush out and get "Under The Iron Sea" (and still don't own a copy).
Fast forward to the back end of last year and they release "Spiralling"; the soundtrack to my Cyprus holiday and a track by what surely aren't the same band who did that droney anthem "Everybody's Changing" just four years previously? Well actually, yes. But that is something that I have grown to admire about Keane a lot over the last 6 months; their sheer versatility, to go from a disco-pop choon to a melodramatic ballad at the click of a finger but still sound like the same band.
Their current album "Perfect Symmetry" is fantastic and highly recommended, of course there is the odd ballad here and there, but 95% of the tracks on it are simply really, really good.. and so I had high expectations when I went to see them live last night at the Liverpool Echo Arena.
It was my first trek to the Echo but was pleasantly surprised how nice the place is having only been to the Manchester Evening News Arena for a venue of a similar size.
The Echo is a fair bit smaller but with much better acoustics and making for a more intimate gig. The support act Frankmusik were promising to start with, but the high-pitched squealing vocalist tended to grate on the nerves after 10 minutes or so and every half-decent song they performed throughout their set was followed by an absolute stinker.
Keane came on at 8.30 and kicked off the show with recent single "The Lovers Are Losing" followed by old favourite "Bend And Break" before harking into "Everybody's Changing". Eagerly waiting for more from the new album I was pleased to hear them churn out "Better Than This" followed by an excellent performance of "Again And Again" complete with super-cool retro computer graphics (search Youtube for footage).
They performed all the "big hits" in fact including "A Bad Dream" from their second album, a good song which most casual fans like myself had completely forgotten about.
Mid-way through the set the band walked centre stage and did a few subtle acoustic numbers with guitar and piano, then pumped into a startingly good version of "You Haven't Told Me Anything", my favourite album track and by far the highlight of the night. After 2 encores they decided to end the show with Bedshaped which had pretty much everyone singing along.
There weren't really any low points to the gig, and you really begin to admire the vocals once you have seen them live, which were flawless. The only slight downer was that only the trimmed radio edit of "Spiralling" was played. Given that the track is so popular I can't see why they couldn't perform the full version but other than that it was a gig far better than I'd ever imagined it to be from a band that used to bore me so much!
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
The So-Called Wildcat Strikes
So workers all over the country are on strike over the influx of foreign workers.
The only thing that surprises me about that is that it has taken so long but at last the great intelligent workers of Great Britain spoke with action. Those quiet whispers of concern that have been circulating since New Labour's obsession with globalisation and a European Single Market economy finally transformed into action. For once, perhaps, Brown was forced to listen.
So what did he go and do? Well instead of being a good Prime Minister and listening to the people he was elected (or not elected in this case) to serve, he calls them xenophobes and the lefties start jumping up and down in their subdued rage saying it was the language of the BNP to demand British jobs for British workers.
Thank God that the great people of Great Britain aren't so stupid and have common sense.
Now we just need to drum into people the fact that there will never be such a haven that they propose whilst we are in the EU.
European people who have not paid a penny into our system and have only just arrived here are entitled to our labour markets just the same as a 50 year old man who has lived and worked here all his life (and possibly even voted Labour all his life).
This Government have totally betrayed the working class people they are traditionally supposed to represent but have spent the New Labour project chasing the middle-classes who generally aren't interested or are far too intelligent to fall for the fabrication that is New Labour.
We have witnessed at last the backlash that was the inevitable consequence of yet another ridiculous EU law.
Labour will no doubt get a hammering at the EU Elections over this, and we now must ask the question... what do we really get out of the EU for all the money we pay into it?
Should we remain in this political union which despises any states national interest?
The answer is a resounding NO.
The only thing that surprises me about that is that it has taken so long but at last the great intelligent workers of Great Britain spoke with action. Those quiet whispers of concern that have been circulating since New Labour's obsession with globalisation and a European Single Market economy finally transformed into action. For once, perhaps, Brown was forced to listen.
So what did he go and do? Well instead of being a good Prime Minister and listening to the people he was elected (or not elected in this case) to serve, he calls them xenophobes and the lefties start jumping up and down in their subdued rage saying it was the language of the BNP to demand British jobs for British workers.
Thank God that the great people of Great Britain aren't so stupid and have common sense.
Now we just need to drum into people the fact that there will never be such a haven that they propose whilst we are in the EU.
European people who have not paid a penny into our system and have only just arrived here are entitled to our labour markets just the same as a 50 year old man who has lived and worked here all his life (and possibly even voted Labour all his life).
This Government have totally betrayed the working class people they are traditionally supposed to represent but have spent the New Labour project chasing the middle-classes who generally aren't interested or are far too intelligent to fall for the fabrication that is New Labour.
We have witnessed at last the backlash that was the inevitable consequence of yet another ridiculous EU law.
Labour will no doubt get a hammering at the EU Elections over this, and we now must ask the question... what do we really get out of the EU for all the money we pay into it?
Should we remain in this political union which despises any states national interest?
The answer is a resounding NO.
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