The Man who can't be arsed to show his face

by johnofgwent

I was going to leave remembrance day postings to GA, but something I heard on the six o clock news made me change my mind. But first, just to prove that some people do bother, here's a couple of shots from my mobile phone earlier this morning.

These were taken in the main street of a small village up the road from where I live. The service of remembrance in the village church has ended and a small band form up at the head of a procession, which, ten minutes after I took these, will lead the few veterans of conflict that live locally, plus some local serving men and women, and a selction of the great and the good, and the village bobby, on a short march, just a couple of hundred yards really, to the village hall. The column of marchers will be swelled by the local Scout, Guide, Cub and Brownie packs bringing up the rear, folowed by the congregation who were, as I took these pictures, just about to walk up the path to the church gate.

It isn't much of a parade really, because there's a bigger one in the town that jokingly calls itself a city a few miles away, and a bigger one again in Cardiff. But the fact remains that the people of this area felt it mattered that they came here and stood, in the rain on a cold November morning, and watched those who walked, or marched, those few hundred yards up the road.

I see from the coverage on the BBC News website that even Rhodri Morgan, who made a name for himself by NOT going to Normandy for the 60th Anniversary of the D Day Landings, choosing instead to wander off for a nice warm conferenace about golfing facilities in the principality he thinks he still rules, had to good sense today to try and make pennance for that previous act by standing in the cold and the rain in Cardiff's Cathays Park.

But at the main remembrance event in the United Kingdom's Capital City, where the Queen and the "major" royals assembled to respect the men and women who died for them, there were two faces missing. One has reasonable excuse; he is on active service with his unit, and one can only wonder what thoughts went through his grandmother's mind as she laid the wreath at the London Cenotaph.

But the other missing face was this chap :-

Looking pleased with himself after causing the death of nearly three hundred of our boys and girls in his latest war alone, but can't be arsed to attend the remembrance service to honour them.

According to the BBC News at 6pm today it is a long standing tradition that every surviving British Prime Minister attend the commemoration at the Cenotaph on the closest Sunday to Armistice Day. But tradition means little to this liar and traitor to our country. He is too busy in his new job as paid lackey of the US President to jump on a plane and come back here to face the relatives of the 231 people he sent to their deaths in conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq . By the way, that figure doesn't include the other 67 who went out there on this man's command, and came home in a coffin as a result of accident, or illness.

You can check out the whole sorry story list of the fallen in Blair's illegal military adventures here and if any of you are likely to bump into this chap in future, please do have a look so you can remind him.

Tags: Tony Blair, Remembrance Day, John of Gwent

The not so local petitioner and the BNP

Steve Bush - not so local

In Mob rule in Devon, I wrote about a "group" of people that were calling for the "removal" of the British National Party and in particular, BNP Councillor Colin Fribbens from their village and who had organised a petition calling for the same. Obviously they are not aware of how democracy works.

Since then a bit more information as come to light and as usual it ends with tears for the "we would rather fist then fight elections" brigade of the UAF. The news story also appears to have been "updated".

The organiser of the petition is named as one Steve Bush of Tiverton, which for those with a basic understanding of geography, certainly does not make him a "local" to Broadclyst where the BNP Councillor is local, but gobshite still had this to say;

"We have set up a group against the BNP and we have lots of people joining it. So far, there has been very little support for the BNP and in particular young people have been queuing up to sign the petition."

But who is Steve Bush and why would he setup a Facebook account? Is it because Steve Bush, who is a member of the Lambeth Socialist Party has not paid his internet bill recently?

Shall we have a look? Why not.

Domain name: lambethsocialistparty.org.uk

Registrant: Natasha Burke

Registrant type: UK Individual

Registrant's address:
49a Cavendish Road
Colliers Wood
London
London
SW19 2ET
GB

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 21-Jul-2004
Renewal date: 21-Jul-2008
Last updated: 21-Feb-2007

Registration status:
Renewal required.
*** This registration has been SUSPENDED. ***

Steve first popped his head out into the political world when he attacked Neil Kinnock back in 1988 when at age 19, he said;

''He's trying to convert the Labor Party to a capitalist party, to appeal to the middle-class voters. All we can hope for is that over time more and more people will come over to the socialist view.''

Seems that over the years, that Steve as not matured and as wasted his life in much the same way that he is wasting the time of the people in Broadclyst. So what do they have to say about the aging Wolfie Smith who organised the petition. Let us see what the Vice Chair of the Parish Council wrote in the local press.

"I am Vice Chair of Broadclyst Parish Council and wish to raise a few points. The BNP is not a banned political party, therefore we could not remove Cllr Fribbens for his membership of it.

The only way possible would be a vote of no confidence which due to the hard work and dedication that Cllr Fribbens shows to Broadclyst (with little or no thanks) would be unlikely to receive any support.

Since the article was first published, we have received only one piece of correspondence regarding Mr Fribbens, which suggests this is not a high priority to the people of Broadclyst.

We would also like to point out that every Parish Council Meeting is a public event, with members of the public welcome to make comments at both the start and end of the meeting. The dates of our meetings are advertised around the village and online at www.broadclyst.org. (7pm, Victory Hall, first Monday of every month).

We note that despite the interest Cllr Fribbens membership of this political party appears to have created, we had only four members of the public at the last meeting (last Monday), only two of them commented, and the comments were about the cost to every council tax payer to keep the public toilets open in the village.

Cllr Fribbens political views formed no part of the meeting. Unfortunately, the people who signed or organised the petition chose not to air their views at the meeting."

Obviously Steve is not as local as he says or I am sure he would have attended. Yeah and pigs might fly also. Let us let the excellent BNP Councillor Fribbens have the last word.

"I would like to know what Mr Bush is doing to help the community. I think the majority of people will not go along with this.

"I'm not bothered if they get hundreds of signatures, it won't affect me."

He said the youth group had nothing to do with "politics".

"My youth club is not a political club at all, there is no political agenda," he said. "People who use the club will support me in that. I invite Mr Bush to come and help me run the club.

"If he has a problem, why doesn't he offer his services?

"I would be more than happy to have him on board."

Well Steve put up or shut up. You could not be bothered to turn up at a public meeting over an issue you felt was so important that you had to start a petition, will you now accept the challenge from the BNP Councillor and offer your services to your not so local people of Broadclyst?

A big hat tip to: John of Gwent and Ancient Brit of the Green Arrow Forum

Tags: Steve Bush, John of Gwent, Ancient Brit, Broadclyst

I didn't vote. I couldn't understand it properly

by john of gwent
This morning, I went to have a look at the pages of the BBC Website to see what sort of a spin they were putting on the kicking given by those who live south of the Six Counties to their faceless masters in France and Germany who are behind the Lisbon Treaty and the Constitution it is in all but name.

Masters who, let us not forget, gloated when Eire went through economic hell to adjust itself to the Eurozone it had joined at the wrong point and on unfavourable terms. Masters who laughed as the Irish felt the wrath of their own politicians, forced to use the lash against their own men in the interests of keeping the "Eurozone Economy" on an "even keel", and Masters who then laughed off calls for them to take the same medicine when the pendulum swung the other way. Masters who ignored the same rules, failed to apply the same economic restraints to theor own populations when their economies whent off the euro-rails and continued to live a life of hedonism both individually as politicians and collectively as countries, and then, when at last the chickens came home to roost and the EU top brass "brought them to book" for their sins, got off scot free.

Now what I found on the BBC Website was so worrying to the enquiring mind able to stand back, cut through the claptrap and see the whole picture, that I decided for the first time ever I would merely cut and paste an article wholesale from my own personal blog straight into the Home of The Green Arrow. For what I read on the BBC site, and what I realised it meant, had me running for Heimdall's Gjallerhorn. So here you go ... Read It .... and prepare to weep.

If you pop over to here you will find something most unusual. Under a banner headline "EU grapples with Irish 'No' Vote" the BBC say this :-

"Governments in the European Union are exploring what to do after the Irish Republic's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty to reform the expanded EU. France and Germany have described the No vote in the referendum as a serious blow but have urged the EU to press ahead with the project. European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said the treaty was not dead. But Czech President Vaclav Klaus said the treaty was finished, since any further ratification was impossible. His is a lone voice among EU leaders, but his views will probably resonate with many European voters who did not get a say in a referendum, says the BBC's Oana Lungescu in Brussels."

And then at the right of the page you see a picture of a smiling young woman. Click the image and you are presented with the chilling facts as the slideshow opens to show seven pictures, seven people, and prints their seven opinions. I feel compelled to cut and paste the lot, it is so important, but that would be unfair, so I shall paraphrase.

I click the link and the first picture I see is of a man about half my age with a friendly smile. His hair is short, he wears an open necked denim shirt, sports a large but plain round ear-ring in each ear, and what I suppose used to be called 'designer stubble'. Or maybe he's half way to growing a presentable beard. And yet this man is the saviour of us all. The words under his picture say it all. "I voted No because I believe Ireland's sovereignty and neutrality are extremely important. The whole European Union regime is getting ridiculous and is too underhand to even follow. Ireland was oppressed for 800 years and we've only been free for 80 years. To hand it over to Europe now would be ridiculous"

The next picture is of a clean shaven dark haired younger man. Clean shaven, fresh faced, eyes wide open but with a strange look. He reminds me of a youthful David Nimmo in his role as the curate in All Gas and Gaiters. But his expressionless stare worries me. This chap, with a greek-sounding name, says he voted yes "because there is no point in being separatist" and worryingly for me he believes that "next time we won't be asked to vote". Why is that worrying ? well, the only reason the Irish voted this time is because THEIR constitution demands it. It would be typical of the EU to oil and bribe their way by hook or by crook to a position where they could indeed sidestep this little stumbling block to conquest. Your words, young man, are prophetic, and you know it not.

Next up is a woman of 54. The first thing I notice about her is her hair. When she was half her age I bet those flame-red locks would have turned the heads of every man in the street. Now I see she, like me and like Mrs JoG too, is going grey gracefully at the edges. She voted No and is delighted with the result because she felt a lot of people did not understand the issue, and she felt it was really important to vote No because a lot of people in other countries were denied a vote, and so she was voting for them, too. Thank you, Mrs Doyle. Are you listening, Gordon ?

Next up is a young man of 22 who looks like Bob Geldof did when he was 22 but this chap is ALREADY an accountant. He voted Yes because he "didn't really see it is a major issue. I didn't see that there were going to be that many changes as a result of it - other than make it a more equal union. And I didn't like the No side - they exaggerated things, played on peoples' fears - and told too many lies". Really ?

Next up is a blonde woman about the same age as my eldest daughter who voted No and is glad because "a Yes vote would have been bad for Ireland ... I don't agree with a lot of Europe's policies - which seem to be taking power away from our parliament ... I don't think that's fair". Now then Mr Accountant, can you explain why taking power away from your parliament is not really a major issue ..... It's that sort of talk that will have you denied a voice when the EU Overlords make their next assault.

Last but one is a bloke who bears more than a passing resemblance to my father in his later years. This chap voted yes and had no problem with it, and is astonished the vote was lost, saying that he knows someone voted No because they did not like the present government and feels they have made a big mistake. He may be right, the conquerors often come with beads and trinkets before they come back with swords.

Last up on the list is a girl of 20 with deep red hair and I bet the 54 year old Mrs Doyle, pictured earlier, looked just like her when she was 20. Just like Mrs JoG bore a stunning resemblance to Kate Beckinsale as pictured in the promotional material for Van Helsing. Ah, what it is to be a man of fifty looking back three decades and remembering with a wry smile what it was like to be a man of twenty. But this young student's words worry me most of all. Indeed they chill me to the bone. She admits "I didn't vote. The reason is the brochures they sent out were full of language that was so convoluted I couldn't understand it properly. I didn't really have a clue what I was voting."

It isn't her fault that politicians seek to obfuscate the truth. That is, after all, what they do. When Marcus Brigstoke met the former Tory Front Bencher David Davis ona train to Rugby to do an interview with him on the cynicism of the electorate, the man who walked over the 42 day limit said it wasn't the electorate's job to come up with the answers, thatw as what he and his 650 odd fellows were paid to do. But it was his job to listen to the electorate before coming up with the answers. Prophesising his own actions, no doubt. Mr Davis is being held up simultaneously as "our last honoirable politician" and "a grand egotist pulling a futile stunt".

I don't know which is closer to the mark. But I know that today Gordon Brown will take solace in the words of that young redhead. For while there are people that can be bamboozled into standing idly on the sidelines as he railroads us headlong into oblivion, he can still hope he will get away with it and by the time we realise, it will be too late.

Need to bump someone off ? Afraid a Post Mortem will reveal all ? Then Poison them in Greater Manchester

by john of gwent (whose bathroom has wireless internet !!)

GA I wonder if we've two-handedly discovered a plot to poison the remainder of the white citizens of this principality. Or maybe it was last night's dodgy chili. Either way this story caused a few rumblings of its own in my subconscious ......

Sometimes I think I should see if "you-couldnt-make-it-up.blogspot.com" is available. If it is, I'm having it, right now. And here's what will be its maiden blog entry. I recently went for a surf around the motley collection of well balanced voices of reason that inform the multi-cultured enrichers of our society. And just look what I found on the front page of Manchester's "Asian News".

"BEREAVED families in Greater Manchester who object to post mortem examinations on religious grounds will be able to opt for an electronic body scan instead. Coroners are backing an initiative spearheaded in Bolton to give greater choice to relatives. Some faiths, particularly Muslim and Jewish, are uncomfortable with invasive post mortem examinations."

The scans cost £500. But if you can persuade the coroner of your distress at the thought of your nearest and dearest being hacked about, divvy up half a grand and they will be popped under the latest offering from Star Trek instead.

Now to be fair, the Coroner is only interested in getting to the root of the cause of death and it does not matter to them how that truth is arrived at. And I have to say the damage done by an eight inch knife blade punching a hole in the left ventricle and causing you to come to a spectacularly bloody end is just as obvious on such a scan as it is if I fetch a black and decker, rip open your ribcage and have a good rummage about.

So what's my beef ? Well, only this.

When I was a research scientist I knew of a good half dozen ways that I could help you shuffle off this mortal existence, none of which would ever show up with the standard technology available to the pathologists lab at the time. I personally availed myself of the close association between my research group and the Forensic Science Service over my time in this line of research to ensure that few if any could make use of my research for such purposes and get away with it, even if they could get hold of the materials.

But deep in my mind there remains this nagging doubt that someone, somewhere, who has stepped into my former line of work, or someone who is just an interested amateur, could still have a lucky break and manage to find a way to do away with an unwanted arranged bride so as to collect the insurance money, or dispose of a troublesome daughter with minimal damage to the family honour.

If all it takes is a couple of wails of allah's name and a quick exchange of crisp twenties in order to get a "there you go sir cremation ok for you" response with no-one left any the wiser, then we are surely going to regret stepping down this road of appeasement.

Tags: John of Gwent

Asylum Seekers wrong, Sanctuary Seekers Good

by John of Gwent


On the face of it you would be forgiven for thinking this is another example of Political Correctness taking us so far beyond the locked doors of bethlehem that none of us can ever hope to return to the world of sanity. The Daily Mirror wishes to reveal its latest 'Scoop' story. Some may say Pooper-Scoop but I for the moment wish to plead otherwise.

Sir John Waite, "Co-Chair" of the Independent Asylum Commission, a man who makes a habit, (or perhaps a living, but as I cannot see the IAC's accounts, I do not have the evidence before me to decide which) from painting those who would come to our shores from afar in the best possible light whilst simultaneously painting those who receive them in the worst. Now he wishes us to cease and desist referring to these individuals as seekers of asylum, because of its negative connotations, and refer to them as seekers after Sanctuary instead.

I know. You're wondering what substances the foermer Privy Counsellor has been exposign hiomself too. And doubtless when you hear I think that's a brilliant piece of inspired thinking you'll assume I have been sitting with the gentleman partakling of the same vices in even larger measures.

But I say this is a golden opportunity which the British National Party leadership should seize upon, and seize upon today as a magnificent piece of modern thinking.

Why ? Well unless you can quote me chapter and verse of the UNHCR international agreements on refugees can I respectfully suggest you pop over to wikipedia and read their words on Sanctuary and Asylum. Not least because it has therein all the links you'll need to those legal obligations we have signed up to, obligations that I consider the mark of an honourable and civilised society. The term 'asylum seeker' is almost always "bandied about" by 'snotrag tabloids' in the same paragraph as that used to describe the actions of freeloaders, economic migrants, illegal immigrants. Yet those wikipedia pages could not be clearer in establishing the "bona fide" of the true seeker of asylum, or sanctuary, as one running in fear of their life from the mob.

The mob in question could be Hutu, Or Tutse. It could be Catholic, Or Protestant. It could be White, Or Black. It could be Married with Children All Born in Wedlock. Or it could be Married And Disliking Those Whose Religions Allow Many Mothers-In-Law.

Or it might even be the relatives of a 16 year old killed by a police car 'responding to the activation of its ANPR system' without bothering to turn on its blues and twos beforehand (a point raised in accounts of eyewitness testimony on several BBC Radio News broadcasts yesterday but still left as an ambiguity on the BBC News website.)

By the way, did you get much sleep last night, Mr Brunstrom ? After all it was YOU who campaigned tirelessly for those ANPR systems to be fitted to traffic cars nationwide. If you had concentrated on the crimes your constituents cared about instead of this crusade, a teenager would stil be alive this morning. Have a nice life, Mr brunstrom. Pity that girl can't as a result of what YOU did. Sorry, I digress. Now where was I ...

Ah yes...

Yes, persecution comes in all forms. And the persecutors may be acting on the spur of the moment, or they may be acting following the oratory, or following the example, or they may even be in the pay of, the leaders of the state in which that action is carried out.

But as I read of Sir John's latest idea, it struck me that a more brilliant way of distinguishing those truly entitled to the protection our country proudly offers to the genuinely persecuted, from the freeloaders that wish to come here to make an (often untaxed) buck I cannot imagine.

And what an opportunity to set in the minds of the general population the clear difference between the two.

Carpe Diem, Mr Griffin.

I say a spokesperson from the BNP should get off a Press release right now welcoming Sir John's common sense approach in differentiating between those fleeing here directly from a country where they fear persecution, imprisonment, torture, rape for the purpose of ethnic genociode, death or worse, whom we have a legal and a moral duty to protect and assist, and those who wish to come here to earn money, legally or otherwise, and care not how they get in the door. Do it Now. Be The first political party to seize the opportunity this presents to separate these two cases in the minds of the general population.

We'll Keep a Sick-Bed In The Hillsides

by john of gwent

Having problems getting medical attention ?

Are your doctors not quite up to the job ?

Do you find it so inconvenient to have your care team bugger off to the mosque five times a day - leaving your continued existence in this world up in the hands of allah until the mullah says they can come back to your bedside ?

Did the shrapnel from your last suicide bomb attempt not quite do the job ? Leaving you in need of patching up a bit before you have another go ?

No problem, boyo. We at the arse end of the madness of the Welsh Assembly have just the thing for you.

Just get yourself on the next Eurostar and then find a way to have your mates carry you west of Offa's Dyke. Once here, our lovely NHS in Wales will welcome you with open arms and bottomless cheque book.

You think I jest ? Read this and weep.

Failed asylum seekers in Wales will now be given free health care - unlike their counterparts in England. The Department of Health in England is taking legal action to restrict free access to the NHS to this group. Previously, the Welsh assembly had passed regulations to introduce charging for secondary healthcare for refused asylum seekers.

Now let me say right here, right now, that I believe if you fear persecution in the country you live in, through your colour, your politics, your religion, or a dozen other things, and you jump on a boat, a plane, a train, or yes even a rubber raft in that country and that boat, plane, train or piece of shipwrecked flotsam deposits you directly on our shores you have the absolute right without fear or favour to fall at the feet of our immigration officers, to plead for protection from that persecution, and have your pleas heard without fear or favouritism. Yes we have a duty to hear your case. This is not Zimbabwe. This is not South Africa. The United Kingdom's Government signed up to an international treaty agreeing to protect people from such persecution, and we are bound by that obligation. It is an honourable one. If you disagree with that position then perhaps this is not the site you are looking for.

But I say that if your case fails to persuade our authorities then out you go.

For our resources are not limitless and the numbers of people with just cause and rightful claim are growing. And I'm picking up the bill.

And right now, I see a pathetic New Liebour do-gooder making a useless gesture that condemns all with just cause and rightful call upon the limited resources of the NHS in Wales to have their access rationed further by a tidal wave of people with no rightful access to those same facilities were they trying to get them East of the River Severn.

This is what you get for leaving New Liebour holding the reins of power.

Don't think they wouldn't do it to the residents of Crewe and Nantwich next given half a chance.

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