Oh my Darling - in denial again

Alistair Darling is deluded. He says that the UK economy gives him "grounds for optimism". I nearly choked on my 11am chocolate biscuit when I read that.

We have the highest debt levels across Western Europe. Gay Gordo & now Darling have used the boom years to flush billions of pounds down the drain. Most sensible people would say that in the good times, pay off debt & create a surplus to see you through the bad times, then invest.

This lot of cretins have spent like money was going out of fashion. We now have huge national & personal debt & a huge deficit. If the USA looks shaky in the current climate, then the UK outlook must be very poor indeed.

What do we have to show for 10 years of huge investment in public services? Not much. The NHS admits that most of the extra cash they have had has gone to fund pay rises for Doctors & Nurses. Schools continue to decline with grade inflation and horrendous pupil behaviour. Local councils are struggling under the burden of gold plated public service pension liabilities.

The sound of chickens coming home to roost gets louder.

And FFS what are going on with Darling's eyebrows????

Diana Inquest and Nutters like Loughrey

This sad individual called John Loughrey has sat through every single minute of the Diana Inquest. Everyday for over half a year he has sat in the gallery - he gave up his job & home to do this.

Is it just me, or does anyone else not get this Diana mania? Even in 1997 I didn't get it. People who had never met her wailing and throwing themselves around in distress. It brought out all the mentalists.

I don't particularly like the royals - I believe in meritocracy - but if I had power I could find a million and one things to legislate on rather than getting rid of the blood sucking greek/german house of Saxe-Coburg (lately Windsor).

So I really don't get why anyone cares about the death 10 years ago of a publicity seeking, minor aristocrat who married a prince then shagged half of London, who died while on holiday with her latest boyf after leaving her children in some god-awful buggery loving boarding school.

I definitely don't get why Royalists care about her - she took the House of Windsor to the brink.

Total mentalists - lets all cry and hug in public & feel each others pain - bollocks.

Tibet, China and the tarnished Olympics

What a great photo. Here we have protesters being man-handled by the London police force as track-suited Chinese goons look on. So much for human rights and freedom of speech. Whatever happened to the 'ethical foreign policy'?

Brown and his New Labour cronies (and Bliar before him) bang on about human rights. We removed Saddam because he was very bad and did horrid things to his own people (good excuse after we couldn't find WMDs).

Yet we invite Chinese diplomats to London, court party officials in Beijing and celebrate (!) the Olympics being given to them to host.

Let us not forget the Chinese regime is authoritarian, brutal, Communist in name, anti-democratic, and border-line genocidal in many of its dealings with ethnic groups within China (such as Tibet).

Yet we welcome them with open arms, while we bomb the shit out of Saddam's regime and have him hung.

Guess that is Realpolitik - one has a huge army & nuclear weapons, the other just pretended to have them.

Shame on those ministers (such as Jowell) trying to justify this debacle

Livingstone's family life

I can't stand King Newt Mr Ken Livingstone. He is useless. A self-publicist, an unreformed 70s socialist who thinks Chavez and Castro are role models. He is the worst type of populist leftie.

But - all this newspaper focus on his private life is wrong. His personal life should be private as long as he isn't being a hypocrite. As far as I am aware he has never run the 'family man' type of election campaigns. If he had - then he deserves all the scorn. I can't stand hypocritical politicians.

As far as I am concerned he can be gay or straight, family man or player it is irrelevant. Churchill was a border-line drunk, MacMillian probably a repressed gay just to name 2 decent PMs of the 20th Century (well one great one and one half decent one!)

Many of our past & present leaders have had or still have less than perfect private lives. It is irrelevant.

What matters is that Livingstone is a useless piss poor Mayor.

Blair gets it wrong... again (this time on religion)

Tory Blur, or plain old Bliar, as I like to call him has gone and got it wrong again. Tonight he is going to make a speech at Westminster Cathedral on his Faith Foundation. The old Bush cock slurper is going to say that 'failure to engage with religious groups will drive believers to apathy or fundamentalism'.

Utter bollocks.

Mr Rover is no fan of organised religion despite his parents best efforts to have him indoctrinated (shurely shome mishtake... don't you mean educated) in the christian tradition. Mr Rover reserves particular wrath for the Catholic church (don't use a condom even if not doing so means you might get HIV all you Africans who are dying in your millions from AIDS , just abstain - FFS), but he also can't stand puritanical Prods and defo not nutter Islamists.

Look at all the suffering in terms of war, conflict, abuse of women, abuse of non-believers, persecution of alternative lifestyles all done in the name of religion.

Bliar has form on talking to the religo-nutters. Not only was he taking a length from 'born again' Bush, but his government funded (and they continue to fund) various dubious Muslim groups such as the 'moderate' (don't make me laugh) Muslim Council of Britain.

He also thought nothing of chatting away to the IRA/Sinn Fein/Loyalist leaderships in Northern Ireland like they were old buddies & then releasing all the odious little murdering shites from prison.

The man was a disaster in sooooo many ways, and he still remains a grade one prick.

Bentley on the move???

Noooooooooooooooooo! Bentley has made it quite clear that if the Rovers don't make Europe this season, he will be off to one of the Big Four. I suppose it was always on the cards. He is the best player outside of those 4 very rich teams.

It just shows that while the leading 4 teams are the equal of the great European sides, the rest of the Premier League cannot compete. We will end up like the Scottish league with the title revolving between a couple of teams.

A few years back players like Bentley would stay at lesser teams & they could then build a side to challenge for trophies. No longer. Just look at how quickly Rooney decamped from a side as big as Everton to ManUre at the first opportunity.

Oh well - if we get £15m it'll soften the blow

golden oldies

So not only do the OAP's get lots of final salary pension schemes, state pensions & winter fuel allowances, now they get free bus travel anywhere in the UK!

So who pays for it.... you guessed the working age population like me. Yes, not only do we fund the OAPs income & cushy lifestyle, now they are going to be swarming all over public transport.

By the time us youngsters get to OAPdom there will be nothing left. No final salary schemes, little state pension. Why? Because we have our demographic timebomb of an ageing population in which OAPs will very soon outnumber those of working age - meaning we can't afford to support them.

Of course the politicians don't have the cojones to deal with the problem & just tinker with small rises in the retirement age.

When the UK & Western Europe are full of the blue-rinse brigade, then watch the vibrant young states of China, India, Brazil et al storm forward to take dominant positions in the 21st Century - we have been warned!