Admit it, you know we all do it.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
NHS Direct costs £5 million per phone?
Well, according to David Prescott it does anyway. His Save NHS Direct campaign (that's the campaign against the previous Labour Government's policy incidentally), says,
Hmm only 24 phones at a cost of £123m.. no wonder Lansley thinks it's costly!
In all seriousness though, it is rather amusing to see Labour people falling over themselves to "save" something that for all intent and purpose appears to be having a name change and errrr was actually their policy when they were in Government.
Opposition for opposition sake.
Hat Tip: A reader.
Hmm only 24 phones at a cost of £123m.. no wonder Lansley thinks it's costly!In all seriousness though, it is rather amusing to see Labour people falling over themselves to "save" something that for all intent and purpose appears to be having a name change and errrr was actually their policy when they were in Government.
Opposition for opposition sake.
Hat Tip: A reader.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Dear Sunny Hundal and Will Straw.....
Gents
I can't help but notice you both took Mark Pack's post yesterday about Matthew Elliott from the "No 2 AV" campaign purchasing the domain "yes2av.org" and have turned it into panty-wetting and girly "dirty tricks" hyperbolic bullshit story of the kind that you both often rail against.
I simply ask, where were the shrieks of "dirty tricks" when the Labour Party quite sensibly registered, and continues to host cameronsconservatives.co.uk? Why no crying foul at the fact that Clifford Singer, again sensibly and cleverly owns taxpayeralliance.org? I doubt Sunny is "looking at whether this breaks any rules".
Or how about Clifford's other site, again very clever, mydavidcameron.com? Did you fill the proverbial nappy Will at that terrible bit of General Election "dirty tricks"? Of course you didn't, you linked it, as did you Sunny and there was no question of complaining about "domain squatting" on someone's name.
Don't you realise that talking about "dirty tricks" when all that's happened is something you've happily promoted from your own side, sort of makes you look like a couple of sanctimonious tits?
It makes perfect sense for the No campaign to register domains that might be useful for it to slate the Yes campaign, just like it made sense for Clifford and Labour to do what they did.
I guess what I'm trying to say gents, and I say this with an immense amount of love, hugs and kisses, is.......... grow the fuck up.
All the best
Phil aka Dizzy
xxx
I can't help but notice you both took Mark Pack's post yesterday about Matthew Elliott from the "No 2 AV" campaign purchasing the domain "yes2av.org" and have turned it into panty-wetting and girly "dirty tricks" hyperbolic bullshit story of the kind that you both often rail against.
I simply ask, where were the shrieks of "dirty tricks" when the Labour Party quite sensibly registered, and continues to host cameronsconservatives.co.uk? Why no crying foul at the fact that Clifford Singer, again sensibly and cleverly owns taxpayeralliance.org? I doubt Sunny is "looking at whether this breaks any rules".
Or how about Clifford's other site, again very clever, mydavidcameron.com? Did you fill the proverbial nappy Will at that terrible bit of General Election "dirty tricks"? Of course you didn't, you linked it, as did you Sunny and there was no question of complaining about "domain squatting" on someone's name.
Don't you realise that talking about "dirty tricks" when all that's happened is something you've happily promoted from your own side, sort of makes you look like a couple of sanctimonious tits?
It makes perfect sense for the No campaign to register domains that might be useful for it to slate the Yes campaign, just like it made sense for Clifford and Labour to do what they did.
I guess what I'm trying to say gents, and I say this with an immense amount of love, hugs and kisses, is.......... grow the fuck up.
All the best
Phil aka Dizzy
xxx
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
On that dead spook
Was rather amused to read the following details on Channel 4's website about the building that the dead spook (not officially confirmed or denied as a spook naturally) lived in.
**SHOCK NEWS** Spook lived in property probably owned by the "Company"! Everyone wildly speculate about Russian sleeper agents and someone call Jack Bauer. NOW!
Land Registry documents reveal the block at number 36 Alderney Street, where the body was found, is owned by a private company, New Rodina.Translation:
The details of this company are hidden because it is registered in the British Virgin Islands and not listed with Companies House.
The word rodina means "motherland" in Russian and Bulgarian.
The property was bought for £675,250 in 2000 with a mortgage from the Royal Bank of Scotland and has been remortgaged twice, in September 2005 and February 2006.
The documents reveal the owner operated through a law firm known as Park Nelson.
This firm once occupied a rented block in Bell Yard, off Fleet Street, but it no longer appears to exist.
**SHOCK NEWS** Spook lived in property probably owned by the "Company"! Everyone wildly speculate about Russian sleeper agents and someone call Jack Bauer. NOW!
Two Step Guide to spotting "denial"
- Visit the following post on Sion Simon's Labour Uncut.
- Read the first ten words of the first sentence which states
"The Conservative MP for the Labour seat of Dudley South"
Here endeth the lesson
An observation...
If I went on Radio 4 and said something like "Yes, obviously Hitler did do some terrible and awful things but he did also get the trains to run on time" it would probably, quite rightly, upset a few people.
Likewise, if I said, "Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who freely dropped chemical weapons on parts of his own population but hey, at least there weren't suicide bombers in the streets of Baghdad" it would also be a bit woolly on the old moral front.
I mention this because this morning on Today I endured the author James Ferguson saying, and I paraphrase admittedly, "the Taliban did some awful things but they did bring law and order to Afghanistan" (listen here.
Moral relativism huh? Don't ya just love it?
Likewise, if I said, "Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who freely dropped chemical weapons on parts of his own population but hey, at least there weren't suicide bombers in the streets of Baghdad" it would also be a bit woolly on the old moral front.
I mention this because this morning on Today I endured the author James Ferguson saying, and I paraphrase admittedly, "the Taliban did some awful things but they did bring law and order to Afghanistan" (listen here.
Moral relativism huh? Don't ya just love it?
Monday, August 23, 2010
This download is an aspiration not a promise
It would appear that Labour leadership candidates are falling over themselves to seem as lefty as possible, we now have the Blairite Andy Burnham producing a manifesto titled "Aspirational Socialism" (contradiction in terms surely?).
Sadly, at the time of writing, I couldn't download it from the link provided.
Clearly the download option is just an aspiration not a promise.
Sadly, at the time of writing, I couldn't download it from the link provided.
Clearly the download option is just an aspiration not a promise.
Top Cat lived in a dustbin....
This footage has just appeared on YouTube and was apparently taken outside the Sacred Heart School in Coventry. No idea if its some sort of hoax viral or genuine but hey ho. The "action" gets going at about 20 seconds or so. Some on YouTube are asking for help identifying the woman.
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