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Home again – 2 hours on the motorway and that’ll be that. – Posted using MobyPicture.com

The UK’s shameful treatment of Gurkhas.

My late father served alongside Gurkhas in the Second World War. He had nothing but praise for their comradeship, humour, and courage. To treat them like this – after some 45 000 have died for this country – is shameful in the extreme. Especially when we let far less deserving people into this country either [...]

I’m a financial idiot – help me out here! Please!

I really don’t get it. Two days ago we had a budget that will do nothing for this country. Then, today, we hear that over the first three months of this year, the economy shrank by 1.9% – the biggest  three month decline since 1979. However, the FTSE had a pretty good day today – [...]

Things that make you look like a dick #3

#3 a penis suit What you think you look like: a penis What you really look like: someone in a penis suit

Jeremy Vine, stupid Brits and scrapped cars

It was nice of Alistair Darling to give the non-UK car manufacturers a boost in his budget yesterday: Owners of old bangers who want to buy a new car can trade in their vehicle which is more than 10 years old for a £2,000 discount on the shiny new one. I’m sure that he’ll be [...]

The UK economy – broken, kaput, fucked and royally screwed by Labour

On a personal level, the Budget yesterday did me no favours at all – tobacco, alcohol and petrol will cost me more, I don’t claim any sort of tax credits, I’m too young to qualify for any winter fuel allowance, etc, etc. On a national level it failed too. Oh, it tried to appeal to [...]

Things that make you look like a dick #2

#2 Personalised number plates What you think you look like: an individual making a statement. What you really look like: someone who tries much too hard to get noticed.

Send Gordon your shirt Campaign

Nice idea from Old Holborn. Send Gordon your shirt! Got an old shirt? Send it directly to: Gordon Brown 10, Downing Street London SW1A 2AA. Saves him ripping it off your fucking back.

Things that make you look like a dick #1

Yes, I’m going to offend a few people with all this, but here goes… #1 Bluetooth headsets. What you think you look like: a switched-on pioneer on the cutting edge of technology. What you really look like: a refugee from Star Trek who’s just been raped in the ear canal by a monster with metallic [...]

Lewis Black’s words of wisdom

Many thanks to this blog for the following Lewis Black article. Black puts my view of British politics better than I ever could. Just replace the references to presidential candidates and the US parties with the appropriate British names and terms and this is my view in a nutshell. Here goes: A good portion of [...]