26 February, 2009

the shredder
So this gentleman, who was known as fred the shred because of a legendary reputation of cost-cutting and clinical efficiency, turns out to have been the plum behind the near collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Mr Peston, economist extraordinaire and wry-smile of the year award holder said this about him. Mr Peston also give the low-down on the actual negotiations that happened before the pension was approved.
So now, as a tax-payer and one that almost totally owns the RBS – I am pretty cheesed off. But then again, with such a system in place, I don’t blame him for taking advantage of it. I guess many of us in such a situation and with such financial power at our fingertips would right away guarantee ourselves such a large sum of money – no questions asked.
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18 February, 2009



As the chairman and chief executive of Starbucks, the international caffeine empire now knows…you don’t mess with Mr Mandelson.
This is a man who has been reviled and hated by almost 86% of the country (a totally made up figure just to appear slightly credible), resigned twice from Cabinet, managed to get on a boat with a sleazy oligarch and make Osborne look worse for wear and get off scott-free.
So when Mr Schulz talks disapprovingly of the UK economy in the presence of Mr Mandelson, the Mandelsonian inner PR cogs get whirring as the machine roars into overdrive.
Who the F***k is he? Mr Mandelson thundered, using expletives to get in with the great unwashed and attacking a Yankee to get in with the more nationalistic unwashed!
Something that has now endeared him slightly within the media and those who follow UK politics. For about 12 hours I would imagine.
Our economy is still going down the pan unfortunately and his cursing isn’t doing much about it.
Anyway, Mr Schulz apologised.
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18 February, 2009

Just like the death of Diana, a new celebrity tragedy exposes the spiritual and moral abyss that exists in today’s Britain.
I’m not moralising here. Nor am I asking for people to be any more or any less spiritual or moral than they feel they should be.
But in ripping Jade apart and now resurrecting her as a dying saintly figure, Britain has shown to want a moral and spiritual figurehead by any means necessary (hence creating one out of previously villified and hounded celebs like Diana and Jade) but only once they’ve done time (by being totally shredded by the media) and also been subjected to collective public disapproval.
Once the public has discerned that the person is worse than they are, in as many ways as possible…then, and only then it seems, they can be permitted into the gallery of modern day saints (managed and approved by publicists, agents and record label executives).
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1 February, 2007
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I wonder what the policeman said..?!
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31 January, 2007
When will it ever end?!
A paedophile sex attacker recommended for deportation struck again after a Home Office bungle let him remain in Britain.
Somalian asylum seeker Sadiq Mohammed, 31, was yesterday convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl.

He was jailed for four years in 2000 after he sexually assaulted two women and a girl of 14.
A judge recommended Mohammed be deported after completing his sentence because he was a danger to women, and his presence was ‘detrimental to this country’.
And so what happens? He gets to stay here and surprisingly carries out another string of attacks. Is this government actively bringing people here like this man or what exactly?! Read more…
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31 January, 2007

Once again, the boys in blue bring a proud smile to my face as they chase tony’s cronies out of office and into jail! Lord Levy, Mr Blairs personal Middle East envoy (Dumb move! He is Jewish – hint: Middle Easterners don’t like Jews very much; apart from Israelis) has been arrested for the second time in connection with the cash for honours scandal.
Fantastic stuff. I would give anything to see Blair getting shackled off after him!
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30 January, 2007
Can’t say I agree with David Cameron on this one…He should have been more firm. I think he is convinced there are alot of gay people in the party! There might well be, but I think by and large, the Tories are rather conservative (duh!) and disagree with him.
What are these guys playing at? Two gay men adopting a child? “Hello! We are your new father and father! Well actually he can be the mother at times…naughty boy!” It’s disgusting.
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30 January, 2007

and then gives her the boot as soon as he sorts his papers out.
This is a really disturbing story about a poor woman who is a mute and suffers from a host of things that basically give her a mental age of seven. She is actually 28 years old. Now the girls father is trying to sue the man. I reckon he should also be sued for allowing this arranged marriage to take place.
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28 January, 2007

Tony Blair is disliked by many in his party. Many people in the country can’t stand him. Many international figures pity his pandering to the whim of the great Yankeedoodle Bush. He is embroiled in a peerage scandal, he has undermined the institution of political accountability, he has appointed disgraced (and resigned) ministers time and time again, he has buggered up in Iraq, our troops are in a dire situation, his government hands out monstrously large contracts to failing companies (EDS, Capita and more), the education system has gone balls up, the Home Office is a third-rate workplace with incompetent fools messing up, the FCO is full of twits, there is a serious housing crisis that is getting worse by the day…BUT HE STILL DOESN”T WANT TO PISS OFF!
How deluded is this man? Does he really think that after all this time he can still offer something positive to this country? What can he do in the coming months that he couldn’t obviously do in the past two terms? I would rather Cameron losing and Brown becoming PM tomorrow if it meant that Bliar would be out of Downing Street.
What keeps him going?!
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28 January, 2007
The streets and pubs of Radford found fame in the Sixties in the Albert Finney film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Now the area’s drug gangs and drive-by shootings have turned Nottingham into one of Britain’s most notorious cities. Tim Adams meets the police, parents and footballers fighting to save a community under siege. Continue reading
A good article about the very depressing state of one of Britain’s cities. I can think of a few more that are just as bad. Well done Blair, you really are fighting crime.
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28 January, 2007
What more? Why bother hunting terrorists down when bloody civil servants from the Home Office and Ministry of Defence have lost hundreds of laptops, many with sensitive information every year! The cost is ridiculous (over a million) to replace them AND the information could have got into anyone’s hands.
The MOD is meant to DEFEND our country not bloody lose sensitive information about the country! The Home Office should be let off lightly; this is the least of their worries. Their main concern should be finding ways to sleep at night after the shit they are getting this country into. I hope they all get burgled by illegal immigrants and then set upon by paedophiles who are roaming the streets of Britain. My god; if I was a criminal I actually would have so many things to do – I wouldn’t know where to start! Paedophilia – if I get caught, I’ll be unmonitored when let out. Murder/rape/theft – if I get caught, I won’t be put into prison. Illegal immigrant – I won’t get caught; I’ll get a job in the Home Office!
Maybe thats the strategy – give the criminals so many options they will be so confused which crime to commit they won’t commit any!
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27 January, 2007

Just as Russia prepares to ban Casinos and gambling for all the problems that they cause; Mr Blair wants to have supercasinos installed here in Britain.
Russia, a country that would arguably benefit more from Casinos than Britain is banning them. Britain which will suffer from Casinos, is, surprise surprise, bringing them over here by the bucketload.
Well done Blair. I hope you die a losing gambling addict.
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26 January, 2007
Tristan and Isolde (pronounced Izold) is a Romeo-Juliet affair set in pre-unification
Britain. It paints a picture of a marauding Irish King who constantly harasses the English in his bid to take over their land. He has a beautiful daughter Isolde (Sophia Myles) who has a counterpart Tristan (James Franco); a young man adopted by the to-be king of the British Isles Marke (Rufus Sewell). Read the rest of this entry »
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23 January, 2007

A two year old boy was banned from entering a store in york because of his hood. Hoodies are usually stupid loutish layabouts who cover their heads with a hood from what a friend of mine used to call a “rapist’s jumper” (because at one point it seemed most rapists would sport a GAP hooded sweater. They do this to look tough, mean and from the hood (pardon the pun). This species of Human also waddles rather than walk because of its gravity-challenging clothing which never falls off nor stays up but rather their trousers stay between their waists and their thighs. This allows for their underwear to be shown to the rest of their kind as a form of social competition.
The stupidity of it all!
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22 January, 2007

Everyone knows that it isn’t the best idea to hold a mobile whilst you’re driving…so the government has decided to add three points to the licence of anyone caught driving and talking, so to speak. Thats all very well. But WHY DOUBLE THE FINE?! From 30 to 60 pounds. Another set of high fines for the government coffers to fill up from. If it’s a serious offence, then surely the points are enough of a deterrent – If it is serious to lose someones life over or a few in the case of a serious crash…then why is the fine less than smoking in a non-designated area?!
More money for the government. More fines for us. I think they might as well fine us for going to work and paying taxes. BECAUSE I FEEL STUPID STAYING HERE AND PAYING SO MUCH TO GO TO WORK AND PAYING SO MANY TAXES THAT I SHOULD BE FINED!
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22 January, 2007

Obnoxious celebrities around the world should let out a sigh of relief as their kind has nurtured more like them in the younger generation to take their place in the future.
This is Peaches Geldof with her boyfriend Frederick Blood-Royale. As you can see he is a complete clown and has tied a golden ribbon around his neck. He currently sings in a band called Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man and his real name is Fred McPherson. I am bowled over by the originality of his dress, chosen name and name of his band. Peaches reveals that she chose him as a boyfriend because: “He was disgusted by what I was as a person. He was so cynical and that is what I like, boys who are really horrible and cynical and angry at the world and really intelligent. I like sarcastic boys. He was taking the piss out of me, and so I had to fight back until he finally relented. And now he is nice to me.”
Thats good stuff – now you all know the criteria by which you must choose your partners.
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