Gordon Brown becomes our latest Priminister on Wednesday. Already the optimism and the joy of leaving the Tony Blair years behind is palpable but is it justified?
What record do we have of Brown being trustworthy? According to the Panorama programme that was shown we have no idea of how devious and untrustworthy he is.
The recent budget tax cut on the headline rate of income tax whilst removing the 10% band was actually an increase.
Proof if it were needed that Brown is a devious son of a preacherman.
Out of the frying pan into the fire is one term that I will say is relevant here. We could all tell when Tony was lying but will we be able to tell when Brown is?
The next few months are going to be interesting.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Missing my Dog
My dog is in kennels and I miss her especially in the now incipient dog days but I have to be without her for another four or five weeks.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Racism in the Big Brother House
Following on from a comment I made on Rachelnorthlondon's blog. Racism exists and if a 19yr old student can mention racist words one does rather wonder where she got it from.
Colour bias doesn't normally rear its ugly head that much but did she not realise that she would be filmed and anything uttered from her mouth would be recorded? She was in the Big Brother House!
Thing is we'll never know how deep it lies with her, She's been kicked out and rightly so. Lets consider for a moment that if she is like this how many other blonde nineteen year old girls and boys ( not that being blonde is anything to go by) hold the same words in their heads and don't use them publically but think that?
It comes back to where divisions lie in society. Pushing through more terror laws is going to polarise society rather than bring it together as it is state sponsored paranoia of the unknown terrorist.
In a sense we have let the terrorists win because our way of life has had to change.
Colour bias doesn't normally rear its ugly head that much but did she not realise that she would be filmed and anything uttered from her mouth would be recorded? She was in the Big Brother House!
Thing is we'll never know how deep it lies with her, She's been kicked out and rightly so. Lets consider for a moment that if she is like this how many other blonde nineteen year old girls and boys ( not that being blonde is anything to go by) hold the same words in their heads and don't use them publically but think that?
It comes back to where divisions lie in society. Pushing through more terror laws is going to polarise society rather than bring it together as it is state sponsored paranoia of the unknown terrorist.
In a sense we have let the terrorists win because our way of life has had to change.
Cool Dude Rio
Cool Dude Rio vs
Originally uploaded by Screaming Bertha.
Friend sent me a picture of his doberman dressed for the hot weather and quite funny it is too
Cheered me up
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Never give up
Thats my motto for today
Never give up, Always believe in yourself and don't let the bastards grind you down.
No matter what happens and no matter how scary and cruel the situation.
Never give up, Always believe in yourself and don't let the bastards grind you down.
No matter what happens and no matter how scary and cruel the situation.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Tony to push through new stop and search laws
It seems that shiny Tony is going to leave us all with a bad taste in our mouths
Not content with leaving Brown with a poisoned chalice he's going to add alkali and a few other chasers to the cup.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to push through a new anti-terrorism law before he steps down next month giving "war-time" powers to police to stop and question people, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Blair, who is due to resign on June 27 after a decade in office, wrote in an article in The Sunday Times that his government planned to publish new anti-terrorism proposals "within the next few weeks". An interior ministry spokeswoman confirmed the government was looking at including a "stop and question" power in the new legislation. "We are considering a range of powers for the bill and 'stop and question' is one of them," she said. The "stop and question" power would enable police to interrogate people about who they are, where they have been and where they were going, The Sunday Times said. Police would not need to suspect a crime had taken place. If suspects failed to stop or refused to answer questions, they could be charged with a crime and fined, The Sunday Times said. Police already have the power to stop and search people but have no right to ask them their identity and movements. The Sunday Times said the powers already existed in Northern Ireland. Civil rights groups viewed the plan to extend them to the rest of Britain as an attack on civil liberties, it said. Such powers had only existed before in other parts of Britain in war time, it said. Interior minister John Reid is proposing other measures to combat Islamist militants, the report said. These would give police the power to take documents away for examination even if their value as evidence was not immediately obvious and the power to remove vehicles to examine them. Blair's government passed tough anti-terrorism measures after the September 2001 attacks on U.S. cities and again after four British Muslim suicide bombers killed 52 people on London's transport network in July 2005. However, some of Blair's proposed measures -- such as a plan to hold terrorism suspects for up to 90 days without charge -- have been blocked by parliament or the courts. Britain's anti-terrorism strategy has faced criticism in the last few days after the disclosure that three men suspected of planning attacks on British or U.S. troops abroad had absconded. Authorities had attempted to keep tabs on the three men through "control orders". In his article, Blair said it was not the government's fault the three had absconded. Instead, he blamed parliament and the courts for quashing the tougher measures he had wanted. "We have chosen as a society to put the civil liberties of the suspect, even if a foreign national, first. I happen to believe this is misguided and wrong," he wrote. Britons had decided that, except in very limited ways, the threat to public safety from extremism did not justify radical changes to the law, he said. "Their right to traditional civil liberties comes first. I believe this is a dangerous misjudgment," he added."
The above post is from Reuters via Msn
Is nothing safe from Tony?
Not content with leaving Brown with a poisoned chalice he's going to add alkali and a few other chasers to the cup.
"
Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to push through a new anti-terrorism law before he steps down next month giving "war-time" powers to police to stop and question people, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Blair, who is due to resign on June 27 after a decade in office, wrote in an article in The Sunday Times that his government planned to publish new anti-terrorism proposals "within the next few weeks". An interior ministry spokeswoman confirmed the government was looking at including a "stop and question" power in the new legislation. "We are considering a range of powers for the bill and 'stop and question' is one of them," she said. The "stop and question" power would enable police to interrogate people about who they are, where they have been and where they were going, The Sunday Times said. Police would not need to suspect a crime had taken place. If suspects failed to stop or refused to answer questions, they could be charged with a crime and fined, The Sunday Times said. Police already have the power to stop and search people but have no right to ask them their identity and movements. The Sunday Times said the powers already existed in Northern Ireland. Civil rights groups viewed the plan to extend them to the rest of Britain as an attack on civil liberties, it said. Such powers had only existed before in other parts of Britain in war time, it said. Interior minister John Reid is proposing other measures to combat Islamist militants, the report said. These would give police the power to take documents away for examination even if their value as evidence was not immediately obvious and the power to remove vehicles to examine them. Blair's government passed tough anti-terrorism measures after the September 2001 attacks on U.S. cities and again after four British Muslim suicide bombers killed 52 people on London's transport network in July 2005. However, some of Blair's proposed measures -- such as a plan to hold terrorism suspects for up to 90 days without charge -- have been blocked by parliament or the courts. Britain's anti-terrorism strategy has faced criticism in the last few days after the disclosure that three men suspected of planning attacks on British or U.S. troops abroad had absconded. Authorities had attempted to keep tabs on the three men through "control orders". In his article, Blair said it was not the government's fault the three had absconded. Instead, he blamed parliament and the courts for quashing the tougher measures he had wanted. "We have chosen as a society to put the civil liberties of the suspect, even if a foreign national, first. I happen to believe this is misguided and wrong," he wrote. Britons had decided that, except in very limited ways, the threat to public safety from extremism did not justify radical changes to the law, he said. "Their right to traditional civil liberties comes first. I believe this is a dangerous misjudgment," he added."
The above post is from Reuters via Msn
Is nothing safe from Tony?
Saturday, May 26, 2007
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