Friday Propaganda: “Back to work, you commies!” Edition
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by OHC in Friday Propaganda
We’ve been striving to find the best propaganda to keep you right, online and off, and so are proud to announce that Friday Propaganda is back as a regular weekly series, starting by counting down ten of the top posters from Conservative Party history.
Like many of the instalments, this week’s has a certain topicality: strikes. Issued in 1983, this poster was targeted at nurses that were going on strike over their pay increasing by only 6.4%, and were condemning patients to die as a result.
Touché! Now get back to work!
So, how about it, CWU? How on Earth will a £500m strike help pay for the post offices?
“GRINFUCKED”
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
At a highly important and official editorial board meeting last night, the KRO editors were wetting themselves having come across this Sky News article quoting former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who shared his graphic view that Alistair Darling had,
grinfucked the US by blocking a plan to allow Barclays to take over the stricken US bank.
Legendary.
And why not commemorate the occassion, the same date we saw that Labour’s policies have forced London into 3rd choice as a financial home to the world’s most profitable institutions, with a little (very quickly drafted) image that we like to call, well…
(Ed: Admit it, you kinda enjoyed making that- you even used GIMP!)
Not hard to place the blame…
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
For London being overtaken by Singapore as bankers’ second-favourite financial centre. The Bloomberg poll is slightly biased across the board in favour of New York by virtue of limiting itself to Bloomberg terminal subscribers, but coming behind Singapore is an outrage. Not that we need to editorialise to blame Brown for it. Bloomberg does that for us:
The ascent of Singapore and the decline of London reflect the rise of specialized financial centers that cater to specific segments of the industry. Many hedge funds have left the British capital because of a new top income-tax rate of 50 percent for higher earnings and regulations planned by the European Union that restrict the amount they can borrow.
Brown’s taxes and the European Union’s planned post-Lisbon regulations are to blame. Labour is killing London as a world economic player, and the Lisbon Treaty will deliver the final blow. But I’m sure Brown and Darling still think this is a global crisis.
Hahahahahahaha…. (Prezza)
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
It seems KeepRightOnline scare the crap out of @johnprescott! Same applies by the way, for @bevaniteellie, @kerrymp and various other lefties who simply refuse to take us on due to various epic losses on their part.
Remember folks, who’s afraid of the big bad KRO?
Gordon’s stealthiest tax rise yet
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
So the USA’s economy has grown by 3.5% annualised between July and September, smashing analysts’ forecasts. This compares quite strikingly with the UK’s contraction by 1.6% in the same period. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. So much for us being best placed to weather the recession.
But we’re missing a trick here. Whilst those of us with economics degrees from the fourth-best university in the world (Ed: you’re such a wanker) will immediately notice the significance of the GDP growth gap between the UK and its rivals, we at KRO don’t think it resonates with the population. Just as talk of effective marginal tax rates doesn’t connect with people until you talk about those working to get off benefits keeping just 4% of their earnings, so talk of GDP growth doesn’t really get our engines going either.
Let’s put it into context. In the last quarter, the UK economy shrank at an annualised rate of 1.6%, compared to growth in the US of 3.5% and the Eurozone of an estimated 3.6%. The gap, of 5%, cannot be blamed on the world economy – that’s the gap that makes us best-prepared to recover from the global crisis, remember! That 5%, with a GDP of £1,443bn, corresponds to £72bn.
Over the course of the year, that £72bn will be gone. It will never be earned. It will never be produced. It will never be paid in wages. It will never be spent on what families need to buy to get by. It is as if the government taxed us £72bn, and then, instead of spending it on essential services or putting it towards filling in our world-beating £175bn budget deficit, burned it in an Viking-style orgy of rape and pillage.
A £72bn raid on hard-working families. Why are we not talking about that?
Brown crumbles, but doesn’t take the biscuit
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
Gordon Brown’s inability to name his favourite biscuit to mums in a recent webchat shocked the nation, but he’s now gone out of his way to make amends. In a new recipe book of Scottish celebrities’ favourite recipes, the Prime Minister has come out and divulged his favourite dessert dish!
Apple and blackberry crumble is a distraction from Gordon's hectic life. Twat.
Wonderful, I hear you say. The nation now has a return to good Presbyterian moral guidance and Scottish prudence (Ed: Err…). As I’m sure you’ll agree, the Prime Minister’s selection of apple and blackberry crumble shall, in time, restore Britain’s economy, make our military a force to be reckoned with, and heal the social divide in our country. Or not. But most (metaphorically) delicious is his favourite vegetable. What is it? Brussel sprouts.
Bet that changes if Tony Blair becomes President of Europe.
Just like the Wire after all…
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
A couple of months have passed since Alex Hilton made a fool of the media (Ed: and himself!) by his little ‘Mayor of Baltimore’ stunt. Apparently, the Labour PPC and GoFourther thought the comparison of Britain’s streets to the Wire was inappropriate.
Well, guess what. The day we found out gun crime had doubled in ten years, the BBC thinks Glasgow’s not that different to Baltimore after all. We think the headline says it all, but the picture of the firearm stash at the bottom is somewhat more damning (Ed: this isn’t gun porn…).
The BBC's caption was 'Operation Lockdown also recovered a number of firearms'. Our caption is 'Damn...'
It’s hard to say that the story isn’t reminiscent of the Wire. Or even Midsomer Murders.
Stash Wednesday
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by OHC in Other, United Kingdom
KRO is upgrading its online merchandising presence, with its online store undergoing a makeover. As a result, each Wednesday, we’ll be bringing you a regular feature of the funny, thought-provoking, or just damn right merchandise that KeepRightOnline is hawking to its loving audience.
This week, in honour of our favourite pasttime, and to mark Gordon Brown not answering a question on astronomy in PMQs today, we bring you the soundest stash this side of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Available now for only £6.50!
KRO loves science - do you?!
#ilovescience.
Streeting Tweeting
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
NUS Prez Wes Streeting decided that the best way he’d represent the NUS in the national HE conference in London today would be to insult the city and its inhabitants by saying he ‘really, really hates London’.
Then please, kindly, fuck off.
Labour hack Streeting’s insipid cosiness with the Brown government is unsufferable for many students. I think him insulting the home of 388,000 Higher Education students makes that far worse. Strange. You’d have thought that a man desperate to be elected to Westminster would actually like the city.
ID card fail
Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
At KRO, we feel obliged to apologise for the grievous mistake that may have startled many of our readers half to death. At 16:54 today, probably the most unlikely advert appeared next to our article criticising ID cards:
#adfail
How ID cards will benefit your business?! If that’s how good they’ll be at target identification, I don’t think ID cards are going to do anything to help.
Let us repeat ourselves nice and slowly so there’s no more confusion. Fuck. Right. Off.