The True Statesman
Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by RK in United Kingdom
This afternoon’s session of Prime Minister’s Questions was, for me, the best of the year so far. David Cameron was undoubtedly on peak form as he ravaged Labour’s complete disregard toward the Armed Forces and had to spell out for Gordon Brown that defence spending under the Conservative government decreased as, “Under the Conservatives, we won the Cold War!”
Save Greenwich Mean Time!
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by OHC in United Kingdom
As if surrendering national sovereignty to the European Constitution weren’t enough, Gordon Brown wants us to give up our time. Yes, he has proposed abolishing Greenwich Mean Time and adopting Central European Time, as used on the continent.
Of course, he slyly calls it ‘extending British Summer Time’. Aww, extending summer – isn’t that nice? But, of course, once you move the clocks one hour ahead all year round… it’s the end of Greenwich Mean Time.
The proponents of the move call it a panacea: save lives on the road, boost tourism, increase work productivity, decrease obesity, and pretty much everything else. They don’t mention that GMT is a boon to financial services, which open in line with Frankfurt and Paris, but continue working later, after the markets have closed.
Indeed, until the Second World War, France and Spain both used Greenwich Mean Time. Then, the Nazis marched into France, changed their clocks to Berlin Time, and the neutral Spanish meekly followed suit. Have they changed their lifestyles? Hell no. Spanish people still stay up long into dark sipping sangria and battling bulls. Indeed, the Spanish government now recommends changing it back to GMT.
In Scandinavian countries, they adapt to shorter, northern days by making the school day start earlier. And that’s kinda a clue to lazy legislators like Brown and Bradshaw – if we want to cut obesity or road deaths, tinkering with the time isn’t the solution.
Save Greenwich Mean Time. This time, it’s national.
Quote of the Day: Chairman Edition
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by RK in Features, Quote of the Day, United Kingdom
“Gordon Brown avoided a leadership election, bottled a general election and now wants to fiddle the electoral system,”
Eric Pickles
Gordon Brown: Nobel Laureate
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by OHC in United Kingdom
Saints be praised, the impossible has happened: Britain has emerged from recession! Yes, GDP grew by 0.1% (lower than any economist estimated) in the last three months of 2009 (six months later than the rest of the world). And that’s despite our crippling debt and endless reams of mal-investment being propped up by inefficient and hapless government spending. Bravo.
Looks like Gordon saved the world just like he said he did! In honour of your achievement, Gordon, please accept the Nobel Prize in Economics. It can’t be any less deserved than last year’s Peace Prize. Well, actually… it probably is.
Leaders debates: ancient history in the making
Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
Great news from the TV gods in the sky. The party leaders and the three major broadcasters have finally announced agreement on a series of televised leaders debates. Basically, the hesitant Gordon Brown was persuaded that he needed one last shot to turn his fortunes around.
Sky News’s legendary Glen O’Glaza summed it up like this:
It is no exageration to say this IS an historic moment in british political history. The television age has at last well and truly arrived
Next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark first presidential debate in the US: between a telegenic and comfortable JFK and an awkward, shifty, and sweaty Richard Nixon. It pushed JFK into the lead, and the rest, as they say, is rather ancient history. You decide who’s who in 2010.
Yes, the television age has at least arrived. Fifty years too late. After the Internet age! We can’t hold Gordon Brown accountable for all that delay. But he didn’t make it any easier towards the end – and who can blame him with his track record?
Peace in Our Time
Posted on 20. Dec, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
The Prime Minister this weekend returned from the continent, having attended a conference to decide the fate of the world. Bribing dictators and appeasing the most evil men in the world, the Prime Minister triumphantly trumpeted the agreement reached.
The unparalleled concessions were opposed by many backbench Conservatives, who give little credence to the word of liars and dictators. The piece of paper the Prime Minister waved may not be legally binding, but guaranteed by the word and honour of the dictators he negotiated it with. The PM pronounced on landing that this save the world from catastrophe. Pull the other one.
Welcome back from Copenhagen, Prime Minister.
Brown curse strikes Copenhagen
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
No sooner had Gordon Brown announced that he was visiting the climate change talks in Copenhagen – to be the first world leader to bask in the glory of the world-wide environmentalist love-in – than this happens:
The curse continues…
And now Zimbabwe overtakes us
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
Gordon Brown got into an awful mess at PMQs, trying to scratch his head thinking of a G20 nation that’s still in recession. The UK, and… Spain. Which is, as was pointed out by Brown at a press conference last year, not in the G20.
But, worse – way worse – is news from Harare. Yes, news from that shining city on the hill that the Zimbabwean economy has also returned to growth. After ten consecutive years of decline. And, yet, they’re still getting out of this supposed ‘global recession’ before we are.
But, of course, they don’t count, because they’re not in the G20, right, Gordon?
No shit, Monsieur Sherlock
Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
Mon dieu. Président Nicolas Sarkozy has said that the ‘big losers’ from the appointments to the new European Commissioner are, you guessed it, the United Kingdom.
We got a treaty that few Brits want. We failed to get our man into the Presidency (Ed: if Blair is ‘ours’, we really are boned). And the price for getting a non-entity into the non-position of Foreign Minister was that we didn’t get jack shit in the Commission. And what did the French get? Internal Market and Services, which includes financial services. The French in charge of the City? Bloody hell, no wonder Frenchy is happy.
Not content with just up-staging Gordon Brown at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Sarkozy is just twisting the knife now. Brown pretends that his ideas have great resonance on the world stage, but does anyone actually listen to him? Hell no.
As the Commonwealth meeting shows, they only listen when Sarkozy’s by his side. Brown’s great contribution? Inviting Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe back into the Commonwealth. Retard.
Gordon Brown: supposedly a statesman, actually just shit.
Sarkozy and Rompuy laughing all the way to our banks.
Friday Propaganda: Storm Warning Edition
Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by OHC in Friday Propaganda
When our government claims to have saved the world, but has actually doomed the nation, we need some economic cheering up. You know, something like “We’re seeing some green shoots of recovery”. Maybe “We’re best-placed to recover from this global crisis”.
Kinda similar to the recession of the early 1980s. Like Brown, Thatcher called it a global economic crisis. Like Brown, Thatcher said we were best placed to recover from it. But unlike Brown, Thatcher actually had facts on her side. Here’s a poster from the 1983 election campaign.
And the electorate gave Thatcher a landslide victory in return. What are the odds on Brown achieving that?
