It’s time to put the Beeb to bed
Posted on 31. Jan, 2010 by RK in United Kingdom
Have a read of this piece, currently trending on the BBC ‘Most Popular Stories’ section.
Now tell me they’re not guilty of playing politics, being socialist sympathisers and a mouthpiece for the expansion of the state? No, you can’t say it, can you?
Incredible, how the state funded BBC, which is supposed to be politically and ideologically neutral posts drivel such as stating as a fact that socialised healthcare would be better for America. Or how about the line where they say Bush talked nonsense and Al Gore was God? The whole piece is a bloody joke.
Lastly, they cite Thomas Frank, author of “The Wrecking Ball: How Conservatives Rule” as a source of information to trust as to whether or not the healthcare bill is a good idea.
They seem to be unable to understand that attempts to force ridiculous things upon the American people is precisely why America became America in the first place. Now the left is calling people unable to afford full healthcare, “turkeys voting for Christmas” because they don’t believe government should intervene every which way. That’s some profound respect for democracy there guys. No, really. Marx called; says he wants his lunacy back.
The Liberty Belle: Who is John Galt?
Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by RK in The Liberty Belle
Yesterday I spent too much of my time sifting through blogs and reading the whining nonsense of leftist journalists, so I decided to check out our taxpayer funded, bipartisan blog, whitehouse.gov/blog, for some fact.
Instead, I found this bit of propaganda.
Here are a few interesting tidbits from the site:
It first accuses the “insurance lobby” (I believe the administration includes Tea Parties in this lobby) of “releasing alarmist reports” about the “draconian health care premium increases” that the new health care legislation would bring about. I’m not sure the effect on insurance premiums the new legislation would have, but I do know that the Congressional Budget Office report does not address it. So, the White House also does not know the effect on premiums.
It also claims that “insurance companies can profit from blocking down reform.” Of course they can! The legislation would implement a “public option” in health care which would create unbalanced competition eventually leading to the complete demise of the private insurance industry! In the words of Calvin Coolidge, “After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.” Now the White House seeks to demonize business and profit in order to pass legislation intended to murder the private sector.
It gets better. The White House has obtained the statistics on insurance company profits from none other than its mistress, Goldman Sachs (one of the main receivers of taxpayer provided bailout money)! Why am I surprised?
The blog goes on to list key points in the legislation such as:
“Changing the way we handle hospitalizations, to prevent mistakes and to prevent unnecessary readmissions.”
“Creating incentives in the payment system to reward quality of care rather than just the quantity of procedures.”
“Putting prevention first, rewarding care that focuses on wellness and treating the whole patient in an integrated and coordinated delivery system.”
“Establishing a health insurance exchange with a public insurance option, where individuals and small businesses can buy lower-cost insurance that will spur competition and put downward pressure on costs”
Translation: We will tax you and control your life.
It adds:
“A fee on insurance companies offering high-premium plans — which would create a strong incentive for more efficient plans that would help reduce the growth of premiums.”
Dear private sector: You are screwed.
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?
#welovetheNHS? Part 2
Posted on 26. Aug, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
Of course this #welovetheNHS row has been going on for a few weeks now. The Labour Party quickly adopted said hashtag on Twitter as a retort to the comments made by Daniel Hannan MEP that they felt demeaned or devalued socialised healthcare. (Ed: Did you just say ’socialised healthcare?!)
Far from claiming this is entirely true, KeepRightOnline noticed a tweet today by the infamous Dizzy, regarding the establishment of the #welovethenhs hashtag. See the picture below for details.
Say it ain’t so Prezza? It’s not like you to jump on a bandwagon, and if it were, well…
What's Mandy in for?
Posted on 21. Aug, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
The government’s press officers have said that Peter Mandelson has been hospitalised for a ‘benign condition of the prostate’. We have not been told what that condition is.
What we do know is that the hospital he’s in, St Mary’s in Paddington, is:
An internationally renowned centre of excellence for the diagnosis, treatment and care of people with sexual health problems, including sexually transmitted diseases.
We wish him the best of luck with the operation. But, come on, what have you got up to this time, Mandy?
Setting the record straight.
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
A good morning for fair and balanced discourse. Lately, sensationalist headlines have been dominating ’silly season’ about the so called ’split’ within the Conservative Party. Our greatest representatives have been labelled eccentrics (a title I would be quite pleased to have bestowed upon me) and been critiqued heavily for their prescience and downright ballsyness.
KeepRightOnline got fed up with the half truths and decided to pencil this short paragraph for the letters section in the Metro. Perhaps we’ll slowly set the record straight.
What's Prezza holding?
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
What's Prezza holding?
We at KeepRightOnline have watched this NHS debate unfold and the demagogues do what they do best; rabble rouse with not a lot of substance. Prezza’s selective stats in his video is truly proof of this. I think in reality, people are getting the debate mixed up, which is no less the fault of the relentless (and good on them, I guess) left wing media/blogosphere.
The issue with the NHS is not with the doctors or nurses, not the paramedics and front line staff, but rather with the quangos and consultants, the bloat and the bloodsuckers. The NHS as an institution is rife with the latter, and this is what needs urgent reform, and stripping to it’s core.
It doesn’t have to be a mistake for 60 years to be a 60 year mistake- get it? No? Well think about a relationship you’ve been in which was great for 4 months, and a drag for the remaining 8. You might look back at that as a year-long mistake. Good times were there, sure- but at what cost?
AT WHAT COST?
Kind NHS staff, those who are on the wards or in the ambulances (and all other front-liners), please understand the gripe is not with you. If you are a back-office administrator, and your job actually keeps people alive and keeps the health service functioning, the gripe is not with you. If, however, you are a clear bureaucrat, apparatchik or functionary as such; a job which complicates matters or does not need a full-time dedication- then you are the chaff of the machine.
You are the only remaining Labour constituency.
Backing Hannan. Backing The Plan.
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
This post was blank besides the image when it first went up towards the end of last week. The message we’re conveying couldn’t be simpler, and I have goaded @JohnPrescott relentlessly this week about his reactionary demagogy in response to the Hannan-NHS ’story’.
Dizzy has an incredible piece here which says a hell of a lot that we wanted to say, but just didn’t find the time, nor eloquence.
The key points are;
- Daniel Hannan has expressed a devout interest in improving the quality of healthcare through reform
- Daniel Hannan has had the cojones to stand up and be heard with impeccably researched facts/stats
- Daniel Hannan’s gripe was not with front line workers, but with the system they are marched about in
This is why KeepRightOnline is BACKING HANNAN and BACKING THE PLAN.
PICK UP YOUR COPY NOW.
Prezza plays politics with people's lives.
Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
Everyone’s favourite nobody, John Prescott (who has nothing whatsoever to do with GAME CHANGER *cough*) has weighed in (Ed: Oh, come on!) today on Daniel Hannan’s recent remarks to the US media regarding the state of the National Health Service.
Far from being pragmatic (what’s new?) Prezza’s tirade at Hannan stems from the fact that he wants to play political football with Britain’s health service. What a bloody good go at demagogy by the man running the NoFourth GoFourth campaign for a Labour 4th Term. (Seriously!?)
The problem here is that the public will see right through him. (Ed: Oh they just keep coming, don’t they?) John reckons Hannan espouses the complete destruction of the NHS, along with all the bells and whistles that go with it. Prezza, emulating your iconic words to Iain Dale, that time; I beg to differ!
If you had read The Plan (I’ll spot you a tenner, if you like) you’d know that Hannan (and Carswell) want precisely the best for this country’s health service; encouraging people to save for their health care, while still delivering the expected basic services (A&E etc). We can put the money and the choice in people’s pockets through tax cuts (yes, we can!) and at a time when we’re realising the extreme costs the NHS currently bears, your best idea is to borrow, tax and spend as if you’ve learnt nothing? Bugger.
So here’s the challenge John, I do hope I get a direct response:
1) Are Hannan’s statistics wrong?
2) Do you think the NHS is currently the best it could be, especially when we take into account the past 12 years of gargantuan levels of spending?
3) Does Daniel not show an inclination for the improvement of the service, rather than the inclination to play PR with people’s lives?
You’re up Prezza. Impress me.
Obama Online
Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
Obama is taking to YouTube to answer viewer-submitted questions in a ‘town-hall meeting’ style at 6:15pm tonight (that’s London time, natch).
It’s just another indication that he gets the modern world far better than the dinosaurs squandering the Right legacy in the US talking about the Internet as a series of tubes.
You may not like his arguments, but no matter what he does, at least he can’t come off as much of a twat as our Beloved Leader.
Update: If you’re not really into Obamania, you can get your fix of American political commentary from Freedom Watch with Ron Paul and other guests at 7pm (again, Zulu Time!).