Lib Dems: desperate much?

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by OHC in United Kingdom

In Cameron’s stellar NHS manifesto launch today, Nick Robinson was ripped apart. After falling for the Labour line on education cuts hook, line, and sinker, was told that perhaps he needed to go back to school to be re-educated after Labour’s lies. Spontaneous applause followed.

Afterwards, the Lib Dems, seeing nothing wrong with Tory health policy… continued to parrot Labour’s line with the old IHT trick:

“If Osborne and Cameron can’t get these simple sums right how can they possibly be trusted to run the economy,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor.

Commenting on David Cameron’s decision to stick with his proposed inheritance tax cut and his assertion that it will be paid for by taxing non-doms, Vince Cable said: “It’s unbelievable that the Tories are still planning to cut taxes for a handful of millionaires when the majority of people across the country are feeling the squeeze.”

Wait, back up a minute. Raising the threshold to take non-millionaires out of inheritance tax, affects millionaires… how?

Vince Cable might think that the Conservatives’ sums don’t add up. But if he doesn’t understand that only people with a million pounds are millionaires, how the hell is he supposed to sort out a deficit 180,000 times that? Methinks Cable needs to go back to school with Nick Robinson.

Killing in the Name

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom

We have yet to be given a real cause we’re killing in the name of in Afghanistan. And more lies come out about the official cause we were killing in the name of in Iraq. You don’t have to condemn the reason they give, but who can commend those that give no reason at all? Lions led by donkeys.

Those who died are justified – for wearing the badge, they’re the chosen whites.

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?

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?

Monkey: British soldiers are terrorists

Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom

Recess Monkey, in getting ever so slightly too excited about the prospect of Baroness Thatcher passing away, decided to lambast Thatcher’s legacy as being the mother of a ‘convicted terrorist’. So I assume Blair’s legacy is… what?

But that’s not the insulting part. Terrorist? How so? he was prosecuted under legislation that bans citizens or residents of South Africa from participating in any foreign conflict. It has been criticised for criminalising the eight hundred South Africans propping up the British Army. If Thatcher’s a terrorist, so are they.

But our soldiers aren’t terrorists, and neither is Mark Thatcher. He was a financier of an attempt to replace the military dictatorship in Equatorial Guinea – Africa’s worst dictator – with a legitimate government currently in exile. Kinda like what Labour did in Iraq, except without our money and our brothers’ blood being poured into it.

Labour insulting our soldiers. What’s new?

Labour bet on fascism

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom

Very little about Labour surprises me any more. At the same time, very little doesn’t make me feel physically sick. In continuing that theme, Labour have decided that the best way to help the BNP even more than they already have halt the inexorable rise of the BNP is to talk up the BNP’s chances in the upcoming election in Glasgow North-East. Apparently, they think the fascists will come third.

But the BNP didn’t come third in the constituency in the Euro elections. They came sixth (albeit ahead of the Lib Dems), and with 4.3% of the vote, would have lost their parliamentary deposit. To come third, the BNP would have to leapfrog the Conservatives, UKIP, and Greens, hold off the Lib Dems, and sneak past the Jury Team’s hero Jihadist-whacker John Smeaton. Not fucking likely.

So it’s not a genuine threat. Labour is cynically aiding fascism so that they get their voter base mobilised (Ed: what’s German for ‘Get Out The Vote’?). So much for the left being anti-fascist. On the plus side, Labour’s painting itself into a corner: either the BNP do badly, and they’re accused of talking up fascism for party-political gain in an election they’d probably win anyway, or the BNP do well, and we all lose. We’d be in favour of Labour in lose-lose situations, but not today.

For what it’s worth, our prediction is the BNP to come fifth – far behind the dizzying heights Labour are talking them up to. But, then again, we’d obviously say that; we’re biased against fascism.

Big government caused Irish crisis

Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom

Some Labourite nonces have jumped on Ireland’s continuing economic woes as evidence that small government caused the recession. Or, worse still, that the UK isn’t in as bad shape as our ‘nearest comparator’ (Ed: we’re comparing ourselves to Ireland? Wow, we really are in decline…). These are lies.

Yes, the OECD is predicting that the Republic’s economy will contract by 2.4% next year. But read the article. Indeed, you don’t have to – just read the headline the same news outlet’s Business section gave the same story!

What do OECD diagnose as the problem? A high minimum wage and excessive expenditure on public services without improved returns. Hmm, sounds familiar. And what do they prescribe as the solution? Reviewing the minimum wage, decreasing public expenditure, removing the cap on university fees, and ruling out nationalising any banks.

We could not agree more, and would love to see those policies employed in these parts of the Isles. Big government DID cause the crisis in Ireland, and it’s causing one here. Yet, Labour socialists spin that as an endorsement of their policies. How did they think they’d get away with that?

And what’s wrong with a council tax cut?

Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom

With the announcement that heroic Conservative-controlled Hammersmith and Fulham Council will cut council tax by 3% for the fourth year in a row – as their 2006 manifesto pledged – the left is up in arms. Labour published a document called “Cameron’s Councils: Cameron’s Real Agenda for Government” attacking blue councils like H&F, Barnet, and Wandsworth, who have cut council taxes.

Apparently, it means a cut in services. Labour, like lazy journalists (Ed: like you?), cite rising home care fees to ‘prove’ that H&F is failing the residents. But, despite being one of the most deprived authorities in the country, the Audit Commission has given H&F’s local service provision the maximum four stars in every year (up from 3 stars in Labour’s last year of control). Furthermore, it’s rated it as improving ’strongly’ or ‘well’ (the top two ratings) in every year of the Greenhalgh administration. It doesn’t sound like slashing services to us: only slashing costs.

Damn those evil tax-cutting Tories...

Surely, after thirteen years of tax rises, and yet failing public services and a record high budget deficit, the population’s not going to fall for Labour’s old lie: “Services must be improving, because your taxes are going up”. Yes, we hope that Hammersmith and Fulham is the future under Prime Minister Cameron. Because we’ve seen the future, and it works.

Update: H&F councillor Harry Phibbs posted a very comprehensive examination of his borough’s achievements since 2006 on ConHome’s Local Government diary.

10% cuts in spending, 25% cuts in security, and treason – A Labour Manifesto

Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom

Within the past fortnight, we’ve seen one of the most shoddy, precarious and frankly insulting U-turns possible by the Prime Minister and HM Government. We refer, of course, to the ‘Labour investment’ vs ‘Tory cuts’ argument, which has recently seen the Chancellor having to concede that yes, public expenditure will need to be cut. Yes, the Labour Party did lie about this in the first instance.

Right, no one was really surprised by this. We expect outright lies and unsubstantiated claims from this excuse for a Government almost every day. They seem to relish being found out. Call it, Stato-masochism, if you will. KeepRightOnline doesn’t mean to sound like we’re attacking the thought of public expenditure cuts; in fact – we need more than 10% and everyone knows it. But do we really need to drop our national security by 25%?

If Brown et al were to have their way (which thankfully, they won’t)- then Britain would cut the Trident nuclear deterrent from 4 submarines to 3, as announced today in front of the United Nations General Assembly. What a bloody awful move.

Sure, the battlefield has changed since the Cold War, there’s no denying that. They enemy is different now. There’s no denying that, either. But to be of the ridiculously irresponsible and utopian view that an abolition or reduction in nuclear weapons systems would somehow make North Korea or Iran suddenly think, “Oh, you know what- maybe we won’t develop our own nukes,” is frankly; treason.

To make the United Kingdom more vulnerable to a potential future enemy, especially one that this Government has consistently blacklisted, is in effect, damning our national security and damning our world-power status. Those who deny this I protest are either underachieving, self-deprecating lefties, or just plain stupid. (Ed: What’s the difference?)

To cut Trident would be massive failure of the Government to ensure the safety of the citizens of the United Kingdom. The eventuality of this should be clear to see for everyone.

Before you go calling us warmongers- no. We don’t not wish to use nuclear weapons. We do not wish for anyone to die at the hands of this technology (or of any technology… or anything, for that matter)- however there are those who are undeniably mischievous. They plot and plan against western ideologies. They see the future as the inevitable end of mankind, perhaps ushered in by their own will for a one-world religious or political ideology. Eschatology is their perversion, and we must maintain this deterrent to deny them the opportunity to deny us our lives.

Think about it.

Honour and valour in Baltimore

Posted on 29. Aug, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom

The mainstream media isn’t taking too kindly to Alex Hilton’s silly little Mayor of Baltimore prank. And rightly so.

But, come on, wasn’t it obvious it was fake? No, I’m not referring to the little footnote claiming authorship by Mr R. Monkee Esq. I’m referring to this little slip-up:

Patriotic to the last, but suspicion to the eye.

This former proof-reader would have thought that that would be enough to alert people to the fraud. Especially Americans, to whom the extra ‘u’ is a bit of a shocking cultural revelation. Apparently not. We obviously have higher standards than Mr Hilton.