Peter Griffin: Leader of the BNP
Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by RK in United Kingdom
This is brilliant. One third of Britons (out of 1498 polled) think that Peter Griffin is the leader of the British National Party. No doubt this will come as a shock to family guy fans the world over, though there was always a something despicably racist about everyone’s favourite fat cartoon character. (Ed: Homer Simpson?!)
“It isn’t for us to judge whether or not this is right or wrong, but put forward the facts: one of which being that a third of people think that Peter Griffin is the leader of the BNP.”
What do Stephen Fry, Tory Bear and Oprah have in common?
Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
They’re all set to net a bundle, that’s what. “How?” I hear you ask. Well, it seems our friends at Twitter are trialling a pay-to-view system for premium account tweets. That’s right, you may soon be paying between £1 and £10 to view the personal musings of the likes of Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian and Ed Balls. (Ed: I’d rather pay to view tweets from Ed Hallam!)
But is this really the most sustainable profit model for Twitter? We know the service is extraordinarily popular, and doesn’t really make any money currently. You’d think ad-revenue would be the way to go, especially with the likes of USocial offering $500,000 to display an ad on Twitter for just 24 hours.
That'll be £3.50 please, guv.
Either way, this editor reckons charging to view is definitely the wrong way to go. It’s not as if they own the patent for creating a website for people to harp on endlessly about their social inadequacies or spout some nonsensical political drivel.
Is the United States going backwards?
Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
‘Creation’ – a film exploring Charles Darwin’s struggle between faith and reason is failing to find a distributor in the United States, as it has been deemed ‘too controversial’ for Christian audiences.
So after opening for the Toronto Film Festival, and having received a distribution deal in every other country they went to, the United States, with it’s 39% public endorsement of the theory of natural selection has opted away from showing this.
Movieguide.org, an influential site which reviews films from a Christian perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as “a racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder”. His “half-baked theory” directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led to “atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering”, the site stated.
Are we going to start doing rain dances in the street and visiting shamen to heal our afflictions?
Adolf causes AIDS. Fact. (Er…)
Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
KeepRightOnline stumbled upon this video on the good old Telegraph website today. It’s an advertisement by the Regenbogen e.V. (an AIDS awareness group) created by advertising firm ‘das comitee’ to highlight the dangers of unprotected sex. Note, this is not safe for work!
[brightcove vid=37150158001&exp3=25500650001&surl=http://c.brightcove.com/services&pubid=1138077173&w=300&h=225]
'Fess up
Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
Which CF member told Telegraph Religion Editor George Pitcher that he’s a Leftie?
A reception in a garden of Westminster Abbey the other day, under the shadow of the Victoria Tower of the House of Lords, was the unlikely setting for me to be called an unreconstructed old Leftie. I had just expressed some mild-mannered view that I hoped an incoming government would commit itself properly to the education of our sink-estate underclass.
“The trouble with you Lefties,” said a young man in the group, amiably enough, “is that you just spout what is politically correct.”
Cue Pitcher going on a rant about Righties. Sigh.
BBC to fork out over £2m in Salford-move cock-up
Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
Telegraph has this story today on how the trumpeted BBC move from Salford (in its chic bid for non-London-centricity) will cost the licence payer over £2m in redundancies alone. It’s time to scrap the fee, and hold the BBC accountable for their tremendous waste of money.
Among the parts of the corporation being transferred are children’s, learning, sport, Radio 5 Live and parts of future, media and technology departments. This will amount to 1,600 roles being relocated from London.
The BBC has offered staff up to £46,000 to persuade them to move from London to Salford, Greater Manchester, however, still around half of people, just over 700, do not wish to move from the capital.
The Beeb is therefore set to pay out at least a month’s salary to every employee it is forced to make redundant through the lack of will to move. You can’t blame them, though. Not everyone wants to uproot for the sake of Auntie. Especially since their relocation ‘experts’ Cartus, did such a smashing job on the whole thing.
Time to put this old chesnut to rest.
I thought I'd heard that before…
Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
The other day, KeepRightOnline dismissed the leftists’ bleating about the Conservative’s new international development policy as being myopic. We cited schools in Kenya as evidence that the left simply refuses to acknowledge that public services are better delivered from the bottom-up.
Check out today’s Telegraph editorial on the topic:
Britain’s approach is wrong-headed because it is wedded to top-down policies. HMG is the largest funder of state primary education in Kenya. Yet ordinary Kenyan parents complain that the quality is far worse than the indigenous schools that they have established. The Tories are right to suggest that more aid should be given in the form of vouchers so that people – not bureaucrats – can decide how to spend the money.
Wellity, it looks like the Telegraph is catching up with KeepRightOnline. Told you they were getting sounder.
This man is superb.
Posted on 26. May, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
Boris outlines in this Telegraph article what exactly the United Kingdom needs.
Under fire
Posted on 08. May, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
One of the great scandals of modern public life.
The above quote, from the Telegraph today, reveals the shocking and too-far-gone state of the Cabinet’s expenses under the leadership of one G. Brown.
Senor Brown, apparently has been siphoning £6,500 to his brother for shared ‘cleaning services’ while Jack Straw, David Miliband, Alistair Darling and so on and so forth are also under fire for this “systematic misappropriation”
Brown under fire
Details courtesy of the Telegraph (more as this story unfolds)
* Jack Straw received a 50 per cent discount on his council tax from his local authority but claimed the full amount. He discovered the “mistake” last summer within weeks of the High Court ordering that MPs release details of their expenses. He has repaid the money.
* Lord Mandelson , the Business Secretary, claimed thousands of pounds to improve his constituency home after he had announced his resignation as an MP. He sold the property for a profit of £136,000.
* Hazel Blears , the Communities Secretary, claimed for three different properties in a single year. She spent almost £5,000 on furniture in three months after buying the third flat in an upmarket area of London.
* David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, spent hundreds of pounds on gardening at his constituency home — leading his gardener to question whether it was necessary to spend the money on pot plants “given [the] relatively short time you’ll be here”.
* Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, changed his official “second home” designation four times in four years.
* Geoff Hoon, the Transport Secretary, also switched his second home, which allowed him to extensively improve his family home in Derbyshire before buying a London town house also funded by the taxpayer.
* Andy Burnham , the Culture Secretary, Caroline Flint, the Minister for Europe, and Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary, also bought flats — or the freehold on a property they already owned — and claimed stamp duty and other moving costs. Mr Burnham warned the parliamentary authorities that his wife might divorce him if expenses were not paid promptly.
Even Labour want to KeepRight
Posted on 02. May, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
This morning, the Telegraph are reporting that up to twelve Blairites in the Labour Party have secretly discussed throwing their careers away defecting to the Liberal Democrats, citing a fear of a ‘lurch to the left’ to Lord Ashdown, former leader.
Looks like these rats are trying to find their way off the sinking ship
Whilst current
So, this appears to be yet another smashing blow to Brown’s sinking ship. Here at KeepRightOnline, we are eagerly awaiting the European Elections. Will they prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back?
Looks like something’s more right in Labour than we thought!