This is the text of my letter in the Asian Voice Newspaper 9th April 2009
Compulsory travel plans pose far bigger risk than Google StreetView
While I understand people's concerns at their homes being viewed by potential burglars and criminals via Google StreetView, there is a greater and far more insidious threat on the horizon.
In its zeal to control our lives, and as usual, in complete disregard for any consequences, the government is legislating for a national database, to force us on threat of draconian fines, to file holiday, business, and all "travel plans" comprising, amongst other things, length of absence, destinations, e-mail addresses and credit card details, prior to leaving the UK. What next, internal passports, checkpoints and exit-visas?
With the government's abysmal record on data security, surely the potential for undisturbed burglary, warrantless searches, credit-card fraud and other nefarious activities is limitless.
For the Hindu Community, it is bad enough that people have to take extra precautions over Navratri and Diwali. For the Muslim Community, the bigger threat is from the State. Once information of an owner's absence is readily and nationally available, its routine misuse by both official and criminal elements is inevitable.
With Google you can get data removed, not so with government. When considered in this context, Google StreetView is small beer.
Cllr Jeremy Zeid
(Conservative - London Borough of Harrow)
Saturday, 11 April 2009
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
CELLO SCROTUM A HOAX
Now that "Cello Scrotum" has been exposed as a hoax, is it too much to hope that Ed Balls can be similarly dismissed??
THE TOADY PEERS' PICNIC
Blimey... Haven't posted anything here for a while. bUt after listening to the abject and lamentable BOLLOCKS spouted by various Labour "Peers" on the make, I just had to rework that olde favourite children's song "The Teddy Bear's Picnic" with my own slant...
THE TOADY PEERS' PICNIC
If you get into the Lords today
You’re sure of a big cash prize
If you’re a Labour crony today
The limit is in the skies
For every new peer of New Labour there was
Their ermines for services rendered of course
Today’s the day the Toady Peers have their picnic.
CHORUS
Pigging time for Labour Peers
The sleazy Labour Peers are troughing themselves today
Now they’re caught out unawares,
They’ll sneak off on a holiday.
The Press have gone and found them out.
See them wriggle, squirm and shout,
Blind to the public’s cares
At three o’clock the humbugs and nannies
Will knock off to the bars
Because they’re shameless Labour Toady Peers
To get into the Lords today,
You must be a Labour clone.
A well paid skive that the public pay,
Far better than staying at home.
For so many Life Peers of Labour there was
Will lobby and fix for their backers because
The Lords is now packed with Toady Peers on their picnic.
CHORUS
The Labour Peer, appointed for good
Is sure of a drink today
There’s wine to drink and food to eat
The taxpayer mugged to pay
With the Labour sleaze, that nobody sees
They’ll lobby and brief as they much as they please
Today’s the day the Press blew the Toady Peers picnic.
CHORUS
Copyright: Jeremy Zeid 27th Jan 2009 - If you want to use it, as long as it is attributed to me, be my guest.
THE TOADY PEERS' PICNIC
If you get into the Lords today
You’re sure of a big cash prize
If you’re a Labour crony today
The limit is in the skies
For every new peer of New Labour there was
Their ermines for services rendered of course
Today’s the day the Toady Peers have their picnic.
CHORUS
Pigging time for Labour Peers
The sleazy Labour Peers are troughing themselves today
Now they’re caught out unawares,
They’ll sneak off on a holiday.
The Press have gone and found them out.
See them wriggle, squirm and shout,
Blind to the public’s cares
At three o’clock the humbugs and nannies
Will knock off to the bars
Because they’re shameless Labour Toady Peers
To get into the Lords today,
You must be a Labour clone.
A well paid skive that the public pay,
Far better than staying at home.
For so many Life Peers of Labour there was
Will lobby and fix for their backers because
The Lords is now packed with Toady Peers on their picnic.
CHORUS
The Labour Peer, appointed for good
Is sure of a drink today
There’s wine to drink and food to eat
The taxpayer mugged to pay
With the Labour sleaze, that nobody sees
They’ll lobby and brief as they much as they please
Today’s the day the Press blew the Toady Peers picnic.
CHORUS
Copyright: Jeremy Zeid 27th Jan 2009 - If you want to use it, as long as it is attributed to me, be my guest.
Sunday, 10 February 2008
HOW LABOUR WILL DEAL WITH POLICE AND OTHER INEFFICIENCIES
In observing the current Alice-Through-the-Looking-glass world of "New" Labour, I will make some predictions as to how this monstrous waste of police time is tackled:-
Jacqui "Let's fine everybody £1000" Smith our lights-out-but-nobody's-Home-Secretary-of-the-Week will announce the formation of a new Quango, the Police Regulation Attainment Taskforce (PRAT).
PRAT will then immediately take on 500 staff to carry out an "extensive reappraisal" of police functions via a 200 page survey on each and every PC, PCSO and civilian staff.
In addition, all officers at any level will have to fill out an additional PRAT form for every arrest or stop, that will be used to assess the effectiveness of current forms as well as the efficacy of the new PRAT form.
It will become mandatory for local police chiefs to then collate this information on a monthly basis, via a new team of PRAT-monitoring officers in order to feed this via PRAT-Central to a new department within the Home Office and thence to a new junior PRAT-Minister reporting directly to the Home Secretary.
Needless to say, there will be pressure for widening the scope of PRAT to include the Justice Ministry and any other departments that have any form of contact with policing.
Therefore PRAT will demand that similar operations are set up within other ministries.
The result should be that once all appropriate ministries have their own PRAT ensconced, it should theoretically allow all PRATs to liase on a common basis to work to a common goal of putting PRATS at every level of government from parish councils upwards.
Due to system incompatibilities and intense jockeying between departments, coordination could be difficult, with the result that PRAT will require a overarching and dedicated Police Ministry to be set up and that will be separated from the Home Office. The new Department of Police Executive (DoPE) will be a cabinet level portfolio with the creation of the new post of DoPE Secretary and for which there are any number of experienced potential DoPEs on the government benches
With the inevitable difficulties and cost overruns and implications, the Prime Minister will then take "Personal Charge" and will appoint a well connected lawyer or think-tank head to lead a coordinating body the Central Response Action Panel (CRAP) that will deal with all of the PRATs in government and pull together the disparate information allowing the lights-on-but-nobody-Home-Secretary-of-the-Week to conclude that the police are seriously understaffed to deal with day to day policing and that a new body be set up to work with the police to try to identify the problems by 2050 etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc........... or until the Sun goes nova, whichever is the latter...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Jacqui "Let's fine everybody £1000" Smith our lights-out-but-nobody's-Home-Secretary-of-the-Week will announce the formation of a new Quango, the Police Regulation Attainment Taskforce (PRAT).
PRAT will then immediately take on 500 staff to carry out an "extensive reappraisal" of police functions via a 200 page survey on each and every PC, PCSO and civilian staff.
In addition, all officers at any level will have to fill out an additional PRAT form for every arrest or stop, that will be used to assess the effectiveness of current forms as well as the efficacy of the new PRAT form.
It will become mandatory for local police chiefs to then collate this information on a monthly basis, via a new team of PRAT-monitoring officers in order to feed this via PRAT-Central to a new department within the Home Office and thence to a new junior PRAT-Minister reporting directly to the Home Secretary.
Needless to say, there will be pressure for widening the scope of PRAT to include the Justice Ministry and any other departments that have any form of contact with policing.
Therefore PRAT will demand that similar operations are set up within other ministries.
The result should be that once all appropriate ministries have their own PRAT ensconced, it should theoretically allow all PRATs to liase on a common basis to work to a common goal of putting PRATS at every level of government from parish councils upwards.
Due to system incompatibilities and intense jockeying between departments, coordination could be difficult, with the result that PRAT will require a overarching and dedicated Police Ministry to be set up and that will be separated from the Home Office. The new Department of Police Executive (DoPE) will be a cabinet level portfolio with the creation of the new post of DoPE Secretary and for which there are any number of experienced potential DoPEs on the government benches
With the inevitable difficulties and cost overruns and implications, the Prime Minister will then take "Personal Charge" and will appoint a well connected lawyer or think-tank head to lead a coordinating body the Central Response Action Panel (CRAP) that will deal with all of the PRATs in government and pull together the disparate information allowing the lights-on-but-nobody-Home-Secretary-of-the-Week to conclude that the police are seriously understaffed to deal with day to day policing and that a new body be set up to work with the police to try to identify the problems by 2050 etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc........... or until the Sun goes nova, whichever is the latter...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
MORE "NEW" LABOUR "EYECATCHING" CODSWALLOP
So here it is, another junk idea from Caroline Flint the new Minister for whatever she happens to be this week. Such is the paucity of what passes for talent in Comrade PM Brown's "premiere" team, that a reshuffle is really just that, but without the advantage that a pack of cards has, fifty two choices.
What "New" Labour has are several completely blank cards to be filled in as and when, and without even the luxury of the two jokers in a normal pack, there being just one, the humourless Sub-Prime Minister himself. Although the description "Joker" may be pushing it a bit, and for that I apologise.
Ms Flint, whose name perfectly fits her hard puritanical manner, has come up with this brilliant "idea" that those in Council accomodation who are not employed, could lose their homes for failing to take a job.
Now I am the first to admit that there are too many lazy male condom-averse playstation/nintendo jockeys and subsidised yoyo-knickered career sprog poppers, currently sponging off the taxpayer, but this latest eyewatering bollocks is shot full with more holes than Alistair Brown err... Gordon Darling's last budget.
All that will happen is that those so evicted will have to be given "emergency" housing that is far more expensive than their current accomodation. And what accomodation would this be?? The "Bed and Breakfast" that Labour, before it became "New", was determined to remove....
And let's not forget the "Human Rights Act" angle that gives us the human right to a roof over our heads. And in that last sentence, could lie a clue as to Flinty's idea for us all, because the "Right" is for A roof over your head, not YOUR roof, implying that any old roof will do.
So what "roof" could it be?? Answer! It could be ANY old roof and with the wording of such gems as the Civil Contingencies Act, could be a "reception centre".
The trouble is that "reception centre" is a meaningless term and could be used to describe a block of temporary flats, a workhouse, a dormitory, a hostel, a prison, or a work/concentration camp.
Sorry to sound alarmist, but from this lying, puritanical, dangerous, scapegoating, Stalinist, bastard government's record, absolutely anything is possible. Emboldened by our craven capitulation to the smoking ban, hunting ban, war-on-motorists, rights of entry, Congestion charging, Low Emission Zones etc. I would put NOTHING past the lunatic bastards curremtly running this asylum.
Hopefully Ms Flint will strike enough sparks on the hopefully steely British so that she and her fascist Labour ilk are voted out for the foreseeable future. Watch this space.
What "New" Labour has are several completely blank cards to be filled in as and when, and without even the luxury of the two jokers in a normal pack, there being just one, the humourless Sub-Prime Minister himself. Although the description "Joker" may be pushing it a bit, and for that I apologise.
Ms Flint, whose name perfectly fits her hard puritanical manner, has come up with this brilliant "idea" that those in Council accomodation who are not employed, could lose their homes for failing to take a job.
Now I am the first to admit that there are too many lazy male condom-averse playstation/nintendo jockeys and subsidised yoyo-knickered career sprog poppers, currently sponging off the taxpayer, but this latest eyewatering bollocks is shot full with more holes than Alistair Brown err... Gordon Darling's last budget.
All that will happen is that those so evicted will have to be given "emergency" housing that is far more expensive than their current accomodation. And what accomodation would this be?? The "Bed and Breakfast" that Labour, before it became "New", was determined to remove....
And let's not forget the "Human Rights Act" angle that gives us the human right to a roof over our heads. And in that last sentence, could lie a clue as to Flinty's idea for us all, because the "Right" is for A roof over your head, not YOUR roof, implying that any old roof will do.
So what "roof" could it be?? Answer! It could be ANY old roof and with the wording of such gems as the Civil Contingencies Act, could be a "reception centre".
The trouble is that "reception centre" is a meaningless term and could be used to describe a block of temporary flats, a workhouse, a dormitory, a hostel, a prison, or a work/concentration camp.
Sorry to sound alarmist, but from this lying, puritanical, dangerous, scapegoating, Stalinist, bastard government's record, absolutely anything is possible. Emboldened by our craven capitulation to the smoking ban, hunting ban, war-on-motorists, rights of entry, Congestion charging, Low Emission Zones etc. I would put NOTHING past the lunatic bastards curremtly running this asylum.
Hopefully Ms Flint will strike enough sparks on the hopefully steely British so that she and her fascist Labour ilk are voted out for the foreseeable future. Watch this space.
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
THE MENTAL-ENVIRONISTS STRIKE AGAIN
Just when you thought we could have a lull in the incessant carping by the MentalEnvironists and the RedGreens, it all starts up again.
The latest piece of climate-garbage emanates from that arch waster of resources, the Eutopean Parliament.
Hold onto your hats folks, here it is..................................
They are set to back a resolution to ban Pub patio heaters. Yep, you did read that correctly. The worst aspect of this ill-considered codswallop is that even real environmental experts such as Eric Johnson, states that btheir impact on global warming is "very minimal".
"Very minimal", it has NO BLOODY IMPACT AT ALL, none, zilch, nada, bugger-all, zero... The whole shooting match is driven by the SUN and to a lesser vextent by vulcanism, end of story.
But there are a lot of lying bastards out there, who are very keen to keep us in a permanent state of fear, as by doing so they keep their inflated tax-funded grants and justify sky-high confiscatory taxation on all and everything we do.
If some of these pillocks were REALLY concerned about "the environment" or wastage of enercy, they could hardly do better than to look closer to home. I refer to the latest innovation, DIGITAL TV AND RADIO.
Have you actually looked at the power consumption (wattage) of your domestic equipment?? No?
Well I have and it is very sobering.
Over the next four years we will be seeing the big "switch over" from analogue to digital TV, and that is where the problem lies. Digital circuitry uses far more energy and generates far more heat than the "old" analogue equipment.
Looking at my own gear, my 26" Panasonoc CRT TV consumes 74watts (1watt on standby), with most of that taken up by the tube. The good old VHS video recorder 18watts and 0.5watts on standby.
My Panasonic DVD recorder with freeview is 28watts and 1watt respectively Start multiplying this by several million as the rollout continues.
The average 32" widescreen LCD TV uses upwards of 160watts, thats 2.25 times my "old fashioned" TV.
Have you seen how quickly the new DAB radios gobble up batteries as opposed to good old FM or AM, and the mains ones run quite warm.
Methinks someone is telling porky-pies.............. Oh yes, and add in all of those "home cinema" systems with their amplifiers and powered sub-woofers, another 100watts minimum.
Whie the middle classes are squeezed with higher Council tax, congestion charging, insurances, energy etc. the benefit classes are often the most wasteful of all. All of that "free" money, compliments of the mugged taxpayer, has no perceived value, which is why recycling and energy saving, are worst on council estates. And which areas are the highest consumers of expensive takeaways, all on other peoples' money.
What I am saying, is that for all of the "Green" blurb, it is anything but, especially at a time of drastically rising energy costs. And for the Great Clunking Fist to go on about appliances left on standby, the prudent "son of the manse" Mr. Brown, doesn't have a clue.
Go around your home and add up the wattage of all of your lights, sandwich grills, microwaves, kettles, power-showers, computers, stereo equipment, toasters, dishwashers, dryers, washing machines, fridges, freezers, hobs, irons and then ask yourself one simple question. Will banning a few pub patio heaters make a blind bit of difference?
So while the Euro-Clods tilt at wind-turbines regarding pub patio heaters, spare a thought for the real energy waste of our new and "Green" energy efficient, "modern" digital systems. Better still, repeal the smoking ban and allow pubs to be either smoking OR non-smoking and get the malignant fascist excuse of a government off of our backs. That way, the demand for patio heaters will be reduced, and we won't Have to be subjected to the constant barrage of stressful Nulab propaganda.
And finally, if the European Parliament and its hangers-on are so concerned about our "carbon footprint" then perhaps they should set an example by not relocating between Brussells and Strasbourg several times a year with the appalling costs and energy totally wasted by this charade. When our bureaucrats, MEPs, MPs and the rest of the rotten crowd lead by example, then and ONLY then should we bother to pay any heed to their outpourings.
The latest piece of climate-garbage emanates from that arch waster of resources, the Eutopean Parliament.
Hold onto your hats folks, here it is..................................
They are set to back a resolution to ban Pub patio heaters. Yep, you did read that correctly. The worst aspect of this ill-considered codswallop is that even real environmental experts such as Eric Johnson, states that btheir impact on global warming is "very minimal".
"Very minimal", it has NO BLOODY IMPACT AT ALL, none, zilch, nada, bugger-all, zero... The whole shooting match is driven by the SUN and to a lesser vextent by vulcanism, end of story.
But there are a lot of lying bastards out there, who are very keen to keep us in a permanent state of fear, as by doing so they keep their inflated tax-funded grants and justify sky-high confiscatory taxation on all and everything we do.
If some of these pillocks were REALLY concerned about "the environment" or wastage of enercy, they could hardly do better than to look closer to home. I refer to the latest innovation, DIGITAL TV AND RADIO.
Have you actually looked at the power consumption (wattage) of your domestic equipment?? No?
Well I have and it is very sobering.
Over the next four years we will be seeing the big "switch over" from analogue to digital TV, and that is where the problem lies. Digital circuitry uses far more energy and generates far more heat than the "old" analogue equipment.
Looking at my own gear, my 26" Panasonoc CRT TV consumes 74watts (1watt on standby), with most of that taken up by the tube. The good old VHS video recorder 18watts and 0.5watts on standby.
My Panasonic DVD recorder with freeview is 28watts and 1watt respectively Start multiplying this by several million as the rollout continues.
The average 32" widescreen LCD TV uses upwards of 160watts, thats 2.25 times my "old fashioned" TV.
Have you seen how quickly the new DAB radios gobble up batteries as opposed to good old FM or AM, and the mains ones run quite warm.
Methinks someone is telling porky-pies.............. Oh yes, and add in all of those "home cinema" systems with their amplifiers and powered sub-woofers, another 100watts minimum.
Whie the middle classes are squeezed with higher Council tax, congestion charging, insurances, energy etc. the benefit classes are often the most wasteful of all. All of that "free" money, compliments of the mugged taxpayer, has no perceived value, which is why recycling and energy saving, are worst on council estates. And which areas are the highest consumers of expensive takeaways, all on other peoples' money.
What I am saying, is that for all of the "Green" blurb, it is anything but, especially at a time of drastically rising energy costs. And for the Great Clunking Fist to go on about appliances left on standby, the prudent "son of the manse" Mr. Brown, doesn't have a clue.
Go around your home and add up the wattage of all of your lights, sandwich grills, microwaves, kettles, power-showers, computers, stereo equipment, toasters, dishwashers, dryers, washing machines, fridges, freezers, hobs, irons and then ask yourself one simple question. Will banning a few pub patio heaters make a blind bit of difference?
So while the Euro-Clods tilt at wind-turbines regarding pub patio heaters, spare a thought for the real energy waste of our new and "Green" energy efficient, "modern" digital systems. Better still, repeal the smoking ban and allow pubs to be either smoking OR non-smoking and get the malignant fascist excuse of a government off of our backs. That way, the demand for patio heaters will be reduced, and we won't Have to be subjected to the constant barrage of stressful Nulab propaganda.
And finally, if the European Parliament and its hangers-on are so concerned about our "carbon footprint" then perhaps they should set an example by not relocating between Brussells and Strasbourg several times a year with the appalling costs and energy totally wasted by this charade. When our bureaucrats, MEPs, MPs and the rest of the rotten crowd lead by example, then and ONLY then should we bother to pay any heed to their outpourings.
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
INCESSANT PROPAGANDA
I cannot be the only one to have noticed the veritable barrage of Government propaganda, adverts and media bullying that assaults our senses every day.
First there is the bullying regarding paying your bloody income tax on time. I am sure that Adam Hart davis is a thoroughly decent man, but he has become Gordon Brown, Alistair Invisible and HMRC's hectoring mouthpiece. Much as I normally like Adam, I am constantly willing him to be sucked to oblivion in that bloody giant hourglass. Hopefull it is a measure of the time left from Gordon the Moral Compass to disappear up his own statistical Bermuda Triangle.
Then we have the threats. The bastards from the data-flogging DVLA telling us how they will crush our cars if we don't pay the annual protection racket to drive on the Queen's potholes and roadhumps.
Next comes the Department for Whatever it Calls Itself This Week who deal with benefits. No ifs, No buts, just GET OFF OF OUR BACKS. Mind you I preferred the original campaign with the Mysterons (circles of light) following benefit cheats around.
A perennial favourite of our Commissars is to invoke our fetish and obsession with "The Children", to prick our sense of guilt. Everything revolves around bloody children, children..... If it saves ONE chiyuldddzzz life...................... So now our streets are an abstacle course of humps, lines, bollards, railings, chicanes and build-outs. With our attention taken up avoiding the obstacle course and reading the forest of useless signage, another "precious child" has been run over and the whole merry-go-round restarts.
Believe it or not I have only just got started.
SALT - Millions spent on television, radio, press and poster adverts that from the tone you would think that harmless Sodium Chloride is as dangerous as Sodium Cyanide. It's the Sodium innit??? Thde worst aspect of this piece of ill-informed nannying crap, is that people, especially children (sorry) and the elderly are suffering from salt loss in overhheated houses, hospitals and in hot weather. To the semi-literate political berks and tax-funded scientists, who endlessly yammer on about salt, any deaths from heat-stroke are down to YOU.
SMOKING - Sorry, but I am sick and tired of hearing, seeing and reading about smoking and how it is the weed of the devil, everywhere I look, everything I listen to and every TV programme I watch. And don't get me started on those effing "No Smoking" official signs on every shop window even TOBACCONISTS and, get this, the local CREMATORIUM door. If one ever needed proof that "New" Fascist Labour are akin to every graffiti chav, it is this, with their "Tag" everywhere you look, reminding us how they have infiltrated their malignant presence into every thing we do.......
ALCOHOL - And now on virtually every commercial radio station there are constaqnt ads exhorting us to "drink sensibly" and to be "drinkaware" etc... All of this trash is enough to drive you to drink.
So I have to ask our hectoring nannies in chief. How much is all of this propaganda costing the taxpayer, and how many operations, deep-cleans, cancer treatments, transplants and front line services are being jeopadized as a result?
First there is the bullying regarding paying your bloody income tax on time. I am sure that Adam Hart davis is a thoroughly decent man, but he has become Gordon Brown, Alistair Invisible and HMRC's hectoring mouthpiece. Much as I normally like Adam, I am constantly willing him to be sucked to oblivion in that bloody giant hourglass. Hopefull it is a measure of the time left from Gordon the Moral Compass to disappear up his own statistical Bermuda Triangle.
Then we have the threats. The bastards from the data-flogging DVLA telling us how they will crush our cars if we don't pay the annual protection racket to drive on the Queen's potholes and roadhumps.
Next comes the Department for Whatever it Calls Itself This Week who deal with benefits. No ifs, No buts, just GET OFF OF OUR BACKS. Mind you I preferred the original campaign with the Mysterons (circles of light) following benefit cheats around.
A perennial favourite of our Commissars is to invoke our fetish and obsession with "The Children", to prick our sense of guilt. Everything revolves around bloody children, children..... If it saves ONE chiyuldddzzz life...................... So now our streets are an abstacle course of humps, lines, bollards, railings, chicanes and build-outs. With our attention taken up avoiding the obstacle course and reading the forest of useless signage, another "precious child" has been run over and the whole merry-go-round restarts.
Believe it or not I have only just got started.
SALT - Millions spent on television, radio, press and poster adverts that from the tone you would think that harmless Sodium Chloride is as dangerous as Sodium Cyanide. It's the Sodium innit??? Thde worst aspect of this piece of ill-informed nannying crap, is that people, especially children (sorry) and the elderly are suffering from salt loss in overhheated houses, hospitals and in hot weather. To the semi-literate political berks and tax-funded scientists, who endlessly yammer on about salt, any deaths from heat-stroke are down to YOU.
SMOKING - Sorry, but I am sick and tired of hearing, seeing and reading about smoking and how it is the weed of the devil, everywhere I look, everything I listen to and every TV programme I watch. And don't get me started on those effing "No Smoking" official signs on every shop window even TOBACCONISTS and, get this, the local CREMATORIUM door. If one ever needed proof that "New" Fascist Labour are akin to every graffiti chav, it is this, with their "Tag" everywhere you look, reminding us how they have infiltrated their malignant presence into every thing we do.......
ALCOHOL - And now on virtually every commercial radio station there are constaqnt ads exhorting us to "drink sensibly" and to be "drinkaware" etc... All of this trash is enough to drive you to drink.
So I have to ask our hectoring nannies in chief. How much is all of this propaganda costing the taxpayer, and how many operations, deep-cleans, cancer treatments, transplants and front line services are being jeopadized as a result?
Monday, 28 January 2008
OH BLOODY HELL...................
I've just heard on BBC Radio 2 that this week is "National Salt Awareness Week"
BRILLIANT!!! I am definitely aware that salt exists, and have been for over 50 years.
Not only that, but I have pounds of the stuff at home.
Do I get a 'stiffkit of recognition from our Dear Leader??
I propose a new National Week.....
How about:-
NATIONAL IGNORE THE HECTORING, PURITAN, FINGER-WAGGING BASTARDS WEEK
A bit of a mouthful, but does anyone want to back it?
I was going to suggest "Slap a Nanny Week", but it could be open to misinterpretation.
BRILLIANT!!! I am definitely aware that salt exists, and have been for over 50 years.
Not only that, but I have pounds of the stuff at home.
Do I get a 'stiffkit of recognition from our Dear Leader??
I propose a new National Week.....
How about:-
NATIONAL IGNORE THE HECTORING, PURITAN, FINGER-WAGGING BASTARDS WEEK
A bit of a mouthful, but does anyone want to back it?
I was going to suggest "Slap a Nanny Week", but it could be open to misinterpretation.
LORD PROTECT US FROM THE ANTI-SALT & HEALTH NAZIS
On page 4 of The Times (London), hidden away in a corner are the spoutings of yet another of the plethora of hectoring tax-greased "experts". I refuse to call these people nannies, for the very sensible reason that nannies look after people. They are bullies with a personal agenda, full stop.
Professor Martin Wiseman of the World Cancer Research Fund, although for the life of me I cannot see how this has any bearing on cancer, is calling for salt to be removed from the dinner table.
And just how does Professor Wiseman propose to achieve this? Ministry of Sodium inspectors with powers of right of entry? Perhaps a "salt tax", an idea that brought about the rapid demise of the Raj in India? How about a nice shiny new tax bloated "regulator" OfSalt.
How about banning these self-important puritans that are clogging up the arteries of our community?
There is only anecdotal and weak evidence that salt is actually harmful. Lack of salt equals death. Let's cut to the chase, salt does not CAUSE high blood pressure, although it MAY exacerbate an existing condition.
We are becoming obssessed with food-scares, elfansafetee, five-a-day, indeed anything that can be measured or written about. I am waiting for rationing to be introduced, a very socialist solution and something that could be easily enacted once we British Sheeple have our £93 Identity-Slave-Cards.
I would like to know what are the views of the good Professor regarding salt-substitutes such as Lo-Salt as this is loaded with Potassium Chloride (KCl) that is known to cause problems to those with kidney complaints. Just to make you feel better, in the USA it is part of the lethal injection used to execute prisoners, and short circuits the Central Nervous System.
What was that about "Healthy Eating"??? AND it tastes bloody disgusting....
If Professor Wossname, the plethora of hangers-on and the lying finger-wagging politicians out to make names for themselves at our expense, are genuinely concerned for our wellbeing, our stress levels and blood pressure, I have a simple solution, a cure for almost all of us that will make the world a better and gentler place.
The best "Healthy Eating" is for all of us to stop swallowing all of this scaremongering GUFF.
Get out of our homes, our cars, our schools, our lives and out of the media. Stop fiddling with our children and trying to micro-manage our families. Stop yammering interminably on about how you know what's best for us and............
LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE
If these loonies had been around in the stone-age we'd never have invented the wheel or got into, let alone out of the trees. I'm beginning to think that the Golgafrinchams from Douglas Adams' "The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" were our real ancestors and that it is Adams as opposed to Darwin who is closer to the truth about our evolution.
Can we build another "B" Ark?
Professor Martin Wiseman of the World Cancer Research Fund, although for the life of me I cannot see how this has any bearing on cancer, is calling for salt to be removed from the dinner table.
And just how does Professor Wiseman propose to achieve this? Ministry of Sodium inspectors with powers of right of entry? Perhaps a "salt tax", an idea that brought about the rapid demise of the Raj in India? How about a nice shiny new tax bloated "regulator" OfSalt.
How about banning these self-important puritans that are clogging up the arteries of our community?
There is only anecdotal and weak evidence that salt is actually harmful. Lack of salt equals death. Let's cut to the chase, salt does not CAUSE high blood pressure, although it MAY exacerbate an existing condition.
We are becoming obssessed with food-scares, elfansafetee, five-a-day, indeed anything that can be measured or written about. I am waiting for rationing to be introduced, a very socialist solution and something that could be easily enacted once we British Sheeple have our £93 Identity-Slave-Cards.
I would like to know what are the views of the good Professor regarding salt-substitutes such as Lo-Salt as this is loaded with Potassium Chloride (KCl) that is known to cause problems to those with kidney complaints. Just to make you feel better, in the USA it is part of the lethal injection used to execute prisoners, and short circuits the Central Nervous System.
What was that about "Healthy Eating"??? AND it tastes bloody disgusting....
If Professor Wossname, the plethora of hangers-on and the lying finger-wagging politicians out to make names for themselves at our expense, are genuinely concerned for our wellbeing, our stress levels and blood pressure, I have a simple solution, a cure for almost all of us that will make the world a better and gentler place.
The best "Healthy Eating" is for all of us to stop swallowing all of this scaremongering GUFF.
Get out of our homes, our cars, our schools, our lives and out of the media. Stop fiddling with our children and trying to micro-manage our families. Stop yammering interminably on about how you know what's best for us and............
LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE
If these loonies had been around in the stone-age we'd never have invented the wheel or got into, let alone out of the trees. I'm beginning to think that the Golgafrinchams from Douglas Adams' "The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" were our real ancestors and that it is Adams as opposed to Darwin who is closer to the truth about our evolution.
Can we build another "B" Ark?
FLEECING THE POLICE
Did you read the comments by Tony McNulty MP the NuLab Police Minister?
He stated that they couldn't backdate the 2.5% police pay increase to last September. In his words "Although £30m isn't a lot of money, all of these sums add up to a lot"
He's absolutely right, it's just a shame he didn't take the same view when as a Harrow Councillor he and his colleagues all but wiped out our balances and bloated the bureacracy.
Why not the same treatment for PCSOs and police civilian staff, who are getting their pay backdated?? It wouldn't be anything to do with the fact that the latter are members of UNISON and not bound by a no-strike clause, would it? Or could it be that unlike the Police Federation, UNISON bankroll "New" Labour for a shedload of their members' cash.
But putting all of that aside, if our Tone is so concerned at watching the pennies, how come he is so happy to squander over £9 BILLION on Identity-Slave-Cards and the invasive and malignant DATABASE.
Still, at least we know the Minister's priorities, a surveillence state with all of us the inmates of HMP-Albion, hence the name of this blog....
He stated that they couldn't backdate the 2.5% police pay increase to last September. In his words "Although £30m isn't a lot of money, all of these sums add up to a lot"
He's absolutely right, it's just a shame he didn't take the same view when as a Harrow Councillor he and his colleagues all but wiped out our balances and bloated the bureacracy.
Why not the same treatment for PCSOs and police civilian staff, who are getting their pay backdated?? It wouldn't be anything to do with the fact that the latter are members of UNISON and not bound by a no-strike clause, would it? Or could it be that unlike the Police Federation, UNISON bankroll "New" Labour for a shedload of their members' cash.
But putting all of that aside, if our Tone is so concerned at watching the pennies, how come he is so happy to squander over £9 BILLION on Identity-Slave-Cards and the invasive and malignant DATABASE.
Still, at least we know the Minister's priorities, a surveillence state with all of us the inmates of HMP-Albion, hence the name of this blog....
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