Steve Uncles should be sent to a South African prison, and then be buggered till he dies of the bad AIDS.
I feel dirty for even linking to this
Chris Lightfoot was a brilliant, fundamentally decent man, and any jumped-up little cunt who uses him in electioneering ‘we’re not quite the BNP but we’re still vile little world-hating pricks’ material should be hanged, drawn and quartered.
I hate, hate, hate, the revolting little bastard.
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This is the best music video I’ve seen in quite some time:
…and anyone who disagrees is a cunt.
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OK, so I tried to download In The Loop on Piratebay, on the grounds that that’s surely where one goes – but there’s fuck all there.
You’re the Internet, where the cocks do you get downloads of cinema-type movies?
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I’m not quite Vernon Bogdanor when it comes to UK-constitution-ology.
Nonetheless, I’m not convinced that seeking to compel the monarch to reassert non-ceremonial power, purely because of a scandal that really doesn’t matter very much, is a wise plan likely to lead to better governance and general Good Things.
…and on the expenses thing, while it provides light entertainment and an amusing stick with which to beat appalling people like Jacqui Smith, you really are a massive twat if you view it as much more than that.
The people who run the country get paid more than a milkman, and take the piss on expenses about as much as the average investment banker or management consultant. Well, bugger me sideways, how awful.
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Only an imbecile could possibly support libel laws.
1) they provide no protection to innocent everyday people defamed by the newspapers, as innocent everyday people can’t afford expensive QCs.
2) they provide a great deal of protection to crooked oligarchs, murderous quacks, terrorist-funding despots, and other despicable bastards.
I accept that in theory, some protection under 1 might be nice for society to provide – but on the other hand, fuck it. If the News of the World ran something properly damaging, like ‘PDF killed Baby P and lives at 422 Blenheim Mansions’, then they should be thrown in jail for incitement to murder. If the News of the World ran ‘PDF is a liar and an idiot’, then really, so what?
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I’ve finally got around to reading Craig Murray’s The Catholic Orangemen of Togo. Brief book review: it’s fucking excellent; buy it; read it.
However, I don’t quite understand Craig’s, and indeed many other people’s, obsession with ‘mercenaries’. For example:
For me, the really scary thing about [a video where private security company Aegis shot a civilian car in Iraq that drove through a checkpoint] is that it was the subject of a formal United States Army enquiry, which says that the incidents shown were “within standard operating procedures”, as laid down by the US Army, which in effect give Aegis the right to shoot up any car approaching them, in case it is a car bomb.
Aegis were working for the US Army. If Aegis hadn’t been there, then Yank soldiers would have be there, operating to the same rulebook and shooting the same poor buggers who missed the checkpoint. It doesn’t matter in the fucking slightest whether the chaps with guns shooting cars are scared American 21-year-olds or skint, retired-vet South African 45-year-olds, except to the extent that scared troops are more prone to make terrible mistakes than less-scared troops.
The problem is the fucking rulebook that says you can shoot a carload of civilians on suspicion – and suggesting the problem is down to the contractors who do the same bloody thing as the real army is a meaningless cop-out.
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…as does whichever cunt in the CPS pressed charges:
The photographer, Pericles Antoniou, 53, was on holiday in London with his family when, on 17 April, he was arrested in the London tube by police officers. Antoniou, as he described the event in a letter to the Greek ambassador in London, was on his way to visit the photo exhibition of Russian photographer and painter Rochenko when he started taking pictures of people in the London tube.
‘A lady complained about the fact that I was taking photos of her daughter,’ wrote Antoniou. ‘I apologized immediately, as the ethics and common practice of photographers dictates, I showed the lady the photos I had taken of her daughter, and I erased every photo which contained her.’
However, a man claiming to be the girl’s father pursued the Greek photographer and asked police officers to arrest him. Antoniou has since been charged under the Public Order Act of 1986, articles 5 and 6 for ‘public harassment,’ and causing ‘alarm or distress.’
You can just picture the family who’d do that, can’t you? Neckless, tattooed Millwall fan for a dad; screeching chain-smoking harpy for a mum; paranoid that WEIRD FOREIGN PEEEEEDOS are out to get their grossly obese, barely sentient daughter. “Ya caaan’t take her fackin’ picture, it’s against our bleedin’ ‘uman rights, ya bubble caaant…’. If they lived in Portsmouth, there’d be half a dozen paediatricians buried under their patio.
Although, it’s a shame Mr Antoniou is just an innocent foreign tourist and not a murdering paedophile. Given that little Waynetta will doubtless knock out dozens of equally appalling sproglings starting at the age of 12, a bit of preemptive burial-in-shallow-grave would be by far the best outcome for society…
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Despite rumours of swine flu, or possibly swinecaninefucking flu, assassination, imprisonment, and/or conspiracy to take over the world. I’d like to make it clear PDF is back on the scene.
And laughing his fucking head off at the people who think the current MP scandal shows that the institution has become debased. In 1920, MPs were paid twice their current salary as a proportion of the national wage -and Lloyd George still had to sell peerages to all comers (not in a Blairite ‘big donors are likely to be seen right’ way, but in a ‘here’s the price list, tick the box’ way) to appease his greed.
And he was one of the best PMs we ever had… which I guess may be the difference with the current government.
Oh, also bring on the Gurkhas. Can we invite every other selection of mental foreign killers with sharp knives over, too, and then move them in next door to Nick Griffin?
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