They Said What ?!
David Cameron, commenting on the arrest of Damian Green over the leak of Home Office documents whereby the Government were trying to cover up the true facts on immigration:
“Stalinesque”
Comment: Absolutely right, Dave. This is quite appalling behaviour by an increasingly autocratic state. We are continuing to highlight the Marxist antecedents and tendencies of senior Labour politicians. This behaviour emphasises those dangers. We hope you will raise Cain over this matter.
Robin Page, countryman, writer and Chairman of the Countryside Restoration Trust:
“I’m fed up with all the rubbish on the BBC, I’m fed up with the political correctness on the BBC, and I’m fed up with the politically-correct people running the BBC.”
Comment: Page for Chairman of the BBC governors. He and his sheepdog would soon sort’em out.
Charles Moore, past editor of the Daily Telegraph, attacking the BBC licence fee:
“When my licence fee expires, I will not be renewing it. It is an unfair form of taxation”.
Comment; Charlie is our darling!
Gerard Batten MEP, UKIP, commenting on the UK payment to the EU:
“As we enter what looks like the most serious economic crisis since 1929, membership of the European Union is a luxury that the British people simply cannot afford.”
Comment: None. Self-evident
Mathew Elliot, Chief Executive of the Taxpayers’ Alliance and one of our heroes, commenting upon the case of Gary Rostron who successfully challenged Blackburn with Darwen Council, who had issued him with a £60 fixed penalty notice for dumping rubbish after his bin fell or was knocked over, spilling the contents.
“People don’t pay their council tax for the council to squander it on overzealous prosecutions”.
Comment: Absolutely right, Mathew! We should be taking our councils to task directly when they waste money on small-minded prosecutions like this against decent people. Do they have the same zeal when dealing with complaints against “travellers” rubbish, for instance?
Philip Hammond, Shadow Chief Treasury Secretary: Commenting upon the Brown/Darling Plan to spend their way out of recession, using our money, in a misplaced Keynsian splurge on public projects (doubtless employing even more bureaucrats):
“Increasing borrowing is not a strategy for dealing with the recession; it’s a consequence of the recession”.
Comment: More of the same please, Mr Hammond. Anything you and your colleagues can do to prevent these madmen turning us into a pale imitation of North Korea with their socialist policies would be warmly welcomed.
Ann Shaw, leader of the Liberal run Rickmansworth Council, referring to Dr Steven Halls, Chief Executive of the Council who is retaining his £116,000 salary, despite cutting down his working week from 5 to 4 days so that he can improve his “work-life balance” and so that he may “indulge in his love of music”.
“It’s about work-life balance. He has other outside interests that he wants to indulge in………I think it’s important for the top men to be well rounded and not just glued to spreadsheets….I actually feel we should be paying him more at the moment…”
Comment: From Bert the mechanic, who services some of our cars: “ I work five and a half to six days a week and I don’t get the chance to get the ********* work-life balance I would like. If I was earning £116,000 a year for a five day week, I’d be happy as a****** pig in a mudbath and bugger “indulging in my love of music (Cajun’s what I like)”.
Jim Knight, Schools Minister: commenting upon the proposal that children should be taught about the contribution Muslims have made to civilization.
Pupils “need positive images of Islam”
Comment: All in favour. Islam did indeed have a golden period of discovery in scientific, medical and cultural matters.
May we also ask, terribly politely, if teachers could also encourage pupils to have a positive view of Christianity and be taught to have pride in our own wonderful history instead of what seems like permanent apology for everything we have ever done?
Our beloved Dear Leader-Gordon “Gimmee the money” Brown.
Commenting on his brilliant policy to get us out of the current financial mess (largely Brown induced). Public borrowing set to hit £100 Million, so what does he suggest?
Spending on big projects and public services will not be cut back…..He would spend to get the economy moving.
Comment: What an interesting economic theory! Holes and digging deeper rather spring to mind. Do you ever feel that you have stumbled through the looking glass into a surreal Alice in Wonderland world where reality no longer exists?
“The Raised Magician”
How the French press described Gordon Brown, a man back from the dead in their terms.
Comment: Well, if he is spending taxpayers money and nationalising banks of course he looks happy. He is an unreconstructed socialist underneath the blather.
Andrew Gimson in The Times, referring to GB turning up at the EU meeting in Paris on 11th October:
“Some of the older Europeans would rather see a British Prime Minister who conducted himself like a gentleman, not one who blew in for an hour or two to tell them that he knows better than they do what needs to be done.”
Comment: None. Mr Gimson does it better than we can.
Hazel Blears, The Cabinet’s pet merry elf, commenting on the effect that the expected mass unemployment, expected to exceed 2 million soon, will have on us all:
She is concerned that the economic turmoil could undermine “the sense of solidarity, everyone looking out for each other.”
Comment: So which planet exactly do you dwell on, Hazel, dear? The Cabinet give us the best example going of everyone looking after themselves. Why, you even have Baron Mandelson of Rio there now, who is not unknown to turn his situation to advantage.
Mr John Wood, commenting upon the death of his wife from MRSA during a hospital stay and who sent a letter to his constituency MP, David Cameron, who described Mrs Wood’s treatment as “dreadful and degrading”.
Mr Wood himself said that her treatment was:
“like something out of a 17th century asylum, not a 21st century £90 Billion health service”
Comment: What adds considerable insult to Mr Wood’s injury is that when David Cameron sent the letter to Alan Johnson, the then Health Secretary, he received a typically bureaucratic reply, which outlined four different stages of the NHS complaints procedure.
We commend Mr Cameron’s response:
“Four ways to complain but not one way for my constituent’s wife to die with dignity. We need to change that”.
Keep it up, Mr C. We are warming to you.
Mick Hume, in the Thunderer column of The Times, talking about the images of diseased lungs, corpses and rotten teeth now being used on cigarette packets:
…”Horror porn for prigs…..The priests of the new conformism are singing from the same hymn sheet and their public health information campaigns sound like exercises in abuse of the public.”
“Lets show them pictures-they must be too thick to read.”,
Comment: A much needed slap across the wrist if not even perhaps a knee in the groin from an admired columnist for the health police who treat us all like dolts.
J.S.Mill in “On Liberty” quoted by Mr Hume in article above:
As Mr Hume says, Mill was taking a stand not only for freedom of thought and speech but also for:
“liberty of tastes and pursuits…of doing as we like subject to such consequences as may follow without impediment from our fellow creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct foolish, perverse or wrong”.
Comment: That piece should be written out 100 times by every interfering, nanny state bureaucrat who tries to lecture us and control our lives. In extremis, it should be tattooed upon their posteriors if they persist in their interference.
Which? Testers, reporting on testing a £1,500 wind turbine that used up more electricity than it generated.
“We can’t recommend any domestic wind turbine if you live in a built up environment of any sort. It really isn’t worth the money”.
Comment: Thank you, Which?, for those wise words. Perhaps we will hear a little less rubbish now from those windy fanatics that want us all to rely on wind power.
An unnamed EU official in a briefing paper entitled “ Solution to the Irish Problem”.
"…..Ireland should be pressurised into holding a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in autumn 2009. The paper predicts that Ireland will cave in at the Brussels summit in October."
Comment: Whatever you do, Ireland, don’t let them bully you. You are our only hope until we manage to get rid of the present bunch of Europhiles, who are trying to drag us against our will into a European Constitution and start fighting for the UK again.
Alain Lamassoure: A French MEP and aide to President Sarkozy; commenting upon the Irish “No” vote.
He is quoted in the Irish Times as saying that: " the longer a second Irish referendum is delayed, the greater the likelihood of the Treaty being scuppered by the Conservatives….."
Comment: Delay away please, all our friends in Ireland.
Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister to Diddy Davey Miliband, our pretend foreign secretary who was expressing the EU’s (note carefully! Not the UK’s) anger at the Georgian invasion:
“Who the F---- are you to lecture me?”
Comment: Well said, Tovarich! We find the little twit insufferable too. Mr Lavrov found Miliband Minor’s tone condescending. We can sympathise. And just why was he putting forward the EU’s case? He should be speaking for the UK-providing he can remember to pronounce his “Ts” that is. Could we please get rid of this joke and have a proper statesman to speak up for us again please?
Chris Huhne. Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman. Commenting on the extraordinary 3,605 new criminal offences created by Labour since 1997 (almost one for every day in Government);
“In what conceivable way can the introduction of a new criminal offence every day help tackle crime when most crimes that people care about have been illegal for years?”
Comment: Well said, Chris! This useless bunch are never happier than when producing new restrictions and new sins. It distracts them, you know, from worrying about what they should be doing; controlling real crime.
Michael Saunders, Chief European Economist at Citigroup: Commenting upon the fact that Gordon “Gimme the money” Brown is heading for a £90 Billion budget deficit, having been repeatedly warned by the IMF and OECD to cut back borrowing.
He said that Britain now had the worst structural deficit of the leading industrial economies and…”I expect the Government to borrow £70 Billion next year, with this climbing to £90 Billion in 2010”
Comment: Can we really afford to leave this profligate waster of our money, and his useless hangers-on, in post just to suit the machinations of the Socialists, who do not want to loose their seats in the slaughter of a general election? The troughs to which they have access are far too attractive to have to face a return to earning a wage in the real world like the rest of us. He should go now before he damages us even further.
Ashish Joshi, The Chairman of the Network of Sikh Organisations media monitoring group. Commenting on what is perceived as BBC pandering to Britain’s Muslims:
“The bias towards Islam at the expense of Hindus and particularly Sikhs is overwhelming”.
Comment: Mr Joshi may have a point. He claims that since 2001 the BBC Religious Department have made 41 programmes on Islam, 5 on Hinduism and only 1 on Sikhism.
A Liverpool City Council Spokesman” commenting upon the payment of £500,000 golden handshake to the departing director of finance, taking early retirement at 50 from one of the worst performing councils in Britain. The city’s finances are £20 Million in the red after overspending on their European Capital of Culture bid:
“We do not discuss matters involving individual members of staff”
Oh why not, Pray? Who made that rule up and with what authority? If we were Liverpool council tax payers we would firmly insist that you discussed spending our money this way, Wack, possibly with a boot up your jacksie!
Miss Eva-Brit Svensson. EU Women’s Rights committee: Commenting upon her committee’s proposal to ban, throughout the EU, any ad to be banned “which promotes women as sex objects or reinforces gender stereotypes”. No M & S lingerie advertisements allowed then. No David Beckham with his six pack.
“Gender stereotyping in advertising straightjackets women, men, girls and boys by restricting individuals to predetermined and artificial roles that are often degrading, humiliating and dumbed down for both sexes”
Absolutely no comment at all. It would be superfluous!
Miss Eva Herzigova:
“Hello Boys!”
Campbell Dunford of the Renewable Energy Foundation: referring to the very real likelihood of blackouts due to Government dithering over the provision of new power stations, EU “Environmental”restrictions on coal powered stations and the consequent short supply:
“If we pull our fingers out now we can limit blackouts but it’s going to be pretty grim whatever happens”.
Comment: This Socialist Government, that has so failed us on so many fronts, will carry a huge responsibility for fiddling about with windmills, avoiding any decision on nuclear power and generally dithering, while they placated Green lobbyists. They will be remembered for this disastrous neglect of the country’s interests for many years to come.
Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat campaign Chief, referring to proposed £20 Billion worth of spending cuts proposed in Government expenditure:
“We will go into the next election with not just tax cuts for people on low and middle incomes but net tax cuts overall and that is a big shift in the party”.
That’s what we all want to hear! And from the Lib Dems too. Whatever happened to the self flagellation, the hair shirts and the edible sandals? So your response, Mr Cameron is…….
Charles Clarke, former Home Secretary, commenting upon our Glorious Leader’s stewardship of the country:
Labour is heading for “utter destruction” at the next election. He (C Clarke) would “not permit” the Prime Minister to lead the party to a catastrophic defeat.
Thank goodness that Cow Pie has fortified the Desperate Dan of the Labour party to come to the rescue. We can all rest safe in our beds now.
Janet Daley: Writing in the Daily Telegraph about Sarah Palin, the previously unknown Alaska Governor, who has, since Mrs Daley’s piece went to press, electrified the American election campaign with a barnstorming speech at the Republican convention:
“John McCains running mate is an ordinary woman who truly represents her supporters-no wonder the liberal elite is so worried……Like Margeret Thatcher before her, Mrs Palin is coming in for both barrels of Left-wing contempt: misogyny and snobbery”.
Well said, Janet. Any chance we could borrow her over here for a bit? Mrs Palin offers just the sort of gutsy stuff that we like to hear. Perhaps Mr Cameron should get himself a bearskin rug for a start.
John Williams: Tower Hamlets’ Head of Democratic Services (!) in an e-mail to non-Muslim Councillors asking them not to eat or drink in committee meetings while Muslims fast during Ramadan. No tea and biscuits for them, then.
“It is requested that members do not partake of any refreshments until after the Iftar (special Muslim snacks) are served”
Dominic Grieve. Shadow Home Secretary. Commenting on Jacqui Smith’s dangerous plan to recruit thousands of “Accredited Persons” from town halls and elsewhere with powers to hand out fixed penalty notices.
“ The public will be angered that the Home Office is seeking to take serious powers that should be applied by the police and encouraging them to be given not just to local councils but also to private firms. The public want to see real police on the streets.”
Professor Paul Goddard, former President of the Royal Society of Medicine, commenting upon Labour’s handling of the NHS:
He accused the Government of leading the NHS into “catastrophic meltdown”.
He said Labour’s obsession with bureaucracy and political correctness had resulted in dire care for patients.
Money saving practices had contributed greatly to the rise of superbugs killing patients on hospital wards.
He felt the most effective way he could challenge the “shocking incompetence” and mess of the NHS was to speak out.
Commenting upon the Russian Invasion of Georgia....Foreign Secretary Milliband Minor (in really threatening mode):
“The politics of this needs to play out in the medium term”.
David Cameron (Joint statement with Prime Minister of Czech Republic):
“Russia’s behaviour cannot be condoned or excused……Such a doctrine cannot be allowed to stand.”
Dr Eamonn Butler, The Adam Smith Institute:
“The government says that the economy is suffering from the effects of global pressures. Actually, it's suffering from ten years of Gordon Brown's economic policy”