Slimy Bastards All Over The World

Repugnant Bumptious Swindlers

2009-10-19T19:00:00.001+01:00

The Royal Bank of Scotland, which was bailed out with over £20 billion of tax-payers money just 12 months ago, has set aside £2bn of your money for bonuses and salaries to its investment banking staff – a figure that could, quite incredibly, double by the end of the year.

The bailed out, failed and government-owned RBS confirmed that it will be offering huge bonuses to its 20,000 investment bankers this year.

The remuneration bill for RBS' investment bank division reached £1.8bn for just the first six months of 2009 – that's £90,000 per head ... for only 6 months "work"! And the final total for the year will rise substantially.

Such sums being set aside for RBS investment bankers are astounding, particularly as this division sparked the crisis inside the bank.

Rob MacGregor, national officer for Unite, said: "These RBS investment bankers are happy to return to business as usual and line their pockets while thousands of real bank staff pay the price for the reckless behaviour which almost destroyed the company. Thousands have lost their jobs this year as RBS seeks to reduce costs. Yet somehow the kitty for City bankers is forever growing."

How right he is. Indeed, the company would have collapsed if us tax-payers had not coughed up £18,000 each to bail them out.

Any decision on bonuses will have to involve UKFI, the sham body Moron set up to look after the government's 70% stake in RBS and 43% in Lloyds. UKFI, which declined to comment, did manage to limit one-of bonus payments last year but presided over a total of £1bn in deferred payments and new-style bonds and approved Stephen Hester's £9m annual pay deal as chief executive of RBS.

Hester has already defended the need to pay big bonuses and has spear-headed an aggressive hiring policy with massive pay packages in an "attempt to entice the highest calibre bankers to its troubled business". One banker from Merrill Lynch is among those to have been lured by multi-million pound signing-on fees and has been paid £7m of your money just to join the bank you own.

While the banking industry was on the brink of collapse a year ago, those banks which have survived have been able to report stellar profits because of the billions of pounds' worth of bonds issued by governments to pay for their own bailouts, as well as the surging stock market.

Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman, said: "This government has granted a goldmine to a few investment banks. They've bailed them out and effectively pulled the plug on the competition."

The only reasonable conclusion is that these greedy investment bankers have learnt absolutely nothing from the financial meltdown and have the government fawning at their feet. The actions of these top bankers brought catastrophe to our economic system, yet they continue to be obscenely rewarded.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others

2009-08-05T04:31:00.001+01:00

The Vile Master Criminal and ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair spent this summer on the world's second largest yacht in Sardinia. He and his family joined Larry Ellison aboard his $150m superyacht.

Ellison is the world's fourth richest man and the CEO of Oracle, the world's largest software company. The yacht, named the Rising Sun has five decks, a gym, spa and private cinema.

After enjoying the luxurious surroundings the Vile Master Criminal then jetted off in an equally impressive speed boat with his minders (paid by the British taxpayer) for some time ashore.

Yesterday the boat was seen cruising off the Emerald Coast in Sardinia.

So much for Socialism.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Empire Of Lies

2009-08-05T01:10:00.001+01:00

Britain’s biggest supermarket chain has lied yet again, publishing misleading figures to give the impression that it had met an industry target to halve the use of plastic bags. The Tesco Empire of Evil claims to be one of the greenest retailers but they missed the target and actively tried to conceal the fact.

Most plastic bags end up in landfill sites where can take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Supermarkets issue more than 4,700 tonnes of plastic bags every single month and most are used only once.

Seven supermarket chains - Empire of Evil, Asda, Sainsbury, Co-op, Marks & Spencer, Somerfield and Waitrose - signed an agreement committing them to cut the number of bags by 50 per cent over the three years to May 2009. This month they reported, via the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), the independent waste watchdog, that they had not met the target. But collectively, they achieved a 48 per cent reduction from 870 million bags in May 2006 to 450 million in May 2009, which is not a bad effort.

However, the six excluding Tesco had more than accomplished their goal because it turns out that the Empire's reduction had been significantly less than 50 per cent despite the fact that they issued a statement on their website on the same day saying “Our customers are now using more than 50 per cent fewer carrier bags than they did before.” A blatant lie that Tesco had to admit when questioned, revealing that its figure had been adjusted to account for growth in sales and did not reflect the chain’s actual performance.

A senior source at Tesco said that "the company was concerned about negative publicity if it were to reveal the real number" so it would not be publishing the actual number of bags used and would not be revealing by how much that number had declined.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

No Pit Closures In Westminster

2009-08-05T00:38:00.001+01:00

When appointed, the new Commons' Speaker John Bercow, aptly pronouced Berk-oh, promised to help restore public trust in Parliament in the wake of the MPs’ expenses scandal, and said he would lead by example and stop claiming the controversial second home allowance.

But within just a few weeks of being elected to his new position, he has ordered a series of alterations, redecoration and new furnishings for his grace-in-favour, rent-free home in the Palace of Westminster costing more than £20,000. The work will, of course, be paid for by the taxpayer.
The refurbishment plans for the Speaker’s House (published by The Daily Telegraph) show that £7,524.30 has been spent on just a new sofa and window seat cushions for his drawing room in the grandiose apartment which overlooks the Thames.

Michael Martin, Berk-oh's predecessor as Speaker, already spent more than a staggering £1.7m refurbishing the very same residence between 2001 and early 2008.

Berk-oh, the Conservative MP for Buckingham, vowed to be a modernising influence on Parliament and during his campaign he said “It is high time the House was run by professionals on a transparent basis, ensuring that we are accountable to the people who put us here.” After his installation he declared he would stop claiming the second home allowance, which is worth up to £24,006 to MPs this year.

Frankly, that's a pretty shallow statement when you are provided with a free, central London, Charles Barry-designed apartment that contains a state dining room and is in the shadow of Big Ben, for which you have a bottomless pit of taxpayers cash from which you immediately pillage over twenty grand for alterations and designer furniture!

Incredibly, a further £20,000 has been allocated to cover 'general maintenance'. Berk-oh has told Commons staff that he will personally pay for other items such as a children’s Wendy house that will go on the terrace, a climbing frame for the Speaker’s Green adjacent to the apartment and that he has spent far less than his predecessor. Oh, well that's OK then!

Incidentally, Berk-oh still owns a flat in a block nearby which he bought six years ago and on which he was expensing £1,050 per month in mortgage interest payments until his appointment as Speaker. He is also one of the MPs who abused the system to avoid Capital Gains Tax on the sale of two properties and claimed for an accountant to help fill in his tax return.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Tackling Obesity

2009-07-30T00:42:00.001+01:00

In 1997, the Vile Master Criminal and Gordon is a Moron pledged they would protect green spaces and bring the then Conservative government's "policy of forcing schools to sell off playing fields to an end."

Since then, documents published in the Commons Library show that 203 school playing fields have been sold off in England and Wales under the present government, with ministers approving 49 sales in just the last four years, ironically since London became the host city for the 2012 Olympics.

Nothing like keeping a promise is there?

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Just What Will It Take?

2009-05-13T20:55:00.001+01:00

Moron's new scheme to fast-track 200 high-flying graduates into social work to tackle a severe shortage of social workers has been dismissed as “tinkering” by senior professionals. They say the plan which is supposed to protect vulnerable children such as Baby P is an inadequate response to the child protection crisis.

The scheme, along with a recruitment drive to lure back thousands of experienced social workers who have left the profession, will be introduced without any move to increase pay. Social workers’ salaries lag behind other professions such as nursing. Ministers also made clear there was no more money for child protection services, although £58 million was being spent on the recruitment drive.

One in seven social work posts is vacant in England, a 30 per cent rise since 2005, with local authorities saying the Baby P tragedy had made the situation even worse. The plan is part of the government’s response to Lord Laming’s report into child protection after the death of Baby P.

The 17-month-old toddler was seen on 60 separate occasions by social workers and other professionals before he died of his injuries in August 2007. His mother, her boyfriend and a lodger will be sentenced for causing or allowing his death later this month. Last week the boyfriend was convicted of raping a two-year-old girl.

Lord Laming said too many social workers were ill equipped for the challenges of frontline child protection work and those most senior and experienced are removed from the field by progression into management. Although entry-level salaries for social workers are similar to those of nurses and teachers, they have to become managers if they want to earn more than £29,000. Yet a teacher can still be in the classroom and earn as much as £55,000, while a nurse can earn up to £40,000 and still care for patients.

Ed Balls-up, the Children’s Secretary, said that he would not "meddle with social workers’ salaries". Staff have just been offered a 0.4 per cent increase for next year. Any extra money for child protection services would be a matter for the next spending round in 2011, he added. Lord Laming’s recommendation that budgets for child protection should be ring-fenced, like those for schools, has thus far been ignored.

Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder of the children’s charity Kids Company, said that the reforms did not address the real problem, that social work was often a dangerous job and caseloads were too high. “The fact is that social workers cannot cope with the sheer workload of the children and the complex cases that are emerging. Social workers are walking into estates having to negotiate aggressive dogs, weapons and very, very difficult working circumstances,” she said. “It just feels like the Government has no understanding.” Kim Bromley-Derry, president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, said “It is disappointing that Lord Laming’s recommendation that government provides sufficient funding for child protection in frontline agencies has not resulted in an increase in the basic funding of such services.”

Frontline social workers were also disappointed that their key request that a limit be applied to the number of caseloads they should be given has been ignored. Let's not lose sight of the fact that an infant was tortured to death, and there are many more suffering. I'm afraid the government has once again engaged itself in gesture politics that lack substance, thought and vision. Nobody believes this plan will solve anything at all, I don't even think the government believe it will. They are introducing yet more targets and all agree that, too often, government targets increase red tape and divert resources from the front line. These reforms are surely back to front. How can ministers hope to entice more social workers back into the profession unless they fix the problems that originally drove them out?

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Gordon is ...

2009-05-07T04:19:00.001+01:00

This is not my story, in fact it is not a story, but it's and amusing item unearthed by one of my readers ... kudos Bipher!

Google recently introduced “predictive search” based upon that which most other people have previously searched. These days, when you start entering search terms in to Google, a few suggestions pop up as you type. Typing "gordon brown is a" generates the following auto-completion options ... try it for yourself. No more need be said.

Financial Prostitution

2009-05-04T22:53:00.001+01:00

Links between the Government and the banking sector have been condemned in a new report that has uncovered the extent of the old boys network at the top of British public life.

According to the study, which identified key individuals who have moved jobs between politics, financial institutions and the bodies charged with regulating the banking industry, Britain has a greater culture of cronyism than anywhere in Europe or even the USA. The report is to be presented to the Global Forum on Public Governance in Paris this week and warns that the close relations between business and politics "lead to a conflict of interest at best and a suspension of critical faculties at worst".

The research looked at revolving door connections, where a company employs former or current politicians, civil servants or members of regulatory bodies, or where individuals move from the financial sector into politics, Government or regulatory bodies. Bastardlays was the most connected British-based company with 14 revolving door connections. Two examples from the dictator-supporting tax-dodgers are Mark Clarke and Sarah Cox. Clarke is director general of finance at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, but worked at Barclays from 2000 to 2003. Cox was an international consultant at Barclays from 2001 to 2004 and has since joined the UK Cabinet Office.

"The Government and the political classes have very close links to the banking industry" said the report's author David Miller, a Professor of Sociology at Strathclyde University, who specialises in lobbying research. "I believe this could be one of the factors behind the disaster that has befallen the financial markets. There has not been any regulation of these connections."

The organisations with more than five revolving door connections are Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS / Lloyds Group, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dexia Group, HSBC Holdings, JP Morgan Chase, Standard Chartered Bank and UBS. Of six individuals with RBS connections, one is Quentin Davies, a Labour MP and minister at the Ministry of Defence, who was an RBS adviser until 2003. Another is Sir Philip Hampton, RBS's chairman and former chief executive of the Government-owned UK Financial Investments (UKFI).

Perhaps the best known person with HBOS connections named in the report is Sir James Crosby, who was chief executive of the bank from 2001 to 2006 before leaving to become deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the body supposedly regulating the financial sector.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Lies, Damn Lies And The Labour Party

2009-05-03T19:14:00.001+01:00

Let's rack up just some of the lies that the Labour Party have spouted in the last couple of weeks:

Income Tax. This government made an election manifesto pledge that they would not raise income tax. Well, we know that Moron's government have broken that promise for top earners but it's less publicised that they have also raised the bottom rate of income tax.

Big Sister. Earlier this week, the home secretary Jacqui Porn Queen Smith announced that she was ditching controversial plans for a single “big brother” database to centrally store all communications data in Britain. This was a plan to monitor all internet use and telephone calls across the country but Porn Queen announced “the government recognised the privacy implications of the move [and] therefore does not propose to pursue this.” In a move designed simply to grab favourable headlines, she added that £2 billion of public money would instead be spent helping private internet and telephone companies to retain information for up to 12 months in separate databases. However, she was, of course, lying through her teeth. GCHQ is pursuing its MTI (Mastering The Internet) programme, developing classified technology to intercept and monitor all e-mails, website visits and social networking sessions in Britain. The agency will also be able to track telephone calls made over the internet, as well as all phone calls to landlines and mobiles. The snooping project will rely on thousands of 'black box' probes being covertly inserted across online infrastructure and is costing more than £1 billion.

Public accountability. As if the ignominy of be ripped off by the trough-swilling Westminster gluttons wasn't bad enough, having been promised full disclosure by Moron, we now learn that the House of Commons fees office is censoring some of the most important details of MP's expenses prior to publication this summer. Among the information being blanked out are the names of hotels on trips, the destinations of taxis, names of shops and any correspondence with parliamentary officials. The extent of the cuts has surprised some MPs who favour greater disclosure. Ben Wallace, the Conservative backbencher who was the first MP to publish full details of his claims, said: “It’s just ridiculous. They sent me details of a taxi journey I had made from Euston station to parliament and they had redacted the details of the journey. They have also removed the names of some suppliers I have bought goods from. I have written to them saying there is no reason the public cannot be given this information.” I guess we should be grateful that at least there is some integrity floating around Westminster.

MP's expenses. Where to start with this topic? How about Moron's bizarre appearance on YouTube, during which he blatantly lied through his forced, fake and spine-shuddering 'smile'. He claimed that he was introducing a plan that would reduce the total exposure to the tax-payer. However, his daily rate plan would have cost us all more than the incredulous £93 million that we forked out last year. Thankfully, his back-benchers realised that their jobs were at stake and blocked the proposal. How about Jim Devine, MP for Livingston, who has claimed £17,000 in "car and mileage" costs? It transpires that his office manager was the one driving Devine around his constituency in her own vehicle at her own expense. Presumably he re-paid the £17,000 of our money to her? No, Marion Kinley "received only £60." Then there's Labour peer Baroness Uddin who named a flat in Maidstone as her main residence and claimed around £100,000 in Parliamentary expenses for it. This is despite the flat being empty and Baroness Uddin living in Wapping, just four miles from the House of Lords. Lest we forget the Labour MP who claimed the cost of building a sauna on his second home allowance, insisting that a skin condition made it necessary for him to have regular sessions at his home. Now we learn that David Miliband is renting a private jet. Ministerial code states that scheduled flights should be used wherever possible so why does he need a private jet permanently on standby. The tender states "must provide a first class service and be able to provide an aircraft sometimes within a few hours' notice" to destination such as "Europe, Sri Lanka and the USA". I guess you can't get scheduled flights to these destinations then.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Moron Waves His Moral Standard

2009-02-08T01:11:00.001Z

This week the Royal Bank of Scotland, which took £20 billion of taxpayer's money in the bank bailout, made clear its intention to pay staff almost £1 billion in bonuses. Furthermore, the 'financial expert' who has been appointed to supposedly protect taxpayers’ money in Britain’s bailed-out banks is a former trustee of a secretive Liechtenstein bank that facilitated massive tax evasion.

Glen Moreno, who chairs the body that oversees the government’s £37 billion shareholding in the banks, trousered hundreds of thousands of pounds during a nine-year association with the private bank Liechtenstein Global Trust (LGT).

Moreno has been appointed by Puppet Darling as acting chairman of UK Financial Investments (UKFI), which manages the government’s stakes in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group. UKFI is also expected to take over the government’s interests in Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley.

This appointment is supposed to demonstrate the government is serious about protecting taxpayers’ interests.

LGT was specifically named and shamed by Barry the Fake Obama when he was a senator and only last week, Gordon is a Moron criticised offshore tax havens and called for international action to stamp out tax evasion. “Advising the rich to exploit tax loopholes is unpatriotic”, he said.

Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman said yesterday that Moreno’s involvement in LGT raised serious doubts about whether he was fit for the job stating “If this had been the US, he would not have survived the scrutiny process for senior figures who are given public appointments. It speaks volumes about this government’s priorities.” Graham Brady, Conservative member of the Treasury select committee, added “UKFI is responsible for managing the taxpayers’ massive holdings in British banks. It is important that its senior management should have the highest ethical standards.”

LGT became the subject of international scandal last year when a former employee blew the whistle on its dubious practices and passed the financial details of thousands of clients to the German tax authorities. HM Revenue & Customs is reported to have paid £100,000 for the information and said on Friday that it was investigating about 150 British clients of LGT.

The government's press release announcing his appointment detailed his past achievements but found no room to mention his post in LGT.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Farewell Chimpy McSmirker

2009-01-15T00:00:00.001Z

What on earth will we do for amusement come the 20th of January when Chimpy stands down?

Taking about himself:
"They misunderestimated me." 6 November, 2000
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." 17 September, 2002
"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead." 11 May, 2001
"I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today. He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me." 27 May, 2004

On Foreign Affairs:
"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times." 18 February, 2002
"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorise himself." 29 January, 2003
"I think war is a dangerous place." 7 May, 2003
"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." 27 October, 2003
"Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat." 17 September, 2004
"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." 6 September, 2006

On Education:
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" 11 January, 2000
"Reading is the basics for all learning." 28 March, 2000
"As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards." 30 August, 2000
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.'' 21 February, 2001

Economic Policy
"I understand small business growth. I was one." 19 February, 2000
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." 5 May, 2000
"I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine Labour Secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified." 8 January, 2001
"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill." 19 May, 2003

Health Care:
"I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs." 12 September, 2000
"Too many good Docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country." 6 September, 2004

Technology:
"Will the highways on the internet become more few?" 29 January, 2000
"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber." 10 April, 2002
"Information is moving. You know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets." 2 May, 2007

Uncategorizableable:
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." 29 September, 2000
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." 18 October, 2000
"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law." 28 November, 2005
"That's George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three - three or four books about him last year. Isn't that interesting?" 5 May, 2006

Governance:
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together." 18 August, 2000
"I'm the decider, and I decide what is best." 18 April, 2006
"And truth of the matter is, a lot of reports in Washington are never read by anybody. To show you how important this one is, I read it, and Tony Blair read it." 7 December, 2006 (Baker-Hamilton Report)
"All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone." 25 October, 2007
"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." 12 May, 2008

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Questionable Speaking

2008-12-03T00:59:00.001Z

Historically it has been the Speaker's duty to defend the rights and liberties of MPs against the constant encroachment of the executive, recently embodied by an increasingly assertive prime minister's office with its baronies in the ministerial departments.

The Speaker had every reason and right to question the police and behind them, the Home Office, about their intention to search Damian Green's files and computers. Whatever their reasons for doing so, they should have been required to explain themselves. But there was no questioning, the door was opened and the posse waved through.

This was an unquestionably political move and one in a long series of shadowy episodes involving Michael Martin. Beginning with his election to the Speakership in October 2000 and against hundreds of years of precedent, he was proposed and seconded from one side of the House. What was supposed to be a free vote might as well have been organised by the Labour whips, as it most certainly was, leaving other and better candidates without a chance.

The Speaker's record since has been nothing short of lamentable: He has certainly not been bipartisan; Long serving and devoted staff have been let go for no apparent reason; He has resisted reform; His own expense claims have put him in the headlines for all the wrong reasons: He spent thousands of pounds of public money on legal counsel in the vain, self-serving attempt to prevent the publication of MPs' expenses; He was a leading figure in the removal from office of Elizabeth Filkin, the parliamentary commissioner for standards who made senior MPs uncomfortable by just doing her job.

Martin has not graced his office. He could have made a difference but, alas, he chose to occupy a space.

Today he has an opportunity to announce his departure and he should grab it with both hands. There are plenty of superior candidates available, including Sir George Young and, my personal favourite, Sir Menzies Campbell.

I fear that Martin lacks the class to bow out with whatever small dignity he might be able to muster. The likelihood is he will cling on to his undeserved office and leave it to Glasgow North East to decide. Remeber that Martin is an MP first and Speaker second.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

The Moron Factor

2008-11-28T11:49:00.001Z

It seems Prime Minister Gordon Brown has more important things to do than concern himself with the biggest financial crisis in 80 years. Gordon is a Moron has found the time to fire off no fewer than 12 letters to contestants during the current series of The X Factor, urging them to rebel against Simon Cowell.

Yesterday, Spanish finalist Ruth Lorenzo revealed that Moron praised her for ignoring Cowell’s instructions to sing in her native language. Apparently he wrote "Keep singing in English, girl. You’re doing a great job! Going against Simon." Another contestant, Daniel Evans, also revealed he had received a motivational note that read “Can I say that the next time Simon says that you are only supported by the over 60s, you can tell him that my wife Sarah and I disagree.”

Surely, Moron has better things to do with his time.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

The True Cost Of Power

2008-11-05T00:21:00.001Z

We're on the verge of an historical American Presidential election but take a look at the staggering cost of this election ... McCain and Obama had raised a combined total of $961m by the end of September. Obama alone had spent nearly $650m.

According to the Centre for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based organisation that tracks political fundraising, the total cost of this Presidential race could be as much as $2.4bn. The group has calculated that the US elections as a whole could cost $5.3bn when combining the candidates' fundraising with the cost of the congressional election campaigns.

Evan Tracey, president of the Campaign Media Analysis Group which monitors spending on advertising, said Obama was close to saturation point: "There is, in essence, no limit to what Obama can do. He has the lion's share of spending. He has more money than TV space to buy." Since September Obama has bought 330,000 adverts in all the battleground states compared with 100,000 by McCain.

Throughout his political career Barry The Fake Obama has seen spending power as key to victory and in September alone he spent $97m, including $1.2m on credit card fees.

Credit crunch anyone?

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Misappropriation

2008-10-25T01:15:00.001+01:00

Firstly, let me apologise for my long absence. A good deal of which was somewhat beyond my control and involved a point of principal. Suffice to say, these texts survive and I will not be bullied by any empire, however evil ... enough said.

Recent events have seen the likes of Bastardlays and their cohorts taking billions of tax-payers' dollars and pounds to bail themselves out of their own mire. Bastardlays incidentally reported profits of £2.75bn for the first half of 2008. Poor, poor Bastardlays. Quick! Throw them a rope! With any luck the whole lot will hang themsleves with it.

During this whole debacle, you may be forgiven for asking where on earth the Financial Services Authority have been. I have previously written about the FSA's woeful performance (Northern Rock, John Tiner) and all their new chief executive, Hector Sants, has been able to come up with is a statement of regret that the regulator "did not do enough". An understatement if ever there was.

So, our governments have taken billions of our pounds, dollars and various other currencies - money that was apparently not available to fight disease, poverty, injustice, pollution or child abuse - and handed it to the very people responsible for the financial crisis. Of course, there are strict conditions around these bail-outs such as the banks being required to free up lending in support of small businesses and individuals, as is perfectly demonstrated by the fact that the US-based PNC Financial Services Group is using $5.6bn of its bail-out funds to buy its rival National City Bank.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Tesco Pass Their Use-By Date

2008-01-24T20:59:00.000Z

Finally, someone has had the guts to stand up to the Empire of Evil. Having failed in their usual approach of bribery, lies and bullying, Tesco have been successfully prosecuted for selling out-of-date food.

Unfortunately the bravery ran dry as Abergavenny magistrates only fined the Empire a pathetic and inconsequential £53,000 including costs, after an investigation found five south Wales stores were selling out-of-date food. The supermarket chain admitted 25 charges.

Trading standards officers visited five Tesco stores in and around Newport where over 25% of the food they were sold presented a public health risk. The district Judge said the Empire of Evil was guilty of "systematic failure".

The local council's executive member for planning and public protection said "The offence of selling food after its use by date is there to protect public health. The various items of food purchased from Tesco had the potential to cause serious harm to anyone who consumed them." After the case the Empire of Evil spouted the usual pack of lies saying "this is very unusual as our stores take part in daily audits to prevent any out-of-date food being left on shelves." They then scuttled off sniggering at the paltry fine which represents less than 0.000177% of their annual turnover.

So, if you would like to avoid rancid, bug-ridden, re-packaged and rotting produce, take your business elsewhere. Alternatively, if you believe that it was just a fluke that on a random day a quarter of the food purchased by TSO officers was a public health risk, keep shopping at Tesco.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

The Mounting Cost Of Labour's Privatisations

2008-01-15T00:34:00.000Z

The Department of Health made a scapegoat of a top statistician who raised the alarm with senior officials about yet another of Labour's hopeless privatisations.

Professor Denise Lievesley, former chief executive of the Information Centre, the NHS’s data factory, says she consistently highlighted concerns about the joint venture’s worth and its handling of information. Professor Lievesley’s claims are the latest in a series of questions raised about this particular joint venture, known as Dr Foster Intelligence, which a committee of MPs last year said had been set up in a “backroom deal” at a cost of £12m to the taxpayer.

Professor Lievesley, a former Royal Statistical Society president, claims the health department made her a scapegoat for the deal. Lievesley said she had “consistently complained about the joint venture and its operation” throughout her two-year tenure at the Information Centre. Professor Lievesley went on to say she felt she had no alternative in January 2006 but to sign off on the creation of Dr Foster Intelligence, as talks on it were too far advanced by the time she arrived at the centre in July 2005. She claims she helped the public sector secure better terms for the joint venture, which is equally owned by the Information Centre and Dr Foster LLP, a private health data company.

Lievesley, who was a non-executive board member of Dr Foster Intelligence, says some data processed by the joint venture was not, in her view, “fit for purpose”. She described an incident last year in which the joint venture included invalid hospital data on a prototype website, creating “grave” potential to mislead the public. She says she highlighted a “wholly inappropriate use of statistics" in letters to senior officials including David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS.

Dr Foster hit back at the allegations, saying its data was of a high standard and did not mislead the public. The company said: “We understand Lievesley is in dispute with her former employers but do not know the details. We have not seen this affidavit, but we refute the criticisms that appear to have been made.”

The Dr Foster deal first came under fire in a National Audit Office report in February last year, which rebuked the health department for failing to follow a proper tendering process and for paying too much for its half of the joint venture. In July, the Commons public accounts committee unveiled a stinging report on the deal, in which the Information Centre paid £7.6m to Dr Foster LLP and sank another £4.4m into the joint venture company.

Professor Lievesley has gone to the employment tribunal to try to revoke a confidential deal under which she received a pay-off in exchange for her silence about the circumstances surrounding her departure from the Information Centre in July. She says the agreement was unfair as the health department failed to point out in public that her exit was unconnected with the criticism of the Dr Foster deal made in the Commons public accounts committee report a few weeks later. Her affidavit says: “It is ironic that my reputation should have been sullied when I was actually trying to promote the principles of proper and ethical access to information.”

The Department of Health said it had sought and followed legal and professional advice during the creation of the venture. It declined to comment on the claim it had made Professor Lievesley a scapegoat, saying it could not speak about an ongoing case.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

American Prison Camps On The Way

2007-12-31T19:49:00.000Z

Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Chimpy McSmirker's "unlawful enemy combatants." Americans are certain to be among them.

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush administration since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Because the bill was adopted with lightning speed, barely anyone noticed that it empowers Chimpy and Dr Evil to declare aliens and US citizens alike as unlawful enemy combatants. McSmirker, Evil & Co have portrayed the bill as a tough way to deal with aliens to protect Americans from terrorism. Frightened they might lose their majority in Congress in the November elections, the Republicans rammed the bill through Congress with no substantive debate.

Now, anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on Bush's list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government's policies could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant" and imprisoned indefinitely. The bill also strips habeas corpus rights from detained aliens who have been declared enemy combatants. Congress has the constitutional power to suspend habeas corpus only in times of rebellion or invasion. The habeas-stripping provision in the new bill is unconstitutional and the Supreme Court will likely say so when the issue comes before it.

Although more insidious, this law follows in the footsteps of other unnecessarily repressive legislation. In times of war and national crisis, the government has targeted immigrants and dissidents.

In 1798, the Federalist-led Congress, capitalizing on the fear of war, passed the four Alien and Sedition Acts to stifle dissent against the Federalist Party's political agenda. The Espionage Act of 1917, the Sedition Act of 1918, the Red Scare following World War I, the forcible internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II, and the Alien Registration Act of 1940 (the Smith Act) are all subsequent examples of laws passed and actions taken as a result of fear-mongering during periods of xenophobia. During the McCarthy period of the 1950s, in an effort to eradicate the perceived threat of communism, the government engaged in widespread illegal surveillance to threaten and silence anyone who had an unorthodox political viewpoint. Many people were jailed, blacklisted and lost their jobs. Thousands of lives were shattered as the FBI engaged in "red-baiting".

One month after the terrorist attacks of 2001, US Attorney General John Ashcroft rushed the Patriot Act through a timid Congress. The Patriot Act created a crime of domestic terrorism aimed at political activists who protest government policies, and set forth an ideological test for entry into the United States.

In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the internment of Japanese and Japanese-American citizens. Justice Robert Jackson warned in his dissent that the ruling would "lie about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need."

That day has come with the Military Commissions Act of 2006. It provides the basis for the President to round-up both aliens and American citizens he determines have given support to terrorists. Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Dr Evil's Halliburton, is currently constructing a huge facility to hold tens of thousands of undesirables. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, has even gone so far as to warn Americans "they need to watch what they say, watch what they do".

We can expect Chimpy to continue to exploit 9/11 to strip America of more liberties and to threaten the rest of the world. America's constitutional right to dissent is in serious jeopardy as is that of both its enemies and allies.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Torture In Any Language

2007-12-11T22:11:00.000Z

George Chimpy McSmirker Bush and his army of coercion advocates are on the defensive following the latest revelations about CIA interrogations. The argument over the USA's methods, especially water-boarding, has raged since 2001 with Chimpy's administration fighting tooth and nail to preserve what it regards as an effective way of forcing information from al-Qaeda suspects. Critics say the techniques are torture under both US and international law and should be banned.

The debate has been heightened by ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou who admitted on ABC News that he took part in interrogating Abu Zubaydah. Kiriakou conceded that water-boarding does amount to torture. It is now also known that in 2005 the CIA destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes showing the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and at least one other al-Qaeda suspect to cover up their use of torture.

The Bush circus accepts that torture is banned by US and international law and says it does not practise it. However, the United States has not outlawed what it conveniently calls enhanced interrogation techniques because the administration does not include enhanced interrogation in its definition of torture. The "enhanced" techniques not only include water-boarding, but sleep deprivation, subjection to extreme cold, long periods of standing, threat to life and "restrained" physical abuse.

Water-boarding involves a blind-folded prisoner being stretched on his back, having a cloth stuffed into his mouth and water poured onto his face. The subject suffers a drowning reflex and gags almost immediately. CIA Director Michael Hayden, who took office in May 2006, is reported to have discontinued water-boarding but has refused to confirm this publicly. However, in a recent interview he stated: "It would be wrong to assume that the programme of the past is necessarily the programme moving forward."

Following the disgraces at Abu Ghraib, President Bush signed an executive order in July 2007 which sought to define the American commitment to the Geneva Conventions' prohibition on cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment and torture. The presidential order defined torture by reference to the US legal code. The code says it is an action "specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering". The order ruled out the use of torture as defined by the legal code and also listed other interrogation methods and practices that were not allowed. The banned methods did not, however, include the enhanced interrogation techniques. The order states that the CIA are allowed to conduct a "special program of detention and interrogation". An accompanying memorandum from McSmirker is said to have listed the allowable methods, but this has never been made public.

The argument is not over. Mr Kiriakou concluded: "Water-boarding is probably something that we should not be in the business of doing. We're Americans, and we're better than that." But he also claimed that Abu Zubaydah had given up during water-boarding and had provided information he had previously refused to give. Abu Zubaydah later claimed he had made things up just so the Americans would stop torturing him.

The issue dominated the congressional hearings this year into the appointment of Michael Mukasey as the new US Attorney general. He called water-boarding "repugnant" and promised a review of its use. In 2006, Vice-President and war-mongering psychopath, Dick Dr Evil Cheney, defended water-boarding calling it "a no-brainer for me" when asked about its use in a recent radio interview.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Who Needs Extradition?

2007-12-04T17:51:00.000Z

Why bother with an Extradition Treaty when you can just kidnap any citizen of any country from anywhere you like?

The United States of America has told Britain that, under American law, it can kidnap British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. The laws of the 'target' nation are considered irrelevant. A senior lawyer for the American government told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

Until now it was commonly assumed that US law permitted kidnapping only in the extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects. But for the first time the American government has made it clear that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington. American authorities view extradition as just one way of getting foreign suspects back to face trial. Rendition, or kidnapping, is still considered a legitimate process by the Americans.

The US government’s view emerged during a hearing involving Stanley Tollman, a former director of Chelsea football club. During a hearing last month Lord Justice Moses, one of the Court of Appeal judges, asked Alun Jones QC representing the US government about its treatment of Gavin Tollman, Stanley’s nephew. Gavin was the subject of an attempted abduction during a visit to Canada in 2005. Jones replied that it was acceptable under American law to kidnap people if they were wanted for offences in America.

“The United States does have a view about procuring people to its own shores which is not shared” he said, adding that if a person was kidnapped by the US authorities in another country and was brought back to face charges in America, no US court could rule that the abduction was illegal. “If you kidnap a person outside the United States and take him there, the court has no jurisdiction to refuse, it goes back to bounty hunting days in the 1860s.”

Mr Justice Ouseley, a second judge, challenged Jones to be “honest about his position”. Jones replied: “That is United States law.”

He cited the case of Humberto Alvarez Machain, a suspect who was abducted by the US government from his office in Guadalajara, Mexico. He was flown by Drug Enforcement Administration agents to Texas for criminal prosecution. Despite the extradition treaty in place between America and Mexico at the time, just as there is currently between the USA and Britain, the Supreme Court ruled that the Mexican had no legal remedy regarding his abduction because the alleged offense took place in another country.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Suspicious Package

2007-11-30T08:25:00.000Z

In the immediate wake of yet another Labour scandal, we are suddenly issued with a heightened Terror Threat from the Home Secretary. What sparked the need to emit this new warning? A genuine increase in the level of threat; a true desire to protect the electorate; a reaction to specific new intelligence?

Not according to security analysts, including Dr John Gearson, himself a government security advisor. "I'm not clear the risk is greater now than it was last month or will be in January" Gearson said on Sky News this morning. He also stated that the current anti-terrorism policies are failing and the "biggest failure of the last 7 years" was that the number of people involved in terrorism in Britain was increasing.

Of course, the real reason that this terror threat was issued today was to divert attention away from Labour's blatantly illegal fund-raising activities. The Electoral Commission has now asked the Metropolitan Police to investigate after it became clear that Labour received more than £650,000 in secret donations, contravening the Political Parties, Elections and Referendum Act of 2000, promoted by the Vile Master Criminal and Gordon is a Moron as "necessary to combat Tory sleaze".

Gordon is a Moron's leadership campaign was sent a cheque for £5,000 by Janet Kidd, money which it is now known was being offered on behalf of David Abrahams. It has now emerged that former Labour MP Chris Leslie, Gordon is a Moron's leadership campaign co-ordinator, tore up Kidd's cheque when he "discovered that no-one in the campaign team knew who she was". But Harriet Harman accepted a £5,000 donation from exactly the same source during the deputy leadership race she eventually won claiming she had no idea the money really came from Abrahams and had accepted it on the basis that Mrs Kidd was a known Labour donor. A fictitious claim as Kidd was not a known donor. It now also appears that the person who put Harman's team in touch with Mrs Kidd was none other than former Labour MP Chris Leslie, Gordon is a Moron's leadership campaign co-ordinator.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Qinetiq Energy

2007-11-27T08:53:00.000Z

Having previously reported on the CDC / Actis debacle, the most shocking of all Labour's privatisations, it seems that Taxpayers have again been deprived of tens of millions of pounds by yet another, while the civil servants who architected the deal have pocketed over £107m in return for their investment of just £540,000.

A third of Qinetiq was sold to the US private equity group, Carlyle, for £42m in 2003. Lord Moonie, the minister behind the original sale to the US buyout firm, said that he tried to delay the deal. Stock markets had slumped and Lord Moonie felt that the Ministry of Defence would not receive a decent price for its shareholding. But he was unable to resist pressure for the sale from the Treasury, including direct influence from Gordon is a Moron, chancellor at the time. "We were reluctant to proceed with the sale, but a combination of the Treasury and the fact we needed the money for items in our budget persuaded us to go on with it" Lord Moonie said.

Carlyle's one third of Qinetiq grew in value to £372m, giving it a nine-fold return on its money. Qinetiq's two most senior executives, chairman Sir John Chisholm and chief executive Graham Love, made particularly spectacular gains. Chisholm invested £129,000 in the company and now has shares are worth £23m. Love has seen his £106,000 investment grow to £20m. The National Audit Office uncovered that Qinetiq's bosses were allowed to negotiate the terms of their own incentive scheme with Carlyle while the private equity firm was bidding for the business.

Once again, the government has sold off a valuable national asset for a pittance at the taxpayer's expense, providing huge profits for the purchaser and in particular, the senior civil servants involved.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Controlled Media

2007-11-23T06:46:00.000Z

I really don't know what to say. Only 40 or so hours after what is the biggest political scandal in British history, the loss of almost half the population's deeply personal data, the story has been buried by our major news agencies. Neither the BBC nor Sky websites see the story as big enough to even warrant a mention on their UK news front pages. Instead, they have both opted to promote the non-story of potential ID theft from social websites. A story planted by the government and accepted by our pathetically maleable news network.

The catastrophic loss of 25 million people's personal details is without precedent and in direct contradiction of the Data Protection Act. But apparently this is not as big as "Bail Refused For Singer's Husband" or "Marilyn Manson Accused Of Burying Skeleton". Independent media? I doubt it.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

General Bonus

2007-11-23T01:08:00.000Z

General Practioners, and there's quite a few of them, now earn an average of £100,000 per annum. Well deserved most probably but bear in mind this represents an increase of £30,000 in the first two years of the new contract. A contract that does not require drop-in clinics, home visits, emergency care or a maximum doctor-to-patient ratio. By comparison, the average salary of a hospital registrar is less than £40,000 a year.

In the past, Gordon is Moron and the Vile Master Criminal have reserved these kinds of super-inflationary rises for those involved in their quango empire as I have previously discussed. The current deal rewards General Practitioners with bonuses for hitting targets such as testing blood pressure and asthma care.

Does this push GPs to focus on point scoring instead of individually tailoring care? Many doctors, academics and the British Medical Journal think so.

Under the deal, which started in 2004, almost 35% of GP income is linked to hitting targets under the quality and outcomes framework (QOF). The rest of their pay is made up of the "global sum", which is effectively a basic salary. Statistics show that GPs have been particularly successful in hitting the targets in the last year. No surprise there ... if you measure people in a particular way, they will adjust their behaviour accordingly.

Experts, led by Dr Iona Heath, a GP at London's Caversham Group Practice, said "the targets had diminished the responsibility of doctors to think". Instead, they said, GPs were "encouraged to focus on points scored, thresholds met and income generated to the detriment of patients".

They said three quarters of the population do not have the diseases covered by the contract and it was too focused on treatments rather than outcomes. Until the increase in process is translated into tangible outcomes, such as diabetes complication rates or incidence of heart attack or smoking-related deaths, the benefits and cost-effectiveness of the exercise cannot be established.

They also said the most "socially-disadvantaged people are at risk of receiving proportionally less attention". The authors pointed out that the contract acted as a disincentive to work in the most deprived areas as people there tended to be sicker and it was therefore harder to hit the targets.

One of this government's manifesto chapter headlines was "Our NHS: Free to all, personal to each". The facts show that our NHS is costing us all more and is less personal than ever before. The management overhead has grown beyond heteromorphic and all we have to show for it is impersonal care, veterans dying on dirty wards and worthless Chief Executives of failing NHS Trusts receiving astronomic pay-offs in return for dishonorable failure!

Bastards ... slimy bastard all over the world!

ID Cards, Part Deux

2007-11-20T21:58:00.000Z

Only a few hours after I published this morning's post commenting on the personal data security concerns at government departments, puppet chancellor Alistair Darling was forced to make an emergency statement to Parliament disclosing that the good ol' tax man has "lost" two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 years old.

The Child Benefit data on the discs includes the name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and bank account details of 25 million people.

The discs were being sent to the National Audit Office via HMRC's internal post system operated by the courier TNT. However, despite their extraordinarily sensitive contents, the package was not sent using either recorded or registered delivery. The discs never arrived at their destination. Furthermore, despite the Puppet Chancellor being informed of the situation on 10 November, he kept the disaster hidden for ten days giving any crooks in possession of the information plenty of time to rape your bank account and apply for a few credit cards in your name! Aside from the obvious, I have two fundamental questions:

Why on earth is HMRC sending CDs around in this day and age?
Why are all our personal bank details being sent to the NAO in the first place?

Surely, after this catastrophe there can be no confidence whatsoever in the vast centralised databases needed for the compulsory ID card scheme. Start lobbying your MP now before Gordon is a Moron pushes it all through on the quiet. Even by the civil service's woeful standards, this level of incompetence is beyond staggering.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

ID Cards

2007-11-20T06:28:00.000Z

Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the UK, worth almost £2 billion per year. If you do pretty much anything on-line, sign up for shop loyalty cards or dispose of personal documentation without first shredding it, you are leaving yourself vulnerable. I have written previously about the Empire of Evil sharing your data with the government and reports of ID theft through the use of old bank statements and suchlike are trotted out on an almost daily basis.

What has this to do with Identity Cards you may ask? My point is simple: The one sure way to facilitate ID theft is to collect everybody's personal, professional and biometric details in one place and give the responsibility of securing all that critical data to a government department!

For example, yesterday's BBC Watchdog program exposed several incidents where personal data had been lost, mailed to complete strangers and over-written by none other than HM Revenue & Customs. In addition, it came to light that they had issued National Insurance numbers to multiple people. This unique number governs the national insurance and tax you pay, the size of your pension, any benefits you may be entitled to, etc. In fact, the official figures for 2005 reveal there were almost 2,000 reported cases of NI numbers being used by more than one person. Imagine how large the real figure must be! Furthermore, the Inland Revenue has just admitted to losing a CD last year containing the confidential details of over 15,000 people.

The debate on ID Cards has gone quiet but the policy is still being actively pursued by Gordon is a Moron and is simply going to be forced upon us. I have yet to see a single shred of tangible evidence to support the claims that these cards will aid the prevention or detection of crime, terrorism and anti-social behaviour. Even the government's official promotional material states "the National Identity Scheme cannot prevent terrorism" and simply states without any further explanation that it will "act as a deterrent". How exactly?

The National Identity Register will be the single most dangerous asset for ID fraudsters giving them a one-stop shop for everything they need to rip you off. As HM Revenue & Customs have shown so diligently, the last people you want securing all this critical personal information is a government department.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Value For Public Money?

2007-11-14T22:17:00.000Z

Ofcom are the publicly-funded telecoms and broadcasting regulator. How would you describe their performance over the last year? The year in which telephone-based voting fraud has been uncovered at the BBC and ITV worth millions of pounds. The fraud at GMTV alone generated revenue of £35m, peanuts compared to those involving Ant and Dec and The X Factor. However it was not, as you might think, Ofcom who discovered these scandals. Despite it being their primary purpose for existence, Ofcom only intervened once this chicanery had been exposed by journalists and the Serious Fraud Office had said it will investigate. So, the answer to how well Ofcom have performed ... pretty damn poorly in my opinion!

You might think, therefore, that those in charge at the publicly-funded regulator are paying the price for such woeful performance. Hah! The former chief executive, Stephen Carter, bagged £400k last year and has pocketed another £250k in only eight months this year, while on gardening leave! Ed Richards, a former advisor to the vile master criminal Blair and the new chief executive, has earned nearly £400k during the same period. Even Dominic Morris, who is Richards' office manager, received more than £200k. Kip Meek, Ofcom's chief policy partner (whatever that is) left last year and was paid £125k for five months' gardening leave. Does this strike you as good value?

Let's look at Royal Mail. While not strictly funded by the tax-payer, it is responsible for delivering a public service that every single one of us needs in our daily lives. Repetitive strikes, first class mail taking 3 or 4 days, more mail lost than ever before, second daily deliveries cancelled altogether, increases to the price of stamps, the list goes on. How much would you say the chief executive that has managed this debacle is worth? Well, Adam Crosier saw his remuneration rise by 21% to £1.25m, for a whole year!

How about the BBC? Most definitely publicly-funded and given the latest license fee negotiation, apparently all we can look forward to is repeat after repeat and the odd celebrity-based reality dross. Perhaps programming might be better if we weren't paying director-general Mark Thompson £788k and Jonathan Ross a staggering £6m per annum.

John Tiner, chief executive of the publicly-funded Financial Services Authority, saw his package increase by 14% to over £650k last year. I have written about the FSA's woeful performance previously.

Unfortunately, the list of unworthy cronies pocketing vast amounts of your money is only likely to increase under Gordon is a moron. In the Queen's speech last week he announced seven new publicly-funded bodies to be created in the new parliamentary session. Despite the Vile Master Criminal's 1996 pledge to consign them to the "dustbin of history", there has been a bewildering increase in the number of quangos under this government. There are now nearly 900 with 30,000 members costing the tax-payer a mind-boggling £340m every day, a stupefying increase of 60% in less than four years.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Barclays Bankrolling Mugabe

2007-11-14T13:25:00.000Z

British bank Barclays is bankrolling Robert Mugabe's vile regime in Zimbabwe. In only the first 6 months of this year, Gordon is a Moron's favourite bank have lent approximately £750m to Zimbabwe's new landowning elite.

Bastardlays are desperately trying to hide their illegal lending to five of Mugabe's ministers, each named in European Union sanctions. They include Didymus Mutasa, the national security minister who helped orchestrate the land-grab policy that left 4,000 white farmers without livelihoods and homes. The farms now funded by Bastardlays were forcibly taken by Mugabe's mobs and distributed to key figures in his regime, including Mugabe himself. The land-grab proved a disaster with many highly productive farms being run in to the ground and leaving huge numbers of the population on the brink of starvation.

Despite this and worldwide condemnation, Bastardlays, infamous for its active participation in apartheid South Africa, has recently been opening new branches in Zimbabwe, where it made £34m profit last year.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Northern Crock

2007-10-31T02:24:00.000Z

Last week, Financial Services Authority (FSA) chiefs reluctantly admitted that they had not challenged Northern Rock sufficently on its "business model". The FSA also conceded they had overlooked critical risks in the money market that had eventually forced the run on the bank. Even Northern Rock chief executive stated that "there are lessons to be learned here for our supervision process".

Is this the same FSA that was described by the National Audit Office (NAO) in April this year as "a well established regulator with an impressive set of processes and structures to help tackle high-risk organisations and markets"? An opinion echoed by the NAO boss Sir John Bourn who added his personal testimony: the FSA "has created strong and effective structures".

Yes! It is the same FSA. This verdict of the NAO delighted the Treasury with the City minister at the time, Ed Balls, pouncing on the independent auditor's ringing endorsement, boasting to anybody who would listen of the success of the FSA created by he and Gordon is a moron Brown.

How could the public spending watchdog (NAO) paint such a glowing picture of an unmitigated failure of a financial regulator (FSA)? Perhaps some negotiation took place over one of the hundreds of meals-for-two at London's finest restaurants hosted by Sir John for his anonymous "UK contacts" with tax-payers' money?

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Labour's Cats Fatter Than Ever

2007-10-26T22:59:00.000+01:00

It seems Gordon is a Moron and his culture of parasites are not content with lining the pockets of the Empire of Evil and Bastardlays. The following may be the most shocking of all Labour's privatisations, depriving aid budgets of millions of pounds while the managers who pushed it through have become multi-millionaires in just two years.

In 2004, the then Development Secretary Hilary Benn carved out the fund management operation from the government-owned develpment fund CDC. The fund's function is to invest UK aid in companies in developing countries. The private equity firm created to do this, Actis, was set up in swanky riverside offices using £5m of public money while 60% of the new "limited liability partnership" was sold for £373,000 to former CDC managers, led by Paul Fletcher. One hell of a good price for managing £1bn of state funds without facing any competition whatsoever.

Fletcher and his pals quickly recouped their outlay. Actis reported profits of $14m in the first year, and that was after accounting for its 192 employees being paid an average of $220,000 each and senior partner Fletcher pocketing $1.84m. Actis will tell you that the government is entitled to 80% of their profits but that arrangement ends in 2009. Furthermore, in a recent public accounts committee report, Fletcher and Co's share (bought for £393,000 remember) was valued at over £200m, and possibly as much as £600m.

So why was Actis sold for so little when it was quite obviously worth so much more? Private Eye has asked to see the calculations that led to the 2004 valuation of £393,000 and how much the still publicly-owned CDC pays Actis to manage the fund. However, the Department for International Development's Openness Unit (an oxymoron if ever there was) and the Shareholder Executive have both refused to release any details. The DfID claimed the valuation calculation was "commercially sensitive" and revealing it was not in the public interest. They did reveal however, that "the calculations were undertaken by KPMG Corporate Finance Consultants, appointed by CDC Group plc to provide an objective opinion."

OK, so that's the same CDC Group who's chief executive Paul Fletcher and other senior managers would be the buyers of the new company. Conflict of interest? Not according to Hilary Benn, Gordon is a Moron and the repulsive master criminal Blair.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

N'est Pas Difficile

2007-10-24T04:43:00.000+01:00

Last week a report by the Healthcare Commission conlcuded that a "litany of errors" were responsible for the "avoidable deaths" of more than 215 patients, plus a further 1,100 Clostridium Difficile infections, in only 3 NHS hospitals between April 2004 and December 2006.

The Chief Executive of the Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Trust, Rose Gibb, resigned a week later pocketing a £250,000 payoff. James Lee, the Chairman of the trust, resigned this week, blaming government targets and poor nursing for the deaths. The value of his payoff is, as yet, unpublicised.

The report found dirt and neglect on understaffed wards, where bedpans were left unwashed, staff were "too busy" to wash their hands and concerned patients were told to "go to their beds". Much of the press has taken the opportunity to throw blame at the nursing staff but the Commission's report clearly cites that "the trust's financial difficulties and its obsession with meeting government targets distracted it from tackling the medical priorities and, specifically, the outbreak of C.difficile".

What an abject failure of this nation that an 87-year-old Dunkirik veteran, Joseph Nixon, died in a Maidstone hospital having been admitted for a routine bowel operation. He was left lying in his soiled sheets for hours at a time, causing him to become infected and die from C.difficile ... a man that had fought for his country, risked his life on countless occasions and seen his friends slaughtered in the World's most brutul conflict, killed by 21st century Britain's inability to care for its popoulation in the most basic way.

Now, don't be fooled by the current government's historical finger-pointing, this problem is purely that of "new" Labour's making. These horrendous failings identified by the Healthcare Commission are recent. They all seem to start around 2003, a full 6 years after "new" Labour took power. This government is responsible for the obsession with "business-model" targets being imposed in the NHS. HIT YOUR TARGET OR ELSE. That's "new" Labour.

Assess this: in 1989 (the height of Thatcherite Conservatism) there were 510 Senior Managers running the NHS; today there are more than 40,000. However, I don't see this as a failure of "trying to make the NHS run like business". No business would, or could, tolerate a management overhead such as this. It is a complete and abject failure of the NHS management structure and personnel over the last 10 years that is the problem and at the top of that management chain is the Health Secretary. These problems should and could have been prevented if this government had bothered to perform its duties. Labour see the NHS as their golden goose, harping back to its invention, so just ignore it. The damage inflicted in the last decade is truly immeasurable and will haunt the nation for many years to come.

These problems are clearly the result of political motivation, or lack of it, not that of business or economics. The architect of our current social devolution: not Blair, but Gordon "is a moron" Brown. Vote for him at your peril, and that of your children!

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Princess Diana, Mohamed Fayed & A Big Waste Of Time

2007-10-17T20:59:00.000+01:00

So jurors are being flown back and forth to France to see a ten year old accident site, all sorts of rumour and innuendo are being presented at an official inquest and hundreds of journalists are doing nothing but publishing all this crap on a daily basis.

Am I the only one who thinks this is all an utter waste of time and money?

Diana, Dodi and Henri Paul died tragically in an horrific car accident that may or may not have involved another car. That's it, let them rest in peace. Why is all this nonsense being trampled out now? It's plainly absurd.

As for the greatest advocate of all things conspiratorial, Mohamed Fayed, let's see how his 'evidence', and I use the word in the loosest possible sense, stacks up:

Pregnancy

In 1997, Michael Cole, Fayed's official spokesman, wrote to the Daily Telegraph on his behalf complaining that the paper's coverage of the tragedy was "spoiled by references to pregnancy and cocaine, for which scurrilous allegations not a scrap of evidence has emerged". Cole also wrote to the Press Complaints Commission on Fayed's behalf stating "it was alleged the the princess was pregnant at the time of her death but no evidence has emerged to support these damaging allegations ... nasty rumours which have no factual basis".

Furthermore, Fayed himself asked, during an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror on 9 November 1997, "who gave French newspapers the false tip-off that Diana was six weeks pregnant?" And in February 1998 he told the Mirror "I doubt that Diana was pregnant, the only two people that can really tell us are the coroner over here and the hospital in France and neither of them have confirmed this information which makes me think it is not true."

Then, all of a sudden in 2003, he remembered that the Princess herself had actually told him personally that she was pregnant in a phone call on the night of her death. Yes, of course she did Mohamed, of course. It's totally plausible that you forgot this inconsequential fact for 6 years.

Engagement

Was the ring Dodi bought for Diana an engagement ring? Absolutely not according to Fayed in 1997. Cole held a press conference at Harrods in September that year where he told reporters "Mr Al Fayed has authorised me to give you a few details ... What that ring meant we shall probably never know and if the planet lasts for another thousand years, I am quite sure that people will continue to speculate about it's significance."

Once again, more than a year later, Fayed suddenly remembered that the couple had told him this was an engagement ring when they telephoned him to say they were getting married. Again, very believable that somebody would forget such a detail for over a year.

Long and short of it is that this inquest has been forced upon us based on utter fabrication and nonsense. It will be enormously expensive, traumatic for some and will accomplish absolutely nothing. Those mentalists that believe Prince Phillip shot the tyres out with a slingshot will continue to do so. Those people that think some stupid French bloke had drunk too much and lost control of the car he was driving through a tunnel at 100mph will also continue to do so.

What has happened to common sense? The public's lack of interest in this inquest can be judged by the number of people in the overflow marquee at the Royal Courts of Justice by the second day, which was just three. Compare that to the Hutton inquiry when the overflow capacity of 70 was fully utilised almost every single day. How can this process have come so far based upon Fayed's lies and inability to grasp reality?

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

The Budget's Real Cost

2007-10-16T21:40:00.000+01:00

Ra-ra-ra, inheritance tax cuts and capital gains tax changes. All sounds lovely. But let's analyse the real consequences of the latest budget, not the guff and nonsense spouted by Alistair Darling.

There are some circumstances in which you might consider yourself a winner. Basically, if you are a well-off couple who had done no previous tax planning, your children will benefit. And if you own a second home or a fleet of buy-to-let properties, you will be considerably better off when the new flat rate of CGT is introduced in April next year. From that point, even a higher rate tax payer will pay only 18% on capital gains. Non-domiciles also get off lightly, now being allowed 7 years tax free in Britain before having to cough up a penny.

So, if you are already pretty rich and were too lazy or stupid to make inheritance tax arrangements, you are quids in. And that's pretty much it for the winners.

What about the losers? Well, that includes anyone who had already spent time and money setting up an inheritance tax trust; first-time home buyers; anyone who had invested money in bonds; workers who invest in company save-as-you-earn schemes; savers with windfall shares; anyone saving in to a pension scheme and anyone who drives a car.

So, if you are trying to buy your first home, live outside of London where public transport is universally crap, or are planning for your future and trying to save for retirement, you have been screwed.

New Labour is truly the party of the super-rich. If you are working or middle class, you have been repeatedly screwed by this government. I think they believe that the destruction of the middle class will solve the problem of social mobility but the reality is it does not improve the situation for the needy, it just makes more people needy. Meanwhile, the super-rich are laughing all the way to the bank to withdraw big piles of cash with which to bribe government ministers.

Those that suggest that the increasingly repulsive Gordon "is a moron" Brown is a real socialist need their heads examined. You need only to have seen him egging on his Chancellor like some wart-ridden jockey to realise that he is still the architect of all things budgetary. Then he topped it all off with a tantrum-laden, foaming mouth performance at PMQs. Pathetic, odious, vile.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Twenty20 Is Just Not Cricket

2007-09-23T01:08:00.000+01:00

What a shame that the two most unsporting teams in world cricket represent the final of the Twenty20 cricket world cup. This is no doubt what the ICC wanted as it will give them the most financial return but it is bad for cricket.

Frankly, I can't be bothered to watch the final as it will just be a preposterous display of peacocking and male-posturing. Both the Indians and Pakistanis are flooded with players who obviously have phenomenally small genitalia and are compelled to act like "angry fan" and thrust their pelvises all over the place.

It's a real shame that sportsmanship will not be represented in the final but the ICC don't give a shit, they're just interested in TV money. Oh, if you're an umpire, you'd better not make a decision against Pakistan because you'll just be run out of the game. RIP Daryll Hair.

The ICC are just money-grabbing paper-pushers with no interest in cricket or sport.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Tesco Tax Cuts

2007-09-19T18:03:00.000+01:00

Why did Gordon Brown, the Chancellor at the time, give Tesco a 2p tax cut in the last budget? At the same time he increased tax by 3p on small businesses. This move seems to be void of any public motive? It's certainly not in the interest of the British public. Tesco are making billions every year, they're certainly not struggling to make ends meet. They corral most of their earnings to dodgy offshore outfits and avoid paying their fair share anyway. So why give them even more of a break?

Are their personal benefits for Mr Brown? Are Tesco secretly funding New Labour? Something is very amiss, that's for sure. As far as I can tell, New Labour is so indebted to Leahy's small-business-attacking, town-and-village-destroying, supplier-raping, public-health-threatening Empire Of Evil, aka Tesco, that they let them get away with all sorts:

Massive corporation tax evasion
Massive stamp duty avoidance
Outright contempt for planning laws and process
Failure to maintain food hygiene standards
Selling dodgy petrol
Aiding identity theft and fraud
Price fixing

The list goes on. I can only imagine that Brown, Blair before him, and countless others, are getting some exorbitant pay-offs from the EOE. Meanwhile, the rest of us can carry on getting screwed sideways until we all work for either the government or Tesco. In fact, Tesco will have bought out the government by then ... I mean officially, not just bribed them all like they have now.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

George W Bush A Rapist?

2007-09-18T14:44:00.000+01:00

In December 2002, a 38-year-old black woman from Texas filed a civil lawsuit against George W Bush accusing the President of drugging and raping her. Nine months later, she was dead. The medical examiner's office ruled her death a suicide. She was killed by a shot to the head with a Glock handgun.

The White House controlled US media completely failed to cover the story in any respect, as did most of the equally conspiratorial and controlled British press.

Maybe this poor woman was deluded and killed herself but the authorities had to admit under duress that Bush did indeed have a relationship with her. It would not be the first time that the Sugar Land Police Department and Harris County Medical Examiner's office have been involved in a murder covered up as a suicide (former Enron executive John Clifford Baxter for example).

Read the full story here and draw your own conclusion.

I am pretty certain that George Chimpy McSmirker Bush is the sort of individual that would do anything to cover his tracks and certainly holds the power and influence to do so in our world's most corrupt nation.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

FIA = Ferrari

2007-09-15T20:42:00.000+01:00

Has anyone else noticed that when the Formula 1 season gets down to the last few races and Ferrari are not winning, there always seems to be some dodgy investigation in to their opposition. Renault in the last two years and McLaren this year.

Of course, McLaren were in possession of the Ferrari dossier. But were they? Where they as a company? As far as I can tell, the only evidence I have read about, including the FIA's official hearing statement, suggests that one employee at Ferrari gave the dossier to one employee at McLaren. In addition he was sharing Ferrari race information with Alonso and his compatriate De La Rosa.

In my mind, all this proves is the involvement of 4 people. It proves nothing against McLaren as a team. The FIA have, again and as usual, tripped over themselves to do Ferrari's bidding. Why not just award Ferrari the constructor's championship at the beginning of the year and save a lot of time? The Italians' victory this year will be utterly vacuous. Let's not forget they won the first race of the year with an illegal car and suffered no penalty whatsoever. The FIA did nothing but ask them very politely if they wouldn't mind changing their car. No points deduction, no fine, nothing.

Ferrari need to remember that they are 20% of Formula 1, not 50% or more. Furthermore, the FIA have a responsibility to keep motor sport competitive and they should be penalising the real cheats: Ferrari in race 1 and Alonso and De La Rosa for the spy scandal. This whole episode smacks of a personal vendetta and there is something really distasteful about it all.

Those that come off the worse are Alonso, De La Rosa, Jean Todt and FIA President Max Mosely who have all personally shown themselves as very small and petty men lacking guts and moral fortitude.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Back-Pocket Tax Dodgers

2007-09-15T16:32:00.000+01:00

Why did HM Revenue & Customs pour scorn on the National Audit Office's findings that two thirds of Britain's largest 700 companies pay minimal tax on their profits? And why is HMRC cutting tax investigations specifically in to corporate tax evasion even though the biggest companies are the ones dodging most tax?

When Gordon Brown was chancellor earlier this year, he welcomed proposals to cut probes in to multinationals' tax affairs so that he could push through 25000 job cuts under an "efficiency" programme that many tax advisors say has drained HMRC of crucial experience. In fact, official figures prove that the wage bill saved by these cuts is dwarfed by the tax lost as a result.

The estimated tax lost to corporate evasion and avoidance is so vast (almost certainly several tens of billions of pounds per year) that HMRC are refusing to release the official figures despite a ruling by the Information Commissioner in favour of Private Eye compelling them to do so.

Why do MPs not take corporate tax evasion seriously? Back-handers and bribery, that's why. Two of the biggest offenders in the UK are Barclays Bank and Tesco.

Most people are probably not surprised by Barclays. They are a bank after all and frankly seem to revel in the reputation they earned during the South African apartheid era as as mercenary bastards who don't give a hoot about anyone other than their board.

But Tesco? Tesco like to present themselves as the people's supermarket but don't be fooled. Sir Terry Leahey is big buddies with Blair and Brown, no doubt greasing their palms with great regularity, that's why they let Tesco get away with paying less tax than many individuals. It's just incredible isn't it? One in five items bought in the UK is bought in Tesco yet they pay less tax than, for example, Simon Cowell. How can this possibly be right? Tesco get massive exemptions on stamp duty as well and their contempt for planning laws is well documented.

One of the concessions they give in exchange for everybody ignoring their massive tax dodging is that they provide all your Tesco Club Card information to the Government. Personal information, purchasing habits, spending patterns, etc. Oh, and by the way, HMRC are using this information to go after individuals for tax avoidance. Get that, our Government and Civil Service let Tesco get away with billions so that they can go after a few grand from a few individuals.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!

Get Stuffed Blair

2007-09-05T00:49:00.001+01:00

In the words of another former Prime Minister, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice! Hoorah, the lying, cheating, malicious, spineless coward Blair has finally had the decency to depose himself.

Of course he's now off to make millions selling the story of how he raped one country and endangered millions of people in his own. Meanwhile, we're still footing the bill for providing presidential level security for him and his hideous wife (and all their leeches of course). A pal of mine has just come back from Barbados and frog-mouth herself was in their hotel pool doing aqua-aerobics along with 10 security guards. And that's just her. Imagine what it's costing the tax payer. There is no end to Blair's moral vacuum.

Blair's replacement? Surprise, surprise, Gordon the dour jaw-twitcher. Yet another unelected PM. Democracy? Pah, it's just not worth commenting on.

Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!