I wish there was something that could genuinely shock me. But there isn't.
In amongst all the stories of Fatty McMentalist throwing a drug induced hissy fit and bumbling about the studio like a drunken insomniac with a broken leg, I find this load of total and utter dog shit, courtesy of Manchester City Council.
It's a 47 page full colour guide explaining to members of our older generations how to insert a penis into one of those lady parts (complete with accompanying playtime tips and pre-requisite advice. Remember, you can't tell if someone has AIDS by looking at them. Mark in Eastenders, anyone? *ends sniggers*).
Having done their best to take the sexual shenanigans of teenagers out of parents' hands, it's now the turn of the olds to have the State take control.
Personally, I think it's just a fetish of theirs ;-)
Showing posts with label waste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waste. Show all posts
Feature Creep
Always interesting to see Mr Snot's twisted interpretation of how to win over the Daily Mail readership. Sadly, the libertarian aspect of it all seems to have been lost on the senile old duffer. So how does Cyclops plan to deal with unmarried teenager mothers? He'll simply take them away.
Firstly, if he wants to reduce teenage pregnancies, waiting until they've fired out a kiddy or three to start "educating" them is perhaps leaving it a little late in the day (what of this sex education in schools, if I may ask?). Secondly, it's waste. Nobody is asking the government to squander tens/hundreds of millions of cash we don't have. I reckon half a billion isn't unrealistic. Thirdly, MORE state intervention isn't what the middle classes Labour so desperately want to appeal to are asking for - it's less state intervention (saying "we despise you, but will still provide you with a place to stay courtesy of someone else's wallet, kind of like how we did before" is rather confusing to someone possibly in the midst of post-natal depression).
Again. Simple pimple. If you want to stop someone abusing something, you simply take it away full stop for those people. But I suppose when you miss out on the opportunity to impose the righteousness of The State on these girls, it doesn't quite have the same ring to it. After all, who is going to teach them how to be good citizens and vote Labour otherwise? And I wonder what becomes of the absentee fathers in all this? Hardly "gender equality" is it? Teenage boys free to go around getting girls drunk on Bacardi Breeezers, inseminating them behind a bush in the park and then disappearing into the night knowing it won't be them getting sent to the gulag. Sounds like party time for the fellas, if you ask me.
I wonder what this could entail. What rules would these be? If the reason for them being here in solely that they've had a child and hoped to gain a free council house out of it, surely removing that option solves the problem. Evidently not. Are we looking at 8pm bedtimes and no talking between meals? And what are these parenting classes? Not all teenage mothers are bad mothers. And you can't help but worry about the unnecessary separation of mothers and babies over the breaking of a rule set in, what is in essence, a publicly funded boarding school with dodgy shower facilities.
The problem is that offering up an elaborate benefits package to people who haven't proved any kind of contribution is appealing to some (contribution could be any number of things: voluntary/charity work, helping out at a girl guides group, etc). Again, simply removing the generous benefits offered to those who put nothing physical or financial into the system would solve much of this and would get them thinking more about the "give" aspect of "give and take". (If my employers suggested I could get the same or better pay surfing the net all day, sooner or later I might think about taking them up on that. That's conclusive enough).
Despite the total epic fail of all this, I am heartened by the fact McSnot hasn't managed to follow through on any of the soundbites he's ever unleashed ("British jobs for British people"? "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"?).
Luckily, we've not got much more of this to come (Labour will be gone soon, and will tell us whilst in opposition - if they still exist - that they simply needed more time to implement this master plan), and whilst I don't expect the Tories to be much (if at all) better, I see the creep towards a total surveillance state being that tiny bit slower under their watch *.
I am almost smirking with astonishment at the total and deliberate misconprehension of the problem. It's the failure to understand that sometimes the removal of incentive, rather than the provision of after-the-event "deterrents" is the best way forward. And to me, this looks wholeheartedly backward, reminiscent of the places women giving birth out of wedlock were sent to 50 years ago.
Deliberate institutionalism. I wonder who will be next. Those who don't vote perhaps? (H.T. The Lone Voice for digging up the story).
* - May revise this later.
Teenage single mothers will be sent to live in supervised homes rather than given council houses, Mr Brown announced.
They will be taught how to bring up children under plans designed to reduce the number of teen pregnancies.
Firstly, if he wants to reduce teenage pregnancies, waiting until they've fired out a kiddy or three to start "educating" them is perhaps leaving it a little late in the day (what of this sex education in schools, if I may ask?). Secondly, it's waste. Nobody is asking the government to squander tens/hundreds of millions of cash we don't have. I reckon half a billion isn't unrealistic. Thirdly, MORE state intervention isn't what the middle classes Labour so desperately want to appeal to are asking for - it's less state intervention (saying "we despise you, but will still provide you with a place to stay courtesy of someone else's wallet, kind of like how we did before" is rather confusing to someone possibly in the midst of post-natal depression).
The policy, which has echoes of the Victorian homes for fallen women, is an admission that Labour has failed to tackle the serial abuse of the benefits system by single teenage mothers.
Vowing not to ‘shy away from taking difficult decisions on tough social questions’, the Prime Minister admitted that the scandal of ‘children having children’ has gone unspoken for too long.
Again. Simple pimple. If you want to stop someone abusing something, you simply take it away full stop for those people. But I suppose when you miss out on the opportunity to impose the righteousness of The State on these girls, it doesn't quite have the same ring to it. After all, who is going to teach them how to be good citizens and vote Labour otherwise? And I wonder what becomes of the absentee fathers in all this? Hardly "gender equality" is it? Teenage boys free to go around getting girls drunk on Bacardi Breeezers, inseminating them behind a bush in the park and then disappearing into the night knowing it won't be them getting sent to the gulag. Sounds like party time for the fellas, if you ask me.
Groups of between ten and 100 teenage mothers will be housed in residential units with job clubs, creches and parenting classes.
They will be made to sign behaviour contracts and if they break the rules they will be thrown out and sent to facilities with a tougher regime.
I wonder what this could entail. What rules would these be? If the reason for them being here in solely that they've had a child and hoped to gain a free council house out of it, surely removing that option solves the problem. Evidently not. Are we looking at 8pm bedtimes and no talking between meals? And what are these parenting classes? Not all teenage mothers are bad mothers. And you can't help but worry about the unnecessary separation of mothers and babies over the breaking of a rule set in, what is in essence, a publicly funded boarding school with dodgy shower facilities.
The problem is that offering up an elaborate benefits package to people who haven't proved any kind of contribution is appealing to some (contribution could be any number of things: voluntary/charity work, helping out at a girl guides group, etc). Again, simply removing the generous benefits offered to those who put nothing physical or financial into the system would solve much of this and would get them thinking more about the "give" aspect of "give and take". (If my employers suggested I could get the same or better pay surfing the net all day, sooner or later I might think about taking them up on that. That's conclusive enough).
Despite the total epic fail of all this, I am heartened by the fact McSnot hasn't managed to follow through on any of the soundbites he's ever unleashed ("British jobs for British people"? "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"?).
Luckily, we've not got much more of this to come (Labour will be gone soon, and will tell us whilst in opposition - if they still exist - that they simply needed more time to implement this master plan), and whilst I don't expect the Tories to be much (if at all) better, I see the creep towards a total surveillance state being that tiny bit slower under their watch *.
I am almost smirking with astonishment at the total and deliberate misconprehension of the problem. It's the failure to understand that sometimes the removal of incentive, rather than the provision of after-the-event "deterrents" is the best way forward. And to me, this looks wholeheartedly backward, reminiscent of the places women giving birth out of wedlock were sent to 50 years ago.
Deliberate institutionalism. I wonder who will be next. Those who don't vote perhaps? (H.T. The Lone Voice for digging up the story).
* - May revise this later.
EU Funding. Waste
More top draw socialism via Calling England and Old Holborn, comes this little bit of fun (read: despair).
It's a database of how the EU wastes your money. I suspect it's been made as difficult to use as possible, although simply selecting a country and a year will pull up results where relevant.
One of my favourites is this, from last year:
Fuck me! Spelling, people! Looks like this is newspeak for "Turks are being prepared for indoctrination".
All was mysteriously quiet on the Libya front in 2007/8. For Pakistan, I noticed a lot of entries labelled "confidential" for 2008. Whatever could it mean? A cool half a million Euros also goes to Nigeria under the confidential label. Not to mention three entries for funds given to Workers' Paradise Cuba with no disclosed purpose attached. I could toy with this database all evening but I'm running out of hair to pull out and I drank all my wine yesterday.
So what do we think? Care to share any others you found?
It's a database of how the EU wastes your money. I suspect it's been made as difficult to use as possible, although simply selecting a country and a year will pull up results where relevant.
One of my favourites is this, from last year:
In line with the communication strategy of teh ECD ; 1. Improve public knowledge and understanding of teh European Union 2. explain the process of accession and its implications for Turkey and built support for EU membership
Fuck me! Spelling, people! Looks like this is newspeak for "Turks are being prepared for indoctrination".
All was mysteriously quiet on the Libya front in 2007/8. For Pakistan, I noticed a lot of entries labelled "confidential" for 2008. Whatever could it mean? A cool half a million Euros also goes to Nigeria under the confidential label. Not to mention three entries for funds given to Workers' Paradise Cuba with no disclosed purpose attached. I could toy with this database all evening but I'm running out of hair to pull out and I drank all my wine yesterday.
So what do we think? Care to share any others you found?
What Our Troops SHOULD Have Had. And What Our MPs Got
From the Telegraph:
Enough to make you totally and utterly fucking sick in the mouth, isn't it! And now the useless pant pissing wankers are making noises about "dealing with Iran" (i.e "sanctions" - H.T. Leg Iron). Just fucking leave it Labour, you couldn't win a fucking tombola!
£11,510,792 – total cost of second homes allowance claimed by MPs in 2007-08. Would pay for 38 Ridgeback armoured vehicles, costing £300,000 each
£25,411 – cost of private security patrols outside Soho home of Barbara Follett. Could have been spent on 13 pairs of ITTT night vision goggles at £1,900 each
£22,500 – dry rot treatment Margaret Moran claimed for home 100 miles from constituency. Would have bought 10 underslung grenade launchers worth £2,160 each
£9,000 – installation of Ikea kitchen at Gordon Brown’s Westminster flat. The same price as nine sets of £1,000 Osprey full body armour
£8,865 – price of 40in Bang & Olufsen television claimed for by Sir Gerald Kaufman. Could have been spent on four SA80 A2 rifles at £1,800 each
£2,225 – amount claimed on a 'corner group’ sofa by Bob Ainsworth. Would have bought 14 Hawke long-range binoculars, which cost £150 a pair
£2,115 – amount claimed by Douglas Hogg to clear the moat at his country home. More than the cost of a single £1,790 MINIMI machine gun
£1,645 – cost of 'Stockholm’ floating duck house bought by Sir Peter Viggers. Could have bought 23 pairs of ESS ballistic sunglasses
£598 – servicing of ride-on lawnmower claimed by Alan Duncan. Would have paid for 11 Mk 6 Kevlar helmets
£480 – amount spent on 22 silk cushions by Keith Vaz. Could have been spent on three pairs of LOWA Desert combat boots
Enough to make you totally and utterly fucking sick in the mouth, isn't it! And now the useless pant pissing wankers are making noises about "dealing with Iran" (i.e "sanctions" - H.T. Leg Iron). Just fucking leave it Labour, you couldn't win a fucking tombola!
Somebody Thump These Greedy Fuckers - Better Still, Mug Them!
Next time your whinging local MP starts fucking whining about the amount of hours they work a week, ask the grasping cunt how many fucking hours they actually put into their job as your representative (after all, you only have issues for 8 months of the year, the rest of the time you can swivvel, apparently).
They've got plenty of fucking time for these shenanigans.
Greedy fucking bastards.
Fancy Helping a Bunch of Twats Press Submit?
Nothing surprises me anymore. The audacity of these out of touch wankers is unparalleled.
Ministers are creating a £120,000-a-year post to help them communicate through the internet.
The deputy director of digital engagement will push Labour's policies on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Twitter.
The successful applicant, dubbed the 'Deputy Twittercrat', must 'confidently engage with audiences on non-governmental online channels'.
Sounds like a hell of a lot of copy and pasting is involved to me. How better to spend £120,000 of public money. Besides, what's the difference between bullshitting in the newspapers or on TV (as these fools seem to manage on their own) and bullshitting on social networks?
Cunt Watch: McShit
This man simply does not ever learn or listen.
People say they want the troops pulled out of Afghanistan, so he goes and sends more. Perhaps if he spent ALL of this money on new equipment for the existing troops (rather than the outdated shit we all know he'll send) we wouldn't have the prospect of so many more coming home in boxes.
The truth is, he does not know what this war is about so he can't have the faintest clue as to how to win it. They tell us it's about democracy and women's rights, but they forget that in FORCING democracy on a people, you are yourself being undemocratic. With all the resources Afghanistan has, it's a shithole only because so many of the people there LIKE living in a shithole. Leave them to it. Oh but wait, there's oil...
What I don't get is how the thick-skinned fucker of McDoom finds the utter temerity to laugh and joke with the serving troops (during his surprise celebrity visit) when he doesn't so much as show his face at ANY of the funerals of those who come back dead for his immoral, unwinnable war.
Apart from Islamic extremists, human rights lawyers, criminals and thieving cunts, who the fuck does actually vote for Labour? Come on, out with it. Clense your soul once and for all.
McShit is a fat dense vote losing unelected cunt. If only he could lose those votes a bit quicker.
Bob Ainsworth is Still a Cunt
The alleged "Defence Secretary", Bob the Knob Ainsworth, refused to so much as send a letter of condolance to his friend whose son died in Labour's war. Of course, after a national fucking newspaper intervened he changed his tune. Not early enough to avoid being outed by the Mail though.
Still, he's not the only one.
He is still a wig-wearing-not-fit-to-shovel-shit cunt though.
CUNT!
The Trouble With the NHS
A very succint and well written article which I believe makes real inroads into getting to the bottom of the problems with our National Health Service.
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