That’s not a proper charge!

Two members of the English Defence League have been arrested “on suspicion of obstructing police”, I read today. Are we expected to believe that the coppers concerned were too dim to know if they’d been obstructed? And they are currently viewing all available CCTV and cellular phone pictures available in search of evidence? It’s just plain harassment of members of an unpopular political minority. And if the police can get away with doing EDL members on a bogus charge, they’ll be encouraged to do the same to the rest of us before you know it.

Another reason not to trust Labour near money

It’s common knowledge that Gordon Broon got LloydsTSB to swallow the poison pill of HBoS as a favour to Labour’s electoral prospects in Scotland. Result: Lloyds went bust and had to be bailed out by the taxpayer. Now, we have the unpleasant spectacle of Balls, Brown’s hod-carrier, glorying in his part in helping the Co-op Bank, which bankrolls Balls and 31 other Labour MPs, to swallow the poison pill of the Britannia building society. A deed which is resulting in the downright theft of one-third of Co-op bond-holders’ cash.

All that fuss for nothing

First it was a double-dip recession, then it was a triple-dip. Then the triple turned out to be a mirage. Surprise! The double is also a mirage and we’re actually in a bigger hole than anyone thought because, even though there wasn’t a recession under the Coalition, the one New Labour put us into turned out to be twice as bad as anyone thought. Which is a good argument for shooting Ed Balls if he even looks in the direction of the Treasury.

You’ve gotta laugh!

A gang of doctors has spent 18 years (on fancy salaries, no doubt) studying civil servants in France. And what have they come up with? Worrying about being stressed makes you twice as likely to have a heart attack. Well, that was money well spent.

The answer is obvious

Lord Leveson, as a sitting judge, feels he is too grand to be grilled by the Commons about his multi-million-pound inquiry into minor hacking by Her Majesty’s Press (trivial compared to what the legal trade gets up to). Lord Hutton (Iraq whitewash) appeared before the Commons when he was retired. So the solution to the Leveson problem would appear to be to fire him. Then he won’t be a sitting judge any more and he won’t have a valid excuse for failing to explain himself.

Simply pathetic!

The cabinet officer minister has put on public display, the note from the 2010 Treasury chief secretary, Liam Byrne, telling his successor “there’s no money left, best of luck!” Labour’s best shot is that Mr. Laws is “behaving like the class swot”. If that’s the best Labour can do, the Milibandits might as will give up right now.

Anything for a bit of publicity!

The formerly sensible Manchester Museum has come up with a silly season story of a 10" Egyptian statuette turning “unassisted by a human hand” in a display case in the night. Couple that with the bogus “curse of the Pharaohs” and you get something calculated to send the Daily Disaster’s Sunday edition into conniptions!