Labour’s Paedophile Pals Explained

Labour knows that most normal people don’t buy its brand of tax & waste and phoney class war, so the party is always desperate for votes from minorities, no matter how repellent. Just as the Blair regime was ready to wreck the economy, again, by promoting unrestricted migration of benefits clients in the interests of keeping New Labour in power, so the activists in the doomed Callaghan era were prepared to go to any lengths, and any extremes, to cling to power.

Death & Dishonour

“Killing A Man? It’s No Big Deal”, yells the Daily Disaster. Well, let’s qualify that. If the man is killed by a terrorist, no, it isn’t. But if the man is killed by someone employed by the British government and paid by the taxpayer, then that someone is fair game for persecution, like the troops caught up in the IRA’s Bloody Sunday and the troops sent to Iraq & Afghanistan.

Being put first

One of the staff reports that his uncle has received an offer from the Nationwide (on your side) of a bank account, for which he will have the privilege of paying £10/month. For his £120/year, he will get UK and European breakdown cover (he doesn’t have a car), and worldwide mobile phone and family travel insurance (he doesn’t have a passport). He’ll also be able to earn £74/year interest if he has a credit balance of at least £2,500, but nothing on anything in excess of £2,500. And commission-free access to ATMs abroad (he doesn’t have a passport). All for £10/month. To my amazement, Uncle Bob seems able to resist this opportunity to give money to the Nationwide.

Getting real

I was watching an old sci-fi film this morning. A botanist arrived in the US with a Yeti, which he had captured in Tibet, and ran into some customs jobsworth, who decided that because some journalist had called the creature a “Snowman”, he needed an expert opinion on whether he should be asking the alleged “man” for a passport. It was about then that I realized why we have a public sector and quangos – to give people like that a place to go during the day when people doing a proper job are getting to grips with the real world.

Always up, never down

One of the staff noticed that someone has dared to complained about Sainsbury’s putting up the price of a Walls Vienetta by 27% to £1.90 on InYourFaceBook. The response from Sainsbury’s was that prices go up as well as down and everything the customer gets is value for money. In the experience of my observant staff member, prices go down only when stuff is on special offer – and temporarily – and they never go down otherwise. And shoving the price up by 27% is no way to give the customer anything approaching value for money.

Doesn’t add up

An observation by a correspondent to today’s Daily Disaster deserves repeating: If the nation is starving and relying on food banks for its next meal, as lots of bishops would have us believe, how come we’re supposed to be having an obesity crisis?

Costly cosmetics

The Justice Minister intends to make convicted criminals pay up to £600 towards court costs. Even those who plead guilty will have to pay the charge. It’s a noble ambition, but given the courts’ lamentable record for extracting cash from criminals; like letting them pay off huge sums at 50p/week so they don't run short of cigarette money; any cash raised is likely to be more than swallowed up by the admin costs.