No doubt that the recent riots, primarily in London but latterly spreading to other cities, will be followed by opposition calls for an end to austerity measures. If only it were so simple!

Long before cuts were mooted graduates were coming out with degrees but no jobs to go to. There’s a limit to the number of jobs available to graduates so there’s no point having loads of well-qualified people with nowhere to work. Then there’s the ‘stupid’ degrees like David Beckham studies (Staffordshire University, UK), that’s pretty useful in the world of work! Then, of course, despite all that expensive education they STILL can’t spell for shit…

Then there’s all the cannon-fodder that used to get mopped up by manual labouring jobs and the armed forces, but are now languishing on benefits because the armed forces are cutting back and immigrants take all the labouring jobs. It pays less than benefits anyway! Point is, there’s little or no social mobility any more so people see no chance of improving their lot – not that there’s a simple answer as far as I can see.

Politicians need to not only listen more, they need to DO more. Do more with the ideas they get from the electorate instead of fobbing people off as though they were mindless simpletons. Yes, Theresa May, we know you believe in policing by consent. Well, ask the people in the affected areas of London what they think about the riots and you’ll get your consent – to send in the Police with water-cannon, CS gas etc. and give the rioters a bloody good hiding.

While the Police do their job politicians should consider this. Politicians made the country what it is, engineered a situation where it was possible for a mob of mindless thugs to cripple whole swathes of a city, loot, maim and kill with impunity. Longer term, politicians should be thinking of ways to atone for previous mistakes.

Radical elements like Anders Behring Breivik put into action what many people think but can’t debate because it’s racist (or something else-ist).

Where there is something to rebel against there will be a small number of nutters prepared to go to extreme lengths.

It’s not racist to consider unmanaged immigration wrong. It’s not racist to want to retain your own culture while allowing others to retain theirs. And it’s not racist to state that IMHO multi-culturalism doesn’t work, will never work unless it happens in an evolutionary manner and it’s insulting to have it rammed down my throat.

That said, I’m not gonna go off shooting anyone! I’ve just stirred the pot a bit – what do you think?

However, I’m also sorry for all the workers who have not only lost their jobs but in many cases their pensions too as companies have failed during the recession. As for front-line services it’s not clear how the Government will prevent the likes of NHS management protecting non-jobs at the expense of medical staff. Rank and file Public Sector workers will take the biggest hit while their managers and the non-jobs will simply remain where they are. Public Sector is massively top-heavy, generally overstaffed and riddled with diversity officers and the like but what will they do to save money?

Correct! Make lollipop ladies redundant, refuse to take a reduction in their fat-cat salaries and blame someone else for their inadequacies.

Unfortunately, some people still don’t get it! The country is on it’s way to a national debt of a TRILLION pounds. The austerity measures will not reduce this, only prevent it from spiralling out of control. Unfortunately, many people seem to think that the national economy should be just like the millions of debt-laden idiots who make up the population.

The fact is, if we don’t achieve genuine savings then our World standing will be badly affected, it will cost us more to borrow and we could end up like Greece, Ireland or Portugal.

I know which I’d rather be.

• I’ve just finished my soundproof room where parents can come and slap their children secure in the knowledge that the EU will never know!
• A second room has been converted into a bar – non-smokers will NOT be permitted.
• I’ve started a fund to pay for Mark Gilbert, the thief who stole money from his boss, to be humiliated on a weekly basis or until he hands back the compensation he won.
• I’m currently working on a new diet plan. It is equally suitable for men and women (no sexism here!) and will feature Full English breakfasts, beer, chocolate and a host of other goodies.
• I won’t be having unmarried couples sharing a bed in my hotel, gay or otherwise. If they don’t like it they can bugger off!
  

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In the first instance, oil companies do not drill for petrol they drill for oil, bit of a give-away in the name! Petrol is what’s left after all the good bits have been drawn off and oil goes into the manufacture of far more than petrol. For example, Ammonia, Anaesthetics, Antihistamines, Artificial limbs, Artificial Turf, Antiseptics, Aspirin, Auto Parts and Awnings are all made from oil! All of these products have higher profit margins than petrol which is only profitable when sold in high volume.

Secondly, there are literally hundreds of refineries throughout the world most of which people have probably never heard of i.e. Silver Eagle Refining Inc., Wyoming. They’re one of the top 140 in the US, wonder where their petrol goes? Most of the BP stations are not actually owned by BP but are small businesses in their own right. BP petrol has a few additives that make it the brand BP but these are often not put in until the last moment so that the ‘raw’ petrol could be sold to someone else such as Asda or Texaco. Yes, oil companies buy from each other! Outlets such as Asda, Sainsbury and Tesco might buy petrol from several suppliers so you’ll never know whose petrol they are selling today.

If you stop buying BP petrol they’ll simply sell it to someone else and you’ll get it at Asda or one of thousands of other outlets.

The ONLY way you can lower the cost of petrol is reduce the amount used. Lowering the demand will push the price down.

Students complain about their ‘right’ to a free education but what about my right to have my contribution to society used in an equitable manner? For example, if the Country needs particular skills then why not offer incentives to students to study in those areas? Thus, it would cost more to study degrees that were of no interest to anyone but the student. Another thing, all this hot air about ‘baby boomers’ pulling up the ladder of opportunity is just that – hot air. The proportion of ‘baby boomers’ studying for a degree was around 4%, nowadays the proportion of the population has risen to 40% yet there is no evidence that the Country has fully benefited from it’s investment given the proportion of degrees in useless subjects.

Additionally, the blinkered approach by many learning institutions leads to a glut of graduates who simply cannot think laterally. In other words, if it’s not in the book it must be wrong! Furthermore, there’s a great deal to be said for not taking a degree in the first place! We seem to be building a World where no-one can actually do anything and have devalued those people who can work with their hands. Yet, the local electrician can’t be outsourced – well, would you bring one in from Delhi?

I think students should consider very carefully whether the degree they desire will be of any value, they should stop assuming that they have a right to an education and then a right to a well-paid job when they graduate. They should consider that tax-payers have a right to object to their money being wasted – who pays for Student Unions that organise protests? Tax-payers. Maybe if students could decide whether they wanted to support Student Unions those unions would have considerably less funding. Sadly, ALL students are automatically ‘conscripted’ and tax-payers automatically pay.

I suggest the students, and their unions, keep it down – if tax-payers protest they might find themselves unceremoniously pitched out of of their cushy life and looking for a job at minimum wage!

Huddersfield Gunman Shot Dead

In the early hours of this morning a gunman in Kirkheaton near Huddersfield was shot and killed by Police. The gunman was involved in a stand-off with Police who had gone to arrest him the previous night during which event one of their number was shot by the man. Well, in these austere times we can’t be wasting money trying, convicting and jailing criminals so it all turned out rather well. In fact, I would encourage other criminals to wave firearms at the Police and get themselves shot thus saving taxpayers money and reducing the number of idiots on the loose. What of the Snowdrop campaign? Well, given that the number of illegal hand-guns in circulation went up by 40% in the 2 years following the ban it was about as much use as a chocolate fireguard!

Homosexual Celebrity Parents

Two gay men can’t become parents of the same child. In fact, I would argue that homosexual partners should not become parents until we can identify the child as having similarly tendencies. A straight child in a gay family? That’s just wrong. When the ‘parents’ are celebrities, like Elton John and David Furnish (Xmas day birth), children are often regarded as fashion accessories just like pets and handbags. While we are on the subject, gay couples can have their civil ceremonies – I have no problem with that but marriage? No! Stick with the civil ceremony, get the tax breaks, no problem, but stay away from my beliefs.

Jeremy Clarkson and the Burka

When this popped up in the news I thought he’d been wearing one but no, Clarkson was simply suggesting that the burka was an excellent way of preventing drivers being distracted by attractive young lady pedestrians. Having made a number of comments his suggestion that a young lady wearing a burka had tumbled revealing saucy underwear and stockings upset a number of viewers. I found it all rather amusing and typically controversial for Clarkson and Top Gear. With many countries considering a ban of the burka, I would extend the wearing of the burka (and hijab) making them compulsory for ugly women and fat people of both sexes. After all, it’s not just distraction we need to avoid on our busy roads but shock and abject terror can be dangerous too!

Lies, lies and more lies…

Governments don’t like it when information ‘leaks’ out to the public, nor do big organisations. Although neither appear to think information suppression is a problem! The hoi-polloi (that’s me and you) should have access to only ‘appropriate’ information. Or in other words, only such information as we are capable of ‘handling’. Of course, ‘appropriate’ and ‘handling’ are defined by the people keeping the information secret…hence Julian Assange’s current problems!

It doesn’t matter if Governments leak information, either deliberately or accidentally, that’s called politics or a cock-up, respectively. For example, many believe that the pre-budget ‘leak’ suggested the budget would be worse than it actually was and, when the budget was finally delivered, it wasn’t so bad! However, no-one gets taken to task about it either way.

Nor does it matter if big organisations suppress information, that’s business! You try and discover what the ACTUAL electricity tariff is in your area and see how many hoops you have to jump through…

Why being a lollipop lady sucks

Hundreds of lollipop ladies (and men) up and down the country are being made redundant in efforts by local authorities to save money. As a result, children’s lives may be put at risk in their journey to and from school. I do wonder how many non-essential local authority jobs are also going – you know the ones – Diversity Officer springs to mind. I suspect no member of an ethnic minority group will be injured if they are not aware of walking routes in the Lake District.

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Yep, Wagner!

And this is a singing competition?

Fuck off – you’re taking the piss

Getting bailed out by the EU has a major sting in the tail as Ireland are finding out – they’ll have to raise more tax for the horrifyingly expensive and disorganised Brussels which has failed for 16 years in a row to get its accounts signed off by an auditor! So, with Brussels hovering like vultures, any rational government is going to go for cuts rather than ‘help’. It won’t be without some pain though.

There’ll probably be more protests like the recent one on student fees – curiously, most attendees wanted a peaceful protest but a minority, as usual, turned it into something considerably more serious. Interestingly, most of the troublemakers appeared to come from backgrounds that could easily afford to absorb the additional costs. The silent majority are, regrettably, rather apathetic.

Another downside will probably be the services that get cut. For example, I hear much talk about cutting rubbish collections and turning street lights off to save money but nothing about getting rid of non-jobs like Diversity Officer. So, services the taxpayer wants will be affected while services the loony left wants will be protected.

Maybe it’s time the silent majority of taxpayers staged a protest! After all, we’re paying.

Pete and Sam Smith complain that their £95,000 per year for sitting on their fat arses doing absolutely sweet FA is just not enough! Well, they can fuck off, why should I, and you, pay for them to toss it off? Not happening. Get off your lazy fat backsides and do summat.

I make breakfast, they get theirs delivered – on us! Lazy, ignorant, fat, arseholes…

Still, then there’s Wayne Rooney – OMG, Manchester United isn’t good enough for me, I’m worth £1,000,000 a month! HELLO! Wake up and smell the coffee you spoilt child – in a recession here and your earnings are disgusting. You play like an old woman too you tosser – you did what, exactly, in the World Cup?

The savings can be made easily – just get rid of the toss-off jobs like ‘Diversity Officer’, ‘Multicultural Integration Director’. Exactly what do these useless bastards do?

In the meantime, people who REALLY deserve some help get fuck all – hoo-fucking-rar!