Working Today To Instil Fear In Our Future

Please, no. Is this indoctrination, or merely misguided?

Primary school pupils are to be shown a film about the dangers of terrorists as part of an organised safety day.

More than 2,000 10 and 11-year-olds will see a short film, which urges them to tell the police, their parents or a teacher if they hear anyone expressing extremist views.

Beg pardon? An extremist view for that age group is a classmate saying that Drake and Josh are better than Zack and Cody. Using kids of 10 and 11 for surveillance is not only worrying, it's downright obscene. Some may even term it child abuse as it necessarily strips away a child's natural innocence and instead instils suspicion and fear in its place.

I'm one of the 'some'.

It uses cartoon animals to get across safety messages.

A lion explains that terrorists can look like anyone, while a cat tells pupils that should get help if they are being bullied and a toad tells them how to cross the road.

Terrorists can look like anyone? And this is being fed to pre-pubescents? For Chrissake anyone with any agenda can look like anyone else. MPs sometimes look like respectable members of the public, for example.

What on earth were those who dreamed up this initiative thinking? And since when did a toad become the expert on crossing the fucking road?

Kids that young being subjected to this is nothing but a sinister and errant waste of time and resources. I have two of about the same age and their eyes glaze over when the news is on, it may as well be broadcast in Greek. Yet Lancashire police think kids who haven't yet reached secondary school are able to accurately identify the surreptitious verbal signals of a potential terrorist?

Expect a host of tip-offs to the police soon, from terrified kids in East Lancs, who believe Joel's mum is a terrorist because one of them heard her say she wanted to bang Kyle's dad.

You couldn't make ... nope, must resist that cliché.

H/T Alex Massie

Quote Of The Day

Brown’s approach is to speak loftily of all the things that are going to happen in the future, as though he had a future.

Lord Tyler writing on Lords of the Blog.

Not bad for a Liberal Socialist Democrat.

Banana Skins - Sunhats For Starfish

Oh yes.

COMPANIES. Instead of employing over paid IT staff, simply buy a load of parrots and teach them to say 'turn it off and then on again'.

GENTLEMEN. Next time you are making love with a lady, cross your eyes and Hey Presto! That 3some with twins that you've always dreamed of!

HOMELESS people. Lighten your load by not buying a dog.

GIRLS. GET those old 70s bell-bottoms from the wardrobe, cut the legs off and sew them back on upside down. They will then fit you once more

MUMS. Confuse your children by mixing butter with "I can't Believe It's Not Butter" They won't know what to believe.

Phew! Life just got that little bit easier as Viz Top Tips are now available via Twitter.

Updated very regularly too, so best viewed as additional lunchtime reading along with the Mash.

H/T Liberal England

"They'll Just Have To Die"

At least the fictional DeVille only wanted Dalmatians dead, the real one (above) is happy to see humans dying in order to save a little bit of NHS money.

The clip below is what Jane DeVille-Almond (not only unspeakably evil, but a nut too) came out with on live radio this morning. Anti-smokers have always been bigoted, hateful cunts, but I think this woman has reached new depths, don't you?



She describes herself as a 'Nurse Consultant' on her web-site, where she advertises her services.

Jane runs training courses for nurses, doctors and other health care professionals throughout the UK and has also worked in Europe and the Far East.

Yes, that's right. She advocates a policy of allowing people to die and she trains nurses and doctors. I'm not sure the National Death Service blog quite intended the description to be as literal as that, but there you go.

This anti-smoker jihad, because that's about the only way to describe it, is reaching fanatical proportions now. When someone, anyone, feels that it is acceptable to talk about allowing others to die simply because they disagree with their lifestyle, we are talking a new healthist religion based on pure hatred and the power of money over humanity.

It wouldn't be quite so stunningly vile if there was any credibility in the mathematics. As Mark Wadsworth quite rightly points out, these are merely one-sided statistics designed to further stigmatise a perfectly legal activity. Smokers pay many times more into the tax system than they take out.

The originators are the British Heart Foundation, by the way. You may wish to remember that the next time someone asks you to sponsor them for the London to Brighton bike ride, or when one of their little red tins is rattled in your face outside Tesco. Your pennies would be better spent on a proper charity which doesn't stir up prejudice and bigotry on the back of over £4m of our taxes.

On the plus side. A thick, blinkered shitstick, as is Cruella, will be blissfully unaware that setting off along this road is a start to a completely privatised health service where demand for her services will be more strictly monitored. Once the precedent is set, drinkers, those who eat the wrong foods, participants in dangerous sports, all are fair game for extra charges. Then onto those who injure themselves doing something they shouldn't ... and how long before not adhering to health and safety directives makes your injury 'self-inflicted' and liable to an extra charge?

If it brings down the archaic structure of a health service that is 60 years out-of-date and unfit for purpose, in favour of something sensible which cuts out waste including, dare I say it, idiotic 'nurse consultants' who add no value whatso-fucking-ever, then I'm all for it.

In the meantime, though, let's hope this disgusting, arrogant, hideous cunt, who has made her living leeching off the NHS, is repaid for her trousering of our taxes by contracting something MRSA-like and dying painfully on a trolley in a hospital corridor which hasn't been cleaned due to budget cuts.

Considering her earlier comments, I think I'm being quite generous there.

Snap Happy

I understand their advert for a volunteer cameraman only attracted 4,782 responses.

Staggered

Did a nurse really just say on radio 5live, that smokers should be made to pay for treatment, and if they can't afford it that they should be allowed to die?

Yes, she did.

Might do more on this later

Excuses, Excuses

Viewing some of last night's Euro election coverage from the building site that is my home at the moment, it was amusing to see one delusional Labourite after another trotting out their own interpretations of why their support deserted them.

They have seemingly convinced themselves firstly that it was the expenses issue which has slayed them, and secondly that the BNP success was bad but ... err ... not their fault. They really don't get it, do they?

Andy Burnham, yet again appearing to possess the personality of a piece of cardboard, with political dynamism to match, reacted to the public's brutal arse-fucking of his party by blathering on about how sad it was for democracy that the BNP had managed to get two MEPs elected.

Pardon me, but it's the exact opposite. I'm not a politics graduate, but I always believed that the votes of the people were the driving force behind democracy. Burnham (and assorted other knob-cheeses wheeled out for the MSM today) seem to think that democracy is only such when the public vote for who the righteous consider acceptable.

I'm certainly no fan of the BNP, but surely the fact that just shy of a million voters supported them, despite the widespread warnings from all major parties, would suggest that the Lib/Lab/Con powerhouse have got something very badly wrong.

It's not a failure of democracy, you wibbling fool, it's proof that posturing twats like you have pitifully failed to address the concerns of a large proportion of your electorate.

Harriet Harman was also spouting drivel this morning on 5 live, blaming it all on the expenses scandal. Her reasoning for the effect only being felt in extremis by Labour, was bizarre. Apparently, it's because Labour voters expect Tories to cheat, but are disgusted when Labour politicians do so. She mentioned hard-working families (natch) and how they are struggling to pay their bills while MPs appear to be taking the proverbial.

I suppose she may be partly correct, but how does she square her fantasy view of Labour as the party which looks after the poor, with the fact that her government have introduced hundreds of new laws, backed by RIPA and other instruments, which all seem to end with crippling fines for the most minor of trangressions?

Is it just rich people who get stung for £80 when they drop a cigarette butt, Harriet? Do those on minimum wage get a discount when the council use Labour's guidelines to charge them for putting the wrong thing in the wrong bin? Who will be most affected by being caught by one of your soon-to-be-rolled-out-everywhere-except-the-Isle-of-Lundy average speed cameras, a stockbroker or a bin man?

Labour failed dismally simply because they have completely forgotten which type of person has always voted for them. The higher echelons of Labour may now be champagne socialists, but the guys who finish their day with bitumen-covered overalls aren't.

It is quite fitting that Labour should have suffered their worst poll result for 100 years as it was probably that long ago since working class people have been as contemptuously ignored, derided and demonised.

Armies of wardens and state-paid snoopers roam the streets looking to inflict a hefty sum for innocuous and irrelevant misdeeds, Labour have mooted taxing chocolate, banning happy hours, increasing alcohol prices, and have condemned 12 million smokers as undesirable and not worthy of a voice. You may notice that all the aforementioned are disproportionately enjoyed by the less well-off ... who are more inclined, usually, to vote Labour.

They have cheated on consultations, lied as to the reasoning for legislation, forced through authoritarian rules which hit the poorest hardest, and not even bothered to try to find out what their core vote think about it all.

As for racism, Labour can idealise as much as they like, but tribalism, being a human frailty, will never be entirely eradicated and, in my experience, it is discernibly more prevalent the further down the social scale you go.

Lastly, after a Euro election in which voters sent a massive hint that we really don't want to be in the EU, not one Labour politician (that I have heard) mentioned the fact that Labour reneged on their promise of a referendum.

This is the first time since 2005 that the mass of disaffected voters have had a chance to say what they think of Labour. They are fed up with being hectored, they are angry at being lied to, and incensed that the economy is hurting them yet there is no let up to the all-encompassing dictatorial nature of this administration. They probably might like to go to the pub to forget it all, but if it hasn't closed already (thanks to another Labour manifesto lie from 2005), it's no doubt been turned from a working man's local into a gastro-bar or a wacky warehouse to try to stay afloat.

Labour have only themselves to blame for their predicament. Not the expenses, not the BNP, just pure unadulterated arrogance on their part in marginalising their natural support.

Fortunately for a Labour-hater, they don't seem to have spotted the problem, so let's keep it under our hats, eh? With any luck, this lot of self-regarding cock-sockets will spend the time till the general election further disenfranchising those on whom they would normally rely, and be unelectable for a generation or more.

UPDATE: Thanks to Mrs R in the comments for this.

A teacher claims he was removed from a bus by police after he stubbed a cigarette out on the pavement.

Stephen Cook, 49, from Finsbury Park, was outside Archway Tube station when he threw his cigarette on to the pavement. He said five wardens appeared to issue him with a £50 fine. Mr Cook, who said there were no ashtrays outside the station, refused to accept it and walked away to catch a bus.

He said Islington wardens called the police and minutes later they arrived with sirens sounding to tell him to get off the bus and accept the fine.

Just to recap. This is Labour, who are striving for the very best conditions for those tasked with providing education (education, education) in our country ... unless it contravenes their authoritarianism and money-spunking.

Yep, it's the expenses stuff that stole their votes, without doubt (Shhhh!).