Peter Davies - The Times

Another article on Peter here
Some good reading in the remarks
And another here from the Telegraph

New UK Gov Poll

YouGov UK has changed around it's website so I popped over for a look around, there was a nifty little mini-poll so I thought I would stick it up here for you .....

Un-PC Super Mayor

Good article here about DoncastorDoncaster's Mayor Peter Davies, you should browse the comments too!

Devolved

Gordon Brown the UK prime minister sent a message yesterday to congratulate the England cricket team on winning the ashes. As with the release of the Lockerbie terrorist by the Scottish Parliament the ECB should reply to Mr Brown, thanks but keep your nose out of our English devolved matters!

St George's Family Tree

This is a protest song. Ordinary English people are often criticised in the press and elsewhere for having lost their sense of identity. Hardly surprising really when according to the Department of Statistics the English will be an ethnic minority in England by 2050, courtesy of British Socialist Governments and their invasive, long-term, large-scale immigration policies; out-of-control social engineering and experimental multiculturalism. Is it a crime for English people to want England to remain essentially English? Jack Cropper

Nice one Della

Today's Sun Newspaper £50 letter.

Embarrassing Video

What is so embarrassing about this video? It is not Phil Tufnel's singing or the bastardised version of 'two little boys'
It is the use of the British flag, the flag that represents Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.
These ENGLISH cricket supporters have sadly forgotten what their ENGLISH flag looks like thanks to the Britishisation of the people of England.
Don't believe me?
Just count the BRITISH television programmes currently running in the UK and the BRITISH food plugged by our supermarkets. The government wants you to believe that the Scots are Scots, the Welsh are Welsh, the Irish are Irish and the English are British.
Good English word for this ........ Bollocks!

Ending the Banking Crisis?

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three 'nanoseconds' must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it. I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my Pension, an arrangement which, I admit, has been in place for only thirty eight years. You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account £30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.

My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways.

I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and letters, when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, re-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become. From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person. My mortgage and loan payments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank by cheque, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate.

Be aware that it is an offence under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope.

Please find attached an Application Contact Status which I require your chosen employee to complete. I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative. Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Solicitor, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof.

In due course, I will issue your employee with a PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modeled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service.

As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Let me level the playing field even further. When you call me, press buttons as follows:

1-- To make an appointment to see me.

2-- To query a missing payment.

3-- To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.

4-- To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.

5-- To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.

6-- To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home.

7-- To leave a message on my computer (a password to access my computer is required. A password will be communicated to you at a later date to the Authorized Contact.)

8-- To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through 8

9-- To make a general complaint or inquiry, the contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service. While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.

Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an
establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement. May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous, New Year.

Your Humble Client

Change

Politicians and nappies have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.

1st Comment

This weeks Panorama on the BBC was another programme about the devolution and parliament belonging to those poor people in the north of Britain and asking them if the Union is safe or would they like independence etc etc etc etc etc zzzzzzzzzzz To be honest I am getting a little fed up with the high coverage of the media, newspapers and TV about the concerns and happiness of about 5 million people of the United Kingdom when there are easily over 50 million who have never ever been asked anything about their devolution, independence etc etc etc and probably never will.
I left a comment with the Panorama programme and got it published, and number 1 too, go me!

Thank You

Armed Forces Day today ...
Thank You

Take a look into the eyes of a veteran and tell me if you are able to find

The secret place which is deep inside the darkness of his mind

There lie the things he cannot share and the tears that have yet to flow

If you find that place then you will see why his eyes have lost their glow

He carries his burden in silence, though his eyes reflect his pain

For once he’s asleep the battle begins again and again and again

Take a look into the eyes of a veteran and tell me what you can see

Seems strange to call him a veteran as he is still only twenty three

Peter Southern

They have all done their job and claimed no expenses .....

What's the difference ....

What's the difference between Forrest Gump and Gordon Brown?
One's a retard who ran the whole country even though no-one asked him to,
hang on...

Bottom Three

Look at the bottom three positions from the election in St Ives.
Yes, even the Monster Raving Loony Party beat Labour.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha .... just wet meself :D

What Allowances?

I'm sorry but am I missing something here? The MP's allowances and corruption that has dominated the media and the country these last few weeks ended for me when I recieved an email from my local MP, a long email.
James Duddridge, Conservative (Southend on Sea) wrote a very very long email titled Parliamentary Allowances, he was trying to explain why he was the 102nd most expensive MP in 2007-2008, (two of his staff got pregnant!). James however did not 'flip' his main and second homes and also he did not get taxpayers to buy furniture for his London flat, he got 'hand-me-downs' There then appeared a long list of what he had claimed (within the rules) and how Mr Cameron was clamping down on all of the naughty MP's who had, 'within the rules' stolen from the taxpayer.
Anyway to cut this short, (I'm not a big writer) just to emphasise to James exactly how I felt I replied in a very short email:

Hi James,
I honestly can't see how you manage, I live in Southend on Sea and work in Greenwich, London, I work 24/7 shifts, consisting of Nights/Days/Earlies and Lates, sometimes when other staff do not show up I do a maximum allowed of 12 hours, (within the rules) on these occasions it is pointless coming home to sleep for 8 hours so I find myself on an old mattress in a porta cabin.
I commute 100 miles 5 - 6 times a week, I have to use the car as I cannot afford to use the train, also public transport would not get me to work on time for some of my shifts.
I do all of this for £26,000 a year. I get no allowances and pay all of my bills and taxes, also I am not in debt.
My heart bleeds for you mate, we obviously live in different worlds politicians and I, mine being the real one. It's a good job the Taxpayers Alliance is not a political party eh?

Regards
Tommy

England 2018

David Beckham , Wayne Rooney and erm ... some Scottish guy with the bid for the World Cup 2018 to be held in ENGLAND

BNP faked lies

An ex-Guardsman branded the BNP “scumbags” last night for using his photo and faked words on an election flyer.

Former Scots Guards NCO Stuart Walker, 37, was shocked to see a picture of himself in uniform outside Buckingham Palace on a poll leaflet.

Beside it, implying he would back the racist party in the Euro elections, were words criticising kit shortages and soldiers being “abused” by Muslims.

Stuart, who left the Army in 1997, first knew about it when it dropped through a relative’s letterbox. The dad-of-two, now a corporate manager in London, said he rang the BNP’s offices to complain and was told to “f*** off”.

He told The Sun: “I was completely outraged when I saw this leaflet. I think they got the photo off a website and the quote they’ve made up. They are scumbags and I’d never vote for them in a million years.”

The BNP is also reported to have used shots of US actors and Italian OAPs to represent British voters.

How could the BNP hope to run a country, when they cannot even run an election campaign without stealing and lying, who do they think they are? UK Politicians!

Goodbyeee Goodbyee

And sent him homeward
Tae think again
(Wonder if he'll join the SNP now?)

Wouldn't it be cool to have an English speaker this time?
"Would the honourable gentleman sit down and shut his gob! we are discussing England and English matters and this has fuck all to do with the minister of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath or his constituents"

Joke

Last night I broke into the local bank, blew open the door into the strongroom and spent four hours with a blowtorch cutting my way into the safe. Filling several bags with used notes I was making my gettaway when all the alarms went off and I was surrounded by the law.

"Good grief!" said plod "How on earth did you get so far without the alarm getting tripped?"

They had to let me go when I quite rightly pointed out that I am an MP and that it wasn't me but the system that was at fault.

TED on the Telly

Monday 18th May - sees the first English nationalist broadcast to all of England!

Don't miss the English Democrats' party election broadcast:-
Broadcast Date & Times
Monday 18th May -
BBC2 17:55
ITV1 18.25
BBC1 18:55

TED have a couple of good ones on youtube:

Do you get a fair deal from the "National" Health Service?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFIzHASuwzc

School Dinners.... is it fair some children are valued less than others?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCT8_N6yblo

Unfair University Fees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCnFhToPsKA

Whoops

Well I have been neglecting my little blog, very sorry, the accumulation of night shifts and a few family problems have kept me away for a while and I also have been playing away so to speak on face-book. So, what have I missed, it has been 'revealed' by the Daily Telegraph what we have all known for many many years .. our politicians are not to be trusted and surprise surprise (not) have been ripping of the taxpayer, isn't this just another example of why England should have it's own parliament with English MP's that are accountable to the English electorate?
I mean the last person to enter parliament with honest intentions was Guy Fawkes.
It is only 99% of MP's that give the rest a bad name!
The only time politicians tell the truth is when they call each other liars.
Time for an election I think.

Sickipedia Gems

Recession is when your neighbour loses his job.

Depression is when you lose your job.

Recovery is when Gordon Brown loses his.
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I’ve proudly got a St George’s flag flying at the bottom of my garden.

It’s a flag I borrowed off my neighbour, a former French soldier.

All I had to do was paint the cross on it.
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What's white and takes no shit?

A blocked toilet.
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Carrying on Sickipedia's tradition of posts which can offend a large proportion of the population, here is another:

Happy St George's Day
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"I'm always getting myspace and facebook mixed up - I keep telling people to come on MYFACE!"
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99% of politicians give the rest a bad name
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A Royal Marine is on a street corner in Basra, leaning against a wall and picking his fingernails with his bayonet. Suddenly, an Arab terrorist runs around the corner, straight onto the end of the bayonet. 15 times.
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The other day I was watching the football on Sky, and it said you can go 'Interactive' by pressing the red button on the remote.

I pressed mine and the telly went off.
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Spring is here and our native birds are feeding. Please go to the pet shop and buy a mesh bag of nuts for our feathered friends.

There is nothing finer on a spring morning than a pair of tits around your nut bag....

..but remember, its a bit early in the year for a swallow.
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and finally...

Today is St George's Day.

Apparently, its the second most important National Feast in Catalonia, Spain.

Nice to see someone is allowed to celebrate it, eh?

No to bank holiday

On BBC's Question Time tonight, the final question was 'should St George' Day be a bank holiday for England?
There was three MP's on the panel, John Denham, Labour. Philip Hammond, Conservative. and Vince Cable, Liberal Democrats. This was the one question that they all agreed that it would not be a good idea to give England's hard working taxpayers an extra day off. How arogant is that when they have awarded themselves 12 WEEKS summer holiday in order to spend the 2.3% pay rise they awarded themselves.
Oliver Crommwell must be rolling in his grave!

Happy St George's Day

Whats on St Georges Day

Courtesy if Englandism
Check out this google maps page to see whats on St Georges Day in England

Fence Post Tortoise

While stitching up the hand of a 75 year old Norfolk farmer, who cut it on a gate while working cattle, the rural doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Gordon Brown and his appointment as Prime Minister. "Well, you know," drawled the old farmer, "this Brown fellow is what they call a fencepost tortoise."

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a fencepost tortoise was.

The old farmer said, "When you're driving along a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that's called a fencepost tortoise."

The old farmer saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain, "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he definitely doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just have to wonder what kind of idiot put him up there in the first place."

3 Wishes

A starving asylum seeker is greeted at Dover by a Good Fairy who grants him 3 wishes.
"I'm hungry" he says. POW! A banquet table appears.
"I want a nice house" he says. POW! A mansion with a swimming pool appears.
"I want to be a real Englishman" POW! Everything vanishes!
Asylum seekers asks "Where's everything gone?"

Fairy says "You're a real Englishman now, and entitled to FUCK ALL!"

Regionalism, the answer?

I kept wondering exactly where the government went wrong when they adopted the EU plan for Regionalism within the UK. Obviously they started well by creating 'regions' 4 - 5 million people big in line with the EU rules, but the BIG mistake they made is quite simple.
They divided the UK into Nations.
Well they were nations before, but they gave devolution and regional parliament/assemblies to Scotland (nation) Wales (nation) Northern Ireland (dunno) and then became stuck when they dropped the Nationalism and decided to chop up England (nation) into manageable amounts. Obviously the English said 'you are not choppin' my country up! go and screw yourself', or they would, if any government dared to offer a referendum on this.
Here is what they did on the map below.
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So what if they had ignored nationalism?, which by the way, they now say will destroy the Union, if they grant the same to England.
What if they had simply divided the UK into equal parts ignoring the Nations?
Like below....


You would now have been engulfed in EU regionalism. Nobody complaining, but most importantly .. no 'region' could have successfully voted in a referendum to LEAVE the EU if they did not have the agreement from ALL of the other regions.
And that is why they want it. Total control over the UK.

Them and Us

Is it me or is there something really wrong with these two articles?
Army £40 million
Straw £130 million

The money on Straw should have been spent on the Armed forces.
I think it is called 'prioritising' not 'fuck you mate, I'm all right'

Gordon Who?

The Gorgeous English Roses Alesha Dixon and Cheryl Cole meeting some Scottish guy.

Afghanistan - Worthless - SAS Major

"The operations that we are conducting are so worthless. It's just crazy to think we hold that ground or have any influence on what goes on beyond the bases."
S.A.S. Major Morley who resigned due to lack of resources and because a minister lied about the death of four of his troops.
He said: "I had to resign. I had warned them (the MoD) time and time again that there were going to be needless deaths if we were not given the right equipment, and they ignored this advice. There is blood on their hands."
Read it here
So if our government doesn't listen to the S.A.S who do they listen to?

H/T Theo Spark

St George's Day

No one calls it racist
When the daffodil's worn in Wales
Or is offended by their dragon
With its forked tail and scales


When St Patrick’s day comes round
And the shamrock's being worn
The Irish are not treated
With insult or with scorn


If a Scotsman on St Andrew’s day
Hoists his flag aloft
He’s not proclaimed a fascist
Or ridiculed or scoffed


So when St George's Day arrives
We English men won't hide
For Elizabeth, England & St George
We’ll wear our Rose with pride

Taken from Susan on Facebook
I added a verse ...

But fly the St George's Cross
And shout 'England 'til I die'
And you'll be branded racist
And the question we all ask is... Why?

An open letter to the internet. RE: UK PM

It is my duty to pass on this open letter to Mr Gordon Brown, feel free to copy and pass it on,

The Right Honourable
Gordon Brown MP
10 Downing Street,
London
SW1A 2AA

Sunday, 15 February 2009
Prime Minister

An open letter demanding your resignation.

Your position is untenable and, I as a citizen of Great Briton demand your
instant resignation.
You are unelected, have no popular mandate and lack the moral authority
to be Prime Minister. Your terms as Chancellor and Prime Minister have
been a total disaster for this nation and your attempt to cling on to power
at all costs show a complete contempt for this nation and displays your
absolute vanity and thirst for political power.

I list below some of the mistakes made by you during your time in public
office. If as a director of a limited company you had made similar mistakes
you would be subject to criminal prosecution and banned from being a
company director. As a Government minister the standards exercised
should be significantly higher than those exercised by a company director,
you have failed to maintain those standards and are unfit for public office.

Banking Supervision: You transferred responsibility for banking
supervision to the Financial Services Authority from the Bank of
England so directly laying the seeds of the current banking crisis.

Banking Crisis: The initial response to the Northern Rock crisis was so
slow as to be glacial and ultimately led to the damage done to the
whole banking sector. A strong Prime Minister would have provided
depositors with a guarantee that their deposits were safe and the bank run would have stopped. Ultimately the same guarantee would
have ensured that the HBOS and RBS debacle would not have been
so severe.

Criminal Negligence: The entire UK banking crisis has been caused by
a lack of supervision under the regulatory regime set up by you, any
man of honour would have resigned upon seeing the damage caused.

Vanity: You have used the banking crisis to attempt to advance your
personal standing and political career at the expense of the nation.

Lack of Judgment: You have made three serious errors of judgmentin your appointment of advisers on the current financial crisis.

1. Your choice of banker to compile a report on ideas for improving public health was Sir Derek Wanless. a Northern Rock director when it imploded in 2007.

2. You appointed Sir James Crosby, the former HBOS CEO, to the boardof the FSA who then had to resign after becoming embroiled in therow over failings of risk management at HBOS.

3. It now also appears that Glen Moreno will be forced out of his job, as chairman of UK Financial Investments Ltd, the company set up to oversee the government’s stake in the bailed-out banks, because of his links with a Liechtenstein trust accused of tax evasion. You Fantasize: By clinging to the idea that, thanks to your genius British citizens are far better placed than competitors to handle this crisis. The following two facts demonstrate that this is a fantasy:-

1. The Office for National Statistics' revelation that while the number of foreign workers getting jobs in the UK continues to grow (up by 175,000 to 2.4 million last year), domestic unemployment is rising sharply.

2. According to Business Monitor International, a research company specialising in country risk, "Britain is facing an unprecedented fall in its economic world ranking… from 12th place in 2007 to 21st in 2010". "Despite enjoying 11 years of growth between 1997 and 2007, the UK ran a budget deficit of 1.7 per cent of GDP over this period, fuelling a fiscal time bomb. Faced with the financial burden of bailing out the banking sector and kick-starting the economy, the budget deficit will swell to an unsustainable 9.3 per cent of GDP in 2009."

Public spending: Your 2000 Spending Review presaged a major expansion of government spending, without any significant benefit to public services, directly leading to the UK being in the worst shape of any industrialised nation to weather the current financial crisis. You have colluded in hiding the full extent of public borrowing by using PFI initiatives to hide the borrowings off balance sheet. PFI is the most expensive and inefficient form of finance possible, and you have saddled the country with a debt that you cannot even quantify. Jeremy Pocklington, leader of the Treasury’s corporate and private finance team, could only give a rough estimate to Richard Bacon that the total liabilities, but not debt, from the vast majority of PFIs, but not all, from 2006-07 to 2032-33, but not beyond, is £157.9bn. That is not only astounding but unbelievable.

Public sector Employment: The office for national Statistics shows Public sector employment was 5,846,000 (20.4 per cent of all in employment) in June 2005, 680,000 (13.2 per cent) higher than in June 1998, whereas from 1998 to 2005 private sector employment only rose by 1,241,000 (5.7 per cent). This growth is unsustainable and wrong.

Growth: An OECD report shows UK economic growth averaged 2.7% between 1997 and 2006, lower than in any other English speaking country.

Gold sales: Between 1999 and 2002 you sold 60% of the UK's gold reserves at $275 an ounce, close to a 20-year low, a disastrous foray into international asset management.

Your spectrum auctions gathered £22.5 billion for the government which caused a severe recession in the telecoms development industry leading to the direct loss of 30,000 UK jobs. Two auctions were run in the USA, the first being cancelled and re-run (for less revenue) due to damage caused to the industry. The Americans realised their mistake and tried to rectify it. The British and German chancellors copied the
North American first auction; which had failed. To copy a failed
economic model is normally considered a serious error of judgement.

Your East Coast Mainline franchise auction led directly to the demise of
GNER, an excellent company, which was replaced by National Express
who offer East Coast mainline users a significantly poorer service. Your
duty was not only to maximise revenues, you also had a duty to the
shareholders, employees and customers which you completely failed.

Anti-poverty: The Centre for Policy Studies found that the poorest fifth
of households, which accounted for 6.8% of all taxes in 1996–7,
accounted for 6.9% of all taxes paid in 2004-5. Meanwhile, their share
of state benefit payouts dropped from 28.1% to 27.1% over the same
period.

Tax: According to the OECD UK taxation has increased from a 39.3%
share of gross domestic product in 1997 to 42.4% in 2006, going to a
higher level than Germany. This increase has mainly been attributed to
active government policy, and not simply to the growing economy.

You pledged to not increase the basic or higher rates of income tax
however in all but your final budget, you only increased the tax
thresholds in line with inflation, rather than earnings, resulting in fiscal
drag.

You abolished the 10% tax band so that you could reduce the basic rate
from 22% to 20%, to make it look like you were decreasing taxes.
However in fact it led to increased tax for 5 million people, and, left
those earning under £18,000 as the biggest losers.

Pensions: Your changes in 1997 in the way corporation tax is collected,
directly led to the taxation of dividends on stock investments held
within pensions, thus lowering pension returns and contributing to the
demise of most of the final salary pension funds in the UK.

This act alone has single handedly damaged the pension of every
person with a pension in the UK but also saddled UK corporations with
a an ever growing pension liability, so much so that many companies
futures are imperilled by these debts.
Falsehoods: You used the Laura Spence Affair to beat up Oxford and
Cambridge about their admissions procedures, Lord Jenkins, then
Oxford Chancellor and himself a former Labour Chancellor of the
Exchequer, said "nearly every fact you used was false.
Inappropriate links: Given the finding that the government did not
carry a proper public consultation on the use of nuclear power in its
2006 Energy Review, your brother Andrew’s is links to one of the main
nuclear lobbyists, EDF Energy could be construed as inappropriate.

The father-in-law of your closest adviser Ed Balls, Tony Cooper (father
of the Labour minister Yvette Cooper) has close links with the nuclear
industry. Cooper was described as an "articulate, persuasive and wellinformed
advocate of nuclear power over the last ten years" by the
Nuclear Industry Association on his appointment as Chairman of the
British Nuclear Industry Forum in June 2002.

IraqWar: You supported British involvement in the Iraq War against the
wishes of the UK population and helped to justify that involvement by
publishing false intelligence. This war has directly increased the odds of
terrorist attacks on British subjects and the financial cost has had a
significantly detrimental effect on the British economy.

Military Covenant: You have not adhered to the 'military covenant',
leading to a significant decline in the moral of the armed forces due to
poor housing, lack of equipment and adequate healthcare provisions.
The lack of equipment has directly led to an increase in the loss of lives,
and serious injuries, compounded by a lack care following serious
injury.

The 15% VAT Rate: introduced to counter the effects of recession
demonstrated a total naivety and breathtaking stupidity. Far from
digging the nation out of a hole, it has saddled the country with a huge
unsustainable debt.

No one should benefit from failure: You have on numerous occasions
stated that no one should benefit from failure, however your tenure as
chancellor was universally recognised as a failure, but you were
rewarded with the Premiership and had the gall to accept.
There will be no more Boom & Bust: In your hubris you made a
statement that was patently untrue, and counter to any economic
theory. You either knew that statement to be untrue and lied or if you
believed it then you clearly demonstrated your foolishness and proved
that you were unfit for office.

The UK is in a better position than any other developed country: this
again is completely untrue, we have more than double the debt per
head of population than any other country in Europe.

Public Services: You have destroyed Public Services by a raft of
inappropriate targets, which have led to resources being wasted by the
attempts to meet those targets.

Surveillance society: You have presided over and led to the creation of
a surveillance society in which any perceived wrongdoing is used as a
pretext to pass oppressive laws. You and your predecessor have both
single headedly succeeded in making the UK an unpleasant place to live
in.

These are but a small sample of your failings any of which make you unfit
for public office and for which you should immediately resign. You sir are a
fraud and I am forwarding this letter to as many people as I can, via the
internet in an effort to shame you into accepting your failures.


Yours faithfully
Steven Katirai

George is Cross

I signed the England Saint petition on the UK Government website, asking for St Georges Day to be a public holiday.
Details of Petition:

“We as a nation should have the chance to celebrate our patron saint with a public holiday. This would be no different to Ireland who celebrate St Patrick’s day. As a nation who accept and embrace foreign nationals and thier traditions and celebrations it should only be right for people coming into this country to live to accept the same. The celebration of St George’s day should be more than just a celebration of our saint but make you feel proud to be English.”

· Read the petition
· Petitions homepage

Read the Government’s response

The Government regularly receives requests for additional bank holidays for a variety of reasons. The Pattern of Bank Holidays is well established and accepted but we keep all of these suggestions under consideration.

There are however ongoing activities to decide how best we can celebrate and commemorate the nature of our citizenship and national identity in the UK. The ‘Governance of Britain’ Green Paper set out the Government’s commitment to lead an inclusive debate to develop a Statement of Values to help identify what binds us together as a nation. We will begin an inclusive process of discussion and deliberation across the country, involving roundtable events and online engagement. Central to this will be a Citizens’ Summit - a broadly representative group of around 500 people from across the UK - who will be asked to deliberate and decide the framework for the Statement of Values and make recommendations on its uses. Further information about the debate can be found on the Ministry of Justice website at http://governance.justice.gov.uk/

In addition, Lord Goldsmith’s review of Citizenship published in February 2008, recommended considering the case for creating a national day focused on ideas about shared citizenship. The purpose of Lord Goldsmith’s review was to provoke a public debate on these issues. The Government will consider Lord Goldsmith’s recommendation in light of the ongoing debate. Attached is the link to Lord Goldsmith’s review http://www.justice.gov.uk/reviews/citizenship.htm

Your suggestion of a Bank Holiday to celebrate St George’s Day has been one of the popular suggestions we have received. However, there are other very popular suggestions, including one for a new ‘British Day’ after Remembrance Sunday to celebrate the contribution of our Armed Forces.

We are grateful to you for taking the time to submit your views.

The government didn't read the question. The question was about a day for England.
The reply was full of crap about the UK and Britishness. Not why the English cannot have an English day in England!
My Response: Bollocks

Real Question

We might think it is wrong for Fred Goodwin to receive a huge pension after plunging RBS into £24 billion of debt, but the real question is, will Gordon Brown give up his £123,000 a year pension when he is voted out next year after plunging the Country into £2 trillion of debt?

Secretary for Health in England?

A Very good petition up at No 10

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ministryjobs/

The term ‘Secretary of State’ has a UK wide remit. A Secretary of State is literally a Minister acting on behalf of all the people of the UK state.

So how can devolved Ministries such as Health, Education, Transport and Culture, honestly be described as having Secretary of State responsibilities when those responsibilities apply to England and England alone?

We think this needs to be rectified – and that under the terms of the Government’s contract of trust with the people, Ministers of devolved Ministries are currently misleading the public who elect them on both the scope and the magnitude of their positions by continuing to use the term ‘Secretary of State’. We therefore think the amended job title for Ministers of devolved responsibilities would more truthfully reflect their area of relevance – for example, ‘Secretary for Health in England’.

Note: If the job responsibility for a particular Minister also includes Wales then ‘and Wales’ can simply be inserted after ‘England’