Links and stuff between May 26th and May 27th
Just what tickled my fancy between May 26th and May 27th:
- The Daily Mash - LABOUR UNVEILS PLAN TO LOSE LAST REMAINING VOTES - 'Meanwhile teams of Labour researchers will tour marginal constituencies, identifying Labour voters and then kneeing them in the groin or setting fire to their coat.'
- "You look like a Fool!" - I am now addicted to talking parrot videos. Expect nothing else from this blog from now on.
- Smokey says Yes, We Can! - Let's put it this way - it doesn't sound any less vapid coming from a parrot than it does from Obama
- Your groove for today is… - Tin Solidier
- FactCheck: Hazel's claim 'in shreds' - What a surprise. Is this bloody woman capable of saying anything that isn't a steaming pile of horseshit? If my kids had Hazel Blears' kind of relationship with the truth I wouldn't show my face in public.
- 'No appetite' to oust Brown as PM - Hmmm. I've no appetite for what we've got in for dinner tonight but if I don't accept it, I'm knackered. You know what I mean?
- Doctor Who trailer - Talk about writing a cheque you can't cash. If these episodes are a tenth as exciting as as the trailer makes them out, I'll have a back, crack and sack done. And the Daleks are back. Oh, joy.
- Johann Hari: This is the chance to go down with all guns blazing - This is sensible, humanitarian and, above all, simple. It will therefore, or course, never happen.
- Historic pictures sent from Mars - Hold the front page! 'The probe has sent back pictures of a flat landscape with few rocks'
- Mayor to end Venezuelan oil deal - I thought it was us Zanu-Labour Nazi socialist fascist bastard left-wingers who were supposed to hate the poor not cuddly Tories…
- Tough Tory plan for young jobless - I thought it was us Zanu-Labour Nazi socialist fascist bastard left-wingers who were supposed to have a thing for labour camps not cuddly Tories…
- Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Britain - Victimised Since The 17th Century - 'Damn, what is it about us Brits?'
Posted on May 27th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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I thought it was us Zanu-Labour Nazi socialist fascist bastard left-wingers who were supposed to hate the poor not cuddly Tories…
Don’t you see? They’re all in on it together! They’re out to fuck you, they’re out to fuck me, they’re out to fuck anyone who gets in their way!
(With thanks to John S. Hall)
Antipholus Papps’s latest blog post… Let’s Take The Piss!
What connects the deputy-chairman of the Conservative Party with Hugo Chávez? LINK
Beau Bo D’Or’s latest blog post… Boris Johnson Ends Venezuela Oil Deal
My thanks to good friend Martin Spellman for the information below:
Meanwhile, still below the media radar, Boris is to scrap the Oyster Card subsidy to people on Income Support in August. Currently they (250,000 of them) pay 50p instead of 90p for a bus fare. He’s also scrapped plans for extra duty for 4×4s and won’t increase the Congestion Charge, which means it will become ineffectual, if it isn’t already.
Not to be outdone his namesake, the former UCW & CWU General Secretary Alan Johnson, appears with Andrew Marr making the case for Post Office closures.
The smell of a U-turn is in the air over road taxes because the road hauliers seem to have more power than those in Income Support or pensioners and people without cars who want local Post Officers to remain open.
If the hauliers are so close to the margins how is it they can afford the diesel for a day trip to the Capital clogging up the roads and needlessly pushing out mote pollution with all those one passenger lorries.
And are we not supposed to be in a Capitalist society? Why should they get a subsidy from the state to stay in business? It’s like having a dole for the lower middle classes. Talk about poncing off the state!
In other news; Desmond, publisher of the Express and the Daily Star, is only to get £630,000 this year. Last year he got a £40 million ‘top up’ for his pension. His firm (United Business Media) is to spend £17 million on an executive jet. They need one, you see, to fulfil their international role. Apparently they have had to settle for the second best model as they are not top of the waiting list. Such are the real problems the rich are grappling with.
So what your millionaire news announcer is not telling you is that it is ‘war on the poor’ and ’sod the environment’.
http://www.bobpiper.co.uk/2008/05/pass_the_sick_bucket_1.php
Ah, but Tories don’t have labour camps, they have stiff upper-lip centres.
Incidentally, Stephen Pollard has turned me right off humanity again:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard/743736/monbiot-understood.thtml
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