MY TWOPENCE WORTH ON MINIMUM ALCOHOL PRICING

BEER SHAMPOO HITS £10 A TUBE!

Minimum alcohol pricing, there's a quandry.

We have to face up to the  fact that we in the UK and more particularly in Scotland, have a big problem with alcohol.  When you go to Spain or France the only drunks you see are Brit tourists or occasionally a North European.  Some of the scenes in our city centres on a Saturday night are a disgrace.  Some people will say that is because drink is so dear that people get hammered in the house before they go out.  So should we make drink cheaper?  Would that bring in a more responsible attitude to drinking?  Personally I doubt it. But, then I suppose you could say that it is much cheaper in Spain where I drink a reasonable wine for £0.65 a litre and Spaniards don't get pissed, even at the football.

Now I speak as one who has drunk like a fish for most of his life, so I think I might have some input here.  I do in principle support minimum pricing but I do believe that £0.50 a unit is too dear.  How, if it gets through the courts, can we charge £0.50 when in England, they are looking to bring in a price of £0.40.  Ridiculous.  And why should we hand the supermarkets a £100 million bonus?  Those bastards have ravaged our town centres, turning them into 'tesco extras', charity shops and bookies.  I'd clobber any multinational in an out of town centre till they felt their orange pips squeeze.  

Is it possible to take this money off them and use it to pay for alcohol education for our young?  I don't know.  But, I will tell you one thing.  This is what a responsible Government means to the people of Scotland.  The SNP and it could be rightly or wrongly in your estimation had this policy as part of their manifesto despite the fact that Labour, the Tories and the Libdums were against it in the last parliament and they know it will lose them votes, but they have the interests of Scotland's people at heart.  Suddenly of course, CamaClegg have decided they are in favour so the Libdums and the Tories have changed their tune.  So in other words, they are not interested in the health of the people of Scotland, just in their narrow Unionist policies.  Plus ca change as my French brothers say!

CLINT EASTWOOD GETS UNFORTUNATE BIRTHDAY MESSAGE!

IAIN GRAY IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO SCOTLAND AND HE SHOULD APOLOGISE TO MONTENEGRO

Iain Gray must apologise for his slur on the people of Montenegro and to the people of Scotland for the embarrassment his gaffe has caused, SNP Foreign Affairs Spokesman Angus Robertson MP said today (Sunday), after it was revealed that the Montenegrin Chargé d’Affaires had rebuked the Labour leader in a letter of protest.

“Iain Gray and Labour have form for this kind of behaviour. First he insults Ireland, then he displays his ignorance of Norway. Now he is blackening the name of Montenegro.

“It is an elementary lesson of politics that you do not rubbish other nations in an attempt to attack your opponents. It is astonishing that Mr Gray does not seem to have the maturity to understand that. His actions are more akin to those of an adolescent Alf Garnett than those of a man who is supposed to be bidding to be First Minister. It is little wonder his personal approval ratings are so low.

“We are used to Mr Gray not letting the facts get in the way of his rhetoric but he has now managed to let his international ignorance embarrass Scotland. That is not good enough. He needs to do the decent thing and apologise to the people of Montenegro. And, he also needs to apologise to the people of Scotland for the embarrassment his gaffes have caused.”

This man is not fit to lead even the rabble that he does.  He should resign immediately and let Wendy Alexander back as leader.  At least she's decent to look at, if we have to endure FMQs every week.

NEARLY ALL THE JOBS CREATED UNDER LABOUR WENT TO IMMIGRANTS!

POLISH RECYCLING CONSULTANTS (BINMEN)

Nearly nine out of ten jobs created under Labour went to foreign-born workers, astonishing figures revealed last night. 

Official statistics showed the vast majority of the rise in the employment total under the last Government was accounted for by workers born abroad. 

Total numbers of those in work went up by two million during 13 years of Labour. But of those jobs, 1.8 million individuals were classed as ‘non-UK born’. 

Just a quarter of a million declared themselves to be born in the UK.

"BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS", roared Brown.

  The one-eyed fuckwit! 

IS AFGHANISTAN'S FRAUDULENT ELECTION ANY WORSE THAN LABOUR'S POSTAL BALLOT FRAUD HERE?

Afghan election officials plan to throw out about one million ballots from last month's parliamentary election – eliminating about 23 per cent of the votes due to fraud, according to a Western official.

An electoral worker sorts ballot boxes at a warehouse of the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) in Kabul 

A fraud-marred presidential election last year nearly derailed international support for Hamid Karzai, the president, turning this year's poll into a test of whether the government is committed to reforms seen as key for justifying Nato funding and troops.

One of the largest criticisms of the election commission last year was that it abandoned its own fraud-detection measures part way through the process, dumping obviously fraudulent ballots into the tally to help Mr Karzai avoid a run-off with his top challenger. It was only after drawn-out investigations that more than a million ballots were thrown out – the majority of them for Mr Karzai.

I was going to comment that if Karzai cannot at this stage of the game run a 'clean' election, then it is time to get out of Afghanistan.  But how much worse is it in Afghanistan, than in Britain and Scotland in particular, a country which is supposed to be the mother of all democracies.  From Fife to Glasgow to London, Labour IMO have fraudulently counted postal ballots to the point, that if the Returning Officers did not notice the discrepancies they had to be in the employ of Labour.

We are in severe danger in this country of losing any degree of democracy we have left.  Having gone through 13 battering years of a  Marxist, left-wing, pseudo liberal, dominated attack on our civil rights and our freedom of speech, the Coalition's first step after tackling Labour's debt mountain is to tackle the return of civil liberties, or at least let us think they have been restored.

LABOUR'S LEGACY TO THE U.K. OVER 13 WASTED YEARS

I'm not one for nicking stuff off other bloggers, but lest we forget, just what those LABOUR FUCKERS did to the U.K., have a shufty at this.

h/t  GOODNIGHT VIENNA

AMERICA CAN'T ACCOUNT FOR $8.7BILLION SPENT IN IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!!

An audit has discovered the U.S. Defense Department can't properly account for how it spent about 95 per cent of $9.1billion in Iraqi oil money earmarked for rebuilding the war-ravaged country.
The U.S. Special Investigator for Iraq Reconstruction report released today said there was shoddy record keeping and a lack of oversight of the $8.7billion. The Pentagon cannot account at all for $2.6billion spent between 2004 and 2007.

I'll just repeat that, THEY CAN'T ACCOUNT AT ALL FOR $2600,000,000.  How fucking amazing is that.  There must be some BLOODY RICH IRANIANS!  Now can any of you  Labour supporters, stand with a STRAIGHT FACE and tell me that the Iraq war was to do with WMD!  Because if you can, then the only thing that I have to say to you is, HOW FUCKING STUPID ARE YOU?

BRITAIN'S DEBT MOUNTAIN IS COSTING US EACH £65,000

Every man, woman and child in the country is carrying a £65,000 share of state debt, according to the first official breakdown of how much the Government really owes. 
The estimate from the Office for National Statistics, (an independent Government department),  puts the real level of the national debt at £4trillion – double the amount calculated by independent analysts.  An average household would have to work for five years to pay off its portion of the vast sum.

Only now do we see Labour's failed legacy.  I hope now their activists will SHUT THE FUCK UP and let the TORIES get on with sorting out the country's finances as ALWAYS HAPPENS AFTER A LABOUR GOVERNMENT has been in office.

As for you SCOTLAND, you should be FUCKING ASHAMED of yourselves for voting Labour!

HERE'S AN INTERESTING WEE PROPOSAL!

I was listening to, what's his face Cameron the other day wittering on about the budget deficit and how we must all pay for Labour's mishandling of the Economy.
When it struck me.  WHAT THE FUCK IS IT TO DO WITH ME?  I have never voted Labour in my life, in fact I would rather cut my right arm off.  I didn't benefit from extra dole money or child benefit or tax credits or HEE HAW ELSE over the last 13 years, so why should I pay?

So here's my proposal.  LET THE ONES WHO VOTED LABOUR PAY!  After all, we have all the voting records, so if you voted for them you should get your state money cut or pay extra in taxes or not get that hip replacement and you better fucking hope you don't get cancer, because there is no money to treat you.  Your bit of the Army is getting shite weapons, (well they've all got shite weapons in reality), they'll be no free school meals for your kids and they can taught by some PAEDO IN A PORTACABIN!

When it's Labour's turn to get back in, I will enjoy the fine economy that the Tories have left like the last time until LABOUR FUCK IT UP AGAIN!  Oh and the picture?  I JUST LIKED IT!

IS IT CAUSE WE'S LABOUR?

A pub chain has told a gay group to grow up after it was refused service.  The Labour Party's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual Society said the duty manager at The Greencoat Boy pub in Westminster refused to serve them because they were gay.
The Punch Chain's spokesman said, "it was fuck all to do with them being Gay, it was because they are dirty Labour bastards and we no longer have to suck up their arseholes.  So tell them from Punch Inns to go and take a running fuck to themselves".

So, what do you think of that, my gender bending, Labour friends.  Are we going to stand for it.  I say no, we'll get our revenge in 15 years time when we might get another Labour Government.  By that time of course you'll be moaning about Cameron the way you now moan about Thatcher, blaming him for all the ills of the world.

When in actual fact, AS USUAL, YOU FUCKED THE COUNTRY AGAIN!

LET'S GET THIS 'DEFICIT' QUESTION INTO PROPORTION

With full respect to the post below, I saw this and suddenly woke up.

Let me run this imaginary scenario past you.
My wife and I both have good jobs, but we spend money like fuck!  In fact in overdraft at the bank and in credit cards we are £1,300,000 overdrawn.  Ridiculous I know, but stick with me.  Now although as high fliers we earn £50,000 per month, we are actually spending £13,000 per month more than we are earning.  That means that we will be £156,000 MORE OVERDRAWN at the end of the year.
Now the bank we deal with is starting to get a little concerned at our financial situation.  HOWEVER WE HAVE A PLAN!  My wife is going to stop buying DESIGNER SHOES this year and that will save £6,000, so we'll only have a DEFICIT THIS YEAR OF £150,000 to add to our existing overdraft of £1.3m, meaning we will owe £1,450,000 at the end of the year.  The Bank have accepted our plan and although my wife wanted to wait until next year to stop buying shoes and implement it, she's accepted that we need to do it now.

AND THAT LADIES AND GENTLE PERSONS IS THE STATE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM TODAY AFTER 13 YEARS OF THAT USELESS BASTARD BROWN AND HIS CRONIES!

COURT'S RULING OVER PAKISTANIS' APPEAL IS UNBELIEVABLE!

New Home Secretary, Theresa May, is said to be disappointed with the ruling of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission's,(SIAC), decision to grant the appeal of four known Al Qaeda terrorists who want to stay in this country, rather than be deported back to Pakistan where they may be tortured.
The Home Office was seeking to deport the two men, on the grounds that their presence in the UK was not conducive to the public good for reasons of national security.

WTF!  The rest of the world must be laughing like fuck at (GREAT) BRITAIN.  Are we so bound up in HUMAN RIGHTS SHITE after 13 years of LABOUR that we cannot deport PAKISTANI citizens back to PAKISTAN, a COMMONWEALTH COUNTRY, for fear that they may be tortured?  A country that is losing daily more of their citizens than the rest of the coalition forces put together, IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST AL QAEDA!
WHERE IS THIS COUNTRY GOING TO AND HOW CAN I GET OFF?  Tell them TO FUCK OFF and they can take the DITTERY OLD BASTARDS on the appeals commission, with them!

NOW'S YOUR TIME TO STRIKE LIKE A COBRA, ALEX!

Now is the time for Alex Salmond to ask Cameron how high he will jump to get the SNP/Plaid support to go with the Ulster Unionists.  Now's the time to extract the best deal possible FOR SCOTLAND AND SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE and leave LABOUR floundering once more as the FEEBLE FORTY who can do nothing to help SCOTLAND because they and the other UNIONIST PARTIES are under the heel of their LONDON MASTERS.

STRIKE NOW WHILE THE IRON IS HOT!

IS IT TIME THE SNP DITCHED ALEX SALMOND?

UPDATE:PROMINENT NATIONALIST AGREES

 

Alex Salmond is a slick operator.  Of that there is little doubt.  But has he been there too long?  Has he now lost the political nous that's kept him at the top of his game for so many years?

After what without doubt has been THE MOST INEFFECTUAL CAMPAIGN in history in which the main party political broadcast appeared to be some fuckwit 'high-fiving' his mates and then walking up a mountain to shout "SCOTLAND" at the top of his voice like some reject from 'Braveheart', most SNP bloggers like myself and  SUBROSA are quite frankly incredulous at the way Salmond has jumped into bed with LABOUR in order to form what he terms a 'PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE' or some such ridiculous moniker.

If we had wanted to vote LABOUR we would have voted for them.  Most SNP voters fucking hate LABOUR.  I for one, would rather cut off my right arm than vote for them.  And what's more Labour hate the SNP just as much.  What Alex Salmond forgets is that many SNP supporters want Scottish independence not go create some great socialist state, but simply for the reason that we believe we can coax our fellow Scots away from the habit of appearing to be benefit junkies and back to being the progressive people we have been in the past.  I believe in social justice, but you have to wonder sometimes at a people who have been fed shite by Labour for sixty years but still vote them back in every chance they get.

Alex Salmond, should be willing to work with any government who is able to take power.  We all know that the cuts are coming and the SNP's 'more Nats, less cuts' slogan at the election was cringe worthy and was seen through by the electorate.  He should be working to get the best deal he can to further the causes of INDEPENDENCE, that's why he's there.

The Scottish elections in 2011 are now starting to loom and it's time the SNP got their act together for them.  We don't want to let those Labour bastards back in!

WTF IS WRONG WITH THE SCOTS?

As things stand in Scotland, we might have not bothered going to the polls yesterday.  Sat on our big, fat, lardy, subsidy-junky arses and left it up to to the English to change the Government.  A Labour government led by the most unpopular PM in history.  A country changed from being 13 years ago, a green and pleasant land to one where totalitarianism, State power and celebrity are the norm instead of the traditional avenues to success of hard work and family values and where respect for you neighbours has become an anathema.
Indeed the Labour vote in Scotland has actually gone up!  So what was the reason?  I think the SNP vote was more damaged by not being part of the Leaders' debates that even we, in the SNP thought.  I think Brown's popularity is higher in Scotland than we took account of.  With most of the day to day running of the country now being done by the Scottish Parliament, the electorate don't feel Westminster has the same impact.  The Tories in Scotland haven't had a effective Leader since David McLetchie.  Annabel Goldie, she of the outraged face, is a disaster.

There have been very few times in my life when I have been ashamed to be Scottish.  Today is one of them.  However, if the Tories form the next Government, then I believe Scotland will be independent before the next five years. 

IN CASE YOU FORGET TOMORROW WHEN YOU CAST YOUR VOTE

IN CASE YOU FORGET TOMORROW AND ARE THINKING OF VOTING LABOUR, THIS IS WHAT THEY HAVE GIVEN US IN THIRTEEN YEARS;

• Ballot Boxes are interfered with
• Voting registers go missing
• The Police can kill innocent people and get away with it
• The state can kill people and get away with it
• You can be put in prison for 42 days on pure suspicion
• You can be put in prison indefinitely on the word of a politician
• The State can torture people
• Your children are monitored at School by Political Officers
• Their behaviour is logged on a State database for their entire lives
• Your innocent fingerprints, iris scans and biometrics are held by the State
• You do not have the right to remain silent
• You are watched on 4 million CCTV cameras
• You may not photograph the Police
• The media is controlled by the State
• You do not have the right to protest peacefully
• Curfews exist for entire communities
• Your travel movements are logged and monitored
• Who you vote for is logged and monitored
• Your shopping habits are studied and logged by the State
• Your emails and telephone conversations are recorded by the State
• Your passport can be withdrawn at the whim of the State
• Government agencies can use lie detector tests on you.
• £22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain
• 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all
• The longest national tax code in the world
• 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds
• Gun crime up 57%
• Violent crime up 70%
• The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe
• The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000
• The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world
• The only G7 country with no growth this year
• One in six young people neither earning nor learning
• 5 million people on out-of-work benefits
• Missing the target of halving child poverty...
• Child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead
• Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe
• Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads
• Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league
• Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths
• Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy
• The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat
• Fatal stabbings at an all-time high
• Prisoners released without serving their sentences
• Foreign prisoners released and never deported
• 7 million people without an NHS dentist
• Small business taxes going up
• Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe
• Tax rises for working people set for after the election
• The 10p tax rate abolished
• The ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust
• Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth
• Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied
• Profitable post offices closed against their will
• One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe
• The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned because it didn’t fit
• Police inspectors in 10 Downing Street
• Dossiers that were dodgy
• Mandelson resigning the first time
• Mandelson resigning the second time
• Mandelson coming back for a third time
• Bad news buried
• Personal details lost
• An election bottled
• A referendum denied.
• New Labour. Stamping on the faces of the many, not just the few. Forever.

Some of these only apply to my English and Welsh friends, at least in Scotland we have the SNP.




PS “A future fair for all” is an anagram of “Our fearful fat liar”

JIM MURPHY HAS FACE TRANSPLANT! BREAKING NEWS.

Former Scottish Secretary, the face of Labour in Scotland, JIM MURPHY has today sensationally transplanted his visage.
"I've been an ugly fucker for years, Jim told D.L. in today's press conference at the Southern General Hospital, but I feel that I've turned the corner now and I have now got the right face to be a Labour bigwig.  Let's face it, I'll be better looking than the rest of them and I include the women in that".

POSTAL VOTE FRAUD-THE LABOUR BASTARDS ARE AT IT AGAIN!

Voter fraud could determine the outcome of the general election as evidence emerges of massive postal vote rigging.
Police have launched 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid widespread cases of electoral rolls being packed with ‘bogus’ voters.  Officials report a flood of postal vote applications in marginal seats.  Out of a total estimated electorate of 46million, 7million have registered for postal votes.  The Metropolitan Police are examining 28 claims of major abuses across 12 boroughs.
Labour supporters stand accused of packing the electoral roll at the last minute with relatives living overseas or simply inventing phantom voters.

I prepared the poster above over four weeks ago as I knew the BASTARDS would try the same trick as they used in GLENROTHES, two years ago.  Mark my words, there will be constituencies usually, marginals, which will be won by LABOUR AGAINST THE NATIONAL TREND BECAUSE OF POSTAL VOTE FRAUD!  Ten or twenty seats could put LABOUR back in Westminster for another five years.  How can we dictate to other countries about democracy WHEN WE DON'T HAVE IT IN THIS COUNTRY?

LABOUR CANDIDATE IN MORAY SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SACKED

STUART MacLENNAN, the LABOUR candidate, in MORAY has been sacked by that ARSEHOLE JIM MURPHY for amongst other things calling OAPs, 'COFFIN DODGERS'.
In a series of posts scattered with four-letter words, he attacked the Commons Speaker John Bercow ("tit"), David Cameron ("twat"), Nick Clegg ("a bastard") and the Labour backbencher Diane Abbot ("a fucking idiot").

Well, WHO THE FUCK IS GOING TO ARGUE WITH THAT?  The words that Stuart used are the language of the young.  TWITTER is full of similar comments.  LABOUR should have the courage of their convictions.  The whole thing is a load OF PISH!  Just wait till I get onto TWITTER.  I'LL SORT THE BASTARDS OUT!

UKIP PROPOSE BAN ON WEARING OF BURKAS AND NIQABS IN PUBLIC

The UK Independence Party is to call for a ban on the burka and the niqab — the Islamic cloak that covers women from head to toe and the mask that conceals most of the face — claiming they affront British values.

The policy, which a number of European countries are also debating, is an attempt by UKIP to broaden its appeal and address the concerns of disaffected white working-class voters.  UKIP would be the first national party to call for a total ban on burkas, though the far-Right BNP believes they should be banned from schools.
 
Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the leader of UKIP, said yesterday: “We are taking expert advice on how we could do it. It makes sense to ban the burka — or anything which conceals a woman’s face — in public buildings. But we want to make it possible to ban them in private buildings. It isn’t right that you can’t see someone’s face in an airport.”  He explained that UKIP wanted to bring to the fore the issue of the increasing influence of Sharia in Britain: “We are not Muslim bashing, but this is incompatible with Britain’s values of freedom and democracy.” (Strange choice of words when you want to ban something).

I think it will be surprising how many people will vote for a 'single issue party' at the coming election.  I just caught the tail end of 'Question Time' last night, but I'm sure I heard one of the panelists saying that one of her constituents was going to vote BNP because 'they were going to sort out the wheelie bins'!  Sometimes you forget how stupid people can be.  I think if I was in  England, my vote would certainly be going to UKIP.  Are UKIP the 'thinking mans'" BNP.  I don't think so and they are promising to flesh out their policies unlike some of the other parties.  Remember they came second to the Tories in England in the EURO elections and depending on how many votes they get, the election will be greatly influenced.  If Labour lose votes to the BNP, them the Tories will lose votes to UKIP, particularly amongst disaffected Tory voters who wanted a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.