Author Archives: DiamondGeezer

Give us loyalty and dignity, not the empty vanity of Ed Miliband’s ‘new politics’

By DiamondGeezer | Published: October 1, 2010
A superb piece on the Telegraph blogs today from Peter Oborne, which accurately describes much that I feel is wrong with the vacuous celebrity-esque politicians that we have to tolerate ad nauseam in this country. I like it so much that I have reproduced it in full: Like the outpouring of grief following the death [...]
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Australian lawyer tests which burns better – the Koran or the Bible

By DiamondGeezer | Published: September 13, 2010
Am I the only one who finds this quite amusing? An Atheist Australian lawyer, Alex Stewart, posted a video of himself smoking with pages of both the Koran and the Bible in an effort to discover which burns better. Wikio Wikio
Posted in Civil Liberties, Humour, Legal lunacy, Nanny State, Political Stupidity, Religion | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Scroungers on £42k a year benefits because they’re better off not working

By DiamondGeezer | Published: June 29, 2010
Today’s instalment of why Britain is so totally screwed after 13 years of Labour administration is brought to us by thisismoney.co.uk. To summarise, Peter Davey and his wife Claire have seven children, with yet another one on the way, and have an ‘income’ of £815 per week (£42,500 pa) entirely in benefits. To [...]
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Woman not allowed to take dog on bus on religious grounds

By DiamondGeezer | Published: June 25, 2010
Instalment number two of ‘The World’s Gone Mad’ is this example, again from the Telegraph. Judith Woods has twice in the last week been refused access to a bus because she wanted to take a dog with her. As far as my experience goes, you’re always allowed to take dogs on buses, unless they’re particularly [...]
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British Airways ban adult male from sitting next to unaccompanied minor

By DiamondGeezer | Published: June 25, 2010
Today’s (first) example of the world having gone totally insane is brought to us by the Telegraph. Hedge fund manager Mirko Fischer was on a plane from London to Luxembourg, when he swapped seats with his pregnant wife so that she could be by the window. BA staff then stepped in and told [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Health and Safety madness, Legal lunacy, Nanny State | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Why shouldn’t Britain go the same way as Greece? (and other musings)

By DiamondGeezer | Published: May 5, 2010
Prevalent in the news today have been the riots in Greece. The country is now sufficiently unattractive to investors and ratings agencies that their bond markets have frozen, and due to this and their enormous deficit they are no longer able to service their debts. Greek workers’ unions hold enormous sway, and thanks [...]
Posted in David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Gordon Brown, Lord Pearson, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tories, UKIP | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Liberal Democrats just as bad as all the rest

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 29, 2010
What really, really annoys me about all this is the incredibly sanctimonius attitude Nick Clegg takes when talking about MP’s expenses. Yes, of course it was a terrible scandal, and we’re all very angry about it. He, however, is basing almost his entire campaign (let’s face it, his tinpot policies rarely see the [...]
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Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Broken Britain, Climate Change, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Gordon Brown, Immigration, Legal lunacy, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Have a go at Votematch

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 13, 2010
Have just discovered this handy little website which claims to accurately compare your views (through a brief series of policy questions) with those of the main political parties. Mine happened to come out as BNP, narrowly followed by UKIP, with the Tories a fairly distant third. I’m actually never going to vote BNP, not least [...]
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Labour MPs claiming legal aid to fight expenses claims (may) have to pay it back

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 13, 2010
Labour MPs on legal aid, I hear you cry? To fight the cases raised against them for fiddling expenses? I know, it’s absolutely unbelievable. Or at least it would be, if we weren’t being ruled one one of the most corrupt, despicable and totally immoral governments ever to disgrace the hallowed halls of Westminster. Gordon [...]
Posted in Corruption, General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Taxpayers' Money | 1 Comment