Author Archives: DiamondGeezer

Carlsberg workers of the world unite!

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 9, 2010
Over 1000 Carlsberg workers have today downed tools and staged a mass walkout of their main brewery in Denmark. The reason? Perhaps, like the ever-so-hard-put-upon British Airways workers, they were being asked to bring their working hours, practices, expenses and salaries in line with their industry co-workers. Perhaps they were threatened with mass redundancies [...]
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Gordon Brown ignores ‘heckling’ father

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 8, 2010
As reported in the Telegraph and in other national newspapers/broadcasts today, Gordon Brown was challenged by a father over why his children cannot get in to the schools they would like. I would highly recommend watching the video on the Telegraph article. Little amuses me more than seeing politicians (servants of the people?) [...]
Posted in Education, General Election, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

General Election announced for 6th May 2010

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 6, 2010
Britain’s worst-kept secret is now out in the open. The Labour party, bankrupt and in hock to the unions, could never in a million years afford to have local and general elections on different days; nor could it afford to get hammered in one and then the other in successive weeks or months. So the [...]
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Google Hollie Greig

By DiamondGeezer | Published: March 26, 2010
I hadn’t heard anything about this, in part for reasons that will become clear as you read on, so I thank Elizabeth Robillard, a Facebook fan of ours, for bringing it to my attention. Old Holborn (of Nick Hogan fame) has covered this extensively and excellently, so I am also hanging on to his coat-tails to [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, Local Government, Police | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Judge slams government for short sentences on teenage thugs – can broken Britain ever be fixed?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: March 12, 2010
As was reported in the Daily Mail today, Judge Kerry Macgill has hit out at government statutory guidelines for not allowing long-term custodial sentences to be imposed. Four teenagers, including two girls, forced a 17-year-old with learning disabilities from the children’s home in which he lived and repeatedly kicked and punched him, poured boiling water over [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Legal lunacy, Local Government, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, Police | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Fraud MPs on trial still just don’t get it

By DiamondGeezer | Published: March 12, 2010
As has been widely reported, three MPs went on criminal trial yesterday, after claiming a combined total of £60,000 in fraudulent expenses. While this figure may seem low in comparison to the enormous figures that have been ‘legally’ claimed, the acts by which they received this money warrant being looked at again. Elliot Morley (Labour, [...]
Posted in Corruption, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

EU determines UK immigration law in landmark Somali case

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 24, 2010
EU judges yesterday passed a (little-reported) landmark ruling that could have cataclysmic consequences for the UK’s immigration policy and benefits system. Nimco Hassan Ibrahim, a 34 year old Somali woman, has been granted a right to a home in Britain by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. To make it clear, this woman has no connection [...]
Posted in European Union, Immigration, Legal lunacy, Local Government, Taxpayers' Money | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Greater Manchester Police record snowball fights as ’serious violent crime’

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 22, 2010
Gratefully received from a friend of mine, this week’s first dose of insanity involves the Greater Manchester Police recording snowball fights as serious violent crime. As the article makes clear, ’serious violent crime’ is supposed to be incidents such as murder, rape and inflicting injury with a weapon. Clearly it would have to [...]
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UK deficit forecast to be worse than Greece’s

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 18, 2010
As I concluded in my article on the Euro earlier this week, the UK is in no position to feel smug about its own financial situation. Figures released today, as reported in The Sun and The Times show that the UK is now set to record an annual deficit greater than that of Greece. It [...]
Posted in Economy, European Union, Gordon Brown, New Labour, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money | 4 Comments

PIGS might fly without the Euro

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 15, 2010
I have long maintained that the Euro, as both a political and economic experiment, is doomed to failure. The cultural, economic and political differences between the member nations are such that without massive internal reform and political will, it simply cannot succeed. Indeed, since its inception, it has broken its own rules on membership. [...]
Posted in Economy, European Union, Nanny State, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments