Category Archives: Political Stupidity

The fourth Reich?

By scrubber | Published: November 16, 2011
The Daily Mail, in classic “Hun-baiting” fashion has had a pop at the Germans today. Entitled “Europe speaks German now!“, it centres on comments made by one Volker Kauder who is one of Angela Merkel’s closest allies. He is, in fact, the parliamentary leader of Merkel’s CDU party and he made the comments in a [...]
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EU Referendum vote…

By scrubber | Published: October 28, 2011
I have a lot to say about this, none of it positive to Cameron and his acolytes, but as can be seen from the paucity of posts lately, no time to write it down. However, I can let Mr Farage say some of it for me: Wikio Wikio
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Is it Ed that’s the idiot, or is it the MSM? Or is it us?

By scrubber | Published: July 1, 2011
Earlier today I posed the question “Is Ed Miliband an idiot?“, and I did so in all sincerity, and not without a fair deal of amusement. However, a “proper” lunch with an old mate of mine has thrown a new light on things. I’ve re-watched the video concerned, and it is clear that whatever the question [...]
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Is Ed Miliband an idiot?

By scrubber | Published: July 1, 2011
Sometimes, I just can’t believe my luck. This video is a gem! Just WTF is Ed Miliband on? How this man ever became Leader of the Labour Party, I will never know, and will never understand. Will the rest of the world ever take this clown seriously? I may be way off-base here, but reading between the [...]
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IPCC caught out again

By scrubber | Published: June 19, 2011
The current furore surrounding the IPCC’s latest report on the potential of renewable energy has been extensively covered in the MSM and on the blogosphere. The interesting part is the almost universally uncritical reporting in the MSM, and the virtually total opposite on the blogosphere. The reason for the latter is simple: As James Delingpole observes, [...]
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10 more reasons Socialism can’t and will never work.

By scrubber | Published: June 3, 2011
William John Henry Boetcker. Who? Born in Hamburg in 1873, he migrated to America as a young adult, becoming a Presbyterian minister soon after his arrival. Wikipedia says that he “is perhaps best remembered for his authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Ten Cannots. Originally published in 1916…”. Personally, I would argue that most people, certainly outside [...]
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Fire Sale!

By scrubber | Published: April 4, 2011
Ok, quiz time… What is the missing word, and when was the following written? “The ****** government in Britain is imposing budget cuts in the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) that will result in hundreds of job losses and compromise public safety. The Audit Commission, the unelected body used by the central government to impose market-based discipline [...]
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EU plans to ban all petrol and diesel cars from cities

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2011
So, the question is, are the loonies in charge of the asylum? In a crystal-clear example of why the political obsession with AGW is dangerous, EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas, unveiling plans adopted by the Commission on Monday for a ‘Single European Transport Area’, has decreed that in order to to save the planet, the EU’s [...]
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Bankruptcy, the Euro, and us

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2011
Let me start with a couple of quotations from an article in the Daily Telegraph of March 24th, 2011: “Portugal has defaulted on its national debt five times since 1800, Greece five times, Spain no less than seven times (and 13 times in all since 1500). By contrast, Anglo-Saxon countries rarely, if ever, default. In this country, [...]
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How the left loves to censor free speech.

By scrubber | Published: February 8, 2011
Daniel Hannan has written about this several times, and he’s right, the left does love to censor free speech. He writes here and here about the hypocrisy of the left, and the way it uses insults and spittle-flecked invective to sully its opponents. However, today I want to draw readers’ attention to an article in today’s [...]
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