Dear Mr Obama

The most powerful thing I have seen throughout the entire campaign:

Hat tip: www.foxnews.com (by the way, over ELEVEN MILLION people have viewed  this video.)

R2 Controller resigns. Next Ross?

The BBC is out of touch.  At least, after Brand’s resignation, the Radio 2 Controller, Lesley Douglas, has resigned from her position.  The decent thing to do, and the idiot 25-year-old producer should be sacked too. 

And then Ross.  He won’t go voluntarily.  He should be sacked, and this investigation should be concluded pretty quickly – everyone knows what happened.

But a key issue here is that ‘Manuelgate’ shows how out of touch with ordinary people the BBC really is.  We pay our license (though I, at last, will be liberated when I move back to my parents’ – both over 75, who receive a free TV license - home and we won’t pay a penny to the dreadful BBC.  All the best programmes are on Sky and elsewhere, anyway.

 Mountjoy

Labour fails on wage equality for women

Harriett Harman has failed.  Although she is feted by various organisations, such as business support agency PROWESS, and even by key ‘experts’ on gender equality, she and her Government has failed.  Harman’s attempt to legislate, via the Equalities Bill, has failed.  Here’s what the Fawcett Society has to say:

Government efforts to narrow the pay gap between women and men are not working; bold new measures are urgently needed.

Figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) today show that the mean hourly gender pay gap for full-time work has increased by 0.1% over the last 12 months from 17.1% to 17.2%.

This year, the Government has chosen to focus on the median pay gap figure – masking the real extent of the problem. Fawcett believes the mean pay figures better represent the true nature of the gender pay gap. Many women are clustered in the lowest paid professions and the median figures underplay this fact. Furthermore, international comparisons use mean earnings.

So if you’re a woman and you’re paid less than a man in the same job (maybe even in the same workplace), should you vote for Labour for more of the same?  Do you trust Labour’s lies?  I would hope not.

Labour’s idea of affordable housing?

A House Price Crash?  Negative Equity?  Repossession & Rented out to junkies?

So now we know how Labour would deliver on its policy, much advocated by the likes of John Prescott (who on his TV programme on class was so out of touch he did not even know what the offensive slur word “chav” means), to deliver affordable housing.

House prices are down 15% in a year according to Nationwide, so Labour has delivered on a house price crash, negative equity – and, worse still, they’re going to buy up cheaply houses that have been repossessed or are on the market.  And we know what Labour does when it gets hold of houses: no, it doesn’t rent it out to a nice family with kids.  They move the worst common denominator in – so if your neighbour’s pleasant house has been repossessed, you might find Labour moves in a junkie next door.

A vote for Obama is a vote for infanticide

Cranmer has just highlighted Obama’s support for “Partial Birth Abortion”.  This is where an aborted baby is born and then left to die. 

This is infanticide.  What is the difference between this practice and the evil father who broke his baby girl’s back over his knee in the UK, as recently reported?

The description of how this little baby girl was murdered made me sick to the stomach – the father got 22 years.  But members of the “medical profession” (and Judges and Politicians who legislate for these baby murders) actually kill babies – and get away with it.

How can anyone who is devoutly religious or even, if not, is compassionate or cares for other people, vote for Obama when he supports infanticide?

Ross & Brand suspended. Now sack Ross.

BREAKING NEWS – Sky Reports Ross & Brand suspended by BBC.

7.30pm – Brand resigns from BBC.

I read with disgust in the paper this morning an abridged transcript of the obscene phone calls made by the over-paid “stars” Jonathan Ross & Russell Brand.  These calls went beyond humour and into the depths of personal abuse and harassment, and indeed had sinister undertones.

At last the BBC has suspended Ross (& now Brand has had the sense to resign).  Now they should conduct a thorough investigation and, as is inevitable, sack Ross and sever his contracts – without any golden goodbye. 

They could have messed with anyone else, but these calls were made to Andrew Sachs, much loved and revered for his role as Manuel in Fawlty Towers, a gentleman who the public have the deepest affection for.  Ross must now pay for his actions, now that Brand has honourably fallen on his sword.

If Brand had to go, then the BBC should sever Ross’s contract forthwith.

US ‘08: Not ‘97 – but ‘92. It’s taxes, stupid.

Recently, the McCain-Palin campaign was written off, but now it has moved electrifyingly close (see graphic above).

Why might this be?  There are a number of possibilities, including that Amercians have woken up to how far left Sen. Obama really is – he is, in fact, not just a very liberal Democrat on social issues (such as abortion), but also of a socialist bent when it comes to taxes. 

The US ‘08 Presidential Election has been compared by commentators – who should, frankly, know better – to the UK ‘97 General Election … the great Blair landslide.

But Joe the Plumber’s question on taxes – and Joe Biden’s Freudian slip today - have signalled that the Democrats are going to fund their big spending programmes by increasing taxes. 

As in the UK ‘92 General Election, people voted against Labour’s tax policy not because they would have suffered directly from that policy, but because they aspired to earn more (and thus be in the higher tax bracket). 

[It says a lot about the state of the UK Tory Party, once for low taxes, that many of its MPs and 'opinion formers' have foolishly backed the high-tax, extreme-liberal Obama.]

But we know that when Labour did get in, they raised taxes first by stealth, then directly by abolishing the 10p rate of tax.  The same is true of Obama, Pelosi and all the rest.

In the US there’s traditionally been a shift in polls in the last week as people make up their mind.  In 1980, after all, Pres. Carter had an 8 point lead a week before the election and still lost to Pres. Reagan.  Imagine the world today if Carter had got in?  Not a nice thought.

It’s not ‘97 – but ‘92.  It’s taxes, stupid.  The overconfident Dems have made a major gaffe that will hopefully cost them the Presidency.

Imagine the world tomorrow if Obama got in?  Not a nice thought either.

Co-payment, borrowing, interest rates, recession, depression… It’s low taxes we need

First we have Alan Johnson saying that he is saddened by the whole business of co-payments (where a dying person can be refused life-saving drugs by the supposedly free, open-to-all NHS – simply because they bought drugs privately).  This is socialism at its worst and most homicidal.  Labour created the co-payment policy. 

Last night it was highlighted on Dispatches - an excellent documentary on the banking crisis - that Merv ‘the Swerve’ King in May this year was reported by the FT as saying “NO RATE CUTS BEFORE 2010.”  It shows the culpability of the Bank of England Buffoons and those ejits who Govern us in Westminster.

Then we have Brown trying to justify the unjustifiable – higher borrowing as a pathetic attempt to combat the recession and depression we have moved into. 

And the BBC towing the Mandy line that it’s a “downturn”, not a recession.  It’s a recession, probably a depression, so it’s time to get real about the state of the economy (except if you work at White City or whatever White Elephant the Beeb is based in these days).

A superb article yesterday by Capital Economics’ Roger Bootle outlines the 7 Points of Keynesianism, including the important final point which I have emboldened:

1. The economic system is naturally prone to periods of depression.

2. When one occurs, the system is not necessarily self-correcting.

3. Such depressions are not the result of individual choice. On the contrary, individuals en masse can become trapped in a depression which is in no one’s interest but which, as individuals, no one can counter-act.

4. This represents pure waste. Unemployed workers want to work, and businesses want to use their productive capacity. If they did, then the things they produced would be available for all to buy, and the incomes they received would enable them to purchase the products of others.

5. For individuals it may be appropriate to react to difficult times by saving more. Yet collectively this is a disaster. One man’s saving is another man’s reduced income. Extra borrowing by the Government, if it encourages more output, can be self-financing.

6. The key is aggregate demand. In normal circumstances it is possible to influence this by changes in interest rates. But there is a level below which interest rates cannot go and at that point conventional monetary policy is powerless. Moreover, even if interest rates can be lowered this may have no effect if people cannot or will not borrow.

7. At this point, aggregate demand can only be boosted by the Government borrowing more, either to spend directly or to give to others to spend via tax cuts or the like.

What the Conservatives should articulate is, as Bootle argues, we should adopt a Keynesian approach (in the pure sense originally envisaged by Lord Keynes) — but not higher borrowing; instead, cuts in taxation to stimulate the economy and to bring some social justice to our increasingly NuLab-Fascist economy and society.  See also Fraser Nelson’s brilliant post on the subject of tax cuts and the new book by Laffer on Coffee House.

Lord Mandy hoisted on his own petard

Iain Dale has some juicy details from a News of the World article that our old pal Lord Mandelson of North Greenwich is going to be investigated because of his dealings with Oleg Deripaska. Oh dear. Mandy’s been hoisted own his own petard.

Time for another Mandelsonian resignation – but at least he got a peerage out of it this time – and it just shows how stupid Brown was to bring him back. Question is, will the spinning stop?

The truth about Dawkins

A characteristically brilliant post by the Half-Blood Welshman on that horrible ’scientist’ and atheist, “Professor” Richard Dawkins.  It reminds me of the following poem which sums up Dawkins’ mental state:

 

I once was an ameba in for a swim,

And then I was a tadpole with my tail tucked in.

Then I was a monkey in a banyan tree,

And now I am a professor with a Ph.D.

Labour massages crime stats

… But the flak jacket might protect them …

There’s not a lot to say here, except that Labour (the useless Jacqui Smith blaming the police, of course) has managed to massage the crime stats. 

Let’s say if you are in a situation where someone is branding a bottle in your general direction, but manages to miss you.

The police / Jacqui Smith wrote that down as a less serious crime, when there’s not much difference to the intent if you had actually been hit by the bottle when it would have been a very serious crime.

Let’s see how Ms Smith reacts the next time someone tries to hit her with a bottle, which is why she probably doesn’t bother going out much in Redditch – so despised is she in her own constituency. 

Maybe someone swung a bottle at her, and she didn’t bother reporting it, but decided to change the stats anyway.  When are we going to see some photos of the Hopeless Secretary going around Redditch in a flak jacket and a helmet like the feckless Harman did in Brixton not so long ago?

Tories hold both Wednesfield by election seats

It has been a very bad night for Labour in Wolverhampton, where two by elections could have been an opportunity to almost claw back control of the council, but Labour has betrayed local people and they’re too sensible to let Labour back in again.  And this in former Labour heartlands.

Wednesfield North

Neil Clarke     (Con)       1,295 (43%), +2%
David Jones    (Lab)        1,072 (36%), +4%
Dennis Organ (BNP)        337 (11%), -3%
Ian Jenkins       (LD)        300* (10%), +5%

* LD vote needs to be corrected as is not exactly accurate.

CON HOLD – maj 223

The Conservative share of the vote since May has actually RISEN by TWO PER CENT, while Labour is up 4% – with the BNP falling by 3%.

Wednesfield South

Peter Dobb (Con)            1,123 (45%), -11%
Michael Hardacre (Lab)   867    (35%), +10%
David Bradnock (BNP)     358    (14%), +14%
John Steatham (LD)         134    (5%), -1%

CON HOLD – maj 256

In Wednesfield South, the Tory vote share is down 11% from May, but Labour is up 10% -and the BNP is up 14% since they did not stand in May.

So much for the “second Brown bounce” – it’s not enough to regain seats such as Wednesfield North, with the massive Ashmore Park council estate in its midst, once a Labour heartland, but now local people have had enough of Labour.

Sayeeda Warsi – the sole voice of sanity on Question Time tonight

A blonde bimbo in the audience of Question Time has just stated that she believes that sex education doesn’t encourage under-aged sex.  Of course it does.  Ever since sex education was unwisely introduced in the curriculum, it increased the rates of under-aged sex and of teen (and in some cases, more disturbingly, tween) pregancies significantly.

Parents should have the right to decide when their kids are taught about sex. 

Jo Swinson (a loony lib dem) and that demented former Sparkbrook MP Mad Hattersley think that it is the state.  This authoritarian, national-socialist, statist attitude of centre-left politicians is, frankly, disgusting. 

Fortunately, Baroness Warsi showed good sense in making the argument that parents should be able to decide when their kids are taught ‘the birds and the bees’ at home and not at school.  At least it wasn’t some metropolitan liberal-elite Tory MP who was on the panel, otherwise they would have come out with the same nonsense as their fellow lefties (many of the ‘new wets’, the Heirs of Heseltine, may wear blue but backing Obama and being socialist doesn’t make them a conservative).

Teachers approach sex education with the ‘protection’, rather than ’abstension’, approach – parents are more likely to adopt the latter when they broach the subject with their child.  The state has just made matters worse.

Time to get tough on road killers

Looking at the photos below, unless you know who they are, you might think, what a lovely family.  So confirm their neighbours in Llandudno and their family in Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield.  They should have had a bright future ahead and were probably at their happiest.  But David and Michelle Statham - a married couple with four delightful children, Reece, 13; Jay, 9; Mason, 20 months; and Ellouise, 10 weeks old – didn’t get the chance.

Their lives were snuffed out, by a lorry driver who allegedly caused their deaths by dangerous driving.  In other countries, such as Finland, deaths on roads are relatively rare, primarily because of tough penalties on road killers. 

In this country, because of our love of the roads and the liberal leaning of the judiciary and politicians, road killers get away relatively lightly with their crimes – yes, crimes, because these are not accidents.

If it is found that someone caused the death of these two adults and four little kids, that person should face a life sentence (or at least 15 years a piece) for each life he took by his reckless and murderous driving. 

Justice must be done, and so too must we stop such senseless deaths occurring by putting in place a deterrent that will stop such dangerous driving.  After all, how many drivers think they can get away with it, after seeing the scumbag child-killer and illegal immigrant Aaron Chisango - who with no driving licence or insurance and having drunk a litre of whiskey ran over and killed 12-year-old Jamie Mason in Wednesfield, near Wolverhampton – walk free?  The charges were dropped due to a technicality. 

It is time to get tough on road killers and the Government should, as a matter of urgency, bring in legislation to increase the minimum tariff on such people to at least 15 years per life that they take away.

One simple way to ease the pain – cut taxes

Mr Boom (Brown) and Mr Bust (Darling) have achieved the recession that their Labour economic policies were always going to deliver – as Merv ‘the Swerve’ and Mr Boom admitted in the last few days. Now, having created a bad situation for the country’s economic and financial position, can they perhaps ease the pain?

Alas, no. Their economic policies have very much been about government intervention – the bank bailouts, nationalisation, the ’spend our way out of the recession’, and Keynesian (a swear word if ever there were one) spending on public works.

There is one way by which this gutless Government could ease the pain. It is quite simple. They should cut taxes.

But unfortunately that is beyond the leftwing ideologues who run the country. Their socialism has been revealed, as the only way they know how to respond to an economic downturn.

How much longer people in the UK have to suffer from Labour’s policies is anyone’s guess. Tax cuts are the only way to ease the pain, but this lot aren’t going to deliver those.

Will anyone?