Punch In The Face Digital Progressive Blogging

Back from Australia, where I have managed to avoid UK news and newspapers...however, even in that enlightened country the Righteous are at work trying to snatch people's freedoms away from them under the guise of protecting the kiddies: Filtering (Censoring) the Net. Communications Minister Conroy is obviously a cnut of the most modern, correct kind. May he die from a long painful illness without a pension.

'Progressive' seems to be the new word on the block. It seems to be used a lot by the Lost Righteous - people who realise the New Labour project is a pile of steaming excrement about to go down the crapper but don't have the guts or understanding to reassert Old Labour values. In other words it stinks. If I encounter anyone who speaks this to me directly I shall punch them in the face.

Jackie Smith is still an ugly, stupid and incompetent disgrace squatting like a toad in government.

Pity for the Spawn of the Manse that his bravura performance at the G20 has now dissolved like piss in rain and been swamped by coverage of police (mis)behaviour, including photo footage that the cops somehow managed not to eradicate, despite their new-found laws.

Alice Mahon resigns from the party of the Terminally Righteous, taking a swipe at the EU as she does so:

That same manifesto promised a referendum on the European Constitution, we re-named it the Lisbon Treaty and reneged on that promise also.

If this Treaty is ratified we can say goodbye to any publicly owned services. Article 111-147 is clear, we will be handing over to private corporations, social services, education, transport and postal services. Even the NHS will be up for grabs.

Matthew Taylor finds himself on the panel of an NHS Confederation bash called ‘inequality, nudge and recession: is it time for a new approach to health politics?’ Taking the politics out of health care would be a bloody good start, and as for 'nudge', again I'd have to punch anyone in the face who used that word in front of me. Matthew's post is full of the usual 'progressive' bull: 'Building community resilience and capacity is central to improving public health, which is itself a more important determinant of health outcome and levels of health inequality than the health care system.'

The NHS Confederation bills itself as 'the voice of NHS leadership'. There we have it again, this obsession with leadership. Can't all be members of Common Purpose, can they?

Apparently Mandelshit has been blathering on about 'Digital Britain' (ht Muffled Vociferation). I haven't read the report but I can tell you with complete authority that it is absolute bullshit, the main aims being to promote the image of the government as an up-to-date administration (FAIL) and to act as a smoke screen for extending control over the internet (how's your plan to seize control of Nominet progressing, Your Lordship?). A lot of talk about broadband, no doubt, but I suspect that wireless/mobile access will overtake it within a few years.

Mandelson is also a cnut. May he, too, die of a long and particularly embarrassing disease before he can draw his unearned pension.

And Sunder Katwala sets out 'the ethic which informs the bloggers of the left' in his post: 'Why we blog: our ethic of progressive blogging'. I'm a bit tired and suffering from hallucinations brought on by jet lag, so I'll end with two comments on this: firstly, drawing up a list of 'ethics' for something like blogging just reveals the control-freakery and authoritarian nature of the righteous left (after all, the Spawn himself would create such a list if he knew what blogging was); and secondly, there's that word again, 'progressive'.

Don't fucking come anywhere near me, Sunder, unless you want a punch in the face.

Hitler Brown Voluntary Jugend

The insanity of Brown continues with compulsory voluntarism for young people (think I wrote about this one earlier): Community Work.

I'm in Australia at the moment and am not exposed to massive amounts of the BBC, which is a blessing.

I heard a recording of the interview with Draper on Sky and enjoyed the irony of him bleating on about the iniquity of his private emails being 'hacked' (as opposed to their details automatically being logged). Obviously he hasn't realised the implications of the legislation his own government has passed recently (under the direction of the EU).

Shove Your Social Engineering Up Your Jacksie, Brown

Oddly enough, I was thinking about this sort of thing as I was walking in this morning, ie when did something provided by the state change from being a straightforward service when required, to a piece of social engineering? My state of health is up to me. If I fall ill, for whatever reason, the NHS is there to save my life/cure me. That's all.

Everything promulgated by this government is now social engineering; nothing is the simple provision of a service. Every aspect of our lives is subject to their interfering, authoritarian naziness.

G20 Blah Demonstrations Blah Riots Blah (Not)

Not much real street action, then, yesterday. I wonder if today will be any better?

Did anyone else think there were far too many cameras in place outside RBS when the 'protestors' broke windows and 'stormed' the building (without actually doing anything once they got inside)? Pity that RBS hadn't had the foresight to board those windows up, eh?

The Society of the Spectacle, my friends. It's all bullshit (so far).

Also, a student of mine yesterday asked me if I knew exactly when this blagfest was on, since he will be travelling to London at the weekend. I told him to check on the G20 website. He said he had, and it didn't give the actual dates of the summit. I've checked. It doesn't. These useless fucks can't even get the basic info on their own website let alone come up with 'global' solutions to problems they themselves caused or allowed to happen.

Supersized Undemocracy EU Style

England gets supersized councils. These plans were slipped in while no one was paying any attention - as part of the EU's plans to regionalise the UK, though God forbid that anyone (especially the British media) should mention that fact. Decided by Brussels, implemented by our puppet government.

So much for democracy, since nobody wants them and where they have been given the choice have decidedly voted against them. So much for that fat, pie-eating democrat Prescott.

Another (later) article from the BBC website. Will it be on the main news? I doubt it.