Rectal Johnson ID Card Suggestion

The new Home secretary, Alan Johnson, has said the government will not make ID cards 'compulsory' and that the money saved in scrapping the whole system would be peanuts. In other words, the whole thing is still on.

Just because something is not 'compulsory' doesn't mean you don't have to have one. Further comment from Henry Porter.

Johnson is just another fucking Labour scumbag admired by the cretinocracy because of his working class credentials, as if somehow this prevents him from being a disgrace to humanity like Prescott.

He can shove his ID cards up his proletarian arse.

Spawn Re-Launch #101 Kaput

The monocular commissar's latest personal relaunch gets off to a typically bad start: Brown takes cash from schools, roads and health to pay for 30,000 homes. All that cash and nobody seems to know where it's going to come from.

Those Bad Racist Morris Men

It's on the BBC website, so it must be true: School bans black-face Morris men.

Head teacher of Chantry Primary, Hazel King, said it apologised for any inconvenience caused to the Morris Men.

"We organised the event to bring a diverse and fragile community together," she said.

"To celebrate all cultures we booked a Morris troupe, having failed to recognise the possible significance for our community of their tradition to perform with blackened faces.

"We found ourselves in a difficult position of weighing up any potential offence versus not wishing to compromise the Morris dancers' tradition."

Diverse and fragile. Oh dear.

Those Bad Posh People

The truth proves too difficult for Polly Toynbee (not for the first time) when it comes to anti-political bile:

Most depressing for councils, satisfaction mostly depends on something they cannot change – the population: happiest places have most graduates, fewest children, least ethnic diversity, least population churn, most private housing. Badly run areas (like Surrey) that are posh places will always score higher satisfaction than good councils (like Blackburn) with four-star ratings and a miserable populace. Where is the political justice in that?

Reminds me of that poem by Bertolt Brecht, 'The Solution':

After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

New Labour's Rotten State

If we need to get a perspective on New Labour's 12 years of corruption and criminality then look here at part 1; and here for part 2. Courtesy of Hagley Road.

Add into that the increasing number of quangos, databases and CCTV cameras, the interference of the state in more and more aspects of our lives, the attrition of our liberties, and the subservience to the EU (entailing, among other things, the start of the dismantling of the United Kingdom as a single political entity and the privatisation of the Royal Mail).

It is not looking good.

In fact it's looking really bad.