Just before Christmas a huge amount of press space was dedicated to the Government’s announcement that “excessive credit card charges” would be made illegal by the end of 2012 : Excessive card surcharges will be banned, says Treasury “Excessive” fees for using a debit or credit card to buy items such as [...]  A rather impressive house in China of all places : Yoda lives on in the body of a Red Squirrel : And an interesting little tale with parallels to life in the EU : I previously wrote about retrospective legislation when Labour were busy wringing the last drops of blood out of the bond market to fund state largesse : Our current government seems to be getting quite keen on using retrospective legislation; that is, legislation which makes something which was legal at the time now illegal [...] The details of the EU driven raping of Greece to save the European banks reveal some interesting consequences as in this from ZeroHedge : Salary cutbacks (called “unified payroll”) for contract workers at the public sector set to be finalized today. Cuts to be valid retroactively since november 2011. Expected result: Up to [...] I really do wonder what the hell this country is turning into sometimes … “Inappropriate comments” left on a Facebook tribute site for dead a Norfolk teenager are being investigated by police. Maisie Baxter, 13, was found dead at her home in Trowse, near Norwich, at about 17:50 GMT on Saturday. Norfolk Police are [...] Amongst the comments on a very readable ZeroHedge article on the future of Greece and the somewhat underhand Germans (the video of the German Finance Minister in the article demonstrating that it is indeed all politics) comes this little gem : Einstein dies and goes to heaven only to be informed that his room [...] An interesting ramping up of what governments consider extremism from ZeroHedge : Just when we thought the US could not sink any further in its usurpation of civil rights, here comes the FBI to advise all those who tend to think that the broken economic model of the past century is the cause for [...] A brief extract from a ZeroHedge article entitled “This is Europe’s Scariest Chart” : Some may be surprised to learn that while Portugal, and Greece, are quite bad, at 30.7% and 46.6% respectively, it is Spain where the youth unemployment pain is most acute: at 51.4%, more than half of the [...] Whilst the MSM speak constantly of cuts, the reality is that the UK has never owed more money and is now neck and neck with the Eastern basket case that is Japan. The following chart from a ZeroHedge article shows just what state we are now in, with debt continuing to climb while the [...] And all too soon I am back on these shores again after a damned good time away in Estonia … normal service will resume shortly when I straighten my antennae out a little. For now, beware of glass doors and possibly the strangest video snippet I have ever seen : [...] Whilst hanging around waiting for the witching hour, the following from Zerohedge tickled my fancy … you may have seen the first version of the story but the second is much more like the reality of the EU today … It is a slow day in a little Greek village. The rain is beating [...] There are some excellent articles and videos around at the moment which, between them, provide some thought provoking visions of where the world may be headed and, more importantly, why we are in this mess in the first place. The first one is a post by the Robert Denner writing over at ZeroHedge [...] Not outside Parliament love … move along now. So much for respecting freedoms and repealing un-necessary laws … A trawl through the latest Statutory Instruments reveals this little snippet coming into force on December 19th (emphasis mine) : The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2011 Provisions [...] Given the BBC’s newly exposed lack of impartiality on green matters it doesn’t really surprise me that they would put a positive spin on a poll about nuclear and renewable power. The impartiality bit comes out in one of the newly released Climategate emails : date: Wed Dec 8 08:25:30 2004 from: Phil Jones [...]
In a Spectator interview back in 1990, Nicholas Ridley had this to say on the subject of the EU and the Germans (emphasis mine) : I was still taken aback by the vehemence of Mr Ridley’s views on the matter of Europe, and in particular the role of Germany. It had seemed [...]  |
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