Britain almost out of troops

The head of the Army has issued a dire warning that Britain has almost run out of troops to defend the country or fight abroad, a secret document obtained by the Daily Telegraph has revealed.

Gen Sir Richard Dannatt has told senior commanders that reinforcements for emergencies or for operations in Iraq or Afghanistan are "now almost non-existent".

In the memorandum to fellow defence leaders, the Chief of the General Staff (CGS) confessed that "we now have almost no capability to react to the unexpected". The "undermanned" Army now has all its units committed to either training for war in Iraq and Afghanistan, on leave or on operations.

There is just one battalion of 500 troops, called the Spearhead Lead Element, available to be used in an emergency, such as a major domestic terrorist attack or a rapid deployment overseas.

After knowing this I wonder which bright spark decided that we should be sending an extra 100 troops to fight in Afghanistan. It would also be a good idea to fix those aircraft seeing as half of the RAF fleet is out of action. I wouldn’t bet on the government doing anything though. They haven’t yet even though they have promised things in the past.

Hat tip: Ranting Stan

Unsafe criminals released

Nearly 1,000 criminals freed early to ease the prison overcrowding crisis had previously been rated too unsafe to be let out with an electronic tag, it has emerged.

They were ordered to remain behind bars because governors rated them a high risk of re-offending.

Despite these fears, they have been freed under Labour's controversial early release scheme announced as an emergency measure last month after the prison population hit a record 81,000.

Yesterday's revelation is yet another blow for the early release policy which the Conservatives described as 'potentially highly dangerous'.

The party's justice spokesman Edward Garnier said: 'If they were not safe to be let out on tags, why are they safe to be let out with taxpayers' cash in their pockets but no tags on their ankles?

The government is totally incompetent. They were put in prison for a reason and now even the ones that are unsafe to be let out with an electronic tag are being let out. Someone needs to get control of this mess and fast. Labour will never be able to do it. They have shown that they can’t succeed at anything.

More troops go to Afghanistan

Yesterday the Ministry of Defence said that troop levels in Afghanistan will increase by 100 by the end of the year and will be boosted by a troop of Viking armoured vehicles.

There is still no sign of the transport aircraft or the helicopters that are needed. You would think that if you increase the number of soldiers there would also be an increase in aircraft to help them complete the job or just to help them get in and out of war zones. The government don’t see it that way though and they have probably forgot that Blair promised the troops whatever they need to complete the job.

Brown plans to destroy any opposition

It looks as if Gordon Brown is going to destroy any opposition to his government by making the House of Lords mostly elected. For atleast the last 10 years the House of Lords have been the only obstacle to this tyrannical government. If it wasn’t for the Lords we would have no choice about ID cards.

An elected House of Lords would not be good for democracy. In a representative democracy you have to have checks and balances for a representative democracy to work. Having two elected chambers will just mean that they owe their position to their party. They will then hold the party line and vote along party lines. If that happens all the Lords will become is a rubber stamp chamber. The Lords have shown time and time again that they are willing to stand up to the government. This is because they owe their position to no party so even if they are members of that party they will not take the party line. They will vote the way they think is best for the government.

Do we really want a rubber stamp chamber? Do we really want to destroy our only check on the government?

Chucky gets ASBO

Kyle Ivison is not the only one who received an ASBO and banned from doing things that are already banned. Take 12 year old Oliver Clinch nicknamed Chucky who was issued with an ASBO after using up 85 per cent of the local police time and committing more than 60 offences.

Little Oliver has been banned from causing harassment, alarm or distress to the public. He is also banned from possessing alcohol. I believe all these are already illegal. I am not sure about possessing alcohol but he is 12.

Albanian mafia in Blair's street

An Albanian gangster has been gunned down amid a bloody turf war over the right to rob the parking metres in Tony Blair's street.

Even as police protections team were assessing security at the former Prime Minister's new London home in Connaught Square, criminals were clashing over who 'owned' metres in the exclusive neighbourhood.

It culminated in a shooting at an Albanian private members' club which left one man dead, and two others wounded.

Two other men in the room hurled themselves out of a second-floor window as they fled for their lives.

Gangster Kujtim Spahiu, 33, has been jailed for 33 years in prison for his part in the shootings after a five-week trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court, east London. Judge David Radford also recommended his deportation.

Don’t ya just love immigration and multiculturalism? Why do we have to import all the criminals of the world? Atleast the good thing is that they are doing it in Blair’s constituency. Let’s hope they mug him and he resists…

Isn't it great that Blair will be experiencing what he brought into the country?

Government to cave in to Lords demands

Yesterday the Corporate Manslaughter Bill was back in the Commons. Yesterday I said that the Lords will win this showdown and it seems as though I am correct. Jack Straw said that the government wished to table "significant amendments" which could mean that they are going to do what the Lords have been saying.

Again, this is a fine example of why we need the House of Lords. They keep the government in check. The government is bad now. Can you just think how bad they would be if there was no resistance?

Forestry Commission tries to destroy forest

When you go on to the Forestry Commission website one of the first things you can see is what they are there for. It says “We are the government department responsible for the protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodlands”. In this case you would expect that they would do everything that they could to protect the forests. If you thought this you would be wrong.

In Houghton-le-Spring they brought a developer in to knock down 7000 trees to build 20 football pitches. For some reason the Forestry Commission didn’t carry out an environmental impact assessment. The people of the area took it to the high court and the trees were saved.

Maybe the Forestry Commission should actually do their job and protect the forests?

Councillor suspended for having an opinion

A Swansea councillor has been suspended for 1 month for having an opinion on a new welsh language school. He is against it because there are plenty of other schools that have fallen into disrepair and the money could go towards maintaining them.

Who can we blame for this tyrannical decision? It seems like the John Prescott is still with us seeing as it was his diktat that created the rules that councillors now live under. If you can cast your mind back to September 2006 you might be able to remember that some councillors were banned from voting on sites where mobile phones masts might be located if they owned a mobile phone.

While Prescott doesn’t have any responsibilities anymore his decisions still influence democracy. It seems that the buffoon has more of a legacy than Blair.

Al Gore is a hypocrite

ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore's green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter's wedding in Beverly Hills.

Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world's most threatened fish species.

Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks.

Blog of the week

The blog of the week this week is John of Gwent.

TV appeal cancelled over racism fears

A police force withdrew plans for a televised appeal to help catch an Afghan suspected of sexually assaulting women after a race watchdog warned that it might spark a violent backlash.

Detectives were due to appear on an episode of ITV's Manhunt to ask for help finding Noorullah Seddiqi, 34.

The Afghan had absconded from bail after being arrested in connection with the rape of one woman and the sexual assault of three others.

Officers working on the case believed the appeal, due to be shown in May, could have proved vital in the search for Seddiqi. They thought he might be working as an unlicensed taxi driver in the south of England.

But the Chief Constable of the Devon and Cornwall force, Stephen Otter, told officers not to go ahead with the programme after the Devon Racial Equality Council, funded by and affiliated to the Commission for Racial Equality, said the appeal could lead to a racist backlash.

Do these idiots seriously think that we are going to hunt down every afghan man and beat him to a pulp? If they do they are seriously deluded and should never be given jobs where they are paid by the state. If you lack common sense you shouldn’t be making decisions especially if taxpayers are paying your wages.

What about the risk to public safety? Why don’t they care that he could rape some other woman? Why does the risk of perceived racism trump the need for public safety?

Hat tip: Bel is thinking.

3 gurkhas per week refused entry into UK

Remember Tul Bahadur Pun the Gurkha who was eventually allowed into Britain? After reading that I was curious about the treatment of Gurkhas so I sent off a request to the foreign office to ask about how many Gurkhas applied to come to Britain. Their response was that I didn’t specify the country so it would be too expensive to find the information but they would try to be helpful and get the info from Kathmandu where the bulk of the Gurkhas are from.

As people who request information from the government will know the government is never helpful when you get things wrong and they do their best to not give you any information so I was surprised that they gave me the information. Maybe the civil servants want it to be publicised? Or maybe it’s just the way the foreign office does it?

To cut a long story short since 1988 there have been 1984 applications from Gurkhas that have been turned down for them and their dependents. There are many more than that though. The Gurkhas can also apply under Armed Forces Concession. Under Armed Forces Concession there have been 2840 applications and 1196 of them have been refused. That is not the final say though. They also have an appeal. 414 Gurkhas are still in the appeals process and there have been 48 applications for appeal that have been withdrawn by the Gurkha himself, the reason wasn’t made clear

This means that in the last 19 years there has been 3180 Gurkhas that have been refused entry to the UK. This means that around 167 Gurkhas are refused entry into the UK every year or making it simpler it is around 3 per week.

Parliament plays political tennis

The House of Commons and House of Lords are going up against each other once again. The Lords are showing that they are holding the government to account which the House of Commons is failing to do.

The Lords want a "lifeboat fund" for the 125,000 affected ex-employees who lost out when their final salary schemes went bust. Unfortunately in the House of Commons voting was 303 to 253 against the measure which means it now goes back to the Lords.

It seems as though Parliament is playing a game of political tennis. The latest legislation to show that is the Corporate Manslaughter Bill which the Lords want to include state institutions but the government don’t. Yesterday it was back in the Lords and they voted 186 to 157 for it to include state institutions so it once again will go back to the Commons for them to decide. It seems likely that the Lords will win this. If both houses hold their ground then the legislation dies at a certain date meaning that the government don’t get their legislation through. If they want to get it through they will have to change the legislation for it to include state institutions thereby making the Lords win.

This is a fine example of why we need the Lords. An elected lords would never behave like this which is why they should remain unelected.

4000 terror suspects in UK

Don’t ya love how many terror suspects there are? Apparently there are 4,000 terror suspects and their sympathisers in this country. This seems to be a lot more especially seeing at the start of the month there were only 1700 terror suspects. In October 2006 the number of terror suspects was at 1500 so the numbers have almost tripled in about 9 months.

Is this scare mongering or is it real?

Midlothian Council was right?

Remember when I blogged about Midlothian Council leaving the lights on in an abandoned school in case an intruder hurt themselves?

As it turns out they were right to do that as this story shows. A pupil who injured himself after breaking into a school was paid £5,700 compensation. The secondary school pupil was swinging on a gate of a primary school when it collapsed. Despite the fact he was trespassing, Leicestershire County Council was forced to compensate him because it could not prove that the gate had been maintained.

SAS Commander forced to quit

What do you do when you have an SAS commander who has been decorated in battle against insurgents who is brave enough to stay with his men and lead operations against terrorists? You relieve him of command and make him quit of course.

You couldn’t make it up.

Good news or a lie?

A rationalisation of repair work on RAF Harrier and Tornado jets has saved the Ministry of Defence £1.4 billion and cut the time needed to fix damaged planes, according to a new report.

Operational availability of Harriers, which was already below the required level, dipped at the outset of the change programme in 2003, but since the end of last year the number of planes fit for action has met the RAF's targets, said the National Audit Office report.

Congratulations to the government, well not really. At first I did think this was something good that they did but then I remember that almost half of their transport aircraft in the war zones are unsafe to fly. If they were doing a good job don’t you think we would have many more aircraft ready to fly? Do you think it would take 7 hours to evacuate wounded soldiers?

If the military have saved money why wasn’t it spent on giving our soldiers whatever they need to complete the job in the war zones that they are in?

Immigration and crime increase in rural areas

The number of immigrants in rural England has more than trebled in the past three years, a Government report reveals today. The "sheer scale and speed of immigration" is putting a big strain on rural local authorities as they struggle to provide services and maintain community relations, warns the Commission for Rural Communities study.

From 2003 to 2006, rural areas across England saw a 209 per cent rise in migrant workers, as measured by National Insurance registrations, up from 21,000 to 65,000. The real figure is likely to be far higher, as some workers - particularly illegal immigrants - do not register, and dependent partners and children are not included. ...The sharpest increase was in Herefordshire, where the number of foreign NI registrations rose tenfold in three years, while eight rural districts across the country saw sixfold rises in foreign workers.

There has also been a 25% increase in robberies in rural communities too. Is it a coincidence? Either way Labour cannot be trusted to solve these problems.

More crimes committed by early released prisoners

It looks like the early release to ease prison overcrowding isn’t going well. As well as committing a robbery within days of being released they have also committed other offences and are now back in prison or are on the run.

Maybe the government will learn from this and not do it again. Well it isn’t likely seeing as they have done it before and it lead to more than 1000 crimes by prisoners who had been released early to ease overcrowding.

NHS bosses in taxpayer funded Japan trip

What do you do when you run a cash strapped hospital that can’t afford drugs to treat some patients? You organise an £84,000 trip to a Japanese car factory for 14 doctors of course. It was all to learn about efficiency apparently.

These 14 doctors can’t have passed their doctor exams. If they had they would realise that cars aren’t people and giving the kiss of life to many cars would just be weird and may get you locked up for being mentally ill. Let’s not get into that though, some people love their cars.

Calls for amnesty (3)

Once again there are calls for an amnesty for illegal immigrants. This story just won’t go away. This time it is a think tank with close links to the Labour party. In March it was in the news and it was called the ‘Strangers into Citizens scheme’. In June 2006 it was the Home Office who raised the prospect of an amnesty.

If they are allowed to break the law and get away with it why can’t I break the law and face no prospect of being sent to prison? These illegal immigrants are breaking the law and should be found and deported immediately. If I can’t break the law why should they be allowed to?

Schools told mix or fail

In May I blogged that schools will be labelled failing schools if they don’t promote race relations by twinning with multiethnic schools and striking up partnerships with Muslim schools. Well it seems that the newspapers are recycling the story because it’s in the Daily Mail.

There are a few differences in the stories though. Last time it said that they “should be twinned with ethnically mixed schools”. They have changed it to “Schools in rural or suburban areas will be urged to twin with multi-ethnic schools”. Read it? “Urged” seems like it will be voluntary but the fact that they are going to be closed down if they don’t shows that it’s just spin. They won’t be urged. They will be forced.

Police want unlimited detention without trial

Police chiefs are demanding the power to lock up terror suspects indefinitely, it has emerged.

Reopening the debate over detention without trial, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) called for some suspects to be held for "as long as it takes".

Acpo president Ken Jones said police were struggling to operate within the 28-day limit, stressing the global scale of terror investigations and the need to arrest suspects early.

"We are now arguing for judicially supervised detention for as long as it takes," he told the Observer.

"We are up against the buffers on the 28-day limit.

"We understand people will be concerned and nervous, but we need to create a system with sufficient judicial checks and balances which holds people, but no longer than a day necessary."

The idea is said to have been discussed with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has signalled his intention to re-visit the subject of detention without trial this year.

Gordon Brown should not give them this right. If they were guilty they should be sent to trial. They should not be sent to prison forever just because they suspect they might be guilty of something.

I am even iffy about the 28 day period. I am not sure it should even be that long but I definitely think locking people up forever without trial is unnecessary. If they are guilty they should prove it in a court of law with a jury finding them guilty.

24% of terror suspects are asylum seekers

THE government faces new embarrassment over Britain’s porous borders with the revelation that one in four terrorist suspects arrested in Britain is an asylum seeker.

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, there have been more than 1,100 arrests under antiterrorism legislation. While some of the most serious threats come from Al-Qaeda supporters born in the UK, there is new evidence of many suspects exploiting loopholes in the country’s immigration laws.

It was confirmed last week that Muktar Said Ibrahim, one of the bombers involved in the failed suicide attacks of July 21, 2005, was given a passport even though he had convictions for indecent assault and robbery. Gordon Brown has said an applicant in similar circumstances would not now be granted citizenship.

This is certainly a reason to keep our asylum system going seeing as a significant proportion of terror suspects are asylum seekers. I have something I have noticed that could mean it is even more. When their applications are accepted they are no longer called asylum seekers. I wonder what percentage of these terror suspects have been given indefinite leave to remain?

Surely this should be a reason to close our boarders and tell the asylum seekers that if they wanted asylum they should have went to the nearest safe country to their own and not passed sometimes over a dozen countries just to get to Britain.

Trevor Phillips threatens to quit

The head of Britain's equal rights watchdog has accused Gordon Brown of appointing too few ethnic minorities and women to his Cabinet, provoking a furious row about sex and race discrimination.

Mr Phillips issued the warning in a telephone call to No 10 last week and threatened he would quit his high-profile role unless the Government took the issue of equality seriously.

Atleast one good thing has come out of Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister and that is that Trevor Phillips might quit. When can the celebrating begin?

Blogpower votes to expel

There’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is that Blogpower expelled me (not too bad then) but the good news is that I will be spending 1 hour less per day going through the blogs and I can delete some of the blogs from my blogroll which I have been meaning to do. Silver linings and all…

UPDATE

On the awards blogroll (blog of month/week) I have had to delete Martine Martin, God Help Britain, Spicy Cauldron, Deakin is blue, Cynical Chatter, BNP Aberdeen, BNP Falkirk and A big stick. I am also considering Labour Watch seeing as I can’t see it. I’ll give them another month.

Save the environment - drive a car

It can be greener to drive than catch the train, according to a rail industry study which reveals that trains are losing their environmental advantage.

Modern diesel-powered trains are so polluting that a family of three or more would be responsible for at least double the carbon dioxide emissions on many routes when travelling by rail compared with driving in a typical medium-sized car.

The study concludes that the Virgin Voyager, the most advanced diesel train on the network, has the highest emissions of any British train and that its performance compared with cars is steadily worsening as motor manufacturers improve efficiency.

Doesn’t this mean that the government should be encouraging cars and not doing everything they can to price people out of them? If we are causing global warming wouldn’t it we be environmentally better off if took the car instead of the train?

Hat tip: The ThunderDragon

How to stop the destruction of the education system

It is becoming increasingly clear that I am right when I have said that the government should never be allowed to control essential services like education, health and policing. Governments of the last 60 years have done everything to destroy those services. Whether they meant to or not is simply irrelevant. These services must be protected for future generations so even if you have a government now that gets these systems in good shape you cannot guarantee that they will be in good shape in the future when future governments take over.

I have stated many times what I think should happen to those services. You can read it here. Please read the education part because the rest of this blog post will be about the education system.

The education of our children has been so dumbed down that they can now pass with just 30% of the marks. Not content with doing that they want to go further and introduce lessons that are only 5 minutes long. Have you ever heard such nonsense?

They don’t want to stop at just the destruction of lessons they also want to destroy our history. They want to stop our children from ever knowing about the triumphs of Britain, they want to stop them from knowing the history of Britain. How can you teach history without referring to Churchill and Hitler? Well that’s what the government want to do. It seems that lessons in feelings will be much more important.

If the government is allowed to control the education system it will be impossible to stop them from destroying the education system even if they don’t mean too. The government just can’t resist micromanaging these things. Even if we had a government which didn’t do all that the education system is just a short way from disaster as any government can take over.

The only way to have a successful education system is by handing the responsibility to an elected education commission who have experience within the education system and not leave it with people most of whom have probably never worked in the education system so have no idea what they are doing.

Even if a few of the education destroyers were elected it would not affect the rest of the nation as each county would have their own. Once parents realise that they have made a bad choice they can reverse it. It is not as simple as that with governments. When electing governments you do not consider just one aspect so even if they are doing terrible within the education system you will vote for them anyway, whether it’s because they are doing well with everything else they do or you simply voted for them because your parents voted for them and their parents voted for them. With one area of policy it is not as simple as that. Would you vote for a member of your own party even if he was destroying education? I know I wouldn’t. I would be just as likely to vote liberal as I would BNP in the circumstances of one policy area.

EU admits opt outs are worthless

Senior European Union officials confirmed yesterday that Britain's "red line" opt-out from the European Charter of Fundamental Rights is not worth the paper it is written on.

Margot Wallström, the European Commission Vice-President, insisted that the charter will apply to huge swathes of British law, the 75 per cent or more that is derived from EU legislation.

Can we now have a referendum? Why aren’t the anti EU organisations organising protests? Where are they when we need them? They should be at the front of the queue doing their best to make sure we have a referendum by organising strikes and protests but they aren’t doing anything. They are just complaining about it. The time for complaining is over. It is time to do something.

Bye bye Blogpower

It looks like that I am going to be kicked out of Blogpower as the polls aren’t in my favour and they close tomorrow. I would just like to say that there are no hard feelings and I will still be visiting some of the blogs especially those that have won ‘blog of the week’ even if they did vote against me.

The blogs that I will continue to visit (which haven’t won anything from me yet) are A View from the Right, Bel is thinking, Chicken Yoghurt, Crushed By Ingsoc, Hell’s Handmaiden, Looking For a Voice, Lord Nazh, Observations from the Hillside, The Cityunslicker, The Conscious Earth, The Last Ditch and Ruthie Zaftig.

Have fun blogging.

Government get it wrong

The House of Lords have again voted against the Corporate Manslaughter Bill because it does not include the public sector. Justice Minister Maria Eagle said the government accepted the principle of including deaths in custody and the scope of the legislation could be extended in the future to cover deaths in custody or on specified premises.

While Gordon Brown announced that he wants 3 million new homes by 2020 he seemed to be making it hard for himself to achieve that goal seeing as has said that he is considering making developers who build on flood plains liable for insurance cover for 20 years. To me that just sounds like developers will either stop building so many houses (which will hamper his goals) or they will charge even more for houses in a market which is already overpriced which will mean that the price of houses will not go down no matter how many are built making it even more difficult for first time buyers to get on the property ladder.

Happy Birthday: Central News

It was on this day 2 years ago that Central News was created. Therefore Central News is 2 today YIPPEE!

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Central News
Happy Birthday to you!

Hip hip hurray

Hip hip hurray

Hip hip hurray

Blog of the week

The blog of the week this week is Man in a Shed.

BNP leadership election

As mentioned earlier in this blog the BNP are about to have an election for the leadership at the end of the month. Members have been provided with a link to 800 word statements by both candidates. The link has not been provided to the general public so I will not provide the link and I will not provide the full statements here. I will however show extracts of the statements.

Nick Griffin

While I welcome the opportunity this election gives to obtain a mandate to continue to steer the BNP on its current uniquely successful course, I believe his ‘challenge’ is not only a grubby affair involving lies and baseless smears but would, if successful, plunge our party back into the political Stone Age; it is not a serious proposal for a different way to run a successful party, but the last gasp effort of the pre-1999 ‘old guard’ to drag us back to their extremist past, bungling amateurism and guaranteed failure.

Mr. Jackson’s statement while seeking nominations was that I am “unacceptable to the National Front” and to other tiny extreme groups, and hence a block to ‘nationalist unity’. Well, I am very happy to be ‘unacceptable’ to anti-social extremists – are they the kind of people with whom you wish to be associated, let alone ‘united’?

Mr. Jackson wants to return to the old policy of compulsory repatriation. I am sure this would be political suicide - utterly ‘unsaleable’ to the vast majority of British voters. It would put our members at even greater risk of persecution as ‘racists’. It would strip us of all legal protection under Human Rights laws.

Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson, is Chairman of the ‘Reform Group’ and is challenging for leadership of the British National Party. The ‘Reform Group’ came into being because many members, particularly established members, believed the Party was being run in an erratic way and some member were not renewing as a result. As a talking point, I believe, the current leader has, and the founder leader had, enormous talent in some directions but it seems none in others. This has meant the Party has not been developed in a balanced manner.

In particular, the Chairman authorises the spending of Party money. He also appoints the Treasurer and Auditor. This is I believe is quite contrary to established, prudent, practice. Further it should be noted that Nick Griffin was once declared bankrupt, though now discharged, no prudent organisation would allow someone with his history to be responsible for Party funds.

I believe that the Party Constitution should be changed to one that is a recognisable as normal for a corporate body under English law.

The new Constitution will provide for a compulsory Annual General Meeting at which all paid up members are entitled to attend, propose resolutions and vote.

The Party must adopt a set of basic principles, for example the declaration that***:
1. Our homeland is the United Kingdom. No-one else can live permanently in our homeland.
2. We are an independent nation. We must leave the EU.
3. We want to live and be ruled by our traditional laws and customs.

I will be voting Nick Griffin.

Osama bin Laden to be given visa

It looks like Osama bin Laden is going to be allowed into Britain after marrying a British councillor. All he needs now is a visa. I am not joking about this either however it is not the terrorist bin laden it is his son Omar Osama bin Laden who married someone 24 years older than him.

WHAT THE FUCK?

UK needs a 2 child limit

Families should restrict themselves to having a maximum of two children to stabilise the effect on the environment of Britain's rapidly growing population, a thinktank warns today.

According to the Optimum Population Trust, Britain's rising birth rate, currently growing at the highest rate for nearly 30 years, should be considered an environmental liability.

I have been saying for a long time that we should be reducing our population numbers. I have also said that we should be limiting child benefit to the first two children and in overpopulated areas like the South East we should be limiting it to one child.

We should be making having more than the specified number of children too costly by revoking all benefits that people get including the child benefit that they get for the other children, housing benefit, unemployment benefit and tax credits.

Once people realise that the costs outweigh the benefits of having a large family they will stop and then we will be able to finally reduce the population to more manageable levels.

Sex offenders at open prison

Sex offenders are among the 'very high-risk inmates' being held in open jails that have little security, the Government's prisons watchdog has said.

Convicts were also not properly risk assessed before being sent to a jail that does not have a perimeter fence, said Anne Owers.

The revelations are another blow to the Government, which has faced claims that open jails are being used for inappropriate inmates because of the overcrowding crisis.

Mrs Owers's report is confirmation that - despite official denials - proper checks on who should be sent to relaxed conditions are not taking place.

To have any idea how easy it is to escape from an open prison we need only look at the experience of George Bateman a 71 year old frail pensioner who managed to escape from an open prison before being found drunk in a bar.

I think you will agree that housing sex offenders in an open prison is madness. At the very least they should be in a high security prison so they are unable to carry out any more sexual offences.

Yesterday in Parliament

The House of Lords have shown once again why we need them. They are an effective check on the government. Yesterday the fate of the corporate manslaughter bill looked like it was in jeopardy after the lords voted for the legislation to include government institutions like the prison service. The government don’t seem to want this.

The government was also defeated when peers voted to give more control over the pre-release of official figures to an independent statistics board - rather than to ministers.

Voting was 181 to 151 during debate on the statistics and registration service bill, which aims to give greater independence to the Office for National Statistics.

Teddy Bear Picnic Day

Today is Teddy Bear Picnic Day. This day reminds me of a song that you might remember from your childhood:

If you go down to the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today
You'd better go in disguise

For ev'ry bear that ever there was will gather there for certain because
Today's the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic

Ev'ry Teddy Bear who's been good
Is sure of a treat today.
There's lotst of marvelous things to eat
And wonderful games to play

Beneatht the trees wher nobody sees
They'll hide and seek as long as they please
'Cause that's the way the Teddy Bears have their picnic

If you go down to the woods today
You'd better not go alone
It's lovely down in the woods today
But safer to stay at home

For ev'ry bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain, because
Today's the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic.

Picnic Time for Teddy Bears
The little Teddy Bears are having a lovely time today
Watch the, catch them unawares
And see them picnic on their holiday

See them gaily gad about
They love to play and shout;
They never have any care;

At six o'clock their Mummies and Daddies,
Will take them home to bed,
Because they're tired little Teddy Bears.

Nude Recreation Week

Congratulations to those who like to get naked because this week is Nude Recreation Week. This will give you a chance to wash the dishes while naked, mow the lawn while naked or simply watching porn while naked… Anything is possible.

If anyone complains tell them why you are doing it.

One man crime spree gets ASBO

What happens when to commit 40% of the crime in your area? Well if the experience of Kyle Ivison is anything to go by you get an ASBO banning you from doing certain things including some things that are already illegal as far as I know (you would think the law would actually ban him from doing those things). I think these are already illegal. Please correct me if I am wrong:

1. Prohibited from causing harassment, alarm or distress
2. Must not enter premises from which he has been excluded (trespassing?)
3. Must not remain in any premises having been asked to leave
4. Must not consume or be in possession of any intoxicant in a public place
5. Must not be present in a public place while under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs

As far as I can see the ASBO is just banning him from doing things which are already banned. Am I wrong?

Alqaeda and the police

This country gets weirder and weirder and our government looks more and more incompetent everyday. This week we have found that members of Alqaeda are working for the police. We also have a terrorist traffic warden. I bet he enjoys giving tickets to the kaffir. Why are members of terrorist organisations allowed to work for the police or be traffic wardens? Surely they should be in prison?

I sure wish we were warned that Muslim police would rebel against us. Oh wait… we were warned in January by Omar Bakri Mohammed when he said that moderate British Muslims in the police, Armed Forces and Civil Service will one day revolt against the system to “crush it from within”. We should have also had raised suspicions in June 2006 when we found that Muslim police are ten times more corrupt than white officers.

We definitely can’t say we weren’t warned or we never had chance to react.

Human rights for criminals

I have been saying for a long time that we should repeal laws on human rights and a number of stories today have shown that I am correct.

In the first story we find that we can’t deport convicted terrorists because it violates their rights. This is encouraging terrorists to come here and blow us up. How nice of us.

In the second story a prisoner is suing the prison service because they won’t let out of prison for a sex change which he believes is his human right and which he is using tax payers money to fight for.

Don’t ya love the crazy country we are in?

Blogpower votes on my membership

Blogpower, a group of which I am a member of wants to get rid of me again. You may remember that a few months ago there was a vote and in the end I got to stay. The vote this time is over the same thing – my membership of the BNP. Apparently it conflicts with the Blogpower ethos which doesn’t really exist except for the Blogpower manifesto which it seems I am the only one taking it seriously, especially rule 2 which says:

2] be broadminded and accept that others in the scheme are going to have views opposed to ours. So what?;

Some of the members have complained that I mentioned the BNP while promoting the Blogpower awards; they forget that I also talked about Santa.

Those complaining about me are trying to kid themselves that they support free speech when in reality they are paying lip service to it. They say something along the lines of “I support your right to free speech but I don’t have to promote it by having you in the Blogpower blogroll”. To me, that’s like saying “I support your right to life but I don’t have to phone an ambulance or give you CPR if you have a heart attack. I also won’t tell anyone that you are dying”.

Last time a situation like this happened we decided that those who had the problem could delete those blogs from their blogroll. Some of the bloggers did and now these bloggers want to go further even though they aren’t linking to me anyway.

The poll is happening now. I hope the members can find a way to put personal differences aside and work together but it seems unlikely that they will.

Violent prisoners get released early

A few weeks ago the government said they were going to release tens of thousands of prisoners. They said these would not include violent offenders. It now appears that they were lying because a number of very violent offenders have been released Infact some have already committed a crime by committing robbery on a train while on their way to see their probation officer.

Elsewhere a man who had threatened to kill his partner and another member of her family was released in the south west of England and an offender jailed for using a samurai sword to threaten the public was released this month, despite the fact that his parole report was negative.

Labour and Lib Dems fight for Sedgefield seat

There is a fight going on for the by election in Sedgefield, literally of course. While the BNP have been out and about leafleting Lib Dem and Labour party activists had a small punch up. Don’t ya wish these people would grow up?

Sandbags are £9.40 each

As people start to return to their homes after the floods I learn of the generous nature of the local councils. Amber Valley Borough Council were so generous they charged residents £9.40 per sandbag and if they didn’t have the money they were told to go to the nearest builders merchants and buy sand and fill their pillow cases with them. How generous of them.

In Stroud they were slightly more generous. The local council gave everyone sandbags but they had to buy their own sand from any local business that sold sand.

These councils were not the only ones doing this. There were others that decided to say “screw the people”. Great Yarmouth was one such council who decided they weren’t going to supply any and directed people to builders merchants where they could purchase them.

Tax man wants to rob banks

The taxman wants powers to take money out of your bank account if they feel that you aren’t paying enough tax as they think you should. This is despite the fact that government tax errors have hit 1 million people so they must be doing something wrong.

Gordon Brown decided to do something similar in March when he decided that if you leave your bank account dormant for 15 years he could pillage it of all the money. I wouldn’t put anything passed him. He will probably allow the tax man to do it.

Hat tip: The Cityunslicker

I passed with 30% yippee!

A mark of 30 per cent was enough for 14-year-olds to pass national tests in English this year, it has been revealed.

In maths, they could achieve the required level with a score of only 39 per cent.

The news prompted claims that pupils are being let down by an education system which allows them to be seen as successful despite poor performance in exams.

The pass marks in this year's tests were revealed by the National Assessment Agency.

Eleven-year-olds needed 43 per cent to pass English by gaining the expected level four, 46 per cent for maths, and 51 per cent for science.

At the very least they should be getting 50% if they want to pass. We are betraying our children by not preparing them for adult life where they will fail if they aren’t getting it mostly right. No one is going to hire someone who fails most of the time.

If they aren’t getting the grades they should be kept back a year or at the very least the should be made to take lessons over the summer so they can retake the exam when they are more ready to do so.

MPs disobey smoking ban

Smoking in public places hasn’t been illegal for even a week and MPs are already disobeying it. While they are in Parliament they are sneaking to the toilets to smoke. Charles Kennedy was even found smoking on a train and wasn’t even fined.

If MPs are against the ban why did they vote for it? Why are they unwilling to obey the laws which we are expected to obey and which they passed?

Schools to give lessons in feelings

All children will receive lessons in how to manage their feelings under a multi-million pound scheme to improve classroom behaviour, Schools Secretary Ed Balls said.

Pupils will be taught about resolving conflict without fighting through citizenship lessons and how to be good losers in PE.

Oh god. I know you are gonna laugh. I did after the second paragraph. There really isn’t much to say except that it is the most stupid thing that I have ever heard.

Timmy: I can’t find my Action Man

Teacher: It’s ok Timmy

Timmy: No it isn’t

Teacher: How does losing your action man make you feel?

Timmy: I don’t know…

Teacher: It’s ok Timmy, you want to cry so cry. It’s how us adults deal with a loss of our action figures.

FoI: Please wait until August

Last month I blogged about my freedom of information request which the government were refusing to answer until today which meant I was waiting 8 month for some simple information.

Let’s go back to what I requested:

‘How much is spent on digital TV (Sky, Freeview, NTL etc), and games consoles (Xbox, Playstation and games etc) between January 2002- October 2006’.

This was concerning my local prison (which isn’t actually so local). They got back to me again today and said:

As we previously explained, we are considering your information request under the exemption contained within Section 43.

In order to consider the public interest fully we extended our response date to 5^th June but I much regret to say this has not been possible. We now aim to respond by 6^th August.

There ya go. I have to wait another month which will take me up to 9 months when we get to August 6^th and all I want I to know is how much my local prison spends on computer games and digital TV.

I don’t want to wait 9 months but I don’t think I have a choice. I am considering sending them another request for information asking what advice they have had on this request.

The victims of multiculturalism

A major investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of young white girls by predominantly Asian men has been launched by police and childcare agencies.

So far detectives in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have arrested 20 men, five of whom have been charged with offences that include abduction and rape. However, police expect other suspects to be held in the coming weeks.

The phenomenon appears to be largely cultural, with mainly young Asian men allegedly preying on vulnerable girls they meet in and around the town centre.

The BNP highlighted this over two years ago and they were called racist for mentioning it. If the “phenomenon appears to be largely cultural” doesn’t that show the complete failure of multiculturalism? These girls are victims of enforced multiculturalism which will only get worse as we allow more and more of these people into this country.

It’s time to say enough and stop anymore immigration and do what we can to dismantle multiculturalism in this country.

Majority of Poles plan to stay

The majority of Polish migrants arriving in Britain plan to stay permanently, research has revealed.

The finding undermines official suggestions that many Eastern Europeans in the UK are short-term visitors with no intention of remaining.

A study found more than half those arriving to work want to stay for at least four years - and many plan to remain indefinitely.

The long-term nature of Eastern European immigration was underlined by the finding that four out of ten recent arrivals have brought family members over with them.

The survey, carried out at British ports and stations by a Warsaw-based market research firm, indicated that more than 300,000 Poles could stay permanently.

This contrasts sharply with the figure of 13,000 migrants predicted by the Home Office when Poland and seven other countries joined the European Union in April 2004.

We already have 200,000 homes that are housing immigrants and not Brits born in this country. How many more Brits will have to wait years just so we can allow more and more immigrants in?

Nearly half of RAF aircraft unsafe

Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are being hampered because almost half of the RAF's transport aircraft are unsafe to fly, a Commons report has revealed.

MPs said they were "very concerned" that 34 out of 75 ageing Hercules, TriStars and VC-10s were not up to scratch.

Forty-five per cent of the fleet was grounded for maintenance and not available to take troops and supplies to troublespots around the world.

Soldiers in war zones could suffer shortages of equipment, said MPs.

Defence ministers were pressed to "urgently" replace the creaking aircraft - some up to 40 years old - because of fears that they will not last until replacements are built.

Delivery of replacement Airbus A400M aircraft is already 15 months behind schedule. They will not be available until spring 2011, piling even more pressure on troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I wonder if Brown will say he will give the army whatever they need to complete the job just like Blair did because it seems to me that Blair lied about everything.

If our troops aren’t fully equipped why are we even in those countries? Why aren’t we going to other companies and seeing if they will deliver some of what we need as soon as possible so we don’t have to wait until 2011. If there are more companies working on it surely it will mean that we will just get them faster because they will be working on them at the same time.

Union calls for referendum

Earlier I said that I would support a general strike general strike if we didn’t get a referendum on the EU treaty. Now I read that a trade union of 590,000 members is campaigning for a referendum. If they were serious I would hope that they go on strike and do their best to cripple Gordon Brown.

I think that it is time to take action. Asking him is not going to work so we must give him no other choice so he gives us the democracy that we want. If it doesn’t work it shows how committed he actually is to democracy and freedom and it will destroy him at the next election because he will be shown to be a hypocrite and totally against democracy.

EU to Brown: Don't say Muslim

Yesterday I blogged, that Mr Brown has banned his ministers from using the word “Muslim” in ­connection with the ­terrorism crisis. It turns out it was his political masters in the EU that decided that they should not be using those phrases.

Can we leave the EU yet?

No referendum says Brown

Gordon Brown yesterday ruled out holding a referendum on a new European constitutional treaty as part of a wide-ranging package of reforms to give "more power to Parliament and the British people".

As long as we are not getting a referendum on the EU constitution anything that Brown does with our constitution is meaningless. If he doesn’t give us one anti EU organisations must do all they can to make life difficult for Brown. I would support them calling a general strike and blocking up oil depots like they did in 2005 and bringing this country to a standstill by a “go slow” approach on the roads. Brown cannot be aloud to fob off the British people. If he won’t give us a referendum we must demand it in a way that gives him no other choice.

Blog of the week

The blog of the week this week is UK Daily Pundit.

Sedgefield by-election

Labour and Liberal Democrat activists in Sedgefield are meeting on Tuesday to select their candidates to fight the by-election on 19 July.

The Tories and UK Independence Party have already chosen their candidates for the contest, which follows Tony Blair's decision to quit as an MP.

Labour and the Lib Dems are both holding hustings.

No mention of the BNP who will be contesting the election. Sedgefield BNP has already chosen their candidate. Their candidate is Andrew Spence who was a fuel protester in 2005. I am thinking about going up to Sedgefield and helping with the campaign but I haven’t fully decided yet.

Thief steals 1347 bikes, get ASBO

Britain’s most prolific bike thief stole cycles worth £300,000 from train passengers in just six months.

But Daniel Westrop, 28, walked free from court after magistrates gave him an Asbo.

Using bolt cutters to break off cheap locks he stole 1,347 of them – mainly expensive mountain bikes.

How exactly is that an incentive to refrain from crime? He affected more than 1300 people and all he got was an ASBO. Pathetic, it shows what I have been saying – that juries should be the ones to decide sentences.

At the very least he should have been sentenced to one day for every bike he stole which would have meant that he was sentenced to 3-4 years in prison.

Gordon Brown - Most PC Prime Minister

Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim” in ­connection with the ­terrorism crisis.

The Prime Minister has also instructed his team – including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith – that the phrase “war on ­terror” is to be dropped.

The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more “consensual” tone than existed under Tony Blair.

Heaven forbid we offend the people that are trying to blow us up. We can’t have us being offensive. It could end up with them blowing stuff up…

Does Gordon Brown deserve the award for most politically correct Prime Minister ever?

Another controlled explosion

A CONTROLLED explosion has been carried out at Glasgow’s Royal Alexandra Hospital - where one of the failed airport bomber is being treated.

Bomb disposal experts exploded a suspect package believed to be near to living quarters for doctors on the site.

It was the second time in two days that a controlled explosion was carried out at the site in Paisley.

Yesterday a controlled explosion was carried out on a suspect vehicle in the car park of the hospital.

So far we have had 2 car bombs, 2 controlled explosions and a burning car, none of which has killed anyone. I think it is safe to say that they can’t even fight a fly. These are the most incompetent terrorists ever. If I was the leader of Alqaeda I would be embarrassed.

I forgot about it...

I have just found out that today is I Forgot Day. I did forget to mark my calendar for the day.

Suspect package found at Heathrow

Authorities evacuated part of Heathrow airport on Sunday while police investigated a suspect package, airport operator BAA said.

200,000 homes given to migrants

The number of state-subsidised homes given to foreign families is four times higher than previously claimed, ministers admitted yesterday.

They confirmed that 200,000 citizens of foreign countries hold the keys to council or housing association homes.

The latest figures, confirmed yesterday by the Department of Communities, deepened the row over which families get social housing.

If it wasn’t for immigration we wouldn’t need to build so many homes. We need to give our homes to our own people who have lived in those communities for generations. We shouldn’t be giving much needed homes to people who have never contributed to society when our own people need them so they can start families.

Building so many homes is not good for the environment. It's madness to think it's a good idea to build more homes when you can cut the demand by cutting the amount allowed in this country.

BNP leadership election

The British National Party has just announced that there will be a leadership election this year. The challenger to Mr Griffin is Chris Jackson a former North West regional organiser.

For some reason the ballot papers will have to be in by Thursday 26th July. This seems slightly strange. I would have hoped that each candidate would have had longer to campaign and even had the chance to debate each other at the national party conference held every year. This would have given members a chance to ask questions. Having to read 200 words in the party bulletin and 800 words on the site just doesn’t seem enough information. At the very least I would hope there would be a BNPTV broadcast showing them debating.

I don’t know anything about Chris Jackson so I will probably be voting for Nick however if Chris seems a better candidate I will vote for him but the most likely scenario is that I will stay loyal to the leader who has brought the BNP to where it is today.

EU creates porn

The EU has finally done it. They have finally done something that we can all enjoy. You will never guess so I’ll tell you. They have created a 44 second porno video. Money well spent I see though I don’t think I will like the gay porn parts and 44 seconds just isn’t long enough, even I’m not that fast…

The failings of the cabinet

Did you know the members of the cabinet have failed at everything they have been in charge of? Well you probably did but The Taxpayers’ Alliance has released a guide to previous failings by members of the new Cabinet. It’s interesting reading.

Hat tip: The Purple Scorpion.

More terror attacks coming soon (part 3?)

Yesterday I blogged about the Daily Mirror report which claimed that there were 1,600 terror suspects. I pointed out that in November they said the exact same thing but the month before that they said that there was 1500.

Today The Daily Telegraph is reporting that there are 1700 suspects. That’s a big increase in just a day. I’m not buying it. I am getting far too suspicious about this now.

Joke of the day

I almost forgot that in July 2005 I said that every time there is a terror attack by the Muslims I will put a Muslim joke on my blog. I have already done two. You can read them here and here.

Anyway here is today’s joke:

Q: How do you get a Muslim woman pregnant?
A: Dress her up as a goat

Pommygranate has another joke.

Bomb number 4 and 5?

Listening to BBC News now. They are saying there is police activity in Stoke and there has been a controlled explosion near a hospital in Paisley.

Update: The Daily Mirror has the story.