Great song for St George's Day

Great song for St George's Day, listen to the words FANTASTIC






Please visit itunes and download, £1.75 wont break the bank and artist should be paid for the work they produce.

What an ARSE, the real Fib/Dums

The best reason for a referendum on the EU, what a TURD this man is.

Happy St George's Day, and we could do with a St George to slay the EU Dragon

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,

This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,

This other Eden, demi-paradise,

This fortress built by Nature for herself

Against infection and the hand of war,

This happy breed of men, this little world,

This precious stone set in the silver sea,

Which serves it in the office of a wall,

Or as a moat defensive to a house,

Against the envy of less happier lands,

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England

From Richard II, Act 2 (Shakespeare)

'Nuff said.

A bit more fun from "Operations Good Guys"

An inept police squad which have been the subject of a fly on the wall documentary for three years reaches it's climax when Inspector beach believes himself to be a T.V star rather than a Policeman, it is 9 minutes long but really is worth watching.

Tories have done more for the north east in less than a year than Tony Blair and all his north east ministers, including Alan Milburn, did in 10 years

What fantastic news about the Hitachi IEP programme and the support from the Conservatives, not withstanding the Local tories lobbying of Ministers.

What a pity that the Labour rag Northern Echo will spin as a victory for labour MPs.  Interesting to note though that the Tories have done more for the north east in less than a year than Tony Blair and all his north east ministers, including Alan Milburn, did in 10 years!

Seriously how could someone who doesn't know his Bi-Modes from his Duel Voltage possibly have held any sway in getting this project this far.

I have to say I also do not recall the Labour cling-ons shouting when Lord Adonis did NOT sign the contract with agility just before the Election one prospective MP and one MP kept very quiet at that point didn't they.

Well done to Local Tories for the persistence and showing the way forward for Darlington, by bringing back manufacturing, but not just any manufacturing but trains, back to where it all began.

After a serious week, some fun

These guys were doing mockumentries long before Ricky Gervais.



From Operation Good Guys

NO MORE APPEASEMENT

                                                                                        Hattip, let fly the pigs of war




No more appeasement please Dave, do what is right and what is proper and throw this nonsense out.  For one voting is not a human right that is just bollocks, secondly remember this:


"And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm."

Bill of Rights, 1689 - an important and still exisiting part of OUR written constitution

Sign up to the pledge

The Nation needed a Churchill, Instead we have a Chamberlain

                                                                                    Hattip, let fly the pigs of war

As the post title suggest we as a nation have been let down by Government, how many more times are we to see Cameron metaphorically "holding in his hand a piece of paper", the weapon of the appeaser.

Where is Clegg with his in/out manifesto promise, a sniff of power and that promise was soon forgotten.

41 MPs signed Bill Cash's amendment, here's a thought why don't those MPs resign the party whips set up as a group within Parliament, demand an in/out referendum, I am positive the Government would appease them.

A little knowledge can be dangerous in the hands of the stupid

This nugget from Phil Wilson in Parliament on 21/12/10

The Hitachi trains are bimodal, which means that they can switch from diesel to electric and vice versa when the need arises. Southeastern operates such Hitachi high speed trains.

No Phil. SouthEastern does not.

The Javelins are not bi-modes, they are dual voltage allowing them to run under the wires and on third rail.

Furthermore he went on to say "Hitachi's investment would be the biggest investment in the north-east of England since Nissan back in the 1980s".

How soon they forget, what about the the small matter of Siemens' £1 billion silicon chip factory on Tyneside skipped his mind.

It was opened by HM the Queen in 1997 and closed two years later, with the loss of 1100 jobs, when the price of the DRAM chips it was set up to make dropped from $50 each to under $5.

If Hitachi (and I very much hope they) do come to the North East my one bit of advice would be get non union labour, if the RMT, UNITE or any other union get a foot hold the whole thing will crash.

Just another little reminder

Just another little reminder as to why we are where we are today

Labour's Legacy

Labour took Britain to the brink of bankruptcy

Labour left Britain with the biggest deficit in its peacetime history and the biggest deficit in the developed world. At £155 billion, the budget deficit is the largest in our peacetime history and according to the IMF, the UK has the largest deficit of any G20 country in 2010.

Labour left Britain borrowing more than we spend on the NHS and Defence combined. The NHS England combined resource and capital budget for 2010-11 is £104.2 billion. The Defence combined resource and capital budget for 2010-11 is £46.1 billion - together this accounts for £150.3 billion of government spending.

National debt more than doubled under Labour. In May 1997, public sector net debt was £351 billion. By April 2010 it had more than doubled to £893 billion.

As a result, we are spending £120 million every day on debt interest alone. In 2010-11, debt interest payments will be £43.3 billion or £120 million per day.

Labour would have been spending more on debt interest than we are spending on defence or education. Labour's £67.2 billion debt interest bill for 2014-15 is bigger than the entire Education budget in 2010-11 (£57.6 billion) or the entire Defence budget in 2010-11 (£46.1 billion).

Remember that the Labour run Darlington Council copied its Government and now the Darlington taxpayer is lumbered with 106 million pounds of debt as well.

Overspend on the pedestrian Heart, a scheme no one but the Labour Councillors and Officers wanted.

Overspend on the Road to NoWhere & the compensation payouts due to incompetence.

Millions spent on Consultants.

In 2001 the wage bill for high earners in the Council £400,000 today over 3 million.

A time for change.

An idiots guide to the public sector

An idiots guide to the public sector, and how it only consumes wealth generated by the private sector

Fight for the Fishermen of the UK

Those of us collectively called eurpsceptics have said about eu waste for years, this waste though is obscene, how typically EU.

The Queens speech

For those of us that like a localist, freedom for the people type of governance today's Queens speech had some good offerings:

:: Opportunity for more schools to take up academy status. (I am looking at you EV)

:: Abolition of ID cards and National Identity Register. An absolute heinous piece of legislation should never have got this far.

:: Referendums on any future EU treaty. Does not go far enough but it is a start of a journey that will takes us (hopefully) to an "in/out" referendum.

:: Government to ''examine the case'' for a UK Sovereignty Bill to make clear that ultimate authority rests in the country.  See above

:: Legislation for fixed-term five-year parliaments, with a requirement for 55% Commons support to seek an earlier dissolution. No problem with fixed term but must remain 50% + 1

:: A referendum on the Alternative Vote for House of Commons elections. NO NO NO

:: Annual limit ''in the tens of thousands'' on non-EU migrants allowed to live and work in the UK.  Needs to be all Immigrants not just outside EU

:: Full strategic defence and security review.  The outcome MUST be to up the monies for our Armed services

:: New restrictions on the authorities' use of CCTV cameras and DNA data and a ban on the storage of internet and email records without good reason.  This is a really good thing councils have hidden behind legislation to  spy on Citizens 

:: Directly-elected individuals to hold the police to account. Another excellent piece of legislation to get trough, we can end the "job for the boys" culture of Cllrs spending more time protecting Chief Constables rather than making them answerable to the communities that they serve.  Chief Constables also need to understand that they serve communities not the Home Office statistics machine. 

:: Redrawing parliamentary constituency maps to reduce numbers of MPs and make seats a similar size.  Forget PR this is the way to get a fairer FPTP system and strong Government.

:: Power for voters to ''recall'' errant MPs with a petition signed by 10% of electors in a constituency.  About time

:: Proposals by the end of this year for a ''wholly or mainly elected'' Upper House of Parliament elected by proportional representation.  As long as I get to see Fatty Prescott get ennobled and become a fully paid up member of everything he claims to despise (the ultimate champagne socialist) then get kicked out, I can live with a fully elected Lords.

:: Simplification of benefits system to improve the incentive to work.  I would of preferred a harsher tone as in "loss of benefits for those who do not except work"

:: Relaxation of health and safely laws to allow ''commonsense policing''. If you will allow, A common sense piece of legislation

:: Stronger powers for police and councils to remove licences from problem pubs and clubs.  Sensible again a nod to local communities and their needs.

:: Cut in number of quangos and cost of bureaucracy.  HOORAH

:: Devolution of powers over planning and housing to local councils and communities, scrapping the Infrastructure Planning Commission.  Excellent

:: New rights for communities to take over state-run services. Innovative

:: Requirement for public bodies to publish salaries and expenses of senior officials online.  Everyone should see where there tax pounds are being spent, we have over the years overpaid for under achievers in Darlington

:: Residents' referendums on local issues - including the power to veto excessive council tax rises.  This is one of the best bits of the queens speech, putting power directly back into the hands of the people, brilliant.

:: Abolition of Home Information Packs.  Do I need to say anything about this, other than it was  stupid idea and rightly consigned to the bin.

All in all I thought a pretty good Queens Speech today, not far enough on some issues, too soft on others, but if the localist and returning of our liberties continue I for one will be happy.

The New Tories

Now that Cllrs Mike Barker, Martin Swainston, Malcolm Dunstone et al are now Lib/CAMS I suppose it makes them Tory bitches.

I expect to see them vote with the Tories in Council a bit more often.

We can all stop the Fib-Dumbs have Darlington...............NOT!!

Utter tripe the Fib-Dumbs really are tosspots.

And they called Cameron arrogant

And talk about as changeable as the weather this in the space of a week;

It is of course all wishful thing on the part of the Fib-Dumbs, but it does show they cannot be trusted as they don't know arse from elbow.

Are Labour bothered

Tonight just two days before an election which decides the direction of our nation we have in Darlington the Council Leader (Labour) tucked up warm and cosy watching corrie or whatever soap is on this evening the questions have to be asked, have they given up? Are they Complacent? or is it that the candidate was foisted upon them and they want nothing to do with her.

Darlington must be well down the list of Tory Targets but it not unfeasible that we will win.

Like the national Government Labour in Darlington are spent, they have no ideas they just keep spending, at the moment we are up to 110 million in debt it is a pity our local elections are not until next year.

L is for Labour

remember this when you vote on 6th may.

Bremner, always worth a second look

Always worth a second look, one line states "why Don't you like me" I have put some example below!

Labour have the best of Friends don't they!!

The Record in the North East

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