UK

This global warming thing is a real bastard

by Whaleoil September 2, 2010

Looks like this Global Warm­ing thingy is real hard to pin down. Heavy rain across much of the coun­try and thick cloud in the south east made for a dis­ap­point­ing end to the sum­mer hol­i­day. The month also saw the cold­est tem­per­a­ture recorded in August for 23 years, with mer­cury falling to 12.8C in Edg­bas­ton, Birmingham. […]

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Awesome Attack Ad

by Whaleoil August 13, 2010

If only National did one of these for Labour here. Not to dis­sim­i­lar the sit­u­a­tion faced by National after tak­ing over from the wastre­als of the Clark gov­ern­ment. Related Posts:How will this help Three Hats fundrais­ing for Labour?Labour cock-ups this weekIs Plug­head going independent?Turn­ing a Chicken Run into a vic­tory in 2011If you have to defend it, […]

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Open Season

by Whaleoil August 10, 2010

via email. The UK is about to set bounty hunters onto state ben­e­fi­cia­ries. Finance experts will iden­tify wel­fare cheats by trawl­ing through their records, house­hold bills and credit card appli­ca­tions. Full credit checks will be car­ried out on all new ben­e­fits appli­cants as well as on exist­ing claimants who are sus­pected of fraud. The agen­cies will […]

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Politician of the Week — Francis Maude

by Whaleoil July 25, 2010

I wish we had politi­cians with the balls to say this in New Zealand. Let’s see if Fran­cis Maude deliv­ers on the rhetoric. In the House of Com­mons recently, Fran­cis Maude was asked to list which of the hun­dreds of White­hall quan­gos, agen­cies and non-departmental bod­ies he was “assess­ing on their suit­abil­ity of pur­pose and […]

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Sherlock Moment

by Whaleoil July 21, 2010

The Times has lost almost 90% of its online read­er­ship com­pared to Feb­ru­ary since mak­ing reg­is­tra­tion manda­tory in June, cal­cu­la­tions by the Guardian show. Unreg­is­tered users of thetimes.co.uk are now “bounced” to a Times+ mem­ber­ship page where they have to reg­is­ter if they want to view Times con­tent. Data from the web met­rics com­pany Experian […]

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Save money by employing Crocodiles

by Whaleoil July 13, 2010

The UK gov­ern­ment recently launched a web­site to gar­ner ideas for how the gov­ern­ment could save money. It was touted as a first and a bril­liant move for inclu­sive democ­racy…until… Oh dear, that isn’t so good….there are plenty more Lol sug­ges­tions. go have a look. One par­tic­u­larly fine exam­ple is the sug­ges­tion to set up […]

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Has Shame Jones got this title?

by Whaleoil July 6, 2010

I sup­pose the hos­pi­tal was using it’s ini­tia­tive in these cash strapped times, but one does won­der whether Shame Jones has got this DVD in his buff film col­lec­tion? A “big bud­get” porn movie was shot in a Lon­don hos­pi­tal that hired out one of its wards to a film com­pany, it has emerged. The […]

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Politician of the Year — Nick Clegg

by Whaleoil July 1, 2010

Nick Clegg is a shoe in for Politi­cian of the Year with his sug­ges­tion that “peo­ple, not policy-makers” are the best judges of which “unnec­es­sary laws” should be repealed. Dur­ing their 13 years in power, the Labour Gov­ern­ment devel­oped a dan­ger­ous reflex. Faced with what­ever prob­lem, leg­is­la­tion increas­ingly became the stan­dard response. Some­thing needs fixing? […]

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Paywalls and their impact

by Whaleoil June 26, 2010

Guido Fawkes explains what is hap­pen­ing to the Times web­site and this is before they have even started charg­ing for the pay­wall. The inter­net will defeat pay­walls. Even ones thought up by Rupert Mur­doch. Traf­fic is king and pay­walls dimin­ish traf­fic. The “gurus”, and i use that term loosely seem to think that peo­ple will […]

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Prosecute the Troughers — All of them

by Whaleoil June 12, 2010

The trough­ing exposed has been spec­tac­u­lar and mostly the cul­prits have just laughed it all off, or blamed their staff. In the UK how­ever things are quite a bit more seri­ous for trough­ing MPs. Three for­mer Labour MPs and a Con­ser­v­a­tive peer are to face crim­i­nal tri­als for alleged expenses fraud after a judge threw out […]

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An interesting new weapon discovered

by Whaleoil June 3, 2010

The MSM repeaters have dis­cov­ered a new weapon. A quick google search con­firms that my prodi­gious knowl­edge of weapons is indeed cor­rect and no such rifle even exists. …most of them shot in the face or head at point-blank range either with a shot­gun or a high-powered tele­scopic rifle. Which was it then? The Shotgun? […]

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Margaret Thatcher’s Dead Parrot Sketch

by Whaleoil May 31, 2010

Boing Boing have res­ur­rected the famous Mar­garet Thatcher Dead par­rot sketch where she talks about the LibDem’s logo. Related Posts:Why Labour’s wel­farism won’t workBril­liant rant against Lib­Dems by Bori­sEver heard this argu­ment before?A case for a defama­tion action­Colin James wanks on in Man­age­ment Magazine

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Brown gone, 13 years of hard Labour over

by Whaleoil May 12, 2010

Gor­don Brown is gone. Th squat­ting is over. Gor­don Brown has resigned as prime min­is­ter of Britain and says Con­ser­v­a­tive leader David Cameron will take over, end­ing 13 years of rule by the centre-left Labour Party. The Con­ser­v­a­tives won most seats in a par­lia­men­tary elec­tion last week but fell short of a major­ity. Labour came second […]

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Better than the famous Gotcha headline

by Whaleoil May 8, 2010

The Sun has run a bril­liant front­page story and head­line. A MAN aged 59 was squat­ting in a lux­ury home near the Houses of Par­lia­ment last night. The squat­ter, named as a Mr Gor­don Brown from Scot­land, was refus­ing to budge from the Geor­gian town­house in Down­ing Street, cen­tral Lon­don – deny­ing entry to its rightful […]

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Stupid F**king Whinging Poms

by Whaleoil May 7, 2010

After 13 years of hard Labour they still can’t work out that if Gor­don Brown is the answer then it must have been a stu­pid fuck­ing ques­tion. How on earth did the con­querors of the world become such a bunch of men­di­cant losers? They deserve another does of Gor­don Brown cou­pled with the lunacy of […]

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