Spoil Party Games

ENGLAND NEEDS A VACLAV HAVEL

2011-12-19T16:48:00.002Z

THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE OF WESTMINSTER ‘DEMOCRACY’

Being an MP is not compulsory; one can therefore presume an aspirant MP finds the post personally desirable – unless, of course, they claim altruism of a high order, and a drive to serve; serving being their only reward. Some may claim – it is not evident.

The candidate uses speeches, personal and indirect canvassing, and leafleting (flyers) to try to persuade the voter to gift them a seat in Westminster – it is a clear quid-pro-quo; the aspirant, directly or indirectly, offers some advantage to the voter, in exchange for their perceived advantage in the Westminster seat.

Up to this point, though undetectable deception is already a possibility on both sides,
the contract being made, is between two individuals, and the usual need for assessment – each of the other – applies, if deceit is to be minimised.

ENTER: PARTY POLITICS and the party MACHINE.

Immediately the aspirant MP splits into two – never again to be without duplicity.
The individual candidate ‘goes under’ the rosette. They ‘take the colour’ of their chosen/adoptive party, whose machinery (machination/chicanery) underwrites and -over-stamps - their every heartbeat. They loudly espouse, and profess, every clause of the manifesto, when challenged, and distribute leaflets, composed by ‘HQ’ with party advantage in mind, over that of the candidate. The aspirant ‘progresses’ the high street, followed by fawning party acolytes holding party balloons, in the authorised colour, or toting totem-poles, with the aspirant’s name – heraldic – on the dominant party background hue.

It should be noted (both here, and when encountering this charade) that the aspirant individual is - in law – just an ordinary member of society; previous MP-ship, party affiliation, and current party backing, notwithstanding. Paradoxically, as far as I have been able to ascertain, to date, the candidate’s party, has no existence in law (unless it so chooses). Thus we have the spectacle, within a supposed ‘democracy under rule of law’, of an individual, living under social constraints, closely bound to an ephemeral entity (where law is concerned) yet doing its will, in a duplicitous pact.

ENTER PARTY POLITICAL ‘MORALITY’ and ELECTION ETHICS.

It only takes a moment to register that the typical Westminster Creature is, at best, amoral; and another moment to realise this is no accident: they are selected. Ordinary voters only get to choose between pre-selected (by party panels) individuals marked out by potential Westminster Creatureness. Collectively, they comprise the Westminster Ethos in all its base affront. In adversarial politics, immorality will always win out over scruples; parties have no time for scruples, and when a General Election is called: even less. It is against the Election backdrop, that parties put their most Machiavellian minds to work on duping the electorate; vast war chest being previously amassed (from donors expecting later favour) and now expended on false advertising, liar-flyers, and rank, abject seduction, in selected (‘marginal’) constituencies. This is not democracy. It is D MOCK CRASS Y!

Y?Y?Y? WHERE ARE THE VACLAV HAVELS OF ENGLAND?

RID US OF THIS TURBULENT BOAST

2011-12-18T13:25:00.002Z

Arrogant Cameron is demanding more Christian input from 'Canterbury'. I am hoping the Archbishop will give Dave more 'Christianity' than he bargained for! Dave is a pretty wide target; the single MOST APPOSITE adjective one can attach to the man, after the LIAR FLYER, the FALSE IMAGE and the VILIFICATION OF CLEGG, surely has to be: UNCHRISTIAN? And now he adds this Dream Topping. Lets have biblical CLEANSING OF WESTMINSTER! Let's hear it for our TURBULENT PRIEST!

FROM THE TOP - DISCOVERING CLEGG

2011-12-16T10:20:00.001Z

What draws an individual to want to run the lives of others?

What selection criteria do PARTY political panels look for in MP wannabes?

What constraints are applied to the new MP, elected courtesy of a PARTY rosette?

What mentality accepts, unearned, the title HONOURABLE while DIShonouring?

Which 'exponent', from the above, will be elevated, in such company?

What common factors have we seen in Thatcher, Major, Blair, Cameron, CLEGG?

Nuff sed?

In passing: the Chilcot Enquiry set themselves the task of LEARNING LESSONS regarding the Iraq War. I have sent an impassioned plea that they focus, not on decisions and mechanisms, BUT ON PSYCHOLOGY AND DYSFUNCTION IN INDIVIDUALS. Perhaps the above, simple, 'flow chart' could help them to learn the ultimate lesson:

WE GOT OURSELVES ANOTHER ONE.

LIBERTY HYPOCRISY PERVERSITY

2011-12-11T21:51:00.003Z

CONSERVATIVE ‘LIAR FLYER’
MAY 2010 – NEWBURY.
ANALYSIS

UNEQUIVOCAL ASSERTIONS (verbatim)

“A HUNG PARLIAMENT WOULD MEAN 5 MORE YEARS OF GORDON BROWN.”

“BROWN TO STAY AS PM IN HUNG PARLIAMENT.”

“THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE SURE WE DON’T HAVE 5 MORE YEARS OF GORDON
BROWN IS TO VOTE CONSERVATIVE.”

“THE CHOICE AT THIS ELECTION: 5 MORE YEARS OF GORDON BROWN or
CHANGE WITH THE CONSERVATIVES.”

“THE CONSERVATIVES MUST WIN HERE TO STOP ANOTHER 5 YEARS OF
GORDON BROWN.”

************************************

“A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM DAVID CAMERON” endorses the above assertions AND IS SIGNED.

UNCONTROLLABLE VARIABLES (NB: Pertaining at the time the Liar Flyer was issued.)

Vote-share of each party, at close of poll.

Freedom to deal, between party leaders.

Growing Labour MP disaffection, regarding Gordon Brown as their leader. Not result-contingent.

Personal choices open to Gordon Brown, as a free agent.

Length of any future Parliament (pre Coalition fixed-term).

Nicholas Clegg’s pledge to do no deal with Gordon Brown.

UNDENIABLE ACTUALITIES

In some constituencies which received the Liar Flyer, the Conservative WAS DEFEATED.

The Election resulted in a HUNG PARLIAMENT.

GORDON BROWN DID NOT RETURN AS LEADER – indeed, he resigned and withdrew.

The ONLY CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE in Newbury (May 2010) was RICHARD BENYON.

The distributor of the Liar Flyer (named thereupon) was RICHARD BENYON.

PERSONAL ADVANTAGE, from any increase in the Conservative vote, accrued to RICHARD BENYON.

EMAIL TO NATIONAL FRAUD AUTHORITY 7/12/11

2011-12-07T11:43:00.001Z

My concern is fraud, deliberately configured to benefit - primarily - an ordinary citizen; vis: deception of the general public (numbered in thousands) to gain employment, and/or advancement of personal status and influence.

The above-described, pertains when an erstwhile MP is returned to normal citizenship, at prorogation of Parliament, and stands for re-election using printed material, comprising unequivocal falsehoods, delivered to private homes, in an attempt to gain advantage.

To date, ‘wider governance’ has (constructively?) hidden in ‘the fog of Election Law', to avoid addressing an unequivocal document of fraudulent claims, held by me. They (government officials, departments and individuals) leap to the convenient conclusion that, because the employment sought by the individual in question is: ‘Westminster MP’, and the fraudulent document originates from a political party, it is a ‘political matter’.

I put it to you that the FUNDAMENTAL situation is one of personal (individual) advancement, knowingly enacted by fraudulent means (deception) and I look to you for interaction with me in the matter.

Please DO NOT engage, if integrity is absent (silence speaks just as loudly) that is: if the intent is to disengage by stealth. I apologise if that seems rude, but I have had 18 months of such, from those self-termed ‘honourable’, and have drawn inevitable conclusions.

Fortunately , I have 3.5 years more of this Parliament to ‘make my point stick’.

YOU NEVER COUNT YOUR MONEY AT THE TABLE

2011-12-01T10:53:00.002Z

Nor do you count the suffering of the people whose lives you trample on, saying 'WHO CARES', so long as you can sit at the Globopoly table flaunting GDP, nukes, global military reach, and 0.7% aid. But such is the 'emplacement' of 'born-to-rule' heads, they have not yet realised that ALL THAT IS GONE. We are STILL getting 'governance as usual'. Dave still steps up to the camera to tell Iran how to behave, and Nick to explain the Great Triumph (more likely a Libber Daemmerung) coming to a ‘party’ near him, in a notional 3.5 years time.

In the dim distant future, will these islands be remembered, in legend, for their race of clowns and losers, whose heads . . . (see above) and whose feet pointed in all directions - hence going nowhere?

In passing: "Who Cares Wins" is the title of a new book addressing commercial practice. In Westminster, of course, it is just: "Who Cares" - a motto for Dave, to rank with "Ich Dien"!

INDIVOTE: ONE SMALL STEP FOR BRITONS

2011-11-28T00:24:00.002Z

I just found this site. We seem to share ideals and aims. Extract from the site:

An independent MP would HAVE to be seen to be acting in the interests of the public, as their actions would be wholly transparent, without Party Whips, spin doctors or scapegoats in the form of lower/dispensible Party members.

The buck would stop with them.

Every Parliamentary vote would be a Free Vote, meaning that MPs would truly be able to represent their constituents, rather than being forced to toe their Parties line.
And if they did not perform in the way that the electorate wanted them to, they would be out of a job at the next election.

http://www.indivote.co.uk/index.html

JUST HEARD MILLIE DOWLER'S MOTHER

2011-11-21T12:23:00.002Z

I just heard that harrowing recording of Millie Dowler's mother.

To hear her re-live her (falsely based) joy, that her daughter was alive - deduced from deleted phone messages, from a previously full store - drives home the unspeakable nature of the hackers' mentality. But let no one lose sight of the example set by Westminster MPs: War in Iraq, Casino Banking, The Immigrant Cosh: all PERVERSE acts of the MP collective-mind, in Westminster. Given such behaviour by GOVERNMENT, why should scurrilous hacks think twice (even once) about applying their eponymous skills? There can NEVER be enough said of the WESTMINSTER EXAMPLE.

CIRCLES OF STASIS - ELEGANCE IN CURE

2011-11-16T13:57:00.002Z

Yesterday, the media applauded a wonderfully subtle piece of curative technology.
A young boy had a severely damaged liver, that could not cope with the waste from his living body; he was sure to die. Healthy liver cells, from a donor, were encapsulated in a micro-porous film, and injected. The pores in the film were of a size to allow detoxifying through-flow, via the liver cells, but prevented large defender-cells destroying those cells.

In summary: artificially engineered and sustained spheres of stasis, took strain off the boys body, while its liver recovered.

I suggest that ‘closed loops of industry’, ARTIFICIALLY CREATED, comprising –say - (1) manufacturing, (2) deconstructing and (3) reclamation-as-feedstock, could be set up to provide real employment of a wide variety of individuals. Yes – digging holes and filling them in again! Such enterprise would have no on-going impact on our economy, except to change the young from paid-jobless, to paid-employed. I assert this takes some sociological strain off the country, and recovery is thereby subtly enabled.

All current 'prizes' such as energy efficiency, elegance of design, built-in recycle factors, minimised waste etc would be the credo of Circles of Stasis. I commend the underlying principles to the nation.

EMAIL TO LINSAY TAFFE "ADVERTISING STANDARDS"

2011-11-16T09:55:00.003Z

27 October 2010

Dear Lynsay

I am bowled over by such an open, candid response. Since I began my quest for respect from British ‘democracy’, I have almost exclusively met with dismissal and contempt. Thank you.

I recognise your constrained situation (I suspect political interference by ‘back-channels’) hence, I write simply to inform – should anyone wish to be informed. In what follows, please read ‘Westminster’ as meaning ‘Political Power’ in this country, as defined by this, personal observation: “POLITICS IS THE ART OF SELF-DECEPTION, WRAPPED IN THE CRAFT OF DECEIVING OTHERS, FOR ‘THEIR OWN GOOD’.”

Also: I accept, entirely, that you feel you cannot comment on the content of the ‘Liar Flyer’, but please find attached a careful analysis of its ‘status’ vis-a-vis ‘political communication’. I hold the view it may be better defined as a coercive falsehood, from one ordinary citizen to another, with a measure of denigration of a third. (NB – when Parliament is not sitting, MPs relinquish political status.

I am puzzled that, in explaining why you do not constrain the lies of political parties, you seem unaware that they are, in any case, comprised of ‘Scotch Mist’ – they have no legal incorporation, no potentially culpable officer (as, e.g. Co Secretary to a Limited Company). This is quintessentially typical of the subtle defences of Westminster chicanery; they go far wider.

If there is any part of Britain that desperately needs diligent oversight, it is Westminster. Westminster is a tyranny, a law unto itself (we have wars to prove the point) that uses the party-system to screen incoming MPs for ‘Westminster Creature’ qualities, such that its collective mind, is alien to the needs and aspirations of ‘we the people’. I have found not one keen mind who will declare the Liar Flyer: “legal”, “decent”, “honest” or “truthful”. Yet in almost 18 months of challenge, I have found only ONE (maverick) MP to confirm its lying status, and had silence, obfuscation, misdirection and contempt from a range of official offices and other MPs. (As yet I have found NO redress.)

The above is a deeply perverse situation for a country that purports democracy, under the rule of law, and which sees fit to bomb others into our disgraceful state, on the whim of any Prime Minister so moved..

If this email disturbs only one synapse, in one mind, in the ASA, something good has accrued.

WHEN IS AN MP NOT AN MP - AND VULNERABLE?

2011-10-21T17:39:00.003+01:00

My continuing quest for integrity. A careful analysis if the 2010 Conservative Flyer (below)

“ELECTION COMMUNICATION FOR NEWBURY” (1) Printed at top right-hand corner of the Flyer)

“A HUNG PARLIAMENT WOULD MEAN 5 MORE YEARS OF GORDON BROWN” (2) Printed in large, red upper-case, at the top of the flyer.

The Flyer also carries on it (in tiny grey print) “Promoted by David Holtby on behalf of Richard Benyon (3), both of West Berkshire Conservative (4) Association, 6 Cheap Street, Newbury Berkshire. RG14 5DD”

A little over half way down, in bold black print:
“The Conservatives must win here (5) to stop another 5 years of Gordon Brown.”

Couple 1 with 5 and it is clear that ‘here’ means Newbury.
Couple 3 with 4 and it is clear that Richard Benyon is the Conservative candidate.
There can then be only one interpretation of the entire flyer: It is necessary to vote for Richard Benyon, in Newbury to prevent 5 more years of Gordon Brown (as British Prime Minister). The message of (2) is reinforcing, to the effect that only an OVERALL MAJORITY will keep bogey-man Brown from 5 more years in No 10.

These claims, concocted by person(s) unknown, were distributed by Mr Benyon, after Parliament had been prorogued for the 2010 General Election - hence while a private citizen. Mr Benyon could only have had one motive i.e. to apply influence to voting preference in Newbury; to his personal advantage.

The inferences are intriguing . . .

D MOCK CRASS Y & RULE OF LAW (poem)

2011-10-18T12:52:00.002+01:00

Oh Citadel of Westminster, look down on your creation:
Millions of damned and blighted lives – the remnants of a nation.
Yes, you forgot that power corrupts, and honed your fell foul skills
Till power, close to absolute, finds England wracked with ills.
Now this Quixote – errant knight – tilts at your spinning members
To bring dis-ease, in word and deed, to liars and dissemblers.
For you saw fit to harbour in your base, benighted bosom
A heinous creed of enmity, enshrined in party schism.
Then, standing back, you watched as, at election, their contrivance
Brought blatant printed lies, with leadership in full connivance.
They knew, of course that parties, retribution, can ignore
Devoid of true existence, they’re not under Rule of Law.
Thus freed, Conservative HQ, drew up a Liar Flyer
So full of crafted falsehoods, Dave’s pants should have been on fire.
It said: the Bogey Gordon Brown, was waiting in the wings
Should WE, though careless voting, cause unconducive swings.
Conservatives, they must win HERE, the Liar Flyer claimed
Or Gordon Brown will stalk the land and CHILDREN WILL BE MAIMED!
A single X placed anywhere, but for Conservatives
Would guarantee 5 years of Brown, to blacken all our lives.
The Flyer, duly printed, went out across the land
From Huntingdon to Newbury – delivered by eager hand.
Two laws, thereby, were broken – one wonders: at what cost?
Westminster just ignores me; MP Benyon says: “Get lost!”
Now honourable MPs sit tight on impropriety’s cushion
Installed by lies but comforted by piety’s illusion.
Oxford Police rewarded, at the outset, trust invested;
A second letter brought forth spleen – I hope I’m not arrested.
Once more I know that I am mocked, by Westminster’s charade
And my crass tilting comes to naught; integrity is barred.
But I’ll fight on, it’s in my blood, blokes have to do what blokes do;
I’m not cut out for a comfy chair - with crossword, or Sudoku.

APE CALL - STORAGE UNTO DEATH

2011-10-13T11:13:00.001+01:00

APE CALL (A Pragmatic Evaluation of ‘care’ of the old.)

In the past, I have asserted that the courtroom is a place where Cerebral Man purports to judge the works of Animal Man (The Ape Confused by Language addressing - all unaware – the doings of his Ape.) The result can never be Justice.

Recently, there is a media storm regarding the neglect of old people with stroke, dementia, or similar. Media delivers harrowing tales from the ingenuous, weasel dedication from politicians, righteous indignation from programme presenters, and measured platitudes from the ‘Care Quality Commission’ and its ilk.

No one sees the ‘Ape in the room’.

By my painfully informed judgement (watched my brother ‘stored to death’ over 8 months) badly damaged old people, register in the mind of many UNRELATED medical-and-allied workers, AT AN ANIMAL LEVEL. By this I mean that the fit-and-well animals, required by high-minded edict to CARE, readily and unthinkingly reject those animals (non-persons) who will ‘contribute nothing more’, till the day they die.

And this is where some honest pragmatism would help; indeed, where it MUST be applied, if Hell on Earth is not to be the lot of an ever-increasing number – possibly including me!

Basic tenets:

1) As all conception is achieved WITHOUT CONSENT OF THE CONCEIVED, and with very little constraint from anyone else, DEATH ON DEMAND is a de facto right of every living being. One might even say it is a right WITH INTEREST DUE (or a fine?) i.e. more than a right: a HEAVY OBLIGATION on society.

2) Just as with court proceedings, referred to above, it is high time we acknowledged our dominant Ape. We must respect the Ape, in terms of its justifiable reaction to the detritus of life. (The first eulogy to sides of beef, hanging in a cold store, has yet to be written) NO ONE should be surprised when semi-vacated, vehicle-bodies, do not elicit a reflex of respect from the Ape.

3) Clever medical science has driven the vehicle-body, and its dependent mind, way beyond its span of viability. Blind fascination with that cleverness, lauds this madness; wisdom, had it not atrophied, would be in despair.

4) Mankind is probably too juvenile, throughout his span, individually and collectively, ever to correct the above. We have the knowledge and the ability – but not, in the current idiom, the will. . .

MAKE POLITICAL PARTIES ANSWER TO LAW

2011-10-12T09:49:00.002+01:00

Parties, like companies, should have a named officer who GOES TO PRISON when they break the law.

How many committee-years might it take to get THAT through honourable Westminster?

How many people realise that an amending bill was tabled to strengthen the REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, but that it died when Parliament was prorogued for the 2010 election? "Oh dear - what a pity - how sad". It extended section 115 (undue influence - CORRUPT PRACTICE) to "deliberately misleading the electorate as to the reasons for voting for that candidate". Remember the Liar Flyer? It said: "The Conservatives must win HERE (i.e. where my letter box is) to stop another 5 years of Gordon Brown." It was manifestly a lie, but the CONSERVATIVE PARTY is outside any law.

WHO CHOSE YOUR MP BEFORE YOU CHOSE?

Only in England . . .

IT REALLY IS A MAD WORLD

2011-10-11T10:07:00.000+01:00

THE APE CONFUSED BY LANGUAGE HAS ADDED CENTURIES OF INSTITUTIONALISING SCHOOLING, DECADES OF ALPHA-TV, AND RECENT SOCIAL-ACTION-AT-A-DISTANCE. (#47 prompt)

This is not what Nature would do. The world is going mad.

I strongly suspect that AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL MATURITY, across the globe, is declining. Just taking the UK: 60+ million population, of progressively immature individuals, yields 600+ perverse extract in Westminster, who in turn distil the quintessential INSTITUTIONALISED, DEMON-DRIVEN, JUVENILE PM to a position of exquisite incompetence, and near-absolute power. (Mental age 6?)

This might explain one or two points in previous posts?

Paradoxically, we not only make smart bombs and war machines, but smart kit that can SHOW OURSELVES HOW DUMB WE ARE; we also have some smart analysts of our plight. But a wise, contented nation, AS A GOAL, cannot compete, in the Prime Minister Mind, with glorious slaughter of Johnnie Foreigner and ‘FAMOUS VICTORY’. Prime Ministers are FAR TOO PRIMITIVE (see above).

WE have a problem

A NEW PPE QUALIFICATION

2011-10-01T10:26:00.002+01:00

Stewardship of a nation, requires a very rare level of human competence in those charged with undertaking the task. Dave Cameron thinks that the "Best of the Best", in our society, become mercenary killers; that phrase (and his banal espousal of it) neatly encapsulate the bankruptcy of our culture, from aberrant top to absolute bottom.

When the English Spring comes, we must strive to create a diametric alternative to Westminster's abomination; an alternative that is steeped in philosophical calm, skilled in applied human psychology, and has a reverence for elegance* (in its most fundamental sense) in all things.

We can then remove this country from the madness of GDP, manipulated money, arms and warfare, aspiring instead, to raise maturity, contentment and wisdom, across the nation.

* http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/elegant/

CHESS CLUB FOR INCOMPETENTS

2011-10-01T09:17:00.002+01:00

WESTMINSTER IS A CHESS CLUB FOR INCOMPETENT PLAYERS - WE ARE THEIR PAWNS.

Further, the 'Incompetent Elite' of Westminster, get to play Globopoly on the World Board, moving the higher value pieces of Johnnie Foreigner states. All the games are accompanied by side bets, laid with our money. Losing is of no account to the players.

The question that goes unaddressed, is "What manner of individual immerses themselves in serial failure (note the recent list of apologies from ALL parties) yet continues in office, while retaining the inappropriate title: HONOURABLE?"

The PERVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER GOVERNANCE roars in the stone deaf ear of media, while I roar in the other (equally deaf) ear:

"FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH, ALL THAT IS REQUIRED IS FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT WELL DO SOMETHING, TO DO NOTHING."

A to Z of WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENTARIANS

2011-09-13T20:26:00.001+01:00

Artful Banal Cynical Deceitful Evasive False Guileful Hypocritical

Iniquitous Jingoistic Kleptocratic Lawless Mendacious Obfuscatory

Pusillanimous Quisling (EU) Rosette-stands Snide Temeritous Unctuous

Venal Whipped X Yes-men Zoophytes

BRUTISHNESS - THE WAR ON REASON 11 Sep 2011

2011-09-11T08:25:00.001+01:00

My spell-checker takes a perverse delight in changing 'Britishness' to 'Brutishness' - it coyly refrains from adding: "Nuff sed".

Since I reluctantly woke, this morning, I have been following the Radio 4 output from NYC - dedicated to this anniversary of 9/11 'Shock and Awe'.

But whereas 9/11 was a SUDDEN unexpected (by the little folk) SHOCK, the disgraceful, conniving silence of the BBC (reaching a crescendo today) regarding ‘The American State Lie’, is a SLOW TORTURE to all aspiring 'GOOD MEN', WHO KNOW THAT REASON IS BEING BRUTALISED.

Will this be a day of infamy, to eclipse even the crass treatment of the death of Dr David Kelly?

BBC: if you are determined that all your 'good men' should DO NOTHING, regarding the ever-increasing weight of 9/11 REALITY, we shall just have to put you where you belong.

“You are either with US or the UNREASONISTS.

FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH, ALL THAT IS REQUIRED IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING.

PERVERSE AGE: BENIGN EPOCH PLUS APING

2011-09-09T09:35:00.002+01:00

HomSap ('intended' for harsher times) is born with a phenomenal computing power and no idea of what is going on. He 'advances' by OVERWRITING unconducive notions, NEVER ERASING; driven by a frenzied NEED to gain CONTROL (power) over body, environment and OTHERS. The poor fool samples his surroundings as a model to strive towards. This gives us mostly dysfunctional individuals. Maturity is, for the majority, an impossible goal. The way that our 'culture' is now configured (perverse) it manifestly mediates AGAINST maturing.

Those who cannot damp down the infant drive to control, become infantile politicians and those who realise they will never control anything - rioters.

Dave and Nick are both in the grip of deep, infantile need. They will snatch toys, poke eyes and bite until they (fail to) get what they (are convinced) they must have.

Those who brought about the perverse events of 9/11, are of similar ilk, and similarly demon-driven.

It (The Age of Perversity) will end in tears.

TAKE THE LIAR FLYER CHALLENGE 6 Sep 2011

2011-09-06T14:03:00.010+01:00

I am getting grief from Newbury's MP, Richard Benyon. He asserts I am irrational. He asserts the statements in the flyer below (delivered to me 5th May 2010) are true. I say the ones concerning Gordon Brown are false. Can you read them as true?

The same generic Liar Flyer was delivered to the blameless folk of Cheltenham. It can be viewed at 'Electionleaflets.org. BUT: whereas, in Newbury, the Conservative retained his seat (i.e. he 'won') in Cheltenham, the LibDem retained his seat. THE CONSERVATIVES LOST - WE GOT A HUNG PARLIAMENT. But Gordon Brown did not return. A DOUBLE WHAMMY!

So were the assertions in the Liar Flyer true - by any stretch of an irrational MP's imagination?
Or are we looking at a 'False Instrument' as described in the 'Representation of the People Act 1983 section 115'? And are those sitting MPs who employed it to apply 'undue influence' to the voter mind, guilty of MISCONDUCT IN PUBLIC OFFICE?

Do let me know. If you can prove the assertions true, please 'SHOW YOUR WORKING' as exam papers used to say.

IFFY

2011-06-13T17:57:00.002+01:00

IFFY (A Kiplingesque look at the Westminster Ethos)

If you can catch his eye when all about you are would-be heirs, eager to catch it too;
If you can get rosetted for a safe seat - be voted in - yet think they voted “you”
If you can fawn and not be galled by fawning or, being out-fawned, plot the sod’s demise,
Then, sidelined, coolly wait for that new dawning, and bide your time with rivals none the wize

If you can carry-can for some disaster - not of your making - and display no pain;
If you can meet with whips and saints of plaster and bow to both and never once abstain;
If you connive at crafted untruth spoken by twisted knave to beat the voter-mules
And watch their trust, invested in you, broken, and stoop to further dupe the bloody fools;

If you can made a heap of wild expenses and care for Code of Conduct, not one toss,
Then meekly give some back, to mend his fences, and save the red face of the party boss;
If you contrive your bile and gorge to batten as you ask crass set-questions in The House,
And so gain crumbs that your lean status fatten, as you aspire to: ‘Senior Servile Louse’;

If you can subvert crowds with faux charisma, or meet a Queen - with neither gaining much;
If you can breathe that Westminster miasma; if all folk count with you - as prop or crutch;
If you can fill Big Ben’s impostured minute with party games and politician-fun,
Then surely - as PM - you’ll drop us in it, and we’ll have got ourselves another one!

I THINK THEREFORE I ERR

2011-04-29T23:08:00.001+01:00

The more I hear of neuropsychology, the more the madness of world politics seems to make sense. And the more I ponder the foregoing, the more I conclude that it has to be this way, because it is fundamental to mankind to be perverse. In less complicated times, we seem to have found ways to limit our perversity, strict taboos being one mechanism, but all that is behind us.

Human babies are born totally vulnerable, and in my view, programmed to mitigate that vulnerability whilst striving for control. Paradoxically, if these programmes are not modified or suppressed in the fully grown individual, without powerful cultural constraints being in place, the sort of runaway madness that we now see worldwide, must inexorably arise. Our massive capacity for manipulation, of both the outer and inner worlds, for survival and advancement, now runs rampant and destructively so. Highly driven individuals, whether engendered from nature or nurture, in the modern world of massive power residing in wealth or armaments or both, now rise rapidly to positions of near absolute authority and wreak havoc.

It is said that psychopaths are overrepresented in positions of power, and is also said that they are skilled practitioners of George Orwell’s doublethink. It would certainly appear so. In recent years, we have seen leaders of both America and Britain, behave very strangely, applying a mixture of oppression and subversion to their people, in launching righteous war, as they saw fit. The trend continues. Meanwhile, in both countries, all measures of civilisation are diminishing.

The problem with pondering such matters, is that one realises one’s own distortions, as well as those of source information impinge, and edge perception towards an Alice in Wonderland unreality which one must, necessarily, view from Alice’s perspective. A very odd perspective indeed! And should it all suddenly makes sense, there is a very real danger that the ‘sense’ is unique to oneself. This is no place to be if sanity is to be maintained! Looking for ‘validating purpose’ is clearly to no avail, so one might as well give up one’s life to an unknowable God!

It is presumably at this point, those with unconducive brain chemistry, cut off their ear, pluck out their eyes, or simply take an overdose. In this enquiry, I would not start from here.

ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?

2011-04-20T23:57:00.002+01:00

During the (apparently) long periods of planetary harshness, ingenuity might well have been vital to human survival; but in the short periods of quiescence and ease, there seems not enough time to redesign (evolve) before the next ice-age or cataclysm arrives. Thus, the current period of easy-living has allowed ingenuity to turn to unnecessary pursuits that rush to perversity. (By analogy: it is believed that our immune system, robbed of its constant struggle with ancient internal foes (parasites etc) by that same ingenuity, is turning upon our bodily infrastructure, causing pernicious ‘auto-immune’ misery to burgeon.)

Wisdom – an increasingly scarce attribute of mankind – surely dictates that we should only espouse novelty (inventiveness) after a prolonged circumspection. Again – the opposite prevails. Modern man not only seeks, and deploys, everything new – junking the ‘old’ – he actually lauds the process as innovation and growth, and proceeds in haste.

It would appear that in ‘primitive’ (sustainable) societies, the new, was often taboo. Perhaps intuition is another attribute lost in recent times?

OF BEDS

As the Oyster yields a pearl
man invents.
Neither realises their fecundity
is rooted in irritation:
of one - the body
of the other - the mind.
Man kills the oyster
for its pearl.
And kills his own World
for that eureka moment of invention

DO UNTO YOUR OWN AS TO OTHERS?

2011-03-20T18:22:00.002Z

Right now, no one knows to what degree bread and circuses are going to be unaffordable in Britain - at least, to the ordinary masses. Add the unassimilated, multicultural, proto-Balkan sub-mass, and we have a potential for anything from unrest to disorder. But I am not finished adding: Those who are (at least partially) awake, know that money, media, Mammon and Westminster are cahoots, in the supply of bread and circuses, and in the elevation of the rich, powerful and famous. They will fight to keep 'what is theirs'.

We are constantly told (with arguable validity) that electronic networking and 'viral' spread of ideas, information and plotted actions, endangers the power that 'they' have over us. It would be illuminating to know how prepared our rulers are to block, or remove, the people's intranet. Are they prepared at all?

For the purposes of this thought-experiment, let's assume nationwide unrest is triggered. Perhaps after 9/11 proved a structured lie, but ‘he’ got away with it; or Westminster was belatedly found to be ill-structured, inept, and self-serving; or Europe was shown to be a political deception, with a hidden agenda - probably all of these.

Now, it happens, that America has spawned a new group of dissenters; they hark back to allegiance to the people through the Constitution - not obedience to Obama. They say they are ready to defend 'liberty' in those terms. Potential revolution? Could something similar happen here, in the light of the above? When enough people are 'past caring', i.e. dumped out of the rat race, they are free to gather, protest, resist and to be a 'threat' to the established order, without further loss.

This is the point where the Westminster Citadel pulls up the drawbridge. The cipher-ninnies unite in self-preservation (a small step from self-interest) and declare a State of Emergency. All violence from the people is now ‘Terrorism’ (the laws are in place) and military head-cracking, supplants the police kind. Confrontation escalates, Belfast style.

At what point does the proxy King of England, dictating from the Royal Palace of Westminster, call on the militia, with the customary nod and wink, to KILL HIS OWN PEOPLE?

GADDAFI 'KILLS HIS OWN PEOPLE'

2011-03-18T11:45:00.003Z

All British Prime Ministers KILL THEIR OWN PEOPLE (for profit) through permitted sale of alcohol and tobacco; the disease that rots the organs, prior to death, amounts to preliminary TORTURE, for the subject and their family.

Because of the feudal Westminster Palace configuration (hierarchical parties with absolute leaders, and whips) Blair AND JUST ONE OTHER needy, deluded wannabe (IDS) was all it took to get into Dubya's war. When an unprecedented mass of people demonstrated against it - Blair DICTATED.

At that point, Britain sank to a MAD DICTATORSHIP (sounds familiar?). Not content with BUSINESS AS USUAL, killing his own, Blair rushed to iniquitous destruction and slaughter, in Iraq - with righteous cries. And all this from a leader who was getting more Christian, and god-fearing, EVERY DAY.

Blair killed his own people (as Dave’s government now does) and added the killing of Johnnie Foreigner to his tally. Mote and Beam anyone?

GADDAFI IS NOT IN THE SAME LEAGUE!

COUNTERFEIT BRITISH INTEGRITY

2011-03-02T11:01:00.003Z

As my jaw slowly drops, I am proving to myself, beyond doubt, that Political Parties are unregulated in this counterfeit democracy. Our counterfeit governance, has seen to it that Political Parties are neither regulated by Westminster nor by statute.

In the news today, we have OFCOM fussing, ineffectually, about the lies of broadband suppliers. But THERE IS NO OFPOL! What is more, Political Parties DO NOT EXIST in any formalised way, that permits CONFRONTATION, or CALLING TO ACCOUNT. They do not operate under Britain’s trumpeted RULE OF LAW.

What a farce! Westminster is OUT OF CONTROL.

In the 2010 General Election, the Conservative Party widely issued a flyer (variously modified) carrying the blatant lie: "THE CONSERVATIVES MUST WIN HERE TO STOP ANOTHER 5 YEARS OF GORDON BROWN". In fact, it is a double lie, as no one could guarantee Brown's return under any or all circumstances, and the use of 'HERE' stands out starkly, as undue influence on the recipient locality.

Challenge to the Conservative Party goes unanswered. As said: there is no OFPOL (Office of Politics). The ASA are prohibited from action (though they sent all parties a sad pre-election plea for integrity) and the Electoral Commission is subtitled 'NOT ME GUV'.

THERE is the shining British example to the world - atop which Dave commands the terrible Gaddafi: 'IN THE NAME OF BRITISH INTEGRITY GO, AND GO NOW!'

DENIAL DENYING DENIED

2011-02-27T23:32:00.001Z

A drug Tsar, in Reading (Berkshire) once said to me: "We have no drug problem - only a people problem - people whose lives are so wretched they escape to drugs."

I echo: "We have no money problem - only a people problem - people who, though higher up the scale, yet have lives so wretched (well disguised) that they escape into delusional manipulation of their fellow, for personal gain.

The common factor is that both are addicted and both need, always, 'another hit'.

The greater pool of trend-setter humanity (our lot) is on a downward path of immaturity. Political leaders are drawn from the most needy (driven) of this pool. Such people are brilliant at the 'animal arts' but no bloody use at wisdom, honour, integrity etc; and the last thing they master is SELF KNOWLEDGE.

Therein lies the global problem. You can apply monetary manoeuvres, and growth stimuli, till the sky falls, but with declining social competence in both leaders and universally suffered (sic) voters, the result will inevitably be failure, regardless.

DICTATOR IS AS DICTATOR DOES

2011-02-25T17:53:00.001Z

It is so glaringly simple - and obvious. Under the amoral Westminster Ethos (that so recently caught a banking cold) we are second in the world for KMD (Kill Maim Destroy) weaponry. Out of the profits, we self-aggrandisingly pay away 0.7% in aid. Bomb here - aid there; it's the Christian way. In short, we are not only hypocritical, we are venal and we are corrupt. And that is before Breakfast, before Lunch and before Tea. You would think that 'physically sick Dave' would be putting his own house in order, before prancing round the world, flogging lethal 'defence weapons' while dispensing home-SPUN righteousness.

When oh when will we stop GETTING OURSELVES ALWAYS ANOTHER ONE and start facing up to our INCREDIBLE presence in the world? We are a disgrace; a mockery; a joke. We could be so much more, but just like the Libyans, the Egyptians, the Tunisians etc, we are under the thumb of Westminster and its spawn: a sequence of deluded, manipulative, exploitative DICTATORS.

THE APE CONFUSED BY LANGUAGE

2011-02-20T16:41:00.000Z

Acquiring language was a mistake. There is only so much unpleasantness a dumb animal can visit on another dumb animal, but language brings the possibility for endless invention in the field of mental hurt (now known to “light up” the same brain areas as physical hurt!).
Language is the main tool of the advertiser, seducer, preacher, bully and con-artist. It is also how we drive ourselves mad inside our own heads.
Language is not absolute, unlike facial expressions which are common all over the world. The few sounds we share with animals: the hiss, purr, growl – and the uniquely human laugh – are also common currency, but once we stray into language, Babel ensues.
Worst of all are the misunderstandings within one language; between native speaker and linguist-foreigner, dialect and dialect – husband and wife. . .
Fred Trappist – founder of the order of monks who take his name, was an astute guy. He realised that if they never said a word, there would be no plotting, no factions, no spread of doubt; back to basics.
Without language you can’t write “Mein Kampf” or “Das Kapital” nor can you get into higher maths as you have no words for “six” or “square root”. There goes The Bomb.
You can’t invent a lot of unnecessary junk like TVs and washing machines which, in its turn, prevents pollution – about which, being without language, you couldn’t moan ineffectually either.
Think of all those sermons not being spouted! One god divided poignantly among three faiths (and divided again within them) all done by the relentless transforming of ideas – all thanks to language. Then a whole lot more gods, with books written in their name (always unsigned) full of complicated, contradictory advice and admonitions; all there in black and white shades of grey.
“In the beginning was the word”. Never was a truer word spoken; it spelled d o o m.

THE RIGHT BRANCH

So now we know - the chimps are smart
just a couple of whoops says what’s in their heart.
While man struggles on, too clever by half
our branch of The Tree just gives God a cheap laugh.

Yes we evolved language to drive ourselves mad
to mask true intent and confuse good with bad.
On language-based science we ascend to the stars
at odds down on Earth - we’ll be more so on Mars.

So I’ll hear no more spoken of man’s lofty status
as we hate each-other, each other will hate us.
We’ve all gone down hill since the Tower of Babel
all DOING like mad - at just BEING unable.

Survival needs naught but the birds and the bees
rise up, come with me, we’ll go back to the trees;
I have looked at the future - come up with a ploy:
just hang on a branch and give two whoops for joy!

OPEN LETTER ON AV TO NICK CLEGG

2011-02-19T23:43:00.001Z

Dear Nick Clegg

I think we can swing the AV referendum your way. Here’s the plan:

If you arrange for AV voting slips to have a tick-box for ‘OPT OUT’, this will enfranchise all the voters who currently opt out by staying at home, but who are wickedly vilified as indolent, for their entirely principled stand.

Voters who tick the OPT OUT box, should not tick any other. All opt outs to be counted and announced, as with actual votes.

I am sure you will appreciate how much this facility will advance the attractiveness of AV in the mind of the electorate, and further convinced you will see that it brings us nearer to full democracy.

CLEGG CONTACT: http://www.dpm.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/contact-deputy-prime-minister

NANNY STATE to BIG SOCIETY

2011-02-12T09:52:00.003Z

She drives us into school for a maximum of our tender, formative years, such that we emerge immature and institutionalised. Then she turns her back, mumbling something about 'Big Society'.

Nanny could not care less that SMALL PEOPLE DON'T BUILD BIG ANYTHING.

We have had many generations of schooling by state-edict (i.e. 'because Nanny says so'). We now start the poor mites at two, such that school should be re-named 'FOLLOW-ON FORMULA'. By the time they leave, their primary skill is 'school' - i.e. they are INSTITUTIONALISED. And because we ALL go through the same ticky-tacky sausage machine, we all come out 'just the same', and UNABLE TO SEE WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO US (except those destined for eccentricity, dysfunction - or prison).

The Nanny State is, de facto, fundamental to the school-based society. Now we must suffer the (oh so Westminster) subterfuge of being 'set free' - but only after legs, back and mind have been broken. (Remember what Geoffrey Howe said to Maggie?)

Nanny has not been dismissed; she has not gone anywhere. Her finest achievement has been to become barely perceptible. We have come to accept schooling, in place of maturing (parenting) - just as Winston came to love Big Brother.

If you find a hint of humour in the above - I have failed.

LIFELONG DIVISION

2011-02-10T10:07:00.003Z

Governments purport to be at pains to improve HEALTH, WEALTH, LAW n ORDER and EDUCATION.

HEALTH: They run a sickening social regime in tandem with a National Repair Service, with emotional health neglected.

WEALTH: Nothing has changed since the Bible reported on money. It's a cultural issue, not structural.

L and O: Again - cultural. Our culture is of cheating, manipulating, lying and dog eat dog; LED FROM WESTMINSTER. Police, courts and prisons are not the answer.

EDUCATION: Schooling is not learning. It INCREASINGLY parts parents from children, hence learning TO PARENT is lost. A nation of orphans.

Westminster attracts 'the wrong kind of mentality'. Westminster takes pride in its POLITICS. Politics is not governance.

PERFORMANCE ART AT CHILCOT

2011-02-07T13:03:00.000Z

Having sat through the excruciating stumble of Jack Straw's third appearance (Sir Rod was magnificent) I thought you might like this example of how Newspeak is alive and well.

With regard to Iraq, Chortling Jack (the chuckle was never far away) employed the term 'COERCIVE DIPLOMACY' as one pre-invasion option. It translates as 'Threatening Behaviour' (bullying?) the sort of thing we civilised folk, living democratically, under the Rule of Law, would only ever do to some Johnnie Foreigner - and then only in his own arena, with a massive armed force at our back.

With marauding cowards like us in the world, why should it worry about terrorists?

COULD IT HAPPEN IN UNDEMOCRATIC BRITAIN?

2011-02-02T20:25:00.001Z

(Britain has been declared No 26 democracy.)

Intelligence sources (sorry - can't tell you) say, in extensive, detailed and authoritative terms, that Terror has smuggled radioactive material into Britain, and is planning a number of dirty bombs.

We go to Sparkling Crimson alert, aka 'TERRIFYING', and Cobra meets under the stairs at No 10. IDS says he has seen the future and we should all believe Cameron - Nick says: "I agree with Dave."

Parliament is suspended and a Terror Cabinet rules by edict. Troops on the streets (the fat and useless ones who don't fight). Young men react to authority in the only way they know. Then, to quote Jaunty: "the ring leaders now start to get snatched for a few months of police 'questioning'".

This is not a joke - repeat: this is not a joke. Just remember Dave gets 'physically sick when prisoners vote'. He starts from a highish state of right/wrong arousal, wouldn't you say? (They are the ones you have to watch.)

Today Egypt . . .

ANTHEM

2011-01-20T00:09:00.000Z

I close my eyes to send away the mayhem in the streets
But the flame seeps through and flickers; all my defence, defeats.
The rioters sweep back and forth, throughout this English town
Where we stood at bay, in Hitler’s day: now forty shades of brown.

Our politicians hold the view that working men are mules
They have multicultured us, deciding THEY are worth OUR tools.
Our jobs all went to immigrants but now they wear a frown
And unrest is seen, on the village green, in forty shades of brown.

I wish that I could see why politicians are so dumb
What led them to believe it was OK for all to come.
As 'citizens' we school them, to recognise the Crown
But I'll wager She, was unprepared as me, for forty shades of brown.

All together now . . .

MARINATED LADETTE EASY MEAT

2011-01-10T10:26:00.001Z

Once Grandma added an egg - now granddaughter adds alcohol.
And The Straw Man, is The Schumacher of Westminster (lighting reflexes to change direction).

In our version of Ancient Rome, we have certain given 'goods' that we no longer perceive for what they are. Adversarialism (law and politics), institutionalised learning (school), imaginary money, psychological advertising, and alcohol. My list in not exhaustive.)

Alcohol is the weft of a warped society. Ladettes are marinated in its poisonous molecule, yielding the 'Easy Meat' of the Straw Man's calculated utterance. But has alcohol been mentioned, in the recent furore? ALL MY LIFE, white, indigenous males have plied, the object of their lust with alcohol, as a 'means to an end'.

Alcohol fuels, lubricates, uplift, brings down and destroy all aspects of British 'culture', from birth to funeral. The founder of our state religion turned the WATER OF LIFE into WINE. Wine is characterised by the ALCOHOL OF DEATH. It seems our God approves this union; 'LET NO MAN PUT ASUNDER'.

Only the wisdom to inspect our 'false goods', can prevent the fall of our Rome.

SUFFERING UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE

2011-01-05T00:45:00.000Z

In UK General Elections, Lords, and some law-breakers (held in prison) cannot vote. Neither can the young (under 18) but the senile, short of being sectioned, may do so, even if they no longer have any idea what a ‘vote’ is. This is the essence of universal suffrage. What is more, recent (legal) immigrants, with not a shred of our heritage or culture to their being, and speaking fewer words of English than they have bangles, may vote.

Universal Suffrage is presented as a ‘given good’; a mark of a civilised democracy, a Great British triumph – an institution. Truly we are a nation led by fools, knaves or both. I am no scholar of history, but believe that one once had to be QUALIFIED to vote. And since the result of voting, is a bunch of people charged with managing the country, competence in the voter seems eminently sensible. So how did we end up in the current mess? I think politicians were behind it.

Observation of the modern political scene, leads me to the conclusion that any unrest in the general population is measured, in Westminster, for its advantage or disadvantage to each party. I surmise that various disenfranchised groups, as each one became a ‘cause’, were given the vote, in the belief of the party in power that it could be to their advantage. (Currently they are trying to gauge if 16 year old voters are an asset. Then it will be 14.)

Over the last century, a number of experiments were carried out that showed just how tractable (dupable) the typical individual is. Advertisers rely on it. Armies depend on it. Politicians delight in it. Voters divide into loyal-unthinking, the gullible, and the despairing-aware. The voting system has been twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools. It is endlessly tinkered with but never reformed in the interests of recognisable democracy. Were this to be addressed, the first requirement would be a CERTIFICATE OF VOTING COMPETENCE.

The bulk of competent voters would be drawn from the ‘despairing aware’ above. I suspect the gullible would remain beyond retrieval and just a few un-thinkers might be ‘turned’. Surely competence must be proved in many walks of life – why not in the matter of General Election voting, to install a government? I note that such discrimination is applied to jurors, yet no court of law has taken this country to war. Ignorance and stupidity are as limiting, to the human mind, as alcohol. I don’t know if there is a law against ‘voting while drunk and incapable’ but my point is surely made?

I offer the above as a viable case against universal suffrage and as an argument for a radical change in our voting arrangements, opening the way to SPOIL PARTY GAMES.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN 2011

2011-01-01T10:31:00.002Z

When they say anything at all, that has the ring of truth about it, politicians are often found saying: "I came into politics to make a difference". Personally, I hold the view that (like Bluebottle in the Goon Show) they 'WANT TO BE THE MAN' that makes a difference; they want a LEGACY and they want their name on it. This boils down to an ambition to wield power over others, for personal aggrandisement. Hence my coinage: "Politics is the art of self deceit, wrapped in the craft of deceiving others, for their own good."

In so many ways, the politician is identical to the con-man; do con-men, also, fool themselves that they are ACTUALLY honourable? What with constituency work, the party whip, and ambition to high office, all potentially at odds, the politician has little room for integrity. And now that so many are actually TRAINED to do politics, AS AN END IN ITSELF, the small matter of competence in the various offices of state, is eclipsed. So painfully self evident in recent times!

Why do Westminster MPs presume to call themselves 'HONOURABLE'? It smacks of insecurity to me. I suppose it belongs to the world of 'HIS GRACE' and 'THE VENERABLE', but are MPs not COMMONERS? Are they not supposed to be one with US? Whence comes their elevation? When the Cold War chilled us, the USSR would preface their being with 'THE PEACE LOVING PEOPLES OF', even as their menacing parades of armaments, trundled through Red Square. They too were insecure. We need a higher calibre of MP to run our lives.

When the 'COALITION OF DAVE’S SHILLING' (that Nick 'took', while being bought) finally collapses under it's own weight of infamy, let's try to see a few changes made at the next General Election. We must demand a box on the voting paper that says: 'A PLAGUE ON ALL YOUR HOUSES, AND ESPECIALLY WESTMINSTER' - I am a free agent, I WILL be counted’. We need an atmosphere of ROSETTE DENIGRATION and promotion of the INTEGRITY OF THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE (as urged by Martin Bell). If we are to break free from the oppressive hold that THE WESTMINSTER CITADEL exerts over us, I can see no better place to start than to: SPOILPARTYGAMES.

Good luck England.

IMMATURITY IS ENDEMIC

2010-12-22T10:26:00.001Z

I sometimes 'aphorise' that "Everyone has their price and I hope I am never offered mine". When we ARE offered 'our price', the nature of the transaction (goods/services/currency) can run the gamut. Broadly speaking, politicians such as Vince Cable, want to be 'somebody' - it was audibly apparent that his visitors fed that need. Mr Cable was 'bought'.

From the wider perspective: the cleverness of modern life has enabled a level of globally generated experience, for which we are ill prepared; the flesh (brain capacity) is willing, but the mind (competence) is weak. Indeed, we are still 'The Ape Confused by Language', who has further compounded his plight, by eschewing wisdom and dispensing with philosophy. Immaturity is endemic.

It is entirely possible that The Ape and 'Cerebral Civilian' (to go 'a bit Bunyan') ARE INCOMPATIBLE, and the conflict between the two will endure till one or both leaves the field. However, while the current situation prevails, is it not our immaturity, that allows tyrannies to arise?

How could a wise, philosophical society, ever come to elevate a Blair, Brown or Cameron (desperate, posturing POLITICIANS) to near-absolute power? Why would aware individuals allow PARTIES to pre-select their representatives; how could they, knowingly, vote for a rosette and accrue a (whipped) rosette-stand? Would a competent society, stand by and watch war used as a tool of peace, at the drop of a sound-bite?

Globally, The Ape Confused by Language is focused on the MECHANICS of DOING, having lost sight of the 'intangibles' of BEING. And the whole unholy mess is laved with religious incongruities and strife. I still 'amuse' myself, railing at it all, and testing my ingenuity in trying to see a way out. Well - it passes the time from uninvited birth to perversely delayed death.

ENJOY CHRISTMAS GAMES.

ANOTHER GOVERNMENT DRUG TRIP

2010-12-16T23:55:00.004Z

Across the world, and as far back as we can perceive, man has bombed his mind with a range of substances. Why? My best guess is that the mind of the Ape Confused by Language has just three dominant modes: BORED, IN PAIN, BOTH.

Being too clever for his own good, man always discovers one or more natural substances that interact with his brain chemistry, to alter its 'state' to CHEERFUL, ELEVATED or ASLEEP. He goes on to be a USER, DEPENDENT or ADDICT, with slow destruction of mind and body as the price to be paid.

In Britain we have deeply established, state-condoned (taxed) tobacco and alcohol, these two have 'opened the way' (culturally, psychologically and physically) for intake of a range of other substances. Cleverness has led on to synthetics.

Before ANY authority-figure pronounces on their pet initiative for tackling drug-use, which includes alcohol, THEY SHOULD DECLARE THEIR OWN STATUS. Few are 'clean'

The irony in all this is that having, and using, one's mind can be immeasurably rewarding, yet the higher faculties are the first to shut down under alcohol. (The Ape-drives being the last to flicker out, as unconsciousness descends.) I might just point out, the even greater irony of Islamic prohibition! (Blessed are the wine and cheese makers?)

So: if we try to tackle drug use, without first understanding WHY we cannot endure the mind we are stuck with, then we are as addicted to deckchair shuffling, as we are to 'substance use'. But then - virtually ALL politicians are users and, what is more, I have never seen one who wants to SUCCEED, so much as he wants to ANNOUNCE and MAKE SPEECHES, regardless of ultimate outcome.

When did Parliament last address the fundamental make-up, and drives, of The Ape Confused by Language?

FUMBLING IN THE DARK

2010-12-10T23:22:00.002Z

'Interfaith Blair', is the bellwether. With his usual gut-instinct for maximum platform space and paid claptrap, he has positioned himself ACROSS ALL FAITHS. What a performer - what a performance!

But his adroitness serves to demonstrate the global disaster that is faith itself - any and all faith. All babies KNOW there is a higher power. As children it is reinforced (or not) in terms of deity. Maturity (as with Santa and the Tooth Fairy) SHOULD leave faith behind - BUT MANY DO NOT MATURE SUFFICIENTLY.

In the past, fighting THEM on religious grounds was in keeping with the general state of understanding - today it is incongruous. But our immaturity means that, instead of leaving dogma, ritual and SPECIAL STATUS behind, we get The Church of Dawkins - every bit as rabid and illogical as the rest.

Just as affluence is seen as the new 'pill' (deterring pregnancy) surely philosophy and wisdom would 'deliver us from servile' (to observance of every wretched kind). Until this is achieved, I declare the Dark Ages to be still in progress.

THE EYES HAVE IT

2010-12-04T16:44:00.005Z

As I type this, all across Britain, there are lives trapped in bodies that refuse to die, guarded by laws thay say they must 'live'. For farm animals and pets, lives that share all our physical function and pain, there is no such protection. Some wild animals even have special rights.

But of all the animals, we are the ones who keenly understand the entrapment of old age and disease, being in no doubt that it can only get worse unless death brings release. Many of us want to die according to the parameters we specify, not those of a sadistic State Nanny.

Who in their right mind would demand that this torture should continue? Does God like to watch old people die a degrading death? Do care home companies give large donations to political parties, demanding continuance of the status quo? Would a significant number of care workers be unemployed, and riot, if the number of living-dead were reduced?

Look into the eyes of my brother, 'celebrating' his 77th birthday after living a full 6 months more than he wished, following a disabling stroke. He had another six weeks to endure when this photo was taken. (The staff were kindness personified but could not give John his dearest wish.)

Look into his eyes. See the resignation and despair. The NHS tricked him into this situation while I (his confidant and champion) was absent. Look, and wonder, at the motivation of our government.

A BLOW FOR AFRICA

2010-11-04T20:11:00.001Z

Today I heard a touching story
A caring woman - sought no glory
But heard of need in Africa
The plea of some young teenager
For light to study after dark
The other choice was clearly stark:
They just recited simple tales;
How one against the other pales!

The woman tried and tried once more
Till solar light found that far door.
And by return came utter joy
From one enlightened native boy.
He said: “They all come to the light
To read their school books in the night.
Our learning hunger is appeased
I’m famous – and ancestors pleased.”

But I am left in no small doubt:
Would spirits could such light blow out!

MOTIVES AND FORCES

2010-10-19T10:59:00.001+01:00

"I came into politics to bring about: a better deal for children/women/minorities/world peace/small furry animals" etc. How often we hear such from our cipher rosette-stands. Never: "I came into politics with a sense of inadequacy that I hoped a position of power (if I ignored the rosette-vote) might help."

But what do the police say? "I have the right to remain silent" perhaps?
Do we know what motivates individual police? If we investigated - would we have a police-force left? Social workers? Military? Doctors? Nurses? 'Care workers'? ALL who directly impact on other humans, and their lives, from a position of power/influence?

So much of life we do not let into full consciousness. Those of us who have been put through the mangle of one of the 'controlling' institutions above (or in combination) have some idea of the unsuitability of many individual practitioners, and the distressing (minimum) consequences. (The voice of the falsely imprisoned, is another not heard.)

We have the tools, but we dare not finish the job. Only when politicians lose sleep over such issues might a change come. But, for that, we need a new breed of politician.

ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

2010-10-15T21:11:00.001+01:00

At General Election we are, ostensibly, able to act to achieve three things. 1) To install a local MP. 2) To vote out a local MP. 3) To vote in the party of choice.

In reality, voters only choose between ROSETTES (i.e. parties) and only in the most extreme circumstances does the 'rosette stand' candidate, make any difference to the voting numbers. Only in marginal seats, are MPs likely to be unseated, and then almost always in terms of the rosette carried. Anyone voting for a PARTY, will get whatever MP carries that rosette, even if parachuted in from several counties distant - a true rosette stand. I would not call this REPRESENTATIVE democracy.

Yet those who seek to become MPs, seem unfazed by the disgraceful picture above. They 'sign up' to a party, carry the rosette, and if successful act, for all the world, as if they are PERSONALLY chosen. What kind of mentality accepts power on those terms, and self-aggrandizes under that ethos? There are 640 of them in Westminster, and I strongly suspect there is a 1:1 link with the foregoing analysis, and a Britain that has fouled its nest, in so many ways, we are all 'in it together' - neck deep.

That the indigene is now second or third class, and that services are staffed by Manglish speakers, and that our borders are open to any number more immigrants, is surely a direct consequence of a Parliament composed of inept party ciphers?

GLOBOPOLY RULES

2010-09-21T11:22:00.001+01:00

Integrity and perceptiveness are attributes ONLY of maturity. In an immature world, the needy child tends to sell snake oil to the lost ones. (That's our Tony!)

We - The Ape Confused by Language - 'don't do' (can't do) complexity. We are designed for low-tech survival, against the odds.

Approaching our ills at the level of money, commerce, technology etc, is too shallow a pitch, but the Globopoly Board has been printed-up in bright colours and embraced by our 'leaders' with such squares marked on it. They will play 'within the lie' and we shall 'take our medicine' - probably till cataclysm arrives.

CHARITY DECLINES AT HOME

2010-08-26T23:53:00.001+01:00

Those who aspire to govern us with instant 'Honour', see nothing wrong in accepting large (compromising) donations to amass 'war chests' with which to coerce the electorate into voting for their chosen faction.

No surprise then that notionally 'ethical' charities see no problem in paying high rewards to chuggers, who skilfully coerce ordinary citizens, caught ill-prepared in their high streets.

Corruption begets corruption. Nothing will change while the Westminster Ethos holds sway. It must be dismantled. Where to begin?

SPOIL PARTY GAMES

STARS IN EDUCATIONAL EYES

2010-08-19T19:41:00.002+01:00

I hear that, to get an A*, it is necessary to answer questions that require APPLICATION - above and beyond rote. Well that may be so. But if applying oneself, is just another pavlovian school-instilled conditioned-response to exams, out in the real world these super-intellectuals will regress to the mean, becoming one with our mean society.

If we must school our kids - and not have them end up as dumb as fish - let's school them in awareness, philosophy AND THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE INSTITUTION OF SCHOOL CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH. Perhaps that could be condensed to 'CONFORMITY IS FREEDOM' on an arched entry to all Academies, with the kids taught irony on day one?

If we can school without institutionalising, educate without indoctrinating, and instil wisdom before cleverness, I suggest many more viable adults will emerge, with a positive effect on all the measures of wellbeing in society, currently being tackled with tinkering.

ENTRENCHED WESTMINSTER BLIGHT

2010-08-08T20:42:00.005+01:00

The Westminster Monster, in its Royal Palace, is dug into the iconic Thames wall and underpinned by monarchy. Under its aegis, party politics thrive in an atmosphere of unconsidered acceptance by the public. "It is democracy, presided over by the Mother of Parliaments." Parties strive for maximum power - absolute power if possible. They will BUY power with any money they can gather, however dirty, and by any lie they can finance, and get away with. The watchdog agencies of Parliament, and wider Britain, ARE NOT CONCERNED with political lies - not a lot of people know that. I have made it my business to find out.

Westminster-compatible parties, SCREEN candidates for General Elections, then pass them to the constituencies for second-order selection. All candidates are, by inference, Westminster Creatures, even before being voted for, on party lines, by the punters. This ensures the monolithic nature of the Westminster Ethos, and secondary - even tertiary - 'loyalty' of MPs to their constituents. It explains why - to date, I have had no response FROM ANY PARTY or MP*, to my Conservative 'liar flyer' challenge (see above). Their silence is due to their first allegiance to WESTMINSTER and its utterly disgraceful continuance - to our detriment.

The above is what makes me so pessimistic about making any advance in the integrity of British governance. To approach an MP, is really to approach 'Westminster', and Westminster is a Monster that holds us collectively, and individually, IN CONTEMPT. We are tiresome ants.

* My local MP has openly mocked me. He knows he is backed by The Monster.

JOURNEY'S END

2010-08-01T22:11:00.000+01:00

Chilcot - a cold wind wraps Great Britain’s heart
Her archetypal refuge - cold as death.
He broke the last taboo for ego’s gain
In self-aggrandisement stole other’s breath.

And such is our disgrace, none barred his way
Save one whose easy Honour was upheld.
The rest in ignominy bowed his will
Outside: a million, impotent, repelled.

No darker hour this nation ever faced
Invaded by deceit and structured lie.
At unmet need all goodness from him fled;
Where moral vacuum lives, the righteous die.

In his defence he knew we must attack.
He said: “Doubt me, but don’t doubt my belief”.
And so we joined America in war
Once more, to Arab lands, we would bring grief.

Lord Chilcot has a way with stable doors:
One to be closed, indeed, seen to be so.
When he has done, no stone will be unturned
The truth ground wondrous small, and all on show.

But shall we be the wiser for that ‘turn’?
Such fine grained truth can be a lot like sand.
Time-jaded minds may reach - but poorly grasp
As all his fell misdeeds slip through our hands.

Then, as we watch him strut in Global state
In self-deluded opulence quite chuffed
We shall attend to his unending war
And know that – verily – we have been stuffed.

IS IT NICK WOT FIXED IT?

2010-08-01T11:46:00.004+01:00

Let's not mess about pretending Nick just wants do bring the greatest good for the greatest number - Westminster has never been the place for that! No, he wants to be 'Topp' aka Prime Minister. But half his troops have left the field and will not return while their leader is a proven backslider. So Nick is stuck between a cockup and a lardface.

I have said consistently that Westminster is an integrity-free zone. Those departed LibDems who presumably have a clear concept of integrity, had nevertheless failed to realise that the Westminster Ethos is alien to such a 'flight of fancy'. If disaffected LibDems have cerebral capacity allied to their scruples, this rude awakening might just be the start of a move to SPOILPARTYGAMES.

So my suggestion to all you LibDems who are taking stock is: "The Westminster Ethos will only ever deliver iniquity. We need to source candidates, for our MPs, locally (a view voiced eloquently by A N Wilson on 'Any Questions') as a first step to the dismemberment of Westminster 'governance' and its feudal self-serving disgrace.

Parties demand first allegiance. Parties dilute representative government. Dig out a reluctant, competent, decent individual from your area at the next election, and SELL THE IDEA TO THE CONSTITUENTS. No lies, no gimmicks, no balloons - JUST INTEGRITY IN REPRESENTATION.

Nick - in his hour of neediness - might just have fixed it for YOU!

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

2010-07-31T10:32:00.002+01:00

The seven tenets of civilisation - our way - are:

CHILDCARE, SCHOOL, SEX, COMMERCE, GROWTH, ARMS, WAR.

No. 8 - DEATH - is prohibited, for all but heroes.

WHAT WOULD NATURE DO?

LITTLE BOXES LITTLE BOXES

2010-07-28T10:21:00.001+01:00

LEARNING is inexorable (as inexorable as the Top Gear Lads looking at short skirts - and the odd inverted burka - when they should be watching the road.)

EDUCATION is a mixed blessing. You can't get chocolate out of a machine where the chocolate bay is empty. Best to go for a sandwich - money well spent.

SCHOOL was instituted with the Henry Ford approach - the idea was to make ticky-tacky: all just the same. Unfortunately dumb politicians still can't see that a partition occurs: while the 'ticky' tick obediently to Mammon's rhythm, the 'tacky' get stuck, go nowhere, and ultimately succumb to gravity in a smear of decline.

How poignant (nay droll) that my antisocial personality SAVED ME FROM INSTITUTIONALISATION! They could not get me into a little box - I refused to be part of 'all the same'.

I suspect I have failed more exams than I have passed. I venture that constitutes a telling comment but more on education's malfunction than on mine.

I fought Education and Education lost.

POOR AFRICA

2010-07-24T18:36:00.002+01:00

Messiah Tony failed here and is now saving the Middle East from a clash of extremist belief; saviour McCavity failed here, and has now popped up to save Africa, with Broadband. When 'Certainty Dave' fails, what might his psychological tipple be? A 'Declaration of Absolute Global Right and Wrong' perhaps? He's getting in some practice, with Olympian interference! I gather Dave was gifted his certainty from his magistrate Mother - she is quoted as 'teaching him right and wrong'. Did she also teach him not to muddle them up? It's always the parents - isn't it! (:o)

SCHOOL IS FOR FISH

2010-07-24T18:33:00.001+01:00

I have long considered school as the single most powerful INSTITUTIONALISING (development arresting) feature of 'civilisation' as currently configured (aka Western).

I venture to assert that - all other things equal - maturity (both individual and societal) is inversely proportional to the emphasis on schooling. I further assert this is exacerbated by schooling of the VERY YOUNG. Let's leave schooling to aquatic life-forms, and look for an optimum developmental approach for new homSaps, that leads each individual to maximise their life-potential.

However, as this would bring an end to Westminster, party politics, barking leaders and a seat at the Globopoly table, there is no future in it.

WE ARE LEADING THE WORLD

2010-07-23T10:53:00.001+01:00

Alan Duncan's repeated words: "We are leading the world", on The Daily Politics, refer to aid.

How telling - they translate as "Britain is still playing GLOBOPOLY in style" (with tax-money, for the satisfaction of a few megalomaniac politicians).

At the Globopoly board, GDP, nukes held, aid sprayed, and military adventures, give you an advantage in THE GAME. Meanwhile our nation is rotting at the core - both physically and psychologically.

PERVERSITY R US.

BRITISHNESS = PEVERSITY

2010-07-23T09:36:00.000+01:00

We Brits are inclined to characterise other countries as dour, excitable etc. Well - it is becoming all too apparent that Britain - by virtue of her governance - is nationally (and internationally) PERVERSE. Shirley Bassey had a song for it.

Many before me, have pointed to the 'Sickness Service' that we call the NHS. That might sound accidental. But is it not true that we have a policy of LEAVING PEOPLE TO MAKE THEMSELVES ILL, AND THEN MAINTAINING THEM IN THEIR ILLNESS? Television - a cannula to the psyche - feeds poisonous 'norms' to all and sundry (termed 'entertainment') only breaking off to sell us what we neither need, should have, nor can afford. All this, our government does to gain tax-income which is then 'SPENT ON US' as largesse, much of it going into the 'Health Service'.

I don't think it gets much more PERVERSE than that. Killing Johnnie Foreigner, on a tenuous whim, is just a harmless pastime by comparison. And there's more.

FIRST DEFINE YOUR TERMS

2010-07-22T10:12:00.000+01:00

Is Harpy-Phobia a hate crime yet?

I can never see the rationality in 'representative masses' - whatever the basis. The police are always trying to get more brown officers, but if a brown crime was going down, and they PICKED a brown bobby to send, surely that would be discrimination (no pun intended, but rather good eh?)

As for parliament, we have had two woman Home Secretaries, in succession. I admit one looked no stranger to violence, but does Kitten Shoes REALLY have any appreciation of Testosterone-fuelled VISCERAL violence?

I have bemoaned 'Toilet Door Syndrome' in gender-typing before. A bloke in a skirt is not a woman, neither are all the self-selected harpies who can ACTUALLY BREATHE in that fetid Chamber (pot). Women born to mothering and the gentle life, find the political ethos (as currently configured) anathema. And there's the clue. Governance should be by mature, competent individuals - any gender - who can subsume self for a better country/world. The exact opposite of what we have now.

SPOIL GENDER GAMES

THE OLD SUNGLASSES PLOY

2010-07-18T11:23:00.001+01:00

The 'obscured woman' debate is going wild.

On the few occasions that I have worn sun glasses OF A TYPE THAT TOTALLY HIDE THE EYES I have felt very empowered indeed. One can study every detail of an attractive woman without either embarrassment or detection.

It is, of course, deeply intrusive, offensive, cowardly and disgraceful.

Any mention of sunglasses in the Quran?

The whole debate highlights a/ cultures should not mix - multiculturalism is a myth b/ religious dogmas appeal to our juvenile state.

NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL

2010-07-18T11:22:00.000+01:00

Liam Fox MD (who keeps us safe and well by overseeing the killing of Johnnie Foreigner) used the term 'NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL' this morning. It was new to me, so I did a little reading. I found that nuclear blackmail works best when the finger on the button belongs to an unstable individual. No wonder 'they' want to kill us! Britain is collectively going mad. The most driven and needy enter Westminster and once installed, the most delusional among them becomes Prime Minister. Be afraid world - BE VERY AFRAID.

BANGED UP BRITAIN

2010-07-14T08:53:00.002+01:00

WILL WESTMINSTER EVER GET BEYOND OUR KEN AND HIS ILK?

Kenneth Clarke - the man who put the "bleh bleh bleh" into 'blether' - has declared prison-number-rise and reduction in crime, unconnected.
Tobacco Baron Ken, also saw no connection between the number of tobacco addicts - sick and dying from their entrapment - as unconnected with BAT advertising and sale of cigarettes. (Like criminals, smokers made a simple choice to ruin their lives - apparently.)

Clarke sees a link between prosperity and criminality, but fails to see the link between BAT profit and hospital admissions.

This is just the sort of clear, conducive-to-the-good, thinking that we need in governance. And Clarke is yet another example of the (un)kind of person that is attracted to (and thrives in) the unhealthy Palace of Westminster.

NONE SO BLIND

2010-07-05T09:10:00.001+01:00

For a General election candidate to arrive, as a name on the ballot paper, by far the majority of them have to be PRE-SELECTED (from the mass of the people) by virtue of ambition and tractability to the party system (whipping and fawning) under the Westminster ethos. In short - they are an ODD LOT with little in common with the common people.

Against this enduring reality, no tinkering with the voting rules will improve the self-serving governance of Westminster. Once again, as with the supposed 'clean up' after the allowances revelations, we are being thrown a distraction to chew on, impotently.

THE 'MINSTER MONSTER

2010-07-02T12:47:00.001+01:00

Westminster has all the characteristics of a living entity, but no discernable heart. It dominates Britain like the fairytale Dragon dominates the simple village.

But the Monster of Westminster does not devour maidens, as such, rather it destroys all that is embodied in her archetype: uncorrupted decency. Like any life-form, the Westminster Monster is programmed to survive, and has adapted well to its location. It will mutate further, if its life is threatened – but suicide will never be an option. Dragons do not vote for St George’s Day. When injured (a rare event) the Minster Monster has a range of recovery mechanisms and repair strategies – its self-healing properties are legendary.

Within Westminster, human units function as ‘cells’, performing a variety roles, but always with a ‘collective mind’ dedicated to the survival of the host body. Renewal of aberrant, redundant or dead cells, is by incremental replacement. Periodic ‘elections’ are performed among the ordinary folk, wherein they are permitted to choose from candidates already proxy-vetted by the parties; the parties in turn, in thrall to the Monster. This ensures unending life for the Minster Monster.

This Dragon has dominated our ‘village’ for so long, no one questions its stranglehold on all our lives. A few who supply treasure – the other obsession of Dragons – escape its foul breath and baleful eye, the rest live and die unquestioning. No villager has the given name of ‘George’ any more.

PORKIES A LETTER TO DAVE

2010-06-17T00:07:00.000+01:00

Dave Cameron PM c/o House of Commons.
Cc Richard Benyon MP Strobes @ Private Eye Guido Fawkes Daily Politics The Politics Show et al

PORKIES

Dear leaders

We cannot go on like this.

As the prime mover (aren’t we all?) of the Big Society, I call upon the PM of The New Politics, in the current spirit of independent watchdog-inspectorates (redolent of the Office of Budgetary Regulation) to install: ‘PORKIES’ (People’s Office for Regulation of Knowingly Indefensible Electoral Statements).

The ‘PORKIES’ remit, should apply retro-actively, covering the 2010 election, i.e. all party literature without exemption. This would surely be emblematic of the New Politics, fundamental to the Cameron-Clegg Coalition of transparency?

(Strangely: no official body that I can discover, is mandated to apply the existing ‘Representation of the People’ Act, that forbids employment of a ‘false instrument’ to influence voting.) HOW VERY ‘OLD POLITICS’!

You can, of course, just leave it to me: a retired, articulate, solvent, fit, mobile entrepreneur, who wants – so very much – to help bring in the New Fairness. Indeed, I presume that my endeavour would amount to ‘Private Sector’ mobilisation? I have located a 2010 archive of Election flyers and will shortly make a detailed study of them. Please let me know if you wish to be copied-in.

LETTER TO LOCAL NEWSPAPER

2010-06-08T22:18:00.000+01:00

Since the recent election, I have been researching the ‘Political Porky’. I have discovered that neither the Electoral Commission, nor the Advertising Standards Authority have any power (where the WRITTEN word is the medium) to curb such excess in our ‘democratic’ process, and by inference, the politicians themselves, connive (even while complaining ‘at’ one-another).
I understand, from the Commission, that I may make a formal complaint to the Police; to my mind that would constitute ‘Wasting Police Time’ – an offence in itself! The crime is one of ABSENCE OF INTEGRITY – hardly a Police matter.
There is an act – The Representation of the People Act’ - that prohibits the use of a ‘fraudulent device or contrivance’ to influence voting behaviour. By my reckoning, the ‘Political Porky’ contravenes this act. WHAT A VERY BRITISH PARADOX that politicians use it, habitually. I am deeply concerned because of what this state of affairs says about Westminster politics – even dressed in its emperor-like ‘New Clothes’. Do any of your readers have knowledge that might advance my quest? ‘We can’t go on like this’.

EMBLEM FOR THE COALITION

2010-05-27T09:34:00.002+01:00

This morning I found a slug 'having a snail for breakfast' and I was immediately reminded of the Con/Dem 'coalition'. I leave you to decide just which of the pair is Dave and which one Nick.

THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD

2010-05-27T09:33:00.001+01:00

Iain Duncan Smith, second only to Tony 'Mars' Blair, as a 'Bringer of War', is the leading 'light' at the Centre for Social Justice - and he believes he is tackling the corrosive effects of welfare on the borderline workshy.

Meanwhile government intends to tinker with the mainstay of British life (pleasure, pain, crime, degradation, health) i.e. ALCOHOL, by adjusting the price. More for the brewers - more tax take.

Never was the truth more stark, that you need NO HUMAN MANAGEMENT SKILLS TO MANAGE BRITAIN. Any fool should see: our problems are CULTURAL. British culture is 50% warp (the word speaks for itself) and 50% alcoholic weft, woven tightly together. None of our nonentity ninnies, signed up to the Big Westminster Lie, have either competence or motivation to unpick this mess.

Perhaps MPs should get performance-related-pay? But we would have to define 'performance' carefully, or Tony would be demanding back-money!

Oh - it's all going awfully well.

CULTURE IS KEY

HONOURABLY APPALLING

2010-05-25T21:53:00.000+01:00

Some decades ago, when Members of Parliament all spoke in their own, affected way, with a sort of resonant boom, they made the term ‘appalled’ their own – it now fits so well with their routine comforter: ‘HONOURABLE’.

Among the many recent suggestions of how to move Parliament forward, the eschewal of ‘honourable’ has been mooted, but to my mind, nothing short of replacing it with the prefix ‘dishonourable’, will suffice. I have good reason.

Having stood as the SPOIL PARTY GAMES candidate in May 2005, I resolved, this year, to simply function as agent provocateur in an attempt to awaken the voters to their true plight. I never thought that, by the end of the campaign, the Conservatives would have DELIVERED TO MY DOOR, the proof of their totally relaxed attitude to corruption.

On May 5th, the eve of polling, I received two communications, delivered simultaneously. One was complaining about the lies of the LibDem camp, and the other was offering a Tory lie – presumable of a better class! It read, in heavy capitals: “THE CONSERVATIVES MUST WIN HERE TO STOP ANOTHER 5 YEARS OF GORDON BROWN”.

Well – hindsight is a wonderful thing, but even looked at before the event, this declaration walked and quacked like a lie, to me. And I am unable to find anyone who will support it as embodying any intrinsic truth – even my MP, who distributed it (he is just silent).

So I have set myself the task of discovering just how deep rooted in ‘electoral ethics’, the ‘political lie’ is. None of the agencies concerned with standards – from IPSA all the way to the Advertising Standards Authority, wants anything to do with truth – well, not when absent upon a politicians lips. The only truly tangible suggestion was from the local Returning Officer who effectively said: “Complain to the Police – if you’re hard enough’. Should it really come to this?

I am calling on all my ingenuity to have this lie nailed – preferably to the CV of the ‘honourable member’ who approved it. Weep Britain.

the voter is boss

2010-05-04T11:00:00.000+01:00

You might almost think (ex MP) Matthew Parris is a product of Westminster! Yes, as he asserted recently, the voter IS boss - but only WITHIN THE LIE.

Even a battery hen has the choice of which leg to stand on while gestating the next GDP egg.

Parris has his take on our anger; he writes: "Change is the last thing the British people want". Well - full marks for a journalistic line Matthew, but I reckon a DRAMATIC REDUCTION IN HYPOCRISY would amount to 'change' - a change long overdue.

I seem to be alone in identifying the WESTMINSTER ETHOS (a time 'honoured', complex lie) as our enemy. But I hold the view that GENERAL ANGER comes from a public SENSE that we are being led by fools and knaves, plus a near-certainty WE CAN DO NOTHNG ABOUT IT.

To paraphrase 'Jesus': Parliament will only acquire integrity, when it comprises sufficient individuals who are prepared to 'LAY DOWN THEIR AMBITION FOR THEIR CONSTITUENTS'. While we can only vote for Westminster's 'creatures' (through the party filter) we will remain battery hens. Have you ever met a contented one?

POLICY OR PERSONALITY

2010-05-04T10:59:00.000+01:00

As the wannabe frenzy of Clegg/Brown/Cameron rises to a shriek, it is surely obvious that they are of the SAME ILK?

POLICIES are shuffled, highlighted, sidelined, mutated or forgotten, ALL IN THE INTEREST OF GAINING POWER, or in response to the latest change in direction of some political breeze. What remains constant, is the RAW AMBITION OF THE GREAT LEADER and the pathetic, slavish support of the dazzled, unthinking acolytes.

This system gave us Anthony Blair (look at him now) and 'The Quite Man' IDS (who is VERY quiet about the war he granted Tony). LOOK AT THEIR PERSONALITIES! Policies come and go. A bad policy dies - ultimately, a leader with a flawed personality, just comes up with another daft scheme, while deviously holding on to power.

Yet ALL THREE will tell you to judge on policies (while acting like prima donnas). That is the Westminster Creature, operating within the Westminster Lie. Only 'clean skins' (locally chosen independents) returned to Parliament can ever make a difference. (Not even Young Nick.)

DEFEAT THE WESTMINSTER LIE

HEROISM v HONOUR

2010-05-01T09:07:00.001+01:00

Some years back, a TV program called 'The Right Stuff' investigated the 'fighter-pilot' mentality, as being unsuitable for airliners, in a crisis.

Westminster Party Politics elevates 'fighter pilot' personalities: cool under fire, focused, quick to react etc. and just look what we get - it isn't democratic governance.

Back to the airliner. With hundreds of passengers at risk, the HERO is alone, in his head, being heroic, detached from any useful input from those around him. All too often the plane did not survive.

While parties pre-select the people WE get to vote for, we will only have a choice within THE WRONG STUFF. People are BEGUILED by the wrong stuff, and then WE CRASH - AGAIN.

We have to find A WAY ROUND the continuing Westminster Ethos. We need a governing body made up of dedicated, selfless, competent individuals of INTEGRITY i.e. the right stuff of DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE. Charismatic, orating fighter pilots, will get us all killed. But they will feel GREAT!

Brown is stoic at the controls. Heroic as he spirals down, defiantly emptying his guns on his way to stupid oblivion. So much better if he were able to bail out, and admit he is THE WRONG STUFF.

In passing: IDS was the wrong stuff - we still have a war to prove it.

DIVISION BELL KNELL

2010-04-25T12:14:00.002+01:00

As I patrolled the friendly centre of Newbury today, with my archetypal MP companion (rosette on a pole) I fell to pondering, again, the ANTAGONISM and DISCORD threaded through our society AND ITS GOVERNANCE:

The Division Bell is tolling a death-knell – Westminster or Britain?

'Divide and Rule' is an old adage - division is implicit weakness. In light of this: 'Divide TO Rule' (The Westminster Way) HAS TO BE PRETTY DUMB - and so it is emerging.

In our adversarial system of governance, Her Majesty's (loyal) Opposition is required to OPPOSE. That speaks for itself. Yet Clegg is increasingly invoking COOPERATION! Might he end up in the Tower for DISLOYALTY?

Cooperation is usually mooted in the face of a SERIOUS THREAT (e.g. war - though not, it seems, a phoney war on 'Terror'). But is not the general decline in competence and contentment, of the occupants of these islands, A SERIOUS THREAT?

Where is the sense in institutionally divided governance having, NOW, to bridge the dopey divide, WHEN IT DID NOT NEED TO BE DIVIDED IN THE FIRST PLACE? The politicians of Westminster, drawn there by - AND CONFIRMED IN - adversarial delights (wasting untold time and unaccounted millions) are ill-disposed to harmonious, optimum governance.

Surely it is time to sweep away the whole Westminster ethos and its associated rosetted-ciphers; to put an end to party-gaming (while Britain burns) and to govern through the talents of individuals of proven integrity (not thespians cloaked in rubber-stamp 'honour').

As an illustration of the madness of our political system, consider what happens WITHIN a party when two or more factions emerge. SHOCK-HORROR! "The party must come together or die!" "Any faction OPPOSED to the leadership must be purged!" The party is pronounced SPLIT - de facto WEAKER.

All the above is apparent to the rational mind, applied with integrity. And that is the problem with the Westminster Mind: to survive it must be irrational – integrity is death to party politics. Nothing short of ERADICATION OF EVERYTHING ‘WESTMINSTER’ will open the way to a more competent, contented Britain.

AGENT PROVOCATEUR

2010-04-17T15:14:00.002+01:00

Today was the second Saturday that I have taken my archetypal 'Westminster Politician' to meet his constituents, in Newbury high-street (Northbrook Street). He was received with all the respect due to him.

You can see from the photo, that he amounts to a rosette, mounted on a spineles support (the Jelly Babies run all the way down). Both aspects speak of the MP being a 'creature' of the party, where Westmister Politics are concerned, and further, disinclined to support constituents locally, where that support would run foul of party-dogma or the leader.

Locally chosen, INDEPENDENT candidates, chosen for proven integrity, suffer none of these constraints. The Westminster ethos is ingrained, like dry-rot suffuses the masonry of a building. Refitting, will only lead to more rot. Westminster must be metaphorically 'demolished', and a STRUCTURE OF INTEGRITY, supesede it. The excerpt below (from 'Responsibilities of your MP') tells all:

"At times a constituent's demands may conflict with party policy and your MP will have to decide where their first loyalty should lie. " (Note the pejorative use of 'demands' and the laughable invocation of 'first loyalty'! They don't tell you about THAT on the hustings.)

E=MC²

2010-04-14T19:53:00.000+01:00

It is an accepted scientific tenet, that energy and matter are interchangeable. It is an obvious, unavoidable truth, that money and power, are in a similar relationship. Power = Money + Corruption. What is more, if we exclude the odd Saint, WE ALL HAVE OUR PRICE. Those with sufficient money, suitably applied, ultimately control us.

It follows, from the above, that to gain power, money may be spent – to gain absolute power, spent in eye-watering amounts. President Obama’s supreme power was reportedly bought for, in excess of, $1 billion. That figures.

In the coming weeks, one fact is incontrovertible: each political party, with anything that can be described as a ‘fighting fund’ or ‘war chest’, will SHAMELESSLY attempt to BUY THE ELECTION, to whatever degree that it is possible for them. As almost every aspiring MP has pre-sold their soul to a party, the preceding sentence applies equally to the cipher-aspirant parading your high-street. The amorality is stark, the immorality, close to proven; and Westminster runs to the rhythm of these people.

Am I being unreasonable to see some connection with the ‘money = power’ equation and all the horrors recently thrown up by Westminster? No sooner had Tony Blair slipped past ‘Yates of the Yard’, with ‘no case to answer’ (Ks and Ps for cash) than he was gone to spend more time with his (goodly) fortune. Then came the Parliamentary allowances farce; another correlation between a penchant for power and a love of lolly? I rest my case.

The most overt application of money, to the buying of votes, is the phenomenal amount paid to advertising houses and for roadside hoardings. And, be it noted, the advertising is tacky. We have had the rather piggy face of Cameron LENGTHENED, its aspect ratio changed, to make ‘Cameron Tories’ more attractive to voters, by association. The leader of one of the major British political parties, has been found ‘too ugly for purpose’! What manner of man submits to that? When labour put Dave on an Audi bonnet (and egg on their own faces) they went the negative route. Ironically the result was negative also, yet one assumes, they still had to pay.

The bottom line is that power-hungry parties, will cosy-up to some very unsavoury individuals, to fill the coffers. BUT THERE IS ALWAYS A PAY-BACK. I will name no names, as another thing that money can buy is ‘Legal Judgement! Funny that. But you know who they are – well, the ones that came to light. The words ‘iceberg’ and ‘tip’, come to mind . . . Suffice it to say: though our government will have a known flavour after May 6th, NAMELESS MONEY will be in power on a quid pro quo basis.

THE CANNY STATE

2010-04-08T19:49:00.000+01:00

In Britain’s ‘Fair’ Land, we are all FREE to smoke, drink and (or) eat ourselves to a comprehensive state of ill-health. All three delights can damage the most vitally functional parts of the body, leading to chronic sickness. Thereafter - WITH THE BLESSING OF FREE CARE – a slow, government-funded decline into helplessness is ‘afforded’, before an ignominious, state-begrudged, death. How fortunate we are!

On the face of it, one might think a caring government would view our damaging dysfunction with concern – but suppose the caring face of government is a mask? PERISH THE THOUGHT. Governments’ first concern is always POWER. (Quite so! It must be won, and held on to, if caring is to proceed!) The voters can always be induced to vote for a party that meets (or pledges to meet) their needs and wants. Free medical care is now an established ‘need’, in the mind of the electorate, while booze, fags, fat and sugar are ‘wants’. Politics could not be simpler.

The term ‘Nanny State’ is hurled at any suggestion of our excesses being state-curbed. Odd – I thought archetypal nannies were firm but FAIR, and FAIR is the ‘new black’! And what of the over-indulgent GRANNY State, giving us all excessive pocket money (debt) and taking us to Tescos as a treat? Granny has the latest, monster TV (HD digi) and lets us stay up until exhausted, watching mind-bending trash. SHE HELPS US BECOME UNWELL yet goes un-perceived. Needless to say: the Granny State, is a Wicked Step Mother in disguise. During ‘sleep-overs’, she drains our soul and sells it down the river, using the money gained to provide policing of the marauding ‘Have-nots’, and funding for the ubiquitous ‘NSS’* – free at the point off nihilism. (*National Sickness Service.)

Parties are not slow to hire the most Machiavellian of advertising agencies, and to apply their nefarious skills, at election time, to the business of gaining power. Governments could choose to use the same approach in turning the citizens away from self-destructive pursuits. Crime, sickness and social decay would reverse. Skilled avoidance of the ‘Nanny State’ label, would allow us ordinary folk to convince ourselves that WE HAD CHOSEN to improve (such is the cunning of the advertiser). This would reinforce the new behaviour. But where would this leave the politicians? Funding the NHS would cease to be a vote-winner, as would crowing over extra police. In short: POLITICAL DISASTER! All they would have left, to flamboyantly fund, is EDUCATION (so called) and that is about to blow up in their faces - from too many heavily-funded initiatives (and a surfeit of Balls).

In summary: British governments tax human degradation, then spend the money in high profile initiatives that can, at best, only restore the original situation. The Canny state is a can of worms.

FOOLS AND KNAVES

2010-04-07T14:11:00.001+01:00

The blinkered, the gullible, the ever-hopeful and the truly dim, vote into Parliament the narcissistic, the arrogant, the self-serving and the deranged. Within Westminster, sub-groupings (parties) play ‘war-games’ - with the winner of every battle pre-ordained by the preceding election. This we call democracy.

The election winners – the party of government - collect taxes. Out of this money they overpay themselves, fund wars in foreign lands – that are engaged in on a whim – and indulge in many an ‘initiative’ like unwieldy IT schemes and (say) ‘Smiling in English’ courses, for immigrants; all doomed to fail.

There are only two progenitors of glorious error: FOOLS and KNAVES. Westminster is, to a man (and proxy man) filled with both – sometimes in one body! Inside that Poseur Palace, these unrepresentative wannabes learn to honour and obey all that is dishonourable. They rise, by submergence of self – with the exception of raw ambition – and Gollum-like fawning to party: leader/hierarchy/whips/dogma/message/lies/deceit, and the latest party-sound-bite. Those who develop the ability to do without sleep and human niceties, while mastering obfuscation and question-deflection, rise to the top of the slippery heap – a considerable feat! It follows that only the VERY PECULIAR attain high office, and from that rare group is drawn A PRIME MINISTER.

Because Westminster is a feudally organised institution – from the duelling-spaced confrontational benches, to the silly dress, and time-wasting rituals, the proxy Monarch (Prime Minister) has ‘life and death’ say, on a whim, over his Knights and Barons (Secretaries of State and ministers) and they repay, with grovelling subservience, plus the occasional ‘assassination’. Westminster is supposed to manage Britain on our behalf. Few successful company managements see advantage in suddenly giving the transport manager, R&D to run and Sales to the production boss. So why do Prime Ministers, routinely, do this? No prizes. Hardly surprising, then, when (say) an ex-postman who has been ‘doing Health’, makes some odd decisions after being ‘given’ law-n-Order to play with.

In the light of the above, we should not be surprised that, whilst we might seem to be prospering as a nation, the truth is that we are ‘default managed’ in the negative terms of mending sickness, controlling crime and warring with (perceived) threat when, were we governed by wise managers, it would be for less illness and fewer crimes at the outset; in short: more contentment. If you would rather see a contented Britain, consider: ‘MPs and the cause of MPs’. Seek out competence and integrity in any candidate; generally amounting to a local choice. Refuse party plants, chosen for party loyalty and ambition.

THE CIPHERS ARE COMING

2010-03-28T13:49:00.002+01:00

Soon the Party Ciphers will appear in a high-street near you (or: "Where you are" as the juvenile BBC likes to say) and behind them, will be a phalanx of Cipherlings, clutching placards and (oh joy) balloons in the party colour.

In Newbury, they will find that I am in the high-street ALREADY - almost a fixture. MY only companion will be a stick with a confused rosette (mix of colours) stuck on top. My question to the voters will be simple: do they vote for the rosette or the rosette-stand?

Neither flower nor stalk swears any allegiance to the constituency. The 'rosette-stand' (your MP, or their wannabe rival) sweeps up to you, grinning, shakes your hand, 'fields' your question - into the long grass - and sweeps on. The 'stand' wants your vote - just your vote. Meanwhile the mute rosette does its best to invest the rosette-stand, with party aura.

What do you know of the rosette stand, standing briefly before you? Only one thing is certain, and outside the expensive party funded hype: this person is not standing INDEPENDENTLY to represent YOU. They have been PRESELECTED by a party that, in turn, is signed up to the Westminster Charade. This implies COMPLIANCE in your rosette-stand.

In truth most people vote 'rosette' i.e. for a party. Remove the rosette from the rosette-stand and the stand has little hope of being returned UNLESS WE REMOVE THE PARTY SYSTEM.
Such is the power of the Westminster ethos, and the might of party-advertising, most people vote for the rosette, regardless of the qualities of the stand. Thus, under the current system, if a party-MP turns maverick, in the interests of his constituents (but against party diktat) they may be deselected, and the voters deprived. Should that individual stand as an independent, against the rosette they previously wore, and its party-machine, their chances are slim. The proof of this poisonous pudding is 'parachuting' where a pre-selected anybody, from very elsewhere, assumes the rosette-stand position, dons the rosette - and is voted in.

Ask yourself: WHAT SORT OF PERSON IS A WILLING ROSETTE STAND? Is that the sort of person you want as your MP?

CAN YOU SUPPORT A LIE WITH WORDS OF TRUTH?

2010-03-10T19:51:00.002Z

Why would anyone do that? What sort of mentality takes leave of his inquisitors, happy IN HIS OWN MIND that he didn't (actually) lie, but with his Manse-Pants a beacon of Hellfire, telling the world a different story? WHAT SORT OF MENTALITY?

Is this not the action of the ARCHETYPAL LITTLE BOY since Adam - wide eyed - incriminating everyone but himself?

Is this not the WESTMINSTER ETHOS, practiced in the highest tower of that Citadel, by our Prime Minister, to some unfathomable self-satisfaction? Small wonder, then, that MPs have been found wanting en masse, while media, commerce, banking, retail etc, all 'LIVE INSIDE THE LIE' that is now our established culture.

The above is a 'CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER'. It arises, not from external rogue-states or terror-cells, but from our own decay, epitomised by the recent 'performance' of James Gordon Brown, at Chilcot.

POLITICAL APHORISM

2010-02-07T22:37:00.002Z

POLITICS

THE ART OF SELF DECEPTION

WRAPPED IN THE CRAFT OF DECEIVING OTHERS

FOR THEIR OWN GOOD.

ONE SMALL STEP FOR BRITAIN

2009-08-11T16:43:00.004+01:00

Westminster politics is a game. It is self-serving, self-perpetuating and well defended.

General elections only amount to musical chairs, but with no chairs removed. the game is unending.

In recent decades we have seen stupidity, waste and wanton acts, cost Britain dear in culture, status and cash. At election-time, rosette-stand ciphers parade the party 'favour' in a speciously personalised tout for votes, while the party machines empower them through obscenely expensive campaigns. The favour is, later, returned in the deeply undemocratic act of: 'taking the whip'.

It is constantly parroted that democracy is the least-bad system of
governance. Be that as it may, it does not validate what we have: the worst form of sham democracy.

While just one voter makes their mark in each constituency, Westminster will declare democracy alive and well; 'the people have spoken'; a mandate is conferred.

The key to this disgraceful sham is the party system. Party dogma is unhealthy, and inter-party juvenile behaviour consumes vast energy and money, whilst driving the shallow headline-grabbing ethos we are currently enduring. It also 'attracts its own' in terms of the typical Westminster denizen.

Britain is sick. She needs and deserves comprehensive, intensive-care, but for now, a sticking plaster will have to do. That plaster is: SPOIL PARTY GAMES. While Westminster is still reeling from scandal, such that the INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE looks more attractive to a vengeful mass of voters, I propose to push hard for a maximum return of independents at the next election. I invite all who see the sense in this to join me, and those who don't, to attempt to REASON me (no dogma please) to a different understanding.

A critical mass - it need not be large - of truly independent minds in Westminster, should be able to highlight the abject failure of that place. Only then might we build a 'least bad' democracy and begin to tackle Britain's ills.