Xinomorph

The return of Xinomorph

2010-02-05T02:11:00.002Z

Well, I was intending to do a full relaunch of Xinomorph shortly; new design, more regular posts, and of a better quality. But, alas, fate is conspiring once more. Not only has general development on the new system been delayed, but Blogger - the current publishing platform - are set to withdraw support for the method of publishing currently utilised here. Oh, and of course the hardware failure in November that lead to the entire site being offline. Jolly good!

Nevertheless, I shall press on. Hopefully there'll be something to see by the end of February.

In the meantime, that massive snivelling shit Gordon Brown is continuing to delude both himself and the country (what's new?), ditto Tony Blair, and David Cameron is ... inconsistent. Still, things can't get any worse, so at least that's something!

IPPR: Remove student loans from middle classes

2009-08-29T23:24:00.003Z

Those all-but-commie cunts over at the evil Institute for Public Policy Research (Labour's bitch) have come up with a new cracker: removing student loans from middle class families. That is, everyone on a relatively average income.

This is just ... breathtaking. And perhaps most depressingly, likely to become Labour policy and enacted upon by their now inevitable end of Government in May 2010 - about 13 years too late.

Are they not aware that student loans are already heavily weighted by the student's family income? It's another step on the left's pro-poor agenda, pushing as many people as possible - particularly from the traditional working classes - into higher education, rather than just CLEVER people of any class.

The level to which the HE system in this country has been undermined, devalued and destabalised in the past decade is simply breathtaking. I weep for this country.

Off his fucking trolley

2009-05-05T18:00:00.001Z

Gordon Brown, once again, proving that he has no grasp on reality: Party Election Broadcast.

Alan Johson: Pathetic deluded fool

2009-04-13T14:26:00.003Z

What a surprise. Alan Johnson is a pathetic, deluded idiot.

If this happened in the private sector, the boss (Gordon Brown) would be pressed to resign. If someone were in my office, under my direct employment, using my stationary to spread such poisonous lies, you'd bloody bet I'd be held responsible.

What's the collective term for a Labourite circle of spin doctors, advisers and politicians? A delusion? A twattery? A cuntfest?

Design & Firefox issues

2009-03-25T13:19:00.003Z

It's come to my attention that there are a number of issues with the display of the site in the quite bizarre Firefox browser. We're going to be launching a new layout soon(ish), but until then you'll have to bear with us.

Harriet Harman: evil old sow

2009-03-25T12:39:00.002Z

Harriet Harman MP's stint in the Prime Minister's place today on Prime Minister's Questions has shown her once again to be a vile harridan, totally removed from reality (much like the rest of the Labour Party in that respect).

Her leader can not answer questions, and neither can she. They reel off list upon list - all meaningless, and very rarely actually related to the issues raised by the opposition parties - and never provide answers or guidance in any form. The official party policy seems to be that when questioning gets tough or awkward, one should return to the 1990s, the class war, and occasionally the 1980s. It's just short of 12 years now since Labour took office. Long time that they should grow up and accept that this is all their doing - and if problems genuinely are rooted in Conservative policies of far more than a decade ago, then ultimately it is their (Labour's) fault that they've not sorted the situation. There's been more than enough time.

Twelve years. Time they took some responsibility. Time they show some maturity. Time they show some intelligence.

EU forces Ireland into treaty

2008-12-11T18:20:00.002Z

Well, I do so wish that I could say I'm surprised, but far from it. It looks like the Irish people will be given another referendum on the EU not-a-constitution.

After having rejected it in June, it would appear that the EU and the Irish Government have been in bed together, thrashing out details which will ensure that a "yes" vote is reached. Not that the EU doesn't have form in this kind of situation, asking and asking and asking until it gets the answer it wants. Will this dangerous, disturbing, abhorrent Nazi-like institution ever learn the word "no", let alone its meaning?

Well well well...

2008-12-02T09:35:00.002Z

Well. Since I last updated, an extremely slimy not-black man has been elected as the next President of the United States - but more disturbingly, MPs are being censored and even arrested for doing their jobs.

Yes, on Thursday last week, Conservative MP Damian Green was arrested by counter-terrorism police and had his two homes and two offices searched and all electronic equipment siezed. His crime? Making public numerous pieces of quite disturbing information, including that illegal immigrants had been employed as security staff in government buildings.

And now it seems that meetings are being held on the matter, purely between the Government's ministers and parliamentary officials. Of course, Labour claim that the meetings are "merely about parliamentary procedure". But it strikes me that issues of how Parliament is run and organised are perhaps even more important that all parties are involved.

What happens next really is anyone's guess. Perhaps we'll see David Cameron and Nick Clegg arrested for opposing the Government.

Salmond in Scotland

2008-09-03T14:18:00.002Z

Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, today set out plans to scrap the council tax and replace it with a new 'local income' tax of 3%, as well as measures to control and restrict tobacco prominence in shops, and raising the legal age for purchasing alcohol to 21.

I can't disagree with the last two, but how does the tax situation add up? Could it be that a shortfall will be made up from English taxes...?

Drop the weapons

2008-09-01T17:34:00.004Z

So, the MET have today launched a(nother) new campaign to stop gun and knife crime. Drop the weapons is intended to show "how real people can turn away from violent crime". Central to the campaign is a TV advert and posters in schools.

Now, who else sees the problem here? Oh yes, that's it. The people with guns and knives are out using them, not watching flipping television or attending classes. The only people who'll see these things are those who it really doesn't apply to anyway.

What a waste of public money.

Davis quits as MP

2008-06-12T12:34:00.002Z

David Davis, one of the Conservatives' best-known MPs, has resigned as Shadow Home Secretary.

The move has been a shock to the political world, and has been planned in order to trigger a by-election. Davis will fight to be re-elected, on a stance of being opposed to the prospect of being able to arrest and detain suspects for up to 42 days without charge, which was approved in the Commons yesterday.

The bill, supposedly aimed at combatting terrorism, changes the present limit of 28 days - which itself had been extended from 48 hours between 2000 and 2006.

The BBC is reporting that Davis has made a deal with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg - whose party, along with the Conservatives, also opposed the changes - that a Lib Dem candidate would not be put forward for the race.

The BBC have produced a short Q&A over the changes, which can be found here.

Disgusting lack of investment in St George

2008-06-11T10:40:00.004Z

In a written answer to a question from the Conservatives, it has been revealed that, in the past five years, the pitifully miniscule sum of £230 has been spent on promoting St. George's Day.

Meanwhile, that very same Government has been urging the public to "reclaim the day from bigots".

England's national day, celebrated on the 23rd of April, had just £116 of investment this year, £114 last year, and nothing in the previous three.

Yet another abhorrently shameful case of dictatorial do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do socialist politics.

London Transport alcohol ban

2008-05-07T10:27:00.003Z

New London mayor Boris Johnson today formally announced the banning of consumption of alcohol on London's buses, Tube, trams, mainline trains, and the DLR. The plan was one of Johnson's election pledges - he beat Ken Livingstone's bid for a third mayoralty term last Thursday - and will come into effect on 1st June 2008.

Finally, some real on-the-ground progress which people will see for themselves.

New London Mayor - Boris Johnson

2008-05-02T23:16:00.004Z

Boris wins!

For better or worse, I am thrilled to learn that Boris Johnson has been elected as the second ever directly-elected Mayor of London, with a majority of almost 140,000. It'll take a while for anything to bed down of course, but it'll be an exciting next 6 months or so for London.

The ride starts here, folks!

Happy St. George's Day

2008-04-23T09:13:00.003Z

A big happy St. George's Day to one and all! I would suggest that we all go and slay us some dragons, but they don't exist. ('Cos the big man killed 'em all.)

"God for Harry, England and Saint George!"

Firefighters under attack

2008-02-11T12:45:00.000Z

Whilst official government figures show that attacks on firefighters dropped from 1,300 in 2006 to just 400 in 2007, the FBU's Easy Targets? report has shown an INCREASE to 1,500.

Aside from the unique case of the government getting something wrong, this is an utterly abhorrent situation. These brave men and women are supposed to be offering us protection and performing life-saving tasks in tricky circumstances, and yet receive no more respect than a tramp.

According to the report, most attacks take place in the North-West of England, particularly in areas of poor housing and/or social depravation. Whilst that's not exactly what one would call a surprise, I just do not understand the mentality of the kinds of scum who do such a thing.

A number of specific cases were highlighted in the report:

John Cartwright, a firefighter in Greater Manchester, said he and his colleagues were attacked as they tried to put out a large bonfire.

He said: "We began to extinguish the fire, then we were making up the equipment when we were attacked by about 30 youths. One of the firefighters had six on top of him, punching him. They chucked bottles at us, bricks, garden ornaments."

And not forgetting:

In one incident a hoaxer lured firefighters to a supposed car fire in Cheshire before attacking them with bricks. In another, a petrol bomb was thrown at a fire engine in Merseyside as firemen tackled a rubbish blaze.

All I can say is that, with any luck, the perpetrators of such abhorrent attacks will need help one day, but be within what the fire brigades have defined as a no-go area. Similar incidents have been highlighted recently concerning attacks on ambulance and medical staff on emergency call-outs, so perhaps that is the only answer.

Finance shock: aid prone to corruption

2008-02-09T08:42:00.000Z

In a shocking announcement (!), the National Audit Office has this week said that the aid given by the UK to other countries - apparently a £461 million budget - is often misused, and most of that awarded in 2007 went to countries with major corruption scandals.

Wow. This is perhaps the most shocking piece of news that I've heard. Ever. I mean, hard-earned British tax-payers' money being wasted elsewhere?! Who would have believed it?

In case you didn't know, I'm being sarcastic.

What a sorry situation we've got ourselves in. Can we not just cut off all overseas aid? It seems that most of the problems we have here could be solved with a bit of investment, and I fail to see how we can go around wasting our money when there are such grave problems at home. Seriously, how can we go around lecturing other people how to run their country - and giving them our money - when we can't get our own house in order? Preposterous situation.

Cancel all aid and spend it here.

Sharia law - the infiltration

2008-02-08T13:42:00.000Z

As has been widely reported over the past 24 hours or so, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, yesterday stated that the adoption of some aspects of Sharia law within the British criminal and civil judicial systems is inevitable. He states that we must "face up to the fact" that certain communities (translation: some Muslims) do not relate to our legal system.

Well, I've got news for you. Not many people relate to our legal system. The overruling of British courts by European meddlers, the effective ban on protests near Parliament, the banning of hunting with hounds, and God only knows how many other ridiculous pieces of legislation passed (particularly in the past decade). None of them sit will with me, and likewise for thousands of other law-abiding citizens. But we haven't been given our own set of laws because we want to do x, y and/or z. We have to conform to the laws set out by the United Kingdom's Governments, whether we believe and support them or not.

So why should the relatively miniscule Muslim community be awarded its own set of opt-out legislation and allowances? Taking cultural differences into account when dealing with comparitively trivial matters such as divorce, banking and child custody is one thing, but adopting whole sweeping aspects of Sharia (which, I am informed, quite ironically means "path to water") law is another matter entirely.

Whether really being fully proposed or not, the idea of introducing new laws in such a manner for one group just because they don't approve of our existing laws is preposterous. This is (supposedly) a free country, whose laws, cultural aspects and society are based on Christian tolerance, not the backwards logic of people who sentence rape victims to lashings, enjoy public executions as punishment for pretty minor offences, and hand out prison sentences to women who have spoken to men not within her own family. I would not travel to a Muslim state and be able to walk down the street wearing an unbuttoned, loudly-coloured shirt and eating pork sausages, so why should people come here and expect the equivalent? Another example of the twisted, self-centred, intolerant logic of some cultures.

But of course, I can't really believe that Dr Williams is a stupid man, so perhaps his intention was to raise debate and actually make people wake up and realise what is going on in our fair country? If so, he's a crafty bugger. If not, he's just a pillock.

Quite simply, if you don't like our laws, our society, our way of life - the fuck off somewhere else.

You DON'T want a referendum

2008-02-08T13:00:00.000Z

Whilst I Want A Referendum is being labelled a "dishonest" marketing exercise for the Conservative Party by one socialist nutjob, members of the PLP who support the campaign have apparently been threatened with explusion from the party if they do not withdraw their IWAR backing.

Yep, expulsion from the Labour Party for supporting one of their own manifesto promises, after totally free votes on the Iraq war, for example. It says a lot really, doesn't it?

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the near-Nazi state of the European Union, it's being reported that the EU Parliament's "speaker" has been given the power to decide who can and cannot speak in said Parliament. The move has apparently come after UKIP MEPs protested against the upcoming constitution, and is in the interest of protecting freedom of speech. How that quite works I don't know, but then when has common sense or logic had anything at all to do with the European Union, or Europeans in general?

If you haven't already, support your democratic right to exercise choice over who rules you by registering and signing the I Want A Referendum petition.

Wendy the slippery cow

2008-02-08T12:19:00.000Z

Wendy Alexander, Donald Duck lookalike, possibly the most slapable woman in Scotland, leader of the Scottish Labour Party and sister of the current Chancellor of the Exchequor, was yesterday in essence cleared of any wrongdoing by accepting donations from a Jersey-based businessman, breaking electoral law as he is neither a UK resident nor registered to vote here.

The Electoral Commission, who had been investigating the case, decided that there was insufficient evidence to refer the issue to prosecutors, and 'Ms' Alexander maintains that the outcome has proven her "honest and integrity".

Utter bollocks. I can just about believe that she may not personally have been aware that the money in question was from someone barred from making such donations, but her little team clearly were, and as their leader she should take ultimate responsibility for the clear breach of electoral law which has been committed. Electoral law which was devised and passed by her own party just a few years ago. If this were a Conservative or SNP MSP, I have no doubt that 'Ms' Alexander would be doing her raving na-na in demand for a resignation, but again it seems to be one-rule-for-them, one-rule-for-Labour.

Aside from her own blatant disregard for morals and the "honesty and integrity" which she so fervently proclaims to possess, the idea that there is insufficient evidence to bring the case to prosecutors ia ridiculous. Either illegal donations were taken, or they weren't. And they were. It has been proven, shown, and admitted that they were. And yet no one in the Alexander camp is taking any responsibility for the sorry affair. They cannot possibly claim to have not known that what they were doing was illegal. And even if they do, why does that excuse them? If a person with, for example, severe learning difficulties beats someone to death, then they are prosecuted and punished. The "I didn't know it was illegal" argument simply would not stand up, and should not be accepted here either.

Another instance of the Labour Party showing contempt for the electorate and for its own laws. But hey, what's new, right?

Stop Blair

2008-02-07T22:33:00.001Z

We've barely got rid of the slimy little shit for 5 minutes - nevermind his highly amusing appointment as a PEACE envoy in the MIDDLE EAST. But now the shadow of Herr Blair looms low over Britain once again, as increasing speculation suggests that the original war criminal is in line to become the first President of the European Union.

He really is like that last poo nugget that won't flush. Will Blair never leave us be? The deluded fool cannot be allowed to reign over us yet again. The mere thought is utterly abhorrent, let alone if it follows through to practice.

A very worthy petition, although somewhat backwards in its exact arguments, against his possible take-up of the position can be found here.

Polish trams hijacked

2008-01-17T11:51:00.000Z

This has got to be at least seven shades of genius.

Welcome to the UFSE

2007-12-14T11:03:00.000Z

That's the United Federal States of Europe. Not quite an official name as yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's forced upon us in the near future.

Yes, in all the utter ridiculity of signing it seperately and away from the cameras because he knows that he shouldn't be and that the whole country hates him for it, the Great Leader himself, Gordon Brown, yesterday signed his EU constitution treaty. Yes, it still must be ratified by Governments, but for the large part that's little more than a formality. This constitution - sorry, treaty (oh fuck it, everyone knows they're one and the same) - will further erode our own ability to govern ourselves.

So, what does it include? Well, for a start there's the creation of a European President. Another overpaid, undemocratic and largely pointless position for someone else to ride the gravy train. There's also the loss of the British veto in dozens of areas (60, some places have quoted), and the submission of immigration powers to the European Court of 'Justice'. Then there's the new foreign minister, and the ability for the EU to sign international treaties as if it were a real, single country.

Oh, and for the average man on the street, the EU will have the power (and already has the will) to implement road-pricing. Enjoy!

Some of you may remember the promise at the 2005 election that we, the British public would be given a referendum on the EU constitution. Well, we haven't had one, and there are presently no plans to give us one. This increasingly dictatorial and undemocratic present Government insist, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that the 'treaty' is not the consitution, and so we don't need one. You want one? We certainly weren't asked about giving over all the powers we've already lost. Sign up at I want a referendum ASAP.

Welcome to the further loss of democracy, my friends. Welcome.

Forty lashes!

2007-11-28T18:58:00.001Z

Well well well. Gillian Gibbons, a 54 year-old teacher from Liverpool who for some inexplicable reason decided to move to Sudan and teach in a 'British' school there, has been charged under local blasphemy laws, and if convicated faces six months in jail, forty lashes (apparently often fatal), or a fine. Why? Because she allowed her class of seven year olds to name a teddy bear 'Mohammed'.

Yes, you read that correctly.

It would appear that the children voted for the name Mohammed after the class's most popular boy (called Mohammed, obviously). But as he was named in honour of the Muslim prophet Mohammed (or Muhammed - they don't seem to be able to decide on the spelling), this is considered to be blasphemy, and highly insulting to Islam. Hmm.

On one hand, I have little sympathy for the woman. Having gone out to such a backwards country, she really should have been a bit more careful to abide by local laws. On the other hand, these people are totally mental, and so far backwards that they're almost coming back again. There was quite clearly not malicious or blasphemous intent in calling a teddy bear Mohammed, and they need to grow the fuck up. Apparently it's all part of the West's anti-Islam plot, but being so utterly nonsensical doesn't exactly help their case or earn them much support or sympathy now, does it? At least the Muslim Council of Great Britain (or whatever they're called) have condemned the Sudanese authorities.

How unashamedly pathetic.

I'm A Shit TV Programme ... I Must Be On ITV!

2007-11-11T19:38:00.001Z

The papers today are reporting that Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the Sex Pistols, who was due to appear on this year's series of ITV1 worse-than-watching-a-televised-rape TV programme I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! , has pulled out literally hours before the show was scheduled to start. Not only does it leave them in a bit of shit, what with the whole being one person down and being filmed in the Australian jungle, but this BBC News Online article says "McLaren was arguably the biggest name on the show."

If he was the biggest name on the show, they've got more to worry about than just that he decided not to take part. Scraping the fucking barrel doesn't even begin to cover it.