Snouts in the Trough

While our papers and politically-correct BBC gush about the coming “triumph” of the 2012 London Games, the rest of the world is laughing at us. As governments around the world are forced to cut spending, Britain has been lumbered with the massisve waste of money that is the Olympic Games. These were due to cost us taxpayers “only” £2.4bn but under the “management” (ha ha) of Sebastian Coe and his well-paid cronies (many of whom earn more than the PM), the Games will probably cost over £10bn. That would have paid for a lot of nurses, teachers and policemen, but instead it’s being wasted on a couple of weeks of drug-enhanced supposed “sport”. It’s a pity the public-sector unions haven’t protested about this enormous waste of money. Of course, Mr Coe and the other Olympocrats will emerge from this disaster as very rich people while the rest of us foot the bill for their get rich scheme.

Once again we get screwed by the rich and powerful as they make themselves even richer at our expense.

As the US Navy SEALs launch another successful mission – first to kill Bin Laden and now to rescue two hostages from Somalia, perhaps we in Britain should ask what our navy is doing for us. First we had the embarrassment when some sailors were captured by Iran and then cried when their Ipods were confiscated. Then we had the navy just watch and do nothing when the yachting couple, the Chandlers, were taken by pirates. And every time our navy does catch pirates, they feed them, give them a medical check-up and then send them unharmed on their way. What about hanging them? Throwing them in the sea? Or letting them go back into their boat and then sinking it killing them all like the Russians did?

Isn’t it time our useless, cowardly, incompetent navy defended our interests or  else is disbanded saving the taxpayer a lot of money?

Up till the economic crash, the Irish economy was doing quite well. What scuppered the country was having to bail out its banks – tens of billions of euros for a population of just a couple of million. But many of the dud bank loans which Irish workers are paying back were made to bank executives, their friends and their political cronies. So while the executives, friends and politicians keep the billions they “borrowed” or more accurately embezzled, ordinary Irish workers are having to pay back these loans to keep their corrupt banks solvent.

Why have there been no prosecutions? Whay have the bank executives and their mates been allowed to keep the money they have stolen? Because they’re part of a tight-knit little mafia of politicians, bureaucrats and bankers which control Ireland. Wake up Ireland! Proseccute these thieving bastards! Don’t let them screw you again and again and again!

Awful, awful, awful. And that’s being polite about probably the worst book I have ever read. It’s a supposed thriller written by a Sam Bourne. It’s all about a journalist who saves the world. The blurb says that Sam Bourne is the new Dan Brown, but better. Sam Bourne sounds like a tough guy – a bit similar to Jason Bourne. So who is this Sam Bourne? Well, his real name is Jonathan Freedland and he’s a journalist (surprise surprise) who has done a lot of work for the Guardian. Guardian journalists spend much of their time writing verbose, soporific articles in praise of teachers, social workers, illegal immigrants and benefits scroungers. They also still believe that the man who bankrupted Britain – Gordon “tax, waste and lie” Brown was an economic genius and that his successor – Ed “tax, waste and lie” Balls is as well-endowed as his former master, lying buffoon Brown.

Mr Freedland, I thought Guardian journalists were meant to be honest. But here you are (in my opinion) masquerading as a thriller writer when you are (in my opinion) actually utterly useless. Of course, you’ve managed to get your journo friends to provide quotes saying you’re a literary genius, but most of those who have supposedly praised your book may have never read it or even seen it – their quotes may have been written by your publisher’s PR people – who knows?. I paid 80p for your book in a charity bookshop. That was a wasted 80p. If you were an honest man Mr Freedland you’d give me my 80p back and apologise for wasting my time with your (in my opinion) appalling book.

The Egyptians have got what they wanted. They have deposed the “evil, western puppet” Hosni Mubarak and now have an elected parliament. Problem is that 75% of those elected are radical muslims. So what can we expect over the next few years? Firstly, the new government will be as utterly corrupt and laughably incompetent as most other African and Arab governments. The Egyptian economy will continue to crash and burn and unemployment will shoot up even higher. There might even be a pointless war with Israel. But come the next elections will the Egyptians be able to vote out the current government? Some chance! Because Egypts’s Islamic government will probably have got nice and close with that other shining example of Islamic democracy – Iran. From the Iranians, the Egyptians will learn how to rig elections and how to crush any protests. Remember, any vote against an Islamic government is a vote against God. You deserve to be imprisoned, tortured and even killed if you vote against God, don’t you? After all, that’s the way we do things in peace-loving democratic Iran.

So Egypt, enjoy your freedom while it lasts – the Arab Spring might be about to turn into the Islamist Winter.

Watching the owner of the sunk Italian cruise liner talk about how all his staff were “highly trained” in safety procedures, I had to laugh. I’m embarrassed to say that I have recently been on a cruise – seven days around Hawaii. Safety on the ship was a bad joke. For a start, were the ship to hit something, it’s probable that it would list over to one side. This makes half the lifeboats unusable as they cannot be lowered. Result – half the passengers have no hope of a place in a lifeboat. Then there are the crew. The crew consists of a few highly-paid officers and then more than a thousand workers from Third World countries like India and the Philipines. They are paid a pittance. Certainly not enough to sacrifice their lives so that a few fat Western tourists can get away in safety. Also they know there cannot be enough room in the lifeboats for everybody. So when things go tits up, in the rush for the boats, they can easily push their way past often elderly passengers, some of whom will have mobility problems.

The one thing Captain ‘Catastrophe’ Shittino (which I guess means “little shit” in Italian) did right was to steer his boat onto an island after it was holed. This allowed some passengers to swim ashore as half the lifeboats were unusable. If  Captain Catastrophe had not done that, there would be a thousand or more dead. So, if you ever take a cruise, remember there only enough lifeboats for about half the people on board. It’s survival of the fastest and fittest.

America has already sold out to the Chinese. Firms like Apple have most of their products made in China – wiping out American jobs and giving the Chinese government access to the latest technology for them to copy. The short-termism of companies like Apple will eventually lead to their demise as cheap Chinese copies take over their markets. In Australia and New Zealand, the Chinese own almost a quarter of all businesses and now Chinese companies with few assets are trying to buy up farmland and natural resources companies. These Chinese companies are just fronts for the Chinese government as it tries to ensure control of food and minerals for its own people. A recent deal to buy a huge dairy company fell apart when the lawyer representing the Chinese was convicted of embezzlement.

It Britain virtually all the trash people buy is made in China. Go into Gap, PC World or any other clothing or electrical store and try to find something not made in China! This has destroyed British jobs and made us dependent on China. And now by putting money into Thames Water, the Chinese (government) have started to take over our strategic utilities.

The Chinese takeover of the West is a disaster in the making and one we will come to bitterly regret.

Are you lazy, criminal, dishonest or useless? Then no need to live in poverty in your own country. Come and live it up in benefits Britain. First of all, if you find a house that’s empty because the owner is at work or on holiday, you can break in, claim squatters rights and live there for months with the owner paying your gas and electricity. Don’t worry about our worthless police – they’ll say it’s nothing to do with them. Then get yourself down to the benefits office. If you have a few kids (or even just say you have) you can easily clear £25,000 a year or more taxfree. These benefits are paid for by the taxes of those who mostly earn less than you receive in benefits. Wonderful, isn’t it? If you don’t fancy squatting, then demand the council finds you housing. You’ll immediately be put at the top of the list, well ahead of British people who have lived and worked and paid taxes in Britain all their lives. After all, it’s your “human right”. And if you want to rob, steal and even rape, go ahead, Britain’s politically-correct police are too busy persecuting ordinary taxpayers to have time to chase after real criminals.

So come on, scum of the earth. Come to benefits Britain. You’ll live in luxury you thought you could only dream of and it’s all paid for by stupid, bovine British taxpayers.

Corruption has had a good few weeks. Public protests in India against corruption led to India’s corrupt politicians promising to crack down on their own thieving. Now the protests have stopped, the politicians have blocked any legislation limiting their ability to steal as much as they want. In Pakistan, the PM is blocking attempts by the Supreme Court to investigate several leading politicians, including the President (affectionately known to his people as “Mr Ten Percent”) for corruption. Corrupt Pakistani polticians have called the investigations “an attack on democracy”. At least they’ve got a sense of humour.

In Nigeria, the corrupt government removed a fuel subsidy claiming they would use the money saved to build schools, hospitals, roads etc. But the people were not as stupid as the politicians hoped and went on strike. They know the billions saved will be stolen by corrupt politicians and their business associates and precious few schools or hospitals will ever see the light of day. But it looks like the corrupt politicians have won – only a small part of the fuel subsidy has been restored leaving a huge pile of money for Nigeria’s ruling elite to plunder at will.

In India, Pakistan and Nigeria corruption is king. Long live corruption!

Over the last few years travelling I’ve had the opportunity to compare Aljazeera news coverage with that of the once respected BBC World Service. Aljazeera seems to be trying to bring real news, whereas the BBC’s obsession with political correctness means we get an endless succession of “journalists” from ethnic minorities, many of whom haven’t a clue what they’re talking about and who must always peddle the approved BBC line on every story even if this is patent rubbish.

So is Aljazeera beter than the BBC? Yes.