Snouts in the Trough

Corruption wrecks South Africa’s education system

David Craig — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:17:37 +0000

Interesting article in the Bangkok Post this week about the collapse of South Africa’s education system. Apparently South Africa spends an impressive 20% of it’s budget on education. That’s the good news. The problem is that much of the money is stolen by corrupt ANC-friendly politicians and bureaucrats and never gets anywhere near schools or universities. A recent special grant of about £200m to one area to buy books and other equipment for the start of the school year was all embezzled. So no new books and no new equipment. And hundreds of “teachers” being paid by the government don’t actually exist – millions more stolen. This week some member of the ruling ANC was expelled for supposedly “bringing the party into disrepute”. The ANC is nothing but a bunch of crooks and thieves run by a buffoon-like son of Mugabe who is itching to take his country down the same road as Zimbabwe. How could you bring the ANC into further disrepute? What a disaster the ANC has been. What a corrupt, incompetent shambles.

Meanwhile in Britain, the lying, thieving former minister, the inappropriately named David Laws, looks set to return to government. Maybe we’ll soon be as corrupt as South Africa.

Are our taxes buying the weapons used to kill and maim our soldiers, Mr Cameron?

David Craig — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:27 +0000

Our useless, self-serving, expenses-fiddling MPs bleed us dry with their taxes. They then take almost £500m of our money and hand it over in supposed “aid” to a corrupt state with nuclear weapons – Pakistan. First the Pakistani president, affectionately known by his people as “Mr Ten Percent”, takes his cut. Then other corrupt Pakistani politicians and bureaucrats grab what they can. What little is left then disappears into Pakistan’s government coffers. Some of this is then used to supply the Taliban with guns, bombs and training so they can kill and maim British and American soldiers in Afghanistan. Pakistan is our enemy yet we are giving this corrupt rotten hell-hole of a place almost half a billion pounds a year.

It’s a pity that families of killed and wounded soldiers don’t launch a class action against the foreign aid minister for complicity in the deaths and injuries of their sons and daughters. As for Liar Cameron, how can this pompous fool sleep at night knowing that he is helping our enemies against us? Perhaps he doesns’t care – after all, most of those dying or wounded are just prols to him

Will freezing winter get global warming con-artists fiddling their figures yet again?

David Craig — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:33:29 +0000

The man-made global warming fanatics were having a great winter. Europe was having its warmest winter for decades. That allowed them to bleat on about how they were right and climate change sceptics were wrong. Then came the cold weather. In fact, the coldest winter since records began and over 120 people are dead. Woops. That’s not so good for the warmists. So how will the warmists at the University of East Anglia’s laughable Climatic Research Unit and other such centres of academic excellence in falsifying data react? Will there be lots of phone calls between warmists (remember they don’t dare send emails any more in case these are ever leaked) as they discuss how to massge the figures to prove that their global warming bollocks is not a load of bollocks? Prrobably. And once the cold weather has gone, will they just say that this was a small blip but really the world is warming up? Of course. So as you sit at home freezing, be happy. The world is a warmer place.

Today Chris “seven homes” (or is it eight?) Huhne could get sacked and someone with a smidgin of common sense could replace him. Then we could start to get rid of all the useless windfarms and environmental taxes. But no doubt useless Huhne will keep his job or else his replacement will be equally brainwashed by the fiddled figures of the global warming fantasists.

Rotten, corrupt Pakistan is our enemy – Mr Cameron

David Craig — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:29:18 +0000

A new NATO report reveals what most people have always known – Pakistan is our enemy. The Pakistani government hid Osama Bin Laden in the one place they thought he would be really safe – in a compound just beside a huge military base. They assumed (wrongly) that nobody would dare arrack Bin Laden when so many brave Pakistani forces were so close. And for over ten years the Pakistani military have been helping the Taliban kill and injure British troops. Ten years! That’s longer than the First and Second World Wars together. The NATO report also admits what most of us have always known – the war in Afghanistan has been a disaster, we have lost, the Taliban have won and as soon as Western troops leave the Taliban will take over the country and Karzai the Corrupt and all his equally corrupt cronies will flee to their luxury homes in Dubai paid for with billions looted from Western aid.

It’s time to stop all immigration from Pakistan, stop all direct flights, stop grovelling to Pakistan’s utterly corrupt government and treat Pakistan like the enemy which it is. It’s also time to bring our troops home and stop wasting money and lives on a pointless war which we have lost.

Another “triumph” for Liar Merkel and Liar Sarkozy?

David Craig — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:06:26 +0000

Since the start of the financial crisis, we seem to have had an extraordinary number of EU summits where Liar Merkel and Liar Sarkozy tell us that they’ve solved the eurozone’s problems. Then a couple of days later we find out it was all a bunch of lies and the problems get worse. But this week these two lying idiots really excelled themselves. They not only claimed to have saved the eurozone (yet again) but also boasted that they had taken action to avoid any similar crises in the future. Of course, it’s all baloney. Greece is bankrupt. Portugal is bankrupt. Italy is bankrupt. Spain is bankrupt.

There is only one solution to the crisis - make EU taxpayers in the North pay for the stupidity, laziness, tax avoidance and corruption of the Club Med countries. This will happen in two stages. First the ECB will buy worthless Club Med bonds at face value with taxpayers’ money and then mark them down to half or less of their face value, cutting the debts of Club Med and losing taxpayers hundreds of billions. Then the EU will allow the lazy, profligate, tax-avoiding Club Med countries to lower their borrowing costs by issuing eurobonds guaranteed by eurozone taxpayers in Germany, Austria, Holland and Finland. But while Club Med countries’ borrowing costs will fall, these costs will rise for German, Austrian, Dutch and Finnish taxpayers. This willl ‘solve’ the crisis and save Club Med from bankruptcy. Most German taxpayers will be too stupid to see how they’ve been screwed by their leaders and most Austrians, Dutch and Finns will be too cowardly to go against what their German masters order them to do.

Was Mel Gibson right about the Jews?

David Craig — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:54:15 +0000

Drunk, wife-beater, historian and general philosopher, Mel Gibson, once famously claimed Jews were responsible for all the wars in the world. So let’s test Mr Gibson’s theory. In Thailand, Muslims are fighting Buddhists. No Jews there, Mel. In India/Pakistan Muslims are forever fighting Hindus. Not too many Jews there either, Mel. In Nigeria, Indonesia and Egypt, Muslims are killing Christians. In fact, one of the first things Egyptians did to celebrate their freedom was to kill a load of Coptic Christians. Again, no Jews to blame, Mel. In the Middle East, of course, Muslims and Jews have been slaughtering each other for decades and will continue forever. So Mel is right, here Jews are involved. But also in the Middle East Sunni and Shiite Muslims seem to take huge pleasure in murdering each other. You can’t blame the Jews for that, Mel.

However, if you blame Jews for the world’s problems, Guardianistas, BBC journalists and others of their ilk nod approvingly, whereas if you dare suggest that these Muslim chappies might be a bit troublesome and a little bit intolerant, you’re immediately accused of racism and you may even be killed.

The world’s richest and most corrupt hold their annual shindig

David Craig — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:53:46 +0000

If I write that the world’s richest and most corrupt people are currently holding their annual get-together, you might think I mean the World Economic Forum in Davos. After all, there are some pretty crooked and greedy liars and scum attending that. But the “good and great” at Davos are like angelic paupers compared to the utter villains I’m thinking about. Anyway, Davos was last week. If you really want to see billionaire wealth and rampant corruption, the yearly African Union (AU) meeting is the place to go. It’s being held in the AU’s shiny new HQ in Addis Ababa. This was paid for by the Chinese. Though heaven knows why. Most of those attending have stolen so much money from their impoverished people that any of them could probably have paid for the building with the change in their pockets.

So what will this bunch of garbage talk about? Perhaps the leader of Equatorial Guinea could give a presentation on how to steal over $40m a week. Or Nigerian bosses could share their experience of running hundreds of offshore bank accounts to hide all the riches they’ve embezzled. Unfortunately, Mr Gaddafi can’t attend this year so won’t be able to give his favourite talk on how to invest over $100bn stolen from his people.

Meanwhile Africa becomes ever poorer. There are the usual famines. Nigeria is on the brink of civil war. Senegal is about to hold joke elections which might also lead to war. Zimbabwe has gone from one of Africa’s richest to poorest countries. And the buffoon running South Africa seems keen to take his country down the same road as Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. It’s time the West stopped allowing the obscene rape of Africa by its leaders and closed down any bank caught funnelling stolen African money. But western leaders use the same offshore banks to hide their own wealth, so we can expect the rape of Africa to continue forever.

Let’s hope they target eurocrats, politicians and bankers – not innocent people

David Craig — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:20:01 +0000

The unelected EU commissioners have already deposed the elected governments of Greece and Italy. Tomorrow they will probably make another power grab by taking control of tax and spending in Greece. Portugal will be next and then Italy and maybe even Spain will fall under the control of the unelected commissioners. Of course, the Greek and Italian (bunga bunga Berlusconi) leaders may have been jokes elected by joke countries made up of lazy. high-spending, tax-avoiding spongers – but they were democratically elected, unlike the overpaid, corrupt, wasteful EU commissioners. As the greedy, self-serving, lying, unelected EU commissioners take away people’s democratic freedom they risk provoking a backlash. With youth unemployment reaching close to 50% in some failing EU countries, there are a lot of angry, disillusioned young people who feel they have no future. It wouldn’t be surprising if a few turn to violence and hit back at those they see becoming rich at the expense of ordinary people.

If there are bombs and other attacks, let us hope they target the greedy eurocrats, politicians and bankers and not innocent people.

Are Britain’s tennis bureaucrats wasting our millions – on themselves?

David Craig — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:46:03 +0000

As Andy Murray puts up a spirited fight at the Australian Open, it’s worth wondering what happened to the other British players. They were all ignominiously knocked out in the first round. We give about £36m a year to the utterly useless Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). This is meant to develop new playing talent – but the LTA has failed miserably. So where do our millions go? Well, there are massive salaries for LTA bureaucrats. Then there are luxury, all expenses paid trips for LTA bureaucrats to the best tennis tournaments of the world. And, of course, LTA bosses “need” to do a lot of entertaining as part of their job. So has any of our money actually been spent training new talent? Not much. Maybe it’s time to save some money by cutting the money we give to the pointless LTA?

As for Andy Murray – he took responsibility for his own training and avoided the deadening control of the worthless, overpaid, wasteful LTA bureaucrats

£10bn Olympics make Britain laughing stock of the world

David Craig — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:22:10 +0000

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.