Snouts in the Trough

My congratulations to an on-the-spot C4 news reporter who tonight dared say what none of the grovellingly politically-correct BBC journalists would ever say – “it looks like the Taliban are winning”. Of course they are winning. We are an invading foreign army. We are loathed by most Afghans. Ordinary Afghans believe it is their duty to kill our soldiers to get us to leave their country. Our government is sending our best young people to be needlessly slaughtered while ensuring the worthless, idle, feckless Labour-voting garbage continues to get £130bn a year in benefits.

Does liar Gordon Brown care about our dead soldiers? Does his lying, corrupt government? Of course not. All they are interested in is being able to continue cheating on their expenses to build up their property empires and thinking up any lies they can to try to get re-elected so they can continue thieving our money.

BA cabin crew are threatening strike action yet again. I’ve just booked my holiday to the USA and I’m not going with BA. What would be the point? You don’t know if there will be a flight or not.

After 20 years of flying 80 times a year for my work, I’m fed up with the arrogance, self-importance and unhelpfulness of BA staff. I don’t care who is to blame for the current troubles – I imagine BA managers are just as incompetent as their staff are bloody-minded. They probably deserve each other. But like many tens of thousands of other potential BA passengers, I’m voting with my feet. By, bye BA.

Our Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell claims that the British may become “so risk-averse, cynical and introverted that we will find ourselves in inglorious and impotent isolation by default” just because the majority of the public can see that our politicians are lying, greedy, self-serving crooks who have sent our troops poorly-equipped into a poinltess and unwinnable war where they are being killed by ordinary Afghanis who see us as foreign invaders.

Mr. Rammell will probably die a rich man of old age in his bed, unlike the brave soldiers being sent to pointless deaths by politicians who “frankly don’t give a damn”. After all, fighting to preserve a thoroughly corrupt expenses system is much more important to our elected leaders than the loss of a few hundred lives in a hopeless war.

While the politically correct howl on about Global Warming and how it might affect us in the future, they tend not to mention one man-made disaster which already kills millions of people every year. This is the corruption, stupidity and incompetence of many Third World governments. Many of the world’s most  impoverished countries are rich in natural resources – Nigeria, Zimbabwe, other African countries and the Stans. But their people live in abject poverty because of the greed, stupidity and mismanagement of the ruling elite. And now we hear that one of the world’s largest oil producers, Chavez’s Venezuela, is facing electricity shortages. Why? Greed. stupidity, corruption, mismanagement and incompetence.

So if the bleeding-hearted Guardianistas want to save human lives now, they should be marching in protest against the stupidity, mismanagement, corruption and incompetence of many Third World governments.

I’ve just read in a supposed ‘news’paper that another bunch of z-list celebs are ‘climbing’ Mount Kilimanjaro. For anyone who is interested – and I hope that means nobody – you do NOT climb Kilimanjaro, you walk up it. Moreover, it is an incredibly easy and leisurely walk except for the final night stretch to the summit which is a little strenuous. But it is still a walk and not a climb. I know, I’ve done it and it was probably just as easy as walking in Scotland – and the weather was much better.

If summer 2009 had turned out to be the ‘barbecue summer’ predicted by the useless, politically-correct jobsworths at the Met Office, we’d have been drowning in their I-told-you-so-s as they claimed the hot summer was undeniable proof of Global Warming. Similarly, if we’d had the warm winter also predicted by the almost pointless nobodies at the Met Office, they’d have been all over our screens insisting that this was further irrefutable proof of their Global Warming claptrap.

But as the summer was a wash-out and the winter a 30-year record freeze, the Met Office shamelessly claims that there is little connection between weather and climate. This allows them to say the Earth is getting warmer even though the weather is unusually cold. Still, as we know from their fiddled figures and selective use of data – Garbage in, Garbage out.

This is the absurd claim made by a fund manager interviewed for the Telegraph this week. But the gentleman makes his millions from ordinary suckers like you and me putting our cash into the stock market through shares, unit trusts and pension savings – so he would say that, wouldn’t he? Moreover, the stock market has shot up from 3,500 to around 5,500 in about a year. Is there really anybody stupid enough to believe it’s going much higher with Britain facing almost catastrophic tax rises to pay off our deficit?

What is really happening is that all the insiders have made fortunes over the last year. Now they need suckers to buy all their overpriced shares so they can get out with their mouthwatering profits leaving us with massive losses. Want to put money in the stock market now? You’d be better off flushing it down the toilet – at least then you might block your toilet and save yourself some money.

Can we predict the future? When it comes to human greed, we probably can. So here’s one to watch. Sometime in 2010, Goldman Sachs will deliberately engineer a loss of confidence in Sterling. The pound will then fall to well below parity with the euro as investors dump it. This will allow Goldman Sachs to buy Sterling cheaply from panicking investors and make tens of billions when the pound quickly rebounds to about 1.12 euro.

The moral of the story – get a job with Goldman Sachs.

Hyper-warmist Guardian columnist George Monbiot seems to have been unusually quiet recently. As Britain freezes in the coldest winter for over thirty years, many of us are waiting with baited (and frozen) breath for our favourite Global Warming expert to explain how it can be so cold when the earth is supposedly getting warmer every year. Come on George, tell us what’s happening!

What an election this is going to be. A completely discredited government led by a lying sociopath, backed by a glove-puppet chancellor and controlled by devious man/woman reptile. A ludicrous Tory party with a Blair lookalike leading it, a damaged-goods shadow chancellor still in short trousers and apparently nobody else with any intelligence, profile or talent and the usual ineffective posturing by the pointless LibDem timeservers achieving nothing apart from pocketing their salaries and expenses.

How could British politics have sunk so low?