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Men officially surplus to requirements

May 22, 2008 · 1 Comment

MPs reject IVF ‘right to father’ as Government defeats fresh challenge to fertility laws | Mail Online

Fathers were declared an irrelevance today as MPs voted to scrap the need for IVF doctors to consider a child’s need for a male role model.

Another shocking example of the poor state that this country is in and the worrying direction that we are heading into. In our haste to pander to every minority, religion or focus group in Britain we are losing sight on the fundamental principles on which this nation is founded.

The Government, in removing the need for a father and replacing it with ’supportive parenting’, which could mean absolutely anything, has indeed placed the final nail in the coffin of the British family. Despite the fact that study, after study has shown that the best environment for a child to grow up in is to have a loving mother and father, the Government is still deciding otherwise.

What makes this worse is the Governments pretence that it is to protect single women and lesbians.

“The Government argued that the law as it stood discriminated against single women and lesbian couples…”

Call me old fashioned but what reason has a single woman to have IVF treatment anyway? If she is single she shouldn’t be considering a baby. A child is something that is brought into the world to be part of a family, not to be the family itself. That is like treating children like fashion accessories. A single man cannot decide to have a child alone, in the interests of fairness why are we in a situation where women can but men cannot? After all biologically, neither can have a child without the other anyway.

As for lesbian couples, lesbians make up at most 3% of the population, so this is at best to pander to the 3% of the population that could already get IVF treatment anyway. Why, yet again are we putting the rights of a tiny minority above the rights of the other 97% of the UK population?

I think that the real reason is:

“The legislation will also allow two women both to be registered formally as a child’s “mother” on birth certificates.”

This is the crux of it, the right for women to have children and raise them completely without men, and for this to appear normal. It is like something from some bizarre parallel universe or like from the two Ronnie’s sketch, The Worm That Turned.

But this isn’t some comedy sketch, it is modern Britain.

One female Labour MP said:

“It’s wrong to make judgments [sic] about families and tell one family they are normal and another family that they are abnormal. It is wrong to vilify single parents. It is wrong to discriminate against lesbian couples.”

Yet it is OK to discriminate against 50% of the population and tell them that they are not needed? Let’s be clear here, normal is two parents - a mother and a father. Anything else is abnormal. Single parents are single due to circumstance, not by choice.

Labour has proven to be anti marriage for quite some time, even though poll after poll after poll has shown that the vast majority of people in Britain believe that a mother and father is vital in a child’s upbringing, they seem to be going out of their way to make gay seem more normal than normal.

‘This week, the party’s deputy leader Harriet Harman was criticised after insisting ministers would not promote marriage. She said higher rates of family separation were a “positive” because they suggested people had “greater choice”.’

To think that in Britain today senior politicians believe that broken families were a positive is simply shocking and another clear example of why we need to remove this witless bunch of free loaders who like to think they know what is best for us, when in reality they make Jade Goody seem worldly wise.

I am starting to see that it is no coincidence that nearly all MPs come from one of the most hated, unscrupulous and complained about professions on the planet - lawyers.

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Bear mauled by wildman Mears

May 21, 2008 · No Comments

It was only a matter of time, there can, after all, only be one. The true survivial King has stepped up and laid into the pretender to his throne.

Ray Mears pulled no punches as he ripped into Bear Grylls saying:

“Do I look for tips from Bear Grylls? Yes - on how not to make television programmes! As far as I’m concerned, these people are just showmen. I think the viewer knows that if you want to really know how to take care of yourself in the wild, I’m the person to talk to. I welcome competition, but I want to see real experts, not boy scouts pretending to be.”

Harsh words from Mears but he has got a point, Mears has been on TV for years and has never really had any competition. Even Grylls was quickly exposed as a fraud. A word that Mears avoided using but his point was well made. Mears is the expert in his field, and watching someone like Grylls just confirms that.

I really can’t see there being another series of Born Survivor, the whole programme becomes pointless when the voice over informs you that although he spent time building the shelter, Grylls actually spent the night with the crew, i.e. in a hotel.

Grylls may very well still have a decent career, just not as a TV survival expert.

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We’ve been quangoed

May 19, 2008 · 3 Comments

I almost passed out when reading this, and even now I am still scratching my head saying, “That can’t be right…”

£100bn a year spent on quangos - Telegraph

The amount of taxpayers’ money spent on unelected public bodies has doubled in the past decade to reach more than £100 billion a year, according to research.

£100 billion a year is an absolutely shocking figure. That means that around of a third of all the taxes collected by the Government each year is spent on quangos. Even more shocking is that more is spent on these quangos each year than on the NHS! No wonder the NHS is such a sorry state.

It has gotten so bad that the Government no longer keeps track of them, either through incompetence or through fear of the public finding out precisely where their taxes go.

With local councils under funded, the Royal Mail having to close branches due to lack of funds, higher fuel costs, hospital wards closing and the NHS ailing, it seems that the Government still has plenty of cash to hand out to pointless projects that have little or no bearing whatsoever on the public.

The fact that there are three agencies, Environwise, the Energy Saving Trust and the Carbon Trust, all doing the same thing shows that not only does the Government have no idea what is going on with these quangos, but that ‘Saving the Planet’ is a multi-million pound business. Not only are we paying a guilt green tax in the UK, but we are also subsidising a load of ‘environmentalists’ so that they can preach to us about how we are destroying the planet.

I am sure that 99% of these quangos serve no purpose whatsoever and could be scrapped without affecting an ordinary Brit’s way of life one bit.

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MPs expenses to be published

May 18, 2008 · 1 Comment

It has taken three years and hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money, but finally, thanks to Heather Brooke, the taxpayer will find out what they should already know, just where their taxes are being squandered.

The man at the centre of this debacle, is once again the fat waste of space, also known as the Speaker of the House, Michael Martin. The man who has disproved the age old stereotype that Scots are tight fisted, at least when it comes to spending other people’s money, has been fighting this action tooth and nail. I am sure that come next Friday, we will find out why.

This is just another example of the lengths that these MPs will go to, to ensure that you have no idea just how they are spending your cash. I am sure that it is not yet over and that Martin has a few other tricks up his sleeve, after all money is no problem to this man.

Martin should be forced to pay the court costs back from his lucrative pension, after all he has pursued this when it is not in the public interest to do so, and has done so only to cover his own arse. There was absolutely no reason to fight this case over three years and I hope that now he has been shamed, yet again, he will resign, although I won’t be holding my breath.

Miss Brooke said:

“What’s disappointing is that it took three years of concerted effort to counter the relentless opposition from the House of Commons Commission and Speaker Michael Martin, who used taxpayers’ money throughout to block the very information needed for an informed electorate.”

If MPs want to keep their purchases private, they should make them using their salary, like everyone else, rather than their taxpayer funded expense accounts. Moreover they should remember who their employers are and to whom they are held accountable.

We mock at nations like Russia for being corrupt, yet all the while our own elected elite are taking us for a ride in a similar fashion.

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MPs Taking the piss is OK

May 15, 2008 · No Comments

Apparently it is OK for MPs to spend taxpayers hard earned cash on frivolous luxury items such as taxi rides, at least according to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. It seems that when you are an MP, everything is free.

I am sure that if I tried to claim back taxi rides to Tesco from my boss, or even the Inland Revenue, as a legitimate business expense, I’d be in trouble, yet layabout MPs can even have their houses decorated at our expense. Not to mention have their council tax and mortgage paid, why do we put up with this? In no other profession can a person claim back so much from their ‘employer’ without any kind of checks.

Everyone else has to pay for all these sorts of things out of their salary, I don’t understand why MPs should be any different, particularly as they are the ones costing everyone else so much of their salary in the first place, not to mention setting the taxes in the first place. It must be quite gratifying setting taxes, knowing full well that you’ll never have to pay them.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has proven what a pointless waste of space he is, he should be replaced by three members of the public, a pensioner, an unemployed person and a single mum, people for whom being thrifty is a way of life; then see what expenses they can take the piss with. Having former MPs decide what MPs can claim in expenses is like having MPs choose their own pay rate, a complete farce.

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