Major warns Brown that the UK's credit rating could collapse!

Sir John Major spells it out to cloth-eared Brown "If they continue with this huge deficit, at some stage our national credit rating will collapse".



At least one former Cabinet member has realised the fudge game is up. John Hutton says, "I don't think you can go on saying we can continue to spend as if nothing has happened in the last year or so - people know something big time has changed." And even that implies the average voter is thinking through a headful of custard!

Alistair Darling, though, appears to have adopted the custard thinking process. "Gordon and I have many discussions and both of us are absolutely clear our priority now is to build our economy, to resume with great vigour the drive to make sure this is happening in other parts of the world because our future depends on that. I am very clear that things like education, health, transport, these are important matters. But as I have said time and time again, all of us are going to have to make our choices, all of us are going to have to set our priorities and the public will judge." What on earth is all that about? Waffle and piffle!

Truth will out, Darling!

MP Jeffrey Donaldson in saucy video viewing scandal!

Jeffrey Donaldson has got his come-uppance. He was always parroting the virtues of decent Ulster living. Now he has been caught renting so-called adult movies in a London hotel room. Peter Robinson, the dour jokeless leader of the DUP, says, "Mr Donaldson has been asked to pay back any expenses which have not been properly incurred and I understand that he intends to do so. In the light of his categorical denials, Mr Donaldson is clearly entitled to a presumption of innocence. If any evidence to substantiate the allegations can be provided we would of course wish to consider it." That is absolutely correct.

However, Donaldson's denials seem a bit hollow in light of the Daily Telegraph's account of the matter. I don't really mind if he wants to watch such movies in his spare time. What does bother me is that he saw fit to shove all the rental costs down as legitimate expenses.

The DUP is committed to Christian values, says the Telegraph. Possibly. But forgiveness is not high on their agenda. Jeffrey Donaldson spent a lot of time railing against other for immorality and not living a good life. His best bet now is to think about the beams in his own eyes before deciding on what to about the motes in others!

What a gay day!

Today sees a march of gay pride through London with various dignatories clamouring to be seen and heard indicating their support for the march and all it holds dear. I wonder how many would run to join the tail end of a straight pride march if any such thing was conceived?

I find the whole thing rather negative. It does not help that the stereotypical camp gays will be the ones that the press will photograph. The whole thing is not about so-called gay pride but about making those who have views on homosexuality that do not fit it with the new order silent and marginalised. Listening to the likes of Chris Bryant, a man who posed in his underpants on a gay website, criticising the Conservative Party is distasteful in itself.

We appear to be moving into the realms of a fascist-style thought approval mode. Ben Bradshaw, a man who was involved once in producing a homoerotic "prayer book" and, like Chris Bryant, is acting like a gay Trojan horse in the Church, attacks the Conservative Party and says "a deep strain of homophobia still exists on the Conservative benches". This implies that those who disagree with his gay mantra should be silenced.

I consider the bandying about of the word homophobia (itself a non-word) with such loose reason is itself an insult. Alan Duncan is a Shadow Cabinet member. He happens to be gay. He is in a civil partnership. I have not heard that being "discussed". Duncan says of the Labour tirade, "This is the last gasp of Labour's desperation. Bradshaw and Bryant are simply trying to stir up hatred and division from the last century and it's both unwarranted and unworthy. It's simply untrue. I believed we had reached the happy point where politics had been taken out of this altogether. But these remarks show that Labour is actually the nasty party. I have publicly paid tribute to Tony Blair for his achievements, particularly on introducing civil partnerships. David Cameron this week said that on section 28 we had to admit we got it wrong. The party has changed. I bet in Labour backwaters there are plenty of people who don't like the fact that Ben Bradshaw is gay." Now all that is true.

There was a time when homosexuals could be blackmailed. The blackmailer would suggest that exposure to the criminal justice system would end a glittering career or a happy marriage. Most caring thoughtful people found this utterly distasteful and wanted the law changed. I have no sympathy with blackmailers. It is the lowest form of financial crime. In fact, the current crop of banking spivs could not stoop so low. However, it is one thing to give fairness of treatment to people. It is quite another to denigrate in a nasty way those people who disagree with you.

Ben Bradshaw and Chris Bryant appear to be raising a rallying flag. In their sights are those they call "homophobes". These are those who hold to traditional church teaching, those who consider homosexual practice incompatible with family life, and others who express contrary views to the Bradshaw/Bryant thought process. The Pope is vilified in their eyes. The Church is to be attacked at every turn. We have already heard their bile over the Catholic adoption agencies.

Is it now suggested that only those who agree with this form of censorship can enter the House of Commons? Surely not! Those MPs who, in conscience, cannot subscribe to promoting this "gay agenda" will need all the courage at their disposal because this un-Christian duo will be attempting to make their lives hell.

Bankers get a warning from Darling

Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned that it would be "disastrous" for bankers if they returned to their old ways and repeated past mistakes. He says this -

"There are people who are too complacent in my view. Some (banks) are only operating at all because of very substantial support from taxpayers, who are entitled to tell the government we must not repeat the mistakes. If they go back to the way they were - to business as usual - without asking themselves over and over again whether they understand what they are doing, that would be disastrous for them and the rest of the world."

Sounds very good and plausible. Yes, the taxpayers are entitled to tell the government not repeat the mistakes of the past. But what if the future represents only casino banking? We have learnt nothing then. Surely as major stakeholders the Government can make sure these greedy bankers just learn to cut their cloth like anyone else. Why should they be a special case? What makes them so utterly different that they need all this money. Half what the chairmen of Lloyds and RBS get would be a decent enough package. They have sold their souls to the Devil!

Darling needs to get a grip. Play hardball with these tossers. It's no good giving sermons. We require cast iron guarantees that this finanancial rescidivists have repented and will from now on endeavour to do good for the country.

Liberty Bell to ring in Norwich?

The Norwich North by-election will be upon us soon or maybe I should say the result will. The campaign is already under way. One party has got my attention. It is the Libertarian Party. On their website the Libertarian candidate Thomas Burridge, who is only 18 years old, says this.

"Most sensible people will be saying, what the hell does he know about anything?

This is what I do know. The last twelve years of Labour has left my generation in massive debt. My generation will be paying off the excesses of the last twelve years for the rest of our lives. And we may even pass this debt on to our as yet unborn children. Did we have any say in the spending splurge that led to this debt mountain? No we did not.

Currently the Tories and Labour are arguing about cutting a pifling 5% off our current bloated state spending. The LPUK are talking about scrapping the whole rotten system. They will get rid of the high personal taxes, squalid services, corrupt Parliament and start again.

I may not win this time, but I will be back in five years, and in another five years and in another five years. By then the guilty ones will still be enjoying their gold-plated pensions or will be long dead, but the debt will remain.

I am from the Debt Generation and I believe only the LPUK has fresh answers for a new generation."

He sees the stark truth and feels he represents the "Debt Generation". Isn't it a crying shame that the main parties seem to be in utter denial about this, more so Gordon Brown, who appears to think that increased spending will never have to be paid for?

DIY circumcision man rushed to hospital!

There are some crazy people in this world and there never ceases to be new recruits to the ranks of the crazies. A young man was rushed to hospital after attempting delicate surgery on his penis using a pair of nail clippers. Can you imagine the pain. Apparently he was intoxicated. He'd need to be! One wonders what possessed him to think that such self-mutilation was a necesary thing.

The man was kept in the hospital for further observation. For his brain rather than his penis, I assume.

Michael Jackson's secret girlfriend!

Sky News is getting all excited. Any piece of Jackson sensationalism and we all know about it. I kind of watch Sky News. But it's done with the ability to change channels quickly. This morning some character described as being "Matt Fiddes, the tragic singer's friend and UK bodyguard" gave his "astonishing news" that Michael Jackson had a secret girlfriend. So that gives Matt the opportunity to dine out on something and it also offers Sky News the opportunity to go sniffing around southern California. Remember it was a Murdoch ragsheet reporter who fingered Robert Murat in Portugal about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

So we've got another question mark added to the mix. Who is this mystery woman? Is she a woman or what? My bet is that the secret girlfriend is anything from a friend of Bubbles to a figment of Fiddes' imagination. What is reality when it comes to anything about Michael Jackson? The story will run it's course no doubt.

Ron Paul's 'Audit the Fed' bill gathering steam

This piece comes from CQ Politics about Ron Paul's efforts to stop the political fudging about how much America is in debt. Dr.Paul has a large number of cosponsors, 244 right now. It's amazing that the authorities in both Washington and Brussels seem to be scared stiff of having audits. The public on both sides want transparency, but it's like wading through custard. What makes them so difficult? Surely not the ending of the gravy trains?