“Homophobia” By Chumbawamba

According to  Daily Mail journalist Jan Moir, former Boyzone singer Stephen Gately died of “being gay.” The article can be read in it’s full vileness here

We have written to the press complaints comission to register our anger at such  a disgusting, inhuman and hateful article. We urge others to do the same. Moir will doubtless call this sort of thing  a ‘carefully orchestrated campaign’ .Ermmm by who we are not exactly sure,  probably those “gays” ?  Maybe Stephen Fry is pulling  everybody’s strings from his “lair” , that secret  hideaway, deep within a dormant volcano before he fires up his “Gay-Ray Gun” and turn us all into the sort of folk Moir disapporoves of ?   For the record we’re not gay,  we  f**king loathed  Boyside and Westzone’s music, but we do like to think  we are not totally devoid of humanity….anyway…here’s the letter to the PCC from “Team Pip “...

“I wish to complain about the breach of clause one of the code. It is factually inaccurate to say that young , healthy men do not go to bed and not wake up again.Apparently healthy people die every day due to Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Moir dismisses the family’s assertion that their son’s death was due to a heart condition despite the fact that the cause of death, pulmonary oedema, happens as a result of heart failure.Also,is she asserting a link between cannabis use and heart failure?

I feel she is also in breach of clause twelve of the code in that she is using her factually inaccurate assertions to reinforce predjudices against a particular group of people on the basis of their sexual orientation.The whole tone of the article, from the headline onwards, is designed to portray the idea that Mr. Gately’s death was in some way sinister and that this is inextricably linked with the fact that he was homosexual.Had this tragedy happened to a heterosexual ‘celebrity’ , I don’t believe that it would have attracted the same type of comment and so on that basis I would argue that the article is discriminatory .”

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Charlie Booker on Jan Moir

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A Conservative government would not stand by while unemployment rises in Britain, according to David Cameron. The Tories are, he said..wait for it…the party of compassion...hahahaha….excuse me , I’m sorry..but really..

We must learn lessons from the past says Cameron who is set to announce a new unempolyment “Tszar”.

Here he is …..

Media oligarch James Murdoch, Damien to Rupert’s Lucifer, has given a key note speech at the Edinburgh Television Festival about the future of  “media”.  He seems to suggest that the license fee isn’t value for money because the BBC actually give away too much free content ???

Yes, predictably he attacks Daddy’s “nemesi” hurling cliched brickbats at familiar targets such as the BBC, Virgin Media, your Aunt Joyce and anybody who might not wish to embrace the Sky TV “lifestyle choice philosophy” of a  KFC bucket of deep fried chickens feet, “Nuts” and “Zoo” laddishness, lots of piss weak overpriced lager and Tim Lovejoy-lite presenters  (if  Tim Lovejoy-lite is achievable Sky will excel baby! ).  Oh and “The expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision.” Bless, Daddy must be so proud whilst perfecting that comb-over to hide the three sixes on his noggin  and unlike Virgin Media and BT who objected to Government proposals  to punish illegal downloaders by switching off their Internet connection, Jim-bob wholeheartidly supports  such draconian action .. In fact he  thinks they should be executed, live on a new Sky TV reality show “Britains Stupidest Downloaders Who Pay a TV License Fee Whilst Don’t Subscribe To  Sky”

But some of us don’t actually see “Sky TV” as a force for good….

Alan Duncan, the Tory frontbencher who has redinfined the pharse “arrogant f*ck-wit” and has an unfortunate habit of producing verrbal diarrohea on an alarmingly regular basis, has said that MPs are being treated like “shits” and forced to live on “rations” following the expenses scandal. (see story here)

Let’s recap what millionaire oil trader Alan considered legitmate expenses before public fury put a temporary halt to the gravy train.  He claimed £4,000 in  gardening costs which included £598 to overhaul a ride-on lawn-mower and then a further £41 to fix a puncture.  He also had an earlier claim in of £3,194 for gardening expenses rejected by the fees office, which wrote to Mr Duncan suggesting that the claim might not be “within the spirit of the rules .” Pfft ,what’s a boy to do ?

So the next time you’re sweating over paying a credit card bill, redundancy or where to make cuts in the household budget, spare a thought, or maybe even a bob or two for your MP,  don’t treat them with contempt, don’t label them unctuous, grasping, selfish, greedy out of touch shits …… times are hard in Westminister these days-have a heart.

David Cameron appointed former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his director of communication  to bring his slick, oiley and some might say underhand,  tabloid skills to run the  Tory media machine. He may now be forced to sack him , rather like  Alastair Campbell, it appears the spin doctor has become the story .

Coulson was a free agent after he had resigned as editor of the Sunday newspaper in 2007 after taking responsibility for the tapping of the phones of royal staff by a NoW journalist who, alongside a private investigator, was jailed for the offence.

The Guardian claim that thousands of similar offences were committed, with the  Rupert Murdoch’s News International paying  £1m in out-of-court settlements to victims to keep  things hush-hush and Coulson is insisting he knew bugger all about it !!  That view is likely to be challenged and Coulson could once  again have to defend himself and face awkward questions  from the police if a fresh investigation is launched. So much for the Tories being “the party you can trust” eh ?

Peter Mandelson revealed in an email, some  nine months before his return to cabinet that he thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown was “not comfortable in his own skin.” Story here

Mandelson on the other hand has no such problem….

Not been the best of weeks for the Prime Minister has it ?

Amongst the comings and goings in a week fraught with resignations, Machiavellian plotting and general media hysteria there was the curious case of Caroline Flint. She resigned claiming  that she was no longer willing to be treated as  “female window dressing”. Story here . We will certainly not be making any sexist jokes about being happy to offer Mrs Flint a position on our cabinet. No. She may have a valid point, but sadly she will stand accused by many, of playing the “sexist card”.  Her statement the day prior to her resignation would have many questioning her real motivation.

“I am staying in the government.”I have spent my entire ministerial career for six years now serving Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and I am very proud to be in a Labour government and very proud to be part of Gordon Brown’s government.

Her position suddenly changed the following day when it transpired she wasnt to be offered the job she thought her “loyalty” deserved, as she sobbed “Several of the women attending cabinet – myself included – have been treated by you as little more than female window dressing.”I am not willing to attend cabinet in a peripheral capacity any longer.”

Brown of course denied he had  ever regarded Mrs Flint as “window dressing”, as our exclusive picture clearly demonstrates.

And to top it all………….…. ( Story here)

But despite all of the above, it doesn’t stop Cameron being a useless T*at either,  does it ?

So when is fraud not fraud ? Why when its an MP expense claim of course!  With so many MP’s stating “it was a mistake , an oversight, I was badly advised” one wonders whether such cretins, whose numeracy seems rudimentary at best,  are really the right people to be holding the public purse strings, let alone run the country?

You can bet your bottom dollar if this was, say,  a housing benefit scam, or indeed any other abuse of public money, prosecutions would follow….we shall see….

Here are some the high profile cases, remember, this is your money folks..

Gordon Brown

Mr Brown used his expenses to pay his brother Andrew £6,577 for cleaning work at his Westminster flat between 2004 and 2006. The brothers shared the cleaner at their two flats. Under the arrangement, Andrew Brown paid the cleaner and the Prime Minister reimbursed his share of the cost.

Jack Straw

The Justice Secretary claimed for the full cost of council tax, even though he received a 50% discount from his local authority. He repaid the money last summer, shortly after a High Court ruling requiring the receipts to be published. In a note to the fees office he wrote: “Accountancy does not appear to be my strongest suit.”

David Miliband

The Foreign Secretary claimed almost £30,000 for doing up his £120,000 constituency home over five years, it was reported. He spent up to £180 every three months on the garden at the property in South Shields. At the bottom of one receipt for £132.96 in April 2008, his gardener wrote a note questioning whether some of the work was necessary.

Hazel Blears

The Communities Secretary claimed for three different properties in a single year, spending almost £5,000 of taxpayers’ money on furniture in three months.

Margaret Beckett

The Housing Minister found herself in trouble with the Fees Office after attempting to claim £600 for hanging baskets and pot plants.

Andy Burnham

The Culture Secretary wrote a note to the fees office in which he pleaded for his expenses to be paid urgently and even wrote he “might be in line for a divorce” if the money did not materialise within days.

John Prescott

The taxpayer paid for the former deputy prime minister to fit the front of his home in Hull with mock Tudor boards and for his toilet seat to be repaired twice in two years. ( I have a horrible mental picture at this point)

John Reid

The former Home Secretary’s claims included a £199 pouffe, a £370 armchair, an £899 sofa and a £29.99 a “black glitter toilet seat”. ( Nice, so much for the “hard man” image eh?)

David Cameron

The Tory leader claimed a total of £82,450 on his second home allowance over five years which included a £680 bill for repairs to the property relating to the  clearing wisteria and vines from a chimney and replacing outside lights . (Good God, even his expense claims are bland and dull ! )

Oliver Letwin

Mr Letwin, who is in charge of drawing up the Conservative general election manifesto, claimed more than £2,000 to replace a leaking pipe under his tennis court. He said he had been ordered to mend the pipe by the local water company and did not make any improvements to the court or his garden. The taxpayer also picked up the tab for regular services to his Aga cooker.

Greg Barker

Mr Barker – the first prominent Tory to be caught up in the expenses row – reportedly made a £320,000 profit on a flat he bought at the taxpayers’ expense.

David Willetts

The shadow innovation, universities and skills secretary claimed £115 plus VAT to replace 25 light bulbs at his second home in west London. On the same claim – part of a £2,191 invoice for odd jobs that included cleaning a shower head – Mr Willetts charged another £80 to “change light bulbs in bathroom”. But parliamentary authorities pared the bill back by more than £1,000, refusing to refund £175 for a dog enclosure and £750 for a shed base. According to the Daily Telegraph, the fees office frequently cut his claims because of errors or overclaims.

Nick Herbert

The shadow environment secretary claimed back £10,000 of the £14,700 stamp duty when he bought a home with his partner in his constituency. He also charged for fees and a survey of the property in Arundel, West Sussex and claimed for the entire monthly mortgage interest even though his partner’s name was on the deeds

lan Duncan

The shadow leader of the Commons claimed thousands of pounds for his garden before agreeing with the fees office that the spending “could be considered excessive”. Millionaire Mr Duncan recouped £4,000 over three years. However, a £3,194 bill for gardening in March 2007 was not paid after officials responded suggesting that the claim might not be “within the spirit” of the rules, according to the Daily Telegraph. In a letter to the MP for Rutland and Melton, the fees office said that it expected gardening costs “to cover only basic essentials such as grass cutting”.

Nick Clegg

The current Lib Dem leader reported had his second home allowance docked last year after exceeding the £23,083 maximum by more than £100. Other claims made included £1,657.32 for food, and phone bills which included calls to Colombia and Vietnam.

Chris Huhne

The Lib Dem’s home affairs spokesman regularly submits claims for food and groceries including pints of milk, fluffy dusters and chocolate biscuits. Millionaire Mr Huhne, who is MP for Eastleigh in Hampshire, also expensed a £119 trouser press which was delivered to his main London home.

So how did this system of corruption ever become just a perk of the job ? Well as with many of societies ills it’s all Thatchers fault. According to Michael Brown, former Tory MP, Margaret Thatcher is to blame as she blocked a salary increase and introduced allowances instead, thus deceiving the electorate. “Cheeky Boy” Lembit Opik also backed up this claim saying that the whole system is wrong but that it was Thatcher’s fault because she introduced the current system and, he claimed,  encouraged MP’s to use expense claims as a means of supplementing their income.

Time for Madame Guillotine to make an appearance me thinks

“Margaret On the Guillotine” By Morrissey

“Today a colleague suggested I might like to shave my hair off, bark like a dog for the  day or dress up as character from Pirates of the Caribbean, all in the name of Comic Relief … I suggested he might like to F**k off.  If the incident proved anything it proved he didn’t know me very well at all….(he also brought in an enormous tray of  Red Nose cakes, and failed to see the irony-help those without food by celebrating with a huge cake! )

Comic Relief ?  Isn’t that the annual event which broadcasts  the ridiculous spectacle of  Lenny Henry attempting to  revive his flagging career, but merely sees the BBC cast as a desperate paramedic giving the kiss of life  to the  freshly exhumed corpse  that is Henry’s career?  Lets face it, the man’s about as funny as a case of gonorrhea, but without the social  relevance. But Comic Relief? Ah yes, that backslapping national w*nk fest when we feel at one with our celeb pals . Personally I find it nauseating, patronising and totally misguided. The so called 3^rd world doesn’t want our charity or our pity they want independence and self respect … but being charitable makes us feel good about ourselves doesn’t it?

Sadly well meaning donations aren’t  the answer,  it’s just a way to assuage the minor twinges of conscience we sometimes get about the “poor people.” Yet there’s enough money in the world to really make a difference and to give the  ”3rd World” a real chance to develop, alas  the capitalist system dictates that  they must instead be treated as inferior beings, deserving of pity only when dullards such as U2’s Bongo or Barlow or Moyles  prick our  national conscience ( prick being the operative word. )  Hey Kids ! Let’s give Africa some crumbs of comfort from our table of plenty when we have finished gorging ourselves to bursting point. All charity does is provide a temporary stop-gap, never a solution and it lets governments off the hook. While there are charities, Brown /Bush (the juries out on Obama as yet) can still afford to spend millions on their phoney “War on Terror” ( my mate Trevor’s dyslexic and sh*t himself when he first read that phrase! ) and bail out the corrupt bankers, and multi nationals.

Political pressure on governments could achieve a real sea change in how we live our lives, if we were prepared to make even some small sacrifices.  Sadly we consider sitting in tubs of custard to be the only real sacrifice we need make. But  hey! It shows we really are wacky, fun loving people, why I bet those African folk can hardly contain their mirth!

The long term solution is political, but of course that’s not really very entertaining is it, that’s boring and dull and worthy and dry innit?  And of course the petit-bourgeois love their charitable fun don’t they? If Davina says it’s cool to have fun and raise money then it must be OK mustn’t it? And Davina’s ,like, a gal’s best mate isn’t she ? I bet it would be great to go the pub with her cos she’s like, so down to earth and sh*t

Urrgh!  So F**K off Bongo, Gary Barlow, David Beckham and all your backslapping sanctimonious chums, all you hypocrite millionaire rock stars and Z list celebs, with your jets and your mansions and your lectures about how we should donate money … …Mind you I’ll give money willingly  to keep Chris Moyles and Gary Barlow atop Kilimanjaro permanently, Brokeback Mountain for the terminally dull and talentless perhaps ? ….

You do wonder about peoples self worth when they have to live their lives vicariously through modern day philosophers like Cheryl and Jade and Myleene and Chris and Gary and their ilk.  The most profound thing I’ve ever heard Fern Cotton say is “Wicked innit” and frankly it changed my life.  Could she be any more bland? Well yes, the afore mentioned Davina would suggest so.

Of course comic relief also helps celebs feel good about themselves too, raises their profile  and in their disconnected little heads they can actually justify receiving a weekly wage which would keep a small African republic’s economy afloat.  As Chumbawamba once sang  with reference to Live Aid ” Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records” and they  win Oscars too. In “Slum Dog Millionaire” only the good looking kids were cast, you know, the ones who have large liquid poetic eyes, like deep wells of misery and they are of course eminently  photogenic . “For god sakes keep the ugly sick kids away from the cameras ….Jeez the ones with no teeth, conjunctivitis and rotting limbs might put  the cinema going public off their pop corn, and we don’t want to deal with reality really do we, this aint a f**king liberal commie pinko documentary Danny, this is entertainment for god sakes” !

People will defend comic relief saying its better to do something than nothing. I’m not advocating doing nothing, I’m talking about taking radical action, doing something more than wearing a bright red nose like a badge of honour one day a year to denote your compassion and then behaving like a c*nt for the rest of the year. Lets pay more tax , lets boycott celebs who get paid stupid money, lets donate  our season ticket money for next years football to pressure groups. Will you do that? Or will you merely wear a red nose and donate a fiver once a year .

But we are all manipulated by the media and led by celebs and we lap it up, all of us!  Take the case of poor Jade Goody, is she really now an embodiment of the nations grief? Did Gordon Brown really have to say “Jane Goody’s plight is of concern to the nation” to be honest it took me a while trying to work out who this “Jane” lass was .  But the Jade Goody coverage makes me want to vomit my own kidneys up.  Cancer negates racism eh? So she’s now cast as Mother Theresa, and displaced “poor little Maddie” in the nation’s hearts. Sad as it is that someone so young is dying, the voyeuristic hour by hour updates are truly ghoulish, sick and deeply disturbing, but African kids sell records and pictures of Jade sell newspapers and Joe Public LOVE it ! They want to actually see her die….they demand that final tragic picture….

It seems that today fame is the only justification for anybody’s existence, and our obsession with the lives of people who we don’t even know, seems to be the only way the masses feel connected. We’ll spend hours searching the net and magazines for Jade related stories, cos we care,   yet next door our 80 year old neighbour has been dead for a week…………… nobodies noticed.

It’s a twisted world ….

Responding to criticism of the Buy America clause in the $900 billion stimulus package, the President said he was eager to avoid being protectionist. After a flurry of European criticism concerning a ‘Buy America’ clause contained in the almost $900 billion stimulus plan, US president Barack Obama said that he is keen to avoid a trade conflict.

“I think it would be a mistake though, at a time when worldwide trade is declining, for us to start sending a message that somehow we’re just looking after ourselves and not concerned with world trade,”

STORY HERE

It was erm surreal..

“American Idiot” By Green Day

And the party to celebrate George W’s legacy was in full swing earlier today..

The Best Of Bush

Q: When is a war crime not a war crime?

A: When you have one of  Uncle George W’s “Get Out Of Jail” cards

The “War On Terror was wrong” said David Milliband today. (story here) Still it’s of little comfort to Brian, Larry and Henry (below,) all accused of crimes of terror, which turned their world upside down!

Wrongly Accused-The "Terror Trio"

“I was literally shitting me self” said Larry Talbot, a rather hirsute labourer from Croydon, London.   Meanwhile Professor Henry Jarrod’s popular Wax Museum had to close through a concerted “whispering campaign“.  And spare a thought for Brian Stoker, a Dentist from Middlesborough, who spent six months in Guantanamo Bay. “I’m suing” said a furious Mr Stoker, yesterday.

An Innocent Abroad

The Royal family found themselves caught up in a new race row today after it emerged the Prince of Wales has been calling an Asian friend by the nickname “Sooty”.

Prince Charles with friends Jamie Phelps Gore Booth "Sweep" and ("Far Right") Kolin Dhillon "Sooty" at the Cirencester Polo club, yesterday

This is not the first time the royals have been embroiled in accusations of racism. Prince Harry was pictured dressed in a Nazi uniform at a fancy dress party. The Queen has referred to people of African descent as “fuzzy wuzzys and Prince Phillip it is alleged, thinks “Combat 18″ “a bit of a wheeze”

Graham Smith, campaign manager for the organisation “Republic”, said: “I think it goes to show the royal family are not a symbol of unity, it’s not something we can rally around, they’re quite divisive.

“People are saying they are not racist but on the evidence in the public domain I think that’s to the contrary.

“It also shows how hugely out of touch they are and that they live in a very isolated world, only mixing with a certain kind of person.”

Harry was caught on film three years ago referring to former Pakistani platoon member Ahmed Raza Khan as “our little Paki friend”.  It would seem the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree, as Prince Phillip whose racist language is bizarrely often excused as “gaffes” hasn’t exactly hidden his rampant ignorance and bigotry. In 1986, for example, the queen’s husband remarked to a British student during a visit to China: ‘‘If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes.”

In 1998, during a tour of Papua New Guinea, he told another British student, ”You managed not to get eaten then?”

Or the time he told a British tourist who was visiting Budapest, Hungary: ”You can’t have been here that long — you haven’t got a pot belly.”

Definitely time for a republic I think ..

This is what happens when you go to an awards ceremony and inadvertently leave your love eggs in situ! Ooooooh, Ahhhh!  Golden globes indeed !

Yes, yes yes YES !

Click audio below to find out  exactly what Kate had to say!

Before attending a recent fancy dress party with chums, Prince Harry gave an unreserved apology for using the term “Paki.” (Story here)

“It was a joke” said Harry, “One feels like an absolute spazzy using such outdated terminology. I accept it was,like, a totally gay thing to do and I apologise to all the blacks, my bird with the lovely tits  was mortified.”

As "Dumbledore"

In more controversy the “Half Wit Prince” says he was persuaded by chums to dress up “Just like Dumbledore” at a recent fancy dress bash in Henley. “I mean after one was tricked into dressing up as  the Hun last time, one can’t be too careful!  Surely nobody can take offence at one dressed up as a harmless, jolly old  wizard” . Indeed Harry, indeed.

The biggest fraud since George Michael passed himself off as straight, (story here.) Personally I think the movie industry should start make feel good films, to cheer us all up during the recession.

“I saved the cheerleader” claims defiant Brown !! Yes, don’t worry people, Gordon Brown has “Saved The World” -(with a little help from SuperMan-delson!)- Hurrah ! (Story HERE)

I must apologise for the lack of posting here, truth is the story dominating the political scene here in the UK , (Damian Green’s arrest) has been a huge, huge bore . Only the Daily Mail seem to care, the rest of us couldn’t give a flying f**k! …..( For a cure for insomnia read here. Personally I’d arrest the lot of them )

Anyway Christmas is nearly here and

The Von Pip Express would like to congratulate Mr Obama on his historic victory. We wish him well. To John McCain and Sarah Palin we feel it would be polite to express our commiserations, alas all we can say, hand on heart is…. “thank F**k! “

“Can We Fix It ? Yes We Can!”

(Listen to Barack’s Victory Song Below)

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Well its been impossible to avoid in the UK , but perchance if you have lived in a cave here’s the story

My problem with it was the fact that Russell Brand and Jonathan “untouchable” Ross are paid between them over six million quid a year, for what? -So this is an example of their so called “edgy talent?  I’m sure the Beeb could walk into any school playground in the country and find more wit and ready repartee then this cretinous exercise in infantile “humour” ? Talk about dragging an unfunny joke out …(yawn.) It was only a matter of time before Woss’s increasingly pervy behaviour got him into trouble… At the end of the day It just wasn’t really very funny was it ? Whether it deserved the puritanical media storm that followed is another matter…The funniest thing to emerge from this was the Daily Mail going apoplectic about the matter-”a national disgrace”  etc – now that made me laugh !

But you have to laugh !

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Yes even the royals are having a tough old time of it. Story here

Meanwhile, as the stockmarket disappears up the buttocks of greed, I too find myself lacking in empathy or sympathy ,

The chastening of so called “celebs” is of course one of the many advantages of a recession,  finally people can see that the  emperor really is bollock naked.

Vladimir Putin’s Desert Island Discs…

As all sides continue to huff and puff ( here)

“Red Army Blues” By The Waterboys

The atmosphere in Beijing is thick with excitement, as well as Ozone, Carbon Monoxide and Nitrogen oxides! Personally Im looking forward to the “Tiananmen Dash,” in which teams have to skillfully avoid tanks and volleys of bullets, the country with the most survivors wins ! Let the games begin….

“China has announced that during the Olympics, protesters will be allowed to assemble in designated protest areas. Yeah. Or, as they’re commonly called in China, jails.” –Conan O’Brien

Recent  terrorist trouble in Xinjiang, has meant that local indie tribute band Ho Lean & The Xinjiang Xong, have dropped out of the Olympic opening ceremony. Lead singer Ho Lean explained “It’s not about the terrorist threat, or the fact that we annoy people, lots, we just felt it’’s come too early in our career….anyway we want to make music that a tribe in Papua New Guinea can relate to…I want to be an other-worldly being! (CUCKOO!)

Rock N Roll Ain't Noise Pollution ?

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Another day, another sh*t storm for PM Gordon Brown.  Just when he thought things couldn’t get any worse, Tony Blair dumps on him from a great height (story here) with news of a “leaked” memo.

Blair: "Dumping Or Leaking ?"

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What the heck it has to do with Alan Sugar is beyond me? I mean what next? Ant n’Dec on the economy? Joey Barton on prison reform and how not to be a tw*t ?

Crazy moon-faced Hollywood actor Jon Voight has gone all Norma Desmond on us this weekand deigned to let Joe Public know just what he thinks of Barack Obama. Loftily entitled “My Concerns for America” It’s unintentionally hilarious in an American Alan Partridge kind of way…

” It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs.Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize thiscountry and help create a socialist America.”

or check out this nugget on Vietnam

“The radicals of that era were successful in giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they helped create and walked away.”

Hang on ! Isn’t this the same Jon Voight who starred as a paraplegic Vietnam vet in “Coming Home,” along side Anti-war campaigner Hanoi Jane (Fonda) ? And his character, Luke Martin, now what was his motivation in the movie ? Ah yes  “Luke has only one obsession: do anything to stop the sending of young guys to war.” Is that Napalm I can smell, or maybe just hypocrisy.It’s rather easy to see why Voight and “liberal” daughter Angelina Jolie, barely get along, isn’t it ?

But wait he’s back, rambling on about Obama’s sinister Communist agenda

“This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr.Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.”

and like a true right wing redneck, he conjures up that old republican chestnut, the spectre of Nuclear war (Whoooooooo)

“There’s not a cell in my body that can accept the idea that Mr. Obama can keep us safe from the terrorists around the world, and from Iran, which is making great strides toward getting the atomic bomb.”

Fears for Voight’s sanity intensified last night,  as the hapless thespian was spotted, dressed as Abraham Lincoln, at poorly attended protest rally (namely Voight and his dog Jo-Buck Reagan III) outside Obama’s campaign quarters, pathetically chanting “He’s big/ He’s black/ Obama loves Iraq”

Elsewhere I paticulary enjoyed Marina Hyde’s take on this story in “The Guardian”

Voight – the political thinker of our age?
“To the Washington Times, where Jon Voight has broken another of his silences on the US election — in an op-ed piece the critics are calling his finest work since he phoned in his performance as the US defence secretary in Transformers last year. God, more than any other actor in the picture, he made Lost in Showbiz realise how vital it was that Megatron should never possess the AllSpark. And he brings that same fervour to the argument that Barack Obama should never possess the presidency.

Having explained that Obama is running as Louis Farrakhan’s enabler, and trying to “program” young American minds to turn commie, the entertainer sets out his stall as one of the foremost political thinkers of our age — and indeed the age in which he was last relevant. He blames liberals for Vietnam. “Did they stop the war,” he asks, “or did they bring the war to those innocent people?”

Something for us all to ponder.”

Story HERE

British Gas today hiked gas bills by 35% and electricity prices by 9% heaping more misery on households. The price hikes come into effect immediately and will add an extra £262.80 a year to the average dual fuel customer’s bill, or 72p a day. This news came after Jake Ulrich, the managing director of Centrica, which owns British Gas, angered aged charities and consumer groups by advising “ maybe it’s a case of two jumpers instead of one.”