Has Andrew Mitchell Gone Native at DfID?
Andrew Mitchell was David Davis’ leadership campaign manager, a gut right-winger he was grateful to survive in the shadow cabinet when the Cameroons took over.
Of late he has tried to get with the new normal, filming tear-jerker videos of himself in disaster zones, giving touchy feely speeches that would bring a warm feeling to Steve Hilton.
All very well but the world’s poor would benefit from the ex-banker bringing them a little capitalist prosperity. At DfID he has a Herculean task clearing out the right-on stables.
On the evidence of this poster for a seminar in his office, DfID is still run along the lines of a student union staffed by wild-eyed kids back from their gap year. Guido doesn’t think the mitigation of the effects of the climate is a wimmins issue, nor is it gender-sensitive. Rains, floods and drought don’t care if you are a boy or girl.
Every issue has a gender, race and sexuality component, especially if it is your job to find them… The ‘equality’ industry is an industry, albeit one that makes no money for anyone outside of that industry.
Women tend to feel the cold much more than men as they are less active.
gone native means when you live in another country and lose your character which Mitchell has not done although most of u lot would have me do
Integrate or emigrate
No tell em just to fuck off. Dirty smelly, ignorant buggers.
or just emigrate. who wants an integrated muslim next door?
Common courtesy means respecting the customs and practices of the country you are in, and not, for example, demanding the general adoption of legal, sartorial and dietary practices from other cultures.
Agreed, If I were to emigrate, I would then observe the laws and customs of the country I emigrated to.
It is simply ignorance, bad manners, disrespectful and fucking selfish to expect an entire nation to change to accommodate the “cultural” quirks of those coming to live here.
I agree with the phrase, integrate or fuck off.
Why the fuck should we eradicate OUR historic, ancestral, heritage and culture to make room for foreigners who who can find entire nations already totally dedicated to their heritage and culture?
FUCK THAT! I want this country’s government to defend OUR traditional British Culture with everything they have got, instead of allow themselves to be pussy-whipped into submission by the poison of political correctness.
Going native is often a good thing with expats and those domiciled abroad.
It is A VERY BAD THING, when Tory councilors and MP’s, start to accept the cozy & costly practices of civil servants as a fait accompli.
Nice of you to admit that you’re not British.
We would rather you just left, you are not welcome
But women fart less than men too – so produce less greenhouse gasses out of their bottoms. (they never stop talking either so may be hot air from mouth cancels that effect)
Thats true, also they have smaller feet (generally speaking) so are more likely to have a smaller carbon footprint.
Which means they can get closer to the cooker and turn it off quicker.
Got to agree on the farting.
Noticed it is worse after a curry, does this mean that asians produce more greenhouse gases.
Well you could look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3oAjBwteHo !
Actually it’s been proven (not that men need to be told this) that women fat MORE than men and in research womens farts are shown to be smellier.
This is not new of course, but something denied by most women.
Not sure I accept women fart less, they’re more crafty about it, eg slipping out a silent one after you have let rip, and blaming you for the godawful stench.
It’s probably 50-50, let’s be honest. But men seem to revel in it, like it relates in some way to penis size. (Probably the louder, the smaller;)
Obviously holding it in must inflate your arse
Hang on. My cows are being blamed for this climate change wotsit. My bulls are never mentioned. And cows are female. Ergo, they must fart more than my bullocks.
Who does most of the agricultural work in poor countries while the men sit on their arses all day? That’s a gender issue. If the farming is affected by climate change, then it’s a gender issue to do with climate change.
Blinkers off, boys!
Get a life,no wonder the country is in the state it’s in with this type of “thinking”,the real worl outside London doesn’t think that way,people are too busy trying to live with the damage that has been done by this rubbish.
My. Problem. How.
As far as I am concerned, any society that is based on subsidence farming is long overdue a taste of Darwinism irrespective of who does the work.
If you are so bothered about it, get out there and give the ladies a hand. Stop regarding your own moral outrage as a free pass to nominate others to pay for it all.
I’d suggest that any society based on “subsidence farming” isn’t going to last very long.
Possibly you mean something else? You div.
I agree, and giving aid to subsidence farming societies is just throwing money into a hole in the ground.
Could be a novel use for disused coal mines?
Don’t say ‘coal mines’ – you’ll have the Climate Change Nazis going into overdrive.
Waah! Carbon footprints! Waah!
Bollocks. A bit of subsidence would do them good, mind. Get them off their arses as the mud hut starts to collapse.
I did of course mean subsistence you picky twat.
Try ploughing land on anything more than a gentle slope, and you’ll soon find out what ‘subsidence farming’ can result in.
Not long ago, the general destruction of dairy farming in this country led many farmers in the Wye valley to plough sloping land long used for pasture in order to grow potatoes – best way they could see to make a living. Soil runoff was so bad that the river ran red for many months.
The underlying cause of this was the incessant drive for ‘cheap food’. Not sure that we’ve really learned the lessons yet.
Funny how we in Europe have somehow ended up with the most expensive ‘cheap food’ in the World, innit?
Yes Tesco, and Asda, and Morrisons, even THE CO-OP, etc., PLUS WHOLESALERS! I’m looking at you.
Wall to wall food, all across Europe, farmers paid a pittamce for it, and all the excessive profits hiden by creative accountancy and massive store building and refurbishment plans.
The greed is coming back to bite you in the arse though isn’t it? Having to bail out producers you have driven into poverty and bankrupcy, the writing on the wall for you thieves is the dire straits Carrefour has got itself into.
You days are numbered, people all across Europe are boycotting you creeps out of existence already.
The green crooks aren’t going down alone, that’s for sure.
Funny how Europe has the most expensive ‘cheap food’ in the World isn’t it?
It’s all starting to bite the greedy crooked scum in the arse now though isn’t it? Carrefour for example in so much trouble due to being boycotted across Europe, they are having to try and sell off one of thier divisions to try and stay afloat.
Tesco’s, Morrisons, et al, and WHOLESALERS, don’t think we aren’t going to be looking at you next.
That is a broad generalisation that men are not working. In some cultures women do a lot of the agriculture – particularly in Africa, but in many parts of the developing world the lions share of agriculture is being done by men – China, Indonesia to name but two with a combined population of some 1.5 billion.
“Who does most of the agricultural work in poor countries while the men sit on their arses all day?”
That is such a bullshit stereotypical sexist statement and is completely and utterly wrong.
I don’t really care if it is a sexist statement or not. Either way, the internal affairs of some 3rd world shitehole are still NOPE
Not Our Problem, Ever.
Quite right. Even the Third World have had a gutful of the interfering busybodys poking their noses in where not wanted.
!If the farming is affected by climate change, then it’s a gender issue to do with climate change.”
Pardon, is this a joke? The climate has always been changing, what’s the beef?
What happened to the ice age which I was told at school in the ’70s would be hitting us? Have you seen where many of the ‘official’ temperature sensors are positioned? In asphalt parking areas where the asphalt acts as a huge heat sink, on airport grass areas where they are regularly blasted with aviation exhausts and under air conditioning outflows to name a few.
Humanity is great at adapting, which probably explains why we’re still around. Somebody is making a heck of lot of dosh with creating an unfounded climate of fear where hyperbole, taxation through the nose and wearing of coloured bracelets on the wrist seem to be the answer to a question which doesn’t even exit.
As always, follow the money. Thar’s gold in them thar useless, bird killing windmills boy, just ask Camerons Pa in law.
Hang on. Who says men sit on their arses all day? You city folk don’t understand the ways of us country people. We’re up before dawn milking while you toffs are in bed waiting for some one to bring your cornflakes.
Spot on. Until my neighbour had a gutful of all the stupid EU farming bureaucracy, and knocked it all on the head, he was milking four hours in the morning, and four hours in the evening.
There’s not enough time in a day to farm AND do all the ridiculous paperwork (damned good farmers all around me are giving up in disgust).
People at Marts refusing to bid against supermarket buyers has got up a load of people’s noses too.
So much for a ‘free market’ eh?
Bloody Cartel Economy surrounded by spivs and chancers that wouldn’t know what good business was if they fell into a bath of sheep dip, is all we have now. Every dice, loaded against us, all cards to us, dealt off the bottom of the pack.
This will not end well. History says that all too clearly.
You mean some hoon gets paid by the taxpayer for producing a leaflet like that,do these people live in the real world, stop using my hard earned money taxes for crap like that,then you will have helped the “climate change ” by saving a tree,from being used for useless crap.
With the passing of the Equalities Bill, I think that this sort of tripe is a legal requirement now.
What has been done, can be undone, no Parliament can bind another etc.
Except we are now subservient to the European Commission. You cannot undo what is not allowed to be undone.
Get us out NOW.
If they don’t understand NO! then they can talk to the baseball bat.
If they ignore the baseball bat too, they will end up talking to the boiled rope when introduced to the streetlamps.
Women are born with smaller feet !
So they can get nearer the sink !
Back in your box Ted.
A dose of capitalism will help the poor, eh, Guido?
You have obviously never heard of third world debt, the main tool used to keep those countries under the boot of the capitalists.
You have obviously never heard of the World Bank, or the IMF, the heels of that boot digging into the face of the poor to keep them down.
Let us see if we can agree on an issue: you are a Libertarian *guffaw* so you must be into free trade and all that airy fairy stuff, so I presume you are also in favour of globalization.
So, if you are in favour of globalization and also in favour of helping the poor get richer, then you must also be agree that the best way to achieve that outcome would be to enforce an international minimum wage.
Let us say that wage should start, globally, at the rate of £5 per day and be increased every year for the next10 years.
That would eradicate global poverty and give a boost to the global economy as it would create billions of new consumers who could afford to buy sufficient products to help get capitalism back on its feet as it is currently dying a death, isnt’ it?
No an international minimum wage makes no sense whatsoever because of purchasing price parity differentials Idiot.
Translation of Guido’s comment: “we could no longer exploit those people and treat them as if they were slaves on sugar plantations”
Therefore your post about helping the poor is just a load of cobblers, Guido.
Gotcha.
An Indian graduate can support a middle class family on £150 a month. Your starry-eyed nonsense about paying people the same rate all over the world is so stupid you are probably a policy wonk at DfID.
So, because an Indian graduate can support a family on £150 a day, in your mind that justifies not introducing a global minimum wage and means it is okay for people to starve and die of diseases because of poverty.
I really have no idea what point you are trying to make, but then again, it is clear that you don’t either.
And you have not addressed the facts I have offered regarding the capitalist devices such as the World Bank, the IMF and third world debt which were specifically designed to exploit the poor and keep them in abject poverty for the profit of first world nations. Your idea that more of the same will make poor people richer is patently absurd. The continuation of those capitalist entities will of course have exactly the opposite effect and will lead to higher mortality rates and lower wages and therefore increased poverty in third world nations.
You are either on the side of the rich and the powerful or you are on the side of the poor.
Your comments on this thread show which side you are on, which is fine, but don’t be such a hypocrite to claim wish to help the poor when the solution you offer is in fact the problem. You like the poor people being exploited because it means capitalism can make a profit out of their misery.
Be a man and stand up for what you believe instead of publishing Orwellian double talke, eh, Guido?
Globalization currently means the relentless search for ever cheaper labour, a position that you endorse. The solution I offer would reverse that trend.
I am merely trying to create an acceptable face of capitalism, instead of the tired old reactionary policy that yesterday’s men like you promote which is in fact directly contrary to the interests of capitalism.
You know, sometimes I wonder whether you are a fifth columnist Marxist propagandist whose mission is to help agitate a revolution in this country by spouting extremist crypto-fascist capitalist economic policies, Guido.
Don’t engage Guido. Life is to short.
I am sure Guido has the intellect to manage without the advice of a pussy like you.
Is Number 10′s cat concrete pump in costume?
Chuckles indulgently
Ah bless.
You are a pale imitation of Rik from the Young Ones & I claim my £5 – or £2.62 as it is now worth after 13 years of socialism.
Sophie, you just don’t get it.
If the trend is towards ever lower wages and a race around the globe to find that cheap labour then how do you think that will affect your wages?
Get it now?
That would be the Indian definition of ‘Middle Class’ and not the Western. Anyone thinking that the lifestyle of an Indian on £1,800 pa is the equivalent of a Brit on £30k pa has their cranium rectally lodged!
All the minimum wage did around here, was massively drop wages. Jobs at £7 – £12 an hour (such as lorry driving for example) went down to £4 and small change or whatever it was.
Mimimum wage was the greatest impoverishment of ordinary rural working people imagineable.
If we tolerate sweatshops, we all inevitably end up working in them as well, until the point is reached even the sweatshops fail, because nobody has any money to be able to buy their products.
Politics fails (not just Socialism), because Politicians think the people they are supposed to represent are a bottomless source of wealth that they can steal off them with impunity.
Well chickens in squadrons are coming home to roost now aren’t they, and anything other than admit their culpability and criminality, and do the jail time accordingly, the retards insist on prodding the hornets nest more and more, and they will end up with it all blowing up in their face, and trying to scapegoat everybody else rather than face the fact the buck stops with them.
Lot of assumptions dimmo.
Let me get this right for sake of clarity, you are suggesting that the new UK minimum wage should be £5 a day.
Maybe I’ve not understood this too well as I can’t see that being a vote winner.
No. I am suggesting that such a wage be introduced in third world countries and I suggested that figure to account for the purchasing price parity differentials that Guido referred to but that went straight over his head.
And yours.
Go back to Cbeebies Newsround.
Infantile comment, Fawkes.
Most of the poorest contries have corrupt marxist/socialist leaders/dictators, surrounded by cronies. They keep the population poor, that enables them to rule by fear. That is they are paid/housed by the state, any discontent shown and you are kicked out of your job/house……….. not disimilar to union closed shops… that is how the likes of Bob Crow would like to run the UK.
Left “wing” organisations efectively opperate this way.
And the IMF and World Bank are well aware of those facts.
And yet they still lend money, at extortionate and entirely unrepayable rates fully aware that the money they lend to those corrupt leaders is then subject to capital flight and the local population are made to repay monies owed having received none of it themselves.
So it could be argued that the IMF and World Bank are actively encouraging, if not entirely responsible for the corruption you mentioned. Destabilising countries economically could be considered an act of war, couldn’t it?
Thank you for arguing my case for me. Very kind.
What Africa needs is more capitalism, privatisation and the end of cronyism and corruption. Watch, listen and LEARN
Watch this, I am going to lend you fifty quid. You have no choice but to accept my offer. Interest will be accumulated at a rate designed to make it impossible for you to ever repay me the debt.
That, in a nutshell, is the capitalists’ deal to the African countries.
And you think that Africa needs more of that type of capitalism?
You must be stark raving bonkers.
Like all socialists, economics are not your strong point.
If you would like to offer a reason for that statement then please do.
I am a capitalist.
If you just want to make silly statements that is up to you, but by doing so you just make yourself look like a twat.
oh yes, Socialism/Communism has been SO Successful around the world hasn’t it?
What on earth has paying people a decent wage which will increase consumption and therefore increase profits got to do with communism?
Please think before typing.
Your post demonstrates your satisfaction with people starving and dying from disease. You sick fuck.
TAT?
Because like all infantile socialists you are trying to impose equality,in this case you wish to drag down the developed world whilst imposing super-inflation in the third world,if everyone has £5 then the tarriff is reset in the markets to reflect this,yep its the market,you cant buck the market
Drag down the developed world by paying people 25 quid a week?
Your statement demonstrates the insolvency of our current form of capitalism.
Thanks for that.
And I should make it quite clear that I am a capitalist, but I am of a new generation of capitalists. You are an old redundent capitalist, a dinosaur who seems intent on destroying capitalism.
You are a fucking revolutionary, you are worst than the communists in that you are in a position to destroy capitalism by making it an untenable proposition to third world countries. It could be argued that outdated views like yours actively encourage communism and indeed Islamic extremism in third world countries.
Got it now. It’s New Generation Labour talking. New Generation Capitalist? You’ve got to be kidding !!
Then a dramatic change occurred throughout Europe. The population of England doubled between 1750 and 1820, with childhood mortality dropping to 31.8 percent by 1830. Something happened that enabled people to stay alive.
What did that early period lack that the later period had? Capitalism. What does Africa lack that the West has? Capitalism. It is capitalism that enabled the West to rise to great prosperity. The lack of capitalism is responsible for Africa’s crushing poverty.
What is capitalism? It is an economic system in which all property is privately owned, a system without government regulation and government handouts. It is a free economy, a system in which individuals are free to produce, to trade, and to make-and keep-a profit.
Capitalism is a social system based on individual rights, the right of every individual to his life, his liberty and the pursuit of his own happiness
Are you seriously suggesting that capitalism has not modified and adapted in that time?
One has only to look at the illegal and immoral behaviour of the bankers that led to a financial meltdown to understand that the current model of capitalism is not working and will have to evolve.
The very worst type of current capitalist practise is being carried out against third world countries and that corrupt practise is damaging those countries, not helping them.
I am highly surprised to find such intelligent readers as the ones who read this blog arguing that third world debt is a good thing. That argument was lost a long time ago and the people who are still pumping that kind of pro poverty propaganda are making themselves sound very foolish.
Africa has the identical natural resource fundamentally responsible for the West’s rise: the human mind. But it has neither the freedom nor the Enlightenment philosophy of reason, individualism and political liberty necessary for creating wealth and health. Africa is mired in tribal cultures that stress subordination to the group rather than personal independence and achievement. All over the continent brutal dictators murder and rob innocent citizens in order to aggrandize themselves and members of their tribes.
What Africa desperately needs is to remove the political and economic shackles and replace them with political and economic freedom. It needs to depose the military dictators and socialist regimes and establish capitalism, with its political/economic freedom, its rule of law and respect for individual rights. And to accomplish that, it first needs to remove the philosophic shackles and replace tribal collectivism with a philosophy of reason and freedom. The truly humanitarian system is not the Marxism espoused by Western intellectuals but the only system that can establish, as it historically has, the furtherance of life on earth: capitalism.
Africa has far more than the resource of the human mind, it has vast mineral resources as well.
Which rather begs the question: why isn’t Africa powering ahead in the global economy?
The answer is because it is being screwed by the IMF and World Bank, those two towering capitalist protectionist organisations with a mission to keep down Africa to prevent it becoming wealthier than the West.
It all boils down to racism in the final analysis.
Hear hear. Africa’s debt is small fry when compared to the real problems.
The biggest thing by a mile that’s screwed up Africa this past 60+ years, has been the Communist infiltration.
It hasn’t just screwed up Africa either (as the KGB documents released after the fall of the USSR showed all too clearly).
WE need to ‘clean up’ after the retards too.
The Bankers have corrupted the Market. Credit brings forward tomorrows demand to today. Artificially increasing demand, and artificially increasing prices.
Bankers are responsible for inflation.
Bankers are responsible for commodity speculation leading to commodity inflation.
Bankers are responsible for funding Communism (look it up).
Bankers are responsible for funding Fascism (which is Corporate Socialism – look it up).
Bankers are responsible for funding liberal progressives (who do you think bribed Bill Clinton to repeal Glass Steagall in November 1999? look it up).
Bankers are responsible for funding right wing or ‘capitalism’ (which is not the Market either – it has come to mean Crony Cartel Economics) politics as well (look it up).
Bankers fund and play each side against the middle, and the middle, is US. They are waging financial warfare against us, and they have done so for centuries, and they use us to fight each other for their profit.
Who do you think got the war reparations from Germany after WW2? Who do you think got the war reparations from Italy after WW2? Who do you think got the war reparations from Japan after WW2?
The people that actually fought and won the war?
In your dreams . . . .
We are going to have to take these bastards and hand in glove Corporate scum down, and the bastard politicians they have bought and paid for (of every Party) to represent THEM instead of US, are going to have to go down too.
It’s time to take our World and our Countries back from the insane racketeering crooks.
Don’t forget about Alan Duncan,he’s slurpin’ up ukaid/dfid gravy too.
The dfid website under nu labour,at least was transparent,you could see how the money was being wasted.Alas,not anymore,they appear to be hiding where the money is going?
The gentleman got back in despite all this. People of Rutland and
Melton, shame on you!
these scum MPs just don’t know when to stop do they?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8091941/Golden-parachute-deals-net-MPs-10.3m.html
I’d be interested in what sort of lives ex-MPs have carved out from themselves. Msot of the gravy train still somehow I suspect.
Didn’t you know, carbon dioxide molecules are all female. Thought not.
DFID is an insult to all British citizens & taxpayers who are suffering for the past failures & boundless vanity of the political elite.
A quick look at just who is receiving our money via DFID should tell you all you need to know about how far away from traditional Conservative values the Tory party has traveresed under the Cameroons.
DFID should be closed – & the Tory party should consider the long term implications for the party if they continue with third way internationalist dogma.
Yeah, sophie, they will have to share power with those third way traitors the liberal democrats, or the other third way traitors, the labour party.
Either way, the people in this country are so fucking ignorant, dumbed down, chemically dociled, brainwashed by the mainstream media and kept distracted with eastenderstrictlyXfactorTalentselebrityfootball bullshit that they will never, repeat, never vote those traitors OUT of power.
UKIP are the closest thing to what is needed and they will be very very lucky if they even get ONE MP in the next decade. However the entire mass of the mainstream media will do everything they can to prevent this as the media are run by people who are part of the same establishment as the liblabcon third way.
They are all part of the same media that lied to you about Iraq’s WMD and who have STILL failed to hold those war criminals to account and STILL accord those same war criminals with the respect due to their former high office.
They lie about what the war on terror really is and about who the terrorists really are.
They are the same media that lies to you daily about human induced climate disruption too.
The media is NOT our watchdog watching the people in power. It is the reverse. It is THEIR watchdog manipulating us! They create a false consensus reality in which the corrupt politicians, bankers and industrialists are our “democratic and honest leaders”
They create the consensus reality in which our inexorable and irreversible slide towards global dictatorship, either to keep us safe from terrorists or to mitigate against climate change, is assured and subtly presented to us an inevitable and good thing.
If UKIP ever looked close to winning power, even as part of a coalition, the powers that be would change the voting system to stop them.
So either way, unless a mass and secret democratic uprising can be arranged, (because we do not ‘do’ revolutions in this country, it is so not British), we are stuck with these third way traitors for the long term!
And I know that this is a negative and defeatist rant, but I am tired and I have been fighting to awaken people for about 20 years now. All I see is people eventually waking up, ‘getting it’, becoming furious, then becoming frustrated, giving up and going back to sleep because in this reality, ignorance really IS bliss!
If I remember right Stalin’s daughter was a fairly decent lass and not a chip off the old block at all.
Foreign aid millions wasted on taxis and doing up the office
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324322/Foreign-aid-millions-wasted-taxis-doing-office.html#ixzz13dgaM9Yh
If much of that report is true – it is an outrage!
£98, 000 for a bloody logo! Why do you need a corporate image for an organisation that gives away other peoples money. I bet they have ‘vision statements’ up the bloody ying yang also.
Are civil servants too posh to use buses? That taxi bill is obscene.
It is clear that the last government was just spending money like water and without any regard for whether it was achieving anything.
Thatcher would have, quite rightly, gone bloody ballistic.
There is a world of difference between giving money away and just wasting it.
Jeez, that made me as angry as those thieving liars with their expenses. Arses should be kicked!
Is that you Ed?
Despite ‘fleeing’ to the West, Stalins daughter remains a Marxist and spends all her time slagging off capitalism and espousing communism. Sounds like a chip off the old block to me!
Her comrade Ed must be proud of her.
Like Mrs Honnecker who ‘fled’ to Chile and is sitting among her diminished band of disciples extolling the joys of the Stasi state.
Svetlana lost her status and privileges…so she b*ggered off. Margot Honnecker, the same.
Here she is with the Allende crowd bigging up socialism and the glories of the DDR and Communism:
I don’t think you should bring Stalin’s daughter into this discussion.
Please don’t bring my daughter into this discussion. You have been warned.
Sophie @9.04 I agree entirely. During last month’s London ‘Open House’ weekend, I visited the Foreign and Commonwealth office. Magnificent building. But the posters proudly displayed around the place and in the Durbar Court certainly confirmed that the institution is fully signed up to the sort of stuff Guido has unearthed. I think a lot of this kind of ‘mission’ is a waste of taxpayers’ money and I can’t understand why the Coalition don’t put a stop to it (perhaps it’s down to the Liberals)
Mitchell seems to have inherited the usual wide-eyed kids on the block, and not bothered to clear them out.
Dfid has not been blessed with good leadership, in my opinion not since that lady from Birmingham, who whatever her faults did a good job.
Hillary Benn was probably the worst.
Dfid needs to have a new strategic plan, be restructured, renamed, with a better focus on producing viable and visible results on a win-win basis.
Five years ago in Kabul I tried to discuss with Dfid about their lack of actions toward obvious government corruption, but they refused to discuss this with me. USAID did listen but shrugged in that non-usa Gallic manner and stated “we are doing our best”.
Wtf were you doing in Kabul? Were you on a Hague sponsored trip ?
Wrong gender.
Cass, I agree entirely with your assessment – and, in another incarnation, I worked closely with the diddymen as they were known. For the simplest project – say providing a well in a remote village – it takes months from the first proposal of visits, reports, consultants’ views, environment assessment bollocks, “expert input”, decisions on who will supply the equipment, who will maintain it, who will be responsible for obtaining spares etc on and on ad infinitum. After ploughing through a 20 page report, several months later, the final line is usually The Project should be approved. From the outside, it was blatantly obvious to everyone that the village which had no clean drinking water needed a well, so why not just get on and do it? Millions could be saved by cutting all the extraneous bull++++ and a**e covering indulged in by those highly paid civil servants justifying their own existence. Just give the cash to Save the Children, ActionAid etc and let them get on with it.
Paradise is a world purged of socialists, bankers and arseholes who like to frighten the natives with pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo like this.
I am currently conducting a political battle with benedict latto and stefan kossof at dfid over fraud proof voting systems. Dfid pretends to be pro democracy but in reality are virulently anti democracy. They waste billions on pallative measures to counter the effects of pro western and anti western dictatorships throughout the third world. Instead for millions they could eradicate the scourge of dictatorship and let third world countries grow themselves with absolutely zero aid. Mitchell – get these miscreants under control. Alex weir. Harare
You are wasting your time. The UK doesn’t do fraud-proof voting systems any more. preferring to copy Zimbawe’s example.
When they bring in electronic voting, all pretence of a link between the elected and the electorate will be broken. The winner will be whoever the machines are programmed to choose, OR whoever the hackers can get the machines to choose.
What it matter their only rumpy’s puppets anyway
Correction: Rompuy has unelected masters also, he does their bidding and delegates it to lesser minions like Dave & Co.
Alex, in the early 1990s the dfid office in Harare spent a large sum of money trying to teach the Zim police to be nice to their population instead of thumping them first and asking questions later. The police chief said ta very much for the cash, trips and freebies etc – and promptly proceeded to mastermind the attacks on white farmers.
The next will be “The Gay and Transgendered Contribution to Climate Change”
What about us?
And us.
We have been overlooked….again.
And us.
I am currently conducting a political battle with benedict latto and stefan kossof at dfid over fraud proof voting systems. Dfid pretends to be pro democracy but in reality are virulently anti democracy. They waste billions on pallative measures to counter the effects of pro western and anti western dictatorships throughout the third world. Instead for millions they could eradicate the scourge of dictatorship and let third world countries grow themselves with absolutely zero aid. Mitchell – get these miscreants under control. Alex weir. Harare
Are you seriously frigging KIDDING ME!?!?!?!? Climate change a GENDER ISSUE?!?!?!?!?!?
for FUCKS sake! Get these insane BASTARD fucking delusional, money wasting, politically correct wastrel tree-hugging-hippy fuckwited retards OUT OF GOVERNMENT NOW!!!
Take them out and use carbon neutral bio-fuel to BURN THESE FUCKERS to DEATH!
“Oh those hurricanes, they are like, soooooooooo sexist, with their phallic funnels causing widespread angry trails of destruction. It’s typical male behaviour!!!”
“Really? I thought a funnel was more symbolic of a vagina? A hurricane is a twat! Like a woman on her period!”
GREENIES FUCKING DIE DIE DIE!!!!
GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Nurse, Nurse, Miss Terned’s tablets please . . .
It’s OK I have calmed down now. But, for fuck’s sake! Climate change a gender issue? How fucking nuts!
It’s nuts all right, the worst of it is, the imbeciles who implement this garbage, are paid for by us, squander money extorted from us by threat and maintain third world poverty via strategies designed specifically to do just that. They are worse than an infestation of vermin.
Yes, and who gets the blame? Us.
I can assure you this, from ‘baseball bats’ on (and that is indeed what the idiots are bringing upon themselves), the fools will not like what happens to them, one bit.
What REALLY worries me, is how do we stop the inevitable backlash going to an even more extreme situation?
That frankly scares me witless. The British are slow to blow, but when they do, look out, there are no worse on this Planet than an angered Brit, and they do not cool back down fast. They will not stop until every real ‘problem’ is resolved.
Unfortunately, payback is indeed a bitch, and quite a few imaginary problems, along with probably a mind boggling array of scores in need of settling, are going to get resolved as well.
Ignoring all this, the fools are continuing to throw the drums of nitro glycerine across the room to each other, while continuing to take the piss, and the nitro is rapidly acquiring room temperature (like CO2, it rapidly acquires the mean).
If you can, take cover. If Britain isn”t your natural home, exit stage left as fast as possible, while you still can. I have damned good friends here from all over the World, and I really don’t want to see those people hurt.
Look at the Tory ministers who are at the Dept of International Development and you will see where the problem lies.
Trust a man to come out with shite like that.
I wonder how many people actually turned up to that session yesterday, especially as it was on from 12.00 until 2.00 – i.e. across lunch!
I’d have been all, like, “fuck the planet and gender issues dude, I’m going down the pub.”
Was there a free lunch? Usually a good ploy to rake in the grazers…
At risk of staining (geddit?) this thread with a knowledgeable comment, there is actually a big opportunity to use climate change (whether or not you believe in AGW per se) as an opportunity to introduce “civilised” ideas like equality and sustainability into developing societies, and this is (probably) the point of the debate.
A good place to start for those who actually want to know about this kind of stuff is the World Bank’s “Lighting Africa” website.
Sounds familiar…..
Tariq Ali says…
“Copenhagen may be the last chance to get communist ideals back onto the global stage.”
Fucking watermelons. Green on the outside, red in the middle!
FFS.
Well put! Concise yet says everything it needs to.
Try shoving that BS into ‘developing societies’ (that are obviously a damned sight smarter than you even begin to think) and you could speedily find that you have been remarkably lucky to ‘only be shot’.
You are mistaken: this is nothing to do with being smart, and is not about trying to hoodwink or outwit other countries.
There is a considerable body of evidence which supports both the effectiveness of combining climate and gender developments as an approach, and the desire and will of developed nations to do this.
You need proof? Try Google, but here is a start:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/usg/statements/civil-society-forum.shtml
David Cameron used Prime Minister’s Questions to plug the firm of a leading Tory supporter and a Bullingdon Club crony yesterday.
Mr Cameron revealed that he uses upmarket grocery delivery service Ocado, founded by Jason Gissing and run by Tim Steiner, at the highprofile Commons showdown. Backbencher Christopher Pincher mentioned that the firm had created 2,000 jobs near Tamworth, Staffs.
Mr Cameron said: “I am happy to congratulate the person running Ocado, not least because I am one of their customers.”
Tory Mr Steiner backed the coalition’s cuts last month. Like Mr Cameron, Mr Gissing was a member of Oxford University’s notorious Bullingdon drinking club.
Brown regularly used Prime Questions to financially butt fuck the UK population
A nice Delivery from Waitrose or a sweaty Scotsman on my back?
A conservative gets out there, provides a service, makes some money and creates 2000 jobs in a recession. A Socialist sits on his arse and moans about someone’s successful venture. And we allowed that lot to run the Country through 13 years of abject failure.
Cameron had friends at university who have turned out to be very successful and have created lots of jobs for other people and happiness for their clients. So what?
But….don’t you get it? He’s from the BULLINGDON CLUB! That means he must be inherently evil, undeserving and can NOT be allowed to do anything nice, productive or well!
That would just stop the left wingers having something valid to criticise.
Then again, since when have they needed anything valid to go on a rant?
I think number 74 has a case of Bullingdon envy. Either he was black balled or he’s had such a horrible time at university that he hates the idea of anyone having any fun.
Gordon Brown was a nice man.
Off topic – looks like Marshmallow Dave is going to bend over and be f’ucked up the arse by the EU over the budget increases and a new treaty – that’s me voting for UKIP next time round.
Taxi for the DfID
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324322/Foreign-aid-millions-wasted-taxis-doing-office.html
I went to the doctor and said “I want to live until i’m 100 years old!”.
He said, “OK, do you smoke or drink alcohol?”.
I replied, “No”.
He Said, “Do you take any hard drugs?”
I replied, “No of course not!”
He said, “Do you have unprotected sex with random women?”
I replied, “No – how long do you think I will last?”
He said, “I don’t know, but why the fuck do you want to live till your 100?!”
I didn’t say anything of the sort. I told him to keep taking the tablets. Why does he tell such wicked lies?
It’s a Political thing. It happens when his lips move.
Remember, EVERYTHING hits women the hardest, that’s a feminist mantra.
e.g.
http://www.kenlivingstone.com/tory-cuts-women/
http://community.feministing.com/2010/09/22/poverty-rates-rise-to-all-time-high-women-hardest-hit/
http://www.care2.com/causes/womens-rights/blog/women-face-hurdles-worldwide-in-quest-for-gender-equality/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2516273.stm
Yeah, there was a piece on Woman’s Hour yesterday that said the shortage of female philosophy professors was down to teaching methods that favour chaps. Seems this oppresses the wimmin and they give up after their first degree.
Where they find themselves given an equal shake, they complain that they want things skewed their way!
I ask you.
Bit like the gay mafia then.
in just what way is British industry helping the UK out of the recession?
5 weeks ago ordered a sink – be with you tomorrow sir – so paid for it by card – be with you next week sir – thought we had one in stock – be with you next week sir, expecting one from our warehouse – be with you tomorrow sir – don’t seem to have one at all sir, will keep looking – be with you tomorrow sir – sorry sir, its still on the lorry but it went to another county – be with you tomorrow sir – FUCKING SHIT COMPANY – in the UK happens all the time – can’t get decent wooden furniture – too costly so orders go to China/ Indonesia but have to wait 6 months – UK, FUCKING SHIT COUNTRY
Tell them it wont wash
Pull the plug on the order.
I expect you have had a basin full of their excuses
Silly boy. WTF did you not simply go to your local B&Q and get one on the spot? Tap into local enterprises.
Shafted again
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8091953/David-Cameron-softens-on-EU-budget.html
Rusty Dave strikes again.
He really is the heir to Blair isn’t he?
I am so glad my vote & my money went to UKIP – the last remaining refuge for real Conservatives.
Until the democratic deficit regarding the EU is addressed no-one who supports the EU can claim to be a believer in democracy.
Sigh! Trotters independent traders manage get 20 pence back on the empties but then get wallet and gold watch stolen on the way home.
Come on Sarah Tweet
Tweet that YOU take YOUR unwanted items to the Oxfam Shop
POTUS Obama came across very badly on the Daily Show:
“Yes We Can”
Will now be ruthlessly exploited by the republicans as
“Yes we can, BUT…”
In the telegraph=
‘He said Tory backbenchers John Redwood, David Davies and Christopher Chope have agreed to attend the launch of ‘Climate Fools Day’ in the House of Commons. Labour MP Graham Stringer, who is a member of the Science and Technology Committee, also supports the campaign. Johnny Ball the television presenter is expected to attend the launch’
Bring a GM Spaghetti plant.
The met ofifce has said that we should expect a mild dry winter.
Better get in some thermals, wellies, snow scrapers and rock salt while the roads are still open.
The MET office will keep predicting seasons in line with their “climate disruption” models. Yes the same models that have not predicted a correct season for many years now.
However, the law of averages means that the MET office will predict a season correctly eventually. Quite by accident probably, after all, even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
Bear that in mind when they massively over-hype a correctly predicted season as a sign of catastrophic climate change.
Yeah I went straight out and fitted a new set of snow and mud tyres on the Humvee.
What a bunch of retards at the Met now.
Last winter, every damned forecast was at least 5 degrees C higher than the reality. Anybody else notice?
When he was in charge of Conservative Students, then Mitchell was no right winger – just an arrogant bastard. HE told our chairman at Nottingham (now BSkyB FD) to keep “those dangerous libertarians under control”.
Fuck off Cameron. Don’t pay the EU c u n t s anything. You pathetic wet. What do we get in return?
Where are our EU built roads and other infrastructure? Been to Spain recently? In addition, why should we fund policies we fundamentally disagree with? Fuck them and fuck you. Fuck the Greeks too, they messed up on their own turf with no help from anybody else. We had Brown for that but that is a different matter.
Spunking money on ‘foreign aid’ and the EU when the country is in the shitter. How brave, not. You wanker!
Limp, lank, lifeless? Yes, it’s a Cameron.
You make me sick you spineless bastard.
ps. That shitty foreign fishing factory boat should have been left to burn up and sink.
Why the hell are home grown fisherman having to sell their boats and businesses because the Hunts in the EU tell us that stocks are being depleted? That alone does wonders for the economy. They’re being depleted because wankers thousands of miles away come and hoover up the fucking fish.
Bring back the Navy and sink on sight.
hear, hear
At some time in the distant past the notion of ‘zero-based budgeting’ (ZBB) enjoyed a brief vogue.
The idea was that organisations conspire to stifle innovation by assuming that the budget for next year would resemble this year’s with a few modifications to take account of known changes to the business environment.
Instead, we were encouraged to assume nothing and rebuild the organisation from the ground up. For obvious reasons, it did not catch on in business.
However there is a glaring case for its adoption in the case of overseas aid. To my mind we should start by assuming we give no aid at all. Then we look at the case put forward by each country in turn and put it through these tests:-
- Do they have enormous income that mysteriously disappears (see Nigeria and oil)?
- Do they go in for vanity projects (see S Africa and the World Cup)?
- Are they spending hugely on acquiring overseas assets (see China)?
- Do they have their own overseas aid programme (see India)?
- Have they spent money on nukes (see several of the above)?
- Do their ministers retire with riches (see every socialistic dictator worldwide, but especially Africa)?
That rough sift should take one person a morning and reduce the aid budget by 90+%. What’s left should take three people to administer.
Think of the savings!
Three people:
One that can read, one that can write, and the third to look out for dangerous intellectuals!
Good idea Ruth, but you need a 4th person to decide where to spend all those lovely savings.
http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/boris-defends-vulnerable-londoners-over-housing-benefit/
BREAKING NEWS! What Boris actually said about housing benefit in his interview this morning with Vanessa Feltz! He defends DC.
It is a man’s world — women and children should just die quietly. Why on earth should the female half of the population be allowed a voice about anything? Who cares if climate change mitigation looks after only men’s interests and leads to even more women dying prematurely, unfortunately taking children with them? Human rights should not be wasted on anyone except men, with rich white ones counting most. Our world can afford to ignore all the intelligence, knowledge and experience that are in the brains of half the world’s population.
Guido, I am disappointed in you. I thought you were sufficiently intelligent and knew enough about the world to realise that women’s voices should be heard, even (or perhaps especially) where traditionally they are not. DFID should be listening to people — and women are an important component of “people”.
Yes dear, but when women finally grasp the ‘and worse’ part of the equation, we’ll all get along much better.
Won’t we?
And what’s with all the damned SHOES? And HANDBAGS? And CARBON OFFSET DIAMONDS?
Sheesh!
Just kidding.
Guido doesn’t think the mitigation of the effects of the climate is a wimmins issue, nor is it gender-sensitive
Guido is an idiot. Climate change may not be ‘gender-sensitive’ (whatever that may be) but it is quite certainly gendered. It is hardly controversial that climate change affects developing countries most, in many cases leading to loss of income, food, land and general economic hardship, the brunt of which is disproportionately borne by women and girls.