Rally Against Debt Today!
The Rally Against Debt will be held at Old Palace Yard in Westminster, central London, at 11 a.m. Today.
Old Palace Yard (pictured above) is in between Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, a short distance from Victoria train station and walking distance from both Westminster and St James’s Park tube stations.
The Rally will start at 11 a.m. and finish in good time for the FA Cup final, and during that time there will be the opportunity to hear speakers explain why they are rallying against debt, and to see the TPA Debt Clock – a giant digital display counting up the country’s national debt.
If you need a reminder of the reasons behind the rally, why not take a look at our Why Rally Against Debt fact sheet, or check out the official website FAQ. And if you’re on Facebook, why not join the official event page?
Come and enjoy yourselves, while taking the opportunity to make a serious point about the importance of dealing with Britain’s horrific national debt.
no.
Here we go again yet another London centered thing. You smoke dwellers think the world revolves around you.
Too true, it’s like the LONDON OLYMPICS, London this, London that, with the cost of travel and the cost of staying in London, who from outside the M25 will be going to the Olympics unless on a freebee entrance or travel or so rich that money is no object and can afford to keep off work for a fortnight.
NOBODY asked for the London Olympics, there was no vote on having the Olympics, and nobody except the Labour dossers who pay no council tax anyway wants the Olympics.
Fact is, those that work real hard and pay incredible amount of tax, pay even more just to have the Olympics. The work shy and scroungers on benefits are the only ones that support anything, because SOMEONE ELSE IS PAYING.
£20bn for a two week Labour white elephant jolly. That’s over £1bn per day.
Can you think of a better way to p-off £1bn+ in a day?
Just watched Daily Politics and witnessed the Gweedo receive a ass kicking from a man of Straw. Apparently true that excess weight causes early dementia then?
The Con twats would have done just as Labour did with the fucking Olympics if they were in power at the time.
It’s a cash money-go-round to which no party is immune.
Greedy corrupt c’unts.
Hi tat, how did the Yes2AV campaign go?
Where’s the blog you mong?
you’ll love the new 1km long broadwalk they are building ON the Thames then, a bargain at £60 MILLION and ready in time for the olympics.
“Tear down this debt” – Cutting the Marzipan:
I prefer Germen better than English, but for votes its different.
I can’t see many “more cuts please” marches north of the Watford Gap though…
There are plenty of us up and down the country, but we’re not militant the way the hard left are. We don’t take to the streets, and certainly have no intention of travelling to the extreme south-eastern corner of the country where London is located in order to protest.
We simply register our disapproval of Labour’s shambolic handling of the country’s finances at the ballot box.
There was a massive crowd of 350 people, even the cafe next door would have more in a day.
Ha ha agree. Pathetic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13398966
No mention on ZBC of the protest outside Downing St against the Israeli Occupation anniversary nor of the one protesting against the barbarity in Bahrain.
@Anonymous :3:29pm
Knew someone would turn it into a numbers game – the majority are often stupid and gullible. You only need to look at footage of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies to see that.
Alex says:
Bad losers. Come up with some thing BBC did show the crowd, etc.
The public sector is an “investment”, not a bottomless pit of money.
At least Palin has an excuse for being thick and deluded – the expensively educated Mr Testicles has no such get-out.
They’re both deluded, but I’ll take my chances with a pitbull in lipstick rather than a bullshitter who’s pig thick any day.
Sarah Palin is so dumb, she said yes to AV
Hehe. Yes to Av losing has made you completely unhinged!
Well I hope (for costs sake) that you find a treatment that makes your mental problems easier to control.
Hope you get that blog you promised but failed to deliver started.
Has tat really got any hinges left FFS?
I never thought I will support her but I support her on this. How can you punish an innocent child, the child is innocent what ever has happened to the mother. When the child is born give it to some one who will want that child and care for it.
Left wing cry babies wonder why they are the minority in the world compared to the religious nut cases they always bang on about.
Herp a derppppppppppp maybe this is the answer slow coaches: ”abortion”
A liberal smear of Anusol or Germaloid is the answer to all tat’s problems.
I totally agree with a Womans right to choose what she does with her own body. Question is though what about the babies body ?
Is it too late for Sarah Palin to be aborted?
Yes, sorry she was born many years ago.
Are they in love?
arhh, Claggy is actually laughing, a bit different from the past few weeks, now looks as if he has lost a pound and found a penny.
Heatlh secretary Andrew Lansley’s wife has come under fire after she boasted about links with Cabinet ministers for her business clients.
Sally Low, who has been married to the Cabinet minister for the past 10 years, is the founder and managing director of public relations business Low Associates.
Her company’s website claims it can help ‘make the link between the public and private sectors’ and highlights how it ‘also set up a debate between a Cabinet minister and his shadow, which really captured the media’s attention’.
Looks like Lansley’s off before Huhne then – I wonder if Laws will get the job?
If he was too timid to come out before he was exposed, I doubt he has the strength of character needed to reform the NHS behemoth, but presumably those who know him well may think otherwise…
Hope his partner doesn’t make money on this as well! To protect his sex life.
I had to get a D-notice to protect my sex life.
lansley is thick as pigshit – good riddance
A senior adviser to David Cameron says the NHS could be improved by charging patients and will be transformed into a “state insurance provider, not a state deliverer” of care.
Mark Britnell, who was appointed to a “kitchen cabinet” advising the prime minister on reforming the NHS, told a conference of executives from the private sector that future reforms would show “no mercy” to the NHS and offer a “big opportunity” to the for-profit sector.
The revelations come on the eve of an important speech by the prime minister on the future of the NHS, during which he is expected to try to allay widespread fears that the reforms proposed in health secretary Andrew Lansley’s health and social care bill would lead to privatisation.
It has been suggested that Cameron may even announce an extension to the “pause” in the progress of the bill until after the party conference season, amid growing tensions on the issue within the coalition government.
Looks as if the bookies are going to be busy, any more likely to be removed?
Ed Balls is busy
They’re going too far too fast, I’ll go too low and too slow – and I’ll repeat my mantra every 10 seconds too far too fast – it rolls off the tongue doesn’t it.
Remember to add the word ‘progrethive’ ath often ath posthible.
the only thing I’d like to hear rolling off your tongue Ed is the very deep thud of a lump hammer as it fatals your vitals
can we buy tickets ?
This is the first rally without people, at least the organisers could have turned up.
More than 1,500 had indicated on Facebook they would attend, but at lunchtime about 350 people had gathered at Old Palace Yard to be addressed by the speakers, who included Mr Sinclair and Ukip leader Nigel Farage
They were probably afraid of being ridiculed by anonymous posters on blogs like this; by morons who think that the way to solve the problems of unsustainable debt is to shovel it down the road.
There is no support for cuts or the old people (over 65) who support Tories didn’t have the energy to turn up. Wait till they cut your health care.
This debt is a figment of the Tory Party,s imagination……..Gordon Brown whose economic brilliance saved the World in 2008 left a “golden legacy” and a stable economy for the Coalition to inherit………so spend,spend,spend…you know it makes sense
If only the annual £50billion in debt-interest payments (2011-12) were imaginary, too.
The trouble is that private debt is also at an all time high, must have immediately on the never-never the latest gadget, fashion accessory, new car, no thought is given to what the Blessed Margaret considered Victorian values, still held by a small section of the population, save up for what you want. Mortgages on houses are running very high, even a small rise in interest rates will mean a lot heading towards negative equity and house prices dropping, I notice that there is the return of 100% mortgages, Lord help us! What happened to 25% deposits on on the price of a house at least there is a buffer of positive equity. Gideon has no room to do what Tory chancellors do to kerb inflation because the increase would tip too many over the edge. Another thing before I finish, the increase in the number of bankruptcies and the time for discharge reduced, has taken the fear of overextending oneself any, just like Gordy and the UK economy
Don’t forget the one eyed mong’s off book debt as well (PFI for one)
There is no support for it, only 350 people turned up.
More people turned up for my out of jail party.
No support because it is so much easier to be a freeloader.
The BBC did cover the event.
“Around 350 people attended the event in Westminster, according to the Metropolitan Police.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13398966
Ha ha. What a failure!
Its a joke.
Unlike Labour’s debt catastrophe.
Hey, Don’t knock it.
I made loads of money under labour.
I even fixed the roof – so no worries!
Tell you what how about all the debt being divided up only between those who think the cuts are unnecessary . This should not be a problem since you appear to think the 350 who attended translates to only a very small minority in the country supporting the cuts!
Does that include people like Mr. Green?
Will it be a violent affair like the lefty UK Uncut lot, or a more civilised and peaceful event unlike the lefty UK Uncut lot?
No don’t be silly, It will resemble a day in a university rag week, better class of course.
Hampers from Waitrose?
They’ll all say ‘please’ and ‘thank-you’, and take their litter home with them. The better elements of Middle England, in fact – the ones with operating brain-cells.
probably end up the area’s boozers, that is why Guido was put in charge of the kids today, in charge of kids limits what you can get up to.
Yep,
I went I saw it was all tidy I tried to listen to the speeches (get a better sound system) I left.
Good cause just needs better focus, organisation and more annoying the anarchist narcissists.
And maybe a few nutters to kick things off? It seems a demonstration isn’t a success without gratuitous violence and vandalism.
If they could only raise or attract 350 approx to the rally, in the heart of Con country they seem to be as lack luster as Eddy and the Lieborites.
They were only a danger to themselves.
There were only 350 people. Looks like Billy went, on comments from him today.
You are supported mainly by very old forks who hasn’t got the energy to go anything.
Have a lie down instead.
Yes, I think I will.
We oppose this rally! There is no debt! Fight the tax dodgers! Except The Guardian, we don’t mind their tax dodging!
Er, I thought the Guardian was supposed to be losing money, so how is it liable for tax or is it liable for capital gains for selling bits off?
Accountancy and offshore trusts are your friends when you are a self-righteous lefty, but absolutely infra dig for anyone who disagrees with you.
We are all liable to tax but if you are losing money then you don’t pay any. The foreign parent companies – in kindlier tax regimes – might be where the profits of the group ultimately surfaces.
What about Lord Ashcroft, Mr Green, number of cabinet ministers, etc?
Looking forward to watching this tonight on the BBC!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576321632584438312.html
We’ve love to come but we’re counting our money. Thanks Gordon. Thanks George.
Don’t you just love fiat money. Print some more while you’re at it.
I’d like to attend, but I’ve got to raise today’s £50million EU payment for Herman van Rumpoy before lunchtime.
Best wishes,
DC xx.
Wuv
Dave, grow a pair and tell the greedy fucker where to go.
I would, but I’ve got a long and prosperous career in EU politics ahead of me. And all I have to do to secure that career is betray my country and leave it broke.
That was Gordy’s job wasn’t it.
His career was ruined when he failed to take Britain into the Euro. I might be able to get away with joining it, but I’m not sure. Better to play it safe – I’ll chuck £10bn of your money to Brussels every year and keep quiet.
I see the same old UKRAP loons never get tired of spamming ths website. Your party didn’t do so well in the local elections did they? Where was the right-wing protest vote agaisnt the Conservatives? Oh dear it never materialised did it!
UKIP cost the Cons 10% of their vote.
Enjoying your coalition?
Ha, Ha
That is this year’s council elections as the Lib dems have been given a good trashing, next year will be the Cons turn, as people realise it is the Cons who are in charge, the Libdems haven’t got much to lose, in the way of councils that is. Aren’t the London elections next year maybe that is why Boris is starting to shoot across Dave’s bows, if the Cons lose that they will will not forgive Dave and Friends.
I think the debt clock needs winding.
I’ve been staring at it for five minutes and it has not moved an inch!
Maybe time has stopped, you haven’t invented the time machine have you. Debt is going up all the time, the country has been involved for 10 years in wars (fortunately not on our own soil), the munitions must be replaced, probably imported, aircraft replaced, service men when horribly wounded have to be looked after and families compensated should they die, on top of that the decision to go for a revamp of Trident system and that is just the armed forces. Yet another rearrangement of the NHS, the system must be absolutely punch drunk after all the rearrangements, IT systems etc. The advance of the ID card system has been halted but maybe still in abeyance (it would be a shame to throw all that information away after what it has cost). I am afraid the list goes, on all this costs money and from what the government says payments are in excess of income so that is met by borrowing.
Sorry cannot attend this! but to all that do good hunting and keep it up, even if it’s only to wind up the pathetic Libby/Liebour puppets that infest this place nowadays oh and the comments on the tax dodging grundion are a total joy what with all the frothing at the mouth on there !
The lefties want to thank the righties for the best entertainment since Thatchers cabinet stabbed her in the back!
350 attendees to RallyAgainstDebt vs 250,000 attendees to MarchForTheAlternative.
Go on, shoot yourselves in the foot again!
Guido had to behave himself because he had the kids must have cramped his sytle a little.
Dear anonymong since you appear to believe the debt and deficit are a price worth paying ,would you be so kind as to take my share of it. Thank you.
A few hundred people turning up off their own bat to support a cause not endorsed by the geniuses at the BBC or by a major political party vs lots of morons bussed in by the unions, councils and Liebour party, with cheerleading from the Bolsheviks, Bummers and Cokeheads to chant stupid slogans and trash the place.
I know which demo I respect more.
Shame the turnout was so low, but then again if there was more common sense in the land we’d never have had a Labour government to fuck things up in the first place.
The armchair warrior is busting a gut.
The “Arab Spring” started with less.
Call me Dave won’t be giving you lot a no fly zone.
Here here well said
It didn’t get 3 weeks of free Advertising on the BBC in the lead up either !
Nor did it get rent a crowd’s bussed in by well funded Organisations (usually taxpayer funded – one way or another – of course).
But who were the 350 people who attended? I’ll bet they (collectively) employ a fair few thousand people freed from the State drool-teat.
I wonder how many of their nannies, cooks and bottle washers are on PAYE.
I promise to pay your minimum wage and NI when you suck my cock. I shall also observe H&S regulations by not spilling my seed in your mouth, but make it dribble from your chin. Mouthwash will be provided by the employer.
Now go cash your Giro.
Productive people were probably too knackered after a week at work to go.
Or too knackered after 13 years of Labour.
Lookat all the leftie mongs who think the turnout suddenly makes the fact they were rejected in 2 elections now go away.
The was good footie on the box all day. Not the best of choices – we’re not all rugger buggers.
O/T yet another failed boy band representing us is the european song contest
already the press is bulling it up to win not a fuckin chance the eu countries hate us as we found out with our world cup bid
and they are up against those internationally famous Jedwood FFS !
The last time I saw Eurovision, Brotherhood of Man won it.
Eurovision
Now that is what I call the bore of the year show
Eurovision, like European football competitions, is an elastic concept which, inexplicably, invites Israel to participate, despite the geographical fact that it is not, never has been, and never will be in the continent of Europe.
Wonder why that is ?
Simple.
Europe is part of Israel.
Sound economic decision to have Blue represent us. The UK cannot afford to host next years event and needed to make sure.
Oh I don’t think they hate us they always speak very highly of us here.
Cheryl Baker’s looking MILFy on Saturday Kitchen…
Ch*ryl Baker’s looking very MILFY on the cookery show…
She’s a media whore.
More GILFY surely.
Grilfy
Who pays for Eurovision? Is it the ‘big five’ – UK, Spain, Germany, France and Italy? Is that why they’re guaranteed a place in the final? How much does it cost?
Roughly £30million. About 14.5 hours’ worth of our daily EU contribution.
Agreed. I doubt we’ll be in the top 5 although we might stave off the embarassment of another “Null Points”. The Eastern Europeans will each vote 12 point sRussia with the remaining points to each other. Unfortunately Cyprus isn’t through so no 12 points for Greece and vice versa.The Scandinavians will vote for each other and so and so on….the best part of the night is the voting…no wonder Sir Terry called it a day which is a shame as Graham Norton isn’t a patch on him
Incidentally watch out for the trio of German Presenters….apparently the guy and the odd looking girl pass for comedians in Germany and the blonde “foxy one” is apparently a newsreader…so diffrenet from our own dear sadly lamented Katie Boyle
What are Ed and David up to, appearing for the Irish?
Are we to expect a Mike and Bernie Winters type performance?
Congratulations to Azerbaijan. In a way it was also a victory for England as the singer lives in London.
Baku must have been heaving last night. Mind you, it does every Saturday.
Hope you all get”kettled”.
It’s what deficit deceivers deserve
I bet you are a deficit denier Bob, you are not the raven in Animal Farm are you disappear when things get nasty.
Intelligence suggests these people will be appallingly white and middle class.
Therefore, we’re getting our truncheons ready and we’ve already removed the numbers from our uniforms.
you only get kettled if you mis-behave. Left wing rabble who get out of control need to be restrained – I think you will find this passees off without any trouble
We keetled ourselves to save the police time and money!
Too old and far to travel but with you in spirit;
single malt
Sorry Guido old man can not do, the price of a train ticket from where I live is very high under this privatised train system, oh and of course they fares are subsidised to a far greater extent than in the days of BR
Bollocks you can get a dirt cheap train ticket for weekend travel. LIEBORE MONG!
Who are you calling a a liebore mong get your facts straight you have to book well in advance, mind I had to stand all the way from Doncaster to Kings Cross on BR, it does not cost my mate anything to travel like that though he has so many passes to use up, wonders why I can not do as he does. Oh just thought does that dirt cheap ticket you are going on about is it just oneway like those Ryan flights.
You think it was any different 30 years ago?
Today’s railways are half nationalised and the fares shot through the roof whilst labour were in government you turd!
R4 Today. Alexei Sayle FFS.
Wish I was coming now….
I heard that. What a cnut! He’s yet another rabid lefty (Billy Bragg is another), who’s fcucked off to live in a nice ‘hideously white’ village somewhere – away from the mayhem he’s helped to create and the rest of us have to deal with.
They’ll get what they deserve – and that day gets ever closer…
A mansion tax?
The silent majority I think you will find.
put billy bragg with bono and you’re got two hypocritical c’unts conjoined
Agreed – Sayle sounded pathetic (as indeed did Heffer). The argument was gently directed away from the reasons for the march to a load of drivel as regards whether demonstrations were the preserve of the left.
The only thing Alexei Sayle said of any value is …”Anyone who uses the word ‘workshop’ who isn’t connected with light engineering is a wanker.”"
Hymie ma boy, don’t those political parties, intellectuals and lovies hold “workshops” on their hobbyhorse subjects?
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I’m gonna keep on the run
I’m gonna have me some fun
If it costs me my very last dime
If I wind up broke up well
I’ll always remember that I had a swingin’ time
I’m gonna give it everything I’ve got
Lady luck please let the dice stay hot
Let me shoot a seven with every shot
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas,Viva Las Vegas
Viva, Viva Las Vegas
I am afraid Gordy I do not recomend swinging on that rope, there are not many strands left.
It wasn’t Gordon who wind up broke, it was the country.
If you run out of money, just borrow more. When the interest payments become too high, borrow more to cover it. When that gets too much, simply print fake money and use it to buy your own debt.
When that doesn’t work, walk away and pretend nothing happened.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0dw41ZYeBY38N?__site=daylife&q=gordon+brown
I tried all those things 37 but ran into certain legal problems when I tried printing it…any other legal suggestions ?
If governments managed their economies as a prudent person manages their household budgets everything would be all right, I think that is what the Blessed Maggie ment when trying to explain how she thought economies should be run, the trouble over the past 25 years that is what governments have not been doing, but taking a leaf out of spend and be damned section of society; you know, the types that must have lastest goggle box, car, new house with all the latest fittings and gadgets, latest computer bankruptcy has lost a lot of the shame it once had.
gordon did get the wind up and it did break him
Better than Gordy blowing up.
Can’t summon up the horde today, they want to watch the match.
Hang on McRuin has already laid waste to London and the rest of the UK. He must have used Cohen the Barbarian to ensure wholesale destruction.
Red Ed, Balls and Brown will start screaming when interest rates rise, and there is no money to fund sure vote centres, playgroups for the daughters of Lesbos, and nothing for the NHS job placements for wannabee political commissars.
Hope the sun shines.
Well Guido your Rally Against Debt has just made the news on classicfm.
So congratulations and never mind the beeb ignoring you. classicfm has far more listeners.
In the over 75s bracket maybe.
+++smile+++
We are not all over 75. Classical music is not just for oldies.
I’d comment on this but da rap on me radio’s too loud innit.
Don’t men strumming guitars for a living look extremely stupid; the posturing, the intense expressions,the gesturing……to give oneself a (fruitless) feeling of superiority one should turn the sound down and merely observe. Then of course , if its an al fresco ‘gig’, look at the morons in the audience :arms raised above heads clapping arythmically, heads nodding to and fro, waving–the musical equivalent of the Question Time audience. How we used to laugh as teenagers when we mentioned French, German pop music . But how fortunate they were/are.
French pop – nothing decent since Francoise Hardy and Jacques Brel (and he was Belgian).
German pop – nothing since Kraftwerk.
English pop – nothing since the Jam, and even they were a pale copy of the Kinks…
Give me a snifter of Armagnac and a bit of George Shearing any day.
ichabod
I agree with you on that but why not turn the sound off they look even dafter
likes French electro.
Jaques Dutronc c’est groovy!
Most likely to vote, may be preaching to the choir though.
nell use to sing with the peterborough sprout stranglers when she was a gel
I preach to the queer.
I preach to the qu~er!
Guido, you have a strange idea of fun. It is an important message but a fun day out it is not. You are a sadist my friend.
“Come and enjoy yoursef”……………by looking at a giant screen showing you how may trillions of pounds of debt we are in, and remind yourself that for most of us our standard of living is going to get worse!
” Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” Dalai Lama
Such self indulgence – you should know better at your age.
PS
Is that a fire extinguish……..
I’d love to go, but you’d have to pay me to use London public transport, and car park there s a rip-off.
Besides, who would want to see Guido in high definition?
Looks nothing like his predecessor, Guy was quiet slim judging paintings and wood cutts of him, come on Guido, diet to look like your hero.
Guido has never done an honest job in his life. All expensive booze ups, sitting down and such bollocks. No wonder he’s a fat Hunt.
He actually started off as a chubby 5’3″ but after a few sessions on the rack at the Tower, he was a slim 6’0″
Brief coverage on R4 this am consisted of Alexei Sayle talking about right wing toffs in tweed jackets – no debate on issues. Simon Heffer up against him gets only fraction of the time and asked questions about fox hunting. Three point plan for deficit
- close the BBC – irrelevent in the modern world of global communication and has proved itself uncapable of being impartial – let Labour party fund it if they want it
- leave the EU – never had any relevance
- expel Scotland from UK – ungrateful sponging Jocks
Dave loves the BBC.
Yeah right.
Alexei Sayle spoke the truth.
Alexei Sayle spoke. The truth.
I’ve got a signed book of his that I put on ebay which didn’t get any bids despite starting at 99p, so I’ve got it in for the fucker right from the start.
Anyway, the appearance fee must come in very handy for someone who doesn’t seem to be in gainful employment at the moment.
He’s got the same relation to truth as the Chuckle Brothers have to comedy.
Another right on leech being given a free hand out. Hope that the bastard is declaring the income to HMRC.
Can we ship him and some of the other deluded Hunts off to Havana just to watch them squirm as the Castros start dismantling the failed socialist experiments in Cuba.
Why don’t they come and live here?
I thought the whole idea was for them to stay here and help turn Britain into yet another failed socialist state.
west of east kirkbride
I thought we were, that’s why the country is in the mess its in, Gordon losing control to the bankers who lost control of their borrowers, derivatives they were buying which they themselves didn’t understand.
who the fook cares what Alexi fooking sayle thinks? who is he? a fat washed up spart comik from the 80s?
really? w h o g i v e s a t o s s ?
why do we pay the bbc to ask this funt what he thinks?
He didn’t mention his extensive property portfolio though did he?
“Ello John, got a new mansion?”
Sayle is a fat marxists c unt. He was never funny.
Sayle is one of the reasons I hate wearing suits – I look too much like the communist c’unt.
A fat bastard then?
sayles a unfunny fat ugly c’unt
Hey, why don’t some of us who can’t go to the event consolidate our debts to show our support?
Ssssshhhhhhh!
Boring shit, by rich bores, for rich bores.
Hope it rains. Hope al qaeda make a contribution.
Hope they smash up a squat.
Not that you’d notice but still…
Nah..chuck some fire extinguishers off Labour HQ and watch the lefties desperately trying to claim that Tories doing it is wrong, whilst Labour supporters doing it are ‘expressing themselves artistically”
Hope you piss red.
Well, it’ll be interesting to see what the turnout is. Let’s hope it’s not just you, TB and some hangeron in a dinosaur suit, waving a banana.
Don’t forget Holbonkers in fancy dress!
That went without saying.
Just checked the facebook page. Seems even Pippa’s arse has more followers. By a long, long way.
Beatrice’s hat too.
Pheeww, all is right with the world after all then.
What about me?
they are trying to negotiate a deal to can her wind
“and some hangeron in a dinosaur suit, waving a banana.”
Old Holborn I presume.
Its a weird idea for a rally.
LBC are reporting it as a lead item on their news which means there must be more people there than expected or Guido bunged Dale £20.
Dale works there. No surprise really.
£20?
That’s 24 minutes at Green rates…
What Bill, only £20 after all that advertising he was running on this blog for NO to AV
At last a decent rally
Andy Murray must be missing then.
That link in the header wants me to sign up to a thing called facebook. Why?
They want all your data!
You are Larry Page and I claim my £5!
BBC twat on News 24 interviewing bloke from Tax Payers alliance over the rally today. All he’s interested in asking is about UKIP registering the name ‘Tea Party’ in the UK and implying that Tea Partiers are racist c u nt z like those yank ones.
So what has the Tea Party got to do with the debt you BBC shit stabbers?
Wibble.
Any hint of the English masses realising their identity and how they have been deceived sends the common purpose tr’aitors at the bbc into hate mode – God damn them to hell.
Ah the “Tea party is WAAHHcist”… The first cry when the the left is losing an argument.
I wonder will they realise the consequences (for their designated victim groups) of making the word wahcist meaningless.
You vacuous bastards.
Spot on! Twatter is (not surprisingly) for twats.
Twitter was designed to make everybody sound like a twat.
It’s working.
+ several
Who on earth is she? She sounds like one of berlusconni’s mindless women.
The latest reincarnation of Lucretia Borgia ?
She’s Labour MP for Scouseland – parachuted in at the last election. She caused some ire because she didn’t even know who Bill Shankly was, but the daft gits voted for her anyway.
Sion Simon’s been there, and now it seems it’s Upchuck Ubugger’s turn to miscegenate.
Basically, she’s a foul Jezebel.
Not forgetting Euan Blair before that.
Her slippery pole to the top seems to be Penis Shaped.
She also didn’t have a clue about the song Ferry across the Mersey. Her parachuted constituency though is a donkey with a red Rosette one
bet it smells of fish
sounds as though you are talking from experience Nellie
So why can’t you just send her a birthday card and stop putting your private lives into the public domain.
The world has gone mad. They Twitter their every secret and then spend a fortune trying to prevent the press from printing their secrets.
Yom Huledet Same’ach
The song’s shite too
Cock.
Oi Vey! Stop it with that schwartzer music, already!
Is that any kind of track for a princess’s birthday?
what a nice touch this boy has…I never realised grant mitchell did a DJ track with nelson mandella…did they do it up the vic ?
Up the Vic?
Is that some sort of London practice of which us provincials should be aware, lest we fall prey to a bunch of (for the sake of argument) Vicars?
*SPEWS*
Yawn, heard this a hundred times already, (even though it might be true). As such the impartial BBC won’t be covering this non event, instead reminding the public about the cuts, cuts, cuts and even more cuts, as well as the poor Lib/Dems being a human shield against evil Thatcherite Tories! **guaranteed round of applause from QT audience**
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1386902/Bank-Irelands-UK-arm-duped-FSA-Post-Office-savings-deal.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Talking of debt. I hope nobody has their savings in the Post Office because apparently the Bank of Ireland has taken them over and is using the savings to shore up their debt problem.
that’ll be a gordon solution then.
Don’t panic. Young Mr Cameron will bail everything out.
Not to worry. Young dave doesn’t have to anything the euro’s going to self destruct all on it’s own along with that great european myth , progressive socialism.
Good job they stopped paying the dole in Giros then – imagine the fuss if Liverpool was suddenly deprived of all those beer tokens!
It doesn’t matter .
All PO accounts are covered by UK bank deposits guarantee.
Those opened before the BOIUK set up are ALSO covered by the probably worthless 100k euro Irish guarantee.
Either way it doesn’t matter.
Gordon set a precedent by bailing out Icesave customers, so UK HMG is on the hook for all UK taxpayer’s bank deposits , anywhere in the world.
The Bank of Ireland has been providing “products” through the Post Office for quite a while now, I was offered a 3 to 5 year bond back in 2005 and all I wanted was 100 1st class stamps!
Pay of the national debt by printing soverieign pounds, don’t pay private corporations to do it for you.
Simples.
There’s a slight flaw in your plan.
(PS: two fs in ‘off’. ‘sovereign’. Simples.)
Google “Weimar republic” for the “small” problems caused by hyper-inflation…
You called?..
Well at least we’ll have money to burn
Guido,
Kelvin McKenzie of The Sun said last night that ” next week I am going to expose the mis-demeanour of a cabinet minister”
Your acolytes expect you to beat him to it. Get your ear down
ah that’ll be huhne. I wonder what else he’s done?
taken it up the kyber reguarly
Sky’s Samantha Simmonds is gorgeous.
She looks like the midwife slapped the wrong end.
To ask The Prime Minister if he will direct The Met to reopen the case of our lost cat whose name is………
Coee!
No! Only we can do that! Losing our d*ughter has made us very rich. Buy Ka*e’s book and make us richer.
Guess who was in the helicopter
Clue:- AC
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386967/Mystery-helicopter-landed-scene-Dr-Kellys-death-body-found.html
There’s no debt! I bring truth! I’m a future prime minister!
Blair, bad. Brown, worse. Miliband, even worse. Worse than him? Balls.
Worse than Balls?
margaret beckett crossed wth gordon brown ?
Physically, that’s known as a “Baroness Ashton”.
Arf! (puke)
A helicopter mysteriously landed at the scene of Dr David Kelly’s death shortly after the body was found.
The aircraft only remained on the ground for five minutes before leaving, suggesting it either deposited or collected somebody or something.
Details from its flight log, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show that the helicopter – hired by Thames Valley police – landed at Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire at 10.55am on July 18, 2003, 90 minutes after the body was discovered by volunteer search teams.
Significantly, the flight log has been heavily redacted, making it impossible to know who was on board or what its exact purpose was.
The flight was not mentioned in oral evidence at the Hutton Inquiry, set up by Tony Blair to investigate Dr Kelly’s death.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386967/Mystery-helicopter-landed-scene-Dr-Kellys-death-body-found.html#ixzz1MJukp3nu
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1386902/Bank-Irelands-UK-arm-duped-FSA-Post-Office-savings-deal.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
According to the graudian guido anyone on that march today is a member of the uk tea party.
Now if you had only said you were laying on tea and cakes I would have come.
tsk! wrong link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/13/pro-cuts-rally-against-debt
good quote from Littlewood at end of article
Comments pages are revealing scale of problem, the Guardian’s readership resort to smears, name calling to hide their lack of understanding.
If they believe in free speech, free comments why do they ‘moderate’ the comments?
They are fucking deluded.
The don’t just moderate them. The delete comments without explanation if they don’t like them. Also CIF staffers will jump in to defend columnists (usually the mad, misandrist feminist ones) if the comments are going the wrong way.
Commeny is Free? My arse!
because they can and we still try and leave comments…just fucking ignore them
Polly’s comment to the dissenting commentors on her puff piece today: -
“I’m sorry yet again the mindless have taken over this spot.”
She’s a patronising old bitch and a hypocryte of collosal proportions.
Fucking Guardian. The should all go and drown themselves.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/13/british-children-in-poverty-conservative-policy#start-of-comments
All the fucking lefties should be shipped out to a shithole in Africa. Love to see how long their survive without killing and eating each other.
Five days is my bet. They’d be livid after two when the organic tuck box got raided over night.
Fish in a barrel – c’unts the lot of them.
Polly is ok though. She’d have a helicopter booked with her Tuscan men-servants on board to wash her tired body in asses milk.
Ha! The lefty parasites are really really really whining. “Waaaa! The toffs are ruining our lives! how can we cope by ourselves? waaaaa! I’m not smart enough to be self-sufficient! Waaaa!”
I can almost taste their fear and suffering. Abso-fucking-lutely fabulous.
Keep taking the meds you batty cow.
…It has urged its 55,000 supporters to turn out, citing three reasons: the “immorality” of living beyond our means and passing on debt to the next generation; taxes should pay for services, not debt interest; and UK taxpayers should not have to pay for bailouts of failing eurozone countries.
Why put the ‘immorality’ in quotes?
Of course it’s immoral you sanctimonious lefty scum.
But it’s not “beyond our means” in the Alice in Wonderland world that socialists inhabit – there are plenty of rich bankers to ponce off for ever once you put your head down the rabbit hole and meet the cast of Tweedledum’s Labour party.
The trouble is that they just can’t admit that their sums cannot ever add up, since to do so would be to recognise that all their aspirations are just so much hot air.
It’s much like a bloke running up loads on his credit card to keep up the pretence of high living that his bit on the side has come to expect – it usually ends in tears, and all the bit on the side has to show for it is a few years of being fucked. We’ve had 13 years of it, and it’s time that the people who ran up the d*bt were called to account.
…..called to account and given a bloody good rogering
Socialism is based on the lie and logical error that X amount of people can share finite resources equally.
Sorry I can’t attend – I am too busy trying to earn a living today.
Incidentally, on ther topic of saving us from drwoning in debts, would anyone like to take a look at Hackney Council, Waltham Forest Council and Thames Water’s scheme to spend 10 million pounds ‘opening up ‘the Walthamstow Reservoirs to the public for birdwatching – despite the reservoirs already being open to the public?
All these three wasteful public bodies need to do to improve access is take the padlocks off a couple more gates and stop chasing people away from an existing Thames Water visitor’s car park. About 9.98million quid of public money (which will presumably be added to the debts) may thus be saved.
For every £10 spent in England, an extra £1 is automatically allocated to Scotland.
Opening Walthamstow Reservoir for £10million = extra £1million for jockland.
McKerrrching!
But what about badger watching? Surely the Peoples Republic of Hackney can’t ignore the huge number of people interested in this utterly innocent pursuit?
I’ll set Sen Bummerskill on them…
chances are the money spent will be matched by europe and thus the costs are always going to be hyper-inflated to increase the total bag.
Very true. That maybe explains why our EU membership fee has increased by about £5bn in the last few years.
I can recommend the badger watching and if they use some of the money to open a very large public toilet to assist the visiting public that would be bloody wonderful.
Telegraph is wondering how Red Ed is getting his nose job on the NHS, and trying to imply that others couldn’t get the job done, but if you are the leader of the opposition there is no problem
The uncharitable might also wonder if this clown actually uses an NHS dentist or is he forced like many of us to go private.
Link to Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8513139/Ed-Miliband-has-a-nose-for-avoiding-new-NHS-restrictions.html
Complete with Red Ed in his special sealed train compartment.
If I had the chance he’d need maxillary surgery
They can never fix his personality or brain.
Brain? Miliband?
Miliband had a charisma by pass which is irresversible.
But the Hunts at white powder city are belittling the demo against debt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13398966
“The idea for the rally came from a discussion on social networking site Twitter, and has partly been organised by the Tax Payer’s Alliance.”
They make the mistake twice.
You seriously think that there are many BBC ‘journalists’ with English as a first language any more?
Even those to whom it is the native tongue are unlikely ever to have learned grammar and punctuation – that was going out of style when I first went to school at the end of the ’60s.
Bet the BBC canteen smells like Brick Lane on a Friday night.
Naw ….they are all bloody Welsh
Just had my first jobbin for three days, very nice, mummy wiped my arse with a picture of gobshite gordon clown.
I was hoping there would be lots of tweets from the debt rally with good recipes etc…
Stop spending money we’ve not got. Stop borrowing money we can’t repay.
Sound advice, shame we can’t, as a country, follow it.
Around 350 people are attending the event in Westminster, according to the Metropolitan Police.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13398966
On the Socialist Worker’s Party Scale of Righteous Angry Action by the People, 350 is the equvalent to about 8.75 ‘Mass Rallies’.
A much better piece of journalism, but then again it’s Chinese State TV –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8069686.stm
Classic!
Farage is worth it, but I am not going to turn up to be lectured by Tory MPs! WTF let them in? Count me out.
According to BBC Radio 4 news at 1pm, “several hundred people” are attending the rally. A brief clip of a Taxpayers’ Alliance spokesman pointing out that running up large debts and leaving them for the next generation to sort out is immoral.
Insightful reporting there.
Accuracy does not necessarily require insight, merely honesty.
I’ve just been down to westminster and theres no-one there demoing about anything and no recipe tips either..what a swizz
Come out of the Underground station up to street level. It’s all happening there.
dehlia smith doing a demo ? jamie oliver on the sainsbury stall and gordon ramsey effing and blinding ?…wicked
Really? Stunningly good news if true!
I’m afraid I had a subsequent engagement but I hope you both had fun.
I’m sure you and your fellow Yes to AV voter will have a wonderful afternoon.
..chewing the fat.
FA Cup final day? Genius…..
who gives a bugger about the cup final..its the debt rally thats got me excited…not
FA cup – wot FA cup. It did not get a look in against Man Utd.
I do wish their team would come here, bend over and spread sunshine all about.
The rally did not get a mention on the bbc.
Probably no-one beaten to death by the p0lice.
“I was proceeding down the high street when i saw a man with a fire extinguisher.
I beat him to a pulp M’lord.”
“Well done officer, no blame there. “
Great idea, terrible timing, why didn’t we know about this before today?
Organise another, publicise it better and you can count on DWB to join you.
Loving the picture of the little Fawkeses on their first protest demo.
exactly..a nice day’s cooking demos and lots of free recipes ..yipeeee
I fear that the little Fawkeses when grown to be bigger Fawkeses will face an even bigger National debt, why all the fuss now about £9000 a year for Student fees at 18 when you already owe £100,000+ to the state from the moment you take your first breath.
So what?
Suffer little children to come unto me?.
They came in their tens.
Sadly, I couldn’t attend. Apart from the fact we have no direct service to London any more, I have been working today.
I hope the weather holds out and that there’s a good turn out.
350 people?! hahahahhaha what a shit attendance, I had more people than that at my house party last night which was arranged 4 days ago! Nothing compared to the 500,000 who marched through London against the cuts. It’s easy to see what side of the argument the country are on – libertarianism is dead (although to be fair it was never really alive in the first place). You’re better off sticking as a keyboard warrior, Guido.
David Cameron has invited the RallyAgainstDebt protestors to Downing Street for a post-rally dinner. He’s laid the table for 9.
A post-rally dinner? Sounds nice.
What did the public sector and other assorted benefit-claiming parasites get up to after their rally?
Oh yeah, they got their mugshots taken and were bailed.
All the State can afford after Labour stole the silver and melted it down
What size of house do you live in you lying c unt ?
How many would have turned up to the demo earlier this year if the unions hadn’t bussed in their dutiful sheep?
About a thousand times more than 350, mate.
Fuck off student scum.
That was a party political broadcast on behalf of compassionate Conservatism.
Conservative?
Far from it – I’m not a party animal, though I am an animal at parties.
I just hate smug student types – same as I did a quarter of a century ago when I was a student.
Tom, assuming for a moment you’re telling the truth, if you can fit more than 350 people in your house, it suggests you or your parents have enjoyed the fruits of capitalism. You’d never be able to get a house that big if your marxist pals in the unions had their way. Now do one.
Tom boy. Shouldn’t you be in the Uni library downloading porn for a good nights wanking ahead?
Next time you have a house party, Tom, please do tell.
I’ll come and piss down your neck after ripping your throat out with a copy of Das Kapital.
Just because most people don’t understand that we’re fucked doesn’t mean we should ignore the state that Labour left this country in, or the pathetically limp response of the Condems to the problems.
Eventually Labour and the unions will run out of people to blame for the ridiculous levels of d*bt, and will be forced to admit that it was their policies that increased it to unsupportable levels.
Feeling smug because lots of people agree with you doesn’t mean you’re right – it just makes you look more of a c’unt than you do already.
Tom ith jutht the thort of perthon we need in Labour!
You always look more of a keyboard c’unt than most on here. Well done!
I’ve been practising – with luck I’ll be enough of a c’unt to join your organisation next…
Tom, do one, there’s a good little boy!
Just a thought.
The entire Union movement and about £500,000 managed to organise a ‘March for the Alternative’ that turned into a riot and cost the taxpayer somewhat more in policing, court and cleanup costs. (By the way, I’m still not sure what the alternative is – more debt?)
In contrast, two students and a mobile phone managed to arrange a rally that didn’t turn into a riot, didn’t cost the taxpayer more than a few hours of a few policemens’ time to stand around and arrest nobody, and even received positive coverage on the BBC, which is somewhat more than even the most optimistic of us expected.
Of the two, I’d say that the anti-cuts mob have shot their bolt (see recent local election results for a possible indication of that), whereas the anti-debt crowd have barely got started yet.
So 500,000 unwashed without jobs rampaging through London represent the country?
Why didn’t they march on Fife?
I went today and am now in the pub watching the fa cup final.
The event was much as I expected: small turnout and good natured, with everyone polite and reasonable.
It is a start and a decent start – I don’t go to political things but feel it was important to express my opinion in a democracy (as the other side do, and have a right to).
Hopefully the media will start to listen to the specifics of our argument I.e. That it is wrong to borrow the future for today’s consumption. Fair enough the rally wasn’t very large but I feel it achieved its objective – to highlight that not everyone agrees with an ever expanding state.
I did not go to the rally today but I admire those who did. Thank you.
I’m having a rally all of my own! It’s taking place in my botty. All are invited. Bring a bottle of fizzy orange and a Nokia. It’s the right thing to do.
I’m thupporting Jedwood for Eurovithion!
dAT aint hoW yOU pROTEST! yOu NeeD 2 sMASH fingZ uP, ThrO FIre extINGuishaZ and brEAK WindOWZ! uP Da wORKAz!
He makes it sound like a crime.
I wanted to be there and I support it wholeheatedly. But since labour fucked the economy, I can’t afford the fuel to get me there from the far NorthWest.
That’s OK misterned.
We were there in spirit.
Hopefully the Government will show support for this rally and there will be MP’s from all parties there supporting and agreeing that this desparate situation of DEBT and DEFICT needs to be brought under control.
The vast silent majority in the UK are in agreement with the start the Government has made to bring the deficit down but that is only the beginning.
The country’s Debt will take decades to reduce and may never be cleared if Politicians continue to put their own interests in front of those of the Tax payers and those who are working and have worked all their lives living within their means.
The Nurse Pilgrims of the Unions needs to be sacked, bribery by Labour governments or any future government must be be made illegal. The massive spending on the Olympics must make a profit or not be undertaken in future.
Any massive spending of tax payers money must be for the good of the whole country and not just to placate some party supporters to keep a political party in power. The Gordon Browns of this world should be a thing of the past.
The only future for this country is to Make things ourselves and sell to the world as we did in the past. If this doesn’t happen it wont be long before the labour costs in the UK will be matching those in the Far East and we have no manufacturing infrastructure left to take up the challenge.
Anyone with an overdraft or a credit card knows in their heart they can’t continue to borrow indefinately.
Politicians can not go on mortgaging the country’s future forever, for their own ends, the country is now paying the price for decades of policical stupidity.
Anyone else think that David Cameron looked every inch the nob that he is,handing out medals to the FA Cup winners??
perhaps. But he didnt look like a cack handed ,mad one-eyed Scots madman
That’s the trouble with labour y’see. Unless someone looks shabby (aka michaelfoot), a spiv (bliar) or demented (gordon) , they don’t think they’re worthwhile.
Thank the Lord we’ve got a real normal family man with values representing Britain nowadays.
Quite simply, hear hear. I have nothing else to add.
No but your piece makes me think you are a nob.
Seems to me that the progessive socialist labour minority thinks anyone who actually works for a living is a nob.
Work for a living? No chance! Just do what I do – attend equality and diversity awareness courses all day, and have group hugs. And magic money materialises out of nowhere and is paid into my bank account every month until I retire at 55.
I see sallyalley and sunny have been conversing on twitter laughing at the small turnout in the rallyagainstdebt. ( Interesting that they were disappointed at the politeness of the demonstration and lack of violence.)
They miss the point.
Yes we all know that labourleft and the unions can turnout a few hundredthousand rioters welfare benefit troughers and local govt non jobbers onto the street with the message ‘give us what we want or we shall shut down your hospitals or stop educating your children or let the rubbish build up on your streets attracting rats or smash up your premises……’
That few hundred thousand though is all that exists of militwit’s progressive minority.
The rest of us spend our time working for a real living and then making our feelings felt through the ballot box at the appropriate time. And there is more than a few hundred thousand of us as militwit has just found out.
I think there’s more to it than that Nell – as I see it the majority of the people in the country don’t realise quite how serious the de*t / defecit issue is, and think that these “savage” cuts will solve the problem.
They believe that Cameron and Osborne are being “tough but fair”, and that to go further would be “too far, too fast” (© Edwin “Go” Balls).
They are sustained in this belief by the ever present parade of vacuous talking heads on the TV, the ludicrous pronouncements of union leaders and the sight of America digging her own grave with the spade of QE2 and the pickaxe of record budget and trade defecits – if that nice Mr Obama’s doing it, and his highly qualified team of bank clerks running the Fed think it’s a good idea, then it must be OK.
It’s a shame that our public service broadcaster is the cheerleader for the naysayers, but that’s the way things are after 13 years of Labour placemen and multi-culti nonsense.
I’m not sure how wrong things will have to go before people wake up and smell the stench of ind*btedness, but unless more is done, we are going to be permanently at risk of interest payments running ahead of income.
So what! The country has been going down the toilet for decades. It deserves what it gets.
A solution.
Depends whether you think of Britain merely as the agglomeration of the people who live here (which is what I assume you mean, from your context) or as a historical and cultural entity that is worth preserving and developing.
If the latter, and taking it as read that evolution is better than revolution, then the sooner we start to reduce not just the defecit but the total d*bt the better. We may need to remove ourselves from Europe to do so, and to take a good sharp axe to the public sector, but if we don’t then we will become a nation of slaves, working harder and harder just to pay for the money that has already been squandered.
That’s my reading of the situation – I may be overly pessimistic but I fear not.
“GörBalls’
+claps+
A rally isn’t a rally without violence. Shame on you lot. You didn’t even break one window.
I heard that Guido broke wind – does that count?
Polly Filla in the Guardian has an artilce prisiong Tony and Gordon for lifting so many children out of poverty (While beggaring the country). So I posted two mildly critical comments.
The first post queried the credentials of Polly to lecture me on child poverty and how she loved to walk her grandchildren in Battersea Park when she loves even more her Tuscan villa which is slightly more detached from poverty. This was deleted by the Mods.
The Second attacked the credentials of Mr Tony (£100k a speech) Blair and his gracious wife who certainly have lifted their children out of poverty. This was not deleted.
It appears that in the Guardians comments all pigs are equal but some are just more equal than others
How will Brown receive his payment for the Las Vegas gig?
Has Brown set up any off shore companies?
I see labour couldn’t wait to have a go at Cameron for trying to help the Mccann’s. Labour get more sick each week.
The McCanns should look in their own back yard before putting their greedy grasping child abandoning hands out.
Cameron should have nailed their media circus and refused.
I hear the protuguese pol ice have run and hid now they know that the met is going to examine their keystone cops performance.
Given the damage that Gordon did to individuals acting as consultants, that’s a very good question indeed.
Thanks to all for organising the rally. I’d go with LBC’s estimate of 400 participants who willingly gave up a chunk of Saturday morning to stand, hold a range of diverse and entertaining banners for the assembled cameras and listen to a range of speakers; Nigel Farage rising to the occasion as ever, Bill Cash making a robust case against our supposed obligation to bail out the failing economies of the Eurozone, the Head of the Taxpayers Alliance standing up for the moral obligation to pay off debt, rather than just deficit, Tory Bear demonstrating the microphone handling skills he has honed in singing his way through Frank Sinatra’s repertoire.
Thank you one and all. Special mention must go to the police and stewards who stood vigilant in case of a counterdemonstration by the folk at UK Uncouth, as well as Guido himself and his showstealing little daughter with her Peppa Pig accessories.
Apologies to anyone I have left out.
350
lol
The, “Lets’ celebrate massive debt we can pass on to our kids” gig was always gonna be popular TBH.
Labour in opposition.
LOL.
Having joined the demo’ (my first ever) my views:
It seems to have generated a good deal of publicity, and this was its only real discernible cause: no-one I spoke to had any genuine hope that Osborne’s plan will be changed (or even be delivered), and this was, I suspect, a major reason for the low turn-out. (The union-organised protests last year achieved diddly-squat, after all).
The message portrayed in the MSM is completely wrong. We are NOT demonstrating to support the Govt which is, essentially, doing what Labour would have done i.e. increasing spending.
I was there primarily because I deplore the notion that my little girl, who has not benefited in any way from Brown’s profligate spendthriftery, should be expected to foot the bill for it. Any parent who thinks otherwise is selfish, greedy and hypocritical.
But additionally, and like many others I encountered today, I do not want pragmatic “desperate measures for desperate times” tweaking.
I want ideological cuts that will reduce the caustic effect of the bloated public sector on society and the economy. And I want this to be justified persuasively on its own ideological merits, rather than being excused by Brown’s lunacy.
I don’t want or support Cameron’s Blue-Labour centrist kak. I want a government that will earnestly celebrate the excision of the state-sector cancer from our economy/work-force/society.
Did you mistake your chocolate bar for a laxative?
That’s funny! It takes your mind off Monday, doesn’t it?
Monday. The day you have to start looking for a real job.
Nothing I can disagree with there, 13eastie – but I fear the cancer has spread too far and too deeply over the past 65 years.
There may not be a ‘progressive’ consensus, but there is a general acceptance even by the Conservatives that big government is the answer, whatever the question might be.
Couldn’t be there today, but I’m sure that one day enough people will realise how wrong things have gone and we’ll have a libertarian consensus which, after all, is the natural order of Britain.
I don’t know enough to judge how right you are, but I ‘d be interested to know what countries (if any) do small government successfully?
(British) Hong Kong
(Вrіtіѕh) Ноng Kоng
[Моdеrаtеd, fіrѕt tіmе аrоund, fоr rеаѕоnѕ knоwn bеѕt tо Guіdо].
Singapore.
Command economy?
What countries do big government successfully after the oil runs out?
North Korea? Errmm. No, hang on.. Cuba! Yes, Cuba! Errrmm.
Britain prior to WWII, and more especially prior to WWI.
Sort of tells me we’ve been getting it wrong and wronger for ages…
Britain prior to giving suffrage to worthless parasitic oiks.
(not the most popular opinion, I know, but I feel it’s true.)
Just reread Keith Joseph’s Edgbaston speech in which he advocated deterring the feckless from breeding.
Sound stuff.
Rise like Lions after slumber
In laughable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Ye are pathetic- ye are few
And the next stanza?
What is Freedom? – ye can tell
That which slavery is, too well -
For foreign d*bt itself has grown
Till there is nothing you can own.
See – anyone can butcher Shelley, the effete tosser.
You’re the effete tosser.
I thought it was very good.
No, you’re the effete tosser.
My author would batter any of yous lot.
Fuck yez all!
Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness;
Close bosom-friend of your maturing mom.
I thank you.
Have a pot noodle and a wank.
Mor pertinent I think
‘This is the debt I pay
Just for one riotous day,
Years of regret and grief,
Sorrow without relief.
Pay it I will to the end —
Until the grave, my friend,
Gives me a true release —
Gives me the clasp of peace.
Slight was the thing I bought,
Small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best —
God! but the interest’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1386942/A-brazen-liar-whos-last.html
I wonder who that man was in the helicopter, that landed where the body of drdavidkelly was found?
Odd that he landed just about the time the body was being moved from a lying down to sitting up position. Odd that he only stayed 5 mins. Who on earth could he have been working for?.
Lefties seem to think numbers are all that matters – except when the numbers vote against them of course.
350 or 350,000, what does it matter, when you’re right?
Being right is obviously undemocratic, and probably phallocentric, homophobic and Scalextric to boot.
Good to see you pop up again, Frank!
+1, especially to Scalextric.
The reason the labour scum get hundreds of thousands to turn out is
that most of them are lazy fucking council wor… employees who know the gravy train is about to derail and the rest are sponging fuckin scruffy bastard students who want to carry on living for free at the expence of taxpayers
It’s because they put on coaches and promised them a day out.
A councillor who is a Sikh -Labour, though if he knew what his colleagues call him behind his back, he’d join the Tories!!!- organised a nice little day out for members of his Temple. Only he sort of forgot to tell them they were to appear at a rally protesting about something they really had no interest in! But he had promised the leader of the Labour group that a lot of people would turn up from his temple, and so they did!
Yes and during the student protests, my son’s university SU laid on several coaches to London and persuaded people to go by saying “You only need to spend an hour at the protest, then it’s a free day shopping in London.”
And very many didn’t spend too long looking in the oral cavity of the gift horse and went.
That’s a good point, Frank.
Eh oop, im prostitututing meself on itv1 at 9 tonight.
It must be worth some sort of ‘live tweeting’ or ‘subtitling’ of a showdown between Piers Moron and Two Jags..
Disgraced former Mirror editor to interview disgraced former Liebour MP.
Two incredibly good reasons to watch something else – grass growing, paint drying….
Horrorshow groodies on the Lithuanian gal.
Why is it East European women tend to be svelte with big tits and come-hither smiles, and our women are.. blobs with faces like thunder?
Except for Pippa, of course.
Young Britain has become the Fatarse Nation. All the young women are so obese that it amazes me that they can attract mates.
We’re storing up some serious health problems for the future. The NHS will collapse under the strain as this lot gets older.
Gal? Davotchka, if thou pleasest, mine Droog!
Only 200 people turned up !
there was more people at our local car boot sale !
It was Saturday, we were out shopping.
Parasite benefit scroungers can protest en-masse whenever they like. What else have they got to do? Find jobs? Yeah, right.
“There were more people.”
’They huffed and they puffed, but the fiscal fundamentalists at this afternoon’s so-called Rally Against Debt didn’t even come close to filling the area allotted to them by the Metropolitan Police!’ ha ha
Tossers,all of them
Perhaps they’ve all had a busy week working in order to pay their taxes to support left wing scroungers.
How are you enjoying opposition?
It just shows how few people understand numbers, Mr Huhne.
Like those funny round red bordered signs that some fools keep putting on the road – what do they mean?
Six?
You win the Steven Byers scholarship, Mr Pat.
Guido,
Please can you/taxpayers’ alliance launch a fundraiser to purchase a decent sound system for future rallies? It was pretty much impossible to hear the speakers today, including yourself.
After leaving the Green, we walked up Whitehall where pro-Palistinian hatemongers were haranging the whole of north London with their crystal-clear speakers. Let’s not do another rally with such a poor sound system.
Also – where the hell was Toby?
Working out how to screw more taxpayers money for his ‘free’ school and how to spin the whole process in to a newspaper article.
Prescott is on ITV tonight, here’s a preview
That’s what I would look like if I wasn’t bulimic.
Trillions or billions, who the fuck really cares?
You’re paying it, for the rest of you life.
PS: Monday. Get a real job. Work.
Whooooooosh!!!
Does anyone ever watch YouTube clips?
I certainly don’t.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13400802
“Non-lefty protesters show how to demonstrate without kicking in windows.”
Don’t bother complaining about the BBC – I stopped paying the license fee in 1999 and they’ve not got me yet. They whinge, they whine, they give up.
Thats because your 85…
Had a top time, really enjoyed
Did Guido hand you any caption-contest prizes?
Nah lol
Did you meet him? Did you say, “where are the results?” Or your prizes.
The main thing is, you had a good time.
This post has mores comments that people who turned up today at the stupid Toffs rally
We’re all toffs now.
In the workhouse we are all in it together.
Pass the gruel…
You will pay off my debt.
Work! Work, dammit, work for the rest of your life.
Only public sector parasites are headed for the workhouse.
Work house. Does that even compute? Work?
Work. An alien concept to the public sector parasites. Oooh, but you’ll be getting intimate with it, soon, my little parasites.
Its past your bedtime little Chap …
Unfortunately for the jobless ex-public sector parasites no one wants to give them a new job in the private sector. Upon hearing the word “civil servant” they usually go to the bottom of the list. Well it’s what we do here and you can’t really blame us either, I mean their parasitic reputation precedes them. Take one of them on and your risking never ending sporadic sick leave, moaning and whingeing about pay, conditions, pension or lack of if your lucking. If your unlucky they’ll unionise your entire workforce and have them out on strike within the month.
Must be nice working in Macdonalds
Yeah, well we wont have ‘em!
Taxpayers are Toffs ???
You don’t think Toffs pay any Tax do you?
Oh no nice just nice swiss bank accounts me thinks
Not the sharpest knife in the box. Must be a student.
I like Toffs. I don’t like Oiks.
Among the questions asked by this blog and which Mr Huhne has refused to answer include:
* How have the allegations been shown to be untrue?
* Are you suing for libel? If not, why not?
* Why would Vicky Pryce make the allegation up?
The source close to Mr Huhne said the Cabinet minister did not wish to comment further for fear of fuelling an already-embittered divorce case, taking place behind closed doors.
The source added: “The reason there is not an absolute denial about Vicky is because we don’t want to call her a liar. The reason Chris doesn’t want to talk is he is in the middle of this divorce and there is a whole load of stuff going on behind the scenes.”
The claim against Mr Huhne is said to date to 2003 when he was an MEP. The alleged speeding offence is said to have taken place in Southend and been dealt with by Chelmsford magistrates.
At the time Mr Huhne had already amassed a number of penalty points on his licence and the alleged speeding offence would have led to an automatic ban.
As it happened, Mr Huhne subsequently lost his licence anyway when he was caught by police using his mobile phone while driving.
Mrs Pryce said last week: “He still went on to lose his licence and I drove him everywhere after that.”
Speaking of Huhne, the Observer is reporting that the Cabinet has agreed to his carbon-cutting deal which will, of course, utterly screw our economy just when we need to be growing and getting the finances straight.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/14/historic-climate-change-deal-agreed-chris-huhne
Back to the Stone Age with Chris…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/14/historic-climate-change-deal-agreed-chris-huhne
I make no comment other than I’m off practising flint napping and making fire tomorrow…
Not going to happen, it’s a puff piece by the guardian, trying to salvage Huhne’s career in a pre-emptive move before the sh*t hits the fan tomorrow.
To cut CO2 by that much we’d have to move to a 3 day week and ban all cars.
And you think the Green totalitarians are worried about that?
Mad as a box of frogs, that lot.
Actually, just been looking at the governements emmisions data reports and we’ve apparently already cut emmisions by 25% of 1990 figures, now to reach the 60% cut by 2030 we just have to cut the entire Greenhouse gas output of energy generation and transport.
Easy peasy.
More EU cockwaffle:
Ban mobiles and WiFi in schools, says EU Commission comittee (vice chair – Lord of the Pies)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8514380/Ban-mobile-phones-and-wireless-networks-in-schools-say-European-leaders.html
Naughty, naughty Denmark – you must let everyone in, says Baroso
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-warns-denmark-about-instituting-border-checks-2284027.html
Adding up the PIGS bill – another £69 billion pissed up the wall
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8513880/EU-to-unveil-Greece-and-Portugal-bail-outs.html
Don’t you just love sovereignty?
Seems the score was 500,000 Lefties – 350 Loony Rightists. Ho.
Time to update that five-a-side team!
Anyone want to take one of our other kids? We’re making a career out of this stuff. It’s made us very rich.
I’ll go along with anything if there are few votes hanging on it.
I’m a whore!
I congratulate Azerbaijan on winning Eurovision and wish them all the best.
So do I, pity Russia didn’t win it.
350 to 500000. Now, I know that doesn’t prove anything by itself; they laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Einstein. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. You could be such a tiny minority because you are the only ones who can see the light. Or it could be because you’re just plain wrong.
I can’t really tell, because I couldn’t find any argument or debate on the subject here, just name-calling. I read the factsheet and FAQ, and you don’t appear to have any consistent stance or agenda; you just have a general feeling that the national debt is a bad thing (like everyone does; it’s a straw-man to claim that anyone thinks it is somehow a good thing; you admit that you disagree among yourselves about how serious exactly it is or isn’t, so that doesn’t really explain how your stance differs from anyone else’s at all, unless you’re about to misrepresent the anti-cuts marchers on the basis of a false dilemma), and a desire to call anyone you don’t like “socialists” or “lefties”. That isn’t a political stance, it’s a childish outburst.
Your new here arn’t you ? welcome to Order order !
Well, yeah, I am (new round here). I was expecting to find political stances being promoted and attitudes and arguments being discussed, as this place has a reputation for being one of the more influential political blogs, but I don’t see how it got that if it only ever bothers preaching to the converted.
Maybe the much-heralded rise of the political blog was always overblown all along, after all.
Right wing rallies aren’t what they used to be.
Coming to a cinema near you: Triumph of the Won’t
How can you describe those would reduce taxes and the size of state as “right wing”?
Are you pissed?
25,000 vs 300. Well well. We live in a democracy, don’t we? Time for the tax-avoiders alliance to concede defeat, methinks. You’ve reaped the benefits of living in a civilised society hand over fist. Time to pay up.
I am indebted to Mr Strauss-Kahn. Now he’s been arrested in New York, I can become the Global Debt Tsar – or Head of the IMF as they used to call it… Ha ha… haaa… haaa… haaaa haaa… Haaaaa haaaa…
One thing we can be sure of, you‘ll not be molesting young maids in hotel rooms.
It was me who paid the Maid to set up Strauss-Kahn, this is what politics is all about. They will now have to make an emergency appointment to replace Strauss-Kahn; me. Once I am in post there is no way anyone will be able to move me. I can now save the world all over again, and take over his ‘luxury lifestyle’. Ha ha a troughing extravaganza coming up!
Rearly ? BWAHAHAHA !!!!
Is ‘rearly’ a typo or an allusion to the type of sex Gordon enjoys
They build their castles in the air
On money that just isn’t there
Brown yesterday now Dave today
When will these lighteights blow away?
Dear IMF
I’M FREE!!!!
Pick ME
You are full of Shit Guido.
There does seem to be a swelling narrative in some media quarters.
If a tad contradictory perhaps.
Shunting vast impositions onto future generations for short term selfish gains seems to be either good, or bad… depending.
That point has been made a lot in this current dollop of ‘reality’:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme…
One wonders if it will be featured much in this ‘un:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme…
Possibly some reality is made more real in the pre-production and edit suite than others?
Mr Tshibangu. Now that you have the Mirror’s cheque get a DNA test.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/05/15/shock-of-the-black-couple-who-had-a-white-baby-115875-23130646/
What the fuck is Camila Batmanghelidjh? I’m fed up of seeing this grotesque appearing on bbc news to give her worthless opinion. Apart from being the size of an aircraft carrier, her style of dress is annoyingly ostentatious. There is no reason for her ridiculous headwear and multi coloured dress. She may well be doing useful charity work but it’s obvious that she craves attention for herself rather than her work.
I can assure the IMF that there is no danger of me sexually molesting any hotel maids. Shove, hit, throw mobiles at, yes. Molest, no.
Call me Dave’s relentless persuit of headlines had hit another stumbling block
his self imposed 80% green house gas emissions tax on our already fragile industries will just about finish the country off
major chemical producers are already threatening to close plants here and move to Germany or Sweden where they have no such taxex
FFS get a fuckin grip dave !
Still haven’t heard anything in the media about British Gas may may not close the Morecombe gas fields because of high taxes.
The last tory government got rid of the steel foundries
the coal mines the dockers etc
now this lot is trying to close down what little industries we have left
it’s no wonder the rest of the world prosper while we sit here scratching our heads wondering where all the jobs have gone
It wasn’t my fault the miners got stuffed – I didn’t get where I am today without leading lions into disaster – and dont call me a donkey – I’m a f..n rich donkey.
Labour closed more mines than the Tories.
As you sit in your office fondling your secretary
do you never wonder what exactly all those people running around your factory actually do to make your million pound salaries?
No millionaries are in the labour party then?
We think it’s a disgrace it’s taken the baby eating Tories so long to confirm they’ll enshrine the military covenant in law. Even though we had 13 years to do it ourselves and didn’t, and even though we didn’t put it in our election manifesto, that doesn’t stop us being hypocritical opportunists for whom there are no depths we won’t stoop to score points.
Let’s face it this military covenant crap is for the government’s and politicians’ benefit, not the military’s.
Mmmm! Delicious!!!! Pass the sauce, please.
Would sir like Peri Peri sauce with the baby or Reggae Reggae sauce?
There is only Nandos.
Don’t forget we gave the Ghurka’s equal pension rights !
But not before the feisty joanna smacked him upside the head with her handbag!! Wimpy ‘man’.
Theresa May on Marr’s show.
Is that to discuss politics or just for sex?
She should interview Him about the inappropriateness of injunctions used by rich men to cover up their loose morals.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8509579/The-Street-That-Cut-Everything-BBC-One-preview.html
Strauss-Kahn is trying to trade Huhne’s points for his rap, so my Wall Street broker informs me.
Any more to come on the Huhne story or has he obtained super-injunction?
As for Strauss-Kahn – even a pervy frog would be better than Gordon
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387216/Huhnes-damning-phonecall-Cabinet-Ministers-attempt-silence-claims-tried-dodge-speeding-points.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Simon Hoggart on The Andrew Marr Show: “There’s something of the used car salesman about Chris Huhne”.
There’s something of the c’unt about Simon Hoggart.
Lonely?
“There is no evidence for this story unless you give it some legs by saying something. The last thing you want is a half-baked story saying you’ve taken points for me. The story they are trying to stand up is that ‘Cabinet Minister persuaded XXX to take points.’ The only way they stand that up is by getting you to talk to them. There is simply no other person who could possibly tell them whether it is true or not.”
The witness says: “I just cannot lie. It’s one of the things that always worried me when you made me take them in the first instance.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/robert-mendick/8514500/Chris-Huhne-warned-witness-to-stay-silent-over-speeding-offence.html
According to Sunday Times on that day the person who took the points was in a “high profile meeting” in London all day and Mr Huhne was at Strasbourg at the European Parliament on the day and took part in two votes.An aide tells the ST that Mr Huhne would usually then get a Ryan-Air flight back to Stansted in the evening(he was living in London at the time)and would usually pick up his car from the airport car park(although not necessarily every time) and drive home along the route that passed the particular speed camera in question. He was also not at Strasbourg the following day That means nothing of course insofar as he could have been met at the airport by “the someone” driving from London after the meeting(which is a reasonable scenario to avoid parking the car at airport with risks of theft or damage etc) and driven home and although the car was registered to Huhne he confirmed when requested that “X” was the driver and not him on the day in question.
In the interests of fairness……If Mr Huhne, as an “Honourable man”and Minister of the Crown, swears that he was not the driver then he must obviously be believed…but in the event of evidence being found to the contrary then he will have been revealed to have not only deceived the police, committed a criminal offence but also deceived his Cabinet and Party colleagues and his position will be untenable
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“In the interests of fairness……If Mr Huhne, as an “Honourable man”and Minister of the Crown, swears that he was not the driver then he must obviously be believed”
I nominate this sentence for the 2011 Irony award.
Streets ahead of anything seen in years.
A file has now been passed to the police !
ha ha ha
Conflict between the Daily Mail and Sunday Times reports then insofar as one says the police are investigating and the other says that Essex Police have told them that all speeding records prior to 2006 have been deleted from their records and they are therefore unable to go further(?)…stranger and stranger
A file has now been passed to the police !
ha ha ha
Strange comments from an innocent person?
Huhne “is alleged to have entered another person’s name on the form, without consulting them.” It goes onto claim that “The person Huhne allegedly identified as the dr1ver was at work in central London on the day in question and attended a high-profile conference.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6946538/the-huhne-story-speeds-up.thtml
There is no truth in the fact that i got Sarah a job as a cleaner at that hotel !
but my CV is on the way to the IMF
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/05/15/imf-boss-dominique-strauss-kahn-in-hotel-sex-attack-arrest-115875-23131900/
strauss-kahn on his way out at the imf and huhne likely to be questioned by police of speeding points plus more to come from his ex-wife and Guido’s still in bed.
I bet gordon is up and manning the phones trying to talk to his ‘old pal’ omaha to persuade him he’s the best for sk’s job.
Hunt to the IMF (He isa lib dem so perverts welcome) and Gordon to Broadmoor.
I wonder if this SK bloke wanted to up the ante with the Euro and push it against the USD. Maybe he has been fitted up!
Is Gordon still in the USA? He was in Vegas on Friday, lecturing Hedge fund managers.
I hope so. The CSI team are looking for a one-eyed Scotch psycho who left a great steaming turd in the lift at a Vegas conference centre, and he fits the bill.
Is there another rally today today then?
Can your arse take it?
What is it with people who have silent aitches in their name that makes them weirdos?
Lord Glasman must be the only person who thinks Ed has more charisma than David. He’s warm and witty – and unlike Ed does not sound like a robot with flu.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387219/Ed-Miliband-racked-guilty-beating-brother-Labour-leadership.html
A MP that is not a lawyer or union rep!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387251/MP-saves-life-Commons-colleague–realising-headache-brain-tumour.html
Or a bummer
Can Strauss Kahn claim diminished responsibility?
Has he met Gordon Brown?
You’re all sad Hunts.
Huhne has taken on the services of a leading media lawyer, Charlotte Harris
Harris is a media specialist who focuses on pre- and post-publication advice, injunctions, defamation, privacy, harassment and unlawful interceptions of telephone use and correspondence of those in the public eye. Her clients have included MPs, celebrities, sports agents and others who have found themselves at the centre of media scrutiny
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/15/huhne-lawyer-driving-points-allegations
The Sunday Times also includes the allegation that Huhne “is alleged to have entered another person’s name on the form, without consulting them.” It goes onto claim that “The person Huhne allegedly identified as the driver was at work in central London on the day in question and attended a high-profile conference.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6946538/the-huhne-story-speeds-up.thtml
Nothing to fear, nothing to hide!
You complete Hunt!
I hope the fucker is using his own money and not a HoC credit card.
Essex Police have said they are considering investigating the claims and warned they could take action.
A spokesman said in a statement: “We are aware of allegations regarding a speeding offence in 2003.
“This information will be passed to officers who will decide on whether an investigation will be launched.
“We take allegations such as this one extremely seriously and will take action where necessary.”
http://tinyurl.com/6x46t8h
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6946538/the-huhne-story-speeds-up.thtml
Now it emerges that huhne put someone else’s name on the speeding form without their knowledge.
Guido wakeup and find your crosshairs before its too late.
Why the fuck is jock twat Jim Murphy on the fucking TV yet again? When well the media work out that their beloved Liebore party LOST the election?
I’m sorry I couldn’t make it – too busy doing the payroll year end.
Cameron’s just lost the next election and proved beyond doubt that he is in fact the complete idiot that everyone feared he might be, when they gritted their teeth and voted Tory in 2010.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/14/historic-climate-change-deal-agreed-chris-huhne
Demonstration? What Demonstration? The figure of three hundred and fifty could only be met by including coppers, passing tourists and the permanently parked peaceniks in Parliament Square. The demonstration looked like the touch-line at a Public School Rugby game with all the fat kids, wheezy-chested boys with notes from matron and those who can cope with anything as complicated as a ball game, lined up to watch the 1st XV.
I openly laughed at the parodies of humanity thrown up by TUC march. I looked forward to Rally Against Debt, bestockinged Tory Totty by the Freelander full, canapés and poo by the bucketful and a quick raid of Guido’s private stash.
Instead of this potential nirvana I was offered the cast of Lord of the Flies gone seriously to seed! It really is not good enough!