The Scilly Spring – Islanders Demand an Elected Mayor
Last week Guido brought you the news of a council chief executive who was so desperate to stop the only school in his control from becoming an academy, that he suspended the headteacher without following due process or presenting any evidence for an alleged financial irregularity.
Until Craig Oliver went to town on Norman Smith, the story was one of the highest ranking of the week as residents of the Isles of Scilly flocked to the comment section to vent their frustration at the nation’s smallest Unitary Authority and its loathed leader Philip Hygate. The problems blighting this tiny archipelago are a fascinating microcosm of the problems that blight all of government. Namely, vested interests, concentrated power and incompetence.
Word has reached the mainland that a few brave islanders viewed the suspension of the popular headteacher as the last straw. Last night a public meeting was held. More than two hundred attended – 10% of the population – despite reports of intimidation from the Council and threats not to attend. One would-be revolutionary told Guido it was a “we the people” moment, with islanders overwhelmingly signing motions including scrapping the post of Chief Executive and replacing it with an Executive Mayor. It was apparently “the most mild mannered revolution of all time.” Guido understands that at least one Minister has a holiday booked on Scilly this summer, perhaps he should take Hilton, Gove and Pickles with him…
All kicking off!
silly season already !
Will no one think of the ‘international’ financiers?!
Right, I’ve had enough of this hounding and mickey-taking by the lower orders. What we need is a damn good false flag muzzie terrorist spectacular. Blow up a couple of thousand useless eaters, invade Syria and Iran and put the bloody plebs back in their police state box.
Today, and after many U-turns, I have great pleasure in announcing my much-awaited Plan B. It’s entitled:
‘No Banker Left Behind’
Plans A, B and C are simple:
STOP FUCKING WASTING TAXPAYER’S MONEY.
I thought George Osborne was baronet of Cappoquin or thereabouts?
Just to say, if you’ve never been to Scilly, then you should. Getting there is expensive (they say the dearest stretch of water in the world) as is Island hopping. But other than that you are in for a fantastic surprise.
“Fantastic surprise” is a bit ambiguous here: e.g. Tim Robbins was subjected to multiple fantastic surprises in the shower room at Shawshank.
Not for long. Once we’ve surrounded them with offshore windmills and planted onshore windmills all over them, there will be no reason travel there.
As you say – insanely expensive to travel there. I toyed with the idea of visiting this summer but the cost of getting there was insane – it would be cheaper to fly to the US. The ferry didn’t seem too prohibitive though. But then when you got there the cost of accommodation was madness too. By this stage I’d given up – I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the food was prohibitively expensive too.
So I thought ‘Fuck it. I’ll save my money instead.’
So I did.
Which was nice.
But not worth very much as the interest rate for savers was s***.
Just Pickles, then he could just sit on the unmentionable one, problem over
If Pickles visited, the whole island would capsize the moment he stepped onland.
On the plus side, England, meanwhile, would rise 6″ upon his departure for Scilly, thus fending off the threat of rising sea levels for a century.
What did you expect with idiot HRH Charles as landlord.
I would ragther have Charles as a Landlord that any Leiber b&stard.
Don’t forget that Harold Wilson is buried in the soil there.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery
nah.
I saw a brand new JCB in the cemetry down the road the other day.
That’s easy for you to say (*rimshot*).
Ith not eathy for me to thay though
I will be the hereditary Head of the Church of England
So please, shut up
My ancestor, Henry VIII, that upright man and great theologian, made sure that the English peasants would follow his will..
As they will mine…
I thought your ancestors were German
it’s loathed leader
No, Guido
its loathed leader
3/10 – must work on punctuation.
Leave him alone Andy he is trying
Why doesn’t George Osborne just get a box of matches, set fire to his Budget and start all over again
There’s no money left, we can’t afford a budget so it’s been cut.
Can’t afford the matches!
I’ll send him some free, as long as he promises to set fire to himself as well.
he is not old enough to be allowed to buy matches
“Archipelago”? Wha?!?!? Not only on a Friday afternoon but also spelled correctly – blog’s going to the dogs.
I sense yet another U-Turn coming !
I am hoping to be appointed Minister for Scilly Islands.
I shall be there in my role as … as … well, whatever I am!
Employed as a teacher, true, but not teaching, but getting paid for it as you know.
And employing another teacher to do the teaching you are not doing.
Job creation, union style.
Harold Wilson used to go on holidays to the Scilly Isles.
I bet he set up the council there to get one of his crooked mates a job.
This year Mr & Mrs Wilson are not going to the Sillies for their holidays – instead Mr & Mrs Silly will be visiting the Wilsons
two ronnies?
Indeed it was – showing our age a bit perhaps
Didn’t darling ‘Arold finish up on the funny farm?
went silly sausage after lady porkbender saw him off
unfortunately just like Ronald Reagan
And also Margaret, the trouble with that disease it can hit anyone and at the momthere is no going back
sorry “moment”
I see LOCOG is winning Olympic hearts and minds, ordering Staff at Webbers Estate Agents in Braunton, Devon to remove Hoola Hoops set up in their window to celebrate the passing of the Olympic torch or face criminal charges.
Are they going to threaten school children next who are no doubt drawing olympic rings in their art class?
It seems as though nothing has changed since the heady socialist days of command and control new labour.
LOCOG and the Draconian Olympic Act which makes sponsored advertising or unlicenced branding a criminal offence are the the offspring of new Labour but I’ve no doubt Dave would have done the same. I haven’t checked but I also have no doubt The Conservative opposition voted for the Olympic Act without realising the full consequences.
Not sure how they are going to remove the clothing of Ladies bearing names of non sponsors though.
The Chair of LOCOG is Coe
Not bright of mind, indeed slow.
He’s often accused
Of being sponsor enthused.
To the spirit of the Olympics, a blow.
Legislation ‘protecting’ the Olympic symbol is far older than the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006.
Try looking at the Olympic Symbol ec. (Protection) Act 1995 or even earlier Trade Marks Acts.
The Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 is, however, so general and wide-ranging that traders have been threatened with prosecution merely for using the figure ’2012′ in advertising material, without any reference to the Olympic games.
Landowners can even be prosecuted for not preventing someone else on their land taking ‘action of a particular kind’. For Fucks’s sake, what sort of tin-pot socialist dreamt that up? Oh… right.
Perhaps the Queen should be prosecuted for having a jubilee in 2012.
Typical totalitarian Labour legislation.
There is a solution – everyone does it – if we all stuck up a faux-Olympic sign in our windows and all wore a non-regulation Olympic T Shirt or whatever, I doubt the cops would be bothered and I can’t see the most puffed-up little Hitlerian lawyer having the patience or resources to cart 60 million people off to court.
f23k the games.
+1000000 a man after my own heart, any more of that stupidity and people shoUld just their backs on the LONDON OLYMPIC games torches and all the ballyhoo that goes with it
Arkell and Pressdram time.
That’s a push you pull me, bit like the budget is turning out
May I take the opportunity to say that that video, especially the editing, was complete and utter shit.
I’m sure Philip Hygate would make a very fine Executive Mayor.
The FTSE doesn’t look very healthy. Is something bad happening?
Hello everyone!
Just thought I’d pop in and introduce myself like you do, I know I know but better late than never eh!
The banks are on holiday for the next four days so perhaps they will come back fully re-charged.
For the love of Yahweh, print money!
Too infinity and beyond!!!
Is it time to release the kracken yet?
But…but…but the Irish referendum passed!
They voted correctly first time!
This was supposed to be a happy happy day!
They know that if they vote the ‘wrong’ way, the EU will only ‘invite’ them to vote again, so they’re just saving themselves the aggro of another expensive referendum. How long will it be before this is happening in the Divided Kingdom?
40% voted the wrong way. That is a significant number of potential freedom fighters further down the line. Not forgetting those that did not vote resigning to the belief that propaganda operation was too powerful to best.
Time for S’n'A
Philip Hygate should be taken outside and shot in front of his family.
Or shot after his family. Either would do.
Even his wife cant stand him – they’ve lived seperate lives for years.
Is the CIA behind it?
It was a false flag operation.
blue ops
Black Ops 2, out this November.
Will Self-serving has had insurance claim rejected. http://bit.ly/LNs282
You’d need a heart of stone not to piss yourself laughing.
Yeah. It was an Act of God. LOL
you have to have a heart of stone not to laugh
You watch your language, lad, there’s ladies present!
So that’s it then. Sireland will now have its budgets written in Brussels and signed off by the Germans. Sireland is now just a small outlying state of the EUSSR.
Silence !!
Ireland will be a good place to set up our forced labour camps. We will call them the Gaelic.
Dublin, now twinned with Kracow and Bergen Belsen.
Und it vill be ze ideal brigdehead for ze invasion plans.
Yes Englanders, you vill soon bend ze knee to ze Vier Riech. Vee have you zurrounded.
Very true Shamus. The Oirish deserve all they get, and no apologies to Guido either. My Grandparents were Oirish, but a rare couple, as they were full of common sense.
Aye, youse English bastards. We showed you!!!
Sorry Daniel, you’ll have to kiss Merkel’s smelly ars* twice a week from now on. Sold your feckin souls for a rotten currency a bad de*,al.
But we showed you!
We might all have paupered ourselves through an insane property bubble but we showed you!
insane property bubble? It started in amerrrr,…sham
Ireland does rather give the lie to ‘It started in America…’ doesn’t it?
Ireland was just five years further down the road of economic insanity than the UK before it finally stopped in America.
Doctor brankwurst I presume
耗費一認識一個
安杰拉 merkels 取得呆滯的手指
quote from irish times 62% vote for rock, 38% for hard place
Sad time for the Irish. In less than 100 years they have chosen to take themselves from rule by a caring democratic state to domination by an axis of evil.
They had their chances but blew them. Sometime soon they’ll be wishing for another potato famine – it was less painful.
Yeah, saw An Taoiseach, Enda whatever his name is burbling on about how wonderful it all is that 60% voted ‘the right way’. I think that man will live to eat his words (or be forcefed them by the 40%).
Marital coercion? That’s the coronerstones of islam! Our beloved prophet tolding us to rapes our 14 wives and girl aged 9 and overs. And to rapes the wives of our enemies!
It’s all about keeping the high ground.
I can only deny that the English bar is a vested interest and restrictive practice
Test run
OK
uncensored, as yet
I will go on
Does any rational person think that it is normal that
ALL the High Court Judges
ALL the senior barristers
ALL the senior members of the Crown Prosecution Service, including successive Directors of Public Prosecutions
And ALL the senior memebrs of Royal Commissions
And at least one PrimenMinister’s wife (!)
And various well placed Cabinet Ministers of Right and Left
And many appointed Life Peers
ALL come from the same small set of Barristers Chambers ?
And that English barristers are most expensive in the world ?
The English Bar is a renowned restrictve practise that should be immediately referred to the Mopoolies Commisison, Office of Fair Trading and opened up every citizen that wants a modicum of justice
Yes, but by whom? And is the Monopolies Commission infested too with these people?
Yes. And hypocritically there’s only ONE Monopolies Commission
Not Sue, Grabbit and Run – Shirley?
No, no the Matrix Revised, Re-worked & Reversed ‘Barristers 4U’.
yeah ….we need a revolution and my firm will be happy to advise on setting one up in return for the normal fee plus refreshers etc
Bomb it
It has been reported by the irish times that thousands and thousands are on the ulster side of the border pointing their fingers and laughing their cocks off
Bed wettingly funny.
Catch up people.
Scilly Isles Chief Executive is paid £80k+ to run a Parish Council with a population of 2,100.
I could weep.