Summer Recess, Saviour of the Nation

As Lord Allesley listened to PMQ's today it dawned upon him that it was the last for 3 months as our hard working MP's needed to take the summer off.
Initial anger at the idle uselessness of this soon passed. It was replaced by the knowledge that for 3 months- 13 weeks- 90 days no less, there would be no legislation passed. No more laws for the sake of it. Does the nation grind to a halt every summer because our Masters aren't passing new laws over us? No.. The obvious answer then is a 3 month Parliament and 9 months off, thus reducing the harm that can be done still further.

Lord Allesley challenges anyone to question this logic.

Lord Allesley

Are the BBC working for the Goverrnment

Lord Allesley has just been listning to PM. He has never been one to think the BBC was particularly biased. On this occassion though, the car nearly ended up in a ditch. Jacqui Smith goes on TV and say "yes" to Adam Boulton when asked about knife Crime victims being seen in hospital by criminals. Now the Home Office have realised this is ridiculous and have decided they didn't say that after all. The BBC then try to deconstruct Jacqui Smiths word (unsuccessfully) to point out she didn't really say it. They then have Shadow Home Secretary Domonic Grieve on to talk about it, and instead of revealling the emporor has no clothes when this spin mad government speaks.They procede to try to infer that the Tories had an incoherent line on the issue. Again the BBC were made to look foolish. Lord Allelsey fears he really is in the new Zimbabwe.

Bottled it at the UN

So, China and Russia both veto sanctions on the Mugabe murderers.
The UN is a joke. Mass murder condoned.
The US and Britain had a unique opportunity, Russia, offer talks on missile shield, China threat of Olympic disruption. If they cannot be held to account as reasonable nations in these circumstances, when can they. Brown & Bush busted flushes.

Lord Allesley

Jacqui Smith Wonderland

So the announcement has come out that is going to save our young (and others) from the Blade. We are going to shock them by showing them knife victims. That's it pretty much. We are not going to have more random checks, less police paper work and harsher penalties. we are not going to work with, and punish where appropriate irresponsible parents.

Instead the Home Secretary really thinks that a bunch of kids desensitised to violence through video games and TV are going to be "shocked" into changing their ways. No Home Secretary they are not they will see it as "getting away with it".

Lord Allesley has been a victim of knife crime and knows how pathetic the legal system was in dealing with it. A charge of possession of a bladed instrument against a man who was obviously attempting to kill Lord Allesley. Only one police interview and accept a plea on a minor infringement, the path of least resistance, prosecution target meeting and least paperwork.

Oh but victims get their say in this new age, they get to stand before the judge and tell how it was terrifying, how it has effected them....Oh not if you ring the police 8 weeks later only to be told the case has been to court, a guilty plea put in and now its all over.

What is the point of more legislation, more empty announcements and more fantasy politics. We need proper policy deployment, real policing less human rights PC rubbish. It is time the people of Britain regained their great country from the social pariahs. This government does not see that. It genuinely believes rewarding antisocial scum will change their behaviour, not reinforce it.

Time for change.

Lord Allesley

McNulty removed from reality

Lord Allelsey has pondered and fumed for 24 hours, sometimes to put thought down in the heat of the moment is wrong.

However Mcnulty the Minister for arrogance and stupidity has made Allesley explode.
On an interview on TV news on Friday evening, a day when it became apparent that Britain (England Technically) had become riddled with knife crime, when asked what the Government was doing about it, he had the audacity to say , over the last year the government had made several "announcements" on the subject. What does this imbecile believe. If the Government says something is bad we will all stop doing it, if it says its good we will all follow suit. All a Government has to do apparently is speak and we shall obey, the world will fall into line. Have these people really become this egotistical in the last 11 years.

This fool needs to understand we have a Britain where for huge sections of our population aspiration has been removed, normal and sensible aspiration that is. The idea of a career,a job, a better community, its gone. Hand out Britain has led to the only aspiration for some being to join a gang, to be a thug.For others to get 6 pints of Stella, or more channels on Sky. to achieve these goals sit at home and wait for the cheque to arrive.

Lord Allesley is despairing.

Regional Mayor

It appears that hot from the ridiculous bubble of Westminster, Hazel Blears really thinks there is an appetite for a Regional Mayor. This would cover The Black Country, Birmingham, Coventry and Telford and Wrekin.
Now I know Westminster is over 100 miles away, but for heavens sake, what on earth makes her think their is an appetite for such a post.

The idea that the region has a united identity is a thing of fantasy. The whole thing is based on a map of the Public Sector economy, not the real world. People in Coventry feel an affinity with Warwickshire, not Telford, and guess where the private sector trades.

This smacks of a tired government who's attempt at elected regional assemblies collapsed in tatters in the North East, this is it by the back door.

Go back to Westminster, have a lie down and then come back and actually listen to the people. 10 years in government has led to delusion. Its time for change, nationally, then we can have a think about our regions.

Lord Allelsey

Benn state the obvious and shows the PM is in fantasy land

Lord Allesley has just listened to yesterdays BBC interview Hilary Benn gave the BBC. It was on the ridiculous food waste statement. Benn defended it saying that in a world of high commodity prices it was something we could do, after all the Prime Minister can't effect international oil prices. So why the hell did he fly to Saudi a few days ago with press fanfare if his own Ministers knew he couldn't effect it. If anyone thought Blair ran a government of spin, this one takes the biscuit (only one biscuit of course,wouldn't want to waste food.).

The last desperate throws of government are sad, wasteful and pointless.

Lord Allesley

PM International embarrassment

So we have a G8 summit, under discussion are world commodity price. Our esteemed Premiers answer to this global issue is to ignore Best Before dates. I am ashamed to be British. many felt that Bush came to these gatherings and was seen as being a half wit, well now Brown is aiming to take the mantle.

The argument doesn't stack up, with the logistics and packaging etc in modern retailing, the extra third that goes in the bin is irrelevant to pricing, hence BOGOFF offers. This man has lost the plot entirely. Whats his answer to Afghanistan going to be, arm wrestling the Taliban.

Lord Allesley is of the opinion that Brown has gone from being buffoon to loon. It is very dangerous to have such a man in charge of your country, especially when those that surround him are of such a low calibre and cannot hold his madness in check.

Lord Allesley

Fuel tax rip off

Lord Allesley spent a good part of yesterday with experts discussing energy.
What came across loud and clear was the enormous wind fall of taxation the government is getting at the moment. It begs the question, what are they doing with this money. Surely if the government was serious about energy security and cost it would invest this windfall into insulating ALL homes, helping small business become more efficient, sorting out the road infrastructure eg. intelligent traffic light, oh and major public transport projects. No none of these are increasing. The money it appears, is going into the fiscal black hole that Mr Brown has created.

The other message was that we have a private public transport system, that is effectively dictated to on public sector terms, ie bus fares are negotiated by local government and fixed regardless of fuel cost. Many bus operators are on the verge of going bust as their cost model no longer works. Can they do anything about it? No not really, Public sector rules means that the minimum resolution time in these cases is 4 months, they wont survive that long! It also means no bus companies are going to be investing in new fleets, new routes or new services, mind you Gordon still taxes them. So if you thought not using your car was an option, forget it.

Overall Lord Allesley was depressed, he'd throw himself under a bus if he could find one.

Lord Allesley

Ministers give up, but were going down with them

Lord Allesley had an interesting meeting yesterday with a long term advisor to many a government. This is the least sensationalist, and least partisan person Lord Allesley knows. The reports of what is going on in the world of Brown were disturbing. It seems Brown has become a one man think tank, who throws out random policy ideas he has come up with on the back of an envelope, he then insists they are rolled out.

Worse still is the attitude of ministers. It appears they have given up, they are openly admitting they wont be around for much longer so policy's they announce are pointless. And even worse still it appears that several ministers are now embarking on a scorched earth policy. They are coming up with initiatives that promise the earth, are uncosted and undeliverable, they know that Cameron will have to pick up the pieces, and with the financial black hole they leave behind it will make the job nigh on impossible.

So as ministers implement their 6 year plan to get back in power, they obviously feel that the good of the country and its citizens are worth sacrificing so they can satisfy there own need to be at the controls.

So at least 6 years of gloom ahead? Lord Allesley hopes he hasn't ruined your day.

Lord Allesley

Cherie Blairs hypocracy (the H word is popular with me)

So the lovable Cherie says she fears for her children's safety on the streets. Well Mrs Blair, my kids don't get advice from the Mets protection squad, they don't live in a house (or houses) that the tax payers fork out to protect. If you feel venerable, welcome to the real world. Oh but then you will be in court tomorrow defending some scum bag on a technicality over "human rights", a law we now have as it was expedient for your husbands career. Blair's, hang your heads in shame. When you have a Parliamentary majority as large as yours was you have a moral duty to make your country a better place as you can avoid petty party politics. instead you blindly followed a Dogmatic trail of self interest. You are a disgrace, it is now down to the rest of the tattered society you have left behind to pick up the pieces. Lord Allesley needs a drink!

Lord Allesley