people in glass houses shouldn't sh*t on their plates

Certain former ministers of the Labour government were waiting impatiently for the next election, to retire from politics, and get hired by lobbying firms that want to get laws changed in their favour.

So impatient were they, that when The Sun set up a fake lobbying company with a simple young lady sitting at a desk, they didn't, for a second question whether they were being set up.
At that time, they had parliamentary assistants (I don't know if they still have their staff cards, now) who could have looked up Lobbyings Are Us and found that it was

'a set up with a hidden camera'.

But NNOOOooo. All they could see were paychecks dancing before their eyes.

5000 pounds per day, for a good one of them democrats.
that's cheap, for a multi-national company

what are they guilty of?

Firstly, some of the politicians could have just been lying about affecting legislation. Some of them could have been trying to impress the young lady, in the hopes of getting a shag. No favours were done, mind you. So, none of them actually broke a law by talking about manipulating the democratic process for the private gain of a corporation, over the rights and interests of the rest of the country. They were, however, VERY ready to do so.

And then politicians tell us "please vote", "it's your duty."

"if you don't vote, you're not taking part in democracy"

I say: "If you don't have access to lobbyists,
you don't benefit from democracy"

I think I'll start me a lobbying company and become a democrat.

The Conservatives were very happy for this boost, just before the election that dares not be announced.
Lord Mandelson for his part, says the Conservatives are
guilty of throwing stones while living in a glass house.
That's true.
The Conservatives have also been guilty of sleaze.

It turns out that both the Tories and Mandy are correct:
Politicians in power are more likely to be corrupt.
What a surprise!

Of course, Mandelson is in a particularly thin type of glass house for someone who is also throwing stones and for someone being the pot who called the kettle black.
For those of you keeping score, Mandelson, though gay and corrupt, was a central figure in New Labour of the Blairs. He had high posts always, but was

fired for turpitude's (read: sleaze) TWO times.
Imagine how hard it is for a Man Friday to be sh*tcanned.

[ELGazette 2001. Norman Baker, MP caused Mandy to be shown as corrupt (that was the first time it was objectively proved)]

That's how badly he screwed up!

After a stint as Euro trade minister (where he took the lobbying of Russian oligarchs to new lows), he is now a member of the cabinet, while not being elected.

Frankly, nobody will vote for him.

He is saved by the fact that some fool made him a lord.
Talk about 'lording it over people'. This man is 'Labour', but anti-labour at the same time. Ask the post office and British Airways employees.

-Costick67 (8^P

next goal: find out who the real lobby companies are
checkitout: The Sun shines out their butts-http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2901502/Gordon-Brown-faces-fury-over-yet-another-sleaze-scandal.html

in the UK, football is like a balloon

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Hey, dawg! You play football?

I've got just the news for you, folks.

While half the world is starving and
the other half is working for the benefit of their bankers,

the news media in the UK spent most of last month treating us to a story about

who's dicking what.

Our fella, John Terry, the married captain of the UK squad was apparently popping a model.

What's the problem in that? Well, apparently she used to be the date of one of his GB
teammates, Wayne Bridge.

No, no, no. John didn't steal her from Wayne. That would be too interesting.

He just caught her on the bounce, I suppose. So, apparently the media wants us to believe that Wayne is upset at this. Why would he be upset?

Well, for starters, he's on the national team which means that women
should be worshipping at his feet, or thereabouts. For a woman not only to leave you
but to go for a teammate is to question your skills as a conqueror of women's
hearts (as if he ever looked that far north).
So, it's an old-fashioned dick-wagging contest.
In the end, the hypocritical media (tucking their whores in their trenchcoats)

[pic pimpfocus.com: Journalist at work]

took time out of their important days to tell us how 'disgusted we all are'.
The review of this non-story was mocked best by Newswipe on the BBC.

[pic dailymail.co.uk: Bird and Dawg]

So, John lost his job on the team. Not because of a moral turpitude,
but because media hacks are bad luck, and too many of those wankers were
hanging around the team bus, drooling. It would only be a matter of time
before one player was gonna
haul off and punch a pap in the head, sending the player straight to court.
You see? bad luck, indeed.

-Costick67 (8^P

Double bubble, toil and trouble

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While we all love a bubble blowing contest,
the bubble I'm talking about today is
the double (banking and real estate) bubble
that has yet to really pop.
Just be certain that governments will do nothing to avert it.
So, hide your money in the mattress. Just make sure it's got fire-retardent
material.

Ever since the old days of tariffs and taxation,
big companies and banks have been running an
emancipation campaign reminiscent of the suffragettes.

Now, with globalisation, they are well and truly
free. They have burned their bras and their regulations.
companies are people, and they're wagging their tits in our faces.

Most political parties, back then, were broadly-based.
They were funded by memberships paid by workers and small businessmen.
Governments protected jobs and companies, and
the people funded their bullsh*t political campaigns.
However, since globalisation,
small and medium-size businesses have been going bust.
People are ever more cynical and broke! So, parties have seen their
funding money dry up. Labour is reportedly 20 million in debt.
You see! That's why the banks can blackmail them; and they do.

To make matters worse, people and small companies used to pay taxes.
Now that they're broke, there's no tax income. Aaah, but bankers pay taxes,
right? Actually, they're parsimonious bastards and they all have
bank accounts in the Caribbean. No taxes paid, and yet they leverage
their political bribe money
into millions of tax-free Bahamian dollars.
Iree.

This is where your tax money is. Wow, eh?

[drawring- virtual-travel.info]

BUT, ONE DAY, WE'RE GONNA BLOCK THE LOOPHOLES.
WE'LL CHECK ALL THEIR INCOME AND TAX IT AT THE SOURCE! uuuh
THEY'LL BE BROUGHT TO HEAL! mmmm
THEY'LL REALISE THAT WE MUST ALL SHARE THE WEALTH! UH-UH
AND WE WILL ALL LIVE IN PARADISE! UH-UH-UUUH
A PARADISE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE! mmmm-aaah
A GARDEN OF EDEN, WITH EVE MOSTLY NAKED!!
AAAAAAaaah. I'm spent.
Another wasted burst of expectorant. Sorry, politicians got me excited with
their justice rap. There must be an election coming up.

another burst market bubble.... coming ...to a surprised face near you.

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If politicians tell you
'vote for me and I'll help you',
they're going for your johnson.

Don't be a circle-jerk. No Dutch rudders here.
They're just stalling so that the bankers can make more money.
Don't be surprised when the bubble grows too quickly. Be ready. Duck and run.
Keep your money out of their hands; the banks and the government.

point of order: social justice is a wet dream, because you'll never see it while you're awake.

-Costick67 (8^P

Fear of fat men in fat ties

The games of the British Elections 2010 have already begun.
Forget the fact that Gordon Brown has less than 7 weeks left in his term, LEGALLY!
He is too scared to call an election. Nevertheless, everyone is acting like it's

on your marks, get set, manipulate the public

point 1
hang 'em high
the media are talking about 'the fear of a hung parliament'
that means 'hey, people. Vote the way we tell you'
Hedgers are also pulling this canard in order
to gain from naked negative positions on the Pound.

[pic- beerbrains.com: semi-naked negative position]

Of course, the implication is 'hung parliament=disaster=worry'.
that's why the don't call it a coalition.
Hanging reminds people of nooses and capital punishment.
(Well, rest easy, folks)

Labour's PM Brown may be doing this to make people think
that the Tories' Cameron (the flip side of the political cult of personality)
is incompetent, so folks should vote for Labour,
even though we're sure that Labour is incompetent.
Why not vote for the Liberal Democrats?
Well, as I've said before, the Lib Dems are not a real choice.
They were designed to guarantee the victory of the party
that's 'destined' (by somebody) to win, by stealing votes from the other party.
Also, when the heat is on them, the Lib Dems' brains melt.
They say some of the stupidest things humanly possible (stay tuned).
Also, they're fat, rich and wear ridiculously loud, fat ties.

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point 2
The conserva-tories & Cameron are indeed incompetent
David Cameron has been trying to show himself as progressive
without giving away his wonderful secrets of the Tory political arts.
He makes startling proclamations, which, upon reflection
look like pretty stupid ideas (stay tuned).
Why is he doing that?
Well, he gets his ideas from his toffs.
The British bureaucracy is also run by lesser Oxford and Cambridge
graduates of the upper classes; toffs.
Cameron is trying to allay fears by showing the present toffs in government
that he likes idiot toffs feeding him ideas, and so Cameron will not be seeking
to fire/sack any of the existing Mr.Bean lookalikes hiding in the Ministries.
This... will smooth the wheels of the transition, or so it is thought.

point 3
Labour: "what f$%^*ked up track record?"
Gordon Brown seems like an earnest man
who wants to help people.
When he talks about people's needs
you could almost forget that he decided to
increase income tax on people earning as little as 2 thousand pounds!
A YEAR!

point 4
it's all about administration, not politics
This is the post-ideology era.
'Not even a cigarette paper between the parties',
is the old saying, over here. They're identical. Do you really think that
David Cameron would not have taken the UK into war?
Pfft- HAH! xD
One sharp, pointy-head at the BBC recently
said how, with globalisation, governments have very
little that they can do to help anybody.
They've lost any economic power they had now that
the banks are running the show.
Point in fact: no government has done
anything to limit the hedge/derivative markets that
will certainly explode once again,
very soon.
So, it's all about administration. I've already all but proved
that all three parties are incompetent, meaning their admin will
be awful,
so what choice is there? None of the above parties.

point 5
Majority rule is serial dictatorship.
Unless people riot in the streets, governments do not
listen. Margaret Thatcher's pole tax was the last time
that that lady turned, in the mid 1980s.
Since then, it's been 5-year dictators who have
taken the UK into war after war,
even though we all know that they're morally wrong,
to almost 100% certainty.
However, those wars do help the oil companies,
the military industrial complex and the US.
They also assist in the bankrupting of the UK, so that politicians
are 'forced' to make cuts to education and hospitals.

point 6
please vote for me, today & every day!
If there is no majority winner, the game is still in play.
All the parties will be trying to do what the people want,
every day,
so that they'll be voted in, in the next election.
That's more like it.
Politicians know what's right. They simply refuse to do it.
It's human nature. If you were
given carte blanche for 5 years, would you listen to anybody?
fat freaking chance.
If you think that indecision will rule,
I say that the vital stuff will be decided on,
because of the maxim above.
Everything else, like pet projects and corrupt handouts, will languish.
If you believe that anything a politician does
has a negative effect on his country, then
the less they do, the better.

THUS, A HUNG PARLIAMENT IS GOOD.
thank you
I may be starting a new blog to encourage this political movement.

UPDATE: We've succeeded!

-Costick67 (8^P