2012 Olympic Games threatened by Boris Johnson

I was much amused in an exasperated sort of way, to hear Boris Johnson blathering on last week about ‘sex workers’ and the alleged threat they pose to the London Olympic Games in 2012 claiming that

“Major sporting events are often linked to an upsurge in demand for prostitution”.

Naturally he declined to provide any evidence to support this ridiculous claim which ranks him alongside Labour MP Dennis MacShane and the ArchSelfPublicist of York, Dr John Sentamu, who also declined to provide any evidence for their claims that the 2012 games would attract large numbers of prostitutes and thus the attention of human traffickers.

While I applaud their efforts to raise public awareness of human trafficking, I’m inclined to suspect that in this particular case it is simply wishful thinking on their part as all the available evidence suggests quite the opposite.

Criminals like easy profits, the bigger the better, and with the Olympic Games being pretty much a family affair, they are unlikely to attract the sort of clientèle which would enable the traffickers to recoup their ‘investment’.

As for the other major sporting events, the overwhelming quantity of evidence available clearly shows that the only time football fans have any kind of interpersonal contact - intimate or otherwise - with other people who are not football fans is when there is no football to watch.

No. These are not extremists, most of whom starved to death within weeks of the advent of 24hour football television channels - although there are rumours that some may have held out for nearly a month. They are simply ‘ordinary’ football fans who are unfortunately, still living and breeding in our towns and cities.

I realise that might give some people the impression that I dislike football which is not the case. Of course I like football. I’m English aren’t I?

The problem is that the majority of football fans take it far too seriously. Anyone who was around in the 70s and early 80s doesn’t need me to remind them just how bad it was. It’s certainly no co-incidence that I and many other ‘casual’ fans stopped going to football matches at that time.

But even then, we went to watch football not find prostitutes.

It certainly sounds good

Tory leader David Cameron made good on his promise to put Shadow Cabinet expenses online yesterday afternoon as part of his allegedly tough new policy on tory MPs expense claims.

Yes, I know. The very idea of the tories keeping a promise is shocking, but is this anything more than a desperate attempt to look as if they are genuinely committed to 'cleaning house'?

I'd say "Of course not" but then I would have to admit that I'm biased. However it is interesting to note that no tory MPs have been suspended yet. Not even those blatant fraudsters Andrew MacKay and his wife, Julie Kirkbride.


And what is our own glorious leadership's response to this action?

Nothing whatsoever...


Shadow Cabinet expense claims published online

Another one rides the bus (BNP mix)

It's no longer just New Labour activists and, increasingly, New Labour MPs who are using the 'threat' of the BNP in a desperate attempt to coerce voters into supporting them with blatant 'vote for us or the BNP will win' scaremongering tactics.

The tories have now jumped on the bandwagon with the launch of a new website entitled NothingBritish which opens with the slogan,

"There is Nothing British about the BNP"

Which unfortunately is probably the only untrue statement on the site. Something the authors would know if they got out of their nice, air conditioned offices and visited the real world once in a while.

Fortunately, despite all the panicmeisters running round waving their hands in the air and shouting "The BNP are coming! The BNP are coming", they actually have little chance of winning.

But just to be sure, if you cannot bring yourself to support the mainstream parties after their gross dishonesty then please vote for the UKIP in the European Elections next month.

Remember there are far worse 'alternatives'.

http://www.nothingbritish.com/

Double Act

Tory MP Andrew MacKay has 'resigned' his post as parliamentary adviser to David Cameron after it came to light that he had claimed the full second home allowance for their London home while his wife Julie Kirkbride, MP for Bromsgrove, had claimed the full second home allowance for their constituency home.

As we've come to expect, MacKay is defending this arrangement claiming that it had been agreed with the Fees Office, but has agreed to appear before David Cameron's scrutiny panel to discuss how much of this allowance should be paid back.

With such a blatant case of fraud - the second to be revealed in less than 24 hours - David Cameron should be pressing MacKay to stand down instead of simply resigning as an 'adviser' and agreeing to discuss whether he should repay some of the money.

More importantly, with such pitifully weak responses from both sides of the house, this may well have effectively handed control of the Commons to the first party to promise criminal proceedings against any MP who has defrauded the system as blatantly as Morley and MacKay have done.

Anyone but the BNP

Tory Peer Norman Tebbit, former party chairman, is urging people to "teach the big parties a lesson" and "show them who is master" by boycotting them in the forthcoming European Elections. Lord Tebbit did not endorse any specific party but he did stress that he did not want people voting for the BNP.

It is interesting to note that one of the largest of these smaller parties are Eurosceptics as is Lord Tebbit himself so this is probably not a coincidence. Particularly as the UK Independence Party is the only one coming out of the expenses fiasco with clean hands having dealt "absolutely ruthlessly" with both Tom Wise and Ashley Mote after their 'financial irregularities' came to light.

More importantly, if the "public anger" and "sense of betrayal" which many political commentators have been referring to recently is reflected in the results of the next month's European elections then the UKIP could take a majority of the seats being contested.

Whether this would constitute the "pretty powerful shot across the bows" Lord Tebbit believes Tory, Lib-Dem and Labour MPs need is debatable but it's certainly not something they can afford to ignore.

Naturally, Lord Tebbit's own party are not too pleased with him about this and Tory leader David Cameron warned him that he risks being expelled from the tory group of peers.

Boycott big parties, says Tebbit