Merkel came to Britain in Nov' pleading with Cameron not to leave the EU..... Well, who else will take in all those Romanians and Bulgarians queuing up across the Channel.

The European Union continues its dissent into chaos but the politicians and the eurocrats pretend it's not happening, as the citizens of Greece eat from the garbage bins and the Spanish organise raids on supermarkets and the young people of Portugal are packing to leave. So that's all right then, meanwhile the hideous EU fishing quotas continue to force fisherman to catch fish then throw them back, dead. Makes perfect sense, unless you're a fish in the wrong net and the EU continues to dump its food mountains on Africa, keeping prices artificially high in the Union, whilst making local produce in Africa uncompetitive, so farmers go out of business and their children go hungry. Oh, the marvels of the European Union.

Where's our referendum, Mr Cameron?

 

4G Roll Out

On 30 October, EE – the company that owns Orange and T-Mobile in the UK – launched its fourth generation (‘4G’) service in 10 cities with the promise of much faster broadband speeds on the move.

Its main rivals – Vodafone and O2 – complained that EE has been allowed to launch its services ahead of the competition. That’s because it had some spare spectrum available (spectrum being the radio waves that mobile phone companies license to deliver mobile services). So if you have a contract with another operator you’ll need to wait until 2013 before you can get 4G - contain yourself.

Meanwhile a uSwitch study noted: The fast and slow of it..

Cromarty Road in Stamford, Lincolnshire, has an average speed of 0.132Mbps, while Willowfield, in Telford and Wrekin, has registered speeds of 70.9Mbps over the past six months, uSwitch.com found.

At these speeds it would take Willowfield residents 2.49 minutes to download a two hour film, and 11 seconds to download a music album, while Cromarty Road residents would need 25 hours and 15 minutes to download a two hour film, and one hour and 41 minutes to download the same album.

 

Deceased: Russell Means

October

Means, it was he who played Chingachgook in the Last of the Mohicans, was a real activist for Native Americans, having led the 71 day armed siege at Wounded Knee in 1973, site of the white mans' slaughter of the Sioux.

New Archbishop of Canterbury

November

The Bishop of Durham, accepted the post of Archbishop of Canterbury. The question now is, can he save the Anglican Church from irrelevant oblivion. And by the way, irrelevant oblivion is far worse than straightforward oblivion because in the former case, no one notices the thing disappear.

 

How does an Islamist say thank you?

He kills your ambassador.....but it could have been prevented.

August - Libya

Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American officials died as gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and set fire to the US compound in Benghazi.

It had been thought it was a spontaneous protest provoked by an American-made anti-Islam film, which is being promoted on YouTube and which insults the Prophet Mohammed.

This was, of course, nonsense, Mr Stevens was targeted by the Islamists for being American and worse the CIA and Mr President knew about it three days before the murders and did nothing to protect their people.

 

Andrew Mitchell: "Don't You Know Who I Fucking Am, you Pleb?"

September

Mitchell apologised for his behaviour but he denied swearing at the police, and he denied calling the policeman, who wouldn't let him ride his bike out of the main entrance to Downing Street, a pleb. Which rather raises the question as to why he was apologising. It was suspected he was a serial apologiser and the public were cautioned not to approach him, to avoid the possibility of an unsolicited apology.

Fast forward to December and the public were shown CCTV footage of Mitchell leaving Downing Street - it didn't look like he was having an argument with anyone but by now nobody cared.

Call Me Dave sacked Mitchell, it's his problem.

Olympics

Empty Seats and Shuttlecock Cheats

The World Badminton Federation have made a complete mess of the Olympic badminton competition, by introducing a preliminary group format. The idea behind this experiment was to give lesser players more time playing. Now, we all know that football has been using the preliminary group format for years, so that England can at least play a couple of games. However, the football version doesn't allow much scope for losers to decide who they will play at the next stage. No matter, safe to say the WBF will not be experimenting any more.

Many people, i.e. Olympic experts have been saying that we should not be blaming the shuttlecock cheats, four pairs of top players, who have now been sent home for throwing their matches in the hope of a good draw in the next round. Apparently, it was only natural to try and cheat your way to success if the system allows you to do this because winning is everything no matter how you achieve that; there is no Olympic spirit, no moral code, no personal integrity, only scheming and scamming, afterall that's what everyone else does, bankers, politicians, builders, clerics, etc., why should Olympic players be any different.

The media made much of all those expensive empty seats at Olympic venues but Locog dreamed up a plan to fill these seats with volunteers dressed as elite Olympic family members - very cunning Seb.

Pat Finucane: State Cover-up and Collusion

December

Finucane was killed in 1989 and it's a fair bet that everyone involved in his slaying - shot six times in the head, in his home, in front of his wife and children - are still alive and covering-up and colluding. The Saville Report left us in no doubt that Finucane was executed by the State. Will Cameron have the courage to bring anyone to justice.

 

Gotcha... Starmer goes after Huhne

February

It's only taken 8 years but at last the DPP has finally found the guts to go after alleged points flipper Huhne. Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, said the Liberal Democrat MP and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce would both be charged with perverting the course of justice.

Perverting the course of justice is a pretty serious offence and could carry a hefty prison sentence, especially for someone who keeps claiming to be innocent.
However, a better description of Huhne would be childlike rather than innocent. Since only a village idiot or a child would imagine that Keir Starmer would make a very public announcement about charging you if he wasn't two hundred percent certain of getting a conviction.

Huhne resigned as Energy Secretary, so that he could concentrate on his defense - time waster!

Eric Joyce: drunken thug says he's ashamed

March

MP Eric Joyce, who beat up four people in a Common's bar, says that he's reflecting on his drinking problem. He's also reflecting on his anger management issues.

Many people are asking why he wasn't kicked out of Parliament. The answer's simple, you can't sack an MP unless he steals the crown jewels or gets imprisoned for more than a year. Joyce's violence only got him a pathetic community order, a pub curfew, and a small fine.

London's Burning

August

AssetCo, the company that provides and maintains London’s fire engines, off-loaded its entire UK fleet for just £2 to private equity firm AB&A Investments. The management of the London Fire Service have transferred the great confidence that they misplaced in AssetCo to AB&A.

 

Sandy Hook Massacre

December

Following the death of 20 children and 6 of their teachers the National Rifle Association of America told us it's not guns that kill people but insanity.

Perhaps they should stop selling guns to mad people. Or better still stop selling guns to anyone. Or even better, stop making guns. Some might find that an insane suggestion, however, it would solve the problem a lot quicker than waiting for someone to find a cure for madness.

From Mervyn to Mark

The head of the biscuit committee at the Bank of England, Mervyn King is set to be replaced by Mark Carney.

Chancellor George Osborne told us that Carney was the best man in the world for this job. We think he was just being silly again.

Boy George managed to turn Carney into a comic book creation, claiming he managed to save Canada during the global meltdown. In fact, he didn't have to because Canadian banks were no where near as reckless as those here. So Carney may have to earn his money here, doing stuff like not raising interest rates and printing some money but he will be well rewarded with digestives.

 

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