Complete and utter bathplugs: The 2012 Olympics in Soviet Britain.

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

The 2012 Olympics in Soviet Britain.

Don't even think about showing any dissent during the Olympics.

Police have been handed 'Chinese-style' powers to enter private homes and seize political posters during the London 2012 Olympics.

Little-noticed measures passed by the Government will allow officers and Olympics officials to enter homes and shops near official venues to confiscate any protest material.

Breaking the rules could land offenders with a fine of up to £20,000.

Civil liberties groups compared the powers to those used by the Communist Chinese government to stop political protest during the 2008 Beijing Games.

Anita Coles, of Liberty, said: 'Powers of entry should be for fighting crime, not policing poster displays. Didn't we learn last time that the Olympics should not be about stifling free expression?'

The powers were introduced by the Olympics Act of 2006, passed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, supposedly to preserve the monopoly of official advertisers on the London 2012 site.

They would allow advertising posters or hoardings placed in shop or home to be removed.

But the law has been drawn so widely that it also includes 'non-commercial material' - which could extend its reach to include legitimate campaign literature.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said at the time: 'This is a Government who just doesn't understand civil liberties. They may claim these powers won't be used but the frank truth is no one will believe them.' However since then he has said, well nothing really.

Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne also said: 'This sort of police action runs the risk of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. 'We should aim to show the Chinese that you can run a successful Olympics without cracking down on protestors and free speech.' Again he has since becoming part of government said, well nothing really against this law.

Scotland Yard at the time this came out denied it had any plans to use the powers.

Got that, the woodentops will not be using the powers.

Er, hang on what all this then?http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Sports&title=Brand-wars-gather-pace-on-streets-of-London&id=55659

Olympic organizers have enforced strict rules to protect official trademarks, deploying about 250 uniformed “brand police” on the streets of the capital to ensure businesses do not piggyback off the world’s biggest sporting event.
The rules are simple: no one outside a small band of official sponsors such as McDonalds or adidas is allowed to make a profit by creating an association with the Games.
It is not the rules themselves that have irked some Londoners but their stringent enforcement and phrases such as “absurd” and “police state” -- often used jokingly but with a shade of resentment -- frequently crop up in conversation.
“It’s mad. It just seems... that corporations are being looked after but not the people,” said Lewis Parrin, 22, who runs a stall selling jewelry and watches in London’s eastern district of Stratford where the main Olympic venues are located.
“It’s quite scary, really. It’s like a police state.”
Another vendor nearby, when asked about a display of Olympic mascots on his makeshift stall, choked on his sandwich and removed them hastily. “I am glad you reminded me,” he said.
London is buzzing with curious stories of those who have found themselves on the wrong side of the brand police such as a stall owner who was told off for displaying the London 2012 logo and a butcher in a town hosting sailing events who had to remove a sign showing the Olympic rings made from sausages.
On a quiet side-street within walking distance of the Olympic stadium where the Games open officially on Friday, a cafe called Olympic has had to paint over the letter “O” to comply with the rules.

Gosh did the authorities and the plod lie about using these powers? Guess so. Oh go on here is one more silly enforcment rule http://hackneycitizen.co.uk/2012/07/24/hackney-newsagents-bunting-olympic-brand-policing/comment-page-1/

A Stoke Newington newsagent was ordered by Hackney Council to remove festive decorations from his shop on the day the Olympic Torch relay passed by.
Hamdy Shahein, a well-known community figure, had decorated his shop, Hamdy’s Newsagent, with balloons, banners and bunting for the occasion.
On Saturday morning, however, Mr Shahein was visited at his Stoke Newington High Road premises by enforcement officers from Hackney Council.
They questioned him as to whether the decorations were official Olympic merchandise, and then requested that he remove them.
Mr Shahein objected to what he saw as the heavy-handed approach towards the offending items. “I was shocked because I was making an effort to do something nice for the community”, Mr Shahein explained.

But you think thats silly, then how about this http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/22/stewart-lee-olympic-games-twitter

Yes and all of this is happening under Cameron and the Lib Dems who howled about authoritarian New Labour.

Which brings me to the Zil lanes set up by Labour, more on them here:Zil Lanes"

More than 250 miles of road are to be reserved for VIPs during the London Olympics.
Up to 80,000 officials, sponsors, politicians and athletes will have congestion free lanes in London and at other venues. Ordinary motorists face fines if they stray on to the reserved routes, which include sections of the M25. Challenging the fines could lead to a penalty of up to £5,000.

What you need to understand is that Labour believe that you are scum, an inferior untermenchen in your own land.

Your only role is to pay for the state 2012 party and to keep quiet, yes you pay to put your car on the road(unless your a pikey) and yet you are now officially a 2nd class citizen.

You will however be expected to get the fuck out of the way of important politico's, and all the other assorted 1st class citizens, who will be put up (at your expense), driven to Olympic venues(you paid for through your taxes) on roads (you pay for) and that you are not allowed to use.

Any dissent will be crushed.

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Sort Immigration David Cameron

Now this subject has always been a rather sensitive one to deal with as Mrs Duffy found out when she complained to Gordon Brown and yet its one area that this government – like the last one- has utterly failed to deal with. There are many points to this, which I will detail and also list where the government has gone wrong.

First off we have the huge backlog of migrants going back years, not including the countless "lost files" and ones given amnesty – those that the state knows about anyway – a huge number of dusty files that assorted departments are doing sod all with whilst hundreds of thousands of migrants- if not more - live free and easy and illegally in the UK.

The backlog of cases piled up in rooms, we are told and its probably much higher, amounts to 276,000. Most of the migrants are here illegally and should have been sent home years ago. They include 150,000 foreign workers and students still in Britain even though they were refused extensions to their visas; 101,000 untraced ‘asylum seekers’ left over from when 450,000 ‘forgotten files’ were discovered in 2005; and 3,900 foreign offenders released by the courts to protect their human rights.

Meanwhile the Home Sec. seems more preoccupied in snooping on our e-mails and text messages than keeping us safe from known Moslem terrorists sitting in prisons or subject to control orders and deporting them from the UK. I would add here that if the Home Sec. wishes to know our thoughts on her abilities or rather the lack of, she need only ask the average man in the street who will happily update her.

Next up we have illegal migration, a farce when even ministers have to admit before committees that they have no real idea on the numbers gaining entry to the UK, how many are posing as students, the number of fake collages used by them to gain admission to the UK or it would appear even what day it is!

Oh and that brings me onto the EU, there has been lots of tough sounding talk on controlling EU migration, stopping benefits going abroad and it is quite frankly utter bollocks. The UK has signed away border controls with regards EU migrants and even in the few areas where it has any control like with benefits, the total lack of action on the part of ministers is appalling.

We hear the argument that they are needed etc but we have over 2 million unemployed here in the UK who need jobs and need them NOW. Jobs for our people, not Polish migrants. Action needs to be taken now, not in ten years, or 20 when recovery might happen. Controlling our own borders as a non EU nation would be a good start.

It would also be advisable to deport the endless numbers of light fingered Roma who arrived like some Biblical shoplifting plague to claim benefits, produce endless babies and empty the shops of goods faster than pikey travellers can set up an illegal campsite.

Now then we come to aid abroad, a strange obcession with this government who seem to be hell bent on pouring billions away, whilst we still have a huge national debt that needs clearing. Thankfully the plan to pour even more billions of taxpayers money away by incrreasing aid to 0.7% of GDP was talked down by one MP.

Sadly I fear it will raise its ugly head like a Somali fiddling the benefits system for his 16 non existant wives and be granted more time so this PC lunacy can be passed.

Again when ministers have been questioned on aid abroad, they have had to admit that there is no oversight, no control over who gets the money and that it does little if any good. Indeed stories have hit the press of certain dictators buying private jets, gold plated AK47's and increasing their Swiss bank accounts with taxpayers money. Ministers have yet again been shown to be lacking in knowledge of whats going on or indeed like the Home Sec. even lacking the knowledge as to what day it is.

Quite why this government that talks of fiscal prudence wants to pour billions to support head chopping middle eastern lunatics and African dictators who wear necklaces of human skulls I don't know?

On the subject of waste, you Mr Cameron promised a bonfire of quangos and like your “cast iron” promise on an EU vote, that was a lie. One such quango is the Immigration Advisory Council that was led by former share dealer and car crashing MP Keith Best who infamously stated that migrants were better passport holders than us natives.

That is one bunch of non jobs that promote UK cultural genocide and agree with labours idea of uncontrolled immigration to enforce multiculturalism. A quango well in need of burning.

Indeed Dave, the only real difference between your lot and labour, is that you as yet havent been caught calling Mrs Duffy a bigot but should that happen I would not be surprised.

An open letter to David Cameron

Dear Prime Minister,

I have been a Conservative voter all my adult life, but after the last few years of this particular and rather odd government, I shall no longer be voting for that party until it regains its traditional Conservative values. I shall explain below.

First off we have waste, lots of it and blaming Labour after this amount of time quite frankly just doesn't cut it any more. We all applauded the speech about the bonfire of the quangos that suck billions out of the economy and yet little has happened. We still have for example the Immigration Advisory Quango(formerly run by jailed share dealing ex MP Keith Best, proof that crime can indeed pay!) that infamously said the immigrants made better passport holders than native Brits and the Potato Marketing Board. Seriously do we need a quango that receives taxpayers money to tell people to buy spuds?

Then we have the dire PCSO's, few of which have ever made any form of arrest and lack proper police powers, being little more than uniformed jobs worth quasi social workers resolving or rather failing to resolve neighbour disputes. Indeed whilst police are being cut, several forces are hiring PCSO's.

Not forgetting aid abroad, which still has little if any oversight as to where its actually being spent, continual stories in the press of vast amounts wasted and with the last budget an actual increase in the amount poured into the pockets of corrupt potent antes Swiss bank accounts. Actually increasing the amount is a stupid thing to do considering that the national debt of this UK should be cleared in full, before any monies are thrown away in Bongo bongoland(© the late Alan Clarke MP). You see we are, out of money and printing more to waste in dictators Swiss bank accounts is a rather silly thing to be doing.

Again I feel that the people of this land, the folk who elected you want you to look after their needs, not supply the cannibals in the Pacific isles with gold plated cooking pots.

Cuts would help and yet your spending more even than Labour did.

Another phrase used by yourself upon entering No.10 was that of open government, well there has been talk, quite a lot but little in the way of results. Indeed at this moment we have another state snooping bill going through parliament that will allow ever more bodies of prod noses to look into our lives and e-mails. Although not related to that directly we have also seen a rise in the number of people stopped whilst taking photos of late, in part by over zealous G4S security guards at Olympic sites. Maybe a word in the Home Sec's ear would not go amiss, although I shall come back to her later.

Moving on, we come to what is laughingly referred to as quantitative easing, or in English - printing money to put off the evil day when cuts need to be made. If the books don't balance do what industry- whats left of it that is – has to and cut back to make them balance. A simple list of diversity managers, outreach coordinators, immigrant translators and thousands of other state funded Guardian advertised non jobs and a red pen would save a few billion I'm sure. Borrowing money doesn't work when one is running a home and certainly not for a government.

Add to that the money wasted in EU contributions, helping French and Greek farmers fiddle their expenses.

Which brings me onto the that great big Euro shaped elephant in the room – the EU.

We were promised a “cast iron” guarantee of a vote on Europe to settle the matter by yourself, yet where is it? We hear much complaining from the Tory benches about Labours record on Europe and their failure to grant us the people a vote, yet no vote for the people on this subject from your party. Its not difficult, a simple referendum will solve it. Have you the guts to grant it?

Although I will credit your party with one thing and that is your giving people with learning difficulties a job to do, although I must say that the office of Home Sec. Is probably not the best one for her. Indeed I noticed in the last election that the Tory vote went down, had times clearing immigration at Heathrow been speeded up they probably would have been able to get back into UK in time to vote for you.

Maybe a transfer to some “make work” job taking mail between departments would be more suitable for Teresa May? Just a suggestion. I'm sure the many serving police officers being cut would support me on a replacement in her job?

On a related note, quite how long does it take to deport one Abdul the Not Quite Dead Terrorist to Jordan?

Then we have immigration. Another subject where much finger pointing at the benches opposite is done and little else appears to have been. No tackling of EU immigration, out of your hands and all that. Much talk of taking powers back from Brussels and very very little action. A case of inaction would be more accurate. Much little the whole of foreign policy it looks like, but I shall leave that alone.

Another point that has annoyed me and many other ex Conservative voters is the total lack of support for the beer trade. Your government still listens to the quango Alcohol Concern that misuses the charities act to push a prohibitionist agenda and your government keeps the beer duty escalator imposed by Labour, why?

As it stands one third of a pint gos in duties to Chancellor George Osborne, we pay the 2nd highest beer tax in the EU, beer taxes have been hiked by 42% since 2008 and yet a Conservative government is going to tax more.

A real Conservative government would halt these taxes, indeed slash them. At the moment the beer/pub trade supports a million plus jobs, are you trying to get them all claiming JSA and not putting money into the Chancellors hands?

Since 2008 over 4500 pubs have closed their doors and the best this government can claim re pub closures, is that things are still getting worse but slower than under Labour.

Then we have taxes, ever more of them. Possibly the most bizarre being the so called pasty tax, seriously is that the best you can do?

Need I remind you that a tax on business is a punishment on doing well.

That the state should be small and well run.

As it stands you have failed on these points.

To paraphrase an old saying Mr Cameron, so far you have been weighed and found wanting

Yours

An ex Tory voter.

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

The 2012 Olympics in Soviet Britain.

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