Manchester Last Night

One thing about the iPhone compared to the N96 is that the photographs it takes do not match the quality of the Nokia. Neither of these can live however with the ability of a traditional digital SLR from which the above was taken last night in Manchester.

A really good night,complete with Lancashire hotpot, chaired very well indeed by Dave Jones, who despite his illness, remains as sharp as a razor and a genuine asset to our organisation. You would have had to have been there to understand, but it was one of those meetings where everything just clicked.

As an added bonus, I had James Whittall and his charming lady, Christina to talk to as we drove back through the night with just one of my headlights deciding to function.

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North West

Just arrived in Lancashire where I am speaking tonight so I will not be blogging too much tonight.

The pub is packed out, there must be nearly 100 people in here. Just deciding what I am going to talk about.


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David Miliband has secretly banned British embassy staff from giving help to BNP leader Nick Griffin

A brief mission to Lidl yesterday resulted in all the ingredients for a Sunday dinner at a discount price and with the added bonus of it all been produced in this country. The proof of the pudding? Well very nice indeed, with leeks at just 59p, a savoy cabbage at 29p, Chantenay carrots at 39p, sprouts (still on the stalk) £1 and some sub £3 fresh pork medallions. Whilst I am not mean enough to be prowling around supermarket skips as others do, I am fond of getting value for money especially when it is so easy to be ripped-off in this country.

Some several hours before my Lidlfest, a brief look at the Sunday newspapers reveals more Marxist totalitareanism in the pages of the Mail on Sunday:

David Miliband bans envoys from helping the BNP
By Jason Lewis, Mail on Sunday Security Editor

David Miliband has secretly banned British embassy staff from giving help to BNP leader Nick Griffin...

You can probably guess the rest, but if you cannot click on the link above. Miliband is the son of the Marxist theorist, Adolphe Miliband who, in an inspired career move, changed his name to Ralph. In August on Radio Four Miliband gave us a fascinating insight into his thought patterns when discussing fellow communist Joe Slovo. During that interview he actually stated that in some cases "terrorism is justifiable". When the democratic process is corrupted and elected politicians are emasculated perhaps? Even so just imagine if I had said that.

Meanwhile as I predicted that non-story in The Herald appeared this morning. Still at least they gave us the opportunity to negate it as just that.Yawn.

A bit of early morning birding this morning is rewarded by the sight of a sparrowhawk, peregrine falcon and buzzard all patrolling the same patch. You might think that three raptors like this would be in competition, but in my experience buzzards have a taste for unsuspecting rabbits, peregrines like a high velocity wood pigeon interception and the sparrowhawk has a penchant for ambushing small birds attracted to feeding stations. What a pity none of them have grey squirrel on the menu.

So close.. and yet so far away

Not that this has anything to do with politics, but in the interests of continuity I'd like to report that I managed to get the temperature in my living room in excess of 85 last night. Neither does this fact have anything to do with politics either, but I can confirm that I backed Wolves to beat Tottenham today at a very handy price indeed. Such a shame that Everton couldn't have pulled off a shock at Chelsea, as they very nearly did, as that would have been my Christmas paid for.

Now that those important facts are fed into the blogosphere and following on from my appalling expose of the kind of sick and twisted people that run the Burton Mail I can move on to the House of Lords.

You have to admire Their Lordships at times, there was me thinking that a good old fashioned entomological analogy would have done the trick. However, that obviously wasn't good enough for Lord May of Oxford when he spoke last Tuesday:

"My noble friend Lord Krebs, who I more commonly think of as John Krebs, and the noble Earl, Lord Selborne, reminded us that climate change is only part of a gestalt of problems that roil together and are made up of increasing impact per person and increasing numbers of people. It is curious that we are focused on total impact in the UK and have not talked much about numbers of people. This is a more general question globally, and there are uncertainties about that that are not as explicit in the report as I perhaps would have wished. The current population of Britain is 61 million or 62 million. We do not know; most countries do not know to within 1 or 2 per cent what their population is. Projections for 2050 range from a low of high 60 millions or low 70 millions to a high of high 80 millions, and there is even an EU projection that suggests that by 2050 we will have the highest population. This is not me wishing to set an agenda for the BNP, but it is another issue. It has more general implications for educating women in the developing world and in our own country and empowering them to make non-coerced choices about families."

Meanwhile in the Commons on December 2nd the following Early Day Motion was put forward by our old friend Keith Vaz. It is almost beyond belief that indigenous people in Leicester routinely vote for this man. Turkeys voting for Christmas festively springs to mind.

EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

	Keith Vaz
	Mark Durkan
	Andrew George
	Lynne Jones
	Mr Mike Hancock
	Mr Alan Meale

That this House commends the work of the Equality and Human Rights Commission under the Chairmanship of Trevor Phillips; notes and applauds the efforts of the Commission in forcing the British National Party to accept that they should obey equality law;

Meanwhile Independent Labour MP Clare Short couldn't help herself last Monday:

May I ask the Minister in passing to ask the National Asylum Support Service to review the placing of asylum seekers in Stoke? I have heard of more than one case of asylum seekers there being very badly beaten up. We know that the British National Party has considerable representation on the council there. I really think we should do something about that.

I wonder how many times she has mentioned the shocking racial violence inflicted on the white population of Birmingham Ladywood during their ethnic cleansing which she has so successfully overseen.

Clare Short's anti-English agenda is of course well known, but earlier this month we had an insight into the mind of Shrewsbury's 6ft 8.5 inch Conservative MP Daniel Kawcynsk:

"I will end shortly, Mr. Benton, because you said that many hon. Members wished to speak. I will return briefly to the election of the two members of the British National Party to the European Parliament. I do not know about the hon. Member for Great Grimsby, but I had shivers going down my spine when I found out that they had been elected. I am a democrat and believe that people should be allowed to stand as representatives no matter what their views are, but I am very concerned about any system that allows a party such as the BNP to get representation."

A somewhat paradoxical statement that I shall remind Mr Kawcynski about the next time he bumps into me in a certain supermarket in the county town of Shropshire. Maybe I'll not be quite so polite and forgiving as I was the last time.

Caught with their trousers down

Here are two photographs taken in Burton on Trent on 9th December. They were sent to the Burton Mail soon after and a report was published soon after that. Notice anything missing? People don't like being told lies.

Cold isn't it?

Look out for one of the Scottish newspapers trying to link the BNP with the SDL in the next 48 hours. One of their reporters phoned me earlier this afternoon and whilst being polite enough you could tell that some kind of smear was on the way.

The Guardian called a couple of hours ago trying to gain some information on the number of elected councillors we currently have. Knowing exactly why the reporter was asking, I told her politely to "Google it". Being with one of our solicitors at the time, I didn't see why I should waste precious time doing research for the enemy to use embellishing stories designed to prop up the Labour Party.

Looks like I will be going to Copenhagen next week after all. Whilst it entails a lot of travelling for me, it is good news for you as I will be taking my blogging kit so you will know exactly what has been going on.

Whether or not Denmark will be any colder than home has been today, I somewhat doubt. The freezing fog has made for truly miserable weather, inspiring a sudden need to feed all kinds of wildlife ranging from birds right the way through to pitiful feral cats.

Not wishing to leave myself out, allocated specially for Mr Darby and sitting on the kitchen table there just happens to be a bottle of Wolf Blass President's selection Cabernet Sauvignon. Just in case that doesn't keep the chill out, my stove is already well lit fuelled with a diet of "maxibrite" and home brew logs.

Unfortunately my stash of home made logs will not last the winter and my wallet will have to be deployed to amend matters tomorrow. Even more painful than that I have a dreadful feeling that DIY has been put on my menu tomorrow, spoiling a precious Saturday, with all its sporting opportunities, in the process and troubling my finances for a truly tortuous and wretched cause.