Don't Vote Labour

As I’ve written before, the DVLA are still selling your personal details on to crooks. It’s nice to see the mainstream media finally catch up.

23% of voters still think these muppets are worth voting for. In the words of Mr Taggart, I am depressed.

My local rag, the Cambridge News (it used to be the Cambridge Evening News but they dropped the ‘Evening’ bit at some point for no obvious reason), still has a court reporter. This means that we get endless stories of petty crime of one sort or another, benefit fraud being particularly popular given its potential for inducing fits of righteous indignation in reader and journalist alike. It’s worth noting that Nu Labour has made it a matter of principle that benefit cheats should be prosecuted and have gone as far as setting up a free 0800 number whereby people can denounce their neighbours, ex-friends, the dodgy looking guy down the pub and anyone else they don’t much like to the stasi authorities.

What strikes me about the current expenses row is how the party which is quite happy to be tough on crime when it comes to the hoi-polloi does no more than suspend David Chator and Elliot Morley. Surely, by the standards of their past behaviour, we should have Jack Straw, Charles Clarke, Jackboot Smith, David Blunkett and all the other usual suspects standing up in parliament and calling for immediate prosecution, near permanent retention of their DNA on the police database regardless of whether they actually get found guilty of anything, confiscation of their passports without judicial intervention and all the other Nu Labour litany of nanny-state nastiness. Personally, I’d just be happy with a statement that, should they be found guilty of something, they will be treated like anyone else stealing from the state - e.g. any of the people linked from the title of this article who, after all, seem to have been taking much smaller sums of money for the most part.

Strangely though, all the usual Nu Labour Nazis are silent on the matter. Funny that!

The interesting thing about this one is that Tebbit made the accurate observation that the BNP are just the same as the Labour Party but with racism thrown in. Now, personally, I’d like to see a few BNP MPs and MEPs for the reason that, firstly, it would give them enough publicity that people would see just how revolting they really are and, secondly, that they would, undoubtedly, end up voting with Labour in parliament on a fairly regular basis, thus proving Tebbit’s point. I suspect what he was actually saying, was vote UKIP (they being pretty much the only remaining choice). Either way, I can’t say I care that much, just so long as people don’t vote Labour of course.

Updated: on a related note, have a read of this in the Times.

It’s taken 5 years of hard toil for Heather Brooke to force our wonderful Nu Labour government to partially abide by its own laws and release details of MP’s expenses under the Freedom of Information act. Even now, it is still refusing to release enough information to allow us to tell who has and hasn’t fiddled on their second home allowances - bonkers really given that the Telegraph has the lot already. Anyway, in the midst of all of this, our lovely Pr0n Secretary has decided that, whilst we should clearly not be allowed to know what they spend our money on, it’s their right to know what we spend our own money on.

The question you have to ask yourself is why would you trust any of these people with your private data for whatever reason?