Posted by Ben @ August 31st, 2010 8:48 pm. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants,Commas,Exclamation marks!!!!,I Am A Brain!,I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,I'm Keeping The Whole Class Back,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,It Says So In The Daily Mail,Not actual freedom -- just what I wanted. Which is basically the same thing.,Racism,Sorry, What Was I Talking About?,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts,We're British, Dammit!,Work Around My Delusions Dammit!,Xenophobia,spelin an grammer — Tags: JANET —
cancel human rights law, and get out of this e.u monstrous mistake!!!!!!!Why the contribution is important
To give this country the freedom, and rewards, that the true British deserve. The “so called human rights, seem only to work for illegal immigrants, who are known terrorists, thieves, and gang members. You have only to watch documentaries, or read the national press to see what I mean. All the time, you can see “illegals” given housing, some of them, mansions, that cost thousands of pounds ,in the name of human rights. Benefits should only be paid to people who have paid into this country, i.e. tax, and national insurance . We are a laughing stock. The last government, (and I use the word government, loosly) cut funding to universities, so that HOME students only have very few places, the rest of the places, of which there is many, go to foreign students. Only if you are financially independent, can you get a place in university. Some-one I know of, gained the marks at college, which he was told, that last year, with those very same marks, he would have been able to gain access to university, but now, like the funding,every thing has been changed! The worst thing was, he was told ” It’s a pity you cant go to Africa, for three yearsbecause then, you could have come back to this(his own country of birth) as an overseas university student.
You can’t argue with that. You really can’t. Not because it’s accurate in any way, but because doing so is like volunteering to have your frontal lobe slowly sawn off with a piece of rusty barbed wire.
Posted by Ben @ March 25th, 2010 6:31 pm. Filed under: Democracy? Isn't That The One Where You Do Everything I Say?,Meta-petitioning,Rejected Petitions,spelin an grammer — Tags: Daniel Brain, Marc Burrage —
Some people aren’t happy with the way the petition site is operated. The solution? Well, write a petition to change it, obviously.
by Marc Burrage (rejected)Who gets to decide what is a valod or invalid petition to be sent to the government? Apparently its the government! This seems like a massive flaw, as only the petitions that the government approves are allowed to be sent through. There should be an independent panel setup to review the petitions.
Your arguments are invalod.
by Daniel Brain (rejected)The recent response to the petition to re-instate Professor David Nutt demonstrates just how little these petitions are considered and taken into account.See http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page22548
The response in question goes no way to answering the petition in any meaningful way: it merely restates the issue and the initial position of the government. This ignores the purpose of this site and the purpose of petitions in general, not as a means of clarifying why the government takes specific actions, but as a means of effecting change.
Petitions are one of the few ways in which democracy can be properly exercised in the UK. The Government should respond to them accordingly, highlighting how they intend to correct perceived problems, rather than merely attempting to justify their original position.
I think voting for a candidate to represent you and your interests is probably the better way of exercising democracy.
Do you know what a petition is? A petition is a list of people who think something should be done one way or another. It isn’t a vote. It isn’t a mandate handed from the people to the government. If you think that’s what petitions are, if you think that’s what they’re for, then you’re mistaken.
Posted by Ben @ March 24th, 2010 9:46 pm. Filed under: Democracy? Isn't That The One Where You Do Everything I Say?,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,It Says So In The Daily Mail,Join the Fight Against Nebulous Bad-Sounding Things!,Racism,We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts,What A Dick,Xenophobia — Tags: Mr Garry Smith —
Garry Smith is a forward thinker. And by that I mean he looks at the future of the EU and thinks to himself, “It’s full of foreigners!”
And the notion of adding more foreigners to the ever-growing throng does not fill him with the warm fuzzies.
by Mr Garry SmithBlock Turkey entering into the EU. 1) Human rights in Turkey are not up to recognised EU standards and may never be despite any promises. Turkey has reluctantly agreed to end its death penalty in a bid to join the EU, but only in peacetime, and this is a country that has had to be forced to outlaw people smuggling to join the EU, it has had to be forced to outlaw this despicable act, it wouldn’t have outlawed it on its own. Turkey is not part of Europe, it is in the Middle East, and has its borders with Iraq, Iran & Syria, who next to join, Iraq or Iran or Syria or all 3? 2) The EU club is big enough and not one British citizen (except the PM) has ever been given the vote for this to happen 3) This will cause an influx of Turkish people to the UK as happened with Poland 4) The majority of British people do not want the EU any larger or Turkey to join it. 5) Its about time the PM went with the majority in his own country and not because it makes him look popular in Europe.
Ah, the “slippery slope” argument. “If Turkey get in, that means Iraq, Iran and Syria will all want to get in! At the same time! They’ll all get stuck in the door as they try to come through! It’ll be anarchy!”
Did Turkey have to be forced to stop capital punishment and bring in tougher laws against human trafficking? Maybe. Sometimes people need to have their arms twisted to do what is ultimately best for them. But to dismiss their entire worth as a nation because of it? To say that they may never reach EU standards? That’s an impressive piece of dickery, Mr. Smith.
Also, I hate the arrogance of assuming that every bloody thing that happens in Parliament or in the EU needs to be voted for by the British public. Personally, I’m overjoyed that “not one British citizen (except the PM) has ever been given the vote for this to happen”, or indeed for any other manner of thing to happen. If the British public were able to vote on every major thing to happen to the UK then they wouldn’t be part of the EU in the first place, nor would gay couples be able to have civil partnerships. Women probably wouldn’t be able to vote, either. And you know why? Because people like things the way they are. Oh yes, there are individuals and groups who rally for social change, but the masses are quite content to plod along in their uneventful little lives, going to their uninteresting jobs, eating their decidedly dull meals and watching their wholly bland but remarkably high-definition televisions.
But of course, this doesn’t have anything to do with any of those points, does it? It’s more to do with the fact that if Turkey gets into the EU Turkish citizens will be able to come and go from the UK as they please. They’ll be able to move here, seek employment, start businesses, own property, just like the Polish. And you don’t like the Polish, do you Mr. Smith? Oh no, of course not. They’re not local. They talk funny, and have strangely uniform haircuts, and eat pastries with odd names spelt with bizarre letters that look like they might be good, sturdy, British letters. But they’re not! And the worst thing about the Polish? They’re white. You can’t even identify them by sight. Anyone you know could be Polish. You could be living next door to a Pole right now and have absolutely no idea!
What this boils down to, Mr. Smith, is your deeply-rooted racism and distrust of anyone who isn’t from a town you can pinpoint on a map of the Great British Isles.
I’m just speculating, obviously.
Posted by Ben @ February 15th, 2010 9:25 pm. Filed under: A Rose By Any Other Name Would Be Less Funny,Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,I'm serious!,Join the Fight Against Nebulous Bad-Sounding Things!,So I Just Type What I Want Here And The PM Has To Do It?,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,The Nasty Television Upset Me! — Tags: John Catley —
by John CatleyThe Prime Minister has chosen to give his full backing and support to the case for Anthropogenic Global Warming. That is his right as an individual and that right is part of the constitution of this country. The Prime Minister does not have the right to insult millions of British people by describing them as “deniers”, a particularly hateful and emotive insult, because they do not share his view. Recently Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, said “I don’t think it’s healthy to dismiss proper scepticism. Science grows and improves in the light of criticism. There is a fundamental uncertainty about climate change prediction that can’t be changed.” In spite of this, and significant evidence to show that there is indeed much in doubt, the Prime Minister continues issue his insults.
There’s a difference between “I’m not sure if climate change is happening” and “It’s definitely not happening.” One is stating a feeling of uncertainty, and the other is outright denial – and when I say “denial” I don’t mean the psychological “I’m not listening la la la la” denial, I mean the literal denial. Most people labelled as “clime change deniers” aren’t raising questions about whether it’s going on or not – they’re outright saying it’s not happening. The label is apt.
Posted by Ben @ January 26th, 2010 8:33 pm. Filed under: Abolish This!,Everything MPs Have Is Part Of The Expenses Scandal,Nothing Should Ever Change!,So I Just Type What I Want Here And The PM Has To Do It?,Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand.,This was Yesterday's News Ages Ago,spelin an grammer — Tags: Mr Robert Philp —
This is quite possibly the greatest misunderstanding of how MPs are paid I’ve ever seen in my life:
by Mr Robert PhilpMP’s to have a wage just like everyone else. No second home and all expenses to be audited by independent auditors and a committee made up of members of the public
Posted by Ben @ January 26th, 2010 8:29 pm. Filed under: Clearly You've Thought This Through,I'm serious!,So I Just Type What I Want Here And The PM Has To Do It?,Sorry, What Was I Talking About? — Tags: Mr Owen Bell —
by Mr Owen BellEvery supermarket shows price decreases and marks sale items in very large, eye-catching ways, in an effort to entice buyers into buying things they don’t need in quantities they could never use. However, if a price increases, the label does not have to indicate that it has done so. If supermarkets were forced to mark price increases at least as prominently as they mark price drops, the prominence of price drop advertisements would necessarily shrink, as there simply is not sufficient space to label everything with 3 square feet of signage.
The key problem with this idea is the presumption that supermarkets are the reason things get more expensive instead of, say, interest. People aren’t smart. They’re constantly going on about How Much Cheaper Things Were Back Then, gleefully omitting How Much less They Were Paid Back Then. That being said, I think Mr Bell’s endgame here is to get rid of signs in supermarkets. Which… annoying him… for some reason?
Posted by Ben @ January 21st, 2010 11:35 pm. Filed under: Couldn't If He Wanted To,I'm Keeping The Whole Class Back,Lord Knows I Ask Not For Myself,Presumably The Prime Minister Is Not Too Busy,So I Just Type What I Want Here And The PM Has To Do It?,There's Already A Solution But Don't Let That Stop You From Bothering The PM,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me! — Tags: Paul Woodburn of n/a —
by paul woodburnI have been trying to find a job in IT (Information technology) for over a year.
I cannot drive and I cannot afford to learn to drive because I don’t have a job.
There for I cannot travel outside Manchester to work.
IT needs to be big in Manchester. After all this is where Alan Turing made his famous computers.
Or you could get a job in a different field, save up your pennies, and then move to an area with more IT jobs when you can afford it. I mean, y’know, it’s not the government’s fault you live in bloody Manchester of all places.
Posted by Ben @ January 18th, 2010 11:35 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Mandatory,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,George Orwell Had The Right Idea,I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,I'm serious!,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,Unreasonable Demands — Tags: Robin Rawlings —
I’ll leave the discussion of this charming little petition in your capable hands, folks:
by Robin RawlingsAs a tax payer I fed up seeing my neighbours who don’t work watching their 40″ plasma tv’s, I can’t afford one and I work and pay tax so why should lazy people contributing nothing to the country get more than hard working people. We should force them to work if they don’t work, by building workhouses and then sending them to workhouses.
Posted by Ben @ January 12th, 2010 4:57 am. Filed under: I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,My Other Car Is Another Car,Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British — Tags: Fed Up Citizen of UK employee —
by Fed Up Citizen of UK employeeWe in the UK are hit with more taxes than almost every county in the developed world, although we have the worst maintained roads in Europe and also when it snows, we are told there is not enough salt/grit for the roads (Road Tax) or even the pavements (Council Tax).
What do we pay the road tax and council tax for?
We the people have had enough, we will not accept any excuses this time.
I agree with Fed Up Citizen! We should always have a storage of salt and grit! Even though the UK only ever gets hit with a snowstorm like this once every, I don’t know, three or four years!
Incidentally, Fed Up Citizen must of had some really cruel parents.
Posted by Ben @ January 6th, 2010 8:58 pm. Filed under: ...Or Else!,Democracy? Isn't That The One Where You Do Everything I Say?,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,I Have A Sense Of Perspective: Problems That Are Far Away Appear Small To Me.,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,This was Yesterday's News Ages Ago — Tags: Simon Haigh —
by Simon HaighIceland must repay the £2.3bn owed to British taxpayers which was loaned to the country by HMG following the failure of its banking system. Until the loan is repaid, the UK and Dutch governments must veto Iceland’s application to join the EU.
If every country with debts owed to another wasn’t allowed to get involved then the EU wouldn’t get anything done.
…Oh.
Posted by Ben @ December 23rd, 2009 7:41 pm. Filed under: "Making Britain Great Again",Are You Kidding? We Can't Afford That!,Duplicate Petitions,Exclamation marks!!!!,I Have A Sense Of Perspective: Problems That Are Far Away Appear Small To Me.,I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,What A Dick,Xenophobia — Tags: Barbara Steffensen —
This is a beautifully moronic petition. I love it. It’s like a snapshot of every racist, xenophobic, “Put Broken Britain First” petition I’ve read over the last year.
by Barbara SteffensenPeople of this country are already taxed to the hilt. They do not need to pay more tax so that Britain can be seen to be a leader in world events. Charity begins at home. We need to take care of our own British people first before looking at other nations, especially considering the debt we’re already in.
Posted by Ben @ December 18th, 2009 8:02 pm. Filed under: Can't someone else pay the tax?,Duplicate Petitions,I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: Rhea —
by RheaWe need this to stop some abusers of the system from receiving an income solely for having children.
We are experiencing a population boom in this country which we can not afford and which is bad for the environment. We need to stop – as a society – effectively incentivising people for having large families. If they wish to have more children than two they should fund them entirely themselves and not expect taxpayers to do so.
I’ve raised counter-points to this argument before. Simply put: What happens to large families who are legitimately in need of actual benefits? Do they just allow the “excess” children to starve to death?