Direct Democracy

Empty Seat Syndrome

The Gold standard, London 2012 organisers (Locog) have promised a "full review" of empty seats at Olympic Games venues on the first day of competition.




Seb Coe the 'CHAIRMAN' of Locog said "We are looking at this very urgently at the moment."

Doping, a new Olympic sport

How to disguise that you have been taking tablets, capsules and pills



So far nine track and field athletes have been suspended for doping offences ahead of the London 2012, gold standard, Olympics games.

Among them are three who were caught in re-tests of samples from last year's world championships.

debtism

“gold”, “silver” and London 2012.

Marketing innovators who plan to ambush the London 2012 Games have been placed on notice by The Olympic Delivery Authority from today as hundreds of 'brand police' begin to protect sponsors’ exclusivity rights to the sporting event.



Because of a law passed by Parliament, companies can be barred from using words and phrases such as “gold”, “silver” and London 2012.

ConservEUtives

David Cameron has been accused of weakening Britain’s negotiating position by ruling out ever campaigning for withdrawal from the European Union.



In an interview with The Daily Telegraph published yesterday, Mr Cameron was asked if he could ever envisage campaigning as Prime Minister for Britain to leave the EU.

He replied: “I don’t think we should leave the EU. But I think we should be, over time, seeking a new settlement and receiving a new mandate for that settlement.” Leaving, he said, “would be bad for Britain”.

Con man CamEUron

taking the piss out of shit

London 2012


Shit
Anoneumouse is proud to be associated with taking the piss out of the Olympic Games.

Harrogate Agenda (Separation of Powers)

Is it not time to restore the clause that was originally in section III of the Act of Settlement 1700. (An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject) http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/12-13/2/introduction

"That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons"

That would mean that any serving MP who becomes a minister of the Crown must resign his/her seat and a by-election held. This would enforce a real separation of government from Legislature.

This provision is often used as an escape device by MPs wishing to quit Parliament, by applying for office of profit, e.g.Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead or of the Chiltern Hundreds

Follow developments at Dr Richard North’s blog EUReferendum and then click comments to read the forum

The Harrogate Agenda

"Whenever Parliament is persuaded to assume the offices of executive government, it will lose all the confidence, love and veneration which it has ever enjoyed whilst it was supposed to be the corrective and control on the acting powers of the state. This would be the event though its conduct in such a perversion of its functions would be tolerable, just and moderate; but if it should be iniquitous, violent, full of passion and full of faction it would be considered as the most intolerable of all modes of tyranny". - Edmund Burke.

"The great instrument of all these changes and what infuses a peculiar venom into all of them is party. It is of no consequence what the principles of any party or what their pretensions are; the spirit which actuates all parties is the same, the spirit of ambition, of self interest, of oppression and of treachery.... in a word we have all seen ...we have some of us felt such oppression from the PARTY GOVERNMENT as no other tyranny can parallel".

- Edmund Burke 18th Cent Parl. MP for Malton, N. Yorks.

Watch this space

cygnus ring

Today I am off to a meeting at the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate, the object being to frame six demands, in the manner of the Chartists.

The aim is to provide a focus for a popular movement, generating six important reforms which will help us on the way to becoming a democracy.

Old Swan Manifesto

The plain was grassy, wild and bare......

Do you want to see some puppies?

Gordon Brown is to become a United Nations Kiddie fiddler.

The role will see the MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath lead a campaign to meet the Millennium Development Goal for every child to be at school by the 2015.

At halfpast eight it's down to the pub for a swift half.

the Anal Optic Nerve

Did you know that in the human body there is a nerve that connects the eyeball to the anus?

It's called the Anal Optic Nerve, and it is responsible for giving people a shitty outlook on life.

If you don't believe it, pull a hair from your arse and see if it doesn't bring tears to your eyes..

hat tip a man from Castleford

Trooping the Colour

After a recalculation of security needs, London will now be protected by 17,000 military personnel during the Olympic Games.



That means the military presence for the Olympic games is bigger than our current troop deployment in Afghanistan, where there are about 9,500 British troops.

Hosting the Olympic games seems to be a bigger threat to our security than the Taliban being democratically elected in Afghanistan.

Roman and Medieval times warmer than today

Reported at Watts Up With That



An international team including scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the climate in northern Europe over the last 2,000 years based on the information provided by tree-rings. The new study has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

No Referendum No Vote

50 Countries not in the European Union and do not use the Euro

Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bostwana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Island, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu and Zambia

you're never alone with a strand

A fake cigarette prompted armed police to swoop on a coach on the M6 Toll road and close the motorway for four hours.

EU CAR

Read this, Your Car of the future , then the following.

Car: where would you like to go. 'Enter destination'

Driver: 'Bournemouth'

Car: 'Business or Pleasure'

Driver: 'Business'

Car: The best time to travel will be 6 pm, stopping for one hour at Channock Richard service station. and refuelling at Oxford after the Blue Ford reg YFI 654 BINGO. Cost of road access EUR 23. Press 'Y' to accept 'N'' for decline.

Driver: presses 'Y'

Car: Please insert your National ID card

Driver: inserts ID card

Car: According to your NHS Records you are currently taking cough medicine, your last scheduled dosage was 1 hour ago. Journey Authorisation Declined. Would you like us to recalculate. Press 'Y' yes, 'N' no

Driver: 'Y'

Car: Based on your Medication, the best time to make the journey is 3 AM, Stopping for 1 hr at Knutsford Service area, Refuelling at Oxford after the Pink Honda reg YFI 123 LOTTERY (note 10 mins refuel time only) cost of road access EUR 43. Y' to accept 'N'' for decline.

Driver: 'Y'

Car: According to your Bank Account Records your spouse has just purchased a pair of shoes. You have insufficient funds to make this journey. Journey Authorisation Declined. would you like us to arrange a bank loan. Press 'Y" yes, 'N' no.

Driver: 'Y'

Car: According to our Records, this is not possible at this time, you have reached your loan on disposable income limit, Would you like us to sell your Laptop on EBay. Press 'Y' yes, 'N' no

Driver: 'Y'

Car: We are about to list your Laptop s/no 23456543, would you like us to format the disk before the sale (+ EUR 10) Press 'Y" yes, 'N' no.

Driver: 'N'

Car: Can we remind you that you have one authorised pornography picture of you and your spouse and a letter to your authorised mistress on the PC, are you sure you don't want us to erase this information. Press 'Y' yes, 'N' no

Driver: 'Y'

Car: We have deleted those files and your PC is now listed (+ EUR 10)

Car: The sale was successful, your PC sold for EUR 100, you can now proceed. Press 'Y" yes, 'N' no

Driver: 'Y'

Car: The sale of your laptop has increased your gross annual personal income, you now have to pay 60% tax on future income.

Car: Have a nice day

More reading with links at EUReferendum

hold the holiday

A weaselling we will go

Conservative Home special EU survey

FFS, when will they ever learn. We cannot renegotiate the Lisbon Treaty (there are no provisions within it to do so.

We can only withdraw and then, if the British voters wish we can re-enter under new terms. (see Vienna Convention on the Laws of Treaties (the UK is signatory))

We can only withdraw from EU using Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.

Any other argument is deception and no form of weasel words can change that.

Flip Flops in the Sand

The prime minister has defended his position on a referendum on the UK's relationship with the EU.

He told MPs he does not want an immediate in/out referendum but said the "status quo" was unacceptable.


Photo: Western Passage Dover Harbour

In logic and rhetoric, a fallacy is usually an improper argumentation in reasoning often resulting in a misconception or presumption.

My line in the sand

NO Referendum, NO Vote.

Cameron - Cameroff

FLIP! Yesterday, Cameron opposed In-Out European Union referendum. FLOP! Today, Cameron he say yes to a referendum.

 

“As we get closer to the end point we will need to consider how best to get the full-hearted support of the British people, whether it is in a general election or a referendum. As I have said, for me the two words 'Europe’ and 'referendum’ can go together, particularly if we really are proposing a change in how our country is governed, but let us get the people a real choice first.” David Cameron 1-7-12
Sunday Telegraph

Enter 13th Century Fox

Time for a Party in/out leadership vote eh