Ken London Transport muggers
My trip home from spending the weekend with my girlfriend was a source of inspiration for a 100 word tale. My trip home last night from a political event is the inspirations for this. In both cases it involves London Transport ripping me and the rest of its customers off. Ken & Co have raised the prices of a single trip on the tube from 2.20 to 3. If that is not bad enough when you travel by the bus you have to buy a ticket from a machine. These machines don’t give change; so they in a sense they are designed to rip you off. I paid 50p more for my trip (that has gone up .30 as well) than I should of. There was no place anywhere near to get change.
Would any company dare to behave like this? Would they get away with it? Of course not; people would get angry and either stop using their service or complain to the company. In many places they would sue the company for dishonesty.
To make matters worse this all part of a plan to force everyone who uses transport to get an Oyster card. Why do they want us all to buy an Osyter card? Because it will allow London Transports to track everyone’s every move.
I do hope either the new look Tory Party or Liberal Democrats manage to find someone who stands a chance of beating the terrorist-loving/Jew-hating totalitarian Ken Livingston.
4 commentsThe death knell of Socialist “Internationalism”?
Guido finds himself almost bereft of speech as he contemplates the sheer “Chutzpah” and effrontery of our ambitious Chancellor. Patriotism indeed, or is it sheer political chichancery? It was Samuel Johnson who declared that patriotism was the last resort of the scoundrel, and, certainly in the mouth of a politician, he had a point! Guido has noticed that he is not alone in being concerned about this sudden outburst of loyalty to “Britain” in the Chancellor, the Gray Monk has some thoughts on it as well.
Guido finds himself compelled to wonder whether the Chancellors sudden interest in promoting a revival of Patriotism – not to be confused with “Nationalism” which is permissable if you are Welsh, Scottish or Republican Irish, but forbidden if you are English or Loyalist Irish – has to do with the fact that his impending “coronation” as Prime Minister, will raise some serious constitutional issues. Not least the fact that he, a Scottish MP, will be determining and imposing policy and law upon the English and voting upon (as indeed he does at present) matters which have no effect or force in his constituency, but which are purely “English” matters. This raises the serious question of should the Scottish Labour members be permitted to sit or vote in the Westminster Parliament at all, since their “Nation” now has its own Parliament, expensively subsidised by the English National taxpayers.
This sudden interest in reviving patriotism and in rebuilding the symbols of nationhood should, in Guido’s humble opinion, be seen for what it is. An admission that the sixty or more years of socialist opposition to anything that made us the nation we are was perhaps misguided is long overdue, but interestingly, the Trades Union movement is still extremely opposed to any suggestion that we should celebarte our national identity. Will we now see the Union Flag flown over those bastions of “Soveit Correctness” in Labour control , many of which currently fly red flags on a more regular basis? Will we, the long suffering English voters and “citizens” (although the former title of “Subjects” is more appropriate in the context of Blair and Brown’s dictatorship!) be permitted to fly the falg in our gardens and from our businesses? Will we see less of that ghastly symbol of European Bureaucratic imposition – the Stars in a circle? Somehow Guido doubts it very much indeed – the Labour placemen and diehard bureaucrats in every Planning Office, Town Hall and Civil Service Department will see to that!
There is also a question mark over what the chancellor considers to be our “National Symbols”. He speaks of the Union Flag and goes on at length about our “proud national heritage” but conspicuously fails to mention that the three pillars of our national patriotic symbols are, The Crown, Parliament in Westminster and the Established Church. To those you could add our historic freedom to bear arms in defence of the Crown (and thus the Nation), to speak freely and our right to free and fair trial by our peers. Of these we find that Mr Brown and his Labour cronies have marginalised, undermined or attempted to abolish almost all of them including the Crown and the Union Flag. The Church is under constant attack as is anything to do with the Christian faith, our right to free speech has long gone under the assault of Politically Correct dictat, our right to fair trial disappeared as soon as courts were set up in which more weight is given to “expert” opinion in matters medical, religious or sexual than to the evidence and its reliability as set out before the court and permanent records kept of every offence, no matter how trivial, and finally our nationhood as the “United” Kingdom celebrating the diversity of all four nations that unite under that name has been all but torn asunder by the setting up of rival Parliaments and Assemblies with the English being offered only a collection of Labour Controlled “Regional” Assemblies rather than a “National Parliament”.
Samuel Johnson was right in this instance – we should be very wary of this latest move to capture the hearts and minds of the “British”. The motives for it are deeply suspect.
1 commentWhen You Got Nothin’, Post Large Picture
I got nothin’ tonight. Well, I do got this. (Warning: Some sfx.)
I got nothin’ tonight.
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