Seriously, he’s doing everything they think is good.

He went overseas and built a very profitable business in a poor country, Belize. He pays the taxes that Government mandates and employs local people. What could be better than helping to alleviate 3rd world poverty?

Then he brings some of that money over here. He doesn’t have to do that, its quite voluntary. He spends that money creating jobs for printers and broadcasters and many others. This will even trickle down to the poorest in our own country. We call this Direct Foreign Invetsment and is a good thing and something Labour has campaigned fowhen it goes on those foreign tripsr. Lord Ascroft even likes to spread his money around and is spending it in Labour held constituencies.

So, all in all, I really don’t know why Labour is making such a fuss, he is doing everything they think is good.

I suspect this will be a recurring theme as we move towards the dumbed down election.

The economy is crashing down around our ears, the pound is falling so fast its defying the laws of gravity and what do we get from the Government? Another fucking war, this time on small chips:

They have been a staple of British cuisine for more than a century.

But traditional chips are the latest target in the Government’s war on obesity.

Chip shop owners are being encouraged to produce thicker versions because they contain fewer calories and less fat.

As the old saying goes, you really couldn’t make this up.

Even the Daily Mash has difficulty satirising the bastards, now.

It wasn’t going to be long until a landlord was jailed because someone was smoking in his pup, his private property. You can read all about it and donate here:

There has been a fair amount of comment in the blogosphere regarding the six month jail sentence given to Nick Hogan for flouting the ‘no-smoking ban’.

Outrage has been duly expressed, here, there, and everywhere. Perhaps we can do better than just express outrage?

Nick was actually jailed for non-payment of the fine originally imposed for a ‘mass smoke-in’ on the day the ban came into force in 2007 in his pub, the ‘Swan and Barristers’ in Bolton. He no longer has that pub. He was fined again when council inspectors walked into his present pub and discovered a group of customers smoking – Nick wasn’t even on the premises.

His wife, Denise, is now managing their present pub in Chorley herself. Their trade is so low that they don’t even bother to open the downstairs bar. Nick is bankrupt, and had gone to court intending to argue that he could not afford the £500 a month payments demanded by the council towards their £11,600 bill for prosecuting him. He has already paid off £1,600. The court gave him a six month sentence instead, and he is currently in Forest Bank prison in Pendlebury, unable to help to earn the money which would ensure his release.

Denise has not even been able to speak to him since he was sentenced. She has merely been told to phone the prison on Monday to enquire when she might see him. She is confused, frightened, and feeling very lonely.

Or (and) you can wath this video of the story and what it means for the death of liberty:

and then go and donate.

I don’t normally do these, when they are in vogue I never seem to have an idea. Watching the Tories with their vote for change rubbish over the past few weeks has been toe curling  cringe-worthy,  in a watching your parents dance at a wedding way. When will they come out with some real policies?