Nanny State

Ah the joys of...

Smoking?

Nope. Not allowed. Bad for you. Bad for your kids, your mum, your nan, the barman, the kids you'd thought of adopting, the kids in your car, your colleagues, your clients and look what it did to that 130 year old Ukrainian woman, she's all wrinkly.

Meeting your mates on the street corner?

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

Erm,

Having an opinion and voicing it?

No sir, that would be contrary to Section 5 of the 'Thought Crime' Bill.

Looking sideways at a child who has fallen and split their skull open on the pavement?

WHAT ARE YOU SOME SORT OF PERVERT?

We the government would like to remind you the proles that we have your best interests in mind and that only we can protect you from cancer, terrorism, yobs or lazy bastards claiming mental illness is a real illness, I mean it's not like you've got a broken bone or anything.

The pound currently stands at 1.11 Euro, making a Euro 90 pence.

It has always stood at 1.11.

Move along please, nothing to see

Didn't you read the title?

There is nothing worth reading here, nothing to see; no hidden bodies under the floorboards; no skeletons in the cupboards.

Just as there was nothing to see on the day of the Peterloo massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre

This lead eventually to the Cato Street conspiracy, when outrage

over this and government prohibitions of human rights, drove

men to plot the assassination of the then Prime Minister.

They were arrested on this day, 190 years ago.

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...

The Politics of Fear

Yet again we are being told that Al-Qaeda are being 'incubated' in Yemen, whatever that may mean?

Incidents on planes, cartoonists having $1m price tag for their heads and someone else blowing themselves and others to dust.

This of course is all great news for the government to slip in their latest gadget, the 'full body scanner' to have a good old perv over our bits. I suspect this will mean an increase in gym memberships as vanity kicks in and no doubt some department or other will soon furnish us with the statistics for the number of Brazilian waxes.

At least we can sleep safe in our beds knowing the government are fighting on our behalf in the 'war on terror'.

They sure scare the shit out of me...