talking out of my rss

I wonder if Nick Clegg and Barack Obama are related?  Both won votes on the basis of promises they have singularly failed to deliver on and both have pursued (and allowed to be pursued) incredibly damaging and dangerous agendas.

I bet the Tories are increasing the speed limit to 80mph because 80+10% is 88mph, and they think that by that method they can literally transport us back to Victorian times, rather than merely recreating the social conditions of that era.

Actually on reflection, with the economy fucked, zero job creation, and the Tories determined to destroy the NHS, the Tory geniuses probably thought this was the ideal way to both create job vacancies and chow down slurpily on Jeremy Clarkson’s old-man-in-blue-jeans cock.

Today, when many people find out if they are going to university, I am mostly remembering how mine consistently spelled it “univeristy” in the web browser title bar of their computers, for the entire time that I was there.

I suppose it may have been revenge on all the people who spell Teesside with only one S.

• the right to life
• freedom from torture and degrading treatment
• freedom from slavery and forced labour
• the right to liberty
• the right to a fair trial
• the right not to be punished for something that wasn’t a crime when you did it
• the right to respect for private and family life
• freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and freedom to express your beliefs
• freedom of expression
• freedom of assembly and association
• the right requirement to marry and to start a family
• the right not to be discriminated against in respect of these rights and freedoms
• the right to peaceful enjoyment of your property
• the right to an education
• the right to participate in free elections
• the right not to be subjected to the death penalty

I’m in two very different minds about “Johnny Marbles” being sentenced to six weeks in prison.  On the one hand it is plainly a politically-motivated sentence, but as a not-so-recent victim of extremely pointless crime I do think that pointless crimes should carry disproportionately harsh punishments because that will be the only way to stop them.

I just wish his sentence had been because he attacked on old man, disrupting parliamentary business in the process and being a complete dickhead, rather than because the government, judiciary and police are, as ever, determined to cling onto their positions and come down heavily against anything that even resembles protest.

So, in conclusion, smash the state but also punish the criminals, but for the right reasons.

Also, oh look.

Addendum: Copper caught and convicted after boasting about having child porn images doesn’t go to prison at all.  Above the law and all that.