Can Boris do it?

The opinion polls, well YouGov at least, seem to have Boris ahead by 6%. Other polls seem to show Livingstone ahead. So which is correct?
Watching TV last night I was struck by how little enthusiasm there is for Livingstone amongst his supporters. Most seemed to think that he had been in power for long enough. Contrary wise there is great enthusiasm for Boris.
This suggests that there may well be differential turnout between supporters of the two candidates, with supporters of Boris anxious to vote and supporters of Livingstone more inclined to abstain. So, on the face of it, Boris should win.

Nevertheless, my gut feel is that Boris won’t win. I suspect the Labour machine will drag its members kicking and screaming to the polling booths where they will dutifully hold their noses and vote for the evil that is Livingstone.

Meanwhile the Tory vote – based principally in the “doughnut” around central London will be lower than hoped as the daily commute, showers and the general hassle of getting around will combine to deter many Boris supporters.

No-one will be more delighted than me if I’m wrong.

Well off to vote now – for Boris and the forces of light (of course).



UPDATE
It seems William Hill have noticed a surge in betting on Boris - he's now 2/7 with Satan at 5/2.

EU gravy train continues - now it's a secret

So MEPs have decided that a report on how they are defrauding the people who pay them should remain secret. It beggars belief that any politician could behave with such arrogance and contempt for their electorate. I used to be a supporter of the EU, time has changed that and now with this latest example of EU theft of citizens money I have, belatedly many will say, come to the conclusion that the UK should pull out of what appears to be a sinister and corrupt organisation.

I sent the below to the EU via their website. Should they deign to respond I’ll post their reply.

Please can you explain why the European Parliament has decided to keep secret details of the fraud being perpetrated upon citizens of the European Union by MEP’s misusing their staff wage allowance? Can you further explain why anyone should have any faith whatsoever in the European Parliament if it’s members are prepared to cover up, and by so doing condone, such fraud. If MEP’s are not totally transparent about their wages and expenses this sets the tone for the whole EU. If MEP’s are not prepared to answer to the people who are paying for their luxurious lifestyle where is the accountability? To respond that they are answerable at elections is insufficient – they MUST be accountable at all times. By behaving as they do they will have undermined still further the esteem with which MEP’s and the European project are held, showing themselves to be selfish, self serving, arrogant and contemptuous of their electorate. They have added considerable weight to the argument that Britain would be far far far better off without the corrupt and dishonest organization that is the European Union.

Also, on this St George’s day it transpires that the EU have renamed the English Channel as The Channel Sea. Are they actively trying to get Britain to pull out of the EU? They’re going the right way about it.

UPDATE

They replied, albeit a non reply, stating that they were unauthorised to answer the questions (slighty odd for the Division for Correspondence with Citizens but there you go). They pointed me to a press officer so I've asked the same question of him.

Libdems and The Lisbon Treaty

So the Libdems have been instructed to abstain in the vote on a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. I saw Nick Clegg trying to justify this stance on Newsnight and boy did he fail bigtime.
Looks like my jibe about the Libdems electing another interim leader wasn’t that far off the mark.
The question now is how many of the Libdem MP’s will rebel against this stupid instruction and vote with the Tories and the Labour rebels. Let’s hope it’s enough to force Labour to honour its manifesto promise.

Are smokers the new Jews?

OK I’m feeling persecuted. I smoke and I drive a large engined car. Satan has issued a diabolical decree that such cars should pay £6,500.00 pa to use the roads their RFL and fuel tax have already paid for, while another Nazi has suggested that smokers should obtain a licence.

Several things occur to me.

1) If required to get a licence I shall immediately source all my tobacco on the black market where such a licence won’t be required. It’ll also be cheaper for me.
2) Is this just the start of more Stalinist initiatives – will licenses be required to buy booze shortly.
3) How long before I’m required to wear a fetching yellow star before being invited to a smoker’s camp for concentration purposes.
4) I could get a smaller engined car, but the carbon footprint of a new car far exceeds the emissions I will make using the existing one – so how “green” is Satan’s new scheme.
5) Can I emigrate to another freer country where the state doesn’t think it has the right to stick its nose into every corner of your life and then tax it – Zimbabwe for example.

Please God, if you’re listening (and aren’t too pissed of with us coz of the Arch Bish Of C) let this government fall, Satan be taken back to hell and the people of this country stop sleepwalking into a police state.

Proof positive that The Archbishop should resign

Gordon Brown reckons he's a man of "great integrity".

Nuff said

Oh, and he still hasn't resigned! What on earth is keeping him?

Sharia and the Archbishop

A few days have passed since the Arch Bish of C outraged the country with his poorly thought through comments on the adoption of Sharia law. Despite two e-mails from me he hasn’t resigned yet.

He should. He has shown himself to be inadequate at his primary role, protecting the Established Church of England.

If people want to settle disputes outside of the law they are free so to do. They can settle disputes by playing scissors, paper, stone for all I care, but they must accept that such settlements have no meaning within the law. If Muslims wish to settle dispute using Sharia that’s up to them, but if they do so in the UK they must accept that either party will still have recourse to the LAW if they disagree with the Sharia result. There can be no variation to the principle that there is one rule of law for all in this country.

The Arch Bish doesn’t seem to understand this bit.

Backtracking madly it seems the Arch Bish is now saying that he only wanted to stimulate debate etc etc. He just doesn’t get it does he? There’s nothing to debate. There can only be one law.

Lastly beware the PC brigade talking through their arses about the UK being a secular state. NO IT ISN’T. The UK may be a secular society, but, due to the combined role of Her Maj as Head of State and Head of the C of E the UK is a Protestant Christian state.

Perhaps he’ll resign before I finish posting this. Live in hope.

Archbishop Surrenders

I’ve heard that the Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested that the UK adopt parts of Sharia law so that “Muslims should not have to choose between the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty”.

Yes they should, its part of the price for living in a country – you live by the laws of the land.

I am disgusted that any Englishman or representative of the C of E could even consider the adoption of alien laws in some attempt to assuage a foreign culture.

By suggesting that parts of Sharia law should be adopted the Archbishop is betraying his church and more worryingly his country. If people want to live under Sharia law there are plenty of countries which have it. It is not wanted here. If people want to live here they should do so under OUR laws; it is not for us to adopt alien laws to please newcomers, newcomers need to obey and respect our laws. Rarely has a pronouncement by a bishop made me so angry. He should resign henceforth; he has shown that he is no protector of either the church and its values or the values of the British people as a whole.