First off, I couldn’t care less how poorly Gordon treats his people. Frankly he could hog-tie and brand them for all I care, so long as his attention was stolen from today’s stint at country-reaming for a few minutes. Those precious moments of distraction would’ve saved us about half a billion, surely.
That all said, I was suspicious (and people have since been all over this) of a supposed bullying victim helpline taking calls in confidence and then revealing the contents of those calls to anyone who’ll listen – including , presumably, the caller’s employer. A quick look at the charities commission does nothing to assuage suspicions:
Hmm, not very active are they? (When they deign to submit accounts, that is). It also transpires that they are run by a company who provide a ‘mediation’ service and that they use callers to the helpline for potential clients. Read this as an alleged example of their work. Not looking like a class outfit, to be honest.
And as I’m writing this, I’ve just read the Grauniad piece on them here.
There are tenuous Tory links to the place as well (their office is next door to a Tory regional office, numerous endorsements, the patronage of Ann Widdecombe etc.), but I care about that much less than the resultant bullshit calls for an “enquiry” from both Cameron and Clegg.
Never mind the parlous state of the country and our perpetual progress down the path to oblivion, it’s far more important to these clowns that they play at playground hair-pulling and pre-election showboating. Christ, no wonder Ding is barely managing to maintain a lead in the polls.
To reiterate a previous topic:
Dave, how do you fuck that up? How?
As highlighted by Obo before, I’ve got to agree with Peter Hitchens’ assessment that it has never been more apparent that Call-Me-Dave is Blair's spiritual successor and that there never be any respite from the grasping mediocrities at the rotten core of parliament as long as the situation is allowed to continue.
I’m growingly tempted by the unthinkable…
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It's a catch 22, though, init? If you vote Labour, the Tories (AKA Blair's second XI, AKA Continuity New Labour) will conclude the electorate want socialism, good and hard. If you vote Tory, they will conclude exactly the same thing because they are now socialists too.
But we are stuck in this perpetual cycle of lab-con-lab-con, each feeding on the percieved failings of the last: Labour spending everyone's money, Tories sorting it out again while looking shite in the meantime, Labour getting back in again on a platform of being 'nice'.
I'm just really liking the idea of keeping them in power long enough to destroy themselves...especially if the Tories are shaping up to be identical anyway.
Even more suspicious!
If you compare the list of trustees on the Charity Commission website with the list of trustees on the www.guidestar.org.uk website (enter charity number 1117852, click on helpline link, and then follow info on trustees link) another trustee's name appears.
Why is an expert in anti-terrorism a trustee of such a small charity?
O/T
I saw this on xkcd, and thought it might be your sort of humour.
http://xkcd.com/401/
Heh. Ta for that.
Will probably use it to kick off a new LHC post for t'other place as I'm due to do an update anyway.
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