It may have been around since 1850, but that hasn’t stopped the PC brigade from taking ‘Spotted Dick’ off the menu. Flintshire Council have decided that this traditional English pudding, whose recipe was first mentioned in 1850 by Alexis Soyer in his book ‘The Modern Housewife of Menagere’, is offensive and has been taken off the menu. The mention of …
One letter can make all the difference
Thank you to those who pointed that in yesterday’s piece Offenders to have it cut off, the question: Why is the unelected Mandy, several times shamed and involved in shady deals, having any say whatsoever in the running of a country? should probably have read: Why is the unelected Mandy, several times shamed and involved in shady deals, having any …
Offenders to have it cut off!
It may turn out to be a long sequence of unfortunate coincidences, but it does seem that every time the unelected Mandy meets with anyone, UK government policy changes. Last week a Lockerbie bomber was released, this week it is a change in government proposals which would see offenders having it cut off!
If it didn’t cost so much you’d have to laugh
Government quangos have once again been busy wasting taxpayer money to come up with more phrases they consider should be ‘banned’ under the pretext of political correctness in order to avoid possible offence.
What did they expect?
Released Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who still protests his innocence, was given a hero’s welcome upon his arrival in Libya and has appeared on TV with Colonel Gaddafi.
And still looking so young!
Interesting item in the Daily Mail today!
Big Brother
In the UK, a report has revealed that the police and other official bodies made 504,073 surveillance requests to telephone and email companies. That is the equivalent of tapping the phone and email of one in seventy-eight members of the adult population.
What to do?
Not for the first time, and probably not for the last, a man has been fined for moving his vehicle forward one metre to allow a police vcehicle, on an emergency call, to pass. The one metre took him slightly over the stop line at a red light and got him fined for ‘jumping a red light’.
Sad end for a legend
Shock in the angling community in the UK after Benson, a 29 kilo (64 lb) carp was found floating belly up in Kingfisher Lake in the Bluebell Lakes complex near Tansor in Peterborough. Benson was transferred to the lake in 1995 as part of a restocking exercise and, at that time, weighed a paltry 24.5lb. Since arrival in the lake, …
Surely it couldn’t happen!
OMG, there’s talk of Mandy for leader of the Labour Party! How will the Tories respond (when they’ve finished laughing)? Ronnie Biggs??