Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!

I will be stuffing a large bird later today, roasting it tomorrow and boiling two smoked gammons.

Have it large.

Ken

Nanny is Mother, Nanny is Father

I am gratified to see that a study, commissioned by Nanny herself, has proven what I have been saying many times; namely that the state should not be rearing children, parents should.

Nanny's study (performed by the University of Oxford and the Institute for Fiscal Studies) evaluated Nanny's £370M Neighbourhood Nurseries Scheme. The research found that toddlers, who went to these places full time, were likely to become "anti social", bossy and selfish.

As I have often stated, like it or not, the best people to rear children are the parents not the state.

Mankind has done pretty well over the past 150,000 years or so, by following the natural order of parental rearing. When the state tries to replace the parents you get hideous consequences, eg Nazi Germany.

Nanny should keep her beak out of the family.

The Wirral Egg Run II

Congratulations to the organisers and participants in the 2007 Wirral Egg Run, for overcoming Nanny's attempts to stop this annual event (it has been running for 25 years, without the approval of Nanny). FYI this event has been featured before on this site, please click on the tag at the end of this article to read about earlier years.

This year's Egg Run (held on 1st April 2007), the first time that it was deemed to be "official" by Nanny's minions, attracted over 8,000 bikers with bikes of all ages, shapes and sizes driven by people dressed as chickens and rabbits.

However, Nanny did manage to get her fingers in the pie; she charged every biker £1 this time.

Why?

To cover the "costs" of Nanny "policing" the event (there has never been any trouble in the last 25 years), and to offset the local council's "costs".

The fact that the event was for charity seems to have passed Nanny by in her ceaseless quest to milk her "charges" dry.

Nanny's Child Catchers

In Nanny's ceaseless quest to tag, categorise and record every aspect of our lives and ourselves, she is now getting her teeth into children.

Bliary Poppins herself has decreed that children could face compulsory checks, to discover if they are at risk of turning into criminals.

I guess someone will be reading bumps on their heads, or slaughtering a goat and checking the entrails to see who is the criminal then?

Nanny intends to check at important stages in a child's life, such as the move from primary to secondary school.

Nanny said that she wants to:

"Establish universal checks throughout a child's development

to help service providers to identify those most at risk of offending.

These checks should piggyback on existing

contact points such as the transition to secondary schools."

Nanny did not specify as to whether police or probation officers would be involved in the process.

Nanny also intends to expand her DNA database, to include:

"all suspected offenders who come into contact with the police".

That means that all Nanny has to do is to "suspect" you, then she can add you to her database.

Happy about that?

I'm not.

Do you trust her not to abuse the data that she gathers?

I don't.

Prat of The Week

This week's prestigious "Prat of The Week" Award goes to Nanny's Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt.

She helpfully contributed to the efforts to release the British service personnel, kidnapped by the Iranians, by saying:

"It was deplorable, that the woman hostage

should be shown smoking. This sends completely

the wrong message to our young people."

Forgive me, but has this woman got a brain at all?

The issue, madam, is not their smoking...but their kidnapping.

Patricia Hewitt without a doubt deserves the award "Prat of The Week", doubtless the Iranians would be laughing themselves sick to hear her vies on this matter.

Hewitt has a rather crappy website, which has a contact page...here it is Contact Hewitt

Can you spot the problem boys and girls?

Yes, that's right, it doesn't work.

Why does Patricia Hewitt not want people contacting her?

Don't worry folks, here is her email address hewittph@parliament.uk, please drop her a line asking her why she doesn't like to be contacted.

Feel free to tell her she has won an award.

Oh, and don't forget to suggest to her that maybe our service personnel currently being held hostage probably don't give a flying fark what she thinks about them smoking.

Let's see her volunteer to go out there and take their places!

Whilst we are on the subject, could someone from Nanny's MOD please answer the following questions:

1 Why did the support vessel not keep in visual contact with the boarding party?

2 Why did the support vessel not see, on radar/visually, the approach of the Iranians?

3 Why did the naval helicopter, maintaining watch over the operation, have insufficient fuel to maintain its "oversight" position during the boarding, and return to the support vessel whilst the service personnel were still on board the the Indian vessel?

Something in this sorry fiasco stinks!

What's the real story here?

Nanny Denies The Holocaust

Nanny, as I keep reminding you, is very concerned about people offending other people; she really does not think that people should be offended in any way, shape or form.

The trouble is, life is simply not like that. People regularly offend each other, sometimes accidentally and sometimes deliberately. What marks someone out as being a decent human being, or simply a scumbag, is how they deal with a situation or person that they find to be offensive.

Suffice to say, a well educated intelligent person will shrug it off and move on with their lives.

Uneducated, narrow minded dolts will go on and on about it; until they have forced the state to intervene.

Whilst people may be capable of creating offence, nothing offends the ignorant more that the truth. The truth has a nasty habit of knocking an ignorant person's belief system into the gutter. Ignorant people don't like that, for you see they have nothing in their lives but their ignorance; take that away, and you eradicate the "personality" and "raison d'etre" of the ignorant.

Here we now come to rather an unpleasant Nanny ban, so worried is she about offending Muslims that some of her schools have decided to stop teaching about the Holocaust in history lessons.

Seemingly some of Nanny's teachers are avoiding discussing the Holocaust, lest it "upset" students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

How can someone have a "belief system" that includes denial of an historical event?

By the way, Eisenhower very wisely made sure that the local populations who lived near to Belsen etc were all forced to visit them; so that there would be no attempt to deny the reality in later years.

In addition to avoidng the Holocaust, these "misguided" teachers are also avoiding discussing the 11th century Crusades.

Why?

Seemingly the lessons contradict what is taught in local mosques.

Is this all just a fantasy?

Are these stories of teachers dropping the Holocaust merely unsubstantiated anecdotes?

No.

The findings come from a study funded by Nanny's Department for Education and Skills (a laughable description for this department, given the appalling ignorance of our hapless and ill taught children), which looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.

The report concluded:

"In particular settings, teachers of history

are unwilling to challenge highly contentious

or charged versions of history in which pupils

are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship."

Ignorance is best tackled head on, by ramming the truth down people's throats.

A country that avoids teaching the truth to its children, for fear of upsetting the ignorant, will most surely create a generation of spiteful ignorant dullards who will sleepwalk into dictatorship.

Mark my words, the next steps on the road to dictatorship will be book burnings of those texts that challenge the ignorants' view of history.