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MTFC spits on your grave

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This excellent Martin Rowson cartoon should have been put up for a best caption competition.

Any ideas?



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The Orwellian Black Hole and The T-Word.

Once more the Fall of Western Civilisation has been averted by my deletion from the latest Toynbee offering.

My comment lasted approximately 25 minutes.


The politics of hope

My comment 20 Jul 09, 11:02am (21 minutes ago)

'Left?
Don't make me laugh!

My villa in Tuscany is more left than Ms Toynbee.'

That Black Hole of Orwellian Nothingness just keeps on sucking in any mention of the T-word.

Free Range For Corrupt Council Official

More strange goings on in Argyll and Bute.

One Councillor has a nice wee sideline in providing 'free range eggs' supposedly from Stronchuillan Farm (but which seem to be bought in bulk elsewhere and then re-packaged)

Eggs from this farm in which he seems to have an interest are then delivered to, amongst other places, the Isle of Bute where the Depute leader of the Council also, allegedly, has a farm.

This week a council employee was ordered to use a council vehicle to deliver these eggs to an unnamed premises for re-sale.

Now, we are not interested in the fact that these eggs may be fraudulently misrepresented as being 'free range' to the long suffering people of Argyll and Bute.
We are not even interested in the insurance aspect of a council vehicle being misused for the carriage of fresh produce.

Rather, we are interested in this Councillor rejecting an appeal by a local worker who was fired - after 32 years service - on trumped up charges after refusing to do work 'off the books' for a friend of the same Councillor.

The charges were 'refusing to obey a reasonable order' and 'misuse of council property' and the story even made its way into The Sun.

Corruption is not limited to the strange goings on in Parliament it seems.

Or, maybe I am just wrong in my belief that councillors are elected to represent their constituents rather than feather their own nests at our expense.

More Corruption in The Village (Argyll and Bute Style)

We have frequently mentioned the strange goings on this area.

Usual scoundrels are to the fore.

How about this one.

A local newspaper brought the following to my attention through a friend who is in the know.

This friend is a community council member and was surprised to find out that a new bridge had been suggested connecting his community to the mainland - at a 'public' consultation meeting to which this community council had not even been invited.

Very new labour - a so-called public meeting which no-one knew about.

Strange in itself.

When The Merkin went through the details that are, now, available we found something strange.
A report had been submitted which seemed to suggest that the people of Argyll and Bute would benefit from the proposed bridge from Ardentinny to the mainland.

Seemingly, this bridge would shave 30 miles off the 81 mile journey to Glasgow.
Supposedly, time would be saved.

Anyone looking at the map can see that this is a pipedream.
Dunoon to Glasgow via Glen Fruin?

Glen Fruin is lovely for a Sunday afternoon drive but the single track roads are hardly suitable for a major connecting road to open up a region that has been sadly neglected since The Yanks left.
The security areas are filled with ammunition dumps and other such restricted places and is perfectly suited to a new trunk road.

Not.

The Dunoon and Cowal Steering Group which is pushing this bridge is choc-full of the usual scoundrels.

One is of particular interest to this blog, having been part of a cabal which treats this area as being a personal fiefdom.

One council worker was fired on a trumped up charge after refusing to carry out unsafe work - off the books - which would benefit the political aspirations of a particular councillor.

A particular councillor was on the appeal committee which decided that this worker had mis-used council time and props.

This very same councillor came into the council offices this week and ordered the council workers to carry out work for him - again off the books - to benefit his cronies in a business deal.

This same councillor is, needless to say, one of the main protagonists in promoting a 'Bridge to Nowhere' which would only be of benefit to the navy rather than the locals - perhaps if the fast track housing development approved for Ardentinny is relevant.

Something strange going on here, don't ya think?

In times such as these everyone is a property speculator.

Some of these people couldn't even spell 'Parcel of Rogues'.


(I never said that, honest, and even if I did it is only 'fair comment' when it comes to Court).

Looking forward to it, already.

Update : sure there is lots more to follow - so, I will leave a space.

A PASS-MARK TO COMMENT

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'A PASS-MARK TO PROTEST' was the title of the Guardian piece by Jonathan Myerson.

Perhaps, it should have been entitled A PASS-MARK TO COMMENT?

'merkinonparis's comment 11 Jul 09, 2:54pm (about 3 hours ago)

Heard it before on these pages.
Marcel Berlins seemed to think that only people who could appear on The Round Britain Quiz had the intellect to make an informed choice in an election.

As the good Lord S said : 'maybe these young guys had already decided you were a prat'.

'He's that guy with the dysfunctional family whose son used to sell us our weed'

Recommended (3)'

If you read the thread linked to you will see why Jonathan Myerson was so soundly trashed by the CiFers.

Nonetheless, my comment disappeared into that Black Hole of Orwellian Nothingness that we have come to know and love.

As my father would say 'he has a couple of Ologies and a BAFTA or two yet he knows fuck all about nothing.'

Dysfunctional family?

You bet - and you can see why.

Update :

On a more serious note Mr Myerson should count himself lucky that when he approached these vulnerable truants he was not in Telford Town Park.
There the nanny state has decreed that 'all unaccompanied adults walking in Telford Town Park are potential paedophiles. As such, park wardens have been ordered to stop and interrogate anyone who is not accompanied by children'.

Officer : 'What was the nature of your contact with these children'?

Dogwalker ; 'Well, they were interested in my puppy so I asked them a probing question about the millennium development goals'

Officer : Lettsby Avenue.
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