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Ordinary Brits all over the country are fuming at the idea of having to visit websites sporting the distinctly un-British sounding “dot com” at the end. Many true patriots believe that this is “just not British enough”, and that more ought to be done to protect what many see as an endandered “dot co dot uk”.

“It’s just not British enough”, fumes Joyce Barrington-Smythe, a workaday British woman with a 4 bed detached house in Surrey and a holiday home in the Caymans. “How are we supposed to trumpet our superiority over lesser nations if our Government refuses to back Homegrown web addresses?”

And it’s not just Joyce who is up in arms about it. We interviewed Hubert Worthingtripe III, just another normal Englishman trying to survive these troubled economic times. Getting straight to the point from atop his bay gelding, he told us bluntly that “It simply isn’t good enough for the hand-wringing liberals in charge to allow foreign addresses onto the British part of the internet. I mean,” he continues as he loads his gun and signals the hounds, “if you don’t proclaim that you’re a proud, upstanding Brit, people will think you’re from anywhere. They might even think you’re a Black.”

Frightening words indeed. But words that need to be said if the Government is to take heed of the concerns of its Ordinary Citizens.

In a statement to the Commons earlier this week, upstanding Conservative MP Forsythe Manure cited this as just another example of “broken Britain”.
“Just the other day, I decided I wasn’t having any more foreign web addresses on my browser, so I swapped the “dot com” for the much more decent “dot co dot uk” moniker. And what happened? That’s right – a broken weblink that the kids these days call a four-zero-four. With its namby pamby politics, Labour has not just broken Britain – it has broken the Internet itself.”

Others go so far as to suggest this is yet another decision from Brussels; that because, being a foreign country, Brussels cannot have a “dot co dot uk” address and so in a fit of pique is forcing the whole of Britain to live under the draconian and unworkeable “dot com” regime.

“This is a blatant and underhanded conspiracy by Brussels to strongarm acceptance of domination by a foreign domain name,” said our unnamed source whilst standing outside an elite London escort club. “It’s just another sad example of how Labour is ruining this country.”

Harsh, but fair. If our Ordinary Citizens are to be heard, they need a Voice.

That Voice is the Daily Heil.

It’s no big deal, it’s natures way.

Some twat in Scotland has proposed that a tax should be levied on chocolate; the BBC HYS forum is currently red hot. It’s not a bad idea to do something about obesity but we are attacking it from the wrong angle, the current thinking is to tax everyone in order to waste money telling fatties that they should eat less and exercise more, all the while the fatty food companies are spending more money getting the fatties through the door and plying them with lard. We are now considering taxing everyone for eating crap in the same way that we tax smokers and drinkers, something which the tobacco industry fought by making smokes a luxury and desirable product and something the booze industry fought by lowering production costs, lowering margins and increasing volume.

So if we know that these things don’t work why are we doing them? We tax booze and fags not to lower demand but to line the coffers of the treasury so that they can offset the cost of booze and smoke related illnesses. So why not attack the costs head on rather than trying to scrabble around for the cash to pay for it? Why not just withdraw free NHS treatment for smokers, drinkers and fatties. Not only does it provide a real incentive for people to stop smoking, drinking or cramming junk down the gullets, it means that those who don’t can continue to make that choice without impacting on the rest of society. Sure a few fatties will die but they are going to die anyway and prolonging their lives is a pointles waste of time. Parents who allow their kids to become fatties can of course be prosecuted for child abuse and the kids rehomed with parents who are actually going to take care of them.

“Treasury spokeman” quoted in the Daily Mail

The UK goes into this recession with low debt by international standards.

Guest post from ‘Sensibly Ginger’
The Independent, on Thursday 26th Feb said:

“Health officials have been forced to withdraw 21,000 doses of the meningitis C vaccine from GP clinics around the UK after it emerged that some doses may have been contaminated with a blood-poisoning bacterium.
“More than 60,000 doses of the vaccine, which is offered to all four-month-old babies, could be contaminated with the hospital-acquired infection – the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium – and a third of these had already been sent to vaccination clinics before officials became aware of the problem.
“Officials within the Department of Health and the vaccine’s manufacturers are believed to have known of the problem since Tuesday but only issued an emergency recall last night after being contacted about the potential contamination by The Independent. “

Maybe that’s because ALL of the vaccines in the UK were safe, as the Independent evidently knew:

“In a statement, the Department of Health denied that any contaminated samples had entered the UK market. Two batches have been identified and are being recalled as a purely precautionary measure. These two batches passed all routine quality testing, including a sterility test.”

What has happened, as the BBC reported, is:

“The recalled batches of the Menjugate Kit, which were manufactured in Italy, had passed safety checks before leaving the factory to be transported by road to the UK.
“But a small number of samples were sent overseas by aeroplane to test whether the sample would remain secure under different air pressures.
“At the destination, these were found to be contaminated with staphylococcus aureus bacteria, but never entered the supply chain.”

So really, what it should have said is:

Novartis bend over backwards to make sure your kids are safe, and don’t die from meningitis. 

But that wouldn’t sell adverts, if all they did was inform you of the important news you need to know.

The media have fueled the fire, yet again, and are helping the public misunderstanding of science. Vaccines are safe, they really, really are. Children are now dying because parents aren’t getting their children vaccinated.

Raising worries over safe vaccines is not only a fucking stupid thing to do, it is a public health risk.

The small minded fools of the Daily Mail keep insisting that our government has broken Britain. Numerous articles on the decline of morality point the finger squarely at the British parliament for not protecting us from this and that. I recently read an article which was referred by a twitterer and I was amazed to find that 6% of under 12 girls have apparently had sex. Combine this with the story of little Alfie who got his girlfriend up the chuff when he was only 12 (even though he looks about 8, who’d have though he had it in him?) and the picture is pretty bleak.

But here’s the thing…

A few isolated incidents of extremely young kids having sex does not constitute a moral decline and 6% of teenage girls saying that they have had sex does not mean it’s true. Even if it is, 6% is pretty small and not really representative of society. Even if there were kids fucking all over the place it would not be the fault of the government and labelling it so does not improve the situation.

Personal responsibility is undermined every time someone blames “Broken Britain” for the problems of obesity or teenagers humping like rabbits. Kids are fucking because their parents are negligent; blaming it on Broken Britain just takes away the individual responsiblity and allows the teenage moms and pops to absolve themselves of the responsibility for their predicament.

Now we have a ‘credit crisis’ which means that rather than sitting at home watching Jeremy Kyle because they can’t be arse to work, the great unwashed masses can whine about how they can’t get a job and it ain’t their fault. All the while their teenage kids will continue to fuck like rabbits because their parents are not telling them they can’t.