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The world’s greatest mayor: You’ll wish your town had one just like him

Peter Davies, the new mayor of Doncaster, England has been making news. And for all the right reasons. He;s cut his salary, abolished diversity, disregards environmentalism{ everything we want in a mayor.

Please move to our town, Mayor Davies
Please move to our town, Mayor Davies

Peter Davies, the new mayor of Doncaster, England has been making news. And for all the right reasons.

Here’s how the Telegraph UK reports it:

In his first week in office he cut his own salary from £73,000 to £30,000, which is putting one’s money where one’s mouth is. He also scrapped the mayoral limousine. He is ending Doncaster’s twinning with five towns around the world, an arrangement which he describes as “just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council’s expense”. He intends now to reduce (that’s right, reduce) council tax by 3 per cent this year.

The “diversity” portfolio has been abolished from the council’s cabinet. From next year no more funding will be given to the town’s “Gay Pride” event, on the grounds that people do not need to parade their sexuality, whatever it may be, at taxpayers’ expense. Black History Month, International Women’s Day and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month are similarly destined to become history.

Council funding of translation services for immigrants has been scrapped because he believes incomers should take the trouble to learn English. Officials have been ordered to abandon bureaucratic gobbledegook language. Davies is saving the taxpayers £80,000 by disaffiliating from the pointless Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit. He aims to abolish all non-jobs on the council, as epitomised by “community cohesion officers”. He is taking advice from the Taxpayers’ Alliance and the Campaign Against Political Correctness.

…He disregards all “green claptrap”, is creating more parking spaces to encourage traffic in the town for the benefit of business (”I’m not green and I’m not conned by global warming”). He has asked the Electoral Commission to reduce the number of Doncaster’s councillors from 63 to 21 (”If Pittsburgh can manage with nine councillors, why do we need 63?”).

IHateTheMedia.com is headquartered in a county that has a $60,000 per year “fat consultant” on the payroll.

If Mayor Davies were in charge, we have a feeling he would cut the fat. And the fat consultant.

Source: Telegraph UK via Tim Blair

Lockerbie liars: Brits say Obama and Clinton are lying sacks of…uh…let’s just leave it at liars

To sum it up, the Brits said of Obama and Clinton, “Hey, you stinkin’ liars, don’t complain that you didn’t know we were going to release the Lockerbie bomber. You guys were consulted every step of the way.”

The freed Lockerbie bomber celebrates his release and arrival in Libya with Muammar Gaddafi's son
The freed Lockerbie bomber celebrates his release and arrival in Libya with Muammar Gaddafi's son

“Obama and Clinton are stinkin’ lairs.” Brits being Brits, it sounded much more dignified when they said it. But linguists say that’s an American English translation of what they said in English English.

To sum it up, the Brits said, “Hey, you stinkin’ liars, don’t complain that you didn’t know we were going to release the Lockerbie bomber. You guys were consulted every step of the way.”

The UK Daily Mail reports a story that’s getting very little traction from the American media:

President Obama and the US Secretary of State fuelled a fierce American backlash against Britain, claiming Abdelbaset Al Megrahi should have been forced to serve out his jail sentence in Scotland – but a senior Whitehall aide said their reaction was ‘disingenuous’.

British officials claim Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were kept informed at all stages of discussions concerning Megrahi’s return.

The officials say the Americans spoke out because they were taken aback by the row over Megrahi’s release, not because they did not know it was about to happen.

‘The US was kept fully in touch about everything that was going on with regard to Britain’s discussions with Libya in recent years and about Megrahi,’ said the Whitehall aide.

‘We would never do anything about Lockerbie without discussing it with the US. It is disingenuous of them to act as though Megrahi’s return was out of the blue.

‘They knew about our prisoner transfer agreement with Libya and they knew that the Scots were considering Megrahi’s case.’

And while he was at it, the President said barely knew Van Jones. Met him once. Maybe. In passing.

Most. Transparent. Administration. In. History.

Source: Daily Mail UK

The biggest loser: Britain’s National Health Service collapsing under its own weight

The President and his minions would have you to believe that Britain’s National Health Service is the ideal toward which ObamaCare would take us. According to the Daily Mail, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, the country’s expectant mothers beg to disagree:

Where will your baby be born under ObamaCare? (photo credit: u-turn77)
Where will your baby be born under ObamaCare? (photo credit: u-turn77)

The President and his minions would have you to believe that Britain’s National Health Service is the ideal toward which ObamaCare would take us.

According to the Daily Mail, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, the country’s expectant mothers beg to disagree:

Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.

The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets – even a caravan – went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.

Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.

Continue reading “The biggest loser: Britain’s National Health Service collapsing under its own weight”

Our favorite European politician describes the horrors of European healthcare

European Member of Parliament Daniel Hannan appeared on the Glenn Beck Show last week and told the sad plight of European-style single payer healthcare.

You may recall Daniel Hannan, the European Member of Parliament who delivered a blistering (and hilarious) speech condemning British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a few months ago.

Hannan appeared on the Glenn Beck Show last week and told the sad plight of European-style single payer healthcare.

If you support ObamaCare, you need to hear what Hannan has to say.

If you don’t support ObamaCare, same instructions.

Brit Home Secretary who banned Michael Savage admits she was unprepared for the job

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was forced to resign over banning American talk radio host Michael Savage from Britain

Jacqui Smith admits she wasn't up to the job. If only more politicians would be so honest
Jacqui Smith admits she wasn't up to the job. If only more politicians would be so honest

Jacqui Smith is the disgraced former British Home Secretary who released the now famous list of “terrorists” who were to be banned from Great Britain. For some still undetermined reason, American radio talk show host Michael Savage was on that list.

Smith was forced to resign over this and other fiascos that occurred under her watch.

The same day that her replacement as British Home Secretary buried (but not scrapped) her terrorist list, Smith admitted that she had been in over her head. Way over her head.

“When I became home secretary I’d never run a major organization,” she said in an interview. “I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of skills. I think we should have been better trained. I think there should have been more induction.”

What kind of crazy country would put someone in charge who has never had any experience running a large organization?

Sure glad that sort of thing could never happen in the United States.

Source: Total Politics via World Net Daily

Associated Press screws up story of British government ending “i” before “e” rule

The British government has issued new guidelines that put an end to the traditional “i” before “e” spelling rule. They say there are just too many exceptions.

No longer exceptional
No longer exceptional: beige, codeine, conscience, deify, deity, deign,
 dreidel, eider, eight, either, feign, feint, feisty,
 foreign, forfeit, freight, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist,
 neigh, neighbor, neither, peignoir, prescient,
 rein, science, seine, seismic, seize, sheik,
 society, sovereign, surfeit, veil, vein, weight,
 weir, weird

The British government has issued new guidelines that put an end to the traditional “i” before “e” spelling rule. They say there are just too many exceptions.

Here’s how the Associated Press reported the story (please take special note of the correction AP added at the end of the story):

The “Support For Spelling” document, which is being sent to thousands of primary schools, says the rule “is not worth teaching” because it doesn’t account for words like ‘sufficient,’ ‘veil’ and ‘their.’

Jack Bovill of the Spelling Society, which advocates simplified spelling, said Saturday he agreed with the decision.

But supporters say the ditty has value because it is one of the few language rules that most people remember.

(This version CORRECTS spelling of Bovill, sted Bovell, in graf 4.)

That’s right, the first version of the AP story spelled the spokesman’s name “Bovell,” but the corrected version spelled it “Bovill,” in effect validating the entire story by putting “e” before “i.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

Source: Associated Press

Britain to cut costs by reducing “unnecessary education of idiots”

In a statement that’s either refreshingly politically incorrect or remarkably blunt or maybe both, British universities have announced that they will attempt to cut costs by “culling the stupids.”

There's no way this guy could get into a British university.
There's no way this guy could get into a British university.

In a statement that’s either refreshingly politically incorrect or remarkably blunt or maybe both, British universities have announced that they will attempt to cut costs by “culling the stupids.”

Henceforth, only the top one third of applicants will be accepted into British universities. Theoretically, those smart kids will be able to figure out that that means two thirds of students who would have been accepted into universities in the past will be rejected this year.

Perhaps the Brits should simply do as we do here in America and elevate their idiots to vice president.

Source: Cultsha.com

Monday: UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says she’ll fight Michael Savage’s libel claim. Tuesday: Smith resigns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNeZZJihtDs In the words of the old Dinah Washington song, “What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours.”

On Monday, British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced that she would fight a defamation suit brought by American talk show host Michael Savage after he was barred from entering the UK.

On Tuesday, Smith submitted her resignation to unpopular Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Savage was “outraged” when Smith lumped him together on the list with a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, a skinhead gang leader and a Hezbollah militant who spent 30 years in prison.

Savage, was reportedly asking for as much as $150,000 in damages and an apology.

British observers believe the Savage issue may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back for Smith.

Great Britain is currently embroiled in a scandal over Members of Parliament submitting fraudulent expense reports for personal items. Smith was caught up in the controversy when she submitted an expense report that included the costs of her husband’s porn purchases.

Whether you like Savage or not, you have to admit that he’s never been a danger to anyone. Except, perhaps, Smith and her career.

Source: Daily Mail UK

Gallup survey can’t find one British Muslim who approves of homosexuality

It's much easier to be a Muslim cross-dresser because the burkha hides your adam's apple
It's much easier to be a Muslim cross-dresser because the burkha hides your adam's apple

Bad news for Elton John. According to a recent survey, British Muslims have zero tolerance for homosexual acts.

What’s that? They didn’t mean show business acts performed by homosexuals? Oh. Our apologies to Elton.

Gallup conducted telephone and face-to-face interviews with 500 Muslims in the UK, France and Germany.

“The most dramatic contrast was found in attitudes towards homosexuality,” the study said. “None of the 500 British Muslims interviewed believed that homosexual acts were morally acceptable.”

Remarkable. They couldn’t find a single British Muslim who would come out publicly in support of homosexuals. Not one.

“By comparison, 35% of French Muslims found homosexual acts to be acceptable,” it continued. “A question on pornography also elicited different reactions, with French and German Muslims more likely than British Muslims to believe that watching or reading pornography was morally acceptable.”

So much for the glories of multiculturalism. Like all liberal philosophies, it grossly over-promises and dramatically under-delivers. Kind of like an Elton John concert.

Source: Guardian UK

Maggie Thatcher gives the socialists hell in the House of Commons. Sit back and enjoy.

Entering the British House of Commons is like jumping into a shark tank. If you bleed, you die.

This video clip shows British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s final moments before the House of Commons back on November 22, 1990. You can’t help but feel pride as she defends her brand of conservatism against the attacks of British socialists.

My god, she was a tough old dame. And we say that in the best sense of the word.

When will some young conservative to step up and become the next Ronald Reagan or Maggie Thatcher?

C’mon, we’ve never needed you like we need you now.

What do you think of the U.K. banning Michael Savage from entry?

The U.K. today announced the names if sixteen people banned from entering the the country. These are people that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said these are the sorts of nasty people that “Britain was not prepared to tolerate.” Among those named is America’s third most popular political radio talk show host Michael Savage, a personal favorite of the Administrator here (and boy is he pissed).

Isn’t Britain where Imams stand in the streets shouting Death to Jews?

Two articles on this: ndependent.co.uk and BBC.co.uk.

UK Member of Parliament says he may kill Miss California, kills career instead

Alan Duncan is a Member of Parliament in Great Britain. He wants to be Home Secretary, but after last night he may find himself unemployed instead.

The boneheaded MP was discussing Miss California, Carrie Prejean, on the BBC comedy show “Have I Got News For You” when he called Prejean a “silly bitch.” If would have been bad enough had he stopped there, but he didn’t.

“If you read that Miss California is murdered,” he said, “you will know it was me.”

At least we think that’s what he said. It was difficult to tell with his foot buried so deeply in his mouth.

Viewers complaints began flooding into the BBC and Britain’s Broadcasting Standards Authority almost immediately.

“Mr. Duncan has crossed the line,” said the Reverend George Hargreaves. “A senior politician suggesting, even as a joke, that it is OK that Ms. Prejean should be murdered for her Evangelical Christian views is totally unacceptable.”

“If you read that my career is dead,” Duncan shold have said, “you will know it was me.”

Source: Gateway Pundit

Susan Boyle, Britain’s virgin singing sensation, offered $1,000,000 to make porn flick

susan_boyle If you thought Simon Cowell looked stunned when he heard Susan Boyle sing on “Britain’s Got Talent,” imagine the look on his face when he sees her in a porn flick.

Los Angeles-based Kick Ass Films has offered the singing British spinster one million smackers to star in a porn flick.

Unfortunately, the deal calls for the homely virgin with the fabulous voice to sacrifice her virginity on camera. Boyle, a self-confessed virgin, says she’s never kissed a man, much less bedded one.

“We want to get this movie shot and out while Susan has the world’s attention,” said Kick Ass honcho Mark Kulkis. “Besides, after 47 years of virginity, I’m sure Susan is also anxious to get something cracking as soon as possible.”

If Boyle accepts the offer, Kulkis says Kick Ass will fly her to Hollywood on Virgin Airlines.

A YouTube.com clip of Boyle singing on Cowell’s British TV show, “Britain’s Got Talent” has been viewed more than 100 million times around the world.

We just hope that the woman with the voice of an angel isn’t seduced by the man with the soul of the devil.

Source: New York Daily News

Another Obama brother discovered, accused of sexual assault in the U.K.

Samson Obama, alleged sexual predator. Sounds more like he should be Bill Clinton's brother.
Samson Obama, alleged sexual predator. Sounds more like he should be Bill Clinton's brother.

You need a scorecard to keep track of the wacky characters in President Obama’s family. Now we find out he has yet another half brother, this one named Samson Obama, and he’s been accused of sexual assault in England.

Britain’s The News of the World says Samson was busted in January as he attempted to enter the country on his way from his home in Kenya to bubba’s inauguration in Washington, DC.

Using a high tech database, immigration officers discovered he had been arrested by British police the previous November after he allegedly tried to sexually assault a 13-year old girl.

“He supplied officers with his mother’s address in Bracknell but gave them a false ID, claiming to be Henry Aloo, a genuine asylum seeker,” News of the World said.

This is almost too crazy to believe. We have an illegal alien aunt living in Boston. We have one brother busted for pot while living in a hut in Nairobi. We have another brother living in China and running an illegal internet business. We have the militant Muslim brother living in Kenya. And now we have an alleged sexual predator using false ID in England.

That leaves about half a dozen more Obama brothers and sisters who have checked in with neither us nor their parole officers. The fun has just begun.

Source: News of the World via Drudge

Oh, God! Obama gives the Queen of England an iPod!

Confusion ensued when President Obama told the Queen of England how much he loves "Crocodile Rock."
Confusion ensued yesterday when President Obama told the Queen of England how much he loves "Crocodile Rock."

It was April Fool’s Day, so you may be tempted to think we’re making this up. Unfortunately, it’s true.

President Obama continues to impress foreign dignitaries with his diplomatic gifts. Not.

During their visit to Buckingham Palace this week, the Queen Elizabeth II of England gave the Obamas a signed picture of herself beautifully framed in silver. The President presented her majesty with an iPod. Yes, you read that correctly – the officlal state gift from the President of the United States to the Queen of England was an iPod. (Now available on eBay starting as low as $15.89).

Unfortunately, the Queen already has an iPod. No word yet on whether she picked it up on eBay.

The iPod came loaded with photos of the Queen’s visits to Jamestown and Richmond, plus photos of Obama’s inauguration. The ObamaPod also came with…wait for it…Obama’s 2004 convention speech and his inaugural address. It also came loaded with show tunes. A whole bunch of Broadway show tunes including the song “Send In The Clowns.” Seems apropos.

Rumor has it that Obama was very disappointed when he met the Queen. “When you said we were going to meet the old Queen of England,” he steamed, “I thought you meant Elton John.”

Source: Daily Telegraph, ABC News

American media ignores bungling Obama, British media irate

President Obama bungled meetings this week with America’s most important ally. The British are irate about it.

First, Obama unceremoniously returned a bust of Winston Chuchill the Brits had given to President Bush right after 9-11. Then, he snubbed Prime Minister Gordon Brown by deciding he wasn’t important enough to merit a joint press conference. Finally, after Brown was thoughtful enough to present Obama with a beautiful pen holder hand-carved from a plank from a former anti-slavery ship, Obama reciprocated by giving Brown a collection of DVDs.

The Brits are up in arms. Editorial after editorial and article after article has ripped Obama’s trashing of the “special relationship” the two countries share. But the story has been ignored by the adoring American media. For example, a Google News search for “Obama, “British,” and “25 DVDs” turns up a mere 21 stories, including reprints in various publications.

We can’t even say it’s a case of conservative-liberal bias, because a search for “Hillary,” “Europe,” and “reset” turns up 249,000 stories and her gaffe only happened on Friday. No, this is strictly a case of the media protecting its investment in Barack Obama.

But perhaps we shouldn’t really blame the American media. They had plenty of other important stories that needed covering this week. Like Octomom. Has she had anymore kids yet? And Michelle. Is she wearing sleeves today?

Gordon Brown may be rethinking his earlier comments in this video.

British newspaper rips Obama again, compares him to “flawed” LBJ

<b>President Obama was excited when he heard he was going to meet the queen, disappointed when he found out it wasn't Elton John.</b>
President Obama was excited when he heard he was going to meet the queen, disappointed when he found out it wasn't Elton John.

Looks like newspapers on the other side of the Atlantic didn’t get that “laudatory coverage only” memo from the White House. The President and everyone around him have been sliced and diced by The Telegraph this week.

The paper’s latest article starts off by reviewing all the president’s gaffes – his poorly thought out choice of gifts, his insulting return of the Churchill bust, his hastily-prepared joint press conference with Gordon Brown. Then things got really nasty:

“Something, suddenly, seems to have made the Obama White House perk up and start to take an interest in the Brits. The Queen has invited the President to tea when he’s here for the G20 in April. And he’s in through the front door of Buckingham Palace faster than a Harley Davidson roaring along Route 66.”

“Note how the coolness of Team Obama disappears when a bit of regal glamour is introduced into the equation. He might not like the Brits, but he can recognise a global superstar when he encounters one. He wants to be associated with her. He’s shameless.”

“If Obama, or someone in his inner circle, had spent two minutes thinking about what present to get Brown then they could easily have come up with something appropriate. He likes books. He loves American history. Get him a signed first edition of a good Robert Dallek book such as the brilliant Flawed Giant on LBJ. Come to think of it, Obama should read it too, if he hasn’t yet, as it reveals a great deal about how a Presidency can go so wrong.”

We’re surprised Obama didn’t schedule tea and crumpets with Prince Charles since they have so much in common:

They both have two kids. Both believe in global warming, yet whip around the world in private jets. And both have domineering wives who make them jump through hoops like trained chihuahuas.

Link: Telegraph

Obama gives lousy gift, pisses off British Prime Minister

<b>President Obama made Prime Minister Brown an offer he could easily refuse.</b>
President Obama made Prime Minister Brown an offer he could easily refuse.

British Prime Minister Brown wanted to make a good first impression in his first meeting with President Obama. So he gave him an ornamental penholder hand-carved from the timbers of a Victorian anti-slave ship once called the HMS President.

President Obama reciprocated by giving Brown a handful of DVDs. Seriously. President Obama gave the prime minister of our closest ally, a nation that reveres the “special relationship” between our two countries, a bunch of DVDs.

In Obama’s defense, they were all classic American films. And they came in a special boxed set. And Michelle was probably up half the night making sure the ribbon looked real pretty. Unfortunately, it turns out Brown isn’t much of a film fan.

Britain’s Daily Mail reports that Brown could have gone to the Blockbuster store down the road from 10 Downing Street and picked up the same DVDs for about $352 (plus tax).

As they say in Hollywood, “Take two.”

And as we say at IHateTheMedia.com, “Aw, crap.”

Link: Daily Mail

Angry British journalist labels Michelle Obama “Lady MacBeth”

michelle obama British journalist James Delingpole, a columnist for the Telegraph, is angry about the state of Anglo-American relations. And he lays the blame right square at the designer shod feet of Michelle Obama.

“I was asked for my reaction as a true born Englishman to President Obama’s double insult – first the sending back of the Winston Churchill bust, then his snub to Gordon Brown.”

“Britain’s friendship,” Delingpole continued, “is something Obama will come to regret having dispensed with so lightly. This was not the act of a global statesman, but of a hormonal teenager dismissing her bestest of best BFs for no other reason than that she felt like it and she can, so there.”

“Obama’s judgment,” he concluded, “is pretty dreadful – but this? My favourite theory…was that it was a move calculated to please his Lady Macbeth. At the moment in Britain, we’re still in the “Doesn’t she look fabulous in a designer frock” stage of understanding of Michelle Obama. Gradually, though, we’ll begin to realise that she is every bit the terrifying executive’s wife that Hillary Clinton was. Or, shudder, Cherie Blair.”

We can just imagine the White House response:

“Frock? Michelle’s dress is not a frock. It’s a $10,000 Jason Woo original.”

Link: Delingpole’s Telegragh article

Brit Reporters say Obama doesn’t know difference between England and Uruguay

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Godron BrownBritish reporters are not happy. Not happy at all. They expected a full press conference after Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s first visit to the Obama White House, but didn’t get one.

“Though there was never any announcement on this side of the Atlantic that there would be a full-blown joint news conference today when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stops by to meet with President Obama,” USA Today’s The Oval blog reported, “some British journalists are rather cranky this morning about the fact that there won’t be one. Some who flew over with Brown last night thought there would be an Obama-Brown newser, and were surprised to hear when they arrived that there wouldn’t. They see it as a snub.”

“Mr Brown might lament,” The Telegraph said, “that despite the so-called ‘special relationship’ Britain is now getting the same treatment as the president of Uruguay but he need not despair. I’m told there’s a chance he might get drinks with Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening.”

That may be true, but imagine the hysterically funny stories Brown will be able to tell in Parliament on Wednesday morning.

Source: Newsmax

We’re in love with a 25-year old Virgin

We hate the media, but we love Richard Branson’s uncanny ability to manipulate it.

Branson’s Virgin Atlantic airline is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a new TV commercial. It features a sexy, red-suited female cabin crew walking through an otherwise gloomy airport prior to the airline’s inaugural flight in 1984.

Great Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has received 29 complaints that the ad campaign is sexist and insulting to women. The complaints say the campaign uses sex to sell the airline.

Egad, gadzooks and forsooth! (Do they still say that in England?). Richard Branson using sex to sell? They must be mistaken.

We say, let’s make Richard Branson a citizen and elect him president (Don’t send letters — we know it would be unconstitutional).

Seriously, this is a guy who could say, “Yes we can” and really mean it.

Northern Ireland bans British global warming commercials

Sammy Wilson, Northern Ireland’s outspoken environment minister, has banned the British government’s climate change TV commercials. He said their message is “insidious propaganda.”

Wilson believes we should learn to cope with natural climate change, rather than waste our resources attempting to slow down a “man-made” problem.

The objectionable TV commercials are part of the British government’s “Act on CO2″ campaign. They encourage the public to reduce its use of electricity and fossil fuels.

The British responded by saying, “We’ll deal with Sammy Wilson and the global warming problem as soon as we can get all this damn snow off the streets.”

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