Labour couldn't organise a piss-up in an alcohol dependence unit
21/1/09
Well, they couldn't. Since Gordon Brown took over, his government seems to suggest ridiculous measure after ridiculous measure. Isn't it about time he grew up?
1. 42 days detention without charge
Six weeks is a fairly long time to be in jail. Been as I'm quite slight bloke, I imagine I'd be buggered quite a lot but a muscley white man serving a life-sentence with a tattoo that says "Mum" and another that says "Ayesha". That's what he'd call me, anyway. Suffice it to say, I doubt my anal sphincter would be particularly efficient after six weeks.
Buggery aside, being in prison is unpleasant and the idea that you should be in prison because somebody thinks you've broken the law makes no sense. Evidently, there has to be some time to charge you but six weeks is taking the piss. That of Western democracies there are few that keep their suspects for more than two weeks is further testament to the inadequacy of the policy. Numerous experts speaking out against it, is further evidence. Generally, members of the intelligence community want to support these things. The opposition we hear speaks volumes.
2. Jacqui Smith and the prostitution law
Useless fucking person. Stupid populist bitch, exemplified by her suggestion that men who use prostitutes should be prosecuted if the women are trafficked. Fuck off. As was pointed out in The Economist (and probably a lot of other publications besides), ignorance of the law is no defence - ignorance of the facts is. Let's say I have a dodgy light in my house. I know it's dangerous so I'm careful with the switch. My wife calls an electrician who's fixing - I don't know he's in, turn it on and kill him. I am not a murderer. Though somebody should probably tell the woman who thinks I'm here wife that I don't know who the fuck she is and she needs to get out of my house.
Prostitution should be legalised. There is no moral justification why society should look down on getting fucked in ass as less of a profession. When one considers high-class prostitution, you realise these people are in it because they can make a shitload of money - not because they're forced into it. As for the ones who are desperate, you need to do something about their desperation and not about the career they've chosen to make up the money.
3. Heathrow's 3rd runway
It don't make no sense, Gord! So there's enough space to build a third runway. I get that. And that will mean more planes can fly through Heathrow which is currently running at capacity, if not above. I get that too. But on every other count it fails. Charles de Gaulle International airport is looking at building five runways - Frankfurt is looking at a fourth. Heathrow is only going to get a fully functioning 3rd runway in a few years time, maybe 2015. That's as far it's ever going to get and won't be able to compete with its European counterparts.
Part of the reason Heathrow is run so shittily is because BAA owns all three big airports in London (Gatwick and Stansted being the other two). Lack of competition reduces BAA's wish to actually spend any money the fuckers. Why bother? People still have to fly to London and fuck me if I could be bothered improving the airports there when people are going to fly there even if they are pieces of shit. Thankfully, the Competition Commission have forced sales of the smaller two, meaning that BAA are going to have to step up and that Gatwick and Stansted will improve. If London is going to have three improved airports anyway, what's the point in paying for another runway?
The improvements and expansion of these airports will cater for the business of the whole thing. It will also create jobs but it will create them sooner than building a third runway will. See? You don't have to sound like a hippie to oppose the third runway.
4. Northern Rock
Should have been privatised and sold to Virgin. Having said that, Gord deserves plaudits for his handling of the economic stuff so far. Still, Northern Rock should not be on the government's books. Alistair Darling and Gord acted like pussies. Thankfully, they appeared to have each grown a pair.
5. Minister for Women
Having a cunt doesn't mean you should get a special person (presumably also owning a cunt) to represent you. Plus, Harriet Harman bugs the shit out of me. I just want to punch her in her self-righteous, do-gooder, holier-than-thou, shit-spouting face.
Look, I'm not a Tory or a Lib Dem (yes - it's possible to not support any political party). I just think that the Labour party panders to populism even if it's not going to work. If you want respect, do something right, even if it's harder than a paedophile locked in a nursery. Don't just do what The Daily Mail readers would like to hear because you're scared of losing their votes.