England kicks a ball about a bit!

I didn't watch the match last night, so I'm in no position to comment. Football has gripped many in such a way they've got a mental vice on their brains. A chap said to me last night, "What, not watching the football!?!" as he saw me out and about with the kids. "I got off early from work!" he explained, engaging me momentarily in the culture. And with a few more seconds of pleasantries he was gone, making his way to a big screen somewhere. A complete stranger, but he was a charming advocate for the game.

England will never really shine at this World Cup lark. They've spent a whole season supposedly flogging their guts out in the Premiership, where failure really does mean something. Loss of cash! No sponsorship deals and the rest. By the time this kind of contest comes around, they are all looking a bit jaded. The fans did have a point. I heard this morning that most thought the players "lacked passion". Probably that's due in some good part to the fact that this is no longer a game to win but an industry to win in!

David Beckham got the rough edge of a fan's tongue apparently. The fan was as ruffled as those congressmen trying to penetrate Tony Hayward's mind. All steamed up but with no proper attention to the real problem. Beckham has his fans, though. The new show in town is the Becks and Tutu Show. Or maybe the Bish and Becks Show. Anyway, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has a high regard for Beckham. Tutu said "I could hug you." Pity he didn't. Perhaps he feared Er Indoors!

Will England get through? Who knows? It's anyone's guess and certainly a bookmaker's conundrum!

Political correctness breaks out in Bradford (again!)

Bradford Police in West Yorkshire have had a double dose of political correctness come their way. It seems they can't abide anything English. The gobbledegook stuff they come up with is "health and safety" when they succeeded in banning a St.George's Day parade. The mean-spirited plods, who were in collusion with the council chiefs (a bunch of ne'er-do-well plonkers), just rabbitted on about this one issue. Shame on them. Why don't they go to China to enjoy themselves?

Bradford City councillor Quasim Khan said, "We were told by the police at the meeting that the original route had not been risk assessed and if we wanted a march to go ahead on that date, St George's Day, we would have to accept a smaller, different route. The police officers were getting quite animated, saying things like 'look, this just isn't going to happen'." Police and council officials said they did not have sufficient warning of the event. Nonsense. Apparently these apparatchiks thought it would cause a race riot. What rubbish!

Are we living in England or in a police state that was once England? We need to get rid of these people before they make our lives more of a misery. This parade was supposed to bring the communities together. Now all it has done is spoil everything for children who were looking forward to dressing up and all the community groups who had planned to stage the multi-cultural event. 1,500 schoolchildren were due to take part. Not now.

Hey kids! The mean old spoilsports ruined your party.

Gordon Brown takes Alice's place in Wonderland!

Gordon Brown has come out saying that Labour is "on the side" of the voters. He thinks he has the right policies for the future of the country. At least, this is what he told a meeting of Labour MPs at Westminster yesterday. Jim Sheridan (another part-time member job-sharing with an MSP) muttered at the meeting that former Labour ministers who "gobbed off" to the newspapers should be "injected with rabies". Nice guy you sound Jim! Seen anybody with rabies lately? Not a pretty sight, I'm told.

These people had the affrontery to tell the country that the Tory Party was the nasty party. What hypocrites! This New Labour freak show has brought us to a sorry pass. Far from being on our side, they are all on THEIR SIDE!

The grumpy Brown refused to listen to the public's demand for a referendum on the EU Treaty. He sat around whilst the bald eagle Applegarth was telling us all what a "robust business model" he had created at Northern Rock. He entertained the farcical front that he was in charge of the summer floods. He says the government won't release the wrong prisoners early, but fails to check on who has charge of the keys! The list goes on.

This man, Gordon Brown, is not on the side of the voters. He turns a blind eye to the nonsense over MPs' expenses. The long grass around Westminster has more of his trash in it than at any time in the history of this country.

But the most grating thing is that this man has the brass neck to talk about democracy in other parts of the world, but he has been at the helm of creating an unbalanced constitutional cock-up here. Why should he, a Scots MP (now with hardly any real constituency work to do!), sit in a chamber where his English counterparts CANNOT vote on Scottish devolved matters but he can cause us in England all manner of mayhem without any democratic accountability!

Whatever he thinks, he's definitely not on the side of the voters!