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It’s been a while since I have had enough energy to write anything, and I’m not really going to now, but I will add a few links to the best bloggers around who somehow manage to write consistantly - and brilliantly - about the fetid, rotten, sceptic, world in which we live.

Starting off I am staggered that I missed this until today:

Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.

Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made over several years.

If I hear one more person qualify this invasion of privacy with the old ‘you have nothing to fear unless you are doing something wrong’, then I think I’ll beat them to death with a video camera. Still, at least it will reduce the terrorist masses to walking, perhaps they will get tired carrying all those explosives and detonate themselves harmlessly in fields.

Sticking with Allan Scullion, what is the biggest round off drinks you bought in last year? Chances are it won’t be as big as your slice of tax-money that has been consumed by our hard-working politicians:

the Commons recently consumed almost 800 pints of alcoholic drink for every day it sat.

However, this does not effect the average make-up of a politician, they are still largely full of shit.

One last link to the same blog, and a favourite topic for Allan is taxes, or is it just that there are so many taxes he cannot avoid the occasional accidental post on them:

Pocket Money Tax: Youngsters need to be indoctrinated into the tax system at the earliest opportunity to truly understand the value of redistribution. Children aged 5 and above will have to fill out an annual Tax Return form which needs to be certified by an independent accountant (supplied by the child’s parents or guardians.) There will be severe penalties for late returns. Tax rates will be set on a sliding scale determined by the child’s school grades. Money received from persons other than the parent or guardian will be classed as a “benefit in kind”. This should be submitted on a separate form P11D and will be taxed at 80%.

Moving on to a different blogger, and one of my favourite sites - essential daily reading - is Tim Ireland. Everyone should know who he is, and everyone should have already read or watched the below:

97% of Sun readers do not support Blair’s 90-day detention plan:

Let’s start with the numbers they do give…

A whopping 100,000 of you phoned our hotline to DEMAND 90 days’ detention for terror suspects.

Recent figures show the Sun’s circulation at 3,361,396.

(100000/3361396) x 100 = 2.97%

Hm. So we’d best correct that:

Less than 3% of you phoned our hotline to DEMAND 90 days’ detention for terror suspects.

Sergeant Tim Nunn cares about your safety:

BBC - Safety fears at ‘illegal’ protest: A police sergeant feared for his colleagues’ safety at a demonstration over new laws banning protests near Parliament, a court has heard… Mr Nunn told the court Mr Shaer used a loud hailer to call the police fascists and accused them of trying to gag demonstrators..

You’ll pardon me for saying so, but what a load of unmitigated bullshit.

The World according to Leo Blair - you’ll just have to watch this one.

Now just read every post Tim Ireland has ever written, really it is that good.

And finally I just couldn’t stop laughing reading this from Justin Mckeating, and I am glad he has maintained his sanity after looking at the New Labour ‘Respect’ campaign (also a big new topic for Tim Ireland…).

Well this is just a small slice of the stuff I have read recently, and who knows, maybe someday i’ll find the motivation to write something new…