KEN LIVINGSTONE? - GOD HELP US

I don't think people living outside London, realise just how awful Red Ken really is, and what a disaster he has always been for London.

Years ago when he ran County Hall, he cost Londoners so much money that he was eventually forced out, but even when faced with this, he still couldn't resist dishing out more of OUR money to his pals. People who had worked for him in County Hall, were given free cars, and computers. All office equipment was given away to firms that he had worked with. This was our money this creep was giving away, yet no one challenged him (as usual) and I know these FACTS, because my wife, who has always worked in the charity sector, was told and shown, first hand, details of his illegal transactions.

And since he has been our so called Mayor, what has he done? His first job was to kill all the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, now I am not some silly animal rights type of person, but please tell me, who else could have got away with that one, especially in the lefty fraternity?

He then built himself an imposing fortress, named City Hall, on the banks of the Thames, directly opposite the Tower of London, at a cost to us Londoners of around 100 million pounds. At the time of building this monstrosity, he himself admitted, that there were far too many empty office building around London, which should be taken up by businesses, rather than building more new.

His staff has increased a 100 fold since he came to power, and as we all know, he even took 80 of them on his recent jaunt to India, again at our expense.

Then we had the big C, and I am not directly referring to Ken, I am referring to the dreaded congestion charge, which again has increased, and now also encompasses certain types of vehicles being able to enter the zone cheaper, while bigger vehicles have had their charges increased as much as 10 times. What the hell has that got to do with congestion? And more to the point, why is the level of congestion in London, now increased, since the tax came in?

Next, comes his ridiculous bendy busses, which tend to catch on fire at the blink of an eye, and get involved in more road accidents than any other vehicle on the road. They also belch out tons of toxic emissions, and clog our roads up even more, and if that is not all, hardly anyone travels on the damn things.

In 2000/01, the average cost of the Mayor to a Band D council taxpayer was £123 a year for each household. This year, it is £289 (an increase in cash terms of 135%). Next year, it will be over £300.

There is already much evidence of waste: spending on publicity by the Mayor and his various quangos has been estimated at over £100 million a year (nearly as much as was spent by the Labour Government in its first year in office); staffing costs at City Hall have nearly trebled from £12 million in 2000/01 to £33 million in 2005/06.

Spending by the Mayor' various quangos on advertising, publicity and communications has been estimated at £100 million a year. Pride of place goes to Transport for London. Officially, it admits to a communications budget of £5.2 million. However, after numerous Freedom of Information requests made by Ealing Councillor Phil Taylor, it has admitted that items such as invitations to tender and promoting timetables took the bill to £78 million. Spending by other quangos, such as the Olympics Delivery Authority and the London Speed Safety Camera Partnership takes the bill to £100 million a year – nearly as much as the Labour Government spent on publicity in its first year in office. Out of this Livingstone maintains his "" newspaper, The Londoner, which is delivered to homes in the capital ten times a year at a cost to the taxpayer of £3 million.

Furthermore, the Mayor remains adamant that his budget will not be subject to negotiation, a statement that says much about his attitude towards democratic accountability. It is hard to justify giving the office of Mayor further powers when its current occupant shows such lofty disdain for the few checks and balances he currently faces.


I forgot to mention, that Red Ken has also been accused of anti Semitism, and also of being a friend of known terrorists, as well as a drunk and a bully, who at one time, allegedly knocked a man down his stairs.

HAMMER HOUSE OF NICOTINE

16th August 2007

I have just read that an IT technician has refused to fix a woman's computer because, when he took the back off, it was (allegedly) covered in nicotine. The person concerned is obviously an absolute moron, but even worse than this, he is a criminal to boot!

If anyone refuses to work or administer their services in any way, because they assume that just touching an object that has staining on it, allegedly caused by nicotine, then not only is that person a complete fool, but they are also acting illegally under the Human Rights Act.

What on earth would these idiots do if they came to London, or indeed any big city in the UK with a long history behind it? Considering how long people have been smoking, our walls and especially the woodwork in old Inns, must be absolutely saturated with nicotine. Yet, these are the very same places, that anti smokers have now hijacked for their own private use. Aren't they scared that the nicotine might start to creep out of the woodwork behind them, like something from an old horror film, and infiltrate its way into their pure, meat free, whiter than white little bodies?

You can bet your life they're not. They know as well as you and I, that this whole thing is a farce, designed by petty bureaucrats in order to impose their will over nearly one third of the population. But the question is, should we allow jumped up little twerps like this to impose their mentally deficient will over us? The answer is most definitely NO!

If this is allowed, the next thing we'll have is garage mechanics saying that they are not going to work on any cars or other vehicles which are over one year old, because of the build up of toxic emissions in and around the engine. Why not, it's a silly as this IT guy?

If we still have a Police Force, which enforces laws on what is known as "Hate Crimes" then surely this "crime" falls somewhere in or around that category? After all, it is prejudicial to a whole community, and should be acted upon as such

THE STINK

When did the stink first start, can anyone remember?
The stink that I am referring to is of course, that "horrible" smell of tobacco which we are told impregnates people’s clothes, their breath, and even their hair.
How many times do we hear about this terrible stink, we have even been bombarded with television adverts telling us of how bad we will smell if we smoke.
When I was a child and almost all adults smoked, the smell of cigarettes to me became a comforting smell. When my father came in and picked me up to say hello, the first thing I would smell was a heady mixture of tobacco and wood shavings, as my father was a cabinet maker and also a regular smoker, yes even in work where there were wood shavings and sawdust everywhere, smoking was still allowed. Not just allowed but encouraged, in fact so much so, that when Christmas came around, his boss would always give him a box of 50 or 100 cigarettes.
When my father hugged me and I smelled these aromas, I knew that they were the aromas of a good and honest working man, who loved me, and even today, I still associate these smells with love and honesty.
As I grew up, smoking and the smells of tobacco were still very socially acceptable, in fact when I was about ten years old, I used to collect cigarette packets, and if ever I found a rare American packet, the first thing I would do was smell the inside of the empty packet for that rich aroma that the American cigarettes then had. French cigarettes were even rarer, and almost cigar like in their smell, all of which I found delightful.
In my teens smoking was a very sexi thing to do, and a great way of chatting up girls. Offer them a cigarette and not only did it make you look more manly and grown up, it was also an easy way of introducing yourself. If a girl blew cigarette smoke towards you, in meant she fancied you, and if your cigarette burnt down one side, it meant somebody loved you. All very innocent stuff eh.
I think busses were the only places I knew of where one wasn’t allowed to smoke, although you could if you went upstairs, so needless to say, that is where all the "real men" sat, leaving the downstairs for old people and children.
A visit to the cinema was a wonderful thing as films were shown by projectors from the back of the theatre, meaning that these beautiful rays of flickering light would shine through the darkness, cutting their way through the whirling wisps of cigarette smoke that drifted up from probably 80% of the audience, as they relaxed and enjoyed a smoke whilst watching the film. I used to love looking up above me at the wonderful effects that this produced, sometimes it was almost better than the film.
Although I have always loved the smell of tobacco, I have never been a heavy smoker, in fact some people tell me that I am not a "real" smoker at all. The reason they say this, is because I do not inhale the smoke as most people do. I smoke purely because it relaxes me, I love the smell, and it reminds me of my childhood and far better times.
I never heard, in those early days, one person ever complain about the smell of cigarette smoke, and as far as I know, the smell hasn’t changed over the years, so why do we hear it so much now? I personally do not like the smell of chewing gum, but I wouldn’t dream of rudely waving my hand in front of people’s faces if they chewed in front of me. It is fast becoming almost like a civil war in this country, with smokers being verbally and mentally attacked and abused by a so called civilised society, the majority of whom, do not have enough common sense to question the blatant lies that this government have spread with regard to second hand smoke.
I am not absolutely sure when "the stink" first raised its smelly little head, maybe about ten years ago, could be more, but suddenly I started hearing about this awful smell, the smell of cigarettes on people’s clothing, their breath, and in their hair. I thought at first that maybe something was wrong with me, maybe I had lost my sense of smell. But that was impossible for I could smell everything else, flowers, food, wood, grass cuttings, all smells which I love, even the sickly smell of chewing gum, so why couldn’t I smell this so called awful smell of tobacco?
Today I either smoke cigars or Spanish cigarettes made with "black" tobacco, which isn’t actually black, it is just called that because like cigars it contains hardly any chemicals, just pure tobacco, and like cigars, the smell is delicious!
I quickly came to the conclusion that this so called awful smell of tobacco which I was then hearing about more and more, was made not by the normal tobacco companies, but by HM Gov.uk. In other words it was pure and simple propaganda, which I mistakenly thought at first would never catch on apart from the old lady "nanny" fraternity, if you’ll pardon the pun, which I certainly wasn’t a member of.
Now however it seems that time has definitely proven me wrong, for more and more people have been taken in by the big stink swindle, they have been led blindfolded into this government trap, and repeat this banal phrase verbatim. A few years ago these same people would have happily sat down to dinner besides smokers or stood in a bar beside some old boy rolling his Old Holborn into matchstick thin ciggies, but today, if they did the same, they would, in their brainwashed minds, certainly catch some terrible decease, and they would certainly come away stinking of something or other.
If only we could teach these poor ignorant people how to relax and enjoy life, if only they had experienced a marvellous life like I did, if only they would learn to question instead of accepting every dubious "fact" that is thrown at them. If only the stink from our hypocritical government would go away!