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14 Mar 2014
Britain’s Land Girls Refuse To Dance To The BBC’s Gender Equality Tune
By Laughing is not normally what I do at 5.30am. But I did yesterday – at BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today
- a programme I usually respect. If we had not been launching The
Conservative Woman later that day I would have despaired, not laughed.
For even this much loved ‘hardy perennial’ had fallen victim to the
BBC’s gender equality imperative to show respect for, yes you have
guessed it, International Woman’s Day. I could not have been given a
better sign of how much our new website was needed.
Saturday’s programme, it turned out, was the culmination of a week-long campaign by the Beeb’s gender warriors to track down the oppressed of the farming industry. No, they were not seeking out migrant labourers at the mercy of gangmasters or poor peasants drowning on the Somerset levels, but women farmers. A barrage of emails during the week complaining that the BBC was making a fuss about nothing had not stopped them.
Britain’s women farmers, Farming Today was confident, would be found to be still in the grip of patriarchal oppression and prejudice. All it needed was to track them down. The only trouble was, having been lined up for interview, that Britain’s female farmers, from the Welsh uplands to the Scottish Highlands, refused to play ball. They were either bemused or having none of it.
Their resolute common sense was as heartwarming as it was reassuring that common sense still prevails – even if only at the extremities of our still United Kingdom.
Saturday’s programme, it turned out, was the culmination of a week-long campaign by the Beeb’s gender warriors to track down the oppressed of the farming industry. No, they were not seeking out migrant labourers at the mercy of gangmasters or poor peasants drowning on the Somerset levels, but women farmers. A barrage of emails during the week complaining that the BBC was making a fuss about nothing had not stopped them.
Britain’s women farmers, Farming Today was confident, would be found to be still in the grip of patriarchal oppression and prejudice. All it needed was to track them down. The only trouble was, having been lined up for interview, that Britain’s female farmers, from the Welsh uplands to the Scottish Highlands, refused to play ball. They were either bemused or having none of it.
Their resolute common sense was as heartwarming as it was reassuring that common sense still prevails – even if only at the extremities of our still United Kingdom.
The Crisis is Not Over! A Conversation with Jim Rogers
UK TRADE DEFICIT: THE OSBORNE ECONOMY SCAM ISN’T UNRAVELLING, IT’S IMPLODING
Today’s ONS figures complete an unmitigated rout of the UK recovery myth
By John Ward: The first piece of bad news is that overall export volumes are down. Trust me Mr Osborne, you can’t have a nascent recovery and falling export volumes.
The second bad news is that, going forward, exports of goods are going backwards, as it were.
Exports of UK goods decreased by 4.0%
between December 2013 and January 2014 to £24.2 billion. This gave a
Britain an overall trade deficit in goods and services of £2.6 billion
in January, compared with a deficit of £0.7 billion in the previous
month.This strongly suggests that, far from rebalancing, the UK economy is becoming even more biased toward services – especially financial services. And that is nailed by the appalling goods deficit:The deficit on trade in goods was £9.8 billion in January 2014.
The deficit on our goods export volumes is now a staggering 38% of the total. We are making fewer goods and importing more of them – the total imported in January was £34bn.
Now for the third piece of broader, longer-term bad news:
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Orwellian Anti-Protest Law Passes in Australia
By Michael Krieger: The Australian state of Victoria has just passed an extremely anti-democractic law criminalizing protest (recall Japan and Spain moved to do the same
late last year). For those of you unfamiliar with Australian geography,
Victoria is one of Australia’s five states. It is the second most
populous and includes the city of Melbourne (a city of four million), so
this isn’t some parched piece of land near Ayers rock with more
kangaroos than people.
It is very disturbing that this is happening in 2014 in a Western
“democracy.” It demonstrates two interrelated social trends. That the
“people” are waking up to elite corruption, and the power structure is
terrified that their bullshit propaganda is no longer effective. The
friendly mask of government is coming off…
From PBS:
The Victoria state government in Australia passed a law Tuesday that will give unprecedented amounts of power to police to suppress protests. The Summary Offences and Sentencing Amendment Bill passed through the Victorian parliament despite heavy opposition within the general population. During the legislative proceedings alone, police arrested four protesters in the legislative chamber’s public viewing chamber for causing disturbances.
“Despite heavy opposition within the general population.” Silly serfs, you think what you want matters?
It is very disturbing that this is happening in 2014 in a Western
“democracy.” It demonstrates two interrelated social trends. That the
“people” are waking up to elite corruption, and the power structure is
terrified that their bullshit propaganda is no longer effective. The
friendly mask of government is coming off…From PBS:
The Victoria state government in Australia passed a law Tuesday that will give unprecedented amounts of power to police to suppress protests. The Summary Offences and Sentencing Amendment Bill passed through the Victorian parliament despite heavy opposition within the general population. During the legislative proceedings alone, police arrested four protesters in the legislative chamber’s public viewing chamber for causing disturbances.
“Despite heavy opposition within the general population.” Silly serfs, you think what you want matters?