Category Archives: WTF?

Feb
19
2013

Its all in the timing

by The Illusive Man

For those who don’t share my humour at what’s happening, allow me to explain: On the very day that the Government has announced a 75% subsidy for charging points for electrical cars we also get reports from Ofgem that energy bills will rise over the coming year, particularly for gas and electricity, as older power [...]

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Dec
31
2012

Have I gone mad?

by The Illusive Man

I saw a link to this story in my Twitter feed first thing this morning. When I read it, I thought for a moment that I had actually gone insane: Harriet Harman has praised ‘heroic’ immigrants who claim welfare payments in Britain and use the cash to support families living abroad. She said the Government [...]

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Dec
30
2012

Benefit cards

by The Illusive Man

Well now. A recent story regarding benefits and how they are paid out has caught my attention. At the moment, those in receipt of benefits have cash paid directly into bank accounts. They can then spend this money on pretty much whatever they like. Which is why we see headlines showing how benefit claimants have [...]

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Jul
21
2012

Voracious, small-minded predators…

by The Illusive Man

… Is how I think of the members of Central Bedfordshire District Council after reading this shocking story over at Liberal Conspiracy (emphasis original): On the 8th of February a man took his own life. Peter Williams was a gifted engineer, whose invention, still manufactured today, landed him in the Guinness World Records, but he [...]

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Jul
20
2012

PFI

by The Illusive Man

PFI – or Private Finance Initiatives – have been a staple of government procurement for quite a while now. They were first introduced by John Major’s government, but it took Tony Blair to really get a handle on them and make them popular. For those unaware, this is how a PFI contract works. Say, for [...]

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Feb
06
2012

Portrait: Fail!

by The Illusive Man

There are some pictures which have the power to stop you in your tracks; the sheer beauty of the image and the technique that went into creating it can be truly captivating. I try to feature images like these in my Photo Phriday posts. And then there are some images which just make you stop [...]

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Jan
30
2012

Fucking chocolate fucking oranges

by The Illusive Man

My second rant for today was going to be about this. Ed Milipede has attacked Cameron over failing to tackle cut-price chocolate oranges. Seriously folks, I wish I was making this shit up. I needed to simmer down a little before I started ranting, and in that time I found that Dick Puddlecote had already [...]

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Aug
31
2011

We’re all doomed!

by The Illusive Man

I’ve long been of the opinion that the large majority of the stuff we hear about AGW/climate change is a load of arse-gravy, but this has to win some kind of award for alarmist bollocks of the most surprising proportions: Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations. No, you haven’t tripped out and entered [...]

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Jul
16
2011

Its all in the numbers

by The Illusive Man

According to this article in the Torygraph, our national debt is about to top £2 trillion. Yep, that’s £2,000,000,000,000. Given that the population of the UK is roughly 60.4 million people, that means the state is in debt to the tune of £33,116 for every man, woman and child in the country. Or I can [...]

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Apr
11
2010

Save the Leprechauns!

by The Illusive Man

It seems that the EU has launched another bout of madness. In case any leprechauns – you know, those mythological creatures from Irish legend – are feeling persecuted, they can now travel to Slieve Foy Mountain on the Cooley Peninsula in County Louth, where they have been granted protected status by the EU. There is [...]

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