Strike Diary

Today I was one of one and half million Local Government workers to strike against the Labour Party's pension changes.

8am: I turn up at the office to meet the other Stewards who have joined the Picket Line. Over the following few hours the picketing was beset with various problems. Partly security guards overstepping their authority, partly members of the public who didn't know there was a strike on (jeezo guys, watch the fecking news). Because we don't know who's a Union member and who's not, we end up speaking to everyone who passes "Why are you going past the picket?" "Because I'm a builder, not a council worker!" And so on. One of the stewards complained about lack of public support (in the sense that it wasn't 100%. I argued that any visual presence was decent.

12pm: Glasgow for the Rally. We indulge a march from Blythswood Square to Glasgow Green. I point out we're switching one Red Light district for another, and what the hell are the unions thinking? Apparently I'm the only person who notices this... The turnout is 10,000 and that's magnificient. The SSP makes a decent turnout which I'm glad of, because if they're going to recruit these people (i.e. Council Workers) they had to come out in force. Unison has already threatened to withdraw support for the 2007 elections, and the SSP needed force out there, and they were very visual.

The rally speakers were all pretty good, pretty left wing. I was impressed enough to not joke as much as usual. Mike Kirby (Unison Dude) was excellent. Much better than I would've thought. All Union speakers, all left wing. Played to the crowd, remained left wing. There was even a "So why the fuck are we paying into labour!" heckle which I'm pretty sure I was the only one to cheer (other than the SSP at the back).

So, pretty good today. Fuck your Union Jack, we want our pensions back!

The Oaffice wan and twa

Spring Schedule of talkSHITE UK Radio

Spring Schedules on the UK's most right-wing group of smegheads.

Ze Breakfast Show with Adolf Eichmann

"Finally ve haff a morning show vith vhich to finally scrub the cuntry clean of ze Asylum seekers. YOU SHALL NOT PHONE YOU SHALL LISTEN!"


The Morning Program with Gorgeous George

Controversial MP George has joined the UK’s only national socialist commercial speech radio station talkSHITE as a phone-in show presenter. The first time he has hosted his own broadcast show. Gorgeous said: "Anyone that enjoyed me being a pussy on Big Brother can now hear me being one on a daily basis."


The Butcher's Apron with the Duke of Cumberland

talkSHITE opens the first in the Duke's series on political issues with a full analysis on Scottish and Welsh Independence aspirations. The series starts with "Why do all those Jock and Taffy bastards end up smelly and drinking in doors those dirty Celtic sponging bastards." Naturally talkSHITE remains as impartial as always. A london cabbie said: "They bloody come down 'ere and take our jobs after free-hundred years of us ruling and 'spect us to loike it? Fuck it, we liberated the Falklands didn't we, they should be bloody happy and stay in Jockland." [note: the cabbie seemed unaware that the Falklands were not "near stornoway."]

Tune into talkSHITE now!

The Plot Against Harold Wilson - a Review

I didn't think I'd start watching this BBC2 TV program, never mind end up being hypnotised by it. Imagine the plot to the Day of the Jackal carried out against Harold Wilson using the characters from All the Presidents Men.

Despite it's imaginative self-importance, there were several interesting nuggets tucked away, the main one being that Lord Mountbatten (who ended up as mush due to the INLA) was a Coup plotter in 1970s London against Harold Wilson.

To me, this seemed like a crisp-white shirt put on Peter Wright's Spycatcher. The program, with it's junior level spooks providing the "evidence" lacks the gravitas that Death of Yugoslavia had when it exposed it's conspiracy and which Peter Taylor's Irish Trilogy of Documentaries had in theirs. The biggest face they had was David Owen, failed Polician and failed Balkans negotiator.

Despite this, it was watchable, and exposed how close this country came to a Coup. Coming from the BBC this is surprising, but welcome. It didn't, and admittedly couldn't, go into what may have happened AFTER the alledged coup took place. Instead, and lamentably, it gave William Waldegrave the chance to crow about Democracy. How, exactly, one is supposed to draw a victory for democracy out of "Cold War Airstrip One," Private Armies plotting coups and communist infested trade unions is, to me, slightly exaggerating the pyrric victory.

But, anyway, to digress. Imagine Mountbatten DID lead his Coup and form an Interregnum Junta after toppling Labour. My own view is that Scotland was already on the brink as it was in the 1970s. Ireland was in flames anyway and Wales, well, they were slightly ahead of the Scots in the game.

Since the documentary COULDN'T make the point, I think I will. This documentary showed a number of interesting things, partly how close the Union came to it's final constitutional crisis. Neither the Scots nor the Welsh would have, or, presently, will not, accept an enforced junta.

It also shows the shape of things to come, if you really want to be THAT cynical. How WILL the ruling classes react when Scottish Independence is only a stones throw away? We know what they HAVE done, Willie Macrae's Grave marks that little example. But on a country wide level, out of the gutter of spooks and discarded guns, what does the ruling class itself do when it's ha'penny tricks don't work anymore? To me, you could see it in the tales of the coup plotters...

Bit of a paranoid / conspiracy theory'd blog tonight...

Some Random Factoids about Jack Bauer from 24

>> It's no use crying over spilt milk... Unless... was that Jack Bauer's milk?
>> Oh you are so screwed.
>>
>> The dinosaurs messed with Jack Bauer. Look what happened to them.
>>
>> Jack Bauer doesn't wish his girlfriend looked just like that Pussycat Doll.
>> Far from it. Jack is straight. Jack doesn't like transvestites.
>>
>> Jack Bauer is always far away. "This" far away from shooting you like the
>> dog you are.
>>
>> Bird Flu is a constant danger. We should never have let Jack Bauer go on
>> holiday.
>>
>> Jack Bauer gave Mike Tyson his lisp. Little bithch.
>>
>> An extract from his wedding vows: "Do you promise to love, honour, obey,
>> duck, roll, cover, shoot and look like Donald Sutherland for as long as
>> you both shall live so help your boab?"
>>
>> You cannot have safe secs with Jack Bauer.
>>
>> Jack Bauer has a sensitive side. Unfortunately it's just as violent as his
>> non-sensitive side. He likes Red Roses because of the thorns; he likes red
>> wine for the alcohol content and he likes cheerleaders because they've all
>> got Chlamydia.
>>
>> Jack Buer doesn't issue commands, he just points his gun at you until you
>> do what he wants.
>>
>> Jack Bauer's favourite quote: "I love the sound of snapped necks in the
>> morning."
>>
>> Jack Bauer's favourite colour is violet, but only because it sounds like
>> violent.
>>
>> Jack Bauer gets the "Where's Waldo?" every time.
>>
>> Jack Bauer CAN believe its not butter.
>>
>> Not even Jack Bauer can get Lynette to pick stuff up from the printer.
>>
>> the most common cause of death among middle eastern men is Jack Bauer.
>>
>> In 1921 the Belfast-built ship the Titanic sank in the middle of the
>> Atlantic. Even the laws of space and time can't stop Jack Bauer.
>>
>> There is no such thing as evolution, just animals Jack Bauer allows to
>> live.
>>
>> If Jack Bauer trips and falls, it wasn't a mistake. It was Jazz
>> interpretive dance.
>>
>> If you're running away from Jack Bauer and he shoots and misses, he wasn't
>> aiming at you. He was aiming at somebody else 12 miles away.
>>
>> You can fool some of the people, some of the time but you can't fool all
>> of the people all of the time. Jack Bauer can.
>>
>> You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make it drink.
>>
>> "It's 8am. Squirrels have stolen my cream bun and the door won't shut
>> right. I'm Jack Bauer, and this is my life. (Day not caught on film)"
>>
>> Superman wears Jack Bauer pyjamas.
>>
>> The only reason you're not unconscious right now is because Jack Bauer
>> doesn't feel like carrying you.
>>
>>

Bruce 700 Commemoration

Bruce 700th, Saturday, March 25th 2007
There will be a commemoration to mark the 700th anniversary of Robert the Bruce's coronation as King of Scots. The time and place being the Bruce statue, Bannockburn, on Saturday, March the 25th, at 1pm.
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There shall be a short service conducted by the Scottish Knights Templar, along with talks by guest speakers who include historian David R Ross, the president of the Celtic league(Alba) Iain Ramsay, and the irrepressible Robbie the Pic

Then, over to the King Robert hotel for pints and a blether. All welcome.