http://garymonro.blogsome.com Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:03:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spam problems here are giving me a bit of a headache so I’m trying out a new location. Read more of my usual rubbish here: http://englishconservative.blogspot.com/ http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/12/21/moving-home/ Lynette Burrows, a family campaigner, has had a visit from our (are they really ours anymore?) boys in blue regarding a comment she made on a live radio show. From the Daily Telegraph: During the programme, she said she did not believe that homosexuals should be allowed to adopt. She added ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/12/13/british-police-ensure-you-think-the-right-thoughts/ Push for more Tory women MPs will be based on merit Where, if that Telegraph headline is going to make logical sense, then being ‘female’ is going to have to be considered a ‘merit’. I’ve hardly started campaigning for the local elections yet and now I find my future ambition kicked ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/12/13/conservative-party-has-it-in-for-me/ Well, those of us who supported David Davis and who hoped ardently for his victory will be feeling a bit hung-over after the Conservative Party’s leadership contest result. We believe our man had the gravitas, the punch, the experience and the maturity of his years to be New Labour’s Grim Reaper ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/12/09/cameron-for-pm/ Seems I suddenly have a primative spam buster on this blog. When you write a comment you have to type in a number before your comment is posted. Whoopee. I receive several hundred spam comments per day which, although they go into my moderation queue, are still a pain because, ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/12/03/spam-busters/ Apparently if you possess up to 500 cannabis joints you won’t be counted as a dealer, according to the Home Office. It seems a normal user might be expected to possess up to that many spliffs at one time. If so, then that’s a rather large stash of weed, ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/12/01/its-the-users-stupid/ From the Daily Telegraph: Sales assistants are ruder, more ignorant and less helpful than they were 10 years ago, according to one of the biggest surveys of its kind. Overall, customer service has fallen by 3.3 percentage points while customer satisfaction is down by 1.6 points. The biggest decline was in knowledge ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/29/bad-customer-service-mirrors-a-general-decline/ A couple of days ago some furore was caused by the fact that, according to a survey of one thousand people, a substantial minority of ordinary people believe that a woman’s dress, behaviour and state of drunkedness could be partly responsible for them being sexually assaulted or raped. The ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/24/responsibility-and-rape/ From the BBC: Parents and teachers are to get clearer guidance on helping pupils with their coursework, in a bid to curb cheating. …some parents draft work, some teachers help so much it results in “cloning”, and downloading essays from the internet “cannot be controlled”. With the way the government and exam ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/22/schools-want-to-stop-cheating/ The face-off between David Cameron and David Davis this afternoon on Jonathan Dimbleby’s show leaves me feeling very nervous about the Conservative Party’s fortunes. If David Cameron does win the leadership contest - as is being widely predicted - then we have an uncertain future. On today’s performance Mr Cameron ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/20/head-to-head-confirms-davis-form/ Just opened a piece of month-old junk mail. It’s from a casino I’m a member of and it’s inviting me to a Diwali/Eid celebration at their premises. Yes - Eid. Now I do know some Muslims do gamble in casinos because I’ve seen them - they arrive shortly after the pubs ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/17/celebrating-eid-at-the-blackjack-table/ The super soaraway Sun’s headline a few days ago - ‘Tell Tony he’s right’ - was accompanied by an horrific picture of bloodied London bomb victim, John Tulloch. Quite clearly, The Sun and Mr Tulloch knew what they wanted and they wanted ‘terror suspects’ to be subject to up to ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/15/the-suns-london-bomb-victim-refuses-to-play-ball/ Charles Kennedy was asked on The Politics Show whether he would consider co-operating with the Conservatives if they were led by David Cameron: David is a blank canvas. I don’t know what he represents or what he wants to do with his party…. I don’t know what David Cameron’s agenda is. An ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/14/charles-kennedy-on-david-cameron/ The Sunday Times: THE security service MI5 is seeking to recruit 800 extra spies to combat the heightened threat of Islamic terrorism since the London bombings of July 7. Ministers are expected to approve the expansion plan, which will contribute to a doubling in the size of the spy agency by ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/13/mi5-wants-800-more-spies/ Prospective Conservative Party leader, David Davis, yet again demonstrates forward-thinking policy initiatives - and the mettle to make commitments on which we Party members can base our voting intentions. Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs will be barred from voting on English laws if Conservative leadership hopeful David Davis becomes prime ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/english-votes-for-english-issues/ After watching Davis versus Cameron on Question Time last week I concluded Davis is definitely the man to take on Blair/Brown in debate. David Cameron isn’t helping me to think otherwise. David Cameron was accused last night of avoiding further television duels with David Davis and a grilling with Jeremy Paxman. In an ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/10/david-cameron-avoiding-confrontation/ Nothing particularly intelligent here - just another of my infamous ramblings … Firstly, why does almost everybody who isn’t a politician support the 90-day limit on holding suspects without charge? I mean, few people want to see nice people held in prison for 3 months (yes, 3 months - funny how ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/10/banged-up-for-90-days/ It says something for the state of our ‘civilisation’ when a mother has to go to court in order to secure the ‘right’ to know whether her child has been the victim of a crime - underage sex - and is also planning on terminating the baby in her womb. Just ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/09/parents-and-their-right-to-know/ Today’s Telegraph reports that the government is seeking to tax homeowners who have a nice view from their houses. Taxpayers are set to be charged hundreds of pounds extra a year if they are in a conservation area, next to an open space, have a swimming pool or tennis court or ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/06/a-tax-on-pleasant-views/ One of the commenters to this log is in the process of denying the Nazi holocaust in the comments section of this post. Because I don’t want another lengthy digression from the topic in hand (Iraq’s call for the wiping off the map of Israel) I’m posting his last comment ... http://garymonro.blogsome.com/2005/11/06/holocaust-myth/