WTF! no really I mean it

It seems as though all those conspiracy theories about mass immigration being a deliberate policy to change the culture of the UK may have had a point. According to a report in the Telegraph (hat tip to Iain Dale)

He wrote: “Earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.

“I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if this wasn’t its main purpose – to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.”

Currently I’m not angry about this, I’m still going WTF! The idea that there could be even a grain of truth in this, that any government could even briefly thing that such a policy was in anyway a good idea. Especially as from tales from some immigrants that arrived here to work and marry and form a life it seems that they must have had a very specific idea of which immigrants and what sort of diversity they wanted. So really what on earth where they thinking?

For now I’m going to go to bed, and hope that when I get up in the morning this will prove to be a bad dream or a hoax or something. On the off chance that it isn’t Leg Iron has a more coherent response and possible reasons (I think the David Icke being right theory may make the most sense).I expect there wil be some choice words over in the comments at Old Holborns

I am more than a little pissed off at the possibility that there’s even a grain of truth in any of this.

24 hours left on petition

I know it won’t do any good, but the petition that our glorious leader should resign has only 24 hours left to go.

It’s still the most popular petition on the Number 10 website, but with so little time left if you’ve not signed it yet you’d best hurry. You can sign it here.

The cost of innocence

It seems that too many people are being found innocent of offenses by the magistrates courts, so not only are these people having the cheek to not just pay fines for things they didn’t do but they’re costing the Government money by proving they didn’t do anything in the first place. This is obviously a shocking state of affairs, but worry not for it has come to my attention (via comments over at Leg Irons) that steps are proposed to address this terrible problem.

The cunning plan that our glorious leaders have come up with, is that if due to some mistaken belief in your own innocence you feel the need to not just accept a fine and any other associated punishment and have the temerity to go to court and actually win – well then to punish you for such behavior they’ll no longer pay your costs. Obviously this will in many cases mean that actually being innocent and defending that innocence will be more costly than just accepting the initial penalty , but you can’t put a price on justice can you and in these difficult times we all have to chip in to keep the wheels of state turning. It’s not as though there’s any risk that if there was no cost to prosecuting people, that the Government and their agents would be any less diligent in ensuring that there was a case to answer before taking 2innocent” people to court.

All that said it does appear that a few hot heads and self-interest groups are objecting, disreputable types like the Tory party, the bar association and the like. If for some odd reason you think it might be terribly unfair to be put of pocket by proving your innocence then here is a petition against it.