Woking Libertarians

Vote small, think big

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:30:00 +0000

Ron Paul Heroically Stands Up to Chris Matthews

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:39:00 +0000

I'm Knaphill candidate for .........

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:32:00 +0000

UKIP

I had to make a choice. LPUK are closer to my ideological position, but right now, I don't feel it is ready to make an impact.

UKIP is pretty close (with the odd disagreement), but the thought of Knaphill not having a serious alternative to the LibLabCon/EU was not tolerable for me.

So I am running for UKIP, but you can think of me as a Libertarian UKIPer.

If you want less government interference in your lives, lower taxes and honesty, then I am your man. I can't promise to deliver, as you all know, you have to get enough people together to make it happen. My God I will try though!

Also I will be blowing the whistle on every bit of corruption, waste and the malign influence of the EU on all of our lives.

Vote me if you are sick of the old gang and want to insert some REAL opposition into politics!

If you believe in freedom, then please help this guy!

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:11:00 +0000

http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2010/02/nick-hogan-jailed-over-no-smoking-ban.html

This isn't even about smoking.

It is about self righteous scum, putting adults in prison, because they won't bow down to their fascist desires.

What's it to be people? Freedom? Or Fascism?

"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:33:00 +0000

ClimateGate Who's Who

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:29:00 +0000

Precious.........

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:15:00 +0000

Woking Conservatives Are A SHAMBLES (or are they?)

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:15:00 +0000

Got to be honest everyone. I have been so busy with work of late, that the only real political action I have been able to do, is pass on a few links in facebook. Sorry about that, but keeping the wolves from the door always has to come first, especially when Gordo is helping himself to most of it.

Today though, I have seen the full extent of the incompetence of the Woking Tories. As people who come here often will know, Humfrey "Failings" Malins is the current MP for Woking. Failings has always paid lip service to his roll, telling us how hard he works for the people, asking a few questions now and then and hammering the expenses like a nutter. He has decided though, that now is the time to step down. No he isn't one of the REAL bad boys on expenses, and probably could have milked it a bit longer, but he now feels he should hand over to someone younger. Personally I think that is extremely short sighted, as there are many people his age and older who could do a lot more than he ever did for Woking. Indeed, I think we throw older people on the rubbish tip far to early in this country.

Anyway, goodbye Failings, you were never afraid to say yes and not rock the boat and your one achievement of voting against the Iraq war, was somewhat tainted by the fact you always played the hand that would win for you and with a sizeable Muslim population in Woking, I am sure you got permission from the bosses to do what you did. You certainly didn't seem to make much noise at any protests on T.V. for example, but it was just enough for one of your leaflets come the election time. Well, one of your leaflets in Muslim areas eh, because you weren't afraid to say one thing to one part of Woking and a totally different thing to another.

Anyway, reading the local rag that came through my door today, I saw that Blue Labour were down to 4 candidates and their would be a meeting, where a few hundred people (by invite) would be able to ask them some questions. Bummer I thought, as I would have liked to have gone to that, but the meeting was said to have been "sold out".

Imagine by surprise then, when inTouch, Blue Labours usually just before an election leaflet came through my door. In this bland centralised style waste of space, I see that they were advertising the event as an "open primary". MMMmmm, a carefully selected short list, which they were then going to allow all the registered voters of Woking vote in. Great I though, I need to see what each candidate stands for.

Only the "Open Primary" was to be held on 30th of September (my birthday). Yes that's right, it had already passed. They really did advertise that well! In fact, I wonder if they perhaps did make sure a leaflet went to all the voters, accept certain kinds of voter. Say UKIP past candidates and supporters.

Anyway, so either this whole process was an incompetent sham, or a carefully planned sham.

So, as I am a cynical so and so, I thought I would make sure I wasn't being unfair. Just because I wasn't given any say and they pretended it was an open primary, doesn't mean the guy who won might not be a good egg. You get them sometimes, like the handful of "Better Off Out" MPs.

So I called up the local Conservative club.

First question "Has the Primary you just advertised in a leaflet that has come through my door today already been run?"

Answer "Yes!" without a hint of shame.

Second question "Who won then?"

Answer "John Lord"

Third question "Can I ask him a question?"

Answer "mmm, eerrr, mmmm"

"I want to ask him what his position is on Britain's membership of the EU"

"Errr, mmmmm, eeerrrr, you had better contact him then".

No offer of a number, email or anything. I don't think they wanted me to ask him. But I will.

My hopes are not good though. This guy actually comes from Guildford and has dropped into Woking, as the vacancy has arisen. I.E. he is a career politician, rather than fighting for his own town.

Then is the fact he is a "Media and PR" consultant. That's just what we need in politics isn't it.

But I mustn't jump to hasty conclusions. Just because he got in on a sham process and has all the credentials of a slug, doesn't mean he is a slug. I just need to find out if he thinks Britain should be running itself, before I decide to campaign heavily against him, or even for him.

The rest of the Blue Labour leaflet was not promising though. They had the result for Norwich and listed out the results. Now normally they just leave UKIP out of the results, but to my surprise they were included. UKIP got a healthy 11.8% in that one, but oh look, Blue Labour decided to put the Greens, who with lots of BBC coverage managed 9.7%, above them in the table. Do they think people are thick and won't realise that? No, don't answer that one.

The final note on this leaflet, was their pathetic brown nosing of the whole "Recycling" scam. Blue Labour indeed.

I'll report more on JLord when I get more to report.

I Own Me Explicit Lyrics HQ

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:13:00 +0000

To Gordo, take note!

[DECLINED] WWF Advert: 9/11 attaks, "respect our planet"

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:53:00 +0000

How low will these envirofascist scum go?

Tim Hawkins - The Government Can

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:08:00 +0000

Couldn't have said it better myself but *10000 for Gordo and his clowns.

Town Hall Meeting with U.S. Congressman Brian Baird

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:25:00 +0000

Why don't we have people like this in Britain? If we do, WHERE ARE YOU?

Check Kennedy's words at the end of this video

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:11:00 +0000

Does anyone doubt this words, given what we are seeing unfold today?

More incompetence from all levels of Woking government

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:58:00 +0000

Why are we not marching on parliament, demanding a complete reboot of the governance in this country?

We now have layer upon layer of utterly useless bean counters, desperately trying to please their immediate masters/messengers, while also trying to stay within the EU's real command.

Today I have received another pile of recycling fodder (another waste of money), telling me how the government has told Surrey Police that they have to cap their expenditure and that now my council tax will be reduced. No where does it actually say how much for me, just an example for band D people, but It looks like we are talking under 5 squid a year, which is worth just over a million to the traffic revenue enforcement agency, sorry I mean police.

So I have a page with my new bill with the massive savings on it. I still have to pay 1812.36 a year basically to get my rubbish collected and be told what to do. Not great value, but I will come onto the rubbish collection in a moment.

Once I had filed that in the bin, I moved onto the next piece. This one is a letter from Surrey Police, moaning about the decision and saying how Surrey pays much more to the government in tax and then gets much less back. Of course I have sympathy for this, as it is mean who is paying a large chunk of this money, that the government gives away to anyone who asks for it, apart from me.

They say they are going to cut heads and try to perform the same as last year with less, rather than improve. Great work, you really do instill confidence in me. I have some suggestions. How about you sack ALL the bean counters, managers, diversity officers, politically correct units and plastic police, then channel the funds solely on attacking REAL criminals. Yes people who have stolen from or hurt other people. How about that for a radical plan. Sorry if I sound like I don't have much sympathy for the police, but I simply don't have much confidence in them anymore. As a unit, they have been ruined by years of piss poor political manipulation. They are no longer fit for purpose and need a full reboot, just as their political masters do.

No individual police people, I'm not directing the blame at you. I know you are "just doing your job" and you would risk that job and its prospectives if you fought back a bit. However, that wasn't an excuse for the Nazis, so forgive me if I don't have epic amounts of sympathy for you. When I start seeing some guts and spine being displayed by people who know what they are doing it wrong, but are just following orders for a quite life, then I might have some. I only actually have utter contempt for the political control freaks who make you do the wrong thing, under the threat of losing your livelihoods.

Anyway, so not content with blowing another few grand on a couple of leaflets, we get another one with some more news.

First up is parking rates in Woking going to be capped too. My company will be pleased, as I often park at the station, then claim it back. A day will now be capped at 8 squid, which is a decent saving. I know why they are doing it and that's because people are deserting Woking in droves. They are sick of paying 11-14 quid, simply to park and go to work. Every day I go in now, it seems to be a little less full. I used to be unable to park some days, now I can park on the lower floors every time. Still, well done for a change on recognising that people are not bottomless pits of cash and that your policies are killing the town. Maybe you could apply this logic to all the other areas too and get our council tax down to a more tolerable level of theft.

Finally we get onto the rubbish collection. Woking has been at the forefront of envirofascsim, blowing their trumpet loudly, while not actually providing any tangible benefits. Indeed, we now have smelly summers, because of 2 week old rubbish and people having bins bulging with rubbish, especially if a flake of snow falls meaning no collection for 3 or even for weeks.

Well 2 wheelie bins isn't enough for this bunch of clowns. Now we are going to get a garden bin too and a food bin. The food bin will be collected every week (just like the good old days). All this so that we can recycle things that don't need recycling and play up to the EU's ridiculous ban on landfill, which is the most sensible, environmentally sound method this country could/should have. The expense of this crazy multi-bin, multi-collection must be immense and the fact a lot of this stuff simply isn't required, does MORE damage to the environment and means we have houses sounded by plastic bins, doesn't seem to ring any alarm bells for the eager order followers in the council.

Sack them. Sack them all. Strip back government to the bare bones and put the power of responsibility back in peoples hands again. Punish people who do hurt or harm others with REAL law enforcement and then let the rest of us live our lives how we want to. This crazy, moronic and damaging system of centralised dictators has to be wound up and wound up soon. Otherwise we could be on our way to 3rd world status. Hardly a legacy to be proud of for our children!

Ayn Rand - Liberty Vs Socialism

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:17:00 +0000

We need more people like Rand. We have nothing but utter retards and fascists these days.

Opportunity is Knocking People...

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:24:00 +0000

So when do we roll?

I'm losing more faith in democracy by the day

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:18:00 +0000

People who read this blog or know me, know that I have gone from being a staunch believer in democracy, to one who thinks it has limited value and use.

My interest in Libertarianism and Ron Paul has shoved me down this route. I know fully understand, that democracy sometimes can be used for bad.

People in power using it as a big stick to beat people into submission with for starters. As long as they get the 20% or so they need in our pathetic system, they can then claim to be speaking for democracy. The fact is they ignore the majorities wishes most of the time and when democracy is simply a minorities choice imposing their own will on a whole range of issues, it can hardly be seen as good.

Worse than that though, is if you believe in freedom, democracy simply fails altogether. Some things simply should not have anyone's say matter, but the individual. What an person chooses to do with their own body or in their own property, simply has NOTHING to do with anyone else. Just because a majority MAY dislike smoking, doesn't mean there is any right for that majority to force someone to ban smoking in their OWN property.

Today I sunk to new lows of contempt for democracy though. This time though, it wasn't the politicians at fault. Indeed, it is just my own opinion and I can't argue in anyway that it should be changed, but I have CONTEMPT for a bit of REAL democracy that is going down in Woking.

Waitrose have a scheme, where they give everyone a little green token and then when you leave the shop, you can pick one of three "good causes" to support. Fantastic idea and as I said, not something I would want to change, but my God is my opinion of the peoples democratic choice low.

Why?

Because here are the three charities.

1. A charity for people with Alzheimer's disease.

2. A charity for helping disadvantaged kids.

3. A charity to help prevent cruelty to animals.

All very worthy in their own right. Of course everyone has their priorities. Some people don't like kids. Some people might not like old people and others won't give a monkeys about animals.

What do you think the majority chose those? The choice that fills me with contempt and proves that I am probably a humanist, as well as a libertarian?

That's right, by far and away people chose to help animals over humans. I can't say they are wrong, it is their choice, but my God it puts other "democratic" decisions, even in their most pure form, right into perspective for me.

How government makes decisions

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:18:00 +0000

This is the most funny clip I think I have ever seen, but sadly also very accurate.

Videos you need to see Part 1 : Brave New World

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:44:00 +0000

UK Climate Projections 2009 - Hilary Benn

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Listen to this load of rubbish. Even in the dark ages we didn't have such utter morons telling people they knew the future the way this prize plum does. They are using snake oil to try and sell fascism. Everyone needs to tell them to fuck off and fuck off now, or millions if not billions will suffer.

What planet is Murdoch on?

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:00 +0000

BBC

News Corp is set to start charging online customers for news content across all its websites.
The media giant is looking for additional revenue streams after announcing big losses.
The company lost $3.4bn (£2bn) in the year to the end of June, which chief executive Rupert Murdoch said had been "the most difficult in recent history".

Mr Murdoch said he was "satisfied" that the company could produce "significant revenues from the sale of digital delivery of newspaper content".
"The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution," he added.
"But it has not made content free. Accordingly, we intend to charge for all our news websites. I believe that if we are successful, we will be followed by other media.
"Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalising its ability to produce good reporting," he said.

Oh this really is funny. His range of newspapers are going the way of the dodo, along with the rest of the dead tree press. He knows that, because the demographics show that it is only the older generation that clings to this format. People will take a copy of a paper for free when getting on a train, but the internet has changed everything. With devices becoming ever more portable and document viewing devices becoming better by the day; why would anyone want a printed piece of yesterdays news. That format is all but obsolete.

So Murdoch now thinks this his range of websites will be able to charge. Well, if he was right about the quality of content, then I may have agreed. Let's face it though. There isn't much quality in the Murdoch stable. All of his papers are biased, establishment rags that filter the news to the lowest common denominator. The Telegraph is probably the only site it check on now and then, but believe me, if I have to pay, then it will be no great loss.

The real news comes from the agencies such as Reuters and AFP, again heavily filtered, but certainly there is some useful news there. All of the media use these organisations as their springboard. Indeed, if you read a copy of the Mirror or the Sun, you would be mistaken for thinking it was the same paper or website sometimes. Maybe they will put their own filtered view on that news, but really I can't think of anything worthwhile that has ORIGINATED from the established rags or their sites for some time.

No, if Murdoch thinks his propaganda is actually what people want and will pay for in the online world, he is in for a sharp shock. Blogs and alternate media sources are taking over the comment arena, which is what a lot of people are interested in. We simply don't need Murdoch's rags or sites anymore, so if he starts making them pay sites, he will see his readership shrink to almost zero over night.

Which for me is good. The MSM have served their establishment masters far too well and not the people. The sooner empires like Murdoch's fall, the better and this sort of move will bring that day much closer.

Silly warnings

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:50:00 +0000

We have all seen the warnings about packets of nuts warning they could contain nuts. Silly.

The wife has just showed me a bag of frozen fish, that warns it could contain fish.

Why do companies, and we the public, pander to this utter lunacy? Why don't we tell the regulators to do one?

Humanity's Expression

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:48:00 +0000

I started to watch this video with high hopes, but ended up disliking a large chunk of it. For sure I agree with their right to free speech and I liked the way they stood up for the little people against the bullying council busy bodies, who went after street artists with relish.

But the video and these people lost their way. From defending the little man, they decided to have a go at McCains. Why have they gone against McCains? Because THEY have decided that McCains are not healthy.

Well sorry guys, you are entitled to your opinion, but you are talking a lot of bullshit. Their chips really are a lot healthier than a huge amount of foods out there. They are baked rather than fried and potatoes are actually one of natures best vegetables. Indeed, if you had to survive on a desert island and could only choose one vegetable, the humble potato would see you last the longest.

They go on to whine that they are encouraging kids to do exercise. They seem to think that kids have free access to fields and that McCain are evil for setting up a little bit of activity for them.

Yes you have a point with the council, but your bullying of the staff at this event didn't go down well with me. I wish I was there, because you would have got a dose of my free speech on your moralising on this one.

Well done to the McCain staff for not telling them to go fuck themselves.

The EU s*cks!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:59:00 +0000

Thank you Greece for joining the resistance against a fascist EU dictatorship.

The people of Europe are awakening to the fact that the EU ISN'T Europe, but a small collection of fascist scum, hell bent on telling us all how to live.

LISBON 2 : THE REAL STORY OF EUROPE

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Davies) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:00 +0000