Showing posts with label stupidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stupidity. Show all posts
Friday, 8 February 2019

Quote of the day...the "Green New Deal"

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From Tim Newman: Yesterday Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled the Green New Deal , her plan to transform America by combining technologi...
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Thursday, 10 January 2019

The Cheese Toastie - gateway drug to motorcycle gangsterism

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I am grateful that Bristol Council is on the case - what would we do without such folk: Cheese toasties have been banned from sale in a B...
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Friday, 22 December 2017

Stupid regulation and dumb government - why Detroit isn't regenerating

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This piece from Scott Beyer sums up the problem with local government's default approach to business regulation - banning stuff: The ci...
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Monday, 23 October 2017

Minimum pricing for alcohol - stupid and immoral in equal measure

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The Welsh government has (having tiptoed back from banning e-cigs) decided that it's keen on introducing a minimum unit price for alcoh...
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Thursday, 7 January 2016

In which the medical profession reminds us how monumentally stupid it is

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**** Seriously these doctors are utterly ignorant, they have not the first conception of human behaviour: Norway's biggest medical orga...
Sunday, 12 April 2015

Urban vertical farming is a really stupid idea...

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**** Yet the ability of its promoters to sucker government and other investors is striking: These factors, however, have not prevented ...
Monday, 2 March 2015

Things famous economist, Brad Delong says that are utterly wrong...

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**** Brad Delong is a famous economist. He wrote this - it is utterly wrong: And yet there are few signs that working- and middle-clas...
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Monday, 9 February 2015

Corsham is, of course, a hotbed of militancy and extremism...

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**** Corsham is a quiet, unspoilt town where peacocks wander freely around the streets! It owes its prosperity to the wool trade and quar...
Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Can't afford organic grub? Eat less says green socialist millionaire...

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**** Ah, Vivienne Westwood - revealing her green credentials again (and stuff the poor): Dame Vivienne Westwood, the fashion designer,...
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Monday, 24 February 2014

Allowing barn conversions won't help provide housing. Really?

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**** Or so says Sarah Wollaston (that she is a Conservative MP makes me want to weep) presumably following a meeting with the folk who wan...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

On blocking access...a slight rant

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**** I sent an email entitled "a slight rant". It went like this: Hi, Corporate Overview & Scrutiny are running a rev...
Monday, 17 February 2014

An e-cig tale from Bradford Councillor Imran Khan - sometimes I despair

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**** I was in the local paper being quoted about e-cigs. This followed the awful decision of West Yorkshire Metro to ban vaping on buses a...
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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Advertising doesn't cause riots, make people gamble or cause revolution!

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**** She said she was particularly concerned about gambling advertising before the 9pm watershed and went as far as saying that "ex...
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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Today's nannying jobsworth...

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**** Via Arfur Daley on Facebook: Fires at an historic city centre pub will have to be put out after a landlord was told it was causing...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

...and these people might be in government?

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**** Save us. Helen Goodman, Labour's shadow minister for media reform, reached further back into history to illustrate her point, ...
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Monday, 23 September 2013

Simon Jenkins proposes the stupidest response to terrorism ever...

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**** I'm not joking. Simon Jenkins - usually a fairly thoughtful journalist was clearly drugged or drunk when he wrote this : The s...
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Thursday, 5 September 2013

This week's star nannying fussbucket - Newcastle City Council

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**** It had to start somewhere. And where else than in Newcastle where, it seems that that Council really doesn't like it's workin...
Saturday, 15 June 2013

EU regulations - we shouldn't laugh...we should cry...

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**** Chris Snowdon reminds us of the lunacy that is EU regulation : For example, the Commission wants to ban cigarette packs which are ...
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Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Stupid, stupid, murderously stupid...

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**** It was going to happen, they were going to get their way, they couldn't allow e-cigarettes to succeed. So they've set about...
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Sunday, 21 April 2013

Racists and left-wing thugs can march but the Scouts can't! The world is mad.

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**** When the EDL came to Bradford there were 1700 police manning the barricades so to speak. Not to mention the endless hours of meetings...
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