Is Diane Abbott racist or stupid?

Or both?
Firstly, I think the woman is horrendous, particularly for her campaign to have abortion legalised in Northern Ireland, despite the protestations from all parts of the community there. Typical socialist: we don’t care how you want to live or what you hold precious, we’re going to tell you what to do.
However, this doesn’t imply [...]

Mega Caption Competition

Leg-iron spotted this collection of fifty very strange black and white photographs and came up with a caption for each one. I decided to do the same, but I have used the pictures to illustrate possible/probable ridiculous future EU directives, regulations and propaganda. Quite a few of the captions rely on you having read previous [...]

The things they expect us to believe

Leg-iron likes to test how dumb some people are by telling them some ridiculous thing that he has made up and seeing if they believe him. Apparently, a lot of folk fall for his insistence that Roman roads were built straight because they hadn’t invented steering back then.
I just had a look at Leggy’s blog [...]

Happy No Smoking Day

A belated Happy No Smoking Day to you all. This is how Leg-iron planned on marking the occasion,
I have rolling tobacco, pipe tobacco and a pack of Henri Winterman’s Half Coronas. That should allow almost continuous smoke production throughout the day. If it’s fine I’ll fire up the chimenea too.
Our local weekly paper came out [...]

Double Baez

I don’t know what to write about. It’s all too depressing. Or bizarre. Or silly.
Autonomous Mind has identified our major problem: those who represent us (rule over us) are not afraid of us. He quotes from Richard North’s article in the Mail on Sunday,
The political classes are now a gated community. They feel safe. They [...]

Smoked out, locked up

Leg-iron reports on the first publican to be jailed for allowing his customers to light up.
Nick Hogan, 43, from Lancashire, was sentenced to six months in prison for repeatedly refusing to pay a fine imposed for flouting the legislation.
As Leg-iron says,
In this wonderful free country where everyone has the choice to do as they are [...]

Conspiracy theories

I left a long comment on Leg-iron’s post, The Tory vote-losing technique, which I am reproducing here. He is talking about the modern phenomenon of shouting down your opponents and calling them names rather than engaging them in intelligent dialogue. He asks whether those, like climate change ‘atheists’ and those warning about mass immigration, were [...]

Real Street’s Blog Treats

It’s been a few days since I posted anything. I read all these stories on other blogs and the MSM and I think, “I have to write about that,” but it seems as though I am continually going over the same ground, writing about idiot policemen, lying politicians and the ‘little Hitlers’ employed by local [...]

No room at the inn for smokers

Leg-iron wonders why bans work. Is it because people love to be nannied? Do people fall for the propaganda; the over-hyping of dangers like second-hand smoking? Are law-abiding folks generally used to being treated fairly and so don’t know how to deal with ridiculous new legislation, like banning the public from photographing policemen?
Why won’t people [...]

Power to the People – but how?

Is Leg-iron considering the possibility of standing for election? Can we break the spell that the great mass of proles is under that makes them vote Tory or Labour at every election?
I’m confused. People seem desperate to vote for someone who is honest, straightforward and talks sense, i.e. someone outside of the mainstream parties. Readers [...]