Countryside Alliance Has Not Yet Begun to Fight

The last ditch legal attempt by the Countryside Alliance to throw a spanner in the works of the Hunting Bill by challenge to the legality of the Parliament Act is possibly worth a try but I think no one is holding their breath.
This pact between the Countryside Alliance, Fathers for Justice, and UKIP may cause far more trouble for Labour.

An Apple For Teacher - Not if the Cops are Watching! That’s Plane Stupid!

All those Five-a-Day co-ordinators being employed to tell people to eat more fruit and veg seem to be working at odds with another arm of the State. The Police are going to extreme lengths to stop a 23 year old nursery teacher eating an apple.

A spokeswoman for newly-formed advocacy group, Mothers Against Dangerous Things Without Any Thought of Safety said,

“We must have an immediate multi-million pound Government health education campaign against the dangers of eating fruit and driving. We demand Government action to get this terror off the roads.”

She added,

“Think about the Children! Just think about the children!”

Anti-ID Tory MPs get organised…

London Eye reports that anti-ID Tory MPs (most of whom ran away instead of voting no) have now formed their own grouping.

The tensions between the libertarian and authoritarian wings of the Conservative Party have been much in evidence of late. Indeed, as Spy pointed out at the time, the parliamentary party was perfectly split down the middle when it came to the decision to support the Government’s plans for ID cards. So I’m all the more interested to discover that a new Conservative Civil Liberties Group was officially formed in Westminster yesterday afternoon. “The group is being chaired by Dominic Grieve, the shadow attorney-general,” my Westminster mole tells me. “He was one of the most senior opponents of ID cards and was among the many absentees on the day of the vote.” According to the notice for yesterday’s meeting, the CLG will back party campaigns such as opposition to the erosion of the right to trial by jury. However, some wonder what potential there is for the group to go off-piste. “It looks like it’s going to act as a focus for the civil libertarians within the party and will probably end up pushing certain ideas that don’t find favour with the current leadership,” adds my source.

Whomever is doing press for them does not seem to be the greatest of jobs since the news only shows up in a diary column. One has to wonder if this lot are actually going to be able to do anything useful with this new grouping. One could also ask if it might be a case of too little, too late.

“Striking is natural”

Norway is now 3rd in Europe on a list of strike-infected countries, newspapers recently reported.

With the economy dragged down by oil money, and oil majors willing to pay their way out of trouble, domestic export industry labourers’ willingness to strike increases.

If you take an elastic band, and stretch it….and stretch it…..and stretch it…… . Whose fingers will it smack when it breaks?