Marxist Art Looters; Nazi Art Looters; what's the difference ?

An interesting story on the midnight news a few moments ago.

It seems that our Nu-Liebour rulers have rediscovered their common cause with marxists in the heart of the Soviet Motherland. Well I can't find any other explanation. Judge for yourself.

A British Exhibition Of Works Of Art was cancelled by the Russian Government who feared we would stand idly by and allow the works of art in question to be taken from the russians and handed to a handful of private individuals.

How could we allow such a thing to happen ? Well, when you understand that the works of art were largely stolen by the peasant victors of the 1917 revolution from the houses and from the hands of the bourgeois, who were put to death for having the audacity to own such things in the first place, and that these fine artifacts "taken for the common good of the common people" largely found their way to the dachas and palaces of the new rulers in Lenin's Russia, it's not hard to see why the descendants of those original owners might try to use the law to take back the art stolen from their fathers, their grandfathers, or their great-grandfathers all those years ago.

And that has Putin rattled. So much so that the exhibition was declared 'Off'. But what's this I hear ? Some low-life in the Department of Culture Media and Sport has kissed Caucasian Arse and promised to run along and get the law changed so the descendants of the original owners of this artwork will be denied their day in court to expose the rusiian government of the day as inheritors of artifacts acquired by murder, theft, and other heinous crimes.

How interesting. And how different to the dance performed by the same government lackeys when the hue and cry is that the art in question was looted by the nazis towards the end of world war 2.

So can someone please explain something to me.

Why does this government have one set of rules for considering legal claims of descendents of those murdered in wartime by thieves carrying a copy of 'Mein Kampf' and a completely opposite set of rules to be applied if the murdering thieves were carrying a copy of 'Das Kapital?'

Because I say a looter, thief and murderer is a looter, thief and murderer regardless of the colour of the politics in the biography of his glorious leader.

How say you, ladies and gentlemen of the bloggiverse ? Do you find the department of culture media and sport guilty, or not guilty, of the crime of heinous causacion arse licking ?

I won't need long in the jury room i can tell you. And it'll take more than Henry Fonda to persuade me to let the buggers walk free

Jailbirds Home For Christmas ?

Well, well, well.

It seems the jailer at Prescoed Open Prison could do with a visit from Santa with some new locks. Because yet again the inmates are wandering out to go home for the festive season.


Neil James Sherlock, 33, Myles Thomas Bessell, 30, and James Robert Birch, 25, disappeared on Tuesday. No sex offenders this time, and no murderers. Well, probably no "murderers". Assuming that is that *MY* definition of murder, a deliberate, planned, premeditated act calculated to cause the death of another, is used. Because Sherlock, from Cardiff, and Bessell, from Bristol, have robbery convictions while Birch, from Worcestershire, was jailed for death by dangerous driving. And assuming he didn't deliberately use the vehicle as a weapon to kill his victim, murder is not his crime.

Nonetheless the fact that three blokes leapt over the wall at about the same time my daughter was driving past on her way back from work isn't exactly something I feel cause to celebrate.

A Passage (BACK) to India

It would seem that the "highly skilled" people "invited" to "enrich" this country are not best pleased with the government's plans to increase visitor restrictions.

Over on this BBC News Page we hear the heartbreaking story of one such individual. I'll print the text here for you.

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Sukitha Karthik is from Tamil Nadu in southern India. She's an IT consultant and came to the UK two and a half years ago as a highly skilled migrant. Her daughter is four years old and she wants her to know more about her Indian heritage. So her parents visit every year for six months. "They help out with my daughter. She goes to nursery and to the child minder where she only speaks English. We want her to know her Indian side too." Sukitha has already bought a house here but admits the government's plans could have some bearing on whether she stays.

"I'm trying to understand the government's position. But my parents need to show return tickets when they arrive at the airport, so the rules are already in place. People acting illegally would find loopholes anyway. I want to balance my career with my family life. I would have to think about the future. But this would affect my decision a little."

She is already annoyed with the government for changing the rules and forcing people to work longer here before they can apply for permanent residency. And this would probably make it too expensive to bring her parents over. "When they visit, they need time to settle and three months is not long enough. The flight tickets are expensive and so is private medical insurance. The costs are doubled. I feel cheated. The government wants work and tax from us, but it's not doing anything good for us".

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Well Sukitha if you feel that way you can always piss off back to Tamil Nadu you know. After all, the fact is that the Fast Tracked Visa system that allowed you in here in the first place was "engineered" by the government of this country after "consultations" by multi-millionaire businesmen on both sides of the border and I'll bet a sizeable chunk of what's left in the Northern Rock Bank (that'll be about half a crown then) that these "arrangements" followed hot on the heels of a bit of "third party" funding in the style that has forced Labour to sack its financial officers or face trial itself for money laundering.

After all, there's quite a few hundred HOME GROWN IT Consultants whose busineses were wrecked by this government's FTV scheme and encouragement of outsourcing. I'm one of them. I'll have your bloody job. AND Your house.

The Future For Facebook ?

Was having a pisser of a day in the office, until I got THIS pic.

Same old rot dredged up by Any questions labaah apologists

Something fascinating I picked up while listening to the Britanistan Broadcasting Service on Saturday afternoon.

It seems I am indebted to a gay man for his defence of the right to free speech. I'll grab the streamed audio and convert it to a permanent ogg-vorbis file later, but for now this will have to do as a placeholder as I'm a bit pressed for time.

In discussions of the Oxford Union's decision to invite Nick Griffin and some historian who thinks the holocaust didn't happen to come and debate free speech, I was rather surprised to hear Matthew Parris defending to the last the right of the Oxford Union to invite these people. I wasn't surprised that Mr Parris said that, the man is a journalist whose livelihood and lifestyle depend on that principle and I have little doubt he will be the first to suffer when the islamic revolution happens here. No, my surprise was that the BBC allowed his words to be heard.

Labaah "supporters" of course used every means they could to denounce the Oxford Union, including statements that Griffin is also a holocaust denier, and has been convicted of incitement to racial hatred.

That's interesting. I was under the impression Griffin walked free from that court after being acquitted. I'll look that up later.

But as for things people may have said and done in their past, well, I seem to recall Tony Blair writing of his admiration for Marxism. I'll look that up too, because if we're going to have a slanging match over what people said decades ago it's only fair that those chucking the first stone be stood in the greenhouse and be rusted by the oxygen of publicity too.

Watch this space