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Second Moat Facebook page goes up
SOCIAL NOTWORKING WEBSITE Facebook angrily denied that British Prime Minister David "one is an ordinary bloke" Cameron demanded that it pull the fan page for Raoul Moat.
Moat was the gunman who after shooting his ex-girlfriend, her boyfriend and a copper declared war on the police.
It was a silly move really, as there were more of them and they were better armed. Moat shot himself as police tasered him during a six hour standoff.
Moat, who in addition to his other crimes appeared to be a friend of the bawling p**s-head Gazza, became the subject of a Facebook fan page after he killed himself.
This angered Cameron, who felt that everyone should agree with him that a murderer is a murderer and people should be going "yah boo sucks" whenever one kills themself.
He apparently got on the blower to impress Facebook with his huge pendulous charisma and power and get the site pulled. The upper class gent apparently was told to go forth and multiply. After all you should be able to agree with anyone you like, not just David Cameron. There are moments when we warm to the colonies.
But Moat's fan page was closed down, and Facebook had to issue a statement that Cameron's verbal Chinese burn had nothing to do with it.
In fact it turned out that the person who started the page got a bit embarrassed at finding herself at the centre of a media storm. Siobhan O'Dowd confirmed she had taken it down and said that she did not condone Moat's actions but "he was still a human being".
According to the BBC another Moat fan page, with 12,000 members, has gone up describing Moat as a "loving father and canny lad".
Former Respect MP, George Galloway, who would show up on Big Brother and pretend to be a dog if it got him publicity, said he believed the tribute page reflected the beliefs of a section of society.
The page was "a cry from the heart from poor, white, working class, unemployed people" who are "drifting on to dangerous shores". Northumberland is a bit rough and if the consequences of visiting it are that you end up trying to kill your ex and a copper and murdering your ex's boyfriend then we can see that it is a bad place to drift, too.
He said that they hate the government, they hate the police, they hate society and feel left behind, so they set up webpages for gunmen who shoot their girlfriends.
The BBC's story had the cryptic phrase at the end, "Northumbria Police has now finished searching Rothbury for weapons, meaning the village's annual music festival will get under way later."
It sounds like you have to go armed to the Rothbury music festival.
More than 15 people have been arrested during the Moat inquiry. Two have been charged with conspiracy to murder and have been remanded in custody. Gazza is still at large. µ
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25%-40% cuts across government departments has caused the IMF to reduce the economic growth forecase for the UK by over 25% from 1.8% to 1.4% this year.
Cuts this size will eat into the private sector, which affects everyone and not just lazy council workers who are hard to sack.
600,000 to 1mil more people unemployed because of these cuts alone, nevermind the Autumn Budget cuts, and those next spring.
This is going to be immense, but unfelt by someone who owns a £6mil house and who's personal wealth is over £26mil, like the current PM.
Road projects cancelled. Rail projects cancelled. All at a time when the construction industry are crucifying each other with low bids on contracts. This would have meant much cheaper infrastructure upgrades, something which needs to be done to grow a country. And it would also have meant a more stable healthy economy and stability for the people of the country, housing market, banks, industry etc.
In a recession the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class become working class again.
It's all so very 1992 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
Governments run things usually for their friends, themselves etc. Some try to do some good for all in their own "class", some for most people.
I think a middle way is needed. The money should be spent on usefull things, and efficiency should be sought.
Hospital waiting times are low right now, lets see how that changes.
Roads are the same width, but under Labour many had the old 2 lines on each side replaced with 1 line on each side. Effectively making a road 50% less efficient.
Lets see how these things change.
A wise man I know says most politicians are on a fiddle but that you can't beat them, instead you need to join them! ;-))
Romanticizing frontier gunman from the Old West and rogues from the Dirty Thirties like Bonnie and Clyde is one thing, but to declare Moat a hero?
Are we that desperate for heroes that we latch on to a cold blooded murderer just because he sent police on a wild manhunt?
There's more hero in the fellow who stood in front of the tanks in Tiananmen, more hero in Karen Silkwood, more hero in Che Guevara, more hero in the Natives that stood up to the Canadian government in Oka, more hero in the passengers of Flight 93! For goodness sake, there's more hero in that fellow who tried to lap dance on a riot squad officer at G20 in Toronto, (see the video on YouTube).
God, what is wrong with this generation?
i'm still hungry. Plus, credit where credit's due, you won't find a better use of the word pendulous today will you?
I'm going to go and eat some jelly and brown sauce. Mmmhmm
Labour lost because in 13 years they brankrupted the UK... jesus nothing like a whiny NuLab supporter to put you off your lunch :(