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 Smart-arse BBC ‘Watchdog’ presenter Julia Bradbury seems to have been caught out in a £20,000 air miles ‘racket’, according to the Independent. Funny how these things always happen to people we knew we didn’t quite trust for some reason, but couldn’t put our finger on why. Ms Bradbury always comes across to us as a bit too smug and self-important, considering all she does is read an autocue machine in front of a camera, along with that other smug b***ard, Nicky Campbell. She has denied everything, of course, but in the meantime has withdrawn from the BBC’s consumer programme until the fuss dies down… pretty much like the dodgy fraudsters her programme fearlessly ‘investigates’. In the meantime, we miss the likes of Nick Ross, the late Jill Dando and all of the genuine people in whom we used to have complete faith. Who actually employs the Bradburys and Campbells of this world with licence payer money? We’ll be watching this case with great curiosity.
 Fair enough …it takes a brave man to admit his mistakes, and all that. David Blunkett – the former Labour Home Secretary who actually introduced the idea of identity cards – now realises that the idea was big-brother-gone-mad and that compulsory ID cards for everyone is not the way to go. Just give them to foreigners, he says now. He’s also not convinced that the current minister, Jacqui ‘where do I live?’ Smith, has the right idea with her giant central database to snoop on people’s phone calls, texts and web surfing habits… (but presumably not their dubious living arrangements and expense claims?). Quote: “If we tolerate the intolerable, the intolerable gradually becomes the norm”.
Like politicians you mean, David? We agree.
 So we’re told that the police expect a ‘summer of rage’ against spiralling unemployment, bankers and the failure to protect British jobs from immigrants and foreigners.
Well, let’s make it sooner than that and have an early summer this year, shall we?
And while we’re at it, how about protesting against the vulture capitalism of bankers and financiers, screwing British citizens and then expecting us to pay for its mistakes?
Watch this space for events.
 He never gives up, does he?
Tory ‘call me Dave’ Cameron – descended from King William IV – really thinks that the way to curry favour with the British public is to play the ‘lower, lower!’ game on bank bonuses. Dave is trying to underbid the government on the banks’ bonus payout shambles, which just shows once again what a vacuous political opportunist he is.
Keeping in favour with banking fatcats, underpaid bank staff (can’t believe we said that) AND the British taxpayer & voter must be a real dilemma. Give it a few hours, though, and no doubt that dynamic Scottish duo (surely some kind of oxymorons…) Brown and Darling will come back with an even lower bid… let’s cap bonuses at £1000? £50? £4.50? How low can you go and not lose the bank clerk vote, while still retaining any credibility with the rest of us?
The answer to the question about ‘how-much-should-we-allow-them-to-have?’ is NOTHING.
Not for the fatcats. Not for the bank clerks. They’re all still bloody lucky even to have jobs when so many of us HAVE LOST OURS because of their greed and mis-management.
Read the lips, Dave. NOTHING, nada, zilch. Got it now? Pass it on to Gordon and Alistair.
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