#Sillyweek David Cameron calls on India to be allowed to join the EU

David Cameron today demanded that those who opposed India joining the EU were just racists and had underlying anti-Hindu/Muslim/Sikh/Christian prejudices. The fact that India has not applied to join the EU shows how strong such a backlash might be if anyone asked the question.

Mr Cameron is alleged to have said "India is on the same planet as Europe and there are clear historical and geological contacts between the two". Further he expanded his philosophy to say that the rest of the world was like a prison camp and should be free to join the EU and that anyone who opposed this idea didn't understand triangulation or appealing to voters in key marginals.

A rather bemused reported from the All India Telegraph was herd to mutter that the real issue would be the EU joining India, once population was taken into account, and that with all the unsound EU banks and dodgy accounts he wasn't sure India was ready to tie its future to such a corrupt third world economy.

Background notes.

Looks like Norwich City have just done something a bit silly

Oops - The new Norwich City kit seems to attract bugs. Norfolk blogger will be concerned....

Silliness waits for no man

So things are starting to get going out there. I'm adding links to the right as I find stuff - and there's a variety of daftness out there from the practical complaints about Italian magazine rapping, to escaped Nun yarns through to finally a good use for old toasters !

And they are not all there is - in part I've been a constrained by being frog marched out to a session of Laser Quest in very high humidity by the kids ( and somebody elses also ). The bad news is clearly my pack and gun were malfunctioning as all the kids beat me - which can't be right can it?

More exploitation by bored kids is to follow with a trip to the cinema to see the newly very expensive 3-D films.

So I'll have to pay to see it and no doubt buy the DVD later along with other merchandise - now that really is silly.

Anyway whatever your doing - its it involves a post for #SillyWeek - let me know. I'm going to try and work on a spoof one next - no idea what on yet... but I'll have a beer or two tonight to get the creative juices flowing.

MiaS.

Jane Austen - redux

H/T Today Daily Telegraph.

#SillyWeek The professionals are out of their blocks

Here we go its blogger's #SillyWeek ( why ? Well in truth just because it can be ).

But us amateurs have some stiff competition out there from the political professionals. See:

• Vince Cable MP: The banks must lend more - whilst increasing their reserves or we'll use no existent powers to outlaw freedom of commerce in deciding bonuses.
• Rory Stewart new MP: Some of my constituents keep their trousers up with bits of twine.
• Lynne Featherstone MP: Women should be like Christina Hendricks ( Joan Harris from Mad Men ). Not that many men could argue with the sentiment - but from the "Equalities Minister" ?
• Gordon Brown MP: I love being a back bencher and Africa will be the power house of the future. ( A two start oink flap rating for this one ).
  

So its time to start spotting stuff or just making it up ( within the boundaries of any liable laws in jurisdictions you think might have a go at you ).

I could give you rules - but you'd only ignore them. Just can I suggest nothing gratuitously offensive or with a 18 /X label on please !

PS I'll be doing a search of blogs / tweets for the keyword #SillyWeek to see if there's anything to report later today ! ( So remember to use #SillyWeek as a tag on your post a tweets ! Hint: I think case sensitivity may be an issue with searches ! )

Two more days

Turns out the Polys were smart

What are we being told just now about the mass holding pen for unemployment that is our University system ?

1. Vocational courses should be taught ( maybe not to target degrees )
2. Many students need to study from home to save costs.
3. Two year courses are a good idea.
4.We need to produce people trained and education for our economy's needs - not to keep academics employed.
5. Academic standards have dropped with the number of firsts rising spectacularly and anything less than a 2i being useless for anything above burger flipping.

Almost all of these points were integral parts of the old Polytechnics !

Our inverted snobbery and desire to show progress rather than achieve it lead to their abolition and reformation as supposed Universities.

Its now clear it was a terrible mistake.

Now if only we could win the argument on grammar schools as well ....

Labour's hateful ideology against some SEN kids will die slowly

It was another choking on cornflakes morning listening tot he BBC - this time R5Live.

The left is wheeling out everyone it can to prevent socialist control of the education system being undermined.

This morning the excuse against the full implementation of Tony Blair's ( and really John Major before him) academies program was special education needs (SEN in edspeak ).

The man who used his disabled son as a TV prop to try and upset David Cameron with a unreasonable rant during the general election was wheeled out. ( The BBC of course neglects to mention that he's a Lib Dem activist and work for a left of centre think tank. )

He demanded inclusion- and berated those with "ideological" commitment to choice and daring to challenge the almighty socialist state about how is destroys the lives of their children. How dare people want a choice and not accept what the all wise state demands they accept !

All must be treated equally - even if doing so destroy the life hopes of those who must be sacrificed on the road to greater socialism and equality. ONWARD ANIMAL FARM !

The truth is the state control people are the ideologues. Their failure to recognise that for some children special schools are a Godsend is either wilful and heartless ( as is required of much of the abject failures socialism creates - and yet its adherents will never tire of claiming about how they are working for the very victims they create ), or they have missed on on a vital part of their education themselves.

Man in a Shed has recently had a conversation about inclusion concerning a member of his family and the worries of those in the state controlled sector is always about their ideology and control of the money - never about the outcome.

That's why free schools and the academies and parent choice are vital to protect us from the terrible power of the state and those who would use it to crush poor vulnerable children in the name of equality.

Keep going Mr Gove - some of us are right behind you ( though you shouldn't wait for the BBC to give you a fair hearing ).

The end of term rush

Yet another blogging excuse - its the end of term and I'm running a three ring circus this week.

But just let me comment on Labour cynical attempts to stop education reform - you can hear all their opathetic and disingenuous arguments coming out of the mouths of the likes of Ed Balls and teaching Union reps. ( And the BBC, the mouth of the left, keeps on about the wrong numbers the Labour created quango gave Michael Gove weeks ago about the end of Ed Ball's fantastically wasteful school's consultants enriching program, weeks after it has any relevance. )

They are desperate to avoid their special little fiefdom of failure that damages so many children and creates the destitution and failure that socialism needs to feed on from of being damaged.

Sorry blogging's going to be light this week - but I wish Michael Gove good luck fighting for our children's futures against those on the left who think destroying those futures is their birth right.

Further: Its worth reading Andrew Gilligan who says that there is now wide spread speculation that left wing civil servants are actively trying to destroy the government. If this is true then the wide spread politicisation of the civil service must be assumed and mass redundancies of senior politicised civil servants follow.