"Don't Worry, We're Professional Sign Makers.."

Ummm....what?

Make Up Your Minds, 'Mail'!

Is it a bomber or a fighter? Hint: it's not a fighter!

H/T: Stephen Brown via email

Sunday Funnies...

I guess the TV series 'Rome' was rather tame after all...

Tweet Of The Month

 A double this month. From the topical:

To the ripost:

Post Title Of The Month

Making a brave fightback against the market dominance of Tim Newman, here's the Stigler at Mark Wadsworth on the Comic Relief disaster:

And Natalie Solent at Samizdata offers a musical interlude:

Quote Of The Month

LegIron on why EggBoy is no hero:

"And yes, an egg is pretty harmless as a weapon of choice but consider the egg recipient’s point of view.

They don’t know it’s an egg. They feel something hit them, sometimes hard, and then they feel wet stickiness at the point of impact. Loonies are out shooting and stabbing people with a horrible regularity these days. If you felt a sudden impact followed by a wet, sticky feeling at the point of impact, what would your first thought be? That some arse has thrown an egg? Or that you might have been shot or stabbed?

Tell you what – if I felt an impact, then a wet stickiness spreading from that point, turned around and saw the assailant… I am not going to check if what I’m feeling is egg or blood. I am going for that assailant first. They might go for another wet sticky patch and if it’s not egg I might not survive it.

I am not going to check if he has a knife in either hand. No time for that. And I will do a damn sight more than slap him or punch him. At that point I have no choice but to assume it’s him or me."

Post Of The Month

Al Jahom on the beginning of the end for the car as symbol of personal freedom.

Who Could Have Predicted This..?

People on Universal Credit are leaving Brighton and Hove City Council almost £400,000 short when it comes to paying their rent.

Eight per cent – or about one in 12 – council tenants are behind on their rent after receiving the new payment that combines housing benefit, child tax credit, jobseeker’s allowance, income support, working tax credit and employment support allowance.

These 948 people owe 38 per cent of all rent arrears, leaving the council with £368,000 in unpaid rent for the first nine months of the current financial year.

Naturally, everyone knows this is all the fault of the eeeeeevil Tory policy!

Councillor Tracey Hill, in charge of housing, said: “The Labour council takes very seriously the impact that Conservative Government welfare changes and austerity overall is having on the ability of many in the city to maintain their housing, including our council tenants.”

Green councillor David Gibson, spokesman for housing, said: “As more tenants are moved over to Universal Credit, arrears will get worse – and along with the misery of being in debt they will be forced to choose between food and rent.

“Then it is the council that has to pick up the pieces left by austerity.”

Except there might be a wee bit of a clue here in the comments:

Yup. The Tory masterplan here seems to have been 'Hey, you rely on these useless spongers for votes? Fine. Have some consequences.'

And unlike other Tory masterplans, it's worked.

More popcorn, anyone?

The Day Is Upon Us At Last...Or Is It?

I am, of course, setting this post up in February. And I'm not returning to it.

So where we are right now will be a surprise, perhaps. Time will tell.

We voted for it. Now we should get it. Will we? Let's see.

Open thread!

Surveillance...

A reminder. They are always watching...