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		<title>Occupy London &#8211; Hypocrisy &amp; detachment of the establishment</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/10/24/%e2%80%9cyou-cant-wash-your-hands-of-the-consequence-of-your-actions%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, it was another of Mr. Hancok's statements that really angered me but first let me tell you about another Radio 4 program over the weekend. In BBC Radio 4's, The Bottom Line on Saturday Evan Davis interviewed the chairman of a boutique merchant bank, the chief executive of a financial advisory firm and the chief executive of a savings and investment group. When these men tried to dismiss the accusations that the bankers were to blame for the financial crisis Mr. Davis got fairly miffed and stated that just prior to the credit crunch, after a boom which had run on for ten years (and was therefore due to bust), a major bank had lent £40 for every £1 it had in deposits. This meant that if the value of its investments were to fall by just 2% the bank would be insolvent. This is incompetence and complacency on a massive scale. Further, at the same time, while the economy was booming, the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, was running a deficit. (If you can't repay debt in the good times then when can you?)

This evening on PM, Mr. Hancock said that the protesters outside St. Paul's had caused the cathedral to close, losing the church around £20,000 a day, that actions have consequences and “You can't wash your hands of the consequence of your actions”!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4316&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Labour call for tax cuts you have to be suspicious</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/06/16/cut-taxes-labour-with-their-reputation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to be suspicious when you hear that Labour want to cut taxes and so when I heard this evening that Ed Balls wanted to cut VAT I did not believe that this waspart of  a well thought out economic strategy. Balls knows that reputable bodies such as the IMF and the EU do not agree with him and he knows that the government will ignore his calls. But that is not the point.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4054&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Alternative Vote system is a good idea</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/04/15/vote-av/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, now suppose that one candidate received 8 votes, one candidate received 25 votes and one candidate received 27 votes. FPTP would dictate that the candidate with 27 votes would be the leader even though the majority of people would not want him as their leader. In fact the majority of people might think the guy was completely unsuitable but they would be overruled by the minority.

I believe that in this situation everyone would start yelling and people would decide, that, OK, it was obvious that the guy with only 8 votes was not a contender and he should not be a candidate. A second round of voting would be held with only the two main candidates.

Now the people who had voted for the least popular candidate would cast their votes for one or other of the two mains candidates. The outcome of this would be a majority.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3928&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Janet knows bollocks</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/03/07/janets-knows-bollocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janet Street Porter had a go at Talking Bollocks in yesterday's Independent. She termed it "Official Bollocks"and correctly identified the New Labour charlatans as a primary cause of this phenomena. Lately it seems to me that the one tangible thing that New Labour left behind is an ocean of bullshit. Talking Bollocks is one manifestation of this but lately I have started to realise it goes further. The weird consultancy led bollocks speak has led to miles of official documentation which achieves nothing. Targets, standards, policies, procedures. You name it, under New Labour business was taught that they oceans of this stuff to become "World Class' (theer's another bit of bullshit). Vision Statements, frameworks and roadmaps were duly created. But all this bollocks requires people who are  extraordinary boring and unimaginative to write it and tart it up to look smart. Who could we possibly get to do it? Of course, business consultants. So in they came, charged everyone an arm and a leg to create this mind numbing garbage and off they went with a bag full of cash. The written bollocks was then stored in a file server somewhere never to be accessed again.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3782&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ex-pat wife misunderstands &#8220;abroad&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/24/ex-pat-wife-misunderstands-abroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers in locations like this get paid over he odds specifically because the location is weird and potentially dangerous. The responsibility for their safety lies with the companies who employee these people. She and her husband were presumably happy to collect the dosh but failed to realise that they are not in England any more and cannot expect the same level of service as when they're back home in Cardiff. One statement really took the biscuit. She said “Britain has one of the best armed services in the world” - Well, perhaps, but that doesn't mean that we want to get involved militarily all over the world just because some expats have run out of milk.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3691&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Labour Promises</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/06/more-labour-promises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear that Ed Miliband has warned that the young generation have been betrayed by spending cuts. Mr. Miliband is TALKING BOLLOCKS! It is right to be concerned that cuts to education could damage the potential of the next generation but it is absolute hypocrisy for Mr. Miliband to pretend that Labour policies are more friendly to the next generation than those of the coalition government.

It was on Labour's watch that the UK ran up massive debt and Labour are now opposing every effort to bring the deficit down and repay the debt. The real betrayal of our children would be for us to escape cuts now by borrowing more money to service the debt and just pass the burden on to the next generation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3631&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selling England by the pound</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day some poor rural area will be shouting for jobs and a large corporation will be looking for a place to build its latest factory and if only it were not for those silly out of date restrictions on public access. The people will be too worried about their jobs and the politicians too eager to bring unemployment figures down and bit by bit the “safeguards” will be dismantled and the only people to remember that we, the people, ever owned our own country will be historians.

Not that the people will lose access completely. The marketing industry will kick in and the little patches of woodland remaining will be marketed as forest themed entertainment parks complete with visitors centres, car parks with wheel chair access, pay toilets and a shopping mall with a handful of trees dotted around between the Pret-a-bloody-Mange and Star Bucks.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3581&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google ngram</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/07/google-ngram/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say that this is FANTASTIC! Until now this sort of thing has been completely impossible yet now anyone with Web access can get results in seconds. For example the occurrence of the word Glory has declined drastically whereas the occurrence the occurrence of  police is generally on the rise. Lust has declined gradually and is now into something of a plateau whereas sex is on the rise despite a brief dip in the 90s. - Ooh Mrs!

These may be frivolous examples but sociologists must love this tool. One interesting finding, though counter intuitive, is that the occurrence of the word terror has been declining for 200 years.

Lastly it is satisfying that the phrase Talking Bollocks began a steep increase in popularity in the 1990s though this  dipped around the year 2000. Surprising as New Labour did not get evicted until 2010.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3508&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 in review</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/02/2010-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crunchy numbers

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 32,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 154 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 347 posts. There were 228 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 21mb. That's about 4 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was January 11th with 1 views. The most popular post that day was Iris Robinson vs The Abomination.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3435&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>reject Chinese threats and support the Nobel prize to Liu Xiaobo</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/11/05/reject-chinese-threats-and-support-the-nobel-prize-to-liu-xiaobo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the duty of European government officials to call his bluff and attend the award ceremony en mass. European leaders should unite in defence of liberty and not allow China to divide and rule. Do we want to bring freedom to China or allow the Chinese government to erode our freedom?
Europe should attend the award ceremony because it is the right thing to do but also Europe should understand that the Chinese over rate themselves. Certainly they are on the way up. Good for the Chinese people. But this does not mean that Europe is on the way down. Europe is a community and market of around 500 million people. If China wants to damage it’s relationship with such an influential and potentially lucrative a partner then they too will have to “bear the consequences.”
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