Earlier this afternoon, I was encouraged by a friend on Facebook to visit Vote to Remain to pledge my vote to remain. Long term readers of this blog and of my other posts on other blogs will know of a … Continue reading Lib Dems pledge to “keep Great Britain in Europe”. What about Northern Ireland?
As a child I learnt to paint by numbers, the Electoral Reform Society appears to have bodged by numbers. As some of you may know that I have been helping with the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign in Northern Ireland. We have an event this Saturday in Enniskillen where we are planning to have a sample of voters to ‘re-run the Westminster election in Fermanagh & South Tyrone’. In order to prepare the ballot papers for Saturday, I went to the Electoral Reform Society‘s website to find out what they would recommend a ballot paper to look like when using … Continue reading ERS bodges by numbers
An American charity is proposing to sterilise drug addicts in the United Kingdom. The programme’s objectives (American site) are: The main objective of Project Prevention is public awareness to the problem of addicts/alcoholics exposing their unborn child to drugs during pregnancy. Project Prevention seeks to reduce the burden of this social problem on taxpayers, trim down social worker caseloads, and alleviate from our clients the burden of having children that will potentially be taken away. Unlike incarceration, Project Prevention extremely cost effective and does not punish the participants. We seek and welcome alliances with all sectors of our communities including … Continue reading sterilization of drug addicts… just as Hitler would have done
This week sees a truly historic event taking place in the United Kingdom. For the first time since long before the Reformation National Apostasy, the Sovereign Pontiff will beatify an Englishman who is not a martyr. The Englishman in question is The Venerable (soon to be The Blessed) John Henry, Cardinal Newman, Cong. Orat.. For reference, the last Englishman so canonised was St Thomas of Hereford, canonised by John XXII in 1320. The election of His Eminence Joseph, Cardinal Ratzinger (as he then was) as Pope Benedict ⅩⅥ was met with great rejoicing in the Oxford Oratory. Little did we … Continue reading State Visit of Sovereign Pontiff to UK: truly an historic opportunity not to be missed
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