David C. Jennings

Sure Start, classic lefty spending, rallies to survive government cuts!

The title line of an article as this week’s Labour Party conference kicks off says it all. “Sure Start has survived 40% cuts to its funding.” The lefty activist authors mean it as 999 call to summon emergency services but my immediate response was to say if the programme is still alive then it was initially very overfunded.

England to join the rest of UK in plastic bag grocery ban

The infamous and anonymous tweeter Elizabeth Windsor posted “How the BBC can broadcast a programme called "Crimewatch" without mention of a single Government policy, one will never know.” But Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister & leader of the Liberal-Democrats will announce a classic well-intentioned piece of policy at his upcoming party conference which, like all progressivism, will cause more problems than it solves.

Wonder Women demand sex-ed. changes

In the midst of important things in Britain, like what to do in Syria and how to pay for a massive welfare state without any more tax increases, some quite high level ministers have turned on one another over the subject of sex-education in schools.

Sex-selection abortion trial terminated

The British Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided against prosecuting two doctors for performing gender based abortions, despite clear video evidence that the sole reason for terminating the pregnancy was because of the gender (girls) of the child.

UK may yet arm rebels, Cameron determined to act on Syria

The indecisiveness of Prime Minister David Cameron and his ideological twin President Obama has produced an ever changing narrative over the question of Syria. While the G20 summit has taken place in Russia, the voids in decision making have been filled by speculation and theorems.

British Royal Mail strike threat over privatization plans

The term strike, as in workers refusing to work, should probably no longer be classified as news but should instead appear in the lifestyle section of a newspaper since this appears to be a normal way of doing business for unions. Once again postal workers in the UK are threatening to engage in such a lifestyle in response to plans by the British government to sell off the Post Office to private interests.

British Pastor faces prosecution for ‘Good News for Gays’ tract

Knock knock, who’s there, the police! What are the police doing here? I’m a pastor, is a member of my congregation in trouble? No sir, says the officer, you are! You are being charged with committing a homophobic crime. You sent an email to a homosexual and they are offended.

Syria: The view from the UK

Thursday saw what some members of the press have described as a stunning defeat for Prime Minister David Cameron as his motion to go forward with supporting American action against the Syrian government was defeated.

Europeans on the move to disestablish gender identification!

You can get married without being Mr. & Mrs. and you can state your child is indeterminate rather than male or female. It might sound like Aldous Huxley but it’s a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a leader in the G20.

Girl Guides ditch pledge to God, Rebel Troops holding out

Girlguiding UK created guidelines in June, effective September, to change their pledge by removing references to God in the name of not offending atheists. And radical secularist volunteers like Jem Henderson, a self-described “post-punk feminist poet”, will be on hand to make sure Troops are no longer invoking the name of the Almighty.

Bongo Bongo MEP hits the nail on head! British Mainstream Press seeks to ‘Palinize’ him!

Godfrey Bloom is a man with a solid pedigree in the financial world and nine years ago he was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the UK Independence Party, a growing offshoot of conservatives who want to protect traditional Britain, stop wholesale immigration, and withdraw from the EU.

Spain continues to force long border queues, Britain sends in the Royal Navy

Britain has raised the stakes in the Gibraltar border dispute as the Frigate HMS Westminster sailed in to its port Monday. This followed events on Sunday (Aug. 18) when forty Spanish fishing boats tried to illegally enter Gibraltar’s waters and were repelled by British military and police boats.

Miracle Trio makes new case on abortion terms

Calls are increasing to lower Britain’s 24-week term limit on abortion following three high profile stories in two days of babies born prior to the governments 5 ½ month mark of life and surviving. Doctors gave a combined odds of 1600-1 that all 3 babies would survive, but survive they did increasing the questions about fetal viability.

Scotland now moves to dress boys as butterflies to curb domestic abuse

In the latest act of political correctness gone mad in Scotland, the provincial government now has plans to eliminate violence against women by making 3-year-old + boys dress up as butterflies under the misguided notion that this will make them less violent toward the other gender.

BBC advances promotion of alternative lifestyles

The BBC already has a show called ‘Marrying Mum and Dad’ which airs on its children’s oriented CBBC channel. It has become accepted normalcy that kids will grow up in a home with unmarried parents and in the reality show the novel idea comes to the kids that their parents should get married and the kids get to plan it.

In Scotland, Big Brother now plans to monitor your child

The Scottish provincial government, led by the secession seeking Scottish National Party, has introduced legislation that will see the State provide a personal guardian for each child, regardless of need, at a cost of over £120 per child per year.

Messina hired to be the Tory messiah

It will go past the heads of most of the public as fast as a crawler on a 24 hour news station. Jim Messina, hailing from Colorado and blooded in Montana, was a key architect of Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election after having served as Deputy White House Chief of Staff.

Abortion debate coming to the forefront in Britain while an unborn child is saved in Brighton

The battles over the legality and morality concerning abortion rights are heating up on both sides of the Atlantic. While Texas has voted to restrict abortions rights to terms of 20 weeks and less, Ireland has liberalized its laws, allowing legal abortion for the first time in the country of 4 million that nevertheless provides constitutional equality for the unborn. Irish religious leaders are preparing a court challenge.

Lads mags need to cover up but Page 3 girl stays as she is!

Back in April the British Girl Guides made a public call for the Sun newspaper to put an end to its publication of topless women on page 3 of its dailies. This followed an internal poll in which senior guides (age 16-25) voted 88% in favour of calling for a ban.

Fracking protests in Sussex heat up, exploratory drilling continues

Eighteen protestors were arrested Saturday following attempts to blockade the site in Balcombe, West Sussex where UK Company Cuadrilla is scheduled to begin exploratory drilling for shale gas. It is one of several sites in the UK being examined; collectively they could provide billions of pounds in new energy and create several thousand jobs.