Jonathan Ross -Good Widdance

The first item I saw yesterday afternoon on Sky news under the banner “breaking news” was that Jonathan Ross was quitting the BBC, for goodness sake with all that is going on in the world is that worthy of being called  news important enough to merit the breaking news banner, I would have thought the end “and finally “ section would have been more appropriate.

I am not a Ross fan, I don’t find him remotely  funny at all and his interviewing style is pathetic and crude, filled with sexual innuendo and juvenile quips inevitably involving sexual organs.

Most people only watched the show for the guests rather than him because he occasionally had worthwhile guests though he never gave them a chance to speak when he wasn’t stuck up their backsides fawning over them like a love struck teenager (this applied to male as well as female guests).

Usually he would be boring us with his weekly anecdote about having sex with his wife or a story about one of his ridiculously named kids, for example “Apricot tea towel has started developing breasts so I am taking her bra shopping tomorrow” I for one could have done without that snippet. incidentally “Apricot tea towel” is the name of  his eldest girl,  most probably, I couldn’t be bothered to look her actual name up.

Its a mystery to me why the BBC ever put him on such a huge deal, but I suppose its easy to be generous when you are spending other peoples money, in this case ours the TV licence fee payer, Ross was on a reported six million pound a year deal, nice work if you can get it.

Never has so little talented a person received such a large reward, he began every sentence with the word “listen” as if without that instruction the viewer would “not Listen” him and Davina McCall obviously learned their craft at the same school, she is equally annoying.

Now if we can  just get Davina of air to 2010 could be a good year.

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24 hours is a long time in politics

That was an almost exciting 24 hours in politics when it was thought   their may be a Leadership contest in the Labour party, but anyone who knows anything about politics knows it will come to nothing.

This is Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt, former cabinet members making a little mischief for the Prime Minister, party members have no stomach for a leadership ballot now,  let alone a secret one.

Changing leader would involve a complex ballot of unions, MPs and grass roots party members, Twenty per cent of Labour MPs would first have to vote for change and it would take at least six weeks.

With a general Election looming in May it would be political suicide for them try to change leaders now whilst at the same time running a re-election campaign.

My own opinion is that it wouldn’t matter who the leader was the Country are sick to the back teeth with the Labour party and the Tories will be in power, short of Cameron being caught killing and eating babies between now and May , He will be Prime Minister.

DurdensView Tags: Geoff Hoon, Patricia Hewitt, Labour

Persecution

Why cant chickens cross the road without having their motives questioned?

Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham bought her husband a dog for Christmas, presumably on the grounds that you can’t have too many of a good thing.

Rod Liddell

I was not writing anything today no news event really caught my eye, but as I was perusing the papers I came across this piece by Rod Liddell and enjoyed it so much that I thought I would offer anybody who came to view my effort today to his piece, its not just laziness on my part, its because Rods piece is a bloody good read. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle/article6973998.ece

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In its review of the decade broadcast on New Year’s Eve, the BBC cut from footage of those planes smashing into the Twin Towers to a man called Will Young winning the original incarnation of The X Factor — as if these two crimes against humanity were equal in their devastation.

They are not, of course, although there are similarities. The mastermind behind each atrocity remains at large, planning new miseries for the rest of us. Both have become so familiar to us through their evil intent that they have made cameo appearances in popular American cartoon programmes — Osama Bin Laden in South Park and Simon Cowell in The Simpsons. Bin Laden cannot be found while Cowell cannot be avoided.

Meanwhile the adolescent protégés of these two men enjoy their exceptionally brief moments in the limelight before vanishing into the ether — in the case of Osama’s multitudes, quite literally so. There is no proven link between Bin Laden and Cowell, although Cowell once described the Saudi as “a guy with just bags of talent, and a real edginess, I really like what I’m seeing”. Actually he didn’t — I made that up.

Simon Cowell is not a mass murderer, which is an important caveat. People do not die as a direct consequence of The X Factor — except in a few unverified cases of viewers witnessing their will to live exiting through the tops of their skulls as some off-key warbling nonentity makes a George Michael song even more emetic than it was in the first place and being congratulated on so doing by thick, doe-eyed, over-emoting panellists who themselves are possessed of not even a soupçon of talent.

And it’s here that there is something genuinely defining about The X Factor — in the elevation of suffocating mediocrity, the superficial, the banal and in the incontinent, demented shrieking of the studio audience, and — when the hopeless winner is announced, the statements of congratulation from No 10 and the opposition.

When the Geordie Joe McElderry won last year’s contest, they cut to a vast street party in his home town of South Shields where the idiotic mayor and his wife were dancing a jig, the sorts of scenes Britain once witnessed only on occasions such as VE Day.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Told you it was a good read.

Excuse moi can you direct me to the Premier league

Unbelievable as it was on Tuesday night in the match between Arsenal and Portsmouth not one ENGLISH player was in the starting 22.

I am all for foreign players playing in our leagues but this is ridiculous how does this bode for the future of the national team, in the 6901 games played since the premier leagues conception as far as I know this is the first time this has happened.

It may be that I am over reacting to a one of event, but I don’t think so, unless the FA get involved somehow the future looks bleak for the England team, let them act quickly or a few years down the line I will be saying I told you so, and I would rather be wrong on this particular subject.

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Amy Houston

A failed asylum-seeker who left a 12-year-old girl to die in a road traffic accident has won the right to remain in this country, Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, 32, had already been banned from driving and was facing deportation when he left Amy Houston dying under the wheels after colliding with her in his black Rover car.

The Kurdish Iraqi, who has since committed further driving offences, was told by a judge in Manchester that he could stay in Britain because, in the six years since the tragedy, he had put down roots, married a British woman and now had two daughters.

Amy was on her way to a record shop to buy the new CD of her favourite group, Busted, when she stepped into the road near her home in Blackburn and into the car’s path.

She was trapped under the vehicle and had to be freed by fire fighters. A police officer drove the ambulance to hospital to allow paramedics to treat the child but she died later that day.

While the rescue operation was under way Mr Ibrahim panicked and fled from the scene. He later confessed to a friend what he had done and gave himself up to police. He served two months of a four-month jail term.

In 2006 he was convicted on a fresh charge of driving while disqualified, the latest in a series of motoring offences.

The UK Border Agency had been anxious to deport Mr Ibrahim at the earliest opportunity, even taking him into the care of a deportation centre.

What planet do our Judges live on, is this really the type of man this Country needs don’t we have enough of our own scum without importing more, so what that he has fathered a couple of kids.

As  usual he is able to stay because of  human rights legislation, appealing on the grounds that deporting him would breach his right to “ respect for family life”

What about little Amy Houston’s human rights.

The sooner we kick this Government out and give David Cameron as he has promised the chance to repel some of these ridiculous laws the better.

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