Although this had been long expected it wasn't in the script so the news threw a lot of people off balance. Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, praised Jade for raising awareness of cervical cancer and said he was deeply saddened by the news of her death. For once he wasn't lying because he had been hoping the Baby OT story would run throughout the weekend. The Conservative Business Secretary, Ken Clarke, took the opportunity to jump on the bandwagon and start a debate over the Conservatives election pledge to scrap inheritance tax for estates under £1million. This is a timely debate to have because Jade had made it clear she was continuing to work right up to her death to maximise the inheritance she would leave to her two sons. Sadly for the Conservatives Ms Goody's estate is currently estimated at around £4million. Inheritance tax is also a pertinent topic for discussion because it opens a wider discussion of whether any British political party will be able to enact any of it's taxation or public spending policies in light of the recession. The topic also raises the question of whether many Conservatives who were getting above themselves when the policy was announced still think they going to be eligible for inheritance tax now house and share prices have dropped. With a performance that savage it's no surprise that Ken Clarke is nicknamed the Big Beast.
Behind a largely held respectful silence and party political sniping National Bullshit Month continued bringing us;
- McNulty's Second Home Scandal. It was revealed by the Mail on Sunday Newspaper that government minister Tony McNulty has been claiming a second home allowance for his parents home which is reported as being just 8 miles away from the Houses of Parliament (really it's 11miles). Mainly this is just a right wing newspaper attacking a left wing minister over expenses as it has done like it has done to several other government ministers recently. The inclusion of phrases like McNulty, 8 miles, second home allowance and parents home also generate confusion around me and build the paranoia that something bad is imminently going to happen to me. A Conservative MP has today lodged a formal complaint on the matter so the story is expected to run and run.
- The Threat of Islamic Terrorism. Two stories. First the government announced that it is going to train 60,000 civilians to combat the severe threat of Islamic terrorism. Second the manager of a Post Office who refused to serve, mainly Muslim, customers who couldn't speak English is claiming to have been forced out of his job because of a campaign by Muslim extremists that lasted a full six days. The message of these stories is quite simple, they're designed to give the impression that a terrorist attack could happen at any point during the G20 Summit so foreign delegates attending the summit should be terrified to the point of paranoia. The stories also have an impact on the upcoming NATO Summit in France because the British Army has had it's back broken in Afghanistan so Britain wants to use the NATO summit to find away for it to surrender without it looking like a surrender.
- Airgun Killing in Manchester. Over the weekend a teenage boy was shot and killed in an apparent accident at an airgun shooting range just outside Manchester. Far from being an accident this incident was MI6 appealing for witnesses to come forward and explain to them an incident that occurred in France on Friday where a number of people were injured after a man opened fire with an air gun at a nursery school.
- A Fire in Gosport in Hampshire. On Sunday evening there was a large fire on an industrial estate in Hampshire. This news broke just as I was sitting down to my routine Sunday night pub dinner in front of a big screen TV which was fixed on a rolling news channel. The incident was part of MI5's community based intimidation tactics directed at me. The idea was that while I'm away from my house I'd get really paranoid thinking that someone was setting fire to my house. After I returned home at the routine time Hampshire police issued a warning to residents local to the fire in an attempt to make the incident appear as if it was a stunt to reassure Croydon Community Based Agents who had been unnerved by a text message I'd sent to my mother earlier. If you've read that message then you already know what it's all about. If you haven't then I'll do a full posting on the matter just as soon as things have quietened down.
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