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Mrs. Monk's Would-be Diary should have been written by Mrs. Monk, since she is the "Writer" in the family.
However, since she is a writer only in the conceptual sense, I have undertaken to fill these pages on her behalf
If not by her, these pages will certainly be about her, and other important matters of the day         Leslie Monk

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31 January 2012 Fred The Shred lost his knighthood for wrecking the economy, and because Cameron needed a futile gesture to soothe his  discomfort over the banker’s bonus issue.

 4 January 2012 Some of Diane Abbott's best friends are very white Tory Boys. A stupid non political tweet would not make her a racist. The rush to vilify Diane Abbott may well be so.

24 December 2011 ....Sometimes you get Christmas News  that might test your sense of humour, and Christmas Spirit. When we heard that Margaret Thatcher would get a State Funeral, Cat Flap Charlie and I were extremely disturbed and had some impure thoughts.  We predict a riot.

16 December 2011 Surprising number of politicians, are unwilling to admit to having no faith, but are lining up to admire the good Hitchens, now that he is gone.

12 December 2011 FSA report states the bleeding obvious, and offers lessons, but no solutions.They blame themselves for light touch regulation, abused by the bankers, especially RBS, especially Fred Goodwin.

Light touch regulation has not been abandoned by the present government. After Cameron got elected we might have expected him to toughen up the regulation, but we were told that they could not do so because all banks world wide would need to sign up collectively to any new tougher regulations. Isn't that what was proposed last week, by the other twenty six nations of Europe?

9 December 2011 Cameron has “accidentally” taken us out of the common market without a referendum. The Tories are beside themselves with joy. This would be good for the Bankers and the city of London. Bad for manufacturers. Bad for Jobs.

8 December 2011 The Monks have an arranged overdraft with HBOS. If we use it and overdraw by ten pounds for one month we will be charged

76,621,785,459.2% APR Can this be ethical?

 7:84?

7 December 2011  “We are all in this together.” BS

Poor them, you might think, but why would David Cameron focus on the extremely comfortable filthy rich, the lucky 10%?

5 December 2011 I was surprised to learn that several people had googled the word  “Arsehole”, and had accordingly found this website, perhaps because of this 2006 page. Even in 2006 there were annoying Jeremy Clarksons everywhere.

Boys will be Arseholes

1 December 2011  Three Jeremy Clarksons walked into a bar.... to those defenders of Clarkson, who say Clarkson has no political agenda and that it was just a joke, pull the other one.

30 November 2011 Yesterday’s Autumn budget, by George Osbourne, has now been analysed, and we now understand that the bottom 30% of society will pay the most, and the top 30% will actually be better off. The politician, David Maceroon called the strike today by public service workers, “a damp squib” Apparently he is seeking confrontation. Pretty sure he will get it.

30 November 2011 The politician, Michael Gove made a perjorative accusation that the strikers are “politically motivated”. Dah!

Dear Vince Cable

23 November 2011 humping and dumping bad employers have the most to gain from your proposals

16 November 2011 “How 'rogue' borders chief DID go behind minister's back as controls were 'eased 164 times'” This Daily Mail Headline, is based on a leaked draft of the in-house enquiry set up by Whiteman  into the Suspension of Clark by Whiteman. Apparently, conclusions have been made and leaked, by the in-house enquiry and by the Daily Mail before the evidence has been presented. Meanwhile Emails and minutes supporting Mr Clark, are not leaked. 

How Daily Mail is that?

Theresa’s fall guys

 15 November 2011 PM “No,” he said without hesitation.

Who gets the blame and who gets the credit

 8 November 2011 PM Theresa May has now said that she will not resign, but so did Liam Fox at this stage of his demise.

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8 November 2011 AM Theresa May has the full support of David Cameron, but so did Liam Fox. The shredders are working overtime but Theresa May will now need to defend her secret light touch regulation on Home Border Security, something she failed to inform, and indeed may have misled Parliament about. Theresa May is hardly able to start a sentence without blaming Labour, but not on this occasion. She may also have misled all those Daily Mail readers. Whatever next?

 6 November 2011 How Daily Mail is that?

It can’t be true if you read it the Daily Mail. When they ran the headline “St Paul's staff have to clean up human waste INSIDE the cathedral as protesters 'use it as a latrine'” this was something that their readers would enjoy reading even if were untrue.

The headline used quotation marks but nevertheless failed to attribute the quote. However within the article is an attributable quote that makes it abundantly clear that the Cathedral does not at all find the protesters responsible for crapping on the church. How Daily Mail is that?

 

 3 November 2011  On BBC Question Time, Peter Hitchins, representing Daily Mail readers, was seated at the extreme “right” end of the table for comic relief. His annoyingly juvenile, and indeed fascist position, was that the St Paul's protesters were “self appointed” and should therefore not be allowed to express their views.

Saint Paul’s

30 October 2011 there are no rules .....  if just one hippy showed up ...

 

27 October 2011 Vince Cable has described the Beecroft proposals as “madness”. I am not at all sure that he always had this opinion, because he has hitherto disappointed me by announcing a contrary view on BBC Question Time. Thank you Vince. You are forgiven.

 

26 October 2011 Mr Beecroft said, “employer did not like them... this is sad.”

Sad?

Wanted

25 October 2011 I demanded to see the bank manager.

I got to see a pimply youth......

Robert Maxwell is starting to look honourable.

Vexatious George

4 October 2011   "We are ending the one way bet against small businesses," Mr Osborne said in Manchester,  If employment disputes are a one way bet against business, I’m a chocolate fudge cake..........

Dear Rosie Boycott 9 August 2011 The “Grey” population have a lot in common with disaffected youth.

11 August 2011 MP after MP ....... Lord Hanningfield,  also a thief in denial of any wrongdoing

10 August 2011 David Maceroon, to get elected, hug a hoody, to get re-elected, water cannon, and plastic bullets.

8 August 2011Let’s get some watches ..... said an underage kid looking for loot in the riot last night.......

The rise of 'grey power' ?

1 Aug 2011 ......once young and swinging in the 1960s, and it is expected that they will retain their activism and political energy?.....

20 July 2011 Hail Dennis

Dennis Skinner MP, asked the concise question today in parliament, that provoked the equivocal answer from Prime Minister, David Cameron,

19 July 2011 We Know Nothing

sympathy for the aged megalomaniac

18 July 2011  Flaming Hips Rebekah Brooks has affectionately entertained would-be prime ministers, of differing hues, and duly endorsed each at will inexplicably, in exchange for what might sell newsprint.

 

In Praise of Hugh Grant ..........

14 July 2011.......now alleged that Murdoch hacks attempted to bribe New York cops in order to hack the phones of the 9:11 victims.       

Gove’s War

26 June 2011 Are Goves Academies, simply schools run by private companies masquerading as philanthropic charities?

7June 2011 I absolutely agree said the Tory and the Socialist 

30 May 2011 The Witchfinder General and The Daily Mail  They say the buck stops with Sharon Shoesmith but is that really so? The dark strategies of lawyers and HR advisors and the Daily Mail.

27 May 2011 All  Fair in Love and War and Parliamentary Expenses

a Tory Blonde, noted that it was generally men having sex that brought about the “super-injunctions” phenomena.

19 May 2011Rape is Rape? ...I wonder if Jeremy Paxman is brave enough to suggest that women judges are too female.

6 May 2011 The British people have spoken and have decided they want an unfair voting system rather than a fairer one. All that is except the enlightened people of  Oxford, Cambridge,  Southwark, Lambeth,  Harringey, Hackney, Glasgow Kelvin, Edinburgh Central, Camden and Islington, who voted YES.

5 May 2011  HelloAVBS I have read your “five big reasons” and they are all untruthful, or otherwise misrepresent the arguments...............

3 May 2011 Goldfish AV and Amnesia Colin Firth has complained that the name, “Colin,” is the kind of name you now give a pet gold fish....................................1 May 2011 SayBS Yet more AV BS, from Sayeeda Warsi, Co Chairman of the Conservative Party.......... and no apology

21 April 2011AVDC ......the unpleasant tactic of the No campaign is to deliberately confuse and confound anyone incapable of comprehending the unfairness of the present system..........
7 April 2011 Today, teachers went on strike in Blackburn Lancashire, where class room discipline had broken down. Their story is such a familiar story of school management ignoring teacher concerns. Government minister, Michael Gove has pledged to support teachers fighting class room indiscipline. Has he spoken to George Osborne about this?

7 April 2011 Today, Government minister, and Chancellor George Osborne, announced to an audience of businesspersons, that the Government is going to weaken employee rights in Employment Tribunals. He said he would prevent vexatious claims in Employment Tribunals. However vexatious claims are currently not allowed in Employment Tribunals , so what is he up too. And has he spoken to Michael Gove about this?

28 February 2011 Inglorious Bastards   Last week David Cameron shared a plane to the middle east, with arms dealers. .........
20 February 2011 TheMaximum Wage? Mrs. Monk wrote and presented a piece for BBC R4 in 1997, called Death in Essex. This was about her attempt to find a job in the early 90’s  .........17 February 2011 Alternative BS The present voting system favours both Tory and Labour and that is why you are both in favour of the present system, which is the least democratic of all the options. ..........

16 February 2011  British Human Rights Abuses?

27 January 2011  The Referee’s A Wanker    

18 January 2011 Privatised Giveaway

10 January 2011  Sheriff Dupnick

9 January 2011 Dear Mr Bonus,

4 January 2011 Dear Nick,

4 December 2010 Dear Theresa

 6 October 2010  hippo fair trade

26 September 2010 Dear Sayeeda

14 April 2010 Dear William, UPDATE.

13 April 2010 Dear William Haque

12 April 2010 A Mess for Hire

10 April 2010 Old Dames & Homophobia

6 February 2010 Dear BBC

4 January 2010 Dear NHS

2 December 2009 What a Pickle, Pickles

Dear David Cameron about Spin

29 August 2009 Dear Rupert Murdoch

Dear D about Lockerbie

26 July 2009 Dear David about my Beautiful American Niece

24 july 2009 Dear David, about liars

19 June 2009 Dear David,

18 April 2009 Damien Green What Monks Say

16 April 2009 Blowing the Whistle

17 April 2009 Dear David Cameron,

31 jan 09 The Guardian of The Guardian

28 January 2009 TOO BORING

24 January 2009 Who To Blame

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These are stories inspired by the financial mess that we are now in, and other hot political topics of the day.

Most of us are suffering but some are profiting.

The most conspicuous profit and consumption is by those that contributed to the mess that they created.

Now we are in the blame game which reared its ugly head almost immediately after the Northern Rock story broke in 2007.

This provoked this series of articles featuring the issue of  political hypocrisy.

David Cameron is the most obvious target because he has the most to gain, opportunistically.

Was he shouting before for more Banking regulation before 2007?

Was he heard thumping his fist on Tory Fleet Street editors doors, demanding to be heard, and demanding more regulation of the Banking Sector.

And would that have excused the greed of Bankers, in any event?

Would there have been any votes in it? No, of course not.

Can bankers count?

Can bankers be trusted?

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“We are all in this together.” BS