Quote Of The Day

On the Scottish Euromillions winners:

Neighbours described their only hobby as ‘takeaways’ 

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People who make me want to become a Bolshevik:

Lord Lang, the Conservative peer, said people in ordinary jobs were not sufficiently qualified to pass judgement on the employment of former ministers in the private sector.
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Lord Lang told MPs he would be prepared to accept a "lay member", but added that is should be someone "who had experience and proven success in a relatively important profession or trade – somebody who had achieved distinction – rather than a waitress or bus driver." 

Evaluating Mr Toad.

I'm inclined to agree with Dominic Lawson's opinion about Alan Clark- he was " sleazy, vindictive, greedy, callous and cruel" and largely got away with it because having a castle meant that a sufficient number of social climbers were willing to indulge him in a manner they would not have done had he been the son of a taxi driver.

He was somewhat amusing as a kind of sitcom character but unsavoury and corrupt nonetheless.

Vietnamese Drug Gangs.

In my previous post about incarceration rates for different nationaliities, the Vietnamese were at the top of the list, which was somewhat surprising, to me at least. In the comments 'NW London Cynic' points out that it is because of the involvement of Vietnamese gangs in running cannabis farms. Doing a google news search on "Vietnamese" & "Cannabis" seems to confirm that with citizens of the country being sentenced for running cannabis factories in Bradford, Reading, Croydon, Ely, Norwich, and Keighly:

This cannabis factory — found in an upmarket Keighley suburb — was among several operated by a trio of Vietnamese drug producers.

Hard to believe isn't it- there is such a thing as an upmarkey Keighly suburb!