Suspended disbelief

• childcare vouchers provided by 35,000 employers saved Britain’s ‘squeezed middle’ £500m for 2008-09
• 105 board members of Network Rail don’t want to cut their numbers to only 30 as such a cut is seen by them as “at bit like turkeys voting for Christmas“
• officially and as of Q2 2009 the public sector employment totalled 6.039 million, actual number is 6.7 million
• 21.1% of labour market employed in the UK public sector
• £200 billion or 1/3 of all UK gilts hold by overseas investors

• deficit of £175 billion worth 12.4% of gross domestic product, the worst in the G20
• £6.8 billion deficit of BT’s pension fund
• £9.3 billion budget for the Olympics in London 2012

..Separatists marry within their community [...] sons and daughters grow up surrounded by the symbolism of ETA, of sacrifice, struggle, murder and martyrdom

Dominic Ridley, in “Bloody Bequest”,
The Guardian—Weekend,
21 April 2001

Roberto Saviano declared yesterday that ETA, the terrorist group, is a para-mafia organization. The meme is not new but I think that it can be safely attributed to him. Mr. Salviano is crossing a few bridges in understanding the marginal undercurrents of the Europe of today.

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The favourite site of grumpy British White Men with Fascist inclinations, bnp . org . uk, is down now, Friday 14th afternoon.

Causes are undetermined but I would like to think that this incident is caused sheer incompetence and technical ignorance rather than a dull explanation like they do not pay their hosting bill or something like that.