Welby's Questionable Position

The wedge between England and Scotland seems to be getting driven further and further apart to the point now where the media picks up on anything which may enflame the situation and bring about a discussion about the future of the United Kingdom. This week, the Archbishop of the Church of England Justin Welby, made a comment about how the English have mistreated the Scots for the last 800 years, saying:
"And there is a miracle. It takes a lot to make the Scots willing to work with the English. Understandably... we have spent about 800 years ill-treating them."
Having seen the title of the article on the Daily Mail, I was chomping on the bit to explain why the English have not mistreated the Scots, but having read the article it was obvious that this was some sort of tongue in cheek comment made in passing, and not intended to try and demonise the English, which makes a change at least of the Political class.



Welby with his cool umbrella.

That been said, this article did at least draw my attention to Mr Welby who is, lets be honest, fairly forgettable unless you actually take the time to read up a bit about him.

So basically what I want to ask is not why or what the comments referring to England and Scotland's historic relationship has been like. What I want to ask is why this man who has been the treasurer for oil companies, and is currently still a member of the House of Lords, and a member of the panel for the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, giving talks to Iceland (of all nations) on the ethics and morals of finance.

You know, Iceland, the country that kind of did what was common sense and punished the greedy fat-cats who laid waste to the global economy.

In any case, you can read the kind of tosh the Archbishop said on this link, here.

What is ironic, is that it was only a few months ago that Welby was mentioning his outrage about pay-day loan companies charging thousands of per cent interest rates, whilst unbeknown to him (allegedly) , the church had actually had moneys invested in Wonga through other investment companies. Be interesting to find out if this investment was ever scrapped, or whether it was hoped people would conveniently forget.

Incidently as per usual, the church being forever known as the source of hypocracy and greed, a rather large percentage of the CofE investments are allowed to come from 'unethical' sources. You know, the sort of thing thats kind of ok, but a bit, well, dodge. Among these things would be things like alcohol sales, tobacco and 10 million pounds worth of money invested in the arms trade.

Now call me a cynic, but the fact that Welby was ever chosen as Archbishop at all considering all the recent anger towards the fiancial sector is slightly, well, a bit convenient. On the face of it this guy seems to be campaigning for help for the most vulnerable people, but generally speaking the solutions are almost always more integration into a global Governance, like what the Vatican advocates. Long story short, this guy was blatently head hunted for the position to act as the CEO of the Bank of England and a publicity front man for the banking sector all rolled into one.

Basically, he is there to make sure the people with money, keep making money. Using the church as an extention of the corporate/political class.

Basically, he's a cunt.

Fabricated Evidence

It was only a short time ago that the press worldwide was up-in-arms (pun not intended) about an American guy who was developing rifle parts from home on a 3D printer to sell and distribute.

It was only a matter of time then that someone in the UK would do the same!

Except, well they haven't yet, despite announcements made earlier this week.

How will Nerf guns and real guns be differentiated between?!

That's right, the Police raided a legitimate businessman obviously with no reasonable grounds, have potentially caused much damage to the mans life and his business image, all because some parts he printed 'may' have looked a bit like a part of a weapon, which it wasn't. What was being printed was spare parts for the very 3D printer that was being used. How you could confuse any part of a printer with a gun magazine, I don't know, but fact is often stranger than fiction.

I think the respectable gentleman caught up in all this hit the nail on the head when he said 'This is 100% bollocks!'

Still, when 3D printers become much more widespread I don't know how the authorities are going to be able to stem the tide of counterfeit replacement parts and weapons, it should certainly make for some interesting times, especially if metal printing in a home environment really takes off. Especially if you can print parts which end up having more structural integrity than what the manufacturer originally designed them with.

But the ultimate question will be, how, when every household has this ability, are they going to be able to differentiate between a homemade pistol, and a Nerf gun?

This is all going to get more interesting with time!

Introduction!

In the past I have written for other blogs on the odd occasion and whilst I found this enjoyable, I always felt that I did not have the flexibility to cover the topics I really wanted to cover. For this reason I have decided to begin my own blog, starting the arduous task of sending off yet another blog out there on the high seas of the internet.

Whilst the subjects I want to cover are serious, I wish to come at them from a satirical position, my aim is to entertain whilst educating the public on a wide range of subjects be it Science, Religion, History or current affairs.

So why name the blog, 'Everything is Bullshit'?

I guess I could go into details about why our current situation is shockingly bad, why the world seems to be getting a worse place to live, why the mass-media deliberately manipulates public opinion, but truth-be-told, you probably know this already. No, this blog is named as it is because over the past year or so I've grown so tired of everyone trying to coat the truth in candy. Mostly everything is bullshit, and its time everyone began to realise that hiding ones head in the sand not only hurts not only yourself, but living thing which shares this planet with you.

Tell it how it is. Those who cannot handle truth, or others opinions are part of the problem.