..and we're only halfway through Monday. But it's highly unlikely that anyone will top Mr Eugenides' righteous fury and frothing rage at our old friend Alistair Darling.

Darling's been up to his old tricks, Labour's old tricks: he's told the world that the ConDems are "..running a risk, in what's still a pretty fragile economy, in taking money out of the economy this year"

What say you, Mr Eu'?

"CUTTING GOVERNMENT SPENDING IS NOT "TAKING MONEY OUT OF THE ECONOMY", YOU BADGER-FACED PRICK.

Allowing taxpayers' money to stay in the pockets of the taxpayer is putting money in to the economy, McCockwipe, not taking it out. This is so fucking basic, Darling, that either you are a fucking moron or you are a liar. Which is it? Which?
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Hear this, Darling. You have destroyed the public finances and demeaned the nation's governance. You have scorched the earth for your successors and ploughed salt into the ruins. You have fucked us so hard, Darling, that we will be walking bow-legged for a generation. How dare you put your mortician's face above the parapet. Have you no shame?

Fuck off, shut up, and leave us alone. We do not wish to hear from you, ever again."

CF could not have put it better himself.

Mr Eugenides, you gettin' it said.

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The Deep-frying Scotsman, Rantin' Rab, wrote this piece - from a Scot to the English - some time ago, but as he says, St George's Day is a good day to revisit it.

Get yersel' over and read the whole piece - it's excellent. The highlights:

"..there aren't any 'no go' areas for the indigenous population up here, immigration is not a huge deal and our councils don't really spy on us. We have no 'plastic plod',.. and it is illegal for cars to be clamped.

"Our health care seems to be far ahead of England, as is our care of the elderly. Free prescriptions for everyone is just around the corner, Wales and Northern Ireland have similar free prescription schemes. Further education is free at the point of use, ... My council tax bill has not risen for the third year in a row.

"In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland our flags fly free and proud. The saltire can be found fluttering from flag poles at schools, public and private buildings up and down the land. No one would dream of ordering it to be taken down. No one would associate it with any terms ending in 'ist' or 'phobe'. In England it's a different story.

"What happened to you lot? Why have you let this happen? Why aren't you out rioting in the streets?

"As an 'outsider' looking towards England, I see a country that is ashamed of itself for no good reason whatsoever. A country that has no identifiable culture, or to be accurate, a culture that has been swept under the rug and ignored. All other cultures and practices are tolerated and celebrated.

"I see a country that is being screwed into the ground, bled dry. Parasites from all over the world flock to it to share in the feast. England's colonial past and proud history are not taught in the schools. Children are taught to be ashamed of the past, embarrassed to be English.

"But, who allowed this to happen? Who allowed the erosion of freedom and liberty, the petty rules to creep in, the rise of the socialist utopia experiment that has back fired spectacularly.."

"Who allowed the little hitlers to control your lives? Who allowed them to brand your country's flag as a racist banner? Who allowed it all to go horribly wrong?

"You did. The English."

"Grow a set of balls and do something about it. For all our sakes."

Well said, you caber-tossin', haggis-munching porridge-wog, well said.

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This comment, over on Mike Smithson's excellent 'Political Betting':

For the hard-of-seeing, the post says:

"I just wonder how many of these switchers really understand what the Yellow Peril are about.

Come on, British public - wake up - this is a party run by a 70 yr old Marxist, a poisoned dwarf, a shrill, witless oaf, a bespectacled fruitcake who is obsessed with asteroid detection, and an ex EU bureaucrat who would not be out of place as a sixth form prefect."

Now that's getting it said ..

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