http://philtheone.com Right-leaning Blackpool blog covering South Shore, North Shore, Marton, Bispham, Cleveleys and the rest of the Fylde discussing politics, local life, tourism, national issues and the rest of the world. Lively discussions encouraged! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:36:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://philtheone.com/2010/02/its-safe-internet-day/ http://philtheone.com/2010/02/its-safe-internet-day/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:42:51 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=1557 Since I’m so in with the yoof, I thought I’d let you in on a big secret: oh yes, it’s Safe Internet Day courtesy of your local EU funded quango, INSAFE. Insafe is a European network of Awareness Centres promoting safe, responsible use of the Internet and mobile devices to young people. So basically it’s a fucking [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2010/02/its-safe-internet-day/feed/ 14 http://philtheone.com/2010/02/king-says-no-to-eco-bling/ http://philtheone.com/2010/02/king-says-no-to-eco-bling/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:26:18 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=1497 UK government commitments to cutting 80% CO2 emissions by 2050 were slapped down by the Royal Academy of Engineering today as being unrealistic. In a damning report, it was claimed that eco-bling such as solar panels and wind turbines will not cut emissions fast enough, and there’s no chance that all new buildings will be [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2010/02/king-says-no-to-eco-bling/feed/ 0 http://philtheone.com/2010/02/nulabour-nightmares-2020-the-year-that-britain-joins-the-3rd-world/ http://philtheone.com/2010/02/nulabour-nightmares-2020-the-year-that-britain-joins-the-3rd-world/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:03:50 +0000 Harold Ernest Gokdogan http://philtheone.com/?p=1495 It is 2020… …and Britain is on the verge of total economic collapse after another 10 years of a Labour government. Clogged roads and broken railways strangle an overcrowded island whose population are seething with anger, ready to explode. Rampant mass immigration has produced numerous (in the main) muslim enclaves in many towns and cities, [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2010/02/nulabour-nightmares-2020-the-year-that-britain-joins-the-3rd-world/feed/ 13 http://philtheone.com/2010/01/climate-change-just-give-us-all-your-fucking-money/ http://philtheone.com/2010/01/climate-change-just-give-us-all-your-fucking-money/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:32:50 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=1418 Devil’s Kitchen has excelled itself once again with two brilliant rebuttals of climate change and inherent corruption behind the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. After the government funded IPCC were found to have been making up facts in order to lobby governments, DK unveils a string of controversies, cover ups and sexing ups that serve [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2010/01/climate-change-just-give-us-all-your-fucking-money/feed/ 5 http://philtheone.com/2010/01/nimby-uproar-as-gas-proposal-remains-in-pipeline/ http://philtheone.com/2010/01/nimby-uproar-as-gas-proposal-remains-in-pipeline/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:35:46 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=1402 Texas based Canatxx Energy Ventures has been wanting to store natural gas under the River Wyre for a few years now and has returned to the planning table despite the Government throwing out their first draft in 2007. They want to create voluminous cavities within the salt strata 300-400m below the surface in order to [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2010/01/nimby-uproar-as-gas-proposal-remains-in-pipeline/feed/ 30 http://philtheone.com/2009/12/yearly-roundup-part-1/ http://philtheone.com/2009/12/yearly-roundup-part-1/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:52:45 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=1134 It’s that time of year once again where we all go and spend more than we’ve got, drink more than we should and forget about the trials of our everyday working lives. A bit like what this Labour government has been doing for the last 12 years. Credit crunch? Bah, who cares? It’s Christmas! But [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/12/yearly-roundup-part-1/feed/ 16 http://philtheone.com/2009/12/obesity-time-bombe/ http://philtheone.com/2009/12/obesity-time-bombe/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:42:43 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=1067 Following the World Pie Eating Championships in Wigan, children in Blackpool are today under the spotlight as it was announced that almost a third of 11 to 12 year olds are overweight; three quarters of whom are obese. As Gordon Brown often says, “more help is needed”. There surely has to be more weight loss [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/12/obesity-time-bombe/feed/ 7 http://philtheone.com/2009/11/british-nuclear-fools/ http://philtheone.com/2009/11/british-nuclear-fools/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:57:08 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=752 Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden has been talking complete bollocks about climate change to pay lip service to his self interested, tax reaping Government cronies. After a politically motivated visit to Blackpool Sixth Form’s “eco-council”, the well heeled Brighton based sausage jockey said that “a lot of people” in Blackpool want to see lots more [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/11/british-nuclear-fools/feed/ 7 http://philtheone.com/2009/09/typhoon-cameron/ http://philtheone.com/2009/09/typhoon-cameron/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:51:17 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=539 British Aerospace has in the last week announced job cuts at some of its UK plants including Warton and Salmesbury, but following on from this the Conservative leader David Cameron has said there will be a full defence spending review if the Tories end up in Government. The pessimists have read into this that the [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/09/typhoon-cameron/feed/ 12 http://philtheone.com/2009/09/no-method-just-madness/ http://philtheone.com/2009/09/no-method-just-madness/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:06:15 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=506 In the news over the last couple of weeks has been the story that nobody will be allowed to regularly transport someone else’s child without undergoing Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks and obtaining a certificate that confirms that sufficient background checks have been done to suggest that they are not a paedophile. Professionals that deal [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/09/no-method-just-madness/feed/ 7