Budget 2014: Bingo!

Fagburn makes no apologies for posting this, even if it has been RT-ed to buggery today.

A quite spectacular piece of wonderfully woeful own-goal satire-killing patronising Tory toff fuckwittery that will surely see the Conservatives ousted from power forever and replaced by a loose federation of democratic (non-majoritarian) free workers' councils by Friday teatime - at the very latest.

Yes?

PS Though tbh, like the Daily Mail, Fagburn thinks the really big issue today is; Is George Osborne wearing a hairpiece?

Clue: Yes. Can we ever trust him again etc etc...

Alan Turing: Oh No He Didn't!

Alan Turing was a renowned scientist who cracked Germany’s Enigma code during the Second World War.

Experts believe his work shortened the conflict by two years.

Working at the top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, in Buckinghamshire - the forerunner of Britain’s spy centre GCHQ - Turing devised groundbreaking techniques to crack the wartime communications codes used by German military chiefs.

But he courted controversy when he was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to “chemical castration” in 1952.

He died two years later, aged 41, of cyanide poisoning, which an inquest determined was suicide although his family believed that it was accidental.

After a long campaign to wipe the conviction from his record, the Queen granted Turing a posthumous pardon under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy.

The pardon finally clears the name of the man who has often been described as the “father of modern computing”.

Daily Mirror.

How many more times???

Turing did not break the Enigma code - that was Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski, three Polish dudes who never get any credit.

Turing and his colleague Gordon Welchman - another all-but forgotten name - invented a machine, BOMBE, which rapidly sped up the decoding of Enigma.

A Turing-Welchman BOMBE, not pictured recently.

Budget 2014: Thanks For Nothing

Mr Deputy Speaker, in my maiden speech here in this House I spoke of Alan Turing, the codebreaker who lived in my constituency, who did more than almost any other single person to win the war, and who was persecuted for his sexuality by the country he helped save.

I am delighted that he has finally received a posthumous Royal Pardon.

Now, in his honour, we will found the Alan Turing Institute to ensure Britain leads the way again in the use of big data and algorithm research.

George Osborne in today's budget speech.

So you'll name an institute after him...

A meaningless sop to wet liberals and daft gayers?

All is forgiven.

The obvious question is, what will this Alan Turing Institute do exactly?

It would be a bit ironic if it was finding new ways for corporations and the state to spy on people.

Or as we say now, 'analyse big data'.

With all due lack of respect Mr Osborne, Alan Turing would have thought you were a total cock.

Good day.