The odds on my making the longlist for the Orwell Prize for blogging lengthen

Uh oh.  I have discovered today that

@GavinFreeguard   http://twitter.com/#!/GavinFreeguard who administers the  @TheOrwellPrize  http://twitter.com/#!/TheOrwellPrize have blocked me from following their tweets as well as @suzanne_moore  http://twitter.com/#!/suzanne_moore who is this year's judge for blogging.  

At least @hopisen  http://twitter.com/#!/hopisen the other judge, is keeping up the appearance of being impartial and has not been so unfriendly as to block me.      

At this rate, I shall expect to be completely marginalised and probably not even invited to the longlist announcement at http://theorwellprize.co.uk/events/orwell-prize-longlist-2012-announcement/

Those of you think you might like to attend should click on the link above so that you get an invitation to this event.  I hope to meet you there.  If they do not invite me then you may still wish to go, get together for a drink and make your views known about my absence at the event and longlist. 

Perhaps I should not have antagonised the judges and the Orwell Prize people by daring to question the impartiality of Suzanne Moore because she blocked me from following her tweets.   

But then they were never going to give it to me, were they, even if I had made no complaint about the possibility of the two judges with Labour connections being biased against someone with my views.   

Perhaps I will win the Woolfson Prize, which would be a consolation indeed.   

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-submission-for-2012-wolfson-prize.html

What a shame, because I do feel that the values of the Orwell Prize listed at http://theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/how-to-enter/values/ embody the purpose of my political writing completely, even if I do say so myself.

It is because I so obviously satisfy those requirements that means I will never be allowed a look-in by the stale  representatives of the Liberal Left whose smug liberal values infuse and corrupt the entire British literary and political establishment.

If they award it to some gay Conservative this year or the political equivalent thereof, we will know.

We will know that a fish rots from the head down and that the so-called liberal values of this liberal cabal do not extend to entertaining any ideas and views from anyone who does not share their assumptions and worship the same sacred cows as they.

If I do not get it for myself, I still want it not to be given to some jumped-up liberal copper, a social worker,  carer, pink and fluffy civilly-partnered vegetarian homosexual or the next Johann Hari.  If they give it anyone other than someone with views that are recognisably "right-wing" then we will know the extent and depth of their corruption.

http://theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/about-the-prize/governance/

• Bill Hamilton (chair) Literary agent and literary executor of the Orwell Estate at A. M. Heath, Orwell Trustee
• Richard Blair Son of George Orwell, Orwell Trustee
• Meg Russell Reader in British and Comparative Politics and Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit at UCL, Political Quarterly board member
• Albert Scardino Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Media Standards Trust board member
• Jean Seaton Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster, Director of the Orwell Prize, Political Quarterly board member and Orwell Trustee
• D. J. Taylor Author, Chair of the Orwell Trust
• Tony Wright Former MP for Cannock Chase, Professor of Government and Public Policy at UCL, co-editor of Political Quarterly

Sir David Bell stepped down as chair upon his appointment to the Leveson Inquiry.

The Prize is currently administered by the Media Standards Trust on behalf of the Council.

Media Standards Trust board members

• Media Standards Trust website

Orwell Trustees

• D. J. Taylor (chair) Novelist, critic, biographer (author of George Orwell: The Life)
• Richard Blair Son of George Orwell
• Alison Finlay Professor of Medieval English and Icelandic Literature at Birkbeck College
• Bill Hamilton Literary agent at A. M. Heath, literary executor of the Orwell Estate
• Barbara Hardy Professor of English Literature Emeritus at University of London
• Blake Morrison Writer and poet
• Andrew O’Hagan Writer and novelist
• Jean Seaton Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster, Director of the Orwell Prize
• Boyd Tonkin

Mein Kampf Book Club

If I had loadsa money I would have a Claire Khaw Mein Kampf Essay Prize as substantial as the Woolfson Prize (£250,000 http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/10/wolfson-prize).

The prize would go to the Jew (and s/he must be a practising Jew and recognised as such Jews - perhaps a Rabbi or even better the Lord Chief Rabbi) who writes the best essay giving good persuasive moral reasons why Jews should read Mein Kampf.  

Mein Kampf Book Club
https://www.facebook.com/groups/147429175288744/?ref=ts

Woolfson Prize and disorderly withdrawals

Date | Monday, 12th December 2011
Time | 6:00pm for 6:30pm start. 8:00pm finish.
Location | Clifford Chance, 30th Floor, 10 Upper Bank Street, London E14 5JJ
RSVP | kate.hooper@westbournecoms.com
Chair | Neil O’Brien, Director, Policy Exchange
Speakers | Derek Scott, Chair of the Wolfson Economics Prize and Professor Charles Goodhart CBE FBA, Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics and a judge of the Wolfson Economics Prize

On behalf of the judges of the Wolfson Economics Prize, I would like to invite you to an event for those considering applying for the Wolfson Economics Prize and other interested individuals. There will be a discussion of the euro-zone crisis and an opportunity to ask questions of the judges. 

The objective of the prize is to find the best answer to the question:
“If member states leave the Economic and Monetary Union, what is the best way for the economic process to be managed to provide the soundest foundation for the future growth and prosperity of the current membership?”

Please R.S.V.P. to Kate Hooper at Westbourne on 020 3397 0100 or kate.hooper@westbournecoms.com. I very much hope you can join us.

Yours sincerely
Derek Scott

MY ANSWER:

1. start printing own currency    http://thelewespound.org/59.html
2. withdraw from the euro
3. default, but guaranteeing savings only, and let the losses fall where they may. 

Then start picking up pieces.

There will be a period of enforced SOCIALISM and rationing, I imagine, with massive tax cuts and deregulation.

The men will have fun organising their citizens' militias to dispose of the criminal elements in their community, in more ways than one.

The Slut Single Mums can all be herded into brothels for gainful employment with flexible hours.

Respectable married women will be congratulating themselves for not divorcing their husbands and taking half their stuff and then depriving them of their children while making them pay for their maintenance, because in these troubled times they will be grateful for the protection of men.

I have a nasty feeling that the euro may not last till 12 December and the Woolfson prize may well be cancelled after its collapse. The deadline for submitting your entry is 31 January, but by that time disorderly withdrawal will have happened in any case.

I wonder if the Germans are now secretly printing deutschmarks...