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In all the stuff going on about the BNP details being leaked, and the hoo-hah about the fact they’re trying to invoke the very Human Rights Act they oppose, and so on and so on, there’s one thing that I haven’t notice people mentioning:

Amensia Party member, Onken fanatic or whatever, I would be fuming if my personal details were put online. Regardless of whether you think the BNP are a bunch of hypocritical thugs or not, given how profitable and easy identity theft is this surely is a bigger issue than the political leanings of their members.

: 19 Nov 2008 23:18 |  Tags: Onken Politics Vote Amnesia |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Correction

Follow-up to Restructuring from The Man From O.N.K.E.N.

We would like to apologise for earlier this week suggesting that former members of the Magic Department of the Amnesia Party threw their toys out of the pram and walked on us. If I remember correctly, they actually went to do some research on the physics of animal projectiles launched from a near-horizontal position.

In other news, the Amnesia Party would like to express its disgust at how Haringey Council forgot what they’d learnt from Victoria Climbie. You wouldn’t catch us forgetting important details like that.

: 18 Nov 2008 21:04 |  Tags: Life Plus 1 Vote Amnesia |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Restructuring

We at the Amnesia Party would like to apologise for the delay to this entry. This was caused by us forgetting to write something.

It is with regret that the have to announce some restructuring, which means we have to make substantial cuts to our paid staff. Hopefully in this time of recession, our adjustments will allow us not to waste money on trivial causes that aren’t important.

Next to go was the Department for the Colour Blind, but that’s because the returned the red form instead of the green form. In any case, most of the members of that group are now in Switzerland living as tax exiles so they don’t have to remember to fill in self-assessment forms. We’ll put them into the Department for Foreigners for now.

Unfortunately the Department for Rugs also had to be cut. To be honest it’s not like we even wanted them in the first place, but they just kept coming and coming. It was enough effort just to get them to accepting new members. They accepted the end a bit better than we expected though.

We also cut the Department for Magic, as we realised they were just creating an illusion of being worth something. Thankfully we managed to get some of the staff in other areas of the party, but when those who weren’t invited found out, they got in a huff and quit the party entirely.

Finally, we had to ditch the Department for the Colour Blind, as they filled out the wrong colour form. For similar reasons, we decided to keep them away from the Department for Electrical Engineers.

Hopefully in this time of recession, our adjustments will allow us not to waste money on trivial causes that aren’t important.

: 13 Nov 2008 23:00 |  Tags: Life Plus 1 Vote Amnesia |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem

Amnesia Party welcomes the new President of Americashire

Hey Jahn,

Can you get Luke to stick this up some time on Wednesday morning?

Cheers,

Mike

Mike,

Please edit as applicable and send on to Jahn for release.

Cheers,

Pat

People of Britain,

We at the Amnesia Party would like to congratulate Senator McCain/Obama on becoming President of Americashire. It is in times like this, where [stuff] is happening, where we need a bold leader who can do [stuff].

As a forward-thinking political party, we believe that the appointment of Senator McCain/Obama will be good for Americashire, because [reason]. We therefore congratulate him on taking up this post, and look forward to engaging in dialogue on the critical issues of today in due course.

Let us look forward now to an era of [something], where our great nation can work together with Americashire on the critical issues of today.

: 06 Nov 2008 14:00 |  Tags: Vote Amnesia |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Who knows me?

Now this is something that either slipped completely under my radar – that, or we just forgot about it. It was (re)brought to my attention by Jennysis, validated by BBC News, and concerns a company that almost all of us will have to deal with at some point: the DVLA.

This is a body who hold my name, my address, my photograph, my signature and my driving licence number. If I fail to keep my contact details updated with them, I may be committing an offence. And they’re making money out of me.

As far ago as the year 2000, the government was challenged by the RAC as to the practice of selling data to those who claimed “reasonable cause”. In 2005, the government announced a review of the practice, as they did in 2006 when it was discovered that the DVLA made £6.5m for the practice that year. Yet it’s still going on today, leaving the doors open to make like hell forthose who haven’t done anything wrong. My details can be sold without my permission to any company who can justify their request, even if they have a criminal record.

So who can do it? Well, you have to firstly register with the DVLA for a fee of around £3000. Then, for each request you make, you pay a small charge and boom, you know the registered driver’s address. And you can then do what you want from that data. The theory is to make people pay parking fines when they run off; the result, as seen above, is chaos.

Now recently local councils were finally banned from selling edited versions of the electoral roll to commercial companies, who then would proceed to bombard us all with junk mail. So why should the government escape, just so one of their departments can make a ton of money out of us?

The Amnesia Party remains highly concerned at this. With the continual data losses, security breaches and data losses, it is scandalous that there is a database – itself which could easily get lost or stolen – of our personal details which is being used essentially as a marketing tool. How can you be expected to remember all the companies getting hold of where you live and what you drive? We are committed to forcing this disgraceful practise to be stopped as soon as possible.

Vote Amnesia, because we will… um… do stuff. And stuff.

: 19 Oct 2008 11:00 |  Tags: Politics Vote Amnesia |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

A quick reminder

VOTE AMNESIA.

: 01 May 2008 13:14 |  Tags: Plus 1 Vote Amnesia |  Comments (7) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

London Mayor Elections

As you may be aware, the Amnesia Party is not fielding a candidate. This is because somebody spilt Onken on our forms, and by the time we had finished grieving we’d forgotten to get the application in in time. So, we’re left to look at one of the other candidates.

Firstly, we have the incumbent, who is I think is the Conservative candidate. He is the one who is currently the Mayor, and we can’t remember what he’s done for the city. But we aren’t dead, so we can’t be doing that badly.

Then we have the other guy, who I think is a Conservative. He is the one with the really bad haircut, and therefore we support him as our second choice.

Of course, you can’t forget the current mayor, who hasn’t done anything that we can remember as particularly bad. We made him one of our choices.

There’s some other guy, but we can’t remember who he is, which party he’s in or what he stands for. I’m not sure if he knows either to be honest.

However, we have decided to back the Green Party, whose candidate is a person. We believe any party that names itself after the colour it represents must be doing good, because they named themselves after the colour they represent.

So, if you want to vote for us, you can instead vote for.

: 19 Apr 2008 20:42 |  Tags: Onken Vote Amnesia |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

The Amnesia Party advocates physics research

I really haven’t written much this month. There’s been a variety of reasons: illness, work, playing with my new computer, etc. However, I also haven’t had much to write about recently.

But then I got an email through from the Amnesia Party, who suggested that I should write something upbeat, modern and relevant. Clearly they’d forgotten why I blog. Given that a senior member of the Essex branch was into particle physics, they decided I should write about subatomic particles, because that will be so useful and relevant to people here.

The two particles he is researching in particular are turnons and hardons. They differ in that a turnons always have a charge of -½, whereas a hardon can has a charge of +1. When two turnons combine with a hardon, you end up with a particle known as a paun, after the Romanian physicist Florien Paun (1947-). More commonly turnons combine with each other to form an antiproton. Although the presence of turnons is well established, it is unknown how they correspond to quarks, or how paun operates in particle physics. Its operations has so far been described as the "règle trente-quatre" effect.

However, due to the constant cutbacks in physics funding, research into several areas of particle physics, including this pioneering research into turnons, hardons, paun and règle trente-quatre, are suffering from a lack of cash to help research. Many taxpayers see this type of research as a waste of money, as they can’t see how this area affects everyday life.

The Amnesia Party strongly believes that a greater understanding of how our universe works will provide long-term benefits for everyone. For more information on the continued cutbacks, please see these sites from UCL and the Amnesia Party on this issue.

: 01 Apr 2008 10:00 |  Tags: Did I Really Post This Vote Amnesia |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Crisis at Amnesia HQ

There was a severe crisis at the Norfolk branch of the Amnesia Party, when Peter Pen the Prostitute went missing for a full 14 hours. Normally when Peter goes off pimping himself, a simple request of ”ペンはどこですか。” is greeted by the even simpler response of ”ペンはテブルのうえにあります。” and a glance at the table. However, yesterday, the Pen was not on the table.

Peter was eventually found submerged inside a tub of Raspberry Onken, as somebody has mistaken the Biopot for a pencil pot. As the saying goes, ”ペタルのぺんはオンケンのなかにいます。”

_{This goes down there as one of the worst things I’ve ever written anywhere ever. I’m sorry. :(}

: 10 Mar 2008 12:00 |  Tags: Did I Really Post This Japanese Onken Vote Amnesia |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Earthquake

It has come to the attention of the Amnesia Party that there was an earthquake in the West Midlands early this morning. Unfortunately, we’d forgotten that the West Midlands existed, having closed our office there in 2005.

Nevertheless, we believe that it is very important that our country is prepared for such natural disasters. We at the Amnesia Party believe that it’s very important that our country prepares for natural disasters such as earthquakes.

Therefore, we have resolved to draft a green paper on this issue about this thing, once we’ve remembered which drawer we put the green paper in.

: 27 Feb 2008 13:04 |  Tags: Earthquake Vote Amnesia |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Important correction to Import annoucnement

Follow-up to Important annoucnement (part 2) from The Man From O.N.K.E.N.

Citizens of America,

Following yesterday’s press release by the Amnesia Party of America, I would like to issue the following correction. The phrase:

A vote for Amnesia is a vote you’ll never forget.

should have in fact read:

A vote for Amnesia is a vote you’ll never remember.

We would like to apologise for any confusion this hasn’t caused.

: 17 Jan 2008 14:00 |  Tags: Did I Really Post This Vote Amnesia |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem