Well, The Talking Clock always thought David Cameron's Conservatives were a bit suspiciously vague about the EU.
Sure, we're promised a referendum if the Lisbon Treaty hasn't been completely ratified by all member states by the time the Conservatives do the foregone conclusion and win the next General Election.
As you probably know, all the Conservatives will say is if the Lisbon Treaty has completely gone through by then is that they "won't let matters rest there".
However, they never will spell out what they will do about it in that case.
Now we know why, straight from the horse's mouth.
In a reader's interview published by The Telegraph, Cameron has this to say about his position on the European Union project:
"I support our membership of the EU. I want us to change the EU so I don’t support an in/out referendum. I don’t think it’s right for Britain and I don’t think it’s what the country’s after."
So there you have it. Lots of soundbites about referendums, the actually likable William Hague waxing lyrical about the whole thing "lacking democratic legitimacy" ad infinitum, the great promise to do something about Lisbon and tough talk about not letting matters rest. But what does it all mean? What is it all worth?
Sorry 'Dave'. We're grateful that you came clean. But there are large numbers of the British people who do not want to be part of a New World Order, global governance, socialist undemocratic superstate where faceless, nameless unelected mysterious persons dictate our every action and thought. The British version of it - ZaNuLiebour - is bad enough.
The Talking Clock LOVES European people. The Spanish are wonderful, the Germans incredibly friendly, the Italians, the Scandinavians... lovely, all of them. We'll be best friends with them if they want to be our friends.
But the European Union is not about people. Not in Britain, not in the Netherlands, not in Ireland, Poland or anywhere. It's about the creation of power for a few crackpot elites. It's about megalomania. It's about control.
Rip the European Union up. Listen to the PEOPLE of Europe. We want to be damn good friends. Brilliant - let's have lovely holidays in each others countries, share some ideas about cuisine, all take part in some damn good football competitions and then take the proverbial out of each others rubbish songs at Eurovision.
As for the rest of it? Naff off and let us control our own destinies. The people of Huddersfield, Wolverhampton, Chatham, Rhyl, Dundee and Penzance know about what effects their local communities. Let them decide what happens there.
You can't run Grantham from Brussels. The people of Dudley are of no consequence to the mega elites who take time off their multi-million pound yachts in order to tell a few bores in Strasborg what will happen to the world next.
Take a handbagging to the European Union - vote UKIP.
Saturday, 30 May 2009
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Gorbals Mick goes... now for ZaNuLiebour
After extraordinary scenes yesterday which were the crescendo of indicators that Speaker Michael Martin is not up to his job, today we have news that - in about two hours from now - he will announce his resignation.
Martin - or 'Gorbals Mick' to his critics - is right to resign, but should have announced this yesterday when it was clear that he no longer had support. Yet let's be frank - he should never have got into the Speaker's job in the first place. He lacked the authority, lacked understanding of procedure and was a tribal Speaker who never demanded the Executive be held to account. He allowed the ZaNuLiebour Government to treat Parliament with utter contempt, passing legislation that was never properly scrutinised, just because his own side - ZaNuLiebour - felt like it.
So, it's goodbye Gorbals and good luck in your retirement to the House of Lords which is no doubt where you'll end up.
Yet the events that have led to Gorbals Mick's goodbye are not the construction of the man himself. He sided with those who wanted to exempt MPs from Freedom of Information. However, he did not make hundreds of appalling and abusive expense claims.
Speaker Martin is being made accountable for the outrage, but there are many more who must be made accountable.
Why are Jacqui Smith and Alistair Darling still in office? Not just as Members of Parliament, but as members of the Cabinet - holders of the most senior offices in the land? They must be both made accountable and must go. Not at an election. Now. They must both be kicked out of Government and kicked out of Parliament - forthwith.
And then the whole stinking cabal must go. No political party is exempt from public condemnation and they are all tarred with the same rather repugnant brush.
Yet when it comes to accountability - which is what the British public is now demanding - ZaNuLiebour have constantly demonstrated utter contempt for the views of the people.
With a couple of notable exceptions - and The Talking Clock is thinking of Kate Hoey, Frank Field and one or two others - ZaNuLiebour has constantly gone against public opinion, constantly gone against it's OWN manifesto, broken it's promises to the populace in the process and eroding trust in politicians and Parliament as a consequence... they are just beyond contempt.
So, Gorbals Mick has gone. Goodbye. Now the clamour for getting ZaNuLiebour out must reach fever pitch. We do not want a general election. We DEMAND one - now.
Time for another million man march..?
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There has been speculation on the BBC about who might replace Speaker Martin. Vince Cable and Frank Field have been suggested. However, one of the suggestions is completely left-field but inspired... Ann Widdecombe. Think about it. Someone who understands Parliament. Someone who is not easily intimidated. Someone able to exercise authority and keep people in line. Whether Ann Widdecombe could muster support amongst MPs to land the Speaker's job is one matter. Whether she would even want it is quite another. Yet if Ann Widdecombe went for it, she would certainly get the approval of The Talking Clock...
Martin - or 'Gorbals Mick' to his critics - is right to resign, but should have announced this yesterday when it was clear that he no longer had support. Yet let's be frank - he should never have got into the Speaker's job in the first place. He lacked the authority, lacked understanding of procedure and was a tribal Speaker who never demanded the Executive be held to account. He allowed the ZaNuLiebour Government to treat Parliament with utter contempt, passing legislation that was never properly scrutinised, just because his own side - ZaNuLiebour - felt like it.
So, it's goodbye Gorbals and good luck in your retirement to the House of Lords which is no doubt where you'll end up.
Yet the events that have led to Gorbals Mick's goodbye are not the construction of the man himself. He sided with those who wanted to exempt MPs from Freedom of Information. However, he did not make hundreds of appalling and abusive expense claims.
Speaker Martin is being made accountable for the outrage, but there are many more who must be made accountable.
Why are Jacqui Smith and Alistair Darling still in office? Not just as Members of Parliament, but as members of the Cabinet - holders of the most senior offices in the land? They must be both made accountable and must go. Not at an election. Now. They must both be kicked out of Government and kicked out of Parliament - forthwith.
And then the whole stinking cabal must go. No political party is exempt from public condemnation and they are all tarred with the same rather repugnant brush.
Yet when it comes to accountability - which is what the British public is now demanding - ZaNuLiebour have constantly demonstrated utter contempt for the views of the people.
With a couple of notable exceptions - and The Talking Clock is thinking of Kate Hoey, Frank Field and one or two others - ZaNuLiebour has constantly gone against public opinion, constantly gone against it's OWN manifesto, broken it's promises to the populace in the process and eroding trust in politicians and Parliament as a consequence... they are just beyond contempt.
So, Gorbals Mick has gone. Goodbye. Now the clamour for getting ZaNuLiebour out must reach fever pitch. We do not want a general election. We DEMAND one - now.
Time for another million man march..?
--
There has been speculation on the BBC about who might replace Speaker Martin. Vince Cable and Frank Field have been suggested. However, one of the suggestions is completely left-field but inspired... Ann Widdecombe. Think about it. Someone who understands Parliament. Someone who is not easily intimidated. Someone able to exercise authority and keep people in line. Whether Ann Widdecombe could muster support amongst MPs to land the Speaker's job is one matter. Whether she would even want it is quite another. Yet if Ann Widdecombe went for it, she would certainly get the approval of The Talking Clock...
Monday, 18 May 2009
Cameron launches Conservative European election campaign
David Cameron - who increasingly looks like a "fair enough, if we have to" Prime Minister - today launched the Conservative Party's campaign for the European Elections on June 4th.
His speech was short. After lambasting waste and urging transparency on financial arrangements, he spelt out one or two things that win support from The Talking Clock:
1. A referendum on the Lisbon Treaty
2. To change the law so that powers can no longer be given away without the British people's say so
3. Oppose EU meetings in Strasbourg, citing waste of money
Apart from those things, it really was policy-lite. As a consequence, UKIP will definitely now be getting the vote of The Talking Clock - it is no longer a question. Nice try, Dave.
However, Cameron used the same campaign launch to call for the current expenses scandal to be resolved by the dissolving of Parliament. On this, he sounded authoritative and like a leader. He even outlined how Conservative members can reselect local Parliamentary candidates. Verdict of The Talking Clock? Thumbs up.
The Talking Clock is starting to like Cameron an ickle bit. But there is no support for the N-EU World Order. The Talking Clock will continue to be like the Grange Hill Cast and 'Just Say No' to that...
His speech was short. After lambasting waste and urging transparency on financial arrangements, he spelt out one or two things that win support from The Talking Clock:
1. A referendum on the Lisbon Treaty
2. To change the law so that powers can no longer be given away without the British people's say so
3. Oppose EU meetings in Strasbourg, citing waste of money
Apart from those things, it really was policy-lite. As a consequence, UKIP will definitely now be getting the vote of The Talking Clock - it is no longer a question. Nice try, Dave.
However, Cameron used the same campaign launch to call for the current expenses scandal to be resolved by the dissolving of Parliament. On this, he sounded authoritative and like a leader. He even outlined how Conservative members can reselect local Parliamentary candidates. Verdict of The Talking Clock? Thumbs up.
The Talking Clock is starting to like Cameron an ickle bit. But there is no support for the N-EU World Order. The Talking Clock will continue to be like the Grange Hill Cast and 'Just Say No' to that...
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Labour running scared of Joanna Lumley...again!
A very fluid story this, but it seems that after yesterday's bizarre love-in, the Labour Government is again running scared of Joanna Lumley.
Early this afternoon, Lumley revealed to the media that the UK Border Agency had written to the gurkhas to say that four out of five of the individuals who won their High Court test case against the Government still did not qualify for residence even under the new rules.
Cue a press conference set to start at 4pm, with Joanna Lumley due to say whatever was on her mind.
Five minutes before the press conference, minister Phil Woolas comes out with a hastily pre-emptive statement (denied as being such) saying that the judgment was an interim one and subject to further review. This in the light of accusations by campaigners of "betrayal".
It appears that the extremely unpopular Government knows that it is up against a very popular British actress (and good friend of Prince Charles), Joanna Lumley who - when her role in the campaign is analysed - appears to be running rings around the Government.
At 4.18pm, Lumley and Woolas 'bump into' each other in the bowels of the BBC's Westminster studio and decide to have an impropmtu meeting in the office of the BBC's political correspondent James Lansdale; delaying Lumley's press conference.
In the end, Lumley and Woolas appeared on camera together... but it was her behind the scenes lassooing of Woolas that was most superb - now encapsulated in a humourous video clip by a creative YouTubian:
Early this afternoon, Lumley revealed to the media that the UK Border Agency had written to the gurkhas to say that four out of five of the individuals who won their High Court test case against the Government still did not qualify for residence even under the new rules.
Cue a press conference set to start at 4pm, with Joanna Lumley due to say whatever was on her mind.
Five minutes before the press conference, minister Phil Woolas comes out with a hastily pre-emptive statement (denied as being such) saying that the judgment was an interim one and subject to further review. This in the light of accusations by campaigners of "betrayal".
It appears that the extremely unpopular Government knows that it is up against a very popular British actress (and good friend of Prince Charles), Joanna Lumley who - when her role in the campaign is analysed - appears to be running rings around the Government.
At 4.18pm, Lumley and Woolas 'bump into' each other in the bowels of the BBC's Westminster studio and decide to have an impropmtu meeting in the office of the BBC's political correspondent James Lansdale; delaying Lumley's press conference.
In the end, Lumley and Woolas appeared on camera together... but it was her behind the scenes lassooing of Woolas that was most superb - now encapsulated in a humourous video clip by a creative YouTubian:
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