UKIP's Godfrey Bloom becomes another member of the global 'freedom from globalist tyranny' movement

How deep is our love of UKIP becoming?

We admired them anyway, but just recently...

Bam! Lord Monckton joins forces with them. Hurrah!

Bam! Lord Monckton goes global several times a week giving the lowdown to those with a thirst for the truth via Alex Jones' US radio and TV show.

Bam! Nigel Farage goes onto the global airwaves via Alex Jones, talking about the charade of democracy that we're under and calling for us to unite for freedom under the UKIP banner.

Bam! And now Godfrey Bloom has also hit the global airwaves via Alex Jones.

Better still, we'd like to think Godfrey has been reading our humble blog. For what did he confirm to the worldwide audience? Something that this blog has been banging on about relentlessly since our very first post - the fact that it is a myth that Britain does not have a written constitution. We DO have a written constitution. It is just written in a few different documents.

And this New Labour lot have brought in statutes (not laws) which contravene our written constitution - the contents of which are legitimate laws that must be upheld.

Here's Godfrey's interview with Alex Jones in full. We've said it before and we'll say it again - vote UKIP for freedom, democracy, national sovereignty and the restoration of our precious constitution which formed even the basis for America's constitution.

We have a constitution and we should form a class action legal fighting fund to see it upheld. Just think - £1 each from all of us. We could end tyranny against the British people legally and peacefully and see those who have eroded our constitutional laws packed off to The Tower where they belong.

Enjoy that? Stayed tuned to Alex Jones for plenty more spotlights on truth and freedom. Okay Lord Pearson, you're surely next. Be a brave party leader and blow the whistle on a global stage. If it was a good enough platform for Nigel Farage...

And Dan Hannan... if you're reading. Defect and join the freedom revolution that is UKIP.

Miliband on Iran protest violence: hypocrisy?

Talk about hypocrisy. Apparently, there is violence in Iran following a crackdown on democratic protest.

So, here's what Foreign Secretary David Miliband has to say [source: The Independent]:

"[It is] particularly disturbing to hear accounts of the lack of restraint by the [Iranian] security forces. Ordinary Iranian citizens are determined to exercise their right to have their voices heard. They are showing great courage. I call on the Iranian Government to respect the human rights of its own citizens - rights which Iran has promised to respect."

He is also quoted as saying: "The tragic deaths of protesters in Iran are yet another reminder of how the Iranian regime deals with protest."

Now, we hate to have to say this, but this is just total hypocrisy.

We hold no particular sympathy or affection for Iran and this blogger is British born, British bred and a patriot through and through. But pull the other one, Miliband.

Ian Tomlinson's death at the G20 protests in London anyone?

An ongoing question mark about British complicity in torture and rendition, anyone?

That not enough? How about wading through the archives on The Guardian's website to see and remind ourselves of how Labour deal with protest on the streets of Britain - British people, the most oppressed people in the Western world.

He need lecture Iran on human rights. He needs to lecture his own colleagues on the human rights and civil liberties of British people in Britain.

And while he's at it, he might decide to point out that his party has enacted no end of legislation that lacks a democratic mandate and which sit in contravention of the written - yes written - British constitution.

How can Labour without an ounce of embarrassment lecture any other nation on human rights and civil liberties?

They must think we're all as thick as two short planks. We know where human rights abuses and civil liberty abuses are being conducted. We don't need to look to Iran. We need merely look out of our own front windows.

Review of the Year

So, that was the year that was. And what a year. It was the year in which, for whatever reason, the political establishment kept trying to convince us that apocalypse was upon us and the end of the world is nigh. And the more they pushed upon us, the more cynical we became until the point we all got to Christmas, found we were still alive, and spent like there was... errr... no tomorrow.

First up was the state of the 'global' banking system. Continuing where the previous year left off, we the public had to pay - or rather Gordon Brown gave away - trillions upon trillions to stop the supposed collapse of the banking system. Only to find that a few short months later, the banking industry was paying itself billions in bonuses. So, where did our money go? And who consented to us giving the banking industry so much money? And we grumbled. But we did not march or protest.

Then came 'swine flu'. We were all going to die. Millions of us, apparently. There were going to be mass graves in London. Bodies were going to be buried six deep to cope with the burden on cemeteries. We all had to rush out and get vaccines. Except it didn't actually happen. What actually happened is that one or two unfortunate people got ill. Then came the reaction to hysteria. Anyone who got a sore throat or a bit of a cold phoned a hotline where people with no medical experience whatsoever read a checklist from a script on a computer and hundreds of thousands of people went around claiming to have had 'mild' swine flu. There were no mass graves. And now we're in flu season again, not even the hysterical Government is bothering to scare us with that one anymore.

We then had the expenses scandal where we found out just exactly what the grubby political class was using our money for. Duckhouses, moats, porn films, non-existent second homes - we found out we'd been fleeced on a grand scale. And we grumbled. But we did not march or protest.

Protest became a very unsafe activity. At the G20 protests in London, newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson died. Footage emerged over a period of a few days on The Guardian's website which showed the public key details of what happened to the poor fellow. And we grumbled. But we did not march or protest.

We then found ourselves forced into being part of the European Empire against our wishes. All three main parties promised us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Labour and the LibDems colluded to prevent us getting one. After the Irish democratic 'no' was ignored, they gave the other answer - yes. And their second answer was accepted. Czech President Vaclav Klaus carried the hopes of most of Britain. He had the power to defend British national sovereignty by defending his own. In the end, he crumbled. It was all over. Labour had given away our national sovereignty. And we grumbled. But we did not march or protest.

Then came ClimateGate. A wholesale leaking of emails which showed that something very untoward had been happening to seemingly present a distortion of the truth. The establishment hated it. Carbon trading had trillions of dollars invested in it. There were hopes of setting up global government on the back of it. So no-one investigated ClimateGate. Instead, many members of the public twigged what was going on. And we grumbled. But we did not march or protest. Meanwhile, the political establishment ran around calling people who asked any questions about the legitimacy of the science a whole procession of names instead of addressing what had been revealed.

Then came the cranking up of rhetoric. Carbon dioxide (exhale) is evil, we were told. We had to ban it else we were all going to die. We were told. Exhale. But rather than bring forth a mass culling of humans to reduce carbon dioxide (exhale), the political establishment just decided that if we all paid a fortune in taxes, then they would control Mother Nature on our behalf. Russia or China - depending on who you listen to - helped play a part in saving the free peoples of the world from global tyranny. For now.

We had the minor sideshows. Would Gordon Brown (unelected Prime Minister) get through the year without being kicked out by his own side? In the end, his Labour colleagues lacked a spine. Meanwhile, the national debt grew and grew and grew.

Slowly, other nations came out of recession. Meanwhile, Britain - the powerhouse from which Gordon Brown claimed to 'save the world' - remained stubbornly in recession. Is still in recession. Is still seeing the national debt grow and grow and grow.

More and more of the public woke up to the complete stink of it all. And we grumbled. But we did not march or protest.

Instead, those of us who are conservative (small 'c') libertarians became increasingly switched on to UKIP.

A whole load of other people decided that they would turn to the BNP. A witch-hunt against the BNP brewed up with the party being attacked by people claiming to be against fascism... who strangely have yet to protest against the semi-fascists who currently sit in Government.

So, a year of doom, gloom, apocalypse and corruption.

How cynical did it all make you become?

And just how do you plan on exacting revenge at the ballot box in 2010..?

Political kudos showering 2009

Many other blogs have political awards and round-ups for the year, so in order to be original... find another blog, as we've decided to join in. Our review of the year is to follow - first up, our kudos showering... where we actually demonstrate an ability to be nice to those who merit it.

Conservative politician of the year: Dan Hannan (a proud patriot, witty, with some good ideas on how to make Britain better)

Labour politician of the year: Kate Hoey (not many MPs have principles - she has stuck to her manifesto pledges to her constituents throughout her time in this Parliament)

LibDem politician of the year: Norman Baker

Non-LibLabCon politician of the year: Nigel Farage (proud patriot who led UKIP to second place in the European elections)

Political personality of the year: Boris Johnson (the London Mayor's year ended with his tumble in our esteem through espousing that 'carbon dioxide is evil' nonsense that the political establishment is trying to use to terrify people who do not read - but he had many, many good moments before that to carry him through)

Overall politician of the year: Dan Hannan (how we wish he'd defect to UKIP)

Political campaigner of the year: Lord Christopher Monckton (never has one man spoken so much sense on behalf of so many)

Political magazine of the year: The Spectator

Best political TV show: This Week

Best political commentator (press): James Delingpole (Telegraph)

Best political commentator (TV): Andrew Neil

International politician of the year: Vaclav Klaus (okay, he relented and signed the abomination that is the Lisbon Treaty in the end but he held out for as long as he reasonably could. Also is on the side of liberty in the great carbon con)

Most disliked politician of the year: Where to start? It has to be someone on the Labour frontbench. Thankfully, Jacqui Smith has removed herself out of the face of the British public so we'll put our intense dislike of her on hold. Harriet Harperson is irritating. But the most disliked of all remaining has to be one or other of the brothers grim. So we'll give the title to the most powerful of the two. Our most disliked politician of 2009 is, therefore, David Miliband.

Labour's tattle squads and snoopers - more revelations

The Daily Telegraph reports on the findings of the Big Brother Watch privacy group's project in which it issued freedom of information requests to find out how many snoopers are employed by each individual council.

It finds that there are 20,000 council employees who can enter our homes WITHOUT needing a warrant or police escort.

TWENTY THOUSAND of 'em.

So, that's your home. This is actually real.

And who could we possibly have to thank for this?

Why, could it possibly be... New Labour - the party of spying on the population, the party of banning everything, the party which enacts civil liberty eroding legislation after civil liberty eroding legislation?

They make me - quite frankly - disgustingly sick and repulsed... that fellow nationals should hate the British way of life as much as Labour's policies suggest that they do.

Look, we do not DO spying on each other and tattle squads in this country.

Naff off, sir.

And if any council busybody wants to come into Talking Clock Towers, they will be told where they can go unless we're satisfied with their legitimate need.

Any other reason, they can fetch a policeman.

They all need to remember who pays their wages. We the people do - not New Labour.

So naff off.

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'Big Brother Watch' is a specific campaign of the brilliant Taxpayers Alliance - an organisation that continues to impress this blogger through it's excellent work and campaigning.

Sunday Paper Review: 27th December 2009

Obviously, most newspapers lead with reports of what might or might not have happened on an airline on Christmas Day. We say 'may or may not'. These things tend to become clearer over weeks rather than hours. We were very guilty of saying 'they got the bastard' when the police shot a man at a tube station a few years back - and we all know how that one ended up. So we'll reserve judgment.

Anyway, Fraser Nelson starts us off on that tone. Firstly, in the News of the World where he tells us that Britain is the 'Terror Capital of the West'. Whatever can he mean? We may never know as, over in The Spectator, Fraser has already hinted that we in Britain are being kept in the dark by our media and that we should read something in the US media to find out the full story. So we will, when we've posted this blog post.

Do we mention Charlie Sheen, '911 Truther', at this juncture or move swiftly on? Move swiftly on? Righty-oh.

The Sunday Times has a report on how leading economists have strongly condemned Gordon Brown and Labour for the irresponsible lack of a plan to reduce the national debt. It's all worded very strongly. One might be forgiven for reading between the lines and thinking that they conclude that Labour are crap at running the country. Just as the rest of us concluded long, long ago...

The Sunday Telegraph has a report that suggests that Community Support Officers will be abolished if the Conservatives win the General Election. It's an idea that gets the thumbs up from this blogger. But while we're at it, how about dismantling the rest of New Labour's Stasi machinery and tattle squads? Getting rid of PCSOs is a nice first step to restoring some balance to what is rapidly and understandably becoming Paranoia Nation. Britain under Labour - this is what East Germany felt like, no doubt. Maybe they could go a bit further and put policemen into blue uniforms again - you know - lose those 'hi-vis' jackets that seem to breed in every street at alarming rates. Get rid of those dayglo yellow jackets and the Robocop paraphernalia and we might start heading back to sanity.

There's a story in the Mail on Sunday in which, apparently, German mobile phone company T-Mobile has drawn parallels between Labour spying on citizens in Britain with the Stasi of the former East Germany. We're just telling you what the report says. But doesn't it say all you need to know about this Labour lot, really? Thank you to T-Mobile for standing up for us Brits. Pity we Brits have just passively let Labour do what they like to us and we now need a German mobile phone company to defend our freedoms. What a state of affairs. Shame on us for letting Labour get away with it.

The Independent on Sunday has a story about the possibility of a Tory reversal on the ban on fox-hunting. Now, this blogger doesn't like fox-hunting. We think it repugnant, cruel and needless. But know what? We once favoured it being banned. But after twelve years of Labour and their control of everything, banning every tiny little action so that thought itself has become a crime... well, stuff it. We'd rather people have their freedom back. Sorry ickle foxes, but we'd rather people do as they see fit and take it up with their maker - rather than take it up with Labour's freedom loathing enforcers who now permeate every arena of life. Foxes or freedom? Freedom, every time.

Andrew Rawnsley over on The Observer is predicting that all sorts of records could potentially be broken at the British ballot box next year - not least a record low turnout. Hmmm. Well, it does seem a pointless exercise voting for any of them when Brussels make most of our laws. But, on the other hand, who hasn't waited for a very long time to kick Gordon and his traitorous party out of office?

Genuine goodness: Prince William further continues his mother's work

There's a lovely story in the Daily Mail about our future King, Prince William.

As part of his ongoing relationship with homeless charity Centrepoint, he spent a night last week sleeping rough on the streets of London to gain a further insight into homelessness - albeit he did so in reasonably controlled conditions.

But how nice. At a time when we despair at the state of the political class, Prince William - a lovely young man if ever there was one - puts himself in the position of those far, far less fortunate than himself to gain an understanding that will assist him in his future charitable works.

Prince William was introduced to the Centrepoint charity at a very young age as it was one of the charities that his mother - the eternally divine Diana, Princess of Wales - dedicated a lot of energy towards helping.

How lovely to see Prince William continuing his mother's work with much dedication and how refreshing to see something in the news which raises a smile and makes one remember that there is genuine goodness out there.

Those interested in helping Centrepoint with their work can find out more on their website.

Quote of the Month

"So. No deal to legally curtail economic growth in Copenhagen. No targets restraining human liberty or enterprise on a world-wide scale. No fix by the supranational quangocracy to take over the nooks and crannies of our lives. And still the sun rose this morning. Snow fell in Essex and, no doubt, melted someplace else. Nature today still does what nature has long done; ebbs, flows, changes, adapts. Life carries on. Perhaps the only thing that ‘failed’ in Copenhagen was an attempt by our priesthood of smug, self-serving Western politicians to place themselves at the centre of it all."

- Douglas Carswell M.P. (Conservative)

[Note: this blog supports virtually every word of his conclusion]

Leader debates: 'Smaller' parties in legal action threats

The BBC is reporting that the televised debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg may well be subject to legal challenge.

Their article cites representatives of the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP, and the Green Party - all of whom are seriously concerned at being excluded from these TV debates, with Plaid's Elfyn Llwyd calling them "completely undemocratic".

And good for all of those parties involved. They should take every step to make sure that they are included.

Increasingly, it is difficult to slide a Rizla paper between the three main parties on major issues of the day.

Nowhere is this more apparent than policies on membership of the European Empire (where all three parties have now - to varying degrees - colluded to prevent us from having our say) and on this so called 'climate change' drama where all three are singing from the same 'the end of the world is nigh' (unless we pay the World Bank a load of money in taxes) song sheet.

However, the status quo of more of the same will be neatly preserved unless the message of parties offering real opposition is allowed to be heard on a level playing field.

Whilst Sky and ITV can pretty much do as they want provided it adheres to legislation in this regard, we the people should insist that the broadcaster that WE own - the BBC - gives full coverage to genuine opposition parties who genuinely offer democratic choices about the way they propose to act in government if we were to entrust them with administrative decisions in taking the country forward with the taxes that we the people pay.

We the people are in charge (or at least are meant to be) and we the people have a democratic right to hear the message of all those who seek to represent us - not just the LibLabCon of the established order where policy differences are minimal at best.

It is time that we the people demanded legitimate and true democracy - not the veneer of a sham that has constantly enraged us for decades.

Remember, democracy means "of the people". That's you and I - normal people. Not just the banking elite or (sometimes clandestine) pressure and lobby groups.

At the risk of sounding like a sheep, we the people in this country don't just often want or hope for change - we deserve it.

After all, we pay out enough money for the administration of our nation.

All of those Government departments, all of those ministers and politicians, the armed forces, the police force, in some cases the banks, the postal service, the roads, the schools, the hospitals... we own all of that - we paid for it. Not Labour. Not the Conservatives. Not the Liberal Democrats or anybody else. We the people pay for it.

We the people should be in charge of the whole lot of it as is supposed to be the case in a democracy. We the people should control how OUR national services work, function, and the decisions that are made that shape their futures.

We the people should, therefore, have some real say and choice in who is best to protect and deliver what we are paying for.

What REAL choice and difference do the LibLabCon actually offer us in our national future? Have a look at their websites. The answer - too often - is that they represent merely three sides of the same somewhat shady looking coin.

It is time for the reinstatement of legitimate democracy. And that means making sure that we the people hear the ideas of ALL those who seek to serve us.

Gordon Brown still doing his 'New World Order' routine

According to The Times, Gordon Brown is now calling for a new global body to police 'environment' issues.

His call comes after the Copenhagen summit ended in a glorified press release - much to the relief of those of us who do not want to see a 'New World Order' take control of the planet.

As you may recall, according to Lord Christopher Monckton, the original draft of the treaty being discussed at Copenhagen specifically and explicitly would have brought about a global government.

Then came ClimateGate which exposed - at the very least - seriously question marks about the integrity of the science that was leading us down the path to global tyranny.

So, as he wants to head down the road to his 'New World Order' again, let's remind ourselves of Gordon Brown's form in this regard - remembering of course that Gordon Brown is an unelected Prime Minister who has already presided over the gifting of OUR (not his) national sovereignty to foreign powers in Europe:

Thankfully, he's got just a few months in office before we collectively kick him out. And as a nation, we must think very carefully about whether David Cameron and his Conservatives will want to do exactly the same sort of things. What is truth and what is rhetoric? And do we the people hold any of the puppet strings?

Sunday Paper Review: 20th December 2009

Nothing too exciting in this week's papers - Christmas is coming and the world's elites are still flying all over the planet and driving round in limousines to warn us of the imaginary carbon apocalypse.

There's a beautiful, seasonal themed article in the Sunday Telegraph by Alan Pearce who explores the many ways in which (New Labour's) health and safety fascists have stamped their authority over the most innocent of Christmas traditions. His wittily written findings lead him to conclude that "as a nation we have become so passive that we will now swallow anything they care to throw at us". An article well worth a read.

There's an interesting quote in the Sunday Times, following on from the global government global warming climate change tax and wealth redistribution summit in Copenhagen. Apparently, the Sudanese delegate - Lumumba Di-Aping - has compared the plan that came out of the event to the Holocaust, saying it is: "a solution based on the same very values, in our opinion, that piled 6m people into furnaces in Europe". Cue lots of outrage including that of Swedish political representative Anders Turesson who expressed the opinion that comparison to the Holocaust is "absolutely despicable". Which is all very interesting... and we hope those 'outraged' by Lumumba Di-Aping's appraisal (right or wrong) are similarly outraged at those members of the British political class who keep throwing the deliberately Holocaust alluding label "climate change denier" at those who disagree with them and who want to debate the issue.

The Mail on Sunday's Richard D. North gives his analysis on Copenhagen. He writes: "The frenzied negotiations we have just seen were never about 'saving the planet'. They were always about money." It's half the story of this blogger's opinion. Add in the bits about globalist bankers and their influence and control over the lives of everybody on the planet, and you'll be getting there.

The Observer has analysis of it's IPSOS/MORI poll which shows that the Conservatives have now opened up a 17 point poll lead over Labour. The same poll last month gave the Labour lot an air of confidence as it indicated the Conservative lead had been cut to just six points. So, this latest news should give the Labour crowds hopes of festive cheer a damn good stuffing.

Hidden away behind the reams of climate change recrimination in the Independent on Sunday is a story about gay football players. PR 'guru' Max Clifford claims to have had two gay Premier League stars on his books but has advised them to stay in the closet because football is still surrounded with homophobia. The feature comes in light of the decision by Wales and British Lions rugby star Gareth Thomas who came out about his sexuality yesterday. We couldn't care less about the sexuality of football or rugby stars, provided they all choose to flaunt their sexuality in the way that has become tradition with the stars of the Stade Français rugby team. All I want for Christmas...

Staying with football, the News of the World reports on Manchester City players who confronted the board in anger over the sacking of Mark Hughes. Manchester City are currently sixth in the Premier League, a place and two points ahead of Liverpool with a game in hand. The newspaper has also got it in for Chelsea's John Terry.

The Sunday Express has a report on how commuters stranded in the Channel Tunnel as a series of Eurostar trains broke down felt petrified at being confined in the tunnel and in darkness for some six hours. Well, at least none of them were stuck sat next to Gordon Brown for six hours. That particular 'climate change' obsessive obviously flew around everywhere on his crusade. So, the Eurostar passengers can be grateful for the small mercy Lady Luck granted them in their plight.

Brave 'hero' Nigel Farage becomes the people's freedom fighter on a global stage

UKIP's Nigel Farage has just taken his message of hope against tyranny, his pleas for democracy, national sovereignty and freedom to the entire world - via the globally popular U.S. talk show host Alex Jones.

In the interview broadcast yesterday, Nigel explains how he entered into British political life, the progress of UKIP and his decision to step aside as leader, his upcoming General Election fight against Speaker John Bercow, global government, the so called 'war on terror' and the erosion of civil liberties, Al Gore and climate change scare-mongering, Tata steel and Corus on Teeside, the concepts of democracy and national sovereignty, the European Union, Emperor von Rumpy-Pumpy, Cathy 'Baroness' Ashton and the death of democracy, the abuse and intimidation that he encounters as an MEP calling for democracy, forty years of betrayal by the Labour Party and the Conservatives who he says have turned the Westminster Parliament into a charade, warnings from history and how we - the people - stand up to the tyranny we appear to be heading under.

Nigel says that the people of Britain are now engaged in a battle of "democracy versus bureaucracy".

Alex Jones has provided a great platform for those on the side of truth, transparency, free speech, debate and democracy - and for UKIP, with Nigel Farage's appearance coming hot on the heals of a series of interviews with Lord Christopher Monckton.

...and we'll also come clean and state that as a DIRECT result of Nigel Farage's guest appearance on the Alex Jones Show, this blogger finally did what we've been contemplating for a good eighteen months - and we joined UKIP. While UKIP's policies are completely in sync with what this blogger feels, we do take the additional view that any political party which gets the message of truth extolled by Alex Jones is more than okay by us.

If you like what you hear of Alex Jones, you can subscribe to his free show podcast.

ClimateGate 2: Russia accuses the British Met Office of cherry-picking data that substantiates AGW theory while omitting data that does not

While Gordon Brown and many other world leaders are in Copenhagen claiming to be trying to 'save the world' from Mother Nature (whilst raising taxes, obviously), there's yet another ClimateGate storm brewing.

The eye of the storm on this occasion is directly over the heads of the British Met Office.

Russian news agencies are full of reports asking questions of the Met Office after the Russian Institute of Economic Analysis claimed that the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Research Unit "probably tampered" with climate data from Russia and Siberia.

Specifically, some of the allegations from Russia read as follows:

On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data.

The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country's territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.

The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.

The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations.

On the whole, climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations.

IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations.

The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world's land mass. The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.

In their report on this story, the Daily Express cites Professor Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute in Washington, who says: "There is a significant lack of data coming from Russia in the last decade and a half. [...] We want to know more about the Hadley Centre’s report but they won’t show us the raw data."

Several hat-tips are necessary in this blog post, so congratulations on blogging par excellence to the lovely folk at EU Referendum, the Daily Telegraph's brilliant blogging star James Delingpole, good honest and brave British journalism from the Daily Mail and the Daily Express (which puts the story on today's front page - see image at top of this blog post).

PMQs: 16th December 2009

Don't know about you, but this blogger thinks today's Prime Minister's Questions was a humiliation to British political life.

Standing in for the Prime Minister - an important office of State - was Harriet Harman.

Harman abused the TV coverage of PMQ's to embark upon a lowest common denominator, juvenile, pre-briefed half-hour party political broadcast.

Indeed, the level sunk lower as she resorted to name calling, putting the phrase "climate change denier" into the Hansard record - an appalling depth for the Mother of all Parliaments.

Winner?

The MP who got to their feet and most brought some sense and context of reality to everyday lives was, in our opinion, Simon Hughes (LibDem). Yes, it may have had an air of partisanship to it, but his question on cabinet pay rises caught Harman off-guard from continuing the rant that she was engaged upon and showed the truth behind Labour cabinet attacks on the Conservatives and social background...

Overall, this session of PMQs was a shameful spectacle.

When Lord Monckton met the Greenpeace campaigner

Now, this is how politics should be conducted. Polite, civil, no name calling. What a breath of fresh air Lord Christopher Monckton is.

P.S. It's actually snowing here in Central London (11.15am). Good prospects of a white Christmas..?

ClimateGate: EU Commission President urges legal action against democratically elected British politician... for asking a question

Take a steel plant in Teeside. Add in a curious British MEP - democratically elected by the people. Add a dash of climate change and the President of the European Commission and what do you get?

When UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall stood up in the European Empire yesterday and asked questions about the Corus steel plant on Teeside, Corus owners Tata, carbon credits, and the head of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri...

...up stood EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to urge Pachauri to take Nuttall to court for asking the questions that he asked.

What a very interesting idea of democracy that is. Of course, the European Empire long since stopped even pretending to be about democracy.

As a sovereign nation, our British politicians have for hundreds of years been able to ask whatever they wish within the House of Commons and the House of Lords, free from any legal consequence under the constitutional right of Parliamentary privilege.

Not in the European Empire. Ask a question there and you may find yourself propelled into a court of law.

Thought crime, anyone?

Any British people feel rather uncomfortable about any of this?

We do.

Question arising from this is what - if anything - was so uncomfortable about what Paul Nuttall, democratically elected representative of the people, was asking..?

Meanwhile, we can think of four and a half billion embarrassing reasons why the European Empire should be very quiet about carbon trading...

ClimateGate: Al Gore shamed as... the BNP's Nick Griffin even gets what's going on!

Poor Al Gore. Hounded by protesters who chant "Al Gore, carbon whore" at him wherever he goes in the U.S., he might have thought he was amongst friends at the 'climate con' conference in Copenhagen.

But he's just made himself his own worst enemy.

In his conference speech, Gore dropped the name of Dr. Wieslav Maslowski in order to substantiate a grand claim about ice at the Arctic.

However, Dr. Maslowski has publicly rebutted Gore's claims, saying that he doesn't know where Gore is getting his figures from.

Now there's an inconvenient truth!

Meanwhile, the unrepresented majority of us in the UK who think this is all a great con have just found an unlikely democratically elected representative... the BNP's Nick Griffin!

According to the Daily Telegraph, Griffin has "accused world leaders at the Copenhagen climate conference of the 'biggest hoax in history' that will kill more people than the great famines under Stalin and Mao."

He says that the turning over of land to biofuels instead of food production "on the basis of an unproven theory that is contradicted by an increasing number of scientists" will result in "a crime against humanity which in future will be seen as an enormous man-made famine".

The messenger is unpalatable to many, but we have to give respect where it is due - and Nick Griffin has said a lot of what this blogger would have liked to have said, had we been there.

The number of people saying this amongst the ranks of the Labour Party, the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats is... errr... is there anybody?

Nope, because the three main parties are colluding to make any dissenting opinions a thought crime.

And they wonder why people are voting for the BNP..?

Nick Griffin and the BNP as defenders of lives in under-developed and developing nations against avoidable man-made famine..?

The BNP as the party upholding legitimate political democracy and debate against a tide of thought crime and totalitarian fascism..?

Whatever next. The world is upside down.

Blog post of the day...

Dan Hannan, the patriotic Conservative MEP that it is acceptable for British patriots to admire, has just posted the blog post of the day.

It may only be 8am, but nothing will top what Dan just posted. Have a read. Trust us on this one. Brilliant.

How the British people pay to keep themselves clueless

A high level court case is at the centre of this blog post, so we will be very careful in our wording.

However, The Times and The Independent both report on proceedings in the Court of Appeal over the allegations of British complicity in the torture of Binyam Mohamed.

David Miliband wants to stop redacted passages revealing detail of what supposedly happened to Mohamed from being made public.

The Independent has a profile of Jonathan Sumption QC who is representing the Government. Whilst making reference to his role in the Hutton inquiry into the strange death of Dr. David Kelly, the newspaper also notes the fees that this high flying lawyer commands - the newspaper suggests these are more than £1 million per year. The Indy dubs him the "best money can buy".

Leaving aside the fact we thought the brilliant Mike Mansfield is the best money can buy...

Who do you think is paying for the Government's lawyer?

Do you think it is David Miliband..? Of course it is not.

Do you think it is the Government..? Well, they are very indirectly...

But how do governments ever pay for anything?

They pay for it from our tax money.

So, the person paying for this lawyer is... we, the people.

Take that logic a step further...

So, the people paying to make sure that the British public do not learn what the British Government might or might not have been doing are... the British public.

It's quite beautiful, when you think about it.

The system of Government is so beautifully designed that we're actually paying to try and keep ourselves from learning anything.

Doh!

Now even China and Sudan lecture us on democracy

Strange old world. Sudanese diplomat Lumumba Di-Aping, who chairs the delegation of the G77-China bloc at the global 'climate con' talks, has accused the developed nations and their Danish hosts of working in an undemocratic manner against developing nations.

Speaking to BBC Radio Four's The World At One, he says of the methods being used by developed nations: "It has become clear that the Danish presidency - in the most undemocratic fashion - is advancing the interests of the developed countries at the expense of the balance of obligations between developed and developing countries. The mistake they are doing now has reached levels that cannot be acceptable from a president who is supposed to be acting and shepherding the process on behalf of all parties."

These insights from the Sudanese representative sadly come as no surprise.

Just a week ago, Lord Christopher Monckton went on record stating that he felt Russia is a country with democracy whilst Britain is not.

Meanwhile, summit president Connie Hedegaard feels that delegates have to "get to work".

Yes, there must be an awfully large number of oil companies and banking organisations who desperately want to make huge profits from the carbon trading schemes that are ludicrously being established on the basis of manipulated 'science'.

So, hide the decline if you want to. But you don't have to be a 'climate sceptic' or 'denier' in order to be able to see part of what's going on. And it makes a surprising 'ka-ching!' sound.

Sunday Paper Review: 13th December 2009

Before getting into our normal newspaper review, we had to specially flag up the excellent piece of writing by David Rose for the Mail on Sunday. His article is an easy to read but explosive piece, revealing what the ClimateGate emails contain and some of the tricks that have been used to manipulate the 'climate change' data - and global public opinion. The newspaper's graphics team have also produced the most simple explanation of how a dodgy scientist might 'hide the decline' - excellent, simple presentation so you can see how we've all been misled. Read and see this report before thinking any more of ClimateGate.

The Sunday Telegraph has a report on violence apparently involving what it describes as "anarchists and left-wing activists" at the 'climate con' conference in Copenhagen. What is most interesting is this line: "They were then bused to a detention centre set up for the climate conference." So, would that be a temporary internment camp set up for anyone wanting to express their political viewpoints in close proximity to the world's political elite, then? No wonder the conference is attracting "anarchists". The way democratic protest is being quashed in Western democracy almost makes one sympathetic to "anarchists". Mind you, we were also sympathetic towards the climate protesters at London's G20, but in light of the way people who share their views on 'man made global warming' have acted to try to suppress opposing opinions on the subject, in future, we'll be tempted to show the Met Police a bit more understanding. If people want to have their democratic voice, they should support the same in people whose opinions they disagree with.

The Sunday Times claims that Labour HQ are putting their footsoldiers on alert for a possible "early" General Election. While David Cameron's Conservatives keep coming out with strange policy announcements that are alienating their core vote, a recent poll conducted for the newspaper has the Tory lead down to nine points - apparently buoying the Labour lot and making them consider going for March 25th. Such excitement over the prospect of making 10% of Britain's laws...

...might have to be put on ice as the Independent on Sunday has a poll of it's own which shows the Conservatives with a whopping 17 point poll lead, with the oppressive Labour Party down to 24% - just ahead of the Liberal Democrats. What to make of these contrasting figures?

The Sunday Express claims that Sharia law has been sneaked into Britain, with a one line sentence in the Pre-Budget Report making provisions for business owners in the Islamic faith around their tax arrangements.

The Observer reports that Uganda is to pass a law next month that will make homosexuality a capital offence. The report blames increasing hatred of homosexuality in African nations on "American evangelical Christian groups". Whoever is to blame, one thing is certain - we should not be sending international aid to any nation that supports such a policy. Gordon Brown and Douglas Alexander should be told that in no uncertain terms.

He who would be King - the Mail on Sunday has what it describes as a secret Treasury paper which reveals that Prince William and Harry will take on more of The Queen's duties next year and that William is being groomed as a 'Shadow King', indicating The Queen's possible belief that the Crown should pass directly to her grandson. This blogger feels unswerving support for William and Harry as sons of the wonderful humanitarian and icon of compassion, Diana, Princess of Wales. In fact, we're waiting for William to become King because of who his mother his.

And finally... we almost wet ourselves laughing at a sub-heading over on the News of the World. Apparently, "Gordon Brown supports our anti-bullying crusade". Well, there's nowt as unattractive as self-loathing, Gordon. Maybe you should keep those staplers safely out of reach in future..?

Brown buggers Britain with £1.5 billion bonanza for controversial 'science' climate scare

Well, he gave trillions to the banks, he sold the gold when it was at rock bottom prices, he spent and spent and spent and ran up a ridiculous national debt... now Gordon Brown has gifted £1.5 billion to the World Bank - much higher than France and Germany - in the name of 'climate change'.

Climate changes all the time. Now it has to cost us, the British taxpayer, £1.5 billion.

Look at all the money Gordon Brown keeps managing to find for all these things. Banks. European Empire. Now climate change.

He swans around the globe giving OUR money away. And we have to go to work and pay the taxes for it.

Meanwhile, should we need - for example - cancer drugs on the NHS, we may or may not get them.

Who gave Gordon Brown the permission to give our money away?

24,278 people voted for him. That's all. They should be made to cough up £61,784.33p each which is the equivalent amount to those people to the amount that he's just given away from the entire nation's coffers yet again. That tiny number of people voted for him. The rest of us didn't. Why should we pay for what this man keeps on doing? Let the people of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath bankroll his spending decisions.

We don't support anything Gordon Brown does. Not in our name. He only operates in the name of the people of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. Let them pick up the tab.

In America, Obama is becoming incredibly unpopular over certain policies but at least the nation as a whole voted for him.

And anyway... £1.5 billion for 'climate change'. That's an awfully large amount of money.

So could we have, say, a mere couple of hundred thousand for a full public inquiry listening to all interested parties into what has happened in the ClimateGate scandal?

Sure, investigate how those emails got out if you want to.

But investigate the content and motives contained within those emails, too.

Gordon Brown has just created another 1.5 billion reasons why a full and independent public inquiry is the least the scandal deserves.

Weather Channel founder: There is NO climate crisis

John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, has utterly dismissed talk of a 'climate crisis'.

He has produced a video which sets out his argument in very user friendly terms, pointing out the cyclical nature of the global climate over thousands of years.

Coleman also claims that he has 30,000 scientists backing his side of the climate debate and states that he wants to sue Al Gore in order to have the debate over climate issues in a court of law - because the media refuses to give both sides of the argument.

Carry On Claiming! MPs in further luxurious living at our expense shame.

Ooh err, matron! Those rotten MPs have been caught fleecing the taxpayer again. All of the mainstream news has revelations about the latest claims that our MPs have made on their so called 'expenses'. Bell towers and water wheels are this season's must have fashion items. Duck houses are so last Spring, don't you know?

Struggling to pay your bills? Put food on the table? How to stay warm in winter?

Well, while you struggle and pay your taxes, look at how the other half live - again.

The Daily Express has a pretty decent example of a roll-call of shame.

Why is it that we're just not even surprised by any of this anymore?

Freedom Fighter Lord Monckton joins UKIP

A big cheer went up in Talking Clock Towers when we read that freedom fighter Lord Christopher Monckton has joined UKIP.

We were only praying for such a thing yesterday, as it happens...

You can read the reasoning of both Lord Monckton and UKIP leader Malcolm Pearson on the UKIP website.

This blogger makes no secret of being a strong supporter of UKIP policies.

As a proven individual who is standing up for civil liberties, British national sovereignty and freedom from tyranny on a global platform, Lord Christopher Monckton is an exceptionally welcome addition to the UKIP fold where his opinions, analysis and hopes for humanity will chime well with existing UKIP policies.

We believe Lord Monckton has a lot of positives to bring to the table. Not just for those of us oppressed in Britain, but around the world. We support and endorse this marriage made in heaven wholeheartedly.

Just think - Lord Monckton in Britain, Ron Paul in the US... tyrants everywhere must really hate that idea. We love it...

Any fellow Brits fancy saving six billion quid..?

Britain's contributions to the European Empire are set to jump by £1.2 BILLION to total a staggering £6 BILLION next year, the Daily Telegraph reports after studying the PBR.

Six billion quid.

We PAY six billion quid... to have all of our laws imposed upon us by faceless bureaucrats who we can't even elect, vote against, or oppose. We don't even know their names!

It puts that gym membership that you regret taking out into context, huh?

So, six billion quid to be part of the club most of us don't even want to be in - the European Empire.

We're about to be taxed an awesomely large amount on the basis of 'man made global warming' with the money to be collected - reports say - by the World Bank.

And we gave trillions to banks - only to see them pay themselves billions in bonuses within a year of doing so.

All the while, our political class have been fleecing us for millions with their dodgy expenses.

All rather unbelievable. But what's even more strange is that nobody has organised a million man march on Westminster to protest as yet.

So, presumably, the political class interpret our silence as an indicator of our consent to this grand scale fleecing.

We get the government we deserve, they say. Or do we?

Perhaps people still think there are differences in policy between Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems.

We're finding it incredibly difficult to spot any differences.

And incredibly to difficult to surpress laughter at how stupid we all collectively are for putting up with the way we're being fleeced wholesale.

And a conspiracy theory was further reborn...

Can anybody spot an uncomfortable conspiracy theory in the following statement of fact..?

Sir John Sawers told the nine hundredth Iraq inquiry that talks were taking place between the US and the UK about toppling Saddam from Iraq... as early as January 2001.

Saddam was finally toppled after the utterly shocking, horrendous and grotesque events in New York in September 2001 caused military action to be taken against a state named as part of the 'axis of evil'.

So, those are the dates. Expect them to come up in lots of conversations you'll see on the internet, in print and on TV for a good many years to come.

A Liberal Democrat in doing something sensible shock

It's not often we find anything to praise the Liberal Democrats for. So, for the love of positivity, it is nice to give kudos - for a change - to one of their number.

David Heath MP has called for a Parliamentary debate on the war on photographers.

Making a strong speech in the Nord de la Manche county hall (formerly known as the House of Commons), he lambasted the harassment of happy snappers by ZaNuLiebour's militia under supposed 'terror' legislation.

He told MPs: "I wonder if we could have a debate on what I can only term abuse of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act by police. It is not satisfactory that people up and down the country are being stopped, are being told that they can’t take photographs and if they have taken photographs are asked to delete them from their cameras, on the whim, it would appear, of police officers. So far we have had people who have been told they are not to take a picture of Christ Church in the City, of St Paul’s, of railway wagons, of Christmas lights and of Mick’s Plaice - a fish and chip shop in Chatham. These are not prime terrorist activities and I do think the police need some education in the very, very strong powers that we give them in this House to make sure they are not used improperly."

We're not sure how long it has taken politicians to notice how the people they are meant to serve - us the people - are being terrorised by ZaNuLiebour's legislation.

Certainly, Conservative MP David Davis has folk hero status for making a stand for civil liberties... but generally speaking, the politicians who passed these bad laws that have allowed the public to be terrorised by a police state and have been seemingly relaxed at how we're living under tyranny.

So, bravo David Heath for having some bottle and speaking up for the public. You're probably p*ss*ng in the wind, because the ZaNuLiebour lot seem to love their endless tyranny - but we admire you for trying.

And goodness me, a Liberal Democrat MP saying something of national importance and worth listening to.

Anybody would think there's a General Election around the corner.

ClimateGate: Lord Monckton to take claim of scientific fraud to police

While the media here in Britain and, moreover, the political class are pretending that ClimateGate has not happened, the man who is becoming a folk hero - Lord Christopher Monckton - is determined that the matter will not be swept under the carpet.

Talking again to U.S. talk broadcaster Alex Jones, Lord Monckton reveals that formal requests for investigation have been lodged with the Information Commissioner over the possibility of the destruction of emails at the centre of the ClimateGate scandal.

He has also called on the Crown Prosecution Service to look into the ClimateGate events and has vowed that he will be seeking a briefing meeting with police chiefs to inform them of the case that he believes needs to be answered in light of the ClimateGate scandal.

Lord Monckton told Alex Jones on his Tuesday show that the 'man-made' global warming case is the biggest global scientific fraud of modern times.

Having threatened a diplomatic incident in Copenhagen to get his hands on the draft treaty text, Lord Monckton reveals that the proposed treaty contains the instruments of global government with full tax raising powers that people in the West will be expected to pay. This tax could amount to as much as 2% of GDP, he says.

Interestingly, the supposed 'climate change' emergency being discussed in Copenhagen sees some sort of problem which, apparently, requires the tax on international money transfers as it's solution.

This is interesting. What does this cap and trade business do? There's supposedly a problem. There is no solution. What is being discussed here is that any country can put out as much carbon dioxide (exhale) as it wishes - provided they pay for it. If that fee is paid, then apparently a body is considered to become 'carbon neutral' as a result.

So, the supposed climate crisis requires a radical solution. That solution is that everything can stay the same provided we all cough up enough money to a global organisation which, Lord Monckton notes, will not be elected by anybody.

If the analysis by Lord Monckton is correct... well, listen to what he has to say and draw your own conclusions.

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Alex Jones is attempting to invite UKIP's Nigel Farage onto his show. Go on Nigel - you may not know you want to, but we want you to...

Lord Monckton: Russia has democracy, Britain does not

Lord Christopher Monckton - who this blog was already being switched on to through his thoughtful and thought provoking explanations on how man in not guilty of causing climate change - has done it again.

The 'it' in question this time is to utterly condemn Britain before the eyes of the world.

Speaking to Russia Today, Monckton points out that Russia makes all of her own laws.

Meanwhile, Britain - which betrayed it's people by ceding sovereignty to the European Empire without the consent of the people - has 90% of it's laws imposed on it by foreign powers.

He also accused the current 'climate scare' of causing food riots and killing people as a result of the global rush to biofuels rather than farming land for food.

He might have a nice accent... but boy, is Monckton ever more a man of the people.

And to think his grandfather held office in a Churchill Government...

Two examples of why this blog supports UKIP...

Just two examples of why this blog supports UKIP.

In the House of Lords, new leader Lord Malcolm Pearson has called for an 'in-out referendum' on Britain's membership of the European Empire.

Meanwhile, UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom has hit out at the apparently dodgy science being used to terrify the public into believing that the world is nigh unless we all pay taxes to the World Bank.

Or, let's look at it another way. UKIP supports the democratic voice of the people and believes in British national sovereignty.

It also believes in transparency, a right to debate, opposes mock scientific tyranny and believes in fighting for a fair deal for British taxpayers.

Hurrah and hurrah. Britain has a sensible political party. Now we just need to be collectively brave enough to go out and vote for it.

Can someone form an Opposition, please?

Yet again, the Conservatives have become ZaNuLiebour in BluLabour clothing...this time, on the Great Man-Made Global Warming Swindle.

Hot on the heals of Gordon Brown insulting more than half of the electorate who are cynical about the climate claims by labelling them as "flat earthers" comes... the Conservative Party - a section of at least - who are using the exact same label.

Now, we've already discussed how weak one's argument is if one resorts to ridiculous name calling to make the point, so, let's make the point we want to make - that we have no opposition in British politics.

Man made climate change: ZaNuLiebour are trying to convince us and insult us if we aren't convinced. The Conservatives are on the same crusade, led by David Cameron. The Lib Dems, naturally, are on the same bus.

The latest claims come from a group within the Conservatives led by Ken Clarke.

Ken Clarke is the most vocal EU supporter in the Conservative Party.

The European Union: No vote for the public, despite all three parties promising us one. Labour and the Lib Dems colluded and conspired to pass the Lisbon Treaty. The Conservatives - with Ken Clarke as one of their 'big beasts' - made sounds which suggested they would offer us a referendum no matter what... and then changed their mind. The Conservatives are so in favour of their EU project that they knocked back an offer from UKIP centered on the promise of an 'in-out' referendum. In rejecting the UKIP advance, they showed that they would rather risk a hung Parliament and millions of votes than jeopardise their European Empire project.

Iraq and Afghanistan: A few Lib Dem plus points here, but not one party is demanding the return of our troops from Afghanistan where we are fighting a war which, we are told, is being fought to "stop Al Qaeda terrorising us on the streets of Britain".

...but hang on. Al Qaeda aren't terrorising us on the streets of Britain. Where are they? Nobody has terrorised me and said they're from Al Qaeda. While you've been in Britain, have you experienced anything untoward and anyone from something called Al Qaeda introduce themselves or claim that they did it? No? Thought not.

So, who is terrorising us?

The man-made global warming arguments. The world is going to end. We're all going to die. Visions of apolcalypse unless we all pay lots of taxes to the World Bank.

This all hot on the heals of us all being about to drop down dead of swine flu - the virus everyone who ever caught a cold was diagnosed with (mostly by a call centre operative with no medical background) and which in reality has been such a trifling little nothingness that we wonder what all of the fuss was about. Come on... think back. What were we offered? Visions of apocalypse unless we all ran out and got vaccines.

Errr... please stop terrifying us and terrorising us. It doesn't work. We're not scared.

Civil liberties, CCTV cameras everywhere. Stopping and harassing photographers. Arresting 80-year old hecklers at Labour Party conferences. Shooting people on the tube and battering newspaper vendors. Listening to our phone calls and emails. Databases this, that and the other.

Oppose Government policy? Thought terrorist. Extremist. We're coming to lock you up for 90 days just because we feel like it. Haebus Corpus? Never heard of it. Jury trial? You can forget that!

Now gives us your DNA and your eye retina scan...

Sorry, but the people terrorising the British people are doing so at the behest of New Labour with no opposition from anyone supposedly in the opposition parties - not some third world bloke in a beard and robes who is living in a cave.

Then we get to the economy where trillions upon trillions were siphoned off the tax kitty and given to the banking industry.

All of the three main political parties supported it with barely a murmur.

And lo and behold, they're talking about banks paying out billions to themselves in bonuses again. Even from banks that we now own!

All this from Westminster, where our three political parties are embroiled in scandal after ripping off the British taxpayer with dodgy expenses to the tune of millions and millions of pounds.

There's not a Rizla paper between the three main parties on most of these things.

Just one great big LibLabCon.

Cynical? About politics, politicians and anything they say or do?

Us? No sir! For if we were, we'd surely be dragged off in the night.

This current set up bears more and more resemblance to 1939 with each passing day.

When the election comes - provided they let us have one - we couldn't care less who you vote for. But please do not vote for the LibLabCon. Look where it's all headed...

Sunday Paper Review: 6th December 2009

The Sunday Telegraph states that one of the scientists at the centre of the ClimateGate scandal - Professor Phil Jones - has "successfully received more than £13 million in research funding". Named funding bodies - who actually coughed up closer to FOURTEEN million quid - include: the European Union, NATO, the US department of energy, the Met Office, the Environment Agency, the National Rivers Authority and the Department for the Environment. Meanwhile, an ICM poll for the newspaper finds that only one in two British voters accept the theory of man-made climate change. This is quite remarkable, considering the relentlessly enforced news reporting complete with visions of apocalypse and the hysterical name calling that comes with it.

Britain's last democratically elected Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is on the receiving end of the pointed finger of the Independent on Sunday. Their report claims that he has been "paid thousands of pounds to 'endorse' a fossil-fuel power plant" in Azerbaijan. We won't go too far into this one, except for allowing a faint smile to cross our lips - considering the sewerage level of rhetoric being used by his former party colleagues in their attempts to quell discussion on the ClimateGate scandal.

The Sunday Times reveals that our brave troops are exceptional in their bravery... and in their judgement. For it turns out that, when Gordon Brown paid a visit to injured troops in a hospital in Selly Oak, "more than half" of our soldiers "closed curtains round their beds" and "refused to speak to him". There are several choice quotes from some of the Afghan veterans concerned - the unelected PM's visit to them being described as "opportunistic".

The Mail on Sunday reports that Her Majesty the Queen will have to give her name, age and address every time she flies into or out of the country... so that some employees of Her Majesty's government can make sure Her Majesty is not a terrorist. You really couldn't make this up. Anyway, welcome to the everyday lives of your subjects, Ma'am. Of course, it is in The Queen's gift to uphold the constitution which express forbids such harassment...

The Sunday Express cites Conservative MP Douglas Carswell who believes that there may be a secret ballot to depose John Bercow as House of Commons Speaker after the General Election. Assuming, that is, that Bercow is re-elected and his constituents don't opt for the hero that is Nigel Farage of UKIP instead.

And finally... we couldn't find much to get animated about on The Observer, but they do have a nice photograph of Cristiano Ronaldo without his shirt on. If you like that kind of thing...

...which leads us into the hard story from the News of the World where it is suggested that the England squad will be given Viagra before every game at next year's football World Cup finals. Oh, to be a fly on the wall afterwards... we need a stiff drink after that thought!

ClimateGate: Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg stoop to childish name-calling

And on ClimateGate rumbles.

In case you've missed anything, here's a brief recap.

A couple of weeks ago, a swathe of emails - accepted as genuine - were leaked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

These emails have shocked the globe as they appear to suggest that the data behind man-made global warming arguments has been subjected to manipulation. In respect of the last ten years in which there has been global cooling, there is reference to scientists attempting to "hide the decline". The emails also show the way that scientists with opposing views have been closed out of the debate and have had their abilities to publish work hindered.

So, let us be in no doubt. These allegations, if true, are incredibly serious. Political policies around the world have been based on what was supposed to have been reliable science.

Trillions upon trillions of pounds of taxpayer's money from nations all over the globe have been used and will be used on the basis of this 'science'.

People's transport choices are not the only thing to be at stake - increasingly, our very human diet is being targeted under this supposed science. Increasing numbers of people are proposing that human beings must stop eating meat to save the planet. In the last seven days, Paul McCartney went to the European Union to discuss this topic with people who share this view. Frontbench British politicians have also started to make this case.

So, when the science behind such an issue is called into question - not on the basis of wishful thinking but on the basis of the content of leaked emails that has been accepted as genuine - you might think there might be a serious response.

So, here's serious according to the British front-bench political class.

Ed Miliband has decided that those who think there are questions to answer are "deniers" and "saboteurs".

No engagement with what's being going on - just ridiculous labels thrown at anyone not agreeing with him.

Forget what these emails say - we are meant to agree without thinking else wear a derogatory label.

But what do you expect from a man whose leader is also into the same?

Now, with such a scandal under politicians of years gone by, you might have expected the Home Secretary to attend the House of Commons, adopt a sombre tone, and announce an immediate investigation and public inquiry.

Oh no. Not anymore.

This is what we get from our unelected Prime Minister: "With only days to go before Copenhagen we mustn't be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics. We know the science. We know what we must do."

Shall we run that by you again?

"...behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics".

Is this any way for a British Prime Minister to respond to something that is not just a British scandal but a global scandal..?

Perhaps it was foolish of us to expect anything more, but one would have hoped that the British Prime Minister might have engaged with the content of the emails and what they appear to suggest and taken action to get to the bottom of what has been going on.

Instead, we get name calling.

But what do you expect when, on the Opposition benches, a leader decides that he too wishes to take the name calling path of response.

Here's Nick Clegg of the LibDems: "Ideological dinosaurs, whether in Saudi Arabia or in the Conservative party, who deny climate change must not be allowed to hide behind some leaked correspondence to support their outdated theories".

Shall we run that by you again?

"...idealogical dinosaurs".

Again, more name-calling. No response to what the emails say. Just more name calling.

Read what they have to say for yourself - here's the source.

This is our current political class. No engagement with what we, the people, are talking about. No recognition of the incredibly serious questions that 'ClimateGate' raises.

Nope, all we get is people in high office or high profile public roles responding to the issue by name calling.

How weak is their argument, therefore?

There is a scandal over the content of these emails, even if that scandal is an inconvenient truth to these people.

But ask yourself this. Who do our political class actually represent? You've no doubt read the reaction of the public on a wide number of mainstream media forums. You've no doubt concluded that people have taken a deeply cynical position in light of ClimateGate.

So then, why is it that all we get from our political class is an exercise in childish name-calling?

Who are the public more likely to trust? Those who say there are questions to be answered... or those who are running around calling people names?

That is something that you must draw your own conclusions and opinions upon.

As for the questions surrounding ClimateGate, those questions will not simply go away, however inconvenient they may be.

ClimateGate will not go away. It is not just a British problem. The eyes of the world are watching. And six billion people are about to learn a few uncomfortable truths about the way we are being governed.

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Those looking for a more thoughtful response to ClimateGate might wish to consider engaging with UKIP.

New leader Lord Pearson explains his party position on that matter, saying: "We are also deeply sceptical of the new religion of man-made global warming. It’s the focus group favourite. It is also the most catastrophic misuse of dubiously collated statistics yet unleashed upon the world. That climate changes is not in doubt.* That we must conserve, protect and care for our environment is a must. But to pillage the public purse and come over as moral superiors takes a special talent and establishment talent at that. As always with science the jury is out. UKIP takes the scientific method seriously."

Meanwhile, The Met Office is reported to be planning a three year review of 180 years of climate data, acknowledging that the public no longer trust what they have been told. Tellingly, The Times reports that the Government is trying to stop the Met Office - which works closely with the controversial University of East Anglia climate research unit - from re-examining the data.

* Our emphasis.

Film acclaims 'hero' of democracy, free-thought and free-speech

Nice to have something positive to blog about.

With a hat-tip to UKIP, this blog would like to concur with the findings of the following short film.

While Obama has won the Noble Peace Prize for... errrr.. not bringing peace to anywhere, the subject of this short film is a passionate advocate of real democracy, a defender of free-thought and free-speech - a true hero of epic proportions who this blog would welcome as Prime Minister if ever, from the realms of wishful thinking, he should ever attain such a stature.

We say no more and give you the short film:

ClimateGate: Sarah Palin attcks dodgy "fraudulent" science

With a hat-tip to James Delingpole, visitors might like to know that former US Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has written a heavy criticism of those at the centre of the ClimateGate scandal.

She writes: "Boycotting Copenhagen while this scandal is thoroughly investigated would send a strong message that the United States government will not be a party to fraudulent scientific practices".

We're sure Ed Miliband will find what he thinks is a suitable personal insult to hurl at her when he finds out what she's said. What label will he give her? Will she be a "denier"..? A "saboteur"..? Or something else?

How about her being a human being who is genuinely concerned about what she has learned? Don't a very large number of us globally fit into that category?

It is quite interesting looking at the responses of normal, man-on-the street - normal, everyday folk just like myself.

On the overwhelming majority of posts that this blogger has read on mainstream media news report comment sections, it seems that the public weren't buying the whole AGW apocalypse BEFORE ClimateGate - and are buying it even less now.

As politicians are meant to be our representatives, on whose behest do our politicians propose to go to Copenhagen and sign agreements that will send us reeling back into the dark ages? Especially in the light of what we now know of the content of ClimateGate emails.

Meanwhile, there are reports that the IPCC wants to investigate the ClimateGate scandal.

To my mind, that's a bit like asking someone to investigate their favourite, much-loved daughter while wearing rose-tinted specs.

ClimateGate: Miliband throws more labels around at people who won't agree with him (but they aren't listening)

Ed Miliband has decided to launch into full attack on the Conservatives over what people on his side of the debate insist is man-made global warming.

Mini-Miliband recently lowered his office as minister of state into the sewerage when he - of all people - attempted to hysterically brand those with opposing views on climate change to his own as "deniers"; a word that deliberately makes inference to the holocaust and all the more seedy because of it. Such hysterical name calling has become the hallmark of the current leftist way of trying to shut down discussion.

Little wonder people are starting to question any argument that such people try advancing. Want people to stop listening? Try that method of name calling. The British public are not completely stupid all of the time.

Branding the majority of the British public as "deniers" can hardly be a vote winner, either.

Yet personal name-calling seems to be mini-Miliband's forte. Here he goes again.

Speaking of Lord Lawson and David Davis in the context of the forthcoming Copenhagen global government climate change summit in light of their publicly raised question marks, he says: "It is profoundly irresponsible for people like Nigel Lawson, who has held high office, and David Davis to be doing what they are doing. It is very dangerous. People sabotaging the process deserve the name saboteur."

Saboteur. Denier. Any more names you want to throw into the mix? How about Labour's favourite... terrorist? Extremist? Any other labels you'd like to use, Mr. Miliband?

Surely, when a minister of state has to keep on using such emotive and gutter level language, it severely damages the argument even more than a leaked email making reference to hiding the decline...

Still, he can do his damnedest. He might even be able to shut down discussion in police state Britain... but he has no control whatsoever over the American House of Congress.

Here's Michigan's Republican congressional representative Candice Miller urging an American investigation into the University of East Anglia's climate research unit alleging criminal acts - and summarising the behaviour of those like Ed Miliband, too:

Bravo, Ms. Miller.

And she is not a lone voice, either.

Senator Jim Inhofe is also demanding a serious investigation over manipulation of data, the vilification of people with opposing viewpoints and the alleged potentially criminal action:

So, mini-Miliband can call people names all he likes. The lid is off Pandora's Box and he can't intimidate American politicians by calling them names. Thank goodness.

Neither can he intimidate people in Saudi Arabia or order the same devices used to control the British public to act on Saudi soil.

So what does mini-Miliband intend to do about Mohammad Al-Sabban of Saudi Arabia, then?

Al-Sabban tells the BBC that ClimateGate has made his mind up: "It appears from the details of the scandal that there is no relationship whatsoever between human activities and climate change. Climate is changing for thousands of years, but for natural and not human-induced reasons. So, whatever the international community does to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have no effect on the climate's natural variability," he says.

Seems some people are just out of the reach of attempts to scare, bully and intimidate people into changing their opinions.

Thank goodness we have some people in the world with independent thought.

Gordon Brown and his ilk will just have to find some other pretext for their 'global government' and 'new world order' to be imposed.

No wonder people are cynical about politics and politicians.

Can anybody really believe that a British minister of state would walk around throwing labels around at anyone who disagrees with him in such a manner?

So, to keep up, here's another label for him: 'utter disgrace'.

Meanwhile, columnist Leon de Winter of Elsevier magazine gives a hand to those of us who cannot speak Dutch. He tells how researchers from a government body in the Netherlands have trashed Al Gore's theories about melting snowcaps on Kilimanjaro. The Dutch Organisation of Scientific Research concludes that such melting is part of a natural process and concludes that Al Gore's conclusion that man is to blame is "unfortunate".

And finally (for now), The Washington Times is reporting that NASA may soon find itself under the microscope of the climate change row with threats of legal action for the release of data being discussed.