Dr. David Kelly conspiracy theories re-emerge as Blair wins 'Liberty' medal in U.S.

Like something from The Twilight Zone, try making sense of these two juxtaposed stories in the British mainstream media.

All we can say, first of all, is well done to the Daily Mail for their courage and bravery in printing the first story.

They report on claims by an American female colleague of the late Iraq weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly who, in a letter to our Attorney General Dominic Grieve, she states could not have slashed his own wrists as he was 'too weak'.

She also alleges that Dr. Kelly had difficulty swallowing pills.

Meanwhile, in the States, Tony Blair - the former PM who took us into the Iraq war - has just been awarded the 2010 Liberty Medal and a cash prize of $100,000 reports the Daily Telegraph.

The Daily Express reports on Blair's speech of thanks in which he states: "Freedom, liberty and justice are the values by which this medal is struck. Freedom, liberty and justice are the values which I try to apply to my work on governance in Africa and on preparing the Palestinians for statehood. They are the values which drive the work of my faith foundation as we try to show that people of different faiths can live together constructively in peace and harmony."

It is an award that is likely to baffle many people as much as the rather bizarre awarding of a Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for bringing peace to... absolutely nowhere.

You should see what readers of The Guardian have to say on the matter...

The developments come on the same day that the Chilcott inquiry into the legality and circumstances of the Iraq war recommenced after a break so as to not interfere with the General Election.

G20: Charlie Veitch of 'The Love Police' in court; The global shaming of Canada

Live on the Alex Jones Show this evening has been the latest news of what's been happening to Charlie Veitch of the 'Love Police' satirical activist movement.

Speaking live on the telephone from the courthouse to Alex was Dan Dicks of Canadian alternative media source Press for Truth, and a large Canadian corporate media presence was reportedly encamped out front of the court.

Veitch is charged with impersonating a police officer. There was no resolution to his case as Alex Jones went off air at 21.00 UK time.

[21.19 Update: Early Canadian press reports say that Veitch has been released on bail.]

Veitch was, according to reports, detained on his way back to England at the airport.

Originally arrested and taken to a Guantanamo type institution where he was allegedly strip searched and perved upon while held like an animal in a cage and subjected to psychological abuse, Veitch has shamed Canada by sharing with the world a video tape in which police invent non-existent laws in order to demand identity papers from Veitch and order that he stop filming within five meters of a 'public works' area.

The impersonation charge stems from his joking with a security guard that he was British intelligence in Canada to help stage agent provocateur acts so that the police could justify attacking peaceful demonstrators.

* The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is calling for a public inquiry into Canadian G20 policing. They are joined in a separate call for an inquiry by Amnesty International.

See also: Canada G20 - Female journalists make sex claims against Canadian police
See also: This blog's call for an international inquiry into G20 militarised policing
See also: British newspaper The Guardian has contributor assaulted by Canadian police - claims

Some good comes from Europe: Government loses over stop and search

A bid to appeal against the finding by the European Court of Human Rights against the Labour Government policy of random 'stop and search' under the disgustingly overplayed and abused pretext of 'terrorism' has been flatly refused.

This means that the European Court has found section 44 of the Terrorism Act to be illegal... and it will remain illegal.

So now, the new, seemingly non-fascist coalition Government will have to do something about it.

We find ourselves agreeing entirely with Alex Deane of Big Brother Watch fame who writes on the CentreRight blog: "I find myself - a patriot, and a Eurosceptic - in the peculiar situation of being glad that lawyers representing my country have been defeated in the European court."

Took the words right out of our mouth, Alex. Couldn't agree more.

Hate the European Empire. Hated Labour and their bogeyman fallacy of 'terrorism', through the over hyped spectre of which Labour terrorised and tyrannised the British people.

...love today's final proclamation.

But how pathetic that this once great nation was led so far into hell by Labour that the British people needed the European Court of Human Rights to protect us from tyranny.

G20: Charlie Veitch of 'The Love Police' arrested at airport returning to England

If there's not going to be an international inquiry into the brutal policing of G20 events - most recently in Canada, then our Foreign Secretary William Hague should at least call the Canadian ambassador into the Foreign Office and demand answers to some of what is being alleged against Canadian authorities.

Actually, there ought to be a flipping huge diplomatic row if the allegations in this last video prove to have any factual basis.

Now see, we don't particularly like Charlie Veitch's 'Love Police' activist act at this blog.

However, we do take his side when it turns out that the arrest originally imposed on him by Canadian stormtrooper G20 cops was based on a law that, according to reports, didn't even exist.

He's now - apparently - been arrested and prevented from coming back to England... on charges of impersonating a police officer.

We are also very concerned at reports of women journalists being strip searched by men and - allegedly - being threatened with rape and being 'gang banged':

The end of 'bang 'em up' policies - warmly welcomed here

We have to congratulate Justice Secretary Ken Clarke on his announcement that, in a shift in policy, the new Government will bring to an end the 'bang 'em up' approach to criminal justice.

Now, we have our difficulties with the messenger. No need to explain to 'eu' what they are...

And we know what is going on.

We do not believe that care and compassion lie behind this decision - it is no doubt predicated on cost.

However, we warmly welcome and support the move.

It has long been the belief of this blogger that prison is a punishment.

It is a punishment to wives, girlfriends, husbands, boyfriends, children, parents, brothers, sisters, employers and taxpayers...

The person probably least punished by prison is the offender.

And anyway, this blogger does not believe in retribution. We believe in rehabilitation and compassion.

Granted, murderers and terrorists deserve to be banged up. Anybody else..? We think there must be alternatives.

So, what are those alternatives? It is a difficult question.

First of all, identifying what made someone commit a crime must be top of the list.

If someone does something wrong due to emotional difficulties, have those been addressed? Have we offered that person appropriate emotional support?

That's a very simple first example of what this blogger would like to see.

Then there is the issue of common law principles. How many people are locked up due to an act of statute that does not run along the common law position of loss, harm or injury? What on earth are we locking people up if they are guilty of none of those three things?

So, we welcome the change in policy and would hope that sensible ideas can be brought in to address the cause of genuine crime in the community.

No doubt the budget for the probation service and their support services will actually need to be increased.

But the net saving compared to banging people up and damaging everyone concerned for eternity must be phenomenal.

If you think of it in those terms, it's a win-win situation for the offender, their loved ones, and the taxpayer alike.

So, well done for being brave enough to propose such a change in attitude, Ken... no matter the motive or your Europhile ways.

Boris defeats the 'Democracy Village'... was he right?

It's very difficult to reconcile one's feelings about the news that London's Mayor, Boris Johnson, has won the court case to evict protesters from the Westminster encampment known as 'Democracy Village'.

On the one hand, there's the hat to be worn by a libertarian who would agree with the argument that the way we are currently being ruled over by our public servants is wrong.

Wearing that hat, it does seem to be a very negative and concerning move.

People should have the right to protest, especially when they are taxpayers in a democratic nation who have genuine issues which they do not feel are being addressed.

However, there is another hat that this blogger wears - one of a London resident who pays Council Tax to the City of Westminster.

Let's face it - the democracy village contains an assorted collection of people who, whilst laudably being passionate about their individual causes, seem to be an assorted mish-mash of anything and everything with no coherent message.

In order to convey that incoherent message, they are occupying a piece of land next to not one but two of the nation's most beautiful buildings which - as a City of Westminster resident - my taxes directly pay for the maintenance of those grounds and for the policing of that area.

Does the 'Democracy Village' appear to have any cohesive message? No.

Is it a complete and utter eyesore? Yes.

Are the people on that ground paying taxes to the City of Westminster to be resident on that ground? Pass. Probably not.

Now, let's say that a group of travellers in mobile homes pitched up on that land and held up a few hand painted signs occasionally saying something or another about their lifestyle choice.

Would we expect them to be moved along at some point? Probably. They cannot turn Parliament Square into a caravan park.

So, why should a few people with an incoherent message be able to turn it into a permanent campsite?

Now, if as a society we'd decided to live under anarchy and call the whole lot a great bit Bacchanalian festival, 365, then fair enough - those are the structures (or lack of) that we expect.

However, at the moment, we can't all pitch up in... say, the Lake District, declare it an independent state and say that we're ignoring everything from Westminster and Brussels.

While that doesn't sound like a bad idea at all, we're not there. Yet.

So, until as a collective society we decide that's the way we want to live and - taking into account the lack of coherent message from the 'Democracy Village'...

...as a City of Westminster Council Tax Payer, they can keep their village provided they pay the same Council Tax bills as I do and make their village fit in with the aesthetics of their local environment (as I am obliged to do so at home, too).

Until then, sorry, it's not an official campsite.

They've been allowed to make their point. They've been allowed to protest. They've been there long enough. They can't stay there permanently.

So, we come down on the side of Boris Johnson and the London local authority.

You may not agree. It is a difficult call for a conservative libertarian. But at least we have shared our rationale.

G20: Time we wrote to our MPs demanding an international inquiry into militarised policing

Just been looking at some of the footage of the policing of the G20 protests.

This is one of the milder examples. We won't patronise you on how to go and find worse.

It seems that - every single time there is one of these G20 shindigs - the same scenes are caught on camera.

Militarised police who look like they've escaped from the set of Star Wars using brutality against people exercising their democratic right to protest.

Claims of agent provocateurs and pretend 'anarchists' who are witnessed crossing police lines.

Beatings and brutality.

Now, you could look at one of these G20 things and think one national police force had misbehaved.

However, it seems that wherever the G20 goes, the tactics of brutality and intimidation against peaceful protesters follows.

It is about time that our Members of Parliament demanded an inquiry on an international stage about all this.

The question is very simple. While you were watching football with Angela Merkel, Prime Minister, are you aware of the policing methods being deployed against members of the public on the streets of Toronto? What do you have to say about those methods? And why do they appear to be uniquely brutal at G20 summits?

Someone is issuing orders somewhere. And - judging by the exact same methods being deployed everywhere the G20 goes - one might be justified in thinking those orders come from somewhere at the supranational level.

Who is ordering these militarised police forces? Who is ordering the charging of innocent, peaceful protesters?

It is time we asked these questions of our representatives at Westminster. It is time these questions were asked and answered at an international level.

And - quite frankly - whoever is ordering this horrifying display which looks like something out of a nightmarish episode of Star Wars... shouldn't they be accounting for their actions in a human rights court?

And if military police are involved, if there is a human rights abuse question mark, shouldn't someone in The Hague be right now sat on YouTube and making notes about the raw footage that is now being seen by members of the public..?
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Back in the UK, this is disgraceful, too. Well done to the young sixth-form photographer concerned for sticking up for their rights - correctly, and well done to The Independent for getting on the case. Readers of the BJP are also up in arms about this incident.

Diane Abbott: The refusal to answer questions and the subsequent evaporation of support

As a Labour leadership contender, Diane Abbott was an interesting figure.

In Parliament, she has made a number of speeches that we at this blog support.

Now, we don't care whether she appears 'hypocritical' in choosing to send her children to any school that she can afford to send them to.

Who wouldn't, if they could afford it?

And that question seems to be at the heart of a row which has almost certainly damaged her remote chances of winning the Labour leadership campaign.

It all started to unravel when the Daily Mirror interviewed her and asked about criticism she suffered when she made the decision to send her children to private school.

She told the Daily Mirror: "I’m a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children."

Appearing on the weekly politics show This Week - on which she has been a highly paid panellist for quite some time now - she was asked by presenter Andrew Neil to justify the remark.

In what a large number of people are seeing as a huge triumph of equality for all, Neil asked - in a number of ways - whether such a comment, with all it's apparent implications, was actually racist.

Diane Abbott didn't want to discuss the issue - no matter how many times Andrew Neil asked.

The leftists at The Guardian are bandying names about like 'rightwinger' and - bizarrely - are accusing Andrew Neil's questions of 'bordering on racist'.

...for daring to challenge someone about their own statement, those well worn labels have to be trotted out.

This despite Andrew Neil inviting Diane Abbott to say something positive about mothers of other racial backgrounds. Abbott declined the invitation.

It is the way the left shuts down debate. Label throwing.

Andrew Neil - a journalist with a spine that this blogger supports entirely as a man known for daring to bravely ask questions that the British people want to have asked - finds himself being celebrated by a vastly huge and overwhelming proportion of people over at the Daily Mail website who are praising Andrew Neil for challenging Abbott on the seemingly unattractive nature of her comments.

Many Daily Mail readers expressing an opinion seem to be very pleased that possibly anti-white comments are being challenged as racist by a popular public media figure.

Over three thousand people have indicated their agreement with a comment from a member of the public which praises Neil for fighting back against 'political correctness tripe'.

Indeed, Diane Abbott is - in our view and in our eyes - now very damaged by this episode.

Not because of the school thing. Good for her, in our view.

But in the analysis of the row, many people have pointed to comments that she has made regarding race in the past.

In 1996, she issued an apology after comments that she made regarding "blond, blue eyed" Finnish nurses.

Adding that episode - which this blogger previously was not aware of - to the row engulfing her comments this week and, alas, we cannot support Diane Abbott.

It does seem that she is prone to making these types of gaffes - which would be okay if they just reflected upon her.

However, she is a high profile public figure who has influence. People - both private citizens and huge corporations - act and react to such remarks.

Her evasiveness on This Week was - frankly - embarrassing for her.

And - to be frank, Diane - we can't see why the taxpayer should pay for your taxis either. What makes you so special?

In that, of course, Abbott is not alone.

But the defence of that issue was also cringe worthy.

If Labour were to select Diane Abbott as their leader, they would make themselves history for sure.

Which leaves the rest of the very sorry field - all of whom we actually despise.

Without Abbott, they really are a sorry bunch of contenders.

What a sorry state of affairs for Labour... and it's supporters.

Was a British Guardian newspaper journalist beaten up by Canadian G20 cops..?

While we've been distracted by the World Cup, the G20 have been meeting in Canada. You possibly didn't know that as most major news channels seem to not be mentioning it. BBC and Sky seem silent. And even flicking over to Fox News hasn't enlightened us any.

Turn to the alternative media.

One report on the Alex Jones website suggests that violence is again being unleashed against the people.

However, if one aspect of the report is true, it could seriously backfire if - as might be the case - police brutality has been used against a Guardian newspaper journalist.

We'll look to see if we can find out more, but the source material states as follows:

“As I was escorted away from the demonstration, I saw two officers hold a journalist. The journalist identified himself as working for ‘the Guardian.’ He talked too much and pissed the police off. Two officers held him a third punched him in the stomach. Totally unnecessary. The man collapsed. Then the third officer drove his elbow into the man’s back. No cameras recorded the assault. And it was an assault.”

UPDATE: The story appears to be based on truth. Here's how the Guardian itself is reporting the incident:

Among those arrested was Jesse Rosenfeld, 26, a Canadian journalist who has written for the Guardian's Comment is free site. Witnesses said he was punched by police.

See also: John Hilary, Comment is Free, in The Guardian: "...an intimidating, militarised presence that many Canadians feel has been deliberately cultivated in order to undermine their right to protest against the G20 and its damaging impacts."

- Charlie Veitch, celebrated by some of our blogging colleagues for his role in The Love Police activist group, told Alex Jones on Friday about his treatment in Canada:

In April 2009, newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson died after being an innocent bystander at the G20 protests in London. The incidents involving British police and Mr. Tomlinson immediately before his death caused global shockwaves after being caught on camera by members of the public. The footage showed events that, according to huge public opinion, clearly differed from the official account of what happened to the poor, unfortunate man. Again, The Guardian newspaper was central to the revelations that followed which led to a huge public outcry.

If a Guardian newspaper contributor has indeed been assaulted in the way described, this could escalate quite dramatically again.

Germany 4-1 England (and even blind officials don't stop the Germans deserving it)

First half:

So, it's Germany 2-2 England at half-time.

Unfortunately, a blind referee and two blind linesmen have cheated England out of a goal and so the official scoreline is 2-1 to the Germans.

In fairness, Germany seem good for their lead.

They took their first goal advantage with a V2 rocket launched by the German goalkeeper which blasted a hole in the back of the English net with the help of an extra shot from one of the German attackers.

With England dazed, the blitz continued. Two German bombers were not picked up by English defences and the David James goal fell to a German ground assault.

The spirit of England came to life.

Matthew Upson, leaving the regiment of the defensive ranks where his job of defending the nation has been particularly ineffective, decided to play with an aerial assault weapon - rallying to the cause and hitting the Germans where it hurt.

A few moments later, Frank Lampard was unleashed from the Chelsea barracks. He smacked the ball at the German goal and brought the enemy to it's knees. Germany 2-2 England.

However, the cunning Germans had dark allies.

While everyone in the world saw that Lampard's bomb hit it's target and destroyed Germany... the blind referee and the linesmen decided that those three alone in the world had not seen it. They carried on as though the England lions had never roared back in anger - they disallowed the goal.

Germany 2-1 England officially.

But 2-2 morally, for those of us who were watching.

The officials? Should have gone to Specsavers.

Half time.

The second half started with a good square dogfight in which you felt that the English troops would win the battles and overcome the old foe.

An excellent Frank Lampard grenade of a free-kick exploded without causing collateral damage against the German woodwork.

The reinforcement brigade of Joe Cole was called up to help with the England assault.

However, before the brave English fight back could deliver national pride, the Germans unleashed their fighter bombers again.

Not one but two counter attacks led to a blitz against the scoreline. With no defending squadrons to repel the attacks, the German fighters were able to land their payloads with great aplomb leaving David James with nothing more that he could do than head for shelter in the bunkers.

FT: Germany 4-1 England

Our man of the match: David James - he may have conceeded four, but in our view, he alone of all of our defensive players prevented this being an even more huge humiliation.

The German team deserve their win, alas. They were leaner, fitter, faster, and played more as a unit.

While the German squaddies could deliver accurate shots and crosses, we had Wayne 'Who Ate All The Pies?' Rooney who - at best - looked like an overstuffed pedestrian.

The German team knew how to cross to a team-mate. We had Steven Gerrard, the glory-hunter who wasted ball after ball after ball by seeking personal glory instead of passing to an attacking forward.

Our defence did not show up. Our forwards collectively seemed like they were from the ranks of Dad's Army. And our midfielders were never once in this tournament a team unit.

So, fair play to the Germans. Apologies for the war analogies but you know we'll do that forever.

But you deserved the victory. Well done.

So, England...

...they're coming home, they're coming home, they're coming...

...and looking like fat, sweaty, lazy, over-stuffed loafers as they head back for the savaging they're about to get from the British national press.

And quite right, too.

Sunday Paper Review: 27th June 2010

Well, if you ever had a sneaking suspicion that you are - in fact - a slave of big corporations, suspect it no more. You are. The Sunday Telegraph contains a news report which states that the new Government is going to force people who are long term unemployed to relocate to areas of the country where there are jobs available. Forget family, friends, relationships. Nope. You will be shipped around to places where you are needed to provide labour. Cattle. Slavery. Call it what you will. Utterly disgraceful idea. Utterly totally repugnant. Didn't take the Tories long to become the nasty party again, did it?

The Independent on Sunday suggests that rebel Lib Dems are secretly making strategic plans with Labour to oppose parts of the Budget. Labour apparently are only too happy to oblige, hoping that it will destabilise the coalition Government. Which is ruddy marvellous, huh? Just what the country needs. Instability, a finance bill that is decapitated and a General Election - again - a couple of months down the line. Sheer genius, guys. Wonderful to know the country is in such safe hands.

It is, of course, all about party politics. The Observer reports on a YouGov/Brand Democracy survey which shows that a huge number of people who voted LibDem at the last General Election are deserting the party - apparently as a direct result of the coalition proposal to hike VAT to 20%.

If the people running our country weren't pathetic enough, their puppetmasters in the European Empire have found new depths of pathetic barminess to descend to. Apparently, UK retailers will be banned from selling six eggs or four bread rolls reports the Mail on Sunday. Instead, they will have to sell food items by their weight in grams. Apparently, dear slave, you find it very complicated and confusing when faced with packaging that says a box contains 'six eggs'. This bizarre and bonkers new dictat is to prevent you being confused. Apparently.

Off on a tangent, The People claims that the marriage between Prince Charles and Camilla (choke) Parker-Bowles is in rocky waters with the two allegedly living almost separate lives. We wouldn't like to say whether the story is true or not. If it is? Welcome to the hell you caused for Diana, eh Camilla? Who would have thought the deities would have come up with karma in this same lifetime? Shame Diana is not here to laugh loudest.

And finally, the football obviously gets a mention with a clarion call in the News of the World for England to win their match... for Bobby Moore. Yes, very nice. But there are possibly another few million of us hoping that the national side wins today - and win for us all.

Not as many polemic national message or captions on the papers as we thought there might be, at a first glance.

Headline and front page predictor game

So, as we seem to have a knack of writing gags that end up as newspaper front pages - ahem - we thought we'd have a guess at (or help with) possible Sunday morning newspaper headlines.

So, what's the bets on a 'Fab's Army'..?

Or any picture involving Clive Dunn..?

Over to you, Fleet Street. And Wapping! :)

And readers - what are your guesses..?

Popbitch identified this on Thursday:

Oh no, the "remember the war" jokes have started:

"The French give up, the Americans decide to turn up at the last minute and England are left to face the Germans...hmm. Does that ring any bells...?"

...and that was before Italy crumbled. Cough!

European Union? End of nationalism? I'll be the judge of that!

Come on England!!

Ping! Paging patriotic Parliamentarians! Is there anybody out there?

Paging patriotic Parliamentarians! Are you out there? Do we have anybody in the House of Commons who won't treacherously betray the country?

If so, welcome to our humble little blog.

You may or may not know about this - we only know because of the excellent resource that is Open Europe.

But, diplomats have "finalised changes to the Lisbon Treaty in order to allow 18 extra MEPs to take their seats." This, Open Europe reliably inform us, means that it is now "up to national parliaments to ratify the treaty change."

So come on, you know what we want. We want the referendum that you promised us a couple of years ago but ratted on the British public over. At the very least.

Of course, you could just skip the referendum bit and withdraw. Pull out. Just do it.

Now, we'll accept that some of you were not party to the treacherous act against our sovereignty.

But there is a debt owing to the British public.

And talking of debt, did you notice the EU Commissioner who said that the bailout fund for Greece is illegal?

And did you notice how much George Osborne's (probably necessary) 'emergency budget' included all sorts of cuts to the budgets of the United Kingdom, but not a penny reduction in the huge amounts of money - billions upon billions - that we pay out in order to be part of the undemocratic, fascist inspired European Empire..?

Why do we have to have all these huge cuts at home but keep sending billions to Brussels? What for?

So, you know what we want... our country back, please.

Now, we're especially going to be looking at the Conservative MPs and how they respond to this opportunity to finally give us a referendum.

Seems even Conservative grassroots think we, the British people, will be betrayed yet again.

Hardly encouraging that even your own side thinks you'll sell them down the Brussels plughole, huh?

Indeed, the excuses and the cheating are already in place.

The Daily Telegraph tells us that a 'Government spokesman' has declared: "This is not a new transfer of power from Westminster to the EU and therefore it doesn't meet the criteria for holding a referendum. The decision will now be ratified by primary legislation in the UK."

But what of the implications for the coalition?

The European loving LibDems could get into a right flurry of talcum powder if the Conservatives try something.

And the Conservative supporters at grassroots level may well get into a bigger huff if their Conservative MPs do not.

So, we had to make a big issue of this tiny little news announcement that seems to have barely been murmured.

Because we've spotted it. We know the opportunity it presents.

And we want our country (and our money) back please...

We'll be watching.

What-oh, Fawlty! It's the Germans, yet again!

Whatever would Basil Fawlty say?

Major Capello's England starlings will be taking to the World Cup battlefield on Sunday... against Germany, after the latter won their World Cup group.

Germans again eh, Fawlty?

Well, whatever you do, don't mention... (either of them!)

7/7: Spot the food for conspiracy theory..?

Without even needing to go down the route of the (often pathetically used) cliche 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear', we wonder whether we're alone in being able to spot where this story is going to fan the flames of conspiracy theory..?

Considering how much was done to our rights and freedoms by the tyrannical Labour Government - supposedly as a result of 7/7 and 9/11 - this blogger feels that it is important that we are told everything.

The issue of drills planning for such an eventuality apparently happening simultaneously must also be explored.

We, the people will be entitled to make our own conclusions about any attempt to shove the truth behind closed doors.

Slovenia 0-1 England (FT)

We're sure we don't need to tell 99% of you, but - from a much improved England team - a win against Slovenia means that we go through to the last sixteen of the World Cup.

After two dismal performances, this was more of a passionate, fighting display which has redeemed for the recent disappointment and helped restore a heck of a lot of national pride.

Well done, England!

Our man of the match: James Milner

16.48 The referee blows for full-time.
It ends Slovenia 0-1 England.

16.40 Jermain Defoe is substituted with Emile Heskey coming on.

16.26 England substitution - Wayne Rooney gives way to the 2010 World Cup debut of Joe Cole.

16.22 England survive an onslaught on their goal thanks to frantic, committed defending.

16.12 Wayne Rooney rattles the woodwork.

16.04 England goal disallowed for off-side.

16.00 The second half gets under way.

15:45 The referee blows for half-time.
Slovenia 0-1 England. A much better first half display from England than we have seen in the preceeding two games.

22 mins: Jermain Defoe scores. (James Milner assist)
Slovenia 0-1 England

Out of Africa: William & Harry, their mother's sons

Just watched a beautiful BBC News special presented by Nicholas Witchell, charting the joint trip by Prince William and Prince Harry to Africa.

For those in the UK, you can watch The Princes in Africa via BBC iPlayer HERE. We highly recommend it.

One of the beautiful things that comes across is the lovely personalities that these fine young men both have. Extremely warm, charming, with their mother's magical way of connecting with people glittering just below the surface.

Like Diana, their presence in Africa is being put to good use with a lot of focus on the continuing devastation brought by HIV & AIDS.

Not content with following their mother in dealing with HIV/AIDS issues, we now learn that Harry has gone a step further and has bravely - very bravely - moved on to picking up the highly charged baton of concentrating minds on the humanitarian impact of anti-personnel landmines.

In William and Harry, we have two delightful young men. Charming, caring, sensitive, and with seemingly wonderful good natures, they do us very proud.

That the magic of Diana lives on so evidently through them makes both that incredibly more special.

We're sure that, were she still here, she would be very proud.

Introducing UKIP... and what they do for you.

Here's UKIP's MEP William Dartmouth. In the belly of the beast, he is stood up fighting for YOU and YOUR family and loved ones, my fellow UK dwelling libertarian...

Sunday Paper Review: 20th June 2010

As the Sunday Times joins it's sister publication The Times in limping off into 'we want people to pay for looking at our website' obscurity, we've decided to introduce an alternative newspaper to promote as part of our Sunday newspaper round-up this week.

So, welcome into the fray The People... and what an introduction they make.

They claim as an exclusive the story that the Liberal Democrat Minister for 'Man Made Global Warming' 'Climate Change' 'CO2 Pollution' ManBearPig - Chris Huhne - has "admitted cheating on his wife with his former Press secretary," Carina Trimingham. The newspaper tells how it "confronted the couple over their relationship as they got in a taxi". It seems that not a week passes without one Liberal Democrat or another being at the centre of something to be splashed all over the papers. Spare a thought for Huhne's wife - goodness knows how she feels today.

Interestingly, the News of the World also claim the story is an 'exclusive'.

The Mail on Sunday pick up big-time on the same story and claim that "[s]enior Lib Dems have known about the affair for some time." The Spectator's James Forsyth guest writes for the paper of his belief that this is "the latest evidence that the Liberal Democrats have not been properly vetted."

Huhne's predecessor as Minister for ManBearPig, ZaNuLiebour's leadership contender Ed Miliband, is accusing LibDem leader and Deputy PM Nick Clegg of being a "crypto-Tory"... whatever that means. Miliband tells the Independent on Sunday that the LibDems have taken a "completely macho position on the question of the deficit" and "have sold their own party down the river just for the sake of power".

Maybe, but it wasn't Nick Clegg's brother who treacherously signed the Lisbon Treaty, huh?

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, writes a passionate piece in the Sunday Telegraph in which he sets out why we owe a debt of gratitude to our servicemen and women of the armed forces. He says that "supporting our Armed Forces isn't just a government responsibility – it's a social responsibility."

Staying with a military theme, the Sunday Express reports on it's discovery that the new Olympic site in Stratford, East London, "was once a prisoner of war camp for captured Germans including members of the SS and Nazi U-Boat crews." Fascinating article, very well worth a read.

The Observer, meanwhile, has an interesting profile of German presidential candidate Joachim Gauck. He is "being backed by the opposition Social Democrats and Greens, who believe that a defeat for Merkel's candidate, Christian Wulff, could lead swiftly to her own political demise."

And finally, back to football and back to Wayne Rooney. The News of the World carries quotes attributed to a "senior England source" who complains about Rooney's ego saying "he's been strutting around like a preening prima donna." All certainly does not sound well...

Quote of the Week: The MP who wants to let us smokers in from out of the cold

"I think if pubs can prove they've got proper extraction fans or a room set aside for smokers, they should be allowed to operate in that way, not shove people outside in all weathers into these shanties and so-called smoking shelters."

- Conservative MP Brian Binley makes himself a hero...

Don't Cry For Me, Wayne Boo-ney!

So, how are we all? After having sat down at 7.30pm. To watch a football match and cheer on our English national heroes.

Have you seen our national heroes yet? Only, it's half past ten in the evening now, and we're still waiting to see them.

We did see some complete rubbish featuring some people that appeared to have been plucked from the obscure world of the local playing-field in order to represent England and, while they huffed and puffed, most of us nodded off to sleep.

Wayne Rooney's flurry of talcum powder after the final whistle was the highlight of the England game. He faced the TV cameras of the world and exclaimed: "Nice to see your home fans boo you, that's loyal supporters."

Yeah, well, thing is Wayne, England were rather crap. And those loyal supporters who saved for years to be able to afford to stand there watching that twaddle were entitled to their view.

Maybe if you refunded them some of the money they shelled out of their life savings to be there supporting such dross, you would be within your rights to ask them nicely to stop complaining.

As it is, the entire England team is paid more per match than most of those loyal supporters Wayne Rooney is complaining about get paid per year.

So, shut up Wayne. You and the rest of the team should look around the changing room. The people who you - and the rest of England - are or should be upset at are all in that changing room.

Sort it out or come back home.

After coming last in this year's Eurovision, we're getting a bit embarrassed by the people chosen to represent us and tired of having little to celebrate.

Taxpayers Alliance and the Democracy Movement: Cunning Stunts against the EU

Brought to you by the Taxpayer's Alliance and the Democracy Movement, this is - in our view - one of the top cunning stunts of the year.

And while these two groups win praise for cunning stunts, the European Empire remains - in our opinion - an organisation full of... something similar sounding. Never mind!

Battle for Britain 2010: Is David Cameron man enough?

As Spain becomes the latest casualty of the mysterious 'if every nation on Earth is bankrupt, who do they owe the money to?' crisis, the unelected, unwanted and irremovable megalomaniacs of the European Empire continue with their plans to exploit the bizarre circumstance to steal yet more national sovereignty from the people and their nation states.

Not content with having "introduced 2756 pieces of legislation in the 12 months since the last European Elections", the Federal Alliance of the Evil Empire and it's dark lords now want to enact the final knife wound to national sovereignty by muscling in on economic management of individual nations.

The Daily Telegraph reports how new PM David Cameron will today completely resist the dark measures that the Evil Empire has plotted against us. We talk, of course, of the European Empire's plan to vet the national budget and create the foundations for the total economic governance of all 27 member states. Make no mistake, such a move would be the death knell for nationhood.

And if you think this patriotic blogger is exaggerating or being dramatic, read what is written on the Daily Telegraph's pages:

"British diplomats say that if implemented, the proposal would reduce UK sovereignty because it would be Brussels that would set a limit on the public finances and not British politicians."

So, this is where our newly elected Prime Minister meets his destiny.

After cast iron guarantees of a referendum that turned out to not be a referendum or any say whatsoever, this is the moment where a Eurosceptic nation finds out how much mettle David Cameron has. This is where we - and his backbenchers - find out whether the PM is good at patriotic rhetoric while stabbing us in the back, or whether he actually has ever meant any of it.

Will David Cameron's first opportunity to battle for Britain evaporate into disappointment like his cast iron guarantee? Or will he heroically save us from the blitz of legislation, regulation and orchestration imposed by the European Empire's dark lords?

And if he flops, for how long will his Conservative backbenchers hold their tongue?

Meanwhile, two of our national heroes have been at it again.

Fresh from his downed aeroplane scare, UKIP's Nigel Farage is back fighting the Battle for Britain from within the belly of the beast.

And patriotic Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan is also leading the resistance from behind enemy lines.

We salute our democratically elected patriotic heroes who are fighting - by word not sword - for our democracy, for our freedoms and for our futures.

But does David Cameron have the backbone to join their small but heroic brigade?

See also: Dan Hannan - What David Cameron should say at today's Brussels summit

Diane Abbott apologises to the British people on Newsnight for the civil liberty eroding tyranny of her Labour colleagues

As you no doubt know, the people effected by Bloody Sunday received an apology today on behalf of the British Government from newly elected Prime Minister David Cameron, after an inquiry found that the events of almost four decades ago were very much an issue of shame on our armed forces.

Cameron's statement was impressive and the emotional scenes from Derry were powerful.

There was simply one phrase that came to mind while watching the coverage of today's events - 'And the truth shall set you free'.

There was another apology today, and unless you were watching Newsnight on BBC2, you may well have missed it.

During questioning of all of the Labour leadership contenders, Diane Abbott broke ranks and - as a sole voice - apologised to the British people for Labour's "surrendering" of the civil liberties issue, explicitly apologising for compulsory biometric identity cards and 90-days detention without charge.

Her fellow challengers seemed not to have yet found sufficient remorse to engage in a similar act of contrition towards the British people who were - frankly - terrorised... not by a few people in caves in the Third World... but terrorised by New Labour.

That Diane Abbott recognises this and has, almost uniquely, apologised for what New Labour did means that - if we gave a toss about Labour (we don't) - we'd be voting for Diane Abbott to get the gig.

As it is, Diane Abbott or not, we will never trust Labour near the powers of office ever again.

And goodbye to the Vetting and Barring Scheme

First compulsory biometric identity cards and now, the Vetting and Barring Scheme has been scrapped.

And as these huge weights are lifted off our shoulders, we really can realise just how evil the socialist Labour Government was.

To those outside the UK who may not know, the Vetting and Barring Scheme was a project proposed by the totalitarian, authoritarian, freedom-hating socialist Labour Government headed by Gordon Brown with a cast of nasty minded extras including Jacqui Smith.

The Labour Government had got it into it's head that every adult gets sexually aroused by the thought of going within 100 meters of a schoolchild.

The fact that 99.99999999999999% of adults would physically vomit at even the thought was wasted on Labour.

They dreamt up a scheme by where almost everyone in Britain would have to pay to go on a database to 'prove' they are not a paedophile.

The fear of paedophiles is seemingly an almost uniquely British problem.

Of course, we cannot prove that the Government don't put something in the water that makes us more predisposed towards fiddling with kiddies, but we think it extremely unlikely.

Nope, the real thing that's been going on is that the socialist Labour Party was following the systematic gameplan of the National Socialist Party of Germany, circa 1937, and finding any bloody reason to catalogue the British population, remove our rights and freedoms, put us all on databases and to fill the air with an atmosphere in which everybody viewed their neighbour with distrust and suspicion.

Quite how far Labour would have gone had they remained in office is a mystery...

...but it's a thought far scarier than even fears of non-existent paedophiles could ever muster.

So, congratulations to the Conservative-LibDem coalition for scrapping the Vetting and Barring Scheme. We welcome news that a more common sense approach will be taken and we agree that the pendulum had swung WAY too far.

We remain slightly cautious, awaiting detail of what will be done instead.

For today, we welcome the news with huge relief that another tool of tyranny proposed by the Labour government is rightfully being consigned to the dustbin.

However, we urge everyone never to forget the tyranny that Labour were prepared to wage against us.

Boris Johnson: The hottest dance act around!?

Gotta love Boris. This track is released as a download single tomorrow. And yes, this is THE Boris Johnson.

The track is called 'Is Fatboy Slim a DJ?' and it's credited to 'Boris Johnson vs 2 Anonymous DJs'.

The music video is by Aardman Animations, with profits going to the Macmillan Cancer Charity.

Shame they've scrapped Top of the Pops. Maybe we could persuade the BBC to revive it, just so we can see Boris swinging his hips and boogying to this tune...

...go on - make this go viral and encourage others to buy the download single. You know you want to.

Find out more HERE.

Sunday Paper Review: 13th June 2010

U.S. President Barry Soetoro (a.k.a. Barack Obama) has told Prime Minister David Cameron that his comments attacking BP are not anti-British rhetoric. Obama - who has referred to the oil company as 'British Petroleum' - now accepts, according to a Downing Street statement cited by the Sunday Times, that BP is a multinational company.

The Independent on Sunday has what it calls an 'investigation' into the BP oil spill, looking (in no more than 300 words) for who else might be involved in the operation and therefore should shoulder the blame. They conclude that BP and the U.S. regulator are both at fault.

For our part, we're sorry for the British part of the operation, but we suspect it's very small these days. But our butter-fingered goalkeeper allowed the USA to draw with England yesterday for no good reason. Consider it a gift of compensation.

Brits watching the World Cup game on ITV HD didn't even get to see England's goal due to a transmission screw up by ITV. Double pain... and very embarrassing for the channel which normally excels at dumbed-down broadcasting for the mindless.

The BBC needn't gloat - the Sunday Express reports on a growing compensation culture within the Beeb with claims being made for all sorts of bizarre occurrences. And who picks up the tab for the madness? Clue... we still have to pay the extortionate telly tax.

Meanwhile, those of you who watched the footie in a pub last night no doubt drowned your sorrows at the howler of a goal England conceded. Well, make the most of drinking - you'll soon not be able to afford it. The Sunday Telegraph reports that alcohol is about to be hit with yet another huge tax hike in the emergency budget.

Ludicrously expensive beer and not being allowed to smoke... it's almost as though there is a Government plan to kill off the British pub industry. Can't have the public congregating and talking to each other about their views on the political class, huh? Hell, the public might even one day organise a protest!

Those needing affordable homes might fancy protesting over news in The Observer that housebuilding in Britain is about to "fall off a cliff" with "the number of affordable homes built this year in England slumping by as much as 65%".

Watch shares in building firms plummet tomorrow.

And finally, the News of the World reports on how the Evil European Empire might ban sex toys such as vibrators. All in the name of saving the planet. If this were to happen, expect us to crack lots of inappropriate jokes about being shafted...

The European Empire wants to ban all forms of fun including self-pleasure, it seems. The tossers.

Get your kit off in public today?

Just a quick heads up to everyone who - like this blogger - took part in the World Naked Bike Ride protest ride through the centre of London (or other cities worldwide) today.

How awesome was that?

Naked when we want - not when the pervy state decide to start forcing you naked with their creepy scanning equipment.

In fairness, credit must go to the Met Police and to the City of London whose low-key approach meant that the ride went off with a carnival atmosphere from beginning to end with participants and the thronging lines of crowds all having a good laugh and bit of fun in the name of the multi-messaged protest behind the annual global event.

Not one jot of trouble or problem from anyone anywhere as far as this blogger could see.

See you all naked next year!?

The Evil Empire's latest battle plans against Britain, fresh from the Death Star

The European Empire - the Government that none of us ever voted for, don't want, and can't remove - has a whole plethora of stories emanating from it's infested bowels that we should sit up and pay attention to this weekend.

First up is the confession from Darth Vader himself - the Dark Emperor Herman von Rumpy-Pumpy - that the €750 billion bailout fund might not be big enough. This comes amidst fears that Spain might be the next country headed for a Greek-style bailout.

As Dan Hannan writes: "There has been an anguished national debate about the £6.2 billion which the Coalition proposes to find next year from across the whole of government spending. Yet, in his outgoing act as Chancellor, Alistair Darling committed £8 billion to the last bail-out with barely a whimper of protest."

Nations from all over the European continent which have been forced through dark means to be part of the undemocratic and unwanted Evil Empire are finding that their economies are going to the wall. The Evil Empire itself is one great big hadron-collider sized vacuum cleaner of a cash cow which wrecks the economies and sovereignty of any nation state sucked into it's web by the political elite.

...but that little detail doesn't stop it or any of our political representatives.

Now we learn that "Britain is powerless to stop European Union plans to have the British budget vetted before it is presented to the House of Commons."

The fact that this would be on dubious legal ground within the UK will probably just be casually overlooked as we bow to the superiority of our European Empire dictators. Just as our written Constitutional documents and Treason laws are being overlooked still...

Fancy protesting? Don't bother. They've lined up their stormtroopers to impose martial law, should you get any ideas.

In the House of Lords, UKIP leader Lord Pearson has received a reply which informs him - and us - that:

"The European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) is a police force with a military status that has full police powers in the jurisdiction of participating states, capable to respond to the full spectrum of police missions, both under civilian and military control. The UK is not part of this initiative. The Government see no circumstances in which they would consent to an EGF operation in the UK."

Are we alone in finding not a crumb of comfort in the final sentence of reassurance? Watch this space. You know what happens next. You've seen it all before...

Yet for all of these worrying signs and indications, we have a political representative within who wants to encourage his European Empire colleagues to sink themselves - following our lead - further into a headlong rush toward Third World poverty status all in the name of 'man made global warming' 'climate change' 'CO2 pollution' 'ManBearPig'.

Yup, step forward Liberal DumDum MP - and now UK 'Government' minister - Chris Huhne. The Independent tells how he "used his first EU talks since taking office to push for a 30 per cent reduction in Europe's CO2 emissions by 2020."

Well, he knows where he can shove his agenda, doesn't he..? Maybe he could do us all a favour and shut the hell up. That would reduce the world's CO2 emissions considerably and save us all a load of pain in the name of a nonsense fiction plans for world governance.

That's right. The latter isn't even a secret. It's on our Parliament's website. Talk about being hidden in plain view...

England: Flying the Flag (For You)

The football World Cup kicks off today after months and years of build-up and preparation.

One of the interesting things about the World Cup is just how much the globalists must hate it.

For - no matter which country you are from - it is a short window of time where we unite in our shared patriotism.

Despite the binds of shared cultural background, common language, and sense of origin which form part of every individual identity, there can be no country on planet Earth where the football World Cup will be felt more keenly.

We are talking, of course, about England.

While patriotism is considered normal in probably every other country on the planet, and while wrapping oneself in the national flag at times of celebration and national pain forms a commonality between people based on identity, we in England - without a Parliament of our own - have great difficulties with our national identity.

Those English people who dare to feel patriotic are often bundled up by those on the political left and their globalist friends as being racist.

There is nothing racist about being patriotic.

Patriotism speaks out to our sense of individual identity. It connects us to where we were born - and sometimes affirms our love of places to where we have made our homes.

Loving England is about loving our family heritage, the customs and traditions and eccentricities of the English way of life. England is a huge part of who we are - and England is and always has been a welcoming nation to those from all around the world who are in genuine need.

So, don't let anyone tell you that patriotism or the flag of St. George is racist.

Part of the celebration of English national identity is celebrating our willingness to welcome and extend the hand of friendship to people from all around the globe - irrespective of skin colour, language, income or other defining characteristic. All England expects in return is that people contribute and do not abuse our generosity.

We can rightly enjoy the rollercoaster of the World Cup and we can all wrap ourselves in the national flag without any sense of shame.

To that end, The Sun newspaper is even giving away a free flag with the newspaper on Saturday.

So enjoy the World Cup.

We in England will obviously be hoping that Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney et al return to our green and pleasant land victorious.

Similarly, people all over the world will also be celebrating their national identities.

All over the world, people will be draping themselves in their national flags hoping for their football team to bring them joyous victory.

The World Cup is an amazing device through which to consider just how important a role patriotism and nationality form part of our identities.

Globalists and the architects of undemocratic superstates will never be able to regulate against our emotions nor our national sense of where we are from.

We wish the England team the very best of luck - they carry on their shoulders the hopes and pride of an under-celebrated nation, where pride in patriotism has been sullied and tainted with doubt and guilt by people with unsavoury political agendas.

Enjoy the World Cup. Enjoy the shared sense of national identity. Wrap yourself in the national flag and love every moment.

There is no shame during the festival of football in celebrating part of your identity... and there was never any shame in doing so at any other time over the last four years.

Enjoy uniting to support England - now and always.

Prime Minister's Questions: 9th June 2010

Questions about Scotland, Northern Ireland and - in particular - Wales. More local powers for the devolved Welsh assembly, a referendum to take place next year.

Apparently, the people of Wales can have a referendum on getting more powers - localism for the Welsh people to operate away from the UK Government.

Yet the European Empire remains something that nobody in this nation has been given any choice over for the best part of four decades. Four decades... of lies, con-tricks and acts of treason and sedition by elected politicians.

Noted, too, that England remains the piss-poor, downtrodden, unnamed part of the supposed 'United Kingdom' again. However, we did get a proud declaration of the flying of the St. George's flag outside Downing Street for the duration of the World Cup. For a moment, our Prime Minister almost sounded like a patriot!

PM David Cameron had an easy time against a lightweight Harriet Harman. She gave him open goals aplenty to attack Labour on civil liberties. Good. He pointed out that Labour are becoming even more authoritarian still.

However, he didn't placate libertarians enough regarding CCTV and surveillance.

He also cracked a nice line at a seated Ed Balls, dubbing him "the new Alf Garnett of British politics" following his recent transformation-sounding remarks regarding immigration.

A friendly question from the Conservative backbenches allowed Cameron a good opportunity to attack Labour over their management over the economy. From the other side of the House, the Prime Minister delivered a strong rebuke to Lord Mandelson over unaffordable spending pledges for Labour-supporting constituencies.

An interesting question from the Labour benches calling for British withdrawal from the European Empire's Common Fishing Policy. An unconvincing response from Cameron.

Our rating: B+ The Prime Minister easily dealt with everything put to him, but his answers on CCTV and the European Empire did little to fill this patriotic libertarian with any great excitement.

See also:
Big Brother Watch 'The Government must not back down on its promise to regulate CCTV'
Politics.co.uk 'Downing Street to fly St George's flag during World Cup'

The fascist inspired, continent wide, undemocratic club for political elites that dare not speak it's name...

There's an interesting article in The Independent which examines how much of our British taxpayer revenue is sent off to international organisations - some charitable, others not so.

But there is one organisation we send billions to which doesn't get a mention.

A colossal elephant in the room which dare not speak it's name.

I wonder why...

So, we know that with budget cuts being looked for across the board - with benefit claimants and public servants* in for the pinch (*excluding those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, obviously) - we thought we'd defy the orthodoxy.

It may be the fascist inspired, continent wide, undemocratic club for political elites that dare not speak it's name but...

...we do dare to identify it and speak it's name.

Looking to "withdraw billions from overseas projects," (apparently) dear H.M. Treasury..?

Two words for you. European Empire.

There. We said it. Nobody (well, few) in Government or the mainstream media likes doing so.

We named it. You want to withdraw billions from overseas projects. Put the two together and what do you have..?

It's laughably obvious.

Can we have our sovereignty (and our money) back now, please?

This blog welcomes 'English tests' for immigrants - and Spain should impose similar language tests for Brits

Broadly speaking, this blog welcomes the announcement that "immigrants coming to Britain to marry or join their partner will soon be asked to take an English language test first."

In honesty, the lack of any immigrant person's ability to speak English is not something frequently encountered by this blogger and has never been problematic.

There are certain society demands where the need to speak basic English are essential and the excuse of not being able to speak English is not acceptable or a valid excuse.

The benefits to the taxpayer through not having to fund interpreter services are obvious (and we're very tired of seeing local Government literature published in every conceivable language possible).

Anyway, purely from a integration and society perspective, we welcome the announcement - broadly speaking.

However, what's good for the goose...

It's about time the Spanish insisted on a basic Spanish test for people from Britain who are hoping to resettle in the beautiful country.

It's bad enough that some parts of Spain are very sad and tacky looking British ghettos in the sun, with no evident culture other than drinking and EastEnders.

But the fact is that there are a whole load of British ex-pats living in Spain (and no doubt elsewhere), who have lived there for many years, and who still cannot manage a single Spanish word beyond 'hola!'.

It's shameful and embarrassing.

The Spanish people are delightful. Their country is beautiful and the culture and history of the country is every bit as fascinating as our own.

The people of Spain still have family and community at the heart of their way of life. In many ways, the everyday of Spain is something that we in this country would not be unreasonable in being envious of.

And many Spanish people are so incredibly kind, welcoming and supportive to British people... who they can see have made an effort to speak just a few words of their language - you don't have to be perfect or able to manage much; just try a little and they'll be so kind and welcoming.

So, quite why so many British ex-pats annexe themselves in unsightly ghettos, only speaking English and only mixing with fellow Brits is a mystery.

Don't we have an holier than thou attitude here?

Are there not some of us who dislike immigrants into Britain forming their own communities, speaking their own languages, failing to integrate and imposing culturally alien concepts into areas of their new host nation?

How can we criticise immigrants into Britain for doing so if we fail to see that - in many cases throughout Spain - that's exactly what we do.

So, English tests for immigrants into Britain. Yes, no problem with that.

But the Spanish should make us British people take Spanish tests.

Learn some Spanish and immerse yourself in the culture... you may, like this blogger, find yourself falling in love with a very beautiful nation populated by some of the warmest and most welcoming people you could ever hope to meet.

Advice we'd happily dish out to others about ourselves - maybe some of our ex-pat 'ambassadors' living elsewhere could heed it.

Quote of the Day - 8th June 2010

"The high prices that we saw today reflect the enduring love affair with Princess Diana, who was not only a style icon and beautiful princess, but a humanitarian who touched the lives of so many people."

- Auctioneer Kerry Taylor sums up as one of the 'lost' gowns of Diana, Princess of Wales sells for almost £200,000 at auction - four times the expected value.

Cameron's first chance to win over supporters of national sovereignty

Interesting article in The Times, outlining what David Cameron, William Hague and Nick Clegg will be doing over the next few days.

The word 'Sitges' is nowhere to be found in the article.

However, the name of Emperor von Rumpy-Pumpy figures large.

The newspaper suggests that Cameron is likely to refuse a "request" from the European Empire that our national budget might be vetted by the EU before going in front of our own Parliament.

This is a big test for David Cameron.

We've all heard about the whispers of cynicism over the Conservative compromises as part of their governing coalition with the LibDems.

We've all read the debates over whether or not the UKIP vote prevented the Conservatives from winning an overall majority at the last General Election.

We all know that Britain is a majority "eurosceptic" nation which values it's independence and sovereignty - despite what our often treacherous political class do in defiance of promises or our protests.

So, a big test for David Cameron. He must tell Emperor von Rumpy-Pumpy and the rest of the Evil European Empire to get knotted.

Those of us, of all political hues, who are proud patriots will be watching the news reports very closely.

And we expect to be told everything. No special handshakes or secret society stitch-ups.

We, the people have woken up to all that now.

But above all, David Cameron will know that a huge proportion of his own Parliamentary party will be watching what he says and what he agrees to or refuses far more closely than anyone else.

The coalition Government is still in it's infancy. David Cameron cannot afford to let his own Parliamentary party down - let alone the nation.

Sunday Paper Review: 6th June 2010

The PM, David Cameron, tells the Sunday Times that the state of the British economy inherited from a decade of Labour mismanagement is far worse than even thought.

The report lists a number of key areas where some savings might be made... but somehow manages not to mention that our net contribution to the European Empire exceeds almost all of the amounts that are mentioned across the board. So, may we humbly suggest... never mind. (By the way, did you see the report from yesterday saying that Hungary's economy is now fcuk'ed..?)

That leads us neatly into a story in the Sunday Telegraph in which it reports the findings of a survey of "the 25 leading City economists" who predict that the euro "is in its death throes and may not survive in its current membership for a week, let alone the next five years."

Shame they're only talking about the single currency rather than the sovereignty draining, national identity diluting, undemocratic European Empire project. Perhaps we could give that a helping push towards collapse, too..?

Come on Cameron - find your scrotum and put the European Empire project out of it's misery. Or, at least, pull us out of it's misery.

Back to our economy and easily identifiable savings... the Mail on Sunday reports that nearly 100 ex-Labour ministers are in line for "£1.2bn in pay-offs." Great. So, as we all struggle - including the socialist's core voters on benefits and in public sector jobs - the idiots who ran our country into the ground pocket a billion quid between them? For being sacked by the electorate? Nice work if you can get it.

The Observer has Ed Balls waffling on within it's pages. He writes some audience pleasing confession about Labour getting it wrong on immigration from (specifically and only from) Eastern Europe - before saying that he wants Britain to be right at the heart of the undemocratic federalist hell-hole. We paraphrase. But Balls by name, and 'balls' to his article. Wonder if he's been to Sitges lately?

The Independent on Sunday shouldn't be signalled out in the way that we're going to. They have, after all, at least reported this story which others have missed. In what a Labour government might have billed as a good week to bury bad news, a little story of interest to us libertarians sailed by almost unnoticed. However, the IoS story about how the new coalition Government is reneging on the pledge to scrap the Summary Care Record database is now three day old news to those of us who read the blogs - as that bastion of freedom-fighting, Big Brother Watch, picked up on this story days ago.

The Sunday Express has a report based on claims by a U.S. environmental pressure group which amount to conjecture that Britain is in line for a major oil spill like that afflicting the Gulf of Mexico... because, it claims, BP has an "abysmal" record on safety.

Mind you, after 'man made global warming' 'climate change' 'CO2 pollution' ManBearPig, this is one blogger who will never listen to an environment campaign group about anything ever again. Nor to any wildlife or nature charity, either.

And the News of the World has a not especially humorous photograph of one of Her Majesty's Guardsmen who had fainted in the heat in Central London yesterday. It looks like a strange set of toy soldiers which have been allowed to stand in the wind.

Goodness knows what the Guardsman would have done in the heat of somewhere like... say, Sitges?

Cumbria, and the subverting of our written Constitution

During the week, it seemed that every man and his blog had to pass an opinion or write words of sympathetic hues about the events in Cumbria which have played out incessantly like some surreal movie version of real life across our TV screens.

Hell, they even cancelled Corrie because of it - no doubt on the belief that members of the public are now so stupid that we cannot separate fiction from reality. Given the wall-to-wall Hollywood movie which has passed itself off as news over the last few days, such an outcome - a populace with brains turned to mush - would be understandable.

So, hurrah for Gerald Warner in the Daily Telegraph - a commentator who this blogger consistently finds agreement with (despite occasional homophobic undertones) - who has moved the narrative on to a theme that has been at the back of our mind.

Gerald's article - entitled 'Only a totalitarian state disarms law-abiding citizens' - makes a number of very good points. One of the earlier points takes away a big part of what we wanted to say. He writes:

You could not look for a better encapsulation of the mentality of the state-worshipping ruling elite than the claim by Sir Ian Blair, former disastrous Metropolitan Police Commissioner and newly-appointed peer (nothing succeeds like failure), writing in The Guardian on the topic of gun control: “The possession of a firearm is a privilege, not, except in a few cases, a necessity.”

Have you got that? The possession of a firearm is a “privilege”. In fact it is nothing of the sort: it is a right, guaranteed to all British subjects by the Bill of Rights of 1689.

Absolutely. See, this is probably why this blogger agrees with Gerald Warner so often. This blogger is a patriot who has actually spent time reading OUR constitution. Gerald Warner is a patriot who has actually... you get the idea.

Now, it might seem perverse to see the events in Cumbria as a strange catalyst to discuss whether we should have our constitutional right to carry arms.

Let's get down exactly what the Bill of Rights 1689 actually says, before we start explaining why we think there should be a debate about us having the right to be able to defend ourselves:

"That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law."

So, first of all, as a non-Christian - let alone a Protestant - the Constitution says I have no such right. I'm happy and comfortable with that.

As some people are completely dense, too, we must spell this out clearly: this article is written as a basis for theoretical discussion and debate ONLY. It is NOT an instruction.

Well, one is nowadays led to believe that disclaimers are vital when contentious opinions are being expressed. Opinions are very much subject to regulation...

The Bill of Rights 1689 says this right - for those who qualify - must be "suitable" and "as allowed by law".

What would be open to interpretation is what is meant by "law". Do they mean common law? Do they mean the acts of statute intended for the admiralty and as enforced by the charade of the money-making fool-me-once language of the Law Society?

Those questions and background established, back to Cumbria.

If a few Protestants in the area had been carrying arms, for how long would the shooting spree that claimed so many lives and led to so much heartache have continued?

The sick man at the centre of the horror would surely have been stopped by someone - far sooner than the Old Bill managed to stop him.

Except they didn't stop him, did they? He eventually stopped himself.

All the CCTV in the world didn't stop him. DNA databases didn't stop him. Sex Offender Registers didn't stop him. Heat seeking technology in police helicopters didn't stop him. Metal detectors didn't stop him. Naked body scanners didn't stop him.

Nope, none of it stopped him. He stopped himself as he topped himself after taking and damaging life after life.

And had he encountered a Protestant acting in a manner set out in our written Constitution, it could have been all over and done with before it got so horrifically out of hand.

Rather than making the case for more control, the events of Cumbria do not pander to the "something must be done about it" lobby.

In fact, the events of the last week in Cumbria set out the pathetic fallacy of the control grid yearned for by the unimaginative (normally Labour voting) 'something must be done about it' brigade.

The more one thinks about what took place in Cumbria this week, the more the loss of our liberties becomes clearly nothing more than a device for a totalitarian state as opposed to measures for our good.

The best measures to protect us against madmen or totalitarian politicians already exist.

...they're enshrined in our constitution.

Nigel Farage condemns Bilderberg attendees as 'dangerous lunatics'

Brilliant show from Alex Jones tonight.

First up was The Guardian writer Charlie Skelton with his latest update from Sitges, scene of the biggest ever media and public protest gatherings at any Bilderberg meeting.

Skelton told how some Bilderberg delegates are failing to turn up for fear of being publicly exposed. Whoops.

Next up was UKIP's Nigel Farage - starting his promised comeback after his horrific election day plane crash - who slammed the Bilderberg attendees as 'dangerous lunatics'.

Nigel told the world's audience that he felt a genuine fear that the sinister shadowy elite will attempt to silence free speech as the next step in their attempt to form a total control grid, world Government - of which the European Empire is simply the first step.

Nigel's fears are not ungrounded and an attempt to require journalistic licensing is already manifesting in the United States.

The final promise from Nigel to patriotic audiences here in Britain - and to his globalist political opponents - was: "You know what? A plane crash is not going to stop me."

Nigel Farage interview:

Charlie Skelton interview:

You may also wish to hear the full FREE audio of today's show which is available HERE.

Damned: Report nails big pharma 'swine flu' links

Go on then... did you fall for the 'swine flu' hysteria?

Did you listen to the panic mongers?

Did you think we were all doomed?

Did you believe the Government - both here domestically and in global form via the WHO - when they warned us we were all at risk of heading for mass graves...

...unless we got vaccinated?

Long time readers of this blog may recall we did not fall for it.

Tum-te-tum... what's that you're reporting, Guardian newspaper? There were links to big pharma? What... like we hadn't guessed..?

But bravo for printing.

So, one great big con-job conspiracy exposed...

They'll be telling us they made 'man made global warming' up next...

It's such a bind seeing through the media hysteria and being right.

Sigh...